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Monday, December 07, 2015

12/07 Links Pt1: What John Kerry should have told the Saban Forum; The Terrorist Double Standard

From Ian:

David Horovitz: What John Kerry should have told the Saban Forum

We were short-sighted, hesitant, weak. We failed to create the climate in which you in Israel could take the steps you need to take to separate from the Palestinians. I hope my successors will do better
We came into office — and this is, of course, before my time as secretary of state — in an America that was emphatically intent on avoiding fresh military entanglements in your part of the world. And I acknowledge that the desire to stay out of potential new conflicts, a desire that reflected the will of the American people, impacted policy-making from the get-go.
We missed an early opportunity to back the people of Iran in 2009 when they courageously attempted to rise up against the benighted regime that oppresses them. They sought reform. They sought an end to religious coercion. They sought equality for women. They sought the freedoms that we in the West, certainly including Israel, insist upon. And we did nothing to help them. We failed the people of Iran then; I hope and pray that we did not fail them, and did not fail you and indeed ourselves — as I know you believe we did — in the signing of the nuclear deal we reached with the regime in July. I want to believe that we have all but eliminated the Iranian nuclear threat, though I must recognize that the accord cements that regime in power, emboldens it, gives it the resources to promote its pernicious agenda across the region and orchestrate terrorism worldwide. History will be our judge.
We were short-sighted about the Arab Spring, wanting to believe that sheer people power would be enough to drive popular uprisings against tyrannies across the region toward the establishment of genuine, vibrant, abiding democracies. You Israelis warned us. You, in your ambivalence — delighted to see much of the Arab world demanding democracy, but only too aware that it was the Muslim Brotherhood in one guise or another that was best placed to capitalize on the chaos — you told us that, left alone, the heartfelt desire for change would be co-opted, abused by Islamist groups in country after country. And so it proved.
In Syria, weak, hesitant and unprepared, we failed to substantially assist the early secular, relatively moderate opposition to Bashar Assad. I must personally acknowledge that I was wrong about him. He is, of course, anything but a reformer. It is shameful that, even today, he remains in a position where he is capable of slaughtering still more of his people. Not America’s shame alone, I should stress. His continuing presence is a global stain. A mark of moral and practical failure.

The video of revelers cheering 9/11 that no one got to see

Here are the facts, all of which are matters of public record. On the afternoon of Sept. 11, 2001, thousands of jubilant Palestinians took to the streets, chanting “God is great,” firing automatic weapons and handing out sweets to passers-by. The largest demonstration took place in Nablus in the West Bank, where some 3,000 marchers danced and cheered as guerrillas fired assault rifles and grenades into the air.
Many journalists were on the scene, but they were forcibly detained in a hotel by armed Palestinian security forces to prevent coverage of the rally. One cameraman — a freelance AP reporter — nevertheless managed to film some of the celebration.
The next day, members of Tanzim, the military arm of Fatah, physically threatened the cameraman and warned AP not to air the material. A cabinet secretary for the Palestinian government told the Associated Press that the government could not “guarantee the life” of the cameraman if the film were broadcast.
The Palestinian information minister explained to the Washington Post that the coercive tactics “were not against the freedom of the press but in order to ensure our national security and our national interest. We will not permit a few kids here or there to smear the real face of the Palestinians.”
The threat worked. After initially declining to confirm the incident, the AP bureau chief in Jerusalem acknowledged the intimidation and the news organization’s capitulation to it. On Sept. 14, 2001, the news organization made known that “in light of the danger,” it wouldn’t release the video for world broadcast because “the safety of our staff is paramount. At this point we believe there to be a serious threat to our staff if the video is released.”
Fourteen years later, the historic footage from 9/11 remains inaccessible to public view.

The collapse of the Palestinian Authority may already be here

United States Secretary of State John Kerry’s scenario outlining a potential collapse of the Palestinian Authority, laid out Saturday at the Saban Forum in Washington, DC, sounds more than realistic.
For a change, the US administration, an expert at making fatal mistakes in the Middle East, seems to read the state of Palestinian affairs correctly, though the secretary errs in using the word “collapse.”
Instead, it should be substituted with the term “disintegration,” which in some ways has already begun.
The shooting attack on Thursday, in which Preventive Security Services member Mazen Aribe opened fire on Israel Defense Forces soldiers near the Hizme checkpoint, marks a crossroads.
Aribe was killed by fire from soldiers at the scene. The Palestinian Authority, instead of condemning or at least not supporting the action, sent head Palestine Liberation Organization negotiator Saeb Erekat and the mayor of Jericho to visit the home of the attacker’s family.

One of the cases of sabotage

From Daily News Egypt:

Egyptian Minister of Petroleum spokesperson Hamdy Abdel Aziz said they will appeal the Swiss court decision of fining the ministry and the holding company for natural gas (EGAS) with USD 1.7 bn to Israel electricity company and USD 288 m to the Mediterranean Gas company on Sunday.

An international Swiss court issued a verdict after more than three years against Egypt when the Israeli company filed a lawsuit calling on Egypt to pay USD 4bn due to shortages caused in their natural gas supply after suspension of the 20 year long agreement of exporting gas from Egypt to Israel, which hindered their electricity exports, in the wake of January 25 uprising in 2011 and the constant attacks on the gas pipeline which followed the uprising.

Abdel Aziz told CNBC Arabia channel in a TV interview on Sunday, “the contract with Mediterranean Gas ended on 2012 for not paying delayed expenses and there are lawsuits filed against them because of that”.

“The ministry will suspend talks of some companies importing gas from Israel until all the appeal procedures are done,” he said.

In late November, partners in the Israeli Leviathan gas field announced in the Israeli stock market their initial short term agreement with an Egyptian company to supply it with gas. The Leviathan gas field is scheduled to launch in 2019/2020.

Israel is, perhaps overly, optimistic:

Israel hopes that its “close ties” with Egypt will enable talks on gas exports to restart, Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz said, following an Egyptian decision to halt negotiations. Israel is also planning to advance exports to other markets including Jordan, Turkey and Western Europe, he said.

“The State of Israel assigns great importance to its security and energy ties with Egypt in their entirety, and hopes that due to its close bilateral ties, it will be possible to continue to move forward on the gas issue soon,” Steinitz said in a text message. Israel must develop its offshore gas fields quickly to achieve energy security, he said.

Egypt exported natural gas to Israel until it canceled the deal in 2012 as its wells became depleted and new exploration slowed. It has said that any gas import deal with Israel should include a resolution to international arbitration cases.

Egypt’s decision to suspend the talks may be temporary, Amos Gilad, a senior Defense Ministry official, said in an Israel Radio interview. He also emphasized Israel’s ties with the country as well as Egypt’s role as a stabilizing influence in the region.

“You have to look at the entire picture,” Gilad said. “There is a whole set of interests.”

But will Israel interfere with the legal issues between private Israeli and Egyptian companies the way Egypt is?

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.@UNRWA worker wants to see lots of dead Jews

Ali Esbaita (Wael?) identifies as a UNRWA worker in Gaza. He includes photos from his workplace in his Facebook timeline.

On Facebook, he posted this:

The caption says ""Oh Allah, make their dead as many as those who say 'amen'"

His comment:

"Oh Allah, bless our master Muhammad as many times as is the number of the Jews that have been killed and will be killed... Bless the Seal of the Prophets and Messengers (Muhammad)"

He has another similar post where he hopes to see more Jews crying over their dead:

Given that he works at a progressive organization as UNRWA, he naturally is very supportive of women's rights:

So - will UNRWA discipline him, as they promised to for those who violate its "neutrality" policy?

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

J Street U - Vassar refuses to counter "Zionism=racism" canard

Something very interesting happened at Vassar over the past couple of days. From the J Street U Vassar Facebook:

Earlier this week, Matt Kolbert, J Street U Vassar co-chair, and our treasurer, Ben Rothman, attended a meeting with the VSA [Vassar Student ssociation] finance committee. The committee was reviewing our application for funding to attend the HaaretzQ conference, a major conference in New York City next Sunday that seeks to address questions of peace and democracy in Israel and Palestine. Our understanding of the discussion that occurred at this meeting was that some members of finance committee raised the concern that the VSA, as an explicitly anti-racist organization should not fund our attendance of the conference. The logic of this concern was based on the belief that Zionism is an inherently racist ideology, and multiple speakers at the conference identify as Zionists, so supporting our attendance of this conference would be contradicting the VSA's anti-racist stance. Because of this concern, the committee decided they would table the application and allow the greater VSA to discuss and vote on it.

The concerns raised by the finance committee trouble us deeply for two reasons. First, because we disagree with the notion that this conference is contrary to the VSA's anti-racist values. Second, because our own anti-racist ideologies are the very reason we exist as an organization: to oppose the occupation of the West Bank and fight for a two-state solution. Attending this conference will enable us to advance those goals.

We will seek to convince the VSA to fund our application. The HaaretzQ conference is educational, and all Vassar students have the right to be informed about all sides of world issues. As J Street U, we intend to remain fully independent in our thinking, and hope that we will be able to bring back knowledge will help us in our effort to end the occupation of the West Bank and forge a two-state solution.

J Street U members had the chance to say that they disagree with the notion that Zionism is racism - and it failed. Instead, they said that the HaaretzQ conference isn't racist, but as for Zionism altogether, well....let's not go there.

A truly pro-Israel organization would have been offended and angry at the equation of Zionism and racism, and would have condemned those words in no uncertain terms. Instead, J-Street U chose to ignore that canard altogether - because these proud, idealistic young people felt that the few hundred dollars they wanted is more important that standing up for their purported principles.

How proud they must be!

It is also interesting that the organization couches its opposition to Jews having equal rights to live in Judea and Samaria, and their support for a Judenrein "Palestine," as "anti-racist."

Then came this:

Thank you to the VSA for enabling us to take further steps in ending the occupation by voting unanimously in favor of accepting our fund app to attend the upcoming Haaretz Peace conference. While we are troubled that our app was tabled at all, we are gracious that we now have the opportunity to attend the conference.

We would like to address two misconceptions that the wider community may have about what has taken place over the past few days. First, prior to tonight’s meeting, the VSA finance committee did not approve nor deny our request for funds to attend this conference, instead they tabled the application so that the wider VSA council could vote on it.

Second, we are under no impression that the decision to table our application for funding was anti-semitic in nature. We understand that it may have had anti-Zionist implications, but J Street U Vassar does not assume that correlates to anti-semitism.

Explicitly saying that Zionists are racists "may have anti-Zionist implications"? wow, what brave fighters they are for Israel!

Moreover, J Street U had the chance to proudly stand up for the right for Jews to have their own homeland - and instead their members cowered and refused to say anything negative about the people who want to deny Jews that right. Instead, they cravenly go out of their way to say that they can fully understand why people want to deny Jews any self-determination, and in no way see that as a problem, just another valid opinion that must be respected (as opposed to, of course, those who feel that Jews have the right to live in their ancestral lands, which is completely unacceptable and, according to them, racist.)

The reason that J-Street U cannot proudly say they support a Jewish state is because - they don't support as Jewish state. They support an "Israeli" state. This is JSU-Vassar's Facebook header graphic:

Jews don't have the right to self-determination according to J-Street U. "Israelis" do.

Does that mean that on May 13, 1948, there was no right for Israel to exist? Sure sounds like this is J-Street U's position.

We have seen before that parent organization J-Street also refuses to say that Jews have a right to a Jewish state in their stated principles.

There is a little bit of schadenfreude in this episode where J-Street U felt what it was like to be accused of racism at the same time that they accuse so many other Jews of the same. Yet they clearly didn't learn any lessons from this. Instead, they want to ingratiate themselves with those who want to destroy the Jewish state - for funding.

Now you know what J-Street means when they say they are "pro-Israel."

(h/t JW)

EoZ lecture: "Speaking 'Truth to Power' About the Arab-Israeli Conflict" (video)

I gave this hour-long talk on Sunday morning at the Summit (NJ) Jewish Community Center.

It was well-attended (about 50 people) and well-received.

I do not have permission to post the Q&A this time.

If anyone else wants me to speak to their organization in the NY/NJ area, let me know. I never give the same lecture twice, although I might repeat myself now and then....

Chanukah Video Night 1: Maccabeats "Latke Recipe" (plus Boys Town J'lem)

As I've done for a couple of years, I'm trying to post a Chanukah-themed music video for every night of the holiday, using only new videos.

The Maccabeats of course must be included.

Tonight's bonus video: Boys Town Jerusalem Chanukah

Arab media: Jews describing the importance of the Temple Mount are "inciting"

QudsN is a Palestinian newspaper that on Friday warned Arabs about the impending holiday of Chanukah. It mentions that Jews have lots of holidays sprinkled throughout the year and that they use them all to Judaize Jerusalem. For example, on Chanukah they project Jewish images onto walls!

Awful!

I thought this part of the article was interesting. They reproduced a poster from a Temple Mount group:

It says "Did you know? The Temple Mount is more important than its Western Wall!" ....Ascend to the Temple Mount, the Heart of Israel."

This drove the newspaper crazy. They said that the poster "shows that the importance of storming Al-Aqsa mosque, more important than to pray in front of the Wailing Wall during the holiday, so as to incite the settlers to break into the Al-Aqsa."

Yes, mentioning the importance of the holiest site in Judaism is "inciting settlers to break into Al Aqsa."

12/06 Links: Erekat visits family of PA security officer turned terrorist; Indigenous in Jerusalem

From Ian:

Why does the British Royal Family visit Saudi Arabia but not Israel?

A trip to Jerusalem by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1994 illustrates some of the difficulties.
His mother, Princess Alice of Battenberg, is buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem and Prince Phillip went to visit her grave.
The princess is revered in Israel because she opened the doors of her Athens palace to a Jewish family seeking refuge from the Nazis during the Second World War.
She is counted as one of the "Righteous Among Nations", an Israeli title given to those who saved Jews from Nazi death camps. Today, she is honoured at Israel’s national Holocaust memorial alongside Oskar Schindler, the German industrialist who rescued hundreds of Jews and inspired the film Schindler’s List.
But despite Israel’s warm feelings towards his mother, Buckingham Palace said the Duke’s visit was private and he was not there in an official capacity.
The contorted explanation mirrors Jerusalem’s own tortured geography. The Mount of Olives is in the eastern side of the city, which Israel captured in 1967. Israel claims East Jerusalem as part of its “complete and united” capital, but Britain considers the area to be occupied territory.
Any Royal visit would also have to be balanced by meetings with the Palestinian Authority, which brings a new set of sensitivities. Boris Johnson discovered the possible pitfalls last month when he was forced to cancel meetings in the West Bank after angering Palestinians by denouncing calls for a boycott of Israeli goods.
Some Israelis have long believed that the Foreign Office blocks any Royal visits because of its supposed domination by Arabist diplomats.

Legal Insurrection: Matisyahu rocks Ithaca – Huge Win for Artistic Freedom

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has been targeting American Reggae musician Matisyahu because he is Jewish and refuses to denounce Israel.
In the summer of 2015 an international firestorm of controversy erupted after BDS succeeded in getting Matisyahu banned at the Spanish Rototom Reggae festival. The ban was reversed only after an international outcry, including denunciations by the Spanish government and a leading Spanish newspaper that the action amounted to religious discrimination.
So when Matisyahu booked an appearance in Ithaca, NY, as part of his world tour, it was not long before the local BDS crowd, including our own BDS “star,” sought a boycott of the event and planned a protest.
But it didn’t work.
There was a substantial backlash in favor of artistic freedom. Ithaca resident Linda Glaser wrote a powerful op-ed in The Ithaca Journal, Let Jewish artist perform in Ithaca:
Artistic freedom is the right of every American, as it is based on the First Amendment right of freedom of speech. The Ithaca Coalition for Unity and Cooperation in the Middle East (ICU-CME) supports the right of American musician Matisyahu to perform and to be heard free from intimidation at the State Theatre of Ithaca.
Untrue statements are being spread by the Ithaca Committee for Justice in Palestine about Matisyahu to justify their discrimination against him. Because he is a prominent Jewish artist who refuses to take an anti-Zionist position, BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions) supporters around the world are attempting to block his cultural and artistic expression.
As Matisyahu has said, “I have always believed in the power of music to unite all people, regardless of religion, politics or geography.”
We urge the Ithaca community to stand for artistic freedom and reject the boycott of American musician Matisyahu.
I attended the concert last night, and it was great.

Mordechai Kedar: There is a partner

In addition, Israel has to remain in control in the villages and surrounding areas of Judea and Samaria in order to prevent the formation of a terrorist contiguity uniting the discrete city-emirates, but Israel can then offer citizenship to the residents of these villages who make up only about 10% of the Arabs in Judea and Samaria. The other 90% can stay in their independently run city-states.
These are the broad parameters of a program based on the "partner" to be found in each city-emirate, the natural, traditional leadership of the large clans in each city. Israel must negotiate with each emirate and reach an agreement with each one on the issues of electricity, water, waste, roads, industry, agriculture, traffic, security, the use of ports and airspace, and the boundary lines of each. If the emirates wish to form a federation, so be it. That doesn't pose a problem as long as their territories are not allowed to be contiguous.
The PLO, the organization that runs the Palestinian Authority, never agreed to the existence of the state of Israel as a Jewish state, and is therefore not a partner for peace. Israel, however, has a partner in each Judea and Samaria city. Israel must bring about the collapse of the PLO and PA, the two entities preventing a lasting peace agreement with the residents of Judea and Samaria, who will then be able to establish thriving emirates on the lines of Dubai, if not even better.
The PLO, Hamas and Islamic Jihad want only wars, death and destruction, while peace between Israel and the Emirates will lead to growth and prosperity.

This is the contemporary Ku Klux Klan.

As with the Klan they feel it necessary to wear masks.

They are worse than Night Riders because they feel free to carry out their violence in the daytime because they know they have Arab-Palestinian society, ascreated by Yassir Arafat and the PLO, behind them... as well as the Western-Left.

A recent Watan Research Center poll, conducted between November 14 and the 21st of this year, reveals that 72 percent of Arabs living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza favor the Stabbing Intifada.

This is to say that 72 percent of Arabs who live within the Land of Israel believe that they have a religious-political imperative to send their kids into the streets with kitchen knives for the Allah-inspired purpose of murdering random Jews.

It does not matter the age of those Jews; a woman in her 80s, a child in her crib, it does not matter. Nor does it matter the personal beliefs of thoseJews. All that matters is that, if you are to kill them - and you are, young Achmud - that they be Jewish. Even Palestinian-Arab Jihadis do not necessarily have a particular desire to murder Tibetan-Buddhist care-takers , after all.

{But, who knows, really?}

Still another way of gaining perspective on this 72% figure is to understand that it also means that 72% of Arabs within Israel yearn for the genocide of theJews. It can mean nothing else. If you believe that Allah wants you to send your children into the streets for the purpose of killing Jews then, ipso facto, you favor the genocide of the Jews.

There is no way to escape from that conclusion, now, is there?

Referencing a recent poll of Arabs within Israel, Dalit Halevy, writing in Israel National News, tells us:

A full 72% said they support continuing the "Al-Quds (Jerusalem) Intifada," as it has been termed, until it achieves its "goals," which they were later asked to define.

No less than 44% of the Arab public expressed support for an armed intifada terror war using guns, 18% gave support to stabbing attacks, and 14% supported attacks throwing rocks at Israelis.

The goal of the intifada terror war according to 48% of the Arabs is the "liberation of Palestine," indicating the conquest and occupation of all of Israel.

This is not a border dispute.

The War of the Filthy-Footed

This is a theocratic war waged by a much larger, hostile Arab-Muslim majority inthe Middle East against a much smaller besieged filthy-footed Jewish minority endeavoring to survive and thrive.

The only reason that tiny bit of land on the edge of the Mediterranean is important to the Arab world is because Jewish people currently hold sovereignty over our ancestral homeland. Unfortunately, it is hard-coded into Islam that Muslims have a theological imperative to maintain sovereignty over any bit of land - including Spain - that at any time was taken from the "infidels" by Muhammad's soldiers.

Thus Jewish sovereignty on Jewish land is considered an abomination before the eyes of Allah and an indignity to the Prophet Muhammad... Peace Be Unto Him.

You can be sure, considering Israel's technological and medical contributions tothe world community, that if Israel represented a 23rd Arab-Muslim country it would be considered a "light unto the nations."

When Israel was under Ottoman rule, Jerusalem was a backwater. The al-Aqsamosque had no gold plating. The place was essentially a ruin and nobody spoke of it as the third holiest anything to anyone. The Jews, being indigenous to the region, have lived on that land for something close to four thousand years.

The Jewish people are the closest thing that the Land of Israel has to an indigenous population. It is true that other peoples have lived on that land prior to the Israelites, but unless there is a wondering band of Jebusites out there someplace then the land from the river to the sea is the land of Jewish sovereignty.

The West

Vic Rosenthal, of Abu Yehuda fame and a columnist at the Elder of Ziyon,has a bold and interesting article entitled, Calling their bluffs.

His argument is that the enemy is attacking the Jews in Israel via a dual strategy of "micro" attacks and "macro" attacks. The micro attacks represent things like the cute blonde child, who the Elder has dubbed "ShirleyTemper" - part of the vaguely annoying Tamimi clan - that they send out to shake her little fist at Jewish soldiers.

Here is a video from 2012:

As you can see, the Arabic press is there to broadcast any Israeli Jewish push-back as aggression.

The purpose is to induce an IDF response which can then be transmitted around the world via a sympathetic news media in Europe and the United States. The purpose of demonizing Israel is to soften it for its eventual dissolution.

If that were to happen the genocide of half the world's Jewish population - amazingly enough about 6 million people (there is that number again) - would diein Holocaust Version II, the Arab-Muslim variety that the Mufti hoped to accomplish with the victory of Nazi Germany over the Allies during World War II.

The macro strategy is to attack Israel in a military fashion with rocket-fire from Gaza in order to intimidate the southern Israeli population, particularly the towns of S'derot and Ashkelon, and then appeal to the world community for mercy from Israeli aggression when the Jews - after years of such attacks - finally respond.

It is pathetic, but effective, given western multiculturalism and failure of self-esteem.

Michael Lumish is a blogger at the Israel Thrives blog as well as a regular contributor/blogger at Times of Israel and Jews Down Under.

Last week I wrote about Dr Gamal Abdel Nasser Mohammed Abu Nahel, head of the Palestinian Commission for Refugees Rights Protection which has been funded and/or supported by USAID, the National Endowment for Democracy, the Anna Lindh Foundation, the UN Development Program and others. He regularly meets with delegations from around the world, most recently with people from Japan and Malaysia.

I noted his essay, promoted on the Facebook page of his NGO, that called Jews "the largest and most despicable gang in the world."

Abu Nahel just wrote another article to show off his Jew-hatred, titled "My Message to the Ultra-Jewish Usurpers." It is also featured on the PCRP's Facebook page.

This may be the most hateful antisemitic article I have ever seen from the Arab world.

And the writer is respected by Western NGOs who continue to fund him!

Excerpts:

The Quran tells us that there is a people that are the kings of terror, it is their habit to kill, oppress, tyrannize and betray. They are still the top criminals in the world after centuries. They are the Jews, the Sons of Israel.

You Jews think that you are Allah’s Chosen people and you are above everybody else and everybody else should be your servants, and their souls are evil souls.

Yet Allah said in the Koran about you (Quran 3:21): "Those who disbelieve in the signs of Allah and kill the prophets without right and kill those who order justice from among the people - give them tidings of a painful punishment."

We are not surprised that you deem the innocent blood of women, children of non-Jews, especially Palestinians, free prey. The ancient and modern Zionist terrorists wrote the Torah and claimed it was God’s words.

Because you Jews falsify Allah’s words, curses came down upon you. You claim that Hitler burnt you and that Pharaoh killed your children. Now you are doing even worse things to Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians, committing war crimes.

Oh Jews, you are the criminal gang of Netanyahu and Lieberman, you gang of plunderer settlers, you are the last colonialist, criminal, terrorist, fascist, Nazi, Pharaonic, Hitlerite occupation that modern human history knows.

You extremist, criminal, plunderer settler Jews, you lowly, despicable gang, we say to you that Allah told us that He would enable us to get to your necks and torture you, and this will last till Judgment Day. You are gathering in Palestine so that it becomes your graveyard. You came here as plundering occupiers so that Palestine will become the place of your slaughter, humiliation, and the Arabs, Muslims and Palestinians will lie in ambush for you, make you pay the jizya and kill you.

It says in the Quran, 7:164-167: "And when a community among them said, 'Why do you advise [or warn] a people whom Allah is [about] to destroy or to punish with a severe punishment?' they [the advisors] said, 'To be absolved before your Lord and perhaps they may fear Him.' And when they forgot that by which they had been reminded, We saved those who had forbidden evil and seized those who wronged, with a wretched punishment, because they were defiantly disobeying. So when they were insolent about that which they had been forbidden, We said to them, 'Be apes, despised and hated.' And [mention] when your Lord declared that He would surely [continue to] send upon them until the Day of Resurrection those who would afflict them with the worst torment. Indeed, your Lord is swift in penalty; but indeed, He is Forgiving and Merciful.

[In other words, Allah will send against the Sons of Israel a tribe of Arabs that will torture them terribly until the Day of Judgment.]

Oh plundering, occupying, criminal, terrorist killer Jews, we the Palestinians are your fate in this holy and blessed land. Allah bestowed an honor upon us by giving us this land in order to be the vanguard of jihad, resistance and struggle in order to protect the honor of the Arab and Muslim umma (nation). Despite the bloodshed, the great and honorable Palestinian mother will keep receiving news of the martyrdom of her son and his ascent to Paradise with ululation. As for you, plunderer, cheater, criminal, pharaonic, worshippers of the Cow and the Calf, oh Zionists, your fate will be to be thrown to the garbage bin of history.

This respected NGO leader excretes bile like this weekly, all linked from the PCRP's official Facebook page. For example, this recent article says Jews are "herds of rapist pigs, the Jews are descendants of monkeys and pigs."

It never ceases to amaze me how such explicit bigotry is condoned by the world that continues to not only ignore but actually fund this hate.

Write to the NED, USAID Anna Lindh and UNDP and ask them point blank why they support this Jew-hatred, ask them to explicitly condemn Dr. Mahel both in the email and on their webpages, and ask them to specify exactly what they plan to do to ensure that their grantees don't act unacceptably now and in the future. Stress that if they really care about peace, then they must be vocal about such incitement to hatred, or else they appear to be condoning it.

NGOs are very sensitive to things like this going public, even though they will try to sweep it under the rug. Some will try to say that they haven't funded PCRP recently so they are blameless. The answer is that whether they like it or not, they are associated with the group because of their past support and as such it is their responsibility to use their influence to get PCRP to fire Dr. Nahel and condemn his hate - if they really care about peace. Pretending that Arab antisemitism is somehow understandable is not an acceptable response, and if they aren't angry about this, then they are part of the problem.

Only a few polite emails will make a huge difference. Send any responses to me so we can get more pressure going to stop this hate and incitement.

And when you get just one of these funders to publicly denounce this Jew-hatred, then the media will notice, and the PCRP will be forced to either double-down on the hate or try to explain it away.

Here is where you, today, can make a difference.

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

Yesterday, the "moderate" Palestinian prime minister Rami Hamdallah spoke at the annual lighting of the Christmas tree in Bethlehem. (Video here.)

Did he speak of hope and peace and goodwill towards men? A little, but only to push his main point of blaming everything on Israel. It was just another speech telling Palestinians that they have no responsibilities and Israel is evil.

Even the sentences that began with praise for peace and love and tolerance included hate for Israel.

Excerpts:

From the land of Palestine, which has long been home to the coexistence of human beings, religions and cultures, and their children taught the values of tolerance embodied by Jesus, the messenger of love, ...we bring the message that, in Palestine, people yearn to live in freedom and peace, and that the time has come to unite the world, to lift the historical injustice done to them, ..nd it is time for the implementation of UN resolutions on Palestine, and end the Israeli occupation.

As in every year, Palestine is celebrating the glorious festivals, while is reeling from the injustice of the Israeli occupation, and experiencing a serious Israeli escalation, with the intent of murder and torture, and holding the bodies of the martyrs. [Palestine] is facing the worst deportation schemes and forced displacement, turning towns and villages and towns into ghetto, and the destruction of their houses and confiscation of their land and violation of holy places. {Israel] prevents worshipers, Christians and Muslims alike, to have access to their churches, mosques, and the practice of worship and religious beliefs.

As we light a holiday Christmas tree, we remind the world that the city of Bethlehem represents the story of the Palestinian people and their history and their struggle. Despite our wounds and general pain and suffering and tyranny we remain steadfast, and we are still vibrant with joy despite the walls and settlements which encircle us, and Israel is trying to stifle hope and to confiscate the necessities of life from us. We hope the valued guests here will be ambassadors of the truth, and to relay to their countries and their governments how much sorrow and injustice that they have seen, and how much resilience and hope the people of Palestine have.

This is a celebration of the life of Jesus Christ and his values of peace and love, but bearing tidings of freedom and dignity, the achievement of the aspirations of our people's legitimate right to freedom and independence, in the full removal of the Israeli occupation and the establishment of full sovereignty on the 1967 borders of an independent state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem, our eternal capital.

The speech was just more proof that Palestinians define themselves in terms of Jews, not as independent people.

The bolded sentence shows that the entire point of the Christmas tree lighting is anti-Israel propaganda. Bethlehem is being set up by the PA not as a place for pilgrimage but as another opportunity to get the world to hate Israel.

12/05 Links: Bernard-Henri Lévy calls Islamism the 'third fascism'; Pappe's "Ethnic Cleansing" Hoax

From Ian:

In wake of Paris attacks, Bernard-Henri Lévy calls Islamism the 'third fascism'

Bernard-Henri Lévy, French intellectual and author sat down in the i24news studios Monday night to discuss his new book, "The Genius of Judaism."
Lévy, the famous philosopher who has been named on a list of the world's 50 most influential Jews as well as "perhaps the most prominent intellectual in France today" will see his latest book published in France and the United States in February 2016.
He is in Israel to promote his latest book and will read excerpts of it this upcoming Wednesday December 2nd at the Tel Aviv Museum during which he will also pay tribute to the victims of the deadly terror attacks claimed by the Islamic State in the French capital of Paris where 130 people lost their lives.
Lévy told i24news that he decided to promote his book in Tel Aviv so shortly after the attacks because he was "revolted" by the way that the world treats similar attacks in Israel as if "it was basically normal."
While the entire world expressed their outrage following the "terrible attacks" which struck Paris, they have not done so for terror attacks in Israel, and that, he said, "revolted me. This is my way to express this revolt."
Lévy also spoke about IS, saying that Islamism is the "third fascism of our time. It obeys the same law. Now what do I mean by that? I mean that it is the third attack on civilization. First we had Nazism, then came communism, and now today we have Islamism which attacks all the values which we stand for."

Ben-Dror Yemini: Why do Palestinian refugees get so much more attention than others?

The day of remembrance for Jews expelled from Arab countries - the Jewish Nakba - passed with barely a whisper. On the other hand the Palestinian Nakba gets showered with attention. Why? The answer might have something to do with the Breaking the Silence organization, and the far left's tendency to distort history.
November 30, which was this week, was declared the day of remembrance for the banishment and expulsion of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. The Jewish Nakba. Aside from a conference at Bar-Ilan University, the subject echoed very faintly through Israel. Part of our elite is busy with another Nakba, which they celebrate again and again: the Palestinian one. They even organized another festival of Nakba films, produced by organizations or people who nurture the fantasy that is the right of return.
When someone attempts to wonder out loud about this injustice, the crocodile tears appear, along with complaints of silencing voices and other assorted goods. Silencing voices? The Palestinian Nakba receives the greatest marketing, in Israel and around the world. The first half of the 20th century saw between 52 and 60 million people go through the experience of forced relocation, most of them in the 1940s after World War Two, for the purpose of building nations. Because that was the norm in those days. It went well with the right of self-determination.
And of all of the dozens of cases of population switches, only the Arabs, who later became the Palestinians, receive this grand commemoration. There are thousands of publications in their name and in their honor. Entire shelves in every university. Departments and cathedrals in almost every university in the world, all to celebrate and glorify their suffering and victimhood. And Israeli film festivals as well.