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

[rylah]

There is very little difference between Jews and Palestinians on the person to person level.

However, their governments suck donkey dicks,

No govt can be perfect,
but that's neither an excuse to demand exclusive Arab-Muslim rule over the Middle East.

In fact, if Israel opened its borders,
half of the Arab population in the Middle East,
leaves their degradation and flocks to become Israeli citizens...the other half next day.

Now answer this:

have you seen Jews strap suicide belts on their kids?
Did you ever see Jews going to Arabia to play soccer in the Ka'aba?
Or did you see Jews going on "picknicks" in ancient cemeteries to trash them with garbage?

 

[rylah]

 

[Sixties Fan]

She wasn't chosen to head this commission in spite of her hate of Israel, but because of it.

The commission will not find any systemic antisemitism from the Arab side, but it will almost definitely eagerly join the bandwagon of accusing Israel of systemic racism and apartheid against Palestinians.

It is not meant to issue only a single report, like any other Commission of Inquiry. No, when it comes to Israel, the UN makes up new rules. This is a permanent Commission that will report to the UN every year, forever, its only purpose to say how horrible Israel is.

The mandate of the commission makes it obvious that its mission is one-sided. It starts off with:

Investigate in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel all alleged violations of international humanitarian law and all alleged violations and abuses of international human rights law leading up to and since 13 April 2021

What is so special about April 13, and why does it have to be mentioned if the investigation is including all incidents before and since?

That is the date that Palestinians say Israel started all the events that led to war. It was the first day of Ramadan and also Israel's Memorial Day, and President Rivlin was giving his annual speech at the Western Wall. Israeli police cut off power to the minaret loudspeakers on the Temple Mount because their call to prayer was drowning out his speech. Palestinians were incensed and Mahmoud Abbas called it “a racist hate crime.”

(full article online)

UN starts up a permanent, ongoing "bash Israel" commission of inquiry led by known Israel hater and apologist for antisemitism Navi Pillay

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

For first time, moment of silence held at start of Games for 11 Israeli athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists; victims’ widows: ‘This is the moment we’ve waited for’​

After 49 years, Israeli victims of 1972 Olympic massacre honored at Tokyo opener

For first time, moment of silence held at start of Games for 11 Israeli athletes slain by Palestinian terrorists; victims' widows: 'This is the moment we've waited for'

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Jerusalem Post has a great interview with Richie Fox himself, as he describes his journey and many adventures. One of them stuck out to me.

n 1966, [Richie] took a boat from New York to England, bought a Triumph motorcycle and traveled through Western Europe, ending in Gibraltar, crossing into Morocco and driving across northern Africa, visiting Algeria, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt. From Alexandria, he and his motorcycle took a boat to Beirut, then crossed into Syria. Because of the atmosphere of fanaticism there, he kept his Jewish identity hidden, as well as the fact that he was heading to Israel. Richie then went on to Jordan, seeing Petra – that famed red sandstone historical site that Israelis had longed to go to – and eventually making his way into Israel, settling in Jerusalem.
On his first visit to the Old City, still in Jordanian hands in 1966, he received Jordanian permission to go through the Mandelbaum Gate by declaring he was an Anabaptist. When he went to the Kotel (referred to then as the ‘Wailing Wall’), he realized that he had a privilege not granted to many Jews at all. From somewhere “deep inside,” he recited Shema Yisrael, Arab kids throwing stones at him all the while. On his way back to the Israeli side of Jerusalem, he said to himself, “I’ll probably never be there again.”

Before 1967, Jordan did not allow Jews into Jerusalem at all - as indicated from this story where Fox had to claim to be an Anabaptist. I can only find one time that Jews were allowed to pray at the Kotel under Jordanian rule, in 1957.

Even a Jewish member of the Canadian parliament was barred from visiting the Old City by Jordan in 1959.

Outside of that 1957 incident, Richie Fox may have been the only Jew to have successfully visited and prayed at the Kotel between 1949 and 1967.

(full article online)

When Richie of "Richie's Pizza" managed to pray at the Kotel - before 1967

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[P F Tinmore]

She wasn't chosen to head this commission in spite of her hate of Israel, but because of it.

The commission will not find any systemic antisemitism from the Arab side, but it will almost definitely eagerly join the bandwagon of accusing Israel of systemic racism and apartheid against Palestinians.

It is not meant to issue only a single report, like any other Commission of Inquiry. No, when it comes to Israel, the UN makes up new rules. This is a permanent Commission that will report to the UN every year, forever, its only purpose to say how horrible Israel is.

The mandate of the commission makes it obvious that its mission is one-sided. It starts off with:



What is so special about April 13, and why does it have to be mentioned if the investigation is including all incidents before and since?

That is the date that Palestinians say Israel started all the events that led to war. It was the first day of Ramadan and also Israel's Memorial Day, and President Rivlin was giving his annual speech at the Western Wall. Israeli police cut off power to the minaret loudspeakers on the Temple Mount because their call to prayer was drowning out his speech. Palestinians were incensed and Mahmoud Abbas called it “a racist hate crime.”

(full article online)

UN starts up a permanent, ongoing "bash Israel" commission of inquiry led by known Israel hater and apologist for antisemitism Navi Pillay

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

(Israelis helping Palestinians. Nothing new )

It was our luck that the only intelligent and open-minded human being happened to be the chief investigator, and he had the final decision regarding our destiny. As he interrogated us one by one, I gave him an entire lecture on the complexity of the conflict area we live in. I tried to explain what the peace community in Israel and Palestine means and why an Israeli would help someone from Gaza. I spoke at length about Mohammed, who is a lawyer and human rights activist, and how he sat in a Hamas jail for simply talking to Israelis, and how his being a secular, peace-seeking Palestinian already made his life dangerous in Gaza.

(full article online)

How Israelis and Gazans ended up behind bars in Bulgaria

They were 5 terrified young men shivering in the Bulgarian forest. I tried my best to explain to the border police why Israelis would help Palestinians

blogs.timesofisrael.com

 

[rylah]

Palestinians accuse Hamas of storing weapons in residential areas​

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion that killed 1 and injured 14 on Thursday took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.

Palestinians accuse Hamas of storing weapons in residential areas

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip said that the explosion that killed 1 and injured 14 on Thursday took place in a warehouse used by Hamas for storing weapons.

www.jpost.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Upon announcing her decision, Shaked quoted the Talmudic statement: “Whoever saves a single life saves an entire world.” She added that, “’A’ saved the lives of the Mark family from a murderous attack. Since then, he has been persecuted for his ‘crime.’ We will never turn our backs on our good friends. Today, I have approved ‘A’s’ request for permanent residency.”

The current application on “A’s” behalf was submitted by attorney Michael Litvak of the Betsalmo organization, which is headed by Shai Glick, who welcomed the development.

“This is a very special and important decision,” Glick said, “one that demonstrates that anyone who helps the Jewish People will not be abandoned by us, G-d forbid.”


Glick added that, “Mr. ‘A’ has a very brave deed to his credit. He was prepared to endanger his own life in order to save the lives of the Mark family. The citizens of the State of Israel now all welcome Mr. ‘A’ to the State of Israel, and I would like to take this opportunity to thank all those who played a part in this decision, and especially MK Mossi Raz, who did so much to bring this matter to its happy conclusion.”

(full article online)

Palestinian who helped save Mark family granted permanent residency

Once it became known that "A" had helped save Jews, he was shunned in PA society.

www.israelnationalnews.com

 

[rylah]

Do you think maybe we should give BDS-holes
the Zionist Reward Of The Year?

I'm starting to like it...

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

“Why?” was the question I asked Colonel Richard Kemp CBE during our recent meeting in Jerusalem. Why is the former head of the British military in Afghanistan, who is neither Jewish or Israeli, such an outspoken, eloquent and effective defender of the IDF and the Jewish State? He began his answer with this statement,

I was taught when I was a child to know right from wrong. And when I hear some of the lies, the propaganda and the malice that’s churned out in the international media, in universities, in high schools and so-called “human rights” groups, I know it’s wrong. I know it’s wrong what’s being said in relation to the IDF (Israel Defense Force).

Colonel Kemp then went on to explain that he served as the Commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, and was a veteran of thirty years-service, and that he had fought in combat zones around the world including Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia and Iraq, and that he was also present throughout the conflicts in Gaza in 2014 and the most recent “Operation Guardian of the Walls” in May this year, when the Iranian-backed Hamas Terror organization fired thousands of rockets into Israel.


(full article online)

The Enigma of Colonel Richard Kemp CBE explained in his own Words

From the blog of Tuvia Book at The Times of Israel

blogs.timesofisrael.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

In April 2015, Ahmed Tibi, a member of Israel’s parliament from the Arab Joint List, issued a strong statement denouncing Islamic State’s (ISIS) war crimes against Syria’s Palestinian population. “What’s happening in the Yarmouk camp is a crime against humanity,” he said, referring to the terror group’s violent takeover of the refugee camp located near Damascus only days earlier.

“Over a thousand Palestinians were killed,” Tibi asserted.

Strikingly, his statement was ignored by virtually all media outlets outside of Israel, with the Washington Examiner being the only major news website to mention Tibi’s comments.
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The Syrian civil war completely destroyed Yarmouk. By January 2019, only a “few dozen families” were left in the camp, with just bombed-out buildings and rubble remaining.

After clashes between pro- and anti-Bashar al-Assad forces, the Syrian government imposed a siege on the area. Between July 2013 and February 2014, Amnesty International recorded 194 deaths in Yarmouk, including 12 babies, six children and 41 elderly people. Two-thirds died of starvation; others died because of a lack of medical care. In the years that followed, intensifying clashes, airstrikes and shelling brought more devastation, pushing the Palestinian death toll in Yarmouk up to an estimated 1,458.

“[Syrian President] Bashar al-Assad has killed more of us today than Israel did in its latest war on Gaza,” a Palestinian refugee told The New York Times on December 16, 2012.

However, a big data analysis by HonestReporting reveals that most prominent media outlets largely overlooked these Palestinian deaths. For example, when the Syrian regime killed 20 civilians during a week-long aerial bombardment campaign on Yarmouk, only five articles mentioned the killed Palestinian civilians.



Related Reading: IDF Humanitarian Aid Missions Saving the World

Then, amidst the government assault on Yarmouk, Islamic State terrorists in April 2015 briefly seized control of the camp. According to the Palestine Liberation Organization’s envoy to Syria, Anwar Abed al-Hadi, ISIS “executed, beheaded and raped” Palestinian residents. These claims were corroborated by Palestinian sources on the ground, but nevertheless got little to no attention from mainstream media.

ISIS’ crimes against Palestinians were not limited to the assault on Yarmouk. According to UNRWA, the UN’s Palestinian refugee agency, between January and June 2016, Islamic State bombings in the vicinity of Qabr Essit — another refugee camp on the outskirts of Damascus — killed at least 36 Palestinians.

An analysis by HonestReporting found that these Palestinian victims of ISIS atrocities were not mentioned once by major media outlets like The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Los Angeles Times, Associated Press, Reuters, the BBC and others.

Turning a Blind Eye to Hamas Crimes Against Palestinians​

Similarly, many media outlets seem to give a free pass to crimes committed against Palestinians by Hamas, the terror organization that has ruled the Gaza Strip for over a decade. On July 24, 2021, Palestinians in the coastal enclave called on Hamas and other armed groups to stop storing weapons in residential areas. The rare outcry followed a large explosion in Gaza City’s Al-Zawiya market that killed one person and injured 14 others.

(full article online)

Palestinians Versus Everyone Else: Media's Selective Outrage When Israel's Not Involved | HonestReporting

Supposed crimes committed against Palestinians by Israel are more deserving of coverage than actual atrocities perpetrated by other actors.

honestreporting.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

I just took apart Human Rights Watch's absurd report on the May Gaza war, but I wanted to step back a little and describe biased, unfounded and ridiculous assumptions that HRW makes in order to reach its conclusions.

8. The IDF is not a professional army with multiple layers of approvals for every airstrike, but it acts like a toddler who lashes out indiscriminately at any and everything that upsets it.

9. International law has nothing to say about how an army may make decisions on attacking military targets hidden among civilians.

10. Israeli attacks that kill civilians while targeting terrorists are assumed to be unlawful; Hamas attacks where they brag about directly targeting civilians are just something that needs to be investigated and do not cause any casualties worth mentioning.



11. It is critical to say that the entire conflict between Israel and Palestinians is completely Israel's fault as a state that is guilty of the worst crimes there are, and there is no background information about Gaza terror groups that run the enclave or any intifadas or bus bombings and suicide terror or incitement or anything else that any readers need to know for background information.

(full article online)

See for yourself how biased @HRW is against Israel, in its own words, in only one report

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Israeli government is set to increase the number of work permits for West Bank Palestinians by 16,000 amid calls by Israeli officials to strengthen the ailing Palestinian Authority economy.

According to the Defense Ministry, the Israeli military body charged with handling Palestinian civilian affairs — known by its acronym COGAT — informed senior Palestinian officials on Wednesday of the intention to offer additional permits.

The plan was first announced by Regional Affairs Minister Issawi Frej, who said he had developed the initiative along with Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin. But while the proposal was originally set to be approved by the government this past Sunday, it was subsequently delayed due to “technical issues” with the Defense Ministry, Frej’s office said.

Israel to give work permits to 16,000 more Palestinians in bid to strengthen PA

Around 122,000 Palestinians currently work legally in Israel and the settlements, and their incomes are important to a PA economy that has taken tough hits during the pandemic

www.timesofisrael.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

Anyone who has ever read a detailed report from Israel's Military Advocate General (MAG) Corps can see immediately the difference in professionalism between HRW's shallow research and what the IDF does to balance critical security needs with international law.

I've referred before to the 2015 report by two US legal experts, Michael N. Schmitt and John J. Merriam, where they actually went to Israel and researched the IDF operations. They issued an 88-page report, plus appendices, that described the IDF legal environment in great detail.

Here, I try to excerpt and condense all the thinking and controls involved before the IDF executes an airstrike against a target. It makes Human Rights Watch reports look like they are written by Mickey Mouse.

(full article online)

What happens before the IDF executes an airstrike

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[Sixties Fan]

 

[Sixties Fan]

While the bill does seek transparency and accountability to ensure that UNRWA does not teach antisemitism and support terror, the very beginning of the bill is the part that is the most important.

It defines what a refugee is in this context, and their definition is far more accurate than UNRWA's working definition:

STATEMENT OF POLICY.
(a) PALESTINIAN REFUGEE DEFINED.—It shall be the policy of the United States, in matters concerning the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (referred to in this Act as ‘‘UNRWA’’), which operates in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, the Gaza Strip, and the West Bank, to define a Palestinian refugee as a person who—

(1) resided, between June 1946 and May 1948, in the region controlled by Britain between 1922 and 1948 that was known as Mandatory Palestine;

(2) was personally displaced as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict; and

(3) has not accepted an offer of legal residency status, citizenship, or other permanent adjustment in status in another country or territory.

(b) LIMITATIONS ON REFUGEE AND DERIVATIVE REFUGEE STATUS.—

In applying the definition under subsection (a) with respect to refugees receiving assistance from UNRWA, it shall be the policy of the United States, consistent with the definition of refugee in section 101(a)(42) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(42)) and the requirements for eligibility for refugee status under section 207 of such Act (8 U.S.C. 1157), that—

(1) derivative refugee status may only be extended to the spouse or a minor child of a Palestinian refugee; and
(2) an alien who is firmly resettled in any country is not eligible to retain refugee status.

This is a normal definition of refugee - and it would essentially end UNRWA because the number of refugees who are still alive under this definition is probably in the low ten thousands.

I am not sure why the senators' press releases didn't highlight this. Of course the definition of Palestinian refugee should be in line with that of every other refugee. It is a winning argument and it is one that is not used enough.

(full article online)

UNRWA Accountability Act, introduced in Congress, includes a reasonable definition of "refugee"

Blogging about Israel and the Arab world since, oh, forever.

elderofziyon.blogspot.com

 

[P F Tinmore]

The Israeli government is set to increase the number of work permits for West Bank Palestinians by 16,000 amid calls by Israeli officials to strengthen the ailing Palestinian Authority economy.

According to the Defense Ministry, the Israeli military body charged with handling Palestinian civilian affairs — known by its acronym COGAT — informed senior Palestinian officials on Wednesday of the intention to offer additional permits.

The plan was first announced by Regional Affairs Minister Issawi Frej, who said he had developed the initiative along with Housing Minister Ze’ev Elkin. But while the proposal was originally set to be approved by the government this past Sunday, it was subsequently delayed due to “technical issues” with the Defense Ministry, Frej’s office said.

Israel to give work permits to 16,000 more Palestinians in bid to strengthen PA

Around 122,000 Palestinians currently work legally in Israel and the settlements, and their incomes are important to a PA economy that has taken tough hits during the pandemic

www.timesofisrael.com

I hear that the last row with the Palestinians cost Israel a billion dollars a day. Now they are going to peck around the edges to try to calm things down.