| This was the real Palestinian nakbanoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 May 04:52 AM As the rhetoric about "Nakba Day" keeps increasing, it is worthwhi | | As the rhetoric about "Nakba Day" keeps increasing, it is worthwhile to see the truth.
There were 65,000 Arabs in Haifa before the Battle for Haifa in 1948. After the Haganah won, the Arab leaders fled and the remainder were pressured to leave by the Arab Higher Committee. It wasn't the Jews who forced them out. In fact, the Jews pleaded with the Arabs to stay in Haifa. Nearly all of the Arabs left anyway, leaving no infrastructure for those who remained. The flight was during Passover, but the Haifa rabbinical leaders gave permission for Jews to bake bread for the Arabs since they had no bakeries left of their own. (If you know Jewish law and how strict it is against owning any leavened products on Passover, let alone baking them in your own shop, this is an incredible and unprecedented dispensation.)
Only 4,000 Arabs remained in Haifa after the breakdown of their community.
This was the real nakba - the external Arab leaders told their people to leave, the local Arab leaders led the flight instead of acting like real leaders, and the remaining Arabs were leaderless. This pattern was repeated in other major cities with large Arab populations. This article in the Palestine Post from May 9, 1948 gives a first hand account from an Arab who decided to stay in Haifa. One of the Arabs who remained in Haifa throughout the :fighting and after has written...Read More |
From Ian: The Mossad: The Uniqueness of Israel's Spy Agency Unusual covert operations, ethical dilemmas and the Rabbi of the Mossad. Israel's spy agency, the Mossad, has a reputation for ruthlessness, an ability to strike Israel's enemies anywhere in the world and the capability to place agents within the deepest strongholds of the enemy. The assassinations of Iranian commanders and nuclear scientists, the placement of agents high up within the Iraqi and Egyptian governments and vengeance against terrorists all add to the agency's street cred. All of the above fall into the classic operational patterns of most other spy agencies. But the Mossad also engages in operations that are somewhat outside the box of regular intelligence gathering and defensive activities. For example, soon after the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948, the agents of the Mossad were tasked with hunting down and killing Nazi war criminals who had escaped justice. Famously, they tracked Adolf Eichmann, one of the architects of the Holocaust, to Argentina, where they abducted him and brought him to Israel to stand trial for his crimes.1 He was found guilty of all charges and hanged on June 1st 1962. These Nazis no longer posed a danger to the Jewish people or Israel, but bringing them to justice was seen as a duty of the Mossad toward the Jewish nation as a whole. The Mossad was tasked by the President of Israel...Read More |
The impression I always has was that while Muslims have had antipathy for Jews since the time of Mohammed, they didn't frame that in terms of real hate until the late 19th or early 20th centuries. And I believe that this came primarily from Christian Arabs.
If you do a search for "Jews" in arabic in Google Books for the 19rh century, a large proportion of the books that result are written by Christians. Certainly Arabic translations of the Old and New Testaments are featured prominently, but also some doctrinal works of antisemitism seem to have been eagerly translated to Arabic by the Arab Christians.
One example I found was an Arabic translation of works by 19th century German Catholic theologian August Rohling, a true Christian antisemite, who wrote a number of books mistranslating the Talmud into German to stoke Jew-hatred. It seems that his works were relatively popular in Arabic translation by Youssef Nasrallah, with a number of editions and...Read More |
Israel has every right, under international law, to attack military targets. And those targets may be attacked even if some civilians will likely be killed, as long as the target is important enough.
International law does not give a formula, but clearly the three Islamic Jihad terrorists killed today were of very high value, and there is no violation of the laws of armed conflict to go after them even if their families are doomed as well.
The best litmus test for proportionality was when NATO bombed a TV/radio station in Serbia, killing 23 civilians and zero militants, when the benefit of the attack was only to take the TV station, part of the military infrastructure, down for a few hours. A report prepared by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) concluded that ...the TV network had been part of the overall military communication system of the Serbian government, thus making the RTS building a legitimate military target. It said: Insofar as the attack actually was aimed at disrupting the communications network, it was legally acceptable ... NATO's targeting of the RTS building for propaganda purposes was an incidental (albeit complementary) aim of its primary goal of disabling the Serbian military command and control system and to destroy the nerve system and apparatus that keeps Milošević in power In regards to civilian casualties, it further...Read More |
From Ian: PMW: Israel kills evil terror leaders; PA defends the murderers Last night Israel attacked multiple terror locations of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror organization in the Gaza Strip, including 3 homes of terror leaders, terror infrastructures, weapon storehouses, and manufacturing sites. The PA has once again sided with the terrorists. In last night's attacks, Israel killed three of the Islamic Jihad's top leaders, Khalil Al-Bahtini, Tareq Izz Al-Din, and Jihad Al-Ghannam who are responsible for rocket attacks at Israel, including 104 rockets launched at Israeli civilian targets last week, and terror attacks in Judea and Samaria/West Bank. 10 others, primarily their relatives, were also killed. Jihad Al-Ghannam was a terror leader for many years. Already in 2004, he was responsible for the murder of Tali Hatuel and her four daughters, Hila, Hadar, Roni, and Merav, among many others. Tali Hatuel, and four daughters, Hila, Hadar, Roni, and Merav, murdered by PIJ Despite these leaders' terror responsibility, or possibly because of it, the PA has chosen to condemn Israel and not the terrorists. The PA leaders in their statements refer to "13 civilians" killed, which shows they are defending the terror leaders as innocent "civilians." PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas' official spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh: "We condemn this dangerous Israeli escalation against our people, which targeted children, women, and homes...Read More |
Abu Hamza, spokesman for the Al Quds Brigades of Islamic Jihad, issued a video statement where he issued threats against Israel, said that a thousand leaders will emerge to replace the three martyrs," promised a massive retaliation - the usual response. The funniest part is that he said that al-Quds will confront Israel with firmness and courage.
While he is wearing a mask. Is he afraid of something? * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Or order from your favorite bookseller, using ISBN 9798985708424. Read all about it here! ...Read More |
From Reuters: Jordan carried out rare air strikes on southern Syria on Monday, hitting a Iran-linked drugs factory and killing a smuggler allegedly behind big hauls across the two countries' border, local and intelligence sources said. The sources said one strike hit an abandoned drug facility in Syria's southern Deraa province linked to the Iran-backed Lebanese group Hezbollah, which is allied to Syria's government. Another strike on the village of Shaab, in the adjacent province of Sweida near the Jordanian border, killed Syrian drug kingpin Marie al-Ramthan and his family while they were at home. Ramthan's wife and six children were killed. As of this writing, a day after the airstrike, neither Amnesty International nor Human Rights Watch nor former HRW head Ken Roth have condemned the airstrike for being "disproportionate" even though the ratio of...Read More |
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