March 2012 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, March 31, 2012

GMJ organizer furiously backtracks on"'two million" claim

Last Monday: Two million Arab and international protesters will march toward the borders of Israel and take part in activities designed to highlight Jerusalem’s Arab character on Friday, the event organizer claims. Ribhi Haloum, general coordinator of the “Global March to Jerusalem,” said in a press statement that volunteers from 80 countries will take part in the march. Jordan and Lebanon will send protesters to the border, whereas Egypt will...

Mustafa Barghouti was injured by Arabs, not the IDF

During Friday's Land Day protests in Qalandia, member of parliament Mustafa Barghouti was injured - and, of course, he blamed Israel for what he described as a tear-gas canister hitting him. The IDF denied the report. As reported in Ma'an: On Saturday, the aide told Ma'an he was injured by a tear-gas canister fired by Israeli forces. She said the police were informed of the circumstances during their visit to the hospital. An Israeli military...

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Dog mascot chases real cat during Maccabi Tel Aviv game

From The Daily Mail: A basketball team's canine mascot needed no help getting into character when a cat strayed onto the court during a televised match. In a curious take on the age-old pursuit, Maccabi Tel Aviv mascot Donny the Dog sprang into action after the feline appeared during a match against Bnei Hasharon in Israel. As Maccabi's players attacked their oppponents' end at the Zisman Arena in the city Ramat Gan, eastern Israel, the furry...

Five year old girl forced to marry - in England

From BBC: A five-year-old girl is thought to have become the UK's youngest victim of forced marriage. She was one of 400 children to receive assistance from the government's Forced Marriage Unit in the last year. The figures have emerged as the public consultation into criminalising forced marriage in England, Wales and Northern Ireland comes to an end. Amy Cumming, joint head of the Forced Marriage Unit, said 29% of the cases it dealt with last...

972mag attacks Judaism

Yossi Gurvitz of 972mag has written two screeds this week where he claims that an IDF rabbi allows troops to rape enemy women. In the first article he publishes a query to Rabbi Eyal Qarim, a colonel in the IDF who was not answering in any official IDF capacity, and the rabbi's answer, which makes it look like Qarim is saying that rape is permissible nowadays during wartime. In his second, he ridicules the rabbi's denial, all the while clucking...

Neturei Karta "rabbis" insulted and beaten in Jordan "Global March"

YNet says: Jordanian news sites have reported Friday afternoon that some 20,000 people are participating in a mass procession in Jordan. The protesters gathered at Jesus's baptism site, and are planning to march towards the border with Israel. Increased security presence was reported in the area. According to reports, participants were yelling "where is the Arab League on Jerusalem?" and waving Jordanian and Palestinian flags alongside signs with...

Anti-Israel gay conference on "Homonationalism and Pinkwashing" at CUNY

From Times of Israel: An academic conference planned for next year in New York will use Israel’s largely positive record on gay rights to denounce its treatment of Palestinians. City University of New York last week announced Homonationalism and Pinkwashing, a gathering that will provide “an opportunity to examine Queer Resistance and Complicity globally” — but with a special emphasis on Israel. Hosted by CUNY’s Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies,...

British BDSers: "We have no problem with Hebrew, just Israel"

From The Guardian letters section: We notice with dismay and regret that Shakespeare's Globe Theatre in London has invited Israel's National Theatre, Habima, to perform The Merchant of Venice in its Globe to Globe festival this coming May. The general manager of Habima has declared the invitation "an honourable accomplishment for the State of Israel". But Habima has a shameful record of involvement with illegal Israeli settlements...

Weeds, the video

How much have Muslims venerated the Temple Mount throughout history? Here's a video I made in 2008 that seems appropriate to repost on this day that so many are pretending to love Jerusalem. ...

Ambulances in Gaza run out of fuel; Hamas in no hurry to procure more

From Ma'an: The health ministry in Gaza said Thursday that 36 ambulances were offline due to the fuel crisis. Spokesman Adham Abu Salmiya said the ambulances were parked because the ministry has run out of fuel needed to power them. The shortage comes despite a deal announced Tuesday by the Palestine Electricity Company Egypt to provide gas to Gaza. Palestine Electricity Company director in Gaza Walid Saad Sayil signed the agreement with the...

Lebanese and Jordanian security forces say they'll keep the peace at "Global March"

From Lebanon's Daily Star: A security source told The Daily Star that the Lebanese Army would take measures to prevent demonstrators from crossing into the area to the south of the Litani River, which is in the field of operation of the U.N. Interim Force in Lebanon. The source said that security measures which would be put into effect at midnight Thursday, in an effort to prevent a repetition of last May, when Israeli troops opened fire on unarmed...

Some lies are repeated so much that people tend to ignore them due to sheer exhaustion of debunking them. But that only emboldens the liars. Today's Exhibit A is Mahmoud Abbas, who went in front of the Arab League meeting in Baghdad today to rail against "ethnic cleansing" of Arabs in Jerusalem. Abbas accused Israel of carrying out a policy of ethnic cleansing...

Report: Woman thrown into Nile over divorce

From Bikya Masr: According to news reports on Wednesday, an Egyptian man and his family tied up their daughter and threw her into the Nile river as a result of a divorce to her aging husband, who mistreat her and abused the young woman. Luckily, a fisherman saw the girl and rescued her before she died, Emirates 24/7 reported. According to their report, the girl had initially refused to marry the elderly man, but then acquiesced to her family pressure...

Today's blood libel, sponsored by the Syrian opposition

From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from an interview with Dr. Osama Al-Mallouhi, a member of the Syrian opposition, which aired on Al-Nas TV on March 26, 2012 : Dr. Osama Al-Mallouhi : Israel is doing everything it can to keep Bashar Al-Assad in power. It is using international lobbies to exert pressure on other countries, to keep Bashar Al-Assad in power and to keep the world on the sidelines, making do with verbal condemnations,...

The Al Aqsa Foundation has released statistics on how many non-Muslims have visited the Temple Mount this year, and they aren't happy. According to their statistics, 1034 religious Jews (what they call "settlers") visited so far this year, as well as 63,887 foreign tourists, and 983 Israeli security forces to protect the visitors from being stoned to death. Every single...

Is US acting to sabotage an Israeli strike on Iran?

An interesting analysis by Ron Ben Yishai at YNet, after Congress released a large report on the possibilities of an Israeli strike on Iran: The US Administration recently shifted into high gear in its efforts to avert an Israeli strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities by the end of the year. The flood of reports in the American media in recent weeks attests not only to the genuine US fear that Israel intends to realize its threats; moreover,...

Lebanese army threatens Israel at "Global March" tomorrow

Israel's Reshet reports: Thousands are expected tomorrow morning to march on Israel's borders and the Lebanese army has been threatening against Israel in response if the IDF will act militarily against the demonstrators at the fence. "The military was prepared to deal with any Israeli aggression," said the Lebanese army chief of staff and Walid Salman. During a tour Salman made along the Israeli-Lebanese border, where he visited the military...

Freedom of the press, PA-style: Reporter arrested for "slander"

From Ma'an: A Palestinian court has extended the remand of a journalist arrested Monday over allegations of slander and defamation, officials in Ramallah said Wednesday. The Palestinian Authority will continue to hold Yousef al-Shayeb, who was arrested Monday, for another 15 days, the court ruled. He has not yet been charged with a crime. The journalist was first questioned in late January over his reporting on allegations against the Palestinian...

Arabs translating the Talmud to understand the evil that is Israel

From JPost: A think tank on Middle East affairs in Jordan has for the first time published a translation of the Babylonian Talmud in Arabic. Middle East Studies Center based in Amman produced the 20-volume work, which took six years to complete and is the labor of 95 translators, language experts and editors. The center’s director Jawad Ahmad refused to speak about the project with The Jerusalem Post and a member of the staff said that Ahmad would...

US State Dept. dodging question of Jerusalem in briefing (updated)

Transcript: QUESTION: Yesterday there was a bit of a kerfuffle over an announcement that was made by the Department about the travel of your boss. MS. NULAND: Yes. QUESTION: Is it the State Department’s position that Jerusalem is not part of Israel? MS. NULAND: Well, you know that our position on Jerusalem has not changed. The first Media Note was issued...

Egyptian paper says Jews make pastries from gentile blood on Purim

From MEMRI: In a March 14, 2012 article in the Egyptian daily Al-Wafd, columnist Fikriya Ahmad wrote that the Jews, throughout their history, used to celebrate Purim by wreaking murderous vengeance on non-Jews and using their slaughtered victims' blood to make Purim sweets. She added that, today, they continue this custom by perpetrating attacks and assassinations against the Palestinians. In ancient times, [around] 400 BCE or earlier, groups of...

Palestinian Arabs in Iraq complain of discrimination

Apartheid, anyone? Palestinian refugees in Iraq say they face widespread discrimination and have appealed to President Mahmoud Abbas to intervene. The Iraqi Palestinian Brothers Association said Tuesday that it sent a letter to Abbas, who is in Baghdad to attend the Arab League summit, detailing their plight. The association said Palestinians have been refused medical care in Iraqi government hospitals and must use fake ID cards to receive treatment....