tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48062388210028824442024-03-13T18:42:03.001+02:00Framing Israel NewsCherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.comBlogger62125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-2449884001481054252022-05-12T19:37:00.000+03:002022-05-12T19:37:12.666+03:00NEW WEBSITE<p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> FRAMING ISRAEL NEWS HAS MOVED </span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> PLEASE FIND ME AT MY NEW WEBSITE:</span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://CHERRYLSMITH.NET">CHERRYLSMITH.NET</a></span></p>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-87408749622459250682020-12-26T15:35:00.000+02:002020-12-26T15:35:40.810+02:00Where Is Israel-Palestine?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7ywQZemdkKQGpxlqsH7rV0uAbH0P2SUcBPBAiDA_RCL5pAbu6PjXSBaPKGe1cZ2kFd8hV7wYgfR3gnh7j2kh0X3i5ExF1FLsrfLN0ra5oIBlNx5oAkl9c2V3HxHoRUEoJHLxDQopNCc/s1280/adventure-1846437_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="853" data-original-width="1280" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZ7ywQZemdkKQGpxlqsH7rV0uAbH0P2SUcBPBAiDA_RCL5pAbu6PjXSBaPKGe1cZ2kFd8hV7wYgfR3gnh7j2kh0X3i5ExF1FLsrfLN0ra5oIBlNx5oAkl9c2V3HxHoRUEoJHLxDQopNCc/w400-h266/adventure-1846437_1280.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">It is not on maps. It is not in ancient or modern history. Nor is it usually found even in mainstream news. And yet, “Israel-Palestine” connected by either a hyphen or a slash is widely referenced in academic writing. There, this invented name facilitates some of the most egregious misinformation leveled against Israel.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The academic language of “Israel-Palestine” names an imaginary place: not Israel or Gaza or the Palestinian Authority but a blurring of all three. The blurring is strategic. It makes speaking of Israel as simply one of the 191 sovereign nations of the world difficult if not impossible. At the same time Gaza, which is 100% Palestinian and run by Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority, which controls the towns in Judea and Samaria (West Bank) where 98% of Palestinians live, are hyphenated with the State of Israel.</p><div class="banner-p-2 moved" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="banner 336x280_Middle_1 " id="div-gpt-ad-336x280_Middle_1" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Of course, I’m not referring to the adjective “Israeli-Palestinian” that often appears before “conflict” and less often before “cooperation”! In contrast, “Israel-Palestine” is a noun and names a place that does not exist. It’s a neologism, a made-up word, in this case designed to create and promote a negative view of Israel.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There are a number of such new words in current academic vocabulary including “pink-washing,” invented to describe Israel’s progressive LGBT policies as if they are a nefarious public relations ploy, and “intersectionality,” which assigns all individuals to victim or oppressor groups. These terms, along with others whose meaning has been distorted for the purpose of maligning Israel, are critically examined and contested by accomplished scholars in a valuable, special issue of <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel Studies</em> published last year. The issue is entitled <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/israelstudies.24.issue-2" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Word Crimes</a></em>.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When Indian Prime Minister Indra Modi chose to visit Israel without also visiting the Palestinian Authority, he was said to be enacting a new policy of <a href="https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-international-relations-modi-in-israelbenjamin-netanyahuwest-asia-meaning-of-de-hyphenation-4744780/" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">dehyphenization</a>. This was undertaken to emphasize India’s strong connections to Israel but also left room for good ties with the PA.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Indeed, the recent Abraham Accords also demonstrated a dehyphenization. These peace and normalization agreements were made directly between Israel and UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco with the powerful backing of the United States but without depending on the involvement of Palestinian leadership.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The neologism “Israel-Palestine” does not allow for such breakthroughs, or, at the very least, suggests they are impossible unless the Palestinian Authority or Hamas approves.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">However, the term “Israel-Palestine” does help to slander Israel as an “apartheid” state. Pretending, for example, that the dictatorship of Gaza is not under the full control of Hamas but rather is part of “Israel-Palestine” allows for labeling Israel as at fault for the vast differences between the freedoms enjoyed by all Israeli citizens as opposed to the restrictions Hamas imposes on Gazans. Of course, nothing could be farther from reality. Israel is a fully democratic, multi-cultural, highly diverse country. Using the term “Israel-Palestine” and confusing what areas are being discussed, academics label Israel as entirely at fault for problems experienced by Palestinians and even accuse a free country of being an example of “apartheid.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">What looks like simply a short-cut way of talking about Israel and the Palestinian areas is actually a <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Framing-Israel-personal-campus-rhetoric/dp/161861343X" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">rhetorical strategy</a> called poisoning the well. Through the use of this fallacy, a bias is already established before any conversation begins. “Israel-Palestine” as a place name sets up a negative view of Israel from the start. If you want to engage in conversation or to respond to something you have seen written about “Israel-Palestine,” you have to first overcome this biased hurdle.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">That it is a widespread academic term is easy to see with a quick search on Google Scholar which is designed to filter out non-academic references. The most recent search I did turned up over 48,700 references to “Israel-Palestine” in books and articles across a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences including criminal justice, sociology, queer studies, women’s studies, political theory, postcolonial studies, anthropology, literary theory, and many others.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The more a term or idea dominates in the scholarship of any field, the more it will form a basis for what is taught in college courses. The imaginary place called “Israel-Palestine” in academic texts can make it seem reasonable to boycott Israel or to demand all the real places “from the river to the sea.” And it also lets us know what Zionist students and faculty are up against.</p><div> published at <i><a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/where-is-israel-palestine/">Times of Israel</a></i></div><div class="banner 336x280_Middle_2 " id="div-gpt-ad-336x280_Middle_2" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></div>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-12791081181425695812020-09-14T13:25:00.007+03:002020-12-26T13:43:17.815+02:00Israel's Outbreaks of Peace Leave Media Speechless <p> </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdVIc4wVKxEfOsytEsVTOvynrjFyLcZUrvaDahYwy_0eajOUDmMQPcMLyCZcv2fnvPctf3dk5Odt1QqjSrqRtp-XdyLo8jjmjVGlzL-TXyeknDk8ICqBxDbGT3bhqsQiiJAeMS-amyRk/s284/download.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="177" data-original-width="284" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQdVIc4wVKxEfOsytEsVTOvynrjFyLcZUrvaDahYwy_0eajOUDmMQPcMLyCZcv2fnvPctf3dk5Odt1QqjSrqRtp-XdyLo8jjmjVGlzL-TXyeknDk8ICqBxDbGT3bhqsQiiJAeMS-amyRk/w400-h249/download.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;"> </span><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">Focus on conflict so dominates reporting about Israel that although Emiratis and Israelis are celebrating, and now Serbia and Kosovo have signed a “</span><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-03/despite-pressure-from-trump-arab-nations-resist-normalizing-ties-with-israel" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font-family: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">landmark</a><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px;">agreement,” many US and UK journalists seem indifferent, even resistant, to the sea change of normalization that is taking place.</span></p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“I literally cannot find a single US news outlet that has reported on the content of the historic Serbia-Kosovo deal,” writes US Envoy for Serbia and Kosovo Richard Grenell, taking to Twitter to vent his frustration.</p><div class="banner-p-2 moved" style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="banner 336x280_Middle_1 " id="div-gpt-ad-336x280_Middle_1" style="border: 0px; clear: both; font: inherit; margin: 0px auto 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></div></div><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Grenell, who served for 10 years in the State Department and was US Ambassador to Germany, directs readers to his own article published under “Opinion” in <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Hill</em>. There he outlines some of the steps made by Kosovo and Serbia “toward economic normalization and an eventual, peaceful coexistence…Perhaps most importantly of all, Serbia has pledged to move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, while Kosovo has agreed to mutual recognition with <a href="https://thehill.com/opinion/international/515125-serbia-kosovo-agreement-results-from-trumps-different-brand-of" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Israel</a>.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Likewise, the monumental breakthrough that is the UAE-Israel peace and normalization agreement has received strangely muted and conflict-centered coverage.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">BBC seems to emphasize what has <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">not</em> happened, that the Abraham Accord does not involve the Palestinian Authority. Rather than hearing about Israel’s first peace and normalization agreement in 26 years with an Arab country, “<a href="https://camera-uk.org/2020/09/07/reviewing-bbc-amplification-of-the-notion-of-betrayed-palestinians/" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">BBC</a> audiences repeatedly heard that the Palestinians had been ‘stabbed in the back’, ‘betrayed’ and ‘sidelined’ by an agreement portrayed as ‘treason.’”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In <a href="https://edition.cnn.com/2020/08/14/middleeast/israel-uae-agreement-trump-intl/index.html" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">CNN</a>’s analysis it is “…a poor man’s facsimile for the, as yet, unachieved grand bargain between Israelis and Palestinians to quell their decades of conflict.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/aug/16/the-observer-view-on-the-historic-middle-east-breakthrough" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">The Guardian</a> makes explicit its view of the Accord in their “Observer Opinion” criticizing “the deal” as something that will come to be seen as “a historic mistake.” There is no discussion of peace or normalization between Israel and UAE. Instead, the Guardian writers focus on their dislike of the world leaders involved. With a peace agreement to report on, the Guardian addresses conflict.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">On the night of the peace deal, the US news shows, except for FOX, pretty much avoided what should have been breaking <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/msnbc-cnn-virtually-ignore-trumps-major-israel-uae-peace-deal-during-primetime" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">news</a>.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">In “A Great Step Forward, and Who Seems Determined to Ignore It,” Colonel Richard Kemp notes that the Accord–which he considers Nobel Prize worthy–“received a cool reception in much of the US and international media.” Describing the Accord’s significance, Kemp writes:</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This week, we witnessed a symbol of perhaps the greatest step forward in world peace for decades. The first-ever direct passenger flight from Israel to the United Arab Emirates flew down the length of Saudi Arabia’s airspace. After Egypt in 1979 and Jordan in 1994, the UAE has become the third Arab state to normalise relations with the State of Israel under the new Abraham <a href="https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/16448/israel-uae-world-peace" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Accord</a>.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yet, the LA Times headlines their story about that first EL AL flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi: “Despite pressure from Trump, Arab nations resist normalizing ties with Israel.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">It’s hard to fathom this headline for an article ostensibly about the “normalizing ties with Israel” that are actually happening. Certainly, the LA Times knows that other countries including Bahrain, Oman, and Morocco have already expressed interest in following UAE’s lead.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-09-03/despite-pressure-from-trump-arab-nations-resist-normalizing-ties-with-israel" style="border: 0px; color: #3b8bea; font: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">LA Times</a> leaves out the reality that, for the first time, Israelis have been allowed to land in the UAE and that, for the first time, Saudi Arabia opened its airspace to Israel. The Times calls it, simply, “a flight from Tel Aviv to Abu Dhabi,” as if this flight route was routine.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The article asserts that “no other Arab nation has said it is willing to take the long-shunned leap to accept and recognize Israel as a legitimate Mideast neighbor, at least not until Israel resolves its conflict with the Palestinians.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">But clearly this is not the case. The Saudis historic step did take place. And the UAE seems to be leading the way for other countries that are now engaged in discussion about establishing normalization with Israel.</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Neither the UAE-Israel agreement nor the decisions of Kosovo and Serbia had to do with “conflict with the Palestinians.”</p><p style="border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 30px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This is a story of peace, not conflict.</p><div> published at <a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/israels-outbreaks-of-peace-leave-media-speechless/"><i>Times of Israel</i></a></div><div class="banner 336x280_Middle_2 " id="div-gpt-ad-336x280_Middle_2" style="border: 0px; clear: both; color: #333333; font-family: "PT Serif", serif; font-size: 18px; font-stretch: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-variant-numeric: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px auto 30px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;"></div>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-59906168975182782922020-06-30T12:46:00.009+03:002020-12-26T13:45:19.526+02:00NEIGHBORHOOD BULLY'S CHECKPOINT ATTACKS DRIVER<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="506" data-original-width="648" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy84QWLt0jUvDUImZVmBugTdG9RO6n2Xs275ZI2QiVcWWDkzl34ErcL0ndapVPBHdtAct46HSlAu6idCt2mdYVBP3B6-YWtXXEPwKnUSaDRbqZDZMFmLgIlkXIwU2zV0SabmtxA_gzYhA/s320/unnamed-e1429696850350.jpg" width="320" /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: #505050; font-family: "pt serif", serif; font-size: 13px;"> A screenshot from a cartoon published on the Facebook page of the Fatah movement</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"><br /></span></p><div><br /></div><font size="4">Why is so much left out of reporting about Israel at the same time that these stories spread around the world as big news?</font><div><span style="font-family: geneva;"><font><br /></font></span></div><div><font><span style="font-family: geneva;">I</span><span style="font-family: geneva;">t looks like it just happened again: a car-ramming attack. There have been </span><a href="https://honestreporting.com/cnn-slams-israels-thwarting-of-car-ramming-attack-as-controversial/" style="color: purple; font-family: cambria;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">over 80</span></a><span style="font-family: geneva;"> such attacks in Israel in the past five years. It’s a terror method that has been copied by ISIS.</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/palestinian-driver-killed-in-alleged-attack-on-israeli-guard/2020/06/23/9d4f7840-b56d-11ea-9a1d-d3db1cbe07ce_story.html" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">Ass<i>ociated Press</i></span></a><i><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></i><span style="font-family: geneva;">wire service doesn’t discuss the frequency of these attacks on Israelis or the praise and rewards Palestinian leadership gives to attackers. Instead, reports describe Israeli border guards shooting a young man, who his relatives say, was just driving to a wedding.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">For some reason, the stories also include mention of ongoing discussion about “annexing” Israeli towns in the West Bank.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">So far, only the Israeli and Jewish press has reported that there is a relevant video made prior to the incident by Ahmed Erekat in which he describes “shame” at being accused of collaborating with Israel and bringing “dishonor” to his family.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">News stories don’t mention that about a month ago there was a car ramming at this same spot. After the crash the perpetrator jumped out of his car and stabbed a soldier. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><a href="https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2020/06/25/israel-checkpoint-shooting-video-liebermann-lok-vpx.cnn" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">CNN</span></a><span style="font-family: geneva;"> headlines their story: “Video Shows Palestinian Man Shot at Israeli Checkpoint.” Yet you can see in the </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-questions-over-shooting-police-release-video-of-driver-ramming-checkpoint/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">video</span></a><span style="font-family: geneva;"> that there is a line of cars at a standstill when Erekat carefully pulls out far to the left side of the road and then turns the car sharply to the right speeding directly into a guard, sending her flying through the air. It sure looks like a deliberate car ramming.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">Erekat was running toward the guards when he was shot. Though medical help arrived within minutes, he didn’t survive. The border guard, Shani Or Hama Kodesh was injured and taken to the hospital and is recovering. She said Erekat looked her in the eye and aimed for her, a detail that can be found in the </span><a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/he-looked-me-in-the-eye-recalls-border-cop-injured-in-suspected-ramming/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">Times of Israel</span></a><span style="font-family: geneva;"> and other Israeli news sites. But not, for instance, at </span><a href="https://camera-uk.org/2020/06/28/correction-salvages-sky-newss-car-crash-headline-on-palestinian-ramming-attack/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">Sky News</span></a><span style="font-family: geneva;"> that labels the event “Israeli Guard Kills Relative of Top PLO Negotiator Saeb Erakat.” <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">Rutgers University professor Noura Erakat has been posting on Twitter that her “young cousin” is a victim of “dehumanization.” She is a well-known anti-Israel speaker who advocates for the </span><a href="https://www.meforum.org/58810/erakat-demands-israels-settler-decolonialization" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">end</span></a><span style="font-family: geneva;"> of the Jewish state. Her posts are praised and supported by Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">I call it the Frame of the Neighborhood Bully. Regardless of current actions or recorded history, the bully is always in the wrong, as Bob Dylan described in his song about Israel in 1983. If there is any conflict, the stronger party, even though vastly outnumbered is always at fault no matter the circumstances.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">In more academic terminology, Israel is considered the oppressor in every situation. The rhetoric of victim and oppressor gets in the way of even attempting to see events here clearly.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">Of course this does not mean that Israel is always right, either. Rather, it means there is little room for reasoned discussion of what happens in Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;">The journalists I’ve quoted may or may not be promoting their own views of Israel. But they are presenting the news in a predictable format, one in which getting at all the facts is subordinate to following an expected storyline.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: cambria; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: geneva;"> published at<i><a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/neighborhood-bullys-checkpoint-attacks-driver/">Times of Israel</a></i></span></p></div>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0Israel31.046051 34.851612-2.0755185617012017 -0.30463799999999708 64.1676205617012 70.007862tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-35904388310461003922020-05-20T15:22:00.000+03:002020-05-20T15:22:34.005+03:00To My US Senator Who Opposes the US Peace Plan<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Dear Senator Feinstein,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">I am writing in response to your recent </span><a href="https://www.feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ContentRecord_id=B78784BE-C1B6-48F0-ABFD-7EE7C2FE0870" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">letter</span></a><span style="font-family: Geneva;"> to Prime Minister Netanyahu. I’m one of your constituents who voted for you in numerous elections, a Cal State professor emerita now living in Tel Aviv. My book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Framing-Israel-personal-campus-rhetoric/dp/161861343X"><i>Framing Israel</i> </a>is based on analyzing public discourse about Israel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">I know you’ve visited Israel and are familiar with its geography, history, and its many negotiated and unilateral peace </span><a href="https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/history-and-overview-of-israel-palestinian-negotiations" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">offers</span></a><span style="font-family: Geneva;">. Yet you write that you are “hopeful” for the Palestinian Authority and Israel to “come to the negotiating table to reach an agreement so that our shared goal of two states, living side-by-side in peace and prosperity, can be realized.” Certainly, you’re aware that no Palestinian leader has advocated for “living side-by-side in peace” with Israel. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">On the contrary, the Palestinian Authority continues to celebrate and fund terror attacks on Israeli civilians and the Hamas government continues to target Israelis with incendiary devices and rockets. Even when Israel unilaterally left Gaza in 2005 hoping for “peace and prosperity” for Palestinians and Israelis, Hamas took over in a coup creating a dictatorship that spends billions on terror. Palestinian leaders have not asked for peace with Israel but for its disappearance. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Now there is another, new proposed peace plan offered by the US. The Palestinian Authority has rejected it sight unseen. That Israel is preparing to put into practice a small part of that plan does not preclude future negotiations or agreements.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Your letter doesn’t indicate why you think that extending Israeli law to the Israeli citizens who live in Area C, the area designated by the Oslo Accords as fully under Israeli control, will negatively impact future peace talks. Nor does your letter note that the Palestinian cities (Areas A and B) will remain under Palestinian control. Calling this an “annexation” may be popular but it is also misleading, for the area in question does not belong to any country other than </span><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/israeli-sovereignty-not-appeasement-key-lasting-peace-opinion-1504644" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">Israel</span></a><span style="font-family: Geneva;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">You write of your “fear” for what will happen to “Israel’s national security and diplomatic relationships.” On first reading, I thought this sounded a bit threatening. But your letter begins by congratulating the Prime Minister and Defense Minister on Israel’s new unity government, the government that plans to follow through with extending sovereignty to the area in question. So, I think it’s reasonable to conclude that if Israel’s elected parliament and the majority of Israelis do not share your fears, perhaps you need not worry either.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Sincerely,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<o:p> Published in <i><a href="https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/to-my-us-senator-who-opposes-the-us-peace-plan/">Times of Israel</a></i></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;">Israel took early steps toward slowing the transmission of Covid-19 and according to a Hong Kong-based statistical study it is the </span><a href="https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/Israel-ranked-safest-place-in-pandemic-draws-on-Asia-s-lessons" style="color: purple; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">safest</span></a><span style="font-family: Geneva; font-size: 12pt;"> country to be in during the pandemic. Israel’s percentage of deaths per number of people infected is one of the lowest in the world. Nevertheless, we have had more than 80 people die in which coronavirus played a role and we have over 10,000 known cases of coronavirus so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Our very strict rules that allow for leaving home only to get groceries or medicine or to be outside for a short time within 100 meters of one’s home have helped to limit the spread of the virus. With the exception of essential services, most people are working from home or are not working. There’s no visiting friends or relatives even during the Pesach holiday and, starting next week, we cannot go outside without wearing a mask. Certainly no gyms or pools are open; beaches are off limits; and long hikes and bicycle rides are not an option, at least not in the urban areas where 70% of Israelis live.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Yet, according to specialists in geriatrics, exercise should not be thought of as something optional; it is not simply recreation, conditioning, and good for one’s frame of mind. It is basic hygiene. This is because moderate exercise has a </span><a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264410X03008181" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: Geneva;">positive effect</span></a><span style="font-family: Geneva;"> on one’s immune system, which is made up of cells and antibodies that protect us from invading microorganisms. When our immune system is weak, our bodies are less able to fight off harmful pathogens such as bacteria, parasites, and viruses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">A basic principle of geriatric medicine is to help patients move and remain active to the extent that is possible for a particular individual. Patients who need time in rehabilitation hospitals are not only recovering from medical procedures and illnesses but are also recovering from prolonged periods of immobilization. Getting the patient moving is a significant part of the health plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Those of us who are relatively healthy may find ourselves becoming less resistant to disease if we drastically limit our physical movement. The best advice during “stay-at-home” is to let go of our usual concepts of exercise in which we need the gym, open space, a swimming pool, a team sport, or exercise equipment. When we’re stuck at home we need to keep our immune systems strong and even to make them stronger. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">This can mean daily stretching, jogging in place, walking up and down stairs, putting on music and dancing along, doing yoga, sit-ups, jumping jacks, pilates, push-ups, or walking around the house. Following any of the hundreds of exercise videos on YouTube can help. Exercise that is also utilitarian counts too: the everyday bending and stretching of house cleaning, rearranging furniture, doing home repairs, gardening, and so on. The key is movement even while we are “locked down.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">Interestingly, while there is medical evidence that moderate exercise builds up the immune system, such evidence does not exist for vitamin supplements. Of course, if one has a particular vitamin deficiency or if one’s diet lacks any of the food groups--dairy, meat, some grains, fruits, or vegetables--supplements can be necessary.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Geneva;">We know that the psychological toll of begin stuck at home is helped by trying to exercise to the extent one can within the limits of one’s physical condition and the space available. But more than that, it may be essential toward fending off viruses.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">Israeli doctors and nurses, like medical professionals worldwide, are working round the clock in extremely difficult conditions. The country is almost completely locked down.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">Yet those who subscribe to a relentless anti-Israel ideology find ways to use the current crisis to distort and denigrate real life in Israel and to obscure Israel’s humanitarian contributions. At its most extreme, it is an ideology in which </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Framing-Israel-personal-campus-rhetoric/dp/161861343X" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "geneva";">Israel is always at fault</span></a><span style="font-family: "geneva";">.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">The state-run news services of both Iran and Turkey simply </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KoEYjo84t0" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "geneva";">blame Zionists</span></a><span style="font-family: "geneva";"> for the outbreak of Corona-19.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">Dozens of posts blaming Jews and Israel for the Corona virus are showing up on social media. The </span><a href="https://www.adl.org/blog/coronavirus-crisis-elevates-antisemitic-racist-tropes" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "geneva";">Anti-Defamation League</span></a><span style="font-family: "geneva";"> has been tracking this commentary. Some twitter comments have been especially grotesque.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">At California State University, Stanislaus, a political science professor claimed Israel would have “different medical treatments for Jews and non-Jews” and would “put non-Jews in prisons.” This slander outraged many people who responded that the professor clearly knows nothing about Israel, its national heath system, and the huge number of Arab-Israeli doctors and nurses. He fired back calling the responders “</span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/03/11/california-state-university-professor-claims-israel-will-place-arab-coronavirus-patients-in-mass-prisons/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "geneva";">Zionist hoodlums</span></a><span style="font-family: "geneva";">” and writing, “looks like I activated the Israel lobby.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">The University of Maryland branch of Students Supporting Israel (SSI) found itself facing a campus-hosted event called “Corona and Countering the Occupation.” As the SSI noted, the “event doesn’t have any logic to it and is </span><a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2020/03/18/students-for-justice-in-palestine-doesnt-care-about-justice-for-palestinians/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "geneva";">hijacking an international epidemic</span></a><span style="font-family: "geneva";">.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">Meanwhile, back in the real world, Israeli scientists are testing possible vaccines and working to develop cures. Israel sent protective equipment and hundreds of thousands of masks to </span><a href="https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-aid-group-sends-protective-gear-to-fight-coronavirus-in-china/" style="color: purple;"><span style="font-family: "geneva";">China</span></a><span style="font-family: "geneva";">. Quarantined patients around the world have been able to ask questions of Israeli doctors who are volunteering to give their support using technology based in <a href="https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-mds-give-free-counseling-to-coronavirus-patients-worldwide/" style="color: purple;">Tel Aviv</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">An Israeli company is donating millions of doses of a drug that scientists say may halt the virus and that US health officials are fast-tracking for <a href="https://www.timesofisrael.com/teva-to-send-us-millions-of-malaria-pills-with-potential-to-help-covid-19/" style="color: purple;">public use.</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">And in exact reversal of anti-Israel dogma, the Jewish state is working closely with the Palestinian Authority. Israel has been delivering medical gear and testing equipment to the PA and providing special joint trainings for Israeli and Palestinian medical personnel.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva";">In spite of very recent rocket attacks on civilians in Israel, the Israelis have given hundreds of test kits to Hamas-run Gaza. In fact, a big part of Israel’s emergency measures are “focused on the Palestinians.” According to Col. Sharon Biton who heads the government activities in the West Bank:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-family: "geneva";">“Our efforts against this virus stem not merely from a legal duty, but from a humanitarian and moral one, with an understanding that this pathogen does not care about national <a href="https://www.ynetnews.com/article/rkIU16gUU" style="color: purple;">borders</a>."<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">If you are a student concerned about the appearance on your campus of the two- or three-week “Week” devoted to factually bizarre comparisons of Israel to South African apartheid, know that the Week is aimed at silencing you. And since others will simply ignore the Week or assume it has a valid point to make, it appears that the Week is actually put on especially for you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">It is not aimed at any policy of Israel and it certainly does not advocate for a State of Palestine next to the State of Israel, any more than does its counterpart the Boycott movement. It is performance art, whose goal is delegitimizing Israel and in that process, you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">What has happened is that <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Framing-Israel-personal-campus-rhetoric/dp/161861343X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=framing+israel&qid=1583932769&s=books&sr=1-1">Israel has been framed</a>. The perspectives through which Israel is viewed block out the reality of life there. And you are on a front line dealing with this framing that shows up dramatically during the Week, but also exists in much of what you’ll experience on campus whenever Israel is mentioned, and in much of what you’ll find in the media. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">You don't have to know all the facts to counter the framing of Israel because the charges the Week makes are not based on facts in the first place. Of course, knowing about Israel’s historical and current situations will be useful to you, but mostly because you’ll be reassured that in spite of the cognitive dissonance you may experience at hearing warriors for social justice single out one (and only one) small, liberal nation to boycott and label as an evil entity, Israel is actually the place you think it is: beautiful and unique; intense and relaxed; full of craziness and problems; and yet, multicultural and progressive and free.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">Take heart. Your concern and your visible opposition to the laughable portrayal of Israel offered by the Week makes you one of the bravest students on campus. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">For one thing, you are voicing your objections pretty much on your own, with just your group of Zionist students, in a setting where even the word Zionist has been cancelled. Professor Judea Pearl wisely explains that it is "<a href="https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/06/28/inspiration-and-a-rallying-cry-for-jewish-students-and-graduates/">Zionophobia</a>" you are fighting against, “the irrational fear of a homeland for the Jewish people,” a prejudice that even some Jews may hold. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">You’re brave because there are many campus events with which some students quietly disagree; yet the anti-Israel events are those that do result in counter-response. You are standing up in the face of what you know to be slander against the Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "geneva"; font-size: 12pt;">Since each campus is its own small ecosystem, you are likely to know best which responses to the untruths heard during the Week will suit your school. Whether you put up your own informational display, or stand silently with signs supporting Israel, or go ahead and engage in a shouting match, or post quotes from political leaders, or hand out pictures of regular life in Israel, or perform Israeli rock or rap, all those less brave than you are depending on you and thanking you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "century gothic";">For years after my first trip to Israel, I thought what I was seeing in mainstream media, and in a more abstract version on college campuses, was a lack of information. I imagined that Israelis’ stories just weren’t getting out. I wanted to explain, point by point, what news reports and campus speakers seemed to be missing. I didn’t know that the Hebrew word, <i>hasbara</i>, which is often translated as Israeli “public relations,” actually means “explanation” or “information” but I did think that these were most needed, that if there were better spokespersons from Israel or if the books that offer information about Israel’s history and situation were widely read, the prevalence of what I now saw as one-sided discourse would disappear…And sometimes, people do have a change of heart when they learn that there is more to a story or that they have been misinformed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fce5cd; font-family: "century gothic";">However, the impetus for this book is not the need to get out a set of facts, though factual information is important—and, in this case, readily available—but to address why even factual information often has no impact on discussion of Israel. What I have come to understand is that although, like all countries, Israel has many problems and limitations, the language and rhetoric about Israel has framed it unfairly, unlike any other country in the world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic";">The book is available on <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Framing-Israel-personal-campus-rhetoric/dp/161861343X/ref=olp_product_details?ie=UTF8&me=&qid=1582893566&sr=8-1">Amazon</a> and from the publisher, <a href="http://rvppress.com/books/32">RVP Press</a>. And any bookstore can order it for you. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "century gothic";">Now maybe there will be more postings here from me!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Israel has now located four tunnels dug by Hezbollah into
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In a <a href="https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Tunnels-and-terror-How-terror-organizations-got-a-PhD-in-tunneling-574660" style="background-color: #fce5cd;">helpful article </a>Seth J. Frantzman chronicles the
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Naturally, the word, “tunnels” makes us think of harmless narrow
passageways and a means of simply getting from one place to another. But these
are deep, concrete fortified structures designed for surprise attack on
civilians in Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There is plenty of
room inside for fighters, weapons, and supplies as seen in <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyTJmKEEcCo&t=92s" style="background-color: #f4cccc;">this video</a> by UN
Watch director, Hillel Neuer. The enormous costs of
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Not only are the Hezbollah tunnels constructed for purposes
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civilians. Of course, all this is against international law as it’s a war crime
purposely to attack civilians or to use civilian areas for staging violence. <o:p></o:p></div>
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When Hamas tunnels into Israeli farms, or sends incendiary
devices into southern Israel, or when Fatah honors terrorists in the West Bank,
we hear that the problem is “occupation” even though there are no Jews or IDF
soldiers in Gaza and all the West Bank cities are under Palestinian control.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is the problem from Lebanon?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The Hezbollah tunnels run under an internationally
recognized and undisputed border.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And
certainly Hezbollah is not advocating for the welfare of Palestinians who in
Lebanon are not even allowed citizenship. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Just maybe it has to do with the demographics
of Israel? <o:p></o:p></div>
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These tunnels are simply the shortest distance to Jews. According to the <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/hezbollahs-goal-going-aft_b_26983.html">leader of Hezbollah</a></span>, it's simply most convenient to attack the nearby Jews of Israel; any Jews anywhere are just as much a target.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<!--EndFragment--><br />Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-15596497727009785362018-12-08T23:02:00.000+02:002018-12-08T23:02:02.515+02:00What Do AntiZionists Want?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 12pt;">Yesterday, the <i>New York Times</i> ran this front-page
headline: “</span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/07/opinion/rashida-tlaib-israel-antisemitism.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anti-Zionism is Not the Same as Anti-Semitism.” </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></a></div>
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Here at <i>Framing Israel</i> we’re interested in language and rhetoric,
so the claims of <i>Times</i> staff opinion writer, Michelle Goldberg demand our
attention. She says, <span style="background-color: yellow;">“The conflation of antisemitism with antiZionism is a rhetorical
slight of hand that depends on treating Israel as the embodiment of the Jewish
people everywhere.”</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This statement seems
to be slight of hand, itself. <o:p></o:p></div>
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I would understand saying Israel embodies a 2000-year
longing of Jews to return to their roots.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Or that Israel embodies the modern Zionist hope for a home safe from
antisemitism. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do understand that
Goldberg objects to such Zionist themes and that she feels somehow implicated
in what the Israeli government does.<o:p></o:p></div>
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At the same time, she tells us that BDS advocacy by new
members of the US Congress is something that “American Jews have nothing to
fear...” This appears right below the headline, in fact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Goldberg writes that while some criticisms of Israel can be
antisemitic, one can object to “Jewish ethno-nationalism without being a bigot.”
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But “entho-national” doesn’t describe Israel, which is a
multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, democratic Jewish state.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And antiZionism is not hard to recognize. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It isn’t criticism of Israel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Rather, antiZionists believe there should no majority Jewish
country between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. <o:p></o:p></div>
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There can be a Palestinian majority country, or all the many
Muslim majority countries, or a Japanese majority country; in fact, there can
be all of the 195 countries of the world except one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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BDS advocates for the elimination of the world’s only Jewish
majority state. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In earlier eras, antisemitism showed up as hatred of the Jewish
religion and at other times as hatred of the Jewish people. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Although these forms of Jew hatred still
exist, more often antisemitism now appears as hatred of the Jewish state.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Singling out Jews for special harm fits the definition of antisemitism
so well that even the <i>New York Times </i>front page can’t make this reality go
away. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</style>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-48725604593913438962016-04-04T19:55:00.002+03:002016-04-05T22:14:57.287+03:00UC Regents Condemn anti-Semitic anti-Zionism: Media Disapprove<br />
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published at <i>Honest Reporting</i><br />
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A “landmark” first step was taken by the University of California system this week to combat anti-Semitism on campus. The Regents’ statement of principles condemns “anti-Semitic forms of anti-Zionism” and declares that such behaviors “have no place in the University of California.”<br />
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“There is absolutely no doubt that anti-Zionism is the driving force behind the alarming rise in anti-Semitism at UC and at schools across the country” says Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the UC Santa Cruz faculty member who heads the AMCHA Initiative that tracks on-campus <a href="http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/3/23/univ-of-california-passes-amended-denunciation-of-anti-semitism-anti-zionism#.Vv2R3TZ95FV=">anti-Semitism</a>.<br />
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But much of mainstream reporting on the Regents’ statement erases this link between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Headlines refer to anti-Semitism but not to anti-Zionism and <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-california-discrimination-idUSKCN0WQ03F">reporting</a> suggests that there is no real need for the Regents’ statement or that free speech is at risk.<br />
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The <i>LA Times</i> made their position explicit in an <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-0329-uc-intolerance-20160329-story.html">editorial</a>: “In reality, it is perfectly possible to oppose Zionism—or advocate for a secular state in what is now Israel and the West Bank—without being anti-Jewish.”<br />
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Leaving aside that Jewish Israel is predominately secular and is surrounded by Muslim counties that unlike Israel do not have religious freedom, and leaving aside the secular Zionist founders of the Jewish State, I find most disturbing the phrase “in what is now Israel and the West Bank.”<br />
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Somehow the <i>LA Times,</i> the largest newspaper in the city that has the second largest Jewish population in the US, whose editorial board defines anti-Zionism as “opposition to the idea of a Jewish State,” cannot understand that college students <a href="http://dailybruin.com/2016/03/29/shani-shahmoon-alternative-dialogue-key-to-bettering-israel-palestine-relations/">report</a> they are ostracized and harassed because they take the minority view (on campus) that the world’s only Jewish state should continue to exist. Students are experiencing old fashioned <a href="http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/a-staggering-70-of-jewish-students-experienced-anti-semitism-at-uc/">anti-Semitism</a> to such a degree that even the Regents of UC, who have many other things to worry about, have noticed.<br />
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I’ll admit that I struggle to understand what forms of anti-Zionism are not anti-Semitic. The <i>LA Times</i>’ definition that anti-Zionism opposes even the idea of a Jewish state suggests that anti-Zionism is necessarily anti-Jewish. However, anti-Zionism is also its own form of bigotry. The push for legalistic language to protect Jewish students arises from the reality that anti-Zionism is quite acceptable on campus while, at the same time, Jews are not a “protected minority.”<br />
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The hundreds of anti-Semitic incidents catalogued by <a href="http://www.amchainitiative.org/">AMCHA</a> are connected to the widely heard campus position that Israel should not exist as a Jewish state and to demonizing Zionism. Tellingly, <i><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/news/world/article/University-s-anti-Semitism-statement-up-for-final-7004759.php">Associated Press</a></i> reports that ran in many California papers including the San Francisco Chronicle contrasted “Israeli supporters” with “backers of Palestinian rights,” although Zionism is the concept of Jewish rights to self-determination. No report that I could find considered pro-Israel students to be “backers of Jewish rights.”<br />
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In fact, the <i>LA Times</i> headlined its editorial “Striking a Balance Between Free Speech and Bigotry,” as if anti-Zionism is not a form of bigotry and as if anti-Zionist speech is not protected by the first amendment. <br />
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No one explains the situation better than UCLA professor, <a href="http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0323-pearl-anti-zionism-20160323-story.html">Judea Pearl</a>:<br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966;">“UC guidelines opposing anti-Semitism are grossly inadequate in curbing the current wave of anti-Jewish hostilities on campuses, which by and large are directed not against those who practice their religion but against those suspected of supporting Israel…</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966;">…the UC regents have not banned anti-Semitic, Islamophobic or white supremacist speech, and do not propose to ban anti-Zionist speech; rather, the regents rightly want to make it clear that the latter is beyond the pale of civil discourse.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #ffd966;">So if the regents adopt the principles against intolerance, they won't officially restrict free expression. But, and here is an important distinction, they will send a message to the community that anti-Zionism, like Islamophobia and other hateful ideologies, has “no place,” culturally, “at the University of California.”</span><br />
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<br />Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-46298067906563019602016-01-02T19:27:00.001+02:002016-01-18T16:50:16.145+02:00Terror on My Street<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dizengoff Circle, Tel Aviv</span> </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">published at <i>Times of Israel</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">Maybe I am too new to Israel to call Dizengoff my street, but I know parts of it well and yesterday I was about to go to Dizengoff Center, truthfully because I thought a movie might change a stressed mood. I almost got on the wrong bus, which I've done before, and then I would have walked over to Dizengoff at just about the time a terrorist was pulling out his rifle and firing into a pub and two cafes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">But I decided that before the markets closed for shabbat and before it started raining again, I'd get groceries. So I wasn't there. Most of Tel Aviv and even most of the people walking on Dizengoff were not there in the line of fire. But <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4747389,00.html">two young Israelis</a>, Alon Bakal, age 26 and Shimon Ruimi, age 30, were murdered; eight others were injured and hospitalized; and many people were traumatized. Just the day before, Alon Bakal had sent his father a text: "I'm having fun; I love to live."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">For on Friday afternoon, the streets and cafes of Tel Aviv are crowded with people enjoying life here. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">When I got back home with my groceries, I saw on Channel 10 news what had happened, what has been happening in some part of Israel nearly every day for the past three months: a terrorist had attacked Israeli Jews for being. For existing.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">As I watched the news on my computer, flipping among channels 10 and 2 and the English language <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/suspect-in-tel-aviv-shooting-is-arab-israeli-from-wadi-ara/">Israeli news sites</a>, I didn't feel afraid, though maybe I'll feel that later, as I walk to my ulpan every Sunday and Tuesday past the cafes that yesterday were riddled with bullets. And I didn't feel like I wanted to rush back to the US any more than I might on other days when I'm missing family and friends.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">In fact, I felt like what I had been thinking about and worrying about that afternoon was so trivial it did not even matter what this particular day's obsessions were. I felt: I'm alive and safe and life is incredible.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">And I wish for this front-line that is Israel to start being a place the rest of the world notices -- not, as has so often been the case, in order to blame it for defending itself; and not, as has so often been the case, to blame its victims of terror for the abuse heaped on them. And especially not to pretend that there are no connections of ideology linking the terror in Paris and San Bernardino and Tel Aviv. But to notice that what happens here is happening in Europe and America and for the same reasons.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">In the US it is hard to follow Israeli news events, even though Israel is always in the news. If you watch <i>CNN,</i> you may think there is some possibility that this was a "criminal" rather than a terrorist attack. You may wonder how it is that, while still at large, the killer has an attorney who is being quoted in the <i>New York Times</i>. You may have missed the information that as soon as the killings were reported, the Hamas government of Gaza praised them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">You may even miss the fact that these "lone wolf" attackers are actually following a herd, one </span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">that supplies weapons, training, (in this case) a get-away, and most important, an agenda. Someone should t</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;">ell <i>Reuters News Service</i> that,</span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> as far as we know, not a single perpetrator of a stabbing, or shooting, or car-ramming against Israelis has said he or she did this because peace talks are stalled or because there are settlements. The goal is to eliminate Israel.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">But the good thing is that if you come to Israel tomorrow, what you'll see if you walk down Dizengoff Street is that the terrorists' goal has absolutely no chance of succeeding.</span></span>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-36849096179197622692015-11-15T01:05:00.000+02:002015-11-15T02:51:15.060+02:00The Ongoing War In France<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> published at <i>Times of Israel</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">President Hollande has closed the borders of France. Such a thing has not happened since World War II. The borders were sealed to make sure that none of the terrorists got away, although the police said Friday night that all of these terrorists had been killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The borders were also sealed and "checkpoints reinstated" because the President of France has decided to try to keep out other potential terrorists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">About one hundred and fifty people were murdered at six different Paris locations in France's worst experience of terror attacks. On Friday evening these people were sitting in cafes, watching a soccer match, attending a rock concert, or simply enjoying life in the beautiful city of Paris. In a split second their lives were destroyed by suicide bombers, grenade throwers, and by the gunfire of <a href="http://jewsdownunder.com/2015/10/19/twisting-words-about-attacks-in-israel/">terrorists</a> shouting "Allahu Akbar." Hundreds more in Paris are injured and of course thousands are traumatized.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">President Obama, offering US support and sympathy, said that the terrorists must be "brought to justice." <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com.au/transcript-francois-hollandes-televised-speech-on-the-terror-attacks-in-paris-2015-11">President Hollande</a> managed to say "we know who they are" without saying who they are.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Paris's terror, like the terror of 9/11, the London tube bombings, the Mumbai attacks, and the ongoing nearly daily violence against Israelis, is part of a global war.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Yet, every time an Islamist terror attack occurs--except in Israel where it is acknowledged that Hamas, Hezbollah, and even "lone wolf" kids abusively raised to kill infidels, are perpetuating terror--there is reluctance to name the perpetrators, to acknowledge that their goal is to destroy, to murder, and ultimately to take over.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">As the events unfolded no mainstream media site nor political leader (that I heard) used the term "Islamist terror" even though there was never any doubt that these were Islamist attacks. ISIS was all over social media praising the killings.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now ISIS (Daesh) has claimed responsibility. President Hollande has announced "three days of national mourning" and said this:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f6b26b; font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Faced with war, the country must take appropriate action...France will be merciless towards these barbarians from Daesh."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I hope that there is no call for "all sides" to quell the violence or for <a href="http://uk.reuters.com/article/2015/11/14/us-france-shooting-idUSKCN0T22IU20151114">Hollande</a> not to engage in rhetoric that will "inflame tensions."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">And if the French do respond to the murder of innocents, I hope that the free world will help them (regardless of their various faults) rather than mistake them for the perpetrators.</span></span>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-85124178804287711342015-10-20T08:34:00.002+03:002016-04-15T09:49:44.487+03:00Twisting Words About Attacks in Israel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"> published at <i>Jews Down Under</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Common words and phrases are losing their meaning in reference to the terror wave in Israel. These obfuscations often start with political leaders and then are spread by media. A good guide to whether you are getting an unbiased report will be to notice if key words still keep their common meanings, or if, instead, odd usage directs readers and viewers toward minimizing or even justifying terrorism against Israelis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Light or moderate wounds</b>: normally describes the level of injuries someone has sustained.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Referring to Israelis, now suggests that the danger was minimal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every day for the past two weeks, in some cases nearly every hour, Jewish Israelis have been the victims of stabbing or shooting <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/a-rising-tide-of-terror/">attacks</a>. Or of cars purposely rammed into people standing at bus stops.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Every one of these attacks is an attempted murder. This is true even when the victim manages to fight off the terrorist or stumbles away with only light or moderate wounds. All of the victims of terror who are injured and taken to hospitals are alive only because the terrorist failed at his or her goal of killing Jews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The terms, "attempted murder" or "terrorist attack" do not seem to be applied to attempted murders and <a href="http://honestreporting.com/palestinian-terror-wave-prompts-media-bias-wave/">terrorist</a> attacks by Palestinians against Jews.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Alleged</b>: normally indicates some possibility that there was no attack or that the individual apprehended was not an attacker.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Regarding terror against Israelis, now indicates that what we are seeing did not happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dozens of people witness these events, and often the perpetrator has explicitly stated his or her intention to murder Jews. Although Jews have in fact been attacked, and the perpetrator has been stopped in the act of attacking, the word, "<a href="http://honestreporting.com/wall-st-journal-alleges-terror-took-place/">alleged</a>" is included apparently to raise doubt about what really occurred. The effort to suggest that no security response is needed shows up even when there is <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/msnbc-accused-anti-israel-bias-832690">video</a> that allows viewers (and reporters) to see the terrorist in action.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Executed</b>: Normally means that someone was summarily killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now describes an attacker who was wounded by Israeli security and is at this moment alive and being interviewed. Can also be used to suggest that live ammunition is inappropriate for use by Israeli security under any circumstances.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An Arab woman is shouting and wielding a knife at a bus station; she refuses to put down the knife after repeated requests by security who start clearing the area of civilians. She keeps the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.679649">knife</a> in her hand raised over her head and eventually an officer stops her by firing at her leg. She is rushed to an Israeli hospital and this is described as "an execution."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A young teen goes on a stabbing spree and is shot at in the process. He is rushed to the hospital where he is sitting up eating lunch and being interviewed. He says that he set out to kill Jews while Mahmoud <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/abbas-accuses-israel-of-executing-teen-pisgat-zeev-stabber/">Abbas</a> gives a televised speech declaring that the boy was "executed." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Resulting deaths</b>: Normally refers to the number of people who have been killed by terrorists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now does not distinguish between victims and their murderers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>Rumors</b>: The common term for unsubstantiated claims.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Now presented as justification for any kind of terrorism against Israelis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">For months, the false rumor rumor has been spread by Palestinian leaders, Muslim Imams, and Palestinian Authority <a href="http://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-palestinian-teachers-union-calls-for-martyrdom/">teachers</a>, that Jews will be allowed to pray at the Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism. Even the US State department said this and then had to issue a <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.680566">retraction</a>. The "status quo" agreement the State of Israel made with Jordan in 1967 has never changed and isn't changing. News articles do not describe (or show curiosity about) this unusual arrangement but suggest that a rumor is simply a reason to take up guns or knives or cinder blocks and start trying to kill Israelis.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><b>No one was harmed</b>: Normally means that a harmful situation was diffused or stopped before anyone was hurt.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The now familiar, revised meaning suggests that attacks against Israelis are only harmful if a civilian is killed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Long before the current round of Palestinian terror, the Hamas government of Gaza had been firing rockets into Israel. The press rarely mentions these rockets until there is an Israeli response. Every rocket fired into Israel is intended to harm civilians, and does harm them by terrorizing anyone in the area, by traumatizing families who have seconds to find a bomb shelter, as well as by injuring children and adults.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In the current terror wave, there is not even the 15 to 60 second siren warning. Only the sirens of ambulances.</span>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-61510948088036172252015-10-12T18:09:00.002+03:002015-11-15T03:04:35.870+02:00Israel's Disappearing Ongoing Terror Wave<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">A week into the ongoing wave of terror against Israeli Jews, it has become nearly impossible to learn -- from major news sources outside Israel -- what is going on in Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-hit-with-four-stabbings-in-second-day-of-widespread-violence/">terror</a> wave itself is becoming invisible. Many reports minimize the hundreds of attacks against Israelis. Some suggest that attempting to stop a terrorist should be seen as the same thing as being a terrorist; other coverage depicts any Israeli defensive measures in such a way these will appear to cause the violence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">In a recent <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-hit-with-four-stabbings-in-second-day-of-widespread-violence/"><i>CNN</i></a> report, terror against Israelis has disappeared. A video captioned "spiral of violence grips the Middle East" tells of Palestinians throwing "rocks and marbles" against "tanks and tear gas." Israel's Prime Minister is described as "stern and contentious" in contrast to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas who "doesn't want the situation to escalate."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Readers would never know that Abbas and Palestinian officials have been "waging an unprecedented campaign of <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6647/abbas-palestinians-murder">incitement</a> against Israel" in what Palestinian journalist Khaled Abu Toameh describes as "calls for murder."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">An <i>Associated Press</i> story in <i>US News and World Report</i> purports to be a timeline of "latest developments in the ongoing tensions between Palestinians and Israelis" but these <a href="http://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2015/10/07/the-latest-israeli-police-kill-suspect-who-stabbed-soldier">tensions</a> usually turn out to be that a Palestinian was stopped after killing or trying to kill an Israeli. Like many other stories, this one leads with the "shooting and wounding" of a Palestinian and then mentions that the "motorist" was trying to run over people at a checkpoint.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Similarly, <i><a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34484765">BBC</a> </i>writes "Israeli-Palestinian violence spreads over Gaza" which in itself is inaccurate since the Gaza government has taken credit for some of the attacks in Israel. These include what Hamas has praised as "the heroric terror attack," the murder of Eitam and Na'ama Henkin, a Tel Aviv University doctoral student and his wife who was a graphic designer, </span><span style="font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif;">shot to death in their car in front of their four children.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">The article claiming that "violence" is moving from Israel into Gaza has it backwards. Rockets have been fired in recent days from Gaza into Israel and violent rioters from Gaza attempted to cross into Israel. <i>BBC</i>'s "analysis" piece describes a "sudden and sharp <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34446614">escalation</a> of violence" equating attacks on civilians with the attempt to prevent such attacks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">And as the reporting on the terror wave disappears, the terrorists are provided with a more sympathetic treatment than the Israeli victims of terror.</span>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-16926169659561955162015-08-30T11:46:00.001+03:002015-08-30T11:46:53.948+03:00Lessons of the French Train Heroes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The planned massacre of passengers on a train in France by a heavily armed Islamist terrorist is a horror too awful to think about. But thinking about it needs to happen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if something actually were learned from the quick, brave actions of three American 23-year-olds, a French-American dual citizen, and a grandfather from England who fought the terrorist with their bare hands and protected the lives of all the passengers and crew? What if celebrating the heroes were a step toward turning attention to terror vulnerabilities in Europe and also America?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What if honor for the heroes brought with it public demand for Western leaders to focus on stopping the continued plans of jihadists?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i>Reuters</i> was still publishing stories with titles like "Train <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/23/us-france-train-shots-lawyer-idUSKCN0QS0HF20150823">gunman dumbfounded </a>by terrorist tag" when the three friends from Carmichael, California, Airman 1st Class, Spencer Stone, Oregon National Guardsman, Alek Skarlatos, and Sacramento State University student, Anthony Sadler were asked, "What do you think of the claim that it was a robbery attempt?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three had succeeded in disarming the terrorist, beating him unconscious, and tying him up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It doesn't take eight magazines to rob a train," Anthony Sadler said wisely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As a recently retired Sacramento State professor, I paid special attention to the coverage of Anthony and his friends, and I think they have something to <a href="http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article31991493.html">teach</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In Sacramento, they are hometown heroes. They are also, suddenly, world famous recipients of France's highest award, the Legion d'Honneur medal. President Hollande said they have given the world a "lesson in courage."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just before the Legion of Honor ceremony, the press asked the three young men what could be learned from their experience. Anthony answered: "I want the lesson to be learned that in times of terror to <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/23/france-train-attack-heroes-in-time-of-crisis-do-something">please do something</a> -- don't just stand by and watch."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If "times of terror" unfold in our train car, we hope we are lucky enough to be surrounded by people with the instinctive, selfless reactions of Spencer Stone, Alek Skarlatos, and Anthony Sadler.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But we do know it can't be left up to college students and off-duty US military, no matter how brave, to save the day. Anthony's spontaneous response, "in times of terror...please do something -- don't just stand by and watch," should be heeded at the highest city and national levels.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For starters, Europe and the US might want to make a few adjustments. The attacker, Ayoub <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/11819824/France-train-attack-Mark-Moogalian-named-as-French-hero-who-foiled-attack-by-Moroccan-terrorist-Ayoub-El-Khazzani-live.html">El-Khazzani</a> simply walked onto the train with a bagful of weapons, box cutters, and ammunition. It doesn't seem that complicated to need to place one's bag on a conveyor and at the same time walk through a metal detector gate at the entrance to train stations. It works well in Israel.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Of course, in Israel there are other security measures as well, like personnel trained and equipped for emergency. And yet the atmosphere (not counting the rush hour crowds and general noise) is relaxed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">But on the Amsterdam-Paris train not only was security lacking, according to French actor, <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-train-shooting-famous-actor-claims-staff-locked-passengers-out-of-car-when-gunman-opened-fire-10467105.html">Jean-Hugues Anglade</a> who was injured while breaking an emergency glass, when the terrorist appeared the train crew disappeared without so much as a warning to the passengers.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Along with no bag checks there were also no ID checks. El-Khazzani had already been identified as a terrorist by Spain, and Spanish officials had alerted the French. He was on watch lists in France, Spain, Belgium, and Germany, the same lists as the perpetrators of the Charlie Hebdo murders. Are these lists something officials "just stand by and watch"?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Amid the well-deserved praise for the actions of the heroes, the lessons learned should not be simply for passengers but for crews, not just for everyday citizens but for agencies and governmental leaders who are responsible for helping preserve our freedom to live lives that are anathema to jihadist inspired terrorists.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"I'm just a college student," said Anthony Sadler. "It's my last year of college. I came to see my friends on my first trip to Europe and we stopped a terrorist. It's kind of crazy."</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An earlier version of this post appeared in AmericanThinker.</span></i>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-34027781041994798942015-08-12T15:20:00.000+03:002015-08-12T15:32:07.770+03:00Why Don't We Hear About the Fate of Palestinians?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">As of this May, 2,770 Palestinians had been killed since the start of the civil war in Syria. But when Palestinians there sought refuge in Palestinian controlled Gaza and the West Bank, PA President Mahmoud <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/05/01/mahmoud-abbas-we-should-let-palestinians-in-syria-die/">Abbas turned them down</a>. He said, "It's better that they die in Syria than that they give up their right of return [to Israel]."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Arab countries, Palestinians are subject to apartheid laws such as the ones in Lebanon that prevent them from working in many professions including medicine, law, engineering, and accounting. This stands in sharp contrast to Israel where all professions are open and Arab-Israelis are also Supreme Court justices and Knesset members.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">While the Arab/Palestinian population in Israel is constantly growing, Palestinians have been and are being expelled from Arab countries in which they have lived for years.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In the 1990's, 200,000 Palestinians were forced to leave Kuwait.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In Iraq, only 6,000 out of 25,000 Palestinians are left. According to the head of the Palestinian League in Iraq, Thamer Meshainesh, militias routinely attack Palestinians as part of an organized plan to get them to leave the country.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Khaled Abu Toameh writes:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">...when it comes to ethnic cleansing and torture of Palestinians in Arab countries such as Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, the Palestinian leadership chooses to look the other way.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Similarly, the international media seems to have forgotten that there are tens of thousands of Palestinians living in various Arab countries. The only Palestinians that Western journalists know and care about are those living in the West Bank and Gaza strip.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Toameh's report this week, "<a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6314/ethnic-cleansing-palestinians">The Secret Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians</a>" is startling because media tell us so little about Palestinians in the Arab world.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">If Israel can't be blamed, there seems to be no interest in what happens to Palestinians.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span>Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-74532805147900211432015-07-21T23:44:00.001+03:002015-08-05T15:01:27.826+03:00The Iran Deal and Doublethink<br />
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published at <i>Honest Reporting</i><br />
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The substance of what’s wrong with the Iran deal (see <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/16-reasons-nuke-deal-is-an-iranian-victory-and-a-western-catastrophe/">here</a>
and <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-bad-deal-today-a-worse-deal-tomorrow/2015/07/14/5d34ba00-2a39-11e5-a250-42bd812efc09_story.html?hpid=z6">here</a>)
can also be found in the uses and abuses of language surrounding the deal.<br />
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It is hard to reconcile that the leaders of the Islamic Republic
of Iran say, directly, that we should not expect them to change in any way, and
yet, the US led team of negotiators seems to disregard the plain meaning of
these leaders’ actions and words. It may not quite be George Orwell’s “doublethink”
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">1984</i>: <o:p></o:p></div>
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But it is certainly disturbing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i>The Best Deal We Could
Get</i></div>
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Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt realized that he could
bypass the need for a 2/3 majority vote from <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/09/the-role-of-congress-or-lack-thereof-in-the-iran-deal-explained/">Congress</a>
by referring to a treaty as something other than a treaty, presidents have at
times called treaties “executive agreements.” The treaty with Iran goes by the
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And though discussion might have centered on whether this
was a good or bad treaty, calling it a “deal” has not only made it sound like a
less than weighty agreement, it seems also to have obscured why we, that is,
the West as represented by the US, EU and UK, were negotiating in the first
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The point of “dealing” with Iran was to prevent it from
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Lifting sanctions was to occur in order to stop Iran’s
nuclear build up. Since the deal does not accomplish this, the Saudis, Jordanians,
Egyptians and Israelis, 77% of <a href="http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/07/16/ap-gfk-poll-nearly-80-percent-of-americans-oppose-obama-on-iran-sanctions/">Americans,</a>
and <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-played-the-west-like-a-harp-sighs-one-of-many-wary-exiles/">Iranians</a>
(those who have left Iran and are free to voice their opinions) are against it.
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It is not as if the US, UK, Germany and France actually need
a deal with Iran. (Perhaps China and Russia are happy with the deal for
economic reasons.) But the West and the Middle East do need Iran, the world’s biggest
enabler of terrorism, not to add nuclear weapons to its arsenal. <o:p></o:p></div>
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If this really were the best deal that could be arranged,
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<i>Centrifuge and
Subterfuge</i></div>
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Even if there will be some slowing of Iran’s process for the
next few years, the materials and machinery needed for making nuclear weapons
are still in place. The promised “anytime-anywhere” inspections not only have disappeared,
they’ve been replaced with an up to 24-day advance notice and, even more
bizarre, with the requirement that the Iranians must receive specific
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Everything other than the sanctions and the nuclear program was
“off the table.” The deal lifts the sanctions and pretty much keeps the nuclear
program. Human rights of Iranians were not discussed, not the beatings or
killings of victims of rape, nor the hanging of gays, nor the lack of freedoms
overall. Off the table, also, was discussion of the illegally imprisoned four
Americans being held there. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Nor was Iran asked, in exchange for lifting the economic
sanctions against it, to stop threatening Israel, to stop supporting terrorism
by Hezbollah in Lebanon, Assad’s forces in Syria, or Hamas in Gaza. In fact,
the Ayatollah Ali Khamenai announced, the day after the “deal” was completed,
that this “<a href="http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/07/18/iran-nuclear-khamenei-idINKCN0PS05120150718">victory</a>”
would change nothing about “policy toward the arrogant US” or their agenda, an
agenda that uses very clear language. <o:p></o:p></div>
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chants of “death to America” and “death to Israel” and reiterated their goals
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destiny of the Islamist Republic of Iran.</div>
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Trying to account for agreement to this deal seems to
require Orwell’s doublethink. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-10660834368643575602015-06-27T15:34:00.000+03:002015-07-29T07:28:48.214+03:00"Bloody Friday" Free Pass For Terror?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Tourists leaving Sousse, Tunisia after terror attack --photo: <i>Daily Record </i></span><br />
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ISIS supporters made good on the call this week from Abu
Muhammad al-Adani, Islamic State official spokesman, to use the month of
Ramadan to create a “calamity for the <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/06/26/us-security-attacks-idUSKBN0P62F420150626">infidels</a>…and
apostate Muslims.” <o:p></o:p></div>
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On Friday, they slaughtered 38 people, mostly tourists from England, who were relaxing at a beach in <a href="http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/tunisia-beach-terror-attack-british-5957620">Tunisia</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Earlier in the day, terrorists in <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/france-beheading-man-decapitated-at-factory-near-grenoble-by-attacker-with-islamist-black-flag-10347287.html">France</a>
beheaded a businessman after ramming a truck into a factory and causing an
explosion. And at around the same time, in <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2015/06/26/in-kuwait-a-man-paused-to-gaze-at-worshipers-then-he-blew-them-up/?tid=pm_world_pop_b">Kuwait,</a>
a suicide bomber killed 25 worshipers and injured hundreds at a mosque. <o:p></o:p></div>
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On any given day if you happen to be an “infidel,” that is,
a Christian, Jew, Hindu, or Buddhist, or if you are a Muslim who goes to the
wrong kind of mosque, a former Muslim, or an atheist, you are a target. A
target wide as the world.<o:p></o:p></div>
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While the horror that was the beach at Sousse, and the
beheading in France by a terrorist who was <a href="http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2015/06/26/suspect-in-french-decapitation-attack-today-yet-another-case-of-known-wolf-terrorism/">known</a>
to French authorities, may take Western attention for a while (for a lifetime
for those who lost loved ones and those who are among the many wounded) it is
especially scary to think that quickly we will stop paying attention, again. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Terror attacks in France and Tunisia are very recent, those that
ended the lives of 12 people who were working at the offices of Charlie Hebdo
and 4 people who were shopping in a kosher market in Paris as well as the
terrorism at the Bardo Museum in Tunis that left 22 people dead. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet, every new attack shows up as if
anomalous, as if only tenuously connected to what has come before, and without
acknowledgment by Western powers of the war that has been declared on us. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Instead there will be some speeches and memorials and
investigations. The UN will focus its next emergency session on Israel.<o:p></o:p></div>
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As a member of the vast, world majority of non-jihadists, of
we, the people enjoying living life and intent on continuing to do so, I’d be
encouraged to hear some direct statements from our leadership. What kind of
plan is there for defense of the overwhelming majority of the people of the
world?<o:p></o:p></div>
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A disturbing question but an obvious one:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is giving nuclear weapons to Iran --whose
mullahs see themselves in <a href="http://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/22/middleeast/iran-fighting-isis/">opposition</a>
to ISIS but also to the US and Israel – the best you can do?<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-70181115244950512372015-05-06T05:33:00.001+03:002015-05-06T05:33:43.586+03:00Israel in Nepal--No Good Deed Goes Uncriticized<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The IDF-led team from Israel rushed to Nepal and within 12
hours of landing in Katmandu had set up a working field hospital and had begun
search and rescue operations. In fact, Israel’s team of doctors, nurses, trauma
specialists, and disaster relief experts is the second largest in <a href="http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/MS_support_300415.pdf">Nepal</a>, with
an on-the-ground crew of 260.<br />
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India has sent a team of 450; the next largest is from the US with 128. Not that it is a competition. But
neither is it a public relations stunt--in spite of what you may read in some reporting.<br />
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Israel has become a world leader in disaster response and
humanitarian relief efforts and shares its expertise generously wherever it is needed, as it did during crises in Turkey, Haiti, Japan, and
elsewhere. In Nepal so far, Israeli doctors have treated hundreds of injured
Nepalese, have delivered babies, and have performed several hundred
surgeries.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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Their <a href="http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/05/01/idf-medical-staff-deliver-third-baby-at-nepal-field-hospital/">hospital</a> cares for at least
200 people a day. They even brought a group of “hospital clowns” who work in
Israeli hospitals to spend time with Nepalese children. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They have delivered 700 tons of medical
equipment and supplies. The state of Israel has “adopted” a village that was
destroyed by the earthquake and is working with the Nepalese government to
rebuild the entire <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-pledges-to-reconstruct-an-entire-village-in-nepal/">village</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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And yet, Israel’s humanitarian effort in Nepal provokes
negative media response. Daniel Gordis summarizes <a href="http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-05-04/criticism-follows-israeli-aid-to-nepal">here</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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But the good news, and the best argument against the
criticism, is that Israel will continue helping around the world regardless of
the press it receives. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-64010276955323965092015-04-09T07:20:00.000+03:002015-04-09T07:20:45.878+03:00Iran Deal -- Red Flags<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is hard to believe that when faced with the obvious
problems of the Iran “deal,” the most powerful country in the world just gives
in. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Here is a top 10 of Iran agreement red flags:<o:p></o:p></div>
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10.“Death to America” <o:p></o:p></div>
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Apparently it is out of fashion to take literally the words
of world leaders, the same leaders with whom you are negotiating about nuclear
weapons, words they keep repeating, shouting and loudly encouraging others to
believe, the words of rulers for whom “<a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/khamenei-calls-death-to-america-as-kerry-hails-progress-on-nuke-deal/">death
to America</a>” is a goal, an agenda. If someone states clearly and repeatedly that
he hates you and wants to kill you, why would you help him to more firepower?<o:p></o:p></div>
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9.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Destroying Israel
is “Non-negotiable” <o:p></o:p></div>
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The familiar talk of wiping Israel off the map has
continued, even escalated, during discussion of Iran’s nuclear program.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And if we doubt the literal nature of these
words, or imagine that they are simply bluster, we need only notice the way
Iran’s actions are consistent with these <a href="http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Iran-Israel-destruction-annihilation/2015/04/01/id/635729/">threats</a>:<o:p></o:p></div>
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8. Iran arms Hezbollah.<o:p></o:p></div>
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7. Iran arms West Bank terror groups and pays terrorists’
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6. Iran arms Hamas and builds terror tunnels.<o:p></o:p></div>
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5. At the same time, Iran backs militias in Yemen, in Iraq,
in Lebanon, and in Syria. <o:p></o:p></div>
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4. Iran has not been required to stop any of its terrorist
activities.<o:p></o:p></div>
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3. Whatever else Iran’s leaders say, they say clearly that they
intend to become the one dominant, ruling, and Islamist <a href="http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/blog/michael-j-totten/irans-goal-middle-eastern-hegemony">power</a>
in the Middle East. <o:p></o:p></div>
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2. The deal isn’t really a deal, anyway. If the intention
had been to stop Iran’s nuclear program, it is a failure. There’s nothing in
the agreement that does this. In fact, even if the intention had been to slow
down the program, it is a failure, for it doesn’t do this, either, as there is
no guarantee of inspections.<o:p></o:p></div>
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1. Iran is already the biggest sponsor of terror in the
world, making it the most dangerous place in the world for nuclear weapons. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Looks like the negotiators <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-unfolding-farce-of-obamas-deal-with-iran/">ignored</a>
the red flags and raised a white one.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-30937930611126077962015-03-29T07:30:00.000+03:002015-03-31T00:47:29.607+03:00Letting the Iranian Ayatollahs Slide<br />
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;">“When the Supreme Leader of Iran is continuing, in
the middle of these negotiations…to make statements like 'death to America,' how is that not problematic for you? …why are you just willing to let that, let
it slide, basically, and you are holding the prime minister of Israel to
comments that he made and has since changed?”</span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Cambria; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Cambria;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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In her non-direct answer to Matt Lee’s question, State
Department spokesperson, Jen Psaki seemed to enact the very problem the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">AP</i> reporter had just identified:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“…</span><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: black;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">our
relationship with Israel is abiding; it’s strong; it’s a security relationship;
it’s one that we’re committed to. Do we have disagreements on some issues, like
how we should proceed with preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon?
Yes. Have we – can we – do we believe that it isn’t possible to just forget
what the prime minister says when it’s conflicting with past precedent and past
policy for some time? Yes…”</span><span style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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Lee tried to get Psaki to talk about the contrast between reaction
to the words of an ally talking, during a heated, democratic election, about his country’s situation <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vs</i> non-reaction
to words like “death to America” spoken by leaders of the country currently
negotiating--with the US--for nuclear weapons. But Psaki continued in the same vein: <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">“…even if there is a deal, it doesn’t mean we let slide or
forget, whether it’s the comments or more important the actions – state sponsor
of terrorism, their human rights record…But we also feel that preventing Iran
from acquiring a nuclear weapon is not only in our interests, it’s in the
interests of the international community…”</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The implication here seems to be that negotiating with Iran
about their nuclear weapons program is disconnected from considering or
responding to their leaders’ words and actions. This seems to leave us simply ignoring
the plain meaning of their words. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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By contrast, although Netanyahu clarified, or changed, his last
minute campaign statement, the Israeli leader’s words apparently are always
relevant. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Except when they are not, as
in: we don’t accept his clarification.<o:p></o:p></div>
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A day after the election, Netanyahu reiterated that he continues
to hold the same views as those he has expressed since his speech at Bar Ilan
University in <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0">2009</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There, he voiced his support for a
demilitarized Palestinian state next door to the Jewish state, whereas in the
last moments of the campaign, in what seems to have been a ploy to get votes
away from some of the smaller parties, he contradicted this position.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Politicians’ electioneering aside, journalist <a href="http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/03/24/ap_reporter_to_psaki_you_let_iran_slide_for_death_to_america_chants_but_hold_netanyahu_to_different_standard.html">Matt
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How is it that even while they are directly calling for the
destruction of the US, Iranian leaders are not to be criticized or taken at
their word, yet any statement by the freely elected prime minster of Israel, a close
American ally, is under continual, negative scrutiny?<br />
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At the same time, Netanyahu’s consistent and persistent
warnings about Iran’s nuclear program may be in the process of being
ignored.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The upcoming “deal” has been described
by an Israeli official as an “incomprehensibly” bad agreement that leaves
thousands of centrifuges in place and puts no restraints on <a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-tv-iran-deal-leaving-6100-centrifuges-spinning-to-be-signed-by-tuesday/">Iranian</a>
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Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-81509074966474452182015-03-09T06:23:00.000+02:002015-03-09T06:23:09.345+02:00Terror Attack in Israel? CNN Can't Find the Words<br />
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On Friday, a Palestinian man rammed his car into five Israeli
border policewomen and then ran over an Israeli riding a bicycle on Shimon
HaTzadik Street near a light rail station in Jerusalem. The attacker got out of
his car assaulting the pedestrians with a knife before police stopped
him by shooting at him. The victims were taken to the hospital with moderate to
light injuries and the attacker was also taken to the hospital. One other person
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CNN’s headline:<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">"Driver hits Israeli border police, authorities
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According to CNN, itself, Israelis aren’t the only ones who
call it an attack.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The short article
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">"Hamas applauded the attack.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #ffe599;">'Hamas movement blesses this heroic
act and considers it a natural response to the Occupations (sic) crimes,' Sami
Abu Zuhri, a Hamas spokesman posted on Facebook."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Of course, even more difficult for <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/06/middleeast/israel-car-incident/">CNN</a> is the term, terror.<o:p></o:p></div>
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During this November’s spate of terror attacks in Jerusalem,
CNN reported in an outlandish manner on the brutal killings at a synagogue in
the Har Nof<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>neighborhood. Their first
headline read “Deadly attack on Jerusalem mosque” and their follow up story
changed the headline to “4 Israelis, 2 Palestinians dead in Jerusalem,” simply
counting the killers who had hacked the rabbis to death among <a href="http://framingisrael.blogspot.co.il/2014/11/distorting-news-of-jerusalem-terror.html">victims</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For news from Israel it’s usually most reliable to go
directly to Israeli news sources, for instance to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.timesofisrael.com/five-wounded-in-suspected-car-ramming-attack-in-jerusalem/">Times of Israel</a> </i>or<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4634094,00.html">Ynet News</a>.
</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In their stories, you not only get
the actual details about the attack but other connected information such as the
fact that this street was “also the site of a November 5 hit and run terror
attack that killed one border police officer and injured 13 others. The area
has seen no less than five terror attacks this past year.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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By contrast, the only other information included in the CNN
article is a seemingly gratuitous reference to the number of Palestinians
killed during this summer’s conflict.<br />
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CNN used to call itself “the most trusted name in news” and
it’s good to know that this slogan has been retired. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Now they call themselves “America’s best news team” but many
American outlets did a better job than CNN reporting from Jerusalem this week. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Cherryl Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05847126110205213368noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4806238821002882444.post-81987113870251641502015-02-10T11:07:00.002+02:002015-02-10T11:07:30.200+02:00What Universities Can Learn From Israel's Status on Campus<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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published at <i>Honest Reporting</i> <br />
In the post-modern university where, at least in the social
sciences and humanities, facts are no longer, well, factual, the country of
Israel fares badly. Rather than
information about the actual country, an abstract idea of Israel has emerged on
college campuses over the past dozen years. The Jewish state appears as the
single nation of the world deserving boycott of its (actual) products and
academic institutions. A Palestinian narrative prevails, but it is a
particular, monolithic, Palestinian narrative that leaves out, for instance,
the <a href="http://www.israel-academia-monitor.com/index.php?type=large_advic&advice_id=1297&page_data%5Bid%5D=178&cookie_lang=en&the_session_id=735ad11b75260e45094a299e93a42ec1&BLUEWEBSESSIONSID=10d6b2ad8dcc8dde3f1adaba02ddf086">opposition</a>
of <a href="http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4095/abbas-bds">Palestinians</a>
to Israel <a href="http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Palestinian-boycott-of-Israel-is-misguided-388806?fb_action_ids=404981659677086&fb_action_types=og.shares&fb_source=other_multiline&action_object_map=%5B845756172153109%5D&action_type_map=%5B%22og.shares%22%5D&action_ref_map=%5B%5D">boycotts</a>.<br />
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This abstract notion of Israel also shows up in countless
campus forums, classroom lectures, protest demonstrations, associated students’
election campaigns and, on many campuses for two weeks of every year, as
performance <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/.premium-1.576201">activism</a>
confronting students with staged “checkpoints,” photos of bloody victims and
towering, cardboard, “apartheid” walls.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Writing in an important recent collection, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Case-Against-Academic-Boycotts-Israel/dp/0990331601"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Case Against</i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> Academic Boycotts of Israel,</i> 32 scholars consider gaps between
Israel’s campus status and its real life. Among other topics, they address the
assault on academic freedom that occurs if academics are boycotted because of
their nationality (R. Berman; G. Brahm and A. Romirowsky; D. Hirsh; M. Nussbaum)
and the absurdity of maligning Israeli institutions that not only exemplify
multicultural learning and teaching but that are themselves bastions of academic
freedom; the founder of the boycott Israel movement was getting an advanced
degree at Tel Aviv University while advocating for its boycott (S. Wolosky; I.
Troen). The book also offers a valuable, concise history of Israel (C. Nelson,
R. Harris, and K. Stein), much needed because boycott movements and agitation
against Israel on campus exhibit a startling lack of interest in verifiable
evidence, dialogue, and the usual expectations of academic argument. <o:p></o:p></div>
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A number of writers in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel</i> attest to one-sided presentation
of proposals and procedural moves to minimize dissenting voices (S. Musher; J.Robbins).
Further, the objections of students and faculty to singling out the Jewish
state for approbation alone among the countries of the world and the extreme
discourse with which this is promoted are often disregarded (D. Divine; M.Kotzin).
While speech codes and sensitivity to even micro-aggressions are mainstream at
universities, several of the authors note that Jewish concerns about
anti-Semitism are dismissed or, worse, are considered merely ways of shutting
down debate (R. Fine; K. Marcus).<o:p></o:p></div>
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By paying attention to Israel’s status on campus we learn
that debate on this topic is not really is possible. The veracity of claims
about Israel in boycott proposals is off limits for discussion. The only
questions addressed are whether or not to boycott and whether or not academic
freedom or the professional organization proposing the boycott will be
harmed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Labels like “apartheid” and
“colonialist” applied to Israel are not considered controversial in most academic
settings. What is missing from discussion of Israel on campus is Israel: its
history, people, current situation, daily life, and place in the Middle East.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Anti-Zionism at universities, notes co-editor Cary Nelson,
is treated as if it is essential to progressive politics -- regardless of
Israel’s genuine progressivism, its real-life democracy, its vibrant freedoms
of speech, of the press, of religion, and its commitment to the rights of
women, gays, minorities, and all its citizens. <o:p></o:p></div>
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This refusal to acknowledge the realities of Israel and to
insist on singling out the one democracy in the Middle East for boycott may say
more about universities than it says about the topic of Israel. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The American Studies Association called their Israel boycott
a “litmus test” of the organization’s “stance on Palestine.” For, the current
campus status of Israel is possible only in an academic environment of litmus
tests, where one’s progressive credentials rest on adhering to a party line,
where facts are not merely malleable but acceptable only to the degree that
they fit prevailing ideologies. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Israel on campus stands out precisely because there is
pushback among students and some professors to university anti-Israelism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, it may be the only major challenge
to mainstream campus politics. As such, the status of Israel on campus serves
as a warning of encroaching dogmatism and lack of room for diversity of thought
in what we used to refer to as the marketplace of ideas. <o:p></o:p></div>
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comments welcome at <i><a href="http://honestreporting.com/what-universities-can-learn-from-israels-status-on-campus/">Honest Reporting</a></i></div>
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