Day: August 25, 2016

This video entitled “Is Israel an Apartheid State?”, narrated by Dennis Prager, explores the question of if Israel actually is an “Apartheid State” as some people claim that it is.

Following are points that are made in the video:

— When South Africa was an Apartheid state, no one accused Israel of being one.  The reason that charge was never made then, and shouldn’t be made now is because there is no truth to it, as the following points explain.

— 1.5 Million Arabs live in Israel, constituting about 20% of the population and having the same exact rights as all Israeli citizens, and they always have had those rights.  They can vote, they serve in the Israeli parliament, they can own property, businesses, and work in whatever profession they want including as judges.

— As an example of the amount of diversity in the country, Prager explains that an Arab Judge once sentenced a former President of Israel to prison on a rape charge. Many other examples of well known non-Jewish Arab citizens are mentioned as well.

— All of the road signs in Israel are written in English, Hebrew, and Arabic.

— Arabs in Israel are freer than any Arab in the Arab world.  No Arab in any Arab country has the civil rights and personal liberties that Arabs in Israel have.  That is because Israel is the only pluralistic, liberal democracy in that part of the world.

— Palestinians who live in the “occupied territories” are not citizens in Israel, and they are governed by either the Palestinian authority or Hamas instead of Israel.  The only control Israel has over their lives is when those people want to enter Israel, where they are subjected to long lines and strict searches due to terrorist concerns.

— The security wall around Israel cannot realistically be considered “apartheid” because it serves as the border of the nation rather than causing divisions within the country.

— Israel is called an “apartheid state” by those who hate Israel because by comparing it to the former South Africa they hope to persuade uninformed people that Israel doesn’t deserve to exist.

— Polls show that 82% of Israeli-Arabs would rather be a citizen of Israel than of any other country.

[Note: March 15, 2020— I have revamped the text of this article.]

(Note: I don’t think Israel is innocent, but this documentary is food for thought.  Often people blame the problems of the world on “Zionism” when in fact Zionism is controlled by the global elite just like all major religions.)

This video talks about an annual event that occurs at Western universities called “Israel apartheid week,” which is a protest supported by the Muslim Students Association that is designed to deceitfully portrait Israel as a homicidal state that occupies Palestine and oppresses its people, and also it portrays Israel as a state that does not legitimately exist.

The Muslim Students Association is an arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is also the creator of Hamas, the terrorist party that rules the Gaza strip.

The founder of Hamas Mahmoud Al-Zahar said, “There is no place for you [Jews] among us, and you have no future among the nations of the world.  You are headed to annihilation.”

The armies of Hamas along with Hezbollah have fired thousands of rockets supplied by Iran and Syria into Israeli towns.

In America, the allies of Hamas and Hezbollah have organized the national university campaigns against the Jewish state that are designed to isolate and demonize Israel, and a parallel campaign has been organized to boycott Israel’s products.

Despite that fact that Israel is the most tolerant and inclusive society in the Middle east, the university Apartheid week events have created a “wall of lies” on the campuses symbolizing supposed Israeli “apartheid.”  This video examines the specific claims that are made a the events and explains the reality of the situations.

(See the video for the specific claims.)

This information has been summarized from this Breitbart article:

A new antisemitic pop song broadcast on Palestinian Authority television celebrates Palestinians being a “thorn in the throat of Zionism” and giving Israel “a taste of grief.”

The song which was translated by the Israeli watchdog group “Palestinian Media Watch (PMW)” promotes violence against Israelis, at one point singing, “We swear in the name of the prisoners, in place of one [prisoner], here are ten!”, implying that the number of prisoners will increase tenfold due to their increase of violent acts.

The video depicts solidarity of Muslims from all regions inside Israel as well as Palestine implying that all should rise up against Israel.

Following is a transcript of the song:

We are not afraid of the enemy – a thorn in the throat of Zionism!
Palestinians – We are! We are!
The people of Jerusalem – We are! We are!
The people of Jenin – We are! We are! …
The people of Gaza…
The people of Jaffa – We are! We are!
The people of Haifa – We are! We are!
The people of Lod – We are! We are!
The people of Ramle
The people of Acre – We are! We are!
The people of Nazareth – We are! We are! …
We swear in the name of the prisoners
In place of one [prisoner], here are ten
We have given them [Israelis] a taste of grief
We have given them a taste of grief – a thorn in the throat of Zionism!

Carlos University and the University of Ottawa hosted an annual “Israel Apartheid Week” in Ottawa in 2010 protesting the treatment of Palestinians by comparing the situation to the Apartheid that South Africa had practiced in the past.

This news broadcast shows a debate between the organizer of the event Ben Saifer who is a Jewish pro-Palestinian activist, and Marvin Kurz who is a spokesperson for the B’nai Brith organization.

Following is text from the YouTube page:

According to a report of the French senate, 2800 churches across the country, many of them centuries old, will be demolished as restoration costs exceed the cost of demolitions over the next years.  This church, Église Saint-Jacques d’Abbeville, a Neo-Gothic masterpiece in Abbeville, Nord-Pas-de-Calais-Picardie dating back to 1868, was demolished for a total cost of 350,000€ in 2013.  The reasoning: It was much cheaper to demolish it than it would cost to restore.

As the number of Frenchmen in France continues to decline due to record-low birth rates, high emigration and Muslim immigration, so do the members of Catholic faith, who are now at an all time low.  For many cities in France, especially cities in which Christians are the minority, the lack of interest and high property value on which the buildings stand simply does not justify the cost of restoring the churches.  Many mayors choose the cheaper demolitions over costly restorations.  Thousands of churches are to be demolished over the next years and replaced with shopping malls, stores, apartments or parking lots.

Mosques, on the other hand, flourish.  The Grand Mosque of Paris recently got a modern, fully retractable roof, as it is usually only found in football stadiums and hundreds of new Mosques are built every year for the hundreds of thousands of new Muslims born or immigrating into French society, often with taxpayer money.

German source:  http://www.katholisches.info/2013/09/01/umbau-der-kulturlandschaft-2800-kirchen-sollen-in-frankreich-verschwinden/

This following has been summarized from this DailyMail article:

About ten members of an anti-Islamization group in Australia “Party for Freedom” walked into a church in Australia on a recent Sunday morning dressed as Muslims and disrupted the service in the middle of the sermon by playing Islamic music while pretending to pray on their knees in front of the surprised parishioners.

Father Rod Bower reassured the parishioners and the group soon left the church with one of them saying, “Do not promote Islam.”

The Godsford Angelican Church at the NSW Central Coast is known for being opposed to Australia’s policy of processing refugees offshore at detention centers on Nauru and Manus Islands rather than immediately allowing them into the country.

Bower said the group “terrorized” the congregation and also “violated our sacred space.”  Some of the Parishioners appeared to be amused but Bower said others were “deeply traumatized.”  Bower later posted on his Facebook page that it was an example of “right-wing terrorism.”

The Party for Freedom leader Nick Folkes told the Daily Mail Australia that he believes in freedom of speech, and said that he believes Islam is anti-democratic and anti-freedom and has no place in Australia.

Much of the information in this article is summarized from this CNN news story: 

Recently an Imam bought a 135 acre parcel of land 40 miles southeast of Atlanta in Newtown county to build a large mosque complex including a park, housing, cemetery, and an Islamic school, all across the street from a Baptist church with an adjacent cemetery.

Initially he was able to obtain approval from the county, but eventually word got out about the plans and caused an uproar in the local community.

In response to the uproar, county officials passed a moratorium on the construction of all houses of worship to further study issues with its impact on the community under the guise of zoning issues.

Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the executive director of the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said, “This wouldn’t have happened if this was a Protestant church. … This won’t stand up in the court of public opinion, much less a public court.”

Towns frequently resort to using zoning rules to stop new Islamic facilities from coming to their areas, and the Obama administration has been forcing Mosques on such communities that do not want them through legislative actions from the Department of Justice.

Over 300 people attended a pair of town meetings voicing their opinions about it.

A resident Joy Thomas said, “As United States citizens we don’t need people that don’t want to go by our laws.  What are they actually going to be doing there at the mosque?”

CAIR says it has documented over 40 cases where local communities were opposed to proposals for Mosques between 2009 and 2015, and it has documented 40 incidents in which mosque proposals faced interference from communities.

CAIR is a Muslim advocacy group in the United States that is known for its political activism among Muslims in America, having an innocuous facade while also being notorious for its connections to Muslim extremism and terrorist groups.  The website  http://www.anti-cair-net.org/  is a comprehensive resource documenting issues with the organization.

Germany hasn’t been able to follow through on hundreds of deportations because of migrants engaging in tactics that make them not suited for taking flights.

Following is a summary of this Daily Caller article:

— Germany has taken 1.5 million refugees since the start of 2015, and it is trying to deport a greater amount of rejected Asylum seekers than it previously has been.

— The government plans to deport as many as 100,000 rejected applicants by the end of this year.

— According to Germany’s interior ministry, over 330 deportations have been abandoned since January 2015 due to migrants shouting, refusing to fasten their seat belts, or telling the pilot that they are being taken against their will.

— Another 108 avoided deportation because they were sick, and an additional 160 were refused by the airlines for undisclosed reasons.

— New legislation to make deportations easier was called for by Germany’s Minister of the Interior Thomas de Maiziere, with him stating that refugees commit crimes in order to stay in the country.  See the article “German Migrants Have Found An Easy Loophole To Avoid Deportation.”

— Maiziere said in June that a significant increase in deportations would only occur if the procedural shortcomings are fixed, according to Deutche Welle.

— Authorities struggle with deportations of convicted criminals as well.  A recent deportation of only three migrants back to Guinea cost $138,000 because they were considered to be violent, requiring them to travel on a private chartered plane.  Also see the article:  “Germany Drops $138k To Deport Three Africans On A Private Jet.”