Hamas says Gaza blockade must end before ceasefire
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I agree, a blockade thats concentration, that's their camp, their prison, a zoological pasture, whose cattle may be butchered at will. The blockade is the act of genocide, slow but sure, protracted torture of the most satanic kind,
Hamas leader Khaled Meshal was in Doha, Wednesday, telling reporters from his five-star hotel the hardline Islamists would not back down from their bloody fight with Israel until Gaza’s borders are opened, and the crippling Israeli and Egyptian blockade of the embattled territory’s coast lifted.
Palestinians, the terrorist in exile affirmed, are “the true owners of the land.” But is Hamas the true voice of the Palestinian people and do Gazans have the same zeal for the struggle as the organization that claims to be carrying it out on their behalf?
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This question was asked in a poll conducted by a “highly respected” Palestinian pollster for David Pollock, a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The results, released last month, found the average Palestinian — the family man in Gaza — wanted peace, along with an end to government corruption, crime and the terrorist group’s influence on daily life. But, most of all, he wanted a steady job — in Israel — not a fresh round of Hamas rocket fire, followed by Israeli retaliation.
“I was quite surprised by the findings,” Dr. Pollock said from Washington.
Seventy percent of the 450 respondents agreed Hamas should “maintain a cease-fire.” More than 70% said non-violent resistance had a “positive impact” and wished Israel would open up its borders so they could go there to work.
“It is counterintuitive, at first glance,” Dr. Pollock said. “But, if you think about the results of the poll, on reflection, they make perfect sense.
“These are people who have lived under Hamas rule for the last seven years and they don’t like it. [G]iven the nature of the economic problems in Gaza, the corruption, the repressive nature of Hamas rule and, on top of that, of civilians being subjected to danger because they are caught in the middle of Hamas launching rockets and Israel retaliating, you put all that together and it makes perfect sense why Hamas is so unpopular in Gaza.”
Only 3% of respondents said Mr. Meshal “should be the president of Palestine in the next two years,” while 32.4% supported Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, who has pledged to “renounce violence” as a tactic.
So what is Hamas up to, then, firing rockets, refusing to back to down and trading punches with Israel even when the Gazans it professes to represent have scant appetite for the fight?
Dr. Pollock suggests the end game for Hamas is what the world is witnessing now: Gaza in flames; dead Palestinians; rockets being fired into Israel daily; and more declarations, by the likes of Mr. Meshal, there is no foreseeable peace unless the Israelis come to the table first, with concessions.
“They want to demonstrate that they can hurt Israel, even if their own people, their own movement, doesn’t get any benefit out of it,” he said.
“Hurting Israel, in and of itself, is seen as a victory for Hamas.”
Although the struggle will also end up hurting Gaza residents, Hamas is concerned about the optics.
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Every terrorist group needs financial backers. Trading blows with Israel shows the sympathetic Islamist, safe at home in Egypt, or Turkey, or Qatar, Hamas is still a force to be reckoned with in the region. When and if a ceasefire is struck, and if a theoretical agreement includes even the most modest give by the Israelis, Hamas can point to its rockets and its resolve as having carried the day.
To an outsider, it looks like a fool’s game. But in the West Bank — where Mr. Abbas rules and Palestinians are not being killed — the no-surrender attitude is generating support.
AP Photo/Lefteris PitarakisMembers of a Palestinian Muslim family on the grounds of the St. Porphyrios church in Gaza City where they had seek refuge from the war, Wednesday, July 23, 2014.
A fresh round of polling, conducted by the Arab World For Research & Development and published Tuesday, revealed 44% of the 450 Palestinians surveyed on the West Bank don’t want a ceasefire.
Of course, it’s easy for them. They are not living in Gaza, whose residents want above all a decent life.
“What jumped out at me the most in our survey is that so many of the people in Gaza want a job in Israel and there is no chance of this happening now,” Dr. Pollock said.
“Their own government is a sworn enemy of Israel. They shoot rockets at Israel every day and yet the Gazans themselves wish that they could work in Israel. And that, to me, is remarkable.”
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Average Gaza citizen wants a steady job — in Israel — not more Hamas rocket fire, poll finds | National Post
Palestinians, the terrorist in exile affirmed, are “the true owners of the land.” But is Hamas the true voice of the Palestinian people and do Gazans have the same zeal for the struggle as the organization that claims to be carrying it out on their behalf?
NPCLICK TO ENLARGEThis question was asked in a poll conducted by a “highly respected” Palestinian pollster for David Pollock, a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
The results, released last month, found the average Palestinian — the family man in Gaza — wanted peace, along with an end to government corruption, crime and the terrorist group’s influence on daily life. But, most of all, he wanted a steady job — in Israel — not a fresh round of Hamas rocket fire, followed by Israeli retaliation.
“I was quite surprised by the findings,” Dr. Pollock said from Washington.
Seventy percent of the 450 respondents agreed Hamas should “maintain a cease-fire.” More than 70% said non-violent resistance had a “positive impact” and wished Israel would open up its borders so they could go there to work.
“It is counterintuitive, at first glance,” Dr. Pollock said. “But, if you think about the results of the poll, on reflection, they make perfect sense.
“These are people who have lived under Hamas rule for the last seven years and they don’t like it. [G]iven the nature of the economic problems in Gaza, the corruption, the repressive nature of Hamas rule and, on top of that, of civilians being subjected to danger because they are caught in the middle of Hamas launching rockets and Israel retaliating, you put all that together and it makes perfect sense why Hamas is so unpopular in Gaza.”
Only 3% of respondents said Mr. Meshal “should be the president of Palestine in the next two years,” while 32.4% supported Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian Authority president, who has pledged to “renounce violence” as a tactic.
So what is Hamas up to, then, firing rockets, refusing to back to down and trading punches with Israel even when the Gazans it professes to represent have scant appetite for the fight?
Dr. Pollock suggests the end game for Hamas is what the world is witnessing now: Gaza in flames; dead Palestinians; rockets being fired into Israel daily; and more declarations, by the likes of Mr. Meshal, there is no foreseeable peace unless the Israelis come to the table first, with concessions.
“They want to demonstrate that they can hurt Israel, even if their own people, their own movement, doesn’t get any benefit out of it,” he said.
“Hurting Israel, in and of itself, is seen as a victory for Hamas.”
Although the struggle will also end up hurting Gaza residents, Hamas is concerned about the optics.
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Every terrorist group needs financial backers. Trading blows with Israel shows the sympathetic Islamist, safe at home in Egypt, or Turkey, or Qatar, Hamas is still a force to be reckoned with in the region. When and if a ceasefire is struck, and if a theoretical agreement includes even the most modest give by the Israelis, Hamas can point to its rockets and its resolve as having carried the day.
To an outsider, it looks like a fool’s game. But in the West Bank — where Mr. Abbas rules and Palestinians are not being killed — the no-surrender attitude is generating support.
A fresh round of polling, conducted by the Arab World For Research & Development and published Tuesday, revealed 44% of the 450 Palestinians surveyed on the West Bank don’t want a ceasefire.
Of course, it’s easy for them. They are not living in Gaza, whose residents want above all a decent life.
“What jumped out at me the most in our survey is that so many of the people in Gaza want a job in Israel and there is no chance of this happening now,” Dr. Pollock said.
“Their own government is a sworn enemy of Israel. They shoot rockets at Israel every day and yet the Gazans themselves wish that they could work in Israel. And that, to me, is remarkable.”
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Average Gaza citizen wants a steady job — in Israel — not more Hamas rocket fire, poll finds | National Post
The questionnaire asked if they would work in Israel rather than they preferred to work in Israel rather than Gaza, they do have access to international waters so there could be lots of work just in tourism alone, watch the Jews inside their self built cage. (and charge admission)
The questionnaire never brought up the 'right of return' that would have to be part of the deal as Gaza holds Arab refugees from Israel so really it isn't as important as would be if that question was asked. What father would want his family to be in an active warzone or would prefer to live in an economically depressed area. Gaza could be bustling without having to seek jobs in Israel. The question asked in Israel would be that they do not have that right as Israel is to be their masters. So far land and off-shore resources have been stolen, I don't see Israel offering to undo that so it was premeditated land stealing and greed not security was the motivator.
Gaza conflict: As a British Jew, I am now scared to talk about Israel and Gaza
It is terrifying to see those who oppose Israel’s war in Gaza turn against all Jews
It’s perfectly valid to oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza, even if you’re an Israeli yourself Photo: EPA
By Emma Barnett
23 Jul 2014
The Telegraph
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It’s not often that I wish I could unhear BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. But yesterday morning, that’s exactly what I found myself wishing I could do.
The final item before the 8am news bulletin tried to explore how Israeli Jews in the UK feel about the situation in Gaza. The discussion also rather messily strayed into how British Jews feel about the conflict.
In one corner you had Mira Bar-Hillel, representing self-loathing Israelis; in the other, the worried-sounding Reform rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, wringing her hands. Bar-Hillel, a freelance writer who usually specialises in pieces on property, was lent the ears of seven million people to explain why she wants to burn her Israeli passport. “Not in my name,” she said in a breathy, mock-dramatic tone – to enforce just how much she loathes Israel’s latest military operation.
Fair enough: it’s perfectly valid to oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza, even if you’re an Israeli yourself. But it was what Bar-Hillel went on to say that really had me seething. She claimed to have “a lot of evidence” that many of Britain’s 290,000 Jews (Britain has the world's fifth-largest Jewish population after Israel, USA, France and Canada) won’t speak up against Israel out of fear of being “ex-communicated” from their local community. Some of these mysterious people, whose names she couldn’t possibly provide, had told her that should they voice a dissenting view, they would be blocked from their local synagogues, their children would be bullied and they would even be denied a Jewish burial.
The magnificent Sarah Montague pushed Bar-Hillel for proof of this breathtaking accusation, at which point she said she didn’t want to “emphasise” the point too much – and also admitted that she wasn’t part of a Jewish community in Britain. At this point my usually mild-mannered husband, who, like me, happens to be Jewish, has lots of Israeli family members and is extremely concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism being disguised as anti-Israel sentiment, stood up and left our breakfast table in disgust.
The truth is that up and down this island, Jews are arguing, debating, crying and worrying about what’s going on in an even smaller country (one that is exactly the same size as Wales) across the ocean. Some British Jews are fasting for peace; some are angry at one or both sides; but many are just scared – scared not just about events in Gaza, but events in Europe. These include reports about gangs of Muslims chanting “death to Jews” on the streets of France, and attacking synagogues and setting fire to Jewish-owned stores. Eighteen people were subsequently arrested in the suburb of Sarcelles, just outside Paris, where this particular outpouring of violence happened. The stunned local mayor says the Jewish community is now living in fear.
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is hoping to become Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister next year. Mr Miliband is the son of Jewish immigrants. His mother is a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust thanks to being protected by Poles. His father Ralph Miliband was a Belgian-born Marxist academic of Polish Jewish origin who fled with his parents to England during WWII. Sixty members of Ed Miliband's family were killed during the Holocaust, including his grandfather, who died in a labour camp
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany, too. In Essen, 14 people have just been arrested, accused of plotting an attack on a synagogue. Protesters at a rally in Berlin turned on two Israeli tourists (identifiable by the man’s skull-cap) so viciously that they had to be protected by the police. The city’s authorities have also had to ban pro-Gaza protesters from chanting anti-Semitic slogans and are investigating a sermon last week by Abu Bilal Ismail calling on worshippers at Berlin’s Al-Nur mosque to murder Jews. Jews, not Israelis.
The situation is so bad that the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy have issued a joint statement condemning the rise in anti-Semitic protests and violence in response to the Gaza conflict – and saying they will do everything possible to combat it. “Anti-Semitic rhetoric and hostility against Jews, attacks on people of Jewish belief and synagogues have no place in our societies,” they felt compelled publicly to state.
Yet since the start of the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel, protesters marching in anti-Israel demonstrations have regularly held up anti-Semitic slogans, shouting for Jews to be gassed, invoking the Holocaust’s chambers of doom. The situation in Britain hasn’t been much better. Last week’s major pro-Palestine rally, which stopped London’s traffic, was littered with placards comparing Israel’s – and Jews’ – actions to the Nazis (“Well done Israel – Hitler would be proud”, read one such sign, accompanied by a swastika). This casual interchange of “Israel” for “Jews” is not just ignorant but often terrifying, especially when linked to references to past atrocities. Indeed, what other group of people get the worst experience in their – or anyone’s – history launched at them like a hand grenade?
Last Sunday thousands of people – Jews and non-Jews – gathered at the Israeli embassy in London to take part in a peaceful pro-Israel rally, which unsurprisingly garnered very little mainstream press attention. Anti-Jewish remarks were lobbed at the crowd by the pro-Palestinian opposition groups who turned up, leading to a few being carried away by the police.
Where is the hand-wringing from the liberal Left about this new wave of anti-Semitism? To Mira Bar-Hillel, and others, I’d say this: British Jews aren’t scared to talk to each other about the situation in Israel. We’re becoming scared to talk at all.
Gaza conflict: As a British Jew, I am now scared to talk about Israel and Gaza - Telegraph
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A pre-season "friendly" match between Israeli side Maccabi Haifa and French side Lille in Austria (the home of history's most famous anti-Semite) was stopped early when Muslim thugs, representing the Religion of Peace, stormed the pitch and attacked the Maccabi Haifa players.
Thankfully, the players fought back well and managed to leave the pitch unhurt.
Maccabi Haifa's friendly with Lille stopped early after pro-Palestinian protesters storm the pitch and ATTACK the players
Protestors reportedly of Turkish origin attacked Maccabi players
Some Maccabi players fought back as did coach Aleksander Stanojevic
Lille were winning 2-0 when pre-season game was stopped after 86 minutes
24 July 2014
Daily Mail
Maccabi Haifa's pre-season game against Lille in Austria was stopped when pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the pitch.
With Lille winning 2-0, supporters of reportedly Turkish origin entered the pitch and headed for the Maccabi players, including captain Yossi Benayoun, formerly of Chelsea, Liverpool and QPR.
One of the players is seen to trip a fan before punches were thrown. The Maccabi stars - some of whom retaliated - managed to leave the field unhurt.
Attack: Protestors storm the pitch and appear to attack the Maccabi Haifa players
Ugly scenes: The Muslims, showing what a peaceful religion they are, attack the Maccabi Haifa players forcing the game to be called off early
Brawl: Protestors and Maccabi Haifa players clash after the game is stopped
Hitting back: Several Maccabi Haifa players were spotted fighting back after being attacked
Tension: Pro-Palestinian supporters attacked the Maccabi Haifa players
Maccabi coach Aleksandar Stanojevic was said to have punched a protester.
The referee was forced to stop the game in the 86th minute before eventually bringing the game to an end early.
Banners calling for the liberation of Palestine were also displayed by certain sections of the crowd.
Israel is currently engaged in hostilities with Hamas, a militant group that runs the Gaza Strip.
Before the ugly scenes, Lille had been ahead thanks to goals from Ryan Mendes and Simon Kjaer.
Last month UEFA announced that Israeli clubs could not host European matches due to the 'unrest' in Israel.
Making their point: Supporters were seen holding up racist banners
Apprehended: A security guard manages to pull down one of the protestors
It is terrifying to see those who oppose Israel’s war in Gaza turn against all Jews
It’s perfectly valid to oppose Prime Minister Netanyahu’s actions in Gaza, even if you’re an Israeli yourself Photo: EPA
By Emma Barnett
23 Jul 2014
The Telegraph
It’s not often that I wish I could unhear BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. But yesterday morning, that’s exactly what I found myself wishing I could do.
The final item before the 8am news bulletin tried to explore how Israeli Jews in the UK feel about the situation in Gaza. The discussion also rather messily strayed into how British Jews feel about the conflict.
In one corner you had Mira Bar-Hillel, representing self-loathing Israelis; in the other, the worried-sounding Reform rabbi Laura Janner-Klausner, wringing her hands. Bar-Hillel, a freelance writer who usually specialises in pieces on property, was lent the ears of seven million people to explain why she wants to burn her Israeli passport. “Not in my name,” she said in a breathy, mock-dramatic tone – to enforce just how much she loathes Israel’s latest military operation.
Fair enough: it’s perfectly valid to oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza, even if you’re an Israeli yourself. But it was what Bar-Hillel went on to say that really had me seething. She claimed to have “a lot of evidence” that many of Britain’s 290,000 Jews (Britain has the world's fifth-largest Jewish population after Israel, USA, France and Canada) won’t speak up against Israel out of fear of being “ex-communicated” from their local community. Some of these mysterious people, whose names she couldn’t possibly provide, had told her that should they voice a dissenting view, they would be blocked from their local synagogues, their children would be bullied and they would even be denied a Jewish burial.
The magnificent Sarah Montague pushed Bar-Hillel for proof of this breathtaking accusation, at which point she said she didn’t want to “emphasise” the point too much – and also admitted that she wasn’t part of a Jewish community in Britain. At this point my usually mild-mannered husband, who, like me, happens to be Jewish, has lots of Israeli family members and is extremely concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism being disguised as anti-Israel sentiment, stood up and left our breakfast table in disgust.
The truth is that up and down this island, Jews are arguing, debating, crying and worrying about what’s going on in an even smaller country (one that is exactly the same size as Wales) across the ocean. Some British Jews are fasting for peace; some are angry at one or both sides; but many are just scared – scared not just about events in Gaza, but events in Europe. These include reports about gangs of Muslims chanting “death to Jews” on the streets of France, and attacking synagogues and setting fire to Jewish-owned stores. Eighteen people were subsequently arrested in the suburb of Sarcelles, just outside Paris, where this particular outpouring of violence happened. The stunned local mayor says the Jewish community is now living in fear.
Labour Party leader Ed Miliband is hoping to become Britain's first Jewish Prime Minister next year. Mr Miliband is the son of Jewish immigrants. His mother is a Polish Jew who survived the Holocaust thanks to being protected by Poles. His father Ralph Miliband was a Belgian-born Marxist academic of Polish Jewish origin who fled with his parents to England during WWII. Sixty members of Ed Miliband's family were killed during the Holocaust, including his grandfather, who died in a labour camp
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany, too. In Essen, 14 people have just been arrested, accused of plotting an attack on a synagogue. Protesters at a rally in Berlin turned on two Israeli tourists (identifiable by the man’s skull-cap) so viciously that they had to be protected by the police. The city’s authorities have also had to ban pro-Gaza protesters from chanting anti-Semitic slogans and are investigating a sermon last week by Abu Bilal Ismail calling on worshippers at Berlin’s Al-Nur mosque to murder Jews. Jews, not Israelis.
The situation is so bad that the foreign ministers of Germany, France and Italy have issued a joint statement condemning the rise in anti-Semitic protests and violence in response to the Gaza conflict – and saying they will do everything possible to combat it. “Anti-Semitic rhetoric and hostility against Jews, attacks on people of Jewish belief and synagogues have no place in our societies,” they felt compelled publicly to state.
Yet since the start of the latest conflict between Hamas and Israel, protesters marching in anti-Israel demonstrations have regularly held up anti-Semitic slogans, shouting for Jews to be gassed, invoking the Holocaust’s chambers of doom. The situation in Britain hasn’t been much better. Last week’s major pro-Palestine rally, which stopped London’s traffic, was littered with placards comparing Israel’s – and Jews’ – actions to the Nazis (“Well done Israel – Hitler would be proud”, read one such sign, accompanied by a swastika). This casual interchange of “Israel” for “Jews” is not just ignorant but often terrifying, especially when linked to references to past atrocities. Indeed, what other group of people get the worst experience in their – or anyone’s – history launched at them like a hand grenade?
Last Sunday thousands of people – Jews and non-Jews – gathered at the Israeli embassy in London to take part in a peaceful pro-Israel rally, which unsurprisingly garnered very little mainstream press attention. Anti-Jewish remarks were lobbed at the crowd by the pro-Palestinian opposition groups who turned up, leading to a few being carried away by the police.
Where is the hand-wringing from the liberal Left about this new wave of anti-Semitism? To Mira Bar-Hillel, and others, I’d say this: British Jews aren’t scared to talk to each other about the situation in Israel. We’re becoming scared to talk at all.
Gaza conflict: As a British Jew, I am now scared to talk about Israel and Gaza - Telegraph
*************************************
A pre-season "friendly" match between Israeli side Maccabi Haifa and French side Lille in Austria (the home of history's most famous anti-Semite) was stopped early when Muslim thugs, representing the Religion of Peace, stormed the pitch and attacked the Maccabi Haifa players.
Thankfully, the players fought back well and managed to leave the pitch unhurt.
Maccabi Haifa's friendly with Lille stopped early after pro-Palestinian protesters storm the pitch and ATTACK the players
Protestors reportedly of Turkish origin attacked Maccabi players
Some Maccabi players fought back as did coach Aleksander Stanojevic
Lille were winning 2-0 when pre-season game was stopped after 86 minutes
24 July 2014
Daily Mail
Maccabi Haifa's pre-season game against Lille in Austria was stopped when pro-Palestinian protesters stormed the pitch.
With Lille winning 2-0, supporters of reportedly Turkish origin entered the pitch and headed for the Maccabi players, including captain Yossi Benayoun, formerly of Chelsea, Liverpool and QPR.
One of the players is seen to trip a fan before punches were thrown. The Maccabi stars - some of whom retaliated - managed to leave the field unhurt.
Attack: Protestors storm the pitch and appear to attack the Maccabi Haifa players
Ugly scenes: The Muslims, showing what a peaceful religion they are, attack the Maccabi Haifa players forcing the game to be called off early
Brawl: Protestors and Maccabi Haifa players clash after the game is stopped
Hitting back: Several Maccabi Haifa players were spotted fighting back after being attacked
Tension: Pro-Palestinian supporters attacked the Maccabi Haifa players
Maccabi coach Aleksandar Stanojevic was said to have punched a protester.
The referee was forced to stop the game in the 86th minute before eventually bringing the game to an end early.
Banners calling for the liberation of Palestine were also displayed by certain sections of the crowd.
Israel is currently engaged in hostilities with Hamas, a militant group that runs the Gaza Strip.
Before the ugly scenes, Lille had been ahead thanks to goals from Ryan Mendes and Simon Kjaer.
Last month UEFA announced that Israeli clubs could not host European matches due to the 'unrest' in Israel.
Making their point: Supporters were seen holding up racist banners
Apprehended: A security guard manages to pull down one of the protestors
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“highly respected” Palestinian pollster for David Pollock, a Middle East expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy
Highly respected by scum.
Highly respected by scum.
Hamas benevolent? ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
You just made my day! lol lol lol lol
This is typical of the conflict. Events on the goround take a back seat ot the propaganda war waged by either side. If they put half the effort into living with one another that they put into their PR campaigns, this thing would've been licked years ago.
(in part)
Fair enough: it’s perfectly valid to oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza, even if you’re an Israeli yourself. But it was what Bar-Hillel went on to say that really had me seething. She claimed to have “a lot of evidence” that many of Britain’s 290,000 Jews (Britain has the world's fifth-largest Jewish population after Israel, USA, France and Canada) won’t speak up against Israel out of fear of being “ex-communicated” from their local community. Some of these mysterious people, whose names she couldn’t possibly provide, had told her that should they voice a dissenting view, they would be blocked from their local synagogues, their children would be bullied and they would even be denied a Jewish burial.
The magnificent Sarah Montague pushed Bar-Hillel for proof of this breathtaking accusation, at which point she said she didn’t want to “emphasise” the point too much – and also admitted that she wasn’t part of a Jewish community in Britain. At this point my usually mild-mannered husband, who, like me, happens to be Jewish, has lots of Israeli family members and is extremely concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism being disguised as anti-Israel sentiment, stood up and left our breakfast table in disgust.
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I wonder how many in Gaza even have breakfast or a table to walk away from.
I call Judge Goldstone to the stand. Apparently he has left the building after being chastised by 'the collective' for voicing concerns about Cast Lead.
Fair enough: it’s perfectly valid to oppose Israel’s actions in Gaza, even if you’re an Israeli yourself. But it was what Bar-Hillel went on to say that really had me seething. She claimed to have “a lot of evidence” that many of Britain’s 290,000 Jews (Britain has the world's fifth-largest Jewish population after Israel, USA, France and Canada) won’t speak up against Israel out of fear of being “ex-communicated” from their local community. Some of these mysterious people, whose names she couldn’t possibly provide, had told her that should they voice a dissenting view, they would be blocked from their local synagogues, their children would be bullied and they would even be denied a Jewish burial.
The magnificent Sarah Montague pushed Bar-Hillel for proof of this breathtaking accusation, at which point she said she didn’t want to “emphasise” the point too much – and also admitted that she wasn’t part of a Jewish community in Britain. At this point my usually mild-mannered husband, who, like me, happens to be Jewish, has lots of Israeli family members and is extremely concerned about the rising tide of anti-Semitism being disguised as anti-Israel sentiment, stood up and left our breakfast table in disgust.
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I wonder how many in Gaza even have breakfast or a table to walk away from.
I call Judge Goldstone to the stand. Apparently he has left the building after being chastised by 'the collective' for voicing concerns about Cast Lead.
Since you aren't coming to their 'rescue' (even though Canada obligated to) you won't mind if others do. It won't turn the battle like it did in Syria but at least the ones in Gaza will know they won't die alone.
Since you breakfast is already in shambles here is something to do the same to the rest of your day. You beloved benevolent Isreal.
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The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal (KLWCT) after listening to the testimonies of 11 prosecution witnesses and voluminous documentary evidence and extensive submissions by the prosecution and amicus curiae delivered its judgement on the two charges against the State of Israel and retired Army general Amos Yaron.
After considering the evidence by the prosecution and the submissions by both the Prosecution and the Amicus Curiae Defence teams, the Tribunal found the State of Israel guilty of genocide, and Amos Yaron of crimes against humanity and genocide.
In its judgement read by the President Tan Sri Lamin, the tribunal had heard the testimonies of 11 witnesses from Gaza, West Bank, expert witnesses as well as a renowned historian.
War Crimes Tribunal: “Beyond Reasonable Doubt”, Israel Found Guilty of Genocide | Global Research
Being in a full room and being new to the job probably has him a bit flustered.
Israel Student Union Set Up “War Room” to Sell Gaza Massacre on Facebook | Global Research
Don't you mean dieing for peace? 4 f*cking time????, you have to be kidding, and you give Israel bonus points. At least we know your condition is untreatable, something like a pedophile but your hard-on comes from children being turned into hamburger as part of a collective punishment campaign.
BBC News - Gaza UN shelter shelled, 'killing 15'
At least 15 people have been killed and more than 200 injured when a UN-run school used as a shelter in Gaza was shelled, the Gaza health ministry says.
Hundreds of Palestinians were in the school in Beit Hanoun, fleeing heavy fighting in the area.
It is the fourth time that a UN facility has been hit in Israel's offensive against Hamas militants.
In the past 16 days of fighting, more than 750 Palestinians and 32 Israelis have been killed, officials say.