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Arab media knows that the Waqf agreed no overnight stays in Al Aqsa - but refuse to report itnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Apr 04:45 AM For the Like   Tweet   Arab media knows that the Waqf agreed no overnight stays in Al Aqsa - but refuse to report it noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 03 Apr 04:45 AM For the second Sunday night, Palestinian Muslims attempted to stay overnight in the Al Aqsa mosque in a ritual known as i'tikaaf - and Israeli forces politely removed them without incident. As I have been reporting, the reason there has been a call for i'tikaaf this year when it has hardly ever been demanded in the first weeks of Ramadan in the past is because the Muslims want to disrupt Jews visiting the Temple Mount the next morning. This is explicitly said in Islamist media calling on herds of worshipers to "defend" the mosque from the Jewish "stormers." Israel and Jordan, along with the Jordanian Waqf, agreed that there would only be i'tikaaf on Thursday and Friday nights, and the last ten days of Ramadan, when Jews are not allowed to ascend the next day. Last weekend the Waqf agreement was not well publicized and there was widespread anger at Israel removing the worshippers. But during the week, Arabic social media turned its anger at the Waqf, and they published the Waqf's memo stating that no i'tikaaf would be performed until the end of Ramadan. Everyone knows about the agreement now. But...Read More Egypt never considered its Jews to be "real" Egyptians noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Apr 03:00 PM Every Ramadan, there are lots of competing TV miniseries competing for attention. One of this year's is a crime drama from Egypt called The Canto Market. An Egyptian newspaper describes the history of this real-life market in describing the plot: Wekalat Al-Balah market is one of the oldest markets in Cairo. It was established in 1880, by 15 merchants from Syria, Lebanon and Palestine. With the passage of time and the increasing popularity of the market and the increase in the number of its merchants, it has become a landmark of Cairo. During the 1930s, Egypt was hit by an economic stagnation that made these merchants sell their shops to the Jews, and at that time the market increased the used clothing trade and called it the "Canto" market, and it remained under their control until the 1950s when they decided to migrate to occupied Palestine... The Jews that they sold the stores to were Egyptians - but in recounting the history, they are just Jews, not at all considered citizens of the nation, who then for completely unknown reasons "decided to migrate" to Israel. There is no way an Egyptian newspaper would say that Copts bought or sold...Read More 04/02 Links: Hijacking the Narrative: Inside Israel's Domestic Protests; Police thwart Hamas Temple Mount shooting plot; Speaker at funeral of terrorist: "We love death like our enemies love life" noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 02 Apr 12:00 PM From Ian: A crisis of judicial proportions explained, Part I: Reforming the Supreme Court For the last several weeks, hundreds of thousands of Israelis have taken to the streets to protest a highly controversial package of judicial reforms being rapidly advanced by the recently installed right-wing and religious coalition led by Israel's longest-serving prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. In addition to the protesters, economists, businessmen, foreign governments and leaders of the Jewish Diaspora have joined the calls to oppose the reforms. They claim that should the reforms pass, Israel will suddenly be on the road to becoming a fascist dictatorship and that the country is teetering on chaos. Leaders of the protest movement have repeatedly stated that the protests may lead to violence. So why was the government rapidly advancing such judicial reforms while protests and domestic chaos among reform opponents were simultaneously brewing at unprecedented levels? The proclaimed purpose of the reforms is to correct a decades-old imbalance between the powers of Israel's aggressive and activist high court and the government. For those trying to understand what gives the court in Israel more power than the elected government, it is useful to compare Israel's judicial system to that of the United States. Everything Is Justiciable In the early 1990s, Israel went...Read More "Jewish Voice for Peace" says to symbolically burn US and Israeli flags on Passover eve noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Apr 09:45 AM From Jewish Voice for Peace's Facebook page: Nationalism is chametz, during Passover and always! Freedom only for some is never enough. This Passover, at a time when violence against Palestinians by the Israeli state, military and settlers continues to escalate, we gather to demand and dream liberation for everyone. For anti-Zionist Jews, this holiday can be a challenging time. For some, it can feel impossible to separate our holiday traditions from Zionist propaganda advocating ethnic cleansing and land theft. Many of us feel reluctant to even celebrate the holiday as Zionist terror escalates in Palestine. And many of us may be facing yet another holiday where our beliefs and politics are not welcome. This year, bring your whole anti-Zionist self to our virtual seder! Our beloved community is coming together to set the Pesach table for you. Our seder will feature joy and rage and hope from our Havurah, BIJOCSM and student networks, our campaigns, our rabbis, and from JVP members from near and far—all gathered for collective liberation for us all. They never seem to have a problem with Palestinian nationalism. I wonder...Read More "Palestine" ranks better than most countries in "multidimensional poverty" and "human development index" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Apr 07:00 AM The UN Human Development Reports of the UN Development Program defines a "Multidimensional Poverty Index" (MPI.) The MPI looks beyond income to understand how people experience poverty in multiple and simultaneous ways. It identifies how people are being left behind across three key dimensions: health, education and standard of living, comprising 10 indicators. People who experience deprivation in at least one third of these weighted indicators fall into the category of multidimensionally poor. The MPI score is based on these metrics: How do Palestinians do? Pretty good, actually. While Western nations are not listed in this chart, the Palestinians are shown to be in far better shape than over 100 countries that are listed. I call out some of them. Anti-Israel activists like to pretend that Palestinians have "no choice" but to turn to terror, and one of the reasons they like to trot out is how impoverished they are. If that was the case, then why are we not seeing the same support for terror in the 100 countries who have a higher poverty score than they do? Until COVID, Palestinians had also been steadily getting better scores every year in UNDP's Human Development Index, but even after a brief setback they are ranked "high" in various metrics. Israel haters hate context like this. Because by any metric, Palestinians aren't in nearly as bad shape as people in over a...Read More    ©2023 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company