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Showing posts with label Middle East - Christians. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Middle East - Christians. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS EMERGENCY MEETING - OMG! Jews are building homes in their capital Jerusalem

No, this is not a joke.  I repeat:  this is not a joke.
In a world that maims, kills and destroys - Israel is condemned for building homes
 
UNSC to hold 'emergency meeting' in response to Jordanian request after Israel announces new Jewish homes in Jerusalem.
 
With all the major crises going on in the world right this minute, the United Nations finds time and resources to discuss Jews building homes in their own capital, Jerusalem. 
 
Furthermore, much of the oppression, violation of human rights,  mayhem and carnage occurring in the world today is being caused by the religion of peace - Islam.  But the UN does not have time to deal with that. 
 
And we should also mention the ongoing violent persecution of Christians and other minorities in Muslim-dominated areas.  The UN does not have time to deal with that either.  
 
News report:  The UN Security Council will hold an "emergency meeting" on Wednesday to discuss Israeli plans to build more Jewish homes in Jerusalem, diplomats said.  The "urgent" talks were requested by Jordan following a letter from Palestinian Authority envoy Riyad Mansour who called on the 15-member council to "address this crisis situation in occupied east Jerusalem."
Read more
 
 
Not a word form the UN about the 2500 housing units FOR ARABS that the government will also build in Jerusalem.
Read more
 

Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu's reaction

Benjamin Netanyahu in Ashdod on October 28, 2014. (Photo credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO)
Netanyahu said the international community remains quiet when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas “incites to the murder of Jews in Jerusalem,” but strongly condemns Israel when it builds in Jerusalem.

I don't accept that double standard. We built in Jerusalem, we build in Jerusalem, and we will continue to build in Jerusalem.”

"The French build in Paris, the English build in London - that's the same as Israel building in Jerusalem. We will continue to build in Jerusalem."

Read more
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.co.il/2014/10/netanyahu-edelstein-hit-back-at-obama.html#links
Photo - Kobi Gideon, GPO

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Video - Jerusalem Jews and Muslims
 
Palestinians have repeatedly requested to have this video removed from YouTube.
   What the Arabs don't want you to know

Jerusalem Jews and Muslims
 
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Time to refresh our memories regarding the discriminatory and often violent treatment Jordan has inflicted on Palestinians.
 
 
Jordan turns away Palestinians fleeing violence in Syria
 
August 7, 2014 news report by  Human Rights Watch: 
(Amman) – Jordan refuses entry to or forcibly deports Palestinian refugees escaping Syria, in clear breach of its international obligations, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Jordan has officially banned entry to Palestinians from Syria since January 2013 and has forcibly deported over 100 who managed to enter the country since mid-2012, including women and children.
Read more: 
http://www.hrw.org/news/2014/08/07/jordan-palestinians-escaping-syria-turned-away

 
A brief outline of Jordanian discrimination
 against Palestinians:
 

1967: Jordan refused to allow Gazans who came after the Six Day War to become Jordanian citizens.
Today some 165,000 Palestinians in Jordan cannot become citizens and get no government services.
1970:
3500-5000 Palestinians killed and 20,000 Palestinians expelled, their camps demolished, in the Black September events.

1988:
Jordan
revoked citizenship for millions of West Bank Palestinians as they declared "independence." As usual, this move was justified as being for their own good.

2010:
Jordan
continued to revoke citizenship for thousands more Palestinians

2012: Jordan
passed an electoral law that effectively limits the number of Palestinian members of Parliament to less than 10%
2013: Jordan places Palestinian refugees from Syria in
special camps that they cannot leave, separate from other refugees, and turns hundreds or thousands back to a dangerous future in Syria.

 2014: Palestinians who are citizens are
still denied equal rights in the military, and on getting college scholarships and being admitted to some public universities, among other areas.

Read more about official government discrimination against Palestinians in Arab countries.

http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/01/discrimination-and-abuse-against.html

 
Jordanian government massacre of thousands
 of Palestinians during the Black September operation

Estimates of Palestinian dead goes from 3000 to 5000.

This did not happen out of the blue.  Palestinians had been trying to topple the king and take over the country. 

Wherever Palestinians live, they engage in violence.  Arab governments deal with them in a much more drastic manner than Israel ever would.

As a matter of fact, after the liberation of Judea and Samaria (West Bank) Jordan dissociated itself from the area, not wanting it as part of Jordan anymore (particularly all the Palestinians living there), but as a separate country.  Jordan even went as far as revoking Jordanian citizenship for Arabs living in the Palestinian Authority.   Jordan is very clear:  it does not want anything to do with them, except as tools for the destruction of Israel.

Read about Black September:
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/september.html

 
2013 Amnesty International Human Rights Report
 on JORDAN
 
Summary:  The security forces used excessive force and arrested hundreds of peaceful and other demonstrators calling for reform. They maintained tight restrictions on freedoms of expression, association and assembly, and imposed new restrictions on electronic media.
 
There were reports of torture and other ill-treatment of detainees. Unfair trials continued before the State Security Court (SSC). Hundreds, possibly thousands, of criminal suspects were detained indefinitely without charge or trial.
 
Women faced discrimination and violence; at least ten were reported to be victims of “honour” killings. Migrant domestic workers were exploited and abused. There were reports that some refugees were forcibly returned to Syria. At least 16 people were sentenced to death; there were no executions.
Read full report
http://www.amnestyusa.org/research/reports/annual-report-jordan-2013


Human Rights Watch file on JORDAN

Torture and Impunity in Jordan’s Prisons

Deflecting Attention from Jordan’s Repressive Laws 
 

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WHEN JORDAN WAS OCCUPYING JERUSALEM

Jordan violated all kinds of international agreements and standards when it desecrated every holy Jewish site in Jerusalem during their occupation of the city, which ended with Jerusalem's liberation in 1967.

Jordan destroyed synagogues, and used Mount of Olives cemetery tombstones as latrines and for road construction.
 

 Jordan's desecration of Jewish sacred sites in Jerusalem during their occupation before 1967
 

Before the United Nations voted in favor of the Patition Plan on November 29, 1947, the Arab Legion of Jordan (created by the British) attacked Jerusalem. Their forces blocked Jerusalem's roads and cut off the city's access to water.
 
After bitter fighting, the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City fell to the vastly superior arms and numbers of the Arab Legion. The surviving Jewish inhabitants fled to the "New City," the four-fifths of the capital that Israel successfully held.
  • The Old City, including the Jewish Quarter, officially fell to Jordan on May 27, 1948.
  •  Nearly twenty years later, during the 1967 Six-Day War, Israel's army liberated Jerusalem's Old City, finding the area completely neglected and virtually destroyed.
  • All but one of the thirty five synagogues within the Old City were destroyed.
  • Those note completely devastated had been used as hen houses and stables filled with dung-heaps, garbage and carcasses.
  •  The revered Jewish graveyard on the Mount of Olives was in complete disarray with tens of thousands of tombstones broken into pieces to be used as building materials.
  • Large areas of the cemetery were leveled to provide a short-cut to a new hotel.
  • Hundreds of Torah scrolls and thousands of holy books had been plundered and burned to ashes.
 
Jerusalem Synagogue destroyed by Jordan
 
Mount of Olives Jewish cemetery gravestones used by Jordan as building material
 
See more images on photo gallery
 
 
Jordan occupation of Jerusalem
Jews were expelled.  Tombstones were used as latrines
Jordan expels Jews from Jerusalem - 1948
 
Read more about the Jordanian occupation of Jerusalem
 
 
Backgrounder - History of Jerusalem
 
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Father Gabriel Nadaf at the UN
"ISRAEL IS THE ONLY SAFE PLACE FOR CHRISTIANS IN THE MIDDLE EAST" says Father Gabriel Nadaf, leader of Christian Aramaeans in Israel, who recently rejected their "ARAB" designation, in favor of ARAMAEAN.

Father Nadaf gave speech at the United Nations UNHCR headquarters, defending Israel and calling for an end to the witch hunt against Israel.

Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/09/israel-is-only-safe-place-for.html

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Christian Israeli Arabs demonstrate: 
Israel is our safe haven.

Israel is the only safe place for Christians in the Middle East

Read more
http://ottersandsciencenews.blogspot.ca/2014/03/christian-arabs-demonstrate-in-favor-of.html
  
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Scholar and human rights advocate Anne Bayefsky
 speaks at the United Nations
 
She accuses the United Nations of being the leading purveyor of anti-Semitism in the world, by inciting hatred against Jews and conducting an unremitting campaign against Israel.
 
 
Read also the time when one of the UN translators inadvertently spoke on an open mike calling into question the UN obsessive bullying of Israel

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

BESIEGED BY MUSLIM GROUP ISIS, IRAQI CHILDREN DRINKING THEIR PARENTS' BLOOD TO STAY ALIVE - The refugees include Yazidis and Christians.

Hundreds of other families have also made it across the border after trekking for hundreds of kilometres through sweltering temperatures to safety

How refugees stranded on Mount Sinjar are cutting their hands to save their young.

  • Horrific stories of 30,000 Yazidis trapped by Islamic State jihadists emerge after 8,000 escape down the mountain
  • Hundreds of families have made it across border into Turkey and Syria after trekking for days in 45C temperatures
  • Minority sect has been sent scattering in all directions after Islamic State jihadists stormed their town a week ago
  • Some families have been forced to pay smugglers to take them through rivers and minefields to make it to safety
  • Another 130 U.S. troops have arrived in Iraq to assess the crisis facing 30,000 Yazidis trapped on Mount Sinjar
  • British Government also remained under pressure to consider military intervention to rescue the refugees
  • Friday, August 8, 2014

    GAZA ARCHBISHOP TELLS MEDIA THAT HAMAS USED HIS CHURCH TO FIRE ROCKETS AT ISRAEL - That is a war crime.

    Archbishop Alexios, the Greek Orthodox Christian leader of Gaza, told CBN News on Wednesday that Hamas had used the church to fire rockets at Israeli civilians prior to the 72-hour ceasefire.

    The church was also being used at the time as a shelter for Palestinian civilians of all faiths who were fleeing the war's bombs and rockets.

    Hamas used the church and the civilians as human shields--a war crime under international law -- in order to deter Israel from striking the rocket launchers, and to cause Israel maximum public relations and diplomatic damage if it did return fire. At least two United Nations facilities housing civilians were struck in that fashion.

    Though the White House called Israel's actions in those instances "indefensible," and other world powers rushed to condemn Israel, few bothered to consider that they were playing directly into Hamas's hands, and creating an incentive for Hamas and other terror groups to continue to use the same deadly tactics in future.

    The outrage that might have ensued if Israel had struck a church--instead of merely a UN facility--would have been formidable, and could have greatly complicated efforts to rally support for Israel among Christians in the U.S.

    Hamas violated the 72-hour ceasefire Friday morning and launched a barrage of rockets at Israeli civilians.

    Photo: Khalil Hamra/AP
    Source - http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/08/08/Gaza-Archbishop-Hamas-Fired-Rockets-from-Church-Shelter

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    Thursday, July 31, 2014

    THE BITTER TRUTH - MIDDLE EAST COUNTRIES ARE UNGOVERNABLE UNLESS KEPT UNDER TIGHT CONTROL BY A TYRANT - So why does the world keep calling for a state for the Palestinian Arabs - who are afflicted by fractious, undisciplined, corrrupt, utterly hateful and violent sectors of society?

    Palestinians close the main road between Bethlehem and Hebron during the funeral of three Palestinians, who medics said were killed during clashes with Israeli troops, in Beit Ommar town north of West Bank city of Hebron
    Palestinian Authority Arabs  - Photo Reuters
    When will the West admit that it has been wrong all along in its illusion that Islamic societies can be politically and socially transformed, and forced to love freedom, tolerance, respect for the law, democracy and human rights?
     
    Wishful thinking, money, and sometimes Western invading armies have been useless when trying to influence societies that are entrenched in traditions thousands of years old.
     
    Stephen Glover of The Daily Mail has the courage to admit it openly:  There are no good guys to run those countries.  They were better off with their old tyrants than with the violent chaos unleashed by regime change.  Mr Glover, however, stops short of mentioning the Palestinians. 
     
    Why is it that the West considers terror objectionable -  unless it is used by Palestinians to kill Jews, and then it becomes an act by 'militants' or 'freedom fighters' in their quest for independence? 
     
    Photo above shows Palestinians in their habitual explosions of rage and destruction.  There is not even an inkling that this society can rule itself in the foreseeable future.  If it ever attains sovereignty it cannot even sustain itself economically.  Regional superpowers will use them as pawns to disrupt the region, to wreak havoc with adversaries, and to destroy Israel, the only island of democracy in a region gone berserk.
     
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    I’m afraid the bitter truth is Iraq and Libya were better off under the tyrants toppled by an arrogant and naive West
     
    By Stephen Glover for The Daily Mail
     
    The tragic events in Gaza and Ukraine may be dominating the news, but even more terrible things are happening in Libya and Iraq. In both cases a naive and stupendously ill-conceived Western foreign policy is almost entirely to blame. 
     
    Many western embassies in Tripoli, including America’s, have closed, with diplomats deserting the city as fast as their legs will carry them, leaving the Libyans to their fate. Britain retains only a reduced embassy staff. 
     
    Meanwhile, in the north of Iraq — a country allegedly delivered into freedom from Saddam Hussein in 2003 — a psychopathic organisation called Islamic State (previously known as ISIS) is executing thousands of Shia Muslims and Christians as the central government in Baghdad looks on, powerless to intervene. 
     
    The persecution of Christians
     
    The largely untold story of the persecuted Iraqi Christian minority is especially shaming for those avowedly Christian leaders, George W. Bush and Tony Blair, who were responsible for the invasion of Iraq. For however revolting Saddam Hussein may have been, he did at least tolerate Iraq’s Christian community, which at one time was almost 1.5 million-strong. In the years following the invasion, the number of Christians dwindled to 300,000.

    Tuesday, July 29, 2014

    IRAQI CHRISTIANS RALLY AT THE WHITE HOUSE CHANTING OBAMA, OBAMA, WHERE ARE YOU? - In the meantime the president today thanked Muslims for building the very fabric of the USA and strenghtening democracy

    iraqi-christiansHundreds of outraged Iraqi Christians staged a rally outside the White House, demanding to know why President Obama wasn’t providing any aid to the scores of faithful being persecuted by radical Muslims around the world.

    Only a week ago the invading army of Islamist ISIS gave Christians in the city of Mosul the ultimatum of either convert or die.  Christians fled for their lives.

    “Iraq’s Christians are being ignored by the United States, the United Nations and the human rights organizations,” said one bishop who made a 12-hour ride from Chicago with his parishioners to the Washington, D.C., rally, Breitbart reported. 
     
    Demonstrators in general vented frustration at the Obama administration’s seeming lackadaisical response to the assaults on Christianity and on Christians in the Muslim-dominated Middle East and, more specifically, on the White House failure to respond to ISIL’s crackdown on Christians.
    Read more - http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jul/28/iraqi-christians-rally-white-house-obama-obama-whe/
    Photo - http://www.rightwingnews.com/barack-obama/iraqi-christians-chanting-for-help-in-front-of-white-house-obama-obama-where-are-you/
     
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    In the meantime today president Obama thanked Muslims for building the very fabric of the USA and strengthening the country's democracy.

    The comments were made to mark the celebration of Eid-al-Fitr celebrated at the end of Ramadan The International Business Times reports that during Eid, Muslims join in Islamic prayer, while saying "Allahu Akbar," or "God is Great," and feasting.