Even though everyone knows they did. Despite that fact, the Palestinian Authority denounced the remarks as “racist” and demanded that the European Commission president apologize. She did not.
JPost Palestinians from across the political spectrum condemned European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over the weekend for saying that Israel has “made the desert bloom.” Her statement was included in a special message posted on Twitter by the European Union Delegation to Israel to celebrate 75 years of Israel’s independence and friendship with Europe.
“Today, we celebrate 75 years of vibrant democracy in the heart of the Middle East,” she said. “Seventy-five years of dynamism, ingenuity, and groundbreaking innovations. You have literally made the desert bloom.”
“We rejects the inappropriate, false, and discriminatory remarks by the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, particularly the ‘made the desert bloom’ anti-Palestinian racist trope,” the Palestinian Foreign Affairs Ministry said. “Such propagandist discourse dehumanizes and erases the Palestinian people and falsifies their rich history and civilization.”
Basem Naim, head of the Hamas Political and External Affairs Department, said that the message Ursula von der Leyen sent to Israel “expresses a lot of political hypocrisy and ignorance of history.”
The Hamas official accused the European Commission president of “repeating lies promoted by the leaders of the Zionist enterprise.” He added: “Palestine was never a desert that blossomed during the era of Israeli barbarism. Thousands of years ago, Palestine was the cradle of civilizations, the meeting point of coexistence, and the path for science and progress.” (Exactly! That was when the original inhabitants – the Jews – lived there, long before Islam even existed and the territory called Palestine was virtually all Jewish)
The PLO’s Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) called on von der Leyen and the European Union to apologize to the Palestinian people for their “unlimited support for the Zionist entity.”
And even today, it is the Israelis, and the Israelis alone, who are making the desert boom in many new ways:
Conrad Calvano says
For how long would they be able to deny the truth? That this little sliver of land they call Israel was a barren desert before the nation was recreated? That there is really nobody called Palestinian, who are but Arabs by another name in order to squat on Jewish lands? The truth has a way of getting out!
BareNakedIslam says
They will deny the truth to their dying days because they’ve been brainwashed with lies since forever.
Hartmut says
Better don’t hype Ursula von der Leyen though, she just jumps any opportunistic bandwagon.
As Merkel’s former chamber maid she has no issue reversing anything she said or any contract she signed the next day. In this regard she is every bit as vile, pig-headed and even criminal as her former mentor.
Furthermore, she’s entirely into the EU bureaucracy stripping nations from their sovereignty, pushing the GMC and putting citizens at economic and even physical harm.
While being secretary of defense in Germany she was under investigation for fraudulent contracts and avoided trial by erasing incriminating correspondence. As the head of the EU commission she pulled off the very same stunt again regarding overpriced vaccine contracts.
In short, she should be behind bars.
BareNakedIslam says
As they say, even a broken clock is right twice a day. 🫤
Hartmut says
The broken clock does not reverse being right though, even when rare. I would not bet on bigot Uschi to last here.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
In short, she should be behind bars. That will never ever happen then as all know she was not voted for and she wasnt even on the ballot but to get her away from the investigation merkel put her in office as president and not the winner, remember?. The presidency of europe has been illegaly given to an criminal and this criminal does all that is wanted from her like to destroy all national sovereighnity and to flood all nations, Fazit, she is there to destroy the democratic system so that they can install their you wont own anything but you will be happy system. No Hartmut we have no democracy left here in europe, none what so ever and that is why i allways say the hour of power is comming.
Jack Rider says
For Hamas and the other rejectionist arab groups there ought to be a Nobel prize for denial of the obvious. What has held the arab peoples back is not the Jews nor the Israeli state. There is no world-wide Jewish conspiracy to oppress muslims or arabs. Jews are not poisoning the wells or having conventions to rule the world. These arcane medieval notions have found fertile ground to bloom in a paranoia that is embedded in islam and arab sociology.
BareNakedIslam says
And it is pretty widespread among Western Jew-haters as well, mow, more than ever since the end WW2.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Hey Jack they tell these lies so that the rest of the world thinks poor poor palastine, these lies work so good that it brings in millions every year. Israel is older and the country was Taken away more than once but the Israel people never ever gave up and they finally took back their country in 48 and nobody or thing except God will ever take the country away again, no palastine or any arab nation will ever stand up against israel without losing their own country. Should this war ever come then i go no matter how old iam then the fight is the prize and Israel is my friend and firends in need are friends indeed. Dont let them tell you lies and should you hear anyone telling them then stand and correct the lie no matter what. I do this in the city then i believe in taking the problem to were it is and not in a closed room were no one hears you.
DavidW says
Islam creates a feeling of inferiority among Muslims, which is why they are so easy to be offended and quickly “punch” back.
Jim Austin says
Moslem epistemology regards truth as whatever malevolent thoughts pop into their heads and spews out of their mouths.
Postmodern epistemology holds that truth varies according to culture and race and that those who apply Western standards of evidence to such insanity are guilty of hate, intolerance, bigotry, xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, etc., etc., ad nauseam.
Thus postmodern liberals rush to provide platforms to Moslems to spread their hateful propaganda including out-and-out lies about Israel in university classrooms, the media, all over without challenge, without criticism, without the application of reason, observation, evidence, without anybody pointing out inconsistent facts, without anybody mentioning just how stupid it all is.
ME Infidel says
I’ll be seeing the “dynamism, ingenuity and groundbreaking innovations” myself next month. My now deceased wife (poisoned by Remdesivir) and I were headed there in 2000 when the USS Cole was bombed. Never tried to go back since she thought it was too dangerous. That’s correct on occasion but it’s safer than Chicago, NYC, LA. Can’t wait to get there!
BareNakedIslam says
So sorry 😢 to hear about your wife. Was that one of those COVID drugs?
Hope you will be able to post a little from Israel and tell us what it’s like there now. And yes, despite all the Muslims there, you’ll be much safer than in many US cities. I went there in 1974, not long after the war and felt much safer than I did in NYC.
ME Infidel says
Remdesivir was used to treat Ebola and failed miserably. 53% of patients died who took it. Yet, Fauci repurposed it to treat China Virus patients. Another money making death drug brought to you by Big Pharma.
BareNakedIslam says
And no way to sue anyone. Sucks.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Everybody would feel safer in Israel because Israel is there for its folk and our nations are not or why do they import this to us. That is the difference Bonni, Israel cares for its people and our nations dont, easy as that.
BareNakedIslam says
It depends on who the leader is. If Israel doesn’t care about its own people, who will? They our surrounded by enemies on all sides and sometimes, like now, in the White House, too.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
Sometimes the truth hurts and when there is nothing but allah akku in their heads then they should not bitch about it but do something about it, like the Israelites have done, do something and bring your country in form, no its better to bitch about the one working then to do the work himself and for all its better to wander out into europe then there you have all the time in the world to follow your allah crap because the others work for you. Screw them and long and high shall Israel live…and it will !!!!!!.
David says
Absolutely correct !
chobers says
It is impossible to denounce anything in Palestine; there is no Palestine.
Daniel Erbstoesser says
As David said to me, Absolutely correct!.