Opuscula CHUTZPAH ! PA terrorists expect Israeli hospitals’ To save their lives

THEN THEY INCITE THEIR PEOPLE TO KILL ISRAELIS.

It boggles the mind the absolute gall, the chutzpah; in other words,
arrogance
brass
brazenness
cheek
conceit
effrontery
guts
haughtiness
impertinence
impudence
insolence
presumption.

The PA’s chief spokesperson against Israel has checked into an Israeli hospital in hopes of getting a life-saving lung transplant.

The Ministry of Health and the National Transplant Center made clear on Tuesday that senior Palestinian Authority (PA) official Saeb Erekat will only be permitted to undergo a lung transplant in Israel under very rare circumstances, according to the Arutz 7 site.

Why don’t these people who demonize Jews want to eliminate Israel go to a Muslim country for treatment? Surely there are good Muslim doctors in the more “enlightened” Muslim countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Emirates, and Dubai; what about Turkey?

Russia is trying to make its presence felt in the mid-east again; won’t the Russians foot the bill to transport PA executives and their families to Russian hospitals?

Aren’t they worried that the Israeli medical personnel — Arab and Jew — will send them to their graves?

Erekat is not the only one who wants to kill all Jews and eliminate any hint that Israel exists.

The hospitalization of the sister of Hamas’ Abu Marzouk is the latest case of a relative of a member of the terror group being treated in Israel despite a toxic relationship with the Jewish state.

The incident marks the latest in a series of medical treatments Israel has offered to the families of Hamas leaders.

Even at times of open hostilities, Hamas and PA officials do not hesitate to seek treatment in Israeli hospitals for themselves and their loved ones. And Israel accommodates them, allowing them to cross the borders for humanitarian purposes.

Ismail Haniyeh’s daughter was hospitalized at Tel Aviv’s Ichilov Hospital for “a number of days,” according to a hospital spokesman. The hospital did not disclose her medical condition, but Reuters reported the treatment followed complications during a standard medical procedure the woman had undergone in Gaza.

In June, Haniyeh’s 68-year-old mother-in-law was treated in Augusta Victoria Hospital, near Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.

The brother-in-law of PA President Abu Mazen (a/k/a Mahmoud Abbas) underwent life-saving heart surgery at a private hospital in Tel Aviv.

Doctors in Israel performed surgery on Abu Mazen's' wife, Amina Abbas, at a private clinic near Tel Aviv over the weekend, coinciding with the search for the three murdered teens, Eyal Yifrah, Naftali Frenkel, and Gilad Sha’ar by Palestinian terrorists.

Despite Israel treating PA and Hamas' officials near kin, the Middle east Monitor contends that The former head of the World Health Organisation’s cancer programme, Professor Karol Sikora, predicted that advances in genetics means doctors will soon be able to prescribe medicines targeting each individual’s cancer.

This is wonderful news for all cancer patients; all, that is, except those who live in the Gaza Strip, especially women with breast cancer. This is now the biggest killer of Palestinian women in the besieged territory, not least because the heartless Israeli authorities refuse to let them pass through checkpoints for life-saving treatment.

It’s not just PA and Hamas’ leaders kin that find care in Israeli hospitals. Hundreds of Syrians injured in the Muslim-vs.-Muslim war make their way to the Israel border where they initially are treated by IDF medical personnel. Those that need additional care are transferred — by Israel at Israelis’ expense — to appropriate hospitals where they are treated — at Israelis’ expense.

PA doctors train at Jewish hospitals, notably Hadassah in Jerusalem, continuing a tradition that preceded statehood. Once trained, these doctors are expected to return to PA territory.

The Arab leadership can only be described as schizophrenic.

On the one hand, they want Israel desroyed and all Jews — and a few Israeli Arabs as well — killed … driven into the sea.

On the other hand, the “leadership” of the PA terroritories and Gaza travel to Israel (Erekat) and send their near kin to Israel for medical treatment.

Palestinians travel to Europe and other Muslim states daily via Israel’s main international airport (Lod). Gazans can travel to Egypt, and from there travel to any country that will have them.

THEY DO NOT NEED TO SEEK TREATMENT IN ISRAEL and Israel never should be expected — or feel the need — to treat the leadership of peope sworn to destroy Israel.

It is obvious to even the most anti-Israel bigot that treating PA and Hamas’ leadership only increases hatred for the only country in the middle east that offers freedom to all its citizens.

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Opuscula Member of Knesset Victim of "apartheid" Does not compute

 

IF ISRAEL IS AN "APARTHEID' STATE, how it is that it has non-Jews in its government?

One of the "victims of Israeli apartheid" - Member of Knesset (MK) Hanin Zoabi - is to speak at a Columbia University panel on: "Israel, Racism and Apartheid."

The fact that she is a member of the country's governing body - despite promoting anarchy - makes a lie of any claims that Israel is an "apartheid" state.

Not by race, not by religion, not even by politics.

What about the fence?

If the fence separating terrorists in the Palestine Authority areas makes Israel an "apartheid" state, then the U.S., with its fence to try to keep out Mexicans - those with weapons and drugs and those who simply want more money in their jeans - is an "apartheid" state.

What about jobs?

My daughter's apartment building in Yavne - distant from any PA-controlled area, was built largely by workers from the PA-controlled areas who legally enter Israel each day to earn wages far above those they can earn at home. (Israel no longer is the "Zionist state" envisioned by the pioneers of the first and second aliyot where Jews did all the jobs; now low paying, hard labor jobs go to imported workers - some from the PA-controlled areas, others from Pacific rim countries. I think that is bad for Israel, but the Israeli Jew of today simply won't do the work.)

What about the military?

In order to "get ahead" in a job, a male must have served in the Israel Defense Force (IDF). If he was an officer, so much the better. There ARE a few Arabs - Muslims and Christians - in the IDF; there are many Druze in the IDF, a few making general grade. Unfortunately, most Muslim Arab men avoid the IDF - unlike a Jewish Israeli, they are not drafted into the IDF. These same Muslim Arab men also refuse national service (in lieu of military service) EVEN IN THEIR OWN COMMUNITIES!

What about education?

Look at MK Zoabi's CV: She studied philosophy and psychology at the University of Haifa, earning a Bachelors of Arts, and received a Masters of Arts in communications from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She was the first Arab citizen of Israel to graduate in media studies, and established the first media classes in Arab schools. She also worked as a mathematics teacher and worked as a school inspector for the Israeli Ministry of Education. (Source: Haneen Zoabi biography also Knesset overview)

Muslim students dominate Haifa University and are represented in ALL Israeli universities and scientific institutions.

What about trade?

When Hamas in Gaza stops firing missiles at Israeli civilian targets, the border is opened and goods flow IN BOTH DIRECTIONS - Gaza farmers ship produce to Israel and the PA.

What about travel?

Israeli Arabs are limited in their international travels only by the countries that accept Israeli travel documents. Arabs from PA-controlled areas routinely get permission to enter Israel to travel internationally via Israel's main airport or to Jordan via the Allenby/King Hussein Bridge. Israeli Arabs DO visit countries that are sworn to Israel's destruction, but they pay a price on their return (interrogation by Israeli security forces). (Consider the reception an American citizen gets when returning to the States from North Korea or Iran. No difference.)

What about medical care?

There is NO distinction made between an Israeli Jew and an Israeli Arab in Israeli public hospitals. (First hand experience.) Muslims from the PA-controlled territory and Hamas-controlled Gaza are treated in Israeli hospitals and allowed to return home unmolested. The PA's dictator's mother was recently treated in an Israeli hospital. Citizens of neighboring countries - notably Lebanon and Syria - are routinely treated at Israeli hospitals DESPITE their countries being in a state of war with Israel.

UNLIKE THE PA-CONTROLLED AREAS there are NO restrictions on where anyone can live in Israel. Muslims do tend to congregate in their own communities, just as almost all groups of people with common interests; but they are NOT restricted to any area. Jews are not welcome in PA-controlled areas and the PA's leadership has repeatedly vowed that a Palestinian state would be free of Jews.

 

DON'T TELL ME
ISRAEL IS AN
"APARTHEID" STATE.

 

Apartheid

Apartheid (Afrikaans pronunciation: [ɐˈpartɦɛit]; an Afrikaans word meaning "the state of being apart", literally "apart-hood") was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced through legislation by the National Party (NP), the governing party from 1948 to 1994. Under apartheid, the rights, associations, and movements of the majority black inhabitants and other ethnic groups were curtailed and Afrikaner minority rule was maintained. Apartheid was developed after World War II by the Afrikaner-dominated National Party and Broederbond organizations. The ideology was also enforced in South West Africa, which was administered by South Africa under a League of Nations mandate (revoked in 1966 via United Nations Resolution 2145),until it gained independence as Namibia in 1990. By extension, the term is currently used for forms of systematic segregation, established by the state authority in a country, against the social and civil rights of a certain group of citizens, due to ethnic prejudices.

Who will be hurt? PA boycotts Israeli food But not power, medicine

 

WE DON'T CARE IF OUR PEOPLE HAVE TO EAT GRASS, IT WON'T BE ISRAELI GRASS.

In a Times of Israel/Start-up Daily article heded PA announces boycott of Israeli food manufacturers readers learn that The PA ruled that it would ban the sale of products made by Israeli food manufacturers Strauss, Tnuva, Osem, Prigat, and Jafora, senior Fatah official Mahmoud al-Alul said at a press conference. He said the move would take effect on Wednesday.

Al-Alul and his masters made the move in retaliation for Jerusalem’s freeze of Palestinian tax funds collected on Ramallah’s behalf.

Why are the nasty Israel's withholding tax monies? Israel claims because of the PA moves to bring Israel before the International Criminal Court for war crimes committed when it defended itself against attacks from Gaza and because the PA, in defiance of the so-called Oslo Accords, is pushing for full membership in the anti-Semitic UN. Imagine.

Ignoring the current reasons for the freeze on taxes to the PA, Israel still is owned millions of shekels for electricity, a debt that has been passed on to the Israeli electric user in the form of higher rates.

And then there is the humanitarian aid given both high ranking PA officials and their families and the average PA citizen who come to Israel for medical care unavailable in the PA controlled areas.

As for me, I will make it a point to buy the boycotted products wherever they are available; I don't care how many pounds I put on eating Osem snacks and drinking Prigat grapefruit drink.

If the PA wants to boycott some of Israel's products, I think Israel should cut off all sales to the PA. At the same time, assure that PA residents who have permits to work in Israel don't smuggle any Israeli-made products into the PA and perhaps set up currency exchanges so PA laborers exchange Israeli currency for PA currency on their way home.

To be fair, if PA residents are prohibited from receiving medical training and care in Israel, Israel must provide a corridor between Ramallah and Jordan where PA residents can go for medical care.

Unlike their sympathizers in Europe and North America who have alternatives to Strauss, Tnuva, Osem, Prigat, and Jafora products, the residents of the PA have far fewer options, albeit there ARE options.

Just a thought.

Opuscula Great idea Dies at birth

 

Choose your headlines:

   Egypt offers Abbas a Palestinian state in Sinai

   Sisi Offered Abbas: Create Palestinian State in Sinai

   Egypt: Establish Palestinian State in Sinai

Unfortunately, there were later headlines, including

   El-Sisi denies claims he’ll give Sinai land to Palestinians

   Egypt Denies Offering Land for ‘Sinai State of Palestine’

Good as it seemed, the plan if it was proposed would never be accepted by the PA politicians or the "West Bank" Muslims.

Just as we refused to accept the English offer to carve a Jewish homeland out of Uganda, the indigenous Muslims of the area controlled by the PA will never accept any land other than the land they are on now. Unlike the Jews under Israeli government control, no one will send a PA army in to forcibly remove Muslims from the homes they have occupied since the area was controlled by Jordan.

It could have been a win-win-win if (a) el-Sisi had indeed made the offer and (b) Abu Mazen and the former residents of Jordan had accepted.

The plan would have united all PA territories into one large, viable unit.

The plan would have given a united PA the ability to create sea ports in Gaza and on the Suez.

The plan would have given a united PA at least one airport - albeit one that needs substantial repair.

The plan would have given former Jordanian citizens new, modern homes compliments of the UN, EU, possibly the Arab states - especially those who want to empty the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) camps festering within their borders. New homes are contingent on the PA rulers making certain building materials are used for buildings and not tunnels or bunkers from which to fire missiles at Egypt and Israel.

The downside is that Abu Mazen would be face-to-face with his nemesis Hamas. He has proven he cannot control Hamas and he cannot prevent attacks on Israel and Egypt by Hamas.

More, the new country would be between two others it has made enemies: Egypt and Israel. Given the cooperation between the two against Hamas, the new country could could be squeezed by the two armies into a quiet, if not peaceful, state.

On top of that, the alleged offer from el-Sisi came with a rope - not just a string - attached; the former Jordanians would have to forego - give up - any demands that Israel return to its earlier borders. Any hope to have the historic Jewish capital become even a shared capital would be lost.

The real roadblocks - assuming el-Sisi did make the offer - are that

(a) The PA would lose its raison d'etre, its reason to exist.

(b) The PA would lose its claim to Israeli land, including the so-called "West Bank" captured from Jordan following the latter's invasion of Israel.

(c) The anti-Semites would lose one reason to hate Jews and Israel - they should be able to afford to give up one reason; they have imagined so many.

(d) The relocated Muslims would have to work to make the Sinai blossom; to irrigate and plant new olive trees and fruit orchards.

ON THE OTHER HAND, the Sinai has oil fields. Oil fields already in place. The map, below, shows known oil reserves. The relocated "Palestinians" could hire contractors to extract the oil and pay royalties to the residents (assuming any would get past the leadership's pockets).

It would be interesting to see how the former citizens of Jordan would vote if all the options - all the pros and all the cons of relocation - were presented to them honestly.

From Israel's perspective, creating a Palestinian state in the Sinai, to include Gaza, would have been a positive move. For the former Jordanians with foresight or greed, the move also would be a positive. For the Islamists and PA politicians, this could, if they played their cards right, also reward them with oil money and money that could be diverted to tunnels and rockets. I don't know what Egypt expected to gain; perhaps putting the PA on the hot seat to maintain a "no fire zone" in the Sinai where today bandits roam freely.

Islamist* dance

 

According to a report in the Global Security Newswire headed Assad Sets Conditions on Relinquishing Chemical Arms, the Syrian president said his nation would give up its chemical arms “only if the United States ends any weapons deliveries to opposition forces and ceases its ‘threatening’ behavior.”

Put conditions on everything and do nothing.

Sounds like Bashar Al Assad’s buddy in Iran, Ruhollah Mostafavi Musavi Khomeini, a/k/a Grand Ayatollah and his nuclear games.

And then there is the terrorist Abu Mazen of the so called Palestinian Authority who demands that Israel make concessions and, when the Israeli prime minister du jour caves under US and leftist pressure, the terrorist adds more demands.

It’s the Islamist dance.

* Iranians are quick to tell us they are not Arabs; Muslims yes, Arabs no, hence “Islamist.”

What is particularly interesting about Assad’s two-step is that while he is pressing for to halt the weapons flow to the insurgents, he will continue to receive weapons from his allies – Iran and Russia. These weapons can be used against both the locals and Israel.

What I fail to understand is what he calls Obungler’s “threatening’ behavior.” The incumbent at 1600 Pennsylvania has emasculated the country and truly made it what the Chinese called it decades ago: a paper tiger of no consequence.

On the other hand, most Israelis – except perhaps Obungler’s alter ego in the prime minister’s office, and the left wing – now understand that they cannot depend on the United States for anything, certainly not as long as the White House and State Department are Islamist sympathizers.

Obungler managed to put his foot in his mouth and embarrassed the United States by making threats he won’t carry out.

Then he comes crawling to the Congress in hopes it will share the blame for his stupidity.

“Well,” he tells the world, “I can’t do anything until Congress gets back from its latest vacation.”

Meanwhile, one on-line poll shows that at least 91 percent of all respondents do NOT think the U.S. should attack Syria.

Is Syria a threat to the U.S.? Not hardly. Certainly it can be a jumping off point for Islamist terrorists, but the U.S. has its own homegrown Islamist terrorists (or is Islamist and terrorist redundant?).

Does Syria have anything the U.S. wants? No.

“Well,” we are told by Obungler & Friends, “the U.S. must act for humanitarian reasons.”

OK. So …

1. Why wait until now? Syria’s civil war is more than 2 years old.
2. Why didn’t Obungler threaten Sudan (see UN Human Rights Council and Darfurian Voices
3. Why doesn’t Obungler press for a Kurdish state? Kurds are victims in Syria, Turkey, and elsewhere.
4. Why doesn’t Obungler point the finger at the Muslims in Aza or in Lebanon/Syria who randomly fire rockets at Israeli civilians and Hamas in Aza who murder Egyptian policemen at their posts.
5. What about North Korea? In September 2011, the Harvard International Review published an article which argued that North Korea was violating the UN Genocide Convention in every possible way, through its systematic killing of half-Chinese babies and religious groups.[
6. And Somalia. The Social Science Research Council (2007) reported genocidal killings committed against Somalia's Bantu population and Jubba Valley dwellers from 1991 onwards noting that "Somalia is a rare case in which genocidal acts were carried out by militias in the utter absence of a governing state structure

Why is it that chemical weapons are bad, but bullets, bombs, missiles, and other killing devices are OK?

Never mind that Obungler allowed the attack on the U.S. consulate in Libya go unpunished. Shades of Jimmy (Peanut Brain) Carter.

While North Korea is not an Islamist state, it uses the Islamist delaying tactic to keep the U.S. at bay while the North threatens the South.

I am reminded of the Arpege perfume commercial: Promise her anything, but give her Arpege. Promise the U.S. anything, and like an ingénue, the U.S. will believe and will coninue to believe the promises even after they are broken time and time again.

Obungler has done somethiing right – by accident. So far he has only used his hot air against Syria. At the same time, he has made the U.S. a laughing stocvk among nations that understand only force, a heavy hand.

The Arabs and Persians and Koreans all respect only a heavy hand. Unfortunately, the day when Teddy Roosevelt could “speak softly and carry a big stick” (with the so-called “Great White Fleet”) are long gone.

America’s political fall from power didn’t start with Obungler – it goes back to charmin’ Jack and his “youth in Asia” plan (incorrectly applied to LBJ) – but the current president certainly has exasperated matters.

Turns out there is a post script to this. Since the above was cobbled together he other day, Assad has added more conditions, including that Israel must join in renouncing use of chemical weapons and allow unbiased (that's a joke) UN inspectors to review whatever chemical weapons Israel might possess. Meanwhile, Assad's stockpile gets moved around - likely to Iran.