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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• February 16, 2015 at 5:00 am
While
Abbas was talking in Stockholm about his intentions to revive the peace
talks with Israel, leaders of his Fatah faction in the West Bank were
sending a completely different message to the Palestinians. They were not
talking about any peace process with Israel. They were making statements
that would only radicalize Palestinians and give them reason to hate Israel
even more. They are leading their people toward eternal confrontation, and
not reconciliation, with Israel.
The EU
is not helping advance the cause of peace in the Middle East. On the
contrary, the EU continues to turn a blind eye to the anti-Israel campaign,
and is generously funding it through dozens of NGOs in the Palestinian
territories.
EU leaders, such as European Commission Jean-Claude
Juncker (right), who met with Mahmoud Abbas (left) last week, are either
unaware of anti-Israel incitement by his Fatah faction or simply prefer
to bury their heads in the sand. (Image source: RT video screenshot)
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Mahmoud Abbas's ruling Fatah faction in the West Bank is trying to
divert attention from its problems at home by further inciting Palestinians
and the international community against Israel.
In recent weeks, Fatah gunmen and Palestinian Authority [PA] policemen
have been clashing almost on a daily basis in the Balata and Jenin refugee
camps in the northern West Bank. Meanwhile, Fatah leaders have been busy
badmouthing each other -- a sign of deepening divisions among the faction's
top brass.
This incitement, which includes reviving the old disproven claim that
Israel was behind the 2004 death of Yasser Arafat and calls for boycotting
Israeli companies, is playing into the hands of Hamas and other
Palestinians who are opposed to any peace process with Israelis.
by Monir Hussain
• February 16, 2015 at 4:00 am
The
English authorities evidently did not think Moeen had done anything wrong
in wearing wristbands that said "Save Gaza" and "Free
Palestine". They argued that his messages were not political, just
"humanitarian."
Choncheh
Ghavami, a British-Iranian law graduate, was arrested in June 2014 because
she attempted to watch a men's volleyball match at a Tehran stadium, and
placed in Iran's infamous Evin prison. Since her arrest, she has apparently
been kept much of the time in solitary confinement.
"You
should not develop women's cricket. It is not in Islam or in Afghan
culture." — Members of the Afghan Taliban.
Not
only are some of the Muslim players trying to insert their religion into
the field of sports, but some wealthy middle eastern sheikhs also seem to
be trying to push Islamic ideology into the games.
It is
not known why so many Muslim players seem extremely sensitive when it comes
to their religion, yet so extremely insensitive when it comes to
embarrassing their people and their religion when it comes to their
behavior in international sporting events.
The emblem of Real Madrid before (left) and after its
cross was removed to please its sponsor, the National Bank of Abu Dhabi.
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Every religion permits its followers to invite new people to join it.
We call it preaching or proselytizing. Traditionally, Muslims and
Christians have preached everywhere; in some areas, however, such as
international sports, religion, race and politics have historically been
considered off-limits.
Now, it seems, Muslim players have begun violating this practice.
Formerly, in 2003, Zimbabwean star cricketers Andy Flower and Henry
Olonga were punished for wearing wristbands against Robert Mugabe's brutal
acts. And in 2006, former Australian test player Dean Jones was sacked from
his job as a commentator when, presumably as a (bad) joke, he remarked
about Hashim Amla, a devout South African Muslim cricketer with long beard,
that "the terrorist has got another wicket."
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