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Monday, March 21, 2022

Another group, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School, tries - and fails - to define "apartheid" to apply to Israel

In Bari Weiss' latest Common Sense newsletter, Aaron Sibarium reports on how the legal system in the United States is being taken over by totalitarian thinking, where bedrock legal concepts such as energetically representing both sides are being subsumed under progressive ideology. He details how this thinking is now mainstream at elite law schools.

Harvard Law School's Human Rights Clinic seems to prove this point.

After Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International tried and failed to twist the legal definition of apartheid to somehow include Israeli actions, the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School has added a couple more arguments all meant to twist the law to obtain a pre-determined goal. Objectivity is the furthest thing from the minds of these law students.

That Clinic partnered with Palestinian NGO Addameer to submit to the newest UN kangaroo court evidence that Israel is guilty of apartheid.

As with all of these bogus arguments, they must prove that Palestinians are a different "race" from Jews under international law because every definition of apartheid refers to discrimination based on race. The fact that this argument mirrors that of Nazi Germany does not seem to bother these paragons of progressive legal justice.

Harvard's Clinic includes the discredited HRW argument that quotes the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination that defines “racial discrimination” as “any distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference based on race, colour, descent or national or ethnic origin." And just as with HRW, they pointedly exclude the very next paragraph of the ICERD: "This Convention shall not apply to distinctions, exclusions, restrictions or preferences made by a State Party to this Convention between citizens and non-citizens."

This submission's scope is limited to saying that Israel practices apartheid against Palestinians in the territories, not in Israel proper. The very existence of Israeli Arabs who enjoy equal rights in Israel who are clearly of the same race/ethnicity/national group as Palestinian Arabs itself disproves the theory. It also proves that any discrimination against Palestinian Arab non-citizens is the result of them not being citizens, not because they are Arab. The ICERD's words note this as clearly as possible.

Yet these legal experts do not mention that part of the ICERD - because they are not advocating for the law, but twisting the law as a tool to advocate against Israel.

But the Harvard team, sensing that this argument is weak, tries another in the never-ending quest to find a way to shoehorn the definition of apartheid to apply to Israel:

Several international tribunals have addressed the definition of “racial group” in the context of genocide, persecution, and other war crimes, which were based on harms perpetrated by one racial group against another.[27] International tribunals—notably the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY)—have found that determination of race was challenging and that no clear scientific or objective method could be used to determine whether someone belonged to a particular racial group.[28] In Rutaganda, the ICTR held that group membership under the Genocide Convention was to be understood as “a subjective rather than an objective concept” where “the victim is perceived by the perpetrator as belonging to a group slated for destruction.”[29] In Blagojevich and Jokic, the ICTY held that “a national, ethnical, racial or religious group is identified by using as criterion the stigmatisation of the group, notably by the perpetrators of the crime, on the basis of its perceived national, ethnical, racial or religious characteristics.”[30] Thus, in analyzing the meaning of racial group for purposes of the prohibition of apartheid, a subjective approach is appropriate.

Both these cases quote the Genocide Convention. Harvard's Clinic is saying that one can apply the definitions of racial group in the Genocide Convention to define what "racial group" means in the context of apartheid. They further say that since the ICTR and ICTY noted that the definition of all of these groups are fuzzy, a subjective definition of racial group - twisted against Israel - is justified.

This argument falls apart, though, because the Genocide Convention says, "In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." The Genocide Convention is saying very clearly that national and religious groups are distinct from racial groups! Harvard is hand-waving to say that since the definitions of those groups can be somewhat subjective in the ICTR and ICTY, then all definitions can go out the window and anyone can define Palestinian Arab non-citizens of Israel as a racial group with zero evidence. Yet the Genocide Convention treats those groups as different from each other; if those four categories were all the same there would be some sort of textual indication.

In footnote 32, the Harvard team adds another fallacious argument:

ICERD, art. 1. General Recommendation VIII (1990) of the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination further clarifies that the identification of individuals as members of a particular social or ethnic group or groups shall be based upon self-identification.

This would mean that as long as Palestinians identify as members of a social or ethnic group, and that social/ethnic groups can be considered racial groups, then discrimination against them would be racism.

But the actual text quoted includes an important clause that the Harvard team doesn't want readers to know:

The Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination,
Having considered reports from States parties concerning information about the ways in which individuals are identified as being members of a particular racial or ethnic group or groups,
Is of the opinion that such identification shall, if no justification exists to the contrary, be based upon self-identification by the individual concerned.

Why would they leave that bolded part out? Because every single example of discrimination that they list in their submission by Israel is more easily explained by the fact that Palestinians aren't citizens of Israel than by them being part of a racial group! Of course justification exists to the contrary of the "self-identification" criterion!

And of course Palestinians will define themselves by whatever criteria is needed to damn and ultimately destroy Israel, which is the entire point of Palestinian nationalism. After all, Palestinians were never distinct from other Arabs, nationally or ethnically, until (at the very earliest) the mid-20th century. This is another justification to the contrary of allowing self-identification to determine what would normally be objective criteria. Are Palestinians named "al-Masry" or "al-Kurd" not ethnically Egyptian or Kurdish?

In this case, as with Amnesty and Human Rights Watch, legal teams deliberately twist and ignore the parts of the proof texts (as well as historical fact and all other counter-evidence) that disprove their case. Which proves yet again that these are not serious legal analyses of apartheid, but attempts to use legal obfuscation to make tendentious and ultimately false legal arguments.

All to try to prove "Jewish supremacism."

This is antisemitism dressed up in legalese. And this is what Harvard Law School is teaching.

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I saw this article in two Arabic news sites:

The Rothschilds are a wealthy Jewish family originating from Frankfurt. It was founded by Mayer Amschel Rothschild, a Jew who worked in Frankfurt and established his private banking company in the eighteenth century and left his vast fortune to his five children...

The Rothschild family name is associated with Freemasonry since its inception. This family represents one of the hidden families that control the global economy, and it is the instigator in all the emergencies the world is going through, including wars, economic and political crises.

It pays for the wars, and this family owns 80% of the world's economy and wealth. Freemasonry, founded by this family, means a set of basic goals, including “the abolition of property, the elimination of the family, the elimination of specialized property, the elimination of religions and freedom from moral restrictions, the elimination of inheritance, the elimination of belonging to the homeland, the control of the world."

This family sanctifies Lucifer Satan and offers him the sacrifices and heinous deeds that occur under the decree of Lucifer.

After many Jews immigrated to European countries and began to divide and create problems as a result of their failure to integrate into the new society, and after the emergence of a decision by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to have a place in North Africa where modern civilization will grow, so the Rothschilds decided to establish a national home for the Jews in Palestine and to expel the Palestinians from their homeland by force under the Balfour Declaration, which provided for the assistance of the Jews.

This family is considered the richest family in the world in the eighteenth century. It owns nearly 80% of the world's wealth and, in particular, controls the planet.

This family owns most of the bonds related to the major countries and most of the world's banks. All monetary services are under its control. It owns many projects and investments, and has the largest proportion of them in extraction, agriculture, industry and trade.

Now you know!

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Palestinians rediscover Birobidzhan, say a Zionist conspiracy has been "hiding" the area

Birobidzhan was the Soviet Union's failed experiment to place its Jews in a remote eastern area near the Chinese border in the "Jewish Autonomous Oblast." Started in 1931, the Jews who relocated there generally didn't stay very long.

Lately, Palestinian media has rediscovered Birobidzhan.

Al Arab today writes, "The Jewish state exists and Zionism has hidden the truth!"

Ahmed Hazem is impressed by Michèle Renouf, an Australian-born British citizen who became famous for speaking at Holocaust denial conferences. She floated the idea of Birobidzhan as a great place for Jews to live instead of Israel.

The Al Arab columnist writes:

Renouf is the first in the world to reveal the existence of a state for the Jews that Zionism and Israel have prevented from addressing. Lady Michele Renouf is well acquainted with the subject of Judaism in the world. The world does not know if its existence because Israel has worked to conceal this fact and prevent the media from addressing it.

History says that the Jews used to immigrate to this republic in the past because it was their homeland, that is, the first homeland for the Jews in the world. But after the Hungarian Jew, Theodor Herzl, established the Zionist movement, he worked to change the direction of Jewish immigration and focused on the idea of settling Jews in Palestine. Unfortunately, the Zionists succeeded in keeping the media away from the first Jewish republic in Birobidzhan.

Since the Zionists did (and still) control most of the media in the West they have worked to prevent mentioning the name of the Russian-Jewish Birobidzhan republic.

Of course, no one has been hiding the existence of the joke known as Birobidzhan. I've found articles about Birobidzhan in newspapers since the 1930s. A fawning 1934 article by Frederic J. Haskin that was widely published falsely claimed that the area was wholly Jewish, but in fact Jews were never more than a minority there.

This 1975 UPI article shows how even then, Russia was pushing Birobidzhan as if it was a real homeland for Jews.

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03/20 Links: In Knesset address, Zelenskyy asks Israel to help Ukrainians facing 'final solution'; Toulouse terrorist attack - the turning-point for European Judaism

From Ian:

In Knesset address, Zelenskyy asks Israel to help Ukrainians facing 'final solution'

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy addressed the Knesset via Zoom on Sunday as part of his flurry of speeches to legislative chambers around the world in an effort to convince governments to actively support his country in the face of the Russian invasion.

With the parliament in recess and undergoing renovations, most MKs and ministers tuned into the virtual event from various locations. Those without access to Zoom, and Knesset Speaker Mickey Levy, who hosted the event, gathered to view the address from a specially designated hall in the parliament. All participants' were muted to prevent interruptions during the speech.

"We want to live but our neighbors want us dead, there is not a lot of room for compromise," Zelenskyy said, paraphrasing former Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir.

"Just like you were wandering around the world, looking for safety, our people are now wandering the world. This is an unjust war, with Russian trying to destroy anything that makes Ukrainians who they are," Zelenskyy continued. "Our history and your history are histories of survival," he continued. "Listen to what the Kremlin is saying, they're using the same terminology of the Nazi party. What they sought to destroy all of Europe, they didn't want to leave any of you, and now from of us. They called it the 'Final Solution'."

"We made our choice 80 years ago, and saved Jews as Righteous Among the Nations, and now we expect you to make your choice," he concluded.

Levy delivered an opening speech just before the president began his remarks. "I want to thank you for dedicating time during these tough months to discuss with us in Israel," Levy said. "I would like to extend our solidarity with the pain of the Ukrainian people," he continued. He said that "We should do everything to end the fighting as soon as possible," and added that he hoped the mediation efforts of Prime Minister Naftali Bennett "bear fruit."

'Why won't Israel give Ukraine weapons?' Zelensky criticizes Knesset

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky used his address to Knesset members and ministers by videoconference on Sunday evening to plead with Israel to send its Iron Dome missile defense system to protect Ukrainian civilians from Russian airstrikes.

Zelensky praised Iron Dome as the best missile defense system in the world and complained that Israel was not supplying Ukraine with even defensive weapons.

"We are turning to you and asking whether it is better to provide help or mediation without choosing a side," he told the MKs and ministers. "I will let you decide the answer to the question, but I do want to point out that indifference kills."

Criticizing Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, who has mediated between him and Putin, Zelensky said mediation can be between two sides but not between good and evil.

Comparing what his country is enduring to the Holocaust, Zelensky said the Russians are using terms like "the final solution" against Ukraine. He said the February 24 date of the Russian invasion was the same date the Nazi party was founded in 1920 and pointed out that Ukrainians saved Jews in the Holocaust.

Zelensky's Address to the Knesset

Very cool! President Zelensky’s speech is being projected directly onto Habima Theater ???????????? pic.twitter.com/wxQjPiIIpc
— Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) March 20, 2022

The Tehran Times Man of the Year article is worthy of Soviet-era Pravda

The Tehran Times declared their Man of the Year for the Iranian calendar year 1400:

The description of his accomplishments reads like something you would read in the heyday of Pravda:

The Tehran Times’s 1400 Man of the Year is Seyed Hassan Nasrallah, the Secretary-General of the Lebanese Hezbollah. This year’s choice may seem a little bit unusual considering the relatively calm situation of Lebanon over the last 12 months. But beneath this apparent serenity lies the important leadership style Nasrallah exhibited in steering the resistance movement and Lebanon in general through multi-faceted crises.

Over the last 12 months, a new government was successfully formed in Lebanon with the active participation of the resistance factions. Perhaps, government formation was the biggest political event in Lebanon in 1400. It broke a year-long deadlock that was about to end up in chaos and disorder in the Mediterranean country. But with the leadership of Nasrallah, Lebanese factions successfully managed to agree on another consensual government at a time when the country was facing dire maladies on every level.

Nasrallah quietly and constructively engaged in the political process to help find solutions to many challenges without allowing the foreigners to make decisions for the Lebanese.

He positively contributed to solving hurdles getting in the way of government formation, and he is now laying the grounds for the victory of resistance factions and their allies in the upcoming elections slated for May. Just as what happened during government formation, the foreign countries would use the next election to undermine Hezbollah and its allies.

But Nasrallah is aware and vigilant. He recently said, “Our battle in the next election is the battle of our allies, and just as we strive for the victory of our candidates, we will strive for the success of our allied candidates.”

Lebanon's economy is in shambles, largely because of Nasrallah and Hezbollah. But he is Man of the Year because he is leading the country into even more despair - in the name of "resistance" to Israel.

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Idiot Juan Cole explains the reason Israelis are happy and Palestinians are not: The Jews are stealing Palestinian happiness!

Twelfth-rate academic Juan Cole notes that in the latest UN World Happiness Report, Israel ranks as the ninth happiest nation in the world and the Palestinian Territories ranks 122nd out of 146 rated areas.

Of course, he must explain how this happened using his own twisted Jew-hating logic. It is, he says, "happiness apartheid."

The per capita income of Palestinians is $3751 a year. The UN estimates that the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian territories has taken out $57 billion since 2000 from their economy that would otherwise have been there, spurring growth. The Palestinian gross domestic product would be 3 times bigger today without that interference.

Israeli per capita income is $34,185 nearly 10 times greater than that of Palestine. Some of that income is produced by usurping land and resources from the Palestinians.

There you go! Jews are stealing Palestinian happiness!

But not only that: Jews are stealing Palestinian health, too!

Palestinian life expectancy in 2019 was 74 years. Because Israel declined to vaccinate most of the people living under its military occupation against COVID-19, it has likely fallen.

Live expectancy in Israel is about 83 years. Again, Prime Minister Naftali Bennett rules both people, directly administering 60% of the West Bank and using the Palestine Authority as his policeman for the other 40%. Yet some of the population he rules drop dead 9 years before the others.

There you have it. The Jews are not only stealing Palestinian land and life expectancy and freedom and money, but they are stealing Palestinian happiness!

Don't let actual facts interfere with Juan Cole's fevered hallucinations.

The number of deaths per million from COVID-19 for the Palestinian territories is 1004 per million. For Israel, it is higher - 1117 per million. So much for that theory.

When the entire Palestinian territories were under direct Israeli rule from 1967-2000, Palestinian life expectancy increased from 54 to over 70. It has gone up since, too.

Cole implies that somehow Israel is fully responsible for Palestinian health. But Israeli laws do not apply to the Palestinian health sector. This is international law under the Oslo accords.

The Lancet noted in 2020:

With respect to the West Bank, the Oslo Accords state that health is under the aegis of the Palestinian Authority. As such, it is only in cooperation with the Palestinian Authority that health professionals in Israel can provide assistance to people in the West Bank. Sadly, the Palestinian Authority has decided on a general policy wherein opposing steps, which are claimed to represent so-called normalisation with Israelis, override such cooperation by forbidding Palestinian health-care personnel from working with their Israeli colleagues. We all have Palestinian associates who have privately expressed an interest in working together, but are afraid to stand out.

Other factors that could affect life expectancy (and happiness) that elude the distinguished idiot professor is that a higher percentage of West Bank Palestinians smoke than in Israel (27% vs. 20%), Arabs tend to have more obesity and diabetes, and in recent years, the Palestinian Authority has banned its people from being treated in Israeli hospitals.

The biggest proof that Cole is an idiot comes from looking at the happiness index of other Arab countries that border Israel.

While the Palestinian ranking is 122, it is higher than that of Egypt (129), Jordan (134) and Lebanon(145.) (Syria isn't ranked, but it certainly would also be lower than that of the Palestinians as well.)

Why would those people be unhappier than the Palestinians? None of the factors that Cole lists applies to them - yet they are worse off than the Palestinians that Cole says are practically enslaved by Israel! Apparently, "occupation" actually enhances happiness compared to Israel's non-occupied neighbors!

Cole's hate for Israel colors everything he writes about. It is rarely as clear as it is here.

(h/t JW)

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Defense Update reported on Thursday about Israel's Iron Beam laser-based air defense system:

Israel’s Minister of Defense Benny Gantz has approved allocating a significant budget to develop and produce a high-power solid-state laser system designed to intercept rockets, mortars, and UAVs. Rafael, the system developer, expects to sign the full-scale development contract with the Ministry of Defense in the coming days; the initial investment amounts to hundreds of millions of NIS.

The system’s production and deployment will cost hundreds of millions of NIS more, and the funding approved will cover the system development, procurement, and initial deployment. As Iron Beam becomes operational, it will be integrated into Israel’s multi-tier air and missile defense system, providing a cost-effective and operationally efficient lower-tier defense against missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, rockets, and mortars.

In the latest example of bizarre magical thinking, Palestine Today - which is run by Islamic Jihad - has an article about this plan, claiming that it shows that Iron Dome doesn't work.

They interview an "expert" who says that the war last May proved that Iron Dome was ineffective, and Israel is forced to spend hundreds of millions to come up with a replacement.

Some 90% of the Gaza rockets that were headed towards populated areas were intercepted during the May war.

Iron Beam is designed to hit projectiles that Iron Dome is not good at - short range mortars and drones. It is not a replacement.

But the Palestinians need to find reasons to celebrate, and - like children - when their actions prompt any reaction from Israel, they are happy that they are not being ignored.

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03/19 Links: The US ambassador to Israel calls pay-for-slay 'martyr payments'; Biden’s Unconscionable Empowerment of Both Russia and Iran; 10th Anniversary of Terrorist Attack at Toulouse Jewish School

From Ian:

Jonathan Tobin: The US ambassador to Israel calls pay-for-slay 'martyr payments' - for starters

Thomas Nides may not be able to erase everything his predecessor accomplished. But he’s doing his best. That was the upshot of an astonishing webinar conducted by the U.S. ambassador to the State of Israel earlier this week with Americans for Peace Now.

Israelis and American friends of Israel were aware that Nides and his boss, President Joe Biden, have a different point of view about the Jewish state, as well as the conflict with the Palestinian Arabs, than that of former President Donald Trump and his envoy to Israel, David Friedman. But what his conversation laid bare wasn’t just hostility to the views of the overwhelming majority of Israelis, including many in the current government. Nor was it about what Trump tried to do in order to shake the Palestinian Arabs out of their intransigence and to help facilitate normal relations between the Jewish state and much of the Arab world. Like others in the administration these days, he is determined to stick with the foreign-policy establishment’s failed Middle East policies of the past to try to force Israel to do things that voters of that democratic nation have repeatedly rejected.

Nides tossed diplomatic courtesy to the winds in the webinar in which he spoke of there being people in the current government to which he is accredited with whom he would not wish to have dinner. The former Democratic Party operative, banker and U.S. State Department official also vented his spleen about Israelis building homes in Jerusalem or those parts of the 'West Bank' that he knows the Jewish state will never relinquish, even in a theoretical peace deal.

In addition to calling such construction “stupid” and “infuriating,” his devotion to restoring the pre-1967 “Green Line” extends to the point of refusing to not just Jewish communities in the territories but even to visit the tunnels under the Western Wall in Jerusalem, a stand that validates the disingenuous Arab claim that efforts to restore and reaffirm the sacred site’s Jewish history are somehow a provocation.

Instead of working to widen the circle of peace between Israel and the neighboring Arab states or promoting warmer relations with the United States, Nides indicated that his main agenda was helping the Palestinian Arabs. He seemed primarily focused on the idea that granting the brutally tyrannical and corrupt Palestinian Authority formal sovereignty was the only thing that mattered. Anything that might interfere with that, including the P.A.’s notorious “pay for slay” policies (which he tellingly referred to as “martyr payments”) in which it gives salaries and pensions to terrorists based on how much Jewish blood they spill is seen as an obstacle to his goal because it provides Israelis with an excuse not to surrender territory.

Another Palestinian ‘Moderate’ Is Exposed

This past week, Shtayyeh threatened to upset the apple cart that the media had so carefully constructed in order to protect his image. In meetings with members of Congress who were visiting Ramallah, the PA prime minister launched into a series of venomous anti-Israel tirades.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA.) asked Shtayyeh about the 4,000-plus Hamas rocket attacks on Israel last May. Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-NY) and Rep. David Valadao (R-CA) told Jewish Insider that “Shtayyeh dismissed Hamas rocket attacks against Israel as ‘fireworks.’ ”

That’s right, “fireworks.” Which somehow managed to murder 10 Israelis and severely damage countless Israeli homes, schools and kibbutzim.

Garbarino said that Shtayyeh’s outrageous statement “really annoyed people” in the delegation and indicated that “[the Palestinian Arabs] are not ready to have an adult conversation.”

Jewish Insider reported that Shtayyeh also falsely accused Israel of “apartheid.” Remarkable! The prime minister of the PA, which forbids Jews from living in its territory and forbids Arabs from selling property to Jews under penalty of death, accuses the Jews of apartheid.

According to Jewish Insider, House Democratic Caucus chair Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) “forcefully pushed back” against Shtayyeh’s “apartheid” lie. To his credit, Jeffries recently wrote that accusations of Israeli apartheid are “demonstrably false, dangerous and designed to isolate Israel in one of the toughest neighborhoods in the world.”

Rep. Young Kim (R-CA) came away from the meeting with Shtayyeh convinced that the PA leaders have “such a victim mentality.” Rep. Valadao said, “I just didn’t get the impression that [Shtayyeh] is someone who is looking for long-term peace with Israelis in the region.” And Rep. Kathleen Rice (D-NY) charged Shtayyeh with engaging in “revisionist history.”

The truth is that Shtayyeh is no different from any of the other Israel-haters, revisionist liars and terror apologists who comprise the leadership of the Palestinian Authority. The only difference was that the media had done a good job of hiding him from serious scrutiny. Still, they can’t hide his own words.

Melanie Phillips: Biden’s Unconscionable Empowerment of Both Russia and Iran

Of course, the immediate target in Iran’s sights is Israel. Bennett is in difficulties over Ukraine because Israel has Iranian militias on its border with Syria. Israel keeps them in check only because Putin, Syria’s patron, allows the Israelis to fly repeated sorties against these Iranian targets.

But Israel now finds itself not just trapped between Russia and Ukraine. It is also caught between, on the one hand, an Iranian enemy actively involved in trying to murder its citizens and annihilate it altogether, and on the other a so-called ally in Washington that is in fact hell-bent on empowering that enemy.

It’s not as if Iran isn’t actively involved in attacks upon America itself. Last Sunday, Iran fired missiles into the vicinity of the American consulate in Erbil in Iraq.

The Biden administration insisted this wasn’t an attack against the United States. But as the Jewish Institute for National Security of America observed, the strike was exactly that, marking “a massive escalation that seeks to test whether President Biden is willing to risk the collapse of nuclear negotiations by responding with deterrent force.” The administration’s denials, it said, would only embolden Iran still further.

Earlier this month, the Washington Examiner reported that at least two Iranians belonging to the IRGC’s covert-action Quds Force had been plotting to assassinate former National Security Adviser John Bolton.

According to a Justice Department official with direct knowledge of the investigation, the department possessed indictable evidence against the Iranians, but Biden administration officials were resisting publicly indicting the men for fear that this could derail the nuclear deal.

Earlier this month, Corinne Kitsell, the UK Permanent Representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency, said: “Iran’s nuclear program has never before been this advanced, and is exposing the international community to unprecedented levels of risk.”

Its’s hard to believe, but through its double-dealing with both Russia and Iran, America is now working with a lethal enemy of the West to empower a lethal enemy of civilization.

03/18 Links Pt2: Israel marks 30 years since attack on Argentina embassy; ‘Extradite Malki’s killer’; Israel and the Arabs: a new strategic reality; Israel ranked 9th happiest country in the world

From Ian:

Noah Rothman: The Costs of a New Iran Deal Outweigh the Rewards

Anew nuclear deal with Iran, in substance or principle, may be imminent. But the circumstances that would produce such an arrangement ensure that it would not bring peace. It may not even postpone war.

On the night of March 13, a volley of rockets launched from inside Iran rained down on targets in the Iraqi city of Erbil near enough to a U.S. consulate compound that it left no ambiguity about Tehran’s targets. That attack, the Associated Press reports, bolstered arguments both for and against a new nuclear deal. How? “For the administration,” the AP continued, “it confirmed that Iran would be a greater danger if it obtains a nuke.” In other words, Iran must be rewarded for shooting at Americans lest it continue to shoot at Americans. This mindboggling logic tacitly admits that a new nuclear deal is a product of duress; we are deterred by the mere potential of an Iranian bomb.

In the administration’s efforts to keep negotiations over an Iranian program from collapsing, the White House is already sacrificing its relationships with America’s partners in the region. Following the Iranian missile strike, administration officials told New York Times officials that the American facilities that were struck were not, in fact, Tehran’s target. Those officials lent credence to an Iranian narrative that the strike was a response to an Israeli airstrike in Syria in which Iranians operating a secret drone factory were killed. Tehran, the unnamed officials insisted, was actually targeting secret Israeli training facilities inside Iraq.

If that is true, the White House had just revealed the shocking and previously deniable existence of Israeli military facilities inside Iraq. If it isn’t true, it was a repulsively craven display designed to let the White House squeeze out of its obligation to defend U.S. interests from brazen attacks by rogue states. Either way, it was a betrayal of Israel and a display of weakness that will beget future attacks on the symbols of American might in the region.

Warning against Iran deal, Israel marks 30 years since attack on Argentina embassy

Dozens of people attended a memorial service Thursday at the site of a 1992 terrorist attack against the Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, exactly 30 years after the site was blown up by a car bomb.

“It was a terrorist attack against my country, but it was also an attack on Argentina, the country where my father was born and raised,” Justice Minister Gideon Sa’ar, who was leading a Foreign Ministry delegation, said at the ceremony.

The ceremony took place at the same time as the March 17, 1992 attack, when a suicide bomber killed 29 and wounded 242 in front of the Israeli embassy, in what still is the deadliest attack on an Israeli diplomatic mission. A group with ties to Iran and the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah took responsibility for the bombing.

“The perpetrator of the attack in Argentina is Iran, and it is our moral duty to continue to pursue them until they are brought to justice,” Sa’ar said.

The justice minister used the ceremony to reiterate Israel’s public position on a potential revival of a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers.

“Recently, we are hearing about the dangerous nuclear agreement, which is being formed between the powers and Iran. The lifting of sanctions under the agreement will transfer huge sums to Iran and its proxies, like Hezbollah, harming peace and stability in the Middle East, and strengthening terror elements,” Sa’ar added.

Before the ceremony, Sa’ar met with the families of those killed and injured in the attack and with the heads of the Jewish community in Argentina.

On Friday, he is slated to meet with Argentine President Alberto Fernández, according to the Ynet news site.

Powerful video reminding that #OTD 30 years ago, #Iran's #Hezbollah terrorists attacked #Israel's Embassy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, killing 29 people. To date, #Iran has still not been held accountable. #huellasdelterrorismo pic.twitter.com/biuefQChu6
— Arsen Ostrovsky (@Ostrov_A) March 17, 2022

‘Extradite Malki’s killer’

FIVE years after the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed Jordanian Ahlam Tamimi on its Most Wanted Terrorists list, Israelis Arnold and Frimet Roth have repeated their calls for Tamimi, who took part in a 2001 Jerusalem bombing that killed their Australian-born daughter Malki, to be brought to justice in the US.

Tamimi helped to plan and took part in the Sbarro pizzeria bombing, in which 15 people were murdered and 130 injured. She was convicted by an Israeli military tribunal and was given multiple life sentences. But she was released in a 2011 prisoner exchange to free Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit, held by Hamas.

However, speaking to The AJN, Arnold Roth pointed out that Israel commuted her sentence on the condition that she would not re-engage in incitement, something she soon openly flouted on returning to Jordan. In that country, she now enjoys celebrity status after hosting an internationally networked 2011-2016 TV talk show, and has trumpeted her lack of remorse over the deadly attack.

“Her unjust freedom – and the injustice it embodies – chokes us,” the Roths jointly stated on the fifth anniversary of the FBI listing.

In 2013, the US Justice Department filed charges against Tamimi based on US nationals who were victims of the Sbarro bombing. Malki was a US citizen through her American-born mother. Four years later, the charges were unsealed (made public) and the US asked for Tamimi’s extradition, but Jordan refused.

Jordan has long claimed its extradition treaty with the US was never ratified, but in late 2020, a freedom-of-information lawsuit by Malki’s parents against the US government yielded a document proving it was ratified, and that there are no legal obstacles to extraditing Tamimi. In fact, other Jordanians wanted in the US have been extradited. Sbarro pizzeria bombing planner Ahlam Tamimi.

Roth has also rejected assertions by Jordan that re-prosecuting Tamimi would breach the US constitutional prohibition on double jeopardy – trying someone for the same crime twice – and explained that this principle does not apply to prosecution in another country.

Even after the ADL draft memo surfaced, JVP keeps lying about "Deadly Exchange"

Jewish Voice for Peace is ecstatic. They sent out an email:

We just got proof: our collective power stopped the ADL’s police exchange program for three years and caused a massive internal crisis.

A leaked ADL memo shows us that our collective organizing is working: in June 2020, at the height of Black-led uprising against police violence, staff at the ADL wrote a memo recommending an end to their police exchange programs. In it, they admit their trips militarize the police, and detail the years of our campaigning that have made the program incredibly costly and controversial to them.

This is a huge victory, built by decades of Black and Palestinian movement building, and brought home through the sustained pressure of a targeted, unrelenting grassroots campaign rooted in local communities and coalitions. However, the ADL is now doubling down on their deep relationship with police and even talking about expanding these programs.

First of all, the leaked memo is a draft. It is not at all clear it was ever sent out or acted upon.

Part of what they say is true: the ADL memo reveals that it had to spend a lot of money defending the program of cooperating with Israeli law enforcement from the haters.

But in no way does the memo say that the trips "militarizes the police."

It said that the ADL needed to ask the question of whether the programs somehow contribute to US police violence, it emphasizes that it is highly unlikely:

ADL has been taking law enforcement officers to Israel for educational and training purposes since 2004. We have involved 500-600 law enforcement officers and partners. These trips have built bonds, created trust, and helped to deepen ADL relationships with federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and leaders. These investments have generated value for regional offices because the stronger relationships have helped ADL with the investigation of hate crimes and protecting local communities.

During these trips, officers meet with Israel National Police (INP), academics, journalists and other Israeli officials to learn about how the INP fights crime and terrorism. They have never participated in tactical training exercises with the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) or the INP. They did not learn how to apprehend or restrain individuals, nor to conduct interrogations or apply any related practices.

On the other hand, the trips axe costly, are of questionable programmatic value, and are incredibly controversial. Each trip costs approximately [$115,000] directly due to travel and related costs, and upward of $200,000 per year in the staff time it takes to support the trips and defend the trips from controversy. These costs can potentially skyrocket if additional indirect costs are taken into consideration, such as the lost donor revenue and the increase in staff time and other resources it requires to defend ADL advocacy positions while hosting such a controversial program. Further, the impact is unclear. The law enforcement officers tell us that they enjoyed their trip and that they helped "bond," but it is not clear that those officers change policies to reduce antisemitism upon their return, or that they increase activities to counter white supremacy. We have not performed an impact evaluation for the program, nor is it clear what would be measured by one. During challenging budget times, it is difficult to defend a program that is so expensive with such an unclear return on investment.

Here's the part they are distorting:

...in light of the very real police brutality at the hands of militarized police forces in the U.S., we must ask ourselves difficult questions, like whether we are contributing to the problem. ....We must ask ourselves if, upon returning home, those we train are more likely to use force. We hope that that is not accurate, and certainly JVP distorts the truth, but it is a time in American history to ask ourselves these hard questions.

The ADL is saying that the questions must be asked - but it has no indication that the answer is "yes." And in the end, it has said that it will continue to work with law enforcement, nearly two years after this memo was drafted.

The memo is simply discusses whether there is a return on investment for the program, and whether the increased relationships with US law enforcement helps the protection of Jews in the US.

The main point of the memo is that these programs are expensive, with or without the criticism, and there is no way to measure whether that funding is worth it. It is what any mature organization would do. I'm sure that there are JVP memos about which of their efforts seem successful and which ones bomb, prompting them to change tactics.

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03/18 Links Pt1: Caroline Glick: Ukraine's lessons for Israel; Volodymyr Zelensky, the making of a modern Winston Churchill; 13 Holocaust survivors, wounded Ukrainians rescued and airlifted to Israel

From Ian:

Caroline Glick: Ukraine's lessons for Israel

The situation with the Palestinians is also disturbing, and speaks clearly to the destructive implications of Bennett's decision to play mediator between Russia and Ukraine.

Last week, Congress passed an omnibus spending bill which Biden signed. With AIPAC's support, the bill contained a section on Israel that significantly downgraded the US commitment to the Jewish state.

The section on Israel was an amended version of a law that passed initially in 2012. The 2012 law required the US to "assist" and "support the Government of Israel" in its ongoing talks with the Palestinians. The new law deleted the part about supporting Israel. Under the new law, the US is obligated to "a negotiated solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict resulting in two states living side by side in peace, security, and mutual recognition."

In other words, under the amended law, the US is committed to supporting the establishment of a Palestinian state, whether Israel supports it or not.

Sen. Ted Cruz has fought since last July to block the passage of this amendment because he recognized the damage it was liable to do both to US-Israel ties and to Israel's national security. The Israeli Embassy, on the other hand, was less concerned.

Senate sources explain that Israel's diplomats were nowhere to be found as Cruz fought adoption of the amendment.

The worst aspect of the amended law is that it wasn't initiated by the usual anti-Israel forces in the so-called "Squad." AIPAC supported the amendment and so did mainstream Republican senators, like the ranking Republican on the Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, James Risch, and Sen. Rob Portman, who is Jewish.

The implications are clear. When Israel opts to remain silent as its interests and position are undermined, not only does it strengthen its enemies, it loses its friends.

After Russia invaded Ukraine, many Ukrainians told Israeli reporters on the scene that they were inspired by Israel, which has always fought its own battles and survived even in the face of global indifference and hostility. Today, the opposite should be the case.

Israel's government must learn from the Ukrainians. The West will not fight for a threatened democracy. States that wait for green lights from the West to defend themselves will not survive. But states that defend themselves will see sufficient forces rally to their side to enable them to persevere and survive.

Douglas Murray: Zelensky hails Founding Fathers and cultural heroes just as America rejects them

Poor President Zelensky. Not only must he risk constant assassination attempts and an effort by the Russian military to take over his entire country. On top of that, when he appeals to his friends and allies he seems to imagine that we are something we are not.

On Wednesday morning, when the Ukrainian president addressed the US Congress he tried to appeal to Americans. He spoke of the attacks on Pearl Harbor and 9/11. And he tried to summon up the foundational ideals of this country.

He said that “Just like anyone else in the United States I remember your national memorial in Rushmore, the faces of your prominent presidents, those who laid the foundation of the United States of America as it is today.”

The reference was touching, but wildly outdated. Clearly President Zelensky does not realize that in the last few years America has been trying to rid itself of these foundational figures. Statues of Jefferson, Washington and Lincoln have been pulled down across this country. Only last November Thomas Jefferson was crated up and humiliatingly wheeled out the back door of New York’s Council chamber.

Sticking with this city, only the other week the statue of Theodore Roosevelt was hauled away in the dead of night from its position in front of the American Museum of Natural History. And who can forget how CNN’s correspondent described Mount Rushmore just a couple of Independence Day weekends ago. According to CNN, Mount Rushmore is “a monument of two slave owners” positioned on “land wrestled away from Native Americans.”

It is wonderful that Zelensky admires the foundations of America. But the country, and politicians, he was addressing seem not to share that admiration. In fact they seem to be actively trying to shrug off the history that Zelensky was appealing to.

The Ukrainian also referenced Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I have a dream speech” without seeming to realize that this generation of Americans have been busily inverting King’s dream. So much so that today we live in a society which is not color-blind, as Dr. King hoped, but color hyper-aware.

Volodymyr Zelensky, the making of a modern Winston Churchill - opinion

Just after the start of the Russian invasion, Zelensky set the rhetorical pace. On national television, he said he had a message for Russian forces: “If you attack, you will see our faces, not our backs!”

While Russian tanks and armored vehicles clogged Ukraine’s highway, Russian cruise missiles rained death and destruction on his capital of Kyiv, Zelensky knew his own life was in danger. Still, he radiated calm, absolute coolness, distinct courage and, above all, inspiring determination.

No Hollywood producer could have made a war epic to top Zelensky’s selfie video from the heart of Kyiv. “We are here,” he said. “We are in Kyiv. We protect Ukraine.”

“Our army is here. Our civil society is there. We are all here.”

Riveting words of simple power. He speaks to his nation not from a television studio, nor from a government office, but from the streets: Streets they know and recognize, streets for which he clearly says that he will shed his own blood.

Zelensky remained in Ukraine. As did his architect wife, his teenage daughter and nine-year-old son. With this decision, he reiterates the promise: “We are here.”

Vladimir Putin, through his megalomania, made a hero out of Zelensky and villain out of himself.

Wars are not movies, of course. The brave and the good do not automatically win in the end. Consider the brave premiers of Czechoslovakia in 1938 or Poland in 1939. Zelensky may still die for beliefs, alongside many thousands of his countrymen, but he has laid down a marker for the ages, a defiant voice for freedom that will sound down through the generations.

Through his brave words and braver actions, he set the stage for a triumphant outcome. He could still save his country and his young family. Certainly, the whole world is cheering for him.

Rasmea Odeh is the convicted Palestinian terrorist who is the darling of modern antisemites (who claim they are merely anti-Zionist.)

Commentary's Jonathan Marks has a review of "The Trials of Rasmea Odeh," where he summarizes a book by Steven Lubet that examines the evidence that Odeh was guilty of both lying on her immigration form to the US as well as of murder of two Israeli Jews in 1968.

Not surprisingly to those of us who have followed the cases, Lubet shows that she is guilty on all counts.

Here is a summary of the summary:

First, Odeh was guilty of the crime to which she pleaded guilty: “procuring citizenship contrary to law.” She falsely denied, in writing and in person, being arrested, convicted, and jailed in Israel. That lie, without which she would not have obtained citizenship, was illegal. After her grudging plea was accepted, Odeh rushed to the courthouse steps to take it back in the presence of her fans. But Lubet shows that Odeh pleaded out for a good reason, namely, the weakness of her defense.

At trial, Odeh claimed that she misread her naturalization application, which asked such unambiguous questions as “Have you EVER been convicted of any crime or offense.” That boldfaced, capitalized “ever,” she said, referred only to convictions in the United States, she had thought. The official who conducted her naturalization interview testified to having clarified, as a routine practice, that the word “ever” included “anywhere in the world.” Odeh asserted that the official never did so, which is why she reaffirmed, under oath and line by line, the lies in her application.

Lubet then demolishes the claims that Odeh didn't know enough English in her 1994 visa application where she wrote the same lie (she took English in school and college materials were in English) and that her supposed PTSD didn't allow her to admit to being arrested (she clearly talks about her arrest all the time.)

Lubet then proves that the accusation that the judges were biased are completely unfounded; and he impressively shows how they bent over backwards to allow her defense.

Then:

Rasmea Odeh was guilty of the crimes she lied about, including her participation in the operation that killed Edward Joffe and Leon Kanner. Lubet counts the ways in which this should be ob-vious. Both of the women who worked with Odeh and planted the bombs have implicated her in the operation, not under duress but during interviews with friendly interlocutors. In one such interview, Odeh herself sits, smiling and denying nothing, as her accomplice thanks her for “dragging [her] into military work.” After Odeh went to prison, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) named a hijacking unit after her and made her release a high priority. Odeh, who portrayed herself to “European and American audiences” as an innocent victim caught up in an Israeli dragnet, told a sympathetic interviewer that she was a member of PFLP’s central committee, and she gave several “Arabic-language television interviews recounting her involvement in ‘military work,’” a euphemism for the PFLP’s attacks on civilians. And why not? Before she came to the United States, Odeh was celebrated in the Arab world.

Lubet finds it credible that Odeh was tortured; Israeli laws against that weren't solidified for years afterwards. But if she admitted anything under torture, it was the truth.

The people who demanded "justice for Rasmea" got exactly what they asked for.

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In his Wednesday speech, Russian president Vladimir Putin compared Western sanctions imposed on Russia, its economy, athletes and cultural world to the persecution of the Jews by the Nazis in the 1930s.

He said in the speech::

In many Western countries, people are subjected to persecution just because they are originally from Russia. They are being denied medical care, their children are expelled from schools, parents are losing their jobs, and Russian music, culture, and literature are being banned. In its attempts to “cancel” Russia, the West tore off its mask of decency and began to act crudely showing its true colours. One cannot help but remember the anti-Semitic Nazi pogroms in Germany in the 1930s, and then pogroms perpetrated by their henchmen in many European countries that joined the Nazi aggression against our country during the Great Patriotic War.

Whatever one thinks about Western blanket sanctions against all things Russian, it is nothing like how Nazis treated Jews in the 1930s. For one thing, Jews in Germany were utterly helpless, as they didn't have a state that could protect them.

Putin's use of the word "pogrom" is also telling, since the Russian word has been used since the 19th century to initially refer to Russian attacks on Jews. There seems to be a desire by Putin to pretend that there is no Russian history of antisemitism and it is a purely Nazi invention.

Both sides in the Russian invasion of Ukraine are not shy about accusing their opponents of antisemitism. This is not out of any love for Jews on either side. In some ways, the analogies to Jews that we are seeing are themselves a form of antisemitism.

For one thing, it is a minimization of actual pogroms and historic attacks on Jews. The war is not an attack on race or ethnicities; it is driven by nationalism. Russia may be targeting (or at least grossly uncaring about the lives of) civilians, but they aren't targeting victims by race.

Secondly, the comparisons with Jews on both sides has an implication: Jews are a dominant, unified, worldwide force and therefore both sides want to use them for their own political gains. It is a diluted version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion where the powerful Jews decide which side should win to help their own (nefarious) goals.

When the Jews don't do what these leaders demand, that itself can foment antisemitism in their own countries.

When world leaders invoke Jews to make a political point, it is rarely good for the Jews.

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Arab TV channels compete to offer TV series that run during the month of Ramadan, often playing every night - 30 episodes.

Islamic Jihad's media arm has created its own Ramadan series, extolling last September's prison break from Gilboa prison through a tunnel.

Four of them were captured within days when Israeli Arabs called police. They tried to get help from other Israeli Arabs and were refused.

Two of them were caught after four days. Two more were caught on the fifth day. And the last two were caught about a week later.

All of them remain in prison, with little chance of being released.

What a victory!

Yet not only are they heroes to Islamic Jihad (five of them belonged to that terror group,) but they are somehow stretching those facts over 30 episodes!

Dramatic music can only go so far.

For people who are starved for reasons for pride, a failed prison escape where the escapees were spurned and turned in by their fellow Arabs is the most uplifting story they can find.

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03/17 Links Pt2: Menachem Begin's legacy and the security of Israel; Gut feelings on Amnesty International; 30 years since Israeli embassy in Argentina destroyed in terror attack

From Ian:

Menachem Begin's legacy and the security of Israel

We remember not only what Begin did, but who he was, for this is what constitutes a legacy. His moral clarity and actions were consistent throughout his life. That is the source of strength of his legacy, and the magnitude of its contribution, precisely at the intersection represented by his commitment to be a “good, Jewish-style” prime minister.

Begin’s birth on the eve of Shabbat Nachamu, after Tisha Be’av, gave him his name – Menachem (Hebrew for “comfort”). His passing on the eve of Shabbat Zachor, before Purim, find expression in a verse that represents his moral compass, according to which “the eternity of Israel will neither lie nor find comfort, for it is not a human to be comforted.”

It establishes the inextricable link between consolation and memory, modeled by public service that transcends personal, tribal, geographic or small, intra-Israeli politics. It explains the interwoven thread connecting words and actions, throughout Begin’s journey: From the declarations that “there will be no civil war” aboard the Altalena, to “I am not a Jew with shaky knees”; from painful opposition to reparations for the Holocaust from Germany, to genuine lack of understanding of Dudu Topaz’s derogatory and divisive pre-election speech about “the Chachachim” (riffraff) – because for him: “Ashkenazi? Iraqi? Jews! Brothers! Warriors!”

He charted a legacy for his successors, with his request to be buried near Jewish underground fighters Meir Feinstein and Moshe Barazani on the Mount of Olives, without pompous speeches or a royal funeral. All of these testify that consolation can only be found in memory, and that by identifying present trials and tribulations, it is possible to pave a path to a better future.

Begin’s profound wisdom, that there is no inherent contradiction in the liberal-nationalism that guided him, is his legacy. It harbors the potential to continue the journey he began, diagnosing, understanding and addressing challenges facing the State of Israel and the Jewish people, and with necessary modesty and caution, even when the crisis concerns western liberal values.

Melanie Phillips: The ominous subtext of Nazanin's release

Iranian sources always linked the release of Mrs Zaghari-Ratcliffe, along with other dual nationals whom the regime had effectively taken hostage, to an unpaid British debt of £400 million owed to Iran for the non-delivery of Chieftain tanks in the 1970s.

The British government maintained it couldn’t pay this money without falling foul of international sanctions against Iran. Reports emerged yesterday that the government has now agreed to pay this debt — although it insists there is no link between that payment and the release of the prisoners.

But if it has now agreed to pay it, this means that the US is no longer objecting that such a payment would contravene the sanctions against Iran. And that suggests that — just as has been feared — the US is now lifting those sanctions in the unconscionable deal that it has struck with Tehran.

The announcement of that deal, which was expected more than a week ago, was reportedly delayed by Vladimir Putin’s demand that the US should lift its sanctions against Russia over Ukraine to allow Moscow to begin trading with Tehran. Since the Iran deal was being brokered by Russia, this threw a spanner into the works.

The release of the British hostages suggests that the Biden administration has found a way to circumvent that blockage — and finally do this deal with the devil that it has been absolutely determined to achieve.

Gut feelings on Amnesty International

It’s good that I wasn’t trying to eat lunch and digest O’Brien’s words at the same time. I’m not sure whether I would have choked or upchucked, but even now I find them hard to swallow. O’Brien’s gut instincts were a kick in the guts.

O’Brien, who is not Jewish, obviously knows better than me the nature of “core Jewish values.” I’m so unprogressive that I think they can be found in the Ten Commandments. The idea of tikkun olam, mending the world, is a later addition – although the more I hear people like O’Brien and Callamard, the more I think the world is in urgent need of being fixed.

The luncheon event was reportedly the first in a series hosted by the Women’s National Democratic Club that will explore “Palestine past, present and future.” The part about “Palestine’s past” could fit in during the appetizers – unless they intend hijacking Israel’s history for the narrative instead.

Israel’s ancient past, thriving present, and optimistic future as the Jewish state seems to be less interesting to the group. Maybe they’re afraid of biting off more than they can chew. More than they want to hear. Israel is a country with a population of more than nine million, of whom the vast majority, more than six million, are Jews. O’Brien should speak to a representative sample to discover what they think about the idea of dismantling the country they call home.

Following the publication of the Amnesty International report, even Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej, a Muslim Arab member of the left-wing Meretz party, declared: “Israel has many problems that must be solved, inside the Green Line and certainly in the occupied territories, but Israel is not an apartheid state.”

Whatever @SecBlinken imagined would result from embracing the leaders of #antisemitism under the facade of #HumanRights, this is an endorsement of their hate. @kenroth & @AgnesCallamard have done irreparable damage. 1/n https://t.co/BGQAqg01O8
— Prof Gerald M Steinberg (@GeraldNGOM) March 17, 2022

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Corbyn, Allies Slam IDF For Blocking Shipment Of Flowers To Terrorist Graves (PreOccupied Territory)

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Nablus terrorists London, March 20 - Prominent figures in Britain's Labour Party expressed outrage today upon learning that several bouquets they had dispatched to the Palestinian Territories in tribute to three gunmen who met their ends in confrontation with the IDF instead wound up stuck at an Israeli military checkpoint, never to reach the burial sites of the martyrs.

Jeremy Corbyn, Diane Abbot, George Galloway, Ken Livingstone, Owen Jones, and half a dozen other party stalwarts told reporters Sunday they are fuming over the interdiction of the flowers, which the group had intended to honor Ashraf al-Mublasat, Adham al-Mabrouk, and Muhammad al-Dakhil, members of the Fatah-affiliated Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades who died in confrontation with Israeli soldiers on February 8, and who had perpetrated shooting attacks on Israelis. Israeli forces set up an impromptu security checkpoint yesterday on a highway leading to Nablus, acting on intelligence information, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Office. The troops manning the checkpoint instructed the driver delivering the flowers to stop and submit his vehicle to inspection. The inspection found three illegal firearms, several hand grenades, and materials for the manufacture of explosives, in addition to the large bouquets from the Labour contingent. The driver was arrested.

"We are incensed at this violation," stated Corbyn. "A noble and generous acknowledgement of Palestinian pain under such trying circumstances was the entirety of our intent, and Israel's thwarting of the delivery can only be seen as cruelty for the sake of cruelty."

"We once again call upon the international community to force an end to this ongoing injustice," demanded Jones. "How many times must we witness the heartlessness of occupation? While this atrocity was taking place in the West Bank, the sadistic blockade of the Gaza Strip continues to deprive its residents of the means to properly celebrate the deaths of Israelis and of Jews worldwide, and deprives them of the means to resist the existence of Jewish sovereignty where Jewish dhimmitude and contingent existence once prevailed. Britain needs strong leadership that will right those wrongs, and not, as we have now, leaders indifferent to Palestinian suffering."

Abbot and Corbyn vowed a personal trip to Nablus to deliver even bigger replacement bouquets. "Our main concern involves not supporting the occupation," cautioned Livingstone. "Any such trip will require traversing Israeli airspace or passing through Israeli border controls, and we cannot legitimize such institutions. So the trip might not happen, unless some of us really, really want to check out the gay scene in Tel Aviv."

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