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posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:25 AM 3 comments

Toronto Transit Commission rejects anti-Israel ads as 'inaccurate and misleading'

The Toronto Transit Commission has rejected an anti-Israel ad that ran earlier this year in Vancouver as 'inaccurate and misleading.'

Proposed by the Montreal-based Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East, the ads were similar to the “Disappearing Palestine” ad that ran this summer in Vancouver’s transit system. The Vancouver ad showed four maps, spanning from 1946 to 2012, that suggested Israel was taking over Palestinian land.

The CJPME ads claimed that Palestinian “loss of land” has been “unfair” and “illegal under international law.”

“Our legal opinion,” Ross said, “is that there has never been a finding by any international court or tribunal with respect to the illegality of loss of land, and by making that statement, it potentially could cause discrimination or advocate hate towards a specified group, in this case Israelis and/or the Jewish people.”

Ross said the four ads contained similar language, maps and the line “illegal under international law.” He said “the real legal issue” for the transit commission “was a statement that we determined to be either inaccurate or misleading.”

The CJPME, which was notified of the decision on Friday, may appeal the rejection, Ross noted.

If you want to help out, please tweet support to @BradTCC, who is being abused by the anti-Israel hooligans. 

Labels: anti-Semitism, bus advertisements, there's no such thing as 'Palestine', Toronto

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 7:15 AM 0 comments

When were there ever any 'Palestinians'?

Consider the following:

“Of all the Palestinian lies there is no lie greater or more crushing than that which calls for the establishment of a separate Palestinian state in the West Bank... Not since the time of Dr. Goebbels has there been a case in which continual repetition of a lie has borne such great fruits....”

– From “Palestinian Lies” in Haaretz, July 1976.

Incredibly, that was written by Amnon Rubenstein of the Meretz party back in the days when supporting a 'Palestinian' state was rightfully considered treason in Israel. But Rubenstein was correct. There is no such thing as a separate 'Palestinian' nation.

Remember Azmi Bishara, the 'Israeli Arab' politician who fled Israel when he was about to be indicted for treason for helping Hezbullah in the 2006 Second Lebanon War? Well, here he is on Israeli television in 1994.

Let's go to the videotape.



Here's the full translation of what he said (translated by an Israeli in the comments, so the English isn't great)

"i dont think that there is palestinian nation

then he ask him "you dont think there is palestine?" and he answer: no i think there is arab nation i allways thought like that and i didnt change my mind, i dont think there is palestinian nation, i think it's colonial invention palestinian nation, when was palestinian people where is what *laughing* i think there is arab nation even if i am fighting against israel i didnt turn palestine.

Relying strictly on Arab sources, Martin Sherman writes that this is all part of a lie: The lie that there is a 'Palestinian nation.'

The partition of Palestine, in 1947, and the establishment of Israel are illegal and null and void, regardless of the passage of time... The claims of historic and spiritual ties between Jews and Palestine are incompatible with the facts of history or with true conception of what constitutes statehood.

– Articles 17 and 18 of the original Palestinian National Covenant (1964). (The same clauses appear almost verbatim as Clauses 19 and 20 in the current version. Both are posted at the website of the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine at the UN.) This declaration, made long before any “occupation” or “settlements,” highlights that Arab enmity towards Israel is fueled by its being – not by its borders. It proves irrefutably that the establishment of a Palestinian state and the eradication of Jewish presence in Judea and Samaria will do nothing to attenuate the refusal to acknowledge the right of the Jews to a nation-state, whatever its frontiers – if any further proof was necessary after the 2005 Gaza debacle.

All of this should be borne in mind as September 23 approaches. For what we are about to witness at the UN is nothing less an endeavor at political alchemy – the conjuring up of a substantive political construct out of mere political myth; an attempt to produce a nation where the elements of nationhood do not exist; an effort to construct a state when the components of statehood are absent.

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Not only do the Palestinians admit that they are not a discrete sociological entity, i.e., a people.

They also concede that as a political unit, i.e., a nation, their demands and aspirations as are neither genuine nor permanent.

Thus Muhsin candidly confessed: “It is only for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity, because it is in the interest of the Arabs to encourage a separate Palestinian identity. Yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a new tool in the continuing battle against Israel [sic].”

Doesn’t get much more explicit than that! Indeed the Palestinians not only affirm that their national demands are bogus, but that they are only a temporary instrumental ruse.

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Article 16 of the original version of the Palestinian National sets out the desire of the people of Palestine, “who look forward to... restoring the legitimate situation to Palestine, establishing peace and security in its territory, and enabling its people to exercise national sovereignty...”

However, since the Covenant was adopted in 1964, well before Israel “occupied” a square inch of the “West Bank” or Gaza, the question is precisely what is meant by “its territory” in which the Palestinians were “looking forward...to exercise national sovereignty.” Indeed in Article 24, they state specifically what this territory did not include, and where they were not seeking to exercise “national sovereignty.”

In it they explicitly proclaim that they do not desire to “exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, [or] on the Gaza Strip.”

From this we learn two stunning facts. Not only did the Palestinians not claim the “West Bank” and Gaza as part of their homeland, but they specifically excluded them from it. Moreover, they explicitly acknowledged – and accepted –that the “West Bank” belonged to another sovereign entity, the Hashemite Kingdom.

There is thus not the slightest resemblance – indeed not even one square inch of overlap – between the territory claimed by the Palestinians as their “homeland” when they first formulated their national aspirations and the “homeland” allegedly envisaged/claimed today.

Indeed, the two visions of “homeland” territories are mutually exclusive.

Accordingly, it would seem that Jewish rule is far more central in defining the location of the Palestinian “homeland” than any “collective historical memory.”

For the Palestinians only incorporated the “West Bank” (and Gaza) in their territorial claims when they came under Israeli control – clearly vindicating the view that the concept of “Palestinian-ness” is a fabricated construct, conjured up to further the Arab quest to repudiate “Jewishness.”

Read the whole thing. Why should we give one square inch of the Holy Land to these stinking frauds?

Labels: Amnon Rubenstein, Azmi Bishara, there's no such thing as 'Palestine'

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:17 PM 5 comments

Publicly funded Canadian broadcaster declares Jerusalem to be in 'Palestine'

This is your Canadian tax dollars at work.

Canada's publicly funded French radio broadcaster did a game show on Friday that included a question which required the contestants to place the city of Jerusalem in 'Palestine.'

This past Friday August 12, Radio-Canada, the French-language network of CBC News, broadcast a game show featuring a question which shockingly presumed Jerusalem to be a city in "Palestine".

On a game show called "Connivence", Radio-Canada host Sébastien Benoit asked the following question to his contestants:

Radio-Canada Host Benoit: "Which city in Palestine is known to be a place of pilgrimage for the Christians, Jews and Muslims?"

(Answer given by a contestant without hesitation): "Jerusalem!"

Radio-Canada Host Benoit: "It is indeed Jerusalem!" (Audience applause)

Let's go to the videotape (in French).

Remarkably, in one fell swoop, Radio-Canada has done something that Palestinians themselves have been unable to achieve in decades worth of trying. Our public broadcaster declared a state of "Palestine" with an undivided Jerusalem as its capital, except that in Radio-Canada's version, the exclusive sovereign to this land was the Palestinian Authority, not Israel.

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Radio-Canada, its programs, and journalists have a duty to uphold journalistic integrity which proscribes media coverage which is biased, misleading and partisan. By declaring all of Jerusalem to be a city of "Palestine", Radio-Canada has committed a serious journalistic transgression for which it must apologize. Please file a complaint with Radio-Canada's Ombudsman by sending emails to: ombudsman@radio-canada.ca. Please refer to the August 12 broadcast of the Radio-Canada game show "Connivence".

I don't know enough about the show or the broadcaster to discuss whether this was done maliciously or stupidly. Hopefully people who do know will show up in the comments.

Labels: Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, Radio Canada, there's no such thing as 'Palestine'

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:50 AM 2 comments