Manchester University in the UK has 26,000 students. A student organization managed to orchestrate the passage of a motion by the Student Union that affirmed solidarity with the students of a Palestinian university that apparently specializes in murder:
Jewish students were this week left reeling after the Student Union at Manchester University passed a motion twinning it with a West Bank university which has glorified suicide bombing and the massacre of innocent Israelis.
Hamas is wasting no time to show that it is continuing to ‘resist Zionist aggression’ as part of the new government:
KARNI CROSSING, Gaza Strip (AP– Yahoo) – Hamas militants on Monday claimed responsibility for a shooting that wounded an Israeli civilian near the border with the Gaza Strip — the first serious violence after formation of the new Palestinian unity government.
Actually, 5 Kassams fell in Israel yesterday, but since they didn’t hit anyone, they are not ‘serious’.
Israel’s electric company said one of its workers was seriously wounded as he worked on a tower on Israeli territory near the crossing.
Hamas military wing claimed responsibility, calling the attack “a response to continued Zionist aggression.”
Yes, it’s certain that the fellow picked off like a sitting duck while hanging from his safety belt on the tower was a Zionist aggressor. I think if I worked for the electric company, I would find it impossible to continue to supply electricity to Gaza for safety reasons.
Let them import it from Norway, the first major donor country to announce that they will resume aid to the PA.
One of the most infuriating things found in antisemitic and anti-Israel propaganda is the comparison of Israel and Jews to Nazis. But it’s much more sinister than simply a way of raising my blood pressure:
The false accusation of Holocaust inversion-the portraying of Israel, Israelis, and Jews as Nazis-is a major distortion of history. This anti-Semitic concept claims that Israel behaves against the Palestinians as Germany did to the Jews in World War II. “The victims have become perpetrators,” is one major slogan of the inverters. By shifting the moral responsibility for genocide, Holocaust inversion also contains elements of Holocaust denial…
The core motif of classic anti-Semitism was that Jews embody the most extreme malevolence. During the postwar era, the Nazi regime has become the paradigm for absolute evil. Comparing Israel’s conduct to its actions is a new mutation of this ancient theme…
American historian Deborah Lipstadt has also pointed out this method of establishing a fraudulent proposition as a historical truth. She says about the historical writer and Holocaust-denier David Irving: “Irving realized that a pre-condition for Nazism’s resurrection was to strip and wash it of its worst elements. The first important tool to accomplish this was the creation of immoral equivalencies, essentially a balance of bad behavior”…
This malicious identification of Israelis as Nazis is intended to free Europeans of their remorse and shame for their centuries-long history of lethal anti-Semitism. Above all, it liberates Europeans from any residual guilt they might have experienced in the wake of the Shoah. If the Israelis-who are, after all, mostly Jews-can be depicted as Nazis, then not having helped them during World War II might not have been misbehavior. — Manfred Gerstenfeld, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs
Holocaust inversion is a potent part of the arsenal of propaganda weapons used by those who wish to delegitimize Israel preparatory to destroying her. Dr. Gerstenfeld, chairman of the Board of Fellows of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, has written a major article characterizing and explaining it, which I urge you to read.
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By Vic Rosenthal
The newly appointed Israeli Arab minister of Science, Culture and Sports, Raleb Majadle, will not sing Israel’s national anthem, Hatikva. Perhaps it will surprise some people that I don’t think this is a bad thing.
Majadle, a long-time member of the Labor Party, defended his decision, saying he does not believe that “enlightened and sane Jews†would request a Muslim to sing a song which speaks to the Jewish people. “The Arabs are not in a mood to sing right now,†the Arab minister commented.
“Of course I would not sing the anthem in its current form,” Majadle said. “But before we talk about symbols, I want to talk about equal education for my children. It’s more important that my son would be able to buy a house, live with dignity.†— Arutz Sheva
We have predictable reactions from both sides. The Right says that this shows that he’s disloyal, that any Arab would be disloyal, and that Israel should not have an Arab cabinet minister. The Left says that it’s undemocratic that the symbols of the state discriminate against one-fifth of its citizens, and that Israel should get a new national anthem.
Both types of reaction are wrong.
By Vic Rosenthal
Finally the Israeli government shows some backbone:
Israel, which in recent months said it wanted to hold “political horizon” talks with Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, reversed gears on Sunday and declared that it would only talk to him about security or humanitarian issues.
The upshot of the cabinet resolution that defined Israeli policy toward the new PA government, a senior government source confirmed Sunday night, was that the “political horizon” idea that was meant to strengthen moderate Palestinians by showing what they had to gain by rejecting Hamas’s extreme positions, was now no longer relevant…
The resolution also stated Israel was now limited in what it could discuss with Abbas, as a result of the new PA government guidelines that see terrorism as a legitimate right, accept previous agreements with Israel only “in accordance with Palestinian interests” and call for any future agreement to be approved by the Palestinian National Council and the Palestinian Diaspora. — Jerusalem Post
This PA unity government has finally made clear that there is no desire for peace on the Arab side except on their terms — in other words, surrender (as exemplified by the Saudi initiative). The long Oslo detour through which we were led by the lies of Yasser Arafat is now finally, irrevocably over.
