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Wednesday, December 28, 2011

SA CEO responds to critics for selling Israeli products, Muslims seethe

From IOL News (South Africa): Ivan Saltzman, the chief executive of pharmacy giant Dis-Chem, is embroiled in an ugly spat with a Durban woman over the retailer’s decision to sell Israeli-made skin care products. The spat began when Fathima Moosa visited the Westwood Mall branch of Dischem and noticed that they were selling Dead Sea products made in Israel. She later submitted...

The PLO's US envoy lies in the WaPo

From the Washington Post, an op-ed by US PLO representative Maen Rashid Areikat. Areikat has said more than once that his organization intends to ethnically cleanse a half million people from their homes. Here he takes on the idea that "Palestinians" are an invented nation, with a suite of lies: The issue of Palestinian identity and national history has become a source...

Photo by DoZ taken at the Elder estate using a Fujifilm Finepix S2500HD It is the last night of Chanukah, so here's an open thread to say good-by...

Chanukah Video Night 8: Jew-Z's Groove

This video is notable because it caused Heeb Magazine to freak out over how much they hated i...

Palestinian Arab nationalism effectively sprung out of thin air in 1920. Up until then, with very little exception, it was subsumed under the desire to be a part of "Greater Syria" which would include all of Palestine - and leave no room for a Jewish state. As soon as the ink dried on the San Remo resolution, Palestinian Arab leaders changed their tune, and embraced the idea...

Here are the five most popular EoZ posts of 2011, according to Google Analytics. #5: (4762 pageviews) Nivea website excludes Israel, includes "Palestine Territories" #4: (5747 pageviews) Anti-semitic comic book: "Foreskin Man" #3: (6323 pageviews) One reason Shalit looked so ill at ease in his interview #2: (6836 pageviews) This Is Zionism (poster series) And...

An honor killing in Gaza

From PCHR: At approximately 02:30 on Friday 23 December 2011, the body of M. A., 45, from Sheikh Radwan neighborhood, who was killed by strangulation, was brought to Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. According to the Forensic Medicine Department, M. A. was killed by strangulation using hands. According to Chief Ayman al-Batniji, Spokesman of the Palestinian Police, the victim's nephew, who is accused of committing the crime, turned himself in to the...

Unity! More Fatah members detained in Gaza by Hamas

I noted yesterday that, even though releasing political prisoners has been the major concrete issue brought up in all the "unity" talks between Fatah and Hamas, each side continues to accuse the other of imprisoning people based on political affiliation. Yesterday Hamas arrested 9 Fatah members - and today it detained 19 more. According to Palestine Press Agency, Hamas is forcing those arrested yesterday to stand on one leg for long periods of...

Some stuff I've been meaning to get to... News from Israel you may have missed during 2011 (Aish) US criticizes Palestinian Authority double-talk (IMRA) Harvard's Middle East Outreach Center headed by BDS supporter (CAMERA) 8 incredible technologies used by the IDF (IDF) Gingrich comments supported by the Quran (Hamid) Jesus would have been shot by Palestinians (Honest...

There have been scattered reports on bits and pieces of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh's speech at Hamas' 24th anniversary rally on December 14th, but Palestinian Media Watch put it all together. It is a must-read for every Western politician and Middle East pundit - who will of course ignore and/or excuse what he says as just rhetoric. We say today, explicitly, so it cannot...

A Hamas terrorist blew himself up in his own home last night at the Jabalia camp in Gaza. Imad Washa was 37 when he was performing his accidentally self-sacrificing act of Jihad. The Al Qassam Brigades says that Washa had a great career as a jihadist. I don't know if that is true, but it certainly ended with a ban...

Hamas keeps talking Jihad in Arabic

As analysts remain transfixed over the idea of Hamas supposedly renouncing terror, Hamas keeps saying the exact opposite in Arabic. The latest from Palestine Today: The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas confirmed today on its adherence to the right of resistance in all forms, especially armed resistance. Defeating the occupation has proven this path of resistance, and jihad and martyrdom are the only way to extract our rights and liberate our...

The Dreidel Song, orchestral version

Here is an orchestral version of a mash-up of "I Have a Little Dreidel" and "Hava Nagila" , performed by the Marine Force Band in Okinawa, Japan this year, entitled "Dreidel Dance:" Considering that it is a combination of two overused, cliched tunes, it is actually quite good. It was arranged by Master Sgt. Robert Thurston and first performed by the US Air Force Band in 2006, available on this albu...

Palestinian Arabs fabricating facts on arrests, prisoners

From Ma'an: A report published on Monday has found that over 3,000 Palestinians were arrested by Israel's military in 2011. Researcher on prisoner affairs Abdul Nasser Ferwaneh said that the average number of arrests in 2011 numbered 276 per month, or around nine a day. A total of 3,312 Palestinians were arrested by Israeli authorities in 2011, 113 of whom were prisoners released in the October exchange deal between Hamas and Israel. The detainees...

What we can learn from Salam Fayyad's threat

From WAFA: Prime Minister Salam Fayyad Monday condemned the Israeli deliberations on a bill submitted to the Knesset for declaring Jerusalem, including West and the East Jerusalem, to be the capital of Israel and the Jewish people. Fayyad, in a press conference while signing a cooperation agreement between the Palestinian Investment Promotion Agency and Jordan Investment...