Let me say from the beginning that I don’t hate anyone as a general rule. I look for and desire to see the good in every human being as I believe everyone else should do as well. If someone has been influenced by an evil mindset in ideology, then my first reaction is not to commence hating that person but rather to make an attempt to shake that person out of that destructive mindset by using logic and reason, along with a persuasive passion for what is spiritually right and true.However, because this is not always possible regardless of the amount of truth that is placed before certain individuals, and because there are those who will always love the evil inwardly more than righteousness, I believe that there can is righteous-based hatred regarding some humans. I don’t believe in living a life for the sole purpose of hating for any cause as do certain political, religious, and non-religious hate groups. But there are things in this life (including evil devoted people) of whom it's righteous to hate.
God judges hatred along with all motivations of the human heart by His law and not by man’s westernized liberal conceptions. There is a big difference between hating your personal enemy on a personal level for personal reasons, and hating an enemy of God on a spiritual level for spiritual reasons. Examine what the scripture states:
"Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? And am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: They are become mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: Try me, and know my thoughts; And see if there be any wicked way in me, And lead me in the way everlasting." - Psalms 139:21-24. (also see II Chronicles 19:2)
In this segment from the book of Psalms, the psalmist was searching his heart before God in which he was making sure that his godly resistance towards his enemies - in the form of righteous hatred - was in check. In this passage Israel’s enemies are the ones who hates God. For the psalmist, his thought was that if he did not have a "perfect" hatred towards God’s enemies, then his thoughts of not hating God's enemy would be of a wicked way within his heart. From my point of view, the politically-correct secular world could learn volumes from the simple declaration that this psalmist proclaimed and of which the first and second Jewish Temple singers sang the psalm:1
“Do not I hate them, O YHVH that hate thee?” and "I hate them (God's enemies) with a perfect hatred"
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I have heard people say that they may hate the things evil people do but not the person themselves. I agree with that concept in general but not as an overall concept. An individual can sink so much into evil that they become “as one” with their wickedness. There is a place in the realms of evil where a person has sold out "soul" lock, stock and barrel in effect crossing the point of no return where their whole lives can only be devoted as an enemy against God. Such was the case with Pharaoh during the time of the Exodus whose heart become more hardened after each manifestation of the ten plagues of Egypt.
To bring this reality into modern times, I do not and cannot love any part of Adolph Hitler including his very soul. I not only hate the things that he did on earth but I also hate him spiritually as God's enemy as well. How about you? Are you a hater of Hitler's very soul?
Fact: There is no separation between Hitler's soul and his Holocaust deeds that he did on earth both now and forever.
Hitler made a choice to become the image of evil rather than expressing the image of God he was made in. I don’t believe God loves him but rather hates him insomuch that Hitler’s soul (and not just the things he did) is in a place of the eternally damned where he will be forever separated from the God of mercy, justice, and righteousness. So in trying to be like minded with God’s thinking towards Hitler, I hate the expressed devil that Hitler was and forever shall be known. I not only believe that it's a righteous act to hate Hitler, but in fact it would be evil of me or anyone else not to do so as the above Psalm of David plainly points out. Furthermore, the so-called do-gooders who actually love Hitler are the ones most likely to support him and his deeds.
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Hitler is not the only ambassador of evil to walk around in human form. I feel the same way with the likes of other such devils as Yassier Arafat, Louis Farrakhan, David Duke, and now Jimmy Carter who has devoted the rest of his evil life to the cause of Israel's murderous enemy. These men are not simply misguided fools that are followers of evil (a place where true repentance and the turning away from evil are still available to such a person) but they are in fact actual leaders and forgoers of evil for the sole purpose of leading others in their evil!
Since false prophets don’t repent, (no false prophet in the Bible ever did) I have no desire to pray for these men and others like them for a change of their evil ways. Rather, I choose to pray according to God’s promise to them which is for their destruction as God sees fit according to their relentless evil and unrepentant deeds upon this earth.
"And He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slow to repay him who hates Him. He will repay him to his face." - Deuteronomy 7:10 (See also Isaiah 59:18).
Therefore, my Bible-guided prayer is, "May YHVH according to His holy and righteous Torah promise, repay the Arab-Palestinians to their face, along with and all who support them in their terrorist-expressed hatred acts against YHVH's chosen people."
The Palestinians:
There isn't a greater enemy towards the nation of Israel in all the world today than the Palestinians! The Palestinians have taken the title from the German Nazis as "the greatest threat" to the Jewish nation. Mein Kamph gave way to Jihadi - both meaning "my struggles" in both German and Arabic. When Hitler's struggles expired the Islamic struggles picked up the banner. What now is at stake in the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinians that wasn't at stake during Hitler's Final Solution is the possibility of the most evil people in all the earth, worshiping the most evil god (their god Allah), in the most holiest place (Jerusalem and the Temple Mount) in all the world!
The rebirth of Israel as a nation has given rise to Allah (an Arabian deity) wanting to be worshiped by his subjects at the very place designed for the God of Israel to be worshiped (see Psalms 132:13,14). Just the possibility of this scenario alone should show the secularists that there is a God of Israel that holds an everlasting covenant with the Jewish people (see Psalms 105:8-10). For it is impossible to ask for better stage to be set from what we see in the Middle East today to begin an all out "end of the age" showdown between good and evil.
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
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There has never been of people in modern times besides the Palestinians whose paradigm is terrorism and whose ultimate goal as a people in the world is towards the annihilation of another people based upon their religion and spirituality. What makes this fact all the more significant is that the Palestinians are given the world's support (7.4 billion dollars worth of support recently > http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1207/west.php3) in their terrorist endeavors and annihilation aspirations, and this was after the Palestinians as a people overwhelmingly voted in the party of Hamas to run their government in January 2006!
World actions of this nature adds a greater significance to the end-time war between good and evil (Ezekiel 38:16-23). Besides the 7.4 billion pledged the to Palestinians, billions of dollars more are added in the form of state of the art weaponry being sold to the enemies of Israel >http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/07/28/saudi.arms/.
Along with the billions of dollars that the UN is pledging to the Palestinians, the world's plan for tiny Israel becomes very clear! If the nations hadn't taken upon themselves to support Israel's greatest enemies there would not have been a need for Zechariah 12:9 to have been written: "And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek to destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem."
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
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To try and understand the depth of the very evil that lies within the Palestinian society, one must look at what they as a society are capable of. The following is a very small and incomplete list as to the kind of things that comes forth from out of the Palestinian people. While viewing this list ask yourself, "Why are the world nations (especially the United States lead by a conservative president) are so desperately seeking to grant these Palestinians (of all people) any kind of a political state?"
- Among the two great political parties that rule the Palestinians (Al-Fatah in the West Bank, and Hamas in the Gaza Strip) both covenants from both parties call for for an arms struggle and the destruction of the Jewish State of Israel. http://www.iris.org.il/plochart.htm http://www.palestinecenter.org/cpap/documents/charter.html
- The greatest forms of child abuse in all the world occur among the Palestinians. Children who are barely old enough to speak are taught to Jew-hate with words they don't even understand. http://www.youtube.com/watchv=ZL0C2QvqIlo This gives heed to the saying, "they drink the hatred with their mother's milk"! Just the picture alone (at the top of the article) speaks volumes of the Palestinian society.
- Children TV shows are shown in the name of Shahid (martyrdom). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi-c6lbFGC4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4zgURMOZ6k
- Shahid (martyrdom) for children is glorified of official PA and Hamas television. http://www.pmw.org.il/ASK%20FOR%20DEATH.htm
- An exhibition of glorifying and celebrating suicide / mass murder is displayed with Palestinian gleeful acceptance at Al Najah University in the West Bank town of Nablus in September, 2001. http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/sbarro.htm This exhibition included many displays of body parts one of which was a bloody set of blue-jean wearing legs with no torso connected, still sitting on a chair. The bombing of Sbarro pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in which the exhibition re-enacts hits a little close to home. My wife and I personally eat there three years before this massacre occurred.
- School text books promote anti-Israel and pro shahid-martyrdom. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/patext1.html http://www.edume.org/research/testimonies/2007-05-15.html http://www.pmw.org.il/getresults/political/index.html#i214759
- Women who sends their sons to Jew-murder are given high status in Palestinian society, even to run for a government office. http://www.amitiesquebec-israel.org/texts/mother.htm
- Suicide murderers are glorified all through Palestinian controlled areas, in the form of billboards, street names, names of soccer fields, trading cards, names of hospitals, new babies named after suicide bombers, and children's events, songs, chants, and poems during parades, ect. http://programs.ssrc.org/gsc/gsc_quarterly/newsletter5/content/allen/ http://www.zoa.org/2003/07/palestinian_aut_13.htm Even "Saddam Hussein" whose Scud missiles hitting Tel-Aviv civilian areas brought Palestinian cheers, is honored in the Palestinian city of Jenin> http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53882
- Suicide for the murder of Jews is an accepted norm and is a high form of religious devotion. Outside of martyrdom, there is no guarantee of reaching paradise for oneself and family members. This is one of the reasons candy is passed out in celebration at suicide / murderer's funeral. http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/013234.php
- One Hundred Thousand citizens of the would-be future State of Palestine attended the funeral of Yahya Ayyash (a.k.a. "the Engineer") not to mention the many funerals of other Palestinian terrorist and terrorist spiritual teachers like Sheikh Ahmed Yassin! I wonder how many of these one hundred thousand funeral attendees of Yahya Ayyash would consider themselves Palestinian moderates? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yahya_Ayyash Moreover, this Palestinian hero has traffic squares named after him in both Jenin and Jericho with no Palestinian complaints. Imagine that! This issue of glorifying and mass murderer among the Palestinians even became part of "peace" negotiation with such a people. See "article 6" section "h" > http://www.israelmfa.gov.il/MFA/Peace+Process/Guide+to+the+Peace+Process/Israeli+View+on+Palestinian+Security+Commitments.htm?DisplayMode=print
- Palestinians seek to destroy the God of Israel through a revised history of Holocaust and Temple denial, and stand as a barricade between God and His fulfillment of the covenant He has with His chosen people, the Jews. http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/facultyforum.cgi?ID=1735
Muslim religious fervor has many different facets of Jew-murdering expressions that are fully exposed in the Palestinian society. From passing out candy at shahid funerals to eating flesh and drinking blood of Jewish victims as they did on October 12, 2000 in Ramallah> http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014886.php Yet, the Muslim world has the audacity to vilify Israel as the blood-libel people and state. It is these Palestinians who are on the front lines (even occupying a huge portion of the ancient land of Israel) in the Islamic war against the God of Israel!
The 64,000 dollar question: Does the God of Israel "hate" the Palestinians?
The politically-correct answer would be, "God loves everybody". However, the Bible is never politically correct. The Bible states very clearly that God hated Esau, who like the Palestinians wished to destroy Jacob / Israel.
"I have loved you, saith YHVH. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith YHVH: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated (Hebrew: sanay-ti) Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness. Malachi 1:2,3
The New Testament correctly applies this scripture of God's hatred of an individual as also to the nation that proceeded from that individual (see Romans 9:12,13). The land that should be considered for a Palestinian state is all contained in the ancient writings of which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about -the Bible. Aside from Mecca, the Palestinian spiritual base is that of Esau's - Mt. Seir in Jordan, which is why the prophecies of Ezekiel against Israel's most vicious enemy is not against the West Bank, for that is Israel's land and not the Palestinians! http://www.danielpipes.org/article/298
Take another look at the list above as to what the Palestinians are capable of and then see if you notice any similarities in the following scripture: "Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end...Because thou hast said, These two nations and these two countries shall be mine, and we will possess it; [sound familiar? > http://inbrief.threatswatch.org/2006/02/palestine-from-the-river-to-th/ ] whereas YHVH was there: Therefore, as I live saith YHVH God, I will even do according to thine anger, and according to thine envy which thou hast used out of thy hatred against them; and I will make Myself known among them, when I have judged thee. - Ezekiel 35:5, 10-111
One of the hardest scriptures for most people to understand and one that I personally had an atheist use in trying to discredit the Bible, is Psalms 137:7-9 which reads:Remember, O YHVH , the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be, that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be, that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones.
The psalmist is not promoting that idea of killing innocent children for the sake of killing children. That would be what the enemies of the Bible and Israel would have you believe! This is the same mindset that the "Human Rights Watch" tried to sell the world (which the world willfully bought) when they accused Israel of killing 54 children in Qana, Lebanon during the 2006 Lebanon-Israeli War. Because of their spiritual state they didn't have the ability nor the will to considered the 4,000 rockets that was shot from civilian locations into Israel to start the war by which was indeed meant to kill as many Israeli citizens including children as possible!
When given over to dark forces the human mind can no longer judge between good and evil. This scripture in the book of Psalms is about God's judgment (of what He will allow to occur) in the form of reaping and sowing. Babylon had "dashed" Jewish babies against stones in their invasion against the Jewish people much like the Palestinians shoot rockets targeting Jewish school children. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6977346.stm The scripture of Psalms 137:7-9 is stating that what the Babylonians did against the Jews would divinely return back to them in the form of the coming Persian Empire. In fact, one could argue that Babylon is still reaping from their deeds of old in today's Iraq!
Likewise, the prophet Ezekiel has declared that Israel's enemies would reap what they have sown at the End of Days (Ezekiel. 35: 5-11). Keep in mind that Psalm 137 is one of the most Zionistic portions of scripture in the entire Bible. In it we find the great love for God's chosen people - the Jews, and for Zion - God's chosen place of worship. But also we find in it a bitter hatred for all those who hate and try to kill God's chosen and possess Zion for their own - kind of like what the Palestinians do.
So why do I hate the Palestinians? Simply put; because God does! Not that every single Palestinian is hated by God, for I know that God loves Palestinians such as Walid Shoebat - a Palestinian who has a deep devoted love for Israel and Israel's covenant with YHVH. But according to the Hebrew scriptures God hates all those who hate His covenant with Israel, which puts the Arab-Palestinians as a people first in line to be hated by God!
As God commanded Israel to hate Amalek that his name be blotted out from under heaven for his deeds in using cowardly acts against Israel in possessing her land of inheritance (Deuteronomy 25:17-19) the modern Amaleks of today should be hated for their cowardly terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians who claim their land of inheritance as well. May Arafat's name and the names of those who support his goal be blotted out from under heaven! Amen? Amen!
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
"The boastful shall not stand in Your sight; You hate all workers of iniquity." - Psalms 5:5
"YHVH tests the righteous, But the wicked and the one who loves violence [terrorist Palestinians] His soul hates." - Pslams 11:5
Do not I hate them, O YHVH, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies. Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. - Psalms 139: 21-24
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Notes:
1. Psalms chapters 107-150 (the fifth section of the Pslams in the Hebrew Bible) are mostly liturgical psalms for pilgrimages to the temple and festivals.
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"But the politicians of the Arab counties, of course… Alas. The politicians of the Arab countries were very clear on this subject.
“We consider Palestine as part of Arab Syria, as it has never been separated from it at any time. We are connected with it by national, religious, linguistic, natural, economic and geographical bonds.” (First Congress of Muslim-Christian Associations, February 1919)
The representative of the Arab Higher Committee to the United Nations submitted a statement to the General Assembly in May 1947 that said,
“Palestine was part of the Province of Syria,” and that, “politically, the Arabs of Palestine were not independent in the sense of forming a separate political entity.”
In 1937, a local Arab leader, Auni Bey Abdul-Hadi, told the Peel Commission, which ultimately suggested the partition of Palestine:
“There is no such country as Palestine! ‘Palestine’ is a term the Zionists invented! There is no Palestine in the Bible. Our country was for centuries part of Syria.”
“Palestine and Transjordan are one.”
King Abdullah, Arab League meeting in Cairo,12 April 1948
So the Arabs in the 1940s did not notice any “Palestinians”. Moreover, they did not “notice” any “Palestine” either!
OK. In the 40s, the Arab politicians did not find any “Palestinian people”. It’s no surprise; nobody could find them.
But maybe they “found” this mysterious “Palestinian people” later? They did not.
Syrian President Hafez Assad addressing the Palestinian leader, the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), President of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and “Father of the Palestinian People” Yasser Arafat, explained to him:"
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"“You do not represent Palestine as much as we do. Never forget this one point: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people, there is no Palestinian entity, there is only Syria. You are an integral part of the Syrian people, Palestine is an integral part of Syria. Therefore it is we, the Syrian authorities, who are the true representatives of the Palestinian people.”
Of course, the Palestinian leader, “Father of the Palestinian People” and so on, rejected these insinuations with indignation and… Actually, no, he did not.
Moreover, Arafat himself made a definitive and unequivocal statement along the same lines as late as 1993, when he declared that,
“The question of borders doesn’t interest us… From the Arab standpoint, we mustn’t talk about borders. Palestine is nothing but a drop in an enormous ocean. Our nation is the Arabic nation that stretches from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea and beyond it…The P.L.O. is fighting Israel in the name of Pan-Arabism. What you call “Jordan” is nothing more than Palestine.”
Not long ago, Azmi Bishara (the ex-Knesset member exiled from Israel for passing sensitive information to Hezbollah during the Second Lebanon War) who is anything except Israel’s friend said the same: there is no Palestinian people.
“The truth is that Jordan is Palestine and Palestine is Jordan.”
– King Hussein of Jordan, in 1981
“Palestine is Jordan and Jordan is Palestine; there is only one land, with one history and one and the same fate,”
Prince Hassan of the Jordanian National Assembly was quoted as saying on February 2, 1970.
Abdul Hamid Sharif, Prime Minister of Jordan declared in 1980,
“The Palestinians and Jordanians do not belong to different nationalities. They hold the same Jordanian passports, are Arabs and have the same Jordanian culture.”
But the Arabs, who lived in Palestine since, as they assure us, the Time Immemorial, of course did not let Syrian and Jordanian dictators deprive them of their proud Palestinian past? You will be surprised, but they let them. And they had very serious reasons for this.
Do you know that until 1950, the name of the Jerusalem Post was THE PALESTINE POST?
That the journal of the Zionist Organization of America was NEW PALESTINE?
That the Bank Leumi’s original name was the ANGLO-PALESTINE BANK?"
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"That the Israel Electric Company’s original name was the PALESTINE ELECTRIC COMPANY?
That there was the PALESTINE FOUNDATION FUND and the PALESTINE PHILHARMONIC?
And all these were JEWISH ORGANIZATIONS, organized and run by JEWS.
In America, the Anthem of the Zionist youngsters sang “PALESTINE, MY PALESTINE”, “PALESTINE SCOUT SONG” and “PALESTINE SPRING SONG”.
Until the mid/late 60s, to call an Arab a “Palestinian” would mean to insult him because until the mid/late 60s, the word “Palestinian” was commonly and unanimously associated in all the world with Jews, and the entire world knew: Palestine is just another name for Israel and Judah, like for example Kemet was just another ancient name for Egypt. Arabs who lived in Palestine identified themselves as Arabs and were insulted when someone called them “Palestinians”: we are not Jews, we are Arabs, and they used to respond.
Let’s Set Things Straight
There is a country in the Far East. The people who live there, (and they have lived in this country for many centuries), poetically called it “The Land Of The Rising Sun”. Then the Western travelers and geographers came to this country and gave it another name. Why? Maybe they were not poets, or maybe they came there on the sunset, or maybe they could not pronounce the original name in the original language… Did the people who lived there change because Western travelers and then politicians and journalists started to call their country by another name? No. They were those same people and they went on calling their country “The Land Of The Rising Sun”.
And the West calls it Japan.
There is a country in the Middle East. The people who lived there for many centuries called it “Eretz Israel”- The Land of Israel. Then the people from the West came- and gave to it another name. Did the people who lived there change? No. They were those same people and they went on calling their country “The Land of Israel”.
And the West calls it Palestine."
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"70 Years: Israel's Prophetic Past, Present, and Future"
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2018
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From the website stream.org an article is titled
"Do You Still Believe Donald Trump is an Antisemite?"
Or is he "The First Zionist President of the United States"?
President Donald J. Trump delivers remarks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, in the East Room of the White House to unveil details of the Trump administration’s Middle East Peace Plan.
Published on February 2, 2020 the article says
"In my most ardent anti-Trump days, I still did not believe he was an antisemite. Yet others have continued to label him as such to this day. After his “Deal of the Century” peace plan, will anyone still charge him with Jew hatred?
Last December, the Washington Post ran an op-ed piece by Jennifer Rubin titled, “Trump’s anti-Semitic attacks on American Jews keep coming.”
Rubin — a virulent anti-Trumper — wrote on December 9, 2019:
President Trump spoke Saturday night at the national summit of the ultraconservative Israeli American Council. You may recall in August Trump declared that Jews who support Democrats show “either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty.” The next day he said Jewish Democrats were “disloyal to Jewish people and … very disloyal to Israel.” He was excoriated at the time for perpetuating the anti-Semitic stereotype that Jews are guilty of dual loyalty. Trump’s comments on Saturday demonstrates, no surprise, that he has learned nothing from his prior incidents, or perhaps he simply does not care.”
She continued,
In his long, rambling discourse on the U.S. Embassy move to Jerusalem, Iran, the economy and more, he declared, “You have people — Jewish people — and they are great people and they don’t love Israel enough.” Trump is still using American Jews, as he uses all critics, as whipping boys for insufficient loyalty to him and his policies. To love Israel is to love what Trump does for or to Israel in his mind.
So, in Rubin’s mind — and in the minds of many other American Jews — while reaching out to Israel and claiming to stand with American Jews, Trump is repeating antisemitic tropes. That’s because he is, in fact, an antisemite.
A Vanity Fair article the same day written by Bess Levin carried an even more inflammatory headline: “TRUMP GOES FULL ANTI-SEMITE IN ROOM FULL OF JEWISH PEOPLE.”
Speaking as an Insider, Fighting Antisemitism
Looking at the transcript of his remarks that night, there’s no question his humor could be taken as insensitive, to say the least. And, to those who already held him in suspicion, his remarks could easily be taken as downright antisemitic. Did he not repeat some of the oldest, anti-Jewish tropes?
On the other hand, you could understand his comments as coming from someone who felt he was among family and friends, speaking as an insider. This is like someone of a certain ethnicity telling an ethnic joke about their own people. It’s fine for them but inappropriate for others."
Could it be that Trump, a New York businessman with a Jewish daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren, felt he could take these liberties?
Of course, I hear the critics saying, “There you go again, putting a positive spin on something negative. Why can’t you face the fact that the man is an antisemite?”
It’s because of headlines like this, which ran just two days after Rubin and Levin articles: “Rights groups slam Trump’s anti-Semitism executive order. Critics say executive order violates free speech rights on college campuses and unfairly targets the BDS movement.”
Yes, this is how anti-Israel news outlets like Al-Jazeera viewed Trump’s executive order. A line in the sand was being drawn."
the article continues
"In the president’s own words: “The vile, hate-filled poison of anti-Semitism must be condemned and confronted everywhere and anywhere it appears.”
I’m sorry, but those are not the words of antisemite.
And, despite liberal Jewish protests to the executive order, since it equated Jewishness with a nationality, as if American Jews were not American, there is no question that the president’s executive order was a strong, pro-Jewish, pro-Israel statement.
The Deal of the Century
The executive order, however, was child’s play compared to the “Deal of the Century.”
Listen to Caroline Glick, who has been a vocal opponent of a two-state solution:
Tuesday, Trump said that Israel is a light to the nations, that the land of Israel is the promised land, and the historic homeland of the Jewish people. He said that Jerusalem cannot be liberated because it’s already been liberated. He said that no one will be removed from their home for peace. Among other things, he conditioned Palestinians statehood on full Palestinian recognition of the Jewish people’s rights to their historic homeland in the land of Israel.
She continued,
Trump is a true friend of the Jewish people. He didn’t offer us a perfect plan. But he offered us a plan that we can live with. That alone sets it apart from all the American plans that preceded it. It would be a sin for us not to support it. Netanyahu pledged to apply Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria on Sunday. Every Jew in Israel and worldwide should expect that he and his ministers fulfill this pledge. And every Jew in Israel and worldwide should feel thankful to Trump for his friendship and for his courage to embrace the truth.
Antisemites do not do this. And Trump’s peace plan is not just about Israel. It is about Jewish people worldwide.
That’s why Glick stated that Trump was the first Zionist President of the United States.
I concur." God Bless Donald Trump & Mike Pence for Supporting Israel !!! However, Christian, Jewish & Other Pro-Israel people should Always Trust in God First to Protect Israel and watch over her, God will Never Abandon Israel, always trust God more than any human being
Also on YouTube there is a Video titled
"How Did the Church Get Cut Off From its Jewish Roots"
by AskDrBrown on July 25, 2018
see also the Bible verse
Psalms 121:4, which tells about God's Protection of Israel, From the website
www.bible.com it says:
Psalms 121:4 New International Version (NIV)
indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 121:4 King James Version (KJV)
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 121:4 The Passion Translation (TPT)
He will never slumber nor sleep; he is the Guardian-God for his people, Israel.
Psalm 121:3-4 The Message (MSG)
He won’t let you stumble, your Guardian God won’t fall asleep. Not on your life! Israel’s Guardian will never doze or sleep.
Psalms 121:4 New American Standard Bible (NASB)
Behold, He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 121:4 New Living Translation (NLT)
Indeed, he who watches over Israel never slumbers or sleeps.
Psalms 121:4 New Century Version (NCV)
He who guards Israel never rests or sleeps.
Psalms 121:4 American Standard Version (ASV)
Behold, he that keepeth Israel Will neither slumber nor sleep.
Psalms 121:4 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Behold, He who keeps Israel Will neither slumber [briefly] nor sleep [soundly].
Psalms 121:4 English Standard Version (ESV)
Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"The Guardian of Israel Neither Slumbers Nor Sleeps"
Mar 16, 2015, 8:02 PM
“We are no longer scattered among the nations, powerless to defend ourselves. We restored our sovereignty in our ancient home.”
So said Prime Minister Netanyahu in his address to Congress earlier this month. I watched this speech not at home in the Twin Cities, but while sitting in the living room of our Israeli family.
Those words hit me with force and filled my eyes with tears. After two thousand years of exile, it is a miracle to be alive at this time, to see and experience this astonishing place, this restored and rebuilt ancient home.
That miracle never grows old, even after many trips to Israel. The joy of living on “Jewish time” does not diminish. The smallest things have the power to delight. Last year during Sukkot I took a picture of a Coke bottle, which had the words “Hag Sameach” (Happy Holiday) printed on the side in Hebrew. I use this picture every time I speak about Israel, to help the audience understand what it feels like to be part of the majority culture. “You see?” I tell them. “In Israel even the Coke bottle is celebrating my holidays!”
The family I visited are a young couple in their thirties with two little children. How precious it was to dress the children up for Purim and go out to celebrate, surrounded by countless other families and costumed kids.
It is easy to forget that not far from here–in nearly every direction– the world is on fire. Barbarism reigns.
The Prime Minister’s address to Congress also included this: “And the soldiers who defend our home have boundless courage. For the first time in 100 generations, we, the Jewish people, can defend ourselves.”
Words my shtetl great-grandparents could never have imagined. Or even my grandparents, until late in their lives.
As Netanyahu was concluding his address, the husband and father of this young family, an officer in the IDF, arrived home, still wearing his army uniform and heavy boots. He joyously hugged his children and kissed his wife. A soldier with boundless courage? Yes. But he wears it modestly, with the same low-key ease in which he inhabits his uniform. He says little about the enormous responsibility that rests on his shoulders. He does not complain about the many nights that he must remain on base due to a change in status that requires him to stay.
Last summer, his brother-in-law was called up as a reservist to serve in Gaza during the war. They sent me pictures of him standing beside his tank, covered in dust from head to toe. He was away from his wife and child for a month. He is understated and matter-of-fact about what his reserve duty demanded.
This is their life and their reality. They understand what it takes to defend a country.
In the U.S. we also have soldiers with boundless courage that defend us. But because military service in the US is not mandatory, it is possible, even likely, not to personally know a single American soldier. The whole experience can feel remote.
Not so in Israel. They are our children, our neighbors children, our nieces and nephews. We see them on the buses and trains, heading to and from their bases. No one knows what the day will bring. Everyone assumes they will return home at the end of the day or in time for Shabbat. Nearly all will. But some never do.
After spending a joyous week with this family, it was time for me to fly home. The soldiers– the husband and the brother-in-law insisted on driving me to the airport, an hour away."
the article continues
"We set out at five a.m. on Shabbat morning. It was dark and the roads were empty.
We listened to the radio, one song and then another. Then this:
“A song of ascent. I lift my eyes up to the mountains. From where will my help come? My help comes from God, maker of heaven and earth.”
The words were from Psalm 121 and they have been set to music by a number of popular Israeli artists. To our American ears it seems odd to hear biblical text transformed into mainstream popular music. The Byrds 1960’s hit “Turn, Turn, Turn” (based on a passage from Ecclesiastes) is the only American example that comes to mind. But in Israel, words from the Bible find endless expression in everyday life.
Down the quiet highway we went, as the song continued:
“He will not allow your foot to falter, your Guardian will not slumber. Behold, the Guardian of Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”
I glanced over at the handsome, young faces of these two men, also guardians of Israel.
Then I glanced east, in the direction of Jordan. Beyond Jordan lies Iraq. Beyond Iraq lies Iran. And in Iran lies the unthinkable.
“By day the sun will not smite you, nor will the moon at night. The Lord will guard you from evil, He will guard your soul. The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in from now and to eternity.”
A song that is also a prayer. The Guardian of Israel that exists outside of time, the guardians of Israel sitting alongside me. A promise of eternal protection.
On we drove as the first streaks of light illuminated a pale sky."
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Overwhelming Majority of American Jews are Pro-Israel, Poll Confirms"
Feb 4, 2020 the article says:
"The vast majority of American Jews are sympathetic to Israel, and most of them feel an emotional connection to the Jewish state, according to a new poll.
By TPS
Some 80% of American Jews consider themselves pro-Israel, 67% feel “attached” or “very attached” to Israel, and more than 70% of Jews in the US feel that their personal relationship with Israel is equal, or stronger, than it was five years ago, according to a new study on the issue by the Ruderman Family Foundation, countering claims about a growing gap between the sides.
“This relationship is more than politics and Jewish religious practices, and the conversation needs to reflect this simple reality,” said Foundation President Jay Ruderman
The Foundation further noted that the findings are particularly important in light of the tensions that have emerged in recent years between both sides, including those related to President Donald Trump.
Segmentation of the responses by affiliation shows a clear picture: Jews who identify with liberal streams feel that the relationship is weaker than their counterparts, but the picture is not one-dimensional: 15% of those who identified as Orthodox claimed that the relationship was weakened, and 31% of Conservative Jews claimed the relationship was stronger.
Few saw a lack of “mutual understanding or shared values” as one of the most important reasons, reinforcing the understanding that there is a deep common language at the individual level, which is not always expressed in the discourse between the two sides.
It is important to note that over half (55%) of American Jews have visited Israel or have family ties to someone living in Israel. A third 33% have family in Israel, and 44% have visited Israel or lived there, including 7% who have visited it during the past year.
The survey also examined the way in which American Jews perceive Jewish community organizations and institutions. There is clearly a link to community engagement and the attachment to Israel. For instance, among those who are “very engaged” in Jewish community organizations, 90% have an emotional attachment with Israel, and 67% say they are “very” attached. While among those who are “not at all engaged”, only 42% feel an attachment to Israel.
Over a third of American Jews (35%) say that wanting to help Israel is a very important reason to get involved in community organizations and institutions. But that is a relatively lower priority than the desire to “sustain and continue the Jewish community for future generations” which 56% see as very important reason to get involved.
This is the most comprehensive survey of the Jewish community in the United States in recent years, and one of the largest ever.
It was initiated by the Ruderman Family Foundation and conducted in December 2019. Twenty-five hundred Jews were sampled, portraying a representative sample of the adult Jewish population in the United States, through the Mellman Group, with a statistical deviation of 1.96%."
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"Palestinian Anti-Semitism: Fight Jews on Behalf of All Humanity"
Jan 26, 2020
Related:
anti-semitism
holocaust
Palestinian incitement
Palestinian terror
the article says
"The international community’s decision to ignore the PA’s anti-Semitism has enabled it to turn Palestinians into the most anti-Semitic people in the world.
By Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch
This week’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem on the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp by world leaders from 50 countries was a moving commemoration of the past but must now be translated into action for the future. If the victims are remembered and the survivors honored, but the world doesn’t implement the lessons that must be learned, we are inviting a recurrence of history’s worst horrors.
One fundamental lesson of the Holocaust is that the world must be vigilant to expose and eliminate all demonization that leads to justification of murder, whether directed against Jews or any other group. One of the great failures of the international community has been its tolerant attitude towards the Palestinian Authority’s (PA) systematic demonization of Jews, and anti-Semitism is now endemic among Palestinians.
According to an ADL Global 100 poll a few years ago the Palestinians are the most anti-Semitic people in the entire world. Ninety-three percent of Palestinians believed that at least 6 of the 11 negative stereotypes tested were “probably true,” higher than Iraq at 92% and Yemen at 88%. For example, 91% of Palestinians believe “Jews have too much power in the business world,” 72% believe “Jews think they are better than other people,” and 88% of Palestinians say “Jews have too much control over global affairs.”
The pervasive Palestinian anti-Semitism is the direct result of the PA’s teachings. Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Movement recently produced a propaganda video purportedly about Jewish history in Europe that it publicized on Fatah’s official Facebook page. It teaches that Jews see themselves as superior:
“We [Jews] are a nation that is above the [other] nations… only we are people, and all the others are our animals,” and others as inferior: “Non-Jews… according to their worldview are snakes.”
The Jews, Fatah explained, “led the project to enslave humanity,” and allied with Nazis to burn Jews “to accumulate wealth.” The Jews themselves established “ghettos in order to separate from other people out of arrogance and disgust for non-Jews.” It was in the ghettos, the documentary further lied, that the Jews schemed against the non-Jews, leading to European anti-Semitism: “[Jews] were hated because of their racism and their filthy behavior.”
Significantly, Palestinian demonization of Jews as having brought anti-Semitism upon themselves comes from the very top of the PA leadership. It was Mahmoud Abbas himself who explained to Palestinians why Europeans committed massacres of Jews “every 10 to 15 years” for centuries and eventually the Holocaust: “Why did this happen?… The hatred of the Jews is not due to their religion, but rather due to their social role… due to their social role that was connected to usury, and banks and so forth.” Thus Abbas confirmed the anti-Semites’ deception that Jews brought anti-Semitism upon themselves.
Abbas’ appointees in the PA religious and political frameworks likewise disseminate hatred of Jews. Mahmoud Al-Habbash who Abbas appointed to be the head of the Islamic Courts and who served as his personal advisor, taught that the conflict with Israel is not about territory but is against the Jews because they are Satan’s ally on earth, disseminating evil and falsehood. Israel is therefore “Satan’s project.”r
the article continues
"Palestinian Children Taught Hateful Ideology
Palestinian children are taught the same hate ideology. Children recite poems on official PA TV stating that “Our enemy, Zion, is Satan with a tail,” and that Jews were “condemned to humiliation and hardship” and are “the most evil among creations, barbaric monkeys, wretched pigs.”
PA anti-Semitism reaches its pinnacle by presenting Jews’ existence as a fundamental threat to all humanity. PA religious figures have worded it in various ways on official PA TV: “These are the Jews… always fighting, always corrupting, always scheming, and always plotting against humanity”; “There is no global corruption that they are not behind”; “Systematically working to incite wars and strife in the entire world”; “Humanity will never live in peace or fortune or tranquility as long as they are corrupting the land… If a fish in the sea fights with another fish, I am sure the Jews are behind it.”
Since Jews are the PA’s designated source of all evil – everything bad that happens in the world can be traced back to the Jews. PA TV’s ‘expert on Israel affairs’ told Palestinian viewers: “ISIS took all of its religious ideas from Judaism.” An article in the official PA daily explained that the murderous civil wars of the Arab Spring as well as the Palestinian Hamas-Fatah civil war were all Israel’s planning.
At times the PA has explicitly stated its horrific conclusion: The Jewish threat to humanity will only be stopped by exterminating all Jews.
One preacher on official PA TV explained it: “These malignant [Jewish] genes and cursed characteristics continue in them. They transfer them from generation to generation. They inherit it from father to son… Humanity will never be able to live together with them… Our prophet [Muhammad] informed us [that] at the end of time the Muslims will fight the Jews… Jews hide behind a stone or a tree, and the stone or a tree will say: ‘Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him’ … Allah… count them and kill them one by one, and do not leave even one.”
These are not quotes from 19th-century Czarist Russia or 20th century Nazi Germany. These are the beliefs being taught to Palestinians by Mahmoud Abbas’ appointed officials and disseminated by official PA and Fatah media.
Since killing any and all Jews is presented as “self-defense,” every act of Palestinian murder is packaged as a heroic act with Allah’s stamp of approval. After a Palestinian terrorist murdered two Israeli co-workers, Abbas’ Fatah sent the murderer a message on its official Facebook page: “Allah is protecting you and taking care of you.” [Official Fatah Facebook page, Nov. 28, 2018]"
& lastly says
"Given that the PA has been promoting this anti-Semitic ideology for years, it is not surprising that polls find that Palestinians are the most anti-Semitic people in the world.
World Holocaust Forum Must Result in Concrete Action
In light of the many declarations this week both commemorating the Holocaust and supporting the fight against anti-Semitism, it must not be forgotten that presenting the murder of Jews as self-defense with God’s stamp of approval was not invented by the PA, but was fundamental to Nazi ideology. Hitler worded it this way in Mein Kampf: ”[If] the Jew is victorious over the other peoples of the world, his crown will be the funeral wreath of humanity… By defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.”
The international community’s decision to ignore the PA’s anti-Semitism has enabled the PA to turn Palestinians into the most anti-Semitic people in the world. Last Thursday’s World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem must now be translated into concrete action by including on the world’s agenda the fight against PA anti-Semitism. The world’s leaders must show a willingness to use all their political and financial weight to eradicate Palestinian anti-Semitism, otherwise they will be condemning another generation of Israelis and Palestinians to hate and terror stemming from the debilitating anti-Semitism." see the website
PalWatch.org for more Details, the so-called "Authority" of the "Palestinians" is full of BS & Raw Hate & Lies , Israeli Jews are NEVER taught to hate Palestinians or Arabs or any other groups of people , Israeli Jewish Children are NEVER Taught to Hate others
From the Canadian Jewish News website www.cjnews.com an article is titled
"Listen: A Syrian Refugee on His Love for Israel"
By The CJN Podcast Network - February 4, 2020 the article says
"Kol Avrum is a monthly interview podcast from The CJN Podcast Network. Host Avrum Rosensweig invites listeners to join him for in-depth conversations that cut to the core of what it means to live a Jewish life, both in Canada and beyond.
On the debut episode of Kol Avrum, Avrum’s guest is the resilient and fascinating Aboud Dandachi, a refugee from Syria who spent his early years buying the government line that Israelis are evil. After years travelling around the Middle East—eventually arriving in Canada—Aboud slowly realized that the true danger wasn’t Israel, but perhaps his own people.
Subscribe to Kol Avrum using the links below, or listen to it right here:"
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Why the world cares about 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre" by Fred Maroun
Dec 16, 2019, 11:49 PM
Picture taken in October 2009 of the Sabra & Shatila Massacre Memorial in Sabra, South Beirut (Bertramz/Wikimedia Commons). the article says
"During the Lebanese civil war, 13 massacres were perpetrated:
Bus massacre (Beirut) – April 13, 1975, 300 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange: 27 PLO armed members travelling in a bus in the Ain el Rummaneh area of Beirut planned to murder the Christian Phalangist leader Bashir Gemayel were killed by Christian Phalangists in initial attack, and many more people were killed in subsequent fighting.
Karantina massacre (Beirut) – January 18, 1976, 300–1,500 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange: Karantina was a predominantly Muslim slum, and it was overrun by the Lebanese Christian militias.
Damour massacre (Damour) – January 20, 1976, 684 deaths, perpetrated by the PLO: PLO units attacked a Christian town, purportedly as revenge of the earlier Karantina massacre.
Tel al-Zaatar massacre (Beirut) – August 12, 1976, 1,500–5,000 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange: Christian Phalangists and other right-wing Christian militias besieged Tel al-Zaatar, and after heavy fighting, they killed Palestinian civilian refugees and PLO fighters.
Aishiyeh massacre (Aishiyeh) – October 19-21, 1976, 60–80 deaths, perpetrated by Fatah and As-Sa’iqa.
Ehden massacre (Ehden) – June 13, 1978, 40 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange.
Safra massacre (Safra) – July 7, 1980, 83 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange.
Sabra and Shatila massacre (Beirut) – September 16, 1982, 460–3,500 deaths, perpetrated by the Phalange: Sabra and Shatila were Palestinian refugee camps with both Sunni and Christian Palestinian refugees, as well as some poor Lebanese and Kurds.
Mountain war massacres (South Mount Lebanon) – 1983, 500–1,500 deaths, perpetrated by the Druze forces: Druze forces massacred hundreds of Christian civilians ethnically cleansing South Mount Lebanon from Christian presence.
US embassy bombing (Beirut) – April 18, 1983, 63 deaths, perpetrated by Islamic Jihad Organization.
Beirut barracks bombing (Beirut) – October 23, 1983, 307 deaths, perpetrated by Islamic Jihad.
War of the Camps massacre (Beirut) – May 1985, 3,781 deaths, perpetrated by Amal militia and Syrian Army: Sabra, Shatila and Burj el-Barajneh Palestinian refugee camps were besieged and bombed by the Shi’ite Amal militia, with Syrian Army support.
October 13 massacre (Beirut) – October 13, 1990, 740–940 deaths, perpetrated by Syrian Armed Forces: Maronite Lebanese soldiers and civilians were killed by Syrian forces after surrender."
the article continues
"Out of these 13 massacres, however, the only one that is still extensively talked about well beyond Lebanon and the Middle East is the Sabra and Shatila massacre of September 16, 1982. Why is that? It is neither the first nor the last massacre. It is not the largest massacre. It is not the only one, nor even the largest one, perpetrated by the Christian Lebanese forces.
Most interestingly, the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre is not even the only or the largest massacre perpetrated against the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian camps during the Lebanese civil war. The largest Sabra and Shatila massacre was perpetrated in 1985 with the active involvement of the Syrian army, but hardly anyone who talks about the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre seems to know about the larger Sabra and Shatila massacre of 1985.
Yet, even though the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre would hardly stand out in the list of thirteen massacres that took place during the Lebanese civil war, more has been said and written about it, by far, than all the other massacres combined. Thomas Friedman, wrote in The New York Times, ten days after the massacre, that it was “certain to be regarded as one of the most important events in the modern history of the Middle East”, which was a ludicrous prediction considering everything else that has happened in the Middle East, and yet he was right. The BBC called it in 2002, “the worst atrocity of Lebanon’s 15-year civil war and perhaps during the entire Middle East conflict”, which is not even close to true.
Using the Google search engine to find news about the four largest of the thirteen massacres shows hugely disproportionate coverage of the Sabra and Shatila massacre compared to the other three."
& lastly says
"Number of results for each of the four largest massacres on eight of the leading English-speaking news sites.
The reason that the 1982 Sabra and Shatila massacre stands out so dramatically is because Israel was involved whereas Israel was nowhere near the other massacres.
At the time of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, Israel occupied West Beirut where the camps were located. As The BBC wrote, “Sabra and Shatila were surrounded by Israeli tanks and soldiers, with checkpoints to monitor the entry or exit of any person. But on the afternoon of 16 September about 150 LF [Lebanese Forces] fighters moved into the camps”. The Lebanese Forces fighters then perpetrated the massacre.
The outrage in Israel was swift and powerful. Israelis demonstrated in the streets and demanded answers. They were outraged that the massacre took place under the watch of the Israeli forces. The outrage resulted in the establishment of the Kahan Commission that investigated the massacre.
The Kahan Commission concluded in February 1983 that “the massacre at Sabra and Shatilla was carried out by a Phalangist unit, acting on its own but its entry was known to Israel. No Israeli was directly responsible for the events which occurred in the camps. But the Commission asserted that Israel had indirect responsibility for the massacre since the IDF held the area, Mr. Begin [Prime Minister] was found responsible for not exercising greater involvement and awareness in the matter of introducing the Phalangists into the camps. Mr. Sharon [Minister of Defense] was found responsible for ignoring the danger of bloodshed and revenge when he approved the entry of the Phalangists into the camps as well as not taking appropriate measures to prevent bloodshed”. The report resulted in the resignation of Ariel Sharon from his position as minister of defense.
According to The Jerusalem Post, some documents declassified in 2012 indicate that “Israeli officials were aware of what the Phalangists might do should they be given access to the refugee camps”. Both the Kahan Commission and later information confirm that Israeli protesters suspected right away, which is that the IDF and Israeli government had a responsibility in the massacre.
Israel has not shied away from assuming responsibility for the massacre. Not only did Sharon resign, but Israelis still remember that massacre. In 2008, Israeli film director Ari Folman who served in the IDF during the Lebanon War, released the documentary “Waltz with Bashir”, for which he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Foreign Language Film.
At the time of the Sabra and Shatila massacre, I lived in Lebanon. I still recall conversations about it, and I still recall feeling deeply ashamed that my own people, the Lebanese Christians, perpetrated the massacre. But today, 37 years after the massacre, I feel a different type of shame.
As a citizen of the world, I am ashamed that very little credit is given to Israel for the way that it reacted to the massacre. I am ashamed that the loss of Arab lives seems to matter to the world only if Israel can be blamed, even indirectly. Mostly, I am ashamed of what this event, like so many others in the history of the Israel-Arab conflict, says about the world’s bias against the only Jewish state. And many other people should be far more ashamed than I am." Israel was NOT responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacre of
September 16, 1982, Israel was NOT directly or indirectly responsible,
An Article from the WND Superstore says
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“Israel is not just another nation in the world,” he says. “It’s not just the only Jewish state. It’s not just a unique people group with a long history going back thousands of years of triumph and tragedy, peace and persecution, status and statelessness. This movie makes the point that the history of Israel and its rebirth as a nation 70 years ago is evidence it is part of a mysterious divine script written at the dawn of Creation that affects the destiny of every person who has ever lived on Planet Earth – not to mention the fate of the Earth itself.”
Farah’s film co-producer and presenter is Jonathan Bernis of the television show “Jewish Voice.”
On one hand, says Farah, the documentary tells the miraculous story of Israel’s 70th anniversary, restored back to its original land after a dispersion of nearly two millennia. But it’s more than just the narrative of the Jewish people, he says. “It’s the history of the greatest story ever told – one that actually explains why we’re all here, the fate of the world, even the secret of eternal life,” Farah says.
Directed and edited by George D. Escobar, vice president of WND Films and director of the Academy Award-nominated picture “Alone, Yet Not Alone,” the “70 YEARS” documentary explains why Israel is so often seemingly alone in the world, but yet never alone.
Forty-nine years before Israel was, as prophesied in the Bible, resurrected from the dead, the great American writer Mark Twain explained the paradox of its people in an article in 1899 called “Concerning the Jews.”
“The Jews constitute but one percent of the human race,” he wrote. “Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. … The Egyptian, the Babylonian, and the Persian rose, filled the planet with sound and splendor, then faded to dream-stuff and passed away; the Greek and the Roman followed, and made a vast noise, and they are gone; other people have sprung up and held their torch high for a time, but it burned out … The Jew saw them all, beat them all, and is now what he always was, exhibiting no decadence, no infirmities of age, no weakening of his parts, no slowing of his energies … All things are mortal, but the Jew; all other forces pass, but he remains. What is the secret of his immortality?”
Immortality?"
the article continues
"Twain, not noted for his faith in God, wasn’t just addressing the amazing survival of the Jewish people half a century before they miraculously re-formed their state in one day, again, as prophesied in the Bible. But even from his secular point of view, Twain observed that the Jewish people, the nation of Israel, were characterized by immortality, transcendence, timelessness, permanence.
And that’s the sweeping panoramic perspective this fast-paced documentary takes from beginning to end.
It presents the case that the secret of the Jew’s immortality is that Almighty God chose, blessed and set him apart for a special purpose – to be a light to the rest of the world, as the Bible says. It was through the Jewish people that the Jewish Messiah came into the world. And it is to Israel that He, Jesus, or Yeshua as He was known to His own people, will return to restore this world to the glory and perfection of the Garden of Eden:
No other nation was conceived like Israel – in a unique covenant between one man and the God of all Creation.
No other nation was born like Israel – in the spiritual labor pains of hundreds of years of captivity and slavery in a foreign land.
No other nation witnessed a miracle-filled 40-year odyssey through the desert, led by God, fed by God, hearing His thunderous voice, getting His instructions and receiving His commandments etched in stone tablets.
No other nation was directed by God to return to its land with borders surveyed and defined by the Creator.
No other nation was judged unworthy and punished with captivity in another foreign land for 70 years before being returned for a second chance.
No other nation received the Redeemer of the world but didn’t recognize Him – only to be scattered throughout the world, yet, at the same time spreading God’s revelations and making His revelation to the four corners of the earth.
And, certainly, no other nation remained scattered for more than 1,800 years, only to return to the land again, as prophesied, and be reborn in a day to await another chance to welcome its Messiah.
Today, just as the prophets wrote, Israel’s deserts are blooming, but few recognize that God’s hand is still at work while the regathered Jewish state remains the world’s center of controversy.
As Israel celebrates its 70th anniversary back in the land, this movie – unique among other films examining the subject – explores the Jewish state’s past, present and what the Bible tells us about its future glory.
“As far as I know, this is the only documentary movie made about this momentous anniversary,” said Farah.
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From the website www.livescience.com an article is titled
"1.32 Million Jews Were Killed in Just Three Months During the Holocaust"
By Laura Geggel - Associate Editor January 04, 2019 the article says
"Operation Reinhard, known as the single largest murder campaign during the Holocaust, was worse than historians imagined. In a mere three months, at least 1.32 million Jewish people died — close to one-quarter of all the Jewish victims who perished during World War II, a new study finds.
The finding is based on an old data set that tallied the number of Jews who were forced from their homes onto trains, which then took them to the death camps in Poland known as Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka. Once there, the majority of these victims were killed in gas chambers.
This data set allowed study researcher Lewi Stone, a professor of biomathematics at Tel Aviv University in Israel and a professor of mathematics at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, to estimate the rate at which the Nazis killed their victims during Operation Reinhard. [Photos: Escape Tunnel at Holocaust Death Site]
Stone's analysis shows how the Nazis worked toward their "goal of obliterating the entire Jewish people of occupied Poland in as short a time [as] possible, mostly within three months," Stone told Live Science in an email.
The mass killing happened quickly and in complete secrecy, which "ensured the Jewish people did not have a chance," Stone said. "And [it] made the formation of organized resistance extremely difficult."
The scale of the killing happened so quickly and was so extreme that it exceeds that of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, which is often considered the most intense genocide of the 20th century, Stone said.
Furnaces holding the remains of burned bodies at the Buchenwald concentration camp near Jena, Germany. (Image credit: U.S. Army Signal Corps/Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum)
What was Operation Reinhard?
In just 21 months, from March 1942 to November 1943, Operation Reinhard claimed the lives of 1.7 million people. But the bulk of the killing happened during September, October and November of 1942, Stone found.
The reason for the murderous surge can be traced to Adolf Hitler, as well as Heinrich Himmler, a high-ranking Nazi, who announced in July 1942 that almost every Jew in the General Government (German-occupied Poland) should be “liquidated” by the year's end. This order propelled Operation Reinhard forward."
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"Deutsche Reichsbahn, the German National Railway, kept to a strict schedule in delivering the victims. The Nazis, however, destroyed detailed records about these killings.
But Yitzhak Arad, an Israeli Holocaust historian, managed to compile data about the murders. Arad collected Reichsbahn data on 480 train deportations from 393 Polish towns and ghettos, recording "the location, number of victims of each transportation and final death-camp destination," Stone said. "The data set has been sitting around for years, but hardly anyone has ever studied it, possibly because the subject is so sensitive."
There's currently academic interest in modeling and quantifying wars, conflicts and genocides, Stone said. So, upon coming across Arad's data set, Stone said, "I rapidly became engrossed with the project."
Almost every victim who arrived at these three death camps was murdered, so the data set served as an extraordinary proxy for murder rate, Stone said. After crunching the numbers, Stone found that a minimum of 1.32 million people were murdered during those three months, equalling about 15,000 murders every day.
In all, between 5.4 million and 5.8 million Jews were murdered during the Holocaust, Stone wrote in the study. [25 Grisly Archaeological Discoveries]
Prisoners stand for roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp. Two prisoners in the front row hold a friend, because fainting often provided the camp with an excuse to "liquidate" so-called "useless" inmates. This photo is dated to between 1938 and 1941. (Image credit: Shutterstock)
Rwandan genocide
Stone decided to go a step further, comparing the rate of the deaths over those three months to that of the Rwandan genocide. During that massacre, the Hutu people killed up to 800,000 Tutsi victims in a mere 100 days.
But despite the hyperintense killing that happened in Rwanda, that event pales in comparison to the murder rate from the three months Stone examined.
To compare each catastrophe over the same amount of time, Stone looked at 100 days from the Holocaust, from July 27 to Nov. 4, 1942. When he tallied the number of deaths from Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka (totalling about 1 million); the number of people gunned down by death squads (about 301,000); and the number of victims at Auschwitz (about 91,000), he found that 1.47 million victims were murdered, or about 445,700 murders a month.
In comparison, Rwanda's murder rate was about 243,300 per month, he said.
"The beginning claim that the Rwanda kill rate was larger than the Holocaust is both wrong and was never empirically demonstrated," Stone said. "In my opinion, this tells us more about the need to quantify conflicts and wars with more effort, rather than the need to compare genocides."
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"Historians aren't usually experts in statistics, so the new study is "very useful and informative," said Christopher Browning, an emeritus professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, who was not involved with the research.
However, despite Stone's claim that this issue was understudied, Browning argued that other researchers have also addressed the uneven, methodical way the Nazis killed their victims.
For instance, in his own book "Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland" (HarperCollins, 1992), Browning wrote, "In mid-March 1942, some 75 to 80 percent of all victims of the Holocaust were still alive, while 20 to 25 percent had perished. A mere 11 months later, in mid-February 1943, the percentages were exactly the reverse."
In addition, the Rwandan genocide and the Holocaust were very different events, making comparisons difficult, Browning noted. That's because there are two kinds of murder rates: average and peak.
If comparing the average murder rate of the main four years of the Holocaust to that of the 100-day Rwanda genocide, then, yes, there was a more intense, average murder-rate in Rwanda, Browning said.But the peak rate of deaths in the three months that Stone studied was, indeed, higher than the peak rate from the Rwandan genocide, Browning said.
The study was published online Wednesday (Jan. 2) in the journal Science Advances.
Editor's Note: A date in this story was corrected. Operation Reinhard lasted 21 months, from March 1942 to November 1943. Because of a typo, it originally said November 1942."
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Analysis: Why Arab countries are saying ‘we miss the Jews’"
February 6, 2020
Yemenite Jewish women outside Rishon LeTzion in Israel, 1945. (GPO/Klugar Zoltan)
There is now a palpable longing in most Arab states for the Jews to return.
By Dr. Edy Cohen, BESA the article says
"A million Jews lived in Arab countries in the 20th century. Today, just a few thousand are left, mostly in Morocco and Tunisia.
The purging of the Jews caused a crisis in almost every Arab country from which they came. Despite their relatively limited numbers, the Jews’ impact on society, culture, economy, and trade was crucial to the development of those countries, and their loss was felt. After the Jews were evicted from Iraq and Egypt, for example, those countries experienced crisis after crisis.
There is now a palpable longing in most Arab states for the Jews to return. Many believe that only with a Jewish presence will their countries blossom and develop as they did in the past.
The Jewish contribution to Arab states was significant. In Egypt, the gold market flourished with a Jewish presence and continues to do so to this day, even though the Jews were thrown out and their stores ransacked. Jewish symbols like the Magen David remain engraved on Egyptian shops, in markets, and on buildings.
The older generation still remembers the prosperity of the time when Jews were in possession of their stores.
It is no coincidence that Cairo has decided to invest tens of millions of dollars in the restoration of synagogues throughout Egypt. The most recent is the renovation of the once magnificent Eliyahu Hanavi (Elijah the Prophet) Synagogue, in which $6 million is being invested.
It is not only the Egyptians who want to coax back the prosperity that accompanied the Jewish presence. A few months ago, new Sudanese Minister of Religion Nasser Aladin called on Sudanese Jews whose families were forced to emigrate in the wake of the establishment of the State of Israel to return.
In Lebanon, over a million dollars has been invested in the restoration of the Magen Avraham synagogue in the Wadi Abu Jamil neighborhood in West Beirut, near the Lebanese parliament.
Perhaps more than any others, it is the Iraqis who long for the return of their Jewish brethren, and Iraqi Jews who long for their former homeland. In recent years, a number of Facebook accounts have opened in Israel to renew the connection between Iraqi Jews and the Arabs beside whom their ancestors lived in harmony for over a thousand years prior to the advent of Islam."
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"The Iraqi Jews were wrenched from their former home, but their contribution to the country is felt to this day. Like Jewish minorities in other countries, the Jews of Iraq concentrated on trade, crafts, light industry, governmental and municipal services, and banking. The impact of Jews on commerce and banking was especially significant.
The eight banks operating in Baghdad in the 1940s were all founded by Jewish families, and most of the clerks of Jewish and foreign banks were Jews. The first Iraqi Minister of the Treasury, Yehezkel Sasson, was Jewish. He laid the foundations for Iraqi taxation, economics, and the state budget. In one of the protests against corruption in Iraq a few years ago, Sasson’s name was held up on signs declaring he was not corrupt like the current politicians.
Today, there is only one Jewish minister to be found in the entire Arab world. Roni Trabbolsi serves as Tunisian Minister of Tourism, the third Jewish minister to serve since Tunisia’s founding.
Arab countries of old flourished in large part because of the contribution of their Jews. But then, in some countries, there was an exchange of populations: the Jews were forced out and Palestinian Arab refugees arrived in their place. The wealthy and educated Jewish population was replaced by a weak and poor population, a cultural shock that particularly affected Syria, Iraq, and Libya.
With the rise of xenophobic Arab/Muslim rejection of the State of Israel, the Arab states that could not beat Israel on the battlefield punished their Jews instead. Now, years later, there is a growing realization of the counter-productivity of that injustice, and many are calling for the Jews to return.
Some Muslims are even calling for a tax levied on non-Muslims in Arab countries to be returned to the Jews.
Despite this growing sentiment, Arab leaders continue to choose for the most part to look the other way, not only refusing to protect the Jews but actively contributing to their persecution.
Perhaps not coincidentally, the Arab states suffer serial economic failures and never-ending wars and disputes. Some Muslims believe this is a punishment by Allah for their failure to protect the Jews, as they were instructed to do."
Dr. Edy Cohen is a researcher at the BESA Center and author of the book The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas (Hebrew).
The Point is that Jews, NOT Arabs helped Arab Nations Prosper in the past,
Can the Arab Nations today be Trusted ? Do they really like Jews, or do they only want Jews to return to their nations because they think it will help them out economically
From the website www.standwithus.com an article is titled
"Amid chaos, UC Berkeley student government delays vote against terrorist display"
Jewish News Syndicate
BY JACKSON RICHMAN
February 5, 2020 the article says
“Jewish students were repeatedly harassed, heckled and threatened with physical threats of violence … Jewish students should never feel threatened and should NEVER fear for their safety while on campus,” posted campus group Tikvah: Students for Israel, on Facebook.
Students with UC Berkeley’s "Bears for Israel" hold a counter-demonstration at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally in the fall of 20018. Source: Bears for Israel via Facebook.
(February 5, 2020 / JNS) The student government at the University of California, Berkeley, erupted into chaos on Monday, delaying a vote on a measure to censure a display by a pro-Palestinian student group.
The Associated Students of the University of California Senate’s (ASUC) University and External Affairs Committee met to debate student Milton Zerman’s resolution titled “Condemning Bears for Palestine for Their Display in Eshleman Hall Glorifying Violent Terrorists.”
In December, the student group Bears for Palestine put on a display in the student union featuring convicted Palestinian terrorists Rasmieh Odeh, Fatima Bernawi and Leila Khaled.
“Jewish students were repeatedly harassed, heckled and threatened with physical threats of violence … Jewish students should never feel threatened and should NEVER fear for their safety while on campus,” posted Tikvah: Students for Israel, a pro-Israel group on campus, on Facebook.
“Despite multiple threats of violence, the ASUC administrator and moderator refused to get involved. One BFP member stepped into a student’s face and said ‘I’m going to kick your ass,’ while another Jewish student was chased out of the room by BFP members,” continued the post. “We, as a community, decided that enough was enough and that we were not going to sit idly by as our members were threatened and harassed, so we walked out.”
“Yesterday wasn’t just a harassment of Palestinian students. Every marginalized group on this campus was threatened, and ASUC chose to adjourn the meeting before each of those threats was accounted for,” posted Bears for Palestine on Facebook. “Anxiety is running high among all the Palestinian students and allies on campus, but we know yesterday was a win for us.”
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"Pro-Israel groups rebuked Bears for Palestine.
“Bears for Palestine’s glorification of terrorists is morally repugnant. Even worse was the display of hatred and anti-Semitism directed at the Jewish students who introduced a resolution to condemn this targeted discrimination,” CAMERA’s Zac Schildcrout told JNS. “No one on campus would even think of openly supporting terrorists such as Dylan Roof or Brenton Tarrant, the perpetrator of the [2019] Christchurch massacre. Why should it be any different when the victims are Israeli Jews?”
Roof was convicted of murdering nine African-Americans in 2015 at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
“We’re proud of the Jewish and pro-Israel community at Berkeley for speaking out against hate and standing up for themselves,” Carly Gammill, director of the StandWithUs Center for Combating Antisemitism, told JNS. “The anti-Israel extremists, many of whom were community members, should be ashamed for defending the glorification of terrorist murder, attempted murder and hijacking. Incidents like this make clear that the university must do much more to fight anti-Semitism, ensure a safe environment on campus and protect free speech.”
JNS has not gotten a response from administrators at the university." As always it is the Pro "Palestine" supporters of the so-called "Palestinians" who are the troublemakers, instigators & aggressors on College & University Campuses , Everything is THEIR FAULT , It's Always Their Fault, this article is yet another proof of how supporters of
"Palestine" & so-called "Palestinians" are completely Satanic Demonic Diabolical, filled with Raw Hate & Pure Unspeakable Evil, with not the slightest shred of decency humanity morality or sanity within them, "Palestine" supporters are possessed by the Devil and insane with hate as always, they are filled with Unspeakable Evil, and they are as always in full Retard Mode, if they had any Intelligence they would be Pro-Israel, and not support so called "Palestinians" and their Lies , why can't the "Palestine" Supporters just Get a Life already, they need to Get a Life
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Israel Mourns Kirk Douglas: ‘A Proud Jew and Great Supporter of Israel’"
Kirk Douglas and his wife Anne in Jerusalem in 2000. Douglas. (AP Photo/Eyal Warshavsky)
Feb 9, 2020 the article says
"Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yisrael Katz joined stars and fans from around the world in mourning the passing of movie star Kirk Douglas at the age of 103.
By TPS
“I mourn with the family and America the passing of Hollywood legend and father of Michael, Kirk Douglas,” Israel’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Yisrael Katz tweeted Thursday.
Douglas was “a proud Jew and great supporter of Israel,” Katz added while lauding his memorable portrayal of US Colonel Mickey Marcus, a Jewish US Army officer who helped the struggle for Israel’s Independence, in the movie Cast a Giant Shadow.”
Born Issur Danielovitch Demsky in December 1916, Douglas became an international star who embraced his Judaism at an old age after a near-death air accident in 1991.
In his autobiography “The Ragman’s Son,” he recalled that “years back, I tried to forget that I was a Jew,” but later in his career, he began “coming to grips with what it means to be a Jew,” which became a theme in his life.
Douglas donated a number of playgrounds in Jerusalem, as well as the Kirk Douglas Theater at the Aish Center across from the Kotel, Western Wall."
From the website www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"'A proud Jew and great friend of Jewish state'
Legendary Jewish actor and Hollywood icon Kirk Douglas dead at 103"
Son Michael Douglas hails ‘a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years’; star of more than 80 films and major Hollywood philanthropist
By Hillel Italie
6 February 2020, 1:56 am 6
This Aug. 9, 1962 file photo shows actor Kirk Douglas in New York. Douglas died Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020 at age 103. (AP Photo/DAB, File) the article says:
"LOS ANGELES (AP) — US silver screen legend Kirk Douglas, the son of Jewish Russian immigrants who rose through the ranks to become one of Hollywood’s biggest-ever stars in “Spartacus,” “Lust for Life” and dozens of other films, died Wednesday, his family said. He was 103.
“It is with tremendous sadness that my brothers and I announce that Kirk Douglas left us today at the age of 103,” his son Michael said in a statement on his Instagram account.
“To the world, he was a legend, an actor from the golden age of movies who lived well into his golden years, a humanitarian whose commitment to justice and the causes he believed in set a standard for all of us to aspire to.”
“Israel mourns the loss of Kirk Douglas, a legendary actor, a proud Jew and a great friend of the Jewish state,” said a statement from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
His granite-like strength and underlying vulnerability made the son of illiterate Russian Jewish immigrants one of the top stars of the 20th century. He appeared in more than 80 films, in roles ranging from Doc Holliday in “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” to Vincent van Gogh in “Lust for Life.”
He worked with some of Hollywood’s greatest directors, from Vincente Minnelli and Billy Wilder to Stanley Kubrick and Elia Kazan. His career began at the peak of the studios’ power, more than 70 years ago, and ended in a more diverse, decentralized era that he helped bring about.
Always competitive, including with his own family, Douglas never received an Academy Award for an individual film, despite being nominated three times — for “Champion,” “The Bad and the Beautiful” and “Lust for Life.”
But in 1996, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences awarded him an honorary Oscar. His other awards included a Presidential Medal of Freedom and a lifetime achievement award from the American Film Institute.
He was a category unto himself, a force for change and symbol of endurance.
In his latter years, he was a final link to a so-called “Golden Age,” a man nearly as old as the industry itself."
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"In his youth, he represented a new kind of performer, more independent and adventurous than Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy and other giants of the studio era of the 1930s and 1940s, and more willing to speak his mind.
Kirk Douglas in the 1960 movie ‘Spartacus.’ (photo credit: public domain)
Reaching stardom after World War II, he was as likely to play cads (the movie producer in “Bad and the Beautiful,” the journalist in “Ace in the Hole”) as he was suited to play heroes, as alert to the business as he was at home before the camera. He started his own production company in 1955, when many actors still depended on the studios, and directed some of his later films.
A born fighter, Douglas was especially proud of his role in the the downfall of Hollywood’s blacklist, which halted and ruined the careers of writers suspected of pro-Communist activity or sympathies. By the end of the ‘50s, the use of banned writers was widely known within the industry, but not to the general public.
Douglas, who years earlier had reluctantly signed a loyalty oath to get the starring role in “Lust for Life,” provided a crucial blow when he openly credited the former Communist and Oscar winner Dalton Trumbo for script work on “Spartacus,” the epic about a slave rebellion during ancient Rome that was released in 1960. (A few months earlier, Otto Preminger had announced Trumbo’s name would appear on the credits for “Exodus,” but “Spartacus” came out first.)"
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"“Everybody advised me not to do it because you won’t be able to work in this town again and all of that. But I was young enough to say to hell with it,” Douglas said about “Spartacus” in a 2011 interview with The Associated Press. “I think if I was much older, I would have been too conservative: ‘Why should I stick my neck out?'”
Douglas rarely played lightly. He was compulsive about preparing for roles and a supreme sufferer on camera, whether stabbed with scissors in “Ace in the Hole” or crucified in “Spartacus.”
Critic David Thomson dubbed Douglas “the manic-depressive among Hollywood stars, one minute bearing down on plot, dialogue and actresses with the gleeful appetite of a man just freed from Siberia, at other times writing not just in agony but mutilation and a convincingly horrible death.”
Douglas’ personal favorite was the 1962 Western “Lonely are the Brave,” which included a line of dialogue from a Trumbo script he called the most personal he ever spoke on screen: “I’m a loner clear down deep to my very guts.”
The most famous words in a Douglas movie were spoken about him, but not by him.
In “Spartacus,” Roman officials tell a gathering of slaves their lives will be spared if they identify their leader, Spartacus. As Douglas rises to give himself up, a growing chorus of slaves jump up and shout, “I’m Spartacus!”
Douglas stands silently, a tear rolling down his face."
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"As Michael Douglas once observed, few acts were so hard to follow. Kirk Douglas was an acrobat, a juggler, a self-taught man who learned French in his 30s and German in his 40s.
Life was just so many walls to crash through, like the stroke in his 70s that threatened — but only threatened — to end his career. He continued to act and write for years and was past 100 when he and his wife published “Kirk and Anne: Letters of Love, Laughter, and a Lifetime in Hollywood.”
He was born Issur Danielovitch to an impoverished Jewish family in Amsterdam, N.Y.. His name evolved over time. He called himself Isidore Demsky until he graduated from St. Lawrence University.
Kirk Douglas in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece, Paths of Glory. The film, made in 1957, was banned in France until 1975. Due to its criticism of the conduct of French generals during the First World War, the French government even tried to prevent United Artists from distributing the film. (Screen capture)
He took the name Kirk Douglas as he worked his way through the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, choosing “Douglas” because he wanted his last name still to begin with “D” and “Kirk” because he liked the hard, jagged sound of the “K.”
Douglas was a performer as early as kindergarten, when he recited a poem about the red robin of spring. He was a star in high school and in college he wrestled and built the physique that was showcased in many of his movies. He was determined, hitchhiking to St. Lawrence as a teen and convincing the dean to approve a student loan. And he was tough. One of his strongest childhood memories was of flinging a spoonful of hot tea into the face of his intimidating father.
“I have never done anything as brave in any movie,” he later wrote.
Beginning in 1941, Douglas won a series of small roles on Broadway, served briefly in the Navy and received a key Hollywood break when an old friend from New York, Lauren Bacall, recommended he play opposite Barbara Stanwyck in “The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.”
He gained further attention with the classic 1947 film noir “Out of the Past” and the Oscar-winning “A Letter to Three Wives.”
His real breakthrough came as an unscrupulous boxer in 1949’s “Champion,” a low-budget production he was advised to turn down.
“Before ‘Champion’ in 1949, I’d played an intellectual school teacher, a weak school teacher and an alcoholic,” Douglas once said in an interview with the AP. “After ‘Champion,’ I was a tough guy. I did things like playing van Gogh, but the image lingers.”
In this February 26, 2012 file photo, Michael Douglas, left, and Kirk Douglas arrive at the Vanity Fair Oscar party in West Hollywood, California. (AP Photo/Evan Agostini, File)
He had long desired creative control and “Champion” was followed by a run of hits that gave him the clout to form Bryna Productions in 1955, and a second company later.
Many of his movies, such as Kubrick’s “Paths of Glory,” “The Vikings,” “Spartacus,” “Lonely Are the Brave” and “Seven Days in May,” were produced by his companies.
His movie career faded during the 1960s and Douglas turned to other media.
In the 1970s and 1980s, he did several notable television films, including “Victory at Entebbe” and “Amos,” which dealt with abuse of the elderly.
In his 70s, he became an author, his books including the memoir “The Ragman’s Son,” the novels “Dance With the Devil” and “The Gift” and a brief work on the making of “Spartacus.”
“We are living in a town of make-believe,” he told The Associated Press in 2014. “I have done about 90 movies. That means that every time I was pretending to be someone else. There comes a time in your life when you say, well, `who am I?'” he said. “I have found writing books a good substitute to making pictures. When you write a book, you get to determine what part you are playing.”
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"Douglas also became one of Hollywood’s leading philanthropists. The Douglas Foundation, which he and Anne Douglas co-founded, has donated millions to a wide range of institutions, from the Children’s Hospital Los Angeles to the Motion Picture & Television Fund.
In 2015, the foundation endowed the Kirk Douglas Fellowship — a full-tuition, 2-year scholarship — at the American Film Institute.
As a young man, Douglas very much lived like a movie star, especially in the pre-#MeToo era. He was romantically linked with many of his female co-stars and dated Gene Tierney, Patricia Neal and Marlene Dietrich among others.
He would recall playing Ann Sothern’s husband in “A Letter to Three Wives” and how he and the actress “rehearsed the relationship offstage.”
US actor Kirk Douglas prays at Jerusalem’s Western Wall, July 17, 2000. (Menahem KAHANA/AFP)
He had been married to Diana Dill, but they divorced in 1951. Three years later, he married Anne Buydens, whom he met in Paris while he was filming “Act of Love” (and otherwise pursuing a young Italian actress) and she was doing publicity.
He would later owe his very life to Anne, with whom he remained for more than 60 years. In 1958, the film producer Michael Todd, then the husband of Elizabeth Taylor, offered the actor a ride on his private jet. Douglas’ wife insisted that he not go, worrying about a private plane, and he eventually gave in. The plane crashed, killing all on board.
Douglas had two children with each of his wives and all went into show business, against his advice.
Besides Michael, they are Joel and Peter, both producers, and Eric, an actor with several film credits who died of a drug overdose in 2004.
Later generations came to regard Kirk as Michael’s father. Michael Douglas not only thrived in Hollywood, but beat his dad to the Oscars with a project his father had first desired.
Actor Kirk Douglas, center, gets a kiss from his son Michael Douglas, left, and Michael’s wife Catherine Zeta-Jones during his 100th birthday party at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Friday, Dec. 9. 2016, in Beverly Hills, Calif. (Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP)
Kirk Douglas tried for years to make a film out of Ken Kesey’s cult novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
In the 1970s, he gave up and let Michael have a try. The younger Douglas produced a classic that starred Jack Nicholson (in the role Kirk Douglas wanted to play) and dominated the Oscars, winning for best picture, director, actor, actress and screenplay.
“My father has played up his disappointment with that pretty good,’’ Michael Douglas later told Vanity Fair. “I have to remind him, I shared part of my producing back-end (credit) with him, so he ended up making more money off that movie than he had in any other picture.”
“And I would gladly give back every cent, if I could have played that role,” the elder Douglas said.
Kirk Douglas’ film credits in the ’70s and ’80s included Brian De Palma’s “The Fury” and a comedy, “Tough Guys,” that co-starred Burt Lancaster, his longtime friend who previously appeared with Douglas in “Seven Days in May,” “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” and other movies.
A stroke in 1996 seemed to end his film career, but Douglas returned three years later with “Diamonds,” which he made after struggling to overcome speech problems.
“I thought I would never make another movie unless silent movies came back,” he joked.
In 2003, Douglas teamed with son Michael; Cameron Douglas, Michael’s 24-year-old son; and ex-wife Diana Douglas, Michael’s mother, for “It Runs in the Family,” a comic drama about three generations of a family, with a few digs worked in about the elder Douglas’ parenting.
In March 2009, he appeared in a one-man show, “Before I Forget,” recounting his life and famous friends. The four-night show in the Kirk Douglas Theatre in Culver City was sold out."
the article lastly says
"“I’ve often said I’m a failure, because I didn’t achieve what I set out to do,” Douglas told the AP in 2009. “My goal in life was to be a star on the New York stage. The first time I was asked by Hal Wallis to come to Hollywood, I turned him down. ‘Hollywood? That trash? I’m an actor on the Broadway stage!'”
The Embassy of Israel said on Twitter regarding the death of Hollywood Icon
Kirk Douglas
Embassy of Israel
@IsraelinUSA
Statement from
@IsraeliPM
:
"Israel mourns the loss of Kirk Douglas, a legendary actor, a proud Jew and a great friend of the Jewish state.
We send our condolences to Michael Douglas and the entire Douglas family. May they all be comforted among the mourners of Zion and Jerusalem"
Countless Pro-Israel people are disgusted at the outright hypocrisy of "Palestine" supporters on College & University Campuses, they cry and whine about "Free Speech" all the time, yet they don't believe in "Free Speech" for people they disagree with, why is that ? They don't believe in "Free Speech" for Pro-Israel people or others they disagree with , Pro "Palestine" people are such Immature Insecure Evil Worthless Pathetic Losers & Troublemakers who should just Get a Life already,
From the website www.timesofisrael.com an article is titled
"Al Jazeera host calls Israel most successful project in 120 years; drama ensues"
Faisal al-Qassem’s Arabic tweet garners critical responses, but huge majority responding to poll on his Twitter feed then seem to agree; IDF spokesmen and Netanyahu hail him
By TOI staff
9 February 2020, 10:23 pm
Faisal al-Qassem (Screen capture: YouTube) the article says
"A firebrand Arab television host called Israel the most successful project of the 20th and 21st centuries in an Arabic tweet on Saturday, stirring up intense debate about the Jewish state on social media.
“For most Arabs, if they want to curse you, they will describe you as a ‘Zionist,’ even though they know that the most successful project in the current and last century is the Zionist project,” tweeted Faisal al-Qassem, the host of Al Jazeera’s The Opposite Direction, a well-known debate show.
“All of the Arabs’ projects, especially that of Arab nationalism, failed. So… before you use the term ‘Zionist’ as a curse, you must first come somewhat closer to what Zionism has accomplished and then we will talk,” he also said.
Qassem has frequently criticized many Arab regimes on his show and Twitter account, which has 5.5 million followers, for their anti-democratic policies. He also courted controversy in 2018 when he hosted Arabic-language IDF spokesman Avichai Adraee on his program.
Many critical responses poured into Twitter on Saturday and Sunday after Qassem posted the tweet.
Meshaal al-Nami, a Kuwaiti researcher, tweeted that Qassem and Al Jazeera’s “mercenaries are serving Zionism by spreading chaos and failing and frustrating Arabs and Muslims.”
But when the television host asked Twitter users later on Sunday to vote in a poll as to whether they consider Israel or Arab regimes to be more “advanced, developed, democratic and successful,” an overwhelming majority chose the Jewish state.
Tel Aviv skyline, September 10, 2018 (Matanya Tausig/FLASH90)
Eighty-two percent of 6,168 respondents selected Israel, while the remaining 18.3% chose Arab regimes.
Twitter does not publicly provide data on the identity of poll respondents. However the tweet and the poll were notably in Arabic, as is Qassem’s feed in general.
While a number of Arab states, especially many of those in the Gulf, have expressed greater openness to Israel in recent years, several experts have argued that Arab public opinion has remained largely hostile to the Jewish state.
Israeli officials heaped praise on Qassem for his comment, which they highlighted on their Twitter accounts.
“Dr. Faisal al-Qassem is right. The Zionist movement achieved the Jewish people’s ambition to return to its homeland and build a national state anew on the land of its forefathers,” Ofir Gendelman, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Arabic-language spokesman tweeted on Saturday.
“I am a Zionist and proud. In 71 years, we have transformed from a poor state that lacks resources to a state that is at the top of the world’s rankings with regard to modernism, innovation, sciences, medicine and agriculture,” he added.
Adraee, the IDF spokesman, tweeted on Saturday: “Faisal al-Qassem is speaking the word of truth. ‘Zionist’ is not a curse word but rather one of admiration.”
Al Jazeera is one of a handful of Arabic-language television stations which has hosted Israeli officials.
Many Al Jazeera hosts, however, often express considerable criticism of Israel and its policies vis-a-vis Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip."
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to read is titled
"Saving Israel: The Unknown Story of Smuggling Weapons and Winning a Nation's Independence" Published in 2020
by Boaz Dvir
Overview
"As it prepared to ward off an invasion by five well-equipped neighboring armies in 1948, newborn Israel lacked the weapons to defend itself. Enter Al Schwimmer, an American World War II veteran who feared a repeat of the Holocaust. He created factitious airlines, bought decommissioned airplanes from the US War Asset Administration, fixed them in California and New Jersey, and sent his pilots—Jewish and non-Jewish WWII aviators—to pick up rifles, bullets, and fighter planes from the only country willing to break the international arms embargo: communist Czechoslovakia.
For the crime of arming Israel with basic war instruments and battle-ready planes, including Messerschmitt fighters and B-17 bombers, Schwimmer and key members of his team paid a heavy price. They lost their civil rights after being convicted of breaking the arms embargo and America's Neutrality Act. Years later, three presidents would pardon three of them.
The operation members risked their lives, freedom, and US citizenship to prevent what they viewed as an imminent genocide. They evaded the FBI and State Department, gained the support of the mafia, smuggled weapons—mostly Nazi surplus—across hostile territories, and went into combat in the Middle East.
This book recreates the operation members’ sui generis journey in vivid scenes, capturing their multilayered stories and larger-than-life personalities. It documents the spirit as well as the facts of a mostly unknown mission to save a nascent-yet-ancient nation."
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com another good book is titled
"Promise of Israel: Why Its Seemingly Greatest Weakness Is Actually Its Greatest Strength"
by Daniel Gordis
Overview
"Why Israel's greatest weakness is its greatest strength, and what its supporters and enemies can learn from its success
Israel's critics in the West insist that no country founded on a single religion or culture can stay democratic and prosperous—but they're wrong. In The Promise of Israel , Daniel Gordis points out that Israel has defied that conventional wisdom. It has provided its citizens infinitely greater liberty and prosperity than anyone expected, faring far better than any other young nation. Israel's "magic" is a unique blend of democracy and tradition, of unabashed particularism coupled to intellectual and cultural openness. Given Israel's success, it would make sense for many other countries, from Rwanda to Afghanistan and even Iran, to look at how they've done it. In fact, rather than seeking to destroy Israel, the Palestinians would serve their own best interests by trying to copy it.
Takes many of the most compelling arguments against Israel and turns them completely on their heads, undoing liberals with a more liberal argument and the religious with a more devout argument
Puts forth an idea that is as convincing as it is shocking—that Iran's clerics and the Taliban should want to be more like Israel
Written by Daniel Gordis, the author of the National Jewish Book Award winner, Saving Israel
Daniel Gordis has been called "one of Israel's most thoughtful observers" (Alan Dershowitz) and "a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving" (Cynthia Ozick)
Certain to generate controversy and debate, The Promise of Israel is one of the most interesting and original books about Israel in years"
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com a good book is titled
"Saving Israel: How the Jewish People Can Win a War That May Never End"
by Daniel Gordis
Overview
"Is Israel worth saving, and if so, how do we secure its future?
The Jewish State must end, say its enemies, from intellectuals like Tony Judt to hate-filled demagogues like Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Even average Israelis are wondering if they wouldn't be better off somewhere else and whether they ought to persevere. Daniel Gordis is confident his fellow Jews can renew their faith in the cause, and in Saving Israel, he outlines how.
2009 National Jewish Book Award winner
Addresses the most pressing issues faced by Israel-and American Jews-today, without recycling the same old arguments
Lays to rest some of the most pernicious myths about Israel, including: Jews could thrive without Israel; Israeli Arabs just want equality, and Palestinians just want their own state; peace will come, if Israel will just do the right things
"Morally powerful . . . from a writer whose reflections are consistently as intellectually impressive as they are moving. . . . Gordis addresses the exigencies of our time with the urgency they overridingly demand, and with the depth of feeling they inspire."-Cynthia Ozick
Gordis has written many popular personal essays and memoirs in the past, but Saving Israel is a full-throated call to arms. Never has the case for defending-no, celebrating-the existence of Israel been so clear, so passionate, or so worthy of wholehearted support."
Another book from the website www.barnesandnoble.com that seems interesting is
"A State at Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion"
by Tom Segev, Haim Watzman (Translator)
Overview
"The definitive and newsworthy biography of Israel’s founder and longest-serving prime minister
When Tom Segev’s biography of David Ben-Gurion was published in Israel in early 2018, it was a major event, making headlines and earning worldwide coverage in The New York Times and elsewhere. The culmination of a lifetime’s work, Segev’s book casts the history of Israel and its founder in a bracing new light. Using large amounts of previously unrevealed archival material, Segev demonstrates Ben-Gurion’s power, skills, and achievements, as well as his limitations, weaknesses, and failures. Segev’s probing account reveals for the first time Ben-Gurion’s secret negotiations with the British on the eve of Israel’s independence, his willingness to countenance the forced transfer of Arab neighbors, his relative indifference to the status of Jerusalem and Israel’s nuclear program, and his occasional “nutty moments”—from UFO sightings to a plan for Israel to acquire territory in South America. Segev also shows that Ben-Gurion first heard about the Holocaust from a Palestinian Arab acquaintance, and reveals Ben-Gurion’s tempestuous private life, including the testimony of four longtime lovers.
Many admired Ben-Gurion in his day, and many now miss his vision and inspiration, his boldness and integrity. Others have vilified him as an aggressive, divisive, dour, and often capricious politician. But only a few have really grasped the most intimate and guarded aspects of his complex character, the man behind the myth. As in his seven previous books on Israel and the Holocaust, which have been translated into fourteen languages, Segev again offers a vibrant page-turner with unexpected discoveries and original insights."
More Arab sore Loser "Palestinian" hate Exposed,
the website indiatoday.in has an article titled
"99 years later, Palestinians to sue Britain over 1917 Balfour Declaration that pledged Jewish state"
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki said the Balfour declaration was a "fateful promise from the ones who don't own to the ones who don't deserve."
AP
July 26, 2016 UPDATED:
The Palestinian National Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas (Photo: AP)
HIGHLIGHTS the article says:
"PLA president, Mahmoud Abbas says he will sue Britain over the Balfour Declaration.
Balfour Declaration laid the vision for Israel and sparked Jewish migration to Palestine.
Foreign Minister Riad Malki said,"it gave people who don't belong there something that wasn't theirs."
The Palestinian National Authority (PLA) president, Mahmoud Abbas says he will sue Great Britain over the 1917 Balfour Declaration and its support for a Jewish national home in the Holy Land.
Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki made the announcement on behalf of Mahmoud Abbas at Monday's opening of the Arab League summit in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott.
Malki said the suit would be filed in an international court.
THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
The Balfour Declaration laid the vision for the future state of Israel and sparked waves of Jewish migration to the British mandate in Palestine. Israel declared its independence in 1948 after the mandate expired and won a subsequent war against its Arab adversaries.
Malki said the declaration was a "fateful promise from the ones who don't own to the ones who don't deserve."
Signed by British Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur James Balfour in 1917, the declaration was seen as giving the Zionist movement official recognition and backing on the part of a major power, on the eve of the British conquest of the then-Ottoman territory of Palestine.
The decision, al-Malki said, "gave people who don't belong there something that wasn't theirs." Oh Boohoo the so-called "Palestinians" never stop crying over the fact that
Israel exists, if they don't like it, too bad, tough sh-t
About the insane plan the so-called "Palestinians" have to sue Britain about the 1917
Balfour Declaration , the website blogs.timesofisrael.com has an article titled
"Jews, not Palestinians, have every right to sue"
Jul 27, 2016, 11:56 PM
the article says:
"Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad Malki has threatened to sue Britain for issuing the 1917 Balfour Declaration because, he claims, it led to mass Jewish immigration to British Mandate Palestine “at the expense of our Palestinian people”.
The Palestinian threat is not as laughable as it sounds. It is not altogether unexpected either, being of a piece with the current Palestinian strategy – exploit any law, abuse any forum, to delegitimise Israel.
The Balfour Declaration, named after then UK Foreign Secretary Lord Arthur Balfour, pledged Britain’s support for the establishment “in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people”. It was not intended at the expense of the local Arabs, whose civil rights would not be prejudiced: later, the 1936 Peel Commission proposed to partition western Palestine into an Arab as well as a Jewish state.
“Nearly a century has passed since the issuance of the Balfour Declaration in 1917,” Malki was quoted as saying.”And based on this ill-omened promise hundreds of thousands of Jews were moved from Europe and elsewhere to Palestine at the expense of our Palestinian people whose parents and grandparents had lived for thousands of years on the soil of their homeland.”
Almost every world in Malki’s statement is economical with the truth. As soon as the Balfour declaration was made, Britain reneged on its promises to the Zionists. It hived off 70 percent of Palestine to Transjordan in 1921 and drastically curtailed Jewish emigration, sealing the fate of thousands more Jews trapped in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Jews who came to Israel were ‘moved’ from Europe and elsewhere, says Malki. The elsewhere accounts for more than half the Jews of Israel – those who came as destitute refugees or descend from refugees from Arab and Muslim lands. And it was not the British, but the Arabs who were responsible for that exodus.
No Arab states were enjoined to respect the civil rights of their Jewish citizens. These Jews were unceremoniously thrown out of the Arab world without apology and without compensation – and their pre-Islamic communities destroyed.
The Palestinians, it is widely believed, cannot be held responsible for what happened to the Jewish refugees. While Israel could legitimately discuss Palestinian refugees in peace talks, Jewish refugees would have to address their grievances to Arab states.
Arab League states, which instigated the 1948 war against Israel, were indeed responsible for creating both sets of refugees. However, an extremist Palestinian leadership, which collaborated with the Nazis and incited anti-Jewish hatred all over the Arab world in the decades preceding the creation of Israel, played an active part in all Arab-League decision-making and dragged five Arab states into conflict with the new Jewish state – a conflict they lost and whose consequences they must suffer. The Palestinian move to sue is of breathtaking chutzpa: it is as if Germans were to sue the Allies for starting World War"
the article continues
" The Palestinian move to sue is of breathtaking chutzpa: it is as if Germans were to sue the Allies for starting World War 2.
The idea of expelling the Jews of Arab countries after 1948 was adopted by the Palestinians as a policy. According to the well-connected Egyptian-Jewish journalist Victor Nahmias, the Palestinians were a major factor in the Jewish migration to Israel in 1950 – 51.
From the outset, the Palestinian cause was a pan-Arab nationalist cause. It has also a powerful Islamist dimension: From an early stage the campaign for Palestine took on an antisemitic hue. Palestine was a zero-sum game: in Arab eyes, the Jews had no claim to a single inch.
Every anniversary of the Balfour declaration, mobs in the Arab world took to the streets and the demonstrations at times degenerated into full-blown riots, as in Egypt and Libya in 1945, when 130 Jews were murdered.
Not only did the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini instigate deadly disturbances in Palestine in 1920 and 1929, wherever the Mufti went in the Arab world, he used the Balfour Declaration as a rallying cry to incite persecution and mayhem against the local Jews.
The Jerusalem Islamic congress of 1931, called by the Mufti, was followed by violence in Morocco throughout the 1930s. An entente between Tunisian nationalists and the Palestinian Arab Higher Committee sparked violence in Sfax in 1932. There was trouble in Yemen and Aden. All this well before the creation of the state of Israel."
But the worst incitement, with the deadliest consequences of all, took place in Iraq: In 1939, Palestinian teachers expelled by the British to Baghdad together with the Mufti, along with Syrian and Lebanese nationalists, played a key role fanning the flames of Jew-hatred with false propaganda. Seventy-five years ago this year, the Mufti fled to Berlin after being implicated in a failed pro-Nazi coup – but not before he had primed the Arabs of Baghdad to unleash the Farhud of 1941. The pogrom claimed the lives of at least 140 Jews, with many mutilated and raped, and 900 shops looted and wrecked.
This was the first battle in the Palestinian war against the defenceless Jews of the Arab world. Had the Nazis been victorious, the Mufti would have overseen the Jews’ extermination, not just in Palestine but throughout the Middle East and North Africa."
& continues
"It is these Jews who have been denied justice, the right to compensation for their dispossession of assets and land several times the size of Israel itself, or the human rights abuses they suffered at the hands of Arab governments and mobs. It is these Jews who have every right to sue."
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to read is titled
"Phantom Nation: Inventing the "Palestinians" as the Obstacle to Peace"
by Sha'i ben-Tekoa
Overview
"Meticulously researched.… These volumes are packed with more information than any single book on the history of Israel. Ben-Tekoa chronicles it all – from the early pre-state Zionists to the rebirth of the Jewish state, through the endless wars and terrorism to the present Holocaust denial and international anti-Semitism.…I highly recommend ben-Tekoa's work. Phantom Nation belongs in homes, libraries, and should be studied by all Israel support organizations."
– Ruth King, Board of Directors, Americans for a Safe Israel
Who are the "Palestinians"? Why is there no book in any library on the planet narrating their history? Why are there no references in United Nations records to the “Palestinians” for the first quarter-century of UN resolutions of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Phantom Nation is an exhaustive survey of historical records and news accounts that demonstrates conclusively that the Arabs currently inhabiting the land of Israel have no indigenous ties to the area, and that “Palestinian” nationalism is verbal camouflage for belligerent Islam and functions as this generation's politically correct, even fashionable mutation of the ageless fear, loathing and hatred of Jews." We all wish the "Palestinians" were Never invented, worst invention in the history of the World , the existence of a
"Palestinian" people is the biggest Hoax & Fraud in World History
The Amazon.com description of the "Phantom Nation" book says
"For either supporters of Israel or the putatively Paleolithic “Palestinians,” Phantom Nation is a must-read. Sha’i ben-Tekoa skewers the myth of a “Palestinian” nation with rights to land the League of Nations specifically recognized as Jewish. The author, hired for a research project by the Office of Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir discovered the first mention ever in a United Nations resolution of “Palestinians” in the year 1970, three years after Israel conquered Judea and Samaria, a.k.a. the “West Bank.” The author shows how this very no-name of a name, “West Bank,” had to be invented for hills the Arabs never had a name for; hence the sterile, topographical description lacking all historical associations which exposes the fraud that is the “Palestinian” counter-claim to land the League said was Jewish. Before 1959, when Gamal Nasser of Egypt conjured up the idea of a phantom “Palestinian entity,” the record of Holy Land history is perfectly empty of any mention of them. After Ben-Tekoa's government assignment ended, he went in search of the full story surrounding the birth of this allegedly archaic society, and the story he tells covers the entire sweep of Zionist and Israeli history, its wars and waves of Arab and Muslim massacres (terrorism) and the birth of this notional nation a Biblical generation of forty years after the League of Nations Mandate. He likens the rise of “Palestinian Nationalism” to Holocaust Denial as a twin perversion of history, our generation’s successor ideology to medieval Christianity and Nazism as forms of homicidal anti-Semitism. It is our time’s way of justifying the mass murder of Jews. Phantom Nation is also a crackling, riveting, great read."
From www.barnesandnoble.com another book that looks interesting is titled
"The Ghost Warriors: Inside Israel's Undercover War Against Suicide Terrorism"
by Samuel M. Katz
Overview
"The untold story of the Ya’mas, Israel's special forces undercover team that infiltrated Palestinian terrorist strongholds during the Second Intifada.
It was the deadliest terror campaign ever mounted against a nation in modern times: the al-Aqsa, or Second, Intifada. This is the untold story of how Israel fought back with an elite force of undercover operatives, drawn from the nation’s diverse backgrounds and ethnicities—and united in their ability to walk among the enemy as no one else dared.
Beginning in late 2000, as black smoke rose from burning tires and rioters threw rocks in the streets, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Arafat’s Palestinian Authority embarked on a strategy of sending their terrorists to slip undetected into Israel’s towns and cities to set the country ablaze, unleashing suicide attacks at bus stops, discos, pizzerias—wherever people gathered.
But Israel fielded some of the most capable and cunning special operations forces in the world. The Ya’mas, Israel National Police Border Guard undercover counterterrorists special operations units, became Israel’s eyes-on-target response. Launched on intelligence provided by the Shin Bet, indigenous Arabic-speaking Dovrim, or “Speakers,” operating in the West Bank, Jerusalem, and Gaza infiltrated the treacherous confines where the terrorists lived hidden in plain sight, and set the stage for the intrepid tactical specialists who often found themselves under fire and outnumbered in their effort to apprehend those responsible for the carnage inside Israel. This is their compelling true story: a tale of daring and deception that could happen only in the powder keg of the modern Middle East.
INCLUDES PHOTOGRAPHS AND MAPS"
From the New York Post website, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Mahmoud Abbas makes noise at UN again rather than try to negotiate peace "
By Danny Danon
February 9, 2020 | 6:53pm the article says
"Someone in the Palestinian Authority should get President Mahmoud Abbas a map — because he seems to be lost and confused. You’d think he’d respond to President Trump’s “Peace to Prosperity” plan by traveling to Jerusalem or Washington to negotiate directly with Israel. Instead, he’s coming to the Big Apple.
On Tuesday, he will speak before the UN Security Council and seek a vote condemning the American plan. This isn’t the first time Abbas has taken a very wrong turn.
After receiving an Israeli peace offer in 2008, he continued down the well-trodden path of Palestinian rejectionism and never delivered a response.
Four years later, Abbas evidently lost his way to the Obama White House, refusing to respond to Israeli gestures and explore ways to break an impasse in negotiations. Instead, he ended up petitioning the UN General Assembly to grant the PA “non-state-observer” status.
Two years ago, the Trump administration recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel — in recognition of historical fact, present-day political reality and US law. Abbas again ran to Turtle Bay to denounce the administration’s decision instead of negotiating.
As in the past, Abbas is combining his pleas for international sympathy with incitement back home. To generate attention for his dramatics at Turtle Bay, he is inciting violence and calling for the habitual Palestinian “Day of Rage.”
This time, he said he would thwart Trump’s plan “no matter who the victims might be.” As usual, it is Israelis and Palestinians who will pay the price of such incendiary rhetoric.
Perhaps the reason Abbas so often tucks tail and runs to New York is that Palestinians can find a semblance of support only at antiquated international organizations. Like a mother shielding a child fearful of facing reality, the Arab League, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, the United Nations and other such institutions still try to shield the Palestinians and their agenda. And they still speak with a fairly unified, anti-Israel voice.
But the diplomatic traditions and bureaucratic mechanisms of these organizations move at glacial paces compared to the rapid transformation of the world outside. Things have changed dramatically — in the Middle East and beyond.
The more accurate barometer of international patience for Abbas’ antics is to be found in national statements and bilateral relations. Here, it is clear that many countries have stopped buying into the lie that Abbas is interested in a peaceful resolution with Israel."
the article continues
"Crucially, that includes many Arab and Muslim countries, which are increasingly weary of Abbas. They are choosing to downgrade the Palestinian issue to refocus on other national priorities, such as guarding against the Iranian threat, thawing relations with Israel to access our defense and tech capabilities and so on.
Hence why Bahrain, Oman and the United Arab Emirates sent their ambassadors to the White House for President Trump’s unveiling of his long-awaited plan. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Morocco, meanwhile, urged both sides to entertain the plan.
While international organizations may stand with Abbas, their individual member states and other nations around the world are seeing through continued Palestinian intransigence and rejectionism. They prefer to entertain a more realistic path that could lead to a peaceful resolution, which Trump’s vision represents.
Yet Abbas and his PA remain uninterested in this path forward, choosing instead to seek refuge in the plush halls of the United Nations. Abbas’ performances may resonate with his sycophants at Turtle Bay, but they won’t help the Palestinians living in Jenin, Tulkarm or Qalqilyah. And while his news cycle will be brief, the lasting impact of direct negotiations can be just that: lasting.
Seventy-three years ago, Jewish leaders said “Yes” and never looked back. In the same time, Palestinian Arab leaders have repeatedly said “No” and never stopped looking back.
With his scheduled trip to New York, Abbas is committing the Palestinian people to living in the past. His repeated rejections throughout his decade and a half in office have held his people back from a prosperous future. As Trump, like his predecessors, explained last week, the path toward a brighter future begins with negotiations in Jerusalem.
Someone with the best interests of the Palestinian people in mind would do well to remind Abbas of this fact — and point him in the right direction."
Danny Danon is Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations.
From the website , www.jns.org an article is titled
"Poll finds 94 percent of Palestinians reject Trump’s Mideast peace plan"
the article says:
"The first Palestinian public-opinion survey conducted since the release of proposal finds plummeting support for the two-state solution and nearly two-thirds of Palestinians supporting violence against Israel.
(February 12, 2020 / JNS) A Palestinian public-opinion survey released on Tuesday found that U.S. President Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan is opposed by 94 percent of Palestinians, and that 64 percent favor terrorism as a response to the plan.
The poll, the first conducted since the release of the Trump plan last month, was carried out by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, according to the AP.
The study found that Palestinian support for the two-state solution has dropped to its lowest level since the surveys began 30 years ago, with only 39 percent in favor and 59 percent opposing.
“I don’t think we’ve ever seen such a level of consensus among the Palestinian public,” said Khalil Shikaki, the head of the polling center, according to the report.
Support for a one-state solution, he said, had increased from 28 percent in December to 37 percent today.
Support for violence has not been this high since the second intifada in 2000-05, said Shikaki.
“In all the questions in which violence is mentioned we see an increase, a significant increase,” he said, according to the report.
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas expressed rejection of the U.S. plan during a speech on Tuesday to the U.N. Security Council, dismissing its map of a future Palestinian state as “Swiss cheese.” The plan calls for Israeli sovereignty in large parts of Judea and Samaria, including existing settlements." Sadly it seems the so-called "Palestinians" do indeed want Peace, but they define it as the total destruction of the state of Israel and the extermination of all Jews living in Israel, it seems that's how most "Palestinians" define "Peace"
Another example of "Palestinian" Wickedness & Evil, Satanic Demonic Pure Evil
the website unitedwithisrael.org has an article titled
"WATCH: Palestinian ‘Slaughter the Jews’ Song Huge Hit on TikTok"
Feb 12, 2020
Related:
Palestinian incitement
Palestinian terror
TikTok
the article says
"A song praising “blows and slaughter” of the Jewish people is a runaway hit among Palestinians and their sympathizers on the popular social media app TikTok.
A new Palestinian hit calling for the genocide of the Jews is all the rage on TikTok, one of the most popular apps around.
The song includes the lyrics, “Advance, for you are the symbol of resolve. For your being in the world is dread for the Jews. With blows and slaughter on land and sea. The era of weakness will not return,” according to a translation by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW).
Over 11,200 versions of this despicable song can be found on TikTok. Will it take action or permit the hate to fester?" More Arab & "Palestinian" Evil as always,
Even if some Jews do hate Arabs, at least Jews have the decency to keep it to themselves, at least Jews & Israeli Jews have the decency to keep the hate to themselves, unlike Arabs & so-called "Palestinians" who broadcast in proudly in Public 24/7 , 365 days a year
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"After Iranian Leaders Incite ‘Jihad Against Zionists,’ US Lawmakers Demand Twitter Ban"
Feb 12, 2020
Though Twitter has blocked accounts associated with Hamas and Hezbollah, the social media giant is permitting Iran’s Supreme Leader to openly call for Israel’s destruction.
By United with Israel Staff, the article says
"Last week, Iranian leaders demanded jihad against Israel and the U.S. on Twitter, a clear violation of the platform’s terms. Following tweets in February by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif, four senators joined forces demanding in a letter to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey that the social media site ban these hate-mongering so-called leaders.
The letter, sent last Thursday, was initiated by Senator Ted Cruz and co-signed by Senators Tom Cotton, Marsha Blackburn and Marco Rubio. According to The Jerusalem Post, which received a copy of the letter, the senators said that “blocking Khamenei, Zarif and other regime official accounts would be complying with Executive Order 13876 issued by U.S. President Donald Trump in June 2019.”
“All Americans – including [Dorsey] and Twitter – are prohibited from ‘making any contribution or provision of… goods or services’ to [Khameini and Zarif],” said the letter, referring to Trump’s order.
“While the First Amendment protects the free speech rights of Americans – and Twitter should not be censoring the political speech of Americans – the Ayatollah enjoys zero protection from the United States Bill of Rights,” the letter continued. “And, as the leader of the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism – directly responsible for the murder of hundreds of US citizens – the Ayatollah and any American companies providing him assistance are entirely subject to US sanctions laws.”
This is not the first time Twitter has received complaints from American politicians. Last year, a bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers complained that it was violating American law by permitting U.S.-designated terrorist groups to post on its social media platform. Twitter acted in November by suspending all Hamas-affiliated accounts and many, but not all, of those associated with Hezbollah."
the article continues
"Tweeting Leads to Terror
Following Iranian regime tweets last week, which included Khameini’s call to “force out the Zionist enemy & the U.S. through jihad,” Palestinians launched a terror wave (including three attacks in 12 hours) that involved a car-ramming that injured a dozen Israeli soldiers, a shooting, an arson attack that destroyed an area in Gush Etzion and rocket attacks on Israeli citizens.
Khamenei.ir
@khamenei_ir
They will try to further their plot with bribes, weapons & enticements.
What's the remedy? It is bold #resistance by the Palestinian nation & groups in order to force out the Zionist enemy & the U.S. through #Jihad. All Muslim nations & the world of Islam must support them too.
Iran’s History of Hate
Iran has a history of calling to wipe Israel off the map. These include incidents such as senior Iranian lawmaker Mojtaba Zonnour saying, in an interview with Al-Alam TV, in July, “If America attacks us, Israel will survive for less than half an hour.”
After the U.S.-targeted airstrike that killed Iranian top general and terrorist leader Qassem Soleimani in January, Mohsen Rezaee, a former leader of the Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), said, “Rest assured we will level to the ground Haifa and Israeli centers so that Israel will be wiped out.”
IRGC also said after the attack, “Iran in no way sees the Zionist regime as separate from the criminal US regime.”
Iran’s Fatima Zahra Studio has created a vile video showing Iranian jets avenging Soleimani’s death by bombing Tel Aviv and other Israeli sites.
The Islamic Republic also recently committed to back Palestinian “resistance,” a coded reference to terror attacks on Israelis and their allies.
The day after U.S. President Donald Trump delivered his State of the Union address last week, Khamenei blasted the president’s “Deal of the Century” and called for Palestinian “jihad.” He said that he “considers it [Iran’s] duty to support Palestinian groups” against the deal and called for “bold resistance by the Palestinian nation and groups to force out the Zionist enemy and the US through jihad, [which] all Muslim nations and the world of Islam must support.”
From the website destination-yisrael.bibleresearchers.com
an article is titled
"10 Reasons To Love Palestine"
by Goffaq Yussef
Picture is shown of
Palestinian Mother Suicide Bomber and Her young Son the article/list says:
"Golly gee, I am SOOOO proud to be Palestinian Arab from the West Bank. Let me tell you the reasons why I have such warm, fuzzy feelings about my people and culture:
1.There is no such thing as Mothers Day. No worry about cards, gifts, and expensive meals. There is no honor in being a woman in our culture, so there is no reason to devote a day to her. We do, however, get to enjoy watching our fathers beat our mothers senseless for the slightest real or imagined infraction. Also, if Dad suspects that Mom spoke to a strange man in the street, he gets to kill her to preserve the family honor!
2.Weapons. Every child, from the time he can grasp an object, is trained to feel comfortable with a rifle or pistol in his hand. And every Palestinian has a weapon: a gun, a rocket launcher, a pound of C-4. What good are hands if they aren’t used to kill?
3.Hate. Boy, we love to hate. Hate is the very basis and foundation of our culture. From the time a child is old enough to understand language, we teach him to hate. Hate Jews, hate the West, hate his fellow man, and most of all, hate himself. We have no love songs, we do not preach love, the word love does not appear anywhere in our society. Hate is the fuel that runs our motors.
4.Death. The moment a Palestinian Arab child is born, his parents begin to plan his death. How will he die? Will he be struck by an Israeli bullet while being used as a human shield by Palestinian gunmen? Will he get shot while throwing rocks at Jewish soldiers? Will he be packed with explosives and sent to blow himself up, killing others? Or will he merely be one of the many Palestinians murdered by other Palestinians in the normal course of daily life in the death-culture of the Palestinian Arabs? Who knows? That’s part of the thrill."
the list continues
"5.Unemployment. Palestinians used to have jobs, working in Israel. But then, our leaders had a brilliant idea: suicide bombings! For their own protection, Israel had to close its borders, preventing Palestinians from going to their jobs, so they could sit around unemployed and blame the Jews for it. What great fun to be your own worst enemy.
6.Martyrdom. Who in their right mind wants to be a martyr? Among normal people, a martyr complex is considered immature and obnoxious, if not downright crazy. With us, it’s the central syndrome of our society! Hey, look at me, I’m gonna kill myself and become admired! And then, when we do kill ourselves, instead of being considered pathetic, we DO get admired! It’s a whole complete cycle of sickness! American kids collect baseball cards; Palestinian kids collect martyr cards (really! no joke!).
7.A feeling of entitlement. When Israel came into being, we declared war. We lost. We fought again. We lost. We fought again. We lost. Israel had the right to kill us all (we sure would kill all of them if we got the chance). Instead, they allow us to live on land they conquered. But we can’t leave that alone. We have to claim entitlement to live on land that we lost in 6 wars. Since when does the loser of a war get to claim the land he fought over? They don’t. But we do. Not only that, but we happily kill our kids over it! Hey, what’s more important — a chunk of dirt, or some worthless kid who isn’t going to amount to anything anyway?
8.Uselessness. The Jews have won more Nobel Prizes than all other ethnic groups combined. Their contributions to science, art, literature and the humanities is far out of proportion to their population. What have Palestinians produced? Nothing! Not a thing. We don’t do anything productive. We’re too busy rioting and killing and chanting and screaming and calling for everyone’s death. And we blame the Jews for it, as though the Jews stop us from being productive.
9.Friends. The Palestinian people sure know how to pick ‘em. Saadam Hussein. The Taliban. Adolf Hitler. You name a psychopath, and we embrace him. And look who our supporters are! The American Nazi Party. The KKK. Just check their websites and see how they stand in solidarity with us. When you support the Palestinian “cause,” you’re in real good company. Bring your white sheet!
10.Freedom. The biggest laugh in the world is when people call us “freedom fighters” or they say we’re fighting for our freedom. Take a look at all 22 Arab countries. Do you see any freedom there? Well, that’s what our country will be like if we ever get one. It will be a dictatorship run by armed, masked thugs who will kill anyone who dissents. Just like we are now. Freedom???? LOLOLOLOL The word doesn’t even exist in our language.
Hey, just like George Orwell said: “Freedom is slavery. Long live big brother!” Remember: Israel is bad! LOLOL — It’s existence keeps reminding us what a bunch of losers we are.
Credit to Petah Tikvah Magazine – “Ten Reason to Love Palestine” – Jan-Mar, 2006"
Correction, that article/list "10 Reasons to Love Palestine" was from the website
destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com the article can be found here
https://destination-yisrael.biblesearchers.com/destination-yisrael/2011/10/free-palestine-now-ten-reasons-to-love-palestine-and-the-great-palestinian-lie.htmlestination-
The website slate.com has an article titled
"Before Hitler, Who Was the Stand-In for Pure Evil?"
The Egyptian Pharaoh, of course.
By Brian Palmer
Oct 04, 2011 5:51 PM
Adolf Hitler
Photograph by AFP/Getty Images.
the article says:
"ESPN dropped singer Hank Williams Jr. from its Monday Night Football telecast after he publicly compared President Obama to Adolf Hitler on Monday. Today, the Führer is universally recognized as the embodiment of evil and the most convenient example of a truly terrible human being. Before World War II, who was the rhetorical worst person in history?
The Pharoah. In the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries, many Americans and Europeans had a firmer grasp of the bible than of the history of genocidal dictators. Orators in search of a universal symbol for evil typically turned to figures like Judas Iscariot, Pontius Pilate, or, most frequently, the Pharaoh of Exodus, who chose to endure 10 plagues rather than let the Hebrew people go. In Common Sense, Thomas Paine wrote: “No man was a warmer wisher for reconciliation than myself, before the fatal nineteenth of April, 1775 [the date of the Lexington massacre], but the moment the event of that day was made known, I rejected the hardened, sullen tempered Pharaoh of England for ever.” In the run-up to the Civil War, abolitionists regularly referred to slaveholders as modern-day Pharaohs. Even after VE Day, Pharaoh continued to pop up in the speeches of social reformers like Martin Luther King Jr.
Generally speaking, hatred was more local and short-lived before World War II. Nineteenth-century polemicists occasionally used Napoleon Bonaparte as shorthand for an evil ruler—they sometimes referred to “the little tyrant” rather than name the diminutive conqueror—but those references were rare. There is little record of oratorical comparisons of political leaders to Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun, or Ivan the Terrible. Even Adolf Hitler himself once commented on history’s tendency to forget the sins of bloody dictators. In 1939, the Führer asked rhetorically, “Who still talks nowadays of the extermination of the Armenians?” (The authenticity of this quote is disputed.)
In the absence of a universal boogeyman, different regions latched on to a particular person as the personification of evil at different historical moments. Yet genocide and murder were less likely to earn a man universal revilement than treason or other forms of disloyalty. During the Civil War, for example, some Southerners spoke of Abraham Lincoln in vaguely Hitler-like terms. Upon Lincoln’s assassination, for example, the editor of the Texas Republican wrote, “the world is happily rid of a monster that disgraced the form of humanity.” (Some Confederates called Lincoln a “modern Pharaoh.”) Part of this scorn was based on their view of Lincoln as a traitor—both of his parents were Virginians, and Lincoln was born on slaveholding soil. Northerners, for their part, focused their ire on the traitorous assassin John Wilkes Booth. In fact, 52 years after Lincoln’s assassination, some Americans compared Woodrow Wilson to Booth, because he betrayed his country by leading the United States into war.
King George III was also a major whipping boy for American rhetoricians for decades after the Revolution. A good example is Walt Whitman’s “A Boston Ballad,” in which he argued that the Fugitive Slave Act, which required Northern States to return escaped slaves to their owners, represented a return of the ghost of King George."
From the website www.theatlantic.com an article is titled
"How Americans Described Evil Before Hitler"
Commentators compared the Nazi leader to Napoleon, Philip of Macedon, and Nebuchadnezzar.
October 9, 2018
Gavriel Rosenfeld
Professor of history at Fairfield University
The Office of Strategic Services (OSS) asked a makeup artist to clone a portrait of the German leader after D-day on June 6, 1944, because they feared that he would be able to flee from Germany assuming a disguise.REUTERS
the article says:
"Adolf Hitler has been dead for more than 70 years, but he has gained immortality as a historical analogy. Simply glance at today’s news headlines: Major political figures from around the world, including Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and Recep Tayyip Erdogan, are routinely compared to the Nazi leader.
Some scholars and journalists claim that Hitler analogies have great contemporary relevance for making sense of the global surge of right-wing nationalism, authoritarian populism, and neofascism. Others dismiss such comparisons as exaggerated hyperbole. Both sides have legitimate points. Yet, since the political climate is in flux, it may be some time before we can determine whether the comparisons are appropriate or alarmist.
In the meantime, we can better understand the argument by examining an earlier but strikingly similar craze for historical analogies from the Nazi era. While commentators today debate whether Hitler analogies explain modern politics, observers back then tried out various analogies to explain Hitler.
In the decade and a half between the Nazis’ rise to power in the early 1930s and the collapse of the Third Reich in 1945, Anglo-American journalists singled out a murderer’s row of notorious revolutionaries, religious fanatics, dictators, conquerors, and warlords who they believed could illuminate the Nazi threat.
Regardless of which historical figures were invoked, the analogies served several didactic goals. The commentators sought to make Hitler comprehensible by comparing him to familiar examples; they aimed to reassure people psychologically that the events they were experiencing were merely new versions of older ones; and they showed how past precedents could provide guidelines for present-day action. As often as not, the analogies did more to conceal than reveal Hitler’s radicalism.
Following Hitler’s appointment as chancellor on January 30, 1933, journalists expressed a mix of caution and confidence by invoking the figure of Emperor Napoleon III. The Brooklyn Eagle declared that, because few people had originally taken Louis Napoleon Bonaparte seriously before he seized dictatorial power, it was important for people not to underestimate Hitler and remember that while he “took the oath to defend the constitution, [so] did Napoleon III.” By contrast, the Middletown Times told its readers that “the German nation is suffering from a temporary aberration. Hitler is merely a symptom, [just] as Napoleon III [was a] ... symptom ... of feverish French progress from the First Empire to the Third Republic. It is a physical and mental illness that has serious aspects but is not necessarily fatal.”
the article continues
"The analogies used to explain Hitler’s violent purge of the SA on the “Night of the Long Knives,” in June of 1934, also conveyed a mix of caution and confidence. Some observers underscored the threat by comparing the killings to the murder of French Huguenots by Catholics during the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of 1572. Others sought solace in the French Revolution by arguing that Hitler’s purge duplicated “the victory of the Rightist Girondists against the revolutionary and socialistic Jacobins.” As one paper optimistically opined: Germany’s “Napoleon may be yet to come.”
Analogies weren’t used just to explain events, but also to advance particular agendas. In 1939–41, for instance, American journalists compared Hitler to Philip of Macedon in order to encourage U.S. intervention in the war. They pointed out that when the city-states of Athens, Sparta, and Thebes failed to heed the Athenian orator Demosthenes’s admonition to unite against the Macedonian threat, they went down in defeat and lost their freedom.
By the time Americans were invoking Philip, however, many European observers felt that historical analogies no longer held water.
In 1939, following the Nazis’ invasion of Poland, the Times of London called Hitler the “Nebuchadnezzar of modern times,” only to note that “Hitler has far surpassed his exemplar; for Nebuchadnezzar carried away no more than ten thousand captives … Hitler has displaced a far larger multitude.” As reports of the Holocaust increased in number in 1944–45, Americans also began to feel that Hitler had eclipsed the atrocities of previous dictators. Writing about his visit to Buchenwald in The New York Times, Harold Denny declared that while “Tamerlane built his mountain of skulls ... Hitler’s horrors … dwarf all previous crimes.”
& continues
"Eventually, the Nazis’ unprecedented destruction led journalists to abandon historical comparisons for myth. Some invoked Nordic legends, drawing on Richard Wagner’s opera, The Twilight of the Gods, to compare Hitler to the figures of Loki and Wotan, who rained destruction down on Valhalla. Others looked to Greek mythology and compared Hitler to the figures of Icarus and Sisyphus. By the war’s end, Hitler was bluntly equated with Western culture’s archetypal villain, the devil himself. Whether compared to Satan, Lucifer, Beelzebub, or the anti-Christ, Hitler was widely viewed as what the Times of London called the “incarnation of absolute evil.”
Observers even projected Hitler’s name back in time to describe earlier historical villains. Hannibal, for example, was called an “ancient Hitler,” Napoleon Bonaparte was described as “the 18th-century Hitler,” and Ivan the Terrible was branded “Russia’s Hitler.” Hitler was also transformed from a proper noun into a verb, with countless commentators referring to the act of “Hitlerizing” political institutions in Germany, Austria, and even the U.S. These rhetorical strategies helped turn the flesh-and-blood Adolf Hitler into the admonitory signifier “Hitler.”
Thus Hitler became a hegemonic historical analogy. He did not so much join the ranks of earlier historical symbols of evil as render them unusable. Indeed, perhaps because Western observers became convinced that wartime analogies had underestimated the Nazi dictator’s radicalism, they began to employ Hitler as the baseline for evaluating all new threats. This tendency is captured—in caricature—by Godwin’s Law: the notion that the longer an internet debate drags on, the more likely participants are to invoke Hitler.
Western society’s hair-trigger Hitler alert has come at a cost. Fears of a “new Hitler” have prompted ill-advised foreign interventions in the effort to avoid another “Munich”—that is, to avoid falling victim to the naive belief that concessions can appease dictators. And when the worst has not materialized, those who invoked Hitler have been accused of crying wolf. Hitler comparisons have therefore lost credibility in certain circles and have given rise to Hitler fatigue.
Our present moment is a tricky one: Some commentators feel more justified than ever in invoking Hitler, yet many feel a bit numb to the comparison. The solution, it seems to me, is not to ban comparisons to the Nazis—as if such a thing were possible—but to grant that analogies have always been a tendentious business, and that only the future can tell which ones were valid. Commentators should proceed with a little more humility, a little more circumspection, and, perhaps, a little more creativity.
Before 1945, the analogical reservoir was more abundantly stocked. Even in the most obscure local papers, there were constant references to an extremely diverse array of historical figures from the classical era to the 20th century: Pharaoh Thutmose III, Alexander the Great, King Herod, Emperor Caligula, Attila the Hun, Richard III, Henry VIII, Guy Fawkes, Maximilien Robespierre, Georges Boulanger, and Benito Mussolini."
& lastly says
"If commentators restore comparative diversity, they may not prevent a “new Hitler”—diversity did not prevent the original Hitler either—but they might better hold their audiences’ attention and point them in the direction of more germane historical episodes. Is an Austrian dictator really the best reference for Trump, or should commentators look closer to home—to American demagogues including Huey Long and George Wallace?
We should never forget Hitler. But neither should we allow him to monopolize our perspective on how the past can illuminate the present."
Gavriel Rosenfeld is a professor of history at Fairfield University. His most recent book is Hi Hitler! How the Nazi Past is Being Normalized in Contemporary Culture.
We at this blog say that Trump is NOT Hitler or a New Hitler,
Donald Trump isn't Perfect, but he is doing an OK Job as President, much better than how
Hillary Clinton would be doing if she was President, thank God Hillary Clinton isn't President
God Bless Donald Trump & Mike Pence for their Support of Israel !!!
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"WATCH: Hitler’s Jewish neighbor says Nazi leader was terrified of being killed"
February 13, 2020
A 101-year-old Jewish woman, currently living in Britain, revealed that she once lived next door to Hitler. a link to a YouTube video is in the article
Also from www.worldisraelnews.com another article is titled
"Analysis: US can learn from Arab states’ experience with Palestinian ingratitude"
February 13, 2020
Analysis: US can learn from Arab states’ experience with Palestinian ingratitudeMurals depicting the faces of the late former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (l) and late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat in the city of Jenin. (AP/Mohammed Ballas)
The Arab world is endowed with long memory. They don’t forget Palestinian ingratitude, unreliability and terrorism; and they don’t forgive.
By Amb. (ret.) Yoram Ettinger, The Ettinger Report
"In the Arab Middle East, unlike Western democracies, historical memory is very long. Nothing is forgotten, nothing is forgiven.
Therefore, Arabs are aware of the direct correlation between the scope of Palestinian freedom of action in Arab countries, on the one hand, and the level of anti-Arab Palestinian terrorism, on the other hand.
This harsh correlation was demonstrated in Egypt and Syria during the mid-1950s and mid-1960s, as well as in Jordan. The latter experienced the 1970 civil war as a result of the unprecedented self-rule provided to Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO in Jordan. It was manifested in Lebanon, which was plagued by a series of civil wars during the 1970s and early 1980s, ignited by the extraordinary autonomy accorded to Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO in Lebanon.
Also, in 1993/94, the establishment of a ground-breaking Palestinian Authority in Judea & Samaria triggered a massive Christian flight from Bethlehem, Beit Jallah and Beit Sahour. Consequently, this Christian dominated area was transformed into a tiny enclave of a 12% Christian minority.
Simultaneously, notwithstanding Palestinian verbal commitments to desist from incitement and violence, Mahmoud Abbas’ Palestinian Authority embarked on an unprecedented wave of anti-Jewish hate education and terrorism.
Kuwait’s generosity
The intra-Arab Palestinian terroristic track record was highlighted by Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, when the Mahmoud Abbas-aligned Palestinian community in Kuwait assisted in the plunder of their host country.
Until the invasion, Kuwait had absorbed over 400,000 Palestinians – a 20% minority – the second largest Palestinian migrant community in the Arab world. Kuwait was the most generous Arab host of Palestinian migrants, provided them with a high level of social, economic and political freedom, facilitating their rise to senior managerial, civil service, media and professional positions, including the top administration of the Central Bank of Kuwait."
the article continues
"
Kuwait’s Palestinian migrants were Arafat’s and Mahmoud Abbas’ relatives and loyalists, evolving into the wealthiest Palestinian migrant community. In fact, Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah – the largest PLO organization – was established in Kuwait in 1959. The oil producing sheikdom levied a 5% excise tax on all Palestinian earnings, and transferred it to the stashed accounts of the two PLO leaders. It also extended $65 million of annual aid to the PLO, in addition to an equal amount transferred by Palestinian workers, in Kuwait, to their relatives in Judea and Samaria.
Palestinians’ violent ingratitude
Kuwait’s generosity intended to reduce the threat of Palestinian terrorism, and constrain the explosive potential of Palestinian migrants, who had been identified as a likely fifth column on behalf of Saddam Hussein. Like the rest of the Arab Gulf States, Kuwait was aware of the incitement, by PLO leaders, against all traditional pro-US Arab regimes.
In return for Kuwait’s hospitality and generosity, PLO leaders displayed deep sympathy towards Saddam Hussein. They spent much time in Baghdad during the months leading up to the August 1990 invasion, which was facilitated by three PLO battalions stationed in Iraq, and vital intelligence that was provided by Palestinians in Kuwait.
The PLO heralded the plunder of Kuwait, lobbying – along Iraq and Libya – against an Arab League resolution which called for military action for the liberation of Kuwait. The PLO warned that a U.S. military intervention would result in many American fatalities.
Palestinians, Arabs and U.S. interests
Before, and since, the invasion of Kuwait, Palestinian violence has always been in collaboration with adversaries and enemies of the U.S., such as: Nazi Germany, the USSR, international terrorism, Saddam Hussein, Turkey’s Erdogan, North Korea and Iran’s Ayatollahs, haunting all pro-U.S. Arab regimes.
Therefore, contrary to Western conventional wisdom, there has been an unbridgeable gap between the gloating pro-Palestinian Arab talk and the reserved and adverse Arab walk. Arab leaders have mustered the fundamental Middle East notions of dissolution and “on words one does not pay custom.”
Thus, irrespective of the ultra-generous pro-Palestinian Arab talk, no Arab country has ever fought Israel on behalf of the Palestinians. On the other hand, Arabs are determined to exert their military capabilities to abort Palestinian violence in Arab countries.
Furthermore, financial support of the Palestinian cause was never a top priority for the Arab oil-producing countries, which have been less generous than the U.S., Japan and other developed countries.
Hence, in April 1950, following the 1948 Arab war against Israel, Jordan and Egypt occupied Judea and Samaria (naming it the West Bank) and Gaza, but did not transfer these regions to the Palestinians. Realizing the Palestinian subversive and terroristic potential, they prohibited Palestinian political assertion in these two regions."
& lastly says
"In 2020, the pro-U.S. Arab regimes are concerned about the possible Palestinian collaboration with domestic and external threats such as Iran’s Ayatollahs and the Muslim Brotherhood. These concerns are intensified against the backdrop of the still raging Arab Tsunami (superficially defined as “Arab Spring”) and the imminent threat posed by Iran’s Ayatollahs.
In 2020, the pro-U.S. Arab regimes – especially Jordan and the Gulf States – consider the Palestinian betrayal of Jordan, Lebanon and Kuwait as an accurate indicator of the disruptive potential of the proposed Palestinian state, which they view as a deadly threat, especially to Jordan’s Hashemite regime, and subsequently to every pro-U.S. regime in the Arabian Peninsula.
The lesson
The Arab world is endowed with long memory. Their walk – contrary to their talk – demonstrates that they don’t forget Palestinian ingratitude, unreliability and terrorism; and they don’t forgive.
They are preoccupied with their top threats, such as Iran’s Ayatollahs, the Arab Tsunami, the Moslem Brotherhood and ISIS, which are unrelated to the Palestinian issue.
Are Western democracies aware of the costly Palestinian terroristic track record? Do they intend to learn from past mistakes by avoiding – rather than repeating – them? Are they aware that forgetfulness maximizes – while memory minimizes – costly errors?" Some have called the so-called "Palestinians" the Rejects of the Arab World
From unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: Christian Palestinian Begs Israel to Stop PA from Destroying Bethlehem" the article says
"A brave member of the Christian community dares to speak out about the Palestinian Authority’s ethnic cleansing of non-Muslims from Bethlehem.
What has happened to the Christian community in Bethlehem since the Oslo Accords era began in the 1990s? Why has Bethlehem’s population of Christians been slashed from around 86 percent of Bethlehem residents in 1993 to less than 22 percent in 2019? Why are Christian Palestinians being brutalized and expelled by the Palestinian Authority?
And why is the Palestinian Authority hijacking Christmas celebrations and turning them into nationalist demonstrations with thousands of Arabs, while only a handful of Christian Palestinians feel safe attending?
The courageous Palestinian Christian in this exclusive TPS video answers these questions, and what he reports is not pretty."
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinians Prefer to Work for Israeli Employers, Could Be Biggest UN Blacklist Victims"
Feb 14, 2020
In response to the United Nations’ anti-Israel blacklist, Palestinian Media Watch released a report showing that Arabs overwhelmingly prefer to work for Israeli employers, not Palestinians.
By Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik, Palestinian Media Watch
"In response to the United Nations’ release of its blacklist of Israeli companies that conduct business in Judea and Samaria, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) released this report “Palestinians prefer to work for Israeli employers” – based on previous PMW releases.
The report shows that according to Palestinian workers, Palestinian lawyers, and the Palestinian Bureau of Statistics, Palestinians enjoy better working conditions and prefer working for Israeli employers – including in Israeli towns beyond the Green Line in Judea and Samaria– rather than working for Palestinian employers. For example, wages are four times higher with Israeli employers than with Palestinian employers, and Palestinian workers receive health benefits, sick leave, and vacation time to the same degree as Israelis do.
By trying to harm Israeli companies that have “activities” in Judea and Samaria, the UN is also harming the many Palestinians who work in these businesses, and who enjoy the better conditions offered by these Israeli enterprises. If the UN’s new BDS-flavored efforts lead to a larger boycott of these businesses, eventually they may have to let go of employees, among them Palestinians. Furthermore, it is likely that there will be pressure from the PA on Palestinians who work for the blacklisted businesses to leave their jobs.
One Israeli business blacklisted by the UN is the supermarket Rami Levi, which is known for its peaceful coexistence of Palestinian and Israeli co-workers in all positions of employment.
Why Palestinians Prefer Israeli Employers
During an official Palestinian Authority TV program called Workers’ Affairs, which focused on internal labor issues for Palestinians, Israel was lauded for its better conditions for Palestinians. Israeli labor laws, positive working conditions, higher pay, health benefits, vacation time and more that Palestinian workers enjoy while working for Israelis were praised by Palestinian workers and their lawyers.
In fact, conditions are so much better for Palestinians who work for Israelis rather than for Palestinians that the official PA daily explained that Palestinians will quit their jobs with Palestinian employers when given the opportunity to work for an Israeli employer instead. This conclusion was supported by surveys by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics"
the article continues
"
“Israeli labor law is a very good law regarding workers’ rights… Unfortunately… the Palestinian middleman… takes 50 percent, 60 percent, and even 70 percent of [a Palestinian woman’s] salary. If her daily salary is 180 shekels, in the end she receives 60 shekels. The [Palestinian] middleman steals two thirds of her salary,” reported an expert on official Palestinian Authority TV in 2016.
According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics in 2017, “The average daily wage for [Palestinian] employees in [Judea and Samaria] was 98.8 shekels… Gaza Strip 56.7 shekels… in Israel and the Israeli settlements 233.3 shekels.”
Similarly, Wael Nazif, CEO of the PA Labor Union commented on PA TV in 2018, “It is inconceivable that the Palestinian worker receives his full rights from the Israeli employers, but not from the Palestinian ones.”
The higher Israeli salaries have been consistent for years according to surveys published by the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. In addition, Palestinian workers who work for Israelis have much better working conditions than those employed by Palestinians, and by Israeli law receive the same rights and protection that Israeli workers have.
An Israeli Arab labor attorney who represents Palestinian laborers explained why it is preferable to work for Israelis, in two different interviews on the official PA TV program Workers’ Affairs.
Lawyer Khaled Dukhi, who works with the Israeli NGO Workers’ Hotline, said that Israeli labor law is “very good” because it does not differentiate between men and women, Israelis and Palestinians, or Muslims and Jews. However, he explained that Palestinian workers who work for Israelis still suffer because Palestinian middlemen “steal” a significant part of their salaries, especially those of women.
Dukhi explained, “Israeli labor law is a very good law regarding workers’ rights, for both men and women. Israeli law does not differentiate between a worker who has entered Israel illegally or legally… For instance, the Palestinian female workers in the agricultural sector enjoy many rights, like any Israeli worker in the agricultural sector: The salary is higher than the minimum wage, 14 vacation days a year in the first four years, 2,000 shekels convalescence pay [yearly] in the first year and 2,200 shekels in the second and third year for every worker in Israel, payment for holidays, whether Islamic or Jewish. It is a matter of choice.”
& lastly says
"Qassem Abu Hadwan, a laborer from Hebron, explained that Palestinian employers often exploit their workers and pay less than half the wages, causing many Palestinians to prefer to work for Israeli employers.
Abu Hadwan explained, “The lack of monitoring of [Palestinian] owners of companies and factories and their exploitation of workers is what has forced people to Israel, to work and build in Israel.”
Libel in International Forums
The great conditions that Palestinian workers experience working for Israeli employers, and the preference amongst Palestinians to work for them, do not stop the Palestinian Authority leadership from libeling Israel in international forums, claiming Israel denies Palestinian workers their rights and promoting BDS – the boycotting of Israeli businesses, even those that employ Palestinians.
It should also be noted that the PA itself enjoys the benefits of Palestinians working for Israeli employers. 75% of the income tax paid by Palestinians working in Israel is transferred to the PA. In 2017 alone, this provision provided the PA with no less than 135,000,000 shekels. In 2018 through October 2019 Israel transferred to the PA 277,740,024 shekels.
As is seen from official Palestinian Authority media, and statistics, Palestinian workers – whether working in Israel within the Green Line, or in Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria – are paid more than double by Israeli employers as they would receive if working for a Palestinian one. They also enjoy rights and benefits equal to others when working for Israelis, with no gender or religious discrimination.
When working for Israelis, the only situation in which Palestinian workers, especially women, would not receive their full wages paid by the Israeli employer is when a Palestinian middleman may “steal” it. When looking at the work experience for Palestinians who work for Israelis and Palestinians, according to the testimonies in this report, it is clear why the official PA daily wrote that Palestinian workers, when given the opportunity, will prefer working for Israelis."
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: The Two-Faced Nature of Palestinian Leaders"
PA President Mahmoud Abbas addresses 74th session of UN General Assembly. (AP/Richard Drew)
Mahmoud Abbas
Feb 13, 2020
"Abbas claims the PA is not anti-Semitic while his party tweets the opposite.
At the UN this week Mahmoud Abbas made the claim that the Palestinian Authority is not anti-Semitic, just anti-Israel.
The same day he made that claim, his Fatah party tweeted an anti-Semitic cartoon of a Nazi standing on a skull evolving into an Israeli soldier standing on a Palestinian.
Watch to learn more about the reason there is still no peace."
Abbas is No "Leader" just a Loser, a stubborn sore loser, ugly grumpy old man , it's terrible the criminality of the Palestinian "Authority"
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Nikki Haley: ‘UN hit a new low’ with blacklist"
February 13, 2020
“The timing of this after the U.S. released a peace plan is conniving & manipulative at best. Shameful,” Haley tweeted.
By David Jablinowitz, World Israel News
"Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has accused the UN of hitting “a new low” with the publication on Wednesday by the world body’s Human Rights Council of a list of more than 100 companies that it says are operating in Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria.
Haley calls it an “anti-Semitic blacklist.”
Posting on Twitter, she also strongly hinted that she believed the list was published now to sabotage the efforts of President Donald Trump on the heels of his January 28 announcement of a peace plan for Israel and the Palestinians, which acknowledges the Jewish people’s right to their biblical land, including Judea and Samaria.
“The timing of this after the U.S. released a peace plan is conniving & manipulative at best. Shameful,” Haley tweeted.
Haley served as UN ambassador in 2017 and 2018.
During her term, she made anti-Israel bias at the United Nations a central theme, declaring that she would fight it.
“There’s a new sheriff in town,” she declared to thunderous applause at the annual AIPAC policy conference in Washington in March 2017.
“You’re not going to take our number one democratic friend in the Middle East and beat up on them,” Haley asserted.
At the end of her term, the U.S. pulled out of UNESCO, accusing the agency of an anti-Israel bias in questioning the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and Hebron.
“UNESCO is among the most corrupt and politically biased UN agencies,” Haley tweeted at the time. “Today the U.S. withdrawal from this cesspool became official,” she said.
The former governor of South Carolina was also at the forefront of the effort which ultimately led to the Trump administration’s announcement that it would cut all U.S. funding for UNRWA, arguing that the agency was perpetuating and not trying to solve the Palestinian refugee problem and was allowing for incitement against the Jewish State."
Also from www.worldisraelnews.com another article is titled
"Opinion: A new phrase sheds light on an ancient hatred"
Opinion: A new phrase sheds light on an ancient hatred 1898 cartoon attacking the emergence of large, sometimes Jewish owned, department stores whose scale and efficiencies drove many small shops out of business. (Shutterstock)
Confirmation bias, a new expression, sheds light on the persistence of anti-Semitism.
By Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld, BESA Center
"Sometimes a new expression sheds fresh light on ancient ideas. One example is the phrase “confirmation bias”, which was coined only 60 years ago. It means that people are more receptive to information, even questionable information, that confirms their existing opinions.
By looking at the problem of anti-Semitism through the lens of confirmation bias, we can better understand how it has persisted so stubbornly over the centuries.
Christian theologians long stereotyped Jews as evil, claiming they were collectively responsible across the generations for the death of Jesus. Clergymen regularly confirmed the opinions of those members of their flocks who held this prejudice.
Anti-Defamation League (ADL) studies show that many modern-day Westerners continue to believe the Jews are responsible for Jesus’ death (22% in Europe, 26% in the U.S., and 22% in Argentina). This is despite the fact that the primary historical promoter of this notion, the Catholic Church, took the opinion back in its document Nostra Aetate, which is now over 50 years old.
The persistence of this and other anti-Semitic tropes can be explained in part by confirmation bias, which is more prominent today than ever before thanks to the instant and widespread dissemination of personal opinions over social media.
Dual-loyalty double standard
Hate speech confirms the bias of those who already believe it. This can be seen in the proliferation of a host of more contemporary anti-Jewish hate motifs that are constantly repeated by modern-day anti-Semites. One of these newer motifs is that Jews are more loyal to Israel than to the country of which they are citizens. This kind of accusation is almost never hurled at other immigrant communities residing in democratic European societies."
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Consider, for example, Turkish immigrants living in Western countries, many of whom exercise their right to dual citizenship and use it to vote in favor of Erdoğan’s anti-democratic measures. They draw little if any condemnation for this. Jewish citizens of Western countries, on the other hand, most of whom do not claim Israeli citizenship, are suspected of dual loyalty simply because they are Jews.
Many other anti-Semitic prejudices are kept alive by confirmation bias, particularly in the Arab world. As Rafael Israeli has illustrated, the centuries-old blood libel and the Jew-as-poisoner motif litter contemporary Arab texts.
These outrageous prejudices also sometimes appear in new forms in the Western world. For example, the largest Swedish paper, the socialist Aftonbladet, published an article by Donald Boström in 2009 stating that Israel kills Palestinians to harvest their organs. Rutgers associate professor Jasbir Puar, during a speech at Vassar College in 2016, accused Israel of “extracting organs from Palestinians for medical research.”
Were there not a long history of anti-Semitic blood libels behind such accusations, they would have little importance. But because they fit within an established history of such anti-Semitic motifs, confirmation bias encourages them to be more readily accepted.
Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth state in a lengthy article about Nazi Germany, “Where schooling could tap into preexisting prejudices, indoctrination was particularly strong. This suggests that confirmation bias may play an important role in intensifying attitudes toward minorities.“
Core anti-Semitic trope
The worst example of the impact of confirmation bias on Jew-hatred is the more than 1,500-year-old core anti-Semitic trope that Jews are the embodiment of absolute evil. For Christians, the killing of Jesus was the most evil act imaginable, and the church fed their belief that the Jews were responsible for it. For the Nazis, Jews were “subhuman”, “vermin”, or “bacteria” and thus warranted extermination.
Today, the genocidal Nazis are themselves the symbol of absolute evil. Anti-Semitism has accordingly adapted to permit the labeling of Jews as Nazis. Many citizens of the EU are openly willing to accept and repeat the slander that Israel intends to exterminate the Palestinians and thus has a Nazi ideology.
Christians created the infrastructure for this hateful perception through their blaming of the Jews for the death of Jesus. The Germans intensified it during the Holocaust, helped by many Europeans for whom the Nazi position on the Jews confirmed their Christian bias. The absurd belief that Israel wants to exterminate the Palestinians could not have become so widespread without tapping into the confirmation bias of those who already believe Jews are evil.
Other related topics can be clarified by looking at them through the lens of confirmation bias. Some philosophers and others claim, for instance, that the Holocaust was not unique but a genocide like any other. Once one grasps the power of confirmation bias, one sees how perverse this position is.
No other genocide was based on a profound prejudice that had been nursed and carried on for centuries on end. The Armenian, Cambodian, and Rwandan genocides were horrifying, but they were not the culmination of a persistent hatred that has lasted more than a thousand years."
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"Nor is that the only element that makes the Holocaust unique. The existence of long-lasting prejudices against Jews are what made it possible for the Germans to round up, transport, and murder them so efficiently. No other genocide has ever been characterized by an industrial attempt to hunt down and slaughter every member of a group wherever they may reside in the world, with the object of exterminating them completely from the face of the earth.
French leftist philosopher Alain Badiou wrote: “If one wants to resolve the problem of the unlimited war of the Middle East, one has to arrive, I know it is something difficult—to forget the Holocaust.” By viewing this astonishing conclusion through the lens of confirmation bias, one can better see how appalling it is.
The existence of confirmation bias suggests that better education is needed as a remedy to anti-Semitism. It would of course be helpful, but it will not be easy. Prejudices are irrational. Those who are accustomed to having their prejudices confirmed in the public domain cannot be easily educated out of them — particularly in the era of social media, which bombards users with online anti-Semitic messages.
There is another major example of confirmation bias that many Westerners refuse to acknowledge. The Arab and Muslim world incessantly repeats the most vile anti-Semitic slanders. Allowing Muslims to immigrate into Europe without vetting them for anti-Semitism increases the percentage of anti-Semites on the Continent."
Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld is a Senior Research Associate at the BESA Center and a former chairman of the Steering Committee of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He specializes in Israeli–Western European relations, anti-Semitism, and anti-Zionism, and is the author of The War of a Million Cuts.
From the New York Post website www.nypost.com an article is titled
"The UN’s anti-Israel blacklist will harm a lot of Palestinians"
By Post Editorial Board February 14, 2020 | 9:37pm the article says:
"Pro-Palestinian" anti-Semites at the United Nations are so determined to smear Israel that they’re even willing to hurt Palestinians to do so.
Israeli youth stand on a hillside overlooking the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut in the West Bank.UPI
“Pro-Palestinian” anti-Semites at the United Nations are so determined to smear Israel that they’re even willing to hurt Palestinians to do so.
That’s the real takeaway from the blacklist Turtle Bay released on Wednesday of 112 companies that do business with Israeli settlements in the West Bank. These firms, the UN Human Rights Council says, have “raised particular human-rights concerns” — simply because they provide services to these areas.
It’s a bizarre rationale, but it’s even nuttier since, as a Palestinian Media Watch report makes clear, Palestinians who work for these companies themselves may be hurt by the resulting boycotts.
And get this: Palestinians often prefer to work for Israeli companies, because they offer “better working conditions” than Palestinian ones, PMW notes: Wages are four times higher, and workers get the same health benefits, sick leave and vacation time as Israelis.
The anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement always ignores these inconvenient facts. Now, “if the UN’s new BDS-flavored efforts lead to a larger boycott of these businesses, eventually they may have to let go of employees,” including Palestinians, PMW observes.
Publishing the list could also hurt other non-Israelis, specifically the 18 international companies not based in Israel: Motorola, General Mills, Airbnb and others.
By the way, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights notes that the list has no legal status.
Indeed, it stands on no legal principle, either: The Human Rights Council, which ordered it, has never voiced complaints about firms in any other “occupied” area. Even the UN’s own legal adviser in 2002 said firms in occupied Western Sahara prompted no human-rights issues.
Singling out Israel wasn’t meant to help Palestinians or protect human rights — it’s just another bid to hurt the Jewish state. It’s hard to think of a more apt word for that than anti-Semitism." we all know that "Pro-Palestinian" people are completely Satanic, Demonic, & Pure Evil, primitive, uncivilized and filled with nothing but Raw Hate
The website news.bbc.co.uk has an article titled
"Egypt starts building steel wall on Gaza Strip border"
Page last updated at 21:46 GMT, Wednesday, 9 December 2009
By Christian Fraser
BBC News, Cairo the article says:
"A Palestinian smuggles a sheep into Gaza through a tunnel under the Rafah border crossing with Egypt, November 2009
There are thought to be hundreds of tunnels along the border
Egypt has begun constructing a huge metal wall along its border with the Gaza Strip as it attempts to cut smuggling tunnels, the BBC has learned.
When it is finished the wall will be 10-11km (6-7 miles) long and will extend 18 metres below the surface.
The Egyptians are being helped by American army engineers, who the BBC understands have designed the wall.
The plan has been shrouded in secrecy, with no comment or confirmation from the Egyptian government.
The wall will take 18 months to complete.
For weeks local farmers have noticed more activity at the border where trees were being cut down, but very few of them were aware that a barrier was being built.
'Impenetrable'
That is because the barrier, made of super-strength steel, has been hidden deep underground.
The BBC has been told that it was manufactured in the US, that it fits together in similar fashion to a jigsaw, and that it has been tested to ensure it is bomb proof.
US officials have though denied to the BBC that they are involved in building or supplying the wall.
When we get a political solution, there will be no need for tunnels. I don't think this new wall will affect the smuggling, we are talking about thousands of tunnels
Abed Elrahman al-Assouli, Khan Younis, Gaza
Egypt's Gaza barrier: Your views
The reports say the wall cannot be cut or melted - in short it is impenetrable.
Intelligence sources in Egypt say the barrier is being sunk close to the perimeter wall that already exists.
They claim 4km of the wall has already been completed north of the Rafah crossing, with work now beginning to the south.
The land beneath Egypt and Gaza resembles a Swiss cheese, full of holes and tunnels through which the Palestinians smuggle the everyday items they are denied by the blockade.
But the Israelis say the tunnels are also used to smuggle people, weapons, and the components of the rockets that are fired at southern Israeli towns.
The wall is not expected to stop all the smuggling, but it will force the Palestinians to go deeper and it will likely cut the hundreds of superficial tunnels closer to the surface that are used to move the bulk of the goods." Egypt built a Wall on the Gaza Strip Border, will the BDS Losers be having a Hissy Fit Temper Tantrum about this ?
Online Articles in 2020 also mention this Wall built by Egypt along the Gaza Strip Border
From the website unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: Martin Luther King’s Dream for Peace in Israel"
Jan 20, 2020 the article says
"Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. possessed a remarkable clarity of vision and purpose. He complemented these attributes with a sound understanding of the history of human oppression.
Dr. King’s unequivocal renunciation of anti-Zionism reflected his consistent, courageous opposition to all manifestations of bigotry. Against the backdrop of resurgent Jew hatred worldwide, epitomized by the hypocritical Durban Conference on “Racism”, Dr. King’s candid, thoughtful reflections on the true nature of anti-Zionism are particularly edifying.
Watch this very enlightening film that shows Dr. King’s strong support for the State of Israel and the Jewish people. He had a dream for peace in Israel, but understood that peace comes with security.
Shortly before his death, Dr. King had the moral courage to confront the burgeoning Jew hatred of the extreme left wing, including the Black Panthers and the radicalized Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee, as well as the Black Muslims. For example, during a 1968 appearance at Harvard University, he stated bluntly:
“When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism.”
King immediately recognized anti-Zionism as anti-Semitism – refusing to indulge what he believed was simply another manifestation of the same hatred confronting Blacks. As Georgia Congressman John Lewis, who worked closely with Dr. King during the civil rights movement, observed that “he knew that both peoples [i.e., Blacks and Jews] were uprooted involuntarily from their homelands. He knew that both peoples were shaped by the tragic experience of slavery. He knew that both peoples were forced to live in ghettos, victims of segregation. He knew that both peoples were subject to laws passed with the particular intent of oppressing them simply because they were Jewish or black. He knew that both peoples have been subjected to oppression and genocide on a level unprecedented in history.”
Here are some other quotes from Dr. King:
“I see Israel as one of the great outposts of democracy in the world… as a marvelous example of what can be done… how desert land can be transformed into an oasis of brotherhood and democracy.”
“Peace for Israel means security and that security must be a reality.”
“I solemnly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews.”
Original Source: Andrew Bostom, January 20, 2003" a Link to a YouTube video is shown in this article about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr's support for Israel
A good Pro-Israel website is
https://www.israeladvocates.org/
Yet Another Good Pro-Israel website is
https://www.alliance4israel.org/
On Facebook a good page to click "Like" for is titled
"Anti-Israel Bias in the Media (BBC, Guardian, etc.)"
See more of Anti-Israel Bias in the Media (BBC, Guardian, etc.) on Facebook
http://www.bbcwatch.com
About
No more will the bias be left unchallenged and the deceitful propaganda ignored!
After following European news agencies for years, I have come to the conclusion that many news agencies are biased in their depiction of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Even though they boast about their impartiality, the BBC, as well as others, show clear bias against Israel. This is frightening because the power of mass media is being used immorally, and has an immense effect on people's view.
Why is it that the media chooses not to report any incidence of Palestinian violence (rocket attacks, stabbing, incitement and terror plots), or the constant education towards hatred and violence against Israel? These small scale events and constant incitement happen daily and explain much about the dynamics of living in Israel. In addition, these events explain the causes behind Israeli retaliation; events which the media so often enthusiastically publishes on its front pages, and which many readers (due to a lack of information) believe to be unprovoked attacks by Israeli forces. The reality that the media portrays in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is painfully biased, and the tactics, though subtle, are painfully damaging to the peace process since they portray Israel as a country driven by irrational motives, while the Palestinians are seen as innocent, peace desiring victims.
It is the news agency's duty to communicate the reality as it is in order to help readers reach an educated opinion concerning the middle-east conflicts. However, many media outlets choose to create for the reader a reality that is inaccurate and biased by focusing on the hardships and motives of one side while ignoring the hardships of the other. A wise man once told me that just because one side appears to suffer more, does not mean he is necessarily the victim. I believe that there are victims on both sides of this conflict, I only ask that the media show BOTH!"
the "About" Section continues
"What is constantly missing in the European coverage of the conflict is the context in which events take place. Many news outlets seem to deliberately pick and chose what information to post and what information to leave out in such a way that leaves educated (on the subject) people like myself frustrated, while less educated people merely misinformed. In other words, news agencies such as the BBC or the Guardian will always be first to post the bloody aftermaths, but never the preceding events that led to the eventual boiling point. They will be first to quote people and organizations that are blaming Israel, but will never describe the character and motives of these sources (often being sources that have a long history of bias and controversy surrounding them - SEE UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL, Arab media, PA representatives, UNRWA, or Leftists wherever they may be for example).
The media brainwashing machine, as well as Arab propaganda in Europe have been working consistently and tirelessly for years now.The effects are now crystal clear to anyone who shows interest in the psychological effects of mass media.This reality worries me, and should worry all who hope to one day see peace in the middle east."
http://www.mythsandfacts.org/Conflict/mandate_for_palestine/MandateN2%20-%2010-29-07-English.pdf
Good Pictures are shown on this Facebook page, showing Satanic Demonic Arab & "Palestinian" & Islamic Evil, Please note that the Contexts of the Mideast Conflict Always shows that Israel and the Jews are the Good Guys, while the Arabs & so-called "Palestinians" are the Diabolical Monsters and aggressors, Everything is Their Fault, It's Always their Fault, Israel Gives Much to Humanity in Terms of Science, Technology, Computers, Medicine,etc Israel creates and invents things that benefit all Mankind,
what do Arabs & so-called "Palestinians" create & invent, Nothing !!! Absolutely Nothing !!
Israeli Jews create & invent things that Benefit all of Mankind,
On YouTube a good video to watch is titled
"Pat Condell: Why I Support Israel"
12,030 views•May 5, 2018
Another Great YouTube video is titled
"The Video Palestinian Leaders DON'T Want You To See"
9,033 views•Jul 22, 2017
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While Israel offers peace, the Palestinian leaders incite their people against Israel, encouraging more terror and more hate.
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Another great YouTube video is titled
"Pat Condell: Valuable imbeciles for Palestine"
42,083 views•Jun 7, 2012
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"Palestinians are Arabs collected from all over the Arab world, they never try to become independent because their leaders don't want a country; they want to kill all the Jews and drive them to the sea. If Palestinians wanted their country, they would have gone to Jordan, which is the current Palestine and leave Israel alone. Liberals and the media want to make us believe that Palestinians are victims of Israeli intolerance, while ignoring how Arabs have enslaved Blacks, Jews, Whites and other groups of people who weren't Mohammedans, they have imposed Islam everywhere and they want to create a new Caliphate, the Liberal Media is corrupting us, yet we're standing aside and allowing it to happen. Israel is not the scape goat the media portrays it to be, it is our only ally in the Middle East. Conflicts in the Middle East are not based on land, but ideologies between freedom and Islam. " Well said
More about the Greatness & Coolness of Israel
The website unitedwithisrael.org has an article titled
"Israel Chosen in Top 3 Destinations for Spring Break!"
Feb 17, 2020
Based on financial expenditures by travelers, trend forecaster Virtuoso ranked Israel as the third most appealing place to visit in the world for spring break.
By United with Israel Staff
"Spring is in the air and Virtuosa, a global luxury travel network, chose Israel as one of its top places to visit during the holiday break. Indeed, Virtuoso’s recently published top ten destination list for March and April travel ranked Israel at number three.
The trend forecaster analyzed information from $55 billion worth of transactions through its data base. Only the United States and Italy came before Israel.
“Israel’s religious and historic appeal intensifies at this time of year,” said a company statement, referring to the season during which Jews celebrate Passover and gentiles celebrate Easter, holidays that are historically associated with the Land of Israel.
America is appealing for its “abundance of warm, family-oriented destinations” with many natives choosing to stay in their homeland.
According to the statement, Australia remains a popular destination despite rampant bush fires that have plagued the country since September.
The countries of choice after the Holy Land were France, Japan,the United Kingdom, Spain, Mexico, Australia and the Netherlands.
Virtuoso is an invitation-only organization comprised of over 1,100 travel agency locations with more than 22,000 elite travel advisers in over 50 countries. Israel’s nabbing the number three spot on Virtuoso’s list is a good indicator of the strength of Israel’s tourism industry." Nothing about a "Palestine" on the list, Palestine is a Dump
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Analysis: Do Palestinians even want a state? History says no"
February 17, 2020
Do Palestinians want a state or simply to erase an existing one?
By Dr. Edy Cohen, BESA Center
Taking into account all the peace initiatives proposed to end the conflict between the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs over the last 83 years, we must consider the possibility that the Palestinians — or at least their leaders — do not want to establish their own state.
Their sight is currently set on the big prize — the entire state of Israel — and they are playing for time.
In the meantime, they plan to continue to subsist on monies donated by the Arabs and the Europeans. Many of the Arab states have grown disenchanted with this enterprise, and their assistance, particularly from the Saudis, has been discontinued in recent years.
President Trump has also reduced the flow of U.S. support. Only the Europeans remain committed to the implacable Palestinian narrative.
A survey of Palestinian rejectionism
The Jerusalem Mufti Hajj Amin Husseini, the leader of the Palestinian Arabs from the early 1920s to the late 1940s, said in his testimony to the British Peel Commission, established in January 1937 to find a way forward for cooperation between Arabs and Jews in Palestine, “Most residents of Jewish lands will not be awarded citizenship in our future country.”
The Mufti suggested that the Jews be deported from Palestine. Rejecting the idea of a Jewish state, he promised that if such a state were established, every last Jew would be expelled from a Palestinian Arab state.
The UN partition plan
In November 1947, the same Mufti refused to adopt the UN partition plan that offered to establish two states, one Jewish, the other Arab. The Mufti rejected a two-state solution until the day he died, a choice ordinary Palestinians may well regret. Had he agreed to the UN plan, they would have gained a much larger area than what is on offer today.
Father of modern terror
The successor to the Mufti, Yasser Arafat, continued to reject any legitimacy for the State of Israel, refusing even to acknowledge its existence. For many years, he raised the PLO banner of a military and terrorist struggle against Israel.
In addition to masterminding decades of bloody terror in the streets of Israel, Arafat was responsible for devastation across the Middle East, including a civil war in Lebanon (1975-1991) and Jordan’s Black September (1970). He also threw the PLO’s support behind Saddam Hussein’s invasion of Kuwait in 1991.
When Anwar Sadat signed a peace treaty with Israel in 1979, Arafat’s PLO called for Egypt to be boycotted. The Arab states adopted that boycott and prevented Cairo from participating in the Arab League from 1977 until 1989. Most Arab ambassadors in Egypt were recalled and Arabs visiting Egypt were considered either traitors or spies."
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The Oslo “Peace Process”
The Palestinians responded to Israel’s attempts to implement the Oslo Accords by sending waves of suicide bombers to the streets and buses of the cities of Israel, a blatant violation of their commitment to the agreements and a clear statement of their rejection of the idea of peace with Israel.
At the July 2000 at Camp David summit, Israel PM Ehud Barak offered Arafat a series of far-reaching concessions as part of a comprehensive peace arrangement. In return, Arafat was asked to end the conflict. The PLO summarily rejected the Israeli proposals and never offered a counterproposal.
Instead, the PLO-dominated Palestinian Authority (PA) initiated a massive premeditated wave of violence. Arafat’s war of terror (the so called “al-Aqsa Intifada”) was unparalleled in the scale and relentlessness of its terrorist attacks on Israeli civilians. A total of 1,184 Israelis were murdered.
Terror follows disengagement
In August 2005, the government of Israel, headed by PM Ariel Sharon, carried out the unilateral evacuation of all Israeli villages from the Gaza Strip and the northern West Bank. In response, the Palestinians have been launching missiles and rockets on Israeli towns and villages from the Gaza Strip for years, some of which reaching as far as Tel Aviv.
Instead of using the enormous Israeli concession as an opportunity to achieve peace, the Palestinians used it to empower Iranian-backed terrorist organizations. In June 2007, Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in a violent coup.
Ever since the Hamas takeover, the villages of southern Israel have been subjected to a more-or-less nonstop downpour of rockets and missiles fired from Gaza. The number of rockets/missiles and mortar shells fired into Israel from Gaza since 2007 is in the tens of thousands."
& lastly says
"Olmert’s offer
In 2008, Israeli PM Ehud Olmert offered Arafat’s successor as PLO Chairman and PA president Mahmoud Abbas a sweeping peace proposal. Abbas rejected it outright. He claimed that “the gaps are too wide,” meaning there was too great a distance between what the Palestinians demanded and what the Israelis were offering. “I will wait until all the Israeli settlements have been frozen,” he said.
According to Saeb Erekat, chief negotiator for the Palestinians, “We are not in a market or a bazaar. I came here to determine the boundaries of Palestine from 1967 without budging an inch, without removing one stone from Jerusalem or any of the holy places to Islam or Christianity in Jerusalem.”
The Palestinians refused Olmert’s offer because they found his unprecedented territorial concessions insufficient and because they insisted on the right to manage the holy sites in Jerusalem in place of the Jordanians.
Deal of the Century
The Palestinian leadership rejected the current US proposal a year ago, before they had seen it. They also refused to participate in the economic conference held in Bahrain at the end of June 2019 and prevented other Palestinians from participating.
As soon as the plan was published, it was a given that Abbas would oppose it strongly. “We say a thousand times no, no, no to the Deal of the Century,” he said. “We refused this deal from the beginning and we were right. Two days ago, they said to listen. Listen to what? Shall we get a country without Jerusalem for every Palestinian, Muslim, or Christian child?” he asked.
Mahmoud Abbas is now calling the deal a conspiracy that “will never pass… Our strategy focuses on the struggle to end the occupation. The plans to eliminate the Palestinian agenda will fail and fall away.”
As has been said many times, the Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Their leadership claims that every suggestion is a conspiracy and every initiative a trap. Making peace takes courage. Will a Palestinian Sadat ever arrive?"
Dr. Edy Cohen is a researcher at the BESA Center and author of the book The Holocaust in the Eyes of Mahmoud Abbas (Hebrew). This is an edited version of an article that appeared in Israel Today on February 2, 2020.
From the New York Post website www.nypost.com an article is titled
"France is failing to fight its rising tide of anti-Semitism"
By Judith Miller February 17, 2020 | 8:27pm
"The most dangerous place to be a Jew in Europe is France. That’s the conclusion of an unpublished, two-year report on anti-Semitism in 11 European countries, conducted by former NYPD Commissioner Raymond Kelly at former US Ambassador to Austria Ronald Lauder’s behest.
Kelly’s report concludes that the threat to the 450,000 Jews in France, the world’s third-largest community (after Israel and the United States), is the most “acute.” Attacks and threats against French Jews surged 74 percent from 2017 to 2018, and preliminary data for the first half of 2019 indicate “further intensification,” with another 75 percent increase last year.
Moreover, the official estimates of some 500 attacks and anti-Semitic acts per year are “notoriously underreported,” according to the study, which contends that “no responsible individuals or even government representatives place much credence in these numbers.”
Kelly and two fellow investigators, David Cohen and Mitchell D. Silber, both former senior NYPD counterterrorism officials, blame the French government for failing to respond to the almost-constant violence against and harassment of French Jews.
France initially overreacted to the 2015 attacks at the Bataclan and Hypercacher supermarket, but it has underreacted ever since. What the report calls the police’s “catch-as-catch-can” mobile deployments to protect synagogues and other Jewish facilities “provide little or no police presence and deterrence.”
To justify such indifference and what the report calls the public and private sector’s “inadequate” response to the growing threat, Paris hides behind its “lip-service to France’s secularism.” Requests for additional government funding to address security shortfalls would likely be rejected, prominent French Jews complained to Kelly’s team, since the French establishment interprets the country’s “secularism ideology” to mean that the state “cannot give ‘special’ attention to one ethnic or religious group over another, even in the face of disparate threat or dangers.”
the article continues
"This translates into “doing very little to provide French Jewry with confidence that they will be protected on a sustained basis from the verbal and physical harassment and/or violence facing them,” Kelly writes.
The report attributes French anti-Semitism to history, a sluggish economy and demography. Jews now face hate from three main sources. First, the old “strain” from the far right. The second threat comes from the left — the “intellectual/university class, [which] directs its anti-Israeli and pro-Palestinian views at French Jews via protests and social ostracism of even professional Jews.”
However, the report stresses that the “single greatest threat of violence” against French Jews emanates from radicalization among portions of a growing French Muslim population. Anti-Semitic attacks and verbal harassment are especially pronounced in areas where middle- and working-class Arabs live side-by-side with Jews. These “at-risk” residents make up a third of France’s Jewish population.
In response, French Jews have started emigrating, either to Israel or to safer French cities and neighborhoods. Many wealthier French Jews have established dual residency in Israel or other countries. While the flow of emigration to Israel has slowed to 2,500 last year, from a peak of 9,000 in 2015, between 3,000 and 5,000 French Jews each year now emigrate to Britain, Australia, the United States and elsewhere — a “significant” exodus.
To protect their children, French Jews have largely abandoned public schools. Some 70 percent of all school-age Jews, among the highest proportion in Europe, now attend religious schools. Sports programs are also increasingly Jewish-only matches, as are cultural events. Jewish communities rely on “volunteers” to safeguard France’s 300 synagogues and other Jewish institutions. Their staffing, organization and infrastructure have been “outstripped by the growth of the anti-Semitic threat.”
While the report doesn’t urge Jews to emigrate, it suggests a bleak future for those who remain, given projected Muslim population growth. The French Muslim population now stands at some 6 million, and a recent Pew study projects a 50 percent increase by 2050, even with no additional immigration.
The report recommends more than a dozen steps that the government and French Jews could take to reduce the threat. It urges the leading Jewish security organization, the Jewish Community Protection Service, to establish a Security Operations Center, which can monitor security cameras in synagogues and other major Jewish hubs, and to create a “crime-prevention unit” to examine the security of Jewish locations.
Overall, however, the report is pessimistic: “This more violence-prone anti-Semitism is certain to worsen.”
Judith Miller is a contributing editor of City Journal, from which this column was adapted.
From the website israelforever.org an article is titled
"WHY DO PEOPLE HATE ISRAEL?"
by Dennis Prager
Jewish Journal
Jul 23, 2014 the article says
"We live in a bad world.
There is nothing new about that. The world has been pretty bad since its inception. That’s why God destroyed it and started all over again (with little to show for the new experiment, one might add).
From a moral perspective, look at the world since 2000.
North Korea remains an entire country that is essentially a large concentration camp. Tibet, one of mankind’s oldest cultures, continues to be occupied and destroyed by China. Somalia no longer exists as a country. It is an anarchic state in which the cruelest and strongest (usually one and the same) prevail. In Congo, between 1998 and 2003, about 5.5 million people were killed — nearly the same as the number of Jews murdered in the Holocaust. In Syria, about 150,000 people have been killed in the last three years, and millions have been rendered homeless.
In Iraq, there is a mass murder from terror bombings almost every week. In Mexico, since 2006, approximately 120,000 people have been killed in the country’s drug wars. Iran, a genocide-advocating theocratic dictatorship, is very near having the capacity to make nuclear weapons. Christian communities in the Middle East are wiped out; Christians in Nigeria are routinely massacred.
Of course, the 20th century was even bloodier, but we are only in the 15th year of the 21st century. Nevertheless, showing how awful the world is for so many of its inhabitants is not my point. My point is that, despite all this evil and suffering, the world has concentrated its attention overwhelmingly on the alleged evils of one country: Israel.
What makes this so worthy of note is that Israel is among the most humane and free countries on the planet. Moreover, it is the only country in the world that is threatened with annihilation."
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This is the only time in history when people in free countries have sided with a police state against a free state. One cannot name any time in modern history — the only time in history when there have been free societies — when, in a war between a free state and a police state, the free state was deemed the aggressor. That’s because it never happened before Israel and its enemies.
The question, of course, is why?
Why, during a time when a Kenyan mall is blown up, Islamic terrorists massacre Christians in Nigeria and thousands more die in Syria, is the world preoccupied with 600-some Palestinians killed as a direct result of their firing thousands of missiles in order to kill as many Israelis as possible?
Why has obsession with Israel been the case since its inception, and especially since 1967?
It can’t be occupation. China occupies Tibet, and it merits virtually no attention from the world. And Pakistan’s creation, coming at the same time as Israel’s, led to millions of Muslim (and Hindu) refugees. Yet, that country, too, merits no attention.
There are only two explanations for this moral anomaly.
One is the nearly worldwide embrace of leftist thought and values. According to this way of thinking, Westerners are almost always wrong when they fight Third World countries or groups; and the weaker party, especially if non-Western, is almost always deemed the victim when fighting a stronger, especially Western, group or country. Leftism has replaced “good and evil” with “rich and poor,” “strong and weak,” and “Western (or white) and non-Western (or non-white).” Israel is rich, strong and Western; the Palestinians are poor, weak and non-Western.
The only other possible explanation is that Israel is Jewish.
There is no other rational explanation because the fixation with, and the hatred of, Israel are not rational. Israel is a particularly decent country. It is tiny — about the size of New Jersey and smaller than El Salvador; and while there are more than 50 Muslim countries, there is only one Jewish one.
She should be admired and supported, not hated to the extent that there are dozens of countries whose populations would like to see Israel annihilated — again, a unique phenomenon.
No other country in the world is targeted for extermination.
As hard as it is for modern, rational and irreligious people to accept, Israel’s Jewishness is a primary reason for the hatred of it.
Ironically, this fact — just as with the fixation on the Jew before Israel’s existence — confirms for this observer the divine role the Jew plays in history.
Few Jews are aware of their role, and even fewer want it. But, other than the influence of the left, there is no other explanation for all the animosity toward Israel." The Pictures in this Article are a Must See, showing Arab & Islamic Evil & Hate
From the website www.returnofkings.com an article is titled
"5 Reasons Why Israel Is One Of The World’s Most Successful States"
Matt Forney January 18, 2016
Matt Forney is an American author, journalist and radio host based in Europe. He blogs at MattForney.com and is also on SoundCloud, Twitch, and YouTube. He is the author of Do the Philippines and many other books, available here. Matt is also the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Terror House Magazine. His work has also been featured at Reaxxion, Taki's Magazine, Right On, Red Ice, Affirmative Right, and other sites.
the article says
"The nation of Israel is often held up by cuckservatives and Jews as an example of a country that has succeeded in the face of overwhelming odds. Despite being surrounded by hostile states, repeatedly being invaded by their neighbors, and lacking oil deposits like other Middle Eastern nations, the Israelis have built their country into one of the most economically powerful and stable states in the world.
Why does Israel continue to prosper while other Western nations collapse? The answer is because the Israeli government puts the interests of its citizens first. Israelis are strongly nationalistic and their country’s leadership chooses its policies based on how they will benefit native citizens, as opposed to other Western nations that kowtow to the golden calves of diversity and multiculturalism. Here are the reasons why Israel is so successful, and what the rest of the West can learn from them…
1. Israel actively works to ensure that Jews will remain a majority
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You’ll often hear leftists cheering (and cuckservatives lamenting) the fact that many Western nations will soon have majority non-white populations. For example, Gregor Gysi, a prominent far-left Jewish politician in Germany, has referred to native Germans as “Nazis” and said that their inability to have offspring is “fortunate.” Leftist and cuckservative politicians in the U.S. and elsewhere justify their support for mass immigration on the basis that importing large numbers of foreigners is the only way to compensate for falling native birthrates.
Israel was explicitly founded as a homeland for the Jewish people and its government has worked to ensure that it remains one. For example, only Jews are allowed to immigrate to Israel and become citizens, a process referred to as “aliyah” (Hebrew for “ascent”). Not only does Israel have zero tolerance for illegal immigration, the government has also constructed border walls along the West Bank and Egyptian borders to deter invaders, and the country is also home to the world’s largest illegal alien detention facility.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has also flatly refused to accept Syrian refugees, despite the fact that not only does his nation share a land border with Syria, Israel has been illegally occupying Syrian territory—the Golan Heights—for nearly fifty years.
Not only does Israel fight to keep non-Jews from immigrating, but the government also incentivizes its native citizens to marry and have children in order to keep the nation’s Arab minority from gaining demographic ground. Israel’s fertility rate is one of the highest in the developed world, at 3.04 babies per woman; the Jewish birthrate in Israel has skyrocketed in the past decade while the Arab birthrate has fallen.
Additionally, Israel takes active steps to prevent people living on public assistance and other undesirable groups from having children. For example, the government requires African Jewish migrants to take Depo-Provera shots as a condition for immigrating and accepting welfare. Israel is so adamant about maintaining its status as a Jewish-majority nation that it forbids Jews from marrying non-Jews, and the government even discourages Jewish women from dating Arab men."
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"2. Israel requires its citizens to serve in the military
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Because Israel is surrounded by hostile states who have repeatedly invaded it in the past, the Israelis maintain a strong tradition of mandatory military service. With few exceptions, all Israeli men are required to serve a minimum of three years in the Israeli Defense Forces; all women are required to serve two years. Ordinary Israelis may also be drafted to return to the military in times of invasion or other crises. Prime Minister Netanyahu also served in the military as a young man, in sharp contrast to President Obama:
While the IDF is probably overrated as a fighting force—Israel’s humiliating defeat at the hands of Hezbollah during the 2006 Lebanon War being proof of this—the government’s commitment to mandatory military service is a boon to Israeli society. By requiring all citizens to serve in the IDF, Israel instills good values in its youth, gives them a stake in the country’s existence, and also keeps its populace combat-ready in the event of disaster.""
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". 3.Israel’s politicians support the country’s national interests
In most countries in the West, the major political parties are dominated by internationalists who agitate for more immigration, more “free trade” agreements, and more multiculturalism. Whether it’s the Democrats and the Republicans in the U.S., the Conservatives and Labour in the U.K., or the Conservatives, Liberals and NDP in Canada, the largest political parties are in basic agreement on the wonders of diversity and mass immigration.
In sharp contrast, Israel’s dominant political party, Likud, is unabashedly nationalist and puts Israel first. As I mentioned above, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has taken a hard-line against illegal immigration and Syrian refugees. He’s been rewarded with electoral victory after victory, and is on track to become Israel’s longest-serving prime minister ever, exceeding the tenure of David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s founder. Conversely, Israel’s major left-wing party, Labor, has been losing ground for the past decade.
Israel is also not shy about flexing its muscle on the international stage. The large number of diaspora Jews in the U.S.—as well as Dispensationalist evangelical Christians—enables Israel to have considerable sway over American politics. Israel collects large amounts of foreign aid from the U.S. despite having a wealthy, first-world economy, and American foreign policy is driven by our country’s “alliance” with Israel.
In short, the relationship between Israel and the U.S. is akin to that of a hot chick and her beta orbiter. Blaming Israelis for this is as dumb as blaming the aforementioned hot chick for accepting free gifts from said orbiters. Whatever you can say about Netanyahu and the Israeli government, you can’t argue that he doesn’t put his nation above all else.
4. Israel is patriarchal and allows men to marry and form families
Most Western countries have severely crippled the freedom of men to manage their wives and children with punitive, anti-male legislation and generous welfare policies. By rewarding women who get knocked up with government cheese, the U.S. and other countries are incentivizing single motherhood and disincentivizing the formation of nuclear families. It’s gotten so bad that in some countries, it’s considered “domestic abuse” if a man tries to keep his wife or girlfriend from wasting his money on frivolous purchases.
While Israel is not immune to the forces of sterility and subversion that are ruining the rest of the West—for example, Tel Aviv is known as the gay capital of the Middle East—Israeli society is among the most traditionalist and patriarchal in the West. In particular, Israel’s population growth is being driven by Orthodox Jews, who strictly adhere to traditional gender roles: the man is the head of the household, and the woman is expected to submit to him as a wife and mother. Orthodox Judaism is so patriarchal that women are barred from divorcing without their husbands’ permission.
Not only that, feminists have become increasingly vocal in their opposition to Israel, citing the government’s mistreatment of Palestinians as a reason. Left-wing forces as a whole have sympathized with the Palestinian plight for years, with anti-Zionist activists calling for a boycott of Israeli products and divestment from the country itself, much in the same way the international community did to South Africa during the apartheid years."
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"5. Israeli society places religion front and center
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Return of Kings publisher Roosh and other commentators have pointed to the death of Christianity as a major reason for the West’s decline. Without a religious and moral framework to guide society, people inevitably descend into mindless hedonism and degeneracy. While it’s debatable whether a Christian renaissance in the West is even possible, there’s no denying that Christianity provided innumerable benefits to America and other nations.
As mentioned above, Israel fervently defends its status as a Jewish homeland, and this includes emphasizing Judaism’s religious aspects. God and religion are inescapable aspects of everyday life in Israel, and ultra-Orthodox minorities such as the Hasidim are growing in both numbers and prominence. Some Israelis are so fanatical about their Jewishness that they openly call for Christian missionaries to be banned from the country.
As you can see, Israel’s success as a nation is due to the fact that it rejects many of the trends that dominate the rest of the West. While the U.S., Canada, Britain and other countries are eagerly greasing the slide to Gomorrah, Israelis continue to venerate God, the patriarchal family, and nationalism. This is even more striking when you consider that Israelis co-exist with a hostile, antagonistic population in their midst: the Palestinians.
Regardless of how you feel about Israel as a nation or about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, there is no denying that the West has much to learn from their successes. By resisting the cultural Marxism that has gripped much of humanity, Israel has given itself a strong chance of survival in the future. America would do well to emulate some of what Israel is doing if she hopes to become great again." Just to clarify Israel doesn't "Mistreat" the so-called "Palestinians" it is the "Palestinians" who are the aggressors , who are to blame for everything , Everything is their Fault
From the website uk.answers.yahoo.com a headline says
"ISRAEL IS THE MOST HUMANE COUNTRY IN THE WORLD - IT TREATS THE PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO MURDER THEIR CITIZENS IN THEIR HOSPITALS?"
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"180,000 Palestinians Treated in Israeli Hospitals This Year"
Last year, 180,000 Palestinian citizens entered Israel to receive treatment. 3,000 emergency patients were transferred from Israeli to Palestinian ambulances using the “back to back” method, without warning. “Ultimately, this is a rewarding experience. There is frustration, of course there is. But on the other hand, there are people who see me on the street or in hospitals, hear my name and say ‘You saved my son’s life’. When you get home in the end of the day and examine your life, you know that you saved lives. You know you did a lot of good.”
https://www.standwithus.com/news/article.asp?id=16...
Not to forget Syrians that are treated here..
How One Israeli Border Hospital is Treating Wounded Syrians
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In the past three years, Ziv Hospital in Northern Israel has cared for more than 2,000 wounded Syrians who have crossed the border for treatment.
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/how-one-...
022" How many of the "Palestinians" treated in Israeli Hospitals will continue to Hate Israel, ? How many of them will in an instant stab Israel in the back if they could ? How many of them will pray for Israel's death ? How many of them would commit acts of Terrorism and violence in a Heartbeat if they could ? We Know the Sad Answer, Most of them, the Vast Majority, You would NEVER see "Palestinians" treating Israeli Jews in their Hospitals
The website www.debka.com has an article on January 23, 2020 titled n
"Speeches-yes, but no collective declaration on antisemitism from 50 world leaders at the
Auschwitz liberation anniversary in Jerusalem"
One woman typed as a comment in reply to this article and a different comment , she typed
"Are you an arab terrorist organization propaganda minster? Or fully employed at CNN writing fake news?
Either way, repeating lies many times a day will not make them true. Nor fool anyone with half a brain.
The ethnic cleansing and apartheid is the basic culture of the muslim terrorists. See almost daily their shooting missiles at civilians, sending fire balloons at civilians, trying to kill anyone who is not muslim. What a contrast to the most humane country in the world, Israel, providing electricity, food, and medical care for the animals trying to murder its children. People (except maybe 5 year olds) are not stupid enough to fall for your lies. Why don’t you spend your time trying to do something productive instead of spreading false hate. Try to creates something good for humanity instead of trying to damage humanity’s best. Your jealousy could be harnessed in a different direction. Instead of wanting to kill Jewish people because they are better than you, try to LEARN from them. Try to study math and physics so you an create something useful to mankind (irrigation, communication, fight disease, purify drinking water, even create toys for children) instead of studying propaganda, hate, and killing."
From the website ajewishisrael.com an article is titled
"The IDF: Most Humane Army in the World "Posted by Eitan Divinsky 05 March 2014
the article says
"One evening while studying Torah at Yeshivat Ha’mivtar in Efrat, we had a guest speaker who explained why the IDF is–and IDFmust remain–the most humane army in the world.
This man holds a high rank in the army. His grandmother was a Holocaust survival. She tracked more than 100 miles along the frigid Poland-Russia border to make it to safety. His army career, he told us, is a “testament to the suffering we, as a people, have endured and an attempt to learn from the mistakes of the past.”
The “IDF” stands for “Israel Defense Force.” The fact that the Israeli army’s sole purpose it to “defend” the State of Israel and that we never have and never will try to take more than what has been given to us is important if we’re to try and understand the psyche of the Israeli combat soldier. Unlike of so many of the soldiers who’ve served in other armies, IDF soldiers will never brag about having killed an enemy on the field of battle and will never hope to fight a war. They’re not there to kill; they’re there to defend.
This is part and parcel of the Israeli fighting spirit. The Israeli fighter does not fight for the sake of fighting. He fights to make peace. This is a continuing pattern that has been displayed with just about every Israeli war hero from Menachem Begin to Moshe Dayan to Yitzhak Rabin all the way to Ariel Sharon. We fight only because we have to in order to survive. Peace is the preferred route. We’re measured by our society on whether we’re able to live in peace or not.
Moral clarity and responsibility for one’s actions is taught in Israeli schools. Our text books focus on making peace. Peace is to be achieved by being stronger than our enemies because it can only be reached when the other side accepts the fact that you’re not going anywhere and that’s why we have an army. But peace is also made by two sides who are willing to live in peace. Our side has always been willing."
the article continues
"I didn’t agree with the basic premise that the army officer at the lecture in Ha’mivtar was making and I told him so. My biggest concern was that “We sacrifice our own people’s lives in order to prevent civilian casualties on the side of the enemy.” His answer made a lot of sense. He asked me “Why do you think there are so many more suicides and so much more violence in the American army than in the IDF?” and I knew he was right.
The biggest reason for our army to be so humane has to to do with our own best interests–not theirs. We never target civilians no matter how much they may hate us and no matter how much they’re aiding the terrorists because every time one of our soldiers kills; especially if the victim had no way of defending himself, it leaves an imprint on the soldier for the rest of his life. People who’ve killed, whether in self defense or not, are never able to do the things they once did and unless they’re some kind of “superman” with no conscience, they never return to being the person they were. That’s why so many American soldiers suffer from PDSD and a number of other mental disorders.
While IDF soldiers are passing out rations to “Palestinian” kids, their American counterparts are beating up the same types of kids in Iraq and Afghanistan. American soldiers are good people for the most part and the problem lays in the rules of engagement that have been designed by the U.S. army and that they’re not responsible for but what are “rules of engagement” if not a reflection of the core values of one’s society?
Why is the IDF the world’s most humane army? Because first and foremost, it’s a Jewish army run by Jewish values. We must continue making a good name for ourselves; being a “Light unto the Nations.” Not for their good–not to parade around like some sort of heroes, but for our good; to be heroes for our kids, our wives, our parents and our people. There are plenty of good reasons the IDF is the most humane army in the world–and it must continue being just that."
Another article from the website ajewishisrael.com is titled
"Why the “Palestinians” will never agree to Peace" Posted by Eitan Divinsky 13 December 2015 0 Comments
the article says
"Since the inception of the “Land for Peace” initiative following the Six-Day War, Israel has made two official offers (there have likely been a few dozen discrete attempts) to create a “Palestinian” state west of the Jordan River: Barak’s offer to Arafat in 2000 at Camp David and Olmert’s relatively covert effort in 2008 to reach a peace agreement with Mahmoud Abbas’s PA were refused outright.
Why have the “Palestinians” refused a state of their own while leading their people–and the world to believe they’re suffering at the hands of an “Apartheid” Israeli occupation of the West Bank?
Politics and money are interdependent factors. This has always been the case. As of 2012, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas, one of the three signees of the PLO Charter calling for Israel’s destruction, who is serving the 10th year of his four-year term, had amassed a net worth of $100 million. Some of Arafat’s former aides are even richer. According to Time Magazine, the late “Palestinian” leader himself was worth at least $3 billion at the time of his death.
This money comes from the US government (some-$500 million in 2015 alone), the EU (212 million Euro in 2015 according to the EU website) Gulf States such as Qatar, Iran, and a conglomerate of Western and Israeli NGO’s such as B’Tselem, Machsom Watch, Peace Now, J Street. The amount of money streaming into the PA from around the world likely outweighs the $300 billion America gives Israel by a hefty amount. The “Palestinians” have received more funding than any other group at any point in history.
Back to the “occupation” and the single biggest reason the “Palestinians” will never agree to a peace deal even it gives them control over Judea and Samaria (which make up about 21% of modern-day Israel), and brings them closer to achieving their national mission. It boils down to money. So long as the “Palestinians” are stateless, and viewed by the world as suffering under Israeli “occupation,” they will continue getting free handouts. At least their leaders will. (Your everyday “Palestinian” has long ago bought into the mass propaganda fed by the PA and doesn’t care one iota where funding meant for him is ending up. He prefers to hate Jews over accepting any measure of responsibility for the situation)."
the article continues
"The day there’s a peace deal and no more “occupation” the flow of funding will ebb. It won’t stop entirely–it never will for the simple reason that the world, whether Christian, Muslim or otherwise, was and will always be anti-Semitic at its core. This is also the reason funding will continue and increase the more terrorist acts there are and the more Jews are murdered. Those investing in “Palestinian human rights” are knowingly supporting efforts to bring about a second Holocaust. While it’s not the only one, money is by far the biggest reason neither “Palestinian” leadership, nor the “Palestinian” on the street will ever support a peace deal with Israel."
The website blogs.timesofisrael.com had a recent article by Fred Maroun
one person typed as a comment
"Couldn't manage to read it to the end. I stumbled on "The Palestinians are a people" - are they? What exactly makes them "people"? They come from different areas of Middle East, they speak Arabic that is very close to dialects used in Jordan and Syria, for example. Their fath is the same as the fath of many others throughout the Middle East. What definition of "people" you use to determine that so-called Palestinians are people? Say, Basks fit the description of "nation" much better, and so do Catalans - do you support the independance of these nations? Next, even if we take your word that Arabs of Judea and Samaria are a people - how does it contradict Jewish settlements in the area they want for their state? Many Arabs live and prospere in the Jewish state of Israel benefiting from advansed helth care, modern aducation and general human rights of a developed democratic state. Why Jews can't live in the area controlled by Palestineans? Actually, I know why, and you do, too - because if they are not protected by forse they will be killed, every single one of them. It is not that they - Arabs of Palesite - want their state. It is that they will not tollerate any part of this land being a Jewish state. It was confirmed time and again by the history of my country - the Arabs stubornly refused to assept ANY partition plan they were offered.
And for a cherry on the cake, concider this: Jew are occupation force in Judea - don't you hear the irony?" The person who typed the comment made some spelling & grammar errors, but we all get the point
From the website unite4dwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: Palestinian ‘Journalist’ Slanders IDF Soldiers Moments After They Save Him"
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"The so-called reporter was caught on video concocting a preposterous tale about Israelis a second after IDF soldiers ushered him to safety.
Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) labeled the incident “fake news in real time” when a Palestinian Authority (PA) TV reporter was caught demonizing the very Israeli soldiers who tried to protect him.
“Journalists over there,” said the soldier, “They’ll run you over. It’s your life. Go over here!”
Wait until you hear what this crooked so-called journalist reported in response." The article has a link to a video, Fake News, from a Fake Invented People the
so-called "Palestinians" We all wish they were Never Invented, Worst Invention in the History of the World , the so-called "Journalist" is a Loser Liar
Sadly in 2020, America & Much of the World is living in a Moral Stone Age,
There are countless people who call themselves "Christians" yet they support the
"Palestinians" over Israel, these false "Christians" who support the Fake Invented people who call themselves "Palestinians" are Spiritually Insane & Retarded, these "Christians" who support "Palestinians" are spiritually Insane,Retarded,spiritually blind and an Obscenity to the True Body of Christ that Supports Israel, and NOT Arab & Islamic Terrorism, these Fake
"Christians" support "Palestinians" a people who would in an instant murder the
Jewish infant baby Jesus if they could, for the "Crime" of baby Jesus being a Jewish infant,
The Lord Jesus Christ came to Earth as a Jewish infant , Jesus was and IS a Jew !!!
Jesus is alive in Heaven, and will Forever be a Jew, Jesus will Forever be Jewish ,
Fake "Christians" who Support "Palestine" & so-called "Palestinians" have renounced the Bible, & Jesus himself, these Fake "Christians" are Satanic Frauds,Heretics, Hypocrites,Liars, who are guilty of Blasphemy,& Idolatry, making false gods out of
the Fake Invented People who call themselves "Palestinians"
For us Star Trek Fans who also Support Israel & The Jewish People, on the website
StarTrek.com an article is titled
"Who is the Wallenberg Behind Picard’s Wallenberg Class Ships?"
Star Trek: Picard honors a hero of the Jewish community.
BY DAVID SHIFFMAN, PH.D. / February 18, 2020 8:00 AM EST
the article says:
StarTrek.com
"Last week’s episode of Star Trek: Picard, “Absolute Candor,” included a wonderful and touching nod to Jewish history. When discussing past efforts to relocate Romulan refugees, including sending many to the planet of Vashti where much of the episode takes place, we learn that the vessels used to transport so many refugees were known as the “Wallenberg class.” This is the first mention of this class of ship —apparently a type of large transport vessel— in Star Trek’s television and film installments.
Many starship names and vessel classes in the Star Trek universe contain winks and nods to real history, and the Wallenberg class is no exception. So who was this Wallenberg, and why would a class of vessels so important to the backstory of Picard and the moral fabric of the Federation be named after him?
Raoul Wallenberg
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
The Swedish Raoul Wallenberg was a real-life historical figure who saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust. In 1944 he was recruited to the War Refugees Board, a United States government agency that hoped to work with European partners to save European Jews from extermination. Working with the WRB through Sweden’s government legation (a government facility like an embassy) in Budapest, Wallenberg utilized a series of creative and bold approaches to save as many Hungarian Jews as possible.
His original assignment was to seek out 650 specific Jewish Hungarians who had legally defensible connections to Sweden, and issue them protective passes from the Swedish government. He ended up issuing thousands of these protective passes — and created several fake ones in the process! Wallenberg also created “Swedish houses,” buildings throughout Budapest that he convinced the Swedish government to declare sovereign Swedish territory. He created 30 of these, and got other nations to create even more; more than 15,000 Jews lived safely in them in the final year of World War Two. He walked alongside those being marched to Austria, handing out food and medical supplies; it’s reported that the Nazi soldiers ordered to fire on him to dissuade him from this disobeyed orders and deliberately missed. Throughout these operations, Wallenberg engaged in a large-scale campaign of bribery, extortion, and threats to get Hungarian and German soldiers, guards, and government officials to let him bend the rules."
the article continues
"Raoul Wallenberg in a Swedish uniform.
The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
In addition to the name of a fictional starship class, Raoul Wallenberg has received many real-world honors. He has been honored as one of the Righteous Gentiles (non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust) by Israel’s Holocaust Memorial Yad Vashem, one of just ten Swedes to receive this recognition. Wallenberg is one of just eight people to ever be granted honorary US citizenship, a list that includes Churchill and Mother Teresa. As it turns out, the Congressman who introduced the legislation to grant him that honorary citizenship was Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor to serve in the US Congress, and a man whose life was actually saved by Wallenberg! The United States Holocaust Museum in Washington, DC is located on a street named Raoul Wallenberg Place, and my wife’s Jewish elementary school is located on Charleston, South Carolina’s Raoul Wallenberg Blvd. There have been movies, operas, and songs written about him. As a hero who saved thousands of lives, he is certainly deserving of the additional honor of having a Starfleet vessel named after him.
In January of 1945, the Soviet army liberated Budapest, and on January 17th, 1945, Wallenberg was escorted out of the city to meet with more senior Russian military leaders to discuss how to help the surviving Jews of Hungary. He was never seen again, though evidence suggests he likely died in the infamous Lubyanka prison in 1947. In 2017, his niece filed a lawsuit asking the Russian government to release the details of what happened to him, but it was rejected ). We may never know when or how he died, but we know how he lived… and how many people lived because of him."
the article lastly says
"Dr. David Shiffman (he/him) is a marine conservation biologist and science journalist based in Washington, DC. Follow him on Twiter @WhySharksMatter, where he's always happy to answer any questions anyone has about sharks.
Star Trek: Picard streams on CBS All Access in the United States, in Canada on Bell Media’s CTV Sci-Fi Channel and OTT service Crave, and on Amazon Prime Video in more than 200 countries and territories."
From the superb website, Christianactionforisrael.org an article is titled
"Christians Visit Jerusalem To Repent For Holocaust, Other Atrocities"
By Julie Stahl
CNS Jerusalem Bureau Chief
April 20, 2001 the article says:
Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - More than 700 Christians from 25 nations braved the tense security situation - and in some cases travel warnings from their governments - to attend a three-day conference in Jerusalem this week, dedicated to repentance for 2000 years of anti-Semitism in the Christian church.
Sponsored by the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, a Protestant Germany-based sisterhood founded in 1947, the conference drew Christians primarily from Protestant denominations, some 45 Americans among them, with the aim of "Changing the Future by Confronting the Past."
The Christians believe the Jews are God's "chosen people" and should therefore be respected by Christians like an "elder brother." They regard Christian persecution of the Jews down the ages as a sin, which has spiritual and physical consequences on the countries in which they live.
"We have come together from the four corners of the earth for a corporate act of repentance in Jerusalem for our sins against the Jewish people," said Sister Pista, chairman of the Sisterhood.
"We cannot undo the past. The greatest service we can do [the Jews] is to acknowledge our failure as a nation and as a community of nations at the time of the Holocaust and express our immeasurable sorrow for nearly 2,000 years of Christian antagonism towards the Jewish people," said Sister Pista, who is German.
The highlight of the conference was a repentance service on Thursday, Israel's Holocaust Memorial Day.
It was not just Germans who expressed guilt for the treatment of the Jews.
Sister Charis, a Canadian sister, who joined the order almost 30 years ago, said until about six years ago she never realized how her own nation had wronged the Jewish people.
"I belong to one of the nations [that] fought against the Nazis," Sister Charis said. But in 1995 she learned that her own nation had also played a negative role, when she read a book called None is Too Many.
The title comes from a quote from Canada's wartime immigration minister, when asked how many Jewish refugees from Europe his country would take in.
(see our article None Is Too Many - A Cause for Canadians To Repent)
"In every country [during the war] there were people who were morally good, [with] a sense of what was right," Sister Charis said. But most people were merely indifferent.
Sister Charis (the name means grace) said if people fail to speak out now in response to the desecration of a Jewish cemetery, media bias against Israel, or anti-Semitism - when the personal cost of speaking out is low - they will certainly not respond when doing so might cost them their lives.
Church historians acknowledge that while many Christians were willing to risk imprisonment or death by hiding or saving Jews from the Nazis, by and large churches had remained silent.
Sister Charis said that wherever she speaks she challenges people to learn their own country or city's history with regard to the Jewish people, and then to do something about it.
Among the atrocities renounced during the two-hour repentance service were those committed by the Crusaders during the Middle Ages, including the burning alive of Jerusalem's Jews, locked in their synagogues as the Crusaders sang hymns outside, believing they were avenging the death of Christ."
the article continues
""We deplore the cruelties and injustices of the Spanish Inquisition, which consigned thousands of Jews, coerced into baptism, to be burned at the stake for continuing any Jewish practices," the liturgy read.
It said prejudice shaped by theology and preaching had caused "many of us, or our parents and grandparents, either to give tacit consent to the persecution of the Jews during the Holocaust or to remain indifferent to their plight."
Amalia Miodownik, was one of some 200 Israelis who attended the session. Although not a Holocaust survivor, she escaped as a child from Russia.
Miodownik, who traveled from the coastal city of Netanya to attend the meeting, said she was moved by the fact that Christians, albeit a small number, had come to express their sorrow and stand with her people on Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The founder of the Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary, Mother Basilea Schlink, died just last month."
Also from the website christianactionforisrael.org another article is titled
"I Am A Zionist, Because"
by Gil Troy
"a movement, largely among Gentile Christians, supporting the right of the Jewish people to return to the Promised Land which has, of course, happened right before our eyes during this century"
"On the 53rd anniversary of Israel's independence, it is all too tempting for friend and foe alike to define Israel, and Zionism, solely by the Arab world's bloody hostility. To do so is to miss the normal miracles that occur in Israel daily, the millions who are able to live and learn, laugh and play, in the Middle East's only democracy. To do so is to underestimate the power of Zionism, a gutsy and visionary movement that outlasted the twentieth century's grander and seemingly permanent revolutions such as Bolshevism, Nazism, fascism and communism.
The sad truth is that over a century after its founding, Zionism seems to be losing its luster. Arabs have demonized Zionism as the modern bogeyman, and many have clumped Zionists, along with Americans and most Westerners, as the Great Satans. The violence of the last seven months has revived the United Nations libel equating Zionism with racism. In Israel, a small but influential group of intellectuals fancies themselves to be post-Zionists, while a negligible but voluble minority of Jews in the Diaspora please man-bite-dog op-ed editors by proudly proclaiming themselves Jewish anti-Zionists.
On this Israel Independence Day, Jews should reaffirm their faith and pride in Zionism, while the world should marvel at its achievements. Zionists must not allow their enemies to define and slander the movement. No nationalism is pure, no movement is perfect, no state ideal, but today Zionism remains legitimate, inspiring, relevant, to me and to most Jews. A century ago, Zionism revived pride in the label "Jew"; today, Jews must revive pride in the label "Zionist."
I am a Zionist because I am a Jew - and without recognizing a national component in Judaism I cannot explain its unique character, a world religion bound to one homeland, a people whose Holy Days are defined by the Israeli agricultural calendar, rooted in theological concepts, and linked with historic events.
I am a Zionist because I know my history - and after being exiled from their homeland 1931 years ago, the defenseless, wandering Jews endured repeated persecutions from both Christians and Muslims - centuries before culminating in the Holocaust.
I am a Zionist because Jews never forgot their ties to their homeland, their love for Jerusalem, and often established autonomous governing structures in Babylonia, in Europe, in North Africa, governments in exile yearning to return home."
the article continues
"I am a Zionist because those ideological ties nourished and were nurtured by the plucky minority of Jews who remained in the land of Israel, sustaining continued Jewish settlement throughout the exile.
I am a Zionist because in modern times, the promise of Emancipation and Enlightenment was a double-edged sword, often only offering acceptance for Jews in Europe after they assimilated, yet never fully respecting them if they did assimilate.
I am a Zionist because in establishing the sovereign state of Israel in 1948, the Jews were merely reconstituting in modern Western terms a relationship with a land they had been attached to for 4,000 years since Abraham - just as India did in establishing a modern state out of an ancient civilization.
I am a Zionist because in building that state, the Jews were returning to history, embracing normalcy, a condition which gave them power, with all its benefits, responsibilities, and dilemmas.
I am a Zionist because I celebrate the existence of Israel, and like any thoughtful patriot, though I might criticize particular governmental policies I may dislike - I do not delegitimize the state itself.
I am a Zionist because I live in the real world of nation-states, and I see that Zionism is no more or less "racist" than any other nationalism, be it American, Canadian, or Czech, all of which rely on some internal cohesion, some sense of solidarity among some historic grouping of individuals, and not others, some tribalism.
I am a Zionist because here in multicultural North America we have learned that pride in one's heritage as a Jew, an Italian, a Greek, can provide essential and time-tested anchors in a world overdosing on materialism, consumerism, and a sensationalism of the here-and-now.
I am a Zionist because in our world of post-modern identities, I know that we don't have to be "either-ors", we can be can "ands and buts" -- a Zionist AND an American patriot; a secular and somewhat assimilated Jew BUT a Zionist.
I am a Zionist because I am a democrat, and for the last two centuries, the history of democracy has been intertwined with the history of nationalism, while for the last century democracy has been a central Zionist ideal, despite being tested under the most severe conditions.
I am a Zionist because I am an idealist, and just as a century ago, the notion of a strong, independent, viable, sovereign Jewish state was an impossible dream - yet absolutely worth fighting for - so, too, today, the notion of a strong, independent, viable, sovereign Jewish state living in true peace and harmony with its neighbors appears to be an impossible dream - yet absolutely worth striving for.
I am a Zionist because I am a romantic, and the vision of the Jews rebuilding their homeland, reclaiming the desert, renewing themselves, was one of the greatest stories of the twentieth century, just as the vision of the Jews maintaining their homeland, reconciling with the Arab world, renewing themselves, and serving as a light to others, a model nation state, could be one of the greatest stories of the twenty-first century.
Yes, it sounds far-fetched today. But, as Theodore Herzl, the father of modern Zionism said in an idle boast that has become a cliche:
"If you will it, it is no dream."
Gil Troy is Professor of History at McGill University in Montreal.
His book, "Why I Am a Zionist", is available through his website.
On YouTube there is a video titled
"The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!: The end."
36,097 views•May 15, 2013
by Nizzinny
285K subscribers. this YouTube video shows the classic ending scene from the 1988 Crime Comedy film
"The Naked Gun" it shows people hugging and being reconciled to each other, an Arab & Jew Hug, a Mailman & Dog, etc
We at this blog hope for Peace in the Mideast & Worldwide, for Peace & Friendship in the Mideast & Worldwide, but it is God, and only God who will be able to make it happen, only God will make a Permanent & Everlasting Peace in the Mideast & Worldwide
RIP Leslie Nielsen
Another Good Online Blog is The Tundra Tabloid
http://tundratabloids.com/ It includes Good Information about the Mideast Conflict
From the website www.timesofisrael.com Another Article showing Arab "Palestinian" Criminality & Evil
the article is titled
"PLO terrorists castrated Israeli hostage in 1972 Munich Olympic attack" The Times of Israel
OTHER ATHLETES WERE BEATEN, HAD BONES BROKEN
PLO terrorists castrated Israeli hostage in 1972 Munich Olympic attack
Widows of victims say weightlifter Yossef Romano was shot, dismembered and left to die in front of other hostages
By JTA
1 December 2015, 8:16 pm 19
The 11 Israeli Munich Olympics victims. the article says:
"Family members of the victims of the massacre of 11 Israeli Olympians during the 1972 Games in Munich only learned the horrifying details of how they were treated 20 years later, including physical abuse and a castration, according to a Tuesday report.
The Israelis — athletes and coaches — were beaten during the 20 hours that they were held by members of the Palestinian terror group Black September, The New York Times reported.
Ilana Romano and Ankie Spitzer, widows of two of the Olympians, discussed the details of the cruelty of the treatment in interviews with the Times that were published Tuesday.
They first viewed photos taken during the hostage siege in September 1992, at the home of their lawyer. At the time, they said, they agreed never to discuss them publicly.
Yossef (Joseph) Romano (Wikipedia)
Prior to that viewing, German authorities had denied the existence of photos and hundreds of pages of reports on the attack and the failed rescue attempt.
A member of the terrorist group Black September, which seized members of the Israeli Olympic team at their quarters during the 1972 Munich Olympics (photo credit: AP/Kurt Strumpf)
A member of the terrorist group Black September, which seized members of the Israeli Olympic team at their quarters during the 1972 Munich Olympics. (AP/Kurt Strumpf)
The women say they are coming forward with the information now in order to gain public and official acknowledgement for their murdered husbands and all the members of the team.
According to the German documents and photos, weightlifter Yossef Romano was shot trying to overpower the terrorists early in the attack. He was then left to die in front of the other hostages and castrated, the Times reported. It is not known if he was castrated before or after he died.
Ilana Romano, the widow of slain Olympian Yossef Romano in the 1972 Munich massacre (YouTube screenshot)
Other hostages were beaten and sustained serious injuries, including broken bones, Spitzer told the newspaper.
Her husband, fencing coach Andre Spitzer, and another hostage died during the siege in the Olympic Village; the rest were killed during a rescue attempt at the airport.
After decades of failed attempts to have the murdered Israeli athletes recognized during the games, the new International Olympic Committee president, Thomas Bach, has agreed to a moment of remembrance during the 2016 Olympics in Rio for all athletes who have died at the Olympics.
Spitzer and Romano are lobbying to have the Munich athletes remembered separately, since their deaths were as a result of a terror attack.
The IOC reportedly has also agreed to help finance a permanent memorial to the murdered athletes in Munich."
Two people typed the following comments in reply to the www.timesofisrael.com article about PLO terrorists who castrated an Israeli hostage in the 1972 Munich attack
they typed
"And these people want a country of their own?"
"Palestinians are the most honored barbarians in History. The world rolls out red carpets instead of jail cells for them. For every Pope, every President, every UN Secretary, every head of State, every author, every company, every non-profit who honor these terrorist barbarians, it speaks volumes about their attitudes towards Jews and their embrace of moral relativism. They have no principles, no real morality and certainly no understanding or concept of the History of the struggle in and for Israel.
But while these "intellectuals" and "leaders" may condemn ISIS brutality, they seem to find a way to rational the palestinian version of it."
The Facebook page
"Fakestinians Propaganda" has a post that says
January 8 ·
FUN FACTS
Saw this and had to share
Who are the people who call themselves Palestinians?
Most "Palestinians" can only prove that their ancestors were there in 1940's but not earlier. Many of them emigrated to "Palestine" to find work due to the Zionist boom. When the early Zionists started to build up the area, which was mostly desert and swamp. The Arab countries did not pump as much oil as today, and their people were poor. The Arabs found work, then brought their families, and their friends, just like the Immigrants who go to Europe now. Can you imagine that in 2 generations they will claim that parts of Europe belongs to them?
As a matter of fact, they already started, they demand a Muslim state in Denmark. More demands will come in more European states.
The only Palestinians were the Jews who lived in the region (not state), called Palestine, which was under the British mandate. The Arab names of those who claim that they are "Palestinians" to this day show their true origins:
"Masri" = from Egypt-Hamas member of Parliament, Mushir al-Masri (the word "masri" littelery means "the egyptian" in arabic !).
"Khamis"= Bahrain "Salem Hanna Khamis" "al-Faruqi"= Mosul, Iraq
"al-Araj" = Morocco, a member of the Saadi Dynasty "Hussein al-Araj"
"al Lubnani" = the Lebanese
"al-Mughrabi" = the Moroccan (Maghreb" – meaning "West" in Arabic, and usually referring to North Africa or specifically to Morocco)
"al-Djazair" = the Algerian
"al-Yamani" = the Yemeni "Issam Al Yamani"
"al-Afghani" = the Afghan
"al-Hindi" = the Indian "Amin al-Hindi"
"Iraqi" = from Iraq.
"halabi" = from Aleppo, Syria
"El Baghdadi" = from Baghdad Iraq.
"Tarabulsi"= Tarabulus-Tripoli, Lebanon.
"Hourani" = Houran Syria.
"al-Husayni" = Saudi Arabia.
"Saudi" = Saudi Arabia.
"Metzarwah"= Egypt.
"Barda---wil" = "Salah Bardawil" HAMAS legislator in Gaza; Egypt, Bardawil Lake area.
"Nashashibi" = Syria.
"Bushnak" = Bosnia
"zoabi"= from Iraq: "Haneen Zoabi".
"Turki" = Turkey "Daud Turki"
"al-Kurd" = Kurdistan.
"Haddadins" = YEMEN descended from Ghassanid Christian Arabs.
"Arab Abu-Kishk" = Egypt.(Bedouins)
"Arab al shakirat" = Egypt (Bedouins)
"Arab al zabidat" = Egypt (Bedouins)
"Arab al aramsha" = Egypt (Bedouins).
Even Yasser Arafat, the most famous "Palestinian" and leader of the P.L.O terrorist organization, was not native to Judea. He called himself a "Palestinian refugee" but spoke Arabic with an Egyptian accent. He was born in 1929 Cairo, Egypt. He served in the Egyptian army, studied in the University of Cairo, and lived in Cairo until 1956! His full name was Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. "Al-Qudwa" tribe origin?
Yasser Arafat also proudly stated in his authorized biography that, "If there is any such thing as a Palestinian people, it is I, Yasser Arafat, who created them."
From the Jerusalem Post, www.jpost.com an article is titled
"Arab man says he murdered Jewish girlfriend to ‘free Palestinian prisoners’"
The suspect was arraigned on first-degree murder charges at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court.
By DANIEL K. EISENBUD AUGUST 2, 2017 12:52Email Twitter Facebook fb-messenger
"The body of a missing Jewish woman from the Binyamin region of the West Bank was found by police last week after her Arab boyfriend confessed to strangling her and bashing her head with rocks in Holon to “release Palestinian prisoners.”
Police first received a report that Michal Halimi, 29, who was pregnant and married to another man, was missing at the end of May and launched an investigation to find her. A gag order, lifted Wednesday, was implemented for the duration of the search.
It remains unclear who the father of the child was.
“In the course of the investigation, it emerged that the missing woman had voluntarily left Binyamin, and apparently was staying at the home of a young Palestinian man from Nablus with whom she was in a relationship,” police said Wednesday.
“Based on preliminary findings, including images and posts the two shared on Facebook, they intended to become engaged. As the investigation unfolded, the suspect was arrested and in the first stage of his interrogation contradictions arose regarding the whereabouts of the missing person, a fact that raised the suspicion of his involvement in her absence.”
As the investigation intensified, associates who were in regular contact with the suspect, identified as Muhammad Harouf, were detained and questioned. During their interrogations they confirmed that Halimi was in a relationship with Harouf, and that she went missing the day the two last met in Holon."
the article continues
"As evidence mounted that Halimi was dead, the boyfriend eventually confessed to killing her in Holon and reconstructed the murder for police. Her corpse was located on July 24.
“According to his version, he met the deceased in the Holon area, choked her, threw stones at her head, covered her body, and left the scene in her car in order to ‘release Palestinian prisoners,’” police said.
Following Harouf’s arrest, the Yad L’Achim organization accused the police of negligence in their handling of the investigation for taking too long to solve the murder, and for lifting the gag order without contacting the victim’s family.
The organization said Halimi’s husband asked it for aid in finding his wife shortly after her disappearance.
“The family discovered this morning that the gag order in the case was lifted and the murder was published in the media a few hours before Michal’s funeral,” the organization said in a statement.
“The conduct of the police in this case [mirrors] the conduct of other cases that we have accompanied them on in the past, when they are slow and do not understand the gravity of things.”
The organization added that Halimi’s murder is “part of the long statistics of Jewish women who find themselves in romantic relationships with Arabs, and then find themselves in a violent and suffocating situation.”
“In Yad L’Achim, we encounter such cases on a regular basis and try to help and support these women in finding a way to build a new life,” the organization said.
The suspect was arraigned on first-degree murder charges at the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court."
From the website www.israellycool.com an article is titled
"A Tale of Two Heroes"
By Ryan Bellerose -September 17, 2018
the article says
"One Hero, Ari Fuld, worked hard, raised money for others, never took a really large wage despite raising prodigious amounts of money for several causes, raised 4 children on a limited budget, was a respected religious man who helped others return to their ancestral ways and was a shining example of what a Jewish person could aspire to be. He protected his people and continued to serve in the military reserves regularly, put others first, and showed his love and veneration for his ancestral lands by volunteering untold hours and travelling the entire world to debunk lies and spread honest truth. He was a hero to his people and in the story of the Jewish people. He will be forever remembered as a respected and loved husband , father and hero. They may never name a school after him, but the people whose lives he touched and anyone who ever met him, will remember him with fondness and respect. When he died, an entire country mourned and thousands of people attended his funeral. He is a hero not just for the way he died, mortally wounded and chasing the coward who murdered him and preventing that coward from harming anyone else with what were literally his last breaths, but for the way he lived, selflessly, for others not just himself."
the article continues
"The other “hero”, Khalil Jabbarin was a 17-year-old loser, he has done nothing notable with his life. Except one thing, he took a knife and snuck up behind a man who was on the phone and stabbed him in the back and then ran away. He killed a Jew, so now he is being lauded as a hero by his people, who handed out candies and posted his picture and name all over the place telling everyone what a hero this kid was. They will probably name a UNRWA school after him, at least if UNRWA still exists after this year. But in a few days he will be forgotten, nobody will remember anything he did, nobody cares. He is not even a footnote in the story of his people. The only lives he touched were the lives of the friends and family of the man he killed. The only thing of note he ever did was something evil, and pathetic. Nobody will look back at him with fondness or respect and when he dies, I doubt his funeral will reach double digits. He is being called a hero by his people because he snuck up behind a man and stabbed him and then ran away.
These heroes are the difference between these two peoples. One people have heroes who are heroes because they are loved and respected and do heroic things and place others before themselves. They do extraordinary things and are exemplary human beings. The other people? All you need to do is try to kill a Jew. I know which hero will stand before the creator unbowed and without trembling, and which one will be going somewhere unpleasant.
The truth is that there are not two heroes at all; there was one hero and one pathetic pitiful excuse for a human being."
From the website www.algemeiner.com an article is titled
"Israel Is a Beacon for Religious Freedom"
FEBRUARY 18, 2020 7:56 AM4
avatar by Rami Dabbas
OPINION
Tourists walk in Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Dec. 2, 2019. Photo: Reuters / Mussa Qawasma.
"The Middle East of the 21st century is quickly becoming monolithic, as it sheds the religious and cultural diversity that once existed in the region. Though it gave the world all three Abrahamic religions, it is rapidly becoming the home of only one.
In recent years, the Christian population has decreased across the entire region, and in some Arab countries, the Christian component has been absent entirely:
In Iraq, the Christian community is dwindling and facing a torrent of hatred and violence;
Only thousands of Turkey’s Christians remain, while once the country was home to millions;
In Syria, Christians once made up a full third of the population, but today account for just 10 percent;
In the 1930s, Lebanon boasted a majority Christian population, whereas now they are less than a third;
For the first time since the 1950s, Coptic Christians are leaving Egypt in large numbers; and
In areas under the control of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas, once-large communities of Christians have now been reduced to a tiny minority.
The origins of this crisis date back to many decades ago. Ever since the genocide of Armenians by the Ottoman Turks (1914-1918), which claimed about one million lives, Middle East Christians have been seeking safer havens.
Later, during the monarchy in Iraq, a policy of revenge was implemented against Christians over their cooperation with the British during World War I. The instability surrounding the fall of the monarchy in 1958 provided a chance for many Christians to escape to the West.
More recently, the rise of Islamist groups in Iraq has again reduced Christians to dhimmi status and subjected them to routine harassment and persecution. The result has been the same — a mass migration of Christians.
Most of the Jews were driven out of the Arab world over the past century. Now, it seems, it is the turn of the Christians. But what will the Middle East become without its ancient Christian population?"
the article continues
"Most worrying is that this process appears to be irreversible. All of the Christian migrants that I have spoken to insist they will never return under any circumstances. Even if the security situation improves in the short term, there are no long-term guarantees for Christians in the region, and their immigration to greener pastures is likely permanent.
As always, we must point out that there remains one single country in the Middle East where Christians still live in peace and tranquility — the Jewish State of Israel.
And only in Israel can Arabs of all faiths coexist with the Jewish people, and enjoy the democratic freedoms denied them in nearly every Arab country.
Is it any wonder that while Christian communities around the region are shrinking fast, the number of Jesus’ followers in his own country of Israel is actually growing?
Rami Dabbas is a civil engineer by profession who writes for several media outlets. He is a pro-Israel advocate, peace campaigner, and political activist speaking out against terrorism."
From www.barnesandnoble.com a good book to read is titled
"The A to Z of Zionism"
by Rafael Medoff, Chaim I. Waxman
Overview
"The Jewish attachment to Zion is many centuries old. While the modern Zionist movement was organized a little more than a century ago, the roots of the Zionist idea reach back close to 4,000 years ago, to the day that the biblical patriarch Abraham left his home in Ur of the Chaldees to settle in the Promised Land, where the Jewish state subsequently arose. From that day to the establishing of the state of Israel in 1948, the Jewish people have been in a constant struggle to either regain or maintain their homeland. Although 60 years have now passed since the establishment of Israel, many of the political and religious factions that made up the Zionist movement in the pre-state era remain active. The A to Z of Zionism—through its chronology, maps, introductory essay, bibliography, and over 200 cross-referenced dictionary entries on crucial persons, organizations, and events—is a valuable contribution to the appreciation for both the diversity and consensus that characterize the Zionist experience."
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"WATCH: Syrian journalist praises Israel, says Arabs are ‘responsible for their own backwardness’"
February 20, 2020 the article says
In a Feb. 11 debate on Al-Jazeera, Syrian journalist Thaer Al-Nashef gave a clear-eyed assessment of Israel and its accomplishments only to be met by his opponent citing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion in rebuttal.
Anyone can Google the Article, it gives a Link to a YouTube video
Big Surprise, Big Surprise Again, More EVIL in Germany, More Evil Coming Out of Germany
The Wikipedia Entry "2020 Hanau Shootings" says about this latest horrific tragic hate incident in Germany , we at this Blog are NOT saying all Germans are Evil, but perhaps about 50 percent Are !!
"2020 Hanau shootings"
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2020 Hanau shootings
Part of terrorism in Germany
Location Hanau, Hesse, Germany
Coordinates 50°07′59″N 08°54′48″ECoordinates: 50°07′59″N 08°54′48″E
Date 19 February 2020
22:00 CET (UTC+01:00)
Target Foreigners
Weapons Glock 17 9×19mm Parabellum semi-automatic pistol[1]
Deaths 11 (including the perpetrator)
Injured 5
Perpetrator Tobias Rathjen
Motive Far-right extremism, Xenophobia
On 19 February 2020, two mass shootings occurred, targeting two shisha bars in Hanau, Hesse, Germany. Nine people were killed and five others seriously wounded. After the attacks, the alleged perpetrator killed his mother and committed suicide. Police surmise a xenophobic, right-wing extremist motive.
Contents
1 Incident
2 Victims
3 Perpetrator
4 Investigation
5 Reactions
6 References
Incident
The shootings took place at around 22:00 local time (UTC+1) on 19 February 2020, in two shisha bars—one at the Midnight Bar in Hanau's central square, and the other at the Arena Bar & Café in the western Kesselstadt neighbourhood. Reports showed that both bars are mostly frequented by Kurds; however, the patrons within the first bar were Turks.[2][3][4] At least three people were killed in the first shooting, while at least five were killed in the second.[5] The police initiated a large-scale investigation.[6] It was initially reported that the suspects were at large.[7] At 05:15 the next day, the gunman, identified as Tobias Rathjen, and his mother were found dead at their apartment.[8] German police state that the gunman shot himself after returning home from the incident.[9] As of 20 February, the total number of people killed had reached 11, as one of the people injured in the second shooting died from their wounds.[10]"
the Wikipedia Entry continues
"Victims
A total of ten people were killed by the attacker: five were Kurds with Turkish nationality, one was a Bosnian, one Bulgarian, one Romanian and another a Polish citizen. The attacker's German mother was also killed.[11][12] Also, one of the owners of the bars died.[13][better source needed]
Perpetrator
The gunman was identified as 43-year-old Tobias Rathjen, a far-right extremist and neo-Nazi.[14][15] He released a manifesto and videos, showing his political beliefs and theories surrounding Donald Trump quoting his slogans,[16] eugenics and identifying with views similar to those expressed by members of the Incel and Men Going Their Own Way community, as he could never experience an intimate relationship with a woman due to his psychological issues during his lifetime.[17] He expressed hate for foreigners and called for a mass killing of people from the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.[18][19]
Investigation
Federal prosecutors are treating the attack as terrorism, with officials saying there is evidence the gunman was a far-right extremist, as well as signs of xenophobic motives for the killings.[7] Peter Beuth, the Minister of the Interior in the state of Hesse, stated on 20 February that a homepage found by investigators indicated a right-wing political motive for the shootings.[20] However, prosecutors said Rathjen was not previously known as an extremist by authorities.[21] A written letter and a video clip of a confession were reportedly discovered and are being analysed by the police.[22]
Reactions
As a result of the shootings, Chancellor Angela Merkel cancelled a planned trip to Halle and expressed her condolences to the victims' families.[23] The President of the European Parliament, David Sassoli, also offered condolences.[24] Some Turkish citizens were reportedly among the victims of the shooting, as such, the Turkish government described it as a form of racism and have urged for prompt investigation. [25]"
The Wikipedia entry continues
"References
"Hanau-Attentäter bestellte Tatwaffe in Onlineshop". RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (in German). 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
Oltermann, Philip; Connolly, Kate (20 February 2020). "Germany shooting: far-right gunman kills 10 in Hanau". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
SPIEGEL, DER. "Mehrere Menschen sterben durch Schüsse in Hanau - DER SPIEGEL - Panorama". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
"Germany shooting: 'Far-right extremist' carried out shisha bars attacks".
"Mehrere Menschen im hessischen Hanau erschossen - Täter möglicherweise flüchtig". dw.com. Deutsche Welle. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
"POL-OF: Großfahndung der Polizei in Hanau". presseportal.de (in German). Retrieved 19 February 2020.
"Germany shooting: Nine dead after two attacks on Hanau shisha bars". bbc.com. BBC. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
"Eleven dead, including suspect, after Hanau attacks – as it happened". theguardian.com. Retrieved 19 February 2020.
"Hanau shooting: Nine dead in attacks at shisha lounges in Germany".
Schmidt, Nadine; Gray, Melissa; Davis, , A.J.; Rappard, Anna-Maja (20 February 2020). "Nine killed at two shisha bars in Germany in suspected far-right attack". CNN. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
"Police probe whether racist German killer had help". =BBC News. 20 February 2020.
Connolly, Kate; McKernan, Bethan (20 February 2020). "Bar staff and pregnant woman reportedly among Hanau victims". The Guardian.
"Hanau shooting: Nine dead after 'drive-by' shootings at German restaurant and bar".
"Has Germany done enough to tackle far-right violence?". BBC News. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
"Gunman suspected of far-right links kills 10 in Germany". Financial Times. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
Bostock, Bill. "The mass shooter who killed 9 in Germany published a racist manifesto where he identified as an incel and accused Trump of stealing his populist slogans". Insider.
"Terror in Hanau: Die kranke rassistische Gedankenwelt des Tobias R." RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland (in German). 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
Farrell, Paul (20 February 2020). "Tobias Rathjen: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know".
Moody, Oliver (20 February 2020). "Germans slow to tackle far‑right threat". The Times. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
"Hessens Innenminister sieht Hinweise auf rassistische Gesinnung". Der Spiegel (in German). 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
"Was bislang über die Tat in Hanau bekannt ist". Der Tagesspiegel (in German). 20 February 2020. Retrieved 20 February 2020.
"Suspect, 1 Other Found Dead After 9 People Killed in Germany".
Nadine Schmidt; Sheena McKenzie. "Nine killed at two shisha bars in Germany in suspected far-right attack". CNN News.
Welle (www.dw.com), Deutsche. "Germany shootings: Federal prosecutors take over Hanau investigation — live updates | DW | 20.02.2020". DW.COM.
"Germany in shock and rage: reactions to the shooting in Hanau". shisha bars are also known as hookah lounges , we at this blog are NOT saying that all Germans are Evil or Racists or Anti-Semites, Probably about 50 Percent are Decent people, while the Rest are Evil,
From Amazon.com a good book worth reading is
"Z is for Zionism: Introduce your child to the true, inspiring history of Israel and the
Jewish people" Published in 2020
the Amazon.com Description says
"Take your child (6+) on the soul-stirring journey of the Jewish people through history up to the Zionist dream becoming a reality. Introduce your child to the Jewish people’s return to the promised land, and the important role Israel plays in securing a Jewish future. Among other things, this book is a response to the popular children’s book P is for Palestine, which promotes violence against Israel. Gone are the days when our children can grow up innocent. They are now inundated with anti-American/anti-Israel propaganda online, at school and in the media. This book is a small measure to push back against the misinformation children may be exposed to. For some, Zionism has become a bad word that can’t be uttered in public. This is nonsense. We need to teach our children to be proud Zionists.
Age appropriate lessons included in this book: Introduction to Judaism; History of Israel; Israel as a force for good in the world; Importance of Israel for Jewish self defense; Discussion of anti-semitism; Palestinian Arab rejection of Israel.
About the author, Ze’ev Zion: I work professionally countering the enemies of Israel and the Jewish people. In the past I worked for influential Jewish and pro-Israel organizations. Unfortunately, too many fellow Jews, who mean well, don’t believe in proudly defending our identity and homeland. As a result, young Jews are growing up and embracing values antithetical to Judaism. I was compelled to write this book in order to provide a way for our children to understand the facts about Israel, in an age appropriate manner, before they are exposed to the many anti-semitic lies that pervade our society online, at school and in the media.
Passages from the book:
Thousands of years ago, the ruler of the universe, God, made a covenant with Abraham, the very first Jew. A covenant is like an agreement. God promised to give the land of Israel to the Jewish people. Later on, God gave his commandments, which are like rules, to the Jews in the Torah. It is these three things—God, Torah and Israel—that form the foundation of Judaism...
...Some didn’t like that the Jews introduced God and moral demands into the world. Others told lies about Jews and blamed them for problems they didn’t create. While others didn’t like that the Jews were different than them. This poor treatment of Jews is called anti-semitism...
...For thousands of years, the land of Israel was conquered and ruled by many different groups, including the Romans, Muslims, Greeks and Turks. But none of them had the same historical, legal or God-given right to the land as the Jews. Also, they didn’t have the same level of emotional attachment to the land as the Jews...
...After the Holocaust Jews swore that they would Never Again allow something like that to happen. It became even more clear why Zionism was so important. The Jewish people needed to return to Israel, not only because it belonged to them, but also so they could join together with one another and defend themselves...
...Israel tried to make peace over and over again with the Palestinian Arabs. Israel offered to share the land with them and even agreed to give up part of Israel to create a Palestinian state. But the Palestinian Arabs were not interested...
...Israel does an excellent job defending itself. Israel has one of the most powerful militaries in the world. Israel is strong, smart, confident, successful and gives Jews all around the world pride. Israel is thriving...
...Israel is a free country that treats all of its citizens fairly, even the ones that aren’t Jewish. Israel is the only country in the Middle East that truly lets its citizens choose who leads them. This is called democracy...
...Israel and the United States have a special relationship..."
Also from Amazon.com Another book is titled
"The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism(updated): From Sacred Texts to Solemn History"
Published in 2020 by Andrew G. Bostom with a Foreword by Ibn Warraq
the description says
"Islamic antisemitism is as old as Islam itself, and is not a mere borrowing from non-Muslim sources, as has been claimed. The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism provides comprehensive, meticulously documented evidence that a readily discernible, uniquely Islamic antisemitism—specific Muslim hatred of Jews—has been expressed continuously since the advent of Islam.
Writing in 1971, S.D. Goitein, the pre-eminent scholar of Muslim-Jewish relations as revealed in the Geniza documentary record of the high Middle Ages (950-1250 C.E.), employed the term antisemitism, “…in order to differentiate animosity against Jews from the discrimination practiced by Islam against non-Muslims in general. Our scrutiny of the Geniza material has proved the existence of ‘antisemitism’ in the time and the area considered here…”. Goitein cited as concrete proof of his assertion that a unique strain of Islamic Jew hatred was extant at that time (i.e., up to a millennium ago)—exploding the common assumption of its absence—the fact that letters from the Geniza material, “…have a special word for it and, most significantly, one not found in the Bible or in Talmudic literature…but one much used and obviously coined in the Geniza period.”
Important examples of antisemitic motifs in the foundational Muslim texts are presented: from the Koran and Koranic exegesis by the greatest classical and modern Muslim commentators; the hadith (words and deeds of the Muslim prophet Muhammad as recorded by pious Muslim transmitters), the sira (earliest Muslim biographies of Muhammad), as well as the writings of influential Muslim jurists, theologians, and scholars, from the Middle Ages through the contemporary era. These primary sources, and seminal secondary analyses translated here for the first time into English such as Hartwig Hirschfeld’s mid 1880s essays on Muhammad’s subjugation of the Jews of Medina, and George Vajda’s elegant, comprehensive 1937 study of the hadith—detail the sacralized rationale for Islam’s anti-Jewish bigotry. Numerous complementary historical accounts illustrate the resulting the plight of Jewish communities in the Muslim world across space and time, culminating in the genocidal threat posed to the Jews of Israel today."
the description continues
"The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism debunks the conventional wisdom which continues to assert that Muslim Jew hatred is entirely a 20th century phenomenon, a loose amalgam of re-cycled medieval Christian Judeophobic motifs, calumnies from the Czarist Russia “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and standard Nazi propaganda, that only arose after the advent of the Zionist movement and the protracted Arab-Jewish conflict over all of the lands comprising the original 1922 Mandate for historical Palestine. Scholars, educators, and interested lay readers will find this collection an invaluable resource for understanding the phenomenon of Muslim antisemitism, past and present.
An updated Author’s Preface for this new edition—which includes materials through January 3, 2020—elucidates the current global pandemic of Muslim Antisemitism, and its resulting violent manifestations, in Israel, Western Europe, and the United States. Doctrinal drivers of this hatred, as espoused by iconic Muslim religious leaders representing the pinnacles of institutional Islamic religious education—both Sunni and Shiite—are introduced. This compendious, timely exposé rivets upon freshly translated samples of modern, seminal Koranic glosses—rife with Jew-hatred—which shape current understandings of Islam’s holy book, and Islam itself, by the Muslim masses. The new Preface concludes with a focused discussion about why non-Muslim religious leaders, especially Jews, must admonish institutional Islam to begin its own process, akin to Vatican II/Nostre Aetate, of expunging at least the most virulent Jew-hating motifs from Islam’s core theology."
From the website www.barnesandnoble.com another good book is titled
"The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj Amin Al-Husseini"
by Chuck Morse
Overview
"This is the remarkable story of Haj Amin al-Husseini who was, in many ways, as big a Nazi villain as Hitler himself. To understand his influence on the Middle East is to understand the ongoing genocidal program against the Jews of Israel. Al-Husseini was a bridge figure in terms of transporting the Nazi genocide in Europe into the post-war Middle East. As the leader of Arab Palestine during the British Mandate period, al-Husseini introduced violence against moderate Arabs as well as against Jews. Al-Husseini met with Adolf Eichmann in Palestine in 1937 and subsequently went on the Nazi payroll as a Nazi agent. Al-Husseini played a pivotal behind-the-scenes role in instigating a pro-Nazi coup in Iraq in 1941 as he urged Nazis and pro-Nazi governments in Europe to transport Jews to death camps, trained pro-Nazi Bosnian brigades, and funneled Nazi loot into pro-war Arab countries."
Look it up on www.barnesandnoble.com
From the website www.meforum.org
an article is titled
"Turks and Arabs Welcomed the Balfour Declaration"
"A Jewish National Home," 100 Years On
by Efraim Karsh
Middle East Quarterly
Winter 2018 (view PDF) the article says
"World War I allies incorporated the Balfour Declaration into the Turkish Peace Treaty signed at the French town of Sèvres in August 1920.
"100 years have passed since the notorious Balfour Declaration, by which Britain gave, without any right, authority or consent from anyone, the land of Palestine to another people. This paved the road for the Nakba of Palestinian people and their dispossession and displacement from their land."[1]
So Mahmoud Abbas claimed at last year's annual meeting of the U.N. General Assembly in what constitutes the standard Palestinian indictment of the November 1917 British government's pledge to facilitate "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" providing that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine."
It is an emotionally gripping claim, but it is also the inverse of truth. For one thing, Britain did consult its main war allies, notably U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, before issuing the declaration, which was quickly endorsed by the contemporary international community, including the leaders of the nascent pan-Arab movement. Furthermore, the declaration was used as a model by the Ottoman Empire for its own official communiqué.
The Balfour Declaration was used as a model by the Ottoman Empire for its own official communiqué.
For another thing, it was not the Balfour Declaration that paved the road to the displacement of many Palestinians but its rejection by the extremist Palestinian Arab leadership headed by the Jerusalem mufti Hajj Amin Husseini—this against the wishes of ordinary Palestinian Arabs who preferred to coexist with their Jewish neighbors and take advantage of opportunities created by the evolving Jewish national enterprise. Had this leadership not ignored the wishes of its subjects, and the will of the international community for that matter, there would have been no nakba.
The Historical Context
The end of World War I saw the ideal of national self-determination becoming the organizing principle of the international system as the victorious powers carved territorial states from the collapsed Ottoman, German, Habsburg, and Russian empires. This was done through a newly devised mandates system that placed the Afro-Asiatic territories of the defunct empires (the European lands were given immediate independence) under the control of respective mandatory powers, beholden to a new world organization—the League of Nations—which were charged with steering them from tutelage to independence.[2]
This sea change is commonly associated with Woodrow Wilson's famous fourteen points, announced in an address to a joint session of Congress on January 8, 1918. In fact, it was the much-maligned May 1916 Anglo-French-Russian agreement on the partition of the Ottoman Empire (or the Sykes-Picot agreement as it is generally known) that blazed this new trail by providing for "an independent Arab State or a Confederation of Arab States ... under the suzerainty of an Arab chief."[3]"
the article continues
"The Balfour Declaration sought to modify this agreement by substituting a Jewish national home for the international administration to which Palestine was to be subjected. While the French resented the change for fear of losing influence over Christianity's holy sites, they eventually relented and joined their war allies in incorporating the declaration into the Turkish Peace Treaty signed at the French town of Sèvres in August 1920.[4] Two years later, on July 24, 1922, the League of Nations appointed Britain the mandatory for Palestine with the explicit goal of "placing the country under such political, administrative, and economic conditions as will secure the establishment of the Jewish national home" as stipulated by the Balfour Declaration.[5] A week later, the U.S. Congress endorsed the declaration in a joint resolution, amplifying this move during World War II with several resolutions and declarations supporting unrestricted Jewish immigration and the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine.[6]
In other words, within five years of its issuance, the Balfour Declaration had come to reflect the will of the international community as represented by a major official resolution by the newly established world organization (the U.N. predecessor). And this was not only in the "practical" sense of supporting the creation of a Jewish national home but in the deeper sense of recognizing "the historical connexion [sic] of the Jewish people with Palestine and ... the grounds for reconstituting their national home in the country."[7]
Even the Ottoman Empire, head of the world's Muslim community, seemed to have acknowledged the right of the Jews to collective revival in their ancestral homeland. On August 12, 1918, Grand Vizier Talaat Pasha, one of the triumvirs who had run the empire since 1913, issued an official communiqué expressing "sympathies for the establishment of a religious and national Jewish center in Palestine by well-organized immigration and colonization" and offering to promote this enterprise "by all means" provided it "does not affect the rights of the non-Jewish population."[8]"
the article continues
"Largely modeled on the Balfour Declaration and formulated in a similar process of lengthy discussions with prominent Jewish leaders, Talaat's proclamation came too late to have real significance—two-and-a-half months after its issuance, the Ottomans surrendered to the Allies—and was apparently designed to improve the Muslim empire's bargaining position in the looming postwar peace talks. Yet its issuance was nothing short of extraordinary given the violent Ottoman reaction to anything that smacked of national self-determination, from the Greek war of independence in the 1820s, to the Balkan wars of the 1870s, to the Armenian genocide of World War I. Indeed, only a year before the declaration, the Jewish community in Palestine (or the Yishuv) faced a real risk of extinction from the Ottomans for the very same reason, only to be saved through intervention by Germany, Istanbul's senior war ally.
Arabs Embrace the Declaration
Emir Faisal. Talaat was hardly the only regional potentate to accept the Jewish right to national revival. The leaders of the nascent pan-Arab movement were perfectly amenable to endorsing the Balfour Declaration so long as this seemed to be conducive to their ambitions. And none more so than the Hashemite emirs Faisal and Abdullah who, together with their father, the Sharif of Mecca Hussein ibn Ali, perpetrated the "Great Arab War" against the Ottoman Empire. They were, as it happened, generously rewarded for their endeavors in the form of vast territories several times the size of the British Isles. Yet since these spectacular gains (which comprise the current states of Iraq, Jordan, and parts of Saudi Arabia) only served to whet their appetite, the emirs continued to pursue their imperial ambitions under the pan-Arab guise.
The Hashemite emirs continued to pursue their imperial ambitions under the pan-Arab guise."
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"Even during the revolt, Faisal began toying with the idea of establishing his own Syrian empire, independent of his father's prospective regional empire. In late 1917 and early 1918, he went so far as to negotiate this option with key members of the Ottoman leadership behind the backs of his father and his British allies. As his terms were rejected by Istanbul, Faisal tried to gain great-power endorsement for his imperial dream, and it was here that his interests seemed to converge with that of the Zionist movement.
On June 4, 1918, Faisal met Chaim Weizmann, the Russia-born, Manchester-based rising head of the Zionist movement. The two struck up an immediate rapport, and the emir readily acknowledged "the necessity for cooperation between Jews and Arabs" and "the possibility of Jewish claims to territory in Palestine." Yet he refused to discuss Palestine's future until such a time "when Arab affairs were more consolidated."[9]
When they met again six months later, Faisal was prepared to take his general affinity a major step further. By now, he had established a foothold in Syria under the protective wing of Sir Edmund Allenby, commander of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, which had driven the Ottoman forces from the Levant. The emir hoped to expand this opening into a full-fledged empire with U.S. backing and support. Were the Zionists to help swing American public opinion behind his cause, he was "quite sure that he and his followers would be able to explain to the Arabs that the advent of the Jews into Palestine was for the good of the country, and that the legitimate interests of the Arab peasants would in no way be interfered with."[10]
"It [i]s curious there should be friction between Jews and Arabs in Palestine," Faisal told Weizmann after hearing his exposition of Zionist aims. "There was no friction in any other country where Jews lived together with Arabs. He was convinced that the trouble was promoted by intrigues. He did not think for a moment that there was any scarcity of land in Palestine. The population would always have enough, especially if the country were developed."[11] Faisal reiterated this benevolent observation at a dinner held on his behalf by Lord Rothschild, to whom Balfour sent the letter containing his famous declaration. "No true Arab can be suspicious or afraid of Jewish nationalism," Faisal stated, "and what better intermediary could we find anywhere in the world more suitable than you? For you have all the knowledge of Europe, and are our cousins by blood."[12]
On January 3, 1919, shortly before giving evidence to the Paris peace conference, Faisal signed an agreement with Weizmann supporting the creation of a Jewish national home in Palestine in accordance with the Balfour Declaration and pledging the adoption of all necessary measures "to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale." In a letter to a prominent American Zionist a couple of months later, Faisal amplified this pledge:
We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement ... and we regard [the Zionist demands] as moderate and proper. We will do our best, in so far as we are concerned, to help them through: we will wish the Jews a most hearty welcome home.[13]"
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"For several months, the emir seemed to be working to this end. So much so that in April 1919, Weizmann maintained that "between the Arab leaders, as represented by Faisal, and ourselves, there is complete understanding, and therefore complete accord" and that Faisal "has undertaken to exercise all his influence towards having his estimate of the Zionist cause and the Zionist proposals as 'moderate and proper' shared by his following." Nearly six months later, Weizmann still considered Faisal a staunch ally who fully understood the immense potential of Arab-Zionist cooperation. "He is ready to take Jewish advisers and is willing, even anxious, to have Zionist support in the development and even administration of the Damascus region," he wrote to Balfour in September 1919. "We, of course, would be willing to make a very great effort to help Faisal, as it would help us very much towards establishing good relations with the Arabs both in Palestine and Syria."[14]
This upbeat prognosis failed to consider the instrumental nature of Faisal's behavior. When his efforts to gain international recognition for his imperial dream came to naught, the emir quickly changed tack and reneged on his historic agreement with the Zionist movement. On March 8, 1920, he was crowned by his supporters as King Faisal I of Syria "within its natural boundaries, including Palestine," and the newly installed monarch had no intention of allowing the Jewish national movement to wrest away any part of his kingdom. The coronation was thus followed by riots in Palestine as rumors spread regarding the country's imminent annexation to Syria. These culminated in early April 1920 in a pogrom in Jerusalem in which five Jews were murdered and more than two hundred were wounded. "[I]n spite of his momentary success, obtained also partly by British gold—[Faisal] is in the long run a broken reed," a disillusioned Weizmann wrote his colleagues.[15]
Emir Abdullah. This disillusionment did not prevent the Zionist leaders from pinning their hopes on Abdullah, who resented his marginalization by his younger brother and resolved to win his own "Greater Syrian" empire. Like Faisal, the emir viewed Zionism as an influential and affluent movement that could help both rally great-power support behind his imperial dream and bankroll its implementation. In the words of his protégé and Transjordan's prime minister, Samir Rifai: "The enlarged Transjordan State with the support of Jewish economy would become the most influential State in the Arab Middle East."[16]
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"Abdullah made his first overture to the Zionist movement in the autumn of 1921, indicating his readiness to recognize the Balfour Declaration and to allow Jewish settlement in Transjordan, which he had come to rule several months earlier, provided the Jews agreed to be incorporated into a unified kingdom under his headship. In the meantime, he had a small favor to ask. The £3,500 monthly subsidy from his father was paid through the Zionist-owned Anglo-Palestine Bank in Jerusalem. Would the bank be prepared to advance him £7,000 to be repaid by the remittance from his father? The bank's evasive reply did little to deter the emir. In November 1922, he traveled to London, where at a secret meeting with Weizmann and a number of Zionist officials, he reiterated his proposal and asked that they use their good offices with the French government, which by then had expelled Faisal from Damascus, to secure him the Syrian throne.[17]
Egypt. Neither were the Hashemites the Zionists' only conduit to the Arabic-speaking world. With contacts with some of the secret, pan-Arab societies operating in the Ottoman Empire already established by the Zionist movement prior to World War I, a few months after the issuance of the Balfour Declaration, Weizmann led a Zionist commission to the Middle East to explore ways and means for its implementation, including "the establishment of good relations with the Arabs and other non-Jewish communities in Palestine." In Cairo, he managed to convince a number of leading Syrian and Palestinian activists, living at the time in the Egyptian capital, that "Zionism has come to stay, that it is far more moderate in its aims than they had anticipated, and that by meeting it in a conciliatory spirit, they are likely to reap substantial benefits in the future." He also succeeded in allaying the fears of the Egyptian sultan Fuad of Zionism's alleged designs on Islam's holy places, especially its supposed intention to destroy the Dome of the Rock and to reestablish the Jewish temple on its ruins.[18]
Egypt was conspicuously indifferent to the anti-Zionist struggle in Palestine led by Hajj Amin Husseini.
It was indeed in Egypt that the Jewish national aspirations seemed to garner some genuine sympathy, albeit for the opposite reasons of those articulated by Zionist champions of the "pan-Arab connection." Given its physical detachment from the eastern part of the Arabic-speaking world on the one hand, and its illustrious imperial past dating back to pharaonic times on the other, Egypt was seen by early pan-Arabists as "not belonging to the Arab race." For their part, Egyptians looked down on the rest of the Arabs, using the term "Arab" in a derogatory fashion to denote a shiftless and uncultured nomad, someone to be viewed with contempt by a people with a millenarian tradition of settled cultivation. "If you add one zero to another, and then to another, what sum will you get?" Saad Zaghlul, the doyen of modern Egyptian nationalism, said, dismissing the pan-Arab ideal of unity.[19]"
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"During the 1920s and the early 1930s, Egypt was conspicuously indifferent to the anti-Zionist struggle in Palestine led by Hajj Amin Husseini. So much so that a prominent Palestinian Arab journalist, living in Egypt, recalled in his memoirs how he was asked by ordinary Egyptians who "Mr. Palestine" was, while others thought that Zionism was the name of a certain woman with whom Mr. Palestine had quarreled and, therefore, hated.
Ziwar Pasha, the governor of Alexandria, was certainly better informed, though his knowledge did not prevent him from participating in the celebrations of the local Jewish community upon the issuance of the Balfour Declaration. Eight years later, as Egypt's prime minister, Ziwar sent an official representative to the inauguration of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, which he applauded as a contribution to mankind. By contrast, the Egyptian government refused to send a delegation to the ceremonies celebrating the restoration of the al-Aqsa mosque, contenting itself with the attendance of its Jerusalem consul. Likewise, no Egyptian official bothered to meet Husseini during his visits to Cairo in 1926-28; on one occasion, he was directly snubbed by the Egyptian prime minister, who would not see him despite staying in the same hotel—this at a time when Weizmann had already conferred with Fuad in 1918, and other Zionist officials met Egyptian counterparts as a matter of course. As late as 1928, the king could still hold discussions on the merits of Zionism with the chief rabbi of the Egyptian Jewish community. Even the 1929 charges of Jewish designs to destroy the al-Aqsa mosque, spread by the mufti by way of stirring mass massacres of Jews throughout Palestine, left the Egyptian masses largely unmoved.[20] It was only in the mid-1930s that these sentiments began to change due to the growing pan-Arab sentiments among educated Egyptians and now-King Faruq's (1937-52) ambition to establish himself as the leader of all Arabs, if not the caliph of all Muslims."
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"Arab-Jewish Coexistence in Palestine
The Egyptian attitudes to the Balfour Declaration, ranging from indifference to endorsement, were largely mirrored in Palestine. Up to its conquest by the British, the country did not exist as a unified geographical or political entity but was divided between the Ottoman province of Beirut in the north and the district of Jerusalem in the south. Its local inhabitants, like the rest of the Arabic-
speaking communities throughout the empire, had not experienced the processes of secularization and modernization that preceded the development of European nationalism in the late 1700s.
It took one full year for the first manifestation of local opposition to the Balfour Declaration to emerge in the form of a petition by a group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and nationalists.
Hence, they considered themselves Ottoman subjects rather than members of a wider Arab nation, let alone a Palestinian one. Their immediate loyalties were parochial—to one's clan, tribe, village, town, or religious sect—which coexisted alongside their overarching submission to the Ottoman sultan-caliph in his capacity as the religious and temporal head of the world Muslim community. As late as June 1918, less than three months before the end of hostilities in the Middle East, Gilbert Clayton, chief political officer of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, noted the absence of "real patriotism amongst the population of Palestine." Two months later, a British report stated that "the Muslim population of Judea took little or no interest in the Arab national movement. Even now, the Effendi class, and particularly the educated Muslim-Levantine population of Jaffa, evince a feeling somewhat akin to hostility toward the Arab movement very similar to the feeling so prevalent in Cairo and Alexandria. This Muslim-Effendi class, which has no real political cohesion, and above all, no power of organization, is either pro-Turkish or pro-British.[21]"
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"Against this backdrop, it was hardly surprising that it took one full year for the first manifestation of local opposition to the Balfour Declaration to emerge in the form of a petition by a group of Palestinian Arab dignitaries and nationalists. Yet rather than protest the declaration's encroachment on Palestinian Arab national rights, the petition demanded the incorporation of Palestine into Syria[22]—a demand repeated by the Palestinian Arab leadership throughout the 1920s, 30s, and 40s. As late as August 1947, three months before the passing of the U.N. resolution partitioning Mandate Palestine into Arab and Jewish states, al-Wahda newspaper, mouthpiece of the Arab Higher Committee, the mufti-dominated umbrella organization of the Palestinian Arabs, advocated the incorporation of Palestine (and Transjordan) into "Greater Syria."[23]
Palestinian Arab demonstrators, 1920. Faisal was crowned king of Syria in March 1920. The coronation was followed by riots in Palestine, which culminated in early April 1920 in a pogrom in Jerusalem in which five Jews were murdered and more than two hundred wounded.
For years after the declaration's issuance, many Palestinian Arabs remained ignorant of its actual substance, with the name Balfour instead denoting an idea—power, money to promote Jewish settlement, or, more so, an opportunity for self-enrichment. In the words of a sheikh in the vicinity of Gaza: "Tell Balfour, that we in the South are willing to sell him land at a much lower rate than he will have to pay in the North."[24]
The sheikh knew what he was talking about. An inflow of Jewish immigrants and capital after World War I had revived Palestine's hitherto moribund condition. If prior to the war some 2,500-3,000 Arabs, or one out of 200-250 inhabitants, emigrated from the country every year, this rate was slashed to about 800 per annum between 1920 and 1936.
Palestine's Arab population rose from about 600,000 to some 950,000 owing to the substantial improvement in socioeconomic conditions attending the development of the Jewish National Home.[25] Small wonder that the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs sought to take advantage of the unprecedented opportunities afforded by the growing Jewish presence in the country, which raised their quality of life and standard of living well above those in the neighboring Arab states.[26] In the words of a 1937 report by a British commission of enquiry headed by Lord Peel:"
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"The general beneficent effect of Jewish immigration on Arab welfare is illustrated by the fact that the increase in the Arab population is most marked in urban areas affected by Jewish development. A comparison of the Census returns in 1922 and 1931 shows that, six years ago, the increase percent in Haifa was 86, in Jaffa 62, in Jerusalem 37, while in purely Arab towns such as Nablus and Hebron it was only 7, and at Gaza there was a decrease of 2 percent.[27]
Jewish and Arab workers wrapping oranges in Rehovot. Throughout the mandate era, periods of peaceful coexistence were far longer than those of violent eruption, and the latter were the work of a small fraction of Palestinian Arabs.
As a result of this state of affairs, throughout the mandate era (1920-48), the periods of peaceful coexistence were far longer than those of violent eruption, and the latter were the work of a small fraction of Palestinian Arabs.
In the 1920s and 1930s, Jewish representatives held hundreds of formal meetings with their Arab counterparts in Palestine and the neighboring Arab states and were frequently invited to social gatherings and official events as well as to the homes of prominent Arab families. Joint Arab-Jewish projects and enterprises sprang throughout the country—from the association for orange growers in Jaffa, to mixed committees for the building of the Haifa port; from active Jewish-Arab cooperation in anti-malarial drainage and the improvement of water supplies, to a joint organization for the benefit of the poor and the aged, to Arab-Jewish professional unions. In 1923, about a hundred Arab children attended private Jewish schools while 307 Jewish children attended private Arab schools. Three years later, the number of Jews attending Arab schools grew by some 50 percent to 445—including 315 Jewesses in Arab all-girl schools.[28]
Even Clayton, a prominent champion of the pan-Arab cause who in 1923 became Palestine's chief political secretary, acknowledged that "on non-political matters, such as taxation, agriculture, etc., the Jewish colonies and Arab villages speak the same voice and sometimes from the same hall." He once recalled how he had arrived in a Jewish village to deliver a speech on the National Home, only to find a mixed gathering of Jews and Arabs engaged in an animated discussion, which necessitated a complete change in the nature of his own remarks.[29]
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"In a valedictory report summing his term in office (1920-25), Sir Herbert Samuel, the first high commissioner for Palestine, painted an upbeat picture of the development of Arab-Jewish relations:
In the first place, the people discovered that the disasters, which they had been told were about to fall upon them, did not in fact occur. The attacks upon their villages by well-armed Jewish colonists, which some of the agitators had announced, did not take place. The day when a hundred thousand Jews were to disembark in Palestine in order to occupy their lands, came and went, and there was no such invasion. Month followed month and year followed year, and no man had his land taken from him. So far from the mosques closed and turned into synagogues, a new, purely Moslem, elected body was created to which the control of all Moslem religious buildings, and of their endowments, was transferred; it rebuilt those that were in ruins and began to restore those that needed restoration. It is difficult, under such conditions, to maintain indefinitely an attitude of alarm; people cannot be induced to remain constantly mobilized against a danger which never eventuates.[30]
Even the most protracted period of Palestinian Arab violence in 1936-39, with its paralytic atmosphere of terror and a ruthlessly enforced economic boycott, failed to dent Arab-Jewish coexistence on many practical levels, including defense cooperation. Contrary to its common depiction as a nationalist revolt against the ruling British and the growing Jewish presence in the country, this was a massive exercise in violence that saw far more Arabs than Jews murdered by Arab gangs, which repressed and abused the general Arab population.[31] And while thousands of Arabs fled the country in a foretaste of the 1947-48 exodus, others preferred to fight back against their oppressors, often in collaboration with the British authorities and the Hagana, the largest Jewish underground defense organization. Still others sought shelter in Jewish neighborhoods."
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"This coexistence persisted into the World War II years. While Hajj Amin Husseini, who had fled Palestine in 1937, was busy making himself "the most important Arab Quisling in German hands" (to use the words of a contemporary British report)[32]—broadcasting Nazi propaganda to Arabs and Muslims worldwide, recruiting Arab prisoners of war and Balkan Muslims for the Nazi fighting and murder machine, and urging the extermination of Jews wherever they could be found—ordinary Palestinian Arabs sought to return to normalcy and reestablish coexistence with their Jewish neighbors.
Arab and Jewish citrus growers joined forces in demanding the cancellation of customs duty and the extension of government loans to cultivators for the duration of the war. Large quantities of Arab agricultural produce reappeared in Jewish markets, and this phenomenon expanded in subsequent years as both communities enjoyed the unprecedented spending and investment boom attending Palestine's incorporation into the British war effort.[33] Land sales continued as far as possible with Arabs often acting as intermediaries for Jewish purchases in the zones that had been prohibited and restricted by the British authorities in 1939. Thousands of Jews made the traditional pilgrimage to Rachel's Tomb, near Bethlehem, while Jewish students visited this exclusively Arab town for the Christmas celebrations. And in April 1940, on the eve of the Jewish holiday of Passover, chief rabbis Isaac Herzog and Benzion Uziel visited Hebron at the head of a large congregation and prayed at the entrance to the Tomb of the Patriarchs—the first visit of Jews to the city without an escort in four years. Jews rented accommodation in Arab villages and opened restaurants and stores with the villagers' consent; the Nablus municipality initiated talks with senior Zionist officials on linking the city to the Jewish electricity grid; and former rebel commanders and fighters made their peace with their Jewish neighbors. Even the German foreign office grudgingly conceded, at the end of 1940, that "conditions [in Palestine] are entirely peaceful. Jewish-Arab conflict is no longer apparent. The people are in need of tranquility."[34]
Conclusion
Mahmoud Abbas's rejection of the Jewish right to national self-determination, which was acknowledged a hundred years ago by the international community, including the world's foremost Muslim power, leaders of the pan-Arab movement, and ordinary Palestinian Arabs, affords a sad testament to the unchanging nature of the Palestinian leadership's recalcitrance.
It was Hajj Amin Husseini's predication of Palestinian national identity on hatred of the "other" rather than on a distinct shared legacy that "paved the road for the Nakba of Palestinian people and their dispossession and displacement from their land." And it was Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas's persistence in this zero-sum approach, despite their feigned moderation in the Oslo peace charade, which ensured the perpetuation of Palestinian dispersal and statelessness to date. It is only by shedding their century-long revanchist dreams and opting for peace and reconciliation with their Israeli neighbors that Palestinian leaders can end their people's suffering. And what can be a better starting point for this sea change than endorsement of the Balfour Declaration rather than its atavistic denigration?"
Efraim Karsh, editor of the Middle East Quarterly, is emeritus professor of Middle East and Mediterranean studies at King's College London and professor of political studies at Bar-Ilan University, where he also directs the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
From the website jewishreviewofbooks.com an article is titled
"Chaim of Arabia: The First Arab-Zionist Alliance"
By Rick Richman
Winter 2019 the article says
"On January 3, 1919, a few weeks after World War I ended, the Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann met with Emir Faisal, the commander-in-chief of the Arab uprising against the Ottoman Empire, at a London hotel. Faisal’s father, King Hussein of Hedjaz, ruled the two holiest sites of Islam—Mecca and Medina—and the family traced its lineage to the prophet Muhammad. Faisal was accompanied to the meeting by his adviser, friend, and translator,
T. E. Lawrence, who had helped him lead the Arab Revolt.
At the meeting, Weizmann and Faisal signed an agreement, brokered over the preceding month by Lawrence, exchanging Arab acceptance of the Balfour Declaration for Zionist support of an Arab state in the rest of the Ottoman lands. In February, they traveled to the Paris Peace Conference, where the victorious Allies would remap Europe and the Middle East, and made complementary presentations about the future of the region.
In the famous 1962 film Lawrence of Arabia, Lawrence would be played by Peter O’Toole, and Faisal by Alec Guinness. Weizmann was not portrayed at all, but perhaps he should have been. His arduous wartime trip, in June 1918, from Palestine to Faisal’s remote desert military camp—a five-day journey by train, boat, car, camel, and foot—led to their January agreement.
The Balfour Declaration, issued on November 2, 1917, had pledged support for a Jewish national home in Palestine, in part to generate support in America and Russia for Britain’s war effort. The British believed that both countries had influential Jewish populations and that the declaration would help keep Russia and America in the war against Germany and the Ottoman Turks. It was also, however, part of a broader British war strategy—one designed to bring the Jewish, Arab, and Armenian national movements into an informal alliance to defeat the Ottoman Empire.
Two weeks after the declaration, Sir Mark Sykes—the British diplomat who had negotiated the secret Sykes-Picot Agreement in 1916 that divided the Middle East into British and French spheres of influence—outlined the British diplomatic strategy in a letter to the British War Cabinet secretary, Lt. Col. Sir Maurice Hankey:
We are pledged to Zionism, Armenian liberation, and Arabian independence. Zionism is the key to the lock. . . . If once the Turks see the Zionists are prepared to back the Entente and the two oppressed races [the Arabs and Armenians] … [the Turks] will come to us to negotiate."
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"To encourage this alliance, Sykes wrote, “our immediate policy should be by speech and open statement” to promote “Zionist, Armenian, and Arab common action and alliance.” A month after the Balfour Declaration had been issued, a celebration was held at the London Opera House, drawing a capacity crowd of more than 4,000, with thousands more turned away. Lord Robert Cecil, the British undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, addressed the gathering and said British policy was “Arabian countries should be for the Arabs, Armenia for the Armenians, Judea for the Jews.” Arab and Armenian representatives also attended the event and gave congratulatory speeches.
Map of the Middle East with alternate borders drawn in
Peace map for the Middle East presented to the British cabinet by T. E. Lawrence, November 1918. (Courtesy of the British National Archives.)
In the following months, Weizmann formed a Zionist commission to travel to Palestine to bring relief to the war-torn Jewish community, plan for new Jewish institutions (including the Hebrew University), and meet with Arab leaders. Upon arriving in April 1918, he learned that the anti-Semitic forgery The Protocols of the Elders of Zion had been widely distributed among the Arabs, leading to rampant speculation that—as he wrote caustically to Balfour from Tel Aviv—the British were “going to hand over the poor Arabs to the wealthy Jews, who are . . . ready to swoop down like vultures on an easy prey and to oust everybody from the land.”
Arab opposition, however, was not merely the result of propaganda or fear-mongering. Even prior to World War I, some Arab notables in Palestine had been alarmed by the growing Zionist presence in the land, and the formal British endorsement of a “national home for the Jewish people” there significantly deepened their concerns.
To counteract both old worries and new rumors, the British arranged for Weizmann to address Muslim and Christian leaders in Jerusalem at a dinner on April 27. Weizmann began by saying it was “with a sense of grave responsibility that I rise to speak on this momentous occasion. Here my forefathers stood 2,000 years ago.” The Jews were not coming to Palestine, he said, they were returning. Moreover, he continued, there was room in Palestine for many times the existing population. The Zionists endorsed the Arab Revolt against the Ottomans and sought only “the opportunity of free national development in Palestine, and in justice it cannot be refused.” As to the question of sovereignty in Palestine, Weizmann asserted that it should be deferred while the country developed, and it should be administered by a Great Power in the meantime.
Weizmann’s speech was consistent with the “organic” Zionism he espoused, which aimed for more than a cultural home but less than an immediate state. He wanted the right of Jewish immigration and the opportunity to build Jewish institutions in Palestine—which he believed would inevitably evolve into a democratic Jewish state. This was also consistent with what Lord Balfour had said a Jewish “national home” meant at the October 31, 1917, British cabinet meeting that approved the declaration. It would be"
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"some form of British, American, or other protectorate, under which full facilities would be given to the Jews to work out their own salvation and to build up, by means of education, agriculture, and industry, a real centre of national culture and focus of national life. It did not necessarily involve the early establishment of an independent Jewish State, which was a matter for gradual development in accordance with the ordinary laws of political evolution.
Weizmann’s speech was well received that evening, and the British then arranged for him to travel to meet with Faisal next.
Turkish forces still occupied the Jordan Valley in the spring of 1918, so Weizmann could not travel directly from Jerusalem to Faisal’s camp on the Transjordanian plains. He had to travel to Tel Aviv, take a train to Suez, circumnavigate the Sinai Peninsula in a dilapidated cargo boat, proceed north 75 miles from Aqaba by car (which broke down), continue by camel, and then complete the journey on foot. The weather, he wrote his wife Vera, was “like standing near a red-hot oven.” It took him five days to travel from Tel Aviv to Faisal’s camp, where he watched Arab military movements through binoculars and then looked west across the Jordan River:
I looked down from Moab on the Jordan Valley and the Dead Sea and the Judean hills beyond. . . . [A]s I stood there I suddenly had the feeling that three thousand years had vanished. . . . Here I was, on the identical ground, on the identical errand of my ancestors in the dawn of my people’s history . . . that they might return to their home.
The next morning, Weizmann and Faisal met for almost an hour, with a British military attaché, Lt. Col. P. C. Joyce, acting as their as interpreter. Weizmann explained Zionism’s goals in the same way he had in Jerusalem, and Joyce’s minutes state that Faisal repeatedly endorsed cooperation between Jews and Arabs. Faisal stipulated that only his father could make political commitments, but, according to Joyce’s minutes, he “personally accepted the possibility of future Jewish claims to territory in Palestine.” Joyce sent his minutes to Balfour, who asked him to convey to Weizmann “my appreciation of the tact and skill shown by him in arriving at a mutual understanding with the Sheikh.” Following the meeting, Faisal suggested that they take a photograph together.
After he returned to Tel Aviv, Weizmann wrote to Vera that he had found Faisal “quite intelligent,” a “very honest man,” interested in “Damascus and the whole of northern Syria” but—strikingly—“not interested in Palestine.” Weizmann later told a Zionist group that he considered the meeting “momentous.” Faisal and he had “fully understood each other.”
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"Faisal’s relative indifference to Palestine was understandable given his larger goals. At the time of the Balfour Declaration, Palestine was largely undeveloped and sparsely populated, with a total population of about 60,000 Jews and 600,000 Arabs, approximately 5 percent of the Arabs then living under Ottoman rule. Faisal was primarily interested in Arab sovereignty in—and the eventual unity of—the key cities of Damascus, Baghdad, Mecca, and Medina. In Jerusalem, the residents had been mostly Jewish since the late 19th century.
Faisal and his father believed Zionism would bring financial resources and technical expertise to Palestine, transforming the economic circumstances of the Arabs in both Palestine and beyond. In January 1918, D. G. Hogarth, director of Britain’s Arab Bureau in Cairo, had traveled to Jedda to deliver to King Hussein a formal message regarding British policy: The Arabs would be given “full opportunity of once again forming a nation,” and “no obstacle should be put in the way” of the return of the Jews to Palestine. All holy sites would be protected and the religious and political rights of all residents preserved. The message emphasized the importance of “the friendship of world Jewry” to the Arab cause. In an article published in March 1918 in Al-Qibla, the daily newspaper in Mecca, the king wrote that Palestine was “a sacred and beloved homeland” for “its original sons” [abna’ihi-l-asliyin], and the “return of these exiles [jaliya] to their homeland” would be beneficial to the region."
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"After World War I, Lawrence submitted a map to the British cabinet outlining his vision of the postwar Middle East. The map assigned a broad swath of land to Faisal; an additional area labelled “Irak” to Faisal’s older brother, Prince Abdullah; a northern area to Faisal’s younger brother, Prince Zeid; an area in the northwest to the Armenians; and a small “Palestine” comprised of the area west of the Jordan River and a narrow strip of land on the eastern bank. At the time of the Balfour Declaration, “Palestine” was considered to comprise not only the area west of the Jordan but an equally large area to the east, so Lawrence’s proposed delineation of “Palestine” effectively split it in half, assigning the Transjordanian portion to Faisal.
On December 10, 1918, Faisal arrived in London with Lawrence, and they met with Weizmann at the Carlton Hotel the next day. Weizmann wrote a long memorandum summarizing their discussion, noting that Faisal had promised that at the Paris Peace Conference—scheduled to begin in January—he would recognize the national and historical rights of Jews to Palestine and the appointment of Britain as trustee over it, with protection of the Muslim holy places and the economic interests of the Arabs there.
The next day, the Times of London carried a statement from Faisal, stating, “The two main branches of the Semitic family, Arabs and Jews . . . understand one another, and I hope that as a result of interchange of ideas at the Peace Conference . . . each nation will make definite progress towards the realization of its aspirations.” On December 27, he met with representatives of the British Foreign Office and told them he recognized the moral claims of the Zionists in Palestine. Two days later, at a banquet given in his honor by Lord Walter Rothschild, a prominent British Zionist, Faisal gave a speech (with Lawrence translating), declaring, “No true Arab can be suspicious or afraid of Jewish nationalism. . . . We are demanding Arab freedom and we would show ourselves unworthy of it, if we did not now, as I do, say to the Jews—welcome back home.”
The following month Faisal and Weizmann met again at the Carlton Hotel and signed their formal agreement, which explicitly recognized “the national aspirations” of both Jews and Arabs. The agreement provided that “all measures shall be adopted” to implement the Balfour Declaration, including “immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale,” while protecting the civil and religious rights of Arabs and providing for Muslim control of Muslim holy sites. The Zionist movement promised to support formation of an Arab state and provide economic, technical, and other assistance to it.
The agreement was silent on the ultimate political sovereignty over Palestine. At that point, Faisal would not have endorsed a Jewish state, and Weizmann would not have sought one, since the Jews were not yet a majority in Palestine. Weizmann envisioned a slow process, perhaps spanning decades, involving immigration and institution-building in preparation for a state. He viewed the Balfour Declaration not as an announcement of a state in Palestine but rather as a charter giving the Jews the right to build one there.
On the final page of the agreement, Faisal added a handwritten proviso, conditioning the entire agreement on the achievement of Arab independence as set forth in a memorandum he had delivered that week to the British Foreign Office. The proviso, written in Arabic, read:"
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"Provided the Arabs obtain their independence as demanded in my memorandum [to the British] . . . I shall concur in the above articles. But if the slightest modification or departure were to be made, I shall not then be bound by a single word of the present agreement.
In his memorandum, Faisal wrote that the “aim of the Arab nationalist movements” was to “unite the Arabs eventually into one nation” but not to seek a single state immediately, since—in Faisal’s words—it was “impossible to constrain” all the provinces into “one frame of government,” given their economic and social differences. He asserted that Syria was “sufficiently advanced politically to manage her own internal affairs” and was thus entitled to immediate freedom, while Hedjaz would continue as an independent kingdom and should be allowed to work out its relationship with neighboring Arab areas on its own.
Faisal dealt with Palestine in a separate paragraph, which did not claim Arab sovereignty. The memorandum stated that “the Arabs cannot risk assuming the responsibility of holding level the scales in the clash of races and religions that have, in this one province, so often involved the world in difficulties.” Faisal sought instead an “effective super-position of a great trustee,” together with “a representative local administration” to promote “the material prosperity of the country.” This was consistent with Weizmann’s position.
Subsequently, at the Paris Peace Conference, Faisal excluded Palestine from his demand for Arab independence, asking instead that, because of its “universal character,” Palestine be “left on one side for the mutual consideration of all parties interested.” The Zionist submission to the conference specified boundaries for the Jewish national home leaving almost all of Transjordan to the Arabs, consistent with Lawrence’s November 1918 map.
In March 1919, the New York Times, in a news story headlined “Prince of Hedjaz Welcomes Zionists,” published the text of a letter Faisal delivered to Felix Frankfurter designed to ensure continued Zionist support for Arab nationalism after he had given an interview to Le Matin, a Parisian daily, that cast doubt on his acceptance of the Zionist goals. The letter stated that, “Our deputation here in Paris is fully acquainted with the proposals submitted by the Zionist Organization to the Peace Conference, and we regard them as moderate and proper. . . . [Dr. Weizmann and I] are working together for a reformed and revived Near East.”
Signed document
The first and last pages of the Faisal-Weizmann agreement, January 3, 1919. (Courtesy of the Central Zionist Archives.)
The conference, however, did not award Faisal the independent Syrian state he sought. Instead, it endorsed a mandate system giving France control of Syria, from which the French expelled Faisal by force the following year. The conference endorsed British mandates over Palestine and Iraq, and Britain installed Faisal as king of Iraq and his brother Abdullah as king of Transjordan. Hedjaz eventually became part of Saudi Arabia. But Faisal’s handwritten condition in his agreement with Weizmann had not been met by the Allies, and he departed the conference with a sense of betrayal. In July 1919, the Syrian Congress, comprising representatives of prominent Arab families in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine, adopted a resolution that rejected French rights to any part of Syria, claimed Lebanon and Palestine as inseparable parts of Syria, and opposed Jewish immigration."
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"Lawrence was also deeply disappointed. During the Paris Peace Conference, he began drafting Seven Pillars of Wisdom, his famous account of the “procession of Arab freedom from Mecca to Damascus.” Even in the extreme desert heat, he wrote, “the morning freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us.” But after the war, “the old men came out again and took our victory to re-make in the likeness of the former world they knew. . . . we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.” Weizmann considered him a friend, with a sympathetic understanding of Jewish aspirations in Palestine.
Eventually, most of the Ottoman Empire was transformed into independent Arab states with a total area of approximately 1,184,000 square miles. Britain was given a United Nations mandate in 1922 to implement the Balfour Declaration in a Palestine covering less than 11,000 square miles. Britain increasingly retreated from that obligation until, with its 1939 White Paper, it reneged on it entirely and proceeded to block any further significant Jewish immigration to Palestine or further purchases of land. After World War II, Britain returned its mandate to the United Nations, unfulfilled.
Faisal died in 1933 at the age of 50, having used his diplomatic skills over more than a decade to build Iraq into a fully independent state. His biographer, the Iraqi scholar Ali A. Allawi, writes that “realistic, purposeful and constructive patriotism also died with Faisal, to be replaced with the far more strident, volatile and angry nationalism that swept the Arab world after the end of the Second World War.” For Weizmann, his agreement with Faisal (which he often called a treaty) was a landmark of Arab-Jewish relations. In 1936, in testimony before the British Peel Commission on Palestine, he recounted its origins:
[I]n 1918 there was one distinguished Arab who was the Commander-in-Chief of the Arab armies which were supporting the right flank of Allenby’s army, the then Emir [Prince] Faisal—subsequently King Faisal—and on the suggestion of General Allenby I went to his camp. I frankly put to him our aspirations, our hopes, our desires, our intentions, and I can only say—if any oath of mine could convince my Arab opponents—we found ourselves in full agreement, and this first meeting was the beginning of a lifelong friendship, and our relationship was expressed subsequently in a treaty.
In 1946, when the British again considered the future of Palestine, Weizmann wrote to Prime Minister Clement Attlee, arguing that Jewish and Arab national aspirations were compatible:
The Balfour Declaration was part of a general Middle Eastern settlement, offering a subcontinent to the Arabs and a “small notch”—as Lord Balfour put it—to the Jews. In 1917, it was the protagonists of the Arab revival—Sir Mark Sykes and Colonel T. E. Lawrence—who were among the foremost advocates of the Zionist settlement in Palestine. King Faisal was agreeable to a Jewish Palestine because he realized that it would promote the general progress of the Arab world. I submit that the policy supported by these three outstanding figures—of a Jewish Palestine within a revived Arab Middle East—is still capable of successful implementation."
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"On October 18, 1947, Weizmann addressed the United Nations as it approached a vote on a two-state resolution for Palestine. He noted the Arab achievement of independent states in a wide area of the Middle East and then said:
There was a time when Arab statesmanship was able to see this equity in its true proportions. That was when the eminent leader and liberator of the Arabs, the Emir Faisal, later King of Iraq, made a treaty with me declaring that if the rest of Arab Asia were free, the Arabs would concede the Jewish right freely to settle and develop in Palestine, which would exist side by side with the Arab states.
Weizmann acknowledged that Faisal’s condition had not been satisfied in 1919. But, he told the UN, “[t]he condition which [Faisal] then stipulated, the independence of all Arab territories outside Palestine, has now been fulfilled.”
Two weeks before the United Nations voted on its resolution, Weizmann discussed the issue in the UN Delegates Lounge with Eleanor Roosevelt, FDR’s widow, who was a member of the U.S. delegation. The next day, he wrote her to say he was sending documents, including “my treaty” with Faisal, Faisal’s letter to Frankfurter, and Faisal’s formal statement to the Paris Peace Conference, in order to “dispel the impression which is so assiduously circulated by the Arabs that it was all done without the consent of the Arabs at that time.”
On May 16, 1948, Weizmann—as of that day the provisional government’s president—sent a message to a Madison Square Garden rally celebrating Israel’s May 14 declaration of independence—to which all five neighboring Arab states had responded by invading Israel. He recalled, yet again, his “treaty” with Faisal and promised that the Arab nations would find “the Jewish State always ready and eager to enter into neighborly relations and to join with them in a common effort to increase the welfare and prosperity of the Near East.”
The Weizmann-Faisal agreement marked a historic moment, a time when Arabs and Zionists coordinated their diplomatic efforts to realize their respective national goals. One hundred years later—with their states in existence but facing existential threats from Iran—another de facto alliance between Arabs and Jews has emerged, composed of Israel, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt, to oppose the new would-be hegemon. Such an alliance is not quite the unprecedented event many believe it is. Indeed, it might be called the second Arab-Zionist alliance."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rick Richman
Rick Richman is the author of Racing Against History: The 1940 Campaign for a Jewish Army to Fight Hitler (Encounter Books). He thanks the librarians of American Jewish University for facilitating his research.
From unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Israel Announces Construction of New Jerusalem Neighborhood Obama Opposed"
Feb 20, 2020
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Netanyahu announced major projects in Jerusalem that would add 4,000 new residential units, including construction of a neighborhood the Obama administration had opposed.
By Benjamin Brown, TPS
"Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday announced several large-scale building projects in Jerusalem, including in the Givat Hamatos area which the Obama administration had opposed.
Touring the Har Homa neighborhood of Jerusalem together with Minister of Tourism Yariv Levin, Jerusalem’s Mayor Moshe Leon and the Prime Minister’s Office Acting Director-General Ronen Peretz, Netanyahu spoke about the upcoming construction of the new neighborhood.
Ethiopian and Russian immigrants have been living in Givat Hamatos since 1991, which is situated on a main route used by thousands of Israeli motorists daily in Jerusalem.
Having “removed all of the impediments,” Netanyahu vowed to construct 4,000 new residential units of which 1,000 are set to be built in the nearby Arab neighborhood of Beit Safafa.
“The Arab residents have a housing problem for which we are providing a solution,” Netanyahu said, additionally confirming another 3,000 units for Jewish residents.
The Prime Minister also announced the expansion of the Har Homa neighborhood, enlarging it by 12,000 residents and bringing its total population to around 50,000 residents with an additional 2,200 units set to be built.
Netanyahu’s first government established Har Homa in 1997.
He also noted the international objection to construction in the area that Israel has previously encountered.
“We are connecting Jerusalem. We are connecting all parts of the united Jerusalem, the rebuilt Jerusalem. It is a source of great pride and is great news for the entire people of Israel,” Netanyahu concluded."
Also from unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Israeli Inventors Create First ‘Wearable Lifeguard’ to Prevent Drowning"
FuGuSense's 'wearable lifeguard.' (courtesy)
FuGuSense wearable lifeguard
Feb 20, 2020
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A young Israeli father took matters into his own hands and invented a lifesaving device after his daughter nearly drowned at the age of three.
By United with Israel Staff the article says:
“It was the summer of 2016 and we were on vacation up north, swimming in a stream connected to the Jordan River, when my three-year-old daughter’s water wing slipped off and she submerged for 20 or 30 seconds before we saw the bubbles and yanked her out of the water,” explained Eyal Hirak, co-founder of FuguSense, an Israeli company that is pioneering a first-of-its-kind “wearable lifeguard.”
“That really shook me up,” Hirak told United with Israel, “I began to research drowning in medical journals and other sources and the statistics were staggering as far as how common it is.”
“And yet, nothing existed on the market that can actually prevent drowning,” Hirak added.
After reading up on the problem, Hirak called up his lifetime friend Neriya Anaki, a diving expert and former Israeli Navy SEAL with experience in underwater construction, and the two young fathers embarked on a mission to invent a device to stop drowning from happening, even when no one besides the victim is aware of distress.
After extensive research and trial-and-error, Hirak and Anaki created “FuGuSense,” which revolutionizes water safety with advanced wearable technology that inflates automatically.
The two inventors describe FuGuSense as a “wearable autonomous drowning prevention system,” that can be “embedded in any swimsuit.” They chose the word “fugo” because it means blow fish in Japanese.
The device’s technology monitors key vital signs and can actually detect drowning in real-time based on changes in the swimmer’s physiological metrics.
FuGuSense wearable lifeguard
FuGuSense’s ‘wearable lifeguard.’ (courtesy)
When FuGuSense detects drowning, it inflates an integrated airbag that operates as an immediate flotation device, actively saving a drowning person by inflating the swimsuit autonomously and automatically.
“We’ve basically developed the first ever wearable lifeguard,” Hirak explains
The invention could be the difference between life and death because something called the instinctive drowning response (IDR) kicks in when people begin to drown. IDR actually prevents people from saving themselves, which explains why a whopping 67 percent of children who drown have attended swimming classes, meaning they have skills to swim, but IDR prevents them from taking action.
For existing flotation devices to be deployed, someone has to notice the drowning victim and manually save them. Tragically, children and adults drown each year in the immediate presence of parents and companions who simply fail to pick up the signals that someone is in distress.
Conversely, FuGuSense’s proprietary technology monitors swimmers, detects signs of drowning, and rescues potential drowning victims.
Hirak and Anaki recently demonstrated a prototype of their innovative “wearable lifeguard” technology at the OurCrowd Summit in Jerusalem, the largest equity crowdfunding event ever, which drew 18,000 investors, technologists, and innovators to Israel.
To that end, FuGuSense is preparing to embark on a crowdfunding campaign as it takes the next steps toward bringing its lifesaving technology to market." As usual Israeli Innovation & Inventions make the World a Better Place, Israeli Jews create Incredible
Computers, Science,Technology,Medical Treatments,Inventions & Innovations that Benefit All Mankind !!!!! Losers who want to "Boycott" Israel are too stupid to realize it's
their loss, too stupid and evil to realize it's their loss
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"‘Israel Will Not Be the UN’s Punching Bag,’ Vows New US Ambassador"
U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
Dec 8, 2019
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Ambassador Craft demanded the U.N. treat the Jewish state fairly, taking the baton from her predecessor, Nikki Haley, a true friend of Israel.
By United with Israel Staff and AP
"On Friday, U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft held her first press conference since arriving at the United Nations in September.
During the event, Craft vowed that she would strongly oppose Israel being used as “a punching bag” by the U.N. Security Council.
Craft appears to be continuing the legacy of her predecessor, Nikki Haley who established herself as an unwavering voice of fairness at the U.N., which is dominated by member states that maintain a distinctly anti-Israel bias.
In her comments on Friday, Craft reiterated the U.S.’ commitment to fostering dialogue between Israel and the Palestinians.
Craft also warned Iran that the Trump administration will keep up its maximum pressure campaign and use “other tools” if Tehran continues its “malicious behavior.”
In addition to Israel and Iran, Craft specifically addressed North Korea, commenting that all 15 members of the U.N. Security Council are united in their concern about more ballistic missile launches by the communist nation, saying there have been 13 launches since May and Pyongyang’s actions are a serious global issue.
The United States holds the rotating presidency of the Security Council in December and on Thursday Craft arranged for members to have lunch with President Donald Trump at the White House, which she said was relaxed, “very constructive,” covered many important issues including North Korea, and ran over by an hour. She is also taking members to her native Kentucky for the weekend of Dec. 13-15 and to a Brooklyn restaurant that trains refugees and trafficking victims on Dec. 9 along with Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
On major world issues, Craft told reporters the United States will respond to human rights abuses in North Korea, Iran and elsewhere, saying in “every corner of the world we’ve got human rights issues.”
She called Iran “a bad actor” saying “we are going to see upheaval whether in Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, wherever it is” until the U.S. maximum pressure campaign produces results.
“We have a lot of tools to use and we will continue to use those with Iran,” Craft said. “We are taking this very seriously. And there are other tools that we will use against Iran if they continue this malicious behavior.”
From the website www.worldisraelnews.com an article is titled
"Spielberg acquires rights to story of Israeli-Palestinian friendship born from tragedy"
February 19, 2020
‘Apeirogon’ is based on the real-life story of Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan who developed an unlikely friendship after each lost a daughter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
By Aaron Sull, World Israel News the article says
"Fresh off of his successful movie adaptation of the World War I-era 1917, Steven Spielberg’s company acquired the film rights to a novel centering around the unlikely friendship between an Israeli and a Palestinian who each suffered terrible tragedy.
Apeirogon, written by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, is based on the real-life stories of Palestinian Bassam Aramin and Israeli Rami Elhanan who develop an unlikely friendship after each lost a daughter in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Elhanan’s thirteen-year-old daughter Smadar was killed by a suicide bomber in 1997, and Aramin’s ten-year-old daughter Abir was shot by an Israeli border policeman during a violent Palestinian riot in 2007.
The book, scheduled to be released on Feb. 25., has been named the most anticipated book of 2020 by the New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine and Library Journal.
“Steven Spielberg and his company have always operated at the cutting edge of storytelling. Their work is fueled by a deep moral concern. They go to the core of the issues of our day,” McCann told the Hollywood Reporter.
“I’m delighted that the story of Rami and Bassam will be in their hands. The word ‘apeirogon’ means a shape with a countably infinite number of sides, and if anyone can capture the near-infinite shades and nuances of our times, it is the team at Amblin,” he added.
In an interview with the Pittsburgh City Paper, the Irish-born writer compared the process of telling such an intense story with creating a memorable piece of music.
“It felt to me like I was creating a symphony. I asked for a cello, I asked for a piano, I asked for a trombone. And then I began trying to fit them all together,” McCann said.
“At the same time, new instruments came along to surprise me, and I had to incorporate them too. It was a beautiful challenge. I have never undergone anything quite so difficult in my life. I hope the music emerged,” he said."
From the website openbible.info it says
"OpenBible.info Geocoding Topical Bible Labs Blog
What does the Bible say about
Standing With Israel
19 Bible Verses about
Standing With Israel
Genesis 12:3 ESV / 12 helpful votes
I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Psalm 122:6 ESV / 8 helpful votes
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! “May they be secure who love you!
Romans 15:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes
For they were pleased to do it, and indeed they owe it to them. For if the Gentiles have come to share in their spiritual blessings, they ought also to be of service to them in material blessings.
Zechariah 12:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
On that day I will make Jerusalem a heavy stone for all the peoples. All who lift it will surely hurt themselves. And all the nations of the earth will gather against it.
Genesis 12:1-3 ESV / 4 helpful votes
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.”
Matthew 24:1-51 ESV / 3 helpful votes
Jesus left the temple and was going away, when his disciples came to point out to him the buildings of the temple. But he answered them, “You see all these, do you not? Truly, I say to you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.” As he sat on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately, saying, “Tell us, when will these things be, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the close of the age?” And Jesus answered them, “See that no one leads you astray. For many will come in my name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and they will lead many astray. ...
Ezekiel 38:1-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes
The word of the Lord came to me: “Son of man, set your face toward Gog, of the land of Magog, the chief prince of Meshech and Tubal, and prophesy against him and say, Thus says the Lord God: Behold, I am against you, O Gog, chief prince of Meshech and Tubal. And I will turn you about and put hooks into your jaws, and I will bring you out, and all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great host, all of them with buckler and shield, wielding swords. Persia, Cush, and Put are with them, all of them with shield and helmet; ...
Ezekiel 36:24 ESV / 3 helpful votes
I will take you from the nations and gather you from all the countries and bring you into your own land.
Psalm 83:1-18 ESV / 3 helpful votes
A Song. A Psalm of Asaph. O God, do not keep silence; do not hold your peace or be still, O God! For behold, your enemies make an uproar; those who hate you have raised their heads. They lay crafty plans against your people; they consult together against your treasured ones. They say, “Come, let us wipe them out as a nation; let the name of Israel be remembered no more!” For they conspire with one accord; against you they make a covenant— ...
& continues
"2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
Zechariah 12:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes
“And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and pleas for mercy, so that, when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.
Zechariah 2:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:
Joel 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes
I will gather all the nations and bring them down to the Valley of Jehoshaphat. And I will enter into judgment with them there, on behalf of my people and my heritage Israel, because they have scattered them among the nations and have divided up my land,
Isaiah 66:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Who has heard such a thing? Who has seen such things? Shall a land be born in one day? Shall a nation be brought forth in one moment? For as soon as Zion was in labor she brought forth her children.
Isaiah 62:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes
On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have set watchmen; all the day and all the night they shall never be silent. You who put the Lord in remembrance, take no rest,
Genesis 15:1-21 ESV / 2 helpful votes
After these things the word of the Lord came to Abram in a vision: “Fear not, Abram, I am your shield; your reward shall be very great.” But Abram said, “O Lord God, what will you give me, for I continue childless, and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus?” And Abram said, “Behold, you have given me no offspring, and a member of my household will be my heir.” And behold, the word of the Lord came to him: “This man shall not be your heir; your very own son shall be your heir.” And he brought him outside and said, “Look toward heaven, and number the stars, if you are able to number them.” Then he said to him, “So shall your offspring be.” ...
Genesis 12:1-20 ESV / 2 helpful votes
Now the Lord said to Abram, “Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and him who dishonors you I will curse, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed.” So Abram went, as the Lord had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he departed from Haran. And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the people that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan, ...
Luke 21:24 ESV / 1 helpful vote
They will fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive among all nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled underfoot by the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.
Genesis 17:7 ESV / 1 helpful vote
And I will establish my covenant between me and you and your offspring after you throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be God to you and to your offspring after you.
From unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"Terrorist Murderers Are ‘Honor’ And ‘Crown’ of Palestinians, Says Senior Fatah Official"
Fatah supporters burn a model of an Israeli Jewish community and images of Israeli political leaders during a rally to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in Shechem (Nablus), on January 6, 2020. (Flash90/Nasser Ishtayeh)
Fatah supporters burn a model of an Israeli Jewish community and images of Israeli political leaders during a rally to celebrate the 55th anniversary of the founding of the Fatah movement, in Shechem (Nablus), on January 6, 2020.
Feb 21, 2020 the article says
A woman who led the killing of 37 people – among them 12 children – and a female terrorist who placed a bomb in a movie theater are held up role models for Palestinian women.
By Nan Jacques Zilberdik and Itamar Marcus, Palestinian Media Watch
"Terrorist murderers continue to be glorified as the role models of the Fatah Movement of Palestinian Authority (PA) leader Mahmoud Abbas.
Senior Fatah official Tawfiq Tirawi stressed this ideology in a recent speech when he singled out three Palestinian terror leaders as “a crown on all of our heads”: arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, who was responsible for the murder of at least 125 Israelis; terrorist Abu Iyad, who headed the terror organization Black September and planned the murder of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972; and, terrorist Abu Ali Iyad, who was head of Fatah’s military operations in 1966 and responsible for several terror attacks.
In the same speech, Tirawi singled out two female terrorists as role models for Palestinian women: Dalal Mughrabi, who led the murder of 37 Israelis, among them 12 children, and Fatima Barnawi, who placed a bomb in an Israeli movie theater.
Similarly to Tirawi, a Fatah leader in Gaza described terrorists who were killed while attacking Israelis as “the crown on the head of the Palestinian revolution.”
“On…Palestinian Martyrs’ Day, the Fatah Movement emphasizes its loyalty to all the Martyrs who ascended to Heaven in defense of the Palestinian cause… This is an eternal day in the days of the Palestinian people, on which Fatah emphasizes its national and moral obligation toward the cause of the Martyrs, who for us as Palestinians constituted and still constitute the crown on the head of the Palestinian revolution,” said Jamal Obeid, the Fatah leader in Gaza.
Palestinian Media Watch provided these translations and exposed senior PA official Jibril Rajoub as another user of the term “a crown on our heads” in reference to Palestinian murderers of Israelis. Rajoub “blessed and encouraged” these criminals to continue their terror wave in January 2016.
In his recent speech, Fatah official Tirawi also emphasized Fatah’s ideology that all of Israel is part of “Palestine” – “from the river to the sea,” and instructed PA security forces “not to pursue” Palestinian terrorists, but to target “collaborators” with Israel and “real estate agents” selling land to Jews." It's infinitely More Satanic & Demonic when these Terrorist attacks are committed by Females, when males commit Terrorist attacks that's bad, but it is infinitely More Satanic, Demonic & Disturbing when these Terrorist attacks are done by Females, these Female Terrorists deserve to Suffer in Hell even More than their male counterparts, People have noticed that in America & Worldwide, Female Terrorist Supporters & Sympathizers of "Palestine" & "Palestinians" tend to be Ugly as Hell, so ugly in fact, they should be required to wear Paper Bags over their heads whenever they step out in Public
From the website togetherforisrael.org an article is titled
"5 Reasons Every Christian Should Stand With Israel"
by admin | Oct 3, 2016
the article says:
“I am as likely to reject My people Israel as I am to abolish the laws of nature!” – God
In a day and age when Israel is being increasingly more delegitimized in the press, in politics, and even in the pulpit, God is looking for a people who will carry His heart for Israel. In this short blog today, I want to give you five rock-solid, biblical reasons why every Christian should stand with Israel. When I say ‘stand with Israel’, I’m not speaking from a political perspective but rather from a Biblical perspective. If you look at Israel through a political lens, you’ll end up hating Arabs or Jews (or both!) but if you look at Israel through a Biblical lens, you’ll end up loving both Arabs and Jews.
This is not intended to be an exhaustive study but rather just some basic principles backed by scriptural evidence that I think will help equip you to answer those who seek to delegitimize the nation and the people of Israel.
1. God’s Heart is for Israel and the Jewish People!
If the title of this blog was, “The One Reason Why Every Christian Should Support Israel” this would be the reason, namely, God’s heart is for Israel and the Jewish people! That really should be good enough for us and should seal the deal. Listen to some of these indisputable statements made by God Himself to Israel and the Jewish people:
“Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet My unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed,” says the LORD who as compassion on you.” Is 54:10
“I have loved you with an everlasting love…” Jer 31:3
“I will not forget you. Behold, I have inscribed you on the palms of My hands; Your walls are continually before Me. Is 49:14-16
“I am as likely to reject my people Israel as I am to abolish the laws of nature”
These Scriptures are just a few that scratch the surface of God’s heart and feelings for Israel. If God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, how can we thing that He would ever change where this fact is concerned?
Of course God’s heart is for each nation of the world. Of course it’s His desire that no one would perish (Jew and Gentile alike), but there is only one people group on this planet that He chose as the agent through whom salvation would come, namely, Israel!
2. It Reconnects Us to Our Heritage, Our Identity, and our Destiny.
The Jewish people are the Messiah’s own people because Jesus is Jewish! He wasn’t just Jewish for 33 years and then became a ‘Christian’ when He ascended to heaven. He was born King of the Jews, He was raised by Torah observant parents, He was called ‘rabbi’ by those who followed his teachings, He was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, He died King of the Jews, and He’s returning as the Lion of the tribe of Judah!
Our heritage in the Messiah is a Jewish heritage:
Rom 9:3-5 – For I could wish that I myself were accursed, separated from Christ for the sake of my brethren, my kinsmen according to the flesh, who are Israelites, to whom belongs the adoption as sons and the glory and the covenants and the giving of the Law and the temple service and the promises, whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ
Eph 1:3-5 – “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in the Messiah…He predestined us to adoption as sons through Jesus the Messiah to Himself…”
Jer 31:31-34 “Behold, days are coming,” declares the LORD, “when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah, …“I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people. “
the article continues
"3. We Have Been Grafted in to Provoke Israel to Jealousy
Unfortunately, rather than provoking Israel to jealousy, the ‘Church’ has been a source of much pain to Jewish people throughout the centuries. In the name of ‘Christianity’, Jews have been maligned, persecuted, and even killed by cross-bearing men and women who faithfully attended Church on a weekly basis. As a matter of fact, many of the ‘church fathers’ actually taught that God was through with Israel and that His promises were now transferred from Israel to the Church.
Rom 11:11 – I say then, they [natural Israel] did not stumble so as to fall, did they? May it never be! But by their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles [nations], to make Israel jealous.
Rom 11:17-18: [Paul is speaking to the Gentiles] “…But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you.”
4. Jewish Revival will lead to World Revival and the return of the Messiah
We should stand with Israel because Israel holds the key to world redemption. As a result of Israel rejecting the Messiah, salvation has come to the Nations of the world. However, Scripture is clear that when Israel accepts their Messiah, it will be ‘life from the dead’! Yeshua can’t return until Israel welcomes Him back. Therefore, we must remember that the Gospel is still the power of salvation to the Jew first and also to the Greek (Rom 1:16).
Rom 11:11-15 – Again I ask: Did they [Israel] stumble so as to fall beyond recovery? Not at all! Rather, because of their transgression, salvation has come to the Gentiles [nations] to make Israel envious [jealous]. 12 But if their transgression means riches for the world, and their loss means riches for the Gentiles, how much greater riches will their fullness bring! I am talking to you Gentiles. Inasmuch as I am the apostle to the Gentiles…For if their rejection is the reconciliation of the world, what will their acceptance be but life from the dead?
Matt 23:37-39 – “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those sent to you, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing. Look, your house is left to you desolate. For I tell you, you will not see me again until you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord.'”
5. Church Has a Debt To Israel Who Brought Them The Messiah
Rom 15:25-27 “… but now, I am going to Jerusalem serving the saints. For Macedonia and Achaia have been pleased to make a contribution for the poor among the saints in Jerusalem. Yes, they were pleased to do so, and they are indebted to them [to the believers in Jerusalem]. For if the Gentiles [nations] have shared in their [Israel’s] spiritual things, they are indebted to minister to them also in material things.
As the Jewish New Year rolls in, I want to encourage you with this important 5th point. Amazingly, Paul would travel to the Gentile believers around the region to collect money for the believers in Jerusalem. Together For Israel exists to fulfill this biblical mandate and, by God’s grace, we are seeing people around the globe who are partnering with us in a supernatural way. When we give financial help to the needy in the Land, we always tell them that it is not from us, but rather from believers around the world who have a love for the God of Israel. If the Lord would put it on your heart to help us support the believers in Israel, you can do so by clicking here.
May the Lord bless you in this New Year!"
Scott Volk
From the website www.christianpost.com another article is titled
"5 Reasons We Should Always Support Israel"
By Jentezen Franklin| Monday, May 14, 2018 the article says:
"I'm thrilled that I was invited to join the celebration of the grand opening of America's embassy in Jerusalem. This is a historic moment, and the decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital and move our embassy there is the just and respectful move for the people of Israel. Jerusalem is the seat of Israel's government, and they reserve the right to determine their own capital city, as does any other sovereign nation throughout the world.
Israel has survived as a people and as a nation against all odds. They have suffered unprovoked wars, genocide, slavery and every physical and rhetorical attack imaginable. The reasons for standing with Israel are clear and overwhelming, but in case there's any doubt, here are the five most important ones:
First, God has promised to bless those who bless Israel. In Genesis 12:3, the Lord says of Israel, "I will bless those who bless you, and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth will be blessed through you." I firmly believe this promise from God is as true today as it was centuries ago. And I take his promises seriously. There's no denying God's sovereignty and his hand both in history and in each of our lives. I dare not test God of the consequences for denying our friendship and support of Israel.
Second, Israel is a strategic ally — helping them helps us. Israel is our strongest ally in the Middle East — militarily, economically and technologically. This cannot be overstated. The Israelis regularly provide essential intelligence in confronting the global war on terror and combating Islamic extremists. The Middle East has been a place of near constant upheaval and violence, and it is imperative that we remain friends with the leading power in the region.
Third, Israel shares our democratic values. The government of Israel adheres to the rule of law and treats its citizens fairly and equally under the law. As such they are a role model for other nations. In a part of the world dominated by totalitarianism, they are a beacon of hope."
the article continues
"Fourth, Israel's enemies are daily plotting their destruction: The nation of Israel reemerged 70 years ago from the ashes of the largest, most appalling genocide ever endured by any people group in history: the Holocaust. One would hope that the memory of this darkest moment in history would forever serve as a reminder to stand side by side with the descendants of David as they resist the forces of death and destruction assembled against them. Yet hardly a day goes by without a rogue leader or violent insurgent group proclaiming "death to Israel" — all without the United Nations so much as batting an eye. We musn't be short-sighted and ignorant of the perennial hatred and bigotry that the Jewish people have endured. We can't let our guard down for a moment — for the forces arrayed against Israel are the same forces arrayed against us.
Fifth, God Gave the Promised Land to the Jewish people as their eternal home. Every other nation was founded by an act of human will, but Israel is unique in that it was established by an act of God. It was promised to Abraham by God in an eternal covenant. Genesis 17:8 reveals, "The whole land of Canaan, where you now reside as a foreigner, I will give as an everlasting possession to you and your descendants after you." The existence of Israel from its beginning is truly a miracle, and the fact that Israel exists to this present day is testament to the Lord's timeless promise.
These are but a few of the many reasons why we must stand with our friends in Israel. They need us now more than ever — and we need them. Join me, then, as we are instructed in Psalm 122: "Pray for the peace of Jerusalem! May they be secure who love you! Peace be within your walls and security within your towers!"
May a peaceful Jerusalem be an ever louder chorus of God's providence and his faithful hand in the world he created."
Pastor Jentezen Franklin is the Senior Pastor of Free Chapel, a multi campus church. Each week his television program Kingdom Connection is broadcast on major networks all over the world. A New York Times best-selling author, Jentezen has written eight books including his latest, Love Like You've Never Been Hurt.
From www.goodreads.com a good book to read is titled
"TEN REASONS Why Christians Should Support Israel and Bless the Jewish People" by Richard Booker
"The rebirth of the state of Israel has caused great controversy among the nations as is evidenced by the many resolutions passed by the United Nations condemning Israel. And we all know there is much controversy among the media. Who is to blame? One doesn't know what to believe or what to do to bring "world peace."In spite of the best efforts of world leaders, this controversy just will not go away. As soon as an agreement seems to be within reach, there is more violence and bloodshed. It seems like it will never end, and, unfortunately, many have lost hope.This controversy is THE issue of our world and will not go away until the One True God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob settles it forever.Now with Iran seeking nuclear weapons, ISIS wanting to establish and Islamic Caliphate, Syria falling apart, Hamas and Hezbollah surrounding Israel, the Palestinian Authority encouraging violence against Israeli citizens, the United Nations constantly condemning her, Israel has only one true friend--Bible believing Christians.In this important publication, Dr. Richard Booker explains the issues in easy-to-understand language. Every Christians absolutely must read TEN REASONS Why Christians Should Support Israel and Bless the Jewish People."
We Israel supporters Remember the Terrible 1997 Terror Attack in Israel , the
"Mahane Yehuda Market bombings" on July 30, 1997 The Wikipedia entry for these tragic Arab Attacks is titled
"1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings"
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The attack site
Location Mahane Yehuda Market, Jerusalem
Date 30 July 1997
13:15 pm (GMT+2)
Attack type
suicide bombings
Deaths 16 civilians (+ 2 suicide bombers)
Injured 178
Perpetrators Hamas claimed responsibility
Mahane Yehuda Market
The 1997 Mahane Yehuda Market bombings were two consecutive suicide bombings carried out by Hamas militants on 30 July 1997 at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem, Israel, the city's main open-air fruit and vegetable market. Sixteen people were killed in the attack and 178 were injured.[1]
The attack
On Wednesday, 30 July 1997 at 1:15 pm, two Palestinian suicide bombers who carried bags laden with explosives and nails detonated their explosive devices 45 meters (150 feet) apart almost simultaneously in a central alley in the popular outdoor market, killing 16 civilians, among them an Arab resident of Eilabun, and injuring 178 people, many of them teenagers and tourists.[2]
Thirteen Israelis were killed immediately and three others died later from their injuries. The Mahane Yehuda attack was followed by a triple suicide bombing on the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall in downtown Jerusalem on 4 September, which killed five Israelis and wounded over 190.[3]
Fatalities
The following people died in the attack:[4][5]
Lev Desyatnik, 60, of Jerusalem[6]
Regina Giber, 76, of Jerusalem[7]
Valentina Kovalenko, 67, of Jerusalem[8]
Shmuel Malka, 44, of Mevaseret Zion[9]
David Nasco, 44, of Mevaseret Zion[10]
Muhi A-din Othman, 33, of Eilabun[11]
Simha Fremd, 92, of Jerusalem[12]
Gregory Paskhovitz, 15, of Jerusalem[13]
Leah Stern, 50, of Jerusalem[14]
Rachel Tejgatrio, 83, of Jerusalem[15]
Liliya Zelezniak, 47, of Jerusalem[16]
Shalom (Golan) Zevulun, 52, of Jerusalem[17]
Mark Rabinowitz, 80, of Jerusalem[18]
Eli Adourian, 49, of Kfar Adumim (died on 11 August)[19]
Ilya Gazarkh, 73, of Jerusalem (died on 29 August)[20]
Baruch Ostrovsky, 84, of Jerusalem (died on 3 October 1997)[21]
Praise for the attack
In August 1997, Fahad Rimawi, editor of the Jordanian weekly Almajd, wrote: "We praise and glorify the double heroic act which two Palestinian 'mujahadins' performed in the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem. These two holy martyrs illuminated the night in Jerusalem...and gave meaning to Arab heroism. We do not hide our happiness upon this act."[22]
Aftermath
In retaliation for these and other attacks, a decision was reached to target Hamas leaders. According to an Israeli press release, Mossad agents tried to poison chairman Khaled Mashal, who resided at the time in Jordan.[23] The assassination attempt failed and the Mossad agents were captured by the Jordanian authorities. They were later released in exchange for the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and "spiritual leader" of Hamas who was serving a life sentence in an Israeli prison.[24][25]" It was very sad and disturbing how Israel did a very weak wimpy "retaliation" for this Arab act of War , other sane Normal Nations would NOT tolerate that crap and abuse that Israel puts up with
From the Wikipedia entry titled "Mahane Yehuda Market" about the Marketplace in
Jerusalem, Israel, it says in the entry when you scroll down
"Terrorist attacks"
There have been no terrorist attacks on the market in recent years. Mahana Yehuda is heavily guarded because it was a target for terrorist attacks during the Second Intifada:
1997 Mahane Yehuda Market Bombings: On July 30, 1997, 16 people were killed and 178 wounded in two consecutive suicide bombings.[53]
On November 6, 1998, two terrorists died when their bombs exploded prematurely.[54]
2002 Mahane Yehuda Market bombing: On April 12, 2002, a female suicide bomber detonated at the entrance to the market, killing 6 and injuring 104. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility.[55]"
Also disturbing was the June 1, 2001 Arab Terrorist Attack in Israel which was called
the "Dolphinarium discotheque massacre"
"Dolphinarium discotheque massacre" the Wikipedia entry says:
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Dolphinarium suicide bombing
Part of the Second Intifada militancy campaign
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The abandoned ruins of the Dolphinarium in 2012.
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Location Tel Aviv, Israel
Coordinates 32°04′02″N 34°45′42″E
Date 1 June 2001
23:30 pm (GMT+3)
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Deaths 21 victims (+1 bomber)
Injured 100+
Perpetrators Islamic Jihad
Hamas
Assailant Saeed Hotari
English inscription on the back of the Dolphinarium massacre memorial
The Dolphinarium discotheque massacre was a Hamas terror attack on 1 June 2001 in which a Hamas-affiliated Islamist terrorist blew himself up outside a nightclub on the beachfront in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing 21 Israelis, 16 of them teenagers.[1][2][3] The majority of the victims were Israeli teenage girls, whose families had recently immigrated from the former Soviet Union.
Contents
1 Attack
1.1 Fatalities
2 Perpetrators
3 Official reactions
4 Aftermath
5 Dolphinarium site
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Attack
Suicide bomber Saeed Hotari was standing in line on a Friday night in front of the Dolphinarium, when the area was packed with teenagers. Most of the crowd were young people from Russian-speaking families from the former Soviet Union, who were waiting for admission to a dance party at the Dolphin disco, and others were in line to enter the adjacent nightclub.[4] Survivors of the attack later described how the young Palestinian bomber appeared to taunt his victims before the explosion, wandering among them dressed in a disguise that led his victims to mistake him for an Orthodox Jew from Asia. Before detonating his bomb, he banged a drum packed with explosives and ball-bearings, while taunting his victims in Hebrew with the words "Something's going to happen".[5] At 23:27, he detonated his explosive device.[6] Witnesses claimed that body parts lay all over the area, and that bodies were piled one above another on the sidewalk before being collected. Many civilians in the vicinity of the bombing rushed to assist emergency services.
The suicide bombing followed a failed attack attempt on the same target five months earlier.[7]
Fatalities
Dolphinarium Massacre memorial at the Tel Aviv Dolphinarium site with the names of the victims written in Russian
One Israeli soldier and 20 civilians, the majority teenage girls whose parents had made aliyah to Israel from the former Soviet Union, were murdered in the attack:[8]"
The Wikipedia entry continues
"Maria Tagiltseva, 14, of Netanya[9]
Raisa Nimrovsky, 15, of Netanya[10]
Ana Kazachkova, 15, of Holon[11]
Katherine Kastaniyada-Talkir, 15, of Ramat Gan[12]
Irina Nepomnyashchi, 16, of Bat Yam[13]
Mariana Medvedenko, 16, of Tel Aviv[14]
Yulia Nelimov, 16, of Tel Aviv[15]
Liana Saakyan, 16, of Ramat Gan[16]
Marina Berkovizki, 17, of Tel Aviv[17]
Simona Rodin, 18, of Holon[18]
Aleksei Lupalu, 16, of Ukraine[19]
Yelena Nelimov, 18, of Tel Aviv[20]
Irena Usdachi, 18, of Holon[21]
Ilya Gutman, 19, of Bat Yam[22]
Roman Dezanshvili, 21, of Bat Yam[23]
Pvt. Diez (Dani) Normanov, 21, of Tel Aviv[24]
Ori Shahar, 32, of Ramat Gan[25]
Yael-Yulia Sklianik, 15, of Holon[26] – died of her injuries on 2 June 2001
Sergei Panchenko, 20, Ukraine[27] – died of his injuries on 2 June 2001
Jan Bloom, 25, of Ramat Gan[28] – died of his injuries on 3 June 2001
Yevgeniya Dorfman, 15, of Bat Yam[29] – died of her injuries on 19 June 2001
Perpetrators
Both Islamic Jihad and a group calling itself "Hezbollah-Palestine" originally claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing, only to later retract the claims.[30] Later on it was revealed that the attack was carried out by Saeed Hotari, aged 22, a militant linked to the Palestinian Islamist militant group Hamas.[31]
Official reactions
Involved parties
Israel:
Israeli officials called the attack a "massacre".[32]
Palestinian Authority:
President of the Palestinian Authority Yasser Arafat condemned the attack and called for a cease-fire.[33]
Supranational
United Nations – U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan stated that he "condemns this indiscriminate terrorist attack in the strongest possible terms." and that the attack "underlines the urgency of breaking the cycle of violence."[34]
International
Kuwait – The Kuwaiti Foreign Minister and acting Premier Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah stated that he does not support Palestinian suicide bombings against civilians.[35]
United States – U.S. President George W. Bush stated that he condemns the attack in the strongest terms and that "There is no justification for senseless attacks against innocent civilians."[36]
Aftermath
Dolphinarium discotheque suicide bombing by Victor Brindatch oil on canvas painting size 100×130
After the attack many in the Israeli public demanded a harsh military retaliation; nevertheless, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon decided to not take any immediate retaliatory actions. US and other governments applied heavy diplomatic pressure on Israel to refrain from action.[33] Nevertheless, the attack was later on noted as one of the reasons cited by the Israeli government for building the Israeli West Bank barrier.[37]"
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"In Ramallah dozens of Palestinians celebrated in the streets and fired in the air as a sign of celebration.[4] The bomber, Saeed Hotari, was praised as a martyr by his father.[31] President George W. Bush demanded that Yasser Arafat condemn the terrorist act.[38] The next day, Israeli-Arabs barricaded themselves in the Hassan Bek Mosque opposite the Dolphinarium site and threw objects at the police.[39]
According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, an Israeli-based organization with close ties to the IDF, among the materials seized by the IDF in the course of Operation Defensive Shield were two documents issued by the Martyrs' Families and Injured Care Establishment, which is under the authority of the Palestinian National Authority's Ministry of Social Affairs. The documents detail the transfer of US$2,000 to the father of the suicide bomber, who was living in Jordan at that time (18 June 2001). According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, the transfer was made despite the suicide bomber's Hamas affiliation, despite the father's public support of the suicide bombing attack, and despite Arafat's public condemnation of the bombing.[40][41]
Dolphinarium site
After the bombing, the Dolphinarium discotheque was abandoned, covered with graffiti. It remained on the Tel Aviv beachfront until its demolition in May 2018.[42]
For many years, the victim's families campaigned to permanently preserve the ruined building as a monument to the attack. Eventually, the building was demolished in order to extend the promenade along the coast.[43] Memorial services to the victims of the attack were held every year at the site by friends and family of the victims.[44]"
It was Very Disturbing How Israel & then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon basically did Nothing to Retaliate against those Responsible, it was like Israel & Ariel Sharon spitting in the Face of the Israeli Terror Victims, adding Insult to Injury
From the New York Daily News website, nydailynews.com an article is titled
"Lethal hatred"
By DAILY NEWS EDITORIAL BOARD
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS |
FEB 21, 2020 | 4:00 AM
German police officers guard the entrance of a bar Thursday where several people were killed the day before in Hanau, Germany. (Michael Probst/AP)
"This page has watched in horror as anti-Semitism, which never really left, has returned with a vengeance to Europe and the United States. We and others who sound the alarm about that pernicious brand of hate must also speak out when Muslims are targeted on the basis of their faith.
That is what happened Wednesday night in Germany, when a right-wing extremist murdered nine people in two attacks on shisha bars. Tobias Rathjen, 43,opened fire on patrons of Turkish and Kurdish origin before returning home, where he killed his mother and himself.
Of course, Rathjen wrote a manifesto. Of course, he said he wanted people of certain backgrounds “completely annihilated” from his country, calling them responsible for the “degeneration of the people.” And not quite of course but unsurprisingly, he may very well also have been severely mentally ill; he apparently believed that his thoughts have been controlled by mind-readers working for an intelligence agency. Bigotry and paranoid delusions are not mutually exclusive.
People stand for a human chain during a vigil for victims of Wednesday's shooting in the central German town Hanau, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Thursday.
People stand for a human chain during a vigil for victims of Wednesday's shooting in the central German town Hanau, in front of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, Thursday. (Markus Schreiber/AP)
Knock wood, Islamophobic hate crimes remain relatively rare in New York today. Last year saw 14 such reports citywide, down from 18 in 2018, compared to 235 and 186 anti-Semitic attacks.
The moment still demands vigilance. Christians, Muslims, Jews, people of other faiths and people of no faith at all must loudly condemn indiscriminate violence whenever and wherever it occurs, lest we seem to amplify pain and carnage inflicted on one group of innocents while largely ignoring what is visited on another." that article was from the
nydailynews.com Website
Another good website, Americans for a Safe Israel, it can be found here,
https://afsi.org/
From the website besacenter.org an article is titled
"The History of the Land Is Jewish, Not Palestinian"
By Dr. Yechiel Shabiy February 23, 2020
Ancient synagogue in Gamla in the Golan Heights, built during the Second Temple period in the first century CE, photo via Wikimedia Commons
BESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,455, February 23, 2020
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: The claim by the elected representatives of the Israeli Arab public that they are the original owners of the land while the Jewish citizens of Israel (and, by implication, the State of Israel itself) are “colonialist invaders” is a complete inversion of historical reality. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration about the legality of the West Bank’s Jewish communities, along with President Trump’s peace plan based on that principle, offers a unique opportunity to correct that mistaken notion by applying sovereignty to all Israeli West Bank communities.
The elected representatives of Israel’s Arab community claim that the Palestinians are the original owners of the land—an indigenous minority disinherited by foreign invaders. According to this notion, which is aimed at undermining the Zionist narrative about the Jewish people’s return to its historical homeland, the Arabs of the Land of Israel—like the Indians in America, the aborigines in Australia, and the Zulu tribes in South Africa—are victims of European imperialism/colonialism, which turned them into a disenfranchised and oppressed minority in their own land. From this standpoint, Zionism is a crude perversion of Judaism because the Jews do not constitute a people but only a religious community with no national attributes or aspirations, let alone any right to a state of their own in even a tiny part of the Islamic-Arab-Palestinian patrimony.
That thesis is not only baseless but a complete inversion of the historical truth.
It was Arab/Muslim invaders who came to the Land of Israel as an ascendant imperialist force in the decade after the Prophet Muhammad’s death and laid the groundwork for the colonization of this land by a long string of Muslim empires up to the fall of the Ottoman Empire at the end of WWI. During this lengthy era, the non-Jewish and non-Christian residents of the land identified themselves as Muslims—not as Arabs, and certainly not as Palestinians—until WWI, when the idea of Arab nationalism gathered steam with the help of British imperialism.
One need only look at common family names among the Palestinians to see their colonialist origins: Hijazi, from the Hijaz in the Arabian Peninsula, from which the original invaders came; Bosniak, from Bosnia; Turk, from Turkey; Halabi, from Syria; Hindi, from India; Yemeni, from Yemen; Masarwa/Masri, from Egypt; Mughrabi, from the Maghreb, and so on."
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In contrast, countless place names in the Land of Israel testify to a Jewish presence over thousands of years. Take, for example, the Narbeta River in northern Samaria. Narbeta, which is the Aramaic pronunciation of Arubot, the biblical city in which one of King Solomon’s 12 governors lived, ruled the whole region of northern Samaria. In Narbeta, as Yosef ben Matityahu (Josephus) recounts, the Romans slaughtered thousands of Jews during the Great Revolt (66-73 CE). The area teems with archaeological relics from the Second Temple, Mishnaic, and Talmudic eras."
The Jewish population did not take to Roman-Byzantine rule and over the centuries rebelled against it repeatedly. The Great Revolt considerably depleted the Jewish population, but it was the Bar Kochba Revolt (132-35) and the subsequent religious and economic decrees that devastated the population, particularly in the Judea region. Harsh taxes were levied on the owners of Jewish estates and on farmers, and those who were struggling sought respite in nearby lands, especially Syria.
Concerned about the Jewish character and demography of the Land of Israel, the sages promised life in the next world to those who dwelt in the land and even for those who simply walked four cubits in it. In the words of Rabbi Meir: “Whoever raises his children in the Land of Israel is promised a place in the World to Come.” Settlement flourished, particularly in the Galilee, Samaria, and the South Hebron Hills. Dozens of communities developed, among them Tiberias, Baram, Gush Halav, Yota, Eshtemoa, Halhoul, Kfar Kanna, Arraba, and Sakhni.
With the Christian conquest of the Roman Empire, the Jews’ lot worsened. Whole populations of Jews and non-Jews converted to Christianity and the Jewish presence dwindled greatly. Not for nothing did the Jews of the Land of Israel play a major role in helping the Persian conquerors in 614.
In 628, Byzantine Emperor Heraclius defeated the Persians. Though he had promised the Jews and their leader Benjamin of Tiberias that if they laid down their arms nothing would befall them, he quickly broke his promise and murdered thousands of Jews.
Less than a decade later the Muslims conquered the land, with the help of the Jewish population. Although, during Muslim rule, the agricultural and urban Jewish population remained in good condition, it was hit hard by the Crusader conquest and the subsequent Mamluk conquest."
& continues
"As evidenced by descriptions of Jewish and Christian pilgrims, Jews lived in Jewish villages in the Galilee such as Kfar Hanania, Parod, Baram, Alma, Ein Zeitim, Kfar Kanna, and others until the 18th and 19th centuries. It was the Ottoman Turks who forced the Jewish villagers to leave their homes, either by expelling them, discriminating against them, persecuting them, or increasing their taxes, causing Jews to migrate to the cities of Safed, Tiberias, Acre, Haifa, and even Tyre and Sidon.
In the northern Samaria region, Jews lived in Anin, near Umm al-Fahm, growing citrons for trade, until the Turks settled Yemenite Arabs there. In addition, the community of Bitra (Bitron in Aramaic) became Barta’a. In this village and its vicinity the large Kaba clan, a branch of the Banu-Hilal tribe of Saudi Arabia, came to settle, as did the Masarwa clan from Egypt.
The northern Samarian mountains are strewn with thousands of relics of winepresses and of terraces that served as vineyards for the Jewish and Samaritan residents of the region. As the Muslim population took over, the wine industry collapsed and was replaced by olive and carob cultivation.
The land speaks Hebrew. The names of the communities have a linguistic meaning in Hebrew: Jaffa = yafeh (beautiful), Haifa = hofa shel ihr (shore of a city), Shikmona = shkamim (sycamores), Nazareth = notzeret/shomeret (guardian), Beit Guvrin = ihr hag’varim/hat’kifim (city of the strong), and so on. When the Arabs conquered these places, they pronounced the names in their own way, distorting them and changing their meaning: thus Shfaram (meaning “a people whose luck has improved”) became Shfa’amr, Ganim became Jenin, Bitra became Barta’a, Ashdod became Isdud, Tur Karem (meaning “mountain of the vineyards”) became Tulkarem, and Jordan became Urdan—names with no linguistic meaning in Arabic.
As Israeli military and political leader Yigal Allon said, a people that does not know its past has a meager present and an unknown future. When Ahmed Tibi, an Israeli Arab member of Knesset, protested to President Reuven Rivlin that the Arabs of the Land of Israel are the land’s indigenous residents and hence its masters, the president should have answered him appropriately, as in the dictum of the Jewish sages: know how to answer an ignoramus.
Today the wineries and vineyards have returned to the mountains of Samaria, and on the holiday of Tu Bishvat more and more grapevines will be planted. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s declaration about the legality of Jewish communities in the West Bank, along with President Trump’s peace plan based on that principle, offers a unique opportunity to apply sovereignty to all of the Israeli West Bank communities, including those in northern Samaria where the Narbeta River flows."
Dr. Yechiel Shabiy is a researcher at the BESA Center and a political science lecturer at Bar-Ilan University.
From the website blogs.timesofisrael.com an article by Fred Maroun is titled
"137 years of Arab rejection of Jewish self-determination"
FEB 26, 2020, 5:41 AM
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and U.S. Special Envoy George Mitchell after their meeting in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, on September 14, 2010. (U.S. State Department photo/ Public Domain)
The history of Arab rejection of Zionism, which is the concept of Jewish self-determination on the land of Israel, a land where Jews have had continuous presence for over 3000 years, is as long as the history of Zionism itself. The following are the main moments of that history.
1883-1917: Zionism in its infancy
In 1883, Nathan Birnbaum founded Kadimah, the first Zionist student association in Vienna. Early Arab opposition to Zionism came in 1880’s from the Mufti of Jerusalem, Muhammad Tahir al-Husseini, father of Haj Amin al-Husseini.
1917: Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration called for the establishment of a national home for the Jewish people. The Arab world rejected it, and the Palestinian Ministry of Information now calls it “the greatest political crime in the history of mankind.”
1919: Faisal-Weizmann Plan
On January 3, 1919, Chaim Weizmann, head of the British Zionist Federation, and the Emir Faisal ibn Hussein, head of the Arab delegation to the Versailles peace conference, signed an agreement of cooperation between their two peoples. The agreement permitted massive Jewish immigration into Palestine but did not explicitly support Jewish self-determination. The agreement fell apart after the Versailles peace conference failed to grant independence to the Arabs, which was Faisal’s condition for the agreement.
1920: San Remo Conference and League of Nations mandate for Palestine
The San Remo Conference decided on April 24, 1920 under the League of Nations to support “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, it being clearly understood that nothing should be done which might prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country”, and to assign to Britain the Mandate for Palestine.
1937: Peel Commission Partition Plan
In 1936, the British government appointed a commission, headed by the Earl of Peel, to investigate the situation in Palestine and to make recommendations. The commission issued its report on July 7, 1937, which included a plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. While the Jews accepted the plan in principle, the Arabs rejected any form of partition.
1939: British White Paper
The British White Paper of 1939 called for the establishment of a Palestinian state to which Jews would only have a very limited right of immigration (75,000 Jews for 5 years), with further Jewish immigration to be decided by the Arab majority. Not surprisingly, the Jews rejected it, but the Arabs rejected it too even though it gave practically nothing to Jews, especially not self-determination.
1947-1948: 1947 UN partition plan
While the Jews reluctantly accepted the plan, the Arab world rejected it and attacked the Jews. Azzam Pasha, General Secretary of the Arab League, said in May 1948, “This will be a war of extermination, a momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.”
1949: Lausanne Conference
The UN-sponsored Lausanne Conference of 1949 included Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, the Arab Higher Committee, and refugee delegations. Its objective was to resolve disputes arising from the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. During the conference, Israel made a peace offer that included taking 100,000 Palestinian refugees (which was 15% of the Palestinian refugees at that time), but the Arabs rejected it."
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"1960: Jordanian peace initiative
The Jordanian government prepared a peace proposal for resolving the Israel-Arab conflict that included a demilitarized Israel, modifications of the armistice lines in favor of the Arabs, and negotiations over the refugees. Jordan was set to present its proposal to the Arab League in Cairo on February 8, 1960, but after sending out feelers to assess the chances of approval by other Arab states, the Jordanian government withdrew the proposal.
1965: The peace proposal of Levi Eshkol
In a speech to the Knesset, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol proposed a peace plan with the Arab world. The Arabs ignored his proposal.
1967: Israel’s offer to negotiate peace after the Six-Day War
After the Six-Day War which Israel won decisively, Israel offered to negotiate peace with the Arab world, suggesting that it would give land for peace. In response, the Arab League issued the Khartoum Resolutions, declaring “No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, and no negotiations with Israel”.
1978-1979: Egypt-Israel peace treaty
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin signed a peace treaty between their two countries on March 26, 1979. The treaty included the return to Egypt of the Sinai Peninsula which is three times the size of Israel.
1982: Reagan’s peace plan
U.S. President Ronald Regan proposed a plan that involved a freeze on Jewish settlements in the West Bank and Gaza, linking the West Bank and Gaza with Jordan, self-rule in the West Bank and Gaza, and allowing Arab residents of East Jerusalem to participate in the election of a self-governing authority in the West Bank. The Israeli government under Prime Minister Menachem Begin rejected the plan despite the protests of opposition leader Shimon Peres, but the plan was also rejected by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and by Jordan.
1983: Israel-Lebanon security agreement
Under Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Lebanese President Amine Gemayel, Israel and Lebanon signed a security agreement on May 18, 1983 (although the agreement is known as the May 13 agreement), but its implementation was delayed because Syria refused to withdraw its troops from Lebanon, a key element of the agreement. Within a year, under domestic and regional pressure, Lebanon formally cancelled the agreement. Soon after the cancellation, Syrian President Hafez al-Assad phoned Gemayel and praised the cancellation as a ”victory for the Lebanese people, Syrian people, and the Arab nation.”
1987: Peres-Hussein peace deal
Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Jordan’s King Hussein negotiated an agreement with the support of British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but the agreement fell apart when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir refused to sign on. This could be considered an opportunity missed by Israel, but Hebrew University Professor Elie Podeh, author of the book “Chances for Peace: Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict”, estimated that Hussein (who was always far more accepting of Israel than other Arab leaders except for Egyptian President Anwar Sadat) “did not enjoy an Arab mandate to represent the Palestinians”. Podeh’s assessment and the fact that Palestinians were not involved in the deal indicate that the deal would likely have fallen through anyway."
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"1993-1994: Oslo I and Gaza-Jericho agreements between Israel and the Palestinians
Israel under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the PLO under Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo I agreement on September 13, 1993. A follow-on agreement, the Gaza-Jericho agreement was signed on May 14,1994. Under the agreements, the Palestinian Authority was recognized by Israel as the governing body of the Palestinians in parts of the West Bank and Gaza, the PLO recognized Israel’s right to exist and renounced its intent to attack and destroy it, and economic cooperation was established. Other issues such as refugees, borders, and Israeli settlements were not resolved.
1994: Israel-Jordan peace treaty
Israel under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Jordan under King Hussein signed the Israel-Jordan peace treaty on October 26, 1994.
1995: Oslo II agreement between Israel and the Palestinians
Israel under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and the PLO under Yasser Arafat signed the Oslo II agreement which superseded the Olso I agreement. It established a schedule for Israeli withdrawals from the Palestinian population centres and created a system of zones that were divided into areas A, B, and C. While the agreement was supposed to end Palestinian attacks on Israel and lead to the creation of a Palestinian state, neither has occurred. Twenty years after the signing of Oslo I, Richard Ferrer estimated that 1,600 more Israelis had been murdered by Palestinian terrorists.
2000: Ehud Barak’s offer to return most of the Golan Heights
In US-sponsored peace negotiations between Israel and Syria, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered to return most of the Golan Heights to Syria, but the talks failed because Syria insisted on having the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee, which is Israel’s main source of fresh water.
2000: Ehud Barak’s peace offer
Israel and the Palestinians negotiated a peace agreement at the Camp David Summit which was convened by U.S. President Bill Clinton, during which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak agreed to a Palestinian state in Gaza and 95% of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem and even Temple Mount, but Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away. Hillary Clinton said in 2016, “if Yasser Arafat had agreed with my husband at Camp David in the late 1990s to the offer that prime minister Barak put on the table, we would have had a Palestinian state for 15 years already.”
& lastly says
"2002: Ariel Sharon’s offer to discuss Arab League’s peace initiative
In May 2002, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon offered to attend the Arab League Summit in Beirut to discuss the Arab League’s peace initiative, but he was turned down.
2006-2008: Ehud Olmert’s peace offer
From December 2006 to September 2008, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas met 36 times, then Olmert made a comprehensive offer to Abbas on Sept. 16, 2008, which Abbas rejected, as he admitted in 2015.
2009: Ehud Olmert’s offer to return all of the Golan Heights
Early in 2009, it became known that Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was ready to return all of the Golan Heights to Syria as part of a peace agreement, but this process fell through when Olmert was replaced by Benjamin Netanyahu. In March 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump recognized Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, and Netanyahu pledged never to give it up.
2009-2010: Netanyahu’s 10-month settlements freeze
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu froze settlements for ten months starting in November 2009 in an attempt to entice the Palestinians into peace negotiations, but Abbas agreed to enter negotiations only near the end of that 10-month period. When the freeze ended, Abbas refused to continue negotiations despite Netanyahu’s plea: “Stay in the talks and, with me, continue on the road towards peace. I say to President Abbas: For the future of both our peoples, let us focus on what is really important. Let us proceed in accelerated, sincere and continuous talks in order to bring about an historic peace framework agreement within one year.”
2013-2014: Kerry-brokered peace negotiations
Under U.S. President Barak Obama, peace negotiations took place between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, brokered by U.S. secretary of state John Kerry. Michael Herzog who was a member of the Israeli negotiating team wrote, “Things came to a head on February 19, 2014, when Kerry met Abu Mazen [Mahmood Abbas] in Paris. By then, the U.S.-Israel talks were progressing, but Abu Mazen had “shut down.” He rejected out of hand the proposed U.S. framework. The U.S. side now focused most of its efforts on moving Abbas. It was too little too late. Abbas appeared no longer interested or invested in the process.”
2016: Netanyahu’s offer to negotiate the Arab League’s peace initiative
In 2016, Netanyahu offered to, “Introduce changes into the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative in order to reinvigorate the Israel-Palestinian peace process”, but Arab League Secretary-General Nabil al-Arabi flatly turned him down: “We will not accept any changes or trade in the Arab Peace Initiative, which is the only linchpin on which we can normalize our relations with Israel.”
& lastly says
"2020: Trump’s peace plan
In January 2020, US President Donald Trump proposed a vision for peace in the form of the 181-page “Peace to Prosperity” plan. Netanyahu stated to Trump during the announcement of the plan that, “if the Palestinians are […] genuinely prepared to make peace with the Jewish State, and if they agree to abide by all the conditions you have put forward in your plan, Israel will be there. Israel will be prepared to negotiate peace right away.” Israeli opposition leader Benny Gantz also supported the plan. However, after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Qatar, and the UAE initially welcomed the peace plan, both the Arab League and the Palestinian Authority rejected it without even offering to discuss it.
Conclusions
While one might be tempted to believe that the latest Arab rejection of peace with the Jewish state is the fault of the U.S. Peace Plan, the fault of U.S. President Donald Trump, or even the fault of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the 137-year history of Arab rejection of Jewish self-determination paints a different picture.
There is no doubt that there were various reasons underpinning the Arab rejections, in some cases legitimate, and Israel too may have missed a small number of potential opportunities, but the overall pattern is that the Jews have almost always agreed to a solution of the Israel-Arab conflict, while the Arabs never agreed to one, with the exception of limited peace agreements with Egypt and Jordan that did not resolve the overall conflict. Another pattern that has emerged is that Israel’s negotiating position has become more rigid over time, partly because it has become stronger, and partly because of increased security threats from well-financed terrorist groups allied with Iran.
Arab rejection of Jewish self-determination has occurred even with left-wing governments in Israel, even with Democratic presidents in the White House, regardless of what was in the peace plan, and even when there was no peace plan at all but only a concept. Even Netanyahu, who leads the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history, has attempted four times already to make peace with the Palestinians.
However much one may dislike Trump or Netanyahu, the Arab and Palestinian refusal to even discuss the latest peace plan is not Trump’s or Netanyahu’s fault. It is due to the long-standing Arab inability to accept Jewish self-determination – and to some extent even Jewish presence altogether – in the Middle East under any circumstances.
The purpose of compiling this history is not to help Zionists play the blame game but to help Palestinians understand that 137 years of rejections has not helped them. Bret Stephens wrote, “The Jewish state has thrived in part because, dayenu, it has always been prepared to make do with less. The Palestinian tragedy has been the direct result of taking the opposite approach: of insisting on the maximum rather than working toward the plausible. Things rarely go well for those who try to live history backward.”
Palestinians should understand that at some point, – and that point may have come already – they will run out of opportunities, so they better start realizing that they should take advantage of an opportunity when it comes, and there is one right now in front of them." Well said Fred Maroun
From UnitedWithIsrael.org an article is titled
"Palestinians Seize Ancient Jewish Fortress, ‘Declare War on History’"
Hasmonean-era fortress in Samaria (Shomrim Al Hanetzach)
Hasmonean-era fortress in Samaria
Feb 26, 2020
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The Palestinian Authority took control of a biblical era Jewish heritage site and started demolishing archaeological findings.
By Aryeh Savir, TPS
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has recently seized a Hasmonean-era fortress in Samaria and has converted it into “a Palestinian tourist site” as part of its campaign to seize Jewish heritage sites and transform them into “Palestinian sites” while systematically demolishing archaeological findings.
The Shomrim Al Hanetzach (Guarding Eternity) organization discovered Sunday that the PA has installed a new massive flag mast and lighting at the fortress of Arama, an ancient Hasmonean archeological site which dominates the ancient road from Shechem (Nablus) to the Jordan Valley.
Tel Aruma, which is mentioned in the Bible as the city of Avimelech, was the northernmost fortress of the Jewish state during the Hasmonean period.
Photos from the site seen by TPS show that the PA’s construction has caused damage to the fortress’ wall and blocked its water reservoirs. The PA also added a heavy concrete casting for the PA flag flying at the site.
“The PA has declared war on our history,” Shomrim Al Hanetzach warned.
Shomrim Al Hanetzach is dedicated to fighting the rampant Arab antiquities theft and destruction in Judea and Samaria.
The PA is “turning the place into an active Palestinian tourist site while causing shocking destruction of the archeological findings and history which we will never be able to recover,” the organization said.
Shomrim Al Hanetzach noted that the phenomenon of antiquity destruction is pervasive and affects all sites that are not under permanent preservation, and a survey of the sites in Judea and Samaria shows that a staggering 95% of the archeological sites have been robbed, vandalized or disturbed.
Shomrim Al Hanetzach has formulated a national plan to fight this trend.
“According to the Oslo Accords, there is a requirement for full coordination between Israel and the PA in all matters related to archeology, like there is security coordination. Therefore, in a situation where there is no security, Israel is obliged to act, so as in crimes against history, Israel is obliged to act,” Shomrim Al Hanetzach stated.
The PA has previously taken control of Israeli and Jewish heritage sites in an attempt to usurp it of its national identity and legacy, in contradiction to the historical and archaeological findings."
Another article from unitedwithisrael.org is titled
"WATCH: PA Claims ‘All of Israel is Palestine,’ While Abbas Deceives UN"
PA President Mahmoud Abbas addresses 74th session of UN General Assembly. (AP/Richard Drew)
Mahmoud Abbas
Feb 26, 2020
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Palestinian propaganda
United Nations the article says :
"Abbas’ deception at the United Nations is longstanding, telling the international body that the PA recognizes Israel, while his party admits at home it seeks to completely eliminate Israel.
While Palestinian Authority chief Mahmoud Abbas recently told the UN, “we recognize Israel,” on the same day his deputy told a crowd of Palestinians that all of modern-day Israel is “Palestine.”
This type of double-speak is typical of the Palestinian leadership, telling Western audiences one thing while admitting their true aims in front of home crowds.
If the recent shift in several Gulf states’ posture towards Israel is any indication, the world has gotten wise to the Palestinian Authority’s two-faced diplomacy." links to Videos are shown in this article
Also from unitedwithisrael.org another article is titled
"Instead of the “Classic Days” auto show, Berlin will host an anti-Jewish Al-Quds day demonstration, lamented the car show’s organizer."
Feb 25, 2020
By United with Israel Staff the article says
"Authorities in Berlin forced the cancellation of the 7th annual “Classic Days” auto show in order for an Al-Quds anti-Jewish demonstration to take place, according to the car show’s organizer. The events were slated to take place in Berlin’s main shopping district.
According to a report by the German website B.Z., “the anti-Jewish Al-Quds day demonstration was permitted by the authorities at the same time” as the auto show.
“It’s a shame for Berlin,” said auto show organizer Frank Peppel. “Several hundred thousand visitors have to give way to radicals who protest against Jews.”
Peppel applied for the required permit last May, he said. Authorities did not respond until six months later, on January 7. They said that Al-Quds day takes precedence over the auto show, said Peppel.
Peppel said 26,000 classic car owners were already invited to the event and he had collected 400,000 euros from registrants, according to EN24 news.
“There are global players like Lamborghini, Volvo or Audi,” he said. “They come with containers and lots of employees. I can’t just postpone that.”
Participants in the Berlin anti-Israel rally stem from terror groups like Hezbollah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. German neo-Nazis join as well. Fiery speeches against Israel and “Zionists” are presented. It is not uncommon for crowds to chant “Death to Israel” and “Death to America.”
Though Germany’s Jewish community as well as the Israeli and American governments have asked German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Berlin mayor Michael Müller to ban the hate-filled demonstration, they ignored the pleas, according to The Jerusalem Post.
In 2019, Israel’s Ambassador to Germany, Jeremy Issacharoff spoke at a demonstration against the Al-Quds gathering. He tweeted about the event, “This blatantly anti-Semitic and hateful event should be banned. Iran as the leading sponsor of terror, a serial abuser of human rights that seeks to undermine any chance for ME [Middle East] peace has no place in Berlin.”
Al-Quds day has taken place worldwide since 1979. It was first suggested by Ebrahim Yazdi, the first foreign minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the Iranian Revolution, as an annual anti-Zionist day of protest." Big Surprise, Hate coming out of Germany, of course we at this blog are Not saying all Germans are Evil or Hate filled, but many are
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unitedwithisrael.org about the anti-semitic "Al-Quds" rally in Berlin
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"Once a Nazi always a Nazi"
"Once a nazi-pig nation, always a nazi-pig nation."
"Angela Merkel had a good opportunity to show Hitler is alive & well in Germany. Germany never regreted it murderous past, Europe proves again & again it is slowly subjugating to Islam. The Laws & Rules show preferential treatment the Muslim and a rise of anti Semitism to high level are also pointers..." Just repeating what these people typed
More Comments people typed in reply to the article about the Al-Quds hate rally in Berlin
"Nazi's being Nazi's....No surprise...."
"I thought Angela Merkel cared so much about the jews living in germany but obviously she doesnt. Otherwise, why the hell would she allow such an abomination to take place in Berlin. She would rather have an anti-semitic alquds parade (which comes from iran)parade and allow neo-nazis to match rather than host a classic auto show. Something is terrible wrong with Angela Merkel and the others that would allow this disgusting show of hate"
"The murderous muslims like the stupid germans as much as they like beer, bratwurst and eisbein!
Soon they will be slitting german and pig throats side by side in berlin, the new caliphate!"
"Well, those muslim fruitcakes take over Germany silently. In fact countries like the U.K , Belgium and even Paris, Sweden and Norway have no-go zones. Even in Paris and I don't mean the tourist part of France. Europe is slowly transforming into Arabia. Muslims use democracy as a tool and weapon to follow their own interest. They don't care about human rights. If they would they would protest black slavery in Mauritania, Sudan, Southern Libya, the oppression of women in Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Somalia and the persecution of minorites in Iraq, Syria, and even in Morocco (Berber/ Amazigh are oppressed). Arabs colonized the entire middle East by the sword . Yet they want to arabisize everything and everyone. It is NOT Al quds but Yerushalayim. Jerusalem is our since 38 centuries. It was the town of King David and Solomon. It was the heart of Judea which was the heart of biblical Israel. It was the territory which Jesus a JUDEAN JEW and Rabbi preached. The same territory which was inhabited by the tribe of Judah one of the 12 Jewish tribes of Israel. There is NO Palestine. Palestinians are Jordanians and Egyptians and Saudi . They are Arabs from Arabia from hejaz. The only real Palestinians who were there before the 7th century were the Christian Palestinians as they descend from Aramaics and Judeo Christians. They are genetically similar to us (Jews) and they are related to us . Jerusalem, Hebron , Beersheva, Nazareth, Bethlehem, Shechem which the muslims and Fakestinian muslims falsely call Nablus were all Jewish cities in ancient times and still are . Jerusalem is our eternal capital. Hebron is the place were our patriarchs are buried such as Avram Avinu( Abraham the first Jew / Hebrew). Even Gaza was once Jewish at the time of Samson who was from the Jewish tribe of Dan. There is NO Westbank but Judea and Samaria . Every Jew every one of us traces its DNA back to the levant at the period of the second temple in Jerusalem before we were exiled by the Romans in the first two centuries AD .
Ashkenazim are genetically semitic(from Judea from the 4 tribes of Judah Benjamin simeon and Levi )and southern Italian
sephardic are Israelites and Spanish / Portuguese.
Mizraim and Samaritans are the purest Israelites as they never left the holy land.
We Jews are levantine "
Another One Bites The Dust, Hosni Mubarak the former President of Egypt has died at the age of 91 on February 25, 2020 , from Wikipedia it says about him
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Hosni Mubarak
حسني مبارك
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Mubarak in 2009
4th President of Egypt
In office
14 October 1981 – 11 February 2011
Prime Minister
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Vice President Omar Suleiman[a]
Preceded by Sufi Abu Taleb (Acting)
Succeeded by Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Interim)
Prime Minister of Egypt
In office
7 October 1981 – 2 January 1982
President Sufi Abu Taleb (Acting)
Himself
Preceded by Anwar Sadat
Succeeded by Ahmad Fuad Mohieddin
15th Vice-President of Egypt
In office
16 April 1975 – 14 October 1981
President Anwar Sadat
Preceded by Hussein el-Shafei
Mahmoud Fawzi
Succeeded by Omar Suleiman[a]
Secretary General of the Non-Aligned Movement
In office
16 July 2009 – 11 February 2011
Preceded by Raúl Castro
Succeeded by Mohamed Hussein Tantawi (Acting)
Commander of the Air Force
In office
23 April 1972 – 16 April 1975
President Anwar Sadat
Preceded by Ali Mustafa Baghdady
Succeeded by Mahmoud Shaker
Director of the Egyptian Air Academy
In office
November 1967 – June 1969[1]
Preceded by Yahia Saleh Al-Aidaros
Succeeded by Mahmoud Shaker
Personal details
Born Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak
4 May 1928
Kafr-El Meselha, Kingdom of Egypt
Died 25 February 2020 (aged 91)
Cairo, Egypt
Political party National Democratic Party (1978–2011)
Spouse(s) Suzanne Thabet (m. 1959)
Children
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Alma mater Egyptian Military Academy
Egyptian Air Academy
Frunze Military Academy
Signature
Military service
Allegiance Egypt
Branch/service Egyptian Air Force
Years of service 1950–1975
Rank Air Chief Marshal - Egyptian Air Force rank.png – Air Chief Marshal[2]
Commands Egyptian Air Force
Egyptian Air Academy
Beni Suef Air Base
Cairo West Air Base
a. ^ Office vacant from 14 October 1981 to 29 January 2011
b. ^ as Chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces
c.^ c. military rank withdrawn after trial
Muhammad Hosni El Sayed Mubarak[a] (4 May 1928 – 25 February 2020) was an Egyptian military and political leader who served as the fourth president of Egypt from 1981 to 2011.
Before he entered politics, Mubarak was a career officer in the Egyptian Air Force. He served as its commander from 1972 to 1975 and rose to the rank of air chief marshal in 1973.[2] Some time in the 1950s, he returned to the Air Force Academy as an instructor, remaining there until early 1959.[2] He assumed the presidency after the assassination of Anwar Sadat. Mubarak's presidency lasted almost thirty years, making him Egypt's longest-serving ruler since Muhammad Ali Pasha, who ruled the country from 1805 to 1848, a reign of 43 years.[3] Mubarak stepped down after 18 days of demonstrations during the Egyptian Revolution of 2011.[4] On 11 February 2011, former Vice President Omar Suleiman announced that Mubarak and he had resigned as president and vice president respectively and transferred authority to the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces.[5][6]"
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"On 13 April 2011, a prosecutor ordered Mubarak and both of his sons (Alaa and Gamal) to be detained for 15 days of questioning about allegations of corruption and abuse of power.[7] Mubarak was then ordered to stand trial on charges of negligence for failing to halt the killing of peaceful protesters during the revolution.[8] These trials began on 3 August 2011.[9] On 2 June 2012, an Egyptian court sentenced Mubarak to life imprisonment. After sentencing, he was reported to have suffered a series of health crises. On 13 January 2013, Egypt's Court of Cassation (the nation's high court of appeal) overturned Mubarak's sentence and ordered a retrial.[10] On retrial, Mubarak and his sons were convicted on 9 May 2015 of corruption and given prison sentences.[11] Mubarak was detained in a military hospital and his sons were freed 12 October 2015 by a Cairo court.[12] He was acquitted on 2 March 2017 by the Court of Cassation and released on 24 March 2017.[13][14]
He died on 25 February 2020.[15][16] He received a military burial at a family plot outside Cairo.[17] , Don't be Fooled, Hosni Mubarak had anti-semitic & anti-Jewish views, at least he kept the Peace with Israel, but it was a Cold Peace, Egypt was always a Wicked Satanic Demonic Evil Nation, and it still is, Perhaps the ONLY reason Mubarak kept the Peace with Israel was because he didn't want his Nation to Lose the Billions of Dollars in Foreign Aid it Received from the United States, Probably Mubarak didn't truly want to keep the Peace with Israel, he just wanted that American Money & Foreign Aid , Mubarak became President of Egypt after the Assassination of Anwar Sadat , we all know the Joke that Goes like this,
What Song Was Played at the Funeral of Anwar Sadat ?
Answer: I Love A Parade
From the website whaleoil.net.nz an article is titled
"The mainstream media won’t cover this story so Whaleoil will"
by SB on May 7, 2019 at 8:00am
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MFA Spokesperson @EmmanuelNahshon: the article says:
Since yesterday morning, Israel is under attack. Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired over 430 rockets from #Gaza, targeting Israeli civilians. This is a situation that we cannot accept.
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The Herald isn’t a premium services arsehole – 3 days into hostilities and they don’t even have one single article covering the latest situation from Gaza (that I can see)
Whaleoil reader
The mainstream media are not interested in what is a huge news story and one that has big repercussions. For the past three days, Israel has been under sustained attack from Gaza, unlike anything it has experienced before. Signs are pointing to the Israeli government being left with no other alternative but to invade Gaza to stop it.
Sadly when Israelis are being killed, their houses destroyed and their lives under constant threat from terrorists the Mainstream media do not care. They only lift their head up to write an article when one of the countless rockets fired from Gaza lands in Gaza and kills their own children. Then the media rocks up to show the bloody corpse of the Palestinian child and claim that it was a rocket from Israel that caused the child’s death.
The best way for Whaleoil to bring you up to speed with what has been going on is to put together the below collection from social media as without it you would have no idea that anything of note was happening thanks to the disinterest of the mainstream media."
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I have also included links to some Israeli news reports:
Unitedwithisrael.org/gaza-terrorists-fire-over-220-rockets-at-israel-idf-strikes-back/
Worldisraelnews.com/watch-we-are-strong-says-israeli-amid-ruins-of-rocketed-home/?
Worldisraelnews.com/israeli-death-toll-rises-to-4-from-palestinian-rocket-onslaught/?
Worldisraelnews.com/precision-strike-idf-takes-out-key-gaza-terror-figure/?
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HAMAS & ISLAMIC JIHAD WAR AGAINST MUSLIMS. Take a look at this map: #Gaza terrorists also target Tel Sheva, Abu Talul, Rahat & Laqiya - All Muslim communities in southern Israel. Gaza is controlled by genocidal maniacs who couldn't care less about ANY human life. #IsraelUnderFire
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If this was any other country, the international community would raise havoc. No other country would sit back and take this. Why should Israel? #DoubleStandard https://twitter.com/IDF/status/1124726273757077504 …
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200+ rockets rained down on the homes of Israeli families today. WATCH:
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This is just terrible and heartbreaking.
Video footage of a parents having to grab their childen during a barrage of rocket attacks trying to protect then from harm. This is the horrible reality that Israelis in the south have to live by. #israel#IsraelUnderFire
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Celebrations in #Gaza tonight. The awful truth that so many in the West refuse to acknowledge, is that #Hamas, #IslamicJihad and their supporters will not be satisfied until #Israel is wiped from the map - from the river (Jordan) to the sea (Mediterranean).
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What would you do if a rocket exploded in YOUR child's elementary school?
Thankfully no child was in this school when a rocket exploded in the courtyard.
This is just one of 250+ rockets that were fired from Gaza at Israeli civilians today.
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For those who don't care about Jewish Israelis, perhaps you'll be angry or upset that a rocket from Gaza has landed in an Arab Israeli village.
Also, some rockets don't make it over the border and kill Gazans.
May the injured heal fast and the IDF stop the terror for all! https://twitter.com/StandWithUs/status/1124770784097001472 …"
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Breaking: A rocket struck a Bedouin area near #Beersheba, #Israel.https://www.jpost.com/Breaking-News/Rocket-strikes-Bedouin-area-near-Beersheba-possible-injuries-588714?jnid=oBLdBZa1b7&utm_source=Jeeng …
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“The United States strongly condemns the ongoing barrage of rocket attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad from Gaza upon innocent civilians and their communities across Israel.” @StateDept @MFATgovtNZ #nzpol https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/05/291491.htm …
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If you want to understand the number and frequency of rocket attacks by Hamas & Islamic Jihad from Gaza into Israeli civilian areas, download this app. Over 200 rockets fired from Gaza in last 12 hours alone. #IsraelUnderFire #nzpol #IsraelUnderAttack https://itunes.apple.com/nz/app/red-alert-israel/id873642097?mt=8 …
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Video footage of a family in a bomb shelter during today's barrage of rockets.
Israelis should NOT be forced to live like this.
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Replying to @JimSchofield14 and 2 others
It is especially incumbent upon @nzlabour to condemn this terror because one of their members has been promoting BDS, in common cause with the terrorists.https://twitter.com/KiwiDaveC/status/1124631233386827777 …
David Cumin
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Replying to @Duncan_Webb_
The Palestinian BDS
National Committee leads the international campaign. It includes Hamas, PFLP, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad - terror orgs. https://4il.org.il/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/MSA-Terrorists-In-Suits-English-1.pdf …
PIJ has just said it also wants to stop Eurovision and will continue rocket attacks.https://twitter.com/ignis_fatum/status/1124613507515932673 …
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If you agree with me that’s nice, but what I really want to achieve is to make you question the status quo, look between the lines and do your own research. Do not be a passive observer in this game we call life.
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From the website dailybruin.com an article is titled
"Submission: Jews not to blame for Palestinian displacement"
BY INBAR GOREN AND TALI MOORE
Posted: May 26, 2016 12:11 the article says
"It is said that most lies are “lies of omission.” This is when someone simply fails to mention critical facts about a particular situation, purposely misleading the reader to the wrong conclusion. The opinion submission “Palestinian ethnic cleansing from Israel is ongoing, must be stopped” that appeared in the Daily Bruin on May 16 certainly has more than its fair share of omissions. However, the piece is unique in the audacity with which it misrepresents the truth, venturing into the more blatant form of lying in which boldfaced fabrications about complex historical events are presented as undisputed fact.
The authors of the article tell us that the Palestinians were forcibly “driven from their homes during Israel’s 1947-1949 campaign of ethnic cleansing.” The serious charge of ethnic cleansing against Israel – a term used to characterize genocides in Rwanda and Armenia, mass atrocities in Congo and the Holocaust – is not just baseless. It is hateful and discriminatory, leveled in our university’s primary public forum, the Daily Bruin, to demonize Israel – and create a hostile environment for pro-Israel and Jewish students. It takes all meaning out of the term “ethnic cleansing,” disrespecting those communities who bear this awful legacy.
Shame on the authors for introducing this divisiveness, ignorance and hate to our campus. The editors of the Daily Bruin should have known better than to print offensive and ultimately false accusations without doing their due diligence beforehand.
The whole truth is that an estimated 726,000 Arabs fled their homes during Israel’s War of Independence. That war was instigated not by the Jews but by the Arabs, who rejected the United Nations’ plan partitioning the British Mandate of Palestine into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Israel accepted that plan, but the Arabs chose war."
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The vast majority of Arabs left their villages out of their own free will to avoid being caught in the crossfire of war. They were encouraged to do so by their leaders, who told the Arab public that they would soon remove the Jewish population by force and after which they could return to their homes.
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades,” declared Arab League Secretary-General Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha. “It does not matter how many (Jews) there are. We will sweep them into the sea.”
In the years that followed Israel’s establishment, more than an equal number of Jews were expelled from Arab countries. More than 850,000 Jews lived in Arab countries at the time of Israel’s establishment. These were ancient Jewish communities that had lived on their land for thousands of years. Less than 4,500 Jews live in the Arab world today.
Thriving Jewish communities that had existed since antiquity were destroyed overnight. Arab leaders murdered Jewish leaders, expelled Jewish communities, and stole Jewish property. About 100,000 square kilometers of land owned by Jews in Arab countries were confiscated by Arab leaders. This amounts to five times the size of the state of Israel.
Yet, there was a critical difference in how these two groups of refugees were treated. Israel integrated the Jews kicked out of Arab countries, making them an integral part of the country’s social fabric and future success.
No Arab country, with the exception of Jordan, has provided the opportunity for Palestinian refugees to earn citizenship. Throughout the Arab world, severe restrictions continue to be imposed on Palestinians. For instance, in Lebanon, Palestinians are not allowed to own land or enter certain professions, like medicine and law.
We have great compassion for the challenging situation facing the Palestinian people. We acknowledge their ongoing suffering. Yet, the route to peaceful coexistence on campus – and in the Middle East – lies not in leveling slanderous charges that seek to demonize other communities and misrepresent a very complex history."
Moore is a third-year psychobiology student. Goren is a third-year political science student."
From the New York Post website, www.nypost.com an article is titled
"Ilhan Omar’s appalling ‘collusion’ with Turkey’s tyrant"
By Benjamin Weingarten February 25, 2020 | 7:42pm | Updated
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FBI reviewing claims Ilhan Omar married her brother the article says
"Special counsel Robert Mueller’s mandate defined “collusion” as “links and/or coordination” with foreign powers. Democrats and their media allies tried and failed to hang the charge around President Trump’s neck. But one of their own darlings, Rep. Ilhan Omar, has inarguably colluded with an unsavory Islamist regime: Turkey’s.
In fall 2017, Omar, then a state representative, attended a closed meeting with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. According to a report since deleted from a Somali-language periodical, Omar and the Islamist strongman discussed “issues involving Omar’s native Somalia and issues for Somalis in Minnesota. … The meeting ended with Erdogan asking Omar to voice her support for Turkey.”
A month later, Omar would take to Twitter to praise Turkey for providing airlifts for Somalis injured in a Mogadishu truck bombing.
Given recent concerns over foreign influence, one might ask: Why was this state representative meeting with the leader of an increasingly anti-American regime? With what authority was she negotiating Turkish-Somali relations or any foreign-relations matters?
Several months prior to the Erdogan sit-down, Omar and her then-husband, Ahmed Hirsi, met with Umat Acar, then the Turkish consul general in Chicago. Hirsi memorialized the meeting on Facebook, writing: “Turkey has been a friend to Somalis everywhere, and I look forward helping [sic] expanding our friendship for decades to come.” Acar would host Omar again in September 2018, according to social media, after she won the Democratic nomination to run for the House in her district.
Months before ever meeting Acar, Omar traveled to Istanbul with Hirsi for a “Human Rights Defenders” conference reportedly organized by Istanbul’s Sisli municipality, where she attacked the Trump administration’s travel ban against terror-producing nations.
The rapport deepened after she took her congressional seat.
In January 2019, the US-based, Turkish-state-funded Islamic Diyanet Center of America reported that several of its senior members had met with Reps. Omar and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, congratulating the two new Muslim members of Congress and adding that it looked forward to “fostering a relationship between our institutions.”
Then, in April 2019, a pro-Erdogan Turkish newspaper ran an article soliciting campaign contributions for Omar, which was reprinted in other publications. The article defended Omar’s infamous comments about the “Israel Lobby” and argued that “donating money to Omar’s campaign fund would be an adequate way of denying powerful organizations the power to censor alternative voices.”
Last October brought news that Halil Mutlu, co-chairman of the pro-Ankara Turkish American Steering Committee, had donated $1,500 to Omar’s campaign. TASC lobbied against a 2019 House resolution recognizing the Armenian genocide at the hands of the Ottoman Empire."
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Ilhan Omar blasts 'fake news' after story claims she married her brother
As it happens, Omar was one of only two House Democrats not to support the resolution. In explaining her “present” vote, she drew a moral parallel between Turkey and America, asserting: “A true acknowledgment of historical crimes … must include both the heinous genocides of the 20th century, along with earlier mass slaughters like the trans-Atlantic slave trade and Native American genocide … in this country.”
Omar similarly bucked her party in voting against sanctions on Turkey over its incursion into northern Syria against Syrian Kurds, which passed the House with overwhelming support.
Writing in the Washington Post opinion pages, she claimed Turkish sanctions would prove ineffective and perhaps harmful. But she didn’t pause to explain why the same couldn’t be said for the sanctions she supports against Israel; Omar is a keen backer of the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement targeting the world’s sole Jewish state.
All this should be alarming. Omar sits on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and co-chairs Democratic front-runner Bernie Sanders’ campaign in Minnesota. If Sanders wins the White House, she will no doubt reap foreign-policy rewards, and so might Ankara. If Democrats are worried about collusion, why don’t they look into Omar’s?
Benjamin Weingarten’s new book is “American Ingrate: Ilhan Omar and the Progressive-Islamist Takeover of the Democratic Party.”
The Amazon.com Description for the book "American Ingrate" says
"In American Ingrate, Federalist Senior Contributor Benjamin Weingarten exposes Ilhan Omar’s radical and revolutionary Left-Islamist agenda, her seminal role in the progressive takeover of the Democratic Party, and the dire threat she poses to U.S. national security by way of her collusion with subversive anti-American forces.
She says that America was “founded by the genocide of indigenous people and on the backs of slaves,” and that “ignorance really is pervasive” among Americans today.
She says America must “dismantle” capitalism and “demilitarize” U.S. foreign policy, which she sees “from the perspective of a foreigner,” tweeting “thousands of Somalis [were] killed by…American forces…#NotTodaySatan.”
She says American support for Israel is “all about the Benjamins baby;” and that American Jews disloyally pledge “allegiance” to Israel’s “apartheid…regime,” which has “hypnotized the world.”
She says of the 9/11 attacks: “some people did something.”
Shockingly, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s (D-MN) words merely scratch the surface of her hatred of America—and the West—and divert our gaze from the nefarious actions she is taking to sabotage it from within.
American Ingrate is the defining book on the size, scope, and nature of the threat posed by Representative Omar—the personification of the anti-American Left-Islamist nexus—heightened by her hidden collusion with like-minded adversaries foreign and domestic, and alleged criminality and corruption.
This is a clarion wakeup call to the dangers epitomized by Rep. Omar. For she is not merely a lone radical in Congress, but the archetype of the new Democratic Party—and a uniquely dangerous figure at the heart of a uniquely dangerous challenge to America."
The Democratic Party is bad, The Republican Party isn't so great either, Some Jews have decided to Re-register as "Independent" Voters, Perhaps More Americans should consider becoming Independent Voters,
From the website jewishworldreview.com an article is titled
"Arafat's legacy"
By Cal Thomas the article says:
The un-obituary
http://www.jewishworldreview.com | The legacy of Yasser Arafat, for those not brainwashed by his propaganda and that of his supporters, is one of murder, deceit and corruption.
As part of its obituary, The New York Times said, "Arafat led a long and failed effort for statehood" for the Palestinians. He did no such thing. Arafat led a long reign of terror, the purpose of which was to kill Jews and eliminate the state of Israel.
Arafat never cared about a Palestinian state contiguous to Israel. The only Palestinian state he cared about was one that encompassed all of Israel. He said that repeatedly to his own people while he said something else to the West. Every Palestinian map was printed without Israel. Arafat proved his intentions by the terrorism he encouraged, including homicide bombers, whose families he paid out of funds that should have gone to help his "people." One list of Israeli fatalities caused by terrorism inspired and directed by Arafat just since the 1993 Oslo accords runs 47 single-spaced pages.
In a statement on Arafat's death, the Vatican sounded as if it were speaking of Mother Teresa. The Vatican's chief spokesman referred to Arafat as "the illustrious deceased" and asked G-d to grant eternal rest to his soul. Where is church-state separation when you really need it? The only "resting" place Arafat will enjoy is a place in hell alongside his ideological and anti-Semitic idol, Adolph Hitler.
Much of the world has been deceived about "Palestinianism" because it knows little of the history of the region. There has never been an Arab "Palestinian people." The real Palestinians are the Jews. Those who have adopted the name are from Arab countries, chiefly Jordan.
It was the grand mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin al-Husseini, who created this deceit in the 1920s as a rationale for murdering Jews. He made a pact with Hitler in the 1930s and encouraged the Nazi dictator to slaughter European Jews to keep them from escaping to Palestine. He ordered Arab families to leave Israel in 1948 so that Arab armies could invade and try to overturn the U.N. mandate that created Israel.
After subsequent wars and numerous terrorist incidents, Israel remains stronger than ever and the plight of the so-called "Palestinians" is worse than ever, thanks in part to Arafat's suspected embezzlement of unknown millions.
President Bush issued a carefully nuanced statement following the announcement of Arafat's death: "There will be an opening for peace when leadership of the Palestinian people steps forward and says, 'Help us build a democratic and free society.'"
That isn't likely to happen anytime soon because the poison did not die with Arafat. It is endemic to a region and a people that despise all things Jewish, Christian and Western. Various "leaders" throughout the Arab world have found the Jews, Christians and West useful diversions from the real problems of Arab people. They would be just as poor, illiterate and oppressed today, as they were before 1948, if Israel did not exist."
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Other nations with a different worldview might have used such resources to build great societies. These Arab nations and people have squandered money and opportunities on ancient prejudices under the false notion that they are pleasing an angry and vengeful G-d who hates what they hate and wants them to wipe out his "enemies."
Yasser Arafat was not unique in the region. Others will follow him as they announce divine mandates to take up where he left off. There might be civil war among the various rivals for power -- from Hamas to Islamic Jihad to other factions. If Hamas conquers Gaza after the Israelis withdraw, Egypt may rue the day it allowed tunnels to be dug on its territory for Hamas to smuggle weapons and terrorists into Israel. Those tunnels go both ways, and Hamas might use them to destabilize the government of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak.
Of all the Nobel Peace Prize winners, Yasser Arafat was the least worthy. The award was an example of the self-deception practiced by many in the West who continue to believe evil people can be made good if they are simply given what they want, no matter what it might cost others.
Arafat is gone, but he won't be forgotten, especially by the relatives of his murdered victims."
From the website kellipundit.blogspot.com an article is titled
"Arafat: May He Burn In Hell"
Thursday, November 11, 2004
Jeff Jacoby has a fitting eulogy for that vile, murderous, sorry excuse for a human being, Arafat:
YASSER ARAFAT died at age 75, lying in bed surrounded by familiar faces. He left this world peacefully, unlike the thousands of victims he sent to early graves.
In a better world, the PLO chief would have met his end on a gallows, hanged for mass murder much as the Nazi chiefs were hanged at Nuremberg. In a better world, the French president would not have paid a visit to the bedside of such a monster. In a better world, George Bush would not have said, on hearing the first reports that Arafat had died, "God bless his soul."
God bless his soul? What a grotesque idea! Bless the soul of the man who brought modern terrorism to the world? Who sent his agents to slaughter athletes at the Olympics, blow airliners out of the sky, bomb schools and pizzerias, machine-gun passengers in airline terminals? Who lied, cheated, and stole without compunction? Who inculcated the vilest culture of Jew-hatred since the Third Reich? Human beings might stoop to bless a creature so evil -- as indeed Arafat was blessed, with money, deference, even a Nobel Prize -- but God, I am quite sure, will damn him for eternity.
And what about those victims? Why were they scarcely remembered in this Arafat death watch?
How is it possible to reflect on Arafat's most enduring legacy -- the rise of modern terrorism -- without recalling the legions of men, women, and children whose lives he and his followers destroyed? If Osama bin Laden were on his deathbed, would we neglect to mention all those he murdered on 9/11?
It would take an encyclopedia to catalog all of the evil Arafat committed. But that is no excuse for not trying to recall at least some of it.
Perhaps his signal contribution to the practice of political terror was the introduction of warfare against children. On one black date in May 1974, three PLO terrorists slipped from Lebanon into the northern Israeli town of Ma'alot. They murdered two parents and a child whom they found at home, then seized a local school, taking more than 100 boys and girls hostage and threatening to kill them unless a number of imprisoned terrorists were released. When Israeli troops attempted a rescue, the terrorists exploded hand grenades and opened fire on the students. By the time the horror ended, 25 people were dead; 21 of them were children.
Thirty years later, no one speaks of Ma'alot anymore. The dead children have been forgotten. Everyone knows Arafat's name, but who ever recalls the names of his victims?
So let us recall them: Ilana Turgeman. Rachel Aputa. Yocheved Mazoz. Sarah Ben-Shim'on. Yona Sabag. Yafa Cohen. Shoshana Cohen. Michal Sitrok. Malka Amrosy. Aviva Saada. Yocheved Diyi. Yaakov Levi. Yaakov Kabla. Rina Cohen. Ilana Ne'eman. Sarah Madar. Tamar Dahan. Sarah Soper. Lili Morad. David Madar. Yehudit Madar. The 21 dead children of Ma'alot -- 21 of the thousands of who died at Arafat's command.
Go read what fools journalist have made of themselves in this side show. I'm glad he is dead, but if every network shows every last detail of this terrorist's funeral, it will be beyond infuriating. All we need to know is that this waste of human life is gone from us. They can dump his carcass in a dump for all I care. It's past time to move on."
From the website, rightviewfromtheleftcoast.blogspot.com an article is titled
"Yasser Arafat DID Die From AIDS"
Saturday, July 14, 2007 the article says:
"A not overly shocking revelation has now been confirmed. Yasser Arafat, hero of the Palestinian movement and one of the most evil terrorists of all time did, in fact, die from AIDS http://littlegreenfootballs.com/.
I, for one, am not shocked that this is finally being revealed. I mean the French medical report was suppresed and it was very sugar coated indeed. It was a dirty little secret that Yasser Arafat was a sexual pervert. And that nothing was off limits.
It is good that the Palestinian people are told the truth. Their God has been exposed as the charlatan that he was. While the Palestinian people were suffering, he was getting rich. When the Fatah movement was corrupted, Mr. Arafat did not care. For a terrorist thug that he was, he left this world a very rich man while he robbed nations blind that bought his sob stories about the plight of "his people". The truth is, he and those who have used the Palestinain cause have caused the plight.
As a Christian, I do not wish harm on people as a rule, but I will end with this. If there is a hell, as I believe there is, Yasser Arafat is leading the Devil's Brigade."
From the website, galganov.com an article is titled
"Arafat Is Getting The Death He Deserves."
November 10, 2004
Howard Galganov the article says:
"Imagine; this monster Arafat, created a "nation" that is too repugnant for world leaders to attend his actual funeral.
There was a headline in today’s National Post Newspaper (November 10, 2004) on their front page, that quotes the Palestinian Cleric who visited Arafat yesterday: “Arafat’s life in the hands of God”.
If there is a God; there would never have been an Arafat.
Yasser Arafat’s death-in-progress mirrors his life.
Arafat lived his life like a Palestinian Junkyard Dog, feeding off the bones of those who were weaker than him. And now in his journey to hell, the Palestinians are feeding off of him.
They don’t give a damn about his death. They only want the BILLIONS he stole and his power.
Arafat is not just the father of modern-day TERRORISM: he’s the father of a despicable culture where cheating, stealing, lying, intimidation, TERROR and murder is the hallmark of his society.
The age-old expression: “Live by the sword – Die by the sword” could not be more appropriate for Yasser Arafat. But in his case, it should be: Live like an animal – Die like an animal.
Instead of being eulogized around the world for his greatness, the civilized world is treading on eggshells wondering how they can send this monster off without tainting themselves with his bile.
Instead of being sent-off by world leaders in the Palestine he “championed”, he will be sent-off in Cairo where it will be safer for world leaders.
Imagine: this monster Arafat, created a “nation” where it is too repugnant for world leaders to attend his actual funeral. Where world leaders are too frightened to be where this piece of human detritus will actually be buried. But want Israel to be kinder to the savages of Arafat’s making.
I can’t wait for the funeral of Arafat.
The AK47’s being fired in the air. The marching masked cowards dressed in black. The pitiful women making that horrible sound with their tongues. And the mobs crushing each other to touch the “stiff”.
This will be the funeral of a thug, thief, cheater, liar, bully and murderer. It is what he will deserve.
Everyone’s concerned with what happens after Arafat.
It’s easy.
Arafat’s legacy to his people will be civil war and rule of the thugs. His people will continue to be poor, uneducated, unskilled, and cursed to more misery.
While the Palestinian Junkyard Dogs who ran with Arafat fight over his bones for the right to steal what’s left; the Palestinian Junkyard Dogs with all the guns in Gaza and the West Bank will settle old scores and eliminate their competition.
This is the legacy of a monster, the likes of other monsters who’ve preceded him. But unlike Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, Erich Honecker and Nicolae Ceausescu; the world will pretend that Arafat was somehow different. Somehow a statesman and a world leader who merits a degree of honor.
In reality; Arafat is getting exactly what he deserves in his miserable deathbed while the Palestinian Junkyard Dogs of his making, and the pig of his wife fight over his miserable carcass.
Sometimes one really does get what one deserves."
On YouTube there are clips from the sketch comedy TV series "MAD TV" which first aired in 1995, the clips are from the MAD TV sketches called "Yassir Arafat's Party Tricks" and it shows an ugly lame corny Yassir Arafat doing pathetic lame corny "Party Tricks" but in real life there was NOTHING funny about the Ugly Arab Monster Yassir Arafat, Arafat was a two legged Cockroach , a worthless Arab turd , good that Arafat aka Arab-fart is Dead
From the website, unitedwithisrael.org an article is titled
"WATCH: Former Palestinian Terrorist Speaks Out Against Palestinian State"
"Former Palestinian terrorist Mohammed Arif Masad (Youtube/Screenshot)
Mohammed Arif Masad
WATCH: Former Palestinian Terrorist Speaks Out Against Palestinian State
Feb 27, 2020
Related:
Canadians for Israel's Legal Rights
Im Tirtzu
Mahmoud Abbas
Palestinian terror the article says
"Masad was part of the infamous Fatah Black Panthers terror cell that carried out a number of terrorist attacks against Israel in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Mohammed Arif Masad, a former Palestinian terrorist turned peace activist, explains the dangers and hypocrisy of establishing a Palestinian Arab state in a new video released by the pro-Israel organizations Im Tirtzu and Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights.
In 1991, he was arrested by Israel and sentenced to jail after his terror cell conducted a failed mission to kidnap an IDF soldier.
He has since renounced terrorism and advocates for peace and against the corruption of the Palestinian Authority and all those who support it." A Link to YouTube video is given in the Article
From www.barnesandnoble.com a good book is titled
"Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged"
by Barry E. Horner
Overview
"Future Israel: Why Christian Anti-Judaism Must Be Challenged is volume three in the NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY STUDIES IN BIBLE & THEOLOGY (NACSBT) series for pastors, advanced Bible students, and other deeply committed laypersons.
Author Barry E. Horner writes to persuade readers concerning the divine validity of the Jew today (based on Romans 11:28), as well as the nation of Israel and the land of Palestine, in the midst of this much debated issue within Christendom at various levels. He examines the Bible’s consistent pro-Judaic direction, namely a Judeo-centric eschatology that is a unifying feature throughout Scripture.
Not sensationalist like many other writings on this constantly debated topic, Future Israel is instead notably exegetical and theological in its argumentation. Users will find this an excellent extension of the long-respected NEW AMERICAN COMMENTARY."
See also the website futureisraelministries.org
Also from www.barnesandnoble.com Another book is titled
"Eternal Israel:Biblical,Theological, and Historical Studies that Uphold The Eternal, Distinctive Destiny of Israel "
by Barry E. Horner
Overview
"In Eternal Israel author Barry Horner presents a variety of biblical, theological, and historical studies that argue for the distinctive, eternal destiny of Israel. Like Horner’s 2004 work Future Israel, Eternal Israel pushes back against replacement and supersessionist theology and adds further historical, exegetical, biblical and theological weight to the fundamental proposal
that God has a glorious eternal destiny for Israel.
Addressing such helpful topics as Jewish evangelism, eschatology, and Islamic views of Israel, Horner presents a wealth of information that compels readers to remember that Israel holds a key role in God’s plan for eternity."
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