April 2015 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, April 30, 2015

04/30 Links Pt2: Israel Does Not Owe Its Existence to the United Nations; Roger Waters, Bully

From Ian: Israel Does Not Owe Its Existence to the United Nations Contrary to what many believe, the UN 1947 partition plan did not set the legal groundwork for the creation of the state of Israel. Rather, Eugene Kontorovich explains, Israel was created “despite the UN.” Kontorovich also discusses the potential impact of future UN resolutions. (Interview by Yishai Fleisher; audio, 25 minutes).UN announces “review” of bookstore after protest over...

What happens when you mix a culture that is crazy about soccer with one that is certifiably insane about Jews? From Metro-UK: It’s official: there will be another Messi arriving on the planet very soon. Lionel Messi confirmed he will become a father for the second time after the Barcelona star uploaded a picture of his pregnant girlfriend, Antonella Roccuzzo, onto Instagram...

Vic Rosenthal's weekly column: Alex, the son of anti-Zionist billionaire George Soros, is starting a Jewish political action committee: Bend the Arc PAC will back progressive candidates by making direct contributions to their campaign committees. It will focus on issues such as income inequality, marriage equality, social justice and immigration reform. Alex Soros...

04/30 Links Pt1: IDF field hospital in Nepal treats nearly 100, delivers baby, Treats 'Miracle' Survivor

From Ian: On first day, IDF field hospital in Nepal treats nearly 100, delivers baby Israel’s field hospital in earthquake-hit Nepal began operating Wednesday morning, with staff treating nearly 100 patients and delivering their first baby — a boy — on the first day, according to an IDF spokesperson Among the patients were some 30 Israeli nationals. Most were suffering from dehydration and were soon released to their hotels. Over 250 doctors and...

The Action Group for Palestinians in Syria now count 2,771 Palestinians killed since the start of the Syrian civil war. 100 were killed in March alone. Many of them could have been saved if it wasn't for the deep desire by Arabs to destroy Israel - and a conscious decision by "leader" Mahmoud Abbas. In January 2013, Mahmoud Abbas bragged that he chose to let the Palestinians...

In December 2013, the European Court of Auditors released a report on their direct financial support to the Palestinian Authority. Among the findings of the audit (which found billions of euros of support missing) was that thousands of PA workers were being paid to do nothing. [T]he audit found indications that in Gaza a considerable number of civil servants were receiving...

Why doesn't anyone compare Baltimore to Hamas police? (update)

Now that police beatings are in the headlines again, it is fashionable for so-called progressives to equate the police with Israeli soldiers - as if Israeli police and soldiers are the quintessential example of police brutality. From The Guardian: David Simon, the creator of The Wire, has again weighed in on unrest in his adopted city of Baltimore, turning his frustration from the protesters to the “army of occupation” of the city’s police. “They...

Young Arabs worldwide say they love Israel and the IDF

Al-Monitor reports: It all began as a personal project by a young Israeli Arab who lives in northern Israel. He wanted to use social networking to convince other Israeli Arabs that the Israel Defense Forces are not some “army of evil” and that its soldiers are not as bloodthirsty as they tend to be portrayed in Arab propaganda films. He soon learned, however, that in the...

04/29 Links Pt2: The legal fight against 'Jenin, Jenin'; In WW2 ICRC “lost its moral compass”

From Ian: Bereaved families continue their legal fight against 'Jenin, Jenin' Representatives of bereaved family members and Israeli soldiers who fought in the Battle of Jenin in 2002 are outraged that police were called over the tent they set up to protest the film, which they say defames Israeli soldiers. Last Wednesday, on Israel's Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terrorism, the protest tent was erected outside Attorney General...

Latest videos of antisemitic harassment - and soccer - on the Temple Mount

Here we see the army of screaming Muslim women following a group of peaceful Jews strolling on their holiest spot. It is as pure a view of antisemitism as one can imagine, and the Muslims are very proud of them. Only after the Jews exit the holy spot do they start singing. (I really want them to adapt a "Yibaneh Hamikdash" tune to "Allahu Akbar" and start dancing every time they hear the chants outside the Mount gates.) This soccer game was...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Dearborn, MI, April 29 - Local hairdresser Malik Hassan regularly wows customers with his uncanny ability to convincingly argue that Jews are behind every negative phenomenon ever documented, Detroit-area sources reported Wednesday. Mr. Hassan, 28, often...

04/29 Links Pt1: Israel’s aid team to Nepal larger than any other country’s; One Israeli Still Missing

From Ian: Israel’s aid team to Nepal larger than any other country’s Israel’s aid team to the earthquake-battered Himalayan nation of Nepal is the largest in manpower of any international aid mission. Over 250 doctors and rescue personnel were part of an IDF delegation that landed Tuesday in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, in the wake of Saturday’s magnitude-7.8 earthquake that devastated large swaths of the mountainous country, killing at least...

Things keep getting worse in Gaza. There is a shortage of surfboard wax. As a result, they have to manufacture their own substandard types of wax, exacting a terrible psychological cost. I hope the UN Human Rights Commission addresses this crisis immediatel...

From the New York Times, May 29, 1971: It sounds ridiculous to claim that the Jewish Quarter had an "Arab character" after only 19 years, but isn't it equally ludicrous to characterize all of Jerusalem outside the Green Line as "Arab East Jerusalem"? Yet that is what is routinely written today. Jews were a majority in Jerusalem since the 1860s. Since...

Map depicting the MV Maersk Tigris’ original path toward the UAE and diversion after being intercepted by the IRGCN. (Source: marinetraffic.com) The best roundup of what happened yesterday in the Persian Gulf comes from the (Asia/Pacific) Diplomat site: The shipping lanes in the Strait of Hormuz have long been highlighted as a potential flashpoint amid the simmering geopolitical...

After Hamas wins student elections, PA arrests Hamas students

I reported last week that Hamas had won student elections in Birzeit University, which had generally been pro-Fatah in recent years despite a strong Hamas presence. The PA apparently didn't think much about this show of student democracy, because Arabic media is reporting today that the PA arrested 12 Hamas supporters both at Birzeit as well as at Hebron Polytechnic University. The...

04/28 Links Pt2: Anti-Zionism is racism; Why Is Pakistan More Legitimate than Israel?

From Ian: Anti-Zionism is racism Anti-Zionism is anti-Semitism. Jew-hatred is not a result of the existence of Israel or of anything Israel does. The cause and result go the other way round. Israel is hated because Jews are hated. We are not talking about the religion of Judaism. Strange to say, it’s very rare to hear even the most rabid anti-Semite attack the Jewish religion. (We ourselves do, in a rational way, because we attack religion as such,...

From the Wits Vuvuzela: Wits’ SRC president, Mcebo Dlamini caused controversy this weekend after he posted a Facebook status regarding whites and the state of Israel: “I love Adolf Hitler”. Following his Facebook comments, he told Wits Vuvuzela that he admired the German leader, who sent millions to death camps, for his “charisma” and “organisational skills”. Mcebo Dlamini,...

December 1940. France had fallen six months earlier. The United States would stay wrapped in isolationism for another year. The British Empire stood alone against the Nazi barbarians. In Jerusalem, the Very Reverend Dr Norman Maclean (1869-1952) was fourteen months into his wartime appointment as chaplain to St Andrew’s Church. The son of...