In this mailing:
- Bassam Tawil: Palestinians:
Crocodile Tears and Terrorism
- Denis MacEoin: A Measured
Response to Bishop George Browning and Others Interested in
the Palestinians
- Maria Polizoidou: The Foundations
of Global Jihad
- Please help us not
allow Islamic terror to be "the new normal"!
by Bassam Tawil • June 8, 2017 at
5:00 am
- This
apparent repudiation of terrorism is a startling development
for Abbas The only catch is that when it comes to Israel,
Abbas takes quite the opposite line.
- For
the past two years, Palestinians have been waging a new type
of "intifada" against Israel -- one that consists of
knife and car-ramming attacks, similar to the ones carried out
in Britain, France and Germany. This wave of attacks, which
began in September 2015, has claimed the lives of 49 people
and injured more than 700. Since then, Palestinians have
carried out more than 177 stabbings, 144 shootings and 58 vehicular
attacks
- Adding
to the hypocrisy, Abbas and his PA leadership often point an
accusing finger at Israel for killing the terrorists. Instead
of condemning the perpetrators, Abbas and the Palestinians
regularly accuse Israel of carrying out "extra-judicial
killings" of the terrorists. In other words, Palestinian
leaders save their condemnation for Israeli soldiers and
policemen for defending themselves and firing at those who
come to stab them with knives and axes or try to run them over
with their cars. How would the British or French governments
react if someone condemned them for killing the terrorists on
the streets of Paris and London?
Who says
that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas does not condemn
terror attacks against civilians? He is against terrorist attacks
anywhere in the world -- except in Israel, perpetrated by his own
people and prompted by him. Abbas's crocodile tears are intended to
disguise tears of joy that terrorism is alive and well. (Image
source: Muhammed Muheisen-Pool/Getty Images)
Who says that Palestinian Authority President
Mahmoud Abbas does not condemn terror attacks against civilians?
As it turns out, he and his Palestinian Authority
(PA) do indeed condemn terrorism -- when it is directed against
anyone but an Israeli. Israeli blood, it seems, is different.
Abbas led the international outcry after the June 3
London Bridge terror attack that left seven people dead and 48
injured.
A brief statement issued by Abbas's office read:
"The President of the State of Palestine,
Mahmoud Abbas, on Sunday condemned the terror attack in the British
capital of London. His Excellency (Abbas) offered his deep
condolences to Britain - its queen, government and people, and to
the families of the victims of the terror assault. He affirmed his
permanent rejection of all forms of terrorism."
by Denis MacEoin • June 8, 2017
at 4:30 am
- Wafa
al-Biss is only one among hundreds if not thousands of
Palestinians who have tried to smuggle guns, knives, suicide
vests and bombs into Israel. Should anyone be surprised if
Israel uses checkpoints and other security measures to save
Jewish, Christian and Muslim lives?
- In
the wave of terror that has continued for the past eighteen
months, Palestinians, including children, have used knives,
scissors, and machetes to stab Jews, and cars to ram and kill
pedestrians or police. Palestinians also suffer from the
security this demands, by having to wait in queues at
checkpoints or searches. That is regrettable, but hardly a
reason to condemn Israel.
- The
Palestinian narrative and the wider Arab and Muslim demand
that Israel must be wiped out is not a Christian narrative. It
is an Islamic narrative.
Arabs in
Israel have exactly the same rights as citizens as Jews: they have
political parties, they serve in the parliament, and some serve as
judges in Israeli courts, including the Supreme Court. Pictured:
Israel's supreme court justices, along with PM Netanyahu and
President Rivlin. Salim Joubran, an Israeli-Arab Supreme Court
justice, is in the middle of the second row. (Image source:
Spokesperson unit of the President of Israel)
A few days ago, some friends in Australia alerted me
to a blog post written by former Bishop George Browning, who had
been the 9th Anglican bishop of Canberra and Goulburn.
Entitled, "Capitalism, Anti-Semitism & the
Judaeo-Christian Ethic" (5 May 2017), this was an anti-Israel
rant of biased and profoundly inaccurate misdirection, mixing
outright lies with exaggerations. Towards the end, Browning denies
that his article is anti-Semitic ("... rather than this
critique being anti-Semitic, I believe it to be..."). Is
he aware of the leading modern definition of anti-Semitism written
by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)
and recognized by some 32 countries? This definition, like others
before it such as the European EUMC and US State Department
definitions, includes several clauses that identify unfair,
incorrect and biased criticism of Israel, the world's only Jewish
state, or setting double standards for it, that are anti-Semitic.
Unfortunately, Browning's article, as shall be seen, falls without
reserve into that definition. It is hard to understand how a man of
his intelligence and personal involvement in Israeli-Palestinian
matters should not know of or respect the IHRA definition. In order
to make this clear, here are two clauses from the IHRA definition:
by Maria Polizoidou • June 8,
2017 at 4:00 am
- U.S.
National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster, by rejecting the
term "radical Islamic terrorism," appears to be
ignoring the ideological, cultural, religious, political and
economic factors behind global jihad.
- It
is as if McMaster believes that the terrorists' war against
the West emerged out of nowhere -- unconnected to a
multi-pronged logistical foundation and network.
- A
Palestinian state would quickly become a theocracy -- an ISIS
clone, denying its citizens exposure to Judeo-Christian
culture, as Islamists are currently trying to do in Europe,
Australia and Canada.
U.S.
National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster, by rejecting the term
"radical Islamic terrorism," appears to be ignoring the
ideological, cultural, religious, political and economic factors
behind global jihad. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)
Despite considering Iran a grave threat to the
Middle East and the rest of the world, the U.S. establishment
opposes canceling the nuclear deal, and instead apparently prefers
to provide the Islamic Republic's theocratic regime with the
logistical means to continue developing its nuclear weapons
program.
US. National Security Adviser Gen. H.R. McMaster,
for example, by rejecting the term "radical Islamic
terrorism," appears to be ignoring the ideological, cultural,
religious, political and economic factors behind global jihad. It
is as if McMaster believes that the terrorists' war against the
West emerged out of nowhere -- unconnected to a multi-pronged
logistical foundation and network.
The same can be said of the American media, the
Justice and State Departments and the intelligence services -- and
not only in relation to terrorism.
June 7, 2017 at 1:00 am
Dear Friend,
Most of the West's political leaders and their
vassals in the media want us simply to accept massacres by
Islamists in the heart of our cities as "the new normal".
London's Mayor Sadiq Khan tried to claim that terrorist attacks are
just "part and parcel of living in a big city".
We will not accept that. It is poisonous to accept
that.
To every new jihadist bloodbath, those
"authorities" respond with denial, word games or silence.
Citizens who dare to speak openly about these
threats are stigmatized and often threatened, branded as
"Islamophobic" or "racist," to try to silence
us.
Social media giants such as Facebook and Twitter
regularly censor and ban users who express "politically
incorrect" opinions – while at the same time allowing
jihadists to use their platforms for recruiting more murderers to
their cause.
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