April 2009 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Saudi king upset over scandalous rumors

From the Saudi Gazette:An official source has categorically denied some news agency reports quoting US Foreign Ministry Undersecretary William Burns that King Abdullah, Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques, had greeted Israeli President Shimon Peres on the sidelines of the UN Cultures for Peace Conference in New York last November.The statement made by Burns was false, baseless and untrue, emphasized the source.The source also demanded the US Foreign...

Iran has an earthquake measuring 5.6 on the Richter scale today.As we've noted before, Iran is one of the most seismologically active areas on the planet. Over 7000 earthquakes have been recorded there. Here is a map showing where some of them have occurred, and when:Is this the smartest place to build nuclear reactors, even for peaceful purpose...

Britain calls Richard Falk's UN report "biased"

A rare moment of diplomatic candor and truth:Britain criticised Wednesday a report by a UN human rights investigator on Israel's Gaza offensive as "unbalanced", but insisted it was extremely concerned by the situation in Gaza and the West Bank.Last month, the UN special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories, Richard Falk, said in a report that there was "reason" to conclude that Israel's massive military offensive on Gaza in December and January...

More self-deaths

Two Palestinian Arabs were killed in another collapse of a smuggling tunnel today. Three others are missing.There was also a stabbing death in Jenin on Tuesday night.The 2009 PalArab self-death count is now at 7...

"Cast Lead" casualties report by ICT

The International Institute of Counter-Terrorism has released a comprehensive report of the discrepancies between the PCHR report on "civilians" killed in Gaza and the number of them that were militants.It is a very nice report and the goals are identical with what Suzanne, PTWatch, Leon, Marc El and I have been trying to do here. And there is some fantastic information there in identifying Hamas and other "civilian" Gazans killed who were in fact...

Black market body-part ring ignored by media

Q. When is a news story about an international ring that removes kidneys from children and selling them on the black market not newsworthy?A. When the ring is run by Arabs!From the Yemen Observer:The Egyptian authorities arrested members of an international gang accused of trading human body parts. The gang was captured by Egyptian authorities in collaboration with the Yemeni community in Egypt. The gang is accused of seducing ten Yemeni children...

Arabs use Hebrew calendar

YNet mentions:Thousands attended a Palestinian rally on Israel's Independence Day in the abandoned village of Kafrin, now a part of the northern town of Ramot Menashe.The rally was in honor of the Nakba, a holiday marking the expulsion of Palestinian refugees from their land during the War of Independence. Palestinian Arabs could have chosen to celebrate their Nakba Day on any day of the year. They could have chosen the day of the Deir Yassin massacre,...

8-year old pays off "husband" to divorce him

From the Saudi Gazette:The arranged marriage of an 8-year-old girl to a 50-year-old man, who has two other wives, has been annulled in an out-of-court settlement, court sources said Wednesday.The settlement, mediated by a new judge at the court, was not without lengthy negotiations between the girl’s lawyer and the husband who clung on to the legality of the marriage until the end of the working day, when he finally agreed to divorce the child wife.The...

Pro-Hamas hackers?

Today, both the Firas Press and AlQuds Arabic websites are unavailable.Given that both of those news sites are pro-Fatah, this seems to be a bit more than a coincidence.The pro-Fatah Palestinian Press Agency was hacked a while back, and I know Firas had been hit previously as wel...

Lying as natural as breathing, part 2

A couple of people decided to look up Nael Barghouti, the person I mentioned in my last post as supposedly the record-breaking prisoner. The only place we see that name mentioned is as the architect of the Park Hotel bombing that killed 20 in 2002.If he is in fact that same guy, then the article quoted was even more of a lie than I thought. Barghouti would have only been in prison a maximum of 7 consecutive years and calling him a "political prisoner"...

Lying comes as natural as breathing to PalArabs

Ma'an writes:On Friday, 1 May, Palestinian prisoner Nael Barghouthi will become the world’s record-holder for serving the longest running prison sentence in the world.Barghouthi will have completed more than 31 years in Israeli custody by May, said Abd An-Nasser Farawna, a Palestinian specialist in prisoners affairs. On Friday, Barghouthi will break the Guinness World Record, which is currently held by Sa'id Al-Ataba, a Palestinian who was also in...

Teaching children to hate Jews - on TV

MEMRI has another horrific clip of pure anti-semitism - from our friends the Egyptians:Egyptian Cleric Teaches a Child to Memorize Antisemitic Messages on Al-Rahma TV and Explains: The Understanding of What He Said Will ComeFollowing are excerpts from an Islamist children's program, which aired on Al-Rahma TV on March 6, 2009:Child: Oh Allah, completely, destroy and shatter the Jews. Oh Allah, torment them with a disease that has no cure or remedy....

Proud to be a Zionist - 5769 edition

I wrote the original essay around 2002 and I have been adding to it since then. Here is this year's edition: In prayers every morning Jews say a phrase praising G-d, describing Him as המחדש בכל יום תמיד מעשה בראשית - He who continually renews the act of Creation. In other words, the Jewish concept of G-d has him in an active role keeping the universe running, and as such it is appropriate to praise Him. It is a little hard to conceptualize this...

Massad getting tenure at Columbia?

The New York Daily News writes why Joseph Massad should not get tenure at Columbia, and they choose an interesting angle: To the board of trustees of Columbia University we recommend reading a book titled "Desiring Arabs," written by a faculty member who aspires to a tenured, lifetime appointment. The volume should also be of interest to gay and lesbian activists because author Joseph Massad accuses them of being anti-Arab conspirators. Massad...

Sentenced to death for selling land to Jews

Just an everyday capital crime in the quasi-Palestinian Arab government.You know, the one that accuses Israel of "racism."A special Palestinian Authority (PA) military court in Hebron in the sentenced a Palestinian man to death by hanging after he was found guilty of selling land to Israeli settlers on Tuesday.This is the first time a Palestinian court has handed down a conviction for treason in a case relating to land sales. The suspect is from...

Gifts of violence

Nothing says friendship like giving gifts.And nothing says more about the gift-giver than his choice of gifts.For example, Barack Obama's gifts to Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Queen pretty much screamed "clueless."But that is trivial compared to the symbolism of other recent gifts given by prominent Arabs.Jordan's King Hussein presented President Obama with a gift of a "royal weaponry set," including four daggers and an axe.Because nothing...

Abbas posters take over Ramallah

Firas Press reports that suddenly, Ramallah and other West Bank towns are being covered in posters depicting Mahmoud Abbas/Abu Mazen. No one is taking credit for this proliferation, but it is irritating residents and prompting uncomplimentary graffiti.Message boards are trying to guess at the reasons for this, some suggesting that since he spends so much time traveling, it is to remind people what he looks like.Abbas' people deny being behind this.One...

Hamas' plan to marry off martyr's wives hits snags

About a month ago, Hamas offered $3000 for men in Gaza to marry widows of "martyrs" as additional wives.According to an article in today's Al Quds, they even had a date set for the group wedding in June.For some reason, though, the grieving widows aren't rushing to become secondary or tertiary wives for strangers. The article interviews a number of the women, most of whom have no interest in this brilliant plan that is meant to "contribute to the...

Fatah moderates fight - each other

From Ma'an:Fatah leaders Hakam Bal’awi and Nasser Yousef brawled on Monday in Jordan as the two attended a planning meeting ahead of the Sixth Fatah conference, sources inside the movement said.A heated argument nearly came to blows during a late afternoon session of the planning committee, which has been preparing for a party conference set to re-think the structure and purpose of Fatah. As a result of the argument meetings for the conference were...

More of those "civilians" killed in Gaza (UPDATED)

(For an update and a summary, see this posting. A video summarizing this posting can be seen here.)Using various public websites, PTWatch, Suzanne, t34zakat and I have identified no fewer that 363 terrorists killed by the IDF that have been reported as "civilians" by PCHR. 22 of them are called "children" by PCHR.Out of 279 policemen killed, 209 have been identified as terrorists - 75%.Here they are. The numbers represent the position they were on...