Monday, February 20, 2012

  • Monday, February 20, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
From YNet:
An Egyptian Health Ministry official said that chemicals smuggled from Israel are infecting his country's poultry with dangerous viruses, Ynet has learned Monday.

Osama Selim, the head of Egypt's veterinary authority, has called on the People's Assembly to press the local poultry growers' association to fight the use of illegally imported vaccinations and blood serum, which he claimed are exposing the poultry to disease and threaten public health. He added that he does not rule out the possibility of a biological war with the Jewish state.

Dr. Suhair Hassan, a preventive veterinary medicine official, told the assembly's Health Committee on Sunday that a study conducted at some 200 farms found that 75% percent of poultry were treated with Israeli products, which often cause them to contract viral diseases and the bird flu. In some cases the chemicals lowered egg production or caused the animals to die.
But wait - there's more!

(unfortunately not subtitled, but you can see the host show to the camera Israeli consumer products that are supposedly "poison." A small portion of the show was translated by MEMRI.)

A television show called "The Truth," broadcast on the Darim channel, launched a media campaign earlier this month aiming to prevent the entrance of Israeli products to Sinai after learning that they "cause cancer and infertility."




Several of the "offending" products featured over the course of the show included chocolate, coffee, biscuits and yoghurt. All of these goods are commonly smuggled through the border crossings.

But wait - there's more!
A member of the Sawarka Bedouin tribe, Muhammad al-Mani'i, who was interviewed on the show, also accused Israel of manufacturing "toxic" jeans that cause infertility. He claimed the Jewish state sells them to Arab countries reduce population growth.

The tribesman said that the denim pants are equipped with belts that contain a magnet, which is the source of their toxic powers.

Al-Mani'i accused the "Zionist entity" of plotting to spread disease among the Bedouins by distributing its products in Sinai markets.

He said that the residents prefer to buy foreign products because they think they are of better quality than the local ones.

"The residents buy Israeli water because the water we have in Sinai is salty," he said. "They buy the Israeli soap because it foams better than Egyptian soap."

A spokesman for the Sinai Revolutionaries movement, Mohammed Hendy, said on the show that Israeli goods are sold unhindered under the police's eyes.

He called on the Bedouins to boycott the products.

"We must understand that the Zionist entity is the one who killed our sons and robbed us of our territory," he said.

"The Israeli products contain lethal poison," the show's host concluded. "It is possible that you don't feel it now, but you cannot escape feeling it in the future.

"Israel continues to be an enemy that targets Egypt regardless of the agreements between the two countries, because it has its eye on the country."

I better not tell them about the tiny Israeli transmitters that hide in 10% of Egypt's grains of sand, or how the Aswan dam is really a huge satellite dish that intercepts and forwards all Egyptian communications to the Zionists. Then they might really go crazy.
Over the past two weekends, Muslim clerics and officials have been pushing false rumors about Israeli designs on the Al Aqsa Mosque. The first time they got Israeli police to bar Jews from peacefully visiting; the second time they started stoning Christian tourists who they claimed were Jewish extremists.

Clearly, spreading false rumors is an effective weapon.

So, emboldened by their success in keeping Judaism's holy site free of Jewish tourists, they have started a new rumor for this week.

The Al Aqsa Center has released a statement saying that they have received information that Israel plans to divide up the Temple Mount into separate Jewish and Muslim sections, they way that the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron is divided. Jews would be able to - horrors! - perform "Talmudic rituals" (i.e., pray) in the sacred site.

They say that under this plan, Israeli police will cleanse the Mount of Muslims under flimsy pretexts (like, for example, they are stoning Christian tourists).

Another plan has Jews freely entering the mosque between 8 AM and 11 AM, between Muslim prayer times.

These alleged plans will be implemented this year, according to the inciters of violence who released the statement.

There is only one reason why these rumors are started - to keep Jews off of the holiest site in Judaism. They want to stir up riots because, according to these defenders of Islam, it is better than no one go to the Temple Mount than to allow Jewish "filth" from "desecrating" it.

These incitements have worked in the past, so the Al Aqsa defenders will keep churning out the lies that Arab Muslims are more than happy to believe, fed by hateful terrorist-supporting media like Palestine Today.


  • Monday, February 20, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Bikya Masr:
Less than three months after Saudi Arabia said it would permit women to participate in the London 2012 Olympic Games, it has reportedly reneged on their agreement, barring women from entering the Games.

The move will also threaten the country’s overall participation in the Olympics, with the International Olympic Committee saying that all countries must field female athletes as part of their teams.

The decision has been roundly criticized by human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch (HRW), which said in a press release that the move is counter to the Olympic Charter, which says, “The practice of sport is a human right. Every individual must have the possibility of practicing sport, without discrimination of any kind and in the Olympic spirit.”

HRW said it shouldn’t be too surprising, however, as state-run schools offer no physical education for girls and only men belong to sports clubs in the country.

“In fact, government restrictions on women essentially bar them from sports,” a new report says, HRW reported.

The IOC Women’s Chair Anita DeFrantz warned the country in 2010 that if female athletes are not allowed to participate, the country could face being banned from the global competition.
But it looks like the IOC will cave:
The chairman of the London 2012 Olympics said on Thursday that the Olympic committee needed to encourage more inclusiveness by countries that failed to send women to the games but cautioned that "sport is not the panacea for all ills."

"I think you can use sport in a way to encourage social change at a sensible rate," Sebastian Coe, chairman of the London Games, told Reuters in an interview. "The world is diverse, it's very complex, there are sometimes barriers that are not going to be broken down overnight."
Way to show leadership!

(h/t Ian)
  • Monday, February 20, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
Palestine Press Agency reports on a new PCHR report (not yet online) that says that some recent deaths of children in Gaza were not from them "falling into holes," as had been reported, but from them being in the wrong place when "resistance tunnels" collapsed.

Last Thursday, a 13-year old child was killed as a tunnel underneath him collapsed south of Gaza City.

This was not a smuggling tunnel, but one of the tunnels that Hamas builds to store weapons and to provide a secret path between buildings.

Last October, two more children were killed while playing soccer as another "resistance tunnel" collapsed in Jabalya.

PCHR called on Hamas to take appropriate precautions when building these bunkers.

Perhaps Oxfam should be called in to do "independent" inspections of terror tunnels. It's not like they will ever criticize Hamas anyway.
  • Monday, February 20, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
I have been trying to come up with an explanation for Hamas' deciding to allow the Gaza power plant to go dark rather than allowing fuel to come from Israel. A new article in Dar al Hayat may have given us a clue.

It's all about money.

Hamas decided to use smuggled fuel from Egypt instead of fuel from Israel because it was cheaper. The reason it was so much cheaper? Because Egypt subsidizes fuel for its citizens, and they were turning around and reselling the artificially low-priced fuel to Gaza!

Hamas is now using the crisis, with the specter of people in hospitals dying, to pressure Egypt to sell them fuel directly at the same subsidized prices.

Egypt, for its part, is refusing to sell fuel to Hamas below market value, noting that Hamas taxes fuel in Gaza at an astonishing 150%. Why should Egypt lose money while Hamas makes a windfall? At the same time, at a time of a fuel shortage in Egypt itself, the government cannot justify selling fuel to Hamas at low prices while its own people cannot find fuel themselves.

Meanwhile, pressure on Hamas from within Gaza is steadily increasing. A PFLP symposium on Saturday night harshly criticized Hamas' handling of the economy, including the fuel crisis, saying that there was a lack of transparency in Hamas' economic policies and that Hamas' taxes on the residents were onerous.


  • Monday, February 20, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
Ha'aretz has a behind-the-scenes look at the last, failed round of negotiations between Israel and the PLO in Amman, and it shows yet again that the Palestinian Arabs are the recalcitrant party.

More surprising to the conventional wisdom, though, is that Netanyahu seemed to offer a plan that was nearly identical to that offered by the Kadima government during the 2008 Annapolis conference.

At first, the Palestinian Arabs refused to meet altogether:
According to a top Israeli official, on the day of the meeting, the prime minister’s envoy, Isaac Molho, arrived at the hotel and entered the meeting room only to discover that his Palestinian counterpart, Saeb Erekat, did not make it to the meeting. Mohammad Shtayyeh, a junior official and member of Fatah’s central committee was sent in his stead. The Palestinian side did not agree to sit with Molho in the same room, and the envoys were resigned to hopping between different rooms in the hotel in order to hold discussions between the two sides.

After a week, the Quartet envoys arrived in Jerusalem, although the Palestinians refused once more to sit in the same room as Molho. “There is an empty chair in the room,” said Molho to the envoys at the meeting. “Where is Saeb Erekat?”

For over a month, the Quartet envoys attempted to bring the Palestinians to the negotiation room, but only when King Abdullah II began to apply pressure did things begin to move. The king came to Ramallah on a rare trip and pressured Mahmoud Abbas. Finally, on January 3, the Jordanians were able to bring together Erekat and Molho in Jordan’s Foreign Ministry in Amman.
Jordan's King Abdullah personally went to Ramallah to pressure Abbas to take things seriously, and Erekat showed up. But this was all for show.

At the very first meeting on January 3, Erekat announced that the PLO held by the deadline of January 26 to complete negotiations, an impossible task.

The PLO position on borders were "a step backward" from their proposals in Annapolis in 2008, according to Israel's negotiator Isaac Molho.

There were a couple of other meetings where new demands were made by Erekat, such as the release of Aziz Dweik, a Hamas minister.

On January 25, a day before the PLO's deadline on negotiations, Molho presented Netanyahu's proposal for borders:
1. The border will be drawn in a way that will include the maximum amount of Israelis living in the West Bank, and the minimum amount of Palestinians.

2. Israel will annex the large settlement blocs, without defining what exactly is considered a ‘bloc,’ nor defining its size.

3. It is necessary to first solve the problem of borders and security in relation to Judea and Samaria, and only afterwards move to discuss the topic of Jerusalem which is far more complicated.

4. Israel will maintain a presence in the Jordan Valley for a period of time. Molho did not mention how long nor what kind of presence.

During the meeting, Erekat asked for clarification regarding the Jordan Valley. Molho referred him to Netanyahu’s speech’s to the opening session of the Knesset, as well as to that in front of Congress in May 2011. In both speeches, Netanyahu spoke of a “military presence along the Jordan River,” yet he did not demand that Israel maintain sovereignty over the valley. “And if we refuse?” Erekat asked. Molho responded: You would prefer that we annex the valley?”

Molho did not mention how size of the territory from which Israel will withdraw, but according to the principles he presented, it seems that it is similar, if not identical to that which was presented by Tzipi Livni during the negotiations that took place in 2008 after the Annapolis Conference. And although Netanyahu does not admit it, the meaning behind the principles Molho presented is a withdrawal that will cause Israel to give up 90% of its sovereignty. “The possibility of leaving the settlements in a Palestinian state also came up in Annapolis,” said a source that participated in the 2008 talks.

Erekat, who understood the principles, asked at the end of the meetings for a series of clarifications: whether Israel accepts the 1967 borders as a basic tenet upon which the two sides can negotiation, whether Israel accepts the principle of territory swaps, how many percentages of the West Bank is Israel interested in annexing, whether Israel has a map with border proposals, whether Israel is willing to evacuate settlements, etc.

“I’d be happy to answer all these questions in the next meeting,” said Molho to Erekat. But the next meeting never took place. A day later, the Palestinians said that they will not resume talks unless Israel freezes settlement building and accepts the principle of 1967 borders.
As usual, the conventional wisdom on the conflict is 180 degrees away from the truth. The "hawkish" Netanyahu is willing to concede essentially everything that the "dovish" Livni would have, and the "moderate" Palestinian Arab side spent the entire time treading water until their deadline passed and they could move forward with their unity agreement with terrorist organizations Hamas and Islamic Jihad.

It must be pointed out that all of the people who so loudly assert that Israel's democratic character is threatened by the lack of an agreement for a two-state solution have never once satisfactorily explained why a plan such as Livni's or Netanyahu's does not address every one of their concerns, especially the demographic issue. Instead of pushing for the PLO to compromise on the basis of a plan where Israel can have a modicum of security, these loudmouths like J-Street and Peter Beinart instead pretend that it is Israel that must keep offering more and more, and end up solidifying the PLO's hard-line positions.

Which proves that for all their protestations, they aren't really pro-Israel at all.

(h/t P.)

Sunday, February 19, 2012

  • Sunday, February 19, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
On Saturday:
Hamas authorities rejected an Egyptian proposal to bring in fuel via an Israeli crossing point to reactivate Gaza’s only power plant, which shut down four days ago when diesel supplies were disrupted.

“This is unacceptable because of our bitter experience with the Zionist occupation and the way it controls the delivery of the shipments,” Ahmed Abu Al-Amreen of the Hamas-run Energy Authority, told reporters.
Sunday:
Energy Authority official Ahmad Abu al-Amreen told Ma'an that while the government does not want to rely on transfers via Israel ... it will allow shipment via the Israeli crossing temporarily to alleviate the current emergency.

It was not clear whether this solution had been accepted by Egyptian authorities, but Abu al-Amreen said the power authority had not received notification from Egypt about how the fuel would be transferred.

"We keep contacting the relevant authorities in Egypt, but so far we received no answers," he added.
Meanwhile, Israel again offered to provide fuel for Gaza directly - and was rebuffed by Hamas.

There are games being played in Gaza, and all the players seem to have one thing in common - to demonize Israel. Luckily, it appears that some Gazans aren't being taken in by the lies.
  • Sunday, February 19, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
Oxfam, a major human rights NGO, is pushing a false narrative of Israeli responsibility for Gaza's power plant problems. This press release, published at Palestine News Network, proves once again that many NGOs are hopelessly biased against Israel and are equally afraid to criticize Hamas.
The Gaza Strip is inching towards a total collapse of essential services as fuel supplies from the tunnels beneath the border between Gaza and Egypt have reportedly ground to a halt.
With the blockaded enclave's only power plant shut down for long hours daily, the 1.6 million Palestinians in Gaza are being affected across the board, with impending life threatening consequences in health services.

Since Israel put Gaza under total blockade in 2007, only limited amounts of fuel for Gaza's power plants were allowed to enter the enclave, prompting the government in Gaza to procure fuel from Egypt through the Rafah tunnels.

...Oxfam partners Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and Al Mezan have both stressed the responsibility and obligations of Israel as the occupying power, to provide for the wellbeing of the civilian population under occupation, with international humanitarian law requiring it to allow the passage of fuel for the Gaza power plant. Israeli restrictions on fuel supplies via the overland crossings, imposed in 2007, caused massive shortages, leading the authority in Gaza to seek alternate solutions in fuel supplied through the tunnels.
Then why did they stop taking the fuel from Israel?

There was one week on November, 2010 when Israel transferred over 1.7 million liters to the Gaza power plant. Normally it transferred about a million liters a week. Then Hamas started refusing to get reliable amounts of fuel from Israel and chose instead to get smuggled fuel from Gaza. And now Oxfam is blaming Israel for Hamas' refusal to take in millions of liters of fuel that Israel is more than willing to provide!

Not only that, even though the press release was published today, Oxfam still refuses to complain about Hamas' refusal to accept fuel from Egypt going through Kerem Shalom!

Oxfam has the story exactly wrong. Israel is willing to provide fuel and Hamas is refusing to accept it. Yet the word "Hamas" is not to be found in the entire press release.

Oxfam's press release here is proof positive that this so-called "human rights organization" has less interest in the well-being of Gazans than in slamming Israel for a problem that Hamas is wholly responsible for.

This is more than just bias. This is evidence that Oxfam is actively working to promote Hamas' false narrative of the problem. And when NGOs support the terrorists against the free world, we have a problem.




  • Sunday, February 19, 2012
  • Elder of Ziyon
Interesting tweets from Gaza Youth Break Out:

I can't shut up any more. Call me a zionist, call me spy but the truth must be revealed.  is responsible for the 

 power plant has fuel and it's not running because of orders issued by Int. minister Fathi Hammad & Head of political bureau meshaal

Fathi Hammad bought 50,000 electricity generators from  & smuggled it through the tunnels and wanted 2 sell it in .

Hanneya was having ameetings in iran & he needed a story to get some money from his allies & his story was cutting the electricity on

Usually when  is dark. Hammas leaders blame Israel for it but now they're blaming  . Since when Egypt provides Gaza with fuel?

How come All Hammas leaders houses are lit up and all the other houses in  has no electricity?

How come Al Nasser street is lit up in the middle of the day while most of the houses r dark?


The legislative council in gaza is having asession in the dark during the day. HAVE MERCY ON US & STOP IT 

Everyone in  knows that Hammas is behind the  but they prefere 2 shut up because you simply can't say a word against hammas.

When Abu Shamale director of Al-dameer HR organization said electricity company has fuel, Hammas told him shut up or you'll be fucked.

 should stop using people's misery and should stop accusing  of shits Hammas is responsible of. 


I can't verify the truth of all the accusations, but it shows that at least some people in Gaza aren't as credulous in accepting Hamas' lies as most major Western media is. The photo of the legislative council seems to be recent, though - we saw similar daytime shots years ago.

(h/t Israel Awareness)

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