| The world sends a message: Israel should just accept Jews being murderednoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 07 Jul 04:45 AM From Times of Israel: UN Sec | | From Times of Israel: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Thursday said Israel used excessive force in the counter-terror operation in Jenin earlier this week and blamed Israel for the violence in the West Bank city. During a press briefing at UN Headquarters in New York City, Guterres said he had been "deeply disturbed" by news of the Jenin operation and "strongly condemns all acts of violence against civilians." Asked if his condemnation applied to both sides of the conflict, Guterres said, "It applies to all use of excessive force and obviously in this situation there was an excessive force used by Israeli forces." "Israeli airstrikes and ground operations in a crowded refugee camp were the worst violence in the West Bank in many years, with a significant impact on civilians," Guterres said, blaming Israel for disruptions to water and electricity services, and blocking people from accessing medical care, a charge that Israel denied. "I once again call on Israel to abide by its obligations under international law, including the duty to exercise restraint and use only proportional force," Guterres said. "The use of airstrikes is inconsistent with the conduct of law enforcement operations." "I understand Israel's legitimate concerns with its security but escalation is not the answer," he added. "It simply bolsters radicalization and leads to a deepening cycle of...Read More |
From Ian: Fear and loathing in Paris unsettles French Jews Nobody in Paris can be said to be calm about the biggest explosion of civil unrest in France for 20 years. What began with the shooting by traffic cops of Nahel Merzouk, a 17-year-old French-Arab with immigrant parents — one of a shocking 17 drivers shot dead by police in the past 18 months — exploded into five nights of rioting, looting and rage. Spreading across France, rioters from the underprivileged and racially mixed banlieues — the fringes of the country's prosperous and elegant cities — torched cars, looted shops and targeted town halls, the homes of mayors and state-owned properties or symbols of all kinds. The statistics are horrifying: more than 5,000 vehicles burned, 3,400 arrests, 1,000 buildings damaged or looted, 250 police stations or gendarmeries attacked and more than 700 police officers injured. But French Jews woke from the madness more nervous than most. Not only was the Holocaust Memorial in the Parisian suburb of Nanterre, the epicentre of the rioting, defaced by anti-police and anti-government slogans, but Jewish shops were ransacked in the community hub of Sarcelles, an ethnically mixed banlieue itself, also on the edge of Paris. Clips circulating on social media showed graffiti warning "we will make you a Shoah" and recorded cries of "death to the Jews". The deep seam...Read More |
The last British soldiers did not leave Palestine until six weeks after Israel declared independence. The British continues to control Haifa's port until June 30, when they finally left and Israel took over. And within hours of the withdrawal, Israel introduced its new navy. (London Daily Herald, July 1 1948) It was so small that United Press put the word "navy" in scare quotes. * * * * * * 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 |
Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Haifa, July 6 - Human rights activists accused the Jewish State today of exterminating indigenous groups, in particular the microfauna that populate the interior of Arab bodies, with the death toll exceeding more than a billion lives per day, the activists allege. Doctors Without Borders, B'tselem, Human Rights Watch, and several smaller groups made the claims yesterday and today in a coordinated campaign to raise awareness of the day-in, day-out massacres of Arab bacteria and other microorganisms by Israeli health care workers by various brutal means: antibiotics, antiseptics, anti-fungal agents, and external detergent materials such as anti-microbial soaps. "The daily mass killing can only be described as a genocide," stated Btselem spokesman Aretha Meisin. "The indigenous microbiome of this land, dating all the way back to prehistoric times, faces daily killing on the order of tens of billions, maybe hundreds of billions, per week - all at the hand of Israel's 'health care' system, which pursues the extermination of Arab microorganisms at a rate that can only be called ruthless." "The fact that it's medical personnel," added Human Rights Watch Israel-Palestine specialist Omar Shakir, "makes it all the more heinous. These people assert their supposed supremacy and superiority over...Read More |
From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Surge in Palestinian terror is a preview of a two-state 'solution' Part of this prejudice against Israel and Jewish rights is rooted in antisemitism. But the point here is that rather than enabling an end to the violence, every Israeli withdrawal or concession—whether the Oslo Accords that led to Jenin being a terror stronghold in 2002 as well as today or the 2005 retreat from Gaza—hasn't encouraged peace or coexistence. It has merely motivated the Palestinians to hold onto to their fantasies about reversing the history of the region and to believe that they still have a chance to eventually succeed in wearing down Israel. For all of the mistakes he has made in his first 30 months in office, President Joe Biden hasn't repeated the same one made by all of his recent predecessors by offering his own Middle East peace plan to make a two-state solution happen. Still, the administration's retreat from its predecessors' policies aimed at making Palestinians realize that they have lost their war and must accept reality has contributed to the Arab intransigence that makes the current upsurge in violence inevitable. In particular, Washington's recent decision to cease scientific and technological cooperation with Israeli institutions in Judea and Samaria like Ariel University does more to fuel violence than building homes for Jews in the region. This embrace of...Read More |
In the middle of a Haaretz article on humanitarian issues in Jenin, we see: Another resident of the camp, who prefers to remain unnamed, refused to leave his home with his family of eight. "We will not leave our home even if it falls on our heads," he said. "Our forefathers left in 1948 and were told to come back after a week, and that week has been 75 years. We will not make the same mistake; our generation is ready to sacrifice for its homeland."
The idea that Arab leaders had instructed the residents to flee so they would be free to enter and quickly defeat the Jews has gone out of fashion in recent decades, as many historians cannot find too much primary source material for it. And even among those who accept that it happened, there is much controversy about how many Arabs may have left at the urging of their leaders. But here is a Palestinian "refugee" who is not ashamed to say that his own ancestors indeed fled because they were instructed to. Given that most Palestinians are conditioned to push the narrative of being forcibly evicted even when it is provably false, and the current mindset that it would have been shameful to have voluntarily left their homes, it is significant that a Palestinian...Read More |
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The BBC has weakly apologized for presenter Anjana Gadgil saying, as a fact, that "Israeli forces are happy to kill children" during her interview with former Israeli prime minister Naftali Bennett.
In a statement, the BBC said, "While this was a legitimate subject to examine in the interview, we apologise that the language used in this line of questioning was not phrased well and was inappropriate."
But how could Gadgil have even thought that Israelis are such monsters to begin with?
The answer is almost certainly - Haaretz.
A review of news articles from the past 20 years finds that it is very rare for even the most extreme haters of Israel to accuse Israelis of happiness at killing children.
During the 2009 Gaza war, in The Guardian, a resident of Gaza writes in an op-ed, "A short message to the pilots in the Israeli F-16s: does it make you feel happy to kill Palestinian children and women? Do you feel it's your duty? Killing every child and woman, man and teenager in Gaza? I don't know what exactly you feel, what exactly you think, but please think of your mother and sister, your son and daughter." But even for a Gaza resident seeing airstrikes, the idea that Israel wants to kill children...Read More |
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