Learn about the history of the Palestinian struggle for freedom, equality and justice by exploring major events in the history of their oppression on this day of the year.
10 July
ZOA AWARDS ULTRA-BIGOT
On this day in 2002, the Chicago chapter of the Zionist Organization of America awarded the State of Israel Friendship Award to Pat Robertson. On his Christian Broadcasting Network, the right-wing televangelist and one-time presidential candidate linked a mass shooting of 59 people in Las Vegas to a disrespect for President Trump, the national anthem and God. On the September 11th attack Robertson claimed "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays, and the lesbians helped [it] happen.
منح المنظمة الصهيونية الامريكية جائزة إسرائيلية لمسيحي متعصب
10 يوليو
في مثل هذا اليوم من عام 2002 ، منح فرع شيكاغو للمنظمة الصهيونية في أمريكا جائزة صداقة دولة إسرائيل إلى بات روبرتسون. السيد بات روبرتسون، مرشح الرئاسة سابقا، ومن خلال شبكة البث التلفزيوني اليمينيه المسيحية الأنجيليه الخاصة به ،ربط إطلاق النار الجماعي على 59 شخصًا في لاس فيغاس إلى عدم احترام الرئيس ترامب والنشيد الوطني والله. ادعى بات روبرتسون ان هجوم 11 سبتمبر ساعد في حدوثه كل من "الوثنيين والإجهاضين ، و النسويات والمثليون والمثليات ".
Robertson mobilized a following of politically active Christians and launched a bid in 1988 to become the Republican nominee for president. He ultimately lost to George H.W. Bush, despite winning primary contests in Washington, Nevada, Alaska, and Hawaii. He used his political success to launch the Christian Coalition, a conservative religious advocacy group, in 1989.With the religious right riding high, the Christian Coalition initially surged, even influencing national elections, but waned during the late '90s before Robertson resigned as president. Throughout this period, Robertson himself declined. He seemed to go mad as he made embarrassing comments with impunity.
The Zionist Organisation of America has an increasingly intense collaboration with the leaders of 40 million evangelical Christian Zionists in America, whose theology predestines all Jews to be ‘called in’ to Palestine for Armageddon, there to embrace Christ as their Messiah or else to perish in the Rapture of his Second Coming.
Meet the new Zionists
One of the points Robertson likes to emphasise is to reject accusations that the coalition's support of Israel is a "Johnny come lately experience". "We've been with them through thick and thin," he says. This is a point made by several of his supporters, one of whom presses on me a little booklet with quotes from Christian theologians on the subject. He especially recommends the one from Jonathan Edwards, the 18th-century puritan divine. "The Jews in all their dispersions shall cast away their old infidelity," said Edwards, "and shall have their hearts wonderfully changed, and abhor themselves for their past unbelief and obstinacy. They shall flow together to the blessed Jesus."
The members of the Christian Coalition of America are some of the most passionate defenders of Israel in the United States. There's just one catch: they want to convert all Jews to Christianity.
A protest at an evangelical Christian onference for Israel: anti-Zionist Hasidic Jews from Brooklyn in long black coats, who oppose the state of Israel based on their own reading of the Bible.
2-minute video of the words of the recipient of the State of Israel Friendship Award https://youtu.be/N1p5w2oFAjM
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Also on 10 July 1948
“Here there is rejuvenation not only of nature, but also of the spirit, ” said Argentine Supreme Court President Ricardo Lorenzetti on a 2017 visit to Ben Shemen Forest Park’s JNF Memoria Forest, established in Israel to supposedly honour the 30,000 Argentines who were murdered – “disappeared” – by the brutal military Junta that ruled the country between 1976 and 1983. In JNF forest in Israel, Lorenzetti called for international solidarity and cooperation in defending human rights.
KKL-JNF Latin American Department Director Ariel Goldgewicht told the distinguished Argentine and Israeli guests at the event that the Memoria Forest helped Israelis to “learn about the tragic history of that period” from “engraved stones with the names of the many Argentine Jews who were made to disappear”.
It is doubtful that this JNF forest will teach anyone about how Argentinian Jews were singled out for tortureand murder. The anti-semitic Junta leader, Videla, viewed Israel as a close military ally and by the second year of Videla’s rule Israel’s ambassador in Argentina boasted that “since the military junta came to power there has been an improvement in the relations between Israel and Argentina”. After the US Congress imposed an arms embargo on the military dictatorship, Israel quickly filled the gap and by the end of 1987 30 per cent of Israeli arms exports went to Argentina, worth $2 billion, equivalent to over $50 billion in today’s money.
In June 1981 there were 118 Argentine officers training in Israel. A letter sent by the Israeli Embassy said that there is “no country in the world in which so many Argentine officers were staying simultaneously for the purposes of weapons procurement, training, etc.”
The Israeli Embassy refused Jewish leftists the passports that would have sprung them from the regime’s torture chambers. Torturer Peregrino Fernandez revealed that assistance in his grisly craft came from the Israel Embassy’s Herzl Inbar (later Israeli Ambassador to Spain).
High profile prisoner Jacobo Timerman wrote: “I will forget my torturers, but I will never forget the Jewish leaders who acquiesced to the torture of Jews”
According to Zochrot, Ben Shemen Forest Park sits on the ruins of the Palestinian villages of Jimzu, Dayr Abu Salama, Khirbat Zakariyya, Haditha, Khirbat al-Duhayriyya. Israeli archives show Zionist militias on 10 July reporting “Our forces are clearing the ‘Innaba-Jimzu-Daniyal area and are torching everything that can be burned.” The other villages lying under Ben Shemen Forest were similarly cleared of their Palestinian owners.
Memoria Forest covers up a crime scene – the violence that achieved the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian villages on which it is built. Should we be surprised that it also covers up Israel’s central role in another gigantic crime a continent away?