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New Zealand embraces BDS, divests government fund from Israeli banks.....Scores of major Quakes hit the region....
March 9, 2021
It was only a matter of time before Comrade, burka clad, Jacinda Adern’s Socialist government in New Zealand approved the latest bout of national anti-Semitism.
“It is viewed by some groups as potentially aligning New Zealand with an anti-Semitic movement,” said Nicola Willis, [pictured below] member of New Zealand’s Parliament.
The New Zealand [government] Superannuation Fund (NZ Super Fund) announced Tuesday that based on information provided by the UN and BDS organizations, it has divested its holdings from five Israeli banks which have helped finance the construction of Israeli homes in the Jewish homelands of Judea and Samaria.
The NZ Super Fund, a government investment portfolio designed to help pay for the increased cost of universal pension payments in the future, said it has divested around NZ$6.5 million from First International Bank of Israel, Israel Discount Bank, Bank Hapoalim, Bank Leumi, and Bank Mizrahi-Tefahot.
The move was celebrated by groups like the Palestine Solidarity Network Aotearoa (PSNA), a BDS group which uses the indigenous Maori name for New Zealand.
“After a long process of PSNA and supporters approaching the NZ Super Fund, they have finally decided to Divest from the Israeli banks funding the building of Illegal Israeli Settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,” PSNA said on Facebook.
However, groups like the Israel Institute of New Zealand (IINZ) sharply criticized the NZ Super Fund for unfairly singling out the Jewish State while seeming to ignore human rights violations such as China’s treatment of Uyghur Muslims.
“The double-standard is clear. And clearly out of step with traditional allies,” IINZ tweeted.
At a meeting of New Zealand’s Finance and Expenditure Committee on Wednesday, Member of Parliament Nicola Willis said that the fund’s decision was controversial and “viewed by some groups as potentially aligning New Zealand with an anti-Semitic movement.”
Willis questioned whether potentially biased UN resolutions were the “proper basis for this decision-making,” and she asked what steps were being taken “to ensure consistency in the way it treats issues relating to human rights abuses.”
NZ Super Fund CEO Matt Whineray said, “So how do we get consistency? We make sure that we have standards that we are comparing these to.”
“We use the UN Global Compact which outlines the expected standards of corporate behaviour,” he said.
This strategy of relying heavily on inconsistent UN resolutions in order to maintain the consistency of the fund’s actions was criticized by New Zealand blog Shalom.Kiwi, which said the fund was “in effect defending discrimination with more discrimination.”
We wouldn’t want to be found belabouring this point – however, a few years ago when Adern castigated Israel for their self-defence actions, an uncharacteristic EARTHQUAKE ‘swarm’ hit the country – and only hours after this decision to DIVEST was taken an UNPRECEDENTED number [well over 80 at this time] of earthquakes have hit the region – and they continue to this day – a couple of them being 8.4 + on the Richter scale.
The country, once one of the most prosperous in the British Commonwealth, is now an economic and social basket case as all Socialist countries eventually become. Helped along by God’s great displeasure?
Saudi Shocker: Temple Mount is Jewish, Muslims Should Pray Toward Mecca.
09 March 2021
Saudi Twitter users are playing down the importance of Jerusalem for Muslims, insinuating that the Jews should control the Temple Mount.
Saudi Twitter users have recently been pushing a new line of thought that plays up the importance of Muslims praying towards the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia, while downplaying the importance of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Israel National News(INN) reported Sunday.
The controversial campaign appears to be designed to push the message emphasizing the importance of the Saudi cities of Mecca and Medina as the holy places of Islam, and to eliminate the importance of Jerusalem and the Temple Mount for Muslims, thereby decreasing any Islamic authority the Palestinians have over the site.
One of the messages reportedly comes from well-known Saudi cartoonist Fahd al-Jabiri, who tweeted that “the direction of the prayers of the Jews is not important to us, what is important to us is only our homeland.”
Another English-language tweet is by a Moroccan user named Ibtissam Zegiga whose profile says he studies Hebrew and wants peace, and calls on “dear brothers and sisters” to join in the movement.
“This recent Saudi twitter movement believes that there is no importance of the temple mount to Muslims, and the waiting for the [Jewish] third temple. A new era, one of peace.”
According to the report, the Saudi campaign is in response to the Palestinian insults online and chants against the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia heard at demonstrations at the Temple Mount after prayers on Fridays. The Saudis have quietly supported the recent Abraham Accords the established peace between four Arab countries and Israel, and that has infuriated the Palestinians.
The reaction of the Saudis is to emphasize that the Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem is simply a mosque like all mosques, but the direction of prayer for all Muslims no matter where they are on the planet is only towards to the city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia.
One tweet from the account Saudi Arabia In Numbers said Muslims were not religiously obligated to help the Palestinians by fighting for Jerusalem, where the Palestinians constantly emphasize that the Al Aqsa mosque is the “third holiest site in Islam.”
“Our Prophet, peace and blessings be upon him, did not leave us with a commandment, even with one word, that Jerusalem must be liberated,” the tweet read, adding, “The only two holy mosques are in [the Saudi cities of] Mecca and Medina.”
“In the end, it is becoming increasingly clear that the main obstacle to achieving the realization of the cry ‘the Temple Mount is in our hands,’ is us ourselves,” Tom Nissani, CEO of the Temple Mount Heritage Foundation, said..
“Now the Saudis and Moroccans also emphasize the strong connection of the Jewish people to the Temple Mount and the diminution of its importance to Islam,” Nisani noted. “This is an historic opportunity to expel the hostile Waqf from the Temple Mount and transfer it to full Israeli management that will allow full freedom of access and religion to the mountain in cooperation with the Emirates, Saudis and Moroccans, Jews and non-Jews who will attain shared goals.”
Putin & Assad's Revenge: Ballistic Missiles Pummel "Stolen" Syrian Oil Convoy & Refinery........
Multiple major missile strikes reportedly on a convoy of oil tanker trucks and a refinery in northern Syria lit up the night sky on Friday. Initially there was confusion as to who was behind the devastating attack which obliterated multiple dozens of oil tanker trucks.
Stunning video of massive fireballs near the towns of al-Bab and Jarablus, close to the Turkish border, circulated widely on social media with contradictory accounts of just who launched the attack. However, sources seem to be in agreement that the initial explosions were so large it had to be the result of ballistic missile strikes.
This led to accusations that either the Russian military or the Syrian government was behind it in retaliation to halt convoys of "stolen oil" taken from Syrian national territory.
Damascus and Russia have long condemned a Turkish "land grab" along the northern border, as well as US occupation of the country's oil and gas rich northeast Deir Ezzor and al-Hasakah regions.
"A source in the Turkish military, which controls swaths of northwest Syria where Turkish troops have a presence, said missile attacks had caused the blasts, which also wounded 11 people," Al Jazeera reports in the attack aftermath.
Turkey’s military build-up | 8,425 vehicles arrive in Syria since March, as dozens of vehicles enter “de-escalation zone” .....
March 8,2021
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has monitored the entry of dozens of Turkish vehicles into Syrian territory. Over 50 vehicles loaded with military and logistical equipment entered via Kafr Losin border crossing with the Iskenderun region, north of Idlib. The column headed to observation posts deployed in the “de-escalation zone.”
The number of military vehicles entered Syrian territory since the start of the new ceasefire has reached 8,425 in addition to 10,000 Turkish soldiers.
From February 2 to date, the number of Trucks and military vehicles that arrived in the “de-escalation zone” has risen to more than 11,925 Turkish trucks and military vehicles carrying tanks, personnel carriers, armoured vehicles and mobile bulletproof guard booths and military radars.
The Syrian Observatory would like to point out that the number of vehicles and soldiers may vary marginally, as many vehicles, loaded with soldiers and military and logistical equipment, enter and exit individually.
J.D. Farag’s Bible Prophecy Update - Be Ready!
BREAKING NEWS – with Tim Thompson in southern California - 08 March 2021
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