Monday, May 18, 2020

From Ian:

The Unlearned ‘Nakba’ Lesson About Compromise
The war that would decide the fate of the country began the morning after the UN’s adoption of the partition resolution. Local Arabs, as well as others who came from surrounding countries, began a campaign of terrorism, attacking isolated Jewish communities and besieging Jewish Jerusalem. Their goal was to drive out the Jews, hoping that once the armies of five neighboring countries invaded the country on May 15, 1948, they would do just that.

Of course, that’s not the way things worked out, and the embattled Jewish state won this fight for its life. And far from celebrating the demise of the Jews, approximately 700,000 Arabs fled their homes, either because they feared what would happen to them under Jewish rule or in a few cases because they were driven out.

Rather than being resettled in the surrounding Arab nations or elsewhere in the Muslim world, they were kept in place in refugee camps. The United Nations created a refugee agency to deal with them — UNRWA — distinct from the single agency that helped the many millions of other homeless peoples throughout the world so as to aid the effort to use them as a weapon against Israel’s legitimacy. Meanwhile, approximately 800,000 Jews fled or were forced to flee their homes in the Arab world and found new lives in Israel or the West.

The Palestinian Arabs could have compromised and gotten a state. But they refused to accept anything less than their maximal demands, and as the years went by, their options in terms of territory and support from the rest of the Arab world dwindled. Not even after Israel repeatedly offered the Palestinian Authority a state would they agree to end their century-old war.

At any point in this narrative, the Palestinians could have accepted one of the deals offered them. If so, there wouldn’t be any Jewish communities in the territories for Israel to seek to annex.

But even now, with their cause largely abandoned by much of the Arab world, they refused to negotiate with the administration of President Donald Trump over its “Peace to Prosperity” proposal that would also give them a state, albeit not as large a one as they could have gotten in 2000 or 2008, let alone 1948. And the official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority this week published a front-page article again vowing Israel’s destruction as a religious imperative.

The lesson of the nakba is not one of the world’s indifference, Israel’s alleged sins or even the suffering of the Palestinians. It is, instead, the folly of maximalism, in which by seeking everything, they consistently wind up with nothing. What will happen this year with the settlements is just more proof of the fact that if all you care about is preserving a victim status, the price of intransigence will continue to rise.
Nakbacide - the failed genocidal war against the Jews
Imagine if every year on the 7th of May, Germans held an annual commemoration of the defeat of the Nazi state, complete with Swastikas, anti-Semitic chants and slogans, and claims that the Volksdeutsche expelled from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary were the real victims.

That's the spectacle that takes place every May as Muslims in Israel chant and riot to protest their unsuccessful genocide of the indigenous Jewish minority.

And the media sympathetically covers this repulsive spectacle of historical obliviousness, of a regional majority responsible for multiple genocides, dressing up as the victims because their invasion of Israel ended in a stalemate, rather than the intended genocidal purge of the Jews.

The revisionist Muslim history of Israel ethnically cleanses the thousands of years of history of the original Jewish inhabitants and a thousand years of persecution under Muslim rule.

It leaves out the massacres and atrocities carried out by the Muslim invaders against the Jewish inhabitants in the 20th century, including the Hebron Massacre, and the Nazi collaboration of their leader, the Mufti of Jerusalem. Instead it begins and ends with Deir Yassin and angry old women holding up oversized housekeys while reminiscing about the good times they had massacring Jews.

There are about as many Jewish refugees from the Muslim world, as there are Muslim refugees from Israel. The difference is that the Jewish refugees were a minority fleeing the violence of a brutal majority, while the Muslim refugees were a regional majority making a strategic withdrawal in response to calls from the leaders of invading Arab countries to pull out so they could kill the Jews.

"We will smash the country with our guns and obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives and children to safe areas until the fighting has died down," Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Said had promised

There's your Nakba. Go wave your fake giant housekeys in Baghdad.
Moderna’s Israeli top medical officer: We’ve shown today that our vaccine works
The Israeli chief medical officer of US biotech firm Moderna said Monday that its experimental anti-COVID-19 vaccine “actually works,” after tests on a small number volunteers, and that it will start Phase 3 testing on thousands of people in July.

“We got the first results today… and today we are showing that it actually works… we are able to stimulate the immune system,” Dr. Tal Zaks said.

In an interview with Israeli television, Zaks said he was confident that, toward the end of the year, “we’ll be able to present first results that prove that our vaccine indeed prevents the disease.”

“By about the end of the year, the start of next year, there’s a reasonable likelihood that we’ll see this vaccine on the market, at least on the American market,” he said in the Channel 12 interview from Moderna’s headquarters in Massachusetts.

Zaks said the battle against COVID-19 marked the firm’s ninth bid to develop vaccines against viruses, “and we succeeded with the previous eight.” Thus, he said, “the degree of confidence within the company was always high” that it would succeed this time, too.

News of the company’s progress, revealed in a release earlier Monday, lifted shares of Moderna more than 22 percent, and helped drive the broader stock market higher.

The company said the vaccine candidate, mRNA-1273, appeared to produce an immune response in eight people who received it, similar to that seen in people convalescing from the virus.

  • Monday, May 18, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

I was scrolling through the large amount of anti-Israel propaganda being released this week by Iran for "Quds Day" when I came across a supposed "op-ed" in Zimbabwe's state-owned Herald newspaper.

The Herald is a joke, only including articles approved by Zimbabwe's authoritarian government. And that government brutally oppresses and often executes opponents, prohibits homosexuality, and defends China's treatment of Uighurs.

So, naturally, it published this op-ed from its Iranian embassy filled with the typical absurd lies of the Iranian regime.

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Here it is, if you are unfamiliar with Iranian propaganda.

Imam Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, after the victory of the Islamic Revolution, designated the last Friday of Ramadan as the day of Quds, presented to Muslims, freedmen and the oppressed of the world in this day and age.

Every year, on this day, the free people of the world march in support of the oppressed people of Palestine and condemn the crimes of the usurping Zionist regime.

The rallies are not limited to Islamic countries, and even in some non-Islamic countries that support Zionism, such as the United States and the United Kingdom, demonstrations are held on the occasion of Al-Quds Day.

Famous intellectuals like Gandhi, Mandela, Chomsky and even athletes and some Hollywood actors have always condemned the crimes of the Zionist regime.

The Zionist regime is no more than seven decades old and is the product of colonialism.

Contrary to the claims of the Zionists, who claim to be the original owners of the Holy Land, citing the rule of David and Solomon, historical evidence shows that the main inhabitants of the Occupied Territories were Arabs who entered Palestine from 2500 BC and ruled those lands for 1 500 years.

Quds Sharif has been declared the eternal capital of Israel since the Zionist occupation in 1967.

The Zionist occupiers, with the support of the world’s tyrants and colonialists, forced the Palestinians to leave their homes and lands in one of the largest forced migrations in history.

Quds is a symbol of the unity and determination of the free and oppressive people of the world amidst the Zionist military crimes and the arrogant supporters in Palestine and Gaza.

Quds Day is the day of resistance of the oppressed of the world against the arrogant and the day of the cry of oppression of a nation that with the blood of its children reveals the ugly face of the usurping Zionist regime.

This year’s Quds Day is more special than any other year, because it coincides with the day 700 000 Palestinians were evicted from their homes on the day of the tragedy, the Day of Nakbah.

Along with all the freedom fighters and peaceful people of the world, we can once again create the necessity and obligation of the oppressed Palestinians and the veil from the evil face of these Zionist usurpers.

Human rights is one of the concepts that Western countries, which today support Zionism, have essentially created and developed.

The crimes of the Zionists in the occupied territories and the Gaza Strip violate these laws.

In other words, the Zionists are also considered criminals within the framework of the laws enacted by their supporters.

The Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians, for example, has become like an apartheid system. Resolution 3379 of the UN General Assembly, adopted on November 10, 1975, also condemned the Zionist regime as a racist system.

The resolution was adopted in the 2 400th session with the participation of all members (72 positive votes, 35 negative votes and 32 abstentions.

Clarifying the international community’s mindset on human rights abuses during the years of occupation by the Zionist regime, including terrorism, the illegal construction of Jewish settlements, the construction of a racist retaining wall, and the lack of citizenship services such as drinking water and repelling urban waste to the Palestinians and violating the freedom of expression of Palestinian writers and artists seems essential.

The intellectual foundations of Zionism are so irrational, racist, and contrary to the principles of Judaism that even many Jews oppose it.

These Jews have also set up anti-Zionist movements in order to create a barrier to Zionist oppression in the occupied territories and elsewhere.

As a result of the exorbitant costs of propaganda and the Zionist media, many people around the world mistakenly consider these criminals to be oppressed who commit crimes in self-defence.

One way to correct this misconception is to explain the racist views of thinkers and prominent Zionist figures.

These people clearly consider themselves superior to other peoples of the world and give themselves the right not to be bothered by any crime to occupy Palestine.

The importance of Holy Quds is due to the fact that this holy land, the place of life and resurrection of the divine prophets, was the first qibla of Muslims and the place of the heavenly ascension of the Holy Prophet (PBUH), just as Jerusalem is of special religious importance to Christians.

The article was provided by the Embassy of Iran (Cultural Centre)

I especially like how they imply they have nothing against Judaism but implicitly deny any Jewish connection to Jerusalem.

  • Monday, May 18, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon
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From the British census of Palestine in 1922, which put the population of the Beersheba district at 75,254:

The Ottoman authorities in 1914 placed the tribal population of Beersheba at 55,000, and since that date there has been a migration of tribes from the Hejaz and Southern Transjordan into the Beersheba area mainly as a result of succession of adequate rainfalls and of pressure exerted by other tribes east of the River Jordan.

That is some 20,000 Arabs who came from southern Jordan and from the Hejaz area of Saudi Arabia to settle in Beersheba, increasing the population there by close to 40% in a few years.

People tend to forget that Arabs (especially the Bedouin represented here, but also other Arabs) never considered any national boundaries as being meaningful. They freely moved from one area to another. We’ve noted this before with a major influx of Arabs from the Hauran area of Syria in the early 1930s because of a drought:

Which was preceded by as many as a hundred thousand more illegal Arab immigrants in the late 1920s (with one arguing that the 1922 census

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What do all of these people have in common?

They are all considered “Palestinians” today, and to have lived in Palestine for centuries beforehand.

In fact, a significant number of Arabs who lived in Palestine in 1948 were there for far less time than the 72 years since.

From Ian:

Caroline Glick: Israeli Sovereignty, Not Appeasement, Is the Key to Lasting Peace
In the coming months, Israel is expected to apply its civilian law and administration to the 30 percent of Judea and Samaria (or the "West Bank") that President Donald Trump's recently unveiled peace plan anticipates remaining with Israel after a final peace agreement.

One might expect that Israel's plan would be hailed for advancing peace and the equal rights of Israelis and Palestinians alike. But the more common response of many so-called experts has been to distort the facts and preemptively condemn Israel.

The distortions begin with the very words used to describe Israeli plans. Across platforms, "experts" fret over what they call "Israeli annexation."

As I explained in my 2014 book The Israeli Solution: A One State Plan for Peace in the Middle East, Israel cannot "annex" any part of Judea and Samaria. Annexation is an act under which a state imposes its sovereignty over another state's territory.

The state of Israel has sovereign rights to Judea and Samaria by force of its declaration of independence issued 72 years ago, on May 14, 1948. With its declaration of independence, together with Britain's surrender of the Mandate it had been granted by the League of Nations to reconstitute the ancient Jewish national home, Israel became the one and only state that acquired sovereignty over all the Mandate's territory.

When Israel applies its civilian law, it will be exercising sovereign rights that it has held for decades.

The second problem with the discourse surrounding Israel's plan to apply its laws to these areas is that it ignores both why doing so is important for Israel and why President Trump included Israeli sovereignty in his peace plan in the first place.

From Israel's perspective, the plan is important because it will significantly improve the rule of law and the civil rights of residents of the areas. For the past 26 years, Israel has shared governance of the "West Bank" with an autonomous Palestinian Authority. Israel has governed its portion of the territory under military administration. Nearly half a million Israelis and more than 100,000 Palestinians reside in cities, towns and villages in Judea and Samaria governed by the Israel Defense Forces.

Israel's civilian legal code is far more liberal than the military laws that currently apply to the areas. The civil rights of area residents—Jews and Arabs alike—will be far better protected under Israeli law than they have been under Israeli military administrative law.
Baroness Deech: Why I support the Board’s decision not to comment on annexation
I support the decision that the Board of Deputies should make no statement on the proposed territorial annexation by Israel. My experience in and out of Parliament with people who hate Israel and also with anti-Semites is that they are very willing to associate all Jews in the UK with the actions of Israel. If Israel carries out an action of which they disapprove, they call on UK Jews to dissociate themselves from it. In their view, all Jews are considered "guilty" or responsible for Israel's unpopular actions.

Those who urge the Board to make a statement against annexation are playing into the hands of people who hate Israel and who hate Jews. Calling for a statement or, worse still, making one, gives credence to the notion that all Jews are responsible for Israel's unpopular actions and that all Jews can instruct the Israel government to change its policy.

By making no statement, the Board will make it clear that while Jews in the diaspora generally support Israel, they are not responsible for her actions, they are not citizens with a vote, they do not have the right or the power to change her policies, and that anti-Semitism is, as it always has been, hatred of Jews, not a reaction to the existence or the policies of Israel. We should not get involved in Israeli politics as if we were Israeli citizens.
David Singer: Jordan’s King Abdullah Tries to Torpedo Trump Peace Plan
Neither Trump nor Netanyahu has advocated a one-state solution.

The “Palestinian Authority” no longer exists – Mahmoud Abbas having changed its name to the “State of Palestine” by decree on 3 January 2013.

Maybe a massive conflict if Israel “annexed” the West Bank – but 30% – an area of 1697 km2 [square kilometres]?

The interviewer did not query Abdullah – but blithely continued:
DER SPIEGEL: You would suspend the peace treaty with Israel?
King Abdullah II: I don’t want to make threats and create a loggerheads atmosphere, but we are considering all options. We agree with many countries in Europe and the international community that the law of the strongest should not apply in the Middle East.


Empty posturing.

The Hashemites have controlled Jordan since 1920.

The PLO has controlled Areas A and B of Judea and Samaria since 2004 and allowed its hapless residents only one vote in 2006.

The law of the strongest is alive and kicking in the Middle East.
Abdullah faces Trump calling on him to fill the negotiating void left by the PLO jettisoning Trump’s plan – because:
Transjordan invaded Judea and Samaria in 1948 driving out every Jew living there
Transjordan and Judea and Samaria were merged into one territorial entity in 1950 and renamed “Jordan” whilst “Judea and Samaria” was renamed “West Bank”
“West Bank” Arab residents were granted Jordanian citizenship between 1950 and 1988
PLO made no claims to territorial sovereignty until Jordan lost Judea and Samaria to Israel in the 1967 Six-Day Wa
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The one-state solution is a desperate Abdullah ploy to remain uninvolved.

The realistic two-state solution – Jordan and Israel – is coming.

  • Monday, May 18, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

Earlier this month, some Palestinian banks started closing the accounts that were being used to pay terrorists after Palestinian Media Watch started a letter writing campaign to them saying that they were opening themselves up to lawsuits by participating in what is known as "pay to slay."

Since then, these banks are being threatened and attacked.

Gunmen shot at the Cairo Amman Bank branch in Jenin on three separate occasions over the weekend. The first one shattered the front window of the bank.

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Members of Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement are said to have attacked other banks with bullets and Molotov cocktails in recent days.

Relatives of murderers are also being interviewed in Arab media complaining about how they are losing their income. The father of Ibrahim Bakri, who participated in an attack that killed 9 in Safed in 2002 along with his cousin, say that the Bank of Jordan closed his family's account which was getting funded by the  Palestinian Authority.

The Palestinian Authority, funded by Europe, is paying terrorists. It's main political party is shooting at and bombing banks that aren't paying terrorists. Its media is sympathetic towards terrorists who suddenly are losing their blood salaries.

Let's give these guys a state.

  • Monday, May 18, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

The headlines we see now are apocalyptic - and yet familiar.

In the beginning of April, Peace Now wrote,  "[Any] Unilateral move could frustrate the Palestinian street and drag the area into another round of violence, as senior security officials have repeatedly warned."

Indeed, Haaretz had this headline this weekend:

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How many times have we been warned about the threat of the "Palestinian street" exploding? Quite a few.

Earlier this year, from the Jerusalem Post:

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Middle East Eye in 2017, warning of dire consequences from a US embassy move to Jerusalem:

 

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Also in 2017, a warning about an impending holy war after clashes in the Temple Mount from a professor of global affairs:

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In fact, predictions of an upcoming uprising are almost a cliché. Noga Tarnopolsky catalogued a bunch of them in 2014:

"For a while now I’ve wondered why there’s been no Third Intifada," New York Times columnist Tom Friedman mused, in a Feb. 4 column entitled "The Third Intifada."

In February 2013, a full year before Friedman, Amira Hass, the Palestinian affairs correspondent for Israel's daily Ha'aretz, published a column entitled "Why hasn't a third intifada broken out yet among the Palestinians?" (Despite ripe conditions, she posited, the answer was "a lack of faith" among Palestinians in their leadership.)

In September, Moussa abu Marzouk, a senior Hamas official, predicted on his Facebook page that "We are facing a political failure for the Palestinian Authority and the beginning of a new popular intifada against Israel."

In October, Al Jazeera wondered "Is a Third Intifada in the Offing?"

In November, at a moment of some frustration with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, US Secretary of State John Kerry fumed "I mean, does Israel want a third intifada?"

A few days later, the veteran Israeli Arab affairs specialist Shlomi Eldar published an analysis explaining why "Despite despair, no signs of third Palestinian intifada." (With memories still relatively fresh from the Second Intifada, in the first half of the 2000s, Eldar explained, it is not what Palestinians want.)

Then, in December 2013, when the third intifada had still failed to materialize, Hess published another column, a sort of primer telling readers "How the third intifada will start." (Any random act of violence against Palestinians could be the spark, she said.)

The arrival of 2014 didn't seem to change journalists’ minds.

In January, sources within the Palestinian Authority leaked to Israeli media an "internal document" foreseeing — yes — "a third intifada."

Academia got into the game, with Tel Aviv University posting an exhaustive but inconclusive inquiry that posed the question "Is a Third Intifada Brewing?"

Jump ahead to this week, and the crisis in the Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The British magazine The Week described the situation in a column entitled — you guessed it — "Fears of third intifada as Middle East peace looks hopeless."

This is not to say that Palestinians aren't prone to violence. They are, which is why these predictions all seem to safe for "experts" to make. But no one predicted the "knife intifada" of 2015-16, for example, even after Mahmoud Abbas himself essentially called for it in September 2015 by saying that Palestinians must use any means necessary to "defend Jerusalem."

In fact, the occasional outbreaks of deadly violence by Palestinians are rarely predictable. They are essentially random. A small incident can seem to spark a significant flare-up while things that seem to be major rarely result in anything beyond threats.

But despite years of showing that the threats of violence by Palestinian leaders almost never actually result in violence, the "experts" consistently believe them. This is how Palestinian leaders try to use the fear of another intifada to get their own political goals met. This is a variant of a century-old Muslim model I called "The Diplomacy of Fear" back in 2006.

The corollary to these constant, dire predictions is that Arabs will not react violently if Israel or the West just does what they want. This is just as false as the predictions of a new intifada are. Arab violence is unpredictable as it is inevitable, but it has little correlation to Western actions, even though people who want to see a logical world will believe such correlation as causation after the fact.  Exhibit One is the certainty that so many experts have that Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount caused the Second Intifada when that uprising had been planned for months beforehand.  An excuse is not a cause.

Once one realizes that there is no correlation between the regular Arab threats of violence and actual violence, then it becomes apparent that the fear of such violence is not a rational reason to act in one's best self-interest. Violence will happen regardless, and for reasons that cannot be predicted. It will not be stopped by goodwill gestures just as it will not be started by Israel or the West doing things that Arabs warn against.

There are some serious people who have serious reasons against Israel applying sovereignty over parts of the territories. The debate is important and worthwhile. But history shows clearly that the Arab threats of violence is not a factor in this decision, and the sooner that these threats are discounted, the sooner the Arabs will stop using those threats as an alternative to actual negotiations.

Treating these threats of violence as if they are rational and not mafia-style attempts at extortion is a real obstacle to peace.

  • Monday, May 18, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

A family fight in Gaza on Sunday has killed 3 people – including a Hamas terrorist.

Initial reports from Hamas indicated that Abdulaziz Othman Abu Rawa, from the Jabalia camp, had died from an “accident.” But it was soon apparent that he died in a family fight that killed at least 2 and injured over a dozen others.

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But soon even Hamas admitted that Abu Rawa had died in an “unfortunate family fight,” without elaborating.

The fight, part of which was caught on video,  was reported to result in the death of two or three people and the injury of as many as 18, and Gaza police came in to deal with the situation.

Facebook commenters ridiculed Shehab News Agency coverage of the incident as an “accident” as well as Hamas calling Abu Rawa a "martyr" when his death was stupid and pointless.

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Meanwhile, another Hamas terrorist also died, this one of an illness. He is also called a "martyr."

It appears that more Hamas terrorists have died this year from illnesses, work accidents and family feuds than the total number of Gazans killed by the IDF.

Sunday, May 17, 2020

  • Sunday, May 17, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

This is a must-view video. Arnold Roth  discusses the murder of his daughter in 2001 in the Sbarro pizza shop massacre and his quest for justice for her murderer, Ahlam Tamimi, living as a celebrity in Jordan.

From Ian:

Arab World Delusions Fuel BDS Campaign's Coronavirus Conspiracies
The past two months have seen an explosion of coronavirus-related anti-Zionist discourse from across the globe. Notably, proponents of the global "Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS)" campaign against Israel have lost no time in exploiting the outbreak to feed their obsessive vendetta. But BDS appropriation of coronavirus is only part of a larger effort—popular within the Arab and Muslim world—to incorporate coronavirus into pre-existing anti-Zionist and anti-Jewish ideologies.

Jews have long been accused of producing or spreading diseases. Modern iterations of these charges include Nazi myths of the Jewish biological threat, Hamas' assertions that "Zionists" use HIV-positive women to seduce and infect Arabs and the Iranian regime's habit of terming Israel a "cancerous tumor."

Palestinian media, government officials and activists have recycled these themes by placing coronavirus and Israel at the center of their delusions. Indeed, scapegoating Israel or Zionists enables backward, corrupt leaders to deflect attention from their own failures, project their inadequacies onto a common enemy and mobilize unity among followers by framing Israel as an existential foe.

Hence, Iranian officials' rationalizations of high fatality rates with claims that coronavirus is a "'biological ethnic weapon' created by the 'Americans and Zionist regime' to target Iranian DNA." Iranian bureaucrats repeat such lies while the regime remains a pandemic "regional epicenter" and workers dig enormous mass graves for virus victims. Meanwhile, the regime dedicates resources to suppressing coronavirus media coverage and allows prominent clerics to publicly advocate—and occasionally administer to patients—dubious "cures" for the virus, such as camel urine.

Palestinian Authority (PA) media have also spread false narratives, including that Mossad and CIA created and exported coronavirus to China, that the "virus is surely an outcome of the Jews' concealed hatred for the entire world" with which they seek to "start the conflagration of a third [world] war" and that Israel deliberately infects Palestinian workers with coronavirus in order to contaminate their communities. So-called Palestinian disease vectors have been declared Israel's "mobile suicide bomb, whose direct effects are greater than any weapon, even a nuclear bomb."
Terror-Charity Lobbyists Are Subsidized by U.S. Taxpayers
The use of charity to advance radical ideologies is hardly a novel idea. European fascist movements built a base of support through charitable programs and promises of social welfare. The Ku Klux Klan delivered food and medicine to poor white communities. Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, Khomeinists, Wahhabis, ISIS, and al-Qaeda have all made use of charities and welfare programs to propagate and consolidate their control over Muslim communities.

Radical ideological movements do not only establish their own charitable groups; they also hijack the altruism and naïveté of others. In a widely discussed scandal in Britain, it emerged in 2014 that dozens of prominent charities had funded a jihadist support group for years, apparently under the impression they were merely backing a civil-rights campaign.

But not all charitable accomplices to radical causes are guileless, respectable organizations; some are fellow travelers, perfectly aware of their partners’ extremism. One enormous charitable umbrella organization, InterAction, offers a compelling example.

This taxpayer-funded, D.C.-based charity works to lobby Congress on behalf of dangerous, bigoted Islamist charities tied to extremism and terror, with the express purpose of shielding them from serious questioning and freeing them from restrictive terror-finance laws. InterAction does all this in the belief that it is fighting “disinformation” and “populist-nationalism.”

Founded in 1984, InterAction is the largest alliance of international NGOs in the world, comprising over 180 separate groups “working to eliminate extreme poverty, strengthen human rights and citizen participation, safeguard a sustainable planet, promote peace, and ensure dignity for all people.” As delightful as this sounds, federal agencies, foreign governments, journalists, and independent researchers have repeatedly found that a number of InterAction’s member bodies work toward a very different set of ideals. In fact, InterAction members include several radical Islamic charities tied directly to criminal or terrorist activity.
"Stop Bashing Israel!" said the Muslim to the Jews
Prominent British-Muslim intellectual, Ed Husain, talks to Gadi Taub and Mike Doran about his efforts to promote normalization between Muslims and Israel.



  • Sunday, May 17, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon
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There is yet another Ramadan TV series controversy this year.

Besides the series Umm Haroun, which makes Jews look like human beings, and Exit 7, where Gulf Arabs muse about Israel being a better ally than Palestinians, we now have The Magician, a Syrian series filmed in Lebanon.

In its first episode, there is a scene in a discotheque, and for ten seconds we hear an Israeli version of an Armenian hit called Mi Gna by Dj Avi Panel featuring Zehava Cohen.

 

Naturally, this is a scandal. The Syrian Minister of Information, Imad Sarah, was asked about the issue in a session of the People's Assembly, and his answer was that the station that showed the program is a private one that is not subject to state control.

However, Syrian free expression goes only so far. Sources say that the TV channel was told not to show that segment again.

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It’s been a while since I have reported on Arab claims that Israeli cows are attacking, but you can’t keep a good bovine down.

From Palestine Information Centre:

A herd of cows belonging to Jewish settlers wreaked havoc on cultivated plots of land belonging to Palestinian citizens in the northern Jordan Valley on Saturday.

Local activist Aref Daraghmeh said that settlers living in illegal settlements in the Jordan Valley released a flock of cows towards Palestinian plots of land in Umm Qiba area and let them graze there

Daraghmeh added that the cows caused widespread damage to wheat and vegetable crops.

  As always with these stories, photographic evidence is missing. PIC uses an “illustrative image” of cows frolicking in a lush field somewhere in the world.

There was a similar story three weeks ago when Palestinian farmers accused “settlers” of putting 200 cows into huge trucks and transporting them all to their farms where they could munch on their wheat before being whisked away, again before the farmers had a chance to capture the fast moving cows on their mobile phones cameras.



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  • Sunday, May 17, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

This article by Malka Shulewitz published by JTA in September 1977 is not available in the JTA archives as far as I can tell; I saw it in The Sentinel (Chicago). It is one of the best, succinct articles I’ve ever seen about how Jews have been treated in Muslim lands as well as explaining why. I transcribed it from the original facsimile.

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ALGERIA — Mostaganem, May. 1897: Sacking of synagogue marks beginning of widespread anti-Jewish  violence throughout Algeria.

MOROCCO— 1833-1912: Moslem riots in Casablanca. Tana and Fez. Many Jews killed and injured; women, girls and boys abducted, raped then ransomed.

YEMEN — 1922: A special law orders forcible conversion to Islam of all Jewish orphans under 13 even when the mother is still alive —a common Muslim law reimposed.

SYRIA — Damascus. 1936-39: Work at anti-Jewish propaganda headquarters intensified after visit by Nazi officers from Germany. Jews frequently stabbed on the streets.

LIBYA — Benghazi, 1942: During German occupation Jewish quarters sacked and looted, among 2000 'Jews deported acmes the desert, as many as a fifth died.

IRAQ — Baghdad. Festival of Shavuot. 1941: During riots following the collapse of Iraq's pro-Nazi government of Rash Ali, 175 Jews were killed and 1000 injured. Many Jews were tortured and there was much looting of Jewish property.


Taken at random from a booklet of illustrated maps on Jews of Arab lands by Prof. Martin Gilbert of Oxford University, the above facts were  chosen not because they represent events more serious than. say, the massacre of more than 6000 Jews in Fez in 1033, or of more than 5000 murdered during the Arab riots of 1066 in Grenada. They even pale beside some of the persecutions and humiliation suffered by Jews throughout the Arab world around 1948.

However. they succinctly point up the situation of Jews in Arab lands during this century before the rise of modern political Zionism. They also indicate the relations prevailing between the Arabs and Nazis before and during World War II, and are particularly pertinent at time when Arabs are exploiting prestigious international forums as part of a vast propaganda campaign for the dismemberment of the State of Israel through the establishment of "a secular, democratic state in Palestine in which Moslems, Jews and Christians would live on equal terms.. It is doubtful if they would have made such great inroads were it more widely known that neither Jews nor Christians nor any other minority have ever lived on equal terms with Moslem Arabs.

This does not mean that Jews always suffered in the Arab world. There was certainly no holocaust such as that which befell them in Europe nearly 40 hears ego. Indeed, there were periods of prosperity, influence and tolerance. The objective observer must pay due respect to those Moslems who saved Jewish lives during many a rampage through Jewish quarters by their brethren; he must acknowledge that during their long autumn in the Arab world Jews were able to serve as physicians or advisors to caliphs and sultan alike and to play leading roles in the development of trade and commerce in these countries. And he must pay homage to a galaxy of Jewish scholars in the Arab world who were enabled to make major conributions to Jewish life and thought.

However, it is these good experiences that are always cited as the norm of Jewish life in the Arab world. The time has come to put the record straight and destroy the myth of a long "Golden Age" that preceded the rise of modern Zionism in the Arab world, to view the whole picture. upon which the shade exceeds the light. In order to understand why if it was sometimes relatively good, it was in general so bad, one must first examine the position of Jews under Islam which, to this day, is the state religion throughout the Arab world. except in Lebanon. And one must briefly turn back the pages of history in the Middle East and North Africa, where Jews had resided for at least a thousand years before the rise of Islam.

The conquering Arab armies of Islam, speeding like a whirlwind through this part of the world in the Seventh Century, encountered thousands of Jewish settlements. Not unlike the leaders of early Christianity, the founder of this new religion had expected the Jews to convert. But when most of these "stiff necked people" refused to abandon the faith of their fathers, Mohammed's initial admiration for the People of the Book turned to hostility, and the Jews paid dearly: many of the Jewish tribes of Medina, such . the Qurayza. perished by the sword and the survivors were driven from the Arabian peninsula. The Muslims attacked the Jewish oasis of Khaibar: here, however, the Jews were allowed to retain their land but had to pay a 50 percent tribute. Thus the pattern w set. Jews could remain Jews —at a   price. It fluctuated in accordance with the Moslem conquerors' need for Jewish expertise. Because the Jews refused to accept Mohammed as the true prophet, he branded them as adversaries of God. His sentiment. found expression in the Koran in such lines as: "And they will be tormented with degradation and suffering, and bring on themselves the wrath of Allah," thus breeding contempt for the Jews among successive generations of his followers.

So, if the pattern of the Jews' inferior position was laid down by Mohammed and recorded in the Koran, it was perpetuated by subsequent legislation attributed to the Caliph Omar, Mohammed's successor who ruled from 634 CE. Known as the Covenant (or Pact) of Omar, it comprised a series of regulations designed to separate believers from infidels. The latter became known as ahl el  dhimma or dhimmis, a ptotected people. i.e.. one enjoying the protection of Islam and the Koran while at the same time subject to the disabilities and humiliations which degraded both the individual and the community. Dhimmi is an Arabic word defining the relationship between the protector and the protected in the Muslim state; it refers to "the people of the Book" (ahl ahlkitab): Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians. All others were given the choice of conversion to Islam or death.

This basic Koranic attitude embodied in the Pact of Omar obviously affected the position of Jews in Arab lands in the present century. It was a fate shared by Christians, whose communities long ceased to exist in North Africa. As for the Christian Copts in Egypt, they suffered periodic massacres and forced conversions, and up to our own day this ancient community has been dwindling steadily as result of effective repressive measures. However, there were times when the Christians were accorded some respect by Islam because of the enormous power this religion represented in Europe.

But what was this defenseless minority of Jews to be respected for? It was not the "conquest" of the Land of Israel that brought the wrath of Islam upon their heads. And it is not the size of the territory the Jews govern that unites the otherwise fragmented Arab world against Israel today, for it constitutes only a tiny dot in the vast Arab empire of North Africa and the Middle East. The problem is rooted in the psyche of the Islamic world and the need for it to accept the fact that this people, cursed by the Koran, is now a sovereign nation capable of the ultimate sin of vanquishing the armies of Islam on the field of battle. This point should not be underestimated, for there are few examples of a faith so imbued with martial values as Islam. "The Law of the Prophet proceeds by the Sword" is not only a fundamental theological tenet of Islam. but also appropriate description of its historical evolution.

The hollowness of the Arab terrorists' slogan of "a secular, democratic state in Palestine when Moslems, Jews and Christians can live on equal terms" is fully exposed against this background. It is a "Big Lie," no less serious in its implications than that which sent six million Jews of Europe to the gas chambers less than 40 years ago. Indeed the Arab design to wipe out the Jews as a sovereign nation makes comprehensible their affinity for the Nazis before and during World War II and their use of anti-Semitic propaganda of the European vintage (including the notorious Protocols of the Elders of Zion). The presence of many expatriate Nazis in the Arab countries is reflected in the sophistication and content of Arab propaganda — with some finishing touches added by Madison Avenue to make it more palatable to East and West.

This includes the use of socialist slogans, which prompted the noted political scientist, Prof. Shlomo Avineri, to state in an article published in the early 70s, ''They (the Arab armies) now adopt socialist slogans with the same seriousness with which they embraced liberal ideologies under the British and the French — or fascist ideologies during World War II. Their conversion to socialist terminology is largely an outcome of the marriage of convenience with the Soviet Union caused by the Israel-Arab conflict... The same applies, under somewhat different circumstances to the various Arab Palestinian guerilla organizations also. Trained mostly by regular Arab army officers. they are — for all their left-wing rhetoric — poor substitutes for a real revolutionary force.— Imagine Castro having a tete-a-tete with the Brazilian dictators in the same may in which Yasir Arafat appears with King Faisal at an Arab summit! The most reactionary Arab rulers pay Danegeld to the proponents of social revolution — and it is a shrewd investment on the part of the Saudis — for otherwise dangerous revolutionary fervor is thus channeled into a exclusively anti-Israel direction.... The coalition between guerrillas and oil sheikhs is again a unique phenomenon, expressing the depth and strength of the conservative and traditional forces in Arab society."

Considering the conservative. xenophobic character of Arab nationalism which is rooted in Islam, it is small wonder, then, that the declaration of the State of Israel proved to be the catalyst that set whole Jewish communities on the run and brought about the virtual dissolution of what was this people's most ancient diaspora.

In 1948, there were approximately 860,000 Jews residing throughout the Arab world. Fifty to 60 thousand remain there today — mainly in North Africa and Syria. About 200.000 made their homes in such countries as France, England and the U.S. The lions share — some 600,000 — came to Israel. and today they and their descendants comprise over 50 per cent of the population of the Jewish State.

It was perhaps because this modern exodus took place while the memory of the grisly fate that befell European Jewry was still fresh that the suffering of Jews in Arab lands has left its impressions neither in the contemporary annals of the Jewish people nor on the consciousness of the free world. The fact that after nearly 2,000 years these hundreds of thousands of Jews had returned to their homeland probably cushioned the blow. Certainly an evaluation of the historic import of this event — of the meeting of Jews from East and West on the soil of the Land of Israel after millennia of separation — has yet to be made.

History has had to wait. When the Arab armies invaded Israel following the UN Resolution and the declaration of statehood in 1948, all hell broke loose in Egypt. Iraq and Syria there were arrests, interrogations and beatings of Jews; in Oujda and Djerada. Morocco riots broke out in June, 1948. in which many Jews were killed and injured. In Aleppo, Syria, April, 1948, saw a continuation of the previous December's anti-Jewish riots when many were killed, 150 Jewish homes, 50 shops, 18 synagogues and five schools were burned and many survivors went into hiding in fear of their fives.

At about the some time, the Jewish quarter, the hara, in Tripoli, Libya, was attacked; according to the noted Algerian-born Jewish scholar. Prof. Andre Chouraqui: "Moslem gangs poured through... killing young and old, women and children, hacking to pieces the bodes of their victims." On June 20. the Jewish quarter of Cairo was shaken by explosions which reduced four blocks of Jewish-occupied tenements to rubble and left 34 dead and 60 injured and much Jewish property destroyed. Attacks and rape of Jews on the streets went on for a week while Egyptian security forces did nothing.

The newly established State of Israel, hardly recovered from the war caused by the invasion of six Arab states, had to gird itself to receive wave upon wave of refugees. Of the 341,000 who landed in Israel during the first 18 months of statehood. over a third came from Moslem countries — but this was only the beginning.

Tent and hut cities known as ma’abarot (transit camps) sprang up all over the country — eyesores on an otherwise lovely landscape. They were very primitive — flooded in the winter and burning hot in the summer, but there was no other means of accommodation available at a time when Israel virtually became a country of refugees. Lawyers and businessmen from Baghdad and Tunis shared the same conditions as former cave dwellers from the Atlas Mountains.

At the same time, similar camp cities were set up in various Arab countries to shelter refugees from Palestine. Arab propagandists had promised a blood bath as soon as the Mandate ended and advised local Arabs to get out of the way of invading Arab armies. Their invasion was preceded by broadcasts from Cairo, Damascus, Amman and Beirut warning that any Arabs who stayed would be hanged as collaborators.

So the Palestinian Arabs left and the Jews from Arab countries arrived.

The tent-hut cities erected to house Arab and Jewish refugees looked much the same, but here the similarity ends. In Israel, the newcomers were immediately accorded full citizenship rights and the transit camps regarded as temporary accommodation.

By contrast, with the exception of Jordan. no Arab "host" offered the refugees citizenship and a full place in the community. Used as political pawns by their brethren, they became the world's first "professional refugees." The oil rich Arab states have. their fabulous wealth notwithstanding, done almost nothing for these, the least fortunate of their brethren. The fierce battles that recently raged around the refugee camps in Lebanon. particularly the notorious Tel el Zarta, proved the extent to which these camps had been turned into military strong-points.

Not only did Israel dissolve the camps as soon as enough permanent housing was available, the nascent Jewish State attempted to learn from its initial efforts and the mistakes made in settling Jews from Oriental countries. Those who came with the next wave from North Africa in 1955-57 (following the proclamation of Morocco and Tunisian independence and further outrages against the remaining Jewish population) went straight from the ship to new settlements. Many of these settlements were very primitive and barren in the early days and the newcomers had hardly seen a spade before, let alone tilled the earth. An intensive guidance program was introduced, whether in cultivation of the soil, domestic work or the modern organization of village institutions. Not more than 15 per cent of the original population has left; and today most of these settlements are well established. One of these settlement areas, Lachish region in the south, has long been an object of study for Africans and Asians wishing to learn the principles of regional settlement.

The full story of this pioneering effort by Jews from Arab countries has yet to be told. Suffice to say that, despite faults and shortcomings, it demonstrated Israel's desire to settle its newcomers as well as the latter’s determination to rebuild their lives in their homeland.

Saturday, May 16, 2020

From Ian:

David Collier: Nakba – a Twitter tale of 7 million distortions
Today on Twitter is Nakba Day. It is commemorated on 15th May, the day following Israel’s independence. As bad as the distortion and ignorance surrounding the conflict may be on any normal day, the nakba anniversary always takes it to a whole new level of insane.

The true story behind the Nakba is a simple one. The UN partitioned the land between a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Arabs refused to accept it. Civil conflict broke out and this turned into a regional war. The Arab side lost and paid a price for their aggression. Rather than accept this, they have spent the last 72 years making it continually worse for themselves.

On social media – we are presented with a completely different tale. An insidious, antisemitic demonisation of Jews and a total distortion of history. As I am battling away today, I thought I would provide a few examples.

Nakba as a Jewish virus
These online campaigns are organised and sometimes state driven. As early as last night #covid48 started trending:nakba as a jewish virus

Covid is of course another name of the current Coronavirus. 1948 is the birthdate of Israel. This Twitter trend is in tune with some of the oldest and most deadly antisemitic tropes. Over the past 24 hours, there have been 100,000s of tweets calling Jews a virus. It is difficult to believe Twitter would accommodate a global racist trend such as this against any other minority group. Antisemitism is and has always been more socially accepted than other forms of hate. ‘Jews as virus’ trending in the UK. How sickening.
Nakba number lies

One of the key reasons I know anti-Zionism is just the latest version of antisemitism, is because of the ignorance behind it all. The tale they weave is not a perspective of an historical fact nor a slight bias in favour of their own side. It is a total fictional narrative. A place where the enemy is so demonised, so over-stated and the story so ridiculous – that they are discussion the devil or the bogey man – not actual historical events. This is full on anti-Jewish racism. Look at this one:

The tweet refers to a mass expulsion of 7 million Palestinians. Two things here. Firstly, there was no mass expulsion at all. It didn’t happen that way. History records that some localised hostile areas were cleansed by a Jewish force that had neither the time nor manpower to concern itself with anything other than its own survival, against an Arab force that wanted to annihilate it. But these incidents were not the main story, they were a side show and a strategic neccessity. For the most part, the Arabs voluntarily fled or stayed. Those that stayed are Israeli Arabs today. This has been turned on its head – and Arab propaganda pretends that the Jews had a plan to expel ALL the Arabs from the start. Absolute hogwash.

But notice too, the ‘7 million figure’. This is a direct attack on the Holocaust narrative. The Nakba – a war they chose and lost – has to be bigger than the Holocaust, the systematic genocide of European Jewry. The Holocaust had six million – therefore the Nakba had seven.
Holy Jewish site of Esther and Mordechai set ablaze in Iran - reports
National Director of Anti-Defamation League (ADL) Jonathan Greenblatt announced Friday on Twitter that the tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Iran was torched.

"Disturbing reports from Iran that the tomb of Esther & Mordechai, a holy Jewish site, was set afire overnight. We hope that the the authorities bring the perpetrators of this antisemitic act to justice & commit to protecting the holy sites of all religious minorities in Iran,” Greenblatt tweeted.

The Jerusalem Post is seeking to obtain the reports cited by Greenblatt in his tweet. Greenblatt has termed Iran's regime the top state-sponsor of antisemitism and Holocaust denial.

Prior to the arson of the tomb, one Twitter user named Mohammad Mahdi Akhyar threatened to destroy the holy site on May 14 in response to a tweet by the Israel's Foreign Affairs' Farsi Twitter page.

It is unclear if the arson is connected to Israel's independence day.

US Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism Elan Carr strongly condemned the attack on the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai and said "Iran's regime is the world's chief state sponsor of antisemitism."

He called on the Islamic Republic to "stop incitement" and "protect its Jewish community" and its other minorities.

US Jewish Groups Denounce Reported Arson Attack at Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Iran
Several top US Jewish groups denounced on Friday a reported arson attack at the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai in Hamadan, Iran.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations said in a statement that it was “outraged” by the incident.

“This abhorrent and unconscionable act represents not only a blatantly antisemitic assault on Jews and Judaism, but an assault on all people of faith,” the statement noted. “It must be unequivocally condemned by the international community. The government of Iran must act to prevent further attacks and bring to justice those responsible.”

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt tweeted, “We hope that the authorities bring the perpetrators of this antisemitic act to justice & commit to protecting the holy sites of all religious minorities in Iran.”

The Simon Wiesenthal Center said, “Historically, Muslims safeguarded Jewish holy sites from Persia to Morocco, including the Tomb of Esther and Mordechai. But all that has changed under the ayatollahs and the terrorist movements they have spawned.”

“The torching of this Jewish holy site is reminiscent of the Nazis, who not only killed the living, but desecrated the dead,” it added. “The attack took place against the backdrop of the mullahocracy’s drumbeat of genocidal hatred against the Jewish people, its state-sponsored policy of Holocaust denial and denigration. In such an environment a violent attack against Jews, Judaism and Jewish heritage should surprise no one.”

“We urge all world leaders to condemn this cowardly antisemitic attack and Iran’s serial antisemitic policies,” the Simon Wiesenthal Center concluded.


Friday, May 15, 2020

From Ian:

Ruthie Blum: A portrait of viral antisemitism
If history has taught us anything, it is that antisemitism is not simply a mild psychiatric disorder – since Jews are a tiny minority in every country in the world other than Israel, which itself is minuscule in relative terms; it is, rather, a symptom of Stage Four societal cancer. No amount of alcogel can sanitize that dirty little secret.

Which brings us back to the other plague – the one that has most of humanity living in limbo, keeping what is deemed a safe, six-foot distance from strangers, friends and family alike. Oh, and scrubbing our hands like Lady Macbeth, while draped in accessories befitting a brain surgeon.

Whether panic over the coronavirus was or still is warranted remains to be seen. This is something that will not be determined fully until the wave has blown over and/or a vaccine is available. It is difficult, if not impossible, to analyze the data properly in the midst of the commotion.

The same cannot be said about antisemitism. No, hatred of Jews and Israel has a proven record of death and destruction on a mass scale. All additional statistics on that score are the fault of new perpetrators and the passive response to them on the part of the willfully ignorant, apathetic or criminally negligent ostriches among us.

It is hard to fathom how Hitlerian rhetoric and Holocaust imagery elicit less of a reaction than a virus that appears to be running its course.
A common mantra these days is that “We’re all in this together.” Well, if enabling antisemites to disperse their poison beyond borders forbidden to travelers with the sniffles constitutes solidarity, the world really is in the throes of a fatal illness. And that’s not a cartoon characterization of the situation.

Nor is the fact that Jewish scientists in Israel and abroad are working tirelessly around the clock to come up with an antidote to the coronavirus. The rest of us would do well, in the meantime, to focus on finding a remedy for a far greater killer – one that mutates and metastasizes exponentially with each passing minute.

Israel Advocacy Movement: Greatest threat to Jewish existence | J-TV's Ollie Anisfeld and Joseph Cohen


What If Israel Vanished?
There are three main factions within the anti-Zionist, pro-Palestine camp: The Muslim Brotherhood and neo-Ottoman Islamist camp, the Iranian revolutionaries and their “resistance camp” and the Arab nationalists and leftist camp. All have close links with various Palestinian groups.

All three factions, of course, share the anti-Israel rhetoric and dream of regaining Al-Aqsa mosque. Nevertheless, each faction within this eclectic camp has a different outlook for the future of Palestine. Some advocate a future Islamist Palestine that would be part of a grand Ottoman caliphate. Others dream of a revolutionary Palestine loyal to the Iranian Islamic regime. The third group dreams of a leftist nationalist Palestinian utopia.

None of them, however, will ever address the tough questions about their future beloved Palestine. How will they reconcile their conflicting views on the future Palestinian state? How will post-Israel Palestine avoid the fate of post-Saddam Iraq or post Arab Spring Syria? Will the allies of the various Palestinian factions leave the Palestinian people to decide their fate, or will they try to impose their vision in exchange for financial and political support?

Will Hamas, Fatah and the other Palestinian factions that failed to unite under occupation reconcile their differences after “liberation”? Will the Islamists in post-Israel Palestine accept the secularists and liberals, or turn against them as the Mullahs did in Iran, and as Erdogan did in Turkey? How will Islamists treat minorities, such as the Bahai community in Israel? What will the future of their beautiful Temple in Haifa? be? Will the prominent Palestinian diaspora, including Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and activist Linda Sarsour, leave their prestigious careers in the US and “return” to campaign relentlessly for the “right to return to Palestine” and serve their beloved new state?

These are tough questions, so let’s ask an easier one: Who will control the Al-Aqsa Mosque after the imaginary end of Israel? Hamas? Fatah? Jordan? Turkey? Iran? Will the mostly Sunni Palestinians allow Shia Muslims to practice and celebrate the death of Hussein inside Al-Aqsa Mosque? Or will Shia be labelled “apostates”?

I once asked a hardcore pro-Palestine Islamist those questions. He was angrily dismissive. “It doesn’t matter,” he said. “What matters is that we destroy the Zionist State first, then think of the day after.”

  • Friday, May 15, 2020
  • Elder of Ziyon

Turkey’s state English language  broadcaster TRT World put out a mini-documentary on the “nakba”.

It is filled with errors, lies and false photographs.

Here are only a few.

They said this is a photo of Deir Yassin.

trt1

 

It isn’t. It’s a photo of the Sabra and Shatila massacre done by Christian Phalangists in Lebanon.

They also said this was Deir Yassin:

trt2

 

It isn’t. It is a photo of the Gestapo concentration camp Mittelbau-Dora.

They said Deir Yassin started the mass exodus of Palestinians.

trt3

 

It didn’t. They started to flee in December 1947, starting with the upper and middle class. Later the rumors about Deir Yassin hastened many to leave but part of the reason was that their leaders had already fled.

The video shows a graphic indicating Lydda (Lod) and Ramle are across the Green Line.

trt4

 

They are, of course, in Israel, and they still have significant numbers of Arabs.

The video claims that somehow Jordan was “gifted” with the West Bank.

trt5

 

No, it annexed it and this annexation was not recognized by nearly all the nations of the world. (In this case TRT might have meant that the UK gave Jordan political cover for the annexation.)

 

The video is filled with similar errors and lies. But Turkey positions TRT World as a kind of BBC that can be trusted.

Obviously, it cannot. It is propaganda, not news.

(h/t Tomer Ilan)

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