Twitter apparently thought that this tweet was promoting terrorism.
The video is not clear enough to actually see any shooting or victims, only the panic of the young people enjoying an evening out. I would never post anything that shows the victims (the way Palestinians love to.)
Here is the video:
But the idiots at Twitter emailed me:
Violating our rules against hateful conduct.
You may not promote violence against, threaten, or harass other people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, religious affiliation, age, disability, or serious disease.
Meanwhile, tweets like this that actually celebrate murder are all over the place:
UPDATE: Within minutes of my reporting this tweet celebrating murders, Twitter managed to review it and declare it kosher:
Twitter policies are provably pro-terror.
Please tweet this - because I can't. (I did appeal.)
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Last year, Human Rights Watch issued a perfunctory report condemning Gaza terror groups for shooting rockets at civilian targets to pretend to be even handed amongst their blizzard of anti-Israel reports.
Hamas and Islamic JIhad were upset that HRW, which normally is in perfect sync with the terror groups in blaming everything on Israel. So they issued statements about how much they abhor violence against civilians. Hamas:
The resistance continues to take all possible measures to avoid any causality among civilians in any place. The resistance continues to improve the accuracy of targeting the military locations only, without putting the lives of civilians at risk.
The movement reiterates that it adheres to and respects international law and international humanitarian law—we are keen on conducting our activities in line with these laws.
Similarly, an Islamic Jihad spokesperson claimed "the resistance avoids civilian places" because of its adherence to international law.
Of course, it is obvious that they are lying. In their Arabic sites, they would celebrate the deaths of Israeli civilians and love showing pictures of Israeli civilians hiding from rockets in bomb shelters.
And when Palestinians undeniably target Jewish civilians on Thursday, their concern over civilian lives turns into glee at the murder of civilians.
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas blessed the heroic operation that took place this evening, in the middle of the so-called "Tel Aviv", which led to the killing of a number of occupying soldiers and Zionist settlers, considering it a natural and legitimate response to the escalation of the occupation's crimes against our people and our land, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Similarly, Islamic Jihad said that every "Zionist" is a target:
“What can the criminal Zionist occupation expect from our people when it tampers with Palestinian blood, commits crimes against its sons, Judaizes its sanctities, besieges, arrests and destroys, except for more resistance operations and more clashes in every spot occupied by the Zionists of our land ?”
That doesn't sound like military targets. That doesn't sound like they are distinguishing between either side of the Green Line. They are saying that all "Zionists," meaning Jews, are targets.
And their words to the Western media only eight months ago about how they don't want to target civilians? Well, one is allowed to lie for one's holy cause.
Two people were killed and several were wounded as a gunman opened fire on a bar in central Tel Aviv Thursday evening in an apparent terror attack, the latest eruption of violence to strike Israel in recent weeks.
The shooting took place on Dizengoff Street, turning an area normally crowded with people out for Thursday night at bars, restaurants and cafes lining the popular thoroughfare into a scene of chaos and panic.
As the street filled with ambulances and rescuers, police carried out searches for a gunman thought to have escaped, going door to door and telling people to stay inside and lock their doors.
The attack began when at least one gunman walked up to Ilka, a popular bar with a large outside seating section, and opened fire.
“We dove under the tables and people started crying, it was horrible,” said Evelyn Gertz, 34, who was having dinner next door.
Ten people were rushed to the nearby Ichilov Hospital with gunshot wounds, two of whom were later declared dead, the hospital said. Four others were listed as critical and were undergoing surgery, according to the hospital. Two were seriously injured, and two were mildly hurt.
Another four people with mild injuries were taken to Wolfson Hospital in Holon and Sheba Hospital at Tel Hashomer.
In America and Europe, attacks on Jews simply because they are Jews have reached horrifying proportions. Does anyone imagine that if, say, black people or Muslims were being attacked by white people in anything like these proportions the media wouldn’t be absolutely packed with outraged and anguished commentaries drawing attention to a terrifying cultural breakdown? Yet these attacks on Jews in Britain and America receive hardly any mainstream coverage — and in France they are often actively denied as antisemitic attacks.
Why is this? Why are these attacks on Jews happening in such disproportionately large numbers? And what does this tell us about the state of western society?
Protocols: Exposing Modern Antisemitism is a book written by Elder of Ziyon, the ironically named, pseudonymous and eponymous writer of an excellent website about Jewish issues and who explores this issue.
Elder notes that a string of attacks on Jews in America have been downplayed or fallen off the radar altogether. These include the 2019 Jersey city grocery stores shootings; the murder of a rabbi at a 2019 Chanukah party in Monsey; a “pogrom” in Crown Heights in 1991; a fatal shooting at a van of Hasidic men on Brooklyn Bridge in 1994; a 2011 Manhattan synagogue bomb plot; a 2016 attack on an Ohio restaurant with an Israeli flag; a 2016 plot to blow up a synagogue in Aventura, Florida; a 2009 plot to blow up two New York synagogues; and a foiled 2005 attempt to bomb synagogues in Los Angeles.
Pointing out that many of these attacks have been perpetrated by Muslims or African-Americans, Elder points the finger at the anti-Zionist left for downplaying or excusing them — while justifying attacks on Jews by Palestinian Arabs and pretending that Palestinian antisemitism is anti-Zionism. Elder writes: Just like most of the physical attacks on Jews, the rhetorical attacks on Zionist Jews — the vast majority of the community — are also antisemitic. They can and do result in murderous attacks on Jews around the world. They must also be rooted out as unacceptable in any society.
For that to happen, modern antisemitism must be called out for what it is — hate. The same hate that animates the physical attacks on Jews lies behind the NGO reports and demonstrations that paint the Jewish state as uniquely evil. We must expose and stop that hate before that hate manifests as violence.
Too true; but just to state this reveals the scale of the challenge. For in the west, these Israel-bashing NGOs are regarded — heaven help us — as the voice of conscience. Far from being excoriated as disgusting bigots, they are actually held up as the arbiters of morality. And anti-Zionism — at the heart of which lies the willed destruction of Israel, the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people who are thus singled out for murderous demonisation and delegitimisation inflicted on no other people — is the cause of causes in progressive circles.
When I arrived as Australia’s ambassador to Israel in 2013, in my first week or so in the country, I read a very small item in the side bar of the Jerusalem Post that caught my interest.
At the time the civil war in Syria was at a high level of intensity, including in an area just across the border with Israel, near the Golan Heights.
This news report, in a matter-of-fact way, as if it was the most regular thing in the world, stated that Israel had recently admitted across its border 20 or so Syrian civilians who had been injured in the fighting, and was now treating them at Israel’s main hospital in the north, Ziv Hospital in Tzfat.
I found this a little perplexing. Syria was formally in a state of war with Israel. Syria had never recognised Israel as a state or its legitimacy to exist. The border between the two countries across the Golan Heights was heavily fortified and militarised. Syrians could not travel to Israel and vice versa.
A few weeks later, my wife Rachel and I took a road trip up north, to visit Ziv Hospital and see for ourselves. What we saw astounded us. Young Syrian children, who had lost limbs during the conflict, were being fitted with prosthetic limbs by Israeli doctors and taught to walk again by Israeli physiotherapists. Their mother or another female relative usually stayed with them, for several months, rehabilitating and recuperating. Israeli-Arab social workers helped keep morale up and entertained the children.
Syria’s formal hostility towards Israel was ignored. The Syrian victims were treated as human beings, with compassion and respect.
I was so surprised by what I was seeing that I wrote an article about it in The Australian, concluding “Ziv Hospital is a profound example of humanity and decency at its most compelling. It is Israel at its very best, and a side of Israel that the world too rarely sees or acknowledges.”
Recent events in Ukraine have reminded me of this episode.
I can confidently make a prediction: Not one major Palestinian newspaper or news site will publish a single article, a single op-ed, a single letter, a single comment that says anything negative about murdering Israeli civilians.
Not one UNRWA teacher will say a negative word about the attack, while the students will be handing out candy. Not one Islamic cleric will say that this isn't what Islam is about while mosque loudspeakers blare "Allah hu Akbar."
I'm not a prophet. I know this because I've been watching the Palestinian reactions to attacks like these for many years and it always the same.
One other prediction guaranteed to become true: any gunmen who are killed will be nearly universally referred to as "martyrs."
And one more: the families of the terrorists will make a lot of money, courtesy of "moderate" President Mahmoud Abbas with the lifetime salaries fully supported by nearly every Palestinian.
People get upset when one points out Palestinian adoration of murder. The headline of this article seems provocative to them. "There are good and bad people everywhere," they say. They ask how can you tar all people with the same brush, how can you generalize about people. They say that making generalizations about Palestinian society is racist.
But when you cannot find a single counterexample among dozens of Palestinian websites - not a single whisper that maybe it is counterproductive to murder Jews, let alone one that says that murdering Jews is immoral - you can only reach one conclusion: Palestinian culture supports and cheers terrorism. Sometimes tacitly, usually proudly, never reluctantly.
Please prove me wrong. Please find the Palestinian Arabic article that shows horror at the culture of death. You can't.
International media will never point these facts out. At best, they will mention in paragraph 15 that Hamas issued a statement supporting the attack, pretending that only terror groups praise these cold blooded murders and leaving ordinary Palestinians off the hook.
I used to think that everything I am writing here applied to virtually all Arabs - but things have changed. Arabs do not have to be stuck in this prison of hate. The UAE, Bahrain, Morocco show that it is possible to change. It is wonderful to see Arabs who transcended the brainwashing and the propaganda and who can think for themselves.
The world must understand these facts. The world must rebuke Palestinians for their open cheering of terrorism.
Until the world stops giving Palestinians a free pass for their hate - until the mainstream media actually reports the universal happiness at the death of ordinary Jews that permeates Palestinian society - Palestinians, living in their bubble of eternal victimhood and occasional revenge, have no incentive to change and become responsible, moral citizens of a normal society.
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Jerusalem, April 6 - Israel's market for the previous generation of cellular devices now mainly features clientele who for religious and community-standards reasons use the older models, but figures aggregated from the various mobile communications companies indicate that the only such customer who does not also own a more advanced device for videos, web-surfing, and general greater convenience, appears to be not a member of one of those more-insular groups, but a non-"yeshivish," non-Hasidic man who has retained his 2007 Nokia because of the savings it offers.
Demographic and other statistical data from Cellcom, Pelephone, Partner, and other cellular service providers in Israel point to robust sales for the use and maintenance of non-smart devices in the Haredi sector, given the taboo against internet-enabled devices among that community - but that smartphones enjoy similarly robust sales, indicating the realization that modern life without a smart device has become untenable for the vast majority. Experts understand the numbers to mean that many Haredim will not publicly acknowledge violation of the taboo, and will continue to use smartphones only furtively, as they take their "dumb" phones out in public - and also that the last remaining user of a the latter type of device who does not also use a smartphone has no membership in the Haredi community, sticking to his older phone because he spends all day in front of a computer screen anyway and doesn't need the additional hassle or expense of upgrading his mobile.
"Actually, I know the guy," acknowledged one analyst. "Lives in my neighborhood. His older kids got smartphones years ago, so it's not an ideological decision - he works mainly through the internet, also, so that's not it. But it's significantly cheaper not to have a smartphone service subscription, and that household is cost-conscious - at least the parents are, that is. I'm sure he'll bite the bullet eventually - international standards are set to shift over the next few years and that'll render his Nokia useless. And some activities, such as many common methods of online or virtual payment, are impossible or next-to-impossible without a smartphone. In the meantime, though, nothing doing."
Another expert observed that the same family also owns no television, but not because of philosophical objection to mass media content. "They stream movies on their computers," she noted. "It's not like some friends of his who grew up Haredi and had a 'microwave oven' in multiple rooms at home."
A call to the customer in question prompted an irritated reaction. "Is another stupid survey?" he demanded. "I hate phone surveys. Take me off your list."
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday suspended Russia from the UN Human Rights Council over reports of "gross and systematic violations and abuses of human rights" by invading Russian troops in Ukraine.
The US-led push garnered 93 votes in favor, while 24 countries voted no and 58 countries abstained. A two-thirds majority of voting members – abstentions do not count – was needed to suspend Russia from the 47-member council.
The resolution adopted by the 193-member General Assembly draft expresses "grave concern at the ongoing human rights and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine," particularly at reports of rights abuses by Russia. Israel voted in favor of the resolution.
Suspensions are rare. Libya was suspended in 2011 because of violence against protesters by forces loyal to then-leader Muammar Gaddafi.
Russia had warned countries that a yes vote or abstention will be viewed as an "unfriendly gesture" with consequences for bilateral ties, according to a note seen by Reuters.
Russia was in its second year of a three-year term on the Geneva-based council, which cannot make legally binding decisions. Its decisions send important political messages, however, and it can authorize investigations.
Moscow is one of the most vocal members on the council and its suspension bars it from speaking and voting, officials say, although its diplomats could still attend debates. "They would probably still try to influence the council through proxies," said a Geneva-based diplomat.
Last month the council opened an investigation into allegations of rights violations, including possible war crimes, in Ukraine since Russia's attack.
Since Russia's invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, the General Assembly has adopted two resolutions denouncing Russia with 141 and 140 votes in favor. Moscow says it is carrying out a "special operation" to demilitarize Ukraine.
The United States announced it would seek Russia's suspension after Ukraine accused Russian troops of killing hundreds of civilians in the town of Bucha. Read full story
BREAKING: U.N. expels Russia from Human Rights Council. Vote was overwhelming and exactly as we predicted: 93 Yes to 24 No. We only needed double No votes to Yes votes for required 2/3 majority. The 58 abstentions don't count. Backstory of our campaign: https://t.co/ubbex260ozhttps://t.co/v9jGJyganCpic.twitter.com/8C9522K7B7
Removing Russia while letting China and other equally egregious human-rights offenders remain will not make them care about those who live in other countries where freedom is merely a dream. On the contrary, they will act as if they have proved how much they care about the subject when that is nowhere near the truth.
The UNHRC will not be deterred from devoting most of its efforts to demonizing and delegitimizing democratic Israel, which remains the subject of a disproportionate amount of the council's time and condemnations. As I recently wrote, antisemitic invective and the targeting of the sole Jewish state on the planet remain business as usual there. America's complaints about this have repeatedly proved ineffective.
Worse, Biden's return to the UNHRC sent a signal to it and other prejudiced UN offices that America was not really serious about forcing them to change. The only thing that could possibly get its attention and force it to give up its addiction to targeting and besmirching Israel would be the withdrawal of US funding.
The problem is that the US foreign-policy establishment and the State Department bureaucracy remain wedded to the discredited idea that the United Nations is still capable of realizing the idealistic goals that were behind its founding. With the United Nations preparing a permanent star-chamber investigation of Israel that is intended to smear it and help make it a pariah, every gesture that reinforces the legitimacy of an institution that lost any shred of credibility long ago is not merely wrongheaded. It helps strengthen one of the principal engines of international antisemitism.
Yet somehow, even those who are Israel's friends in this country have yet to learn this basic truth.
That was illustrated by the recent letter to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed by 68 US senators from both major parties, including Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and Senate Minority Whip John Thune (R-SD), that urged the Biden administration to use its presence on the council to "address major human-rights problems around the world. An important step in this regard would be to redirect the wasteful use of funds and personnel on excessive devotion to disparaging Israel to allow the UN Human Rights Council to fairly promote human rights around the world." The letter goes on to say that the United States should move to halt "discriminatory and unwarranted treatment of Israel" on the UNHRC.
The letter accurately diagnosed what was wrong with the UNHRC but not the remedy. Its language criticizing the institution was both noble and correct. However, by acquiescing to the American return to the council and the idea that changing it is remotely possible, the letter, which reportedly was circulated by the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, actually does more harm than good.
Far more insightful was a different letter signed by four Republican senators – Tom Cotton, Ted Cruz, Bill Hagerty, and James Lankford – urging Blinken to withdraw from the UNHRC.
As that letter eloquently stated:
"Remaining on the council does not just legitimize vilification against Israel; it damages America's international moral standing by allowing countries like Russia and China, which are actively perpetrating crimes against humanity and genocide at this very moment, to serve in international human rights bodies. Furthermore, it downplays atrocities perpetrated by Cuba, Venezuela, Libya, and Eritrea by suggesting their leaders can provide human-rights leadership on the council."
It is long past time that even those who understand that the United Nations is a toxic waste dump of Jew-hatred and rationalizations of tyranny stop attempting to correct an institution that is incapable of reform. It is structurally set up to enable these injustices rather than to stop them. Engaging with it and paying for it – 22% of its funds are provided by the United States – is an ongoing disaster that does much harm and no good.
The UNHRC is an example of how bad the United Nations has become. Removing one bad apple like Russia from it won't repair what's broken, but it will allow UN apologists to pretend that it is heading in the right direction. That even many supporters of Israel think that acquiescing to this state of affairs or supporting further American participation in these travesties is justified is an appalling mistake that only makes the situation worse.
Palestinians in Lebanon are affected by Lebanon's economic meltdown more than others, because as non-citizens they are not eligible for Lebanese social safety net services.
UNRWA decided to help a little planning a payment of $50 to every Palestinian "refugee" in Lebanon under 18 years old at the end of April.
However, the payments will not be made available to children of Palestinian mothers and Lebanese fathers, because they are full Lebanese citizens and the payments are specifically for stateless Palestinians.
The parents who want the $50 are angry. They prompted a "refugee rights" NGO to demand that they get these payments as well, even though their children are Lebanese citizens.
The NGO claims that by only giving funds to children of Palestinian fathers and not mothers, UNRWA is engaging in discrimination against women. Which is really funny, because if they care about refugee rights, they should be complaining about Lebanese law that only gives citizenship to children of Lebanese fathers and not Lebanese mothers!
Apparently, being considered a refugee isn't so bad when it comes with a $50 bonus.
Incidentally, the children who are Lebanese citizens are still eligible for UNRWA schooling and medical care, meaning UNRWA is paying benefits for people who aren't even refugees by their own definition.
A new report by the New Lines Institute details the drug trade in the Middle East, especially Captagon, an amphetamine-like stimulant which has become a $5.7 billion industry centered in Syria.
Until recently, its main market has been Gulf states, but now the drug is becoming popular in Mediterranean regions.
While the report reveals how Bashar al-Assad's family and Syrian officials are heavily involved in the production and distribution of Captagon, it also shows that Hezbollah is a key player:
Assisting the [Syrian] government in
protecting, trafficking, distributing,
and facilitating captagon
shipments is a network of state-aligned proxy militias, including
Lebanon’s Hezbollah, that profit
from port and cross-border taxation
and provide an essential security
umbrella to their operations. Many recent captagon seizures
have been accompanied by modest
amounts of hashish harvested
from Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley,
pointing to additional involvement
and coordination with Hezbollah,
an active participant in what the
U.N. estimated in 2016 as the
world’s third-largest cannabis
producing country.
With its history of controlling
Lebanese cannabis production
and smuggling out of the southern
Bekaa Valley, Hezbollah has
seemingly served an important
supporting role in the captagon
trade. Hezbollah’s technical
expertise in drug smuggling, along
with the number of potential
partner criminal organizations
in the Middle East, Europe, and
North Africa, has aided the Syrian
government’s efforts to run an
industrial-sized captagon market. The relationship builds upon a
dynamic that has existed since the
Lebanese civil war, where Syrian
political, military, and intelligence
officials collaborated with
Hezbollah in cannabis cultivation
and production, activities that led
the U.S. Department of State to
designate Syria as a narco-state
until the Pax Syriana era.
This dynamic has played out in the
captagon trade, with Hezbollah
supporting smuggling efforts
through overland routes and by sea,
helping dispatch industrial-sized,
containerized captagon shipments
from Lebanese ports in Tripoli
and Beirut, as well as enabling
Lebanese ports to serve as
trans-shipment sites for captagon
shipments dispatched from
Tartus and Latakia. Through the
Qalamoun region, Hezbollah has
protected transit routes between
Syria and Lebanon and provided
an accommodating climate for
the trade in illicit arms, drugs, and
chemical precursors, as the group
has used its political leverage and
security networks within Lebanon
to enable uninterrupted illicit
flows. Hezbollah fighters and
other Iran-aligned proxy networks
have reportedly been seen assisting
the Fourth Division in controlling
and securing key areas of
concentrated captagon production
and smuggling at key checkpoints
along the Damascus-Amman
highway, the western countryside
of Daraa governorate, the Nassib
border crossing, and the Lajat area,
and they have been spotted visiting
captagon factories in Syria such as
in Daraa al-Balad.
Hezbollah also has facilitated
trafficking in Shiite-majority areas
under its control, such as the Bekaa
Valley. The group had reportedly
been associated with 60 small-scale captagon production facilities
in 2017, but that number had
decreased by 2021, when Lebanese
Brig. Gen. Adel Machmouchi
estimated 20 small-scale captagon
factories in hubs in Baalbek,
Hermel, and other areas along
the Lebanese-Syrian border. The group has also been affiliated
with running small-scale captagon
laboratories and workshops inside
Syria, with alleged involvement
in operating and protecting
facilities in Zabadani, Bloudan,
Serghaya, Yabrud, al-Qusayr,
western al-Qalamoun, near
the Dabaa military airfield, and
Qunaytirah.
The supposedly religious Shiites of Hezbollah seem to have no problem producing and distributing a drug that they admit is against Islamic law - they simply deny that they are involved. This report shows that they are lying.
Here's a short article in the official Palestinian Wafa news agency accompanied by a video that claims that the tradition of lighting lanterns in Ramadan comes from "ancient Jerusalem:"
In the past, the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque was lit with lanterns, and the people of ancient Jerusalem used to carry them to light the way in the streets and alleys of ancient Jerusalem, until the acquisition of lanterns became a sacred heritage and tradition.
To this day, Jerusalemites are still keen on acquiring lanterns to decorate homes, shops, streets and alleys, in celebration of the blessed month of Ramadan.
This is completely false. The tradition of lanterns (fanous) on Ramadan is universally regarded to come from Egypt, itself based on pre-Islamic Egyptian traditions.
The Palestinian lie serves two purposes.
One is to claim being a separate people before Zionism, which they certainly weren't by any standard of peoplehood.
The other is to bolster their claim to Jerusalem, a city that was widely ignored by the Arab world before the 20th century, as an "ancient" Palestinian city. The only reason for this is to deny the truly ancient Jewish roots of Jerusalem.
There is no such thing as a uniquely Palestinian culture that pre-dates Zionism. The Arabic Wikipedia page on "Palestinian culture" has very few specific examples from more than a century ago but it has a section on "resistance culture." Outside a very few exceptions of local culture like Nablus soap, Bethlehem costumes and Christian olive wood carving, Palestinians cannot point to anything cultural that ties them together. Even foods like maqlubeh that today are considered "Palestinian" come from elsewhere (in that case, it was mentioned with that name in a 13th century Baghdad cookbook.)
Since there is no historical Palestinian culture, Palestinians need to create one from scratch - and they therefore steal the culture of their neighbors. Which is exactly what they accuse Israel of doing.
This article in Wafa is a first step in yet another act of Palestinian cultural theft.
While the Nation-State Law of Israel recognizes the country as a homeland of the Jews, Amnesty’s claims about Israel’s relegating services to only Jews are false. Israeli Arabs have countless opportunities to be successful as Arabs in Israel. There are many examples to prove Amnesty wrong but let me summarize a few: Arab men can volunteer in the army, and Arab females can do civil service. The working staff in most of the pharmacies across Israel are Arabs. The Arab town of Kafr Qara, which is located to the southeast of Haifa, holds the highest rates of doctors and graduate degrees in the entire country. I personally witnessed a Muslim doctor in Jerusalem who was providing medical services to Jews and witnessed many products in Israeli grocery stores that are made by Muslim Arabs, including meat and poultry that offer kosher slaughter to Jews.
On linguistic and religious grounds, Hebrew and Arabic are the official languages of Israel and non-Jews freely practice their religion. The use of the Arabic language in public facilitation, traffic signs, government services, transit systems, and even private shops cannot go unnoticed by any visitor to Israel. Hebrew is not forced on Israeli Arabs and Palestinians. Perhaps Amnesty should survey Syria, Egypt, Iran, Turkey, and North African countries that host minorities to see if they are free to study by their mother tongue. In addition, there are mosques and churches all over the Jewish state, and non-Muslims are not restricted from practicing their religion. In fact, Israeli universities and even the Knesset house prayer rooms for Muslims. In some Muslim countries, it is still forbidden to build a non-Muslim worship site.
Since 1993 Israel has accepted full Palestinian Autonomy in the West Bank and Gaza. It includes the right to establish legal, security, administrative, educational institutions and even to issue passports to Palestinians. In 1999, Prime Minister Ehud Barak transferred the rights of the natural-gas offshore Gaza to the Palestinian Authority, hoping that PA would use the revenues for the wellbeing of the Palestinians. To this day, Israel receives critical Palestinian patients from Gaza and West Bank, and successful Palestinian students from PA region can continue their studies in Israeli universities. An eyewitness from Gaza who has traveled widely in the region confirmed that Gaza is more advanced than many metropolitan areas in Arab countries. In spite of the autonomy agreement, the PA officials fail to sincerely recognize the right of Israel to exist, which can be easily noticed in their press interviews.
Despite the many challenges, Israel remains as the most democratic country in the Middle East. It is the only country where the believers of the three Abrahamic religions coexist. Amnesty’s report has not only damaged its credibility but has also opened the door for questions on its intentions. The late Golda Meier was quoted: “Peace will come when the Arabs love their children more than they hate us.” Likewise, Amnesty will become a credible organization when it seeks independent reporting more than hating a party.
Just when it seemed that Smith had forgotten that his lecture was directed at the Palestinian lobby, he shifted suddenly and inexplicably to the “nakba” — an Arabic word meaning “catastrophe” used to describe the Arab loss to Israel in 1948–49. This strange non sequitur, coming 30 minutes into a talk about viruses and ideas, had Smith suddenly emoting like the BDS-er that he is about how “Zionism has inflicted upon the Palestinian people” a program of cultural “erasure” and “dispossession” without much explanation of how any of this fit into his flailing metaphor.
All the usual dim clichés followed: “Zionism’s apartheid regime,” “ethnic supremacism,” and “cultural deprivation.”
At one point, Smith’s metaphor-run-amok had him comparing education with infection. His odd reference to how kindergarten teachers “infect children’s brains with ideas” was particularly ironic given that the Palestinian educational system is a brainwashing project designed to make children hate. Anyone with an internet connection can find angelic-faced Palestinian children, some very young, singing about sacrificing their lives with they learn in classrooms and mimicking their teachers’ lessons about a Palestine “from the river to the sea.”
Smith exclaimed that “the West Bank is a police state” and “Gaza is worse than a police state” — which is ironic because he meant to indict Israel as the bad cop and apparently doesn’t know that 95 percent of Palestinians living in “the West Bank” are governed by the Palestinian Authority (PA) and 100 percent of Palestinians living in Gaza are governed by Hamas. Sure, they’re police states, but take that up with Mahmoud Abbas and Ismail Haniyeh.
When one questioner asked if there might be such a thing as “ideological vaccinations against contagious ideas,” Smith was stumped, admitting “that is a metaphor I didn’t think of.” As he laughed nervously, Miller chimed in with “It’s called hegemony” (as if that made any sense), but it was clear that Smith had a sudden epiphany as he blurted out (see the 55:05 mark on the YouTube version), “Could we consider the separation wall as vaccination against unwanted ideas, unwanted in the view of the police state?” Exactly right, Professor Smith. Since the wall that Israel built at the height of the second intifada largely put an end to the second intifada by blocking the Palestinian suicide bombers’ access to civilian-rich Israeli targets, it fulfills the metaphorical role of vaccination nicely, but it also compares Palestinian suicide bombers to a virus, which probably wasn’t his intention.
In fact, every effort Smith made to salvage his analogy gone wrong came back with shades of irony, inviting comparison of Palestinian culture to a virus and Israeli counterterrorism measures to medicine.
In a characteristic display of opportunism, the BDS movement in March concentrated its focus on the war in Ukraine. Responding to the rapid condemnation of Russia and the implementation of economic sanctions, leaders and members of the BDS movement, its representatives in Congress, and allied intellectuals, alleged a hypocritical double standard and demanded the same be done to Israel. This sentiment was echoed by the Palestinian Authority, which claimed the “international community is being hypocritical and racist by being more sympathetic towards the Ukrainians because of their color, religion and race.”
The BDS movement’s position was complicated by the response of far left allies, including the Democratic Socialists of America, which initially blamed NATO expansion for goading Russia to attack, and then moderated to a broad anti-war position. Palestinian Authority support for Russia went largely unnoticed. The fact that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is Jewish and that Ukraine and Israel have positive relations is also a complication.
One strange illustration of the equation of Ukraine and “Palestine” came from model Gigi Hadid, who stated she was “pledging to donate my earnings from the Fall 2022 shows to aid those suffering from the war in Ukraine, as well as continuing to support those experiencing the same in Palestine.” Hadid, who is of Palestinian descent, has participated in anti-Israel protests.
In a social media posting, Vogue Magazine, which featured an interview with Hadid in March, initially removed her comments equating Ukrainians and Palestinians but restored them after criticism. In the interview, Hadid commented that she was hurt by allegations she had called for the destruction of Israel, adding, “I truly respect Judaism, and I think it’s a beautiful religion. … This is about a government system suppressing people.”
More broadly, the rapid condemnation of Russia and severing of commercial ties points to how a society can be quickly vilified and isolated.
Delegates to the San Remo conference in Italy, 25 April 1920
People are always saying that the Holocaust is the reason
and justification for the creation of the Jewish State. I find this a
terrible concept. The Jewish nation has no need for justification in getting
our land back or having self-rule. The land was ours thousands of years before
the Holocaust took place, and if you don’t believe in God, we can back that
fact with ancient texts and artefacts. And yet people of every stripe, from President Obama on down
to the Holocaust survivors themselves, continue to say that the Jewish State
was created on the ashes of the Holocaust.
It is quite fair to say that without the Holocaust, those fleeing Europe would
have had no place to go. There is nothing dishonest in saying so, and in fact,
in my opinion, it is a fine thing to thank God that Israel exists. And still,
we would have had this state, in one form or another, with or without the
Holocaust. The State of Israel was a done deal all the way back to San
Remo, as stated by Salomon
Benzimra, P. Eng. Founder Canadians for Israel’s Legal Rights (CILR):
Ninety five years ago, prime ministers, ambassadors and
other dignitaries from Europe and America gathered in the Italian Riviera.
Journalists from around the world reported on the pending San Remo Peace
Conference and the great expectations the international community placed on
this event, just a year after the Paris Peace Conference had settled the
political map of Europe at the end of World War One.
On Sunday, April 25, 1920, after hectic deliberation, the
Supreme Council of the Allied Powers (Great Britain, France, Italy, Japan and
the U.S. acting as an observer) adopted the San Remo Resolution -- a 500 word
document which defined the future political landscape of the Middle East out of
the defunct Ottoman Empire.
This Resolution led to the granting of three Mandates, as
defined in Article 22 of the 1919 Covenant of the League of Nations. The future
states of Syria-Lebanon and Iraq emerged from two of these Mandates and became
exclusively Arab countries. But in the third Mandate, the Supreme Council
recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people to Palestine and the
grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country” while
safeguarding the “civil and religious rights” of the non-Jewish population.
Subsequently, the British limited the Jewish Homeland in
Palestine to the area west of the Jordan River and allowed eastern Palestine to
be gradually administered by the Hashemites. The territorial expansion to the
east eventually gave birth to the Kingdom of Transjordan, later renamed Jordan
in 1950 . . .
. . . The San Remo
Conference should be more than a mere remembrance. It enjoins us to consider
the legal reach of the binding decisions made in 1920 and to ensure that we do
not entertain incompatible positions when political expediency clashes with
unassailable rights enshrined in international law, namely the acquired rights
of the Jewish people in their ancestral land.
Of course, one must make the distinction between the Land of
Israel and the State of Israel, two different things. For one thing, the Land
of Israel is larger. Also, from a Jewish perspective, the Land of Israel existed
before the founding of the state. The State of Israel, in other words, does not
cancel out the Land of Israel, which is something tangible. You can hold its
soil in the palm of your hand, smell or even taste the land, irrespective of official
state status. That official state status does, however, speak to access as much
as it speaks to the right to Jewish rule.
Think about it. It’s actually incredible. The Jews had
self-rule only until 135 BCE, yet we never let go, not really, and not in actual fact.
Some of us always clung on, and we spent our lives in remembering. For 1,813
years then, the Jews had no sovereignty in their own land, no self-rule in their
national home. This is a tragic thing. In that sense, and not only in that
sense, the State of Israel is a triumph.
And still, it’s important to remember that these are just desserts. We have a
right to this land. We have a right to self-rule. These are not rights that go
back to the Holocaust, but long before. Dr. Elana Heideman, Holocaust scholar and Executive Director of The Israel Forever Foundation, points out the inherent opportunism in drawing a link between the Holocaust and the creation of Israel (emphasis added):
The idea that the Holocaust is the reason or justification of the existence of Israel denies the history of Jewish sovereignty and the thousands-year old dream of a return for which Jews prayed fervently from every corner of the world. There is great danger to imposing this causal relationship, especially in a world that continuously seeks to erase the Jew and Jewish rights for the sake of universalist agendas or ideologies often steeped in traditional antisemitic tropes.
Israel exists because of our ancestral right of return to our indigenous homeland, recognized by every nation for 3000 years and affirmed again and again in international law both before and after the Holocaust. The Holocaust served as the impetus for the political establishment of the reborn Jewish state primarily because of its influence on human emotions - when the world had little choice but to recognize the extent to which people would go in order to eliminate the Jew. Both Jewish sovereignty and refuge in our homeland were established fact throughout the centuries long before the Holocaust, and any attempt to claim otherwise is little more than charged propaganda of those who seek to revise history or, worse, continue to apologize for the mere existence of a Jewish state to such an extent that any and every excuse possible will be conceived.
It’s important to speak out and say these things because the other side uses the
Holocaust argument to say that we only have the land because of the Holocaust—that
the world took pity on us and gave us land that isn’t ours because of, to
paraphrase Caryn Elaine Johnson, white
Europeans fighting each other. Whoopi wasn't the first to distort the meaning of the Holocaust to make an ideological point, and she won't, unfortunately, be the last.
Obama did it at Buchenwald--used the Holocaust, while standing on the bones and blood of Jewish people, to suggest an illegitimate European landgrab of Arab land (emphasis added):
When the American GIs arrived they . . . never could have
known the world would one day speak of this place. They could not have known
that some of them would live to have children and grandchildren who would grow
up hearing their stories and would return here so many years later to find a
museum and memorials and the clock tower set permanently to 3:15, the moment of
liberation.
They could not have
known how the nation of Israel would rise out of the destruction of the
Holocaust and the strong, enduring bonds between that great nation and my
own.
These words hint at the words behind the words. The idea that it's not fair that the Jews have the land--that they only have it because of the Holocaust. As if there were no Jewish connection to the land before that time. As if it were only the State of Israel, and not the Land of Israel.
We should not help them by agreeing that this is so. These are things they say out of hatred and antisemitism. They are saying we have no right to the land.
Well then. They can say it, but it won’t make it true. Because since the time of Abraham, the Jews have been in Israel, sometimes hanging on only by our bare, bloodied fingernails. When forced to leave, we yearned to return, and spoke of it all day long, in our prayers.
We had no inkling that a Holocaust of our brethren--a Holocaust of mythic
proportions--would someday occur. We knew only that the land was ours, and prayed
in the language of our people.
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The weather has finally turned warm here. It seems like we skipped spring and went straight to summer. Along with the heat and the haze come incitement and terrorism, which will very likely develop – as it did last year at this time – into war and insurrection.
Last month saw three high-profile terror attacks inside the Green Line, in which 11 people were murdered (including Christian Arab and Druze police officers, and two Ukrainian workers). Fatah* and Hamas praised the terrorists, and as usual sweets were distributed in Gaza and weapons fired in the air to commemorate the success of the “operations.” Significantly, two of the three terrorists were Israeli Arab citizens.
The events of last year began with demonstrations at the Temple Mount in support of the Arab families in the Shimon Hatzadik (Sheikh Jarrah) neighborhood who were to be evicted for non-payment of rent (they are still there, thanks to the Israeli Supreme Court). When police entered the Mount to confiscate stockpiled weapons, violent clashes ensued. Hamas issued an “ultimatum,” and then began launching rockets at Jerusalem and other cities in Israel. Hamas and Islamic Jihad fired 4,350 rockets; 680 of them fell short, landing in Gaza and causing numerous casualties there. 12 Israeli civilians were killed by rockets, and one soldier died when his jeep was struck by an antitank weapon.
During the 12 days of war, violent clashes between police and Arabs in eastern Jerusalem continued. At the same time, an unprecedented wave of what could only be called pogroms swept over Israeli towns with mixed Jewish-Arab populations. In Lod, Ramle, Acco, Yafo, and Haifa, Jews and Jewish property were attacked:
In little more than a week, Arab rioters set 10 synagogues and 112 Jewish residences on fire, looted 386 Jewish homes and damaged another 673, and set 849 Jewish cars on fire. There were also 5,018 recorded instances of Jews being stoned. Three Jews were murdered and more than 600 were hurt. Over 300 police officers were injured in disturbances in over 90 locations across the country. … although some commentators have push [sic] the ‘both sides’ line, no mosques were damaged, one Arab home was firebombed (by Arabs that mistook it for a Jewish home), 13 Arab homes and cars were damaged, and 41 Arab bystanders were hurt by hurled stones. There were also two attacks by Jewish extremists against Arab bystanders …
This was an attempt to start a full-fledged insurrection against the Jewish state. The police were unprepared for the scope of the violence and in many cases Jewish residents were left to fend for themselves or flee (to find their homes ransacked on their return). To many who remembered life in the diaspora, the feeling of helplessness was familiar.
This year, as Ramadan begins and Passover approaches, the situation is similar to that before the previous outbreak. Hamas and the PA have been inciting their (apparently easily suggestible) clientele with the traditional calls to “defend al-Aqsa” against Jewish desecration. Recently Foreign Minister Yair Lapid visited the Damascus Gate (Sha’ar Shechem), the site of nightly violent demonstrations, to show support for the police, who are doing their best to keep them from getting out of hand. Hamas called the visit – of the Israeli FM to a location in Israel’s capital city! – a “dangerous escalation,” and threatened unspecified “consequences.”
Several nascent terror attacks have been nipped in the bud by the actions of security forces. In one case, three terrorists on their way to carry out an attack were intercepted by the special counterterrorism unit of the border police (Yamam), who engaged in a firefight, killing the terrorists. Four of the officers were wounded, one seriously.
The policy of the government seems to be to avoid escalation, while the PA and Hamas want the opposite. It won’t take much to set it off, and the expectation is that if there is another explosion, it will be characterized by rocket attacks – possibly with more and better long-range rockets than last year – as well as terrorism from Judea and Samaria and riots by Israeli Arabs. Each time this happens there are new touches. The weather has turned hot and dry, so we can expect fires to be set in the forests around Jerusalem and the agricultural lands in the Negev.
Also each time this happens, the propaganda assault against Israel takes off: the exaggeration of casualties in Gaza (and the attribution of self-inflicted ones to the IDF), the stories about security personnel “murdering children in cold blood” (an 18-year old shot with a flaming firebomb in his hand), or the reports of “extrajudicial executions” (of terrorists on murderous rampages). We will see the usual comparisons to Nazis and perhaps now also to Russians.
American officials will take time off from appeasing Iran to demand a cease-fire, especially if it appears (as is highly unlikely) that the IDF intends to actually harm Hamas in Gaza. The PA will get a pass for its incitement, and continue to receive funds from the US and Israel to pay the terrorists that murder us. Terrorism, rioting, and anti-Jewish pogroms will be attributed to poverty and discrimination, and we’ll be told that more money needs to be invested in Gaza, the PA, and Arab towns inside the Green Line.
My personal feeling is this: let it come, and let us for once strike back like we want to win, and not just return to normalcy. What we have now isn’t normalcy, it’s attrition. They are wearing us down, in Judea and Samaria, in the Negev, in the Galilee, in the mixed towns, and around the border with Gaza. Let it come, and let us take the opportunity to begin the long, difficult process of reasserting our sovereignty – over all of the Land of Israel. _______________ * Fatah was founded in 1959 by Yasser Arafat and several others with the goal of “liberating Palestine.” By 1967, under the tutelage of the Soviet KGB, it became “the dominant force in Palestinian politics.” In 1969, Arafat became the chairman of the PLO, an umbrella organization of Palestinian nationalist groups. When Israeli leaders stupidly agreed to recognize the PLO as the “legitimate representative of the Palestinian people” (instead of an outlaw terrorist gang) in the Oslo Accords, the PLO became – in its incarnation as the Palestinian Authority (PA) – a quasi-government which came to rule those parts of Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (from which they were ousted by Hamas in 2007) with large Arab populations. Essentially, the PA is the PLO, which in turn is Fatah. Mahmoud Abbas, the “president” of the PA – he calls it the “State of Palestine” – is also the chairman of the PLO and the head of Fatah.
This is important, because Fatah explicitly promotes violent action against Israel, and many terrorist acts have been carried out by its operatives. Thus the acceptance of the PA as a partner in any way, or cooperation with it, or providing financial support to it – all of which Israel has done and continues to do – is equivalent to cooperation with terrorism.
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett stated that MK Idit Silman had been threatened by supporters of opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu and Religious Zionist head Betzalel Smotrich until she "broke" and left the coalition on Wednesday.
"Idit was persecuted for months, verbally abused by supporters of Bibi and Smotrich at the most horrific level," said Bennett on Wednesday evening. "She described to me the threats against her husband Shmulik's workplace and her children in Bnei Akiva. She broke in the end."
The prime minister stressed that the "main thing we need to deal with at the moment is stabilizing the faction and the coalition." Bennett added that all the leaders in the coalition are interested in continuing the current government.
"There is an opportunity here to take this event, learn from it and correct the gaps that have been created," said Bennett. "The whole government was founded on maintaining the status quo - and not on making sharp movements."
Bennett warned that the alternative to the current coalition is more elections and possibly multiple rounds of elections, "back to the days of dangerous instability for the State of Israel."
Silman said that she "could not take it anymore," and that she could not continue undermining the Jewish identity of the State of Israel, a reference to a disagreement she had with Health Minister Nitzan Horowitz over allowing chametz (leavened grain products) into hospitals over Passover.
Netanyahu congratulated Silman on her decision, thanking her "in the name of many people in Israel who waited for this moment."
1. Domino effect
Another member of the Knesset quits the coalition and helps the opposition – led by Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu – to pass a bill dispersing the Knesset and taking Israel to a new election.
In this event, immediately after the dispersion of the Knesset, Foreign Minister Yair Lapid would become prime minister until the formation of a new government.
For Silman, the ideal situation would be for another member of Yamina to break away from the party so that she can then – together with earlier Yamina rebel MK Amichai Chikli – form a new faction that would be able to merge with an existing party and run in a new election.
2. Gantz jumps ship
Before the Knesset dissolves, Blue and White chairman Benny Gantz decides to join the opposition and become Israel’s prime minister. This scenario is possible for a few reasons. The first is that Gantz, who currently serves as defense minister, has been unhappy with the current government since its inception. He was particularly bothered by Bennett – with six seats and now five – becoming prime minister while he, Gantz, had eight seats.
In addition, Gantz might prefer this option over the dispersion of the Knesset, which would see Lapid become prime minister. Remember that the two politicians split – with Lapid’s Yesh Atid Party leaving the Blue and White alliance – in 2020 when Gantz decided to join Netanyahu’s last government, which ultimately fell apart.
While Gantz has said that he learned the lesson from sitting with Netanyahu and that he would not make the same mistake again, he could argue that by joining Netanyahu he would not only be serving as prime minister but would also be preventing another election and further political instability.
3. A comeback for Netanyahu
Netanyahu somehow manages to form a government in the current Knesset or steps aside as chairman of the Likud – highly unlikely – and allows a different Likud MK to do so. It is more likely that he would prefer crowning Gantz than someone from his own party, something he could have done before Bennett became prime minister last June.
4. Limping to the finish line
The government – now a lame duck and unable to pass legislation – manages to survive until the beginning of 2023, when it needs to pass a new budget. Although it would not be able to pass any laws, this might be the best scenario right now for Bennett.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken's visit to Israel last week coincided with a wave of terrorist attacks. In the week preceding Blinken's visit, an Israeli Bedouin man affiliated with ISIS killed four and severely wounded two by driving his car into a crowd and stabbing people with a knife. Later that week, a Palestinian man from east Jerusalem stabbed a civilian in Israel's capital and another Palestinian stabbed and wounded two Israeli police officers. Then, on the first day of Blinken's visit, two terrorists who also had ISIS affiliations shot at multiple crowded restaurants, killing two Border Police officers and wounding five others. And two days later, a Palestinian man shot at pedestrians, killing five. They included a young father pushing a toddler in a stroller and two Ukrainian citizens.
Yet, when Blinken met with Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett, his description of the situation made it sound like it was Israel that needed to be reined in. In a statement after the meeting, Blinken said he and Bennett "discussed ways to foster a peaceful Passover, Ramadan, and Easter across Israel, and Gaza and the West Bank," which he said meant "working to prevent actions on all sides that could raise tensions, including settlement expansion, settler violence, incitement to violence, demolitions, payments to individuals convicted of terrorism, evictions of families from homes they've lived in for decades."
Note that amidst a wave of terror by Palestinians against Israelis, Blinken's list of the actions to foster peace includes four which fall to Israel and just one that is clearly the responsibility of the Palestinians, with a sixth item—"incitement to violence"—vague enough to belong to either or both.
Someone seeking to interpret Blinken's remarks charitably might have presumed that he sought to bring up Israel's faults in Jerusalem and would later stress the Palestinians' problems in Ramallah, to encourage each side to change. But such a person would have been proven wrong when Blinken presented the exact same litany, almost verbatim, hours later that day after a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
The problem with Blinken's list is not just its insensitivity to a nation in mourning, but what it reveals about the Biden administration's orientation to this conflict. The Biden administration "obsessively" fixates on settler violence, a senior Israeli source told me. And this obsession creates a false equivalence and lets the Palestinians off the hook.
Your supportive emails expressing “deep profound grief” moved me, as we in Israel dug eleven new graves for innocent terror victims. If Star Trek invented the Vulcan Mind Meld, you epitomize the Jew-Fuse: our souls are interconnected, our nerve endings are intertwined. Our pain is your pain and your pain is our pain.
However, I’m wondering if you felt as lonely as you looked. Frankly, I (and many other Israelis) didn’t feel the love last week. When our neighbors turned violent, too many American Jews turned silent.
Both of you are atypical. You, Fagie, having been born before Israel, know the costs of not having a Jewish state – for American Jews not just European and Middle Eastern Jews. And you, David, as a Moroccan Montrealer living in Los Angeles, bleed blue-and-white, even as many of your peers and their kids bleed red, white, and blue (or these days, just blue).
Addressing most other American Jews, it’s gut check time. Ask yourselves: Last week, how often did you think about or talk about “the slap” Will Smith gave Chris Rock during the Oscars? Compare that to how much you thought about the Colleyville, Texas, crisis in January, before every hostage was freed, and how scared you were by 2018’s Pittsburgh massacre, which killed 11.
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Elder of Ziyon
