Quote:Israel is pushing President Joe Biden to refrain from involving the United States in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying Biden’s meddling would likely make the situation worse.
Biden’s national security advisor Jake Sullivan spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Meir Ben-Shabbat, after hundreds of Palestinian rioters clashed with Israeli police Monday morning on the Temple Mount. During the conversation, Ben-Shabbat told Sullivan that Biden and other countries should let Israel handle the conflict, according to Axios.
Ben-Shabbat told Sullivan that “international intervention is a reward to the Palestinian rioters and those who back them who were seeking international pressure on Israel,” an Israeli official told Axios.
The Biden White House left off any mention Ben-Shabbat’s reported comment in its own readout of the phone call. According to the White House, Sullivan expressed concern over the violence and highlighted U.S. officials’ work with “senior Israeli and Palestinian officials and key regional stakeholders to press for steps to ensure calm, deescalate tensions, and denounce violence.”
Palestinian rioters hurled stones and firebombs at police on Monday morning at the Temple Mount. Police moved to suppress the unrest with stun grenades, tear gas, and rubber bullets. Previous concerns over unrest had already prompted authorities to close the area to Jews before the violence began, according to Israeli National News.
“A short time ago, hundreds of rioters began throwing stones at the Mughrabi Bridge. Following this, police commission Yaakov Shabti ordered police forces stationed at the scene to enter the Temple Mount and to push the rioters back, using crowd dispersal methods. Israel Police forces are continuing to operate at the scene,” an Israeli police spokesperson said.
Twenty-one officers were hurt, including three who were hospitalized because of the violence, according to The Associated Press. Hundreds of rioters also sustained injuries.
Israel had a strained relationship with the United States during former President Barack Obama’s administration, in which Biden served as vice president. The Obama administration often leaked information it received on and from the Israeli military in attempts to dictate the smaller country’s actions. The Biden administration appears primed to continue that tactic.
During his campaign for president, Biden pledged to roll back Trump-era policies and take a much more pro-Palestinian view of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. During a May 2020 interview with Israeli media, Biden stated: “A priority now for the cause of Israeli-Palestinian peace should be resuming our dialogue with the Palestinians and pressing Israel not to take actions that make a two-state solution impossible. I will reopen the U.S. consulate in East Jerusalem, find a way to reopen the PLO’s diplomatic mission in Washington, and resume the decades-long economic and security assistance efforts to the Palestinians that the Trump Administration stopped.”
Decades ago in 1982, Biden took an aggressive stance toward Israel while berating then-Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin about his country building settlements in Judea and Samaria. Then-Sen. Biden threatened to cut off U.S. aid to Israel. Begin hit back:
Don’t threaten us with cutting off your aid. It will not work. I am not a Jew with trembling knees. I am a proud Jew with 3,700 years of civilized history. Nobody came to our aid when we were dying in the gas chambers and ovens. Nobody came to our aid when we were striving to create our country. We paid for it. We fought for it. We died for it. We will stand by our principles. We will defend them. And, when necessary, we will die for them again, with or without your aid.
I agree. It is the real-world equivalent of "if you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."
If China-Pedo Joe isn't going to back our #1 ally in the Middle East, the LEAST he could do is shut the F up and let them handle their business without actively supporting the enemy.
(05-10-2021 12:14 PM)ECUGrad07 Wrote: [ -> ]I agree. It is the real-world equivalent of "if you've got nothing nice to say, don't say anything at all."
If China-Pedo Joe isn't going to back our #1 ally in the Middle East, the LEAST he could do is shut the F up and let them handle their business without actively supporting the enemy.
That’s not what Soros wants. Puppets gonna puppet...
Quote:Gilad Erdan, Israel’s Ambassador to the United States and the United Nations, slammed far-left Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) on Monday over inflammatory and false statements that she has made in recent days about escalating Palestinian terrorist attacks directed toward Israel.
Erdan’s remarks came after Tlaib promoted a debunked story that claimed that accused Israeli settlers of burning Palestinian land. “Stealing Palestinian homes and burning their lands,” she claimed without evidence. “The actions of an apartheid state. We cannot stand by and watch this happen. @SecBlinken, billions of U.S. taxpayers dollars support Netanyahu’s government and this racist violence. We must condemn this swiftly.”
Tlaib then tweeted a link to a foreign publication that has alleged ties to an extremist group, the Jewish Journal reported. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told The Jerusalem Post that it had evidence that Palestinians started the fires and that when the Israeli settlers arrived to put out the fires that a fight broke out.
The American Jewish Committee responded by writing: “.@RashidaTlaib , you shared a falsehood about Israeli Jews setting fire to Palestinian fields. This ugly claim has been retracted. You’re a member of Congress. Take down your tweet. Or is it okay to perpetuate untruths when they fit your policy agenda?”
Tlaib spread further deceptive information on Twitter on Monday morning, sharing a video allegedly from inside Al Aqsa mosque that showed explosions near the building, writing, “Al-Aqsa is the 3rd holiest site in Islam, & people praying during the holiest days of the holy month of Ramadan have been beaten, gassed, shot, & killed by Israeli forces. They are denied medics & forced to use prayer mats as stretchers.”
“A place of peace desecrated by violence,” she added. “American taxpayer money is being used to commit human rights violations. Congress must condition the aid we send to Israel, and end it altogether if those conditions are not followed. Statements aren’t working @SecBlinken. Enough is enough.”
Erdan called out Tlaib on Twitter, noting that she was leaving out the full context of what was happening at the mosque.
“Congresswoman @RashidaTlaib maybe you should open your eyes to the whole picture? Islam’s 3rd holiest site is being used to stockpile Molotov cocktails and rocks that are being lobbed at the police and at Jewish worshippers praying at the Western Wall, below the Temple Mount,” Erdan wrote. “Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have prayed freely at their holy sites, including in Jerusalem, over the month of Ramadan because Israel believes in freedom of religion and Israeli security forces work hard to enable all groups to pray in peace.”
“In contrast, some so-called Muslim ‘worshipers’ are curtailing freedom of worship for thousands of Jews who want to celebrate Jerusalem Day, one of the most important days on our calendar marking the reunification of our sacred and holy city,” he added. “Congresswoman, instead of calling for peace and calm, your tweets are the [sic] stoking tensions. Maybe you don’t realize that your words encourage terror groups such as Hamas to fire rockets into civilian populations and carry out attacks against Jews.”
Quote:Jerusalem came under attack on Monday, which is also Yom Yerushalayim Day in Israel, as Hamas launched rockets at the city.
Yom Yerushalyim celebrates the Jews taking Jerusalem back in the 1967 Six-Day War. It commemorates the reunification of Jerusalem and the establishment of Israeli control over the Old City, where the Temple Mount is located.
A fire broke out on the Temple Mount near the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Temple Mount is the site of the two ancient Temples of Israel and the current site of the Al Aqsa Mosque and the Dome of the Rock. The fire was apparently started by fireworks.
Many different factors have been at play in Israel in recent weeks, including a canceled Palestinian Authority (PA) election. The PA was supposed to hold elections on May 22, but after it became clear to PA President Mahmoud Abbas that he would lose control to Hamas, elections were canceled. Abbas blamed Israel, saying, “We have decided to postpone the election until the participation of our people in Jerusalem is guaranteed.”
“Since the elections were announced, divisions within the Fatah party had emerged, there were dozens of tickets to vote for, and Hamas was likely to do well. So Abbas pulled the plug, blaming Israel for his decision on the ground that it would not permit voting in Jerusalem,” Elliott Abrams, former Deputy National Security Advisor for Global Democracy Strategy, wrote on April 30. “This is an old ruse, useful whenever Fatah leaders decide to call an election off.”
Ghaith al-Omarim, the lead Palestinian drafter of the Geneva Initiative, wrote in an article for the Washington Institute for Near East Policy that Abbas had thought the elections would strengthen him but realized he could lose power. “Fatah…will be in deep political crisis,” al-Omarim wrote. “Abbas will inevitably be blamed for the cancellation, further eroding his already abysmal standing (68 percent of the public wants Abbas to resign). He will also face unprecedented challenges within Fatah. The call for elections exposed and operationalized long-simmering fissures within the movement, and those will not return to dormancy once the elections are canceled…”
The Associated Press, which noted that Hamas does not recognize Israel’s right to exist, reported: “The last elections, held in 2006 with international support and Israeli cooperation, saw Hamas win a landslide victory after campaigning as a scrappy underdog untainted by corruption. That sparked an internal crisis culminating in Hamas’ seizure of Gaza the following year, which confined Abbas’ authority to parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Hamas’ popularity has fallen in the years since, as conditions in Gaza have steadily deteriorated.”
Meanwhile in Sheikh Jarrah, which to Jews is known as the Shimon Hatzaddik neighborhood and lies in Jerusalem just north of the Old City, trouble has arisen. The tomb and its compound were purchased in 1876 and settled in 1891 as a Jewish neighborhood. “In 1936, the neighborhood was attacked by Arab rioters and later conquered by the Arab Legion in 1948, before being annexed to the kingdom of Jordan in 1950,” The Jerusalem Post noted. “The Jordanian conquerors allowed Arab families to occupy abandoned Jewish homes, in violation of the rights of the property owners.”
After Israel retook Jerusalem in 1967, the Jewish committee that had purchased the land began to resettle the area with Jews by showing deeds for the properties before Israeli courts. Last Thursday, a member of the Israeli Knesset, Itamar Ben Gvir, trying to protect the Jews in Sheik Jarrah, set up offices in Sheik Jarrah. A law prevents police from stopping him from going anywhere and makes them responsible for protecting him.
“Some 200 Palestinians and 17 police officers were injured Friday night after clashes broke out in East Jerusalem over a land dispute in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood,” Israel 24 reported.
On Monday, Hamas issued an ultimatum for Israel to remove police from Jerusalem or they would fire rockets from Gaza.
Quote:The violence in Israel is nothing new, but today, comes a renewed violence — this time, in response to yet another conflict over Israel’s claim to lands. Gaza, a strip of land between Israel, the Mediterranean Sea, and Egypt, has long been disputed as to whether or not it is Israeli land or the land of the Palestinians, the Arab Muslim people who have claimed the land as autonomous, and controlled by the Palestinian National Authority. Israel still lays claim to the land as part of the sovereign country of Israel.
The newest conflict has surrounded an area known as Sheikh Jarrah, an area of Northeastern Jerusalem where the population is primarily Arab. The accusation is that Israel is unjustly evicting several Palestinian families from the neighborhood. The area has been back and forth between Jewish/Israeli control and Arab/Muslim control over the past 80 years, leading to the current crisis of claim to the property. Jews, who originally owned the property before 1948 were forced out by Jordanian forces. In 1967, during the Six-Days War, Israel regained control of the neighborhood, restoring the control of the area to any families that could prove they were unlawfully evicted by the Jordanians. As a result, a long and sometimes bloody battle has ensued due to the conflict over the land’s ownership.
Hamas, the pro-Palestinian terror organization, launched a series of rocket attacks against Israel in response to renewed efforts to evict the Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. The rocket attacks sent Israel into defensive action, sounding air-raid sirens and activating the Iron Dome, an active-defensive system that can target and shoot down incoming Palestinian rocket and missile attacks.
The Iron Dome is extremely effective, handing most of the incoming rockets.
Quote:WASHINGTON, D.C.—In a hearing Thursday, Representative Ilhan Omar slammed the country of Israel for refusing to accept the generous gift of rockets from Palestine.
She pointed out that Hamas terrorists picked out the gifts with care. They spent lots of time and money and put a lot of thought into them. All of that work, and Israel refused to accept the freely offered gift, according to Omar.
"The Palestinian people made a generous peace offering of hundreds of rockets, and Israel slapped them in the face," she said. "They wouldn't even open their presents, callously rejecting them while they were still en route."
"It is obvious Israel does not want peace in the region if they can't humble themselves and accept such a dynamite gift," she added.
When it was pointed out that Israel returned the favor, Omar slammed them for that, too.
Quote:The Palestinians and the BLM have a lot in common. They’re always claiming to be the victims when it comes to encounters that end up being violent. But it’s almost always shown to be false.
Perhaps this is not unusual since they run with the same leftist propaganda crowd and tend to support each other.
We saw that again with the attack today on Israel with rockets fired from Gaza.
Who was out taking the side of the Palestinians? Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), who argued it somehow was Israel’s fault that they responded after they were attacked.
“Israeli airstrikes killing civilians in Gaza is an act of terrorism,” Omar declared. “Palestinians deserve protection. Unlike Israel, missile defense programs, such as Iron Dome, don’t exist to protect Palestinian civilians. It’s unconscionable to not condemn these attacks on the week of Eid.”
Here’s a radical thought for Omar. How about the Palestinians stop attacking Israel and Israelis? Not to mention I wouldn’t trust any Palestinian report of anyone being killed either.
But a sane Democrat (it seems there are so few of them), former New York State representative Dov Hikind, just unloaded on Omar for her propaganda. He posted a troubling video of Palestinians trying to stone an Israeli for the crime of being in a car near them. Shades of the BLM and their practice of going after motorists.
Good for Dov Hikind for not holding back on her propaganda.
Palestinians were trying to stone this guy in his car. They’d already left him profusely bleeding. Had it not been for the hero officer who came on the run, the driver would likely be dead.
Here’s a longer video of what happened.
But Palestinians are already spinning the story, claiming the driver hit one of them. The driver did hit one of them – after they were already trying to stone him, as he was trying to get away from them. The man the driver hit didn’t appear injured.
But Hikind didn’t leave it there. Hikind leveled Omar with a little trending Twitter linkage.
It's funny how this conflict was relatively quiet the past 4 years and now all hell is breaking loose. It's almost as if Sloe doesn't know what he is doing.
(05-11-2021 06:48 AM)memphistiger89 Wrote: [ -> ]It's funny how this conflict was relatively quiet the past 4 years and now all hell is breaking loose. It's almost as if Sloe doesn't know what he is doing.
The puppeteers know exactly what they are doing. This is your world with these socialist-communist in charge. Israel is a free country. It cannot stand. Palestinians can be easily controlled after the end of Israel.
Iron Dome has to be one of the coolest military innovations of recent memory. It's like they took our AEGIS technology and converted it for land protection.
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