What is there to say about this, beyond shouting? You’ll recall that the Palestinian Authority at first came out against the Goldstone report until there was an uproar in Palestinian society. Now Haaretz has reported on the causes for this Palestinian betrayal. The great Akiva Eldar:
The request by Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to the United Nations Human Rights Council last year to postpone the vote on the Goldstone report followed a particularly tense meeting with the head of the Shin Bet security service, Haaretz has learned. At the October meeting in Ramallah, Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year’s military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a "second Gaza."
Diskin, who reports directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, threatened to revoke the easing of restrictions on movement within the West Bank that had been implemented earlier last year. He also said Israel would withdraw permission for mobile phone company Wataniya to operate in the Palestinian Authority.
Brand Israel: Evil Is What We Do Best
Brand Israel: Inhumanity Is What We Do Best
Brand Israel: Cruel, Debasing Coercion Is What We Do Best
Brand Israel: We’re the New ____’s (you can fill in the blank)
RE: “Shin Bet chief Yuval Diskin told Abbas that if he did not ask for a deferral of the vote on the critical report on last year’s military operation, Israel would turn the West Bank into a “second Gaza.” Diskin, who reports directly to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…”
MY COMMENT: According to HBO’s The Sopranos, thugs like Diskin are called “goombahs” (at least in ‘Jersey’).
Definition of goombah
noun
A hired thug. Usually a large man, payed to be the bodyguard and or mercenary of the person paying him.
“I’ll send Ryan, my goombah, to shake down that punk, who was bustin’ our balls, the other day.”
SOURCE – link to onlineslangdictionary.com
This is the way Israel tries to prove its “legitimacy.”
Diskin is crying “wolf” to show Israeli muscles to Fatah, whose leadership is as much corrupt and coward as Israeli. He knows that the West Bank is much softer target than Gaza plus Mahmoud Abbas is no Meshaal or Nasrallah. Furthermore, Bibi is trying to tell the pro-resistance countries that with Obama under his control – he is free to carry-out another genocide of Palestinian or Lebanese for that matter.
link to rehmat1.wordpress.com
link to haaretz.com
More than 100 Israeli security officers raided the West Bank settlement of Yitzhar before dawn on Sunday. Officers arrested 10 settlers in the crackdown, include five allegedly involved in burning down a nearby Palestinian mosque last month.
Two of the five suspects arrested in connection with the arson were minors, eyewitnesses said. It was not immediately clear what led police to arrest the other five settkers.
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link to haaretz.com
Palestinian activists urge Hamas to probe own Gaza war crimes
By Amira Hass and Tomer Zarchin, Haaretz Correspondents
Eleven Palestinian human rights organizations have called on the Palestinian Authority and the Hamas government in Gaza to endorse the Goldstone report by investigating Palestinian violations of international law allegedly committed during operation Cast Lead.
Acts listed by the report include Palestinian attacks on civilians in Israel and instances of internal repression, such as summary executions in the Gaza Strip and arrests and torture in the West Bank.
The calls were made in identical letters sent to Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh. The organizations asked the two leaders to launch investigations before the February 5 deadline by which the UN Secretary-General is to report to the General Assembly on compliance by Israel and the Palestinians with the assembly’s earlier resolution.
Faster, Witty! Faster! Harder! People aren’t distracted enough from the crimes against humanity just yet.
Seriously, do you really not care what happens to the Palestinians? It’s like the Israelis could go the whole nine yards and set up gas chambers and you’d still be going on about the rocket attacks.
Are you sure he wouldn’t be talking about the need to plant some new forests?
As the url Witty references says, there is a simultaneous call for objective Israeli inquiry into their regime’s Gaza activity–the USA taxpayer is not enabling Palestinian
occupation and collective punishment of Israelis–it’s the reverse. Witty likes spinning
around like a top on its head. Some dreidel.
Its both a moral and a strategic move by dissenting organizations to remove the ability of Israel to dismiss the report on the basis that it is only selectively directed.
Not that smart strategically?
Why? People like you will merely keep condemning the report and slandering Goldstone no matter what the facts are.
I was referring to you as not that smart strategically.
The choice to urge that the recommendations be applied to all is artful.
There’s nothing artful about you, Witty. Or strategic. Or, really, smart, even.
Caewful, Chaos, you are talking to a warm, personal friend of the Weiss’s!
You must have noticed the immediate, affectionate and respectful response by Phil to every comment Witty addresses to him?
The UN needs to build a wall around the 1947 UN Mandated Israeli borders and prevent Israelis from breaching it with military force.
Tommy, thats pretty funny considering it was Israel who accepted the partion and the Arabs who attacked them in 48.
Maybe the world needs to build a wall around your stupidity.
Well Baruch if UN would make a hypothetical partition plan where 50 percent of your land and properties would be taken in return for nothing you would surely resist. Of course those who get are “happy” and those who have by force to give are not “happy”.
If UN would now make a new partition plan for all Israel / Palestine and give 50 percent of the lands to both Jews and Palestinians. Who would Baruch be now stupid and resist the division plan? Hardly the Palestinians and Arabs in general. Not even the generous division plan with 67 borders is enough for Israeli Jews. Stupid isn’t it?
What the hell, Baruch? Don’t you troll I-P blogs for a living? We’ve seen that hasbara tons of times. Try harder, mmk?
Simha Flapan , The Birth of Israel: Myths and Realities , pg. 81-118. An excerpt (pg. 42, 83-84, 132):
Ilan Pappe, The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine , an excerpt (pg. 84-85):
Between 30 March and 15 May 1948, i.e. before any Arab government intervened, Israeli forces seized 200 villages and expelled 250,000 Palestinians. The Israeli leadership stated, “The principal objective of the operation is the destruction of Arab villages … the eviction of the villagers.” On 9 April, Israeli forces massacred 93 people, including 30 babies, at Deir Yassin. In Haifa, the Israeli commander ordered, “Kill any Arab you encounter.”
Its funny Eldar is nowhere to be found when Israelis are lynched.
link to pmwatch.org
Another Israeli journalist at a different newspaper, Nahum Barnea of
Yediot Aharonot, wrote in November of 2000 that there are Israeli
reporters who do not pass the “lynching test.” These are journalists who
could not bring themselves to criticize the Palestinians even when two
Israelis were savagely murdered by a Palestinian mob in Ramallah. Which
journalists? Gideon Levy, Amira Hass, and Akiva Eldar of Ha’aretz
Not bad, Baruch. Have you considered getting financial compensation for what you do? It’s not the kind of information people like to share since there isn’t enough for everyone, and you’d do it anyway for the love of Israel, but you could always query for details with the people here : link to calcalist.co.il
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