All The News Anti-Israel Posters Will Not Read Or Discuss 2

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The alternate reality of Pal'istanianism.

 

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Nides proudly claims spending “60% of my time trying to help the Palestinian people” – revealing that his role as Ambassador to Israel is undeserving of his attention. He proudly cites the Biden administration’s commitment to increasing financial aid to UNRWA, the United Nations organization charged with helping Palestinian refugees of the 1947-48 Arab war that was fought to annihilate the fledgling Jewish state. By now, however, UNRWA has become a scam. Nides is oblivious to the reality that there are as many UNRWA employees (approximately 30,000) as there are genuine Palestinian refugees still living.

Given Nides’ evident determination to inject himself into Israeli policy decisions it is hardly surprising that he would be sharply rebuked by Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli. “I say to the American ambassador,” Chikli advised, “slam the breaks on yourself and mind your own business.” It is unlikely that Nides will comply with Chikli’s recommendation.

Nides’ background helped to frame his current stance on Israel. After working for liberal American politicians Walter Mondale and Joe Lieberman among others, he became Managing Director of Morgan Stanley. From there he went to Credit Suisse before becoming Deputy Secretary of State for Management and Resources in the Obama administration. His talents in the financial world were evident. But Wall Street profits do not translate into expertise about the Middle East, least of all about Israel.

Diplomacy, especially with regard to Israel, is a different chapter in the Nides story. He realizes that the United States and Israel are bound together by “a sense of democracy and a sense of democratic institutions.” That sounds reassuring – until he says that “when we believe that those democratic institutions are under stress and strain, we’re articulating [our concern]. That’s what we are doing now.” He seems to believe that the Biden administration is the appropriate judge of Israel’s behavior.

Nides may have been successful in business. But he has yet to comprehend that Israelis are determined to define and defend their ancient homeland and modern nation – despite his discomfort and without his intrusion. As for Netanyahu’s plans and decisions, Nides should watch and listen before he indulges in more rants. He might even realize that he was appointed Ambassador to Israel, not its critic-in-chief.


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A Bumbling Ambassador in Israel - Algemeiner.com

In a striking display of arrogance – and ignorance – American Ambassador to Israel Thomas Nides recently told Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu what he must do, and not do, to resolve the current political crisis over judicial reform. Furthermore, Netanyahu must accept American policy...

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Balance of power ​

This balance of powers between government branches was damaged by theHigh Court of Justice's 1990s constitutional revolution, argued the petition. The court had gained too many powers, including judicial review of both regular and Basic Laws and increased scope of the reasonableness clause.

It shouldn’t be allowed to harm the essential corrective process for the legal system, “which in recent years has had the limits of authorities redrawn,” said a statement announcing the petition.

Calling for negotiations ​

The petition also called for negotiations to create a broad agreement on the reforms, but not to capitulate on the core elements needed for correcting the system.


The signatories noted that there are many more academics who support the reform, and many more would sign the petition.


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120 Israeli academics launch petition in support of judicial reform

The initiative was supported by Professor Yisrael Aumann, who spoke at the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee sessions on the reforms.

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Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban would back his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu by moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem next month, Israeli media reported Friday.

If the plan goes through, Hungary would be the first European Union member state to establish an embassy in Jerusalem, which Israel claims as its capital but is not acknowledged by most nations and whose legal status is in question.



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i24 News - Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban would back his Israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu by moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem next month, Israeli media reported Friday. If the plan goes through, Hungary would be the first European Union member state to...

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Israel to inaugurate a permanent embassy in Turkmenistan, 12 miles from Iran - I24NEWS

The embassy's inauguration is intended to send a message to Iran that Israel is a present and growing influence in the region - Click the link for more details.

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While the bodies of 14 innocent unarmed Jews are still fresh in the ground, our “allies” are calling for restraint. Good friends should know when to keep their suggestions to themselves.

Meanwhile, leftist Israelis are raising millions for the “poor Arabs” whose property was destroyed. Good sense prevailed and hey were not permitted a solidarity event there. Solidarity with whom? The Huwara Arab,s of course.

Except the owner of the parking lot that was burned is a public supporter of terror and the residents of the town, long a hotbed of terrorist activity, gave out candies to celebrate the murder of two sweet-faced Israeli young men.

You can’t make this stuff up.

Well, let me give you a reality check. Because if it wrong to take the law into ones own hands and attack the town (try to remember the cities burning in the USA last summer - without prior murders - and nothing happening to the perpetrators), it is even worse to collect money for its residents. Why worse? Because Huwara's residents did not condemn the murders, they gave our pastries and sweets instead to celebrate them - and because the grieving mother, sitting shiva, knows of the candies and knows of the left's collection for those who did not try to apprehend the murderers of her sons, but rejoiced at their deaths. .



Huwara is a narrow two lane road with a very busy Arab only commercial area on either side of the road. I had travelled this road many times and each time with a prayer on my lips and my foot at full speed on the petal. Thankfully, I have never been in a traffic jam there because of the non-peak hours in which I travel.

I sped through that strip knowing that if by any chance I got stuck it would take nothing short of a miracle to get to the other side alive. The two brothers murdered this week on that rode did exactly that. Stuck in a traffic jam they were shot mercilessly in cold blood at point blank range! What kind of person shoots two young boys he never saw before at point blank range just because they are there?

Every Jew that drives through that area understands what I am telling you and they are living there anyway. They believe with all their heart and soul that this Land was G-d given, and that any sacrifice is worth it to grow and prosper and build up the Holy Land. They are certain, and they have lost enough friends and relatives to these barbaric terrorists to know that the only response is to evacuate the town.

Move them elsehere.They will never ever live in peace with the Jews, even though there is ample space for everyone. Because it is not about land or space, it is about our very existence in this Land.

I have written before about the dichotomy between the Jew and the Israeli, this is the real struggle and it manifests in many dimensions throughout society. Are we living in the Holy Land, the promised land of the Jewish people, or a state like any other that represents its citizens? Are we a secular democratic state or a JEWISH state? Are we the homeland of all the Jewish people and therefore required to be pluralistic so as not to offend Diaspora Jewry! Or are we first and foremost responsible to the Jews who live here and vote and fight for this Land? Can we be all things for all the people? Are we having an identity crisis perhaps?

Huwara is the guillotine we Israelis stick our neck under. And this guillotine can be released at any time anywhere on civilian Israelis. However on road 60 in Huwara it is at its most extreme. There is no bypass road…only this very narrow death trap.



Restraint? Of course. We have an army and it is their job under the instructions of the government to provide security for our people, ALL of our people wherever they are in this Land, by confiscating weapons, treating rock throwers as the criminals they are and by deporting all those that celebrate the murder of Jews. And relocating all of them.

Yes, all of them. A deterrent must be restored. In spite of how they behave, few if any want to live in Gaza or even Jordan. Israel is very generous to its Arab citizens. One only needs to visit any university or college in Israel to see that almost half of the student body are Arabs! But if they murder Israelis, Mahmoud Abbas is even more generous. With hard cash.

To speak of Huwara without any understanding of where or what it is, is not only ignorant, it is also damaging. This is a glimpse into the reality on the ground.

You can't make this stuff up - collecting money for the candy eaters

Huwara - where is that? Who lives there? Certainly not lovers of peace. Op-ed.

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Israel’s public news organization Kan News reported that representatives of the prisoners sent a letter Ben-Gvir, declaring “blood will be spilled” if prisons conditions are changed. The prisoners added that they will respond “with a war of liberation.”

Earlier this month, the minister ordered the shut-down of bakeries run by inmates in two prisons. He also ordered the Israel Prison Service (IPS) to reduce shower time to four minutes and restrict usage of running water to one hour for each prisoner wing.

TPS reported that Palestinian prisoners were discovered “to be deliberately wasting thousands of liters of water by letting showers and faucet taps run for hours at a time.”

In the Palestinian enclave of the Gaza Strip, which is ruled by the U.S. and EU-designated terrorist organization Hamas, protesters displayed placards stating, “Ben-Gvir, go to hell.”

A former senior IPS commander described the independence enjoyed by the prisoners to TPS. “Conditions given to them in the wings – there are 10-15 cells around a courtyard, and a room assigned to be a supermarket. They have a supermarket. Fresh fruit, huge apples, metal cans … meat, fresh breads, whole trucks of bread every day,” the source said. “Illusory conditions, it’s unbelievable. Beyond the food, they have the supermarket that has everything good. Sweets everything.”

Palestinian prisoners warned in their letter to the minister that his measures will lead to a “war” outside the prison system and will hit the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.

“The current situation in Israeli prisons where Palestinian convicted murderers are held is borderline absurd and a threat to Israel’s national security. No other western democracy allows convicted felons to organize themselves inside prisons, to dictate terms to prison management, and to conduct effective and independent communications with the outside world,” retired Israeli General Shalom Kaatabi told Fox News Digital.

Terrorists who murder and maim for jihadist and Israel-hating reasons should not expect a fun and rewarding life filled with fresh pitas, entertainment, and university courses waiting for them.

Kaatabi was appointed by former National Security Minister and now Israeli’s U.N. ambassador Gilad Erdan to chair a committee tasked with recommending a policy for Israeli prisoner services.

He noted that “The committee filed a report with extensive conclusions and recommendations regarding the conditions in which convicted Palestinian murderers were to be held in order to generate deterrence while naturally respecting their basic human rights as convicts.”

Kaatabi, who is a senior member of the Israeli Defense Security Forum said that “Families of convicted terrorists receive monthly stipends and substantial financial support from the Palestinian Authority, while the convicts themselves enjoy communal and social conditions, are incarcerated according to their organizational affiliation, which means that Hamas terrorists share cells only with other Hamas terrorists and Fatah terrorists are incarcerated only with Fatah terrorists. This is absolutely absurd.”

Yishai Fleisher, an advisor to Ben-Gvir, told TPS that “Terrorists who murder and maim for jihadist and Israel-hating reasons should not expect a fun and rewarding life filled with fresh pitas, entertainment, and university courses waiting for them. Israeli prison should be a form of deterrence, and not a reward.”

Ben-Gvir is considered as part of a new generation of firebrand politicians who want to shake up the Israeli defense and security system, with a view toward a harder line against Palestinian terrorists. Ben-Gvir has faced criticism from Democratic politicians in the U.S. as well from the Israeli center and left-wing parties.

The 4,800 Palestinian prisoners will collectively refuse to cooperate with prison officials by not obeying orders, locking themselves in their cells, refusing to let guards search their cells, and not wearing prison uniforms.

Kaatabi, who was a police commander in Judea and Samaria—the biblical names for the West Bank said “For a very long time, incarceration in Israeli prisons has become desirable for Palestinian terrorists instead of deterring. The current minister of national security is determined to implement the recommendations made by the committee which I headed, which were also presented to previous governments.”

The veteran counter-terrorism expert Kaatabi, who served as a commander of the police senior officer’s academy, added “I expect each and every step made by the Israeli government to be met with fierce Palestinian resistance, but we must not allow ourselves to be manipulated by external influence or the media and focus on the bigger strategic importance of fighting terrorism effectively while creating a deterring factor of incarceration. As a fighting democracy, Israel must stand strong, defend itself and its citizens while adhering to international norms and democratic principles.”

Palestinian sources told TPS that “the approximately 4,800 Palestinians will collectively refuse to cooperate with prison officials by not obeying orders, locking themselves in their cells, refusing to let guards search their cells, and not wearing prison uniforms.”



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Israel Prison Reforms Would End Cushy Conditions for Terrorists

Palestinian prisoners warned in their letter to the minister that his measures will lead to a "war" outside the prison system and will hit the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and Jerusalem.

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BBC WS radio tries to explain the ‘Lions’ Den’ – part one

A BBC WS radio 'backgrounder' portrayed a terror faction as “just a bunch of really disillusioned guys that have turned to violence”.

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BBC WS radio tries to explain the ‘Lions’ Den’ – part two

Previously we discussed an item aired on the BBC World Service radio programme ‘Newshour’ which purported to provide listeners with “background” concern

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Another Palestinian has been shot dead during clashes.

Although this happened last week, it is barely mentioned in Palestinian or international media. His name is not published in lists of Palestinians killed this year. In fact, his name has not been published at all.

Because it happened in Lebanon.

One person was killed and several others wounded in overnight clashes in south Lebanon's restive Ain al-Helweh Palestinian refugee camp, a Palestinian official said Thursday.

The clashes pitted members of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas's Fatah movement against Islamist groups in the camp, located near the coastal city of Sidon, said senior Fatah official Mounir Makdah.

"One person was killed and seven wounded," he told AFP, adding that "all Palestinian forces are working to put an end" to the violence.

Clashes between rival groups are common in Ain al-Helweh, which is home to more than 54,000 registered Palestinian refugees who have been joined in recent years by thousands of Palestinians fleeing the conflict in Syria.

An AFP correspondent said shooting had mostly subsided around dawn but that sporadic gunfire could still be heard later in the morning.

The situation remained tense and armed men deployed to the streets of the camp, while schools run by the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, were closed.

By long-standing convention, the Lebanese army does not enter Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon,leaving the factions themselves to handle security.

So here we have an area completely controlled by Palestinians, effectively a micro Palestinian state, and where they regularly shoot each other.

Imagine what a Palestinian state would be like!

Not only has the victim not been identified in the media, but also which faction shot him. All those details are not important when Israel isn't involved.

Here's video of what they camp sounded like during the clashes:



As of today, UNRWA schools and health clinics in the camp remain closed because of the tension. The media doesn't seem too upset over that, either. And the UNRWA Twitter feed hasn't mentioned a word.

It is almost like a conspiracy of silence when Jews aren't involved.


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Another Palestinian killed in clashes - but no one cares about him. Here's why.

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A flyer for the “Equal in Music” event that took place at the United Nations headquarters. Photo: Screenshot

A United Nations-supported classical musical ensemble that is comprised of young Arab and Israeli musicians recently played its first concert at UN headquarters in New York.

The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed at the UN on Feb. 23 as part of a special event called “Equal in Music,” organized by United Nations Alliance of Civilizations and the United Nations Department of Global Communications (UNDGC). The eight-member orchestra is creating a “discourse of music, harmony, reconciliation, empathy, fraternity, and solidarity” in the hope of bridging alliances between Israelis and Arabs, said UN High Representative for the Alliance of Civilizations, Miguel Ángel Moratinos.



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A United Nations-supported classical musical ensemble that is comprised of young Arab and Israeli musicians recently played its first concert at UN headquarters in New York. The West-Eastern Divan Orchestra performed at the UN on Feb. 23 as part of a special event called "Equal in Music,"...

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March 17 this year will mark 69 years since one of the worst terrorist attacks on Israelis since the establishment of the State in 1948. Although I was only nine years old, this episode, called the Scorpion Pass Massacre, has a prominent place in my memory, perhaps because of the intense discussions it aroused in the Jewish community of Montreal that I was a part of, or perhaps because I was the same age as the Israeli boy who was severely injured. Or, perhaps it was the exotic name of the site of the attack, Scorpion Pass (Maale Akrabim).

The name obviously comes from the common appearance of scorpions (akrabim in Hebrew), venomous animals with two pincer claws and an articulated tail and stinger. Scorpions resemble crustaceans such as lobsters or crayfish, but are in fact related to spiders, mites and ticks. With an evolutionary history going back hundreds of millions of years, they were certainly around in biblical times. Maale Akrabim appears three times in the Tanakh (Numbers 34:3, Joshua 15:3 and Judges 1:36), as an indicator of the southern boundary of the Land of Israel.

The attack took place in 1954, when the population of Israel was 1.6 million and the southern port of Eilat, Israel’s only connection to the Red Sea, was a small development town with 500 inhabitants. As is true today, travellers from Eilat to central Israel could either fly (Arkia began flying from Eilat to Lod Airport, now Ben Gurion Airport, in 1950), or drive the 150 miles to Beersheba. In 1954 the drive to Beersheba was a lonely one that included a long and narrow grade with 18 hairpin turns, known as Ma’ale Akrabim. The ascent, about 60 miles south of Beersheba, is a 1000 foot escarpment that connects the Arava Valley of the south-eastern Negev to the central Negev plateau.

The attack was carried out in the middle of the day on an Egged bus (Israel’s largest bus company) containing 14 passengers plus a driver. The attackers shot at the bus as it was travelling very slowly around one of the hairpin bends, killing the driver. They then boarded the bus and shot most of the passengers. Eleven riders (ten passengers and the driver) were killed and three passengers were injured. One of the injured a nine year-old boy, Chaim Fuerstenberg, survived in a semi-conscious and paralysed state for 32 years, dying in 1986.


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Remembering The Scorpion Pass Massacre of 1954 - Algemeiner.com

March 17 this year will mark 69 years since one of the worst terrorist attacks on Israelis since the establishment of the State in 1948. Although I was only nine years old, this episode, called the Scorpion Pass Massacre, has a prominent place in my memory, perhaps because of the intense...

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