Serious Times

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So I say, these are some serious timesAll I can see around us is just violence and crimeFull time for us to centralize, socialize and realizeTo let the sun shine throughout everyday

Let the moon shine through the peaceful nightThis seven time rise, seven times fallBut I don't really believe in those falling things at all

'Cause life continues as it goesIf you really want to know the truthThe truth is in being told

So I say, these are some serious timesAll I can see around us is just violence and crimeFull time for us to centralize, socialize and realizeTo let the sun shine throughout everyday

Let the moon shine through the peaceful nightThis seven time rise, seven times fallBut I don't really believe in those falling things at all

'Cause life continues as it goesIf you really want to know the truthThe truth is in being told

Some time I think it's peace and safetyIt could be yah for sudden destructionSeh yeh wake up dis morning, ya gotta give tunkz

Yeh don't know if you're gonna live to see tomorrowLife is much more precious than goldYeah, yeah, and if the truth hasn't been told

So I say that these are some serious timesAll I can see around us is just violence and crimeFull time for us to centralize, socialize and realize

See all the corner, watch how you a hang out pon the cornerA straight-time pharmacy agwann pon di cornaOn di corna, the yutes dem really nah hold no waterA stray them go stray and left the border

'Cause a domino them say them goneNow they can playAnd a car come in and shots start to sprayOnly innocent life can get taken away

So I say, these are some serious timesAll I can see around us is just violence and crimeFull time for us to centralize, socialize and realizeTo let the sun shine throughout everyday

Let the moon shine through the peaceful nightThis seven time rise, seven times fallBut I don't really believe in those falling things at all

'Cause life continues as it goesIf you really want to know the truthThe truth is in being told

Some time I think it's peace and safetyIt could be yah for sudden destructionSeh yeh wake up dis morning, yeh gotta give thanks

Yeh don't know if you're gonna live to see tomorrowLife is much more precious than goldYeah, yeah, and if the truth hasn't been told

So I say, these are some serious timesAll I can see around us is just violence and crimeFull time for us to centralize, socialize and realizeTo let the sun shine throughout everyday

Let the moon shine through the peaceful nightThis seven time rise, seven times fallBut I don't really believe in those falling things at all

'Cause life continues as it goesIf you really want to know the truthThe truth is in being told

Next they will be forcing grandmothers to scrub the street with toothbrushes,

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This is vile. It has struck a seriously raw nerve with Jews all around the world. You would have to be a cretin not to immediately understand why.

This is not Berlin circa 1936. It is Jerusalem only a few days ago.

Not a mention of it of course in any media. Instead the papers are full of smug self satisfied and offensively dishonest accounts of a pack of "Palestinian" squatters, backed up by foreign antizionist activists, who have staged a  stunt with tents in  E1.  One of the worst, and certainly the most dishonest, is John Lyons' report in this morning's Australian.

 E1 is a patch of land that under any possible two state solution will form part of Israel. Every single detailed two state proposal  since the Oslo fraud  includes E1 in Israel. Never mind that. As far as the John Lyons of this world are concerned, and the world is full of them, truth and common decency are irrelevant.

Can you imagine the screeching from Lyons and the left liberals if this was footage of a gang of Jewish youths humiliating harmless and helpless "Palestinians"? You would never hear the end of it. It would get as much airtime as the Netzarim Junction blood libel or the Jenin massacre giant media lie.

Instead complete silence. Arabs attacking, terrifying and humiliating Jews. Dog bites man. Not news. You just know what would happen if the Israelis enforced the law and arrested these punks.  Man bites dog. It will be all over the news. Mark my words..Even if the Israelis do not act Lyons and the rest of the media will just make it up.

Update

The two young men surrounded and attacked by a mob of about fifty have said they feared they would be lynched.

In the footage, a mob of some 50 Arabs are seen throwing snowballs and rocks at two young Hareidim who were walking down the street. The Arabs also tried to grab the hats of the two Hareidim. The two, meanwhile, do nothing but raise their hands to defend themselves. After long minutes, the Arabs eventually leave the Hareidim alone and go their way. Interviewed later, the Hareidim said that they were uninjured, but felt violated and ashamed at being the victims of such an attack.

Speaking in the interview, the two said that they truly feared they would not survive the incident. “We went to pray at the Kotel and on our way back, we were suddenly attacked by dozens of Arabs,” they said. “The Arabs tried to lynch us, they were throwing snowballs and other objects and yelling 'death to the Jews' in Arabic. We felt we were in real danger.”

A Bright Future for Multicultural Australia Part 3

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The Mufti of Australia in Egypt
8 January 2013

Islamic culture is spreading (in Australia) in an extraordinary way. ... The West produces lies just as as much as technology. ... Just like Sanyo and Panasonic they have factories for lies ... 

hat tip Shirlee

The Anti-Palestinian Wing of the ALP

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" We have a formal dialogue with the Arab League"
We will never mention Resolution 1457
Australia's Foreign Minister 26 October 2012

Here's something Chairman Carr can talk about the next time he is lost for words on the steps of the Mosque in Lakemba.  You can be certain he will never raise the subject in the formal dialogue with the Arab League. That might take some courage.

The brutal all pervasive apartheid  regime that Arab Muslims impose on the "Palestinians". 

The Arab Apartheid 

By Ben Dror Yemini 
Maariv (translated from Hebrew) 
May 14, 2011 

The real “nakba,” which is the story of the Arab apartheid. Tens of millions, among them Jews, suffered from the “nakba,” which included dispossession, expulsion and displacement. Only the Palestinians remained refugees because they were treated to abuse and oppression by the Arab countries. Below is the story of the real “nakba”

In 1959, the Arab League passed Resolution 1457, which states as follows: “The Arab countries will not grant citizenship to applicants of Palestinian origin in order to prevent their assimilation into the host countries.” That is a stunning resolution, which was diametrically opposed to international norms in everything pertaining to refugees in those years, particularly in that decade. The story began, of course, in 1948, when the Palestinian “nakba” occurred. It was also the beginning of every discussion on the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the blame heaped on Israel, because it expelled the refugees, turning them into miserable wretches. This lie went public through academe and the media dealing with the issue. 

In previous articles on the issue of the Palestinians, we explained that there is nothing special about the Israeli Arab conflict. First, the Arab countries refused to accept the proposal of partition and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Second, this entails a population exchange: indeed, between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs (the most precise calculation is that of Prof. Ephraim Karash, who calculated and found that their number ranges between 583,000 and 609,000). Most of them fled, a minority were expelled because of the war and a larger number of about 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the “Jewish nakba”). Third, the Palestinians are not alone in this story. Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time. They occurred in dozens of other conflict points, and about 52 million people experienced dispossession, expulsion and uprooting (”And the World is lying”). And fourth, in all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, or on the backdrop of the establishment of a national entity, or the disintegration of a multinational state and the establishment of a national entity - there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state. The displaced persons and the refugees, with almost no exceptions, found sanctuary in the place in which they joined a population with a similar background: the ethnic Germans who wore expelled from Central and Eastern Europe assimilated in Germany, the Hungarian refugees from Czechoslovakia and other places found sanctuary in Hungary, the Ukrainians who were expelled from Poland found sanctuary in Ukraine, and so forth. In this sense, the affinity between the Arabs who originated in mandatory Palestine and their neighbors in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, was similar or even greater than the affinity between many ethnic Germans and their country of origin in Germany, sometimes after a disconnect of many generations. 

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Read it all. A thorough state by state analysis of the systematic discrimination against Muslim Arabs deemed by other Muslim Arabs to be "Palestinian", so as to keep them on display like animals in zoos generation after generation. All the better to nurture bitter life consuming grievance in a whole population and incite genocidal racist hatred against the Jews. One of the great human rights abuses of our time. The root cause of the Israel/"Palestine" "dispute". 

Not a murmur about it from our Government. This is because the racist wing of the ALP has now taken control of foreign policy.  Not a butterfly's fart in a cyclone from the Australian Greens. There is a reason for this as well. It is because the Australian Green Party is a racist political movement.

hat tip oldschooltwentysix  at Israel Thrives

Che Gorilla Has The Folks From The Old Country Over For A Visit

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Just to prove he's not an orc. A son of  pigs and apes perhaps but not an orc.  That's Uncle Alois there at the rear with the silver painted back (an old country custom)

Freeing Arabs from the Medieval Mind.

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Israel's Arabs are the most free, best educated and most prosperous Arab population in the Middle East.

You might  think they would be loyal to the state that has saved them from the horrors of life under the heel of violent and superstitious men. Especially the women you might imagine. They must know what life would be like without the umbrella of the Israeli state.

Not a bit of it. At least not the leadership. It seems there is a direct correlation between the material well being and progress of their community and anti-Israel radicalism. You may have encountered this perverse backwater of the human psychology before in another context. A self identified elite that competes with one another to demonstrate their contempt for the society that feeds, indulges and educates them.

The natural constituency of the Australian Greens.  

There is something in the Arab political cultures that causes the most criminal, the ugliest and the worst to rise to power over the people. There can be no serious doubt about this. Until that is identified and dug out at the grass roots it will be just one self inflicted Nakba after another for these people.

This is an important and enormously informative essay by Efraim Karsh, Professor  of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at Kings College.Here are some extracts but do read it all.

Arabs and Jews in the Holy Land

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The inflow of Jewish immigrants and capital after World War I revived Palestine's hitherto moribund condition. If prior to the war, some 2,500-3,000 Arabs, or one out of 200-250 inhabitants, emigrated from the country every year, this rate was slashed to about 800 per annum between 1920 and 1936 while Palestine's Arab population rose from about 600,000 to some 950,000 owing to the substantial improvement in socioeconomic conditions attending the development of the Jewish National Home.[4]The British authorities acknowledged as much in a 1937 report by a commission of enquiry headed by Lord Peel:

The general beneficent effect of Jewish immigration on Arab welfare is illustrated by the fact that the increase in the Arab population is most marked in urban areas affected by Jewish development. A comparison of the Census returns in 1922 and 1931 shows that, six years ago, the increase in Haifa was 86%, in Jaffa 62, in Jerusalem 37, while in purely Arab towns such as Nablus and Hebron it was only 7, and at Gaza there was a decrease of 2 per cent.[5]

Raising the standard of living of the Palestinian Arabs well above that in the neighbouring Arab states, the general fructifying effect of the import of Jewish capital into the country was not limited to the upper classes, or the effendis, who 'sold substantial pieces of land [to the Jews] at a figure far above the price it could have fetched before the War', but extended to the country's predominantly rural population, the fellaheen, who 'are on the whole better off than they were in 1920'. The expansion of Arab industry and agriculture, especially in the field of citrus growing, Palestine's foremost export product, was largely financed by the capital thus obtained, and Jewish know-how did much to improve Arab cultivation. In the two decades between the world wars, Arab-owned citrus plantations grew six-fold, as did vegetable-growing lands, while the number of olive groves quadrupled and that of vineyards increased threefold.[6]

No less remarkable were the advances in Arab social welfare. Perhaps most significantly, mortality rates in the Muslim population dropped sharply and life expectancy rose from 37.5 years in 1926-27 to 50 in 1942-44 (compared with 33 in Egypt). Between 1927-29 and 1942-44, child mortality was reduced by 34% in the first year of age, by 31% in the second, by 57% in the third, by 64% in the fourth, and by 67% in the fifth. The rate of natural increase leapt upward by a third (from 23.3 per 1000 people in 1922-25 to 30.7 in 1941-44) - well ahead of the natural increase (or of the total increase) of other Arab/Muslim populations.[7]

That nothing remotely akin to this was taking place in the neighbouring British-ruled Arab countries, not to mention India, can be explained only by the decisive Jewish contribution to state revenues (in 1944-45, for example, the Jewish community paid 68% of Palestine's income tax compared with 15% by the twice larger Arab community).[8] In addition, the extensive Jewish public health provision greatly benefited the country's Arab population. Jewish reclamation and anti-malaria work slashed the prevalence of this lethal disease (during the latter part of 1918, for example, 68 of 1000 people in the Beit Jibrin region died of malaria; in 1935 the number of malaria-related deaths in the whole of Palestine was 17), while health institutions, founded with Jewish funds primarily to serve the Jewish National Home, also served the Arab population. It is hardly surprising therefore that the greatest reductions in Arab mortality, as well as the rise in the quality and standard of living, occurred in localities in or near those in which Jewish enterprise had been most pronounced.[9]

Had the vast majority of Palestinian Arabs been left to their own devices, they would most probably have been content to get on with their lives and take advantage of the opportunities afforded by the growing Jewish presence in the country. Throughout the British Mandate era (1920-48), periods of peaceful coexistence were far longer than those violent eruptions and the latter were the work of a small fraction of Palestinian Arabs.

But then, rather than follow the wishes of its constituents, the corrupt and extremist Palestinian Arab leadership, headed since the early 1920s by the Jerusalem Mufi Hajj Amin Husseini, embarked on a relentless campaign to obliterate the Jewish national revival, which culminated in the violent attempt, supported by the entire Arab world, to destroy the state of Israel at birth. In the mournful words of the Peel commission,

We have found that, though the Arabs have benefited by the development of the country owing to Jewish immigration, this has had no conciliatory effect. On the contrary… with almost mathematical precision the betterment of the economic situation in Palestine meant the deterioration of the political situation.[10]

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Deprived and Marginalized?

The issue of discrimination aside, it cannot be sufficiently stressed that, contrary to the dismal pronouncements of the Orr commission, the Arabs living in the Jewish state have made astounding social and economic progress. Far from lagging behind, their rate of development has often surpassedthat of the Jewish sector, with the result that the gap between the two communities has steadily narrowed.

Health statistics are but one indicator. Perhaps most significantly, mortality rates among Israeli Arabs have fallen by over two-thirds since the establishment of the Jewish state, while life expectancy has increased 30 years, reaching 78.5 (women 80.7, men 76.3) in 2009. At the end of the 1940s, life expectancy of Israeli Arabs was fifteen years lower than that of their Jewish counterparts; by the 1970s, the gap had decreased to 2-3 years and has remained virtually unchanged since then (3.7 years in 2009).[19] Not only does this compare favourably with the Arab and Muslim worlds, but the average Israeli Arab male can expect to live longer than his American (76 years in 2007) and many European counterparts.[20]

Thanks to Israel's medical and health-education programs, infant-mortality rates have similarly been slashed: from 56 per 1,000 live births in 1950 to 6.5 in 2008 - slightly above the US mortality rate and much lower than that of the neighbouring Middle Eastern states (in Algeria, for example, it is 24.9 deaths/1,000 live births, in Egypt 30, in Iraq 40, in Iran 41).[21] Another indication of the improving socioeconomic position of the Israeli Arabs has been the steady decline in fertility rates since the 1970s: from 8.4 children per women in 1965 to 3.6 in 2008.[22]

No less remarkable have been the advances in education. Since Israel's founding, while the Arab population has grown tenfold, the number of Arab schoolchildren has multiplied by a factor of 40.[23]If, in 1961, the average Israeli Arab spent one year in school, today the figure is over eleven years. The rise was particularly dramatic among Arab women who in 1961 received virtually no school education and today are equally, indeed better educated than their male counterparts (in 1970-2000, for example, the proportion of women with more than eight years of schooling rose nearly sevenfold - from 9% to 59%).[24]

In 1961, less than half of Arab children attended school, with only 9% acquiring secondary or higher education. By 1999, 97% of Arab children attended schools, with 46% completing high school studies and 19% obtaining university/college degrees. In 2011, over a half of Arab twelfth-grade students (two thirds of Christian students) won the matriculation certificate, with dropout rates of Arab students similar to those in the Jewish sector: 1.8% and 1.5% respectively. Indeed, the dropout rate in the weaker parts of Jewish society were higher than their Arab equivalent: 3.1% among ultraorthodox Jews and 3.6% among foreign native Jews, compared to 2.6% in the Bedouin sector - the weakest part of Arab society.[25]

Nor do Jewish schools enjoy better individual services than their Arab counterparts. In 2007/08, for example, Arab students were six times more likely to receive didactic assessment, and five times more likely to have a nurse based in their school, than their Jewish counterparts. Arab students had somewhat more frequent access to youth and/or social workers, as well as truancy officers, while Jewish students had somewhat better access to psychological and educational counselling.[26]

More important, during the past twelve years, relative investment in Arab education has far exceeded that in the Jewish sector resulting in a significantly larger expansion across the board: Teaching posts in pre-primary Arab education trebled, compared to a twofold increase in the Jewish sector; Arab primary education posts grew three times faster than their Jewish counterparts while the relative increase in Arab secondary education posts was six times higher than in the Jewish sector.[27]

Still more dramatic has been the story in higher education where the numbers of Arab graduates multiplied fifteen times between 1961 and 2001. Fifty years ago, a mere 4% of Arab teachers held academic degrees; by 1999, the figure had vaulted to 47%. In 1999, the proportion of Arab students studying for advanced degrees was 19%; a decade later 34% of Arab high school graduates passed the university entry exams. And while this figure is still lower than in the Jewish sector (48%), it is compensated by the much larger Arab presence in education colleges where Arab students occupy 33% of all places - way above their relative population share.[28]

Last but not least, during Israel's first fifty years of existence, adult illiteracy rates among Israeli Arabs dropped from 57.2% (79% among women) to 7.7% (11.7% among women).[29] This not only places Israeli Arabs miles ahead of their brothers in the Arab world - in Morocco illiteracy is at 44%, in Egypt at 38%, in Iraq at 22% - but reflects a pace of improvement nearly double that of the Jewish sector.[30]

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Chauvinist Radicalization

The preceding analysis proves the attribution of the October 2000 riots to social and economic deprivation to be totally misconceived. If indeed the culprits were poverty and second-class status, why had there never been any disturbances remotely like the October 2000 riots among similarly situated segments of Jewish society in Israel, or, for that matter, among Israeli Arabs in the much worse-off 1950s and 1960s? Why, indeed, did Arab dissidence increase dramatically with improvements in the standard of living, and why did it escalate into an open uprising after a decade that saw government allocations to Arab municipalities grow by 550 per cent, and the number of Arab civil servants nearly treble?

The truth is that the growing defiance of the state, its policies, and its values was not rooted in socioeconomic deprivation but rather in the steady radicalization of the Israeli Arab community by its ever more militant leadership, not unlike their mandatory predecessors.

The process began with the Six-Day war of June 1967. In the relatively relaxed aftermath of that conflict, Israeli Arabs came into renewed direct contact with their cousins in the West Bank and Gaza as well as with the wider Arab world. Family and social contacts broken in 1948 were restored, and a diverse network of social, economic, cultural, and political relations was formed. For the first time since 1948, Israeli Muslims were allowed by Arab states to participate in the sacred pilgrimage to Mecca and Medina, thus breaking an unofficial ostracism and restoring a sense of self-esteem and pan-Arab belonging - and encouraging a correlative degree of estrangement from Israel.

Six years later came the Yom Kippur war, shattering Israel's image as an invincible military power and tarnishing its international reputation. One result was quickly felt on the local political scene. During the 1950s and 1960s, most Arab voters had given their support to Israel's ruling Labour party and/or a string of associated Arab lists. This had already begun to change by 1969, when Raqah, a predominantly Arab communist party and a champion of radical anti-Israelism, made its successful electoral debut. By 1973, in elections held three months after the Yom Kippur war, Raqah (or Hadash, as it was later renamed) had become the dominant party in the Arab sector, winning 37% of the vote; four years later, it totally eclipsed its rivals with 51% of Arab ballots cast. By the late 1990s, things had moved so far in an anti-Israel direction that many Arabs, apparently finding Raqah/Hadash too tame, were shifting their allegiance to newer and still more militant parties.[38]

Nor did the PLO fail to capitalize on these internal developments. Founded in 1964, it had at first ignored the Israeli Arabs but soon embarked on a sustained effort to incorporate them into its struggle for Israel's destruction and, by the late 1960s, had recruited scores of young Israeli Arabs.[39] In January 1973, the Palestine National Council, the PLO's quasi-parliament, decided 'to strengthen the links of national unity and unity in struggle between the masses of our countrymen in the territory occupied in 1948' - i.e., Israel – 'and those in the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and outside the occupied territory'.[40] Things came to a head on 30 March 1976 in the form of mass riots - harbingers of worse to come. The occasion was the government's announced intention to appropriate some 5,000 acres of the Galilee for development. Though most of the land was owned either by the state or by private Jewish individuals, the announcement triggered a wave of violence that ended in the deaths of six Arab rioters and the wounding of dozens more. 'Land Day', as the disturbances came to be known, was thenceforth commemorated annually in renewed and increasingly violent demonstrations, often in collaboration with the PLO and its political affiliates in the West Bank.[41]

Meanwhile the 'Palestinization' of Israeli Arabs continued apace. In February 1978, scores of Palestinian intellectuals signed a public statement urging the establishment of a Palestinian state, and a year later, Israeli Arab students openly endorsed the PLO as 'the sole representative of the Palestinian people, including the Israeli Arabs', voicing support for the organization's pursuit of the 'armed struggle' (the standard euphemism for terror attacks), indeed for its commitment to Israel's destruction.[42] By 1976, less than half of Israeli Arabs defined themselves as Palestinians; by 1985 more than two thirds did.[43]

hat tip Daphne Anson 

cross posted Israel Thrives

Racists Pretending to Give a Damn About the Palestinians

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"I appreciate that there are casualties on both sides of this conflict, and indeed I grieve for the Israeli dead as I do for the Palestinian dead, but a war suggests that there are two armies involved in this conflict. There are not two armies. There is one army. It is a highly-trained and well-equipped army. Fighting this army are disparate groups of home-grown militia-men."

Senator Rhiannon quoting notorious clerical antizionist Fr David Smith  on Hamas war crimes and terrorism.



"Despite the grossly asymmetrical nature of the conflict, Palestinian armed groups are also under the obligation not to target civilians. We need to remember that violence perpetrated against Palestinian people is not just with rockets. The apartheid wall or separation barrier enclosing much of the West Bank is causing hardship and suffering. Banksy—the graffiti artist—on a visit to Palestine said the wall essentially turns Palestine into the world’s largest open prison"

Senator Rhiannon on Palestinian war crimes and terrorism (brought to you once again by Uncle Tom's Big Fat Cabin -- Australian Lodge)

Hamas on Palestinian war crimes terrorism and genocide.

Rhiannon and Smith don't give a toss for the Palestinian people. If they did they would be hollering for the liberation of these tragic people from the death grip of Hamas and the PLO.. For them this is about something else entirely.

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