Sunday, May 10, 2009

  • Sunday, May 10, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Arab News:
A Jeddah court judge’s approval of husbands slapping their wives on the face if they spend money lavishly on unnecessary things triggered a hue and cry during a seminar on domestic violence here recently.

“If a person gives SR1,200 to his wife and she spends SR900 to purchase an abaya (the black gown) from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment,” said Judge Hamad Al-Razine.

The judge made this comment in the presence of Princess Adila bint Abdullah, deputy chairperson of the National Family Safety Program, who attended the seminar on the role of judicial and security institutions in preventing domestic violence.

Al-Razine was explaining the causes of an increase in domestic violence in the country, adding that women were also equally responsible. “But nobody puts even a fraction of blame on them,” he said before making the controversial comment.

Al-Razine also pointed out that women’s indecent behavior and use of offensive words against their husbands were some of the reasons for domestic violence in the country.

This is the same logic that Arab men use to justify terrorism, riots and any sort of violence: they are always provoked into doing it and the victims deserve it.

It should come as no surprise that the same justifications used for Arab terrorism can be used for abusing women as well.

Friday, May 08, 2009

  • Friday, May 08, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
From The Malaysian Insider:
PENANG, May 8 — A lecturer with Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) today lodged a police report over a video clip which allegedly insulted and belittled Islam.

The lecturer in the USM Communications Department, Prof Madya Muhammad Hatta Muhammad Tabut said the video clip lasting 1 minute 23 seconds was posted in the website YouTube by someone under the name ‘Streeticeshark’ about two months ago.

“The video clip shows a shirtless man wearing jeans praying toward a verse taken from the Al-Quran and saying, ‘sabda Rasulullah (saw.), marilah kita semua orang Melayu makan babi’ (the Rasulullah (Prophet) said, let us all the Malays eat pork).

“The video clip also showed him mimicking the ‘azan’ or Muslim call for prayer which had been watched by 9,032 visitors to the international video-archiving website,” he told reporters after making the police report at the Jalan Patani Police Station, here.

Muhammad Hatta said he had made an investigation and the Internet Protocol (IP) of the address showed that it was registered in Kota Baharu, Kelantan. — Bernama

So, of course, I have to bring it to you:

Not that I understand a word of it...

  • Friday, May 08, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Firas Press:
Mahdi Akef, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, defended Hezbollah, saying that Egypt had a duty to thank the party instead of to investigate members of the [alleged terror] cell, which was recently captured by Egyptian authorities. Akef also launched a scathing attack on all Arab regimes, saying they «have become more Zionist than the Zionists».

Akef said in a conference held by the parliamentary bloc of the Muslim Brotherhood under the title «Jerusalem and the Aqsa Mosque and the risks of the City», the «the duty to Egypt is to thank the Party of God, rather than investigating the cell. It was not the intention of Mr. Hassan Nasrallah to send vandalism or assault, but to support Palestinian resistance, which Egypt can not do, we have failed to do ».

Akef, however, expressed confidence in the innocence of the members of Hezbollah cell saying: «What is happening in spite of all the media noise about Hezbollah cell in Egypt, I am confident in the integrity of the Egyptian judiciary, and I'm sure charges against them will be dropped as happened in several cases beforehand ».

Akef launched a scathing attack on all Arab regimes, saying: «all the Arab regimes have become more Zionist than the Zionists, and have no agenda, the agenda of non-surrender. The Arab [peace] initiative does not achieve anything, and Jerusalem is destroyed and its people are leaving, and Egypt, its position is weak and shameful».
These guys are a heartbeat away from taking over Egypt.
  • Friday, May 08, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
A Chinese newspaper reported that Hamas was ready to sign a ceasefire with Israel today, but this was strongly denied by Hamas.

An 18-month old girl in Khan Younis was shot in the head during a "family dispute," seriously injuring her.

The consensus among Palestinian Arab observers is that the Hamas member who was "martyred during a special Jihad mission" yesterday was really murdered in Hamas infighting.

The PA quasi government is gearing up to celebrate Nakba Day on May 14, the anniversary of something or other. It is interesting that they never commemorate the anniversary of Jordan's annexation of the West Bank.

Thursday, May 07, 2009

  • Thursday, May 07, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Cleveland Leader reports:
It was just last week that singer Chris Brown was rumored to have been bouncing between TWO new girlfriends, but this Tuesday it was a completely different story. According to X17, a source reveals that Chris and Rihanna reunited in the studio to work on their joint project.

The reunion, however, was short-lived - Chris packed up and headed home to Virginia on Wednesday. On this same day, Rihanna is said to have visited a psychic, "Madame Ziyon".
My mom's psychic abilities are pretty incredible, but I didn't know she was into celebrity readings.
  • Thursday, May 07, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
A press release from the United Nations in Syria:
Palestine refugees in Syria support peace through football

Thousands of Palestine refugee football fans gathered across the region last night to witness a moment of historic proportions as the Palestine national team competed valiantly against Belgium team FC Molenbeek Brussels.

Closer to home, in Yarmouk, over two hundred Palestine refugees gathered at Jarmaq school alongside representatives of the local community to watch the live broadcast. This event was one of many planned for 2009-2010 to pay tribute to six decades of UNRWA achievement.

“Tonight’s game demonstrated the power of sport in bringing together diverse groups of people who have a common interest in enhancing the welfare of Palestine refugees in Syria”, said Ms. Lisa Gilliam, Acting Director of UNRWA Affairs in Syria.

Dubbed ‘Goal for Peace’, the event saw emotions running high amongst spectators, most of whom were relishing in their first opportunity to see their national team play live. Although the Palestine national team fought determinedly, victory narrowly eluded them in the second half of the match, scoring only three goals to the Belgians four.

Supported by member states of the European community, the event was incorporated into the broader ‘EU–UNRWA Partnership for Peace and Humanity’ initiative.

In addition to the excitement generated by this match in Yarmouk, 7,000 people gathered in Brussels to promote sport as a tool for development and peace. Proceeds generated from a performance by Sabreen, a popular Palestinian musical group, will go directly to support the UNRWA Scholarship Endowment Fund.
The word "peace" is freely used, but what exactly does it mean in this context? Certainly not peace with Israel. Is it peace with the EU? Peace between Palestinian Arab factions? Hard to say.

Also, think about the phrase "six decades of UNRWA achievement." If the UNRWA is meant to solve the refugee problem from 1948, the fact that it still exists sixty years later is hardly an achievement - it is a colossal failure.

Unless you consider the establishment of a huge bureaucratic welfare system dedicated to perpetuating the stateless status of a single group of people and their descendants, unique among all the refugee groups in the history of the world, to be a great achievement.
  • Thursday, May 07, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Palestinian Authority, whose budget comes largely from Western countries, has been paying salaries to the Church of the Nativity terrorists for years.

For the past two months, however, they reduced the money they rewarded the terrorists with.

And the terrorists are whining about it.

From Palestine Today:
The government of Ramallah, for the second consecutive month, has cut the salaries of a number of Church of the Nativity fighters who had been deported to the Gaza Strip.

Ra'id Abayat (35 years old) is one who is affected by this: "This arbitrary decision was sudden and without warning, and it is a severe blow to the deportees, especially with the approach of the seventh anniversary of the deportation. "

Abayat criticized strongly the Government of Ramallah in a Palestinian daily newspaper, describing it as "a tool for executing the occupation's wishes..."

He added: "There was no justification for the salary cut. I am particularly dire need of money, I am the head of a family of 7 children, mostly in schools, and one of them mentally disabled. It is difficult for me to treat him which costs $100 per month. I am also suffering from back problems."

Another fighter from the Church of the Nativity, AH Hammoud (34 years old), is the breadwinner of the family of seven, described what happened as "unjust resolution", especially as it comes in the backdrop of the national dialogue to be held in Cairo.

Hammoud said: "We were expecting a reward from the government, marking the eighth anniversary if the operation in Bethlehem, and we were surprised by this sudden decision to cut our pay two months ago. I can assure you that there is no ambiguity in the subject, and that this was done deliberately."
For seven years, these people who desecrated one of Christianity's holiest shrines - including some Hamas members - have been rewarded by the Palestinian Authority. They were lauded as heroes at the time and they have been paid handsomely for their terror.

How many other terrorists are being paid by the moderate PA government out of our taxes?
Ma'an mentions:
One fighter from Hamas’ Al-Qassam Brigades died Thursday during what leaders called a “special mission” in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun.

A statement from the group identified the man as 23-year-old Tala’at Ismail Al-Afefi, who reportedly died while carrying out a resistance attack from Gaza’s “playground of death.”
Since the report doesn't say he was killed by the Zionist entity, that means that poor Tala'at either blew himself up or was killed by one of his brave jihadist pals.

Also, a Palestinian Arab was stabbed to death near Ramallah on Tuesday.

The 2009 PalArab self-death count is now at 74.

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

  • Wednesday, May 06, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
It looks like there are other people besides our team who are debunking the PCHR death count. From The New Republic:
If the IDF's alternate numbers are accurate, they paint a very different picture in terms of the toll on civilian life. How is there such a big disparity between the two sets of numbers? Though the IDF has refused to elaborate in any detail on how it obtained its figures, insight into its methods can be gained in the cluttered basement home office in Toronto of retired Israeli intelligence officer Jonathan Dahoah Halevi. "PCHR's list is inaccurate," he asserts. "I get the impression they intentionally tried to inflate the civilian numbers."

He begins to rattle off indictments. "Why is Said Siyam"—the de facto defense minister of Hamas—"listed as a civilian?" he asks. "Muhammad Dasouki Dasliye. Do you know who he is?" Halevi says that Dasliye was a Palestinian Resistance Committee operative and suspect in the terrorist attack against three American security guards in Gaza in October 2003. "Nizar Rayan," Halevi chuckles. "He's a civilian?" In fact, news reports describe Rayan as a militant cleric who mentored suicide bombers and sent his own son on a suicide mission in 2001, killing two Israelis.

Halevi, a pugnacious father of two, is an insider, a former IDF analyst who works days as a counterterrorism consultant but counts Gaza fatalities in his free time. "It's an intellectual challenge," says the dark-haired, 44-year old, whose parents immigrated to Israel from Yemen. It will take him six months to research all 1,400 of PCHR's names, comparing them to a database of thousands of terrorist operatives he has compiled, as well as whatever he finds on the Internet.

As of last month, Halevi has a list of 171 people the PCHR defines as civilians that he claims he can prove are actually combatants affiliated with Hamas or other terrorist groups. His contention is based on a simple principle: When fighters die, they don't just leave behind a body, a family, and eyewitnesses—they leave a paper trail. Martyrdom posters, photographs of funerals, articles celebrating heroes' exploits, lists of payments to families—these sources help Halevi disprove that a particular fatality was a civilian as opposed to a fighter. Intelligence analysts around the world are following this paper trail, and they don't just work for the Shin Bet or CIA. In fact, in the era of the Internet, vast amounts of intelligence are available to anyone with fluent Arabic, a little training, and a lot of time and patience.

Halevi's macabre hobby began during Israel's 2002 Operation Defensive Shield, the Israeli incursion into six West Bank cities that targeted Hamas and other terrorist cells responsible for a number of recent suicide bombings. Halevi was perplexed. "It made no sense that on the one hand, Palestinians claimed their fighters were performing valiantly, but at the same time they said they were being massacred." So the dogged and methodical Halevi compiled his own list of fatalities in the Jenin refugee camp. "I read everything I could get my hands on—militant web sites, articles, books of fighters' memories. I found that 65 percent of [Palestinians] killed in the Jenin refugee camp were terror operatives, including some children," he says gravely. The Palestinians later independently reduced their fatality number from an estimated 500 to 56.

It was addictive. Soon Halevi found himself spending all his free time cross-checking Palestinian fatality lists. In his opinion, the best and most trusted lists belonged to the Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem and PCHR. "These data banks have an enormous influence," he says. "I found PCHR statistics in UN reports...The UN relies on them." So Halevi published dozens of articles on a popular Hebrew news sites, reporting his findings, always precise, never overstating his claim, but scathing nevertheless. Soon he found himself in a war of words with a B'stelem's spokeswoman, who wrote on Israel's News1 web site, "Halevi is exploiting a Palestinian family's tragedy for political gain" and "he dances on Palestinian blood." For his part, Halevi says both organizations are frequently inaccurate, and attributes their contortions to their political motives: "The former chairperson of the board of B'Tselem said in an interview that the organization's goal is a one-state solution. PCHR has the same goal. They reject Israel's existence as a Jewish state."

Halevi is already knee-deep in PCHR's latest list from Cast Lead. He has produced a spreadsheet with the names of 230 police fatalities cited by both the Gaza police department and PCHR. For 171 of these, he provides the name of the faction they fought for as well as brief biographies, such as "a munitions expert" or "arrested by Israel in 1993 for weapons acquisitions for suicide missions." Most of the 171 moonlighting policemen are listed as operatives in the Qassam Brigades, with others belonging to Palestinian Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian Resistance Committee.

"This information wasn't hard to find," Halevi says. Type one of the names into a Google search and up pops a web site with photos showing the Gaza cop sporting a martyr's headband and M-16. Halevi grants that many of these policemen did actually perform police duties like patrolling streets or directing traffic. "But then they get a call from their friend who says, 'Come on, it's time for a mission,'" Halevi says. "One of the police casualties was even affiliated with al-Qaeda."

Shaheen [of the PCHR] stands by his numbers. "The police force is totally civilian," he insists. While ten of the fighters on PCHR's list are described as policemen, more than 250 of those described as policemen are labeled civilians. Many Gazans enter the police force because they are poor and need the money, he explains. "I can assure you that all these people were working in police traffic or as guards."

Many of the disparities between the PCHR and IDF numbers seem to be definitional. The IDF has repeatedly stated that any member of Hamas security forces—armed or unarmed—is fair game. Shaheen has a much narrower definition of an uninvolved civilian: "According to international humanitarian law, all armed people are classified as militants and all the people who are unarmed [are civilians]," he says. So if the person was armed at the time of death—which he or his fieldworkers determine by investigating the bodies as they arrive at the hospital—he'll count them as a militant. If the person is not armed, his team will check with family members, neighbors, political parties and Palestinian armed factions to determine the deceased's status as a militant or a civilian. He also checks press releases issues by armed factions. "[The IDF] can say whatever they want," he says. "I mean, [these are] facts on the ground."

But even facts can be subjective. For example, Halevi accuses Shaheen's organization of mislabeling Hamas cleric Nizar Rayan as a civilian. Shaheen explains that Rayan was killed in an Israeli airstrike on his home. There are jihadist posters of Rayan all over Gaza, and yet, "I cannot count him as a militant or fighter," Shaheen says. Rayan was unarmed with his wives and children when he was killed, Shaheen explains. "I cannot count this case as a fighter because he didn't participate as a fighter in the offensive. He was a civilian the whole time—going to the mosque, praying, coming back to his house."

Both agree, however, that the war does not end when the fighting stops. "In every war there are two components," says Halevi. "The first is the battle itself, defeating the other side, and the second is presenting the facts of what happened." If a country is not vigilant, he warns, "The other side will rewrite your history."

If anything, the PCHR's researcher is proving himself a liar. If he says that he is only counting militants who were carrying guns at the time, then why does he check websites and interview family members to see if they were militants? And if he did, why wouldn't he count them?

I pointed out as early as January 7 that the PCHR would count people on video who are launching mortars at Israel, in civilian clothing, as "civilians" if the IDF kills them while they are running away, unarmed. The Hamas strategy was specifically to make their people look like civilians, and the PCHR played along dutifully.

Now, how can I get a hold of Halevi?

  • Wednesday, May 06, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
From the MEMRI Blog:
A Saudi sheikh has performed a wedding ceremony between a 10-year-old girl and a 26-year-old man.

The girl's father said that he married off his daughter because he feared that she would remain a spinster.

The original story says that the girl's mother, presumably to entice her into the marriage, told her that her groom will buy her anything she wants from the grocery store.

  • Wednesday, May 06, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
From the media, one might think that the PA and Hamas are mortal enemies and that each is happy to find ways to weaken the other side.

However, they are buddies compared to how much they both hate Israel.

From Ma'an:
The North Governorates Military court in the West Bank found a Surif man guilty of collaboration with Israel and sentenced him to ten years of prison and hard labor as his case was closed Wednesday.

“MF” was accused of collaborating following a period in the Etzion detention center where it is believed Israeli officials offered to reduce an alleged four year prison sentence in Israel down to two years if MF agreed to collaborate.

The defendant, who was affiliated with Hamas when he began collaborating, started passing information to Israeli authorities from inside the facility. MF was transferred to work in the mail room where he was able to keep track of Hamas political action particularly in Surif.
So the PA, which makes a big show of trying to keep Hamas power in check, considers it a major crime to have Israel try to keep Hamas in check - something which directly benefits the PA.

The only explanation is that, given the choice of Hamas or Israel, the "moderate" PA will always favor Hamas unless it is under tremendous pressure to behave otherwise.
  • Wednesday, May 06, 2009
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Ma'an:
Four months after his death, the wife of Gaza’s famed Qassam projectile engineer gave birth to his son, named for his grandfather Yousef Al-Mancy.

His father, Amir Yousef Al-Mansy, was killed on 10 January 2008 [sic.] when an Israeli warplane targeted him while walking in one of Gaza City’s streets during the latest war on the coastal area

Amir was wanted by Israel as a leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades and the developer of the Al-Qassam projectile. He is also said to have been the first to launch a Grad projectile into Israel. He lived in the At-Tuffah neighborhood of Gaza City.
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights called this "famed" leader of the al-Qassam Brigades a "civilian" in its list of Gaza victims (#959.) They said his job was as an "Engineer/member of the Civil Defense."

If he was a "civilian," who did they call a militant?

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