Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: Sounds Familiar: “The BBC … were apparently satisfied with the objectivity of their reporter” On 5 June 1969, the second anniversary of the outbreak of the Six Day War, a four-page advertising spread appeared in The Times and other major British newspapers. Sponsored by the League of Arab States, and issued by the Anglo-Jordanian Alliance, it proclaimed that the Alliance’s committee “salutes the Palestinians rendered homeless and those in occupied territory”. Beneath were the names of five Labour MPs: Margaret McKay, William Wilson, David Watkins, John Ryan, and David Ensor.
As well as a quotation from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Rosalind and Helen”: Fear not the tyrants shall rule forever, Or the priests of the bloody faith; They stand on the brink of that mighty river, Whose waves they have tainted with death The extract from Shelley’s poem caused a furore, as the second line was widely believed to refer to Judaism. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) was consolidating. “Our enemy is not Israel full stop. A Scotland Yard Special Branch officer told The Times: (Sounds familiar.) Mr. ‘Gaza Is a Tomb’ GAZA CITY — Everyone freezes. The howl of an Israeli warplane cuts through the conversation. The plane is coming in our direction, and is soon nearly overhead. Brigade commander Abu Mujahid, 40, snaps his head to the right and nods at two of his men, members of the Nasser Salahuddin Brigade, one of Gaza’s many fighting groups.
They silently slip out from under the reed awning we are crouched under and jog up the pockmarked farm road to see what’s going on. “Did you switch off your mobile and leave it in the car?” And then an explosion. “It’s a sound blast, but it will knock your windows out,” he says by way of explanation. The fighters in Gaza are preparing for a new war every day. “The war could start any minute,” says Abu Mujahid. “There are people right now under your feet,” his wiry second-in-command, Abu Saif, 28, adds with a toothless grin.
Gaza today is a powder keg waiting to explode. The talks, however, never materialized. The damage is not just physical. No Jews, no news | Zündfunk Netzteil. Im Süden von Damaskus spielt sich laut UN-Generalsekretär Ban Ki-Moon derzeit eine “humanitäre Katastrophe von epischem Ausmaß” ab. Im Flüchtlingslager Yarmouk lebten Schätzungen zufolge 18.000 Palästinenser – davon etwa 3.500 Kinder – bis das Lager von IS-Kämpfern überrannt wurde. Wie viele Flüchtlinge jetzt noch am Leben sind, weiß keiner. Aber der Aufschrei und weltweite Solidaritätsadressen bleiben aus. Kommentar von Christian Schiffer Yarmouk ist ein Bezirk südlich von Damaskus, der syrischen Hauptstadt. Früher haben hier 160.000 Palästinenser gelebt, die nach der Gründung des Staates Israel hierher geflüchtet waren.
Mittlerweile hat der Islamische Staat das Gebiet zu 90 Prozent erobert, berichtet wird von alptraumhaften Zuständen: Es fehlt an Wasser, Nahrung und Medikamenten. Und tatsächlich: Wo sind sie, die Mahnwachen? Lediglich Evelyn Hecht-Galinski, Publizistin und Grand Dame des deutschen Antizionismus scheint sich für Yarmouk zu interessieren. Ja, warum bloß? The Obama-Bibi Two-State Two-Step. Shortly after 5 p.m. on Feb. 24, Ismail Keyhan arrived at Kabul’s central bus station to pick up his father, Amini, a day laborer working on construction sites in Iran. It had been nearly a year since the 20-year-old university student had last seen his dad, and as the evening sun inched toward the western mountains ringing the Afghan capital, Keyhan kept a close watch for the bus. Amini had boarded the bus in the western Afghan city of Herat earlier that day and had called his son around noon, when the convoy of two buses he was traveling in arrived in the former Taliban stronghold of Kandahar.
From there, the Kabul-Kandahar highway passes through the badlands of rural Kandahar, Zabul, Ghazni, and Wardak provinces — areas best passed at breakneck speed. But Amini, a member of the minority Hazara ethnic group, was originally from Ghazni and knew these parts well. As the sun slipped behind the foothills of the Hindu Kush, ethnic identity was not on Keyhan’s mind. What the Media Gets Wrong About Israel. The news tells us less about Israel than about the people writing the news, a former AP reporter says. During the Gaza war this summer, it became clear that one of the most important aspects of the media-saturated conflict between Jews and Arabs is also the least covered: the press itself. The Western press has become less an observer of this conflict than an actor in it, a role with consequences for the millions of people trying to comprehend current events, including policymakers who depend on journalistic accounts to understand a region where they consistently seek, and fail, to productively intervene.
An essay I wrote for Tablet on this topic in the aftermath of the war sparked intense interest. In the article, based on my experiences between 2006 and 2011 as a reporter and editor in the Jerusalem bureau of the Associated Press, one of the world’s largest news organizations, I pointed out the existence of a problem and discussed it in broad terms. As usual, Orwell got there first.
Medien: Reporter mit Grenzen | Jüdische Allgemeine. Die internationale Presse in Israel ist nicht Beobachter, sondern pro-palästinensische Partei. Erfahrungen eines früheren Korrespondenten 05.03.2015 – von Matti Friedman Experten nennen es »Pallywood«: Aufständische Palästinenser bringen sich für westliche Berichterstatter in Pose. © Flash 90 Von 2006 bis 2011 habe ich für die amerikanische Nachrichtenagentur Associated Press (AP) aus Israel geschrieben.
In diesen fünfeinhalb Jahren sind mir bestimmte Fehlentwicklungen in der Israelberichterstattung nach und nach bewusst geworden: wiederholte Auslassungen von Fakten, wiederholtes Aufblasen bestimmter Themen, Entscheidungen nicht nach journalistischen, sondern nach politischen Kriterien – und das bei einem Berichtsgegenstand, der intensiver abgedeckt ist als sonst einer auf der Welt. Als ich im Jerusalemer Büro von AP war, arbeiteten dort mehr Journalisten als in der Berichterstattung der Agentur aus China oder Indien oder aus ganz Afrika südlich der Sahara. Israel: Die überraschend weiche Seite des Benjamin Netanjahu. Benjamin Netanjahus internationales Image ist denkbar schlecht. Israels Premier gilt als Hardliner, der eine Friedenslösung mit den Palästinensern verhindert. Zwar bekannte er sich zur Zwei-Staaten-Lösung, stellte aber in seinen Reden unmögliche Bedingungen: Die Palästinenser sollten Israel als jüdischen Staat anerkennen, ihre Ansprüche auf Jerusalem fallen lassen und zumindest in der Jordansenke die Präsenz israelischer Truppen akzeptieren.
Und er sabotierte Verhandlungen, baute er doch immer wieder just dann in den besetzten Gebieten, wenn Gespräche anstanden. Doch war das nur Schall und Rauch für seine Wähler? Das Dokument, das der israelische Starjournalist Nahum Barnea veröffentliche, ist die Zusammenfassung von Geheimgesprächen, die bis August 2013 in London stattfanden. Er verhandelte mit Hussein Agha, einem Vertrauensmann des palästinensischen Präsidenten Mahmud Abbas. Molcho machte in Netanjahus Auftrag weitreichende Zugeständnisse. Netanjahu brach auch andere Tabus. Palestinian Groups Are Found Liable at Manhattan Terror Trial. Photo The Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization were found liable on Monday by a jury in Manhattan for their role in knowingly supporting six terrorist attacks in Israel between 2002 and 2004 in which Americans were killed and injured.
The damages are to be $655.5 million, under a special terrorism law that provides for tripling the $218.5 million awarded by the jury in Federal District Court. The verdict ended a decade-long legal battle to hold the Palestinian organizations responsible for the terrorist acts, an effort that encompassed fights over jurisdiction, merit and even practicality: History has shown that it is difficult for victims of international terrorism to bring their civil cases to trial, let alone to recover damages. While the decision on Monday was a huge victory for the dozens of plaintiffs, it could also serve to strengthen Israel’s claim that the supposedly more moderate forces were directly linked to terrorism.
“Today as well,” Mr. Ms. How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas. Moshav Tekuma, Israel Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago. "Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.
Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Last Saturday, after 22 days of war, Israel announced a halt to the offensive. Hamas responded the next day by lobbing five rockets towards the Israeli town of Sderot, a few miles down the road from Moshav Tekuma, the farming village where Mr. A Lack of Devotion At the time, Gaza was ruled by Egypt. Mr. Brig. Mr. Mr. Mr. Mr. Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News: UNESCO president notices that much of Palestinian Arab poster culture is violent. A few years ago I got some flack for making this poster: There is an elephant in the room, that Palestinian Arab culture is suffused with glorification of violence and terror acts. And that is part of what I was calling attention to by commenting on "Palestine" joining an educational and cultural institution.
Amazingly, the new UNESCO head seems to have noticed this, at least in terms of Palestinian Arab poster art: She is of course right. The entire collection can be seen here, and there are many posters that glorify terror as well as gleefully call for the destruction of Israel: And some posters are undeniably antisemitic: This worship of hate and violence is so embedded in Palestinian Arab culture that the UNESCO board could not find any problems with this artwork - how else would Palestinians celebrate their culture?
It is sad that the world's standards for how Palestinian Arabs are expected to act is so low that this collection did not even raise eyebrows at UNESCO until now. The Guardian imagines a ‘powerful American Jewish lobby’…in the 1940s! A Jan. 26th article in the Guardian written by Michael White (What would Winston Churchill have made of King Abdullah’s death?) Included the following passages: …Churchill had supported the 1916 Balfour Declaration in favour of a Jewish national homeland, issued for a mixed bag of motives, including wanting Zionist support against the Kaiser but also fashionable self-determination.Right from the start Palestine’s Arabs got overlooked, but when Britain got a League of Nations mandate there they promptly made their presence loudly felt.What an imperial burden that proved to be for the fading British imperialists, though Churchill resisted further decolonisation when he returned to power (1951-55).
By this time Israel had fought and won its 1948 war of independence against its Arab neighbours and the grim cycle we live with today had begun.Even in the war Churchill experienced a sharp bit of that. First, the suggestion that the “Jewish lobby” was powerful during WWII is absurd. Like this: Must Read: Matti Friedman on the Media's Obsession with Israel. Matti Friedman, the former Jerusalem bureau reporter for the Associated Press, has made significant waves since publishing two articles in Tablet magazine and The Atlantic where he exposed the anti-Israel media bias he saw for himself from the inside. Friedman gave a speech to the BICOM dinner in London on January 26, the full text of which can be found in Fathom magazine. While it is long, it is well worth reading in full. Matti Friedman speaking at the BICOM annual dinner. One night several years ago, I came out of Bethlehem after a reporting assignment and crossed through the Israeli military checkpoint between that city and its neighbor, Jerusalem, where I live.
With me were perhaps a dozen Palestinian men, mostly in their thirties – my age. No soldiers were visible at the entrance to the checkpoint, a precaution against suicide bombers. News breaks fast. Free Sign Up I have been writing from and about Israel for most of the past 20 years, since I moved there from Toronto at age 17. Hamas, not Israel, is responsible for suffering in Gaza: Guest opinion. By Robert Jacobs Oregonian guest columnists Ned Rosch and Maxine Fookson write a plaintive cry on behalf of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, describing Gazans heart-wrenching situation, suffering the consequence of this past summer's Hamas-Israel conflict — the third since 2009.
They blame Israel for the terrible situation of these Palestinians. But Israel is no more to blame for the suffering of the Gazans than the Allies were to blame for the terrible suffering of civilians in Nazi Germany as they bombed German cities, or for the suffering of Serbian civilians when the United States bombed Serbia to stop the attempted genocide in Bosnia. Hamas kidnapped three Israeli teens this summer and then began firing waves of missiles into Israel, targeting Israeli civilians. Hamas' elected term ended five years ago. Hamas rejected numerous internationally proposed truces.
While some Gaza residents are still reeling from Hamas' war last summer, it is Hamas that has and continues to hurt them. Gaza Bedfellows UNRWA And Hamas. Why a Special Issue on UNRWA? Led by the United States, the founders of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), the institution tasked with oversight of the Palestine refugees, conceived of it as a temporary instrument to help relieve the plight of the Arab refugees displaced by the struggle over Israel's creation in 1948-49. But over the ensuing sixty-three years, UNRWA has evolved into an agency that perpetuates the refugee problem as a source of conflict rather than contributing to its resolution.
Its refugee camps and educational programs keep alive the impossible dream that millions of descendants of the original refugees will "return" to today's Israel. Its social service delivery programs create permanent dependency and impede local integration into the societies and countries where its beneficiaries have resided for decades. The Original Reintegration Mission It was not always the case that UNRWA stood in the way of local integration and resettlement. RUSI - Why Israel and Hizbullah Are Not Going to War. RUSI Analysis, 29 Jan 2015By Michael Stephens, Research Fellow for Middle East Studies A recent outbreak of hostilities between Lebanese group Hizbullah and Israel, resulting in casualties on both sides, have brought yet another of the region’s conflict hotspots under the microscope. This has led many to wonder whether the instability of the region will bring Israel back into confrontation with its neighbours.
However, the desire for stability on both sides appears to have averted a larger confrontation. Stability from an Israeli context is so heavily defined by the short-term immediacy of neutralising security threats that long-term desires often have to be placed aside. Those negative consequences are swiftly dealt with. Israel’s Limited Strategic Capacity Israel’s ability to shape events in this regard is extremely limited. Nevertheless recent developments vis-à-vis Hizbullah in particular require further explanation. The Threat of Miscalculation: Deterrence Eroded.
Hamas begins rapprochement with Hezbollah, Iran. PlatypusA reply to Stephan Grigat: On anti-Semitism and the Left on Iran - Platypus. Trend spezial antisemitismus "Pal stina ist unser Land, und die Juden sind unsere Hunde" It's over: Why the Palestinians are finally giving up on Obama and the US peace process. Nahost: Was die Medien an Israel nicht verstehen wollen. Radikale Siedler im Westjordanland | Nahost | DW.DE | 02.07.2014.
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