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ryuutchi · 5 years

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hey sorry to bother you with this but you seem educated on this topic so, do you perhaps know of resources where i can learn all about the conflict between israel and palestine without falling into a rabbit hole of antisemitic propaganda? i don't follow politics so i don't know anything about it but seeing some of your posts has made me want to learn more about this particular topic

I’m not, really. It’s not my topic, and my opinion is that the government of Israel is corrupt and shitty, much like the government of quite a number of other places that are in the middle of oppressing their own citizens. I have a lot of critiques of the Israeli government (not just the Occuptation, but the treatment of the bedouin and druze communities, racism against the Mizrahi community, the immigration policies for African migrants, the tacit approval of haredi treatment of women), but I’m also an American Jew-- my opinion matters, but not that much.

I tend to focus on Israeli charities that are somewhat less contentious (Women of the Wall and the African Refugee Development Center, for example). It feels like discussion of the I/P conflict is way out of my depth, so I try to stick to topics I can reliably wrap my head around.

That said, I’d start with pro-Israel site, HonestReporting’s “How To Criticize Israel Without Being Antisemitic”-- specifically points 3 and 4:

3. Criticize specific policiesVague assertions of Israeli control or evildoing echo centuries of vague assertions of Jewish control and mendaciousness. Both are smears, putting Jews and Israelis on the defensive against pernicious claims that are hard to pin down. If you want to honestly criticize Israel, do so by addressing specific issues and acts.

4. Make a fair attempt to understand Israeli policies

If you have an issue with Israeli policy, take the time to understand it and why it was implemented. For example, Israel’s security barrier. Where is it? Why was it placed there? What legal processes did it go through? What were the results on both sides?

The task of historians studying the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is an endless search for the island of "truth" amid the ocean of bias, prejudice, nationalism, and subjectivity, so it is really hard to balance knowledge and ideology, but here are some books that do a decent job:

The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East, by Sandy Tolan

Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, by Michael B. Oren (also Six Days of War by Michael B. Oren)

A History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict by Mark Tessler

My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit

Lives in Common: Arabs and Jews in Jerusalem Jaffa and Hebron, by Menachem Klein

The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Contested Histories, by Neil Caplan

“Once Upon a Country: A Palestinian Life by Sari Nusseibeh with Anthony David.

Edward Said, of course, is a classic-- I don’t fully agree with him (he’s definitely on the side of Israel as settler-colonial state, without exception for the fact that many Israelis were refugees, not settlers)

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worldnewsinpictures · 3 years

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The two state solution between Israel and Palestine is on life support, Prof Menachem Klein tells mattfrei as the US pledges aid to Gaza but the prospect of lasting peace remains fragile. Dear Channel4News, ..stop ethnic profiling. Leave us(Tegaru) alone.... Got an opinion about this? See what others are saying.... See MORE -> https://worldnewsinpictures.com/state-solution-israel-palestine-on-life #TheIsrael #TheIsraelPalestine #Menachem #MenachemKlein #MenachemKleinGaza #Channel4News #Channel4NewsLeave #Channel4NewsLeaveGot #SeeMORE #solution #Israel #Palestine

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astra-and-lilith · 4 years

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Der Milchmann

https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/tewje-der-milchmann.700.de.html https://www.pinterest.de/AstraandLilith/rabbinat-judentum/quellen Natürlich. Armin und de luntegelegte Lappenfabrik. Wir wissen es. Deutschlandfunk, die nächste? Auch mal wieder Völkerverständigung der reinen weißen Art üben wollen? B la B la B la B la. Gelle, das Geschlossenheitssyndrom soeben hier auch im Wandschrank. Noch mal das Knöpfchen drücken wollen? Unter Aufsicht! Auch die am Aufzug. Hausmeister Krause sei Dank. Und um 22 : 02 Uhr vielleicht zur Abwechslung mal wieder eine Fernlenkung versuchen wollen? Die Anmerkung mit dem langen Lederriemen und der Twitter - Seite von Hans Georg Maaßen in der Datenbank verstehe ich jetzt zwar nicht. Aber es stimmt schon. Die Knöpfe wurden hin und wieder tatsächlich bereits früher gedrückt. Teilweise so unauffällig gedrückt, dass das kleine Kind abends zum Papa rannte mit den Worten:” Papa, Papa, der Milchmann war heute bei der Mama”. Doch. Ein O-Ton. Den Papa dann ganz entgegen der Erwartung lediglich mit einem Grinsen zur Kenntnis nahm. Während Mama ein wenig errötete. Doch. Ich bin mir sicher, dass in vielen Haushalten bereits in den 50-er und 60-er Jahren des vorherigen Jahrhunderts die Gene gut gemischt wurden. Gelle, das Gisela Dreamer Ding soeben bei der Text - Korrektur um 22 : 53 Uhr Ja. Ein wenig Bildung gehört schon dazu, um das alles zu verstehen. Mir fehlt es da an manchen Stellen noch ein wenig. Doch bereits diese lückenhafte Erkenntnis reicht, um zu beurteilen: So waren sie halt, die Zeiten damals. In diesen “rückständigen” “verklärten” Häusern der dreckigen schwarzrosa Schweinchen. Und Nachfahren böhmischer Bullen, Ritter und Elefanten. Doch. Wir sind gesund zur Welt gekommen. Papa und dem medizinischen Personal sei Dank. Mama nahm nämlich keine Tabletten. Auf Anraten. Das Gesicht bei dem Satz vergesse ich auch nicht. Und nun noch eine Löwenthal-Phobie?

Mehr Material aus dem Milieu? Muss Hausmeister Krause und Team morgen die Dateien zum Meeting mitbringen? Falls da irgendetwas in Vergessenheit gerät? Ein paar Zitate zur verklemmten Ansicht aus dem Arsenal der “verklärten Bilder”? "Das Musical „Fiddler on the roof“ machte den Milchmann Tewje weltberühmt. War der amerikanische Titel von einem Chagall-Motiv, dem Geiger auf dem Dach, inspiriert, hieß die deutsche Fassung schlicht „Anatewka“, nach dem Namen eines Schtetls. Möglicherweise ist dieses Broadway-„Anatewka“ – Premiere 1968 – der Beginn der bis heute anhaltenden Schtetl-Nostalgie gewesen." Die "Verklärten Bilder “stehen in herbem Kontrast zur Wirklichkeit”. “Ihre rückständige, in äußeren und inneren Zwängen gefangene Welt, eine „Herausgeberfiktion“. "Menachem, das Urbild eines „Luftmenschen“, schreibt seiner Frau aus der Stadt, wo er in immer neuen Projekten vergebens das große Geld zu machen hofft, und bekommt entsprechend gepfefferte Antworten." Nein, er geht dennoch nicht dorthin, wo der Pfeffer wächst.

Und wer lebt nun weiter? Und wer ist tot? "Ab", das Ding da soeben im sprechenden Wandschrank soll gez wer genau gehen? Ich ahne es. Nun denn: Das ist halt etwas wirr und kraus. Wie? Nicht? Soeben gibt es da doch erheblichen Protest. Muss ich mehr sagen? Ausser vielleicht noch: Böses Böses Ginger Gen! Wie? Was? Wo gibt’s gleich ne’ Massenschlägerei? Nein, das mache ich nicht. Nicht schon wieder. Bitte! Die Datenbank meint nämlich: "gut.. ich suche gez noch nen klodeckel". Deutschlandfunk, die nächste? Gelle, das Geschlossenheitssyndrom soeben links im Wandschrank? Unter Aufsicht! Ach, und will wer genau auch wieder mal mitmischen. Na, das ist ja ein Ding. Damit hätte ja nun wirklich niemand. Der Dreamer soeben. Die Datenbank: na de pseudolinken faschisten ... de krefelder nummer wieviel? skoda abrechnungsmasse ... probleme mit dem abrechnungsmodus? ich esse gleich noch mehr hühnerfrikassee .. und gehe dann zur seite von mouss a. (das fehlende a habe ich soeben wieder eingefügt, gelle de dinger soeben auch am rechner) noch mal mit den militäreinheiten anlegen wollen?

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tamarrud · 7 years

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I'm curious about how Israeli oppression has impacted Palestinian Jews. I know there have been prominent Jewish communities before the Zionist Aliyahs, but I never hear about their resistance against Israeli oppression from 1948 and beyond. All I have read is that they assimilated into Israeli society, but that seems very suspicious. Are there any resources or info on Palestinian Jewish resistance and protest?

i do not know a whole lot about this, partially because since Israel sought to lump all of the diaspora jews into a unified indigenous population, the term “jewish palestinian” is almost never used.

i remember asking this to someone who had gone through the nakba and saw the change take place as he lived in a neighbourhood with jewish families and basically, according to him, it started by the israeli state including palestinian jews in the police force since they understood the language of the locals and therefore would help make it easier to impose control.

there was both the sense of coercion into assimilation and the promise of safety and prosperity in a society where they’re not the minority:

As the position of European Zionist immigrants became privileged under the terms of the Balfour Declaration during the Mandate, many native and Sephardic Jews (in Palestine, as in neighbouring Arab countries) were placed in an untenable position. Their resistance to the imposition of Zionist identity was not primarily ideological, but cultural. The lure of Jewish nationalism was also the lure of modernity, of European liberalism, and of socialism. But these attractions also set them apart from their Arab and Levantine affinities, and pitted them against the independence movements in their own countries.

as said above, it was a matter of coercion more than anything (esp. considering their good relations with the muslim and christian Palestinians prior to that) that had lead many Palestinian jews to work with the Israeli government as they would be left with little choice in the matter; opposition could have meant exile along with other Palestinians in an environment where the Middle East was becoming increasingly hostile to Jewish people, in part because of rooted antisemitism, but also in response to the creation of Israel as a settler colonial state.

I highly recommend reading Arab Jew in Palestine by Menachem Klein and Ishaq al-Shami and the Predicament of the Arab Jew in Palestine by Salim Tamari.

#answered: palestine #i would love to know more about this myself

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rebbestorah · 7 years

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An Hour with Rabbi Binyomin Klein, the Rebbe’s Secretary

In honor of Yud (10) Shevat, yahrzeit of the Frierdiker Rebbe, Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn (also known as the Rebbe Rayatz), and his enormous religious, practical and literary achievements. Yud Shevat is also the day when the seventh Lubavitcher Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, assumed his father-in-law’s leadership and turned the struggling spark of postwar Judaism into the roaring flame of Chabad today.

With special thanks to Rabbis Yitzchok Holtzman and Rabbi Nissen Mangel, eulogizing

by Rabbi Manis Levin

Rabbi Klein’s tasks included top-secret liaison with the defense establishments in both Israel and the U.S. and the critical physical and spiritual rescue missions for threatened Jewish communities around the world.

It’s been said that you were assigned responsibility for the Rebbe’s high-level links to Israeli government and defense circles. How did that come about?

That I was born in Israel may be relevant but, since I left when I was nine, it’s far from the main reason. First of all, I was always in the Secretariat from morning until the Rebbe left 770. I never had “working hours”; I was on call constantly.

Secondly, I was the intermediary between Rabbi Hodakov and the world at large, and later on, between Rabbi Hodakov and the Rebbe. For that reason all the confidential missions and high-security links that Rabbi Hodakov directed became my responsibility: I was already “inside.” That’s how the link was created to delegations, defense figures, diplomatic personnel, and the media.

Can you describe the extent of the Rebbe’s involvement in Israeli government decisions?

Without using examples, I can relate a basic fact: I know clearly that over the years there were government ministers, who before reaching a decision, would ask, “What would the Lubavitcher Rebbe say about this?” Before finalizing anything they contacted the Rebbe. All this began from the establishment of the State. There were Mapai members who maintained close links with the Rebbe.

How did that happen?

Those that had a direct personal link with the Rebbe looked upon him in a unique manner. They knew, they understood, that the Rebbe’s active interest in Israeli affairs was apolitical. This was someone who truly cared. For that reason they attached enormous significance to their relationship, and to the Rebbe’s thoughts on pressing topics.

Can you give examples of people you’ve described?

General Aharon Yariv, head of Army intelligence, was here. When he came out of the Rebbe’s room, he asked me candidly: “You’re sure the Rebbe’s never been to Israel? I start presenting arguments why it’s pointless to hold onto the West Bank, and the Rebbe hits me with geography to explain why withdrawal is so dangerous: ‘Here there are mountains; here there are hills; here there’s a valley.’” He was stunned. The same thing happened with Arik Sharon.

What were the Rebbe’s information sources for events in Israel?

First of all: the Rebbe is a Rebbe. Secondly, when the Rebbe read reports sent to him, he saw at once between the lines – what was actually happening behind the scenes. And, the Rebbe had covert information ties.

Maybe you could reveal one of those covert activities?

I’ll give you an example of something I did in the “Who is a Jew” campaign. Together with the public struggle that was unfolding, the Rebbe was very active behind the scenes. Through the efforts of the scholarly Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin, the Rebbe attempted to influence the Interior Minister of the time, Mr. Moshe Chaim Shapira. I remember that once in the thick of the conflict, I was instructed to telephone one of Shapira’s intimates. I read to him over the phone a ten-page letter whose contents he was to tell Shapira urgently, in the Rebbe’s name.

Many clandestine activities were carried out for shleimus haAretz, the territorial integrity of the Holy Land, as well as completely secret campaigns for the rescue of Jewish communities in Tunisia and parts of Europe.

A substantial number of the connections existing with government figures was under wraps, as well. One day a messenger from the King of Morocco arrived secretly and, before entering the Rebbe’s room, asked me which regal modes of conduct were appropriate here: how does one put out his hand? An emissary of the King – well versed in courtly matters and very aware of having arrived at a palace – he wanted to abide by the royal protocol.

What was discussed inside?

I don’t know. I can only say that he conveyed the King’s gratitude for Chabad’s efforts on behalf of Morocco’s Jews.

On what other occasions did the Rebbe assist Jews in troubled countries?

Many events involved Russia. Some have already been revealed; many are still hidden. The Rebbe personally sent thousands of packages of sefarim and Jewish materials to Russia’s Jews. It was known that only a portion of the shipments reached their destinations, and for this reason such large quantities were sent. Rabbi Binyomin Gorodetsky organized the shipments via Europe and other routes.

Let’s get back to Israel. On the 25th of Nissan, 1990, when the Rebbe spoke abruptly about information that the PLO was poised to attack Jews, what exactly was happening?

Prime Minister Shamir had called me two hours earlier with this absolutely confidential report. But when the Rebbe went to minchah, he openly described receiving this news and gave instructions for everyone to increase their endeavors in Torah, tefillah, and tzedakah. And that nullified the threat. The next day’s New York Times described intelligence reports of the PLO’s plans to strike at Israeli targets worldwide.

What did the Prime Minister ask when he passed the information to you?

He asked me to inform the Rebbe that he had received intelligence reports that today – now – they were expected PLO terrorist attacks on numerous Israeli population centers throughout the world, and he asked for the Rebbe’s berachah [blessing]. I gave this message at once to the Rebbe who, well aware of the situation’s gravity, worked to immediately nullify it.

Did defense personnel pass classified material to the Rebbe on their own initiative? Wasn’t this a security break?

Clearly not. It was within authorized operational procedures. The government recognized that the Rebbe wasn’t coming from some personal agenda. They wanted him to know.

Did you personally carry out missions to Israel?

Yes. At times I wouldn’t know about my trip until an hour before. On one occasion, traveling on a shlichus [mission] from the Rebbe to Israel, I landed in the morning and took off the same night for home. When I arrived at Lod Airport for the return trip, the border guard checking my passport asked me why I came for only one day. “I came to visit someone,” I answered.

Not satisfied by this, he called over his security supervisor. In the interrogation that followed, when I said, “I’m the Lubavitcher Rebbe’s secretary,” the questions stopped and they waved me through immediately.

By the way, the Rebbe instructed me to visit the Holy Places on each trip.

Were you a visitor at the Kiryah [government and security headquarters] in Tel Aviv?

(smiling) Isn’t that where the State is located?

Every time I came back from a trip to Israel, the Rebbe wanted detailed reports. If I visited a school he wasn’t satisfied with general impressions. He wanted to hear everything: How many students? What’s the morning curriculum? What’s the evening curriculum? Whom did you meet? Whom not?

When I presented these reports to the Rebbe, he gave his complete attention. Sometimes he wanted a written report as well.

On the subject of secrecy, were there also links with directors of the Mossad [Israel’s secret service]?

Before the appointment it was always known over here who would be head of the Mossad, and we were always in touch with him. I’m not able to say more than that. I’ll only note that in recent times, it was common knowledge that Mr. Nachum Admoni maintained close contact with the Rebbe, as did Mr. Yitzchak Chofi. When, for example, we learned that he was hospitalized in Minnesota, the local shaliach was a visitor at his bedside.

How did you know?

More questions?

What was the nature of the Rebbe’s contacts with Israeli government and military figures?

The government received both advice and assistance. For example, after learning of Norway’s willingness to sell oil, the Rebbe advised the Israeli government to make an agreement to acquire it. There was advice and guidance regarding weapons purchases. Another example: Israeli intelligence needed something from Belgium. I called up the shaliach there and asked him to verify certain matters, though he himself never knew that the request was related to intelligence gathering. The Israeli government sought the Rebbe’s feedback on many issues.

In this, too, the Rebbe insisted on extraordinary secrecy. I would receive their correspondence via diplomatic pouch. Secret channels were used for the Rebbe’s written responses: either they dispatched their couriers, or I would send our own.

Was there yechidus [audience] with these high-security figures?

Yes, certainly. The government called me up once in the 1980s to say that someone top-secret wishing to meet with the Rebbe would arrive in the U.S. in a day or two. It wasn’t possible, they said, to give his name. They requested that I ask the Rebbe if he would be prepared to meet with him. It was very strange: never before had it happened that they declined to use a name.

Myself, I’m only a pipeline. I went in to the Rebbe with their question. The Rebbe immediately instructed me to tell them. Yes. When this individual reached here two days later, he was in the Rebbe’s room for two hours. On leaving, he identified himself to me (he was a senior Mossad staffer), only because of the necessity to maintain close connections regarding the matter for which he had come.

Could you describe the personal relationships the Rebbe had with the secretaries?

From time to time the relationships were on a very personal level. Family simchas, for example. After a wedding in the family the Rebbe wanted to know which guests arrived; who was honored with the ceremonial participation known as kibbudim. Before weddings he instructed to whom – among people I was in touch with in the Rebbe’s name (including the Prime Minister) – to send invitations. Plus advice: “It would be appropriate to give kibbudim to so-and-so . . . .”

That was also the case in times of sadness. At the shivah after my father passed away in Jerusalem, the Rebbe asked me which customs were observed regarding the time when the matzeivah [tombstone] was placed. He was interested in all the details. I wanted to go back to Israel for the first yahrzeit, which was going to be on Shabbos, but I didn’t want to miss Shabbos here. I told the Rebbe that I’d leave motzaei Shabbos in order to arrive in Israel on Sunday.

The Rebbe responded, “What, and make a point of arriving there after the yahrzeit?” I replied that I didn’t want to miss Shabbos here, and the Rebbe answered, “So don’t go!” I didn’t.

Only Twice in 30 Years

Did you ever have occasion to call the Rebbe at home at night?

Throughout all the years of my work, this happened only twice.

The first occasion was related to the illness of the Gerer Rebbe, of blessed memory, the author of Beis Yisrael. That evening, when I brought the Rebbe to his home, he had asked me to find out how the Gerer Rebbe was feeling and to update him every hour. Late at night I got through to the court of Ger in Jerusalem and then passed on to the Rebbe what I had been informed.

The second occasion resulted from a telephone call from Australia. An elderly man refused to undergo what the physicians defined as emergency life-saving surgery, unless the Rebbe gave his consent. This the Rebbe did when I called him at home.

And did the Rebbe ever call you at home?

At times the Rebbetzin would call to say that the Rebbe wanted to speak to me, and he would then take over. This would generally concern something that I had been told during the day. At any rate, I never once saw the Rebbe dialing a number.

No Excuses

Once the Rebbe asked me to do something and then to report to him what had taken place. The Rebbe expected to receive the report in the morning, but since at any time I did not enter the Rebbe’s study before davenen [prayer] and on that day the opportunity to do so did not arise after davenen either, I entered his study in the day and reported what had been done.

The Rebbe immediately asked why I had not reported back earlier. “Though I was certain that you did it,” he said, “because there is a chazakah [halachic presumption] that an emissary fulfills his mission, we nevertheless learn from Moshe Rabbeinu that the proper practice is to report back on what in fact was done.”

And indeed, throughout all those years, I never once offered excuses to the Rebbe. This was one of the unwritten rules of work in the Secretariat – no excuses and no apologies. Chassidim tell that the Rebbe Rashab [fifth Lubavitcher Rebbe] once rebuked a Chassid for something that he had done and the Chassid offered his excuses.

The Rebbe Rashab replied: “Your explanation is fine, but the query remains intact.” (Yiddish: obber di kasha blaibt a kasha.)

#rebbe #yud shevat #Chabad #lubavitch #mosad #prayer #task #secretaries

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ptsdtrbl1 · 5 years

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Subject:

Jewish Boycott

Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei once urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.

In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows:

"Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner.

"A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube.

Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil.

If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege.

Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate.

Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew.

Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick.

"Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram.

They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk.

"Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease.

Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts.

"In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott."

Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer.

Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?"

The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1988 - Najib Mahfooz

Peace:

1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat

1990 - Elias James Corey

1994 - Yaser Arafat:

1999 - Ahmed Zewai

Economics:

(zero)

Physics:

(zero)

Medicine:

1960 - Peter Brian Medawar

1998 - Ferid Mourad

TOTAL: 7 SEVEN

The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population.

They have received the following Nobel Prizes:

Literature:

1910 - Paul Heyse

1927 - Henri Bergson

1958 - Boris Pasternak

1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon

1966 - Nelly Sachs

1976 - Saul Bellow

1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer

1981 - Elias Canetti

1987 - Joseph Brodsky

1991 - Nadine Gordimer World

Peace:

1911 - Alfred Fried

1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser

1968 - Rene Cassin

1973 - Henry Kissinger

1978 - Menachem Begin

1986 - Elie Wiesel

1994 - Shimon Peres

1994 - Yitzhak Rabin

Physics:

1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer

1906 - Henri Moissan

1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson

1908 - Gabriel Lippmann

1910 - Otto Wallach

1915 - Richard Willstaetter

1918 - Fritz Haber

1921 - Albert Einstein

1922 - Niels Bohr

1925 - James Franck

1925 - Gustav Hertz

1943 - Gustav Stern

1943 - George Charles de Hevesy

1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi

1952 - Felix Bloch

1954 - Max Born

1958 - Igor Tamm

1959 - Emilio Segre

1960 - Donald A. Glaser

1961 - Robert Hofstadter

1961 - Melvin Calvin

1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau

1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz

1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman

1965 - Julian Schwinger

1969 - Murray Gell-Mann

1971 - Dennis Gabor

1972 - William Howard Stein

1973 - Brian David Josephson

1975 - Benjamin Mottleson

1976 - Burton Richter

1977 - Ilya Prigogine

1978 - Arno Allan Penzias

1978 - Peter L Kapitza

1979 - Stephen Weinberg

1979 - Sheldon Glashow

1979 - Herbert Charles Brown

1980 - Paul Berg

1980 - Walter Gilbert

1981 - Roald Hoffmann

1982 - Aaron Klug

1985 - Albert A. Hauptman

1985 - Jerome Karle

1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach

1988 - Robert Huber

1988 - Leon Lederman

1988 - Melvin Schwartz

1988 - Jack Steinberger

1989 - Sidney Altman

1990 - Jerome Friedman

1992 - Rudolph Marcus

1995 - Martin Perl

2000 - Alan J. Heeger

Economics:

1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson

1971 - Simon Kuznets

1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow

1975 - Leonid Kantorovich

1976 - Milton Friedman

1978 - Herbert A. Simon

1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein

1985 - Franco Modigliani

1987 - Robert M. Solow

1990 - Harry Markowitz

1990 - Merton Miller

1992 - Gary Becker

1993 - Robert Fogel

Medicine:

1908 - Elie Metchnikoff

1908 - Paul Erlich

1914 - Robert Barany

1922 - Otto Meyerhof

1930 - Karl Landsteiner

1931 - Otto Warburg

1936 - Otto Loewi

1944 - Joseph Erlanger

1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser

1945 - Ernst Boris Chain

1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller

1950 - Tadeus Reichstein

1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman

1953 - Hans Krebs

1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann

1958 - Joshua Lederberg

1959 - Arthur Kornberg

1964 - Konrad Bloch

1965 - Francois Jacob

1965 - Andre Lwoff

1967 - George Wald

1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg

1969 - Salvador Luria

1970 - Julius Axelrod

1970 - Sir Bernard Katz

1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman

1975 - Howard Martin Temin

1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg

1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow

1978 - Daniel Nathans

1980 - Baruj Benacerraf

1984 - Cesar Milstein

1985 - Michael Stuart Brown

1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein

1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]

1988 - Gertrude Elion

1989 - Harold Varmus

1991 - Erwin Neher

1991 - Bert Sakmann

1993 - Richard J. Roberts

1993 - Phillip Sharp

1994 - Alfred Gilman

1995 - Edward B. Lewis

1996- Lu RoseIacovino

TOTAL: 129!

The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims.

The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants.

There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church.

There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.

Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems.

Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.

Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:

'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel."

Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.

He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'

Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred.

It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.

It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended.

Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.

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How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim?

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Muslim Boycott of Everything Jewish

A short time ago, Iran's Supreme Leader Grand Ayatollah Ali Khamenei urged the Muslim World to boycott anything and everything that originates with the Jewish people.

In response, Meyer M. Treinkman, a pharmacist, out of the kindness of his heart, offered to assist them in their boycott as follows: "Any Muslim who has Syphilis must not be cured by Salvarsan discovered by a Jew, Dr. Ehrlich. He should not even try to find out whether he has Syphilis, because the Wasserman Test is the discovery of a Jew. If a Muslim suspects that he has Gonorrhea, he must not seek diagnosis, because he will be using the method of a Jew named Neissner. "A Muslim who has heart disease must not use Digitalis, a discovery by a Jew, Ludwig Traube. “Should he suffer with a toothache, he must not use Novocaine, a discovery of the Jews, Widal and Weil. “If a Muslim has Diabetes, he must not use Insulin, the result of research by Minkowsky, a Jew. If one has a headache, he must shun Pyramidon and Antypyrin, due to the Jews, Spiro and Ellege. “Muslims with convulsions must put up with them because it was a Jew, Oscar Leibreich, who proposed the use of Chloral Hydrate. “Arabs must do likewise with their psychic ailments because Freud, father of psychoanalysis, was a Jew. Should a Muslim child get Diphtheria, he must refrain from the “Schick" reaction which was invented by the Jew, Bella Schick. "Muslims should be ready to die in great numbers and must not permit treatment of ear and brain damage, work of Jewish Nobel Prize winner, Robert Baram. “They should continue to die or remain crippled by Infantile Paralysis because the discoverer of the anti-polio vaccine is a Jew, Jonas Salk. "Muslims must refuse to use Streptomycin and continue to die of Tuberculosis because a Jew, Zalman Waxman, invented the wonder drug against this killing disease. “Muslim doctors must discard all discoveries and improvements by dermatologist Judas Sehn Benedict, or the lung specialist, Frawnkel, and of many other world renowned Jewish scientists and medical experts. "In short, good and loyal Muslims properly and fittingly should remain afflicted with Syphilis, Gonorrhea, Heart Disease, Headaches, Typhus, Diabetes, Mental Disorders, Polio Convulsions and Tuberculosis and be proud to obey the Islamic boycott." “Oh, and by the way, don't call for a doctor on your cell phone because the cell phone was invented in Israel by a Jewish engineer. “Meanwhile I ask, what medical contributions to the world have the Muslims made?" The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature:1988 - Najib Mahfooz Peace:1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat 1990 - Elias James Corey 1994 - Yaser Arafat: 1999 - Ahmed Zewai Economics:(zero) Physics:(zero) Medicine:1960 - Peter Brian Medawar 1998 - Ferid Mourad TOTAL: 7 SEVEN The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes: Literature:1910 - Paul Heyse 1927 - Henri Bergson 1958 - Boris Pasternak 1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon 1966 - Nelly Sachs 1976 - Saul Bellow 1978 - Isaac Bashevis Singer 1981 - Elias Canetti 1987 - Joseph Brodsky 1991 - Nadine Gordimer World Peace:1911 - Alfred Fried 1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser 1968 - Rene Cassin 1973 - Henry Kissinger 1978 - Menachem Begin 1986 - Elie Wiesel 1994 - Shimon Peres 1994 - Yitzhak Rabin Physics:1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer 1906 - Henri Moissan 1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson 1908 - Gabriel Lippmann 1910 - Otto Wallach 1915 - Richard Willstaetter 1918 - Fritz Haber 1921 - Albert Einstein 1922 - Niels Bohr 1925 - James Franck 1925 - Gustav Hertz 1943 - Gustav Stern 1943 - George Charles de Hevesy 1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi 1952 - Felix Bloch 1954 - Max Born 1958 - Igor Tamm 1959 - Emilio Segre 1960 - Donald A. Glaser 1961 - Robert Hofstadter 1961 - Melvin Calvin 1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau 1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz 1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman 1965 - Julian Schwinger 1969 - Murray Gell-Mann 1971 - Dennis Gabor 1972 - William Howard Stein 1973 - Brian David Josephson 1975 - Benjamin Mottleson 1976 - Burton Richter 1977 - Ilya Prigogine 1978 - Arno Allan Penzias 1978 - Peter L Kapitza 1979 - Stephen Weinberg 1979 - Sheldon Glashow 1979 - Herbert Charles Brown 1980 - Paul Berg 1980 - Walter Gilbert 1981 - Roald Hoffmann 1982 - Aaron Klug 1985 - Albert A. Hauptman 1985 - Jerome Karle 1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach 1988 - Robert Huber 1988 - Leon Lederman 1988 - Melvin Schwartz 1988 - Jack Steinberger 1989 - Sidney Altman 1990 - Jerome Friedman 1992 - Rudolph Marcus 1995 - Martin Perl 2000 - Alan J. Heeger Economics:1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson 1971 - Simon Kuznets 1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow 1975 - Leonid Kantorovich 1976 - Milton Friedman 1978 - Herbert A. Simon 1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein 1985 - Franco Modigliani 1987 - Robert M. Solow 1990 - Harry Markowitz 1990 - Merton Miller 1992 - Gary Becker 1993 - Robert Fogel Medicine:1908 - Elie Metchnikoff 1908 - Paul Erlich 1914 - Robert Barany 1922 - Otto Meyerhof 1930 - Karl Landsteiner 1931 - Otto Warburg 1936 - Otto Loewi 1944 - Joseph Erlanger 1944 - Herbert Spencer Gasser 1945 - Ernst Boris Chain 1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller 1950 - Tadeus Reichstein 1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman 1953 - Hans Krebs 1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann 1958 - Joshua Lederberg 1959 - Arthur Kornberg 1964 - Konrad Bloch 1965 - Francois Jacob 1965 - Andre Lwoff 1967 - George Wald 1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg 1969 - Salvador Luria 1970 - Julius Axelrod 1970 - Sir Bernard Katz 1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman 1975 - Howard Martin Temin 1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg 1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow 1978 - Daniel Nathans 1980 - Baruj Benacerraf 1984 - Cesar Milstein 1985 - Michael Stuart Brown 1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein 1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini] 1988 - Gertrude Elion 1989 - Harold Varmus 1991 - Erwin Neher 1991 - Bert Sakmann 1993 - Richard J. Roberts 1993 - Phillip Sharp 1994 - Alfred Gilman 1995 - Edward B. Lewis 1996- Lu RoseIacovino TOTAL: 129! The Jews are NOT promoting brainwashing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non-Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, orblow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people. The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels. Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them. Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all: 'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel." Benjamin Netanyahu: General Eisenhower warned us. It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead. He did this because he said in words to this effect: 'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened' Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it. It is now more than 65 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. Now, more than ever, with Iran, among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets. How many years will it be before the attack on the World Trade Center 'NEVER HAPPENED' because it offends some Muslim in the United States?

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Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik op. 24/2 - Tel Aviv Wind Quintet

https://telavivcity.co.il/?p=5966&utm_source=SocialAutoPoster&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Tumblr The City that never sleeps Hindemith Kleine Kammermusik op. 24/2 - Tel Aviv Wind Quintet https://telavivcity.co.il/?p=5966&utm_source=SocialAutoPoster&utm_medium=Social&utm_campaign=Tumblr The Tel Aviv Wind Quintet performs Paul Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik, op. 24/2. Recorded LIVE at the Sixteenth Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival on August 28th, 2013. 1. Lustig 2. Walzer 3. Ruhig und Einfach 4. Schnelle Viertel 5. Sehr Lebhaft Roy Amotz - Flute Yigal Kaminka - Oboe Danny Erdman - Clarinet Nadav Cohen - Bassoon Itamar Leshem - Horn The Tel Aviv Wind Quintet was founded in 2009 by young Israeli musicians, seeking to bring the existing repertoire as well as commissioned works to wider audiences. Today, the quintet performs more than 20 concerts each season all around Israel, including its most prestigious concert venues, such as the YMCA (at the Jerusalem International Chamber Music Festival), the Jerusalem Music Centre, the Mormon University, Henry Crown Hall in the Jerusalem Theater, the Israel Conservatory and the Tel-Aviv Museum, together with educational activities, workshops for composers and several activities in communities outside of the state's center. In June 2017 the TAWQ will go on its first international tour in Switzerland. The quintet was awarded the Eilam prize for Israeli performers (2011). In addition to their work with the TAWQ, the quintet's musicians are also active as soloists, working and collaborating with international orchestras and musicians such as Daniel Barenboim, James Levine, Guy Braunshtein, Martha Argerich, Pierre Boulez and Andras Schiff. An integral part of the quintet's credo is to perform and record music by leading Israeli composers of both the younger and the older generations. Recent collaborations include Menachem Zur, Eitan Steinberg, Aharon Harlap, Arie Shapira, Amit Gilutz and Tzvi Avni. The TAWQ's debut album was released at the end of 2016, including works by Bach, Beethoven, Ari Ben-Shabetai (World premiere recording) and Piazzolla. www.tlvwq.com facebook: www.facebook.com/telavivwindquintet buy our album: http://www.tlvwq.com/album-shop חמישיית תל אביב נגנים יגאל קמינקא - אבוב רואי אמוץ - חליל דני ארדמן - קלרינט איתמר לשם - קרן נדב כהן - בסון חמישיית תל אביב נוסדה בשנת 2009 בידי מוסיקאים ישראליים צעירים המעוניינים ליצור יחדיו עשייה קאמרית משמעותית בתחום כלי הנשיפה בארץ. האנסמבל מופיע בקביעות והקליט לרדיו באולמות הקונצרטים המרכזיים ובסדרות הנחשבות בארץ: באוניברסיטה המורמונית, במרכז למוסיקה ירושלים במשכנות שאננים, באולם הנרי קראון (במסגרת הסדרה "אתנחתא") ובאולם ימק"א בירושלים (במסגרת הפסטיבל הבינלאומי למוזיקה קאמרית); ובתל אביב בין היתר בקונסרבטוריון הישראלי למוסיקה (שטריקר) ובמוזיאון תל אביב לאמנות. זאת בנוסף לפעילות תרבותית וחינוכית ענפה ורב-שנתית בפריפריה, מכפר-בלום ועד מצפה רמון. חלק בלתי נפרד מיעדי החמישייה הוא ביצוע והקלטה של יצירות פרי עטם של מלחינים ישראליים מובילים מכל הדורות, ביניהם מנחם צור, איתן שטיינברג, אהרון חרל"פ, צבי אבני, אריק שפירא ועמית גילוץ. בנוסף מקיימת החמישייה סדנאות ופעילויות למלחינים ישראליים ולסטודנטים לקומפוזיציה תוך שיתוף פעולה הדוק עם איגוד המלחינים הישראלי. נוסף על פעילותם עם החמישייה, חברי ההרכב הם סולנים פעילים המשתפים פעולה עם תזמורות בינלאומיות ועם מוסיקאים ידועי שם כגון דניאל בארנבוים, ג'יימס לווין, גיא בראונשטיין, מרתה ארגריץ', פייר בולז ואנדראש שיף. ההרכב זכה בפרס איגוד המבצעים לשנת 2011. בדצמבר 2016 הוציאה החמישייה לאור את אלבומה הראשון הכולל יצירות מאת באך, בטהובן ופיאצולה וכן הקלטת בכורה ליצירה שנכתבה במיוחד עבור ההרכב בידי ארי בן-שבתאי. ביוני 2017 תקיים חמישיית תל אביב את סיור הבכורה הבינ"ל שלה הכולל קונצרטים בשוויץ בברן, בבאזל ובלוצרן. source #DannyErdman #ItamarLeshem #Kammermusik #NadavCohen #PaulHindemith(Author) #RoyAmotz #telavivmuseum #tel-aviv #Wind #WindQuintet #YigalKaminka #איתמרלשם #דניארדמן #חמישייתנשיפה #חמישייתתלאביב #חמישיתתלאביב #יגאלקמינקא #נדבכהן TEL AVIV - THE CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS #museum #Uncategorized

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Another Country Recognizes West Jerusalem as Israel's Capital

Australia is following in the U.S.' footsteps by announcing a plan to move their embassy to Jerusalem.

The Australian government has officially recognized the disputed city of West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, a move that will anger Palestine which also lays claim to the city. Canberra, however, will not relocate its embassy to the city any time soon due to the large costs of the relocation. Australian Prime Minister and Liberal Party leader, Scott Morrison, announced the shift in the country’s foreign policy on Saturday as a balanced and measured decision. "Australia now recognizes West Jerusalem, being the seat of the Knesset and many of the institutions of government, is the capital of Israel. We look forward to moving our embassy to West Jerusalem when practical... and after the final status determination," Morrison said in Sydney. Despite the embassy relocation delay, Australia will set up an office handling trade and defense in West Jerusalem. Morrison also recognized Canberra’s commitment to a two-state solution, adding that his administration supports East Jerusalem as the capital for Palestine.

Opposition Parties Call the Move ‘Politically Motivated’

Not all Australian parties are happy with the government’s decision. Opposition parties suspect that the move was politically motivated ahead of the upcoming federal election in 2019. But Bill Shorten, Labour Party leader, said that Australia’s decision to enact West Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, but postpone the relocation of its embassy, is a “humiliating backdown”. "What I’m worried is that Mr. Morrison put his political interest ahead of our national interest,” Shorten said. Australia’s Green Party leader, Richard Di Natale, stated the recognition delivered by Morrison is "irresponsible" as it can ruin the peace process. He added the best way to put forward the peace prospect in Israel and Palestine is to recognize a Palestine state, as The Guardian reported. Some suspect Morrison was facing a potential loss of support from Jewish and Conservative Christian voters in the federal ballot in 2019. In the recently held House of Representatives (HOR) election for the Wentworth district in New South Wales, Morrison's fellow Liberal Party member, Dave Sharma, lost to Kerryn Phelps, an independent. The HOR seat for Wentworth was empty after Malcolm Turnbull was ousted from his post as Australia’s prime minister. He later resigned as a HOR member representing the region. The loss is a big blow to Morrison, who replaced Turnbull as prime minister.

Jerusalem: A Divided City

Israel won the six-day war in 1967. The Jewish state did not only defeat Arab troops but also annexed the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. “There are two main points of the 1967 war, including a rapid shift from fear for defeat ahead of the war to euphoria and feelings and faiths that everything is possible, and the emotional impact after occupying the Old Town,” said Menachem Klein, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. The victory of the Likud Party in 1977, under the leadership of Menachem Begin, helped strengthened the notion that Jerusalem was an integral part of Israel’s identity, marked by the entrance of religious-based settlers. Israel sparked international outrage after a Knesset member (the Knesset is Israel's legislative body) issued a law proclaiming, “A complete, united Jerusalem, is the capital of Israel” in 1980. In response, the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) passed a resolution declaring Israel's proclamation of Jerusalem as their capital "a violation of international law" and declared it "null and void" and that it must be rescinded. The UNSC also called upon member states to withdraw their embassies from Jerusalem and instead move them to Tel Aviv, 22 of 24 states did. In 1995, the U.S. Congress passed the Jerusalem Embassy Act which required the U.S. to move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Donald Trump did just that in 2018 when he moved the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem despite much international outrage. All the members of the UNSC, except for the U.S., passed a resolution condemning the move but the U.S. vetoed the resolution. The status of Jerusalem has been one of the most contentious issues in modern times. It is one of the oldest cities in the world and considered holy in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The city has been captured and recaptured 44 times, destroyed twice and attacked 52 times.

Response To Australia's Move

Head of the Palestine delegate in Canberra, Izzat Abdulhadi argued that Australia’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital will trigger a faith-based war in the region. According to him, Morrison’s decision may ruin and destroy the Middle East peace process. He called on Arab nations to be prepared to pull out their ambassadors from Australia and consider economic sanctions. One expert called out the importance of the nuances of Australia's move. Hikmahanto Juwana, an Indonesian international relations expert, said that Morrison took the safest path by recognizing West Jerusalem, but not the Eastern part, as Israel's capital. “Well, in my opinion, Australia is playing safe as the holy site for three faiths is in East Jerusalem, while the Western part is recognized by many Western countries as the entity under Israel,” Juwana told Indonesia's Republika. However, Juwana added, the main problem is not the location of West or East Jerusalem. The primary issue is recognizing any part of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “...therefore they ask countries who have representatives to relocate their embassies so there is a recognition that Jerusalem, regardless of the West or the East side, is endorsed by other countries as Israel’s capital,” Juwana explained. Last month, Indonesia’s Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said her side urged Australia and other states to support the Israel-Palestine peace process. Indonesia is one of the most influential Muslim states and its relationship with Australia is not something Australia can gloss over, especially as a major trade deal between the two states looms. Indonesia and Australia were supposed to sign a trade deal, but the Jerusalem issue will likely postpone the plan. It is still uncertain whether the Joko Widodo administration will cancel the deal -- a deal that has taken years of negotiation for the sake of what some people are calling a ‘symbolic’ or ‘emotional’ move on Australia's part. Read the full article

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Menachem Klein: „Ich fürchte, das wird mit einem großen Knall enden un Terror“ - WELT

See on Scoop.it - Journal.koeln

Der Politologe Menachem Klein hält die Verlegung der US-Botschaft für einen Fehler – damit würden Brücken zu den Palästinensern abgebrochen. Er kritisiert die USA: Sie sollten Israel gegenüber größere Strenge zeigen.

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Emboldened Israeli Right Presses Moves to Doom 2-State Solution

By David M. Halbfinger, NY Times, Jan. 1, 2018

JERUSALEM--An emboldened Israeli right wing is moving quickly in the new year to make it far more difficult to create a Palestinian state, signaling its intention to doom hopes for a two-state solution to the conflict.

The actions have come on multiple fronts, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s party for the first time has urged the annexation of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, and the nation’s top legal officers pressed to extend Israeli law into occupied territory.

In addition, the Israeli Parliament, after a late-night debate, voted early Tuesday to enact stiff new obstacles to any potential land-for-peace deal involving Jerusalem, while abandoning at the last minute a measure that would have eased the way to rid the city of several overwhelmingly Palestinian neighborhoods.

Coming on the heels of President Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s capital in defiance of decades-old United States policy and international consensus, the moves showed that the Israeli right senses a new opening to pursue its goal of a single state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean.

“We are telling the world that it doesn’t matter what the nations of the world say,” Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan told more than 1,000 members of Likud’s central committee on Sunday. “The time has come to express our biblical right to the land.”

But Palestinians and Israeli supporters of a two-state solution said the moves revealed the true colors of the country’s ascendant right wing.

“We hope that this vote serves as a reminder for the international community that the Israeli government, with the full support of the U.S. administration, is not interested in a just and lasting peace,” Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, said Monday, adding that he would respond by revisiting the authority’s existing agreements with Israel. “Rather, its main goal is the consolidation of an apartheid regime in all of historic Palestine.”

Daniel Seidemann, director of Terrestrial Jerusalem, which focuses on the Holy City’s fate in a potential two-state solution, said that “what was winked and nodded about before is now being acknowledged publicly: ‘We have no intent of sharing this land with anybody else except as a barely tolerated minority.’”

Mr. Netanyahu has publicly said that he supports a two-state solution even as his government has expanded settlements on the occupied West Bank. But Mr. Trump’s support has tilted the scales, leading members of Mr. Netanyahu’s government to conclude that Israel can take a stronger position without fear of forceful foreign intercession.

“The map of external pressures has changed dramatically,” said Menachem Klein, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University. “Instead of Obama, we have Trump. The European Union is divided, Brexit occupies the British agenda, Germany has coalition problems. There’s no consensus in Europe, no single policy putting pressure on Israel. So this is a very easy arena in which we can go ahead.”

At the same time, corruption investigations into Mr. Netanyahu and his advisers have weakened him politically and led to speculation that he could be indicted. That has spurred ambitious members of his party, and of his governing coalition, to behave as though 2018 were an election year, staking out positions intended to appeal to their base. The next parliamentary elections are not due until November 2019, but they could come sooner if the government were to fall.

“I don’t discount that people are saying, ‘Maybe we can get away with more now because nobody in the international community seems to care,’” said Shalom Lipner, an analyst at the Brookings Institution who was an aide to several prime ministers. “But the more impactful motivating factor seems to be politics. There’s a certain amount of blood in the water right now, and everybody’s smelling it.”

Arguably the most provocative, though least substantive, of the flurry of Israeli actions was a nonbinding but unanimous vote on Sunday by the central committee of Mr. Netanyahu’s party, Likud, to support the “free construction and application of Israeli law and sovereignty in all liberated areas of settlement” in the West Bank.

If such a measure became law, it would effectively annex Israeli settlements on land that the Palestinians demand for a future state and leave them with an archipelago of disconnected territory. The West Bank is now under military jurisdiction, though settlers are subject to civilian law, as Israeli citizens.

Mr. Netanyahu, who at the height of his political powers could have been expected to quash the vote, was not present for it. But most of the Likud ministers in his government endorsed the proposal, which was roughly equivalent to the adoption of a plank in a party platform. Party leaders acknowledged that Mr. Trump’s hard-line support of Israel had created an urgency to seize the moment.

If Mr. Trump’s recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel spurred efforts to entrench the country’s West Bank settlements, the Parliament’s approval of a bill early Tuesday will make it far more difficult to cede parts of the Holy City to the Palestinians, who want East Jerusalem as the capital of a future state.

The bill that was debated, an amendment to the basic law on Jerusalem--the closest thing in Israel to a constitutional amendment--contained two elements that supporters of a two-state solution called pernicious.

One, which passed around 3 a.m. after hours of protests by the opposition, raises the legislative bar to ceding any part of Jerusalem to a foreign entity. Until now, a peace deal that gave up any part of the city could have been ratified either with a supermajority in Parliament, or with a simple majority and a national referendum. Under the new law, it may be ratified only with a supermajority, or 80 of 120 votes.

“This is the current right-wing ideological majority shackling the future,” Mr. Seidemann said. The law itself, however, could be reversed, by a simple majority vote in Parliament.

The other effect, and the more significant one in the short term, would have cleared away potential legal obstacles to redrawing the municipal boundaries of Jerusalem. Some of Mr. Netanyahu’s allies have sought this power to remove Palestinian neighborhoods from the city, enhancing the Jewish majority in municipal elections.

Proponents had in mind several fast-growing Palestinian neighborhoods, like Kufr Aqab and the Shuafat refugee camp, that are within the city limits but outside the security barrier that Israel built to prevent terrorist attacks. Largely denied city services because of concerns about the safety of municipal workers, those areas have become boomtowns of unregulated construction by Palestinians seeking affordable housing.

Those neighborhoods now include perhaps as many as 100,000 Palestinians who can vote in city elections. A chief sponsor of the bill, Ze’ev Elkin, the minister of Jerusalem affairs, told The Jerusalem Post recently, “We are facing a ticking demographic time bomb” in those neighborhoods.

“What it actually means is the establishment of the first Bantustans of Israel,” said Ms. Ofran of Peace Now. “Like in South Africa--they said, ‘They have their own townships, they run independently, run their own services,’ while having actually zero resources to do that. We have Jerusalem, a poor city but with huge capacities, a huge budget, the national government’s help, and now you’re telling us that if you throw them away, they can do by themselves.

“It’s a lie,” she added. “It’s doing exactly what they had in the apartheid regime.”

#Israel #Israeli right wing #two-state solution #Palestinians

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