November 2005 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, November 30, 2005

Swedish imam calls for destruction of "Jews, Americans and Brits"

The Religion of Peace strikes again.Perhaps more newsworthy than the headline, which can be looked at as the ravings of a single lunatic, are the explicitly anti-semitic literature that is being sold at the Great Mosque in Stockholm. The Muslims who claim that they are not anti-semitic don't expend too much effort to eradicate such hate from their midst, which waters down their arguments substantially. (A good example is the EJP interview with another...

British Muslims: Using 7/7 to Promote Islam

In the wake of the 7/7 tube bombings, the British Home Office asked the British Muslim community to come up with a report containing ideas to contain extremism among British Muslims.The report was issued a couple of weeks ago, and many of the recommendations seem more oriented towards proselytizing and promoting Islam in the UK rather than containing extremism. Not surprisingly, the Muslims who wrote the report seem to spend more time blaming the...

Palestinian Arab democracy in action!

Let's give these guys a state!!On Monday, Fatah leaders in the Gaza Strip called off primary elections after rival Fatah gangs fought street battles and stormed polling stations, firing into the air and stealing ballot boxes.Primary elections that were held in five West Bank areas late last week have resulted in a stunning defeat for representatives of Fatah's old guard.'What happened in the Gaza Strip is a real disaster for Fatah,' said Haitham...

The Phantom Arab Moderate (Shmuel Katz)

A theme we've covered before, but well written and thought-out.It must be emphasized again and again - so-called "moderate" Arabs do not accept the existence of Israel any more than "militants." All the wishful thinking in the world will not change this fact.And when you look at modern Israeli history through this lens, every action by the Arab world vis-a-vis Israel is entirely consistent with the ultimate destruction of Israel as a Jewish state....

Reasonable sounding liar - Dr. Sam Hamod

According to this site,"Sam Hamod is a former advisor to the U.S. State Dept; founder of 3rd World News (Wash, DC);Director of The Islamic Center (Wash, DC); Professor at Princeton, Michigan, Howard and Iowa (ret.)." He is a Lebanese-American born in Indiana, according to another biography. He is also president of the American-Islamic Institute.Dr. Hamod is retiring as main editor of his "Today's Alternative News" site, and he signs off with a somewhat...

Send pizza to Gush Katif victims

I hadn't sent any pizza to IDF soldiers for a few months and I didn't notice that PizzaIDF.org now also has an option to send pizza to the victims of the Gaza explusion as well.Great idea before Chanuka...

Quick moderation quiz

For those who consider some Palestinian leaders "moderates" and "peace-loving":Can you name a single time that the Palestinian political leadership or the PA-controlled press ever criticized Syria, Iran, Saddam's Iraq or indeed any radical Muslim state?Now, how many times have they criticized the U...

According to the CIA Factbook, there are about 1 million Palestinian Arab men between the ages of 15 and 65. According to yesterday's Phunnies, there are about 52,000 Palestinian "policemen" - more than one in twenty adult men work in "security" and the ratio of police to the general population is about 1 security officer per 67 people.In contrast, in Canada the ratio of police...

Daughter of Ziyon updates her blog!

Sorry, but I forgot to mention this important news last week, when the beautiful and talented DoZ made one of her rare blog appearances.The news is a little dated now but she is still fun to read. (I'm not biased at all...

Today's Palestinian Police Phunnies XV

More on Mahmoud Abbas' bizarre way of fighting terror. (Also note al-Haaretz referring to the "Israeli regime".) Several days ago the Palestinian finance minister, Salam Fayad, resigned. ...[Some] reports (such as in the Al-Hayat Al-Jadida PA daily, from the end of last week) say Fayad resigned because Interior Minister Nasser Yousef, who is responsible for the security services,...

Muslim charity money diverted to terrorists

Gee, ya think? The real question is whether the donors knew exactly who they were sending money to the entire time.Charity cash for Palestinian poor was siphoned to suicide bombers By Eric Silver in Jerusalem Published: 28 November 2005 Millions of pounds donated by British and other European charities to help the Palestinian poor were unwittingly diverted to fund terror and support the families of suicide bombers, Israeli prosecutors claimed yesterday. Ahmed...

Haveil Havalim #46 released - a twofer for the Elder!

Double, double, double the fun at Israel Perspectives as two of my articles were accepted for inclusion in the latest Haveil Havalim! My only regret is that I can no longer make fun of different blogs spelling it differentl...

It's still the freedom, stupid

The recent Egyptian election fiasco (where the Egyptians tried to forcibly limit the Muslim Brotherhood's chances) and the recent Fatah elections show once again the fundamental problem with promoting "democracy" in the Arab world in the wrong way. As this article I wrote in January describes, we should be promoting freedom first, not democracy: Elder of Ziyon: It's the freedom, stupid: "The Western world has been falling all over itself, breathlessly...

"Hitler" does well in Fatah elections

A neat fact buried in the bottom of an AP report of Fatah elections (where convicted and wanted terrorists did extremely well): Two fugitives from Fatah's violent offshoot, the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, also secured high positions. The Jenin winner, Jamal Abu Rob, who gave himself the nickname ``Hitler,'' is wanted for killing several suspected informers with Israel. The Nablus candidate, Jamal Jumaa, is a leader of Al Aqsa in the West Bank's largest...

al-Guardian promotes Muslim Brotherhood agenda

Apparently, the AP's dhimmitude towards the source of all of today's terror organizations is also alive and well at al-Guardian, which published an op-ed from the Muslim Brotherhood's "vice president", complete with his claims to be pro-democratic, pro free-speech and a follower of all liberal Western tenets: No need to be afraid of us The Muslim Brotherhood believes that democratic reforms could trigger a renaissance in Egypt Khairat el-Shatir Wednesday...

Security at Rafah officially a joke

The border between Egypt and Gaza is now completely irrelevant, thanks to Palestinian Authority terror-supporters, apathetic Egyptians and Europeans, and Condi Rice. Rafik al-Hasanat, a senior member of Hamas who has been wanted by Israel for more than a decade, on Wednesday night returned to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah border crossing. The terminal was opened for a few hours on Wednesday to allow hundreds of Palestinians stranded on the...

AP backgrounder on the Muslim Brotherhood misses a few facts

The AP helpfully published a background piece on the Muslim Brotherhood after the group made gains in Egyptian elections. Here is what it wrote:Some facts about the Muslim Brotherhood, a banned but popular Egyptian group that has inspired Islamic movements across the Arab world: _Founded in 1928 by Hassan el-Banna, who advocated Islamic law and faith in God to rectify a society...

A few days ago, Southern Lebanon was rocked by a bird-flu scare - from a carrier pigeon from Israel. As Ya Libnan reports (the graphics are theirs): Kfar Tibnit, Lebanon - A courier pigeon with a love letter from a girl thanking her boyfriend for a "terrific night they spent together" has flown across the border from Israel, triggering bird flue scare throughout southern...

UN could have stopped Hizbollah attack - but chose not to

Proof #3971 that the UN is at best irrelevant, at worst supporter of terrorism:In light of the UN Interim Force in Lebanon's (UNIFIL) failure to stop Hizbullah's attack in the north on Monday, it is time to reassess the organization's mandate, Foreign Ministry director-general Ron Prosor said Wednesday. Prosor's comment came in a Jerusalem briefing to some 60 ambassadors or their second-in-command on the volatile situation in the north. Harry Knei-Tal,...

MEMRI hits the mark

The existence of MEMRI clearly hits a nerve with Arabs. A recent AlJazeerah.info article lists many very dubious anti-Arab quotes and then says:The Israeli translation company Memri would translate a sermon of an Imam in a desert outpost that no Muslims outside the outpost itself had heard of. But it does not translate the venom of the settlers' rabbis....Another recent article out of Saudi Arabia reads from the same script:Carmon is a former Israeli...

After 39 months of diplomacy, Iranian nukes on schedule

The United States and Europe will not seek a referral this week of their case against Iran to the United Nations Security Council, American and European diplomats said Tuesday. Instead, the diplomats said, they will allow more time for China, Russia, India and other countries to persuade Iran to stop its nuclear activities.Iran's secret nuclear program was first discovered in August, 2002, with the revelation of the existence of two secret nuclear...

The first semester at Al Azhar University since Israel quit the land it occupied for four decades has been a bust. School has been closed for more than a month.The problem began in October, when a dean at Gaza's largest university ejected a male student from a women's-only patio area. The next day, about 50 armed relatives of the student -- many police officers -- barged into...

"Exercise Restraint"

So, Hizbollah decides it wants to shell northern Israel and kidnap some Jews - and the US calls on Israel to "exercise restraint."And Israel is actually doing it, even though there is no indication that Lebanon has the desire or means to "restrain" the terrorists.Makes one wonder who is formulating Israel's defense policy.UPDATE: Thank God. Israel didn't stay restrained for that lon...

Festival of the Hardliners

As I predicted in my last post, the media latched onto the word "hardliner" when describing Likud like a pit bull. The dearth of independent thinking in the media is always fun to watch, as each "news" source mindlessly follows the lead of others in finding a shorthand way to describe people they disagree with."Sharon broke away from his hardline Likud Party on Monday"" pushing for a March election after deciding to leave his hardline Likud Party""just...

How will the media describe the Likud now?

The world media like to assign single words or short phrases to people and political movements. This simplifies things for them; they get out of the responsibility of actually reporting anything with any complexity and they can quickly influence the readers to think as they do.Hence, Ariel Sharon was inevitably described as a "hawk" (never a "risk-taker for peace" for example), Mahmoud Abbas as a "pragmatist" (never a "Holocaust-denier"), terrorists...

Iranian nuke lies continue

I'm sure that the Iranians have only "peaceful" plans for nuclear warheads. Iranians admit receiving nuclear warhead blueprint from disgraced Pakistani expert International suspicion of Iran's nuclear programme heightened yesterday when it was revealed that Tehran had obtained a blueprint showing how to build the core of a nuclear warhead. Mohamed ElBaradei, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told diplomats that his inspectors had...

The terrorists behind the French Intifada

Interesting analysis out of India. It makes sense as well that the initial rioting was spontaneous but that it morphed into something that was specifically Islamist. (The IRIS blog has been following this very closely.) One wonders what "Hizbut Tehrir" means...HIZBUT TEHRIR BEHIND FRENCH INTIFADA by B.Raman, CAMP EUROPE All indicators point to the involvement of some Pakistani, Algerian and Moroccan members of the London-based Hizbut Tehrir...

Saudi website links to the Elder

A website (in both Arabic and English) supporting the Saudi teacher who was punished for praising Jews has gone up, with many interesting details about the case:After the Saudi authorities captured the terrorists who perpetrated the may 11, 2003 tragic terror bombing in a residential area in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Muhammad al-Harbi made a public announcement to his school’s students praising the Saudi police and supporting anti terrorism actions waged...

Remember the Roadmap?

My question of the day is - has the Palestinian Authority ever fulfilled a single obligation under the "roadmap" since 2003 vis-a-vis Israel and terror?Let's take a look at the specific Palestinian obligations in this area and whether the PA has done any of them: At the outset of Phase I:Palestinian leadership issues unequivocal statement reiterating Israel's right to exist in peace and security and calling for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire...

Haveil Havalim #45 is out

Over at Mirty's Place, home to an artistic and technical wiz, comes the latest issue of Haveil Havalim, the best of the Jewish blogosphere.At the suggestion of Soccer Dad, I nominated this post about Hebrew slang, a topic I find interesting because my knowledge of modern Hebrew is sorely lacking. Language development is a neat topic altogether, the weekly Forward column by Philologos always teaches me something I never knew. Modern Hebrew has had...

Google News points to explicitly anti-semitic article

This is not the first time Google News (which does not publish a list of its "news" sources) ended up pointing to racist or bigoted content. Check out this nice editorial: The Jewish War On Freedom Of Speech Corporate West causes terror in order to profit from it by John Kaminski ENGLEWOOD FL -- (OfficialWire) -- 11/19/05 -- One by one, those who oppose the manipulated Jewish version of history are being forcibly removed from society,...

Big headline in September, tiny detail in November

In September, during the PA municipal elections, quite a few media outlets trumpeted this fact:Palestinians Enforce Weapons Display Ban Friday September 30, 2005 2:01 AM JERUSALEM (AP) - Palestinian authorities began enforcing a ban on public displays of weapons Thursday, arresting three people and confiscating the guns of off-duty police officers in a key step toward imposing order in the chaotic Gaza Strip. But it has been six whole weeks,...

Palestinian persecution of Christians (JCPA)

It is interesting that Palestinian persecution of a religious minority gets a free pass by the so-called "human rights organizations".On the heels of the Gaza disengagement, which was intended to empower the Palestinian Authority to improve the lives of its people, few journalists have reported on the acutely trying times facing the Christians residing in areas "governed" by the Palestinian Authority. In his book, Professor Weiner, Scholar in Residence...

Israeli blind golfer gets hole in one

An inspiring story:A blind Israeli golfer realised the dream of every amateur hacker when he shot a hole-in-one. Zohar Sharon aced the 160-metre (176-yard), 15th hole at the Caesarea Golf Club in Israel during a round on Monday. Sharon, with a handicap of 20, initially thought he had overhit his tee-shot but was delighted when his caddy, Shimshon Levy, found the ball nestled in the cup. "He went crazy. I did not understand what he was shouting...