The ZOA condemns in the strongest terms the vicious murder by burning alive of a 16-year old Arab boy, Muhammad Abu Khdeir. The boy was murdered by what appears to have been a violent underworld group of Jewish Israelis following the kidnapping and murder of three Israeli youths –– Eyal Yifrah, 19, Gilad Shaar, 16, and Naftali Fraenkel, 16 –– by the Hamas terrorist group, now part of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah Palestinian Authority (PA) regime.
The solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict is not the formation of a 23rd Arab state but a “reformation of Islam”, according to the leader of one of the US’s leading pro-Israel organizations.
Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA), rejected Arab territorial claims in Israel, along with “the term ‘occupation’.”
“There is no occupation because the Arabs have been given 40% of Judea and Samaria already… where 99% of the Arabs live” under the 1993 Oslo Accords, he asserted. Pointing to numerous offers of statehood throughout the last two decades - each of which was rejected by the Palestinian Authority - he observed that “the Arabs do not even want a Palestinian state if it means accepting Israel.”
The link to the full article is above.
IDF Officer Sets the Facts Straight about Security Crossings.
An IDF officer explains how soldiers prevent terrorism while respecting the rights of Palestinians at Israeli security crossings.
via eretzyisrael
Meanwhile, in a meeting with members of parliament, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani criticized Western governments for imposing sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program, according to the Islamic Republic News Agency. He said the sanctions violated international law and human rights.
In addition, he accused the government of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of a lack of interest in solving the nuclear issue, something that opened the way for sanctions.
Rouhani also referred to corruption in the former government.
Not surprising that there is more from Rouhani’s charm offensive and the ongoing attempt to maintain the illusion of being a moderate. For more on this story and others like it, follow the link above.
In November 2013, GUPS hosted an event at which students were encouraged to use certain stencils in order to make signs. One stencil bore the image of a well-known terrorist. Another stencil contained the message, “MY HEROES HAVE ALWAYS KILLED COLONIZERS” – plainly a reference to the killing of Jews because GUPS considers that Jews living in Israel, Judea and Samaria are colonizers who stole Arab land.
In addition, Mohammad Hammad, the president of GUPS, posted several messages on Tumblr which reflected his desire to murder Jews, Israelis, and supporters of Israel. He posted a photo on his Tumblr page, in which he is holding a knife with its sharp blade in the air. In a caption to the photo, Hammad openly threatened murder:
“I seriously can not get over how much I love this blade. It is the sharpest thing I own and cuts through everything like butter and just holding it makes me want to stab an Israeli soldier.”
For the full press release, follow the link.
The Zionist Organization of America is strongly critical and concerned by a recent statement by Secretary of State John Kerry, implying that it is understandable and even appropriate that countries may boycott Israel and that Israel will be diplomatically abandoned by the U.S. if it fails to acquiesce in Kerry’s deeply flawed and unrealistic formula of dangerous and unjust concessions for creating a Palestinian state, which would surely be an anti-Israel terrorist state, while forcibly expelling over 100,000 Jews from homes in Judea/Samaria and the eastern half of Jerusalem. Secretary Kerry is thus urging Israel to set up a Palestinian state, which a ZOA-commissioned McLaughlin poll of 1,000 Americans showed last week that Americans believe by 58% to 17% will be a terrorist state.
To read further, follow the link to the full press release.
A great interview on Palestinian Hate Speech with Irwin Cotler, a Canadian Parlamentarian. Here’s a sneak peak:
“My mother used to say to me that ‘life and death is on the tip of the tongue.’ While I was getting this at home, I would be going to school where the refrain was ‘sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,’” the former Canadian justice minister and attorney general told The Times of Israel during a visit to Jerusalem.
“I learned that wasn’t true; that words can hurt.”
A week after the Israeli cabinet dedicated the bulk of its weekly meeting to Palestinian incitement, the Canadian parliamentarian regrets not having been more vociferous in highlighting what he believes to be widespread, state-sanctioned Palestinian incitement.
“I must admit, I probably haven’t spoken out against it as much as it deserves to be spoken out against. Maybe, like others who wanted to see the peace process sustained and advanced, I didn’t take as strong a position against [Palestinian] hate speech as I should have … I acknowledge this as a failure on my part.”
Follow the link above for the full interview, definitely worth the read.