October 2012 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Israelis eating hummus is now a war crime, according to Electronic Intifada

Ha'aretz has a food column called Modern Manna. This week it scored an interview withe the White House chef, asking him if he makes any foods that could be considered Jewish or Israeli, presumably because that critical information would help President Obama get more Jewish votes. The entire column is written from Ha'aretz' viewpoint, even saying in a tongue-in-cheek fashion: So,...

Jordan increasingly nervous about jihadists

From UPI: Jihadists are becoming increasingly active in Jordan, already gripped by political crisis and buffeted by a growing spillover from the 19-month-old civil war in neighboring Syria that could threaten the Hashemite throne. On Oct. 20, the kingdom's General Intelligence Directorate reportedly arrested 11 men, all Jordanians, it said were part of a plot by a cell linked to al-Qaida to bomb shopping malls in Amman and assassinate Western diplomats. At...

Qaradawi hospitalized

Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, one of the most prominent Islamic leaders who supports suicide bombings but it considered a "moderate," is in a hospital in Jeddah for undisclosed reasons. His aide asked that his followers pray for him. Qaradawi, 86, is the president of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars and his Friday speeches are televised to tens of millions of Muslims. He has called to "cleanse Palestine" from Jews. One of his most famous fatwas...

Power has returned to the Elder Manor, but not phone/internet/cable. As a result, I am surfing and blogging with a very, very slow connection through a cell phone, so blogging will remain lighter than usual - especially since I need to do my regular day job through that same slow connection. Here's one tree that fell nearby. There seem to be at least one or two trees toppled...

From Reuters: Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defense official said. "At the wedding, the cable fell on a metal door and the 23 people who died were all electrocuted," Eastern Province official Abdullah Khashman said by phone. A photograph of the aftermath of...

Today's anti-semitism in Jordanian media

Addustour, a mainstream Jordanian newspaper, has an op-ed today that accepts the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an established fact and states that Israel is following it to achieve world domination. Rashid Hassan writes: I spent the holiday [Eid al Adha] reading "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" edited by the Arab thinker Ajaj Noueihed, for the second time, to discover that without exaggeration, what is happening in occupied Palestine...

Arabs don't care about the horrible lives of the Gazans in Jordan

From Ma'an: The Gaza camp in Jordan, near the northwestern historical ruins of Jerrash where the Greco Roman Empire once flourished, was set up by the UN as an emergency measure in 1968. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War war, about 12,000 refugees fled from Gaza to this area. It now has a population of about 30,000 Gazans. Hidden in the outskirts of Jerrash, connected to the rest of civilization by a single neglected dirt road, most tourists...

"Tunisian security busts kidnap ring targeting Jews" (updated)

UPI Arabic quotes Tunisian media sources as reporting yesterday that Tunisian security authorities managed to break up what was described as a 'dangerous terrorist cell that was aimed at kidnapping Jews in the city of Zarzis in the extreme south-east of Tunisia. The weekly newspaper Al Hassan reported that they learned and confirmed from sources that units of the Tunisian Guard managed to dismantle this terrorist network. Sit said that their aim...

Hurricane update and Tuesday links

I am still without power and without my T Mobile hotspot on my phone that would allow me to blog on a laptop. Blogging on an iPhone, as I am doing now, is painful. And I can't easily get to my job. So it looks like this blog will be on a hiatus with only occasional updates. So for now, here is the Tuesday link dump, unformatted, from Ian: IDF Blog: Hamas Terrorists Firing Rockets on Israel from Houses in Gaza "The terror group Hamas benefits...

Lebanese op-ed against Hezbollah "resistance"

Interesting use of Hezbollah's logic against it at Now Lebanon: Hezbollah anoints itself as “the Resistance” and unilaterally grants itself the right to be armed on the pretext that Israel is still occupying parts of Lebanon’s territory and is violating Lebanon’s airspace. Therefore, if foreign occupation and violation of border integrity justify the right to bear arms, to be organized in an armed resistance movement and to be entitled to decide...

From Mightier Than The Pen: This finger is widely considered the one Iran has on the button. Geneva, Switzerland (AP) – Arab nations have brought a resolution to the United Nations Security Council that denounces Israel for perpetrating stubbed toes and splinter injuries throughout the Middle East, in violation of international law. With the Palestinian Authority...

Fatah members proud that Arafat intended to fool the world with Oslo

I was going through a Fatah Facebook page and saw someone posted a video that they said was "very important." It was a slightly edited version of a video that Palestinian Media Watch had posted long ago from a 1995 PA TV broadcast. Arafat: "When the Prophet made the peace of Hudaybiya, [Muhammad's followers] Omar Ibn al Khattab and Ali Ibn Abi Talib said: "How can we accept an agreement like that?" "How can we accept such humiliation of our...

Morning after Sandy open thread

It was an eventful night with high winds and lots of transformer explosions, but not much rain. Power will be out for a while, maybe days. I have a few posts queued up since yesterday for this afternoon but I don't see much new blogging until things sort themselves out. So here is a post-hurricane open threa...

The liberation of a Jew-hater into a Zionist

From the Calgary Herald: Kasim Hafeez grew up hating Jews and hating Israel. Now the 28-year-old British Muslim of Pakistani origin travels the world explaining how and why he has gone from a hater to a lover of the Jewish people and the Jewish state. His personal journey of going from chanting “Death to Israel” in London’s Trafalgar Square to speaking about how he became a proud Zionist kept the Herald editorial board enraptured for much longer...

Egypt asserts its masculinity; bars American woman for "insult"

From Bikya Masr: After allegedly insulting an Egyptian customs officer at the Aqaba port, an American woman was barred from entering Egypt, the ministry of interior said Tuesday. The woman, who was trying to cross into Egypt from the eastern port of Aqaba, allegedly “verbally attacked” the customs officer over visa-related issues and when the ministry was made aware of the incident, the decision to forbid the women from entering the country was...

Monday links/Sandy administrivia

I continue to await the full force of Hurricane Sandy, headed pretty much directly at stately Elder Manor, and things will start to get really interesting this afternoon. I'm going on the assumption that my power will go out at one point between now and tomorrow morning. So I'm queuing up as many posts as I can for tomorrow as the winds increase. Oddly, my Google Nexus Galaxy phone has a built-in barometer. I don't understand why that would be...

From Palestinian Media Watch: The Facebook page for Fatah in Lebanon has posted this picture of a mother dressing her young son with a suicide belt. This picture was posted on the Fatah site together with an imaginary conversation between the son who is being sent to his death and the mother encouraging it. "My mother dressed me in a strange belt (i.e., a suicide belt). I...

Egyptian Shiites upset over belly dancing to religious song

From Al Arabiya: A belly dancer stirred a wave of anger among Shiites in Egypt as she appeared in an Egyptian movie raving to a song praising Fatima, the daughter of Prophet Muhammad and the wife of Imam Ali, highly venerated in Shiite Islam, who called for banning the movie to screen in theaters. Baha Anwar Mohammed, spokesman of Egyptian Shiites, has condemned belly dancer Dina for her performance in the film “Abdo Mouta” to be offensive and...

Egyptian child preacher robotically chants for destruction of Israel

From MEMRI: Oh Islamic nation, oh all Muslims...martyrdom on the path of Allah is a religious duty incumbent upon you, oh believers. It is your path for salvation in the eyes of the Lord. Oh Islamic nation, oh all Muslims. (repeated twice) Pray: "Oh Allah, destroy Israel" (Amen) Oh Allah, destroy Israel. [inaudible] the accursed Sharon, Bush and Obama. The kid looks, literally, brainwashed. He shows no comprehension of his words,...

From CAMERA: Five days after the publication of a distorted headline which was picked up by numerous international media outlets, Ha'aretz today published a clarification. In the last several days, numerous critics, including CAMERA, have weighed in about Ha'aretz's coverage of the Dialog poll, including the false headlines. The English online version was "Survey: Most Israeli...

Arabic media is reporting that the IDF has been dropping leaflets onto southern Gaza Monday morning warning residents to stay safe. The flyers, spread from Rafah to Deir al Balah, tell Gazans to stay at least 300 meters away from the border with Israel. It also urges them to stay away from rocket launchers and terrorists. The leaflets say that the terror groups pose...

From allAfrica, in a story that got picked up by Die Welt today: Some Tunisians are accusing Ennahda's leader of pursuing a hidden agenda with salafists. A leaked video featuring Ennahda leader Rachid Ghannouchi strategising with young salafist leaders is causing controversy in Tunisia. In the video, which was first broadcast last April and re-broadcast October 9th,...

King of Bahrain reportedly coming to Gaza - is UNRWA legitimizing Hamas rule?

This story comes from Islamic Jihad's Palestine Today, which is generally a pretty good news source considering it is run by terrorists and their supporters. Informed sources in the northern Sinai said that notice has been given to plan for Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain, to visit the Gaza Strip, this coming week. The sources confirmed the King will fly from...

Sunday links

From Ian: The European Left and Its Trouble With Jews "Today, a sizable section of the European left has been reluctant to take a clear stand when anti-Zionism spills over into anti-Semitism. Beginning in the 1990s, many on the European left began to view the growing Muslim minorities in their countries as a new proletariat and the Palestinian cause as a recruiting mechanism. The issue of Palestine was particularly seductive for the children of...

From the Daily Mail: A prized goat has been put up for sale in India with a whopping £128,000 price tag. Islam Bhati, 37, from Rajasthan in India, is trying to sell his finest goat for 11 million rupees to a Muslim family celebrating the Eid al-Adha festival. The two-year-old animal is organic and has the word 'Allah' in Arabic emblazoned on one side of his fur. He also...

Jewish weather control stations had a minor glitch late last week, and as a result a small meteorological disturbance is headed directly towards La maison Elder which may entail some emergency measures at EoZ Central. So today I need to make some preparations. It is entirely possible that power will go out around here, probably sometime Monday, and that...

LA Times: More Jews praying on Temple Mount (updated)

Not a bad report - with the glaring exception of the media believing Muslim lies without checking: A simple, ancient ritual is threatening the delicate security balance atop Jerusalem's most sacred plaza: Jews are praying. On most days, dozens — sometimes hundreds — of Jewish worshipers ascend to the disputed 36-acre platform that Muslims venerate as Al Aqsa mosque and Jews revere as the Temple Mount with an Israeli police escort to protect them...