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    Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution' (OP)


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    With Trump in power, Netanyahu has a free hand.


    Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'


    Land grab law 'allows theft, stalls peace process'

    Law that retroactively legalises settler homes on private Palestinian land widely condemned as legitimising theft.


    Israel's land grab law that retroactively legalises thousands of settlement homes in the occupied West Bank legitimises theft, violates international law and ends the prospect of a two-state solution, according to politicians, legal experts and human rights groups.

    The so-called "Regulation Bill" instantly drew wide condemnation as it was voted in by members of the Knesset late on Monday with a 60 to 52 majority.

    The law applies to about 4,000 settlement homes in the West Bank for which settlers could prove ignorance that they had built on privately owned Palestinian land and had received encouragement from the Israeli state to do so.

    Three Israeli NGOs - Peace Now, Yesh Din and the Association for Civil Rights in Israel - and numerous Palestinians said they intend to petition the Supreme Court to cancel the law.

    UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said on Tuesday in a statement: "This bill is in contravention of international law and will have far reaching legal consequences for Israel."

    The EU's foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said in a statement that the bloc "condemns" the law and urges against its implementation "to avoid measures that further raise tensions and endanger the prospects for a peaceful solution to the conflict".

    Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said the law was an aggression against the Palestinian people.

    "That bill is contrary to international law," Abbas said following a meeting with French President Francois Hollande in Paris. "This is an aggression against our people that we will be opposing in international organisations.

    "What we want is peace ... but what Israel does is to work toward one state based on apartheid."

    Hollande called on Israel to go back on the law, saying it would "pave the way for an annexation, de-facto, of the occupied territories, which would be contrary to the two-state solution".

    Hours before Abbas' meeting with Hollande, Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation, told the Associated Press news agency that the law puts "the last nail in the coffin of the two-state solution".

    Calling the move "theft", Erekat said the ruling showed "the Israeli government trying to legalise looting Palestinian land".

    The Arab League also accused Israel of "stealing the land" from Palestinians.

    "The law in question is only a cover for stealing the land and appropriating the property of Palestinians," said the head of the Cairo-based organisation, Ahmed Aboul Gheit.

    Palestinian owners will be compensated financially or with other land, but cannot negotiate their terms.

    The law is a continuation of "Israeli policies aimed at eliminating any possibility of a two-state solution and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state", Aboul Gheit said.

    Jordan, one of the few Arab states to have diplomatic ties with Israel, also denounced what it called "a provocative law likely to kill any hope of a two-state solution".

    According to the UN envoy for the Middle East peace process, Nickolay Mladenov, the law crosses a "very thick red line" towards annexation of the occupied West Bank, and sets a "very dangerous precedent".

    Speaking to the AFP news agency, he said: "This is the first time the Israeli Knesset legislates in the occupied Palestinian lands and particularly on property issues."

    He also raised the possibility the law could open Israel up to potential prosecution at the International Criminal Court, a threat Israel's own top government lawyer, attorney general Avichai Mandelblit, has also warned of.

    Mladenov called for strong international condemnation of the legislation but declined to criticise the US after President Donald Trump's administration refused to comment on it.

    Trump is more sympathetic to Israel's settlement policies than previous US presidents; the Israeli government has approved plans to build thousands of new homes on occupied territory since the far-right leader settled into the White House.

    "I think that is a very preliminary statement," Mladenov said. "Obviously they do need to consult, this is a new administration that has just come into office and they should be given the time and the space to find their policies."

    White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the US was likely to discuss the law with Netanyahu when the Israeli prime minister visits on February 15, but did not comment further in a press briefing on Tuesday.

    David Harris, head of AJC, the global Jewish advocacy organisation, said that "Israel's High Court can and should reverse this misguided legislation" ahead of Netanyahu's meeting with Trump in February.

    That was also the message from Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman, who said last week: "The chance that it will be struck down by the Supreme Court is 100 percent."

    'Against all international laws'

    International law considers all settlements to be illegal, but Israel distinguishes between those it sanctions and those it does not, dubbed outposts.

    A Palestinian Cabinet minister also called on the international community for support.

    "Nobody can legalise the theft of the Palestinian lands. Building settlements is a crime, building settlements is against all international laws," said Palestinian Tourism and Antiquities Minister Rula Maayaa. "I think it is time now for the international community to act concretely to stop the Israelis from these crimes."

    Nabil Abu Rdeneh, a spokesman for Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, called the law "unacceptable" and urged the international community to act immediately.

    "This is an escalation that would only lead to more instability and chaos," Rdeneh said.

    Palestinians want the occupied West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip - territories Israel occupied in the 1967 Middle East war - for their future state.

    The international community views settlements as illegal and an obstacle to reaching peace.

    Shortly before leaving office, US President Barack Obama allowed the UN Security Council to pass a resolution declaring settlements illegal.

    Tobias Ellwood, Britain's Middle East minister, also condemned the land grab bill, saying it "is of great concern that the bill paves the way for significant growth in settlements deep in the West Bank".

    Yuval Shany, an international law professor at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, said the law violates basic rights, interferes with property rights and is discriminatory because it regulates only the transfer of land from Palestinians to Jews.

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/israel-land-grab-law-ends-hope-state-solution-170207143602924.html
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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    The events in Gaza, the horrific slaughter of over 20,000 Gazans remains a deep wound all people of conscience have had to contend with over the past two months. The callous way with which the lives of young innocents can be so openly calculated and traded is shocking yet predictable in equal measure. Much of what has happened is premised on a set of collective myths the west has attempted to perpetuate about Israel and its intentions. A compliant media and a political class that have provided a thin veneer of acceptability to Israel’s murderous rampage has all but shattered the myth that the west holds the moral high ground.

    Today forensically explore the myths that surround the current crisis. To help us understand the situation better we have back onto the show Dr Azzam Tamimi who is a Palestinian British academic, author of Hamas the unwritten chapter.






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    Yes, there is no easy road to liberation.


    Edit - Zios Hasbara isnt what it used to be.







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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

    I wish the Jews would stop with the "anti Semite" rhetoric as they are the ones murdering the Semites. I have been watching AlJewzera and most of the Jews look more European than Jewish, hybrids I guess. I saw a pure Jew who was small and dark featured and was not hostile and what do you know, looked very close to a Palestinian with a longer nose.
    Biden has an open gate policy maybe the Palestinians could go to the USA. What are your thoughts?
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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    Another update.

    This was over 1 month ago

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    South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa said that Israel is violating international law by committing war crimes and genocide in Gaza.

    "The collective punishment of Palestinian civilians through the unlawful use of force by Israel is a war crime. The deliberate denial of medicine, fuel, food and water to the residents of Gaza is tantamount to genocide,"

    During Tuesday's extraordinary summit of the BRICS nations, President Ramaphosa, who chaired the meeting, called for an 'immediate and comprehensive ceasefire' and the establishment of humanitarian corridors to deliver aid to civilians.






    Now they have taken action.


    South Africa files case at ICJ accusing Israel of ‘genocidal acts’ in Gaza

    Israel, which has been accused of meting out collective punishment on Palestinians, has rejected the case at the UN court.

    South Africa has filed a case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), accusing it of crimes of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza after nearly three months of relentless Israeli bombardment has killed more than 21,500 people and caused widespread destruction in the besieged enclave.

    In an application to the court on Friday, South Africa described Israel’s actions in Gaza as “genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group”.

    “The acts in question include killing Palestinians in Gaza, causing them serious bodily and mental harm, and inflicting on them conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction,” the application said.



    https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/...l-acts-in-gaza



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    South Africa has accused Tel Aviv of intentionally committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, citing violations of the Genocide Convention. Palestinian officials have criticized Israel's colonial occupation and apartheid regime,

    Jonathan Kuttab is an International Law Attorney and Co-founder of the Palestinian Human Rights Group Al-Haq says the ICJ has more authority to hold Israel accountable.








    More on the legal process.

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    ** This interview was recorded a few hours before South Africa initiated its ICJ case - the Genocide Convention is discussed in detail here.

    When we consider the disgraceful actions of the Israeli state, it becomes evident that they operate in a system of impunity. From the very early days of this slaughter, the diplomatic, economic and military cover provided by the West has unleashed a genocidal war machine intent on ethnically cleansing Gaza and removing its indigenous people, the Palestinians, from their ancestral home. In an act of perverse precision, the Israeli war machine decimated Gaza’s archival buildings – as a symbol of its desire to erase Palestinian history.

    But what, if anything, can we do about this? My guest today, Tayab Ali, is a lawyer specialising in criminal trials. He is a partner at the legal firm Bindmans. He has been described as “an irresistible force – he’s fearless.” He is rated as a Super Lawyer by Thompson Reuters and recognised in Civil Liberties by The Legal 500. He has represented clients in the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights and at international political and legal institutions, including the United Nations, the International Criminal Court and the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights.






    I wouldn't hold out much hope that this will achieve anything. International law has been flouted for a long time and cynical as this may sound there's wealth to be made in these seemingly never-ending court cases. Having said that its worth pursing. It will highlight (once again) the hypocrisy of those who preach 'liberal humanitarian' values and hopefully make people realise there needs to be a better alternative.

    EDIT - Who didnt see this coming. . . .

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    The lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice in The Hague drew criticism from the United States on Wednesday. White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby dismissed the submission, labelling it as meritless, counterproductive, and lacking any factual basis.

    Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara criticizes John Kirby's brief dismissal of South Africa's genocide case against Israel, emphasizing the thoroughness of the 84-page document. Marwan perceives Kirby's response as disrespectful and lacking diplomatic courtesy, asserting that South Africa and the academic community deserve more acknowledgement. Marwan also questions the US stance on the Gaza death toll, expressing concerns about the intent behind Israeli actions targeting civilians and infrastructure.






    EDIT - Again, nnother example of how big players disregard International law when it suits.

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    Hamas says its deputy leader Saleh al-Arouri has been killed in an explosion in the Lebanese capital, Beirut.





    Always good to know who your 'friends' are.




    More comment. Yes the UAE record is not pretty, there needs to be more scrutiny of their malign influence in the Muslim world and beyond.





    A harsh judgement but he has a point.


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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    I wish the Jews would stop with the "anti Semite" rhetoric as they are the ones murdering the Semites. I have been watching AlJewzera and most of the Jews look more European than Jewish, hybrids I guess. I saw a pure Jew who was small and dark featured and was not hostile and what do you know, looked very close to a Palestinian with a longer nose.
    Biden has an open gate policy maybe the Palestinians could go to the USA. What are your thoughts?
    I am amazed.... the Jews want to send the Palestinians to the USA. Wouldn't it be better for the Jews to leave Israel and go and live in the USA as they own and control the country anyway as well as Western Europe the UN and the Anglo sphere. Israel is just a little sandy country, why not give it to the Palestinians?... at the end of the day it is Arab turf.
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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    Something a little different

    Remember this?





    Well, well well, what do we have here?



    Naturally its led to a lot of speculation, what on earth is going on?




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    A secret tunnel, a violent confrontation and a messianic vision.

    Here is what we know about the controversy surrounding the passageways discovered beneath the synagogue of the Chabad Lubavitch headquarters in New York, US.






    More comment and speculation.

    The Bochurim Dug Too Deep

    It appears another pedo tunnel has been discovered, this one under an Orthodox synagogue in Brooklyn. The weaponized autists of ----- are all over this, as the police video has already revealed what appear to be child-sized blood-stained mattresses and what is definitely an infant’s highchair. The empty building to which the tunnel led is also across the street from a children’s museum.

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    But don’t worry. We’ve been reliably assured by a paid hasbaran on ----- that the secret tunnel was nothing more than an alternative entrance to the synagogue for use during Covid, which claim was promptly disproven by /pol/ when it was pointed out that the tunnel appeared to have been constructed post-Covid. Which means that there is not only a secret synagogue tunnel containing various children’s accoutrements in New York, but the professional propagandists are already out in force attempting to explain them away.

    No word yet from Jimmy Kimmel on this…

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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    Hah.



    Gazacaust!=Holocaust

    “A gaffe is when a politician tells the truth—some obvious truth he isn’t supposed to say.”

    — Michael Kinsley

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    I would like to use the rest of my time to describe how appalled I am that people are bringing up the Holocaust. Do not use other genocides to describe this one! I have been… oh!


    Oops! That’s not so much letting the cat out of the bag, as a sabretooth tiger. Must be that vaunted 115 IQ, operating at levels far beyond our meager powers of comprehension.

    But in all fairness, a potential Gazacaust can’t really be legitimately compared to the historical Holocaust. No roller coasters, no gas chambers, no eagles, no bears, and no bizarre medical experiments. Just bullets, bombs, and bulldozers.

    What’s fascinating about the current situation is the way in which the invasion of Gaza is, rightly or wrongly, justified by an answer to the very question that isn’t even allowed to be publicly asked about the Holocaust.

    Precisely what did the victims do that inspired this genocidal impulse on the part of their victimizers?


    https://voxday.net/2024/01/25/gazacaustholocaust/


    Obvious lesson.





    Gruesome.



    But as Brother Paul mentions not gruesome enough to describe the reality.
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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    The genocide continues.

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    Israeli forces have stormed southern Gaza's main hospital - they claim to be searching for the bodies of hostages.

    The military called the raid on Nasser Hospital "precise and limited".

    But footage showed panic, chaos, smoke and the sound of heavy gunfire, and doctors say several patients were injured and at least one was killed.




    Heh.




    More perspectives

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    Dr Andy Ferguson spent two weeks working as a doctor in Gaza, at the European Hospital in Khan Younis, helping treat people with severe trauma wounds from bombing, shrapnel and gunfire.

    As Israel's forces pushed further south into Gaza over Christmas and New Year, supplies of medicine, anaesthetic and crucial equipment began to run low - and eventually run out entirely in some places.

    This is what Dr Ferguson saw.






    The ICJ ruling on Israel committing potential genocide has put them under pressure. Naturally Israel and its backers ignore the decision and decide to punish UNRWA instead.







    Finally an overall look at the situation.

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    The Israeli prime minister made his comments after holding a 40-minute phone call with US President Joe Biden.

    Gideon Levi columni at Harrez Newspaper .






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    Ilan Pappe, the Israeli historian and author of 'The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,' expressed his view that it would be challenging for Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to maintain relevance in the eyes of the Israeli government. According to Pappe, Abbas' perceived role primarily revolves around security coordination in the West Bank to prevent potential uprisings, rather than being consulted on matters concerning Gaza's post-war scenario.

    Pappe believes that while Washington may prioritize the inclusion of the PA in post-war arrangements, such a move would be detrimental. He argues that Palestinians would view PA involvement as collaborating with the destruction of Gaza, contrary to their desires.

    In Pappe's perspective, the PA lacks a significant role in the ongoing conflict and foreseeable negotiations in the next 15 months. He doubts the effectiveness of strong condemnation from the United States, suggesting that Israeli actions often continue despite such rhetoric.

    Regarding potential Israeli actions, Pappe anticipates an attack on Rafah but doubts the ease of implementing Israeli plans for handling refugees. He emphasizes the need for a robust international reaction to prevent the escalation of Israeli operations once initiated.




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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

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    Another update.


    Netanyahu and Senior Israeli Officials Advocate 'Voluntary' Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza

    An analysis of the "voluntary" displacement of the Gaza Strip and related

    by Mouin Rabbani

    Senior Israeli leaders, including Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, are again publicly advocating the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. Their proposals are being presented as voluntary emigration schemes, in which Israel is merely playing the role of Good Samaritan, selflessly mediating with foreign governments to find new homes for destitute and desperate Palestinians. But it is ethnic cleansing all the same.

    Alarm bells should have started ringing in early November when US Secretary of State Antony Blinken and other Western politicians began insisting there could be “no forcible displacement of Palestinians from Gaza”. Rather than rejecting any mass removal of Palestinians, Blinken and colleagues objected only to optically challenging expulsions at gunpoint. The option of “voluntary” displacement by leaving residents of the Gaza Strip with no choice but departure was pointedly left open.

    Ethnic cleansing, or “transfer” as it is known in Israeli parlance, has a long pedigree that goes back to the late-nineteenth-century beginnings of the Zionist movement. While the early Zionists adopted the slogan, “A Land Without a People for a People Without a Land”, the evidence demonstrates that, from the very outset, their leaders knew better. More to the point, they clearly understood that the Palestinians formed the main obstacle to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. This is for the simple reason that to them a “Jewish state” denotes one in which its Jewish population acquires and maintains unchallenged demographic, territorial, and political supremacy.

    Enter “transfer”. As early as 1895 Theodor Herzl, the founder of the contemporary Zionist movement, identified the necessity of removing the inhabitants of Palestine in the following terms: “We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our own country ... expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” David Ben-Gurion (née Grün), Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, and later Israel’s first prime minister, was more blunt. In a 1937 letter to his son, he wrote: “We must expel the Arabs and take their place”.

    Writing in his diary in 1940 Yosef Weitz, a senior Jewish National Fund official who chaired the influential Transfer Committee before and during the Nakba (“Catastrophe”), and became known as the Architect of Transfer, put it thus: “The only solution is a Land of Israel devoid of Arabs. There is no room here for compromise. They must all be moved. Not one village, not one tribe can remain. Only through this transfer of the Arabs living in the Land of Israel will redemption come”. His diaries are littered with similar sentiments.

    The point of the above is not to demonstrate that individual Zionist leaders held such views, but that the senior leadership of the Zionist movement consistently considered the ethnic cleansing of Palestine an objective and priority. Initiatives such as the Transfer Committee, and Plan Dalet, initially formulated in 1944 and described by the pre-eminent Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi as the “Master Plan for the Conquest of Palestine”, additionally demonstrate that the Zionist movement actively planned for it. The 1948 Nakba, during which more than four-fifths of Palestinians residing in territory that came under Israeli rule were ethnically cleansed, should therefore be seen as the fulfilment of a longstanding ambition and implementation of a key policy. A product of design, not of war. Historical Christmas footnote: the Palestinian town of Nazareth was spared a similar fate only because the commander of Israeli forces that seized the city, a Canadian Jew named Ben Dunkelman, disobeyed orders to expel the population. He was relieved of his command the following day.

    That the Nakba was a product of design is further substantiated by the Transfer Committee’s terms of reference. These comprised not only proposals for the expulsion of the Palestinians but, just as importantly, active measures to prevent their return; destroy their homes and villages; expropriate their property; and resettle these territories with Jewish immigrants. Weitz, together with fellow Committee members Eliahu Sassoon and Ezra Danin, on 5 June 1948 presented a three-page blueprint, entitled “Scheme for the Solution of the Arab Problem in the State of Israel”, to Prime Minister Ben-Gurion to achieve these goals. According to leading Israeli historian Benny Morris, “there is no doubt Ben-Gurion agreed to Weitz’s scheme”, which included “what amounted to an enormous project of destruction” that saw more then 450 Palestinian villages razed to the ground.

    The understandable focus on the expulsions of 1948 often overlooks the fact that ethnic cleansing remains incomplete unless its victims are barred from returning to their homes by a combination of armed force and legislation, and thereafter replaced by others. It is Israel’s determination to make Palestinian dispossession permanent that distinguishes Palestinian refugees from many other war refugees.

    After 1948 Israel put out a whole series of fabrications to shift responsibility for the transformation of the Palestinians into dispossessed and stateless refugees onto the Arab states and the refugees themselves. These included claims that the refugees voluntarily left (they were either expelled or fled in justified terror); that Arab radio broadcasts ordered the Palestinians to flee (in fact they were encouraged to stay put); that Israel conducted a population exchange with Arab states (there was nothing of the sort); and the bizarre argument that because they’re Arabs, Palestinians had numerous other states while Jews have only Israel (by the same logic Sikhs would be entitled to seize British Columbia and deport its population to either the rest of Canada or the United States). More importantly, even if uniformly substantiated none of these pretexts entitles Israel to prohibit the right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes at the conclusion of hostilities. It is, furthermore, a right that was consecrated in United Nations General Assembly 194 of 11 December 1948, which has been re-affirmed repeatedly since.

    In 1967 Israel seized the remaining 22 per cent of Mandatory Palestine – the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip. Depopulation in these territories operated differently than in 1948. Most importantly Israel, in addition to prohibiting the return of Palestinians who fled hostilities during the 1967 June War, and encouraging others to leave (by for example providing a daily bus service from Gaza City to the Allenby Bridge connecting the West Bank to Jordan), during the summer of 1967 conducted a census. Any resident who was not present during the census was ineligible for an Israeli identity document and automatically lost their right of residency.

    As a result the population of these territories declined by more than twenty per cent overnight. Many of those thus displaced were already refugees from 1948. Aqbat Jabr Refugee Camp near Jericho for example, until 1967 the West Bank’s largest, became a virtual ghost town after almost all its inhabitants became refugees once again in Jordan. So many Palestinians from the Gaza Strip ended up in Jordan that a new refugee camp, Gaza Camp, was established on the outskirts of Jerash. The occupied Palestinian territories would not recover their 1967 population levels until the early 1980s.

    Within the West Bank there were also cases of mass expulsion. These included the town of Qalqilya, which was additionally slated for demolition but to which its residents were later permitted to return. Those of ‘Imwas (the Biblical Emmaus), Bayt Nuba, and Yalu in Jerusalem’s Latrun salient were less fortunate. They were summarily expelled (many today live in Ramallah’s Qaddura Refugee Camp), their villages demolished and annexed to Israel, and replaced by Canada Park, so named because the project was completed with donations from the Canadian Jewish community. Within Jerusalem’s Old City the historic Mughrabi Quarter, abutting the Haram al-Sharif, was summarily razed to make way for a plaza astride the Wailing Wall. With many residents given only minutes to evacuate their homes, several were killed when the bulldozers went to work. According to Eitan Ben-Moshe, an engineer who oversaw the atrocity, “We threw out the wreckage of houses together with the Arab corpses”.

    In subsequent years Israel employed all kinds of administrative shenanigans to further reduce the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Until the 1993 Oslo Accords, for example, an exit permit from Israel’s military government was required to leave the occupied territories. It was valid for only three years, and thereafter renewable annually for a maximum of three additional years, for a fee, at an Israeli consulate. If a Palestinian lost an exit permit, or failed to renew an exit permit prior to its expiration for any reason (including bureaucratic foot-dragging), or couldn’t pay the renewal fee, or failed to return to Palestine prior to its expiration, that Palestinian automatically lost residency rights. Separately, Israel over the years deported numerous activists and community leaders, primarily to Jordan and Lebanon. During the late 1960s and 1970s it also exiled Gaza Palestinians accused of resisting the occupation, along with their families, to prison camps in the occupied Sinai Peninsula. Among those who spent time there was the iconic Palestinian leader Haidar Abdel-Shafi.

    A particularly notable case of administrative deportations occurred in 1992, after Israeli special forces botched an operation to rescue an Israeli soldier who had been seized by Hamas to exchange him for their imprisoned leader, Shaikh Ahmad Yasin. Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered the summary deportation of approximately 400 Palestinians, many of them prisoners affiliated with Hamas and Islamic Jihad (PIJ), none accused of involvement in the incident that led to Rabin’s frenzied rage.

    In contrast to previous deportations, which were considered permanent, these were for one- and two-year terms. In its rush to carry out the deportations under cover of night, Israel expelled a number of Palestinians who were not on its list, and left behind others who were. Needless to say the mass expulsion was, as always in such matters, approved by Israel’s High Court of Justice after minor modifications. It ruled, among other things, that this was not a collective deportation but rather a collection of individual deportations. Perhaps more significantly the deportees were stuck in an inhospitable no-man’s land, Marj al-Zuhur, because Lebanon refused to facilitate the deportations by receiving them. During their involuntary residence in Marj al-Zuhur, assistance came primarily from Hizballah, and it was during this period that relations between Hamas, PIJ, and Hizballah were solidified.

    With the focus in recent years on the intensified campaigns of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank, it is often forgotten that for decades the primary target for depopulation was the Gaza Strip, and particularly its refugee population which accounts for approximately three-quarters of the territory’s residents. Even before it occupied Gaza in 1967, Israel regularly promoted initiatives to achieve the “thinning” of its refugee population, with destinations as far afield as Libya and Iraq. Not without reason, Israel’s leaders felt uncomfortable with the presence of so many ethnically-cleansed Palestinians within walking distance of their former homes. After 1967 it encouraged Palestinian emigration from the Gaza Strip to not only foreign countries but also the West Bank.

    In 1969 Israel even devised a scheme to send 60,000 Palestinians from the Gaza Strip to Paraguay with offers of lucrative employment. The plan was negotiated between Paraguay’s military dictator Alfredo Stroessner and Mossad, the Israeli foreign intelligence agency. It was of course purely coincidental that shortly thereafter Mossad discovered it no longer had the resources to hunt Nazi fugitives in Paraguay, which had been their destinations of choice. The scheme was discontinued when several of its victims, upon realising the promise of a new life of comfort was all a sham, shot up the Israeli embassy in Asuncion, killing one of its staff.

    In the decades since, “transfer”, often presented as the encouragement of voluntary emigration either by providing material incentives or making the conditions of life impossible, has become increasingly mainstreamed in Israeli political life. In 2019, for example, a “senior government official”, quoted in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, expressed a willingness to help Palestinians emigrate from the Gaza Strip.

    Mass expulsion has been gaining its share of adherents as well, and it is a position that is today represented within Israel’s coalition government. As has the idea that “transfer" should include Palestinian citizens of Israel. Avigdor Lieberman for example, several years ago Israel’s Minister of Defense, is an advocate of not only emptying the West Bank and Gaza Strip of Palestinians, but of getting rid of Palestinian citizens of Israel as well. As one might expect from a minister in charge of the Israeli military, he is also an advocate of “beheading” disloyal Palestinian citizens of Israel with “an axe”.

    Against this background Israel saw the attacks of 7 October as not only a threat but also as an opportunity. Fortified with unconditional US and European support, Israeli political and military leaders immediately began promoting the transfer of Gaza’s Palestinian population to the Sinai desert. The proposal was enthusiastically embraced by the United States, and by Secretary of State Antony Blinken in particular. As ever hopelessly out of his depth when it comes to the Middle East, he appears to have genuinely believed he could recruit or pressure Washington’s Arab client regimes to make Israel’s wish a reality. Given Egyptian strongman Abdel-Fatah Sisi’s economic troubles, the fallout of the Menendez scandal, and looming Egyptian presidential elections, it was suggested to him by the Washington echo chamber that it would take only an IMF loan, debt relief, and a promise to file away Menendez to bring Cairo on board. As so often when it comes to the Middle East Blinken, armed only with Israel’s latest wish list, didn’t have a clue his indecent proposal would be categorically rejected, first and foremost by Egypt.

    The fallback position is opposition to “forcible displacement” at the point of a gun, while anything else is fair game. This includes reducing the Gaza Strip to rubble in what may well be the most intensive bombing campaign in history; a genocidal assault on an entire society that has killed civilians at an unprecedentedly rapid pace; the deliberate destruction of an entire civilian infrastructure, including the targeted obliteration of its health and education sectors; the highest proportion of households in hunger crisis ever recorded globally and the real prospect of pre-meditated famine; severance of the water and electricity supply leading to acute thirst, widespread consumption of non-potable water, and termination of sewage treatment; and promotion of a sharp rise in infectious disease. One Israeli soldier has already died of a fungal infection resulting from the collapse in sanitation he helped bring about in the Gaza Strip. How many Palestinians have been consumed by similar illness we do not know, but it is reasonable to assume that children and the elderly are hit particularly hard.

    In other words, if desperate Palestinians seek to flee this seventh circle of hell to save their skins, that’s considered voluntary emigration, their choice. If they cannot remain in the Gaza Strip because Israel has made it unfit for human habitation with US weapons, that is a voluntary choice that will be respected. And the US and Israel are only here to help, like Mother Theresa determined to assist every last one of them whether they like it or not. Danny Danon, a member of parliament who was previously Israel’s envoy to the United Nations (the guy who sounds like Elmer Fudd), recently held up the mass displacement of Syrians to multiple shores during the past decade as an example to be emulated. “Even if each country receives ten thousand, twenty thousand Gazans, this is significant”. Asked about Danon’s proposal at a Likud meeting on Christmas Day, Netanyahu responded, “We are working on it. Our problem is [finding] the countries that are willing to absorb [them].” As an editorial in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz put it on 27 December: “Israeli lawmakers keep pushing for transfer under the guise of humanitarian aid”.

    Not to be outdone by the politicians, the Jerusalem Post ran an opinion piece entitled “Why Moving to the Sinai Peninsula is The Solution for Gaza’s Palestinians”. “Sinai”, its author Joel Roskin enthused, “comprises one of the most suitable places on Earth to provide the people of Gaza with hope and a peaceful future”. Not individual Gazans, but “the people of Gaza”. Notably, such proposals consistently take it as a given that those departing will never return. One waits with baited breath for the European Union is expected to respond to these calls for mass expulsion with further investigations of Palestinian textbooks.

    While ethnic cleansing has been intrinsic to Zionist/Israeli ideology and practice from the very outset, it also has a flip side: the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians expanded what had been a conflict between the Zionist movement and the Palestinians into a regional, Arab-Israeli one. The second Nakba Israel is currently inflicting on the Gaza Strip similarly appears well on its way to instigating the renewal of hostilities across the Middle East.

    As importantly, the 1948 Nakba did not defeat the Palestinians, who initiated their struggle from the camps of exile, those in the Gaza Strip most prominently among them. It would take a Blinken level of foolishness to assume the expulsion of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip would produce a different outcome.

    https://normanfinkelstein.substack.c...ahu-and-senior



    Indeed.



    The discourse among the different (political) shades of zios can be neatly summed up.



    In fact many of them find this genocide all rather entertaining.






    Careful now you don't want the truth to hurt their delicate feelings.




    However in Hebrew they show another face. They are very explicit about their goals.



    Mind you (as we've seen earlier) they increasingly don't bother with niceties.


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    Another update.

    His career as a journalist is rather dodgy but I gave him the benefit of the doubt. Shouldn't have, Piers Morgan unmasked.

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    Piers Morgan was trying to bait his Muslims guests so they would get into serious trouble. Mohammed Hijab made a point that when he was being interviewed he had to be careful what he said, police were waiting outside incase he 'slipped up'.
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    Another update.

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    The recent ICJ interim order has been interpreted in many ways by its proponents, that hail it a victory and its opponents that denounce it as a anti Israeli conspiracy. But many have questioned the efficacy of the interim order, pointing to the ICJ’s lack of enforcement and the absence of an explicit mention of a ceasefire. To help us understand the complexities surrounding the judgement we have invited at short notice, Tayab Ali in once again.

    Tayab Ali, is a lawyer specialising in international law. He is a partner at the legal firm Bindmans. He has represented clients in the Supreme Court and European Court of Human Rights and at international political and legal institutions, including the United Nations, the International Criminal Court and the African Commission of Human and Peoples’ Rights.


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    Whats important in this phase of the conflict is that the Zios dont even bother to mask what they do, they instead revel in it.

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    The Listening Post collected and reviewed hundreds of items. We asked three experts on human rights and torture to examine the material.





    Jews themselves are more and more speaking out.

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    A little old but like to share more unusual perspectives.




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    Today, we are confronting nothing short of a campaign of ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians of Gaza, not seen since the Nakba or Catastrophe of 1948. Yet many in the Western world are silent about the suffering. Much of what justifies Israel and its actions in the West is premised on history, and many European and American historians have been ready to present a compelling argument for Zionism and the case for Israel in the heart of the Middle East.

    This historical justification, based on persecution and antisemitism, gives the story of Israel a potency that has for many years served to find acceptance in the West – of impunity to act without restraint - that is not offered to any other state. At the same time, the Palestinian story has been undermined by these same historians. They were a Bedouin community, readily able to vacate their land – it is said. Palestinians, according to leading Israeli politicians, are a mythical people.

    Today, we are honoured to have Professor Avi Shlaim with us to untangle historical facts from fiction. Avi Shlaim is an eminent historian. He is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at Oxford University and the author of The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2014) and Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations (2009). Professor Shlaim is a dual Israeli British citizen who lived in the country as a child. His family originated from Iraq and migrated to the newly founded state in 1950.








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    Zionism is the ideology that underpins the barbarism that has been meted out on Palestinians, its latest chapter being the slaughter that is currently happening in Gaza. Yet its ideals remain respectable in establishment circles. In the United States, political leaders fall over one another to declare their un denying loyalty to the creed and in Britain, there has been a long tradition of Christian Zionism that spans back to the early twentieth century and the Balfour Declaration.

    Ahmed Paul Keeler argues that Zionism has become embedded into the Western mindset through education and culture. It relies upon a Darwinian hierarchy that places Europeans at the top and Arabs and others as savages and less human, terms that have been uttered in recent events with greater frequency. Ahmed was born in 1942 and was brought up in a conservative upper-middle class Anglo Catholic family. He belonged to a generation that was brought up to serve the British empire. Ahmed Keeler is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre of Islamic Studies, University of Cambridge, and was a Distinguished Fellow at The Faculty of Leadership and Management, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia in 2016.





    A more up to date analysis.

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    The current slaughter meted out on innocents in Gaza, fully supported Western Governments, is founded upon a bed of lies. It is said that the truth is the first casualty of war, yet in this war the truth is not hidden –the decapitated bodies, crushed skulls, emaciated children, the callous shelling of hungry souls as they clamour for flour – all of this is known to the world and there remains little doubt that what we are witnessing is truly horrific. Yet the Israeli counter-narrative looks to subvert this truth; these images they claim, however regrettable, are the result of such a heinous crime that they are necessary for rooting out the evil. The Gazan women and children are no more than collateral damage. I have argued that what the hypocritical West fails to see is that for every soul whose death they manufacture, the very edifice upon which they claim a moral high ground is crumbling.

    My guest today, Ahmed Paul Keeler argues in a provocative and beautifully written piece that narratives matter. This is why millions are spent on spinning a story about the state of Israel and the traducing the claims of Palestinians. Today we take a forensic look at these narratives.


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    Messages of hope.

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    Israel is Losing Its War and You are the Reason Why





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    Writer and activist Lauren Booth illuminates what she believes accounts for the global surge of pro-Palestinian solidarity, how her own travels to Palestine shaped her as a person and challenged her Western views – emphasising the value of individualism over community – and the strength of Palestinians in opposing Zionist and colonial violence, from which key moral lessons – bearing on both Islam and universal principles of justice –can be learned.








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    format_quote Originally Posted by Karl View Post
    The situation is hopeless for the Palestinians. The Zionist West is too powerful. Would it be possible for the Palestinians to leave and go to a friendly state like Lebanon? Or are they to be all killed by the Jews. The only way to defeat the Zionists is by nuclear war and I don't think the Chinese and the Russians and eastern alliances want to die either. How can this be sorted?
    It seems that way but its not, despite the horror we are witnessing.

    On the question of immigration the question is where?

    Immigration is already a hot potato in Europe and the US. Few politicians are wanting to endure the backlash from welcoming another wave of refugees.

    Just one example



    In the region is pretty much the same story. Egypt is building a wall on the Gaza border and Lebanon already has its own myriad of (internal) societal problems.

    Zios of course have been very 'enthusiastic'' about 'encouraging' Palestinians to leave their own homes.



    Palestinians should ‘go to Ireland or deserts’ and using nuclear bomb on Gaza an option, says Israeli minister

    Heritage minister Amihai Eliyahu is reportedly suspended by Netanyahu from cabinet meetings after making comments

    https://www.irishtimes.com/world/mid...20fifth%20week.
    Obvious irony, Palestinains DONT want to leave, they want to stay and return to their own homes.
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    Another update.


    POST-GAZA PLAN PART I – “DENAZIFICATION” AND THE UAE BLUEPRINT



    This article is the first in a special Ramadan series aimed out uncovering the ideological component to the post-Gaza plan. The series will delve into how, through the discourse of denazification, Israel is looking to UAE’s approach to deforming Islam and forcing an Israel-friendly secularism through buzzwords of “peace” and “tolerance” and the patriarchal figure of Abraham.


    As Muslims, it is difficult for us to focus beyond the ongoing Israeli depravity against the Palestinians in Gaza and the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

    The extreme wave of brutal violence and widespread destruction in the region is intentional. Since the genocidal war’s inception, Israeli authorities have been explicit about their intention to cause significant civilian casualties. They have drawn disturbing parallels to infamous historical events, such as the devastating bombing of Dresden and the use of nuclear weapons in Japan, framing them as templates for modern warfare. The genocidal Israeli ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, has regurgitated the same, almost relishing in the fact that 600,000 civilians died in the Allied bombardment of Germany.

    This calculated approach to warfare underscores a departure from traditional principles of proportionality and restraint. By invoking these dark chapters of history as precedents, Israeli officials have signalled a willingness to imitate their unethical objectives.

    Traumatising Muslims

    The primary aim of the Allied area bombing during World War II (WWII) was to terrorise and traumatise populations into submission.

    It is precisely this military tactic that compels us to contemplate the post-Gaza strategy carefully. The Israeli government’s actions have inflicted severe collective trauma upon the Palestinian people. Enduring repeated displacements, incessant bombardment, witnessing the dismemberment of loved ones, suffering injuries and more have contributed to a level of trauma that transcends post-traumatic stress disorder. According to a Médecins Sans Frontières representative addressing the United Nations, even children as young as five express a preference for death.

    The broader Muslim world is experiencing a portion of this terror, forced to bear witness to new unfolding horrors day after day without the ability to intervene physically.

    Pertinently, trauma serves as a critical precursor to subsequent actions.

    Denazification


    In the summer of 1945, having “terrorised” the German population, the Allied Powers collectively resolved to “destroy German militarism and Nazism,” to “wipe out the Nazi Party, Nazi laws, organizations and institutions,” and to “remove all Nazi and militarist influences from public office and from the cultural and economic life of the German people.”

    These initiatives came to be known as denazification.

    They were a comprehensive set of policies that resulted in the mass internment of Nazis, including those “suspected” of Nazi sympathies and vetting processes to purge such individuals from public office, Church institutions, education institutions, and trade spheres. Publishing houses were shut down, information services such as the press and radio were taken over or liquidated, street and building names were changed, and teacher training programmes were established to inhibit Nazism in schools.[1]

    Israelis have been clear they will pursue a “denazification policy” in Gaza.

    It is almost comical that this needs clarification, but there is a fundamental disanalogy between the Palestinian resistance and liberation struggle and Nazi Germany. Germany and Japan epitomised empires, with Germany notably harbouring a repugnant racist, fascist regime that demonised the perceived “other” to concretise its fascism and fuel its territorial ambitions. To insinuate any semblance of parity between the two is not just erroneous but a gross distortion of historical truth. If we seek parallels, they should be drawn between the racist apartheid Israeli state and Nazi Germany.

    Given how the Zionist regime has demonstrated the genocidal consequences of portraying Palestinians and Hamas as Nazis, it is evident to the reasonable mind that denazification is essentially aimed at erasing Palestinians and their religious and cultural heritage. However, as the history of Israeli brutalisation of Palestinians and two decades of the War on Terror have shown, such measures cannot lead to peace.

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    Nevertheless, the Zionist strategy of a pre-Geneva Conventions post-trauma policy of indoctrination of Palestinians was outlined as early as October 2023. At the time, a document from Israel’s Intelligence Ministry was leaked outlining a plan to permanently expel Palestinians to the Sinai to “instil a sense of failure among the population”.

    The document asserts that “a deep process of implementing an ideological change (de-Nazification)” was fundamental to any proposal implemented. This shift aims to replace the “old perception” with a “moderate Islamic ideology” that is not hostile toward Israel. The document describes this process as “similar to the de-Nazification carried out in Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan.” One mechanism the proposal suggests is “to dictate the school curricula and enforce its use for an entire generation.”

    Revealingly, under one of the options (“B”) discussing ideological change, the document points to the UAE as an ideal.

    Denazification to deradicalization to Israeli-based indoctrination

    Since the leak, Israeli officials have drip-fed the draconian agenda to “denazify” Palestinians in the West.

    In November 2023, Israel’s genocidal ambassador to the UK, Tzipi Hotovely, iterated the “duty” to “denazify the Palestinians” (source here and here).

    On Christmas Day 2023, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed by the genocidal butcher of Palestine himself, outlining his “prerequisites for peace”. For Netanyahu, peace could only be achieved by “destroying” Hamas, demilitarising Gaza, and “deradicalizing” Palestinian society as per the post-WWII initiatives of Germany and Japan.

    On the 29th of January 2024, in an interview with anti-Muslim neocon hate preacher Douglas Murray, Netanyahu confirmed that Israelis were working on a deradicalization initiative.

    Cutting through the Israel-centric “resisting a racist apartheid settler colonial state is terrorism” framing, Netanyahu’s “deradicalization” plans amount to a mind control project aimed at fostering an acceptance of the Zionist entity. Thus, Palestinian school curricula require an overhaul. Israeli atrocity propaganda, such as unproven and fabricated “Hamas rape” claims (see here, here and here) and a denial that the Israeli military killed its own people on October 7th (see here and here), would have to be accepted by Palestinians.

    Denazification -> Deradicalization -> De-Islamising

    And, of course, Islam would have to be deformed.

    For this particular deformation of Islam and “cultural transformation” scheme, Netanyahu signals to Arab-Israel normalisers in the Gulf:
    “More recently, since the 9/11 attacks, visionary Arab leaders in the Gulf have led efforts to deradicalize their societies and transform their countries. Israel has since forged the historic Abraham Accords and today enjoys peace agreements with six Arab states. Such a cultural transformation will be possible in Gaza only among Palestinians who don’t seek the destruction of Israel.”
    In other words,

    • the “normalisation” of immoralities where prostitution is blind-eyed, alcohol and co-habitation are legalised, and Shakira gyrates in front of possessed dancing Arabs as Israel slaughters Palestinians a stone’s throw away;
    • The “normalisation” of polytheism where pagan festivals are celebrated, the Hindutva fascist leader Narendra Modi inaugurates UAE’s first Hindu temple after consecrating the Ram Temple over the ruins of Babri Masjid, and Saudi social media accounts try to revive Laat and Uzza in aid of a new Saudi nationalism;
    • And the “normalisation” of Israel-accepting secularism where “moderate Islam” is one removed from social life.



    As the Arab neocon architect of the Abraham Accords and UAE ambassador to the US, Yousef Al Otaiba explained to some Israelis at a Zionist think tank in 2020:

    “The world right now is divided into two camps. One camp who promotes more ideology, more religion, more radicalization, and injects religion into every debate, and it’s Turkey, Iran and Qatar. And then you have a bunch of countries – UAE, Bahrain, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia – who are focused on a civil approach, on a pragmatic approach, on quality of governance approach, who are thinking about their future not their past.
    “This is our equivalent of capitalism versus communism. This is the defining conflict of ideologies in our part of the world. We think our approach is better for us… and there are some countries who just prefer to look backwards, focus on their history, focus on what they used to be like focusing on religion and extremism.”
    De-Islamisation: War on Islam

    Otaiba’s message, and consequently Netanyahu’s message, is clear.

    Islam, conflated with “radicalisation” and “extremism”, is “backward” and should not be “injected in every debate”. By embracing an Israel-friendly secularism, the UAE and its co-conspirators against the Ummah are at war with Islam, similar to the West’s historical conflict with communism.

    It becomes evident that the denazification rhetoric is code for the de-Islamisation of Muslims. In other words, Zionists who demand global recognition of their right to follow their scriptures to justify stealing land and commit a genocide against Muslims want to deny Muslims the right to adhere to the Qur’an and traditions.

    To better grasp the nature of this assault on Islam, in the next part, we will delve into the Abraham Accords. These agreements shed light on the accompanying CVE-based ideological agenda required to legitimise the liberalisation of societal values aimed at diverting attention from the concomitant normalisation of relations with Israel.

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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

    Salaam

    Another update.

    Post Gaza Plan Part 2 - The CVE driven, Pro Israeli 'Abrahamic Family House'

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    This is the second article in a special Ramadan series. The series is aimed at uncovering the ideological component to the post-Gaza plan based on UAE’s approach to deforming Islam and forcing an Israel-friendly secularism through the patriarchal figure of Abraham.





    Our previous article established how the Zionist entity is using UAE’s de-Islamisation agenda as inspiration for its so-called “denazification” policy.

    This piece will shed light on this agenda by briefly outlining the current strategy before detailing its provenance.

    Revisiting the Abraham Accords

    The current iteration of UAE’s ideological war on Islam is inextricably linked to the Abraham Accords.

    In 2020, UAE spearheaded “peace” agreements – the Abraham Accords – with Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco in normalising diplomatic, economic, and cultural relations with Israel. UAE sold the deal to the Arabs as a “peace accord” requiring Israel to halt the annexation of Palestinian territories. In reality, with expanding settlements, this provision was a sham designed to placate widespread Muslim outrage whilst allowing Netanyahu to pursue the Greater Israel expansion.

    The Accords represent a vital plank in Israel’s strategy to efface Palestine, its inhabitants and build a temple of Masjid Al-Aqsa. Netanyahu has cited the agreements as a watershed moment for the Zionist entity. Chief Israel cheerleader and neocon hate preacher Douglas Murray has declared them an “enormous success”. At the same time, even Jordan Peterson succumbed to playing the role of a bargain basement salesman for the Zionists, peddling the Accords to Muslims.

    For MbZ to freely knife the Islamic world via the Abraham Accords and effectively mind-control Muslims, there’s a crucial need for an ideological cornerstone revolving around a shared, age-old patriarchal figure.

    Enter Netanyahu and his band of Zionist schemers, eagerly eyeing this ideological leverage against Muslims.

    As we shall now see, this strategic limb has been meticulously cultivated over time through the ruse of Countering Violent Extremism Agenda.

    Abrahamic Family House

    In February 2019, Pope Francis became the first pontiff to visit the Arabian Peninsula in a highly publicised visit to Abu Dhabi, where he was welcomed by MbZ himself. During this visit, on February 4th, the Pope participated in a meeting held by the UAE-based Muslim Council of Elders (MCE) headed by the Imam of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb in the Zayed Mosque.

    Together they signed the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together. The following day, MbZ announced the construction of the Abrahamic Family House to commemorate the event.

    We will scrutinise the document and address the implications of the composition of the Abrahamic Family House in Part III. Here, we elaborate on the organisations that shaped the achievement of these milestone events.

    Countering Violent Extremism

    The involvement of MCE places these series of events in the context of the discredited neocon-framed Countering Violence Extremism (CVE) framework. Since 9/11, CVE has been the choice policy to suppress the Islamic revival and engineer a Westernised so-called “moderate” Islam. Whilst UAE adopted the framework in the early phase of the War on Terror, it accelerated and proliferated it through the discourse of “moderation”, “tolerance”, and “interfaith coexistence” following the Arab Spring. The CVE framework operated as a tool to peace-wash and even legitimate the UAE’s authoritarian police state, its crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, its murderous foreign policy interventions, and its current “peaceful” oversight of the Palestinian genocide.

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    The MCE is a project of the Abu Dhabi-based Forum for Promoting Peace in Muslim Societies (FPPMS). Shaykh Abdullah bin Bayyah is the president and moderator of the Peace Forum (Hamza Yusuf is its vice president) and is also a council member of the MCE.

    Relevant here is the Abu Dhabi-based Hedayah, the International Center of Excellence for Countering Violent Extremism. As detailed in a previous article, Hedayah was born from the Global Counterterrorism Forum on Countering Violent Extremism spearheaded by the UK and UAE. Intriguingly, UAE first participated in the Forum during the Arab Spring of 2011. Despite the pressing social concerns prevalent among Muslims during this era, the UK set the focus of the global CVE agenda as “a battle of ideas”, whilst the neoconservative, pro-Israel Institute for Strategic Dialogue also influenced the thinking. At the helm of Hedayah was Maqsoud Kruse, serving as its executive director.

    In a journal article outlining the various models of CVE Muslims in the Islamic world are currently subjected to, Kruse explains that both the FPPMS and MCE represent one “axiom” in UAE’s multi-pronged CVE policy. Underpinned by the flawed notion that ideology is the primary cause of political violence, this axiom effectively operates as a propaganda arm to promote a “culture of moderation” and “peace” through “alternative narratives” to surface the “true nature of Islam”.[1] In other words, a new version of Islam that is based entirely on Western sensibilities and the recognition of Israeli aspirations concerning the site of Masjid al-Aqsa.

    Of course, what is omitted in these tools-for-autocrats is that these fora, under the feel-good words of peace and moderation, also double up as vehicles for normalising relations with Zionists.

    Israeli-normalising Sufis

    Through FPPMS and associated initiatives, Bin Bayyah and Yusuf have been normalising relations with Zionists for some time.

    In 2018, the scholarly pair cordially met and had discussions with the pro-Israel lobby group Anti-Defamation League (ADL) at the FPPMS forum (#peacems is a reference to FPPMS):

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    The ADL has been integral to the development of US counterterror laws that have targeted pro-Palestine activism, even before 9/11, and has allegedly spied on Arab Americans. ADL’s CEO, Zionist zealot Jonathan Greenblatt, who has supported UAE’s Abraham Accords and has praised the Abrahamic Family House, has openly declared that “anti-Zionism is antisemitism”. Against the backdrop of the current genocide in Gaza, the ADL has been working with law enforcement to crack down on college campus activism.

    Following the signing of the Accords in 2020, Bin Bayyah and his UAE-based Fatwa Council “blessed” Mohammed bin Zayed’s “wise leadership for the supreme good for the nation and its people”. The council’s statement dutifully clarified that the initiative was “one of the rightful authorities of the sovereign ruler”. (Reports here and here).

    At the Eighth Assembly of the Abu Dhabi Forum for Peace in 2022, Bin Bayyah happily hosted anti-Muslim Zionists to lecture Muslims about “citizenship”.

    For example, the British Member of Parliament Fiona Bruce was speaker at the event. The Christian MP has a history of working with the pro-Israeli anti-Muslim think-tank Henry Jackson, chairing their events, participating in their panel discussions, and approvingly citing them in Parliamentary debates. Bruce has attended events hosting a board member of the pro-Israeli neocon hate hive Gatestone Institute (Source, p.53).

    Furthermore, she has participated in panel discussions organised by the Conservative Christian Fellowship (CCF), which she has endorsed. As we have previously detailed, the CCF was founded by Henry Jackson Society-linked Tim Montgomerie, who has expressed anti-Islam and Muslim views. CCF’s then executive director, Colin Bloom, authored a government report on engaging religious groups. It promotes Christian practice while proposing increased PREVENT-based regulation of Islam and Muslims (more details can be found here).

    Another speaker, Rabbi David Saperstein, is an honorary director of the Center for Religious Action of Reform Judaism. The Religious Action Center operates under the auspices of the Commission on Social Action of Reform Judaism, a joint body of the Central Conference of American Rabbis and the Union for Reform Judaism. Soon after the decision of the International Court of Justice asserting that the claim of genocide against Israel was plausible, the Union for Reform Judaism issued a statement condemning this finding as “gravely disappointing”.

    Also present at the FPPMS assembly on the topic of “inclusive citizenship” (and rather disturbingly alongside Zaytuna Institute’s Dr. Abdullah Hamid Bin Ali) was Rabbi David Rosen, the International Director of Interreligious Affairs for the rabidly pro-Israeli American Jewish Committee (AJC). This is particularly sad given that Zaytuna Institute’s co-founder Hatem Bazian had noted previously that AJC has bolstered venomous anti-Muslim neocon hate preachers such as those who have inspired far-right mass-murderers like Daniel Pipes and “Mad Mel” Melanie Phillips, liars such as Ayaan Hirsi Ali, and other Islamophobes. It has lavished praises and awards for this cabal’s written works to strengthen US-Israel ties by demonising Islam and Muslims.

    Soon after the conference, AJC presented its Human Dignity Award to Bin Bayyah at a ceremony in New York City.

    In 2022, Bin Bayyah also travelled to the UK and met with Zionist UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis. According to the Jewish Chronicle (no friend of Muslims), both hailed the Accords as a “new era of interfaith relations”. Bin Bayyah stated, “The record of Israel is a move to a more peaceful existence” – a quote which, perhaps, has aged like milk in light of the depraved, genocidal actions of Israel. Mirvis has given his blessings to the genocide stating Israel’s actions are “outstanding” and “decent”. He also praised the Israeli occupation soldiers as “heroic”.

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    Concluding Remarks

    The level of ingratiation with entities openly hostile to Islam and Muslims, representing a cesspit of Zionism and Islamophobia, through CVE and interfaith initiatives contextualises the Abraham Accords and the UAE-facilitated meeting between the Pope and Azhari Imam.

    It underscores the unmistakable mandate of the Abrahamic Family House.

    The discourse of peace and harmony, cloaked in the venerable figure of Abraham, serves as a controlling sedative for Muslims who must play happy families while their rulers perpetuate anti-Muslim authoritarianism, unleash destabilising interventions, and cosy up to Israel, consequently lending tacit support to its plan to build a temple over Masjid al-Aqsa.

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    If you want to understand how CVE is implemented and more generally.

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    Re: Israel land grab law 'ends hope of two-state solution'

    Salaam

    As the massacre in Gaza continues, Zios as always have bigger plans. They are accelerating their plans to destroy Al Aqsa and build the (3rd) Temple in it's place.



    More detail and comment.



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