January 2005 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, January 31, 2005

Jihad Watch: Muslims at hate website spread personal info, photos of Christians who debate Muslims

More data that may be relevant to the New Jersey Coptic Christian family that was murdered. There is a Muslim hate website that posts the names of Christians who post on the PalTalk message boards. Daveed Gartenstein-Ross says in his article 'Christians on PalTalk Chat Service Tracked by Radical Islamic Web Site': A radical Islamic Web site systematically tracks Christians on PalTalk.com, an Internet chat service on which a New Jersey man received...

Jews can make Arabs riot with only a few words

What power Jews have over Arabs - just a couple of words and they start rioting. It's almost like they have no free will and are completely controlled by us! Karachi: Peres interview broadcast sparks violence By JPOST.COM STAFF In the Pakistani town of Karachi, dozens if Muslim extremists attacked the offices of the country's largest media corporation after it broadcast an interview with Vice Premier Shimon Peres. After barging into the building...

Why the change in the UN?

The blogosphere is commenting on the apparent change going on in the UN. I gave one cynical reason for it, and Israpundit gave another and I quoted Anne Bayefsky on her take. Soccerdad adds some more interesting wrinkles and quotes, including this fascinating quote from Kofi Annan found by Meryl Yourish: New York, 14 January 2005 - Statement Attributable to the Spokesman for the Secretary-General on the Middle East The Secretary-General...

U.N. Transfers Thousands to Hamas Affiliates

The UN may have done more to help international terrorism than any single country. UNITED NATIONS - A United Nations agency transferred thousands of dollars to a Palestinian Arab charity affiliated with terrorism long after Israel warned of the terror connection, though the U.N. publicly claimed payments to the organization had stopped. The blunder points to trouble inside the U.N. Development Program, a huge operation headed by Mark Maloch Brown,...

Tale of two refugee groups

About 600,000 Pal refugees from Israel in 1948. About 600,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries 1948-1952. The Arabs confiscate all their property, valued in the millions of dollars. Pals go into refugee camps after their Arab brethren refuse to take them in. Jews go to Israel where they are welcomed with open arms. The Arab world is virtually without Jews. Israel gives citizenship to a million Palestinians. Pals grow up in sewage...

Rabbis and imams unite against religious extremism

I had read about this when it happened in early January, but it received virtually no press coverage in the US. So I decided to post it here. By the way, these are not left-wing nor reform rabbis for the most part, but rabbis who are quite Orthodox. -EoZ Rabbis and imams unite against religious extremism By Daniel Ben-Simon BRUSSELS - A few minutes before Europe observed three minutes of silence last Wednesday in memory of the tsunami victims,...

This is what democracies do

Settlers hope for 100,000 at rally Film clips set to dramatic music of scuffles between police and settlers during past evacuations of outposts in the territories will highlight Sunday night's planned anti-disengagement rally outside the Knesset, which is expected to draw more than 100,000 people. "We will say, you can stop this, if you let the nation decide," said Emily Amrusy, a spokeswoman for the Council of Jewish Communities of Judea, Samaria...

Great article on Pups for Peace

"These Israeli 'agents' have a nose for explosives By Amelia Thomas | Contributor to The Christian Science Monitor TEL AVIV - At 8:30 on a crisp January morning, Erez Finkelstein pulls up at Tel Aviv's central bus station. He takes two containers from his pocket. 'This one's TNT, dynamite,' he says as he shakes the small can, 'and the other's C4, plastic explosive.' He approaches a bus in a long line of parked vehicles, and tucks the TNT beneath...

The UN's Cynical Use of "Never Again"

by Anne Bayefsky On Monday, the United Nations marked the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp with a day-long special session of the U.N. General Assembly, followed by the opening of an exhibition. Throughout the event, the words "never again" were repeated many times. But what exactly did they mean to U.N. members and officials? Here is the cynical response: They meant that the secretary-general has been seriously weakened...

Canada sued over Israel passport policy

Why exactly is West Jerusalem considered not Israel but the rest of the areas between the 1947 partition line and the Green Line is? The Canadian government is being sued for listing Jerusalem as the birthplace of a Toronto teenager instead of Israel, the Toronto Star said Thursday. Eliyahu Yehoshua Veffer, 17, was born in West Jerusalem, and is angry with the Canadian government's stance on the embattled region. There are 28 Jerusalems in the...

Now no one will mourn her

Notice how this story completely went under the radar: IDF: Palestinian Child Was Killed by a Kassam Fragment (IsraelNN.com) IDF officials report that the preliminary investigation into the death of a five-year-old Palestinian girl in Gaza points to a Kassam rocket. Military officials report the girl was killed when the rocket landed several hundred meters from her in the Dir el-Balah area of Gaza sending shrapnel flying in all directions. Officials...

George McGovern on Bombing Auschwitz

by Stephen J. Solarz and Rafael Medoff (Rep. Solarz served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1975 to 1993. Dr. Medoff is director of The David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies, which focuses on issues related to America’s response to the Holocaust - www.WymanInstitute.org) World leaders will gather at Auschwitz, site of the former Nazi death camp, on January 26 to commemorate the sixtieth anniversary...

Sharon is happy with Abbas, FM says cease-fire is a "ticking bomb"

I wouldn't mind this doubletalk and mixed signals if Israel had ever demonstrated the ability to play the game well. As it stands, the country just looks incompetent in both its desire for defense and its desire for peace. -EoZ Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom said Thursday that the cease-fire forged by Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbbas was a 'ticking bomb which will blow up in our faces.' Shalom made the comments hours after an interview...

US book exposes secret US military presence in Israel

This makes sense to me, both that the US military has a much higher presence in Israel than officially acknowledged and that the US tries to keep it secret. -EoZ A new book published in the US, “Code Names,” by William M. Arkin, exposes information about a US military presence in Israel, including US Army bases at secret locations. It gives a long list of code names that describe milestones in strategic cooperation between Jerusalem and Washington. The...

Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz

This article is posted as part of the January 27, 2005, BlogBurst (see list of participants on the right side) to remember the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, sixty years ago, on January 27, 1945. On January 20th, we marked the anniversary of the 1942 Wannsee Conference. In the course of that Conference, the Nazi hierarchy formalized the plan to annihilate the Jewish...

Where are the Orthodox "in-reach" programs?

I am still relatively new at the blogosphere stuff, and the purpose of this blog is more politics than religion, but I might as well break the rules occasionally. As I have been surfing around the Jewish blogosphere I have been profoundly disturbed at the sheer number of blogs by those who are either formerly Orthodox, or, maybe worse, those who fake a frum lifestyle but don't believe anymore. It is hard to extrapolate from these blogs how much...

Hamas: Temporary Cease Fire if Israel Surrenders

OK, where have we heard this before...."pay our price and we won't hurt you"...sounds so familiar...Yes! That's it! It's what the Mafia says when they set up a protection racket! Ending days of speculation about whether they had agreed to a cease-fire with Israel, Hamas and Islamic Jihad on Tuesday denied that they would halt terrorist attacks 'without making Israel pay a price.' Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, the Syria-based head of the movement's...

Belgian ambassador met Hizbollah leader

Let's see. There is a non-governmental organization operating out of Southern Lebanon with tons of weapons and millions of dollars, which bankrolls Palestinian terror cells, whose website says "Hezbollah's ideological ideals sees no legitimacy for the existence of 'Israel' ", which doesn't accept UN-defined borders between Israel and Lebanon, which has taught West Bank Palestinians the art of suicide bombing - and Belgium can't quite yet figure out...

Don't vote for me!

The Jewish and Israeli Blog Award voting is now in (almost) full swing. Alas, I am so far under the radar (in either visibility or quality) that this blog didn't rate being nominated, but that doesn't mean you shouldn't check out the many excellent blogs (most with actual readers!) that are nominated for one of the various awards...

Hey, are those Caterpillar bulldozers the Palestinian Authority is using to destroy buildings in Gaza? Wonder what the 'Boycott Caterpillar' folks -- in the US and the Arab world -- have to say about this... ...

Color me cynical

The UN finally acknowledging the Holocaust? Israel's Foreign Minister making a heartfelt speech there? Kofi Annan admitting that Jews were the primary victims? An Israeli charity recognized as UN-ECOSOC Advisor? Is the UN moving away from its traditional anti-Israel, anti-semitic stance? Sorry, but I don't buy it for a minute. All that is happening is that the UN, like always, is practicing self-preservation above its charter. Israel has wisely...

Official anti-semitism re-appears in Russia

Another good example showing that democracy does not mean freedom and it does not mean enlightenment. This is particularly egregious, though, and quite shocking. Russian Lawmakers Targets Jewish Groups MOSCOW (AP) - A group of nationalist Russian lawmakers called Monday for a sweeping investigation aimed at outlawing all Jewish organizations and punishing officials who support them, accusing Jews of fomenting ethnic hatred and saying they provoke...

Hamas in Gaza wants money to replace Hizbollah funds before ceasefire

(Hebrew-Maariv) A senior IDF officer explained Sunday that the principal obstacle in cease-fire negotiations between Abu Mazen and the terror groups is the amount of money he is willing to pay them to replace the funds they currently receive from Hizballah to conduct attacks. "There are thousands of activists who regularly receive funds from Hizballah which directs the attacks, and they don't want to find themselves unemployed," he said. ...

British Muslims: If we aren't the victims, it doesn't exist

BRITISH Muslims are to boycott this week’s commemoration of the liberation of Auschwitz because they claim it is not racially inclusive and does not commemorate the victims of the Palestinian conflict. Iqbal Sacranie, secretary-general of the Muslim Council of Britain, has written to Charles Clarke, the home secretary, saying the body will not attend the event unless it includes the “holocaust” of the Palestinian intifada. This might be a good...

My letter to The Spectator

I am livid at this article, yet another that is written with the purpose of demonizing Jews and equating Israelis with Naziism. The fact that it is written by someone who is nominally Jewish (yet considers himself Anglican) just adds insult to injury. It is nothing short of obscene to put the words "Jenin" in the same sentence as Nazi crematoria. For someone who brags about having read a couple of books on the Holocaust, it betrays not only profound...

Cheney threatens Iran with Israel

Brinksmanship. -EoZ WASHINGTON — In bluntly threatening terms on Inauguration Day, Vice President Dick Cheney removed any doubt that in its second term the Bush administration intended to directly confront the theocracy in Tehran. Cheney, who often has delivered the Bush team's toughest warnings to foreign capitals, said Iran was "right at the top" of the administration's list of world trouble spots, and expressed concern that Israel "might well...

Jihad Watch: Inside information on the New Jersey murders

A close friend of the Coptic Christian brutally murdered in New Jersey along with his family, Hossam Armanious, is the source of this information, which comes to you exclusively from Jihad Watch: The Armanious family had inspired several Muslims to convert to Christianity — or thought they had. These converts were actually practicing taqiyya, or religious deception, pretending to be friends of these Christians in order to strengthen themselves against...

Israeli terror fatalities from 1967, from Jewish Virtual Library

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PA stopping sick Palestinians from going to Egypt

For the couple of people left who still think that the PA has the least interest in the welfare of the Palestinian Arabs: The Palestinian Authority is blocking dozens of seriously ill Palestinians from going from Gaza to Egypt for medical treatment, a human rights group said Wednesday. The Tel Aviv-based Physicians for Human Rights said the Palestinians were exploiting the sick for propaganda purposes. A Palestinian health official denied the...

PA crank-calls Israeli ambulances

Another example of the depravity of the enemy. Luckily, so far no one has coordinated a crank call to a terror attack elsewhere. The directors of Magen David Adom in the Lachish region held an unusual news conference this week - rather than trying to raise funds or persuade people to donate blood, they were announcing the development of a new telephone system designed to screen crank calls to the organization's Ashdod hotline. According to the...

Great pictures from IDF Dave

Read the whole thing.Excerpt: After class a bunch of arab kids run into us and challenge us to a soccer game. The kids decide to forgo another round of soccer and we just hang out....

Will Abbas Bring an End to Conflict?

Abbas must stop the murder of Israelis by Bruce Thornton Private Papers Just as in the days after the death of Arafat, the Palestinian elections have sparked an outburst of international optimism that perhaps the Israeli-Palestinian conflict can begin to be resolved. While all people of good will must hope that the optimism is warranted, the evidence is scant that the hope is grounded on something more than exhausted wishful thinking....

Hero teenage Sderot rocket victim brain dead

A 17-year-old girl who was wounded by a Qassam rocket strike in Sderot on Saturday was pronounced brain dead yesterday. Ella Abukasis was returning from a meeting of Bnei Akiva, together with her siblings and a friend, when they heard a warning that a rocket was approaching. Abukasis suffered severe head wounds from shrapnel. Her friend and her sister were lightly wounded, while her brother was moderately wounded. According to one eyewitness, Ella...

Watch out Vogue: New Al-Qaeda women's Jihad magazine

ROME — Al Qaeda has introduced an online women's magazine with articles including dietary advice for suicide bombers and tips on how to "dominate the passions" before blowing yourself up, according to Italy's SISDE secret service. SISDE analysts disclosed the existence of Al Khansa, the unusual monthly Internet publication for female militants that is hosted by several Islamist Web sites, in the Italian spy service's quarterly review Gnosis. ... ...

Tay-Sachs disease almost eradicated

This is an amazing story - Tay-Sachs may become the first genetic disease to ever disappear, and this is within a couple of generations of hard work. Remarkable! - EoZ The genetic mutation disease Tay-Sachs, a fatal inherited disease of the central nervous system that mostly affects Ashkenazi Jews, has been almost completely eradicated, experts say, who claim that a genetic illness has become extinct for the first time. "Last year not a single Jewish...

News agencies employ Palestinian "reporters" on PA payroll

Where the reporting stops jpost staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Jan. 18, 2005 Palestinian journalist Majida al-Batsh surprised most of her colleagues late last year by announcing that she would run in the election for the chairmanship of the Palestinian Authority. Batsh, a resident of the Old City of Jerusalem, had been working for many years as a Palestinian affairs correspondent for the French news agency, Agence France-Presse (AFP). Before she presented...