AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL's Apartheid Claims Against Israel

 Nadene Goldfoot

                                                        

Amnesty accuses Israel of enforcing 'apartheid' on Palestinians

Rights group accuses Israel of (1) seizure of Palestinian land and property, (2) unlawful killings, (3) forcible transfer of people and (4) denial of citizenship;   calls on ICC to investigate possible war crimes committed by both sides during Israeli Palestinian conflicts

"The London-based rights group said its findings were based on research and legal analysis in a 211-page report into Israeli seizure of Palestinian land and property, unlawful killings, forcible transfer of people and denial of citizenship". This is how Amnesty spends their time; trying to dish out faults against Israel but no other group-especially the enemies of Israel who attack her daily, the Palestinians.

First of all, who is Amnesty to make such a claim about Israel, a Jewish country, the only one in the world, that has been attacked since the minute it was announced as a state by the blessing of the League of Nations after WWI and the United Nations of WWII. Many belong by sending them money.  Quakers were instrumental in setting up Amnesty International. Using his contacts, experience and position, Quaker Eric Baker campaigned for the humane treatment of political prisoners. He helped write an article for The Observer entitled “The Forgotten Prisoner” in 1961. This article called for “the amnesty of all political prisoners” and began a campaign that resulted in the founding of Amnesty International in 1962. Many Friends continue to be involved with Amnesty International, both as members and as volunteers. 

                                               

Quakers support BDS against Israel. They are a people not friendly with Israel.  They have taken a pro-Palestinian stance.  

The religious group known as the Quakers has sacrificed its founding religious principles at the altar of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. In the summer of 2013 an unusual gathering of students took place in an undisclosed location in upstate New York. Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) along with Jewish Voice for Peace, the “We Divest Campaign Student Leadership Team Summer Training Institute” offered a five-day program to trains campus activists and organizers in the “Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions” (BDS) movement, a loose coalition of anti-Israel groups seeking to cripple the Israeli economy.                         

Amnesty International is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and supporters around the world. They seem to be concerned with everyone's human rights except the Jews-an old story of mankind, I'm afraid.  

 In 2009, Amnesty International accused Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement of committing war crimes during Israel's January offensive in Gaza, called Operation Cast Lead, that resulted in the deaths of more than 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis. This shows the difference in people.  Judaism offers no reward in death and Islam does, especially if one dies in an attack.  Jews are not ready to die and so protect their people.  Palestinians have not in this case taken any steps in keeping their people alive.  

The 117-page Amnesty report charged Israeli forces with killing hundreds of civilians and wanton destruction of thousands of homes. Amnesty found evidence of Israeli soldiers using Palestinian civilians as human shields. This is the biggest lie I've ever seen.  The real story is quite the opposite. It's the biggest awareness for Israelis to see how little the Arab life is to them if it gets what they are after.   

A subsequent United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict was carried out; Amnesty stated that its findings were consistent with those of Amnesty's own field investigation, and called on the UN to act promptly to implement the mission's recommendations.

Palestinians are known for hiding weapons in Palestinian schools and in mosques.  They hide behind their own children. They have done this, sacrificing their own sons and then feeling good about it.   

                                                

What about Operation Cast Lead?  It was a three-week armed conflict between Gaza Strip Palestinian paramilitary groups and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) that began on 27 December 2008 and ended on 18 January 2009 with a unilateral ceasefire. It came about with Israeli forces entering Gaza because Palestinians had constantly been shooting rockets into Israel daily.  On December 27, 2008, the seventh day of Hanukkah, the IDF launched Operation Cast Lead in Gaza. The aim of the operation was striking infrastructures, used for terror activities and rocket fire from the Gaza Strip targeting Israeli civilians.

The Israeli government's stated goal was to stop indiscriminate Palestinian rocket fire into Israel and weapons smuggling into the Gaza strip.

Palestinian rocket and mortar attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip have occurred since 2001. The attacks have killed 13 people, mostly civilians, and injured hundreds, but their main effect is their creation of widespread psychological trauma and disruption of daily life among the Israeli populace. Medical studies in Sderot, the Israeli city closest to the Gaza Strip, have documented a post-traumatic stress disorder incidence among young children of almost 50%, as well as high rates of depression and miscarriage.                     

         Qassam rockets fired at Israel by Palestinians in Gaza

The weapons, often generically referred to as Qassams, were initially crude and short-range, mainly affecting Sderot and other communities bordering the Gaza Strip. However, in 2006 more sophisticated rockets began to be deployed, reaching the larger coastal city of Ashkelon, and by early 2009 major cities Ashdod and Beersheba had been hit by Katyusha, WS-1B and Grad rockets,and in 2011-2012 to the cities of Kiryat Gat, Gedera and Ramat Negev. In 2012, Israel's proclaimed capital Jerusalem and commercial center Tel Aviv were targeted with locally made "M-75" and Iranian Fajr-5 rockets respectively. A few projectiles have contained white phosphorus.

 Amnesty International was quiet when Israelis were being hit with rockets, but when Israel finally was forced to put an end to it, they hoped, Amnesty flared up--but against the Jewish state who was being shelled! 

In 2005 Israel suffered from 401 rocket attacks during the 365 days and 6 Israelis were killed from them.

In 2006 1,722 rockets were fired; that's almost 5 rockets per day for the year and 9 Israelis were killed.  People had but a few minutes warning from their siren to get into shelters.  

In 2007  1,276 rockets were fired, almost 4 per day,  and 10 people were killed.  That's a total of 25 deaths by rocket fire that Palestinians kept firing without any hope of stopping them so far despite all the warnings, pleadings from the government.  Since 1967's Kartoum Conference of the Arab nations, they were all determined to wipe out Israel and their 3 NOs were their answer to anything about peace.  

2008 and Israel suffered from 2,018 rockets and 15 people were killed this year.   Ashkelon, Ashdod, Beer-Sheba and of course, taking the brunt of it all was the little town of Sderot, closest to the border since 2006.

                                             

Many now feel that pulling out of Gaza for the Arabs was a big mistake
 Does Amnesty remember how it came about that Palestinian Arabs were living in Gaza in the first place?  The Israeli disengagement from Gaza (Hebrew: תוכנית ההתנתקות, Tokhnit HaHitnatkut) was the unilateral dismantling in 2005 of the 21 Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of Israeli settlers and army from inside the Gaza Strip.   

Israel had moved all their citizens who were living there out and made it a place for the Palestinians.  Israelis left their businesses all set up for them, homes, etc.  They took it over and immediately started shelling Israelis.  It's turned out to be quite a lesson for Israel. 

Shall we go back well before 1948, like in the 1880's when Jews from eastern Europe started returning to Palestine and buying land at extremely high prices?  The land had gone to waste throughout the years that Jews were not allowed to return or could not, and was swampy, taken over my mosquitoes and weeds.  Jews returned, drained the swamps, suffered from malaria but got the land back in shape once again.  Meanwhile, the Arab landowners were happy to get out and go to better places like Paris or Damascus.  They couldn't keep up with the taxes from the Ottoman Empire and were glad to be freed, and that Jews would pay so much for such rotten land.

    A shteitl in Pale of Settlement:  Jews lived here, taken out of Russia

Forcible transfer of people?  Doesn't Amnesty have their people mixed up?  Jews were forcibly transferred and taken out of Russia proper and kept in the the Pale of Settlement.  Then, when Russia deemed it necessary, they were moved around there as wars entered the Russian picture. Israel did remove Jews from Gaza so that Arabs could live there. It was tough on their own population in order to accommodate the Arabs who were most ungrateful for the act.  They haven't stopped shelling Israel with rockets, mortars and missiles since then.                                  

  The "Sherif" of Jerusalem meeting with Hitler in Germany-talking about the Jewish problem..                      

Jews were people concerned with fairness.  That's what Judaism is all about.  It's not about anything happening to them after death, but is about how they deal with people during life.  They were introduced to 613 laws from Moses-who got them from G-d, for us to follow-all in connection with fairness of treating people.  After all, Jews were held in slavery for 400 years and know what it's like to be ill-treated.  That's why Jews have produced so many lawyers. 

 The country we can count on to keep the Jewish faith is our one Jewish state, Israel.  Jews are being assimilated so much who live in other countries that they are in danger of knowing nothing about their own religion.  Hitler called Jews a race, an inferior race.  They didn't bother to explain Einstein, who had the highest IQ in the world who was Jewish to their people, or the other Jewish doctors, scientists, etc, of Germany who were slaughtered.   PS;  Shabbat Shalom means, have a peaceful Sabbath.  

First,  all Nations agreed that the Jews should have their National Homeland.  Israel has been attacked from 1947-1949, 1956, 1967, 1973, by the surrounding nations. Jews created Israel because they were returning home to their once well-known land of Israel, told about at great length in the Bible. They were returning after being the scapegoat of the world and turned upon in pogroms in Russia to the point of driving them out.  Moses told them originally where they were to live, and it was in Israel.   

Do you notice how Russia has Ukraine surrounded by over 129,000 troops right now for over a month?  They are accusing the USA of being aggressive because the USA has sent them  arms.  That's the tactic I've noticed in the Middle East with Israel.  Those that attack Israel are the first to call out an accusation that should be about themselves.  It reminds me of the bullies at school.  They hit another child, and then they say that he did it when caught.

 Apartheid.  That's something that went on in South Africa between the Black and white population.  It's not relevant in this situation at all. Palestinian citizens make up 20% of the Israeli population.  They are full citizens with all the opportunities of any other Jewish citizen. Gazans are not part of Israel.  They are running their own show, governing themselves.  So is the PA in Judea-Samaria.  They each have their own governing power.   Really, Amnesty aught to get their facts straight.  

 Immediate update: 

Arab Minister Esawi Frej said Israel is not apartheid. Israeli-Arabs working toward coexistence say they enjoy equal rights.

By Adina Katz, World Israel News

Regional Cooperation Minister Esawi Frej of the left-wing Meretz party conceded in an radio interview Tuesday that Israel is not an apartheid state, although he was critical of what he claimed was “Jewish supremacy.”

On the heels of the release of Amnesty International’s biased report against the Jewish state on Monday, alleging Israeli ‘apartheid,” Frej stated that “Israel is not an apartheid state.”

Resource:

https://www.ynetnews.com/article/hkkayfurt?utm_source=email

https://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2022/01/colonel-richard-kemp-of-british-army.html...goldstone report

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_International

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_War_(2008%E2%80%932009)

https://military-history.fandom.com/wiki/Palestinian_rocket_attacks_on_Israel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli_disengagement_from_Gaza#:~:text=The%20Israeli%20disengagement%20from%20Gaza,from%20inside%20the%20Gaza%20Strip. 

https://www.afsc.org/blogs/acting-in-faith/quakers-jews-and-israel%E2%80%99s-bds-blacklist