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Friday, May 12, 2023

The Jewish Vote Sweepstakes Are Coming (Daled Amos)

By Daled Amos

As we approach 2024, politicians are beginning to line up to announce their candidacy for the approaching presidential elections. Donald Trump, Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley are among the Republicans who will apparently battle it out in the primaries. On the Democratic side, Biden has announced that he and Kamala Harris will run for re-election.

And the presidential campaign season means that at some point, these politicians will feel the need to brag about being a friend of Israel.

One of those will be the current vice president, Kamala Harris.

The last time around, Harris could rely on the ringing endorsement she received from Kveller.com, which reminded us that Kamala Harris Has an Adorable Yiddish Nickname - Momaleh. On top of that, while growing up in the Bay Area of San Francisco, Harris collected money in the Jewish National Fund boxes to buy trees for Israel. According to Kveller, that qualified her as a mensch and earned her their approval for office.

At the time, the Jewish Insider had a more serious evaluation of Harris on her pro-Israel record and relationship with the Jewish community:

o The first bill she co-sponsored in the Senate condemned UN Security Council Resolution 2334, which criticized Israeli settlements.

o  She sponsored resolutions condemning the 2018 Tree of Life shooting and the April 2019 Chabad of Poway shooting.

o  In 2017, she co-sponsored with Sen. Marco Rubio the Senate resolution condemning hate and antisemitism

o  She opposed the BDS movement

This seems to bear out the claim made by Harris's campaign spokesperson, Lily Adams that “her support for Israel is central to who she is.”

But on the other hand:

o Despite her opposition to the BDS movement, Harris voted against a bipartisan 2019 anti-BDS bill, saying she was concerned it could violate First Amendment rights.

o In June 2020, she sent a letter to Trump opposing Israel’s potential unilateral annexation of parts of the West Bank.

o When asked in a 2019 interview with The New York Times, "Do you think Israel meets international standards of human rights?" she responded, "overall, yes."

o Harris expressed support for the US rejoining the JCPOA nuclear agreement with Iran.

This does not necessarily negate her positive actions and statements, it merely places her among the moderate Democratic supporters of Israel After all, you can't expect 100% support for all of Israel's policies from a US politician.

But there are other statements and actions that do not mesh with the pro-Israel image Harris and her staff want to cultivate.

One position that the Jewish Insider does not mention is Kamala Harris's support for Ilhan Omar. In 2019, Harris defended Ilhan Omar against criticism of her attack on AIPAC and Omar's accusations of Jewish dual loyalty

Harris defended Omar against criticism of her antisemitic statements:

We all have a responsibility to speak out against anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, homophobia, transphobia, racism, and all forms of hatred and bigotry.

But like some of my colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus, I am concerned that the spotlight being put on Congresswoman Omar may put her at risk. [emphasis added]

Harris also joined Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren in defending Omar, saying

I also believe there is a difference between criticism of policy or political leaders, and anti-Semitism.

In addition to claiming that Omar's accusation of Jewish dual loyalty, Harris expressed concern for Omar being put "at risk," by being subject to criticism while being oblivious to the risk to Jews by Omar's comments.

As California’s attorney general and then as U.S. senator, Harris forged a relationship with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), one of the nation’s top anti-Israel groups and advocates for boycotts of the Jewish state. CAIR advised Harris on community issues during her time in California politics, and she later offered the group her "gratitude and admiration" in a 2018 personal letter to the group.

Also jarring -- coming from someone whose "support for Israel is central to who she is" -- was Harris's Chief-of-Staff Karine Jean-Pierre, who is currently the White House Press Secretary for the Biden Administration (Biden being another politician who claims to be a long-time friend of Israel). Before all this, she was a spokesperson and senior advisor for the Soros-funded MoveOn.org

According to a ZOA press release,

"Ms. Jean-Pierre repeated the blood libel that “Israel may have committed war crimes in its attacks on Gazan protesters" and in addition

Ms. Jean-Pierre also falsely accused AIPAC of “alarming,” “severely racist, Islamophobic rhetoric,” of being an “obstacle to progress,” and of “trafficking in anti-Muslim and anti-Arab rhetoric while lifting up Islamophobic voices and attitudes.”

In September 2021, Kamala Harris seemed to show similar feelings.

While speaking to a class at George Mason University in Virginia, Harris appeared to agree with a student's condemnation of Israel. The student condemned

funds allocated to continue backing Israel, which hurts my heart because it’s an ethnic genocide and a displacement of people — the same that happened in America — and I’m sure you’re aware of this.”

Harris's nodded in agreement, with no counter to the comment. When the student expressed her need to speak up, Harris responded:

I’m glad you did. And again this is about the fact that your voice, your perspective, your experience, your truth should not be suppressed and it must be heard, right? And one of the things that we’re fighting for in a democracy, right, a democracy is its strongest when everybody participates…[emphasis added]

Here is the video:

Harris and her staff had to go into damage control mode, assuring Jewish leaders that despite her apparent agreement with the comment, she did not actually share the student's view.

When it comes to "truth", however, Kamala Harris seems to find it in the oddest places.

Just last month, Harris publicly praised unrepentant antisemite Al Sharpton for being "a voice of truth."

Kamala Harris is just another politician who follows the popular positions of the Democratic party. As long as there is a sizeable portion of Democrats who support Israel, she will follow along.

And if the Democratic party decides it will follow Biden in supporting the JCPOA, she will support that too, despite the threat to the Middle East in general and to Israel in particular -- just as she will praise a student who accuses Israel of ethnic genocide, since after all, free speech is a good thing, right?

When it comes to Israel, we cannot judge a politician by their carefully crafted speeches or support for popular pro-Israel bills. Their associations and unprepared off-the-cuff remarks give a better idea of their positions.

Based on that measure, Kamala Harris is not a friend of Israel. She is merely another politician looking for the Jewish vote.

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Our Lame Response To Zionist Aggression Will Come At A Time And Place Of Our Choosing by Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PreOccupied Territory)

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Gaza City, May 11 - The brutal crimes of the Zionists will not go unanswered. Their cowardly targeting of our personnel and their families this past week deserves retaliation for which the enemy will not be prepared: we will follow our own timing and considerations when we offer our pathetic, underwhelming justice.

We will avenge the deaths of the martyrs Khalil Bahitini, Tarek Azaldin, and Jahed Ahman at a time we choose, in a manner that we determine, which will of course have no effect on anything except maybe scare some people and, who knows break some windows? Hit a rocky hillside?

We must how the enemy that his evil provocation will not go unanswered. Our answer will come at our discretion, on our timetable, not when the enemy expects and not when so-called "rules" or precedents dictate. Our answer, in the form of inaccurate rockets, abortive shootings, ineffective bombs, or impotent stabbing attempts, will hit them when they have become complacent, no longer anticipating such a bold display of weakness.

We will watch the enemy cower in fear as our missiles miss their targets. We will read of hundreds of thousands of Zionist usurpers trudging in annoyance to shelters as Iron Dome downs any missile that would hit a populated area. The minor inconvenience we will cause will avenge the deaths of our holy martyrs, and will finally free Palestine!

That last part might take some time.

But we have patience, patience the enemy does not have. The enemy rushed to kill our martyrs, not like our long game strategy, which relies on the accumulation of dead children we have placed in harm's way to fight the cognitive war against the Zionists. We can pick our moment. Our day and hour to wreak vengeance, our wispy, flimsy vengeance.

The cause of Palestine will always rally the Islamic world to our side. Except for the growing number of countries normalizing with the Zionist entity. Obviously not those. But the others! The ones who will normalize sooner or later. Our cause is universal and pan-Arab! This is why we get funding only from non-Arab Iran. it is why we are ever-closer to realizing the dream of a free Palestine. You wouldn't know it from looking at a map, or data on the defense and economic robustness of the Zionist entity, contrasted with the despicable, self-inflicted misery of Palestinians, but it is ever-closer!

Just like our useless revenge. Allahu Akbar!

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On Thursday, an Iranian-built missile hit a building in Rehovot, killing an 80-year old woman..

Usually, in my experience, only media associated with Gaza terror groups would routinely refer to Israelis within the Green Line as "settlers." The independent and Fatah-leaning media would still distinguish between pre-1967 Israel and the territories.

However, with the death in Rehovot, the independent Palestinian media have generally been referring to the victim as a "settler" and Rehovot as a :"settlement."

Ma'an News Agency, originally funded by Denmark, writes, "a settler was killed and 8 others were injured."

Safa, which is a private news agency, says, “An Israeli settler was killed" and says missiles were shot towards the "settlements."

Shams news similarly says that an "Israeli settler was killed."

Only the official Palestinian Authority and apparently Fatah media do not use this wording. That is probably because they realize that the EU would be very displeased if they called Rehovot a "settlement" and that's where they get their funding from.

This is not merely semantics. This shows that Palestinians, in general, still consider all of Israel to be "occupied" and all Israeli Jews are "illegal settlers." It is a form of dehumanization - a way of saying that it is not immoral to kill Jews. (Obviously, Israeli Arabs are not "settlers.")

Which means that they would never accept any permanent peace deal that leaves a Jewish state in existence. I don't mean Hamas members - I mean the general Palestinian population will never accept any sort of Jewish state.

If peace is impossible, and it is, the only alternatives are détente - or total victory.

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Haaretz publishes the most antisemitic article in world history. I am not exaggerating.

This Haaretz article is the most irresponsible, vile, antisemitic piece of writing I have ever seen - in any language.

Yossi Klein's is telling the world that Zionist Jews unanimously enjoy murdering gentile children. "Killing children is designed to cause pain, to strike the most sensitive place of all. It isn’t designed to stop terrorism; it’s designed to deter the terrorists and make us happy," according to Klein.

The medieval blood libel, which has been used as an excuse to murder countless Jews, claimed that Jews murder gentile children to use their blood in a religious ritual. Klein goes far beyond that - he says that Jews murder gentile children not because it is part of a religious obligation but because it is an enjoyable pastime that brings Jews together. According to him, we don't have to murder children - we want to.

Hitler in Mein Kampf merely said that Jews are subhuman parasites who conspire to subjugate gentiles and take over the world. He accused Jews of seducing Aryan girls - but even he didn't accuse Jews of gleefully murdering children to make them happy.

No, but Haaretz's Yossi Klein does.

Palestinian Arabic media routinely translate Haaretz columnists like Gideon Levy and Amira Hass to incite hate and justify terror. They didn't waste any time translating this one. So now it is available to hundreds of millions more, to boil their blood.

This article is incitement to murder Jews. And it will be used by antisemites forever as proof that Jews admit their happiness at murdering Arab children. For some of them, it will tip the scales and they will grab their knives or car or join a terror group because there is nothing more important than to kill the Zionist child killers.

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion was not really written by Jews so it could be debunked - but a real Jew with the Jewish name of Yossi Klein himself cheerfully admits that Jews like him love to incinerate cute Arab kids.

Needless to say, this article is the polar opposite of the truth. Israel does more than any army in history to minimize deaths of children. It adheres scrupulously to the laws of armed conflict under the Geneva Conventions. It spends countless hours and layers of approvals before airstrikes to make sure that it is the right thing to do, taking into account the danger to uninvolved civilians. A valuable military target cannot be made immune from attack by the presence of civilians - even adorable children.

Beyond that, Klein is describing Israel's enemies - people who hand out candy when Israeli children are murdered. The people who ululated at the news of 9/11. Their happiness is unbound at the death of civilians and polls show huge support for specific attacks that targeted children. Child murderers like Samir Kuntar and Dalal Mughrabi are heroes.

Klein's pretense that Israeli happiness at killing terrorists is really happiness at killing their children is beyond reprehensible.

The words "a new low" are used way too often, but in this case, they are accurate.

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05/11 Links Pt2: Rockets from Gaza and rockets from the EU; What are the roots of Islamic hatred in Gaza, West Bank?; What the BBC gets wrong about Israel; Media Distort Murder of the Dee Family

From Ian:

Bassam Tawil: The Real Meaning of 'From The River To The Sea, Palestine Will Be Free'

It is impossible to imagine that the anti-Israel activists have no idea that the chant is a common call-to-arms for those who want to destroy Israel.

The slogan reflects the wishes of Iran and its terror proxies -- especially Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah -- to replace Israel with a 57th Islamic state – from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Iranian leaders and officials have often repeated that their goal is to "wipe Israel off the map."

By using this slogan, Iran and Hamas are saying, bluntly... that the land stretching from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea is all Muslim-owned land that cannot be given away to any non-Muslims.

Article 11 of the Hamas Charter leaves no room for doubt; it is straightforwardly genocidal: "The Islamic Republic Movement [Hamas] believes that the land of Palestine is an Islamic Waqf consecrated for future Muslim generations until Judgement Day. It, or any part of it, should not be squandered; it, or any part of it, should not be given up."

Articles 13 of the Hamas Charter openly advocates the use of violence to kill Jews and eliminate Israel: "There is no solution for the Palestinian question expect through Jihad [holy war]."

Article 15 of the Hamas Charter states: "Jihad is the individual duty of every Muslim... It is necessary to instill the spirit of Jihad in the heart of the nation so that they would confront the enemies and join the ranks of the fighters."

The anti-Israel activists who chant "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free" are -- whether they know it or not -- endorsing the ideology of Iran's mullahs, Hamas and other terror groups that have long worked to achieve their goal of destroying Israel.

Stephen Daisley: What the BBC gets wrong about Israel

On Tuesday, the IDF killed three high-ranking Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders, after the terrorist group last week launched 102 rockets into Israel. Islamic Jihad responded yesterday with an even heavier barrage. Stephen Daisley comments on how the BBC, Britain’s state-sponsored media company, covered the story:

If you get your news on the Middle East from the BBC, every so often Israel appears to go mad and begins lustily bombing Palestinian civilians. No rhyme or reason. Jerusalem is simply pummeling Gaza for the hell of it.

This impression is often created by the BBC’s approach to reporting on Israel and terrorism. The story invariably begins when Israel responds to attacks, with those original attacks deemed insufficiently newsworthy until then or reported as a retaliation to some provocation. Then, once Israel engages, the inciting incidents are quietly smuggled into the coverage but framed as just another round in the cycle of violence. Thus self-defense is cast as aggression, and aggression as tit-for-tat.

The BBC’s approach is certainly not the result of a conspiracy, as some Israelis and their sympathizers around the world assume. Yes, the BBC has its ideologues in news and current affairs and it seems to apply lower corporate and journalistic standards in its coverage of Israel. This is, after all, the organization that hired someone who declared “Hitler was right” as the “Palestine specialist” at BBC Monitoring. But the BBC’s bias against Israel reflects institutional culture, the political attitudes of the sort of people who work in news and current affairs, and patterns and assumptions so long embedded that even veteran BBC staff would struggle to account adequately for the uniquely malign frame the corporation applies to Israel. That may not be much comfort—but cultures, groupthink, and frames can all be changed.

Rockets from Gaza and rockets from the EU

NS) Terror attacks against Israeli civilians by Palestinian organizations increased in 2023. Recent victims included two young brothers (six- and eight-years-old) killed by a car that rammed a bus shelter, two sisters and their mother shot as they were driving to a holiday dinner, two brothers killed on their way to a wedding, an Italian tourist, and six worshippers leaving a synagogue on a Friday evening. Various other knife and car ramming attacks were thwarted.

Perhaps of equal concern, Palestinian veneration of terrorists and joy at Jewish deaths have escalated to hysterical levels. Videos and photos of beautiful Palestinian boys carrying weapons announcing their intention to die, equally lovely schoolgirls calling for Palestinians to kill all the Jews and uncontrolled dancing and singing over the bodies of terrorists are ubiquitous. After Israel eliminated the two terrorists in Nablus who killed the mother and her daughters, Palestinian news media aired a report by the mother of a terrorist who said, “The Jews are our enemies, we should fight them, devour them with our teeth.” Another fired a gun in the streets while a Palestinian sang.

So, you might think that this statement by the European Union’s “spokesperson on the situation in Gaza” was aimed at Palestinian terrorists: “We urge all parties to exercise maximum restraint, promote calm and work towards a political horizon and regional stability in line with the commitments in the Aqaba and Sharm el-Sheikh declarations.”

You would be wrong. Following rocket fire from Gaza, the IDF struck back. Hamas strategically locates its military commanders, missile stocks and rocket launchers in civilian neighborhoods, counting on two things: First, that Israel will be deterred, thus safeguarding the Hamas operatives who live behind their human shields (a war crime everywhere in the world except, apparently, in Gaza). Second, that Israel’s retaliation, carefully planned as it may be, will kill children or old people, and Israel will be called a war criminal or a baby killer.

The E.U. obliged on the second count. Its statement was directed at Israel: “The European Union is gravely concerned by the escalation in Gaza following today’s Israeli air raids. The E.U. deeply regrets the loss of civilian lives, including children, and calls for the respect of international humanitarian law. Civilian lives must be protected under all circumstances.” Subscribe to The JNS Daily Syndicate by email and never miss our top stories The E.U. is twisting the concepts of preventing civilian casualties, proportionality and collateral damage in order to harass Israel as it defends its people. Civilian casualties, while much to be mourned and regretted, are not war crimes and the protection afforded to civilians living among armies or terrorists is not considered a top priority.

Glad to see @eusimonpa delete the tweet of him referring to a State of Palestine standing in front of this picture, but is it consistent w/EU values of transparency and accountability to delete w/out apology or explanation? https://t.co/mn9yLblRZP pic.twitter.com/XKsqNMmQW7
— Eugene Kontorovich (@EVKontorovich) May 11, 2023

As we mentioned this morning, Islamic Jihad really doesn't like the Israeli assassination policy targeting their leaders. That is their one major demand, and Israel is saying no dice - it wants to make sure that their pain is enough that they won't easily consider making rocket fire an annual event.

The rocket barrages from Islamic Jihad and their smaller terrorism partners continued and escalate today, but so did Israel's assassinations - quite remarkable given that those leaders know that they are targets.

Tragically, one of the rockets hit an apartment in Rehovot, killing one person who has not yet been identified.

And that was a signal for the Islamist animals to celebrate.

The Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine said that our Palestinian people raise their heads high with this blessed and sacred response from the Palestinian resistance.

The movement said: Sacred Duty missiles are the most effective response to destroying the enemy's targets and burying his nose in the soil.

The Al-Quds Brigades have fulfilled their promise and covenant for the blood of the martyrs, leaders, children and women, the statement concluded.

As always, it is all about pride and honor. Killing an Israeli civilian causes them to "raise their heads high."

If this isn't antisemitism, I don't know what is.

What was their military accomplishment? None whatsoever. The hit civilian targets, damaged civilian buildings and killed a civilian. But to the twisted mind of Islamic Jihad leaders - and as we've seen, a great number of Palestinians - killing an Israeli is in itself an accomplishment, and a goal to strive for, and something to be immensely proud of.

This isn't about "freeing Palestine." It is about murdering Jews, one at a time over decades if that it what it takes, until there are none left. It is a feeble but quite real attempt at genocide.

And they are willing to kill their own people - at least four so far from misfired rockets - just to get an opportunity to kill a single Jews.

Imagine if Gaza's leaders spent their money on infrastructure rather than rockets and tunnels.

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Islamic Jihad killing Gazans with misfired rockets

FDD reports:

Rockets launched at Israel by Iran-backed Islamic Jihad on May 10 killed four Palestinian civilians, three of them children, after falling short within the Gaza Strip, Israeli tracking data showed. According to the information published on May 11, which is drawn from the same advanced radar surveillance that allows Israel to intercept salvoes crossing into its territory, one misfired rocket killed Rami Shadi Hamdan, 16, and Ahmed Muhammad a-Shabaki, 51, in the Gaza border town of Beit Hanoun. In another incident, a failed launch killed Layan Bilal Mohammad Abdullah Mdoukh, a 10-year-old girl, and Yazan Jawdat Fathi Elayyan, 16, in Gaza City.

Footage released by the IDF Spokesman’s Office showed a volley of rockets from Gaza during which three of the projectiles can be seen dropping from the sky soon after terrorists fired them

PCHR, as biased against Israel as possible, still understands that these civilians are probably killed by Islamic Jihad.

Ahmed Mohammed al-Shebaki (50) was killed and his wife Yusra Othman al-Shebaki (50) was seriously injured after a missile fell on their house in Qleibo area in Beit Lahia, northern Gaza Strip. PCHR is still investigating the incident, as initial information raises suspicion that it might be a homemade missile.

Moreover, Yazan Jawdat ‘Eliyan (16) and Layan Belal Mohammed Modawikh (8) were killed and 12 others, including 2 children and 2 women, were injured after a missile fell on a 5-storey house on al-Sahaba Street in Gaza City. PCHR is still investigating the incident, as initial information raises suspicion that it might be a homemade missile.

In addition, 13 Palestinians were injured, including 2 women and 5 children; one seriously injured, after a missile fell on a house in Beit Hanoun, northern Gaza Strip. PCHR is still investigating the incident, as initial information raises suspicion that it might be a homemade missile.

Notice how the "pro-Palestinian" crowd becomes silent when it is discovered that their heroes murdered the people they claim to care about. (Although, usually, they claim Israel killed the kids anyway.)

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05/11 Links Pt1: Melanie Phillips: As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles; Israeli killed as Gaza rocket hits apartments in Rehovot; Sanders helps Tlaib host 'Nakba' event as rockets rain on Israel

From Ian:

Melanie Phillips: As Gaza’s rockets are fired at Israel, so are media missiles

Fueling Iran’s ability to advance its infernal aims is America’s incomprehensibly incoherent Middle East strategy. Last month, the U.S. deployed a guided missile submarine to the Middle East as a warning to Iran. Yet the U.S. has persistently refused to take appropriate measures in response to Iranian aggression.

Worse, the U.S. is even now hoping to cut a deal with Tehran over its nuclear weapons program, which would facilitate an Iranian nuclear weapon after at best a limited delay and channel billions in sanctions relief into the regime’s coffers.

Meanwhile, the rest of the West seems indifferent to the Iranian threat. Although the regime has been at war with the West since it came to power in 1979, there seems to be a pervasive belief that the only target in Iran’s sights is Israel.

This largely meets with Western indifference. So, as many have long wondered, why is the West so hostile to Israel’s very existence?

One answer is the new antisemitism, with irrational hatred of Jews replicated exactly in irrational hatred of the collective Jew in Israel.

Another reason is that Israel is regarded as fundamentally illegitimate by those who are profoundly ignorant of both Jewish and Middle Eastern history.

However, if this hostility towards Israel is put alongside the refusal to acknowledge the dire threat that Iran poses to the West, a yet more baleful explanation suggests itself.

Consciously or unconsciously, the West expects Israel to do its dirty work for it. It assumes that Israel will deal with Iran by itself because that’s the kind of thing Israel does.

Israel’s feats of military derring-do are indeed legendary. But there’s good reason to think it can’t take out the Iranian threat by itself.

Most importantly, any strike against Iran carries the very real risk of simultaneous and devastating attacks on Israel from the 150,000 rocket batteries in Lebanon targeting the whole country, missiles from Gaza and the infrastructure of mass murder in the disputed territories.

And here’s the most terrible thought of all. The prospect of widespread carnage in Israel doesn’t concern the West because, to its way of thinking, the historic role of Jews is to die in large numbers.

Then the West will eulogize them, weep crocodile tears over them and sentimentalize their memory. While the West refuses to tolerate the idea of Jewish power—and so will always demonize Israel for using it to defend Israeli lives—what it loves is dead Jews.

Harsh? Certainly. But harsher and more terrifying by far for Israel.

Gaza: Time for Israel to Change the Paradigm to Defeat Its Enemies

The assassination of three senior Islamic Jihad terrorists is a welcome change of tactics against those who incessantly fire rockets on Israel's south.

Named "Shield and Arrow," this latest operation appears to be in response to over 100 missiles fired at Israel the previous week.

It is hoped that this is just the opening gambit in a much wider operation.

The Israeli military and political hierarchy should look further than the most recent skirmish and see the wider war, with a fuller understanding of the long-term battle it can initiate, and respond accordingly.

It is important to understand that Israel is not at war with Islamic Jihad.

Israel is at war with a genocidal Palestinian rejectionism that is over 100 years old and is now being bolstered and supported by outside actors like Iran and its proxies. Islamic Jihad is just a small part of the enemy's military capabilities, maybe even the smallest.

Nevertheless, the battle lines that were drawn long before the State of Israel was established, remain.

Their goal is to defeat Israel, and Israel's goals must be, in turn, to defeat its enemies.

Israel's goal is victory, and thus it must use war as "a continuation of policy by other means," as the famed Prussian military strategist Carl von Clausewitz once wrote.

Israel's campaign is already a success, but the fundamentals haven't changed

As Operation Shield and Arrow enters its third day, we can already draw with three takeaways: The first – the PIJ has suffered once again a major blow when its senior leadership was taken out and its operational combat worthiness was crippled after the IDF targeted its operational apparatus and arms-manufacturing capabilities; the second – the organization has not been able to exact a price from Israel, not in the south and not with long-range rocket fire toward Israel's main population centers. the third – Hamas has stayed this one out and by doing so prevented the flare-up from expanding, essentially leaving the PIJ to its own devices and making it deal with the consequences of what it has unleashed. This could allow the operation to draw to a conclusion rather quickly.

This is the first time Israel manages to do a hat-trick. The first was in November 2019, when a senior member of the PIJ was taken out in a quick flare-up. The second was this past summer, in Operation Breaking Dawn, when Israel took out the senior regional commanders of the PIJ. And the third was this week when Operation Shield and Arrow was launched with the triple assassination of PIJ commanders. In all three cases, the PIJ tried to take revenge against Israel but failed miserably. What's worse (for the organization) – it could not get Hamas to join the fight and make the conflagration that much worse.

Israel should not shy away from a confrontation
The success Israel has garnered should lead to three conclusions. First – while Israel should not be itching for a fight in Gaza, it doesn't need to shy away from it, especially when a small and brazen organization like the PIJ is the provocateur. The organization has tried to create linkage between Judea and Samaria and the Gaza Strip so that any deadly Israeli raid against terrorists in the West Bank would automatically lead to rocket fire from the Gaza Strip. Israel has now put a big flashing sign over that idea, sending the message that if it does not disabuse itself of that idea it will have to pay a price.

Israel has seized the opportunity by taking out various PIJ assets and operatives (from weapon factories to launching pits), while making sure that no Hamas operatives or non-combatants get hurt (except in the first strike at the outset of the operation), with the hope that the Gaza rulers don't join the fighting and have it escalate.

You know how Israel haters like to say Palestinians are like Native Americans? They used to say that about Jews!

In recent times, it has become fashionable for Israel haters to claim that Palestinians are the natives of the region and Jews are the outsiders who violently took over the land.

But opponents of Israel didn't always make that argument. They used to make the opposite one!

From Brooklyn-based Arab Christian newspaper "Caravan" in 1956:

Here, the Arab argument was that everyone knows the Jews are indigenous, just like American Indians - and the idea that they should be able to return to their land is as absurd as allowing native Americans to take over the areas they were ethnically cleansed from.

If the exact opposite argument is used for the same purpose, it is obvious that the arguments are props. Hate for Jews is what animates these people to make their arguments, but even they don't believe them.

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Arab anti-Zionist demonstration in Jerusalem, 1920

As "Nakba Day" approaches, and Palestinians and their apologists claim that the problems began with Zionists supposedly expelling Arabs in 1948, it is worthwhile to look at the real history of the Arab-Israeli conflict. And Nebi Musa, 1920, is a paradigm for everything that has happened since.

On April 4,1920, during the Nebi Musa festival that coincided with Easter and Passover, Arab speakers - including Amin al Husseini, the antisemitic leader later to be appointed the Mufti of Jerusalem and enthusiastic supporter of Hitler - helped incite an orgiastic riot, attacking all the Jews they could find. As Tom Segev describes it:

The time was now about 10:30. In the Old City, Arab toughs had been brawling in the streets for more than an hour. Gangs surged through the walkways of the Jewish Quarter, attacking whomever they passed; one small boy was injured on the head. They broke into Jewish stores and looted. The Jews hid.

Meanwhile, the speeches from the balcony of the Arab Club continued. Someone waved a picture of Faisal, who had just crowned himself king of Greater Syria. The crowd shouted "Independence! Independence!" and the speakers condemned Zionism; one was a young boy of thirteen. The mayor, Musa Kazim al-Husseini, spoke from the balcony of the municipal building; Aref al-Aref, the editor of the newspaper Suriya al-Janubia ("Southern Syria"), delivered his speech on horseback. The crowd roared, "Palestine is our land, the Jews are our dogs!" In Arabic, that rhymes.

No one knew what exactly set off the riots. In testimony given to a British court of inquiry, people said that a Jew had pushed an Arab carrying a flag, or that he'd spat on the flag, or that he'd tried to grab it. In another version, the violence began when an Arab pointed at a Jew who was passing by and said, "Here's a Zionist, son of a dog." Many testified that Arabs had attacked an elderly Jewish man at the entrance to the Amdursky Hotel, beating him on the head with sticks. The man had collapsed, his head covered with blood. Someone had tried to rescue him but was stabbed. People said they had heard gunfire. "The furor almost turned into madness," Sakakini wrote. Everyone was shouting, "The religion of Mohammed was founded by the sword," and waving sticks and daggers.

The hotheads are looking for excuses to attack Jews, rumors and lies about Jewish plots are easily started and believed, all Jews are attacked as a collective with no distinction between civilian and military, violence is fueled by Islamist extremism leavened with centuries-old Jew-hatred, and any Arab who tries to act reasonably becomes as much of an enemy as the Jews, forcing their silence and ensuring that only the most fanatic anti-Jewish incitement is spread.

This is how it was in 1920, it is how it was in the 1929 pogroms, that's how it was during the 1936-39 Arab revolt, that's how it was in 1947-48, and that's how it is in Gaza today.

You cannot look at 1948 in a vacuum. It is just another episode in the century of Arab refusal to accept Jews are having the human right of self determination.

The war that the Arabs started against the Jews didn't start on May 15, 1948. It didn't even start on November 30, 1947, with the UN partition plan. There is no shortage of outrages that preceded the partition vote that no one discusses today, but in particular there were deadly Arab attacks against Jews in August 1947 that caused Jaffa's Jews to evacuate from their homes - just as Jews were forced out of their homes in Gaza and Hebron not that long beforehand.

Yes, thousands of Jews had to flee their homes because of deadly Arab attacks way before a single Palestinian Arab decided to leave.

Historians argue about the exact spark that set off these regular outbreaks of violence, and that remains true today as well. But the constants are the same. The stabbing of random Jews is the same - but now the Arab terrorists have cars and rockets as well to indiscriminately attack Jews. The absolute refusal to accept even the tiniest Jewish state remains the same. The lying and false accusations against Jews to incite violence is the same. The silencing of any Arab opinions that do not adhere to what the self-appointed leaders with guns allow remains the same. The hateful chants are even the same: "From the river to the sea" is merely a restatement of "Palestine is our land, the Jews are our dogs."

Above all, the willingness of Arab leaders to use their Palestinian Arabs as pawns and cannon fodder in their attempts to destroy Israel is the same as it ever was. The only reason there are any Palestinian "refugees" today is because their leaders insist that the people remain stateless and miserable until Israel is gone.

The residents of Gaza are hostages to Hamas and Islamic Jihad - and Iran - who are all willing to sacrifice their own people rather than accept the reality of Israel's existence. And, yes, the Palestinian Authority also insists of the destruction of Israel, today, using the euphemism of "return."

The catastrophe is not Israel's insisting that Jews have a small refuge in their historic homeland. The catastrophe is that Palestinians have always had leaders who don't give a damn about them and put their energy into destroying Israel instead. And these leaders use violence against their own people to keep them in line.

1920 was not the first anti-Jewish attack in Palestine, but it was the event that set the tone for everything that has happened since. There is a direct line from the hate behind the 1920 attacks and the hate in Gaza and Ramallah today.

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The head of Islamic Jihad's "political wing," Dr. Muhammad al-Hindi, spoke to Gaza media of demands that his group has before any cease fire.

There was only one: "Stop targeting our leaders!"

He couched the demands in bravado, claiming that Islamic Jihad caused great damage to Israeli towns, but he didn't say Israel should stop bombing Gaza or anything like that.

These supposed brave warriors only want to save their own skins.

Al-Hindi explained in an interview with the Al-Jazeera Mubasher channel, on Wednesday evening, that the ongoing negotiations between the mediators to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip have failed due to the intransigence of the Israeli occupation in continuing the policy of assassination.

He said, "One of the most important issues that thwarted the negotiations is that" Israel is procrastinating in making a commitment to stop the policy of assassinations "against the leaders of the Palestinian resistance, especially the leadership of the Islamic Jihad movement and its military arm, the Al-Quds Brigades."

By an astonishing coincidence, Al Hindi is one of those people he insists must not be targets.

Israel has continued to target the houses of Islamic Jihad military leaders.

Al Hindi also claimed that Islamic Jihad is working hand in hand with Hamas during this battle - but he admits that Hamas isn;'t actually shooting any rockets. Again, he tries to save face, saying that the lion's share of the rocket fire is being done by Islamic Jihad's Al Quds Brigades, "because they have strong military capabilities."

Based on this interview, it looks like Islamic Jihad has lost this round of fighting, very badly.

It is interesting that he didn't say anything about the smaller groups like Fatah's Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP, which in fact are also shooting rockets at Israel besides Islamic Jihad. They might not be happy that he is taking all the credit.

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05/10 Links Pt2: As Israel Turns 75, "Foreign Affairs" Publishes a Call to Eliminate It; McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib's Anti-Semitic Congressional Event

From Ian:

Jonathan Tobin: Palestinians are addicted to an endless cycle of ‘nakbas’

The most important facts about the latest violence in the Middle East were the ones that were left out of The New York Times’ sidebar explainer published in the wake of a series of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. “What Is Islamic Jihad and Why Is Israel Targeting It?” by correspondent Raja Abdulrahim did contain some pertinent facts. Among them were that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—the second-largest Palestinian “armed group”—has an uneasy relationship with the much bigger Hamas, also based in the coastal enclave; and that both have been designated as terrorist organizations by the United States, and receive funding and arms from Iran.

Yet Abdulrahim’s explanation of the goal of Islamic Jihad was purposely vague. She left out the fact that it is an Islamist party that believes that the entire country—Israel and the territories—should be governed solely by Islamic law. Even more important, she wrote that it was created in the 1980s “to fight the Israeli occupation.” To most Times readers and consumers of other corporate media outlets, that sounds like the organization wants to end Israel’s “occupation” of Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), as well as Jerusalem. But for Palestinian Arabs, the phrase means something different.

When members of PIJ, or for that matter, those affiliated with its Hamas rivals or even the so-called “moderates” of Fatah—whose leaders corruptly run the Palestinian Authority— speak of “occupation,” they are not referring to those territories that Israel gained during the 1967 Six-Day War, and which the international community and the media wrongly describe as “Palestinian” rather than disputed. As far as PIJ is concerned, every inch of Israel is “occupied.” It regards the creation of the Jewish state 75 years ago as a nakba—a “catastrophe” or “disaster”—as well as a crime that must be expunged by violent struggle.

This is important because this coming weekend when the anniversary of Israel’s birth is commemorated, supporters of the Palestinians will be observing “Nakba Day.” For them, May 15—the day after Israel declared its independence on May 14, 1948—defines the Palestinian existence as a martyred people whose grievances must be nurtured and stoked until the Jewish state and the history of the last century are erased. The point of Palestinian politics is not to create a state alongside Israel or any other theoretically constructive goal. It is to create an endless series of events that are, in effect, mini-nakbas so as to keep their cause alive and fueled by rage at Israel’s ongoing ability to survive and thrive.

McCarthy Blocks Rashida Tlaib's Anti-Semitic Congressional Event

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy moved on Tuesday evening to block Michigan's Democratic congresswoman Rashida Tlaib from hosting an anti-Semitic congressional event planned for Wednesday, the speaker’s office confirmed to the Washington Free Beacon.

McCarthy told the Free Beacon that he intervened late Tuesday to reserve the Capitol Visitor Center space where Tlaib was set to host a Wednesday event to mourn Israel’s founding as a "catastrophe.' In its place, the speaker will lead a bipartisan briefing celebrating the 75th anniversary of the U.S.-Israel relationship.

"It’s wrong for members of Congress to traffic in anti-Semitic tropes about Israel," McCarthy told the Free Beacon. "As long as I’m Speaker, we are going to support Israel’s right to self-determination and self-defense, unequivocally and in a bipartisan fashion."

The anti-Semitic ‘Squad’ member came under fire this week after the Free Beacon reported that she would host the event alongside an array of anti-Israel groups, including some that have defended terrorism. Tlaib’s event was meant to celebrate the "Nakba," a Palestinian term for the creation of Israel that loosely translates as "catastrophe."

It is unclear how Tlaib and her supporters will move forward with the event now that McCarthy has occupied their meeting space. Tlaib, or another member, could potentially attempt to reschedule the event for a later date.

McCarthy’s intervention comes on the heels of a letter sent Tuesday evening by a rabbinical group asking leaders in the House and Senate to condemn Tlaib’s event.

"It is unsurprising but appalling that the featured speaker at this event will be a Member of Congress who describes the only Middle Eastern country to give equality and voting rights to both Jews and Arabs as ‘apartheid,’" the Coalition for Jewish Values, a pro-Israel advocacy organization comprised of more than 2,000 rabbis, wrote in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by the Free Beacon. "We hope that our request will meet with your favorable response, and that you will condemn this event in the strongest terms as soon as possible."

Tlaib was scheduled to headline the anti-Israel event with several organizations that support the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an anti-Semitic effort to wage economic war on Israel. They include Jewish Voice for Peace, a "radical anti-Israel activist group" that pushes the anti-Semitic Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement and has come under fire for glorifying Palestinian terrorism. Other organizers include Emgage Action, another BDS supporter that claims Israel is an "apartheid state," and Americans for Justice in Palestine Action, an advocacy group that claims Jewish money is infecting politics.

The invitation for Wednesday's event accuses "Zionist militias" of violently expelling Palestinians from the region when Israel was created in 1948, and maintains that Israel continues to brutalize Palestinians.

This event in the US Capitol is canceled.

Instead, I will host a bipartisan discussion to honor the 75th anniversary of the US-Israel relationship. https://t.co/s6YXltFOhu
— Kevin McCarthy (@SpeakerMcCarthy) May 10, 2023

How Rep Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba Event Hurts the Palestinians

Brooke Goldstein, who heads The Lawfare Project and co-founded End Jew Hatred, tweeted: “It’s one thing to spew hateful rhetoric, it’s another to use US Congress to do so. Rashida Tlaib [shouldn’t] be permitted to hold a ‘Nakba Day’ event on US Congress property.”

As far as I can tell, however, no one has challenged using the word “catastrophe” to describe the impact Israel has had on Arabs. That word is not just hateful rhetoric; it’s highly misleading.

For many Arabs living in Israel today, a more accurate word would be Fursa, or opportunity.

A March 2022 report on Israel’s Arab population from the prestigious Israel Democracy Institute concluded that:

“Arab society in Israel is being revolutionized by the rise in the standard of living, life expectancy and education, along with the decline in fertility rates, changes to family structures, and an increasing desire to realize individual aspirations at the expense of collective values.”

In other words, Arabs living in the Jewish state today have rights, freedoms and opportunities they would be hard pressed to find in Arab nations of the region, where authoritarianism is the rule.

How is that a catastrophe?

Rep. Tlaib knows that she must hide this good news at all cost. It would undermine her narrative to make Israel the chronic oppressor and the Palestinians the chronic victims. She knows that as long as she can associate Israel with the word Nakba, she wins. The problem, of course, is that her people lose.

By freezing history in 1948, she freezes the helpless status of her people and gives them no hope. By covering up the remarkable progress that has occurred for Arab Israelis over the decades, she keeps her people frozen in time, paralyzed by the drug of permanent grievance.

If she truly wanted what’s best for her people, her message would be not one of catastrophe but one of opportunity. For starters, she would urge Palestinian leadership to do for Palestinians what Israel has done for Arab Israelis. In fact, if every Arab nation would treat their own people the way Israel treats its Arab minority, it would transform the region.

Tlaib’s no fool. She knows all that. She sees Arabs graduate from the top medical schools in Israel, she sees Arabs on the Israeli Supreme Court and Arab representatives yell with the best of them in the Knesset. She knows that the Nakba of 1948 is really the Fursa of 2023.

Maybe next year, she could organize a Fursa Day and invite Arab Israelis to speak about the many opportunities they have enjoyed in Israel.

That would be a catastrophe only for those who hate Israel.

Dallas Public Library head: ‘Nakba’ event not approved; ‘will not take place’

The head of the Dallas public library system is denying that a library green-lit an upcoming exhibition about the nakba, the term Palestinians use to refer to the “catastrophe” of modern-day Israel’s establishment as a state in 1948. But links on the website of the J. Erik Jonsson Central Library, the system’s main library branch, show that it hosted a nakba event last year by the same group.

“The exhibit was not approved, and the organization posted the announcement without our knowledge. It will not take place,” Jo Giudice, director of the Dallas Public Library, told JNS of the 2023 iteration.

Asked about a similar event last year at the library, Giudice told JNS: “In researching it, we found that our policies already in place were not followed last year, and staff have been retrained.”

The library tries to “provide a platform for diverse voices and opinions, particularly those of disenfranchised communities,” Giudice added. “In our eagerness to be inclusive, we did not give the exhibit the scrutiny we should have. We have already begun the process of retraining staff on our policy and how to evaluate potential partnerships.”

From May 20 until Aug. 30, the Palestinian Youth Movement still claims on Facebook that it will host the exhibit, “75 Years of Resistance. 75 Years of Glory” at the central library branch.

Einstein and fellow string quartet members meet in his Princeton home to practice for a Waldorf-Astoria benefit (December 15, 1933) to raise money for German-Jewish refugees.

Einstein didn’t speak full sentences until he was five years old, but by the time he was six, he had mastered the violin. And while we think of Einstein as a scientist, he had two loves: science and music. So fond was he of his violin that he took it with him when he traveled, and named it/her “Lina.” “He seized any opportunity to immerse himself in music, playing with fellow scientists, people from his neighbourhood or anyone who offered him the chance. He took part in public and private concerts, played the organ at synagogues and on more than one occasion contributed with his music to raising funds for the Zionist cause,” wrote scientist and Einstein specialist Dr. Antonio Moreno González:

His favourite composers were Mozart, Bach, Schubert, Vivaldi, Corelli and Scarlatti. He was not so keen on Beethoven, whom he considered to be too dramatic and personal. He had varying opinions on other composers, but the one he most opposed was Wagner, although he did appreciate his contribution to the new forms of opera.

After work he would relax, sometimes playing in the kitchen so as not to bother the neighbours:

"First I improvise and if that doesn't help, I seek consolation in Mozart; but when I am improvising and I feel I am achieving something, I need the clear constructions of Bach to get to the end."

Albert Einstein as a young boy

Stories of Einstein making and being inspired by music, abound. Mark Swed, classical music critic for the LA Times recounted one such story to mark the centenary of the birth of violinist Yehudi Menuhin:

Among the multitudes of famous anecdotes about violinist Yehudi Menuhin [is] the one about his celebrated Berlin debut in 1929. Backstage after the concert, Albert Einstein told the 13-year-old American prodigy, who had just played concertos by Bach, Beethoven and Brahms with Bruno Walter conducting: “Today, Yehudi, you have once again proved to me there is a god in heaven.”

During another centenary celebration, this time for the 100^th anniversary of E=mc2, the NY Times featured a piece by Arthur I. Miller, a professor specializing in the history and philosophy of science, describing in detail Einstein’s intense love of music. Based on Miller’s description, Einstein saw music as something perfect and likely celestial—much the way he regarded science:

Einstein once said that while Beethoven created his music, Mozart's "was so pure that it seemed to have been ever-present in the universe, waiting to be discovered by the master." Einstein believed much the same of physics, that beyond observations and theory lay the music of the spheres -- which, he wrote, revealed a "pre-established harmony" exhibiting stunning symmetries. The laws of nature, such as those of relativity theory, were waiting to be plucked out of the cosmos by someone with a sympathetic ear.

Discovering Mozart, according to Miller, changed everything for Einstein:

Einstein was fascinated by Mozart and sensed an affinity between their creative processes, as well as their histories.

As a boy Einstein did poorly in school. Music was an outlet for his emotions. At 5, he began violin lessons but soon found the drills so trying that he threw a chair at his teacher, who ran out of the house in tears. At 13, he discovered Mozart's sonatas.

The result was an almost mystical connection, said Hans Byland, a friend of Einstein's from high school. "When his violin began to sing," Mr. Byland told the biographer Carl Seelig, "the walls of the room seemed to recede -- for the first time, Mozart in all his purity appeared before me, bathed in Hellenic beauty with its pure lines, roguishly playful, mightily sublime."

A teenaged Einstein

In fact it was the music of Mozart, suggests Miller, that helped Einstein push past the difficulties to birth his famous theory of relativity:

In his struggles with extremely complicated mathematics that led to the general theory of relativity of 1915, Einstein often turned for inspiration to the simple beauty of Mozart's music.

"Whenever he felt that he had come to the end of the road or into a difficult situation in his work, he would take refuge in music," recalled his older son, Hans Albert. "That would usually resolve all his difficulties."

In the end, Einstein felt that in his own field he had, like Mozart, succeeded in unraveling the complexity of the universe.

A delegation of the Israel Philharmonic honors Albert Einstein in Princeton US 1951

Einstein enjoyed playing with the greats and they apparently returned the sentiment. Anecdotes from famous musicians, proud to have played with the physicist, abound. Miller’s piece ends with one such reminiscence:

At a 1979 concert for the centenary of Einstein's birth, the Juilliard Quartet recalled having played for Einstein at his home in Princeton, N.J. They had taken quartets by Beethoven and Bartok and two Mozart quintets, said the first violinist, Robert Mann, whose remarks were recorded by the scholar Harry Woolf.

After playing the Bartok, Mann turned to Einstein. "It would give us great joy," he said, "to make music with you." Einstein in 1952 no longer had a violin, but the musicians had taken an extra. Einstein chose Mozart's brooding Quintet in G minor.

"Dr. Einstein hardly referred to the notes on the musical score," Mr. Mann recalled, adding, "while his out-of-practice hands were fragile, his coordination, sense of pitch, and concentration were awesome."

He seemed to pluck Mozart's melodies out of the air.

Another historic accounting of Einstein’s musical prowess come by way of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. In its April mailer, the American Friends of the Israel Philharmonic marked 68 years since the passing of Albert Einstein, noting his critical involvement in the founding of the orchestra. American Friends citing a 2009 Boston Globe article quoted then 95-year-old Raphael Hillyer, famed violist and former member of the Juilliard String Quartet:

“In the 1950’s, the Juilliard Quartet played a concert in Princeton, and while we were there, we were invited to play for Albert Einstein. After playing Bartók’s 6th quartet which Einstein said sounded like late Beethoven the quartet coaxed him into playing a quintet with us. He played second violin while our second violinist switched to viola.

Somewhere in the slow movement, things went awry, and the performance stopped.

One of the greatest scientific minds of his era confessed that he had gotten lost.

'I never could count,' Einstein said."

Bartók’s string quartet no. 6 as performed by the Juilliard Quartet in 1963:

The famous delay in Einstein’s ability to speak is today a recognized phenomenon known as (what else?) Einstein Syndrome. Children with Einstein Syndrome are late to speak but gifted in other areas, particularly those requiring analytical thought. Much like Einstein himself, kids with this syndrome eventually speak fluently and with no sign of any previous difficulties with speech.

With Einstein, speech was slow to come, and it was only with music that he found his voice. The violin, his “Lina,” was the medium he chose to inspire him to untangle the mysteries of the world. Alas, in 1950, Einstein’s doctor ordered him to stop playing the violin, at which point the scientist turned to an upright Bechstein piano for comfort. Lina, he left to his grandson Bernhard Caesar, the son of his son Hans Albert.

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Lebanese hotel that hosted the UN Palestine committee in1947

It isn't politically correct to point this out, but Palestinian Arabs and their supporters tend to exaggerate.

A lot.

Everything that happens to them is the worst injustice or tragedy or catastrophe in human history. Any other news story must be subsumed under or hijacked to their eternal victimhood.

The word "nakba" is a perfect example. It obviously was bad for 600,000 Palestinian Arabs to become suddenly stateless, but coming on the heels of World War II - when some 40-60 million people were displaced - this is a footnote.

The partition of India, the same year as the "nakba," displaced some 20 million people and resulted in the deaths of as many as 2 million people. Some 100,000 women were kidnapped or raped.

The "nakba" narrative was made up afterwards to make Palestinian suffering appear to be one of the worst human rights catastrophes in history, and the people who created that narrative were quite aware that this was not close to true.

But another example, which is quite comical, of Palestinian exaggeration for their suffering came in 1947, before their displacement.

Speaking on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs at a UN meeting in Lebanon in July 1947, Saudi Arabia delegate Fouad Hamza said, "Never in the history of human conflicts have any people or country suffered an injustice so grave as the injustice and calamities suffered by the Arabs of Palestine. "

The idea of a Jewish state existing - even a tiny one - was considered to be one of the worst tragedies in human history.

He said this before a single Palestinian Arab left their home.

While this appears humorous now, it points out what the real "nakba" is according to Palestinians and their allies in the Arab world. It has nothing to do with losing homes, or property or becoming refugees. No, the "nakba" was - and is -that the weak, dhimmi Jews carved out a small country in what they considered Arab lands. .

The very existence of Israel is a reminder that the Arabs were humiliated. In the Arab world, that is the worst fate possible, worse than death. All the other reasons given for calling it a "nakba" fall apart with the slightest scrutiny of comparing it against real catastrophes that happen every year. Muslims and Arabs have lost lots of wars in the centuries beforehand and the decades afterwards, but no one called them "nakbas." They'd become refugees before and since - 5.5 million Syrians were displaced in the past decade - but no one calls that a "nakba."

The reason why Palestinian refugees have not been absorbed in neighboring countries is because of that humiliation. Palestinians remind the Arabs of the victory by the dhimmi Jews.

The "nakba" is driven by shame. Everything else is window dressing.

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