Jews build 'Museum of Tolerance' on 1,000s of Arab graves
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Man, they got a LONG history of that kinda bullshit, the whole blowup with New Zealand a while ago is also typical of the way they do business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel_%E2%80%93_New_Zealand_spy_sca
ndal
With "friends" like these....
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Man, they got a LONG history of that kinda bullshit, the whole blowup with New Zealand a while ago is also typical of the way they do business.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Israel_%E2%80%93_New_Zealand_spy_sca
ndal
With "friends" like these....
-F
I am still amazed about the lack of fallout over the Pollard affair...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Pollard
1. It didn't dent the financial / military support given by the US
2. After Israel sold their guy out, people still work for them
Even the Soviets wouldn't have done that.....
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
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I wonder if they have some sort of bet how far they can go ?
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8527532.stm
Israel adds West Bank shrines to heritage list
Jewish settler prays at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (file)
The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron has been a flashpoint for decades
Israel's prime minister has announced a controversial plan to add two major religious sites in the West Bank to the country's national heritage list.
Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet the Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron and Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem would now be included in the $107m restoration plan.
Israeli media said the two sites had been included on the list only after pressure from nationalist ministers.
The Palestinian Authority warned the decision would "wreck" peace efforts.
Negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians have been frozen for more than a year, with the PA refusing to participate until Israel halts settlement building in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
Israel has scaled back construction in the West Bank, but it does not consider areas within the Jerusalem municipality to be settlements.
'Violation'
Addressing a cabinet meeting, Mr Netanyahu unveiled the two additions to the national heritage list.
He said the Tomb of the Patriarchs and Rachel's Tomb had to be preserved because they showed Israel's ancient ties to the land.
The purpose of the list... is to single out sites that are of great importance to the Jewish people
Mark Regev
Israeli government spokesman
"Our existence here doesn't just depend on the might of the military or our economic and technological strength," he added. "It is anchored first and foremost in our national and emotional legacy."
The Tomb of the Patriarchs - which Muslims call the al-Ibrahimi mosque - is where the Bible says Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were buried along with three of their wives.
It has been a flashpoint for decades, with 500 Jewish settlers living in enclaves near the disputed site, surrounded by 170,000 Palestinians.
The Tomb of Rachel - a shrine to the Biblical matriarch holy to Jews, Christians, and Muslims - has also been a source of controversy.
Israel's West Bank barrier juts far into Bethlehem so that the tomb is located on the Israeli side, ostensibly for security reasons. However, Palestinians say it impedes their access and represents an illegal land grab.
Rachel's Tomb (file)
Palestinians have complained they are denied access to Rachel's Tomb
Jewish settlers and nationalists, who oppose giving up control of any of the West Bank, said they were pleased with Mr Netanyahu's announcement and that they would press for additional biblical sites to be added to the list.
A spokesman for the Palestinian Authority condemned the decision, particularly the designation of the Tomb of the Patriarchs, and warned it could take the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in a dangerous direction.
"We believe that this particular violation is very dangerous because it might add to the religious nature of the conflict," Ghassan Khatib told the Associated Press.
But Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev said the list was not meant to draw borders ahead of a final status agreement.
"The purpose of the list... is to single out sites that are of great importance to the Jewish people," he said.
Close to 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel's 1967 occupation of the West Bank and Arab East Jerusalem. They are illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.
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They are trying to silence the rulings they don't like in their own supreme court, and now they are going after human rights workers. Wonder what's next?
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100222/FOREIGN/
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Israel’s new ‘attack on freedom of speech’
Jonathan Cook, Foreign Correspondent
* Last Updated: February 21. 2010 11:01PM UAE / February 21. 2010 7:01PM GMT
Right-wing activists protest against the New Israel Fund’s alleged role in the Goldstone war crimes report. Gali Tibbon / AFP
NAZARETH // The Israeli government and its right-wing supporters have been waging a “McCarthyite” campaign against human-rights groups by blaming them for the barrage of international criticism that has followed Israel’s attack on Gaza a year ago, critics say.
In a sign of the growing backlash against the human-rights community, the cabinet backed a bill last week that, if passed, will jail senior officials from the country’s peace-related organisations should they fail to meet tough new registration conditions.
The measure is a response to claims by right-wing lobbyists that Israel’s human-rights advocates supplied much of the damaging evidence of war crimes cited by Judge Richard Goldstone in his UN-commissioned report into Israel’s Operation Cast Lead.
Human-rights groups funded by foreign donors, such as the European Union, would be required to register as political bodies and meet other demands for “transparency”.
Popular support for the clampdown was revealed in a poll published last week showing that 57 per cent of Israeli Jews believed “national-security” issues should trump human rights.
In a related move, right-wing groups have launched a campaign of vilification against Naomi Chazan, the Israeli head of an American Jewish donor body called the New Israel Fund (NIF) that channels money to Israeli social justice groups. The NIF is accused of funding the Israeli organisations Mr Goldstone consulted for his report.
Billboard posters around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, and a newspaper advertising campaign, show a caricature of Ms Chazan with a horn growing from her forehead under the title “Naomi-Goldstone-Chazan”.
“We are seeing the evaporation of the last freedoms of speech and organisation in Israel,” said Amal Jamal, head of politics at Tel Aviv University and the director of Ilam, a media-rights organisation that would be targeted by the new legislation. The Israeli political system, he added, was being transformed into a “totalitarian democracy”.
Leading the charge against human-rights groups – most of which are officially described as “non-governmental organisations” – has been a self-styled “watchdog group” known as NGO Monitor. Its activities have won support from the government following the international censure faced by Israel for its attack on Gaza.
The bill, approved by a ministerial committee last week, is the product of a conference staged in the parliament in December by Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor’s director, and a settler-backed organisation known as the Institute of Zionist Strategies.
A professor at Bar Ilan University, Prof Steinberg presented a report to MPs and ministers that referred to peace groups as “Trojan horses” and argued for imposing constraints on funding from European governments and the NIF.
In a statement at the time, Prof Steinberg said: “For over a decade European governments have been manipulating Israeli politics and promoting demonisation by funding a narrow group of favored non-governmental organisations.”
He has reserved special criticism for advocacy groups for the country’s Arab minority and for Jewish groups opposing the occupation, accusing both of promoting an image of Israel as an “apartheid” state that carries out “war crimes” and “ethnic cleansing”.
According to his report, 16 Israeli peace NGOs received US$8 million (Dh29m) in European funding in the previous three years.
Pressure has been building in the government for action. This month Yuli Edelstein, the diaspora affair
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