April 2012 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, April 30, 2012

IOC: Israel and "Palestine" are on different continents

According to Israeli media, last week the official Olympics site said that Jerusalem was the capital of "Palestine" but Israel had no capital: After inquiries and complaints, the website swapped things: (Also note that their population of "Palestine" does not include Gaza!) But if you go now to the site you see that they scrapped the idea of listing "capital" altogether. Yet...

Ben White proves the hypocrisy of the anti-Israel crowd

Ben White, who is apparently a writer specializing in hating Israel, wrote an article in Electronic Intifada criticizing my post pointing out the hypocrisy of the British Co-op boycott of Agrexco, which I noted also effectively hurts the livelihood of most Palestinian Arab farmers. In his critique, White unwittingly shows exactly the hypocrisy that I am talking about. Following the decision of major UK supermaket chain the Co-op to boycott...

It is a heck of a family tree

From Wikipedia: Nathan Mileikowsky (Writer and Zionist activist) Benzion Netanyahu (Professor of History and Zionist activist) Elisha Netanyahu (Professor for Mathematics) Shoshana Shenburg (Justice at the Supreme Court of Israel) Yonatan Netanyahu (Commander of Sayeret...

Morocco's Hespress reports that trade between Israel and Morocco is now more than $50 million annually. Quoting a Slate Afrique article from last year, it notes that the trade keeps growing despite the noisy Moroccan groups that are against "normalization" with Israel. There is a lot of trade in agriculture, the Slate article says that much of it goes through European middlemen....

Egyptian MPs deny "farewell sex" law - but admit 14-year old bride draft law

Last week I quoted an Al Arabiya article that the new Islamist Egyptian parliament was considering a law to allow sex within six hours after a wife dies, as well as a law to allow 14 year old girls to get married. Al Arabiya was only half-right: Members of the Egyptian parliament responded to the uproar caused by Egyptian and Arab media reports about a new law that would allow a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours after her...

Palestine Today reports that Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas leader in Gaza, admits that he applied for and received Egyptian citizenship and an Egyptian passport last September. That's when Egypt first started allowing those with Egyptian mothers to apply to become Egyptian nationals. He told BBC Arabic that this was his right, and he also intended to exercise his right to vote...

From Gawker: A bunch of us here at Gawker Media have received letters recently containing nothing but this single photocopied montage of magazine covers bearing the words, "WALL ST. JEWS." What is the deal with this mysterious mailing, anyhow? Why the persistence required to design, copy, and laboriously mail so many letters to so many people? What is the message here, about...

UK Foreign Office swallows a "price tag" lie

From Human Rights and Democracy: The 2011 Foreign & Commonwealth Office Report (UK) We were concerned at violent attacks by extremists among the Israeli settler population in the West Bank and East Jerusalem against Palestinians and their property in 2011. We saw an increase in the number of so-called “price tag” attacks – a reaction by some extremist settlers to Israeli government policies that they see as against their interests – including...

Hamas member blows himself up in "the playground of death"

From Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades website, in their typical fractured English: Al Qassam Brigades mourns the death of the Mujahed Ahmed Abu Warda As Al Aqsa Intifada against the occupation assault on the Gaza Strip continues, Ezzeddeen Al-Qassam Brigades has its best men to be in the playground of death to defend their people from any attack by the enemy ... Today, Al-Qassam Brigades mourn the death of the Mujahed: [Ahmed Ramadan Abu Warda,24,...

French Muslims protest against religious extremism

From MSN France: A hundred Muslims gathered Sunday afternoon on the steps of the Opera Bastille in Paris to "say no to religious radicalism" and proclaimed their attachment to France and the values of the Republic, says an AFP reporter. With French flags on their jackets and under a banner saying "Together against fanaticism", demonstrators observed a moment of silence in memory of "Children of Toulouse and Montauban," victims of Mohamed Merah,...

"Jews in Trouble" (Ludwig Lewisohn, The Atlantic, 1936)

The Atlantic has dug out a very prescient article written by Ludwig Lewisohn in 1936 about the dangers facing the Jews of Europe and the importance of Zionism. Background: Although his gentile friends were blind to the radicalizing anti-semitism in Europe, Ludwig Lewisohn saw the truth: European Jews were in grave danger. And it wasn't a matter assimilation could solve -- with each year, they were increasingly targeted and discriminated...

The Co-operative Group, whose supermarket decided to boycott Palestinian Arab farmers because their exporter also deals with Jews who live in Judea and Samaria, also owns a bank. The bank is just as hypocritical as the supermarket is. According to their stated policies: "We will not finance any organisation that advocates discrimination and incitement to hatred." The right...

The sacred soccer stadium on the Temple Mount

At the very end of an AP story about the dispute within the Islamic world of whether Muslims should visit Jerusalem or not, it says: The compound is sacred to both Jews and Muslims. It is one of the most sensitive religious sites in the world. Palestinians use the area to worship and rest - one of the few open spaces in the intensely crowded walled Old City of Jerusalem. They sit under the soaring pine trees and walk among the intricately painted...

Iran threatens US East Coast

From YNet: Iran's Navy has the ability to deploy its vessels three miles off the US east coast, a high-ranking Iranian Navy commander was quoted as saying by the Fars news agency. "Our naval forces are so powerful that we have a presence in all the waters of the world and, if needed, we can move to within three miles of New York," Revolutionary Guards Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Fadavi was quoted as saying during a speech to students at the...

Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, the influential preacher based out of Yemen whose sermons are seen by tens of millions of people, once again has called for Muslims and Arabs to rise up and destroy Israel. In his sermon last Friday, Qaradawi called on all Arabs and Muslims to be "fighters and mujahadeen" and exhorted them not to accept the "humiliation and disgrace" of Israel. He...

From The Guardian: The Co-operative Group has become the first major European supermarket group to end trade with companies that export produce from illegal Israeli settlements. The UK's fifth biggest food retailer and its largest mutual business, the Co-op took the step as an extension of its existing policy which had been not to source produce from illegal settlements...

Iranian police crack down on "immoral" dress

From Al Arabiya: Police in Tehran are conducting a new crackdown on women wearing mandatory headscarves improperly or in “vulgar” dress, the city’s police chief said, according to media reports on Saturday. Such operations, which see police screening foot and vehicle traffic at major junctions and shopping centers, are conducted fairly often in Iran. The latest one was ordered days ahead of the May 4 second round of parliamentary elections, and...

Egyptian protesters call Saudis "Zionist," insulted Saudis close embassy

From Al Arabiya: Saudi Arabia recalled its ambassador to Egypt for “consultation” and temporarily closed its embassy and consulate in Cairo following protests in Egypt against the detention of an Egyptian activist by the Saudi authorities. The Saudi Press Agency (SPA) reported that the reason behind the diplomatic move was “unjustified protests” in Egypt and attempts to storm...

How many lies can you find in this article on Palestinian Arab prisoners?

From Russia Today: Human rights groups in the West Bank say 2,000 Palestinians have been on hunger strike for more than a week, and others are ready to join next week. At the moment there are an estimated 5,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails. Each year, 700-800 minors are arrested, and in all, 20 per cent of Palestinians have experienced Israeli prison. There are actually less than 4400 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails according to B'Tselem. The...

Apartheid in Lebanon

Isn't it time for celebrities to boycott Lebanon? The Palestinian Association for Human Rights (Shahed) announced in its annual report Tuesday that the situation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon is getting worse by the year, as their rights diminish in number and value daily. According to the report, “the [poor] housing conditions in camps have not been addressed, and there is no local or international initiative on the horizon to improve them.”...

Spring weekend open thread

Have a great weekend...

From YNet: While Independence Day celebrations are continuing throughout the country, residents of Hof Ashkelon Regional Council once again found themselves running for shelter. An air raid siren was sounded on Wednesday night and one rocket exploded in the region. There were no reports of injuries or damages. Residents told Ynet that at around half past midnight, at the...

Israelis saving the world - in 1964

Came across this, from the JTA Archives, October 8, 1964: An Israeli pilot who fought in Israel's War of Independence in 1948, was awarded today the "United States Decoration for Exceptional Service" by Lt. Gen. Harold Grant, deputy administrator of the U. S. Federal Aviation Agency, for developing a safer method for commercial use of airspace. Bar-Atid Arad, 40, born in Israel and a former member of the Palmach forces, became the first non-American...

Syrian on TV justifies why "Palestine" more important than Syria

Here is a sterling example of how the Arab world uses the "Palestine" issue as a means to avoid anything they don't want to speak about. From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from an interchange between Al-Jazeera TV host Faysal Al-Qassem and Lebanese journalist Salem Zahran, on a program that aired on April 10, 2012: Faysal Al-Qassem: "How do you account for this denial? The Syrian media give you the impression that nothing is happening there....

From the website of the Sephardic Film Festival last month: TINGHIR-JERUSALEM, ECHOES FROM THE MELLAH: The Rediscovery of a Judeo-Berber Culture Director: Kamal Hachkar Kamal Hachkar grew up in France with the idea that all Berbers were Muslims. From his grandparents he learns that some Berbers were Jewish and that in many villages, Muslims and Jews lived together...

Independence Day, 1948 (Yehuda Avner)

The Jerusalem Post didn't format this excellent piece into paragraphs, so I did: May 14, 1948, was a Friday, and unbearably hot. A desert wind blew from the east, fanning the countryside like a blow-dryer. For three consecutive sun-grilled days we had been hacking trenches out of a Jerusalem mountainside on the city's western edge - where Yad Vashem now stands - overlooking the Arab village of Ein Kerem. There were about 25 of us, armed with pickaxes,...