April 2005 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, April 28, 2005

Isn't it romantic?

Many blogs and other sites have shown their disgust at this series of pictures of President Bush getting, um, chummy with the Saudi dictator Crown Prince Abdullah. I gotta agree; here is the government that is at the very least partially responsible for 9/11 and it sure appears that Bush is still bending over backwards to not offend these murderers and bankrollers of terror....

Worth a thousand words

Courtesy of Israpundit, here is a picture that says it all. But in case you don't get it, the caption adds volumes more about the sad reality that exists today, of the wishful thinking replacing any sort of rational thought, of a desire for "peace" that allows its supporters to completely overlook the blatantly obvious lies being spouted daily by the heir of Arafat's doubletalking...

Abbas appoints terrorist as new security chief

Once again, Abbas chooses a path towards war and terror. Good selection of articles from the invaluable Daily Alert.Abbas Appoints New Security Agency Chief - Ibrahim Barzak (AP/Washington Post)Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday named Rashid Abu Shbak as the new head of the Preventive Security Service, in charge of reining in militants. Who is Rashid Abu Shbak?In November 2000, a bomb targeted a school bus just outside the Jewish...

The Objective New York Times

The New York Times vehemently defended how well it covers Israel and "Palestine" (which, last I checked, is not a real country but the objective NYT says it is, so it must be - they are way too careful to say something accurate like "Palestinian territories".) After much gnashing of teeth about how the Times gets attacked from both sides (implying that it must be doing something right) the editor concludes that, hey, it does the best it can. Now,...

What bothers me about the Jewish Blogosphere (A Pesach post)

Although I am barely a part of the J-Blogosphere community and I keep this blog mostly for issues dealing with Israel and anti-semitism, I've been bothered by what I've been seeing posted on other Jewish blogs.There is very little ahavas Yisroel in the Jewish blog world. (Sorry, "ahavat Yisrael" for those who flame about Ashkenazic pronunciation.)The prominent blogs are very top heavy with denunciations of the political right or left, of Haredim,...

Arab judge who criticized PA is suspended

Yet more evidence that Abbas is a well-groomed Arafat: The Palestinian Authority has decided to suspend a senior Muslim religious judge (kadi) who criticized the PA judicial system and complained about anarchy and lawlessness. The decision, the first of its kind since the death of Yasser Arafat, contravenes promises made by his successor, Mahmoud Abbas, to democratize Palestinian society and encourage freedom of expression. The kadi, Dr. Hassan...

A moderate Palestinian voice gets denounced

This happened in February: WASHINGTON — America's largest Jewish policymaking body will host an unlikely guest at its annual gathering this weekend in Washington: the head of America's most prominent pro-Palestinian advocacy group. Ziad Asali, founder and president of the American Task Force on Palestine, will participate in a special discussion on March 1 at the annual policy plenum of the Jewish Council of Public Affairs, a policy coordinating...

American Indians Aren’t Like Palestinians

An interesting take on those who love to use the colonialism argument against Israel. By David Yeagley FrontPageMagazine.com | April 9, 2002 MANY PEOPLE SEE A SIMILARITY BETWEEN American Indians and today’s Palestinians. I’m Comanche Indian. I see no similarity whatsoever. Comanches were once "Lords of the South Plains," (Wallace & Hoebel, 1952). Arabs living in Palestine have never dominated anything but goats. Comanches were independent,...

Suha still getting millions!

Hey, the woman needs shoes! French investigators are tracking $7 million transferred by PLO treasurer Nizar Abu Ghazaleh to the Paris bank account of ex-Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's widow, The Wall Street Journal has reported. Palestinian officials said the PLO controlled a bank account in Tunisia from which millions of dollars in unexplained payments were made to Suha Arafat - payments they suspect were connected to contracts issued by the...

Israel helps rescue Syrian, Egyptian sailors on sinking North Korean boat

Just try to imagine Syrians trying to save Israelis. Drama at the open sea: Israeli, American and French naval forces assisted Wednesday in the rescue of Egyptian and Syrian sailors whose ship sank in international waters off the coast of Nahariya. Shortly before 2:00 p.m. (7:00 a.m. EST), the cargo ship Adora, traveling from Ashdod to Turkey, received a dispatch that another ship, which was apparently transporting cement, was in trouble. The...

I'm sure that they are very oppressed

Don't you love when people justify suicide bombings by saying that the Palestinians are "forced" to do it because they are so "desparate"? I wonder what mental hurdles these idiots have to go through to explain stories like this. I also wonder if these potential martyrs would change their minds if Israel gave the Palestinians the entire West Bank and Gaza? Yeah, right. TEHRAN, Iran Apr 20, 2005 — More than 400 young men and women have volunteered...

Teach Kids Peace

Watch this flash video. It takes about 90 second...

Abbas lies again about collecting weapons

Once again, Abbas keeps up his reputation as Arafat in a suit. Israel Radio Arab Affair Correspondent Avi Yissakharov reported this afternoon that PA head Mahmoud Abbas claimed in a meeting with Israeli reporters that the PA has collected all the weapons held by 'wanted' Palestinians in Jericho and Tulkarem and that they will all soon be joining the PA security forces. Yissakharov noted that when he checked with Palestinian sources that they all...

Egyptians start to see benefits in business co-operation with Israel

In its latest issue, 'Newsweek' quotes Egyptian Minister of Foreign Trade and Industry Rashid Mohamed Rashid as saying that the qualified industrial zone (QIZ) agreement with Israel is a 'huge thing' that has helped change the mind-set in Egypt toward Israel, after 25 years. Under the QIZ agreement, products made in Egypt with Egyptian labor and comprising a specified proportion of Israeli inputs are exempt from US quotas and customs duties. Israel...

Hamas: Current calm a trick, pre-'67 borders not enough

Another excellent find by MEMRI: A convention held by the Egyptian newspaper "Al-Ahram," which was attended by writers and experts on Palestinian affairs following the Palestinian Cairo agreement on calming down the situation [ Tahdiah ], also hosted the head of the Hamas political bureau, Khaled Mash'al. Speaking at the convention, Mash'al stated that the Tahdiah was a trick and that the resistance will continue as long as the occupation exists....

Those expansionist Israelis

I just saw an incoherent response, written by one Doris Rausch, to this great article.This is precious little real information in this short rant (no footnotes nor any real facts of any kind) but its main "proof" is in this priceless paragraph: But if you want the truth, all you have to do is take a look at a current map; you can see for yourself the "facts on the ground" as to who is trying to push whom into the sea. OK, Doris, let's do as you...

Who's your Daddy? Genealogy/genetics testing becomes mainstream

Interesting article about modern uses for genetics testing and genealogy.Growing up in the Rio Grande Valley, Harlingen architect Danny Villarreal had heard the stories from his grandparents. His ancestors, it was whispered, had come to Mexico from Spain under something of a cloud. Apparently, they were not purebred Castilian Spaniards, but members of a persecuted minority -- namely, Jews who had converted to Catholicism on pain of death at the hands...

Honest Reporting points out a new play in London called "My Name is Rachel Corrie." It is getting great reviews from the genteel anti-semites of the British press. But for some reason we do not expect to see any plays about the victims of Palestinian terror playing on the West End. Here, Honest Reporting shows some of the lives of real heroines named Rachel, those who sacrificed...

LA Jews getting barraged with hate mail

Dozens of Jewish residents, businesses and synagogues in the Los Angeles area have been barraged by hate mail in recent weeks. The FBI, US Postal Service and Los Angeles police are investigating the large manila envelopes, some of which had 'Die Jews Die' scrawled on the outside. 'We want to reassure the community that the letters are part of a series of mass mailings and do not seem to be targeting anyone individually,' Amanda Susskind, regional...

Anti-semitic studies (Spectator UK)

Anti-Semitic studiesDouglas DavisPay attention, Professor. If you support the proposed academic boycott of Israel — and if you are to remain intellectually honest — prepare for a radical lifestyle change. Firstly, unplug your computer. Good. Now switch off your interactive digital television set. Well done. And now throw away your mobile phone. Excellent. You see, Professor, these machines are not only the engine of the globalised, capitalist world...

Important archaeological relics saved from Wakf Temple Mount garbage

On the grounds of a Jerusalem national park with a view of the Temple Mount, a small group of Israeli archaeologists and volunteers sifting through piles of rubble discarded by Islamic Wakf officials from the Temple Mount into a city garbage dump have recently uncovered a series of history-rich artifacts dating back to the First and Second Temple periods. The five-month old privately-funded project underway at the site, which is being directed by...

20 Israeli companies "most promising": Red Herring

Another truly remarkable accomplishment from a tiny country with constant worries of terror and few natural resources. No less than 20 of Red Herring's 100 most promising companies in Europe are Israeli. Israel is the second most highly represented country, with only Britain providing more than a fifth of the companies on the list. Together Israel and Britain are responsible for 53 percent of these promising companies. Ireland, Finland, France...

Abbas is not serious about peace (IsraelInsider)

Can Abbas tame the lion?By Micah D. Halpern April 13, 2005 Success or failure. Truth or dare. The future of the Palestinian Authority lies in the hands of one man, President Mahmoud Abbas. The decisions that Abbas makes will shape the future, long term and short term, of the Palestinian people. The choices are his to make. The commitments are his to undertake. Some decisions, like cracking down on terror, like taking control, are actually, physically...

White House: Democratically-elected Hamas should be respected

I've written before about wishful thinking overtaking common sense in the "peace process." The White House is not immune to this syndrome, as is clear from this exchange with WorldNetDaily. Here, we discover that the last Palestinian elections were "free and fair" and that Hamas members who get elected aren't terrorists: WND: Scott, on the road map, can you identify even one Palestinian terrorist group that has been disarmed by the Palestinian...

Hamas member's sister hides his gun in her underwear

Troops searching a West Bank house for a wanted Hamas gunman found his sister hording his gun in her underpants, the army said, adding that it would consider renewing strip-searches among Palestinian women when searching and screening for potential terrorists. The soldiers in the Balata refugee camp, a terrorist hotbed, find the gunman inside his house and ordered him to surrender his weapon. He refused, saying he didn't have it. After questioning,...

3 US Muslim brothers guilty of aiding Hamas - one was a founder of CAIR/Texas

Ghassan Elashi is one of the founders of th Texas chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations, which puts up a moderate front in the press but which has had numerous terrorist connections. Three brothers have been found guilty of supporting terrorism in a US court in Dallas, Texas. The men were charged with passing money to an official in the militant Palestinian group, Hamas. Ghassan, Basman and Bayan Elashi were tried on 21 counts of...

Not-so-OK Corral

Another classic from Cox and Forku...

Israel's hockey team wins tournament!

Hockey? In Israel? Once upon a time Ephraim Kishon wrote a funny story about an Israeli hockey team that didn't know how to skate. TEL AVIV - As it turns out, our hot and humid Middle Eastern nation has an ice-hockey team, and not a bad one at that. At the beginning of the week, Israel won the gold medal at the International Ice Hockey Federation Division II Group B world championships, an achievement that pushed it into Division I, one tier below...

Why is Israel a world pariah?

An excellent article in response to a rabidly anti-semitic crackpot article published in the same newspaper last month. The newspaper, the Baltimore Chronicle and Sentinel, is unabashedly left-wing and critical of Israel, and it is to their credit that they even agreed to publish this response.by Michael Suedfeld!-- --> !-- --> This is a critical time in Middle East history. Both the Palestinians and Israelis are eyeing painful concessions...