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

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Area C is under full Israeli control as per the Oslo Accords, blah, blah, blah...

Oslo has expired.

 

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Here is every statement by PA president Mahmoud Abbas since Russia invaded Ukraine:

Condolences to former National Assembly Speaker Salim al-Zanoun (Abu al-Adeeb) on his sister's death
Condolences to the parents of a teen killed during a violent protest
Congratulations to the Emir of Kuwait on their independence day
Condolences on the death of a "brigadier general" in Gaza
Congratulations to the Dominican Republic president on their independence day
Condolences to a "major general" on the death of his son
Congratulations to the president of Bosnia and Herzegovina on their independence day
A meeting with UNRWA representatives and affirming the importance of that organization
Congratulations to the president of Bulgaria on its independence day

Not a word of concern, let alone condemnation, of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Likewise, the Palestinian ministry of foreign affairs has been completely silent about Ukraine.

The PA prime minister Mohamed Shtayyeh didn't completely ignore Ukraine in his statements. Last Friday evening, he called the Palestinian envoy to Ukraine to check on the safety of 2500 Palestinians there. And during his normal weekly cabinet meeting, he said that he is monitoring the developments there and that many Palestinians managed to escape.

As the entire world condemned Russia, the PA has remained silent.

Silence is assent.

I noted on Twitter that there are a lot of similaritiesbetween how Russia has acted during this invasion and how the Palestinian leadership always acts:

* Accusing the other side of being "Nazis"
* Accusing the other side of "genocide"
* Censoring local media
* Claiming that a UN-member nation is really part of their territory
* Lying as a strategy

Of course, the Palestinian propaganda strategy was largely created by the Soviet Union and Russians are masters at propaganda.

(full article online)

Palestinian Authority remains silent on Ukraine, which is tacit support for Russia

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UKLFI’s letters further criticise the appointment and conduct of Mr Lynk as not complying with requirements of equality of treatment of UN member states, fairness, impartiality, objectivity and non-selectivity, citing matters set out in posts by NGO Monitor and UNWatch, as well as a further detailed memorandum by NGO Monitor.​

UKLFI notes that Mr Lynk’s appointment was highly politicised and resulted from the automatic majority enjoyed by the members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and their developing country allies.​

UKLFI’s letters go on to address the accuracy or otherwise of many of the statements in Mr Lynk’s letter. Amongst other matters:​

• They dispute his claim that there is a separate “settlement economy”​

• They note that the UK Supreme Court and a French appeal court have held that it is not inherently illegal for a business to operate in or near settlements in an occupied territory, and that numerous major businesses do so in occupied territories around the world​

• They point out that businesses in or near Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem employ around 30,000 Palestinians at average salaries more than three times average salaries paid by Palestinian employers. As well as providing the livelihoods of many Palestinians, the employment of Palestinians alongside Israelis contributes to reducing conflict and promoting understanding.​

• They comment that the UNHRC database did not purport to constitute any legal analysis, was not based on any serious factual analysis, and did not take into account benefits for Palestinians of the listed businesses​

Jonathan Turner, chief executive of UKLFI said: “Mr Lynk’s letter contains serious misrepresentations. Any investment decision influenced by his intervention, supposedly in his capacity as a Rapporteur of the UNHRC, will be challengeable on the basis of error of law, taking into account irrelevant considerations, failure to act with due skill, care and diligence, and breach of fiduciary duties.”​

UKLFI originally found out about Mr Lynk’s letter when Wirral Councils Pension’s Director responded to a letter from UKLFI on 14 February 2022 regarding a proposal that the Merseyside Pension Scheme, which is administered by Wirral Council, should divest from companies on the UNHRC database.​

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Lawyers challenge “unlawful interference” by UN Rapporteur in UK Pension Schemes

A Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is unlawfully interfering in the management of UK Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) Funds, according to the association UK Lawyers for Israel (UKLFI). The LGPS is one of the largest defined benefit pension schemes in the world, managi

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Australia on Friday listed the entire Palestinian Islamist group Hamas as a terrorist organization, calling the move a deterrent to political and religious violence and bringing Australia in line with the United States, the European Union and Britain.


Australia had for two decades proscribed Hamas's paramilitary wing, the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, as a terrorist organization but flagged last month that it wanted to upgrade the listing to the whole organization, a process that involved consulting Australia's state and territory leaders.


The change puts Australia into lockstep with its allies, which have also been moving to tighten their opposition to the Gaza ruling body, citing its access to sophisticated weaponry and terrorist training facilities.

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Australia officially lists all of Hamas as a terrorist group

Proscribing an organization in Australia makes it illegal to give it funds, support or services.

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The New York Times Published a Gushy Rashida Tlaib Profile. Then Pro-Israel Readers Flooded the Comments Section - Algemeiner.com

The New York Times devotes 5,000 words in this coming Sunday’s New York Times Magazine to an adoring profile of Rashida Tlaib, a Democratic congresswoman from Michigan who got elected by favoring a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinian Arabs, but who now backs an one-state approach...

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Palestinian National Council Deputy Chairman Ali Faisal: “The decision of the [Palestinian] National Council was a recommendation to the [PLO] Central Council to renounce all the commitments of the Oslo Accords and stop the security coordination [with Israel]. Now there is a binding decision. The Central Council decided to renounce the commitments of all the agreements with the State of Israel, whether by the PLO or the PA. Currently we are outside the path of Oslo, the security coordination, and the economic Paris Agreement (see note below -Ed.), and we have entered a path of resistance in all its forms and a realization of sovereignty.”

[Official PA TV, From Beirut, Feb. 18, 2022]

To understand the ostensible importance of this statement, it is necessary to explain what the PNC is and what authority it carries.

Constitutionally, the PNC is the highest authority in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and is responsible for formulating its policies and programs.

The PLO Central Council was established by the 11th PNC meeting, in January 1973, as a legislative organ to function when the PNC is not in session and to follow up and implement its resolutions. Its members are drawn from the PNC (including the entire PLO Executive Committee) and it is chaired by the PNC president.

The Executive Committee is the PLO’s primary executive organ, its “cabinet,” and represents the organization internationally. The Executive Committee answers to the PNC.

In other words, the PNC is the primary and most senior organ of the PLO. Its decisions are binding on the entire organization.

What impact do decisions of the PNC have on the Palestinian Authority?

According to the PLO, the PA - created by the Oslo Accords - is merely an interim governing body that functions within, and subjected to, the authority of the PLO. Since the signing of the Oslo Accords, the head of the PLO has also held the position of PA Chairman. Accordingly, to this day, the PLO governing bodies appear to make all the major decisions on behalf of the Palestinians, expecting the head of the organization and the chairman of the PA to implement the decisions made.

When the PLO makes an internal decision to “renounce… all agreements with Israel,” with impact on both the security coordination and economic relations (referred to by Faisal as the “economic Paris Agreement”) between Israel and the PA, that decision should have a binding effect. A decision of that nature, taken by the highest Palestinian source of authority, should not only bind the PLO and the PA, but should also have ramifications vis-à-vis Israel.

Despite the ostensible severity of the PNC decision, nothing on the ground has changed. Neither the PLO nor the PA has announced severing the security coordination, and they certainly did not decide to stop taking the hundreds of millions of dollars of taxes Israel collects every month and gives to the PA.

In stark contrast, in May 2020, Mahmoud Abbas decided alone and announced the renunciation of all agreements with Israel, including the severing of the security coordination and the refusal to accept the tax income. That decision held for six months, after which the coordination was renewed and the PA agreed to accept the billions of shekels (over a billion dollars) in tax revenue that had accrued.

PLO declarations aside, the reality is that everyone – including the Palestinians themselves - knows that the PLO is a defunct institution that lacks any real legitimacy. Both the PLO and the PA are run as a de facto dictatorship, in which decisions are made by one person. The PLO only continues to exist thanks to the hundreds of millions of dollars given annually from the PA budget to the “PLO institutions.” No one truly puts any stock in the decisions made by the PLO, and the organization itself is incapable of enforcing the decisions it and its institutions make.

In a recent report, Palestinian Media Watch concluded that the PLO decision to revoke its recognition of Israel’s right to exist was devoid of any real meaning or influence. That conclusion was based on the fact that the PLO recognition of Israel’s right to exist was always empty. The most dominant organization in the PLO is Fatah. To date, the head of Fatah – first Yasser Arafat and then Mahmoud Abbas - has been the head of the PLO. The head of the PLO has always been the chairman of the PA. Similar to other PLO members, Fatah never recognized Israel’s right to exist.

For many years, the PLO enjoyed the title of the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.” That historic role brought Israel to sign peace agreements with the PLO. However, with the passage of time, the reality is that the PLO has lost its unique status. Surveys conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research show even declining Palestinian support for the PLO as the “sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.” The March 2019 survey showed that only 54% of those surveyed still viewed the PLO as the “sole legitimate representative” of the Palestinians, down from 69% in 2006.

While the PLO may have renounced all agreements with Israel, the reality is that the PLO is simply irrelevant.

Paris Agreement – agreement on economic relations between Israel and the PLO, signed in Paris on April 29, 1994. Its main goal is to promote peace by establishing economic relations modeled on EU economic relations.

The terms “all means,” “all means of resistance,” “all forms,” are ‎used by PA leaders to include using all types of violence, including deadly terror ‎against Israeli civilians such as stabbings and shootings, as well as throwing rocks and Molotov Cocktails.

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PLO renounces all agreements with Israel | PMW Analysis

PLO on terror path: "We are outside of the path of Oslo, the security coordination... we have entered a path of resistance in all its forms

palwatch.org

 

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He described Odessa as a “stronghold” of Ukrainian Jews, and claimed that Ukraine’s president and prime minister both hold Israeli citizenship. While President Zelensky and Prime Minister Shmyhal, are both Jewish, they do not hold Israeli citizenship.

Claiming that Israel benefits from the war, Rizq said that there is a plan to transfer 200,000 poor Jewish farmers from Lviv to Israel.

The host interjected that since there is a “demographic problem” in Israel, it will benefit from the immigration.

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WATCH: Ukraine War Is a Conflict Between Ukrainian and Russian Jews, Says Lebanese Researcher | United with Israel

Lebanese researcher Imad Rizq insists on state TV that the war in Ukraine is part of a conflict between Ukrainian and Russian Jews.

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Kuwait, like Iran, uses a carrot and stick to force players from competing against Israelis.

Anyone who does compete will be blackballed from their sport (and, in Iran, possibly arrested.)

But, perhaps realizing that this makes them look really bad, Muslim foes of Israel have been praising the people who refuse to compete against Israel and turn them from cowards into heroes.

With al-Baghli, we see this:

Tariq al-Shaya, a member of Kuwati's Supreme Coordinating Committee for Anti-Zionism and Normalisation, declared that: "Al-Baghli's decision is a position that will be engraved in the records of history with gold letters."

This is similar to how Kuwait treated a 14 year old tennis player who refused to compete against an Israeli in a fake "tournament" that accepted every player who paid to enter. Billboards praising the teen were erected all over Kuwait. The media lied that the player actually refused to play the Israeli in a real tournament happening at the same time in Dubai.

There is a real risk in many sports that players who refuse to compete will be punished or banned. Kuwait wants to try to make up for that risk by romanticizing forfeit, by changing what is normally a shameful concept into a heroic one.

In the end, as with everything else in the region, it all comes down to honor and shame. Kuwait is attempting to make something shameful appear honorable, so the next competitor will want to run away from competing with an Israeli next time.

Possibly the most ironic part came from this next quote:

Al-Shaya said in a statement that "expulsion of the Zionist occupation begins with international isolation, which Kuwaiti sportsmen have done in teams and individual games".

It isn't Israel that is being isolated - it is Kuwait. Israeli players are competing in Arab countries, against Arabs. Kuwait is the country that is isolating itself.

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Another Kuwaiti refuses to compete against an Israeli in an obscure sport, becomes a "hero"

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So, who, according to McGreal’s March 7th article, has accused the US government of “hypocrisy” for imposing sanctions against Russia, but not Israel? Three people: Sarah Leah Whitson, formerly of Human Rights Watch, Lara Friedman, president of Foundation for Middle East Peace, and James Zogby, president of the Arab American Institute in Washington. That’s it, three people, all of whom have thing in common: a malign fixation on Israel.

McGreal could of course easily find a few anti-Israel voices to echo nearly any morally obtuse accusation that he fancies. As our colleague tweeted, a more apt headline would be something along the lines of “Reflexive Anti-Israel Activists Accuse US of Hypocrisy”.

Turning to the ‘substance’ of the analogy highlighted by McGreal, the comments he provides from the activists don’t include well-developed arguments for how the Russian invasion or Ukraine is like Israeli military actions in the Palestinian territories, but here are some fundamental reasons why the analogy is unserious.

• Terror groups in the Palestinians territories, including but not limited to Hamas in Gaza, launch terror attacks against Israeli civilians, with the ultimate goal being Israel’s annihilation. Ukraine doesn’t sponsor and launch terror attacks against Russia or seek the country’s destruction. Nor do they threaten its security in any way.
• Israeli military operations in Gaza are launched in response to rocket attacks against civilians by internationally proscribed terror groups. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was completely unprovoked.
• Israel warns Palestinian civilians in combat zones to evacuate before carrying out strikes. Russia intentionally targets civilians without warning, both in this war and in previous ones.
• Israel took control of the disputed territories in 1967 as the result of a defensive war, subsequently withdrew from most of it (including all of the Sinai and Gaza) and offered, on several occasions, to cede most of the remaining land they control – offers rebuffed by Palestinians leaders. Russia’s war in Ukraine (as well as previous wars in Crimea and Georgia) have been wars of aggression based on Vladimir Putin’s beliefthat the internationally recognized Ukrainian state has no right to exist.

Another fundamental political asymmetry undermining an analogy which, in effect, casts Israel as Russia, and ‘Palestine’ as Ukraine is that Israel (like Ukraine) is a democracy, whilst Russia (like Hamas-run Gaza, or the PA ruled territories) is not.

Finally, it’s important to note that US sanctions against Russia – but not Israel – are consistent with American public opinion. According to a Yahoo/YouGov poll, only 6% of Americans say Putin was justified in invading Ukraine – with majorities in both parties supporting economic sanctions against Moscow. Remarkably, polls even show that an overwhelming majority of Americans would support a ban on Russian oil even if that results in higher fuel prices. (This is particularly telling given that, even before the war, American consumers were reeling from the economic impact of an inflation rate that’s at a 40 year high.)

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Guardian finds that three Israel haters hate Israel. Calls it news.

Even by Guardian standards, Chris McGreal - as we've consistently demonsrated - is an extraordinary unprofessional and biased journalist. And, even by McGrea

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As outlined in our February 2 article, HonestReporting believes that it is in the supreme interest of the public and governments worldwide to know what companies have been facilitating Hamas’ war crimes against Israelis and Palestinians alike, especially in light of the UK’s counterterrorism strategy that entails working together with the private sector to thwart terrorist activity. This, “particularly where companies hold data that might flag emerging risks.”

HonestReporting has worked to bring the issue of Hamas’ secretive financial dealings to the attention of the British government. Now, Lord Foulkes of Cumnock, a Labour peer, has formally submitted the following written question in parliament:

“To ask Her Majesty’s Government what assessment they have made of the report by HonestReporting Help Combat Hamas Terrorism, published on 2 February; and what assessment they have made of the warning within the report by Lloyd’s of London against its members doing business with Hamas.”

The question must be answered by the UK Home Office by March 18, albeit an extension can be requested.

As described in HonestReporting’s most recent impact report, our proactive approach is consistently garnering results, including as they relate to legislative initiatives. Just two weeks ago, we prompted a Dutch lawmaker to submit parliamentary questions effectively calling for a probe into a pro-Palestinian group with possible ties to EU-designated terror groups.

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HonestReporting Investigation Prompts British Parliamentary Question Into Possible Hamas Financial Dealings With UK Companies | HonestReporting

After HonestReporting launched a campaign to help expose business entities linked to Hamas, a British lawmaker has taken action.

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