'So I lied (again)'
Shavua tov everyone.
'
Moderate' '
Palestinian' President
Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen has in essence now
admitted that lied when he told the European Parliament on Thursday that a 'rabbi' ordered Jews to poison 'Palestinian' water. The 'rabbi' doesn't exist, the organization he 'represented' doesn't exist, but none of that stopped Abu Bluff from telling the lie, nor did it stop the European anti-Semites who make up the European Parliament (including a grinning ear-to-ear foreign policy chief Federika Mog - a pity you
can't watch the video anymore).
This is from the
New York Times.
Mr.
Abbas’s retraction was sent to reporters early Saturday morning, issued
by the P.L.O., of which Mr. Abbas is the chairman. It said that Mr.
Abbas “rejected all claims that accuse him and the Palestinian people of
offending the Jewish religion.” It added that he “also condemned all
accusations of anti-Semitism.”
“After
it has become evident that the alleged statements by a rabbi on
poisoning Palestinian wells, which were reported by various media
outlets, are baseless, President Mahmoud Abbas has affirmed that he
didn’t intend to do harm to Judaism or to offend Jewish people around
the world,” the statement continued.
It
was not immediately clear why Mr. Abbas repeated the allegation on
Thursday, days after it was widely debunked. Neither the rabbi who
supposedly made the claim, nor the organization quoted in the original
P.L.O. article, appear to exist.
And of course, this is not the first time that 'Mr. Abbas' has invented a lie. In fact, the entire existence of a 'Palestinian people' is one great big lie.
In October, Mr. Abbas erroneously accused Israeli forces of killing a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who had taken part in the stabbing of two Israelis. The boy had actually been wounded and later recovered.
So what's the genesis of this particular lie (aside from the Bubonic plague in 14th century Europe)?
Here's where it came from.
The story was discovered to be false by Palestinian Media Watch (PMW),
an Israeli NGO that monitors Palestinian incitement. PMW claims that
Abbas’ accusation is based on an article published last week in Anadolu,
a Turkish news service, which claimed , “Rabbi Shlomo Mlma (sic),
chairman of the Council of Rabbis in the West Bank settlements(sic), has
issued an advisory opinion in which he allowed Jewish settlers to
poison water in Palestinian villages and cities in the West Bank.”
PMW reported that the story in Anadolu was based on a claim by Yehuda Shaul, a leader of the extreme left-wing Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence. Shaul was quoted in the Hebrew news service, NRG, as saying that “settlers poisoned” the water of a Palestinian town a number of years ago causing the Palestinians to leave”.
The story was confirmed as incorrect by several news services including Reuters and Haaretz. No such rabbi or council was found to exist.
Shocked. Just totally shocked... to see the Turks and the self-hating Jews at 'Breaking the Silence' involved in this....
Labels: Abu Mazen, blood libel, Breaking the Silence, European anti-Semitism, European Union, Federica Mogherini, Palestinian lies, Turkey
How to hold a 'peace conference' without either of the sides making 'peace'
With 500,000 Syrians dead and millions more homeless, the Obama administration and Europe turned to the real priority today: The 'Palestinians.' At a 'peace conference' whose outcome is predetermined (host France has already announced that if Israel does not agree to a 'Palestinian state,' France will), John Kerry, Federica Mog and friends urged Israel to 'accept' the division of the remaining 22% of the British Mandate that is currently called Israel. There are only two problems:
Israel didn't show up and neither did the 'Palestinians.'
Among the participants will be US Secretary of State John Kerry, UN
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and EU Foreign policy chief Federica
Mogherini, and representatives from the Arab League. Although Russia,
Germany, Britain and Japan will be among the 26 representations at the
conference, they will not be represented by their foreign ministers.
Following an opening statement by Hollande, each representative
is expected to make a statement on the primacy of Middle East peace
and the importance of retaining the possibility of the two state
solution.
The conference is expected to conclude with a press
conference where conclusions – worked upon by the delegations on
Thursday night – will be presented. The summit will be the first
international gathering on the Middle East peace process since then US
President George Bush convened the Annapolis conference in 2007. Both
Israel and the Palestinians were invited to that parley.
The
meeting’s initial focus is to reaffirm existing international texts and
resolutions that are based on achieving a Palestinian State in the
West Bank and Gaza Strip co-existing with Israel, an outcome the French
said in a pre-summit document is increasingly coming under threat.
That
document blamed the threat to the two-state solution primarily on
settlement activity, without mentioning Palestinian violence, the
Hamas-Fatah split, or the consistent Palestinian refusal to recognize
Israel as the nation state of the Jewish people.
However, French
Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said in a Le Monde interview that
in order for there to be an agreement, the Palestinians needed
reconciliation between Hamas in Gaza and Fatah in the West Bank, and
that Hamas needed to take the first step by recognizing Israel,
accepting previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements, and forswearing
violence.
The Paris meeting will try to establish working groups
comprising various countries that would meet in the coming months and
tackle all aspects of the peace process.
Some groups would strive to creating economic incentives and security
guarantees to convince both sides to return to talks. Others would
focus on trying to find ways to break deadlocks that scuttled previous
negotiations or look at whether other peace efforts such as a 2002 Arab
initiative remain viable.
"France isn't trying to reinvent
things that already are out there. The idea is to rebuild confidence and
convince everybody to work together to find a way to get to the next
conference," a senior french diplomat said. He said the objective was to
get Israelis and Palestinians back together after the U.S. elections.
What could go wrong?
Shabbat Shalom everyone.
Labels: Federica Mogherini, France, John Kerry, Middle East peace process, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, Saudi plan
Mogherini visits Saudi Arabia, dresses conventionally, visits Iran, wears hijab
First picture Mogherini Saudi Arabia on Monday, second picture Mogherini with Javad Zarif in Tehran today.
The high temperature in Tehran today was 98 degrees Fahrenheit (it's now 97 at 9:00 pm). That's 37 and 36 degrees Celsius. And that outfit looks like it would fit right into a European winter.
Labels: Federica Mogherini, hijab, Iran, Saudi Arabia
EU Council appealing ruling that took Hamas off terror list
Last month, a European court decided based on a 'technicality' that
Hamas is not a terror organization. Now, the European Union Council has decided to
appeal the ruling.
"(The EU) Council has decided to appeal the judgment regarding Hamas
remaining on the EU terrorist list," EU spokeswoman Susanne Kiefer said
on Twitter.
But that doesn't mean that this month's events in Paris have made the Europeans any wiser about confronting terrorist threats.
Meanwhile, the European Union is calling for an anti-terror alliance
with Arab countries to boost cooperation and information-sharing in the
wake of deadly attacks and arrests across Europe.
EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said Monday "we need to strengthen our way of cooperating together."
She spoke to reporters ahead of talks with EU
foreign ministers in Brussels, to be attended by Arab League Secretary
General Nabil Al-Araby.
The foreign ministers' meeting will prepare in part for a summit of EU leaders in February focused on terrorism.
Ah yes, Federica Mogherini, the woman whose pleasure in life would be the existence of a '
Palestinian state.'
What could go wrong?
Labels: designated terror organization, European hypocrisy, European support for terrorism, European Union, Federica Mogherini, Hamas
The real chickensh*t
The real chickensh*t is not Binyamin Netanyahu according to Arab scholar Bassam Tawil.
It's the Arab leaders and their enablers in the West (Hat Tip:
Bad Blue).
Judging by their actions, most Arab leaders have no desire to see the
Palestinian issue resolved. They seem to prefer preserving the status
quo. They blame Israel for refusing to make concessions to the
Palestinians and hope that this refusal will weaken Israel, even though
Israel is their strategic defense against Iran.
Most Arab leaders do not want to create what is bound soon to
become yet another terrorist Islamist state, dedicated to the Muslim
Brotherhood's ideology and to toppling their regimes.
The Arab leaders
already have to contend with ISIS, Al-Qaeda and the Al-Nusra Front in
Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, which are enough for them, to say nothing
of Africa from Nigeria to Somalia and everything in between.
But if Israel can be blamed for another of world's ills, with Kerry's blessing, why waste the opportunity?
...
In response to the colossal threat of radical Islam, the whimpering
voice of the West can barely be heard. The U.S. administration targeted
Israel for condemnation. A "senior official," most likely the current
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough, called Israel's Prime
Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "chickenshit," for being afraid to make
peace with the Palestinians.
According to the "Arab street," including the Palestinian street, it
is the Americans and Europeans who are cowards, afraid to take
significant steps against Iran, and terrified of the Islamic ghettoes in
their cities, which have been exporting terrorists to fight for the
Islamic State, and providing housing to the seasoned fighters who
return.
The Sunni states under Shi'ite threat cannot even reach an agreement
among themselves about what is to be done; and the Palestinians, in
their folly, have chosen the worst possible moment to ignite violence in
Jerusalem and the Al-Aqsa mosque. The Palestinians seem not to
understand that the Arab regimes that might support them are currently
busy fighting for their own survival, and have no desire to fall prey to
Palestinian provocations about what they realize all too well are
fictional threats to Jerusalem.
Given the current situation, Turkey's regional political actions are
dangerous, underhanded and hypocritical. To achieve their ends, Turkey's
leaders seem to have no qualms about sacrificing their minorities, such
as Christians and the Kurds (most of whom are Sunni). Turkey's leaders
were the first to cry "humanitarian crisis" when Israel imposed a
closure on the Gaza Strip to prevent Iran from sending Hamas arms.
Turkey sent the Mavi Marmara flotilla to protect the Gazans, who
were never in any danger in the first place. Turkey's leaders then
weakened Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, who, at least at
that time, showed himself willing to reach a peace agreement with the
Israelis. But when Syria's Kurds are being killed in Kobani on a daily
basis, the Turks are silent, perhaps secretly comfortable seeing a group
that wants a state of its own apart from Turkey, being attacked.
Thus, when John Kerry claimed that it was the unresolved Palestinian
issue that caused a ripple effect that created ISIS, he simply inspired
the Palestinians to use Al-Aqsa mosque as a religious trigger for future
bloodshed. The idea is not new; it was used in 1929 by the Grand Mufti
of Jerusalem and led to anti-Jewish riots and the massacre of the Jews
in Hebron. It was used again by PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat in 2000, to
incite the Palestinians to the second intifada, which killed untold
numbers of Jews and Arabs. Today, Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas's Khaled
Mashaal are doing the same thing to incite a jihad that this time will
truly be religious and not based on real estate.
The more Kerry accuses Israel of having had a hand in creating ISIS,
the more the Palestinians will use Al-Aqsa mosque to stir the fire
burning under the bubbling cauldron of the Middle East.
...
Somehow, John Kerry has managed to link to Israel the Shi'ite-Sunni
civil wars, radical Islam's Muslim Brotherhood-inspired global plot and
the creation of ISIS. Then he linked the failure of the Palestinian
issue to have been resolved to Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu.
The unpopular and inconvenient truth is: if there is to be peace,
Hamas has to be disarmed, the Palestinian Authority and the Gaza Strip
have to be demilitarized, Mahmoud Abbas has to recognize the State of
Israel as the homeland of the Jews, and Netanyahu has to recognize the
Palestinians state. Israel will then compensate the Palestinians with
land in return for the land on which the three large blocks of
settlements stand, as has already been agreed.
It is not Israel but the Palestinians who are trying to avoid
negotiating a final agreement. They see themselves, with the backing of
the UN and Secretary Kerry -- and in a final breakdown of any trust in
future international agreements -- as able to achieve their desired
result without having to make any concessions.
Read it all. Ironically, JPost reports today that the European Union has appointed a new foreign policy chief.
Guess what her goal is....
The EU’s new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini told the European
media on Monday that she would like to see a Palestinian state by the
time her five-year term is up.
“The important thing for me,”
Mogherini said, “is not whether other states, European or not,
recognize Palestine. What would make me happy, is if a Palestinian state
existed at the end of my term.”
She issued her statement to the French daily newspaper Le Monde in advance of her visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories on Friday and Saturday.
One thing that's sure to make the 'Palestinians' want to 'negotiate' is more European chickensh*t....
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, European Union, Federica Mogherini, Hamas, Iranian nuclear threat, Islamic State, John Kerry, Palestinian Authority, Qatar, Turkey, United States
