June 2015 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

06/30 Links Pt2: Obama signs anti-BDS bill into law; IDF Appoints Special Team to Plan Strike on Iran

From Ian: Obama signs anti-BDS bill into law After a grueling legislative battle, US President Barack Obama signed into law a controversial trade measure that also contains landmark legislation combating the boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) movement in Europe. The broader legislation faced an uphill battle after Obama’s usual allies — Democrats in the House of Representative — bucked his authority and voted against key provisions out of...

What the US has thrown under the bus to get a bad deal with Iran

The Wall Street Journal reported: Iran secretly passed to the White House beginning in late 2009 the names of prisoners it wanted released from U.S. custody, part of a wish list to test President Barack Obama’s commitment to improving ties and a move that set off years of clandestine dispatches that helped open the door to nuclear negotiations. The secret messages... included a request to blacklist opposition groups hostile to Iran and increase...

Back in the day, the American Library Association (ALA) concerned itself exclusively with such issues as librarians’ pay and conditions, actual and attempted censorship of materials held by or recommended for acquisition by individual libraries, and – it seemed almost to the point of obsession – the comparatively low status of librarianship. The heavyweights...

06/30 Links Pt1: Why Flotillas Sail to Gaza, Not Syria; London Nazi Rally Cancelled

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinians: Why Salam Fayyad Lacks Popular Support It is no secret that several senior Palestinian officials see themselves as potential successors to Abbas. Like his predecessor, Yasser Arafat, Abbas has stubbornly refused to share power with anyone. And like Arafat, he continues to run the Palestinian Authority as if it were his private fiefdom. In Palestinian culture, it is more important if one graduates from...

"Moderates" The PA government dissolved two weeks ago and there has been no agreement on the new members as the PLO attempts to replace the "technocrats" with its own political hacks. Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction issued a statement insulting Hamas for not being serious enough about forming a new national unity government. Their specific charges against Hamas reveal yet...

Tweeter StopBoycott noticed this gem - a "We Are All Gaza" T-Shirt that was manufactured in Israel! BGood1 makes custom T-shirts and other items. (h/t StandWithUs)...

From an idea by UR: ...

06/29 Links Pt2: Celebs Who Remind The World 'Jews Aren’t So Easy To F–k With Anymore'

From Ian: Celebs Who Remind The World 'Jews Aren’t So Easy To F–k With Anymore' In today’s era of hatred against the State of Israel becoming increasingly mainstream, there still remain those celebrities who speak truth to power. This week, rock-star David Draiman noted he was removing his Twitter account after constant harassment from “unpleasant, anti-Semitic 'internet trolls.” Draiman went on to note that, The mainstream media's biased,...

Why does UNRWA need to give free schooling, anyway?

From Ma'an: The UN agency for Palestinian refugees announced Monday that it will cut 85 percent of its international staff on short term contracts in coming months in light of a $100 million deficit. \ UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said in a statement that the agency "is taking this measure to reduce costs as much as possible without reducing services to refugees." However, he added that UNRWA may have to make "difficult decisions" on its school...

Ma'an reported: Israeli state media reported on Sunday that a number of senior Palestinian Authority officials spend more time abroad than in Palestine. The report, published on the Israeli Broadcasting Authority's website Reshet Bet, alleged that some Palestinian officials spend 150 to 170 days in "fancy hotels" abroad every year. The report gave details for 10 senior...

06/29 Links Pt1: Israel might leave UNHRC; The Last of the Flotillas #FlotillaOfFools

From Ian: PMW: PA-Fatah summer camp for kids: AK-47 automatic weapons and youth in military uniforms dancing with rifles More than 150 children "of Martyrs and prisoners" participated in the camp "Jerusalem in the Eyes of the Lion Cubs and Flowers of Palestine" run by the PA's National Security Forces in coordination with Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah's youth movement "the Lion Cubs and Flowers of Palestine." The camp's closing ceremony, in which the campers...

Neo-Nazis have been touting Ursula Haverbeck, an 86-year old Holocaust denier who smiles as she spouts her hate. She was interviewed for a German TV show in March and since then police have raided her house for hate materials. Here is the interview with English subtitles, which has over 100,000 views on YouTube. She easily segues from denying the Holocaust to saying...

"Muslims never started a war. And Ramadan is the month for Jihad"

From MEMRI: In an address posted on the Internet on June 26, Egyptian cleric Muhammad Zaki, secretary-general of the Al-Azhar Dawa Committee, said that the Ramadhan "has never been a month for the lazy or "a month for tormenting one's body or for sleep." It is a month for Jihad, he said. Following are excerpts: Muhammad Zaki: The Muslims have never started a war. They have never initiated an attack against peaceful people. They are always the...

You know how suicide bombers like to make videos to be released after they blow themselves up? Meet the "progressive" anti-Israel equivalent, of passengers on the Marianne av Goteborg pleasure boat who made videos to be released if they are intercepted by Israel as they attempt to violate the legal naval blockade on Gaza: Just like the "martyr" videos, they all sound the...

Anti-Israel NGO stats show opposite of what they claim

Gisha is an anti-Israel NGO that is dedicated to denouncing Israel for its restrictions on movement an materials to Gaza. They claim to be non-partisan but they will almost always ignore Hamas violations on freedom of movement from Gaza, concentrating on Israel. Gisha likes to gather statistics (although not from Israeli sources; they find Hamas and Arab sources more believable.)...

Another day, lots more lies. Ma'an reports: Israeli forces on Saturday suppressed a Palestinian march protesting Israeli plans to turn a southern West Bank church compound into a settlement outpost. The 38 dunam compound, known as Beit al-Baraka, is located to the north of al-Arrub refugee camp between Bethlehem and Hebron. It has been in the spotlight since an investigative...

06/28 Links: PMW: Hamas used civilians as human shields in 2014 war; Expose UNRWA's absurdity

From Ian: Netanyahu: The enlightened world is battling dark forces After nearly simultaneous terrorist attacks in Tunisia, Kuwait and France kill dozens of people, PM Benjamin Netanyahu calls for unity in fight against radical Islamic terror • Interpol chief: Attacks show global dimension of current terrorist threats. "The brutal murders in France, Tunisia and Kuwait again underscore that the enlightened world is struggling against dark forces,"...

As I write this on Friday morning, there it is all over the headlines, again. Islamist Terror Wave Hits Tunisia and Kuwait. Man Beheaded in France. What we know as of this moment is that terrorists shot up the resort town of Sousse, some 150 kilometers from Tunis, killing at least 27 people. Meanwhile, the Times of Israel is reporting: A suicide bomber attacked...

On Friday, I quoted Ma'an about the lead ship in the "flotilla" to Gaza: One of the ships taking part in a flotilla headed towards Gaza strip was sabotaged south of Crete, an activist aboard one of the ships said Thursday. Israeli-born Swedish activist Dror Feiler told Nazareth-based al-Shams radio that the ship had been sabotaged by professionals, and would have sunk if...

Firas Press reports that Fatah distributed food parcels in Jenin to prisoners and released prisoners - meaning, terrorists - on Saturday evening. The packages came from the Arab League. More such gifts will be distributed to terrorists and their families throughout the territories, and, they say, within Israel as well. The article says that the Arab League created a fund...

06/27 Links: What’s Israel supposed to do? Ask the UN for help?; Jews Blamed for Their Own Murders

From Ian: What’s Israel supposed to do? Ask the UN for help? Hamas, the gang that controls the Gaza Strip and hopes to destroy Israel, makes war in its own peculiar way. It conducts a terror campaign by randomly sending unguided missiles across the border, traumatizing the civilian population. Rather than using its payments from Iran to feed its own people, it spends a fortune digging tunnels under the border to Israel, infiltrating the country from...

06/26 Links Pt2: Gaza Flotilla NGO Funded by French Government; Israelis see Iran as existential threat

From Ian: Sarah Honig: Zilch, zippo, nada, gurnisht, bubkes Fledgling Israel found itself pitted against immense odds but, despite them, Ben-Gurion didn’t bow to pressure – American or otherwise. He mounted the Knesset rostrum yet again on December 13 to repeat what he had enunciated a few days earlier: “We cannot assist in the forcible separation of Jerusalem, which would unnecessarily and unjustifiably violate the historical and natural rights...

Was child killer Samir Kuntar behind ambulance attack in the Golan?

From Tony Badran in Now Lebanon: The agitation in the Druze community in Israel over the situation of their coreligionists in Syria turned bloody on Monday. A Druze mob near Majdal Shams attacked a military ambulance carrying wounded Syrians for treatment in Israel, killing one of them and critically injuring another, while also lightly injuring two Israeli soldiers. The deadly attack followed another attempted assault earlier in...

Iranian mindset revealed in spat with Morocco

From Middle East Monitor: The Kingdom of Morocco has expressed its anger at the report published a few days ago by Iranian Fars news agency accusing Morocco of executing an "Israeli agenda". The report was entitled "Morocco prisoner to Zionist policies". The official spokesman for the Moroccan government, Mustapha El Khalfi, stated yesterday that "Rabat strongly rejects any abuse directed at the Kingdom, regardless of its source," stressing that...