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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

10/29 Links Pt2: Levy Report Campaign, Straw canard, Erdogan is an autocratic Islamist bigot

From Ian: Restoring Israel’s Rights: The Levy Report In modern times there are legal precedents for establishing the Jewish claim to Israel: This is with reference to the San Remo Conference, the Mandate for a Jewish Homeland in Palestine, confirmed in international law, and more. These Jewish rights have certainly not diminished over the years. Yet there is a prevailing perception that this is the case – that there has been a rethinking of what...

90 years ago

From the JTA archives, less than a century ago: VIENNA (May. 29, 1923) The formation of an international anti-Semitic body which will unite the Hakenkreuzler and Fascisti societies of many European countries, in contemplated in a resolution adopted at the party council of the Austrian Hakenkreuzler. Declaring the present anti-Semitic activities as “inadequate”, the Council decided to create a “united anti-Semitic front”, one of whose purposes...

Elaph has an amusing article by a Saudi writer that talks about how Sunni Muslims are publicizing among themselves not to buy this brand of juice or that brand of milk, because the owners of the company are supposedly Shiite. This is strange, he notes, "because we use products made by Jews and Christians, from the car to the needle as well as mobile phones and technology...

An intriguing idea - Israel should celebrate historic invasions of its land!

It isn't often that I hear a new idea, but this one, from commenter Andrew, has some real brilliance behind it: All Israel needs to do is pick some date with some historical relevance to the time of the Roman occupation, then make a festival (just celebrate an unsuccessful rebellion of the Jews against Roman rule or something), celebrate the great influence Jews and Romans had on history (this will remove an anti-Italian slant from the festival...

10/29 Links Pt1: Abbas's "Diplomatic Intifada", AI & HRW Whitewash Terror, Egyptian 'Puppy Bombs'

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Abbas's "Diplomatic Intifada" Against Israel The next steps the Palestinian Authority is planning include seeking full membership in the United Nations General Assembly and other international agencies and conventions, especially the International Criminal Court. The Palestinian Authority says it has prepared a list of dozens of Israelis that it hopes to prosecute as "war criminals." The anti-settlement drive should be...

The PA announced that starting in 2014, it will start adding an electronic chip to all "Palestine" passports to reduce fraud. There is something bizarre about the idea of adding security to passports of a nation that will happily issue those same passports to convicted terrorists and murderers. Then again, this could make those passports very popular among certain groups....

Egypt closes Rafah for fourth day, media still mostly silent

Egypt has now closed Rafah for four consecutive days, this time without even informing the Palestinian Authority as they used to do. An Egyptian source told the German Press agency that the crossing would be closed "indefinitely." France24, unusually, is calling Egypts actions in Rafah a "blockade." But for the most part the media has been muted in any criticism of Egypt for what would be considered a human rights violation when Israel does it. Meanwhile,...

One of the prisoners being released this week, along with one who was released in August 2013, murdered 67-year old Isaac Rotenberg with an axe. Rotenberg wasn’t the oldest victim of the prisoners who made it onto the list Sunday. Fatah member Ra’ai Ibrahim Salam Ali was jailed in 1994 for the murder of 79-year-old Moris Eisenstatt. Eisenstatt was killed with ax blows...

Did the US recognize Palestine as a state in 1932?

An email correspondent sent me part of a discussion from Mondoweiss that claimed that the US recognized Palestine as a state in 1932. The assertion: FYI, the US government formally recognized the Mandated State of Palestine in 1932. For example, the case of “Kletter v. Dulles, Secretary of State”, the United States District Court District Of Columbia ruled in 1953 that Mr. Kletter had lost his US citizenship when he was naturalized in the Mandated...

10/28 Links Pt2: Palestinian Terms Leave Little to Talk About, Bandar Candour, Paula Abdul Visits Israel.

From Ian: David Singer: Bandar Candour Can Help End Arab-Jewish Conflict 23 years ago in an Open Letter published in the Washington Times on 30 September 1990 – Bandar – then Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador in America – had publicly criticised Jordan’s King Hussein for his failure to create a Palestinian Arab State in the West Bank between 1948-1967. Bandar made the following three very pertinent comments: 1.“Your Majesty, you claimed to defend the Palestinian...

Gays, Kurds not protected in Turkish hate-crimes draft bill

From Hurriyet Daily News: A draft presented to the Cabinet concerning hate crimes does not include provisions for those targeted because of their sexual orientation or ethnic identity. The draft, which designates “hate and prejudice” as an aggravation cause for crimes, was presented as one of the reforms that government vowed to implement as part of its “democracy package.” However, hate and prejudice crimes are defined in the draft as “crimes...

El Bashayer Online has an interview, apparently originally done in 2012, with the caretaker of the Jewish cemetery in Sadr City, a suburb of Baghdad. Ziad al-Bayati took over responsibility for the cemetery from his father. I did find a Forward article from 2004 that indicated that one of the last Iraqi Jews was involved in fixing up the cemetery which had been neglected...

A bombed church. Gotta be the Zionists' fault. The Daily Beast has an incomprehensible article that takes a few unrelated facts and half-truths to somehow blame Israel's existence and US support for Israel for the fact that Western Christians are mostly indifferent to the problems of Middle East Christians. Diarmaid MacCulloch is Fellow of St. Cross College and Professor...

10/28 Links Pt1: Glick- Israel’s European challenge, Prisoner Release- Quid pro what?

From Ian: Elliott Abrams: Obama's 'new' Mideast policy: Modesty or pullback? Saturday's New York Times carries a remarkable story about the "new" Obama Middle East policy, based on interviews with National Security Advisor Susan Rice. The Times describes the policy as "modest," but that is not the right word. The policy defines an American abandonment of leadership in the region. On Iran, the new policy seeks a negotiated deal and previous claims...

White paper: EU Partnership for Peace Programme: Throwing Money Away on Palestinian NGOs

Here is the first white paper to be released by ASHREI-ME, the organization I announced earlier today. EU Partnership for Peace Programme: Throwing Money Away on Palestinian NGO...