Araber beundrar rättsväsendet i Israel

Det väcker respekt i arabvärlden att ingen i Israel står över lagen. Både pemiärministern och presidenten måste vara beredd på att de kan bli förhörda av polisen och ställas inför rätta.
Här kan man läsa intressanta arabiska uttalanden om Israel 'No one is above the law in Israel'

The University and College Union i Storbritannien har röstat för en akademisk bojkott av Israel. Judiska och israeliska akademiker med samma syn som UCU på den israelisk-arabiska konflikten kommer ändå att skyddas från bojkotten.
Rasism och anti-semitism, säger Ronnie Fraser, UCU medlem och aktiv i Academic Friends of Israel.
UK union encourages Israeli academia boycott

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"Inte ens kriget mellan Hizzbollah och Israel sommaren 2006 lamslog Beiruts centrum så fullständigt som denhär krisen" säger Bilal Bandakji restaurangföretagare i Beirut. Detta kan man läsa i en FNB notis i Österbottens Tidning idag.
Många kommer antagligen ihåg att nyhetsmedia gav stort utrymme åt kriget mellan Israel och Hizzbollah, ibland fick man den uppfattningen att Israel hade bombat Beirut så att inget annat än ruiner åtserstod.
Däremot har striderna mellan Hizzbollah och den libanesiska regeringen inte fått många stora rubriker trots att situationen där enligt Bandakji nu varit värre.
Är det så att när Israel inte är inblandad i striderna förlorar de i nyhetsvärde? Ingen verkar ha något större intresse av att fördöma de stridande och granska deras förehavanden när man inte får rikta kritiken mot Israel.

Nyheter från Palestinian Media Watch

Palestinian Media Watch visar några exempel på hur de Palestinska Myndigheterna under Mahmoud Abbas ledning eftersträvar Israels utplåning.

Organisationer som erhåller stöd från Europa och USA har emblem där Palestina ersatt Israel.

1- The Palestinian Security Services Academy, a military branch of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah government, prominently depicts as the center of its symbol the map of a "Palestine" state that erases all of Israel. This map is common in the Palestinian Authority and symbolizes the hope for the destruction of Israel. Voice of America reports that the academy is funded by "... Arab states and the European Union. The U.S. also has offered some indirect support."

2- The second example is of a "Sport and Cultural Club" built by USAID that prominently displays both the words "USAID" and the map of a "Palestine" state that erases all of Israel, encircled by the Palestinian flag.

PMW ger också några exempel som visar att palestinierna är väl medvetna om att det var på uppmaning av av de arabiska ledarna som många palestinier flydde undan kriget 1948. Av propagandaskäl påstår man ändå ofta att det var Israel som drev bort palestinierna.

BulletinMay 20, 2008
Palestinian Media Watch
The evolving Palestinian narrative: Arabs caused the refugee problem

PA daily: Arabs left homes on their own to facilitate
destruction of Israel -- and thus became refugees
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The Arabs who became refugees in 1948 were not expelled by Israel but left on their own to facilitate the destruction of Israel, according to a senior Palestinian journalist writing in a Palestinian daily. This plan to leave Israel was initiated by the Arab states fighting Israel, who promised the people they would be able to return to their homes in a few days once Israel was defeated. The article in Al-Ayyam concludes that these Arab states are responsible for the Arab refugee problem.
A backbone of Palestinian English-language propaganda is the myth that Israel expelled hundreds of thousands of Arabs from Israel and created Arab refugees. But in recent years, PMW has documented an increasing willingness among Palestinians to openly blame the Arab states and not Israel.
Following are five such statements of blame, starting with this most recent article and including testimony from refugees themselves and corroboration by Palestinian leaders. Clearly, there is a growing Palestinian willingness to blame the Arab leaders, which corroborates Israel's historical record.
1. Jawad Al Bashiti, Palestinian journalist in Jordan, writing in Al-Ayyam, May 13, 2008 "Remind me of one real cause from all the factors that have caused the "Palestinian Catastrophe" [the establishment of Israel and the creation of refugee problem], and I will remind you that it still exists... The reasons for the Palestinian Catastrophe are the same reasons that have produced and are still producing our Catastrophes today.During the Little Catastrophe, meaning the Palestinian Catastrophe the following happened: the first war between Arabs and Israel had started and the "Arab Salvation Army" came and told the Palestinians: 'We have come to you in order to liquidate the Zionists and their state. Leave your houses and villages, you will return to them in a few days safely. Leave them so we can fulfill our mission (destroy Israel) in the best way and so you won't be hurt.' It became clear already then, when it was too late, that the support of the Arab states (against Israel) was a big illusion. Arabs fought as if intending to cause the "Palestinian Catastrophe". [Al-Ayyam, May 13 2008]

2. Mahmoud Al-Habbash, Palestinian Journalist in PA official daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 13, 2006"...The leaders and the elites promised us at the beginning of the "Catastrophe" in 1948, that the duration of the exile will not be long, and that it will not last more than a few days or months, and afterwards the refugees will return to their homes, which most of them did not leave only until they put their trust in those "Arkuvian" promises made by the leaders and the political elites. Afterwards, days passed, months, years and decades, and the promises were lost with the strain of the succession of events..." [Term "Arkuvian," is after Arkuv - a figure from Arab tradition - who was known for breaking his promises and for his lies."] " [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, December 13, 2006]

3. Asmaa Jabir Balasimah, Woman who fled Israel in 1948, Al-Ayyam, May 16, 2006
"We heard sounds of explosions and of gunfire at the beginning of the summer in the year of the "Catastrophe" [1948]. They told us: The Jews attacked our region and it is better to evacuate the village and return, after the battle is over. And indeed there were among us [who fled Israel] those who left a fire burning under the pot, those who left their flock [of sheep] and those who left their money and gold behind, based on the assumption that we would return after a few hours." [Al-Ayyam, May 16, 2006]

4. Son of man who fled in 1948, PA TV 1999
An Arab viewer called Palestinian Authority TV and quoted his father, saying that in 1948 the Arab District Officer ordered all Arabs to leave Palestine or be labeled traitors. In response, Arab MK Ibrahim Sarsur, then Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel, cursed those leaders, thus acknowledging Israel's historical record.
"Mr. Ibrahim [Sarsur]. I address you as a Muslim. My father and grandfather told me that during the "Catastrophe" [in 1948], our district officer issued an order that whoever stays in Palestine and in Majdel [near Ashkelon - Southern Israel] is a traitor, he is a traitor."
Response from Ibrahim Sarsur, now MK, then Head of the Islamic Movement in Israel: "The one who gave the order forbidding them to stay there bears guilt for this, in this life and the Afterlife throughout history until Resurrection Day." [PA TV April 30, 1999]

5. Fuad Abu Higla, senior Palestinian, Al-Hayat Al-Jadidah, March 19, 2001
Fuad Abu Higla, then a regular columnist in the official PA daily Al Hayat Al Jadida, wrote an article before an Arab Summit, which criticized the Arab leaders. One of the failures he cited, in the name of a prisoner, was that an earlier generation of Arab leaders "forced" them to leave Israel in 1948, again placing the blame for the flight on the Arab leaders.

"I have received a letter from a prisoner in Acre prison, to the Arab summit: To the [Arab and Muslim] Kings and Presidents, poverty is killing us, the symptoms are exhausting us and the souls are leaving our body, yet you are still searching for the way to provide aid, like one who is looking for a needle in a haystack or like the armies of your predecessors in the year of 1948, who forced us to leave [Israel], on the pretext of clearing the battlefields of civilians...
So what will your summit do now?" [Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 19, 2001]

Conclusion It is clear from these statements that there is general acknowledgement among Palestinians that Arab leaders bear responsibility for the mass flight of Arabs from Israel in 1948, and were the cause of the "refugee" problem. Furthermore, the fact that this information has been validated by public figures and refugees in the Palestinian Authority media itself confirms that this responsibility is well-known - even though for propaganda purposes its leaders continue to blame Israel publicly for "the expulsion."

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De islamska staterna ökar sitt inflytande i FN:s mänskorättsråd

Nya medlemmar har valts till FN:s mänskorättsråd.Efter valet har de muslimska länderna ett ännu starkare inflytande i rådet.
Nya i rådet är: Argentina, Bahrain, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Chile, France, Gabon, Ghana, Japan, Pakistan, Republic of Korea, Slovakia, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Zambia.
I det nya rådet är det endast 22 stater som enligt Freedom House rankas som fria, 25 är delvis fria eller saknar frihet. En majoritet av rådets medlemmar uppfyller alltså inte kraven som kan ställas på en demokratisk och fri stat.
Av de nyvalda staterna är Bahrain, Burkina Faso, Gabon, Pakistan, och Zambia stater där det finns brister i de mänskliga rättigheterna.

Eye on the UN skriver följande:

UNITED NATIONS HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL ELECTIONS:HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSERS AND ISLAMIC STATES RETAIN CHOKEHOLD

New York -- EYEontheUN reports that in elections held today the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) increased its grip on the UN Human Rights Council. By electing Pakistan, Bahrain, Burkina Faso and Gabon, the OIC won an increased majority of seats in the African and the Asian regional groups taken together, which account for over half of the Council membership."The results will guarantee the Council will continue to use the mantra of human rights to undermine human rights protection and immunize human rights abusers. In its first two years, the domination of Islamic states has meant an attack on freedom of expression, an attempt to silence non-governmental organizations, and a pre-occupation on Israel to the exclusion of gross human rights violations the world over," said Senior Editor of EYEontheUN, Anne Bayefsky.Today's elections also reduced the number of fully free democracies on the Council - already in the minority. Before today, 49% Council members were ranked fully free by Freedom House statistics, but the election of Bahrain, Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Gabon and Zambia, means that only 22 of 47 of Council members are now fully free democratic states. "Human rights abusers will therefore continue to dominate the UN's primary human rights body," says Bayefsky. In 2006 the Council replaced the widely discredited UN Human Rights Commission. But its record now includes: holding four special sessions on Israel and seven regular sessions on human rights covering all 192 UN members, eliminating human rights investigations on Cuba and Belarus, terminating behind-closed-door consideration of Iranian human rights abuses, and severely curtailing the investigation into abuses of freedom of expression. Furthermore, 60% of all Council resolutions and decisions critical of human rights protection in a specific state have been directed at Israel alone, while only four other UN states have been criticized at all."Clearly, the United States has made the right decision to stay off the Council and to refuse to lend it the credibility it does not deserve," says Bayefsky. "Congressional efforts to end U.S. funding for the Council are a move in the right direction."

Självmordsattack mot gränsövergång

En lastbil lastad med 4 ton sprängämnen användes i en självmordsattack mot gränsövergången Eretz idag. Gränsstationen Eretz andvänds för att föra in hjälpsändningar till Gaza och av palestinierna i Gaza som reser till Israel för att få läkarvård.
De palestinska terrororganisationerna fortsätter alltså med att försvåra förhållandena för den egna befolkningen.
Tack vare ett snabbt ingripande av de israeliska soldaterna dödades ingen i attacken men gränsövergången är stängd tillsvidare.

Al-Qaida, Iran och FN uppmärksammar Israel

Al-Qaida ledaren Osama Bin Laden sade i ett uttalande i dag att man kommer att fortsätta med "heligt krig" mot Israel och dess allierade tills Palestina är befriat.



Irans president Ahmadinejad sade i onsdags att att "Sionist regimen (Israel) är döende" vidare påstod han att staterna i regionen hatar Israel och när tillfälle ges kommer de att tillintetgöra Israel.



Israel protesterar mot att FN:s generalsekreterare Ban Ki-Moon ringde upp Mahmoud Abbas för att visa sin solidaritet med palestinierna när de firade dagen som markerar katastrofen "nakba" när Israel blev självständig. Israel anser att det inte är lämpligt att Ban Ki-Moon andvänder uttrycket "nakba".

Man kan fråga sig om FN uppmärksammar någon annan stats tillblivelse som en katastrof?

Bomb utanför kristen skola i Gaza

En bomb exploderade idag i Gaza utanför Zahwa Rosary School som drivs av katolska nunnor. Ingen skadades. Skolan har också tidigare utsats för attacker.
Den allvarligaste attacken mot kristna inträffade i oktober då en man mördades. Inga skyldiga har gripits för dådet.
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