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by Uzay Bulut
• March 22, 2015 at 5:00 am
The
last thing the Middle East needs is still another genocidal,
totalitarian, racist state, run by Islamic extremists such as Hamas.
"The
BDS movement is immoral because it violates the core principle if human
rights: namely, 'the worst first.' Israel is among the freest and most
democratic nations in the world. It is certainly the freest and most
democratic nation in the Middle East. Its Arab citizens enjoy more rights
than Arabs anywhere else in the world. They serve in the Knesset, in the
Judiciary, in the Foreign Service, in the academy and in business. They
are free to criticize Israel and support its enemies." — Alan M.
Dershowitz, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Law School.
What
these dictators and tyrants evidently calculate, is that if Israel can
just be made to go away, their own people will no longer be able to
compare the restrictions at home to the limitless opportunities they can
see so temptingly in the oasis next door.
The
UN, which allows voting from countries that do not even allow their own
people to vote, has, year after year, been calling for the destruction of
-- not those tyrannies calling for genocide -- but the one country in the
region with equal justice under law, which keeps reminding the rest of us
of what we cannot get.
What
the BBC did not show was the Hamas has enough money to build military
training camps for 17,000 women and children in Gaza, as well as to
rebuild its "military bases" near its border with Israel. That
does not reflect a shortage of funds; that reflects what Hamas chooses to
do with them.
Sadly,
we do not see thousands of people marching in the streets, organizing
protests or seminars in university campuses condemning the Palestinian
Authority, the Jordanian government or Lebanon for their abuses of human
rights and other unjust acts against Palestinians. But why? Because those
abuses were not committed by Jews? How much more racist can one get?
The
Jews are Israel's native indigenous people -- biblically, historically
and archeologically.
"Christians
are indeed the most persecuted religious group in the world today. But
reporting it would violate the media's narrative of Christians as the
persecutors and Muslims as victims." — Raymond Ibrahim, Middle East
scholar.
Each month,
about 322 Christians are killed for their faith.
No
matter what the activists of the BDS and other Jew-hating movements
claim, what they do not do is promote either peaceful coexistence
or justice.
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Anti-Israel protestors in Australia demand Boycott,
Divestment and Sanctions (BDS), June 2010. (Image source:
Takver/Wikimedia Commons)
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Grave human rights violations against religious and ethnic
minorities have become increasingly commonplace in the Muslim world. Not
only Jews are targeted, but, as the world has seen, Christians, Hindus,
Baha'i, Alevis, Shi'as, Sunnis -- and anyone who does not conform to some
self-appointed person's vision of Islam. Muslims are burned alive,
Christians' heads are cut off on a beach, a Christian couple in Pakistan
is thrown alive onto a burning kiln, churches and Bibles are not allowed
in Saudi Arabia, and there are sign-posted roads and turn-offs for anyone
not Muslim. It is hard to get more "apartheid" than that.
by Burak Bekdil
• March 22, 2015 at 4:00 am
The
teen's father, in comments to the press, called for the government to use
its resources to crack down on corrupt government officials, rather than
children expressing themselves on social media.
"It
is an honor to be detained for my opinions, not for stealing or for
corruption." — Atilla Tas, Turkish singer.
Can
Dundar, one of Turkey's most prominent journalists, and editor-in-chief
of the secular daily newspaper Cumhuriyet, was summoned after
interviewing a prosecutor in charge of a massive corruption investigation
that implicated Erdogan, his sons, four cabinet ministers, their sons and
some government-friendly businessmen. A criminal investigation launched
against Dundar alleged that his remarks in the interview had insulted
Erdogan.
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16-year-old Mehmet Emin Altunses (center) was
arrested and charged with the crime of insulting Turkey's President,
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, by allegedly chanting "chief of theft,
bribery and corruption" during a protest. (Image source: RT video
screenshot)
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There seems to be an epidemic in Turkey. Dozens of ordinary citizens
-- old, young, famous, unknown, even minors -- are being detained for
allegedly insulting Turkey's President (and former Prime Minister), Recep
Tayyip Erdogan.
The 34th sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Abdulhamid
(or Abdul Hamid) II (1842-1918), was a deeply paranoid man who rarely
travelled, out of fear of assassination. Known in the West as the
"Red Sultan," due to atrocities against non-Muslim minorities
during the fall of the empire, Abdulhamid II ran a network of spies to
crush every crumb of dissent against his iron-fisted rule. The press was
heavily censored. Ideologically, he had illusions of Pan-Islamism, and
loved to appear in public as the champion of Islam against a supposedly
aggressive Christendom.
Sound familiar?
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