Sunday, August 13, 2023
- Sunday, August 13, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
Saturday, August 12, 2023
Iran close to testing nuclear weapons for first time - European intel
The Islamic Republic of Iran is close to possibly testing a nuclear weapons device and has sought to obtain illicit technology for its active atomic weapons program, according to a series of shocking European intelligence reports released in 2023.Colonel Richard Kemp: Iran is a threat to the UK, not only to Israel
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) first published translations of the intelligence documents on its website. The Jerusalem Post is the first Israeli newspaper to report on the intelligence findings from the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany.
The most unsettling revelation from the batch of intelligence data comes from the Netherlands General and Intelligence Security Service (AVID).
The AVID determined the Iranian regime’s fast-moving development of weapons-grade uranium "brings the option of a possible Iranian first nuclear test closer."
According to the Dutch intelligence report, "Last year, Iran proceeded with its nuclear program. The country continues to increase stocks of 20% and 60% enriched uranium. By means of centrifuges, this can be used for further enrichment to the 90% enriched uranium needed for a nuclear weapon."
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The AVID report added "Iran is further ignoring the agreements that were made within the framework of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). And by deploying increasingly more sophisticated uranium enrichment centrifuges it is enlarging its enrichment capacity."
The European reports mainly cover Iran’s alleged illicit conduct in 2022.
The Swedish Security Service wrote in its annual report in 2023 that "Iran engages in industrial espionage, which is mainly aimed at the Swedish high-tech industry and Swedish products that can be used in nuclear weapons program."
Germany’s Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV)—the country’s federal domestic intelligence agency—said in its report "The authorities for the protection of the constitution were able to find, in 2022, a consistently high number of indications of proliferation relevant procurement attempts by Iran for its nuclear programs.”
The German domestic intelligence agency defines proliferation as "the activities of foreign powers (that) also include procuring products and knowledge for the production of weapons of mass destruction, their delivery systems, other armaments or elements of new weapon systems."
On top of this incitement to violent jihad and propagation of hate, the Jewish Chronicle revealed in June that at least 11 British universities have been collaborating with Iranian engineers on research that has potential military applications, including developing faster, high-altitude drone engines, upgraded fighter jets and battlefield armour plating as well as technology that could allow hundreds of swarming drones to be operated simultaneously using lasers.Netanyahu Slams Reported Nuclear Agreement Between US, Iran
This latter activity may well be illegal under current sanctions against the IRGC, involving as it does IRGC-linked establishments and one must hope it is under investigation by the authorities. But the Islamic Student Association is not breaking the law by hosting IRGC commanders while the group remains un-designated, although the speakers’ incitement to violence — promoted and disseminated by the ISA — may breach existing UK counterterrorism legislation.
Such platforms could be immediately denied to the IRGC by its designation as a terrorist group. So why has the British government failed to take action while the IRGC plans terrorist attacks on its territory and at the same time works to radicalise students in Britain?
Firstly, like the U.S., it remains wedded to the folly of re-establishing a nuclear deal with Iran, and in pursuit of that dangerous objective remains set on appeasing the ayatollahs. Although the IRGC was labelled a terrorist entity by the previous U.S. administration in 2019, the White House has made no effort to get its allies to follow suit, and perhaps is even encouraging Britain to hold back, given Biden’s enthusiasm for re-kindling the deal.
Secondly, in view of the all-pervading centrality of the IRGC in Iran, its designation would amount to branding the whole regime as a terrorist entity, which is of course the reality. London fears this would cause a break-down of diplomatic relations that would lead to closure of the embassy in Tehran, with potential impact on intelligence operations in the country. That argument has greater validity than craving a deeply flawed nuclear deal, given Iran’s malign influence in the region and across the world, but is outweighed by the immense advantages of curtailing the IRGC’s murderous activities.
Unfortunately, Britain has a track record of misjudgement and weakness in this field. Just as the present government seems to be bending over backwards to mollify Iran, its predecessors made similar mistakes in the 1990s. Back then there was an unspoken policy of tolerating Islamic extremist facilitation of terrorism overseas as well as radicalising activities in the UK.
The misguided and morally indefensible hope was that with this indulgence they would not turn their guns on us. Despite many years of pressure among our allies and some at home, and the discovery of the bomb factory in London in 2015, the government also failed to designate the entirety of Lebanese Hezbollah until 2019. Apart from anything else, designating the IRGC is a logical extension of that belated decision, given it is they who set Hezbollah up, fund and arm it and direct all of its terrorist attacks.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday harshly criticized a reported agreement between the US and Iran, whereby the Islamic Republic would slow down its uranium enrichment program in exchange for the easing of sanctions.
“Israel’s position is known,” read a statement from Netanyahu’s office.
“According to it, agreements that do not dismantle Iran’s nuclear infrastructure will not put a stop to its nuclear program. In fact, they only grants the Iranian regime money that will then go to Iran’s terror proxies,” the statement read.
On Friday, the Wall Street Journal reported that Iran “significantly” slowed down the rate at which it accumulated enriched uranium, as well as diluting its stockpile, amid a release of four U.S. citizens to house arrest by Tehran’s regime
There also appeared to be broader agreements between the U.S. and Iran, two Israeli officials told The New York Times. Both American newspapers pointed out that there could be a resumption of talks on Iran’s nuclear program.
Friday, August 11, 2023
White supremacist charged with threatening jurors, witnesses in Tree of Life trial
Federal agents arrested a West Virginia man on Thursday for allegedly threatening jurors and witnesses in the trial of the Pittsburgh synagogue shooter, which culminated last week in a death sentence.Senior police officer responsible for ‘faith relations’ addressed IRGC linked group
The man who was arrested, Hardy Lloyd, 45, is “a self-proclaimed ‘reverend’ of a white supremacy movement,” according to a statement from the US Attorney’s office in the northern district of West Virginia. The statement said Lloyd “made threatening social media posts, website comments, and emails towards the jury and witnesses during the trial.” He is charged with obstruction of justice, witness tampering and transmitting threats in interstate and foreign commerce.
“Jury trials are a hallmark of the American justice system and attempts to intimidate witnesses or jurors will be met with a strong response,” US Attorney William Ihlenfeld said in the statement. “The use of hateful threats in an effort to undermine a trial is especially troubling.”
The Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh welcomed the arrest. It said Lloyd had also targeted survivors of the 2018 attack, the victims’ families and employees of the federation and Secure Community Network, a nonprofit that coordinates security for Jewish institutions.
“The offender in this case targeted the Jewish community for years with hate, vitriol and calls for violence,” Michael Masters, the CEO of the Secure Community Network, said in a statement. “The offender sought to terrorize the community. We now seek justice and accountability.”
According to the federation and Masters’ group, Lloyd extolled Robert Bowers, the man who carried out the attack at the Tree of Life synagogue building, killing 11 worshipers.
Lloyd’s statements allegedly referred to Squirrel Hill, the neighborhood where the shooting took place, which has a reputation for being tight-knit and friendly. It was also the home neighborhood of the late Fred Rogers, the longtime children’s TV host.
“All jews must be murdered. The jew race MUST be wiped out…So, target jews as BOWERS did …” one of Lloyd’s threats allegedly read, according to the federation and Secure Community Network. They said another of his threats read, “make the myths of Hitler seem like Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood … start kidnapping jews and torturing them to death.”
Wheeling, West Virginia, Lloyd’s hometown, is within commuting distance from Pittsburgh. Lloyd allegedly left stickers in heavily Jewish areas of Pittsburgh directing people to his website.
A Police Officer whose role is to engage with faith groups has refused to say if he carried out checks before agreeing to appear as a guest speaker at a UK students group now linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).Banned jihadi group in push to ‘infiltrate’ UK campuses
The group, the Islamic Students Association of Britain, has hosted a series of speeches by commanders of the IRGC who have been sanctioned by the UK government for human rights abuses. The speeches included calls to join an “apocalyptic war” on Jews.
Inspector Arfan Rahouf, North Yorkshire Police’s Operational Lead for Faith and Belief, this week failed to respond when asked if he had carried out any due diligence before giving a speech to the group shortly after it praised a top IRGC general, killed in an airstrike, as a martyr.
A JC investigation has revealed how the organisation, based in Hammersmith, west London, hosted speeches by officials from the IRGC urging the audience to “raise the flag of the Islamic revolution, Islam and martyrdom”. The addresses also urged students to see themselves as “holy warriors” and bring an end to the “era of the Jews”.
Rahouf gave an online talk to the group, which has branches on university campuses across Britain, on “Racism and Islamophobia” three years ago.
Later that same year, the student group also hosted one of the leaders of the IRGC’s notorious plainclothes division which is responsible for the arrest, torture and murder of dissidents. In that online talk, Hossein Yekta urged UK-based students to raise the flag of the Islamic revolution and to embrace martyrdom.
In the same period the Islamic Students Association of Britain also hosted Ezzatollah Zarghami, who talked about his role taking 52 Americans hostage in Iran in 1979. Zarghami, now a member of Iran’s hardline cabinet, was sanctioned by the UK for his role in broadcasting “forced confessions of detainees and a series of show trials” as head of the country’s state-run TV channel.
UK activists affiliated to a notorious jihadi group that advocates the violent destruction of Israel have been covertly returning to speak on UK campuses despite being banned from universities, the JC can reveal.
Prominent members of the British branch of Hizb ut-Tahrir, whose stated goal is to establish a global Muslim caliphate governed by sharia law, have been the keynote speakers at ten separate events at universities in the last 18 months.
Union-affiliated Islamic societies have run the events at universities including Bradford, Birmingham and the London School of Economics (LSE) without publicising the speakers’ links to Hizb ut-Tahrir and despite a longstanding ban on the Islamist group by the National Union of Students.
It is unclear whether any of the Islamic Societies involved were aware of the speakers’ afflilations to Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The speakers have included Luqman Muqeem, who has also posted videos online in which he says Muslims must fight Jews to the death and that the only Jewish “promised land” is hell.
Muqeem, who is featured prominently on Hizb ut-Tahrir’s website, has spoken on campus at least six times since November 2021, giving five talks at Birmingham University and another at the University of Bradford.
A mechanical engineering graduate who lives in Stoke on Trent, he has consistently expressed extremist views online, voicing support for the attack on The Satanic Verses author Sir Salman Rushdie.
Rushdie was left in life-threatening condition and lost an eye and the use of one hand when he was attacked on stage in New York by a knifeman last year.
In response, Muqeem said: “We should feel zero pity for anyone who spent a lifetime mocking and insulting the prophets of Allah.”
He also shared a video of Hizb ut-Tahrir activist Belal Mohammed calling for a jihad to “wipe out the Zionist entity”, commenting that this was a “powerful message from the UK”.
Publicity for his talks did not mention his role with Hizb ut-Tahrir, simply referring to him as Brother Luqman Muqeen and mentioning his previous position with the Aston University Islamic society.
- Friday, August 11, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- anti-Zionist Jews, blame Jews, indigenous, LGBTQ2S, memes, Poster, whataboutism
- Friday, August 11, 2023
- Ian
- Linkdump, Mordechai Kedar
A Not-So-Secret Conspiracy - The EU Encourages Palestinians to Violate the Oslo Accords
This is Part 2 of a 10-part series exposing the underreported joint European and Palestinian program to bypass international law and establish a de facto Palestinian state on Israeli land.Mark Regev: Peace with Saudi Arabia is a real possibility
The brutal wave of Palestinian terror attacks in 2000, which claimed the lives of over 1,000 Israelis in what came to be known as the Second Intifada, had a transformative effect on Israeli public opinion. It discredited the argument of the Israeli peace camp that by ceding land, Israel could buy peace.
Salim Fayyad, then the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority, recognized that terrorism had failed to break the Israeli spirit, and he needed a new plan. That plan was to build. Despite valid fears that Israeli authorities would immediately destroy any illegally erected structures in Area C, the Palestinians went ahead.
When the Europeans saw how Israeli leadership ignored much of the initial construction and understood what their protected Palestinian wards could get away with, they became massively involved, encouraging the Palestinians to build as if there were no Oslo Accords and guaranteeing legal assistance in the event that Israel enforced the law.
First, the European Union established consultancy offices of permanent representation in Ramallah (de facto embassies, but for a state that does not exist), and together with the PA developed multiple master plans to build infrastructure, roads, schools and other puzzle pieces that, when completed, would connect to form an uninterrupted band of Arab territory.
The EU also trained Palestinians in the use of advanced technology and helped to modernize their bureaucracy, essential tasks in order to overcome the conservative, tribal nature of Arab societies. This social model traditionally adhered to by the Palestinians is one factor in why they have failed to create a modern state, despite receiving more humanitarian aid than any group in history.
Dr. Yishai Spivak is an investigative researcher with Ad Kan, an Israeli nonprofit that studies organizations and trends that harm Israel’s sovereignty and Zionist identity.
“It wasn’t just about the Europeans throwing money at the Palestinians or teaching them to build single structures,” he explains. “It was about teaching them how to think about the other families so they could cooperate and share land. Fayyad had the vision. The EU led him by the hand and gave the vision a soul.”
Since 2009, the Europeans have invested anywhere from hundreds of millions to over 1 billion euros in Area C Palestinian development in the form of legal assistance, aid to administration and planning efforts, and direct subsidies for construction.
While Washington has been reticent to go down that route, Riyadh has a powerful argument: If America is willing to acquiesce to Iran, a professed enemy of the West, operating a “civilian” nuclear program, why can’t a loyal friend build a similar capability? (Many assume that the Saudis want a developed nuclear infrastructure for the eventuality that Tehran crosses the threshold).Dubowitz: $6b ransom to Iran will lead to more terrorism, hostages
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared Jerusalem-Riyadh normalization a key goal of his government, knowing full well it would be a geopolitical game-changer. The kingdom’s special status across the Arab world almost guarantees that additional Arab countries, who have been sitting on the fence, would follow Riyadh’s lead.
Moreover, Saudi Arabia enjoys a unique leadership role in the 57-nation Organization of Islamic Cooperation. If the kingdom was to make peace with Israel, Muslim-majority countries – from Southeast Asia to Sub-Saharan Africa – could follow suit.
While appreciating that relations with Riyadh would spur additional normalizations, many in Israel will remain wary about the kingdom having unfettered access to advanced US weaponry, as they surely will be over the idea of a Saudi nuclear program.
Of paramount importance is a parallel Jerusalem-Washington dialogue on the parameters and safeguards governing any nuclear development, as well as ensuring that the Saudi military upgrade will not adversely affect the IDF’s qualitative military edge (QME) to which the US is committed.
Presumably, the Palestinian issue cannot be sidelined. But if the Saudis once placed an Israeli withdrawal to the pre-1967 lines and the establishment of a Palestinian state as preconditions for normalization, today Riyadh is in a very different place.
While the kingdom is no longer willing to accept a Palestinian veto over its foreign policy, a deal may nonetheless necessitate Israeli concessions in the West Bank.
Netanyahu might be asked to publicly rule out any unilateral annexations, proclaim an openness to the possibility of eventual Palestinian statehood, and even limit settlement construction.
Although difficult, these sorts of steps are neither unprecedented nor impossible: In exchange for diplomatic relations with the UAE in 2020, Netanyahu shelved plans for annexation. He gave qualified acceptance of Palestinian statehood in his June 2009 Bar-Ilan speech, and more recently in his championing of Trump’s January 2020 “Deal of the Century” Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. He could also revisit the understanding of settlement growth discussed with the Trump White House.
Of course, while Netanyahu can be expected to rise to the occasion, it is not clear that all his coalition partners will go along too.
Washington reached a deal with Tehran on Thursday to release five Iranian Americans, whom the Islamic Republic detained evidently on trumped-up charges. In exchange for the five being released to house arrest, the United States freed up $6 billion worth of Iranian oil and released Iranian prisoners.
Mark Dubowitz, CEO of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, applauded the release of the unjustly detained prisoners, though said it comes at a very high cost, which could be counterproductive.
“Paying $6 billion in ransom payments means the regime will only take more hostages. This has become a lucrative means of international extortion for Iran’s supreme leader,” Dubowitz wrote in an FDD analysis.
The Islamic Republic won’t use that $6 billion for humanitarian work, he predicted.
“In the real world, where cash is fungible, it will free up $6 billion to be used for terrorism, funding drones for Russia, domestic repression and nuclear-weapons expansion,” he wrote. “Only when the regime is severely punished for illegally seizing hostages, not rewarded with billions in ransom payments, will it put a stop to these humanitarian abuses.”
Richard Goldberg, a senior adviser at FDD, agreed. “This is not a prisoner exchange; it’s the largest hostage ransom payment in American history,” he wrote. “This money isn’t for humanitarian relief; it’s budget support to the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.”
In a statement on Thursday, Adrienne Watson, spokeswoman for the National Security Council, called it “encouraging” that Siamak Namazi, Morad Tahbaz and Emad Shargi (and two Americans who did not want to be named) were released to house arrest. She noted that the five individuals should never have been detained at all.
“We will continue to monitor their condition as closely as possible,” she stated. “We will not rest until they are all back home in the United States.”
- Friday, August 11, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1939, American antisemitism, analysis, antisemitism, Charles Owen Rice, justifying antisemitism, normalizing antisemitism, Opinion, What has changed?
Rev. Charles Owen Rice |
This article from JTA, published in September 1939, sounds like it could have been written today in regard to "anti-Zionists."
Priest Assails Those Who Say They Are Not. Opposed to "Good Jews."PITTSBURGH—Those who mask their anti-Semitism with the assertion that they are not opposed to "good Jews" were assailed by the Rev. Charles Owen Rice in an address he delivered yesterday at St. Joseph House of Hospitality here."One of the features connected with the present wave of anti-Semitism that is being stirred up is that some of the leading purveyors of anti-Semitism hotly deny that they are anti-Semites," he said. "They employ a clever sophistry in their attempts to escape the stigma. They define anti-Semitism in a certain restricted sense and then they claim that their teachings and utterances -do not bring them under the term. ""For instance, these enemies of the Jew will define anti-Semitism as persecution of the Jew because he is a Jew. They will hold that because, to their anti-Jewish attacks, they affix a rider saying that they exempt good Jews, therefore, they are automatically absolved of anti-Semitism. ""As a matter of fact the unctuous employment of the 'good Jews' qualifier generally intensifies that anti-Semitism of the statements as whole. Also we can have attacks upon Jews, as Jews, without direct statements. The brutal crude, direct anti-Semitic utterances, are far less harmful than the subtle ones."Off hand I can give a partial list of some of the more commonly used anti-Semitic statements and inferences."It is anti-Semitism to exaggerate the power of Jews, whether it be power in finance, in industry, in newspaper publishing, in radio or anything else."It is anti-Semitism to say or hint there is a mysterious central controlling Jewish, national or international. leadership."It is anti-Semitism to exaggerate the clannishness of Jews."It is anti-Semitism to speak of deliberate controlled Jewish campaigns against Christianity."It is anti-Semitic to exaggerate Jewish participation in Communism and similar movements."It is anti-Semitism to hint at, or charge, a tie-up between 'International Jewry' and International Masonry. The very term 'International Jewry' has definite ant-Semitic implications."You will note that these effective types of anti-Semitism consist of lies. and exaggerations. Their harmfulness consists in their engendering a feeling of mixed fear and anger in the breasts of non-Jews. All of them have been proved false. They are damnably un-American, un -Christian and anti-social."
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- Friday, August 11, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- Arab antisemitism, conspiracy theories, Egypt, Jews control the world, Muslim antisemitism, PEZ, revisionist history, Sameh Basioony, The Protocols, Youm7
One review says that as Barabas "breathes his last, in a concluding scene, he affirms that he 'will not end' and many will come after him to realize the great (eternal) dream of 'ruling the world.'"
Marlowe's play has no such text.
Which means that the director modified the play to ensure that its message was one of a Jewish plot to control the world.
The show reviews Zionist deceptions and control of the world through the character of Barabas, the cunning rich man who lives on the island of Malta and works to spread the wedge between the Christian governor of Malta and the Turks. His plots were not limited to only them, rather, they extended to the split between countries, and he succeeds in that.
The antisemitic (and anti-Zionist) message of the play is being received loudly and clearly by Egyptian audiences.
- Friday, August 11, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1920-1948 Palestine is Israel, 1947, 1948, British Mandate, denying Jewish history, hijacking, history, ignoring terror, NGO lies, revisionist history, UN, UN antisemitism, United Nations, UNSCOP
The UN has a webpage where it shows a timeline on the "Question of Palestine."
Thursday, August 10, 2023
The architects of the Abraham Accords have been vindicated
One of the defining principles of the Abraham Accords was that by expanding peace in the region, and specifically normalizing relations with Israel, your country's relationship with the US would be elevated. To date, the verdict on that is still out.Not very reasonable: Leaving Israel for New Zealand over the reasonableness clause
If the Biden administration wants to expand and enhance the Accords, they can take the following immediate steps: The heads of state of each signatory nation should be invited for a special ceremony of recognition. This can be accomplished in or around UN week. If this cannot be accomplished in that time span, then each ambassador from the signatory nations should be invited to the State of the Union and the president should recognize them by name and accomplishment. I am confident that the loud and sustained unanimous standing ovation will be heard not just on US broadcasts but in the capitals of those who have made peace and, just as importantly, those who have not yet made peace.
The Abraham Fund should be immediately restarted, less to invest US capital than to convene all the signatory nations to see how favorable trade and investments with the US can help to pay the dividend for peace.
Finally, the next ministerial meeting of the Negev Summit should be hosted in Washington, D.C. and an immediate announcement made of this decision. Peace cannot and should not wait for any democracy's domestic challenges. Hosting the meeting in the US will show that our alliance with Israel and our commitment to the Abraham Accords transcend politics – ours and the Israelis'. As the only other democracy in the accords, we have an obligation to consistently stand by and support Israel, as we should expect them to do the same for us.
A Saudi-Israel deal will happen, in the next 90 days or in the next five years, but it will happen, and it should be one of the watershed moments in all of world history. For it to have the dramatic impact that it should, it must be an American policy. To ensure that this breakthrough will be met with enthusiasm on both sides of the aisle, the time to make the Abraham Accords US policy – not the policy of one party or another – is now. When the Accords expand, our allies win; and more importantly, we in the US win. To build for the future, it is important to invest in the present.
Israel has no constitution, and no law gives the court the power to veto Knesset legislation. The judicial reform would have, for the first time, actually provided legislative imprimatur to this Supreme Court power, but would require some supermajority of the justices. This would replace the current situation in which a three-person judicial panel, hand-picked by a Supreme Court president with an activist agenda, annuls legislation.
The campaign against judicial reform has two central mantras, recited with the absolute certainty of the most religious persons: The first is that the reforms will disgust and frighten away all of Israel’s business and investor base in the Western world, with catastrophic economic consequences; the second is that the reforms will turn Israel into a dictatorship. Both are patently false.
Nobody outside of Israel would have had the slightest interest or concern about the makeup of the committee that selects Israel’s judges, or the number of judges required to annul legislation, had it not been pounded into their heads by opponents of the legislation within Israel telling them that they should not only care, but also be mortified.
This past March, I was visited in Tel Aviv by a partner at a major London law firm. The conversation soon turned to what was going on in Israel, and the English lawyer asked about the major controversy. I asked him how many countries’ judicial selection processes he was familiar with, not including England. He thought a bit and responded, “I have to say, only the United States, but now I also know about Israel’s.”
IT IS NOT that opponents of reform are exposing Israel’s dirty secrets. The only dirty matter is the blasphemous way every element of the reform is presented as the end of Israel’s democracy and the heralding of a dictatorship.
Why is the judicial system in New Zealand, like in most Western democracies, worse than Israel's
The vast majority of Western democracies give elected officials a dominant, if not exclusive, role in appointing judges. New Zealand is no exception. Those Israeli doctors seeking a professional haven in New Zealand will be practicing medicine in a country in which every Supreme Court judge is nominated by a politically appointed attorney-general. What of the supposed dictatorial consequences of requiring a supermajority among the judges to strike down legislation?
Doctors lamenting the coming dictatorship in Israel would find that in New Zealand, the courts cannot annul a law passed by parliament under any circumstances. And like Israel, New Zealand does not have a written constitution and has a single legislative house.
- Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- 1870, 1918, 1923, apartheid, apartheid lies, Arab apartheid, history, Lebanon, logical fallacy, maps of Palestine, whataboutism
Proof #619 that calling Israel "apartheid" is antisemitic:Lebanon treats Palestinians worse than Israel by every conceivable yardstick. Discrimination is enshrined in law. Yet no one accuses Lebanon of "apartheid."
- Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
- humor, Preoccupied
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The journal Justice, Indigeneity, Health, And Diversity (JIHAD) ran an article in the August 6 issue highlighting the peculiarities of Palestinian use of arson to resist Zionism, in which the authors asserted several counterintuitive data points: that the use of such fire, which has destroyed hundreds of acres of brush and woodland in Israel, along with unknown quantities of fauna, represents an authentic indigenous technique to combat the invader, presumably in this case foxes, jackals, hyraxes, several species of fallow deer, and hoopoe birds; that atmospheric pollution only counts when produced by Western countries, a hypothesis raised by other scientists in the context of China, but whose mechanism remains poorly understood; and that Palestinian arson produces potential ecological benefits, such as reduction of overpopulation, specifically of Jews, a problem that has plagued Palestinians and their allies since the 1930's.
"Our research found that Palestinian brush fires aimed at Israelis do not follow the typical 'rules,' if you will, of the wildfire phenomenon elsewhere," the article stated. "Whereas almost anywhere else, we seek to identify the cause of, mitigate, and prevent fires through efforts to reduce the climate change and the anthropogenic factors that contribute to it, in the case of Palestine, the opposite approach is indicated."
"Palestinians should be lighting more fires, burning more tires, sending more incendiary devices into Israeli kindergartens via kites and helium balloon," the authors urged. "Those measures will not only reinforce the embattled, endangered indigenous ways of knowing and resisting, which we know are of utmost importance in maintaining human diversity, but will, in fact, reduce carbon emissions, lower sea levels, bring back extinct species, replenish atmospheric ozone, dissolve the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, eliminate oceanic microplastics, increase worldwide recycling, filter out dioxins from the air, clear up pollutants from ground water, and render human energy production fully renewable by 2040."
"OK, maybe not all of those things, but they are more likely than a Palestinian state."
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JPost Editorial: Israel will unite in time of crisis We have been here before
The warning also comes against the backdrop of how the 2006 war with Hezbollah began. A month after Hamas launched an attack from Gaza in which Gilad Schalit was captured, Hezbollah launched an anti-missile attack on two armored Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border fence. The ambush killed three soldiers and two others – Sgt. Eldad Regev and Sgt. Ehud Goldwasser – were abducted by Hezbollah, which sparked the war.Eugene Kontorovich: Israeli Settlements Are Not Illegal- A response to Nathaniel Berman
Hezbollah strongman Hassan Nasrallah, emboldened by Israel’s departure from Lebanon in 2000 and by his organization’s belief that it could operate as it wished along the border, underestimated Israel’s response to the attack .
Gallant wants to make it clear that another ‘incident’ like that will be met with the same massive response from the IDF.
Gallant’s warning to Hezbollah also had another subtext. Amid the judicial reform protests that have been raging for seven months, thousands of IDF reservists have announced they will no longer volunteer for service, to express their opposition to the government’s plans.
Israel’s enemies are undoubtedly following the internal Israeli debate closely and might have the mistaken perception that the IDF is now vulnerable.
Gallant on Tuesday said that thinking that Israel can be tested during this time would be a grave mistake. At the same time, a senior IDF commander indicated in an interview this week that the division in the country is starting to have an impact on Israel’s military. “The IDF is ready for war, but there is limited harm in some areas,” Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari told Channel 12, mentioning the Israel Air Force as one branch that has been impacted by the reservists’ decision.
At the end of the day, however, if Israel were truly threatened – whether by Hezbollah or any of its other arch-enemies – there is little doubt that the country would mobilize, regardless of where reservists stand on the judicial overhaul.
In a crisis, there will be unity, and that is something Hezbollah would do well to bear in mind.
Appeals to scientific or expert consensus have in recent years played a significant part of the debate on contentious issues. For laymen, even the nature of the alleged consensus may be difficult to evaluate. Is it a consensus arrived at by experts of varied prior beliefs critically and independently approaching an issue without regard for the public policy implications of their conclusions, or is it one that reflects the self-replicating and conformity-inducing tendencies of academia?Deadly Costs of Biden’s Israel Policy
Appeals to authority and academic consensus feature prominently in professor Nathaniel Berman’s piece in these pages, “Israeli Settlements and International Law,” itself a response to Malkah Fleisher’s more personal reflections (“I Have a Right to Live in Judea and Samaria”) on the legitimacy of Jews living in the West Bank, or Judea and Samaria, to use two competing names for those areas of Mandatory Palestine ethnically cleansed of Jews by the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in 1948.
Everyone knows that “Israeli settlements” are controversial, and here is where international law comes in. Many take the position that even though Jewish resettlement of these lands was made possible by Israel’s taking control of them in 1967, the Jewish state must nonetheless enforce a ban—a cordon sanitaire, a Pale of Non-Settlement—on Jewish residence perfectly congruent with the zone of Jordanian ethnic cleansing, and lasting until such places might come again under the control of an Arab government committed to “not a single Israeli.” Put in such terms, the anti-settlement argument may not have a broad moral appeal, which is why authors like Berman seek to cast it as an incidental application of neutral rules, applicable around the world. Yet he fails to mention where else these rules are applied, because the answer is nowhere.
Berman appeals primarily to authority and consensus, claiming a wide variety of impressive-sounding international bodies, from the International Court of Justice to the International Criminal Court, that consider Jewish communities in the West Bank illegal. Don’t bother arguing the law, Berman suggests—the matter has been decided, with only a few kooks holding out. “The few international legal writers who depart from this consensus are primarily current or former officials of the Israeli government and a small number of right-wing Jewish writers in the diaspora. Their arguments have been soundly rejected by the rest of the international legal community,” Berman writes.
Consistent with a broader pattern of neglecting contrary evidence and attacking straw-man arguments, Berman fails to mention that the United States has formally adopted the legal view that Israeli settlements are not illegal—perhaps because this squarely contradicts his claim of a global consensus. The State Department announced its position in 2019, under President Donald Trump, but the Biden administration has not retracted it. This should not be surprising, because no U.S. government has taken the position that settlements are illegal.
Since coming to office, the Biden administration has directed more than a billion dollars to the Palestinian Authority, both directly and via UN organizations. Palestinian terrorism, meanwhile, has only intensified—as evidenced by the murder of an Israeli police officer in Tel Aviv last weekend. Victoria Coates and Congressman Chip Roy comment:
Contrary to the Washington establishment’s preconceived notions of what works in Israel, Trump-era policy proved that defunding the Palestinians for their venomous anti-America rhetoric and abuse of American funds to reward terrorists and their families does not in fact result in a significant spike in violence. This despite theoretically incendiary corollary policies such as moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem and recognizing the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory. Rather than stoking Palestinian violence, Trump’s policies led to the first peace deals between Israel and Arab states in 25 years.
Nonetheless, a top foreign-policy priority for the Biden administration was to reverse this progress and restore Palestinian funding, starting with $15 million in emergency coronavirus relief in March 2021.
In reality, Biden’s misguided policy has achieved almost the opposite of its aims. The last year has been the deadliest for both Israelis and Palestinians in decades. In Jenin, for example, which was the direct beneficiary of much of the UNRWA funding, the Palestinian Authority has lost security control and ceded space to Iranian-backed militants who packed the camp with fighters and weapons until the Israel Defense Forces moved in to clean them out.
- Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
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- Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
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If you are not Jewish, just because you don’t understand why something is antisemitic doesn’t mean its not. It means you need to educate yourself of the tropes, conspiracies, and hate Jews face.
If you are not Jewish, do not be cowed by racial supremacists who want to hector you into political subservience.Judeophobia barely exists these days.Educate yourself about Zionism and the tactics used by its adherents.Zionist propagandists like Hen Mazzig rely on 'standpoint theory' to fool naïve liberals and leftists into buying their lies.They say only Jews can define Judeophobia, based on their 'lived experience'.This is a denial of reality.Standpoint theory relies on the bizarre notion that people are magically qualified to speak about things via accident of birth, rather than observing material realities.Real anti-racism is rooted in looking at the facts.The facts:1. Jews are not discriminated against.2. They are over-represented in Europe, North America and Latin America in positions of cultural, economic and political power.3. They are therefore, in a position to discriminate against actually marginalised groups.
Jews are more loyal to Israel than to [this country/to the countries they live in]Jews have too much power in the business worldJews have too much power in international financial marketsJews still talk too much about what happened to them in the HolocaustJews don't care what happens to anyone but their own kindJews have too much control over global affairsJews have too much control over the United States governmentJews think they are better than other peopleJews have too much control over the global mediaJews are responsible for most of the world's warsPeople hate Jews because of the way Jews behave
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- Thursday, August 10, 2023
- Elder of Ziyon
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It is noted in many of the writings of media figures, and Arab intellectuals in general, that the hostility of the Jews to the Arabs and Muslims is limited to the occupation of Palestine. They ignore or forget the Jewish history of hostility to Islam and Muslims since the first cradle of Islam in Medina.This thing, the enmity of course, which the Messenger of God Muhammad, may God’s prayers and peace be upon him, suffered from continued, even at intermittent periods, between the Jewish plots of the Prophet’s time, to their multiple misfortunes in more than one Arab country, with the incitement of states and emirates against other states and emirates, as Arab history has proven in several previous stages up to the catastrophe of Palestine and the subsequent massacres and calamities that they perpetrated in Palestine, Syria, Egypt and in several other Arab countries. They take advantage of their multiple nationalities and use their hateful malice and cunning to corrupt the land, starting from the areas of their presence in the Arab and regional countries and even the rest of the world. The Jewish hostility to Arabs and Muslims began since the dawn of Islam and was completed at the collapse of the Ottoman Sultanate, leading to the occupation of our dear homeland, Palestine.Palestine leads its war against the Jews with all their black and volatile faces on behalf of the Arabs and Muslims. Despite this, many Arabs and Muslims think and may believe that limiting the hostility to the Jews to the occupation of Palestine makes the occupation of Palestine a Palestinian issue only, as if the Palestinians alone are concerned with defending Palestine and perhaps all Arabs and Muslims. This is contrary to the truth.. Since we all know that the occupation of Palestine is intended to strike our Arab unity and our Islamic nation..in addition to displacing our people and stealing their homeland and its Christian and Islamic sanctities, and that the occupation of Palestine is nothing but an extension of the crusaders’ fierce campaigns against the Arab nation and Islam together, and it is actually an extension of the hostility of Banu Qurayza...