Latma tv: Arab democracy band and the UN saves the world
29 mei 2011, lyar 25, 5771
Is het hard om een conclusie te trekken zoals wordt gedaan in het onderstaande filmpje? Ik vrees dat het de werkelijkheid is als het om politieke gevoelens gaat...
Complete link: The Arab Democracy Anthem: Love, Freedom and Khaibar Yahoud!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hv92_IsXEUc&feature=related
Verkorte link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id-iU8_APNY&feature=related
Dit filmpje zou ik persoonlijk niet aan jongere kinderen willen laten zien.
Echte moslims steunen Israel (beeldmateriaal)
14 februari 2011, Adar 10, 5771
http://brabosh.com/2011/02/14/pqpct-a39/
Gelijkheid voor Arabier en Jood
7 februari 2011, Adar 3, 5571
Israel heeft altijd een drietalige bewegwijzering op haar wegen en plaatsnaamborden gehanteerd. Dit toont aan dat haar insteek is: integreatie en gelijkheid voor iedereen op Israelsich grondgebied (voor wie goedwillend is). Ik wil u graag een dergelijk bord laten zien als bewijs. 
'Ginnosar' In volgorde: Ivriet, Arabisch en Engels.
Definitie van integratie volgens Wikipedia:
Integratie is het proces waarbij verschillende componenten samensmelten tot een geheel. In de sociologie en in de politiek is integratie een veelgebruikte term om de samensmelting van meerdere bevolkingsgroepen in de maatschappij aan te duiden.
Een kenmerk is dat beide groepen aanpassingen maken. Wanneer er sprake is van eenzijdige aanpassing heet dit assimilatie.
Culturele assimilatie (ook wel kortweg assimilatie) is een begrip uit de sociologie waarmee bedoeld wordt een proces van consistente integratie, waardoor leden van een ethno-culturele groep (zoals immigranten of minderheidsgroepen) opgaan in, oftewel geabsorbeerd worden in een gevestigde, doorgaans grotere gemeenschap of cultuur. Dit veronderstelt bij de geabsorbeerde groep het verlies van bepaalde onderscheidende kenmerken, zoals kleding, spraak of manieren, ten gevolge van het contact met die andere cultuur of gemeenschap.
Kleine opmerking hierbij: Het is wat moeilijk aan Joodse kinderen uit te leggen dat Arabische jongeren een kans moeten krijgen om zichzelf als mens te bewijzen, als de Hamas en de Moslim broederschap haat en geweld predikt. Toch is dit wat Joodse ouders doen. En dat terwijl jonge kleuters wordt aangeleerd dat stenen gooien naar Israelische mensen als normaal beschouwd moet worden.... Tijdens de Intifada stonden op alle kruispunten (in heel Israel !) stenengooiende vrouwen, jongeren en kinderen. Elke passerende Israelische auto kreeg stenen naar zich toe gegooid. Dat heeft twee maanden geduurd. Toen pas vielen de eerste klappen uit zelfverdediging en kreeg Israel de schuld van de escalatie...
Vult u zelf maar in wat u nu denkt.... Het is niet aan mij om u mijn mening voor te schrijven als geldend, maar waar ter wereld kan zoiets gebeuren, zonder dat de VN in het verweer komt??
Het is te hopen dat het tij keert binnen de Arabische wereld!
Arabs Riot Over Jerusalem King's Garden Project
by Hana Levi Julian
Published: 07/28/10, 2:04 PM
Hundreds of Arab demonstrators rioted Tuesday in Jerusalem over the city government's plans to demolish 22 Arab homes that were built without permits.
At least 200 Palestinian Authority Arabs were involved in the violence, according to an AFP news photographer. Eyewitnesses said that some of the rioters were hurling rockets at police and border guard officers, who fired tear gas and rubber bullets at the mob.
No arrests were made, according to a police spokesperson. Local Arab officials eventually convinced the demonstrators to disperse. Five protesters were reportedly injured in the melee.
The city's project to upgrade the crumbling, crowded Arab neighborhood into an archaeological park has inflamed passions among the local residents, many of who built their homes without permits
Another 66 similarly-built illegal structures in the King's Garden area, also known as the Al-Bustan neighborhood, would be allowed to remain and under the plan would be retroactively legalized.
The neighborhood is located in a part of the city known internationally as the so-called “Holy Basin,” which houses the site of ancient Jerusalem during the time of the Biblical kings David and Solomon. The area was restored to Israel during the 1967 Six Day War in a move not recognized by the international community.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Arab Villagers Declare 'Jews Out!'
by Gil Ronen
Published: 11/07/10, 6:45 PM
Kochav Segal HaLevi, a Jewish security guard, legally bought a house in the mixed Muslim-Christian Arab village of Ibillin in northern Israel, east of Haifa. Upon moving in, however, he discovered that the locals are unwilling to let Jews live there.
It is a well known fact in Israel that Jews who try to live in Arab villages risk their lives, while Arabs live freely in Jewish neighborhoods. While leftist journalists and politicians, inside Israel and out, portray Israeli Jews as racist for fighting Arab invasions of their cities, stories like this one – which show Arabs' zero tolerance for Jews in their neighborhoods – appear almost exclusively on Arutz Sheva. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/140309
A legal purchase "It was in late September,” HaLevi told Arutz Sheva's Hebrew-language news service. “I bought an apartment legally from a Christian Arab seller whose wife is Jewish, in the Christian part of Ibillin, near Shefaram. He sold the home because of debts to the bank, so the price was relatively low and I purchased the house.”
"I moved my belongings in and received the key. Before I moved in I spoke with the neighbors and asked them if they had any objection to my coming to live there. They said no there was problem and 'ahlan wasahlan' (welcome). If you do not make trouble there is no problem with you living here.'”
"I was not motivated by a racist or provocative approach, but from a belief that we are 'a free nation in our land,'” HaLevi said, quoting a line from HaTikvah, the national anthem. End of illusion The illusion lasted only one day.
“On my first day there I came home late in the evening, and entered the apartment. Two neighbors arrived – one from above and one from across the road. One was 'the good cop' and the other was 'the bad cop.' The neighbor from upstairs told me I can't live there because there is an eviction order from the bank. I told him I have no problem with the bank and that the matter has been settled already. Then the neighbor from across the road came and said forcefully 'you will not live here.'”
"I brought the seller and his wife there to explain matters to him but nothing helped and the situation became messy. That neighbor brought nine or ten other guys who told me – 'you will not live here.'”
HaLevi says the same neighbor who called in the other men had sat down with him for a friendly cup of coffee several days earlier, to welcome him. “He must have gotten a message from the neighbors that I was not to be allowed in. I tried to understand what I had done but he only said 'I am blocking you' and hit me in the head.” Fight not over "At that stage I said that I do not want bloodshed here and that I am leaving,” HaLevi recounted.
“I took only the more expensive equipment from the house and that was how I managed to escape. The neighbor who made the threats boasted that his father was serving a jail sentence after shooting another neighbor in the head... and that he is not afraid to sit in jail because of me.”
HaLevi says the fight is not over. “I intend to continue fighting for my democratic right. I filed a complaint with the police but nothing is happening. A month has passed and the police are doing nothing. The man who threatened me is still free, one month later.”
"I am against racism of any kind,” he said, and said he intended to take the matter to court and would welcome any assistance he could get. Scholars identify Ibillin with a Jewish village from Talmudic times called Avlayim.
(IsraelNationalNews.com)
Egypt May Strip Citizenship from Intermarried Couples
by Hana Levi Julian
May 20 '10, Sivan 7, 5770
The Egyptian High Court is considering a move to strip citizenship from men who marry Israeli women, despite its 30-year-old peace treaty with Israel.
The issue began with attorney Nabil al-Wahsh, who filed a lawsuit in an Egyptian lower court last year on the grounds that “Egyptian nationality law warns against marriage to anyone characterized as Zionist.” Thousands of Egyptians, including many who lived in Iraq and returned after the 1990 Gulf War, moved to Israel in search of work and married Israeli women.
The court ruled that the Interior Ministry must investigate cases in which Egyptian men were married to Israeli women, and the status of their children. The court directed the ministry to 'take the necessary steps to strip them of their nationality,' reported the news service.
The Interior and Foreign Ministries appealed the case, according to the report, saying the issue was a legislative point that should be decided by the country's parliament, and not the courts. Next month the High Court will rule on the case.
Al-Wahsh told AFP that although he was unable to obtain official census data on the number of Egyptian men married to Israeli women, he believes the number is approximately 30,000. “Only 10 percent are married to Arab Israelis,' he added, claiming “the majority are married to Israelis considered Zionist.”
What About The Arab Apartheid?
Bron: Hudson New York
March 16, 2010 5:00 AM
by Khaled Abu Toameh
How come the Lebanese students who recently talked about Israel's "war crimes" in the Gaza Strip during Israel Apartheid Week on many North American college campuses had nothing to say about the fact that tens of thousands of Palestinians have been massacred in Lebanon over the past four decades?
Dozens of refugees were killed and hundreds wounded in the three-month offensive that also destroyed thousands of houses inside the refugee camp. Reporters said it was the worst internal violence in Lebanon since the civil war that hit the country between 1975-1990. And just three years ago, the Lebanese Army used heavy artillery to bomb the Nahr-al-Bared refugee camp in north Lebanon.
Yet who has ever heard of a United Nations resolution condemning Syria or Lebanon for committing horrific atrocities or discriminating against the Palestinians?
The Lebanese, Syrian and Jordanian students and professors who took part in the anti-Israel events on campuses have clearly "forgotten" that their regimes probably have more Palestinian blood on their hands than Israel. In the early 1970s, the Jordanians slaughtered thousands of Palestinians in what has become known as Black September. Can somebody point to one United Nations resolution condemning that massacre?
And where was the United Nations when Kuwait and several Gulf countries expelled more than 400,000 Palestinians in one week? The exodus took place in March 1991, after Kuwait was liberated from Iraqi occupation. Ironically, the first week of March is being celebrated on university campuses as Israel Apartheid Week with no reference to the mass expulsion of Palestinians from the Gulf.
Although there are more than 400,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon in twelve refugee camps -- which human rights organizations and Palestinians say have the worst living conditions of all the refugee camps in the Middle East -- as in most of the Arab countries, these Palestinians have been assigned the status of "foreigners," a fact which has deprived them of health care, social services, property ownership and education.
Even worse, Lebanese law bans Palestinians from working in many jobs. This means that Palestinians cannot work in the public services and institutions run by the government such as schools and hospitals. Unlike Israel, Lebanese public hospitals do not admit Palestinians for medical treatment or surgery.
Can somebody imagine the outcry of the international community if Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed a law today prohibiting Arabs from working in certain professions or receiving medical treatment? Ironically, the Arab citizens of Israel enjoy more rights in the Jewish state than their Palestinians brothers do in any Arab country.
The same applies to Palestinians living in most of the Arab countries. While Israel has never stripped its Arab citizens of their citizenship, Jordan has begun revoking the Jordanian citizenship of thousands of its citizens who are of Palestinian descent. Jordan was the only Arab country that has ever granted Palestinian Jordanian citizenship. In recent years, however, the Jordanians appear to have regretted that decision.
As for the rest of the Arab countries, Palestinians can only dream of obtaining citizenship. It is almost impossible to find a Palestinian with Egyptian or Moroccan or Kuwaiti citizenship.
Is it not absurd that Jordan and Egypt have been arresting Palestinians who demonstrate in support of their brothers in the West Bank and Gaza Strip or collect donations for them while Israeli citizens hold almost daily protests inside Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians?
And is it not ironic that the government of Binyamin Netanyahu is doing more to boost the Palestinian economy in the West Bank than any Arab country? .
At first glance, it looked as if the students who were distributing leaflets and posters that depicted the suffering of Palestinians inside Israel and the Palestinian territories, particularly those living in refugee camps, were actually talking about the suffering of Palestinians in their own countries - Lebanon and Egypt.
How come there was no talk on these campuses about the plight of Palestinians living in most of the Arab countries, where they have been subjected to discrimination, massacres and intolerance?
Perhaps the time has come to start paying attention to the plight of the Palestinians in the Arab world.
Perhaps the time has come for these students and professors behind Israel Apartheid to consider holding not Arab Apartheid Week, but a year-long seminar to discuss repression and discrimination against Palestinians living in various Arab countries. Of course one week would not be enough for this topic and that is why there is need for a whole year.
We have heard enough how "awful" Israel is. Let us take a look now at what is happening to the Palestinians in the Arab world. Or is something the organizers of Israel Apartheid Week do not want to hear about?
What About The Arab Apartheid? Part II
by Khaled Abu Toameh
March 23, 2010 at 5:00 am
The Palestinian Authority and most of the Arab governments have not missed a chance since US Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel to remind us that construction of 1,600 new apartments in the Jewish neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo, as well as the renovation of an ancient synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, would trigger a "third intifada" or, even worse, an all-out war in the Middle East -- and is the biggest threat to stability in the Middle East.
It is funny to see countries such as Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Egypt condemn Israel for being an "apartheid" state and for restricting freedom of religion. These countries, along with the Palestinian Authority and predominantly Islamic countries, should be the last to talk about "apartheid," freedom of religion bad persecution of minorities.
Of all Arab and Islamic countries, Saudi Arabia is often described as a "glaring example of religious apartheid."
Although Saudi authorities allow Christians to enter the country as temporary workers, they don’t permit them to practice their faith. Items and articles belonging to religions other than Islam are prohibited. Conversion by a Muslim to another religion is considered apostasy, a crime punishable by death. Saudi Arabia does not allow non-Muslim clergy to enter the kingdom country for the purpose of conducting religious services. Christians, and other non-Muslims, are prohibited from entering the cities of Mecca and Medina.
In Riyadh, the death sentence against a Lebanese charged with "sorcery" has just been re-confirmed. The man, Ali Hussein Sibat, a father of five, is a former host of a popular call-in-show that aired on a Lebanese satellite TV channel. H was arrested by Saudi Arabia’s religious police and charged with sorcery while visiting the country in May 2008. According to his lawyer, Sibat’s only crime was the he used to predict the future on his show and give out advice to his audience.
The real threat to peace in the Middle East is the absence of freedom, democracy and transparency in the Arab and Islamic world.
But the media’s obsession with Israel has diverted attention from other news that could also be seen as a threat to stability and peace:
In Cairo earlier this week, a court postponed the trial of three Egyptian Muslims accused of murdering six Coptic Christians and a police officer in southern Egypt last January. The murderers sprayed worshippers with bullets as they emerged from services on the eve of the Coptic Orthodox Christmas in the village of Nagga Hammadi. Egypt’s Copts are an endangered minority. Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands have emigrated, while many of those who are left behind are forced to convert to Islam every year to escape persecution.
In Baghdad earlier this week, Iraqi Christians took to the streets to protest against increased attacks and to demand government protection. The demonstration was held after nine Christians were killed in the past two weeks in the city of Mosul. The United Nations says more than 600 Christian families have fled the city since the recent attacks. Attacks on Christians in Iraq are not a new phenomenon. In 2004, five churches in Baghdad were bombed, and any Christians have since been kidnapped, murdered and maimed.
Earlier this month, more than 200 villagers, most of them Christians, were slaughtered by Muslims in a Nigerian town called Jos. The perpetrators were reported to have set homes on fire and slashed peoplke with knives and machetes.
In Rabat, Moroccan authorities last week expelled some 70 foreign Christian aid workers for allegedly trying to convert local Muslims. Many of those targeted in the nationwide crackdown cared for 33 Moroccan orphans at the Christian orphanage Village of Hope in the town of Ain Leuh. Morocco’s government defended the decision by claiming that the Christians had violated the Islamic country’s religious traditions and legislation banning proselytizing.
Earlier this month, more than 200 villagers, most of them Christians, were slaughtered by Muslims in a Nigerian a town called Jos. The perpetrators were reported to have set homes on fire and slashed people with knives and machetes.
In Sudan, Christians, especially those living in the southern part of the country continue to complain about persecution and murder.
In Lebanon, Christians continue to flee the country in search of a better life in North America and Europe.
In Bethlehem last week, the Palestinian Authority closed down the only Palestinian Christian TV station in the West Bank. The station, called Al-Mahed (Nativity) TV, had been operating for the past 14 years and was known as the only mouthpiece for the Christian minority in the Holy Land. The Palestinian Authority claimed that the station was shut because it did not have a proper license.
The Egyptians and Jordanian authorities who in the past few days denounced Israel’s measures and policies have also been arresting activists who collected donations for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
Many newspaper readers and TV viewers in the US, Canada and Europe by now know where Ramat Shlomo is, although many Jews and Arabs had not heard about this relatively small and neighborhood until the announcement that was made during Biden’s visit.
Ironically, the protests that followed have thus far led to a fresh wave of violence in Jerusalem and some parts of the West Bank, prompting Israel to impose temporary security restrictions on Palestinians wishing to pray at the Aqsa Mosque or visit Jerusalem.