There are none (or nearly none) pro-Palesinian activists

But there are many Israel haters or simple Antisemitic people who pose as pro-Palestinians.

Why do I say that?
I met many in my life and there were some universal features. Consider this:

1. None of those activists was in the least concerned by authoritarian (to say the least, morbidly tyrannical would have been closer to the truth) power Fatah and - specially - Hamas hold over Palestinians. Nobody was willing to address executions conducted in Gaza for homosexuality, friendships with Israeli families or rejecting Islam. Human rights broken by PA authorities are evidently of no greater concern to those activists though Palestinians are their primary and nearly exclusive victims.

2. Nobody mentioned women's rights and freedom (specially in Gaza) e.g. closing water fun-park (built by UN meaning by our taxes) for everybody and de facto destroying it in order to prevent using it by children of both sexes.

3. Nobody was in the least concerned that authority whose one and only program is destroying its neighbor can't be expected to do anything for improving lives of people under its power. And the same authority refuses help if it is meant for economic improvement and can't be used  against Israel (it is common and commonly applied truth that it is easier to rule over impoverished, badly educated and tyrannically ruled people with invented - if real is impossible - "enemy").

4. Nobody gave a damn about enormous corruption in PA meaning that aid money goes to private bank accounts and never reaches people for whom it was meant (justly or unjustly doesn't matter in this instance, just doesn't go there at all).

5. Nobody was interested in crimes against Palestinians committed in Arab countries (mainly Syria or Lebanon)  who against all UN acts considering refugees keep them for generations in camps just to show them as "Israeli victims" on TV (I remind there were originally more Jewish refugees of this conflict but they have settled somewhere, mostly Israel, long ago, were given full citizen rights and their grandchildren are no more refugees than the vast majority of us).

6. Nobody was outraged by Abbas's words (that angered me for example very much) that if Palestinians in Syria were to revoke their "right of return" let them rather perish. He says lightly about death of Palestinians, women and children included if they will stop serving his murderous purpose to destroy Israel and NO so called pro-Palestinian activists considers it WRONG TO THE CORE?

7. Nobody is concerned by strange UNRWA activities so much in contrast to UN charts. UNHCR with 7,000 staff takes care for all the refugees but Palestinian in the world, and the status of refugee is no-inherited. It is about allowing people to start life anew e.g. as was the case with Pakistan-India division, very similar situation where refugees were on both sides. How many babies who are Pakistani/ Indian refugees do we have? None of course, and it was nearly exactly at the same time as Israel independence war.  UNRWA with 30,000 staff serves only Palestinians from whom vast majority was born long after the conflict and while originally one would deal with  approximately 750,000 Palestinian refugees and 900,000 Jewish ones (mostly from Arab countries) now we have NO Jewish refugees from this conflict and few millions Palestinian ones. But it is the effect of combined treating Palestinians in very special way against UN charts (e.g. letting only them inherit this status) and treating them extremely wrong by Arab countries, again in breach of UN charts. None of this is Israel's fault or idea.

8. Nobody thinks it is strange that 350,000 Jews living in Judea and Samaria and obstacle to peace while app. 1,250,000 Arabs living in Israel are not. And nobody (from those activists) thinks it is wrong when Abbas calls for "Judenrein" (deprived of Jews, Nazi term) Palestine while it is obvious that Arab citizens of Israel are free to stay where they live even if two-state solution is accepted.

9. Nobody protests again teaching (with UN and EU money) in UNRWA lead schools geography with no Israel on maps or history without Holocaust.

10. To make it short: NOBODY GIVES A DAMN ABOUT PALESTINIANS AND THEIR MISFORTUNES IF ISRAEL CAN'T BE INVOLVED EVEN BY THE MOST TWISTED LOGIC.

That's why I say there are no pro-Palestinian activists. They are simply and purely anti-Israeli or, to call it properly, Antisemitic!!!!!! And Palestinians are just a tool to use.

Stunning and courageous text by an amazing person!

There was to be something optimistic, wasn't it?
Well, how about this.?


I don't know if I will be able to write a commentary that won't be just going in circles around this text. I just encourage you to read it and share it and for me this one Lady has done more to the cause of peace than all Muslim politicians who at whatever time declared they were doing something for peace including honored ones (specially one, I think you can guess to whom I refer).
Their was power and the world's attention and media time and life luxuries. Hers is belief, humanity, God's fear, honesty and courage.

Praise to this exceptional Lady and personal "thank you" from me for reviving some faith in humanity :)

Sickening!!!!!!

I so much wanted to tell you something optimistic this time and I have few optimistic, joyful posts in mind but after having read this I just can't write what I planned before reporting this scandal (as it is a scandal for me).

This museum uses French taxpayers money (had I knew which one it is I'd probably have written there) to praise terrorists and murderers who targeted civilians, children included, motivated by racial hatred.

Have the murder ceased to be crime in France? Or were just Israelis taken out of its protection? Would French authorities fancy if any country would subsidize exhibition showing as "freedom fighters" murderers of French citizens in Mali or Algeria or elsewhere?  (say, e.g. in latest hostage situation in work plant in Algeria)?

Do they believe Jews are legitimate targets or "just" Israelis? 

I really can't state how distasteful and outrageous it is. And I have little hope anything will be done :(

Coming back of Quisiling's Norway

Let me show you some picture divided by approximately 70 years but not by a place

There...

All of them taken in Norway, the last showing Norway's Jews deported to death camps

And now...

All of them but the one before last taken also in Norway. The first showing desecrated Jewish burial ground, the next antisemitic writing as if taken straight from the times shown on first 3 pictures, one the caricature from Norwich paper and the last one Palestinian bishop Munib Younan during his 2010 visit to Norway and Sweden where he stated: " We Arab bishops like Scandinavia, they share our latent anti-Semitism!" Truly he was honest and by the fact that this statement was accepted nobody's denying it.

Norway  was Nazi Germany close ally, it deported its Jews to death, collaborated through all war, accepted its share of Nazi gold. Quisling's regime, viciously racist and Antisemitic ended with him being put on trial and hanged. Of course he wasn't the only one collaborating or sympathizing with Nazis in Europe. But it is hard to imagine today French citizens praising Vichy regime or Slovaks praising Tiso's one and Quisling is becoming more and more praised figure among young Nordic people.

There was a time (specially when I was a child) when Scandinavia was primarily a symbol of honesty (I remember those tales about shops where there were no employees, clients were taking what they needed and leaving money, even if only few and in rural communities for a child behind iron curtain it sounded like fairy tale became true), liberty, caring for all citizens. I remember when on December night 1981 the last ferry to Stockholm before declaring marshal law in Poland was reversed to Poland. People were jumping to icy cold Baltic to escape it.

Over 30 years have passed, the world changed, now both Norway and Sweden for many (not only myself) are connected not only to wealthy (still) countries with breathtaking landscapes but also with ugly, omnipresent Antisemitism ignored or shared by authorities. Like when cementeries are desecrated, synagogues put on fire (or tried to be put on fire, in Malmo already 3 times), Jews attacked verbally if still rarely physically (yet it happens) and reprimanded by authorities that if they don't want to declare hostility towards Israel it's their fault (nobody considers seriously freedom of thought and speech or simply the fact that they are Norway's citizens and what are their politic views should not be state's problem if they are honest, law-abiding and tax-paying).

Something went very, very, very wrong there. And it looks like after 70 or 80 years we're back in 30s at least when it comes to Antisemitism.