UN Passes 9 Israel-Bashing Resolutions, But Palestinians Still Lose
December 19, 2012 18:08 by Pesach Benson
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Today’s Top Stories
1. Mahmoud Abbas and Khaled Meshaal have agreed to launch a 3rd intifada against Israel. This one’s going to be “popular.” Khaled Abu Toameh explains:
Abbas and Mashaal are aware, the sources noted, that the Palestinians are now not ready for another military confrontation with Israel — neither in the West Bank nor in the Gaza Strip.
That is why the two men agreed that the best and only option facing the Palestinians these days is a “popular intifada” that would see Palestinian youths engage in daily confrontations with Israeli soldiers and settlers, especially in the West Bank.
Abbas and Mashaal want an uprising similar to the first intifada, which erupted in 1987, when Palestinians mainly used stones and firebombs against soldiers and settlers, and refrained from launching terror attacks inside Israel.
2. Yesterday alone, the UN passed nine resolutions bashing Israel and zero criticizing Syria. That’s sure to comfort the thousands of Palestinians forced to flee the Yarmouk refugee camp, which was attacked by Syrian war planes this week. Even Hamas condemned Syria, calling those responsible, “war criminals.”
3. Douglas Herbert, France 24′s international affairs editor, gave President Obama a smarmy high five on Twitter for being named Time’s person of the year.
(Via Elder of Ziyon)
Israel and the Palestinians
• The US and UK are outraged with Israel’s latest building plans for eastern Jerusalem. The world says the houses are on the wrong side of the Green Line, and Israel says the capital city is growing and it’s not a settlement. Jerusalem Post/Reuters coverage.
• Worth watching: Ambassador Michael Oren discussed a variety of issues with Jake Tapper of ABC News. Nothing touchy: mostly settlements and Netanyahu-Obama relations.
• Elliott Abrams says the NY Times’ correction on E1 settlement plans didn’t go far enough. How did Jodi Rudoren’s errors even get into the article?
Now how is it that three such glaring errors are made in one Times story? After all, a simple glance at the map would show for example that from Ma’ale Adumim to the Dead Sea is 15 kilometers, and that the proposed construction would not cut the West Bank in two or make contiguity impossible. It is just plain extraordinary that the Jerusalem bureau chief of The New York Times knows so little about the geography of the Jerusalem area that she could write such things.
Here’s my theory: that just about everyone she knows –all her friends– believe these things, indeed know that they are true. Settlements are bad, the right-wing Israeli government is bad, new construction makes peace impossible and cuts the West Bank in half and destroys contiguity and means a Palestinian state is impossible. They just know it, it’s obvious, so why would you have to refer to a map, or talk to people who would tell you it’s all wrong? This was precisely what was feared when Ms. Rudoren was named the Times’s bureau chief: that she would move solely in a certain political and social milieu, the rough Israeli equivalent of the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
• Jonathan Tobin gives a thumbs up to the Israeli embassy in Dublin’s Christmas Facebook “gaffe.”
As much as it might have been wiser for anyone connected to the Israeli government to avoid any mention of the holy family or Christmas, their “offensive” post was primarily guilty of doing the one thing that diplomats are generally urged to avoid: telling the truth . . .
In raising the subject, the embassy did the unthinkable and told the truth about Palestinian violence and prejudice. While that might have been considered undiplomatic, that is something that more Israeli diplomats as well as members of the media ought to be doing more often.
• Christa Case Bryant of the Christian Science Monitor visited Shilo to get a feel for the religious settlers movement.
Rest O’ the Roundup
• Worth reading at : New Yorker: Richard Engel’s Return and the Risks of Reporting in Syria.
• Sanity prevails as Human Rights Watch dumps Richard Falk from its board of directors.
• A trashy story from the trashy channel. Nuff said.
Press TV: Israeli death squads involved in Sandy Hook bloodbath: Intelligence analyst
• 2012 was the deadliest year for journos since Reporters Without Borders started keeping track of the numbers. Israel wasn’t mentioned at all in report addressing the five countries with the highest murder and imprisonment rates of journos.
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hfiers
8:38 pm
Dec 19, 2012
Leave it to the UN to ignore the bombing and killing of Palestinian civilians. yet condemn Israeli infractions, as they see it, in constructing homes to improve the lives of the people. And as far as a 3rd intifada, maybe it is time for Israel to put an end to this fanaticism.
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hfiers
8:42 pm
Dec 19, 2012
If you have access to Shalom TV on cable, you must watch this weeks views.
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M.Otero, PhD
10:59 pm
Dec 19, 2012
It’s hard to believe that Alan Dershowitz can’t find legal grounds to go after the UN and clean up its act.
It would be fun to see a TV series in which these UN bad guys get trapped into ignomious confrontations or to see one of these corrupt correspondents stumble unintentionally into the subject of ” justice for the Jews from Arab countries” and confuse the two misfortunes: that of the Palestinians and the Jews.
My conjecture is that the huge increase in the British census reports on Arabs in Palestine between 1922-46 is chiefly for itinerant labor( which was ready to flee in 1947 with the end of British mandate jobs and imminent hostilities)and ended up in the UNRWA camps. A conjecture
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M.Otero, PhD
11:01 pm
Dec 19, 2012
ooops! ignominious (spelling)
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EmJay
11:15 pm
Dec 19, 2012
Just keep reminding Jody Rudoren, as the new Jerusalem Bureau Chief for the NYT, that words are sacred. Words are the only vessels/containers SHE has within which to carry/convey TRUTH. If she uses words to deceive and/or mislead, she loses her ability to communicate, and her credibility as a communicator. As long as she uses her words to “bless Israel” she and those who belong to her, will be blest — it she uses her words to “curse” her heritage, she and those who belong to her will be cursed as well. HaShem said what He meant, and meant what He said
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Ed Hausman
12:10 am
Dec 20, 2012
EmJay, first of all, good post, good points. But I think Rudoren is not so new anymore and has had her instructive stumbles on the learning curve.
As a journalist, she has had her chance at credibility and shows no sign of realizing. As the article says, “just about everyone she knows –all her friends– believe these things, indeed know that they are true.” She has no concept of stepping out of her comfort zone. Intellectually, that’s lazy. Journalistically, it’s unprofessional. Realistically, that’s the New York Times for ya!
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Ben
4:55 am
Dec 20, 2012
Gordon Duff is obviously a strong anti-semite, and none too smart, but most thinking people will see through his vitriol. Nonetheless, such hatred should keep us ever vigilant.
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Dany
3:35 pm
Dec 20, 2012
What will happen to the UN should Israel leave this biased organization? It seems that they only preoccupied with us and not with the real problematic regions of the world!
9 resolutions in one day? All against one tiny country? All the world find wrong with the Jewish people ! All of Europe is blinded by anti Semitism ? The Islamists must be very happy, not only they are conquering European countries one by one but they are assisted by their victims to be ???
What a fucked up world!
What happened to their brains? We are about to be intifaded for a third time in less than 15 years and we are the to blame!!
With all the accusations against us we should maybe make it truthful!
1. Become an apartheid state which we are not.
2. Initiate a holocaust which we have been accused of.
3. Transfer the squatters from our land and deny them equal rights.
4. Enact a reverse boycott of all our inventions, our agricultural developments, deny them all medical and pharmaceutical innovations.
5. Refrain from sharing intelligence findings and secrets.
6. Send as a bundle all our leftist intellegrncia.
There’s more but suffice for now.
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Gary Katz
10:17 pm
Dec 20, 2012
Between the General Assembly and Press TV, we can see the anchor that is pulling humanity beneath the waves.
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Andrew
7:22 am
Dec 24, 2012
Can some one please explain to me (and my friends and church members) why are Syrian refugees palestinians. Just how ‘big’ is this so called Palestine, as far as I have learned, Philistines were a people descended from Crete, are there any original descendants of these people alive today. I know a ‘nasty’ Roman fellow decided to call Israel, palestine some 19 centuries ago, and history points to facts these people were also scattered around the desert, God, Elohim, says His land is not for sale, the land of Canaan belongs to Him, God, and soon He will ‘take back” His land of Canaan. I wonder how the UN will sanction God and ‘tell Him’ their demands. Israel, stand firm, no more ‘giving land”
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Andrew
7:30 am
Dec 24, 2012
This land is not for sale, barter, trade or swap, the Word of God declares that He has permitted His people Israel to dwell in His land, He blesses, He gives, He takes away and He restores. No un resolution, no demands from Arab’s, no missiles, rockets, etc will change this fact. I believe its time for Israel and the people to repent and return to the Lord their God in one united voice of prayer. Put away all the things that are not permitted by God and Stand up for your King. He will stand up for you, remember, “vengeance is mine says the Lord and I will repay”. You have absolutely nothing to fear if you will all trust God. remember the scriptures, God saved Israel many times He will again
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