#1171 7/2/23 – Res Ipsa Loquitur

RES IPSA LOQUITUR

Pop Quiz, Girls & Boys:

Question #1, 50 PointsGuess Who said the following this week about our Jewish people’s homeland of Israel?

“… [guess who] regret the limited progress on the ICC infestations in war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in the occupied Palestinian territories and commit to help the ICC and its prosecutor move forward with the investigation and prosecution ….

“… consider targeted [guess who] measures specifically addressing settlement expansion in the West Bank

“ … [guess who should ensure that] the principle of legal differentiation between the territory of the State of Israel and the territories occupied since 1967 is applied consistently to the full scope of [guess who] bilateral relations with Israel….

“… [guess who] regret the unilateral decisions of some states to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s undivided capital and move their embassies ….

“… [guess who should] work towards the reopening of Palestinian institutions in annexed East Jerusalem; host regular meeting with Palestinian officials in East Jerusalem and support their engagement in the political, economics, social and cultural development of East Jerusalem….”

“… [guess who] must strengthen its cooperation with the [Palestinian Authority], help the people and act to end the occupation….”

Ok, Girls & Boys, here are your choices:

[a] the Peaceful-Plutonium-Processing Ayatolahim of Iran;

[b] the Who-Me-Rocket-Israeli-Civilians Hamas & Hezbollah;

[c] Israel’s Peace Partner, the Pay-for-Slay Palestinian Authority;

[d] Biden Blinken & Nides;

[e] None of The Above;

[f] All of The Above;

[g] the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee.

The correct answer, Girls & Boys, is [g] the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, by a vote of 41 to 24, with 9 abstentions this week, plainly solely out to EU our Jewish people out of our homeland’s historic Jerusalem capital and defensible Judea-Samaria heartland.

The Jerusalem Post, 6/28/23, European Parliament Committee Calls for War Crimes Charges Against Israel, quoted the minority in these august proceedings as calling the resolution’s text “an absolute embarrassment” and “a travesty that the Foreign Affairs Committee does not condemn Palestinian terrorism, one of the greatest obstacles to a peaceful resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”

Not resting with merely directly quoting the above nice things the EU Foreign Affairs Committee resolved this week about the homeland of Jews, the JPost further characterized this European body as having

*** “expressed concern against what it claimed were Israeli ‘punitive measures,’ such as withholding funds from the Palestinian Authority and limiting [often EU-financed Arab] construction in Area C”;

*** “repeatedly wrote that the EU should ensure the enforcement of Brussels’ policies of excluding Israeli products from Judea and Samaria from the EU-Israel Free Trade Agreement and of labeling settlement products as not from Israel”;

*** “called for the release of ‘all political prisoners,’ which would include members of EU-designated terrorist organizations, such as Hamas, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Palestinian Islamic Jihad [May They All Relocate To Europe]”; and

*** “sought to have the EU treat Jerusalem as Palestinian.”

Question #2, 50 Points:  Do you think Hillel may have been right when he warned us that if we’re not for ourselves, no one else will be for us?