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Sunday, November 28, 2010

Work accident!

An Islamic Jihad member was seriously injured in an explosion in densely-populated Rafah on Saturday. His arms and legs were amputated in emergency surgery and he is in intensive care. Too bad he couldn't become a full martyr, with all its benefits. Now he's just a lose...

From YNet: Images published Saturday by Iranian media outlets show a Star of David on the roof of the main national airline's building at the Tehran airport. The satellite image was taken from the Google Earth service. According to the Iranian report, the Iran Air building was "built by Israeli engineers," who operated in the countries before the 1979 Islamic Revolution during...

UN flotilla investigator attends Israel hatefest

From the Bangkok Post: Two women, one a Jewish-American and the other a Christian-Malaysian, last week provided some deep insights into the Israeli occupation of Palestine and appealed to global activists and media to help the world hear an alternative perspective on the long-standing conflict. Anna Baltzer, a political activist and a grandchild of Holocaust refugees, and Kuala Lumpur-based human rights activist Mary Shanthi Dairiam, were on the...

Overnight open thread

I've been spending time trying to make my December 7 "one-man show" as educational and entertaining as possible, so blogging may be somewhat lighter than usual as I keep adding and tweaking slides. But that doesn't mean you can't keep using the soon-to-be-gone Echo comments.......

People are excited about the Hasby Awards! (corrected)

There have been hundreds of votes so far for the People's Choice Hasby Awards, and the two front-runners are - almost suspiciously - European. It appears that two sites, drzz.info and Europe-Israel, have been pushing the awards on their sites, and as a result the early (and possibly insurmountable) lead is for the unique protest against the Museum of Modern...

Comment system changes afoot

I just found out that the Echo comment system, which I have never been keen on, has raised their annual fees by a factor of ten - from $12 a year to $120. Sorry, but I will not be keeping Echo comments. They never did a good job on the conversion from the previous free system; the sidebar widget is not very good, and poor Ruthie is adding the titles of posts to every thread because there is no way to tell otherwise who is commenting on which post. My...

180,000 PalArabs treated in Israeli hospitals in 2010

From the IDF website: Humanitarian dilemmas are a recurring issue in the Judea and Samaria region. A terrorist fires at IDF soldiers, is shot and gets wounded. Is an IDF medic to be called to treat him? A building is about to collapse in the heart of Ramallah. Does the IDF enter? Does it jeopardize its soldiers’ lives, or does it call the International Red Cross and risk losing precious time? To Israel, the answer to these questions is clear. According...

Latner disqualified from Cambridge Union election

From Varsity, yesterday: Initially, you had indicated that you were not planning to apologise to Lauren Booth. What made you change your mind?I said I was sorry for "speaking in haste and choosing my words poorly". It's true. I am sorry about that. The minute I said it, I thought of a dozen funnier, less vulgar comments I could have made instead. Hindsight's 20/20.What is your reaction to the Appeals Panel's decision to impose a penalty of a 40...

The New York Times reports on Binyamin Netanyahu's reaction to the PA paper saying there is no Jewish connection to the Kotel. The "paper of record" makes a couple of mistakes, but, unfortunately, so does Netanyahu. The Western Wall is a remnant of the retaining wall of a plateau revered by Jews as the Temple Mount, the site where their ancient temples once stood. The plateau...

The excitement for the 2010 Hasby Awards, for the best hasbara events of the year, is reaching a fever pitch!The entire free world is awaiting the live presentation of the winners on December 7th in New York City. While the selection process for the official Hasbies is a closely guarded secret by the audit firm of EoZ and Associates, the People's Choice Hasbara Awards are...

Latest Latma (11/26/10)

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They don't make martyrs like they used to

The Hamas media is mourning the loss of their latest member to be killed. The Palestine Times headlines the article "In Jabalia - the Martyrdom of an al-Qassam Mujahid." The English Al Qassam website spoke of the fallen fighter in glowing terms: The Ezzeden Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, mourned on Thursday evening November 25th one of its heroes, the mujahed Bilal Maher Zaqout ,22, from Jabalia refugee camp. ...Ezzeden Al Qassam...

Guess who Egyptians are blaming for Copt unrest?

From CNN: Egyptian authorities have rounded up 156 people in connection with this week's deadly protests over plans to build a church near Cairo, the government announced Thursday. Those arrested have been ordered held for 15 days while the investigation into Wednesday's clashes continues, Egypt's official Middle East News Agency reported. Police battled about 150 demonstrators outside a government building in the Cairo suburb of Giza on Wednesday....

Fascinating history of the movement to save Soviet Jewry

Yossi Klein Halevi has written a semi-autobiographical book review of "When They Come for Us We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry" by Gal Beckerman, at The New Republic. His review may be almost as good as the book. Here's the beginning: By the standards of the 1960s, the founding demonstration of the Soviet Jewry movement was hardly notable. On May 1, 1964, a thousand students gathered across from the Soviet mission to the United...

Gaza rockets continue - with Gazans getting hurt

The latest bi-weekly GANSO report from Gaza, covering the period from October 31 to November 20, has some interesting statistics. During that time period there were 36 mortars and 16 rockets that were intended to be shot to Israel. Of those 36 mortars, 5 of them fell short or exploded prematurely. Of the 16 rockets, 7 of them exploded before launch or landed in Gaza. Those accidents resulted in the injury of 7 Gazans during those two weeks, and...