All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

"It's a great honor to hold a weapon in one hand and the Quran in the other to defend my homeland, Israel," says one young soldier interviewed by Al Majalla.​



Saudi magazine praises Arab Israelis who serve in IDF


The article describes how a battalion of combat troops assembles early one morning in the Negev Desert.

"And yet, these are not regular soldiers, but Arabs who chose to volunteer to fight and even sacrifice their lives to defend the state of Israel," the piece tells readers.

"These young people, who include women, are proud to be part of the Israeli army. One of the young men, A-Raqib Imad, says proudly, 'It's a great honor to hold a weapon in one hand and the Quran in the other to defend my homeland, Israel,'" the article continues.

The article also says that mainstream media outlets err in their portrayals of the Israeli military out of the mistaken perception that it only represents Jewish Israelis, and notes that the IDF represents all Israelis – Jews, Muslim, and Druze.
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Al Majalla also spoke to Alaa Hassan Kaabia, an Arab Israeli who spent two decades in the army and reached the rank of lieutenant colonel.

"The IDF is the only institution in which there is no discrimination and there is total equality and integration. It's not true that people enlist merely for economic reasons. Most of the Arab Israelis who joined the army did so for one reason – they want to be part of the country. They want to integrate into civilian society and get better employment opportunities. Most companies prefer candidates who completed military service," Kaabia, who now serves as deputy spokesman for Arabic media at the Foreign Ministry, said.

(full article online)


 
[ Peace treaty with Jordan??????]

Six members of Israel’s triathlon team, including 21-year-old Itamar Lebanon, were supposed to take part in the Asian Cup competition in Jordan this weekend, but they were banned to enter the country.

“It is what it is,” claimed Jordanian authorities, despite the peace agreement between Jerusalem and Amman.

The intervention of Israeli officials, including from the Culture and Sports Ministry, was not enough to get Lebanon into Jordan, who missed a very important competition.

“I and the team members signed up for the competition, but as soon as the list of participants was published, we saw that we were not in,” said the triathlete.

“The argument we were given for not being on the list was simply ‘you are Israelis.’”

“Today, I came alone to Aqaba to register face-to-face and settle this matter, but I was told again that it was not possible because I am Israeli,” he continued.

“I told them that it was obviously against international law and sportsmanship, but I couldn’t manage to change the evil of the decision. It is very important for me to gain points in the race for the Olympics. The way things are going is very disappointing and very sad.”

Jordan explained that “the organizers of the competition feared that they would not be able to ensure the security of the Israelis in the event of an incident.”

About a year ago, Indonesia also did not allow Israel’s squash team to enter the country for the world championship before the event was eventually called off.


 
RE: Part 2 Continuing on exposing Mahmoud Abbas' lies in a single speech to the world...
SUBTOPIC: State of Calm
P F Tinmore, et al,

Calm, in this case, means nothing more than the cessation of hostile activities.

IF the Israelis are not detecting NAIC initiated THEN there be no retaliatory response.

The International Law and Hague Regulation covers it:

Israel is to ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety, unless Arab Palestine attempt to undermine the peace.

  • The Palestinians who commit offenses which is solely intended to harm the Israelis,
  • The Palestinians who commit offenses and attempts on the life or limb of members of the occupying forces or administration, present collective danger,
  • The Palestinians who commit offenses that attempt to damage the property of the occupying forces the administration,
  • The Palestinians who commit offenses that attempt to damage the installations used by the Israelis,

Shall be liable to arrest, prosecution, and (if necessary) imprisonment,

Period of calm is when only Palestinians are being attacked.
(COMMENT)

But as the many contributions of our friends like "Sixties Fan" • "Hollie" • "rylah" • "MJB" and others - the discussion of peace has to be a good faith effort. But the like-minded who advocate for Armed struggle as the only way, certainly do not.

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Most Respectfully,
R
 
"When does anti-Zionism bleed into broad antisemitism?"

This question was posited by Jewish-American singer and actress Barbra Streisand on Saturday in a Twitter post in response to the decision by student groups at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Law to ban Zionist speakers from the campus.

Indeed, this question reflects an often debated topic of when criticism of Israel and Zionist ideology ends and Jew hatred begins.

What anti-Zionist activity happened at Berkeley?​

The background to Streisand's tweet and the many responses it generated were all due to a recent decision by several student groups at Berkeley, led by the UC Berkeley’s Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP) student group to amend their bylaws banning Zionist speakers from the law school campus.


The move was adopted by several other student groups as well, something Berkeley Law’s Dean Erwin Chemerinsky said would effectively ban him from participating in law student group events.


The newest changes to law student groups at UC Berkeley are part of a growing trend of excluding pro-Israel and Zionist voices on US college campuses. Two Jewish students at State University of New York (SUNY) New Paltz accused the school of antisemitism in August after they were excluded from a sex abuse survivors group on campus due to what they say is their pro-Israel views.


Last July, a Jewish student at the University of Southern California claimed that she resigned from its student government because she endured harassment over her pro-Israel views – adding that USC administrators did not follow up on the case and protect the student.


(full article online)



 
Finally, it is a mystery that EU diplomat Sven Kühn von Burgsdorff even remains in his job at all given his antisemitic past. Speaking at a conference this year in Jerusalem, von Burgsdorff claimed people should not be “surprised” that Palestinians are slaughtering Israelis because it should be “expected.”

He also made clear his view that it is the very existence of the world’s only Jewish state that is the root of this murderous hatred: “We need to bring to the fore and to worldwide attention the plight the people of Palestine have been under for the past 74 years.”

When quizzed about the press trip, a spokesman for the Office of the European Union Representative to the occupied Palestinian territory defended it as a chance for journalists to see “EU-funded projects,” adding that “no substantial information was received from Israel that would justify reviewing the policy towards the six Palestinian civil society organizations on the basis of the Israeli decision to designate these NGOs as ‘terrorist organizations’.”

It would be interesting to know whether European taxpayers agree that a pro-Palestinian propaganda junket is a good use of their hard-earned money.

(full article online)

 
RE: Part 2 Continuing on exposing Mahmoud Abbas' lies in a single speech to the world...
SUBTOPIC: State of Calm
P F Tinmore, et al,

Calm, in this case, means nothing more than the cessation of hostile activities.

IF the Israelis are not detecting NAIC initiated THEN there be no retaliatory response.

The International Law and Hague Regulation covers it:

Israel is to ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety, unless Arab Palestine attempt to undermine the peace.

  • The Palestinians who commit offenses which is solely intended to harm the Israelis,
  • The Palestinians who commit offenses and attempts on the life or limb of members of the occupying forces or administration, present collective danger,
  • The Palestinians who commit offenses that attempt to damage the property of the occupying forces the administration,
  • The Palestinians who commit offenses that attempt to damage the installations used by the Israelis,

Shall be liable to arrest, prosecution, and (if necessary) imprisonment,


(COMMENT)

But as the many contributions of our friends like "Sixties Fan" • "Hollie" • "rylah" • "MJB" and others - the discussion of peace has to be a good faith effort. But the like-minded who advocate for Armed struggle as the only way, certainly do not.
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Most Respectfully,
R
You missed the point. Israel will have a ceasefire then will continue to attack, arrest, kill, destroy, and steal just like nothing ever happened.
 
Consider, in contrast, the different understanding that emerges when a news agency makes clear even in the headline that Israeli forces killed four Palestinian gunmen, and not simply four Palestinians. Reuters, to its credit, went that route, forthrightly reporting: “Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinian gunmen in flashpoint West Bank town.” The accompanying article began: “Israeli forces killed four Palestinian gunmen in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday . . . .”

In addition, Reuters added: “The Islamic Jihad and Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades factions said four of their gunmen were killed.” That’s information that AP and CNN did not report. (Analyst Joe Truzman observedthat both terror organizations claimed the four men, but open source material suggests they were Islamic Jihad members.)

AP captions encapsulated the distorted portrayal of events by highlighting “deadly raids” and ignoring that the fatality was violently attacking troops when he was killed and that he was a member of a terror organization.


Mourners surround the Palestinian flag-draped body of Muhammad Alawneh, killed during an Israeli military raid in the occupied West Bank town of Jenin, Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2022. At least four Palestinians were killed and dozens of others wounded, the Palestinian Health Ministry reported, the latest in a series of deadly Israeli operations in the occupied territory. (AP Photo/ Majdi Mohammed)
(Alawneh, killed as he was attacking Israeli troops, was a member of the Palestinian security forces. In other words, his job was meant to prevent incidents like the violent attack of Israeli troops; not participate in them. While the AP article noted Alawneh’s position as a security officer, the captions did not.)

An Agence France Presse caption showed particular audacity in concealing the terror affiliation of one of the fatalities, referring to him as an “alleged militant” even as the Islamic Jihad garb draping his body was plainly visible in the accompanying photograph.


(full article online )

 
The recent film, Foragers, is a partisan, political statement on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestinian artist and filmmaker Jumana Manna presents a story about agriculture as a metaphor for Israel’s “occupation” of what she suggests is indigenous Palestinian land.

It is the story of the foraging by Palestinians of the wild-growing “akkoub” (Gundelia tournefortii) plant, an endangered species that Israel’s Nature and Parks Authority has tried to manage agriculturally. To conserve its growth in the area, the Nature and Parks Authority declared the akkoub a protected plant and banned its gathering in the wild, promoting instead agricultural cultivation of the plant under more controlled conditions, to satisfy the demand. The ban was lifted two years ago, allowing foragers to gather the plant for personal use, while sparing the roots.

Isn’t such conservation a good thing?

Not according to Manna, who explains the message of her film:

Foragers is about the top-down violence of colonial laws around preservation practices.
As the filmmaker explained to interviewer Sophia Hoffinger, what she conveys in the film is that foraging by Palestinians is “an act of resistance” against an Israeli law that “represent the occupation at large, the management of the land and its sovereignty.”

Is it any wonder then that the film has become a New York Times Critic’s Pick”? Reviewer Will Heinrich not only accepts the filmmaker’s messaging as unvarnished truth, but bolsters and amplifies it in his own words. For example, Heinrich begins his review with:

We hear a lot about violence in Israel and the occupied territories. We don’t hear quite as much about the softer edges of living in what has been called an “apartheid state” — the absurdity, the insanity, the ever-present anxiety.
Perhaps the reviewer believes that appending “what has been called” to the epithet “apartheid state” absolves him of practicing inappropriate journalistic bias. But without noting that the false “apartheid” charge is a slur specifically designed by Israel’s enemies to delegitimize the Jewish state, Heinrich is following the pattern of other unethical journalists who present their own biased opinions and partisan positions under the guise of being widely accepted truths.

In fact, Israel’s apartheid designation is belied by the reviewer himself, who notes later in the review that, “the prohibition [i.e. the earlier ban on unchecked, random picking of the endangered species] applied to all Israelis, Jewish or Arab.” Still, he appears unwilling to directly acknowledge that the “apartheid” smear is an entirely bogus charge, and so he immediately issues a qualification in the same sentence:

— but Jewish Israelis don’t really eat akkoub or, if they do, they’ll buy it from a kibbutz where it grows in orderly rows.
In other words, he doesn’t really know whether or not Jews eat akkoub, but who cares? Tossing it out there bolsters the suggestion that the law singled out Palestinians for criminalization just as an apartheid state would do. And just in case he is wrong about Jews not eating the plant, he tosses out another qualification to lend weight to his apartheid argument: Jewish Israelis don’t really pick the plant in the wild, as do Palestinians, with the implication that the ban targeted Palestinians alone. That’s like saying issuing speeding tickets to those who drive over a certain speed limit while sparing those who stick to the speed limit is somehow an example of apartheid law. Yes, scofflaws were targeted while law abiders were not: how does that support the message that this was an apartheid law? Nor does Heinrich note that the Israel Nature and Parks Authority have similarly protected other over-harvested plants – for example, sage and hyssop that are popular among Jewish Israelis – because conservation of nature, ecosystems, plant and animal diversity is their job.

Similarly, while the reviewer acknowledges that the ban on gathering of the plant for personal use was lifted in 2020, he immediately qualifies it:

But if you’re watching “Foragers” as an art piece rather than as a straight documentary, this development hardly changes its impact: Harassment of people gathering a wild green said to taste like artichoke, whether or not this particular harassment is still happening, is a perfectly intelligible stand-in for all the other tools a modern state can use to tell people they’re unwanted.
The New York Times reviewer thus lauds and promotes the filmmaker’s partisan, skewed narrative of a land belonging to indigenous Palestinians suffering under the yoke of colonial, occupying Jews. It is yet example of anti-Zionist messaging that is becoming increasingly normalized in the New York Times.




 
Delays and cancellations have become an all too common — even expected — feature of the travel industry landscape. But that’s hardly license for 24/7 news agencies to similarly fall behind on critical tourism industry coverage.

Yet, that’s exactly what happened with Associated Press coverage of a Bookings.com policy which initially appeared to be a win for the anti-Israel Boycott, Divest, Sanctions movement, but then one day later flipped into what Israel hailed as a diplomatic victory.

Associated Press immediately covered the booking site’s decision Friday to warn customers against Israeli settlements as being located in “occupied territory” and therefore posing “high risks to safety and human rights,” a policy celebrated by the reflexively anti-Israel Human Rights Watch as a “welcome step.” Yet, two days after Booking.com’s decision Saturday to apply warnings to all West Bank properties — Israeli and and Palestinian alike, a shift met by Israeli delight — AP’s story on that critical reversal is still stuck at the gate.

As of this writing, AP’s final word on the story is the outdated Sept. 30 AP article, “Booking.com adds travel warnings for West Bank settlements,” which in both the headline and throughout the text reported that Booking.com’s West Bank warnings apply singularly to Israeli settlements.

Thus, AP’s story Friday reported that the warning singles out Israeli settlements:
The new alert urges customers searching for rentals in Israeli settlements to review their government’s travel advisories before booking in the area, “which may be considered conflict-affected.”

A screenshot of Booking.com options for Palestinian properties in Ramallah, with a warning that the area may be considered “conflict-affected” (Oct. 3)
Yet, two other leading news agencies, Agence France Presse and Reuters, reported the very next day that Booking.com’s West Bank warning applies to both Palestinian and Israeli properties.

On Oct. 1, AFP clearly reported that Booking.com’s new warning applies to all West Bank properties (“Booking.com issues West Bank warning“). Moreover, the accompanying article report:

Online travel agency Booking.com has added warning banners to both Israeli and Palestinian properties in the occupied West Bank, the company said Saturday, under a new policy on conflict zones that Israel hailed as a “victory”.

“Please review any travel advisories provided by your government to make an informed decision about your stay in this area, which may be considered conflict-afflicted,” the company’s website now says, in searches for accommodation in Jewish settlements or Palestinian localities. . . .

Israel hailed the move to not distinguish between Israeli and Palestinian properties in the West Bank a “diplomatic achievement”, saying the company’s original intention was to designated Israeli settlements only as “occupied territory” and visits there as a “high risk to safety and human rights.”

“We thank Booking.com for changing its decision,” Prime Minister Yair Lapid said in a statement that credited the foreign and tourism ministries for a “discrete and effective dialogue” with the company that had brought about the change.

“Israel won an important victory in the battle against delegitimisation,” he said. (Emphases added.)

Similarly, Reuters article yesterday clearly reported that the West Bank warning applies to Israeli and Palestinian properties alike (“Booking.com adds safety advisory for West Bank properties“):

Online travel agency Booking.com has added safety labels to listings in the occupied West Bank, which Israel, having initially opposed the move, welcomed for not singling out Jewish settlements.
The move was rebuked by Palestinian officials, who said the advisory should only be used for Israeli settlements.
The company now posts an advisory on its website when customers search for West Bank properties in both Palestinian cities as well Israeli settlements . . .
On Sunday (Oct. 2), CAMERA notified AP yesterday about Booking.com’s policy change of one day earlier — (although presumably a news agency which so promptly reported the booking site’s news Friday would have known about Saturday’s change) — and yet AP has still failed to dispatch its intrepid reporters, leaving its news consumers straggling behind saddled with the old, outdated reported highlighting an alleged BDS victory which never got off the ground.



 

The latest desecrations of Al Aqsa


Palestinians must spend a lot of time looking for things to get offended by. The latest is a video of a woman - it is unclear if she is a religious Jew - doing a little dance on the Temple Mount which someone edited the song "I'm Sexy and I Know it" on top.


Tunisian journalist Imene Ben Slim tweeted the video, saying ,"Israeli woman dances provocatively in the courtyards of Al Aqsa ....How long will this flagrant violation of Al-Aqsa continue?"

Arab media picked up the story.

Indeed, how long will such desecrations continue? Here are some others from recent months, that somehow are not condemned.

A famous Turkish chef published a video of his playing soccer with kids on the supposedly holy site. Al Jazeera published this and it received over 14,000 views, and there were negative comments - about the chef "normalizing" with Israel, not about his playing a game on the "third holiest site in Islam."


Al Jazeera also published this video earlier this year of an older Palestinian man playing soccer with kids on the sacred site.


More adults....



...and children, encouraged to play tag and ball.



Indeed, how long will these desecrations continue?

(vide videos online)


 
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Avrumy showed the carving to one of the Israeli policemen on the Temple Mount who told him that he would pass it on.

Avrumy returned to the Temple Mount today, a few days later, and he saw that the “SS” carving is still there. While he was not able to take any pictures when he went up on the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashana, today, Avrumy took the attached pictures so that we would be able to bring exposure to this very disturbing occurence.

(full article online)

 
The Australian government has announced that it will double to its aid to UNRWA, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, which the UN created as a “temporary” entity in the wake of the Israel War of Independence, to help half a million Arabs displaced as a result of these hostilities.

Seventy-three years later, in texts taught in the UNRWA schools, Israel does not exist and is replaced by an entity known as “Palestine.”

In its defense, UNRWA claims that it has a robust system in place to ensure that the education it delivers in its classroom, including through the use of textbooks, is in line with UN values and principles.

As a journalist who has commissioned experts to examine 1000 books used in UNRWA schools in the West Bank and Gaza since their first appearance in 2000, I beg to differ.

UNRWA “education” is instead based on:

-De-legitimization of both the existence of the State of Israel and the Jews’ very presence in the country. Israel does not appear on the map and is replaced by Palestine as the sovereign state in the region.

The Jews are presented as colonialist settlers and their cities — including Tel Aviv — do not appear on the map as well.

-The Jews’ holy places in the country are not recognized as such but rather presented as Muslim holy places usurped by the Jews (the Western Wall in Jerusalem, the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel’s Tomb in Bethlehem).

-Massive demonization of both Israel and the Jews is the norm, with the latter being presented as enemies of Islam since its very beginning. Israel is depicted as an entirely evil entity with exclusive responsibility for the conflict while the Palestinian Arabs are portrayed as the ultimate victim.

-No objective information is given by UNRWA about Israel and the Jews that would balance this picture even slightly. Nor is there any reference in the books to Jewish-Israeli individuals as ordinary human beings. Instead, they are dealt with as a group, with the accompanying connotations of alienation and existential threat to the Palestinian Arabs.

-Absent is any education for peace and coexistence with Israel. Instead, the books feature a call for a violent struggle for “the liberation of Palestine”.

All this begs the question: Will UNRWA continue to confine millions of these descendents of 1948 refugees to the indignity of life in 59 “temporary” refugee facilities for yet another 70 years?

While UNRWA acts under the aegis of the UN General Assembly, which will never allow a change in the UNRWA mandate to keep Arab refugees in refugee perpetuity, nothing prevents UNRWA donors such as the US from adopting policies that would solve the plight of five million people confined to the indignity of refugee life for perpetuity. In that context, the US could lead the 67 UNRWA donations to make the following reasonable conditions to renew aid to UNRWA:

-Cancel the new UNRWA curriculum, based on Jihad, martyrdom and the “right of return by force of arms”, which have no place in UN education, whose theme is “Peace Begins Here”. UNRWA contracts for exclusive use of Palestinian Authority schoolbooks in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and Gaza. Like all UN agencies, UNRWA is supposed to run schools based on the UN slogan “Peace Begins Here.” PA education, however, runs schools based on the ideology of the Palestine Liberation Organization which is the conquest of "Palestine" by force of arms. The time has come for UNRWA donor nations, beginning with the US, ask for a cancelation of that UNRWA-PA contract.

-Cease paramilitary training in all UNRWA schools, an absurdity that our news agency and think tank has filmed and documented and shared with all UNRWA donor nations.

-Insist that UNRWA dismiss employees affiliated with Hamas- in accordance with laws on the books in western nations that forbid aid to any agency that employs members of a terrorist organization.

-Demand that UNRWA advance resettlement of fourth and fifth generation refugees from the 1948 war, who have spent seven decades relegated to the indignity of refugee status, passed down from one generation to another.

-Facilitate an audit of $1.5 billion donor funds that emanate from 67 nations, much of it in cash, which has resulted in wasted resources, duplication of services and an undesired flow of cash to the UNRWA-based terror groups that have dominated UNRWA operations for years.

After having produced, 20 SHORT UNRWA DOCUMENTARIES – all shot on location, I am now producing a new movie about UNRWA policy, shot on location at UNRWA refugee facilities in Jerusalem and in Gaza, for presentation at the UN, at the Knesset and at the Parliaments of leading UNRWA donor nations. The fight against the travesties of UNRWA and for its reform must go on.



 
-De-legitimization of both the existence of the State of Israel and the Jews’ very presence in the country. Israel does not appear on the map and is replaced by Palestine as the sovereign state in the region.

The Jews are presented as colonialist settlers and their cities — including Tel Aviv — do not appear on the map as well.
OK, so?
 

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