| The "Al Aqsa is in Danger Festival"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Oct 04:45 AM On Saturday, Hamas organized a "grand festival" in the Gaza Strip | | On Saturday, Hamas organized a "grand festival" in the Gaza Strip called the "Al-Aqsa is in Danger Festival". Officials from different Palestinian factions participated.
Thousands of Gazans came to listen to speeches about how Israel is supposedly attacking Al Aqsa.
It turns out that a festival with the same title was held every year from 1996 to 2015 by the Islamic Movement -Northern Wing of Israel in the city of Umm al-Fahm.
Al Aqsa has been in "danger" for more than a century. Somehow, it still stands.
And Arabs make grand festivals to celebrate it's supposed being in danger. * * * * * * 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: Palestine: A story of Colonialism through the ages I shouldn't have to write this: others, better educated about this than me, people with deeper insight into world history and geopolitics should: historians should document this, journos should flood the internet with articles, politicos of every left or right shade, from the continent and across The Pond should clamour to support this, educators should educate on this. Yet, here we are: this truth that needs to be said remains, apart from the odd internet article - of which this one has great chances of ending up being too - hidden, sidelined, forgotten and ignored. Better still: we should not have allowed this atrocity to be committed, this falsehood to spread and take root, this deeply unjust thing to exist. Yet here we are: just do an internet search and you'll see. The worst is when Israelis support it. The thing I refer to is, of course, the notion of 'Palestine'. 'Palestine' is, at core, a colonial endeavour, a malign intention of domination, control and dispossession, a false flag operation, a deception, (the oldest) piece of fake news, a grotesque masquerade of peoplehood, a trivial pursuit of individual enrichment, a geopolitical stratagem, a ruse hidden in plain sight, an unambiguous expression of fundamental disregard for humanity and for human rights, a deeply antisemitic thing, a profoundly inhumane thing. As its apologists like to point...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Why "progressives" can't deal with antisemitism Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews. Writing in Mosaic, she ponders the effect of liberal ideologies espoused by the media and the universities which are promoting antisemitism and damaging foundational American values. The flourishing of American Jews, she says, lies at the heart of American pluralism. But she warns: "The surest sign of an America in retreat would be a Jewish community in retreat from its own Jewish heritage". This baleful development is what she now sees happening, largely as a result of widespread ignorance among American Jews of their own ancient culture. Last January, more than 200 rabbis signed a statement expressing their concerns about the "shrinking space of 'permissible' discourse," self-censorship and burgeoning antisemitism and anti-Zionism. This, they wrote, had arisen from an ideology about issues such as race and gender that "in its most simplistic form sees the world solely in binary terms of oppressed versus oppressor, and categorises individuals into monolithic group identities". These rabbis have been left aghast by the all-too visible harm being done by the "social justice" agenda that has been...Read More |
By Martin Ostrow Ken Burns's advance interviews for his new Holocaust film provided much material for public discussion. Now that PBS has broadcast the six-hour series, how does the film measure up?
The answer, unfortunately, is that it's a disappointment. "The U.S. and the Holocaust" misrepresents some key historical issues and entirely omits crucial information. Ultimately, Ken and his producer partners, Sarah Botstein and Lynn Novick, have failed to deliver the kind of film that we would have expected, given their track record.
I write not as a historian, but as the producer and director of a previous PBS film on America's response to the Holocaust, "America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference," which first aired in 1994.
Inevitably, both my film and Ken's cover some of the same ground. We both describe the context in which America's response to the Holocaust evolved, such as the racism, isolationism, and antisemitism in the United States in the 1930s. Ken handles those themes and the unfolding of the Nazi genocide quite well, worthy moments of Holocaust education.
It is one thing, however, to acknowledge the disturbing trends in public and congressional opinion in those days; it is another to make it seem as if President Franklin D. Roosevelt was captive to them, as Ken does. FDR, after all, was a masterful leader. When he cared about an issue, he knew how to fight for it. But he made no real effort concerning the plight of Jewish refugees, not even to let them stay...Read More |
Independent Arabia reports that Hadash MK Aida Touma condemned Israel making injectable contraceptive Depo-Provera available to Bedouin women in the Negev. She said it is "dangerous and falls within the appalling racist policies," adding that this Israeli policy aims to control and restrict childbirth in the Bedouin community in the Negev.It quotes Israel's Liberal magazine:Inside a women's clinic in the city of Beersheba, the largest city in the Negev desert region in Israel, Fatima Abu Al-Qia'an (30 years old) and a group of her married companions are standing in queues, anxiously waiting for their turn for an urgent medical examination. This is just like the fake controversy over Israel supposedly forcing Ethiopian Jewish women to take Depo-Provera. As I reported at the time, in more patriarchal societies, women who want to take birth control prefer to covertly use the Depo-Provera injection without their husbands knowing. Husbands might want...Read More |
From Ian: 'You little boy': Abbas says he scolded Blinken for not pressuring Israel Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas told a group of Palestinian Americans last week that he scolded US Secretary of State Antony Blinken for failing to pressure Israel to make peace. While Abbas has not shied away from publicly vocalizing his frustration with the Biden administration over the past year, his remarks during a private meeting with representatives of the Palestinian diaspora on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York appeared to go further and included the belittling of the United States's top diplomat. In a recording of the September 22 meeting obtained by The Times of Israel, the PA leader recalled a recent phone conversation with Blinken during which Abbas said he grew frustrated with what he called a recurring US practice of claiming that Israel is not interested in peace, while refusing to use the American bully pulpit to pressure Jerusalem into moving in that direction. "I told Blinken, 'You little boy, don't do that,'" Abbas told the Palestinian Americans, speaking in Arabic. Some details of the meeting were first published by the Haya Washington Arabic news site. Abbas said he then recalled to Blinken how during the 1956 Suez Crisis, Israel agreed to withdraw its forces from the Gaza Strip after US president Dwight Eisenhower ordered...Read More |
From the perspective of negotiations, Hezbollah has effectively won the dispute with Israel over ownership of disputed areas of the Mediterranean. This map (my additions to a map from Alma) shows the four major positions:
Line 1 has been Israel's position as to the maritime border with Lebanon. Line 23 has been Lebanon's traditional position. The "Hof Line" was the compromise suggested by US Special Envoy to Syria and Lebanon, Frederic Hof, during the Obama administration, rejected by Lebanon.
In 2021, Lebanon suddenly claimed that Line 29 was really the proper border. This new area includes part of the Karish field which no one ever disputed before was part of Israel.
This allowed Hassan Nasrallah to threaten that Hezbollah would attack the Karish field if Israel starts extracting gas from there, and he sent drones there this past summer that were shot down by Israel.
From all indications, the Lebanese claim to Line 29 was a bazaar bargaining tactic. It was never formally approved by the government nor formally claimed in international forums.
Yet it has worked. The Hof line is no longer even being considered, and reports indicate that in current negotiations with US envoy Amos Hochstein, Lebanon will get virtually everything up to Line 23, their original maximalist position.
Hezbollah's threats seem to have paid off. Yesterday, Arab Tawhid Party leader Wiam Wahhab...Read More |
Modern antisemitic groups like Electronic Intifada, IfNotNow and others like to claim that they aren't antisemitic - the real antisemites are the Jews (they say "Zionists.") It turns out that even that argument was used by the classic antisemites of history.
This op-ed in The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, October 03, 1941 shows that this argument was used by the antisemitic "America First Committee."
This op-ed shows a methodology of antisemitism that remains popular today. "That's the trick, the technique and the plan of the anti-Semite. Blame the Jews for everything bad, then deny that it is anti-Semitism, and then blame the Jews themselves for bringing up the subject at all."
Nothing has changed in 80 years. * * * * * * 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 |
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