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January 16, 2015Qatar’s ties with US deterring Israel from all-out diplomatic offensive, official says
August 25, 2014Qatar’s ties with US deterring Israel from all-out diplomatic offensive, official says
By HERB KEINON 08/25/2014 18:14
The Israeli official’s comments came a day after the “New York Times” published an op-ed piece by Israel’s ambassador to the UN calling Qatar the “Club Med for Terrorists.”
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The official’s comments came a day after the New York Times published an op-ed piece by Israel’s ambassador to the UN calling Qatar the “Club Med for Terrorists.”
“In recent years, the sheikhs of Doha, Qatar’s capital, have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars to Gaza,” Prosor wrote. “Every one of Hamas’s tunnels and rockets might as well have had a sign that read ‘Made possible through a kind donation from the emir of Qatar’.”
Even though that is the case, and even as Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu continues to raise Qatar’s negative role in private meetings with US Congressman and world leaders, the senior diplomatic official said that there is no concerted campaign that has been accompanied by directives to Israel’s representatives abroad to underline Qatar’s singularly negative role in supporting terrorism and in the Gaza crisis.
Prosor’s piece, he said, was the envoy’s own “improvisation” and not part of a bigger Israeli diplomatic push against the Persian Gulf country.
Qatar is too big an ally of the US and the West, the official said, and any such campaign would be tantamount to “banging our heads on the wall.” He said Jerusalem is not interested in going “toe-to-toe “with Washington over the issue.
Qatar is the home of the US Central Command’s Forward Headquarters and the Combined Air Operations Center, and is the location of three US air bases, including its largest one in the Middle East. It also recently signed contracts to purchase some $11 billion in US arms and weapons systems.
Nevertheless, Netanyahu – in a meeting last week with US Rep. Darrell Issa (R-California) – did raise the subject of Qatar’s support of Hamas. As chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Issa is in a prime position to put Qatar’s role high on the agenda in Washington.
However, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman, in an interview earlier this month with The Post, cautioned against exaggerating the leverage Qatar has over the terrorist organization.
Qatar was hosting Hamas and other terrorist organizations in Doha, and funding them handsomely, to ensure that they only operate outside Qatar, Liberman said. He characterized this as Qatar paying “protection money” to the terrorist organization.
“It is paying protection money in order to ensure security and quiet and calm inside Qatar, so they would work only outside,” he said. “I don’t know how much they are able to influence Hamas. I think Hamas has more influence on Qatar, than Qatar does on Hamas.”
Prosor, known for his sarcasm, wrote in the Times, after mentioning the tiny country’s petrol billions, that “it is time for the world to wake up and smell the gas fumes. Qatar has spared no cost to dress up its country as a liberal, progressive society, yet at its core, the micro monarchy is aggressively financing radical Islamist movements.”
He said that the “petite petrol kingdom” needed to be isolated internationally.
“In light of the emirate’s unabashed support for terrorism, one has to question FIFA’s decision to reward Qatar with the 2022 World Cup,” he said, stopping just short of launching a campaign to strip Qatar of the right to host the marquee soccer event.
Given Qatar’s alliances and influence, Prosor wrote, the prospect for many western countries of isolating Qatar is “uncomfortable.” Yet, he added, “they must recognize that Qatar is not a part of the solution but a significant part of the problem. To bring about a sustained calm, the message to Qatar should be clear: Stop financing Hamas.”
EU ministers in search for united front on arming Iraq
August 15, 2014EU ministers in search for united front on arming Iraq Conference of European foreign ministers in Brussels also to include discussion of situation in the Gaza Strip
By Alex Pigman August 15, 2014, 2:08 pm
via EU ministers in search for united front on arming Iraq | The Times of Israel.
russels (AFP) — EU ministers convened in Brussels on Friday in a rare summertime meeting to seek unanimous approval for the shipment of arms to Iraqi Kurds fighting Islamic State jihadists.
France and Britain have already moved ahead with plans to provide weapons to beleaguered Iraqi forces, but French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius pushed for the talks to mobilize an EU-wide response to the crisis in Iraq.
“I asked for this meeting so that all of Europe mobilizes and helps the Iraqis and Kurds,” Fabius said as he arrived for the talks.
Italy, which currently holds the EU’s rotating leadership and whose foreign minister Federica Mogherini is shortlisted to become the next EU foreign affairs chief, also called for talks.
“The Kurds need our support,” she said as she arrived at the meeting.
“It is important for us that there be a European agreement,” she added.
Defense matters are strictly the purview of member states and the push for an EU stance to send arms to a conflict zone is a rare one.
But alarming images of Iraqi minorities, including Christians, under siege by jihadists have struck chords in European capitals.
EU governments are also alarmed by the Islamic State’s ability to attract radicals from Europe who then return home to the West battle-hardened.
Ahead of Friday’s meeting, support for a strong message on arming Iraq was growing, even from member states historically less inclined to back military adventures abroad.
Usually cautious Germany this week pledged to work “full-speed” on the supply of “non-lethal” equipment such as armored vehicles, helmets and flak jackets to Iraq.
Germany is a major arms manufacturer and going into the meeting, Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier seemed ready to boost German action, despite national restrictions limiting arms exports to raging conflicts.
“Europeans must not limit themselves to praising the courageous fight of the Kurdish security forces. We also need to do something first of all to meet basic needs,” he said.
Sweden, which is usually reluctant to participate in military missions, stressed, however, that the EU’s “great power is in its humanitarian response.”
“Other countries have power to do other things,” said Swedish Foreign Minister Carl Bildt.
Current EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, who officially convened the meeting, had been criticized earlier in the week for the bloc’s slow response to the unfurling crisis in Iraq.
But a senior European official, speaking in the run-up to the talks on Thursday, deplored the “distorted” view of a shut-down EU in August.
This was “at best unfair,” he said. The European Union “is not on holiday.”
Earlier this week, the European Commission announced it would boost humanitarian aid to Iraq to 17 million euros ($22 million), and gave the green light for special emergency measures to meet the crisis.
But Humanitarian Affairs Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva, who is also attending the meeting, said the real challenge in helping civilians was access, not funding.
Also on the agenda will be the crises in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip and a request by Spain to address the Ebola outbreak in West Africa.
FRIEDMAN: As The Middle East Burns, The UN Simply Blames Jews
August 14, 2014FRIEDMAN: As The Middle East Burns, The UN Simply Blames JewsBoth the media and the United Nations are willing to legitimize Hamas while reprimanding Israel for defending herself against an existential threat
.8.14.2014 Israel Revolt Truth Revolt
via FRIEDMAN: As The Middle East Burns, The UN Simply Blames Jews | Truth Revolt.
Yesterday, Hamas broke yet another cease-fire, only hours after Israel had agreed to extend the lull in the fighting. On Monday, the United Nations announced the creation of a special three-person Human Rights Council panel that will review allegations of human rights and international law violations occurring in the current Israel-Gaza conflict. One of the members of this panel has openly stated that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would be his favorite person to have tried in the International Criminal Court. This council is supposed to be unbiased and impartial. While the United Nations was busy focusing all its energy on these allegations, they forgot to discuss a few other crises occurring in the Middle East.
In Iraq:
Over the last year and a half, the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, an Al-Qaeda splinter cell, has taken control of large swaths of territory via violent means. At a glance:
Over 13,300: is the number of civilians killed by ISIS since the beginning of 2013
6,000: is the number of Iraqi civilians butchered by ISIS this year
500: is the number of Yazidis (a Kurdish Iraqi minority) killed by ISIS, some of which were buried alive
0: is the number of practicing Christians left in Mosul, a city that is now controlled by ISIS; ISIS has made Christianity punishable by death, thus forcing all Christians to either convert or flee.
As ISIS is carrying out targeted killings against minority groups and Iraqi Christians, it is safe to say that they are successfully carrying out genocide in Iraq. Unlike the Israel-Gaza conflict, this crisis has gone almost unmentioned for the last year and a half, even though scores of more people have been killed in Iraq than in the current Israel-Gaza conflict.
In Syria:
More than 170,000: is the number of people killed since start of the civil war
More than 54,000: is a conservative estimate of the number of civilians killed in the Syrian Civil War
More than 14,100: is the number of women and children killed in the Syrian Civil War
More than 1800: is the number of Palestinian-Arabs killed in the Syrian Civil War
The media scarcely reports on the ongoing civil war that is still raging in Syria; this past July was one of the deadliest months of the conflict thus far. It is of note that the United Nations has stopped updating its count of the Syrian death toll; it claims it cannot verify the sources behind the numbers. Essentially, they refuse to take the time to verify the sources and keep track of the death toll.
Last but not least, for the sake of comparison, Israel:
Approximately 87,000: is the number of Palestinian-Arabs killed in the Israeli-Arab conflict since 1948. More people have died in the last three years alone in the Syrian Civil War, but these victims have largely been forgotten by the international community.
More than 3500: is the number of rockets launched at Israel since the start of Protective Edge, each one of which constitutes an attempt to murder Israeli civilians. This is a war crime.
Approximately 1900: is the number of Palestinian Arabs killed since the start of Protective Edge.
Approximately 900-1300: is the estimated number of Palestinian-Arabs civilians killed amongst the 1900 total. The lower number is that estimated by the IDF, while the higher number is that estimated by Palestinian sources, many of which are run by Hamas. There are varying other estimates that fall between these numbers.
Recently, reports have surfaced that disprove the claim that the majority of the people killed in this conflict have been Palestinian civilians. In fact, research done by both the BBC as well as an Israeli research group indicates that the numbers of civilians and militants killed may be closer to equal. This is not a means to justify the number of civilians killed, because loss of innocent life is terrible. However, it is unfair and unjust to inflate figures merely to claim that one party’s response is disproportionate to the other’s actions. If the validity of war were judged based on the number of casualties on each side, then the Allies would bear the blame for World War II.
As for the allegations Israel of committing war crimes, indiscriminately ordering strikes within Gaza and violating human rights:
4,762: is the number of terror targets the IDF struck between July 8 and August 5. Again, without trying to justify loss of civilian life and using the larger estimates for the number of civilian casualties, this works out to one civilian killed for every 3.6 strikes. If Israel were truly indiscriminately targeting Palestinian civilians, the number of civilians killed in each strike would be much higher.
Additionally, the mainstream media often states that the Gaza Strip is one of the most densely populated areas on Earth, and Hamas only fires from civilian areas because of this fact. This is a distortion of the truth.
Here is the salient point:
Information recently released by the Gatestone Institute indicates that while the city centers of Gaza are very densely populated, there are many emptier areas of Gaza. Mainstream media outlets never show these areas because there is scarcely fighting there. Additionally, maps that show the origin of rocket attacks show that almost none of the attacks originate in these empty areas. This begs the question, if Hamas were concerned with Gaza’s civilians, why not fire rockets from these emptier areas? Why fire them from some of the most populated areas in the world? The answer is that as a terrorist organization, Hamas has no regard for civilians of any kind.
Up to this point I have refrained from addressing the claim that Hamas uses the civilians of Gaza as human shields. There is real and jarring evidence to support this claim. Hamas hides behind the civilians of Gaza by choosing to launch rocket attacks from densely populated areas and leaves the IDF no choice but to carry out strikes in these areas. Hamas does this knowing that images of deceased civilians will flood TV screens throughout the world, and that the international community will cry out in rage against Israel. Hamas has the option to set up their headquarters in empty areas of Gaza instead of in hospitals and homes, but has repeatedly choose the latter. By making this choice, Hamas bears the blame for the loss of civilian life and is committing war crimes.
Lastly, during Operation Protective Edge, Israel provided the following supplies to Gaza:
40,550: is the number of tons of supplies transferred to Gaza
37,178: is the number of tons of food transferred to Gaza
1,694: is the number of tons of humanitarian goods transferred to Gaza
1,029: is the number of tons of medicine and medical supplies transferred to Gaza
1,856: is the number of trucks needed to carry these supplies
Many of these supplies were delivered via the Kerem Shalom crossing, which has been repeatedly attacked with barrages of Hamas rockets in order to prevent these aid shipments from entering the Gaza Strip. So even though Israel has been more than willing to give assistance to the people of Gaza, Hamas will not allow them to have it.
Given the force with which the United States carried out its strikes against terrorists in Afghanistan and Iraq, there is no doubt that they would have responded in the same manner to a barrage of rockets raining down on the United States homeland. Additionally, the United States has renewed airstrikes against ISIS in Iraq and is being credited not only with further securing the homeland, but with saving the lives of civilians in Northern Iraq. These airstrikes serve the same purpose to the people of the Iraq as Operation Protective Edge does to the people of Israel: to protect the lives of civilians against terrorist attacks. Throughout history, there have been numerous cases of countries striking back at terrorists in order to secure the safety of their people. In the larger majority of these instances, civilians have died, as war is mayhem. No other country in the world is forced to live under the constant fear that Israel lives with day in and day out, and yet no other country in the world has faced the amount of backlash that Israel continues to receive in the name of self-defense.
When the mainstream media reports on ISIS, they waste no time calling them a dangerous terrorist organization that must be stopped. ISIS and Hamas are incredibly similar; they are both extremist groups perverting the beliefs of a peace-loving religion to further their cause. It is truly mind-boggling that the mainstream media is willing to ignore this fact, as is the United Nations. Both the media and the United Nations are willing to legitimize Hamas while reprimanding Israel for defending herself against an existential threat. At the end of the day, all Israel wants is to live in peace with her neighbors; this operation must continue so that Israel is able to do just that.
Ashley Friedman is a 2014 graduate of the University of Miami with a Bachelor of Science in Biology. She is a proud Zionist and dual Israeli-American citizen.
Report: Palestinians accept new 3-day cease-fire offer + Update
August 10, 2014Report: Palestinians accept new 3-day cease-fire offer
AP, Al Arabiya claim that despite days of threats to leave Cairo talks, Palestinian delegations accepts 72-hour lull, after Netanyahu said the operation would continue until rocket fire stops.
Roi Kais Published: 08.10.14, 15:21 / Israel News
via Report: Palestinians accept new 3-day cease-fire offer – Israel News, Ynetnews.
Palestinian negotiators in Cairo say they have accepted an Egyptian proposal for a new, three-day cease-fire with Israel, the Associated Press and Al Araibya reported.
The comments came after Israel said on Sunday it was prepared for protracted military action in Gaza and would not return to Egyptian-mediated ceasefire talks as long as Palestinians kept up cross-border rocket and mortar fire.
The Palestinian decision aims to clear the way for renewed negotiations with Israel on a long-term truce arrangement in the Gaza Strip. The officials, representing various Palestinian factions, spoke on condition of anonymity because they were discussing sensitive negotiations.
A Hamas spokesman was more cautious, saying “There is a proposal for another 72-hour truce which would allow negotiations to continue. This proposal is under consideration,” Sami Abu Zuhri said, stating that the decision of the Palestinian delegation depended on the “seriousness” of Israel’s position in regards to the groups demands.
IN DEPTH: What does Hamas want, and what it may get?
Earlier the head of the Palestinian delegation in Cairo had said it would leave unless Israeli negotiators, who flew home on Friday hours before a three-day truce expired, came back to the talks. But Egypt’s state news agency, MENA, said the Palestinians would remain for an urgent meeting with the Arab League on Monday. A source told Ynet that senior Palestinian official Saeb Erekat could also join the meeting.
Israeli air strikes and shelling killed three Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday, including a boy of 14 and a woman, medics said, in a third day of renewed fighting that has jeopardised international efforts to end a more-than-month-old conflict.
Ceasefire efforts
Palestinian negotiators say their team will quit Egyptian-brokered talks on ending the Gaza fighting unless Israeli negotiators return to Cairo.
Izzat al-Rishq, a member of Hamas’ political bureau participating in the Cairo talks, said that the chances to reach an agreement are low and that the delegation may leave Cairo at any minute. “The possibility of negotiations to succeed is weak. It is possible that the Palestinian delegation will leave to consult its leaders any minute,” he said
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday “Operation Protective Edge continues… Israel will not conduct negotiations under fire,” indicating Israel is not shifting from its position.
Begining hours before Friday’s ceasefire was set to expire, Gaza militants renewed rocket fire, demanding talks continue, and have since fired dozens of rockets and mortar shells at Israel over the weekend, including two on Sunday morning.
Bassam Salhi, a Palestinian negotiator from Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ PLO movement, says his team met with Egyptian mediators late Saturday.
He said Sunday: “We told the Egyptians that if the Israelis are not coming and if there is no significant development, we are leaving today.”
Similar comments were made by lead negotiator Azzam al-Ahmed to AFP: “We have a meeting tomorrow with Egyptian (mediators). If we confirm that the Israeli delegation is placing conditions for its return, we will not accept any conditions,” he said.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to convene the Cabinet at 10:30 am Sunday, at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, where the issue will likely be discussed, however since Hamas decided to renew rocket fire instead of unconditionally extending the ceasefire, Israel’s position has been that it refuses to talk while violence continues.
One of Hamas’ central demands has been an end of the Egyptian-Israeli siege on Gaza, a demand both Egypt and Israel have rejected, but indicated willingness to ease some restrictions.
Qais Abu Laila, a member of the Palestinian negotiations team in Cairo, said that “Israel wants to regulate and not lift the siege. It is has rejected most of the Palestinian demands.”
According to Abu Laila, Israel wants to renew restrictions over materials entered into Gaza and the movement of people into the Strip.
Hamas has said it wants assurances by Israel that it is willing to lift the blockade on Gaza before observing another ceasefire. Israel has said it will not open Gaza’s borders unless militant groups, including Hamas, disarm. Hamas has said handing over its weapons arsenal, which is believed to include several thousand remaining rockets, is inconceivable.
Instead, one proposal circulated by the Egyptian mediators over the weekend offered a minor easing of some of the restrictions, according to Palestinian negotiators who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to discuss internal deliberations with journalists. It was not clear if this was an Egyptian or an Israeli proposal.
The Palestinian negotiators said they rejected the ideas, insisting on a complete end to the blockade.
A Palestinian official in Cairo said on Sunday that Turkey and Norway have expressed their willingness to operate the seaport the Palestinians have been seeking to open in the Gaza Strip.
The source also added that Israel would respond to the demands of the Palestinian delegation on Sunday. During the day, the Palestinian delegation is expected to meet with the Egyptian mediators and receive the answers in writing.
Hamas: Israel wasting our time
Accusing Israel of stalling on ceasefire negotiations, Hamas has threatened on Saturday to quit the talks if Israel doesn’t start negotiating in earnest in the next 24 hours.
“There’s no real seriousness from Israel. The Israeli side is intentionally stalling on his response to the Palestinian demands,” Hamas spokesman in Cairo, Moussa Abu Marzouk, said.
“We won’t stay for long in the talks without a serious negotiation. The next 24 hours will determine the fate of the talks,” he added. “We’re not interested in an escalation, but we won’t accept that there’s no response to our demands.”
Update
Palestinians agree to 3-day truce, but rocket fire continues unabated
Jerusalem says no negotiations under fire, operation to continue; Palestinian foreign minister says PA will sue Israelis for war crimes; 8 Palestinians killed since Saturday, including senior Hamas official
http://www.timesofisrael.com/day-34-anti-war-protesters-gather-in-tel-aviv-as-israel-hamas-conflict-presses-on
Kidnapped IDF soldier’s unit unearthed tunnel that stretched 2 kilometers into Israel
August 2, 2014Kidnapped IDF soldier’s unit unearthed tunnel that stretched 2 kilometers into Israel
By YAAKOV LAPPINLAST UPDATED: 08/02/2014 12:04
via
A Hamas terror cell attacked a Givati unit on Friday in Rafah and kidnapped an officer after the Israeli soldiers discovered a large cross-border terrorism tunnel, stretching from Rafah deep into Israel, a senior army source said Saturday.
The tunnel surfaced some two kilometers into Israeli territory, the source added. A tunnel shaft on the Gazan side surfaced in an open area surrounded by homes. Terrorists emerged from the shaft, and a suicide bomber detonated himself near the soldiers, before the officer was kidnapped, the source said. In the hours following the kidnapping, the IDF launched an intensive search in Rafah, accompanied by large-scale firepower.
The IDF has so far killed some 800 terrorists in its offensive in Gaza, the source said.
Late Friday night and early Saturday morning, the IDF attacked 200 Hamas targets, most of them command and control centers. Some 4,500 Hamas and Islamic Jihad targets have been destroyed in Gaza since the start of the Gaza war.
“We have seen far less friction on the ground overnight,” the source said. One Palestinian attack on the IDF in Gaza came in the form of an anti-tank missile fired at the Armored Corps in Shejaia, northeast Gaza. Additionally, seven soldiers were lightly injured in a mortar attack in northern Gaza.
The IDF has destroyed four tunnels in recent hours, and is “very close to completing the process of destroying the tunnels,” the source said. The process should be complete soon, he said.
Once this goal is achieved, Ground Forces “will be free from any restraint and will be able to focus on attacks, as well as continuing the operation,” he added.
During recent air strikes, the IDF targeted five mosques in Gaza used as rocket storage centers and command posts. A target in the Islamic University complex used for military activity was also hit, the source said.
The IDF has drafted 82,000 of the 87,000 reserves it is authorized to call up.
On Friday, a Hamas attack on IDF soldiers in southern Gaza, which occurred an hour and a half after the start of a humanitarian truce, ended with the killing of two IDF soldiers, and the kidnapping of a soldier in Rafah, southern Gaza, the IDF said Friday.
Terrorists emerged from a tunnel shaft, and suicide bomber detonated himself in the vicinity of soldiers. Heavy exchanges of fire ensued, before one of the IDF soldiers was kidnapped, a senior army source said.
The IDF named the abducted soldier as Sec.-Lt Hadar Goldin, a 23-year-old Givati officer from Kfar Saba. The two soldiers killed in the attack have been named as Maj. Benaya Sarel, 26, a Givati officer from Kiryat Arbba, and St.-Sgt. Liel Gidoni, 20, a Givati soldier from Jerusalem.
“The incident is ongoing, and the IDF is in the midst of operational and intelligence efforts to track down the soldier,” the army added on Friday. The statement came after Palestinians reported heavy exchanges of fire in southern Gaza, in which several lHamas attackers were reportedly killed in IDF return fire.
Five soldiers from the IDF’s Barak Formation were killed Thursday when a mortar fired from Gaza landed in Israel, near the border. They were named late on Thursday as Capt. Liran Adir, 31, from Azuz, Sgt.-Maj.
Daniel Marash, 22 from Rishon Lezion, Capt. Omri Tal, 22, from Yehud, St.-Sgt. Shay Kushnir, 20 Kiryat Motzkin, and St.-Sgt. Noam Rosenthal, 20, Meitar.
Sixty three soldiers, officers, and NCOs have been killed since the start of the war. Nineteen were injured on Thursday.
The IDF attacked 50 Hamas targets across Gaza overnight between Thursday and Friday, including rocket launch zones, and targets that were hit by the navy and infantry in a combined attack. Two terrorists seen near a tunnel were killed by Paratroopers. The Israel Air Force struck an Islamic Jihad control room, killing two terrorists.
Meanwhile, Givati infantry units uncovered two tunnel shafts and destroyed them. Secondary explosions were seen in the blast.
Verdict on UN Security Council Emergency Session? Not Terrible.
July 19, 2014Verdict on UN Security Council Emergency Session?
Not Terrible.Friday’s emergency session of the UN Security Council ended with the news that Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will fly to the region in an effort to broker a ceasefire.
By: Lori Lowenthal MarcusPublished: July 19th, 2014
via The Jewish Press » » Verdict on UN Security Council Emergency Session? Not Terrible..
The United Nation Security Council held an emergency session on Friday to address the escalation of violence between Gaza and Israel.
U.N. Undersecretary Jeffrey Feltman spoke at the beginning of the session. He announced that U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon will be arriving in the region tomorrow, Saturday, July 20, in an attempt to help rein in the hostilities.
Feltman also mentioned several points raised by acting leader of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas. He said Abbas believes the PA should be ensuring security along the Philadelphi corrider, and that there has to be one entity in charge of both all Palestinian Arabs, including those in Gaza.
At the conclusion of his statement, Feltman waxed rhapsodic about the holy grail of the “peace process:” the creation of a Palestinian State so that the “Two State Solution” can herald the dawning of the era of peace and harmony.
And then, as if cynics were writing the script instead of people who actually believe this malarky, the U.N. ambassador from “Palestine” spoke, making it crystal clear that the Palestinian Arabs have no interest in anything like peace with Israel.
The representative from “Palestine,” Riyad Mansour, launched into an invective-filled diatribe accusing Israel of intentionally causing the murder of Arab babies, and insisting that the brutal occupation by the savage Israelis is the root cause of every problem in the region.
Mansour even stated that Israel “cynically used the deaths of three Israeli teenagers” as an excuse to restart its war machine in order to inflict the greatest harm possible on the poor Gazans who are in a stranglehold due to the illegal embargo and closure of its borders.
Not content to use every bloodthirsty adjective to describe Israel, Mansour also spent a good portion of his speaking time reading names and ages of children he claimed have been killed by Israel.
For his part, Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Ron Prosor seized the opportunity to engage in rhetorical warfare, although of a far more subtle type.
“Hamas lives by violence and celebrates death. I want to be clear, our forces are fighting in Gaza, but they are not fighting the people of Gaza,” Prosor said.
Prosor also took the opportunity to castigate the nearly immediate, nearly universal international support for the Palestinian unity government. He said that simply allowed a fig leaf for Hamas to continue its violence and reign of terror against Israelis.
Neither of the parties’ spokespeople struck a surprising note. Perhaps the biggest surprise to wary observers was the statement made by U.S. ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power.
Power’s brief statement was emphatic about the need to de-escalate the violence. However, she did not spin any fairy tales about how it is only the lack of a Palestinian State which is blocking the peace train from rolling through the region. Nor did Power equate the two parties to the conflict. Power said the indiscriminate rocket fire from Gaza into Israel had to stop, and she called on both parties to try their utmost to reduce civilian casualties.
At least at this point, given that there were no marches in the aisles of the U.N. demanding Israel cease so that Hamas can continue firing (a joke Prosor employed during his remarks), it was not an altogether terrible day for Israel at the United Nations.
Bibi’s gift to the killers
July 2, 2014Bibi’s gift to the killers
By Zalmi Unsdorfer7/2/2014, 2:07 PM
via Blog: Zalmi Unsdorfer, Bibi’s gift to the killers – Arutz Sheva.
Demolishing the homes of terrorists is 1970’s technology and these days is nothing but a gift to the families of those who murdered our three boys.
There can be no doubt that the same funds which pay salaries to terrorists already in Israeli jails will have already moved these families into one or more of the 40 five-star hotels listed by Trip Advisor for the ‘Palestinian Territories’.
Or perhaps one of the many fine hotels in Gaza City like the 5-star ultra-luxurious Al-Mashtal hotel, pictured here.
Most likely they will stay in these hotels for 6 to 9 months while new villas are built for them, with all the trappings that befit the hero-status of families who slaughtered three of our best and brightest Jewish boys in the space of an hour.
Those funds for convicted terrorists were recently exposed by investigative author Edwin Black as coming from public and tax exempt funds in the US and EU. In his bestselling exposé ‘Financing the Flames’ Black shows how US/EU funds are used to pay prisoners’ monthly salaries according to the scale of their butchery.
Ahlam Tamimi, the girl who assisted the Sbarro restaurant bombing in 2001 will have received a far greater salary for 15 dead and 130 wounded than Ziad Awad can hope to get for killing just one Baruch Mizrachi on the eve of last Pesach.
We now know that Awad had previously been released in the exchange for Gilad Shalit.
So incidentally was Tamimi. We must wonder whether and when we shall be hearing from her again.
Things have moved on since house demolitions were useful as a deterrent. Ariel Sharon realized this when upping the ante against Hamas in 2004, when the IDF took out their Sheikh Yassin and terror chief Rantisi, the so-called “Lion of Palestine” – within 3 weeks of each other.
Under Sharon it is doubtful that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal would still be breathing 24 hours after the discovery of the three bodies.
So Bibi, let’s get serious.
For once, do what actually needs to be done … not what pleases other world leaders who don’t seem to have a clue what it’s really about.
ISIS-terror rooted in Islamic culture
June 30, 2014ISIS-terreur geworteld in islamitische cultuur
Leon de Winter op 30 juni, 2014 – 10:14
via ISIS-terreur geworteld in islamitische cultuur | www.dagelijksestandaard.nl.
Bing translation from Dutch
Why fight thousands of young European Muslim men for the Foundation of a Caliphate, or a religious tyranny? For the ideologues that the problems of those young men want to see in socio-economic terms, is that a great puzzle.
In their progressive worldview are the problems of migrants and their children provided by the social context within which these groups must survive. But time and time again goes to show that the culture – either: to the agricultural and religious traditions that those migrants have taken away from the country of departure.
Why not all children of migrants from Islamic countries take part in the progress of Netherlands? Why hooks so many Moroccan and Turkish young men off and they end up in crime? What goes wrong with these children at a young age making them, like their parents, not the move on from the poverty and ignorance of life from before the migration to the new life in Europe with knowledge, understanding, prosperity?
Enmity
In many immigrant families, children with distaste and hatred towards their new environment brought up. They get from their parents and by the Arab media to hear that they are entitled to much more than what they possess. That children grow up with frustration and enmity.
On the internet is swarming with young Moroccan Dutch people who applaud ISIS, the terror movement to gruesome mass murders makes guilty. Young Moroccans who identify themselves with the fury of the ISIS–fighters.
They too are furious – why? They get too little training, too little cell phones? Or the following plays: their status as Muslim, says their culture, is elevated above that of non-Muslim Dutchman, and yet their subordinate social position and relatively frugal?
On the micro level we see here what happens on a macro level between Arab countries and Israel. The small country is in every way better developed than any Arabic country. More prosperity, more freedom, more science. And that is unacceptable for Arabs. According to their tradition is the Jew an inferior human being who has rejected the message of Mohammed the perfect man and therefore subject to the Muslim.
And precisely this despicable people has managed to each Arab country. The successful existence of Israel makes the message of islam – that is the final message of Allah – ridiculous. And because this message can be not ridiculous, says Israel must be destroyed, the believer, at all costs. It Was Golda Meir who once said: the Arabs hate us more than they love their own children?
Mechanisms
I have the impression that migrants have taken this kind of mental mechanisms to Netherlands. Fortunately, there are many who let not stifle personal opportunities by rigid beliefs, but when believers encounter the alleged superiority of the faith and the archaic gender roles and parenting methods constantly on the wicked and yet rich and powerful environment.
So these believers continually demands more space on for their god. Their minarets are visible and their wives should be apparent. And for their sons around the non-believer is part of the Dar al-Harb, the world of war, where they sanctioned by their culture to your heart’s content – because – Rob and steal, as may those gay assassins of ISIS.
The problems of their religious culture, which the Arab (and other Muslim) peoples in backwardness and ignorance keep hostage, are no longer limited to the areas where islam traditionally the predominant culture is. Migration has brought to Europe these problems. And it is worrying that migrants the crippling forces of the culture of the country of origin is not neutralize with the unprecedented opportunities that exist in Europe.
France, land of liberty, equality, fraternity, has immense problems with Islamic criminal and radicalized young men. It’s not about access to food, education, clothing, no, it comes to intangibles that define self-esteem of many angry young Muslims. They want a form of respect, and a related pattern of consumption, that society their not slavishly on the basis of their superior origin offers.
Their embittered aggrieved parents, their spiritual leaders, their hate spewing sends the same message: television channels, all the power in the world are not and its not like our holy book promises us, and so we must fights such as the infidels and Mohammed fought with the sword topics.
May it be said: the germ to radicalisation is in the general cultural values of these migrants? The Koran is built on three contrasts; male-female, believer–infidel, master-slave. In the West, these three getechnologiseerde and individualized contrasts as good as raised.
Infallible
The West is, just like Israel, a negation of what islam follower promises: reign of the true believer on Earth and eternal life in heaven. The negation is not other than temporary, thus the believer, because islam is infallible.
The young men who are now in the Middle East are experiencing the adventures of their lives and robbing and raping and beheading, legitimised may one day come back. They are not radicalized because they were pathetic or too little, no, they are radicalized opportunities because their cultural traditions have made impossible integration and offer young men the concept of the Holy struggle, an idea that many young men to fine brings excitement.
Israel and Jordan are in the same period. They have about the same population. No raw materials. They belong to the same historical world. Why one country came to fruition and it became an open democracy, and why was the other hardly a dictatorship that contributes to the progress of humanity?
Possessed
A famous rabbi was once asked to the Torah in one phrase to sum up. He replied: ‘ what you don’t want others do you shall rest; This is the whole Torah – now go home and study. ‘ This is the reason why Israel prospers, and not Jordan. This is the reason why the West knows prosperity and freedom, and the Arab world. It is tragic and dangerous that the ideology of ISIS, and of the possessed young men of colluding, that exactly the opposite values. It’s the culture, stupid.
The Islamist Plague
June 30, 2014The Islamist Plague
By Rachel Ehrenfeld
Monday, June 30th, 2014 @ 3:56AM
via The Islamist Plague.
Many Western commentators have adopted the narrative that al Qaeda and its ilk are the exception to the “religion of peace” — Islam.
However, the rise of “political Islam,” the brainchild of the Muslim Brotherhood, is more akin to a highly infectious disease. No vaccine is available; its spread can only be halted by identifying and eliminating the sources of infection. Yet, despite the mortal danger posed by the increasingly violent global jihadist movement, willful blindness persists in the United States and the West.
Once the Soviet Union imploded and Islamist fundamentalism exploded, Muhammad replaced Marx and Lenin, and radical Islam replaced the socialist-nationalist doctrines of the Arab revolutionaries. The collapse of the Soviet Union served as the catalyst for an alliance between radical Sunni and Shiite movements that helped to revive Islamist fundamentalism. The spread of the Islamist ideology was paid for by the oil-rich Arab/Muslim states, which also used their money to buy Western “opinion makers,” including businessmen, politicians, the media, and academics.
New communication technologies allowed the increasingly vitriolic Islamist rhetoric to spread instantaneously. Instead of taking measures to stop the instructive incitement for murder, the West sank further into appeasement, thus encouraging the spread of the jihadist agenda.
While the bloody attacks of ISIS and Hezbollah in Iraq and Syria are portrayed as a Sunni vs. Shiite struggle, the role of Ayatollah Khomeini, as the leader of the “Islamic Revolution,” should not be forgotten.
After successfully taking over Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini began calling for the unification of Muslims throughout the world, and for exporting his Muslim Revolution to wherever Muslims live so that Muslim domination could be achieved. “We are at war against Infidels,” the Ayatollah told a large group of Pakistani military officers on a pilgrimage to Qom in January 1980. “Take this message with you … I ask all Muslims [emphasis added] … to join the Holy War. There are many enemies to be killed or destroyed. Jihad must triumph.” He stressed that the “Iranian Experiment” should be followed, and that the realization of the true Islamic State should be carried out forcibly and without compromise.
These plans for Islamic unification were accelerated by the Gulf War. The war helped the leaders of Islamist groups throughout the globe to enforce their vision that jihad, holy war, is the only formula for protecting Islam from extinction by the West — led by the U.S. This opinion was and is repeatedly voiced by every Islamist leader. “Bush and Thatcher have revived in the Muslims the spirit of Jihad and martyrdom,” wrote the Palestinian leader of the Islamic Jihad, Sheikh As’ad Bayyud al-Tamimi. He promised that all Muslims “will fight a comprehensive war and ruthlessly transfer the battle to the heart of America and Europe.” Despite the advancement of the ISIS, many in the West continue to dismiss such statements as pure rhetoric. Instead, they are hanging on to statements, made by Muslim and Arab leaders and politicians, that ISIS and the other jihadists are aberrations that should be eliminated.
Yet, the U.S. and other Western countries are trying, again, to negotiate, i.e., submit to demands of their mortal enemies, supposedly to avoid further escalation, often accepting statements the like of which were made by Egyptian Sunni theologian Mahmud Shaltut (1893-1963), in his al-Qur’an wal-Qitāl:
“Muhammad revealed a book [the Quran] containing the principles of happiness. It commands to judge by reason, it propagate science and knowledge, it gives clear rules, it proclaims mercy, it urges to do good, it preaches peace, it gives firm principles concerning politics and society, it fights injustice and corruption.”
He also declared, “The Islamic community is commanded to do only what is good and are forbidden to do what is reprehensible and evil. The Islamic mission is clear and evident, easy and uncomplicated. It is digestible and intelligible for any mind. It is a call of natural reason, and therefore not alien to human intellect. This is the mission of Muhammad to humanity.”
While Shaltut’s argument that “it is the interest of humanity to gather enthusiastically under Islamic rule,” has not been accepted, yet, the U.S. efforts to ignore the Islamic plague and its sources, only help to spread it.
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