Arabs Chafe at Helping Palestinian Refugees Fleeing Syria
January 13, 2013 18:08 by Pesach BensonArab Spring Winter
• Over at Forbes, Richard Behar’s amazed that the Western press has shown zero interest in a recent video of Mohammed Morsi calling Jews apes and pigs.
I studied the story’s journey and trajectory through America over the past week with Sue Radlauer, the Director of Research Services here at Forbes. We gave it seven days to see if any of the so-called “mainstream media” — a pejorative phrase that too-often obscures more than it reveals — bestowed the hate speech even a few sentences of back-page ink. Nothing.
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But major, seasoned reporters still need to hold Morsi’s feet to fire over such comments – if not by asking him directly about them, then at least by reporting that he uttered them. Surely, if the president of virtually any other country in the world had defamed an entire people in such a way — only a couple years before they got the top job, to boot — it would have at least gotten a few column-inches. Yet Morsi gets a free pass.
Behar’s referring to this video which Memri posted online and transcribed.
• Hezbollah’s active support of the Assad regime is one of the region’s worst kept secrets. Asharq al-Awsat sheds new light on the details.
• Panetta: US Troops Securing Syria’s Chemical Weapons Not an Option in ‘Hostile Atmosphere’
• Maan News: Egyptian security in the Sinai intercepted three trucks carrying 2.5 tons of explosives and mortar devices.
• Hamas told the Daily Star that 885 Palestinians have been killed in the Syrian civil war; more than 20,000 remain in Syria.
• An Islamist rebel chieftain was shot in Turkey — most likely by other rival Islamist rebels, according to the Sunday Times:
Thaer al-Waqqas, the northern commander of the Farouq Brigades, one of the largest rebel groups, was shot dead in the town of Sermin on Wednesday morning.
Waqqas had been suspected of involvement in the killing four months ago of Firas al-Absi, a jihadist leader in the Nusra Front, which Washington regards as a terrorist organisation with links to al-Qaeda.
Iranian Atomic Urgency
• Iran’s Foreign Minister was in Egypt making what Reuters refers to as a “charm offensive.” Tehran’s regionally isolated, and Ali Akbar Salehi didn’t leave with any tangible successes — unless face time with Mohammed Morsi and the Grand Sheikh of (Sunni) Al-Azhar University counts for more than meets the eye:
Yet, with their positions on Syria diametrically different, it is unclear how much real progress Iran’s new charm offensive could achieve. No trade or cooperation agreements were signed as part of Salehi’s visit.
• Spanish police arrested two people suspected of trying to export to Iran valves “particularly suitable for use in the nuclear industry.” Details at AP/Israel HaYom.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Over at the Washington Institute, Michael Singh put together a thoughtful piece knocking the conventional wisdom that Israeli politics is lurching right-ward:
What is noted less often, however, is that left-wing parties have also gained. The same poll shows gains not just for the Labor party, but for the far-left Meretz party as well as social-justice-focused Yesh Atid (which did not previously exist), as well as for Tzipi Livni’s “Movement” party. The losers are the Likud-Israel Beitenu coalition, projected to lose nine seats, and the centrist parties — Kadima, which had twenty-one seats but will cease to exist, and Ehud Barak’s “Independence” party, which will not field candidates with his retirement from the Knesset.
Despite this shifting within both the left and the right, the polls indicate an absence of movement between the two poles. The result, rather startlingly, is that despite the churn, the right-left balance is forecast to remain precisely as it currently stands. The data projects not a more right-wing Knesset, but a more polarized one. It also projects a weaker position for Prime Minister Netanyahu in coalition politics, which could well mean a more right-wing government than that he currently heads, though — depending on what deals he is able to cut — this is hardly a foregone conclusion.
(Image of mass grave via Wikimedia Commons)
For more, see the previous Israel Daily News Stream.
henry rubinstein
6:36 pm
Jan 13, 2013
Your calling them refugees further perpetuates the misnomer. They were emigrants from Israel. My survivor parents were not called refugees after they made their way to America. They were mandated sponsored immigrants that became US citizens.
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emes
7:24 pm
Jan 13, 2013
Its 80 years since the last total eclipse for Jews – 80 years this month that hitler became Germany’s Chancellor – Unfortunately for Israel, and Jews everywhere, there is another eclipse on the horizon – hitler has been cloned into the EU and they don’t give a toss how much crap the palestinians propose, it is not on their doorstep – let the Jews have the problem! That’s right EU, shove your mess under the Israeli carpet! You know it was Britain who set an absolute limit of 75,000 on future Jewish immigration in 1939 – which closed ‘Palestine’ to many refugees from European persecution by Nazis – this is what led to the Jewish terrorist action against the British.
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Lee
8:48 pm
Jan 13, 2013
In fact in 1939 Chamberlain issued a White Paper on the Palestine Question. It stated that ‘no more than 75000 Jews were to be allowed into Palestine over the next FIVE year. In addition from this figure of 25000 per year would be deducted any illegals that were apprehended or died trying to enter Palestine.
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Marjorie Stamm Rosenfeld
1:39 am
Jan 14, 2013
In fact, 75,000 Jews allowed into Palestine over 5 years amounts to only 15,000 a year, not 25,000. This British 1939 White Paper policy was in effect during all the years of the Holocaust.
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steven L
12:45 am
Jan 14, 2013
No one is better than the EU to screw the Jews. They failed once in 40-45 and will try again.
IL can’t allow the EU to play their dirty game.
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Dany
7:25 pm
Jan 13, 2013
Refugees of today, with the UN, are not what a refugee was then. Today refugees are financed, educated, housed and entertained, thanks to programs like UNESCO, UNWRA, and others that are sponsored by the UN and paid for by member states. Unfortunately we Jews are not entitled to such perks.
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emes
7:39 pm
Jan 13, 2013
1948 4th March, Arabs ambush and killed 16 Jews, 13th April, 40 Jewish doctors and nurses going to hospital were killed by arabs. May 12th, Arabs killed 100 Jews – 15 were machine-gunned after they had surrendered. something about leopards and spots? – Don’t think Jews are all patsies, no, Jews retaliated a-plenty despite the retribution being condemned by the Haganah and the Jewish Agency. So, this is how the world wants peace – how many wars are there even as we speak which are muslim based? The world’s governments have got their priorities totally wrong! – What happened to “Never Again?”
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Morsi Calls Jews Pigs Apes USA is Egypt’s Enemy MSM Complicit for not Reporting [VIDEO] | Push Back Now
8:41 pm
Jan 13, 2013
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emes
9:21 pm
Jan 13, 2013
Considering Jews and Muslims had the same father, which would they consider themselves to be? an Ape or a Pig!
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M.Sphardi
9:07 pm
Jan 13, 2013
In the year and town of her birth, in one of the worst of Ukrainian pogroms, my mother and her family were rendered refugees. By UNRWA standards for the Palestinians, my children, grand children, great grandchildren and I are all refugees as well and are entitled to return to Elizabetgrad and to claim the family home, business, and lands. I am breathless with anticipation
And her uncle, Mendel Beilis, after that notorious blood libel trial. Maybe some kind of restitution?
On the other hand, there are those many thousands of Jewish refugees from the Muslim world: made refugees (1947-67) in revenge for the defeat of the Arab invaders of Israel. Where’s justice for them and their losses?
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Dany
9:09 pm
Jan 13, 2013
Damned chamberlain, damned that British occupation of ERETZ Israel, and damned the palestina they gave then. Now the f….ing EU with the help of the UN, overwhelmed with Arab countries are again about to shove down our throat another program that won’t work, not now and not ever! Why won’t they leave us aloooooooooonnnnnne!
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emes
9:50 pm
Jan 13, 2013
Dany, I have in my possession a broken ashtray with a picture of Chamberlain, the surrounding edge says “Peace in our Time” – it had been broken and repaired and I bought it for $2. years ago. It reminds me of that piece of paper which he flapped when he came off the plane from Germany, it would never have been big enough for the pile of dung he deposited when the first bomb dropped in England!
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Henry Federman
9:42 pm
Jan 13, 2013
The Europeans have nothing to offer to Israel that is not in their interest.At one time or another,almost every European country evicted Jews living there,they make believe that they tolerate them,that makes them look good. There is in Europe about 1.5 millions Muslims who are encroaching in most countries and take advantage of their liberal laws to pursue their taking over of Europe. A few European people are fighting back, they see and realize what Islam really means,but unfortunately they are in a minority. Don’t let the European push Israel into a corner and accept their point of view, they are not looking to make things easier for Israel and the Jews living there. Look what’s happening in England,France and Norway,don’t let it happen again.
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m
9:48 pm
Jan 13, 2013
The Euros have fucking nerve making demands or even suggesting that the Israelis goes back to 1968 borders. First off those are not borders but an arbitrary armistice line. Second, it just panders to the desires of HAM ASS to eradicate Israel and the Jews. NOTHING those filthy lying palis agree on is worth the paper it is written on. That has been proven more than enough times. Whenever Israel gives away Jewish land for peace; it always blows up in their face (literally).
This is all so perverse and pornographic! Israel needs to hold fast and be strong and defend itself. Giving away land is not going to accomplish anything good for them.
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m
9:49 pm
Jan 13, 2013
PS
I meant 1967 borders of course … just a typo.
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emes
2:05 am
Jan 14, 2013
M, Israel is not a land to be given away, it is not our land, it is Hashem’s and is forbidden to even give an inch. The land has been rebuilt with the blood and sweat of Jews. The Arabs squatted there all the time Jews were incarcerated and did nothing but to make a dung-pile of it. I’ve said this before and now because it is built up and flourishing prior to the exodus into slavedom, this is why they want it but what would happen to the place, just see the areas which they have been given and see how they rubbish the land. We are the caretakers of Israel and this must not happen again!
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m
2:14 am
Jan 14, 2013
Emes:
In actuality, the arabs don’t want Israel; they just want ZERO Israel and ZERO Jews.
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emes
1:22 am
Jan 15, 2013
M, with regard to your use of the zero, I inform that this the only invention that an arab contributed to this world – he was on the back row of the mosque at the time!
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Michael
11:10 pm
Jan 13, 2013
The biggest problem is that Israelis continue to refer to these people as “Palestinians” rather than Jordanians and Egyptians. They also continue to treat them as being long term generational to the land which most are not.
Oslo was a failure out the door and the only thing it did was give a perception of a legitimate claim by these Arabs that are the refuse of past Arab Muslim aggression. Israel needs to, along with others, undo the reference term “Palestinian” and replace it. This would be a good start.
It would serve well if the world was more enlightened about the Jewish refugees of Arab lands that ended up in Israel and do some hard core accurate documentaries to share with the world.
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M.Sphardi
8:50 pm
Jan 14, 2013
I’ve jumped to the assumption that many of those Arab refugees were itinerant Mandate employees who had just lost their construction jobs with the British having drifted in from neighboring Arab areas as needed. The British figures for 1922 and 1947 showed a 40% and 83% Arab increase in British metropolitan areas.
The fact that the Jews from Arab Countries generally refuse to regard themselves as refugees is a great tribute to their mental health, but it makes it very difficult for those of us who wish to help by countering Arab “Palestinian” propaganda. Inasmuch as fewer than 50,000 elderly former residents survive and can ask for the right of return. Agreed!
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Budlang
12:31 am
Jan 14, 2013
I hope Israel builds all over the west bank. It’s their land and they can build where they want to. About the refugees. The Arab nations have never helped refugees from another arab nation. The only ones they hate more than Israel is each other. This path was set centuries ago when scripture said that brother would be against brother. They don’t believe this but history sures bears it out.
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Budlang
12:45 am
Jan 14, 2013
I hope Israel builds all over the west bank. It’s their land and they can build where they want to. About the refugees. The Arab nations have never wanter to help refugees from another arab nation. The only ones they hate more than Israel is each other. This path was set centuries ago when scripture said that brother would be against brother. They don’t believe this but history sure bears it out.
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ralph
11:57 am
Jan 14, 2013
There were no borders but still ARMISTICE LINES .
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m
5:32 pm
Jan 14, 2013
I already stated that fact. NO BORDER, merely an arbitrary armistice line. There is a HUGE difference.
The land of Yehuda & Shomron is not just ancestral JEWISH land, it is the HEARTLAND of the Jewish nation & as such more important than even places like Tel Aviv. As with ALL Jerusalem it is the most important land for Israel & THAT is why the arabs want it so badly. They can’t stand seeing the Jews have their ancestral homeland back.
But as we are seeing, the Jews will remain the winners & the arabs will stay perpetual losers. Don’t feel bad for the arabs though, they can always move to their arabia or egypt where they came from, OR jordan I’m sure their arab brethren will welcome them.
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Henry Federman
11:21 pm
Jan 14, 2013
To M.Sphardi,you are right to say that the Arabs who came to Palestine in 1922 came to look for jobs from neighborhood countries,Jordan,Syria and others and stayed there,you say the count is about 50000,but if Israel let in those 50000 another 1 million + would ask for the same right. I guess that’s why they can’t let them in. Sorry!
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M.Sphardi
9:33 am
Jan 15, 2013
My assumption is that fewer than 50,000 of the original “Palestinian Arabs”who fled may still be alive and may count themselves as “refugees”. They are probably in their 70′s and 80′s and, although gifted with a talent for fiction, I doubt that any will be reproducing. It would be a chance for the Arab street to save face by saying that they prevailed and that the Palestinian refugees made it back to their “ancient homeland.” They have nothing going for them because they would rather hate and destroy than create and invent. Face is all they have. We can be charitable. And it’s good PR. Maybe we can get Mr. Gore to spread the word.
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