July 2015 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, July 31, 2015

07/31 Links Pt2: The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel; Toameh: Hamas's Child Abuse Camps

From Ian: The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine "The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem." This is how the blurb of "Palestine," a new book, published by Islamic Revolution Editions last week in Tehran, identifies the author. The author is "Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Husseini Khamenei," the "Supreme Guide" of the Islamic Republic in Iran, a man whose fatwa has been recognized by U.S. President Barack Obama as having the force of law. Edited...

From The Forward: Hoping to energize activists on the left to take on the battle for approval of the diplomatic deal with Iran, President Obama is invoking the memory of the Iraq war and reminding his allies of who led the nation into it. But what many liberals hear as a powerful rallying call to avoid entering another military quagmire in the Middle East could seem...

07/31 Links Pt1: Don’t let the dark side win; Alleged Jewish terrorists help the Islamists succeed

From Ian: Don’t let the dark side win Can it be that this is taking place in the same country? On a balmy Thursday, a small group of Jerusalem-area Palestinians and Israelis sat around a large table at a café near the Almog Junction on the way to the Dead Sea. The topic of this installment in their congenial monthly interfaith encounter between Muslims and Jews was the concept of heaven and hell in each religion. A couple hours later, around...

Earlier this week Haaretz reported that an Ottoman-era land deed shows that the illegal Arab village of Sussiya was really on private land owned by Arabs (although it admitted that they had no permission to build on land slated for agriculture.) Is the land privately owned by the Arab Jabor family? If you are relying on an Ottoman land deed, then you must also rely on...

This morning, Amnesty tweeted: #alNuseirat: Israeli warplane bombed house without warning, 14 civilians killed http://t.co/1CbnwsDVBO #50Days4Gaza pic.twitter.com/Q45OkqxOso — AmnestyInternational (@AmnestyOnline) July 31, 2015 Looking at the episode in Amnesty's Gaza Platform, we see that Amnesty researched the incident itself, and while it reached a biased conclusion,...

El Bashayer Online says that Hassan Nasrallah, head of Hezbollah, claimed in a speech that "Jewish rabbis" declared Netanyahu to be the Messiah. Nasrallah notes that the Jewish Messiah will not come from heavens but be born as a normal human being! Therefore, he says that the Messiah's first job is to destroy the Al Aqsa Mosque and Netanyahu is the man who is most likely to...

07/30 Links Pt2: Congressional Testimony: Fighting The Coming EU Economic War Against Israel

From Ian: Congressional Testimony: Anti-Boycott Laws Needed to Protect US, Allies from Economic Attack The ultimate goal of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement and its leaders is to delegitimize the state of Israel, legislators, legal experts and business leaders agreed in a congressional hearing Tuesday. The hearing was held by the Subcommittee on National Security of the House Committee on Government Oversight and Reform. “[BDS]...

This series of tweets from Ayatollah Khamenei shows how deranged he is: I’ve read European history.These European gentlemen caused 2 devastating world wars in last century.2 world wars in less than a century.#WW1 — Khamenei.ir (@khamenei_ir) July 28, 2015 Europeans caused largest wars in history which killed many people.We were in this part of world,but waves of...

Vic Rosenthal's weekly column: So Jonathan Pollard will finally be getting out of prison in November, after exactly one day less than thirty years in federal custody. I won’t discuss the details of the injustice done to Pollard – his shockingly disproportionate sentence, the government’s failure to honor its plea agreement, the improper behavior of the...

07/30 Links Pt1: FM: Sunni Arab nations are our ‘allies’; Iran has months to hide illicit activity

From Ian: Israel’s Foreign Ministry chief: Sunni Arab nations are our ‘allies’ The director general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, Dore Gold, called the Middle East’s Sunni Arab nations “Israel’s allies.” Gold used the term twice in a presentation Wednesday in New York focused on the shortcomings of the Iran nuclear deal. “What we have is a regime on a roll that is trying to conquer the Middle East,” Gold said of Iran, “and it’s not Israel talking,...

Debunking another NGO lie: "40% of Palestinian adult males have been arrested by Israel"

Ma'an mentions: Israeli forces routinely detain Palestinians throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem, often on the pretext of perceived security threats, and Addameer estimates that 40 percent of the Palestinian male population has been arrested at some point.This has been quoted in mainstream media as well. I have already debunked the Addameer claim that 800,000 Palestinian Arabs have been arrested by Israel a number of times. But I was curious...

Gen, Dempsey refutes idea of "Iran deal or war" (video)

From National Review: President Obama’s claim that Congress must either back his deal with Iran or plan for war does not square with the advice he has received from his top general, Senate lawmakers learned on Wednesday. Army General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, never presented Obama with such a binary choice. “At no time did that come up in our conversation nor did I make that comment,” Dempsey told Senator Joni Ernst...

If Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is in anyone's gunsights, right now might be a very good time to pull the trigger. Hezbollah, of course, is Iran's client. Lately Iran has been outsourcing Hezbollah terror leaders not only to fight in Syria but also to train and lead Shiite forces in Iraq and Yemen. As Foreign Affairs noted recently, Hezbollah’s involvement in the...

07/29 Links Pt2: Corrosive Atmosphere on Campus Harming Young Jews; Bensouda Saves the ICC

From Ian: Honest Reporting: Dr. Jonathan Spyer Makes Sense of the Middle East With the rise of the so-called Islamic State, multiple groups fighting each other in the disintegrating states of Syria and Iraq, the bitter Sunni-Shia conflict and the competing interests of state actors and their proxies, the Middle East has never been more confusing for the casual observer. Not to mention the recent Iranian nuclear deal that has the potential to alter...

One more "martyr"

From Ma'an: The body of an al-Qassam Brigades fighter killed during last summer's Israeli military offensive on Gaza was found beneath the rubble of a destroyed home in Gaza City on Wednesday. Medical crews pulled the body of Mumen al-Batsh from under the rubble of a damaged home that workers were leveling in the al-Tuffah neighborhood. That means that there were at least seven terrorists in the building when the IDF attacked it - a house that...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, July 29 - Attempts to promote Saudi Arabia and its capital as a forward-looking, culture-rich destination have hit a snag as a flagship project, the Royal Saud Ballet Company, remains unable to recruit top-flight dancers because of...

07/29 Links Pt1: Report: Child-Killer Kuntar 'Killed in IAF Airstrike'; Iran’s Rhetoric and Arafat’s ‘Jihad’ Speech

From Ian: Child-Killer Samir Kuntar 'Killed in Syria Airstrike' Reports are coming out that Israel targeted and killed the notorious child murderer Samir Kuntar today (Wednesday). According to the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, the Israel Air Force struck a vehicle carrying five fighters loyal to dictator Bashar al-Assad. Three of the passengers were from the Syrian People's Committees, while Kuntar and the fifth person belonged...

Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Hezbollah whose loyalty to Iran is total, gave yet another speech about how "Palestine" is the most important issue in the Muslim world. Parts of the speech reveals what bothers him: Sayyed Nasrallah said that the resistance project was inflicted by major losses in the past year, due to the events taking place in the region. “The most major...

Right after I posted my last article on Amnesty's latest report based on its executive summary, the actual Amnesty report about the fighting in Rafah last year was released. It took me about two minutes to identify the first lie. An engineer corps soldier who took part in the incursion told Breaking the Silence that his orders were “to make a big boom before the ceasefire”,...

Amnesty International today is releasing yet another report that tries to prove Israel committed war crimes in last year's Gaza war, this time regarding the events surrounding the kidnapping of Lt. Hadar Goldin in Rafah - who was abducted during a ceasefire. Just like the Gaza Platform, the upcoming report uses the services of the anti-Zionist "Forensics Architecture" team...

Two Overnight Eldertoons

I had tweeted this a couple of days ago but might as well post it here too: And I tweeted this joke on Wednesday, thanks to Yerushalimey for coming up with it:...

07/28 Links Pt2: Pollard will be freed Nov 20; Latest Blood Libel: The Case Of Mohammed Abu Latifa

From Ian: Pollard will be freed November 20, Israel's justice minister announces Jonathan Pollard, the former civilian analyst for the US Navy convicted of spying for Israel, will be released from US jail on November 20 after serving 30 years of a life sentence. “The decision to grant parole was made unanimously by the three members of the [US] Parole Commission, who make their decisions independently of any other US government agency,” Pollard’s...