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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

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Palestinian antisemitism, illustrated

Gaza-based cartoonist Bahaa Yaseen published this yesterday, the anniversary of the burning of Al Aqsa Mosque by a mentally ill Christian.

A Muslim woman prays "O Allah, protect our al-Aqsa" on a prayer mat with a pile of stones next to it.

A snake dressed as a Jew, with Stars of David on his skin, wearing a black hat, tallit and tefillin, with a flamethrower shofar, hisses at her.

Another snake, holding a Temple menorah and machine gun, is next to him.

Both of them are dreaming of burning down the mosque.

This is the same artist who, in 2015, published a cartoon showing a religious Jewish man raping a Palestinian woman and shooting a baby while a nearby PA soldier does nothing. Palestinians were scandalized - not by the Jew-hatred, but by the depiction of rape.

Usually the Western Israel haters deny any Palestinian antisemitism. When shown things like these, they often retreat back to "Can you blame the Palestinians for hating Jews?"

And from there is only a small step to "Can you blame us for hating Jews?"

(h/t @MoranT555)

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08/22 Links Pt1: Security Cabinet agrees to ‘target terrorists, those who dispatch them’; Did Abbas call to “escalate” deadly terror against Israelis?

From Ian:

Security Cabinet agrees to ‘target terrorists, those who dispatch them’

The Israeli Security Cabinet on Tuesday decided to take the fight directly to Palestinian terrorists amid a wave of deadly attacks.

“The Security Cabinet made a series of decisions to target terrorists and those who dispatch them and authorized the prime and defense ministers to act on the matter,” the Prime Minister’s Office said in a statement.

“The forum supports the commanders and soldiers of the IDF and security services in their activities against the terrorist elements,” it added.

The statement did not elaborate on the measures to be taken.

This smaller forum of Cabinet members is designed to make quick and effective decisions in times of crisis.

The meeting was brought forward a week after Arab terrorists on Monday gunned down Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old mother of three, in a drive-by shooting near Hebron. Her 12-year-old daughter, who was sitting beside her, was unhurt.

Another individual, identified as Aryeh Gottlieb, was seriously wounded in the attack. Gottlieb is being treated at Beersheva’s Soroka Medical Center, where his condition has been stabilized.

On Saturday, a Palestinian terrorist shot and killed two Israelis in Huwara, located just outside Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria. Ashdod residents Silas Nigrekar, 60, and his son, Aviad Nir, 28, were shot at point-blank range at a car wash in the Palestinian village.

Earlier Tuesday, Israeli forces arrested two Palestinians suspected of involvement in Nigri’s murder.

The suspects, named as Mohammed and Sarker Shantir, were captured in Hebron along with the M-16 rifle believed to have been used in the attack.

Judea and Samaria leaders protest at PM’s office over terror onslaught

Leaders of regional councils from Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley protested outside the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem on Tuesday, demanding tougher action against rampant terrorism that has claimed the lives of 35 people since January.

It was the first time that the regional council heads protested the right-wing government. Although Netanyahu’s coalition was expected to be tough on terrorism, it has struggled to contain the latest wave of attacks.

The protest came a day after Arab terrorists gunned down Batsheva Nigri, a 42-year-old mother of three, in a drive-by shooting near Hebron. Her 12-year-old daughter, who was sitting beside her, was unhurt.

On Saturday, a Palestinian terrorist shot and killed two Israelis in Huwara, located just outside Nablus (Shechem) in Samaria. Ashdod residents Silas Nigrekar, 60, and his son, Aviad Nir, 28, were shot at point-blank range at a car wash in the Palestinian village.

“The situation is intolerable. We demand a change in the approach to security. The continued rise in murderous terror incidents shows the current approach has failed and should be changed quickly,” the council leaders said in a joint statement.

Yesha Council Chairman and leader of the Gush Etzion Council Shlomo Ne’eman said during the protest: “We must define the Palestinian Authority that finances terrorism, teaches terrorism and organizes terrorism as an enemy in all respects and go to war.”

He said the residents of Judea and Samaria were ready to “absorb the battle” but were not prepared to be sitting ducks in a shooting gallery.

PMW: Did Abbas call to “escalate” deadly terror against Israelis?

When 14 Israelis had been murdered in what was later to be known as the “Knife Intifada” - a Palestinian terror wave in which 40 people were murdered – Palestinian Media Watch exposed that PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas defined this deadly Palestinian terror as “Peaceful popular uprising”:

Now Abbas is urging Palestinians to “escalate the peaceful popular resistance.” In other words - or rather, in his own words - he is calling for more deadly terror:
“The [PA] president [Mahmoud Abbas] expressed his appreciation for the heroes of the popular resistance over their activities, over the achievements that they have recorded in their struggle against the Israeli occupation authorities, and over their success in clearing a number of colonialist outposts. He emphasized that it is important to escalate the peaceful popular resistance to defend our people and our land.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 7, 2023]

PMW has documented that Abbas’ Fatah is doing all it can to profile itself as the movement leading terror against Israel. Fatah bragged that by April this year it had led 2,750 terror attacks as opposed to other terror organizations like Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which they claimed were doing nothing.

Since Abbas’ call to “escalate,” there has been a steady stream of Palestinian terror in which 4 Israelis have been murdered including 3 in the last few days.

The following is a longer excerpt of Abbas’ statement:
Headline: “The [PA] president emphasizes that it is important to escalate the peaceful popular resistance in order to defend our people and our land”

“[PA] President [Mahmoud Abbas] received the annual report of the [PA-controlled] Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall for 2022. This was while he received Director of the Committee to Resist Settlements and the Wall Minister Muayyad Sha’ban…

The president expressed his appreciation for the heroes of the popular resistance over their activities, over the achievements that they have recorded in their struggle against the Israeli occupation authorities, and over their success in clearing a number of colonialist outposts. He emphasized that it is important to escalate the peaceful popular resistance (i.e., Palestinian term that also refers to the use of violence and terror) to defend our people and our land.”

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Aug. 7, 2023]

From JTA last week:

Pro-Palestinian protesters injured a university employee while demonstrating against a lecture speaker who heads the Brazilian chapter of a pro-Israel advocacy group.

Andre Lajst, the director of StandWithUs Brazil, was speaking about ways that Israeli technologies could help develop the Amazon region at the Federal University of Amazonas in Manaus on Thursday when protesters clashed with security and other university employees outside the lecture auditorium.

According to news reports, the advisor to the university’s rector left the scene with a broken nose after attempting to safeguard her daughter. Several students entering the lecture were also harassed, and police officers escorted Lajst into and out of the venue. One protester was reportedly arrested for pushing a police officer but later released.

Here's video at the scene:

Andre Lajst completed his lecture and had to be escorted out by police for his safety from the violent mob.

But BDS-aligned media are bragging (and lying) that they managed to shut down his speech with their thuggish mob!

Pro-Palestine Brazilians demonstrated at a university in the Brazilian city of Manaus against the organization of a pro-Israeli-occupation event on campus.
Despite the high-security measures against them, the protesters managed to stop the meeting in support of the Israeli occupation, which is entitled “Cooperation with Israel”.
André Lajst, director of the Brazilian branch of StandWithUs, a pro-Israeli-occupation group in Brazil, spoke at the event about supporting the occupation and normalization with it.
Video clips showed the large number of anti-Israel-occupation demonstrators, known as BDS Mob, who confronted the Brazilian police and attempted to shut down the event by force, forcing Lajst and his companions to leave the place quickly.
These protests are a part of the international BDS activities against all forms of normalization with the Israeli occupation, especially educational normalization.

Among themselves, BDSers don't even pretend to be "non-violent." They are happy and proud to threaten and attack people.

And then they claim in mainstream media articles that they are doing it in the name of "academic freedom."

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The official Palestinian Wafa news agency reports:

Today, Tuesday, a child from the town of Zababdeh, south of Jenin, was killed by bullets from the Israeli occupation.

The director of Al-Razi Hospital in Jenin, Fawaz Hammad, told Wafa that the child Othman Atef Abu Kharj (17 years old) died of injuries he sustained at dawn today, during the clashes that erupted after the storming of the town.

The description of his death by Islamic Jihad is a little different:

The Al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine, celebrated, on Tuesday morning, the highest examples of jihad and steadfastness, its fighter son, Othman Atef Abu Kharj, one of the fighters of the deterrence unit in the Al-Quds Brigades, who rose as a martyr, God willing, during his confrontation with his mujahideen brothers.

The Brigades said in a military statement: "We are in the Al-Quds Brigades and we bid farewell to a heroic mujahid knight who is witnessed by the battlefields to confirm that the blood of the martyrs will remain fuel for the continuation of the resistance approach, and that these sacrifices that our heroic mujahideen make will not be lost, and will be a motive for the continuity of engagement and fighting, and will not be lost." We meet our enemy only with bullets and more resistance.

Interestingly, they claim that Kharj was 18 years old, while all other Palestinian media quote the ministry of health saying he was 17.

Yesterday I noted that for the first time I can recall, the UN chided Palestinian terror groups for exposing children to paramilitary "summer camps" as well as for endangering Palestinian children by placing booby traps in camps for IDF vehicles. But although the UN's OCHA-OPT closely monitors every death in the territories, they have never mentioned that terror groups like Islamic Jihad actively recruit and use child soldiers.

I cannot find any mention of Palestinian child soldiers in UNICEF reports on "the state of Palestine" either. Defense for Children International - Palestine never mentions that the children killed were members of armed groups and actively fighting.

It is undeniable that Palestinian terror groups recruit and exploit children. Last week, JCPA published a report showing how terror groups in Jenin use children as "spotters" and instruct them using Telegram channels on how they should operate.

A major reason that children are recruited is in the hope that they will be killed - because they are more valuable as "child victims" than they are as fighters. To Palestinians, children are cannon fodder, and I have yet to see a single article in Arabic media that condemns Hamas and Islamic Jihad for recruiting children.

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An analysis of a Palestinian lie

August 21 was the anniversary of the fire that gutted al Aqsa Mosque in 1969. It was set by a mentally ill Australian Christian.

Here is how an Arab publication wrote about the event yesterday:

On the morning of August 21, 1969, a huge fire broke out in the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the fire quickly spread to the southern portico, the mihrab of Salah al-Din, and the dome pillars in the blessed mosque, in a Jewish attempt to turn the sacred Islamic heritage, even the most sacred, and rare in human civilization, into a pile of ashes. To build the alleged temple on its ruins.
Jerusalemites, Muslims and Christians, rushed to extinguish the fire, just as Palestinians from villages and cities in the West Bank rushed to participate in extinguishing it and saving Al-Aqsa Mosque from the imminent Jewish threat to destroy it.
The Israeli occupation army closed the gates of the Haram and Al-Aqsa Mosque, to prevent the Palestinians from entering to extinguish the fire, so that the Zionist flames, which hate to Arabism, Islam and all humanity, would devour it.
The Palestinians forced the Israeli army to open the doors after a violent clash that lasted 45 minutes, thinking that "Israel" would turn the Al-Aqsa Mosque into ashes during that period.
When the Palestinians started trying to pump water from the wells of the mosque, they found the water pumps unfit for work, so they took the water with small containers and climbed the roof of the mosque to extinguish the fire.
And when the fire trucks arrived from the municipalities of Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem, Bethlehem and Hebron to participate in extinguishing the fire, the occupation army and the Israeli police prevented them from entering the mosque yard under the pretext that the extinguishing operation is within the jurisdiction of the Zionist occupied Jerusalem municipality. The Palestinians succeeded in putting out the fire after the important part of the mosque was burned, including the mihrab of Salah al-Din, which he took from the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo to Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem.
And the Israeli government officially announced, as usual in lying and deceit, that the fire was due to a defect in the electrical wires inside Al-Aqsa Mosque.
The Arab Jerusalem Electricity Company, at the request of the Islamic Commission, sent a committee of experts and engineers to investigate the causes of the fire, and they confirmed that it was not the result of an electrical fault, as officially announced by “Israel”, but rather an intentional fire.
They proved that the fire was meticulously planned, which embarrassed the Israeli government and prompted it to announce the arrest of the person who confessed to having set the arson attack, the Jew Michael Mohan, and brought him to trial and sentenced him to five years in prison, and later issued a decision to release him and deport him to Australia.

Here is how Time magazine described the events at the time:

SOON after early-morning prayers at Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque one day last week, flames burst from the ceiling beneath its famed silver dome. For three hours, the fire raged, destroying part of the roof and an 800-year-old pulpit of exquisitely carved cedarwood and inlaid ivory, a gift from the Islamic hero Saladin (1137-1193). Before Israeli and Arab firemen could extinguish the flames or anyone could investigate the fire, the entire Middle East was echoing with outraged Moslem demands for jihad—holy war.

Automatic Assumption. In their fury, many Moslems automatically assumed that the Al Aqsa blaze had been started deliberately—and by an Israeli. Hundreds of Arabs rushed to the still-burning mosque, threatening firemen who were trying to control the blaze and shouting "Nasser! Nass-er!" When Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Dayan arrived on the scene, he was jeered. An Arab mob coursed down the Via Dolorosa—the path Jesus took to the Crucifixion—shouting "Death to Israel!" Police blocked them at the fifth Station of the Cross.

The Israelis, who have ruled Arab Jerusalem since 1967, protested their innocence, but in vain. Premier Golda Meir convoked an emergency Cabinet meeting in Jerusalem to offer help in repairing the mosque (the offer was spurned) and to appoint an investigating commission that included two Arab dignitaries (local Moslems named their own board of inquiry). Sheik Hilmi Al-Muh-tasib, chairman of Jerusalem's Moslem Council, quickly summoned newsmen to pointedly announce that "a blond, freckled man dressed in khaki, who did not appear to be a Palestinian," had been seen fleeing from the mosque just before the fire. That was all the information that Arab propagandists needed. Cairo Radio called the fire a "premeditated crime." Al-Fatah, the Palestinian Arab commando organization, demanded shrilly in its broadcasts: "Moslems, what are you waiting for? The Zionists are burning down your sacred shrines. How can you face the Prophet Mohammed?" Jordan's King Hussein, whose grandfather King Abdullah was assassinated by a Palestinian Arab gunman in front of the Aqsa mosque in 1951, called for an Arab summit meeting.

At first the Israelis maintained that the fire was accidental. A welding torch was found beneath the roof, where work men had been repairing old timbers treated with inflammable linseed oil.

At week's end, however, Israeli police arrested and charged with arson neither a Moslem nor a Jew but a member of the third faith that holds Jerusalem holy: Michael Dennis William Rohan, 28, an Australian ranch hand who has been touring Israel for several months and who, according to the police, belongs to the Church of God, a Protestant evangelical sect. Some reports said that Rohan spoke of a dream in which God commanded him to clear a site in the compound on which to build a Jewish temple. Anxious to damp down the incendiary emotions aroused by the fire, the Israelis held a press conference on the Jewish sabbath—an unprecedented peacetime action—to announce the arrest. Police emphasized that Jerusalem Arabs provided the most important clues by giving them a description of the man and a vest that had been torn from him as he fled from the scene. Said an Israeli police official: "We have enough evidence for any court in this country to convict him."

The Time article is more accurate 54 years ago than the Arab media today. But there were plenty of other lies in current Arab accounts of the fire.

One can see Israeli rescue equipment at the scene. You can look at video of the firefighters and it seems clear that Israeli and Arab firefighters worked together to fight the flames.

Rohan was indeed mentally ill. His trial was covered extensively in Australian papers, where he said things like that he was going to become the king of Jerusalem and that God had "promised him maidens:"

But to spread the lie that Israel was responsible for the fire was not enough. The Muslim world pushed through a resolution blaming Israel for the fire, although not explicitly saying that Israel set it.

The US abstained. It was the first time the US didn't support a resolution against Israel on Jerusalem.

What we see in this episode, as in so many others, is that the Arab lies came first, and the desire to keep the lies going is far greater than any desire to tell the truth. If something terrible happens, the Jews must be behind it. Fatah and Arab leaders didn't waste a minute in blaming Jews for the fire, and they rushed to get the UN to back their lies.

While much has changed in parts of the Arab world since then, the Palestinians have kept the exact same playbook that they had then.

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08/21 Links Pt2: The Oslo Disaster 30 Years On; Times of Israel Bloggers Lying to Diaspora Jews about Judicial Reform; Dissecting the George Soros agenda

From Ian:

The Oslo Disaster 30 Years On

Upon receiving the Nobel Peace Prize, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres lauded the "Oslo peace process" between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization not only as the end of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but as the harbinger of a "New Middle East." Viewed from a 30-year vantage point, the "Oslo peace process" stands as the worst calamity to have afflicted Israelis and Palestinians since the 1948 war.

By replacing Israel's control of West Bank and Gaza Palestinians with corrupt and repressive terrorist entities that indoctrinated their subjects with burning hatred of Jews and Israelis, as well as murdered some 2,000 Israelis and rained thousands of rockets on their population centers, the Oslo process has made the prospects for peace and reconciliation ever more remote.

For Palestinians, it has brought about regimes that have reversed their hesitant advent of civil society, shattered their socioeconomic well-being, and perpetuated the conflict, as their leaders lined their pockets. For Israel, it has established ineradicable terror entities on its doorstep, denting its military and strategic posture, and weakening its international standing.

The Oslo process had one major achievement that has gone virtually unnoticed. "As of today, there is a Palestinian state," said Ahmad Tibi, Yasser Arafat's Arab-Israeli advisor, a day after the January 1996 Palestinian Council elections. Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Yossi Beilin - chief architect of the Oslo process - proclaimed the elections to have irreversibly ended Israel's occupation of Palestinian-populated areas.

In one fell swoop, Israel effectively ended its 30-year-long control of the West Bank and Gaza's populace. Since then, 99% of the Palestinians in these territories have not lived under Israeli "occupation" but under Palestinian rule.

Yet, rather than use the end of occupation as a springboard for bilateral negotiations on the future of the largely unpopulated West Bank territories still under Israel's control (Area C), the Palestinians have sought to damage their "peace partner" at every turn. This is because the PLO viewed the Oslo Accords as a "Trojan Horse" (to use the words of PLO official Faisal Husseini) designed to promote the strategic goal of "Palestine from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea" - that is, in place of Israel.

As Arafat told a skeptical associate shortly before moving to Gaza (in 1994), "I know that you are opposed to the Oslo Accords, but you must always remember what I'm going to tell you. The day will come when you will see thousands of Jews fleeing Palestine....The Oslo Accords will help bring this about."

No sooner had Arafat made his triumphant entry to Gaza than he began constructing an extensive terrorist infrastructure in flagrant violation of the accords. He refused to disarm Hamas and Islamic Jihad as required and tacitly approved the murder of hundreds of Israelis by these terror groups. As a result, terrorism in the territories spiraled.

One Fall Away from Oblivion: An Interview with Victor Davis Hanson

There are few Americans better qualified to comment on current political affairs and cultural issues than Dr. Victor Davis Hanson. He does so on a regular basis. With a PhD in classics, he is a syndicated columnist and the author of many books, hundreds of articles, and the recipient of many awards.

Dr. Hanson, who also grows raisin grapes on a family farm in California, is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor Emeritus at California State University, a distinguished fellow of the Center for American Greatness, and a National Review Institute fellow. He is a Visiting Professor at several universities and, in 2007, was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President George W. Bush.

In conversation with Dr. Hanson, who analyzes geopolitical topics from the lens of an historian, he elucidates the ills of today’s society. In doing so, he demonstrates that there is nothing new under the sun.

You recently visited Israel. Can you talk about your impressions of the country as it is enmeshed in a conflict over judicial reform? Do you see parallels between Israeli protestors against reform and the American left?

Yes, I do. I think the Israeli left, like the American left, doesn’t believe that its agenda will achieve 51% public support necessary to ensure they have the political power to achieve that agenda. In lieu of public support for an agenda that’s often utopian or impractical, or antithetical to the foundational documents of the country, they always look at process. Here in the U.S., if the left can’t get certain legislation through then they look to the courts. If the courts are not sympathetic, they talk about packing them. Or if they don’t get the vote that they want, they want to change the electoral college or get rid of the Senate filibuster or change the voting laws.

I don’t think people in the U.S. understand what Israel’s dealing with regarding their Supreme Court and its history. It’s not anything like our Supreme Court. It’s sort of a combination of the U.S. House, Senate and Supreme Court as if they were all from one party, so it’s one ideology that can make legislation by judicial fiat. It’s not the same as it was 40 or 50 years ago, and its transformation had no legal statute.

From what I saw in Israel, whether it’s due to immigration, changing attitudes or the success of conservative policies, Israeli elites feel their message cannot persuade people as it might have in the past. So they count on the Supreme Court in a way that elites in the U.S. count on courts or bureaucracies to enact social change.

Is part of the reason Americans don’t understand judicial reform because there are those, including the media, who don’t want them to know?

Yes, I think that’s 90% of it. If you look at NPR, PBS, the network news, the New York Times, the Washington Post, or social media, the message is consistently that Netanyahu is a counter-right Trumpian figure and a revolutionary rightist. That’s all they need to know. Our media thinks that Israel is dealing in the same manner that we are dealing with Trump, and therefore all means necessary are ok.

Just as in the U.S. they weaponize the FBI, the CIA, and the DOJ to stop Trump, so it’s ok in Israel to do anything necessary to stop Netanyahu. As we have myths like Hunter Biden’s laptop is Russian collusion, or January 6th was an armed insurrection that killed an officer, so Israel has a myth that Bibi Netanyahu is trying to destroy the whole court system.

When you get one expert jurist or legal scholar debating the other and actually go over point by point what the Israeli Supreme Court is doing and what the reform suggests, it doesn’t seem very radical at all. The reform is trying in some ways to make it analogous to the U.S. Supreme Court. But when you’re on the U.S. left and don’t like the U.S. Supreme Court any longer because it doesn’t give you the result you demand then you attack the court.

Times of Israel Bloggers Lying to Diaspora Jews about Judicial Reform

To our sisters and brothers in the Diaspora:
A trinity of respected names on the Left: Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Daniel Gordis, penned a blog post in the Times of Israel imploring Diaspora Jews to “support Israel” by joining the fight against the “judicial revolution” and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s democratically elected government.

They invited Diaspora Jews to learn more about the far Left’s narrative against the government in a Zoom seminar hosted by a TOI deputy editor, which will host leaders of the protests.

We do not expect much critical pushback against the leftwing narrative from that unbalanced panel. Nor is this the first time this unholy trinity of the left has called on Diaspora Jews to interfere and save the Left from the results of Israel’s democratic election.

They question the legitimacy of the vote and the electoral system which didn’t yield the results they wanted.

The TOI article raises numerous dubious claims, but one falsehood about the elections stands out: the trinity’s assertion that the Netanyahu government came to power “only after concealing from the electorate the sweeping nature of its plans.”

Did Israeli voters not have a clear understanding of the government’s intentions before the November 1, 2022 elections?

An op-ed by Kobi Perez of the ZOA, published on July 3, 2022 in JewishPress.com, headlined “Israel’s First Priority: Supreme Court Reform,” clearly highlights the Israeli right’s commitment to reforming the Supreme Court following the elections. Perez wrote, “The Israeli right has promised that their first order of business after the election will be to reform Israel’s Supreme Court.”

Seems pretty clear and not concealed at all.

But what about the sweeping nature of those plans? Were they really hidden from the average Israeli citizen?

An in-depth interview with MK Simcha Rothman published on October 30, 2022, on the eve of the election, in JewishPress.com, thoroughly outlines the coalition’s plans for reforms in the judicial system and many other areas as well. if you haven’t already read it, we highly recommend you do.

The electorate was well-informed about the comprehensive reforms the coalition intended to undertake if it won.

Now, the JewishPress.com isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, and so, we may need to enlist reports from the Leftwing and Progressive media to make our point, so the Diaspora Jews understand that the Israeli electorate was fully aware of who and what they were voting for.

For instance, a detailed report from the Times of Israel by Carrie Keller-Lynn on July 31, 2022, was headlined, “Likud’s judicial reform plan seeks to end ‘rule by judges’ and constrain the AG.” The reporter details Likud’s openly disclosed plans for judicial reform, well before the elections.

The article quotes Yariv Levin, who is described as “particularly close to Netanyahu,” advocating for substantial policy changes that he deems a “fundamental change.”

Not much of a secret there.

The Times of Israel even reported on the reforms back in June 2022, in an article headlined “Opposition previews plans to remake composition of the Supreme Court.”

While it’s true that many Times of Israel articles exhibit a clear bias against judicial reform, such as the October 22, 2022 article, “Smotrich launches bid to neuter judiciary, potentially halt ally Netanyahu’s trial,” they nevertheless dealt openly and well ahead of the vote with the right-wing’s plan to reform the judicial system. For a blogger in the TOI, which is on the record with several reports on the coming reform, to claim that Israeli voters were uninformed about the government’s plans is simply a lie.

Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein Halevi, and Daniel Gordis are making claims that are not supported even by their own publication.

Last week, the Jordanian parliament passed a bill that allowed the transfer of state-owned land to government investment funds or companies.

Jordanian politicians warned at the time that the bill could be used to sell land to Israelis.

Jordanian MP Saleh Al-Armouti yesterday warned against amending the real estate property bill to give Israelis the right to buy land in Jordan as investors, Quds Press reported.

Speaking to the news site, Al-Armouti said that this law may lead to state land being handed to Zionist firms or figures who hold foreign passports without sufficient checks being made.

“This is dangerous,” he said, “and it will give Zionists a chance to own land in the kingdom,” recalling previous Zionist attempts to own land in Wadi Musa and Wadi Araba.

If this happens, he explained, their ambitions may expand to points beyond this “as there are Zionist voices who claim rights to Jordanian lands.”

Many Jordanians have a paranoid fear that Israelis will buy up all the land, when they don't have the equally paranoid fear that Israelis will expel all Palestinians to Jordan.

In Arabic, though, the real fear comes through:

Exclusive - Representative Ayoub Khamis criticized granting the cabinet powers to delegate state lands through the real estate property law, indicating that everyone (deputies and citizens) was surprised by the articles mentioned in the law.
Khamis pointed out that the diversion of the lands of Palestine to the Jews began by selling them to others, and when the Jews entered Palestine, a large part of those lands were owned by the Jews through sale, stressing that the lands of Jordan were endowed for the Hashd and Rabat and should not be waived.
Khamis expressed his fear that people and companies would give up lands that the Council of Ministers will grant to investors in favor of Jewish people, indicating that 80% of Jordan's land is (potentially in play.)

Not Zionists or Israelis - but Jews.

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UN reluctantly admits that terror groups put Palestinian children at risk

Every year, Lynn Hastings, the UN Humanitarian and Resident Coordinator in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, issues a press release before the school year discussing how Israel and Jewish settlers have been awful to Palestinian children.

This year, as far as I can tell for the first time, the press release also mentions a couple of ways that Palestinian terror groups are endangering Palestinian children..

Physical barriers placed by Palestinians in refugee camps, some rigged with explosive materials, are threatening the safety of children and making it harder for them to reach their classrooms. And reports continue of children being enrolled in “summer camps” by armed groups, increasing their risk of being exposed to violence or military content.

I've mentioned that the IEDs that Palestinian terror groups have been placing on the roads of camps in order to blow up Israeli vehicles are a danger to ordinary Palestinians, but this is the first time I have seen any NGO mention the danger, even if it downplays the danger.

Similarly, even though these "summer camps" have been run by terror groups for decades, this is the first time I have seen the UN say anything negative about them. The sentence is comical: "increasing their risk of being exposed?" That is the entire purpose of the camps, and there are lots of videos and photos showing the children with real or mock weapons!

Hastings fails to mention that most of the "children" killed by Israel this year were either child soldiers recruited by terror groups or were actively engaged in attacks.

Perhaps the UN felt forced to mention Palestinian responsibility towards the children's welfare because it has had to admit that it couldn't open up schools in the Lebanese Ein el-Hilweh camp because of terror groups that have taken over the schools.

Although there is plenty wrong with this press release, it is a slight improvement over the obsessively one-sided anti-Israel propaganda of the past.

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08/21 Links Pt1: Hebron terror: Mother shot dead in front of daughter; PA “Martyrs Fund” May Soon Fund Killing Jews in the US and UK

From Ian:

Palestinian Authority “Martyrs Fund” May Soon Fund Killing Jews in the US and UK

Martyrs are compensated
The Palestinian Authority pays “martyrs,” prisoners and their families according to a schedule of how long they sit in Israeli jails. The more severe the crime, the longer the sentence and larger payments to the martyr’s family. The PA pays these funds to “anyone incarcerated in the occupation’s prisons for his participation in the struggle against the occupation,” which could include Palestinians or Israelis, as long as they do not belong to Hamas. In this way, the PA tries to foment terrorism inside of Israel and take a more commanding role in the terror than its political rival Hamas.

Martyrs are absolved of any crime as “resisting occupation”
The Palestinian Arabs view all of the land “from the River to the Sea” as Arab land, and the State of Israel as a “painful settlement.” They believe that all Arabs in the region are under “occupation” and that they have a right to “resist” by any and all means, including violence. Such are the opinions in Al Jazeera, TRT World and Middle East Eye to name a few.

In summary, Palestinian propaganda states that all of Israel is illegal and violent reaction to that occupation – against civilians and military – is legal and legitimate. It celebrates those who have died fighting against the presence of Jews and encourages its youth to participate in the jihad to rid the land of Jews.

Going global
The BDS movement parrots this Palestinian propaganda. In response to the Democratic Socialists of America calling all Jewish Israelis fair target for attack on June 28, 2023, Rep. Ritchie Torres tweeted “Denying Israelis the status of civilians means declaring them fair game for violence and terror. If a naked justification of terror against Israel is not a sign of a demonic double standard against the Jewish State, I am not sure what would be.”

On July 30, 2023, Abbas spoke in Egypt about taking his war globally. As translated by PMW: “We also will submit lawsuits against the US and Britain for their responsibility for the Balfour Promise and its implementation through the British Mandate for Palestine… One of our most important weapons today is disseminating our Palestinian narrative, which confirms the Palestinian people’s existence on its historical homeland and its consecutive presence on this land for thousands of years. The authentic Palestinian narrative is currently gaining acceptance and sympathy worldwide. Our success in imposing our national narrative on human consciousness is in itself debunking the false Zionist and Israeli claims and narratives, which have strived and still strive to harm the image of our people and its legitimate struggle to restore its national rights.”

The Palestinian Authority is pushing its antisemitic deadly narrative beyond the Middle East that all Zionists are fair game for violent attack. The calls to “Globalize the Intifada,” the BDS’s “Mapping Project” which identifies Jewish institutions, and CAIR’s labeling of Jews as “enemies” are dead canaries in the coal mine. The PA is looking for money – perhaps from the $6 billion that the United States just handed the Islamic Republic of Iran – to expand its Martyrs Fund for anyone who attacks Zionists around the world. Civilized people everywhere must shut down the fictional narrative and the organizations which promote the terror.

Hebron terror attack: Mother shot dead in front of daughter

Preschool teacher Batsheva Nigri, 40, was shot to death in front of her six-year-old daughter on Monday on Route 60 in the West Bank after hitching a ride to her nearby home in Beit Hagai junction.

Nigri, a mother of three, grew up in Efrat.

The driver Aryeh Gottlieb, 39, also of Beit Hagai is in serious condition from gunshot wounds was transported to Soroka Medical Center.

The child suffered from light shrapnel wounds.

Two terrorists drove in front of the victims' car, cutting it off while slowing down traffic at the intersection. They then shot at the victims from short range, spraying their vehicle with at least 20 bullets and then continued driving.

Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, the armed wing of the Palestinian Authority's ruling Fatah faction, took credit for the attack, explaining in a statement that it was "a natural response to the crimes of the occupation." The group further noted that this terrorist attack took place on the 54th anniversary of an attack on al-Aqsa by a Western tourist.

There was an IDF guard post nearby, but the lookout soldier did not see or hear the attack, which only took a couple of seconds. The rest of the soldiers at the outpost, which can range from four soldiers to a larger group, were not on lookout at the time of the attack.

The IDF has set up a complete closure around Hebron as well as surrounding villages like Halhul.

Soldiers set up roadblocks and are searching for the suspects, including in the nearby Gush Etzion bloc.

The IDF is very concerned about the multiple attacks in the last few days leading to a new terror escalation.

On Saturday, a terrorist shot two Israelis who were visiting the Palestinian town of Huwara in northern Samaria.

Some 80% of the anti-terror focus has been in the Jenin and Nablus areas in the northern West Bank.

US equates Palestinian and settler terror as four Israelis gunned down

The Biden administration equated Palestinian terror attacks with settler violence in a month when four Israelis have been gunned down in such attacks, three of them this week.

“The US remains deeply concerned by violence in the West Bank and Israel and we express our condolences to those killed,” US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas Greenfield told the United Nations Security Council on Monday, as it held its monthly meeting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

She spoke on a day when two Palestinian terrorists sprayed an Israeli civil vehicle with over 20 bullets, killing a preschool teacher in front of her daughter, and seriously wounding the driver.

Two days earlier a Palestinian terrorist fatally shot two Israelis at close blank range as they waited for their car to be washed in the Palestinian town of Huwara. On August 5th, a Palestinian gunman killed an Israeli police officer.

UN Ambassador condemns terror attacks
Thomas-Greenfield said, “We [the US] strongly condemn Palestinian terrorist attacks against Israelis, including this morning's shooting attack near Hebron,” she said as she listed all the incidents.

She then referenced an incident outside the village of Burka, that led to the shooting death on August 4, of one of its residents Qusai Jamal Ma’atan, 19, by a settler who suffered from a fractured skull after he was hit in the head with a rock. But the details of the incident, unlike other examples of settler violence, remain murky. The Israelis involved in the incident have explained that a shepherd was attacked while herding his sheep, called on his friends for help, and that the shooting was in self-defense. Palestinians say they were defending their village from a violent infiltration by settlers.

The US immediately called the incident a terror attack, a claim which Thomas-Greenfield repeated on Monday.

“We strongly condemn the terror attacks by settlers in Burka on August 4th that killed a 19-year-old Palestinian,” she said.

Both Israelis and Palestinians must take “immediate steps to descale and restore calm,” Thomas-Greenfield said. She encouraged Israeli and Palestinian security forces to increase their cooperation.

“We urge all parties to take proactive measures to counter all forms of violence and incitement to violence and refrain from actions that inflame tensions, including settlement activity, evictions [of Palestinians, [and] the demolition of Palestinian homes,” she said. Thomas-Greenfield also called on the Palestinian Authority to halt its monthly stipends to terrorists that have killed Israelis and or their family members.

As long as the EU still cannot bring itself to call these murderers Palestinian, their statements are empty and meaningless! @EUinIsrael @DTzantchev https://t.co/bRLghmxb7J
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) August 21, 2023

Haaretz writes:

More than 12,000 Palestinians with American citizenship residing in the West Bank have entered Israel in the past few weeks, since Israel was forced to ease travel restrictions for them in order to be accepted into the United States visa waiver program.

The estimate was provided by Israeli defense sources who believe that the number of Palestinians in the West Bank with American citizenship is in the tens of thousands.

The article goes on to say that there are also hundreds of American citizens living in Gaza.

This is far more US citizens living in the territories than I was aware of. With that number, it seems like many of them are living a regular Palestinian citizens with American passports, meaning that they receive the benefits of Palestinian citizenship - for example, medical benefits and public schools.

It is also a surprisingly high percentage of Palestinian Americans - perhaps as many as one in five Palestinian Americans live in the territories and not in the US.

But how many of them are considered "registered UNRWA refugees" and are receiving UNRWA benefits? How many live in UNRWA camps in the West Bank and Gaza? How many go to UNRWA schools and receive UNRWA medical benefits?

How many American citizens are considered "refugees" to UNRWA?

It could be that there is a whole other category of fake "refugees" that UNRWA provides benefits for - citizens of other countries (besides Jordan)!

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In the Times of Israel, Matti Friedman, Yossi Klein-Halevi, Daniel Gordis - three prominent writers whom I respect - say that Jews in the Diaspora must openly protest Israel's government:

Last February, two months after the current government was formed, we wrote to you to warn of an existential threat to Israeli democracy and to the long-term viability of the Jewish state. Six months later, our worst fears are being realized. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition with the extreme right and the ultra-Orthodox parties signals nothing less than the end of the liberal state of Israel.

This political crisis is not just one more Israeli debate over policy, but a struggle over the fundamental identity of Israel as a Jewish and democratic state.

A government that won just 48.4 percent of the popular vote, and which did so only after concealing from the electorate the sweeping nature of its plans, has dared to tamper with the basic identity of the state, and has led us into a crisis from which our society might not recover. Vital institutions that require social solidarity, and most importantly the military, are splintering, as Israel’s most committed and productive citizens revolt against a leadership that is beyond the moral pale. The tech economy that buoyed the “start-up nation” is beginning to sink. State power is shifting from judges to extreme clerics. The voice of fundamentalist religion is emboldened. A year ago, Israel was a regional powerhouse. Within a year, we could be on the road to becoming another failed Middle Eastern state.

The entire essay is an example of "thinking past the sale." There is not a single specific policy of this supposedly ultra-right government that is refuted; it is taken as a given that the 37th government of Israel is anti-democracy illiberal.

But what specifically has the government done that is so extreme?

True, members of the cabinet have said some things that are very illiberal. Some have tried to do things that appear questionable. But in the end, how many actual laws have passed that justify demanding that the Diaspora publicly split with Israel?

The "reasonableness" law? Without it, the judiciary has literally unlimited powers, with no checks and balances on what it can do. It is in line with other Western democracies. The legislative branch, by definition, legislates laws, and the judiciary interprets them in every other Western democracy.

The law that terrorists who use sexual assault should have a greater penalty? The people opposing that are generally grasping at straws to pretend that there is something wrong with it just to oppose the government.

Yes, there are other things that have been brought up - but they haven't passed. Ideas like an independent national guard are mired in committees. A lot of the reason for that is because of the reluctance of Netanyahu to go along with the more extreme members of his coalition.

Netanyahu does not support a theocracy. He supports equal rights for Arab Israelis. And while he will concede things here and there to his coalition, he has shown multiple times that he will not allow Israel to become what the critics are claiming it has already become.

Contrast this with the Bennett/Lapid government, which ceded Israeli territory to Lebanon without any public referendum. That one decision had far greater repercussions, not only concerning the territory itself but also in signaling to Hezbollah that its demands would be rewarded.

Did the current government coalition partners hide their plans for judicial reform before the election? Not at all. And the Israeli Left even wrote an exaggerated warning about them in the New York Times - before the election.

Why is the military splintering? Why are high tech companies warning about fleeing the country? Is it because of the actual actions of the government - or because of the overblown reactions to ideas being discussed?

A great deal of Israel's problems today are because of self-fulfilling prophecies of those who oppose the government, far more than what the government has actually done. This essay is written along those lines. It has very few facts to support its wild warnings - so it doesn't bother backing those warning with facts.

And a large reason the government hasn't done that much is because of the massive protests in Israel every week. The opposition could not win democratically so they are protesting - and there is nothing wrong with that. They are indeed influencing the government actions and helping stop the more extreme ideas turning into law.

Suggesting that the Diaspora publicly protest the Israeli government is a recipe for disaster. For years, Zionists have fought against a public split in American Jewry. The Obama administration publicly sided with J-Street, making it seem far more powerful than it actually is, because it wanted cover for its anti-Israel policies. Now, because of the unbridled hate people have for Netanyahu, even people who truly love Israel are advocating a public split.

That is what is weakening Israel - not the actual policies themselves, but this hysterical reaction to those policies.

There is plenty to disagree with and argue against in the current government. But to respond by telling world Jewry to publicly split with Israel is already having huge repercussions for the relationship between Israel and other countries. Israel haters are now quoting the Israeli Left to justify their slanderous accusations of "apartheid."

You cannot open the Pandora's box halfway, insisting that your public criticisms come from love of Israel but other criticisms are over the line.

The antisemites are having a field day. Arab media is filled with translations of articles in Israeli media about Jews warning that the state will collapse. Terrorists are encouraged to redouble their efforts to murder Jews because they perceive weakness.

Iran is actively working on opening up fronts in Lebanon, Syria, the West Bank as well as Gaza. One cannot underestimate how much these campaigns are being fueled by the perception of weakness that the public criticisms of Israel are giving the Arab world.

Messages of doom are emboldening terrorists to murder Jews.

The message to the world shouldn't be "Israel is in danger of losing tis democratic character." It should be "we believe in Israeli democracy, and we will work to build the next government that aligns with our values." It shouldn't be "only 48% of Israelis voted for this coalition" but that "Israel is a nation based on laws and while we disagree with the government, it is legitimate and deserves respect on that basis." Protests are a valid part of democracy, but not at much as the ballot box. Win elections based on the strength of your ideas - and if the voters don't agree with you, that is part of the deal in a real democracy.

And meanwhile, join with your political opponents on things you can agree on - like the importance of writing a constitution that could forestall the next decade's crisis.

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Hamas website in English: "We're victims!" In Arabic: "We are proud victorious warriors!"

Here are the Hamas website articles in English over the past several days:

Hamas condemns obstacles to humanitarian aid on World Humanitarian Day
Statement on the Israeli Prison Service’s attacks against Palestinian detainees
‘Israeli occupation cabinet sponsors settlement expansion,’ Hamas official says
'Israeli occupation bears responsibility for attacks on Palestinian detainees,’ Hamas spokesperson says

In English, Palestinians are victims and Israel is the aggressor.

But in Arabic, things are a bit different:

Taha: The occupation and its settlers deal with the Palestinians with a fascist and racist tendency

Hamada: Our people are capable of putting an end to the settlers' folly and crimes

Qasim: The Hawara operation is an affirmation of the continuation of our people's revolution

Meshaal: Al-Aqsa Mosque today is in the heart of danger, and we have to take the struggle to a new level

Hamas blesses the heroic operation in Hawara and confirms that it is a response to the crimes of the occupation

Hamas mourns the martyr Abu Asab and affirms that the occupation's plans will fail in the face of our people's steadfastness
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Hamas calls on humanitarian organizations to continue supporting our people and their legitimate rights

Al-Qanou': The prisoners score a new victory and thwart the occupation's plan

Hamas praises the prisoners' achievement in defeating the occupation and achieving victories against the jailer

Hamas mourns the martyr Hamza Abu Sneineh from Jerusalem

Hamas: The battle of the prisoners will not take place inside the prisons

Hisham Qassem calls for the escalation of resistance to confront the settlement encroachment in the occupied West Bank

This happens in other publications too, but Hamas in English is a completely different organization than it is in Arabic.

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08/20 Links: Funded by the EU, Palestinians Abuse the Environment and Erase Jewish History; Samuel’s secret 1937 testimony on the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem

From Ian:

Funded by the EU, Palestinians Abuse the Environment and Erase Jewish History

This is Part 4 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.

Neither the Palestinians nor the Europeans have any interest in lasting peace with Israel, which presumes an atmosphere of cooperation and direct negotiations. Some even consider the illegal takeover of land by the Palestinian Authority a bigger national security threat to Israel than Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad and even Iran.

“Unfortunately, many other high-ranking officers from the Israeli defense establishment don’t understand,” says Brig. Gen. Amir Avivi, founder of the Israeli organization HaBithonistim.

“We are not treating this situation as a state of emergency, even though it’s crystal clear that the Palestinian Authority is an enemy, and a dangerous one at that, even apart from its funding of terror and inciting hatred in education.”

James Carver, a former member of the European Parliament and of the European Union Committee on Foreign Affairs, is one of the few parliamentarians who agrees.

In 2016, he called out the EU for its obsessive meddling in Israeli affairs in a Times of Israel article: “The EU professes to support a lasting Middle East peace settlement, yet I’ve highlighted both EU funding of the [Palestine Liberation Organization], which pays salaries to murderers, as well as how EU funding of illegal Palestinian buildings in Area C, is in breach of the Oslo accords, thus acting as an obstacle to peace and expunging any pretense of the EU being an honest broker.”

Carver spoke out about this issue when he was a parliamentarian in 2014. In diluting Israeli sovereignty, argued Carver, the EU is only creating further conflict, because those who genuinely support a two-state solution would never actively work to undermine either of those states.

Especially troubled by the fact that Europeans are building in nature reserves, he asserts, “It’s very hypocritical that the European Union claimed to be environmental champions but seemed to be quite happy to illegally put up buildings with their logo and develop settlements in nature reserves. Can you imagine the audacity of the European Union to believe they can violate legal facts? They’ve got skin as thick as a rhinoceros. They genuinely believe they can carry on with this, carte blanche.”

Indeed, there is massive, ongoing European-supported construction in nature reserves that were internationally mandated as no-construction zones in the Wye Plantation Accords, an agreement that concluded the Oslo division of territory.

Regavim, an Israeli NGO and public movement dedicated to the protection of Israel’s national lands and resources, has been mapping illegal Palestinian construction and land seizures for over a decade using archival material, land deeds and official documents, historic photographs, up-to-date aerial and drone photography, and GIS maps.

Herbert Samuel’s secret 1937 testimony on the infamous Mufti of Jerusalem revealed

Mention Herbert Samuel to today’s Israelis and two bells are likely to ring. One is Herbert Samuel promenade, Tel Aviv’s seaside esplanade. The other is a luxury hotel chain bearing the name, including The Herbert boutique lodgings along that same corniche.

But Herbert Samuel — or rather, the Viscount Samuel of Mount Carmel and Toxteth — was a seminal figure in the history of Zionism: the first Jew in Britain’s Cabinet, the official who first proposed the idea of a Jewish state to the British government, and the first high commissioner for British-ruled Palestine. And it was he who, just over a century ago, selected a 25-year-old Jerusalem effendi to be the most powerful Arab in Palestine, with consequences more profound than anyone at the time could conceive. That man was Amin al-Husseini.

A decade and a half after that decision, in late 1936, London appointed a Palestine Royal Commission to probe the Arab revolt that had erupted that spring, and which — Zionist leaders and many British officials believed — was being stoked above all by Husseini himself. Chaired by Lord William Peel, the panel heard 60 witnesses in public sessions. But nearly the same number testified in briefings so secret that even the witness list was hidden.

Transcripts of the sessions might have been lost or destroyed had not the commission’s far-sighted secretary recognized their significance, scribbling that a few copies ought to be preserved, as they chronicled “an important chapter in the history of Palestine and the Jewish people, and will, no doubt, be of considerable value to the historians of the remote future.”

Exactly eight decades into that remote future, in 2017, Britain quietly released the secret sessions to the National Archives. There Samuel explains why he chose Husseini as grand mufti of Jerusalem and head of the Supreme Muslim Council, how he and the British government envisioned Palestine’s future, his impressions of the Holy Land’s Jews and Arabs, and much else.

Samuel led a long, accomplished life. Born shortly after the American Civil War, he nearly lived to see the moon landing. He served in the British Cabinet seven times and ultimately rose to the head of his own Liberal Party. Yet his testimony in front of the commission was possibly the only known instance that he was ever made to defend his elevation of Husseini, who in the words of Samuel’s own son, “turned out to be an implacable enemy not only of Zionism but also of Britain,” culminating in his notorious alliance with Hitler’s Germany in World War II.

In a pre-recorded message shown at the 22nd "Al Aqsa Festival" in Al Karak, Jordan last night, Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal gave a speech that included classic antisemitic conspiracy theories updated to make the Arab world the target rather than the world at large.

Meshaal said "the occupation wants to infiltrate us as an Arab nation, dominate us, and target our security, wealth and independence."

It is the same message given by German, Russian and other antisemites since the 19th century.

He added the "the battle of Al-Aqsa is a battle of honor, religion, Arabism and destiny," putting a religious and patriotic spin on murdering Jews.

It isn't as if this message is unusual - it is standard rhetoric for inciting violence against Jews that we have heard for centuries. But since he says "the occupation" and not "Jews," Hamas can claim - and modern antisemites can pretend - that it is merely "anti-Zionist."

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