Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Wednesday, May 20, 2009

The Zionist Occupied Government, 2009 edition

Today I took my second trip to Washington DC with Norpac, a PAC based in the New York area dedicated to strengthening the US-Israel relationship.Over 800 people took a day off of work to advocate the importance of this relationship to our lawmakers and to request help on specific bills. Capitol Hill was crawling with mostly religious Jews, talking to nearly every senator and member of Congress or their aides. As I mentioned last year, for today at...

Mr. Elder goes to Washington

Today blogging will be light as I am going to Washington with some 800 other people from NORPAC to advocate for a strong relationship between the US and Israel with members of Congress and their aides.I am putting updates on my elderofziyon Twitter channel, and you can read the updates on the sidebar. Later I will try to blog a wrapu...

Hamas stealing medical equipment, medicines

The Palestinian Ministry of Health has charged Hamas with stealing ambulances donated by Arab countries, painting them black and taking expensive medical equipment on board for their own purposes.Moreover, Hamas has taken tons of medicines and given them to medical clinics aligned with their movement to the exclusion of public hospitals. They have also sold the medicines at huge profits. Beyond that, Hamas is claiming not to have enough medicine...

Obama's choice of venue in Egypt

It has been reported that Barack Obama will make his much anticipated speech to the Muslim world from Cairo University.Here are a couple of tidbits from Cairo University's recent history.In April 2000, some Israeli Embassy officials in Cairo went to Cairo University to attend a lecture on "Jews, Judaism and Zionism." They were banned from attending the lecture, because even then, 21 years after Camp David and before the Intifada broke out, Cairo...

Saudis lead world in camel urine research

You can make fun of the Arabs all you want, but they sure know how to find good uses for camel urine. This article in AKI last year gives the gruesome details:Camel urine, considered an ancient Islamic 'remedy' from the time of the Prophet Mohammed, has become big business for men and women in Yemen.The urine has become fashionable recently among Yemen's young people, who claim that it strengthens the scalp, slows hair loss and promotes healthy hair.According...

From Al-Arabiya:Egypt's parliament has opened an investigation into the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah's reported distribution of money to the poor in the predominantly Sunni Muslim country, according to press reports Monday.Mohamed Sherdi, MP of al-Wafd opposition party for the northeastern governorate of Port Said, accused Hezbollah of distributing five and 10 Egyptian...

"Breastfeeding" sheikh returns to Al Azhar U.

From Al-Arabiya:The case of the male breastfeeding fatwa, or religious ruling, just took another strange turn as the scholar who issued the controversial opinion was rehired after being fired by Egypt’s al-Azhar University.The Cairo Administrative Court overturned the decision by al-Azhar's disciplinary committee to expel Ezzat Attiya, the president of the hadith department, for issuing a fatwa condoning the symbolic breastfeeding of grown men in...

Iran shows Hamas who's boss

Ma'an reports:Senior Hamas leader Khalid Mash’al dismissed his deputy, Mousa Abu Marzouq and another leader because of their reported opposition to the dictates of Syria and Iran, according to the Kuwaiti newspaper “Politics.”Quoting anonymous sources, the newspaper reported that Mash’al had Abu Marzouq and Imad Al-Alami replaced during Hamas’ internal elections over two weeks ago, specifically because they opposed Tehran and Damascus over the issue...

Followup 2 on Yemen "blasphemer" case

Last month, a mob burned down the house of a man in Yemen after a rumor was started that he had torn a Quran.A week later Yemeni politicians were very upset that some of the mob were arrested for burning the man's house down. They called for the accused blasphemer to be arrested and put on trial instead.Apparently, they got their wish. From The Yemen Observer:In the first case of its kind in Yemen, the lawyer of the Yemeni citizen AbdulMalik al-Beidhani...

Honor killing in West Bank

The woman whose body was found stabbed to death last week was apparently the victim of an "honor killing." Palestinian police said on Monday they arrested a 24-year-old who allegedly killed his aunt, whose body was found in the West Bank city of Ramallah six days ago. According to Palestinian Authority security spokesperson Major Adnan Ad-Dimeiri, the alleged murderer of 30-year-old Halimah Ahmad Ash-Sheikh was arrested on evidence that he was...

NORPAC trip coming up Wednesday

The NORPAC trip to Washington is this Wednesday. My group is scheduled to meet one member of Congress and two Congressional aides. Altogether, the mission will meet with nearly every senator and congressperson.The talking points are heavy on Iran as well as to talk about concerns about funding the PA.I plan to Twitter things as they happen, although I will not get into details as to whom I am meeting. Blog visitors can keep track of things by reading...

Cleveland Indymedia moonbats unhappy with free speech

It is no surprise that so-called "citizen journalism" sites like Indymedia are filled with anti-Israel screeds.Something interesting has been happening at the Cleveland Indymedia site, however.Someone has been taking pro-Israel blog posts, including mine, and posting them. This has had the effect of blunting the constant, hateful anti-Zionist propaganda that usually make up a large percentage of their articles.One of the usual suspects at Indymedia...

Last month I mentioned that Google was accepting ads from a racist, neo-Nazi webstore called NSM88 Records. For a while the ads disappeared, but now they are back.Since the references to Hitler didn't upset our lefty friends at Google, perhaps this lovely T-shirt will get their attention?As I wrote then, Google's AdWords policy does not seem to have any real prohibition against...

Allah manifesting himself in odd ways

Allah works in mysterious ways.Sometimes, he decides to reveal himself with strange natural phenomena:In Dura, the Arabic word Allah (God) was found written in honeycomb.The honeycomb with Allah apparently inscribed in it was found in an apiary owned by Akram Al-Arab.Here's the holy honeycomb:And here's Allah's name:Other miracles have included the Allah fish:And the Allah...

AP brings us this absurd staged picture:A Palestinian passed out from tear gas fired by Israeli troops, holds a key symbolizing the keys to houses left by Palestinians in 1948, during a demonstration marking the 61st anniversary of "Nakba," Arabic for catastrophe, in the West Bank village Bilin, near Ramallah, Friday, May 15, 2008.Wow - a Palestinian Arab man tragically passes...