September 2009 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Ahmadinejad spurned Neturei Karta?

Vos iz Neias, a Brooklyn-based Orthodox Jewish website, reports:VIN News has learned from high-ranking Iranian officials that a New York meeting between President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and members of the radical anti-Zionist Neturei Karta group was canceled at-the behest of Ahmadinejad himself.Neturei Karta members reportedly were scrambling to secure a meeting with Ahmadinejad himself during his recent visit to New York for the U.N. meeting. Hope...

Casualties of Truth - the website

PTWatch, after much exhausting work, has put together a database-driven website that shows all the results of our team's research into PCHR's casualty list from Operation Cast Lead.Much better than the posting I've been updating, the site lists alternate names of the militants, points to the URLs that prove their terrorist ties and even includes screenshots of the sites.This is now the definitive reference site for Cast Lead casualties. I hope that...

September rocket calendar

Q=Qassam (may include Katyusha-style rockets)QS=Qassam landing short in GazaM=Mortar(G)=Grad (included in Qassam count, not consistent yet)MS=Mortar landing shortP - unnamed "projectiles"(Paren) indicates unconfirmed Palestinian claimsK=Katyushas from LebanonSeptember 2009 Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 123455M2MS1MS 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 1M 2K 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1MS 2Q 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 1Q 1Q 1M 27 28 29 30 1 2 3 2Q 1Q 1Q...

Palestinian Arab leaders calling for new intifada

Palestinian Arabs love to romanticize their worst decisions.During the 1936-39 riots and strikes they ended up killing far more of their own people than anyone else. Their leadership was forced out of the area and they were left a disorganized mess, which historians blame for their poor performance in 1948. Yet they nostalgically refer to that time period as "The Great Revolt," mostly because they did manage to scare the British into severely limiting...

Latest insane Arab rumor

From Ma'an:Israel plans to allow Jewish worshipers to pray at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem on a regular basis, dividing prayer time between Muslims and Jews, officials at the Islamic Christian Society in Support of Jerusalem said Monday.Currently Israeli citizens are not permitted to enter the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, the Haram Ash-Sharif. On Sunday, however, clashes broke out inside the sanctuary when extremist Jews - reports dispute whether...

The IDF's miracle weapons!

From Palestine Think Tank:Malformed Babies Resulting From Israeli Banned WeaponsSince the end of criminal Israeli operation "Cast Lead" in Gaza Strip last January, more than five cases of birth have been registered which show babies who have a deformed and not fully formed heart. These births came as an effect of the use of internationally banned weapons of phosphor and uranium by the Israeli occupation in the middle of populated areas.I did see...

UNHRC meeting members accuse Israel of genocide

The UN Human Rights Council continues its farcical actions as today it considered the Goldstone Report.In the synopsis of the morning session, two people used the report to accuse Israel of genocide. One was Israel's erstwhile "peace partner." (Notice how the UNHRC already regards "Palestine" as a country:)Palestine, speaking as a concerned country, said that the report was a professional, unbiased report, and related to facts that could not be denied....

The Islamization of Lebanon

From the Lebanon Daily Star:Christians are tempted to flee Lebanon as the country becomes increasingly “Islamized,” according to the founder of the Center for Arab Christian Research and Documentation (CEDRAC). One-third of the nation’s Christian population has left since the beginning of the 1975-90 Civil War, and a recent surge in emigration means Christians now make up just 34 percent of Lebanon’s population, Father Samir Khalil, a Jesuit teacher...

"Honor killing" in Jordan

From AFP:Three Jordanian men were charged on Tuesday with premeditated murder after allegedly stabbing to death their divorced sister as well as burning her body and house over her "bad reputation," police said."The three brothers all under 30, agreed to kill their 40-year-old sister on Sunday because she allegedly had a bad reputation," in Abu Alanda, in southeast Amman, a police spokesman told AFP. "She was stabbed 15 times. One of the three told...

Israel to import lulavs from Gaza

From Arutz-7:Defense Minister Ehud Barak approved Tuesday the importation of lulavs (date palm fronds) from Gaza, after Minister of Religious Services Yakov Mergi asked him to do so. The lulavs are one of the four species used in the morning prayer services during the upcoming Jewish holiday of Sukkot. The request comes as a result of a shortage in lulavs and concern over a possible cartel by dealers, resulting in a price hike.The story appeared...

"Death penalty for women who fake virginity"

I've mentioned a number of times about how some women in the Arab world are forced to go through hymen-restoration surgery before marriage in order to ensure that they won't get murdered by their new loving husbands upon the discovery that their hymens are not intact. Most recently, a Saudi fatwa seemed to allow such surgery, although hundreds of Jordanian women are forced to have their "virginity" examined before marriage by prospective in-laws.Now,...

Egyptian editor in trouble for talking to Israeli

More from that model of Israel-Arab peace:The board of state-owned Al-Ahram Organization referred Al-Ahram’s Democracy Review editor-in-chief Hala Mustafa to the legal affairs department to be questioned over inviting Israeli ambassador Shalhom Cohen to her office. This comes after the Journalists’ Syndicate also opened an investigation into the same incident, which is seen as violating the general assembly’s ban on any form of cooperation with Israel.Nearly...

Yesterday, Ma'an described the event on the Temple Mount like this (the story has since been radically changed online:)Confrontations erupted after groups of Israelis broke into the compound, reportedly under the guard of Israeli police. Palestinians hurled stones, chairs, and shoes at the Israelis, while police tried to disperse the Palestinians by force, injuring nine people...

Goldstone Report inaccuracies, part 16

The Goldstone Report includes these pieces of information:397. While it appears that all the policemen killed in this location were taking part in a training course, there is conflicting information on the details. Most reports by NGOs are to the effect that these were police “cadets” in the midst of a graduation ceremony. The Gaza police spokesperson, however, told the Mission that they were serving policemen, who had been taking a three-week course...

G'mar chatima tovah 5770 - גמר חתימה טובה

I would like to take this opportunity to ask forgiveness from anyone who I may have wronged this year; even if I use a pseudonym the feelings I may have hurt are no less real. I unconditionally forgive anyone who may have wronged me.For those who read Hebrew, here's something I wasn't aware of - a comparison between the text of Avinu Malkeinu and the weekday Shmoneh Esrei, from here:הקבלה לשמונה עשרה אבינו מלכנו מקביל לשמונה עשרה ברכות העמידה ביום...

Hamas KidTV: "Slaughter the Jews"

Nassur the Bear, the latest mascot from the Hamas kiddie TV show "Pioneers of Tomorrow," here calls for the slaughter of all Jews in Israel:Nassur: “There won't be any Jews or Zionists, if Allah wills. They'll be erased.”Saraa: “Chased away.”Nassur: “And just like we will visit the Qaaba [in Mecca]... everyone will visit Jerusalem.”[Seven-year old Palestinian child on phone tells how his father, a member of the Hamas Al-Qassam Brigades, “died as...

Jordanian father defends Dallas terrorist

From the Jordan Times:Maher Smadi accused the FBI of “entrapping” his son, provoking him to follow through on actions he would not have taken without the encouragement of the undercover agents. “Instead of encouraging my son to become a terrorist, the FBI should have focused on changing his thoughts and putting him on the right track again. All they did was to add a new name to the list of terrorists,” he said.Entrapping a man to want to kill hundreds...

PalArabs use peaceful stones against violent meditators

Ha'aretz reports:Four people were wounded in clashes between police and Palestinian protesters early Sunday at the Temple Mount in the Old City of Jerusalem.Police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby said some 150 Palestinians threw stones at a group of Jews visiting the site. Police dispersed the rioters using stun grenades, and two policemen were lightly wounded.In other words, Palestinian Arabs decided to turn their "third holiest site" into a place for...

"Goldstone" on Latma

Very funny and very politically incorrect humor from an Israeli comedy sho...

Other Goldstone reactions

There have been a number of excellent rejoinders to Goldstone. Here are a couple of recent ones:Israel's Ministry of Foreign AffairsMa'ariv's Ben-Dror Yemini(h/t t34zaka...

Goldstone Report inaccuracies, part 15 (updated)

The Goldstone Report pretends to investigate whether Hamas used Gazans as human shields. As it does so, it bends over backwards to give the impression that Hamas is innocent even as the evidence it brings shows the opposite.Goldstone starts off with the issue with allegations that Hamas forced civilians to act as human shields. Paragraph 473 states, not surprisingly, that none of the Gaza witnesses they called to testify claimed that Hamas forced...

Glow-in-the-dark gefilte fish!

From TheJC (h/t Vicious Babushka):Student Jessica Taylor was shocked to see her late-night gefilte fish snack light up the kitchen of her north London family home by glowing bright green and yellow. Her mother had bought the Hoffman’s product the previous day at Moshe’s Deli in Temple Fortune. Joff Taylor, Jessica’s father, said: “My daughter came home at two or three in the morning and was starving. She did not put on the kitchen light, took out...

Today's PalArab news (9/25/09)

The Al Aqsa Heritage Foundation has put out this week's warnings about Jewish plans to "storm" the Temple Mount, saying that Israeli explosives experts visited the site on Thursday, that Jews are planning to "storm" the Mount on Sunday ahead of Yom Kippur, that 130 have "stormed" it this week, that Jews are having lectures about the Third Temple, and that Jews are praying for the destruction of the "Al-Aqsa" mosque. They claim that this is all on...

UNRWA decries the crisis it perpetuates

Unreal:No current world refugee crisis has gone unresolved longer than the Palestinian exodus, said the UN Relief and Works Agency's commissioner-general, Karen Abu Zayd, in New York on Thursday."The Palestinians make up the world's largest refugee group, and their plight has gone on longer than any other," the AP quoted Abu Zayd as saying during an event marking 60 years...

thursday open thread

I'm away from my trusty computer much of the day, so here's an open thread. Have fu...

Hosny, Egyptians blame Jews for losing UNESCO election

From AP:Egypt's culture minister on Wednesday blamed a conspiracy "cooked up in New York" by the world's Jews for keeping him from becoming the next head of the U.N.'s agency for culture and education.Farouk Hosny was defeated on Tuesday by Bulgarian diplomat Irina Bokova in a tight race for the position of UNESCO chair."It was clear by the end of the competition that there was a conspiracy against me," Hosny told reporters at the airport upon his...

Maktoob reports:Iran police have banned the display of women's underwear in shop windows across the Islamic republic, Tehran dailies said on Wednesday.There have been reports of the use of inappropriate and shocking mannequins in shop windows in a bid to draw in customers, which has been the source of public dissatisfaction," the Arman newspaper quoted a police statement as...

Ahmadinejad has me pegged

Part of Ahmadinejad's rambling speech at the UN contained this gem, aimed squarely at yours truly:It is no longer acceptable that a small minority would dominate the politics, economy and culture of major parts of the world by its complicated networks, and establish a new form of slavery, and harm the reputation of other nations, even European nations and the U.S., to attain its racist ambitions.Of course, 'Mad-e-jad knew about me a couple of years...

Crashed Iranian jet was an AWACS

It turns out that the Iranian plane lost during a military show was not just an ordinary plane....From Defense News:TEHRAN - Iran's sole Simorgh AWACS aircraft was lost during a military parade Sept. 22, one of two Iranian military aircraft that crashed in Tehran while participating in a display to mark the anniversary of the start of the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq War.The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force operated a single Simorgh, a former Iraqi Air Force...

Goldstone report inaccuracies, part 14

One of the most-exaggerated events of the Gaza war was the accusation that Israel had bombed an UNRWA school, killing some 46 people according to some reports.As time went on, it became clear that the school itself was not hit except from shrapnel, and that the numbers claimed to have been killed were vastly exaggerated.The Goldstone report, however, claims that 24 were killed near the school - in multiple paragraphs:41. The Mission examined the...

Moonbat facts

This item by Jeff Gates has been winding its way around the far left "news" sites:Online reports of a study by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency cast doubt over the survival of Israel beyond the next two decades. Regardless of the validity of the report, with what is now known about the costs in blood and treasure that the U.S.-Israeli relationship has imposed on the U.S., its key ally, Israel could fall within five years.Gates, a rabid Israel...

Iran joins War of the Worlds

From Iran's Press TV (h/t Judeopundit):Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has targeted and downed an unidentified shining object after sighting it over Persian Gulf waters."Glowing objects were sighted over the Persian Gulf. IRGC air defense targeted one of the objects successfully, forcing it to plummet and sink in the seas off Boushehr (Province)," said top regional commander, Brigadier Ali Razmjou."The three bright objects were detected...

Hamas upping the ante for Shalit?

Palestine Press Agency and Palestine Today report that Hamas is adding completely new demands to the Shalit negotiations.The newspapers claim that Hamas has new confidence in its negotiating position, seeing that Germany, Norway, the US and France are involved in talks.The absurd new demands include the right to have a port in Gaza where Hamas can import all the weapons they want without restrictions, to have Israel release all prisoners with Israeli...