Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Two State Solution is great, as long as you don’t sell to a jew


Palestinian Sentenced to Death for Selling a Home to Jews

Former Palestinian intelligence official Muhammad Abu Shahala has reportedly been sentenced to death by the Palestinian Authority for selling a Hebron home to Jews. In response, Jewish officials from the community in Hebron are calling for international officials now to get involved—in order to save Abu Shahala’s life.
“According to various news agencies, Mr. Muhammad Abu Shahala, a former intelligence agent for the Palestinian Authority, has been sentenced to death, following a hurried trial. His crime: selling property to Jews in Hebron,” David Wilder and Noam Arnon, of the Jewish community in Hebron, write in a letter addressed to Ban Ki-moon, Hillary Clinton, Benjamin Netanyahu, and other high ranking officials.
Meanwhile, the Supreme Court of Israel has upheld the right of ANYONE to buy land ANYWHERE in Israel.
SEVERAL TIMES
While this is going on…
CBS UNDER FIRE FOR ‘60 MINUTES’ SEGMENT ATTACKING ISRAEL
Christian leaders, Middle East experts, and observers on Capitol Hill are crying foul on a CBS News report that they say erroneously blamed Israel for the persecution and migration of Palestinian Christians.
The report by “60 Minutes” contributorBob Simon blamedIsraeli security policies for the outflow of Christian Palestinians from historically Christian areas such as Nazareth and Bethlehem.
In interviews with Palestinian Christian leaders and others, Simon concluded that Israel, through its settlements and security measures, is squeezing Middle Eastern Christians into obscurity.
The segment’s profound inaccuracies were startling, Christian leaders and other experts argued. Simon’s report, they say, whitewashed the extremist rhetoric of its various subjects and intentionally failed to tell the real story behind the West Bank’s Christian exodus—and the continuing growth in Israel’s Christian population.
“I find it incomprehensible for CBS to focus on one Christian population that is not actually shrinking and blame its troubles on the steps Israel is taking to protect itself from these same Islamic terrorists” who target Arab Christians, said David Brog, executive director of Christians United for Israel, one of the nation’s largest pro-Israel groups.
“They leave out the fact that the only Christian community that is thriving is the one in Israel,” said Brog, explaining that Christian minorities across the Middle East routinely face slaughter at the hands of Islamic extremists.
What is in human beings that powers this kind of urge?
Where some kind of self blame, or allied blame is a substitute for moral courage.
Where some kind of self blame, or allied blame is a substitute for objective observation of bitter truths?

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