An Emirati businessman is reportedly seeking to invest in Beitar Jerusalem, Israel’s most notoriously racist football club.
The club’s fans are infamous for their anti-Palestinian rampages, habitually accompanied by chants of “Death to the Arabs.”
“The deal is real and on the horizon,” the Emirati businessman reportedly told his associates, after Israel’s i24 News reported on the matter.
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/emirati-said-eye-stake-israels-death-arabs-football-team
Netanyahu led the Israeli delegation to Washington on Monday on an aircraft named after the central Israeli city of Petah Tikva, built in part on the ruins of the Palestinian village of Fajja.
Zionist militias oblitered Fajja in 1948, expelling its Palestinian inhabitants.
https://zochrot.org/en/village/49428
https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/tamara-nassar/protests-and-rockets-gulf-states-sign-deals-israel
Rep. McCollum accepts Champion of Palestinian Rights Award: ‘Can anyone tell us how abusing, beating, and torturing children creates peace, security, and a better future?’
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/09/rep-mccollum-accepts-champion-of-palestinian-rights-award-can-anyone-tell-us-how-abusing-beating-and-torturing-children-creates-peace-security-and-a-better-future/
Israel triumphant, Israel powerful, Israel soulless
If I were Israeli I’d be feeling pretty great today. Two longtime enemies of the Jewish state have folded their hands, and Saudi Arabia, whose king famously warned FDR against supporting Zionism, is in the wings. The militant strategy of Jabotinsky and Labor too seems to have paid off: The Arabs won’t accept us? We will pound the —- out of anyone who doesn’t accept us, until they do.
The two big cards in Israel’s geopolitical winning hand are Adoring Superpower, and Economic Success. When UAE foreign minister said that in an era of science, the “region’s youth are looking forward to taking part,” he was saying that young ambitious Arabs know it’s a world of privilege and they want to be on the right side. And who can blame them for wanting to throw in with the Start Up Nation, and against Iran? Israel will bring trade deals and tourism and enterpreneurial investment to the Gulf. These Arabs are just like us, some Israeli capitalist who’s worked in the Emirates said on i24 News today.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/09/israel-triumphant-israel-powerful-israel-soulless/
Biden runs to Trump’s right on Israel in Florida
The latest polls show Joe Biden ahead of Donald Trump in battleground states, but Florida is a toss-up. And as the fight for its 29 electoral votes heats up, there’s a lot of emphasis on Jewish voters. Florida Jews are older and more conservative than the national average, and Republicans have said if they can get 30-35 percent of the Jewish vote they can win the state. Democrats seem to believe this too; so they are determined to show that they won’t be out-Israel’d by the Republicans.
Now Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz, the Netanyahu cheerleader (literally), who represents Miami Dade, has stepped up for Biden by publishing an op-ed in The Miami Herald saying that Trump is endangering Israel by agreeing to give F-35 fighter jets to the UAE.
https://mondoweiss.net/2020/09/biden-runs-to-trumps-right-on-israel-in-florida/
Israel Establishes Secret Gulf Intelligence Bases
Since 2016, Israel has secretly established a forward electronic intelligence base in Eritrea to monitor the strategic Bab al-Mandab Strait, through which much of the Gulf’s oil shipments travel on their way to customers throughout the world.
https://www.richardsilverstein.com/2020/09/07/israel-establishes-gulf-intelligence-bases/
Nas Daily: BDS movement calls for boycott of influencer's new project
The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has called for a boycott of Palestinian-Israeli blogger Nas Daily and his search for 80 new Arab content creators, claiming that the influencer's training programme is a cover for normalisation with Israel.
Nuseir Yassin, better known by his Facebook name Nas Daily, has amassed nearly eight million followers on Facebook, over two million on Instagram and 1.6 million on YouTube since he started creating one-minute video clips in 2016.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/nas-daily-israel-palestine-uae-bds-boycott-normalisation
Palestinian-Israeli vlogger Nuseir Yassin is whitewashing Israeli oppression while providing the illusion of a lively culture of democratic dissent
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/nas-daily-normalising-israel-minute-time