vrijdag 21 mei 2010

De Nakba van NRC Handelsblad

 

http://www.zionism-israel.com/blog/archives/00000463.html

IMO Blog, 2010

Afgelopen week was weer de jaarlijkse Nakba dag, de dag waarop de Palestijnen betreuren dat zij in 1947 het VN delingsplan niet hebben geaccepteerd en daarentegen een oorlog begonnen tegen de Joden in Palestina, Jeruzalem blokkeerden, aanslagen pleegden en Joodse konvooien aanvielen. Als gevolg hiervan werden zij in het voorjaar van 1948 verslagen en sloegen honderdduizenden Palestijnen op de vlucht, toen de Joodse gemeenschap in het offensief ging. Oeps, de Palestijnen betreuren deze oorlog niet, alleen de uitkomst. Zij nemen het hun leiderschap van toen niet kwalijk dat het ieder compromis weigerde en voor oorlog koos, maar alleen dat men die niet had gewonnen. Men betreurt ook niet dat de Arabische staten met oorlog dreigden als het delingsplan werd aangenomen, en zich in ronkende taal uitliet over wat men met de Joden van Palestina (en in het gehele Midden-Oosten) zou doen, alleen dat zij deze oorlog niet wisten te winnen. De meeste Palestijnen lijken dan ook geen vrede te willen die ruimte laat voor Joodse zelfbeschikking, maar de Israelische overwinning van 1948 ongedaan maken. Dit geldt zowel voor de Palestijnen als voor de Israelische Arabieren, die in retoriek soms niet onderdoen voor Hamas:

To Aharonovitch we say, don't rejoice in your incitement against the Arab parties and leaders and the Islamic Movement. Those who incite against us, their natural place is under our shoes. Mr. Aharonovitch, if you call for our transfer, you are the first who should leave. We will continue to stay here as long as the za'atar (Middle Eatsern herb) and olives are here."

He warned, "Mr. Aharonovitch and all those hiding behind you, don't put us in a corner because the more radical one among us will go mad. We will all rise and defend our present and our future and our children's. We must not despair; we won't despair."

He referred to the settlements as "a spreading cancer" and said: "There is a cancer called communities inside the West Bank. This disease is spreading in occupied Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights. We know this cancer has managed to establish 1,000 factories and has managed to produce 3,000 products. We call on you to avoid buying from this cancer. Put all these products in the dustbin, choke the economy of these communities. This cancer should be choked until the occupation ends and is lifted from all of Jerusalem."


Aldus Sjeik Raed Salah, leider van de islamitische beweging in Israel. Aharonowitch dankte deze dreigementen aan de arrestatie van twee Israelische Arabieren die verdacht worden van spionage voor Hezbollah. Het is niet bepaald de toon van een zielige marginale onderdrukte groep; men is blijkbaar niet bang voor dergelijke opruiing in de gevangenis te worden gegooid en gemarteld want Israel is een rechtsstaat en dat zou bovendien hun zaak internationaal alleen maar versterken.

Uiteraard liet ook Hamas van zich horen, en kondigde aan door te gaan met 'het verzet', eiste dat alle vluchtelingen en hun nakomelingen moeten kunnen terugkeren naar Israel en hekelde de indirecte vredesbesprekingen tussen de Palestijnse Autoriteit en Israel. Het is in de ogen van de meeste westerse journalisten ongetwijfeld een zeer gematigd geluid, want men riep niet op alle Joden te doden en ontkende ook de Holocaust niet, iets wat overigens volgens sommigen best wel begrijpelijk is, omdat Israel deze zou misbruiken om haar 'misdaden' tegen de Palestijnen te rechtvaardigen. Onlangs zei een Hamas leider:

Allah will send his wrath down from the skies upon the Jews and their collaborators. Allah will make the sea rage against all the oppressors. Allah will poison the air breathed by the Jews, the Americans, the Crusaders, and all the Zionists. May Allah turn the food that they eat to poison in their bellies.
The Jews, just like a cancer, operate via dormant cells, until the body collapses. We must stop this swelling, criminal, Zionist cancer.


De gematigde Palestijnse Autoriteit doet daar niet voor onder:

"The Jews, the enemies of Allah and of His Messenger, enemies of humanity in general, and of Palestinians in particular " The Jews are the Jews. Even if donkeys would cease to bray, dogs cease to bark, wolves cease to howl and snakes to bite, the Jews would not cease to harbor hatred towards Muslims" The Prophet says: 'You shall fight the Jews and kill them'" [PA TV (Fatah), Jan. 29, 2010]

Aldus een geestelijke in een op PA TV uitgezonden religieuze dienst.

Terug naar de Nakba. In de Staatskrant voor Palestina, NRC Handelsblad, stond zaterdag een interview met een Palestijnse theatermaker, Amir Nizar Zuabi. Het Palestijnse narratief staat centraal, en de krant geeft als achtergrondinformatie hoe zomaar honderden Palestijnse dorpen werden vernietigd en meer dan 700.000 Palestijnen verjaagd. Het is pure propaganda, want de meeste Palestijnen werden niet verjaagd maar vluchtten voor het door henzelf begonnen oorlogsgeweld, vaak nadat de lokale elites en strijdgroepen (die de bevolking zouden moeten beschermen) zelf al eerder waren gevlucht, de bevolking ontredderd achterlatend. Beide partijen overdreven soms ook horrorverhalen over bijvoorbeeld Deir Yassin, of verspreidden geruchten over op handen zijnde wrede Joodse aanvallen. De Arabieren deden dit om hulp te krijgen uit de Arabische landen, de zionisten omdat hun de vlucht (die men niet had verwacht en ook geen gevolg was van een bewuste planning) niet slecht uitkwam.

Vanuit veel dorpen die werden verwoest waren Joodse konvooien overvallen of naburige kibboetsen aangevallen, en de Haganah had niet voldoende troepen om al die dorpen te bezetten en te bewaken, om te voorkomen dat zich er opnieuw Arabische strijders zouden vestigen. Een andere reden voor de vernietiging was de verwachte aanval van de Arabische buurlanden. Deze moesten langs de verwachte invalsroutes niet kunnen schuilen in Arabische dorpen, om die als uitvalsbasis te kunnen gebruiken.

Zuabi noemt de 1948 oorlog 'de wortel van het probleem', en beweert dat men dat in het Westen niet onderkent omdat het zelf zo'n grote rol heeft gespeeld bij de stichting van de Joodse staat Israel. Dat laatste valt wel mee (of tegen) en de Britten bijvoorbeeld werkten dit de laatste jaren van hun mandaat bewust tegen.

Ook andere landen zaten niet te wachten op een Joodse staat en vooral de spanningen met de Arabische wereld die dat zou geven, en na de Tweede Wereldoorlog deed de VS verschillende voorstellen aan Engeland om een deel van de Joodse overlevenden van de Holocaust in Palestina toe te laten, waarbij de VS een even groot deel zou opnemen. Daarmee zou de vraag wat er in Palestina moest gebeuren nog even uitgesteld kunnen worden, en een tijdelijk internationaal bestuur worden ingesteld. Engeland weigerde, en ook de Arabische staten weigerden ieder compromis, en dus werd de zaak aan de VN overgedragen, die geen andere mogelijkheid zag dan deling van het gebied.

Zuabi zegt eigenlijk dat hij nog steeds niet bereid is Israel te erkennen. In zijn theaterstuk staat de strijd in een Arabisch dorp in Galilea centraal. Wanneer de Joden het aanvallen staat men voor de keuze om terug te vechten of te vluchten, en dat leidt tot onenigheid en beschuldigingen van collaboratie met de Joden. Volgens de hoofdpersoon in het stuk 'is de tijd toen opgehouden door te gaan'. Volgens Zuabi "voelt het zo voor iedere Palestijn", en "staat alles wat er sindsdien is gebeurd, in de schaduw staat van 1948". Vervolgens hekelt hij het feit dat jonge Israeliers niet de Palestijnse propaganda krijgen voorgeschoteld op hun scholen: "de jonge Israeliers weten van niks. Op school leren ze alleen over de heroïsche kant van de oorlog, dat Israel toch maar mooi gesticht is. Over de schaduwkant leren ze niks". En de Palestijnen? Hij hekelt dat er ook onder hen een taboe is. "Dat is het grote taboe voor Palestijnen: het einde van wat we onze samenleving kunnen noemen". Dat blijkt anders niet uit de jaarlijkse Nakba herdenkingen en de stortvloed aan verhalen op internet over de Palestijnse vluchtelingen. Diverse organisaties houden zich fulltime met het levend houden van deze herinnering bezig, en verzorgen informatie, produceren boeken en geven lezingen om hieraan bekendheid te geven. Het grote taboe dat altijd verzwegen wordt is natuurlijk dat men er zelf zo'n groot aandeel in heeft gehad, dat men een oorlog is begonnen en heeft verloren. Dat henzelf is overkomen wat men de Joden aan wilde doen: verdrijving en vernietiging van hun samenleving. Dat is een pijnlijke waarheid en moeilijk onder ogen te zien.

De Palestijnen zijn, zo blijkt weer, voor een groot deel blijven hangen in 1948, en kunnen zich nog steeds niet neerleggen bij de uitkomst daarvan. De tijd daarna heeft voor hun gevoel stilgestaan, maar ging natuurlijk gewoon door, en de Palestijnen waren daarin niet bepaald passief. Vóór 1967 pleegden zij aanslagen vanuit en met hulp van met name Syrië en Egypte, en de PLO en Fatah werden gesticht, na 1967 werden vliegtuigkapingen en bloedige aanslagen zoals de moord op de Olympische ploeg in 1972 gepleegd, de PLO probeerde een coup te plegen in Jordanië en week na een bijna-burgeroorlog uit naar Libanon waar de Palestijnse vluchtelingenkampen werden omgezet in een soort militaire bases van waaruit Israel geregeld werd aangevallen. Palestijnse terreurgroepen namen actief deel aan de Libanese burgeroorlog, werden door Israel grotendeels uit Libanon verdreven in 1981, en haakten na 1987 met aanslagen in bij de eerste intifada, waarna voor het eerst serieuze onderhandelingen werden gevoerd, waarbij de PLO werd erkend en terug mocht keren en de Gazastrook en een deel van de Westoever onder haar bestuur kreeg.
Zie voor een uitgebreidere beschrijving "Geschiedenis conflict Midden-Oosten" en "Vredesproces & recente geschiedenis".

Ik wilde hiermee slechts aangeven hoezeer de geschiedenis mede door de Palestijnen is vormgegeven. Net als Israel maakten ze fouten, schatten zaken verkeerd in, en hadden met onenigheid binnen de eigen bevolking te maken. Maar in tegenstelling tot Israel waren de leiders meestal incompetent, compromisloos, volgden hun eigen belangen in plaats van die van het volk en bovenal stelde men zich vanaf het begin passief en afhankelijk op van de Arabische wereld. Het mag allemaal meer of minder begrijpelijk zijn geweest, een en ander heeft de Palestijnen wel opgebroken, en daar kan men Israel niet de schuld van geven.

Dat de tijd na 1948 in hun beleving heeft stilgestaan, en alles wat er sindsdien gebeurde in de schaduw van 1948 staat, is niet iets om te koesteren maar dat ten diepste zorgen moet baren. Het eindeloos vertellen van de verhalen van 1948 zoals Zuabi bepleit in het interview, zonder uiteraard daarbij enige verantwoordelijkheid te nemen, bevestigt precies de passieve slachtofferrol die de Palestijnen parten heeft gespeeld.

PA staatspropagandablad NRC Handelsblad meldt tot slot dat 'de officiële Israelische lezing - overigens door historici van links tot rechts ontkracht - is dat de Palestijnen vrijwillig hun huizen verlieten en dat Israel zich moest verdedigen tegen een overmacht aan militairen uit de omringende Arabische staten'. Wat werd ontkracht is dat de Arabische leiders de vluchtelingen opriepen te vluchten. Dit is gebeurd, maar op beperkte schaal, en daar staan pleidooien en initiatieven tegenover om de vlucht juist tegen te gaan. Wat niet werd ontkracht is dat de vluchtelingen niet werden verdreven als onderdeel van een bewust plan zoals de Palestijnen beweren en in het Westen steeds meer het dominante narratief is geworden. Wat ook niet werd ontkracht is dat Israel aanvankelijk tegen superieure Arabische legers vocht, superieur in zowel aantallen soldaten als in vooral zware wapens als tanks, gepantserde voertuigen en qua luchtmacht.

Het is weer heel duidelijk: het Israelische narratief is ontkracht, met het Palestijnse is niks mis, en dit wordt door de 'slijpsteen van de geest' klakkeloos overgenomen en eindeloos gereproduceerd, ondertussen suggererende dat dit nieuw en verfrissend is, de 'andere kant' van het verhaal etc. Dit verhaal is niet alleen schadelijk voor Israel, maar evenzeer voor de Palestijnen zelf. Of wil men over 60 jaar nog steeds zeggen dat 'de tijd na 1948 heeft stilgestaan'?

Ratna Pelle
20 mei 2010

donderdag 20 mei 2010

Hamas: aanbod bestand betekent niet erkenning van Israel

 
Hieronder verduidelijkt Hamas in het Palestijnse Ma'an nieuws haar voorstel voor een tienjarig bestand in ruil voor Israelische terugtrekking naar de wapenstilstandslijnen van 1949 (de groene lijn).
 
"This means that if the international community grants the right of return to the six million Palestinian refugees across the world to their homes in Haifa, Yaffa, and Akko [Acre], then there will no longer be an occupying state," Al-Haya said.
The return of Palestinian refugees, he said, would signal the end of Israeli occupation, and was paramount in the movement's 1967 border proposal.

 
Vandaar dat dit voorstel dan ook geen erkenning van Israel inhoudt. Dat is niet slechts een semantische kwestie (dat men het niet zo openlijk kan zeggen maar het er in de praktijk wel op neer komt) zoals onder andere NRC Handelsblad beweert en de linkse politieke partijen en tal van andere deskundologen. Het is een principiële zaak: de staat Israel zal volgens dit voorstel ophouden te bestaan, dus dan is erkenning zinloos. Men benadrukt verder dat dit voorstel verschilt van het standpunt van Fatah, dat ook voor een Israelische terugtrekking naar de pre-67 bestandslijnen en het 'recht op terugkeer' van alle vluchtelingen is:
 
Moreover, the offer put forward by the Islamist movement "differs greatly from that of Fatah," concerning the creation of a Palestinian state on 1967 borders.
 
Ook Fatah weigert Israel als Joodse staat te erkennen, en ook om Israel als niet-Joodse staat te erkennen, maar toch is dat volgens Hamas nog te gematigd en distantieert men zich er van. Fatah zegt dat alleen de Palestijnse regering Israel moet erkennen (maar niet als Joodse staat) omdat men er dagelijks mee te maken heeft. Zie bijvoorbeeld: http://israel-palestijnen.blogspot.com/2009/03/fatah-erkent-israel-nog-steeds-niet.html 
 
Tot zover dus het zo redelijke vredesaanbod van Hamas waaruit haar pragmatisme zou blijken.
 
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Hamas: '67 border deal doesn't include recognition of Israel
Published yesterday (updated) 19/05/2010 20:05
www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=285466

Gaza - Ma'an - Hamas' acceptance of 1967 borders, in exchange for a 10-year truce, would not involve the recognition of Israel, senior Hamas official Khalil Al-Haya said Wednesday.

The proposal put forward by Hamas would see the acceptance of a Palestinian state "in stages" on the green line, the 1967 armistice line, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and "the return of all refugees without recognizing Israel in exchange for a 10-year truce," Al-Haya said during a Hamas conference to mark Nakba Day in Gaza City's Ash-Shuja'iyeh neighborhood.

"This means that if the international community grants the right of return to the six million Palestinian refugees across the world to their homes in Haifa, Yaffa, and Akko [Acre], then there will no longer be an occupying state," Al-Haya said.

The return of Palestinian refugees, he said, would signal the end of Israeli occupation, and was paramount in the movement's 1967 border proposal.

Israel is waging a "fierce war to terminate this right," the Hamas official said, adding that the right of return is "the cornerstone of the Palestinian cause."

"These rights will not be restored but by force," he added.

Moreover, the offer put forward by the Islamist movement "differs greatly from that of Fatah," concerning the creation of a Palestinian state on 1967 borders.

"The Palestinians should be prepared with culture, faith, weapons and unity among each other," Al-Haya said.

"The siege will not be lifted without more power and steadfastness because the world does respect the weak and knows no mercy," The Hamas official added.

Al-Haya called on rival movement Fatah to consider other options put forward by Palestinian factions in relation to the peace process, saying "come, let us have unity among our people on Palestinian principles. Why should we deprive our people of open options."

Two weeks prior, the Gaza government confirmed that it had reached out to the US administration in written letters, denying, however, that notes were related to a ceasefire deal.

"The government sent a letter to US president Barack Obama a few months ago calling for an end to Israel's siege and an end the double standards [America] employed while dealing with the Palestinian cause," de facto government spokesman Taher An-Nunu said via news release on Monday.

The comments followed a report in Hebrew language Israeli daily newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth, which said de facto government Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh had written to Obama two weeks ago saying he was prepared "recognize Israel within the 1967 borders in exchange for a ceasefire agreement."

The letters, An-Nunu said, contained nothing that was not part of official government policy, which includes the right to resist Israeli forces until they withdraw from areas occupied in 1967.

The letter simply "included a request for Obama to change his policy towards the Palestinian people and their rights," An-Nunu wrote.

Redden Jordaanrivier noopt tot samenwerking tussen Israel, Palestijnen en Jordanië


Het is goed nieuws dat men zich samen lijkt in te zetten voor oplossing van het waterprobleem en het behoud van de Jordaanrivier, al is het inmiddels rijkelijk laat. Vooral Israël en Jordanië lijken redelijk samen te werken, de Palestijnen beschuldigen vooral Israël van het stelen van water en doen zelf weinig aan manieren om het waterverbruik (dat enorm gestegen is onder Palestijnen, terwijl het in Israël juist afnam) te verminderen. De beschuldigende vinger uitsteken naar Israël is nou eenmaal gemakkelijker.
 
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http://a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/2010/05/restoring-jordan-source-for-peace.html

by Neville Teller

Friends of the Earth Middle East (FoEME) is a unique organization that brings together Jordanian, Palestinian, and Israeli environmentalists.  The aim?  By protecting their shared environmental heritage, they seek to promote regional development and create the conditions necessary for an enduring peace.

At an international conference held in Amman on 3 May, FoEME issued two reports concerning the current state of the River Jordan, and what needs to be done to remedy a worsening environmental problem.  In brief, the organisation calls on the Israeli and Jordanian governments and the Palestinian Authority to work together to return fresh water to the near-dry Jordan river.  For the first time the FoEME identified the ecological water needs of the Lower Jordan River and from where that water can come.

According to these studies, in the past 50 years more than 98 per cent of the river's water has been diverted to supply the needs of Jordan, Syria and Israel. The river now carries about 30 million cubic metres of water a year, compared to 1.3 billion cubic metres prior to the 1930s.

Based on the first study, Munqeth Mehyar, FoEME Jordanian Director, identifies the problem as the near-total diversion of fresh water from the river, resulting in a 50 per cent loss of biodiversity.  He says that some 400 million cubic metres (mcm) of water annually are urgently needed to be returned to the river to bring it back to life.

FoEME Palestinian Director Nader Khateeb assesses responsibility for the annual return of the river's water, based on the proportions diverted, as 200 mcm by the Israeli government, 90 mcm by the Jordanian government and 100 mcm by the Syrian government.

That amount, which exceeds Israel's current water desalination output, seems impossible in light of the water shortage in the region. But FoEME states that the goal can be met, and in the second study, which deals with current poor water practices, explains how.  It identifies over a billion cubic metres of water that could be saved and made available from water economies by Israel, Jordan and even Palestine for reviving the Lower Jordan River.

Gidon Bromberg, FoEME Israeli Director, is quoted as saying: "In the middle of the desert we continue to flush our toilets with fresh water rather then using greywater or – even better – waterless toilets. We can do much better in reducing water loss and we need to treat and reuse all of the sewage water that we produce." ("Greywater" is waste water resulting from domestic activities such as laundry, dishwashing and bathing.  Waste water generated from toilets is designated "blackwater").

"If conservation measures are taken in Jordan, Israel and the PA," says Bromberg, "large amounts of water could be put toward rehabilitating the Jordan, at a cost below that of desalination."   Measures proposed include repairing leaks in the water distribution system and covering reservoirs to decrease evaporation.

The UN has attempted to concentrate the world's mind on water usage and mis-usage generally by declaring 22 March "International Water Day". Israel takes the subject seriously, and while a parliamentary commission is currently charged with investigating how to meet the country's increasing water needs, reservoirs with a combined storage capacity of some 66 billion gallons are being constructed specifically to contain recycled and flood water.  Construction has also just begun on a water treatment plant at Bitanya, south of Lake Kinneret,  The plant will treat the sewage now coming in from the Tiberias area and will also desalinate brackish water.  The treated wastewater will be used for irrigation, allowing Israel's Water Agency to send water from Lake Kinneret into the southern Jordan.  Within several years, it is claimed, all the major sources of pollution of the southern Jordan will be taken care of. 

Meanwhile the Southern Jordan administration, which includes representatives from local government and government ministries, is formulating a plan for rehabilitating the river which will cover such issues as water quantity and quality, public access, and the location of nature reserves.  FoEME plan to turn Peace Island, at the confluence of the Yarmuk and the Jordan, into a joint Israeli-Jordanian park that will attract tourists. Work on creating the park and rehabilitating the Jordan River is to be carried out in parallel.

Israel, the West Bank, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon all share the waters of the Jordan river and its source tributaries.  Water is generally perceived as one of the high priority issues in the Arab-Israeli dispute.  The key to success is co-operation, a co-operation based on self-interest.  The Jordan Times recently gave particularly encouraging support for the position of FoEME: "All the countries on the river banks have to stop overusing its water, stop polluting it and assist in restoring its traditional sources of freshwater.  If inaction continues, the riparian countries will face the condemnation of the international community."

Water resources in the Jordan river basin are trans-boundary.  Sharing them has been an inevitable feature of life in the region in the past, is so now, and will remain so following any peace accord.  Issues remain outstanding – one particular problem is in respect of the West Bank which largely contains the three principal underground aquifers of the region.  One of these aquifers provides Tel-Aviv with most of its water.  The eventual peace agreement, therefore, and a regional water settlement are closely interdependent, and the fact of life that water resources have to be shared should serve as a considerable inducement on all parties to reach agreement on the bigger issues.

Copyright 2010 by the author. This work is posted at http://www.a-mid-east-journal.blogspot.com/ . Please do link to it, quote excerpts and forward it by email with this notice. Distributed by ZNN. To subscribe send email to znn-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

Misleidende gegevens van het Palestijnse Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek

 
De bevolkingsgroei in de Gazastrook is vrij dramatisch en al decennia een bron van zorg. Egypte en de UNRWA vingen er veel Arabische vluchtelingen op na de oorlog van 1948-1949. De UNRWA zorgde voor huizen, voedsel, onderwijs en medische zorg in de vluchtelingenkampen, en werd en passant een van de belangrijkste werkgevers, want de meeste medewerkers zijn zelf Palestijn. Ondanks (of vanwege?) hun vrij uitzichtloze situatie kennen de Gazanen een erg hoog geboortecijfer, terwijl de natuurlijke hulpmiddelen en werkgelegenheid in de strook schamel zijn. Toen Israel de verwaarloosde strook onder controle kreeg, probeerde men de situatie te verbeteren door onderwijs en voorzieningen uit te breiden, geboorteplanningsklinieken op te richten, en men bood werkgelegenheid in Israel en in de nederzettingen en importeerde goederen uit de strook, wat natuurlijk ook het eigenbelang diende. Men bouwde ook nieuwe huizen voor de vluchtelingen buiten de kampen, maar dit werd door de UNRWA, VN en PLO veroordeeld en tegengewerkt.
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Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics lies

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/05/palestine-central-bureau-of-statistics.html

The Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics came out with its statistics on the 62nd anniversary of Israel's birth. As I mentioned last week, they say that the Palestinian Arab population has increased by a factor of eight in those years.

Ma'an's more extensive quotation of their statistics says something that is clearly not true:

The PCBS wrote that as a direct result of the expulsion of Palestinians from their ancestral homelands in 1948, Gaza has become the most densely populated place on earth.

According to their statistics, the population density at end of 2009 was 663 individuals per km2 of which 439 individuals per km2 live in the West Bank and 4,140 individuals per km2 in Gaza Strip. In Israel, the population density reached 350 individuals per km2.
This is a baldfaced lie.

The latest numbers of population density for territories and nations show that Gaza, if it is reckoned as a separate entity, would be in sixth place, way behind Macau (18,500/km2), Monaco (16,900/km2), Singapore, Hong Kong and Gilbraltar.

(I had exposed this oft-stated lie years ago, and even created a video about it:
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Now, the PCBS is an official agency of the PA. Its population statistics are used worldwide because they are considered to be a reliable organization. People make decisions based on their reports.

If they are lying about something so easily disproven, how can we trust them when they publicize statistics about anything else?

woensdag 19 mei 2010

CIDI-verkiezingsdebat Midden-Oosten op 1 juni in A'dam

 
Zoals ook tijdens het vorige debat laat GroenLinks blijkbaar verstek gaan. Ik begrijp die arrogantie niet. Zelfs Harry van Bommel komt wel, en Martijn van Dam is ook bepaald geen vriend van Israel, dus Mariko Peters zou niet alleen hebben gestaan.
 
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1 juni Groot CIDI-verkiezingsdebat

di 18-05-2010

Op dinsdag 1 juni organiseren CIDI, het Nederlands Iran Comité en CiJo een groot verkiezingsdebat over Israel, het Midden-Oosten en Iran.

• MOET ER EEN KERNWAPENVRIJ MIDDEN-OOSTEN KOMEN? •
• HOE BETEUGELEN WE IRAN? •
• OPLOSSING PALESTIJNS-ISRAELISCH CONFLICT : 1, 2 OF 3 STATEN?

Met: 

Maarten Haverkamp (CDA),
Joël Voordewind (CU),
Atzo Nicolai (VVD),
Boris v.d. Ham (D66),
Martijn van Dam (PvdA),
Raymond de Roon (PVV)
en Harry van Bommel (SP).

Discussieleiders: columnist Arend Jan Boekestijn en journalist Leonard Ornstein.

Plaats: de Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam. Tijd: 20.00 - 22.00 uur. Toegang: gratis.

Opgeven vooraf noodzakelijk: CIDI@CIDI.NL

 

Hamas executeert 3 'veroordeelde moordenaars'


Een dergelijk bericht gaat natuurlijk hopeloos ten onder in alle aandacht voor het feit dat Israel een notoire antizionist (Chomsky) de toegang durfde te weigeren (Egypte, Iran of Syrië laten alle dissidenten natuurlijk toe en leggen ze geen strobreed in de weg wanneer zij op universiteiten willen spreken of journalisten ontmoeten). Voor de vele 'vredes' en 'mensenrechten' organisaties die binnenkort weer een bootreis naar Gaza organiseren om het Hamas regime te helpen in haar strijd tegen het verderfelijke zionistische regime, is dit uiteraard ook geen enkel probleem.
 
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The Jerusalem Post
Hamas executes 3 convicted killers
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
18/05/2010 11:25
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=175855


Doctor says bullet-riddled bodies dumped at Gaza hospital.

Gaza's Hamas rulers say they have executed three convicted killers, carrying out another set of death sentences that have been criticized by rights groups.

A medical official said the bullet-riddled bodies were dumped at a Gaza hospital. He spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of retribution.

Tuesday's executions were the second official death penalties carried out since Hamas' 2007 takeover of Gaza. Human rights groups have also accused Hamas security forces of involvement in extrajudicial killings, including of suspected collaborators with Israel.

The Gaza Interior Ministry described the men executed as convicted killers but gave no details.

In April, Hamas executed two men accused of collaborating with Israel. It was the first time the death penalty has been carried out in Gaza since Hamas violently seized power in the coastal area in 2007.

Mensenrechten en het recht op terugkeer van de Palestijnen


Het is pas weer Nakba dag geweest, en dat blijft niet onopgemekrt in onze media, waarin men er alles aan doet toch vooral de Palestijnse visie goed voor het voetlicht te brengen. Het recht op terugkeer, dat niet in VN resolutie 194 is verankerd, is echter volgens Elder of Ziyon helemaal geen uiting van mensenrechten, maar druist hier juist tegenin. Het houdt de vluchtelingen arm in overvolle vluchtelingenkampen en in naam van dit 'recht' verzetten zich de Palestijnen en vluchtelingenorganisaties tegen iedere andere oplossing. Vluchtelingen die aangeven liever in een ander land te worden geherhuisvest worden als verraders gezien.
 
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The "right of return" is the opposite of human rights

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2010/05/right-of-return-is-opposite-of-human.html

When Palestinian Arabs speak of the "right of return," what exactly do they mean?

Most people would say that it means that Palestinian Arabs and their numerous descendants would have the unlimited right to move back to the homes they left in Palestine in 1948, in line with UN GA resolution 194. That same resolution goes on to say that those who choose not to "return" would be compensated.

In other words, it is characterized as a right for people to be able to determine their own destiny and as a human right for people to live wherever they want to.

This is not true.

There was a Gaza Nakba rally yesterday, and the speakers made very clear that their concept of the "right to return" is the exact antithesis of human rights.

The speakers there complained about "the danger of attempts to dilute the letter and the concept of the right of return and to try a new concept instead, the compensation of Palestinian refugees, or the establishment of houses for them in other lands."

One of the speakers said that the PA negotiating about the "right of return" is "another catastrophe for the Palestinian people, stressing that the right of return is a sacred right, individually and collectively, under which there is no statute of limitations, that can only be achieved only through resistance and the unity of Palestinian ranks, and [he who negotiates on these concepts] is a traitor."

Another speaker supports keeping Palestinian Arabs in camps because they have been the basis of the "Palestinian revolution" and they were where resistance started. He added that even the idea of Palestinian Arabs moving to "Palestine" is anathema.

There is a common thread here: none of the people advocating for the "right of return" in Arabic accept the basic concept of individual choice.

If an Arab in a Lebanese UNRWA camp wants to become a citizen of the country in which he is born, he must be denied that right because it conflicts with this fictional "right of return."

If an Palestinian Arab born in Syria whose grandfather was born in Jaffa wants to move to Jericho upon the creation of a Palestinian Arab state, he is denied that right because it conflicts with the "right of return."

If an Arab in Europe who descended from Palestinian Arabs wants to take money to drop his claim to move "back" to a land he has no interest in living in, he is denied that opportunity because the people who support the "right of return" do not want to dilute their support.

They explicitly say that they prefer Palestinian Arabs to be stateless and miserable in camps in order to keep them angry at Israel. The anachronistic camps which should have been dismantled five decades ago are held up as shining examples of Palestinian Arab unity - a unity that is externally imposed, not by Israel but by Arab leaders who are dead-set against providing basic human rights to those Arabs unfortunate enough to have had their ancestors living in Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, the UNRWA definition of "refugee."

By definition, human rights are individual rights, not collective rights. The "right of return," by taking away all individual choice, is the very antithesis of human rights. It is an aggressive assault on the human rights of millions of people, purposefully cloaked in the false assertion of being a "right."

The nakba exists today because of this assault on human rights perpetrated by Arab leaders and acquiesced to by Western powers, foremost the UN. Even if one believes that Israel is responsible for the start of the nakba, the perpetuation of it for 62 years is squarely the responsibility of the Arab world and the Palestinian Arab leadership who gladly bargain the human rights of their people for their own political purposes.

And the organizations that claim to care most about human rights do not say a word about this open assault on the human rights of millions.

Haredi rellen in Jeruzalem vanwege verplaatsen oude graven in Ashkelon

 
Polderen en kopjes thee drinken lijkt vaak de verstandige optie bij maatschappelijke onrust, maar tegen lieden die het geweld niet schuwen is het wellicht belangrijker om te laten zien wie de macht en het geweldsmonopolie bezit in een rechtstaat. Het doet denken aan wat ik vanavond op tv zag, over een christelijke fanaat die een abortusarts had vermoord, en een bevriende priester die hem verdedigde. Een Gotspe dus.
 
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Some 700 Haredim riot in Jerusalem after graves removed from Ashkelon ER site
Published 23:10 16.05.10 / Latest update 04:00 17.05.10
http://www.haaretz.com/misc/article-print-page/some-700-haredim-riot-in-jerusalem-after-graves-removed-from-ashkelon-er-site-1.290726?trailingPath=2.169,2.216,2.218,

Jerusalem cuts off services to Haredi neighborhoods due to violent protests; at least 30 arrested in last two days.
By Liel Kyzer, Yair Ettinger and Nir Hasson

 
The Jerusalem municipality on Sunday evening cut off services to a number of ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods, after hundreds of protesters clashed with police during demonstrations against the state's decision to relocate ancient remains buried at the site of a planned emergency room in Ashkelon.

Close to 700 Haredim took part in the Sunday demonstration in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square organized by the Eda Haredit sect, the extreme ultra-Orthodox faction that has been most vocal in its objection to the relocation of the human remains in Ashkelon.

Several municipal employees in the capital were beaten on Sunday by angry Haredi demonstrators, and ultra-Orthodox youth staged riots along Bar-Ilan Street. Authorities arrested at least 30 Haredi protesters in the city.

Due to "a long list of violent incidents, including attacks on municipal workers and the vandalism of city facilities at the hands of the Haredi protesters, the city has decided to remove employees from these neighborhoods and immediately halt all activities until the violence and lack of concern for human life and property ends," said the municipality.

"They are arresting righteous Yeshiva students for protesting the desecration of graves," said Rabbi Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss, the leader of the Haredi group that organized the protest. "It is they [the police] who should be arrested."

The controversial plan has sparked outrage among Israel'sultra-Orthodox community, as it views the removal of buried remains as sacrilege.
The Israel Antiquities Authority on Sunday said preliminary findings from the excavation at the site of the planned emergency room reveal that the ancient remains buried there are not in fact Jewish, but from the Byzantine era.

Several demonstrators set fire to garbage bins, and traffic to and from the square was blocked. Shortly after the protest began, dozens of ultra-Orthodox youth also descended on Bar-Ilan Street and began hurling stones and bottles. They burned garbage bins in the middle of the road to block traffic and strewed debris and garbage throughout the street.

A large police force, including mounted officers, dispersed the crowd using water cannons. Three of the rioters were arrested and taken into custody.
Rabbi Yitzhak Tuvia Weiss, the leader of the Eda Haredit, charged, "They are arresting righteous yeshiva students who are protesting the desecration of graves. It is they [the police] who ought to be put in prison."

"Only risking lives will enable us to stop the desecration," added Rabbi David Shmidel, the head of Atra Kadisha, an organization dedicated to preserving Jewish places of burial. "We will fight even if they dig up the graves of soldiers and other Jews."

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu also said Sunday said that the government's decision to construct the bombproof emergency room at Barzilai Medical Center is in the public's best interest, despite opposition from the ultra-Orthodox community.

"After the Second Lebanon War, we made a decision to erect a new emergency room next to Barzilai Medical Center," said Netanyahu at the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday. "There is an important ultra-Orthodox public that is offended by this. We reached a decision to implement [the plan] and the general public's interest is the deciding factor."

Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush on Sunday visited the medical center to register his opposition to the project, calling the excavations an "embarrassment and a disgrace".

"It was possible to find alternatives to digging up graves that may be Jewish," Porush said. "It would have been preferable to have found a compromise."
Netanyahu had refused permission for a preliminary check to ascertain that the graves were not Jewish, Porush said. In response to Porush's comments, the head of the Ashkelon municipal council, Benny Vaknin, said: "The real shame is with the people who delayed construction of the bombproof emergency room, while during Operation Cast Lead people could have died…That is the biggest disgrace."

Y-Net bericht over afname steun in Nederland voor Israel


Het begint eindelijk door te dringen in Israel: Nederland is allang niet meer die warme vriend van Israel en met name de media zijn de laatste jaren ronduit vijandig geworden en dat mist zijn effect op de publieke opinie niet.

The document also stated that Operation Cast Lead and the way it was covered in the media have further polarized the public opinion toward Israel. "The apparent result of the military operation, based on the criticism being expressed in the Netherlands, is that there is a slow and steady erosion in the legitimacy of the State of Israel. This affects the Jewish community that is exposed to criticism due to its connection to Israel."

Precies. Het gaat niet om kritiek op een specifiek beleid of een specifieke regering, maar om het ter discussie stellen van Israels bestaansrecht. Door bovendien stelselmatig de helft van de zaak onder te belichten of geheel te negeren, krijgen mensen een volkomen vertekend beeld van Israel als schurkenstaat die zonder reden op onschuldige Palestijnen schiet en een lange neus maakt naar de internationale gemeenschap. Ook meldt men geregeld feitelijke onjuistheden of worden zaken verdraaid zodat Israel als meedogenlozer en agressiever naar voren komt.
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Report: Holland's sympathy for Israel in decline
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3891113,00.html
Internal Foreign Ministry document obtained by Ynet points to decrease in Dutch public's 'historic support' for Jewish state. Reasons: Operation Cast Lead, negative media coverage
 
Attila Somfalvi
Published: 05.18.10, 08:42
 
Israel has been slowly losing its allies around the world – but it seems that even those countries with a special relationship with the Jewish state are steadily growing their distance.

An internal document prepared by the Foreign Ministry and obtained by Ynet shows that the Netherlands joined the list of countries whose support for Israel has been on a constant decrease.

According to the document, "In recent years there has been a decline in the historic support for Israel among the Dutch public. The Netherlands is a country that places human rights high on its international agenda, as well as the issue of international law.

"The prolonged conflict between Israel and the Palestinians, along with negative coverage in the Dutch media have been the central factors leading to the declining support," the document notes.

The Palestinians, according to the current stance, "Are being portrayed as the weak side whose rights are violated, and as a result they enjoy sympathy and support from the Dutch public. Other factors to take under consideration are the influence of the Muslim community in the Netherlands, the decrease in feelings of guilt following the treatment of Dutch Jewry in World War II and the declining status of religion in the country (and a consequential decline in Christian support)."

Cast Lead eroded Israel's legitimacy
The document also stated that Operation Cast Lead and the way it was covered in the media have further polarized the public opinion toward Israel. "The apparent result of the military operation, based on the criticism being expressed in the Netherlands, is that there is a slow and steady erosion in the legitimacy of the State of Israel. This affects the Jewish community that is exposed to criticism due to its connection to Israel."

The Foreign Ministry in Israel accuses The Dutch Foreign Ministry for the country's lack of support for the Jewish state. According to the document, "The Dutch foreign minister has to deal with the bureaucracy of a ministry that is unsympathetic on the one hand, and opposition in the Parliament on the other."

However, members in the Foreign Ministry laud Dutch Foreign Minister Maxim Verhagen, who is considered "very friendly toward Israel," while Dutch Prime Minister Jan Peter Balkenende also gets good marks for "keeping a balanced policy toward Israel within the Dutch government."
 
 

maandag 17 mei 2010

Nakba Dag in Israel: "We zullen de fout van 1948 niet herhalen"


To Aharonovitch we say, don't rejoice in your incitement against the Arab parties and leaders and the Islamic Movement. Those who incite against us, their natural place is under our shoes. Mr. Aharonovitch, if you call for our transfer, you are the first who should leave. We will continue to stay here as long as the za'atar (Middle Eatsern herb) and olives are here."
 
He warned, "Mr. Aharonovitch and all those hiding behind you, don't put us in a corner because the more radical one among us will go mad. We will all rise and defend our present and our future and our children's. We must not despair; we won't despair."
 
He referred to the settlements as "a spreading cancer" and said: "There is a cancer called communities inside the West Bank. This disease is spreading in occupied Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights. We know this cancer has managed to establish 1,000 factories and has managed to produce 3,000 products. We call on you to avoid buying from this cancer. Put all these products in the dustbin, choke the economy of these communities. This cancer should be choked until the occupation ends and is lifted from all of Jerusalem."
 
Aldus de woorden van een Israelisch staatsburger, die in Israel werkt, belasting betaalt, van sociale voorzieningen gebruikt maakt, en zijn mening vrijelijk uit, en daarbij geregeld zijn haat tegenover dit land en de Joodse inwoners ventileert. Hoever mag je gaan in het demoniseren van je eigen land? Mag je openlijk tot haar vernietiging oproepen? Of daarvan dromen? Mag je een deel van de inwoners met een kankergezwel vergelijken? Mag je oproepen tot geweld tegen alle of een deel van de inwoners? Mag je haar vijanden openlijk prijzen en hun de overwinning toewensen? Ik weet niet of en wat van deze dingen in Nederland geoorloofd zijn, maar denk dat er zeker wel grenzen zijn. Van een land dat veel vijanden heeft en in een bijna voortdurend conflict met een ander volk en een deel van haar buurlanden is verwikkeld, verwacht ik wat dit betreft minder tolerantie. De oproep van een rechts Knessetlid om mensen die dergelijke taal uitslaan het staatsburgerschap te ontnemen, verbaast me dan ook niet. Het zal er niet snel van komen, ook niet onder deze zogenaamd zo rechtse regering, want Israel kent wetten en een onafhankelijke rechtsspraak en daarin zijn de rechten van het individu behoorlijk goed geregeld.
 
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We shall not repeat mistake made in 1948
15-05-2010,08:37
qassam.ps/news-2816-We_shall_not_repeat_mistake_made_in_1948.html

 
Al Qassam website - Thousands of members of the Arab sector gathered in the Galilee village of Kanna on Friday evening to mark the 62nd Nakba Day – the "Day of The Catastrophe" following the establishment of the State of "Israel" – in an event organized by the Islamic Movement.

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the movement's Islamic branch, delivered a harsh speech in which he praised Omar Said and Ameer Makhoul who were arrested earlier this week on suspicion of espionage.

Salah turned to Internal Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and warned him, "Mr. Aharonovitch and all those hiding behind you, don't put us in a corner because the radical one among us will be crazy."

Ahead of the annual event, the Islamic Movement feared it would not be able to hold the rally due to an impending law prohibiting any events related to the Nakba, but the rally was eventually held as planned.

The movement's leader did not spare his criticism of the Zionist establishment and its leaders. He promised the event's participants that the Palestinian refugees would soon return to their homes in the Galilee and Negev and in the cities of Haifa, Lod and Akko.

"There is no escape but to return to our land, our country, our villages and our towns. The right of return has no alternative. We shall not repeat the mistake made in 1948 and shall not agree to take money in return or become citizens of other countries."

Salah went on to slam Zionist entity over the arrests of Omar Said, a Kafr Kanna resident, and Ameer Makhoul.

"The Israeli establishment, know that you will not break our will, you will not buy our freedom. You have arrested Dr. Omar Said and Amir Makhoul, whose job was to reveal the crimes of the Israeli establishment," he said.

"If you think that with this arrest you will take revenge against political groups in our society like Balad, you are wrong. Balad, the Islamic Movement, Hadash and the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee – all share one hope, one pain, one future, and one present. Those who go against one of us, go against everyone. We are all Omar Said, we are all Ameer Makhoul."

At this stage Salah turned to the internal security minister. "To Aharonovitch we say, don't rejoice in your incitement against the Arab parties and leaders and the Islamic Movement. Those who incite against us, their natural place is under our shoes. Mr. Aharonovitch, if you call for our transfer, you are the first who should leave. We will continue to stay here as long as the za'atar (Middle Eatsern herb) and olives are here."

He warned, "Mr. Aharonovitch and all those hiding behind you, don't put us in a corner because the more radical one among us will go mad. We will all rise and defend our present and our future and our children's. We must not despair; we won't despair."

He referred to the settlements as "a spreading cancer" and said: "There is a cancer called communities inside the West Bank. This disease is spreading in occupied Jerusalem and in the Golan Heights. We know this cancer has managed to establish 1,000 factories and has managed to produce 3,000 products. We call on you to avoid buying from this cancer. Put all these products in the dustbin, choke the economy of these communities. This cancer should be choked until the occupation ends and is lifted from all of Jerusalem."

Before concluding his speech, Salah turned to Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and called on them to unite. "From here, from the Galilee, we call on you to unite against the occupation until the state of Palestine is established with Jerusalem as its capital."

Salah's deputy, Sheikh Kamal Khatib, spoke before him and vowed that "The Nakba will not be repeated. It will not happen again. We are staying here and won't go anywhere."

Mohammed Zeidan, head of the Arab Higher Monitoring Committee, referred to this week's arrests were as a persecution of the political leadership in the Arab sector.

Campus Jihad in de VS in hun eigen woorden


In Amerika is op campussen een zeer gevaarlijke ontwikkeling gaande. Radikale anti-Israel en moslim organisaties prediken er openlijk de jihad en geweld tegen burgers. Lezingen van pro-Israel sprekers worden met geweld verstoord, en Joodse studenten geintimideerd. Hieronder het zoveelste voorbeeld hiervan. Ook in Europa worden bijeenkomsten met een pro-Israel karakter of waaraan Israelische Joden deelnemen steeds vaker verstoord of vinden er luidruchtige tegendemonstraties plaats.
 
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Campus Jihad--In Their Own Words



Right on the heels of the article in the previous post, the Muslim Student Association groups at UC San Diego and UC Irvine have provided excellent examples of the problem of overt hate speech on many American university campuses.

At UCSD, David Horowitz spoke earlier this week. I'm not a great fan of Horowitz, but this video is worth watching. He is, rather easily, able to get a member of the UCSD Muslim Student Union to admit that she supports the terrorists of Hamas:
(you will note that she does use Horowitz' term "Hitler Youth Week" when noting the activities taking place on the campus as "Israel Apartheid Week"; she may not be familiar with the use of "air quotes". So don't think that there is an actual event called "Hitler Youth Week" at UCSD. I'm not sure about the University of Tehran, though.)

The video is posted here.

The MSA at UCSD then issued a cleverly worded non-apology which Robert Spencer carefully dissected to show that while they condemn actions taken against "civilians" or those who kill "unjustly", neither one of those terms apply to the deaths of Israeli women, children and senior citizens.

But that's really just the warmup act. The headliner for this week's Excess of Evil roadshow is an hour away up Interstate 405, where the UC Irvine MSA inflicts their annual special guest star Amir Abdel Malik Ali onto the campus community. Malik Ali's hate speech should be completely shunned in any civilized society; yet he is proudly promoted by the MSA at Irvine. In addition to the blood libel staples such as blaming Israel for the September 11 attacks, and blaming Zionists for the two US wars against Iraq (since "the neo-cons are all Zionist Jews"), he was also quoted as telling moderate Muslims that their desire to be liked was turning them into "house slaves in the mansion of a racist, imperialistic and destructive America." But Malik Ali shares the hate-- he also claims that the Matthew Shepard Act (making assault based on sexual orientation or gender identity a hate crime in the same fashion as other hate crimes) is a Jewish plot, and he has pretty much declared the entire non-Islamist world as the enemy: "Sooner or later, Today's Muslim students will be the parents of Muslim children; and they should all be militants."

This week, Malik Ali got confronted-- Roz Rothstein, the founder and executive director of StandWithUs , challenged this purveyor of hate speech . In response, Malik Ali gives us the triple play--support for Hamas and Hezbollah, support for jihad, and likening Zionists to Nazis.  See the video here.


Of note, the European Union (not noted for its love of Israel) specifically cites, in its Working Definition of Anti-Semitism , two examples: "Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination" and "Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israeli policy to that of the Nazis". Actually, just read that whole document, since Malik Ali has managed to hit most of the definitions provided there. This definition was also cited and adopted by the US State Department in 2008 in its Report on Contemporary Global Anti-Semitism.

Now Malik Ali has the right to spread his poison; the First Amendment protects him. But campuses aren't obliged to give him a space and a microphone, just as newspapers aren't obliged to publish his screeds. And those who wish to give him a forum, using public money that is given to the Associated Students at UCI for student programming, must be held accountable for their choice to invite him--not once, but year after year after year.

Tell the UC Irvine administration that enough is enough. The MSU continues to host hateful speakers on its campus, inciting division and marginalizing Jewish students who support the state of Israel as the "new Nazis" on campus.

Tell the UC Irvine administration that this is dangerous and needs to stop. MSU should be sanctioned and placed on probation because they foment hatred against one specific group on campus: the Jewish group.


Please send the link to the video, and your own note to:
chancellor@uci.edu
mngomez@uci.edu
president@asuci.uci.edu
president@ucop.edu

(Please send a copy to info@standwithus.com)
 
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Synagoge in Worms aangevallen door brandstichters

 
De aanslag veroorzaakte door snel optreden van de brandweer gelukkig alleen roetschade aan de buitenkant, maar de beveiliging van alle synagoges in Rheinland-Pfalz is gelijk opgeschroeft.
 
Germans destroyed the synagogue in Worms in 1938 during the Nazi period and the place of worship was rebuilt in 1961. Authorities said there was no serious damage to the Synagogue.
In sharp contrast to many Jewish institutions and synagogues in Germany, the Worms synagogue does not have a police presence or barricades protecting the building, according to Schindler-Siegreich. The synagogue dates back to the year 1034.
 
Toen ik in Berlijn was (zie foto) viel me de strenge bewaking van alle Joodse instituten op. Ik vroeg me zelfs af of dat niet ietwat overdreven was, maar dat blijkt helaas niet zo te zijn. Het is een schande dat zoiets weer kan gebeuren, en in- en intriest dat alle Joodse gebouwen tegenwoordig blijkbaar extra bescherming nodig hebben.
 
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German synagogue attacked by arsonists




Perpetrators' note demands that Jews "give Palestinians peace."
 
 
BERLIN - A synagogue in the German city of Worms was attacked by arsonists on Monday.

The attackers left a note linking their torching of the synagogue with the Israel-Palestinian conflict, according to a report in the regional paper Wiesebadner Kurier. German police found eight copies of a note written in "awkward" German, claiming responsibility for setting the place blaze.

"So long as you do not give the Palestinians peace, we are not going to give you peace," stated the note.

Public prosecutor Klaus-Peter Mieth said there was still an open question regarding the authenticity of the note. However, Levi Salomon, who heads a task force combating anti-Semitism for the 12,000-member Berlin Jewish community, told The Jerusalem Post on Monday that he could not rule out that German Palestinians had set the synagogue afire. 

While there are no current statistics on the rise of Islamic anti-Semitism in Germany, according to Salomon, he has observed an increase in expressions of  Muslim hatred of Jews. Observers of the attack said they believe the perpetrators could have been extreme leftists, neo-Nazis or radical Islamists. What unites these groups, they said, is their common hatred of Israel.

"We are a small minority in Germany and we have such a history," Stella Schindler-Siegreich, the head of the Jewish community in Mainz, told the Kurier after traveling to Worms.

Germans destroyed the synagogue in Worms in 1938 during the Nazi period and the place of worship was rebuilt in 1961. Authorities said there was no serious damage to the Synagogue.

In sharp contrast to many Jewish institutions and synagogues in Germany, the Worms synagogue does not have a police presence or barricades protecting the building, according to Schindler-Siegreich. The synagogue dates back to the year 1034.
 
 

Hamas krant publiceert verzonnen interview met Gilad Shalit


Hamas' psychologische oorlogsvoering over de hoofden van levende mensen en hun gevoelens gaat gewoon door, en mag eigenlijk niet verbazen, behalve wanneer je van de "Hamas is zo redelijk en pragmatisch geworden" school bent natuurlijk. Maar waarschijnlijk zien de meeste Israel critici absoluut niet in waarom dit zo verwerpelijk is, behalve wanneer Israel hetzelfde zou doen natuurlijk.
 
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Made-up Schalit interview published



http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175791
 
Writer quotes soldier as 'saying' he is healthy, treated well.
 
 
In yet another move possibly aimed at putting pressure on Israel to release Palestinian prisoners, Hamas on Monday published a fabricated interview with captured IDF soldier St.-Sgt. Gilad Schalit.

The interview was published in the movement's official newspaper, Falasteen. The 'interviewer,' a political commentator, wrote that he had interviewed the soldier in captivity with a translator at his side, only to wake up and realize that it was all a dream.

The writer described Schalit as looking healthy and weighing about 60 kilograms. "I am now on the verge of completing my fourth year in captivity since falling hostage to the resistance movement," Schalit was quoted as saying in the 'interview.' "I was injured, but I underwent treatment and now I am in good health, as you can see."

Schalit was described as looking favorably upon his Hamas captors. "It would not be an exaggeration to say that I did not expect to be treated so well," he was quoted as saying. "We were taught at school and in the army that Arabs are murderers and criminals who ought to die … [but] they are people who have feelings and love life."

The captors, Schalit 'said,' "treat me in a cultured and humane manner, the opposite of what has been said." The writer ended the fabricated interview with a plea from the captured soldier to his "people," to "help" set him free.

An animated film released by Hamas military arm Izzadin A-Qassam Brigades in late April featured the soldier's father Noam Schalit as an old man, awaiting the return of his son in a coffin with an Israeli flag draped over it. Not unlike Monday's made-up interview, the film ends with Schalit the elder waking up at the protest tent in Jerusalem – that, too, was all a dream.

De moefti, de Joden van Turkije en de Holocaust

 
Uit een artikel op HoeiBoei van Necla Kelek, een Duits-Turkse vrouw:
(het merendeel gaat over de Armeense genocide)
 
Overigens was Hitler over de genocide en het optreden van de Jong-Turken exact geïnformeerd. In zijn proces, waarin hij zich moest verantwoorden voor de putsch van 1923, beriep hij zich op het voorbeeld van de Jong-Turken. En voor de overval op Polen in 1939 veegde de "Führer" alle bezwaren tegen de vernietiging van de Poolse elites met de aanwijzing van tafel: "Wie praat er tegenwoordig nog over de vernietiging van de Armeniërs?" Hitler zocht bovendien de strategische samenwerking met de moslims tegen de Joden. Deze vond hij in de moefti van Jeruzalem, de meest invloedrijke vertegenwoordiger van de moslims in het Midden-Oosten.

Hadj Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, zo heette de moefti, organiseerde sinds 1916 opstanden tegen de joodse bevolking in Palestina, ook de strijd om de Klaagmuur, waarbij in 1929 honderden Joden en Arabieren stierven, komt voor zijn rekening. Met de machtswisseling van de nazi's in Duitsland openden zich nieuwe perspectieven voor hem. De moslims zochten contact met Berlijn, boden aan om opstanden tegen de Britten op touw te zetten, vroegen om wapens en kregen deze. Al-Husseini was daarbij diegene die aan de politieke, religieuze en militaire touwtjes trok. Toen in het begin van de oorlog in 1939 de situatie ook in Jeruzalem onveilig werd, vluchtte de moefti naar Beiroet en deed in zijn eigenschap als leider van de Arabische wereld de Duitse "Führer" Adolf Hitler een aanbod tot samenwerking toekomen. Het kwam tot een pact van de duivel tussen de halve maan en het hakenkruis. Het lukte de moefti om in 1941 via Istanboel en Rome in Berlijn te komen. Hier werd hij ontvangen door Hitler. Hij drong er bij hem op aan om de Arabieren officieel te steunen in hun "strijd om een Arabische natie". Hitler gaf opdracht om al-Husseini op de loonlijst van de nazi's te zetten. De moefti werd niet moe om de strijd tegen de Joden in Arabië te organiseren.

Toen de moefti in 1942 hoorde, dat de Duitse kant onderhandelde over de uitwisseling van 5000 joodse kinderen uit Slowakije, Polen en Hongarije tegen Britse krijgsgevangenen, intervenieerde hij bij zijn vriend Heinrich Himmler – want als deze kinderen over enkele jaren volwassen zouden zijn, zouden zij het "joodse element" in Palestina versterken. Himmler verbood daarop de uitwisseling. Iets dergelijks herhaalde zich, toen de regering in Boekarest bijna 80.000 Joden uit Roemenië naar Palestina wilde laten uitreizen, net zoals bij de onderhandelingen over 5000 Bulgaarse kinderen in februari 1943 – in plaats van naar Palestina werden ze naar de vernietigingskampen getransporteerd. Het religieuze hoofd van de Palestijnse moslims bleek een waakzame handlanger van de Holocaust te zijn.

Terug naar de Turken en hun relatie tot de Joden in hun land. De minister van integratie van de deelstaat Nordrhein-Westfalen is er in zijn boek "Die Aufsteigerrepublik" voorstander van om de jonge, van oorsprong uit Turkije afkomstige, jongeren de empathie met de slachtoffers van de Holocaust mogelijk te maken door hen ermee in aanraking te brengen "dat het juist de jonge Turkse republiek onder Atatürk was, die aan duizenden vervolgden in de nazitijd asiel gaven". Helaas moet men vaststellen, dat ook ministers in dit land vaak over dingen spreken waarover ze zich slecht hebben geïnformeerd.

In 1933 nodigde de Turkse regering dertig, later 200 Duitse wetenschappers uit om in Turkije een nieuwe universitaire opleiding op te richten. Het waren meest racistisch vervolgden van de "Noodgemeenschap van Duitse wetenschappers in het buitenland", o.a. de architect Bruno Taut, de uitvindster van de inbouwkeuken Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, de componist Paul Hindemith, Ernst Reuter enz. met hun gezinnen; in totaal 1000 personen. Toen Atatürk in 1938 overleed, werden de meeste contracten niet verlengd en veel van de emigranten werden in 1944 ondergebracht in interneringskampen. Het "neutrale" Turkije verlangde op druk van de Duitse regering vanaf 1938 een "bewijs van Ariërschap" van vluchtelingen en probeerde de vluchtroute van joden via Turkije af te sluiten. Met de eigen Joden ging men niet beter om.

Volgens informatie van joodse organisaties hadden zich vanaf het begin van de oorlog bijna 20.000 Turkse Joden in Europa gevestigd – een enorm aantal, gezien de 82.000 Turkse Joden die in Turkije zelf (1927) stonden geregistreerd. In Berlijn hadden ze zelfs een eigen synagoge. Na de besluiten van de Wannsee-conferentie over de "Endlösung" van de joodse kwestie werden de regeringen van tien Europese landen, ook die van Turkije, er door de Duitse minister van buitenlandse zaken in juli 1943 geïnformeerd over de mogelijkheid om "Joden met het staatsburgerschap van het betreffende land uit het Duitse machtsgebied naar huis terug te halen". De Turkse regering maakte hier geen haast mee. Ze verzocht de Duitse ambassade herhaaldelijk om een verlenging van de termijn. De ambassade op haar beurt maande Turkije meerdere malen aan om toch eindelijk te reageren. Toen Turkije desondanks niets ondernam om zijn mensen terug te halen, nam de veiligheidspolitie in Brussel de regie over. Op 13 januari 1944 deelde deze aan het ministerie van buitenlandse zaken mee: "Inmiddels is een serie Turkse joden overgedragen aan een concentratiekamp. De sleutels van de woningen van deze Turkse Joden zijn via de ambassade in Parijs overhandigd aan het voor België verantwoordelijke Turkse generaalconsulaat."
http://hoeiboei.blogspot.com/2010/05/de-moslims-en-de-holocaust.html
 
 
 
 

De legaliteit van de Israelische kernwapens

 
Sommigen argumenteren de laatste tijd dat er met twee maten zou worden gemeten, omdat Iran geen kernwapens zou mogen ontwikkelen, terwijl iedereen zwijgt over de kernwapens van Israel.
Vic Rosenthal legt hieronder het verschil uit tussen de Israelische en de Iraanse kernwapens, en betoogt dat de kernwapens van Israel zeer waarschijnlijk wel hebben bijgedragen aan vrede in het Midden-Oosten, althans aan het uitblijven van oorlogen tussen Israel en haar buren sinds 1973. Ik ben geen voorstander van kernwapens, maar als er één land is dat ze nodig zou hebben, is het Israel wel.
 
Wouter
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Israeli nukes are legal and pro-peace

May 8th, 2010, by Vic Rosenthal
http://fresnozionism.org/2010/05/israeli-nukes-are-legal-and-pro-peace/
 

George Jahn of the AP writes,

VIENNA — Israel's secretive nuclear activities may undergo unprecedented scrutiny next month, with a key meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency tentatively set to focus on the topic for the first time, according to documents shared Friday with The Associated Press.

A copy of the restricted provisional agenda of the IAEA's June 7 board meeting lists "Israeli nuclear capabilities" as the eighth item — the first time that that the agency's decision-making body is being asked to deal with the issue in its 52 years of existence…

The 35-nation IAEA board is the agency's decision making body and can refer proliferation concerns to the U.N. Security Council — as it did with Iran in 2006 after Tehran resumed uranium enrichment, a potential pathway to nuclear weapons…

The latest pressure is putting the Jewish state in an uncomfortable position. It wants the international community to take stern action to prevent Iran from getting atomic weapons but at the same time brushes off calls to come clean about its own nuclear capabilities.

This article obscures an important point, which is that the IAEA — and the UN — have no authority over Israel's nuclear capability. And it gives the impression that Iran and Israel's nuclear programs are both in some way in violation of international law, and that if action is taken regarding Iran it should also be taken toward Israel. This is entirely false.

The IAEA was created in 1957 as "the world's 'Atoms for Peace' agency." The idea was that the IAEA would supply fissionable material and know-how to countries that wanted to use atomic energy for peaceful purposes in return for strict controls over how these would be used. To that end it set up a system of inspections; if a country was found to be using IAEA-provided materials for military purposes, the information would be passed to the Security Council for action.

The IAEA's authorized functions are listed in its founding Statute. They do not include interference in nuclear activities that are not related to material supplied by the IAEA, unless the parties involved have voluntarily agreed to involve the IAEA, as was done with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

In 1970 the NPT came into being. It recognized that five nations already had nuclear weapons — the US, Soviet Union, UK, France, and China — and in effect granted them a monopoly. Signatories on the treaty agreed that they would not develop nuclear weapons themselves or contribute to the proliferation thereof and would accept IAEA supervision over their peaceful use of atomic energy.

Israel already had several weapons in 1970 and chose not to sign the NPT. So it is not in violation of it. And it is not subject to IAEA inspection.

Indeed, Israel's nuclear weapons are exactly as legal under international law as those of the US.

Iran, on the other hand, did sign the NPT. It is required to permit IAEA inspections of its nuclear installations, and the IAEA has determined that Iran is probably developing weapons in violation of the treaty, but Iran insists that its project is entirely for peaceful purposes. Nobody honestly believes that.

North Korea, which has tested (it's not clear how successfully) a weapon was a party to the NPT, but withdrew from it. Two other nuclear states — India and Pakistan — did not sign the treaty and so are not bound by it.

Israel has always suggested — but not stated explicitly, since it has never admitted to possessing nuclear weapons — that they would only be used defensively and only when there was no alternative. The closest it may have come to doing so was in the early stages of the 1973 war, when there was a possibility of enemy penetration into Israel beyond the pre-1967 borders. Some believe that Israel armed some weapons in the knowledge that the US and USSR would detect this, both as a deterrent to intervention by the USSR and a spur to the US to resupply Israel with conventional weapons.

In 1991, it's said that weapons were put on alert in the event that Saddam would fire Scuds with chemical warheads at Israel (he did not). Syria also has a large quantity of chemical warheads which have not been used, probably from fear of nuclear retaliation.

The IDF has multiple delivery systems, which include submarine-launched cruise missiles and IRBM/ICBM's in hardened land installations, giving it a second-strike capability. As I wrote yesterday, an Iranian nuclear attack on Israel, no matter how 'successful', would trigger a response that would in essence eliminate Iran as a modern state. Israel's missiles can also reach far beyond the Middle East, a fact which was highly relevant during the period that the USSR was supporting the Arab nations.

One might say that the form that the Mideast conflict has taken since 1973 — a low-intensity war involving non-state proxies and terrorism combined with stepped-up political and economic pressure — has been determined by the presence of Israel's nuclear deterrent. Not good, but better than the alternative.

So it's not surprising that Israel's enemies have recently begun a diplomatic campaign for Israel to sign the NPT, to declare the Mideast a 'nuclear-free zone', etc.

Bad idea. Israel's nuclear weapons are probably the most 'pro-peace' factor in the entire Mideast equation. Probably the best policy for Israel is to continue its policy of official ambiguity along with continued development of low-fallout nuclear weapons technology — i.e., neutron weapons, electromagnetic pulse weapons, etc.

 

Gemiddelde Israeli niet meer enthousiast over religieus Jeruzalem


Nu Jeruzalem Dag achter de rug is, is het tijd voor Shavuot, het wekenfeest. Een van de hoogtepunten van dit feest, waarin de ontvangst van de Tien Geboden wordt gevierd, is een nacht vol studie en lezingen:
 
The ancient Jewish tradition of tikun leil Shavuot, studying Torah the entire night on the eve of the holiday commemorating the reception of the 10 commandments on Sinai, has been rapidly taking on a new form in recent years. It is no longer just a religious custom, but an integral part of the annual calendar for many secular Israelis as well.
 
Dr. Micah Goodman, a lecturer on Jewish philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and director of the Ein Prat Academy, is one of the speakers who will appear at half a dozen venues on Shavuot night, speaking and leading study sessions with a wide variety of audiences.
"It is clear to me that the religious have lost their monopoly on Shavuot," he says. A decade or so ago, Shavuot night study took place almost exclusively in synagogues, but now nearly every community and cultural center in the city has a full plate of pluralistic lecturers on offer.
 
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Published 02:41 14.05.10 / Latest update 02:41 14.05.10
 
Election of Nir Bark as mayor has yet to produce any tangible proof of a change in the demographic figures that point to Jerusalem becoming, a decade or so from now, a city split between an Arab side and an ultra-Orthodox Jewish side.
By Anshel Pfeffer
 
 
Knesset Speaker Reuven Rivlin is the quintessential Jerusalemite. He hails from a family that traces its roots in the city back over two centuries, he starts every interview with "Shalom from Jerusalem" and he is a staunch believer in the right of Jews to build their homes in every corner of the city, east or west.
 
So when on Jerusalem Day, last Wednesday, he made a pessimistic speech at the Knesset's special annual session in sharp contrast to the high-flung rhetoric of the other speakers swearing allegiance to the city's "eternal unity," the media did well to sit up and take notice. For five minutes.
 
Rivlin bemoaned the lack of enthusiasm shown by most Israelis in the day marking the capture of the eastern part of the city in the Six-Day War.
 
"Jerusalem's day of celebration has become an occasion only for one sector," he said, admitting what has been evident for years, that those dancing and marching in the streets with flags are almost exclusively drawn from the national-religious community. "Jerusalem is no longer a focus of identity for Israelis and has ceased to inspire the wider public," Rivlin continued, "I fear that we are in a post-Jerusalem era."
 
He acknowledged that it was mainly the politicians' fault: "We have sinned against Jerusalem with endless talk of its borders and boundaries and lack of attention to content and a relevant vision." Rivlin is that rare creature on the Israeli right wing, a man who is still capable of seeing the suffering of the other side.
 
"How can we expect Jerusalem to inspire all" he asked, "when it suffers from severe discrimination between the Arab and the Jewish sectors?" But he remains resolutely of the opinion that the entire city, including even outlying Palestinian villages annexed in 1967, must remain part of one entity under Israel sovereignty.
 
Politics aside, Rivlin's diagnosis is right-on. Even if a majority of Israelis still say they are against any sharing of Jerusalem in a future peace agreement, they ceased caring for the city long ago. They rarely visit it, on Jerusalem Day or any other, they regard it as a depressing, boring and even dangerous place and certainly wouldn't consider living there.
 
The election a year and a half ago of secular Nir Barkat as mayor has yet to produce any tangible proof of a change in the demographic figures that point to Jerusalem becoming, a decade or so from now, a city split between an Arab side and an ultra-Orthodox Jewish side, with a dwindling number of secular (and moderate Orthodox ) enclaves in the west of the city and settler outposts in the east - if we are not almost there already.
 
I may be wrong, Barkat's election might be a sign of the trends reversing, but I have yet to see the proof.
 
And yet, despite my gloomy pessimism, I would like to point out one positive development, one small example of a secular renaissance in Jerusalem which will be on display for a few hours next week.
 
The ancient Jewish tradition of tikun leil Shavuot, studying Torah the entire night on the eve of the holiday commemorating the reception of the 10 commandments on Sinai, has been rapidly taking on a new form in recent years. It is no longer just a religious custom, but an integral part of the annual calendar for many secular Israelis as well.
 
Dr. Micah Goodman, a lecturer on Jewish philosophy at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and director of the Ein Prat Academy, is one of the speakers who will appear at half a dozen venues on Shavuot night, speaking and leading study sessions with a wide variety of audiences.
 
"It is clear to me that the religious have lost their monopoly on Shavuot," he says. A decade or so ago, Shavuot night study took place almost exclusively in synagogues, but now nearly every community and cultural center in the city has a full plate of pluralistic lecturers on offer.
 
"Secular people don't usually feel comfortable in a synagogue," says Goodman, "but they have no shortage of places to go anymore. Every where I go is packed.
 
It has become the fashionable thing to do and I hear my students talking about which is the hottest place to go this year."
 
This is not just a Jerusalem phenomenon. Tel-Aviv's secular yeshivas, which have been set up over the last few years, are also taking part. But the sight of large groups roaming the streets at two in the morning, seeking the next intellectual attraction, is peculiar to the capital.
 
Secular Shavuot used to be the Zionist festival of agriculture and many kibbutzim still hold their nostalgic Bikurim festivals with tractors and children dressed in white holding up produce.
 
For the rest of mainstream middle-class Israel, it is merely an opportunity to buy fine cheese and white wine, and that is certainly how Shavuot seems in the media and in advertising.
 
Beneath the radar, though, something more fundamental may be happening. Through inattention, occupation and sheer laziness, we have got the Jerusalem we deserve. It may be wishful thinking, but for one night a year, the dual-monopoly that the Haredi community seems to have, both over the cultural identity of Jerusalem and over Torah study, seems to crack.