Pssst: I would actually go further than ticking "Nothing" in the HAMAS box. HAMAS targeted (and still targets) Civilians and Children: their own and those of Israel.
"Imagine...of course, here in Israel, we don't have to imagine...we live this reality and today we stand in shock that despite real evidence, the United Nations report managed to completely ignore truth.
They say Hamas tried to warn us when rockets were fired...seriously?
I lived that reality last summer. Not once, not stinking, lousy once...did they EVER warn us. What lies, what an abomination...
Anger chokes me...until I saw this video...I am amazed at the calmness in his voice, the way he can find the dream in the lies and nightmare thrown at us today."
Sometimes you can find pearls on Twitter. This morning I came across this video from Stand With Us. It was posted with this twitter-compliant 140 characters comment:
"When Palestinians went to EU Human Rights Ctee to bash IDF, an Israeli soldier was there to set the record straight"
Vlad calls it "The Death Of Reason at the UN" - I would rather go for "UN = Reason's Torture Chamber".
The UN, in my notsohumble opinion is not so much a "naked emperor" any longer as it is the Central Station for the most vile of Human Rights Violators in the world today.
The UN and "Human Rights"??? Ha! They are an active participant in the gang-rape of our language. "Defending Human Rights" in the past meant "DEFENDING Human Rights". "Defending", in the past meant defending not violating.
The UN should be indicted for promoting Crimes against Humanity or - at best - it should transfer its Head Quarters to Tehran, Qatar or Saudi Arabia who is not only already (and grotesquely) a member of the "Human Rights Council", but will soon be presiding over it.
There is, however, a little crack where some light gets in, ONE courageous voice of reason in this cauldron; it comes from Hillel Neuer:
Thank you, Mr. President. The High Commissioner spoke of the need to end impunity. Yet what we are witnessing here at the United Nations is this: Countries that commit gross and systematic violations of human rights are not only given immunity, but they are actually rewarded with high positions.
When member states are silent, the High Commissioner must lead. We urge him to consider, and we ask:
Why is it that Saudi Arabia, which subjugates women, which just expelled a student from university because she lowered her veil on a female-only school bus, is rewarded by the UN with a seat on this Human Rights Council?
Why is it that Saudi Arabia, which just upheld the conviction of blogger Raif Badawi, and his punishment of a thousand lashes and ten years in prison for the crime of “insulting Islam,” was allowed to play host in Jeddah, the city where Mr. Badawi was flogged and remains in prison, to a UN-backed conference on “combating religious intolerance”?
Why is it that a country now advertising for more executioners to behead more prisoners than ever before, had the thought that it could be head of this Council?
The High Commissioner spoke of the war in Yemen. Yet the two words “Saudi Arabia” — which has been pounding the country indiscriminately, with 2200 killed, 10,000 wounded, 20 million in need of aid — were carefully omitted.
So too, we heard nothing today on Iran, which has equally played a deadly role in Yemen, as it continues to sponsor the killers of innocents in Syria, Iraq, Gaza and Lebanon, just as it oppresses its own people at home.
Silence is bad enough. Yet given its horrific record on child marriages, forced head-coverings, domestic violence, gender inequality, and the constant harassment and arrest of women by morality police, by what logic — by what morality — did the UN, just two months ago, reward the Islamic Republic of Iran with a seat on the board of UN Women?
Will any member states speak out against the practice of rewarding the perpetrators?
Will the High Commissioner?
I thank you, Mr. President.
The video below is nearly 3 years old, but - if anything - it's worse now.
Note: Strange thing happened: I was looking for a funny caricatural picture of the more dubious UN members, dressed up as clowns which I once posted; it has disappeared. However, when googling UN one finds an avalanche of anti-Israel/Jewish messages that do not even bother any longer to hide behind the see-through fig leaf of "we don't hate the Jews we just hate Israel". This (and other things) confirm the truism: They don't hate the Jews because of Israel, they hate Israel because of the Jews.
PS: And here a little additional glimpse of what's happening in the country who might soon be directing the UN Human Rights Council:
Those 'lashes' are not little taps on the back, far from it: some medical experts suggested that this man will not survive 1000 lashes.
Update on 25. 6. 2015
Statistics about the "Objectivity" (LOL) of the UN whose near exclusive raison d'être now seems to be the defamation of Israel and a more than enthusiastic assistance to those whose aim is the destruction of the Jewish State, its people and the Jewish people globally.
The UN must be disbanded or transfer their Head Quarters to Tehran, a more fitting environment for this Charade of a "Human Rights Organisation".
I really like what this Rabbi has to say and I like his passionate delivery. Here he argues that the "Palestinian Cause" is the new "Christianity" and that, what one of my friends calls the "dead baby jihad" has delivered them a new Baby Jesus. I think he is right, but when I see what kind of knuckle-draggers and intellectual midgets ape the paroles devised by the true Jew haters "from the river to the sea Palestine will be free" etc., I feel that this new Christianity is an extremely devolved one.
This video, (subtitled by VladTepes) was recorded on the 28. 7. 2014, right in the middle of the last Gaza-War also known as "Operation Protective Edge".
So, how do "they" win the propaganda war?
This article titled "Disgusting Exploitation of a Disabled Palestinian Child" by Yarden Frankl fromHonest Reporting might give you a hint or two:
In the Associated Press Picture, the limbless child sits by a colourful mural in Israel’s Tel Hashomer Hospital.
It is his home.
Mohammed al-Farra was born in Gaza with a rare genetic disease. His hands and feet had to be amputated to save his life. He required extensive medical care. Care not available in Gaza. So he was rushed to a hospital in Israel.
He is not the only Palestinian from Gaza being treated in an Israeli hospital. It’s just another one of those humanitarian acts undertaken by Israel that gets little press.
But his story should receive media attention.
After being treated, his Gazan parents refused to take him back. And neither the Hamas government in Gaza or the Palestinian Authority would pay for more medical care.
So his Israeli doctors raised the funds themselves to allow him to stay at Tel Hashomer.
The Associated Press should be commended for writing an article drawing attention to his situation. And the photograph is the best part, showing little Mohammed as a child, not a matter of politics.
But now the picture and the story of Mohammed has been turned upside down.
Mohammed Omer, a Palestinian journalist whose work has appeared in numerous publications, is a recipient of the Martha Gellhorn Prize for Journalism. Here is the criteria for winning the award:
The award will be for the kind of reporting that distinguished Martha (Gellhorn): in her own words “the view from the ground”. This is essentially a human story that penetrates the established version of events and illuminates an urgent issue buried by prevailing fashions of what makes news. We would expect the winner to tell an unpalatable truth, validated by powerful facts, that exposes establishment conduct and its propaganda.
Despite such a great honour, he has now been exposed for circulating on Twitter a nasty, cynical, “unpalatable” lie.
He took the picture of Mohammed and tweeted:
Fortunately, Omer’s disgusting attempt to exploit this child has been exposed, and the tweet has been removed. But only after the picture and Omer’s tweet were shared around the Internet and seen countless times. And even though Omer was caught, how many other pictures falsely claiming to be of Israeli atrocities continue to circulate on the Internet?
And then there is the reporting by the BBC (why is this news service still not seen as the naked emperor that it is?) and the ABC/SBS from Australia who want to be like the BBC when they grow up and the rest ...
I certainly would not like a Mosque in my neighbourhood. One reason for this is that I would really really really hate having to listen to their calls to prayer five times a day at some ungodly hours. But, according the Mosque buster Gavin Boby, there are many more reasons for loving your neighbourhood enough to defend it against the invasion (*) of mosques:
You can see more of Gavin Boby herewhen he spoke at the Q-Society's International Symposium on Liberty and Islam in Australia in April last year and at the Gates of Vienna
Recently the story of this sex change was everywhere so that even I, usually not very interested in this kind of subject, could not miss it. Usually I am very freely sharing my opinion on everything, invited or not. But in cases like this I keep schtumm, afraid to be called a "homophobe" even though some of my best friends are gay as they say. But such is the pressure of minorities now and their entitlement to not being questioned at all has become so much accepted, that they turn many of us "Otto-Normalverbrauchers" into cowardly conformists. Not this lady below though:
I like this feisty woman! She is a real, not a phony feminist, nor is she a faux compassionista or a politically correct bimbo. Her spunk is not only delightfully satisfying to watch and probably consolatory for the wife of that "Caitlyn", but it even gave me the courage to confess something for the first time today.....: when accidentally watching last years Eurovision song contest winner, I did not know what put me more ill at ease: that hysterical song contest itself, or Conchita Wurst, the bearded lady...
is a question asked by Europe-Israel-News.Here they show Israel's proportions on a map of France:
And they write (my translation):
Difficult for those who have never visited the region to understand the Israeli-Palestinian conflict geographically. The map above illustrates how tight it is. The parallel with our French geography allows a perspective of the current conflict.
The map below positions the area of Jerusalem on that of Paris. This way we see that the Israeli military operations would take place between the cities of Rambouillet near Paris that of Maintenon in the Eure-et-Loir. And all that on a stretch of 6 to 12 km. To reach these two cities, it takes about half an hour while the conflict would take place within 55 km from the capital.
Hamas has rockets and missiles capable of touching the city of Haifa in northern Israel. So, from Rambouillet they could easily reach Paris and even go to the city of Amiens.
Here below you have a few more maps which put Israel into geographical perspective:
That tiny little speck in red is Israel, just in the likely case you cannot see it. And this little spot, the only democracy in that region is supposed to be the cause of all that is wrong in the Middle East, and to believe some (alas too many) unsavoury characters this is supposed to be the cause of all that is wrong in the world?
Israel v. Arab occupied Lands:
1. Israel is bordered by 22 hostile Arab nations,
640 times her size and 65 times her population.
2. Jewish population worldwide = 13 million
3. Muslim population worldwide = 2.1 Billion
Which one is the David - which one is Goliath? And how did that biblical battle end already?........ Just in case it is not obvious yet ;), I am fully on the side of Israel and the Jewish people and so I hope for a repeat of that outcome. By the way: Goliath was not a Jew, but a Philistine. David was a Jew.
David Ben Gourion said:
"Not to believe in miracles in Israel is not realistic"
And in view of the predictable developments that have brought us to a point where even the dhimmyest among the herd start having doubts about the "nothingtodowithislam" mantras by Western Leaders, these were the "good old times"
...to all my Jewish friends, past, present and future and to the Jewish people.
Jerusalem of Gold
Daniel Greenfield writes in his article "Liberating Our Jerusalem" today:
"...Jerusalem Day is a reminder of what the real problem is and what the real solution is. Muslim occupation of Israel is the problem. The Islamization of Jerusalem is the problem. Muslim violence in support of the Muslim occupation of Israel and of everywhere else is the problem. Israel is the solution."
This video is long and the Rabbi takes no prisoners. I find, what he says, absolutely fascinating and am simply mesmerised by his delivery, which some might find a little on the dramatic side, but I think he is absolutely worth listening to. However, time constraints being what they are, the time-poor among you will find the core of the Rabbi's message distilled in the 8 minutes between 24.43 and 32:37.
There are still some very courageous French left in this moribund Republique such as, for example, my friends at Riposte Laique and Resistance Republicaine . They are not the ones, the Rabbi speaks of, they are wide awake.
Update:
1. You can find the transcript of the whole speech by Rabbi Haim Dynovisz here at Gates of Vienna
2. And thanks to the tireless work of the Baron Bodissey from the Gates of Vienna and Eeyore from Vladtepes we have now the excerpt (approximately 10 minutes) which contains probably the core message, including the transcript. It's for those of us whose intellectual, historical, political and ethical curiosity is inversely proportional to the time they have available;) You can find it here at the elegant Gates of Vienna
