Hamas moet veranderen - campagne Anti Defamation League

Een aardig initiatief van de Ani Defamation League: aan de eisen van het kwartet aan Hamas (afzweren geweld, erkennen van Israel en erkennen van alle overeenkomsten tussen Israel en de PLO) moet een vierde worden toegevoegd: het verwijderen van alle anti-Joodse uitingen in het handvest van Hamas. Natuurlijk moet het hele handvest worden verworpen voor er met Hamas gepraat kan worden, maar het is goed dat er aandacht wordt gevraagd voor het specifiek antisemitische karakter ervan, en van Hamas überhaupt. In april 2011 zei de voormalige Hamas minister van cultuur dat 'De Joden de meest smerige en verachtelijke natie zijn die op de Aarde rondkruipen.' En in november zei Hamas leider Machmoud Zahar dat de Joden spoedig uit Palestina zullen worden verdreven zoals dat eerder uit Europa gebeurde. Hamas ontkent ook regelmatig de Holocaust en/of beweert dat Israel een holocaust op de Palestijnen pleegt.

 

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Hamas moet veranderen

http://www.cidi.nl/Nieuwsberichten/Hamas-moet-veranderen.html

DO 19-05-2011

 

'Hamas moet veranderen' is de slogan van de nieuwe campagne van de Amerikaans-Joodse Anti Defamation League (ADL). Nu Hamas en Fatah een verzoeningsovereenkomst hebben bereikt, wil de ADL dat er een vierde clausule toegevoegd wordt aan de eisen die Het Kwartet stelt aan Hamas: het afzweren van antisemitisme.

 

Het Kwartet (De Verenigde Naties, Verenigde Staten, Rusland en de Europese Unie) verbinden drie eisen aan Hamas voordat er met hen onderhandeld kan worden over vrede: het erkennen van eerder gemaakte afspraken tussen Israel en de PLO, het erkennen van de (Joodse) staat Israel en het afzweren van terrorisme en geweld. Nu wil de ADL, , echter ook dat Hamas alle anti-Joodse uitlatingen uit zijn handvest verwijderd. In een grote advertentie die morgen in de International Herald Tribune verschijnt, roept de organisatie, dat de grootste Joodse mensenrechtenorganisatie in de wereld is, Het Kwartet op niet voor Hamas te buigen.

In april 2011 zei de voormalige Hamas minister van cultuur dat 'De Joden de meest smerige en verachtelijke natie zijn die op de Aarde rondkruipen.' In artikel 22 van het handvest van Hamas wordt verder beweerd dat de Joden de wereldheerschappij in handen willen krijgen en dat alle revoluties en oorlogen aan Joden te wijten zijn. Zij citeren hierbij de 'Protocollen van de Wijzen van Zion', een vervalst document, waarin Joden zogenaamd hun plannen om de wereldmaatschappij over te nemen zouden ontvouwen. CIDI heeft dit jaar een boek uitgegeven dat dieper ingaat op de mythe van de Protocollen: 'De Zeven Levens van de Protocollen van de Wijzen van Zion'.

 

Lees meer over 'De zeven levens van de Protocollen van de Wijzen van Zion

Bekijk de site van de ADL campagne hier.

 

 

Palestijns Ma'an negatief over toespraak Obama

 

Naar journalistieke maatstaven was Obama's speech zeer evenwichtig betreffende het Israelisch-Palestijnse conflict. De mantra van veel journalisten is immers: zolang ik van links en van rechts kritiek krijg wegens eenzijdigheid, dan zit ik blijkbaar goed in het midden.

In de berichtgeving zag ik dat "Israel en Hamas" (links en rechts, of rechts en extreemrechts?) afwijzend reageerden en "de PA en Egypte" (de gematigden?) positief. Dat is wat zwart-wit gesteld, want de Israelische minister van defensie Ehud Barak vond de toespraak van Barack Obama "nog niet zo slecht" en ook uit de PA en haar spreekbuis Ma'an kwamen negatieve reacties, zie hieronder.

 

Van mij persoonlijk had de toespraak nog wat scherper en explicieter mogen zijn, maar dan wel naar beide partijen.

 

Wouter

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Arabs hated Obama's speech

http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2011/05/arabs-hated-obamas-speech.html

 

I have taken a little (offline) flack in my instanalysis of Obama's speech as being something that Arabs wouldn't like, because the meme that quickly bubbled up in right-wing circles (and among some Israelis) that Obama was throwing Israel under the bus. Memetics is often the enemy of truth.

It is possible that I downplayed the importance of his "1967 lines" reference, especially since the White House had denied earlier that the president would mention it. In retrospect, I am almost happy that Obama did say it because otherwise we might not have witnessed Bibi's opportunity to clearly and articulately lay out Israel's red lines - something that was badly needed.

When I analyze a piece of text, I try not to start off with bias about the source, although I will be skeptical about whether the author is being consistent. I am afraid that too many people - the same people who bitterly complained about "Bush Derangement Syndrome" - have adopted the same formula for Obama, and will reflexively attack whatever he says, even if the first part of his speech sounded a lot like what Bush would have said.

There was a lot to Obama's speech. Only a part of it was about the Israeli/Arab conflict. Much - not all, but much - of it was decidedly pro-Israel. This is not to say definitively that the White House has changed positions or has started to see the light. But on its own merits, there was a lot to like, and it is a shame that this is being downplayed in the glare of the "1967" issue.

But don't take my word for it. Here's part of an op-ed in Ma'an:

 

In his Middle East speech, Obama adopted the Israeli story and their demands; he spoke as if he were the Israeli prime minister.

In fact, Obama called for a Jewish state, a land swap without defining the size of this land, gradual and phrased withdrawal from occupied territories, a Palestinian demilitarized state, and strong and strict security arrangements for the sake of Israel, postponing the core issues such as Jerusalem and the refugees.

The speech included what Israel always asked Palestinians for, security arrangements, which in fact was the main issue for Israel during 20 years of negotiations.

Most importantly, with severe contempt, Obama threatened Palestinians. He warned them of attempting to attain recognition at the UN, he said he would not allow them to isolate Israel; he looked at this step as an attempt to delegitimize Israel. This won't create an independent state, Obama said.

According to Israelis, the above points were on the agenda of Netanyahu. "What more could he want," an Israeli source stated. Obama rejected the Palestinian reconciliation agreement as well as the Palestinians' recognition campaign.

Obama promised he wouldn't impose a deal on Israel, he demanded both sides return to negotiations. He did not condemn the settlement building in the occupied territories, he didn't consider them as illegitimate or obstructing the peace process as he did before, and of course he didn't call for a settlement freeze. On the contrary, he was trying to justify the settlements by saying they continue because negotiations stopped.

 

It doesn't look like there is too much love for Obama's speech on the other side. And this story is not being reported much.

UPDATE: The NYT did say today:

 

Nabil Shaath, a leader of Mr. Abbas's party and a veteran negotiator, said that Mr. Obama's speech had "contained little hope for the Palestinians," except for the one sentence that spoke of the borders of a future Palestinian state being based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps, a shift in American diplomatic language that addressed a long-held Palestinian demand.

(h/t Challah Hu Akbar)

 

 

Nieuw modern winkelcentrum Gaza gaat in juni open

Concentratiekamp Gaza krijgt er een luxe winkelcentrum bij, nadat vorig jaar al een winkelcentrum was geopend met o.a. internationale kledingzaken, schoonheidsproducten, een speeltuin en een restaurant.

 

Issawi explained that the first floor would house a huge supermarket that would consist of various departments offering food and household items as well as stationary.
The second floor would have many clothes and gift shops, while the third floor would become home to a large restaurant, a modern coffee shop, a cinema and entertainment sites for children.

 

Allemaal prima natuurlijk en ik gun het de Gazanen van harte, maar kunnen die Gaza vloten dan misschien naar Syrië of Soedan om de mensen die daar daadwerkelijk in miserabele omstandigheden leven, een hart onder de riem te steken?

 

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Biggest Palestinian shopping mall being built in Gaza

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=221934

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH  
05/24/2011 04:42 

Three-story retail complex near Gaza City will be first of its kind in Palestinian territories; set to open in mid-June.

The biggest Palestinian shopping mall is scheduled to open in the Gaza Strip in mid-June.

This will be the second shopping mall to open in the Gaza Strip in a year. Last July, Palestinians opened a two-story mall that includes a supermarket, international clothing stores, a food court, beauty products, a children's playground and a restaurant.

The modern three-story complex is the first of its kind in the Palestinian territories, said Ehab al-Issawi, executive director of the Al-Hayat Tureed Company that owns the mall.

He said that the 3,000 squaremeter shopping mallis located near the Haidar Abdel Shafi Square west of Gaza City.

Issawi told the Palestinian news agency Safa that construction work at the new mall was almost complete. He said that Palestinian engineers and architects have been working on the project since August last year.

Issawi added that despite the shortage of building materials caused by the blockade on the Gaza Strip, the work at the site continued without disruption.

Issawi explained that the first floor would house a huge supermarket that would consist of various departments offering food and household items as well as stationary.

The second floor would have many clothes and gift shops, while the third floor would become home to a large restaurant, a modern coffee shop, a cinema and entertainment sites for children.

 

 

Zahar: Hamas neemt echt geen genoegen met "grenzen van 1967"

 

Hamas leider Machmoud Zahar heeft weer wat nieuws verzonnen. Nadat hij eerder de Joden een nieuwe holocaust in het vooruitzicht heeft gesteld in Palestina, haalt hij nu het VN delingsplan uit 1948 van stal:

Speaking to Al-Emirate Al-Youm, Zahar asked "Why won't we talk about the 1948 borders? Why won't we discuss the partition plan which was internationally  recognized?" 

According to Zahar, Obama "wants to keep us on 22% of the area of Palestine, and talks about the possibility of swapping land, including Jerusalem...and he wants us to give Jerusalem to the occupation in return for 5% of historic Palestine, which is originally our land. This is a great trick."

Beste Zahar, het is nu 2011. De tijd dat het VN delingsplan een optie was, is meer dan 60 jaar voorbij. Dit plan is toen unaniem door de Palestijnen en de Arabische staten afgewezen. Jullie wilden het hele land hebben, van de rivier tot de zee en van de Libanese grens tot Eilat. Geen deling, geen vrede, geen compromis en geen onderhandelingen. Dit is overigens nog steeds de positie van Hamas, zoals je ook wel weet en waar je ons geregeld aan herinnert. Ook Fatah beschouwt het hele land overigens als Palestijns, zoals blijkt uit vele TV uitzendingen, clips, songs en uitspraken van Fatah leden.

Het delingsplan, even voor de duidelijkheid, is alleen werkbaar tussen goede buren, omdat de grenzen absoluut onverdedigbaar zijn. Het voorziet in zes gebieden, drie voor elke partij (naast Jaffa nog als enclave), die slechts door smalle corridors met elkaar zijn verbonden. Jeruzalem zou onder internationaal toezicht komen maar werd omsingeld door Arabisch gebied. Het is in de eerste helft van 1948 door de Palestijnen (dus voor de Arabische inval op 15 mei) geblokkeerd en zowat uitgehongerd. De Joden wisten zich uiteindelijk een weg naar Jeruzalem te vechten, zodat de weg naar Tel Aviv en andere plaatsen niet langer afgesloten kon worden. Dat men dit, en steden als Beersheva, Jaffa en Ashdod alsnog zou opgeven is natuurlijk volkomen absurd. Ik twijfel er echter niet aan dat mensen als Anja Meulenbelt, Dries van Agt en Thomas von der Dunk dit een zeer redelijk voorstel vinden van een zeer redelijke organisatie. Dat Zahars doel geen vrede maar vernietiging is, ziet men maar al te graag over het hoofd.

Even ter herinnering:

The Jews will soon be expelled from Palestine that same way they were kicked out by France, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Germany, Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said over the weekend.
"The only nation that received the Jews after they were expelled was the Islamic nation, which protected them and looked after them," Zahar said in a speech in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip over the weekend.
"But they have no place here amongst us because of their crimes. They will soon be expelled from here and we will pray at the Aqsa Mosque [in Jerusalem]."
Zahar claimed that Jews were expelled in the past "because they betrayed, stole and corrupted these countries."

 

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Zahar: Palestinians should not settle for 1967 borders

http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=221824

By JPOST.COM STAFF  
05/23/2011 14:30 

Hamas leader says 1967 borders not enough, asks Obama why he wouldn't be willing to discuss 1948 borders.

Senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar said Monday that it was clear that US President Barack Obama's platform was not so different from the one adopted by former US president George W. Bush. According to Zahar, the 1967 borders, while "sacred," were not the final borders on which the Palestinians should settle. 

Speaking to Al-Emirate Al-Youm, Zahar asked "Why won't we talk about the 1948 borders? Why won't we discuss the partition plan which was internationally  recognized?"   

Obama reiterated his statements from last Thursday at an annual AIPAC meeting in the US that a Palestinian state should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed land swaps, which had sparked outrage from many in the pro-Israel community.

According to Zahar, Obama "wants to keep us on 22% of the area of Palestine, and talks about the possibility of swapping land, including Jerusalem...and he wants us to give Jerusalem to the occupation in return for 5% of historic Palestine, which is originally our land. This is a great trick."

Zahar also said it was likely that Obama uses the US veto in the UN "against Muslims" in the issue of the settlement freeze. In February 2011 theObama administration had exercised its first UN Security Council veto when it nixed a resolution calling Israeli settlements "illegal" and demanding they be immediately halted sparkingheavy criticism by many the Arab, Muslim world.

The Hamas leader also mentioned that even while Israel and the US have both before called for a settlement freeze, no monitor was ever put in place to make sure this occurred.

Zahar also mentioned Palestinian governmental affairs, saying that the reconciliation deal between Hamas and Fatah did not come with an attached timetable. He said that any times, figures, or speculations put forth by the news media is incorrect. 

The Hamas leader said the government would be formed on "national consensus," and that without consent of all factions, "especially that of Fatah and Hamas, there will not be a government, and as for the characteristics and details of the government a special committee will be established that will choose a president and ministers." 

Hilary Leila Krieger contributed to this report.

 

Benny Morris ontmaskert leugens Mahmoud Abbas

 

Morris legt helder en duidelijk uit wat Abbas' strategie is en wat er niet klopt aan zijn recente artikel in de New York Times.

 

Arafat and Abbas rejected the offered compromises because they do not want a two-state solution, they want all of Palestine. Hence they had, and have, no interest in negotiating a compromise with Israel. (Abbas, in the New York Times, pays lip service to the idea of negotiation: "Negotiations remain our first option"—but this is hogwash. Last year Netanyahu froze settlement activity for ten months, under pressure from Obama and the Arab world—but Abbas failed to actually negotiate. He dragged his feet. Since then, Netanyahu, in refusing to extend that settlement freeze, has played into Abbas's hands, and has contributed enormously to the ongoing delegitimization of Israel in the West. In the Arab countries, of course, it was neither here nor there, as they have never "legitimized" Israel.)

Abbas is now pursuing a Palestinian state without having to pay the price of recognizing Israel or making peace. Once the Palestinians get their West Bank-Gaza state, they will use it as a springboard for their second-stage assault, political and military, on Israel—and they will no doubt lodge claims "at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies, and the International Court of Justice" as part of that assault.

 

Zie ook mijn IMO over dit artikel van Abbas: Geschiedenisvervalsing door Machmoud Abbas

 

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Exposing Abbas

http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/exposing-abbas-5335

Benny Morris 

May 19, 2011

 

Mahmoud Abbas's recent op-ed in The New York Times is "worth reading," not because he "speaks some of the most important truths" about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict but precisely because of the lies and distortions it purveys, which tell us—unfortunately—something about the elite that has directed Palestinian politics since the 1960s.

Yasser Arafat, who led the Palestinian national movement from the late 1960s until his death in 2004, was notoriously duplicitous—a serial liar, in fact—and was distrusted by all Middle Eastern leaders across the board, Arab and Israeli. Most breathed a sigh of relief at his passing—as did many in Washington and other Western capitals.

But many happily hailed his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, the president of the Palestine National Authority and the head of the Fatah party, the chief constituent of the PLO, as a worthier politician, a "moderate." Perhaps it was the suits that replaced Arafat's absurd martial uniforms; perhaps the donnish glasses; perhaps it was the softer verbs and adjectives. They dismissed as youthful whimsy his Ph.D. thesis from the 1980s, published in Arabic as The Other Side: the Secret Relations between Nazism and the Leadership of the Zionist Movement.

In that book, Abbas declared that the gas chambers were never used to murder Jews and dismissed as a "fantastic lie" that six million Jews had died in the Holocaust; at most, he wrote, "890,000" Jews were killed by the Germans. And they were killed, Abbas wrote, in part as a result of Zionist provocation orchestrated by Ben-Gurion from 1942. Or, as he put it: "The Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule, in order to arouse the government's hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them, and to expand the mass extermination." All of this was designed somehow to facilitate the victory of Zionism.

So Abbas's distortions of subsequent history in the New York Times need surprise no one (though one wonders why the paper's editors, who probably have some inkling of what actually happened in the Middle East in 1947-1949, should publish such malicious nonsense).

First, Abbas tells us that in May 1948, as "a 13-year-old Palestinian boy," he was "forced" and "driven" out of his home in Safad by the Zionists. But on 6 July 2009 he told an interviewer on Falastina TV, in Arabic, that his family had actually fled Safad, fearing Jewish retribution for a massacre the Arabs had committed against the town's Jews two decades before.

The truth, of course, is that Safad's Arabs fled the town as it was mortared and then conquered by Haganah troops on 9-10 May 1948; there was no "expulsion" (a word Abbas later in the article uses to describe what happened to all the Palestinians displaced by the first Arab-Israeli war).

But this is a minor distortion compared to the outright lies that follow. These are embedded in the short, following text that describes the chain of events in 1947-1948:

In November 1947, the [UN] General Assembly made its recommendation [to partition Palestine into two states, one Jewish, the other Arab] and answered in the affirmative. [The meaning here is unclear: Did the Arabs respond to the resolution "in the affirmative", as perhaps Abbas is intimating? Did the General Assembly respond to its own recommendation "in the affirmative"?] Shortly thereafter, Zionist forces expelled Palestinian Arabs to ensure a decisive Jewish majority in the future state of Israel, and Arab armies intervened. War and further expulsions ensued…Our Palestinian [Arab] state remained a promise unfulfilled.

In fact, what actually happened was this: The Arab states and the Palestinian national leadership, headed by Haj Amin al-Husseini, opposed the partition of Palestine, claiming all of Palestine for the Arabs. When the General Assembly voted in favor of partition, on 29 November 1947, the Palestinian leadership rejected the resolution and the Palestinian militias launched hostilities to abort the emergence of a Jewish state. They were aided by money, arms and volunteers from the Arab states. In the course of this first, civil-war half of the 1948 War (roughly from 30 November 1947 until 14 May 1948) the Palestinian militias attacked Jewish traffic and settlements for four months. But eventually the Jewish militias, chiefly the Haganah, went over to the offensive (in early April) and routed the Palestinians, and some 300,000 were displaced from their homes and lands. On 15 May 1948, the day after the Zionist leaders declared the establishment of the State of Israel, the armies of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq invaded Palestine, in defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the partition resolution, and attacked the Jewish state. The army of Jordan, the fourth invading army, occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the core of the territory earmarked in the partition resolution for Palestinian Arab statehood. (The Palestinians failed to declare statehood, and Jordan did not allow the Palestinians to establish a state and subsequently formally annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Egypt emerged from the war in control of the Gaza Strip.) During the weeks and months after 15 May, the Israeli army contained the invading armies and eventually drove them out of most of Palestine. Another 400,000 Palestinians were displaced from their homes in the course of the fighting: Some were expelled by Jewish troops (for example, from Lydda and Ramle in July 1948), some were advised to leave or ordered out by Arab leaders and officers (for example, from Haifa in April 1948 and Majdal in October). But most of the 700,000 simply fled out of fear of being caught up and harmed in the fighting. In summer 1948 the Israeli government decided not to allow the displaced Arabs—most of whom ended up in refugee camps in other parts of Palestine, i.e., the West Bank and Gaza—to return to the area of the State of Israel, deeming them inimical (they had just assailed the Jewish community and tried to destroy the Jewish state) and a potential Fifth Column.

Abbas's twisted history deliberately omits mention of the first half of the 1948 War, the civil war half, in order to portray the Palestinians as innocent victims. In fact, they were primary agents in the events that followed 29 November 1947, and in launching their assault on the Jewish community provoked and generated the Zionist counter-attack that resulted in the collapse of Palestinian society and the creation of the refugee problem. In history, peoples often pay for their aggression and mistakes, and this is what happened in Palestine.

Abbas and his authority have now launched a campaign for international recognition of Palestinian Arab statehood, which he promises will be formally declared in September. This, he tells us, will "pave the way for us to pursue claims against Israel at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies and the International Court of Justice."

What Abbas does not tell his readers is that the Palestinians, as in 1947, were offered statehood in a two-state compromise settlement in 2000 and rejected it (and he, Arafat's aide, did not object); and that he, Abbas, was again offered a state, a two-state settlement, by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in 2008, and he (again) rejected it. The compromises offered by Barak-Clinton and Olmert were based on a Palestinian state consisting of some 94% of the West Bank, 100% of the Gaza Strip and the (Arab) eastern half of Jerusalem, including half or three-quarters of the Old City. In return, the Palestinians were expected to recognize Israel, give up their demand for a mass refugee return and agree definitively to an "end of claims" and an "end of conflict."

Arafat and Abbas rejected the offered compromises because they do not want a two-state solution, they want all of Palestine. Hence they had, and have, no interest in negotiating a compromise with Israel. (Abbas, in the New York Times, pays lip service to the idea of negotiation: "Negotiations remain our first option"—but this is hogwash. Last year Netanyahu froze settlement activity for ten months, under pressure from Obama and the Arab world—but Abbas failed to actually negotiate. He dragged his feet. Since then, Netanyahu, in refusing to extend that settlement freeze, has played into Abbas's hands, and has contributed enormously to the ongoing delegitimization of Israel in the West. In the Arab countries, of course, it was neither here nor there, as they have never "legitimized" Israel.)

Abbas is now pursuing a Palestinian state without having to pay the price of recognizing Israel or making peace. Once the Palestinians get their West Bank-Gaza state, they will use it as a springboard for their second-stage assault, political and military, on Israel—and they will no doubt lodge claims "at the United Nations, human rights treaty bodies, and the International Court of Justice" as part of that assault.

But the major basis of political and moral assault on Israel will be the Palestinian demand for a "Right of Return"—and its international acceptance and implementation—of the 1948 refugees, who now number, them and their descendants, 5-6 million souls. As Abbas puts it in his article, the refugee problem will need to be resolved "justly" on the basis of UN General Assembly resolution 194, of December 1948, which, in the Palestinian interpretation, endorses the "Right of Return." If the world accepts this Palestinian demand and there is implementation, Israel will cease to exist (Israel's current population consists of close to 6 million Jews and 1.4 million Arabs: Add to it 5-6 million Palestinian refugees and the country will have an Arab, not a Jewish, majority. Ergo, no Jewish state.). This is the Palestinian aim and end game; this, in fact, is the "truth" that Abbas is purveying and pursuing.

 

 

Palestijnse Autoriteit gaat alle 'verzetsstrijders' in Israelische gevangenissen salarissen geven

 

De Palestijnse Autoriteit heeft een nieuwe wet aangenomen waarin men gevangenen in Israelische gevangenissen een maandelijks salaris uitkeert. Het gaat om:

"Anyone imprisoned in the occupation's [Israel's] prisons as a result of his participation in the struggle against the occupation." 

Dat wil zeggen dat iemand die voor diefstal in de gevangenis zit niks krijgt, maar de moordenaars van de familie in Itamar wel. Ook krijgen gevangenen die lange straffen uitzitten (zoals moordenaars) meer dan zij die voor kleinere zaken vastzitten.

The new PA law stipulates that payment of salaries "will be implemented... on the basis of available sources of funding." Accordingly, when the PA is short of cash for salaries, the salaries to the prisoners will be cut.

Kortom: als er geen geld is, wordt er niet betaald. Zoals bekend krijgt de PA bakken met geld van de EU. Misschien dat men dit geld kan inhouden totdat deze volkomen idiote wet wordt teruggedraaid.

 

RP

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PMW Bulletin

May 20, 2011

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PA to pay salaries

to all terrorists in Israeli prisons

Financial aid from many donor countries goes directly to PA budget from which salaries are paid

http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=5001 

   

by Itamar Marcus and Nan Jacques Zilberdik

A law published in the official Palestinian Authority Registry last month grants all Palestinians and Israeli Arabs imprisoned in Israel for terror crimes a monthly salary from the PA. The Arabic word the PA uses for this payment is "ratib," meaning "salary." Palestinian Media Watch has reported numerous times on Palestinian Authority glorification of terrorists serving time in Israeli prisons. Following the signing of this new law, the PA is now paying a salary to these prisoners.

The PA has defined by law which Palestinians would be considered "prisoners."

"Anyone imprisoned in the occupation's [Israel's] prisons as a result of his participation in the struggle against the occupation." 

[Ch. 1 of Law of Prisoners, 2004/19,

passed and published by the PA Chairman and Government, December 2004.

The Prisoners' Centre for Studies, www.alasra.ps Accessed May 9, 2011]

In other words, all Palestinians in Israeli prisons for terror crimes officially join the PA payroll. According to the definition in the PA law, Palestinian car thieves in Israeli prisons will not receive a salary, but Hamas and Fatah terrorist murderers will.

The PA also gives a salary to Israeli Arabs convicted of terror crimes against Israel - the country of which they are citizens. PA benefits to Israeli Arab terrorists, in fact, are greater than the ones extended to Palestinian terrorists.

Those serving more than 20-year sentences will receive a greater PA salary than prisoners serving shorter sentences, the new PA law establishes. Salaries are to be paid from the day of arrest until release.

More than 6,000 Palestinian prisoners are currently serving time in Israeli prisons for terror-related offenses. Among those now eligible are Abdullah Barghouti, serving 67 life sentences; Hassan Salameh, serving 38 life sentences; and Jamal Abu Al-Hijja, serving nine life sentences, all of whom are imprisoned for planning suicide  bombings. These three terrorists were recently called "heroic" by the official PA daily (see full article below.)

Funding by donor nations could enable payment of salaries to terrorists

The new PA law stipulates that payment of salaries "will be implemented... on the basis of available sources of funding." Accordingly, when the PA is short of cash for salaries, the salaries to the prisoners will be cut.

The PA has reported that the US, the EU, France, Britain, Ireland, Norway, Japan, India and the World Bank have all given money to the PA for its general budget in 2010-2011 (see donor country chart with amounts below).

Such direct funding could be part of the "available sources" for terrorist salaries, or could free money elsewhere in the PA budget that could be used for these salaries.

The list is not exclusive as it relies solely on reports in the official PA daily. The PA receives financial aid from many other donors as well.

Recently, the EU announced the transfer of 45 million euros to the PA for salaries:

"Some EUR 45 million of the funds from today's decision will go towards salaries and pensions of vital workers, mainly doctors, nurses and teachers."  

[http://www.eu-un.europa.eu/articles/en/article_11009_en.htm  

Accessed May 9, 2011]

In November 2010, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the transfer of an additional grant to the PA's general budget:  

"After the transfer of the $150 million, the sum which the American administration will have transferred as direct budgetary aid to the PA for 2010 totals $225 million."  

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Nov. 11, 2010]

Although the EU, US and other donors are not intentionally funding salaries for terrorists, their funding of other PA salaries and the budget makes money available in the general budget to pay terrorist salaries.

This Palestinian Authority law was enacted before the recent Fatah-Hamas reconciliation agreement. It was published in the official PA Registry on April 13, 2011.

The purpose of the PA salary:

1- A monthly salary to the prisoners while in prison "to provide for the needs of prisoners within Israeli prisons"

2- Additional benefits for released prisoners

3- Additional benefits for prisoners' families

4- Additional clause mandates funding "for the prisoners' legal needs"

Recipients: All prisoners involved in terror:

- All prisoners no matter what their crime or what their political/terror group affiliation receive the same monthly base salaries from the PA. Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners serve multiple life-sentences for murder. They all now receive a PA salary.

- The salary goes directly to the terrorist or the terrorist's family.

- The prisoners receive their salary from the time of arrest.

Additional salary:

- Married prisoners receive additional pay, as well as those with children.

- Arabs from Jerusalem and Israeli Arabs who are imprisoned for terror offenses, get an additional supplement of 300 Israeli Shekels (NIS) and 500 NIS respectively.

Funding:

- The PA law stipulates that the salaries are dependent on the PA having available cash.

The following is the article in the PA daily describing the new law:

"[Ali Abu Diak,] Secretary of the Central Bureau of the Prisoners' Movement, presented a concise review of the laws [concerning prisoners] published in vol. 90 of the official PA [Government] Registry, published on April 13, as follows:

1. Government resolution #19 of 2010...:

A released prisoner will be exempt from tuition fees at government schools and universities if he served a period of five years or more in prison. A released female prisoner who served at least three years in prison will be exempt from tuition fees at government schools and universities.  These prisoners are entitled to transfer the exemption to one of their children, or to their spouse...

The Palestinian Authority is committed to providing the opportunity for academic study for prisoners in Israeli prisons, by covering all study expenses for all stages of university study available to prisoners.

A prisoner's children will be exempt from 80% of academic tuition fees if the prisoner was sentenced to at least 20 years and has been in prison for at least 5 years. Children of a female prisoner will be exempt from 80% of university tuition fees if the prisoner was sentenced to at least 10 years, and has served as least 3 years.

Every released prisoner will be exempt from governmental health insurance if he served at least 5 years in prison, and for female prisoners - at least 3 years. ...

2. Government resolution #21 of 2010, concerning the amendment to provide for the needs of prisoners within Israeli prisons:

a. Every prisoner will be paid a uniform sum linked to the cost of living index, as a monthly expenditure ...

b. Every prisoner will be paid a uniform sum of 400 [Israeli] Shekels for clothing. The sum will be paid twice a year, and will be added to the prisoner's salary... 

3. Government resolution # 22 of 2010, concerning the amendment to provide for the prisoners' legal needs...

4. Government resolution # 23 of 2010 concerning the amendment on payment of a monthly salary to the prisoner:

Every prisoner will be granted a monthly salary, to be paid to him or to his family, on condition that he does not receive a salary from a [different] governmental or semi-governmental body or official institution... The salary will be paid to the prisoner from the date of his arrest, and a special supplement will be paid to prisoners from Jerusalem and from the Interior [i.e., Israeli Arabs]; a spousal supplement will be paid, and a special supplement for children up to the age of 18...

The minimum salary for a prisoner, to be paid to him from the beginning of his detention and for up to 3 years, is 1400 Shekels. Prisoners who have been imprisoned between 3 and 5 years will receive 2,000 Shekels. Those imprisoned between 5 and 10 years will receive 4,000 Shekels. Those imprisoned between 10 and 15 years will receive 6,000 Shekels. Those imprisoned between 15 and 20 years will receive 7,000 Shekels. Those imprisoned between 20 and 25 years will receive 8,000 Shekels. Those imprisoned between 25 and 30 years will receive 10,000 Shekels. Those who have been imprisoned 30 years or more will receive 12,000 Shekels.

A supplement of 300 Shekels will be added to the salary of every married prisoner, as well as a supplement for children up to the age of 18 in the amount of 50 Shekels for every boy or girl, in addition to a supplement for prisoners from Jerusalem in the amount of 300 Shekels, and a supplement for prisoners from the Interior [i.e., Israeli Arabs] in the amount of 500 Shekels ...

These regulations will be implemented from Jan. 1, 2011, on the basis of available sources of funding."

[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 15, 2011]

List of donor countries who contribute to PA's general budget

The list includes only those contributions reported in the PA press, and which were designated to the PA's general budget in 2010 or 2011. The list does not include the many other contributions made to the PA by these and other donor countries:

Donor	Amount	Source
European Union	158.5 million euros	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, January 20, 2010
Britain	60 million British pounds	Al-Ayyam, February 11, 2010
India	10 million dollars	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, April 26, 2010
Norway	53 million dollars	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, June 18, 2010
France	19 million euros	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, June 22, 2010
World Bank	40 million dollars	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, October 1, 2010
Japan	18.5 million dollars	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, October 25, 2010
European Union	41.4 million euros	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, October 28, 2010
Britain	30 million British pounds	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, October 28, 2010
United States	225 million dollars	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, November 11, 2010
Ireland	1.5 million euros	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, November 15, 2010
Japan	11.9 million dollars	Al-Hayat Al- Jadida, December 28, 2010

The following is the report in the official PA daily calling prisoners "heroic": "Family members of prisoners expressed heartfelt thanks to the directorate and staff of Voice of the Prisoners Radio, via the program 'On Birds' Wings', which is broadcast on Voice of the Prisoners. This [thanks] was due to the significant positive effect [of the station] on the mental state of the prisoners and their families, and especially the family members of prisoners who are not allowed visits. The families of the prisoners told the Prisoners' Centre for Studies that Voice of the Prisoners, [at] FM 107.9, represents an extremely important struggle and breaks the will of the prison guard in the face of the determination of the Palestinian people, which invents all methods of resistance, first and foremost the role of the media, considering the occupation's violations against the prisoners, and especially the withholding of visits for more than four years. The families of prisoners in solitary confinement, first and foremost the family of the prisoner Commander Ahmad Sa'adat, and the heroic prisoners Abbas and Abdallah Barghouti, Mahmoud Issa, Jamal Abu Al-Haija, Hassan Salameh and others, said that their sons wait for the program 'On Birds' Wings'."  [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, April 13, 2011]    Abdallah Barghouti - sentenced to 67 life sentences for involvement in terror attacks in which 66 Israelis were murdered - Sbarro restaurant (Aug. 9, 2001), Moment Café (March 9, 2002), and the triple attack at the Ben Yehuda pedestrian mall (Dec. 1, 2001).  Jamal Abu Al-Hijja - 9 life sentences for involvement in suicide attacks in Hadera shopping mall (Oct. 26, 2005) and at Herzl Street in Netanya (Dec. 5, 2005)   Hassan Salameh - 38 life sentences. Was head of the terror infrastructure which carried out 2 attacks on no. 18 buses in Jerusalem (First attack on Feb. 25, 1996. Second attack on March 3, 1996), and the attack at the Ashkelon Junction hitchhike point (Feb. 25, 1996).   Mahmoud Issa - serving 3 life sentences. Member of the squad that kidnapped and murdered Israeli soldiers, including Nissim Toledano (Dec. 13, 1992).   PMW has not been able to find any information concerning Abbas Barghouti.    Excerpt from EU's announcement of additional aid to the PA:  "EU Commission approves additional € 85 million in support for Palestinian people in 2011" "Summary: The European Commission has today decided to provide an additional financial package worth EUR 85 million for the occupied Palestinian territory under the 2011 budget. This comes in addition to the € 100 million already approved from European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument. ... Some EUR 45 million of the funds from today's decision will go towards salaries and pensions of vital workers, mainly doctors, nurses and teachers. A further EUR 40 million will be allocated for social allowances to vulnerable Palestinian families. These funds come in addition to the EUR 60 million provided to the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the EUR 40 million provided to United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) at the beginning of the year. At the request of Prime Minister Fayyad these funds have been advanced by an accelerated procedure in order to meet the Authority's urgent financial needs and to respect the EU's commitment to being a regular and reliable donor." [ http://www.eu-un.europa.eu/articles/en/article_11009_en.htm / Accessed May 9, 2011]   pmw@palwatch.org www.palwatch.org  PMW | King George 59 | Jerusalem | Israel

 

 

Palestijns parlementslid: Israël is plan van Allah om alle joden uit te roeien

Zie ook de video op YouTube.

 

Op 11 mei riep Yunis Al-Astal, parlementslid voor Hamas en geestelijke, op Al Aqsa TV op tot de uitroeïng van de Joden in Israel. Hij zei dat Allah de Joden naar Israel had gebracht zodat de Palestijnen ze uit kunnen roeien, en waarschuwde dat dat binnen enkele jaren ook zou gebeuren.

 

Het 'gematigde' Fatah heeft onlangs een overeenkomst met Hamas gesloten om weer samen te gaan regeren. Velen in de EU vinden dat Israel met zo'n regering zou moeten onderhandelen, en de gehele Westoever moet overdragen.

 

RP

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Palestijns parlementslid: Israël is plan van Allah om alle joden uit te roeien

http://isreality.nl/palestijns-parlementslid-israel-is-plan-van-allah-om-alle-joden-uit-te-roeien/

 

Keer op keer praten Palestijnse officials openlijk en op TV over hun gruwelijke plannen met de joden, maar even zoveel keer worden ze genegeerd door de Westerse politici en media. 

Yunis al Astal, die namens de terreurorganisatie Hamas zitting heeft in het parlement van de Palestijnse Autoriteit, heeft afgelopen week op TV de Palestijnse genocidale visie op Israël en de joden uiteengezet. Tijdens een uitzending van Al Aqsa TV zei hij dat de verzameling van de joden in het land Israël onderdeel vormt van een plan van Allah dat de Palestijnen en de andere moslims de 'eer' zal geven om de 'kwaadaardige bende' die de joden vormen uit te roeien.

Al Astal voorspelde dat 'de Zionisten' over een paar jaar zullen begrijpen dat ze maar om één reden naar Israël zijn gekomen, namelijk om 'afgeslacht' te worden 'in een groot bloedbad'. Met woorden die sterk aan Adolf Hitler deden denken zei hij dat de joden veel gevaarlijker zijn dan alle roofvogels, gevaarlijke reptielen en dodelijke bacteriën bij elkaar, en dat Allah de mensheid door de moslims zal 'bevrijden' van het 'joodse kwaad'. Dan zal er volgens hem een 'Verenigde Staten van de Islam' ontstaan en zal Palestina aan het hoofd staan van het wereldwijde islamitische Kalifaat.

 

Hamas en Fatah / de Palestijnse Autoriteit sloten onlangs in de Egyptische hoofdstad Caïro een samenwerkingspact. Desondanks weigert de Israëlische regering Fatah als vijand te bestempelen, ondanks het feit dat Fatah-partner Hamas wekelijks openlijk oproept dat het belangrijkste doel van de Palestijnen nog altijd de vernietiging van Israël is. Fatah wordt in Jeruzalem nog steeds gezien als 'vredes'partner waarmee Israël mogelijk een akkoord kan sluiten over de oprichting van een Palestijnse staat in Gaza en de Israëlische gebieden Judea en Samaria.