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Thursday, July 20, 2023

At Joseph's tomb, mujahadeen proudly trying (and dying) to stop Jews from visiting a holy site

Every month or so, Jewish pilgrims go to visit Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus). Under the Oslo Accords, Jews should have free access to the holy site. But Palestinians would rather kill them.So the IDF has to go in to protect the worshipers, and the worshipers go in the middle of the might, to cause as little of a disturbance to the nearby residents as possible.Fat...

Palestinian mother tells son how to be a martyr. (He listened.)

Muntasir Al-Shawa, above, was a 16-year-old child soldier of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade. On February 8, when religious Jews were going to visit the Joseph's Tomb shrine to pray as they do every couple of weeks, he decided to fight the Israeli soldiers protecting them. He expected to, and wanted to, die. And he indeed got injured and died a couple of weeks later.Palestinian...

01/09 Links Pt1: Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit; Israel moves ahead with transfer of PA funds to terror victims; The year Iran lost normalcy

From Ian: Mark Dubowitz: Obama’s Anti-Imperialist Fantasy Bears Bitter Fruit Unsurprisingly, Iran often seemed to exist for Obama not as a threat to U.S. interests but as a historical victim of Western imperialism, which supposedly overthrew a “democratically elected” Iranian prime minister and installed the shah. Iran’s repressive theocratic regime seemed less notable for...

The most important unwritten law in the West: Don't piss off irrational, extremist Muslims

It is important to examine two events in recent days, as they both severely limit the freedom of Westerners - and signal far worse things that could come.The first is the visit by Israeli minister of security Itamar Ben-Gvir to the Temple Mount.The second is the publicizing of the removal of an instructor at Hamline University for including depictions of Mohammed in his art...

12/25 Links: Melanie Phillips: Happy inclusive holidays!; Israel should terminate the Oslo Accords; Israeli mayor attends funeral of terrorist who wounded 3 policemen

From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Happy inclusive holidays! What a minefield this whole identity thing is. Thank goodness Chanukah doesn’t present this problem, eh? For many diaspora Jews, Chanukah is regarded as Christmas-lite with gifts, diet-destroying delicacies and a lighted menorah in place of a glittering tree. And there can hardly be much danger of offending anyone with...

12/22 Links Pt1: Melanie Phillips: The European Union’s subversion of Israel; Returning the Palestinians to Center Stage Undermines Stability in the Middle East

From Ian: JCPA: The EU's Secret Palestinian Building Plan for Area C Its actions in unilaterally advancing a Palestinian state in Area C, territories assigned to Israel both administratively and regarding security responsibilities by both the PLO and Israel in a mutually signed agreement of September 28, 1995, represent a violation of international law and call into question...

The messages about a Palestinian killed last night being sent to the West and for internal consumption are quite different.Under the Oslo Accords, Jews should have free access to Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus), but because the PA refuses to follow the agreement, every few weeks scores of Jews visit the tomb in the middle of the night - so as to minimize any impact...

Chayyei Sarah -- A Parshah For Zionists (Daled Amos)

By Daled AmosLast week, while reading online articles about the political situation in and surrounding Israel, I wasn't really expecting to come across articles discussing Chumash. Then again, with a title like Abraham The Zionist, and this week being Parshas Chayyei Sarah, Rabbi Chaim Steinmetz's article in JNS should not have been a surprise. The Parsha begins, of course,...

Fatah music video incites Palestinians to "shake and burn" religious Jews

On August 30, five religious Jews stupids tries to visit Joseph's tomb without coordinating their visit with the Israeli army.The result was predictable: they were almost lynched, two of them including a child were shot, their car was burned.They were not armed and couldn't defend themselves. Right after the incident, Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades took responsibility for the...

Palestinians shoot Jews trying to visit a holy spot. Not Israelis, not Zionists, not "settlers" - Jews.

On Tuesday, a group of five religious Jews tried to visit Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) without coordinating the visit with the Israeli army. This is stupid. Everyone knows it is stupid. But sometimes even stupid things need to be explained to truly understand the situation. Why is it stupid for Jews to try to visit a holy spot in Nablus?Because everyone knows...

People who shoot at Jewish worshippers say that Israel practices religious discrimination

Some accusations against Israel are so ridiculous, they can only be made at the UN Human Rights Council.Al Awda, the "Palestinian Return Center," said at a meeting of the UN Human Rights Council that Israel was discriminating against Palestinians on religious grounds Speaking with the UN Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, under the ninth item on the agenda...

Is shooting religious Jewish worshipers at Joseph's Tomb just "anti-Zionism," too?

From Times of Israel:Palestinian gunmen opened fire during clashes with IDF troops guarding worshipers at a Jewish shrine in West Bank early Thursday, lightly wounding three Israelis.The clashes erupted as hundreds of Jewish worshipers under military escort arrived to pray at Joseph’s Tomb on the outskirts of Nablus. According to the Israel Defense Forces, armed Palestinians...

Latest Israeli human rights violation: Jewish holidays

Al Jazeera (Arabic) writes about the hardship of Palestinian Arabs who work in Israel who are forced to not work during the upcoming Jewish holidays this month.Israel closes the crossings to the territories during Israeli holidays.Of course, Egypt closes its crossing to Gaza on Egyptian holidays, but no one seems overly concerned about that. ...

Palestinians hold a conference where they claim to be Canaanites (update)

On Saturday a "Palestinian Canaanite Conference" was held in the Mahmoud Darwish Museum in Ramallah. At the conference, Palestinian prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh claimed that the Palestinians are descendants of the Canaanites. There is no historic evidence of this claim. But Shtayyeh seems to know this, because at the same time he said that this is a war of "narratives." "We...

Everything you need to know about the Israeli-Arab conflict you can learn from Joseph's Tomb

Overnight, Joseph's Tomb in Shechem (Nablus) was set on fire by a mob of Arabs. Whether or not it is historically the real tomb of Joseph, it is certainly a major Jewish shrine. It is the most important Jewish holy place under Palestinian rule. There are some important synagogues and sites but none associated with a Biblical figure that I am aware of. Under every agreement...