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Tuesday, January 28, 2014

Kinder, gentler Iran threatens US again

From IRNA: Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari lashed out at US Secretary of State John Kerryˈs recent war rhetoric against Iran. Major General Jafariˈs remarks came in reaction to Kerry who said on January 23 that “the military option that is available to the United States is ready and prepared to do what it would have to do” if Iran enriches uranium beyond five percent purity. ˈYou could...

If you put together everything that every "pro-Palestinian "activist has ever done for actual, real Palestinians.... If you tally all the specific things that Omar Barghouti and Max Blumenthal and Philip Weiss and Ali Abuminah and Greta Berlin and Ben White and every single member of Free Gaza, Mondoweiss, Electronic Intifada, the BDS Movement, Students for Justice in Palestine,...

File photo AFP reports: Suspected militants blew up a pipeline in Egypt's Sinai that transports gas to Jordan late Monday in the third such attack in less than a month, security officials said. The officials said there were no immediate reports of injuries, but witnesses said thick flames rose into the sky from the spot where the pipeline was struck. Witnesses also said...

Hasby Award: Best Pro-Israel Commentator Exclusive to Israel/ME

The nominees for the Hasby Award for Best Pro-Israel Commentator Exclusive to Israel/ME are: Caroline Glick Martin Kramer Daniel Gordis Evelyn Gordon Sarah Honig Khaled Abu Toameh And the winner is.... ...

01/27 Links Pt2: ‘Never again’ imperatives, The myth of the Arab bystander to the Holocaust

From Ian: JPost Ed: ‘Never again’ imperatives On International Holocaust Day, which is being commemorated today, we are asked not just to remember. We are also asked to learn lessons from that dark period in history. One lesson which tends to be emphasized in Israel and among world Jewry is that anti-Semitism is essentially a terminal moral disease of humanity and that Jews must never again rely solely on the kindness of others. They must instead...

Work accident!

An 18 year old man, Ashraf Zahir Faraj Allah, died Sunday night when he mishandled a bomb in the Bureij camp in Gaza. Ma'an reports: A Palestinian teenager died Monday from wounds sustained a day earlier in an explosion in al-Bureij refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip. Ashraf Thahir Muhammad Farajallah, 18, died after being injured late Sunday in an "internal" explosion in the camp, Gaza medical official Ashraf al-Qidra said, without providing...

So it turns out that the Jews have been puppets of the Sunnis all along? From Iran's unintentional comedy network, PressTV: KSA behind Israel plans to replace al-Aqsa with temple: Analyst Saudi Arabia is supporting the Israeli regime in its plan to replace the holy al-Aqsa Mosque with a temple, an analyst tells Press TV in an interview. Saab Shaath was talking to Press...

Hasby Award: Best Mainstream Media Watchdog

The week-long online Hasby awards continue, with a popular category: BEST MAINSTREAM MEDIA WATCHDOG CAMERA BBC Watch CiF Watch Mideast Media Sampler at Legal Insurrection Huffington Post Monitor And the winner is:...

01/27 Links Pt1: Sharon’s Legacy Haunts Obama And Kerry, Lancet M.E. Map erases Israel

From Ian: David Singer: Sharon’s Legacy Haunts Obama And Kerry Any attempt by Obama and Kerry to resile from or circumvent Bush’s Congress-endorsed commitments to Sharon will torpedo any prospects for success in the current negotiations – leaving Obama and Kerry with no one but themselves to blame for bringing the current negotiations to an ignominious end. The idea that any American President would not consider himself bound by the written commitments...

Here is the entire statement put out by the EU's Catherine Ashton on the occasion of Holocaust Memorial Day: Today the international community remembers the victims of the Holocaust. We honour every one of those brutally murdered in the darkest period of European history. We also want to pay a special tribute to all those who acted with courage and sacrifice to protect their...

PalArab "journalists" say Israel looking for excuses to attack mosques

A few days ago, Israeli media (undoubtedly given a briefing by the IDF) reported that Hamas is hard at work on getting ready for the next war: Hamas is increasingly using sensitive civilian facilities in Gaza to protect its military assets from being targeted by Israel, ahead of a further round of conflict. It is also digging dozens of “terror tunnels” into Israel, The Times of Israel has learned. Gaza’s Islamist rulers have been placing rocket...

Who says there is no unity between Fatah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad? The three terror groups held a memorial service over the weekend for an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was killed by the IDF in the house of a Hamas member in Jenin in December. Masked gunmen from Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades, Islamic Jihad's Al Quds Brigades and Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades all eulogized Rafie...

Israel bombed Russian missiles in Latakia?

TOI writes: Loud explosions were reported to rock the coastal Syrian city of Latakia late Sunday night, with reports of a possible airstrike on the Alawite stronghold. The Palestinian Zamnpress news website reported Monday that Israeli planes carried out the attack on S-300 missiles, citing Western sources. According to the Local Coordination Committees in Syria, residents reported “a huge explosion” in the Shekh Daher neighborhood of Latakia. There...

Belgium's new poet laureate not happy I called him an antisemite. Too bad.

Last week, I reported that the new designated poet laureate of Belgium, whose pen name is Charles Ducal, is an antisemite, and I posted a couple of his poems to prove it. I introduced it with a story from the Antisemitism blog which saw the story in the Philosemitisme blog. He wrote an email to the Philosemitisme blog, the Anti-Semitism blog and me but for some reason he didn't bother to find out our email addresses; he sent them to an independent...

Hasby Award: Best English-Language Pro-Israel Online Media Outlet

The nominees for BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRO-ISRAEL ONLINE MEDIA OUTLET; are: Algemeiner Israel HaYom Jewish Press Tablet JPost The Tower Israel21c Another tough category. The award goes to:...