July 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, July 31, 2016

NYT headline says Bibi is "crushing Israel's free press" - article itself proves otherwise

The headline in the New York Times says "How Benjamin Netanyahu Is Crushing Israel’s Free Press." So how is Israel's free press being "crushed"? The article gives exactly three examples: 1. The Israel Hayom newspaper is unabashedly (and embarrassingly) pro-Bibi. While it might chill any staffers on the paper from writing anything against the prime minister, that does...

Reporter Ariel Kahane heard my talk in Jerusalem a couple of weeks ago, and wrote about it in Makor Rishon's magazine. The atmosphere was reminiscent of an underground meeting in the pre-state days. Late at night, in a remote synagogue at the southern outskirts of Jerusalem, about two dozen people gathered. [I counted over 30 - EoZ] They came to hear a man whose name...

From Ian: PMW: Fatah cartoon: Long-nosed Jew explodes Muslim world Fatah posted a cartoon showing a long-nosed Jew with an Israeli flag on his arm lighting a fuse to blow up a bomb. Inside the bomb, a Shi'ite Muslim and a Sunni Muslim are lighting fuses to blow up each other. The cartoon, which was posted on Fatah's Information and Culture Commission website, expresses the...

B'Tselem's Gaza war site lets you filter deaths by many criteria. Even though they tend to avoid labeling people as militants if they can, something interesting can be seen when you look at men between 20 and 30 killed during Protective Edge: A total of 771 men in that age group were killed during the war, according to B'Tselem. Of those, the site says, only 184 did not...

I put subtitles on this video that has been going around. I'm not sure when it was originally shot. It reveals the depths of immorality in parts of Palestinian Arab society as a father urges soldiers to kill his son, whom he is demanding to throw stones. The father clearly wants his son to be killed on video, with his Palestinian flag. He wants to create another Mohammed...

Egypt's Sky News has an interview with Fatah Central Committee member Abbas Zaki. In a TV appearance, Zaki said that the purpose of the Balfour Declaration was for the West to place a Jewish state in a position where it would divide the Asian and North African Arab worlds. And that the US is now pursuing a policy to keep the Arabs fighting each other in order to ensure...

The Hamas government closed 6 swimming pools in northern Gaza on Saturday, because the water was not being properly filtered. This came after an expose by Palestine Today (Islamic Jihad) about numerous private swimming pools in Gaza that did not have adequate filtering or chlorination. Swimmers complain about itching after swimming in those pools. In other news - Gaza...

07/30 Links: Israel fires back at US over criticism of settlement building; Douglas Murray - The Origins of Islamic Violence

From Ian: Israel fires back at US over criticism of settlement building The Israeli government on Friday fired back at the US State Department over its criticism a day earlier that Israeli construction over the Green Line is “provocative and counterproductive.” In a statement, the Israeli Foreign Ministry rejected the US argument that recently announced plans to build in...

07/29 Links Pt2: Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred; How a Muslim also became a Zionist

From Ian: Richard Landes: Anti-Zionism: 21st Century Avatar of the Longest Hatred The supersessionism among progressives rests on a morally sadistic ‘secular’ replacement narrative: Israel has replaced the Nazis while the Palestinians have replaced the Holocaust-era Jews. As pleasing an historical irony as such moral inversions may seem to Nobel Prize winners, it would be...

Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan, is the only sitting head of state to be indicted by the International Criminal Court, on five counts of crimes against humanity (murder, extermination, forcible transfer, torture and rape.) This week, the government of Mahmoud Abbas, in its weekly cabinet meeting, announced: The Council welcomed the agreement between Mr. President,...

An extra column by Mike Lumish. "Occupy" is an unusual word. It is not a very nice word, either. In terms of the never-ending Arab and Muslim violence against the Jews of the Middle East the word "occupy" has ominous connotations. It implies the brutal military occupation of those heinous Jews upon another people's land. The word "occupy" also, of course,...

07/29 Links Pt1: Glick: Time to walk away from US aid; The Palestinian Distortion of the Balfour Declaration

From Ian: Caroline Glick: Time to walk away from US aid Today, both economics and strategic arguments indicate that the opposite is the case, even if walking away involves ending US military aid. If Israel cuts its losses and begins to develop a fifth generation jet fighter that meets its own specific needs, rather than one designed by a committee to meet other countries’ needs poorly, it will end up both far safer and far more prosperous than...

The Office of the EU Representative to the West Bank and Gaza proudly showed photos of the International Palestine Festival that it sponsored: The ‪#‎EU‬ is among the main supporters of the Palestine International Festival as part of the support to the ‪#‎Palestinian‬ cultural sector and organizations and as part of the ''Palestinian festivals towards cooperation and community...

Yesterday, Islamic Jihad held a festival in Gaza called "Bond of Blood." The terror group unveiled a long-range rocket whose capabilities it has kept secret, putting three question marks on the rockets instead of a name: The missiles are of course meant to perform war crimes, since they cannot be aimed at anything but large population centers. Other photos from...

Law professor Peter Margulies has written a detailed explanation, based on his own interviews with relevant Israeli officials, on the quality of IDF investigations of incidents that occur during war. He concludes that the IDF is doing quite a good job at maintaining the independence and quality of investigations, which is opposite of the constant charges hurled at Israel by...

The Guardian calls Abbas' threat to sue over Balfour "a cry of despair" (UPDATE: So does Haaretz)

Unreal and totally expected: No one who follows the Palestinian issue will be very surprised to hear of the call by Mahmoud Abbas to sue the British government over the Balfour declaration of November 1917. That was the famous letter which pledged to support the establishment of a “national home” for the Jewish people in Palestine and is seen as a key milestone for the...

From Ian: The ‘Termite’ Infamy and the Jews Johnson, of course, is a Democrat representing Georgia’s 4th district. Greenblatt, to his credit, retweeted Johnson’s “apology” with the heading, “yes there was an apology, but no ‘point’ justifies referring to human beings in such an abhorrent, inappropriate manner.” The ADL retweeted Greenblatt’s personal tweet, but has yet...

Gideon Levy is outraged at Israelis: One hundred and eighty babies and children up to the age of 5. One hundred and eighty helpless babies and toddlers that the Israel Defense Forces killed in Gaza in the 2014 Israel-Gaza conflict. In their sleep, in their play, as they fled; in their beds or in their parents’ arms. Try to imagine – the army killed 546 children in the...