http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/151105#.TxiGroEVi-U
The United States has condemned Palestinian Authority "doublespeak" and bluntly called on UNESCO to ensure no funds reach the entity.
Chana Ya'ar
The United States has condemned Palestinian Authority "doublespeak" and bluntly called on the United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization to ensure no funds reach the entity.
U.S. Ambassador to UNESCO David T. Killion made the statement following a report by the Palestinian Media Watch which exposed the glorification of Hitler by the Palestinian magazine Zayzafuna, funded by UNESCO.
The news was further reported by Arutz Sheva and other Israeli and Jewish media, and finally made international headlines, which led to international condemnation of UNESCO's funding of the PA.
Describing the February 2011 issue in which a teenage Palestinian Authority Arab girl wrote an essay "applauding Hitler for murdering Jews," Killion noted the U.N. agency "supplied some funding" to the magazine.
But, "Membership of UNESCO... comes with rights and responsibilities," the agency's director-general, Madame Irinia Bokova, said in a speech on December 13 in the presence of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
"It means sharing values - the values of tolerance, respect for others," Killion quoted from Bokova's speech, reminding her in a letter written on December 22, 2011, "You also said that you 'dream of joint educational textbooks on the history of shared ties to the land where Israelis and Palestinians live.'
"If you believe, as you told the audience, that '... Human dignity is our starting point and the measure of our success,' then you must take action imeimmediately to let the Palestinians know that the kind of anti-Semitic, anti-Israel venom their educational system and media is introducing to young Palestinians is not the way forward towards tolerance, respect and peace."
"UNESCO must let the Palestinian Authority know that this double-speak, using a message of peace for the international community, and another message for domestic consumption that teaches hatred, is unacceptable," wrote Killion. "I count on you to investigate whether UNESCO funding is, in fact, still being used to sponsor this Palestinian magazine; and, if so, to take the appropriate steps to end the international community's financing of such hatred through this organization."
In response to Killion's letter, UNESCO said it was "shocked and dismayed by the content of the February issue [of Zayzafuna] and has requested more detailed information and clarification from the editors of the magazine and to the Palestinian Authority. "UNESCO strongly deplores and condemns the reproduction of such inflammatory statements in a magazine associated with UNESCO's name and mission and will not provide any further support to the publication in question," the agency promised in a statement on its website dated December 23, 2011.
http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=505
Jesus misrepresented as "Muslim Palestinian"
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=479
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=635&fld_id=635&doc_id=1109
Mother: Son's death was "best day of my life" Um Nidal is filmed with her son, Muhammad, who is armed and ready to carry out a terror attack:
"By Allah, today is the best day of my life. I feel that our Lord is pleased with me, because I am offering something [my son] for Him. I wish to sacrifice more [sons] for Allah's forgiveness, and for the flag [of Islam], 'There is no god but Allah,' to fly over Palestine.... It's true that there's nothing more precious than children, but for the sake of Allah – what is precious becomes cheap."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/11135#.TxiDvYEVi-U
The Jews are in Israel by Right
The truth may not always win, but it is always right!
From Eli E. Hertz
Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister of Britain, called Israeli settlements "deliberate vandalism" at a press conference Tuesday, January 10, 2012.
Nick Clegg is turning international law on its head - attempting to rewrite history.
The quotes below reflect the current degree of ignorance and occasional just plain antisemitism when it comes to Israel, the only free and democratic country in the Middle East.
Great Britain was entrusted in 1922 by the League of Nations with the responsibility to administer Palestine - the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, in accordance with the provisions of the articles of the "Mandate for Palestine." The following two articles are the most relevant:
Article 5: "The Mandatory shall be responsible for seeing that no Palestine territory shall be ceded or leased to, or in any way placed under the control of the Government of any foreign power."
Article 6: "The administration of Palestine ... shall encourage ... close settlement by Jews on the land, including State land and waste land not required for public purpose."
"When it is asked what is meant by the development of the Jewish National Home in Palestine, it may be answered that it is not the imposition of a Jewish nationality upon the inhabitants of Palestine as a whole, but the further development of the existing Jewish community, with the assistance of Jews in other parts of the world, in order that it may become a centre in which the Jewish people as a whole may take, on grounds of religion and race, an interest and a pride. But in order that this community should have the best prospect of free development and provide a full opportunity for the Jewish people to display its capacities, it is essential that it should know that it is in Palestine as of right and not on sufferance. That is the reason why it is necessary that the existence of a Jewish National Home in Palestine should be internationally guaranteed and that it should be formally recognized to rest upon ancient historic connection."
Winston Churchill
British Secretary of State for the Colonies
June 1922
Lord Caradon, former British Ambassador to the UN, and the principal author of UN Security Council Resolution 242, made it clear in 1974:
"It would have been wrong to demand that Israel return to its positions of 4 June 1967. ... That's why we didn't demand that the Israelis return to them and I think we were right not to."
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