Palestinians Massing At The Israeli Border

[Linkiloo]

A study in being ineffectual.

 

[Linkiloo]

I wonder what would happen if 30,000 Israelis gathered at the border with rocks, slingshots, firebombs, IEDs, assault rifles, and grenades demanding return to Gaza. What if Netanyahu announced that it would take all of Gaza for Israel and kill anyone Arab who stood in his way? Do you think that Arab Gazans would refrain from use of force?

To add to that: do you think the UN would be calling for an enquiry? Do you think there'd be any outcry anywhere?

 

[Sixties Fan]

The verdict of history on Selma is clear. When those seeking the same rights granted to white American citizens answered racist violence with peaceful demonstrations, they illustrated the injustice they were seeking to overturn. Dr. King’s cause was just, and his methods were both peaceful and democratic.

The same cannot be said for Hamas’s Gaza show. Its cause is to overthrow Zionism. Dr. King denounced the intersectional myth that any Third World “colored” cause is inherently impartial. He supported both Israel’s right to exist and to defend itself. When confronted by someone who condemned Zionism, he answered: “When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You’re talking anti-Semitism.” Nor would he have recognized an event staged by an armed terror group in which Molotov cocktails and rocks—and, in some instances, guns—would be used as “nonviolent.”

(full article online)

Gaza is nothing like Selma

 

[Sixties Fan]

Except IDF spokesperson Avichay Adraee’s Arabic tweet is an image of binoculars, not a sniper lens, which would have included a cross hair. Even the Khaled Diab tweet that White links to doesn’t claim that the image is of a sniper lens.

As the years passed the refugees’ claims were set aside as unresolvable and David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s first prime minister, expressed the hope that “the old would die and the young would forget”.

False, decontextualized or selectively edited quotes attributed to Israeli historical figures are often employed by anti-Israel activists and hate sites to “prove” that these Israelis harbored malevolent attitudes.

So when such a hate site actually disavows a quote, it’s crystal clear just how dubious that quote is. In 2013, Electronic Intifada published an entire article examining the veracity of the very Ben Gurion quote used by Helm:

This quotation has made it into several draft submissions to us at The Electronic Intifada over the years, with some making it to publication.

But more recently, we began removing it from drafts during the editing process. Despite looking hard, we have been unable to locate a primary source for the quotation. No one yet has one, to our knowledge.

If even Electronic Intifada won’t use the quote, it appears that Sarah Helm has been looking in even darker places to find her anti-Israel sources.

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The Independent Publishing Lies in its Op-Eds | HonestReporting

 

[Sixties Fan]

Investigation Clears IDF Sniper; Arab Is Alive, was Organizing Riot

 

[Roudy]

'Terrorists also disguise themselves as journalists'

It's a big Pallywood part that is played often in many Pallywood plots. Right after terrorists disguised as ambulance drivers, doctors, Red Crescent workers, etc.

 

[Sixties Fan]

From Paris to Gaza, it's the same anti-Jewish evil

 

[Sixties Fan]

NGO Monitor: Dead Arab Photographer was Contractor for Norwegian NGO, Suspected Member of Hamas

 

[Sixties Fan]

Of course, if you think carefully about it, you realize that a body count cannot possibly tell you which side is the aggressor and which side is the victim. A lot more Germans died in World War II than Americans. That didn’t make Germany the victim—or deserving of any sympathy. But most people don’t think about that. This is what biased editors count on.

Don’t be fooled by claims that the media emphasizes the number of casualties simply because they’re reporting the most important fact of the story. The Reuters headline on March 30 did not have to be worded: “Israeli Forces Kill 16 Palestinians in Gaza Border Protests.” Such language clearly gives the impression that the Israelis killed them merely because they were “protesting.” The headline could just as easily (and more accurately) have said: “16 Palestinian Firebomb-Throwers Killed in Gaza.” Or “Israelis Shoot Back, Kill 16 Palestinian Attackers.”

The pro-Palestinian “body counters” of the international news media are greatly aided by the fact that Israel’s security forces are so good at saving lives.

Almost every day, somewhere in Israel, a Palestinian terrorist attempts to murder Jews. Almost every time, the police or army foils the attack. And in almost every such instance, the story is ignored by the international media. In effect, terrorists with bad aim get a free pass.

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Invasion of the ‘body counters’

 

[Sixties Fan]

[ Israelis who have their own version as to what happened the past two Fridays. Never mind that the Palestinians aim to kill them as well. ]

“But we are Jews. We are Jewish citizens not some Palestinians,” the activist continues. “Okay, really, no discrimination at all?”

The camerawoman then asks one of the soldiers, “Are your parents happy when you come back home after killing civilians? You have massacred 21 innocent civilians in the terror organization that you’re active in.”

When one of the soldiers questions her use of the word “terrorist,” the camerawoman responds: “Yes, terrorist. The educational system taught you to be drafted at the age of 18, without thinking about it, to a terror army and massacre innocent civilians in Gaza.”

Other than that short exchange, the IDF soldiers in the clip did not debate with the activists, beyond informing them they were in a closed military zone and must immediately leave the area.

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Left-wing activists accost IDF soldiers near Gaza, call them ‘terrorists’

 

[Sixties Fan]

Golani fighter astonished, disappointed at righteous indignation over sniper video, salutes comrades defending border against Hamas attacks.

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Open letter: Golani fighter writes to all of us

 

[Sixties Fan]

The explosion occurred during a routine military operation in northern Gaza, and was aimed at harming engineering equipment belonging to the IDF.

No one was injured, and no damage was caused.

An IDF spokesperson clarified that the explosives had been placed during one of the violent riots occurring over the past several days.

Responding to the explosion, the IDF fired tank shells at several Hamas targets.

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Explosion near Gaza border

 

[Sixties Fan]

The spectacle of the Nazi swastika flying alongside Palestinian flags at violent demonstrations on the Israel-Gaza border over the last fortnight has been widely interpreted in Israel as one more example of the “genocidal message” that Hamas is sending to the Jewish state.

Significantly, a new briefing from the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) issued on Wednesday suggests that at the same time as expressing admiration for Nazi antisemitism, Hamas nonetheless remains committed to denying Nazi crimes against the Jews.

This stance can be traced back to the original Hamas Charter issued in 1988. That document depicted World War II as a Jewish plot in which “the Zionists…grossed huge profits from their trade of war materials.”

In the interim, Holocaust denial has become both a staple of the Islamist organization’s ideology and — more recently — a political weapon to wield against its growing adversaries in the Muslim world.

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Hamas’s Chosen Weapon Against Muslim Moderates Is Holocaust Denial, New Report Shows

 

[Sixties Fan]

Amid Heightened Gaza Border Tensions, Hamas Reportedly Training Fighters to Kidnap IDF Soldiers

 

[Andylusion]

Mainstream media only has a framework of violence to understand the Question of Palestine, which makes it ill-equipped to understand and explain one of the largest civil protests among Palestinians in recent history. That is why the media sounds like it is trying to shove a square into a circle as it fails to explicitly say Israel executed 18 Palestinians and injured 1400 others where no lethal threat was posed and while Palestinians were literally on their own lands in the buffer zone - 300-500 meters of agricultural lands Israel arbitrarily marked as a buffer zone- and not even at Israel's undeclared militarized border.

This is about Israel's settler anxiety and the inability to make Palestinians disappear- they have not forgotten, not assimilated into other countries, and struggle to return motivated by love and belonging. ~ Noura Erakat

That would be because there is no question. Israel belongs to Israelis. Murderous terrorist belong no where.

You can write this down, and post it on a calendar with my name by it.

Palestinians will disappear. They will either disappear by choice, or they will disappear by death. But they will disappear.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Time magazine might want to take a second look at the name Palestinians have given to the recent demonstrations and clashes along the Gaza Strip's border with Israel.

Organizers have dubbed the campaign the “March of Return.” So when Time, in an April 6 story, described it only as “a six-week protest against the long-standing blockade” on the Hamas-ruled territory, they missed the main point. As the “March of Return” moniker makes clear, the protests are primarily meant to promote the Palestinian demand for a “right of return” — the influx into Israel of thousands of Palestinian refugees from the 1948 war and their millions of descendants.

The stated purpose of the campaign is no minor detail. The demand for “return” is widely understood as a call for the elimination of Israel by demographic means. “Implementing the ‘right of return’ means eradicating Israel,” explained Israeli author Amos Oz, a leader in the country's peace movement. Or as Palestinian activist Omar Barghouti has approvingly acknowledged, “If the refugees were to return, you would not have a two-state solution, you’d have a Palestine next to a Palestine.”

This — the “return” and the consequent “Palestine next to a Palestine” — is the primary goal of the March of Return. The Associated Press correctly reported at the start of the demonstrations that “the protest campaign is meant to spotlight Palestinian demands for a ‘right of return’ to what is now Israel.” And per Reuters, “The demonstrators are demanding that Palestinian refugees be allowed the right of return.”

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CAMERA: Time Forgets "Return March" Is About "Return"

 

[Sixties Fan]

Mainstream media only has a framework of violence to understand the Question of Palestine, which makes it ill-equipped to understand and explain one of the largest civil protests among Palestinians in recent history. That is why the media sounds like it is trying to shove a square into a circle as it fails to explicitly say Israel executed 18 Palestinians and injured 1400 others where no lethal threat was posed and while Palestinians were literally on their own lands in the buffer zone - 300-500 meters of agricultural lands Israel arbitrarily marked as a buffer zone- and not even at Israel's undeclared militarized border.

This is about Israel's settler anxiety and the inability to make Palestinians disappear- they have not forgotten, not assimilated into other countries, and struggle to return motivated by love and belonging. ~ Noura Erakat

That would be because there is no question. Israel belongs to Israelis. Murderous terrorist belong no where.

You can write this down, and post it on a calendar with my name by it.

Palestinians will disappear. They will either disappear by choice, or they will disappear by death. But they will disappear.

Israel and the Jews do not want the Palestinians to disappear.

They just want to live in peace side by side, as so many Arabs Muslims and Christians already do, be it in Israel or in the territories.

Many Arab Palestinians are peaceful. It is the destructive, poisonous Islamic teachings of demanding that Jews remain dhimmies to the Muslims which needs to go away.

It will take time.

The Arabs will lose, and will have to give up their attempts to destroy Israel.

The teachings and UNWRA have to go.

Only then, any possibility of peace can come up.

 

[Sixties Fan]

Activists from the Im Tirtzu movement held a counter demonstration across from the protest.

"Instead of standing with the State of Israel that provides them with equal rights and opportunity under law, these students opt to incite against Israel and the IDF, and to support terrorism," said Im Tirtzu’s policy director, Alon Schvartzer.

"The university must take this incitement seriously and immediately discipline those students responsible," continued Schvartzer.

Anti-Israel activists have held a number of demonstrations on the Mount Scopus campus over the years. In November 2012, a group of Arab students protested against Israel’s Operation Pillar of Defense against Hamas – but were forced to seek shelter after rockets were launched from Gaza towards Jerusalem

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Students at Hebrew University call for new Intifada

 

[Sixties Fan]

Israel Versus Hamas: The Case for Moral Clarity

 

[Shusha]

Israel Versus Hamas: The Case for Moral Clarity

Yes. This.

In the current round of moral fog, which is just a repeat of the same old moral fog, Gazans are confronted with a boundary which exists for the safety of both parties (the border) and are attempting to cross it (in this case literally, but the meaning is also figurative). Gazans push up against the boundaries, ignore the boundaries, use violence across the boundaries. And then get pissy when there are consequences.

Hey, here's an idea -- try respecting the boundaries.