August 2016 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Wednesday, August 31, 2016

Arab news claiming former Lebanese porn star and Naftali Bennett are lovers

Mia Khalifa is the pseudonym for a recently retired Lebanese porn star. She attracted controversy and death threats when she wore a hijab in one of her adult movies while engaging in various NSFW acts. Now, many Arab news sites (including Al Quds al Arabi) are claiming that: Khalifa is coming to Israel... ...at the invitation of Naftali Bennett... ..the "minister...

08/31 Links Pt2: Bellerose: Why It’s So Easy To Hate Jews; Islam and Anti-Semitism in Malaysia

From Ian: Anti-Semitism bred by ignorance... just look at our attitudes to Israel-Palestine After misogyny it is arguably the world's oldest hatred and, as the late Conor Cruise O'Brien noted, anti-Semitism is a "light sleeper". O'Brien contended that it is found barely beneath the surface even in literature from Shakespeare to Wilde; in public discourse even in societies with tiny or non-existent Jewish populations, and is infectious in its pervasive...

Judean Rose by Varda Meyers Epstein So many people complained to me about this one, I lost count. Sarah Tuttle-Singer, Social Media Director of the Times of Israel, shared an article about Avigdor Liberman, Israel's new Defense Minister. In her accompanying text, Tuttle-Singer insinuated that Liberman doesn't want IDF soldiers held accountable for their behavior in the...

Our weekly column from the humor site PreOccupied Territory. Check out their Facebook page. Jerusalem, August 31 - A member of the Joint List alliance of Arab parties in the Knesset has demanded that the State show consistency in its treatment of the Arab minority, and allow him to vote multiple times on a single piece of legislation, as it apparently...

08/31 Links Pt1: The "Other" Palestinians; The partitioning of the Middle East; Dialogue, not diktat

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: The "Other" Palestinians Nearly 3,500 Palestinians have been killed in Syria since 2011. But because these Palestinians were killed by Arabs, and not Israelis, this fact is not news in the mainstream media or of interest to "human rights" forums. How many Western journalists have cared to inquire about the thirsty Palestinians of Yarmouk refugee camp, in Syria? Does anyone know that this camp has been without water...

Every week, the Palestinian Authority cabinet meets and issues a summary of their session. This week's session was unremarkable, as most of them are, but one of the declarations highlighted the basic fact that the Palestinians' top priority never has been an independent state. The council promotes Arab efforts to support our unchanging national rights, in particular...

Recently, FIDH - International Federation of Human Rights held its 39th Congress in South Africa. At the close of the conference, FIDH issued a resolution - called "Urgent resolution on Palestine". In the resolution, this "human rights" organization discusses the recent spree of terror attacks against Israeli Jews. It doesn't condemn the attacks, though. It describes...

Unemployment in Gaza? Not for kids of Hamas leaders!

Palestinian media are reporting that Hazem Ismail Haniyeh got a nice job as a manager of the computer department with Gaza's only mobile phone company, Jawwal, the day after he graduated. He is the son of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh. I'm sure this is completely unrelated, but a year ago Hamas shut down Jawwal for five days by claiming that it was evading paying "taxes"...

From Ian: Give the UN Immunity for Terror? The technical legality of this assertion is dubious. If any local employee of the United Nations, let alone, one of an embassy or consulate anywhere, is considered to have the immunity tradition accords actual diplomats the entire concept is called into question. It’s bad enough when real diplomats commit crimes and then are allowed...

The never-ending series continues.... “This is a pride which has broken a kind of glass ceiling for the first time,” Halifah commented. “I hope that this will open the way for others to reach the top and shatter the conventions. I feel at home in the office and everyone is like one big family. It is fun to be here and to work for residents of the periphery.” Halifah...

"Aren't you afraid of the soldiers?" the reporter asked the old Arab man. A resident of Jenin, approximately 60 or 70 years old was sitting on a pile of rubble. He was calmly sitting there, not doing much of anything. He was surprised by the reporter's question. I watched the exchange on Israeli t.v., it was an interview conducted in Arabic, and there were Hebrew...

From Ian: New Arab city in Israel refuses to take in UNRWA 'refugees' The new Arab city of Rawabi being built in Samaria (Shomron) with Israeli approval refuses to allow "Palestinian refugees" from UNRWA camps to relocate to the city. This, despite past statements to the contrary, and the general impression that the need for a new Arab city was partly because of the suffering...

Supposed experts have made the argument that the Hamas police forces in Gaza are considered civilians under international law and any attacks on them are therefore a war crime. Here are some of the Hamas police going through training exercises, from the Hamas Ministry of the Interior Facebook page. Do they look civilian to you? We have lots...

UNRWA issued a press release on August 26 in the name of spokesperson Chris Gunness: UNRWA has not been given an opportunity to review the evidence but we have seen the explanation on the Israeli Military Advocate General’s website. In the circumstance it is therefore impossible for us to make specific comments about the way the case has been conducted. According to the...

From The New Arab: Israeli companies have announced their intention to organise a beer festival on the historic Islamic cemetery of Mamilla in Jerusalem this week. The festival was endorsed by the local Israeli authority who posted the event on their website. According to an announcement for the event, there will be around "120 different varieties of local and international...