January 2010 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, January 31, 2010

Prominent Dutch socialite proves her seething Jew-hatred

Islam Online had an interview with Gretta Duisenberg, the wife of the former first president of the European Central Bank.She already had a history of outrageous actions - participating in rallies where the demonstrators sang "Hamas, Hamas, send Jews to the gas!", where she herself sang "Intifada! Intifada!," hanging a PLO flag from her balcony during the height of the suicide...

Palestine Press Agency quotes Esfandiar Rahim Mashaei, advisor to Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as saying that Tel Aviv would be "erased from existence" in case Iran is attacked.The implication seems to be that Iran will act out this threat even if it is threatened by the US, as he was speaking in reaction to the news that the US was deploying missile defenses around...

Dueling PalArab responses to Goldstone

The PA announced that they will do their own investigation of Goldstone report claims, and Hamas is not happy.To meet Ban Ki Moon's deadline for responses, the PA instead submitted a report describing how it will create a commission of inquiry to investigate the very few claims that Goldstone had against "armed groups." Hamas, in turn, is saying that they will not cooperate with any PA investigation, saying that the PA is not qualified to write such...

They (think they) found Arafat's invisible poison!

Firas Press writes:Bassam Abu Sharif, a former adviser to Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, says that the toxic material that killed the late president is called 'Iim', a substance which is colorless, has no smell and was placed in food or drink that has given to 'Abu Ammar.'Iim? (The word in quotes transliterates to "althalim.")The investigation continues. They know who killed Arafat, they know why, they know how; all they need is the tiniest...

Once again, Mahmoud Abbas has rejected the idea of Israel being a Jewish state. The evidence he brings is the fact that the letter that Harry Truman wrote recognizing Israel had the words "Jewish state" crossed out and replaced with "State of Israel."This is not the first time the PA brought out this argument; Saeb Erekat floated the same idea last April. The argument is bogus,...

It looks like Mabhouh was assassinated

It appears that Ma'an's early story about the death of Hamas co-founder Muhammad Al-Mabhouh being from cancer was not accurate, and he was in fact assassinated. (I was waiting for the UAE police to say something on the matter.)One Israeli media outlet says it was a Mossad hit. Inyan Merkazi says that Mabhouh was negotiating a deal to transfer arms from Iran to Gaza and was killed by four Mossad hitmen who first interrogated him and got lots of good...

Two interesting Hebrew news stories (updated)

SShender links to two interesting stories in the Hebrew media.One is a Ma'ariv article that quotes an analysis of the footnotes in the Goldstone report, done by Im Tirtzu, that are negative against the IDF, and finds that 92% of them come from Israeli NGOs who are funded by the New Israel Fund, which spends huge amounts of money - so far over $140 million - from abroad to fund these far-left, often anti-government NGOs. Examples include Adalah,...

Happy Tu B'Shvat! Plant a tree in Israel!

YNet has some good stats on the eve of Tu B'Shvat the traditional Jewish New Year for trees) from the Jewish National Fund: Israel is the only country in the world which has more trees now than it did 100 years ago. In 1901, the year in which JNF was founded, Israel contained only 14,000 dunam (roughly 3,500 acres) of forest land altogether. By 1980 the figure reached 556,000 dunam and currently Israel contains 855,663 dunam of forestry. JNF has...

Coolness from the IDF page:Rescue without human touch: The Air-Mule UAV which assists in medical evacuation has recently passed its initial flight tests. The new UAV, which weighs a ton, will be able to carry equipment and fly into complicated places, such as in urban areas and crevices. In addition to that, the Air-Mule takes off vertically, similar to a helicopter, and its...

No one can doubt that IDF soldiers did do some minor but unprofessional things in Gaza, like leaving graffiti behind.Apparently, one IDF soldier decided to leave graffiti on a much larger scale - a 60 meter Star of David in a field in southern Gaza carved out by some heavy, but maneuverable, vehicle:I'm surprised that this was not mentioned as a war crime by Goldstone.(From...

Hamas accuses Israel of assassinating co-founder

I reported last week that one of the co-founders of Hamas Al Qassam Brigades died of terminal cancer last week in Dubai.Well, Hamas launched an "investigation," and determined that it wasn't cancer that got him - it was an assassination plot by the Mossad!The high-tech Israelis apparently killed him through "an electrical appliance that was held to his head," according to his brother, who must be credible according to UN fact-finding standards.Hamas...

As we wait for the IDF response to Goldstone to be released, I looked a little further into the Al Badr flour mill incident that Goldstone chose as a perfect example of Israel trying to starve Gazans to death.As the New York Times reported:The Goldstone report asserts that the Bader flour mill “was hit by an airstrike, possibly by an F-16.” The Israeli investigators say they...

Oh, and another Hamas fact...

A little more proof that Hamas did target civilians during Cast Lead, notwithstanding their denials.Omri at Mere Rhetoric points to the fact that Hamas sent SMS messages to Israeli civilians during the war. They didn't warn people to take cover - on the contrary, they said that the Qassams would reach them and that the shelters will not protect them.Sounds like a pretty explicit threat and statement of intent. Too bad Goldstone missed that one, ...

If you are Yaron Bob, you make it into art:And you donate some of the profits towards rocket shelters.Details here.(h/t sshende...

Firas Press reports on an (apparently) Arab study of Israeli settler policy.Among its claims is that Jewish farmers in the Jordan Valley are labeling their produce as being "Made in Palestine," not so much for the European anti-Israel market as for selling the products in Arab countries. Some of the farmers will set up partnerships and front companies with local Arabs to...

Really bad anti-semitism in Malmo, Sweden

Erik Johansson in the comments points to an interview with the mayor of Malmo, Sweden, Ilmar Reepalu, where he says, "We don't accept either Zionism nor antisemitism. They are both extremes that pose them selves above other groups and regard those [groups] as inferior."And in response to a pro-Israel demonstration, he stated "I would have wished for the Jewish congregation [in Malmo] to take a stand against Israel's violations of the civilian population...

Hamas lies about Shalit in response to Goldstone

Palestine Press Agency says that Hamas' response to Goldstone also talks about how it is treating Gilad Shalit.Their "commission of inquiry" claims that the armed groups holding Shalit are "committed to the Third Geneva Convention on the treatment of prisoners of war, saying he has the proper amounts of food and was being held in a safe and clean manner that preserves his dignity."The only problem is that the Third Geneva Conventions also specifically...

Hamas frightened of Egypt (guest post by Zvi)

A couple of recent comments in response to my post about Hamas groveling to Saudi Arabia (the publication of that letter is making waves in PalArab media) are worth posting.Sshender pointed out that Khaled Meshal was acting in at least a humiliating way to Egypt as well, pointing out a Hebrew link from Channel 10 to a hostile Egyptian interview with him and to general statements that Mubarak has been making about Hamas.Zvi follows up with a worthwhile...

Hamas finds itself innocent. What a surprise.

Al-Arabiya reports that Hamas has investigated itself and found not only that it did nothing wrong, but also that other terror groups didn't either:The Islamist Hamas movement said Wednesday it has investigated allegations in a U.N. report into last winter's Gaza war and absolved Palestinian armed groups of any atrocities.Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were killed during the Israeli offensive aimed at halting rocket attacks from the territory...