August 2014 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, August 31, 2014

Male:female ratio of deaths in Ukraine similar to Gaza, but UN comes to different conclusions!

An August 11 article by the head of statistics from BBC News looked at the ratio of men to women being killed in Gaza: Its recent report said that as of 10 August, 1,948 Palestinians had been killed and 66 Israelis and one Thai national since Israel launched Operation Protective Edge on 8 July. ... So there were 226 members of armed groups killed, and another 709 men who...

From Al Ahram: Two young men's bodies have been found decapitated in Egypt's North Sinai, south of Rafah city, early Sunday morning. Local witnesses told Reuters' Aswat Masriya website that unidentified assailants kidnapped the two men the previous day and that their corpses were found later in a desert area. North Sinai locals have found several decapitated corpses recently...

I said in my recent book review of Harris-Gershon's, What Do You Buy the Children of the Terrorist Who Tried to Kill Your Wife?, that I feel sorry for the guy. There is no question that he and his wife, Jaime, went through something horrific. She was almost killed, for chrissake. But what makes things even sadder is that Gershon's main "take-away" from...

08/31 Links: Melanie Phillips A New Strategy For Israel; Left on the wrong side of history

From Ian: Honest Reporting: Melanie Phillips Calls For New Strategy to Present Israel’s Case Ms. Phillips stated that Israel needs to reframe the entire narrative about the Middle East, firstly by educating the uneducated through teaching the history of the Jewish people and Israel, through exposing the Muslim and Arab anti-Semitism so prevalent even among so-called moderates in the Middle East, and to position Israel at the forefront of the global...

From Hyperallergic: Artists participating in the 31st São Paulo Biennial have signed an open letter calling on the organizers to return sponsorship funds accepted from the Israeli state, Hyperallergic has learned. The patronage, credited to the Israeli consulate in São Paulo, appears on the sponsor board in the main exhibition space, in official publications, and online,...

Al Qassam Brigades terrorist Mohammed Abdullah Hussein Hawajri was killed on July 26 by the IDF along with three of his terrorist colleagues. His family posted a bunch of photos of their proud mujahid. But this one is interesting: Look how artfully the Koran is placed between the two RPGs. Not only that, but if the RPGs would have been placed on the table directly,...

Gaza's Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, proving that the Palestinian Arab media are simply propaganda outlets, praised the media and journalists as "partners in the victory" against Israel. During a ceremony to honor "martyrs of the media," which was organized by the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Information, Hanieyahsaid that the media "contributed to the steadfastness of...

PCHR, that "human rights" organization that the UN relies upon to determine its death statistics from Gaza, reported on July 29: At approximately 06:00, an Israeli drone fired a missile near a house belonging to Ahmed Sa'id all-Hashash in al-Hashash neighborhood in the north of Rafah. When members of the family attempted to evacuate the house taking their disabled mother...

08/30 Links: 75 UN troops flee to Israel; Will Jews Buy Umbrellas When They See Clouds in the Sky?

From Ian: Will Jews Buy Umbrellas When They See Clouds in the Sky? 19th century Zionist philosopher, Max Nordau, was quoted as telling Jewish leader Ze’ev Jabotinsky that “the Jew learns not by way of reason, but from catastrophes. He won’t buy an umbrella merely because he sees clouds in the sky. He waits until he is drenched and catches pneumonia.” On so many counts, Nordau’s words remain completely accurate and reliable today. In Israel, in...

08/29 Links Pt2: The Muslim Colonists: Forgotten Facts about the Arab-Israeli Conflict

From Ian: Chloe Valdary: Beyond Repair: Racist Revisionists, Injurious Illusions Arab countries such as Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria have a hand in promoting this bigotry. These countries deny basic rights to Palestinian Arabs in order to keep them in their dejected state, in part because they seek to make Israel look bad, but, more importantly, because of their own prejudices against them. This, however, is no surprise. It is important to remember...

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Report: Two Muslim teenage girls planned to suicide-bomb synagogue in Lyon

From JSSNews: Sources from the Directorate General of Internal Security told JSSNews that the Jewish community of Lyon has just escaped a major disaster. Two Muslim girls, 15 and 17, were arrested in Tarbes Venissieux a week ago, when they planned to blow themselves up at the Great Synagogue of Lyon. The two teenagers, who communicated only on social networks, wanted to die as martyrs, like the "Islamikaze" attacks that kill innocents almost...

08/29 Links Pt1: A Pro-Hamas Left Emerges; Why a Liberal Rabbi Unsubscribed to the New York Times

From Ian: Sarah Honig: Another tack: Genuinely knocked for a loop? The fact is that Britain had been exporting jihadist terror for years while pompously upholding its pluralist posture. Two British Muslims also paid a lethal visit to Israel in April, 2003. Asif Muhammad Hanif, the suicide-bomber who took three innocent lives at Mike’s Place on Tel Aviv’s sea front was a London lad. His absconded accomplice, Omar Khan Sharif, came from Derby, where...

Hamas Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh visited the families of "martyrs," specifically the family of Hamas terrorist Mohammed Abu Shamala, and took the time for some photo-ops: (h/t Bob Knot)...

PCHR describes Mahmoud ‘Abdul Nasser Bahar, 22, killed in Shuja’iya July 20, as a "civilian." He was actually a Hamas terrorist. His body was found with 2 other "civilians" who were males in their 20s...

Mahmoud Abbas, in the same interview where he lied about Netanyahu accepting a Palestinian Arab state on the 1949 armistice lines, also attacked Hamas - and accused Hamas of stealing humanitarian aid. Abbas said, "Hamas has a shadow government in Gaza, and they have undersecretaries for ministries, and if this continues, it will threaten the continuation of the national...

Report: Malaysian women joining ISIS for "sex jihad"

Last year there was a flurry of news stories that resulted when the Tunisian Interior Minister claimed that some Tunisian women had gone to Syria to have sex with multiple jihadists. Some of the details of the story - such as a supposed fatwa to allow such actions - were questioned. Now the story has resurfaced with ISIS and Malaysian women. From The Malaysian Insider: Malaysian women are believed to have joined the Islamic State of Iraq and...

08/28 Links Pt2: Abbas aide: Israel 'fabricated' beheading of James Foley, the Holocaust

From Ian: Abbas aide Dr. Husam Zomlot: Israel 'fabricated' beheading of James Foley, the Holocaust Hanan Ashrawi attacks Obama for acknowledging Jewish history Palestinian Media Watch has documented that the PA denies Israel's history, claiming the Jewish people never lived in the land of Israel before the Balfour Declaration, never built a Temple in Jerusalem, and more. These false claims form the basis for PA denial of Israel's right to exist. PLO...

A couple of weeks ago I noted that the Simon Wiesenthal Center had taken one of my posts, word for word, as part of a submission to the UN. This is very flattering, but they didn't use my name (which I fully understand) but they also didn't ask permission. I would have been happy to give it to them, of course. It is cool to see my research being used beyond the blogosphere. Today,...

From Egypt's Al Ahram, which is close to the government: The World Food Programme (WFP) said that a humanitarian convoy has crossed from Egypt's Rafah border crossing into the war-torn Gaza Strip, becoming the first aid sent to Gaza by the UN organisation since the start of the seven-year Israeli blockade in 2007. WFP announced it will send another convoy to cross into...

08/28 Links Pt1: Liberman: Take Away Their Guns -- Then We'll Talk; Pallywood comes to Australia

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Is the Gaza War Really Over? It is important to note that these cease-fire demands are not part of Hamas's or Islamic Jihad's overall strategy, namely to have Israel wiped off the face of the earth. Many foreign journalists who came to cover the war in the Gaza trip were under the false impression that it was all about improving living conditions for the Palestinians by opening border crossings and building an airport...

I am traveling a bit between now and Monday, so blogging will be a bit lighter than usual most of the time. At the moment, this is my view: ...

Jordanian State TV says Jews use Christian blood for matzoh

ANtisemitic Muslim Cleric of the Day: From MEMRI: In a Friday sermon delivered in Amman on August 22, 2014, Sheik Bassam Ammoush said that the Jews slaughter children to use their blood for matzos. Ammoush, a former Muslim Brotherhood leader who was expelled from the organization in 1997, was appointed minister of administrative development that year, and became the Jordanian ambassador to Iran in 2001. In 2011, King Abdullah appointed him to...

The Al Asifa Army, part of the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, held a press conference Wednesday where they said that they had shot 620 rockets at Israel during Protective Edge. The Asifa Army, by the way, takes its name from the first terror group that Yasir Arafat created from Fatah. At the same time, another Fatah group, the Abu Nidal Brigades, held their own press...

So what exactly are the terms of the ceasefire, anyway?

It has been hard to find the actual terms of the truce agreement between Israel and Hamas (officially, the PA.) The closest I've seen was published in Arabic at Youm7: The [Egyptian Foreign] Ministry said in a statement, "in order to preserve the lives of innocent people and to prevent bloodshed, and on the basis of the Egyptian Initiative of 2014 and Cairo understandings of 2012, Egypt has invited Israeli and Palestinian sides to a comprehensive...

08/27 Links Pt2: Academic left and Islamists joined at the anti-Israel hip; Who Occupies Gaza?

From Ian: Step Away, Do Nothing, Pat Self on Back Obama administration officials spent much of the spring and summer trying to position themselves as grand strategists. The president's West Point speech was the test drive of their revised national security strategy. It cautioned that "our most costly mistakes came not from our restraint, but from our willingness to rush into military adventures without thinking through the consequences -- without...

Lebanese site Al Ankabout reports that Mufti of the Lebanese Republic, Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani, said that what Israel did in Gaza "exceeded what Hitler did in his alleged Holocaust against the Jews." He also called for the eradication of Israel for good measure. For every day of the five years of the Holocaust, far more Jews were killed than the total killed in Gaza...