September 2014 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, September 30, 2014

Saeb Erekat gets even nuttier (if that is possible)

From AFP: A senior Palestinian official on Tuesday likened Benjamin Netanyahu to the leader of the Islamic State group, after the Israeli prime minister compared Hamas to the organization. "Netanyahu is trying to disseminate fear of the Islamic State led by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but Netanyahu forgets that he himself leads the Jewish state," said Saeb Erekat, the PLO's...

09/30 Links Pt2: J Street's Beyoncé-Themed Anti-Israel Campaign; The Jewish Food Taste Test

From Ian: In Depth: UK anti-Semitism continues unabated after Gaza war The Israeli defensive war against Hamas in Gaza may have finished a month ago but its side effects are still reverberating abroad, not least of all in the UK. While the range and level of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel activity in Britain has not matched that seen in parts of continental Europe such as France, the UK Jewish community still felt its effects as never before, as...

From The Jewish Press: Terrified Jewish nursery school and kindergarten children were rushed into bomb shelters in Jerusalem’s Maaleh HaZeitim neighborhood after 10 masked Arabs attacked the Jerusalem neighborhood’s complex with Molotov cocktails, fireworks and stones on Tuesday. The Arabs specifically targeted toddlers from a nursery “Mishpacton” who were playing outside. The...

Villa Rouma is a film made by an Arab citizen of Israel. She tried to get funded by Arab sponsors, but they refused, so she got funded by the Israel Film Fund and the New Israel Fund: Before film director and scriptwriter Suha Arraf approached the New Israel Fund (NIF) [sic - not the NIF - EoZ] to produce Villa Touma (2014)—her first fictional film as a director—she applied...

09/30 Links Pt1: Kicking the PLO habit; PA honors murderers of 3 Israeli teens

From Ian: David Horovitz: Bleak Netanyahu warns of militant Islam’s global ambition There were no gimmicks. Few excruciating one-liners. Just a single visual aid: a photograph of three children in Gaza at play right next to a rocket launcher. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a no-nonsense address to the United National General Assembly on Monday — presenting himself as the leader of a “proud and unbowed” nation, charged with the “awesome...

Sudanese news site Al Nilin reports that head of the Sudan Fatwa Authority Sheikh Abdul Rahman Hassan Ahmed Hamed issued a scathing criticism to the Sudanese government for allowing a young chess player to compete against an Israeli at the World Youth Chess Championships held recently in Durban. Omar Eltigani faced Israeli Matan Poleg on September 25. Abdul Rahman said...

Yesterday, PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat added another to his long list of lies that he spouts to the media, and this one was a doozy: Escalating the Palestinian leadership’s rhetorical assault on Israel, the chief Palestinian Authority negotiator, Saeb Erekat, on Monday claimed that 96 percent of Gazans killed in the summer’s Israel-Hamas conflict were civilians, reiterated...

The Times of Israel seriously botched up a news story: Abbas spokesman says he’s ‘ready for historic compromise’ Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is ready for a historic compromise for peace, his spokesman Nabil Abu Rudeineh said on Monday. After Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fiery response to Abbas’s UN speech last week in which the Pa leader accused...

The Star of David Molecule

From The University of Manchester: Scientists at The University of Manchester have generated a new star-shaped molecule made up of interlocking rings, which is the most complex of its kind ever created. Known as a ‘Star of David’ molecule, scientists have been trying to create one for over a quarter of a century and the team’s findings are published at 1800 London time...

09/29 Links Pt2: Lady Gaga: World is wrong about Israel; Abbas Finds a Friend in The NYTs

From Ian: Lady Gaga: World is wrong about Israel Pop star Lady Gaga says the world’s image of Israel is inaccurate, calling the country “a beautiful place.” “Oh it was fantastic!” said Lady Gaga in an interview published Friday by The Independent, talking about her September 13 performance in Tel Aviv. “Tel Aviv was magnificent. The world view of Israel is just not reality. It’s in a beautiful place, the people are in good spirits.” “I had a very...

On July 13, the Gaza Ministry of Health announced the death of 14-year old Hussein Abdelkader Muheisen, who died of his wounds suffered a few days earlier. It was published in a number of Arabic sites, including Palestine Today. His death was not mentioned by PCHR. Today, Palestine Today celebrates the young man, who actually was 24 years old: Islamic Jihad claims...

Bibi speech at UN (video, transcript)

Full video of Bibi Netanyahu's speech at the UN today: Here's the transcript: Thank you, Mr. President, Distinguished delegates, I come here from Jerusalem to speak on behalf of my people, the people of Israel. I've come here to speak about the dangers we face and about the opportunities we see. I've come here to expose the brazen lies spoken from this very podium against my country and against the brave soldiers who defend it. Ladies and...

09/29 Links Pt1: From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter - to Total Chaos; Dig In For a Long War

From Ian: From Arab Spring to Islamic Winter - to Total Chaos Middle East experts Dr. Mordechai Kedar and Prof. Eyal Zisser recently sat down with Arutz Sheva ahead of the Jewish New Year (Rosh Hashanah), and recapped the tumultuous and bloody events of the Arab world over the past year. Kedar, a senior lecturer at Bar Ilan University, began by noting the current warfare is the continuation of a trend of disorder since the "Arab spring" revolutions...

Over the weekend, a number of newspapers breathlessly published a story about nn El Al flight that was delayed due to the apparent inconsiderateness of some Haredi passengers: A flight from New York to Tel-Aviv descended into an “11-hour long nightmare” after ultra-orthodox Jewish passengers on board refused to sit next to women, delaying take-off and causing further disruption...

Kennedy assassination and 9/11 done by Jews? Come on, that isn't cutting edge antisemitism. If you want to push the envelope on getting people to hate Jews, you have to go back further in history. A Saudi columnist, Abdullah Sultan, has written a history of sorts of how American presidents have been victimized by Da Joooz! Writing in the official Saudi press Agency Okaz,...

In July, John Kerry was caught insulting Israel by sarcastically saying about Israeli airstrikes, "It's a helluva pinpoint operation." He then repeated it for emphasis. Apparently, the Secretary of State was believing Hamas-fed media reports that Israel was targeting civilians, without checking what Israel had to say. Now comes today: U.S.-led air strikes hit grain silos...

Erekat doubles down on Abbas' "genocide" accusation

Well, it is official: The Palestinian Arab leadership is accusing Israel of genocide. After Mahmoud Abbas made the accusation and the State Department denounced it, PLO executive committee member Saeb Erekat confirmed that, no, it was not a misstatement - this is what the PLO really thinks. Erekat said that "genocide was practiced by the Israeli government on the...

During Rosh Hashanah prayers I sat next to a very nice gentleman, 68 years old. I was impressed with how nicely and devoutly he prayed as well as his sense of humor and personality. It turns out that he is looking for a wife. But there is one problem: he is a Kohen and as such has limitations on who he can marry. So he - very nicely - asked me, as I'm sure he asks many...

Iranian TV notes that Arab leaders told Palestinians to leave in 1948

Here is an excerpt from an Iranian PressTV meant to show how awful Israel is. But without quite realizing it, this shows that Arab leaders instructed their brethren to get out of Palestine in 1948. The video also demonstrates how awful the situation is in crowded Lebanese "refugee" camps where generations are being taught to hate, as the interviews prove. (h/t B...

09/28 Links: Radical Islam, Israel and Agitprop; Abbas is the problem, not the solution

From Ian: Radical Islam, Israel and Agitprop Many Europeans who would laugh at the idea of negotiating with ISIS or al-Qaeda say that Israel should negotiate with Hamas. Almost nobody sees that the invention of the "Palestinian people" has transformed millions of Arabs into a genocidal weapon to be used against the Israelis, and even, as in Europe recently, the Jews. Transforming people into a genocidal weapon is a barbaric act. Israel was urged...

It frankly astonishes me that at this late date the Jewish Question persists. Of all the peoples on the planet why should the Jews remain under harassment not only by a much larger hostile Arab-Muslim majority in the Middle East, but through the antipathy of our supposed western-left allies who conceive of any form of Jewish self-defense as an unconscionable act...