Tuesday, January 18, 2011

  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Palestine Press Agency reports that Hamas leader Saleh Aruri met with Israeli intelligence representatives in a secret meeting in the Czech Republic.

PalPress says that Aruri was released from an Israeli prison several months ago under condition that he goes into exile. He lives in Syria.

Sources say that Israeli intelligence initiated the meeting.

Hamas is apparently interested in extending the current calm. It is unclear whether Gilad Shalit was part of these talks, although Hamas says that a German mediator had presented some "new ideas" to help release him.
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Hamas is pleased to announce that they decisively won the elections of representatives to Gaza's Nursing Association, with a solid 70.5% of the vote.

The moderate terror group prevailed handily over its competition.

And who was the competition?

Islamic Jihad, which garnered the other 29.5%!

Who says that Hamas is against democracy?
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Al Qassam website says:

Al Qassam Brigades mourns one of its heroes martyr Zaher Ahmad Jarghoun from Khan Younis south of Gaza Strip who was martyred during his duty for path of jihad.

Since they are not blaming Israel for his death, this means that either he offed himself or another Hamas member killed him.

Either way, let us all hope and pray for many more such sacrifices for jihad!
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
This is classic! From crazy far left Online Journal:
Captain Israel- A sickening hasbara magazine for Jewish diaspora youngsters
By Gilad Atzmon

Look at this new Jewish-cartoon magazine -- PDF version.

It has become pretty obvious that that Israelis and Zionists do not try to disguise their morbidity anymore. Zionism is clearly a threat to humanity and humanism.

Airplanes and tanks, decorated with Jewish symbols, are consigned to spread death and carnage in the name of the Jewish people.

Captain Israel, a kosher superman, is holding a Menorah torch. He is there to set the entire region on fire.

Endowed with the ‘strength of Samson’ and the ‘wisdom of Solomon,’ Captain Israel is a genocidal hero who profoundly personifies the disastrous state of current Jewish national affairs

Israelis and Zionists are proud of their pathological, murderous intentions. They are a threat not just to their neighbors, but to humanism and humanity in general.
You can almost feel the spittle hitting the keyboard as he angrily types in his bile.

And what is driving Atzmon so crazy?

 Does Captain Israel glorify war? Hardly.


Atzmon proceeds to get this Captain Israel mixed up with a different character at the SuperJews website that can be found here.

(h/t Lenny and Challah Hu Akbar for the correction immediately above.)
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Commenter Al has put together a table of how many reports Human Rights Watch has issued for each country, which should be a more accurate measure of how much time they spend on each country than the Google method I had used.

Using his numbers, the worldwide correlation between the amount of effort HRW puts into countries versus the Freedom House score of the same countries is still a very weak 0.21. (One would expect that number to be well above 0.50.)

The most disproportionate attention is paid to the US (210/4), UK (33/2), Indonesia (88/5), Israel (39/3), Serbia, India, Croatia, Chile and Canada.

The countries with severe human rights issues that are all but ignored by HRW are Laos, Brunei, Oman, and Qatar, each with zero HRW reports. Countries with the worst Freedom House scores of 13 or 14 that had the least reports are Equatorial Guinea (2), Turkmenistan (4), Belarus (4), Eritea (5)  and North Korea (6).

For your edification, here's the entire list I put together so you can have fun number-crunching as well (and perhaps coming up with a better formula than I did to rank them; perhaps separate lists for "not free" countries and "free" countries:)

Country
HRW Reports
Freedom House score
Laos 0 13
Brunei Darussalam 0 11
Oman 0 11
Qatar 0 11
Fiji 0 10
Maldives 0 7
Solomon Islands 0 7
Tonga 0 6
Antigua and Barbuda 0 5
Montenegro 0 5
Mongolia 0 4
Samoa 0 4
Trinidad and Tobago 0 4
Vanuatu 0 4
Grenada 0 3
Monaco 0 3
Taiwan 0 3
Andorra 0 2
Bahamas 0 2
Barbados 0 2
Cyprus 0 2
Finland 0 2
Iceland 0 2
Kiribati 0 2
Liechtenstein 0 2
Lithuania 0 2
Malta 0 2
Marshall Islands 0 2
Nauru 0 2
New Zealand 0 2
Norway 0 2
Palau 0 2
Portugal 0 2
Saint Kitts and Nevis 0 2
Saint Lucia 0 2
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines 0 2
San Marino 0 2
Slovenia 0 2
Tuvalu 0 2
Uruguay 0 2
Swaziland 1 12
Congo (Brazzaville) 1 11
Gambia 1 10
Madagascar 1 10
Equatorial Guinea 2 14
Moldova 1 7
Djibouti 2 11
Gabon 2 11
Paraguay 1 6
Seychelles 1 6
Armenia 2 10
Niger 2 9
Guyana 1 5
Burkina Faso 2 8
Guinea-Bissau 2 8
Turkmenistan 4 14
Belarus 4 13
Central African Republic 3 10
Comoros 2 7
Suriname 1 4
Cameroon 4 12
Singapore 3 9
Eritrea 5 14
Mauritania 4 11
Lesotho 2 6
Nicaragua 3 8
North Korea 6 14
Bahrain 5 11
Bhutan 4 9
Malawi 3 7
Papua New Guinea 3 7
Belize 1 3
Italy 1 3
Latvia 1 3
Panama 1 3
Togo 5 9
Mozambique 4 7
Kazakhstan 7 11
Kyrgyzstan 7 11
United Arab Emirates 7 11
Honduras 5 8
Botswana 3 5
Mali 3 5
Libya 10 14
Bolivia 4 6
Ecuador 4 6
Azerbaijan 10 11
Tanzania and Zanzibar 5 6
Jamaica 4 5
Benin 3 4
Namibia 3 4
Cape Verde 1 2
Costa Rica 1 2
Denmark 1 2
Switzerland 1 2
Tunisia 12 12
Guinea 10 10
Venezuela 9 9
Cuba 12 11
Yemen 12 11
Cote d'Ivoire 15 13
Syria 15 13
Kuwait 10 9
Tajikistan 13 11
Somalia 17 14
Algeria 14 11
Macedonia 7 6
Jordan 15 11
Zambia 10 7
Vietnam 19 12
Saudi Arabia 21 13
Ukraine 7 5
Albania 9 6
Malaysia 13 8
Morocco/Western Sahara 15 9
Chad 23 13
Burma 25 14
Angola 20 11
Cambodia 20 11
Senegal 10 6
Argentina 6 4
Japan 4 3
Austria 2 2
Estonia 2 2
Ireland 2 2
Sweden 2 2
Haiti 18 9
Thailand 18 9
Iran 25 12
Bangladesh 14 7
Dominican Republic 7 4
Ethiopia 26 12
Guatemala 19 9
East Timor 15 7
Uzbekistan 33 14
Zimbabwe 28 12
Lebanon 18 8
Nepal 18 8
Philippines 13 6
Georgia 19 8
Rwanda 28 11
Sierra Leone 14 6
Burundi 27 10
Sri Lanka 24 9
South Korea 6 3
Netherlands 3 2
Slovak Republic 3 2
Peru 13 5
Bulgaria 10 4
Pakistan 28 9
Ghana 7 3
Liberia 22 7
Romania 11 4
El Salvador 15 5
Uganda 31 9
Democratic Republic of Congo 43 12
Belgium 4 2
Hungary 4 2
Poland 4 2
Sudan 58 14
Egypt 46 11
Brazil 14 4
Kenya 29 7
China and Tibet 59 13
Colombia 30 7
Czech Republic & Former Czechoslovakia 5 2
Afghanistan 56 12
Nigeria 38 8
Greece 11 3
Bosnia and Herzegovina 36 7
Germany 6 2
Russia 61 11
Iraq 64 11
Mexico 28 5
Australia 7 2
France 7 2
Turkey 44 6
Spain 9 2
South Africa 29 4
Canada 10 2
Chile 10 2
Croatia 21 3
India 53 5
Serbia 50 4
Israel 39 3
Indonesia 88 5
United Kingdom 33 2
United States 210 4
  • Tuesday, January 18, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Wikileaks, July 29, 2004:
DCM and RSO responded to the office of the Dutch National Coordinator for Security and Public Safety, at his request, to join with the Israeli Security Officer, in a briefing on a security incident from the previous evening. The security incident was a filming of sensitive locations including Dutch provincial and national government building and the US and Israeli Embassies, among others. It was later determined that our source received the report the previous evening but that the incident was several hours earlier in the day.

The incident came to light when the Dutch Royal Military Police Security Detail for the Israeli Defense Attach noticed an passenger filming the area in front of the Israeli Embassy from inside a vehicle stopped across the street. The MPs followed the suspicious vehicle, a black Peugeot 205 (NFI) and when the driver was observed using his cell phone, not hands free while driving, they stopped him for the traffic violation. The two occupants were determined to be a Dutch citizen and a Saudi citizen. The MPs reviewed the filming done by the subject even though they lacked any clear legal authority to do so. The review revealed they had filmed for approximately one kilometer on 3 streets. They began at the provincial government building around the corner and continued towards our location filming the Omani Embassy, Turkish Embassy, The Hague's only Synagogue, the French Embassy (immediately adjacent to us) along the way, our building and continued almost a half kilometer to the Israeli Embassy and the Dutch Parliament building across the street.

The subject's line of approach gave him an angled view of our only pedestrian entrance and our rear gate vehicle entrance. This line of travel took then along the south side (long side) of the building and gave them a similarly angled but fairly complete view of the front of our building. Finding no reason to hold the subjects the MPs released them after returning their video camera.

The Coordinator refused our requests for names, DOBs and tag numbers citing the fact that an active Police investigation was ongoing and that he did not have authority to release that information. He did indicate that he anticipated arrests in the next day or two.
July 30:
The two subjects have been closely monitored and were arrested separately, one this morning and the other this afternoon, both without incident. Two, as yet unidentified, associates were also arrested. LEGATT reports the Police are searching two houses and two vehicle as of 1710 hours. One house is the residence of the subject XXXXXXXXXXXX, the ownership/occupancy of the other hose is currently unknown. It is know that the subjects were followed to this location yesterday. One vehicle is presumably the Black Peugeot 205, NL Tag TY 73 HK, used in this incident. Police advise that an Uzi SMG was found at the other residence. The Prosecutor has authorized continued detention of all of the subjects based on the recovery of a firearm.

Monday, January 17, 2011

  • Monday, January 17, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
After yesterday's post showing that HRW's Middle East/North Africa focus was so skewed, I wanted to look a little further.

The weak negative correlation between the Freedom House findings and HRW's focus is all because of Israel. The -0.12 correlation turns into +0.31 if Israel is taken out of the calculations.

Thanks to commenter RuthieofAmerica and my own efforts, I added the statistics for the Americas, most of Asia/Pacific, and Europe. (No sub-Saharan Africa at this time.)

There is one other area of the world where one can see a similar heavily disproportionate focus, and that is the Americas. The correlation between the two is a very weak 0.07, but if you take out the United States from the equation, it turns into a much stronger 0.42. This is because HRW mentions the US far, far more than any other country, over 14,000 times according to Google, more than double the next country I have statistics for (Pakistan.)

The correlation for Western Europe was 0.47 and for Asia/Pacific 0.27 (I didn't include some of the tiny island nations.) For Eastern Europe it is 0.25.

Keep in mind that the Freedom House score is between 2 and 14.

Using a very rough calculation, one can see that compared to Freedom House's numbers, HRW is most biased against the United States (14700/4), France (3710/2), Israel (3940/3), the UK (1740/2), Hungary (1400/2), Australia (1330/2) and Canada (1280/2.)

On the other hand, HRW does not give nearly the proper attention to South Ossetia, Brunei (258/11), Laos, Turkmenistan, North Korea, Oman (328/11), Qatar, and Bahrain, with countries like Algeria, Libya (1240/14), Yemen, Cuba, the UAE and Syria (1510/13) not far behind.

In the middle, with what appears to be a proportional focus by HRW, we see Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Cambodia, China and Iran.

Here are the numbers I have so far, in rough order from HRW under-reporting to over-reporting. (My formula was a simple one: HRW mentions / (FW score - 1). )

Country
HRW
FH
Northern Cyprus 9 4
Nagorno-Karabakh 101 10
SouthOssetia 198 13
Dominica 18 2
Abkhazia 197 10
Paraguay 115 6
Tajikistan 249 11
Brunei 258 11
Laos 356 13
Moldova 178 7
Turkmenistan 404 14
North Korea 413 14
Oman 328 11
Mongolia 113 4
Bosnia-Herzegovina 228 7
Nicaragua 294 8
Qatar 456 11
Armenia 411 10
Bahrain 460 11
Latvia 108 3
Macedonia 276 6
Trinidad/Tobago 168 4
Montenegro 230 5
Guyana 250 5
Haiti 512 9
Panama 129 3
Azerbaijan 655 11
Belarus 792 13
Algeria 787 11
Kazakhstan 799 11
Singapore 649 9
Bolivia 408 6
Uzbekistan 1070 14
Albania 412 6
Guatemala 730 9
Kyrgyzstan 933 11
Libya 1240 14
Yemen 999 11
Bulgaria 315 4
San Marino 106 2
Romania 319 4
Suriname 320 4
Cuba 1070 11
Lithuania 107 2
Antigua/Barbuda 450 5
Estonia 115 2
Honduras 839 8
UAE 1200 11
Liechtenstein 122 2
Syria 1510 13
Bangladesh 767 7
Dominican-Republic 384 4
Iceland 130 2
Jordan 1300 11
Morocco 1060 9
Monaco 272 3
Tunisia 1530 12
Kuwait 1130 9
Puerto-Rico 142 2
StVincent/Grenadines 294 3
Malaysia 1040 8
Kosovo 1210 9
Taiwan 308 3
Burma 2030 14
Luxembourg 157 2
Slovenia 161 2
Georgia 1140 8
Thailand 1330 9
Ecuador 871 6
Grenada 356 3
Peru 738 5
Belize 371 3
Vietnam 2070 12
Egypt 1930 11
Jamaica 776 5
Lebanon 1450 8
Iraq 2170 11
Afghanistan 2510 12
Nepal 1610 8
Serbia 718 4
Colombia 1440 7
South Korea 483 3
Finland 260 2
New Zealand 262 2
CzechRep 265 2
Brazil 833 4
Turkey 1400 6
Croatia 569 3
SaintKitts/Nevis 287 2
Greece 602 3
Malta 308 2
Costa-Rica 311 2
Barbados 318 2
Cyprus 320 2
Saint-Lucia 326 2
Ukraine 1340 5
Argentina 1010 4
Bahamas 339 2
Saudi Arabia 4140 13
Slovakia 345 2
Andorra 347 2
El-Salvador 1490 5
Cambodia 4110 11
Venezuela 3320 9
Mexico 1680 5
Poland 420 2
China 5080 13
Austria 430 2
Russia 4300 11
Italy 869 3
Uruguay 436 2
Japan 964 3
Iran 5730 12
Denmark 548 2
Indonesia 2370 5
Switzerland 597 2
Ireland 602 2
Pakistan 5710 9
Sweden 721 2
Belgium 747 2
Norway 768 2
Netherlands 997 2
Portugal 1020 2
Chile 1070 2
Germany 1080 2
India 4400 5
Spain 1140 2
Canada 1280 2
Australia 1330 2
Hungary 1400 2
UK 1740 2
Israel 3940 3
France 3710 2
USA 14700 4
  • Monday, January 17, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From the Montreal Gazette:
Montreal's Jewish community is reeling after synagogues and a Jewish school were targeted by vandals who smashed their windows Sunday and Monday.

On Sunday, the school and four synagogues were vandalized. The attacks continued Monday, with police adding a fifth synagogue to the list, although a spokesperson could not say which one as of early Monday afternoon.

Beth Rambam, Tifereth Beth David Jerusalem and Beth Zion synagogues in Cote-St-Luc and Dorshei Emet synagogue in Hampstead were targeted by vandals who threw rocks at the windows, smashing several and causing thousands of dollars in damages, said Rabbi Reuben Poupko.

The Yavne Academy in Cote-St-Luc was also hit.

Poupko, who serves as chairman of the Jewish Community Security Co-ordinating Committee, called the crimes "an organized and systematic attack on Jewish institutional life" and promised that the people who use the buildings on a regular basis would not be intimidated by the vandals.

"The reason it's so troubling is that was not an isolated affair," he said.

"There have been similar incidents over the past few months that haven't garnered any attention. It's increasing in intensity and frequency."
Well, what can you expect? The police are probably so fixated on stopping fictional Islamophobic attacks that they don't have any resources left for protecting Jews.

(h/t LLM)
  • Monday, January 17, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
The UN's Office for the Coordination of Human Affairs in the "occupied Palestinian territories" (OCHA-oPt)  has been maintaining a presence in the PA areas and Gaza for many years now. Sometimes it has been a good source for statistics.

But their website, which used to include weekly reports, has not been updated since June, 2010.

The Gaza NGO Safety Office, run by CARE, is meant to help protect other NGOs in Gaza by letting them know what areas are dangerous or might become dangerous.

But they have not issued any of their biweekly reports since December 12, and now the only updates are SMS messages of things happening in real time.

Not sure if this is meaningful, but it is noteworthy.
  • Monday, January 17, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
First...
Yasir Arafat and Tunisian President Ben Ali
Then...

Abbas and Ben Ali

Now...
Palestinians step on a poster with a picture of Tunisia's former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali
Will the next "step" be on photos of Abbas and Arafat?
  • Monday, January 17, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Here's another case of an attack on Jews in Jerusalem that was eagerly photographed by reporters who just happened to know ahead of time the location of the attack.

Getty Images, somehow knowing that the victims are Jewish "settlers." Notice the stone throwers on the cliff.
Getty Images. It is clearly an ambush.

Reuters. Note the size of the stones and the other photographers.

Reuters.
After the police arrived:

Getty Images. You can see the windshield and sunroof smashed. The wife was driving.
Afterwards, the Arabs continued to riot, throwing stones and bottles at Israeli police who came to assist the couple.

Luckily, the couple was not injured. 

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