April 2014 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, April 30, 2014

04/30 Links Pt2: Despite everything, Zionism won; Admit J-Street? May as well let in PLO and Fatah

From Ian: Despite everything, Zionism won The days between Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israeli Independence Day tend to reveal the true faces of the many who oppose the modern era's biggest humanist endeavor: the movement to bring Jews back to Israel. The Jewish people have returned home after many years in exile, but our ship, which constantly navigates the tempestuous sea, nearly drowned forever in history's biggest massacre. The gates of Israel...

Israel’s Navy Transforms Itself

A neat overview of the history and future of Israel's navy, from Ehud Eiran in World Politics Review: Last month, the Israeli navy took control of a Panamanian ship off the coast of Sudan that was carrying Iranian munitions to Gaza. The Red Sea operation underscored the growth of the navy’s role in Israel’s power projection, which has accelerated in the 21st century after many decades in which maritime strategy was something of an afterthought...

"Erdogan abandoning Gaza for a few Zionist dollars"

The Jerusalem Post reported yesterday: Turkey and Israel could move towards reconciliation within days or weeks, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in an interview aired Tuesday. Erdogan told PBS’s Charlie Rose that the issue of the amount of compensation Israel will pay the families of the nine Turks killed on the Mavi Marmara in 2010 as they tried to break the blockade of Gaza has been resolved. He said that the “other step of...

04/30 Links Pt1: Prosor: PA Funds Will Go to Hamas; Syrian dissident 'Israel is our last hope'

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Abbas Pumps New Life Into Hamas Chief PLO Negotiator Saeb Erekat this week went as far as arguing that Hamas is not a terrorist organization. "We might agree or differ with Hamas," Erekat said. "But Hamas is not a terrorist organization. The occupation, according to international law, is the worst form of terrorism." Abbas's "reconciliation" accord with Hamas is most probably aimed at exerting pressure on Israel to make...

Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades terrorist organization has two separate websites for English and Arabic. The English-language website highlights topics like human rights: But its Arabic site shows its real priorities with lots of photos of masked terrorists, "martyrs" and violence that they celebrate: They are more similar that you might think. Both of them are advocating...

Israel secretly hands over body of Sbarro's suicide bomber, Arabs celebrate

Arutz-7 reports: Israel has returned to the Palestinian Authority (PA) the bodies of four terrorists who carried out deadly terrorist attacks against Israelis, including the body of the terrorist who blew himself up in the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001. The PA-based Safa news agency reported on Tuesday that the terrorists whose bodies were returned include brothers Adel and Imad Osallah, Hamas terrorists who planned attacks against Israel...

The PLO's lawyer whitewashes Hamas terror

John V. Whitbeck, an international lawyer who advises the PLO, is now defending Hamas. You know...unity. In a laughable "analysis" in Ma'an, Whitbeck shows that he can ignore the most elementary rules of logic and the English language itself in order to defend terrorists: When, in response to the threat of potential Palestinian reconciliation and unity, the Israeli government suspended "negotiations" with the Palestine Liberation Organization on...

Why J-Street should not be admitted to the Conference of Presidents

The Forward writes: Several large, mainstream Jewish groups, including the Anti-Defamation League and the Conservative movement’s Rabbinical Assembly, have to decided to vote in favor of admitting the dovish Israel lobby J Street into organized Jewry’s primary umbrella group on Israel. Others, like the Jewish Federations of North America, are leaning towards voting that...

04/29 Links Pt2: Juan Cole Definitely Uninformed; NYT: Abbas ‘Vilified’ for Questioning the Holocaust

From Ian: New York Times Says Abbas ‘Vilified’ for Challenging Number of Holocaust Victims In an article today about Abbas’ statement condemning the Holocaust, Jerusalem bureau chief Jodi Rudoren writes: “Mr. Abbas has been vilified as a Holocaust denier because in his doctoral dissertation, published as a book in 1983, he challenged the number of Jewish victims and argued that Zionists had collaborated with Nazis to propel more people to what would...

The saga of Christy Anastas, Palestinian defender of Israel, continues

Christy Anastas is a young woman who, during an al Jazeera program, was promised by Saeb Erekat that "Palestine" would have full human rights, freedom of speech and women's rights, among other things. As a result, she publicly defended Israel in a remarkable lecture at Uppsala University in Sweden. And all of that talk about freedom of speech went out the window. This video shows her giving background information, the Al Jazeera segment and her...

The inevitable Arab backlash against Mahmoud Abbas' cynical but explicit recognition of the Holocaust has begun. Naturally, it is starting in an Egyptian newspaper but from a Jordanian writer. Dr. Ibrahim Alloush (a high percentage of Arab antisemites have advanced degrees, it seems) writes in El Badil that for Arabs to recognize the Holocaust is even more dangerous than...

04/29 Links Pt1: Krauthammer: Kerry Should Resign; EU Doublethink on the Palestinians

From Ian: Caroline Glick: John Kerry's Jewish best friends Anti-Semitism is not a simple bigotry. It is a complex neurosis. It involves assigning malign intent to Jews where none exists on the one hand, and rejecting reason as a basis for understanding the world and operating within it on the other hand. John Kerry’s recent use of the term “Apartheid” in reference to Israel’s future was an anti-Semitic act. In remarks before the Trilateral Commission...

PA fabricates racist Israeli textbooks

The Palestinian Ministry of Information has been creating a series of reports about supposed Israeli incitement against Arabs. I looked at the first one in January, and proved not only that they were fabricating supposed bigoted quotes by Israeli leaders, but that their report in itself was a far better exampley of incitement against Israel than any of their examples were proof of incitement against Arabs! The same ministry just released a new...

(h/t the Ziyonists in the comments)...

"Gaza Ark" is a planned stunt where instead of attempting to send boats to Gaza, Israel-haters are planning to sail a boat from Gaza, where Israel can enforce its legal naval blockade and stop them. They hope to get lots of media attention. This morning, they say, there was a "mysterious explosion" on their boat: At 3:45 AM Gaza time on April 29th, the night guard on board...

Jordan holds conference to deny Jewish rights in Jerusalem

Jordan is holding a conference that aims to ensure that Jews have no rights in Jerusalem. From Jordan's official Petra News Agency: Deputizing for His Majesty King Abdullah II, HRH Prince Ghazi Bin Mohammad, the King's Advisor for Religious and Cultural Affairs, on Monday opened "The Road to Jerusalem" Conference that is being attended by a number of Muslim and Christian...

04/28 Links Pt2: Palestinian Student Defends Her Visit to Auschwitz; Life of Begin

From Ian: A Palestinian Student Defends Her Visit to Auschwitz When my fellow Palestinian travelers talk among themselves and with friends and family about the accusation that they “sold out to the Jews” by visiting Auschwitz, they tend to cite their love for their country, noting that their travel makes them no less patriotic or nationalistic than their critics. Although the public outcry has silenced most of them, they all went to Auschwitz out...

A couple of days ago Saeb Erekat made some headlines in Israeli media by declaring that "“Hamas is not and will never be a terrorist organization to us.” He has now added to that theme, by saying that not only is Hamas not a terror group, but Israel is the real terrorist entity. Arabic media is reporting that Erekat said that "the occupation is the worst kind of terrorism...

Here is the cover of a new book on human rights in Islam. Really. The author of the book is Amna Nasir, and on Sunday she gave a talk to promote the book at a library in Egypt. According to this article, however, she didn't speak about human rights in Islam, but about how evil Judaism is. The Jewish religion is violent and extreme, and this is because of the nature...

04/28 Links Pt1: Kerry the false prophet; Holocaust denial -- part of Palestinian narrative

From Ian: Kerry the false prophet US Secretary of State John Kerry continues to sermonize, disseminating self-fulfilling prophecies, whose incendiary warnings not only place the onus on Israel for failed peace talks, but worse could be construed as justification for the Arabs to spill Israeli Jewish blood in greater quantities. In his latest statements as reported on Monday, Kerry warned that Israel could become an “apartheid state,” like South Africa...

From The Daily Beast: If there’s no two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict soon, Israel risks becoming “an apartheid state,” Secretary of State John Kerry told a room of influential world leaders in a closed-door meeting Friday. Senior American officials have rarely, if ever, used the term “apartheid” in reference to Israel, and President Obama has previously...

Egypt paper lets readers decide if Holocaust was real

Egypt's Masrawy newspaper decided to perform a public service and tell its readers what the Holocaust was. The beginning of the article isn't bad at all. It gives a fairly good overview of the highlights of the Nazi attempt to destroy Jews and others. However, the article ends with "But there are many who deny the Holocaust and who provide evidence to prove their opinion, including that the extermination of 6 million Jews is grossly exaggerated,...

"Comrade" Kayed al-Ghoul, a member of the political bureau of the Marxist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, spoke about Mahmoud Abbas' acknowledgment of the Holocaust during a television interview. Ghoul said, "These statements reflect the principled and ethical position of the Palestinian people against Nazi fascism against humanity, including Jews, regardless...

Another day, another Egyptian blood libel

Egyptian newspaper Al Talyia News has an article by columnist Ghada Abd El Moneim (translated by Shawarma News): We received news of a (classified) CIA report that was leaked by the Egyptian General Intelligence, the report points to the truth of the information circulating in the Arab region about the brutality and secret rituals practiced by the Jews in their festivals...

Administrivia - EoZ email subscriptions

For years I've been using a service for my email newsletters, Feedburner, that has been essentially unsupported. Lately people have been complaining about problems receiving the emails and other issues. So I switched everyone to a new newsletter format powered by Nouri.sh. I don't know if this will have any glitches, and I see that it only excerpts the beginnings of articles instead of showing the entire post, but for now it will have to do until...

From Daily News Egypt: The [Egyptian] armed forces say they have discovered and destroyed the openings of six tunnels found in a mosque in the Gaza border town of Rafah. The tunnels, discovered on Saturday, are thought to have been used by “extremist elements” for “smuggling and infiltration to and from the Gaza Strip in order to intensify their activity in northern Sinai,”...

04/27 Links: Palestinian Christian Reveals the Reality Over the Propaganda

From Ian: European Jewish Congress: Amid rising anti-Semitism, Jewish life in Europe unsustainable “Normative Jewish life in Europe is unsustainable,” European Jewish Congress President Dr. Moshe Kantor said on Sunday. Presenting the results of a study on worldwide anti-Semitism in 2013 by the eponymous Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, Kantor cited increasing anti-Semitism and rising “fear and insecurity”...