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Dershowitz to 'Post': Rabbis should not protest Israel at the UN - opinion

Many academic critics of the breadth of judicial review in Israel argue that it is the unelected, somewhat elitist, judiciary that compromises pure democracy. I tend to disagree. I generally support the current system, though would favor some modifications if I were an Israeli voter. I would not favor the broad overhaul advocated by the current government. But the reality is that even if all the proposed reforms were enacted — and I fervently hope and believe they will not be — Israel would then resemble the Netherlands, Great Britain, and New Zealand more than Hungary and Poland.

Uttalanden från Israel fiender

 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas: Hitler Fought The European Jews Because Of Their Usury, Money Dealings; It Was Not About Antisemitism; Jews From Arab Countries Did Not Want To Emigrate, But Were Forced To Do So By Israel (MEMRI)

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas discussed antisemitism in a speech delivered at the 11th session of Fatah's Revolutionary Council, on August 24, 2023. He said that the "truth" is that European Jews are not Semites, they are the descendants of Khazars, and therefore their persecution has nothing to do with antisemitism. Abbas added that Karl Marx confirmed that this is so. He continued to say that Hitler and the Europeans did not kill the Jews "because they were Jews," but rather they fought the Jews because of "their social role, and not their religion." Abbas explained that Hitler "fought" the Jews because they dealt with usury and money, not because of antisemitism.

He added that the eastern Jews were indeed Semites, because they had originated from the Arabian Peninsula and then traveled to Andalusia. Later in his speech, Abbas claimed that Ben Gurion had not wanted Jews from Arab countries to immigrate to Israel, but was forced to accept them upon Churchill's urging, because there were no more Jews left in Europe. He said that Ben Gurion carried out attacks on Jewish institutions in Arab countries in order to persuade them to emigrate. Abbas stated: "the Jews did not want to emigrate but were forced to do so by means of pressure, coercion, and murder."

Abbas discussed the Balfour Declaration, saying that the U.S. was a partner to it and that Israel was invented by "Britain and America – not just Britain." He added that he is "saying this so that we know who we should accuse of being our enemy."

Editor-In-Chief Of Palestinian Authority Daily Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija Calls For Legal Action Against Intellectuals Who Criticized Abbas' Holocaust Comments: They Prefer The Israeli Narrative Over The Palestinian One (MEMRI)

Mahmoud Abu Al-Haija, the Editor-in-Chief of the Palestinian Authority's Al-Hayat Al-Jadida daily, said in a September 12, 2023, show on Awda TV (Palestinian Authority) that legal action should be taken against the "self-proclaimed" intellectuals who have condemned Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's recent remarks about the Holocaust. He accused these people of having "chosen the Israeli narrative over the Palestinian narrative," and he added that it was clear that Abbas opposed the evil of the Holocaust.

Palestinian Authority Media Present Slain Terrorists As Innocent Children Murdered In Cold Blood (MEMRI)

In reporting about young Palestinians who were involved in terror activity against Israel and were killed by the Israeli security forces, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and its media – and following them also media in the world and in Israel[1] –  often presents them as innocent children or youths who were murdered or executed in cold blood. The Palestinian media obscures the fact that they were members of terror organizations like the Lion's Den, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) or even Fatah's own military wing, and deliberately omits any mention of the circumstances in which they were killed, namely, while carrying out armed operations against Israelis. 

Saleh Al-'Arouri, Deputy-Head Of Hamas' Political Bureau: Developing The Resistance In The West Bank, Including Rocket Capabilities, Is A Supreme Goal; We Must Take Advantage Of The Global Developments To Escalate The Confrontation With Israel (MEMRI)

In a September 6, 2023 interview with the Al-Jazeera website, Saleh Al-'Arouri, deputy-head of Hamas' political bureau, spoke at length about the recent escalation in the terror attacks and armed struggle waged against Israel in the West Bank by Hamas and the other terror organizations. Noting that the armed resistance in the West Bank has "reached a new level," he stated that the supreme goal of the resistance is to continue developing, drawing inspiration from the model of the Gazan resistance, until it achieves effective rocket capabilities in the West Bank. He added that Hamas and the other armed factions "are highly coordinated" and fight together on the ground.[1]

Emphasizing that all the Palestinian arenas are united against Israel, Al-'Arouri said that the West Bank is now the spearhead of the resistance. He added that the Islamic countries, too, should take an active part in a multi-front confrontation with the enemy, and warned that the policies of the Israeli government  are likely to cause the outbreak of a broad and dangerous war "within two or three years."

Al-'Arouri also and called on the Palestinians to take advantage of the international developments, including America's preoccupation with the war in Ukraine and its desire to maintain calm in other arenas, in order to escalate the confrontation with Israel. "It behooves us to take this opportunity to tangibly and significantly escalate our resistance, so that it threatens the calm and stability [the U.S.] wants,"  he said, and added: "This is an opportunity we definitely must not miss."    

Palestinian Terror Organizations Incite On Social Media: The Time Has Come To Kill The Jews (MEMRI)

Amid a wave of terror attacks against Israelis, the Palestinian terror organizations – Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade (the military wing of Fatah, the ruling party in the Palestinian Authority) – have been waging an intensive incitement campaign on social media, praising the terrorists and calling for further attacks.[1] This incitement takes the form of messages, videos and graphics on social media calling to kill the Jews by every means, such as stabbing, car-ramming, shooting and bombing. Some of the posts are accompanied by Quranic verses about fighting the infidels. 

Islamic Scholar Muhammad Al-Aklouk Brandishes Rifle And Axe, Urges West Bank Palestinians To Carry Out Shooting And Stabbing Attacks Against Israelis: It Is Time For Your Rifles To Play Their Tunes, Unleash Great Killing And Bloodshed Upon Them (MEMRI)

On September 6, 2023, Gaza Islamic scholar Sheikh Muhammad Bin Maher Al-Aklouk posted a video to his YouTube and Telegram channels of a speech he delivered at an event in Khan Yunis, Gaza. During his speech, Sheikh Al-Aklouk brandished a loaded M-16-style rifle and said that it is time for these rifles to be used and for bursts of gunfire to be heard in the Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba. He also called on young Palestinians in the West Bank to carry out stabbing attacks using knives, axes, and cleavers. In addition, he called on the "lions" of the West Bank to "avenge" the honor of the Palestinian women, who reportedly were strip-searched in Hebron, by shooting female Israeli soldiers in the head.

2023 det värsta året på länge - i medeltal har en person per vecka dött i terrorattacker

 Terrorattackerna mot judar i Israel började öka för lite mer än ett år sedan. Nu rapporteras det dagligen om terrorattacker och 35 personer har dött i år, många fler har skadats.

Four terrorist attacks in 24 hours: A timeline of August 2023 (Jerusalem Post)

                                                                         Bild: Jerusalem Post

Israel sees one of deadliest terrorism years since Second Intifada (Jerusalem Post)

Thirty-five people have been murdered in terrorist attacks in Israel so far this year, making it one of the deadliest years since the Second Intifada.

With the death of the 34th victim, who was murdered in Hebron on Monday, 2023 surpassed 2022, when 33 people 2343 killed in terrorist attacks.

After Monday's attack, Israel has now seen an average of one person murdered in a terrorist attack per week, with the first taking place at the end of January and at least one being carried out every month this year.

Israeli soldier murdered, five injured in terror truck ramming Jerusalem Post)

An IDF soldier was murdered and five others were wounded in a terror ramming by an oncoming truck at the Maccabim checkpoint on the central Jerusalem-Tel Aviv Route 443 highway on Thursday morning.

Four IDF soldiers wounded in Joseph's Tomb terror explosion

An IDF officer and three soldiers were injured after a large explosive device was detonated by Palestinian terrorists as Israeli forces entered Nablus to secure the entry of Jewish worshippers to Joseph's Tomb on Wednesday night, according to the IDF Spokesperson's Unit.

Israeli moderately hurt in Jerusalem attack; Palestinian teen stabber shot dead (Times of Israel)

14-year-old assailant stabs man in 20s in back at Shivtei Israel light rail station near Old City, before being apparently disarmed by civilians, shot by Border Police officer

Artificiell intelligens om judarnas rätt till eget land

Jag testade Microsofts chatt med artificiell intelligens. Frågade om judarnas rätt till en självständig stat.

Fick ett allmänt svar där man hänvisade till judarnas religiösa och historiska bakgrund i landet och ett konstaterande att det finns olika åsikter i frågan.

Frågade sedan varför den inte nämnde San Remo deklarationen. Till svar fick jag ett konstaterande att deklarationen är ett juridiskt bindande dokument som ger judarna rätt till landet, men att den inte ville ta upp den i en kort allmän förklaring. Bad om ursäkt för saken ifall jag tyckte att dokumentet var viktigt.

Frågade ännu varför den inte nämnde att Storbritannien uttryckligen fick administrera Palestina mandatet för att där återupprätta judarnas egen stat. Svar ungefär som ovan, den höll med och bad om ursäkt.

Min slutsats: Artificiell intelligens är säkert bra på många saker men lita för allt i världen inte på den. Den är ingen objektiv sanningssägare utan styrs av den information den har tillgänglig och antagligen av hur frågorna ställs. Den var i alla fall väldigt artig!

Positivt också att den accepterade fakta utan argumentera emot. Det är mer än vad man kan säga om många människor jag diskuterat med. Det hjälper kanske att inte vara känslomässigt engagerad.

Vad händer i Israel nu?

En intervju med general Yossi Kuperwasser där den utmanande situation Israel befinner sig i diskuteras.

What Matters Now to Brig. Gen. Yossi Kuperwasser: Breaking the terror wave

After a bloody week, a leading intelligence expert analyses recent IDF successes in the West Bank, offers points for improvement and tells us what keeps him up at night

"...The mindset is much wider. Palestinians have a narrative. The incitement is the effort to instill this narrative in the minds of any Palestinian, from day one and to keep him committed to this narrative all along his life.

And this narrative says, first of all, Jews are not a people. That’s why they do not deserve a state, they are just a religion.

Secondly, Jews never had a sovereign history in this piece of land. That’s why they were fighting in the 1920s against the idea that the British Mandate was to reconstitute the Jewish national home in Palestine. They said there was never such a sovereign state, which is nonsense, of course, but of course, there was a Jewish state in so-called Palestine, in Eretz Yisrael [the Land of Israel].

And the third element in this narrative is that the Jews are terrible creatures. It’s a very antisemitic narrative. The Jews are terrible creatures. Nobody wanted them to live next to them, so they sent them away from Europe. The Europeans couldn’t stand them. They sent them away and they sent them to this place because they thought that this was going to help them keep the Muslims away from Europe. They are terrible creatures, according to all the lines of the antisemitic European versions of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and so on, so forth. And on top of that, there is the addition of the Muslim antisemitic approach to Judaism, that the Jews are the descendants of apes and pigs and all of that. And because of that, there is no justification for the Jews to live next to us. Why are we to suffer? Nobody wants to live next to the Jews. Why should we Palestinians live next to the Jews? And because the Jews are such terrible creatures, it is allowed to kill them.

And the fourth element in this narrative is that, if you want to be a good Palestinian, you have and you want to contribute to the struggle against Zionism that wants to bring the Jews to this place, you have to be struggling against it. You have to contribute to the struggle. And there are all kinds of ways in which you can contribute to the struggle. You can write poems, you can stick to your land, you can promote BDS, fight against the legitimacy of Israel abroad, you can use lower levels of violence and you can use higher levels of violence. All of them are parts of the struggle against Zionism. And everybody who participates in the struggle against Zionism should be appreciated and rewarded.

And the fifth element is that our struggle is not only national, it’s also religious. We are fighting for Islam and for the Palestinian Arab people. And there’s no way to separate the two. They’re totally intertwined. That’s why you always see that those who carry out the attacks they speak about, they turn into shahids and martyrs, religious martyrs, and they always speak on behalf of Allah. And they do that for Islam, not only for Palestinian nationalism.

And the sixth element, which is also very important, is that we, the Palestinians, are the only victims of this conflict. And the logic of victimhood, of course, justifies the ongoing terrorism.

And finally, the final element in this seven-point narrative is that we should never accept Israel as a Jewish state because of all of the above. We should never accept Israel as a Jewish state. That’s why the conflict perpetuates because they are not ready to accept Israel as a nation-state of the Jewish people, democratic and with full rights to its Arab citizens. It doesn’t matter. As long as it’s defined as a Jewish state, they are not ready to accept it like that.

And that’s why they make it clear that they fight for Palestine to be free, as they say, from the river to the sea. The existence of Israel is something that is not acceptable, Israel as a nation-state of Jewish people. Some of them can see, even some of Hamas can see, a certain interim stage in which there is something called “Israel,” which is not the nation-state of the Jewish people, but the nation-state, the state of all its citizens. That can be some sort of an interim stage, but it’s a stage on the way of liberating all of Palestine..."

När nyheter förvanskar verkligheten

 Ett nytt exempel på hur media väljer att vinkla nyheter från Israel.

I måndags attackerades israeliska styrkor i Jenin där de var för att arrestera terrorister. Enligt uttalanden från Islamsk Jihad var det de som detonerade en bomb som skadade ett bepansrat fordon med israeliska soldater varefter en våldsam eldstrid utbröt. Sju israeliska soldater skadades och Israel satte in en attackhelikopter för att rädda de israeliska soldaterna.

Händelsen nådde över nyhetströskeln i lokaltidningen Österbottens Tidning som publicerade en artikel av TT.

Rubriken var: Ny upptrappning: Attack- helikoptrar på Västbanken.

"För första gången på 20 år har Israel satt in attackhelikoptrar på Västbanken, rapporterar israeliska medier. Det skedde i samband med en ”massiv eldstrid” efter en dödlig israelisk räd i Jenin."

(Enligt israelisk media var det fråga om en helikopter som användes, TT  skriver "helikoptrar")

I artikeln finns inte ordet terrorist, det nämns bara att "När säkerhetsstyrkorna­ lämnade staden träffades ett militärfordon av en sprängladdning vilket skadade ­fordonet”, enligt det israeliska försvaret, IDF. "

Israelisk media fäste uppmärksamhet på att händelsen visar  att den palestinska myndigheten totalt saknar kontroll över Jenin området, att terroristerna nu har starkare vapen till sitt förfogande och att vissa områden på västbanken till en del börjar likna förhållandena i Gaza.

Dagen efter denna händelse dödades fyra israeler av terrorister på västbanken och fyra skadades.

Den händelsen nådde inte över nyhetströskeln. Orsakerna kan var många men oberoende av orsak blir det en vinkling. Terrorattacker rapporteras inte, bara händelser där Israel i rubriker kan utpekas som angripare eller den som trappar upp situationen och utfört dödliga räder.

Detta är naturligtvis inget nytt. Såhär har det pågått åtminstone i tiotals år och såhär förs människor bakom ljuset.

Four Israelis killed, four injured in terror shooting at West Bank gas station

Palestinian gunmen affiliated with the Hamas terror group opened fire at a gas station in the West Bank on Tuesday afternoon, killing four Israelis and wounding four others, the military and medics said.

5 Palestinians dead, 8 IDF troops hurt in Jenin battle; Apache carries out airstrikes

Israeli military vehicle hit by roadside bomb, gunfire; helicopter gunship fires missiles at gunmen to allow evacuation of wounded troops; 91 Palestinians said hurt

Look at Jenin for a preview of what awaits the day after Abbas - analysis

As National Security Adviser Tzachi Hanegbi said in a KAN Bet interview on Monday, soldiers operate in the extremely hostile environment of Jenin to prevent terror attacks in the heart of Israeli cities.

"If we don't meet those roadside bombs in Jenin, we will meet them on buses in Jerusalem or as car bombs in Tel Aviv. We have to bring the battle to the enemy," he said. "That is what the IDF has done for months, with amazing results. But it is not an easy battle."

Monday’s battle was especially difficult and necessitated using an Apache attack helicopter to help extricate the wounded – the first time air power was used during an operation in Judea and Samaria in some 20 years since the Second Intifada.

Jenin looking more and more like Gaza, Lebanon - analysis

The clashes, which lasted for more than eight hours and resulted in seven soldiers wounded and five Palestinians dead, are also seen to be an indication of the Palestinian armed groups’ success in upgrading and developing their military capabilities and warfare tactics.

These groups seem to have gained a lot of experience as a result of almost daily clashes with Israeli security forces...

...Defiant Hamas and PIJ officials expressed satisfaction with the way the gunmen in Jenin engaged the soldiers. They claimed that dozens of gunmen belonging to various groups took part in the fighting.

How Israel can force Abbas' hand amid West Bank lawlessness - editorial

The clashes that occurred in Jenin on Monday, resulting in seven Israeli servicemen being wounded, mark a significant escalation by Palestinian terrorists against Israel, and highlight the Palestinian Authority’s failure to rein in the growing lawlessness in the West Bank. 

Over the past year, there has been a troubling erosion of the PA’s control and its willingness to contain the rising attacks. The perpetrators behind these attacks include armed gangs, terrorists, and the Iranian-backed Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Exploiting the power vacuum caused by the authority’s lack of governance, as well as Palestinians’ frustration therewith, these groups have entrenched themselves in Jenin and outlying areas of Samaria and have exploited them to plot and carry out attacks against Israelis.

Bezalel Smotrich och palestiniernas historia

 Senaste söndag uttalade sig minister Bezalel Smotrich om palestiniernas historia under en privat tillställning i Frankrike. Reaktionerna från omvärlden lät inte vänta på sig ,farligt, respektlöst, felaktigt var några av omdömena. Kan inte tolereras, sade EU.

Vad sade då Smotrich som var så hemskt? Kort sagt ingenting. (Smotrich är en politiker med extrema åsikter och borde inte enligt min mening sitta i en regering men det betyder inte automatiskt att allt han säger är fel.)

Smotrich:

- Det finns inget sådant som ett palestinskt folk. Vem är palestinier? Jag är, sade Smotrich vars förfäder bott i landet i 13 generationer och hans mormor/farmor  föddes där för över hundra år sedan.

- Det palestinska folket/nationen har existerat mindre än hundra år

- Det har aldrig existerat någon palestinsk kung, språk eller mynt

- När judarna började återvända till sitt land skapades den palestinska identiteten för att bekämpa judarna

-Palestinierna är araber från det kringliggande området som kom till Palestina samtidigt med den judiska immigrationen kom i gång

- Innan 1948 kallades området Palestina. Romarna gav området det namnet efter att de erövrat det.

Några fakta:

Det var romarna som gav området namnet Palestina efter att de förstört Jerusalem. Romarna ändrade också namnet på Jerusalem.

Efter första världskriget förvaltade Storbritannien området sedan  det erövrats av Ottomanska riket (Turkiet). Namnet Palestina bibehölls, det brittiska Palestina mandatet. Befolkningen i området bestod av araber och judar.

Ännu så sent som 1947 när FN gjorde upp en delningsplan för området fanns det ingen folkgrupp som kallade sig palestinier. Området skulle enligt FN delas mellan judar och araber, inte ett ord om palestinier som beteckning på araberna som bodde i området.

När PLO skrev sina stadgar på 1960-talet definierade de vem som var  palestinier. Man var noga med att poängtera att man var araber som bodde i Palestina och att Palestina var en del av det större arabiska hemlandet.

Det fanns inte några historiska fakta att hänvisa till när man ville definiera områdets gränser så man hänvisade till att hela det brittiska Palestina mandatet var Palestina (en knapp 30 år gammal gränsdragning).

Enligt PLO är en palestinier en arab som 1947 bodde på Palestina mandatets område. Alla barn som fötts efter det med en palestinsk far räknas också som palestinier.

En intressant detalj är att också en jude kunde räknas som palestinier, men bara om han bott i området innan den sionistiska invasionen började. När den invasionen började förblir oklart och det nämns inget om att barn till judar skulle räknas som palestinier. (Enligt PLO har alltså Smotrich rätt, nästan åtminstone. Hans mormor/farmor var palestinier enligt deras sätt att se på saken.)

Det står ändå klart att mellan 1947 och mitten av 1960-talet började araberna som bott på Palestina mandatets område kalla sig för palestinier med en klar betoning på att man ändå var araber. Araber var det man alltid hade varit och identifierat sig som. Precis som Smotrich säger kom den palestinska identiteten till för att bekämpa judarna. Det kommer fram klart i bl.a. PLO stadgan artikel 7.

Det mesta av vad Smotrich sade var alltså välkända och dokumenterade fakta. Ingenting att bli upprörd över. Tyvärr verkar omvärlden ändå välja att försvara den palestinska fantasihistorieskrivningen.

När Smotrich säger att palestinierna är araber från det kringliggande området som kom till Palestina samtidigt med den judiska immigrationen har han delvis rätt. Det finns araber som bott i området i hundratals år men det finns också många som flyttade till området eftersom den judiska immigrationen skapade många arbetsplatser. Men som sagt, om man bodde där 1947 räknas man som palestinier.

Trots att det historiskt sett inte funnits något palestinskt folk har det nu under flera årtionden byggts upp en palestinsk identitet. En identitet som långt grundar sig på en falsk historieskrivning men den finns i alla fall. Det är kanske något som Smotrich blundar för.

Fati Hammad, en minister i Hamasstyrda Gaza förklarade för tio år sedan följande:

Vem är palestinier?

"Allah be praised, we all have Arab roots, and every Palestinian, in Gaza and throughout Palestine, can prove his Arab roots - whether from Saudi Arabia, from Yemen, or anywhere. We have blood ties. So where is your affection and mercy?

[...]
Personally, half my family is Egyptian. We are all like that. More than 30 families in the Gaza Strip are called Al-Masri ["Egyptian"]. Brothers, half of the Palestinians are Egyptians and the other half are Saudis.
Who are the Palestinians? We have many families called Al-Masri, whose roots are Egyptian. Egyptian! They may be from Alexandria, from Cairo, from Dumietta, from the North, from Aswan, from Upper Egypt. We are Egyptians. We are Arabs. We are Muslims. We are a part of you."

Palestine Liberation Organization: The Palestine National Charter

Article 1 Palestine is the homeland of the Arab Palestinian people; it is an indivisible part of the greater Arab homeland, and the Palestinian people are an integral part of the Arab nation.

Article 2: Palestine, with the boundaries it had during the British Mandate, is an indivisible territorial unit.

Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally resided in Palestine regardless of whether they were evicted from it or stayed there. Anyone born, after that date, of a Palestinian father- whether in Palestine or outside it- is also a Palestinian.

Article 6: The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion are considered Palestinians.

Article 7:

That there is a Palestinian community and that it has material, spiritual, and historical connection with Palestine are indisputable facts. It is a national duty to bring up individual Palestinians in an Arab revolutionary manner. All means of information and education must be adopted in order to acquaint the Palestinian with his country in the most profound manner, both spiritual and material, that is possible. He must be prepared for the armed struggle and ready to sacrifice his wealth and his life in order to win back his homeland and bring about its liberation.

Israel's Smotrich: There is no such thing as a Palestinian people

US joins condemnations of Smotrich’s ‘concerning and dangerous’ Paris speech