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

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From theJerusalem Post:

The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday it will pay public sector workers 60% of their December salaries this week as it grapples with the long running fallout of Israel's refusal to transfer tax funds earmarked for Gaza.

Funding to the Palestinian Authority, the body that exercises limited governance in the occupied West Bank, has been severely restricted by the months-long dispute over transferring tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinians.

Under interim peace accords signed in the early 1990s, Israel collects taxes on the Palestinians' behalf and typically transfers them to the PA monthly on the approval of the finance minister.

However, transfers have been stalled since October, when Smotrich withheld around 600 million shekels ($164.51 million) of the total 1 billion shekels due for transfer, prompting the Palestinian Authority, which says Gaza is an integral part of Palestinian territory, to refuse to accept any funds.

"We cannot accept conditions on our money. We will remain committed to the prisoners and martyrs and to our people in the Gaza Strip, not out of favor, but by virtue of our national, religious, and moral responsibility," Shtayyeh said.

It makes no sense for Israel to pay money that will go to Hamas, which is where all the Gaza money goes, directly or not.

But notice that Israel still is willing to pay the PA over $100 million a month - and the PA refuses it. Because, they say, they want to continue to pay terrorists ("prisoners and martyrs.")

And then the PA whines about having no money!

One other paragraph is most interesting:

Funding from international donors has also been squeezed, falling from 30% of the $6 billion annual budget to around 1%, Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said.

That's a drop from $1.8 billion annually to $60 million.

Notice that they don't complain about that drastic cut of funding nearly as much as about Israel's much more modest cut.

And notice that this means that the world is not nearly as pro-Palestinian as it pretends to be.

Because being anti-Israel is not the same as being pro-Palestinian.

Palestinian Authority: "Give us the amount we demand or we won't accept any money from you! And then we'll cry about having no money!"

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Today, UNRWA's advisory committee will meet to address yet another deficit in its budget.

UNRWA has warned that by August its deficit will hit $30 million and that its annual deficit is at $150 million.

All of this is despite the US resuming aid to UNRWA to the tune of $150 million a year and an additional $33 million to help rebuild Gaza.

This happens every year - war or no war, COVID or no COVID. UNRWA cries that it is running out of money and that it won't be able to fulfil its outdated and bigoted mandate, and the nations of the world give millions to bail it out and look like humanitarians.

No one steps back and asks - why do Palestinians get schools funded by the world when no real refugee population does? Why do they get a completely separate medical infrastructure when no real refugees do? What gives fake Palestinian "refugees" a higher priority than the tens of millions of real refugees?

Why fund an agency whose entire purpose is to perpetuate the problem it is supposedly meant to fix? The number of people it has to feed and house and educate according to its mandate will continue to grow year after year according to its skewed definition of "refugee" where even full citizens of other countries and their descendants remain "refugees" forever.

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Deja vu: @UNRWA hosts emergency conference to raise money, while no one addresses the real issue

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[But the pay for slay payments will continue, right? Including to Hamas . Absolutely must pay the "Martyrs" and prisoners who tried to kill Jews]

The Palestinian Authority said on Tuesday it will pay public sector workers only 60 percent of their December salaries this week as it grapples with the longrunning fallout of Israel’s refusal to transfer tax funds earmarked for Gaza.

Funding to the Palestinian Authority, the body that exercises limited governance in the West Bank, has been severely restricted by the months-long dispute over transferring tax revenues Israel collects on behalf of the Palestinians.

Funding from international donors has also been squeezed, falling from 30% of the $6 billion annual budget to around 1%, PA Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said.

“The funding situation of the Authority is very difficult,” he said, following a meeting of the cabinet.

The funding dispute has been a source of friction between Israel and the Palestinians since the start of the Israel-Hamas war in October, when Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich refused to release all the funds, accusing the PA of supporting the October 7 onslaught in Israel led by the terror group.

Under interim peace accords signed in the early 1990s, Israel collects taxes on the Palestinians’ behalf and typically transfers them to the PA monthly on the approval of the finance minister.

However, transfers have been stalled since October, when Smotrich withheld around NIS 600 million ($164.5 million) of the total NIS 1 billion ($274.3 million) due for transfer, prompting the Palestinian Authority, which says Gaza is an integral part of Palestinian territory, to refuse to accept any funds.

“We cannot accept conditions on our money. We will remain committed to the prisoners and martyrs and to our people in the Gaza Strip, not out of favor, but by virtue of our national, religious and moral responsibility,” Shtayyeh said.



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Palestinian Authority to reduce salaries as Israel blocks Gaza funds

Ramallah has not accepted any of the tax revenues collected on its behalf because of Jerusalem's refusal to transfer funds earmarked for Gaza

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The suggestion that Israel should retreat from the mountain ridges of Judea and Samaria (the West Bank) is based, partly, on the assumption that Israel’s Jewish majority is exposed to an “Arab demographic time bomb,” which would explode were Israel to extend its law to Judea and Samaria.

However, not only is there no demographic time bomb, Israel currently benefits from demographic momentum, fertility-wise and migration-wise.

Arab demography artificially inflated

The erroneous assumption is based on the official Palestinian numbers, which are embraced and reverberated by the global community—with no due-diligence auditing—ignoring the artificial inflation of Judea and Samaria’s Arab population by some 1.6 million people.

For instance:

The official Palestinian census counts 500,000 residents who have been away for over a year, while international standards require their elimination from the census (until they return for at least 90 days). This number was documented by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (325,000 in 1997), Election Commission (400,000 in 2005) and Interior Ministry, increasing systematically through births.

The Palestinian census ignores the net emigration of 390,000 since the first 1997 census, as documented by Israel’s Population and Immigration Authority, which supervises Israel’s international passages.

Then there is the fact that 375,000 Jerusalem Arabs and more than 150,000 (mostly) Judea and Samaria Arabs who married Israeli Arabs are double-counted (by Israel and the Palestinian Authority). This number increases systematically through births.

With regard to births, a September 2006 World Bank report documented a 32% artificial inflation of their number. At the same time, deaths have been substantially underreported, as evidenced by the 2007 Palestinian census—which included Arabs born in 1845.

The aforementioned data indicates an artificial inflation of some 1.6 million in the Palestinian census of Judea and Samaria’s Arab population, which is therefore actually 1.4 million—not 3 million.

Arab demography Westernized

Contrary to Western conventional wisdom, Arab demography has been Westernized dramatically in recent years, from a fertility rate of nine births per woman west of the Jordan River during the 1960s to 2.85 births in 2021 in pre-1967 Israel and 3.02 in Judea and Samaria.

The westernization of Arab demography has been a result of sweeping urbanization, from a 70% rural population in Judea and Samaria in 1967 to a 77% urban population in 2022. In addition, almost all girls complete high school, resulting in the expanded integration of women in employment and academia, as well as an increase in wedding age (from 15 to 24 years old). Moreover, there has been an expansion in the use of contraceptives (70% of women in the P.A.) and a shorter fertility cycle (25 through 45 in 2022 compared to 16 through 55 during the 1960s).

Demographic Westernization has occurred in the entire Muslim world, with the exception of the sub-Saharan countries: In 2022, Jordan stood at 2.9 births per woman; Iran at 1.9; Saudi Arabia 1.9; Morocco 2.27; Iraq 3.17; Egypt 2.76; Yemen 2.91; and the United Arab Emirates 1.62.

Jewish demographic momentum

Israel’s Jewish demography, on the other hand, features a fertility momentum, especially in the secular sector, simultaneously with a moderate decline in the ultra-Orthodox sector. In fact, Israeli Jewish fertility (3.13 births per woman) is higher than that of any Arab country other than Iraq (3.17). The OECD’s average fertility rate is 1.61 births per woman.

In 2022, the number of Jewish births (137,566) was 71% higher than in 1995 (80,400), while the number of Arab births (43,417) was 19% higher than in 1995 (36,500).

Contrary to most global societies, Israel enjoys a positive correlation between fertility level, on the one hand, and the level of education, income, urbanization and (the rise of) wedding age on the other hand.

The growth of Jewish fertility reflects a high level of patriotism, optimism, attachment to roots, communal responsibility, frontier mentality, high regard for raising children and a decline in the number of abortions.

The Jewish population is growing younger, while the Arab population is growing older.

Until the 1990s, there was a demographic race between Arab births and Jewish immigration. Since the 1990s, the race has been between Jewish and Arab births, while net migration provides a robust boost to Jewish demography.

The Jewish demographic momentum has been bolstered by an annual aliyah (Jewish immigration)—which has been the most critical engine of Israel’s economic, educational, technological and military growth— simultaneously with the declining scope of annual emigration. From an additional 14,200 emigrants in 1990 to 10,800 in 2020, while the overall population has doubled since 1990. A substantial decline in emigration has taken place since the 2007/2008 global economic meltdown, which has underscored the relative stability and growth of Israel’s economy.

In 2023, there has been an increase in aliyah. This highlights the potential of 500,000 Jewish immigrants over the next five years—from Europe, the former USSR, Latin American and North America—should the Israeli government resurrect the pro-active aliyah policy that defined Israel from 1948 through 1992.

The bottom line

In 1897, upon convening the First Zionist Congress, there was a 9% Jewish minority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and pre-1967 Israel.

In 1948, upon the establishment of the Jewish state, there was a 39% Jewish minority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and pre-1967 Israel.

In 2022, there was a 69% Jewish majority in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and pre-1967 Israel (7.5 million Jews, 2 million Arabs in pre-1967 Israel and 1.4 million Arabs in Judea and Samaria), benefiting from a tailwind of fertility and net migration.

Those who claim that the Jewish majority—in the combined area of Judea, Samaria and pre-1967 Israel—is threatened by an Arab demographic time bomb are either dramatically mistaken or outrageously misleading.

Originally published by the Ettinger Report.

Demographic optimism IN, demographic pessimism OUT

Those who claim that the Jewish majority faces an Arab "demographic time bomb" are either dramatically mistaken or outrageously misleading.

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A "child" with a beard was killed today near Nablus​

Palestinian media is reporting:



Aw, what a cute little baby!

All the reports say that he was involved in "confrontations" with the IDF, meaning he was attacking soldiers.

Which could get one killed. Even a "child."

A "child" with a beard was killed today near Nablus

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Amid the war against Hamas, 132 chess players ranging in age from 9 to 78 competed in the Israeli Open Championship from January 21 through January 29 in Acre, northern Israel, including about 20 international masters and grandmasters, considered the highest ranks in the world of chess.

The nine-day Israeli Chess Federation tournament drew people from all over Israel, including children from the Druze villages of Beit Jann and Peki’in in the Galilee. Despite the war — or maybe because of it — everyone was there to play chess.

“Instead of sitting around worrying about the war, it’s therapeutic,” said Avi Cohen, whose son, Israel, the tournament’s youngest competitor, won the eight-and-under Israeli chess tournament in 2022. “Chess is like an escape.”

The organizer of the event, Olga Volkov, runs the chess club in nearby Nahariya in addition to coaching chess players in Shlomi, a town on the border with Lebanon.

In the weeks after the war began on October 7 with the Hamas-led massacre that killed 1,200 people in southern Israel, mostly civilians, and saw 253 more abducted to the Gaza Strip, Shlomi’s residents were evacuated due to sympathy attacks from the Iran-backed Hezbollah terrorist organization stationed in southern Lebanon.

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Chess tournament makes mates of Arabs, Jews and Druze amid Gaza war

In late January, the Israeli Open Championship in Acre brought all of Israel's diverse sectors together to battle it out on the board, fostering community through love of the game

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Chants such as ‘Israeli occupation’ and ‘resistance’ are all used to excuse and validate the killing of Jews. The fact is, Israel only occupied Judea and Samaria after the 1967 war, in which multiple Arab states sought to eliminate Israel and failed.

Furthermore, Egypt controlled Gaza until ’67 and Israel withdrew in 2005. The occupation claimed by Israel-haters is non-existent, as many other claims they make.

To cap it off, in the 19 years of joint control between 1948-1967 of Jordan and Egypt of Judea and Samaria it saw no attempt of making a so-called Palestinian state, as there hasn’t been in the entire history of mankind.

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The occupation claimed by Israel-haters is non-existent, as many other claims they make.

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The British are marching in lockstep with the Biden administration, which earlier this month also sanctioned four Israeli residents of these territories — one of whom is on the UK’s list — claiming that “extremist settler violence” had reached “intolerable levels”.

This is all an extraordinary and malign distortion and loss of proportion. As I wrote here, there is indeed a problem with violent Israeli “hilltop youth,” mainly aged between 14 and 19, but who are estimated to number only a few hundred among more than half a million Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria.

All such attacks are wrong and the Israelis should deal with these “hilltop youth” firmly — which they do, when they are indeed guilty of aggressive acts. But what Cameron and the Biden administration conspicuously fail to acknowledge is that in many of these violent encounters, the Israelis are responding to violence against them by the Palestinian Arabs.

Indeed, it is utterly astonishing that Cameron and the Americans defame the Israeli residents of the territories — the vast majority of whom live entirely peaceful and law-abiding lives — while making no mention whatsoever of the multiple attacks perpetrated by the Palestinian Arabs against these Israelis every day, vastly out-numbering attacks by the Israelis.

Cameron and the Americans say “settler” attacks last year reached record numbers. But there have been around 300 terrorist attacks against Israelis since October 7 alone.

Cameron and the Americans make no mention of the Arab attacks on Israeli “settlers,” involving shootings, rock-throwing and car ramming, which go on every day. They make no mention of the “settlers” Lucy Dee and her two daughters, Maia, 20, and Rina, 15, who were murdered last April by Palestinian terrorists who shot them in their car at point-blank range. They make no mention of the “settlers” Hallel Yaniv, 21, and his brother Yagel, 19, who were murdered by Palestinian terrorists a year ago when they were stuck in a traffic jam. They make no mention of the “settlers” Asher Menachem Paley, 8, and Yaakov Israel Paley, 6, who were standing at a bus stop with their father when a Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into them, killing them along with 20-year-old rabbinical student Alter Shlomo Lederman who had been married for two months.

Israelis are being regularly attacked and murdered by terrorists from a Palestinian population in the “West Bank” of whom more than 80 per cent support the Hamas atrocities. Yet Cameron and his chums in the US State Department have ignored all that. Instead, they have presented the Israelis as committing “egregious human rights abuses” against the Palestinians — thus deploying the Palestinian tactic of inverting victims and aggressors.

This is not surprising given the information upon which the Americans and British have been drawing — the twisted claims made by the UN, “human rights” NGOs and the entire “humanitarian” hate industry, which is deployed to destroy Israel’s reputation through distortion and defamation but which the US and UK foreign policy establishments invest with the sanctity of disinterested conscience. As a result, Cameron and his chums have been played for suckers.

In an important piece in Tablet, Liel Leibowitz writes about Lieutenant General Michael R. Fenzel, a three-star general who currently serves as the US security coordinator to Israel and the Palestinian Authority (USSC). The USSC, says Liebowitz, is well-known for its regular, sometimes daily briefings and reports about “extremist settlers,” which it provides to members of Congress, policy hands and Israel-related advocacy groups, as well as to foreign countries’ forces in Israel.



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A malign inversion

Cameron and the Americans are doing the genocidists’ work for them

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That darling of human rights organizations, the PFLP, calls for an armed uprising in the West Bank​

I've noted previously that Human Rights Watch has evolved its opinion of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine over the years from being a recognized terror group to a legitimate leftist political party.

And when Israel outlawed several NGOs with links to the PFLP, some even founded by it, Western nations defended those NGOs as if the PFLP is legitimate.

The PFLP praised the October 7 attacks, saying it "restored the dignity of the Arab nation." It called on "everyone who bears arms to engage in the battle of the people of Palestine against their enemy."

On Wednesday, the PFLP reiterated its call for terror, in a statement calling for a violent uprising in the West Bank. It urged the Palestinian Authority to "direct its weapons against the enemy" and said that all Palestinians in the West Bank should create a new military front against Israel, saying "the necessary and urgent task now is to ignite the West Bank front to support the resistance in Gaza."

That darling of human rights organizations, the PFLP, calls for an armed uprising in the West Bank

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Officially, the Palestinian Authority works with Israel to crack down on terror groups in the West Bank. But off-duty PA security forces have carried out dozens of attacks on Israelis, according to a watchdog group.

An investigation by Palestinian Media Watch, the nonprofit watchdog based in Jerusalem, documented at least 55 attacks by PA security forces against Israeli soldiers or civilians since 2020, including four in the past month alone. In each case, the PA or its ruling Fatah party has eulogized the attacker as one of their own "soldiers."

The findings reveal the extent to which the PA, the internationally recognized Palestinian government in Ramallah, encourages and rewards terrorism against Israel—even in its own ranks. For Israel, such activity proves the folly of the Biden administration’s demand that a "revitalized" PA be allowed to govern Gaza following Israel’s war against Hamas, the rival Palestinian faction that rules the territory.

Itamar Marcus, the director of Palestinian Media Watch, on Monday sent a copy of the report, "Terrorists in Uniform: A study of PA Security Forces involvement in terror," to Secretary of State Antony Blinken.

"The American suggestion to empower these terror forces to rule Gaza after Israel has destroyed the terror infrastructure is inconceivable," Marcus told the Washington Free Beacon. "The PA and its security forces are a fundamental part of the problem; it is absurd to believe they can be part of the solution."

Going further than the Israeli government, Marcus called on the Biden administration to reverse its reinstatement of $45 million a year in funding to the PA security services. He noted that the United States last month froze donations to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency following revelations that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attack.

"This is far worse than UNRWA, where at least the leadership claimed they didn't know," Marcus said. "The PA is saying, ‘We know, and we're happy about it. And that's what makes us heroic.’"

The White House also imposed sanctions on four Israelis this month for alleged involvement in violent attacks in the West Bank. Neither the White House nor the State Department responded to requests for comment.

In the most recent known attack by a PA security officer on Israelis, 1st Lt. al Mansour Billah Jalal al-Jabbar of the PA’s Palestinian National Security Forces opened fire at Israel Defense Forces troops last week at a checkpoint near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the IDF confirmed to the Free Beacon. Al Jabbar’s rank in the PA security forces was reported by Palestinian media.

(Via Palestinian Media Watch)​

Last month, al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigades, Fatah’s military wing, and an internationally designated terror group, published a poster honoring five Palestinians who were killed amid a spike in violence in the West Bank since Oct. (Via Palestinian Media Watch)7. The poster highlighted that two of the men were captains in the PA security forces.

One, Capt. Ahmed Abdullah Abu Shalal of the General Intelligence Service, was a terrorist leader in Nablus’s Balata camp, the IDF said at the time. He was killed in an Israeli airstrike following intelligence about "his cell's intentions of carrying out an imminent terrorist attack," according to the IDF. Abu Shalal was responsible for two recent attacks, the IDF said: an April shooting in East Jerusalem that wounded two Israeli civilians and a November bomb attack on IDF troops that injured one soldier.


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PMW in Washington Free Beacon: PA Security Forces Behind Dozens of Recent Attacks on Israelis, PMW Report | PMW Analysis

PA Security Behind Dozens of Attacks on Israelis

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