Monday, September 13, 2010

  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
British-based Hamas mouthpiece Palestine Info writes:
130 Jewish extremists stormed into the Aqsa Mosque Monday morning from the Maghareba Gate, accompanied by reinforced Israeli police, local sources said.

Five groups entered through the gate, each group led by a head rabbi, one security guard reported.

The Mosque’s guards monitored the Jews from afar for fear of being arrested as they toured the Mosque’s courtyards and halls.
Jews have been going in groups to peacefully visit the Temple Mount for a long time, of course. Each time the Arab press has similar articles about them "storming" and "breaking in."

But in general it is the religious Zionist crowd that visits, not the haredi and Chassidic Jews, who have generally stayed away out of concern of accidentally entering the area of the Holy of Holies. (Religious Zionists are fairly certain they know where that is and they keep a distance away from it.)

This picture, if accurate, indicates that perhaps some Chassidic groups are starting to assert their human rights to visit the holiest spot in of their religion without fear. If so, that is a very good sign.
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
I mentioned earlier this month that a nightclub in Spain named "Mecca" was causing Muslims to be upset.

Yesterday, a group of Moroccan hackers defaced the website for the club, replacing it with this:

Another page said "Do you want to find your church one day turned into a place for breeding animals, or trash?"

 It's back now.
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Richard Millett's blog:
There are not many times that you can say that anti-Israel activists are outsung and outnumbered, but yesterday they were.

The usual mob of nothing-better-to-dos turned up outside Ahava in London’s Covent Garden to vent their hatred for the Jewish state.

Only one person brought along an Israeli flag. She said she came as she was worried that as it was Jewish New Year there would be no one around to stick up for Israel. Apart from her and a few others the pro-Israel pen was looking pretty sparse.

Then as the small pro-Israeli contingent were deciding where to break for lunch twelve Israeli tourists who had seen the protests outside Ahava came into the shop and then marched out again, filled the pen and sang Am Israel Chai, David Melech Yisrael, Hatikva and Hava Nagila (see first two clips below).

The anti-Israel mob became less interested in handing out their leaflets and more interesting in demonising the Israeli tourists, with some directing shouts of “racist scum” towards them.

Here's one video, more on that webpage.


h/t Zvi
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
An NGO has released a report detailing supposed Israeli crimes in Jerusalem during Ramadan.

The "Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem" in collaboration with the "Jerusalem Center for Democracy and Human Rights" and the "Land Research Center." listed out the horrendous crimes and violations of human rights. They include allowing Jews to visit the Temple Mount, restricting the ability of known inciters to travel in Jerusalem, and - allowing the 14th World Jewish Congress to meet in Jerusalem, even though the meeting was on the Western side of the Green Line.

Sounds like they want Jerusalem to be free of Jews, doesn't it?

The webpage of the Civic Coalition for Defending Palestinian Rights in Jerusalem looks like the part-time activity of one person; the English site has not been updated in months and the Arabic site is even more out of date.
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Palestine News Network:
As girls becomes women in Gaza they slowly get dragged into the world of restrictions. These rules have become an art those who govern Gaza have perfected. They are meant to segregate women from men.

Now in Gaza there are rules that do not allow women to Smoke Arigla or Shisha in public places. Another law does not allow women to ride bicycles, the new laws went further more by making it illegal for shop owners to exhibit women’s lingerie. The given explanation is to maintain public decency.

These rules have made women fall in an endless cycle of what is forbidden and what is allowed. Women in Gaza have chosen to adhere to these laws, thinking it’s for the best not to draw attention; actively minimizing their rights risking the few freedoms they have now which may be restricted in the near future.

That was the case in Gaza until a local journalist, Asma Al Ghoul, came along; she decided to draw the line and say enough. In a hot summer day she took her bicycle along with three internationals who work in human rights organizations and cycled for 60 kilometers along the Rafah Egypt borders in southern Gaza.

The human rights defender’s main goal was to send a clear message that any person has the right to enjoy sport as granted by international law. Asma had something else in mind. She had a political and social objective; she wanted to say that the laws against women are unfair especially the latest rules Hamas government had made which looks at women in an eye of shame.

Her journey was difficult in the beginning, since Asma did not ride a bike since she was a child; during her journey she was verbally assaulted by people calling her vulgar names, and some went even further and spit on her; things that did not stop the young daredevil from continuing her trip. The first journey was soon finished, but Asma says it will not be the last. Asma dreams of recruiting more women to cycle with her to counter and cancel the unjust laws against women of Gaza.
An Arabic article goes into more detail of her adventures. While she said that most people were nice but that gangs of youths on motorcycles twice abused her and her foreign friends by claiming to be Hamas policemen.

Asma was one of the women arrested by Hamas on the beach last year for being with a group of friends - men and women - and for swimming in jeans and a T-shirt. In the Arabic article she says that she was arrested then for being in public without an Islamically-approved escort and for laughing.
George Galloway has been preparing a new convoy to Gaza, but he has one major problem: the fact that Egypt has banned him for the trouble he caused last time.

Galloway was deported from Egypt last January after his "Viva Palestina" convoy members started a protest that ended up killing an Egyptian policeman.

Later, Egypt banned all of these publicity-seeking convoys from entering Egypt while allowing real aid through.

According to Arabic media, Galloway is begging Hosni Mubarak to allow him to return with the convoy he is organizing in Algeria, saying that he is not associated with Hamas but does respect the Palestinian Arabs' choice of Hamas as their leaders.

So far, Egyptian officials have not acknowledged his asking for permission to cross the country with a stream of reporters.

Galloway said that "we have no problems with Egypt, because the actual enemy is Israel."
  • Monday, September 13, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Palestine Press Agency quotes an Egyptian newspaper as saying that Egyptian authorities arrested a man several months ago on suspicion of smuggling gold to Hamas.

The man, Mohammed Bassam Naim, is the son of Bassam Naim, Ismail Haniyeh's bodyguard. He is in an Egyptian university to gain a political science degree.

Police arrested him in April and found large quantities of gold, and recently they have arrested a number of Egyptians suspected of being involved in the smuggling.

Sunday, September 12, 2010

  • Sunday, September 12, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Going to a conference tomorrow for a couple of days; blogging will likely be light.

This whole month will be erratic, come to think of it.

Oh well. Carry on.
  • Sunday, September 12, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From CBS Sacramento:
Sacramento police are investigating the vandalism to a mural of Sacramento Kings' player Omri Casspi as a hate crime, and the mural's artist says it has been vandalized before.

Passersby said they were caught off guard when they noticed a swastika had been scratched between the Jewish athlete's eyes on the mural on 16th Street and R Street. It also appeared as though someone had tried to scratch the symbol away.

"It's weird to think there are people like that still out there," said Ravina Bhan.

With no surveillance cameras aimed at the mural, police don't know when the vandalism took place. The incident is being investigated as a hate crime, even though the swastika was drawn incorrectly.
  • Sunday, September 12, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Reuters:
The United Arab Emirates has donated $42 million (27 million pounds) to the Palestinian Authority, boosting support for President Mahmoud Abbas' cash-strapped government as it embarks on direct peace talks with Israel, Arab officials said on Friday.

An Arab source in Washington said the donation, which was confirmed by a Palestinian government spokesman, was made after repeated calls by senior U.S. officials for more Arab support to help build Palestinian government capacity.
...

The Palestinian Authority's main Arab donors, Saudi Arabia and the UAE, have contributed considerably less this year than they have annually since 2007.

So far, the Saudis have donated $30.6 million until August, compared to $241.1 million in the same period in 2009. The new donation by the UAE, the world's third-largest oil exporter, is its first this year -- it gave $173.9 million in 2009.
That means that Saudi Arabia slashed its support for the PA by 87% this year, and the UAE by 75%.

Earlier this year, UNRWA mentioned that Arab nations have paid less that 20% of their pledges to that organization, a miniscule 1.5% of the UNRWA budget.

So apparently it is not just the PA that Arab nations don't care about, but Palestinian Arabs altogether.

Shouldn't people in the US and Europe be wondering why Arabs care less about their fellow Arabs than the West does?
  • Sunday, September 12, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
Over twenty Palestinian Arab organizations in Europe have signed a letter criticizing Mahmoud Abbas' negotiating with Israel, saying that he will sell out on Jerusalem and the "right of return" without representing them.

They claim that Abbas is covering up the Zionist killing of Palestinian Arabs, the Judaizing of Jerusalem, and the creation of ghettos for Palestinian Arabs in the West Bank, as well as collaborating with the Israelis.

The letter concluded that the "Palestinian people" will certainly not tolerate any such moves.

Groups that signed the letter included The General Secretariat of the Conference of Palestinians in Europe, Palestinian Return Centre, London, Palestinian Doctors in Europe, the Association of Palestinian Engineers in Europe, the Association of Palestinian Women in Europe, The Denmark Palestinian Forum, Britain Palestinian Forum, the Palestinian Center for Justice, the Palestinian Assembly of Italy, the Austrian Association of Palestine, the Palestinian Forum of the Netherlands, , the Palestinian Forum of France, the Association of Germany of the Right of Return, the Palestinian Assembly of the Netherlands, Sweden Palestinian Engineers Association, Union of Palestinian Artists in Sweden, Union of Palestinian Teachers in Sweden, and the Palestinian Assembly - Ireland.

Palestinian Arabs who live in Europe have traditionally been far more ideologically hawkish than the ones who live in the West Bank.
  • Sunday, September 12, 2010
  • Elder of Ziyon
In recent weeks, PA's Minister of Religious Endowments Mahmoud Habash has become Fatah's point man on fighting Hamas from a religious Islamic perspective.

Last week he railed against Hamas' compliments of the late Ayatollah Khomeini, saying that Knomeini had said things that were against Islam.

Yesterday Habash called on Hamas to repent for its coup in Gaza on the occasion of Eid al-Fitr and again slammed Iran for meddling in Palestinian affairs via Hamas.

Hamas recently criticized Habash for politicizing the mosques in the West Bank and for allegedly closing pro-Hamas mosques on the first day of the Eid festival.

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