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Wednesday, July 11, 2018

07/11 Links Pt2: UN Watch: One year later — the answer to "Where Are Your Jews?"; Covering Up Robert Kennedy’s Palestinian Murderer; The Palestinian Space Agency is a Thing

From Ian:

UN Watch: One year later — the answer to "Where Are Your Jews?"

Mr. President, one year ago in this chamber I asked the Arab states a simple question: “Where are your Jews?”

My question was met with dead silence. Millions of people worldwide watched the video, witnessing for themselves the hypocrisy and double standards that characterizes much of what is said and done here.

Today I have come to provide the answer to my question. Algeria, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen, Libya—your Jews fled as refugees after suffering persecution and deadly pogroms like the Farhud of Baghdad in 1941.

Fortunately, countries like Israel, the U.S., Canada, France and others opened their doors, offering citizenship and equal rights. These Jewish refugees from Arab lands—whose suffering and losses the UN has never addressed—put their hardship behind them and built great lives for their families.

Now let us contrast this with the situation of those descended from Arab refugees who fled the area of British Mandatory Palestine during the invasion of nascent Israel by Arab armies. What is holding them back? The answer is simple.

Palestinians are the only population in the world not eligible for services by the UN refugee agency. Instead these descendants are governed by UNRWA, which holds generation after generation trapped in refugee camps, denied integration in the Arab countries they were born in and denied resettlement elsewhere.

Some of UNRWA’s donors are waking up to the problem. As the Swiss Foreign Minister recently has put it: “By supporting UNRWA, we are only keeping the conflict alive.”

I thank you, Mr. President.

Melanie Phillips: Brexit, PA textbooks, Labour party antisemitism

Please join me here as I discuss with Avi Abelow of Israel Unwired Britain’s increasingly tumultuous Brexit drama, the UK Foreign Office’s sudden qualms over funding Palestinian Authority textbook incitement (!), the Labour party’s ever-deepening mire over antisemitism, and more.

IsraellyCool: The Palestinian Space Agency is a Thing

In the wake of Israel’s kick-ass efforts to land on the moon by next year, the following website has come to my attention

Yes, seriously. It seems to have been around since 2011, and much like their museum and, come to think of it, space itself, it is full of nothing.

You can get your PSA swag there – just send your post address and order to their email address.

From Koz Times:

Palestinian activists have accused the Saudi TV channel “al Arabiya”, a Zionist propaganda. The reason for this was the transfer on “the Nakba” – the flight of the Arabs from Israel after the proclamation of the Jewish state.

The channel has decided to dedicate the 1948 two programmes. One told about them from the perspective of living in Palestine-Arabs, the second – from the point of view of the Jewish Yishuv. “Al Arabiya” reported that the issue must be approached without ideological blinders.

“Ignoring any professional standards, the staff of “al-Arabi” Express support unjust occupation in the film about the creation of the Zionist entity. This ignores all the historical facts”, – reads the statement of the Palestinian Center of Resistance to Normalization.

The Center called the transfer “a scandalous disaster journalism.” According to the statement, the purpose of this interpretation of history is the normalization of between the Zionists and the Arab world, the website of The New Arab.

According to other sites, the Israeli side of the documentary "represented Palestinians as criminals; the ones who attacked the Israelis to begin with. It has also described Hamas as a ‘Terrorist Movement’ for trying to defend the land, and defended ‘Haganah’ as a Jewish paramilitary organization."

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