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In this mailing:
- Bassam Tawil: The Real
Palestinian Response to Trump's Jerusalem Speech
- Bruce Bawer: Homeless Swedes
Out in the Cold
- Alan M. Dershowitz: Why Trump Is
Right in Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's Capital
by Bassam Tawil • December 7,
2017 at 5:00 am
- By misrepresenting
the poster burning "ceremony" as a reflection of
widespread Palestinian rage concerning Trump's policy on
Jerusalem, the international media is once again complicit in
promoting the propaganda of Palestinian spin doctors. The
journalists, including photographers and camera crews, have
been handed detailed schedules of events that will take place
in different parts of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- When we sit in our
living rooms and watch the news coming out of the West Bank
and Gaza Strip, let us ask ourselves: How many of these
"events" are, in fact, media burlesques? Why are
journalists allowing themselves to be duped by the Palestinian
propaganda machine, which spews hatred and violence from
morning until night?
- It is high time for
some self-reflection on the part of the media: Do they really
wish to continue serving as a mouthpiece for those Arabs and
Muslims who intimidate and terrorize the West?
- The "rivers of
blood" we are being promised are flowing as we speak.
Yet, it is the knife that Arabs and Muslims take to one
another's throats that is the source of this crimson current,
not some statement made by a US president. Perhaps that could
finally be an event worth covering by the roving reporters of
the region?
The
handful of Palestinians in Bethlehem who were filmed burning
pictures of U.S. President Donald Trump on December 6 were made by
the media to look as if they were part of a mass protest sweeping
Palestinian communities. (Image source: CBS News video screenshot)
A short three hours after US President Donald Trump
phoned Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas to inform
him of his intention to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to
Jerusalem, a number of Palestinian photojournalists received a
phone call from Bethlehem.
The callers were Palestinian "activists,"
who invited the photographers to come to the city to document an
"important event." When the photographers arrived, they
discovered that the "important event" was a handful of
Palestinian "activists" who wanted to burn posters of
Trump in front of the cameras.
by Bruce Bawer • December 7, 2017
at 4:30 am
- One reason there are
so many immigrants in Sweden, both legal and illegal, is that
the country's welfare system is a bonanza for foreigners. Far
from not being covered by the system, immigrants often enjoy
preferential treatment
- These Swedes should
not be sleeping on the streets. The Scandinavian welfare
states were founded on a compact between the citizens and
their government: the people would pay outrageously high taxes,
and in return their government would guarantee them a
magnificent safety net should they get sick or get fired. But
ever since these countries chose to open their doors to mass
Muslim immigration, that compact has been broken.
- A state-employed
paper-pusher who gives citizens something for which they have
already paid can hardly feel particularly virtuous, whereas
handing out free stuff to aliens who have done absolutely
nothing to deserve it can make that same government
paper-pusher feel like a world-class Good Samaritan.
- Even more shattering
is that millions of those Scandinavian citizens accept it.
Marinated from birth in multiculturalism, millions of them
dare not demand what they have coming to them -- what they
have paid for, what they deserve -- lest they be viewed by
others, and even by themselves, as bigots.
A man begs
on the street in Lund, Sweden, July 23, 2013. (Image source:
Sigfrid Lundberg/Flickr)
The other day, I reported about the Church of
Sweden's strenuous efforts to appease Islam. Now comes the news
that from December 15 to March 15, churches in the diocese of
Gothenburg will be used at night as shelters for the homeless.
Lovely idea. But there is a catch. The only homeless people who
will be allowed in are foreigners -- either immigrants from
elsewhere in the EU, who are by definition legal, or illegal
immigrants from outside the EU. In other words, native Swedes need
not apply, even though the initiative is being paid for by taxpayer
money.
by Alan M. Dershowitz • December
7, 2017 at 4:00 am
President
Donald Trump displays the signed "Presidential Proclamation
Recognizing Jerusalem as the Capital of the State of Israel and
Relocating the United States Embassy to Israel to Jerusalem,"
on December 6, 2017, in Washington, D.C. (Image source: White House
video screenshot)
President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as
Israel's capital is a perfect response to President Obama's
benighted decision to change American policy by engineering the
United Nations Security Council Resolution declaring Judaism's
holiest places in Jerusalem to be occupied territory and a
"flagrant violation under international law." It was
President Obama who changed the status quo and made peace more
difficult, by handing the Palestinians enormous leverage in future
negotiations and disincentivizing them from making a compromised
peace.
It had long been American foreign policy to veto any
one-sided Security Council resolutions that declared Judaism's
holiest places to be illegally occupied. Obama's decision to change
that policy was not based on American interests or in the interests
of peace. It was done out of personal revenge against Prime
Minister Netanyahu and an act of pique by the outgoing president.
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