| Of course the rampages through Palestinian towns are terrorismnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 25 Jun 04:45 AM Times of Israel reports: Israel Defens | | Times of Israel reports: Israel Defense Forces chief Lt. Gen. Herzi Halevi, Shin Bet head Ronen Bar, and Police Commissioner Kobi Shabtai in a joint statement on Saturday strongly condemned an ongoing series of settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, branding them as "nationalist terrorism in the full sense of the term." In the wake of a deadly terror attack carried out by Hamas-affiliated gunmen in the West Bank on Tuesday, in which four Israelis were killed, the past five days have seen hundreds of settlers rampage inside Palestinian towns and villages, setting fire to homes, cars, and even opening fire in some cases. "In recent days, violent attacks by Israeli citizens against innocent Palestinians have been carried out in the Judea and Samaria area," the security chiefs' statement read, referring to the West Bank by its biblical name. "These attacks are against every moral and Jewish value and are also nationalist terrorism in the full sense of the term, and we are obliged to fight them." It then later reported in a headline, "Far-right ministers reject criticism of settler attacks on Palestinians as 'terror'" - but I couldn't find in the text of the article where they said that. They complained about placing an...Read More |
From Ian: Activist Org Calls For Boycott Against UN Climate Summit Over Ties To Israel The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is calling for a boycott of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) due to its ties with Israel, according to an Instagram post. The group is protesting the U.N. for allowing the annual conference in November to be held by "one of the world's largest fossil fuel producers," and argued that the move undermines the fight for "climate justice," according to the post. BDS' Arab account posted on Wednesday that it would be organizing a boycott against the summit because of the UAE's "military-security alliance with the enemy," the enemy being the state of Israel, the group claimed. "Our call is in line with the call issued by boycott groups, parties, unions and civil associations in the Arab region, which calls for the boycott of the authoritarian Emirates region because of its military-security alliance with the enemy and its conspiracy on the Palestinian issue, the war crimes committed in Yemen and its violent suppression of freedoms in the UAE," the post reads. The group argued that protesting the "apartheid" state of Israel is in line with the fight for "climate justice," according to the post. "The struggle against the Israeli colonialist and apartheid system in Palestine is organically and intermittently...Read More |
From Ian: What Avi Shlaim gets wrong about the persecution of Jews in Iraq According to Marozzi's piece 'although Israel has consistently denied any involvement in these attacks, suspicion has hung over the clandestine activities of Zionist agents tasked with persuading the Jewish community to flee Iraq and settle in Israel.' They needed no such persuading. The Jews of Iraq had been subjected to persecution for years. In 1941 they suffered the horrific Farhoud pogroms: over 180 Jews were murdered, hundreds injured and hundreds of Jewish homes destroyed. But even before the Farhud, Jews were targeted: 1938 saw a documented bombing campaign against Jews in Iraq 'that cannot be explained away on 'Zionist agents'; and in 1947 a Jewish man was lynched for 'giving kids poisoned candy' and the Jewish quarter of Fallujah was ransacked.' Before the partition vote, the Iraqi foreign minister threatened the expulsion of Iraqi Jews, and by 1948, on the hearsay of two Muslims, any Jew could be thrown into jail for years as a 'Zionist'. Throughout the land, Jewish banking rights were restricted, Jews were banned from most civil service positions, Jewish businesses were boycotted and countless Jews were arrested and dispossessed. Also in 1948, Iraq's richest Jew, Shafiq Ades, was executed after being found guilty of selling weapons to Israel without evidence and refused a defence...Read More |
A variant of two previous posters.
This really happened. * * * * * * 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 Ian: 'Disgusted': Congressional Human Rights Chair Announces Boycott of Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch Over Israel Treatment The chairman of the Congressional subcommittee responsible for human rights announced on Thursday that he would boycott representatives from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch from testifying before his committee because of their position that Israel is an "apartheid" state. Speaking at a hearing on antisemitism and anti-Israel bias in the UN, the Palestinian Authority and NGOs, Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee's subcommittee on Global Health, Global Human Rights and International Organizations, said he was "disgusted" by the two human rights organizations. "It used to be that Amnesty International was all about political prisoners, and they had a very sterling reputation," Smith said. "They have reneged on all of that…Apartheid is an abomination… To sit there and take that type of language and smear Israel with it is appalling and Human Rights Watch is doing the exact same thing…I've had representatives of those groups come and testify on other issues. But you know, it just occurred to me, I'm gonna boycott them. Any hearing I have on human rights, Amnesty is not invited, nor is Human Rights Watch, because...Read More |
Khaled Ibrahim writes an op-ed in the Lebanese, purportedly progressive Al Akhbar with his analysis of the future of Israel. But it is a side comment that is most interesting: The Zionist entity goes against the logic of history and justice and stands in the way of the rights and aspirations of a major Arab nation from the ocean to the Gulf. It has no future in our Arab world...While he then mentions the Palestinians as an afterthought, Ibrahim is honest about the real Arab problem with Israel: it stands in the way of a mythical, united, Arab nation from the Atlantic to the Gulf.
In other words, the Palestinian issue is, and always was, an excuse to oppose Israel, but never the reason.
The Arab world opposed Israel before anyone heard of the "Palestinian people," they opposed Israel before the "occupation." Their opposition to Israel was never about Palestinians, but they pretended to want to "defend" them even as both Trans-Jordan and Syria plotted to subsume Palestine as part of a "Greater Syria."
AP, October 19, 1947: Manchester Guardian, February 14, 1947: There was no interest in an Arab Palestine then, and there was no interest in creating such a country between 1948 and 1967. It was always opposition to a Jewish state, not support for a Palestinian state, that animated Israel's enemies - and that...Read More |
It is summer, and that means that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are proudly parading photos of their violating the war crime of recruiting child soldiers, calling it "summer camp." These pictures from an Islamic Jihad "Revenge of the Free" training camp are not ambiguous. This is a war crime.
As the ICRC says,
The Optional Protocol to the Convention on the Rights of the Child differentiates between States and non-State armed groups in setting the age-limit for recruitment and use in hostilities. For States, the age limit for direct participation in hostilities and for compulsory recruitment is 18. This means they can accept voluntary enlistment of persons between the ages of 15 and 18. Armed groups, on the other hand, are bound by a stricter prohibition, affecting both voluntary and compulsory recruitment of under-18s. There are no photos of the kids engaging in sports, playing games or otherwise having fun. Calling this a "summer camp" is a joke. It is a military training camp for kids. And Islamic Jihad makes this clear in their recruitment video: Not only that, but...Read More |
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