Sunday, March 07, 2010

  • Sunday, March 07, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Ma'an:
Bethlehem University’s student senate accused the university's guards of assaulting 17 students on campus on Friday, following a brawl.

Anan Jawabra, president of the student senate, told Ma'an that the attack followed an attempt to allow a visitor on campus. The senate president said BU's vice president, Mussa Darwish, refused to permit the visitor entry and university guards took the guest to a room and began beating him.

Students were then attacked by guards wielding batons during a 40 minute brawl, Jawabra said, with two students left bleeding for two hours before being transferred to hospital.

The student senate further accused the university guards of brining knives and fire extinguishers to the fight, and calling on friends to assist them in the brawl. The senate says the incident was re-instigated at 2:30pm, despite the campus being cleared of students.
Call the Human Rights organizations!

Oh, that's right - they don't get involved when Israel can't be blamed.
  • Sunday, March 07, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
A tragic accident near Ramallah:
Five [now six - EoZ] Palestinians were killed on Friday evening and two others were injured when their vehicle accidentally slammed into a military hummer at the Silwad Bridge, by the entrance of Ofer near the central West Bank city of Ramallah.

The Public Affairs Department at the Palestinian Police in Ramallah said that all of the deceased residents are family members; a husband, his wife and their children.

Israeli sources reported that four Israeli soldiers, who were in the military hummer, were lightly wounded and were airlifted to an Israeli hospital.

The Israeli police said that the Palestinian vehicle was speeding, and that one of its tires exploded leading the vehicle to slide into the opposite direction of the street to slam into the military vehicle.
But that's just what you would expect the lying, genocidal Zionists to say, isn't it? In fact, this is a new chapter of Zio ethnic cleansing via car accidents.

At least, that's what a spokesman for the "moderate" Fatah movement says in Firas Press:
Fatah spokesman Osama al-Qawasmi condemned the killing of six Palestinians from the same family in a collision with an IDF vehicle, saying that the incident was deliberate.

Qawasmi said that Israel's ruling authorities have been trying to push the region into violence, pointing out that a resolution annexing the Ibrahimi Mosque and the vicinity of Bilal Ben Rabah mosque and the walls of Jerusalem to the list of so-called list of Israeli heritage sites, as well as deliberate shooting on the Shalaldeh family in the Bethlehem area and the continuing incursions of the holy places, particularly in Jerusalem, and other unilateral actions are in creating new facts on the ground.
You see how insidious the so-called "Israelis" are? To support their claim on "heritage sites" in the West Bank, they target and murder entire Palestinian Arab families by forcing them into car accidents!

Saturday, March 06, 2010

  • Saturday, March 06, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Jerusalem Dispatch:

“I will always support Israel, guardian of the world’s capital, Jerusalem,” Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli told President Shimon Peres during a welcoming ceremony on Tuesday at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem.

In his opening remarks, President Martinelli said he “preferred to speak from the heart. As a citizen of Panama I say with great honor and joy: I will always support Israel, guardian of the world’s capital, Jerusalem.” He added that “Panama is a country of immigrants, which includes our thriving and active Jewish community. I am proud that three of the ministers in my government are Jewish, and that there are several Jews in other important positions in our government.”

Naturally, the fact that a tiny country supports Israel amid a sea of anti-semitism is too much for Palestinian Arab leaders to bear.
Fatah Central Committee Member Nabil Sha'ath sharply condemned on Saturday President of Panama Ricardo Martinelli's remarks in which he referred to Israel as the "guardian" of the holy city of Jerusalem.

"Martinelli’s comments did not only insult the Palestinian people, the Arab, Islamic, and Christian world, but also insulted international law," Sha’ath said in a statement.
To people like Sha'ath, being the "guardian" of Jerusalem means to guard against any Jews visiting or living there.
  • Saturday, March 06, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Early Friday morning I reported that Hamas attacked a Red Crescent headquarters in Gaza, expelled staff and doctors, and stole files. I predicted that Ma'an wouldn't cover the story until some official commented on it, because they fear Hamas reprisals when they actually do any real reporting from Gaza that makes Hamas look bad.

And that is exactly what happened.

Human rights organizations have yet to comment, however.

Friday, March 05, 2010

  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From The National (UAE):
The chief of police yesterday gave the 26 people whose identities are alleged to have been stolen by the killers of Mahmoud al Mabhouh one month to file legal actions over identity fraud.

If they do not, they will be considered by the Dubai police to have collaborated with the alleged assassination, Lt Gen Dahi Khalfan Tamim said.

“Those who claim that their identities have been stolen by the squad who murdered al Mabhouh, have to file a law suit against the perpetrators to their respective countries or arrest warrants will be issued against them,” he said.

“If their claims are correct then they should report the offense, otherwise in our eyes they are collaborators with the squad and thus they will be wanted for the authorities,” said Lt Gen Tamim. “We will give them one month to file lawsuits after which we will put them on the wanted list.”

Dubai police have said the innocence of these people should not be taken for granted on the basis of that claim alone.
Who, exactly, must the victims file their lawsuits against?

As if we needed any more proof that the Dubai police have no clue.

In other Dubai police news, their previously most sensational murder case, that of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tamim, has suffered a setback. The people they accused of the murder are getting a retrial, possibly because the evidence provided by the Dubai police was inconsistent and incomplete.
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From JPost:
A Human Rights Watch spokeswoman told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday night that its embattled senior military analyst Marc Garlasco resigned nearly three weeks ago....

HRW suspended Garlasco with pay in September, “pending an investigation,” after allegations surfaced that he was an avid collector of Nazi memorabilia.

...As for the “pending investigation,” Daly repeated that Garlasco had resigned and said, “We are not commenting on it any further.”

Garlasco’s collection was initially revealed by Omri Ceren on his blog “Mere Rhetoric” in September, when he wrote that Garlasco was “obsessed with the color and pageantry of Nazism, has published a detailed 430-page book on Nazi war paraphernalia, and participates in forums for Nazi souvenir collectors.”

The subsequent media coverage sparked controversy and condemnations from groups such as NGO Monitor, which released a statement saying that Garlasco’s background, “when combined with his central role in the condemnations of Israel under false banners of ‘human rights’ violations and ‘war crimes,’ show that he is entirely inappropriate as a human rights reporter.”
One of my readers had tipped me off to Garlasco's hobby,and I emailed Omri and other bloggers about it, letting him run with the story. (I also found the Garlasco quote "The leather SS jacket makes my blood go cold it is so COOL", which I also told a number of other bloggers about and they posted it before I did.)

During the days afterwards I was involved in exposing both Garlasco's picture with his daughter while wearing an Iron Cross sweatshirt as well as the fact the HRW sent out sockpuppets to various blogs to defend Garlasco.

The problems with HRW are not limited to Garlasco, of course, but this was one of the increasing number of cases where we mere bloggers manage to break news as well as any reporter.
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Another episode from an Israeli satirical review. Most of it is great, with the bonus that many of the stories I covered this week are also mentioned:


h/t Mohammed the Teddy Bear
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Freedom House:
Despite continuing resistance from religious and cultural elites, women in the Middle East and North Africa have made modest progress in achieving certain rights over the past five years. While women in the region suffer from greater inequality than do women elsewhere, they now enjoy more economic opportunity, fewer barriers to education, and expanded ability to participate in the political process than they did five years ago. These are the conclusions of Women’s Rights in the Middle East and North Africa: Progress Amid Resistance, a new study released today by Freedom House.
“These findings remind us of the complexities of women’s status in the Middle East,” said Jennifer Windsor, executive director of Freedom House. “There are more women entrepreneurs, more women doctors, more women Ph.Ds, and more women in universities, than ever before. However, substantial roadblocks remain for women pursuing careers. For instance, women in Saudi Arabia are allowed to earn law degrees, but not to appear in court on behalf of their clients.” She continued, “and these same women are still subject to abuse at home, lack child guardianship rights, and are legally compelled to be ‘obedient’ to their husbands.”

According to the study, 15 out of the 18 countries in the region recorded some gains in women’s rights over the past five years. Kuwait, Algeria and Jordan saw the most significant progress while Iraq, Yemen and the Palestinian Territories—countries enduring internal conflict and the rise of religious extremism—are the only countries to record overall decline.
The Palestinian Arab author of the Palestinian Territories report, of course, blames Israel for much of the decline in the scores since 2004. Some of her "facts" about Israel are complete fiction. For example:
The increased number of checkpoints over the last five years and the construction of a West Bank separation wall,[4] which is over 50 percent complete, have worsened social and economic conditions for all Palestinians. In particular, women now experience further separation from their families, farmlands, water resources, schools, and hospitals. When the wall is completed, it will stand eight to nine meters tall and stretch more than 700 kilometers, adversely affecting the lives of an estimated one-third of the Palestinian population in the West Bank.[5]
I don't have specific numbers (and neither does she), but I would wager that the number of checkpoints has decreased in the past five years, not increased.

There is no doubt that the economic conditions of West Bank Palestinian Arabs have become much better in the past five years, so she is lying there.

Her "source" for the claim that the wall will be 8 to 9 meters high across all 700 kilometers, B'tselem, says no such thing, and in fact most of the barrier is a fence, not a wall. Indeed, B'Tselem calls it a "separation barrier," not a wall.

Even worse, her quote from B'Tselem that one-third of the PalArabs are adversely affected by the barrier is an outright lie. Her link shows that B'Tselem generously counts about 11% of the PalArabs as being affected, not 33%, and up to half of them are questionable (counting communities that are "partially surrounded" by the fence, where it is unclear that it affects their lives at all.)

She does blame Hamas for much of the decrease in women's freedom in the territories, however, and also mentions honor killings and the legal protection for those crimes.
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Ma'an reports:
[The] Al-Qassam Brigades announced the death of a fighter during a what a statement called a "jihad mission" near Deir Al-Balah overnight.

The young man, identified as Nabhan Kamal Abu M’eiliq, 22, was killed while on a mission for the brigades. The statement provided no details as to the nature of his death or the purpose of the mission.
Hamas' website notes the death, asking Allah to embrace him in Paradise. Somehow, I don't think Allah will be taking Hamas up on that request.

This is at least the eighth internal terrorist death this year, and there is evidence that some of them might not have been accidents, but the results of infighting.
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Palestine Press Agency reports that Gaza government forces broke into the headquarters of the Palestine Red Crescent Hospital and expelled its staff and doctors. The Hamas forces also took hospital files.

Even though that news outlet is very anti-Hamas, most of its stories end up checking out. Since stories like these are not reported by the Gaza-based press due to fear of Hamas, the only place to read about egregious Hamas abuses like this is the Palestine Press Agency. (Ma'an will only cover it when PCHR or some other organization publicly complains about Hamas abuses; they then have cover to publish the story in the context of the third party accusation. )
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
The anti-Hamas Palestinian Press Agency is reproducing a letter, allegedly from al-Qassam Brigades leader Ahmed Jabari to Khaled Meshal, Hamas' "political" leader in Damascus. The letter details the security chaos in the Gaza Strip and indicates that Hamas may be losing its grip on power. The implication is that some of the recent "work accidents" might have actually been murders of Hamas members.

I cannot auto-translate the letter itself because it is not in text format; if anyone out there knows Arabic and wants to give it a shot, please do so. Page 2 does seem to list specific events that would prove the point, though.
  • Friday, March 05, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Palestine Today reports that Hamas is now preventing men from working as hairdressers for women in Gaza.
Police confirmed that the decision, posted on its website, was made "in accordance with the instructions of the Minister of Interior and National Security (in the Gaza government) Fathi Hammad.

The police stressed that it "will pursue anyone who violates this resolution and expose himself to accountability and legal accountability."

Several women's hairdressing salons in the Gaza Strip have been subjected to bombings in recent months.
Remember the good old days when Hamas was recently elected and its leaders strenuously denied that they would force Islamic rule on everyone in Gaza?

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