| Once again, @AmnestyUK lies about Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 18 Jun 04:45 AM Amnesty-UK has embarked on what I believe is at least its fou | | Amnesty-UK has embarked on what I believe is at least its fourth campaign to get the UK to ban any Israeli goods from communities across the Green Line. As far as I can tell, Israel is the only country in the world whose consumer products are targeted for boycotting by Amnesty branches. The current campaign makes claims that are simply false: Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria have either been built on empty areas that hadn't had any Arab residents or they were built where Jews lived before 1948 (Gush Etzion and parts of Jerusalem and Hebron.) Israel haters love to paint a picture of Israel depopulating Palestinian communities in the West Bank and replacing them with Jewish communities - and it is simply a lie. I tweeted Amnesty-UK asking for a list of these communities - certainly, someone must have made such a list like there are lists of communities that Arabs fled from in 1948. But no one has been able to provide the name of even one. Because it is a lie. And the "human rights" community is not bothered by lies as long as they...Read More |
From Ian: Joe Biden's UNESCO fiasco UNESCO passes more scandalous anti-Israel resolutions What is particularly galling about this move is that just last month, UNESCO once again passed a series of scandalous anti-Israel resolutions at the 216th session of its executive board in Paris, which was held from May 10 to 24. Take, for example, Item 33 of the UNESCO board's agenda, which is titled "Occupied Palestine" and reads like it was formulated by the worst of Israel's foes. In a subsection about Jerusalem, the Jewish state is described as the "Occupying Power" over the city, and the board's members declare that Israel's Basic Law on Jerusalem, which established the city as our united capital, is "null and void and must be rescinded forthwith." Another subsection declares that both Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem and the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, where the patriarchs and matriarchs of the Jewish people are buried, are "Palestinian sites" which are under Israeli occupation. This is so patently offensive and insulting to Jewish belief that it borders on outright antisemitism. Denying the Jewishness of our ancestors is nothing less than a direct assault on the very foundations of the Jewish people, and UNESCO deserves to be shunned for it, not embraced. Regarding Gaza, the UNESCO board criticized "Israeli army violations" in the area, while failing to mention Hamas and Islamic Jihad or their habit of firing thousands...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Challenging the BBC on Israel For decades, the Western media has acted as a malevolent echo chamber for demonization of Israel. Channeling Palestinian Arab propaganda as if it were fact, the media has twisted the Western mind, inciting it to hate Israel and give Israel's Palestinian Arab persecutors a free pass. The impact of this cannot be exaggerated. Of all media outlets, the BBC is the most important, because it serves as the global standard of fairness, objectivity and accuracy. At least, that's the BBC's historic reputation. In Britain, conservatives regularly criticize it for its leftist bias. Arguably, however, the BBC's coverage of Israel has caused the most lethal harm. Over the years, the BBC has broadcast and disseminated through its influential website Palestinian Arab distortions and lies, including incendiary and emotive footage that is sometimes no more than "Pallywood" fiction. It fails to report most attacks on Israelis while, at the same time, unforgivably presenting Israeli military actions to stop these attacks as if Israel were the aggressor and the Palestinian Arabs its hapless victims. There is no other country, cause or people that the BBC misrepresents so obsessively. The outlet's egregious bias has been painstakingly charted by media watchdogs such as CAMERA UK. Until very recently, however, the BBC could ignore such criticisms because of the general public...Read More |
Today's antisemitism that couldn't possibly be antisemitism comes from Lebanon's Al Mayadeen, a Hezbollah linked site. It is a recollection of a Palestinian in Lebanon of what his teacher had taught him about leaving Palestine in 1948. He pressed the arms of the razor: "With this we will deal with lice...how? We shave our hair to nothing, and with this, young men, we prevent lice from hiding among the hair because we shaved them." A boy sitting on a stone either side raised his finger and asked, "And the fleas, Professor?" "Lice and fleas feed on our blood, and our blood is weak because we eat food that does not satisfy us. I mean, lice suck our blood, I mean, they don't care if we die, and so they do what the Jews did to us, who expelled us from our villages and homes and threw us under tents due to cold, hunger, and lice." - "These days, the days of hunger, lice, and living under tents will pass, and you will grow old and fight and liberate our villages and cities. We will be victorious over lice and those who occupy our villages and cities." \* I am Rashad Abu Shawer...we have grown up with heads full of certainty of the inevitability of liberating all the villages and cities of Palestine, just as Mr. Ahmed Al-Ajouri liberated our heads from lice..... Comparing Jews to lice? Why would anyone think that this has anything to do with Jews? * * * * * * Buy the...Read More |
Site of future Russian embassy branch
The Jerusalem Post reports: Russia plans to open a branch of its embassy in Jerusalem, in exchange for acknowledging the boundaries of Moscow's historic and present ownership of the plot of land on which the office will be built, the sides announced on Friday. The "branch office of the Consular Section of the Russian Embassy in Israel," as the embassy calls it, will be opened on the corner of King George and Ma'alot streets in downtown Jerusalem, where a parking lot is currently located, after Russia and the Jerusalem Municipality, in cooperation with the Foreign Ministry, signed an agreement clarifying the boundaries of the plot. The Foreign Ministry said that the building complex will include a residence for Russian diplomats and a conference hall, which makes it more than a regular consulate. While it isn't a full embassy, it is nearly as significant as an embassy would be. The Russian diplomatic building would appear to violate the 1980 United Nations Security Council Resolution 478, which called for "Those States that have established diplomatic missions at Jerusalem to withdraw such missions from the Holy City;"
It will be recalled that at the same time the world was freaking out over the US Embassy moving to Jerusalem and recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital, Russia said...Read More |
From Ian: Pittsburgh synagogue shooter found guilty of killing 11 in the deadliest attack on Jews in US history A truck driver who expressed hated of Jews was convicted Friday of barging into a Pittsburgh synagogue and shooting everyone he could find, killing 11 congregants in an act of antisemitic terror for which he could be sentenced to die. The guilty verdict was a foregone conclusion after Robert Bowers' own lawyers conceded at the trial's outset that he attacked and killed worshippers at the Tree of Life synagogue on Oct. 27, 2018, in the deadliest attack on Jews in U.S. history. Jurors must now decide whether the 50-year-old should be sent to death row or sentenced to life in prison without parole as the federal trial shifts to a penalty phase expected to last several weeks. Bowers was tried on 63 criminal counts, including hate crimes resulting in death and obstruction of the free exercise of religion resulting in death. His attorneys had offered a guilty plea in return for a life sentence, but prosecutors refused, opting instead to take the case to trial and pursue the death penalty. Most of the victims' families expressed support for the decision. Bowers turned a sacred house of worship into a "hunting ground," targeting his victims because of their religion, a prosecutor told jurors on Thursday. Reading the names of each...Read More |
Reuters reports: Israel exported a record $12.556 billion in defence products last year, with new Arab partners under the U.S.-sponsored 2020 Abraham Accords accounting for almost a quarter of the business, the Defence Ministry said on Tuesday. It said the 2022 figures marked a 50% increase over the previous three years and a doubling in volume over the previous decade. Drones accounted for 25% of the 2022 exports and missiles, rockets or air defence systems for 19%, it said. Without naming specific clients, the ministry said 24% of defence exports were to Abraham Accords countries. United Arab Emirates and Bahrain were signatories to those accords, and Israel often counts Morocco and Sudan as part of them as well. Asia and the Pacific accounted for 30% of Israeli defence exports, Europe for 29% and North America for 11%, it said. Charts released by Israel's Defense Ministry indicate that while sales have been increasing steadily throughout the years, the Abraham Accords partners have fueled the large rise in 2022. 2023 looks to be even better, as...Read More |
On June 6, Iran announced that it had developed a hypersonic missile capable of speeds up to Mach-15, called the Fattah.
It made quite clear that the main target of the missile is Israeli civilians.
Throughout Tehran, banners appeared with a mock-up of the weapon and the words "400 seconds to Tel Aviv" in Farsi and Hebrew.
Even with this announcement and explicit threat against Israel, the US has been negotiating with Iran to come up with an "informal, unwritten" agreement that would be worth exactly the nonexistent paper it is written on. The only US response to the Fattah announcement was to sanction some Chinese and Hong Kong suppliers of technology to Iran.
While the news, if true, is troubling, the timing couldn't have come at a better time for Israel's Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, who created Iron Dome and David's Sling anti-missile systems. It announced this week it was building a defense for the hypersonic missiles that Iran claimed were impossible to defend against. From Airforce Technology: On 14 June Israeli defence company Rafael Advanced...Read More |
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