Before I get started on the rest of this story of the hypocrisy of the politicians of much of the world, I think the most breathtaking one came today, 8 OCTOBER 2016, from John Kerry from the USA, holding forth on the war crimes being committed in Syria by the Russians and others on the bombings taking place on civilians in Aleppo and other areas of Syria.
This is the same John Kerry who didn't say or do anything when Israel bombed Gaza to smithereens, not once, not twice, but on an ongoing basis.
Then you have to read the three stories below and note the hypocrisies of all the governments concerned of the countries under the microscope.
I believe the episodes involved everywhere are nothing short of the most unbelievably hypocrisy that we have seen perpetrated anywhere in the world.
When you have finished reading the stories, discuss what you think of the unspeakable chutzpah, to use that wonderful Yiddish word, to describe our politicians "great and small" everywhere.
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Israeli sentenced to 5 years for joining Syrian Qaeda group
Amin Ahmad Saleh Snobar convicted of traveling to Syria, training with Nusra Front terror group
An Israeli Arab man was sentenced on Thursday to five years in prison after being convicted of traveling to Syria to join the al-Nusra Front and fight against President Bashar Assad’s regime.The Haifa District Court sentencing of Amin Snobar, 24, from Kafr Yasif in the northern Galilee, was the most severe so far given to Israeli citizens who have been involved in the Syrian civil war.
He was also ordered to pay a NIS 35,000 ($9,300) fine or serve an extra half a year in prison.
Court papers revealed that Snobar left Israel in mid-2014 and traveled to Turkey. From there he infiltrated into Syria.
Snobar then spent six months training with various jihadist groups including the al-Qaeda-linked al-Nusra Front. In December 2014 he returned to Israel, whereupon he wiped information from his computer, as well as instructing his family to do the same. He also destroyed his cellphone and the SIM card that he used during his time in Syria, actions the court said were intended to hinder a possible investigation, according to court documents.
Amin Snobar in Haifa
District Court on April 21, 2016.
(Screen capture: Ynet news)
He was arrested after his return to Israel
in January 2015 and convicted a year later on several charges, including
exiting the country in an illegal manner, membership in an illegal organization,
illegal military training, providing services and assistance to an illegal
organization, and obstruction of justice.Snobar’s legal representative said the sentence was unprecedented and noted that another man convicted of joining the Islamic State was given only two years in prison, Channel 2 reported. The attorney also pointed out the Snobar cooperated with investigators by confessing to most of the charges against him and did not in any way harm state security.
“While it is true that [prosecutors] did not prove that the defendant had [specific] intentions to harm the State of Israel, that does not pardon his actions,” the court noted.
“He took part in extensive and diverse training during the half-year in which he was a member of various groups, including the al-Nusra Front, and in various locations.”
According to the ruling, Snobar trained in bomb-making, infantry combat and the use of various weapons, including assault rifles and RPGs.
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The court concluded that Snobar “was not engaging in adventurous behavior,
but in the behavior of one who wishes to be part of a terror organization, and
even to die as a ‘martyr’ in a jihad in which he sought to participate.”The al-Nusra Front, the ruling read, “constitutes an arm of al-Qaeda. It was not established just to battle against the Assad regime. It is a Salafist jihadist Islamic organization for which the toppling of the Assad regime is only part of a comprehensive regional plan that intends to establish an Islamic regime in the region, including by replacing the State of Israel, and through the use of violence to achieve its goals.”
Israel formally declared several Syrian jihadist groups, including Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front, illegal organizations in late 2014, after Snobar had already set off on his journey.
According to security services, more than 50 Israeli citizens have traveled to Syria and Iraq to join Islamic State.
In December 2015, in two separate incidents, an East Jerusalem man and five residents of Nazareth were arrested for planning terror attacks in support of IS.
In November, six Arab Israelis from Jaljulia were arrested for preparing to join Islamic State after a seventh man successfully joined the organization by hang gliding into Syria from the Golan Heights.
And in October, in the first indictments for IS-affiliated activity on Israeli soil, seven men were indicted in Nazareth for attempting to carry out terror attacks in Israel under the Islamic State’s flag, having already acquired weapons and scoped out army bases and police stations.
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Man found guilty of
preparing to travel to Syria sentenced to five years’ jail.
By Emma Younger, ABC News 290916
A would-be-foreign fighter has been sentenced to
five-and-a-half years in jail for attempting to join the conflict in Syria
in one of the first cases of its kind in Australia.
Melbourne man
Amin Mohamed, 26, was convicted of three counts of making preparations to
travel to a foreign country to engage in hostile acts for attempting to fight
on the frontline in Syria.
The Somalian-born New Zealand
citizen was stopped from boarding a plane bound for Turkey
at Brisbane airport in 2013.
He was later arrested and charged for applying for a
passport, buying a plane ticket for Turkey
and obtaining a contact for a fixer to help him travel from Turkey
to Syria.
Mohamed made the arrangements with the help of Sydney
jihadist recruited Hamdi Al-Qudsi who has since been jailed for helping young
people travel to Syria.
In sentencing, Supreme Court Justice Lex Lasry said he did
not think Mohamed would have “lasted long”.
“You do not seem to have any previous experience that would
have equipped you for what you apparently wanted to do,” he said.
“That may be a clear indicator of how misguided your state
of mind was at the time.”
Justice Lasry noted few people have been sentenced for the
offence Mohamed was convicted of and none was similar.
Resolve to travel should not
be downplayed.
Mohamed has since acknowledged he became “extreme” about
religion and was motivated by hijrah – to travel to another country for the
sake of God.
He told the court he now described himself as being naïve
and foolish.
Justice Lasry told the court despite that self-reflection,
Mohamed had failed to ever admit he was planning to join the conflict in Syria
and his resolve to travel should not be downplayed.
“These arrangements were being carefully planned with a view
to ensuring that your plans were not discovered,” he said.
“There was a time for reflection but you were not deterred
and indeed your enthusiasm for your travel plans and the desire to engage in
hostile activities seemed to escalate.”
After his arrest, Mohamed was held in immigration detention
and he will now be transferred to prison to serve a minimum sentence of
three-and-a-half years.
Taking into account the time he has already spent in
detention, Mohamed will be eligible for release next year.
He is then likely to be deported, despite the fact his
mother and siblings live in Melbourne.
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- September 27 2016 The Age
Manny Waks sues brother for defamation over 'harbouring paedophile' claims
Yeshiva Centre child sexual abuse whistleblower Manny Waks is suing his brother for defamation, in a case likely to re-inflame tensions over abuse cover-ups in the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community.
Avi
Yemini is the co-founder of IDF Training in Caulfield. Photo:
www.facebook.com/AviYeminiOfficial/ Mr Waks has acknowledged that the Waks family had a man convicted of a child sex offence - New York Rabbi Moshe Keller - staying at the family home over a period of days last year. (Rabbi Keller was convicted of endangering the welfare of a child after a court heard he had inappropriately touched a 15-year-old boy, The New York Times has reported.)
Manny
Waks is suing his brother for defamation. Photo: Penny StephensYeshiva wrote to parents in September last year to say it had been brought to their attention that "an individual ... who was previously charged with child related crimes, is visiting Melbourne and is staying in close proximity to the school campus.
"We have been in contact with Victoria Police and consulted with the relevant authorities and the individual is completely excluded from any access to the Yeshivah Centre in its entirety, at all times," the letter stated.
Mr Waks came to national prominence after he broke the silence about sexual abuse within Melbourne's Orthodox community, specifically at the St Kilda East Yeshiva College.
Mr Yemini is the co-founder of IDF Training, a pro-Israel gym in Caulfield that has come under attack for recruiting members to serve in the Israeli army, and has offered training in weaponry hosted by former Israeli Defence Force snipers.
The brothers' relationship has been strained for years, but the defamation suit represents a new low.
In documents lodged with the Supreme Court, Mr Waks says Mr Yemini's claims held him up to contempt and ridicule, and seriously injured his credit and reputation.
But Mr Yemini told Fairfax he would fight the defamation action.
Last year Mr Yemini posted on his public page a photograph of Manny and his parents, Zephaniah and Chaya Waks, beneath a headline reading "PLEASE SHARE: IMPORTANT CSA [child sexual abuse] OFFENDER COMMUNITY ALERT!"
Beneath, it read: "Moshe Keller, a notorious, convicted child sex offender is currently staying at the Waks' family home which is located literally metres from a school frequented by hundreds of children. Ironically, it is the very same school that Zephaniah (and Manny) Waks have been attacking relentlessly for years now in a so called bid to 'protect the children' who attend there."
Mr Yemini made further claims which Fairfax has chosen not to republish.
The post remains visible on the public page.
In 2013, the Waks family put their home on the market and moved to Israel, saying they had been bullied, harassed and ostracised from the Chabad community after Manny blew the lid on abuse at Yeshiva.
Two years later, Mr Waks said on his website, his parents had "finally" managed to sell their house, "unknowingly" selling it to Rabbi Keller's daughter and her large family.
"At the time of sale they were completely unaware of the link (the Keller daughter has adopted her husband's family name)," Mr Waks wrote in September last year.
"The contract has already been finalised and the settlement is due in December. As the family needed a place to stay for a few months, my parents generously offered them to move into the house this week free of charge (over Rosh Hashanah only Moshe Keller and his wife stayed over)."
He said once the link was known, the Kellers were asked to leave.
Mr Waks is seeking damages and court costs against his brother, saying Mr Yemini failed to offer him a right to reply before putting his Facebook post online, and did not alter the post after Mr Waks had publicly responded.
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