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In this mailing: - Bassam Tawil: Palestinian Terrorists to Biden: Do Not Believe the Palestinian Leadership
- Judith Bergman: China Continues Crushing Hong Kong
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by Bassam Tawil • March 2, 2021 at 5:00 am Who exactly is the Palestinian Authority leadership lying to and why? Hamas issued a statement on February 25 in which it denied that the group had changed its attitude toward Israel. "Our political and national positions are well known and clear," Hamas said. "They are expressed in our official documents and publications. We remain committed to the resistance until the liberation [of all of Palestine]." Hamas "will pursue its resistance program until the liberation of the Palestinian land, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea." — Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader, alalamtv.net, February 20, 2021. The Palestinian terror groups certainly deserve credit for being upfront about their true, lethal intentions toward Israel. Unlike the PA leadership, these terror organizations speak in a single and straightforward voice. Their message in Arabic and English is clear: we will spill as much Jewish blood as it takes to rid "Palestine" of the Jews. Abbas is seeking to fool the Biden administration into believing that he has managed to persuade the terror groups to transform themselves into peace-seeking organizations. Abbas is utterly desperate for US funding. He is lying through his teeth to get the Biden administration to resume pumping cash into his regime -- which is bankrupt in every possible sense of the word. It now remains to be seen whether the Biden administration will allow itself to be hoodwinked by the PA's master magician.
 The Palestinian Authority claims that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have renounced terrorism and accepted Israel's right to exist. Hamas and the Palestinian factions, however, say this is not true and that they remain committed to "all forms of resistance" against Israel, including an "armed struggle." Pictured: Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images) The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have renounced terrorism and accepted Israel's right to exist. Hamas and the Palestinian factions, however, say this is not true and that they remain committed to "all forms of resistance" against Israel, including an "armed struggle." They are also stressing that they have not recognized Israel's right to exist and are determined to pursue the fight "until the liberation of all of Palestine," from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Hamas and its allies, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), are actually saying that the PA leadership is lying when it says that the terror groups have changed their attitude toward Israel. This raises the question: Who exactly is the PA leadership lying to and why? Continue Reading Article |
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by Judith Bergman • March 2, 2021 at 4:00 am The national security law not only carries sentences of up to life in prison, it also gives China jurisdiction to prosecute in mainland China violations of the law that took place in Hong Kong. It is now doing just that with 12 Hong Kong activists who attempted to flee to Taiwan by boat in August and were arrested at sea, ostensibly for crossing the border illegally. Extraordinarily, the national security law also applies to alleged violations committed by anyone, anywhere in the world. In November, China's National People's Congress Standing Committee passed legislation allowing Hong Kong's government to oust elected politicians deemed insufficiently patriotic.... Preparing to participate in an election is now an act of subversion in Hong Kong. Censorship is already widespread. The crackdown is evidently meant to spread even more fear to dissuade any protests and encourage self-censorship. In July... books by pro-democracy figures were removed from public libraries in Hong Kong for "review".... Plans are underway to make buyers of prepaid SIM cards provide their real name and proof of identity, with false information punishable by 10 to 14 years in prison. It will give the police authority to demand personal data from service providers with or without a court warrant. It will make it impossible for activists to plan any anti-government activity without becoming known to the authorities. The UK has said it will accept up to five million Hongkongers. Soon, however, even the ability to flee the country may become circumscribed. A new government proposal aims to give "apparently unfettered power" to Hong Kong immigration authorities to stop people, whether Hong Kong residents or not, from leaving the city.... The CCP is determined to crush Hong Kong and so far, it has been able to do so at practically no cost to China internationally. The EU totally ignored human rights concerns it claims to profess. Several Western governments have condemned China's actions with words, but so far, only the US has imposed sanctions on officials responsible for the crackdowns. It is important that these sanctions not be lifted.
 Since China adopted its National Security Law in June 2020, Hong Kong's government and China have sought to extinguish all opposition to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party, and to eradicate Hong Kong's core values. Pictured: Detained pro-democracy activists are brought onto a prison transport on March 2, 2021 in Hong Kong. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) Since China adopted its National Security Law in June 2020, Hong Kong's government, under Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and China have sought to extinguish all opposition to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and to eradicate Hong Kong's core values. These include free speech, a free market economy, freedom of assembly and freedom of religious belief. Those rights were guaranteed in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, a UN-registered treaty. China voiced its contempt for that treaty as early as 2017. It said that it was a mere "historical document" without any significance. Beijing has described its national security law, which contains four categories of offenses -- secession, subversion, terrorist activities, and collusion with a foreign country or external elements to endanger national security -- as a "sword" deterring people who endanger national security and a "guardian" protecting Hong Kong residents. Continue Reading Article |
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by Bassam Tawil • March 2, 2021 at 5:00 am Who exactly is the Palestinian Authority leadership lying to and why? Hamas issued a statement on February 25 in which it denied that the group had changed its attitude toward Israel. "Our political and national positions are well known and clear," Hamas said. "They are expressed in our official documents and publications. We remain committed to the resistance until the liberation [of all of Palestine]." Hamas "will pursue its resistance program until the liberation of the Palestinian land, from the [Jordan] river to the [Mediterranean] sea." — Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas leader, alalamtv.net, February 20, 2021. The Palestinian terror groups certainly deserve credit for being upfront about their true, lethal intentions toward Israel. Unlike the PA leadership, these terror organizations speak in a single and straightforward voice. Their message in Arabic and English is clear: we will spill as much Jewish blood as it takes to rid "Palestine" of the Jews. Abbas is seeking to fool the Biden administration into believing that he has managed to persuade the terror groups to transform themselves into peace-seeking organizations. Abbas is utterly desperate for US funding. He is lying through his teeth to get the Biden administration to resume pumping cash into his regime -- which is bankrupt in every possible sense of the word. It now remains to be seen whether the Biden administration will allow itself to be hoodwinked by the PA's master magician.
The Palestinian Authority claims that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have renounced terrorism and accepted Israel's right to exist. Hamas and the Palestinian factions, however, say this is not true and that they remain committed to "all forms of resistance" against Israel, including an "armed struggle." Pictured: Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip. (Photo by Said Khatib/AFP via Getty Images) The Palestinian Authority (PA) claims that Hamas and other Palestinian terror groups have renounced terrorism and accepted Israel's right to exist. Hamas and the Palestinian factions, however, say this is not true and that they remain committed to "all forms of resistance" against Israel, including an "armed struggle." They are also stressing that they have not recognized Israel's right to exist and are determined to pursue the fight "until the liberation of all of Palestine," from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. Hamas and its allies, including Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), are actually saying that the PA leadership is lying when it says that the terror groups have changed their attitude toward Israel. This raises the question: Who exactly is the PA leadership lying to and why? Continue Reading Article by Judith Bergman • March 2, 2021 at 4:00 am The national security law not only carries sentences of up to life in prison, it also gives China jurisdiction to prosecute in mainland China violations of the law that took place in Hong Kong. It is now doing just that with 12 Hong Kong activists who attempted to flee to Taiwan by boat in August and were arrested at sea, ostensibly for crossing the border illegally. Extraordinarily, the national security law also applies to alleged violations committed by anyone, anywhere in the world. In November, China's National People's Congress Standing Committee passed legislation allowing Hong Kong's government to oust elected politicians deemed insufficiently patriotic.... Preparing to participate in an election is now an act of subversion in Hong Kong. Censorship is already widespread. The crackdown is evidently meant to spread even more fear to dissuade any protests and encourage self-censorship. In July... books by pro-democracy figures were removed from public libraries in Hong Kong for "review".... Plans are underway to make buyers of prepaid SIM cards provide their real name and proof of identity, with false information punishable by 10 to 14 years in prison. It will give the police authority to demand personal data from service providers with or without a court warrant. It will make it impossible for activists to plan any anti-government activity without becoming known to the authorities. The UK has said it will accept up to five million Hongkongers. Soon, however, even the ability to flee the country may become circumscribed. A new government proposal aims to give "apparently unfettered power" to Hong Kong immigration authorities to stop people, whether Hong Kong residents or not, from leaving the city.... The CCP is determined to crush Hong Kong and so far, it has been able to do so at practically no cost to China internationally. The EU totally ignored human rights concerns it claims to profess. Several Western governments have condemned China's actions with words, but so far, only the US has imposed sanctions on officials responsible for the crackdowns. It is important that these sanctions not be lifted.
Since China adopted its National Security Law in June 2020, Hong Kong's government and China have sought to extinguish all opposition to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party, and to eradicate Hong Kong's core values. Pictured: Detained pro-democracy activists are brought onto a prison transport on March 2, 2021 in Hong Kong. (Photo by Anthony Kwan/Getty Images) Since China adopted its National Security Law in June 2020, Hong Kong's government, under Chief Executive Carrie Lam, and China have sought to extinguish all opposition to Beijing and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and to eradicate Hong Kong's core values. These include free speech, a free market economy, freedom of assembly and freedom of religious belief. Those rights were guaranteed in the 1984 Sino-British Joint Declaration, a UN-registered treaty. China voiced its contempt for that treaty as early as 2017. It said that it was a mere "historical document" without any significance. Beijing has described its national security law, which contains four categories of offenses -- secession, subversion, terrorist activities, and collusion with a foreign country or external elements to endanger national security -- as a "sword" deterring people who endanger national security and a "guardian" protecting Hong Kong residents. Continue Reading Article |
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