The BDS Movement - a cunning trick on the believers and an excuse for the disbelievers

It seems that every other day someone else jumps onto the bandwagon of boycotting 'Israel' with the aim of deterring it from its plans of total annihilation in Palestine so that it may expand and consume its human and material resources.

We must not be overtaken by emotion and follow devoid of any forethought. Allah (swt) says: "Jihad (holy fighting in Allah's Cause) is ordained for you (Muslims) though you dislike it, and it may be that you dislike a thing which is good for you and that you like a thing which is bad for you. Allah knows but you do not know." (2:216)

It may seem as if the BDS movement is a movement defending Muslims and Al-Aqsa, however Allah (swt) is telling us that there are certain things that may seem from appearance that they are good but in fact they are bad. 

We should already know that every problem man faces in life, Allah (swt) has given its solution via the beloved Messenger of Allah (saw). The issue of Palestine, the Muslims and Al-Aqsa is an issue for the entire Ummah. Therefore we should seek the solution from Islam, and this solution is the permanent solution. 

We can quite clearly see that the Muslims in Palestine do not have the capability to remove the occupation and therefore the responsibility is placed on the surrounding Muslims, a duty of sufficiency. However the barrier to such liberation is the lack of unity, the grip of the despot leaders , the scarcity of understanding and ultimately the absence of an Imam (Caliph) to lead the Ummah.

The BDS movement creates a false sense of relief for the Ummah, and inaction from international powers and organisations. The facts show us that it is the Americans and the Zionists within congress are those who break-even the balances of 'Israel'. Every year the aid is increased to cover any lack of finance for the previous year and the money spent on destroying the Muslims in Palestine.  

In the summary of U.S Aid to Israel by the Congressional Research Service it states:

Israel is the largest cumulative recipient of U.S. foreign assistance since World War II. To date, the United States has provided Israel $124.3 billion (current, or non-inflation-adjusted, dollars) in bilateral assistance 

It goes on to state a number of other agreements that see 'Israel' receiving aid which the BDS movement could only dream of reaching its numbers. The annual FMF (Foreign Military Finance) is now increasing by 1 billion dollars.

Israeli media sources have said that the United States and Israel have held “preliminary” discussions over future military assistance with Israel seeking between $4.2 billion and $4.5 billion in annual FMF. 

Is this increase in aid for 'Israel' worth it for the Americans? Well of course! Why you ask?

• It nullifies nations from seeking justice on behalf of the Palestinians through international law.
• Allows the politicians in 'Israel' to stoke up hatred between the 'Zionists and the others', creating an "us and them" mentality, to push through draconian laws and further slaughter of Palestinian Muslims in cold blood without warrant or accountability.
• Gives the Zionist congress in America further reason to increase their support for the illegal entity, and thus bankrolling any new military development for defending their 'homeland'.
• Allows the U.S. to test out its latest advancements in military technology against the Muslims who are unarmed and unequipped. 

The longer we stay idle on this oppression and seek justice from other than Islam, the humiliation will continue and our noses will be rubbed in the dirt on the Day of Judgement while those who have been martyred in Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza and all over, shall get the justice they deserve, Paradise. 

“We were the most humiliated people on earth and Allah gave us honour through Islam. If we ever seek honour through anything else, Allah will humiliate us again.” Umar ibn al Khattab (ra).

Undercover Israeli troops storm hospital and kill injured Muslim in cold blood - VIDEO

Undercover Israeli Special Forces shot dead a Palestinian man inside a hospital in occupied West Bank Thursday, Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

The deceased was identified as Abdullah Shalaldeh, 27, who was killed at the Al-Ahli Hospital in Hebron city.

"Around 20 undercover Israeli forces stormed the hospital, terrorized and threatened the medical staff, and then stormed the room of Azzam Shalaldeh, who was shot last month by Israeli settlers," Al-Ahli Hospital Director Jihad Shawer told Anadolu Agency.

"His cousin Abdullah who was in the bathroom was executed with four bullets in the head, chest and hand," Shawer said. He was performing ablution for prayer, and died in a state of purity, subhan'Allah.

Israel's Shin Bet domestic security agency issued a statement afterwards saying it "will not permit terror operatives to hide in any places of refuge".

Sisi shoots his foot again, but don't worry it's still metal plated and 'Made in America'

It was not long ago when Sisi carried out a coup d'état in Egypt and took to the throne. He carried out certain actions that didn't help his image, such as the closure of tunnels that served as a lifeline for the Palestinians in Gaza with recently around 521 tunnels having been discovered and closed. He ordered the demolishment of all facilities and housing within the buffer zone (500m or 0.3 miles, west of the Gaza Strip) and vowed that he would compensate those who have lost their homes and businesses - yet he has not delivered his promise and left thousands homeless not unlike 'Israel' (Occupied Palestine) who extend their settlement boundaries and do the same.

The recent death sentence to many handed down en-masse as well as to ousted Muslim Brotherhood leader, Morsi, means that not only does it make it difficult to engage with Sisi locally but also internationally he is having issues with making friends. President of Germany, Norbert Lammert,  has expressed no interest in meeting the Egyptian leader stating that his human rights record nor the democratic evolution of Egypt shows any progress.

It begs the question to why Sisi was put in there in the first place. US's hollow rhetoric regarding his coup expressed implicit blessings and why not? He has managed to achieve those things that other Presidents failed to deliver for the U.S. in such a short space of time. It seems as if he is the man of action for the West and not to mention the cooperation in the war on Muslims in Libya, his public abhorrence of the Islamic texts (Including the Quran) which he thinks have been wrongly sacralized by the masses etc.






Sources:
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/europe/18792-president-of-german-parliament-explains-refusal-to-meet-al-sisi

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/04/egypt-sinai-gaza-tunnels-sanctions-sisi-terrorist.html

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-says-it-has-discovered-521-tunnels-gaza-strip-1874990106

Netanyahu taking advantage of UNHRC chairman resignation to bypass legal proceedings against mass killing of Palestinians

http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/head-un-inquiry-gaza-war-crimes-quit-over-israeli-claim-bias

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday said that a probe by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) into last year's Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip should be shelved in light of the recent resignation of inquiry commission head William Schabas.

"After the resignation of the committee chairman, who was biased against Israel, the report that was written at the behest of the UNHRC… needs to be shelved," Netanyahu said in a statement, slamming the rights council as "an anti-Israel body” with decisions that “has nothing to do with human rights."

Schabas was appointed last August by the head of the United Nations Human Rights Council to lead a three-member group looking into Israeli war crimes during the 51-day assault on the coastal enclave.

In a letter to the commission, a copy of which was seen by Reuters, Schabas said he would step down immediately to prevent the issue from overshadowing the preparation of the report and its findings, which are due to be published in March.

Schabas' departure highlights the sensitivity of the UN investigation just weeks after prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in The Hague said they had started a preliminary inquiry into atrocities in the Palestinian territories.

"This is the same council that in 2014 made more decisions against Israel than against Iran, Syria and North Korea combined," Netanyahu asserted.

"It is Hamas, the other terrorist organizations and the terrorist regimes around us that need to be investigated, not Israel," he added.

More than 2,310 Gazans, 70 percent of them civilians, were killed and 10,626 injured during unrelenting Israeli attacks on the besieged strip this summer.

According to the UN, the Israeli military killed at least 495 Palestinian children in Gaza during “Operation Protective Edge.” The al-Mezan Center for Human Rights puts the number at 518, while the Palestinian Center for Human Rights puts it at 519. All three figures exceed the total number of Israelis, civilians and soldiers, killed by Palestinians in the last decade.

The besieged enclave has also seen widespread destruction of its infrastructure, reaching levels of devastation that UN chief Ban Ki-moon called “beyond description” in a visit to the Strip on October 14.

Schabas' resignation is "the inevitable result of Israeli… pressure on the commission," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement.

"Israeli pressure aims at preventing any legal action that would reveal the truth about Israeli crimes [during the Gaza onslaught]," he added.

Barhoum urged the UN to go ahead with the probe and not to bow to "any pressure or blackmail against its investigative committees."

For his part, Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman hailed Schabas' resignation, saying it was a "victory" for the Zionist state.

"It is an Israeli diplomatic victory. However, it will not change the probe's conclusions," he said.

He added that the appointment of Schabas to investigate last year's war against Gaza was like "appointing Cain to investigate who killed Abel."

Israel had long criticized Schabas' appointment, citing consultancy work he did for the Palestine Liberation Organization as well as his record as a strong critic of the Zionist state and its current political leadership.

In the letter, Schabas said a legal opinion he wrote for the Palestine Liberation Organization in 2012, for which he was paid $1,300, was not different from advice he had given to many other governments and organizations.

"My views on Israel and Palestine as well as on many other issues were well known and very public," he wrote. "This work in defense of human rights appears to have made me a huge target for malicious attacks."

Schabas said his work for the PLO had prompted the Human Rights Council's executive on Monday to seek legal advice about his position from UN headquarters.

"I believe that it is difficult for the work to continue while a procedure is underway to consider whether the chair of the commission should be removed," he wrote.

The commission had largely finished gathering evidence and had begun writing the report, he added.

The commission is looking into the behavior of both the Israelis and of Hamas, the resistance movement that controls Gaza.

The appointment of Schabas, who lives in Britain and teaches international law at Middlesex University, was welcomed at the time by Hamas but was harshly criticized by Zionist groups in the United States.

Schabas had said at the time he was determined to put aside any views about "things that have gone on in the past.”

Israel's detached society needing cantonization to survive

http://electronicintifada.net/content/could-cantonizing-palestine-bring-peace/14204

An interesting plan for dividing Israel into provinces was published a few months ago byHaaretz. It suggested a remedy for the fragmentation of Israeli society and its failure to create a melting pot for Jews immigrating to Palestine.

In this article I provide a critique of the pros and cons of this plan and offer an alternative. The scheme, laid out by Carlo Strenger and Judd Yadid in a 7 October 2014 article entitled “How Cantonization can save Israel,” admits that Israel’s leaders failed “to impose a monolithic ideological and cultural hegemony on the country’s population.” The Ultra-Orthodox Jews, for example, were not “converted into card-carrying Zionists.” Tel Aviv residents will not “put up with marriage laws” with a foreign and invasive nature.

Strenger and Yadid find that the answer to “the country’s myriad identities” is to quarantine “the feuding peoples of Israel” into several different provinces with different regional powers with which they would exercise the life they are used to, according to their cultural and religious values. Or perhaps, more practically, they could continue to live as they did in their mother countries before they emigrated to Palestine, ranging from ghettos in Eastern Europe to affluent neighborhoods in London.

If this looks like a stark admission of the failure of “in-gathering of the exiles,” Israel’s President Reuven Rivlin was not mincing words when he declared at a conference on racism and hatred in Jerusalem last October that “Israel is a sick society with an illness that demands treatment.”

The lack of homogeneity in Israel is not surprising; the Jewish immigrants came to Palestine from 110 countries and they spoke more than eighty languages and dialects. Many of them continued their traditional ways, even though they learned modern Hebrew and their youth joined the army. The army was supposed to be the perfect melting pot for forging unity among immigrants against a common enemy, the Arabs, among whom they found themselves when they settled in Palestine. The conflicting backgrounds and diverse origins of the Israelis have been the subject of many studies. There are dozens of books, almost all by Jewish authors, on the fragmentation of the Israeli society, the failure of the melting pot, the ideological and economic bankruptcy of the kibbutz, the crises of “Israeli” identity, the founding myths of Israel, the invention of the Jewish people and the “Land of Israel,” the meaning of “post-Zionism,” the military character of Israel, the exploitation of the Holocaust and the mythical narrative of Israel’s birth and the attending denial of the Nakba – the 1948 ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians.[1]

Dividing Israel to save it

This cantonization scheme is probably the first time that a Zionist proposal is made to separate the diverse groups geographically and legally at the “province” level. It probably aspires to resemble the Canadian provincial system with the obvious difference that the proposed Israeli provinces are tiny slivers of land, more like a British borough than the vast regions of Canada. Even so, the scheme represents optimism that present-day Israel, excluding the West Bank and Gaza, but including occupied East Jerusalem and Syria’s Golan Heights, can be divided into twelve provinces (see Map 1 below).

Map 1: Proposed division of present-day Israel into ten Jewish and two Arab provinces, showing total Jewish and Arab populations.

 (Salman Abu Sitta)

Carmel province on the coastal plain, also seen on the same map, is designed to drown the large Palestinian presence in the Little Triangle with a population of 350,000 in 55 villages among one million Jews.[2]

This is the population that Israel’s foreign minister, the racist Avigdor Lieberman, an immigrant from Moldova and leader of the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu, wants to expel from their homeland under the guise of a land swap. Gideon Biger, a Russian and a political geographer at Tel Aviv University, is his planner for ethnic cleansing. The junior author of the scheme, Judd Yadid, South African-born and Australia-raised, works at Tel Aviv University, where he wrote his master’s thesis under Biger.

In summary, this Zionist cantonization scheme would, if implemented, allow 99 percent of Jews to live in ten Jewish provinces which account for 95 percent of Israel’s area where they can enact their own regional laws in education, health, religion, culture, language and the like. With them would live 58 percent (835,000) of Palestinian citizens of Israel under purely Jewish laws without any influence on their own affairs.

Only 42 percent of Palestinians (600,000) would live in Palestinian areas (five percent of Israel’s area), where they could run their own local affairs, with fewer than one percent of Jews.

In other words, the majority of Palestinians in Israel today would remain under the shadow of Jewish rule even for their normal civil rights. Palestinians who are twenty percent of the citizenry in Israel are to be incarcerated in two percent of Israel in Galilee and three percent in the south.

The cantonization scheme therefore fails to achieve its stated objective: to diffuse the animosity between the various components of Jewish society in Israel hailing from a hundred different backgrounds. Moreover it will further marginalize the Palestinian citizens and strengthen Israeli policies of racism and apartheid. It will arrest their development and confine them to ghettos. Deprived of their agricultural land, financial support and democratic laws, they will be reduced to cheap labor in Israeli factories.

Coming at a time when the occupied West Bank has effectively been converted into several hundred cantons where Palestinians are confined by checkpoints and walls, while 650,000 Israeli settlers, many of them armed, control two thirds of it, it is clear that the cantonization plan would be the last step in the complete destruction of Palestine.

The inevitable result would be to intensify the Palestinian struggle for freedom and against Israeli policies of racism and apartheid.

Al Qassam Brigade blacklisted as a terrorist organisation

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/16722-palestinian-factions-denounce-egyptian-blacklisting-of-al-qassam-brigades

Major Palestinian factions denounced on Sunday a decision by an Egyptian court to classify Al-Qassam Brigades, the military wing of the Hamas movement in Gaza, as a terrorist organisation.

In a statement co-signed by Hamas, Fatah, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front, the Democratic Front, the People's Party, Al-Ahrar Movement and the Popular Resistance Committee, all factions condemned the decision to blacklist Al-Qassam.

"Al-Qassam is body that has been involved in a battle of liberation with the Israeli occupation on Palestine," the statement read. The factions said they hope that Egypt and Egyptians will "take part in the liberation of Palestine based on their strong relations with the Palestinians."

The statement stressed that the Al-Qassam Brigades only targets the Israeli occupation, and does not engage in indiscriminate military action.

Responding to the court decision, the factions pledged that they would intensify communication with Egypt in order to mitigate the repercussions of such a decision. They also appealed to Egyptian mass media to stop its campaigns that "seek to damage Palestinian-Egyptian relations."

On Sunday, the Egyptian Court for Urgent Matters in Cairo ruled that the Al-Qassam Brigades should be classified as a terrorist organisation. The ruling was based on accusations that Al-Qassam was involved in several terrorist attacks in Egypt.

Egyptian officials and the Egyptian media have a history of using Hamas as a scapegoat for instability and terrorism in Egypt, often without any proof.

Hamas' senior leader Bardawil endorces PLO's visit to Gaza Strip for National Unity Government

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/16732-hamas-welcomes-plos-planned-trip-to-gaza

Hamas senior leader and spokesman Salah Al-Bardawil said yesterday that his movement welcomes the PLO's planned visit to the Gaza Strip to discuss the unity government, PLS48.net reported.

Al-Bardawil said that no one has contacted Hamas regarding this visit and his movement found out about it through the media. However, he reiterated that his movement welcomes the move.

"In case there is a visit and meeting decided, we would welcome such steps aiming to agree on the outstanding issues," he said.

Yesterday evening the PLO factions held a meeting in the West Bank city of Ramallah and decided to contact Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza to pave the way ahead of a visit for a PLO delegation aiming to discuss the terms of the national reconciliation agreement.

The Executive Committee of the PLO asked the factions to meet and decide on making contacts with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza in order to discuss the issue of the national unity government and the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip.

Member of the Executive Committee Wasel Abu Yousef told the local Palestinian news agency Safa that the meeting concentrated on the measures to be taken for the work of the national unity government to begin and which will give it the ability to continue its work in the Gaza Strip.

What is a National Unity Government?

A national unity government, government of national unity, or national union government is a broad coalition government consisting of all parties (or all major parties) in the legislature, usually formed during a time of war or other national emergency.

Turkey taking advantage of Netanyahu's decision to take part in Charlie Hebdo rally

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/16/world/middleeast/netanyahu-charlie-hebdo-rally-appearance-prompts-turkey-dispute.html?_r=0

Key Points:

The latest exchange came on Thursday when Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu of Turkey said both the Paris gunmen who attacked a French newspaper and Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli leader, were guilty of “crimes against humanity.”

The Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, had already criticized Mr. Netanyahu for participating in the march of solidarity with other world leaders in Paris on Sunday, saying that Israel had been “waging state terror” in Gaza. A top Israeli official fired back, calling Mr. Erdogan an “anti-Semitic bully.”

As Mr. Erdogan’s power has grown, he has further distanced himself from Turkey’s secular past, seeking to burnish his Islamist credentials and put Turkey forward as an exemplar for the Muslim world. He has increasingly cast Turkey as a defender of the Palestinians and a supporter of Hamas, the militant Islamist group in the Gaza Strip that fought a 50-day war with Israel last year.

“What do you think of Netanyahu, who has been waging state terror by massacring 2,500 people in Gaza, waving hands?” Mr. Erdogan said, referring to the Israeli prime minister waving at the rally.

“He waves as if people in a grandstand have been waiting to accept him in excitement. I, of course, find it hard to understand how he dared to go there. First, give an account of the children, the women that you have massacred.”

Turkish leaders across the board have condemned the violence, but in many cases they have couched their criticism with defenses of Islam and have not rallied to the cause of freedom of expression in the same way that Western leaders have.