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Jewish Organizations Barred from UN Conference
by Elad Benari
May 16, 2011, Iyar 12, 5771

Two Jewish NGOs recently discovered that they have been barred from participating in a United Nations conference.

It began when the Office of Israeli Constitutional Law (OFICL), an Israeli legal action organization, received notice from the UN that their registration for this year’s Conference of the United Nations Permanent forum on Indigenous Issues (UNPFII) was being declined.

OFICL investigated the issue and subsequently discovered that another organization called the Negev Coexistence Forum for Civil Equality, an Israeli Bedouin rights organization, was also barred from attending the same conference.

The organization exchanged numerous calls, faxes and letters with the UN, all of which produced no results, and the OFICL decided it had no choice but to send legal notice to the UN.

OFICL said in a statement released Sunday that it is charging Chandra Roy-Henriksen, Chief Secretariat of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, with violating provisions of Declarations of Rights of Indigenous People and Universal Declarations of Human Rights (UDHR) and the International Convention of the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination (CERD) and other UN and United States antidiscrimination laws.

“We attended last year’s conference and actually floored 12 Representatives during the Conference,” said OFICL chairman Dr. Michael T. Snidecor.  “I don’t have access to the actual records, but our Secretary was told that we had the largest number of representatives from outside North America at the conference.”

OFICL noted that it had stayed active with the Forum even following last year’s conference.

“The Special Rapporteur for the region said that for years the Forum had tried to obtain information from the Israeli Government about complaints regarding issues with Bedouin in the Negev,” said OFICL director Mark Kaplan. “The government has never responded. So, we were able to forward a report by another organization about the situation containing studies about the serious ecological damage posed by illegal Bedouin construction and proposals on how to work with the Bedouins to solve the issues. Dr. Snidecor also created a simple online system for anonymously filing complaints of indigenous rights violations. So, we have remained an active NGO in the forum.”

The organization also explained that the legal action is required since, as Dr. Snidecor explained, “we were not given any reason for rejecting us other than saying we are ineligible under two resolutions—one of which has nothing to do with NGO qualifications. We see nothing that disqualifies us, and no one will take responsibility for the decision to reject our application.”

“The sad thing is that the indigenous tribes who attend the conference are not guilty, it is the UN employees,” said Kaplan. “Unfortunately, our taking this action may tarnish the reputation of the forum. This is not something we want to do. These are wonderful people, and they are not connected to the anti-Israel governments and policies of the UN.

“However,” he added, “had there been a valid reason to exclude us from the conference, the UN powers-that-be should have been able to cite what the disqualifying issue is. If they cannot cite the criteria we do not meet, then it seems rather suspicious that there is something else going on here. There is no question that the Jewish People meet the UN Criteria for being considered indigenous.”

UN Recognizes Hamas-Supporting Organization
by Elad Benari
April 12, 2011, Nissan 8, 5771

The UN has given special recognition to an organization which supports the Hamas terrorist groups and which has been involved in organizing flotillas to Gaza, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC) has reported.

The organization in question is the Free Palestine Movement (FPM), a California-based leftist organization whose stated mission, according to its website, is “to challenge Israeli policies and actions that deny Palestinians their human rights, and in particular the right of unfettered access to all of Palestine. We adhere to the principles of non-violence in direct actions that exercise Palestinian rights in defiance of restrictions imposed by Israeli authorities. We partner with other organizations in projects that are consistent with our mission statement and points of unity.”

FPM is headed by Dr. Paul Larudee, an activist who in 2006 was arrested and deported from Israel after he entered the country under a false identity to work with Hamas and then went to Lebanon to assist Hizbullah during the Second Lebanon War.

Larudee broke the naval blockade on Gaza and entered the region in 2008, and also took part in the 2010 flotilla as well, having been on board the Sfendoni 8000 boat.

In 2009, Larudee received an award for his work from Hamas’ Prime Minister in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh.

According to the report by ITIC, Larudee received a letter from a United Nations committee which deals with the realization of Palestinian rights. The letter stated that his request for recognition (accreditation) had been granted. The letter also stated that FPM was recognized as an NGO acting as a “civil society organization” to promote the Palestinian cause.

ITIC added that following the UN recognition, FPM changed its logo, adding the sentence “A United Nations Accredited NGO”. ITIC assessed the UN recognition as giving legitimacy to the projects carried out by FPM, especially the flotillas it organizes. The report added that the UN’s recognition letter ended with offering congratulations on the organization’s activities, which the letter claims are for the purpose of achieving “a just solution to the Palestinian problem.”

ITIC also notes that Larudee has previously written an article in which he expressed support and understanding of the motives of suicide bombers. The report adds that Larudee spent large amounts of time in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas of Judea and Samaria between 2002 and 2003, as part of the activities of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), another extremist anti-Israel group which seeks to destroy Israel and with which Larudee works. The award from Hamas PM Haniyeh was given to Larudee in 2009 when he stayed in Gaza, notes the report.

Politicians Warn Against PA State
by Hillel Fendel
March 25, 2011, Adar Bet 19, 5771

The upcoming UN General Assembly session in September, where many countries are poised to recognize a Palestinian state, does not bode well for Israel.

Even Defense Minister Ehud Barak, who, as Prime Minister in 1998, once offered Yasser Arafat close to 98% of Judea, Samaria and Gaza for such a state, is concerned. In a speech last week, Barak said he considers this scenario a “political tsunami” against Israel.  He even said that this political development will carry a strong element of de-legitimizing the State of Israel. 

As opposed to an increasing number of politicians, however, his solution, was not to try to head off its formation – but only to remove its “unilateral” nature. He accused his boss, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, of not being more forthcoming in negotiations with the PA, and said Israel must express immediate willingness to discuss issues such as final borders, Jerusalem, and the settlement of Arab refugees.

Politicians Against PLO State

Many other politicians, however, are not willing to entertain the possibility of a Palestinian state at all, unilaterally or otherwise.  MK Anastasia Michaeli, for instance, of the Israel Our Home party, said this week that she and her party “are doing all we can to prevent… the formation of a hostile and belligerent state in Judea and Samaria."

Also last week, coalition whip and Likud faction chairman MK Zev Elkin, visiting post-massacre Itamar, stated strongly that "there is no place for a Palestinian state, not in temporary borders and not in any other configuration."

The grassroots “Mattot Arim” organization, based in Raanana, recently urged its members to "work strongly against Israel's upcoming big military mistake, namely turning Area A into a Palestinian state." 

Can Israel Override PLO Army?

The organization explained, "Even today, there is a Palestinian army in Area A. However, when this Palestinian army gets completely out of hand - for example, in 2002 when its members participated in horrendous terror attacks - the IDF simply retracts the PA army's freedom of operation, partially or completely, for a few hours or for many months. [On the other hand,] once there is a Palestinian state, the IDF will no longer be able to cast it or its army aside, temporarily or permanently, even after that state or army becomes heavily involved in terrorism."

Similarly, Arab-world expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar of Bar Ilan University wrote this week that Israel has only a little time left before the General Assembly session to convince the world how dangerous a Palestinian state would be, "not only to Israel but also to its neighbors."

Conditions Not Fulfilled

Kedar wrote that though Netanyahu laid down two conditions for his acceptance of an Arab state in Judea and Samaria, neither of these two conditions appears to be materializing. They were that the PA must recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish nation, and that any future PA state must be demilitarized. “Palestinian spokesmen repeat day and night that they would not dream of recognizing the State of Israel as the Jewish national home,” Kedar wrote, and added that the recent capture of large shipments of weapons bound for Gaza show that the Arabs strongly intend to arm the PA entity “to the teeth with the longest-range, most modern weaponry.”

Ten days ago, Likud MK Yariv Levin reported to his constituents his recent efforts against the formation of a Palestinian state. Having gone on record as being “diametrically opposed to recognizing a Palestinian state," he said he had "raised this issue in the last two Likud faction meetings, and in a personal conversation earlier this year with Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon.”

A week earlier, Yaalon himself, who also serves as Strategic Affairs Minister, told an interviewer that he hopes it is “incorrect” that Netanyahu said he intends to offer the PA a state with temporary borders.

Last month, Deputy Prime Minister and former Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom went so far as to hint that he might leave the government were it to agree to the formation of a PA state. Shalom told the weekly B’Sheva newspaper that although Netanyahu is talking about such a state, "in our system of government, determinations are made by governmental decision, and there is no such government decision. I have never spoken about a Palestinian state and for as long as it is possible to influence the decision making process in the government, and for as long as no decision has been made that contradicts my position, I am in the government."

Netanyahu Against PA State

Netanyahu himself made perhaps the clearest case against a Palestinian state, when he addressed the Likud Central Committee in May 2002. Such an entity, he said, “will demand all the powers of a state, such as controlling borders, bringing in weapons, control of airspace and the ability to knock down any Israeli plane that enters its area, the ability to sign peace treaties and military alliances with other countries. Once you give them a state, you give them all these things, even if there is an agreement to the contrary - for within a short time they will demand all these things, and they will assume these powers, and the world will stand by and do nothing - but it *will* stop us from trying to stop them.”

"We will thus have created with our own hands a threat to our very existence,” Netanyahu continued. “What will happen if the Palestinians do what the Germans did after World War I, when they nullified the demilitarized zone? The world did nothing then, and the world will do nothing now as well. Even now, the Palestinians are removing all the restrictions to which they agreed in Oslo – they are smuggling in arms, polluting the water sources, building an army, making military deals with Iran and others, and more… But when we try to take action against this, the world opposes us – and not them...”

Netanyahu quoted Yasser Arafat: "Arafat said it best when talking to reporters the day he signed the Oslo Accords: 'Since we can't defeat Israel in war, we must do it in stages, we must take whatever area of Palestine we can get, establish sovereignty there, and then at the right time, we will have to convince the Arab nations to join us in dealing the final blow to Israel.' Self-rule, yes. But a state with which to destroy the State of Israel - no...”

Netanyahu continued, “When Arafat threatened to declare a Palestinian state in 1999, I announced at the United Nations that if he did so, we would annex broad areas of Judea,Samaria and Gaza – and Arafat capitulated.” Might Netanyahu today follow his own advice from 2002?

“On matters vital to our existence,” he concluded in 2002, “we always took clear action, even if others didn’t agree with us. Because the bottom line is that saying 'Yes' to a Palestinian state means 'No' to a Jewish State, and vice-versa.”

Obama's game of nuclear chicken with Iran
David Ignatius
November 7, 2010

While American eyes were focused on the midterm elections, a bitter conflict has continued between the United States and Iran for influence in the Middle East.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/election-results-2010/

The flash points have been Iraq and Lebanon, where the Iranians have been pushing through their proxies for what amounts to political control. The United States and its allies have been resisting - sometimes feebly but enough to slow the Iranian advance. In both Baghdad and Beirut, the proxy warfare may escalate in coming weeks.

The Obama administration hopes that this jousting with Iran is a prelude to serious talks on limits to Tehran's nuclear program. In the administration's view, the Iranians have been squeezed by U.N. sanctions - and are fighting back in Iraq and Lebanon partly to show they still have leverage.

The White House has repeatedly signaled to Iran that it wants a peaceful resolution of the nuclear issue. The signals back from Tehran have been ambiguous, as usual, but the Iranians have said they are ready to meet this month for more talks with Washington and its key allies, perhaps in Vienna.

The tantalizing hints that Iran wants negotiations have included outreach to American contacts by Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, a key political adviser to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A second Ahmadinejad adviser attended a U.S.-organized meeting in Rome on Oct. 18 about stabilizing Afghanistan. Through various intermediaries, the United States has indicated that it would accept phased negotiations that began with a Turkish compromise for fueling the Tehran Research Reactor and then moved to Iran's overall nuclear program. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/10/18/AR2010101802785.html

The game of nuclear chicken has been going on for nearly a decade, and for all the jockeying over the next round of talks, there's little hard evidence yet that the Iranians are serious about reaching a deal. Meanwhile, their drive for political power in Baghdad and Beirut continues.

The U.S. resistance to Tehran has been a kind of rope-a-dope strategy, with U.S. allies absorbing Iranian blows while Washington dickers for compromise - and, metaphorically, waits for Iran to punch itself out. The U.S. hope, in the words of former ambassador Ryan Crocker, is that "Iranian influence is self-limiting. The harder they push, the more resistance they get."

In Iraq, more than seven months have passed since the March parliamentary elections
without formation of a new government.  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/26/AR2010032602196.html  Iran has put its weight behind Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki's bid to stay in power and is said to have created a special task force in Baghdad to pressure Iraqi factions. Iran is said to have cut off covert subsidies to Shiite parties that refused to back Maliki.

The United States, strangely, has also tacitly supported Maliki's quest. But Washington has insisted that the Iraqiya Party, headed by former prime minister Ayad Allawi and backed by Iraq's Sunni community, must be included in a coalition government. Supporting the U.S. demand is Massoud Barzani, the Kurdish leader who is kingmaker in these negotiations.

Some Iraqis fear that Tehran is planning a campaign of reprisals. Last week, a source sent me a purported Iraqi intelligence report claiming that "Iranian intelligence officers (plan) a two-stage operation involving assassinating [former] members of the Baath Party and former and current officers in the army and intelligence agency."

The proxy war in Lebanon is just as fierce. Hezbollah, the Shiite militia created by Iran, is fulminating against an international tribunal that is reportedly preparing to indict Hezbollah members next month for the 2005 murder of former prime minister Rafiq al-Hariri. Washington has organized a coalition, including Russia, to support the tribunal's work. If indictments are issued, Hezbollah may move to topple the Lebanese government - creating a new showdown. How the United States and Israel would respond isn't clear, but their options would be limited.

Last week, an angry Ahmadinejad accused Russia of selling out to "Satan" by supporting sanctions and canceling a planned sale to Iran of ground-to-air missiles. http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101103/wl_mideast_afp/iranrussiamilitarymissile

The Obama administration hopes that an isolated Iran will eventually seek a compromise on the nuclear issue. But as Karim Sadjadpour argues in Foreign Policy , this regime with a "victimization complex" needs America as an enemy, perhaps more than ever. It makes sense for the United States to explore every reasonable area of compromise, but the proxy wars in Iraq and Lebanon show that Iran wants to bargain from strength, too. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/10/11/the_sources_of_ssoviets_iranian_conduct

After the election furor, President Obama must turn to this test - and discover whether Iran wants negotiations to reach a deal, or to kill time.

October 7, 2010

Is het vergoten bloed van Joodse burgers minder waard dan vergoten bloed uit andere werelddelen?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaGHUZ-8DWw

Leest u alstublieft op Brabosh, CIDI, PMW en andere websites. Er staan er op de hele website en de voorpagina veel meer vermeld. Hier staat veel wat een andere kant laat  zien van een nu al eeuwigdurende strijd om een klein stukje land.... (wat ook nog in tweeën moet???  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ygHwwOjp-c

September 24, 2010

http://www.zie.nl/video/algemeen/Ophef-bij-VN-toespraak-Ahmadinejad/m1fzo04fnk4e

Ahmadinejad Suggests 9/11 Was U.S. Plot to “Save Zionism”
* Ahmadinejad suggest 9/11 attacks were intended to "save Zionist regime"
* Iranian leader, who backs Hamas, Hezbollah, proposes conference on terrorism
* Obama says Iran cannot demonstrate its nuclear program is peaceful

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 23 – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, well-known for denying the Holocaust, used his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday to suggest that elements within the U.S. government were behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The U.S. delegation walked out of the hall as Ahmadinejad – standing just a few miles from the site of Ground Zero – mocked the memories of the roughly 3,000 people who died on 9/11.

There is no dispute that al Qaeda carried out the attack. Its leaders boasted of doing so and numerous investigations have reconstructed in minute detail how the operations were planned and executed.

Still, the Iranian leader put forward his own three theories of the attack. First, that a powerful terrorist group was behind it; second, that “some segments within the U.S. government orchestrated the attack to reverse the declining American economy and its grips on the Middle East in order also to save the Zionist regime.

“The majority of the American people as well as other nations and politicians agree with this view,” Ahmadinejad said.

The third explanation was that the attacks were “carried out by a terrorist group but the American government supported and took advantage of the situation.”

The Iranian leader launched his usual diatribe against Israel, which he blamed for many of the ills in the world, but broke little new ground in this part of his speech.

He said he would convene a conference on terrorism next year. The U.S. State Department has for years identified Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism. Iran arms and finances Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon which have stockpiled tens of thousands of rockets and missiles to fire at Israeli civilians. Iran also provides weapons and training to other groups worldwide.

Ahmadinejad also proclaimed he was in favor of a nuclear weapons-free world. The United Nations has passed four rounds of sanctions against Iran for hiding what most governments believe is an active, ongoing program to build nuclear weapons.

In his speech earlier to the General Assembly, U.S. President Barack Obama said: “Iran is the only party to the NPT (non-proliferation treaty) that has not demonstrated the peaceful intentions of its nuclear program.”

Experts Available for Comment During the United Nations General Assembly
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=689705&ct=8667269

Iran Press Kit
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.2059623/k.9254/Iran_Press_Kit.htm?tr=y&auid=7047815

Iranian Missile Threat (maps courtesy of AIPAC)
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.2059623/k.9254/Iran_Press_Kit.htm?tr=y&auid=7047815

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: In His Own Words
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/c.hsJPK0PIJpH/b.2951397/k.6E9B/President_Mahmoud_Ahmadinejad_In_His_Own_Words.htm

A Culture of Hatred
http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&b=689705&ct=8616259


UN: More deaths because of Taliban
by Elad Benari
December 12, 2010

According to data released by the United Nations and reported in the UK Guardian on Tuesday, the number of civilians that have been killed or injured this year in fighting in Afghanistan has risen by nearly a third (31%).

The UN attributed this number to the Taliban's increasing use of homemade bombs and political assassinations. An example of this is a double suicide attack on Tuesday which targeted a western security company in a neighborhood of Kabul that has not been targeted in the past despite being home to many foreign organizations.

The UN report also noted that there has been a 30% drop in deaths and injuries caused by NATO forces in the first six months of 2010. In total, UN human rights workers recorded 1,271 civilian deaths over this period and 1,997 injuries. Taliban forces were responsible for 2,477 of those casualties, while NATO and Afghan government forces accounted for only 386.

The reason for the increase in civilian casualties is the use by insurgents of larger and more sophisticated bombs which are typically buried in roadsides and tracks to target NATO convoys and foot patrols. These bombs also kill and maim civilians. Another factor is the near doubling of the Taliban's use of assassinations to dissuade Afghans from working for the government or its international backers. According to the report, whereas assassinations averaged 3.6 a week last year, they are now running at one a day.

Aid workers being killed in Afghanistan is also a common occurrence. This past week, Dan Terry, a 63 year-old doctor from Janesville, Wisconsin was among 10 aid workers killed in Afghanistan. Terry’s group had just finished a two-week mission to northern Afghanistan, where they had provided medical care to villagers for years. They were stopped and shot execution-style, said a report on Channel3000.com.

The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying the group was trying to convert Muslims to Christianity. 6 of the 10 workers killed were American. The White House called the deaths despicable and the aid group denied that it has any connection to missionary work .

Innocent civilians being brutally killed in Afghanistan sometimes occurs with no connection to the fighting. Afghan police said Monday that Taliban insurgents had flogged and publicly executed a pregnant Afghan widow for alleged adultery. According to authorities, Taliban militants had kept the woman in captivity for three days before her execution Sunday in a remote area of the country. According to the report on Voice of America, she was first flogged 200 times and then shot in the head three times. She had been found guilty by a Taliban court of having what was called an "illicit affair" that left her pregnant.

In a statement released on Monday, NATO condemned the killing and said that the "tragic, gruesome brutality is an example of Taliban justice."

(IsraelNationalNews.com)

Response to A‘jad’s Holocaust Denial: Imams’ Tears at Auschwitz
by Hillel Fendel
August 12, 2010, Elul 2, 5770

A group of American Muslim leaders made a first-of-its-kind visit to Nazi concentration camps this week, prompting tears from at least one of them.

Eight imams made a three-day trip Dachau and Auschwitz this week, co-sponsored by a German think tank and the New Jersey-based Center for Interreligious Understanding, and strongly supported by the United States government.

The trip, as reported in the Jewish Forward, was the brainchild of law professor Marshall Breger, an Orthodox Jew and former senior official in the administrations of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. http://www.forward.com/articles/130013/  Breger said: “There is a view that there is growing anti-Semitism in the Muslim world, reinforced by people like President [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad, that there is growing Holocaust denial in the Muslim world. In light of that, the idea was to offer education to those who might not have the kind of knowledge that we’ve had about World War II and the Jewish community, and to do this in a public way.”

The imams prayed at Dachau, with a concluding prayer by Muzammil Siddiqi, imam of the Islamic Society of Orange County, California: “We pray to G-d that this will not happen to the Jewish people or to any people anymore.”

Suhaib Webb, an imam from Santa Clara in the Bay Area, grew up in a white Christian household in Oklahoma  and later converted to Islam. Walking around Auschwitz with tears in his eyes, he said, “It was far worse than I imagined.”

“No Muslim in his right mind, female or male, should deny the Holocaust,” said Mohamed Magid, imam and executive director of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. “When you walk the walk of the people who have been taken to be gassed, to be killed, how can a person deny physical evidence, something that’s beyond doubt?”

Just a few days earlier, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinajad reiterated his claim that the Jews "made up" the "so-called Holocaust."

The delegates’ level of knowledge about the Holocaust prior to the trip seemed to be fairly low, the Forward reported. When they met with Max Mannheimer, a survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau, they appeared to particularly affected by seeing the number the Nazis had tattooed on his arm, and asked many questions.

The delegation’s youngest member was Yasir Qadhi, 35, dean of academics at Al Maghrib Institute, in New Haven, Conn. Qadhi has since recanted, both vocally and in print, his Holocaust-denial claims, explaining that he had been ignorant and exposed to materials such as the anti-Semitic “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” “That’s why I was very happy to come on this trip,” he said, “because I wanted to see for myself how wrong I was.”

Breger told the Forward, “These imams all have significant constituents in American Muslim communities as recognized legal scholars, people with mega-mosques, people with radio shows, people on the web, people who reach out to youth.” He said that the Jewish community, in contrast, often looks to engage with Muslims who meet specified criteria but do not have large constituencies.

British Ambassador Praises Terrorist Sheikh
by Maayana Miskin
July 9, 2010, Tammuz 27, 5770

  Hizbullah spiritual leader Sheikh Mohammed Fadlallah, who authorized suicide bombings and other attacks killing hundreds of people, was “a true man of religion” whose death last week left Lebanon “a lesser place,” according to British Ambassador to Lebanon Frances Guy. The world “needs more men like him,” she said.

"People in Lebanon like to ask me which politician I admire most... I usually avoid answering by referring to those I enjoy meeting the most and those that impress me the most. Until yesterday my preferred answer was to refer to Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, head of the Shia clergy in Lebanon and much admired leader of many Shia Muslims throughout the world,” Guy wrote on her blog on the website of Britain's Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

Guy's comments were condemned by terrorism victims' groups and by Israel's Foreign Ministry. Fadlallah inspired the terrorists of Hizbullah and gave approval to mass-casualty terrorist attacks, including a 1983 suicide bombing at a U.S. Marine barracks that killed more than 300 people, they stated.

"Fadlallah inspired the hostage takers, suicide bombers, and wanton violence of Hizbullah. But the British ambassador thinks he was a man of peace and the world needs more of him, and the British ambassador 'is an honorable woman',” said Foreign Minister spokesman Yigal Palmor. Palmor's choice of words was an allusion to Mark Antony, who when eulogizing Julius Caesar in Shakespeare's play of that name, sarcastically says that the murderer Brutus "is an honorable man." 

Guy's blog entry has since been pulled from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office website. However, the British Foreign Office has yet to condemn her statements.

A senior CNN editor was fired this week  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/138493 after expressing respect for Fadlallah on the Twitter website. “Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah... One of Hezbollah's giants I respect a lot,” editor Octavia Nasr said.

Nasr later referred to her message as “an error of judgement,” and said her respect for Fadlallah was due to his stance on women's rights, and not his support for terrorism.

Fadlallah held views on women's rights that are relatively liberal in the context of the Middle East Muslim world's treatment of women. He opposed “honor” murders, in which Muslim families kill women suspected or accused of tarnishing the family's reputation. He also told men not to beat their wives, and issued a fatwa (religious decree) saying that women who are physically attacked have the right to self-defense.

One of Fadlallah's last fatwas gave blanket approval to the use of suicide bombing attacks.

IDF Evidence, US Stem Turkish-Led Diplomatic War Against Israel
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
June 1, 2010, Sivan 19, 5770

IDF video documentation and United States diplomats have stemmed the anti-Israel tide in the United Nations – for the time being – a day after the flotilla clash on the high seas. The U.N. Security Council met in closed session until late Monday night after U.S. diplomats watered down a Turkish attempt to censure Israel.

Most of the 15 countries sitting on the Council expressed harsh criticism of Israel, but no joint statement was issued. Turkey is trying to use the universal anti-Israel mood to force an end to Israel's partial blockade on Gaza, imposed since Hamas gained control of the area un a military coup three years ago.

"It is clearer than ever that Israel's restrictions on access to Gaza must be lifted,” said British Ambassador Mark Lyall Grant.

Foreign media and diplomats have begun to note the IDF videos of a brutal attack on Israeli Navy commandos as they descended on one of the ships after the crew and passengers refused requests to change course and sail to Ashdod instead of Hamas. Under the Oslo Accords and agreements with the Palestinian Authority, Israel maintains sovereignty over the international waters off the Gaza coast.

"Direct (aid) delivery by sea is neither appropriate nor responsible under the circumstances," said U.S. Deputy Permanent Representative to the U.N. Alejandro Wolff. While European and Arab countries castigated Israel for the killing of nine Muslim extremists who attacked Navy commandos, Wolff stated, “We are working to ascertain the facts [and] we expect a credible and transparent investigation.”

Hamas has smuggled hundreds of tons of explosives, arms and ammunition, as well as terrorists, by land and sea, and Israel is determined to prevent further smuggling actions. Allowing boats to reach Gaza without inspection would give Hamas free passage to bring in advanced weapons, including long-range missiles.

Israel’s U.N. envoy Daniel Cameron stated Jerusalem’s position, backed up by IDF videos from a helicopter hovering over the flotilla, that “this flotilla was anything but a humanitarian mission. What kind of humanitarian activists demand to bypass the United Nations, the Red Cross, and other internationally recognized agencies? What kind of peace activists use knives, clubs and other weapons to attack soldiers who board a ship in accordance with international law?" he said.

Arab diplomats harped on Israel’s trying to inspect the ships in international waters, but legal experts have stated that Israel, like any other country, has the right to sail in international waters and stop foreign ships suspected of trying to reach its shores with suspicious cargo or people.

Yahya Mahmassani, representing the Arab bloc at the United Nations, said they want a total censure of Israel because the incident happened in international waters and because they want the partial blockade lifted. International media, which until recently have adopted the Arab claim that a "humanitarian crisis” exists in Gaza, have virtually ignored daily shipments of hundreds of tons of food, merchandise and supplies from Israel to Gaza.

Lebanon, currently the rotating president of the U.N. Security Council, and Turkey both led the condemnation of Israel at the Council session with such terms as “piracy,” “crime” and “a black day in the history of humanity.”  

“I’m not sure any international lawyer would be able to defend such words” at this stage, said one senior Council diplomat, quoted by Benny Avni, writing in The New York Sun Tuesday morning.

The diplomat noted that after more than two months since an unprovoked torpedo attack on a South Korean ship, China and other Council members have prevented even a discussion of the incident, even though a probe has clearly established that North Korea attacked the boat, and even though a multinational investigation has credibly established North Korea’s role as aggressor.

Monday’s clash between Muslim militants and the Israeli Navy occurred on the Ma?mara, one of the six ships in the flotilla. Most of the passengers on the other five vessels consisted largely of an assortment of international peace activists. The sixth ship included Muslim extremists, including northern Israel Islamic Movement leader Ra'ad Salah, who initially but incorrectly was reported as having suffered critical wounds in the clash.

After the Israeli commandos took control of the Ma?mara and led it to the port of Ashdod, where the humanitarian aid was unloaded and shipped to Gaza, the IDF collected and photographed weapons that had been brought on board.

The extremists had stockpiled and used two dozen knives, metal pipes and clubs to beat the Navy commandos as they descended on the Mamara by rope from helicopters.

Arafat planned that Oslo Accords would chase away Israelis
Source: ANB TV, Feb. 16, 2006
Geplaatst op de website: 26 april 2010

Al-Quds al-Arabi Editor-in-Chief, Abd al-Bari 'Atwan:
"After the Oslo Accords were signed, I went to Tunisia to visit him [Arafat] in July. I told him: 'We disagree. I don't support this agreement. It will harm us.'
[Arafat] told me: 'By Allah, I will drive them crazy. I will make these [Oslo] Accords a disaster for them [Israel]. It won't be in my lifetime, but you will see the Israelis run away from Palestine. Have a little patience.'
The Al-Aqsa Brigades [Fatah terrorist wing] were founded and armed by him [Arafat] as a reply, as a counterweight to the historic mistake of the Oslo Accords."

http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=711&fld_id=723&doc_id=1475

Washington dreigt Israël met sancties
March  2010

De Amerikaanse Midden-Oosten afgezant George Mitchell, heeft in een interview Israël gedreigd met het blokkeren of gedeeltelijk blokkeren van bankgaranties voor leningen aan de Joodse staat als Israël blijft weigeren aan de eisen van Washington te voldoen inzake het ‘vredesproces’ met het PA/PLO regiem. Mitchell probeerde later zijn opmerkingen af te zwakken maar in het gewraakte interview zei hij wel degelijk dat de Amerikaanse wetgeving de mogelijkheid open laat leningen bestemt voor Israël te weigeren. Israël verzocht daarop Washington om opheldering  en voegde eraan toe dat het gebrek aan voortgang in de vredesbesprekingen niet bij  Israël gezocht moet worden.  Mitchell’s dreiging kwam kort nadat de Israëlische Ambassadeur in de VS Michael Oren Washington’s plan afwees om binnen twee jaar een Palestijnse staat te willen installeren. De Israëlische minister van Financiën Yuval Steinitz reageerde op Mitchell’s dreigementen met de woorden dat de Obama administratie hun geld mogen houden. ‘Israël is de Amerikaanse garanties voor leningen in de nabije toekomst niet nodig omdat wij erin geslaagd zijn fondsen te verwerven zonder garanties.’ http://tvnz.co.nz/world-news/us-hints-sanctions-against-israel-3327697

Het lijkt erop dat Obama bezig is Israël verder te isoleren en de Joodse staat te hebben uitgekozen als de grote zondebok in het conflict met de Palestijnen. Kort na zijn aanstelling noemde hij Israël al een destabiliserende factor in het Midden-Oosten. Een uitgelekt rapport van de Israëlische inlichtingendiensten bevestigt, dat Obama Israël niet alleen als 'irrelevant' beschouwd, maar zelfs als een obstakel ziet. Hij heeft Israël laten weten de bouw van nederzettingen in ‘Palestina’ onaanvaardbaar te vinden omdat dit een duurzame vrede in de weg staat. Hij  zei Israël te zullen dwingen alle bouwactiviteiten stop te zetten.  De Israëlische premier Benjamin Netanyahu verklaarde  op 12 januari dat Israël het oostelijk deel van Jeruzalem nooit zal afstaan aan de Palestijnen, noch dat het zal terugkeren naar de grenzen van vóór de juni oorlog van 1967. http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1142048.html Ook wil Obama de soevereiniteit van de Tempelberg aan de moslims overdragen en de stationering van een internationale troepenmacht in de Samaria en Judea, iets waar Israël ook op tegen is. Verzoening met de islamitische wereld, waaronder terreurstaten als Iran en Syrië, alsook terreurgroepen die Israëls vernietiging nastreven, acht hij van groter belang dan de relatie met Israël. 

Onlangs dwong hij Israël om een reeks controleposten te verwijderen wat onmiddellijk resulteerde in een paar terroristische aanslagen. Zo werd rabbijn Meir Avshalom Chai, de 45 jarige vader van 7 kinderen door drie leden van de Al-Aqsa Martelaren Brigade -onderdeel van de door de Palestijnse leider Mahmoud Abbas gerunde Fatah beweging-  in de buurt van Sichem klem gereden en met kogels doorzeeft. De drie terroristen waren lid van de door de Amerikaan Keith Dayton getrainde ‘veiligheidstroepen’. Deze troepen moeten in Sichem de orde handhaven  en de terreurinfrastructuur ontmantelen maar daar komt niets van terecht. Obama noemde Sichem onlangs nog een oase van rust sinds Dayton’s troepen daar de dienst uitmaken. Het Israëlische leger bestormde het huis in Sichem waarbij de terroristen in een vuurgevecht werden gedood.  Het Amerikaanse vredeswonderkind eiste ogenblikkelijk opheldering van Israël over deze actie en  toonde geen enkel medeleven met de familie van de vermoorde rabbijn. De Palestijnse minister Salam Fayyad bezocht de families van de gedode terroristen en noemde hen helden en “heilige martelaars”.

Onlangs noemde Israël’s ‘vredespartner’ een plein in Ram’allah naar Dalal Mughrabi, de vrouwelijke terrorist die op 11 maart 1978 verantwoordelijk was voor de gruwelijke terreuraanslag waarbij in totaal 38 Israëlische burgers om het leven kwamen waaronder 13 kinderen. Daarnaast vielen er ook nog eens 71 gewonden. http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=1526 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Palestinian_incitement_distances_peace_11-Jan-2010.htm  Naast het plein in Ram’allah zijn zomerkampen, een meisjesschool in Hebron, en sportevenementen naar haar genoemd. PA/PLO minister van cultuur Siham Barghouti zei: ‘het ons goed recht Palestijnen te eren door publieke plaatsen naar hen te noemen. Dat is het minst wat wij voor onze helden kunnen doen. Het is ons recht verzet (lees terreur) te plegen in het kader van de alsmaar voortschrijdende bezetting van ons land. Wij zijn trots op onze Shahids (Martelaren).  Ondanks dit soort uitspraken, prijzen Obama en zijn Midden-Oosten afgezant George Mitchell het regiem de hemel in.  Ze noemen Salam Fayyad een "fantastisch leider" en loven de Palestijnse leider Mahmoud Abbas om zijn “sterk en effectief leiderschap voor het Palestijnse volk ”. Obama’s gedrag jegens Israël zal hem nog lelijk opbreken. Gods vijanden willen de totale controle over de heilige stad Jeruzalem. Dit is een strijd tussen duisternis en Licht. Tussen Goed en kwaad. Het is Satan’s gevecht tegen de God van Israël. Dit gevecht concentreert zich rond Jeruzalem.

Website Amerikaans Consulaat Jeruzalem negeert bestaan Israël

Wat velen niet weten is dat de Verenigde Staten een officieel Consulaat in Jeruzalem hebben. De website van dit Consulaat doet voorkomen alsof Samaria en Judea al reeds Palestijns grondgebied zijn en Jeruzalem de hoofdstad van een Palestijnse staat. Het negeert brutaalweg de Joods/Israëlische connectie met Jeruzalem en negeert zelfs het bestaan van Israël. Het functioneert als een ambassade voor de staat Palestina, terwijl deze nog niet bestaat. De website van dit Consulaat geeft geen enkele indicatie van samenwerking of overleg met Israël. De Joodse staat wordt volledig doodgezwegen. Het gaat hier niet om de een of andere anti-Israëlische NGO (Niet Gouvermentele Organisaties) maar om een doelbewust beleid van Washington. De website geeft informatie in het Engels en Arabisch, niet in het Hebreeuws. Het nieuws en de aangeboden diensten zijn hoofdzakelijk gericht aan de Palestijnen.  http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106489

Een woordvoerder  noemde de medewerkers van het Consulaat vertegenwoordigers voor het Palestijnse regiem. Een van hun taken is de Joodse bouwactiviteiten in Oost Jeruzalem en in Samaria/Judea nauwgezet in de gaten te houden. Ook blijkt dat medewerkers van het Consulaat dikwijls weigeren zich bij Israëlische controleposten te legitimeren of zelfs maar de ramen of deuren te openen. Recent gedroegen de inzittenden van een  konvooi van 5 auto’s van het Consulaat zich zo agressief  dat een van de auto’s zelfs over een Israëlische militair dreigde heen te rijden. Ook werden er door de inzittenden onzedelijke gebaren naar vrouwelijke militairen gemaakt. Daarnaast blijken ze dikwijls Palestijnen te vervoeren die niet zonder toestemming van de Israëlische overheid tussen Jeruzalem en Samaria mogen reizen. In januari 2008 weigerde Keith Dayton en de consul-general Jacob Walles hun ramen te openen en zich te identificeren bij een controlepost in Samaria.  http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=20250&sk

U.S. Senate Passes Iran Sanctions Bill Unanimously

Two days after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) pledged to bring sweeping sanctions legislation to the Senate floor,[9] the Senate gave unanimous approval to the Comprehensive Iran Sanctions, Accountability, and Divestment Act of 2009 (S. 2799), which enables state divestment efforts and target U.S. companies that provide refined petroleum to Iran. [1] Iran’s inability to refine petroleum is a key liability for the Islamic Republic.[2]

A bipartisan group of U.S. senators had been pushing the Obama administration to implement immediate, tougher sanctions on Iran and build international support for them.[3]

"… Passing this legislation is critical to send Iran the message that the United States is serious about keeping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons capability," Reid said in a statement. [4] “This bill would impose new sanctions on Iran’s refined petroleum sector and tighten existing US sanctions in an effort to create new pressure on the Iranian regime and help stop Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon.” [5]

Said Republican Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, “The Iranian regime has shown no interest in limiting its nuclear ambitions. And an entire year was lost as Iran moved closer and closer to its goal." [6]

The petroleum provisions are based on another Senate bill, the Iran Refined Petroleum Sanctions Act (S. 908). The House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed its version of the bill last month.[7] In order to take effect, the two bills need to be combined, approved by both the Senate and the House and signed by President Obama. [8]

The passage of the Senate bill came the same week Iran’s supreme leader made his most explicit threat against Israel in years,[9] implying that other Muslim countries should band together to destroy Israel. A day later, in President Obama’s State of the Union address Wednesday (Jan. 27), the President threatened stricter sanctions against the Islamic Republic for its continued defiance of nuclear negotiations.[10]

Said President Obama in his speech, “As Iran's leaders continue to ignore their obligations, there should be no doubt: They, too, will face growing consequences. That is a promise.”[11] China, a major Iranian trading partner, has continued to stymie the administration’s efforts to secure a fifth round of sanctions in the UN Security Council.[12]

The day before, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, in a meeting with the president of Mauritania, said, "It is certain that the day will come for the regional nations to witness the collapse of the Zionist regime. Whether the day gets closer or farther to us depends on the performance of the Islamic countries and Muslim nations."[13]

Iran continues its uranium enrichment activities unabated and earlier this month issued an ultimatum, warning that if the United States doesn’t accept Tehran’s counterproposal to a nuclear deal by the end of January, it will commence reactor fuel production at increased levels of enrichment.[14]

In order to avoid a military confrontation with Iran, the bipartisan Senate coalition had called for the U.S. action in the face of what they say is likely to be continued stalling at the UN. “We must…exhaust every possible non-military means at our disposal to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons capability,” stated a letter by U.S. senators including Evan Bayh (D-Ind.), Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Chuck Schumer (D-NY), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Robert Casey (D-Pa.), Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.), Ben Cardin (D-Md.) and David Vitter (R-La.).[15]

Ex-NY Mayor Koch: Obama Anti-Israel ‘In Order to Please Muslims’
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
April 3, 2010

 

U.S. President Barack Obama is anti-Israel and “is willing to throw Israel under the bus in order to please Muslim nations," former New York City Mayor Ed Koch charged.

Click here to read Ed Koch's op-ed article, "The Trust is Gone."   

Koch, a Jewish Democrat, has been gradually “falling out of love” with President Obama, a term he used in a commentary he published last August. The recent snub by the president of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, highlighted by a meeting without a press conference or even an official photograph, broke the proverbial camel’s back for Koch.

After having opposed President Obama’s health care reform plan and expressing disappointment over his failure to convince Russia and China to back harsh sanctions against Iran, the former mayor recently wrote, “President Obama’s abysmal attitude toward the State of Israel and his humiliating treatment of Prime Minister Netanyahu is shocking.”

He then went one step further with unprecedented public criticism of President Obama by a leading Democrat, telling Fox News that the country’s leader is more interested in pacifying Muslim nations than helping Israel.

"What they did is they wanted to make Israel into a pariah," he said. "It's outrageous in my judgment," Koch commented.

"I have been a supporter of President Obama and went to Florida for him, urged Jews all over the country to vote for him, saying that he would be just as good as John McCain on the security of Israel. I don't think it's true anymore.”

He also publicly questioned New York Senator Chuck Schumer, a Jew, for not protesting President Obama’s treatment of Israel. "It's their silence," Koch told the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin. "I can't figure out where they are.”

The senator reportedly told Koch he will openly side with Israel if President Obama does not back off.