October 2007 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Holocaust denier to speak at University of Oregon

Hate speech on American campuses masquerading as "free speech" is now hitting epidemic proportions. (Hat tip - Anti-Racist Blog)Critics of a speaker widely viewed as one of the nation’s most prominent deniers of the Holocaust say they will counter his talk in Eugene on Friday with a competing event and a later symposium.Mark Weber, director of the Institute for Historical Review, will speak on “The Israel Lobby.” His visit comes at the invitation...

Halachic discussion of Halloween

A serious discussion by Rabbi Michael Broyde. Not a huge halachic treatise but relevant.UPDATE: Soccer Dad pointed me to this stor...

UN almost admits UNIFIL worse than useless

From JPost:Hizbullah has succeeded in rearming itself and has obtained missiles with a range of 250 km., a UN report on the implementation of UN Resolution 1701 stated. Such missiles would be capable of striking areas south of Tel Aviv.Weapons smuggling from Syria into Lebanon, in violation of 1701, is continuing as well.According to the report, which was quoted by Army Radio, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon called the continued arms smuggling "grave."The...

Gulf News slams Giuliani - and makes him look great

I cannot imagine a better advertisement for Rudy Giuliani's presidential campaign than this editorial in the Gulf News (UAE): Giuliani is Mideast's worst nightmareBy Linda S. Heard, Special to Gulf NewsPublished: October 29, 2007, 23:51President George W. Bush's approval ratings may be in the doldrums and he's only got just over another year to go, but before we order the celebratory fireworks here's a thought. The next American president could make...

From the Washington Post:President Bush has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $150 million in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the government in advance of a Middle East peace conference planned for later this month in Annapolis.The $435 million in additional aid, on top of $77 million requested earlier...

Gaza beauty salon bombed, and other peaceful news

Some of the latest headlines from the peaceful PalArab territories:- A blast ripped through a beauty salon early on Wednesday in Gaza City, causing severe damages to the shop and other nearby houses. The Gaza morality police keep up their campaign of terror.- Hamas claims that Fatah stormed a house in Nablus arresting two Hamas members, Fatah claims they peacefully surrendered.- Three Fatah police officers were injured on Monday night in Hebron...

PalArab "human rights" organization against human rights

Some 13 or so Arabs of Palestinian descent, who have lived in Iraq for decades, apparently were trying to illegally immigrate to Italy when their boat capsized, killing them.BADIL, a PalArab organization that purports to help these Iraqi refugees in the guise of calling them Palestinian refugees, made this statement in response:BADIL calls upon states, the PLO, UNHCR, UNRWA and NGOs working for Palestinian refugees to: 1) Provide Palestinian refugees...

Lebanese TV: Jews use drugs to take over the world

MEMRI doing what it does best.A Lebanese TV station that is apparently associated with Syria has aired some quite interesting programming, based on my own "Protocols." Every single anti-semitic slander finds its way into this slick production, complete with lots of video of Jews praying at the Kotel.TV Channel Affiliated with Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Beri in a Show Dedicated to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Jews Use Drug Trafficking...

Extremist warmonger Mahmoud Abbas speaks

Time once again to call a spade a spade: Mahmoud Abbas is an extremist by any definition. [Abbas] told the [Al-Sharq Al-Awsat] news agency that he will not give any concessions in the Annapolis peace conference, he added.Abbas called on the Arab countries to avoid taking any steps towards normalization with Israel before they withdraw from all the Palestinian territories they occupied in 1967, and before a just solution for the refugee problem is...

PalArabs demand timetable for a state

More demands from people who have a limitless appetite for them:The chief Palestinian peace negotiator threatened on Tuesday that there would be no talks with Israel unless a deadline is set for establishing a Palestinian state — the first indication the Palestinians could scuttle a U.S.-sponsored peace summit over the issue.Reading between the lines, Ahmed Qureia is saying that their statehood is not in the least bit dependent on their actions....

Recent MSM failures

I try to dig up news that others have missed, but this is still not an excuse for the professional journalists to ignore stories that are available and are clearly newsworthy. Here is a round-up of recent postings I wrote that completely flew under the MSM radar, judging from mentions in Google News:"Kill Jews Everywhere" - Although I got this out of the English-language Ma'an newspaper, and Arutz-7 put it into a newsbrief, this story where Hamas/PRC...

Saudi king insults everyone's intelligence in Britain

Saudi King Abdullah spoke to the BBC before his trip to Britain and made some amazingly hypocritical statements. Of course, the Beeb couldn't be expected to call him on them, as the formerly great kingdom submits to the current Kingdom, its largest trading partner. (The transcript in not online, but a small part of the video is.)“We don’t want concessions. We are people with rights and we demand our rights,” the king told the BBC when asked whether...

PA TV's vision of "peace"

The PA television has been playing a music video that shows, even while Abbas and Olmert are preparing for a "peace conference," what the Palestinian Arab concept of "peace" is:The lyrics make it quite clear:"Oh mother, they destroyed our houseThe house of my brother and my neighbor [2X]Do not be angry, oh mother, we got more stones [2X]We are Palestinians, we are not terrorists [2X] "We have the right, oh mother, we want to bring our home backHand...

Monday links

Michael Medved at TownHall: Why Not Ask About Pakistan's "Right to Exist"?14 million refugees? Nah, who cares?Blogger News Network: The Desert Bloom - An Insult to Human Dignity?Deconstructing AhmadinejadReform Judaism Magazine: The Protocols of HamasWell known but worth repeatingIslam Online covers the Italian seizure of the Koran-imprinted toilet seats: Al-Khalidi smelled a rat in the Italian company's act."Inscribing the toilet seat covers with...

Palestinian Police Phunnies XXVIII

Yeah, I know it's been a while since my last one, but this one is too good:Police officer in Gaza accidentally kills himselfA Palestinian traffic police officer affiliated to the de facto Palestinian government in the Gaza Strip died on Monday as a result of the misuse of his weapon.Palestinian police in Gaza issued a statement naming the deceased as twenty-three-year-old Safwat Abu Al-Naja from Khan Younis, in the southern Gaza Strip.Which brings...

Bahrain freaks out over meeting with Israelis

The "moderate" Arab country of Bahrain routinely goes crazy whenever there is a whiff of Zionists (or Jews) in the air. From the October 12 Gulf Daily News: BAHRAIN has denied claims that Foreign Minister Shaikh Khalid bin Ahmed Al Khalifa acted against the conscience of Bahrainis, Arabs and Muslims by holding an unofficial meeting with his Israeli counterpart Tzipora Livni. MPs have condemned the minister for the meeting, which happened while both...

Another day, another "protection racket" threat by Fatah

Fatah has a real good racket going on - they do the Mafia-style "threats" and no one calls them on it:The top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), warned on Sunday that the region would suffer greatly in the event that the upcoming Annapolis peace conference failed."If the summit fails – frustration will win out over everything else and it will have a negative affect on the region. I cannot predict exactly what will happen,...

Starting in September, 1947, a devastating cholera epidemic tore through Egypt. By the time it was done some 20,000 Egyptians were killed.Neighboring Palestinian Jews followed the story closely, with daily Palestine Post articles like this one:Soon after the outbreak, in late September, Hebrew University offered to help Egypt, saying that it could manufacture tens of thousands...

HH #CXXXVIII

This week's Haveil Havalim, the 138th edition pointing out the best of the JBlogosphere, is out at the indefatigable Soccer Dad.My post on The Bidoon was included.Check it ou...

The best and the brightest PalArabs want more terror

A few days ago was the anniversary of the death of Fathi Shikaki, a master terrorist who co-founded Islamic Jihad. To celebrate, there was a massive rally in Gaza calling on fighting Israel, where Shikaki's successor said, "Palestine was usurped at the hands of the armed Jewish groups by force, and, therefore, it couldn’t be retrieved but by force and resistance....We should not allow ourselves to believe, even for a moment, that our struggle with...

Best Iranian headline of the day

Zionist meddling disturbs Darfur peaceYes, things were so peaceful in Darfur until those meddling Zionists messed everything u...

Two Jewish professors at Columbia targeted

Apparently, anti-black threats at Columbia are worthy of national attention, but not similar anti-semitic threats: Police are looking into a new bias incident at Columbia University.The provost of Teachers College told students Friday that two faculty members received an anti-Semitic cartoon and anti-Zionist letters. School officials have not released the names of the two professors.Police say the...

2 more women and a child killed in Gaza "work accident"

From JPost:A powerful explosion went off in a house in southern Gaza on Saturday, killing two women and a four-year-old girl, Palestinian medics and witnesses said.The cause of the blast in the town of Khan Yunis was not immediately clear.The blast tore down the facade of the house and badly damaged its interior. A neighboring house was also partially damaged from the force of the blast.The IDF said it was not carrying out any operations in the area...

Rabbi Kanefsky's plea to put Jerusalem on the table

A modern Orthodox rabbi from Los Angeles has published an essay in the Jewish Journal saying his reasons why Jerusalem should be negotiated. In order not to take any of his comments out of context I will print the entire article here:The question of whether we could bear a redivision of Jerusalem is a searing and painful one. The Orthodox Union, National Council of Young Israel and a variety of other organizations, including Christian Evangelical...

October Qassam Calendar

As usual, this is far from complete, and it is more to show how ignored the Qassam issue is rather than to show how many are being fired. Many Qassams never make it in the news, and the rare times that the IDF publishes statistics shows that I am usually undercounting by about 50%.This list does not include mortars being shot from Gaza, which are usually 3-4 times higher on any given day. Su Mo Tu...

Hamas mass wedding for 100 grooms. Where are the brides?

From IHT:The Islamic rulers of Gaza organized a collective wedding party Thursday for 100 couples, distributing almost a month's salary on grooms who celebrated without their brides in observance of Islamic law.The party, sponsored by the head of the Hamas government, featured a band of drummers, Islamic songs and chocolate bars. About 2,000 relatives attended the party, including the brides, who sat in the audience."This is an Islamic wedding. The...

More imbecilic hate from Egypt:At the notorious Kitziot Prison, a real concentration camp minus gas chambers, crack Israeli soldiers have been ganging up on helpless and fettered Palestinian prisoners, shooting, beating and humiliating them under largely concocted pretexts....The pogrom-like attack on the helpless Kitziot prisoners lasted for more than two hours as a huge...

The magically disappearing nuclear reactor

From the NYT:New commercial satellite photos show that a Syrian site believed to have been attacked by Israel last month no longer bears any obvious traces of what some analysts said appeared to have been a partly built nuclear reactor.Two photos, taken Wednesday from space by rival companies, show the site near the Euphrates River to have been wiped clean since August, when...

PLO, version 2

From the Jerusalem Post:Palestinian Authority officials here expressed concern on Wednesday over attempts by Hamas and other Palestinian radical groups to create a new PLO at a conference due to take place in Syria and the Gaza Strip early next month.The officials told The Jerusalem Post that they were trying to persuade the Syrian government to ban the conference.They called on the Arab countries and the US to join their efforts to thwart the planned...

Four women murdered this week in the PalArab territories

From Ma'an:Four women were killed in the Palestinian territories this week in an apparent series of feminicides.A young Palestinian man from the West Bank city of Qalqiliya was accused of killing his two sisters on Thursday. The bodies of Sima and Iyman Al-Adil were found in the family's home Thursday afternoon.Eyewitnesses said the two women appeared to have been shot. The motive behind the killings is unclear.The Palestinian General Intelligence...

Why the horrible Israelis inspect Gaza-bound sugar

From Israel Insider:The defense establishment decided that Israel will continue to supply products that are essential to prevent hunger, but "luxury" items will not be allowed."Oil, they'll get from us. Balsamic vinegar - no," Haaretz quoted a security source as saying.Since Israel changed Gaza's status, it has blocked the shipment of certain merchandise into the Strip, including cigarettes, electric appliances, furniture, and toys. After Gaza-based...

Arrest in Lakewood rabbi beating case

From the Asbury Park Press:Police have arrested a suspect and charged him with attempted murder of an Orthodox rabbi and schoolteacher, who was viciously beaten with an aluminum baseball bat the night of Oct. 9 while walking to synagogue to pray.Lee Tucker, 37, of Ventura Drive is charged in the attack on Rabbi Mordechai Moskowitz, possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose, and unlawful possession of a weapon. Tucker was being held at the Ocean...

Yet another prominent Palestinian Muslim (probably the same as in this Arabic article from yesterday) is claiming that there was never a Temple on the Temple Mount, and that Jews should not be allowed to worship at the Kotel:The former mufti of Jerusalem, Ikrema Sabri, has made the claim that there never was a Jewish temple on the Temple Mount, and the Western Wall was really...