Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Behind the Headlines - February 2017

by Selma Alpert

UN HOSTILITY. In 2016 the UN passed 22 resolutions against Israel and
a total of 3 resolutions against all other nations. Then UNESCO voted that
the Temple Mount, site of the first and second Jewish temples in Jerusalem,
is a MUSLIM holy site, with no connection to Judaism or Christianity.
Rewriting history! Israel cut its financial support to the UN. Should we?
 
PAYING FOR TERRORISM?  The UN Rehab and Relief Agency schools 
are given $1.2 Billion annually.U.S. taxpayers pay about $400,000 of that. 
Islamic jihad, terrorism and hatred of Jews are taught to the young Palestinian 
students at those schools. Despite UNRWA’s slogan—“Peace Starts Here”
—in reality the organization promotes Islamist jihad, terrorism and hatred of 
Jews. UNRWA, founded to aid 750,000 Palestinian refugees displaced during
the Arab war opposing Jewish independence in 1948, has instead served to 
perpetuate andextend refugee status today to some five million people in Gaza, 
Judea and Samaria (the “West Bank”), Syria, Lebanon and Jordan. Many of its
30,000mostly Palestinian employees are members of the internationally designated
terror group Hamas.  Read more

Israel is bracing for another possible blow. The White House is said to be
considering a UN Security Council resolution to recognize a Palestinian
state. Congress was upset by the previous UN resolution that set the 1967
indefensible boundaries as legal borders. We hope the rumor is wrong.

HIGH HONOR. Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Weisenthal Center was
chosen by our next President to speak at the inauguration. He was one
of six men of faith to participate. Our 45th President has pledged to move
the U.S. embassy to Israel’s capital, Jerusalem.

PLO THREATS. Abbas claims the Temple Mount and the Church of the
Holy Sepulchre are “ours,” and “infidels, (Jews and Christians) have no right
to desecrate them with their filthy feet.” (Read more) He threatens violence.
However, violence was there even when Jerusalem was under Jordanian
rule. Israel, reborn in 1948, respects all religions and religious sites in
Jerusalem, its capital of 3000 years ago, centuries before Islam existed.
Israel has close to 2 million Israeli Arab citizens. Abbas will not accept a
Jewish nation and vows “not one Jew will live in Palestine.” Who’s racist?

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