If Others Follow, UN Will Have To Go On A Diet.

Benjamin Netanyahu Slashes Millions in UN Funds

By Ilana Messika March 30, 2017 , 10:30 am

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“And I will visit upon the world their evil, and upon the wicked their iniquity; and I will cause the arrogancy of the proud to cease, and will lay low the haughtiness of the tyrants.” Isaiah 13:11 (The Israel Bible™)

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Prime Minister Netanyahu addresses the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, September 2011. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)

Prime Minister Netanyahu, in his capacity as foreign minister, said Wednesday that he would redirect $2 million from Israel’s funding to United Nations institutions in favor of “deepen[ing] and expand[ing] Israeli projects in the field of international assistance,” a reference to the foreign ministry’s MASHAV program.

“This decision is part of Israel’s campaign, together with its friends, and especially the United States, to correct the obsessive discrimination against Israel at the UN and its agencies,” said Emmanuel Nahshon, spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The slash in funding comes on the heels of last Friday’s UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) session in Geneva, where the Council adopted four resolutions condemning Israel, including motions condemning construction in Judea, Samaria, eastern Jerusalem and the Golan Heights, and one urging countries and corporations to avoid all ties with the settlements.

Israeli Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon wrote on Twitter that “The halls of the UN are being infiltrated by BDS.”

The UNHRC resolutions are only the latest in a wave of UN condemnations of Israel. Earlier this month a  United Nations Economic and Social Commission (ESCWA) report said that “available evidence establishes beyond a reasonable doubt that Israel is guilty of policies and practices that constitute the crime of apartheid as legally defined in instruments of international law.”

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In December, Security Council Resolution 2334 asserted that settlements in “Palestinian territory occupied by Israel since 1967” are illegal under international law and and constitute “a major obstacle to the achievement of the two-state solution and a just, lasting and comprehensive peace.”

Since the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, however, it has appeared that Israel has an ally at the world body. In a sharp contrast to the tone set by former President Barack Obama, Trump’s ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has declared war on what she considered an obvious anti-Israel bias. Earlier this week Haley told the annual AIPAC conference in Washington that the days of Israel bashing at the UN are “over” and that there is a “new sheriff in town.”

Israel’s funding to the United Nations currently stands at $3.7 million, after an earlier cut back of $9 million in the aftermath of Security Council Resolution 2334

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We Like Nikki Haley For UN Ambassador!

Trump Pick for UN Envoy Nikki Haley Slams ‘Long History of Anti-Israel Bias’ [VIDEO]

By JNS January 19, 2017 , 7:30 am

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“He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; He that keepeth thee will not slumber.” Psalms 121:3 (The Israel Bible™)

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley (R). (Flikr/Gage Skidmore)

South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for ambassador to the United Nations, harshly criticized the world body over its “long history of anti-Israel bias” in testimony Wednesday to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Haley was also highly critical of President Barack Obama’s decision to refuse to veto last month’s U.N. Security Council resolution condemning Israel for its settlement policy, which she called a “terrible mistake.” She pledged to reject future U.N. measures that unfairly target the Jewish state.

Haley said she will not go to the U.N. and “abstain when the U.N. seeks to create an international environment that encourages boycotts of Israel.” She also said she is “absolutely” in favor of the U.S. moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

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Israeli Ambassador to the U.N. Danny Danon thanked Haley for her “unequivocal support” of Israel and her willingness to confront discrimination against the Jewish state at the world body.

“We look forward to working together with her to undo the damage done by the shameful Security Council resolution, and to lead towards a new era at the U.N. which includes real reforms that will put an end to the biased obsession with Israel,” Danon said.

Haley Supports Moving Embassy to Jerusalem

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Media Is So Anti-Israel That One Can Read Every Story And Expect The Truth Being Exactly Opposite What Is Reported.

Anti-Israel Media Bias a Crier’s Shame

By Raphael Poch August 18, 2014 , 10:45 am

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“Keep far from falsehood.” (Exodus 23:7)

Headquarters of the offices of The New York Times in New York City. (Photo: Haxorjoe/ Wiki Commons)

While there certainly has been a tremendous amount of media bias in the last round of fighting between Israel and Hamas, there have also been some voices in the media who have recognized the problem and are speaking up in defense of Israel.

John O’Sullivan from the National Review claims that the bias is there for a very simple reason: the media likes it.

“How is it that we in the media seem to make the same mistakes again and again?” he asks. “The technical term for it is ‘confirmation bias.’ The reason for it is because we like those mistakes,” he writes.

Confirmation bias against Israel is not new. It has been happening for well over a decade if not even longer. From the time of the infamous fraudulent New York Times caption of Tuvia Grossman being injured during an Arab riot, claiming that it was a Palestinian Boy on the Temple Mount, to the Jenin “massacre” of 2002 that never happened, major western media outlets have been staunchly anti-Israel in their reporting of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

What’s new is that there are voices in the media, bloggers as well as respectable news sites, that are not only reporting a more accurate picture, but freely reporting the anti-Israel bias for what it is: staunch anti-Israel sentiment, bordering if not caused by anti-semitism, both in the media as well as in the populace who read it.

However, the bias does not need to be limited to fraudulent images which most respectable papers and news outlets do try to stay away from. It can simply be by telling only half of the story. Both are shameful and reproachable acts, and both emanate from the same source, a yearning desire to see Israel, the region’s only democracy, fail.

In one of the latest stories of anti-Israel media bias to be exposed, the New Statesman‘s almost 4,000 word report from Gaza by Donald Macintyre graphically illustrates the unreliability of Palestinian casualty reports. The report includes this paragraph:

At least Yasser did not suffer the fate of another single survivor brought into al-Shifa Hospital, ten-year-old Mohammed Badran. He was blinded in an Israeli air strike but at the hospital he seemed unaware that his entire family had been killed when a missile destroyed their home at the Nuseirat refugee camp. Not understanding the nature of his injury, he repeatedly asked staff, ‘Why have you switched the lights off?’

However, at the very end of Macintyre’s piece, is an update which tells us that Badran’s “entire family” were not, in fact, killed in that air strike:

Update, 12 August: Mohammed Badran’s family turned out not to have been killed in the strike on his home, as had been reported here. In the confusion of a packed Shifa Hospital, the doctors treating him in the burns unit thought he had lost his parents and all his siblings. In fact, although seven of the Badrans’ nine children were also injured in the attack, including their 17-year-old daughter Eman, who is now also in Shifa with serious leg injuries, Mohammed’s parents Tagorid and Nidal Badran both survived to take care of him. That is until Nidal, 44, a policeman, was killed in another air strike, this time on the Qassam mosque in Nusseirat refugee camp, in the early hours of Saturday, 9 August, as he prepared to attend dawn prayers. On 12 August, I was told that Mohammed was being referred to a Spanish hospital for treatment.

Between the fog of war, the media’s known readiness to accept as fact any story told to them that makes Israel look bad and Hamas’s known tendency to deliberately distort casualty figures, one must throw a grain of salt upon the stories and statistics we are hearing coming out of the war, even from otherwise reliable news sources.

“You cannot trust anything Gazans tell a reporter. Too bad reporters are so eager to believe the lies,” the Honest Reporting’s website stated.

One blogger by the name Elder of Ziyon investigated the story of the Badran family further. They discovered that while Macintyre’s report in the New Statesman claimed that Nidal was killed in a mosque at morning prayers, he was actually killed in a mosque while meeting with two other Hamas terrorists to plot an attack on Israel.

“It is clear that the destroyed mosque held some other secrets that Hamas was trying to keep reporters away from,” the blog site confirmed.

The three terrorists killed in the mosque were Nidal Badran, Maaz Zayed and Tariq Jadallah.

In line with similar tactics aimed to confuse readers, Arabic media does not refer to the three Hamas members killed at the mosque as being anything other than civilians, and much of western media follows suit. PCHR and AP at least mention that they were militants, but they fail to mention their names thus allowing for more conjecture and confusion.

Elder of Zion goes on to point out how Macintyre should clearly have known that Badran was a terrorist, as it had been reported by news agencies, before Macintyre printed his article. The blog site chalks up the situation to yet another case of “Media whitewash of Hamas”.

It is a very sad state of affairs when the people whose job it is to tell a true and accurate account of goings on in the world prefer to distort truth or tell outright lies. It makes a laughing stalk of the profession and cast a shadow of doubt upon any peened article by any of these news outlets.

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