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Sunday, March 27, 2011

Elder poster sighting in NYC

I was sent this (the person in the photo wanted to remain anonymous): The rally was called "We Stand With Israel Against Islamic Terror" held at noon on Sunda...

An EoZ fan offered to pay to publish a newspaper ad with a selection of "Apartheid?" posters, so here's what I put together for him:...

A sickening cartoon in The Economist, that was published on March 17 - after the Itamar massacre: Yes, it is trendy for oh-so-sophisticated British to say that Jews building homes - within their existing communities - as being as deadly to peace as wantonly killing demonstrators. Years of Arabs repeating the mantra that "settlements are the obstacle to peace" easily gets...

Palestine Press Agency and Ma'an News (Arabic) report: Look how moderate he is! Fatah spokesman Osama Qawasmi said "resistance is a legitimate right of the Palestinian people for liberation from Israeli occupation for and achieving their goal of independence and the establishment of a Palestinian state with its capital in Jerusalem." He said in a press statement issued...

Melanie Philips interview on British media "armchair barbarism"

The British media is failing to report the attacks upon Israel, and only reporting Israeli responses, thus creating the entirely false impression that Israel is the aggressor. Thus in turn creating the kind of hatred of Israel in the world which is leading to mass murder.(h/t Joe...

My question for Bibi

Binyomin Netanyahu will be on YouTube answering the most popular questions submitted by people around the world. Although I am asking my question a bit late, here's what I would like to hear him address: What is the Government of Israel's official stance on the legal status of the territories? Are they occupied, disputed, or something else? Israel used to be adamant that they were "disputed" (except for Jerusalem which was annexed) but the recent...

Video: Syrian demonstrations Friday; people attack Assad statue

This is supposedly a video taken in Daraa on Friday, showing people trying to topple a statue of Hafez al-Assad and hearing the sounds of shots by the regime. It doesn't look like they succeeded in toppling the statue, and I am not sure what the photo of Saddam Hussein for the last minute of the video is meant to signify. From Palestine Press Agenc...

Report: Argentina dropping probe in bombings to appease Iran

From YNet: During secret talks with Iran, the Argentinean government offered to "forget" the bombings of the Israeli embassy and the Jewish community center in the capital Buenos Aires in the 1990s in exchange for improved ties between the two countries. The Argentine weekly Perfil reported Saturday that the negotiations were aimed at increasing the trade volume between Argentina and the Islamic Republic, which is currently estimated at $1.2 billion...

Abbas visit to Gaza dropped after threat from Qassam Brigades

From Ha'aretz: Senior members of Hamas' military wing told aides of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas that it would not guarantee the Fatah leader's safety if he visited the Gaza Strip, Haaretz has learned. PA officials interpreted these statements as a threat to Abbas. As of last night, an Abbas trip to Gaza for reconciliation talks with Hamas has been dropped from the agenda. Some Palestinian commentators attributed the increase in hostilities...

New attempt to bomb Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel fails

From Al Ahram: Unknown attackers attempted on Sunday to blow up an Egyptian gas pipeline to Israel and Jordan, but the explosives failed to detonate, a security official said. Six armed men stormed the gas terminal in the northern Sinai town of Al-Sabeel at dawn on Sunday and placed explosive devices there, the official said. "They failed to detonate the bombs and fled the scene. Even the security guard was missing when police arrived," he said,...

Norwegian far left coalition partner calls for world to bomb Israel

From Norway, Israel and the Jews blog (h/t Tundra Tabloids) The SV annual convention goes to vote. The deranged junior partner in the current government coalition will among other proposals vote on a motion to use armed force against Israel should it attack Gaza.The motion is the blood money required to pay off SV card carrying members who find it hard to accept that they have taken the nation to war, again. Last time it did so was back...

Exclusive: Interview with Itamar's mayor about Fogel massacre

On Saturday night, I had the opportunity to interview the mayor of Itamar, Moshe Goldsmith, and his wife Leah, as they were fundraising for additional security and infrastructure for their community. I asked them a little about the community, their lives and the latest information about the horrific terrorist massacre of the Fogel family. The Goldsmiths say without any reservation that Ma'an's story of Thai workers is a lie - they haven't had...

Maariv notices that the Guardian and Al Jazeera lied on Palestine Papers

Ben-Dror Yemini at Maariv (Hebrew only) takes a look at the Palestine Papers and discovers that the Guardian and Al Jazeera have been misrepresenting what they say. If he would have read my blog, he could have saved a lot of tim...

Abbas adds a new condition for "peace": Release all terrorists!

Mahmoud Abbas, that intransigent leader that the world considers "moderate," had added another condition for "peace" with Israel: Abbas now demands that Israel release every single Palestinian Arab prisoner. This includes, of course, the most heinous terrorists - those that have murdered and slaughtered Israelis - that have been captured by Israel. Abbas is not distinguishing...

ElderToons: J-Street discovers a new settlement

From Sol Stern in Pajamas Media: Ben-Ami’s paternal grandparents were, indeed, Zionist heroes. At great personal risk they moved from Czarist Russia to the Land of Israel as part of the First Aliyah (wave of immigration) of the late nineteenth century. They were among 66 Palestinian Jewish families who defied the warnings of their own community’s leaders and purchased...