Dahlan wants 'Palestinians' in Arab countries to be granted citizenship?
In an interview with the 'Palestinian' publication Maan, Fatah's former Gaza strongman Mohammed Dahlan hints that 'Palestinians' in Arab countries should receive citizenship in the countries in which they reside.
Dahlan also criticized the PA and Fatah in particular for neglecting
Palestinian refugee camps in the Middle East, especially in Syria and
Lebanon.
"Why are we treating our people in those refugee
camps just as neglectfully as we treat our people in Jerusalem and the
Gaza Strip?" he asked."The PA spends only 0.003 percent of
its budget on the Palestinian refugees in Syria and Lebanon, and we are
talking about 600,000 Palestinian refugees living dire conditions and
deprived of the right to work, movement, education and medical
treatment, not to mention what Palestinian refugees in Syria have been
suffering as a result of the war," Dahlan alleged.
“I challenge whomever
to prove the opposite.”
Of course, the reason why 'Palestinians' are deprived of the right to work, movement, education and medical treatment is because they are not citizens of the countries in which they have lived for nearly 70 years. Here's one example:
Lebanon
Around half of the 400,000 refugees live in camps, deprived of many
rights. Refugees don't have any property rights, no access to the
Lebanese healthcare system and there are certain restrictions on jobs we
are allowed to do. We are issued handwritten [travel documents](www.passport-collector.com/2011/08/10/lebanon-refugee-passport-for-palestine/)
of appalling quality (large size, cheap paper). The travel documents
don't even have a full date of birth, just the birth year. You probably
know about the Sabra and Chatila massacre (from the movie Waltz with
Bashir, perhaps my favorite animated movie) were 3000 Palestinian
civilians were killed in cold blood. These are at the top of my head,
I'm sure there's more. This is what a British MP Gerald Kaufman said in
2011 when he visited the camps:
When I went to Gaza in 2010 I thought I had seen the worst that could
be seen of the appalling predicament of Palestinians living in
conditions which no human being should be expected to endure. But what I
saw in the camps in Lebanon is far worse and far more hopeless. The
conditions are unspeakable, but for over 400,000 of our fellow human
beings this is their life: today, tomorrow and for a future that cannot
even be foreseen. At least in Gaza, frightful though the situation is,
the people are free within the confines of their blockaded prison. In
the camps of Lebanon they are not free.
UPDATE1: Since many here are blaming the PLO and its
involvement in the civil war. That's definitely true to a large extent,
however you're missing a few points. Most Palestinians refugees were
placed in camps in south Lebanon when they arrived. These camps were
gradually militarized and became the grounds for operations against
Israel and because the PLO had so much power back then, they started
making trouble and trying to control part of the country. So had the
Lebanon absorbed it's Palestinian population properly, this wouldn't
have happened.
But the reason that the Arab countries never absorbed their 'Palestinians' and made them citizens (except in Jordan - the article goes on to describe Syria, but they're not citizens there either) is because doing so would have meant giving up on holding them hostage to the Arab dream of destroying Israel - a dream that most of the Arab countries have themselves given up at this point, and that would no longer exist but for the Oslo Accords.
Even Dahlan himself admits that were it not for the 'Palestinian street,' the 'Palestinians' could live in peace in Israel.
The failures of PA leadership, in addition to repressive Israeli
policies in the occupied Palestinian territory, could have dire
consequences, Dahlan said.
"If this situation continues, we
will either yield to the occupation's conditions and rules -- which is
impossible at the popular level -- or have a popular uprising, which
will be very dangerous," he said, adding that the status quo could no
longer be sustained.
Because after seventy years of living the lie that they would one day return to their 'homes' in 'Palestine,' you can't quite tell these people in one day that the lie was a dream that's not going to come true. Of course, if you never start, you'll never be able to tell them either....
Dahlan strikes me as much more of a realist (although he is also a brutal murderer with the blood of Israelis and Americans on his hands) than most of the 'Palestinian leadership.' But he still has a long way to go, and he's not very popular anyway, having been disgraced by Hamas when they took over Gaza.
In Israel, which is an OECD country, my two youngest children studied in a school that doesn't have a building last year (one of them will still be there when school starts on Sunday). They study in corrugated tin boxes that are boiling in the summer and freezing in the winter.
Funny, I don't see the 'international community' lining up to give my kids a fancy school building like the one in the picture above.
(Forget the funny number in the tweet - it's almost irrelevant).
As of July 2014, the UN estimates a population of 2,731,052 in the 'West Bank' of which 83% are 'Palestinian Arab,' 33.7% are aged 0-14, and 21.7% are aged 15-24.
As of July 2014,the UN estimates a population of 1,816,379 in Judenrein Gaza, of which 44.7% are 0-14 years old.
'Palestinian' swimmer who had 'no access' to an Olympic-sized swimming pool actually qualified in one
At the Olympics, the international media introduced Mary al-Atrash, a 22-year old 'Palestinian' who was invited to the Olympics under a program that lets in a limited number of athletes from countries in which no one meets qualifying time (her times do not qualify). The media was quick to point out that there is no Olympic-sized swimming pool in 'Palestine' in which al-Atrash could practice. That's a lie.
If we were blessed with journalists who had the ability to use
advanced research tools like the Internet, we might’ve benefited from
knowing that the Israeli government office for coordinating activities
in the West Bank, or COGAT, issued a statement
last month on its Facebook page, making it clear that it would’ve
gladly considered accommodating al-Atrash had she bothered applying for a
permit to train in Jerusalem—which, like Palestinian athletes before her,
she refused to do—and wishing her the best of luck anyway. It might’ve
also been helpful to note that plenty of athletes around the world,
including here in the United States, train, like al-Atrash, in
semi-Olympic 25 meter pools, and that to qualify for the Olympics
al-Atrash had to have qualified in a regulation-sized pool, which makes
the whole access question a rather minor one. But never mind all that,
because the Palestinian Territories, you see, have not one Olympic pool
but several.
There’s this luxurious one
in Gaza, built, maybe, with some of the leftover cement Hamas could
spare after squandering billions on its terror tunnels; there’s one in Nablus; and when I called the folks over at the Murad resort
in al-Atrash’s native Beit Sakhour, they assured me that their pool,
too, was properly Olympically endowed. Water water everywhere, then, and
not a drop for swimming.
That's al-Atrash about to jump into the pool in Beit Sakhour. Here's another picture of her in the pool; I leave it to the reader to decide whether the claim that the pool is Olympic-sized (50 meters across) is credible. It sure looks like it.
In any event, given that the original lie was told as part of the Olympic opening ceremony broadcast, which was watched by millions, and the correction - if it is ever made - will likely be watched by far fewer, the lie told by the media will be the broadcast media of a headline on page 1 of a newspaper being corrected by a small note on page 37.
The lie will continue to be touted. Goebbels would be proud.
Now with subtitles: 'Palestinian' father sends his toddler son to throw stones at soldiers
Here's the full video with subtitles of the 'Palestinian' father sending his son to throw stones at IDF soldiers.
Palestinian Media Watch reported today that the 'Palestinians' have released a falsified version of the video that takes out the kid shaking hands with one of the soldiers (0:29 in the video).
'Moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu 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).
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....
Kerry admits al-Aqsa threats a lie but won't say 'Palestinians' are trying to change status quo
US Secretary of State John Kerry has admitted that 'Palestinian' claims of a threat to the al-Aqsa mosque, which are fueling the current violence, are a lie.
After more than a week of studied neutrality about the surge of terrorism against Israel, Secretary of State John Kerry finally said something useful
to the cause of restoring calm. Though he and other administration
officials have at times blamed the Israelis for provoking the spate of
bloody terror attacks by building homes or by shooting terrorists, Kerry
got to the core of the problem when he noted that the alleged threats
to the al-Aqsa mosque are not real. By noting that Israel was opposed to
changing the status quo on the Temple Mount, Kerry implicitly backed
the Netanyahu government’s assertion that the violence was the result of
incitement by Palestinian leaders who have circulated that false
charge.
But what Kerry won't do is to take the next step and admit that the 'Palestinians' are trying to change the status quo:
But the notion that what Palestinians want on the Temple Mount or
anywhere else is the status quo is a misnomer. As has been the case with
each stage of fighting during the recent history of the region, both
the Palestinians and much of the American foreign policy establishment
hopes the growing pile of corpses will serve to increase the pressure on
Israel to give up more territory.
Watch 13 year old Ahmed Mansra, who stabbed and seriously wounded two
Israelis this week in Jerusalem, thus disputing Palestinian Abbas claim
that he was executed.
Haddassah Ein Karem hospital updated that his
condition is improving and he will be released from the hospital in the
next few days.
Let's go to the videotape.
His parents ought to be charged with something.
And the Obama administration ought to (but won't) reconsider whether 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen, who issues statements accusing Israel of executing children as a means of orchestrating more violence is really worthy of being a partner in peace.
State Department spox John Kirby reaches bottom, keeps digging
State Department spokesman John Kirby almost makes you long for the days of ditzy Marie Harf. Yesterday, he reached bottom and kept digging.
At a daily press briefing on Wednesday, U.S.
State Department spokesman John Kirby said Israel, which has set up
roadblocks in Palestinian neighborhoods of Israeli-occupied East
Jerusalem to try to stem attacks, has a right and responsibility to
protect its citizens.
He added:
"Now, we have seen some – I wouldn’t call the checkpoints this - but
we’ve certainly seen some reports of what many would consider excessive
use of force.
"Obviously, we don’t
like to see that, and we want to see restrictions that are elevated in
this time of violence to be as temporary as possible if they have to be
enacted," Kirby said, without citing specific incidents.
Asked on Army Radio
about the remarks, Yaalon said: "Are we exercising excessive force? If
someone wields a knife and they kill him, is that excessive force? What
are we talking about?"
...
Kirby's comments touched a nerve in Israel,
especially after allegations by Abbas, in a televised speech in Arabic
on Wednesday, that Israeli forces were "executing our sons in cold
blood, as they did with this child, Ahmed Manasra, and other children in
Jerusalem and other places in Palestine".
Many Palestinians
were incensed by amateur video that had shown Manasra, 13, lying on the
street in Pisgat Zeev, a Jewish settlement on the northern edge of
Jerusalem, with blood coming from his head. Israeli police said that he
and a cousin stabbed two Israelis there on Monday.
The
15-year-old cousin was shot dead, and Israel said that day that Manasra
was alive and taken to hospital after being hit by a car during the
attack. On Thursday, after Abbas's address, Israel's Government Press
Office released a video, without sound, showing a youth it identified as
Manasra being spoon-fed in a bed in Jerusalem's Hadassah hospital. A
doctor said he could be discharged soon.
I'll have that video for you in the next post, so make sure to check back. And the Prime Minister has called a press conference for this evening at which he will be flanked by Dore Gold (Director General of the Foreign Ministry these days) and Tzipi Hotovely (Deputy Foreign Minister) at which the video will undoubtedly be shown.
But at least Kirby was forced to walk back one outrageous comment.
Clarification from today's briefing: I did not intend to suggest that status quo at Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif has been broken.
The prosecutor in Nanterre announced the decision on Tuesday, three
months after three French judges recommended the case be dropped, the Times of Israel reported.
Lawyers for Arafat’s widow, Suha, who filed the case in France in
2012 alleging he had been murdered, said the judges closed the
investigation too quickly.
...
Suha Arafat based her lawsuit on a 108-page report released to her by
the University Centre of Legal Medicine in Lausanne, Switzerland, which
said the theory that Arafat was poisoned is most consistent with its
results. Russian experts have maintained that Arafat was not poisoned.
The French experts “maintain that the polonium 210 and lead 210 found
in Arafat’s grave and in the samples are of an environmental nature,”
Nanterre prosecutor Catherine Denis said last month.
Many Palestinians continue to believe that Arafat was poisoned by
Israel because he was an obstacle to peace. Israel has denied any
involvement.
Millions of Euros wasted on this nonsense. Maybe this will be the end of it.
The Mayor tells us that it was the stabbed police officer who shot the terrorist, thereby saving lives, a detail that was missing for those who only read Twitter.
Of course, since we are civilized people, the terrorist was immediately taken for life-saving surgery. Unfortunately, if you're an Arabic-reading 'Palestinian,' you were told that you hero was left to bleed to death.
Can't wait to see which narrative the Western news agencies choose....
For those of you who have forgotten Diana Buttu, here's Hillel Neuer making mincemeat out of her, here's Jake Tapper being totally fooled by her, and here's Fox News owning her.
Buttu's tweet above - retweeted by Gershon Baskin - points to the video below. The video talks about Google mapping the Israel trail, a 1000-kilometer trail network meant to be Israel's version of the Appalachian trail.
Let's go to the videotape.
The video has over a million views in the nearly a month since it was posted, and you would think that if the Israel trail included Judea and Samaria someone else would have made that comment before Buttu made it around 1:00 this afternoon Israel time. And you're probably right. Because, you see, Buttu is lying - or at least grossly exaggerating.
The Israel trail's route is mapped here (link in Hebrew) and here. There's a note in the English version that claims that the trail crosses the 'green line,' and a quick look at the map (below - I used the Hebrew one because it's larger) shows that it does for a very short time - west northwest of Jerusalem. My guess is that it's the same place where Highway 1 - the main highway between Jerusalem and Tel Aviv - crosses the green line for a couple of kilometers. It's near Latrun. And you can bet that if there is ever a 'Palestinian state,' they won't be getting it.
That's a far cry from a claim that Google mapped Judea and Samaria as part of Israel. Too bad they didn't. If the 'Palestinians' are going to whine anyway, we may as well give them something real to whine about.
Oh and Gaza? that's the place on the left-most point on the white with the gray outline. The trail is nowhere near there.
Not only Gaza is flooded due to Israeli dams, Israel also controls the sea, causing a tsunami in Gaza
Proof in photo: pic.twitter.com/0WK903gIXK
— TheWonderingIsraeli (@WonderngIsraeli) February 24, 2015
Last week, 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen told the United Nations that Israel commits 'genocide.' I think he needs to be called on this one. (From here).
Some of you might not have realized it, but when during his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, Prime Minister Netanyahu slammed 'moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud AbbasAbu Mazen for his 'brazen lies,' he was also slamming US President Hussein Obama for his 'brazen lies' in the process.
Just five days earlier, President Obama had made a shocking assertion
in his role as president while speaking on the world stage. He claimed
that there were “too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of
peace.” Obama scolded: “that’s something worthy of reflection within
Israel.”
Not only did President Obama not include Palestinians in this
demeaning and defamatory slur, he proceeded to equate “rockets fired at
innocent Israelis” with “Palestinian children taken from us in Gaza.”
Not “taken from us” by Hamas who used them as human fodder in their
attempted annihilation of Israel. But apparently “taken from us” by
those Israelis not interested in peace.
No Israeli Prime Minister could allow such an attack to go
unanswered. And so Netanyahu began his remarks by daring President Obama
to distinguish between his battle against ISIS and Israel’s battle with
Hamas.
Said Netanyahu: “the people of Israel pray for peace, but our hopes
and the world’s hopes for peace are in danger because everywhere we look
militant Islam in on the march.”
It's long past time for the arrogant Obama to be put in his place. Read the whole thing.
Obama's great fix of US relations with the Arab Muslim world
When President Hussein Obama came to power in 2009, he promised to 'fix' US relations with the Arab world, which he claimed were fraught with tension due to the actions of the Bush administration (who else?). Obama has done a great job of it.
The 'Palestinian Authority's official daily attacked President Obama this week, claiming that Obama's so-called 'support' for Israel's Gaza operation is 'compensation for what happened to the blacks' in previous centuries.
Official publication Al-Hayat Al-Jadida printed an editorial from Ibrahim Abd
Al-Majid claiming Obama, as a "black president," has committed "crimes
[that] have surpassed those of all the white presidents."
Palestinian Media Watch translated excerpts, below, into English:
Israel has found an opportunity to start [its] ethnic
cleansing [in Gaza],because the Arabs are [currently] busy with what is
going on in their countries - as in Iraq IS (Islamic State) expelled
the Christians and nobody in the [entire] world objected... There is
something unclear about the US position. Of course, it is [the US] that
stands behind these [radical] factions who call themselves Islamic and
are wreaking destruction in the Arab world,and that allows Israel to
declare [itself] a Jewish state; yet, [Israel's] war crimes and crimes
against humanity meet with no response from the US... Since
the beginning of the Israeli operations, Obama has not said a word... I
could find no other explanation for [Obama's] position and for US policy
other than that he is a sadist from the times when the whites
persecuted the blacks. He is now behaving with the same sadism that was
practiced against him in the past. All the massacres of blacks in Africa
and America in the 18th and 19th centuries, all the manifestations of
racist discrimination that were so widespread in the US even up to the
1970s - this man sees all of these repulsive scenes in Gaza, and is
happy, [seeing this] as compensation for what happened to the blacks and
as an attempt to repress it, and out of pride in the actions of a black
president whose crimes have surpassed those of all the white
presidents.
This is not the first time a PA daily has published comments smearing Obama.
But for the fact that there are millions of nut cases out there who actually believe this nonsense, it might even be comical.
Video: Wolf Blitzer grills Hamas' Osama Hamdan over blood libels
Hamas spokesman Osama Hamdan has been making infrequent appearances on
CNN in the past few weeks, but today Wolf Blitzer really held his feet
to the fire. At issue here was what Blitzer called “disturbing” comments
Hamdan made on television saying that Jews use Christian blood to make
matzoh, a charge generally referred to as blood libel. Hamdan had said,
“We all remember how the Jews used to slaughter Christians in order to
mix their blood in their holy matzoh. This is not a figment of the
imagination or something taken from a film. It is a fact acknowledged by
their own books and historical evidence.”
Blitzer confronted
Hamdan over that remark today. Hamdan, repeatedly, refused to directly
answer Blitzer’s question. Instead, he argued that the truly disgusting
rhetoric is coming from the Israelis. Hamdan told Blitzer, “They are
misusing the words. I’ve said on the same occasion that we don’t have
problems with the Jews… I have Jewish friends who are supporting the
Palestinian rights.”
At no point did Hamdan address those
controversial remarks themselves. But what Blitzer noticed is that not
once did Hamdan issue any kind of denial for uttering such “an awful,
awful smear.”
Let's go to the videotape.
Kind of tough when your Arabic gets translated into English, isn't it?
More Hamas use of Israeli terror victims as their own
Another disgraceful use by Hamas or its supporters of Jewish terror victims - this time from the March 2002 suicide bombing at Jerusalem's Cafe Moment - to claim that they are actually 'Palestinians' victimized by Israel.
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