Palestinian-Backed BDS Movement Abetted by American Universities

Nadene Goldfoot                                                                    

The 2 year old Israeli political party,  Yesh Atid, has decided to go against the BDS movement forming all over the world against Israel, Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions.  This is enacted against Israel in order to get them to comply to their wishes, as they see the situation between Israel and Palestinians through rosy eyeglasses.  "Boycotts of Israel are economic and political cultural campaigns or actions that seek a selective or total cutting of ties with the State of Israel, Israelis or Israeli corporations."
                                                                               

    
Chairman Yair Lapid, former journalist, formed this party for the secular middle class of Israel.  They are more concerned with socio, economic and governance problems than security, so were on the side of Herzog during this past election.  

Not as well visioned as Netanyahu, in my opinion,  he is rising up to fight something major, here, for this is almost as deadly as Hamas has been and who has started up again from Gaza.  Being a former journalist, he just may be able to present Israel's case in better light.

It was during his visit to New York when Lapid decided to fight BDS.  He realized that people who support BDS are the very ones who are backed by a different culture than the west, one who murders homosexuals, beats women and oppresses whole populations.  

• On 9 July 2005, 171 Palestinian non-governmental organizations put out a call for an international economic campaign against Israel which has come to be referred to as Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) after the resolution's call "... for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israel Until it Complies with International Law and Universal Principles of Human Rights.  The three stated goals of the campaign are:

1. An end to Israel's "occupation and colonization of all Arab lands and dismantling the Wall;"

2. Israeli recognition of the "fundamental rights of the Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel to full equality;" and,

3. Israeli respect, protection, and promotion of "the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties as stipulated in UN resolution 194

1. In reply to these slanted goals that do not reflect facts, Israel is not occupying anyone, not Gaza nor Judea and Samaria or East Jerusalem.  Gaza is ruled by Hamas from a Democratic election that shouldn't have taken place in retrospect.  Judea and Samaria (West Bank) have been run by the Palestinian Authority who has been at the head far longer than he should have-but that is up to the Palestinians.  East Jerusalem has been incorporated into all of Jerusalem as it is the Israeli capital.  Of course, the Arabs see all of Israel as "ARAB LAND."  

2. Arabs in Israel are full citizens and have been.  Some are even serving in the IDF.  

3. All Palestinians had the opportunity to stay in Israel when their brothers attacked Israel in 1948, and those that fled did not return.  Those that stayed became full citizens of Israel.  Anything different is up to discussion in peace talks.  Most went to Jordan and are Jordanians todaiy.  Some are still in refugee camps after 67 years, still being provided for by the UN.  . What Israel doesn't need are anymore Hamas types hanging around.  

I noted in today's news that Iran took out about 23 people from their prison for hanging without any trial.  G-d only knows why they were in prison in the first place.  Then to be jerked out and hung without a "Hello there"  is just unconstitutional in any descent society.  We're learning that this world is made up of  despicable people, led by IS, of course.  Iran not only supports BDS but is supporting their right to build a nuclear power plant as well, and we wonder why.  For years they have been against Israel and have not been mum about it, spewing out vile names about Israelis.

What ticked Lapid off was the decision of the UK National Union of Students (NUS) to join the BDS movement against Israel.  He saw another peg falling to pay homage to the BDS G-d.

He's calling on the British government to condemn this move which is stirring up more hatred and which undermines any hope for diplomatic progress.  The BDSers are trying to put Israel in a coffin and nail it shut.  He's putting this issue at the top of his list of priorities.

BDS has been going in the States for some time already.  "BDS is on American college campuses, especially on the West Coast    Public attention has been focused on successful boycott campaigns staged by anti-Israel groups at American academic associations such as the American Studies Association and the Asian American Studies Association.  Now the energy in the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement is returning to American college campuses.  Anti-Israel groups, such as Students for Justice in Palestine, are preparing to mount massive BDS campaigns on campuses across the country, such as the University of California at Los Angeles.

Once again, we can expect Jewish students to face a barrage of anti-Jewish stereotypes and defamations, anti-Israel smears, factual exaggerations, and outright falsehoods, together with just enough factually accurate criticism to disguise the entire charade as a legitimate political movement.  Until recently, campus-based BDS campaigns were all losers. "  Of all places, college campuses seem to be attacked the most to succumb to the lure of hating Israel.  Evidently classes in Middle East history are sorely lacking, or are only telling one version-and it isn't Israel's version of the problems they have faced in the Middle East with their neighbors.  Monkey see-monkey do, and these college students are as bad as my 1st graders were in copying someone in class.  They obviously are enamoured with the exotic Arab students who are brazenly beating the drums against Israel.  Colleges and universities have been ripe for the picking for these hateniks with their vile propaganda.  

I wonder what American Jews are finally waking up and have the backbone like Lapid to commit to fighting against BDS instead of going along with it?  We need to start first before we expect the rest of the world to realize they've been betting on the wrong horse in this race.  

Update:  12:44pm.  In John Hagee's 2007 book, "In Defense of Israel," on page 147 he explains that those replacement theologians teach to support  BDS which will economically  hurt the "Christ-rejecting" Jews so that they will accept Jesus Christ!"  Ultimately, we always get to the heart of matters;  religion.  What a despicable way to try to convert somebody, but then I've never really seen any nice way.  

Resource:  http://www.jerusalemonline.com/news/politics-and-military/politics/lapid-israel-should-not-surrender-to-bds-13871%20?utm_source=ActiveCampaign&utm_medium=email&utm_content=The+Latest+News+From+Israel&utm_campaign=MiddayNewsletter

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesh_Atid
http://brandeiscenter.com/blog/bds-returns-to-campus-and-it-is-time-to-fight-back/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boycotts_of_Israel
http://jewishbubba.blogspot.com/2015/05/new-israel-fund-behind-bds-against.html

What Syrian Government Has Been Manufacturing and the Burden on Israelis

Nadene Goldfoot

Israeli Jets Over Lebanon

In  March 1988, Saddam Hussein gassed 5,000 Kurdish men, women and children  in his own country of Iraq.

The entire world has been watching Syria and takes developments in the past 22 months there most seriously.  Iran can be leading Syria  in such negative directions, being they have already killed 60,000 of their own people.   Besides attacking most of their own population, they have been working on  harming Israel and the West.  "Syrian forces began combining chemicals that would be used to make deadly sarin gas for use in weapons to attack rebel and civilian populations, a U.S. official told CNN in December 2012."  Besides that, it's possible that Assad may be losing his grip on the country and its arsenal of all sorts of weapons including the non-conventional ones.  What Israel may have bombed was a "scientific research center"  which was making weapons.  The trucks outside making up the convoy were full of the Russian missiles that were hit.

Syria owns advanced anti-aircraft defense systems including the Russian-made SA-17 and possibly the Russian's S-300, which are long-range anti-aircraft missiles.  If Hezbollah got their hands onto such weapons, it would be devastating.  Then Israel would have difficulty flying over Lebanon to stop Hezbollah from wiping out Israel.

The target that Israel's jets hit in around the border of Syria and Lebanon was their anti-aircraft systems, or a convoy of components for such systems such as the SA-17 anti-aircraft missile defenses.  The target also could have been called electronic radar equipment used for the GPS system of drones.  The US unmanned aerial surveillance vehicle that went down over Iran in 2011 contained such a piece of equipment.  What I saw on TV were huge missiles.

 The site was by a building which manufactured chemical and biological weapons.  The installations were 7 miles away from Assad's palace which is guarded by Iranian Revolutionary Guards.  Trucks in the convoy were also destroyed, of course.  The installation was reported to be badly damaged.  The raid stopped immensely horrible consequences for Israel but has raised the hornet's ire, mainly from Iran.  Their Deputy, Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian,  is calling for significant implications for Israel.  Well, what's new?  Already Syria is adding fuel to the fire with threatening surprise retaliations, so Israel is patrolling the skies.  The White House offered advice to Syria saying they should not further destabilize the region by sending weapons to Hizbullah.  Doesn't Syria have enough problems?

Israel is facing Syria and Lebanon in the north who actively conspire with Iran to destroy her.  On the west and south Israel has Egypt with a new government in shatters that is in complete chaos with wild demonstrations.  Jordan on the east is under threat.  The only good thing is the snow that has come to Israel which people are enjoying.

It is at this point that the UN demands to come into Israel and inspect with their Human Rights Committee.  Israel is denying them entrance.  Enough is enough.  From Geneva through Reuters comes the news that the U.N. human rights investigators called on Israel on Thursday to halt settlement expansion and withdraw all half a million Jewish settlers from the occupied West Bank, saying that "its practices could be subject to prosecution as possible war crimes.A three-member U.N. panel said private companies should stop working in the settlements if their work adversely affected the human rights of Palestinians, and urged member states to ensure companies respected human rights."  The UN is not the law in the world.  Their actions are always centering on Israel even while Syria's government has killed 60,000 of its own people.  They get a pass.  It's Israel that concerns the Muslims.

So what are the Iranians now doing?  On Thursday they reported that they are going to upgrade their nuclear facility at Natanz and just told the UN agency about planning to install more sophisticated equipment.  Then they will be able to accelerate the processing of uranium.  This could speed enrichment by 2 or 3 times.

I would say that Netanyahu has his plate full.  To top it off, Yair Lapid, the new popular leader in the new party of Yesh Atid, who came in 2nd in the election, is following his own agenda.  He's pushy and seemingly controlling.  Chaim Weizmann once said that he was Prime Minister of 2 million prime ministers and Netanyahu is trying to work with one of them.  Everyone feels that Lapid is more interested in becoming the next prime minister and is making it hard on Netanyahu by setting impossible demands on negotiations to form a coalition.  Netanyahu is working on forming as broad a coalition as possible.

  Lapid's strong hand is pinching out the 2 very orthodox parties from the coalition because he plans to have all men called into the draft and that means yeshiva students will all go into the army like others.  This Tal Law allowing exemptions went into affect only 10 years ago and the high court in 2012 had found it unconstitutional and expires in August anyway.  This will allow 14,000 more men to be in the army.   Arab Israelis are exempt.  Druze serve as well as other Israelis from 18.  Men serve for 3 years and women for 2. For a month out of every year they are called back in for the "milueem" period until they are 55.  .

It's enough to realize that missiles heading your way just might be also carrying biological and chemical weapons from very hateful and sick people, but to have all these other problems?  I think Israel is very lucky to have such strong people at the helm of their government.  We pray for them.

Resource: http://backchannel.al-monitor.com/index.php/2013/01/4170/israeli-jets-said-to-have-struck-alleged-weapons-convoy-in-syria/#ixzz2JWahghYb.
Arutz Sheva
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-ultra-orthodox-confident-yeshiva-students-won-t-be-drafted-to-idf-1.414219
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http://hnn.us/articles/862.html
Oregonian newspaper 2/1/13 page A8, Israeli air attack spurs syrian  threat by Bassem Mroue AP and Israel faulted for expansion of settlements by John Heilprin, AP, Iran to upgrade nuclear facility, wire report