November 2004 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, November 30, 2004

Ex-Norwegian PM wants east Jerusalem as Palestinian capital

OSLO (AFP) - Former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjoern Jagland called for the creation of an independent Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital as a first step towards stabilizing the region. 'A Palestinian state must be created, with east Jerusalem as its capital... This would be the first and the best of steps to establish a dialogue with Muslims and Arabs,' said Jagland, currently the head of the Norwegian parliament's foreign...

Iranian 'Sputnik' Could Be Trojan Horse for Tehran's Ballistic Missile Program

Aviation Week & Space Technology reports in its November 29 issue that U. S. intelligence analysts are concerned about the planned launch from Iran, by early 2005, of an Iranian built satellite on an upgraded version of Tehran's largest ballistic missile, the Shahab-3. The preparations for and launch of one or more Iranian satellite 'is something that needs to be watched closely,' a U. S. government missile analyst familiar with Iranian capabilities...

U.N. condemns suicide bombing. Sort of. Perhaps. In some fashion.

A United Nations committee condemned suicide bombings in Israel. The resolution from the committee on decolonization, concerning Israeli practices affecting Palestinian human rights, included an oral amendment expressing “grave concern at the use of suicide bombing attacks against Israeli civilians, resulting in extensive loss of life and injury.” Israeli officials said the language was included at European nations’ behest. “We said that every...

Pictures From Drone Cameras Straight to IDF Hands

Company commanders and division commanders will be able to, as of next year view at the appropriate time intelligence photographs from pilotless aircraft, on a small screen worn on their hands. The micro receivers will replace verbal reports that commanders have received daily via the communicator from the Home Front Headquarters. The Ground Forces Command is expected to soon purchase dozens of these programs, priced at 10,000 dollars each. The...

New Find in a Nuclear Network

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Authorities pursuing traffickers in nuclear weapons technology recently uncovered an audacious scheme to deliver a complete uranium enrichment plant to Libya, documents and interviews show. The discovery provides fresh evidence of the reach and sophistication of Pakistani scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan's global black market in nuclear know-how and equipment. It also exposes a previously undetected South African branch of...

Ethical Dilemmas in Fighting Terrorism - Maj. Gen. Amos Yadlin

Summary: When the IDF updated its military doctrine in 2003, Prof. Asa Kasher, Professor of Professional Ethics at Tel Aviv University, joined me on an ethics committee to craft principles on how to make moral and ethical decisions in Israel's operational campaign against terror. As we sought to formulate how to fight terror, we understood that the main asymmetry is in the values of the two societies involved in the conflict - in the rules they...

My nation of heroes, my chosen people . . .

Julie Burchill Unreservedly pro-Israel, our correspondent reveals how her first visit to the country fulfilled a long emotional and political love affair WHEN I TOLD people that I was going to Israel this autumn, I noticed that a lot of them had the same reaction. They’d look dubious, then worried, then say: “Ooo. Is it a story?” The implication being that only professional interests could take one to such a hellhole. They also expressed fear for...

November 29, 1947 - November 29, 2004

This is the text of a message on dozens of pro-Israeli blogs being posted today. I didn't participate officially because of my vacation, but the message is important. - EoZ November 29, 2004: Anniversary of the UN vote on Resolution 181 Today is the anniversary of the UN vote on resolution 181, which approved the partition of the western part Palestine...

How Not to Promote Democracy: Palestinian elections shouldn’t come before a free society has been built.

How Not to Promote Democracy Palestinian elections shouldn’t come before a free society has been built. By Meyrav Wurmser Since the death of Yasser Arafat, many in European capitals and within various circles of Washington have called on the Palestinians to hold elections. Former special Middle East coordinator Dennis Ross, for example, recently asserted that to avoid a violent competition for power, elections can become "the mechanism for shaping...

Moderate Muslims, Real and Phony

Moderate Muslims, Real and Phony By Daniel Pipes FrontPageMagazine.com | November 23, 2004There is good news to report: the idea that “militant Islam is the problem, moderate Islam is the solution” is finding greater acceptance over time. But there is also bad news, namely growing confusion over who really is a moderate Muslim. This means that the ideological side of the war on terror is making some, but only limited, progress. The good news:...

Let's give these people $20 million...and a state by 2009! - EoZ As the Palestinian media slowly return to their regular routine following Arafat's death, their well-documented hate promotion and incitement are likewise reappearing. One common theme that has quickly returned due to the war in Iraq is the depiction of the US, verbally and visually, as the cruel and inhuman...

Pig who helped lynch 2 Israeli soldiers sentenced to life

Azziz Mustafa Salha, 23, one of the Palestinians involved in the Ramallah lynching of two reservists on October 12, 2000, and whose photo, holding up his hands stained with the blood of the two soldiers to the mob standing outside the police station was shown worldwide, was sentenced to life in the Judea Military Court on Sunday. Reservist Sgt.-Maj. Yosef Avrahami and Corporal Vadim Novesche accidentally strayed into Ramallah after making a wrong...

Terrorist who was shielded by Arafat in compound is killed

A senior Fatah member who until recently was among scores of fugitives hiding out in Yasser Arafat's Mukata compound was among four armed men killed in the West Bank and Gaza on Sunday. Muhammad Ghassan Sheikh was killed, along with two of his aides, by an elite police unit while in a car in Beituniya, west of Ramallah, on Sunday evening. As the unit closed in to arrest Sheikh, he opened fire, lightly wounding a policeman. Police officers shot...

UN includes anti-Semitism in resolution on tolerance

The UN Third Commission on Human Rights has approved for the first time a resolution on religious tolerance that incudes condemnation of anti-Semitism and concern about its spread. The article that references anti-Semitism notes that the commission recognizes 'with deep concern' the growth in the number of incidents of lack of tolerance and violence directed at people who belong to religious communities in various parts of the world, including attacks...

PA: Let us kill Israelis freely, let the US give us money and give us a terror state . Or else.

Haaretz - Israel News: "In Ramallah, however, PA officials warned Powell that they could not be responsible for the reactions of armed Palestinian organizations should the Israel Defense Forces kill any of their members. According to Palestinian sources, both PLO head Mahmoud Abbas and Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qureia urged Powell to press Israel to stop IDF operations such as the one in Ramallah on Sunday, in which three Fatah operatives...

UK 9/11-style attacks thwarted

British security services have thwarted September 11-style terror attacks on London’s Heathrow Airport and Canary Wharf, it emerged tonight. Plans to crash planes on the two high-profile targets are among four or five al Qaida strikes that security chiefs believe they have stopped. Training programmes for suicide pilots have been disrupted, a senior authoritative source told ITV News. The Home Office and Metropolitan Police declined to comment...

Anti-Israel and Anti-American Hate from Columbia University Professors

Hate 101 Climate of hate rocks Columbia University Special Report By DOUGLAS FEIDEN DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER Many students say Columbia Prof. Hamid Dabashi, a department chairman, has bullied and threatened them for defending Israel. Students Ariel Beery (speaking) and Noah Liben (r.) at press conference after showing of the film 'Columbia Unbecoming.' In the world of Hamid Dabashi, supporters of Israel are "warmongers" and "Gestapo apparatchiks." The...

Report: Powell Resigned Over US-Israel Ties

Outgoing US Secretary of State Colin Powell was asked to step down after telling President George W. Bush he wanted more power to confront Israel over the peace process, according to London's Sunday Telegraph. At the same time, the Sunday Times reported that secretary of state-designate Condoleezza Rice is convinced Yasser Arafat's death has created a unique opportunity and she believes the revival of the peace process leading to a Palestinian state...

Poll: 80% of Palestinians Believe Arafat Was Poisoned

Poll: 80% of Palestinians Believe Arafat Was Poisoned A poll conducted by the Center of Opinion Polls and Survey Studies at Najah University on November 19-20, 2004, asked: "Several Palestinian personalities support the conviction that Arafat died by being poisoned, do you believe this?" Yes - 80%, No - 9%. (IMR...

Palestinian Mother: Son's Martyrdom is a Wedding

The hope that the situation in the Palestinian Authority (PA) will improve dramatically with the demise of Yasser Arafat is based on the mistaken assumption that the problems in the PA stemmed mainly from Arafat as an individual and not from the society he created. But an interview with a Palestinian mother on PATV yesterday indicates the depth of the PA society's worship of Death for Allah (Shahada), and support of suicide terror, which has not...

The Suha soap-opera continues

Suha snatches medical dossier before Arafat's nephew gets it, flees to Tunis Yasser Arafat's widow took possession of his much-sought medical dossier on Friday. She fled with the files after Palestinian TV broadcast a Friday sermon which threatened her life. She reportedly flew to Tunis in Arafat's jet, defying PA orders. Although the French defense ministry decided Nasser al Kidwa could access information on his uncle's mystery illness, Suha's...

Al-Quds editor: Arafat signed Oslo so Jews would flee "Palestine"

Yasser Arafat agreed to sign the Oslo Accords because he expected that the agreements would lead thousands of Jews to flee Israel. Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based daily al-Quds al-Arabi, said Arafat said so when they met in Tunis, days before he returned to the Gaza Strip. 'The man told me, 'Listen, Abdel Bari, I know that you are opposed to the Oslo Accords, but you must always remember what I'm going to tell you. The day will come...

Anti-Israel Crowd Gets Ugly at San Francisco Counter-Protest

Anti-Israel Crowd Gets Ugly at San Francisco Counter-Protest Written by Cinnamon Stillwell For over a year now, an ongoing battle between pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel groups has taken place in the streets of San Francisco. Long used to running the show, the anti-Israel crowd is now routinely counter-protested by groups like San Francisco Voice for Israel and ProtestWarrior.com. And judging by the behavior at last weekend’s counter-protest,...

Israeli Reality TV: "The Ambassador"

A new TV series called 'The Ambassador' features 14 Israelis trying to outdo each other battling Israel's global image problem in the face of a 4-year-old Palestinian uprising. Devised by an American-Jewish benefactor, the series begins airing next week with contestants in business suits plying their propaganda skills at various foreign locales, a Channel Two advertisement said on Thursday. In a format recalling the U.S. reality show 'The Apprentice,'...

Egyptian intellectual criticizes Arab mentality

The progressive Egyptian intellectual Dr. Amr Isma'il whose articles are regularly published on the secular Arab website www.rezgar.com, wrote an article condemning the Arabs' lack of self-criticism and the Islamists' abuse of the term "democracy." The following are excerpts from the article, which appeared on the progressive Arabic website www.elaph.com: [1] 'Why Do We Talk by Means of Bullets, and Hasten to Make Sweeping Accusations of Unbelief?' "Why...