December 2012 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Monday, December 31, 2012

Abbas predicts a state in 2013. Sounds familiar.

From Times of Israel today: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas rang in the New Year Monday night by declaring that 2013 would be the year that saw Palestinian independence. April, 2010: Citing Mahatma Gandhi, Palestinian Premier Salam Fayyad has said his people would not tolerate injustice after enduring decades of Israeli occupation and predicted an independent Palestinian state by August 2011. December 31, 2001: Palestinian leader Yasser...

What's the Iranian media up to?

Let's see: Zionist international banking cartel controls the US economy: The United States impending financial crisis - dubbed “fiscal cliff” - is nothing more than political theater to keep Americans subordinate, an analyst tells Press TV. --- Zionist regime practising Nazi-style occupation policies Many of Israel’s dominant political parties espouse [Nazi] goals for Zionism, which many observers believe take a page from the Nazi playbook...

"NGO staff advised to avoid area"

Life in Gaza, from the Gaza NGO Safety Office: 18 DEC, 0900hrs: Massive demos. will be organized at 1000hrs near UNSCO office, GC, in support of Pal. prisoners. NGO staff advised to avoid the area. 20 DEC, 1000hrs: A sit-in will be organized at 1100hrs in front of UNSCO office, GC. NGO staff advised to avoid the area. 26 DEC, 0900hrs: Palestinian prisoners Association will organize a demo. at 1100hrs in front of UNDP office in GC in support of...

Monday links

From Ian: Barry Rubin: A Paradox of U.S. Middle East Policy: The Friend Who Acts like an Enemy is an Enemy "Yet given the current situation, especially in the Middle East, a realistic policy would make the enemies’ list seem too long and discouraging. In political and diplomatic terms that means the truth will be covered up. The important question is: How far does a country have to go, how futile and even counterproductive do the pay-offs have...

Arabs reneging on aid to PA; paranoid PalArab leaders blame US

The semi-official Fatah newspaper Palestine Press reports that Palestinian Arab leaders are blaming the US for the fact that Arab nations are not fulfilling their monetary pledges to the PA. According to this bizarre logic, the US was so upset at the Arab support for the UN vote to upgrade the status of "Palestine" to a non-member state that it has been punishing Arab nations for their vote. This in turn is forcing the Arab nations to renege on...

Notable EoZ blog posts of 2012 (part 4)

October: Arab workers see sex with Jewish women as a form of "jihad" Israel Loves America (Posters) Insane anti-semite appointed to Egyptian religious affairs ministry The Rami Levy BDS protest proves BDS failure November: Dead child cradled by Egypt's PM was killed by Hamas! Pallywood in BBC report Here come the staged Gaza doll photos! December: Hamas' logo for its 25th anniversary shows its priorities The world really needs to understand...

Egyptian media have been in a non-stop uproar since Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian said last week that Jews who lived in Egypt should be allowed to return in the context of allowing Israel to become a Palestinian Arab state. People from politicians to football coaches have been criticizing Erian for even considering allowing Jews into Egypt. The leader of the...

The "good guys" in Syria behead Christian, feed his body to dogs

From Al Arabiya: A nun sounded the alarm that the Syrian conflict was becoming sectarian when she said that a Christian man was beheaded by Syrian rebels in the northern town of Ras al-Ayn on the Turkish border, and his body was fed to dogs, a British newspaper reported Monday. Sister Agnes-Mariam de la Croix speaking from her sanctuary in Lebanon said the newlywed taxi driver, Andrei Arbashe, was kidnapped after his brother was heard complaining...

Mahmoud Abbas' latest empty threat to dissolve the PA as a pathetic attempt to strengthen his negotiating position has boomeranged on him. Moussa Abu Marzouk, deputy head of Hamas' "political bureau," responded to the threat today by saying that if Abbas is so unwilling to lead, Hamas is more than ready to take over the onerous job of leadership. Marzouk asked, "Why would...

The "W" in UNRWA is as important as ever

UNRWA stands for the "United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East." In the early days of UNRWA in the 1950s, a large part of its mandate was to work with Middle Eastern nations to find jobs for the refugees, the "Works" part of its title. UNRWA worked on some projects to build roads in Jordan and to create and market small handicrafts in 1950; and in 1953 they created a farming cooperative in Jordan for...

Sunday night links

From Ian: Protesting E1 is not grounded in Judaism "These rabbis are transposing western liberal political philosophy onto Judaism. Their ideas are not rooted in Torah, but in modern political thinking. Another Palestinian state in the West Bank could pose a mortal danger to Israel. The removal of Israeli forces from Southern Lebanon and Gaza has created two terrorist regimes. Israeli citizens have suffered three short wars due to these concessions....

When the Arabs of Yemen converted to Judaism

Der Spiegel has a report on a buried Christian empire in Yemen. But it also mentions some tantalizing facts about the Jews at the time: The social structure in Zafar also appeared to be unique. The city had a large Jewish community, as evidenced by a seal with a Torah niche. Hebrew inscriptions were discovered. Zafar's residents also included Christians, who built a church there in 354 AD. Arabs who worshipped old idols lived in the alleys. But...

Notable EoZ blog posts of 2012 (part 3)

July: Switched at birth in Gaza? Debunking "The Map that Lies" English translation of the legal arguments in the Levy Report Egyptian newspaper: "Death to the Jews" Mahmoud Abbas' connections to the Munich Olympics massacre August: Egyptian "scientist" claims NASA hiding proof of Quranic miracle There were a number of similar posts culminating in this one: How Muslims misrepresent Western science as supporting the Koran Churchill and...

On November 17, I published the news that Mahmoud Sadallah, cradled by the Egyptian premier, reported as a victim of an Israeli airstrike in the photo caption at The Mirror, was in fact killed by a Hamas rocket. On November 23, the Mirror quietly deleted the article without any admission that it made a mistake. As I said then: Instead of admitting the mistake,...

The Arabs of "East Jerusalem" who want to integrate with Israel

Excerpts from a lengthy report in Ha'aretz: A year ago, for the first time, the Jerusalem Municipality and the Israel postal service established a post office in the village of Isawiyah, which lies below Mount Scopus, within the municipal boundaries. Along with the opening of the new branch − part of a plan to improve postal services in East Jerusalem − the village streets were given names and the houses received numbers. These developments followed...

From Fox News: A single Syrian missile strike on a bakery near Hama killed more than 60 innocent civilians last week, so how did Israel manage to fire more than 1,500 high powered missiles into densely-populated Gaza in November, with the total loss of 161 lives, of which 90 have been acknowledged by Hamas itself as active combatants? [I don't think Hamas has directly acknowledged...

Some random Sunday morning links

Caminos de Sefarad ("Routes of Sepharad"), a website about Jewish history in Spain. (h/t Ken) Richard Landes of The Augean Stables uncovers a fascinating 2001 article about Osama Bin Laden's recruitment video and how effective it was in manipulating emotions. Fatah managed to agree with Hamas on a venue for its celebrations in Gaza, to be held January 4th. This is the 48th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack, although Ma'an keeps pretending...

The leader of the ruling "moderate" Ennahda Islamist party in Tunisia issued a fatwa to give 80 lashes for anyone who "spreads rumors without evidence." Rashid Al-Ghannushi made his statement on Friday. He was referring to recent Tunisian news reports criticizing Tunisian Foreign Minister Rafik Abu Salam. According to the reports, started on social media, Salam...

Overnight links

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Martin Peretz - an appreciation? "In his article, Peretz took on the propaganda claims against Israel one by one and discredited them. Among other things, he said that Israel is not a colonialist state; there is no similarity whatsoever between the US war in Vietnam, which as a self-proclaimed radical he opposed, and Israel; the creation of Israel was not sponsored by imperialist powers; Nasser is not a socialist.Peretz...

Egypt allows building materials to enter Gaza via Rafah

From Egypt Independent: Islamist-led Egypt allowed building materials into Gaza via the Rafah crossing on Saturday for the first time since Hamas seized control of the Palestinian enclave in 2007, an Egyptian border official said. It was part of a shipment of building materials donated by the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, which has pledged $400 million to finance reconstruction in Gaza. The Islamist group Hamas has run Gaza since driving out its rivals...