Shragai - Countdown to eviction

Nadav Shragai..
Israel Hayom..
08 June '12..

“The entire situation is bad,” Minister Ze'ev Binyamin (Benny) Begin told a Knesset committee meeting which convened to discuss the five homes in the Ulpana neighborhood that are slated for demolition. “So we have been forced to choose between the lesser of all evils.” Within the next few weeks, Begin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who worked in concert to defeat the outpost arrangement bill, a parliamentary measure that would have allowed the Ulpana neighborhood to remain intact, are liable to discover that their decision could spell big trouble, since the eviction of 30 families will likely be a difficult, traumatic ordeal.

“As the person who was responsible for the recent petitions, I can say that we undertook systematic actions that were very calculated and that were clearly designed to expose the grave injustice that has been spawned by the construction of the outposts and settlements,” Dror Etkes of Peace Now and Yesh Din told Israel Hayom.

Hornik - ‘Peace Now’ Faults Israel For Palestinians’ Genocidal Urges

P. David Hornik..
frontpagemag.com..
27 January '12..

Last week Palestinian Media Watch revealed that the Mufti Muhammad Hussein, top cleric of the Palestinian Authority, had approvingly quoted a hadith calling for the genocide of Jews. Hussein, who was appointed to his post by PA president Mahmoud Abbas, did so at a ceremony marking the 47th anniversary of the Fatah movement. The moderator at the ceremony chimed in that “Our war with the descendants of the apes and pigs [i.e., Jews] is a war of religion and faith.” As for Mufti Hussein, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu ordered Israel’s attorney-general to investigate him for incitement.

Palestinian Media Watch now reports that the mufti’s words have drawn international condemnation. This, actually, doesn’t amount to much—far less than, for instance, the typical round of condemnations when Israel announces plans to build homes in parts of Jerusalem that the enlightened world thinks should be Judenrein.

Alistair Burt, the UK minister for the Middle East, said: “I condemn the inflammatory words used by the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and others…. To refer to the Jewish people in such a way and to talk of killing Jews is anti-semitism, pure and simple.” More surprisingly—seemingly—Palestinian Media Watch also offers a quote from Americans for Peace Now. This organization, founded in 1981 to drum up support for its Israeli parent-organization, Peace Now, states that it

strongly condemns the belligerent anti-Jewish comments made by the Palestinian Authority’s Mufti of Jerusalem at a public event in the West Bank earlier this month…. “We are appalled by these comments, coming from the most senior Muslim cleric on the Palestinian Authority’s payroll,” said Debra DeLee, APN’s President and CEO. DeLee added, “What we find particularly disturbing is that these vile comments were broadcast on the Palestinian Authority’s official television channel, amplifying their inciting [e]ffect.”

I was surprised by those seemingly unequivocal words, and checked the original statement on APN’s website.

Indeed, the context reveals that they weren’t unequivocal at all. Immediately after her above-quoted words, DeLee said further:

Lets help Peace Now!

The Muqata
10 December 09

Despite the explicit statement from the government that existing construction can continue in Yehuda and Shomron, the peace-lovin' organization, Shalom Achshav has decided that the government's edict isn't enough.

They are advertising for people who "see illegal construction" going on, to immediately call the special "illegal construction peace hotline" so they can transfer all the information to Ehud Barak's "inspectors."

See the following email which explains it all.

Shalom,

Peace Now (Shalom Achshav) had a press meeting yesterday where they advertised a phone number so that anyone seeing any illegal building in Yehuda and Shomrom can call and report it. We would like to fill up the voice mail to this number with as many phone calls as possible by leaving long messages which report illegal building the nearby Palestinian villages.

Whoever can please record the message and forward this message to as many people as possible. The phone number to leave messages is 1-700-701-967

Good Luck!

Chagai Tam

Secretariat – Yishuv Neriya

(translated by Chana Koren)

For those who have been calling Peace Now at 1-700-70-1967 to report illegal Arab building, the mailbox is full. Alternate numbers for Peace Now are (03)6023301 in Tel Aviv or (02)5660648 in Jerusalem.

Note, in order that you do not receive a call back, dial *43 before dialing the above number. When you hear a new dial tone dial the above number. This will prevent the voice mail from identifying the caller – in the event and you don't want to be identified by Shalom Achshav.

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