November 2008 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, November 30, 2008

Today's PalArab news

A "work accident" injured four Hamas members in Khan Younis.Saudi Arabia denied Hamas accusations that they didn't give Hajj visas to Palestinian Arab pilgrims, as both sides continue to trade accusations and insults.Hamas attacked, beat and killed a 41-year old chicken seller in a public market in the Maghazi camp in central Gaza.The PalArab press quotes Maariv as saying...

The evil thinking of Muslim terror apologists

An article from a London based blogger named Muhammad al-Arabi, reprinted in the Google News-indexed Redress website, shows how "moderate" terror supporters can simultaneously say how horrible the Mumbai attacks are but at the same time blame the victims.But why India? The answer, in my view, is very simple. Since the early 1990s relations between India and the racist, Zionist entity known as "Israel" have been getting increasingly closer, with...

Surviving Mumbai terrorist admits they targeted Israelis

As if anyone needed proof:Kasab has told police that they were sent with a specific mission of targeting Israelis to avenge atrocities on Palestinians. This was why they targetted Nariman House, a complex meant for Israelis. Sources said Kasab's colleagues killed in the operation had stayed in Nariman House earlier. "They have stayed in Nariman house on rental basis identifying themselves as Malaysian students.'' said a source. Police are trying...

Hamas preventing Gazans from going to Hajj

Hajj is the once-in-a-lifetime pilgrimage to Mecca that is obligatory on all Muslims who can afford it.Last year Hamas allowed thousands of Gazans to go to Mecca...including some terrorists, some of whom reportedly went to Iran.This year, the pilgrims are in the middle of a Hamas/Fatah spat, and Hamas is forcibly stopping them from crossing the Rafah border:Thousands of Palestinian pilgrims seeking to travel to Saudi Arabia to perform Hajj have been...

"Terrorism, espionage and blood-sucking"

Lest one think that it is only Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who makes outrageous, anti-semitic comments from Iran, here's one from the commander of Iran's army:The commander of Iran's army, Major General Ataollah Salehi, says that Israel's espionage activities are aimed at saving it from collapse."The characteristics of the Zionist regime of Israel are terrorism, espionage and blood-sucking," the general told ISNA.General Salehi stated that Israel is a "usurper...

Freedom of the Press, Hamas-style

In the latest example of Hamas attacks on journalists:A Palestinian journalist with Saut Al-Quds (voice of Jerusalem) Radio Station accused members of the de facto government security in Gaza of torturing him as he attempted to cover the story of Gazan pilgrims waiting at Rafah crossing.Ala Salamah said he was harshly beaten and forced to eat food full of sand. The journalist was fasting in the days leading up to Eid Al-Adha, and the police forced...

Curious LA Times chronology of hotel terror attacks

The Los Angeles Times lists some other attacks that happened at hotels. Interestingly, it lists the Irgun bombing of the King David hotel in 1948, and some attacks like the Robert Kennedy assassination, President Reagan's near-assassination and 2 IRA attacks against Britain.In the Islamic terrorist attacks it does mention, such as the Taba hotel in Egypt, it never says who the attackers were.Most disturbingly, the LAT does not seem to think to mention...

Muslims blaming Mumbai on "Zionists"

The Pakistan Daily has a series of quotes, purportedly from David Ben Gurion in 1967, saying that Pakistan is Israel's enemy and drawing the conclusion that therefore the Mumbai terror attacks (as well as the assassination of Benazar Bhutto) must have been Zionist plots.Another article in the same paper makes the point more explicitly:The Mumbai operation was too sophisticated for the alleged Deccan Mujahideen to carry out, which, according to the...

We are the targets

The world has been hearing a lot about "Islamophobia" in the past few years. Since 9/11, the Muslim community has been responding to every Islamic terror attack with statements cautioning the West to not succumb to this terrible disease of Islamophobia, often elevating its heinousness to a par with the terror attacks themselves.However, while there is undoubtedly some discrimination against and fear of Muslims in the West, they do not live their...

Iranian jurisprudence: Acid in attacker's eyes

From Sky News:A Sharia court ordered the punishment based on the system of "qisas" or fair retribution, Etemad-e Melli newspaper said.The man identified as Majid proposed several times but was spurned by the woman, identified as Ameneh, the daily reported.In revenge, he threw acid in her face as she left her work in 2004, it added.She travelled to Spain for surgery to reconstruct her face but efforts to restore her sight failed.On returning to Iran,...

PalArab press politicizing Mumbai

Ma'an published a condemnation of the Mumbai attacks from its editor, and tries to twist it as if Palestinian Arabs are like the Indians:Palestinians follow what is happening hour by hour in Mumbai; the results of the bombings, shots fired at tourists, at hotel workers. Palestinians watch with painful understanding the death of innocent people and police officers in a country not their own. As opposed to the celebrations with which they greet the...

A couple of Iranian news stories

Here's another statement by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that will be ignored by the West:President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Thursday that the Islamic Revolution of Iran is not limited to specific geographic or national borders."The Islamic Revolution is a deep and decisive move for all human beings," said the president during a ceremony to honor Armed Forces Chief of Staff Major General Hassan Firouzabadi.And Iran's Press TV found a 9/11 "Truther", who...

Iran freaks over Arab "Peace Plan" ads

As we have mentioned, the PLO has been placing advertisements promoting the so-called Arab Peace Initiative in various newspapers in Arab countries, Israel and the West.The advertisement features the flags of all the member countries of the Organization of Islamic Conference.And Iran happens to be a member of the OIC.The very idea of Iran's beautiful flag being on the same page as an ugly, racist, ZionistIsraeli flag seems to have blown the mullahs'...

Arab League leader: Mumbai part of "cycle of violence"

The Secretary General of the League of Arab States gave his statement condemning the terror attack in Mumbai, but he did it in a curious way:Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak condemned the attacks and said his country "stands by the side of New Delhi in countering terrorism," state news agency MENA reported.Amr Mussa, who heads the 22-member Arab League, said such "criminal and terrorist acts aggravate the vicious circle of violence and counter-violence,"...

Northern Sinai situation alarming Egypt

From Daily News Egypt:The current situation in North Sinai constitutes a threat to national security along the border with Israel, warned the defense and national security committee of the People's Assembly.At the end of a three-day visit to the area, the committee said that tunnel smuggling across the border and widespread possession of weapons in North Sinai amounted to an explosive situation.Sinai has recently been the site of trouble between...

Arab sites almost silent on Mumbai

The top news story in the world is essentially invisible to the Arab press.The Palestinian Arabic newspapers Firas Press and Palestine Press Agency don't mention the terror attacks in Mumbai. Ya Libnan has nothing, and neither does the Lebanon Daily Star or the Jordan Times. The Daily News Egypt is similarly silent.The Saudi Arab News did have a story in today's edition, though.And the Islamic Jihad mouthpiece Palestine Today has a brief article,...

Firas Press reports on a "Hamas Google" page hosted in Turkey, that is just like Google but decorated with Hamas pictures (the link is http://www.googlehamas.tk/, try it at your own risk):You will notice that it keeps the name "Google," changing the O's into Hamas logos.The article goes on to praise the website, saying how fast the search engine is, how hundreds of people...

November 24, 1948: Egypt threatens to quit UN

The Palestine Post of November 24, 1948 has an illuminating article about Egypt's opposition to Israel's becoming a member of the United Nations:Adly Andaros Bey, of Egypt, hinted today that the Arab countries would walk out of the UN if Israel were admitted to membership.The Egyptian said Israel did not fulfil any of the requirements of the Charter for membership. Israel...

Last week, wire services reported on Jewish graffiti on a mosque in Hebron, saying that the "settlers" scrawled "bad words" with spray paint.The story claimed that the Jews wrote “Mohammed is a pig” and “Death to the Arabs”.As Israellycool pointed out, while desecrating a mosque is certainly not to be condoned, the words that were written, at least in the wire service photo,...

Hypocritical journalists

Media Backspin quotes Soccer Dad about reporters who are upset that Israel has not allowed them into Gaza for the last two weeks: This week, after filing a letter of protest, the Foreign Press Association (of which McClatchy Newspapers is a part) took the matter to Israel's Supreme Court and asked the judges to overturn the ban. "This blackout of the Gaza Strip is hurting Israel's image in the eyes of the world and undermines its standing as the...

Today's PalArab news

In addition to the Jordanian newspaper yesterday, a UAE newspaper has also rejected a PLO ad which includes the flag of Israel, while another one published it.Even though there was a Qassam and (reportedly) four mortars yesterday shot indiscriminately at Jews, Israel has agreed to send more fuel and food to Gaza today.Fresh Hamas/Fatah clashes yesterday at Al Aqsa University in Gaza injured 100 students and caused the school to shut down.There are...

American girl, Arab man get jail and 100 lashes

From the Saudi Gazette:The Summary Court in Jeddah has sentenced a 23-year-old Arab national and an 18-year-old American girl to one year in prison and 100 lashes each after they were convicted of adultery.The father of the girl reported the relationship to the authorities after his daughter became pregnant.The father accused the Arab man of intentionally doing so in order to force her parents into letting them get married.The parents of the girl...

Jordanian newspaper rejects PLO ad - with Israeli flag

From AFP:An independent Jordanian newspaper said on Tuesday it has refused to publish a Palestinian advertisement promoting an Arab peace initiative with Israel because it contains the Jewish state's flag."We refused to publish the paid advertisement because the source, the Palestine Libration Organisation's negotiations department, refused to remove the Israeli flag," a senior editor at the Arabic-language Al-Arab Al-Yawm told AFP.Ah, yes, Jordan....

A very interesting development. Will Israel check it for weapons?From Africa On-Line:A Libyan ship loaded with more than 3,000 tons of food aid and medicines leave the Libyan port of Zouara, 120 km west of Tripoli, on Tuesday for the Gaza Strip in Palestine.The donation being made by the Libyan Fund for Aid and Development in Africa is made up of 500 tons of oil; 750 tons...

Obama letter to Peres on unified Jerusalem?

The Arabic media is reporting on a Kuwaiti newspaper claim that Barack Obama sent Shimon Peres a letter that assures him that Jerusalem will not be under negotiations during the Obama administration and that it will remain the undivided capital of Israel. Also that Obama promised to visit Israel and the settlements.What the Arab press is not mentioning is that this Kuwaiti newspaper has a history of making up stories. On at least two other recent...

Morning links

Eye on the UN: Unprecedented attack on Israel by UN GA presidentShiny Happy Dhimmi carnival by Soccer DadIAEA wants to help Syria get nuclear technologyA disarmed Palestinian Arab state? (JPost)The Jerusalem Post takes a page from my book, looks at inaccuracies in Wikipedia Arabi...

The value of Saudi girls

From the Saudi Gazette, an article that highlights the huge differences between how boys' schools and girls' schools are run in Saudi Arabia:Fires in girls’ schools are unfortunately a regular occurrence, and have been making headlines ever since the tragic accident in a girls school in Makkah, in March 2002, that resulted in the loss of many innocent lives. [This was when the Muttawa forced the girls to burn to death rather than go out in public...

In the New York Times article on Hezbollah last week, this was mentioned:Hezbollah officials often casually mention the link between the Scouts and the guerrilla force.“After age 16 the boys mostly go to resistance or military activities,” said Bilal Naim, who served as Hezbollah’s director for the Mahdi Scouts until last year.I have seen similar, offhand claims mentioned...

The Martyr Game

Palestine Press Agency quotes a new report with some statistics on people killed in the Intifada. While autotranslation is not an exact science, the wording used is more suitable for a sporting event rather than a tragic list of victims. There is a sense of glee to which group was most successful at getting members killed by Israel, as the article uses sports terms to list who has more "martyrs":The study comes after two months of the year's ninth...

News and links

Yesterday the PalArab media was reporting that bakeries in Gaza were being forced to use animal grain to make bread. Today the bakeries are denying that.Syria is holding massive rallies today to demand the return of the Golan Heights to Syria, with special guest, child murderer Samir Kuntar.Two parents tortured and killed their daughter in Gaza. I do not understand all the autotranslation but it sounded particularly gruesome.Hamas has officially...

Free Gaza moonbats working with Hamas try again

Two prominent pro-terror "peace" advocates, Lauren Booth and Ken O'Keefe, are trying to buy a much larger ship to ferry passengers to Gaza. They call their project Aloha Palestine:Aloha Palestine is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to provide a dedicated passenger ship service to the Palestinian people who have been suffering from the blockade imposed on Gaza.It is telling that the moonbats are not interested so much in transporting food or...

Mississippi's Muslim town

Q: Where in the world can one find a map that looks like this?A: Sumrall, Mississippi.Apparently, this section of Mississippi plans to become its own strictly Islamic municipality, called New Medinah, as this article show...

From the English-language "International Middle East Media Center," which is a Palestinian Arab propaganda outlet that is considered a "news" source by Google:This cartoonist is, of course, one of the "moderates." His website describes him as:A well-known Palestinian cartoonist, provides daily cartoons to various news and media outlets. He was presented with many achievement...

Syrian prostitution booming

From Al-Arabiya:Defying the worldwide economic downturn, prostitutes in Syria are experiencing boom times as more robust economic activity in Syria has created a booming market for their profession due to an inflow of investments in the private sector that have increased the disposable incomes that fund entertainment and indulgence.Prostitutes in Syria hoping to cash into the economic boom are accordingly raising their prices and improving their...

The trials of a pro-Israel student group at Berkeley

From J, the Jewish News Weekly of Northern California (h/t Tia):Long a hotbed of anti-Israel activity, U.C. Berkeley has barely had a strong pro-Israel presence on campus. Until now, with Tikvah: Students for Israel, the Zionist student group at U.C. Berkeley. We are the group that stepped up to protest when academics John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt visited Cal in October 2007 to hawk their book, a nefarious smear job titled “The Jewish Lobby and...

LA Times cannot read a map

From AFP:Egypt's northern Sinai is running low on fuel supplies because of the amount of smuggling across the border to the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, Egyptian officials said on Saturday."Smuggling to Gaza through tunnels has led to a drastic reduction in fuel supplies at petrol stations" in the northern Sinai, said Mohammed Hussein, a senior official of the Sinai governorate.Other local officials said work with agricultural equipment was having...

Syrian economist: Jews killed JFK!

MEMRI keeps finding these gems....Following are excerpts from an interview with Syrian economist Muhammad Sharif Mazloum, which aired on Al-Kawthar TV on October 10, 2008.Muhammad Sharif Mazloum: The economic crisis began on August 15, 1971, when President Nixon canceled the Bretton Woods agreement, which linked the old gold dollar to the Jewish gold. Thus, the dollar was severed from gold, and became subjected to the whims and schemes of the Zionist...

The celebrity murderer visits Syria

From Ma'an Arabic:The dean of Israeli prisoners Samir Kuntar arrived this evening to the Syrian capital Damascus, in a week-long visit that will include a series of activities in several provinces of Syria.Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal welcomed him, saying: "You are now between your family and your people, and we're proud of you and all the resistance heroes."Kuntar said, "I carry to the Syrian people and the rule of President Bashar al-Assad...

Yesterday, AP published this photo:A Palestinian man cooks chicken using a wood-fuelled stove due to a shortage in cooking gas, in an outdoor kitchen in Gaza City, Thursday, Nov. 20, 2008. He said he is cooking for poor families and hospital patients in Gaza. Israel's tightening Gaza blockade, a response to Palestinian militant rocket fire, has led to frequent blackouts throughout...

Friday Links

Israeli envoy: The UN filled with "hostility and hypocrisy" (YNet)Hezbollah seeks to marshal the piety of the young (NYT) (h/t EBoZ)The new anti-Semitism? (Christopher Hitchens at Times Online)Denmark to ban circumcision? (YNe...