Guest essay by Eric Worrall
The Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas thinks Israeli settlements are causing dangerous global warming.
At the UN Earth Day ceremony in New York on Friday, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas blamed the “Israeli occupation” for global warming. The ceremony was intended to mark the signing of an agreement reached at an international summit in Paris last December, but Abbas seized the opportunity to engage in Israel bashing.
Abbas took the podium and addressed the representatives of 193 nations gathered to address global environmental issues. “The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared, “And the Israeli settlements are destroying the environment in Palestine. Please help us stop the occupation and the settlements.”
Regardless of your position on the Israel / Palestine situation, suggesting that Israeli settlements contribute significantly to global warming is utterly implausible. But this latest twist in climate politics simply adds tension to a situation which has been brewing, since Palestine was admitted a few days ago, to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
If the US continues to fund the UNFCC, or fulfils Paris “pledges” to contribute to the UNFCC climate fund, not only is this a violation of current US law, there is a serious possibility some US provided money might be diverted to help fund terrorist attacks.
Later the poor leader,of Hamas/Palestine confesses to having been sucked into the Vortex of stupidity, that surrounds the USA Foreign Affairs Secretary.
The Kerry Effect being almost as pernicious as the Gore Effect.
Let me guess, our super genius Kerry agrees with Abbas. There is a level of stupidity / insanity out of our “leaders” that is beyond frightening.
Frightening, yes. Truly sinister.
“If the US continues to fund the UNFCC, or fulfils Paris “pledges” to contribute to the UNFCC climate fund, not only is this a violation of current US law…”
Is anyone pursuing this? If those who can do something about it let these guys get away with breaking this law, there will be not only further deterioration of the Constitution on into irrelevance, it will set a terrible precedent. Look, you have the troughers all seeking ways to put sceptics, oil companies, think tanks behind bars and our side is not taking care of what should be done to maintain the country’s laws. Fight back at least with things that are a clear win situation! Sometimes the helplessness that seems to pervade the sceptical side in this particular arena is very scary.
Where have I seen that face before?
Hilarious perfection, ossqss! 😀
Even though the resemblance is uncanny, this could not possibly be anyone related to Mr, John Kerry. The person depicted in ossquss’ picture is way too level-headed.
On a lighter note, Mr. John Kerry goes into a bar. The bartender looks at him and asks, “John, why the long face?”
If the quotations are correct, Abbas never blamed global warming on the settlers. His quoted words are: “The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared, “And the Israeli settlements are destroying the environment in Palestine. Please help us stop the occupation and the settlements.”
Now Abbas may be wrong in his accusation, but the original writer seems unable to distinguish between Palestine and the Globe. It is not impossible to modify local climate, and certainly it has occurred in other places in the past.
Let’s see now…..what accusation just might stick against the wall…..
Ok, sorry to be a wet blanket here but neither the quotes provided in the post here nor the linked story support the claim of Abbas blaming Israeli occupation for causing GW. In the quotes he’s blaming Israeli occupation for local environmental damage, which is well within the realm of possible. A cursory google search didn’t turn up any supporting statements either.
Can anyone provide some evidence in support of the claim?
My thoughts exactly, and at about the same time… Is that so hard to see? Is there not enough to be critical about without making up straw men?
Actually, Abbas said it was destroying both the Palestinian climate And the Palestinian environment:
“The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared, “And the Israeli settlements are destroying the environment in Palestine.”
Ray. Yes, which is why I gave both quotes. “In Palestine” is the point, not “Global”. Abbas did not accuse the Israelis of changing the climate (or the environment) in Peoria.
He is blaming Israel settlements for changing Palestinian climate.
Keep in mind that he considers all of the former “British mandate” territories to be Palestine. So that is not a little UHI thing he accuses Israel of. Given that people like Kerry use single localized weather events as proof of AGW, conclusion of author is very reasonable.
But if you don’t see it… There is no helping you then.
[sigh]
A local climate (ie Palestinian or Yucatanian or Chernobolian etc.) can certainly be “destroyed” or at least perceived to be destroyed by activities that have nothing to do with AGW.
This is a bridge too far from what was actually said.
Destroyed? Really?
Ok, show me any example of such “climate destruction”
Not just climate change and not just environmental effects but actual climate destruction. Proveably caused by our actions. On a area the size of Israel.
What better example of science becoming (or being absconded by politicians to become) “political science”.
Dear bloody lord, mind you Abbas is a clown. Installed useful idiot.
I thought occupations and wars were caused by climate change, now it is the opposite lol
*now it is the opposite..
Get ready for the Earth’s spin is changing because of climate change department’s announcements
Abbas is making Baghdad Bob look like an amateur.
If the Arab countriess do not have an Israel to fight against, they will start fighting with each other.
They already started.
This segment here is a cynical and rather pathetic effort to bring back the glory days of Israel-hate being the glue of the Arab world.
Sadly for Abbas nobody gives a rat’s ass about him anymore – the Arab world is in a colossal fight within itself.
It is simply amazing how many people posting here are unaware that the so-called “Palestinians” are neither Arabs nor are they Native to the Middle East! These people are Caucasians from the Caucasus Region of the Black Sea. Ever notice just how “White” Mahmoud Abbas is?
..Why do you think other Arab nations won’t take them ?
Not entirely true – the majority of these people came to “Palestine” during the late 1800’s and first half of 1900’s from all over the Middle East, North Africa and from Eastern Europe.
An anecdote – most of the Bedouins in the Sinai desert originated in Romania…
Odd, most Israelis are eastern Europeans who came from the Mongol Empire to Turkey to Hungary and into Europe.
So how does this ^^ or your statement change the fact that settlers were granted land by the UN (most of the best land with the smaller population) and then began taking the land outside those borders consistently right up to today?
Mark, Odd that you accuse other of bigotry when you trot out the old anti-semitic, and thoroughly discredited, Khazar hypothesis. You may want to start your reading here: http://digitalcommons.wayne.edu/humbiol/vol85/iss6/9/
No one there eh
http://www.juancole.com/images/2014/04/Screen-Shot-2014-04-17-at-3.37.59-AM.png
http://www.haaretz.com/polopoly_fs/1.603969.1404899429!/image/2146343385.jpg_gen/derivatives/headline_609x343/2146343385.jpg
Palestine was occupied by very white Britain and people wonder why there are some fair skinned people lol
Some people are so bigoted as to revise history to suit their beliefs
Someone here are no so different on this subject as others are on CAGW. Irony
A later Palestinian Anglo pound, from a site selling Israeli images from 1958
http://www.israelimages.com/see_image_details.php?idi=1598
it seems Palestine existed except in the minds of those attempting to reconcile cognitive dissonance because we can all see the land being taken and the walls going up around said stolen land, but a reason must be found to condone this and is why you hear people talk of “Palestinians are not from there” as this is the only way a rational mind can reconcile what they are seeing with what they want to believe.
The human capacity for self delusion knows no bounds, and I actually include myself in that “human” group, over the past 30 years I have had many long held beliefs turned upside including global warming.
“The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared.
Climate change is so nebulous it can cause anything and be blamed on anything. That’s what it was created for, to be a universal boogeyman that politicians could exploit. But you can’t patent climate change. Anyone can use it for their own purposes, no matter how ridiculous. And when it gets exploited too often, when every political grievance and every act of nature gets blamed on climate change, it begins to lose its fear factor and its credibility. It’s like crying ‘wolf” every day to keep your neighbors alarmed and ready for a wolf attack that you believe is going to happen at any moment. Eventually, they tune you out and are no longer alarmed by your cries.
Nonsene. Pure nonsense.
Israeli historians readily accept 1948 was genocide. They say it was not planned but it did happen. Alan Dershowitz even accepts this and that is saying something.
There have been 37 massacres since 1947, shall I name them all, provide the background, dates deaths and so on for you, with much of my information from Israeli sources.
I’ve conversed often with a former IDF soldier who collects testimonies of soldiers after battle, and the stuff he is told is nothing like official accounts, one of which was soldiers were allowed blow off steam over losing comrades by setting imaginary arbitrary red lines on maps and shooting anyone that ventures beyond them, which is nearly always young men as they are the ones who go searching through rubble. I can even provide videographic evidence proving this, as a man walking with dayglo dressed aid workers was shot dead by the IDF, he was just a young man looking for people in the piles of rubble. The aid workers had to watch as he was shot again, they could not come into the line of fire.
Dont get me wrong, Abbas is a sock puppet. But your take on it is some sort of dreamworld
Imagine mexico decided to take the land between you and where your family live, and you had to travel through two new checkpoints taking the best part of a day to get through a times, just to see your brother, this is the reality each time palestine is fractured by land grabs
The irrational logic of claiming they are “not belonging there” by people who have absolutely no link to that part of the world is so stupid it beggars belief.
Someone said “oh they are Caucasian they cant belong there”,,. that is racist BS
** Correction, I said “Israeli historians readily accept 1948 was genocide.”
What I meant to say was “Israeli historians readily accept 1948 was Ethnic Cleansing”
MarkT, I was going to comment on your outrageous accusation on 1948 being genocide, when I noted you partially corrected your falsehood. Your “correction”, however, remains false. Israeli historians do not “readily accept 1948 was Ethnic Cleansing”. On the contrary, this is believed by a minority of Israeli academics, the so-called “New Historians”. Hell, even Benny Morris now says “”There was no Zionist ‘plan’ or blanket policy of evicting the Arab population, or of ‘ethnic cleansing'”.
As you are well aware, the Palestinian leadership was offered peace at Taba and at Camp David which would have involved Palestinian control over 97% of the West Bank and Gaza with the other 3% being made up through land swaps. They rejected this, insisting in addition to the right of return of all refugees and descendants. This would make Jews a minority in Israel so was obviously a non-starter to Israel. Riddle me this – how can Israel make peace with an opponent that will not recognize its right to exist? Israel has shown a repeated willingness to trade land for peace. There is no evidence of reciprocity from the either the PA or Hamas. Have you been to a pro-Palestinian protest anywhere in the US lately? If so, you know that the refrain chanted is “from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free”. Think about what that means.
the bottom line, Israel is there, Palestinians are there, lets cut the historical wrangling and create either one secular state or two states. Land swaps and borders drawn and apply international law for once.
99% of people are caught in the middle, there are vested interests on both sides and the vast VAST majority are stuck in the middle. Those interests dont want peace.
I skipped over most of the posts in this one.
Better off, the ignorance and bigotry is immense
“The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared.
What does a destroyed climate look like? Can another climate be bought to replace the ruined one?
“The Israeli occupation is destroying the climate in Palestine,” Abbas declared, “And the Israeli settlements are destroying the environment in Palestine. Please help us stop the occupation and the settlements.”
That’s a good one, until know nobody knew of Palestine sporting its own climate.
Maybe we can learn from the developing ones – develop your own climate !
I wonder what percentages of psychotic delusions can be accounted for by partisan politics and by illogical religious preconceptions.
Fact: Palestinians never wanted peace OR land. They love living on hand outs from UNRWA , UN, Saudis, Ayatollas etc etc so they can live for free (not be free). Their ambition of conquering all of Palestine from River to sea ended when Israel became an undefeatable force. But rest assured It is with in Hamas and the PLO’s charter to murder and kill all the jews around the world. Israel is the last sanctuary for all the Jews in the world and what better way to destroy them than by destroying their last hopes?