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Monday, April 15, 2024

Again, it is all about honor. If you don't get that, you don't get anything about the Middle East.

Downed Iranian missile in the Dead SeaFrom Naharnet:Hezbollah has congratulated Tehran on its attack on Israel, saying it "achieved" its military objectives."Hezbollah presents its congratulations... to the leadership" of Iran and its people for the "unprecedented" attack on Israel, the powerful Lebanese group said in a statement.Hezbollah also praised Tehran's "brave and...

Palestinian zero sum game: "Israeli embassy in Manama is an attack on Palestinians"

One of the consequences of the Arab honor/shame culture is the zero-sum mentality. If one party is honored, then their rival is considered shamed, even if there is nothing in reality that shames the other party.This is illustrated by the statement issued today by the PFLP terror group. The PFLP announced that "the opening of a headquarters for the Zionist embassy...

Libya says it will quit international energy organizations that have Israel as a member. (They won't.)

The fallout in Libya of the discovery that Israeli and Libyan officials have been meeting secretly for years, and those officials denials, has prompted many other Libyans to pledge that they will never, ever, ever do anything that could be considered the slightest bit of normalization with Israel.For example, the mayors of Libyan towns felt it was necessary to issue a statement...

The PA would prefer that Gazans suffer. (Which has always been true.)

This week, it was announced that a fourth generator for the Gaza power plant was going online thanks to the help of Qatar, which is providing the fuel for the facility for the first month. The head of the Public Relations and Media Department of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza said that Palestinian Authority prime minister, Mohammad Shtayyeh, delivered...

Iraqi fencers withdraw from tournament to avoid Israeli competitors. Will @FIE_fencing do the right thing?

From BNN:The Iraqi Fencing & Modern Pentathlon Federation recently decided to withdraw its team from the FIE Fencing World Championships in Milan due to a potential confrontation with Israeli players. This is not the first time the Iraqi team has made such a decision. The team also withdrew from individual races in a previous World Fencing Championship held in Istanbul...

Morocco op-ed expresses anger at Palestinians

Moroccan choosing to care more about Gaza and Taza, a city in MoroccoPalestinians have been insulting Morocco for normalizing relations with Israel. An op-ed in the mainstream Morocco Hespress news site lashes back at them, in ways that are still rare in Arabic language media:It talks about how Palestinians made Arab nations feel guilty for allowing them to lose in 1948...

Why do Palestinians always declare victory when they lose?

If this is what victory looks like....Hussain Abdul-Hussain, an analyst at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, tweeted a criticism of Arabs who keep declaring "victory" over Israel:The Arabs have a chronic and permanent feeling that they are on the verge of victory over Israel, and that the passage of time is in their interest. This is how Nasrallah appeared yesterday...

Antisemitic Grand imam of Al-Azhar tells UN Security Council how to be tolerant

Egypt’s Grand Imam of Al-Azhar mosque, Sheikh Ahmed Al-Tayeb, spoke at the UN Security Council Wednesday about the importance of "human fraternity," tolerance and mutual respect in achieving world peace.The UN summarizes his statement:Ahmed Al-Tayeb, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar Al-Sharif and Chairman of the Muslim Council of Elders, rejected claims that Islam is a religion...

This two year old Palestinian boy was brutally murdered. There will be no mention of it in the NYT or by NGOs.

There was a heinous crime in Gaza this weekend.A two and a half year old child, Mustafa Nahed Muhammad Saqr, was drowned in a barrel of water.His stepmother admitted to the murder. She was jealous that she couldn't have children of her own so she decided to murder her husband's child to avoid that feeling of shame. It was a twist on honor killing.There were reports in...

A new survey of Jordanians by the Washington Institute reveals that Jordanian hate for Israel reaches the level of self-harm.The Washington Institute’s Program on Arab Politics/Fikra Forum regularly surveys the Arab world. Its latest poll shows that Jordanians remain implacably anti-Israel and would rather Jordan suffer than allow even the most beneficial ties with the hated...

Egyptian mother arrested for "indecent videos" of doing housework in a modest nightgown

RT reports:Lawyer Ashraf Farahat announced that the security services at Al-Maasara Police Station in Helwan, Egypt, arrested the owner of the “Anoosh Diary” YouTube channel, accusing her of spreading immorality and outraging public decency.The accused appears in sexy clothes that highlight her body, to attract followers, saying: "I am divorced and I have two young children,"...

Book review: Can 'The Whole World' Be Wrong? by Richard Landes

Can “The Whole World” Be Wrong?: Lethal Journalism, Antisemitism, and Global Jihad, by Professor Richard Landes, is a hard but important book to read. Landes does no less than directly taking on the orthodoxy of the liberal world that regards Israel as one of the worst human rights violators, that regards supporting the Palestinian cause as the archetype of progressive...

Most Arabs still oppose normalization with Israel, but there are pockets of hope

Arab Barometer released the results of a survey of selected Arab countries last September. One of the questions was about whether the people supported their country normalizing relations with Israel.As one may expect, the percentages of supporters of normalization were quite low.I'm not quite sure why this was not widely reported.Even though the numbers are generally quite...

What you can learn from Fatah's anniversary slogan

Fatah's pro-violence logoOn January 1, Fatah will celebrate its 58th anniversary. Well, not really. It is the 58th anniversary "of the launch of the contemporary Palestinian revolution," meaning the anniversary of their first terror attack, That attack was meant to disrupt Israeli's access to water. It was a direct attack on civilian infrastructure, and those terror roots...

A summary of the persecution of women in the Arab Middle East

Raseef22, a liberal Arab site with an English section, has a series of articles that describe how badly women are treated in Arab countries, today.Some excerpts.Do we have to be superheroes to be safe and protected? The answer is absolutely no. I'm not Superwoman, and I don't want to be her.I am an ordinary woman with simple dreams, like living in a safe world, and not being...

Lebanese, Iraqis, Tunisians very upset when their leaders are reported in the same room as Israelis

The COP27 conference in Egypt has the usual comedy that we see at all major international conferences.Israeli delegates say that they met, or talked with, or were in the same room as Arab enemies, and the Arab delegates are forced to deny or downplay it, as best they can.In this case, as AP reports:Israel's environmental protection minister attended a regional meeting Tuesday...