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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• January 30, 2017 at 5:00 am
- Because it is
not Israelis who are perpetrating the abuse, the reports are ho-hum
to these journalists.
- Hamas is an
extremist Islamist movement that does not consider itself obliged to
abide by international laws and treaties concerning basic human
rights. Indeed, the concept of human rights simply does not exist
under Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where public freedoms, including
freedom of speech and of the press, are non-existent.
- In 2013, two
Palestinian detainees reportedly died of torture in the Jericho
Central Prison.
- A London-based
human rights organization reported 3,175 cases of human rights
violations, including arbitrary detentions, by the Palestinian
Authority (PA) security forces in the West Bank during 2016.
Hundreds of those detained include university students and
lecturers, as well as schoolteachers. During the same year, the PA
security forces also detained 27 Palestinian journalists.
- Unfortunately
for them, they are not going on hunger strikes in an Israeli prison,
where such actions garner the immediate interest of the mainstream
media.
- Many are
willing to tell their stories. But who is willing to listen? Not
Western governments, human rights organizations and journalists.
Most of them seek evil in Israel, and Israel alone.
A Palestinian Authority policeman attacks protestors.
(Image source: "Palestinians for Dignity" Facebook Page)
As Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas and his
cronies occupied themselves in the past two weeks issuing warnings to
President Trump against moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem,
reports resurfaced concerning the brutal conditions and human rights
violations in a Palestinian prison in the West Bank.
These reports, however, were buried, along with the abuse, in favor
of attention to rhetoric directed against the Trump Administration.
Anything uttered by Abbas and senior PA officials regarding the possible
transfer of the US embassy to Jerusalem made it to the headlines of major
newspapers and TV networks around the world.
by Noah Summers
• January 30, 2017 at 4:30 am
- In 2014, the
Telos Group was outed as an anti-Israel organization not living up
to its "pro-Israeli, pro-Palestinian, and pro-peace"
self-description.
- Instead of
building substantive bridges between Palestinians and Israelis, the
bridge Telos appears most intent on building is a financial one
between America and Ramallah. Telos's actions demonstrate the
organization is pro-PLO/Palestinian Authority, not pro-Palestinian.
- Telos is
focusing its efforts on enabling a corrupt, oppressive PLO/PA
government that has opposed peace on multiple occasions, oppressed
its citizens by denying them freedom of speech and protection from
religious persecution, and jailed journalists who dare to criticize
the PA's undemocratic government and its abuses of its citizenry --
certainly not a pro-Israeli/pro-Palestinian/pro-peace agenda.
- Peace with
Israel is premised on Palestinians no longer supporting their
children engaging in terrorist acts against Israel.
- While Khalil
appeals to UN Resolution 242's "inadmissibility of the acquisition
of territory by war" to justify his position on Israeli
settlements, he neglects to mention that this
"land-for-peace" resolution was premised on the
Palestinians halting all violence against Israelis and recognizing
the State of Israel.
- It is time to
call the Telos Group for what it really is: Anti/Anti/Anti:
anti-Israeli, anti-Palestinian, and anti-peace.
Gregory Khalil addresses students participating in a
model UN, in Jackson, Wyoming, on November 16, 2014. (Image source:
InterConnections21 video screenshot)
At least one person was pleased about the Obama Administration's
decision to abstain from the UN Security Council (UNSC) vote on
Resolution 2334, effectively establishing the boundaries of a Palestinian
state. For Gregory Khalil, the current president and co-founder of the
Telos Group, an organization posing as "pro-Israeli,
pro-Palestinian, and pro-peace," it was 12 years coming. His 2004 New
York Times op-ed encouraged the US to abstain from exercising their
UNSC veto in defense of Israel. In December 2016, the Obama
Administration finally acted upon the advice of this former Palestinian
negotiation-team lawyer by abstaining from -- instead of vetoing --
Resolution 2334.
Founded in 2009 with the original name of the "Kairos
Project," the Telos Group described itself as:
by Burak Bekdil
• January 30, 2017 at 4:00 am
- What makes
Turkey look more like North Korea than a European democracy is the
legal authorities' reflex to launch probes into anyone accused,
without evidence, of terrorist activity or insulting the president.
Erol Onderoglu (left, meeting with European Parliament
President Martin Schulz), is the Turkey representative for Reporters
Without Borders. He was recently arrested in Turkey, with rights activist
Sebnem Fincanci and journalist Ahmet Nesin. They are charged with
"making pro-Kurdish terror propaganda and aiding terrorists,"
because they guest-edited a pro-Kurdish newspaper after its editors were
jailed. (Image source: European Parliament)
Philipp Schwartz was a Hungarian-born neuropathologist who worked
for the Goethe University in Frankfurt for 14 years until he was fired in
1933 for being Jewish. After his -- and other scholars' -- dismissal, he
convinced the then decade-old modern Turkish Republic to admit persecuted
German professors to positions at Turkish universities. Mustafa Kemal
Ataturk, the secular founder of the Turkish state, enthusiastically
agreed to Schwartz's proposal. Turkey quickly admitted 150 German Jewish
professors. Schwartz was appointed as director of the Department of
Pathology at the University of Istanbul. More than seven decades after, a
German initiative that bears Schwartz's name is returning the favor.
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