| Palestinians can become Egyptian citizens - if they have enough cashnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 09 Mar 05:45 AM It turns out that Palestinians ca | | It turns out that Palestinians can become Egyptian citizens.
It costs a lot of money, but the amount has just been reduced.
Since March 2020, and up until now, any foreigner had a few expensive options to become an Egyptian citizen: They could pay Egypt $250,000 of foreign currency. which would never be returned.
They could put a million dollars into the Central Bank of Egypt for 3 years, and then withdraw it after 3 years in Egyptian pounds with no interest. In the event the dollar has lost value against the pound, the depositor would get the lower amount.
They could do something similar with $750,000 for five years.
They could invest $400,000 in an official Egyptian investment project.
Or they could purchase Egyptian state-owned real estate worth $500,000. Now, as Egypt desires more foreign currency reserves, they have loosened these price tags. The cash deposit of $250,000 still stands, but it can be paid in installments. The real estate investment amount was reduced to $300,000 and the three year deposit was reduced from a million dollars to only $350,000. (It might have been a half million between 2020 and now.) Egyptians are very upset...Read More |
From Ian: Remembering The Scorpion Pass Massacre of 1954 March 17 this year will mark 69 years since one of the worst terrorist attacks on Israelis since the establishment of the State in 1948. Although I was only nine years old, this episode, called the Scorpion Pass Massacre, has a prominent place in my memory, perhaps because of the intense discussions it aroused in the Jewish community of Montreal that I was a part of, or perhaps because I was the same age as the Israeli boy who was severely injured. Or, perhaps it was the exotic name of the site of the attack, Scorpion Pass (Maale Akrabim). The name obviously comes from the common appearance of scorpions (akrabim in Hebrew), venomous animals with two pincer claws and an articulated tail and stinger. Scorpions resemble crustaceans such as lobsters or crayfish, but are in fact related to spiders, mites and ticks. With an evolutionary history going back hundreds of millions of years, they were certainly around in biblical times. Maale Akrabim appears three times in the Tanakh (Numbers 34:3, Joshua 15:3 and Judges 1:36), as an indicator of the southern boundary of the Land of Israel. The attack took place in 1954, when the population of Israel was 1.6 million and the southern port of Eilat, Israel's only connection to the Red Sea, was a small development town with 500 inhabitants. As is true today, travellers from Eilat to...Read More |
One day after the Netanyahu government issued a statement claiming that Israel and Poland had reached an agreement over the resumption of Israeli youth trips to Poland, Poland denied that any such agreement had been reached. The trips were suspended a year ago due to a dispute over security arrangements. Israeli students are accompanied on these trips by armed security guards from the Shin Bet. Poland, however, saysthat Israel's insistence on providing its own Israeli security for the students is a slap in the face to Poland, making it look like a hateful, antisemitic country. Here is the Israeli press release on the supposed agreement between Israel and Poland: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Comments on Resumption of Youth Trips to Poland After a prolonged stalemate in Israeli-Polish relations, and pursuant to contacts and a round of talks led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, together with Minister of Foreign Affairs Eli Cohen and Education Minister Yoav Kisch, a solution was found today (Tuesday, 7 March 2023), to the crisis that prevented the arrival of youth trips to Poland. Prime Minister Netanyahu: "After a wasted year, we are returning the youth trips to Poland. There are many ways...Read More |
Antisemite and supposed human rights expert Ken Roth made up a brand new rule of international humanitarian law today: Hamas confirms that the Palestinian man who shot two Israeli brothers last month (& was just killed by Israeli forces) "had been a member of its military wing." That may transform what had been a common crime (not a human rights concern) into a war crime. Notice how the Hamas terrorist merely "shot two Israeli brothers." Roth doesn't want to mention that they were killed, unlike the murderer himself that he says was killed by Israeli forces. Beyond that, Roth claims, incredibly, that the execution style murder of Hallel and Yagel Yaniv as they were driving was not considered a war crime and was not even a "human rights concern" until yesterday, when Hamas proudly said that he was a member of that group. Indeed, as far as I could tell, Roth never tweeted about their murder. Human rights, by definition, is concerned with protecting the lives and welfare of humans. But when the human victims are Jews, then - according to Roth - we have an additional prerequisite for something to be a human rights concern: the attacker must belong to a known militant group. Otherwise, they don't care. He apparently is assuming that until a group like Hamas takes responsibility, Israelis who are murdered by Arabs might just be victims of a drug deal gone bad, or a misfired bunch of shots at their heads and bodies...Read More |
From Ian: Overhaul protesters gear up for 'day of resistance' throughout the country Thursday The protest movement against the government's judicial overhaul plans was set to conduct a second major campaign to disrupt daily life in Israel on Thursday, in what activists are calling a "day of resistance." The day notably includes plans to block roads around Ben Gurion Airport in an attempt to make it difficult for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to get there for his flight on an official visit to Italy. This in addition to marches, temporary workplace strikes, the blocking of main thoroughfares, disruption of train services and rallies outside the homes of top government officials. The protest events were laid out in detail on a dedicated website and map (Hebrew), with organizers promising "many surprises," indicating there were more planned actions that had not been announced publicly. "It is a civic duty to resist the dictatorship and this is the only way to return Israel to the path of democracy. This is a great battle for the independence of Israeli citizens against the tyranny that will destroy what we have built here for over 70 years. We call on the entire public to participate in protests," the organizers said in a statement. Protest heads have specifically called for demonstrators to block roads around Ben Gurion Airport when Netanyahu and his wife...Read More |
Two popular books over the past year on the topic of antisemitism were "People Love Dead Jews" by Dara Horn, and "Jews Don't Count" by David Baddiel. Judging from UN reports, we can combine them into "Dead Jews Don't Count, Either."
The UN issued a list of statements by various leaders concerning events in Israel and the territories during February.
The Table of Contents shows the bias there. I. UN Human Rights High Commissioner calls for de-escalation II. Palestinian Rights Committee Bureau rejects Israeli retaliation against PA III. OIC condemns escalation of crimes in the OPT IV. ICJ sets deadlines for submissions following request for Advisory Opinion V. EU appalled by the attack in East Jerusalem VI. Palestinian Rights Committee Chair participates in LAS Conference on Jerusalem VII. Status of Jerusalem cannot be altered by unilateral actions, UN Secretary General tells LAS...Read More |
Thomas Friedman in The New York Times writes an op-ed with the headline, "American Jews, You Have to Choose Sides on Israel:" Ever since Israel's founding in 1948, supporting the country's security and its economic development and cementing its diplomatic ties to the U.S. have been the "religion" of many nonobservant American Jews — rather than studying Torah or keeping kosher. That mission drove fund-raising and forged solidarity among Jewish communities across America. Now, a lot of American Jews are going to need to find a new focus for their passion. Because if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu succeeds with his judicial putsch to crush the independence of the country's judiciary, the subject of Israel could fracture every synagogue and Jewish communal organization in America. To put it simply: Israel is facing its biggest internal clash since its founding, and for every rabbi and every Jewish leader in America, to stay silent about this fight is to become irrelevant. The Jewish Telegraphic Agency just ran an article that offered a revealing glimpse into this reality. It quoted Los Angeles Rabbi Sharon Brous as beginning her sermon on Israel last month with a content warning to her congregants: "I have to say some things today that I know will upset some of you." Every American rabbi knew what she meant: Israel has become such a hot-button issue that it cannot be discussed...Read More |
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