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Book: Intent to deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi | ICN – Independent Catholic News

Posted By on December 27, 2020

Intent to deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi by Linda Melvern, publisher: Verso Books, 11.99

Why is a book about genocide denial still important, 80 years after the Holocaust and 26 years after Rwanda? Because there is a thriving industry in spreading misinformation about massive human rights abuses, current and past.

Linda Melvern is the foremost expert on the Rwandan genocide, and her latest book picks apart the lies propagated about the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi ethnic group. She draws parallels with Holocaust denial which persists around the world. An Anti-Defamation League global survey in 2014 found that one in three people dispute the basic facts of the Nazi's systematic extermination of six million Jews. This matters in an age when political leaders, aided by their media cronies, sacrifice the truth to enhance their re-election chances.

Melvern shows the way in which even before the killing began in Rwanda, its supporters at the United Nations downplayed reports of the Hutu government propaganda campaign, aimed at stirring up hatred of the Tutsi. A tiny, poor African country was the third biggest arms buyer in the world, and yet no alarms sounded. Years of discrimination against the Tutsi were ignored, and when the killing began, French diplomats and officials muddied the waters, insisting it was a civil war, rather than one ethnic group massacring an unarmed minority. France armed the extremist Hutu regime and trained its soldiers; they continued to send planes full of weapons throughout the one hundred days of slaughter. France also evacuated and protected those implicated in killing, and still harbours them today.

Melvern illustrates how French officials have also blamed the victims for provoking the genocide, denying there was an ideological foundation for the extermination of the Tutsi. They perpetuate the idea that conflict in Africa is spontaneous, due to warring tribes, rather than being the carefully planned product of manipulative politicians.

Regrettably, elements in the Catholic church had apparently learned nothing from World War Two. In his 2019 book, "Stepp'd in Blood," the historian Andrew Wallis describes the manner in which the Rwandan church aligned itself with the regime, supporting its genocidal ideology and colluding in the massacres. There were brave exceptions who paid with their lives, but many priests allowed Tutsi to shelter in their churches and then locked the doors and summoned the killers.

At the height of the slaughter, the Vatican called for "both sides" to negotiate, ignoring the fact that the genocide was not a series of battles: well-armed militia were going from house to house with lists of Tutsi, systematically murdering unarmed civilians because of their ethnicity. This moral equivalence informed the BBC's documentary "the Untold Story," which blamed the Tutsi for triggering the genocide and claimed that the Hutu were in turn victims of a genocide. Melvern convincingly demolishes both theories with facts and evidence, rather than relying on the word of mercenaries.

Meanwhile, dozens of Rwandan genocidaires live in safety in the UK. Their extraditions were blocked because of the fear that they would not be granted a fair trial in Rwanda. Yet, the European Court of Human Rights has found that it is now safe to extradite them, as have several other countries which are sensitive to human rights concerns.

Lord Alton, who visited Rwanda in 2004, has raised the issue with the government several times. He comments,

"The UK needs to step up its work on fulfilling its duties under the Genocide Convention, not only to prevent genocide but also to punish the perpetrators. In the UK today, we have several alleged perpetrators of genocide living among us in impunity, including the alleged perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide, but also those involved in the Daesh genocide against religious minorities in Iraq. They have never been charged with genocide and by allowing them to believe that they are invulnerable to prosecution it creates the impression that we do not take seriously our duty to hunt down and bring to justice those responsible for the crime above all crimes."

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Rebecca Tinsley's NGO, Network for Africa, provides mental health training and support in Rwanda. See: https://network4africa.org/

Intent to deceive: Denying the Genocide of the Tutsi: http://www.versobooks.com/books/2945-intent-to-deceive

Tags: Rwanda, Tutsi, Rebecca Tinsley, Genocide, Linda Melvern

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Takoma Park Mayor Releases Statement on Recent Incidents – Source of the Spring

Posted By on December 27, 2020

Takoma Park Mayor Kate Stewart has released a statement on two recent incidents that occurred in the city, one of which is being investigated as a possible hate crime.

Below is Mayor Stewarts statement:

Two disturbing events recently took place in our community, and I wanted to provide an update on actions being taken and to reiterate our commitment to creating an equitable and inclusive community in which all residents can live with dignity and respect.

The first event was a woman who vandalized public art at the Gazebo. The actions and destruction of the image of a Black woman were shocking and appalling to witness. The Maryland-National Capital Park Police, who are handling the incident, have identified a suspect.Currently, the States Attorneys office is reviewing the case to determine if charges will be filed. The City is working with the Old Town Business Association (OTBA), who commissioned the art, to ensure repairs are made. OTBA has stated that they are waiting to hear back on this and, once the information is available, will work with the artist, the City, and community leaders to determine what the next steps will be. OTBA and I have also been in contact with the Montgomery County Chapter of the NAACP regarding the incident. Our work cannot stop at restoring the art. The defacement of this art starkly illustrates the need to continue to fight anti-Black racism.

The other event was the spray painting of a swastika on a car parked in a residents driveway. Our Police Dept responded to the call and is investigating the incident. It has also been reported to the Montgomery County hate crimes unit. We know that there has been a recent rise in deadly attacks and historical violence toward Jewish people, and to have this happen in our own community is deeply disturbing. As a City, we strongly denounce anti-Semitism, Holocaust denial, and distortions about Judaism and Jewish life and culture. Last January, the City Council passed a Resolution,Upholding Commitment to Human Rights and Inclusivity.

As we begin 2021, I would like us as a community to recommit ourselves to anti-racist work and reaffirm our commitment to building a welcoming, inclusive community that celebrates diversity and strives for equity and respect for all. We live in a community of people with a great deal of expertise, and we welcome suggestions on concrete steps we can take to advance this work in our City in the weeks and months ahead.

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East Bay synagogues donate 232000 meals to food bank – The Jewish News of Northern California

Posted By on December 25, 2020

A group of East Bay synagogues teamed up to donate more than $115,000 to the Alameda County Community Food Bank this holiday season. Thats enough to purchase 232,000 meals for East Bay residents in need, food bank spokesperson Katherine Avila said.

The Jewish community has been great partners in our work for decades, Avila told an interviewer with local CBS affiliate KPIX. The Jewish community shows up every year to support us.

The donors, a collection of 11 East Bay synagogues, held their annual High Holy Days Food Drive virtually this year because of the pandemic, raising $115,944.05 which they donated via a jumbo-sized check to the regional food bank.

They stepped up in a huge way, Avila said.

The synagogues include Congregation Beth El, Congregation Beth Israel, Chochmat HaLev, and Netivot Shalom of Berkeley; Temple Beth Abraham and Temple Sinai of Oakland; Congregation Shir Ami of the Castro Valley; Kehilla Community Synagogue of Piedmont; Temple Beth Shalom of San Leandro; Temple Beth Torah of Fremont and Temple Israel of Alameda.

The Alameda County Community Food Bank is a 35-year-old nonprofit dedicated to ending hunger in Alameda County. It partners with over 200 food pantries, soup kitchens, meal delivery providers and senior centers to distribute millions of pounds of food each year from an Oakland warehouse.

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Oldest Synagogue in Bulgaria Vandalized With Anti-Zionist Slogans Urging Destruction of Israel – Algemeiner

Posted By on December 25, 2020

Anti-Zionist slogans on the gate of the Zion Synagogue in Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Photo: Screenshot.

The oldest still-operating synagogue in Bulgaria was vandalized with antisemitic and anti-Zionist graffiti earlier this week, to the great shock of the Balkan nations Jewish community.

Slogans reading Free Palestine and Israel = Nazis were daubed on the gates to the Zion Synagogue in the city of Plovdiv alongside an anarchist symbol and the words Antifa Bulgaria.

In a statement, Shalom the communal organization representing Bulgarian Jews called for the perpetrators of the vandalism to be found and punished appropriately.

The group underlined that the messages conveyed by the vandalism were antisemitic under the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) definition of the problem, which has been adopted by the Bulgarian government along with dozens of other nations, including the US. The IHRA definition makes clear that certain attacks on the State of Israel such as comparing the Jewish state with Nazi Germany or advocating its elimination are rooted in hatred of Jews.

Built in 1886-1887 and expanded in 1922, the Zion Synagogue in Plovdiv was constructed on what is believed to have been the site of an earlier synagogue dating from the early 18th century. The synagogue underwent a further modernization 15 years ago that was partly funded by the US government.

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Thoughts on the attack on North Shore Hebrew Academys website – The Jewish Standard

Posted By on December 23, 2020

Last week, a neo-Nazi hacked North Shore Hebrew Academy and scrawled vicious, disgusting materials across its website. As a college freshman, I cant help putting myself in the shoes of North Shore students and parents, thinking that this easily could have happened to my school. It goes without saying, but this wasnt just an attack on North Shore it was an attack on all Jewry, especially on communities like mine, which choose to be proud, visible, and openly religious.

The people who slander Jews as the cause of their problems certainly are tormented by something I cannot diagnose. While their thoughts are twisted and foul, and they have no right to make Jews feel unwelcome, anti-Semitism offers an invaluable opportunity for reflection: Why do some people feel this way about Jews? And where exactly do we belong in broader society?

A white supremacist like the North Shore hacker has a crude answer. Ashkenazi Jews are seen as foreigners who subvert society by passing themselves as white, crippling their Western host nation, and swooping in on the spoils. Indeed, a surprising number of people still cling to this narrative, but it is tired and worn out. It does not feign sophistication it is instinctive xenophobia.

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In the 21st century, anti-Semitism found a new conduit: intersectionality. You might suppose that an ideology based on the subjectivity of experiences and intersection of identities might be welcoming to Jews, who have a lot to say about collective historical memory and persecution. Yet intersectionality too has been used by some as a tool of exclusion.

Before the 2018 Womens March, which prided itself on intersectional principles, march organizers Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory called into question the prospect of Jewish women leading the movement. Mallory argued that Jews bear particular culpability in the African slave trade and the prison system. As exploiters, Jews must examine their complicity with societal power structures before leading a march championing victims. Later, Mallory told the New York Times, white Jews, as white people, uphold white supremacy. Nevertheless, All Jews are targeted by it.

This seems like a contradiction. How can Jews consciously uphold a system that targets them? Certainly, if they do, it must be unintentional. But as it turns out, Mallorys assertions too are founded on anti-Semitic dogma. At an early 2018 meeting, she berated organizer Vanessa Wruble for her Jewish ancestry. Your people hold all the wealth, Mallory reportedly declared. She has also praised notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan, and likely derived her slave-trade salvo against Jews from an academically discredited book of Farrakhans.

While Mallory sees Jews as white, whiteness itself is disputed territory in America. For much of the 20th century, despite visibly passing, Ashkenazi Jews fought for acceptance within universities and the broader culture. Still today, the ethno-genetic insularity of Jewish frequently leaves Jews in an awkward position of not considering white as part of their identities only Jewish. Besides, Mallory implicitly reduces Jewish diversity to Ashkenazic, ignoring vast populations of Sephardim and Jews of color. Thus, her pronouncements fail even on an intersectional basis: Mallory fails to recognize that the world looks different from Jewish eyes.

There is a startling similarity between the worldviews of Farrakhan and of the North Shore hacker. Both use the concept of whiteness as a means of exclusion. To Mallory, Jews are white and therefore collectively suspect of abusing people of color; to neo-Nazis, Jews are the antithesis of white, and this alone makes them criminal. The contingency of whiteness is clay in the hands of non-Jews who would like to make Jews suffer.

The point is that even the most promising activists or movements may harbor a core of racial hatred. The ingrained perception of Jews as an eternal other lies at the heart of all anti-Semitism, and political language merely maintains an illusion of legitimacy. When Jews are poor, they are ghetto rats. When Jews are successful, they are cheaters, abusers of white privilege, money-grubbers, or nepotists. When Jews have institutional power, the accusations are just as libelous and contradictory. They either uphold institutional racism or plot to destroy white people demographically. Jews serve corporate interests or engineer socialism. Jews are the Rothschilds or George Soros, Milton Friedman or Bernie Sanders. Jews always pull the strings to their benefit, never mind any internal diversity in opinion, identity, or background.

So in exile, we are not the sole creators of our Jewish identity. Well always do our own thing, and broader society will feel free to label us as it pleases. As long as Jews are distinct, we will be stereotyped, kept as outsiders even when we most want to be accepted. Because we fail to neatly fit assumptions about religion, race, identity, and belonging, we shouldnt be surprised when confusion turns to rage.

Especially when the Holocaust is still in living memory, shocks like what happened to North Shore can always reactivate dormant trauma. I dont want to downplay any harm that it has caused the community when I say this, but perhaps there is a silver lining. When hostility tests our people, our communal strength is proven, both to others and to ourselves. Recall how Jews of all stripes came together after the Pittsburgh synagogue attack in 2018. External threats and hate crimes, God forbid they ever happen, can act as crucibles of in-group cohesion.

So we should avoid the temptation to publicly decry North Shores incident, scratch that victim-status itch, and move on. Neither should we use it merely as a periodic reminder that age-old hatreds never truly die. For we should always have in mind that Jews stand out in the public consciousness. The sad inevitability of hatred can teach us valuable lessons about ourselves and how we can provide for each other in times of need.

Darius Gross lives in Englewood. He graduated from SAR High School and now is a freshman at Princeton, where he plans to major in history.

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How can Israels left-wing parties win more Mizrahi votes? – The Jerusalem Post

Posted By on December 23, 2020

Many Mizrahim descendants of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa do not vote for left-leaning Israeli parties because of the way such parties treated them. As my sister, an immigrant from Iraq like me, told me recently, I cannot bring myself to vote for any Left party, whether its Mapai and HaAvodah in the past, or Blue and White and others, because they treated the likes of me like dirt when they were the governing parties. To win more seats and better standing in the Knesset, leaders of left-leaning parties, like Benny Gantz of Blue and White, must appeal to my sister and thousands like her. These leaders should open the dialogue with a simple but sincere message: Im sorry.From 1949 to 1952, about 750,000 Jews from Middle Eastern Arab countries like Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Egypt were flown by the Jewish Agency in cargo planes to the fledgling State of Israel, thus doubling its population. They are called Mizrahim, Orientals, Levantines, blacks and behind their backs schwartzes, or worse. The agency negotiated with the governments of those Arab countries to let their Jews leave in exchange for all their assets. Most, including my father, did not want to leave. To spur the reluctant, the agency sent messengers to set Jewish businesses and synagogues on fire. These tactics were carefully designed to scare rather than cause much harm to life and property, and convinced most Middle Eastern Jews to move to the land of milk and honey, leaving most of their assets behind. The agency is likely to provide another, more self-serving, explanation of those events.This way, the newcomers became Israels captive population, housed in hundreds of makeshift tent camps, maabarot, and later sent to populate Israels long, hostile borders. My family was sent to the maabara of Kfar Saba, three miles east of the all-Ashkenazi city of Kfar Saba and less than a mile from the border with Jordan. But on Sunday, February 15, 1953, in the middle of the night, the Israeli government executed a secret and sudden mission to dismantle our Kfar Saba maabara and transport its 6,000 residents to other places without any advance notice. So secret was the mission, the government did not leave any record it had ever happened, were it not for Mordecai Surkiss, Kfar Sabas mayor, whose record of the event is now housed in the city museum. THAT NIGHT, soldiers stormed our camp, shielded by darkness, with rifles and flashlights and loudspeakers in their hands. Their blaring speakers said it was not safe for us to be in the camp any longer for security reasons, but the only threat came from the rifles and the blinding flashlights the soldiers pointed at us, herding us like cattle into lorries.

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What will Israel’s next government look like? It depends on us! – The Jerusalem Post

Posted By on December 23, 2020

We are heading to new elections again! That is not a bad thing, considering the total dysfunctional nature of the current terribly inflated government of ministers with zero responsibility and too many fake ministries.Due to a lacuna in our law, our indicted prime minister who cannot legally be a minister in his own government is allowed to be prime minister. A public servant with the same indictment cannot be a teacher in Israel, nor a community rabbi.Our prime minister should also be indicted and convicted of irresponsibility towards the public for failing to pass a state budget in facing the worst economic crisis with which the country has ever had to deal. The last budget passed in Israel is from 2018. The prime minister should also be indicted for his miserable failure in dealing with the novel coronavirus crisis. Yes, he gets credit for bringing so many doses of the vaccination to Israel so quickly, but he has lost the public trust for the zigzagging of decision making influenced more by politics than by the necessary public health concerns.Once again, this election will probably be a lot more about Yes Bibi or No Bibi than anything else. We are very unlikely to hear any real policy debates and undoubtedly, we will be bombarded with negative politicking much more than what candidates and political parties actually plan to do for us the people.I dont know what party I will vote for. I dont know what political parties will be running and who will be leading them. Voting for Meretz-Labor last time I definitely feel that my vote was stolen from me be the Peretz-Shmuli duo who lied to the public and marched into the pocket of the indicted prime minister who they promised they would never sit with. An even larger scandalous act of betrayal was knife-stabbing embarrassment of Orly Levy-Abecassis (Gesher) who went as far as having a ministry of nothing created for her irrelevance in the new government. I suppose that I am more fortunate than the 1.2 million people who voted for Blue and White only to be betrayed by the very people who promised to replace the indicted prime minister. What a horrible humiliation Gantz and Ashkenazi turned into.I dont have a viable candidate in mind to replace Netanyahu. Former Likud Gideon Saar is much more right-wing than Netanyahu and stands against many of the values that I hold dear. Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked with Bezalel Smotrich (National Union) in their camp is even more frightening to me than Saar with their combination of nationalistic-chauvinism and messianic craziness. In all honesty, if it is a choice between Bibi and Tibi (as the slogan goes) I trust Tibi (Joint List) a lot more than Bibi. But that too is not a realistic choice. Since I dont have a leader in mind nor do I know what will be the choices we will face behind the ballot curtain, I will describe what is important to me in a political leader and political party in these elections.THE FIRST and foremost issue of importance to me (and I believe for Israel) is a firm commitment to renew the political process with the Palestinians and a determination to end Israels control and occupation of the Palestinian people. I am not talking about 1 state, 2 states, 3 states or 10 states and all issues can be negotiated.

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Jon Ossoffs Letter to the Jewish Community – Atlanta Jewish Times

Posted By on December 23, 2020

I write humbly to ask for the support of Jewish voters in Georgia.

I am descended from Ashkenazi immigrants who fled pogroms at the turn of the 20th century. I was raised among relatives who survived the Shoah.

That Jewish upbringing instilled in me a conviction to fight for the marginalized, the persecuted and the dispossessed.

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In the U.S. Senate I will fight for health, jobs and justice for all Georgians.I will work to make health care affordable and accessible for all. I will support a jobs program with historic investments in infrastructure and clean energy. I will champion a new Civil Rights Act to secure equal justice for all.

I believe no American should lack great health care for lack of wealth. This is not socialism. Its compassion.

I believe we must invest in infrastructure and clean energy to grow our economy and protect our environment. This is not socialism. Its vision.

I believe we must advance criminal justice reform to end race and class bias in our justice system. This is not socialism. Its consistent with the principle of equal protection under the law, enshrined in our Constitution, but not yet real in daily American life.

I am running against a virulent and unrepentant anti-Semite, Sen. David Perdue, who lengthened my nose in attack ads and refused to apologize for it despite the demands of the American Jewish Committee.

A U.S. senator who uses ancient anti-Semitic imagery to inflame hatred against his Jewish opponent must be crushed by Jewish voters on Election Day.

Perdue has supported the growth of right-wing extremism, which is a threat to Jews in America, as it is everywhere and always. He has been one of [President Donald] Trumps most shameless apologists, and the Trump-Perdue GOP has given rise to violent right-wing groups like the Proud Boys, who would have been at home in the German SA of the early 1930s.

I am a committed supporter of the State of Israel. I have family in Jerusalem, and I am committed to Israels security as a homeland for the Jewish people, as I am committed to supporting American diplomatic engagement to negotiate a lasting peace between Israelis and Palestinians.

We are living at a moment of crisis: 300,000 Americans have been killed by a virus that Senator Perdue assured us was no deadlier than the flu. We have witnessed staggering malpractice and incompetence by the GOP-led federal government this year.

And for eight months, the Senate has blocked economic relief desperately needed by millions of Americas.

I will vote to rush direct relief to families and small businesses.

I will vote to rush resources to Georgias CDC, hospital systems and clinics, and to ensure free COVID-19 testing and vaccination for all Americans so public health experts can lead the effort to defeat this virus.

If [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell and David Perdue maintain a majority in the U.S. Senate, they will engage in a campaign of wanton partisan obstruction, putting the national interest beneath the GOPs interests, and deliberately sabotaging the efforts of the Biden-Harris administration to implement a strong public health response and economic recovery plan.

I ask you again for your vote, so we can address this crisis head-on and enact legislation to make life better, healthier, more prosperous, and more just in Georgia and across our great country.

Early voting is open now, and election day is on Jan. 5.

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Jews of color exist and heres why it matters – The Jerusalem Post

Posted By on December 23, 2020

As identity politics continues to dominate discussions both inside and outside the Jewish world, it must be said that acknowledging additional challenges some groups of Jews face notably women, Mizrahim, blacks and LGBTQ doesnt require us to be divided or pitted against one another.To put it more bluntly, Jewish unity in the fight against antisemitism doesnt necessitate sticking our heads in the sand about privilege within our own communities. Refusing to recognize inequalities, whether historical or present-day, will only enable oppressive trends to continue. We cannot grow and improve as a community, as a country, by sweeping shortcomings under the rug.Todays Jewish community has an extremely diverse and rich history. Together, we have faced persecution on nearly every corner of the earth, at the hands of all the major world religions, and under the rule of Europeans, Arabs and beyond. We have a shared collective trauma as the Jewish people, but we also have different experiences. That is not to say one is better than the other, but these differences should be recognized.Today, we again face an onslaught of antisemitism of various forms, ranging from the online sphere to terrorism to the far Left to the far Right. Yet in response to some of this antisemitism, too many activists are whitewashing our unique stories in the name of fighting antisemitism together. We arent stronger when we erase the trauma or challenges of Jews of color, Jewish women, or LGBTQ Jews. We are stronger when we acknowledge them and fight for genuine equality.To pretend as though the minorities within a minority (Jews) have the same opportunities and experiences in society is disingenuous and hypocritical when at the same time we demand that the world recognize how antisemitism impacts the experiences Jews have in society.Of course, its a fact that a British Jew faces challenges and concerns that a British Christian does not even have to think about. But its also a fact that a Jewish Ashkenazi man in Israel who comes from a family with two working professional parents has an inherent upper hand over a Jewish Mizrahi woman in Israel who was raised by a single mother. That is not to say that the Jewish Mizrahi woman cannot be immensely successful more so even than the Ashkenazi man but acknowledging the systematic disadvantage that one faces and the other does not makes a difference. It allows us to be honest about where we are as a society, as a people and as a nation.When we tell Jews to stop talking about the inequalities they face as black Jews, as Jewish women, as LGBTQ Jews, as Mizrahim when we say, Why cant we just be united? Were all Jews it is really no different from others responding to antisemitism by saying Why cant we stop talking about our differences? Were all Americans! It is an excuse not to face a painful reality that we still have a lot of work to do as a society.

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Is Pakistan seeking to normalise ties with Israel? Here`s what new report says – Zee News

Posted By on December 23, 2020

In a new development, that could bring a major change, officials from Pakistan may have met with officials in Israel amid rumours that Pakistan wants to normalize ties with Israel, as per a recent media report.

READ |Pakistan spews venom against India in UAE

Pakistan on December 17 had resorted to its malicious ways and spewed venom against India in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), weeks after UAE banned Pakistani workers from entering its territory. Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi, during his UAE visit, made a shocking remark on India.

READ |Preferring Indians over Pakistanis, UAE bans Islamabad workers to strengthen its national security

The founder of the British think tank Islamic Theology of Counter-Terrorism, Noor Dahri, has not ruled out this possibility, according to a report by The Jerusalem Post on December 17. Dahri posted on Twitter saying, "soon I am going to disclose a recent secret but a successful meeting between the Pakistani politician and Israeli politicians in Tel Aviv".

READ |Pakistani workers banned from entering UAE, know why Indians are being preferred

The Jerusalem Post quoted an interview with Dahri saying that "Pakistan has been publicly hostile to Israel over the Palestinian issue, but there is a long history of covert ties between the two countries". He added that there has been a shift of "geopolitical reality in which such relations with Israel are no longer taboo in the Arab and Muslim world", as reported by The Jerusalem Post.

Earlier in 2020, the United Arab Emirates approved an agreement to establish full diplomatic relation with Israel that was signed in Washington. The UAE and fellow Gulf state Bahrain in September became the first Arab states in a quarter of a century to sign agreements to establish formal ties with Israel.

Together the UAE and Israel will stand better prepared to confront the malign threats from the Iranian regime, their proxies, and other extremist groups, US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin had said.

Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Dahri further added that "Arab countries want Pakistan to openly establish ties with Israel". "The Arab states want to break Pakistan away from Turkey and the Iranian alliance and bring it into their emerging diplomatic circle with Israel, Dahri was quoted as saying by The Jerusalem Post.

The Jerusalem Post also quoted him saying that "Saudi Arabia has the UAE generated pressure on Pakistan to normalize relations with Israel, as well as minimize relations with Turkey".

He added that with a deal with Israel, Pakistan "is hoping" that it "would help it improve its ties with Saudi Arabia which has stopped financial assistance and oil exports to Pakistan". On the other hand, Pakistan's ties with the UAE have hit a low point as the UAE has halted visas for Pakistan citizen.

Rattled by UAE preferring Indian workers and banning those from Pakistan, Qureshi made this remark. The Pakistan FM said that he has "credible information that India was planning a surgical strike against Pakistan to divert attention from its internal affairs", as reported by Pakistani media Dawn.

Dawn quoted him as saying that the "credible information" was "picked up by intelligence". "An important development has cropped...I've learned through our intelligence forces...that India is planning a surgical strike against Pakistan," Dawn quoted him as saying.

As per a Zee News report in November, the coronavirus pandemic is rapidly reshaping global geopolitics and diplomacy and a number of countries are seizing the opportunity to take a couple of tough decisions that they would have otherwise faced difficulty in implementing. In a recent move to ensure its national security and law and order, the UAE government, through an order issued on November 18 has banned workers from 13 nations from entering the country till further orders.

Citing a source, a story of Al Jazeera highlighted, the UAE had temporarily stopped issuing new visas to Afghans, Pakistanis, and citizens of several other countries over security concerns. The list of the countries included war-torn nations like Syria, Somalia, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan to countries from the anti-Saudi bloc like Turkey and Pakistan.

It also highlighted that Pakistan has been facing the heat before the issuance of the order banning workers from 13 countries. The news report highlighted, Last week, Pakistans foreign ministry said the UAE had stopped processing new visas for its citizens and those of some other countries.. Islamabad said it was seeking information from the UAE on the reason for the suspension but that it thought it was related to the coronavirus pandemic.

News reports from the Pakistani media reveal that the Pakistani government was not at all informed about the decision. The Pakistani leadership has begun to target the UAE government as it believes that this step is Pakistan specific and pandemic is not the actual reason to ban Pakistani workers. Senator Anwar Baig, who also runs a recruitment agency said, the novel coronavirus was the reason behind the ban, India should have been in the list since it has reported one of the highest cases in the world... the suspension of work or employment visas were worrisome and he believed that the ban was Pakistan specific.

Meanwhile, India and Israel on Monday signed an agreement to cooperate in the fields of health and medicine, including sharing of expertise in building climate-resilient infrastructure and support to 'green healthcare'. The agreement was signed between Israel's Minister of Foreign Affairs, Gabi Ashkenazi, and India's Ambassador to Israel, Sanjeev Singla, on behalf of the Indian government.

The new pact replaces the previous one signed in September 2003, a press statement said. Ashkenazi expressed satisfaction on the ongoing cooperation between the two countries, underlining the joint efforts in dealing with COVID-19. Ashkenazi emphasised on further strengthening cooperation in the sector of water management. The new agreement includes sharing of expertise for facilitating climate-resilient infrastructure, as well as providing support for the development of "green healthcare", i.E. Climate-resilient hospitals.

The two countries have also committed to sharing their expertise for vulnerability assessment for the health of citizens against climate risk and public health actions targeted towards mitigation and adaptation, as well as facilitating climate-resilient infrastructure (hospitals) promoting "green healthcare".

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