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1. Abbas’ Fatah Faction Honors Olympic Massacre Planner
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
The Fatah movement, headed by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas, held a meeting in Ramallah last week in honor of a senior planner
of the 1972 massacre of Israeli athletes at the Olympics at their Revolutionary Council conference..
Abbas, who worked behind the scenes to fund the murder of 11 Israelis at Munich, earlier this year told American Jewish leaders he
would halt incitement and the encouragement of violence against Jews.
One month later Abbas praised Abu Daoud, the mastermind of the massacre
of 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972 who died this
year.
At last week’s Fatah’s Revolutionary Council meeting, Abbas sat at the
head table in front of a poster of Amin al-Hindi, one of the senior
planners of the terrorist attack that shocked the world but not enough
to stop Olympic officials from continuing with the Games despite the
massacre.
The Fatah meeting officially was held in honor of “the Shahid (Martyr) commander Amin Al-Hindi,” according to Palestinian Media Watch. The
text on the banner behind Abbas read, "Palestinian National Liberation
Movement - Fatah. Fifth Meeting of the Revolutionary Council Shahid
(Martyr) Commander Amin Al-Hindi Conference November 24-25, 2010
Ramallah - Palestine."
Last August, the official PA daily described al-Hindi's participation
in the Olympic massacre, saying he was "one of the stars who sparkled...
at the sports stadium in Munich." The attack itself was referred to as
"just one of many shining stations" in his life.
At last week’s conference in Ramallah,
Fatah formally declared that it never will recognize Israel as a Jewish
state and also rejected the idea of a land swap by which Israel would
hold sovereignty over Jewish-dominated areas in Judea and Samaria such
as Gush Etzion and Maaleh Adumim and would surrender areas which are
dominated by Israeli Arabs.
2. Lebanese PM Turns to Iran to Stop Hizbullah
by Chana Ya'ar
Lebanese Prime Minister Sa’ad Hariri is turning to Iran, the primary
patron of his main opposition, Hizbullah, for assistance in controlling
the terrorist organization as its chief, Hassan Nasrallah gears up for a
possible coup against the Beirut government. Hariri is scheduled to
meet Sunday with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his arrival
Saturday in Tehran for a three-day visit.
A Lebanese ministerial source has told the AFP news agency the Lebanese
prime minister will offer support for Iran’s nuclear development
activities in return for reconciling the Lebanese government with the
terrorist group.
“This visit is important because of its timing, when Lebanon is in
crisis because of the expected indictment of the UN Special Tribunal for
Lebanon,” the source said.
Ahmadinejad visited Lebanon last month, where he received a hero’s welcome that underscored the Islamic Republic’s pivotal significance in the region.
Hizbullah, a proxy of the Islamic Republic, is expected to go on a
rampage in response to being indicted by the United Nations Tribunal on
charges of murdering Hariri’s father, former Lebanese Prime Minister and
tycoon Rafik Hariri.
Hariri and 22 others were killed when a massive car bomb ripped his
convoy apart as he drove through central Beirut on February 14, 2005.
Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah threatened the current prime minister
and Israel earlier in the month, claiming Hariri and the Jewish State
were behind the possible indictments by the Tribunal charging his
operatives with murder.
“We will cut off the hand that reaches out for any one of them,” Nasrallah warned
during a televised speech in honor of so-called ‘Martyrs’ Day.’ He
continued, “Those who think that the resistance will not defend itself
and its dignity against any accusation are mistaken.”
Between two and six members of the Shi’ite guerrilla organization will be indicted, according to media reports.
Mustafa Badr Aldin,
the brother-in-law of former Hizbullah second-in-command Imad Mugniyeh,
is among those expected to be charged. Mugniyeh, wanted for
masterminding a series of terror attacks before he himself was
assassinated in Damascus in February 2008, was also believed to have
been involved in the 2005 murder. Israel was blamed for his
assassination.
3. Fatah Declares: No to Israel as Jewish State, No to Land Swaps
by Chana Ya'ar
The faction that is led by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas
and which leads the PA has officially declared its formal refusal to
recognize Israel as a Jewish State. Its announcement recalled the three
no's of the Khartoum Arab League Conference of September 1967, following
the Six Day War, which squelched all efforts to reach a peace agreement
by declaring "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no
negotiations with it".
The Fatah Revolutionary Council over this weekend voted to “affirm its
rejection of the so-called Jewish state or any other formula that could
achieve this goal” at its fifth convention in Ramallah.
“The Council also renews its refusal for the establishment of any
racist state based on religion in accordance with international law and
human rights conventions,” the council said in a statement issued at the
end of the convention.
In addition, the statement said Fatah was opposed to the concept of
swapping land for peace, because “illegal settler gangs cannot be placed
on an equal footing with the owners of the lands and rights.” Israel
has long considered land swaps to be part of a final solution.
The latest efforts by the United States to bring Israel and the PA back
to the negotiating table did not help the cause of peace, opined the
Council, because it could “harm Palestinian rights and prolong the
occupation… and such gifts to the occupier will only make the occupier
more stubborn and radical.”
The Council also condemned the new Israeli law that mandates a full
nationwide Israeli referendum prior to ceding land from within Jerusalem
or the Golan Heights, saying it violated international law. Fatah
Council members urged the PA leadership to fight the measure in the
United Nations plenum and in U.N. Security Council.
PA Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas received the Council’s sole
praise, with Fatah leaders expressing support for “adhering to the basic
rights, first and foremost the right of return for Palestinian
refugees. Also… for standing up against pressure aimed at resuming the
peace talks without achieving the demands of the Palestinians.”
Abbas also vowed not to return to the negotiating table unless Israel
completely froze Jewish construction throughout Judea, Samaria, and all
areas of Jerusalem claimed by the Palestinian Authority for its
hoped-for new country.
Last Sunday thousands protested in Jerusalem against Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s agreement to a 90-day extension of the freeze.
U.S. President Barack Obama had threatened to back a unilateral PA
declaration of statehood if Israel did not agree to the freeze. Obama
also said, however, that there would be no demands for any further
freeze extensions if Israel were to agree to the current “request.” He
had no demands for the PA. Israel has repeatedly asked the PA to resume
negotiations without pre-conditions.
4. Hamas Resumes Missile Attacks on Negev
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Terrorists in Hamas-controlled Gaza resumed rocket fire on the Western Negev Sunday morning, striking near Sderot.
As usual when no one is injured and there is no serious damage, Israel
media did not report the Kassam attack. The short-range rocket exploded
in mid-air as thousands of children and college students returned to
schools and the local Sapir College.
The IDF stated that nearly 200 mortar shells and missiles have been
fired at southern Israel this year, despite the ceasefire that Israel
and Hamas declared in separate statements after the Operation Cast Lead
counterterrorist campaign ended nearly two years ago.
The Israeli army and air force have retaliated after almost every
attack, usually bombing smuggling tunnels and weapons factories. The
Defense Ministry has not explained why the targets are struck only after
an attack on Israeli soldiers or civilians, although many of the
tunnels are designed to transport terrorists for carrying out missions
to kidnap Israeli soldiers.
A week ago Saturday night, the air force targeted
a smuggling tunnel in southern Gaza in response to an attack in
which 10 mortar shells rained down on Gaza Belt communities and a Grad
rocket exploded near the town of Ofakim.
In a separate incident Sunday, Israeli soldiers fired on several Arab
youth who approached the security border despite warning shots. They
apparently were scavenging for building material.
5. Iranian Nuclear Plant is Powering Up
by Chana Ya'ar
The first Iranian nuclear power plant is powering up and will be able
to provide electricity to the nation’s cities by next month, according
to Vice President Ali Akba Salehi.
The Iranian leader was quoted by the semi-official Fars news service as
saying the 1,000-megawatt light-water nuclear reactor built by Russia
in Bushehr has been loaded with enough fuel for the plant to go online.
“We sealed the lid of the reactor without any propaganda and fuss,”
Salehi told Fars. “All fuel assemblies have been loaded into the core of
the reactor.”
The next step is to wait for the water inside the core to reach the
desired temperature, after which scientists will conduct a series of
tests to determine whether the reactor is truly ready to provide power
to Iranian citizens.
“We hope the Bushehr power plant will be connected to the country’s
national power grid within the next one or two months,” Salehi said.
The fueling process, which involved low-enriched uranium, began in
August, but was delayed after a leak was discovered in the storage pool
for the reactor.
Salehi released a statement last month claiming that the delay was due
to the leak, rather than a computer worm found in the laptops of several
employees at the plant, the Stuxnet virus. Officials suspect the
computer virus was the result of espionage on the part of Western agents
aiming to slow down Iran’s nuclear development efforts.
Israel and the United States, as well as a number of other Western
nations are convinced that Iran is intent on building a nuclear weapon
of mass destruction, rather than simply producing nuclear energy for
peaceful domestic purposes, as it claims.
The United Nations Security Council has repeatedly ordered Iran to halt
its uranium enrichment program, which it refuses to do, and has since
imposed four rounds of increasingly severe economic sanctions against
the Islamic Republic as a means of forcing it to do so.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, meanwhile, often threatens in public speeches to annihilate the State of Israel.
6. Anti-Semitic Posters on 'Jewish Mafia' are Plastered in Paris
by Chana Ya'ar
Posters warning Parisiens to beware the “Jewish Mafia” (‘La Mafia
Juive’) have been plastered all over the French capital and its
surrounding towns since November 12.
The posters, which bear the image of three men standing proudly,
describe a new book about “The Jewish mafia – the great international
predators,” written by extreme right-wing anti-Semitic author Herve
Ruyssen.
The commentary on the posters continues with a commentary on the
so-called “crimes” of the “Jewish mafia,” which it lists as including
“racketeering, weapons trafficking, murder by contract, drug
trafficking, money laundering, casinos and discotheques, pornography,
diamond trafficking, slave trade, third world plundering, art works
trafficking and swindling.”
The organization the National Bureau of Vigilance Against Anti-Semitism
(BNVCA), which monitors anti-Semitic incidents in France, was alerted
to the presence of the posters by several Parisian correspondents.
The group immediately issued a statement, calling on the Paris public
prosecutor to “initiate public action against Herve Ruyssen,” and asking
to “prohibit and destroy the book which contravenes the anti-racist
laws.”
Paris City Hall told the European Jewish Press last week that it had
mobilized a unit able to intervene around the clock. “To date 38 actions
were initiated to remove the posters,” EJP reported.
Although the Paris government’s response was prompt, BNVCA said the
trend is disturbing. “What is new is that one dares to hang these
posters, like in the 1940s during the war – even though they are in
violation of our rules and laws,” the organization noted.
7. Opinion: Here it Comes, Durban III
by Hon. Fiamma Nirenstein, MP
The UN never ceases to amaze. Just when we thought we had become
immune to all the poisonous concoctions that get dished out, once again,
ten years down the road, we are being offered a remake of the notorious
"Durban 1", the UN conference against racism which—to everyone’s
horror—was transformed into a racist conference against Israel and the
Americans. At that time, incredulous after the speeches by Mugabe, Fidel
Castro and Arafat, who condemned in chorus the colonialist West and
racist Jews, the Canadians, Americans and Israelis walked out. Later on,
in 2009, when the UN organized "Durban 2" in Geneva, the Italian
government, which had learned its lesson, refused to send a delegation.
And, in fact, our entire parliament, from left to right, voted a
resolution rejecting any anti-Semitic and anti-West sideshow. The
protagonist this time was Ahmadinejad who took the opportunity to repeat
his denial of the Shoah and promise to exterminate all Jews. Backing
him was a plethora of NGOs who, undaunted, assisted the UN in its
“anti-imperialist” campaign, as they had done with the violence in
Durban in 2001.
So here we are again. According to the UN schedule, as Anne Bayefsky in "Eye on the UN" warns
us, today the Third Committee of the General Assembly must vote on a
resolution proposed by Yemen specifying all the details (including the
date set probably for September 21, 2011, namely the day before the
General Assembly annual opening in order to have the greatest number of
heads of state) of a decision already passed by the General Assembly in
2009. It provides for the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of
Durban 1 and reconfirms its extremely violent platform. In 2009, Italy
voted against it, as did Australia, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark,
Germany, Israel, the Marshall Islands, the Netherlands, Palau, Poland,
Romania and the United States. But a majority of 128 countries, backed
by the entire Muslim world, non-aligned countries and a good number of
African countries, kicked again the ball toward the net, through the
"Intergovernmental Working Group on the Effective Implementation of the
Durban Declaration" which, having met in Geneva October 11-22, decided
that this General Assembly will bring back the epic of Durban.
It is a saga that, as journalist, I remember well, as I covered the
conference in South Africa in 2001. Those were just the days before the
attack on the Twin Towers and never was a hate scenario better laid.
Durban was the premise to Ground Zero. While from the podium speakers
heaped on the US and Israel all the sins of the world and demanded that
they pay the penalty, Jews wearing kippahs had to protect themselves
against the demonstrators touting portraits of Bin Laden (which at the
time I saw and reported on) and hounding the Jews. The Jewish centers in
the city were stormed and closed and the press conference of the
Israeli delegation was violently assaulted and interrupted. Israel was
compared to Nazism and accused of apartheid in order to claim,
particularly in South Africa, its lack of legitimacy. At the same time,
Americans were demanded to handsomely recompense Africa for damages from
slavery. The fact that, for centuries, the Arabs were cruel slave
traders who deported Blacks from Africa, had become a memory denied and
forgotten.
The Durban declaration that they now want to resurrect and celebrate
again, singles out Israel as a racist state, without naming any other
country in the world. The myriad types of ethnic and religious
discrimination that infests the world, for the declaration does not
exist and it doesn't even say a word about the thousands of massacres
that have bloodied the globe for reasons of the color of one's skin or
beliefs: not the 165,000 Christian victims per year, for 80% in the
Muslim world, are mentioned; not the tragedy of the Tutsi in Rwanda nor
that in Darfur and not that of the Uiguri or Kurds, let alone the
persecution and discrimination of Jews in numerous Eastern countries and
the growing anti-Semitism now being seen again in the West.
Re-approving the Durban document means rekindling, with the elephantine
power of the UN General Assembly, a whole series of institutional
initiatives giving rise to cultural and economic boycotts,
discrimination against athletes, artists and scholars and proliferating
the accusations of war crimes to any Israeli official in sight. It means
reviving manifestations of hate in which the swastika and the Star of
David overlap and the hunting season on Jews is declared open, the
result being an exponential growth in anti-Semitic incidents. This makes
many people happy, very happy.
Above all, it means dragging the UN into cultural and political
disgrace, making any real possibility for anti-racist initiatives even
more remote. Who could imagine this organization fighting against ethnic
and religious discrimination if the opportunity to do so is used to
persecute Israel and satisfy the enemies of the West? We can only hope
that Yemen's resolution will be voted down, but we’re not counting on
it. In the meantime, in any case, Patrick Ventrell, spokesman for the US
delegation to the UN, said that the United States is against the
proposed date, September not being “an appropriate time”.
Hon. Fiamma Nirenstein
Vice-president of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Chair of the Committee for the Inquiry into Antisemitism
Italian Chamber of Deputies
8. ‘New’ Solution to Illegal Infiltrators: Send Them Back
by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Illegal infiltrators from Sudan and other African countries should be
given water and food and placed on a return trip across the border where
they came from, suggests Kadima Knesset Member Aryeh Bibi.
However, the government is going ahead with its own solution to the
problem of tens of thousands of Africans seeking a better life in the
small Jewish State, a situation which is threatening the Jewish majority
and employment opportunities for Israelis.
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu asked the Cabinet Sunday morning to
approve a temporary detention center, which would give the illegal
immigrants social services in a concentrated area until they are
deported or are granted asylum.
National Union chairman and Knesset Member Yaakov (Ketzaleh) Katz has repeatedly warned
that illegal immigrants, from Asia as well as from Africa have
effectively "conquered entire neighborhoods” in southern Tel Aviv.
Two weeks ago, a Cabinet-level committee approved a bill proposed by MK Katz for the construction of a fence along the border between Israel and Egypt.
The Interior Ministry backs the Prime Minister’s idea of a detention
center, but Public Security Minister Yitzchak Aharonovitch objects to
its being under the supervision of the Prison Authority. He explained
that are too many unanswered questions concerning the status of the
infiltrators and whether they are allowed to come and go as they please
from the center.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said the “growing and threatening wave” of
infiltrators threatens the nature of the country, and one of his
solutions is to place heavy fines on employers who illegally hire
immigrants who have no work permits.
He indirectly rejected the idea of deporting them, saying, "We have to
offer them lodging, food and social services.” The government currently
allows infiltrators to remain in Israel for one year, during which time
they can ask for asylum.
Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz told the Cabinet that the fence under
construction will not stop infiltrators from finding ways to sneak into
the country, and that detention centers are acceptable in Europe.
The United States routinely deports illegal immigrants, and illegal
immigrants who do not infiltrate into Israel but who simply outstay
their visas are also deported by the government.
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