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Jerusalem News 916. Views, Jews, Ten Tribes News
29 June 2010, 17 Tammuz 5770
Contents:
1. Turkey Admits to Killing 120 Kurds Last Month
2. European Nations Assist Palestinians in Stealing Jewish Land
3. Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the Liberation of Israel by Victor Davis Hanson
1. Turkey Admits to Killing 120 Kurds
Last Month
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138161
by Hana Levi Julian
Extracts:
Turkey admitted Friday to slaughtering as many as 120 Kurdish rebels in
raids on their hideouts in northern Iraq last month.
The Kurds have been using northern Iraq as a staging ground for attacks in their
26-year battle to create their own autonomous state in the southeastern portion
of Turkey. Turkish Kurdistan, or Northern Kurdista, comprises nearly a third of
the area of Turkey, including some 17 provinces, and is different from Iraqi
Kurdistan, which runs along its border.
The Turkish government does not allow education in the region's schools to take
place in the Kurdish language. Moreover, the language is barred from use in
parliament and other official settings.
As many as 40,000 people have died in the conflict, which has cost Turkey
hundreds of millions of dollars in defense spending at the expense of domestic
infrastructure projects such as the construction of hospitals and schools.
Allegations of Turkish brutality and the restriction of Kurdish rights have also
been instrumental in damaging the country's human rights record ? which has, in
turn, hurt its chances for entry into the European Union.
On the other side of the coin, most of the rebel fighters belong to the PKK, or
Kurdistan Workers Party. The organization has been labeled a terrorist group by
the West because it has murdered civilians in civilian bombings, arson and
assassination attacks.
According to the Turkish military, some 4,000 rebels are based just across the
border in Iraq, and another 2,500 operate inside Turkey.
2. European Nations Assist Palestinians
in Stealing Jewish Land
BUILDING in GUSH ETZION
Sharon Katz
Extracts:
Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Olive Tree Wars, Olive Tree Redemption
Right now Arabs, aided by international anarchists and NGO "humanitarian aid
organizations for Palestinians" are working land in Central Gush Etzion without
any interference. Currently Jewish Gush Etzion is only 4% of the entire region.
The Arabs and anarchists are pushing with determination to increase what is
already their 96%
portion of the area.
In Netzer, the mark of the Joint Advocacy Initiative (JAI) is on hundreds of
olive trees planted on Israeli State Land and Admot Seker (land whose ownership
has not been determined). The JAI is an initiative between the East Jerusalem
YMCA and YWCA of Palestine, launched in 2000. JAI says it engages "YWCA/YMCA,
Church members, and other constituents in resistance by sponsoring olive trees
and participating in other OTC activities."
The JAI is financed by donors in the Netherlands, Norway, Denmark, Sweden,
Japan, UK, Switzerland, USA, Ireland, and many others. Thus far, more than
50,000 Arab trees have been planted in Judea and Samaria as an action against
Israel's "unjust Israeli military practices."
A new sign at the entrance to Netzer boasts that the Netherlands is "reclaiming
123 dunams of land". The sign notes that the Land Research Center (LRC),
Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC), Union of Agricultural Work
Committees (UAWC) and Palestinian Hydrology Group (PHG) are working the land in
Central Gush Etzion. Thus far they have not been stopped by the Civil
Administration. The Palestinian Authority and the European Union view the Arab
reclamation of land in Judea and Samaria as a top priority.
3.Helen Thomas, Turkey, and the
Liberation of Israel
Victor Davis Hanson - National Review Online, June 11th, 2010
Extracts:
The world cares deeply about refugees, disputed territory, and divided cities,
when Israel is involved. Otherwise, otherwise. ...
Note that Ms. Thomas did not call for just a West Bank free of Jews. And she did
not just wish for the elimination of the nation of Israel itself. Rather, Thomas
envisions the departure of Israelis to the sites of the major death camps seven
decades ago where six million Jews were gassed.
Turkey's role in aiding and abetting the flotilla, and its subsequent
anti-Israeli outbursts, were excessive even by the often sick standards of the
Middle East, but not exactly new. State-run Turkish television has aired
virulent anti-Semitic dramas like the 2006 Valley of the Wolves, in which a
Jewish doctor harvests organs from captured Iraqi civilians.
Anti-Semitism as displayed by both Thomas and Turkey's leaders is not predicated
on criticizing Israel, much less disagreeing with its foreign policy. Instead,
it hinges upon focusing singularly on Israeli behavior, and applying a standard
to it that is never extended to any other nation.
There are plenty of disputes over borders and land in the world. But to Helen
Thomas or the Turkish government, Kashmir or the Russian-Chinese border matters
little, although the chances of escalation to nuclear confrontation are far
greater there than on the West Bank.... The Palestinian "refugees", a majority
of whom are the children, grandchildren, or great-grandchildren of people
actually displaced in 1948, compose a small part of the world's refugee
population. There are millions of refugees in Rwanda, the Congo, and Darfur.
Well over a half-million Jews were ethnically cleansed from the major Arab
capitals between 1947 and 1973, each wave of expulsion cresting after a
particular Mideast war. Again, few care to demonstrate for the plight of any of
these people. Prime Minister Erdogan has not led any global effort to relocate
the starving millions in Darfur, despite his loud concern for "refugees" in
Gaza. ...Few worry that in 1949 tens of thousands of Japanese were
forcibly expelled by the Soviet Union from Sakhalin
Island.
The world likewise cares little for the concept of "occupation" in the abstract;
it is only the concrete example of Palestine that earns its opprobrium. We can
be assured that President Obama will not bring up Ossetia with President Putin.
He will not raise the question of Tibet with the Chinese or occupied Cyprus with
Prime Minister Erdogan. Will Helen Thomas ever ask, "How can Turkey be allowed
to keep Nicosia a divided city?" Will she worry whether Greeks are allowed to
buy property in the Turkish sector of that capital?
...The United Nations is angrier at Israel for enforcing a blockade against its
terrorist neighbor than it is at Somalia for allowing pirates to kill and rob
right off its coast. There was not much of a global outcry when Iran hijacked a
British naval vessel; few in Turkey demonstrated when the French blew up a
Greenpeace protest vessel. "Disproportionate" is a term used to condemn Israeli
retaliation. It does not apply to other, far more violent reprisals, such as the
Russian leveling of Grozny, or the Turkish killing of Kurds, or occasional Hindu
mass rioting and murdering of Muslims in India. Does Prime Minister Erdogan wish
to allow "peace activists" to interview Kurds detained in his prisons, or to
adjudicate the status of Kurds, Armenians, or Christian religious figures who
live in Turkey?
Can we imagine a peace flotilla of Swedish and British leftists
sailing to Cyprus to "liberate" Greek land or investigate the "disappearance" of
thousands of Greeks in 1974? And if they did, what would happen to them? About
the same as would happen if they blocked a road to interdict a Turkish armored
column rolling into Kurdistan.
Nor do human-rights violations mean much any more. Iran executes more of its own
citizens each year than Israel has killed Palestinians in the course of war in
any given year. Syria murders whomever it pleases in Lebanon without worry that
any international body will ever condemn its action. I have heard a great deal
about the "massacre" or "slaughter" at Jenin, where 52 Palestinians and 23
Israelis died. Indeed, the 2002 propaganda film Jenin, Jenin was a big hit on
college campuses. But I have never seen a documentary Hama, Hama commemorating
the real 1982 slaughter of somewhere between 10,000 and 40,000 civilians by the
criminal Assad regime in Syria, with which we now so eagerly wish to restore
ties. I find a 1,000-to-1 fatality rule generally applies:
Each person killed by the Israel Defense
Forces warrants about as much international attention as 1,000 people killed by
Africans, Russians, Indians, Chinese, or Arabs.
I used to think that oil, Arab demography, fear of Islamic terrorism, and
blowback from its close association with the United States explained the global
double standard that is applied to Israel. But after the hysteria over the Gaza
flotilla, the outbursts of various members of the Turkish government, and Ms.
Thomas's candid revelations, I think the mad-dog hatred of Israel is more or
less because it is a Jewish state.
Period.
Let me explain. Intellectuals used to loudly condemn anti-Semitism because it
was largely associated with those deemed to be less sophisticated people, often
right-wing, who on either racial, nationalistic, or religious grounds regarded
Jews as undesirable. Hating Jews was a sign of boorish chauvinism, or of the
conspiratorial mind that exuded envy and jealousy of the more successful. But in
the last two decades especially, the Left has made anti-Semitism respectable in
intellectual circles. The fascistic nature of various Palestinian liberation
groups was forgotten, as the "occupied" Palestinians grafted their cause onto
that of American blacks, Mexican-Americans, and Asian-Americans. Slurring
post-Holocaust Jews was still infra dig, but damning the nation-state of Israel
as imperialistic and oppressive was considered principled. No one ever cared to
ask: Why Israel and not other, far more egregious examples? In other words, one
could now focus inordinately on the Jews by emphasizing that one's criticism was
predicated on cosmic issues of human rights and justice. And by defaming Israel
the nation, one could vent one's dislike of Jews without being stuck with the
traditional boorish label of anti-Semite. ...
(http://www.uc4i.org/news/?p=5588)
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