Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2

[Hollie]

Gee whiz. Saeb was sure quick to come looking to Israel for favors despite a long history of looking to destroy Israel.

Palestinian Leaders Want Israel Destroyed — Until They Need a Doctor - Algemeiner.com

The coronavirus-related death of senior Palestinian figure Saeb Erekat in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital has rekindled a debate in Israeli society about medicine and morality, and the Palestinians' cynicism and ingratitude in their relations with Israel. Erekat, whom I knew personally, is a...

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The coronavirus-related death of senior Palestinian figure Saeb Erekat in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital has rekindled a debate in Israeli society about medicine and morality, and the Palestinians’ cynicism and ingratitude in their relations with Israel.

Erekat, whom I knew personally, is a perfect example: he worked tirelessly not only to delegitimize, but to try to destroy Israel by means of economic strangulation through his unending promotion worldwide of the BDS campaign. He accused Israel of being an “apartheid” country, actively supported the “resistance” (a euphemism for Palestinian terrorism, which aims to kill Israelis), called for a tsunami of millions of “returning Palestinian refugees” to overwhelm Israel and demographically destroy it as the homeland of the Jewish people, and advocated ending coordination between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA).

 

[Hollie]

I choose to be Pal’istanian.

 

[P F Tinmore]

 

[Hollie]

An Islamic terrorist apologist who is the beneficiary of leftist identity politics pushing a useless study program.

Pushing Islamic terrorism has been a disaster for the Arabs-Moslems posing as “Pal’istanians”.

Professors push Palestinians to ‘resist,’ rather than live in peace

While whitewashing terrorism, educators like Noura Erakat at Rutgers University mythologize Palestinians’ past and deny Israeli existence.

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(December 1, 2020 / JNS) For Palestinians, the “major shift has to be to a politics of resistance; it has to be about alienating Israel,” stated Rutgers University assistant professor of Africana Studies Noura Erakatduring a Nov. 17 Middle East Institute (MEI) panel webinar. The participants’ radicalism illustrated how the Palestinian national movement’s intellectual barrenness may stymy any foolish return to traditional Israeli-Palestinian peace processes by a future Biden administration.

 

[Hollie]

Poisoning the minds of children with such things as virgins in heaven being a reward for killing / mass murder is a prescription for a maladjusted personality.

Palestinian Authority Religious-Affairs Adviser Hails Terrorists as ‘Great Martyrs’ - Algemeiner.com

JNS.org - Palestinian Authority Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash earlier this month referred to terrorists as “beloved” and “great martyrs,” Palestinian Media Watch reported on Sunday. Al-Habbash, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s religious-affairs adviser, praised a number of specific...

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JNS.org – Palestinian Authority Supreme Sharia Judge Mahmoud Al-Habbash earlier this month referred to terrorists as “beloved” and “great martyrs,” Palestinian Media Watch reported on Sunday.

Al-Habbash, PA leader Mahmoud Abbas’s religious-affairs adviser, praised a number of specific Palestinian terrorists during the program “Reexamination,” broadcast Nov. 11 on official PA TV

 

[rylah]

Official: Palestine, Jordan, Egypt to setup peace conference

Deputy leader of Palestine's Fatah movement, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, said a committee which includes Palestinian, Jordanian and Egyptian officials has been formed to coordinate the Palestinian call for holding an international peace conference.

Speaking to the Voice of Palestine Radio yesterday, Al-Aloul said as a result of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' visit to Jordan and Egypt, there will be a committee and coordination for joint work to achieve this vision.

Al-Aloul explained that there is a need for a greater effort to correct the imbalance caused by the administration of the US President Donald Trump.

Abbas visited Jordan on Sunday where he met with King Abdullah II, followed by a visit to Egypt where he met with President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.

A spokesman for the Egyptian presidency, Bassam Radi, said in a statement that during the meeting, "there was an agreement to continue intensive consultations and coordination between the two presidents in order to follow up on the steps that will be taken during the coming period, seeking to resolve the current situation by returning to the path of negotiations."

On Monday, a member of Fatah's Central Committee, Azzam Al-Ahmad, said that Jordan and Egypt had adopted Abbas' vision to hold an international conference for the peace process, under the auspices of the United Nations.

On 25 September, Abbas asked United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres to call for an international peace conference in early 2021 to achieve the two-state solution, end the Israeli occupation and establish an independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Official: Palestine, Jordan, Egypt to setup peace conference

Deputy leader of Palestine's Fatah movement, Mahmoud Al-Aloul, said a committee which includes Palestinian, Jordanian and Egyptian officials has been formed to coordinate the Palestinian call for ho...

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[rylah]

The Palestinians, Happiness, and the “Occupation”

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: In an academic ranking of countries according to happiness level, the “Palestinian Territories” are far from the bottom of the list – something of a surprise, as the never-ending lamentations about the “Israeli occupation” would suggest a different outcome. The real tragedy is Tunisia, which achieved democracy but has not registered expected economic dividends. Its citizens are more discontented than the Palestinians.

It might sound frivolous to attempt to measure happiness. Still, for a Columbia University think tank and two respectable Canadian policy institutes, the measuring of happiness and the ranking of states by happiness score is serious business.

Judging by the top and bottom countries on the list of 157 states for which scores were recorded, their findings seem plausible.

Finland, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, New Zealand, and Canada boast the highest happiness scores. The list ranks countries by positive characteristics like GDP per capita, the Human Development Index (the aggregate of economic, educational, and life expectancy data), and human freedom and democracy.

The same countries also rank lowest in characteristics universally judged to be adverse to human quality of life, such as crime rate, traffic accidents measured by death and injury, and suicide rate. (The widespread belief that Scandinavian countries suffer from high suicide rates is far from accurate.)

Nor do the states with the lowest happiness scores generate much surprise. Haiti, Botswana, Yemen, Rwanda, Tanzania, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan are all known for their lack of democracy, rampant corruption, and very low levels of economic welfare. Most are also notable for their political instability, which – in the case of Syria, Yemen, Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, and South Sudan – can be characterized as long-term, full-scale civil wars.

It is not surprising, therefore, that the happiest countries are those people risk their lives to reach. The countries at the bottom are those that many flee in search of a better life elsewhere.

What is striking is the ranking for “the Palestinian Territories” in comparison to other countries. With a score of 4.7, it is 111th out of 157.

An academic study found that 60% of United Nations General Assembly resolutions condemning the behavior of states toward either their own or other populations were addressed to Israel – in a world in which well over half the world’s population (nearly four billion people) lives in despotic states. This includes North Korea, where the regime has been brutally terrorizing its 25 million citizens for over seventy years.

Were Israel as vile as that UNGA record suggests, one might reasonably expect that the “Palestinian Territories” would be at the bottom of the list, along with Yemen, Afghanistan, and Sudan. The essential error is that the Territories, which are supposedly under “occupation,” exist in reality under two separate despotic regimes, neither of which is Israeli: the Palestinian Authority under Mahmoud Abbas, and Gaza under Hamas.

Even acknowledging that reality, one might anticipate that Palestinian happiness under those despotic regimes would place them at the bottom of the list. But there appears to be more relative happiness among the population of the Territories than in an assortment of Middle Eastern states, some of which are among the most vociferous in their condemnation of Israel’s “occupation” of the Palestinians. Energy-rich Iran, for example, ranks seven slots lower on the happiness index than the Palestinian Territories.

Even less happiness prevails in Egypt, whose regime frequently initiates UN condemnations of Israel’s “occupation.” Egypt is close to the bottom of the list at 138, significantly lower than the Palestinians who toil “under occupation.”

It is the comparison with Jordan that occasions the greatest surprise. If Israel’s “occupation” is so onerous, how come the happiness rate in Jordan is only slightly higher than that of the Palestinians living under that “occupation?” Jordan, with a ranking of 102, is only eight slots higher than the Palestinian Territories.

Recall that the ranking aggregates Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza, while the former has higher income levels than are found in the latter. Were the ranking to differentiate between the two, Palestinians living in the West Bank could plausibly generate a score at least equal to that of Jordan, where there is no “Israeli occupation.”

The Palestinian ranking would be more impressive were all 193 member states of the UN to be surveyed. The index is overwhelmingly represented by richer states, which are easier to survey than poorer states. One country notable for its absence on the list is North Korea, where a survey such as this would be impossible to administer. (The North Korean regime would probably justify the country’s absence from the list on the grounds that its citizens are the happiest of people.)

The real tragedy the index exposes is that of Tunisia, not the Palestinians.

Tunisia is the only country from the so-called “Arab Spring” to have in any way met the expectations of those that gave the uprisings that name. Since the ouster of the old regime in December 2010, Tunisia has successfully changed its constitution, held three free elections, and seen a party broadly affiliated with the Muslim Brotherhood, an-Nahda, join a government coalition and then relinquish power peacefully, according to the democratic rules of the game. It is the only country in the Arab world to be designated as “free” by Freedom House, a think tank that ranks democratic and human rights.

Nevertheless, despite these achievements, Tunisia ranks lower in happiness than the Palestinians, with a ranking of 125. The failure of democracy to yield economic dividends – economic stagnation and high unemployment rates prevail instead – takes a toll on the citizenry, many of whom are young people.

The Tunisian case offers a lesson to the Palestinians and their “Peace Now” supporters. In politics, there are few cases of simple solutions to complex problems.

Just as democracy for Tunisia did not automatically translate into prosperity or happiness, there is no guarantee that a full-fledged independent Palestinian state, even if it could come about despite deep internal rifts, would be a panacea for the problems Palestinians face.

The Palestinians, Happiness, and the “Occupation”

In an academic ranking of countries according to happiness level, the “Palestinian Territories” are far from the bottom of the list – something of a surprise, as the never-ending lamentations ab

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[Hollie]

Pretty much the definition of a frivolous lawsuit. "Demanding a confession"?

A confession for what? There never being such a thing as "Pali people".

This is something that defines an obvious end result of placating the whims of islamic terrorists. The Palis have learned that their depraved tactics gain them the attention of the world and, quite often, reward for bad behavior.






Palestinians sue Britain - as thanks for over half a billion dollars in aid

Maurice Hirsch, Adv. | Dec 6, 2020

• Palestinians rewrite history and sue Great Britain demanding it confess that the Balfour Declaration “destroyed the life of an entire Palestinian people.”

Britain has donated no less than £473,038,638.64 ($632,443,199) to various Palestinian causes in the last five years alone [UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office website], and will continue in 2021. In an ironic expression of gratitude, a group of Palestinians submitted a lawsuit to the Palestinian Authority court system against Britain for issuing the Balfour Declaration and for alleged “crimes” of British soldiers against the Palestinian people during the Mandate period.
While the lawsuit, which was submitted to a PA court, was initiated by ostensibly private individuals, its narrative entirely adopts the narrative of the PA: That the Balfour Declaration is the cause of Palestinian suffering:

“The lawsuit, which has a political impact and a media aspect, lays the responsibility on the government of Britain for the consequences of the Balfour Promise, which gave Palestine as a national homeland to the Jews and enabled the Zionist gangs to occupy Palestine, and the consequences that stem from its behavior that contradicts international rules, morals, and law.”
[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 23, 2020]

 

[Hollie]

One of the real problems with PC culture and one of its side effects; identity politics, is that people such as Rashida Tlaib with no real qualifications for the office she holds and a political-religious agenda that is consumed by Jew hatred finds a congressional seat she has no business occupying.

GOP congressman calls on Tlaib to lose committee assignments after 'disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism'

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler called for Rep. Rashida Tlaib to be removed from her congressional committees, saying she engaged in a “disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism” in recent weeks.

 

[Hollie]

I found it shocking, well not really, that the "executive director" of something called the "Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy" (how much western welfare money does that front group siphon from the trough), is trying to change the title of "convicted islamic terrorist" to "political prisoner". The various Pali terror organizations and front groups are making tremendous efforts to murder and maim innocent Israeli men, children and women in furtherance of Islamic politico-religious ideology. When those Pali islamic terrorists are caught and convicted, they're correctly labeled as "convicted islamic terrorist".

Foreign Policy Op-Ed : Convicted Palestinian Terrorists Are 'Political Prisoners'

Foreign Policy gives a pass to to Salem Barahmeh of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy to whitewash convicted Palestinian terrorists who carried out

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In a Nov. 20 “argument” piece in Foreign Policy, Salem Barahmeh, executive director of the Palestine Institute for Public Diplomacy, whitewashed convicted Palestinian terrorists who carried out lethal attacks against Israelis as “political prisoners” (“Biden Can’t Free Palestine“).

 

[P F Tinmore]

One of the real problems with PC culture and one of its side effects; identity politics, is that people such as Rashida Tlaib with no real qualifications for the office she holds and a political-religious agenda that is consumed by Jew hatred finds a congressional seat she has no business occupying.

GOP congressman calls on Tlaib to lose committee assignments after 'disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism'

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler called for Rep. Rashida Tlaib to be removed from her congressional committees, saying she engaged in a “disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism” in recent weeks.

Load of hooey.

 

[Hollie]

One of the real problems with PC culture and one of its side effects; identity politics, is that people such as Rashida Tlaib with no real qualifications for the office she holds and a political-religious agenda that is consumed by Jew hatred finds a congressional seat she has no business occupying.

GOP congressman calls on Tlaib to lose committee assignments after 'disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism'

Rep. Guy Reschenthaler called for Rep. Rashida Tlaib to be removed from her congressional committees, saying she engaged in a “disturbing pattern of anti-Semitism” in recent weeks.

Load of hooey.

Hurt feelings?

 

[Hollie]

The Islamic gee-had rolls on.

Border Police, Palestinians injured in West Bank clashes

Clashes in the West Bank injured several Palestinians just days after a minor was shot and killed by IDF fire.

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Quoting the Palestinian Ministry of Health, WAFA reported that the injured had been shot in the chest, stomach and a third in the main artery in the leg. A fourth was moderately injured in his leg.

According to Israel Police, six officers were injured in the clashes during which Palestinians threw blocks and stones at the officers who responded with both live-fire and nonlethal weapons “after being in a life-threatening situation.”

 

[P F Tinmore]

The Islamic gee-had rolls on.

Border Police, Palestinians injured in West Bank clashes

Clashes in the West Bank injured several Palestinians just days after a minor was shot and killed by IDF fire.

m.jpost.com

Quoting the Palestinian Ministry of Health, WAFA reported that the injured had been shot in the chest, stomach and a third in the main artery in the leg. A fourth was moderately injured in his leg.

According to Israel Police, six officers were injured in the clashes during which Palestinians threw blocks and stones at the officers who responded with both live-fire and nonlethal weapons “after being in a life-threatening situation.”

Israel has border police but no borders.

You can't make this stuff up.

 

[Hollie]

Israel has border police but no borders.

You can't make this stuff up.

You just made that up.

 

[Hollie]

Justice has caught up with another Islamic terrorist.

Palestinian Terrorist Suspected in 1982 Paris Kosher Restaurant Attack Formally Charged With Murder - Algemeiner.com

A Palestinian terrorist was charged with murder and attempted murder in a Paris court on Saturday for a deadly 1982 terror attack on a kosher restaurant. Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed was officially charged by the magistrate a day after he arrived in France from Norway following a long extradition...

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A Palestinian terrorist was charged with murder and attempted murder in a Paris court on Saturday for a deadly 1982 terror attack on a kosher restaurant.

Walid Abdulrahman Abu Zayed was officially charged by the magistrate a day after he arrived in France from Norway following a long extradition process, Radio France Internationale reported.

 

[Hollie]

Rewards offered by the Islamic terrorist franchises known as “pay to slay” aren’t what they used to be.

Court Rejects Petition Against Seizure of Palestinian Authority Funds to Israeli-Arab Terrorists

The seizure of terrorist money paid by the PA to Israeli citizens is a move being led in the past year by the Ministry of Defense’ National Bureau for Counter Terror Financing, in cooperation with Israel’s combined security forces and the Ministry of Justice.

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The Tel Aviv Administrative Court on Monday rejected a petition filed by 15 terrorists imprisoned in Israel and their families against administrative orders to seize hundreds of thousands of shekels received by them from the Palestinian Authority (PA) as a reward for the terrorist attacks they carried out.

 

[Sixties Fan]

According to the report, Ashrawi is angry that the Palestinian Authority has restored its relations with Israel last month..

There was no comment from Ashrawi.

This seems to be the same sort of resignation theatre that Mahmoud Abbas likes to do, and that Saeb Erekat had engaged in himself, to make a dramatic threat which in the end does not happen.

But isn't it interesting that the "moderate" Ashrawi, darling of international news networks, is against the idea of the PA even talking to Israel?

Report: Hanan Ashrawi pretends to offer her resignation - in protest of the PA cooperating with Israel

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

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[Hollie]

Maintaining an Islamic terrorist franchise is a vastly expensive operation. Including direct payments to Islamic terrorists, money for expensive homes, cars and bank accounts for the terrorist leadership, presidential jets, weapons and ammo for the gee-had, etc., Islamic Terrorism Intl. Inc., needs your contribution.

UN aid agency for Palestine on the verge of collapse

TRT World

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The UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees is on the verge of financial collapse after US President Donald Trump withdrew funding in 2018. However, the agency is hopeful that Joe Biden will reverse the decision. Mustafa Fatih Yavuz reports. Palestine-Israel Conflict




"The UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees is on the verge of financial collapse after US President Donald Trump withdrew funding in 2018"

In other words, "the Great Satan is to blame. They took away the Islamic terrorist entitlement for gee-had money."

 

[Hollie]

Just in time for Christmas and Chanukah. You need some new cutlery for those holiday season dinners with friends and family. Representatives from ''The Religion of Peace'' have a holiday promotion.

“fascinate us with values”. Those lovely Islamic values of destruction and killing, since 632CE.



PA: “I'm coming towards you, my enemy… with cleavers and knives” - a song that “fascinate us with values”

Nan Jacques Zilberdik | Dec 8, 2020

• PA: “Wave the rifle… we will not cast our weapons from our hands”

The Tune of the Homeland is a PA TV quiz about Palestinian nationalistic songs. Each quiz question is introduced by a narrator telling viewers that the songs “express our national identity… and fascinate us with values.” Some of the songs glorified by the PA in this quiz – and which are broadcast repeatedly – specifically promote violence and terror.

I’m Coming Towards You, My Enemy explicitly calls for murder and promises Israel – “my enemy” - to attack with rifles, cleavers and knives:

Official PA TV narrator: “Because songs are a basic part of our culture and they express our national identity… and because these songs are present in our consciousness and still fascinate us with values and meanings… It’s here: The Tune of the Homeland…
Lyrics: “I'm coming towards you, my enemy, from every house, neighborhood and street
I'm coming with my rifle and my faith I'm coming towards you, my enemy
Our war is a war of the streets…
I'm coming towards you, my enemy, from every house, neighborhood and street
We're going down from every house with cleavers and knives”
[Official PA TV, Nov. 27, 30, Dec. 1. 3, 2020]