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Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Worse than honor killing?

The Saudi-based Arab News describes a truly horrific story, where a family kicked their young mentally handicapped daughter for reasons of "honor," leaving her homeless - and then raped a year later.And they still won't help her:Neighbors of Maryam, an 18-year-old girl who was raped in a pedestrian tunnel here recently, are claiming that her family will not take her back because of the stigma associated with victims of sex crimes. Maryam’s family...

Tomorrow, EoZ and the Zionist Lobby visit Congress

Sorry that blogging has been light; it looks like Real Life will be intruding quite a bit over the next month or so.Tomorrow, I plan to join some 900 other Zionist Jews to visit almost every single member of Congress or their aides with NORPAC, a pro-Israel political action committee. I've never done it before, but both EBoZ and OBoZ tell me that it is very enlightening and gratifying. I understand that one can learn more about how the government...

PalArabs glorify intrafada violence, but MSM blames the Jews

The Australian writes about the latest photo-sharing craze in the territories:A POPULAR pastime in Gaza is swapping gruesome footage of dead or dying victims of the Strip's incessant violence.The images used to be almost exclusive legacies of clashes with Israeli forces but last year that changed. Now being far more keenly traded are snapshots of Palestinian fratricide, gruesome images taken by "militia-cams' that record scenes for posterity.Spend...

The Elder gets copied again

This time, my story on the "belly dancer torture" got picked up by Israel Today.Unfortunately, they didn't credit me.On the plus side, it is nice to know that reporters do occasionally read this blog and the stories get more circulation, even if they don't want to admit i...

Egypt finds 7 more Gaza tunnels, with American weapons

Palestine Press Agency (recently restored after a hacking attack) reports that Egypt has discovered seven more smuggling tunnels between Egypt and Hamastan in Gaza.Egyptian police arrested two men who were found in the tunnels.In addition, they found American-manufactured weapons and ammunition. They traced these to the multinational peacekeeping forces in the Sinai, and they are investigating the apparent theft.UPDATE: Police in Rafah shot and killed...

Today's Palestinian Arab lie (#54,213)

Just because it caught my eye...Ramzy Baroud, who writes obsessively anti-Israel pieces in many left-wing publications, just wrote another screed, and I noticed it contained this quote:When Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time, compared Palestinians in a Jerusalem Post interview (August 2000) to “crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more,” he was hardly diverting from a consistent Zionist tradition that equated Palestinians...

I mentioned over the weekend that Hamas thugs attacked and trashed a mosque in Jabalya, injuring many. More details have emerged from PCHR:Gunmen belonging to Izzedeen El-Qassam Battalions and members of the Police raided Imam Mohammad Naser El-Deen El-Albani Mosque in Jabalia refugee camp two days ago. They took control of the mosque after expelling its caretakers, beating...

Nahal Oz diary

April 29: Fatah shoots two mortars at the Nahal Oz crossing, where Gazans get most of their fuel.April 30: Islamic Jihad shoots four mortars at Nahal Oz.May 2: The PRC shells Nahal Oz.May 2: The DFLP shoots two mortars at Nahal Oz.May 4: Israel ships fuel through Nahal Oz.May 5: The Abu Ala Reesh Brigades shoots a mortar at Nahal Oz; Hamas shoots two mortars at Nahal OzMay 9: Islamic Jihad shoots four mortars at Nahal OzMay 10: Hamas shoots at least...

Just another peaceful day in Hamastan

Firas Press published some photos of Hamas' greatest hits, including the obligatory tortured dead bodies.Here's an interesting picture that shows what a Gazan might see on a typical day in his neighborhood.(They did not caption it so I don't know when this picture was taken...

Iraqis freak over Israelis saving their lives

From the Jerusalem Post last week:The Iraqi parliament is angry over reports that an organization in the capital has been sending Iraqi children for medical treatment in Israel.A parliament statement confirmed reports about this enterprise, even though government sources previously said it was untrue, according to Al-Jazeera.The statement, released by the parliament's Health and Environment Committee, said the activities of this organization, which...

Saudi Arabia's 1937 threat to Great Britain over Palestine

In 1937, Col H.R.P. Dickson, former British Political Agent in Kuwait, was granted an interview or audience with King Ibn Saud of Saudi Arabia and they discussed Palestine. Dickson transcribed the king's words into a report.This report (reproduced here from the invaluable MidEast Web site)shows the real problem that the Arab world had with Jews moving to the area, and it had nothing to do with "Zionism" - it was pure bigotry against Jews.It is notable...

Latest Israeli torture techniques: Belly dancers

Ma'an "reports":Beatings and sexual humiliation are among the torments suffered by Palestinian detainees at an Israeli prison located near the West Bank city of Ramallah, new testimony from prisoners indicates.Twenty-one-year-old Ramallah resident Sultan Abdullah Sulieman was recently released from the Ofer Prison, officially known as Incarceration Facility 386. In interviews with lawyers from the Palestinian Prisoners Society, he said that he spent...

Firas Press reports that Hamas attacked a mosque in Gaza, injuring 25 worshippers. They also attacked and damaged the house of the 70-year old Imam of the mosque. Here's a picture of the damage. One can imagine that many Korans were damaged or destroyed, but no one seems to be rioting over those.Also, in a related incident, 20 were injured in the Jabalya camp as Hamas surrounded...

Nakba illustration in Palestinian Arab newspaper

The Palestine Today website illustrates its "Nakba" coverage with this graphic:Looks like they are truly interested in peac...

Dow Jones: Israel means business

Probably the most effective response to Ahmadinejad's claims that "The Zionist regime is dying. The criminals assume that by holding celebrations they can save the sinister Zionist regime from death and annihilation" - is anyone writing articles like this about Iran?From Dow Jones:Israel was born not only into war, carnage and controversy but also into shortage. Shorn of cash and goods, it had to ration meat, eggs and cooking oil through a coupon...