March 2006 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, March 31, 2006

Arab journalism at its finest

It is good to know that Arab journalists are willing to ask the tough questions from the newsmakers.Just check out this hard-hitting interview by Al-Arab to noted "historian", "Dr." David Duke. INTERVIEWER: How would you advise independent journalists or editors to resist the strong influence of the Pro-Israel lobby? If people could get in trouble just talking about it, how do you propose they fight it? Also, there are many out there who are genuinely...

Today Show ignores terror

The Today Show this morning, in its opening news roundup, didn't think that a Palestinian Arab terrorist pretending to be a religious Jewish hitchhiker and blowing himself up in the car of the grandparents who picked him up was worth mentioning as a major story.Nor did they think that the approval of the new Palestinian government towards the terror attack was newsworthy.Or the fact that the bomber had just been released from a Palestinian jail by...

The "Humanitarian Aid" dodge

The Quartet has spoken: International peace mediators said on Thursday the new Hamas-led Palestinian government had failed to commit itself to peace and warned that aid would inevitably be affected. The Quartet of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations "noted with grave concern that the new government has not committed to the principles spelled...

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Insane Muslim Protester of the Day 3/29 part 2

This didn't look that insane until I read the caption:Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards beat themselves with chains during a religious gathering against cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad, that were published in European newspapers, in Tehran, Iran March 29, 2006.Maybe if we publish more cartoons they'll start shooting themselve...

I thought that this series of three contiguous articles in the Palestine Post from March 30, 1936 was interesting.A Muslim sheikh spreading incitement against Jews?Preventing Jews from visiting holy places purely because they are Jews?An Arab found with explosives?Good thing we have advanced since 1936, right?...

You would think that the people who claim to have created algebra would know how to add 1+1....

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The Yahoo MB refugee bloggers

I've mentioned before that I used to spend inordinate amounts of time on the Yahoo! news message boards, arguing about Israel with Jew-hating morons, before I switched addictions and now spend inordinate amounts of time blogging.I just wanted to point out a few blogs from fellow Yahoo! refugees that are updated regularly:A March of FollyThe Atheist JewEye on the WorldAnd updated a little less regularly:Callie is ChattyCarl's Bl...

One of these things is not like the other

Our friends the Saudis have been playing interesting games again. (Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Washington Turki al-Faisal) called on Israel to disarm to create a nuclear-free Middle East. “We all know that Israel has atomic weapons and that’s why removing these threats from the Middle East on a uniform basis would serve Israel’s purpose as well as the rest of the countries in the area,” he said.In Seattle, he saidThe development of nuclear weapons...

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Yes, a fish has been found in a British pet store that "clearly" has the Arabic words "Allah" and "Mohammed" marked on its sides. This is causing a stir in the Muslim 'ummah. There is a video on the site as well that reverently describes the phenomenon, with awe-inspiring Arabic music.Apparently, the fish has been sold. I hope it tasted good.(Hat tip: LG...

Saudi ambassador: Osirak bombing was a good thing

How funny is this?Israel’s 1981 attack on Iraq’s nuclear reactor was “probably” fortunate, Saudi Arabia’s ambassador to Washington said.Asked March 23 whether Saudis now welcomed the attack on the Osirak nuclear reactor, given Iraq’s subsequent aggression against Kuwait, Turki al-Faisal answered, “Probably, yes.” Faisal appeared caught off guard by the question, which came when he called on Israel to disarm to create a nuclear-free Middle East.I'm...

Hamas: Let the world destroy Israel for us

Hamas has out-Arafated Arafat.They realize that they do not have to lie. All they have to do is make sure that their spokesmen wear suits, use the word "peace" incessantly when even they will admit that their idea of peace means that Israel doesn't exist, and let the world do what it does best: pressure the Jewish state to make more and more concessions.Of course, terror apologists like AFP are more than happy to play along, with headlines like:...

Feds stop Israeli company purchase

Checkpoint, the Israeli company that makes the most popular firewall product worldwide, has been effectively stopped from buying an American company, Sourcefire. Sourcefire creates Snort, an open-source intrusion detection software, as well as some commercial products that build on Snort.It was done by the same government panel that approved the Dubai ports deal.Forbes reported in early March:The company was told U.S. officials feared the transaction...

Pakistani military: Al Qaeda works with Jews and Hindus

In an astonishing display of how ingrained the Jew-hatred is in the real Muslim world, the Pakistani military dropped pamphlets on villages near the Afghan border, telling residents not to cooperate with "foreign terrorists" because they work together with Jews and Hindus. Knowing full well that the residents hate Jews and Hindus with a passion, they figure a little bigotry...

Today, in Bangladesh...That's right, folks, they are stil protesting the cartoons. And not only in Bangladesh, but in Pakistan too (from a rally yesterday)....Unfortunately, I can't find any truly bizarre signs or banners this time. But as long as they are enjoying themselves.....

The Caliphate and the Moderates

One of the things that all radical Islamists have in common is the desire to establish a worldwide Muslim Caliphate - literally, the desire to take over the world. As much as they enjoy saying that the Jews are the leaders in their desire for world domination, they actually are working towards that very goal themselves.Here is an example from Arutz Sheva: Sheikh Ismail Nawahda, preaching to Moslem masses on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem on Friday,...

More "Lobby" Fallout (NY Sun Editorial)

For those covering the effort of anti-Israel academics to demonize the Jewish state in the American academy, things don't get more dramatic than the scandal at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government. It turns out that the Kennedy School's academic dean, Stephen Walt, whose shoddiness and biases in a paper he co-wrote called "The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy" ignited the scandal, holds a chair called the Robert and Renee Belfer professorship...

Prince Charles and the Terror Sheikh

Prince Charles is in Egypt to accept an honorary degree from Al Azhar University. While there, Charles addressed terror:REFLECTING on how a terrorist outrage shattered his own life as a young man, the Prince of Wales spoke last night of his “heavy heart” at the death and destruction he sees in the world as he called for a greater tolerance between faiths. Arriving in Egypt...

European dance magazine supports suicide bombers

From YNet:The world of dance is in an uproar: British magazine Dance Europe was accused last week by the London Jewish Chronicle of politicization and racism after the magazine refused to publish an article on Israeli dance troupe Dance Drama, whose choreographer is Sally-Anne Friedland.Several weeks ago journalist Stephanie Freid approached the editors of Dance Europe about writing a piece on Dance Drama. Freid notes that after interrogating her...

This season's Top 10 Conspiracies in the Arab and Iranian Press (NY Sun)

From the New York Sun's "MEMRI Report" (Steven Stalinsky):10) "Israeli security organizations are in efforts to spread flagrancy and corruption among young [Iranians] to harm the Islamic establishment" and Israel has been behind the smuggling of liquor into Iran, the Islamic Republic News Agency quoted an Iranian police commander, Colonel Hossein Abdi, as saying on January 31. A Syrian government daily, Teshreen, on January 8 quoted the Iranian foreign...

One more "Lobby" paragraph - Israel the root of all terror

As I go through the larger paper demonizing the omnipotent, omnipresent and omniscient Israel Lobby that has the academics from Harvard and Chicago so frightened, I came across this classic:More importantly, saying that Israel and the United States are united by a shared terrorist threat has the causal relationship backwards: rather, the United States has a terrorism problem in good part because it is so closely allied with Israel, not the other...

Fisking the Harvard Elite

The American Thinker does a masterful job at exposing the fallacies in the article "The Israel Lobby" mentioned in my previous blog entry.As one reads the article itself, with its ominous constant repetition of the dangers of "The Lobby" (they might as well just say "The Elders"), it brings home a point that we can learn from.People who hate Israel (and Jews, however nicely they want to pretend it isn't at all about Jews) are not necessarily stupid...

The idiots at Harvard and the lessons of Denmark

The New York Sun publishes extracts of "a paper issued this month by the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government in its 'Faculty Research Working Papers Series' and written by two American professors, Stephen M. Walt and John Mearsheimer.""The combination of unwavering U.S. support for Israel and the related effort to spread democracy throughout the region has inflamed Arab and Islamic opinion and jeopardized U.S. security. ... Why has the...

The latest from Iran's IRNA

I have found that Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency is a very accurate mirror of what the leadership of Iran is thinking, and as such it is a valuable tool to see if there are any changes in Iran's attitudes and methods in its quest to destroy Israel and the US.As usual, there are still articles quoting "scholars" that the US and Israel is the source of all evil. These sorts of article, usually quoting Lebanese and Indian "scholars", have been...

The pain of the Iranian journalist

From IranMania.com:Iran News - Iran finishes in 2nd place in Berlin showcase: "LONDON, March 13 (IranMania) - The Iranian pavilion finished in second place at the International Tourism Exchange, which was held from March 8 to 12 in Berlin, IRNA reported.Oman and the United Arab Emirates finished in third and fourth places respectively, while the Zionist regime finished in first place. "Can you imagine how hard it was for the reporter to have to write...

Muslim "dialogue"

There was a conference last week in Copenhagen for 25 selected international Muslim youth to "dialogue" with Danish youth, to "build bridges."It was marred by one Muslim preacher who insisted that Denmark owed the Muslim world an apology, but otherwise the Muslim participants thought it went well, according to Egypt's Al-Ahram.No wonder. Look at what they consider the success of their "dialogue": The first day of the two-day conference was dedicated...

Saga of two Nazi Arab paratroopers

In October, 1944, at least six Nazis parachuted into an area near Jericho, presumably to sabotage British interests in Palestine. Each team of three Nazis included one Arab who was involved in the 1936 Arab riots against Jews and subsequently went to Iraq and then Germany where they joined the Nazis.One team was captured a week after they landed:Details of the operations were...

A Palestinian militant from the Fatah movement holds his weapon during a press conference in the West Bank city of Nablus, in which they claimed responsibility for the killing of an Israeli soldier in Jenin earlier Thursday, March 16, 2006.They have press conferences, we have press conferences. They are just like us! We just have to learn to respect their cultural mores such...

Three good 'uns

I haven't been too inspired lately, but others have.Check out Daled Amos' great post on stringers and media bias, Soccer Dad's scoop on a Forward article on Ariel Sharon, and AbbaGav's incredible Hollywood Squares spoo...

Is Abbas this smart?

March 7: Abbas seems to endorse Olmert and Kadima. "I hope that Olmert wins ... I know him well, and I believe that I could work with him in a productive way."March 7: Abbas says "I have no problem releasing Ahmed Saadat tomorrow, but with one condition: to have a letter from the PFLP politburo saying that I am not responsible for what would happen to him after that."Now that Saadat is released and captured by Israel, Olmert gets a boost from the...

Everything you need to know about Palestinian Arabs....

...you could have learned yesterday: "(PFLP leader) Saadat's cell was more of an office. He had telephones and television sets. The jail's Palestinian guards stayed away from his quarters, which included a kitchen and an area to receive guests.""Under the terms of the Ramallah Agreement, the six prisoners were meant to be kept in seclusion although this was routinely violated by the Palestinian jailers. The monitors made a note of these violations...

Without a touch of irony

Reuters' caption:An Indonesian Muslim student walks in front of a banner during a protest against visiting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta March 14, 2006. Rice began a trip to Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking closer ties with the moderate Islamic country in a region where China's influence is growing. REUTERS/Crack PalinggiWith moderates...

Inspired by AbbaGav's thoughts, I hereby present some original works of art depicting the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh):First is my variant on AbbaGav's brilliant original picture:The Prophet (pbuh) on an Overcast night in Medina.Next, I took the theme in new directions:Mohammed (pbuh) After the Avalanche on his Swiss Ski VacationAs a true artist, I knew that like the proverbial...

happy, freilechen, purim sameach

Just wanted to wish any readers out there a great Puri...

Mubarak: Pay Palestinian Arabs, or else

Sounds suspiciously like a protection racket.Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak said that cutting aid to the Palestinian Authority would encourage terrorism."The aid is used by the man-in-the-street to buy medicine and to send his children to school. If this money is cut, terrorism will grow and all the (Palestinian) people will suffer," Mubarak told reporters after meeting in Vienna with Austrian President Heinz Fischer, whose country is the current...

They didn't get the memo.Entire forests have been felled by columnists who insist that Islam has no problem with Jews, only Zionists. And then these hotheads in Pakistan show up and set that propaganda initiative back by years. I couldn't figure this one out, though:...

Give peace Hamas a chance

When Hamas decided to run in the Palestinian elections, there was a small problem: it could not do so legally, under Oslo Interim Agreement Annex II:The nomination of any candidates, parties or coalitions will be refused, and such nomination or registration once made will be canceled, if such candidates, parties or coalitions:1. commit or advocate racism; or2. pursue the implementation of their aims by unlawful or non- democratic means....

The latest in tznius fashions

Religious Jewish women always has problems finding fashionable yet modest clothing on-line. Sure, they have places like ModestWorld.com but as religious standards get stricter, the bar goes higher.Tznius.com is so last year.Forget Below the Knee.com.If you want modest fashions, you've got to go to Gaza:Trendy green and calligraphy along with the baseball cap (so people cannot...