February 2013 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, February 28, 2013

UC-Irvine researchers excited by Israel's water management

From Zvi: We are accustomed to hearing bad news from UC Irvine. Last year, UC Irvine's student senate voted to join the ranks of the BDS (a.k.a. Bigotry and Double Standards) movement. UC Irvine allowed a group of hate-filled hooligans to repeatedly and aggressively attempting to silence Amb. Michael Oren. Today, the news is of a very different kind. A group of Irvine water...

Thursday Links Part 2

From Ian: Norwegian minister admits Palestinian incitement funding The Norwegian Secretary of State has stated on national television that Norway helps fund Palestinian incitement The Norwegian government appears to be one of the first European countries to be reconsidering its untargeted aid to the Palestinian territories on the basis of recent reports into incitement and anti-Semitism. The issue, covered in depth by The Commentator, arises from...

Egypt searching for Hamas terrorists in Sinai

Isn't this interesting? The Interior Ministry is searching for 500 Palestinian citizens who are allegedly Hamas members, and who are accused of illegally entering the country in between 14 and 24 February, security sources said. Three of the individuals are suspected of terrorist activities, said the sources, who requested anonymity. The ministry allegedly received intelligence that Palestinians were staying in apartments and hotels in Cairo’s...

From Ma'an last week: Armed settlers attacked a village south of Nablus overnight Wednesday and torched six cars, a Palestinian Authority official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said dozens of residents of the Esh Kodesh settlement outpost entered Qusra village firing heavily. They torched six cars, belonging to Raed...

Anti-Israel activists are organizing a "Right of Return" conference at Boston University for April. They will be presenting pseudo-scholarly papers discussing how to legally destroy Israel. The conference materials themselves say this: While asserting the inalienable right of Palestinians to return to and live in their homeland, we also principally affirm the right of Israelis...

EoZNews Video: A hareidi response to the Israeli draft

This week I was given the opportunity to be given a personal tour of the headquarters of the Belzer Hasidic movement in Jerusalem. The building complex is very impressive and I plan to post a video of the tour of the huge synagogue itself soon. While being showed around, I spoke to the Belzer representative, Yechezkal Friedman, about the major issues being discussed today concerning the hareidi community in Israel today, specifically the...

Thursday Links Part 1

From Ian: Oxford students overwhelmingly vote down Israel boycott Jewish groups hail 69-10 tally, but motion will still likely appear on agenda at national student union confab next month Aslan-Levy, who was also present at the vote Wednesday night, said he hoped that other British universities would follow Oxford in voting down BDS measures. “Tonight Oxford students showed that their commitment to intellectual freedom is unshakeable. In rejecting...

From JTA: Yityish Aynaw, a former Israeli army officer, became the first Ethiopian-Israeli to win the Miss Israel pageant. A panel of judges awarded the title to Aynaw, a 21-year-old model who came to Israel about a decade ago, at the International Convention Center Haifa on Wednesday. "It's important that a member of the Ethiopian community wins the competition for the...

Praising Palestinian Arabs for not lynching an Israeli doctor

The bigotry of soft expectations: An expert anesthesiologist from Israel secretly visited a Palestinian hospital in the occupied West Bank to treat a man injured by Jewish settlers, Israeli media reported Wednesday. Micha Shamir, of Hadassah Resuscitation School and Service, and an Israeli nurse went to Nablus on Sunday to move a 27-year-old Palestinian who was seriously injured by settlers in Qusra, the Hebrew-language daily Maariv reported. "Going...

From Hurriyet Daily News: Islamophobia must be recognized as a crime against humanity in the same fashion that Zionism, anti-Semitism and fascism should be, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said yesterday. Speaking at the “Fifth Alliance of Civilizations Forum” in Vienna’s Hofburg Palace, the prime minister underlined the rising trend of fascism across the Europe. “We...

Muslim Brotherhood member appointed to lead an Egyptian state TV channel

From Egypt Independent: Information Minister Salah Abdel Maqsoud, a known Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer, has appointed a Brotherhood member to take over as chief of state-owned Nile News Channel, according to anonymous sources Wednesday. The sources from State Television said Yasser Al-Dakany has taken the top job at Nile News and will be in control of its programming and news bulletins. Dakany is the head of the Brotherhood's satellite channel...

Wednesday Links Part 2

From Ian: Talk of dual-citizen disloyalty in Zygier affair simply irresponsible by Gerard Henderson If the likes of Saul or Walker had specifically referred to the (alleged) dual loyalty, or divided loyalties, of any other group or nationality they almost certainly would have been publicly rebuked. But it seems a different standard applies when accusations are made against Jewish Australians and Australian/Israeli dual nationals. The Jewish community...

Wow - a PalArab video that demands the end to Arab discrimination against them

I have noted throughout the years the official Arab discrimination practices against Palestinian Arabs. An apparently Palestinian Arab YouTube channel called "Palestinian Refugees" made a professional video about this problem, and demands full citizenship rights for Palestinians in Arab countries. As the channel description says: Since the Naqba, Palestinian Refugees mainly settled in Iraq, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon. Over the decades we...

Wednesday Links Part 1

From Ian: In the Apartheid Oscars, Arab states win hands down Those who berate the West for its orientalism towards the Third World, quoting the late Edward Said‘s eponymous book, ignore the fact that much of society under Muslim domination was built on the exploitation of women, Jews (and Christians) and blacks. Not only are all Arab countries strong contenders in the Apartheid Oscars, but Saudi Arabia would win hands down. At the bottom of its...

From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from an address by Egyptian cleric Abu Islam, which aired on Al-Omma TV (via the Internet) on Feburary 13, 2013. Egyptian cleric Abu Islam: I swear to God the Almighty – and believe me, I am not lying – that the Church worship originated in the worship of the penis. I swear to God. This is documented in dozens of pictures. Let me tell...

From The Telegraph: The Telegraph can disclose details of activity at a heavily-guarded Iranian facility from which international inspectors have been barred for 18 months. The images, taken earlier this month, show that Iran has activated the Arak heavy-water production plant. Heavy water is needed to operate a nuclear reactor that can produce plutonium, which could...

Egyptian documentary on Jews of Egypt might be pretty honest

Al Ahram has an exclusive preview of a new film, four years in the making, called "The Jews of Egypt" - and it describes how they were expelled. While many Egyptians routinely deny that Jews were expelled from their country, the preview here seems to show pretty definitively that they were indeed methodically thrown out. I expect that this film will stir up at least as much controversy as the film about Moroccan Jews has been receiving...

Tuesday Links Part 2

From Ian: 14 successful counterassaults on Israel’s legitimacy An American group is distributing a new analysis of what works in the fight against those seeking to isolate the Jewish state In isolation, the lessons learned from these two campaigns might not be useful for other communities facing BDS efforts. However, a new report by the Israel Action Network (IAN) has analyzed these and a dozen other successful attempts to combat delegitimization,...

EoZ talk in Herzliya (slides plus audio)

Last Tuesday, I spoke at a gathering of pro-Israel activists in Herzliya. My topic was "How Israel can win the information war." As usual, I am placing this video up so everyone can watch and listen to how fast I speak: Thanks again to the organizers, Israel Muse and Batzi, and to Yarron for the sound (my recorder did not work, and his was better anyway...

Followup on rocket that hit Ashkelon: Fatah claims it, Hamas denies it, Israel closes crossings

There have been contradictory claims out of Gaza about the rocket or rockets that hit Ashkelon this morning. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for firing the rocket, a statement from the group said. "We must resist our enemy by all available means," the group said in a statement emailed to reporters. "We stress our commitment to armed struggle against the Zionist enemy." But then: A Hamas spokesman on...

Tuesday Links Part 1

From Ian: Terrorism Without End Palestinian terrorism is a strategic weapon of disruption that confines and unbalances Israel. At a cost of millions, the sponsors of that terror have inflicted billions in economic damage. And there is no reason for them to stop. Watching Israel and America try to reason with their attack dogs amuses them and allows them to expand their own influence by offering to act as mediators. For that same reason, Islamic terrorism...

PalArabs aren't so concerned when some die in custody

According to the ICHR, five Palestinian Arabs died in custody in 2011 - but it was Hamas custody, so no one cares. At least two more died in jail in 2012, but that was in PA jails - so no one cares. "In both areas, security forces tortured and otherwise ill-treated detainees with impunity; in Gaza, four detainees died in custody," an excerpt from Amnesty's 2012 report explained. "Detainees were tortured and otherwise ill-treated, particularly...

First rocket in over three months lands in Ashkelon

From JPost: Palestinian terrorists broke a three month ceasefire on Tuesday and fired a rocket from Gaza into southern Israel. The rocket fell on a road south of Ashkelon causing some damage to a road, police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said. The IDF Spokesperson said there were no injuries in the incident. The rocket failed to trigger an air raid siren, and the IDF is investigating why one did not go off. "An explosion was heard in the Ashkelon...

UK displays stunning hypocrisy over Jaradat death

From Al Ahram: The UK has expressed its concern at the death of Arafat Gradat who died in Israeli detention last Saturday. “It is important that the Israeli authorities conduct a full investigation into the circumstances of his death," a UK foreign Office spokesperson told Ahram Online. This investigation should include the Palestinian allegations of mistreatment of Garadat, he added. Garadat”s family says their son, 30, died from torture in the...

Seen today in Jerusalem: (The bus would alternate its message between its destination and "Happy Purim....

Monday Links Part 2

From Ian: Op-Ed: Hagel’s $160 Billion 'West Bank' US Troops Deathtrap Hagel, at Obama's bidding, plans to send troops to Judea andSamaria (the "West Bank") where they would soon be victims of Hamas terror. It's in writing. An investigative report. There is only one reason that Chuck Hagel was picked by President Obama to be US Defense Secretary, and why Obama will go nuclear to get him confirmed: Hagel is the only person alive now dumb enough to...

From George Galloway's Facebook page: A number of questions have recently arisen I need to deal with. Firstly if people want to talk to the Palestinians they need to contact the Palestine Liberation Organisation. This is the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people and has been for many decades. ... Apartheid Israel is a cancer at the heart of the middle-east....

Exclusive interview with Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat

The mayor of Jerusalem has a question for those who want construction to be frozen in the eastern part of Jerusalem. What do you really mean? Because we've just been investing over a halfa billion shekels on infrastructure and roads (in the Arab sector.) We're building 500 classrooms in the Arab sector...And we're registering many, many buildings for the residents of east Jerusalem. My question was, what do you mean by 'freeze.' Freeze everything?...

Monday Links Part 1

From Ian: Missing Peace: Study shows: Second Intifada was planned by the PA JCPA researcher Jonathan Halevy now published a study in which he presents compelling evidence about Arafat’s personal responsibility for the outbreak of the Second Intifada and about the fact that the uprising was planned by the PA directly after the failed peace talks at Camp David in July 2000. What Halevy didn’t mention however, was that Sharon’s visit had been coordinated...