December 2013 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, December 31, 2013

Eight people, including an American, sentenced to prison for making fun of UAE on video

From The National (UAE): Eight people accused of defaming the UAE’s image abroad by producing a spoof documentary have received prison sentences. American S C and Indians R and A were jailed for a year and fined Dh10,000 each by the State Security Court. Two Emirati brothers, S D and S D, were given eight months and Dh5,000 fines. A third brother, AD, was pardoned. A Canadian woman, a British woman and an American man were not detained and were...

12/31 Link Pt2: A round up of 2013 Top 10's, Greatest IDF Moments of 2013.

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Empowering Palestinians who reject Israel’s right to exist That’s right. The same America that until a few years ago led the free world in the global war against terror, now conditions its support for Israel, its chief regional ally in that war, on the Jewish state’s willingness to release unrepentant, mass murdering terrorists back into Palestinian society. Not to put too fine a point on it, but it ought to go without saying...

I wish I was as optimistic as Yaffa Yarkoni in 1970

From a French TV show in 1970, Israeli legend Yaffa Yarkoni singing (in French and Hebrew) the Israeli classic "Bashanah Haba'ah:" The Hebrew lyrics mean: Next year we will sit on the porch and count migrating birds. Children on vacation will play catch between the house and the fields. You will yet see, you will yet see, how good it will be next year. Red grapes will ripen till the evening, and will be served chilled to the table. And languid...

Best posts according to commenter Alexandre: 1.The elephants in the room, 2013 2. Congratulations, we have achieved peace. Don't ruin it with a "peace plan." 3. [Zero-sum game] + [Arab projection] = [Blame the Jews] Most popular: 1. Roger Waters flies a pig balloon with a Star of David in Belgium concert (video) 2. UN interpreter accidentally tells the world the truth...

12/31 Link Pt1: Incitement on PA Children's TV, Erdogan Supporters Shout ‘Are You Jewish’ Before Attacking

From Ian: Netanyahu condemns hero’s welcome for prisoners “The essence of the difference between us and our neighbors can be seen in one picture,” Netanyahu said at the seventh annual Galilee Conference Tuesday, referring to the sight of throngs of Palestinians giving the released prisoners — almost all of them convicted of murder — a hero’s welcome. “While we prepare to take very painful steps in an effort to try and reach an agreement that would...

If you want to insult your opponent in the Muslim world, you can't do better than to call him a Jew - or worse than a Jew. We've already seen Muslim Brotherhood supporters claiming that Egypt's al-Sisi is Jewish, and we've seen Sisi's supporters saying that the original founder of the Muslim Brotherhood was Jewish. We've seen Shiites accused of being worse than Jews, secularists...

From ANSAmed: The Palestinian ambassador to Rome launched a campaign Friday to raise funds through movements, associations and private citizens for the population of the Gaza Strip. ... ''We are asking Italians to help prevent the latest in a long string of tragedies,'' Palestinian ambassador Mai Al-Kaila told journalists in outlining the initiative Una Coperta per Gaza ('A...

This photo was on Mahmoud Abbas' Facebook page today. Here's video of Abbas welcoming the terrorists as heroes and his speech at the ceremony. During his speech Abbas said "We promise that it will not be the last time, but there will be a batch of heroes coming to us all the time and in the near future, God willing....This is the day the joy of all of us the joy of...

A rainbow over Israel

This photo was taken by Niece of Ziyon, who recently made aliyah with her new husband, from her apartment window on Monday. One end of the rainbow is at Har HaMenuchot. ...

Turkish riot police have blasted opposition protesters with water cannons, tear gas and plastic bullets in Istanbul in scenes reminiscent of the summer's mass anti-government demonstrations. Some of the protesters on Friday evening threw rocks and firecrackers at police, shouting, "Catch the thief!" in reference to a widening corruption scandal gripping Prime Minister Recep...

12/30 Links Pt2: ASA: Buried by the ‘Times’, Reflections of a one-armed warrior

From Ian: Sherri Mandell: I’m glad my son’s murderers have not been found Please, Israeli government, I beg you: Don’t go looking for my son’s killers. The ones who cruelly beat Koby and Yosef to death with rocks, the barbarians who attacked two eighth grade boys — my son and his friend — who were on a hike near our home in Israel. Please don’t find them. Don’t apprehend them and put them in jail and make my family and me sit through a long trial...

Hamas tweeted: #Data: 75% of the detainees in #Israeli jails are #children http://t.co/1TRxwHXIoV #Humanrights #StopIsrael #Terror #Palestine — Alqassam Brigades (@AlqassamBrigade) December 29, 2013 And indeed the headline of the linked article says: But if you actually read the article, it says Department of Statistics in Ramallah, in a report on Friday, showed that...

2013 sees Jordan go from coddling Hamas to spurning it

In January, Jordan's king was publicly trying to mainstream Hamas to the world. At the World Economic Forum he claimed that Hamas was "more open than ever" to dialogue with Israel, and a few days afterwards he claimed that Hamas accepted a two-state solution. Of course, Hamas immediately and vehemently denied both reports, but it shows that King Abdullah was trying to mainstream Hamas as it was being propped up by Egypt and actively supplanting...

12/30 Links Pt1: Hamas calls Abbas Illegitimate, 20 Threats by Iranian Leaders Against Israel in 2013

From Ian: Football Jihad: The media misses the key point over Anelka's antisemitic gesture However, most reports avoid the background on the antisemitic French 'comedian' and holocaust denier Dieudonne M’bala M’bala** (see, e.g. here and here). He is the one who invented ‘la quenelle', and he has a string of convictions in French courts for antisemitism, including just last week being found guilty of incitement to hatred and racial discrimination...

Saudi gift to Lebanese army :The beginning of a game-changer

From WSJ: Saudi Arabia pledged $3 billion to bolster Lebanon's armed forces, in a challenge to the Iranian-allied Hezbollah militia's decadeslong status as Lebanon's main power broker and security force. Lebanese President Michel Sleiman revealed the Saudi gift on Lebanese national television Sunday, calling it the largest aid package ever to the country's defense bodies. The Saudi pledge compares with Lebanon's 2012 defense budget, which the Stockholm...

One of the most-mentioned anti-Israel topics is how Israel, by enforcing a six nautical mile sea blockade on Gaza, is stopping Gazans from being able to catch the fish that is so critical to their food supply. We are told that the best fish are past the six-mile zone and Israel is trying to starve Gazans. A new report from PCHR reportedly claims says that Gaza fishermen income...

A violent video to celebrate Fatah's terror anniversary

As I've mentioned before, January 1 is the 49th anniversary of Fatah's first terror attack. No one seems to know the anniversary of Fatah's founding - Fatah terrorism is all any Arab cares to celebrate. In honor of the occasion, a Palestinian Arab singer created this video highlighting - what else? - Fatah militarism and violence. The lyrics are nothing special: I’m proud of the sons of Fatah/The coat of arms of which is the keffiyeh/with...

19,200 new immigrants to Israel this year

From Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: According to data compiled by The Jewish Agency for Israel and the Israel Ministry of Immigration and Absorption, some 19,200 immigrants arrived in Israel in 2013, a modest increase from the 18,940 who arrived in 2012. 2013 saw an overall increase of 35% in Aliyah from western Europe, with the arrival of 4,390 immigrants this year as opposed to 3,258 in 2012. The most dramatic increase was noted in Aliyah...

$40 TRILLION dollars! Back in 2008, I found a "study" that claimed that Israel had cost US taxpayers $3 trillion. Of course it was an absurd number, based on a bizarre estimate of how much oil prices went up since 1973 and blaming Israel for all of that. Apparently, blaming Israel for costing the US $3 trillion is not nearly enough anymore. Some moron named Dr. Gideon...

From Ma'an: Israeli settlers attacked with stones dozens of Palestinian vehicles in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian official said Sunday. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that the settlers pelted vehicles with stones and empty bottles smashing windshields of dozens of vehicles. Hmmm..Ghassan Daghlas' name sounds...

12/29 Links: Arafat and al-Jazeera: Manufacturing Trouble, International Scandal Checkmates Israel

From Ian: Elliott Abrams Arafat and al-Jazeera: Manufacturing Trouble The striking thing about the Swiss “investigation” is that it was inspired and financed by al-Jazeera. The report itself is on al-Jazeera stationery, and the opening lines reveal that the entire thing was invented by al-Jazeera. At al-Jazeera’s web site, here, huge amounts of attention are devoted to proving that Arafat was poisoned. There are an amazing 41 “news” stories and documents...

The University of Maryland Anwar Sadat Center polled Israelis and Palestinian Arabs last month about their attitude towards a peace framework: 1. A sovereign Palestinian state would be established. The boundaries would generally be based on 1967 borders, but Israel would annex 3-4% of the West Bank that includes major settlement blocks with comparable land swaps to be negotiated.2....

It all makes perfect sense if you are schizophreni...

Egypt's former Mufti Ali Gomaa, considered a moderate, has slammed the Muslim Brotherhood by comparing them to Jews. He said that just as Jews consider themselves to be the Chosen People, so do the members of the Brotherhood think they are better than other Muslims. But Ibrahim Abaza, a leader of the Salafists in Egypt, said that the Muslim Brotherhood is even worse...

List of latest murderers to be released for "peace" and their victims

Releasing murderers in the name of peace is truly one of the most bizarre acts that any sovereign nation has ever done. This is mostly taken from The Jewish Press, translating a document from Israel Prison Service, a list of terrorists slated to be released this week and the names of their victims. For some I added links or other details of the terror acts and the victims. Terrorist Terror Attack Arrest Date Residence ...