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NEW Mattot Arim campaign discredits ICC's accusations against Israel
NEW Mattot Arim campaign discredits ICC's accusations against Israel
Responding to ICC's decision to prosecute Israel, Mattot Arim, an Israeli NGO, has immediately begun a campaign to discredit ICC accusations against Israel.
The new campaign demonstrates that settlement illegality rhetoric is deliberately used by terrorist groups to justify acts of deliberate murder. Such data has never been published before, the organization said.
The new campaign also quotes a statement to the New York Times, by the world's foremost legal expert on Israel's legal standing, the late Prof. Eugene Rostow, that Israel's settlements are "unassailably" legal.
The new campaign was released shortly after Israel's prime minister accused the ICC of investigating
Israel for fake war crimes while refusing to investigate brutal dictatorships who commit horrific atrocities almost daily. "The ICC is not a court -- it is an unjust organization which persecutes the innocent and absolves the guilty by omission," Mattot Arim activists said. "Judea-Samaria is a complex legal issue. There are opposing legal views. One legal view holds that close Jewish resettlement of Judea-Samaria is both permissible and to be encouraged, under international law. It is totally legal for a sovereign state, like Israel, to choose one legal viewpoint and not the opposite legal viewpoint. In fact that is exactly what being sovereign means."
Mattot Arim is calling
for the ICC to be defunded.
The new
Mattot Arim
flyer is attached.
02 פברואר, 2021
Fateh: London's Big Ben is "a Palestinian clock"
Fateh: London's Big Ben is "a Palestinian clock"
A Fateh website says that Big Ben is actually "a Palestinian clock". Reporter: Story is garbled, clock is European and Ottoman – not "Palestinian"
את ה"ידיעה" גילה העיתונאי החוקר דניאל גרינפלד
אשר מציין
fake history built out of resentments and garbled stories:
When the clock was built the region had been part of the Ottoman Empire. The Ottomans had become obsessed with clock towers, they adopted them from Europe, and planted them in major cities to create a common sense of time.
Sultan Abdul Hamid II erected clock towers to show how modern the Ottoman Empire was. Hamid's clock tower craze was powered by his German allies. Kaiser Wilhelm II gave Hamid a batch of clocks at the turn of the century which the Turks put into clock towers.
The Ottoman Empire erected some of its clock towers in Israel. The clock tower projects in Israel began in 1901 which is also the date when Wilhelm sent Hamid a whole bunch of clocks. One of these clock towers
The clock was styled after European clock towers, likely used a German mechanism, and was a project of the Ottoman Empire. Not of any imaginary "Palestine".
Some "Palestinian" history shy away from claiming that Big Ben is the actual clock tower from Jaffa Gate due to the missing few hundred feet distingushing the two towers. Big Ben is 316 feet tall while the 'Palestinian' clock tower was only 42 feet. They claim that only the mechanism from the stolen "Palestinian clock" was used for Big Ben. But the "Palestinian Clock" wasn't some great triumph of Islamic science. It was most likely one of the Kaiser's clocks. If the British had wanted a German clock mechanism, they would have bought it. And the Jaffa Clock Tower the Ottomans built in Jaffa (not to be confused with the Jaffa Gate one in Jerusalem) utilized the services of a Jewish clockmaker, Moritz Schoenberg.
The Jaffa Gate Clock Tower, built out of white limestone, would have looked nice in the town square of some British village. The British objection to it was that it didn't belong with the biblical setting of the Jaffa Gate. They weren't repressing a brilliant example of Islamic architecture, but a mediocre Islamic imitation of European architecture. Older Ottoman clock towers had been styled after minarets. The clock towers in Israel looked European. Paradoxically, the British got rid of the Jaffa Gate clock because they were trying to protect the traditional architectural character of the region -- only to be accused by Muslim leaders of stealing their clock.
Big Ben's clock mechanism was genuinely revolutionary and the challenges of running giant clocks at hundreds of feet in freezing weather are very different than anything put together by the Ottomans for the modest clock towers plopped down for the Sultan's 25th anniversary. Transplanting the clock mechanism from the Jaffa Gate clock to Big Ben would be disastrous.
And the myth of the "Palestinian" incredible work of genius that the British coveted so much that they turned it into Big Ben, nurtures resentment built on fake history.
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