By Pamela Geller – on
Vice-Chancellor Robert Habeck’s speech on Israel is a lesson in moral clarity with no equivocation. He puts other world leaders to shame and makes Biden look even more pathetic and broken than he already is.
As one commenter said, “It is hard to process this surreal moment in history especially for me a grandchild of Holocaust survivors. I’m writing the following words I never dreamed I would in this lifetime. Thank You Germany.”
That said, “one cannot – even if there are decades between them – kill millions of Jews so you can bring millions of their worst enemies in their place.” Karl Lagerfeld
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Telling Muslims to distance themselves from antisemitism is telling them to distance themselves from Islam.
One caveat, I take issue with his description of the Palestinian conflict and the separation of Palestinian people from Hamas. They voted for Hamas. I don’t recall the German people being separated from the Nazi party during WWII or the British people separated from Churchill’s government.
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Germany Enacts Total Ban on Support for Hamas, Dissolves Groups
By: Breitbart, 22 October 2023:
The German government has announced a ban on pro-Palestinian charity Samidoun as well as activities in support of Hamas, little less than a month after the deadly terror attack against Israel that killed over 1,400.
A network of charities and groups in Germany that are not officially linked to Hamas but nevertheless may be perceived to be close to it, or which campaign for pro-Palestine causes have been banned, the country’s Interior Minister Nancy Faeser announced on Thursday.
Hamas was already a banned as a terrorist organisation in Germany for 20 years, but until now loopholes in the law allowed adjacent organisations to continue operating. According to German press reports, the ban will clamp down on that, and the government will even seek to deport foreign-citizen supporters of Hamas.
The Minister said of the development: “With Hamas, I have today completely banned the activities of a terrorist organization whose aim is to destroy the state of Israel… There is no place for antisemitism in Germany, and we will fight it with all our might.”
02 November 2023, Berlin: Nancy Faeser (SPD), Federal Minister of the Interior and Home Affairs, presents the ban on the Islamist Palestinian organization Hamas and the pro-Palestinian network Samidoun in Germany. Photo: Michael Kappeler/dpa (Photo by Michael Kappeler/picture alliance via Getty Images)
Faeser made clear the move was partly in response to the spontaneous celebrations seen in German cities immediately after the October 7th terrorist attack against Israel. The Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, one of the German charities impacted by today’s ban was found to have given out cakes in the street demonstrations. Faeser said, reports Deutsche Welle, that “Holding spontaneous ‘jubilant celebrations’ here in Germany in response to Hamas’s terrible terrorist attacks against Israel demonstrates Samidoun’s antisemitic, inhuman worldview in a particularly sickening way.”
She said of the Samidoun organisation that it: “spreads anti-Israel and anti-Jewish propaganda as an international network under the guise of a ‘solidarity organization’ for prisoners in various countries.”
A spokesman of the German Central Council of Jews cited by Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said of Samidoun that the group is a “front organisation of Hamas” and had been “behind many anti-Semitic riots across Germany”.
Anyone now supporting the groups is now committing a crime, and the German state can dismantle the organisations and confiscate their assets.
The German-language Neue Zürcher Zeitung reports concerns of police unions that the ban could lead to riots in the coming nights, with the paper noting: “Palestinian demonstrations have been announced for the coming weekend; Tens of thousands of participants are expected in Berlin alone.”
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What is UNRWA?
Mandated by the UN general assembly, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency is the UN agency for Palestinian refugees.
It describes itself as “unique in terms of its longstanding commitment to one group of refugees”.
It has a dual role that encompasses humanitarian and developmental responsibilities – in effect delivering governance-like services across dozens of refugee camps in the West Bank and Gaza, as well as Lebanon, Syria and Jordan.
UNRWA has 13,000 staff in Gaza, of whom 125 health staff work in rotating shifts at health centres.-(Guardian )-
UNRWA is the only UN agency dedicated to helping refugees from a specific region or conflict.[14] It is distinct from the UNHCR, established in 1950 as the main agency to aid all other refugees worldwide. -Wiki-
When it began operations in 1950, the initial scope of its work was “direct relief and works programmes” to Palestine refugees, in order to “prevent conditions of starvation and distress… and to further conditions of peace and stability”.[20]- Wiki
As it is technically a temporary organization,[24] the agency’s mandate is extended every three years; it was most recently renewed on 13 December 2019, extending until 30 June 2023.[25][26]- Wiki
UNRWA is the largest agency of the United Nations, employing over 30,000 staff, 99% of which are locally recruited Palestinians.[29][30] Wiki
Historically, most of the agency’s funds came from the United States and the European Commission;[39][40][41] in 2019, close to 60 percent of its total pledge of $1.00 billion came from EU countries, with Germany being the largest individual donor.[42] The next largest donors were the EU, United Kingdom, Sweden and the United Arab Emirates,[42] followed by Saudi Arabia, France, Japan, Qatar, and the Netherlands.[42][43] UNRWA also establishes partnerships with nongovernmental donors, including nonprofit “national committees” based in donor countries.[44] Wiki
The wikipedia article tells the story.
UNRWA is a corrupt organism that is leaching off the Palestine people and the humanitarian aide given to it by the world. It’s management staff is corrupt along with the staff of it’s mother organization. Which is the UN. The apple never falls far from the tree.
Israel should have no dealings with the UNRWA nor allow any of them to enter their land nor travel through Israeli air space.
My father use to tell me, Son you keep playing with that SNAKE your going to get bit!
Biden has ONLY reinstated the Soros/Obama agenda and policies.
One of their goals: getting rid of Bibi.
The TSS is a new version of the “Final Solution”. Unfinished job by the West and the world antisemites including the Jewish antisemites populating academia, W DC, HolyS(w)..T(d), WS, etc.
The creation of UNWRA was a deliberate stab in the back of Israel and the Jews
I am repeating myself, but others on this site may not be aware of that. In particular the young ones.
@EvReI have come to the conclusion that people and countries that call for a Palestinian state, want to destroy Isreal. That’s their motivation.
@EvRe1
Your article is EXCELLENT.
I’d just wish you could make a couple of small corrections.
in 1948 there were no “Palestinians” yet. They were first manufactured in 1960s
Also, the Muslim-Arab genocidal hatred did not begin in 1948.
There were violent attacks in the land already in the beginning of 20 century. And then of course in 1920s and 30s.
But the point of the article is absolutely essential.
I’d love to see it published in NYT, and other main media.
Good to hear they recognize evil and do not want any part of it.
They also ordered an Arrow anti Ballistic System from Israel for $3 billion to protect themselves against Russian and Iranian Missiles.
I heard this Vice Chancellor’s support which is helpful. Still he has the confused idea that the Palestinian people can be peace partners with Israel, which contradicts what the Palestinian people themselves have said for years.
For years they have told everyone who would listen that they don’t want a state side by side with Israel, they want the whole state of Israel.
Why doesn’t anyone listen to them?
This whole notion of giving them a state of their own when they don’t want one is completely puzzling to me. It is as if people think they know better what people should want instead of recognizing they have been telling you what they want: they want all of Israel. They don’t want to live in peace with Israel next door to them. They want all the land the State of Israel owns and they want it Judenrein.
How is peace ever going to be achieved when nobody listens to anyone?
Finally, Israelis have woken up and started listening. Now almost all Israelis know that when the Palestinians say they don’t want to have a state of their own next to Israel, they mean they want genocide of the Jews.
It’s time for the rest of the world to start listening very closely to what Palestinians and Hamas, the PLO, the PA, are saying and have been saying since 1948. They simply want an end to the State of Israel, an end to the Jews who live there.
I think the people of the West who are not Palestinians and not Nazis just cannot believe there are people who are completely unashamed and feel zero guilt about wanting to commit genocide on all the Jews of Israel. They cannot believe this is true. But if they can’t believe it is true, they are not in a position to be helpful to the people of Israel.
For Israel, it is like reliving the Holocaust all over again. When it was possible to actually get genuine reports from inside death camps to the outside world, the response was basically refusal to believe this was happening. Even if the US State Department or Department of War believed it was true, it did not change their war strategy or tactics at all. So it was all the more an outrage at the time, after risking their lives to get the story out, it achieved nothing.
Well it’s happening again. The Palestinians are being very open about their goals and they have been open about them FOR YEARS and nobody listened to them. This is why it was possible to cause the damage they caused to over 1300 Israelis who were butchered to death.
It is finally time to tell people who are not listening: YOU ARE NOT LISTENING. Come back and let’s see what you have to say after you really listen to what the Palestinian people in your streets are saying to you. They are saying, “Gas the Jews!” They are shouting in the streets to kill Jews, putting stars of David on homes and stores like they did in 1938. And the Palestinians have been saying this over and over since 1948 but no one has listened to them.