October 2013 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, October 31, 2013

France, and the EU, cozying up to Hezbollah

Al Monitor has a very sobering article: On July 22, 2013, all 28 European Union (EU) countries unanimously agreed to add Hezbollah’s military wing to the EU list of terrorist organizations. But less than three months later, Europe has opened its doors to Hezbollah as a special guest. On Oct. 12-14, the French Foreign Ministry received Hezbollah deputy Ali Fayyad of the Lebanese parliament as a guest lecturer for French diplomats, analysts and experts;...

New fighting in Gaza plus live tweets

YNet reports: An IDF force apparently came under mortar fire emanating from Gaza Thursday night while operating on both sides of the border fence as part of the efforts to uncover additional parts of an underground terror tunnel that was located in the area a month ago. The force returned fire. Palestinian sources reported that an IDF tank opened fired at a terror cell belonging to Hamas' armed wing - the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, which was...

10/31 Links Pt2: Who is “Financing the Flames”, The Humiliation of Palestinians in Arab States

From Ian: Extinguishing the Fires of Anti-Israel Agitation (REVIEW) In Financing the Flames, we finally get the real answer to the question, as Edwin Black meticulously details how anti-Israel efforts are being funded by non-Arab nations (such as the United States and Great Britain) and by presumably non-aligned, well-intentioned private donor groups – some Jewish, which are then implemented by misguided Jews and Jewish organizations. In other words,...

CNN is reporting that a White House official has confirmed that Israeli warplanes struck a military base near the Syrian city of Latakia this morning. Israeli officials have refused to comment. Al Arabiya also reports the story, citing "exclusive sources": Israel was behind a series of explosions that rocked a Syrian air base in the northern Latakia province, Al Arabiya...

For some reason, most news outlets seem to have missed this story. From Your Jewish News, last week: A large shipment of illegal weapons was apprehended at the port of Ashdod, Israel, according to officials. Ashdod port workers and customs agents were stunned after discovering more than 14,000 illegal weapons on Wednesday night. The tax authority had marked the container...

10/31 Links Pt1: UN- Releasing Murderers is Good, Building is Bad, Iran still enriching to 20%

From Ian: Israel files UN complaint over PA praise of terrorist Israel’s ambassador to the UN lodged a complaint with Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Wednesday over a condolence letter sent by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to the family of a terrorist killed by Israeli forces. The IDF said Mohamed Aazi was among the planners of the bombing on the No. 142 bus in central Tel Aviv during Operation Pillar of Defense as the bus drove near...

According to Palestine Today, this morning a a mob of Muslims managed to start a disturbance in order to "expel" a group of about 30 Jews who were visiting the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site. The Aqsa Heritage Foundation has photos of the "settlers" being "provocative." As far as I can tell, not only do Jews have the right to visit and to pray on the Temple Mount,...

"Koran says Zionist regime will perish in 2022"

Mark your calendars: (Ahlul Bayt News Agency [Iran]) - Several Iranian NGOs staged a panel discussion on Tuesday to discuss the political and social status of the Zionist regime. Titled 'End of Israel,' the conference also gave a touch to the faltering status of Israel amid the regional developments. Iran-based Office in Support of Palestine and the House of Young Top Citizens will staged the panel discussion under the auspices of Tehran Municipality. During...

From YNet: US State Department Spokesperson Jen Psaki responded Wednesday to Israel's announcement of building 1,500 units in east Jerusalem saying "We do not consider continued settlement activity or east Jerusalem construction to be steps that create a positive environment for the negotiations." At no time in the course of pursuing negotiations toward a two-state solution...

Pro-Brotherhood riots at Al Azhar, other Egyptian universities

This is interesting: Egyptian security forces stormed al-Azhar University campus on Wednesday to quell student protests against the military-backed government. It was the first time police forces have moved onto a campus since a 2010 court ruling. The interior ministry ordered the police intervention following a request by the administration of the prestigious university, Al Arabiya correspondent reported. Students supporting ousted President...

10/30 Links Pt2: France Mainstreams Anti-Semitism, Dawkins Perplexed by Number of Jewish Nobels.

From Ian: France: Anti-Semitism Now Mainstream A few weeks ago, when French Jewish actor Elie Semoun was a prime-time guest on one of the main French television channels, Canal Plus, the words of Sebastian Thoen, a standup comedian who introduced him may have been meant to be to be laudatory, but took quite a different turn: "You never plunged into communitarianism [Jewish activism] ... You could have posted yourself in the street selling jeans and...

The Huffington Post has a photo essay, "29 Photos That Put All Of Our Struggles In Perspective." Two of those photos are pure Pallywood. #8 says "The world we've come to love can often seem to collapse around us." and it shows this photo: A Palestinian family's home in East Jerusalem was demolished in 2013 by the state municipality for not having proper safety...

Egypt arrests student for atheism

From Al Ahram: An Ismailiya misdemeanour court has ordered the detention of a Suez Canal University student for 15 days, pending investigations on accusations that he insulted religion, the Association for Freedom of Thought and Expression (AFTE) said. Sherif Gaber was arrested on Sunday after his university administration filed a report against him saying he formed a Facebook group for atheists. Article 98 of Egypt's penal code says anyone convicted...

10/30 Links Pt1: The US Would Never Free Terrorists, Assad's Starvation Campaign

From Ian: Is a cold war reprise coming in the Middle East? The withdrawal of US aid from Egypt was a shock; the whole Middle East (the rational part, that is), knew full well the implications of a Muslim Brotherhood president in such an influential nation, yet the mighty US punished Egypt’s military for removing him and attempting to restore some semblance of order to the country. In Syria, President Assad unleashes one of the worst weapons created...

Al Quds has an article today about how the Israel Museum is erasing Palestinian (Arab) history in its exhibitions, by either "stealing" archaeological artifacts from Canaanite times or by not mentioning the history of Arabs in the region. I don't know how accurate the article is, but I looked at the Israel Museum website and found this: Mona Hatoum Current Disturbance,...

Yemen's Sheikh Abd Al-Azim Al-Huthi has declared that the jihad against the "Houthi infidels", the Shiite sect in Yemen that has been waging a civil war against the government over the past decade, "is better than the jihad against the Jews." because these Shiite rebels "are enemies of Allah and His Messenger" "It does not make sense to fight the Jews as long as the Houthi...

The purported leader of a state that virtually the entire world agrees must exist greets people who have murdered Jews. That's not news anymore. What is amazing is that no western leader finds these images to be disgusting. No academic notes the hypocrisy of a "peace partner" welcoming, in person, murderers and terrorists. No mainstream journalist or editorialist says...

Belgian Minister of Culture defends antisemitism on Facebook page

A Belgian professor wrote an opinion piece on the website of RTBF, Radio Télévision Belge Francophone, saying that Israel is a racist state. (He based this mostly from reading Ha'aretz.) RTBF has a Facebook page as well, and this article was linked there as well. Some of the comments, predictably, are insanely antisemitic. You know, having killed Christ is not enough...