Exposing The Lie Of Israel Apartheid / Moscow's role

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Digging deeper here I was floored to learn that Mr Fa’afiu spent eight years with the New Zealand Foreign Ministry. Surely Fa’afiu’s silence in the face of his current organisation’s antisemitism was not representative of New Zealand politics?


I was about to enter a surprisingly dark rabbit hole. The island nation next to Australia might project itself as a natural ally of democratic countries and it is a member of some of the pro-Western ‘clubs’ like the Five Eyes security alliance, but New Zealand does not, in fact, hold a great record when it comes to Israel or Jews.

• New Zealand, I discovered, is one of the only Western countries to not designate Hamas or Hezbollah as terror organizations;

• The New Zealand Sovereign Wealth Fund recently joined Ben & Jerry’s joining of the BDS movement by divesting from Israeli banks;

• Bizarrely, New Zealand maintains an Embassy in Iran and in Turkey but has no embassy in Israel whatsoever;

• New Zealand is perhaps the only Western nation to have actively avoided investigating its provision of safe haven for Nazi SS officers to its shores after World War II;

• New Zealand is the only Western country to have awarded a University degree for a work of Holocaust denial;

• The list goes on

What the hell is up with New Zealand?


It appears the country is a sovereign equivalent of Ben & Jerry’s - an apparently cuddly brand on the outside but a bad apple on the inside. Not, in fact ‘The Lord of the Rings’, but much more like ‘The Lord of the Wrongs’.


New Zealand has been chasing a Free Trade Agreement with the USA as a ‘key goal’ for a while. While New Zealand continues to undermine America by undermining our closest ally Israel, we should make it crystal clear that a bad friend gets no free trade access.


This issue is likely to make its way to Congress via senators in much the same way an increasing set of vocal Americans notified their representatives that Ben & Jerry’s needed censure. Ben & Jerry’s is just an ice cream company, but New Zealand has influence over a number of Pacific Islands and their votes at the United Nations. New Zealand represents a case where patriotic Americans, both Democrat and Republican, can send a strong message that the US is a real friend of Israel.


Please write to your friendly senator or member of Congress and let them know that New Zealand isn’t a friend of Israel and shouldn't be rewarded without pivoting its voting at the UN, its bigoted sovereign investment policy, investigating its safe haven to Nazis, revoking its Holocaust denial theses in its Universities, and proscribing Hamas and Hezbollah.


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I've been picking out random pages of the Amnesty report to see if I can find a lie or deception on every page of Amnesty's latest "apartheid" report.

I spun the wheel of the random number generator chose Page 191 is my next target.


Here is the beginning of that page:

Stone quarrying is Palestinians’ largest export industry, but Israel’s control of the OPT has restricted Palestinian access to these resources. In addition, Israel has refused to grant permits for new Palestinian quarries or to renew existing licences.[1047] Meanwhile, Israel carries out quarrying activities in the OPT, in contravention of the law of occupation.

That sentence seems to say that Israel refuses to grant permits to any new Palestinian quarries or renew their licenses as it takes over the quarries.

Footnote 1047 adds a crucial piece of information:

[T]he Israeli Civil Administrations fail[ed] to renew or grant new permits for Palestinian quarries in Area Csince 1994.

Israel isn't restricting quarrying in the areas that Palestinians control - at all. Nor can it, under the terms of the Oslo Accords.

Amnesty is giving the impression of "occupation" when Israel allows full freedom for Palestinians to self-rule in the areas under their control.

Now, why might it restrict quarrying in areas that it is responsible for? Perhaps because Palestinian quarrying, while important to the Palestinian economy, is destroying the environment:

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Finding lies in random Amnesty report pages, part 3

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Today's analysis of a random page of the Amnesty "apartheid" report is for page 207.

This section of the report (pages 204-210) is called "Cruel and arbitrary restrictions on access to healthcare in the OPT."

This page is about how Israel sometimes denies or delays patient requests by Gazans or their companions to travel to Israeli or Palestinian hospitals.

This section did not have any provable lies. But it has a complete disregard for the truth.

It does not mention a single reason why Israel might place restrictions on patients or alleged patients leaving Gaza.

In 2004, a 22-year-old Palestinian mother of two named Reem al-Reyashi faked a limp as she blew herself up at the Erez crossing from Gaza, killing 4 people.

In 2005, Wafa al Bass attempted to smuggle a suicide belt into Israel which she intended to use at the Israeli hospital where she was being treated for burns.

In 2006, a member of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC) who had received an entry permit into Israel on humanitarian grounds was arrested at the Erez Crossing. He planned to establish terrorist cells in the West Bank.

In 2007, two female suicide bombers at the Erez Crossing who received authentic entry permits into Israel using false medical information were arrested. They planned to carry out a double suicide bombing in Tel Aviv and in Netanya.

In 2017, two sisters who had permission to enter Israel - one of whom had cancer - were caught trying to smuggle explosive material at the Erez crossing.

Hamas has used Gaza ambulances to transport terrorist leaders to Egypt, so Gaza ambulances must be thoroughly checked.

The Shin Bet has discovered "time after time [Hamas] attempts to pass funds and/or instructions to terrorist elements in the West Bank via Gaza residents entering Israel and even seriously ill patients." It also says that senior medical officials in Gaza were involved in issuing falsified medical certifications,"In some cases, the passage of imposters to Israel was done in an ambulance."

The also doesn't mention how many times Egypt denies permits to Gaza patients. Hundreds of Gazans are denied entry to Egypt every month even after they go through the process of getting permits, which indicates that Egypt is also concerned about terrorism infiltration.

Perhaps the most egregious part of this section was this image of empty pharmacy shelves in Shifa Hospital from 2017:



No context was given, but since it is in the section of the document about Israel's "cruel and arbitrary restrictions on access to healthcare" it is assumed that Israel had denied the passage of medicines into Gaza.

But Israel never denies medicine to Gaza.

This photo was taken when the Palestinian Authority decided to strangle Gaza's medical infrastructureduring one of its political battles with Hamas. This includeddenying medical permits. And Amnesty knows this,because it reported about it in its 2017 annual report:

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Callous disregard for the truth in @Amnesty report on Gaza medicine shortages and patient exits

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Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ll know that Amnesty International released a vile report accusing Israel of ‘Apartheid’. Every informed and level headed person on the planet also knows it is a spiteful and false claim. In a recent ranking of the world’s democracies, Israel came in at number 23, which makes it one of the freest, most liberal and vibrant democracies on earth. Political leaders from the US, UK, Germany, Austria, Australia, the Czech Republic and Canada swiftly rejected Amnesty’s report.

The Amnesty report is even more obscene given that just across Israel’s northern border in Lebanon – there is an actual case of real Apartheid.

Most know that Amnesty followed HRW and B’tselem in spreading this libel, but many do not realise that this was not some ‘eureka’ moment for them all. Since 2001, they have all been working on Israel being labelled the new South Africa. Slowly but surely ramping up the volume with each passing year. It is one of the reasons that Amnesty has an obsession with attacking the Jewish state.

It is also important to understand their strategy has nothing to do with events in the real world. In fact, if you actually place Amnesty’s report next to reality – you will be left scratching your head. Just last year a broad coalition formed to become Israel’s new government – which even included an Islamist party. This total political inclusiveness is a key reason Israel’s saw a slight improvement between its ‘Democracy Index’ ranking in 2021 (23rd) and the one it received in 2020 (27th). Amnesty producing its report now, proves beyond much argument that they are working to a timetable that has nothing to do with what Israel does or does not do. That is a key message that those on the left should really pay attention to.

Following Amnesty’s publication, three key questions have surfaced:

• Why have Amnesty called the only democracy in the entire region an ‘Apartheid state’?
• Why are they picking on Israel?
• What do Amnesty mean by ‘Apartheid’?

It is only the last question that really matters. Because when you unravel the answer to that question – everything else becomes crystal clear.

200,000+ words and little meaning​

The anti-Israel activist Ben White wrote a book about ‘Israeli Apartheid’ and has been smearing Israel for decades. White is one of the stars of anti-Israel activism and deliberately demonises Israel everywhere he goes. I mention him because of his manner of delivery.

I have watched and spoken to Ben White on numerous occasions. Once, even though he probably does not remember it – I sat down next to him at a roundtable event (in those ‘undercover’ days he would have known me as ‘John’) to discuss BDS strategy. What White does when he opens his talks, is throw ‘facts’ and ‘statistics’ at people in a barrage. Nobody listening can get their head around any of the complicated graphs they are shown, nor stop to analyse whether every piece of information is accurate. White drowns people in so much disinformation – they cannot see beyond the headlines that he gives them at the end. Because most of those in the audience are already sold on whatever it is Ben White is selling – they just sit in admiration of his ‘knowledge’ and accept whatever conclusion he provides for them. It is a great tactic.

Amnesty International just did exactly that in a 200+ page report containing over 200,000 words. They simply misdirected everyone under a mountain of nonsense.

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Amnesty's problem with Israel - too many Jews

Amnesty knows Israel is a democracy -and it knows it's apartheid claim is false. It just doesn't like a state with a Jewish majority.

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“Amnesty and the UN, which is going to be joining the effort by describing Israel as an apartheid state isn’t getting it wrong, they’re getting it an opposite of the truth,” says legal expert Prof. Eugene Kontrovich.

Kontorovich explains his conclusion in a piece published by the Wall Street Journal titled “There’s Apartheid in The Holy Land, But it’s Not in Israel.”

“Israel is a country where Arabs participate in all walks of public life, hold positions in the government,” he says. “In Israel, Arabs and Jews mingle, in cafes and on busses, in all public places. But right next door, in those areas of the Holy Land run by the Palestinian Authority, real apartheid is practiced.”

Kontorovich points out the PA has a law that calls for the death penalty if a Palestinian sells land to a Jew. Back in November, CBN News asked the Palestinian Authority’s Prime Minister about that law.

“Land in Palestine is not a real estate issue. Land in Palestine is a political issue. So therefore, the Palestinian law does not allow land to be sold to non-Palestinians,” Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Mohammed Shtayyeh told CBN News.


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Another controversial government policy is referred to as pay to slay. That program rewards terrorists convicted of killing Jews.

“Israel is not sponsoring a program of pay to slay against Palestinians,” Kontorovich says. “The Palestinian Authority government supported by Western governments … funds a pay to lay program to pay for the murder of Jews.”

Kontorovich says through all its laws and policies the PA has created a Jew-free zone.

“When you at the areas controlled by the Palestinian Authority, it’s not that there’s no separation between Jews and Arabs, there’s just no Jews. Because they have created a Jew-free state and they have enforced this through official methods.”

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Legal Expert: The Palestinian Authority Practices Apartheid, Not Israel

Just days ago, CBN News reported on backlash caused by an Amnesty International report accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. One result of the fallout shines the light on a major issue basically ignored by this group that purports to end abuses of human rights.

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There are only two local Amnesty sites that still consider the anti-Israel report their top story, which is a pretty good indication of obsessive anti-Zionism and therefore antisemitism.

One is Ireland:



And the other is.....Amnesty USA:



Based on how much the AmnestyUSA site tweeted when the report came out - I counted about 80 tweets in one day - this is beyond obsession. This is crazed hate for Israel.

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Of all the country-specific Amnesty sites, only two still have "Israeli Apartheid" as their top story 2.5 weeks later. @AmnestyUSA is one of them.

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[JoeB131]

The Zionist Entity is an Apartheid State.

Deal with it.

 

[Hollie]

The Zionist Entity is an Apartheid State.

Deal with it.

The far left woke entity dumping silly slogans he read on the interweb is really pointless. You should fix that.

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Zionist Entity is an Apartheid State.

Deal with it.

Apparently you have never been to Israel, because most of the Christians Arabs, Druze, etc who live there would tell you that it is a lie.

A lie travels too far and gets to you and you repeat it.

Break the habit.

 

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The Zionist Entity is an Apartheid State.

Deal with it.

Prove to this Israeli that Israel is an Apartheid State

 

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[JoeB131]

Apparently you have never been to Israel, because most of the Christians Arabs, Druze, etc who live there would tell you that it is a lie.

A lie travels too far and gets to you and you repeat it.

Break the habit.

I don't have to. All I have to do is look at the bombed out hospitals and schools in Palestine to know what a shitty deal the Zionist Entity is for the indigenous people of that land.

Send the Squatters back to Europe!

Prove to this Israeli that Israel is an Apartheid State

Sadly, you will always find quislings no matter how awful a regime is.

Let every Arab vote and then get back to me.