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Time for the United Nations to Stop Funding Hate Groups

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The world has long had a keen interest in and focus on the Arab-Israeli conflict. Part of this focus, for so many years, has been an unfair, microscopic attention to Israel’s actions and relationship with the Palestinians. Israel has been subjected to a standard that no other country in the world has had to endure. This has been the case for so many years, but it is now clear that the criticism of Israel is not about particular actions, or particular issues like borders, but about Israel’s very existence.

The United Nations, which voted to partition Palestine leading to the creation of the State of Israel 75 years ago this month, unfortunately has become over the years a major arena for anti-Israel propaganda. This has given aid and comfort and material support to Israel’s implacable enemies. The high point of this rhetorical abuse of Israel came in 1975, when the UN General Assembly passed a resolution which characterized Zionism, the legitimate national liberation movement of the Jewish people, as a form of racism. That obscene declaration was aptly referred to by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, America’s great UN ambassador, as an “infamous act.”

As it is often said: “words have consequences.” That shameful UN resolution, cooked up by the Soviet Union and pushed through the UNGA by the Islamic Conference and the Communist bloc, gave a false international credibility to the idea that Israel is a racist, illegitimate, uniquely evil state. In 1991, the United States, during the George H.W. Bush administration, led a successful effort to repeal the resolution. Unfortunately, two UN institutions that were created in the wake of that original resolution, and that have served to implement its message, continue to operate.

The Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP), and the Division for Palestinian Rights (DPR) engage in a year-round effort to undermine and delegitimize Israel, all in the name of the international community! This mindset has permeated college campuses, social media, pockets of public opinion in Europe, and even in the United States. It also underlies the pernicious BDS movement. Such a negative, rejectionist view of Israel is based on ignorance, misinformation, and in some instances, antisemitism. It belies the fact that Israel is an enlightened democracy, the only one in the Middle East.

As it approaches its 75-year of existence, Israel is a world leader in high tech and innovation. In addition to Egypt and Jordan, which signed peace treaties with Israel decades ago, Israel is now also officially at peace with the UAE, Bahrain, Sudan, and Morocco, thanks to the Abraham Accords signed in 2020. More Arab and Muslim countries are sure to follow, as the taboo of dealing with and recognizing Israel is gone.

The Palestinians also deserve to be included in this new paradigm of peace and prosperity for the Middle East. For too long their corrupt leaders have misled them, incited them to violence and hatred, and prevented any peaceful accommodation with their Israeli neighbors.

At the end of November, the United Nations, as it does annually, will mark the “International Day of Solidarity With the Palestinian People.” It should more properly be called “Attack Israel Day.” On that date, a rash of one sided resolutions will be passed unfairly singling out Israel. This will include resolutions reauthorizing the mandates of and funding for the aforementioned Palestinian Committee and Division. Just as the U.S. led the way in repealing the “Zionism Is Racism” resolution 30 years ago, it should work to shut down the DPR and the CEIRPP.

If UN member states are interested in contributing toward ending the conflict, with benefits for Palestinians and Israelis alike, they should stop supporting the anti-Israel propaganda apparatus that makes peace impossible to achieve. CEIRPP and DPR do not promote peaceful coexistence but the destruction of Israel as we know it, and the creation of a Palestinian State “from the river to the sea.”

Responsible nations should not reauthorize the funding of these entities, which only push peace further away. Instead, they should start promoting the kind of peaceful dialogue, conflict resolution, and forward-looking arrangements that could bring the Palestinians into the Abraham Accords.

Ileana Ros-Lehtinen is a former member of Congress (R-FL) who was chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2011-2013. She is now a senior advisor at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP.

Eliot Engel is a former member of Congress (D-NY) who was chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee from 2019-2021.

OPINION: Ben-Gvir’s appeal is based on security, not bigotry

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2KAAN6X Jerusalem, Israel. 02nd Nov, 2022. Israeli far-right lawmaker and the head of "Jewish Power" party Itamar Ben-Gvir gives a statement following the exit polls of the 2022 Israeli general election, the fifth parliamentary election in just three and a half years. Credit: Ilia Yefimovich/dpa/Alamy Live News

I never thought that traveling to London one week after a general election in Israel would place me in the eye of a storm. As I landed, I met people from the Jewish community who were outraged at the electoral success of Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich and met others from the community who were outraged at the outraged.

Much has been written since the election in the British Jewish press, including in this publication, with loud panicked headlines on the perceived shift in Israel to the political far right.

As a liberal and a feminist I understand some of the concerns.

Yet, I feel that there has been little attempt to understand the context and reasons for the rise of the Religious Zionist and Otzma Yehudit parties. After all, we are talking about the same Israeli electorate that elected a very different government last year.

Jerusalem’s deputy mayor Fleur-Hassan-Nahoum.

There is one key reason for the success of these two parties. In recent years, Israelis have felt increasingly under attack in their own country.

Israelis have always voted with consideration for national security, however, this time they voted on the sorry state of internal security in the country.

Such insecurity was felt most acutely during the Gaza War in 2021 when pockets of Arab Israelis in mixed cities such as Lod and Acre turned on their neighbours. Images of burning cars, rioting and violence coming from Israeli Arab citizens caught us all off-guard and shocked the nation.

It seemed like Israel had lost control of law and order and the police appeared weak.

In the south, lawlessness has been going on for quite some time as Bedouin mafias run riot and have even been taking protection money from businesses around the Negev as well as stealing cattle from local farms.

Jewish News front pages before and after the recent election.

In in Arab towns and cities of northern Israel, lawlessness and gun use are major problems, predominantly for the Arab population, as they have become victims of gangland-style shootings and unregulated and excessive gun possession.

The police, for many years, has chosen to steer clear of such violence, which has taken the lives of innocent Arab women and children.

For the avoidance of doubt, most Arab Israelis are law-abiding citizens, many of whom are hugely successful professionals. Nevertheless, the pockets of criminal and extremist elements cannot simply be brushed aside because it is deemed politically incorrect to talk about them in the diaspora.

Israelis did not vote for Ben-Gvir because they are homophobic or racist, they voted for him because he was the only one talking about Arab violence.

Israelis did not vote for Ben-Gvir because they are homophobic or racist, they voted for him because he was the only one talking about Arab violence. To compound the pain, Palestinian terror remains omnipresent. Just last week, three Israelis were murdered and four others injured in a Palestinian terror attack.

Indeed, this year alone, over 4,700 terror attacks have taken place in Israel.

I am struck by the extent of criticism that we see towards the presence of Otzma Yehudit in the government as an affront on our liberal values, especially when one considers that just last year we had an anti-liberal Arab party in the government whose number three was virulently homophobic and held up legislation affecting the LGBTQ+ community. Where was the outcry then?

The Jewish community can ill-afford to fall into the trap of espousing the double standards deployed by Israel’s detractors and antisemites.

As the parties in the “never Bibi” camp have refused to join a broad government for two-and-a-half years, it seems that in all likelihood, Ben-Gvir will be given the internal security portfolio. Time will tell whether he manages to restore law and order in these communities and we all pray for improvement.

Ultimately, the Likud is a party based on right-wing and liberal values with many liberal-minded politicians, like myself. I have to trust Netanyahu will create the necessary balance in the new government so Israel continues to thrive as a beacon of freedom.

Israel and Jordan sign joint declaration to preserve the Jordan River

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Israel and Jordan have agreed to cooperate on restoration, ecological rehabilitation and sustainable development of the Jordan River.

The nations signed a joint declaration at the COP27 environmental conference in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, where they recognized that the Jordan River restoration requires transnational action as the water flow declines.

“The signing of this joint declaration is an expression of the close relationship between man and nature. A river free from hazards, clean and healthy, will provide health and prosperity for all the populations surrounding it and for all those who visit it,” Israeli Minister of Environmental Protection Tamar Zandberg said in a statement. “Cleaning up the pollutants and hazards, restoring water flow and strengthening the natural ecosystems will help us prepare and adapt to the climate crisis.”

The countries will work to remove pollution sources by building wastewater treatment facilities and connecting communities along the river to advanced sewage infrastructure as they work to improve freshwater flows in the river.

Mohammad Najjar, Minister of Water and Irrigation, signed the joint declaration on behalf of the Jordanian Government. Both Israel and Jordan acknowledge the rich cultural heritage of the Jordan River and its high ecological value.

For years the Jordan River has lost water flow. According to the Century Foundation, the Jordan River Basin “suffers from acute water scarcity” caused by regional population growth and climate change reducing the flow today to just 10% of its historical average.

The peace treaty between Jordan and Israel also includes a provision for joint cooperation on the Jordan River.

Article D of that treaty, according to Israel, includes the ecological rehabilitation of the river, environmental protection of water resources, agricultural pollution control, liquid waste, pest control, nature reserves and protected areas, and tourism and historical heritage.

American Rabbis Blast Biden Admin for Funding Palestinian Terrorism

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The United States’ largest rabbinic public policy organization says the Biden administration is facilitating terrorism against Israel by injecting nearly half a billion dollars into Palestinian government organizations that incite violence against the Jewish state.

Click here to read full article. 

 

US Middle East Policy In practice

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Nov. 14, 2022

The working assumption of US Middle East Policy is to foster mutual recognition between Israel and the nascent PA entity

That is not what we witness in the implementation of US policy on the ground in the Middle East, 2022.

  1. The Palestinian Security Forces (PSF), trained by  the US to fight Arab terrorists, instead carry out daily attacks , fostered by a PSF  unit, The Al Aqsa Brigades https://israelbehindthenews.com/2011/05/05/dangers-us-aid-palestinian-security-forces-2/
  2. The Palestinian Authority has enacted unprecedented legislation to provide a salary for life for anyone who murders a Jew. https://israelbehindthenews.com/2017/01/11/incentivizing-terrorism-palestinian-authority-allocations-terrorists-families/

Asked  US Ambassador Nides if the  US government would demand that the PA repeal its law which provides a salary for life for anyone who murders a Jew, which functions as an incentive to kill Jews.  Answer:  “no”  

  1. The Palestinian Authority Education Ministry has fostered  new curricula which indoctrinates children to make war on the Jews. https://israelbehindthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/Jerusalem-report-published-copy-PA-EDUCATION-NO-TWO-STATE-SOLUTION.pdfAsked US ambassador Nides if he would demand that that the PA drop their  curriculum. Answer: No. 

Asked  if US would  ask the PA to remove the PA textbook from 2018 which displays Dalal Al Mugrabi, who murdered 35 Jews, including 12 children, as a role model for the next generation.  Response: No. https://israelbehindthenews.com/2021/11/30/dalal-al-mughrabi-a-murderous-terrorist-as-a-role-model-in-palestinian-authority-schoolbooks-used-by-unrwa-2/

  1. UNRWA allocates a $1.6 billion budget to service 6.7 million descendants of Arab refugees in 59 “temporary” refugee camps, while inculcating  “right of return” to villages which existed before 1948… Asked US ambassador Nides if the US  government  US favors a change in UNRWA policy.  Response: No

.https://israelbehindthenews.com/2019/04/02/six-policy-challenges-to-guide-unrwa-policy-ref

  1. Meanwhile, PA texts used by UNRWA now distribute 120 new maps which replace all Jewish cities with Arabic names –on both sides of the 1967 line- a new form of Judenrein  The government of the US could ask UNRWA to use standard maps in schools which run under the auspices of the UN to depict geographic details of each UN member state, including Israel. 

Asked Ambassador Nides if the US will make any such demand. The answer : no.
https://israelbehindthenews.com/2022/09/24/revealing-maps-the-palestinian-vision-as-taught-in-unrwa-schools/

Fake hysteria and fake history

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Even though MK Itamar Ben-Gvir has yet to be officially appointed as public security minister, MKs from the incoming opposition are already busy trying to topple him. They are giving advance warning of what is likely to happen on the Temple Mount if the head of the far-right Otzma Yehudit (Jewish Power) faction does assume the role, with their chief concern being the potential nightmare of the government possibly deciding to permit Jewish prayers on the Mount. The most outspoken opposition to this has been voiced by Mr. “Civil Agenda”, head of the Ra’am (United Arab List) party, MK Mansour Abbas, one of the key pillars of the outgoing coalition, who has warned that Jewish prayer on the Temple Mount will spark a war.

Before we continue, let everybody calm down and take a deep breath! This is the year 2022. Jews have been praying on the Mount for five years now; quiet prayers, without provoking anyone, in the south-eastern corner of the Mount, with police authorization, and under police supervision! Have you forgotten? This took time and was implemented gradually, after endless shakeups and material changes on the holy Mount initiated and executed by the Muslims, until the status quo there turned into a fake status quo.

What this raucous bunch of protesters is currently trying to achieve, faced with the return to power of Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu, is to exploit the hysteria surrounding Ben-Gvir to lead us all backwards in the time tunnel and warn of Jewish prayers on the Mount, as though they haven’t been taking place there for a number of years already. To put it in plain English: to put an end to Jewish prayers on the Mount.

Should we briefly recall what has occurred on the Mount since 1967, until the Jews too plucked up the courage to change something in the extremely elastic rules that apply there? So, here then is a brief summary: The Muslims turned the Dome of the Rock into a mosque, which of course originally was not a mosque, and paved large sections of the Temple Mount compound, which is in practice used as a mass prayer hall for tens of thousands. They established three additional mosques on the Mount: the Al-Marwani Mosque located in Solomon’s Stables, in the underground vaulted space along the south-eastern side of the Temple Mount; the ancient Al-Aqsa Mosque underneath the overground Al-Aqsa Mosque; and the Gate of Mercy compound.

The law is optional?

The Muslims have also made a mockery out of the planning, construction, and antiquities laws – which in the initial post-Six Day War period were enforced on the Mount – and have turned them into nothing more than a mere recommendation. To this day, they are enforced there only partially, indirectly and informally. Over the course of the years, they have damaged numerous antiquities on the Mount, on many occasions doing so intentionally, mainly, of course, Jewish antiquities. Former Jerusalem District police chief, Deputy Commissioner Nisso Shaham, when serving as the commander of the holy places, stated that “the Muslims are attempting to destroy any fragment of Jewish memory on the Temple Mount.” The late Shuka Dorfman (former Director of the Israel Antiquities Authority) stated that “Over the years, the Israeli governments have refrained from dealing with these breaches of the law in a proper manner, failing to exercise Israeli sovereignty pertaining to the Temple Mount.” Over the years, all the Temple Mount commanders have pointed out that the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf (the Jordanian-appointed religious authority charged with the administrative custody of the Islamic sites on the Temple Mount) never signs applications for submission to the planning authorities, but transfers them to the police, in a complex procedure that exists nowhere else in the State of Israel.

And that is not all, by a long chalk: Jordan, which at the start of this process was no more than an external contractor, which paid the wages of the Waqf employees on the Mount, has become Israel’s generally quiet, though on occasions extremely loud, partner in managing the Temple Mount (we have written much about this in the past); the Chain Gate and the Cotton Merchants’ Gate to the Temple Mount compound, which were once open to Jews, have now been closed off to them. The visiting times for Jews to enter the Mount have been reduced and restricted to only four and a half hours a day, Sunday to Thursday; a set, defined entrance route for (mainly religious) Jews visiting the Mount has been laid down, and they are prohibited from entering the mosques. The prohibition of raising flags on the Mount has been breached on numerous occasions over the years, as the flags of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, ISIS and Hizb ut-Tahrir are proudly flown there for all to see.

The prohibition of flying flags on the Mount is enforced, but only if these are Israeli flags. Eventually, the Jews decided that if everything is allowed to change on the Mount, then it is time for a change to counter the blatant discrimination against them with regard to prayers on the Mount. This change has been a bottom-up initiative. Broad sections of the population could no longer bear the humiliating prohibition against Jews praying at the holiest site in their religion. The pressure succeeded. The change occurred. The state has come to terms with it.

When the entire Left was Zionist
And now it’s “Time for Ben-Gvir”, and the alarm bells are ringing out loud: A disaster will occur if Jewish prayers on the Mount are authorized. And indeed – there is no need to authorize this, but it is important to be precise: Jewish prayers on the Mount are already taking place.

And just as it would be inconceivable to remove Muslims praying from the Al-Marwani Mosque and the ancient Al-Aqsa Mosque – two world-changing and status-quo-breaking transformations set in motion by the Muslims on the Temple Mount – it should also be unthinkable to put an end to the quiet Jewish services on the Mount. If under the tenure of Omer Bar-Lev as minister of public security the police understood this well and Jordan has swallowed this bitter pill, then during the renewed tenure of Netanyahu and perhaps that of Ben-Gvir as the minister of public security – this is certainly something that should not be entertained. Now, when the government is just about to change, is not the time to make any declarations, but simply to carry on, and to politely – but emphatically – dismiss the scenarios of war and doom being bandied about by Abbas and his friends.

Once, when the entire Left in Israel was Zionist – people such as Ya’akov Hazan, the late leader of the socialist Mapam (United Workers) Party; Motta Gur, ex-IDF chief of staff and subsequently one of the leaders of the Israeli Labor Party, and perhaps no less important the commander of the IDF paratroopers brigade that liberated the Temple Mount in 1967; or the founder of the dovish religious Meimad Party Rabbi Yehuda Amital – it understood that any proper arrangement requires Jewish prayers on the Mount.

Gur, for example, said that when a final status agreement would be on the agenda with the Palestinians, “It is inconceivable that Jews will not be able to pray on the Temple Mount.”

The US State Department, during US President Barack Obama’s administration, did not wait for a final status agreement. In its 2012 Report to Congress on International Religious Freedom, it was clearly stated that Israel discriminates against Jews on the Temple Mount, preventing them from praying there. The “Deal of the Century” proposed by former US President Donald Trump in January 2020, also mentioned the option of exercising the right to Jewish prayer on the Mount. Yehiel “Hilik” Bar, the former secretary general of the Labor Party, initiated together with Likud MK Miri Regev a bill to enact formal regulation of Jewish prayers on the Mount, but he withdrew his support for it under strong pressure from the Israel Security Agency (the Shin Bet).

So, don’t change history just because of the hysteria or only because Ben-Gvir might be coming. If something needs to change regarding the Temple Mount as a result of the change of government, it should be on something else: a response to the virulent incitement spurring on the modern blood libel of “Al-Aqsa is in danger”.

In recent years and indeed in the last few months, this fabrication has been the excuse used by hundreds of terrorists, whether by shooting, stabbing, or vehicle ramming attacks, to justify their desire to go out and murder Jews.

The preachers on the Mount, and those elsewhere too, who brainwash these terrorists with this barefaced lie, bear the responsibility for the acts of terrorism no less than the perpetrators themselves. They are turning this pernicious blood libel into a serial generator of terrorism.

It is for this reason that they should be in jail. This could, by the way, be one of the more welcome changes to be put into effect by Ben-Gvir, if he is indeed appointed.

The quiet, unobtrusive Jewish prayers held on the Mount – the prized possession that the Jews managed to procure only a few years ago after the Muslims made strategic changes on the Mount – should of course be left alone, and nothing should be done to reverse the course of history or for that matter to distort it.

The reason for this message is that Mercaz USA has decided to involve itself in the moral issues of the day in Israel.

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David Bedein
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November 11, 2022
 
Attn: Sarrae Crane
Executive Director, MERCAZ USA

In that context:

1.Will Mercaz USA issue a statement calling for the Palestinian Authority to repeal its  law from 2015 which awards a salary for life for anyone who murders a Jew?

https://jcpa.org/pdf/salaries_kuperwasser_12dec2016_nomarks_covers.pdf

2.Will Mercaz USA demand that the Palestinian Authority  nullify its school curriculum which teachers the next generation to strive for  total war?

 https://israelbehindthenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Jews-in-Palestinian-Authority-Schoolbooks-in-UNRWA-Use.pdf

3.Will Mercaz USA demand that the Palestinian Authority remove the recent textbook which presents a murderer of 35 Jews as a role model for Arab children to emulate?

 https://israelbehindthenews.com/2021/11/30/dalal-al-mughrabi-a-murderous-terrorist-as-a-role-model-in-palestinian-authority-schoolbooks-used-by-unrwa-2/

Kristallnacht Never Forget

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On November 9th 1938, mobs burned synagogues, destroyed Jewish homes and businesses, vandalized Jewish hospitals, orphanages and cemeteries, and dragged thousands of Jewish men, women and children into the streets, where they were beaten and humiliated. The Germans later called this night “Kristallnacht” – The Night of Broken Glass – because of the tons of shattered glass that scattered throughout German cities, after it had taken place. The Jews began to call that date the beginning of the Holocaust because of the tremendous violence, which started on that night and grew even more dreadful as time had passed. The cost of the broken window glass alone came to millions of Reichsmarks. The Reich confiscated any compensation claims that insurance companies paid to Jews. The rubble of ruined synagogues had to be cleared by the Jewish community. The Nazi government imposed a collective fine of one billion Reichsmarks (about $400 million in 1938) on the Jewish community. After assessing the fine, Hermann Göring remarked: “The swine won’t commit another murder. Incidentally…I would not like to be a Jew in Germany.”

On November 7, 1938, the Third Secretary of the German embassy in Paris, Ernst Von Rath, was murdered by Herschel Grynzpan, a 17 year old German-Jewish refugee. Herschel wanted to avenge his parent’s expulsion, together with 15,000 other Polish Jews from Germany to Zbonszym. The Nazis used the murder as an excuse to start the mobs and riots that began the “final solution,” the extermination of Jews. Herschel Grynszpan carried a revolver and thoughts of revenge with him as he walked through the streets of Paris on the morning of November 7, 1938. The 17-year-old German refugee had just learned that his Polish-Jewish parents, along with thousands of other Jews, had been herded into boxcars and deported from Germany. From the day Adolf Hitler rose to power in 1933, anti-Semitism had become encoded in the governmental policies of Nazi Germany. For years, Jews experienced state-sponsored discrimination and persecution, and Grynszpan had seen enough.

The young man who had emigrated to France two years earlier walked into the German Embassy on Rue de Lille in search of the German ambassador. When Grynszpan was informed that the ambassador was out on his daily walk, he was brought in to meet with diplomat Ernst vom Rath. Pulling out his revolver, Grynszpan fired five times at vom Rath and shouted, “You are a filthy kraut, and here, in the name of 12,000 persecuted Jews, is your document!”
Hitler sent his personal physicians to Paris to treat vom Rath, but two days later the diplomat died from his wounds. The Nazi regime found the murder to be a welcome excuse to launch a vast pogrom against the Jews living inside its borders. Until then, Nazi policies toward the Jews, such as boycotts and deportations, had been primarily nonviolent, but that all changed in the hours after vom Rath took his last breath.
The German government attempted to disguise the violence of those two days as a spontaneous protest on the part of the “Aryan” population. But, in reality, Kristallnacht was organized by the Nazi chiefs and their thugs with technical skill and precision. The Nazi chiefs commanded the Gestapo and the storm troopers to incite mob riots throughout Germany and Austria.
Kristallnacht marked the beginning of the plan, to rob the Jews of their possessions for the benefit of the Reich and then to sweep them forever from the German scene. Furthermore, thereafter, Jews had no place in the German economy, and no independent Jewish life was possible, with the dismissal of cultural and communal bodes and the banning of the Jewish press.
During the week after Kristallnacht, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency’s Berlin reporter called that night “The worst outbreak of anti-Jewish violence in modern German History.”
During Kristallnacht, over 1,100 synagogues were destroyed, as well as 7,500 Jewish businesses and countless Jewish homes. Several hundred Jews were killed and 30,000 wee arrested and sent to the concentration camps at Sachsenhausen, Buchenwald and Dachau, where thousands more died.
Today, many historians can trace a pattern of events, occurring before that night, that would suggest that such an atrocity was to happen. In 1933, when the Nazis took power, German anti-Semitism adopted quasi-legal forms. One of the new anti-Jewish forms of action, which had began with the Nuremberg laws of 1935, included the separation of the Jews from the daily structure of German life. The Jews, systematically, were deprived of their civil rights; they were isolated from the general populace through humiliating identification measures. The Nazis boycotted the Jewish shops and took away their jobs. Then they made the Jews declare the value of their possessions. The Civil Service and the police often arrested the Jews and forced them to sell their property for a pittance.
One may ask, how could the entire world stand by and allow such a disaster to occur? The fascist or authoritative regimes in Italy, Rumania, Hungary and Poland were governments who approved of this pogrom and wanted to use the pogrom as a case to make their own anti-Semitic policies stronger in their individual countries. The three Great Western powers – Great Britain, France and the United States – said the appropriate things but did nothing to save the Jews. Hitler, in the late 1930’s told the world to take the Jews but there was just no one willing to take them in. Even in our own country, President Roosevelt and his administration kept on expressing their shock over the terrible events which were occurring in Germany and Austria, but when it came time to act and help save the refugees by bringing them to the United States, the United States government refused and replied by saying that they have no intention to allow more immigrants to enter the United States.
Kristallnacht teaches us many things. Among them that we must remain vigilant and not permit even the smallest seed of anti-Semitism to take root.

UNRWA Commissioner-General Calls for Three-Year Mandate to be Renewed

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Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) Philippe Lazzarini called for renewing the agency’s mandate for an additional three years.
This came in the annual report that Lazzarini presented to the Fourth Committee (Special Political and Decolonization), “Let us stay strong in our commitment to the human rights and wellbeing of Palestine refugees,” Lazzarini said, as the 75th anniversary of the UN agency that was designed to be temporary approached.

“Palestine refugees await with immense anticipation the confirmed support and solidarity of the international community at the General Assembly. They await a sign of hope and a message that they are not abandoned,” he said, adding “This last year has been difficult for Palestine refugees across the region, with increased challenges to the fulfillment of their basic rights.” In Gaza, Lebanon and Syria 80 to 90% of Palestine refugees now live under the poverty line, he said.
“Their poverty was made worse by the socio-economic ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic and the impact of the war in Ukraine on employment, prices and soaring inflation,” Lazzarini underlined.

He appealed to the Committee that it will continue to strongly support Palestine refugees’ human development, respond to their humanitarian needs and promote their right to a dignified life until there is a just and lasting solution to their plight.
He added that a growing number of competing crises over the last decade has sadly increased the indifference towards the plight of Palestine refugees. “For too long, UNRWA has tried to reconcile three opposing sources of pressure; the first of which is the General Assembly’s mandate which requires the Agency to deliver public sector-like services; the second, the chronic lack of sufficient voluntary funding from Member States and the unpredictable nature of most of the funding; and lastly, the inability to change the scope or mode of service delivery because any change to the way UNRWA operates is perceived by the Palestine refugee community with suspicion and as an attempt to weaken the mandate, an attempt to weaken the rights of Palestine refugees.” Over the last 10 years, and despite active and continuous outreach, an annual underfunding of around 100 million USD has forced the Agency to operate within very strict financial constraints, Lazzarini said, adding “The funding gap has slowed us down, especially in areas that require constant upgrading and rolling out of new models.” (QNA)

How to defeat the PLO and UNRWA

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Below is a list of doable steps that will make all the difference:

1. Recognize the new paradigm: Fatah can no longer be defined as a “partner for peace.”

2. Neutralize COGAT (Israel’s Civil Administration), and its blind protection of the PA and UNRWA.

3. Present PA and UNRWA Indoctrination as a primary factor in the war on Israel.

4. Since the PBC (Palestine Broadcasting Corporation) continues to incite, close​ ​all Israeli government frequencies used by the PBC.

5. Define PA and UNRWA schools as warlike entities that deserve no support.

6. ​Reinstate​ oversight of all texts and teachers​ in PA/UNRWA education.

7. ​Advocate the repeal of “Pay for Slay” legislation as a condition for aid

8. Disarm all Palestinian Arab entities, including the PSF, trained by US and Israel.

9 ​​Arrest anyone who pays killers who have ​carried out acts of ​murder.

10. Encourage confiscat​ion of all funds set aside ​by the PA ​to pay ​salaries for life to anyone who kills a Jew.

11. Organize conference of the descendants of ​the ​Dalal Mugrabi 1978 terror attack, where 35 Jews were murdered. Dalal is lionized by the PA and in UNRWA education.

​12. ​Advocate harsh conditions ​in jails for terrorists, because current terror cells have turned into summer camps and universities.

1​3 ​Commission new films of UNRWA and PA SCHOOLS. Seeing is believin

​14. Oversee all funding to PA and UNRWA​: Demand accountability for cash ​allocations ​to PA and UNRWA. Hold all PA funders criminally responsible for PA transgressions (NGOs have no diplomatic immunity).

​15. Create ​a ​new think-tank to monitor and fight Arab terror.

​16 Hire a community organization social worker to create a new Arab health and social welfare system, one that is independent of ​the corrupt ​PA and UNRWA.

17. Transform “victims of terror” into an effective ​ organization to present the human face of those who have suffered the consequences of Arab violence.

​18. Launch ​inquiry into private ​investments in the ​PA.

19. Foster an effort for UNRWA policy change​ – Counter “Right of Return by Force of Arms”. Instead, advance the resettlement of Arab refugees from 1948 and their descendants. ​

That’s all it takes, folks.

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