Category Archives: Israel

USA: 140,000, Israel: 15

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Two days ago Theodore Van Kirk, the last crew member of the Enola Gay died:

The last surviving member of the U.S. crew that dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, hastening the end of Second World War and moving the world into the atomic age, has died.

Theodore Van Kirk died Monday of natural causes at the retirement home where he lived in Georgia, his son Tom Van Kirk said. He was 93.

One day ago, the country on whose behalf the Enola Gay dropped the atomic bomb that deliberately targeted and killed 140,000 civilian men women and children in Hiroshima, condemned Israel for accidentally killing 15 civilian men women and children in Gaza:

The United States is condemning Israel’s shelling of a U.N. school in the Gaza Strip that was sheltering displaced Palestinians.

It’s the sharpest criticism the U.S. has levelled at Israel over the more than three weeks of fighting between Israel and Hamas militants in Gaza.

Anglicans pray for peace in the Middle East

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From here:

Diocese of Jerusalem praying for peace in Gaza and region
As bombing in Gaza continues, Bishop Suheil is in regular communication with Al Ahli Hospital there to ensure that staff and families are safe. The Diocese of Jerusalem continues to hold the people of Gaza and the region in its prayers, hoping that the violence will end soon.

The question is, why did we not read of the Diocese of Jerusalem praying that “the violence will end soon” when Hamas was firing rockets into Israel before Israel responded? Why do we not hear Bishop Suheil Dawani praying for Hamas to accept a perfectly reasonable cease-fire proposal that Israel was prepared to accept? Why do we not hear the Bishop of Jerusalem making statements condemning Hamas’s intent to destroy Israel and kill all its inhabitants? Why don’t we hear the Anglican Church in the Middle East condemning Hamas for hiding behind its civilians and then using the inevitable civilian deaths in their disgusting propaganda? Why does the Anglican Church not recognise and condemn Hamas for what it really is: a demonic death cult?

Why, why, why; surely the answer is not that the Anglican Church has an anti-Israel bias?.

A Palestinian Christian peace activist urges churches to tell the truth

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From here:

Nora Carmi, a Palestinian Christian peace activist, came to Canada with a challenge for churches to “dare to tell the truth” about Israel’s oppression of Palestinians and to “stand with those who are oppressed.”

Dressed in black with a silver cross at her throat, Carmi, 64, visited the national office of the Anglican Church of Canada at the beginning of her 12-day speaking tour. She was hosted by Canadian Friends of Sabeel, an ecumenical liberation theology movement and a long-time partner.

“Oppression against the Palestinians includes violation of all forms of rights,” Carmi said in an interview. “Access to sites of worship, revoking residency rights, denying family reunification—everything that is basically human is being denied at this point to the Palestinian people.”

There are some aspects of the truth that Nora Carmi isn’t daring to tell, though. Things like: Israel is the only true democracy in a region awash with despots who routinely proclaim that Israel shouldn’t exist; if Israel stopped defending itself and relied on the good will of its neighbours, it would cease to exist; Palestinians Arabs constitute 20% of the population of Israel and according to polls, most would prefer to live in a Jewish than a Palestinian state.

Let’s hope that Canadian churches do “dare to tell the truth” about Israel.

Israel Philharmonic Orchestra disrupted by louts

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The Palestine Solidarity Campaign , an organisation committed to “the principle of self-determination of the Palestinian people”, thought they would further their cause by disrupting a performance of the exquisite Bruch violin concerto number 1 at the Royal Albert Hall by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. What they actually made plain was that their political stupidity is exceeded only by their philistinism.

From here:

The BBC was forced to pull a live Proms performance off air on Thursday night after a performance by the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra was disrupted by protesters.

 

 

 

Celebrating Israeli apartheid week

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Well, I’m not, but for those who are, read this:

Police suspect armed terrorist entered house in West Bank and stabbed couple along with 3 children; 2 other children escape unharmed.

Five family members were found murdered in their residence in the West Bank Itamar settlement Friday overnight, after a suspected terrorist broke and entered the house and stabbed the five to death. Two children managed to escape and survived the attack, Army Radio reported.

A Magen David Adom team that arrived at the scene at 1:00 a.m. announced a couple, their 11-year old child, 3-year-old toddler, and a one-month baby girl dead from stabbing wounds.

Other than the devil himself, I have no idea what could possess a person to stab 11 and 3 year old children: for those of you who do happen to support Israeli apartheid week, it’s time to reboot your brains.

Anglican Bishop in Jerusalem denied permit to remain in Israel

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Bishop Dawani is being accused off colluding with the Palestinian Authority in shady land dealings. Whether this is true or not remains to be seen but, considering the strident anti-Israel bias of the Western Anglican Church, I’m surprised he had a visa in the first place.

From here:

Bishop Dawani, his wife and daughters had successfully renewed this permit, as required, in 2008 and 2009. On 24 August 2010, Bishop Dawani went to renew the permit with the Ministry of the Interior and was informed in writing that permits for himself, his wife and daughter would not be renewed because of allegations pending against the Bishop. The letter, in Hebrew, included the following: “Bishop Suheil acted with the Palestinian Authority in transferring lands owned by Jewish people to the Palestinians and also helped to register lands of Jewish people in the name of the Church.” There were further allegations that documents were forged by the Bishop. The letter also stated that Bishop Dawani and his family should leave the country immediately.

The Jerusalem Inter-Church Center secretary, Yusef Daher, thinks that Israel doesn’t respect Christians – an odd perspective, considering Israel is the most religiously tolerant nation in the Middle East and is surrounded by rabidly anti-Christian nations who routinely murder Christians. What Daher really means is that Israel has little use for politically motivated pro-Palestinian Anglican prelates whose main contribution to the Israeli people is to criticise them.

“There is a feeling among church leaders that Israel has no respect for Christians or Christian leaders,” Daher said Tuesday (March 1). “There is no respect for the request of the issuing of residency visas.”

UNESCO classifies Rachel's Tomb as a mosque

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From here:

Government responds sharply to cultural body’s request that Israel remove Rachel’s Tomb and Cave of the Patriarchs from list of national heritage sites; Netanyahu calls decision “absurd.”

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Friday slammed world culture organization UNESCO’s decision to characterize the site of Rachel’s Tomb as a Muslim mosque.

“The attempt to separate the nation of Israel from its cultural heritage is absurd,” said the prime minister.

A statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office read, “It is unfortunate that an organization that was established with the goal of promoting the cultural preservation of historical sites around the world, is attempting due to political reasons to uproot the connection between the nation of Israel and its cultural heritage.”

Whatever next?

The Vatican does a spot of recreational Israel bashing

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And sides with that most demonically corrupt organisation, the United Nations, while ignoring the routine persecution of Christians in just about every Middle-Eastern country other than Israel.

All of which goes to show that the Catholic Church is no less susceptible to foam-flecked lunatic leftist fantasies than its Anglican cousin.

From here:

Bishops demand that Israel accept UN resolutions calling for an end to “occupation” of Arab lands; Pope calls for religious freedom.

Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon slammed the Vatican synod after bishops called for an end to the “occupation,” in a statement released on Sunday.

In a communiqué issued Saturday, at the end-of a two-week conference to discuss the future of Christians in the Middle East, the bishops demanded that Israel accept UN resolutions calling for an end to its “occupation” of Arab lands, and told Israel it should not use the Bible to justify “injustices” against the Palestinians.

Meanwhile, the Pope, Cardinals and Bishops continue to occupy Italian land in the enclave known as the Vatican City State. It even has a wall around it, forcing visitors to go through humiliating checkpoints before they enter the occupied territory.