Showing posts with label Arabs of Israel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Arabs of Israel. Show all posts

Wednesday, October 12, 2022

How Fatah and Hamas-Led Palestinians Will Never Co-Exist, Remain Burdens on UNRWA

 Nadene Goldfoot                                        

A picture of Ein El-Hilweh refugee camp in Lebanon shows the overcrowding in the camp and the difficulty of achieving social distancing [Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ)]  As of 5 October, according to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) the total number of Covid-19 cases among Palestinian refugees in Lebanon was 1,282 with 478 active cases and 31 deaths. Based on these numbers, the General Director of the Rafic Hariri Government Hospital, Dr Firas Al-Abiad, tweeted that the Covid-19 mortality rate among Palestinians in Lebanon is 2.4 per cent, "more than double Lebanon's 1 per cent rate."

At the very least, it is estimated that 36,000 Palestinian refugees will need intensive care out of a total population of 224,901, which includes camp residents and Palestinian refugees from Syria, a statistic taken from the Committee's document. Given that the mortality risk is higher for those aged 70 and over, around 10,825 Palestinians are already vulnerable.

"The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, on Tuesday appealed for $1.6 billion to support its lifesaving work this year amid acute regional crises and chronic funding shortfalls. "  "UNRWA provides services and programmes, including education, health and food assistance, to more than five million Palestinians across the Middle East."

Mahmoud Abbas (Arabic: مَحْمُود عَبَّاس,  born 15 November 1935),  is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 11 November 2004, PNA president since 15 January 2005, and State of Palestine president since 8 May 2005-now for the past 17 years.  Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009.

  Ismail Abdel Salam Ahmed Haniyeh (born 29 January 1962) is a senior political leader of Hamas and formerly one of two disputed Prime Ministers of the Palestinian National Authority. Haniyeh became prime minister after Hamas won the Palestinian legislative elections of 2006- now for the past 16 years.Hamas was originally the strong-arm of Fatah, and got so powerful that they broke away to rule themselves.   He's become an Iranian puppet. (Jason Greenblatt).  (updated 10/12/22)

The 2022 budget proposal includes additional emergency funding to address humanitarian needs arising from crises in:

 1. Gaza-ruled by Ismail Haniyeh, 

 2. West Bank (Judea-Samaria)-ruled by Mahmoud Abbas 

These two men have never agreed with each other and fight for single power.  They haven't changed yet.  

3. Syria--by President Bashar al-Assad-Bashar Hafez al-Assad who is a Syrian politician and the 19th president of Syria, since 17 July 2000- for the past 22 years. In addition, he is the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Armed Forces and the Secretary-General of the Central Command of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party.

COAR(an international association that acts as a global voice for the repository community.---COAR is an international association with 157 members and partners from around the world representing libraries, universities, research institutions, government funders and others.)  says that Syria is already a failed state.  "On 17 June, the U.S. Department of the Treasury officially enacted the sanctions contained in the Caesar Syria Civilian Protection Act, thus beginning an inauspicious new phase of the long Syria conflict. The sanctions targeted 39 Syrian individuals, including President Bashar Al-Assad and his wife, Asma, in addition to members of the extended Al-Assad family, senior military leaders, and business executives. Many of the sanctioned individuals were already designated under existing U.S. sanctions."

 and 

4. Lebanon--by President Michel Aoun. Michel Naim Aoun is a Lebanese politician and former military general who has served as the President of Lebanon since 31 October 2016-for the past 6 years, the new kid on the block. Lebanon and Israel through the USA just came to an agreement about a gas discovery in the sea.               

 Shu'fat camp is located on the outskirts of Jerusalem. The Israeli settlement of Pisgat Zeev, illegal under international law, is located to the camp’s north. The camp was established by UNRWA in 1965 in order to provide improved housing for the roughly 500 refugee families living in Mu'askar camp in the Old City of Jerusalem.  This refugee camp is 57 years old, and looks like a town or city to me; but its people are mostly surviving on UNRWA.  Shu'fat camp was annexed by Israel after the 1967 hostilities ( considered illegal by UNRWA and rest of world) even though Israel won the 1967 war -a huge attack against them by all the Arab countries)  when Israel unilaterally established new municipal boundaries for Jerusalem. Camp residents still hold Jerusalem IDs and, unlike West Bank ID holders, are allowed to reside in Jerusalem. 

Because the Israeli Ministry of the Interior has a policy of revoking Jerusalem IDs from Palestinians who do not have their ‘centre of life’ in Jerusalem, the camp has become a popular place of residence for Palestinians (non-refugees) with Jerusalem IDs who might not otherwise be able to afford the high living costs of Jerusalem.

The Palestinians of Gaza, Judea-Samaria and Israel have been without a country ever since they entered Palestine in the 1880's to work for the Jewish returnees to their homeland and were in the act of building up their home.  The Palestinian Arabs were looking for jobs in building.  At the time, anyone living in Palestine (named by Romans in 135 CE) were called Palestinians.                        

Many of these Arab Palestinians came from Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and many from farther places than that, all documented and verified in the book, FROM TIME IMMEMORIAL, by Joan Peters. 

War of Independence 1947-1949

Since the Arab attack on Jews at the announcement of the State of Israel on May 14, 1948, all the Arabs attacked the Jewish Israelis, telling the Arab Palestinians what to do--to leave, and let them win the battle.  Well, they were wrong.  The Jews won, keeping their new state, and the Palestinian Arabs were led to live in refugee camps---now seemingly forever.  

Since 1948, they have been fed and clothed by UNRWA- 74 years, the same age as Israel.   What skills have they learned to support themselves?  Make bombs, dig tunnels, What mindset have they given to their families?  Sacrifice their children in the name of a future nationalism of their Palestine; hatred for Jews. That's what living in a refugee camp has done for most all of their people.  

The number of Palestinian workers in Israel and Israeli settlements was an estimated 130,000 in 2019, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)—but is likely to be higher due to the number who cross into Israel without permits.[1] Most Palestinians work in Israel’s construction sector, where it is estimated that they make up 65-70 percent of the workforce.

The Israeli minister for construction and housing was quoted in the Israeli media explaining that the construction sector must continue as normal “to ensure that construction in Israel for the benefit of home buyers will not be affected, even in the current exceptional circumstances.”  So in Israel, Palestinians are keeping the skills their ancestors came with, and using them. Still, Palestinian murderers keep on attacking Israelis at any given moment; the IDF being their most favored target.  Are they among these with employment?  Or are they coming in from other sources?              


Soda Stream had jobs for Palestinians in Judea-Samaria.  The company left the West Bank-(Judea-Samaria) because the CO said the boycott (BDS)  against them was anti-Semitic and pointless.They even had Golden Globe nominee Scarlett Johansson as the official global ambassador for SodaStream International, the Israeli-made manufacturer and distributor of home beverage carbonation systems.

It's time, way past time for the Palestinian Arab refugees to be freed from just being on the dole of UNRA, treated as a child, and allowed to learn to be honest bread-winners and be able to support their own families by the sweat of their own brows. Such skills must be something that will help their population they live in, not killing or harming others.  They need to learn that Jews are their cousins and not their enemy.  They have so much to learn other than what they have picked up in UNRWA camps which have become political prisons spreading hate.  

  A Jewish Yementite family walking through the desert to a reception camp set up by the American Joint Distribution Committee near Aden.  
  Operation Magic Carpet;  
Jews from Yemen in an airplane on their way to Israel. © Beit Hatfusot

Israel took in the very same numbers of Jewish refugees that came streaming out of Arab countries in 1948, the birth of their re-born nation.  They managed.  It's time Lebanon and Syria and the other took back their own people by making them citizens and not of refugee status anymore.   In being realistic, I realize that this is a bad time;  these countries are barely able to hang on as a country themselves and are about to fold.  

"In 2014, the United Nations General Assembly recommended that 2014 a year of solidarity with the Palestinian people and called on people around the world to recognize their “inalienable rights”.

Perhaps 2016 should become the Jewish year of solidarity with the Jewish refugees from Arab countries and there should be greater recognition, understanding and education of the inalienable rights of these people to rights and redress" but Israel took them all in, ready for them or not.  

There are Palestinians in Israel who are citizens.  In other Arab countries, they are refugees on the dole with UNRWA, a source of finance and control.  



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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ismail_Haniyeh#:~:text=Ismail%20Abdel%20Salam%20Ahmed%20Haniyeh,Palestinian%20legislative%20elections%20of%202006.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_Abbas#:~:text=Mahmoud%20Abbas%20(Arabic%3A%20%D9%85%D9%8E%D8%AD%D9%92%D9%85%D9%8F%D9%88%D8%AF%20%D8%B9%D9%8E%D8%A8%D9%8E%D9%91%D8%A7%D8%B3,and%20the%20Palestinian%20National%20Authority.

https://www.maccabeetaskforce.org/education/videos/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwy5maBhDdARIsAMxrkw1cCdZSL_Ih0rQ2Ti_ylmQFGtukCT_W_K79CB7m7G9Uom9ML63D-MgaAi5QEALw_wcB

https://www.unrwa.org/where-we-work/west-bank/shufat-camp

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/03/sodastream-leaves-west-bank-as-ceo-says-boycott-antisemitic-and-pointless

https://merip.org/2020/05/palestinian-workers-in-israel-caught-between-indispensable-and-disposable/

https://israelforever.org/interact/blog/jewish_refugees_from_arab_countries/

JBS interview of Jason Greenblatt on "Conversations on Abraham Accord"

Saturday, October 16, 2021

The Jewish State of Israel and Its Arab Cousins

Nadene Goldfoot                                             

Set of pictures for a number of famous Arab citizens of Israel from various fields

In 1948, almost all of the 160,000 Palestinian-Arabs who remained within Israel's borders became citizens.  By 2010, Israeli-Arab citizens had equal civil and human rights as all other Israeli citizens. 

There were 1.3 million Israeli-Arabs by 2010 living in Israel making up almost 20% of the population.    According to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics, the Arab population in 2019 was estimated at 1,890,000, representing 20.95% of the country's population. 

                                                                                  

Abram's first son was Ishmael, son of Hagar, the Egyptian handmaid of Abram's wife and niece, Sarah.  Arabs themselves trace their origin to Ishmael.  They are the 158th distant half-cousins of the Jews, or would that be 1st half-cousins 158 X removed.  That's figuring that a generation=25 years and that Abram was born about 1948 BCE, so its been 3, 969 years since Abram was born.  As it stands they are our distant cousins!  

Not only that, but geneticists are showing that they are connected to us by some distant DNA as well, so that proves the line in Genesis about Ishmael and Isaac being half brothers. In the year 2000.... 

New York University Medical Center And School Of Medicine
If a common heritage conferred peace, then perhaps the long history of conflict in the Middle East would have been resolved years ago. For, according to a new scientific study, Jews are the genetic brothers of Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese, and they all share a common genetic lineage that stretches back thousands of years.  Maybe they would have followed Emir Feisal's lead and welcomed Jews back to their homeland. 

Hebrew and Arabic have been Israel's 2 official languages.  As of today's new government, that has changed.  

                                                   

Today, the 2 official languages are Hebrew and English.  This says: Geveret Mordechay, and Geveret means Mr. The Basic Law states that Hebrew is the “state language,” whereas Arabic enjoys a “special status,” and that “[n]othing in this article shall affect the status given to the Arabic language before this law came into force.” (§ 4.) 

          Mansour Abbas, Israeli Arab politician and leader of the Ra'am Party  in a meeting at the Israeli president’s residence in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. Abir Sultan/Pool/ AFP/Getty Images    Historic change: Arab political parties are now legitimate partners in Israel's politics and government.  It is ironic that the prime minister of this government would be Naftali Bennett. Bennett is the leader of the radical right-wing political party Yamina, whose ideologies and interests contradict the Arab party’s interests, and which has opposed Arab participation in the coalition or government. His national-religious political movement, which represents many Jewish settlers, signed the coalition agreement with Ra’am, the Islamic Arab party.  

 A woman walks past a Joint Arab List campaign billboard. Four Arab-Israeli political parties have united for the first time, making the group the third-largest political faction in the Knesset.                               

There were 5 official Israeli-Arab political parties by 2010.  Today, there are the Joint List :(Arabic: القائمة المشتركة‎, al-Qa'imah al-Mushtarakah, Hebrew: הָרְשִׁימָה הַמְּשֻׁתֶּפֶת‎, HaReshima HaMeshutefet) which  is a political alliance of 4 of the Arab-majority political parties in Israel: Balad, Hadash, Ta'al, and the Arab Democratic Party.  The United Arab List was previously a member, but left the alliance on 28 January 2021.

Three Israeli-Arabs were elected to the first Knesset.  Israeli-Arabs have held as many as 13 of the 120 seats in the Israeli Parliament at one time. Of an estimated 5.8 million citizens with voting rights, 16 percent are from Israel’s Arab minority, which makes up around a fifth of Israel’s total population. During the previous Knesset elections in March 2015, a broad alliance of four Arab or joint Arab-Jewish parties, the Joint List, became the primary representation of this minority. This alliance won 13 out of the Knesset’s 120 seats, one of the highest levels of Arab representation in Israel’s history, even with Arab turnout at 63.7 percent compared to the national average of 72.3 percent (some 76 percent of eligible Israeli Jews voted). 

                                                                    


All Arab municipalities receive government funding for education and infrastructure.                             

Many Israeli-Arabs hold high-level position such as:

                                            

 1. Salim Jurban:  selected a permanent member of Israel's Supreme Count (2004)  Born in 1941-Died at age 71 in 2012.

                                                   

2. Nawaf Massalha:  deputy Foreign Minister, born 26 November 1943, first Muslim Arab to hold a ministerial position in the Israeli government when he was appointed Deputy Minister of Health by Yitzhak Rabin in 1992.

                                                              

3. Ali Yahya, Ambassador: Ali Yahya (Arabic: علی یحیی‎, Hebrew: עלי יחיא‎; born 1947, died 11 September 2014) was an Israeli Arab diplomat. He became the first Israeli ambassador of Arab descent in 1995 when he was appointed ambassador to Finland, a post in which he served until 1999. In 2006 Yahya was appointed Israeli ambassador to Greece.                      

Meet Walid Mansour the first #Druze #Arab Israeli ambassador. He served as ambassador in #Vietnam and #Peru . In the photo with his wife Jwahir.

 4. Walid Mansour, Ambassador: Former colonel, , a Druze, appointed ambassador to Vietnam in 1999,  from 2005-2009, in Peru. "It is impossible to explain how this accident happened in one of the safest places on earth to drive," Walid Mansour, Israel's ambassador in Peru and Bolivia, told The Jerusalem Post Sunday. Mansour, Israel's envoy to the area for the past two and a half years, rushed on Thursday from Lima, the capital of Peru, to the Bolivian capital, La Paz, where he found the five dead backpackers' friends in a state of distress. "In the past year and a half, most of my trips to La Paz have been under upsetting circumstances, and in that time, we have worked to send home 13 bodies of Israelis who died during their trips," Mansour said. Mansour said he had hoped the information he first received - that five Israelis had died in a terrible car accident in the Uyuni Salt Flats of Bolivia, also known as El Salar de Uyuni - was wrong or at least exaggerated. 

5. Reda Mansour, Ambassador: , also a Druze, a former ambassador to Ecuador.  Reda Mansour is an Israeli Druze poet, historian and diplomat. He has published three books of Hebrew poetry and received the University of Haifa Miller Award as well as the State President Scholarship for young writers. Mansour was born in the Druze village of Isfiya in northern Israel.                                 

6.  Mohammed Masarwa, Ambassador: an Arab Muslim, was Consul-General in Atlanta. In 20… 

7.  Major General Hussain Fares:  commander of Israel's border police

8. Major General Yosef Mishlav: head of Homeland Security as Israel's Home Front Commander.         

A 21-year-old Arab has made history by winning a beauty contest to be named Miss Israel. Rana Raslan, who will be Israel's representative in the Miss World contest, said she hoped to "represent Israel as well as possible".She said: "It doesn't matter whether I am an Arab or a Jew, we must prove to the world that we can live together. "There is no difference between Arabs and Jews, we are all human beings.  The new Miss Israel was born in the northern city of Haifa and works for a law firm. She wins a car, a modelling contract and the chance to represent Israel in the Miss World pageant.  This took place March 16, 1999.  

Israel has enacted affirmative action policies to help its minority citizens achieve full social and economic equality.  

                                               

Israel's National Anthem is Hatikvah (The Hope).  Arabs do not have to sing if they don't want to.  It is understandable.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DPqNHkm1bM. Hatikvah

Jews living in Arab countries before 1948 were 2nd class citizens, called Dhimmis,  they know what it's like and has striven to not treat Arabs in that way. However, Jews never fought against the law of the land, and here in Israel, the Arab youth and others have not been as compliant.  It's a new situation.  East Jerusalem has been extremely problematic.  


Resource:

Magazine: ISRAEL101, 2010 ISSUE, p, 38

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_List#:~:text=The%20Joint%20List%20(Arabic%3A%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%82%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%85%D8%A9,and%20the%20Arab%20Democratic%20Party.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkYgtvS38DQ more Israeli music

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

https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2021-07-27/israel-supreme-court-affirms-constitutionality-of-basic-law-israel-nation-state-of-the-jewish-people/

https://theconversation.com/historic-change-arab-political-parties-are-now-legitimate-partners-in-israels-politics-and-government-162461

https://www.washingtoninstitute.org/policy-analysis/arab-minority-israel-and-knesset-elections

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/294051.stm