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And that has what to do with anything? Just another reason to bash Islam?
This week’s stabbing and shooting incident at Israel’s embassy compound in Amman, the manner in which it was resolved, and the reactions on the street in Jordan say much about Israel’s current situation in the Mideast.
The neighboring governments – or at least some of them – need Israel, want its security and intelligence cooperation, and even appreciate what the country has to offer in the fight against their greater threats in the region: Iran and fanatical Islamic terrorism.
(full article online)
Needed by the rulers, hated by the people
Israel has always been supported by the criminal class.Needed by the rulers, hated by the people
Why do you think that 85% of Palestinians want Abbas to resign?Veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross observed that "the thing that plagues the Palestinian national movement more than anything else has been a historic preoccupation with symbols, not substance. Instead of building a state, the Palestinians would like to get a flag at the U.N. The day after they get a flag at the U.N., nothing changes."
Recent Palestinian maneuvers in UNESCO, known for its listing of World Heritage Sites, have followed this very pattern of dogged pursuit of symbolic victories that fail to improve the life of a single Palestinian or build the institutions essential for statehood.
In October 2016, the executive board of UNESCO passed a resolution that disregarded the connection between Judaism and the Temple Mount and sought to deny the Jewish link to the Western Wall.
The move drew swift condemnation from UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, who was at pains to distance herself from the resolution, asserting that "to deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines the integrity of the site and runs counter to the reasons that justified its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list."
(full article online)
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19551
Why do you think that 85% of Palestinians want Abbas to resign?Veteran U.S. diplomat Dennis Ross observed that "the thing that plagues the Palestinian national movement more than anything else has been a historic preoccupation with symbols, not substance. Instead of building a state, the Palestinians would like to get a flag at the U.N. The day after they get a flag at the U.N., nothing changes."
Recent Palestinian maneuvers in UNESCO, known for its listing of World Heritage Sites, have followed this very pattern of dogged pursuit of symbolic victories that fail to improve the life of a single Palestinian or build the institutions essential for statehood.
In October 2016, the executive board of UNESCO passed a resolution that disregarded the connection between Judaism and the Temple Mount and sought to deny the Jewish link to the Western Wall.
The move drew swift condemnation from UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova, who was at pains to distance herself from the resolution, asserting that "to deny, conceal or erase any of the Jewish, Christian or Muslim traditions undermines the integrity of the site and runs counter to the reasons that justified its inscription on the UNESCO World Heritage list."
(full article online)
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=19551
This week’s stabbing and shooting incident at Israel’s embassy compound in Amman, the manner in which it was resolved, and the reactions on the street in Jordan say much about Israel’s current situation in the Mideast.
The neighboring governments – or at least some of them – need Israel, want its security and intelligence cooperation, and even appreciate what the country has to offer in the fight against their greater threats in the region: Iran and fanatical Islamic terrorism.
(full article online)
Needed by the rulers, hated by the peopleIsrael has always been supported by the criminal class.Needed by the rulers, hated by the people