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Tuesday, August 1, 2023

08/01 Links Pt2: The colourful Twitter history of Palestine; Deir Yassin: The ‘Massacre’ That Never Was; UNESCO to rule on ancient Jericho as Palestinian World Heritage site

From Ian:

David Collier: The colourful Twitter history of Palestine
Social media sites such as Twitter portray a wonderful history of a state called Palestine – but first let us quickly remember the truth.

The historical facts:
For the Islamic world, the area of 19th century Southern Syria was a sparsely populated forgotten backwater with rival clans and nomadic tribes presenting a hazardous obstacle for every trip. The weakening of the occupying power (the Ottoman Empire) and growing global trade – resurrected European interest. It was Christian travellers recognising this area as their ‘Holy Land’ that put an anglicised version of the name given to it by occupying Roman forces – ‘Palestine’ – firmly back on the map.

European Christian and Zionist investment increased opportunity, and immigrants (mostly Muslims from the collapsing Ottoman Empire) began to flood into the forgotten backwater. This time period culminated in ‘Palestine’ being used as the name for the British Mandate, awarded to Britain by the League of Nations to resurrect the Jewish homeland.

‘Palestine’ was never anything but a name of European imperial colonial conquest (Greek, Roman, Crusader and then British). Even the root derives from the ‘Philistines’ – European Invaders from the Aegean. This is why when Arabs bringing Islam had invaded and colonised the area they didn’t adopt it, and even local usage soon fell out of favour. ‘Palestine’ was not native to the land and had no meaning at all to Muslims. It remained just Christian terminology for the Holy Land – the Jewish ‘Land of Israel’. The anti-Zionist problem

This may all sound cold and heartless on the notion of a ‘Palestinian identity’ but it remains the historical truth.

None of this helps the anti-Israel crowd that is desperate to argue that Jews came and took over a prosperous land full of indigenous Palestinian people who had lived there as a nation for millennia. As Zionism rose – Muslim interest in the area simply rose to oppose it. They had no interest until the Jews sought to reclaim the land. The Christian world divided – with supersessionists seeing the rebirth of Israel as a direct threat to their own theology – while most Christians saw natural support for Zionism in their bibles. What had been a forgotten backwater was suddenly the most important thing in everyone’s heart.

Even the precious Dome of the Rock and Al Aqsa (‘Haram al-Sharif’) built on the Jewish Temple Mount had been left to waste away. Don’t take it from me. This is from the Jordanian Royal website which explains that it was the Zionist ‘threat’ that made them wake up – and led to the 1922 restoration of these holy sites that turned them from decaying relics into the iconic images we all know so well today:

But the anti-Jewish movement still needed a banner to gather around and in time, Arab – Soviet anti-Zionist mythology created the ‘Palestinian’ in order to do battle with Israel. They then set about rewriting history, both by belittling Jewish ties to the Land of Israel and embedding a narrative of the indigenous Palestinian hero/victim.

The Twitter history of the Palestinians
When your truth is rooted in historicity, the rest is easy. You have nothing to fear, and your role is to educate those around you. With the anti-Zionists- the opposite is true. Education is the enemy – and so they rely on distortions, outliers, misinformation, fake news, and ignorance to help spread their ‘word’. The result is that an army of anti-Israel activists base their ‘truth’ on a mountain of nothing but lies.

This is easily shown by turning to social media. Here are some examples of how ignorant anti-Zionist history is. As each of these examples have been used 1000s of times (with many of them receiving millions of views) I thought I would present them here – along with the truth behind the image:
Deir Yassin: The ‘Massacre’ That Never Was
The Lingering Problem
Even though Jewish soldiers encountered between 70-80 combatants in the village, questions remain as to why so many casualties were civilians.

Some have argued this was the result of the warning mechanism not working properly. On the way to the village, the loudspeaker truck got stuck in a ditch, mostly out of earshot from the village, so Arab civilians were not properly warned that a battle was about to break out.

Expecting to face only combatants in a residential area, the Jewish soldiers – lacking traditional combat experience – carried out their original battle plan, which was to throw grenades into the houses that combatants were firing from before entering and clearing the houses.

Not expecting to find civilians still sheltering in place, they did not allow for that possibility.

The fight over the Zahran household during the battle best demonstrates the consequences of these tactics. During this fight, Muhmand Zahran, two of his sons, and his grandson, defended the property. The Jewish soldiers blindly threw grenades and shot into the house, killing 24 people.

Ultimately, it was flawed tactics rather than intent to murder that were responsible for the civilian deaths.

The Real Terrorist Attack
The battle over Deir Yassin was neither a terrorist attack nor a massacre. Deir Yassin represented a legitimate military objective for the Jewish soldiers in achieving their broader military objective of securing the road to Jerusalem. While planning the attack, the Jewish soldiers planned to mitigate civilian casualties, even at the expense of their own tactical advantage.

The loss of every civilian life is a tragedy. In the case of Deir Yassin, it was an avoidable tragedy had the military operation gone to plan. But the decades-long lie that the village is the site of a planned and deliberate massacre is just that – a lie.

Sadly, it is a lie that has had deadly consequences. On April 13, 1948, Arab militants killed over 70 medical workers and civilians in a revenge attack for Deir Yassin. Their objective was to kill as many unarmed civilians as possible.

Conclusion
Deir Yassin was a failure. But most importantly, it was a military failure. The pervasive and insidious narrative that a Jewish militia targeted the village and its inhabitants with a plot to commit unspeakable savagery is simply not supported by evidence.
UNESCO to rule on ancient Jericho as Palestinian World Heritage site
UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee is expected to list the site of ancient Jericho, which is now an archaeological park located in the modern Palestinian city that still bears the biblical name, as being in the "state of Palestine."

The city is located in a section of the Jordan Valley, also known as Area A of the West Bank, which is under the auspices of the Palestinian Authority.

It is one of 53 natural and cultural sites the World Heritage Committee will be voting to include on its global list when it convenes this September in Saudi Arabia.

UNESCO has recognized Palestine as a state since 2011. It has since inscribed three other West Bank properties to it: the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in 2012; the ancient terraces of Battir in 2014; and Hebron’s Old Town, including the Tomb of the Patriarchs, in 2017.

The PA has filed requests for UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee to recognize 13 other sites during future meetings. They include Sebastia, the site of the former capital of ancient northern Israel; and the Qumran caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered.

The World Heritage Committee has inscribed nine sites to Israel, the last of which was Maresha Caves in Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park in 2014.

The inscription of additional Israeli sites into the World Heritage Program has been complicated by political considerations. Israel's relations with UNESCO

Israel and the United States both halted their annual dues to UNESCO in 2011 to protest the organization’s recognition of Palestine as a state. Both countries lost voting rights in the organization as a result in 2013. They withdrew at the end of 2018 to protest the organization’s anti-Israel bias, a move that went into effect in 2019.

The US rejoined UNESCO this summer, and first lady Jill Biden traveled to the organization’s headquarters in Paris in July to celebrate America’s renewed ties with the organization.

Israel has not made any public statements about its intent to rejoin UNESCO. Its absence from the organization complicates any work on the potential inscription of further World Heritage Sites.




With ‘Endphase,’ local filmmaker brings to light 1945 massacre in quiet Austrian town
After the massacre, Schwarz says, he recited the Mourner’s Kaddish and the El Malei Rachamim prayer for the dead. He walked with two fellow survivors, a 60-year-old and a young man, to Rosa Forsthofer’s home. Her family sheltered Schwarz but sent the others to another family, the Stadlers. Schwarz recounts a subsequent improbable train odyssey back to Hungary, where he reunited with his father and brother, as well as another survivor family, the Ungars.

Today both Schwarz and his friend Yona Ungar live in Israel — Schwarz in Bnei Brak, Ungar in Haifa. The filmmakers interviewed both men in Israel, with the footage including a Schwarz family celebration. One of his 18 grandchildren shares a moving tribute to her grandfather.

Who pulled the triggers?
Back in Austria, the filmmakers encounter difficulties when they try to identify the perpetrators of the massacre. Evidence is scarce; some of it comes from an October 28, 2000, video interview with the late survivor György Roth, who immigrated to Israel. In Romania after the war, Roth convinced authorities to give him custody of two SS captives who told him they were in Persenbeug. Noting that his family had been killed there, Roth said he executed the SS men. The film suggests that the SS men who committed the Hofamt Priel massacre might also have fled to Romania.

When the subject turns to locals in Austria who could have abetted the mass killing, they find few people willing to talk. Weber, Forsthofer and Wiehaim share what they remember — including one particular memory: a request to a man nicknamed “Fritzl” to turn on the light, possibly a reference to using motor vehicle headlights to illuminate those about to be killed. “Fritzl,” the director hypothesizes, could have been a prominent local doctor, an SS member whose Nazi ties predated the war.

Of any connection between this individual and the events of May 2-3, 1945, Hochstöger said, “We can’t prove it. Quite possibly, he was involved in the massacre.” Rosa Forsthofer, who was a child at the time of the massacre, recalls Hofamt Priel in 1945 for the film ‘Endphase.’ (Courtesy Sixpack Film)

After the war, the doctor became such a beloved community figure in nearby Petzenkirchen that one of its squares was named after him. Hochstöger has a seat-squirming conversation with the mayor about this recognition, which was ultimately stripped last year.

“They didn’t see any need to change the name of the square,” Hochstöger said. “They just changed the name after our film was shown on Austrian TV. We got a lot of bad emails.”

However, he noted, in the village and its environs, “a lot of people wanted to see the film and actually saw it… We managed to put the massacre information to the public.”

“Actually, the massacre is not really known to American historians,” Hochstöger said. “It’s a very unknown massacre. It was too late in the war. Possibly, the film changed that, is changing that. If nationally and in Germany and the US, a lot of people will see it, my hope is that one cannot say anymore that they have never heard of Hofamt Priel or the massacre of Hofamt Priel.”
How Vichy laws affected Jews in Morocco
The Moroccan Jewish community numbered some 260,000 people in 1940.

In Morocco Charles Noguès, resident general, represented the collaborationist regime with the enemy led from Vichy by Philippe Pétain. He worked tirelessly to extend to Moroccan Jews the lowly statut des juifs of France dating from October 3, 1940 and published in the official journal of the French State of October 18.

Despite his revulsion, the sultan of Morocco Mohamed V proceeded with the publication of the dahir of October 31, 1940 on the application in Morocco of the “status of the Jews” of France.

If the Jewish community institutions were maintained, the professional and political prohibitions were now applied to the Jews of Morocco.

People who fled anti-Semitic persecution in France and Europe to take refuge in Morocco were interned in a former military camp south of Casablanca.

Considered too lax, the anti-Semitic “legislation” in court was replaced by the dahir of August 8, 1941, a Moroccan extension of the French law of June 3 of the same year. This dahir aggravated the segregation and prohibitions applied to the Jews.

In order to see for himself the local application of anti-Semitic measures, the collaborator Xavier Valat, Commissioner for Jewish Affairs, went to Morocco on August 18, 1941. He visited the Sultan there and then went on to the mellah (Jewish quarter) of Fez.

Shortly after, the decree of August 22, 1941 forced the Jews to live in the mellahs.

The liberation of Sherifian territory by the United States Army at the end of 1942 saved the Jewish community from starvation.

Against all odds and due to strategic and political shenanigans, the 1942 American landing in North Africa did not put an end to the anti-Semitic “legislation” in force in Morocco. It was not until the laws of March 14, 1943 that the anti-Jewish measures were cancelled throughout Morocco.
Anti-Government Anarchists Vow to Dismantle Simcha Rothman’s Community
Anti-government anarchists are organizing on Facebook and elsewhere on social media this week to disrupt the lives of Religious Zionist Knesset Member Simcha Rothman, his family and his community in the hours before the start of the Sabbath.

The reason: Rothman, who chairs the Knesset Constitution Law and Justice Committee, is a major supporter of the government’s planned judicial reforms.

The anarchists say they are planning to gather outside Rothman’s home at 11 am Friday in the eastern Gush Etzion community of Pnei Kedem, on the outskirts of Metzad, according to their Facebook post recruiting bodies for the mission.

“This coming Friday, we will be there to make it clear to Rothman that his outpost will be dismantled long before he succeeds in dismantling our democracy!” wrote the organizers.

The event is being organized by Peace Now, Mothers Against Violence (paradoxically), and “three others” that were left unidentified in the post.

Tickets to the “event” are being sold at NIS 25, NIS 50 and NIS 100 (donor price) per head. After all, well-organized anarchy is expensive…


Im Tirtzu: "The Salon for Zionist Thought" Presents: Yishai Fleisher and the Centrality of Hevron
Yishai Fleisher, Director of International Affairs of the Jewish Community of Hebron, speaks at the "Salon for Zionist Thought" about the continuing importance of Hevron for all Jews and all those who cherish the Land of Israel. Interviewer: Douglas Altabef, Chairman of The Board at Im Tirtzu


How the German Government funds Online Hate and Antisemitism
The Israeli Ambassador to Germany Ron Prosor has urged the German government to ban PFLP front group Samidoun from fund-raising in Germany. Likud MK Ariel Kallner and NGO Im Tirtzu have criticized German government funding for anti-Israel NGOs and for defending terrorists in Israeli court. Now it seems the German government is funding an “anti-Hate Speech NGO” that defends anti-Semites in German courts. What's the story?

In 2016, German advertising manager Gerald Hensel began a boycott campaign against the conservative news site "Axis of Good", which was co-founded by prominent German-Jewish intellectual Henryk Broder, who was born 1946 in Polish Katowice to Holocaust survivors.

Hensel lost his job at the leading German advertising agency "Scholz & Friends" due to the controversy around his boycott campaign. So he went on to a lucrative career at taxpayer-funded “Non-Governmental” Organizations fighting “Hate Speech” online.

In May 2017 he founded “Hate Aid” with the support of the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD). "Twitter Files" journalists Matt Taibbi and Michael Shellenberger have identified ISD as one of the main players in the so-called "censorship industrial complex", which they say is endangering free speech world-wide, as governments outsource unconstitutional censorship to so called “Non-Governmental” Organizations, often with ties to the anti-Israel Open Society Foundations.

In 2018, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg from Soros-funded activist group Campact joined Hensel in running HateAid. Campact received €150,000 from Open Society Initiative for Europe in 2021 to “support HateAid to fight hate online and hold haters accountable.”

On its website, HateAid purports to fight anti-Semitism and “Doxxing” (revealing someone’s personal information online against their will, such as when using an alias). However, HateAid is itself closely tied to several persons themselves accused of anti-Semitism and Doxxing.
German minister defies Berlin on Israel’s terror listing of Palestinian NGOs
Germany’s Federal Ministry of the Interior believes Israel provided sufficient evidence to justify its listing of several Palestinian non-governmental organizations as terrorist entities, Der Spiegel reported.

Interior Minister Nancy Faeser’s position reportedly has put her at odds with Berlin’s foreign office, which previously condemned Israel’s move.

On Oct. 22, 2021, Israel listed six Palestinian NGOs as terror groups over their ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP): Addameer, al-Haq, Defense for Children Palestine, the Union of Agricultural Work Committees, the Bisan Center for Research and Development, and the Union of Palestinian Women Committees.

“Those organizations were active under the cover of civil society organizations, but in practice belong and constitute an arm of the [PFLP] leadership, the main activity of which is the ‘liberation’ of Palestine and destruction of Israel,” said then-Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.

The E.U., U.S., Canada and Israel have all designated the PFLP as a terrorist organization. However, on July 12, 2022, nine European governments, including Germany, formally rejected Israel’s decision.

“No substantial information was received from Israel that would justify reviewing our policy towards the six Palestinian NGOs on the basis of the Israeli decision to designate these NGOs as ‘terrorist organizations,'” the countries said in a joint statement at the time.

The German Foreign Ministry’s support for the statement has caused a “severe” rift within the government, Der Spiegel reported. “According to [Interior Minister] Faeser’s experts, the evidence against the six NGOs is so incriminating that it could be used in a German court,” added the report.

“The Israelis also provided concrete indications how European taxpayers’ money could be used for terror purposes,” said the report, which estimated that 50 to 70 percent of European aid to the six organizations ended up in the coffers of terrorists.


Toying with Evil on Twitter
Okay. I’m going to tell you about a guy who has over 200,000 people who are into his daily jokes online. It’s the kind of thing one thinks was planned. Instead this started as a joke.

Shawn Eni describes himself as the kind of person who finds humor in everything. He’s developed a knack for spotting the funnies in the darkest part of Jewish existence, but doing so with care. There’s plenty to mock about anti-Semites. The belief in silly conspiracies is its own self-parody. The sheer amount of time of this ongoing disaster is too almost it’s own joke.

It’s just that the magnitude of the atrocities can only ever be confronted with deadly seriousness. You can’t defeat paranoid lunacy with witticisms.

There’s no need to dehumanize an anti-Semite either.

Shawn is someone who reads the comments section in articles about Israel. I was kinda shocked when he told me this. My wife reads the comments section too. As though she’s seeking the reminder that, yes, the target of those hostile remarks is me. All those terrible things did happen. They can happen again.

There’s wisdom in subjecting yourself to that. To know that your fate could be to suffer miserably for years, with almost no hope, a slow torture bestowed on you by your fellow mammal, supposedly animated by the divine – but that there’s a way to avoid that. And dedicating yourself to the virtues you follow with wobbly aim is the best method forward. The beauty is, the core idea is universally applicable.

Several years ago, Shawn noticed that officials in Muslim countries were accusing the Mossad of odd plots, like stealing Iran’s rain clouds and sending sharks to eat tourists in Egypt. One Muslim anti-Israel activist in the UK claimed that Israeli spies broke into his house to rob one shoe.

Not documents. Not money. Not even the full pair of shoes. Just one shoe.

Shawn’s reaction? “Oh my god, this is sweet,” he told me on my podcast. “I need to be that Mossad. Not the real Mossad. I need to be THAT Mossad, where, whatever you want to blame on the Jews, whatever you want to blame on Israel, the craziest thing you can come up with, we’re that organization that comes up with that stuff.”
Youristics: 28. Shawn Eni
Shawn Eni is the man behind the parody Mossad account on Twitter.
You can follow him @TheMossadIL


Jonathan Tobin: A film about saving children isn’t an antisemitic conspiracy
“Sound of Freedom” is the film that the chattering classes are encouraging you not to see. NPR says its success is due to support from the shadowy QAnon extremist group. It’s been blasted by The Guardian as “QAnon adjacent” and was linked to blood libels and conspiracy theories by a JTA article. A CNN segment labeled it as a crude and fraudulent piece of agitprop that is the product of a “moral panic.” It’s the kind of movie that enlightened and educated people are supposed to avoid at all costs.

And yet, somehow in this season of Hollywood blockbusters, it is “Sound of Freedom”—a movie shot on a slim budget five years ago and distributed by a fledgling independent studio that is largely associated with marginal religious content—that is the surprise runaway hit of the summer. Describing the exploits of real-life former Homeland Security Department agent Tim Ballard in combating the sexual trafficking of children, it sold $148 million in tickets at theaters since its release on July 4. That put it in third place during the month in box-office receipts, trailing only the massively promoted “Barbie” ($351 million) and “Oppenheimer” ($174 million), and actually soundly beating two other major studio releases—the latest editions of the “Mission Impossible” and “Indiana Jones” franchises, despite being shown on fewer screens than all of those films.

This success of a movie that has been trashed by the corporate media and whose star, actor Jim Caviezel, has given evidence of being an extremist, is troubling to those who clearly view it as the product of right-wing nutcases. This is a film that the entertainment establishment sought to shelve and then treated with disdain. It has almost no promotional budget (especially when compared to the media blitz surrounding the “Barbenheimer” duo) and has relied almost solely on word of mouth, as well as a unique “pay it forward” system by which moviegoers are encouraged to help pay for the tickets of others to go see it.

So for “Sound of Freedom” to have not merely gained an audience but to have created a genuine groundswell of support from the public must say something terrible about America in 2023.

Or does it?

Stripped of the efforts to besmirch the filmmakers and even its audience, it’s clear that the anger about the movie’s success is mainly a function of the role that politics play in contemporary popular culture. It also speaks volumes about the hypocrisy of liberals. They denounce the treatment of children when it can be pinned on one of their principal political demons—former President Donald Trump. But they prefer to put down the concerns “Sound of Freedom” raises about child trafficking to the paranoia and extremism of a vast swath of the public that they still think of as “deplorables.”
Adidas and Golda: The double standard
Different rules apply when it comes to the Jews. Often. And just this week alone, this applies to a few circumstances.

Kanye West praised Hitler, made numerous Anti-Semitic offensive, dangerous comments, and in response to that, Adidas has confirmed they will be relaunching a second wave of popular Yeezy sneakers. While Adidas in 2022 claimed to have terminated their partnership with West, money matters more. It validates his thinking and rants, but it would never ever happen if a celebrity made such offensive comments about any other people besides Jews. Naturally, Kanye will be well paid on this sneaker drop.

Adidas is donating what they claim to be "a significant amount to charity,” as a result of this sale including to the Anti-Defamation League and the Philonise & Keeta Floyd Institute for Social Change, run by George Floyd's brother, which aims to fight systemic racism in the United States. Why not all of the sales? Why is Kanye being paid? What does a charity run by George Floyd’s brother have to do with Anti-Semitism?

Laughingly, Adidas will show its support for the Foundation to Combat Antisemitism by including blue square pins with the footwear sold directly by Adidas in North America. Buy a sneaker created by someone with a history of praising Hitler, make him even richer, and Adidas will give you a pin “to combat antisemitism.” What a joke.
British Islamist charged with leading a terror group
The United Kingdom banned the Muslim group al-Muhajiroun as a terror group in 2010, though it soon re-emerged under new names, including the Islamic Thinkers Society.

Prosecutors allege that Anjem Choudary, 56, violated the Terrorism Act when he gave lectures for the group on such subjects as creating an Islamic state in Britain.

He was arrested on July 17 and charged on July 24. His co-defendant, Khaled Hussein, 28, was also arrested on July 17 after flying in from Canada. Hussein is accused of aiding Choudary in creating an online platform for the promotion of the group’s radical Islamist political ideology.

Neither man entered a plea. Both will be held at least until their next hearing, which is scheduled for Aug. 4.

In the last 15 years, through frequent media appearances, Choudary established himself as one of the most prominent voices advocating Islamic radicalism in the United Kingdom. He was previously convicted of supporting the Islamic State in September 2016 and released in October 2018, serving half of a five-year, six-month sentence.

The United States designated Choudary a terrorist in March 2017.


Upcoming CAMERA event on media bias
One of the major elements of anti-Israel media bias isn’t actually about Israel at all.

It concerns the media’s coverage of Palestinians – or, more precisely, its failure to devote real coverage to Palestinian affairs, including the irresponsible and often destructive decisions by Palestinians and their leadership that serve as impediments to peace.

The media’s narrow framing of Palestinians as merely victims denies news consumers vital insight into the “root cause” of the conflict.

Please join us for a discussion of this problematic topic with CAMERA UK co-editor Adam Levick.
BBC News fails to provide full background to Hizballah provocations
Neither does Bateman inform his readers of the UN’s decision in 2000 to draw the Blue Line right through the middle of the village of Ghajar, apparently with no concern for the Israeli citizens it thereby condemned to living in Lebanon, or the relevant topic of weapons and drug smuggling from Lebanon into Israel at that location.

Notably, Bateman is unable to tell his readers in his own words about the Iranian supply of weapons to Hizballah via Syria and instead resorts to using the ‘Israel says’ tactic:
“Israel regularly bombs proxy fighters of Iran operating in neighbouring Syria. It says this is to prevent further weapons stockpiling by Hezbollah, which it believes has amassed around 150,000 rockets, including long-range Iranian-made missiles capable of striking Israeli cities.”

Bateman tells readers that:
“Meanwhile, there have been increasing signs of “unity” arrangements between Gaza-based Palestinian militant groups and those in Lebanon, who rally around the defence of al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem.

Several times in the last two years, including this April, Palestinian groups in southern Lebanon fired rockets into Israel during times of violence relating to al-Aqsa. Such rocket fire from Lebanon can only happen with Hezbollah’s say so.”

As was noted here in April when those rocket attacks took place, BBC audiences are already seriously underinformed on the topic of the long-known issue of Hamas’ infrastructure in Lebanon and its collaboration with another Iran-backed terrorist group, Hizballah.

While readers of Bateman’s long report may at long last be somewhat more aware of Hizballah’s continuing deliberate provocations along the Israel-Lebanon border, it is all too clear that the BBC continues to fail to provide its audiences with the full range of information necessary for proper understanding of this story.
Indy writer airbrushes Hamas from five Gaza articles
Tellingly, Dowling’s airbrushing of Hamas is not a one-off.
In an Independent article earlier in the year about Gaza’s electricity shortages, (Gaza: ‘24 hours of electricity a day? This is beyond a dream for us’, Jan. 24, 2023), Dowling similarly managed to avoid using the word Hamas throughout the piece.
An article by Dowling last year in the Independent on the plight of Gaza’s children (“Gaza: ’24 hours of electricity a day? This is but a dream for us'”, Jan. 22, 2022) also omitted Hamas.
In 2021, in an article at the Independent by Dowling focusing on Gaza’s amputees, (‘I went to work with two legs and left with one: Gaza’s forgotten amputees’, Sept. 14, 2021), he again completely erased Hamas from the story.
In 2019, in an article in the Independent by Dowling, also about women in Gaza, (“Women of Gaza: Empowered and Resilient”, Nov. 29, 2019), the word “Hamas” similarly did not appear.

That makes five articles by the journalist published at the Independent over the past four years, encompassing over 5,000 words, about the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza which avoided mentioning the extremist movement that rules the territory.

So, was the price he paid for entry and access into Gaza was a guarantee that he’d keep Hamas out of the story? If so, the fact that neither Dowling nor the Independent were transparent about such a quid pro quo would represent an serious ethical breech.

Either way, how these glaring omissions got past editors is anyone’s guess, and we complained to the outlet asking that the most recent article be corrected.


Israeli Ambassador to India Blasts Bollywood Film for ‘Trivialization’ of Holocaust
The Ambassador of Israel to India Naor Gilon and the Israeli Embassy in India have joined Jewish groups in criticizing a new Bollywood film called Bawaal released on Prime Video India that they claim minimizes the atrocities of the Holocaust by comparing it to the strains of a new marriage.

Bawaal was released on Amazon Prime Video India on July 21 and revolves around a high school history teacher named Ajay, played by Varun Dhawan, and the strained relationship he has with his newlywed wife Nisha, played by Janhvi Kapoor.

During one scene in the film, the protagonists visit the Auschwitz concentration camp and are reimagined as prisoners of the Nazi death camp. In the movie’s trailer, Nisha is seen inside a gas chamber used to kill Jewish inmates at Auschwitz as what appears to be victims of the Holocaust suffocate around her. The trailer also uses the tagline “Every love story has its own war.”

The film was shot in location around Europe, including at the site of the former Auschwitz concentration camp.

“I did not and will not watch the film Bawaal but from what I’ve read, there was a poor choice of terminology and symbolism,” Gilon wrote Friday on X, formerly known as Twitter. “Trivialization of the Holocaust should disturb all. I urge those who don’t know enough about the horrors of the #Holocaust to educate themselves about it.”

The Israeli Embassy in India also issued a statement saying it is “disturbed by the“trivialization of the significance of the Holocaust in the movie,” directed and co-written by award-winning Indian filmmaker Nitesh Tiwari.
Suspect at Hebrew Academy shooting is former student
The alleged shooter at Margolin Hebrew Academy on Monday, July 31, is reportedly a former student at the Academy and is Jewish, per an updated statement from Congressman Steve Cohen.

The shooting led to a precautionary lockdown for Memphis-Shelby County Schools, even though Margolin is not part of MSCS.

“We have recently learned that the shooter at the Margolin Hebrew Academy was himself Jewish and a former student at the school,” Cohen’s updated statement read. “I am pleased the academy had effective security and that the police acted quickly to protect students.”

MPD kicks off real-time video camera monitoring with businesses

No injuries were reported as a result of the shooting at the East Memphis school.

An earlier statement from Cohen, who is Jewish, had decried the shooting as an act of antisemitism.

State senate minority leader Raumesh Akbari noted how the shooting was the second one on a school campus in the city in a less than week.

On July 25, a security guard at Freedom Prep Academy Westwood Elementary was shot in the face while standing outside of the school. He was transported to Regional One in critical condition. School was not in session at the time, according to the school’s charter operator.
Amazon to invest $7.2 bln in Israel, launches AWS cloud region
Amazon.com said on Tuesday it is planning to invest about $7.2 billion through 2037 in Israel, and launched its Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers in the country.

Amazon's cloud services in the region will allow the country's government to run applications and store data in data centers located in Israel.

"The establishment of the Region will enable us to migrate substantial governmental workloads to the cloud, and we are confident that it will help us accelerate digital transformation in the public sector," said Yali Rothenberg, accountant general of Israel.

What is AWS?
AWS is Amazon's cloud computing platform, used by companies such as Netflix, General Electric and Sony 6758.T, enabling storage, networking, and remote security.

With the expansion, AWS will be available in 32 geographic regions, the company said, adding that its investment in Israel will contribute about $13.9 billion to Israel's gross domestic product.
Welcome to Jewrassic Park — Spielberg’s first Nazi parable
Steven Spielberg said “that with Jurassic [Park] I was really just trying to make a good sequel to Jaws. On land”. I have argued how, on these pages, his earlier shark film can be read as Jewish. Like the shark lurking beneath the waters of his earlier film, Jewishness prowls the undergrowth of his dinosaur movie which celebrates its 30th anniversary this month.

Spielberg was editing Jurassic Park while filming Schindler’s List which also celebrates its 30th anniversary later this year. It was inevitable that the two films would bleed into one another. He shot brutal blood-soaked footage of the Holocaust during the day and edited brutal blood-soaked footage of dinosaurs by night. This produced uncanny plot similarities between the two films summed up by one critic: “A wealthy and eccentric businessman who decides to risk everything to save those who are utterly different from him trapped behind electrified barbed wire and threatened with complete annihilation, filmed with beautiful cinematography and a soaring emotional score by the composer John Williams”. You may think this plot description refers to Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List but it’s just as apt for Jurassic Park.

The dinosaur park, then, echoes the centuries of Jewish artistic and historical objects, which were preserved by Nazi Germany, to create a so-called ‘Museum of an Extinct Race’. The dinosaurs are ghettoised and the dominant colours of red and yellow used to brand the park are those that have historically been used to mark out Jews from the blood libel through to the yellow star. The idea of Jews as predators in pursuit of innocent Christians is not a new one. Jews are also seen to embody fossils of a bygone age.

Popular culture has also connected Jewishness with dinosaurs. Consider the lead singer of the British Glam rock band T-Rex — the Jewish Marc Bolan. The toy dinosaur Rex in the Toy Story franchise is voiced by the Jewish actor Wallace Shawn.

Underpinning the narrative of the film is an opposition between Jewish and non-Jewish values represented by two rival groups of characters. Alan Grant, Ellie Sattler and Ian Malcolm stand opposed to John Hammond, Donald Gennaro, and Dennis Nedry.
It’s Bad to Be a Sheep
While looking into the accusing eyes of a sheep in a remote Armenian village in 1961, the Russian novelist Vasily Grossman, literature’s most eloquent witness to the horrors of the Battle of Stalingrad, glimpsed the power and futility of the moral claims that the downtrodden make upon their victimizers. “There was something human about her, something Jewish, Armenian, mysterious,” he wrote in An Armenian Sketchbook, his final work. To Grossman, the sheep represented the cruelty hard-wired into a civilization that lies to itself about the actual contours of existence. “What meek and proud contempt that gaze contains,” he wrote of the sheep. “What godlike superiority—the superiority of an innocent herbivore before a murderer who writes books and creates computing machines! The translator”—that is to say, Grossman himself—“repented before the ewe, knowing he would be eating her meat the following day.”

Grossman’s lamb is something of a cliche. A celebrated mural in Yerevan’s Cascades art complex depicts a victorious battle for national survival against the Persians in the fourth century, around the time Armenia became the first country in the world to officially adopt Christianity. In the ninth century Armenians gained independence after 200 years of Arab rule. The Seljuk Turks first invaded in the 11th century, a humbling reminder of the arrogance of believing yours is the generation that will finally be the one brilliant and moral enough to end a conflict many times older than itself. Armenians repelled a Turkish invasion in 1918 in the midst of a genocide, a victory that allowed for the brief independence of the newly formed Republic of Armenia.

The lamb is a cliche in the Jews’ case as well: By 1961, Israel, another state founded in the wake of a genocide, had triumphed in its own war for survival, built close relations with several of the world’s leading powers, launched a clandestine nuclear weapons program, and briefly occupied the Suez Canal. In both Israel and Armenia, the question of how the atmosphere in a small country on the edge of disaster can remain so fundamentally upbeat is connected to the larger mystery of its peoples’ survival.

In contrast to Ireland and Iran, Armenia has legitimate reasons to be an anti-Israel country, however similar their histories might be. Azerbaijan’s defeat of Armenia in their 2020 war might not have been possible without Baku’s use of high-end, Israeli-supplied weapons, including offensive drones. The war resulted in Azerbaijan laying siege to the 120,000 ethnic Armenians remaining in the disputed and now mostly Azeri-held region of Nagorno-Karabakh, which Armenian forces had controlled since the conclusion of a previous war over the territory in 1994. Azerbaijan’s victory also made it possible for Baku to seize uninhabited high ground inside the Republic of Armenia itself in a series of attacks in September 2022.

I visited Armenia this past June, as part of a delegation organized by the Philos Project, a U.S.-based group that promotes American engagement with endangered Christian communities across the greater Middle East. Every Armenian I met, including senior officials in the government, looked to Israel with regret instead of anger—they wish that the Israelis were on their side instead of their enemy’s, and they realize they need to think more creatively about how to change Jerusalem’s calculus. Armenians, wedged between the imperial spheres of Russia, Turkey, and Persia for the past 1,000 years, have a keen enough understanding of power dynamics to realize that oil-rich Azerbaijan has more to offer Israel than tiny, resource-poor Armenia currently does. In the interest of making up lost ground, Armenia opened an embassy in Tel Aviv in September of 2020, while Yerevan’s longstanding and close relationship with Iran is a “special item” in an ongoing strategic dialogue with the United States. Zohrab Mnatsakanyan, a former foreign minister of Armenia and the country’s top diplomat during the 2020 war, contrasted the achievement of Israel’s first three decades to the 30 years of stagnation that followed modern Armenia’s independence.

The kinship between the Armenian and Jewish experiences, and the lessons it still holds for both of these ancient Near Eastern peoples, can be seen in especially stark form in Jermuk, a resort town built around a sweet mountain hot spring in Armenia’s southeast. Until November 2020, Jermuk and the twin concrete monoliths of its Soviet-era sanitarium were close to the border with Nagorno-Karabakh but far from the line of contact with Azerbaijan. The 2020 war advanced the front to within 15 kilometers of the town, and Azeri incursions in September 2022 brought enemy forces even closer. Jermuk is one of the towns that Azerbaijan would have to seize if it ever wanted to carve a path to the Nakhchivan exclave, on the other side of the 30 kilometer-wide thumb of southern Armenia.
Hundreds of rabbis to join conference in Azerbaijan as Jewish ties flourish
Hundreds of European rabbis from across the continent will be gathering in Azerbaijan this fall to discuss Jewish affairs in the first such convention in a Muslim nation.

The planned event comes amid burgeoning relations between Israel and Azerbaijan that developed from a centuries-long affinity between the two nations into an unprecedented strategic partnership.

The biennial convention of the Conference of European Rabbis is scheduled to take place in Baku between Nov. 12-15 at the invitation of Azerbaijan President Ilham Aliyev, who will serve as the honorary host, with about 500 rabbis expected to attend the event.

The primary Orthodox rabbinical alliance in Europe, the organization unites more than 700 religious leaders from communities across Europe. Founded in 1956, it works to defend the rights of Jews in Europe, with freedom of religion and matters related to the Jewish communities expected to be front and center at the conference.

“Azerbaijan is a place with a special memory for the Jewish people, and is home to one of the most unique Jewish communities in the world,” said Rabbi Pinchas Goldschmidt, president of the Conference of European Rabbis who met with Aliyev earlier this year.

“The developing ties between Israel and Azerbaijan are of great importance in today’s Middle East,” he added.
Father of Late Actor Best Known as Pee-Wee Herman Was Co-Founding Pilot of Israeli Air Force
Jewish American actor and comedian Paul Reubens – who was best known for playing the nerdy, eccentric and comedic character he created Pee-wee Herman — died on Sunday night at the age of 70 after battling cancer, the same illness that killed his father, who was a co-founding pilot of the Israeli Air Force (IAF).

The writer and producer was privately battling cancer for the past six years. In a statement shared by his family on Instagram, Reubens said before his passing: “please accept my apology for not going public with what I’ve been facing the last six years. I have always felt a huge amount of love and respect from my friends, fans and supporters. I have loved you all so much and enjoyed making art for you.”

Reubens’ father, Milton Rubenfeld, helped establish the IAF. The actor told the Sarasota Herald-Tribune in 2004: “My father didn’t like to talk about his many accomplishments. In 1948, he and a small group of Americans helped establish the state of Israel and form the Israeli Air Force. Israel honored him for his heroism and leadership and his plane was preserved and displayed outside the airport in Tel Aviv with a plaque bearing his name.”

Rubenfeld taught aerial acrobatics before World War II. During the war he joined Britain’s Royal Air Force to fight against Nazi Germany and later was part of the US Air Force unit Air Transport Command, helping to transport planes, people and materiel to and from the United States.

In February 1948, Haganah, a Zionist paramilitary organization that wanted to create an air force for the Jewish state, was looking for Jewish WWII pilots with combat experience and approached Rubenfeld, according to Military.com. He began ferrying planes to Israel and was one of only five of the eight volunteer aviators recruited by the Haganah that could fly Israel’s four Avia fighter aircrafts in combat. Those five volunteers created Israel’s first Air Force. He first mission was on May 30, 1948, attacking an Iraqi armored column that was advancing against Israel. He flew alongside Ezer Weizman, who later became Israel’s seventh president.

Rubenfeld died from cancer at age 84 in Sarasota, Florida, in February 2004. Reubens took two years off from his career to relocate to Florida to care of his terminally ill father, the Today show reported.
Israeli archaeologists unearth building destroyed during Babylonian siege of Jerusalem
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a building that was decimated by fire during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem in 586 BCE, according to a report published on July 22.

The findings were published in the peer-reviewed Journal of Archaeological Science.

The charred building’s remains, dubbed ‘Building 100’ by the researchers, underwent a variety of analyses to understand how the fire had started and how it had progressed through the structure. While researchers can only make an educated guess that the building was burned during the siege of Jerusalem, the intense damage caused to the massive structure supports their hypothesis.

Building 100 was once a large two-story home belonging to a member of Jerusalem’s elite, however, it was lost to time until it was discovered under a parking lot in the southeastern part of the ancient city.

The destruction of Jerusalem and Building 100
“Evidence in the debris of the building left no doubt regarding the presence of fire,” the archaeologists wrote.

“There was no visible indication as to whether it was intentional or accidental, and if intentional, where the fire started and how it spread.”

To try to decipher whether the fire had been deliberate, the researchers employed FITR spectrometry tests and archaeomagnetic analysis.

“The goal is to identify the intensity, direction, and origin of the fire that destroyed Building 100 in order to reconstruct the destruction process in detail, to determine whether the fire was intentional as part of the events of the Babylonian destruction, and to learn about the measures taken by the agents of this destruction in their treatment of this elite building,” the researchers explained.

The researchers searched the building for an ignition point, which would allow them to trace the spread of the fire through the building. They did this by measuring the magnetic signatures of pottery shards and broken floor panels. Through this line of study, the researchers uncovered that the fire had started on the top floor of the building, as the bottom floor had rooms that the fire had not reached. This meant the fire was likely intense but burnt out quickly.




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08/01 Links Pt1: Six Israelis wounded in terror attack in Ma’ale Adumim; Hamas reveals new details of IDF soldier's kidnapping; Israeli Company Signs Deal with Saudi Firm on Renewable Energy

From Ian:

Ex-State Department Officials Admit They Were Wrong
On his way out the door, the retiring U.S. ambassador to Israel, Thomas Nides, has belatedly acknowledged that he “screwed up” in one of his last major actions.

He’s just the latest in a growing line of U.S. diplomats who have admitted—when it was too late—that they made significant errors in their treatment of Israel. So why does anybody still listen to them when they offer advice on the Arab-Israeli conflict?

In an interview with the Israeli newspaper Israel Hayom, Nides was asked about his outrageous tweet commenting on the June 20 massacre of four Israelis by Palestinian-Arab terrorists. The four victims were defenseless civilians in a restaurant; their “crime” was eating lunch while Jewish.

The tweet was outrageous on multiple levels. Nides equated the Arab slaughter of innocent civilians with Israel’s anti-terrorist operation in Jenin that week; he failed to acknowledge that the victims of the massacre were Jews or that the killers were Arabs; and he lumped Israeli victims and dead Jenin terrorists together, saying that both deserved prayers and mourning.

Nine days later, when it was too late to make a difference, Nides acknowledged to Israel Hayom: “I screwed up … it was a stupid thing to do.” Unfortunately, he then trotted out assorted excuses: “I had just returned from Los Angeles when I got word of the attack. I was shown a draft of a tweet, and I signed off on it.” Translation: “I was tired, somebody else wrote it, so it wasn’t totally my fault.” Not a very impressive apology.

Isn’t it remarkable how often this kind of thing happens to Israel?

Recall, for example, the infamous episode of Dennis Ross and the terror tunnels.

As a senior aide to then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in 2009, Ross pressured Israel to let Hamas bring concrete into Gaza. Here’s how Ross recalled it: “I argued with Israeli leaders and security officials, telling them they needed to allow more construction materials, including cement, into Gaza so that housing, schools and basic infrastructure could be built. They countered that Hamas would misuse it, and they were right.” That admission came six years too late.
The Uninvited Backbone of Israel's Anti-Reform Movement
In the war of words over Israel's judicial reform, irrespective of the rights and wrongs of the disputants, the word "democracy" appears to have suffered a bit of a roughing-up.

"... Biden was wrong to intervene in the debate over Netanyahu's proposed judicial reforms.... otherwise, Israeli officials may start commenting on Hunter Biden's plea deal." – Former National Security Advisor John Bolton, Twitter, July 31, 2023.

So, the Biden Administration delivered an "either-or" threat: stop the judicial reform or break our special relationship. The break had actually already begun with President Barack Obama, who became quixotically committed to a policy to finance and enable Israel's self-declared arch-enemy -- "Death to Israel" should probably qualify one as an arch-enemy -- unlimited nuclear weapons, billions of dollars to manufacture them; ballistic missiles to deliver them, and loose change for Iran's mullahs to continue "exporting" their Revolution into Yemen, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, the Gaza Strip and Latin America.

What it all comes down to is that one party seemingly decided that Obama's promise to radically transform America was too important to trust to the electorate.

Now Blinken and Biden are supposedly qualified to give Israel's coalition government a lecture on judicial probity and democracy?
MEMRI: Saudi Journalist: Israel Is A Fact And The Arabs Must Accept It; After Seven Decades Of Conflict And Losses, The Region Crucially Needs Peace And Stability
In her March 2, 2023 column in the Emirati daily Al-Ittihad, Saudi journalist Haila Al-Mashouh, who also writes for the Saudi daily 'Okaz, stated that the conflicts and crises that have afflicted the Middle East in the last decades, chief of them the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, have brought only disaster and losses to the peoples of the region, including the Palestinians. The world, she said, is currently facing multiple security, economic, humanitarian and other crises, and therefore it is essential to attain peace and security in the Middle East and to resolve the conflicts through dialogue, rather than by force of arms. She called to persist in the efforts to achieve peace in the region even if the chances are slim. She added that the state of Israel is a fact and called to accept this while also upholding the Palestinians' right to an independent state – for this will benefit all the peoples in the region.

"…The Middle East has experienced changes and crises throughout the years, some of which led to historic and geographical transformations in some of its countries… The Palestinian issue has been one of the [sources] of the greatest and most influential crises in the Arab region. It was a historical problem that caused one crisis after another, not only in Palestine but in the neighboring Arab countries, and its effects reached even the Arabian Gulf. Later it became a political issue of the entire Muslim [nation], which sparked many wars and upheavals. Some people think that [the flames of] these wars should be fanned, although they are pointless and although it is impossible to achieve peace and security through conflict and bloodshed…

"The upheavals and conflicts that have afflicted the Middle East for decades prove beyond any doubt that… security will not be permanent, stable and genuine unless it is based on morality and justice… and on understandings, far from any armed struggle. The world is currently dealing with security, economic, humanitarian, nutrition, health, climate and environmental crises. Therefore, it is very important that the Middle East be protected from conflicts and from the fanning of disputes, and that disputes be resolved by peaceful means, through dialogue mediated by influential countries that prioritize peace over promoting [various] interests. There is [also] need to widen alliances, out of commitment to the principles of peace and in accordance with the UN treaties and the objectives of global security and stability.

"The Arab region has seen changes that have taught us difficult lessons. [These changes] include the outbreak of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict; Iraq's [absence] from the regional and Arab balance of power; the threats posed by some neighboring countries in the region and their impact on the security of the Gulf and of its shipping lanes; the proxy wars against the countries of the [Saudi-led Arab] coalition [fighting] in Yemen; the terror attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia; the repercussions of the so-called Arab Spring and its horrible results, and the impact of the Covid pandemic, which is still affecting the Arab economies and the supply of food and healthcare in some Middle East countries.

"Security is not a luxury; it is required by the situation and changes in the world. Although the opportunities for peace in the region are dwindling, we must seize these opportunities in order to live in peace, stability and coexistence, while [finding] common ground as human beings, as part of the value of accepting the other and accepting reality.

"The state of Israel is a fact that must be dealt with wisely and prudently, while upholding the right of the Palestinian people [to live] in dignity, security and lasting peace in an independent state. The [Israeli-Arab] conflict, which has lasted over 70 years, has yielded nothing but destruction, considerable losses and insecurity. Peace and security are a right of the peoples of the region, and we must seek to realize and defend [this right], acting wisely rather than emotionally!"


McCarthy names members of House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) told the Knesset on May 1 that he would establish “a House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group” to “strengthen our bonds, build mutual understanding as elected representatives and work better together, democracy to democracy.”

On July 28, he named 12 members of the group, which he called “an exciting new chapter” in the “growing partnership and enduring friendship between Israel and America.”

“For the first time in history, the 435 members of the House and the 120 members of the Knesset have a forum to engage directly with one another, seek solutions that benefit our nations, and faithfully represent our peoples’ hopes and dreams together,” McCarthy stated.

Rep. David Kustoff (R-Tenn.), who is chairing the group, stated that “now more than ever, it is imperative we show the rest of the world that the United States stands firmly with our greatest friend and ally in the Middle East, Israel.”

The other 11 members of the group are Reps. Ann Wagner (R-Mo.), Nicole Malliotakis (R-N.Y.), Anthony D’Esposito (R-N.Y.), John James (R-Mich.), Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.), Max Miller (R-Ohio), Dean Phillips (D-Minn.), Brad Sherman (D-Calif.), Kathy Manning (D-N.C.), Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) and Nikema Williams (D-Ga.).

“The special relationship between our two nations is anchored in our shared democratic values and strategic interests,” stated House Minority Leader Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). “It is this relationship that the members of the House-Knesset Parliamentary Friendship Group will strengthen as they come together with our Israeli counterparts.”
Exclusive: US Quietly Inspects Israeli Crossings For its Palestinian Dual-Nationals
US observers are in Israel this week to discreetly assess conditions at its border crossings for Palestinian-Americans as part of an emerging Israeli-US visa waiver deal, four officials said.

The officials, who declined to be identified by name or nationality, said the delegation visited Israel‘s immigration office on Sunday, Ben Gurion Airport on Monday and would on Tuesday tour checkpoints on the West Bank’s boundaries.

In return for visa-free access for Israelis, Washington has demanded that Israel provide reciprocal unfettered passage for Americans, regardless of their background.

That would overhaul travel rules for tens of thousands of Palestinian-Americans who live in the West Bank, as well as, potentially, those from the United States, some of whom complain about harassment or travel bans when trying to visit relatives.

In a six-week trial period launched on July 20, Israel must show it is admitting Americans without differential treatment as a condition for its admission to the US Visa Waiver Program (VWP). The deadline for a decision on the deal, which would enable visa-free U.S. travel for Israelis, is Sept 30.

Since the trial period began, Palestinian Americans already say there is a difference. Abdul Jalil Juda, 26, said he was able to come home to the West Bank through Ben Gurion, rather than flying to Jordan and making the journey over land as previously required.

“It was smooth. When they (airport security) find out you are Palestinian, they search thoroughly, but the procedures are smooth. This is the first time for me after the decision. It is easier for us,” he told Reuters. “You can be home in half an hour.”

The US Embassy in Jerusalem and Israel‘s National Security Council, which is heading up the trial period, declined to comment on the visiting US delegation – including to confirm its presence.


Is a Saudi-Israel normalization feasible?
Dr. Marwan Maziad, Danny Ayalon, and Hussain Abdul Hussain discuss the prospects of normalization between Saudi Arabia and Israel


Israeli Company Signs Deal with Saudi Firm on Renewable Energy
SolarEdge Technologies Inc., established in 2006 by Guy Sella, Lior Handelsman, Yoav Galin, Meir Adest, and Amir Fishelov, has entered a joint venture with Saudi firm Ajlan & Bros Holding to deploy renewable energy in the kingdom. According to a statement issued Monday by SolarEdge, their new company will be involved in energy generation, storage, and management for Saudi businesses.

SolarEdge is a global leader in smart energy technology, and Ajlan & Bros Holding (ABH) is one of the largest private sector conglomerates in the Middle East and North Africa region. The JV entity will be established in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

According to the statement, the JV is being formed to support the deployment of smart renewable energy solutions in Saudi Arabia, in line with the Saudi Vision 2030 initiative that aims to reduce the country’s dependence on oil by the end of this decade. Leveraging the established position of ABH in Saudi Arabia and the vast experience accumulated by SolarEdge in smart energy technology, the JV will offer enterprises in the country solutions from SolarEdge’s portfolio of systems for energy generation, storage, and management as well as site modeling and energy transition consultancy.

Zvi Lando, SolarEdge Chief Executive Officer said: “We are honored to partner with Ajlan & Bros Holding and to support Saudi Arabia’s journey towards ‘Vision 2030.’ SolarEdge is committed to driving the clean energy transition on a global scale, exemplified by this JV which will provide local enterprises in Saudi Arabia with the support they need to rapidly transition away from fossil fuels to clean solar energy and meet their aggressive renewable energy goals.”

SolarEdge systems are installed in more than 140 countries, offering a solution to a major problem faced by large-scale solar energy systems. Many solar photovoltaic systems use a central inverter, where the panels are connected in a series creating a string, which delivers all the direct current (DC) power produced into the inverter for conversion into grid-compatible alternating current (AC). The major drawback to this approach is that maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is performed for the entire string, therefore production is limited by the output of the lowest-performing panel. Performance can be impacted by shading and weather conditions.


Herzog hosts Zambian counterpart in Jerusalem
Israeli President Isaac Herzog hosted on Tuesday his Zambian counterpart Hakainde Hichilema in Jerusalem.

The two discussed ways to deepen bilateral trade and cooperation, as well as the threats posed by Iran.

“Economic success is anchored in trade and investments,” Hichilema said. “That is why I want to explore the opportunities within the relationship between us, in light of the tremendous experience that Israel has in the field of technology in agriculture, health and water and more.”

Hichilema noted that he completed his undergraduate studies at a school in Zambia built by Israel, saying, “This is just one example of our ongoing relationship over the years.”

On Monday, Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen met with his Zambian counterpart Stanley Kakubo, with the two signing several cooperation agreements.

“Africa is blossoming and so is the potential for relations between Israel and countries on the continent,” said Cohen, adding: “Zambia is an important nation for Israel in Africa, which is interested in strengthening relations with us.”

Last week, Cohen and his counterpart from the Ivory Coast, Kandia Camara, signed framework deals in the fields of agriculture, water and technology.
Zambia president Hakainde Hichilema visits Jerusalem, eyeing progress
Owen Alterman presents a special interview with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema during his visit to Jerusalem.


Six Israelis wounded in terror attack in Ma’ale Adumim
Six Israelis were wounded on Tuesday in a terrorist attack in Ma’ale Adumim, 4.3 miles east of Jerusalem in Judea.

The terrorist, a 20-year-old Palestinian from Al-Eizariya (also known as Bethany) opened fire with a handgun outside the main shopping mall in the city.

A Border Police officer on his day off opened fire and “neutralized” the terrorist, who also had a knife. The attacker’s condition was not immediately clear.

Magen David Adom emergency medical personnel treated two people for gunshot wounds before evacuating them to the hospital in serious and moderate condition, respectively.

The additional victims were moderately injured, and it was unclear if they were also hit by gunfire.

The seriously wounded victim is a man around 40 years of age. The other victims included men aged 28, 29 and 37, as well as a 14-year-old boy, according to MDA.

United Hatzalah volunteer EMT Meir Bogot said: “When I arrived at the scene, I found several people who were injured with gunshot wounds. Together with additional first responders, I provided them with initial treatment, which included bleeding control and bandaging, after which they were all transported to the hospital. Due to the nature of the incident, the Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit was also active at the location.”

The off-duty border policeman heard the gunfire. He pursued and engaged the assailant, who was wearing a yellow vest and may have been posing as a security guard.


Four wounded in terror shooting attack near Jerusalem
BREAKING: Shooting in West Bank’s settlement of Ma'ale Adumim leaves 4 wounded


IDF arrests 4 suspects during night raid in West Bank
The Israeli army has arrested four terror suspects in the latest night time raids in the West Bank


The Israel Guys: EXPOSING the Myths About the Current Situation in Israel
As a Christian supporter of Israel, Israel’s Judicial Reform saga might have kind of left you confused wondering what in the world is going on in Israel. On today’s show, Josiah is going to fact-check some crazy myths regarding the Reform that have been floating around Christian circles in Israel and the United States, as well give you some simple facts about the Judicial Reform so you can be more educated on the whole discussion.


Hamas releases pics of fallen IDF soldier’s rifle nine years after his death
Hamas has released photos purportedly showing the rifle of IDF Lt. Hadar Goldin, who was killed in the Gaza Strip nine years ago today, i24NEWS reported on Tuesday.

The bodies of Goldin and IDF Staff Sgt. Oron Shaul have been held as bargaining chips by the Palestinian terror group since they fell in battle during the 2014 Gaza war. Hamas is also holding captive Israelis Avera Mengistu and Hisham al-Sayed, who crossed into Gaza on their own accord in 2014 and 2015, respectively.

Mengistu and al-Sayed both suffer from mental illness.

Goldin was killed in a gun battle near Rafah on Aug. 1, 2014, toward the end of the IDF’s “Operation Protective Edge.” The Kfar Saba native was 23 at the time of his death.

Hamas previously displayed what it claimed was Goldin’s rifle during a rally in December in Gaza to mark the 35th anniversary of the terrorist group’s founding.

The rifle was displayed by a masked Hamas terrorist from the group’s “Shadow Unit,” which guards hostages and bodies of Israelis killed in action.

Officials in Jerusalem said at the time that the presentation of Goldin’s weapon constituted psychological warfare designed to pressure Israel’s incoming government.


Hamas reveals new details of IDF soldier's kidnapping The mother of IDF soldier Hadar Goldin, who was killed and had his body kidnapped by Hamas in 2014, speaks to i24NEWS after the Palestinian terror group revealed new details about her son's abduction

Seth Frantzman: How Israel’s military is prioritizing dual-use start-ups to accelerate defense tech
As Israel’s military seeks rush new technology into all aspects of what it does, the country’s Ministry of Defense has recognized the need to support smaller startup companies, especially those making dual-use technology that can be used for civil or defense applications.

“The IDF [Israel Defense Forces] need quick answers to their problems, so time-to-market must be fast,” Ministry of Defense Col. Nir Weingold, the head of the planning, economics and IT department at the MoD’s Directorate of Defense Research and Development (DDR&D), told Breaking Defense in a recent one-on-one interview. “We are in huge competition with commercial market because start-ups look to civilian market. So we want to transform commercial capabilities to defense R&D.”

As part of that effort, DDR&D in 2019 created a unique program called Innofense to be an an innovation center that helps partner startups with funding. According to a presentation provided by Weingold, Innofense collaborates with a network of venture capitalists (VCs), and aids with scouting, exposure to commercial technology and “acceleration.” A total of 43 companies have “graduated” from this program, and it is now in its fourth cohort of taking on new companies via a call for proposals.

Breaking Defense spoke to Weingold this month about the importance of the Innofense tech pipeline, efforts to recruit top talent and Israel’s broader Momentum strategy to accelerate tech adoption. His office was festooned with examples of the kind of technology that has put Israel where the IDF considers itself at the forefront of the digital and modern battlefield, including a model of the Firefly loitering munition made by Rafael, for instance.

“We are all about technology,” Weingold said.

This includes priorities such as bioconvergence, lasers, AI, cyber and air defenses. Israel is already developing laser air defenses, a new optionally manned armored vehicle called the Carmel program, and working on other systems such as directed IR countermeasures aircraft protection. Israel’s Ministry of Defense’s DDR&D created programs such as Talpiot and Psagot to recruit top students in the defense-related tech field.
Drone strikes on Moscow show changing drone warfare tactics
Ukrainian drone attacks on Russia could be signaling how drones will transform war, but the new use of cheap, expendable drones in carrying out deep penetration attacks is not the way they have traditionally been used, at least over the last decades.

Huge investments in unmanned drone systems, like the US Global Hawk or Reapers, produced drones that were slow and vulnerable to air defenses. In Syria, Russian warplanes have flown circles around US Reapers, damaging them.

In Ukraine, the kamikaze drones, or what are sometimes called loitering munitions, have played a major role in the fighting.

Russia acquired the Iranian Shahed drones to be used against Ukraine, slow moving drones that can be shot down by air defenses. Kyiv doesn’t operate much of an air force, so it has a hard time sending up fighter jets to shoot them down, but its air defenses are able to destroy most of the Iranian drones.

Ukraine using drones to hit at the heart of Russia
On the other hand, it now appears that Ukraine is investing in new kamikaze drones. Several attacks on Moscow have showcased this improvement in Ukraine’s abilities, with reports noting a specific drone called Bober. For a modest investment of several million or hundreds of millions of dollars, a country can produce a kind of instant air force in drones. This means that, even countries under sanctions, like Iran, can produce a lot of drones and terrorize the Middle East. Iran has successfully showed this in Yemen, attacking Saudi Arabia between 2015 and 2022. Now, Iran has provided Russia with these drones.in Ukraine’s abilities.
Israeli Navy missile defense system passes sea trials
A missile defense system designed to protect Israeli Navy ships has successfully completed its sea trials, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Tuesday.

The trials tested the capability of a new maritime electronic warfare system designed to effectively respond to complex missile attack scenarios, including launching decoy rounds and electronic jamming measures.

The DESEAVER MK-4 countermeasure-dispensing system, developed by the Haifa-based Elbit Systems, defends ships from simultaneous missile threats from multiple directions. Algorithms rapidly prioritize targets and select countermeasures for each individual threat.

The DESEAVER MK-4 is the fourth generation of the naval defense system, which is fully integrated into Israeli Navy ships.

“We are proud of our ongoing cooperation with and support of the Israeli Navy. The successful completion of these trials provides further proof of the reliability of our technology and the advanced protection capabilities they provide against new and evolving threats,” said Oren Sabag, Elbit’s general manager for electronic warfare.

On Sunday, the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet kicked off its annual joint exercise with the Israeli Navy, called “Intrinsic Defender,” in Haifa.
Drones guard Israeli gas field against Iran's threats Take a look at the automated technology guarding Israeli gas field amid threats from Iran and its regional proxies

National security adviser: Hezbollah tent in Israeli territory is ‘childish’ move
National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi on Monday described the tent that Hezbollah has set up in Israeli territory north of the Blue Line between Israel and Lebanon as a “children’s game.”

Speaking to the public broadcaster Kan, Hanegbi said the tent is only 27 meters inside Israeli territory.

Nevertheless, he pointed out that the tent as well as a series of other Hezbollah activity in recent months — including a car bombing in Israel and a barrage of rockets — are a sign of a “weakening in the policy of self-restraint” that the Lebanese terror group adopted following the 2006 war with Israel.

In recent weeks, Hezbollah activity has repeatedly been spotted along the border with Israel, in incidents that Israel has referred to as deliberate provocations.

Israel has sought since early June to remove two tents placed by Hezbollah in the contested Mount Dov region, also known as the Shebaa Farms, but only one has so far been dismantled after Israel reportedly sent a message to Hezbollah threatening an armed confrontation if it did not remove the outpost. Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah has threatened to attack Israel if it tries to remove the other one.

Nasrallah warned Saturday that it would respond to any “stupid act” by Israel amid spiking tensions along the border. At the cabinet meeting on Sunday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded to Nasrallah, saying, “It’s better for him not to put us to the test.”
Palestinian unrest: Protests in Gaza, clashes in Lebanon

11 killed in Palestinian refugee camp clashes in Lebanon
Clashes between rival Palestinian factions in a refugee camp in Lebanon has left at least 11 people killed




“Israel will disappear” says Syrian historian on PA TV
Syrian historian Muhammad Bahjat Qubaisi: “I had a lecture on June 24, 2019, at the Abu Rumana Cultural Center [in Damascus], and its title was ‘The Disappearance of Israel.’ Israel will disappear, by Allah it will disappear, maybe next week, maybe next month, maybe next year, but in no more than two years.”
[Official PA TV, An Intellectual and a Cause, July 24, 2023]


Dead terrorists are “moons, stars, the elite” - senior Fatah official sums up message of PA summer camps
The video shows Fatah Central Committee Secretary and Head of the PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports Jibril Rajoub giving a speech at the concluding ceremony for the PA summer camps of 2023.

Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub: We established 648 camps in which 65,000 male and female pioneers participated... I thank everyone who participated and everyone who contributed to the success of these camps, which were established and will continue to exist on the principle of the Palestinian national ideology to ensure the awareness of these children who are the builders of the future, [on the path of] Palestine, love of Palestine, and love of all the Palestinians… An additional topic connected to the shared slogan of these heroes, [Martyrs whom] these new Nazi fascists (i.e., Israelis) are holding their bodies... We say to them [Israelis]: They are moons, they are stars, they are the elite, and they are the ones who sacrificed their lives. They were and will remain in our memories and in the memory of their children and their children’s children... These [Martyrs] are recorded on our hearts… [We stand] by our right to honor them with what is fitting for them and to bury them. They will remain in our hearts until this is achieved.”
[Fatah Central Committee Secretary Jibril Rajoub, Facebook page, July 23, 2023]

The slogan for the PA summer camps in 2023 was “Moons and Not Numbers” and is a reference to Palestinian terrorist “Martyrs” who were killed during their attacks. The PA and Fatah praise them as “moons.” “Not numbers” refers to Israel burying dead terrorists in numbered graves:


Children explain they were taught names of terrorists at PA summer camp
The PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports posted a video of children participating in the PA summer camps speaking to the camera.

Children: “At the [summer] camp we learned names of Martyrs, including Muhammad Al-Azizi ‘Abu Saleh’ (i.e., terrorist). Izz Al-Din Salahat (i.e., terrorist) died in 2022 as a Martyr.”
[PLO Supreme Council for Youth and Sports, Facebook page, July 17, 2023]

Muhammad Al-Azizi was one of the founders of the terror cell The Lion’s Den:




Daniel Greenfield: Biden Used ‘Iran Lobby’ Founder to Broker New Iran Deal
The Biden campaign hid the names of its 2020 big money fundraisers until right before Election Day. The list of bundlers who managed to raise at least $100,000 for Biden included Jamal Abdi: the executive director of NIAC Action. NIAC Action had endorsed Biden and celebrated by tweeting, “our long, national nightmare is almost over. AP has called the race for Joe Biden”.

NIAC is often referred to as the Iran Lobby and was founded by Trita Parsi (pictured above) who had previously created, “Iranians for International Cooperation” which admitted that it existed to “safeguard Iran’s and Iranian interests”. Biden however turned over America’s “interests” to NIAC.

The Tehran Times, an Iranian regime publication, recently revealed that the Biden administration had been using Trita Parsi, formerly of NIAC, among other pro-Iran activists, as a “broker and middleman” between “Iran and the Democratic administration.”

Biden had used the founder of an Iran lobby group that had funded his campaign to broker negotiations with Iran. There was no one representing the United States in the New Iran Deal.

Instead, the Biden administration had outsourced renewing the deal to Robert Malley, a longtime supporter of Iran and Islamic terrorism currently under investigation for mishandling classified documents, who had brought in the Iran Lobby including “Ali Vaez, Malley’s former right-hand man at the Crisis Group” which is funded by George Soros, along with Trita Parsi, currently working for the Quincy Institute, an anti-American group co-founded by Soros and a Koch brother, to broker it. America’s Iran diplomacy had been handed over to Iran and George Soros.

The usual critics of billionaires running the country remained consciously silent about it.

Turning over Iran Deal negotiations to the Iranians and their accomplices like the Soros crew was supposed to speed up the appeasement process by which the Biden administration would turn over billions to the Iranian regime and lift sanctions, but it had miscalculated.
Sex Scandals Continue To Discredit Iran’s Clerical Regime
Iranians are outraged by the regime’s hypocrisy after recent sex scandals surrounding a “morality” watchdog official and a cleric have been revealed.

In the past three weeks, Radio Gilan, a Telegram channel run by Payman Behboudi, a Germany-based journalist, has released three different videos that have raised a storm on Persian social media.

In the first video, a male City Council member of Bandar Anzali in the northern province of Gilan, was seen smoking opium and masturbating. The second video showed an official engaging in sex with a young man, and the third, released two days ago, shows a cleric engaged in sex with the husband of his wife’s sister. Radio Gilan has also published several screenshots of a sex chat between the cleric, Mehdi Haghshenas, and his brother-in-law.

Many social media users say they are outraged by the hypocrisy of the regime and its affiliated clerics and officials rather than the same-sex relationships between consenting adults.

Iranian cleric Mehdi Haghshenas (2nd left) and Reza Seqati, the former director of Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance in Gilan province, during a meeting

The scandals of clerics and regime officials to many is a reminder of a famous 13th century verse by the nationally revered Hafez Shirazi who said clerics “shine” when they preach at the pulpit but when in private, they commit the same sins they tell the people to shun, an Iranian observer who asked not to be named told Iran International.

“Corruption has become institutionalized in the system and loyalty has turned into a commodity that can be bought and sold. But this is not the main problem: Value paradigms have been all lost too. What they preach to people is no longer credible to anyone anymore, even to many of their diehard supporters,” he added.


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Abbas once again tells Palestinians in Lebanon to go to hell

From Sama News:
Today, Monday, President Mahmoud Abbas received a phone call from the head of the Lebanese Phalange Party, Sheikh Sami Gemayel.

The President discussed with Gemayel, during the phone call, the unfortunate events that took place in Ain El-Hilweh camp.

He stressed support for what the government and the army are doing in Lebanon in order to impose law and order.

The President stressed that the Palestinian presence in Lebanon is temporary until they return to the homes from which they were expelled according to international resolutions.
That last sentence is a coded message, saying that Abbas - as head of the PLO, and therefore ostensibly the leader of all Palestinians worldwide - would not ask Lebanon to give citizenship to Palestinians who have lived there, stateless, for 75 years. 

Abbas has said this explicitly in the past, numerous times. 

Which means that his official position is for Palestinians in Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and other Arab countries should not become citizens of those countries - they must remain without any national protection until Israel is destroyed or somehow forced to commit suicide via "return" to destroy it as a Jewish state.

The cynicism of this position is breathtaking. The closest thing the Palestinians have to a leader wants to use his own people as pawns, with no national rights in the countries where generations have been born, lived and died.

The cynicism does not end there, though. Because in 2005, Mahmoud Abbas had a completely different position, as reported then in AFP:

DUBAI, 12 July 2005 — Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas told Arab countries hosting Palestinian refugees to give them citizenship, insisting such a move would not compromise their right of return.

“I call upon every Arab government wishing to give citizenship (to Palestinian refugees) to do so. What is wrong with that?” he said in an interview with Dubai Television late Sunday.

But the Palestinian Authority president insisted that obtaining citizenship in a host-country should not compromise the right to return to their homeland of which many Palestinian refugees dream.

“This does not mean resettlement (of refugees). A Palestinian would return to his homeland whenever he is allowed, whether he carried an Arab or non-Arab citizenship,” he said. “A fifth-generation Palestinian living in Chile also wishes to return when allowed ... It is an emotional matter, not related to citizenship,” he added.

The Palestinian leader, who visited Syria and Lebanon last week — both host to hundreds of thousands of refugees, slammed claims that the Arab League had banned naturalization of refugees as “mere excuses”. “There is no decision ... the Arab League only recommended (not to grant citizenship) but this was not a decision,” he said.
Once upon a time, Mahmoud Abbas asked Arab countries to naturalize Palestinian "guests." But only a couple of years later, he changed his position to being against them becoming citizens.

What caused the about-face?

Chances are, Lebanon and Syria and maybe also the Gulf countries that host hundreds of thousands of Palestinians told him to shut up. They don't want Palestinians to become citizens. And probably Hamas took advantage and portrayed Abbas as being weak on the mythical "right to return." 

Whatever the reason, Abbas switched from acting as a real leader that tries to help his people into a corrupt leader who simply wants to abuse his people for his own political purposes.

Abbas was right in 2005. Citizenship has nothing to do with "return." Palestinian citizens of Jordan are given the clear message that they will lose citizenship if "return" would become an option. And for whatever bizarre reason, even though most of them are citizens of a state, they are still called "refugees" by the international community. 

And Palestinians, when given the rare chance to become citizens of other countries, eagerly take that option. So those who say that Palestinians prefer statelessness to becoming citizens of their countries are simply liars. 

Each stateless Palestinian adds an infinitesimal amount of pressure on Israel. That is the only reason for insisting that Palestinians remain stateless. Which proves that to Palestinian leaders, their own people's lives are worthless.


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