January 2012 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Malaysian accuses rival of cozying up to Jews

I noted yesterday that the hot topic in Malaysian politics is that an opposition leader, Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, was accused of being "Zionist" and having relationships with prominent Jews because of an interview he gave in the Wall Street Journal. So naturally he is accusing his accuser of being a Jew-lover himself: PKR has accused Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad of having close ties with Zionists and pro-Israeli US leaders back when...

US Embassy/Tel Aviv does better hasbara than Israel

Israel saving literally thousands of American lives: But I thought that Israel endangered Americans. That's what Walt keeps saying! There are other very interesting videos on that channel, as Shapiro goes around the country and shows highlights. Including a visit to the Mir Yeshiva and one to industrial parks where Arabs and Jews work together. Here's another where he test drives a Better Place electric car in Israel: It looks like many...

Every day, the official Syrian SANA news agency has an article that has a variation of this theme: Political Analyst Sharif Shhadeh said that Syria faces a Zionist-US project to undermine its resistant role in the region, adding that the Arab League's decisions are clear evidence on its involvement in the conspiracy. Last week Syria even said that they captured Israeli arms...

A photo essay of a thoroughbred horse race in Jericho from Palestine Times: The horses look severely oppressed because of the choking Zionist policies...

From Today's Zaman: Turkey has dismissed claims that Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal will be moving to Turkey, adding that Turkey also didn't pledge aid to the Palestinian party. Turkish government spokesman and Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç told a news conference on Monday following a Cabinet meeting that Mashaal's office being moved to Turkey is out of question. He...

"Med-Red" rail link proposed

From Reuters: Israel said on Sunday it plans to build a railway line linking its Red Sea and Mediterranean ports that could handle potential overflow from the Suez Canal on the freight route between Asia and Europe. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his cabinet the idea of ships dropping off goods in one port to be picked up by a second ship at the other, had stirred "great interest" from major exporters India and China. The project has yet...

Palestine Press Agency reports that the divorce rate in Gaza has been increasing, reaching 17% last year. The reason? [Experts] attribute the high divorce rate among Palestinian youth to unemployment, which increased as a result of the split between Fatah and Hamas, as well as the Israeli blockade which is still deeply hurting parts of Palestinian society, including married...

Douglas Murray on a nuclear Iran (video - Cambridge debate)

This is a worthwhile speech to watch. Apparently from March 2011. (h/t Tundra Tabloid...

Fogel massacre postscript: The lying mother of a murderer

I noted on Sunday that the mother and aunt of Hakim Awad, one of the murderers of the Fogel family in Itamar praised him on official Palestinian Authority TV. The mother said, "My greetings to dear Hakim, the apple of my eye, from the village of Awarta, 17 years old, who carried out the operation in Itamar (i.e., killing of 5 Fogel family members), sentenced to 5 life sentences and another 5 years, in prison." At the time of the arrests, however,...

Top issue in Malaysian politics? Israel!

From WSJ: Recent comments by Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim have demonstrated yet again how issues related to Israel continue to divide this majority-Muslim country – and could influence the country’s next national election. In a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal, Mr. Anwar responded to the question of whether he would open diplomatic ties with Israel by stating his “support” for “efforts to protect the security of the state...

Nasser, in 1955, felt most refugees wouldn't want to "return"

In 1955, the US was still trying to broker a peace deal between Israel and the Arab states. Egypt insisted that any peace plan include Israel giving Egypt significant territory in the Negev in order to form a strong connection between Egypt and Jordan. This would mean that Israel would either give up Eilat, which is what Egypt wanted, or Eilat would be effectively cut off from Israel. As always, the issue of Palestine refugees came up, and Gamal...

An Israeli team of bakers won two first-place awards at the International Baking Championships held in Rimini this past week. They won in the healthy bread category, for a pita bread stuffed with fresh spinach and cheese risotto balls. They also won in the dessert category, for a strawberry and fruit brioche-style Black Forest. Based on these results, the Israeli team...

In December, I wrote about the little-known fact that the Jewish National Fund owns some 53 square kilometers of land in Syria. I showed a map of some of their holdings made in the 1930s: Now, Guy Bechor writes (in Hebrew) many fascinating details on this story, about how a member of Hovevei Zion named David Rosenberg encouraged the purchase of land in the Hauran and tried...

The bizarre conspiracy theories of the anti-Israel Left

A nice piece at False Dichotomies by Alex Stein: The best – and kindest – way to describe Richard Silverstein is that he’s silly. Very silly indeed. He sincerely believes that his blog makes an important contribution to world peace, so important that he regularly asks readers to give him money. After a frustrating first few years as a blogger, while he tried to find a bigger audience, most respectable publications realised that he was...

Ismail Haniyeh is planning another tour of the Muslim world hot on the heels of his last one earlier this month. In this one he is visiting Qatar, Iran and other countries not yet specified. In Qatar, Haniyeh is expected to ask for $17 million to build a "Sports City" in Gaza. The Emir had promised to fund such a project in 2006. Haniyeh reportedly used to be a soccer...

MSM finally starts noticing the "unity" sham

It only took ten months.... Rival Palestinian movements Fatah and Hamas are delaying implementation of their reconciliation accord, paying lip-service to the deal while each pursues its own agenda, analysts say. Last April, the rivals signed a reconciliation agreement which stipulated the holding of fresh presidential and legislative elections in May 2012 and the quick formation of an interim government of independents in the meantime. The deal...

Two recent incidents at the London School of Economics have caused the LSE Student Union to pass two motions, that seem on the surface to be analogous, one against anti-semitism and one against Islamophobia. The anti-semitic incident happened last month: According to a statement released by the LSE’s Jewish Society, a student objected to a drinking game that was being played,...

Tunisians rally to criminalize normalization with Israel

From Tunisia-Live: The National Committee for Supporting Arab Resistance and Fighting Normalization and Zionism, is a post-revolution Tunisian association whose mission is to lobby the National Constituent Assembly to criminalize normalization with the State of Israel. The association organized a rally on Sunday, January 29th at the Ibn Khaldoun Cultural Center in downtown...

Fatwa: "Be careful about hacking Israelis, because they are better than we are"

From Al Arabiya: In light of the increasing support of “the electronic Jihad” and the divergence of views regarding this subject, Islamic scholars have underlined their support for this new phenomenon, arguing that “any attempt to spite the enemy and endorse religion is legitimate”. They consider that Muslim youth involved in this phenomenon are in fact leading a jihad”. But what do those who refuse to support this phenomenon have to say? They...

Gaza plans to strengthen connections to Egypt's electric grid

Mohamed Awad, deputy Hamas prime minister, announced that Egypt and the Hamas government have agreed to connect their electrical grids, "so as to end the power crisis in the Gaza Strip completely and irrevocably." He said, "We are in contact with our brothers in Egypt to increase the amount of electricity received from the Egyptian side...we are seeking the introduction of tools, equipment and maintenance of electrical turbines,and will run the...

PA TV praises murderers of Fogels as "heroic"

From Palestinian Media Watch: PA TV host: "We have a call from the family of prisoner Hakim Awad." Mother of Hakim Awad: "I thank you for connecting me with my son, because I and all of the family are prevented for security reasons [from visiting him]. Host: "Go ahead, sister, we can convey your voice." Mother of Hakim Awad: "My greetings to dear Hakim, the apple of my eye, from the village of Awarta, 17 years old, who carried out the operation...

Makor Rishon reports on an interesting, if quixotic, conference that took place at Ariel University. They were there to debate "What is the best peace plan?" It was sponsored by an Israeli organization that had already held similar conferences in Tel Aviv, eastern Jerusalem and Beit Jala. The Ariel conference was attended by Palestinian Arabs, Jews who live in Samaria, students...

Ma'ariv reports that King Abdullah has given the OK to a joint 100 megawatt solar energy project that will straddle Jordan and Israel. A feasibility study fo rthe project is currently taking place. The solar farm will take 3000 dunam a bit north of Eilat. It is expected to cost between $300-600 million. Businesses see the project as leverage for economic cooperation between...

Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shallah is on a visit to Iran, where he spoke at a Conference for Youth and Islamic Awakening. (It appears that under the new Egyptian regime, terrorists are now freely allowed to travel through the Rafah crossing to go on world tours.) The keynote speaker at the conference was none other than Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who explained why Israel was...

From Radio Netherlands: Dutch satirist Johan Vlemmix has decided not to perform his latest hit Do the Burqa onstage following death threats. The song, a carnival parody to the music of Van McCoy's Do the Hustle, is a huge success on YouTube, so much so that the video provider has switched off the comments facility. Too many people were posting angry reactions saying that...

3000 Muslims attack Christian homes in Egypt over rumor

From AINA: A mob of over 3000 Muslims attacked Copts in the village of Kobry-el-Sharbat (el-Ameriya), Alexandria this afternoon. Coptic homes and shops were looted before being set ablaze. Two Copts and a Muslim were injured. The violence started after a rumor was spread that a Coptic man had an allegedly intimate photo of a Muslim woman on his mobile phone. The Coptic man, Mourad Samy Guirgis, surrendered to the police this morning morning for...

Arabic news sites have been showing a series of photos of an Arab man supposedly deliberately run over by an Israeli truck near Hebron: A Palestinian construction worker screamed in pain after an Israeli soldier drove a trailer hooked to a tractor over his legs near Yatta, West Bank, Wednesday. Israeli forces seized equipment because they said the workers...

84 killed in Syria today

Al Arabiya is reporting that the death toll in Syria today is 84 people, most of them in Hama. There was also a car bomb attack and an ambush against Syrian forces, killing 12. This is besides the massacre in Homs yesterday, where 14 members of a single family were shot or hacked to death, including 8 children. Meanwhile, the Free Syrian Army says it captured five members...

From Al Arabiya: Fayyad and Peres at Davos The Middle East peace process is at its lowest point in two decades and the events of the Arab Spring have forced it down the world agenda, the Palestinian prime minister complained Thursday as EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said that the end of informal talks between Palestinians and Israel does not mean the two sides...