June 2006 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, June 30, 2006

Glorifying Hamas at The Australian

An outrageous display of lionizing terrorists and their supporters by Martin Chulov of "The Australian":Chants and flags on streets, jets in sky Martin Chulov in Gaza July 01, 2006 WAVING billowing green flags and with fists thrust skywards, Hamas's dedicated thousands took to the darkened streets of Gaza late on Thursday to show the world they remained defiant. As an unmanned Israeli drone buzzed high overheard and attack helicopters and fighter...

DoD loyalty test for Jews?

InsightMag.com has a blurb for a subscriber-only article that is troubling, to put it mildly: Defense Dept. imposes loyalty test on American JewsThe Pentagon has banned security clearance to Americans with relatives in Israel. Government sources and attorneys said the Pentagon has sought and succeeded in removing security clearance from dozens of Americans, mostly Jews, who either lived, worked or have relatives in Israel. Official documents report...

BBC: Dhimmified since 1935

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Clerics: Suicide bombers go to hell, unless they do it for the right reasons

For a moment there they almost sounded...human.On Wednesday, top Islamic clerics at the Supreme Council of Al-Azhar University in Egypt, perhaps the most important in the Islamic world, said that the Islamic rule (Shaaria) forbids suicide, the London-based Arabic newspaper al-Sharq al-Awsat reported. The clerics determined that a connection was mistakenly made between suicide and a "sacrifice to defend religion and the homeland". The clerics stressed...

Seen through the shattered window pane of a car hit during an Israeli air attack, a young Palestinian supporter of the Brazilian football team gathers with others to inspect the damaged vehicle in Gaza City. Israel called a halt to a planned incursion into the northern Gaza Strip amid international appeals for diplomatic efforts to free a soldier captured by Palestinian militants.(AFP/Mahmud...

Here's another explicitly anti-semitic article , approvingly quoting Goebbels, on a site that Google considers "newsworthy": "It's The Jews Stupid"By Curt MaynardI have long thought about writing this article but hesitated because I didn’t want the reader to conclude that I believed that all Jews are complicit in what amounts to a vast conspiracy to undermine western civilization...

The lessons of Givat AdaGivat Ada is a small community on Israel's coastal plain.In 1936, Arabs destroyed vineyards and other crops in the town. Evidently, their hatred for Jews outstripped their supposed love of the land.While this was hardly the only instance of Arab vandalism against agriculture - in fact, this was at the beginning of a huge wave of Arab tree destruction...

Beach bias at the WaPo

The Washington Post has a column called World Opinion Roundup, ostensibly to show other sides of news stories from other countries.But when the reporter, Jefferson Morley, discusses the Gaza beach bombings, he introduces the discussion with a comment from an American blog.Juan Cole's blog, to be precise.Not surprisingly, he goes on to show how seemingly everyone in his universe believes that Israel bombed a family on the beach, and only the IDF...

Dead Arab score: Palestinians 3, Israel 0

So far there has apparently not been a single casualty from the Israeli return to Gaza.However, at least 3 Palestinian Arabs have been killed by "work accidents":Palestinians reported that two people were killed, including a young girl, in an explosion in a Khan Yunis home on Wednesday afternoon. The explosion was apparently the result of a work accident.An activist from Hamas' armed wing was killed yesterday in an explosion in Gaza City. No one...

The elected government of Hamastan has enshrined as policy the kidnap of Israelis. As such, arresting the leaders seems to be quite appropriate, if perhaps too mild a reaction.Palestinian Media Watch put together some quotes: Mahmud Al-Zahar, Hamas, Foreign Minister "The Head of Hamas party in the Palestinian Legislative Council, [and...

More on the "women and children" prisoners

A followup on my posting of the specific terror acts done by Palestinian Arab women in Israeli jails:This is from a Canadian newspaper, and the only example I could find of any news outlet worldwide trying to show the truth about these terrorists.JERUSALEM -- Ahlam Tamimi was sentenced by an Israeli military court to 16 life sentences: one for each person killed in an attack on a restaurant in August of 2001. Ms. Tamimi brought the bomb in a guitar...

Booby-trapped donkey bravado

In an effort to strike fear into he hearts of the IDF:An al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades Member, Abu Ahmed, told Ynet that despite the threats being heard, local organizations are preparing for the IDF incursion. "In previous invasions the Israeli side absorbed heavy losses in armored personnel carriers and jeeps that blew up, but this time we promise that the losses on the Israeli side will be much larger. We are preparing suicide bombers, car bombs, tunnels,...

Here we are, over 24 hours into the "massive" Israeli push into Gaza, and what's missing?That's right - not one confirmed report of any deaths that I could find.Check out Islam Online's coverage of the "invasion":Trying to escape the large-scale Israeli military operation in Gaza which started early Wednesday, fearful Palestinian men, women and children- entire families- decided...

Operation Summer Rains livebloggers

Vital PerspectiveIsraellycool Both doing an excellent job of keeping the world up to dat...

Muslim opinions on Jews

The Pew Research Center conducted a poll showing (among other things) the attitudes of Muslims in various countries towards many issues. Here is one finding:Their opinion towards Jews (not Zionists!) was unfavorable in these amounts:Great Britain 47%France 28%Germany 44%Spain 60%Egypt 97%Turkey 65%Indonesia 72%Jordan 98%Another interesting finding is that in practically every country, Muslims did not believe that Muslims were behind 9/1...

No-op

In computer programming, a no-op is defined as a computer instruction that takes up a small amount of space but specifies no operation. The computer processor simply moves to the next sequential instruction.In hacker lingo it means someone who contributes nothing, who pretty much just takes up space.Mahmoud Abbas is a quintessential no-op.Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accused Israel on Wednesday of carrying out "crimes against humanity"...

Today's GoozNews: Israel assassinating thousands of scientists!

Iranian "news" once again scoops the world!TEHRAN, June 27 (MNA) -- Reports published by the Arab media indicate that death squads connected with the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad have assassinated more than 2500 Iraqi scientists over the past three years.Most of these scientists were specialists in the field of nuclear physics.In addition, since the downfall of Iraq’s former dictator Saddam Hussein, 3000 scientists, university professors, and...

Remember when Israel first mentioned the possibility that the Gaza family had been killed by a Hamas bomb buried on the beach? Pro-terror Hamas supporters scoffed that Hamas would never do something like that - bury explosives in areas that Palestinian Arab children might play.Thanks to the AP photographers/terrorist groupies, we see that perhaps they would:Palestinian militants...

"Prisoner's Plan" too peaceful for Hamas

Surfing the news about the agreement between Fatah and Hamas shows in a very real way how poor the mainstream media is at real reporting:New Hamas-Fatah Plan Recognizes IsraelHelena Independent Record, MT - 35 minutes agoBy IBRAHIM BARZAK. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - The rival Hamas and Fatah movements agreed on a plan implicitly recognizing Israel, a ... No recognition of Israel - HamasBBC Bulgaria, Bulgaria - 36 minutes agoRival Palestinian political...

Latest poll of peaceful Palestinian Arabs

Once again, that "tiny minority" of Palestinian Arabs who support terror continues to grow.In the latest poll by the Palestine Center of Policy and Survey Research, taken in mid-June, it was found that 56% support terror attacks against civilians inside Israel. Even more amazing, when asked if they support the suicide terror attack that killed 11 Israelis in Tel Aviv in April, 69% supported it and 27% opposed it.It seems that the tiny minority is...

Some joo humor

I've been unbelievably busy so instead of an original post, I might as well recycle some old material I just dredged up from around the web:How to Spot a JooThe Joo is such a danger, yet the average White Patriotis not trained to spot them. The following guide will help:You can tell a Joo because of their low intellectual level evidencedby their complete animal like stupidity...

Hostages

Some background info: International Convention Against the Taking of Hostages ARTICLE 1 1. Any person who seizes or detains and threatens to kill, to injure or to continue to detain another person (hereinafter referred to as the "hostage") in order to compel a third party, namely, a State, an international intergovernmental organization, a natural or juridical person, or a group of persons, to do or abstain from doing any act as an explicit or...

Hamas: We have nothing against Jews. We just hate them.

H/T OceanguyOne of the Hamas cabinet members, Sheikh Nayef Rajoub, said something interesting in March to The New Yorker. He was describing why Israel must be destroyed, and the reason given was that "Freud, a Jew, was the one who destroyed morals."Got that? Good! Because today he showed a remarkable consistency. When asked whether Jews would be allowed to live in a Palestinian Arab state:And under no condition would they would be accepted in Palestinian...

Guardian: Hamas accepts Israel! Hamas: No, we don't!

Yesterday, in another example of astonishingly clueless reporting, Chris McGreal of The Guardian breathlessly reported a scoop: Climbdown as Hamas agrees to Israeli state Hamas has made a major political climbdown by agreeing to sections of a document that recognise Israel's right to exist and a negotiated two-state solution, according to Palestinian leaders. Wonderful! Now we can go back to giving billions of Euros to terrorists, the way life...

Utter insanity from Egypt

Others have pointed out the ridiculous, over the top hysteria from the Arab world that accompanied John Pantsil's goal last Saturday when he celebrated by waving an Israeli flag.One would think that thinking Arabs would sober up after a few days and be able to see the incident in context. Well, one would think that if they knew nothing about Arabs, anyway.Here is an absurd...

Wishful lies better than brutal truths

al-Reuters reports: Israel has asked the European Union to make Palestinians sign a document renouncing terrorism before they can receive EU help under a new aid program, Western officials said on Tuesday.What an excellent suggestion! Make them sign a document - and all our problems will be solved!Just like when Arafat said in 1993:the PLO renounces the use of terrorism and other acts of violence and will assume responsibility over all PLO elements...

It appears that the ICRC has finally approved Israel becoming a member (along with the Palestinian Red Crescent society, that famous humanitarian organization that lends ambulances to terrorists to kill Jews.)Of course, Israel cannot use its "offensive" Star of David symbol, but has to place it in the new "red crystal."What is unclear to me is whether Israel has the right...

Post of the morning

Dave Bender brilliantly shoots down a clueless rich rock sta...

Another moronic professor

Being a professor in a California university is no longer a prestigious position - in fact, it appears to be about as related to truth and objectivity as being a propagandist in the Soviet Union.Here is the latest example. I would say "jaw-dropping"but, alas, it is closer to typical. On the Beach (Gaza Killing) By Professor Ronnie D. Lipschutz Wednesday , 21 June 2006 ...

Just a thought

I have no evidence whatsoever for the following theory, but it sounds plausible.Looking at the pictures of Palestinian Arabs getting their $300 from Hamas' fundraising tour:Now, Zahar filled his suitcase with $20 million from visiting Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, China, Pakistan, Iran and Egypt. Most of these nations are not places one would expect to be flush with US currency,...

Are pro-Israel blogs effective?

Dave at Israellycool has an interesting poll that I would encourage you to answer. I wonder myself whether I have ever made anyone more pro-Israel as a result of reading this blog.Even if I am "preaching to the choir," I think that there is at least one side-benefit of maintaining the blog, and that is that some source materials are out there on the Internet for when people are searching. Many of my "hits" are from people doing Google searches and...

Widening the debate

Meryl Yourish points to a Jerusalem Post article about a "panel discussion" in London:Informed, honest debate on the Middle East has been stifled because of a fear of being accused of anti-Semitism, according to the participants in a discussion hosted by the Islam Channel in central London on Thursday. The broadcaster is the largest Islamic television outlet in Europe. The discussion, titled: "Why anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism," was filmed against...

From AP:Palestinian firefighters inspect the rubble of a metal workshop after it was hit by Israeli helicopters in Gaza city, early Tuesday, June 20, 2006. Israeli helicopters fired a missile into a metal workshop in downtown Gaza City, but no wounded were reported, Palestinian official said. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) From Petra (Jordan):Gaza, June 20 (Petra)--Israeli aircrafts...

A Christian's arguments for a Jewish state, 1946

A fantastic and very long article, from the February 22, 1946 Palestine Post, that could have been written today. It was written by Raimondo de Ovies, "Dean of Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, Georgia" but I have not found out anything else about him. It is well worth reading in its entirety.The author lays out the moral, logical, legal and historic reasons why a Jewish state...

Demographobia (Yoram Ettinger)

From YNet:Faulty population stats are driving Ehud Olmert to give up vital assets Prime Minister Olmert's recent state visits once again brought to the fore demographobia– the illogical fear of Palestinian demographics – as the central claim for Israel to set final borders. But this fear is fundamentally flawed. Again and again Olmert says that giving up geography is the only way to safeguard Jewish demography. Olmert's determination to...

Update on Gaza beach blast

A brief update:Three (anti-Israel) British newspapers claim that the explosion happened while Israel was shelling, not after.A German newspaper claims it has proof that the shelling was staged. It raises good questions but proving a conspiracy would need much more than questions. At the very least, the cameraman at the scene "first" has no credibility whatsoever.History News Network has a scoop of an email from the surgeon that removed the shell...

Another JBlog aggregator

Newest on the scene is JBlog Central, a promising JBlog aggregator with ratings. (As if we JBloggers weren't under enough pressure already!)It allows readers to rate postings on a scale of 1-5. For some reason, it adds together all of those scores as well as averaging them. Averaging I understand, but the summation score just ensures that popular blogs get higher ratings. And they rank based on total score, not average.It would be nice if they showed...

A note about Palestinian Arab polls

I saw once again today that Westerners are saying that Palestinian Arabs consistently show a preference for a two-state solution in their polls - one a quote from a Georgia congressman, and one from an editorial in the Hartford Courant. Since I researched a recent poll from Bir Zeit University that showed the opposite: 19. As to funding the Palestinian National Authority, which one of these two directions do you support? 1) Hamas continues to...