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It's against the law to colonize occupied land.Writing for The Guardian on March 10, Peter Beinart makes an amateurish and fundamentally flawed attempt to rely on international law to make a comparison between “Putin’s aggression” and U.S. recognition of Israel’s “annexation” of the Golan Heights.
The gist of Beinart’s argument is that the U.S. recognition contributed to the “erosion of the norm against international aggression,” and thus it is somehow hypocritical for the U.S. to criticize Russia for invading Ukraine.
In making this argument, Beinart exposes complete disdain for and ignorance of not only history, but of the very legal concepts he seeks to rely on. He also displays his own inconsistent concern for respect of international law.
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Peter Beinart’s Fleeting Concern for Consistency Results in Historical and Legal Revisionism
Beinart exposes complete disdain for and ignorance of not only history, but of the very legal concepts he seeks to rely on. He also
The western wall is what remains of fortress Antonia. Jews didn't worship there until they were expelled from Spain.CAMERA Arabic’s protracted efforts have prompted Deutsche Welle to remove an Arabic-language backgrounder about Jerusalem which contained multiple factual errors concerning the holy city and the conflict surrounding it. Originally published in May 2021, the problematic item periodically reappeared alongside newer Deutsche Welle Arabic items despite CAMERA’s repeated requests for correction, the first of which was submitted to Germany’s public broadcaster last November. Most recently, the backgrounder was embedded in a DW Arabic webpage on Feb. 9, 2022.
The errors were as follows (all translations, emphases and in-bracket remarks are by CAMERA Arabic):
Slide No. 1 collectively identified Jews involved in the May 10, 2021 clashes in Jerusalem as “settlers,” referring to “clashes between Palestinians on the one hand and the police and settlers on the other.”
However, the Jews’ places of residence were not known — and thus their status as “settlers” was undetermined — and not relevant to the story. Media outlets which previously corrected identical or similar Arabic errors in 2021 include CNN and BBC.
Slide No. 6 misrepresented Jerusalem’s holy sites, their history and location, stating: “The Jews believe that the al-Aqsa Mosque was built instead of a Jewish shrine (the Temple) which the Romans destroyed in 70 AD, with no remnant left but the Western Wall, [also] known as the Wailing Wall or al-Buraq.”
However, Jews don’t just “believe” that the Temple once stood where Jerusalem’s Noble Sanctuary/Temple Mount is found today; its presence up until its 70 AD destruction is a well documented fact of ancient history and archaeology.
In addition, the al-Aqsa Mosque is adjacent to the southern wall of the compound, whilst the Temple was located at its very center where the Dome of the Rock is found today. Therefore, the Mosque was not “built instead” of the Temple, as the backgrounder indicated.
Furthermore, the Western Wall was not a part of the Temple itself; it was a retaining wall for the plaza on which the Temple stood.
Moreover, the Western Wall is not the last remaining part of the old Temple complex. In fact, there are many extant remains from the complex including the southern, eastern and northern retaining walls. Extant features abutting the southern wall include a broad stairway leading up to the Temple Mount’s entrance and two gates, known as Huldah Gates, which provided access to the Temple Mount. Some of the interior part of the Herodian Double Gate (which is one of the Huldah Gates) is also still intact. In addition, an area called “Robinson’s Arch,” in the south-western corner of the Temple complex, still remains. The New York Times recently corrected the latter two points.
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Deutsche Welle Arabic Removes Error-Laden Jerusalem Backgrounder
Following protracted communication from CAMERA Arabic, and in the wake of important steps to address anti-Jewish and anti-Israel bias at the network, Deutsche Welle
Arabs have been in Palestine and the Levant since the Akkadian empire.
The Akkadians originated in Arabia and we're in Palestine and the Levant and Syria long before Judaism.
And where are the Akkadians now? Did they become Jewish? Any archeological proof that they were in Judea, and anything to do with any of the invaders of the land, like:
Show us your archeological proof of it.
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Look it up. Herod built the fortress Antonia in honor of his friend's daughter Antonia. That was Mark Anthony .Show us your archeological proof of it.
And your evidence that it only started with Jews of Spain is?
When men and women prayed together at the Western Wall
A brief history of Jewish worship at Judaism's holiest place of prayer, where, until it came under Israeli jurisdiction, a mixing of genders was the norm
The source of all those photos was Al masrig 1890.
The Palestinian Museum has a collection of some 130,000 digitized photos and documents. A couple of them portray Jews, perhaps from the 1920s, praying at the Western Wall.
Here is how they describe the scene:
Nearly every sentence is a lie, starting with the description of Jews whose families had lived in Jerusalem for centuries as "Jewish pilgrims."
Jews never called it the Wailing Wall - that was a Christian thing.
The Jews never "failed" in identifying it as a retaining wall of the Temple. (The commission of inquiry mentioned said in no uncertain terms that "The Wailing Wall forms an integral part of the western exterior shell of the Harem-esh-Sherif which itself is the site of the ancient Jewish temples,at the present day supplanted by Moslem Mosques.")
Jews gathered there way before the Balfour Declaration.
The 1929 pogroms against Jews were pure antisemitism and had nothing to do with the Kotel except as an excuse - what did the massacres in Hebron have to do with the Wall?
And of course Jerusalem was always Jewish, and had a Jewish majority a century before the Six Day War in 1967.
Even the source is bogus. This photo comes from the Matson Collection at the Library of Congress.
The International Council of Museums has a code of ethics that says, "Museums should ensure that the information they present in displays and exhibitions is well-founded, accurate and gives appropriate consideration to represented groups or beliefs."
This is only one egregious violation of that code.
The Palestine Museum is a propaganda museum.
Palestinian Museum tries to erase Jewish history, denies the Temple
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