Sunday, November 06, 2011

  • Sunday, November 06, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Remember the Richard Goldstone op-ed in the New York Times last week that flatly stated that Israel is not an apartheid state?

At the time I wrote "As night follows day, we can expect the rabid anti-Israel Left who embraced Goldstone as their messiah two years ago will issue vicious condemnations of this piece, and charge Goldstone with being a tool of the Zionist lobby, tomorrow."

Well, tomorrow has arrived. The anti-Israel stunt known as the "Russell Tribunal on Palestine" is meeting in South Africa this week, and its members are furious:

PROMINENT Gaza human rights lawyer Raji Sourani has called South African judge Richard Goldstone a liar, following recent comments he made in the New York Times regarding apartheid in Israel.

Speaking at a Palestine Solidarity Campaign event in the city yesterday, ahead of the weekend Russell Tribunal, the founder of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in Gaza lashed out at Goldstone for saying apartheid did not exist in Israel.

Last month, Goldstone criticised the Russell Tribunal in an opinion piece in the New York Times, entitled “Israel and the apartheid slander”. He wrote that there was no apartheid in Israel, and called the suggestion a “particularly pernicious and enduring canard”.

“It is an unfair and inaccurate slander against Israel, calculated to retard rather than advance peace negotiations,” he said.

But Sourani hit back yesterday, saying that Goldstone “is lying”.

“When he says there is no injustice in Israel, he is lying.”

The Palestine Solidarity Campaign also hit out at Goldstone in a statement read out by the organisation’s Martin Jansen. “The very recent but weak attack by Richard Goldstone on the tribunal not only exposes him as an ardent Zionist, but his shameful U-turn on the Goldstone report demonstrates his bias as a ‘juror’.”
The article also notes the comments from another member of the lynch mob:
Speaking at yesterday’s event, Palestinian refugee Leila Khaled drew parallels between South Africa’s apartheid regime and her own experiences in Palestine.
Leila Khaled is a convicted terrorist who was behind two airplane hijackings. Characterizing her as a "refugee" and giving her a place of honor at this so-called "tribunal" tells you all you need to know about it.

  • Sunday, November 06, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Over the weekend, Fatah's leader in Gaza held a luncheon honoring the terrorists who were released in the Shalit deal.

Abdullah Abu Samhadana, secretary of the Fatah movement in Gaza, apparently wanted to show that Hamas is not the only party in Gaza happy that terrorists are back roaming the streets and plotting to kill more Israelis.

Hamas, however, which already hosted a number of mass events celebrating the terrorists, apparently took umbrage at Fatah's relatively low-key affair.

So Hamas confiscated Samhadana's car.

Isn't unity grand?
  • Sunday, November 06, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
As a followup to this video I had posted, here's a new one from Pat Condell:



Even better, on YouTube he gives a bunch of links to back up what he is saying:

Wall of Truth - A few inconvenient facts
http://www.wall-of-truth.org/

What really happened in the Middle East
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f81j5Zk-GSA

The Middle East Problem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63hTOaRu7h4

Is Israel An Apartheid State?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1dvwgjDAT8

The truth about the peace process
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAuBc_cbXo0

The truth about the West Bank
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=XGYxLWUKwWo

The real racism: Expecting Jews to die meekly
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=243452

Teaching children to hate Jews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL0C2QvqIlo

Ignorant Islamic cleric teaches children to hate Jews
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpGRBu7mzrg

Teaching children to die for Allah
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0inC2ZRWzG4

Teaching children to admire a suicide bomber
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=806ZNYWzE1M

Hamas: "Kill all Jews"
http://www.examiner.com/foreign-policy-in-baltimore/kill-al-jews-statement-co...

"Jews are apes and pigs"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQERHieZHcg

Overrated: Mahmoud Abbas
http://standpointmag.co.uk/node/4113/full

Laughable bigotry from the anti-Semitic Guardian "newspaper"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/oct/19/israeli-lives-more-important-pale...

The Durban Perversion
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/40602

Norway's ambassador defends Islamic terror
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2011/07/26/3088704/envoy-compares-terror-in-i...

Anti-Semitism in Norway
http://wikileaks.org/cable/2009/02/09OSLO114.html

Jews abandon Swedish city amid growing anti-Semitism
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jews-reluctantly-abandon-swedish-city-ami...

Jews being driven out of Malmo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9gdBX8q85Q

Sharia law for the new Libya
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2036885/Libya-New-leader-Mustafa-Abde...

Amnesty urges Libya to tackle the "stain" of detainee abuse
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15284264

No room for Jews in the "new" Libya
http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=241109

Banned speech: Hillel Neuer takes on the UN Human Rights Council
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhWgZu6tcZU

Israel's critical security needs for a viable peace
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytWmPqY8TE0

(h/t Sophie, Ian)
  • Sunday, November 06, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Today, for the occasion of Eid al Adha, major PA leaders went to the gravesite of Yasir Arafat and put flowers and garlands on his grave.

They included Western darlings Mahmoud Abbas and prime minister Salam Fayyad.

Abbas said that he hopes that next year he can hold this ceremony in Jerusalem under an independent "Palestine."

Abbas, it will be remembered, has shown no more flexibility towards peace  in the past seven years since Arafat's death than Arafat, the architect of modern terrorism, ever showed in his lifetime.

It will also be remembered that one of  Abbas' promises is to move the gravesite of this syphilitic, genocidal, anti-semitic symbol of hate in the heart of the eternal Jewish capital of Jerusalem.
  • Sunday, November 06, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
The penultimate scene from Ziophobic Moonbat Theatre, from an ISM email:

Greek captain of the Tahrir Giorgos Klontzas has confirmed the use of violence on him by the israeli soldiers during his interrogation in a interview he gave to www.Omniatv.com

He specifically reports that he was handcuffed on hands and feet , very tightly which created a blood circulation problem and that in order to make him give his fingerprints he was held by three soldiers and one was holding him in a strangling way almost suffocating him.

At one point they stuck two fingers in his eyes creating very strong pain. He said that he was very calm, he did not speak aggressively and that he just requested to see a lawyer... He also confirms that some activists were very badly treated.

Imagine that. Handcuffs not lined with fur and soldiers who didn't say "pretty please".

Oh, and by the way, from Bloomberg News:
Medea Benjamin, one of the flotilla organizers, told reporters in a teleconference. There was no violence during the boarding and the activists offered no resistance, she said.

The final scene from the theater comes when the "survivors" go on their speaking tours embellishing their heroism and bravery.
(h/t Israel Awareness)
  • Sunday, November 06, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh spoke poetically about the so-called "Arab Spring" at a mosque today during a sermon on the occasion of this week's Islamic holiday.

After taking credit yet again for the Shalit prisoner swap, the terror leader said that the Arab nation must pursue three goals: to get rid of the rest of the despotic regimes to open the way to what he calls "civilization," to work to be free from dependence on the East or West, and to work to liberate the rest of the "stolen" Islamic lands stolen, particularly Palestine and Jerusalem.

You don't have to read much between the lines to understand that the "despotic regimes" he is referring not only to Syria but also to include Jordan and Morocco and whatever is left that is secular in Lebanon; that "civilization" means radical Islamism; and that "stolen Islamic lands" also includes much of Spain.

It's beginning to look a lot like Winter....

Friday, November 04, 2011

  • Friday, November 04, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Today was pretty much the only real vacation day Mrs. Elder and I have had all year.

Here is sunrise over the Atlantic this morning:



Have a great weekend!
  • Friday, November 04, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From YNet:
Navy forces boarded two vessels attempting to break the blockade of the Gaza Strip on Friday and towed them to the Ashdod port in Israel. All 27 pro-Palestinian activists onboard the ships will be transferred over to the police and Immigration Authority and later expected to be expelled from the country.

IDF officials remarked that they did not find any weapons or humanitarian aid onboard the ship. The troops boarded the vessels without any resistance and no one was hurt, the military said.
Since the flotidiots have always vastly exaggerated their "humanitarian" cargo, this is no surprise.

It is a spectacularly boring story.
  • Friday, November 04, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Didn't have a chance to watch it yet, but here it is.
  • Friday, November 04, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From ANSAMed:
The shapes of the mermaids that embellish the fountain of Zeus in the centre of Alexandria have been deemed "inappropriate" by the Salafist Al Nour (Light) party, which decided to "veil" them completely with a sheet during a meeting yesterday evening.

The incident, which was reported by the website of the Al Masri Al Youm newspaper, has unleashed a wave of comment and disbelief on Twitter, where the paper posted pictures "before and after the niqab" of the fountain of the sirens, upon which an enormous placard carries the words: "Egyptian women devote themselves to their husbands and their nation".

Political leaders of the party, which is at the head of a coalition of Islamist parties that will stand in the forthcoming Egyptian elections from November 28, had recently announced that they were against the statues, deeming them contrary to Islamic tradition, the newspaper reports. "Covering a statue of sirens will certainly lead us to Paradise. I can't wait," was the ironic reaction of one Twitter user.
Here's the before and after picture (right to left :) )

(h/t jzaik)

  • Friday, November 04, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Reuters:
The Palestinians will not accept anything less than full U.N. membership and do not want an upgrade to an observer state in the world body, their foreign minister said on Thursday.

Riyad al-Malki's remarks suggested the Palestinians would not seek such an upgrade once their bid for full state membership meets its widely expected fate -- failure due to opposition from the United States and other governments.

"We do not want, after all of these struggles, sacrifices, and efforts by the entire Palestinian people, to accept an observer state in the United Nations. We will not accept less than we deserve: a full member state," he said.
Now, what exactly does that mean?

When a person says that something is unacceptable, there is an implied "or else" clause. It implies that Palestinian Arabs, who frame themselves as having nothing they can bargain with, will do something that will make people regret a decision of not giving them their full demands if they do not get what they want.

What is the "or else"?

Or else they will dissolve the PA? They will start a new intifada? They will ask Iran to start a war on their behalf? They will go back to their 1970s heyday of international airline terror? They will write nasty op-eds in Al Jazeera? Mahmoud Abbas will resign?

For a people who claim they are so desperate, they have no problem speaking as if they hold all the cards. There is a very real contradiction between their twin public positions of "we are helpless" and "you better do what we demand."

What is the implied leverage that Mahmoud Abbas has on the world to act like a mafioso?

Of course, Reuters being Reuters, rather than ask the natural follow up question "or else what?" they find some self-proclaimed "expert" to minimize the threat:
"This reads like a tactical move," said George Giacaman, a political analyst. "It could be directed toward the Americans, the Israelis, to show flexibility, but I would not view it as a final position."
What Reuters doesn't say is that Giacaman is at Bir Zeit University.
  • Friday, November 04, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
An entertaining video that should be up for consideration in the Hasby Awards, from The Land of Israel.com:


(h/t jzaik)

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