The New York Times brushes off attempted murder
The New York Times does a story on the
arrest of Ezra Nawi for
turning a 'Palestinian' land seller over to the tender mercies of the '
Palestinian security forces' and manages to turn it into an indictment of
free speech in Israel.
Ezra Nawi, an Israeli Jewish plumber, has a long history as a left-wing activist helping Palestinians in their struggle against Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Now he is under arrest in Israel, after a right-wing activist surreptitiously filmed him bragging about exposing Arab brokers who tried to sell Palestinian land to Jewish settlers. Such sales are a capital crime under Palestinian law.
Considered
variously as a big-mouthed provocateur and a colorful human-rights
adventurer, Mr. Nawi has become the latest symbol in the battle between
advocacy groups on opposite sides of Israel’s political spectrum, and
the increasingly fierce debate here over the nature of Israeli society
and democracy.
The debate has heated up as Israel’s conservative government is pushing
forward contentious legislation that would require nongovernmental
organizations to disclose funding they receive from foreign governments
in their publications, advertising and meetings with public officials.
The proposed bill, which supporters say is meant to increase
transparency, would apply mainly to leftist groups critical of Israel’s
policy toward the Palestinians, since rightist groups mostly receive
private funding from abroad, and it has already drawn harsh criticism
from the Obama administration and European diplomats.
No, this story is not about the NGO law, which the Times so hates. It's about yet another Leftist fascist who thinks he has the right to endanger other people's lives.
It
is an odd case. Mr. Nawi, described in a 2009 New York Times profile as
“the Robin Hood of the South Hebron Hills,” helping Palestinians who
love him and “thwarting settlers and soldiers who view him with
contempt,” is now accused of endangering the lives of Palestinians. That
is because selling land to Israeli Jews is punishable by death
according to the Palestinian Authority. Although the authority is not
known to have carried out any executions for any offense in more than a
decade, there have been reports of torture in its prisons.
The
Ad Kan video, from about a year ago, shows Mr. Nawi behind the wheel of
his jeep, bragging about what appeared to be a dubious sideline to his
activist work in the West Bank.
He told the man sitting next to him, whom he believed to be a fellow
sympathizer, that he sometimes posed as a land broker and engaged with
other land dealers mediating sales of Palestinian-owned land to Jewish
settlers, then handed over their details to the Palestinian Authority
security services.
Asked what the Authority did with such people, Mr. Nawi said it “catches them and kills them.”
Days later, he was arrested at the airport as he was about to leave the country.
Odd? Not to anyone who knows the history of Israel's prosecutorial regime burying charges against the Left. Only by gathering evidence so convincing that even the Left-leaning Uvda had to run with it or lose all credibility could Nawi's disgusting behavior be exposed.
There is a story here. Too bad it's not the one the Times chose to tell.
Labels: anti-Israel media bias, Arab land sales to Jews, B'Tselem, Ezra Nawi, human rights, human rights activists, human rights NGO's, Israeli Knesset, New York Times, NGO funding, Ta'ayush, traitor
Jewish Voice for 'peace' seeks to free accessory to murder
Israel Radio reported this morning that a Jew and a 'Palestinian' - both 'peace activists' - are being held for meeting with an enemy foreign agent.
While the radio did not disclose who they are, the uber-Leftist Jew-haters at Jewish Voice for 'peace' are
petitioning for his release (if you think my description of JVP is an overstatement, go
here).
If you're wondering why this Jewish-born drek is being held, go
here.
Labels: ADL, Arab land sales to Jews, B'Tselem, Ezra Nawi, human rights, human rights activists, human rights NGO's, Israeli Knesset, Jewish Voice for Peace, NGO funding, Ta'ayush, traitor
Video with English translation of Ezra Nawi saying he turns 'Palestinian' land sellers over for torture and death
Thursday night's video showing Leftist 'human rights' activists Ezra Nawi and Nasser Najawa ran 44 minutes long. Now, StandWithUs has translated two of the key minutes into English (subtitles).
Let's go to the videotape.
By the way, I hope the gentleman referred to in the video as 'Arik' (the one who did the recording) is well-hidden. Nawi undoubtedly knows who he is and surely wants to have him killed.
Labels: Arab land sales to Jews, B'Tselem, human rights, human rights activists, human rights NGO's, Israeli Knesset, NGO funding, Ta'ayush
The Israeli Hard Left circles the wagons
Israel's Left is circling the wagons around two of its own. Ta'ayush's Ezra Nawi (pictured) and B'Tselem's Nasser Nawaja were shown on Israeli television on Thursday night telling a Right wing activist with a hidden camera that they turn over 'Palestinians' who wish to sell land to Jews to the '
Palestinian security forces' for torture and death.
Although the story has gotten little exposure outside of Israel, here it's all the rage. Over the weekend, Israel's hard left has been circling the wagons to
defend Nawi and Nawaja.
Both Nawi and Nawaja are among the most internationally renowned
members of Israel’s radical left. Earlier this year, Nawaja published an
anti-Israeli op-ed in The New York Times,
accusing the Jewish state of “dispossession and oppression.” Nawi is
considerably more prominent: when he was arrested, in 2007, for
attacking Israeli policemen during a West Bank demonstration, more than
20,000 people—including a long list of prominent Israeli academics as
well as progressive American celebrities like Noam Chomsky and Naomi
Klein—signed a petition demanding his release.
Responding to the piece with a statement on its Facebook page,
B’Tselem said that while it opposed tortures and executions, reporting
Palestinians interested in selling land to Israelis to the PA was “the
only legitimate course of action.”
These revelations comes at an inopportune moment for the two NGOs, as
the Israeli government is considering measures to regulate non-profit
organizations receiving financial support from foreign governments. Ta’ayush,
according to the Jerusalem-based group NGO-Monitor, receives some
foreign donations but does not disclose its funding.
B’Tselem, on the
other hand, is considered one of Israel’s leading civil rights
organizations, and receives financial support from
the governments of Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark, the Netherlands,
Norway, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom, as well as the European
Union and the New Israel Fund.
And from
prominent American Jews....
Amazingly, B'Tselem, a favored grantee of the American non-profit organization The New Israel Fund, defended the action portrayed on today’s show, claiming that “This is the only legitimate channel for a Palestinian.”
Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett accused the
New Israel Fund and the European Union of funding Israeli human rights
activists who turn in innocent Palestinians, and later urged foreign
ambassadors to Israel to stop transferring funds to these organizations.
(Both, B’Tselem and Ta’ayush receive funding from France and the United Kingdom, as well as from American Jews.)
Ta’ayush has in the past partnered with Rabbis for Human Rights
– of which Rabbi Gordon Tucker of Temple Israel of White Plains is a
donor - to bring “hundreds of volunteers to work side-by-side with
Palestinian farmers during Olive Harvest campaign.”
The pushback from the Left has been so fierce that even journalists like Maariv's
Ben Caspit and Haaretz's
Barak Ravid (both Leftists themselves) have criticized the Left wing organizations for not disavowing Nawi and Nawaja (links in Hebrew).
Of course, then there are the real Jew haters, like
Gideon Levy, who still has a platform at Haaretz.
In a report on left-wing groups which operate in the West Bank, Uvda aired secretly recorded footage
of Israeli activist Ezra Nawi saying that he had exposed Palestinian
land brokers who sold West Bank land to Jews, and turned them over to
the Palestinian Authority.The right wing and the settlers celebrated the
event of course. Another outpost has fallen into their hands. They have
already compared the left-wing activist Nawi to the Duma murderers, no
less. The rightists and settlers, known for their deep concern about the
lives of Palestinians, were shocked by Nawi’s statements. But the right
is not the story. The story is how a lethal virus has penetrated what
is almost the last outpost of real journalism.
How has a McCarthyist right-wing organization, whose motives are
clear (and despicable) and whose sources are unknown, succeeded with
such ease in enticing such respected journalists as Ilana Dayan and Omri
Assenheim? How has this flagship joined the ranks of the false
propaganda which masquerades as journalism?
That is how to conduct delegitimization. That is how it is done to
liberal organizations in the darkest of regimes, and now here too, and
on Uvda – no less.
Presenting the human rights organizations as dangerous groups, and
penetrating them, is compared to penetrating ISIS. The McCarthyists are
glorified, depicted as heroes of Israel who excelled in battles in Gaza.
All these are well-known ploys. And against this background, all that
is left is to record Nawi boasting, to catch him uttering the taboo
words, to present him as a “senior” activist, to ignore the entire
context — the crimes of the occupation and the expulsion form the
Southern Hebron Hills, which you never heard about on Uvda. Just ignore
the holy work done by left-wing activists in this battered region, spice
it with a few lies such as “execution” by the Palestinian Authority,
add a few generalizations, suspicions and slander – and the dish is
ready.
To those of you with even the slightest suspicion that Levy is onto something, I suggest that you go
watch the video of Thursday night's broadcast (it's in Hebrew only, but I summarized it
here). It doesn't get much more clear cut. Nawi and Najawa turned 'Palestinians' who wanted to sell land to Jews ('Palestinians' whose existence the Israeli Left denies) over to the 'Palestinian security services' for torture and murder. And they did it with a sadistic smile.
It doesn't get much more disgusting.
Labels: Arab land sales to Jews, B'Tselem, human rights, human rights activists, human rights NGO's, Israeli Knesset, New Israel Fund, NGO funding, Ta'ayush
'Human rights' organizations @taayush and @btselem turn 'Palestinian' land seller over to 'Palestinian security services' for torture
For those who can, I strongly recommend watching
the original report (44 minutes in Hebrew). Unfortunately, Blogger only allows the uploading of videos up to 100 megabytes - this one is nearly 180 megabytes.
Here's a brief summary:
Ilana Dayan's
Uvda (Fact) program on Israel's Channel 10 last night featured an expose on a group of Right wing activists from the center of the country who managed to place a mole in Taayush, a Jewish-Arab organization that advocates for 'Palestinian human rights.'
The mole, an alumnus of an elite IDF combat unit who won an award for bravery during the war in Gaza in the summer of 2014 (while this was going on!), managed to record Ezra Nawi, the Jewish leader of Taayush, in conversations with an Arab land owner who wished to sell land south of Hebron (near Jewish villages) to Jews.
Nawi met with the land seller (in the mole's presence), and then proceeded to conspire with a Btselem 'Palestinian' activist named Nasser Nawajeh to turn the land seller over for 'investigation' by the 'Palestinian security services.'
Yes, that's right, the European-financed 'human rights organizations' turned over (and apparently not for the first time) a 'Palestinian' who wished to sell land to Jews to the 'Palestinian security services' for torture (Nawi says it outright) and 'neutralization' (i.e. murder).
I'm hoping this video will be translated into English because it rips the mask off the 'human rights' activists and the self-hating Jews who are trying to destroy the Jewish state.
JNi.media has written a
more lengthy summary. Here is some of it:
The laws on ownership of land under the Palestinian Authority (PA),
originally enacted during the Jordanian occupation of Judea and Samaria
(1948–1967), prohibit Arabs from selling Arab-owned lands to “any man or
judicial body corporation of Israeli citizenship, living in Israel or
acting on its behalf.” According to several media sources, including the
NY Times, Ha’aretz and Jerusalem Post, selling land to Jews is
considered an act of treason by the Arabs because it threatens the
future Palestinian state and leads to “the spread of moral, political
and security corruption”. Arabs in the Palestinian Authority who sell
land to Israelis may be sentenced to death. The interrogation by PA
security forces of Arabs suspected of selling land to Jews involves
severe torture.
...
When asked what happens once Palestinian Authority police lays its
hands on the sellers, Nawi says, “It catches them, kills them.” He then
added with a vicious smile, “First Zubur, then Gazanga.” Zubur is an
Arabic word used in Hebrew to describe hazing—humiliation and physical
torment. The Gazanga part is not a known word, but implies, in the
context of the tape, the demise of the victim.
Ezra Nawi and his Arab associate, B’Tselem activist Nasser Nawaj’ah,
from the village of Yatta, are left-wing stars, who have been part of
the anti-settlement movement for decades. This is why the Israeli left,
before and immediately following the broadcast Thursday night, began a
campaign in their defense.
The left has praised Nawi and Nawaj’ah to high heaven over the years,
including accolades from linguist, philosopher, cognitive scientist,
historian, logician, social critic, and political activist Noam Chomsky;
author, social activist, and filmmaker Naomi Klein; Ben-Gurion
University Prof. Niv Gordon; and Meretz Chairperson MK Zehava Galon.
They will not allow for these two folk hero activists to gain a new
renown as agents of death.
B’Tselem accused the show of legitimizing what was, essentially, a
right-wing operation. In that sense, the fact that journalist Dayan
described sending to their certain death Arabs whose only sin is wanting
to sell land to Jews, appears from B’Tselem’s point of view like her
embracing of the “occupation.” Gideon Levy told Dayan on air that “If
that’s all that those plants discovered, it’s a badge of honor for the
human rights organizations.”
...
Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Betzalel Smotrich said “what we’ve watched
tonight is the loss of a moral compass, a betrayal of the State of
Israel and an injury to life under the guise of defending human rights.
This phenomenon is not an invention of Ezra Nawi, unfortunately it is
typical of many of the extremist left wing organizations which are
concealing an extremist political agenda under the cover of human
rights.”
The report’s editor, Ami Assenheim, told Makor Rishon about the
process that preceded the screening: “Nawi is not alone,” he said. “You
see a mix of left-wing activists from other places. Nawi collaborates
with another Jewish activist in Ta’ayush. These are not the actions of a
single individual in a single organization. You see people conspiring
to turn in a land broker to the Preventive Security Force (PSF), knowing
what would be the fate of people like him. They were very embarrassed
when we called them up for a response. There were long silences and
phone hang-ups.”
Nawi himself accused the report of being an effort to sabotage his
heroic work on behalf of the Palestinian population in the southern
Hebron Mountain. “I wasn’t the one trapping the land broker, the
opposite is true,” he said. Nasser Nawaj’ah also denied his role as it
was described in the report, but not quite with the same level of
self-righteousness.
A couple of comments. The timing of this show's release is probably not accidental. As I have noted previously, the Knesset is currently considering a bill to expose foreign government funding of 'NGO's. This show could well advance that bill.
The comments by the Right wing infiltrators at the end were particularly notable. They said that they actually feel sorry for the ordinary 'Palestinians' who are being used not only by their own 'leadership,' but also by organizations that purport to protect their human rights. In other words, the Israeli Right is far more humane to 'Palestinians' than are the 'human rights' organizations.
Sadly, this story is unlikely to get a lot of publicity outside of Israel. But that shouldn't stop us from trying.
Labels: Arab land sales to Jews, B'Tselem, human rights, human rights activists, human rights NGO's, Israeli Knesset, NGO funding, Ta'ayush
#DoubleStandard When it's okay to pay 'migrants' to leave and when it's not
Norway is offering large sums of money (80,000 Kroner - some $9,300) and free plane tickets to 'migrants' (Muslims)
to leave.
“They thought that when they came to Norway they would get protection
rather quickly. And that they would have the opportunity to work or take
an education – and maybe even to get their family to Norway,” Katinka
Hartmann, head of the The Norwegian Directorate of Immigration’s
(Utlendingsdirektoratet - UDI) return unit, told broadcaster NRK.
But with family reunification application processing times taking
years, many have decided that they don’t want to wait and have applied
for financial assistance to return home.
According to UDI, over 900 people have applied to leave Norway with
financial support from the state. A family with two children can receive
upwards of 80,000 kroner ($9,300 or 8,600 euros) in addition to having
their airline tickets bought by the state.
The number of applications is on the rise, according to the Norwegian
division of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), which
processes the requests.
“Earlier this year, the number was an average of 100 per month. In
October, there were 150 and in November there were 230 applications,”
IOM spokesman Joost van der Aalst told NRK.
He said that the long family reunification times were a major factor,
but many people were also put off by having to live in remote areas
where they feel it is difficult to put their work experience to use.
You might remember
another country where they wanted to pay migrants to leave, and might have even considered paying migrants who had been in the country for many years to leave. Of course, that country was blasted by its leftist media,
by its own legislators, and by its Supreme Court, along with '
human rights watch' and other 'human rights' groups. Can you guess what country was blasted for trying to get illegal immigrants to leave? I knew you could....
Labels: double standards, human rights, Human Rights Watch, illegal immigration, Norway, Supreme Court
Terror in Samaria and how the 'Palestinians' react to it
Three Israelis have been injured, two seriously, when
a 'Palestinian' terrorist rammed his car into them while they were standing at a hitchhiking post in Samaria on Route 60 near Shilo.
Our Prime Minister is wondering why those who condemned last week's terror attack on a 'Palestinian' family in Duma
are silent regarding this attack.
The Prime Minister immediately commended the swift actions of the IDF
who responded to the attack and wished the injured a speedy recover.
He
once again called on the international community to condemn this attack
and the one earlier in the week when an Israeli vehicle was firebombed
in east Jerusalem. The US did condemn the Jerusalem attack.
Netanyahu
said, “I find it strange that those who were quick to condemn terrorism
against Palestinians are silent when the terrorism is directed at
Jews.”
Fortunately, there is hope. Netanyahu is
not the only one who finds it strange. Right, Mr. Tawil?
Labels: Bassam Tawil, Binyamin Netanyahu, human rights, Palestinian terrorism
Hope: The words 'Palestinian human rights activist' are not an oxymoron
The Israeli reaction to the terror attack in Duma (for which, by the way, there still have been no arrests) has prompted 'Palestinian' human rights activist Bassam Tawil to
put something in perspective for his fellow 'Palestinians.'
The strong response of the Israeli public and leaders to the arson
attack is, truthfully, somewhat comforting. The wall-to-wall Israeli
condemnation of this crime has left me and other Palestinians not only
ashamed, but also embarrassed -- because this is not how we Palestinians
have been reacting to terror attacks against Jews -- even the
despicable murder of Jewish children.
Our response has, in fact, brought feelings of disgrace and dishonor.
While the Israeli prime minister, president and other officials were
quick strongly to condemn the murder of Dawabsha, our leaders rarely
denounce terror attacks against Jews. And when a Palestinian leader such
as Mahmoud Abbas does issue a condemnation, it is often vague and
equivocal.
Take, for example, what happened after last year's kidnapping and
murder of three Israeli teenagers by Palestinians in the West Bank. It
not only took President Abbas four days
to issue a statement condemning the terror attack, but even then, the
condemnation was at best a tentative: "The Palestinian presidency...
condemns the series of events that happened last week, beginning with
the kidnapping of three Israeli youths." Abbas then went on to denounce
Israel for arresting dozens of Hamas members after the abduction and
murder of the three youths.
Later in 2014, when Abbas did condemn a Palestinian terror attack
that killed five Israelis in a Jerusalem synagogue, Fatah official Najat
Abu Baker, a few days later, explained that Abbas's condemnation was made "within a diplomatic context... [he] is forced to speak this way to the world."
Abbas's condemnation of the attack at the synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood apparently came only under pressure
from U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who telephoned the Palestinian
leader twice to demand that he speak out against the killings. Abbas's
statement said that the Palestinian leadership condemns the "killing of
worshippers in a synagogue and all acts of violence, regardless of their
source." His statement then also called for an end to "incursions and
provocations by settlers against the Aqsa Mosque."
Abbas's ambiguous, half-hearted condemnations of attacks by
Palestinians against Israelis are only intended for public consumption
and are primarily aimed at appeasing Western donors, so that they will
continue channeling funds to the Palestinian Authority (PA). In
addition, his condemnations almost always seek to blame Israel for the
Palestinian terror attacks -- presumably an attempt to justify the
killing of Jews at the hands of Palestinian terrorists.
In contrast, Israeli leaders who condemned the murder of the Palestinian toddler sound firm and unambiguous. Here is what Prime Minister Netanyahu said
after visiting the murdered baby's parents and brother, who were
wounded in the arson attack and are receiving medical treatment in
Israeli hospitals: "When you stand next to the bed of this small child,
and his infant brother has been so brutally murdered, we are shocked, we
are outraged. We condemn this. There is zero tolerance for terrorism
wherever it comes from, whatever side of the fence it comes from."
Netanyahu's strong and clear condemnation left me and other
Palestinians wondering when was the last time we heard similar
statements from our leaders. I cannot remember ever hearing Abbas or any
other Palestinian leader express shock and outrage over the killing of a
Jew in a Palestinian terror attack. Nor can I remember the last time we
heard of a Palestinian official visiting the Israeli victims of a
Palestinian terror attack.
Read the whole thing.
Labels: Abu Mazen, Bassam Tawil, Binyamin Netanyahu, human rights, human rights activists, Palestinian terrorism
What could go wrong?
As I am sure you are all aware, there is currently a meeting going on in Vienna, at the conclusion of which a deal will be announced that will make Iran a nuclear-armed state within ten years. How bad is this deal? Consider the following coming out of Vienna.
I hope that Hussein Obama and John FN Kerry are proud of their 'achievement.' Neville Chamberlain had nothing on them.
Labels: Ayatollah Ali Khameni, Barack Hussein Obama, centrifuges, Hassan Rohani, human rights, Iran sanctions regime, Iranian nuclear threat, John Kerry, Neville Chamberlain, nuclear weapons, P 5+1, uranium enrichment
European Court of Human Rights determines that Israel does not occupy Gaza
The European Court of Human Rights has determined that
Israel is not occupying Gaza (Hat Tip:
Daled Amos).
Note the reference to the concept of
belligerent occupation. Immediately after this paragraph, the Court
makes the following observations, under the heading ‘relevant
international law’ (para. 94):
Article 42 of the Regulations concerning
the Laws and Customs of War on Land, The Hague, 18 October 1907
(hereafter “the 1907 Hague Regulations”) defines belligerent occupation
as follows:
“Territory is considered occupied when
it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army. The
occupation extends only to the territory where such authority has been
established and can be exercised.”
Accordingly, occupation within the
meaning of the 1907 Hague Regulations exists when a state exercises
actual authority over the territory, or part of the territory, of an
enemy state(1) . The requirement of actual authority is widely
considered to be synonymous to that of effective control.
Military occupation is considered to
exist in a territory, or part of a territory, if the following elements
can be demonstrated: the presence of foreign troops, which are in a
position to exercise effective control without the consent of the
sovereign.
According to widespread expert opinion physical presence of
foreign troops is a sine qua non requirement of occupation(2) , i.e.
occupation is not conceivable without “boots on the ground” therefore
forces exercising naval or air control through a naval or air blockade
do not suffice(3) .
Now, it almost goes without saying that the Court was not discussing Gaza. It was discussing an area called Gulistan on the border between Armenia and Azerbaijan. But....
In para. 95 the Court then proceeds to
cite the ICRC Customary IHL Study as well as Article 49 GC IV regarding
rights of displaced persons. (The same text can be found in paras. 96-97
of the Chiragov judgment). But the really important bit happens in paras. 143-144 of Sargsyan:
143. At this point the Court considers
it useful to reiterate that Azerbaijan has deposited a declaration with
its instrument of ratification expressing that it was “unable to
guarantee the application of the provisions of the Convention in the
territories occupied by the Republic of Armenia” (see paragraph 93
above). In its decision on the admissibility of the present case, the
Court has held that the declaration was not capable of restricting the
territorial application of the Convention to certain parts of the
internationally recognised territory of Azerbaijan (Sargsyan (dec.),
cited above, §§ 63-65) nor did it fulfil the requirements of a valid
reservation (ibid., §§ 66-70).
144. The Court notes that under
international law (in particular Article 42 of the 1907 Hague
Regulations) a territory is considered occupied when it is actually
placed under the authority of a hostile army, “actual authority” being
widely considered as translating to effective control and requiring such
elements as presence of foreign troops, which are in a position to
exercise effective control without the consent of the sovereign (see
paragraph 94 above). On the basis of all the material before it and
having regard to the above establishment of facts, the Court finds that
Gulistan is not occupied by or under the effective control of foreign
forces as this would require a presence of foreign troops in Gulistan.
See what I meant? Replace “Gulistan”
with “Gaza”, and there you have it! In fact, I’m pretty sure that this
is at least one judgment of the European Court that Israeli governmental
legal advisors will be citing all the time, whenever the issue of
Gaza’s occupation is brought up (and good for them).
Read the whole thing.
Labels: European Union, Gaza, human rights, IDF, occupation
Your tax Francs at work: Foreign Ministry calls on Swiss government, city of Zurich to withdraw support from Breaking the Silence exhibition
Israel's Foreign Ministry is urging the government of Switzerland and the City of Zurich to
withdraw support from an exhibition being put on by
Breaking the Silence, a
European-funded Israeli NGO that has made
false accusations against the IDF in the past. The withdrawal of support would apparently lead to the exhibition not taking place. This is from the first link.
A senior official in the Foreign
Ministry in Jerusalem said Israel's ambassador to Switzerland, Yigal
Caspi, called the head of the Middle East and North Africa Division in
Switzerland's Department of Foreign Affairs on Tuesday to issue a formal
complaint, and request his government quit funding the NGO's
exhibition.
The Israeli
official, who asked to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the
matter, noted that Caspi "vigorously protested" Swiss support for the
exhibition, which, he emphasized in his conversation with the Swiss
official," serves to slander Israel." As such, he said, the Israeli
government is concerned by the fact that Switzerland is financing it.
The exhibition, which is due to open in June in
Zurich, would include photos and testimonies of Israel Defense Forces
soldiers alleging human rights violations in the West Bank.
Two weeks ago, the Israeli news website NRG reported
that Switzerland's Foreign Ministry contributed 15,000 Swiss francs
($16,100) to support the exhibition, and that the Zurich municipality
contributed an additional 10,000 Swiss francs ($10,700).
If the formal complaint doesn't work (and it probably won't), maybe Hotovely should instruct the ambassador to show up at the exhibition. That's
worked pretty well in the past.
Labels: Binyamin Netanyahu, Breaking the Silence, European anti-Semitism, human rights, Palestinian terrorism, Swiss anti-Semitism, Switzerland, Tzipi Hotovely, Zurich
CNN: Israel treating mostly 'anti-Assad' forces in its hospitals
Here's a report from CNN on Israeli hospitals treating Syrian fighters 'including militants.' The so-called protectors of 'human rights' could learn a lot from this video about who does and does not stand for human rights.
Let's go to the videotape.
Labels: human rights, Israel, Nusra Front, Syrian uprising
Amnesty International shows its true colors
Amnesty International has shown its true colors by
rejecting a call to campaign against anti-Semitism in the United Kingdom.
The motion was table by Amnesty member Andrew Thorpe-Apps in March
who said it was defeated at the International AGM on Sunday by 468 votes
to 461.
Mr Trope Apps said: “It was the only resolution to be defeated during the whole conference.”
Amnesty International UK press officer Neil Durkin said: "After a
really interesting debate where everyone condemned discrimination
against all ethnic and religious groups, our membership decided not to
pass this resolution calling for a campaign with a single focus.
Funny, they don't seem to have a problem with campaigns that
focus solely on Israel.
Mr Thorpe-Apps said he put forward the motion because “I recently joined and I believe passionately about human rights.
“I was aware that the organisation has been outwardly pro-Palestine
in the past but it hasn’t stood up for the Jewish population and I think
it would be good if they did that.
“I’m not Jewish myself but I’ve been appalled by what I’ve seen in
the press facing the Jewish community and an organisation like Amnesty
should really add their voice to that as they do with other human rights
issues.”
I think Mr. Thorpe-Apps has to find another outlet for his passions about human rights. Amnesty clearly doesn't make the cut.
Labels: Amnesty International, anti-Semitism, British anti-Semitism, human rights
Iran reacts to nuke framework and to being removed from terror list
Imagine how they'll react to having a nuclear weapon.
PS Where are 'human rights watch' and 'amnesty'?
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, executions, human rights, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat, nuclear weapons
No, the US was not supposed to participate in the 'human rights council' hearing
In an earlier post, I quoted a Reuters report that claimed that the United States had abandoned Israel to the tender loving care of the United Nations '
human rights council.'
As you can see from the statement above, that report was not quite correct. The US, as a matter of principle, boycotts Item 7 on every 'human rights council' meeting agenda, because that is the permanent items for excoriating Israel. If you can't read the image above, you can find the statement
here.
The Europeans, on the other hand, according to my sources, violated an agreement with Israel by commenting on Item 7. The Europeans have a deal with Israel that if Israel submits to the Universal Periodic Review, the Europeans will
boycott Item 7.
Of course, a much more principled stance for both the US and Europe would be to leave the 'human rights council' altogether. But that will have to await new elections in the US.
Hmmm.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, European Union, human rights, Israel, Obama's arrogance, United Nations Human Rights Council, United States, universal periodic review
Obama's temper tantrum continues: US won't defend Israel at 'human rights council' - UPDATED
President Hussein
Obama's temper tantrum continues.
The United States
will not take the floor at the main U.N. human rights forum on Monday
during the annual debate on violations committed in the Palestinian
territories, a U.S. spokesman told Reuters.
The step, which is
unprecedented at the 47-member state forum where Washington unfailingly
defends Israel, follows signals that the Obama administration is
undertaking a "reassessment" of relations with the Jewish state.
"The
U.S. delegation will not be speaking about Palestine today," a U.S.
spokesman in Geneva told Reuters in response to a query as the debate
began. He declined further comment.
Waiting to hear that the US is defending Iran's, Syria's and 'Palestine's 'human rights' records.
UPDATE 12:40 PM
Here's an interesting development from my Twitter feed.
Hmmm.
Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Binyamin Netanyahu, fierce moral urgency, human rights, Obama's arrogance, Palestinian state RIGHT NOW syndrome, United Nations Human Rights Council
A 'Palestinian' rips Hollande for inviting Abu Mazen
An anonymous 'Palestinian' has written a letter to French President Francois Hollande criticizing Hollande for inviting '
moderate' '
Palestinian' President
Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen to participate in this past Sunday's
Paris unity march.
Second, I want to apologize to Your Excellency for not revealing my
true identity. After you read my letter, you will realize why people
like me are afraid to reveal their real identity.
I decided to write to you this letter after hearing my president, Mahmoud Abbas, declare that you had invited him to attend the anti-terror rally in Paris earlier this week.
Like many Palestinians, I see President Abbas's participation
in a rally against terrorism and assaults on freedom of speech as an
act of hypocrisy -- a condition that is not alien to Palestinian
Authority leaders.
In fact, many Palestinians nearly fell off their chairs upon seeing
their president march in the front row of a rally in your capital, in
protest against terrorism and assaults on freedom of the media.
President Abbas's participation in the rally is an insult to the
victims of the terror attacks. It is also an insult to Western values,
including freedom of expression and democracy.
Your Excellency, myself and other journalists living under the rule
of the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank were the first to be
offended by the invitation you extended to President Abbas to attend the
anti-terror rally.
Undoubtedly, you are unaware of the fact that Abbas is personally
responsible for punishing Palestinian journalists who dare to criticize
him or express their views in public. Of course, Your Excellency, we
cannot blame you for being unaware of this assault on public freedoms
because the mainstream media, including French newspapers and magazines,
deliberately turn a blind eye to these practices. Every day we see that
the Western media does not care about such violations unless they are
committed by Israel.
That is why, Your Excellency, you are probably unaware of the cases
of several Palestinian journalists who have been arrested and
intimidated by President Abbas's security forces over the past few
years. Yes, this is the same Abbas who came to Paris to express his
condolences over the brutal killing of the Charlie Hebdo journalists.
The most recent example of Abbas's crackdown on Palestinian
journalists occurred shortly before Your Excellency phoned President
Abbas to invite him to Paris. The case involves my female colleague, Majdolin Hassouneh, who was detained for "extending her tongue," or insulting, President Abbas.
Your Excellency, please allow me to tell you that you are completely
mistaken if you ever thought that President Abbas and his Palestinian
Authority are tolerant toward satire or any form of criticism. And of
course, you haven't heard of the Palestinian Authority's decision to cancel the only popular satirical show on Palestine TV, Watan ala Watar (Country on a String).
The show was forced off the air in 2011 because President Abbas
believed it had "crossed a line" by mocking his top officials in
Ramallah. This is the same Abbas who came to Paris to protest the
massacre at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
...
Undoubtedly, now Palestinians like me will now pay a heavier price
because President Abbas has been emboldened by his participation in the
Paris rally. President Abbas will now step up his assaults on public
freedoms because he knows that the international community will only see
photos of him marching together with Your Excellency and other world
leaders in defense of freedom of expression.
By extending the invitation to President Abbas, you have caused
damage to Palestinians like me who have been hoping that someone --
maybe even a leader like you -- would finally expose the dictatorship of
the Palestinian Authority for what it is. President Abbas's
participation in the Paris rally is a severe blow to people like me who
are genuinely opposed to terrorism and suppression of free speech.
Your Excellency, now that the damage has already been done, all that
is left for people like me is to beg you to take all what I have said
into account in your future dealings with President Abbas. Please do not
hesitate to raise these issues with President Abbas the next time he
requests your support for the creation of an independent Palestinian
state. Otherwise, France will be helping to establish another corrupt
and repressive Arab dictatorship -- one that glorifies and rewards
terrorists no different from those who carried out the Paris attacks.
Finally, Your Excellency, I hope that by now you understand the reason why I am too scared to reveal my identity.
Sincerely,
A Palestinian Journalist with No Name or Voice
Read the whole thing. If only the West would listen....
Labels: Abu Mazen, Charlie Hebdo, France, Francois Hollande, freedom of the press, human rights, Islamic terrorism, Palestinian Authority, Paris
Not a terrorist group?
For those who missed it, the European 'human rights commission' decided earlier this week that Hamas is not a terrorist group.
Labels: Eurabia, Hamas, human rights, Palestinian terrorism
Into the belly of the beast: Anne Bayefsky blasts the UN as the leading global purveyor of anti-Semitism
Anne Bayefsky spoke at a conference on United Nations anti-Semitism on Monday - at the United Nations - and she really let them have it.
Let's go to the videotape.
Adam Kredo
adds:
Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and
the Holocaust (IHRH), stood before the U.N. and lambasted it for fanning
the flames of global anti-Semitism and hatred of Israel, according to a
copy of her remarks.
Bayefsky delivered her rebuke during an informal briefing on the
threat anti-Semitism poses to international peace and security that was organized on the sidelines of the U.N. by the permanent mission of Palau.
While the briefing took place within the U.N.’s walls—and was
attended mainly by members of the public and outside organizations—it
was not formally sponsored by the international organization, leading Bayefsky to launch a scathing criticism.
Best video I've seen all day.
Labels: Anne Bayefsky, anti-Semitism, human rights, United Nations, United Nations Human Rights Council
Lighting up the skies
Just before a 'humanitarian pause' came into effect at 10:00 am, Hamas sent a volley of rockets toward
Central Israel and Beersheva.
Explosions were heard in the skies over greater Tel Aviv on Thursday
morning as Palestinian rocket launchers fired a fresh barrage of
projectiles at towns and suburbs in the Sharon region.
One rocket was intercepted over the greater Tel Aviv and Sharon district and one rocket fell in the area.
Rocket sirens were sounded in highly populated suburbs of Tel Aviv,
including Kfar Sava, Ra'anana, Petah Tikva, Kiryat Ono, and Bnei Brak.
The
latest salvo came just after terrorists in the Gaza Strip launched a
trickle of rocket fire at southern Israel on Thursday morning ahead of a
temporary cease-fire set to take effect at 10 a.m.
Four rockets fired from the Gaza Strip toward Beersheba exploded in open territory on Thursday morning.
Earlier
in the morning the Iron Dome rocket defense system intercepted two
rockets over Kiryat Gat and Kiryat Malachi. Three rockets also fell in
open area in Kiryat Malachi, and the Eshkol and Ashkelon Coast regional
councils on Thursday morning.
Each rocket - indiscriminately aimed at civilians - is a war crime. But don't expect to hear anything about that from any of the 'human rights' organizations.
Labels: cease fire, Gaza, Hamas, Hamas rockets, human rights, Operation Protective Edge, war crimes
