August 2013 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Saturday, August 31, 2013

FIAT/IFTA justifies its caving to Dubai discrimination against Israelis

I reported on Friday that FIAT/IFTA, the International Federation of Television Archives, disinvited an Israeli director and nominee from its awards ceremony this year because it was taking place in Dubai, and the Dubai authorities bar Israelis. FIAT/IFTA released a statement that pretty much proves that it is a spineless, craven organization. Message from the President of FIAT/IFTA Recently FIAT/IFTA has been involved in a political discussion...

8/31 Links: US Assessment on Syria CWs, Globalized Anti-Semitism, Egypt Fires on Gazan Fishermen

From Ian: A New Era of Anti-Semitism Is Here. Daniel Goldhagen Blames Globalization. Nearly 20 years later, Goldhagen has broadened his scope in a new work. The Devil That Never Dies: The Rise and Threat of Global Antisemitism offers an in-depth look at anti-Semitism around the world. He argues that it’s an almost pathological prejudice that spans centuries and cultures and therefore is a uniquely destructive force that has redoubled its strength...

Great weekend read from Forbes

A month ago, Richard Behar wrote a cover story for Forbes talking about how, under the radar, Israeli and Palestinian Arab businessmen were cooperating and how this was bringing a type of peace to the region: With official relations between Palestinians and Israelis still poisonous after a century of conflict, any constructive dialogue is newsworthy. But these aren’t security forces talking about joint military patrols, nor is this discussion connected...

8/30 Links Part 2: The Israeli Spring, BDS Bullies, The US Spies on Israel, Drought Proof Crops

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Obama’s bread and circuses Iran achieved a strategic achievement by exposing the US as a paper tiger in Syria. With this accomplishment in hand, the Iranians will feel free to call Obama’s bluff on their nuclear weapons project. Obama’s “shot across the bow” response to Syria’s use of chemical weapons in a mass casualty attack signaled the Iranians that the US will not stop them from developing and deploying a nuclear arsenal. Policy-makers...

Israeli woman decisively wins judo world championship, weeps during Hatikva (video)

From Times of Israel: Israeli judoka Yarden Gerbi sustained a string of decisive victories in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday to become the first Israeli to ever win gold at a World Championships meet. The 24-year-old, who has been enjoying a terrific year on the international circuit, won four straight bouts before beating out Clarisse Agbegnenou, the European champion, in the finals. Gerbi competes in the 63-kilogram category. She emerged...

Most informative webpage on possible Syrian attack on Israel

As the pundits generate hundreds of thousands of words as to whether the US will attack Syria, whether Syria will attack Israel, whether Hizballah will attack Israel, whether any attacks will be chemical or conventional, whether Russia will become aggressive.... This webpage has a single purpose - to answer whether Israel has yet been attacked. So far, the answer is NO. I'm embedding the page in a frame here so it will be up-to-date if there is...

8/30 Links Part 1: Responding to the Syrian Nightmare, The Antiwar Left is MIA

From Ian: Isi Leibler: Responding to the Syrian nightmare Overall, the current U.S. response has been appalling. It has formally assured Assad that it will restrict its punitive military response to "limited strikes" over a number of days, and stressed that it is not seeking to bring about regime change. This mere rap over the knuckles is hardly likely to act as a deterrent and the killing business will proceed as in the past. In fact, Assad is...

Egypt Independent reports: Major General Hassan Fallah, head of the Red Sea Ports Authority, forbade the Israeli commercial ship Zim Rotterdam from entering any of the ports on the Red Sea and the Gulf of Suez. The ship broke down four days ago after leaving Djibouti due to a fire on board that was later extinguished. Fallah said in a press statement on Thursday that he...

BBC says it shouldn't be expected to tweet accurate news

Al Arabiya reports: The BBC has come under scrutiny over its Twitter guidance policy after the BBC Trust upheld a complaint against correspondent Wyre Davies who was reporting on an incident in Gaza, according to media reports on Friday. The trust concluded that a tweet sent by Davies breached the corporation’s accuracy guidelines after it was later established that his tweet was misleading. Davies had tweeted: “In this ‘limited operation’ at...

Several Arabic news sites are reporting that Jordan's Office of Civil Status refused to allow a local couple register their newborn daughter's name as "Israel." Employees insisted that they would not allow it, but the couple insisted, pointing out that there is no law in Jordan that stops them from naming their child any name they want. The media calls the father "strange"...

Egypt reportedly harassing Al Jazeera and closing Turkish news agency Anadolu

From Al Jazeera: Al Jazeera correspondent Wayne Hay, cameraman Adil Bradlow, and producer Russ Finn are currently being detained by Egyptian authorities. The arrests follow the detainment of Abdullah al-Shami who was performing his duties as an Al Jazeera correspondent when he was arrested after the raid of the pro-Morsi sit-in at Rabaa al-Adawiya on August 14, along with Mohamed Badr, a cameraman for Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr who has been held...

This is outrageous: The creators of the Israeli documentary "Israel: A Home Movie" were recently informed that their film has been dropped from an international competition for films based on archival footage, because the awards ceremony is to be held in the Arab emirate of Dubai. The competition is being sponsored by the International Federation of Television Archives....

During WWII, Jews were imprisoned in camps in - Canada!

Here's something most people don't know: As a 15-year-old facing the threat of Nazi Germany in Austria, Fred Kaufman could barely imagine that he would soon find himself separated from his family, peering through the barbed wire fence of an internment camp deep in the woods of New Brunswick. Internment Camp B70, located in Ripples, N.B., housed more than 700 Jews in the...

8/29 Links Part 2: UN Agencies Prevent Peace in Israel, Ethiopian Wins Israeli Big Brother

From Ian: UN Agencies Prevent Peace in Israel As Palestinian “refugeeness” above all is synonymous with Palestinian national identity it has been worn as a “badge of honor” and an evergreen reminder of the Nakba – the supposed catastrophe of Israel’s birth. In this story the Arabs of Palestinian are blameless and have no responsibility whatsoever for their unfortunate destiny; their own decisions and those of their leaders, go unmentioned. In fact...

Mordechai Kedar video on why Arabs cannot make real peace today

I think this was during a Q&A at UC Irvine last May: Here is his speech at that conference about the origins of Islam and the conflict (unfortunately, I cannot embed it here.) (h/t Jean ...

Survey of Iranian media rhetoric today

PressTV: The chief of staff of Iran's Armed Forces has emphasized that a potential military attack against Syria by the US and its allies will have a ruinous impact on the Israeli regime. "Any military measure against Syria will draw the Zionists deep in the fire [as well],” said Major General Hassan Firouzabadi in an address on the recent American military threats against the Syrian nation and government on Thursday. Further elaborating on...