December 2005 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, December 31, 2005

Palestinian Arabs cheapen their own lives again

An interesting detail about Thursday's terror attack, where a Palestinian Arab who aimed to blow up a children's Chanukah party was stopped by a true hero. The Palestinian media, of course, had a different take: "Three citizens were heroically martyred today in an explosive operationthat targeted Israeli soldiers at a roadblock south of Tulkarm," declaredVoice of Palestine radio in the lead item of its two main news showsThursday afternoon.The other...

The planets are aligned. Daughter of Ziyon has a new post.

The always beautiful and talented Daughter of Ziyon has decided to grace the JBlogosphere with her description of my nephew's wedding last mont...

Take the racism test!

I was going through some old posts of mine when I used to waste my time frequenting Yahoo Message Boards before I discovered how much fun it is to instead waste my time blogging. Here's an oldie but goodie:Do you consider Israel's policies racist? Take the Racism Test to see if you are racist too!Do you believe that:Jews should be able to live in a Palestinian state?Jews should be able to own land in Palestine?Jews should be able to build their own...

Today's Egyptian Police Phunnies

One of today's bottom stories. After all, Arabs killing people is not a big deal.CAIRO (Reuters) - At least 10 Sudanese refugees died and around 50 were injured on Friday when Egyptian police dispersed a three-month sit-in by thousands of Sudanese demanding to be moved to another country, officials said.The head of the local ambulance service, who did not want to be named, said 20 bodies had been taken to medical centres, but the number could not...

Poll: Arabs lose interest in the Palestinian issue

A poll released by the Arab American Institute looked at attitudes of the Arab people throughout the Middle East towards various issues:Arab American Institute: Arab Attitudes Poll 2005:1. The most important political issues facing the Arab world are largely the same in 2005 as they were in 2004: expanding employment, improving health care, and education ranking first, second, and fourth. In third place is an issue we did not include in our 2004...

PA TV's latest message of peace and co-existence

Palestinian Media Watch captured this:PA TV program on Jaffa (Tel Aviv): "It is time for you [Israelis] to be gone. Live wherever you like, but don't live among us. It is time for you to be gone. Die wherever you like, but don't die among us. We have the past here. We have the present, the present and the future. So leave our country, our land, our sea, our wheat, our salt, our wounds. Everything. And leave the memories." These words of hate...

The Quartet of Cluelessness

The United States and three international supporters of the Middle East peace process said Wednesday that the next Palestinian Cabinet should not include members of Hamas or other militant groups committed to violence. A statement by the four parties, known as the Quartet, did not name Hamas, but said a future Palestinian Cabinet 'should include no member who has not committed to the principles of Israel's right to exist in peace and security and...

Today's PA "condemnations"

Referring to today's terror attack: Deputy Palestinian Prime Minister Nabil Shaath denounced the bombing, and said that it was a particular tragedy that Palestinians had been killed. 'We want such operations stopped,' he said." "We only want operations that kill Jews exclusively," he added. Elsewhere in condemnation news:Concerning the Israeli newest military escalation, President Abbas condemned enforcing the off-limit zone northern Gaza Strip. "Israel...

After a few tense days of anticipation, the 2005 Jewish and Israeli Blog Award page sponsored by the Jerusalem Post and Israellycool is finally up, and I am honored to be nominated in three categories!For each of those categories, to be honest, I wouldn't vote for myself. There are much better blogs than this one in every respect. Specfically, these are who I believe should...

Iran's Mehr News obsessed with Holocaust denial

No fewer than seven articles have been printed in the Iranian Mehr "News" site denying the Holocaust in the past month.Interestingly, the first one came before Ahmadenijad made his remarks - it was an article by an author upset that the UN decided to commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day.Then they added articles where they interview Holocaust deniers and then claim that Palestinians are the real victims of genocide.But - don't call...

Germany bans "multicultural" group

The German state of Bavaria banned a radical Islamist group on Wednesday, saying materials seized from its offices urged Muslims to murder Jews and Christians. 'With today's ban of the Multi-Kultur-Haus (MKH) association, Bavaria is making the limits clear to supporters of foreign extremist organisations,' the state's interior minister, Guenther Beckstein, said in a statement. Bavarian authorities had been watching the MHK (sic) in the town of...

Shmendrik Award winners announced!

The eagerly-anticipated first annual Shmendrik Awards were given out by Dry Bones. As Yaakov Kirschen says:The 1st Annual Shmendrik Award "winners" have been chosen! The annual awards “honor” those who most distinguished themselves by their seemingly unwitting support of anti-Semitism....

MEMRI's top 10 Muslim conspiracy theories in 2005

A fun read. By STEVEN STALINSKY - The MEMRI ReportA Saudi journalist, Mshari Al-Zaydi, wrote about the "disease" of the Arab press blaming others for the Arab world's misfortunes in a London-based newspaper, Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, on November 20. "This huge obsession among some Arabs and Muslims regarding conspiracy theories and the belief that the world is lurking in wait to pounce on us, as if the world has no worries other than cooking up plans, policies,...

September 1943: No Jewish children left in Poland

In response to the new fashion of Holocaust denial sweeping the world, I have here a tiny article buried in the September 3, 1943 Palestine Post, one of hundreds of contemporaneous articles that documented the methodical murder of European Jewry....

Speaking of Munich - The Mahmoud Abbas connection

Now that the world is looking at the Munich terror attack again thanks to Steven Spielberg, this Sports Illustrated article from 2002 has some details that are relevant today.Following the Oslo Accords of 1993, the mastermind of Black September's Munich attack enjoyed a certain respectability. Mohammed Daoud Oudeh, a.k.a. Abu Daoud, sat on the Palestinian National Council, where in 1996 he joined a majority in voting to revoke the clause in the PLO...

Spain is "occupied territory"

Hamas has a children's newspaper that describes the Spanish city of Seville, calling on Muslims to liberate it as well as the rest of Spain.This is not surprising; Bin Laden himself mentioned "the tragedy of Andalusia" in his videotaped message right after 9/11, referring to the Muslim loss of sovreignty over Spain in the 15th century. And the phrase "tragedy of Andalusia" is not particular to Bin Laden; other Islamist websites use it freely, sometimes...

Arab boycott news

A month ago, there were headlines trumpeting the "fact" that Saudi Arabia dropped its long-standing economic boycott of Israel as a pre-condition to joining the World Trade Organization. Unfortunately, the Saudis deny it: JEDDAH, 22 December 2005 — Saudi Arabia announced yesterday that it would maintain its first-degree boycott of Israeli products despite joining the World Trade Organization (WTO). An official at the Commerce and Industry Ministry...

Disproportionality

AbbaGav, in fine form, displays the trademark black Israeli humor with his solution to Israeli aggression: Proportionality Packs. One size fits all!I actually have a very proportionate solution of my own to the problem of Palestinian Arab terror, and it is all based on the famous "land-for-peace" formula. Since the entire world seems to accept the concept of Israel ceding land for peace, it stands to reason that the converse should be true as well:...

The problem in a nutshell

Here, in a nutshell, is why peace will forever be elusive beween Israel and Arabs.In this article, the writer says that Israel is practicing genocide against Palestinian Arabs, that Israel acts like Nazis, and that Auschwitz is comparable to Sabra and Shatilla.But he does not deny that the Holocaust happened.Which means that in any other universe, he would be denounced as an extremist with no concept of history and proportion, as a historical illiterate...

JIB awards warming up

The Jerusalem Post is getting ready for the Jewish and Israeli Blog Awards, with what appears to be a beta test page of the nominations. Not all the categories are there yet but it is looking good! It is also a great page to check out the entire JBlogosphere from.I also failed to extend my hakoras hatov to those who nominated me (besides the self-nominations, I admit I was weak): Soccer Dad nominated this blog for Best Designed Blog (where most of...

Haveil Havalim #50 is out

Daled Amos hosts this week's Haveil Havalim, in which I embarrassingly nominated three articles (two of them at Soccer Dad's request) and all three ended up making it in. So for a brief time I can fool myself into thinking that I am a major star in the JBlog universe.The three articles are my Chanukah gift to the blogosphere, my comparison of the news coverage of the same event from two very different sources, and my historical posting from 1949...

Iranian Mehr "News" verifies - Holocaust really was a hoax!

If this is the kind of "research" that we can expect from the Iranian world, then we don't have to worry much about Iranian nukes. TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) -- Following the statement by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad, who on December 14 called the Holocaust a myth, the Mehr News Agency contacted a number of leading independent historians and scholars from different parts of the world to ask them their views on the idea. This is followed by quotes from...

And a Christmas present too

Saturday Night Live's "Christmas-time for the Jews" vide...

Over a year ago I came up with an interesting idea.I am not nearly as fluent in modern Hebrew as I should be, but I thought that since Arabic and Hebrew are so similar, if I could create an Arabic font that used corresponding Hebrew characters, people who were very familiar with Hebrew but who didn't know Arabic letters could read and begin to understand Arabic newspapers....

Good news roundup

Israeli creates popular diet with lots of breadPetah Tikva scientist find gene that causes mental retardationCopper oxide in textiles keeps bacteria awayIsrael lends billions more than it borrowsNew high-tech boom in Isra...

Two sides to every story?

Which one makes more sense? Iranian and Arabic news Israeli news Israeli occupation troops on Wednesday murdered a Palestinian activist in the northern West Bank town of Hamas. The troops reportedly arrested and then killed Ziyad Mousa whom the occupation authorities accuse of having killed an Israeli occupation soldier earlier this year. According to eyewitnesses, Israeli troops stormed a building in downtown Jenin where they killed...

When even a computerized test cannot categorize me, I know I'm doing something right.(from Lamed Zayin, via Elie, via OrthoMom, via Town Crier......

The United States of Islam

It is not easy to understand the motivations behind Iran's Ahmadenijad (see "Towards a psychoanalysis of Iran" and "Media analyzes Ahmadinejad - and gets it wrong"). It is tempting to denounce Ahmadenijad as a madman, or to come up with explanations that are incomplete.The real explanation is surprisingly simple: Ahmadenijad is positioning Iran to become a world superpower, and to a great extent he has already succeeded.What makes a superpower? Part...

Anti-semites crawl out from under rocks to support Ahmadinejad

One of the interesting side-effects of Ahmadinejad's public Jew-hatred has been how it is emboldening other assorted bigoted trash to show their miserable faces in whatever venues they can find.Check out Holocaust-denier Mark Weber's article in "Axis of Logic" (reprinted from the Tehran Times), terror-supporter Preston Taran's ravings in Amin, and Kim Peterson (supporter of bombings) and his defense of Ahmadinejad in Dissident Voice.When you wipe...

Iran TV adds blood libel to its hit parade

The Iranian mass psychosis have been keeping MEMRI very busy.Political Analysts on Iranian TV: The Jews Killed Children and Used Their Blood for PassoverFollowing are excerpts from a TV debate with Iranian political analysts Dr. Hasan Hanizadeh and Dr. Ali-Reza Akbari, which aired on Jaam-e Jam 2 TV on December 20, 2005.Ali-Reza Akbari: Historians and eye-witnesses, some of whom are still alive... There are still many people who saw with their own...

A special edition, focusing on the effective and innovative recruiting methods employed by the PA Police.Human resource managers around the world closely watch the PA for ideas on how to find well-qualified candidates for their own companies.Especially striking are the management interview techniques as well as the insistence that the potential new hires meet their future...

In testimony given on Tuesday by Israel's Director of Military Intelligence, Major General Aharon Ze'evi said something frightening: Ze'evi said that Iran had recently received 12 cruise missiles with a 3,000-km range, which are capable of carrying nuclear warheads. 18 such missiles were transported from Ukraine to Russia, of which 12 had somehow managed to end up in Iranian...

The prophet of 1949

An absolutely amazing Page One editorial from the Palestine Post of March 9, 1949. The author, David Courtney, was a non-Jewish British journalist who penned Column One in the 40s and 50s for the Palestine/Jerusalem Post.The column could have been written today.Cross-posted to Palestine Post-ing...

Media analyzes Ahmadinejad - and gets it wrong

The liberal media has analyzed the Iranian madman's comments and settled on the least problematic explanations possible. Breathe easy, the New York Times has spoken!Its first analysis is that Ahmadinejad wants turn back the clock to the 1979 Iranian revolution - and then the Times admits that Iranian unity didn't occur until the Iraq/Iran war, so that doesn't make sense.Then the Times posits that he wants to isolate his country so he can more easily...

Iran: Anti-semites? Us?

The Mehr News Agency has an amusing editorial defending Iran's tolerance towards its own dhimmi Jews: No pogroms here TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) -- With all the uproar about Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad’s anti-Zionist statements, it’s necessary to set the record straight by putting things in historical perspective. A small Jewish community has been living in Iran for over 2500 years, and they have never been persecuted. Today they number about...

Haveil Havalim #49 posted

The eagerly anticipated First Anniversary edition of Haveil Havalim has been published at SeranEz. Congratulations on all those who helped HH make it to this milestone, most notably Soccer Da...

Is Ahmadinejad a chimp or an ape? A scholarly debate!

TEHRAN, Dec. 18 (MNA) -- The Foreign Ministry said on Sunday that the view expressed by President Mahmud Ahmadinejad that there are some doubts about the Jewish Holocaust is not something new and is a matter of "scholarly debate".It has been a matter of considerable debate among zoologists and anatomists as to whether Iran's president Ahmadinejad is an ape or a chimpanzee....

When PA has to choose between US and Hamas, guess who wins?

The "moderate" PA has an incredibly consistent record of siding with their supposed enemy Hamas against any Western or Israeli position. Will the West ever wake up as to the PA's support of terror? Notice also the cynical use of "democracy" to defend terror. The Palestinian Authority and Hamas on Saturday rejected threats by the US House of Representatives to cut off financial aid to the Palestinians if Hamas is permitted to participate in next...

Sudanese psychosis

Speaking of psychoanalysis.... Dec 17, 2005 (KHARTOUM) — In an interview led by the Iqra channel — an Islamic satellite TV -, the Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir denounced American hostility to Arab and Islamic countries. He also said the international Zionist movement is using all means to eradicate Arabs and Islam and target all Muslim countries, including Sudan. During the Iqra interview, al-Bashir pointed out that the confrontation will continue. Can...

Best post?

As the JIB award nominations are underway, a number of bloggers are asking which of their posts were the "best" so they could nominate for "best post."I think that in general, personal posts have a much greater chance of being "best post" than a political post, but it has caused me to start thinking about which of my posts from this year were the "best."My historic articles...

Towards a psychoanalysis of Iran

Different cultures have different psychologies. While there are always exceptions, to a remarkable degree one can understand nations' actions by understanding their underlying cultural and psychological influences. And even though it may be popular academic theory that we are all the same, it doesn't take much to realize that this is not true.The Arab psyche in regards to Israel is pretty simple, and I have touched on it in various ways a number...

Iran nuke roundup

It is by now clear that Iran is ruled by a messianic madman for whom the doctrine of mutually assured destruction is considered a good thing.And Europe will do nothing, wishing, as Victor David Hanson puts it, “Hurry up, sane and Western Israel, and take out this awful thing — so we can damn you Zionist aggressors for doing so in our morning papers.”Ha'aretz has a rambling analysis that talks about Israel's military options, and seems to concludes...