December 2006 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, December 31, 2006

New Year 1937 Eve:Toscanini and the Palestine Orchestra

1936 was a rough year for the Jews of Palestine. There were Arab riots, strikes and many terror attacks.But the Jews did not whine nor did they quit. They fought mightily to live their lives to be as normal as possible even in situations where a bullet could come from anywhere and end any of their lives.In one representative article in the Palestine Post, we see that Hebrew...

Of course Ellison should swear on the Koran

The controversy over Keith Ellison's desire to use a Koran to swear in as a member of Congress has raised a number of criticisms, most notably (and controversially) from Dennis Prager. A very good roundup of all points of view can be seen in the Wikipedia article on the topic.From everything I've read, Prager is wrong and inconsistent in many areas of his article. Most of them were addressed by Eugene Volokh. But there is one aspect of this story...

The Times of London "censors" Iran!

Today's Times of London printed a letter from the Iranian ambassador to Britain. Iran is upset that the Times watered down their hysterical rhetoric, and, frankly, so am I.It would be much better for readers to see the spit flying out of the Iranians' mouths when evaluating the merit of their arguments. (Calling it censorship is, of course, nuts - editors have the right to edit. But the Times edits seriously downplays the insanity of the argument.)Here's...

My best of 2006 (streamlined)

This was an interesting exercise. I tried going through all my posts and found dozens that I liked - it is much harder to pick only a few than I expected.It was worthwhile, though - because looking at my posts from months ago, many of which I had forgotten about, allowed me to evaluate my posting style a little more objectively and I must say that I am proud of this blog. I found relatively few posts that look incorrect or silly in retrospect...

Olmert recognizes an Arab Palestinian State

Some details on the meeting Olmert had with Abbas, from the Forward:The meeting — long expected, oft postponed and arranged in secrecy — was the first between the two since Olmert became prime minister. Strikingly, Olmert made a point of treating Abbas as a head of state. A red, green, black and white flag waved next to the blue-and-white Israeli one in the parking lot of Olmert’s residence — the first time the Palestinian banner has been displayed...

Morning links

Judeopundit opines on Hezbollah perfume.Jameel at the Muqata has the best title of the morning.Omri elaborates on a past Nobel Peace Prize winner.Smooth enlightens us to another source of PalArab terror fundin...

Where a month ago is ancient history

Let's all jump into the Wayback Machine and travel far, far back into the shrouded and mysterious past. Let us unearth the words and deeds of the previous generations and try to learn from the ancients.Yes, let's decipher the yellowed and crumbling newspaper known as Ha'aretz from November 27, 2006:Olmert said Sunday during a visit in the Negev that "the State of Israel is so strong that it can allow itself some restraint in order to give a chance...

PICCR: 34 PalArabs killed by each other in December so far

WAFA reports on the latest PICCR ("Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens’ Rights") monthly report, which inexplicably is not on their website (neither is last month's.) But their numbers track pretty closely to mine, so assuming overlap that means I missed at least one and my count of Palestinian Arabs violently killed by each other since late June stands at 203.PICCR breaks it down to 28 killed in Gaza and 6 in the West Bank.Even though...

"Totally Jewish" columnist supports Neturei Karta

I can't even quote this drivel.The upshot is that we shouldn't condemn NK because they bring Jewish books with them to Iran and give them to the dwindling Persian Jewish community (which he mislabels as "Arab.")Perhaps his next column will praise Hamas for the great work it does with orphans.Thoroughly sic...

Attack on Rachel's Tomb? Just terror as usual.

A tiny news item in Arutz-7:Arab terrorists threw a pipe bomb at Rachel's Tomb late Wednesday afternoon. The bomb caused no injuries or damage. Army forces are searching for the terrorists. A similar news brief was printed in YNet, I could find no mention in the Jerusalem Post nor Haaretz yet.Let's look at some context.If a Koran gets desecrated anywhere in the world, it makes headlines. If a Jew would throw a pipe-bomb at the Al Aqsa Mosque, the...

I'm a hateful racist and fascist!

An Egyptian-American blogger takes me to task and lumps me in as an example of racism in Zionist blogs:Moving on to the Zionist (Atheists and Jews) bloggers, I happened to notice that they are regular visitors to the Egyptian and Arab blogs. One can't help noticing their hateful, racist and fascist statements towards Arabs and Muslims. They constantly claim antisemitism if you disagree with their statements. Some claim that Arabs and Egyptians on...

Carter intervened for Nazi war criminal in 1987

I have been resistant to calling Jimmy Carter an anti-semite, but articles like this make me wonder: In hindsight, Carter book seenas part of an awkward patternBy Neal SherDecember 26, 2006 NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (JTA) — It was the spring of 1987 and the Office of Special Investigations, the Justice Department’s Nazi prosecution unit, which I headed at the time, was in the midst of one of our most productive and historic periods.On April 27, as a...

Today's Palestinian Police Phunnies: A dose of reality

This article from the Sunday Herald (UK) says so many truths about the situation that it is hard to know what to highlight. The bias that the Herald uses in making the terrorist heroic is nothing new but even so, this article is a must read.To begin with, notice how even this article recognizes that the Palestinian "security forces" are meant to be an army to fight Israel rather than meant for law and order and stopping terror. By day, he is a Palestinian...

A month of a unilateral "cease fire"

As the calendar on my sidebar is showing, we now have had nine consecutive days of Qassam rockets being shot at Israel, making it 24 out of 32 days since the illusory "cease-fire" was announced that rockets have been launched (click on any day's link for more details; some of the days link to earlier articles in the day and more Qassams were fired later that I didn't capture): Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13...

Fatah terrorists slam Hamas - for being too soft

From the PA Arabic mouthpiece, WAFA (autotranslated/cleaned up):The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military arm of the "Fatah" Movement, today rejected "Hamas" on the truce offer, for its unprecedented free concessions to Israel.Abu Al-Walid, spokesman for the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, said in a telephone conversation with the "Voice of Palestine", this morning, that this document, beyond the constants and national standards, through repeal the right...

Handy-dandy guide to Olmert's negotiating skill

The increasingly French Olmert showed off his devastating negotiating skills with the "moderate" terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas this evening. For those too lazy to read all the details, here's a scorecard: What Abbas got What Olmert got $100 million More Qassams Saturday and Sunday Discussion of extending the "cease fire" to the West Bank...

HH XCIX

Today's Haveil Havalim #99 represents the age-old Roman numeral question: why is it XCIX and not IC?Anyway, this week's round-up of the best of the JBlogosphere is hosted by me-ander. She does a great job.I am honored to say that she picked two of my better posts (Time for the PalArabs to step up. But they won't. and Don't forget Islamic Jihad) for the round-up as well..Check it ou...

The Khaleej Times on freedom of expression

From today:AS EXPECTED, David Irving’s release from an Austrian prison and subsequent return to England has sparked an intense debate regarding the freedom of speech in the modern era, especially with regard to subjects as sensitive as the Holocaust.How free is it that in addition to Israel, several European countries also have strict laws against Holocaust denial. In Austria, for example — where the ageing historian/writer initially sentenced for...

Egypt claims Eilat for Palestinian Arabs

In a breathtaking example of how the Arab world is trying to dismantle Israel piece by piece, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry is claiming that Eilat belongs to the Palestinian Arabs, arguing against others in Egypt's parliament that it belongs to Egypt.No one admits it belongs to Israel.In the course of the debate, which has been going on in parliament for the last two days,...

2006 Dhimmi of the Year

Here is Islam's ideal Christian: the Greek Orthodox archbishop in Jerusalem.This is the same guy who claimed that an Israeli woman was spreading AIDS among Palestinian Arabs. Even during the Pope riots, when churches in the territories were being firebombed, he only condemned the Pope and not the rioters. But here we can see the true extent of his submissiveness to a religion that is not his own:"The unity of the Palestinians is key to achieving...

A couple of short items about hospitals

On Tuesday, some of the Fatah/Hamas gunfighting occured in the corridors of a hospital in Gaza.At Shifa Hospital, the biggest in Gaza, tensions are so high that wounded from different factions cannot be placed in the same room. "Everyone has family, friends and bodyguards," said hospital spokesman Dr. Jumaa Saqqa. "We have to separate them. Otherwise there will be clashes."Hamas' security forces took control of the hospital four months ago, at the...

I wasn't tagged by anyone for this meme that originated at The Ignoble Experiment, but what the heck...Due to unforeseen circumstances, our normal family menorahs are inaccessible this year. Last Friday at noon I went out with Junior Elder on a quest to find a nice, cheap, last minute menorah.The local Judaica stores had many but they were generally in the $100-$250 range...

Hate site upset that I emailed Google News

The People's Voice, which had a virulently anti-semitic article that I mentioned here, is a website where any idiot can publish anything and Google indexes it as "news" in the news.google.com site.Apparently the site took note of my mentioning them as they wrote a long article criticizing me as a racist, a bigot, a Jewish supremacist and who knows what else. As proof, they used comments made by others on this blog, as well as at least one obvious...

British airline bans Bibles to Saudi Arabia

Britain's BMI airlines have banned its employees from bringing non-Muslim religious articles on its lucrative Saudi Arabia route.Keep in mind - this was not in response to a request from Saudi Arabia. Like good little dhimmis, they want to proactively deny their own rights to make sure they don't upset the 'ummah. London, Dec 21 (ZEENEWS.COM) A British airline has banned its crew from taking the Bible into Saudi Arabia for fear of upsetting Muslims.BMI...

South Africa MP believes in the Protocols, not sure about Holocaust

Oh, and she is a representative of the ruling African National Congress.Do I even have to mention that she happens to be a Muslim? An ANC MP cited the Protocols of the Elders of Zion -- the infamous anti-Semitic forgery used by the Nazis -- as a credible document at a recent Iranian-sponsored academic seminar in Pretoria.Farida Mahomed agreed recently she had asked a Jewish seminar delegate, Claudia Braude: “Are the protocols still relevant to you...

Support Shari'a. Boycott Iran!

The Iranian leader Mahmoud Amalek Ahmadinejad's spiritual leader is Ayatollah Mohammad Taghi Mesbah-Yazdi, as we mentioned last April. Yazdi didn't do too well in the recent Iranian elections, but his wisdom is eternal.His website has an Arabic fatwa section that includes this nice one:Q: I read in the polls for the province of some products they serve the ends of the usurping entity such as the purchase of American products collapse if they serve...

Time for the PalArabs to step up. But they won't.

Columnists and editorialists and pundits are hand-wringing about what can be done to stop the violence in Gaza. Should the West prop up Abbas? Should Israel? Should an international force be sent there? Should we forget the sanctions?The problem is that there is a solution, but the world has created an environment where that solution will never occur.Let's look a bit north. Despite Lebanon's problems, it has a strong amount of power from its citizens...

Another day, another Qassam ("cease fire" update)

I just put the following calendar on the sidebar so as not to keep it on as the top article every day.The dates that are linked are the ones where Kassam rockets were fired to Israel since the "cease-fire," with links to the news stories that have the details. Sun Mon Tue Wed Thur Fri Sat 26 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 According to AP, the IDF denied any rockets landed on Friday...

Black is white, up is down, truce means "shoot!"

At 11:00 PM Tuesday Palestine time the latest "truce" between Fatah and Hamas went into effect. Although by reading the media, the previous one was in effect all day Tuesday and just "endangered" by the killing of six people.Anyway, at dawn, the latest cease-fire was ended with the killing of another in Gaza City. This makes my PalArab self-death count since late June add up to 199, meaning that sometime on Wednesday we can expect another "grim...

Thanks to "Falasteen", we can see exclusive photos of Palestinian Arabs being beaten by those evil imperialistic colonizing racist Zionist....oops, they are only being beaten by Fatah policemen.So Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have already lost interest.There are lots more at the Falasteen website. Falasteen, which is actually made in the US, tends to be pro-Hamas....

Deborah Lipstadt translating her Holocaust web resource into Arabic and Farsi

From AP:ATLANTA - Emory University is planning to translate a professor's Web site on Holocaust denial into Arabic, Farsi and other languages common to countries where anti-Semitic views are widespread.Professor Deborah Lipstadt, who runs the site Holocaust Denial on Trial, said she hopes the translations will provide resources to people who have no historical accounts of the Holocaust in their native tongue."I'm convinced that there are people in...

Arabs understand Hamas better than the Left

An interesting editorial in Asharq Al-Awsat, in English, shows that even fanatical anti-Israel Arabs understand Hamas better than pseudo-intellectual European liberals:We have witnessed Hamas's concept of democracy since it came to power, with its first order of business being the improvement of Palestinian television because its artistic value was not up to its standards! This is Hamas's concept of democracy!Unfortunately, the kind of relationship...