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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• December 29, 2016 at 5:00 am
- Last week's UN
Security Council resolution sent the following message to the
Palestinians: Forget about negotiating. Just pressure the
international community to force Israel to surrender up all that you
demand.
- Abbas and his
cronies are more belligerent and defiant than ever. They have chosen
the path of confrontation, and not direct negotiations -- to force
Israel to its knees.
- One of Abbas's
close associates hinted that the resolution should be regarded as a
green light not only to boycott Israel, but also to use violence
against it, to "bolster the popular resistance" against
Israel -- code for throwing stones and firebombs, and carrying out
stabbing and car-ramming attacks against Israelis.
- The resolution
has also encouraged the Palestinians to pursue their narrative that
Jews have no historical, religious or emotional attachment to
Jerusalem or any other part of Israel.
- The Gaza-based
Hamas and Islamic Jihad see the resolution as another step toward their
goal of replacing Israel with an Islamic empire. When Hamas talks
about "resistance," it means suicide bombings and rockets
against Israel -- it does not believe in "light" terrorism
such as stones and stabbings.
- The UN's highly
touted "victory," is a purely Pyrrhic one, in fact a true
defeat to the peace process and to the few Arabs and Muslims who
still believe in the possibility of coexistence with Israel.
Buoyed by the latest United Nations Security Council resolution
condemning Israeli settlements as illegal, Palestinian leaders are now
threatening to step up their diplomatic warfare against Israel -- a move
that is sure to sabotage any future effort to revive the moribund peace
process. Other Palestinians, meanwhile, view the resolution as license to
escalate "resistance" attacks on Israel. By
"resistance," of course, they mean terror attacks against
Israel.
The UNSC resolution sent the following message to the Palestinians:
Forget about negotiating with Israel. Just pressure the international
community to force Israel to comply with the resolution and surrender up
all that you demand.
by Göran Adamson
• December 29, 2016 at 4:45 am
- She was proud
of her submission, not of her achievements.
- Other than
that, her email was full of post-modern nonsense such as science as
a "belief" just like religion. In fact, science is doubt
based on knowledge, while religion is certainty based on faith.
Would she, I wondered, also "deconstruct" the Koran?
- She had
exercised her freedom only to give it up.
Putting a chill on freedom of speech: University West
in Trollhättan, Sweden. (Image source: University West)
She was sitting there quietly in the middle of the classroom -- a
Swedish Muslim all dressed in black with a white powdered face. I was
lecturing on John Stuart Mill at Sweden's University West. What did I
say? I said that while religion may not be true, it still gives people a
sense of belonging and trust, and liberal society cannot give you that.
The liberal soup is thin, and most of us want something richer, some kind
of political main-course goulash. When people say that liberal society is
empty, they actually mean this: I cannot give my life any purpose, so can
someone kindly do it for me? Please hand me some grandiose message to
live by because I cannot figure out anything on my own. Emptiness? Well,
that could be another word for limitless opportunities.
by Heshmat Alevi
• December 29, 2016 at 4:00 am
- It appears that
Iran literally gained nothing from the Moscow conference, meaning
that its participation was merely of a ceremonial nature.
- "The
regime in Tehran is the source of crisis in the region and killings
in Syria; it has played the greatest role in the expansion and
continuation of ISIS. Peace and tranquility in the region can only
be achieved by evicting this regime from the region." — Maryam
Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and
a leader of the opposition to Iran's regime.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (center) holds
a joint press conference with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad
Zarif (left) and Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu (right) in
Moscow, December 20, 2016. (Image source: Russia Ministry of Foreign
Affairs)
The recent three-party conference held in Moscow with the
participation of Russia, Turkey and Iran came to a significant end. With
mainstream media emphasizing how the U.S. Administration was completely
sidelined in talks that discussed the future of Syria, a different
perspective also sheds light on how Iran was sidelined to an
unprecedented degree. Considering that this session ended with a document
signed by all three parties, one can take a hard look at the results.
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