Our Czech mates
Regarding “Palestinians, Arab League, condemn Czech Jerusalem office” (Jpost.com, March 13), the PA and the Arab League should study Article 80 of the United Nations Charter rather than robotically claiming everything they disagree with is “a blatant violation of international law.”
The international law described in Article 80 of the UN Charter – which supersedes any vote of the Security Council or the General Assembly – requires every member of the United Nations to honor the British Mandate, which declared what today is the State of Israel, including Judea and Samaria, as the reconstituted homeland of the Jewish people. Therefore in accordance with international law as per Article 80 of the United Nations Charter all of Jerusalem is sovereign Jewish territory.
Despite baseless Arab claims to the contrary, the Czech Jerusalem office has complied with international law: Article 80 of the United Nations Charter.
On another topic, Morton A. Klein and Susan B. Tuchman call Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) an “anti-Israel hate group,” but that does not tell the real story (“Far Left Jewish groups’ opposition of IHRA’s antisemitism hurts us,” March 8).
SJP was created in 2000 by Hamas supporter Hatem Bazian and pro-Hamas activist Swehai Shingavi to wage a campus war against Israel on behalf of Hamas. Also Hamas is the most significant supporter of SJP through American Muslims for Palestine, also established by Hatem Bazian in 2005. What is most important for the every college community to remember is that Hamas is an antisemitic genocidal organization. Article 7 of the Hamas charter, which has never been revoked, requires every member and supporter of Hamas – which includes every member of every university SJP – to murder every Jew on earth (“Israel” is not mentioned in Article 7).
SJP is not some benign student activist organization notwithstanding any public relations pablum it may issue to obfuscate its sole malevolent purpose. As a documented front group for Hamas, it exists solely to promote Hamas’s antisemitic genocidal agenda in college communities. As such, it presents a clear and present danger to the Jewish students, professors and administrators at every college and university that it is at.
The bottom line is that any organization that aligns itself with SJP in any way is aligning itself with the antisemitic genocidal provisions of Article 7 of the Hamas Charter.
RICHARD SHERMAN Margate, Florida
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Department of Homeland Security on Saturday ordered an emergency agency that usually responds to floods, storms and other major disasters to help care for a growing number of migrant children arriving at the US-Mexico border.
DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said in a news release that he would deploy the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) “to help receive, shelter and transport the children” over the next 90 days.
The move signals the scope of a growing humanitarian and political crisis for the administration of President Joe Biden, a Democrat who took office on January 20. The increased arrivals come as Biden has reversed some of the restrictive policies of former president Donald Trump.
Unaccompanied minors found crossing the border are transferred by immigration officials to another federal agency, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). But a spike in children arriving without parents or legal guardians has exceeded shelter capacity, which was previously cut by 40% to limit the spread of COVID-19.
The coronavirus-related shelter capacity restrictions were lifted on
March 5, but only about 200 beds came back online last week, an administration official told reporters on Friday.
It is unclear exactly how FEMA will help, though the agency has expertise in housing and caring for those left homeless. The Homeland Security statement said FEMA would assist in looking “at every available option to quickly expand physical capacity for appropriate lodging.”
A FEMA statement added it was also working with HHS “to provide food, water and basic medical care.”
Migrant children apprehended at the border are supposed to be transferred out of Border Patrol custody within 72 hours. But when shelter space is limited, they can get stuck in border detention centers for longer periods – as is happening now.
More than 3,600 migrant children were being held in US border facilities as of Thursday morning, a US official told Reuters, more than four times the number in late February. As of Friday, the HHS refugee office had approximately 8,800 unaccompanied children in custody.
FEMA also helped coordinate a response to an influx of unaccompanied minors in 2014, under former president Barack Obama.