Document critiques Israel for anti-democratic bills, anti-Arab discrimination, not prosecuting settler violence.
The EU use every possibility to attack Benjamin Netanyahu for his defense of Biblical Zionism.
For the second day in a row, the European Union issued a document that had some harsh words for Israel, saying a spate of “potentially discriminatory or even anti-democratic bills” were tabled in the Knesset, and blasting Jerusalem for not prosecuting those responsible for settler violence.
The criticism came in an annual document summarizing the political and economic situation in Israel as part of the EU’s review of its partnership with other countries, known as the European Neighborhood Policy.
While saying that the IDF recently stepped up interventions against settlement violence, the report said the overwhelming majority of cases filed with the Israel Police against such attacks were closed without indictment.
In addition, the report found “media freedom, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly remained problematic in the occupied Palestinian territory in 2011.”
It also said Palestinian economic and social rights remained “hampered by Israeli restrictions on the freedom of movement,” and that “the risk of forced displacement of Bedouin communities increased.”
It also said women’s rights in the country “have become the subject of increasing debate as a result of a more aggressive attitude on the part of the ultra-Orthodox groups.”
The European Union should clean up its own mess before pointing fingers towards others.
There have been violence in the EU too over the last years. But Israel do not try to police the Europeans, and tries to support those who want to demonize Europe or true to delegitimize the whole continent.
Without UN funding, the issue of Palestinian refugees would have gone away a long time ago.
Prof. Nitza Nachmias claims the Arabs created their own refugee problem.
This is a statement by Prof. Nitza Nachmias of the Jewish-Arab Center in Haifa University. She says that it wasn’t for UNRWA and its half-billion dollar annual budget, the Palestinian refugee problem would have been solved long ago.
There is no such thing as Palestinian refugees. If people would stop calling the places in which they live ‘refugee camps,’ then they would see that these places are just like villages and towns anywhere else, and the inhabitants are totally rehabilitated, Nachmias told Arutz Sheva’s Shimon Cohen on Sunday.
She continued:
«Refugee camps are like the maabarot [in which Israel housed its hundreds of thousands of new immigrants from North Africa and elsewhere] in the 1950’s or the camps now in Haiti – not the villages with streets and stone houses in what is known as Palestinian refugee camps of today».
«They are rehabilitated better than refugees who are not supported by UNRWA», Nachmias said. «Practically, factually and legally, there is no such thing as ‘Palestinian refugees.’ … Refugee camps are a fiction, and most of those who claim to be refugees have already been integrated into other countries».
Prof. Nachmias, a senior researcher at the Jewish-Arab Center who also teaches in Asheklon College and the University of Maryland, feels that Israel has taken the wrong approach in dealing with this issue:
«We can’t simply push it off to the ‘final status talks’ and say, -We don’t accept the demand for the right-of-return because it will destroy the Jewish character of our state-
What do they care about our Jewish character?
If they deserve to be here, then it’s tough luck on us! Rather, Israel should take a pro-active approach, basing itself on international law and precedents, and declare that the Palestinian refugee issue no longer exists. They are no longer refugees». ”
Rules for Palestinians are Different?
«According to international law,” Nachmias explains, “a refugee is an individual or family that was forced to run away – but this definition does not extend to children [of the original refugees], a community or a group. The only exception to this rule is the Palestinians, for whom the international laws are apparently different»
If it wasn’t for UNRWA, Nachmias indicates, the issue of Palestinian refugees would have gone away a long time ago:
A lucky Islamic soldier. Fed by United Nations, and kept in camps as a tool used by Islam to target Israel.
«UNRWA is [no longer] a welfare agency, but rather an international employment agency for the Palestinians. UNRWA has 30,000 Palestinian employees, with 100 international experts at the helm. It is the biggest employer of Palestinians, and has an annual budget of a half-billion dollars. I discovered documents of pension funds of over a billion dollars a year, managed by brokers in Switzerland. All this for what is defined as a ‘welfare agency’ whose mandate is renewed every three years».
Source: IsraelNN.com
My comment:
Why is there no Jewish refugees today?
What happened to 800.000 Jews who were forced to leave Arab countries and Persia?
The answer is simple. The state of Israel absorbed them, and gave them citizenship, along with two million Muslims that refused to flee the war zone because of Arabic pressure.
What happened to the Muslims that declined David Ben Gurion`s offer to stay behind in Israel?
What happened to the Arabs who were told by Arabs that they would return to a new Arab nation, as soon as the Jewish Zionist state was defeated?
These Arab Muslims left Israel, lost the war, and ended up in so-called «Palestinian refugee camps». Fooled by their own Arab brethren, They were all quickly denied citizenship in 21 Arabic nations. The truth is that Arabs made their own Muslim brethren «eternal refugees», to be used as a political tool in the never ending bid to destroy the winner, the Jewish state.
We will not allow ‘another Khomeini’ to take control of Egypt, army says.
The Egyptian army does not trust the Muslim Brotherhood. The military wants to keep their control over the Egyptian nation.
Members of ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces tell Egyptian daily that they would not permit Egypt to be ruled by religious extremists.
Egypt’s military rulers have said they will not allow religious “extremist factions” to control the country, the Al Masry Al Youm newspaper reported Tuesday. “Egypt will not be ruled by another Khomeini,” members of Supreme Council of the Armed Forces were quoted in the report as saying at a meeting with newspaper editors.
In 1979, it was the Muslim Brotherhood who assassinated President Anwar Saddat. The Egyptian army has not forgotten.
The Egyptians are not free to elect whom ever they wants to be their leader.
That the military wants to be the final tribunal over who will run the Egyptian statehood, is a classical mark of a military dictatorship.
It is not a secret that for the last 40 years, the generals in Egypt have not felt that Democracy is the best way to run the country. Neither has Washington felt that this is the best way to govern Egypt.
All dictators have the same slogan. “It is me or chaos”. For Washington there are only two kinds of dictators. Those who are on on the payroll of the Pentagon, and those who are not.
The Bahrain Grand Prix is set to go ahead today despite the outbreak of violence that left an anti-government protester dead on a rooftop.
Violence in Bahrain is a concern for Washington. Not because human rights are violated, but because this is the base for the US 5th fleet.
Salah Habib Abbas, 37, is believed to have been killed by shotgun pellets fired by police as more rioting erupted on the eve of the Formula One race.
Crowds of masked protesters hurled petrol bombs at police, who fired tear gas back in the capital, Manama, yesterday, turning the streets into a battle zone just 24 hours before an event that demonstrators say glorifies repressive government.
The protesters were outraged by Abbas’s death, with around 7,000 marchers holding banners calling for democratic reforms. Some banners depicted Formula One race car drivers as riot police beating up protesters.
The violence broke out despite the security forces deploying armoured vehicles in Manama and on the main road leading to the racetrack.
Who cares for the planned snobbish multi million motor race in Bahrain?
The Shia uprising in Bahrain is rather a threat to the US 5th fleet.
If Saudi Arabia had exported carrots and fish, Washington would not have placed the base of a full Navy armada inside the Persian Gulf.
Iran is not happy with the US-Saudi nexus. Because it limits the spread of the Iranian revolution.
Only when the 5th fleet is gone, the Iranian domain of the Middle East will be completed. For Iran it is a mystery why NATO supported Islamic Jihad in Libya. The US tries to play on all sides of the table, in a bid to not go bankrupt.
If the petrol prizes doubles, and stay high for 6 months, there will not only be widespread riots in Bahrain. But also in cities like Los Angeles and Tulsa Oklahoma.
Jesus the Messiah warns us. At the end of the age of grace, there will be wickedness, corruption and violence everywhere. If the last days had not been shortened for the sake of His elect, Non of us would be able to survive.
Matthew 24:22 If those days had not been cut short, no one would survive, but for the sake of the elect those days will be shortened.
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