Att lära sig av historien

 David Horovitz, Times of Israel:

A plea to the prime minister: Heed the lessons of our history in this land, and pull back from the brink

"You may consider this appeal itself divisive and unjustified, but do internalize that many fine, patriotic and responsible Israelis feel this way

Hear this, you rulers of the House of Jacob, You chiefs of the House of Israel, Who detest justice And make crooked all that is straight, Who build Zion with crime, Jerusalem with iniquity!

Her rulers judge for gifts, Her priests give rulings for a fee, And her prophets divine for pay; Yet they rely upon GOD, saying, “GOD is in our midst; No calamity shall overtake us.”

Assuredly, because of you Zion shall be plowed as a field, Jerusalem shall become heaps of ruins And the Temple Mount a shrine in the woods."

Micah 3:9–12. 

It was the Babylonians who destroyed the First Temple, and the Romans who destroyed the Second, but the catastrophes were enabled by moral decay and corruption among the Jewish leadership, and vicious, debilitating infighting.

The Jews’ exile from the Holy Land was relatively brief in the aftermath of the first of these calamities. Not so the second. It took 2,000 years, and belated global horror at the Holocaust, for the Jews to be granted their right to return and reassert sovereignty in our ancient homeland.

And yet, as becomes more obvious every day, we have forgotten the dire lessons about what corrupt leadership and internal contempt end up doing to our country and our people...

När humanitära organisationer sviker sitt uppdrag - rapport om brister i deras verksamhet angående Israel

 Något som alla med en grundläggande kunskap om situationen i Mellanöstern varit medveten om är att många så kallade humanitära organisationer (NGO) publicerat rapport efter rapport som framställt Israel i en väldigt dålig dager baserat på minst sagt bristfälliga och manipulerade uppgifter.

Nu har en undersökning publicerats som behandlar ämnet : “IT IS CLEAR WHAT IS HAPPENING,

AND ACTION NEEDS TO FOLLOW”

Insiders Speak: NGO Antisemitism, Failed Accountability, and Their Impact on Social Cohesion

Times of Israel skriver om rapporten:

Report alleges NGOs exploited Gaza suffering to raise funds, dismissed antisemitism claims

En undersökning utförd av en grupp nuvarande och tidigare anställda vid humanitära organisationer kommer med anklagelser om partiskhet och försök att forma en anti-israelisk, pro-palestinsk berättelse kring Gazakriget.

Rapporten säger att dess viktigaste resultat visar att anmälningar om antisemitism inte fått några konsekvenser, inkonsekventa standarder, bristande transparens, uteslutning av judisk personal, vedergällning mot personal som uttryckte oro för undersökningsmetoderna och en nonchalans för israeliska och judiska offer.

EiGHT based the report on interviews with around 70 staffers or recent employees of international NGOs, as well as internal documents from the organizations. The employees and documents came from groups including Human Rights Watch, Doctors Without Borders, Amnesty International and Amnesty International Australia. The groups did not respond to requests for comment.

...The report contrasted the response to previous movements, like #MeToo and Black Lives Matter, when discrimination complaints led to significant action. Jews who reported antisemitism were instead met with “skepticism and dismissal,” the report said.

A non-Jewish employee of Amnesty International Australia said that after the Bondi Beach massacre last year, there was a tendency in the group “to frame efforts to address antisemitism as attempts to restrict criticism of Israel.”

...Leaders of some NGOs privately agreed with complaints from Jewish staffers, but did not take public action, apparently “for fear of appearing ‘pro-Israel,’” the report said.

..."Anti-Jewish bias and prejudice have become embedded in parts of the organization’s culture and decision-making,” a non-Jewish employee of Amnesty International Australia said. “I am deeply concerned that these patterns have contributed to a culture that tolerates and even justifies violence and intimidation toward Jews.”

...On the internal messaging platform for Doctors Without Borders, employees said, “The fight for freedom… is about liberating the world from the grip of Zionism,” called Israel a “76-year-old crime scene,” dismissed rape allegations made against “Palestinian resistance fighters” as “propaganda,” and said, “Stop playing the Jewish card.” Israel was called a “racist, Nazi and genocidal state.”

“Jewish employees raised concerns openly at first. Then less often, then not at all. In time, they were all gone,” said an employee of an international rights group.

...NGO employees said that the groups’ reports omitted information that would have justified Israeli military actions, such as information that Hamas was operating in areas of Gaza where Israeli hostages were rescued.

Amnesty International held a workshop at its General Meeting in 2024, called “Apartheid in Israel,” that portrayed Israel’s establishment as illegitimate, without mentioning Jews’ historical presence in the land, failed peace efforts and violence against Jews before 1948. An “Israel-Palestine” meeting held by Human Rights Watch on October 23, 2023, did not mention Israeli casualties or hostages in the October 7 attack, the report said.

The day of the October 2023 attack, a Human Rights Watch program director, in an email to staff, attributed the Hamas invasion to “escalation” by Israel and “significant violence by Israeli soldiers and settlers.”

An Amnesty International staffer said employees had been encouraged to join anti-Zionist protests, but not rallies for Israeli hostages “because we’re against the Israeli government.”

...“They are not moral simply because they claim to carry out moral missions,” she said. “They are an industry, subject to all the usual pressures of industries — ideological, financial, operational — and therefore they should be held accountable.”

Turkiet ut ur NATO!

Turkiets utrikesminister Hakan Fidan om Israel: 

"Dessa människor har blivit en börda som mänskligheten inte längre kan bära..."

Om Finlands ledning står för några demokratiska och mänskliga värderingar borde den omedelbart börja arbeta för att Turkiet sparkas ut ur NATO. 

Finland borde inte kunna vara allierad med ett land som öppet stöder och skyddar terrorister som angriper Israel och som nu kommer med uttalanden som kan tolkas som en uppmaning till folkmord på judarna.

(Förutom att Turkiet ockuperar delar av Cypern, har krigsoperationer i Irak och Syrien och förtrycker sitt eget folk.)

'Political systems cannot sustain it': Turkish FM calls for sanctions on Israel, Sa'ar retaliates

“No matter which way you look at it, there is no parameter to continue to bear these people,” Fidan exclaimed.

“Israel is not only Turkey’s problem, and it is not only President [Recep Tayyip] Erdogan’s problem,” the Turkish foreign minister said. “These people have become a burden that humanity can no longer bear. The human conscience cannot bear it, political systems cannot sustain it, and economic systems cannot sustain it either.

“Everyone must step forward, take a diplomatic position, and impose the necessary sanctions on these people,” he added.

Israels utrikesminister: 

“Turkish FM Hakan Fidan’s sickening words are textbook incitement to genocide,” Sa’ar responded in a post on X/Twitter.

"Dehumanizing the Jewish people as an "unbearable burden" is the classic, horrific language of history’s worst eliminationist regimes. The civilized world and Turkey's NATO allies must unequivocally condemn this explicit call for the erasure of Israel,” he added.

Erdogan ties 'genociding, expansionist, occupying' Zionism to threats to Turkey, 2016 coup attempt

'Maybe on the Iran side': Trump reveals Turkey's Erdogan stayed out of Iran war at his request

Erdogan’s grip on Turkey deepens as NATO gathers in Ankara - opinion

IDF, Shin Bet expose Turkey-based Hamas terrorists carrying out 'military action' against Israel

Hezbollah MP claims delegations to Turkey promised to ‘support the resistance’ in Lebanon

Could a war of words between Turkey and Israel escalate toward a new crisis? - analysis

‘Grant me the governorship of Jerusalem’: Turkish Interior Minister prays for control of Israel

Erdogan: 'Israel must not be allowed to spread smell of gunpowder and blood in our region again'

Herzog slams Turkish FM's comments that Israel is 'burden on the world'

Netanyahu warns US should not sell F-35s to Turkish regime 'infected by Muslim Brotherhood'

Turkey’s neo-Ottoman ambitions: Erdogan, Hamas, and threats to Israel - opinion

'Murderer NATO': Over 100 anti-NATO protesters detained in Turkey ahead of Ankara summit

NATO summit, Trump’s support for F-35s sale, boost Turkey’s standing, as slumping Israel sees clout erode

Trump's F-35 offer to Turkey alarms Greece, Athens warns of Aegean military imbalance

Många judar lever i rädsla

 David Horovitz, Times of Israel:

The world is turning dangerous for Jews again. Israel has to get its house in order

This is not Nazi Germany in the 1930s. But it is a global crisis for Jews — and it demands an Israel strong enough, and united enough, to provide a refuge that is secure, welcoming and true to its founding values

Barely a week goes by without summations of record or near-record levels of antisemitism — attacks, incidents, rhetoric — in Germany, in Canada, Australia, the United States, Britain, France, Italy, Belgium… the list goes on.

I’m going to focus initially on England, where I grew up before moving to Israel 40 years ago, and where I often visit. It’s the community I know best and where I feel the strongest personal connection. But the picture I’ll draw is emblematic of the reality and the challenges facing many other Diaspora Jewish communities...

Ord och inga visor

David Horovitz:

In Trump’s delusions of peace with Iran and efforts to bully Israel, dark echoes of appeasement

Desperate to end the war, he reassures nobody but himself that the regime in Tehran is new, nice and not at all radical, and turns up the heat on Israel for daring to raise inconvenient concerns about survival

Rapport som visar hur fel det har gått

 En omfattande rapport av UN Watch som visar hur ruttet FN:s system med "experter" och specialrapportörer är. Väl värd att bläddra igenom!

FROM WATCHDOGS TO IDEOLOGUES

HOW POLITICIZED UN RAPPORTEURS ARE SUBVERTING HUMAN RIGHTS

...This report finds, however, that the reality of the Special Procedures system increasingly diverges fromthe admiring scholarly assessments. Rather than operating as independent and impartial experts, manymandate-holders now use country visits and thematic reports to advance politicized narratives, disproportionately target democratic states, and shield authoritarian regimes from scrutiny. 

As detailed below,structural deficiencies—including politicized appointments, proliferation of mandates, weakened evidentiarystandards, lack of transparency, and the absence of accountability—have eroded the credibility and integrity of the system in practice.

Ett försök att rätta till vad som gick fel i Nicea

 The Jerusalem Affirmation of the Nicene Faith

Published on: 18.6.2026

By Dr. Jürgen Bühler, ICEJ President

Last week, the ICEJ’s Jerusalem Summit included a track that looked back at Church History and especially the Council of Nicaea of 325 AD. This church council issued the Nicene Creed to unify the expanding Christian world around the divinity of Jesus, but also steered the Church away from its Jewish roots. Here are excerpts from the presentation on Nicaea by ICEJ President Dr. Jürgen Bühler at the Jerusalem Summit.

The Council of Nicaea was convened 1700 years ago largely to resolve the dispute within the early Church over the divinity of Jesus. They responded by formulating the Nicene Creed, which adopted the concept of the Trinity as a counter to the teachings of Arius.

The emperor Constantine also summoned the Council to unify the holidays, and especially to settle on a date for all Christians to celebrate Easter. I do believe that, within the motivations of Constantine, there was a good dose of antisemitism. This spirit may not have been so present among all the Church fathers gathered there. We actually do not know, because there are no minutes from the Council of Nicaea, and they met for three long months.

But when Constantine later declared to the churches a new date for Easter, he stated the following in his synodal letter: “When the question relative to the sacred festival of Easter arose, it was universally thought that it would be convenient that all should keep the feast on one day. For what could be more beautiful and more desirable than to see this festival, through which we receive the hope of immortality, celebrated by all with one accord, and in the same manner? It was declared to be particularly unworthy for this, the holiest of all festivals, to follow the customs and the calculation of the Jews, who had soiled their hands with the most fearful of crimes, and whose minds are blinded.”

This was the second ecumenical council in Church history. The first council was right here in Jerusalem, recorded in Acts chapter 15. In that council, the gates were opened wide for Gentiles to join the Church. The big question was: What should we do with all of these believers in Yeshua who are not Jewish? Should they get circumcised or eat kosher? And the council agreed all they need to do is believe in Yeshua, and to be culturally respectful to Jews, along with observing some Noahide regulations outlined by the council. But they widely opened the doors for us as Gentiles.

What happened at Nicaea, and at other councils soon after, was they made it almost impossible for Jews to join the Church. They could not celebrate their Jewish holidays anymore, go to synagogues, or use matzah bread to celebrate Easter. And you must not call it Passover. So, there was a complete rejection of everything Jewish, and this started at Nicaea. This was not so much by what was said at Nicaea, but by what was deliberately omitted, to separate the Church from any Jewish context.

Then there were several councils that followed which slightly altered the language of the Nicene Creed. So, there is a precedent for the Creed to undergo minor changes, with its core tenets remaining intact.

Now, the affirmed Creed that we want to release here today does not have a global magisterium, but we did run it through the magisterium of the ICEJ, through key leaders and respected theologians in our movement, and our Board of Trustees.

In this “Jerusalem Affirmation of the Nicene Faith”, we left the original Nicene Creed as it is, because it rightly affirms the divinity of Yeshua. But we felt that here in Jerusalem we need to affirm the humanity of Jesus as a Jew, which was essential to establishing his credentials as the promised Messiah. This Affirmation also aims to restore our appreciation for the uniquely central role of Israel, the Patriarchs and the Hebrew Scriptures in birthing and nourishing the Christian faith from its inception. Every new phrase added in this Affirmation is firmly grounded in New Testament texts and truths.

Ultimately, this Affirmation seeks to reaffirm the Church’s historic commitment to the Jewish people, thereby rejecting antisemitism in all its forms and encouraging a biblically based understanding of the relationship between the Church, Israel and the Jewish people.

We invite you to join us by signifying your agreement with the Jerusalem Affirmation of the Nicene Faith. This is especially needed today to restore to the wider Church a more biblical view of the rightful place Israel and the Jewish people held and still hold in God’s redemptive purposes.

Please sign and share the Jerusalem Affirmation of the Nicene Faith at: https://jerusalemsummit.icej.org/affirmation-sign

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Intervju med premiärministerkandidat

Om man är intresserad av dagsläget i Israel skall man läsa intervjun med en av premiärministerkandidaterna i valet i höst, Naftali Bennett.

 Bennett to ToI: ‘We’re at an existential moment. Another four years with this government, we won’t have a society’

With US and Iran set to sign deal, former and would-be PM also denounces Netanyahu’s Iran strategy, reliance on ‘protracted wars’; slams the Haredi ‘state within a state’ as causing ‘slow-motion national suicide’

Speaking with ToI on Thursday at the campaign headquarters of Together, the new, merged party he now leads with former prime minister Yair Lapid, Bennett said Israel is facing “an existential moment,” and warned that another term under the current government would leave the country without a functioning economy, society or international position. “Another four years with this government, we won’t have an economy, we won’t have a society,” he charged. “The Haredi issue will just crash us all. We won’t have an international standing anywhere. We have to act now.”

S-gruppens bojkott av Israel

 Adressen som vädjar till S-gruppen att återta sitt beslut att bojkotta israeliska produkter har överlämnats.

Reaktionerna från S-gruppens ledning  visar på stor okunskap om världsläget och en ovilja att ta till sig fakta. S-gruppen följer inte ens sina egna regler vid beslutet. S- gruppens bojkottbeslut handlar i grund och botten bara om Israelhat, om man väljer att säga det rent ut.

Här diskuterar man överlämnandet och S-gruppens underliga agerande:

Israel-studio 114: Adressin luovutus paljasti S-ryhmän Israel-allergian

Veckans David Horovitz

 The bully and the schemer

Trump and Netanyahu may deserve each other. But in the battle against Iran and its proxies, and in the struggle for the democratic, law-abiding, Jewish-majority Israel, we need better

...Which brings us back to Trump’s renewed dissing of Netanyahu.

Like any playground bully, the US president is turning on what he perceives as a weak and vulnerable target, while obsequiously cozying up to what he sees as more dangerous aggressors.

While publicly declaring that Netanyahu will do what he’s told, he repeatedly praises the mass-murdering leaders of Iran as reasonable, rational and “very smart,” and on Sunday even hailed the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, for his “bravery” in ostensibly managing to lead Iran despite having been “pretty badly injured” in the war’s initial Israeli air strikes.

The self-styled great deal-maker appears to be catastrophically out of his depth in negotiating with Iran, employing a non-strategy that might best be described as a mixture of threats, bluster and capitulation. He is seeking assurances that the regime won’t seek nuclear weapons as though any such pledges are of value, relenting on the imperative for a complete, permanent halt to Iranian uranium enrichment, and lately asserting that removing Iran’s stockpile of near-weapons-grade uranium is not really necessary because it is “entombed.”

All this as he implores Tehran to agree to an initial framework deal to get Hormuz reopened, while pushing off all the nuclear weapons-related issues for later negotiations — negotiations in which he would have little leverage because he will have signed an accord committing to the permanent end of the war.

YLE vilseleder människor

 Jag får YLE:s finskspråkiga nyhetsbrev varje morgon. Där kollar jag rubrikerna för att se om något speciellt inträffat.

Idag kunde jag (liksom många andra) läsa att "Israel  slog till på olika håll i Iran, explosioner har hörts i Teheran".  ("Israel iski eri puolille Irania, räjähdyksiä kuultu Teheranissa")

Verkligheten är att Iran igår kväll attackerade Israel med ett tiotal ballistiska missiler. Israel har svarat på attacken.

YLE fortsätter med sin linje som den hållit i tiotals år, att rapportera Israels svar på en attack, den må vara från Iran, Hamas eller Hizbollah, som början på konflikten.

Detta sätta att rapportera har burit frukt. Det finns nu bland befolkningen ett utbrett Israelhat som baserar sig på okunskap och felaktig information.

Rubriken på nätsidan har nu ändrats:

Israel iski eri puolille Irania, Iran teki Israeliin toisen ohjusiskujen sarjan

Trump ties Israel’s hands, as the partnership that went to war 100 days ago collapses

All-clear for Jerusalem area; IDF says all Iranian missiles intercepted this morning

Iran fires missiles at Israel for first time in two months; Trump tells Netanyahu not to retaliate

Trump faller in i den allmänna kören: Irans attack är inget problem för fredsförhandlingarna men om Israel svarar blir det problem. Det är ett förvridet sätt att tänka och skulle knappast förväntas av någon annan är Israel.

Why Israel could not let Iran’s missile attack go unanswered - analysis

Had Israel allowed the attack without response, the message to Tehran would have been pretty clear. Hezbollah could continue ignoring any ceasefire, attacking Israel and its soldiers at will, and any Israeli response to Hezbollah could be framed by Tehran as a provocation, allowing Iran to fire directly at Israel while assuming that American diplomatic pressure would keep Jerusalem’s hands tied.

Judehat i Finland - YLE artikel

YLE (finska) har publicerat en artikel med intervjuer som beskriver judehatet i Finland.

- Judarna i Finland började dölja sin judiska identitet efter att kriget i Gaza gjorde omgivningen mera hotfull.

- Judarna mötet antisemitism speciellt på sociala medier men också ansikte mot ansikte. De görs ansvariga för Israels agerande.

- Enligt de intervjuade är antisemitism också en del av vänsterns retorik. Israel jämförs till exempel med Nazi Tyskland.

-Judarna är rädda att utsättas för våldsdåd och vid den judiska synagogan i Helsingfors har säkerhetsåtgärderna skärpts.

 Juutalaisvihaa Suomessa: ”Minua kutsuttiin vi*** jutkuksi”

Juutalaiset alkoivat piilottaa taustaansa, kun ilmapiiri Suomessa kuumeni Gazan sodan aikana. Yle tapasi Suomen juutalaisia.

Veckans analys av David Horovitz:

Put aside the cursing, and focus on defeating Iran

What’s needed is a civil version of “What the fuck are you doing?” — not from Trump to Netanyahu but from Netanyahu to Trump. To be followed by a joint effort to assess why this war has so signally failed, avoid exacerbating the failure with a dreadful deal, and resolutely turn the tide

...The result is a president all but imploring Tehran’s ruthless leadership to agree to accept incredibly advantageous terms for what he absurdly calls “peace,” beginning with a memorandum of understanding that, as far as we know, channels billions into Iran’s coffers and does not secure any of the war’s original goals — merely setting a framework for talks on Iran’s nuclear program, the fate of its enriched uranium, its ballistic missile development, support for terror proxies, and use of terrorism worldwide.

These are terms that the regime would have jumped at before the war, that will enable it to stave off any genuine concessions for the foreseeable future, that make the Obama nuclear deal Trump abrogated look hermetic by comparison, and that hang Israel out to dry...

Något att tänka på när man söker information på nätet!

David Horovitz delar med sig av sin erfarenhet:

Google’s Gemini AI admits it is unfit for purpose: ‘You should not trust a single thing I say’

Using Google is increasingly unsatisfactory. And its AI tool is utterly unreliable. ‘You asked me earlier if there is any point in asking me stuff,’ it confided to me this week. ‘After what I just did — lying to you immediately after apologizing for lying — the answer is a definitive no’

När fakta inte längre är det viktiga

 Värt att läsa:

Klartext av Alice Teodorescu:

Journalistikens största kris är inte Trump - utan journalisterna själva

...Ytterligare en dimension handlar om hur ivrigt, och noggrant, man undersöker alternativa förklaringar till sin story, vad som beskrivs vara orsak och verkan, vilka källor man förlitar sig på. När det kommer till rapporteringen av vår tids mest kontroversiella sakfrågor är det uppenbart att det som skrivs oftast säger mer om de som formulerar texterna än om de faktiska förhållandena.

Pikant nog gör sig därmed journalister på etablerade medier sig skyldiga till exakt samma saker som de anklagar alternativmedierna för; det vill säga spridandet av desinformation, vinklade partsinlagor och selektiv faktagranskning. Den betydande skillnaden är emellertid att de sistnämnda aldrig utgett sig för att vara opartiska, till skillnad från de förstnämnda…

...Ovanstående blir som allra tydligast när det kommer till skildringarna av kriget i Gaza, Libanon och av Israels agerande generellt. Denna omständighet är ingen liten sak; beslutsfattare och allmänhetens bild baseras till en stor del på det som rapporteras i medierna, vilket i sin tur formar politikers och väljares uppfattningar kring relevant policy, politisk och diplomatisk press, sanktioner och internationella överenskommelser.

Givet hur Israel porträtterats genom decennierna, och särkilt under de senaste snart tre åren efter 7 oktober, är det då så förvånande att gemene man fått bilden av att landet är exceptionellt diaboliskt, mordiskt och moraliskt depraverat? Nej, faktum är att människor fått just den bild som medierna, via Hamas som varit primärkällan till rådande narrativ, velat att de ska ha. Allt har med andra ord blivit exakt som det var avsett.

För att vara väldigt konkret: varje gång Israel responderar på en attack, initierad av Hamas, Hizbollah eller Iran, är det Israels agerande som betraktas som eskaleringen. Huvudsaken, att Israel attackerats i strid med rådande “vapenvila”, görs ytterst skyndsamt till bisak i den mediala rapporteringen; Attacken blir en fotnot, svaret blir huvudnyheten.

Så när Hamas skjuter raketer mot israeliska städer handlar rubrikerna om Israels vedergällning. När Hizbollah attackerar från södra Libanon handlar rapporteringen om Israels motanfall. När Iran öppet angriper Israel riktas fokus snabbt mot risken att Israel ska “eskalera” konflikten. Det som sker är att den aktör som initierar våldet försvinner ur berättelsen - medan den aktör som svarar på våldet blir berättelsen.

Hur många vet exempelvis att Hizbollah byggt upp en militär närvaro i ett 60-tal byar i södra Libanon, mitt bland civila, längs gränsen mot Israel? Att de därifrån har beskjutit norra Israel i över ett kvarts sekel? Att så är fallet trots upprepade FN-resolutioner som kräver att Hizbollah avväpnas? Att FN:s fredsbevarande insats Unifil, som har patrullerat gränsen mellan Libanon och Israel sedan år 1978, misslyckats med sitt uppdrag?

Frågorna som borde ställas är därför hur ofta svenska läsare erbjuds en sammanhängande, kvalitativ och mångfacetterad bild av Hizbollahs militära infrastruktur i södra Libanon? Hur ofta beskrivs Hamas strategiska användning av civila miljöer? Hur ofta förklaras varför israeliska beslutsfattare uppfattar existentiella säkerhetshot annorlunda än europeiska kommentatorer - och var finns ett initierat resonemang kring hur vi själva hade agerat ställda inför samma hot?

Istället för att ställa dessa frågor har stora delar av rapporteringen utvecklats till ett slags moralisk teater där journalistens egen världsbild blir viktigare än publikens behov av kunskap. Mediernas skildring av konflikten har därmed inte syftat till att glänta på läsarens fönster mot verkligheten, utan om att anlägga ett filter som förändrat ljusinsläppet...

Vad vill PLO "befria"?

Den 28 maj 1964 grundades PLO. Vid den tiden styrde Jordanien över västbanken och östra Jerusalem och Egypten styrde över Gaza. Inga krav riktades mot dem för att skapa en palestinsk stat.

Problemet var att judarna hade en stat och den måste förintas. När omvärlden i sina försök att skapa fred glömmer detta faktum kan de inte annat än misslyckas i sina försök.

May 1964: The day the myth of the ‘occupation’ was born - opinion

The PLO was established three years before the Six Day War, before Israel controlled Judea and Samaria and Gaza. The "occupation" didn't exist yet. So what was the PLO seeking to liberate?

Västvärlden blundar för Turkiets terrorkopplingar

 Erdoğans Turkiet: NATO-medlemmen som sponsrar terrorism (Khaled Abu Toameh)

I åratal har Turkiets president Recep Tayyip Erdoğan bedrivit ett dubiöst dubbelspel: utåt mot väst framställt sig som en regional medlare och en ansvarstagande allierad inom NATO, samtidigt som han har förvandlat Turkiet till en fristad för Hamas terrorister utanför Gazaremsan...

...Trump-administrationen står inför ett avgörande test. Om Washington verkligen menar allvar med att montera ned Hamas infrastruktur och konfrontera den iranska regimen kan man inte fortsätta att bortse från Turkiets engagemang för att göra exakt motsatsen: att skydda och stödja Hamas.

En medlemsstat i NATO, Turkiet, underlättar verksamheten för en iranskstödd terroristgrupp som bär ansvar för massmord på civila, däribland många amerikaner.

Genom att låta Hamas och andra terroristgrupper verka fritt på sitt territorium undergräver Turkiet själva den säkerhetsarkitektur som NATO skapades för att försvara.

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Önsketänkande får inte ersätta strategisk planering

David Horovitz (Times of Israel) läsvärd som alltid: 

Reported terms of Trump’s Iran deal would confirm the war as an epochal failure

...He knows the regime in Tehran is as dangerous as it ever was, if not more so, but he wants to believe that it isn’t. He knows and says that Iran would use nuclear weapons to destroy Israel if it got them, but has said that a 20-year Iranian “guarantee” to end enrichment would suffice. He “reTruthed” the Iranian president’s willingness to “assure the world” that the Islamic Republic will not seek nuclear weapons, as though such words are of value. Fancifully, to use a polite term, he mused this week that Iran might “perhaps” prove willing to join the Abraham Accords normalization agreements with the Jewish state it has sworn to destroy.

To state the blindingly obvious: wishful thinking, disconnected from reality, cannot replace coherent policymaking and strategic planning...

... Since his Saturday announcement was met with derision by Iran and something akin to panic in Israel, Trump has taken to asserting that he is not in fact rushing to an agreement, that there will be a “Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all,” and that he does not “make bad deals.” Right now would be a very good time to prove that."

Veckans analys av David Horovitz

With Trump conflicted and Iran emboldened, vital bid to end regime’s nuclear drive is being botched

The Islamic Republic retains its highly enriched uranium stockpile, has 10 tons of lower-enriched uranium that nobody’s even asking for, and is holding the world to ransom at the Strait of Hormuz

President Donald Trump has repeatedly contradicted himself regarding the progress of the Iran war.

He has said that the war is won, just not won enough.

He has said that the Iranian regime has changed, replaced by a leadership that is less radical and very reasonable, but also that the current leadership, if it attains nuclear weapons, would blow up Israel and the region and create a “nuclear holocaust.”

He has insisted that Iran must be prevented from attaining nuclear weapons, and criticized his vice president for offering a deal under which Iran would be prevented from enriching uranium for only 20 years, and subsequently said that a 20-year limitation on enrichment would be sufficient...

...As far as most of the international community is concerned, by extension, the key imperative now is to reach some kind of accommodation with the regime that enables the stable reopening of the strait. But, of course, so long as the regime is in power, there can and will be no credible guarantees of stability.

Far worse, the essential goal with which the US and Israel went to war — ensuring that this regime has no path to nuclear weapons — has not been achieved. To the contrary.

ECI månadsrapport

Utdrag från månadsrapporten från ECI:

 EU:s politik inom de omtvistade territorierna strider mot San Remo-resolutionen

När vi ser tillbaka på betydelsen av fredskonferensen 1920, kan vi konstatera att EU:s politik beträffande de omtvistade territorierna går emot San Remo-resolutionen där Israels land utlovades till det judiska folket baserat på deras mer än 3 000 år långa historiska koppling till landet. Detta beslut ändrades 1921 när Palestinamandatet som utlovats till judarna, delades i ett arabiskt Palestina öster om Jordanfloden, i dag Hashemitiska konungariket Jordanien, och ett judiskt Palestina väster om Jordanfloden, den moderna staten Israel från år 1948. En ytterligare delningsplan presenterades av Förenta nationerna 1947 men den förkastades av araberna som i stället attackerade den nyfödda judiska staten på sju fronter för att driva ut judarna i havet, vilket misslyckades. Från 1949 till 1967 kontrollerade emellertid araberna det som i dag kallas Västbanken och Gaza, men talade under den tiden aldrig om något behov av en palestinsk stat. Det var först efter att Israel befriat östra Jerusalem, Judeen och Samarien, vilka illegalt hade ockuperats av Jordanien, som kravet på en tvåstatslösning fördes fram.

EU:s officiella policy som antogs först efter oljeembargot efter jom kippur-kriget 1973 definierar däremot de omtvistade territorierna som ”palestinskt land” där ursprungsfolket judarna betecknas som ”bosättare”. Enligt detta argument är infödda judar som bor eller ber vid Västra muren i Gamla staden i Jerusalem inkräktare och olagliga bosättare. Detta är en travesti på rättvisan men följer en över femtioårig EU-politik. 

Terrorattacken 7 oktober har inte ändrat denna inställning. Tvärtom, mindre än tre år efter den största pogromen mot det judiska folket sedan Shoan håller EU:s policy på att bli ännu mer anti-israelisk. Den drivs av ett nätverk av anti-israeliska medborgarorganisationer (NGO) som ligger väl inbäddade i EU-systemet. Man finansierar dessa anti-israeliska organisationer som för kampanjer mot all israelisk närvaro inom de omtvistade territorierna, för att sedan citera deras kritik som oberoende expertis när dessa i själva verket är ute på EU:s uppdrag. Detta är ett brutalt antisemitiskt ekosystem som är utan slut. Dessutom går denna policy klart emot de löften som gavs till det judiska folket i den juridiskt bindande San Remo-resolutionen den 25 april 1920.

San Remo-resolutionen hjälper till att avslöja populära myter om Israel och ger juridisk och historisk kontext till Israel-Palestina-konflikten

 Efter 25 år av kontinuerlig dialog med ledande politiker och valda ledare från hela Europa är en sak klar: nivån på kunskapen om de mest grundläggande historiska, juridiska och politiska fakta om Israel-Palestina-konflikten är farligt låg. Medan argument baserade på internationell lag rutinmässigt används mot Israel, står inte representanter för den judiska staten på sig genom att presentera ett omfattande försvar för den lagliga grunden för staten Israel. Det är här organisationer som ECI och andra måste stiga in. 

Det judiska folkets rätt att återuppbygga sitt nationella hem i Eretz Israel erkändes först under internationell lag 1920 vid fredskonferensen i San Remo och föregår Förintelsen med över tjugo år. Detta avslöjar den populära myten om att Israels land togs från palestinierna och gavs till judarna som kompensation för Förintelsen som falsk. Israels land hade lovats till judarna tjugo år tidigare, år 1920, genom ett bindande rättsligt åtagande i Sanremo.  

Fram till år 2010 hade dessa vitala fakta inte presenterats på rätt sätt offentligt. Tack vare dr Jacques Gauthiers (foto nedan) och Howard Griefs banbrytande forskning blev dessa fakta gradvis mer kända genom det arbete som Europeiska koalitionen för Israel gör, men har ännu inte utnyttjats fullt ut. (Organisationen Canadians for Israel's Legal Rights som var medarrangörer till 90-årsjubileet är värda ett speciellt omnämnande.)

San Remo-resolutionen avslöjar också myten om Israel som en kolonialstat genom att bevisa det motsatta. San Remo-resolutionen bekräftade att det judiska folket har en över 3 000-årig koppling till Israels land och därför är landets ursprungsfolk. I motsats till kolonialismen hade de ingen kolonialmakt som sände ut dem. Det var förföljelser och pogromer i olika länder som gjorde att de återvände hem till sina fäders hemland. De hade ingen annan plats att fly till. Återfödelsen av den judiska staten innebar ett slut på en 1 800-årig kolonisation som kulminerat i en 500 år lång period under det Osmanska riket. Israels återfödelse var allt annat än en kolonial satsning, det innebar början på en avkolonialisering. 

Fredskonferensen i San Remo 1920 innebar även början på en judisk kulturell renässans där det judiska folket började bygga nya institutioner för sin framtida stat. Under år 1920 grundades judiska institutioner som Keren Hayesod, hebreiska universitetet och många andra. Judarna var byggare – i stark kontrast till de palestinska araberna som har gjort allt de kunnat för att sabotera den judiska staten i stället för att bygga sina egna institutioner, trots årtionden av generöst internationellt bistånd. 

Hur klarar man av ett långvarigt krig?

En artikel som beskriver hur det är att leva mellan krig och fred, mellan det normala och det onormala.

Ceasefire nation: Caught between war and peace, can Israelis move forward?

Day to day, most Israelis aren’t living in wartime, but with shaky truces on 3 fronts and the possibility of conflict around the corner, psychologists say that isn’t enough to heal

How do you react to the sound of a motorcycle revving?

If you’ve lived in Israel since October 7, 2023, you might feel a jolt of anxiety, a quickening of the pulse, until, half a second later, it clicks that what you just heard was not, in fact, the beginning of a siren warning of an incoming missile attack. It just so happens that those two things — motorcycles and sirens — sound very similar.

Or maybe you’re out at dinner, or taking a train, or relaxing on a park bench enjoying a sunny day, when you glance around and notice that where you’re sitting — the park bench, the restaurant window, a concrete column on the train platform — is covered in bumper stickers emblazoned with the faces of some of the 2,000 Israelis who have been killed since October 7.

Almost all of them are smiling, and, if you’re an adult, almost all of them are younger than you. You were once their age. They will never be your age.

And yet, there is no war, at least not right now, at least not for most. A ceasefire has been in place in Gaza for more than six months, in Iran for more than a month.

A third ceasefire, in the north, has unraveled, and residents of the embattled border towns remain very much at risk....

Israel- Eurovisionen och lögnerna

 Bland annat Ilta Sanomat har publicerat en rubrik där Israel anklagas för att ha lurat till sig röster i Eurovisionssångtävlingen 2025.

Hatet mot Israel är bland vissa  så stort att också en musiktävling måste användas för att attackera och sprida lögner om Israel.

Här en artikel från Jerusalem Post som behandlar samma artikel som IS utgår ifrån, artikeln är från New York Times.

NYT’s Eurovision ‘investigation’ into Israel misses the point - analysis

The New York Times framed Israel’s Eurovision campaigning as suspicious soft power, despite acknowledging that no rules were broken and other countries engaged in similar promotion.

Europe must remember the reason Eurovision was formed or risk losing it completely - editorial

Hamas vansinniga sexuella övergrepp har dokumenterats i en omfattande rapport

SILENCED NO MORE

Sexual Terror Unveiled: The Untold Atrocities of October 7 and Against Hostages in Captivity

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Sexual violence was ‘systematic, integral’ to Hamas-led October 7 terror assault, study finds

The 300-page study produced by the Civil Commission, an Israeli NGO established to document the October 7 atrocities, detailed 13 types of sexual violence during the attack and against hostages, including rape, gang rape, sexual torture and mutilation, executions linked to sexual violence, postmortem sexual abuse, and sexual assaults carried out in the presence of family members, among other acts.

Inside the 300-page report Hamas hoped no one would uncover

Oct. 7 sexual violence was patterned, documented, prosecutable, new report argues

Medias behandling av Israel

 Professor reveals decades of bias in israel's media coverage

In From David to Goliath, Professor Eli Avraham explores the media’s portrayal of Israel, shedding light on its biased coverage and the effects on international opinion.

...Despite Israel's ongoing efforts in public diplomacy and strategic media engagement, Avraham notes that foreign coverage often ignores Israel's narratives, focusing instead on framing it as the aggressor. This is exemplified by the media’s selective reporting, where Israel is often portrayed as responsible for violence against Palestinians, with little to no context about the complexities of the region or the provocations from adversaries...

Israel står inför stora olösta utmaningar

 Veckans analys av David Horovitz visar vilka stora utmaningar Israel står inför på hemmaplan, förutom alla fiender runt omkring.

Israel heads toward its most fateful elections, with law and order, governance and morality at stake

Deadly Jewish terrorism spiraling in the West Bank, murderous teen gangs terrifying central Israel, ultra-Orthodox youths rampaging nationwide… all these horrors and more stem from a PM who has prized power over national interests and brought two corrosive Jewish supremacists into the heart of government

Hotet från Iran har inte försvunnit någonstans

David Horovitz ger igen  en klar analys av läget. Den gamla regimen sitter kvar vid makten och Iran har fortfarande tillgång till anrikat uran som kan användas till kärnvapen. Om man säger att hotet förvunnit lurar man sig själv.

Netanyahu claims to have prevented an Iranian-wrought second Holocaust. If only we could be so sure

In his Holocaust Day address, the PM asserted that his pledge to ensure the regime in Tehran does not develop nuclear weapons had been fulfilled. He of all people should be more circumspect

...Now, two and a half years later, Netanyahu the politician is assuring the nation that Iran, too, no longer poses a dire threat, that he and Trump have dealt with the danger. And there is a risk to the State of Israel and its people, today as in 2023, that Netanyahu the politician will be swept up by his own bluster and will start to believe his own rhetoric.

“Had we not acted, the names Natanz, Fordo, Isfahan and Parchin might have been remembered eternally in infamy, just like Auschwitz, Treblinka, Majdanek and Sobibor,” he solemnly claimed at Yad Vashem.

But that danger has not, in fact, been alleviated.

And Netanyahu, not the divisive party chief seeking reelection but the Israeli prime minister — who knows full well that there has been no regime change in Iran, and knows exactly what the regime is capable of — has a national obligation to recognize, explain and confront that reality, however politically uncomfortable it may be.

Kapitulerade USA?

 Inga mål som sattes upp för kriget har uppnåtts men Trump tröttnade. Nu har han enligt sina egna uttalande skapat världsfred för åtminstone andra gången under sin mandatperiod.

David Horovitz TOI: US and Israel set out ambitious, vital war goals; as of the ceasefire, none have been achieved

'Everyone' wanted a ceasefire, Trump says. Well, he certainly did

...Fighting halts with the US president hailing what is only a tactical victory, and impossibly expecting a deal in two weeks to impose terms on the weakened but emboldened Iranian regime

...Trump’s semantic games about old and new regimes symbolize the biggest danger of this current, fateful moment. The fighting is at a fragile halt, with the Islamic Republic still oppressing its people and still seeking to destroy Israel, emboldened to have survived an assault led by the world’s mightiest military power, and with no binding agreements in place to ensure that it cannot reconstitute what it has lost.

And yet the US president is telling the world, and himself, that he is dealing with “reasonable” people — indeed that he has received “a 10-point proposal” from them, believes it to be “a workable basis on which to negotiate,” and expects that a two-week ceasefire period “will allow the agreement to be finalized and consummated.”

In another post late on Tuesday night, Trump declared that the ceasefire marks “A big day for World Peace! Iran wants it to happen, they’ve had enough! Likewise, so has everyone else!”

It’s the “everyone” in that post that’s most troubling, and most revealing.

Iran grymma behandling av demonstranter

Några exempel på vad som sker i Iran. Människor i en hopplös situation på grund av den grymma regimen.

Iran's stolen futures: The arrested Iranians at risk of execution by the regime

IRAN AFFAIRS: Since protests began on December 28, more thousands of Iranians have been arrested for “crimes against the state,” and many face long-term imprisonment or worse, execution.

Since protests began on December 28 – and since the horrifying days of January 8 and 9, when the regime unleashed a deadly crackdown on protesters across the country – more thousands of Iranians have been arrested for “crimes against the state,” and many face long-term imprisonment or worse, execution.

Some of these people went to protest for their future. Some posted anti-regime messages online. And some simply belonged to the wrong generation at the wrong moment in the Islamic Republic.

Rapport från Israel

 

En rapport på finska från Israel av Sanna Haikala- Reyes kan ses här!

Veckans analys av David Horovitz

 Som tidigare sagt, det är värt några minuter att läsa vad David Horovitz skriver.

Seeking a deal with different faces of the same regime, Trump risks subverting his own vital war goals

When the bombs stop, he promised Iranians, your government ‘will be yours to take.’ But it won’t be. And as for his talk of potential ‘guaranteed peace for Israel’ – well, would that it were so

It took Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu more than seven hours to formulate a response on Monday to US President Donald Trump’s bombshell announcement that his emissaries were negotiating indirectly with the “top man” in Iran on a deal to end the war, and that the sides had reached agreement on some 15 key points.

And no wonder the prime minister struggled to find the words. He needed to somewhat dissociate himself and Israel from the US president’s gambit, without sounding like he was doing so...

...But if he indeed strikes a deal with the regime — and especially if it turns out that the “top man” with whom he is interacting is, in fact, Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Ghalibaf — a “Death to America”-shouting former commander in the terror-exporting Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, and murderous suppressor of anti-regime protests at home — Trump risks subverting the very goals of the war he and Netanyahu launched against the Islamic Republic less than four weeks ago.

Denouncing the regime on February 28 as “a vicious group of very hard, terrible people,” Trump accurately accused it of menacing the US and its allies worldwide for 47 years, promised to “raze their missile industry,” vowed to ensure Iran would never attain a nuclear weapon, and told Iranians that “the hour of your freedom is at hand.” When the bombs stop, he urged, “Take over your government. It will be yours to take.”

Instead, he is negotiating with that vicious, cynical and completely untrustworthy regime, whether or not he claims its latest representatives are somehow distinct from their recently eliminated predecessors. And thus, by definition, he is legitimizing its retention of power and narrowing the promised path for the Iranian public to oust it...

...Trump’s assertion that the US has obtained broad agreement from its Iranian interlocutors to a 15-point plan for ending the war carries shades of the way he put forward his 20-point peace plan for Gaza last September.

Ignoring the fact that Gaza’s terrorist rulers had submitted a caveat-filled semi-rejection of his proposal, he declared that Hamas was ready for peace, and brokered a deal that, near-miraculously, enabled the release of the last 20 living hostages from more than two years of horrific captivity in Gaza.

But six months later, Hamas is still governing most Gazans, has not disarmed, is currently regrouping and rearming, and remains determined to destroy Israel.

Gaza is a nightmarish military and diplomatic challenge, because so many of its people loathe Israel more than they loathe the terrorist rulers who place them in the line of fire, and because there is no dependable alternative Palestinian leadership.

Iran could have been — and still could be — very different. Most of its people revile the regime that has been oppressing them for almost half a century. They have been crying out for international assistance in ridding themselves of the ayatollahs, have repeatedly resorted to mass protests, and been gunned down by the tens of thousands.

Trump’s reported 15 conditions for ending the war — including permanently stripping the Islamic Republic of its nuclear weapons program, constraining its missile capabilities, and severing it from Hamas, Hezbollah and its other terrorist proxies — would indeed deprive it of the capacity to menace Israel, the region, and the rest of the world, and could indeed spell its merciful demise… if those conditions are implemented.

But for precisely that reason, there is no way on earth that the regime will agree to them...

...In a TV report on Monday night, an Israeli security source was quoted saying, “We do not know if there will be a deal in the near future or if this is a characteristic ‘Trump maneuver.’ But if there is a deal, and it does not involve the removal from Iran of its [450-kilograms of 60%] enriched uranium, any big words about ‘devastation’ and ‘degraded capability’ will not be true. The truth will be that it is an epic failure.”

That’s for sure.

And again, Trump told Iranians on February 28, “When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take.”

Well, it won’t be, will it, if he cuts a deal with people who are merely different faces of the same regime?

And finally, as for Trump’s vision of this agreement, if it happens, bringing “peace for Israel, long-term peace, guaranteed peace” — that carries historical echoes that I’d prefer not even to express and dearly hope will never have to.

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Analys av David Horovitz

 David Horovitz ledare i Times of Israel.

Regimes are ousted from within, but the US and Israel must not let up until that happens in Iran

Trump and Netanyahu now allow that their confidence in the Iranian people rising up when the bombings stop may be misplaced. But they cannot end this war without the removal of Iran’s uranium stockpile, and a commitment to keep returning until the regime is gone

Verkligheten i Israel idag

 Det David Horovitz, Times of Israel skrivet, är ofta värd att läsas.

Seeking clarity, and safety, in a war marked by incoherent leadership and a momentous goal

Work and worry under missile attack * Searching for truth in a sea of misinformation * Intellectual problems for Israel-haters * Is Trump all-in?

Kriget mot Iran är lagligt

 Här en analys jag långt kan hålla med om.

Det finns de som säger att kriget mot Iran gör världen till en osäkrare plats och att kriget är olagligt. Lagligheten behandlas i följande analys som publicerats i Times of Israel. 

När det gäller påverkan av världsläget kan man med säkerhet inte veta vad som i längden  är farligast. Men något farligare än Iran med kärnvapen och ännu bättre rustad än idag är svårt att föreställa sig. En regim som utan att tveka dödar sina egna medborgare är säkert beredd att använda alla medel mot dem som de betraktar som sina fiender. Om de allierade slagit till mot Hitlers regim 1938 hade antagligen miljoner mänskoliv räddats. Kriget mot regimen i Iran kan på samma sätt rädda ett okänt antal liv i framtiden. Ingen vet med säkerhet men det skulle antagligen vara oförsvarligt att inget göra.

Yes, Israel's war with Iran is legal

After decades of proxy war and direct missile attacks, this response is not a violation of international law — it is what the right of self-defense was meant to allow

Vladimir Putin, of all people, along with several European leaders, has declared that “the US- Israel war against Iran is illegal under international law.” So does Israel’s military action in Iran, with all its ramifications, meet the test of international law? After the past two and a half years, and the relentless mistreatment of Israel by international bodies, many may find the question beside the point. But it still matters.

The short answer is yes. Throughout this difficult period, Israel has acted in accordance with international law, and it is doing so now. The fundamental rule of customary international law – also reflected in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter – prohibits the use of force. The exception to this rule, and the basis for any state’s legitimate use of force, is the right of self-defense (Article 51 of the UN Charter). That right arises when a state is subjected to an “armed attack.”

As we all know, Iran has been acting against Israel for many years. It deploys Hezbollah and the Houthis against us, and Hamas has effectively been armed and enabled by Iran. Since these forces are subordinate to Iran and operate under its direction, that in itself amounts to an Iranian armed attack on Israel.

But Iran has also attacked Israel directly, without Israel attacking Iran first. In April 2024, Iran fired hundreds of missiles and drones at Israel, and it attacked Israel again in October 2024. These direct attacks establish, in the clearest possible way, Israel’s right to self-defense...

Kriget mot Iran

 Kriget mot Iran var oundvikligt. Det är man långt överens om bland politiker i Israel. Irans uttalade mål att utplåna Israel gör att man inte kan låta landet rusta upp så att det kan förverkliga målet.

Dessutom anser USA , enligt Trump, att Iran som är en av världens största sponsorer av terrorism utgör ett hot mot USA och hela den fria världen.

Den iranska regimen är ju bevisligen också ett hot mot den egna befolkningen.

För att följa med krigshändelserna kan man läsa t.ex. Jerusalem Post eller Times of Israel.

Israelhatare från höger och vänster

 Tucker Carlson’s anti-Zionism shows horseshoe theory nearing a circle (TOI)

Conservative US commentator borrows talking points from the left, highlighting how anti-Zionist discourse is finding a home on both sides of the spectrum

In December, the right-wing US media personality Tucker Carlson hosted the far-left UN special rapporteur for the Palestinians, Francesca Albanese, on his show.

The two outspoken personalities, from opposite corners of the political spectrum, found themselves in agreement, with Carlson deferring to Albanese’s explanations of the conflict.

“A lot of us have spent a lot of time doing our best to ignore what’s happening in Gaza,” Carlson said during a preamble to the interview. “The idea that they’ve killed tens of thousands of women and children, non-combatants, accidentally, is a lie. No, they murdered them.”...

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Värt att läsa är också: Facing Trump, Hamas bet on survival and is being vindicated; Iran’s regime has the same game plan

In his State of the Union, Trump had good reason to claim success against both Gaza’s terror rulers and the Islamic Republic. But neither is finished. In fact, both intend to long outlast his presidency

…In Gaza, as my colleague Lazar Berman detailed in a deeply troubling report earlier this week, Hamas retains control of the half of the enclave where most of the population lives. And it is furtively ensuring that it will continue to hold sway even if and when the Palestinian Authority-affiliated National Committee for the Administration of Gaza, ultimately overseen by Trump, begins ostensibly taking administrative control of parts of the Strip...

Finland fördömer Israels agerande utan att bry sig om vad som är rätt

 YLE och andra rapporterar att Finland tillsammans med 18 andra stater i ett gemensamt uttalande  fördömer Israels agerande på västbanken. Finland gör här gemensam sak med arab- och muslimstaterna och den palestinska myndigheten. Är det verkligen där Finland hör hemma?

Suomi ja joukko muita maita tuomitsevat Israelin pyrkimykset Länsirannalla

Parikymmentä maata tuomitsee Israelin pyrkimykset alueliitoksiin Länsirannalla – Suomi mukana yhteislausunnossa

Det som är intressant med uttalandet är att Finland hör till de stater som vill hålla fast vid det gamla regelbaserade världsordningen. Man vill att internationella avtal och överenskommelser skall hållas och styra staters agerande. Men det gäller som känt inte när man behandlar Israel.

Enligt internationella avtal tillhör västbanken  det område som gavs till judarna för att de där skulle återupprätta sin nationalstat. (San Remo deklarationen och stadgarna för Palestinamandatet)

Om Israel förändrar lagar som berör området borde det inte vara något att  bråka om.

Det kan vara intressant att i sammanhanget läsa vad Alan Baker skriver om saken i Jerusalem Post:

These government measures are not de facto annexation 

(Alan Baker heads the International Law Program at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs. He is an expert in international law and former ambassador of the state of Israel to Canada.)

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a set of administrative changes affecting day-to-day governance and law enforcement in the territories. Predictably, the response has been split between celebration and outrage. Supporters have hailed the measures as “de facto annexation.” Critics have denounced them as exactly the same. Both camps are wrong.

...In the territory under its administration, Israel is duty-bound to ensure public order and to prevent arbitrary obstructions – whether by Israeli or Palestinian residents, or by local municipal and other authorities – that disrupt day-to-day life.

Streamlining legal and administrative procedures, improving planning and oversight, ensuring transparent property purchase and registration, and protecting archaeological sites are all part of Israel’s responsibilities under the existing framework. Respect for private property in the territories, including in the context of Israel’s settlement policies, was affirmed in 2012 by an expert, government-established legal commission headed by Supreme Court Justice Edmond Levy, which sought to protect private ownership and regulate settlement activity.

At the same time, nothing prevents private, legitimate, and transparent property transactions conducted lawfully by willing parties. In that context, the decision to enable lawful land transactions and not to apply in the territories a distinctly discriminatory and antisemitic Jordanian-era law that barred the sale of land to Jews cannot reasonably be described as “de facto annexation.”

...Exaggerated condemnations by international leaders have relied on selective and misleading framing. They accuse Israel of annexation without engaging seriously with the nature of the measures themselves.

Förslag till konstitution för Palestina ger inget hopp om en bättre framtid

 Den palestinska myndigheten har kommit med ett utkast till konstitution för självständighet.

Jag har inte läst utkastet men det verkar inte ge hopp om en bättre framtid för palestinierna eller för relationerna till Israel.

So much for the two-state solution: PA proves to be its own worst enemy TOI

The Palestinian Authority’s new draft constitution for statehood ignores reconciliation – in fact, the document erases Israel and Jewish history

The draft should be a must-read for the 157 countries that recognize a Palestinian state. They’ll find that their perception of a future Palestinian democracy ready to accept the state of Israel next door is a fiction. There is no talk of living alongside Israel. Instead, the draft asserts that Jerusalem will be the capital of Palestine and that Islamic and Christian holy sites will be maintained and protected. No mention is made of the Jewish connection to Jerusalem and the land since the days of the Bible; no recognition that Judaism is rooted in the Holy Land and that for thousands of years Jewish prayer has been deeply and inextricably linked to it.

In effect, the 53-page document erases Israel and Jewish history. It proposes a state that rejects “colonial settlement occupation… ethnic cleansing … and continued genocide,” to be governed not by democracy but Islamic Shariah law. It legalizes terror by promising to continue the PA’s “pay-for-slay” policy, calling for providing “protection and care for the families of martyrs, wounded and prisoners, and those released from the occupation prisons and the victims of genocide.” So much for a spirit of compromise or confidence-building required to prepare both Arabs and Jews to live as neighbors.

Reading the draft, with its emphasis on victimhood, I was reminded of Abba Eban’s most oft-quoted comment. Two months after the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Eban, as Israel’s UN Ambassador and golden-toned orator, noted that Arab leaders “never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.” He was referring to frustratingly stalled peace efforts...

YLE förvånar med artikel om Gaza

En ganska ovanlig artikel från YLE . I artikeln finns också en video från Gaza som japanska radiobolaget NHK spelat in. I videon ser man inga svältande människor, tvärtom ser de välmående ut. Bra med lite omväxling.

Mitä ihmettä tapahtuu Gazassa? Hamas piti riisua aseista, nyt se vain näyttää vahvistuvan

Äärijärjestö Hamas ja Israel sopivat sotatoimet lopettavasta tulitauosta Gazassa viime lokakuussa.

Yhtenä sen ehdoista oli, että Hamas luovuttaa aseensa eikä Hamasilla ole enää roolia Gazan kaistaleen hallinnossa.

Kumpikaan näistä ei ole toteutunut.

Kun Israel veti joukkonsa pois, on Hamas näyttänyt tiukentavan otettaan.

Utrikesminister Valtonen i Israel och Ramallah

 Här kan man läsa  vad utrikesminister Valtonen skrev på Facebook efter sitt besök till Israel och Ramallah på västbanken. (https://www.facebook.com/elinamariavaltonen)

Kort kan man säga att hon inte skriver ett ont ord, ingen kritik av den palestinska myndigheten. Israel får däremot kritik på flera områden. Palestinierna är som vanligt offer och Israel angripare. Sorgligt men  inte oväntat. 

"Det får inte finnas någon plats för terrorism", skriver hon. Varför kritiserar hon inte då palestinska myndigheten som betalar lön till  terrorister som angriper judar, som prisar och förhärligar terrordåd mot judar (t.ex Fatah glorifies Munich Olympics massacre ahead of 2026 Winter Olympics) och som i skolorna lär barnen att hata judar?

Vierailin maanantaina Ramallahissa, Länsirannalla.

Israelin siirtokuntalaajentuminen ja siirtokuntalaisten väkivalta tuntuvat palestiinalaisten arjessa päivittäin eri puolilla Länsirantaa, myös Itä-Jerusalemissa. Monen palestiinalaisen elämä on täynnä rajoituksia maan, toimeentulon ja peruspalvelujen saatavuudessa – ja samanaikaisesti turvattomuus ja väkivalta ovat lisääntyneet. 

Eräs nuori nainen kertoi, että hän on pahimmillaan joutunut odottamaan neljä tuntia Israelin asettamalla tarkistuspaikalla - siis palestiinalaisalueiden välillä - ainoastaan päästäkseen ajamaan työpaikaltaan kotiin. Arjen pyörittäminen vaikeutuu kaiken aikaa.

Tapasin Ramallahissa pääministeri Mohammad Mustafan. Keskustelimme Länsirannan heikentyneestä tilanteesta, Gazan humanitaarisista olosuhteista sekä siitä, miten kansainvälinen yhteisö voi parhaiten tukea Palestiinalaishallintoa ja sen paluuta Gazaan. Hamas on riisuttava aseista ja sen on väistyttävä vallasta. Terrorismille ei pidä olla minkäänlaista tilaa.

Vierailin matkan yhteydessä Punaisen Puolikuun avustuskeskuksessa ja tapasin palestiinalaisia kansalaisyhteiskunnan toimijoita. Varastossa odotti rekkalavoittain avustuspaketteja Gazaan, joita ei vielä oltu saatu toimittaa.

Suomi on Palestiinalaishallinnon kumppani. Jatkamme kehitysyhteistyötä ja tuemme poliittista näköalaa, joka vie kohti kahden valtion ratkaisua.

Vierailin sunnuntaina Israelissa. Kenttämatka alkoi vierailulla Kibbutz Nir Oziin sekä Nova Music festivaalialueelle, jotka olivat Hamasin 7. lokakuuta tekemien iskujen surullisia kohteita. Yhteensä satoja ihmisiä sai surmansa tai heidät kaapattiin panttivangeiksi.

Vierailin myös Holokaustin muistokeskus Yad Vashemissa kunnioittamassa kuuden miljoonan holokaustissa murhatun juutalaisen muistoa. Menneisyyden muistaminen on yhteinen velvollisuutemme. Meidän on puolustettava ihmisarvoa, torjuttava antisemitismiä ja suojeltava siviilejä kaikkialla.

Tapasin Jerusalemissa Israelin ulkoministerin Gideon Sa’arin ja presidentin Isaac Herzogin. Keskustelimme maidemme välisistä suhteista sekä Lähi-idän tilanteesta: Israelin ja Palestiinan välisestä konfliktista, rauhansuunnitelmasta ja Iranista.

Nostin esille Gazan siviiliväestön jatkuvan humanitaarisen hädän ja näköalattomuuden. Tuemme rauhansuunnitelman toimeenpanoa. Suomen tuki alueelliselle vakaudelle ja kahden valtion ratkaisulle on horjumaton. Emme hyväksy Israelin toimia Länsirannalla, jotka pyrkivät siirtokunta-alueiden annektointiin osaksi Israelia. Israel on viime kuukausina tehostanut siirtokuntien rakentamista.

Israel har inte annekterat Judéen och Samarien

 These government measures are not de facto annexation  (Alan Baker TOI)

Israel’s security cabinet has approved a set of administrative changes affecting day-to-day governance and law enforcement in the territories. Predictably, the response has been split between celebration and outrage. Supporters have hailed the measures as “de facto annexation.” Critics have denounced them as exactly the same. Both camps are wrong...

…Exaggerated condemnations by international leaders have relied on selective and misleading framing. They accuse Israel of annexation without engaging seriously with the nature of the measures themselves.

...In this context, the condemnation by UN Secretary-General António Guterres calling for the reversal of these measures reflects extreme bias and a superficial reading of the facts and legal framework underlying them...

…As an international official, the Secretary-General should be reminded that the “UN Charter and Staff Rules” require senior officials to act with impartiality. His consistently slanted statements, which single out and condemn Israel while disregarding Palestinian violations and incitement, undermine the integrity of his office – and any last shreds of credibility that the United Nations may still have.

Låt inte lögnen vinna: Fördöm påståendet om folkmord i Israel, oavsett vem som framför det (Jerusalem Post)

 Att stämpla Israels krig i Gaza som folkmord är inte kritik utan ett modernt blodsförtal, ett påstående som förvränger det som hände den 7 oktober, som underblåser antisemitism världen över och måste konfronteras direkt.

Don't let the lie stand: Denounce the Israeli genocide claim, no matter who raises it - editorial

Labeling Israel’s war in Gaza as genocide is not criticism but a modern blood libel, one that distorts October 7, fuels antisemitism worldwide, and must be confronted head-on.

...Thankfully, the issue is coming to the forefront, thanks to an online campaign initiated by a group of respected Jewish thinkers, teachers, and writers not generally associated with the Right’s allegiance to the notion that Israel can do no wrong. Among the Israeli signatories are Rabbi Irving “Yitz” Greenberg, journalist and teacher Yossi Klein Halevi, and Rabbi Micha Odenheimer of Tevel b’Tzedek, an Israeli nonprofit.

They plainly but eloquently stated the obvious, which has been either ignored or disputed.

They wrote: “The unprecedented combat conditions of the war – hundreds of kilometers of tunnels, thousands of booby-trapped homes – the conflating of combatants with ‘journalists’ and ‘human rights workers,’ the ratio of civilian-to-terrorist casualties, considered low for asymmetrical urban warfare, the absence of mass starvation despite repeated claims of imminent catastrophe, the warnings given to civilians before attack: All these factors were erased in the eagerness to indict Israel for genocide.

“A crucial difference between war as tragedy and war as genocide is intent. In this war, only one side intended to commit genocide, and that is Hamas.

“To accuse Israel of genocide, the massacre of October 7 has been systematically downplayed, while Israeli actions have been distorted and amplified. Israel went to war on October 8, not out of vengeance, as its detractors claim, but to break the Iranian-led siege of terror enclaves on its borders, and to restore its deterrence, without which it cannot survive in the long term in the Middle East. Thousands of rockets and missiles were fired at Israel in the weeks following the massacre, while Hamas starved and tortured 250 Israelis, some of whom were murdered in captivity.”...

Så ser palestinierna på UNRWA

Palestinian Authority again admits UNRWA is political

The Palestinian Authority has again admitted—three times in two weeks—that UNRWA is all about politics as it seeks to preserve the organization so it can keep alive the demand to flood Israel with "returning refugees."

Last month, a column in the official PA daily defined what it views as the very mandate of UNRWA:

"The Fatah Revolutionary Council… emphasized… that all the patriots must… defend UNRWA and its mandate because it is a testimony to the Nakba (i.e., "the catastrophe," the Palestinian term for the establishment of the State of Israel) and the sanctity of the refugees' right of return."

[Official PA daily Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Jan. 11, 2026]

This is the PA admitting, openly, that the central value of UNRWA is ideological and political. It is why the PA frames challenges to UNRWA as an Israeli plot to erase the refugee issue and the dream of "return" into Israel. In the following statement by a PA spokesman on official PA TV, the claim is taken a step further and tied directly to Israel's sovereignty and to Jerusalem, again showing clearly that this is not actually a humanitarian issue for the PA but a political one, with the mission of UNRWA being to ultimately undo Israel through "return."

PA Jerusalem District Spokesman Ma'arouf Al-Rifai: "Since Oct. 7, [2023], Israel has started a campaign of incitement against UNRWA to eliminate the refugee issue, to eliminate what we Palestinians are dreaming of, namely the right of return and compensation. Israel is attempting to impose full sovereignty over Jerusalem and annex it to the cities of the occupation (i.e., Israel) like any city that was occupied in 1948."

[Official PA TV News, Jan. 20, 2026]

Note that the PA spokesman reiterated what Palestinian Media Watch has stressed many times, which is that the PA sees all of Israel as "occupied in 1948."

A senior PLO official also made a similar admission on official PA radio several days later:...