June 2013 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, June 30, 2013

Good news/bad news from the UK Board of Deputies

From TheJC.com: British shoppers will be encouraged to buy Israeli products next week as part of an initiative to counter boycott campaigns. Dates, fruit, olives and wines are expected to be among the items that Israel supporters add to their shopping trolleys and baskets. It is hoped that Buy Israeli Goods Week, starting on Monday, will nullify the efforts of anti-Israel activists who are expected to lobby Sainsbury’s next month in an attempt...

Gulf News has an exclusive: The Palestine Wildlife Society, a signatory of the International Convention for the Protection of Birds, has urged the Palestinian President and Prime Minister to approve and officially announce the Palestine Sunbird as the national bird of the state of Palestine after the failure of a major Israeli international campaign to change the name of...

Released prisoner sets himself on fire because his free terrorist benefits were late

From Ma'an: A former prisoner sustained serious injuries Sunday after setting himself on fire in front of the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Finance to protest a delay in the receipt of benefits conferred to former prisoners, witnesses told Ma'an. Wissam Bilal Khalil Marouf, 21, from the northern district of Tulkarem, suffered serious burns across his body, a medical report from the Palestine Medical Complex where he was treated read. A medical...

Syrian jihadists behead Catholic priest (link to video)

From Catholic Online: VATICAN CITY (Catholic Online) - The Vatican is confirming the death by beheading of Franciscan Father, Francois Murad, who was martyred by Syrian jihadists on June 23. Below is the news release from the Vatican, via news.va. On Sunday, June 23 the Syrian priest François Murad was killed in Gassanieh, in northern Syria, in the convent of the Custody of the Holy Land where he had taken refuge. This is confirmed by a statement...

From Arutz-7: A pro-Israel blogger has initiated a petition urging human rights groups to condemn an anti-Semitic mini-series due to air throughout the Arab world in July. The Elder of Ziyon pro-Israel blogger delivered the petition to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International urging them to condemn the “Khaybar” mini-series, set to air during the Muslim holy month of...

6/30 Links: Toameh The Truth About Abbas, 22 Mil Call for Morsi To Go

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: What the U.S. Does Not Want to Know About Abbas As U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry pursues his efforts to revive the peace process in the Middle East, Palestinian officials in the West Bank are complaining that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is keeping them in the dark and refusing to brief them about his plans. For these officials, Abbas's autocracy has turned the Palestinian Authority into a one-man...

Today is June 30th, and hundreds of thousands of Egyptians are protesting the one year anniversary of the rule of president Morsi. Many Muslim Brotherhood supporters are attending counter-protests. And lots of Egyptians are holed up in their homes, worried about violence spilling over. The government is reacting in a way very similar to how the despised Mubarak regime did...

UNESCO's bigotry against Jews

From TOI last week: During a debate at the 37th session of UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, currently taking place in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the Jordanian delegation, at the behest of the Palestinian Authority, submitted a resolution slamming Israel over its Jerusalem policies. The resolution censured Israel for a number of developments in the city, including the construction of a visitors’ center, plans to build an elevator by the Western Wall,...

Is time on the side of Palestinian Arabs? That depends on what their goals are.

This story in the Arabic media illustrates as well as possible the divergence between how Palestinian Arabs act and how they would act if they really wanted to build a nation. The Secretary General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Professor Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, said on Friday that Palestinian political leaders need to be aware that every day that passes is not in favor of the question of Palestine, and the Palestinian conflict...

Hamas says Erdogan will visit Gaza on Friday

From the Qassam Brigades terror group website: Turkish premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit the Gaza Strip on 5th July, Abdulsalam Siyam, the secretary of the Gaza government, said. The website of Palestine newspaper quoted Siyam on Thursday as saying that two Turkish government and media delegations arrived in Gaza in the past two days and discussed preparations...

6/29 Links: BDS Fails, American Jewish Student Killed in Egypt and The Mandela Letter Hoax.

From Ian: Boycott effort in London council falls flat The contract, which expires in 2014, is worth £16.1 million ($24.5 million) a year. On June 24, the council was due to vote on a motion proposed by four Liberal Democrat councilors, which said that the company’s work in Israel and the West Bank “amounts to complicity in violations of international law” and called on the council not to sign any contracts with Veolia “or any other company complicit...

6/28 Links Part 2: LATMA The Kerry Peace Plan, Alicia Keys Smacks Down BDSers and Stuxnet Leaker ID

From Ian: Latma: The Kerry peace plan and the Heath Minister's organ donor program Return of the yellow star Back to the yellow star; what is the tactical word for Jude? What caricature now gets up everyone’s nose? In the post Holocaust era it is infra dig to hate Jews, publicly at least. So the Jude that everyone loved to hate has transmogrified into a Zionist. Nowadays people don’t hate Jews, they hate Zionists. Often when their guard is down...

Consumer Electronics Show coming to Israel

From YNet: The international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is coming to Israel. The major technology-related trade show, which takes place each January in Las Vegas, is also held in a smaller format in New York, Paris and London – and now in Tel Aviv too. The CES exhibition is the central stage for displaying the year's most significant technological innovations in the world of electronics. It includes phones, computers, cameras and a slew of...

6/28 Links Part 1: The Truth About the Peace Process and Egypt Now World’s Jihadist Training Ground

From Ian: Barry Rubin: It’s Time to Tell the Truth About the “Peace Process” Is the peace process after 40 years (if you count from its origins) or 20 years (if you count from the time of the “Oslo” agreement) at a dead end? Of course it is. That should be obvious. In reality, the vast majority of Palestinian leaders favor establishing no Palestinian state unless it can continue the work of trying to wipe Israel off the map. They are in no hurry....

Amnesty thinks terrorists can reform from email campaigns. Um, look in the mirror.

Amnesty International rightly condemns the recent execution of two Gazans alleged to be spies and warns about many others who face hanging for the same charge. But their proposed solution is so naive, it is painful. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 AUGUST 2013 TO: Minister of Interior and National Security Fathi Hamad Hamas de facto administration in Gaza Fax: + 972-8-288 1994 / 970 8 288 1994 Fax before 2pm Palestine time (GMT+2) Email: info@moi.gov.ps Salutation:...

From The Algemeiner: A petition urging human rights groups to condemn an anti-Semitic mini-series due to air throughout the Arab world in July is gathering momentum, with over 1200 people from 47 countries having signed it thus far. The petition, spearheaded by the anonymous pro-Israel blogger Elder of Ziyon, was hand delivered to Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International...

Egypt concerned with Israeli ties in Africa

Al Ahram has an article warning about close Israeli ties with sub-Saharan Africa. Under Nasser, Egypt used to be in the forefront of cultivating relationships with many African nations, sending engineers, teachers and other experts to help build up Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Congo (Zaire.) Nasser also used his influence to block Israeli initiatives in Africa in the 1950s and 60s. But now Israel has taken the lead in offering services for African...

New UN counter-terrorism head doesn't know what terrorism is

From the UN: – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today [June 20] confirmed the appointment of French criminal justice veteran Jean-Paul Laborde as the new Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), following the concurrence of the Security Council. Mr. Laborde, who will serve at the level of Assistant Secretary-General, will succeed Mike Smith of Australia, who held the position since 2007 and to whom the Secretary-General...