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Israel Goes After Rights Group After Gaza Criticism

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U.N. Warns Gaza at Risk From Winter Elements

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Women Film Festival in a war zone

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Murder charges for Jewish settler

A Jewish settler has been charged in Israel with murdering two Palestinians and... more

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Palestinians Break Israel's Wall

Palestinians and foreign activists tore down segments of Israel's separation wall this... more

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Palestinians breach West Bank wall - The Irish Times - Mon, Nov 09, 2009

Activists made a hole in Israel's West Bank wall for the second time in less than a... more

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Mustafa Barghouti will be a better leader for the Palestinians - video

If you are wondering about Dr. Barghouti, you're not alone. As of late, it seems that... more

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Student Expelled to Gaza by Force

The London Independent reports that a Palestinian student has been handcuffed,... more

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U.S. Accused of Killing Middle East Peace Hopes

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Brutal torture, beatings and extra-judicial killings by Palestinian security forces in West Bank

Britain’s human rights anti-Israel activists are intent on arresting Israelis for ‘war crimes’ – so much so that Israelis who have played prominent roles in military operations to defend their country against Palestinian terror attacks cannot set foot in Britain without running the risk of being thus arrested. Two days ago, Israel’s deputy foreign minister Danny Ya’alon was the latest to be targeted by such a move during a brief visit to London.

Yet Britain is complicit in the torture of Palestinians – by other Palestinians. So much so that – surreally – Britain is now sending British police and intelligence officers to the West Bank to try to stop a wave of torture by Palestinian security forces funded by UK taxpayers. The paper reported:

Yesterday a senior official from the semi-autonomous Palestinian Authority (PA), which runs the West Bank and its security agencies, admitted for the first time that torture, beatings and extra-judicial killings have been rife for the past two years, with hundreds of torture allegations and at least four murders in custody, the most recent in August.

... Support for the new department follows the disclosure by The Mail on Sunday in January that Britain spends £20million a year funding the forces responsible for the abuse. Most of their victims are accused of involvement with Hamas, the radical Islamist party that seized power through violence in the Gaza Strip in 2007. The Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is controlled by the rival Fatah party.

... In the region’s largest city, Nablus, Nasser al-Shaer, a former Manchester academic who was deputy prime minister in the short-lived Hamas Palestinian Authority government elected in 2006, said many of those released from detention in recent months were telling the same story – of torture, including beatings, being suspended from the ceiling and electric shocks.

Fatah are of course the party that Britain and the US represent as 'moderate' and legitimate partners in the 'peace process'.

Might we now see moves by 'human rights' activists to arraign British officials and politicians for having funded the torture of Palestinians by Palestinians? And if not, why not?

As Tom Gross observes:

Meanwhile, as Palestinian detainees are being tortured to death in Palestinian Authority jails, Palestinian prisoners (including convicted terrorists) in custody in Israel are studying for Israeli university degrees (at Israeli taxpayers’ expense) and also given cable TV, IPods and dental treatment – but international human rights groups criticize Israel, whose deputy foreign minister and former ambassador to Washington Danny Ayalon narrowly escaped being arrested in Britain for ‘war crimes’ yesterday.

And the world community that routinely and harshly condemns Israel even when Israel hasn’t done anything wrong, has failed to condemn the Katyusha rocket fired from Lebanon which narrowly missed an Israeli town last night. It is a strange world.Britain’s human rights anti-Israel activists are intent on arresting Israelis for... more

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Rising Above the Hate in the City of Borders

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Palestinians make world's largest embroidered dress

Palestinians in the West Bank town of Hebron on Sunday unveiled what they believe is... more

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Israel Accuses UN of 'Hypocrisy, Prejudice'

Israel has complained that it is getting unfair treatment at the United Nations amid... more

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Inside Story - The Goldstone report

Despite being heavily criticised by Israel, the Goldstone report on the Gaza war was... more

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Goldstone challenges US over Gaza report

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Arab states' crimes against Palestinians: For years, they've kept the people dispossessed

For decades, Arab governments have justified their decision to maintain millions of stateless Palestinians as refugees in squalid camps as a way of pressuring Israel. The refugee problem will be solved, they say, when Israel agrees to let the Palestinians have their own state.

Yet after years spent in terrible conditions, not a single Palestinian refugee has been returned to Israel, and a few aging apparatchiks have made it back to the West Bank or Gaza. Instead, failed peace plans and shifting political winds have resulted in a second Palestinian nakba, or catastrophe - this one at hands of the Arab governments.

The fact that the divided Palestinian political leadership is silent about the mistreatment of these refugees by Arab states does not make such behavior any less reprehensible - or less dangerous.

"Marginalized, deprived of basic political and economic rights, trapped in the camps, bereft of realistic prospects, heavily armed and standing atop multiple fault lines," a recent report by the International Crisis Group in Lebanon observed, "the refugee population constitutes a time bomb."

After the Persian Gulf War of 1991, some 250,000 Palestinians were chased out of Kuwait and other gulf states to punish the Palestinian political leadership for supporting Saddam Hussein. Tens of thousands of Palestinian residents of Iraq were similarly dispossessed in the Iraq war.

Today, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon are most at risk. In 2001, the estimated 250,000 Palestinians then in Lebanon were stripped by parliament of the right to own property or pass on property to their children - even as they are banned from working as doctors, lawyers, pharmacists or in 20 other major professions.

Along with this marginalization has come a new and frightening turn toward the radical Pan-Islamic ideology of Al Qaeda in refugee camps like Ain al-Hilweh, where more than 70,000 Palestinians live outside the legal framework of the state. One of the 9/11 hijackers dedicated a poem to Ain al-Hilweh's most prominent jihadist in his videotaped will, and dozens of Palestinian fighters from the camp joined Al Qaeda in Iraq.

Even in Jordan, the only Arab nation that has integrated large numbers of refugees as full-fledged citizens, insecurity is growing. Speaking to the Arabic-language newspaper Al Hayat, Jordanian Interior Minister Nayef al-Kadi recently suggested that some Palestinians might be stripped of their citizenship to counter a supposed Israeli plan to turn Jordan into Palestine. While Jordanian officials have sought to quell such fears, many of the people we spoke to recently in the Baqa'a refugee camp there claimed they knew someone whose card had been revoked, or whose status had inexplicably been changed.

The refusal of most Arab governments to grant basic legal rights to Palestinian residents who are born in and die in their countries, combined with periodic mass expulsions of entire Palestinian communities, eerily parallels the treatment of Jews in medieval Europe. According to the UN Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, states "shall as far as possible facilitate the assimilation and naturalization of refugees" and "make every effort to expedite naturalization proceedings."

After 60 years of failed wars and failed peace, Arab governments should allow Palestinians to keep their national dream alive, while also enjoying the basic freedoms to work, vote and own property.For decades, Arab governments have justified their decision to maintain millions of... more

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Gaza hidden truth

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Love in Gaza: A Palestinian couple marries against all odds

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Open season on Jews in Europe.

NGO Monitor today revealed that the Palestinian NGO Al-Mezan, behind the effort to arrest Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak, is funded by a number of European governments. Although the UK authorities rejected the attempt, NGO Monitor notes that Al-Mezan’s role is another example of the abuse of European taxpayer funding in the anti-Israel ‘lawfare’ campaign.
NGO Monitor’s President, Prof Gerald Steinberg said, “European governments that funnel taxpayer funds to these radical NGOs are paying for the demonization of Israel, and fueling the conflict.

Al-Mezan has joined other NGOs in using the courts to promote anti-Israel bias. In addition to the attack on Ehud Barak, Al-Mezan also contributed to the foundations of the Goldstone report, which is another form of ‘lawfare’”.
Europe is doing it again. These monsters cloak themselves in Orwellian deathspeak. They are beneath contempt. They ought to prostate themselves at the graves of the six million dead and beg their forgiveness. Corrupt pigs.

The Holocaust, while it was a German initiative, was carried out by every nation in Europe, save for the Danes. There were Dutch Nazis, Polish Nazis -- Europe as a continent decided it was a good idea to get rid of the Jews.

Caroline Glick said in a previous conversation that the lesson the Europeans took away from the aftermath of WW2 is insidious. "The lesson that Europe had decided to avail itself to in the aftermath of Auschwitz, was not that evil is bad and that they behaved like monsters but rather that everything was caused by nationalism and therefore what we really need to do is have a European Union that will obviate our need for nationalism so that we can become this transnational gobbletygook and we'll all get together and therefore we won't have another Auschwitz.
But really the lesson should have been is that we were evil and we have to be good. And that is the lesson we have to learn and and we have to be able and willing to make moral distinctions and stand up for the good and fight evil and that is something the Europeans refuse to do."

They are constantly having memorials to dead Jews while condemning Israel for every act of of self defense, no matter how benign it is, in the defense of innocent Jewish citizens.

Nationalism isn't bad. American nationalism wasn't bad, has never been bad. British nationalism hasn't been bad. French nationalism isn't bad. Polish nationalism isn't bed. Czech nationalism wasn't bad.

The thing that was bad was that Germany decided to embrace madness and evil as its central unifying characteristic under the Nazis. That is what the problem was, it was not nationalism per se. And its still not nationalism.

They took all the wrong lessons from WW2 and are applying them, while ignoring the only lesson that's really relevant from WW2 -- which is that you have to choose good and defend good, and fight with the intention of defeating evil.NGO Monitor today revealed that the Palestinian NGO Al-Mezan, behind the effort to... more

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Israel Goes After Rights Group After Gaza Criticism

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Palestinians Break Israel's Wall

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Mustafa Barghouti will be a better leader for the Palestinians - video

Student Expelled to Gaza by Force

U.S. Accused of Killing Middle East Peace Hopes

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