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Nowadays, it is Iran that wants to destroy the Jewish State and is gradually obtaining the nuclear weapons to be able to do it. The Islamic Republic is fully in command of the Gaza-based terrorist organization Islamic Jihad, funds it, and has armed it with the 450 rockets that were fired within 30 hours at Israeli civilians.
Islamic Jihad’s general-secretary Ziad Nakhaleh, commanded the firing of those rockets from Iran. The terror group has murdered 194 Israelis in hundreds of terror attacks.
But this time, Israel did not wait for its enemies to harm the Jewish people. 28 hours before Tisha Be’av began, Israel assassinated senior Islamic Jihad’s northern command head Taysir al-Jabari and a terror cell that was readying the launch of an anti-tank missile against Israeli civilians.
The IDF launched Operation Breaking Dawn in preventative action to neutralize the threat from Islamic Jihad and save lives. Some 70 Islamic Jihad military targets have been hit.
Israelis spent the weekend in bomb shelters and the IDF used the Iron Dome missile defense system to prevent the loss of life, while Islamic Jihad has tried to maximize harm to both sides of the border.
A failed rocket attack by Islamic Jihad was responsible for the killing of children in Jabalya, for which Palestinian reports blamed Israel. Israeli security forces did not strike in Jabalya at that time.
“All fire by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is a double war crime: it is shooting at civilians, and using Gazan civilians as human shields,” the IDF said. “This incident is an example of Islamic Jihad harming the residents of Gaza. All harm to innocent civilians is tragic.”
The incident was an important reminder of the role the international press and social media play in war.
(full article online)
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Islamic Jihad’s general-secretary Ziad Nakhaleh, commanded the firing of those rockets from Iran. The terror group has murdered 194 Israelis in hundreds of terror attacks.
But this time, Israel did not wait for its enemies to harm the Jewish people. 28 hours before Tisha Be’av began, Israel assassinated senior Islamic Jihad’s northern command head Taysir al-Jabari and a terror cell that was readying the launch of an anti-tank missile against Israeli civilians.
The IDF launched Operation Breaking Dawn in preventative action to neutralize the threat from Islamic Jihad and save lives. Some 70 Islamic Jihad military targets have been hit.
Israelis spent the weekend in bomb shelters and the IDF used the Iron Dome missile defense system to prevent the loss of life, while Islamic Jihad has tried to maximize harm to both sides of the border.
A failed rocket attack by Islamic Jihad was responsible for the killing of children in Jabalya, for which Palestinian reports blamed Israel. Israeli security forces did not strike in Jabalya at that time.
“All fire by the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization is a double war crime: it is shooting at civilians, and using Gazan civilians as human shields,” the IDF said. “This incident is an example of Islamic Jihad harming the residents of Gaza. All harm to innocent civilians is tragic.”
The incident was an important reminder of the role the international press and social media play in war.
(full article online)
Operation Breaking Dawn and Tisha Be'Av: Viewed Through the Prism of History | Honest Reporting
The Haggadah read by Jews around the world on Passover says it clearly. "Not just one alone has risen against us to destroy us, but in every generation
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How many Israelis have had to flee Islamic Jihad rocket fire this weekend? It’s an easy question with a simple answer, and yet media giants Associated Press and Reuters reduced one million fleeing Israelis to “tens of thousands,” while The New York Times cited just “thousands.”
Following communication from CAMERA’s Israel office today, both Reuters and AP commendably corrected their reports. As of this writing, the “Paper of Record” has yet to correct.
Initially, Reuters’ story today (“Palestinian rockets reach west of Jerusalem on third day of Gaza fighting“) grossly underreported that Islamic Jihad “rocket salvoes have sent tens of thousands Israelis to shelters.” (Emphasis added.)
In fact, Islamic Jihad rockets have sent more than one million Israelis running to shelters, at locations including Ashkelon (population 140,000); Ashdod (226,000), Rishon Lezion (260,000), Holon (194,300), Bat Yam (130,000), and Sderot (28,000), in addition to the countless smaller yishuvim and kibbutzim. Tel Aviv, where a siren sounded yesterday, has a population of 461,000. Today’s new targets include the populations of Mevaseret Zion (25,000); Abu Ghosh (8,000) and Har Adar (5,000), among others.
(This writer was on her way to Shabbat lunch yesterday when the siren went off, forcing her to run to a neighbor’s home and crowd into their family’s protected room to wait out the Iron Dome interception. She lives in the central city of Modiin, 67 kilometers away from Gaza. In that alone, she was one of 100,000 residents compelled to flee to safety.)
Notably, this was not the first time that Reuters made this identical error. During a 2019 round of violence very similar to this week’s, Reuters corrected after similarly misreporting that rockets were “sending thousands of people to shelters.”
In response to communication from CAMERA about today’s error, Reuters amended the text to more accurately report that “rocket salvoes have paralysed much of southern Israel and sent residents in cities like Tel Aviv and Ashkelon to shelters.”
Yet, contrary to common journalistic practice including Reuters’ own, the news agency did not append a clarification alerting readers to the change. In addition, it’s notable that both today and in 2019, the corrections avoid stating the actual correct figure — one million fleeing Israelis — although the original number had indeed included a specific (and wrong) figure of tens of thousands.
A screenshot of the original AP text, before it was corrected
As for the Associated Press, it had originally erred yesterday (“Explainer: What is Driving the Current Israel-Gaza Violence“): “Islamic Jihad fired over 200 rockets and projectiles at Israeli cities and towns in the south and center, disrupting life for tens of thousands of people.” (Emphasis added.)
By that time yesterday (12:12 pm GMT), Islamic Jihad’s rockets had reached Ashkelon, Ashdod, Rishon Lezion, Holon, Bat Yam and Modiin, in addition to all of the smaller towns and communities in the south.
In response to CAMERA’s follow up, AP commendably amended the text, citing rockets “disrupting life for hundreds of thousands of people.” Its correction, like Reuters, was also stealth, with no appended note alerting readers of the change.
Times of Israel, which had also published the AP story, commendably fixed its copy even before AP did. Its corrected copy accurately refers to rockets “disrupting life for well over a million Israelis.”
Meanwhile, The New York Times further minimized the threat to Israel’s population, erroneously reporting yesterday (“Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza For 2nd Day; Militants Respond With Rockets“): “One airstrike on Friday killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza, and prompted the group to return fire with several rocket and mortar barrages that sent thousandsof Israelis into bomb shelters overnight Friday.” (Emphasis added.)
By Friday night, the residents of Bat Yam, Holon, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Rishon Lezion, and Sderot, plus all of the small communities in the Gaza envelope area, had already visited their bomb shelters.
Stay tuned for an update about a New York Timescorrection.
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Following communication from CAMERA’s Israel office today, both Reuters and AP commendably corrected their reports. As of this writing, the “Paper of Record” has yet to correct.
Initially, Reuters’ story today (“Palestinian rockets reach west of Jerusalem on third day of Gaza fighting“) grossly underreported that Islamic Jihad “rocket salvoes have sent tens of thousands Israelis to shelters.” (Emphasis added.)
In fact, Islamic Jihad rockets have sent more than one million Israelis running to shelters, at locations including Ashkelon (population 140,000); Ashdod (226,000), Rishon Lezion (260,000), Holon (194,300), Bat Yam (130,000), and Sderot (28,000), in addition to the countless smaller yishuvim and kibbutzim. Tel Aviv, where a siren sounded yesterday, has a population of 461,000. Today’s new targets include the populations of Mevaseret Zion (25,000); Abu Ghosh (8,000) and Har Adar (5,000), among others.
(This writer was on her way to Shabbat lunch yesterday when the siren went off, forcing her to run to a neighbor’s home and crowd into their family’s protected room to wait out the Iron Dome interception. She lives in the central city of Modiin, 67 kilometers away from Gaza. In that alone, she was one of 100,000 residents compelled to flee to safety.)Notably, this was not the first time that Reuters made this identical error. During a 2019 round of violence very similar to this week’s, Reuters corrected after similarly misreporting that rockets were “sending thousands of people to shelters.”
In response to communication from CAMERA about today’s error, Reuters amended the text to more accurately report that “rocket salvoes have paralysed much of southern Israel and sent residents in cities like Tel Aviv and Ashkelon to shelters.”
Yet, contrary to common journalistic practice including Reuters’ own, the news agency did not append a clarification alerting readers to the change. In addition, it’s notable that both today and in 2019, the corrections avoid stating the actual correct figure — one million fleeing Israelis — although the original number had indeed included a specific (and wrong) figure of tens of thousands.
A screenshot of the original AP text, before it was corrected
As for the Associated Press, it had originally erred yesterday (“Explainer: What is Driving the Current Israel-Gaza Violence“): “Islamic Jihad fired over 200 rockets and projectiles at Israeli cities and towns in the south and center, disrupting life for tens of thousands of people.” (Emphasis added.)
By that time yesterday (12:12 pm GMT), Islamic Jihad’s rockets had reached Ashkelon, Ashdod, Rishon Lezion, Holon, Bat Yam and Modiin, in addition to all of the smaller towns and communities in the south.
In response to CAMERA’s follow up, AP commendably amended the text, citing rockets “disrupting life for hundreds of thousands of people.” Its correction, like Reuters, was also stealth, with no appended note alerting readers of the change.
Times of Israel, which had also published the AP story, commendably fixed its copy even before AP did. Its corrected copy accurately refers to rockets “disrupting life for well over a million Israelis.”
Meanwhile, The New York Times further minimized the threat to Israel’s population, erroneously reporting yesterday (“Israeli Airstrikes Hit Gaza For 2nd Day; Militants Respond With Rockets“): “One airstrike on Friday killed a senior Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza, and prompted the group to return fire with several rocket and mortar barrages that sent thousandsof Israelis into bomb shelters overnight Friday.” (Emphasis added.)
By Friday night, the residents of Bat Yam, Holon, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Rishon Lezion, and Sderot, plus all of the small communities in the Gaza envelope area, had already visited their bomb shelters.
Stay tuned for an update about a New York Timescorrection.
How Many Israelis Are Fleeing Islamic Jihad Rocket Fire?
CAMERA prompts corrections at Reuters and AP after the major news agencies reduce approximately one million fleeing Israelis to 'tens of thousands.'
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On the evening of August 6th a filmed report was posted on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page under the headline ‘Israel-Gaza: Emergency services respond after air strike hits building in Gaza’.
The video itself does not provide any commentary to explain to viewers what they are seeing – including the footage of ambulances, people carrying stretchers and a hospital entrance – but its synopsis reads as follows: [emphasis added]
“Emergency services rushed to the scene of a building in Gaza hit by an Israeli air strike on Saturday.
The attacks come amid Israeli operations against the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Israel’s PM has said the moves followed “an immediate threat” by PIJ after the arrest of one of its members early this week. The group fired more than 100 rockets into Israel “in an initial response” with most intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system.
Fifteen people have been killed in the air strikes in Gaza, including a child and PIJ leader Tayseer Jabari.
The latest violence is the most serious flare-up between Israel and Gaza in just over a year.”
As we see, the BBC failed to provide any explanation of why that particular building was targeted. In coverage of the same story, the Washington Postreported:
“At least two large buildings near the beach in Gaza City were demolished Saturday. The Israeli official said the buildings had housed command and control centers used by Islamic Jihad. The residents were warned and the buildings evacuated before the strikes occurred, he said.”
The New York Times similarly reported that:
“The fighting appeared to be escalating on Saturday afternoon as news media reports showed images of two residential buildings being flattened by Israeli missile strikes. The Israeli military said its helicopters and vessels had targeted what it described as two weapons storage facilities, which it said were located “in the residences of terrorist operatives in the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.””
Euronews told its readers that:
“On Saturday afternoon, Israeli warplanes stepped up strikes with hits on four residential buildings in Gaza City, all locations apparently linked to Islamic Jihad militants.
The destruction was the heaviest yet in the current exchange within the densely packed city, but there were no reports of casualties. In each case, the Israeli military warned residents ahead of the strikes.
In one of the strikes, after the warnings, fighter jets dropped two bombs on the house of an Islamic Jihad member. The blast flattened the two-story structure, leaving a large rubble-filled crater, and badly damaged surrounding homes.”
Not only did the BBC fail to clarify that the building concerned was used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, it also refrained from informing viewers that the residents had been instructed to evacuate before the attack took place, despite that fact being known to the BBC.
Over four hours before the report was published on the BBC News website, a journalist working at the corporation’s Gaza bureau had sent the following Tweet relating to the same location, as can be seen by the sign on the right:
(vide twitter online)
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The video itself does not provide any commentary to explain to viewers what they are seeing – including the footage of ambulances, people carrying stretchers and a hospital entrance – but its synopsis reads as follows: [emphasis added]
“Emergency services rushed to the scene of a building in Gaza hit by an Israeli air strike on Saturday.
The attacks come amid Israeli operations against the Palestinian group Islamic Jihad (PIJ). Israel’s PM has said the moves followed “an immediate threat” by PIJ after the arrest of one of its members early this week. The group fired more than 100 rockets into Israel “in an initial response” with most intercepted by Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system.
Fifteen people have been killed in the air strikes in Gaza, including a child and PIJ leader Tayseer Jabari.
The latest violence is the most serious flare-up between Israel and Gaza in just over a year.”
As we see, the BBC failed to provide any explanation of why that particular building was targeted. In coverage of the same story, the Washington Postreported:
“At least two large buildings near the beach in Gaza City were demolished Saturday. The Israeli official said the buildings had housed command and control centers used by Islamic Jihad. The residents were warned and the buildings evacuated before the strikes occurred, he said.”
The New York Times similarly reported that:
“The fighting appeared to be escalating on Saturday afternoon as news media reports showed images of two residential buildings being flattened by Israeli missile strikes. The Israeli military said its helicopters and vessels had targeted what it described as two weapons storage facilities, which it said were located “in the residences of terrorist operatives in the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization in the Gaza Strip.””
Euronews told its readers that:
“On Saturday afternoon, Israeli warplanes stepped up strikes with hits on four residential buildings in Gaza City, all locations apparently linked to Islamic Jihad militants.
The destruction was the heaviest yet in the current exchange within the densely packed city, but there were no reports of casualties. In each case, the Israeli military warned residents ahead of the strikes.
In one of the strikes, after the warnings, fighter jets dropped two bombs on the house of an Islamic Jihad member. The blast flattened the two-story structure, leaving a large rubble-filled crater, and badly damaged surrounding homes.”
Not only did the BBC fail to clarify that the building concerned was used by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad terror group, it also refrained from informing viewers that the residents had been instructed to evacuate before the attack took place, despite that fact being known to the BBC.
Over four hours before the report was published on the BBC News website, a journalist working at the corporation’s Gaza bureau had sent the following Tweet relating to the same location, as can be seen by the sign on the right:
(vide twitter online)
BBC website omits information from report on airstrike
On the evening of August 6th a filmed report was posted on the BBC News website’s ‘Middle East’ page under the headline ‘Israel-Gaza: Emergency services
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Israeli officials have been working hard since Saturday evening to convey the truth that an explosion in the Gaza Strip that killed multiple people, including several children, was the work of a failed rocket launch by Palestinian terrorists rather than an IDF strike.
When it comes to global media coverage of the incident, the effort appears to have paid off.
Initial reports from Gaza claimed an Israeli strike in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza had killed seven civilians, including four children. Photos circulating on social media showed seven body bags. But the IDF stated unequivocally on Saturday and again on Sunday that it had not struck anywhere in the area at the time of the blast, and that it had video and radar proof that the explosion was caused by a rocket misfired by Palestinian terror operatives.
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When it comes to global media coverage of the incident, the effort appears to have paid off.
Initial reports from Gaza claimed an Israeli strike in the Jabaliya refugee camp in northern Gaza had killed seven civilians, including four children. Photos circulating on social media showed seven body bags. But the IDF stated unequivocally on Saturday and again on Sunday that it had not struck anywhere in the area at the time of the blast, and that it had video and radar proof that the explosion was caused by a rocket misfired by Palestinian terror operatives.
(full article online)
Israeli messaging on deadly Jabaliya explosion makes inroads on international media
Effort by Israeli officials to show children killed Saturday were victims of failed rocket launch, not IDF strike, is widely picked up by news outlets reporting on conflict
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Israel haters have been trying to compare the current Gaza fighting to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
But the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel disagrees.
You have to take this with a grain of salt - Ukraine wants Israeli weapons, while Palestinians cannot provide it with anything useful. And Ukraine does not exactly have a voting record in the UN that supports the idea that it ever identified with Israeli under attack.
But it shows how vacuous the Israel haters are in trying to hitch their cause to whatever is trendy.
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But the Ukrainian ambassador to Israel disagrees.
Ukrainian Ambassador to Israel Yevhen Korniichuk on Sunday expressed his solidarity with Israel in its military campaign against the Islamic Jihad in Gaza.
"As a Ukrainian, while our country is under brutal attack from a close neighbor - I feel great sympathy towards the Israeli public," the Ukrainian ambassador wrote on his Twitter account.
"Terror and malicious attacks towards citizens have become daily matter for Israelis and Ukrainians," he added. "We have to put an end to it. We pray for peace and hope the escalation ends soon."
You have to take this with a grain of salt - Ukraine wants Israeli weapons, while Palestinians cannot provide it with anything useful. And Ukraine does not exactly have a voting record in the UN that supports the idea that it ever identified with Israeli under attack.
But it shows how vacuous the Israel haters are in trying to hitch their cause to whatever is trendy.
While Israel haters compare Gaza to Ukraine, Ukraine compares itself to Israel
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An AP dispatch about the Gaza fighting this past weekend throws in a conspiracy theory:
It is beyond absurd. An article in Al Monitor by Ben Caspit on Friday described the events leading up to the initial bombings:
And this is just what we know. Why would Israel reveal intelligence information about an imminent attack?
At the same time, how does it make any sense that Israel would start a potential war for political purposes? Most citizens are reservists in the army - no one would be happy if they thought they'd have to go away from home and potentially fight for a mere political stunt. That would backfire pretty spectacularly.
Similarly, no Israeli government would put its residents at risk from hundreds of rockets - Iron Dome is good but not perfect and people get injured scrambling for shelter even if it was perfect. Israelis wouldn't stand for that, either.
To float such an idea is to say that Israeli politicians are willing and eager to put their own constituents' lives at risk for political gain.
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There two sentences meant to give the impression that the fighting wasn't necessary and the caretaker government made up an excuse to look macho and gain power in the next elections.Israel said it took action against the militant group because of concrete threats of an imminent attack, but has not provided details. Caretaker Prime Minister Yair Lapid, who is an experienced diplomat but untested in overseeing a war, unleashed the offensive less than three months before a general election in which he is campaigning to keep the job.
It is beyond absurd. An article in Al Monitor by Ben Caspit on Friday described the events leading up to the initial bombings:
The spring terror attacks, Israel's going after Islamic Jihad leaders in Jenin to stop them, the events of this past week in the "Gaza envelope," Islamic Jihad's open threats over the past week - none of this is mentioned by AP.The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation came after several days of tension on the Gaza border, over the arrest of in the West bank of a senior Islamic Jihad member.
In fact, at the start of the week, Israeli security forces appeared to have scored yet another victory over terrorism with the arrest of the Islamic Jihad’s West Bank commander Bassem Saadi. The Aug. 1 raid by Israeli commandos and Shin Bet agents in the Jenin refugee camp was complex, with Israeli forces coming under brutal fire that forced them to hole up with Saadi in his home until a rescue team arrived to extricate them unharmed.
Saadi’s arrest was intended to deal a severe blow to the terrorism that swept through Israel from late March to early May, much of it carried out by Palestinians from the Jenin area. In political terms, the successful raid appeared to signal yet another upbeat week in the fortunes of Yair Lapid, the caretaker neophyte prime minister struggling to position himself as a viable alternative to “Mr. Security,” former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ahead of the Nov. 1 elections.
However, as always in Israel and the Middle East, any victory can turn into a fiasco within a heartbeat, every ending is a new beginning and nothing ever turns out the way it was meant to. The footage of Saadi being dragged on the floor by Israeli troops accompanied by an attack dog generated a widespread storm, especially in the Gaza Strip, where Islamic Jihad is headquartered....
Hours later, Israeli intelligence had already detected the deployment of Islamic Jihad teams along the Gaza border, toting anti-tank rockets and other weapons, in search of targets on the Israeli side. The head of the military’s Southern Command, Maj. Gen. Eliezer Toledano, ordered the closing of all roads along the border vulnerable to rocket attack. Residents of the kibbutzim and other communities in the area were instructed to remain indoors until further notice.
And this is just what we know. Why would Israel reveal intelligence information about an imminent attack?
At the same time, how does it make any sense that Israel would start a potential war for political purposes? Most citizens are reservists in the army - no one would be happy if they thought they'd have to go away from home and potentially fight for a mere political stunt. That would backfire pretty spectacularly.
Similarly, no Israeli government would put its residents at risk from hundreds of rockets - Iron Dome is good but not perfect and people get injured scrambling for shelter even if it was perfect. Israelis wouldn't stand for that, either.
To float such an idea is to say that Israeli politicians are willing and eager to put their own constituents' lives at risk for political gain.
(full article online)
AP implies that Breaking Dawn was a means for Lapid to gain wartime credibility and Knesset seats
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On Monday, the opening of the border crossings allowed fuel trucks in to supply Gaza’s only power plant and increase the availability of electricity, which was down to around eight hours a day.
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Israel Re-Opens Gaza Crossings as Truce With Palestinians Holds
A truck carrying fuel imports for the lone power plant rolls into Gaza, after Israel eased up closures, as ceasefire …
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I received a fundraising letter from UNRWA USA, written by its "Director of Philanthropy," Hani Almadhoun.
It included this section:
For my family, word got out that a 26-year-old relative lost his life. In a rush to report the news, they shared an image of his younger brother, and confusion followed. Later it was confirmed that our cousin was indeed the victim of the unprovoked attacks.
His 26-year old relative was Mohamed Ahmed Abdel-Fattah Al-Madhoun - a terrorist for Islamic Jihad, of the North Gaza Brigade, pictured above.
Yes, UNRWA-USA is using the death of a terrorist as a means to raise money for UNRWA. And its director is part of a family that supports Islamic Jihad.
But why would anyone expect that UNRWA-USA's fundraising arm is not linked to terrorism? Or that they wouldn't defend an Islamic Jihad terrorist as an innocent civilian victim of Israeli aggression?
UNRWA-USA raises some $4 million annually. Is anyone checking where that money goes?
@UNRWAUSA uses a dead Islamic Jihad terrorist as a prop for fundraising
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Killing civilians is not a fundamental right under any interpretation of international law. Her cowering to those who defend it reflects a complete lack of moral fiber - which we would expect from the UN.
But she went further, calling into question the idea of a Jewish state altogether:
So even within the "1967 borders," the UN Special Rapporteur questions Israel's right to exist altogether.
Albanese then went on to write a new tweet to clarify her position on terrorism:
But what does that mean, practically?
No one is stopping Palestinians from having peaceful protests, or from choosing to boycott Israeli products, or from calling strikes. No one questions those rights.
But when Palestinians use the word "resistance," it means only one thing: terrorism. It means attacking Jews. It means stabbings and car rammings and suicide bombings and firebombs, throwing boulders on cars speeding along a highway and bombing buses and cafes. Hamas' translation is the "Islamic Resistance Movement." The Arabic Wikipedia article on "Palestinian resistance" lists the most gruesome terror attacks as examples (even though it pays lip service to "civil and popular resistance," it brings practically no examples.)
So when a UN Special Rapporteur says she supports "resistance," it can only be interpreted one way by those who use the term the most.
Either she is ignorant as to how the term is interpreted (even though her responders made that clear,) or she on some level agrees with is while knowing that she cannot publicly support terrorism. Either way, it shows the immorality, not the morality, of the UN.
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But she went further, calling into question the idea of a Jewish state altogether:
So even within the "1967 borders," the UN Special Rapporteur questions Israel's right to exist altogether.
Albanese then went on to write a new tweet to clarify her position on terrorism:
Albanese is trying to toe the line of saying that she supports "resistance" but not terror attacks.Palestinians' right to resist is inherent to their right to exist as a people. An unlawful act of resistance does not make the resistance unlawful. An unlawful act of an unlawful occupation makes the occupation more unlawful (and the list on the desk of the ICC Prosecutor longer)
But what does that mean, practically?
No one is stopping Palestinians from having peaceful protests, or from choosing to boycott Israeli products, or from calling strikes. No one questions those rights.
But when Palestinians use the word "resistance," it means only one thing: terrorism. It means attacking Jews. It means stabbings and car rammings and suicide bombings and firebombs, throwing boulders on cars speeding along a highway and bombing buses and cafes. Hamas' translation is the "Islamic Resistance Movement." The Arabic Wikipedia article on "Palestinian resistance" lists the most gruesome terror attacks as examples (even though it pays lip service to "civil and popular resistance," it brings practically no examples.)
So when a UN Special Rapporteur says she supports "resistance," it can only be interpreted one way by those who use the term the most.
Either she is ignorant as to how the term is interpreted (even though her responders made that clear,) or she on some level agrees with is while knowing that she cannot publicly support terrorism. Either way, it shows the immorality, not the morality, of the UN.
(full article online)
UN Special Rapporteur justifies Palestinian "resistance" which can only mean terror
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LISTEN: Israel warns Gazan civilians to flee to safety 4 minutes before Israel destroys a terror target | PMW Analysis
LISTEN: Israel warns Gazan civilians to flee to safety 4 minutes before Israel destroys a terror target
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[ This is exactly why Egypt did not want Gaza back after 1967. Attack Israel for whatever happened there from then on ]
Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations tore into Israel during a Monday speech before the UN Security Council hours after Jerusalem heaped praise on Cairo for mediating a ceasefire with Palestinian Islamic Jihad that ended a three-day escalation in the Gaza Strip.
While Egypt and other Arab countries that have ties with the Jewish state still traditionally maintain critical lines toward Israel at the UN, the rhetoric employed by Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek appeared to go much further than what is used publicly by Egyptian officials, particularly in recent years as Israel-Egypt ties have warmed further.
The tongue-lashing also came after Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, made a point of thanking Egypt and its president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, “who were essential in restoring the calm and stability to our region.” A similar message was passed along to the Egyptian leader by Prime Minister Yair Lapid when the two spoke on the phone around the same time that the Security Council session took place on Monday.
(full article online)
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Egypt’s ambassador to the United Nations tore into Israel during a Monday speech before the UN Security Council hours after Jerusalem heaped praise on Cairo for mediating a ceasefire with Palestinian Islamic Jihad that ended a three-day escalation in the Gaza Strip.
While Egypt and other Arab countries that have ties with the Jewish state still traditionally maintain critical lines toward Israel at the UN, the rhetoric employed by Ambassador Osama Abdel Khalek appeared to go much further than what is used publicly by Egyptian officials, particularly in recent years as Israel-Egypt ties have warmed further.
The tongue-lashing also came after Israel’s ambassador to the UN, Gilad Erdan, made a point of thanking Egypt and its president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, “who were essential in restoring the calm and stability to our region.” A similar message was passed along to the Egyptian leader by Prime Minister Yair Lapid when the two spoke on the phone around the same time that the Security Council session took place on Monday.
(full article online)
After mediating Gaza ceasefire, Egypt sees envoy berate Israel at Security Council
As Lapid praises Sissi, Cairo's envoy to UN laments 'martyrs' killed, Israeli 'desecration of al-Aqsa,' calls for end to Israeli blockade and says Israel responsible for Strip
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Ahhh, Israel's old terrorist canard.Killing civilians is not a fundamental right under any interpretation of international law. Her cowering to those who defend it reflects a complete lack of moral fiber - which we would expect from the UN.
But she went further, calling into question the idea of a Jewish state altogether:
So even within the "1967 borders," the UN Special Rapporteur questions Israel's right to exist altogether.
Albanese then went on to write a new tweet to clarify her position on terrorism:
Albanese is trying to toe the line of saying that she supports "resistance" but not terror attacks.
But what does that mean, practically?
No one is stopping Palestinians from having peaceful protests, or from choosing to boycott Israeli products, or from calling strikes. No one questions those rights.
But when Palestinians use the word "resistance," it means only one thing: terrorism. It means attacking Jews. It means stabbings and car rammings and suicide bombings and firebombs, throwing boulders on cars speeding along a highway and bombing buses and cafes. Hamas' translation is the "Islamic Resistance Movement." The Arabic Wikipedia article on "Palestinian resistance" lists the most gruesome terror attacks as examples (even though it pays lip service to "civil and popular resistance," it brings practically no examples.)
So when a UN Special Rapporteur says she supports "resistance," it can only be interpreted one way by those who use the term the most.
Either she is ignorant as to how the term is interpreted (even though her responders made that clear,) or she on some level agrees with is while knowing that she cannot publicly support terrorism. Either way, it shows the immorality, not the morality, of the UN.
(full article online)
UN Special Rapporteur justifies Palestinian "resistance" which can only mean terror
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Ahhh, Israel's old terrorist canard.
How do you call coffee shop murderers
seeking death for sexual pleasure?
Suggest an alternative.
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Arabs in Yaffo cheer 'Allahu Akhbar', PA Arab gets wounded in Ashkelon by Islamic Jihad Rocket
Islamic Jihad has managed to kill and injure quite a number of Arab civilians in Gaza in this round of fighting, but their latest victim takes the cake.
One person was wounded in one of the Islamic Jihad rocket attacks on Ashkelon this evening. The rocket hit a factory and blew out a window. MDA subsequently reported that the victim, age 35, was lightly to moderately wounded from the shrapnel. They also reported that he is a Palestinian Authority Arab from Hebron who was apparently working in Ashkelon.
Meanwhile, in Yaffo, Arabs went to the streets to yell 'Allahu Akhbar'
and cheer when the rocket alert went off in the Tel Aviv region.
Read more -
PA Arab Wounded in Ashkelon from Islamic Jihad Rocket, Yafo Arabs Cheer
Arabs in Yafo cheered the rocket attack on Tel Aviv.
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