January 2007 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Watch out for those lethal balloons!

In the latest case of mass Arab hysteria, an Israeli newspaper's promotion involving releasing many balloons into the air has been interpreted by Arab sources as an attempt to poison the Lebanese.Here are what the balloons look like:Here is how Hezbollah reports on them:In Beirut's southern suburbs, poisonous balloons with Hebrew markings, similar to the ones found in the...

Self-death count update

PCHR counts a total of 33 killed in the Fatah/Hamas clashes since last Thursday, and one more today, so our count of Palestinian Arabs killed by each other increases to 275 killed since Summer Rains started and 70 killed so far in 200...

Today I visited the burial place of Shmuel HaNavi (Samuel) outside Jerusalem. The site was recognized by the Byzantines also as a holy site, with ruins outside showing where Samuel himself walked as well as a massive Byzantine church that once covered the area.Last Friday night, the Jewish synagogue that houses the actual tomb-area was vandalized by Arabs, with much damage...

Today I had the opportunity to visit the Kotel Katan, a small part of the Western Wall that can be reached only by walking through the labyrith of streets in the Muslim Quarter. At no point did I feel unsafe walking there with my family.There were two bored Israeli guards watching the area, and absolutely no one else was there. Since it appears that the Kotel Katan is even...

Civil war isn't what bothers PalArabs.

A very revealing insight in an op-ed in Arabic Maan News (autotranslated):The words of the need Umm Khalil are identical to the words of journalist Ashraf the Marsh, Group in the newspaper "Jerusalem Arabi", which emphasized that what is happening now is a real tragedy and a national disaster, "not because there is internecine killings, between brothers, but because that constitutes a real threat to the Palestinian issue, whilst Israel is free to...

I'm sure it's all the Joooooz fault

I haven't been able to blog much, but as the headlines show, the PalArabs are back to their normal state of killing each other.Given the JPost's numbers of 25 killed since Thursday, plus one killed Sunday in Beit Hanoun, our counts of PalArabs violently killed by each other has soared to 267 since Summer Rains and an astonishing 62 since the beginning of this year.One of my dumber commenters accused me of celebrating whenever PalArabs are killed...

Hamas/Fatah resume killing each other

After a couple of weeks of barely controlled violence between them, Hamas and Fatah have gone back to their normal ways of killing each other. Gaza - Ma'an - Renewed clashes between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements broke out in the northern Gaza Strip on Friday morning. In the last 24 hours, three Palestinians have been killed in internal fighting (one from Fatah and two from Hamas), seven injured - including two children - and fourteen Palestinians...

Guess who's stealing land?

Palestinian Arabs have so far been guilty, as far as I can tell, of 100% of the crimes that they routinely falsely accuse Jews of committing. This is what is known as "projection" and it happens a lot.The latest example is that the Palestinian Muslims are stealing Palestinian Christians' land. (Sorry, Jonathan Cook, you have been proven a moron yet again.)A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their silence and talk openly about...

Yad Vashem preparing to honor Arab hero

I've mentioned Arabs who saved Jews from the Holocaust before. Now Yad Vashem is set to honor one of them:An Arab who saved the lives of two dozen Jews during the Holocaust is about to receive an unprecedented honour from Israel. Khaled Abdelwahhab, a wealthy Tunisian landowner, is poised to become the first Arab to be celebrated as a Righteous Gentile.The award, presented by Yad Vashem, the Holocaust remembrance authority, is granted to non-Jews...

Same old same old

One of the truisms about the PalArab media is that if there is the slightest chance that Israel was involved in the death of an Arab, Israel will be blamed immediately and without any second thought.But if there is no way to blame Israel, then the person will have died under "mysterious circumstances."Here's a good example, where a man arrested by Hamas three days ago somehow died. Hamas says it was a heart attack.Contrast this with this report of...

Blogging will be light

Sorry, but given a choice of blogging or touring the Holy Land, I gotta go with the Eretz Option.The Elders are staying in the beautiful Jerusalem neighborhood of Bakah, which isn't touristy at all but is very charming, if a bit out of the way. So I won't have time for too much over the next couple of week...

Another failed anti-Israel boycott

The Socialist Party in Norway announced a boycott of Israel last year.Since then, imports have increased by 15%. This sort of thing seems to happen a lo...

Arabs seethe over Israeli vodka bottle

It appears that an Israeli company is selling vodka with a picture of Jerusalem on it.And in the picture of Jerusalem one of the buildings has a large dome.This seems to be a problem, according to Maan News Arabic (autotranslated):The Aqsa Institution for Reconstructing Islamic sanctities strongly condemned an Israeli firm marketing wine bottles bearing the image of the Dome of the Rock mosque and the city of Jerusalem and is considered a violation...

Christian proto-Zionism redux

I started reading "Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present" by Michael Oren. It will be a while before I finish it and review it completely, but so far it seems to be an incredible book, meticulously researched, describing America's involvement in the Middle East.From an early article about this book I was inspired to look up George Bush,...

Peretz in dreamland

Israel's defense minister Amir Peretz said two interesting, and utterly embarrassing, things at the Herzliya conference:"Every Palestinian contact that recognizes Israel, I see as a partner in negotiations - even if we're speaking of Hamas."The naivete and wishful thinking that is revealed in this statement is overwhelming.The idea of "recognition" is becoming as popular as the idea of a "peace process," a castle in the clouds. Just because Abbas...

From Ha'aretz: Some 45 Jews of Sa'ada county in Yemen left their homes after being threatened by radical Muslims, the Saudi daily Al Wattan reported on Monday.According to the report, the extremists told the Jews to leave their homes within ten days, after which time they will be exposed to abductions and looting.The Jews moved into a hotel in the town of Sa'ada, north of...

PalArab weddings are a blast!

At the El-Bashiti wedding in Khan Younis, Gaza last Thursday, one of the happy celebrants lost control of his assault rifle. He killed the groom's brother and injured three others, including one of those ubiqitous "security officers" and two teenage boys.This is of course not unusual in the peaceful land of Palestan: I have documented a few other wedding manslaughters. But it is no big deal - because these people weren't killed by Israelis, no one...

HH CIII

The 103rd Haveil Havalim is out.As they say in the old country: mamesh brillian...

I'm not certain if it is the same one, but apparently the synagogue that the Arabs are so upset about is being built 100 meters away from the Dome of the Rock, in the Cotton Market. So the "extremist Jews" will have to expand it through a few dozen businesses before getting close to the mosque, but it is enough for the PalArabs to make a worldwide call to stop the construction...

EoZ News Headlines:Mahmoud Abbas is meeting with Islamic Jihad terror leaders in Damascus.Fatah accuses Hamas of building a "tunnels republic" under Gaza - with American money.The PA Interior Minister confirmed that half of a $120 million donation delivered to the PA is simply missing.All this and more on EoZ News!That great moderate, Mahmoud Abbas, traveled to Syria to meet...

Palestinian Arabs forging Israeli money

But the forged coins are so bad, the victims seem to be their own people, not Israel.From Maan News:Bethlehem - Ma'an - Many Palestinian merchants and store keepers have confirmed that the Israeli five shekel coin is easily forged and is widespread in the Palestinian territories. However, it can be easily identified.Ma'an News Agency has acquired one of these forged pieces,...

Iran's state-run prostitution and slavery ring

Here is an amazing article about what is really going on in that enlightened nation that aims to be the model of Islamic morality and integrity in the world:...Iran's new Islamic-guided government has established a system of legalized prostitution, through the practice of "sigheh" or "temporary marriages," by which a mullah arranges a "legal union" between a man and a girl (some as young as nine years old) for a fee. The so-called marriage can last...

Secondary effects of Gaza chaos

Reuters' terror apologist, Nidal al-Mughrabi, has an interesting article on how people are staying away from Gaza because of the danger there. While he spins it in the patented Reuters way, there are some facts that he buries and whose implications he ignores completely. Simon McGregor-Wood, chairman of the Foreign Press Association (FPA) in Israel, said fewer foreign journalists have been going to Gaza due to the uncertain security situation.This...

Carter/Nazi story finally gets some coverage

I quoted and linked to a JTA story three weeks ago that Arutz Sheva just picked up as an "exclusive."See...my readers get all the scoops ...

Hamas threatens Al-Arabiya TV

Maan News, in English: The Palestinian government has announced that it will prosecute the television station Al-'Arabiya for the news it broadcast on Wednesday night, in which the television channel reported that Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh uttered the controversial statement, "We will not accept conditional aid, even if it were to come from God."The government has described this statement, which was disclosed during a programme called "Akher...

More terrible Israeli oppression

Maan News (Arabic) reports that next Monday there will be a trade show in Tel Aviv featuring 25 Palestinian Arab technology companies who want to get business cooperating with Israeli companies.PalArab terror apologists may note that this conference is organized by the Peres Center for Peace and therefore doesn't represent the mainstream of Israeli thinking, which is of course filled with hate and apartheid and genocidal wishes as they never tire...

Two forgotten examples of historic Arab rejectionism

These are both very small stories, and as far as I can tell they have been forgotten by history. But in their own way they illuminate how hard it is to consider compromise with Arabs today.A small detail in a story about the 1956 Sinai campaign from the Time magazine archives: In 1953 Ben-Gurion suffered an election setback and retired to a pioneer desert community. Into office went Moshe Sharett, a modest, cautious lawyer who made some effort...

Arabs turn their backs on their Palestinian Arab "brothers" - again

Since the fall of Saddam, Palestinian Arabs who live in Iraq have been under attack:A Palestinian official says 520 Palestinian refugees have been killed by militias since the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in March 2003.The head of the refugee affairs department at the Palestine Liberation Organization, Zakaria al-Agha, said Wednesday a total of 809 Palestinians have been attacked, of which 520 were killed and 140 injured and maimed....Palestinians,...

Jerry Seinfeld and the Shabbat-observant realtor

From Arutz Sheva: American Jewish comedian Jerry Seinfeld was ordered by the court to pay a Sabbath-observant realtor her fee, which he withheld due to her not having answered her phone on Saturday.The realtor, Tamara Cohen, was unavailable when Seinfeld tried to reach her on a Saturday in February, 2005, according to the New York Post. The comedian and star of the highly successful sitcom bearing his name wanted to see a luxury apartment on 82nd...

The IDF kills some terrorists (video)

From the IDF website: A few days ago, during the evening, a force from the Givati Brigade's Shaked Battalion identified two suspicious figures crawling near the security fence in the northern Gaza Strip. The force called out on the two figures, discovered to be terrorists, and when the two did not stop the force fired at them. Due to the explosives the terrorists were carrying on them, the firing led to a large explosion. Through their alertness...

Gaza, 1955

In 1955, way before Fatah and Arafat and "occupation," Palestinian Arabs staged a series of terrorist raids from Gaza into Israel proper. Israel hit back, briefly but strongly.Notice from this account in Time magazine how many parallels there are to today.Isr (Notice also that Time refers to the PalArab refugees as "Palestinian Arabs," not "Palestinians.")The Gaza strip is a geographic absurdity perpetuated by hate and pride. Ever since Israel's...

Islamic supremacism in the UK

From YNet, a story describing a UK documentary that went undercover in British mosques and found that they weren't exactly talking about peace and brotherhood.The video is on YouTube:A British television documentary, 'Dispatches: Undercover Mosque,' broadcast on Sunday evening on the UK's Channel 4 has uncovered hate-filled speeches and rhetoric delivered in a number of British mosques, and directed against 'unbelievers,' Jews, Christians, and gays,...

Iran's plans are right on course

A year ago I wrote a series of articles that maintained that Iran's goal was to become the undisputed leader of the Islamic world and use that as a platform to become a global superpower. Events since then have only solidified my opinion.Here is an inconsequential article from the Iranian press that, when analyzed, shows the Iranian goals of being the Islamic world superpower is still quite alive and well:TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Supreme Leader...

Hamas to Fatah: "You idiots, the tunnels were to kill Jews!"

I reported yesterday that Fatah accused Hamas of building tunnels under Gaza filled with explosives (and some originating from mosques) to target Fatah offices and residences.Hamas is now hotly denying it, saying the tunnels were meant to kill any Jewish invaders that might show up and is accusing Fatah of helping the Zionist cause by giving away Hamas' military secrets.For some reason I'm imagining the Keystone Kops with a serious arsena...

Terrorists love their press releases

Terrorists using the most Western of devices, press releases, is an interesting phenomenon. Mostly they get ignored except for the photo-ops showing lots of men in ski masks.But even though it is probably false bravado, it is worth it to read what these guys have to say, if only toremind the world that no matter what Israel does there will be large organized groups who are unwilling to ever compromise.Here's a press release, autotranslated, from...

On a personal note....

The Elder family is not known for planning ahead very much. In that vein, we just decided that a very-long-overdue trip to Israel would be fun - starting next week.So if anyone knows of a good apartment to rent in Jerusalem (the closer to the Old City, the better) preferably with two bedrooms, kosher kitchen, Internet access and the usual amenities that spoiled Americans might want, for about two weeks, please email me at coolboardpresident - at-...

The Gaza underground

One of the joys of reading the Palestinian Arab press in the auto-translated Arabic is uncovring the rich tapestry of culture, education and technology that these enterprising people have that we just don't hear about in the West.So while we know about how adept the Palestinian Arabs are at digging tunnels under borders, we didn't know that the same skills are being used in much more productive ways.Today, Abdel Hakim Awad, spokesman for Fatah,...

The man in this picture, Moshe Aryeh Feldman (he's the one on the left), stayed an extra couple of weeks in Iran to lecture atIranian universities about how evil Zionists are. He just came back home to Austria to see that his wife had left him.Well, at least someone still loves hi...

Morning Palestinian Arab news roundup

All from Maan News:An infant was shot in the head and killed during a clan clash (top story in Arabic, tiny news item in English)Two more PalArabs were kidnapped in GazaA professor at Najah University says Iran has every right to a nuclear bomb (he didn't even pretend that Iran was only trying to create a peaceful nuclear energy program). He also blames Arabs for not being on Iran's side, saying that they all need to work together against America...

Three blind mice

From the Washington Post: Abbas spoke at a joint news conference with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who is touring the region this week on what she bills as an effort to listen to ideas to rekindle the stalled peace process. Rice said she wants to "accelerate" a three-stage U.S.-backed 2003 peace plan known as the "road map" but has been vague about what she means. "When I say accelerate, we want to look at it and see how fast you can move,"...

The latest salvo in the Hamas/Fatah conflict is that Hamas has added some (presumably Koranic) text to the Palestinian Arab flag:Fatah is very upset over this move, calling it "illegal."I'd love to know exactly what it says. Right now I'd say that odds are much more likely that it says something like "Palestine will be liberated through blood and sacrifice" than that it says...

Followup on "killing the filthy Kuffar"

Last week I mentioned a Jihad Unspun article showing, from an extreme Islamist perspective, how at least one literal interpretation of the Koran is about as intolerant and bigoted and supermacist as is possible.My question was and remains, what, if any, is the basis within Islamic jurisprudence to disagree with this interpretation?A couple of years ago a front-page article in The Spectator pretty much claimed that there is no such thing as moderate...