Report’s Introduction: (published 2 years ago.) Exiled Palestinian Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal addresses a meeting with some 40 Palestinian prisoners who were freed by Israel but are to be deported overseas, in Cairo on October 18, 2011. In what sure looks like further evidence of diminishing American influence in the Middle East, the country that summarily ejected Hamas a dozen years ago is opening its doors to senior leaders of the group Washington and Israel regard first and foremost as a terrorist organization. Theologians who are breathing new life into a kind of demonology which criminalizes all Israelis will meet in Bethlehem in March. Next March, the Bible College in Bethlehem will host dozens of US theologians, activists and ministries for the “Christ at the Checkpoint 2012 Conference”. It is to be a major religious and political event meant to demonize Israel and to support the Palestinian Intifada against the “ethnocentric” Jewish State. The impressive range of Christian theologians and pastors from many churches located in the United States make the gravity of the upcoming conference clear. Also attending are popular US preacher and “spiritual adviser” to Bill Clinton, Tony Campolo, and President of the World Evangelical Alliance and Asia Evangelical Alliance, Sang-Bok David Kim. Two of the conference organisers, Stephen Sizer and Sami Awad,... The Knesset will hold a special hearing on Tuesday on the refusal by authorities to enforce Israeli law in eastern Jerusalem. The Knesset on Tuesday will hold a special session on illegal construction – and the abject failure of authorities to ensure order – in eastern Jerusalem. The hearing comes due to recent admissions by government officials that code and law enforcement in Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhoods is virtually non-existent because the authorities, including police, are afraid of entering the area and applying Israeli sovereignty there. Lawyer Amir Fischer told Arutz Sheva he filed a petition demanding a government response due to the grim state of affairs in eastern Jerusalem, saying,”For fifteen years they have not enforced the law.” Yesterday, it was Gerstenfeld’s turn to take Dutch leadership to task in an opinion column published by Ynet.com, “No Apologies to the Jews”. In it he notes that a recent poll taken in Holland reveal that the issue of an apology garnered less than 27% approval. A sad commentary, but... By Ted Belman It seems the talks in Jordan are to continue past the present Quartet deadline of Jan 26. Obama wants the talks to continue for most of 2012 so that his opponents can claim he scuttled the talks. Abbas allowed to meetings to take place even though his preconditions were not accepted. And the pressure is on Bibi to provide gestures. According to Haaretz they include freeing Palestinian prisoners, expanding the Palestinian Authority’s control in additional West Bank territories, and other similar measures. The majority of the comments at Haaretz, are fed up with gestures and talks.
Stateless Again: Palestinian-Origin Jordanians Deprived of their Nationality
More than half of the 6.3 million population of Jordan is of Palestinian origin—that is, from areas west of the River Jordan, including the West Bank, today’s Israel, and Gaza. With the exception of persons from Gaza, the vast majority of those persons of Palestinian origin have Jordanian citizenship. However, since 1988, and especially over the past few years, the Jordanian government has been arbitrarily and without notice withdrawing Jordanian nationality from its citizens of Palestinian origin, making them stateless. For many of them this means they are again stateless Palestinians as they were before 1950.
Some Jordanian officials have said they are doing so in order to forestall supposed Israeli designs to colonize the West Bank, by maintaining the birthright of Palestinians to live in the West Bank. Yet the real reason may be Jordan’s desire to be able...
Jordan Allows Hamas to Take Up Residence on Its Soil
Jordan kicked out Hamas way back in 1999 under pressure from the United States. The Palestinian organization had been anchored in Amman, but was forced to move its headquarters to Syria, where it officially remains. Life in Damascus has gotten mighty uncomfortable over the last year, however. Though the Islamic Resistance Movement has tried mightily to stay entirely out of the conflict between the Syrian government that is its host and the Syrian people that government has been shooting... Bethlehem to Host Church Conference Which Demonizes Israel
Samuel Rodriguez, President of the US National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference, is a speaker. Israel Failing to Enforce Law in Eastern Jerusalem
By Gavriel Queenann, INN
Fischer added that although his petition focused on the villages of A’akab and Atarot, the reality is pervasive throughout the Jerusalem’s eastern neighborhoods. Gerstenfeld: “No Apologies to the Jews”
Last Thursday we posted on the morally correct stand of the Hon. Geert Wilders , leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) in the Hague Parliament. Wilders had issued a statement demanding that the present Dutch government of PM Rutte issue a long overdue apology to Dutch Jewish survivors and the families of victims for official “passivity” in the face of the murder of more than 100,000 Jewish Citizens by occupying Nazis during the Holocaust. The raising of this issue by Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party (PVV) was prompted by a book, Judging the Netherlands by Manfred Gerstenfeld of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, who was a hidden child during the Shoah in Holland. Enough with the gestures
Bibi also wants Abbas to refrain from pursuing statehood at the United Nations. More Recent Articles
Ted Belman
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