http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/us-rebuke-allows-un-condemnation-of-settlements/news-story/23a943b5de64203b4d7dc509224e6191

US rebuke allows UN condemnation of settlements

DECEMBER 24, 20168:29AM

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THE Obama administration allowed the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, defying pressure from US President- elect Donald Trump as well as Israel and several US senators who urged Washington to use its veto.

UNITED NATIONS — Defying pressure from President-elect Donald Trump and lobbying by Israel, the Obama administration Friday allowed the U.N. Security Council to adopt a contentious resolution that condemned Israeli settlement construction.

The administration’s decision not to veto the measure broke a longstanding U.S. tradition of serving as Israel’s diplomatic shield.


It came a day after Trump personally intervened to keep the draft measure, proposed by Egypt, from coming up for a vote Thursday, as scheduled. Trump’s aides said he spoke to the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. Both men also spoke to the Egyptian president, Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi. Egypt postponed the vote.

But in a show of mounting frustration, a group of other countries on the 15-member Security Council — all of them relatively powerless temporary members with rotating 2-year seats — snatched the resolution away from Egypt and put it up for a vote Friday afternoon.

It passed with 14 votes in favor, with the United States abstaining.

The departing Obama administration has criticized Israel’s settlement building, describing it as an impediment to a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Trump has made clear that he will take a far more sympathetic approach to Israel when his administration assumes office in a month.

Trump’s comments on the issue amounted to his most direct intervention on U.S. foreign policy during his transition to power.


Following the vote, the president-elect tweeted that things for the United Nations would “be different after Jan. 20th.”

Yeah, Israel is a big problem for UN member states. They send out rabid Jews who knife people on the street, and drive trucks through crowds.

Meanwhile, a certain other religion gets away with this all the time, without so much as a mention from these be-suited parasites on bloated expense accounts.

issuevoter wrote on Dec 24^th, 2016 at 10:34am:

Yeah, Israel is a big problem for UN member states. They send out rabid Jews who knife people on the street, and drive trucks through crowds. Meanwhile, a certain other religion gets away with this all the time, without so much as a mention from these be-suited parasites on bloated expense accounts.

No other religion is currently stealing the land of indigenous people.

Yes, Israel IS kicking people out of their own homes then bulldozing those homes to build settlements for Jews.

Did the Israelis and their followers think they could get away with that until the entire West Bank was 90% Jewish?

They should have extended Israeli rule overs Syria instead.  The problem would be sorted it pronto.

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 24^th, 2016 at 3:56pm:

Yes, Israel IS kicking people out of their own homes then bulldozing those homes to build settlements for Jews. Did the Israelis and their followers think they could get away with that until the entire West Bank was 90% Jewish?

http://images.alarabiya.net/07/7f/640x392_67575_124954.jpg

http://www.news.com.au/world/middle-east/us-rebuke-allows-un-condemnation-of-settlements/news-story/23a943b5de64203b4d7dc509224e6191

US rebuke allows UN condemnation of settlements

THE Obama administration allowed the UN Security Council to adopt a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements, defying pressure from US President- elect Donald Trump as well as Israel and several US senators who urged Washington to use its veto.
The resolution was put forward at the 15-member council for a vote on Friday by New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal a day after Egypt withdrew it under pressure from Israel and US President-elect Donald Trump. Israel and Trump had called on the United States to veto the measure.
It was adopted with 14 votes in favour, to a round of applause. It is the first resolution the Security Council has adopted on Israel and the Palestinians in nearly eight years.
The US decision to abstain was a relatively rare step by Washington, which usually shields Israel from such action.

The US abstention was seen as a parting shot by US President Barack Obama, who has had an acrimonious relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and who has made settlements a major target of peace efforts that have proven ultimately futile.
The resolution demanded that Israel “immediately and completely cease all settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territory, including East Jerusalem” and said the establishment of settlements by Israel has “no legal validity and constitutes a flagrant violation under international law”. A resolution needs nine votes in favour and no vetoes by the United States, France, Russia, Britain or China to be adopted.
The Palestinians want an independent state in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, areas Israel captured in a 1967 war.
The decision means the end of Israel encroaching onto Palestinian land. Picture: Mahmoud Illean/AP
The decision means the end of Israel encroaching onto Palestinian land. Picture: Mahmoud Illean/APSource:AP
Israel disputes that settlements are illegal and says their final status should be determined in talks on Palestinian statehood. The last round of US-led peace talks between the Israelis and Palestinians collapsed in 2014. The passage of the resolution changes nothing on the ground between Israel and the Palestinians and likely will be all but ignored by the incoming Trump administration.
But it was more than merely symbolic.

Raze these illegal settlements to ground with the bulldozers

The real terrorists are the Jews

Unforgiven wrote on Dec 24^th, 2016 at 12:10pm:

issuevoter wrote on Dec 24th, 2016 at 10:34am: Yeah, Israel is a big problem for UN member states. They send out rabid Jews who knife people on the street, and drive trucks through crowds. Meanwhile, a certain other religion gets away with this all the time, without so much as a mention from these be-suited parasites on bloated expense accounts. No other religion is currently stealing the land of indigenous people.

;D ;D ;D ;D


The best think that can happen to a Muslim Arab staying in the Middle East is getting Israeli citizenship.

All other options are far worse. The one million Muslim Israelis are certainly not renouncing their citizenship to go and live under Hamas or the PLO - options that are even worse.

https://biblicisminstitute.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/judaism.jpg

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Unforgiven wrote on Dec 27^th, 2016 at 1:49pm:

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Al Pacino.

The Devil, in art.            ['The Devil's Advocate']



Al Pacino.

The Devil's advocate, in life.




Life imitates art.....

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https://twitter.com/gazaglobal/status/499531827632406528

So whats new, firing missiles into Israel is illegal too. When you keep trying to punch a bully in the face no one cares if he retaliates. Time for Palestinians to grow up.

Steampipe wrote on Dec 28^th, 2016 at 8:54pm:

So whats new, firing missiles into Israel is illegal too. When you keep trying to punch a bully in the face no one cares if he retaliates. Time for Palestinians to grow up.

https://biblicisminstitute.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/judaism.jpg

Post all the pictures you want, it wont make a difference until Palestine renounce violence and deals with the issue peacefully. I don't care one way or another but as long as Palestine is ruled by terrorists and condone violence its going to get buggered over. Simples.

John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State:

"If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace."

I am surprised Kerry, a diplomat, went that far. It is only fair if he says the same of the Palestinians and Islam. And, for that matter, any other state with an official religion.

https://revolucionzine.files.wordpress.com/2014/07/nazis-y-sionistas.jpg

There was never going to be a 2 state solution.

The Jews want it all & they'll get it.

( until Iran makes a nuclear weapon & gives it to Hamas )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyFM-pWdqrY&vl=en

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyFM-pWdqrY&vl=en

issuevoter wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 11:44am:

John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State: "If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace." I am surprised Kerry, a diplomat, went that far. It is only fair if he says the same of the Palestinians and Islam. And, for that matter, any other state with an official religion.

I dunno about the 'never be at peace' but, but he is dead set correct in this respect ~  Israel cannot be a Jewish State and a Democratic State.

I do not believe it has a right to be a Jewish State either.

What other religion has an entire jurisdiction in which to laud it over those not of that religion IN ITS OWN SINGLE DEDICATED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY?

Where is the single dedicated Christian State? 

Islam in Iran?

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 4:12pm:

Islam in Iran?

Buggered if I know or care. 

Nationalioty does not seem to be based on religion.

I do care about a belligerent Sovereign State of petulent permanent victim Jews most of whom are "Jacob come latelys" from Europe/USA.

I was answering:


Quote:

What other religion has an entire jurisdiction in which to laud it over those not of that religion IN ITS OWN SINGLE DEDICATED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY?

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 5:05pm:

I was answering: Quote: What other religion has an entire jurisdiction in which to laud it over those not of that religion IN ITS OWN SINGLE DEDICATED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY?

But.....'Israel' seeks to identify itself as a "Jews only can be nationals" State.

Aussie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 5:12pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 5:05pm: I was answering: Quote: What other religion has an entire jurisdiction in which to laud it over those not of that religion IN ITS OWN SINGLE DEDICATED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY? But.....'Israel' seeks to identify itself as a "Jews only can be nationals" State.

That is total hogwash, Aussie!

There are Israeli palestinians in Israel!

I think Iran more closely resembles your lone religion state than Israel!

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 5:25pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 5:12pm: Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 5:05pm: I was answering: Quote: What other religion has an entire jurisdiction in which to laud it over those not of that religion IN ITS OWN SINGLE DEDICATED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY? But.....'Israel' seeks to identify itself as a "Jews only can be nationals" State. That is total hogwash, Aussie! There are Israeli palestinians in Israel! I think Iran more closely resembles your lone religion state than Israel!

Sure, there are Palestinians and even Calathumpians in Israel.  But......they are second class 'non' citizens.

Link.

They vote Palestinian MPs into the Knesset!

You are wrong here. . .

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 5:37pm:

They vote Palestinian MPs into the Knesset! You are wrong here. . .

Yeas they do.  How many?  (Psst....I know the answer.)  Further, Palestinians are not citizens of Israel.

Aussie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 4:03pm:

Where is the single dedicated Christian State?

Vatican city :D :D

John Smith wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 6:13pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 4:03pm: Where is the single dedicated Christian State?  Vatican city :D :D

I'll take your word for it and nuke it.

Aussie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 6:22pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 6:13pm: Aussie wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 4:03pm: Where is the single dedicated Christian State?  Vatican city :D :D I'll take your word for it and nuke it.

don't take my word .. the Vatican is independent of Italy or the Italian govt. It's it's own little fiefdom

John Smith wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 6:24pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 6:22pm: John Smith wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 6:13pm: Aussie wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 4:03pm: Where is the single dedicated Christian State?  Vatican city :D :D I'll take your word for it and nuke it. don't take my word .. the Vatican is independent of Italy or the Italian govt. It's it's own little fiefdom

Nuke it.....yesterday.

Aussie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 5:39pm:

Jovial Monk wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 5:37pm: They vote Palestinian MPs into the Knesset! You are wrong here. . . Yeas they do.  How many?  (Psst....I know the answer.)  Further, Palestinians are not citizens of Israel.

No they don't. It's Israelis that are voted in and it's Israelis that vote for them.

The Arab citizens of Israel are Israelis.

Palestinians have no voice in Israel.

John Smith wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 6:13pm:

Aussie wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 4:03pm: Where is the single dedicated Christian State?  Vatican city :D :D

0.44 km2, 1000 citizens.

Dedicated Muslim states? Millions of km2, 1.6 billion citizens.

Pleasing to see the Australian govt says it does not support the anti-Israel resolution in the UN and would not have voted for it.
As for those people across the ditch who co-sponsored it, aren't they lucky they don't live surrounded by a sea of Muslim savages.

Aussie wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 4:03pm:

issuevoter wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 11:44am: John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State: "If the choice is one state, Israel can either be Jewish or democratic, it cannot be both, and it won't ever really be at peace." I am surprised Kerry, a diplomat, went that far. It is only fair if he says the same of the Palestinians and Islam. And, for that matter, any other state with an official religion. I dunno about the 'never be at peace' but, but he is dead set correct in this respect ~  Israel cannot be a Jewish State and a Democratic State. I do not believe it has a right to be a Jewish State either. What other religion has an entire jurisdiction in which to laud it over those not of that religion IN ITS OWN SINGLE DEDICATED SOVEREIGN TERRITORY? Where is the single dedicated Christian State?

Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Brunei are some that come to mind.

John Smith wrote on Dec 29^th, 2016 at 6:24pm:

don't take my word .. the Vatican is independent of Italy or the Italian govt. It's it's own little fiefdom

The gold trinkets they stole from South America still hasn't been returned to the rightful owners.

WHY do you suppose that is?

Lord Herbert wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 6:50am:

John Smith wrote on Dec 29th, 2016 at 6:24pm: don't take my word .. the Vatican is independent of Italy or the Italian govt. It's it's own little fiefdom The gold trinkets they stole from South America still hasn't been returned to the rightful owners. WHY do you suppose that is?

Windsor Castle and the Tower are bristling with baubles stolen from India.  Returning them any time soon, Herbert?

When that dubious Vietnam War veteran, John Kerry, says "Israel keeps sabotaging peace prospects", a free translation would read something like:
"Those Jew bastards won't turn over their historical homeland to our great and powerful Muslim friends"

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 9:32am:

When that dubious Vietnam War veteran, John Kerry, says "Israel keeps sabotaging peace prospects", a free translation would read something like: "Those Jew bastards won't turn over their historical homeland to our great and powerful Muslim friends"

Still suffering from WWII guilt mate?

It's not your fault, you were only a child.

It's OK to criticise when the Persecuted becomes the persecutors.

It's not even religion based, but seeing as you want to make it that way & tell us ALL the time your Christian.

Shouldn't you be on the Muslim side & hate Jews?

I mean they did kill Jesus.

My response is, how much of the world do the Muslims want?
They've got from the western tip of Africa down into sub-Saharan regions, across to the Suez, up to Mesopotamia and across to Pakistan, not to mention Central Asia.

Now for the third time they are trying to invade Europe as well as stake out claims to exist in the Americas and god knows what all.

The Jews have a tiny enclave which IS their ancestrol home for 3 or 4 millennia. The western world owes it to them to defend that, not cede it to the barbarians

You have to read between the Obama administration's lines in these last weeks. What we are seeing is a scrambling to patch up the holes in the bottom of the Democratic Party's sinking boat. The posture of peacemaker for the Middle East has been a favourite cheap shot of both American political parties, because it will always be available, but I would like to know what Democrat Joe Lieberman, one time presidential hopeful, thinks of Kerry and his party's abandonment of Israel.

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 11:03am:

My response is, how much of the world do the Muslims want?

and my response to you is how much of the world do the Zionists want?


“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East

http://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815

bogarde73 wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 11:03am:

My response is, how much of the world do the Muslims want? They've got from the western tip of Africa down into sub-Saharan regions, across to the Suez, up to Mesopotamia and across to Pakistan, not to mention Central Asia. Now for the third time they are trying to invade Europe as well as stake out claims to exist in the Americas and god knows what all. The Jews have a tiny enclave which IS their ancestrol home for 3 or 4 millennia. The western world owes it to them to defend that, not cede it to the barbarians

AS DOES CHRISTIANITY.

Although Christianity already rules the America's & Europe, so technically ahead.

The site linked in jmcare's post, is right up there with such twaddle as fear of Masons, Pyramid Power, and the idea that it was not a band of Muzlims who crashed the planes into the the WTC. Which, by the way, was applauded by the Palestinians.

issuevoter wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 12:11pm:

The site linked in jmcare's post, is right up there with such twaddle as fear of Masons, Pyramid Power, and the idea that it was not a band of Muzlims who crashed the planes into the the WTC. Which, by the way, was applauded by the Palestinians.

It was applauded by everyone who hates America.

Probably even hard-line Jews who see it as a place of decadence.

BTW whats the diff in applauding 9/11 as compared to hooting as Baghdad is bombed live on TV???

Mossad chief secretly briefs Trump staff after UN vote

The head of Israel’s national intelligence agency, the Mossad, visited the United States in secret to meet with members of President-elect Donald Trump staff the Jewish Telegraphic Agency reported.

December 29, 2016

Mossad Director Yossi Cohen briefed the Trump staff members on the Iranian nuclear deal, the Syrian “civil” war, terror threats and the Palestinian issue, Ynet News reported Saturday.

The report did not give details on when the security briefing took place, but the news of the secret meeting came after a UN resolution on Israel that may end with charges in the International Criminal Court.

The UNSC passed the measure on Friday after the US abstained, enabling the adoption of the first resolution since 1979 to condemn Israel over its settlement policy.

The security delegation was organized by Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, according to Ynet, and was led by National Security Council head Yaakov Nagel. Israeli ambassador to the United States Ron Dermer reportedly also attended the meetings.

The Israeli officials reportedly met with Trump officials on a proposed regional conference to jumpstart the Israeli-Arab peace process to be held in Egypt.

A diplomatic flurry ensued after an anti-Israel United Nations resolution proposed by the Palestinian Authority, backed by New Zealand and allegedly drafted by the Obama administration.

“By standing with the sworn enemies of Israel to enable the passage of this destructive, one-sided anti-Israel rant and tirade,” the Washington Times reported the furious Israeli premier as saying, “Mr. Obama shows his colors.” Netanyahu also called Obama a betrayer.

But unfortunately for Israel, the blow was delivered by its friends and not its enemies. The US had abstained, but Britain, whose Balfour Declaration of 1917 led to the Jewish state in Palestine, voted for the resolution, US commentator Patrick Buchanan notes.

The fallout from Obama’s decision to abstain from Friday’s Security Council vote demanding Israel stop settlements in Palestinian territory, has meanwhile caused the White House to backtrack.

Obama’s advisor told the media that Obama will not allow any further United Nations measures critical of Israel to pass during the remainder of his term.

Deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes made these promises on Wednesday, after Israel escalated its word war with the outgoing US administration, claiming that it has “rather hard” evidence that the US president was instrumental in writing the anti-Israel proposal.

President-elect Trump meanwhile took to Twitter to mock the United Nations. He questioned the quality of the officials manning the United Nations, saying it’s just a club for people to “have a good time.”

The president-elect posted a tweet that said the UN has “such great potential,” but it has become “just a club for people to get together, talk and have a good time. So sad!”

http://freewestmedia.com/2016/12/29/mossad-chief-secretly-briefs-trump-staff-after-un-vote/

The Debate - Israel's Defiance

Date: December.27.2016

It has all the promises of a breakthrough: UN Resolution 23-34: deeming settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds run against international law. But that is about it, with no sanctions against Israel, or something to hold Israel accountable. In this edition of the debate, we'll discuss this resolution and whether it will have an effect on Israel illegal construction activities.

Guests:
Director, Shafaqna Institute for Middle Eastern Studies,
Catherine Shakdam
(LONDON).

Investigative Journalist,
Carol Gould
(LONDON)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgugszg44t8&list=PLNB-69ClKQNW4ONtmnRdn0VKc4IIDliyO

Jewish protesters at White House celebrate UN rebuke of Israel

Dec 30, 2016

A number of Orthodox Jewish activists have staged a demonstration in front of the White House to celebrate the recent UN Security Council rebuke of Israel’s illegal settlement construction on the occupied Palestinian lands.

The demonstrators on Thursday called for the immediate termination of the Israeli entity and the return of the occupied territories to Palestinians.

They expressed their strong support for President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry, who on Wednesday harshly criticized the Israeli regime over its illegal settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories.   

The Security Council last week passed Resolution 2334, which demands an immediate end to illegal settlement activities in the occupied Palestinian territories like East Jerusalem al-Quds.

The resolution was adopted after the US refused to veto it, reversing its longstanding policy of shielding Israel from condemnatory measures at the world body.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to force the Obama administration to veto the resolution, but Washington abstained from the vote, allowing the measure to pass.

On Sunday, a furious Netanyahu summoned US Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro and a group of other foreign envoys over the Security Council's rebuke of Israel’s settlement policy.

In addition, Netanyahu also accused Obama of "colluding" with the Palestinians, and carrying out a “shameful ambush” by not vetoing the resolution against Israel. 

A leader of the protesters at the White House said on Thursday that “as Jewish people we are terribly embarrassed and pained since all these crimes are supposedly being done in our names.”

“And it’s desecration of our religion when sadly our religion is being misused to justify all these crimes,” he added.

“We hope that the [UN Security Council] resolution that was just passed that will lead us to an end of this misuse of my name, of the name of my people, the Jewish people,” he added. “This will be a step towards ending this crime of using my religion, God’s religion Judaism, to perpetrate crimes against other people.”

“And we are all here to condemn Netanyahu’s accusations against our president, Barack Obama,” he stated.

“And we also have to confirm that what Secretary Kerry mentioned that criticizing Israel, being anti-Zionist is no way anti-Semitic,” he noted.

“If Israel commits crimes, if they are endangering not only the Palestinian people but also the Jewish people, or whoever is in the region, we have to condemn it,” the leader concluded.   

The demonstrators were outraged over America’s financial and military support for Israel. They also called for an end to Israel’s aggression against the Palestinians.

Israel faces deepening tension and isolation in its relations with the US and Europe over Netanyahu’s opposition to the formation of a Palestinian state.

The Obama administration has grown increasingly frustrated with Israel’s illegal settlement construction, describing it as an obstacle to peace and a "two-state solution."

“The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements,” Kerry said on Wednesday.

http://www.presstv.com/Detail/2016/12/30/504043/Jewish-protesters-hail-UN-rebuke-of-Israel--

http://www.countercurrents.org/palestinian_land_loss_map.jpg

the word is ra el has been stolen by khazars

THEFT

Stealing Palestine: A study of historical and cultural theft

The cultural appropriation of books, music, art, cuisine and dress have been used by Zionists as a weapon against Palestinians

http://www.middleeasteye.net/essays/stealing-palestine-study-historical-and-cultural-theft-1001196809

it_is_the_light wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 12:50pm:

http://www.countercurrents.org/palestinian_land_loss_map.jpg the word is ra el           has been stolen by khazars THEFT

light,

Did the God of the bible also misappropriate the word Israel, when he renamed Jacob as Israel  ?


Genesis 32:28
And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.



Israel = = 'a prince with God'



Psalms 87:2
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
3  Glorious things are spoken of thee, O city of God. Selah.


Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9  For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.



Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1326366655/95#95

Quote:

The word alah, has the meaning to curse. Isra-el Isra-EL = = a prince with God. Allah = = A curse, upon mankind. Daniel:9:11: Yea, all Israel 3478 have transgressed 5674-1 thy law, 8451 even by departing, 5493-2 that they might not obey 8085-2 thy voice; 6963 therefore the curse 423 is poured 5413-4 upon us, and the oath 7621 that [is] written 3789-7 in the law 8451 of Moses 4872 the servant 5650 of God, 430 because we have sinned 2398-1 against him. [quote]Strong's Hebrew 423  'alah  aw-law' from 422; an imprecation:--curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

Dictionary;
execrate = =
1 feel or express great loathing for.
2 archaic curse; swear.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H423&version=KJV


The CURSE.

The CURSE.

The CURSE.

The alah.


Not the EL-owahh

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Yadda wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:00pm:

it_is_the_light wrote on Dec 30th, 2016 at 12:50pm: http://www.countercurrents.org/palestinian_land_loss_map.jpg the word is ra el           has been stolen by khazars THEFT light, Did the God of the bible also misappropriate the word Israel, when he renamed Jacob as Israel  ? Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Yadda said.... http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1326366655/95#95 Quote: The word alah, has the meaning to curse. Isra-el Isra-EL = = a prince with God. Allah = = A curse, upon mankind. Daniel:9:11: Yea, all Israel 3478 have transgressed 5674-1 thy law, 8451 even by departing, 5493-2 that they might not obey 8085-2 thy voice; 6963 therefore the curse 423 is poured 5413-4 upon us, and the oath 7621 that [is] written 3789-7 in the law 8451 of Moses 4872 the servant 5650 of God, 430 because we have sinned 2398-1 against him. [quote]Strong's Hebrew 423  'alah  aw-law' from 422; an imprecation:--curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing. Dictionary; execrate = = 1 feel or express great loathing for. 2 archaic curse; swear. http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H423&version=KJV The CURSE. The CURSE. The CURSE. The alah. Not the EL-owahh

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Jacob wrestling with the angelhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_wrestling_with_the_angel

the renaming of Jacob as "Israel", literally "He who struggles with God." The account is also regularly described as Jacob wrestling with God




Merriam-Webster
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Definition of ALLAH
1.      :  GOD 1a —used in Islam
2.      
Origin and Etymology of ALLAH
Arabic allāh

First Known Use: 1584
ALLAH Synonyms
Synonyms
deity, Almighty, Author, Creator, Divinity, Eternal, Everlasting, Father, God, Godhead, Jehovah, Lord, Maker, Providence, Supreme Being, Yahweh (also Jahveh or Yahveh)


Wikipedia
Allah (/ˈælə, ˈɑːlə, əlˈlɑː/;[1][2] Arabic: الله‎, translit. Allāh‎, pronounced ɑɫ'ɫɑh] (  listen)) is the Arabic word referring to God in Abrahamic religions.[3][4][5] The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means "the god", and is related to El and Elohim, the Hebrew words for God.[6][7]
The word Allah has been used by Arabs of different religions since pre-Islamic times.[8] More specifically, it has been used as a term to refer to God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and Arab Christians. It is now mainly used by Muslims and Arab Christians to refer to God.[9] It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used in this way by Bábists, Bahá'ís, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Mizrahi Jews.[10][11][12]Similar usage by Christians and Sikhs in West Malaysia has recently led to political and legal controversies.[13][14][15][16]

Oxford Dictionary
Allah
PROPER NOUN
•      The name of God among Muslims (and Arab Christians).
Origin
From Arabic 'allāh, contraction of al-'il‘h the god.
Cambridge Dictionary
Allahnoun
UK  /ˈæl.ə/ US  /ˈæl.ə/

the name of God for Muslims and ArabChristians

muslim.org

Allah, the unique name of God

The word Allah, according to several Arabic lexicons, means "the Being Who comprises all the attributes of perfection", i.e. the Being Who is perfect in every way (in His knowledge, power etc.), and possesses the best and the noblest qualities imaginable in the highest degree. This meaning is supported by the Holy Quran when it says:

"His are the best (or most beautiful) names." (17:110; 20:8; and 7:180)
Contrary to popular belief, the word Allah is NOT a contraction of al-ilah (al meaning 'the', and ilah meaning 'god').
Had it been so, then the expression ya Allah ('O Allah!') would have been ungrammatical, because according to the Arabic language when you address someone by the vocative form ya followed by a title, the al ('the') must be dropped from the title. For example, you cannot say ya ar-rabb but must say ya rabb (for 'O Lord'). So if the word Allah was al-ilah ('the God'), we would not be able to say: ya Allah, which we do.

Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (which is based on classical Arabic dictionaries), says under the word Allah, while citing many linguistical authorities:

"Allah ... is a proper name applied to the Being Who exists necessarily, by Himself, comprising all the attributes of perfection, a proper name denoting the true god ... the al being inseparable from it, not derived..."
Allah is thus a proper name, not derived from anything, and the Al is inseparable from it. The word al-ilah (the god) is a different word.http://www.muslim.org/islam/allah.htm


May I also ask what your interpretation of Revelation 3:9 please.

Revelation 3:9

King James Version
Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

Darby Bible Translation
Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and

Israel was Jewish.
Then it was stolen from the Jews.
And now the Jews have taken back what is theirs.
So now Israel is Jewish again, as it has always been.
The Muslim are interlopers.

Taking back what is yours is not theft. Israel is Jewish. It's not Muslim or Arab or Palestinian or insha'allah (Arabic for 'wha'eva, man'). Jewish.

It's a sliver of land. It's Jewish, not anything else.

Frank wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 8:27pm:

Israel was Jewish. Then it was stolen from the Jews. And now the Jews have taken back what is theirs. So now Israel is Jewish again, as it has always been. The Muslim are interlopers. Taking back what is yours is not theft. Israel is Jewish. It's not Muslim or Arab or Palestinian or insha'allah (Arabic for 'wha'eva, man'). Jewish. It's a sliver of land. It's Jewish, not anything else.

Crap.  But....let's assume it is true (which it is not)....let the Jews defend what they reckon is theirs without non Jewish Westerners butting in.

Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1326366655/95#95

Quote:

The word alah, has the meaning to curse. Isra-el Isra-EL = = a prince with God. Allah = = A curse, upon mankind. Daniel:9:11: Yea, all Israel 3478 have transgressed 5674-1 thy law, 8451 even by departing, 5493-2 that they might not obey 8085-2 thy voice; 6963 therefore the curse 423 is poured 5413-4 upon us, and the oath 7621 that [is] written 3789-7 in the law 8451 of Moses 4872 the servant 5650 of God, 430 because we have sinned 2398-1 against him. [quote]Strong's Hebrew 423  'alah  aw-law' from 422; an imprecation:--curse, cursing, execration, oath, swearing.

Dictionary;
execrate = =
1 feel or express great loathing for.
2 archaic curse; swear.

http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/Lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H423&version=KJV


The CURSE.

The CURSE.

The CURSE.

The alah.


Not the EL-owahh

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jmjcare wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:52pm:

Merriam-Webster •       Definition of ALLAH 1.      :  GOD 1a —used in Islam 2.       Origin and Etymology of ALLAH Arabic allāh First Known Use: 1584 ALLAH Synonyms Synonyms deity, Almighty, Author, Creator, Divinity, Eternal, Everlasting, Father, God, Godhead, Jehovah, Lord, Maker, Providence, Supreme Being, Yahweh (also Jahveh or Yahveh) Wikipedia Allah (/ˈælə, ˈɑːlə, əlˈlɑː/;[1][2] Arabic: الله‎, translit. Allāh‎, pronounced ɑɫ'ɫɑh] (  listen)) is the Arabic word referring to God in Abrahamic religions.[3][4][5] The word is thought to be derived by contraction from al-ilāh, which means "the god", and is related to El and Elohim, the Hebrew words for God.[6][7] The word Allah has been used by Arabs of different religions since pre-Islamic times.[8] More specifically, it has been used as a term to refer to God by Muslims (both Arab and non-Arab) and Arab Christians. It is now mainly used by Muslims and Arab Christians to refer to God.[9] It is also often, albeit not exclusively, used in this way by Bábists, Bahá'ís, Indonesian and Maltese Christians, and Mizrahi Jews.[10][11][12]Similar usage by Christians and Sikhs in West Malaysia has recently led to political and legal controversies.[13][14][15][16] Oxford Dictionary Allah PROPER NOUN •      The name of God among Muslims (and Arab Christians). Origin From Arabic 'allāh, contraction of al-'il‘h the god. Cambridge Dictionary Allahnoun UK  /ˈæl.ə/ US  /ˈæl.ə/ the name of God for Muslims and ArabChristians muslim.org Allah, the unique name of God The word Allah, according to several Arabic lexicons, means "the Being Who comprises all the attributes of perfection", i.e. the Being Who is perfect in every way (in His knowledge, power etc.), and possesses the best and the noblest qualities imaginable in the highest degree. This meaning is supported by the Holy Quran when it says: "His are the best (or most beautiful) names." (17:110; 20:8; and 7:180) Contrary to popular belief, the word Allah is NOT a contraction of al-ilah (al meaning 'the', and ilah meaning 'god'). Had it been so, then the expression ya Allah ('O Allah!') would have been ungrammatical, because according to the Arabic language when you address someone by the vocative form ya followed by a title, the al ('the') must be dropped from the title. For example, you cannot say ya ar-rabb but must say ya rabb (for 'O Lord'). So if the word Allah was al-ilah ('the God'), we would not be able to say: ya Allah, which we do. Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon (which is based on classical Arabic dictionaries), says under the word Allah, while citing many linguistical authorities: "Allah ... is a proper name applied to the Being Who exists necessarily, by Himself, comprising all the attributes of perfection, a proper name denoting the true god ... the al being inseparable from it, not derived..." Allah is thus a proper name, not derived from anything, and the Al is inseparable from it. The word al-ilah (the god) is a different word.http://www.muslim.org/islam/allah.htm

jmjcare,

I prefer my ref's for the origin of the word alah.

jmjcare wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:52pm:

Yadda wrote on Dec 30th, 2016 at 5:00pm: it_is_the_light wrote on Dec 30th, 2016 at 12:50pm: http://www.countercurrents.org/palestinian_land_loss_map.jpg the word is ra el           has been stolen by khazars THEFT light, Did the God of the bible also misappropriate the word Israel, when he renamed Jacob as Israel  ? Genesis 32:28 And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed. Jacob wrestling with the angel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_wrestling_with_the_angel the renaming of Jacob as "Israel", literally "He who struggles with God." The account is also regularly described as Jacob wrestling with God

jmjcare,

Yes it is debatable, what this biblical account means.

Maybe that is the conclusion we are meant to make ?


Genesis 32:1
And Jacob went on his way, and the angels of God met him.
2  And when Jacob saw them, he said, This is God's host: and he called the name of that place Mahanaim.


Genesis 32:9
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the LORD which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
10  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.
11  Deliver me, I pray thee, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau: for I fear him, lest he will come and smite me, and the mother with the children.
12  And thou saidst, I will surely do thee good, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.


Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
25  And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
26  And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27  And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28  And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast prevailed.
29  And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.
30  And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.
31  And as he passed over Penuel the sun rose upon him, and he halted upon his thigh.
32  Therefore the children of Israel eat not of the sinew which shrank, which is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day: because he touched the hollow of Jacob's thigh in the sinew that shrank.



My reading is that;     Jacob struggled with the angel of God, as though with another man.

And that the angel of God allowed Jacob to prevail.    [else how could a man prevail against the angel of God?]

But this account is of what happened, within a dream.

So, what does it mean ?

It means something to me.

jmjcare wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 5:52pm:

May I also ask what your interpretation of Revelation 3:9 please. Revelation 3:9 King James Version Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Darby Bible Translation Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and

Revelation 3:7
And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth;
8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.
9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.
10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.



To me, it means that Jesus will show favour to those within the spiritual 'church in Philadelphia'.

And;     "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee."

Jesus again, shows that he does discriminate among men, and even among 'believers'.


QUESTION;
Why does Jesus say, that; "....I have loved thee." to those within the spiritual 'church in Philadelphia' ?

QUESTION;
Is it because those within the spiritual 'church in Philadelphia' bow down to Allah ?




Acts 10:34
Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:
35  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.


Romans 2:11
For there is no respect of persons with God.


Galatians 6:7
Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.


Ecclesiastes 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
14  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.


Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.


Isaiah 55:6
Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near:
7  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.




Yadda said.....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1454219198/4#4

Quote:

Pursue truth. To the best of your current ability, always respect and defend what you understand to be true/truthful.

John 3:19
And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.
20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.
21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.


John 14:15
If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;
17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.


John 18:37
......Jesus answered,.....To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

More of your boring, unwarranted, proselytizing horseshit.


It's pen monkeys like you who believe in the myth the establishment of the state of Israel could secure peace and security for the Jewish people after the horrors of the Holocaust. The state of Israel is nothing more than an illegal neo-colonial expansion of Zionism that has done nothing but divide the population against the indigenous population of the region.

The state of Israel has achieved nothing but bring forth the constant danger of war; too many people have paid in in blood the price of expansionism of the most unequal society in the world. The illegal Zionist state has been, as Trotsky warned, a “bloody trap” for the Jewish people.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Lev_Trotsky.jpg/220px-Lev_Trotsky.jpg

This media hyped disintegration of the “two-state solution” has truly revealed all the bankruptcy of all the lies of peace and security for the Palestinian population and their oppression by the Zionist.

Take your ridiculous bourgeois Bible verses elsewhere, hippie.

Marla wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 8:31am:

More of your boring, unwarranted, proselytizing horseshit. It's pen monkeys like you who believe in the myth the establishment of the state of Israel could secure peace and security for the Jewish people after the horrors of the Holocaust. The state of Israel is nothing more than an illegal neo-colonial expansion of Zionism that has done nothing but divide the population against the indigenous population of the region. The state of Israel has achieved nothing but bring forth the constant danger of war; too many people have paid in in blood the price of expansionism of the most unequal society in the world. The illegal Zionist state has been, as Trotsky warned, a “bloody trap” for the Jewish people. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Lev_Trotsky.jpg/220px-Lev_Trotsky.jpg This media hyped disintegration of the “two-state solution” has truly revealed all the bankruptcy of all the lies of peace and security for the Palestinian population and their oppression by the Zionist. Take your ridiculous bourgeois Bible verses elsewhere, hippie.

dear Marla,
The rapture will happen soon be prepared. Know and believe that Jesus died on the cross for your sins and sins of the world shed his blood and rose three days later from the grave and went back to heaven to prepare a place. Turn away from your sins and ask forgiveness and accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and Personal Saviour. God will forgive your sins no matter what they are.

namaste

Yeah, and you know what you can do with your boring fairy tale, Blooby.

Marla wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 8:31am:

Take your ridiculous bourgeois Bible verses elsewhere, hippie.

Marla Strikes Again!

... and AGAIN fails miserably to spam her ideology as something desirable for the West.

Run your eyes over this lot, and tell us what you see ... (hint : Western civilisation - with its creature comforts, utility conveniences, and medical cures and therapies has very much depended upon the contributions of the Jewish people - including those of Israel. 

**

'An associated prize in Economics has been awarded since 1969. Nobel Prizes have been awarded to over 870 individuals, of whom 185 - over 21.264% - were Jewish or people of Jewish descent, although Jews and people of Jewish descent comprise less than 0.2% of the world's population (or 1 in every 500 people)'.

Feel humbled and grateful, Marla from Colorada.

And then ... scroll down the list :

link

Way to miss the god damn point, hippie

Marla wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 8:31am:

More of your boring, unwarranted, proselytizing horseshit. .....The state of Israel is nothing more than an illegal neo-colonial expansion of Zionism that has done nothing but divide the population against the indigenous population of the region. The state of Israel has achieved nothing but bring forth the constant danger of war; too many people have paid in in blood the price of expansionism of the most unequal society in the world. .....Take your ridiculous bourgeois Bible verses elsewhere, hippie.

Sorry Marla, but you keep provoking me.              :(

And i gotta respond, just as a moslem would.             :)





Soren wrote on Jun 11^th, 2012 at 1:45pm:

......Israel is a successful, thriving country, even as it is surrounded and threatened by poor, incompetent yet hostile muslim countries with much, much greater populations, territories and resources. What do they all have in common? They are Arabs and Islamic. There would be no Israel if they were surrounded by hundreds of millions of hostile vikings or Swiss or Germans. That's why the Jews are grateful and rightly say, 'thank god we have the Arabs for enemies'.

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Yadda said.....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1338909288/109#109

Quote:

[quote] 'thank god we have the Arabs for enemies'

ROFLOL


Exactly so, Soren!!     ;D     ;D     ;D





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Ezekiel 37:21
And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will take the children of Israel from among the heathen, whither they be gone, and will gather them on every side, and bring them into their own land:
22  And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:
23  Neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions: but I will save them out of all their dwellingplaces, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.
24  And David my servant shall be king over them; and they all shall have one shepherd: they shall also walk in my judgments, and observe my statutes, and do them.
25  And they shall dwell in the land that I have given unto Jacob my servant, wherein your fathers have dwelt; and they shall dwell therein, even they, and their children, and their children's children for ever: and my servant David shall be their prince for ever.
26  Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them: and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.
27  My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
28  And the heathen shall know that I the LORD do sanctify Israel, when my sanctuary shall be in the midst of them for evermore.

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Isaiah 10:20
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.
21  The remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.
22  For though thy people Israel be as the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return: the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness.


Isaiah 54:15
Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.
16  Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
17  No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.




Yadda said....
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1434160480/9#9

Quote:

God foretold [during the time of Moses!], that the nation [the people] of Israel will be found to be, unworthy [i.e. unholy], and that because the nation of Israel abandoned him, God would scatter Israel among the nations... And though Israel are punished, for abandoning God, and for braking their covenant with their God... Israel is not, will not, be cast off, by their God.

Yadda wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 9:12am:

Sorry Marla, but you keep provoking me. And i gotta respond just as a moslem would.

It's "Muslim," hippie. At least get your xenophobia right.

Watch this video -
Malcolm is dancing with Jewsssssssssssss:

https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/33693198/pm-malcolm-turnbull-lets-loose-for-a-traditional-jewish-dance/#page1

Marla wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 9:15am:

Yadda wrote on Dec 31st, 2016 at 9:12am: Sorry Marla, but you keep provoking me. And i gotta respond just as a moslem would. It's "Muslim," hippie.

No it isn't.


Muslim or Moslem?
http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1468499918/0#0

Quote:

Every moslem, is a moslem. In Winston Churchill's day, most people referred to 'the moslem' as a Mohammedan. A particular word, which was particularly appropriate, imo. [quote] "How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property – either as a child, a wife, or a concubine – must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men. Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome.[5]:248–250"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_River_War

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Bobby. wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 9:22am:

Watch this video - Malcolm is dancing with Jewsssssssssssss: https://au.news.yahoo.com/video/watch/33693198/pm-malcolm-turnbull-lets-loose-for-a-traditional-jewish-dance/#page1

Celebrating the gift of Tasmania?

Marla wrote on Dec 31^st, 2016 at 8:42am:

Yeah, and you know what you can do with your boring fairy tale, Blooby.

;D ;D ;D

Jesus was a Jew, Bobby, and we all know that Jews are Ultra-Capitalists ...

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/75/77/37/75773764bc8cb9887b76bfc5453f446d.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/2d/50/5b/2d505b240ea6951c2896d4b3814322d6.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/58/3c/41/583c417f232c67dc427ab3d89d2d013d.jpg

The biggest problem with the Jews is not that they go on terror rampages that murder thousands of innocents, or that they jail poets, hang gays or stone women. No, it’s that they build too much. The reason this construction is considered such a sin, of course, is that it’s happening inside disputed areas which Israel captured in a defensive war in 1967, when its Arab neighbours did everything they could to throw the Jews into the sea.

One of those disputed areas is East Jerusalem, which includes the Old City and Judaism’s holiest active site, the Western Wall. From the time Israel was created in 1948 until 1967, East Jerusalem was administered by Jordan and became a decrepit and closed place where holy sites were routinely destroyed.

After its liberation by the Jews in 1967, Jerusalem flourished, becoming an open, international city where all religions were honoured.

But there was a problem. The UN, the anti-Israel haven that once declared “Zionism is racism”, decided these liberated areas were “occupied Palestinian territory” and that any Jewish construction in these areas, including at the Western Wall, was a “flagrant violation of international law”.

Never mind that from 1948 to 1967, when Jordan occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem, not one soul called it “occupied territory”. Hardly anyone, in fact, ever talked about a Palestinian national cause. That cause only came to life, and that land only became “occupied”, after the Jews took it over in 1967.

You’d never know any of this from hearing US Secretary of State Kerry tell the world that these Jewish settlements are such a pernicious “threat” to peace because they’re taking up space for a Palestinian state. What he failed to mention, as most people do, is that there already is a Palestinian state — it’s called Gaza, and it’s run by religious anti-Semitic madmen sworn to destroy the Zionist state.

If you go by Kerry’s speech, this desire to destroy the Jewish state, not to mention the chronic Palestinian refusal to negotiate directly with Israel, are smaller obstacles to peace than having too many Jews building too many homes in too many wrong places.

Kerry also failed to mention that Palestinian Arabs rejected opportunities for statehood in 1937, 1939, 1947, 1979, 1993, 2000 and 2008, and, as historian Mitchell Bard writes, “settlement construction would have come to a halt if the Palestinians had taken advantage of any of these opportunities”. That was, perhaps, as inconvenient a truth as the fact that when Israel did evacuate all of its settlements from Gaza, it was rewarded not with peace but with 20,000 terror rockets.

In his zeal to blame Jewish settlers for making a two-state solution “impossible”, Kerry also glibly dismissed the possibility of Jews living in a Palestinian state. After all, if there are 1.8 million Palestinian Arabs living in a Jewish state, why can’t there be any Jews living in a Palestinian state?

In the event that Jewish settlers and the Israeli army were ever to abandon the West Bank, Kerry seems to have overlooked a complication, such as: Hamas and Islamic State swooping in and turning the West Bank into a mini-Syria and chopping off Palestinian heads left and right. I would call that a serious threat to peace.

this criminal is about to be arrested it would seem ..

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/benjamin-netanyahu-israel-fraud-bribery-criminal-claims-investigation-arnaud-mimran-a7497016.html

Benjamin Netanyahu faces 'criminal investigation' over fraud and bribery claims

Israeli Prime Minister alleged to have accepted €1 million from convicted French fraudster but denies any wrongdoing

https://static.independent.co.uk/s3fs-public/styles/story_large/public/thumbnails/image/2016/12/11/16/benjamin-netanyahu-2.jpg
Benjamin Netanyahu faced questions over his role in an Israeli deal to buy submarines from a company partly owned by Iran AP

Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli Prime Minister, is reportedly facing a full criminal investigation into charges of bribery and fraud.

Police have been looking into the allegations for almost nine months and now believe they have cause to open a full investigation, according to reports.

Detectives have applied for permission from Avichai Mandelblit, the Israeli Attorney General, to begin a formal investigation into the alleged offences of bribe-taking and aggravated fraud, which are believed to relate to alleged donations.

Mr Netanyahu denies the allegations. A spokesperson for the Prime Minister told Haaretz: "It’s all nonsense.

“Since Netanyahu’s victory in the last elections and even before, hostile elements have used heroic efforts to attempt to bring about his downfall, with false accusations against him and his family.

“This [latest attempt] is absolutely false. There was nothing and there will be nothing.”

It was reported in June that Roni Alsheikh, the Chief of Israeli Police, had ordered the country’s special police unit, Lahav 433, which has been compared to the FBI, to investigate the Prime Minister - but demanded total secrecy and no leaks to the media.

Investigators are reportedly looking into allegations Mr Netanyahu accepted €1 million (£850,000) from Arnaud Mimran, a French businessman currently serving eight years in prison for committing a huge carbon-tax fraud. During his trial, Mimran claimed to have donated the money to Mr Netanyahu during the 2009 Israeli election campaign - something the politician has consistently denied.

Earlier this year a spokesperson for the Israeli Prime Minister said: “Mr. Netanyahu received no prohibited contribution from Mimran. Any other claim is a lie.”

The Prime Minister did, however, admit accepting $40,000 (£33,000) from Mimran in 2001.

I have reached the point where I do not believe there is any point in being either pro Palestinian or pro Israeli in this region as they are both culpable for various atrocities at different times.

The best position is to oppose the side that is wrong in the current situation.

On the settlements it is so obviously wrong it is indefensible. You can not just go into a different country and take their land and think that it is acceptable, this is atrocious and obviously so.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orC2Xn0VdnI

“DECLARATION OF WAR”: NETANYAHU ISSUES BOLD THREAT TO COUNTRY THAT BETRAYED ISRAEL AT U.N.

Published on Jan 2, 2017
Sub for more: http://nnn.is/the_new_media | The Conservative Tribune reports, The nation of Israel has been lashing out furiously over the past few days after the United Nations Security Council passed a resolution condemning the building of settlements in occupied territory. In addition to some strong words directed at the Obama administration, Israel also reportedly told New Zealand before the vote occurred that if New Zealand supported the measure, it would be considered an act of war, The U.K. Guardian reported.

http://conservativetribune.com/war-netanyahu-bold-threat-israel/

“Declaration of War”: Netanyahu Issues BOLD Threat to Country That Betrayed Israel at U.N.

Yadda wrote on Dec 30^th, 2016 at 10:30pm:

jmjcare wrote on Dec 30th, 2016 at 5:52pm: May I also ask what your interpretation of Revelation 3:9 please. Revelation 3:9 King James Version Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Darby Bible Translation Behold, I make them of the synagogue of Satan who say that they are Jews, and Revelation 3:7 And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write; These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth, and no man shutteth; and shutteth, and no man openeth; 8  I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name. 9  Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. 10  Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth. To me, it means that Jesus will show favour to those within the spiritual 'church in Philadelphia'. And;     "Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." Jesus again, shows that he does discriminate among men, and even among 'believers'. QUESTION; Why does Jesus say, that; "....I have loved thee." to those within the spiritual 'church in Philadelphia' ? QUESTION; Is it because those within the spiritual 'church in Philadelphia' bow down to Allah ? Acts 10:34 Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: 35  But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him. Romans 2:11 For there is no respect of persons with God. Galatians 6:7 Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. Ecclesiastes 12:13 Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. 14  For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil. Deuteronomy 8:2 And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no. Isaiah 55:6 Seek ye the LORD while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near: 7  Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon. Yadda said..... http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1454219198/4#4 Quote: Pursue truth. To the best of your current ability, always respect and defend what you understand to be true/truthful. John 3:19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20  For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved. 21  But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God. John 14:15 If ye love me, keep my commandments. 16  And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever; 17  Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. John 18:37 ......Jesus answered,.....To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world, that I should bear witness unto the truth. Every one that is of the truth heareth my voice.

SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN Full documentary 1878-2006 by A C Hitchcock

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMGtAJqzLEs

14. The fake Jews of the Synagogue of Satan and the Battle of Armageddon of World War III

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziwiKoMOB-0

The Jews in Israel are not true Jews, they are Khazars Ashkenazi Jews Identity theft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJWeyrnKqvA

Political Zionism Caught on Camera

Published on Jan 8, 2017

An Israeli diplomat plans the take down of a British member of parliament. This is the reason you see politicians claim that "they stand with Israel".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-aTHfBlhg

Israel is the legal occupant of the West Bank, says the Court of Appeal of Versailles, France

First and foremost, the Versailles Court of Appeals had to determine the legal rights of Palestinians and Israelis in West Bank. Their conclusion: Palestinians have no right – in the international legal sense – to the region, unlike Israel, who is legitimately entitled to occupy all land beyond the 67 line.

...


The Court of Appeal does not deny the occupation, but it destroys one after another all the Palestinian arguments

Referring to the texts on which the PLO claim is based, the Court of Appeal considers that Israel is entitled to ensure order and public life in the West Bank, therefore Israel has the right to build a light rail, infrastructure and dwellings.

Article 43 of the Fourth Hague Convention of 1907 stipulates that « The authority of the legitimate power having in fact passed into the hands of the occupant, the latter shall take all the measures in his power to restore, and ensure, as far as possible, public order and safety ».

Israeli occupation does not violate any international law

« The Palestinian Authority misread the documents, they do not apply to the occupation »

The Court explains that the Palestinian Authority misinterprets the texts and they do not apply to the occupation:

First of all, all the international instruments put forward by the PLO are acts signed between States, and the obligations or prohibitions contained therein are relevant to States. Neither the Palestinian Authority nor the PLO are States, therefore, none of these legal documents apply.
Secondly, said the Court, these texts are binding only on those who signed them, namely the « contracting parties ». But neither the PLO nor the Palestinian Authority have ever signed these texts.

http://fr.slideshare.net/yohanntaieb3/decision-de-lacourdappel

Why Did the Al-Jazeera Expose Fail?

January 14, 2017  /  Gilad Atzmon

“The Lobby”, the Al-Jazeerah expose of the Israeli Embassy and the Jewish Lobby infiltration into British politics is a landmark in journalism. It seems that Qatari TV outsmarted Israeli intelligence in the UK and beyond.

In the program, an undercover journalist named ‘Robin’ managed to infiltrate into the corridors of the Jewish lobby in Britain, secured the trust of a senior Israeli intelligence officer and, most importantly, managed to reveal the depths of Israeli interference in British politics.

We learned how Israel and its lobby plot against Britain and the Brits. In the program, Shai Masot, an Israeli official was caught on camera conspiring to “bring down” a British minister.

We learned how our own treacherous MPs shamelessly serve a foreign power and foreign interests. In Episode 3 we witness British politicians and Israeli lobbyists such as MP Joan Ryan  caught on camera smearing a Labour voter as an 'anti-Semite', and practically conspiring against her own party. Ms Ryan does it all for the Jewish state, a state with a horrid record on human rights and war crimes.  I wonder what is it that motivates MP Ryan? Is it  greed, or is it just power seeking? 

The Brits should certainly ask themselves how come it is left to a Qatari TV network  to reveal the shocking news about their democracy being taken over by a foreign Lobby. Should this not be the concern  for the BBC or the Guardian? And even after the Al-Jazeera expose, the British media remained silent and the question must be asked: would it have stayed as silent had Shai Masot been a Russian? Would it have stayed as silent if MP Joan Ryan was exposed as an Iranian lobbyist? 

But Al-Jazeera fell into an all-too-common trap. Troubled by its own findings, it tried to soften them with the usual politically correct fluff.  Instead of concentrating on the British aspect of this saga and allowing the Brits to speak for themselves, Al-Jazeera allowed an Israeli - academic Ilan Pappe to speak for us. Similarly, Jackie Walker, certainly a victim of the Israeli campaign was also asked, “as a Jew" (as well as a Black person), to spell out for us her own identitarian philosophy. All other commentators on the Israeli espionage operation came from recognised Palestinian solidarity perspectives. Despite the fact that the dirty dealings of the Israeli Embassy and the treason of members of the Israeli lobby groups in Britain is a clear offence against British sovereignty and the British people, only one Brit, journalist Peter Oborne, addressed the offence from a clear British perspective.   

This is wrong. “The Lobby” exposed, above all, a gross interference with British sovereignty, a crude intrusion into the British democratic process and government.  Al-Jazeera failed because it turned this British national tragedy into an internal Jewish dispute.

For obvious reasons, Al Jazeera chose not to delve into the deep, cultural meaning of the Israeli operation. Israel is, above all, the Jewish state and, as I have mentioned many times before, plotting against other people’s regimes is deeply embedded in Judaic teaching and Jewish culture. It is in practice the message of The Book of Esther, which teach the Jews how toconspire against their rulers and, by proxy, to win over their enemies.  You can read The Book Of Esther for yourselves (it’s pretty short and very entertaining): http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Esther.html

Shai Masot was no junior embassy employee as claimed. He was a senior intelligence officer operating from the safety and immunity of its embassy on behalf of the Jewish state. He was working alongside Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev and the two are seen together in the film, sitting side by side, addressing various Jewish lobby groups. Shai Masot has been recalled and, I understand, is currently seeking other employment. Mark Regev should now be expelled and the matter must be investigated by MI5.

http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/1/14/why-did-the-al-jazeera-expose-fail

jmjcare wrote on Jan 15^th, 2017 at 8:38pm:

Why Did the Al-Jazeera Expose Fail? January 14, 2017  /  Gilad Atzmon “The Lobby”, the Al-Jazeerah expose of the Israeli Embassy and the Jewish Lobby infiltration into British politics is a landmark in journalism. It seems that Qatari TV outsmarted Israeli intelligence in the UK and beyond. In the program, an undercover journalist named ‘Robin’ managed to infiltrate into the corridors of the Jewish lobby in Britain, secured the trust of a senior Israeli intelligence officer and, most importantly, managed to reveal the depths of Israeli interference in British politics. We learned how Israel and its lobby plot against Britain and the Brits. In the program, Shai Masot, an Israeli official was caught on camera conspiring to “bring down” a British minister. We learned how our own treacherous MPs shamelessly serve a foreign power and foreign interests. In Episode 3 we witness British politicians and Israeli lobbyists such as MP Joan Ryan  caught on camera smearing a Labour voter as an 'anti-Semite', and practically conspiring against her own party. Ms Ryan does it all for the Jewish state, a state with a horrid record on human rights and war crimes.  I wonder what is it that motivates MP Ryan? Is it  greed, or is it just power seeking?  The Brits should certainly ask themselves how come it is left to a Qatari TV network  to reveal the shocking news about their democracy being taken over by a foreign Lobby. Should this not be the concern  for the BBC or the Guardian? And even after the Al-Jazeera expose, the British media remained silent and the question must be asked: would it have stayed as silent had Shai Masot been a Russian? Would it have stayed as silent if MP Joan Ryan was exposed as an Iranian lobbyist?  But Al-Jazeera fell into an all-too-common trap. Troubled by its own findings, it tried to soften them with the usual politically correct fluff.  Instead of concentrating on the British aspect of this saga and allowing the Brits to speak for themselves, Al-Jazeera allowed an Israeli - academic Ilan Pappe to speak for us. Similarly, Jackie Walker, certainly a victim of the Israeli campaign was also asked, “as a Jew" (as well as a Black person), to spell out for us her own identitarian philosophy. All other commentators on the Israeli espionage operation came from recognised Palestinian solidarity perspectives. Despite the fact that the dirty dealings of the Israeli Embassy and the treason of members of the Israeli lobby groups in Britain is a clear offence against British sovereignty and the British people, only one Brit, journalist Peter Oborne, addressed the offence from a clear British perspective.    This is wrong. “The Lobby” exposed, above all, a gross interference with British sovereignty, a crude intrusion into the British democratic process and government.  Al-Jazeera failed because it turned this British national tragedy into an internal Jewish dispute. For obvious reasons, Al Jazeera chose not to delve into the deep, cultural meaning of the Israeli operation. Israel is, above all, the Jewish state and, as I have mentioned many times before, plotting against other people’s regimes is deeply embedded in Judaic teaching and Jewish culture. It is in practice the message of The Book of Esther, which teach the Jews how toconspire against their rulers and, by proxy, to win over their enemies.  You can read The Book Of Esther for yourselves (it’s pretty short and very entertaining): http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/Esther.html Shai Masot was no junior embassy employee as claimed. He was a senior intelligence officer operating from the safety and immunity of its embassy on behalf of the Jewish state. He was working alongside Israeli Ambassador Mark Regev and the two are seen together in the film, sitting side by side, addressing various Jewish lobby groups. Shai Masot has been recalled and, I understand, is currently seeking other employment. Mark Regev should now be expelled and the matter must be investigated by MI5. http://www.gilad.co.uk/writings/2017/1/14/why-did-the-al-jazeera-expose-fail

Doesn't make the building of Jewish houses on the West bank any less legal.

Arabs want to outbreed Europeans. Let the Jews outbreed the Arabs on the West Bank.  Give Syria, Jordan and Lebanon to the Jews. Everyone would be a lot happier than they are now.
Jews are the best thing in the Middle East. Why would anyone want to curtail a good thing?

jmjcare wrote on Jan 13^th, 2017 at 2:10pm:

Political Zionism Caught on Camera Published on Jan 8, 2017 An Israeli diplomat plans the take down of a British member of parliament. This is the reason you see politicians claim that "they stand with Israel". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zy-aTHfBlhg

many blessings jmjcare

you are a true warrior of truth and divine light upon this world ..

much gratitude and eternal blessings are yours

in love and light

namaste

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Frank wrote on Jan 15^th, 2017 at 9:36pm:

Jews are the best thing in the Middle East. Why would anyone want to curtail a good thing?

What are the 'good things'???

Ah wait!  I guess this is what you call the "best"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqL048x4msM

it_is_the_light wrote on Jan 15^th, 2017 at 10:53pm:

many blessings jmjcare you are a true warrior of truth and divine light upon this world .. much gratitude and eternal blessings are yours in love and light namaste ▲

Thank you, I just cannot understand why some can't see the Israelis for what they really are.

Inside Story - Another attempt at peace for Palestine and Israel

Published on Jan 15, 2017

Delegates from 70 countries met in Paris to try and jump-start stalled talks between Israeli and Palestinian leaders - and reaffirm their support for a two-state solution.

But Israeli and Palestinian diplomats weren't there to hear what was said.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the summit while Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas welcomed it.

He says only bi-lateral negotiations have a chance of being successful.

They've both been invited to a briefing on the talks by President Francois Hollande.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXd1syJQNu4

Israel-Palestinian conflict: Summit warns against unilateral actions

15 January 2017

Representatives of nations at a conference aimed at kick-starting peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians have warned that neither side should take unilateral actions.

In a statement, delegates at the summit in Paris also restated their commitment to the two-state solution.

But they shied away from criticising President-elect Donald Trump's suggested US embassy move to Jerusalem.

Palestinians welcomed the conference, but Israel called it "rigged".

Neither side was invited to participate in the day-long summit, which was attended by 70 nations, but they were were invited to hear the conclusions.

This led the UK government to question how effective the conference, which it decided to attend in "an observer status", could be in solving the conflict.

    Can Paris summit save the two-state solution?
    Why the settlement issue matters

A Foreign Office statement said it had "particular reservations" about a conference "intended to advance peace between the parties that does not involve them", adding that it had not signed up to the joint communique.

It also expressed concern about the timing of the event - just days before Mr Trump takes over as US president - and the opposition of Israel.

The summit ended with delegates warning that neither side should take unilateral steps that could jeopardise future negotiations.

US Secretary of State John Kerry said his team insisted on language in the communique which condemned Palestinian attacks on Israel, making it more "balanced".

He had spoken to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to reassure him that any proposal following on from the conference at the UN Security Council would be opposed by the US, Mr Kerry added.

Israel had been concerned that the conference might set the terms for a final agreement and seek to get it adopted at the UN, a move it feels would undermine future negotiations.

The conference comes at a time of rising tension in the region, and there are fears President-elect Trump's plans to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem could stoke it further.

There was deep alarm among participants at the conference that if President Trump does break with decades of US policy and move the embassy to Jerusalem, then conditions will be set for another upsurge in violence in the region, says the BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris.

The status of Jerusalem is one of the most sensitive and complex issues of the entire conflict. The Palestinians view East Jerusalem as the capital of their future state but Israel proclaim the entire city as its capital.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault told France 3 TV on Sunday he thought Mr Trump would not be able to make the move, but if he did, it would have "extremely serious consequences".

On Saturday, Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas warned such a move could "bury the hopes for a two-state solution".

The last round of direct peace talks collapsed amid acrimony in April 2014.
Conference 'rigged'

The meeting also comes at a time of tension between Israel and the international community after the UN passed a resolution last month denouncing Israel's settlement activity on occupied land.

Israel accused the Obama administration of engineering the motion, but the White House denied colluding to get it passed.

Mr Netanyahu has called the Paris meeting "a rigged conference" which Israel would not be bound by.

The conference was attended by the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, as well as key European and Arab states.

In his speech to open the meeting, French President Francois Hollande said the international community had to be reminded of its obligations to build peace.

"The naivety is to believe that the much-needed reconciliation between Israel and its neighbours can go forward without peace between the Israelis and Palestinians," he said.

"And the cynicism is to sink into the status quo, hoping the situation would find a natural solution as a result of all excesses."

A "two-state solution" of a Palestinian country alongside Israel has long been endorsed by both sides but there are sharply divergent visions as to the type of state which should emerge.

Israel rejects international involvement in the peace process, saying an agreement can only come through direct talks.

Despite years of on-off peace talks, major differences still separate the two sides.

Palestinians fiercely object to Israeli settlement activity in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, territory it wants for a future state.

The settlements, home to about 600,000 Israelis, are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.

Israel says Palestinian incitement and violence, and a refusal to accept Israel as a Jewish state, are key obstacles to peace.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38608990

The shocking story of Israel's disappeared babies

New information has come to light about thousands of mostly Yemeni children believed to have been abducted in the 1950s.

Jonathan Cook

Tel Aviv - For nearly 40 years, everything about Gil Grunbaum's life was a lie, including his name.

He was not, as he had always assumed, the only son of wealthy Holocaust survivors who owned a baby garments factory near Tel Aviv. Grunbaum had been stolen from his mother by doctors at a hospital in northern Israel in 1956, moments after she gave birth.

His biological parents - recent immigrants to Israel from Tunisia - were told their child had died during delivery. They were sent home without a death certificate and denied the chance to see their baby's body or a grave.

Despite his darker looks, it never occurred to Grunbaum that the parents who raised him were not biologically related to him. Now aged 60, he says the discovery was "the most shocking moment imaginable. Everyone I loved - my parents, aunts, uncles and cousins - had been deceiving me for decades."

And so had government officials.

"Even when I discovered by chance that I was adopted, the welfare services did everything they could to try to stop me finding my biological family," Grunbaum told Al Jazeera. "No one wanted me to know the truth."

After a three-year search in the late 1990s, he finally learned his family's name - Maimon - and tracked down his birth mother to the suburbs of Haifa in northern Israel. Some 41 years after they were separated, the two met for the first time, in an emotional reunion.

Grunbaum's story would be deeply disturbing if it was unique. But growing evidence suggests that there could be thousands of other children who were abducted in Israel's first decade.

Last weekend, Tzachi Hanegbi, a government minister tasked with studying the disappearances, conceded that at least "hundreds" of children had been taken without their parents' consent. It is the first time a government official has ever made such a public admission.

After weeks of re-examining evidence presented to a commission of inquiry in the late 1990s, Hanegbi told Israeli TV: "They took the children and gave them away. I don't know where."

The Kedmi inquiry, which had issued its findings in 2001, found that as many as 5,000 children may have disappeared in the state's first six years alone, although it examined only 1,000 of those cases. Jacob Kedmi, a former Supreme Court judge who died last month, concluded that in most cases, the children had died and been hurriedly buried.

Hanegbi's admission appears to confirm allegations long made by the families - and supported by scholars and journalists - that the inquiry was little more than a whitewash by the Israeli establishment. Kedmi placed the hundreds of thousands of documents relating to testimonies and evidence under lock for 70 years. They will not be made publicly available until 2071.

"This was a crime perpetrated against thousands of parents, who still don't know the truth about their children's fate."

The first consequence is likely to be mounting pressure on the government to open the state's adoption files so that the true extent of the disappearances can be gauged and families reunited.

But Hanegbi's otherwise evasive comments will do little to end suspicions that officials are still actively trying to avoid confronting the most contentious questions: Why were the infants taken from their families? Did hospitals and welfare organisations traffic children in Israel's early years? And were state bodies complicit in the mass abductions?

When asked by Israeli TV programme Meet the Press whether government officials were involved, Hanegbi would say only: "We may never know."

His reluctance to be more forthcoming may be understandable. Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, an Israel academic who has written a book on the disappearances titled Israeli Media and the Framing of Internal Conflict: The Yemenite Babies Affair, noted that the "forcible transfer" of children from one ethnic group to another satisfied the United Nations definition of "genocide". The 1951 convention includes the crime of "complicity".

"Ultimately, I don't think it matters whether government officials actively planned what happened or they simply looked the other way while others carried out the kidnappings," she told Al Jazeera. "Either way, this was a crime perpetrated against thousands of parents who still don't know the truth about their children's fate."

Almost all of the missing children were from Jewish families that had arrived from Arab countries shortly after Israel's creation during the Nakba of 1948, when hundreds of thousands of native Palestinians were expelled from their homes.

The mystery has been dubbed the Yemenite Children Affair, because most of the children who disappeared were from Yemen. But there were also significant numbers from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia and the Balkans.

Grunbaum learned of his own place in this scandalous affair in 1994, the year before the Kedmi inquiry was launched. His wife had become suspicious that there were no photos of his birth or a birth certificate, and that he was much darker than his parents.

When she phoned state childcare services, a clerk broke Israel's strict privacy laws by mistakenly revealing to her that Grunbaum had indeed been adopted. The couple was then hastily called to a meeting at the Tel Aviv office, where they were briefly allowed to view two pages from his file. No details of his biological family were provided.

"Even in my confused state, I could see there was something fishy. There was no signature on the adoption papers, either from my biological mother or from a judge," Grunbaum said.

"I was in a state of shock for a long time afterwards. I stared at the TV all day long for four months, running my life through my head, looking for the clues I should have seen. I resigned from my job. I couldn't concentrate on anything else."

Although childcare services had details of his biological family, they refused to help. It took three years of intensive searching - initiated by the recollections of neighbours of his parents at the time of his adoption - before he was sure he had identified the family.

"I went straight to the head of child services and told her their surname. I asked her if I was right - I didn't need a reply," Grunbaum said, noting the colour drained from the woman's face as she realised he had found his biological family.

Grunbaum's biological father had died a few years earlier, but he met his biological mother in a supervised visit in Haifa. It had taken her a month to recover sufficiently from hearing the news that her son was alive to agree to a meeting.

"She hugged me and we cried. I gave her an album of photos of my three children. She said with surprise, 'I have a blond grandson!'"

Grunbaum then started a double life, visiting his biological mother and his five siblings while hiding the truth from his adoptive parents until their deaths a few years later. "I was afraid to confront them. They were elderly and in poor health. I think it would have destroyed them to realise I knew the truth."

The irregularities in the adoption papers indicate that his parents were likely to have known their adopted child was procured without the biological mother's consent. Grunbaum admits he was filled with confusion and anger at his parents for a long time. Shortly after he found out about the circumstances of his adoption, his parents celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary.

"They asked me to make a speech at the party, but I couldn't. I was too frightened of what might come out of my mouth," he said.

Pressure on the Israeli government to provide answers in cases like Grunbaum's has intensified in recent years, as social media has helped the affected families to understand how widespread the disappearances were.

In late June, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded by announcing a fresh examination of the evidence. In a video posted to his Facebook page, he promised to get to the bottom of the affair: "The subject of the Yemenite children is an open wound that continues to bleed for many families who don't know what happened to the infants, to the children who disappeared."

He appointed Hanegbi to re-examine the documents from three previous inquiries.

Yael Tzadok, an Israeli journalist who has spent 20 years investigating cases of children who disappeared, told Al Jazeera: "This is Israel's darkest secret. Jews kidnapped other Jews, Jews who were coming to a state that had been created as a refuge in the immediate wake of the Holocaust. Bringing the truth into the daylight risks causing an earthquake."

The families and their supporters believe the majority of the children are still alive, but only a minuscule number, like Grunbaum, know that they were stolen from their parents.

Even among those few, said Madmoni-Gerber, most are reluctant to go public, fearing that the truth will tear apart their families, who may have conspired in their abduction.

Israeli Jews who originate from Arab countries are known in Israel as Mizrahim, in contrast to those of European heritage, who are called Ashkenazim. Tzadok said the evidence suggested that most of the missing children - from Mizrahi families - were taken by hospital staff and sold or given away to European Jews, both in Israel and abroad.

"The evidence from that time, the 1950s, clearly shows government officials, judges, lawmakers and hospital staff speaking openly about the fact that the children were being abducted. The public may not have known, but the authorities certainly did," Tzadok said.

Tzadok, who is active with Achim Vekayamim, a forum for the families of missing children, said deep prejudices among European Jews against the Mizrahim - and especially the Yemenites - had made the kidnappings possible.

"Mizrahi parents were seen as bad, primitive people who were a lost cause. The dominant view then was that, by placing the children with Ashkenazi families, they could be saved - unlike their parents. They would be re-educated and made into suitable material for the new Zionist state," Tzadok said.

"The hospital staff and officials probably didn't think they were doing something wrong. They thought it was their patriotic duty."

Racism among European Jews towards Jews from Arab countries reached the very top of the government. Ben Gurion, Israel's first prime minister, described the Mizrahim as "rabble" and a "generation of the desert", concluding that they lacked "a trace of Jewish or human education".

In the early 1950s, he warned: "We do not want the Israelis to become Arabs. It is incumbent upon us to struggle against the spirit of the Levant, which corrupts individuals and societies."

Recently unearthed documents also show vigorous debates within the Israeli army in the early 1950s about whether Mizrahi conscripts were mentally retarded, making them a hopeless cause, or simply primitive, a condition that could be changed.

In his book The Idea of Israel, historian Ilan Pappe observed that Israel's Ashkenazi elite worked strenuously at "de-Arabising … Jews upon arrival" in Israel.

The establishment's open disdain for the Mizrahim eventually led to political backlash, noted Pappe. In the late 1970s, after decades in opposition, the right-wing Likud party won power from Ben Gurion's Labour party. Today, Likud is led by Netanyahu.

Grunbaum said Israel's European elite were also sympathetic to the plight of Holocaust survivors, like his adoptive parents, who had lost most or all of their family and struggled to have children of their own.

"The nurse said, 'You have lots of children, why not let us take one of them?' My grandmother refused. A couple of days later, the nurse told her her baby girl had died. She did not receive a death certificate and was not shown a grave."

"My father had been in Auschwitz and my mother in Dachau. The survivors suffered from psychological and physical traumas that meant it was difficult or impossible for them to have children," he said. "The view at that time was that the Yemenites had large families and could afford to lose one or two."

The Kedmi inquiry heard such views expressed by medical staff who worked in hospitals suspected of abducting children. Sonia Milshtein, a former senior nurse, testified that Yemenite parents "were not interested in their children" and that they should have been happy that their "child got a good education".

Sarah Pearl, head nurse at the Women's International Zionist Organisation (WIZO), a charity that ran care homes from which children are alleged to have disappeared, told Israeli media that when she asked why the children's parents never visited, she was told by the head administrator that they "have lots of kids, and lots of problems, so they don't want their children".

Like many of those who have been campaigning for greater transparency, Madmoni-Gerber, an Israeli professor of communications now based in the United States, said her own family had been scarred by the Yemenite Children Affair.

Her father and aunt were among 50,000 Yemenite Jews airlifted to Israel in 1949 and 1950 in a series of secret US and British flights known as Operation Magic Carpet. Like many other Mizrahim, they were temporarily sheltered in one of dozens of "absorption camps" across Israel.

Madmoni-Gerber's aunt gave birth in an Israeli hospital in 1949. "When it was time to go home, staff on the delivery ward asked her to leave her baby behind with them. She refused. When she arrived back at the camp, the child was snatched [by staff] out of her hands. She never saw her baby again."

Hanegbi's admission is certain to rock an Ashkenazi establishment that has long been in denial about the Yemenite Children Affair.

For instance, Yaron London, one of Israel's best-known commentators, has called suggestions of kidnappings a "conspiracy theory".

And Dov Levitan, a professor at Bar Ilan University, near Tel Aviv, who is a leading expert on Yemenite immigration to Israel, recently stated: "I can't put even one finger on a case in which I can say that there was an act of abduction or a criminal act."

Shlomi Hatuka, a 38-year-old Yemenite poet and teacher who three years ago helped found Amram, an organisation campaigning on behalf of the families, said that continuing racism towards the Mizrahim had made possible a "conspiracy of silence" lasting more than six decades.

His activism began after his grandmother revealed to him 22 years ago that she had been asked by a nurse in the early 1950s to give up for adoption one of the twins she had just given birth to.

"The nurse said, 'You have lots of children, why not let us take one of them?'" Hatuka told Al Jazeera. "My grandmother refused. A couple of days later, the nurse told her her baby girl had died. She did not receive a death certificate and was not shown a grave.

"My mother told me my grandmother talked about her kidnapped child until the day she died," he added. "She never got over it. At the time, none of us could really grasp what had happened to [the baby]. It was just too strange. It was impossible to believe."

Hatuka said the official re-examination of the files had been prompted by growing pressure from the Mizrahi community: "We are the third generation, and we are better able to organise. We have used social media and new technology to help bring more attention to the kidnappings."

Amram is demanding that the Israeli authorities open up adoption papers so that the children who were abducted can try to find their parents. "If Netanyahu really wants to help clarify what happened, this would be the easiest and quickest way to do it," Hatuka said.

Currently, a 1960 Adoption Law makes it a criminal offence for an adopted child or their adoptive parents to publicly reveal that an adoption took place. Officials have claimed the restriction is needed to protect privacy, but there is mounting pressure to scrap it.

Amram has also established a database of missing children on its website. Hundreds more families have come forward with information of children who disappeared, including cases that have never been investigated. Hatuka believes that the total number of children who are missing could be as high as 8,000.

Even based on the official figures, one in eight Yemenite infants under the age of four may have disappeared in the state's first six years. Boaz Sangero, a law professor at a college near Tel Aviv, wrote in the Haaretz newspaper this month that the figure was "astonishing", and demanded an urgent re-examination of the evidence.

The extent of the problem was further underscored last month when four legislators in the 120-seat Israeli parliament came forward to reveal that their own relatives had disappeared in the 1950s. Two were from Netanyahu's Likud party.

Nurit Koren, whose cousin went missing, told The Jerusalem Post newspaper: "Everybody is coming and telling me it happened in their families too. The phone doesn't stop ringing."

Nava Boker said that her sister and brother were taken. "I am afraid that the same people who planned and executed these crimes of ripping babies away from their mothers' arms ensured their own safety and hid the documents." Boker and other activists have been infuriated by the Kedmi inquiry's decision to place under lock hundreds of thousands of documents relating to its investigations until 2071.

There has also been widespread criticism of the way the inquiry was conducted. Tzadok called the panel's report "shameful", and accused it of ignoring the evidence of wrongdoing it unearthed.

Sangero noted that the commission employed only two investigators to look into the case files of some 1,000 missing children. In 69 cases, it said it could not determine the children's fate.

The panel avoided using its subpoena powers, thereby allowing officials to refuse to testify, or agreed to let them give evidence behind closed doors. The inquiry also did not carry out DNA tests.

On many occasions, birth and burial records requested by the Kedmi inquiry either disappeared or were reported to have been destroyed by fires or floods. The inquiry, Sangero observed, did not investigate how so many files could have been lost.

The panel was equally trusting of a 1960 census that listed many of the supposedly dead children as having "left the country". In addition, the inquiry failed to examine why many of the biological parents received military draft notices for their children on what would have been their 18th birthdays.

Tzadok noted that, in one of the most disturbing oversights, the inquiry failed to probe the disappearance of 40 infants after they were supposedly sent from an absorption camp to Jerusalem for immunisations.

On its website, Amram has compiled damning testimonies presented to the three inquiries that suggest abductions of Mizrahi children were widespread and systematic, and might have amounted to trafficking. Such evidence appears to have swayed Hanegbi too. He told Meet the Press: "I'm reading testimony of nurses, social workers and people who admitted the children to hospitals and a variety of people, each of whom saw a small piece of the puzzle."

Ahuva Goldfarb, national supervisor of social services at that time, admitted to the Kedmi inquiry that children had been "unregistered" when sent out of the absorption camps, away from their parents.

He added: "It was systematic as could be." The parents were told their child was "no longer alive".

In a letter dated April 1950, a senior health ministry official, Dr M Lichtig, expressed concern to state hospitals that children were not being returned to their parents.

"There have been instances in which children were released from hospital and did not return to their parents. Apparently, they were found by people seeking to adopt," he wrote in the letter. "The bereaved parents searched for their children … We must make every effort to ensure that such incidents do not repeat themselves."

Hanna Gibori, head of adoption services in the country's north at that time, testified: "Hospital physicians handed over babies for adoption straight out of the hospital, without the official adoption agencies being involved."

As late as 1959, a Knesset member, Ben-Zion Harel, said a significant number of children were being placed for adoption at Israeli hospitals in "unacceptable ways", bordering on "trafficking".

All of this appears to have occurred with minimal or non-existent judicial oversight. In 1955, a high court judge, Shneur Cheshin, wrote in a decision: "To our embarrassment, fictitious adoption orders and custodial orders are issued weekly, indeed daily."

Hospitals and government officials were able to take advantage of the absence throughout the 1950s of any adoption laws. Oversight was only tightened up in 1960, with the passage of the Adoption Law.

A nurse who had once worked at the Batar hospital in Haifa, where Grunbaum was born in 1956, admitted on an Israeli TV show that prospective parents would "place an order" for children with the hospital. Batar closed in 1976, but requests by the Kedmi inquiry to see its archives were met with claims that the documents were either lost or destroyed by fire.

Grunbaum's story, though rare, is not unique. Investigations over the past two decades have unearthed a handful of similar cases.

After Amram launched its website, a friend of the family revealed to Hatuka that she had been in an institution where she believed Yemenite children like herself were trafficked.

Hatuka has been able to piece together the early life of the woman, who agreed to be identified by the pseudonym Shoshana. She and her twin brother were taken from their mother at birth and placed in a care home in Jerusalem run by WIZO.

WIZO, which still runs childcare services in Israel, is mentioned in several cases of missing children who were later found. In a statement to Al Jazeera, WIZO said that the process of admitting and releasing children from the institutions it ran was managed by authorised government authorities, noting: "WIZO's sole responsibility was to care for the health and wellbeing of the children. Throughout the years, WIZO has provided authorities, upon request, with all of the records and materials relevant to the children in its institutions. WIZO fully supports any investigation that could shed light on issues subject to public debate."

At seven, Shoshana and her brother were moved to an ultra-Orthodox institution for parentless Yemenite children called Gur Aryeh, in Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv. Shoshana told Hatuka that intermittently they would be gathered in a room and visitors, called "American aunts", would inspect them. Children would regularly disappear.

During her stay in Gur Aryeh, Shoshana was told that her biological mother had died five years after giving birth to her.

In the late 1990s, when the Kedmi inquiry was under way, a few Israeli journalists intensified their search for such children.

In the most famous case, widely reported in 1997, Tzila Levine was reunited with her biological mother after a 20-year search. DNA testing confirmed her blood ties to Margalit Umaysi, an immigrant from Yemen.

"It is time for the country to be more open about its past. We need to drag these issues into the sunlight and see what really happened.

Gil Grunbaum, adopted as a baby"

A doctor in Haifa had taken Levine from Umaysi shortly after her birth in 1949 and handed her to adoptive parents using forged papers. The adoption was approved by Moshe Landau, a judge who went on to serve in Israel's Supreme Court.

''I feel that I've won a war - a lifelong war," Levine told reporters at the time.

The case of Tziona Heiman was exposed five years later by the Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper. After she confronted her Ashkenazi parents with suspicions that she was adopted, they admitted that she had been selected from a Jerusalem hospital.

Their neighbour, Yigal Allon, a famous Israeli general, had - in their words - given them the girl as a "birthday present". Heiman later found her biological parents.

Madmoni-Gerber also located an abducted child in 1994, when she was an Israeli journalist. Moshe Becher was taken from his Yemenite family in 1953 and placed in the care of WIZO. A Turkish couple were issued a forged birth certificate for him in 1956.

Like most, Becher was never shown his adoption file, and was unable to track down his biological parents. A letter from the welfare services stated simply: "We have no clue as to your mother's identity or whereabouts."

Hatuka said Amram was now working to create a private DNA database abroad. It would allow both those who suspected they were kidnapped - including those now living in Europe or the US - and the parents of missing children to submit their DNA to see if matches could be made.

Grunbaum said the families' campaign was not a quest for revenge against those behind the kidnappings.

"It is time for the country to be more open about its past," he said. "We need to drag these issues into the sunlight and see what really happened."

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/08/shocking-story-israel-disappeared-babies-160803081117881.html

Prof. Yitzchak Kerem: The Stolen Yemenite Children Q & A

Published on Aug 4, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaxpQCmxj_Q

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Israel's missing Yemenite children

Published on Nov 14, 2016

A Jewish mother who emigrated to Israel from Morocco in 1948 was told her baby died at childbirth but she believes her son was alive and given away. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4IDws6f74

Israel-Yemenite babies abduction- exposer is persecuted

Uploaded on Feb 9, 2007

Corrupt elements in the Israeli government offices keep on persecuting the Rabbi Uzi Meshulam (who brought the kidnapped Yemenite children issue to public awareness).Those elements made a well planned character assassination to him (Dreyfus styled) by the media and finally arrested him. While being in jail, they injected mysterious materials (which reminds ... "Haaled Mashal" affair) that harmed essential systems of his body like the leaver, pancreas.. The result was a total collapse of his body. Thanks g-o-d they couldn't harm his brain soul and spirit. Nowadays they keep on persecuting his eldest son Emanuel Yedida. They forced him to leave Israel threatening him that if he won't - they will frame his father, him and to make it real, some of the rabbi's students with murder case!).He asked for asylum in Canada and now the foreign ministry is asking Canada to decline Emanuel's humanitarian request.
read more in www.zeakat-emet.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0uNlI8bjhY

Israel approves hundreds of settlement homes in East Jerusalem, looks to Donald Trump for support

Updated about 11 hours ago

Hundreds of new homes for Israeli settlers in East Jerusalem have been approved, with an Israeli official saying the city's council had been "waiting" for US President Donald Trump to take office.

The housing projects, on land that the Palestinians seek as part of a future state, had been taken off the Jerusalem municipality's agenda in December at the last minute at the request of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, in order to avoid further censure from the administration of Barack Obama.

The deputy mayor of Jerusalem said the permits for over 560 units in the urban settlements of Pisgat Zeev, Ramat Shlomo and Ramot had been held up until Mr Trump was sworn in.

"I was told to wait until Trump takes office because he has no problem with building in Jerusalem," deputy mayor Meir Turgeman told Israeli army radio.

Mr Turgeman said there were hundreds more units waiting for approval.

Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu meanwhile held their first phone call, which the US President said was "very nice".

Mr Trump emphasised to Mr Netanyahu that Israel-Palestinian peace could only be negotiated directly between the two parties, the White House said.

It said the two leaders agreed to continue to closely consult in regional issues such as "threats posed by Iran", and that Mr Trump had invited Mr Netanyahu for a February meeting.

"Many matters face us. The Israeli-Palestinian issue, the situation in Syria, the Iranian threat," Mr Netanyahu earlier said in broadcast remarks at the start of his weekly cabinet meeting.

Senior ministers later voted unanimously to postpone discussion on a bill proposing the annexation of the West Bank settlement of Maale Adumim, home to 40,000 Israelis near Jerusalem.

A statement said the proposal would be put on hold until after Mr Netanyahu meets Mr Trump.

Israel's right wing expects Mr Trump's attitude towards settlements built in the West Bank and East Jerusalem — areas Israel captured in a 1967 war — to be far more supportive than that of his predecessor.

UN sees settlements as illegal

The Palestinians denounced the move to approve the new construction.

"We strongly condemn the Israeli decision to approve the construction," Nabil Abu Rdainah, spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, told Reuters.

Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem are seen as illegal under international law and by the United Nations (UN).

Last month, the UN Security Council passed a resolution condemning settlement building.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was one of the only world leaders to criticise the resolution, calling it ''one sided".

Israel views all Jerusalem as is its capital, but most of the world considers its final status a matter for peace negotiations.

The Palestinians have said that an embassy move would kill any prospect for peace. Negotiations broke down in 2014.

Moving US embassy likely to anger Arab world

In a proposal that has drawn a Palestinian outcry, Mr Trump has also pledged to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Mr Trump has also appointed a new US Ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, who is considered a settlements supporter.

The White House said on Sunday it was only in the early stages of talks to fulfil Mr Trump's pledge — which would likely spark anger in the Arab world.

"We are at the very beginning stages of even discussing this subject," White House spokesman Sean Spicer said in a statement.

Commentators in Israel have said it was too early to tell what Mr Trump's policy on these matters will actually be now he is in office.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-23/israel-approves-hundreds-of-settlement-homes-in-east-jerusalem/8201942

The Netanyahu Investigations

Jan 21, 2017

TEL AVIV, ISRAEL—These should be a heady days for Benjamin Netanyahu. Over the past year, the prime minister of Israel’s savvy political maneuvers both expanded his coalition and undermined his opposition. The Knesset recently passed an unusual two-year budget, which buys him a long period of political calm. And for the first time in his 11 years as prime minister, he now has a Republican counterpart in Washington who seems to support his government without reservation. Instead, he finds himself at perhaps his most politically vulnerable.

This month, investigators from the national police anti-fraud unit questioned Netanyahu twice at his Jerusalem residence over his alleged acceptance of tens of thousands of dollars in gifts—cigars, suits, and the like—from wealthy businessmen. One of those accused was Hollywood mogul Arnon Milchan (producer of Pretty Woman and other hit films), who was alleged to have sought the prime minister's help in securing a long-term U.S. visa. Netanyahu, according to his lawyer Ya’akov Weinroth, insisted that these were simply gifts between friends, and denied any charge of a quid pro quo. Investigators have said they will soon pay him a third visit. But fallout from the corruption investigation could ultimately see Netanyahu ousted, and perhaps even prosecuted. A few commentators have likened Netanyahu to a Moses figure dying on Trump’s doorstep after eight years spent wandering in the Obama desert.

Netanyahu is Israel’s second-longest serving prime minister, and he has already announced plans to run for a fifth term in 2019. He has spent years elevating loyalists to key positions and consolidating control of the government: at one point last year, he held four separate cabinet posts. And yet these very efforts—and in particular his fixation on the Israeli media—may also have sown the seeds for his own downfall.

In an earlier era of Israeli politics, Netanyahu’s current problems might have been career-enders. The late Yitzhak Rabin resigned in 1977 amid reports that he and his wife held a foreign bank account (at the time, a misdemeanor) which contained $10,000 of their own money. But corruption and scandal have since become more pervasive, and, consequently, less shocking. Israel’s three previous prime ministers were all investigated for graft; one, Ehud Olmert, is serving an 18-month prison term. The interior minister, Aryeh Deri, is a convicted felon, jailed for taking bribes during a previous stint at the same ministry. “We used to be a very homogeneous society where nobody had a lot of money,” Ifat Zamir, the head of the Israeli branch of Transparency International, told me. “But the world changed in the 1990s. Some people made a lot of money, and suddenly the cigars become okay.”

The Netanyahus have long occupied pride of place in this crowded field of wealth-seekers. In 1994, a Jerusalem paper wrote about the family’s penchant for dining and dashing. Their appetites grew after Netanyahu became prime minister for a second time in 2009: a $2,500 contract for gourmet ice cream at their official residence, and a $127,000 bed installed on a government plane so they could nap on the five-hour flight to London. Netanyahu’s wife, Sara, has been investigated for stealing patio furniture, and his son, Yair, for accepting free Mariah Carey tickets. None of this seemed to put a dent in the Netanyahu family’s political fortunes. But it all made for good headlines.

When Netanyahu lost his first reelection bid in 1999, he blamed it partly on the media—in particular, Yediot Aharonot, then the country’s largest newspaper. He fell out with its publisher, Arnon Mozes, in part over an unflattering story about his wife, Netanyahu himself said after the story ran. The relationship remains frosty to this day: Sara once compared Mozes to Lord Voldemort, the villain of the Harry Potter novels, while the prime minister routinely insists that Mozes is the mastermind of a global conspiracy to unseat him.

Netanyahu got a measure of relief in 2007 from Israel Hayom, a free tabloid founded by Sheldon Adelson, the American casino magnate and GOP mega-donor. Today, it is Israel’s most widely read publication, and is committed, seemingly, to one ideology: defending Netanyahu. Many Israelis call it the “Bibiton,” a portmanteau of Netanyahu’s nickname and the Hebrew word for newspaper. Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who was born in the former Soviet Union, has compared it favorably to Pravda.

Yet Netanyahu’s obsession with the media has only deepened since then. In recent months he has tried to eliminate Israel’s new public broadcaster, over fears that it will become a critical voice against the right, and delayed its planned launch in December at a cost to taxpayers of 140 million shekels. His office has also pressured the popular news site Walla to run more favorable coverage over the past two years, according to current and former journalists with knowledge of the matter. Digital media resides beyond the state’s control; Israel does not regulate websites. Walla, however, is owned by Bezeq, Israel’s largest phone company, which is currently seeking government approval for major corporate reforms. (Netanyahu refuses to appoint a communications minister, reserving the post for himself.)

But compared to Yediot Aharonot, these are but small irritants. And so, according to Israeli law-enforcement authorities, in late 2014, the prime minister tried to bury the hatchet with Mozes: The two men held a series of secret meetings, which were taped by the prime minister’s office. The police say they later found the recordings on the mobile phone of Ari Harrow, Netanyahu’s former chief of staff (under investigation for a separate issue). According to Israeli media, the tapes allegedly revealed that Netanyahu asked for more favorable coverage in Yediot, and that Netanyahu complained about several writers, particularly Amnon Abramovich, a liberal columnist. Netanyahu allegedly offered to curtail the circulation of Israel Hayom, particularly its weekend edition, if Mozes would hire a right-wing columnist. They discussed putting a cap on the number of issues printed, and the number of pages devoted to advertising, according to excerpts broadcast on Channel 2.

Netanyahu’s alleged offer would have been a major benefit to Mozes. Adelson has reportedly spent $190 million to subsidize his loss-making newspaper; freed from market forces, it undercuts the competition on price. A 2014 study by The Seventh Eye, a media watchdog, found that advertisements in Israel Hayom sold for one-third the price of those in Yediot Aharonot. “It’s a behemoth,” said Oren Persico, a Seventh Eye reporter. “It digs into all the other newspapers’ ad revenue. Yediot Aharonot used to be a near-monopoly. It made a hefty profit. But now, if you’re an advertiser, why wouldn’t you pay 70 percent less?”

The alleged deal between Netanyahu and Mozes never went through, however. The state will need to decide whether their reported discussion meets the definition of bribery. But it also raises a separate issue. Weeks before the 2015 election, a lawyer named Shahar Ben Meir tried to have Israel Hayom banned, calling it illegal campaign propaganda. The electoral commission dismissed his petition after Netanyahu swore in an affidavit that he had no control over the newspaper. But his reported comments to Mozes suggested otherwise. “The Israel Hayom newsroom was, and is, run by Benjamin Netanyahu,” said Isaac Herzog, the Israeli opposition leader. “That’s what we said during the election.” Critics argue that it represents a massive in-kind contribution to the prime minister worth tens of millions of dollars—a gross violation of Israeli law. Yoel Hasson, a colleague of Herzog’s, has asked the state comptroller to reopen the issue. “You don’t need a law degree to reach the conclusion that the affidavit is, in fact, false,” he said.

This all feels very much like 2008, when a similar swirl of controversy forced Ehud Olmert to resign, after being accused of accepting cash-filled envelopes from Morris Talansky, an American businessman, and spending the money on expensive cigars, watches, and other luxuries. Prosecuting the case took several years, but the accusation (coupled with several others) was enough to end Olmert’s career. “This government has reached the end. … National responsibility requires we return to the people for new elections,” said the opposition leader at the time, a certain Benjamin Netanyahu.

But there’s a key difference here. Netanyahu, unlike Olmert at the time of his resignation, still enjoys the support of his coalition, casting doubt on the predictions of the doomsayers. “I think we’re jumping the gun,” Lieberman told his party last week, predicting that the case would not lead to an indictment. On Monday, when Netanyahu arrived for a meeting of his Likud party, supporters chanted Bibi, melech Yisrael—“Bibi, king of Israel.”

Much of the Israeli public agrees. A poll conducted last summer by the non-partisan Israel Democracy Institute found that 50 percent of Jewish Israelis don’t trust the authorities to properly investigate the first family—in part, because the authorities were hand-picked by Netanyahu himself. The state comptroller allegedly softened a 2015 report on excessive spending in the official residence, removing several paragraphs to make it less critical of the Netanyahus. The police chief allegedly watered down an official statement last year about an investigation of Sara Netanyahu. Both officials are Netanyahu appointees.

The biggest question mark hangs over Avichai Mandelblit, the former army lawyer who now serves as Israel’s attorney general. He will decide whether to prosecute Netanyahu, the man who hired him as cabinet secretary in 2013, then appointed him to his current position last winter. In a statement this month, Mandelblit offered a long list of the cases against Netanyahu that had not resulted in criminal charges. He sat on the Netanyahu-Mozes recording for months before he approved an investigation, according to the police, and has yet to act on a nine-month-old police recommendation to indict Sara Netanyahu. Last week, he refused to let investigators question the Netanyahus simultaneously—a common practice, to prevent them from coordinating their stories.

For weeks, Netanyahu has repeated a mantra: “There will be nothing, because there is nothing here.”

Netanyahu, for his part, seems almost nonchalant about the whole affair. For weeks, he has repeated a mantra: “There will be nothing, because there is nothing.” The meeting with Mozes, revealed on January 8, was quickly overshadowed by a deadly truck-ramming attack that killed four Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem. Two days later, Netanyahu was at an army base in the West Bank talking about security issues, his chief selling point to voters. If the investigation does not lead to criminal charges, it’s unlikely that Israel’s dysfunctional center-left can muster the political pressure to force him out of power.

And yet the case refuses to die. Mozes has been interrogated three times, and Adelson may soon be called to testify. The prime minister cancelled his trip to the World Economic Forum at Davos, preferring to keep his finger on the pulse at home. New details and transcripts leak out each night. His Likud confidants offer increasingly half-hearted defenses: David Amsalem, a freshman backbencher, accused the police of bias because they don’t investigate “ordinary people” who accept gifts from tycoons; Tzachi Hanegbi, a 30-year veteran of the Knesset, noted that only one of the last five prime ministers to face an investigation was ultimately jailed.

In a way, Netanyahu has spent years preparing for this moment: appointing loyalists in the justice system, ensuring loyalty from his party and sympathetic coverage in the press, and painting all these investigations as partisan witch hunts. “He’s a deeply paranoid person,” one prominent Israeli political operative said. “He’s gambling on this narrative of ‘Bibi against the world.’” The next few weeks will reveal whether those preparations were enough.

https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/01/netanyahu-israel-corruption-adelson/513422/

Todays bout of anti-Israel propaganda has been brought to you by the Palestinian News Agency.

The same people that do not condemn

- the throwing of lit petrol bombs at my cousins for standing on a checkpoint checking IDs,

- The murder and decapitation of a toddler in a settlement

- The stabbing of a Jewish woman out with her children

- The suicide bombing in Shmuel HaNavi of women and children in a marketplace


Just to remind - these are the types of savages that the PLA does not condemn and by association the poster on her spouting their propaganda supports....

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 8:50pm:

Todays bout of anti-Israel propaganda has been brought to you by the Palestinian News Agency. The same people that do not condemn - the throwing of lit petrol bombs at my cousins for standing on a checkpoint checking IDs, - The murder and decapitation of a toddler in a settlement - The stabbing of a Jewish woman out with her children - The suicide bombing in Shmuel HaNavi of women and children in a marketplace Just to remind - these are the types of savages that the PLA does not condemn and by association the poster on her spouting their propaganda supports....

What would you do if the bulldozers mowed your home down ?

Netanyahu and Trump’s plan against Iran revealed!

     
24 January 2017

Zehava Gal-On has revealed Netanyahu and Trump’s ad campaign against Iran.

Zehava Gal-On, the leader of Israel’s left-wing and opposition party called Meretz, has revealed Netanyahu and Trump running ad campaign against Iran. Gal-On asserts that Netanyahu attempts to confront Hezbollah and Palestinian groups through this fake campaign and he tracks to uncover weapon trucks in tunnels along the Egypt-Gaza border in near future.

She also claims that Israel founded these weapons and ammunition in Syrian war and it has been planned to transfer them to Gaza Strip tunnels.

At the end she said: we should not follow things like this since it makes our reputation unwelcome in the globe and then she asserted that Netanyahu and Trump intend to transfer US embassy to Tel Aviv and media fanfare will have no affect and the negative consequences will be projected on Israel.

http://www.awdnews.com/political/netanyahu-and-trump%E2%80%99s-plan-against-iran-revealed

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 8:50pm:

The same people that do not condemn

I hope your cousins are ok but why are they there, is Israel their country of residence?  Or are they just hired guns of the Zionist government? Put yourself into the Palestinians' shoes, not being able to move from A to B without the ok from their occupiers or could this be one of the many reasons:  http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/23/507358/Palestinian-teen-Israeli-blockade-Gaza

What about the infant & family burned in the arson attack by Israelis?
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.668871

Death of Israeli Child Reveals Netanyahu's Hypocrisy

Netanyahu recently told two U.S. congressman that Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist groups are defying all international norms. So said the man who has just finished killing some 2,100 people.

(back in 2014)

“Hypocrisy: The practice of claiming to have higher standards or more noble beliefs than is the case” (Oxford English Dictionary)

A few days ago, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with two members of the U.S. Congress. “We are closely following the events on the Golan Heights,” he told them, adding, “What we see is that the Nusra Front, Hamas, Hezbollah – backed by Iran, Al-Qaida, and these other terrorists groups – are basically defying all international norms.”

So said the man who had just finished killing some 2,100 people, most of them civilians, breaching every norm of international conduct.

“And I think the United Nations would do itself a great favor if, instead of the automatic Israel-bashing, they actually turned their attention and their investigative committees against these terrorists who trample every norm on which the UN was founded,” the prime minister also added.

So said the man whose air force only a few days before had wiped out whole residential neighborhoods, sometimes together with their inhabitants, trampling quite a few values and norms upon which the UN was founded.

After that conversation, Netanyahu went home. The next day he “expropriated” another 4,000 dunams (almost 1,000 acres) of occupied land to build more settlements, and transfer to them thousands more of his country’s citizens.

Thus, there was not one value, norm, international law or treaty – of all the values and norms and laws and treaties on which the United Nations was founded – that he did not break, crush, smash and pulverize.

One might therefore say – and even with a great deal of certainty – that from everything noted above, Benjamin Netanyahu very successfully meets all the requirements of the dictionary definition of a hypocrite.

But for those who still doubt the magnificence of the prime minister’s hypocrisy, here are some more examples.

On August 20, Mr. Netanyahu was recorded on film expressing his deep shock at the beheading of an American journalist by the knife of an Islamic State murderer. Truly, a wicked deed.

On August 19, just one day before that horrific execution, the prime minister approved the killing of an 8-month-old baby together with his mother, in the hope that the father would be with them and also be killed.

The assassination was carried out. Success was partial; baby and mother were crushed, the fate of the father is unknown. (Never mind. He will probably get married again, and we’ll have another chance.)

Strange. Just one day passed from one convenient execution to shock-to-the-very-core at another execution? And how is the honor of a baby less than that of a journalist?

Perhaps this only comes to teach us a lesson in the ways of hypocrisy. It turns out that, sometimes, when the needs of hypocrisy require, it is not the deed that is the decisive element but the tool. Did you use a knife to kill? You are the epitome of animal barbarity. Did you use a laser-guided missile? You are the epitome of moral advancement.

But Netanyahu reached the apex of his hypocritical abilities after the terrible death of 4-year-old Daniel Tragerman on August 22. His face somber, the prime minister declared the killing of Daniel a “double war crime.” True words. He also pledged that Hamas would pay a heavy price. Sharp words.

The catch is that in the 50 or so days prior to that bitter day, the Israeli army killed 10 children every day. At least. Every day. A total of more than 500 children killed. Or – as Netanyahu put it – 500 double war crimes. And who will pay for these?

And that, dear readers, is not just a piece of the finest hypocrisy. That is an impressive candidate to win the title for the height of temerity.

King Alexander Jannaeus, so the Talmud tells us, told his wife Salome the following (more or less): Fear not the Pharisees, nor the Saduccees, but only the hypocrites, who ape the Pharisees; because their deeds are the deeds of Netanyahu, but they expect a reward like Nelson Mandela.

Jannaeus convinced me. I certainly do fear.

http://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-1.614426

This is a good read too A Comprehensive History of Zionist Crimes  http://www.takeourworldback.com/zionistcrimes.htm#litvinenko

Its time wrote on Jan 23^rd, 2017 at 9:04pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 23rd, 2017 at 8:50pm: Todays bout of anti-Israel propaganda has been brought to you by the Palestinian News Agency. The same people that do not condemn - the throwing of lit petrol bombs at my cousins for standing on a checkpoint checking IDs, - The murder and decapitation of a toddler in a settlement - The stabbing of a Jewish woman out with her children - The suicide bombing in Shmuel HaNavi of women and children in a marketplace Just to remind - these are the types of savages that the PLA does not condemn and by association the poster on her spouting their propaganda supports.... What would you do if the bulldozers mowed your home down ?

I wouldn't set off a bomb on a bus carrying only women and children, killing toddlers.
I wouldn't behead a 2 year old child after breaking into the family home.
I wouldn't stab to death a woman walking with her 2 children.

But maybe that's just me.....

jmjcare wrote on Jan 25^th, 2017 at 7:53pm:

Andrei.Hicks wrote on Jan 23rd, 2017 at 8:50pm: The same people that do not condemn I hope your cousins are ok but why are they there, is Israel their country of residence? Or are they just hired guns of the Zionist government?

The land of Israel ???

Israeli settlements ???


'The whole world belongs to Allah, and to moslems!'
- the Koran, the Hadith

WAKE UP!!!!!        ....you stupid, complacent ['comfortable'] infidels!






Quote:

By Christine Williams on Jan 24, 2017 12:55 pm PA threatens to cut US ties, turn to UN if US embassy moves to Jerusalem Appeasement of jihadists and jihadist states does not work. It strengthens their resolve against the House of War and weakens democratic interests and those of human rights. History and hard archeological evidence proves Israel’s full right to its land. History also reveals Israel’s need to defend itself against obliteration by jihadist thugs and the necessity of ignoring and rejecting the global voices that strengthen jihadists against it. As much as every Westerner wants peace, jihadists do not. It’s time that the West stops appeasing jihadists while hoping for peace in return. The Arab Muslim states that surround Israel have repeatedly tried to destroy Israel militarily.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/pa-threatens-to-cut-us-ties-turn-to-un-if-us-embassy-moves-to-jerusalem







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By Robert Spencer on Jan 24, 2017 11:31 am Muslim cleric: Moving US embassy to Jerusalem would be declaration of war on Islam And he called for the “formation of a special division to liberate Jerusalem were the decision to be implemented.” It’s interesting how Western policy analysts routinely and universally treat the Israeli- “Palestinian” conflict as if it were a matter of land and could be settled by negotiations, while Muslim spokesmen worldwide routinely and universally treat it as an Islamic matter. Mainstream Western analysts, every last one of them, completely discounts the role of Islam when evaluating this conflict. Yet it is central.

https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/muslim-cleric-moving-us-embassy-to-jerusalem-would-be-declaration-of-war-on-islam





'Mainstream Western analysts' = = evil appeasing, willingly ignorant gits

..........imo.





WAKE UP PEOPLE !!!!!


Reason dictates......

Every moslem, is a moslem.

A moslem is a follower of ISLAM.       < -------- dictionary definition.




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IMAGE...
http://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ce73Q-AW4AE-z37.jpg

Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar outside Parramatta police headquarters



n.b.
ISLAMIC culture encouraged Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar, to murder Australian Curtis Cheng.



Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar was inspired by ISLAM's imperative, which urged him TO KILL THE ENEMIES OF ALLAH.




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"There is for you an excellent example (to follow) in Abraham and those with him, when they said to their people: "We are clear of you and of whatever ye worship besides Allah: we have rejected you, and there has arisen, between us and you, enmity and hatred for ever,- unless ye believe in Allah and Him alone"....."
Koran 60:4


"Fight those who believe not in Allah nor the Last Day, nor hold that forbidden which hath been forbidden by Allah and His Messenger, nor acknowledge the religion of Truth, (even if they are) of the People of the Book, until they pay the Jizya with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. "
Koran 9.29


"Fighting [against disbelievers] is prescribed for you, and [if] ye dislike it.....Allah knoweth, and ye know not."
Koran 2.216


"O ye who believe! Fight those of the disbelievers who are near to you, and let them find harshness in you, and know that Allah is with those who keep their duty (unto Him)."
Koran 9.123


"Allah hath purchased of the believers their persons and their goods; for theirs (in return) is the garden (of Paradise): they fight in His cause, and slay and are slain: a promise binding on Him in truth, through the Law, the Gospel, and the Qur'an: and who is more faithful to his covenant than Allah? then rejoice in the bargain which ye have concluded: that is the achievement supreme."
Koran 9.111



ARGUMENT;
For those who would argue that those Koran verses are an anachronism,       ....and that Koran verses do not reflect or guide, the intent of the moslem community, here in Australia, today,             .....I would offer, that the Koran is, and always has been, ~the~ most important source of religious authority for ISLAMIC religious leaders, and ~the~ most important source of religious instruction, for every moslem.

Any person who would suggest other than that, is either ignorant, OR, is being deliberately deceitful.

The blatant international hypocrisy regarding Israel.....



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Three Reasons Why a Double Standard is Imposed on Israel by Philip Carl Salzman Israfax January 25, 2017 While nationalism of the Americans, French, and Chinese is admired or at least accepted, Jewish nationalism (Zionism) is regarded as racism by pro-Arab activists and journalists. While Syrian President Bashar Assad declares war against his people, with deaths numbering in hundreds of thousands and displaced in the millions, next door Israel is lambasted by the foreign minister of Sweden for "extrajudicial killings," when it kills terrorists in the act of attacking Israeli citizens. .....As to propriety and standards of behavior, European Christians never thought much of, or expected much of the people of the "South." These gentiles, pagans, and heathens would do just about anything, so there was no point measuring them against civilized standards and judging them. Deal with them pragmatically, was the strategy, as politically important and economically useful. The European rule is this: do not unnecessarily irritate the vast number of Arabs and Muslims by siding with a handful of uppity Jews; that would just be foolish. Showing you are on the side of Arabs and Muslims by condemning Israel is just smart policy.

http://www.meforum.org/6497/three-reasons-for-double-standard-on-israel



The children of ISRAEL....

Genesis 12:3
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee....


Genesis 27:29
....cursed be every one that curseth thee, and blessed be he that blesseth thee.


Numbers 22:12
And God said unto Balaam..... thou shalt not curse the people: for they are blessed.


Numbers 24:9
....Blessed is he that blesseth thee, and cursed is he that curseth thee.




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The nation of Israel, today, is 'a line in the sand',       and the presence of Israel in the world, today, is a 'litmus paper' if you will.

Q.
Don't you recognise that circumstance ?


Deuteronomy 32:8
When the most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel.
9  For the LORD'S portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.


Psalms 87:2
The LORD loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.




Exodus 9:12
And the LORD hardened the heart of Pharaoh, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had spoken unto Moses.
13  And the LORD said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.
14  For I will at this time send all my plagues upon thine heart, and upon thy servants, and upon thy people; that thou mayest know that there is none like me in all the earth.
15  For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth.
16  And in very deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power; and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.
17  As yet exaltest thou thyself against my people, that thou wilt not let them go?


And what was old, is new again.

Parts of the Old Testament are a presage and a warning to mankind to each of us.




The children of ISRAEL....

Isaiah 54:17
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD.





Go down to hell, if you will !

Israeli PM: New settlements just a 'taste' of things to come in Trump era

Jan 25, 2017

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that the latest settlement approval is just a “taste” of new measures which will be taken now that Barack Obama is no longer the US president.

“We are leaving the period. This building [approval] was a taste. We are going to be doing many things differently from now on,” said Netanyahu while addressing the Israeli parliament on Wednesday.

On Tuesday, in an announcement that sparked widespread condemnation, the Israeli ministry of military affairs announced that regime officials had approved the construction plans of 2,500 new settler units, with most of the structures expected to be built inside the existing settlement blocs in the West Bank.   

Netanyahu added that the approval came after eight years during which Israel had “suffered” from Obama’s “not-one-brick policy,” referring to claims the Israeli prime minister has made in the past that the US told him that it would oppose any new settlement construction beyond the Green Line, the 1948 occupied territories.

“We are not talking about outposts or even settlement blocs,” he added, noting that some of the measures will be carried out in East Jerusalem al-Quds itself.

On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that the US neither approved nor condemned the Tel Aviv regime’s fresh settlement measures, adding that US President Donald Trump would discuss the matter during an upcoming meeting with Netanyahu in Washington.

“We’re going to have a meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu and we’ll continue to discuss that,” he said. “Israel continues to be a huge ally of the United States, he wants to grow closer with Israel, to make sure that it gets the full respect that it deserves in the Middle East,” he added.

The Israeli approval came two days after a phone conversation between Trump and Netanyahu in which regional issues were discussed and the Israeli prime minister was invited to Washington in February.   

UNSC fails action against Israeli settlements

Despite its recent resolution against the illegal settlements, the United Nations Security Council refrained from taking any measures against the move following a closed-door meeting held on Wednesday.

Swedish Ambassador Olof Skoog, who is the council's president this month, stressed that such actions must be “condemned."

    "We believe that any action that is taken in violation of international law or Security Council resolution 2234, regardless of who violates that resolution, needs to be condemned," he said.

Following the meeting, he noted that all members had received an update on the new settlements, but none had called for an immediate action.

Skoog added that despite their inaction, "everyone in the council that spoke today is eager to make sure we find ways to minimize the effects of unilateral action."

After the meeting, Palestinian Ambassador Riyad Mansour said that the Security Council must ensure the execution of its own resolutions and that the Tel Aviv regime must not be permitted to "get away” with constructing more settlements. 

Over 230 illegal settlements have been constructed since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories. The illegal structures have hampered attempts to establish peace in the Middle East.

In December 2016, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 2334 that denounced the Israeli settlements as a "flagrant violation of international law."

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/25/507784/israel-palestine-netanyahu-trump-taste

Settlement bid proves Israel’s disrespect for int’l will: AL

Jan 25, 2017

The Arab League (AL) has condemned Israel’s fresh settlement construction plans in the occupied Palestinian lands, accusing the Tel Aviv regime of adopting a policy in complete disregard of widespread calls to end such illegal activities.

    In a statement released on Wednesday, the 22-member regional organization of Arab countries said Israel’s announcement of the construction of 2,500 new settler units in the occupied West Bank confirms the regime’s “approach, which is full of contempt and defiance for the will of the international (community).”

AL Secretary General Ahmed Aboul Gheit accused Tel Aviv of "causing all efforts to implement the [so-called] two-state solution to fail."

The administration of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was feeling "strengthened" by "recent international developments,” he added in implicit reference to the election of pro-Israel Donald Trump as the US president.

On Tuesday, the Israeli ministry of military affairs said that the regime officials had endorsed the construction plans, with most of the structures expected to be built inside the existing settlement blocs in the West Bank.

The announcement sparked widespread condemnation.

‘Israel revs up settlement push during Trump presidency’

Israel has approved a total of some 3,000 settler homes in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds since Trump's inauguration last week, reports say.

    "Netanyahu is taking advantage of the presidential transition in the United States in order to appease the settlers, a small minority of the Israeli public, and score political points with his right flank," said the Peace Now settlement watchdog group.

Israeli authorities regularly carry out demolitions of Palestinian homes in what is considered as an attempt to uproot Palestinians from their native territories, and expropriate more land for the expansion of illegal settlements.

Israeli forces have demolished over 48,000 Palestinian homes and buildings since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian lands, according to the Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions.

http://presstv.ir/Detail/2017/01/25/507729/Arab-League-Israel-Palestine-settlement-

The Debate - Israel Expansionism

Date: 22.1.2017

After only two days of US President Donald Trump being in office, the Israelis have announced the expansion of 566 settlement units on occupied Palestinian land. The head of the Jerusalem municipality says he was told to wait until former US president Barack Obama leaves before announcing the new settlement construction plans. Settlements in the occupied territory are illegal under international law. Is this a sign of what is to come under a Trump presidency?

Kevin Barrett
Editor, Veterans Today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdsI-wiNLRA

The Debate - Israeli Settlements

The Debate - Israeli Settlements

Date: January 25th 2016

Israel has approved the construction of 2,500 new settler units in the West Bank, defying international law. The reactions have been harsh, but short of any action, at least as of yet. In this edition of the debate, we’ll discuss Israel’s continued settlement activities, and whether the new US administration under Trump will support the regime and its illegal activities in the occupied West Bank, like moving the US embassy to Jerusalem Al Quds.

Guest:
*Alison Weir,
Executive Director, If Americans knew,
BERKELEY,

*Richard Millet,
Journalist and Political Commentator,
LONDON

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJQJpr4HeOc

In rare move, Australia criticizes settlement expansion

January 25, 2017

In a rare rebuke of Israel’s settlement enterprise, Australia on Wednesday expressed “concern” over an announcement of planned expansion of West Bank settlements, and called on Israel to cease unilateral steps that it said undermine the peace process.

“The Australian Government is concerned about the significant recent settlement announcement in the West Bank,” Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop told ABC News. “We continue to call on both sides to avoid unilateral action that diminish the prospects of a negotiated two-state solution.”

On Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman announced plans to build 2,500 housing units in various towns across the West Bank, mostly, but not exclusively, in the settlement blocs.

Australia’s stance on Tuesday’s announcement was notable because Canberra has long been an unconditional friend of Israel, unafraid to defy international consensus to shield the Jewish state from criticism of its settlement policy.

The Foreign Ministry in Jerusalem declined to comment on Bishop’s statement.

Earlier this month, Australia sent only a junior delegation to the Paris peace conference and expressed concerns over the joint declaration issued at the end of the event, prompting harsh criticism from Ramallah.

“We are actually quite unhappy with Australia,” which is standing on the “wrong side of the law,” Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said at the time. It is “shocking that Australia of all countries would decide to stand outside the global consensus.”

In December, Australia was the only country in the world, besides Israel, to denounce Security Council Resolution 2334. Bishop declared Australia would have likely opposed the text and Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull later attacked it as “one-sided” and “deeply unsettling.”

Canberra first distinguished itself from the rest of the world in early 2014, when Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, in an interview with The Times of Israel, refused to call Israeli settlements illegal.

“I don’t want to prejudge the fundamental issues in the peace negotiations,” Bishop said at the time.

Asked whether she agrees or disagrees with the near-universal view that Israeli settlements anywhere beyond the 1967 lines are illegal under international law, she replied: “I would like to see which international law has declared them illegal.”

Thankful for Australia’s unwavering support over the years, Netanyahu is planning to become the first-ever sitting Israeli prime minister to go Down Under next month.

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-rare-move-australia-criticizes-settlement-expansion/

Israel approves 153 illegal settler homes in occupied territories

Jan 26, 2017

Emboldened by the new US administration’s support, the Israeli regime has given the go-ahead to the construction of 153 new settler units in the occupied Palestinian territories in flagrant disregard of international opposition.

Jerusalem al-Quds Deputy Mayor Meir Turgeman said a city planning committee had endorsed the construction of the new structures in the East Jerusalem al-Quds settlement of Gilo, adding that the initiative was among those held up due to pressure from the ex-US government.

Turgeman further announced plans for building some 11,000 settler units in East Jerusalem al-Quds, saying that he will deliver permits for the project “in the coming months.”

After the January 20 inauguration of US President Donald Trump, a pro-Israel figure, Tel Aviv launched a major settlement expansion drive.

On Sunday, Israel approved construction permits for 566 new structures in the East Jerusalem settlements of Pisgat Ze’ev, Ramat Shlomo and Ramot.

Two days later, the Israeli ministry of military affairs also announced plans for erecting 2,500 settler units in the occupied West Bank.

The developments sparked widespread condemnations from Palestine and the international community.

'Settlement expansion will have dangerous consequences"

Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas warned that Israel’s settlement expansion projects would have “major and dangerous consequences.”

Abbas further noted that discussions were underway with Arab leaders to prevent Tel Aviv’s illegal construction activities in the occupied lands.

He also described a recent UN Security Council anti-settlement resolution as the most important decision with regard to the Israeli settlement activities in 35 years.

“We made important calls and succeeded in holding a session of the UN Security Council and obtain an international decision condemning settlement activity in spite of all the pressures,” the Palestinian president said.

In December 2016, the UN Security Council adopted Resolution 2334 that denounced the Israeli settlements as a “flagrant violation of international law.”

Hundreds of Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.

The presence and continued expansion of Israeli settlements has created a major obstacle for the efforts to establish peace in the Middle East.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/26/507886/Israel-Palestine-Jerusalem-Meir-Turgeman

Israeli forces uproot 500 olive trees northwest of Hebron

Jan. 26, 2017

HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces uprooted 500 olive trees in an area west of the village of Kharas in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Thursday, locals said.

The mayor of Kharas, Abed al-Fattah, told Ma’an that three Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces uprooted the olive trees, all more than 14 years old, planted on 25 dunams (six acres) of land.

He added that Israeli forces uprooted the trees without prior notice, and that Palestinian owners of the land were embroiled in court disputes as Israeli authorities have attempted to issue confiscation orders for the land.

One of the owners of the land, Faisal Moussa al-Hroub, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities were attempting to expel them from their lands, but “they will never leave.”

He said that the olive trees uprooted by Israeli forces were owned by him and his brother Muhammad, and that the land was the only major income for them and scores of his relatives.

An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an she would look into reports on the incident.

According to Ma'an records, this is the third reported instance of Israeli forces uprooting olive trees -- a tree which is highly symbolic for Palestinians -- in the occupied Palestinian territory since the beginning of the year, threatening the livelihoods of numerous Palestinians.

http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=775129

Over 90 percent of water in besieged Gaza unfit for use: Official

Jan 26, 2017

A Palestinian official and local residents have expressed deep concern over the worsening clean water shortage in the Gaza Strip, stating that only a small number of the Palestinians in the besieged coastal enclave have access to drinking water.

Rebhy al-Sheikh, the deputy chairman of the Palestinian Water Authority, said on Thursday that more than 90 percent of the water in the aquifer in Gaza is unfit for domestic use.

Aquifers are Gaza's primary water source and provide for 98% of public consumption. Locals and development specialists say the situation is getting beyond dire across the besieged Palestinian enclave.

Resident say the water from the tap is barely usable, while those that can afford it buy bottled water.

Marwan An-Najar, a Gazan who travels four kilometers (2.5 miles) to fill a 20-liter plastic jerrycan at a local desalination station, said he has not tasted sweet tap water in 10 years.

Najar, a father of six, while queuing to get water at the desalination station in Khan Younis said, "The (tap) water is salty, as if it came straight from the sea. We have stopped drinking it."

Commenting on water crisis across Gaza, Fathy Mhareb, a 60-year-old unemployed father of eight said,"It is not even fit for the animals to drink. We buy sweet water and use the salty water to shower."

The Gaza Strip, which has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007, has long suffered severe water problems. Its aquifer has been contaminated by sewage, chemicals and seawater and the territory's three desalination plants are unable to meet demand.

The Israeli blockade has also led to a dramatic decline in the standards of living as well as substantial levels of unemployment and poverty.

Adnan Ghosheh, a senior water and sanitation specialist with the World Bank, stated in November that only 10 percent of Palestinians in the blockaded enclave have access to drinking water.

The official with the international financial institution also reiterated earlier United Nations warnings that the Gaza Strip could be "uninhabitable" in less than five years on current trends.

Director of Operations for United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in the Gaza Strip, Bo Schack, warned in October that the Israeli blockade and restrictions on the entry of construction materials into the enclave “are negatively impacting the lives of Palestinians there.”

He said Israeli actions are hindering peace and stability in the Gaza Strip, calling for measures to alleviate the sufferings of the Gazans.

Israel launched its latest war on the Gaza Strip in early July 2014. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, 2014, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including 577 children. Over 11,100 others — including 3,374 children, 2,088 women and 410 elderly people — were also wounded in the war.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/01/26/507883/Palestine-Gaza-Rebhy-alSheikh-Israel

jmjcare wrote on Jan 27^th, 2017 at 12:48pm:

Israeli forces uproot 500 olive trees northwest of Hebron Jan. 26, 2017 HEBRON (Ma’an) -- Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces uprooted 500 olive trees in an area west of the village of Kharas in the southern occupied West Bank district of Hebron on Thursday, locals said. The mayor of Kharas, Abed al-Fattah, told Ma’an that three Israeli bulldozers escorted by Israeli forces uprooted the olive trees, all more than 14 years old, planted on 25 dunams (six acres) of land. He added that Israeli forces uprooted the trees without prior notice, and that Palestinian owners of the land were embroiled in court disputes as Israeli authorities have attempted to issue confiscation orders for the land. One of the owners of the land, Faisal Moussa al-Hroub, told Ma’an that Israeli authorities were attempting to expel them from their lands, but “they will never leave.” He said that the olive trees uprooted by Israeli forces were owned by him and his brother Muhammad, and that the land was the only major income for them and scores of his relatives. An Israeli army spokesperson told Ma’an she would look into reports on the incident. According to Ma'an records, this is the third reported instance of Israeli forces uprooting olive trees -- a tree which is highly symbolic for Palestinians -- in the occupied Palestinian territory since the beginning of the year, threatening the livelihoods of numerous Palestinians. http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?ID=775129

more crimes against humanity .

may the lord forgive them

namaste

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153 housing permits in Jerusalem - with 11,000 more planned

26/01/17

The Jerusalem municipality gave final approval Thursday afternoon to 153 housing units in the Gilo neighborhood in southern Jerusalem, an area over the 1967 Green Line, where construction had been heavily restricted during the Obama administration.

Speaking with AFP, Jerusalem City Councilman and Deputy Mayor Meir Turgeman said number of building permits issued by the municipality had spiked since President Donald Trump’s inauguration last Friday.

The permits issued on Thursday included projects frozen in recent years because of pressure applied by the Obama administration on Israel, Turgeman said.

In the days since the Trump inauguration, Turgeman has promised to massively expand the number of housing units approved by the city.

"I'm going to deliver permits for thousands of homes in Jerusalem in the coming months," Turgeman said.

Specifically, Turgeman has said as many as 11,000 housing units could be approved in neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem, following eight years of limited construction.

On Sunday, city approved 566 building permits for homes in eastern Jerusalem. Two days later, the Defense Ministry approved 2,500 homes in Judea and Samaria, marking the end of the de facto building freeze on Israeli projects over the Green Line.

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223923

The Sun Will Rise - Trump & Palestine

Published on Jan 29, 2017

Donald Trump's early moves indicate he will be a stronger supporter of Israel and will not get in the way of any settlement projects.

Since he won the presidential election in November last year, Donald Trump has appointed a right-wing hawk to the post of US ambassador to Israel. He has also said he will appoint Jared Kushner, his Jewish son-in-law, to broker a Middle East peace deal.

Donald Trump said the Obama administration’s decision to abstain in a UN Security Council vote on Israeli settlements “was terrible.” And he’s said he’ll move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds.

On the other hand, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has said prospects for peace in the region will suffer if Trump does indeed move the US embassy there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ34XwEfI2U

Without Arab participation, Israel passes bill that retroactively legalizes Jewish settlements

07 Feb 2017

On Monday Israeli lawmakers passed a controversial bill allowing Jerusalem to expropriate privately-owned Palestinian land as property of the state. Right-wing elements in the Knesset are hailing the vote as a "historic day for the settlement movement."

Roughly translated as the 'Regularization Law,' the new measure does not allow Jewish settlers to own the land they live on but does allow them to stay in their homes, while Palestinian owners cannot retake or own the land, "until there is a diplomatic resolution of the status of the territories."

According to Haaretz, the bill was drafted ostensibly to "regulate settlement in Judea and Samaria and allow its continued establishment and development." Detractors see the legislation as justification for ongoing land theft on the West Bank.

Dan Meridor, former minister of Likud, the party of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, wrote an op-ed in Haaretz calling the law "evil and dangerous," and pointing out that Palestinian land ownership has never been regulated by parliament because "the Arabs of Judea and Samaria did not vote for the Knesset, and it has no authority to legislate for them. These are basic principles of democracy and Israeli law."

The bill affects sixteen settlements, and gives the justice ministry the power to add more, as they see fit.

The bill retroactively 'legalizes' Jewish settlements built on Palestinian land, and has been condemned by the international community.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu supports the measure.

https://www.sott.net/article/341822-Without-Arab-participation-Israel-passes-bill-that-retroactively-legalizes-Jewish-settlements

'Entire Land Is Ours': Israel Legalizes Palestinian Land Theft

6 February 2017

Ahead of the late-night vote, Likud minister Ofir Akunis told parliament, "We are voting tonight on the connection between the Jewish people to its land."

Israel passed a law Monday retroactively legalizing about 4,000 settler homes built on privately-owned Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, a measure that human rights groups have called “theft” and one that would end any hopes for Palestinian statehood.

Hanan Ashrawi, a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the main Palestinian political umbrella body, said in a statement that the law gave settlers a green light to "embark on a land grab."

"Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his extremist, racist coalition government are deliberately breaking the law and destroying the very foundations of the two-state solution and the chances for peace and stability."

The U.N. Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov said in a statement that the law "will have far-reaching legal consequences for Israel and greatly diminish the prospects for Arab-Israeli peace."

The news came just hours after Israel conducted airstrikes in the Palestinian Gaza strip injuring at least two Palestinians, the first attack by Israel in months that results in casualties.

Witnesses told Ma'an news agency that at least eight Israeli missiles were fired at several locations across the besieged Palestinian territory. Israel said it was responding to a rock thrown from the strip that landed in an open space and resulted in no damages or injuries.

Under the new law, settlers could remain on the land if they built there without prior knowledge of Palestinian ownership or if homes were constructed at the state's instruction. Palestinian owners would receive financial compensation.

But its passage may only be largely symbolic as it violates Israeli Supreme Court rulings on property rights. Israel's attorney general has said it is unconstitutional and that he will not defend it in front of the Supreme Court.

Ahead of the late-night vote, Likud minister Ofir Akunis told parliament, "We are voting tonight on the connection between the Jewish people to its land. This entire land is ours."

Although the legislation, passed by a vote of 60 to 52, was backed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition, political sources have told news outlets that Netanyahu privately opposed the bill over concerns it could provide grounds for prosecution by the International Criminal Court in the Hague.

But the far-right Jewish Home party, a member of the coalition looking to draw voters from the traditional base of Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, pushed for the legislation after the forced evacuation of 330 settlers last week from an outpost built on private Palestinian land.

With Netanyahu under police investigation on suspicion of abuse of office, Likud has been losing in opinion polls, therefore Netanyahu did not stand in the way of the vote because he did not want to alienate his supporters and boost Jewish Home’s base.

The Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem condemned the bill's passage, saying it "proves yet again that Israel has no intention of ending its control over the Palestinians or its theft of their land.”

The group said that the passage of the law just weeks after the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution calling for the halt of settlement building was a “slap in the face” to the international community by Israel.

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Entire-Land-Is-Ours-Israel-Legalizes-Palestinian-Land-Theft-20170206-0028.html

Brilliant. Extend Israel to West Papua, I say. It would be a better world.

Will the UN ever condemn the land theft by Muslims from the 7th to he 16th centuries?

The Zionist-Christian Alliance and the Great Deception

By Kevin Barrett on February 8, 2017

O you who know in your hearts, do not take the [Jews and Christians] as friends…”  (5:51)   With those words, Shaykh Imran Hosein explains, the Qur’an warns us against the psychotic heresy known as “Judeo-Christianity” — the prime force behind the Zionist invasion, occupation, and genocidal destruction of the Holy Land. The Satanic “unholy book” of “Judeo-Christianity” is the Scofield Bible, commissioned by the Rothschilds, published by Oxford University Press, and attributed to a two-bit swindler who could barely scratch his name in mud with a stick. Tens of millions of Americans belong to this satanic cult. Some of them are currently very close to Trump, and have their sulfurous fingers around the nuclear trigger. So please read the article below by Tony Smario, and don’t say we didn’t warn you. –Kevin Barrett, Veterans Today Editor

There is a war starting, but it’s not one of the wars we are being told about. The plans for this war may be a hundred years old or more, and they provide the path by which the “Great Work” of returning humankind to its Golden Age may be achieved. This is World War Three, the Apocalypse, Armageddon. And it promises to come on the heels of rebuilding Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem.

Observation #1 – A Strange Alliance

There is something remarkable, and telling, in the fanatical unity of the Judeo-Christian alignment over the past hundred years. Remarkable, because these two religions have no way to reconcile their theological differences: one waits for a future “messiah”; one blames the other for killing the “messiah” more than 2,000 years ago. The two make an all the more unexpected pair considering the Christians were originally persecuted by the Jews, whose holy writings in the Talmud reject Jesus as a bastard who is boiling in hot excrement for eternity, whereas Christianity went on to persecute the Jews mercilessly for killing their messiah, while warning everyone that if you don’t believe in Jesus you’re going to hell forever. What’s telling, then, is that Western Christianity is so committed to Zionism that it undertakes extraordinary political and social machinations to preserve the union. In the seventh century, the two were united by the loss, to Islam, of the “holy land,” which they both held sacred, and by the loss of the city at the center of their religious history. Today, they are united by ancient prophecies about the arrival of the messiah, the end of the age, and the kingdom to come.

That land and city were mandated to “Christians” more than a hundred years ago in the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1915, which put modern-day Syria and Lebanon under French jurisdiction, with Iraq and Palestine under British jurisdiction. England disregarded the agreement it had made with Hashemite king Faisal I of Iraq (1883–1933) to support him in establishing a Muslim caliphate in that land (i.e., Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Saudi Arabia) after asking the Hashemites to help the British defeat the Ottomans in World War One, which they did. Instead of a caliphate, the Muslims were eventually divided into puppet governments like those that exist today and, at that time, faced the birth of “radical Islam” in the newly created Kingdom of Saud, founded and supported by the same British government that had just double-crossed the Hashemites. It is worth observing that the current Hashemite king (of Jordan) has made it clear that he expects England to make good on its word to help establish a Hashemite caliphate on that land, and ISIS is not what he envisions.

While Britain and France were dividing up the Middle East and screwing the Hashemites, in 1917 British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour declared in a letter to Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, that England intended to help establish a Jewish homeland on the piece of land called Palestine. The Jewish holocaust had not yet occurred, but this empire that had subdued the world for Christianity declared that it wanted to give the “holy land” to future generations of Jews in order to help them perpetuate their rejection of Jesus as the messiah and enable them to await the true messiah in their renewed homeland. Who thought this was such a good idea in Christian England in 1917, and why? Who would pay for the creation of Israel? I will attempt to put the answers to these questions in perspective in the following observations about where all the money and political pressure to create the State of Isreal came from, and continues to come from, and to what end.

History records that thirty years after the Balfour Declaration, in the wake of the atrocities of World War Two, a new organization called the United Nations established the State of Israel in Palestine, the immediate result being war with its Muslim neighbors, who had been living side by side with Jews for a millennium until the sudden, hostile occupation of their land. The wars continued for thirty years, and then an international “peace process” was begun that continues to this day. The peace process has resulted in the death of untold millions, the demise of stable governments, and the near destruction of the region and much of the culture. It is easily observed that the entire pretense for the current wars in the Middle East, and for the continuing threat of “terrorism,” is based on lies and underwritten by Zionist-Christian money.

The final point in this first observation is that the Muslims of that land, as well as orthodox Muslims everywhere in all corners of the globe, still on the losing end of this hundred-year-old agreement by the Hashemites to help the British defeat the Ottomans, are the ONLY other people on the planet, besides Christians, who believe Jesus is the true messiah of the Jews, and they are currently awaiting His return in fulfillment of their scriptures. Keep that in mind.

Observation #2 – Follow the Money

Why did Walter Rothschild want a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1917, why did England pledge its support in the Balfour Declaration, and what kind of support did England provide? A couple years earlier, England was in a bad spot in the war with Germany, and it seemed as though the English would lose their country. Rothschild had promised to get the United States involved on the side of the British IF England gave Palestine to Rothschild. History has recorded, though journalism rarely does, that the financing FOR Germany in World War One was also supplied by Rothschild’s banking cartel. The Rothschilds would go on to own 80 percent of the land comprising the State of Israel three decades later, according to some records.

The Rothschilds’ financial exploits and methods are well documented, including loaning money to both sides of a conflict or funding a war to drive one side to compliance, as in the War of 1812. The French Revolution, in 1789, was the coming-out party of this mode of financial terrorism, which was destined to rule the world from then til now. In this second observation, we notice where the money was flowing a hundred years ago, when the United States was brought into World War One, so unpopular with its citizens, and instigated under methods of intrigue and propaganda familiar to every military conflict since.

In 1913, after a hundred-year struggle against an obstinately aware Congress, the Federal Reserve banking system was formerly institutionalized in the United States, with no doubt regarding the system’s origins and benefactors. In 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated, prompting European powers to go to war, including Russia, with Rothschild money supplying both sides of the conflict. In 1915 the Lusitania was sunk, the event designed to drag America into the war that the Rothschilds had promised England the United States would enter. Also in 1915 the Sykes-Picot Agreement was signed, dividing the Muslim Middle East into French and English mandates, financed by the Bank of England, which was owned by the Rothschilds, and forcing the British to double-cross the Hashemites regarding their caliphate and Muslim self-determination on that land. In 1917 the Balfour Declaration was sent to Lord Rothschild in recognition of England’s intent to “support” the establishment of a Jewish homeland. This was shortly after political Zionism began in response to “anti-Semitism,” which itself arrived mysteriously in history without precedent in 1894 in France in what is known as the Dreyfus Affair and unexpectedly in Russia, Poland, and Bulgaria at the end of the nineteenth century as well. Lord Rothschild happened to be president of the British Zionist Federation at the time of the Balfour Declaration.

Something else happened in 1917 that was clearly financed by the same Rothschild money responsible for the Federal Reserve system in America and that was behind the intention to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine: the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. Why did Zionist Rothschild want the czar replaced, and why with “communists”? Of all the possible answers to that question, the one central to this second observation is the one least recognized or understood in popular culture. The RESULT of the communist revolution was the unending genocide of one particular type of people for nearly a century: orthodox Christians. It was Christian Russia that sought the ancient orthodox Christian land of what is today called Turkey, and its strategic city of Constantinople, during World War One. Christian Russia might have stood against Rothschild’s Zionism. The Rothschild-funded Bolshevik Revolution made sure that wouldn’t happen. And it did something else in preparation for the future war that the third observation makes clearer: it set Christians up as future enemies of Islam, when Western Christianity became one with the Zionists, who require ever more weaponry, pointed at their Arab neighbors, for “security.”

I will finish this second observation by noting that the Rothschilds’ agents drafted the terms of the treaty with Germany after World War One and that those terms were designed to provide the conditions for World War Two. The Rothschilds’ money also funded Morgan, Rockefeller, Herriman, Carnegie, Ford, and like industrialists, through Jacob Schiff, who in turn supplied Hitler with the money, and technology, to fight the war and to create slave labor camps, which benefited the industrialists. But why did Zionist Rothschild want slave labor camps in Germany for Jews and a war with the Allies? War had already proven grossly profitable, but were the wars intended only to provoke nations to borrow in order to fight them? Or could a war be planned to do more than sell debt?

In 1811 when the American Congress had voted to throw the Rothschild-funded banks out of the country, Nathan Rothschild famously said, “Either the application for renewal of the charter is granted, or the United States will find itself in a most disastrous war.” That war began the following year in response to the obstinate refusal of the American Congress to renew the Rothschilds’ bank charter.

Until the terms of the Versailles Treaty created the conditions for World War Two, the country where Jews enjoyed the most peaceful and integrated existence anywhere in Europe was Germany. The Zionist plan from at least 1901 was to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but Palestine was full of Palestinian Arabs, not Jews. Europe was full of Jews living happily and safely. The question was how to get the Jews to WANT to leave Europe and immigrate to a new and strange land. We know the answer as “World War Two,” and it was funded by the same people who gave us the Federal Reserve system in America, political Zionism, the Jewish homeland, the Bolshevik Revolution, and Nazi Germany, not to mention the Cultural Revolution in China. After World War Two, Rothschild money was behind the establishment of the United Nations in 1945, as it had been behind the League of Nations decades earlier. Shortly afterward, in 1948, the United Nations created the State of Israel, and the so-called “Judeo-Christian alliance” was inseparably forged. Meanwhile, the same Rothschild money was funding the “radicalization” of Islam. What have the Zionist-Christian elite got in mind for the future?

Observation #3 – The Hegelian Dialectic

In 1769 Mayer Amschel Rothschild “became a court agent for Prince William IX of Hesse-Kassel, who was the grandson of George II of England, a cousin to George III, a nephew of the King of Denmark, and a brother-in-law to the King of Sweden.”[1] Mayer Amschel Rothschild’s creation of the Illuminati via Adam Weishaupt in Bavaria in 1776, on the heels of Rothschild’s association with Prince William IX, points to a more profound web of control over future events than the whims of one man or one family, particularly given reports of the Illuminati’s agenda:

The purpose of the Illuminati is to divide the goyim (all non-Jews) through political, economic, social, and religious means. The opposing sides were to be armed and incidents were to be provided in order for them to: fight amongst themselves; destroy national governments; destroy religious institutions; and eventually destroy each other.”[2]

The aim was to divide and conquer by infiltrating the religions and every other spectrum of humanity. The plan was, over time, to arm each side with ideals that were hostile to one another and to promote violent confrontation, including the ever-advancing weaponry needed to achieve the most offensive violations of moral conduct and the most ruthless and efficient taking of life. The media were to be used to pit one side against the other and to program humanity to accept war as an eventuality and “religions” as the cause. “Terrorists” were to be created and fought. All of this was a classic application of what has become known as the “Hegelian dialectic.” Meanwhile, any number of depopulation and eugenic programs have been administered under the cover of “humanitarianism,” and the average citizen is helpless, hopeless, ignorant, and impotent to interfere.

Our current state of affairs fits the strategy supposedly outlined by General Albert Pike in 1871, which called for three world wars to achieve world dominance. Recall the power that had been wielded sixty years before Pike provided his strategy when England was forced into a war with the obstinate United States over renewing the Rothschilds’ bank charter. And observe the statue of General Pike just blocks from the Capitol building In Washington, the only confederate general so honored. The accuracy of Pike’s “predictions” regarding the first two world wars demands attention to the third. The control displayed in the past hundred years over media, politics, education, medicine, justice, and the weather indicates that popular narratives are highly subject to propaganda and manipulation. Observe also the slogan of the State of Israel’s secret service, Mossad – “By Deception We Shall Rule and Do War” – and ask yourself what deception has gone on over the past sixty-five years during a constant state of war in Palestine. Terrorizing the Arabs while creating and blaming Arabs for ongoing acts of “terrorism” is an observable possibility.

The great deception is this: the Zionists intend to use religious prophecy to dominate the world by reclaiming the “promised land,” by rebuilding Solomon’s Temple, by REPLACING the messiah according to a perverted interpretation of Jewish scripture called the Talmud, and by ensuring their perpetual reign forever through superior military force. What remains in the way of Pike’s strategy of 1871? Only the remnants of orthodox religion, namely Christians, Muslims, AND orthodox Jews. Each of these groups has pointed out the Zionist lie from the beginning and was undoubtedly targeted during World War Two, as orthodox Christians have been continuously targeted for a hundred years.

The desire to eliminate orthodox Jews explains Britain’s “white paper” of 1939, in which it suddenly withdrew its support conveyed in the Balfour Declaration by prohibiting European Jews from immigrating to Palestine until AFTER World War Two and the Jewish holocaust had largely fulfilled the task of eradicating a certain population of Jews, most likely those with Semitic connections to Palestine, and instilling the rest with fear of “anti-Semitism.” Only then did Britain facilitate their return to Palestine in order to repopulate it with “Jews” seeking a homeland, then a state, and eventually a temple, all paid for by American “Christian” industrialists, originally reimbursed by the Nazi slave labor camps they knowingly funded.

Lastly, observe how the United Nations, formed in 1945 on the basis of ELIMINATING armed conflict, has managed instead to mold a modern world where the largest market is weapons, the largest industry is war, and the ONLY way conflicts are settled is through advanced weaponry and superior military alliances. For what reason has a Zionist-Christian alignment created this reality if not to ensure the (new world) order that its overseers plan to create from the ashes of chaos?

Despite being obscured by a sea of distractions, the end game has only three observable goals, on which all action is focused: a centrally controlled and universal electronic monetary system, a far less populated “new world” upon which to impose “order,” and a final temple in Jerusalem from which to rule the world forever.

Therefore, on the one hand, if I’m funding “radical Islam” with Zionist-Christian money, if I’m building Zionist-Christian weapons to bring the world peace and security but I’m not giving them to certain Arabs, and if I’m planning to rebuild Solomon’s Temple in Jerusalem and to rule the world forever, then all I have to do is create an excuse for the Zionists to kill certain Arabs, while making a “peace deal” with the other Arabs (which I will later break), a deal that includes my new temple on their hill. And since Muslims themselves also expect a final “great war,” the decimation of Islam, and the emergence of their true “Mahdi” at the time of the return of the true messiah of the Jews, who they regard as Jesus of Nazareth, it is imaginable that Muslims will be easily led into colluding in their own demise.

On the other hand, if I want to start a war that kills all the Zionists and Christians, I need another enemy, one that I will have to provide with sufficient weapons for it to be able to do just that. Among this enemy, I will have to introduce, foster, and fund every anti-Christian-Zionist ideal so that when the peace deal over the temple is broken, someone can be drawn into a war over it. I’m thinking of Russia, China, and their friend Iran, joined by a host of others. By that time, the excuse for world war may not be the new temple in Jerusalem and the Zionist-Christian fight with Islam but economic existence in the new world. It is not hard to observe the future financial conflict being set up and the eerie possibility of a complete collapse of the money system, as anticipated by ancient prophecy … but that’s a different story.

Tony Smario has decades of experience interpreting eschatology with a unique voice. You can find him at the channel BroSal.org on YouTube, where he provides weekly commentary on geopolitical events and a nontraditional Bible study demonstrating the false understandings of modern Christianity.

Notes

[1] David Allen Rivera, “The House of Rothschild,” in Jefferey Trent McGill, White Darkness: The Financial Apocalypse, 21-26 (Bloomington, IN: AuthorHouse, 2005), 21.

[2] Andrew Hitchcock, “The History of the House of Rothschild,” Rense.com, October 31, 2009, http://rense.com/general88/hist.htm.

http://www.veteranstoday.com/2017/02/08/zio-christian/

More Israel settlements could end prospect for peace: German FM

Feb 17, 2017

Germany has warned that Israel's ongoing settlement expansion on the occupied Palestinian territories could worsen the already tense situation in the Middle East and lead to a war.

“We are concerned that unlimited construction of settlements will ... make a two-state solution impossible and could increase the risks of conflicts in the Middle East, including possible war,” Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Thursday.

Gabriel’s remarks came after the administration of President Donald Trump said the US would no longer insist on a “two-state solution” but would support whatever the two sides agree to.

The apparent US policy shift has been met with strong criticism from Palestinians and the international community, including the UN and the Arab League.

Gabriel said a recent vote by the Israeli Knesset to authorize more settlements, which are illegal under international law, has further complicated the situation.

Relations between Israel and Germany have grown tense recently after Berlin questioned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

The last round of negotiations between Israelis and Palestinians stalled in 2014. One of the major sticking points is the Israeli settlement activities, which are viewed by the international community as unlawful.

Tel Aviv has turned a blind eye to Resolution 2334 adopted by the United Nations Security last December, which condemned the establishment of settlements as a “flagrant violation under international law.”

Emboldened by the inauguration of Trump in January, Israel has approved the construction of some 6,000 new settler units in the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds, which the Palestinians want as the capital of their future state.

Several Israeli ministers have recently been speaking of annexation of the occupied West Bank, drawing strong condemnation and warning from the Palestinians and the international body.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/02/17/510904/Palestine-Germany-Israel-settlement-Trump-Sigmar-Gabriel

UN chief backs two-state solution after US ditches support

Feb 15, 2017

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has underline the need for pursuing the so-called two-state solution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying there is "no alternative" to that option.

"There was a complete agreement" that a resolution of the conflict needs the "two state-solution and that everything must be done to preserve that possibility," Guterres said after meeting Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi in Cairo on Wednesday.

For decades, successive US administrations have supported the so-called two-state solution, under which a Palestinian state would be formed.

However, an unnamed White House official said on Tuesday that Washington would not insist on that option as the only solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

“A two-state solution that doesn’t bring peace is not a goal... Peace is the goal, whether it comes in the form of a two-state solution, if that’s what the parties want, or something else," said the official, speaking anonymously.

The comments marked a significant shift in the US foreign policy on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Those seeking other options 'apartheid'

In response, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Secretary General Saeb Erekat denounced attempts on behalf of the Tel Aviv regime "to bury the two-state solution and eliminate the idea of the State of Palestine."

"Those who believe that they can undermine the two-state solution and replace it with what I call one state, two systems - maintaining the status quo now, are apartheid - I don't think in the 21st century they will get away with it,” he said.

France stresses commitment to two-state solution

Separately on Wednesday, French Ambassador to the UN Francois Delattre described his country’s commitment to the two-state solution as "stronger than ever.”

Referring to the Middle East Peace Conference held in Paris last month, he emphasized that the summit had reaffirmed support for a settlement that would see the creation of a Palestinian state.

The developments come as US President Donald Trump, a pro-Israel figure, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are expected to meet later on Wednesday for the first time since the US presidential election in November last year.

Palestinians are seeking to create an independent state in the territories of the West Bank, East Jerusalem al-Quds and the Gaza Strip, with East al-Quds as its capital.

In November 2012, the UN General Assembly voted to upgrade Palestine’s status from “non-member observer entity” to “non-member observer state” despite strong opposition from Israel.

Palestine’s flag was also hoisted for the first time at the UN headquarters in New York in September 2015.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/02/15/510702/UN-Israel-Palestine-Antonio-Guterres

The Middle East 'peace process' was a myth. Donald Trump ended it

Rashid Khalidi 18 February 2017

“I’m looking at two-state and one-state, and I like the one that both parties like.” With these words at a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump may have finally dispelled the already receding mirage of any just solution.

Trump was clearly seeking to please his guest, spurred by the zealots in his government, four of whom, Public Safety Minister Gilad Erdan, Education Minister Naftali Bennett, Sports Minister Miri Regev, and Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovley, just publicly came out against creation of a Palestinian state.

For decades, Israeli governments, pursuing the colonization of the entirety of “Eretz Israel,” have systematically destroyed the prerequisites for a solution involving a contiguous, sustainable, sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Nevertheless, the myth that a real Palestinian state is on offer, and that there actually is a genuine “peace process,” endures as one of the greatest examples of magical thinking in modern times.

That myth has been crucial for the continuation of Israel’s permanent occupation and unending colonization of the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem, shielding it from any serious international pressure.

The final interment of the already moribund “two-state solution” would force all concerned to face what is obvious to any honest observer. For decades, an imposed reality of one-state – the only sovereign entity enjoying total security control – has existed between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean. This one state is Israel. Irrespective of the label one uses for it, this is the only outcome that this Israeli government will accept, whatever subaltern, or helot, or “autonomous” status it deigns to allow the Palestinians.

Netanyahu did not mince words while standing next to Trump. He said that in any peace agreement “Israel must retain the overriding security control over the entire area west of the Jordan River.” He has long stated that he would only allow the Palestinians a “state minus;” that most Israeli settlements must remain in place; that all of Jerusalem belongs to Israel alone; and that Israel must keep 50-60% of the West Bank including the fertile Jordan River Valley.

It matters little whether this travesty is called a one-state or a two-state “solution,” or whether the Palestinians get the right to fly a flag over such a pitiful Bantustan.

The Trump-Netanyahu press conference, and the Senate confirmation hearings for David Friedman as ambassador-designate to Israel, give us a very clear picture of how much the Israel-United States relationship has changed since January 20, 2017.

American presidents since Clinton have insisted on a Palestinian state, have condemned settlement expansion, and have tried to rein in the most egregious excesses of the Israeli government, while financing and defending at the UN the very activities they supposedly opposed. These feeble positions are now eroding.

Having just cast doubt on the two state solution, Trump stood by complaisantly while Netanyahu laid out preconditions universally recognized as deal-breakers for the Palestinians: besides permanent Israeli control of their “state,” he demanded recognition of Israel as a Jewish state, a designation that no other country is required to accept, and something Israeli itself has not formally adopted. Similarly, while Trump asked Israel to “hold back on settlements a little bit,” his administration has not responded to the massive settlement expansion announced by the Israeli government in recent weeks.

In Friedman’s prepared testimony, clearly scripted by Trump administration handlers, he aligned himself closely with the largely false claims made the previous day by Netanyahu: that the Palestinians have refused to recognize Israel, or to renounce terrorism, and that they pay killers of Israelis. In fact, the PLO recognized Israel and renounced violence decades ago.

The families of the 35,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since 1967 do receive compensation, including some who have engaged in violence against Israel and its military occupation, but that very total, many times larger than the number of Israeli soldiers, settlers and civilians killed, helps to explain the violence. This is the cost of an occupation whose very existence Netanyahu and Friedman deny.

As Netanyahu put it while standing alongside Trump: “Jews are called Jews because they come from Judea. This is our ancestral homeland. Jews are not foreign colonialists in Judea.” This is perfectly in line with the views of Friedman, who has raised millions of dollars in tax-free donations to settlements built on stolen Palestinian private property in “Judea.” Clearly, the Trump administration has moved the goalposts on Palestine, tilting even further in the direction of the most extreme government in Israel’s history.

In this brave new world, it is more urgent than ever for the Palestinians to overcome their crippling internal divisions, reject the pressures of the external powers that have helped to keep their national movement fragmented, and produce a clear strategy for a future of complete equality between Palestinians and Israelis. Perhaps Trump has provided the opportunity for them to lay out what a truly just and equal one-state, or binational, or confederal, or two-state solution would look like.

In any case, only a complete break with the failed strategies of the feeble leaderships in Ramallah and Gaza can provide a genuine alternative to the grotesque future of unending dispossession and oppression that Trump and Netanyahu envision for them.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/18/the-middle-east-peace-process-myth-donald-trump-ended-it

Trump’s son-in-law donates money to Israeli army and illegal settlements

06/12/2016

An Israeli newspaper has discovered that the Kushner Foundation, run by the parents Jared Kushner, Donald Trump’s son-in-law, has donated tens of thousands of dollars towards projects in the illegal Jewish West Bank settlements.

A smaller donation was made to a settlement yeshiva that had been defunded by the Israeli government after it was found to be the base for extremist attacks on Palestinians and Israeli Security Forces, IB Times reported.

The investigation by Haaretz found that the Kushner Foundation had made multiple donations all around $5,000-$10,000 to organisations in hard-line settlements, the report continued.

This includes money to the Etzion Foundation which supports the Gush Etzion settlement bloc, and money to Shaare Zedek Medical Center, the Od Yosef Chai yeshiva in Yitzhar, a settlement known for extremist youths who attacked Palestinians and Israeli security forces, and to the Friends of the IDF, a US based organisation for soldiers in Israel’s defence force.

https://www.almasdarnews.com/article/trumps-son-law-donates-money-israeli-army-illegal-settlements/

Palestinian homes to be demolished for settlments road

Hundreds of Palestinians will be made homeless to build a road that will only serve Israeli settlements.

Hundreds of Palestinians in the Jabal al-Mukaber area of occupied East Jerusalem say they are living in a state of anxiety and fear as Israeli occupation authorities begin excavations for the "American road" project, set to be built on the ruins of their homes.

The road that constitutes only one section of a larger highway, titled al-Touq, will cut through East and West Jerusalem, with the unstated aim of connecting illegal Israeli settlements north, south, and east of the city. It is set to bridge between the West Bank settlements of Har Homa and Maale Adumim, passing through Jerusalem.

The Israeli municipality's planning and construction committee introduced al-Touq road scheme in Jerusalem a decade ago. The completed highway will run a length of more than 11km, with a width of about 70 metres.

To build the road, the Jerusalem municipality will confiscate approximately 1,200 dunams (300 acres) of Palestinian land in at least 12 Palestinian neighbourhoods within Jabal al-Mukaber.

Construction for the "American road" section of the project has already commenced in the Salaa neighbourhood of Jabal al-Mukaber, stirring fears among residents.

"We are living in a state of perpetual fear," said Mohammad al-Sawahra, a resident of Salaa. "It's as if we are living in [two different worlds]. In Palestinian areas, it is like living in the third world, while those living in settlements built on the land of Jabal al-Mukaber are offered a life of comfort like first world countries," al-Sawahra told Al Jazeera.

A month ago, Al-Sawahra received a demolition order for his home to make way for the new road. "Now, they want to build a road on the ruins of my home for themselves, as well," he added.

About 57 homes, housing 500 Palestinians, will be demolished for the completion of the "American road", according to Raed Basheer, a lawyer with the Committee of Defence for Jabal al-Mukaber properties.

"We were surprised to hear about the project, which will be 32 metres wide, with an additional 32 metres on the sides to allow for the light rail. All of the homes, both old and new, standing in the way of the road, will be demolished," Basheer told Al Jazeera.

"In response to this plan, we reached out to the Israeli municipality in Jerusalem and managed, with difficulty, to obtain an extension on the house demolition orders for five years, provided that we submit a request every year to extend the demolition orders. But, still, we do not know whether we will be allowed to remain in our homes over the next five years."

Suhad Bishara, a lawyer with the Haifa-based Adalah legal centre, said that the map for the planned project indicates that the road will serve only Israelis and Israeli settlements.

The plan will wipe out all the roads that connect the Palestinian neighbourhoods of Jerusalem together, turning the areas into islands that will be geographically and economically disconnected, making it difficult for Palestinians to access their schools and health centres, she told Al Jazeera.

Nabeel Basheer, another resident of Salaa, described the al-Touq scheme for the city as deceptive. "It [the project] is being promoted as a one that will benefit the Palestinians of East Jerusalem, without mentioning of the fact that it will entail the demolition of homes, and its ultimate goal of connecting the settlements," he told Al Jazeera.

Israel frequently uses home demolitions to control and punish Palestinians living under its occupation in East Jerusalem and the West Bank. Since 1967, when Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, at least 48,000 Palestinian homes and housing structures have been demolished.

The reasons that the Israeli state gives to the homeowners vary - from building without permits to punishment for an attack.

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Israels' Settlements Illegal

Nobody could argue with this statement, it is just obviously 100% correct.

UN decries Israel's West Bank demolition order

An estimated 140 structures in a Palestinian Bedouin village ordered demolished by the Israeli government.

The United Nations has raised concerns over a newly announced demolition plan in a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank that threatens dozens of buildings including a primary school.

"This is unacceptable and it must stop," Robert Piper, UN's humanitarian coordinator for the Palestinian territories, said on Wednesday.

Piper visited the village where the primary school is among 140 structures at risk of demolition.

"Khan al-Ahmar is one of the most vulnerable communities in the West Bank struggling to maintain a minimum standard of living in the face of intense pressure from the Israeli authorities to move," he said in a statement.

Israeli officials have over the past week issued dozens of demolition orders threatening "nearly every structure" in a part of the village of Khan al-Ahmar, the UN said.

Israel said the buildings were built without permits.

The UN said such permits are all but impossible to obtain for Palestinians.

"In the past days construction termination warrants were served to illegal buildings in Khan al-Ahmar," Israel's defence ministry body responsible for the Palestinian territories said.

"The enforcement will take place in coordination with state directives and required legal certifications."

Israel has occupied the West Bank for 50 years in violation of international law.

A number of traditionally nomadic Bedouin communities are based east of Jerusalem, where rights groups fear demolitions could eventually clear the way for more construction of illegal Israeli settlements.

This could partly divide the West Bank between north and south while further isolating the territory from Israeli-annexed East Jerusalem, which the Palestinians see as their future capital.

The UN said there are 46 communities in the central West Bank at risk of forcible transfer, ousting approximately 7,000 residents.

Israel frequently uses home demolitions to control and punish Palestinians living under its occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Since 1967, when Israel occupied the Palestinian territories, at least 48,000 Palestinian homes and housing structures have been demolished.

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Israel won't return Golan Heights to Syria, Netanyahu says

Feb 24, 2017

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says the Tel Aviv regime will never end its decades-long occupation of Syria's Golan Heights.

“I want all of you to come to Israel…. I want you to walk the streets of the Old City in Jerusalem (al-Quds), hike in the Golan Heights. By the way, the Golan will never go back to Syria. It will always be a part of Israel,” Netanyahu said during a meeting with his Australian counterpart Malcolm Turnbull in Sydney on Thursday.

The remarks came on the same day that about 1,000 protesters gathered at Sydney's Town Hall, to express their outrage at the Australian government's warm reception of the Israeli prime minister.

"He's responsible for settlement expansion which is illegal under international law, he's responsible for a lot of the wars that have been committed against the Palestinians in Gaza, and really this man should be tried in the ICC (International Criminal Court), not welcomed down in Sydney," protester Mona Abuzalaf said.

Another protester, Randa Abdel-Fattah, wanted to remind Netanyahu that Palestinians had supporters.

    "We will not give up. We are a resilient people and our resistance will continue until we are given restitution and our human rights," she said.

Last November, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling on Israel to withdraw from the Golan Heights, which it has occupied since 1967.

The resolution also condemned Israel’s non-compliance with Security Council Resolution 497 since 1981, describing as null and void Tel Aviv’s decision issued on December 14, 1981 to impose its control over the occupied Golan Heights.

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London protests Netanyahu’s visit to UK Feb 7, 2017
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Americans protest policies of Israel as Netanyahu visits US Feb 16, 2017
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Netanyahu pays first visit to Singapore in bid to expand ties in Asia Feb 21, 2017
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Netanyahu plane forced to make detour around Indonesia Feb 22, 2017

The airplane transporting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had to make a detour Wednesday en route from Singapore to Australia as the Israeli airline is banned from using Indonesia's airspace.

Reports said the plane had dodged the Indonesian airspace as he arrived in Sydney after an 11-hour flight from Singapore. The normal time for a direct flight between the two locations is eight and a half hours.

Sources in Netanyahu's delegation, which is in Australia for a four-day visit, a first for an Israeli prime minister in history, confirmed the detour.

Indonesia is the world's most populous Muslim country and it has no formal ties with the Tel Aviv regime. Like many other Muslim countries, Indonesia has barred Israeli airlines, including EL AL that operated Netanyahu's flight, from venturing into its airspace.

Of Indonesia's total population of about 240 million, a majority are Muslims and the country supports the Palestinian cause. Jakarta has rejected repeated Israeli calls for the establishment of diplomatic ties, saying it may do so if Palestine gains its independence from the occupying regime.

"The most important thing is the spirit to realize Palestinian independence," Indonesia's Cabinet Secretary Pramono Anung said in March last year after Netanyahu called on Indonesia to allow relations to normalize.

Jakarta has only allowed limited travel and trade to occur with the occupied territories. It waived visa sanctions in December 2015 as part of its policies to increase tourism.

Israel continues to defy calls, even from non-Muslim countries, to halt its controversial settlement activities in the Palestinian territories it occupied in the 1967 war. In a rare move, the United Nations Security Council condemned the settlements last year.
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Australians against supporting Israel’s apartheid: Activist Feb 19, 2017

Sixty prominent Australian figures have signed a statement voicing strong opposition to an upcoming visit by the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the country. The statement slammed Netanyahu’s policies toward Palestinians as “provocative, intimidating and oppressive.”

An author and peace activist believes Netanyahu is a “war criminal,” adding that there is no justification for his actions as prime minister.

“You cannot justify the racial apartheid that Israel participates in. That is why the UN recently had another resolution against Israel, against them building settlements and which we should call them what they really are, racial colonies protected by a standing army. Israel annexes territory. They have built a giant apartheid wall across their border and taken more land from Palestinians and they are annexing East Jerusalem and then they routinely bomb Gaza back into the Stone Age,” Ryan Dawson told Press TV in an interview on Sunday. 

He noted that the public’s awareness of the crimes committed by Israel is growing in large part due to freedom of the media on the Internet.

The activist also maintained that people are aware of the Israel lobby’s strength and how much it bribes and pays politicians.

He further stated that the people of Australia are “sick and tired” of apartheid, adding that they do not want their money to be spent on supporting Israel’s wars.

“The public is outraged that Australia would contribute to something [similar to] their own sort of past [and similar to what they did to] their Aborigines. They do not want to continue that pattern by supporting the Israelis apartheid over Palestinians and African migrants,” he said. 

Aboriginal Australians have long been subjected to genocide, forced permanent removal, dispossession, racial discrimination and destruction of their land.

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Netanyahu war crimes - Australia

Published on Feb 23, 2017

2017 protest against the war crimes of Israeli president Benjamin Netanyahu. Not welcome in Australia!


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Australia: Melbourne protesters rally against Netanyahu's visit to Australia

Published on Feb 19, 2017

Activists gathered outside the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Sunday, to protest against the upcoming visit to Australia of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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[bl]SBS News coverage of Netanyahu's arrival in Sydney [/b]

Published on Feb 23, 2017

The arrival of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Australia, the warm welcome from Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, the more circumspect remarks from Opposition Leader Bill Shorten, the gathering at Central Synagogue to hear Netanyahu's address and a few stragglers outside in protest.

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Australia: Pro-Palestinians rail at Netanyahu's state visit in Sydney

Published on Feb 23, 2017

Thousands of people took the streets of Sydney on Thursday, to protest against the state visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

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2/16/2017: Jews and Rabbis Protest Israeli PM Netanyahu while visiting Trump.

Published on Feb 17, 2017

Full Speech of Rabbi Jacobowitz at the Mass Jewish Protest in front of the White House.

Rabbis and hundreds of orthodox Jews came from NY to DC to protest Israeli PM while he visits the Trump White House".

Israel Doesn't Represent #Netanyahu and the State of Israel Does Not Represent the Jewish nation!

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UN condemns huge Israeli settlement plan

UN joins EU in denouncing Israeli move, as Palestinians call on more support against illegal settlement activity.

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Hundreds of thousands of illegal Israeli settlers have been encroaching on Palestinian land with government support [Reuters]
The United Nations has denounced recent Israeli initiatives to accelerate settlement construction in occupied Palestinian territory, stressing that "unilateral actions" are an obstacle to peace based on a two-state solution.

"For the secretary-general there is no plan B for the two-states solution," UN chief Antonio Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Tuesday.

"In this respect any unilateral decision that can be an obstacle to the two-state goal is of grave concern for the secretary-general."

Israel approved a plan to build 2,500 new settlement homes in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, two days after it accepted building permits for more than 500 settler homes in occupied East Jerusalem.

The biggest settlement plan announced since 2013, it comes close after the election of US President Donald Trump, who has not been critical of settlement activity. Settlements are illegal under international law.

Last month, the UN Security Council passed a resolution demanding that Israel halt its settlement expansion in the occupied Palestinian territories.

Dujarric said the UN's position on settlement building in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem had not changed.

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Bobby. wrote on Feb 25^th, 2017 at 8:07pm:

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How good is Mal signing up high tech trade deal with Israel. Bill Shorten can go meet with the Palistinian leader and make a trade deal to buy some rocks.

Gordon wrote on Feb 25^th, 2017 at 8:12pm:

Bobby. wrote on Feb 25th, 2017 at 8:07pm: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/sites/sbs.com.au.news/files/styles/full/public/20170222001298243248-original.jpg http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1487761099/30#30 How good is Mal signing up high tech trade deal with Israel. Bill Shorten can go meet with the Palistinian leader and make a trade deal to buy some rocks.

Oliver! - You've Got To Pick A Pocket Or two

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Israeli excavations destroying al-Aqsa Mosque: Palestinian minister

Feb 27, 2017

Palestine’s Minster of Religious Affairs Sheikh Yousif Ideis has warned that Israel is attempting to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem al-Quds.

In a statement released on Sunday, Ideis stressed that Israel was trying to destroy the mosque via the daily excavations it carries out under the compound.

He added that the Tel Aviv regime was trying to ignite a religious war in the region with its ongoing attempts to destroy the mosque.

The statement was released after the Islamic-Christian Committee to Defend Jerusalem and Holy Sites announced that Israeli excavations had resulted in several sinkholes appearing around the compound.

Ideis noted that Israel’s actions were "obvious violations” of resolutions by global bodies, the latest being a UNESCO resolution denouncing Israel’s actions in the occupied territory.

Israeli authorities frequently issue permits for excavations and archaeological digs in close vicinity of the al-Aqsa compound. Such actions have resulted in the collapse of several Palestinian homes and damage to the mosque and its surrounding buildings.

Al-Aqsa Mosque is the third holiest site for Muslims after Masjid al-Haram in Mecca and Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina.

The occupied Palestinian territories have witnessed tensions ever since Israel imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds in August 2015. Around 280 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces since October that year.

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US delegation visits Israel in preparation to move embassy

Mar 5, 2017

A US congressional delegation is in Israel to closely examine the issue of transferring the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem al-Quds. Palestinians have warned the White House about the consequences of the measure, stressing that it would escalate tensions.

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Israeli bulldozers, tanks cross into Gaza, level Palestinian lands

Mar 5, 2017

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A fleet of Israeli bulldozers and military vehicles has crossed the border fence into the besieged Gaza Strip and flattened private Palestinian lands, as the Tel Aviv regime’s illegal construction activities continue in the occupied Palestinian territories.

At least four Israeli armored Caterpillar D9 bulldozers, accompanied by a number of tanks, entered eastern part of the town of Fukhari in Gaza's southern governorate of Khan Yunis during the early hours of Sunday.

According to local sources, the invading convoy, dispatched from Israel's Sofa military post, advanced scores of meters into the Palestinian territory along the separation fence, relying on potential support from the artillery unit being on alert inside the base.

A number of Israeli surveillance aircraft were also reported to have flown at low altitude over the area while the bulldozers were busy leveling the lands. No gunfire or shelling was reported.

The Israeli regime has long been conducting daily incursions into Gaza and in the vicinity of the so-called buffer zone, which lies on both land and sea sides of the strip.

Israeli forces often fire at those Palestinians, who work in the vicinity of the zone. Tel Aviv has not yet made clear the exact demarcation of the designated zone. The practice has in effect devastated much of the agricultural and fishing sectors of the besieged coastal enclave.

Gaza has been under an Israeli siege since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standards of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.

Tel Aviv launched its latest war on Gaza in early July 2014. The 50-day military aggression, which ended on August 26, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, including over 570 children. More than 11,100 others were also wounded in the war. Israel continues to carry out attacks on the Palestinian enclave from time to time.

Israel has also been constructing settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds since occupying the Palestinian territories in 1967. The settlements have been widely condemned as an insidious push toward facilitating the annexation of the Palestinian lands.

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Pro-Palestine activists urge UK to apologize for Balfour Declaration

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Activists have called on Britain to apologize for causing a century of suffering for the Palestinians through its support for a document that paved the way for the Israeli occupation of Arab lands.

The campaigners made the plea during a Saturday forum at University College London, dubbed Palestine Conference 2017, marking the 100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration.

The document issued in November 1917 by the then British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour said the UK government "views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.”

It set the stage for the al-Nakba (Catastrophe) that refers to the Palestinian exodus when more than 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled from their homes by Israel during the 1948 war.

The event organized by the Federation of Student Islamic Societies (FOSIS) and Olive, a Palestinian youth organization, aimed to "expose the illegality of the state of Israel while giving practical steps in campaigning towards an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”

"What is happening in Palestine is the biggest social injustice of our time. We send a message to the people of Palestine, we are here and we stand with you," said FOSIS President Zara Mohammed. 

Among other speakers, Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, a criminal barrister and external consultant for the Palestinian human rights organization al-Haq, denounced the UK’s role in the ordeal of the Palestinians.

"The UK should issue an apology and think about compensating the Palestinians for their losses... which are a direct result of British policy,” she said.

Jonathan Rosenhead, chairman of the British Committee for the Universities of Palestine, described the Balfour Declaration as "disastrous.”

The conference further discussed the Israeli occupation and condemned US President Donald Trump’s support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to expand settlements in the occupied territories.

The forum stressed that backing the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement against Israel is the only way to topple the "apartheid" regime.

UK crackdown on pro-Palestine campus activities

Pro-Palestine activists on British university campuses fear a crackdown is taking place against them following the cancellation of several events affiliated with the Israeli Apartheid Week initiative.

At least two events linked to Israel Apartheid Week have been canceled or postponed this week, sparking fears about freedom of speech on campus.

The developments came after more than 200 academics signed an open letter condemning attempts to silence campus discussion about Israel and its treatment of Palestinians.

Several activists told Middle East Eye online news portal that university senior management had sent representatives to monitor their activities and demanded that their events be recorded.

Anum Riaz, the president of Friends of Palestine Society at the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), said the crackdown was in line with the government's new definition of anti-Semitism, which critics say equates criticism of Israel to anti-Semitism.

Israeli Apartheid Week is held every year on campuses across the world and aims to draw parallels between the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and apartheid-era South Africa.

The Palestine movement has gained traction across UK campuses with student unions passing motions urging universities to divest from companies complicit in the illegal Israeli occupation of the West Bank.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/03/05/513041/Palestine-Britain-Balfour

Jews rally in Jerusalem al-Quds to condemn Israeli occupation

Apr 2, 2017

Thousands of mostly Jewish protesters have rallied in Jerusalem al-Quds to denounce 50 years of the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Organizers said around 2,000 demonstrators marched to Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem’s Old City during Saturday’s event which was organized by the Standing Together movement.

The rally was the first in a series of events organized by the group, an umbrella movement consisting of pro-peace organizations and left-wing parties, marking 50 years since the Six-Day War.

The rally was meant to "protest against the continued Israeli control over the territories and especially East Jerusalem [al-Quds], and in favor of a peaceful solution," the movement said in a statement.

The protesters called for an end to the Tel Aviv regime’s settlement expansion, chanting "No to a government of annexation." 

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Mohammed Abu Hummus, the head of the popular committee of Isawiyah in East Jerusalem al-Quds, urged "anyone who believes in the Palestinian people to stand against the racist” Israeli regime.

On Wednesday, the Arab League called for Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied lands and the formation of an independent Palestinian state based on the borders before 1967 Six-Day War that led to the occupation of the West Bank, and other territories. Since then, Israel has built over 230 settlements in the Palestinian lands.

Israel’s so-called security cabinet on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of the construction of the first new West Bank settlement in 20 years. The move sparked widespread condemnations from the UN to European countries.

Israel destroys Palestinian homes in Jerusalem al-Quds

Apr 4, 2017

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Israeli regime forces have destroyed four Palestinian residential units in a village in the occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.

The Israeli forces attacked the Az-Zaeem Village on Monday, using bulldozers to demolish the four buildings.

Separately, an Israeli soldier was wounded during intense clashes that erupted on Monday evening between Palestinian youths and Israeli military forces in the al-Eisaviya Village in the occupied Quds, the local Quds news outlet reported. The Israeli forces took into custody 13 Palestinians following the confrontation.

Israeli military gunships also separately targeted Palestinian fishing boats off the waters of the Gaza Strip.

Israeli soldiers also raided the house of a Palestinian, identified as Omar Hamarshe, in the town of Ya’bod in the West Bank city of Jenin, arresting him.

In yet another development in the occupied territories, 109 Israeli settlers, backed by Israeli troops, entered the tomb of Prophet Joseph east of Nablus, leading to scuffles between the intruding settlers and the local Palestinians in the area.

Over the past months, Israeli forces have fatally shot many Palestinians in the occupied territories, alleging that they had attempted to attack the Israelis.

The Israeli regime has come under fire by rights groups for promoting a shoot-to-kill policy against local Palestinians. The US-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) voiced deep concerns in January over the rising number of Israeli authorities encouraging soldiers to kill Palestinians even when they do not pose a threat.

The HRW released a report on January 2 documenting the numerous statements since October 2015 by senior Israeli officials calling on police and military to shoot dead suspected Palestinian assailants.

“It’s not just about potentially rogue soldiers, but also about senior Israeli officials who publicly tell forces to unlawfully shoot to kill,” said the HRW’s Israel/Palestine Advocacy Director Sari Bashi.

The report noted that, since October 2015, there had been over 150 confirmed instances of Israeli forces fatally shooting Palestinian children and adults “suspected” of attempting to attack Israelis.

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Israel plans to build 15k settler units in East Jerusalem al-Quds

Apr 28, 2017

Israel’s Housing Ministry says the Tel Aviv regime plans to construct 15,000 new settler units in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds in defiance of international opposition.

Israeli Housing Minister Yoav Galant said Friday that the ministry and the so-called Municipality of Jerusalem al-Quds had been working for two years on the plan to build 25,000 units in Jerusalem, including 15,000 in the occupied East Jerusalem al-Quds.

"We will build 10,000 units in Jerusalem and some 15,000 within the (extended) municipal boundaries of Jerusalem. It will happen," Galant told Israel Radio.

The plan was quickly denounced by Saeb Erekat, the Palestinians' chief negotiator, who described the move as a systematic violation of international law and a "deliberate sabotage" of efforts to resume the so-called peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians.

"All settlements in occupied Palestine are illegal under international law," he noted in a statement.

Erekat stressed, "Palestine will continue to resort to international bodies to hold Israel, the occupation power, accountable for its grave violations of international law throughout occupied Palestine."

The last round of the so-called peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians collapsed in April 2014. Tel Aviv’s settlement activities were among major reasons behind the failure of the talks.

Israeli settlements are considered illegal under international law as they are built on the occupied territories.

The plan is expected to be announced on the so-called "Jerusalem Day" when Israel celebrates its occupation of the eastern part of the city, which falls this year on May 24, according to Channel 2 news. 

The announcement coincides with the visit of US President Donald Trump, who has given the green light to the expansion of settlements. Trump’s trip will take place on or shortly after May 22.

The news comes a day after Trump said in an interview that he wanted to see a peace deal.

"I want to see peace with Israel and the Palestinians," he said, adding "There is no reason there's not peace between Israel and the Palestinians - none whatsoever."

Trump's call comes while Palestinians want the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967, as part of a future Palestinian state, with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.

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UNESCO set to vote on anti-Israeli resolution

May 2, 2017

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The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is set to vote on a resolution that describes Israel as an “occupying power,” denying its sovereignty claims over all of Jerusalem al-Quds.

The UN heritage body will on Tuesday vote on the resolution, which describes as null and void any decision by the Israeli “occupying power,” its parliament, its supreme court, or any other Israeli authority that pertains to Jerusalem al-Quds.

The resolution has reportedly been drafted with the help of Germany, which also led efforts for the vote’s timing.

The measure also slams Israel’s excavations in East Jerusalem al-Quds and the Old City.

The motion is expected to be approved despite Israel’s intense attempts to exert pressure on members of the UN body to vote against it.

The resolution has drawn Tel Aviv’s ire. The regime’s Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely expressed such anger at the resolution and its timing — which coincides with the creation of the Israeli regime — on Monday.

“Tomorrow, even as we celebrate, UNESCO will be voting against Israel’s right to sovereignty in its capital city, Jerusalem. This is absurd. We have become used to the concept of ‘fake news.’ Well, welcome to ‘fake history,’” she claimed in bizarre remarks.

Israeli sources say Italy is the only country that has decided not to support the resolution.

Last year, the UNESCO approved a motion that endorses the right of the Palestinians to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound and slams Israeli provocations around the holy site.

The occupied territories have witnessed new tensions ever since Israeli forces imposed restrictions on the entry of Palestinian worshipers into the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds in August 2015.

More than 300 Palestinians have lost their lives at the hands of Israeli forces in the tensions since the beginning of October 2015. A number of Israelis have been killed, too.

The Tel Aviv regime has tried to change the demographic makeup of Jerusalem al-Quds over the past decades by constructing settlements, destroying historical sites, and expelling the local Palestinian population.

Palestinians say the Israeli measures are aimed at paving the way for the Judaization of the city.

In December 2016, the UN Security Council adopted a historic resolution that condemns Israeli settlement activities as a “flagrant violation of international law.”

Approved 14-0 in the 15-member Council, Resolution 2334 (2016) calls on Israel to immediately and completely cease all settlement activities on occupied Palestinian territory, including the West Bank.

The United States — Israel’s staunchest ally — uncharacteristically decided not to wield its veto power and to allow the adoption of the text with a mere abstention.

The Tel Aviv regime had lobbied extensively to prevent the ratification of that resolution, too.

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Firm on armed resistance, Hamas accepts Palestinian state along 1967 borders

May 1, 2017

Leader of the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas Khaled Meshaal says the group accepts the establishment of an independent Palestinian state along the 1967 borders.

"Hamas advocates the liberation of all of Palestine but is ready to support the state on 1967 borders without recognizing Israel or ceding any rights," said Meshaal in Doha on Monday, announcing Hamas’ new policy document. 

    He went on to stress that the new document in no way amounts to recognition of Israel. “We don't want to dilute our principles but we want to be open. We hope this (document) will mark a change in the stance of European states towards us," he added. The document states, "There shall be no recognition of the legitimacy of the Zionist entity."

It also called for the return of the Palestinian refugees, and underscored the group’s right to armed resistance against the Tel Aviv regime.

"Resisting the occupation with all means and methods is a legitimate right guaranteed by divine laws and by international norms and laws. At the heart of these lies armed resistance, which is regarded as the strategic choice for protecting the principles and the rights of the Palestinian people," read the charter.

"The right of the Palestinian refugees and the displaced to return to their homes from which they were banished or were banned from returning to -- whether in the lands occupied in 1948 or in 1967 (that is the whole of Palestine), is a natural right, both individual and collective... It is an inalienable right and cannot be dispensed with by any party, whether Palestinian, Arab or international,” added the document.

Earlier in the day, Hamas said it is to name a new leader over the coming days.

    Following its announcement, the Tel Aviv regime referred to it as a smoke screen aimed at fooling the world. "Hamas is attempting to fool the world but it will not succeed," said a spokesman for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Hamas is a leading force in the fight against Israel, which has waged three wars against the Palestinian territory since 2007, killing thousands of people.

The last war began in early July 2014 and ended on August 26 the same year. It killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and wounded over 11,100 others.

http://presstv.com/Detail/2017/05/01/520221/hamas-border-new-charter-meshaal

Israeli Leadership Shows Teeth Over Historic UNESCO Vote on Jerusalem

03.05.2017

Israeli Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has derided what he called an "absurd" UNESCO resolution. He added that it denies "the Jews' historical connection with Jerusalem by presenting it as an occupying power."

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization passed a resolution on Tuesday, May 2, at the UN's Paris headquarters, that criticized Israel's actions in occupied East Jerusalem. It explicitly denounced actions taken by "Israel, the occupying power… to alter the character and status of the holy city of Jerusalem."

The resolution was particularly damning of Israel's annexation of Jerusalem, following the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, which it called "null and void" and something that "must be rescinded forthwith." Before the war, Israel maintained an occupation of the city's East, claiming the entirety of the city as its undivided capital. The proclamation has never been granted recognition by the international community.

https://youtu.be/1stYhFj7lWY

The resolution was submitted by Lebanon, Egypt, Morocco, Algeria, Oman, Qatar and Sudan. It calls upon Israel as the "occupying power," to stop "persistent excavations, tunneling, works and projects in East Jerusalem," which is claimed by Palestinians as their capital.

There are concerns that the vote will have little impact upon Israel's conduct in East Jerusalem and the occupied territories more generally. Some however, are more resolute.

"Despite intimidation, coercion and bribery by Israel and the USA to kill it, the resolution was passed and Israel is livid. Next come the accusations of bias and denial. Palestine and Jerusalem is for the Palestinians and not the modern day colonizers," Palestinian author and journalist Jafar Ramini told Sputnik.

Despite the resolution passing with 22 votes to zero, and 23 abstentions, Netanyahu dismissed it, saying that:

"There is no other people in the world for whom Jerusalem is as holy and important as it is for the Jewish people."

He subsequently accused UNESCO of "denying that simple truth."

    This systematic harassment has a price: I instructed @IsraelMFA Dir-Gen. @Yuval_Rotem to deduct $1 million from Israel's funding of the UN
    — PM of Israel (@IsraeliPM) May 3, 2017​

The United States, Germany, Italy and seven other board members voted against it.

    Update on #UNESCO #Jerusalem vote. Mexico requested to change its vote from supporting the decision to abstaining.​https://t.co/gAO4I4O2p3
    — Israel Foreign Min. (@IsraelMFA) October 18, 2016​

The Prime Minister's condemnation was joined by chorus of criticism from other senior government officials. The Israeli Foreign Ministry excoriated the vote as the "unnecessary politicization of UNESCO."

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said the vote "amounts to denying Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Jerusalem and presents our country as an occupying state."

The Minister of Culture and Sport, Miri Regev, also ventilated her consternation at the vote by saying that there is no need "for observers from the likes of the UN" to be in Jerusalem. Regev is expected to present a demand to the Israeli parliament on Wednesday, May 3, that the UNESCO offices in Jerusalem are shut down.

In stark contrast, the reaction by the Palestinian side was one of jubilation. The Foreign Ministry of Palestine lauded it is "a victory for international law." Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Malki celebrated the result of the vote, saying that the world had "chosen to stand on the side of what is right in the face of [Israel's] injustice, occupation and its illegitimate policies."

"We will defend our heritage and culture, our past and future," Riyad Malki added.

Netanyahu did however, try to rain on the Palestinian parade by remarking that "the number of countries that supported this absurd proposal continues to decline."


"A year ago 32 states supported it. Six months ago this figure had dropped to 26 and this time there are only 22," Netanyahu said.

The Palestinians argue that East Jerusalem must be the capital of any future Palestinian state, while Israel insists that Jerusalem in its totality is its undivided capital.

Palestine was admitted as a member state of UNESCO in 2011, a move that culminated in the US suspending its funding to the body.

According to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, there are more than half-a-million Israeli settlers who live in illegal Jewish-only settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

https://sputniknews.com/middleeast/201705031053235152-netanyahu-unesco-jerusalem-vote/