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Showing posts with label palestinian. Show all posts
Showing posts with label palestinian. Show all posts
Monday, 24 February 2014
PA Depicts a World Wthout Israel
This cloth map appeared as part of a PA TV News broadcast about a women’s arts and crafts fair in Hebron. The map was made by one of the participants in the fair, who described it as a map of "Palestine." It shows all of Israel and the PA areas as one territorial unit, with a map of Palestine above it.
A photo posted on Fatah's "Main Page" on Facebook shows all of Israel and the Palestinian areas covered in a Palestinian flag with the word "Palestine" in red behind the map.
A cartoon in the official PA daily showed a map with prison bars over it. The map included all of Israel and the PA areas.
Sunday, 26 January 2014
Palestinian Arabs Rally Against Talks with Israel
Mr. Kerry so much for the fake palestinians wanting peace. I think you know what they want.... ALL Jews out of Israel.... don't you.
Leftist PA-based groups organize rallies against peace talks and against Kerry's proposal for a framework.
Leftist PA-based groups organize rallies against peace talks and against Kerry's proposal for a framework.
Palestinian Arabs on Saturday held demonstrations in opposition to peace negotiations with Israel and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry's framework proposal that will serve as the basis for future negotiations.
The Bethlehem-based Ma’annews agency reported that the demonstrations were organized by leftist groups in the Palestinian Authority (PA) and were held in Hevron and Shechem.
The demonstrations claimed Kerry’s proposals were intended to "liquidate the question of Palestine and prolong the Israeli occupation."
Kerry is expected to announce a framework proposal to guide ongoing negotiations between Israel and the PA within the coming days.
The rally in Hevron kicked off in front of al-Hussein Ibn Ali football stadium, reported Ma’an. Demonstrators carried PLO flags and flags of leftist factions, alongside signs denouncing the "pressure" the United States and Israel are putting on the PA to accept negotiations.
A member of the central committee of the Palestinian People's Party, Fahmi Shahin, delivered a speech during the rally, calling upon the Palestinian Authority to "immediately stop peace negotiations and to reject the U.S. sponsorship to these talks."
The American proposals “to accept the Israeli occupation as a fact must be rejected," he added.
Shahin urged the PA to reject any move to recognize Israel as a Jewish state and called upon its leadership to demand the implementation of the so-called “right of return” of Palestinian refugees. Doing so would flood Israel with millions of Arabs.
In Shechem, reported Ma’an, hundreds attended a rally in which they condemned Kerry's proposed framework agreement and what they claimed was the “U.S. bias in favor of Israel”.
A member of the political bureau of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, Ramzi Rabah, said that Kerry's repeated visits to the region have served as a way to give Israel more time to continue settlement activities, in the process imposing a new status quo that is “destroying the possibility of an independent Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem.”
Rabah added that the framework agreement represents a great danger that has been rejected by the Palestinian people as being inconsistent with their national rights.
He further claimed that the agreement is a cover to allow Israel “to speed up the processes of settlement and the Judaization of Jerusalem.”
The rallies took place in the wake of continued talks between Israel and the PA, which have so far not accomplished much despite Kerry’s never-ending optimism.
Several days ago, PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said that despite Kerry’s efforts, the PA has so far gotten nothing out of the ongoing peace negotiations with Israel.
Abbas blamed “the Israeli side” for the lack of progress in the peace talks, slamming Israeli residents of Judea and Samaria as "invaders" with "no right to Palestinian land”.
Abbas also stressed that Palestinian Arabs living inside what is now Israel "were on the land 1,500 years before Israel was established."
The PA’s chief negotiator Saeb Erekat declared on Tuesday that the PAwill not agree to extending peace talks even a day beyond the nine-month framework. Talks began last July and are set to expire in April.
Abbas has consistently declared that unless all his demands are met, there will never be peace with Israel. He has also made clear several times that the future Palestinian state will have no Israeli presence whatsoever. The last time he stated this was during his meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper last week.
Tuesday, 19 November 2013
Settlement leader at conference in NY: US supports Arabs, not Israel
The American government should do some serious “soul searching” for siding with the Palestinians against the State of Israel, Samaria Regional Council head Gershon Mesika charged on Sunday at a New York conference in support of West Bank settlements.
“I am sorry to say that until now, on every issue in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the American administration has chosen to side with the Arabs,” Mesika said. “They have neglected to be considerate to the suffering of the Jewish people who have wandered from place to place throughout their exile, waiting to return to our land.”
The conference was organized by the Samaria Regional Conference and featured both Jewish and non-Jewish speakers from Israel and the US. Some 200 people filled the men’s section of the synagogue to hear about the historic, religious and strategic importance of Judea and Samaria to the Jewish people.He was speaking at the West Side Institutional Synagogue in Manhattan during an afternoon gathering titled “Israel Advocacy Conference: Addressing Core Issues, Improving Your Impact.”
“We are in Judea and Samaria as a right and not as an act of kindness,” said Mesika, who traveled from Israel for the event.
The return of the Jewish people to Judea and Samaria after 2,000 years of exile was the fulfillment of God’s prophesy and promise, Mesika said.
“It is time the American administration reflects on its pressure on Israel,” he said, inviting the audience to visit Samaria to see Jewish growth and development.
“We need your political support and we need you with us,” he stated.
Steven Goldberg, national vice chairman of the Zionist Organization of America, said that Jews who support settlements “do not need to apologize.”
“It is time to fight back,” he said, as he explained that this should be done politically and through public protests.
“We also have to take to the streets,” he said.
When US President Barack Obama and US Secretary of State John Kerry speak, he asked, why are there no protests by Jews? “We need to be vocal, we need to be loud, we need to be every bit as powerful as them,” he said, referring to those who are against Israel.
“Our legal rights to Judea and Samaria are beyond question.
It is biblical but it is also under international law.”
Goldberg complained that Israel had not received a fair hearing with respect to international law, which is often widely interpreted in a way that favors Palestinian rights to the West Bank.
“Would we get a fair hearing? Of course. But that does not mean that the case should not be made, loudly, that this land is ours,” he told the crowd.
He added that the Israeli government was “somewhat at fault” for not promoting Jewish rights to Judea and Samaria, preferring the idea of “getting along” instead.
“These are very dangerous times. You see what is happening with Iran. There are threats and pressures to give up the heartland of the Jewish state. But in the end, I am an optimist,” Goldberg said.
David Ha’ivri, Mesika’s international adviser, said the event was part of the council’s campaign, through the Shomron Liaison Office, to solicit political and public support in the US for Judea and Samaria.
He said that in July, he and Mesika traveled to Washington to meet with politicians and Jewish groups, and then to New York at the behest of Rabbi Pesach Lerner, a former vice president of the National Council of Young Israel.
“He asked us to come... to unify the groups that agree on the importance of Judea and Samaria,” Ha’ivri said.
He explained that in the US it was not considered politically correct to support the settlement movement. As a result, mainstream Zionist organizations avoid the issue.
Bringing different groups together strengthens their ability to stand up in support.
A small group of protesters representing left-wing Jewish groups marched silently in single file outside the synagogue during the conference, holding signs against Israel’s presence in the West Bank. The signs bore such slogans as “Jews say no to occupation,” “Jews say justice for the Palestinian people” and “Jews say not in our name.”
Ari Briggs, director of international development for the Israel-based NGO Regavim, which advocates for the Zionist use of state lands, stood on the synagogue steps holding an Israeli flag. He yelled at the protesters, calling their actions “despicable,” particularly given that they were “safe and secure in Manhattan.” “You should be so embarrassed. It is no surprise there have always been Jews that have been like that,” Briggs said. “There were Jews in support of Hitler, there were Jews in support of the Caesar, what Stalin called useful idiots.”
One of the protest organizers, Rebecca Vilkomerson of Jewish Voice for Peace, said in a statement that settlers and their supporters “advocate building still more settlements on Palestinian land.
We see their advocacy for what it is: an insuperable obstacle to peace and justice and continued expansion on Palestinian land.”
Jerusalem post
Thursday, 14 November 2013
Palestinian football teams named after terrorists
Dalal Mughrabi, "the Engineer" Yahya Ayyash,
Ghassan Kanafani, and Ziyad Da'as
are role models
Ghassan Kanafani, and Ziyad Da'as
are role models
Although these were not official Palestinian Authority tournaments, the fact that the Palestinian organizers chose to name teams after these terrorists testifies to the success of the PA policy to present terrorist killers as role models for Palestinians.
In a tournament held at Al-Quds University, teams were named after terrorists Yahya Ayyash, Dalal Mughrabi, and Ghassan Kanafani.
Yahya Ayyash was the first Hamas suicide bomb builder and planner, known as "the Engineer." He is considered the founder of Palestinian suicide terror, and was behind attacks killing dozens of Israelis and injuring hundreds.
Dalal Mughrabi led the most lethal terror attack in Israel's history in 1978, when she and other terrorists hijacked a bus and killed 37 civilians, 12 of them children.
Ghassan Kanafani was a writer and a leader of the terror organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). The PFLP has planned and carried out numerous terror attacks against Israeli civilians since its founding in 1967.
In another tournament, a team was named after terrorist Ziyad Da'as:
Ziyad Da'as was a commander of Tanzim, a Fatah terror faction, and planned a terror attack at a Bat-Mitzvah celebration in Hadera on Jan. 17, 2002, in which a terrorist gunman killed six and wounded dozens. Da'as also participated in the kidnapping and murder of Etgar Zeituni and Motti Dayan in Tulkarem in January 2001. Da'as was killed during a fire exchange with Israeli military police in August 2002.
Reporting from the tournament that included a team named after Da'as, the official PA daily wrote:
"At the end of the special tournament, the heroic Martyrs who fulfilled their duty to the homeland were honored... Muhammad Tamouni, the Martyr's brother, dedicated the big win and the tournament's success to the souls of his brother and all of Palestine's Martyrs, who are more honorable than all of us. Tamouni said that this tournament will continue to take place annually in order to remember the heroes whom we will never forget."
The rest of the teams in the two tournaments were named after Palestinians who were killed in clashes with Israel. (See all descriptions below)Palestinian Media Watch has reported on PA tournaments named after terrorists. Click to view more examples of the PA and Fatah policy of glorifying terrorists.
The following are the reports on the tournaments in the official PA daily:
"The Media Department at the Al-Quds University in Abu Dis... conducted the draw for the Martyr (Shahid) Jahjouh Football Tournament... which will begin on Thursday at the new El-Bireh [sports] field. Eight teams from the university will participate. [The teams] were named after Martyrs and divided into two groups. The first group included [teams named after] Mu'tasim Adwan, Amer Nassar, Ghassan Kanafani, and Dalal Mughrabi. The second group included [teams named after] Younes Jahjouh, Amer Nawfal, Khaldoun Shouman and Yahya Ayyash."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 23, 2013]
See descriptions for Yahya Ayyash, Dalal Mughrabi and Ghassan Kanafani above.
Mu'tasim Adwan was killed in 2011 in clashes between Palestinian residents and an Israeli army force that had come to arrest suspects in the Qalandyia refugee camp.
Amer Nassar was killed in 2013 by the Israeli army after throwing a Molotov cocktail at a military post.
Younes Jahjouh was killed in 2013 in clashes between Palestinian residents and an Israeli military police force that had come to arrest suspects in the Qalandyia refugee camp.
Amer Nawfal - senior DFLP official who died in Syria in 2007. The DFLP carried out many deadly terror attacks, including the taking of schoolchildren as hostages leading to the killing of 22 children and 4 adults in Ma'alot (May 15, 1974), an attack on a school bus killing 9 children and 3 adults (May 22, 1970), a bombing in Jerusalem killing 7 (Nov. 13, 1975), the killing of 4 hostages in an apartment building in Beit Shean (Nov. 11, 1974) and a suicide bombing near Tel Aviv killing 4 (Dec. 25, 2003). The DFLP has participated in and claimed responsibility for dozens of other terror attacks.
Khaldoun Shouman - member of the Palestinian Security Forces who was killed in 2007 during an exchange of fire with the Israeli army. He had opened fire on the Israeli soldiers after he mistakenly thought they were Hamas operatives.
"The Martyr (Shahid) Mahmoud Tamouni [football] team was crowned as champion of the [football] tournament named after him..."
The following are the results of the matches:
The Martyr Ziyad Da'as team defeated the Martyr Fidaa Al-Tirawi team 1-2.
The Martyr Mahmoud Tamouni team defeated the Martyr Suleiman Al-Jayyusi team 1-3... [Games and scores are listed.] At the end of the special tournament, the heroic Martyrs who fulfilled their duty to the homeland were honored. Muhammad Tamouni, brother of Martyr Mahmoud Tamouni, handed out the tournament prizes... Muhammad Tamouni, the Martyr's brother, dedicated the big win and the tournament's success to the souls of his brother and all of Palestine's Martyrs, who are more honorable than all of us. Tamouni said that this tournament will continue to take place annually in order to remember the heroes whom we will never forget."
The following are the results of the matches:
The Martyr Ziyad Da'as team defeated the Martyr Fidaa Al-Tirawi team 1-2.
The Martyr Mahmoud Tamouni team defeated the Martyr Suleiman Al-Jayyusi team 1-3... [Games and scores are listed.] At the end of the special tournament, the heroic Martyrs who fulfilled their duty to the homeland were honored. Muhammad Tamouni, brother of Martyr Mahmoud Tamouni, handed out the tournament prizes... Muhammad Tamouni, the Martyr's brother, dedicated the big win and the tournament's success to the souls of his brother and all of Palestine's Martyrs, who are more honorable than all of us. Tamouni said that this tournament will continue to take place annually in order to remember the heroes whom we will never forget."
[Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Oct. 27, 2013]
See description for Ziyad Da'as above.
Mahmoud Tamouni - Sources indicate that he was shot by the Israeli army for curfew violation in Tulkarem in 2002. However, PMW has not been able to obtain precise information about the specific circumstances surrounding his death to confirm this.
Fidaa Al-Tirawi - was a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. He was killed in 2003 by members of a different Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades cell.
Suleiman Al-Jayyusi -Sources indicate that he was killed by Palestinians. However, PMW has not been able to obtain precise information about the specific circumstances surrounding his death to confirm this.
Saturday, 26 October 2013
Netanyahu-led committee to approve names of 25 Palestinian prisoners set for release
Jewish Home to forward bill against the move; prisoners expected to be freed Tuesday in 2nd of 4-stage deal as part of peace talks
A Sunday ministerial committee headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is set to approve the names of 25 Palestinian prisoners set to go free this Tuesday, in the second phase of a 4-stage prisoner release deal as part of ongoing US-brokered peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians. The release will be accompanied by the announcement of new plans for West Bank settlement construction, a senior Israeli official said on Thursday.
The official said the Americans and Palestinians were aware of Israel’s intentions to build more settlements, made clear before talks resumed
The official insisted that any new construction would take place inside the major blocs Israel would probably keep in any future peace deal. In previous rounds of negotiations, the
Palestinians agreed to swap some West Bank land for Israeli territory to allow Israel to annex the largest settlement blocs adjacent to its border.
Netanyahu has faced pressure from hawkish ministers to delay or cancel the prisoner releases in the wake of a series of violent incidents in the West Bank in recent weeks, including the killing of two IDF soldiers and an attack that wounded a nine-year-old girl in the settlement of Psagot.
Naftali Bennett’s Jewish Home party is set to raise a bill against further releases of Palestinian prisoners on Sunday.
MK Ayelet Shaked of Jewish Home told Channel 2 Saturday that Jewish Home has made its opposition clear to Netanyahu.
“We told the prime minister that we are against release of terrorists. It’s immoral. No other country in the world does it,” she said, adding incredulously, “we release terrorists as a gesture [to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas] and he promotes a boycott against us?”
In a statement on Thursday, the party said, “the attempt to link the release of the murderers to construction tenders is manipulative and morally wrong. It will be better if the prime minister does not release murderers and does not build. This looks like a despicable attempt to free murderers and tarnish the settlement enterprise.”
“The release of terrorists in exchange for the dubious right of [Hatenua party chairwoman] Tzipi Livni to meet with [chief PA negotiator Saeb] Erekat is very serious. With all due respect, stopping the release of murderers is even more important than justifying the presence of Livni in the government,” the statement went on.
Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon also slammed the planned prisoner release, saying it only strengthened terror.
“We’ll see the celebrations in Gaza, in Ramallah, in Nablus. This only strengthens those who seek to harm [us]” he told Army Radio Saturday.
“Any approval of settlement construction should not be linked to these releases,” he added.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, center, waves with the released Palestinian prisoners at his headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Wednesday, Aug. 14 , 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)
Netanyahu has resisted the pressure from the right and plans to release the prisoners on schedule, the prime minister’s representative in the peace talks, attorney Yitzhak Molcho, assured Palestinian and American officials in recent days.
In July, Israel agreed to the release of 104 prisoners, many of whom were convicted of brutal murders, serving sentences for acts of terror committed before the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993. Twenty-six prisoners were released in the first wave on August 13, just after talks started.
The deal was intended as a sign of good faith ahead of the renewed American-brokered peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
Jerusalem Post
Tuesday, 22 October 2013
Friday, 18 October 2013
Visualizing anti-Zionism: Site used by Guardian data blog calls Haifa “Palestinian”
Yesterday, we posted about an extraordinarily misleading Guardian data blog entry on the Palestinian economy – a piece by Mona Chalabi titled ‘How does Palestine’s economy work?‘, Oct. 14 – which assigned blame for Palestinian economic woes almost entirely on Israel, and never once so much as mentioned the injurious economic impact of Palestinian terrorism.
Many of the claims made by Chalabi were quite specious, including her reference to a report which purported to quantify the number of olive trees “uprooted by Israeli authorities since 1967″. To illustrate the number of olive trees allegedly destroyed by “Israeli Authorities” – which Palestinians have evidently methodically been counting over the past 46 years – she referred readers to a site called ‘Visualizing Palestine‘.
Visualizing Palestine describes itself as a site dedicated to using ”creative visuals to describe a factual rights-based narrative of Palestine/Israel.” It is funded by the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, theJerusalem Fund, and the Shuttleworth Foundation.
As you can see from their recent Tweet, editors at Visualizing Palestine were quite proud that their statistics were used by the Guardian:
How does Palestine's economy work?
Sites other than the Guardian – such as the anti-Zionist hates sites Mondoweiss and Electronic Intifada– have also featured their work:
The graphic purporting to illustrate the impact of so many uprooted trees cites, as its source, not Oxfam (as Chalabi claims) but a report by the Palestinian Ministry of National Economy and a radical NGO called Applied Research Institute of Jerusalem (ARIJ). Moreover, a review of Visualizing Palestine indicates that it serves as a clearinghouse of anti-Zionist propaganda , replete withmisleading quotes from Israeli leaders, false claims about Israeli and Palestinian water use, and graphics imputing comic book villainy to Israelis, such as this graphic created from stats at the site US Campaign to End the Occupation:
And, then there is this graphic from their site, illustrating the false story earlier in the year about Israel’s alleged “racially segregated” bus service.
There’s also this illustration – showing Israeli soldiers aiming their weapons at a Palestinian child – on a page at their site devoted to the propaganda film about the Bil’in protests called ’Five Broken Cameras’.
Finally, if you contribute a mere $110 to Visualizing Palestine, you get this cool pendant:
Here’s the list of pendants (of 16 cities in “Palestine”) you can choose from:
Eight* of the “Palestinian cities” are actually Israeli, and have been so since 1948. (Bi’r as-Sab is Arabic for Beer Sheva)
The use of ‘Visualizing Palestine’ as a serious source by Chalabi serves as additional evidence that the claim made in the Guardian Data Blog logo, that “facts are sacred“, is, to put it politely, simply absurd.
(*As Judge Dan, a blogger at Israellycool, pointed out, we originally neglected to note that Beisan is Bet She’an, an Israeli city in the north.)
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