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Monday, January 13, 2014

01/13 Links Pt2: Tom Gross: Holocaust amnesia, Israel ranked 2nd in Philanthropy, ASA plays Victim

From Ian:

Israel is the Second Most Philanthropic Country in the World

The Data shows that: in 2012 Israeli households and businesses donated 7.6 billion Shekels to nonprofits, an increase of 8.8% as compared with 2011. Israeli philanthropy made up 0.76% of the country’s GDP, taking second place in world philanthropy after the USA, which saw 2.1% of its GDP donated to nonprofits in 2012. Australia follows Israel with 0.69% of its GDP in donations; the UK with 0.65% of its GDP; South Africa with 0.64%; Canada with 00.48%; Ireland with 0.47%, Holland with 0.45%; New Zealand with 0.29%; Germany with 0.22%, and France with 0.19%.
According to Yonatan Ben-Dor, CEO of IsraelGives, which facilitates online fundraising for over 600 nonprofits in Israel: “A large portion of the increasing amount of money donated to nonprofits in Israel stems from the rise of online philanthropy. Online donations grew by 66% in the past year, 8 times that of traditional philanthropy. As an example of this rise in online giving, in 2013 627 nonprofit organizations received donations through IsraelGives.org, Israel’s online donation portal.

Tom Gross: Holocaust amnesia

Holocaust Memorial Day falls again on January 27. It is the ninth consecutive year that this (in many ways uniquely) evil event is being officially commemorated in Britain and the EU.
Predictably there are voices — including some Jewish — who say, haven't we heard enough about the Holocaust? What more is there to learn?
I take the opposite view — that collectively the world has not studied it nearly enough, and has not properly learned its lessons. If it had,
anti-Semitism wouldn't once again be rife in so many countries, including European ones.

Europe's New Crowd-Pleasing Jew-Hate

It is an anti-Semitism that seems to come mostly from people affiliated with the French radical "left": members and sympathizers of Trotskyist movements, of the neo-communist French "Left Front", and of "pro-Palestinian" organizations such as Europalestine. Its followers accuse the Jews of having "monopolized" human sufferings, of having "rapaciousness" behind the "Holocaust industry" and of being complicit in the "imperialist crimes" committed by Israel against the "Palestinians". Unsurprisingly, a growing number of young Muslims identify with these arguments.
Members of the politically right-leaning "nationalist revolutionary" parties, and other Neo-Nazi organizations see all this as a boon and an exoneration. They hate Islam, but they hate Jews and Israel even more, and when people such as Dieudonné say that "Zionists" in the Middle East are worse than Nazis, or that Holocaust commemorations are "memorial pornography," they exult.
When Dieudonné invites a famous Holocaust -denier such as Robert Faurisson on stage, and then praises the gas chambers, members of the audience are full of joy. When Dieudonné sings "Shoah-Ananas" ["Holocaust Pineapple"] in the company of Faurisson, the audience sings along with gusto. "The Anti-Semite," a movie Dieudonné made with Iranian money to mock the Auschwitz concentration camp, was never released in theaters, but has became an on-line success anyhow.

The amazing Biblical archaeological find no one talks about

I had never heard of this 1967 find, and it is fascinating:

It is probably one of the greatest finds of all time and, by the bizarre rules of biblical archeology, it’s also one of the least reported. Basically, in 1967, in Deir Alla, Jordan, Dutch archeologists discovered some kind of pagan house of worship or seminary. On its walls, there was a 2,800-year-old inscription in black ink. Key phrases are highlighted in red ink and the whole writing is framed in red.

First of all, this is the oldest Aramaic inscription ever found. But if that’s not enough to make it a world-headline, the inscription is 600-800 years older than the Dead-Sea Scrolls. And if that’s not enough to merit international attention, the inscription mentions a prophet, or “seer”, named “Balaam son of Beor”. This is the exact name mentioned in the Torah/Bible (Numbers 22:2–24:25). This is the only instance where a specific individual mentioned in the story of the biblical Exodus can be pointed to in archeology. So who is Balaam, and where is this inscription now?

Balaam is the bad guy of the Torah. He is the Darth Vader of the biblical Exodus. According to the Talmud, Balaam had the potential to be Moses, but he turned to the dark side (Av. Zar. 4a–b; Sanh. 105b; Avot 5:19). In a famous incident, as the Israelites are about to enter the promised land, Balak King of Moab asks Balaam to curse the children of Israel. Balaam is unable to do so. The Talmud explains that he looked at the Israelite tents and saw an amazing thing. The tents were rotated so that people could not see into each other’s bedrooms, so to speak. At that point, Balaam realized that the only way to weaken Israel was to corrupt them through sex.

According to the biblical narrative, Balaam was in charge of sex priestesses made up of Moabite and Midianite women. These women successfully seduced the Israelites in an orgy of sex and idolatry (Numbers 31:8, 16). 24,000 Israelite men were punished by God with death. At one point, the Israelite prince, Zimri son of Salu, publically fornicated with a Midianite princess named Cozbi, daughter of Zur, in the name of some kind of fertility rite. Apparently, these rituals were drawing big crowds until Phinehas son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the High Priest (brother of Moses), picked up a spear and killed Zimri and Cozbi with one thrust while they were, so to speak, thrusting. This act ended Balaam’s attempt to subvert Israel through pagan sex (Numbers 25; 6-15). According to the book of Joshua, Joshua took revenge by killing Balaam during the Israelite conquest of Canaan (Joshua, 13:22).

So… back to the Deir Alla inscription. The amazing thing is that it is found on the border of ancient Israel, exactly where you would expect to find it given the biblical narrative. The people writing it are Balaam’s people. Meaning, for them he’s a hero, not a villain. So we’re getting the opposition point of view. They refer to him, just as in the Torah, as “Balaam Son of Beor”. Meaning, there is a letter-perfect synchronicity between the archeology and the Bible. But it gets better. According to the Torah, Balaam does have prophetic powers. According to the inscription, he is a prophet. According to the Torah, he gets his visions at night. According to the inscription, he gets his visions at night. According to the Torah, he worships false gods, but also dialogues with the God of Israel. According to the Deir Alla inscription, Balaam speaks to the “gods” and to “El” i.e., the God of Israel. But more than this, Balaam seems to be devoted to a goddess of fertility. Lest anyone think that the orgy episode in the Torah is exaggerated, the Deir Alla inscription refers to a “girl” or priestess who is “used” for the purpose of making one “saturated with love” (Combination 2, ii 4). It talks about God himself being “satisfied” with love making (Combination 2, ii 6).

So here you have a perfect synchronicity between the story in the Bible and the story that archeologists have discovered in a pagan temple in Jordan. But except for a few scholars, very few people have even heard of this discovery. More than this, the inscription has been removed from Deir Alla and put in drawers – I’m not kidding, drawers – in the Archeological Museum of Amman, capital of Jordan. Meaning, you could be standing right next to the greatest archeological match to the Bible and not know it.

The ultimate irony: in the Archeological Museum of Amman, they have a fragment of the Dead-Sea Scrolls. It is a quote from the Bible – the story of Balaam! So the amazing thing is that about 20 feet from each other are the Deir Alla inscription and the Dead-Sea Scroll, both quoting the exact same story – and both matching the Bible perfectly.

Isn’t it incredible? You don’t have to go into the realm of “DaVinci Code” style fiction to discover biblical cover-ups. They’re happening as I write – and it’s not fiction, it’s all too real.

Wikipedia has an entry on it, and its translation doesn't seem to necessarily refer to a fertility goddess, but is it the clear mention of a prophet Balaam son of Be'or is one of the few extrabiblical references to Biblical characters by name.

(h/t Yerushalimey)

UPDATE: The story has gone around before.

UPDATE 2: A followup post.

Palestine Press Agency reports that Gaza hospital patients are being forced to pay out of their own pocket for drugs - because their doctors say that the hospitals don't have enough supply.

Often, the medicines that they buy are labeled "Not for resale" or that they were a gift from an Arab country.

The PA as well as Arab countries and NGOs send massive amounts of medicine to Gaza, but they do not seem to be reaching the hospitals they are meant for.

The article claims that drugs donated by the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt are often expired, though.

In previous years Hamas was accused by both individuals and by the PA itself of diverting the donated medicines to their own pharmacies so they could profit from reselling them. This article implies that this is happening now but doesn't quite say it, perhaps because the newspaper had been banned in Gaza for a while and wants to ensure that it is not shut down again.

01/13 Links Pt1: Ariel Sharon's Funeral, Bush: he was a ‘man of courage’, Iran deal starts 20th Jan.

From Ian:

Khaled Abu Toameh: Why Is Hamas Courting Iran and the Palestinian Authority?

If Hamas is so strongly opposed to the peace talks, why are its leaders saying that they are prepared to join forces with the Palestinian Authority?
The answer is obvious: Hamas wants the Palestinian Authority to continue channeling funds to the Gaza Strip.
More than half of the Palestinian Authority's annual budget goes to pay salaries and support various projects in the Gaza Strip despite the rivalry between the two sides. Abbas told Jordanian parliamentarians during a meeting in his office that 58% of the Palestinian Authority budget goes to the Gaza Strip.
Hamas's efforts to restore ties with Iran and the Palestinian Authority are nothing but a ploy to ensure its continued presence in power. Hamas is definitely not headed toward any change. Now that it is back on the payroll of Iran, Hamas will feel more confidant than ever to pursue its efforts to foil any agreement between the Palestinian Authority and Israel.

Dignitaries from 19 states due for funeral, but no heads of state

US Vice President Joe Biden, Czech Prime Minister Jiří Rusnok and the foreign ministers of Australia and Germany are among the top foreign officials scheduled to attend the funeral of former prime minister Ariel Sharon on Monday. The list of dignitaries includes senior ministers and top officials from 19 countries, but not a single head of state.
The countries sending senior government officials to the funeral roughly correspond with a list of Israel’s closest allies on the international stage. No senior officials from the two Arab states with which Israel has diplomatic relations — Jordan and Egypt — are scheduled to attend.

Bush remembers friend Sharon as ‘man of courage’

Former US President George W. Bush remembered late Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon Saturday as “a warrior for the ages.”
In a statement, Bush called Sharon a “partner in seeking security for the Holy Land and a better, peaceful Middle East.”
“I was honored to know this man of courage and call him friend,” he said.

Under Palestinian law, if Abbas signs a peace agreement with Israel he would be subject to the death penalty

I've discussed how central the bogus "right of return" is to Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Arab leadership, and how the West ignores this fact. Mahmoud Abbas and the entire Palestinian Arab leadership (not to mention their friends in the anti-Israel community) have turned this fake "right" into a key component of their demands for any "peace" agreement - and have elevated this demand to damn thousands of Syrians to death.

Palestinian Arabs make no secret that the purpose of this "right" is to destroy the Jewish state demographically, and this is exactly why they refuse to recognize that Israel is in fact the Jewish state. The end game is to create three or four Palestinian states - in Jordan, which is majority Palestinian; in the West Bank, possibly in Gaza and (of course) in Israel.

It turns out that Abbas signed a law in 2008 to enshrine this "right" to destroy Israel in PA law. Not only that, but this law ensures that any agreement that modifies this "right" is null and void, and high treason.

Under PLO law, if Mahmoud Abbas signs a peace treaty with Israel that doesn't pave the way for the destruction of Israel, he is guilty of high treason and is subject to the death penalty.

Western diplomats who think that there is a possibility of peace with the PLO must read this.

Here is the bulk of the law:

The law of the right of return for Palestinian refugees No. (1) for the year 2008

The right of return for Palestinian refugees to their homes and property and compensation for their suffering is a sacred and inalienable right that cannot compromised or exchanged; it is beyond the scope of jurisprudence or interpretation or referendum.

The right of return is the natural individual and collective civil and political right that moves from parents to children and does not disappear over time, by the signing of any agreement, and it may not be disposed of or waived in any way.

The Zionist occupation bears full responsibility for the political, legal and humanitarian and moral suffering of the Palestinian people and the non-recognition of the right to self-determination. Britain bears historical responsibility for the suffering of the Palestinian people. The international community bears full responsibility to lift and remove the suffering of the Palestinian people.

The Palestinians have the right to sue the Zionist occupation for their suffering caused to the Palestinian people and their demands for compensation for damage to their emotional or material damage.

Resettlement of Palestinian refugees may not be a substitute for the right of return.

Anyone who violates the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of the crime of high treason against him and subject to all criminal and civil penalties prescribed for this crime.

Anything that is contrary to the provisions of this law is canceled, null and void and any legislation or agreement that detracts from the right of return violates the provisions of this law.

Issued on: 01/08/2008 AD
Mahmoud Abbas
Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization
President of the Palestinian National Authority

Is that clear enough?

(h/t Bob Knot)

I was wrong. There really are a Palestinian people.

Mea culpa.

Years of historical research on this blog has been rendered utterly useless by a concise yet brilliant post on Mondoweiss - by Mondo himself. Here it is in its entirety:

I had no idea there was a coin that said "Palestine" on it! That proves that today's Palestinians had a free and independent nation in 1927!

Now, some residents of Palestine did not like the idea of a Palestinian currency and their leaders called to boycott it and to keep using the Egyptian pound - but, luckily, other Palestinians who were more forward thinking supported the idea, and it became the official currency of Palestine.

Further research into the issue, once my eyes were no longer blinded by propaganda, shows that these forward-thinking Palestinians didn't just stop there in their quest to build their nation. No, they built up other Palestinian institutions.

For example, the Palestine international soccer (football) club, recognized by FIFA, played five international games in the 1930s. Unfortunately, they only won one, against Lebanon, 5-1. Goals in that game were scored by Palestinian players Herbert Meitner (2), Avraham Schneiderovitz, Gaul Machlis and Werner Kaspi.

Time magazine in 1937 had a feature story on the inaugural performance of the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. The article starts off with "As a full Palestine moon rode one evening last week over Tel Aviv... thousands ... began to move toward the Levant Fair Grounds. There they packed the Italian Pavilion to capacity to hear great Arturo Toscanini lead Palestine's first civic orchestra through its first performance." Yes, the Palestinians of 1937 were cultured and were lovers of classical music. A Palestinian opera was even performed in New York in 1934.

There were, of course, Palestine stamps as well. This one shows an ancient Palestinian holy site in Bethlehem. (Unfortunately, it is not visible today, because there is an ugly tall wall that turned it into a fortress.)

Palestinians worked hard to attract tourists to Palestine so they could proudly show off their country.

The same Palestinians also created regional fairs to show off their products and to trade with their Arab neighbors:

Palestinians even exhibited at the World's Fair in New York in 1939.

There was a Palestine Post newspaper, as well as the earlier Palestine Bulletin, written by the most prominent Palestinian journalists of the day.

My research found that Palestinians were not only active in the 20th century, but they had been there through the millennia. This entry from an encyclopedia describes a stunning and encyclopedic work of Palestinian scholarship from the 4th and 5th centuries CE, written by hundreds of the brightest people in Palestine, known as the Palestinian Talmud. This work has been referred to by Middle Eastern and European scholars throughout the ages. That one work alone shows how strong the ties are between Palestinians and their land.

There are plenty of other examples of scholarship researching the ancient culture of Palestine. Here. for example, is a 19th century book about the customs and traditions of Palestine over the ages.

All in all, there is a massive amount of evidence and literature that all proves that throughout the centuries, there has been a people living in Palestine as well as their kin who longed to return to Palestine from their diaspora. In the 20th century, they became known to the Western world as Palestinians. These people ranged from the ordinary to the clerical to the political, always trying to improve the land of their ancestors which they held sacred. They never forgot Palestine and when they were given the chance, they jumped at building their nation in the land of Palestine.

There are outsiders who invaded Palestine, though. They came in waves. Some settled there, some moved on, but none of them have been there as long as the Palestinians who were there originally. They often persecuted the people who identified as Palestinians, both the natives of Palestineand their cousins who came to rejoin them. They never identified as Palestinian themselves in the era of the coins, stamps, and orchestras. Yet this other group, which used to call themselves Southern Syrians or simply Arabs, makes claims today that they are the real Palestinians!

Of all the peoples of the world, the Palestinians who deserve most to live there are the ones who have the strongest ancient historic ties to the land as well as the people who worked hardest to build a modern state in Palestine in the first half of the 20th century - against the wishes of the invaders. These Palestinians have an unbroken chain of history and culture from their ancestors living there in ancient times through today. The Palestinian people who worked to rebuild their nation are the ones who deserve to live there the most, from a historical, legal and moral perspective.

Every modern, liberal person must support the human rights of these indigenous Palestinian people to live, in peace and security, in the land that they have lived in and longed for throughout the ages.

Yes, there was a geographical area called Palestine for 2000 years. It might not have been the original name, but the residents who identified with it the most throughout that time are the ones who are the real Palestinian people.

(h/t Max)

PressTV's new "expert:" David Duke

White supremacist and antisemite David Duke seems to have found a kinship with fellow Jew-haters at Iran's state-run PressTV.

Duke has now been interviewed twice in two weeks. PressTV, which has a stable of Jew-hating columnists, often gives new potential writers a try-out by interviewing them. When they are found to fit the standards of hate that PressTV demands, they get promoted to columnists.

David Duke may be on his way to join them.

Here are some lowlights of his current interview.

Zionists dominate banking, media and politics: D. Duke

...Obviously AIPAC is an organization that is a Zionist organization that's working for the interest of Israel and for the radical Jews who control the Jewish community in America. There are a few dissenting Jews, which we should be very happy for and I'm glad there are some Jews there to challenge some issues.

But every major Jewish organization in the United State of America is pushing for war and sanctions against your country (Iran) when the true nuclear rogue state of course is Israel and Israel is a real threat to world peace.

I hope that Iran and the world doesn't misunderstand the fact that the Jewish community, the organized Jewish community – that doesn’t mean every Jew – but the organized Jewish community is very, very strongly pushing for war – a war that would be catastrophic for the people of Iran and around the world.

Zionism is a worldwide phenomenon. It is a globalist phenomenon. They dominate international banks with enormous financial power; they dominate the world's media; and they dominate the political structure.

In America they do it by controlling campaign financing and basically because of the power in the media if you combine the campaign financing influence with the media they are able to blackmail every politician.

Every politician knows that if they support Israel they will get positive response in the media. If they dare to put America first and the interests of the world first and the interest of peace and decency and humanity first, they will be condemned and thrown out of Congress.

There is simply not one American Congressman truly willing to stand up to the Zionists in this country. They have been bought off. It's the best Congress money can buy and it's shameful to the American people.

he control of the media and the control of the political processes around the world, they are behind what we call globalism, which is really an effort toward world government; towards a...extremist Messianic vision of the world. Now, that might sound radical and strange.

But Ben Gurion himself said that Israel would become the Supreme Court of mankind; that all nations and armies would be abolished...It's talking about world domination.

And they really do dominate the world in many ways, in media, in international banking and in politics.

And by controlling America they control a great deal of the military force of the world.

It is notable that David Duke and other white supremacists now align with Muslims because of their common hatred of Jews. In a weird way,this alignment helps inoculate Duke and similar extreme right Jew-haters from charges of antisemitism, because those liberals who find Jew-hatred distasteful never want to condemn Muslim antisemitism. By using an Islamic publication to spread their hate, Duke and his pals can avoid criticism from those who are paralyzed by the fear of being labeled Islamophobes, a fear that allows Jew-hatred to flourish among the very people who pretend to be against all forms of bigotry.

40 PA policemen injured as Arab protesters close roads

When there are no IDF troops in the area to riot against, young Palestinian Arabs find other targets.

A spokesman for the PA security services said 40 PA police were wounded Sunday during an attempt by security forces re-open some of the streets leading to the city of Ramallah that were closed by the people protesting against the lack of services given by UNRWA in the Jalazoun camp. They are protesting the UNRWA strikers who are in turn protesting for higher salaries and for more job security, even among temporary workers.

He denied any casualties among the protesters.

Dozens of youths had blocked many streets early Sunday, saying "This is to protest the lack of services in the camps, because of the continued strike of Arab workers in the Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees, and indifference by UNRWA to this strike."

Sometimes, free services and jobs and food and doctors and education just isn't enough.

Here's video from the hospital.

Miftah site has numerous fake Ariel Sharon (and other) quotes

In the wake of Ariel Sharon's death, some are publishing fake quotes attributed to Sharon. And there are plenty of them.

Miftah, the EU-funded Palestinian Arab NGO founded by Hanan Ashrawi which I have exposed for its antisemitism and naked support for terror, has a list of quotes on its website from 2003 that are generally either fake, out of context or otherwise dubious.

They were informed that some of the quotes were fabrications shortly afterwards. Yet these fake quotes are still on their website, today.

Here are the fake Sharon quotes that Miftah lies about:

"Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it." Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.

Complete fiction.

I don't mind if after the job is done you put me in front of a Nuremberg Trial and then jail me for life. Hang me if you want, as a war criminal. What you don't understand is that the dirty work of Zionism is not finished yet, far from it. Ariel Sharon to Amos Oz, editor of Davar, Dec. 17, 1982

Again, never happened. Amoz Oz made up a fictional interview with someone named "Z" and Israel haters changed it.

"I vow that if I was just an Israeli civilian and I met a Palestinian I would burn him and I would make him suffer before killing him. With one hit I've killed 750 Palestinians (in Rafah in 1956). I wanted to encourage my soldiers by raping Arabic girls as the Palestinian women is a slave for Jews, and we do whatever we want to her and nobody tells us what we shall do but we tell others what they shall do." Ariel Sharon, In an interview with General Ouze Merham, 1956.

"I don't know something called International Principles. I vow that I'll burn every Palestinian child (that) will be born in this area. The Palestinian woman and child is more dangerous than the man, because the Palestinian child’s existence infers that generations will go on, but the man causes limited danger." Ariel Sharon, In an interview with General Ouze Merham, 1956.

There is no such person as "General Ouze Merham." This is complete fiction. (In 1956, Israelis wouldn't have referred to Arabs as "Palestinians" anyway.)

Miftah knows these are lies. But Miftah isn't interested in the truth. And, apparently, neither are the EU NGOs that fund it.

(h/t Bob Knot)

NYT, 1924: "Hitler tamed by prison"

Wishful thinking has trumped news at the New York Times for quite a while.

(h/t HaDaR)

01/12 Links: Sharon Obituaries, Lost Hitchcock Holocaust Doc, Scarlett Johansson's SodaStream Advert

From Ian:

Israel in the Eye of the Hurricane

As upheaval sweeps into country after country of the Middle East, endemic instability has become the order of the day—with no end in sight. Egypt and Tunisia seem permanently on the verge of civil war, Syria in the midst of it; Libya and Yemen are disintegrating, with Lebanon and Iraq seemingly not far behind; unrest is seeping into Algeria, Morocco, Sudan, and Jordan; not even oil-rich Saudi Arabia or the smaller Gulf states seem immune. Long-established certitudes about the regional order are no more, having been supplanted by an Arab “spring” that produced neither a summer of democracy and prosperity nor a return to the winter of past authoritarian immobility but, rather, a prolonged autumn of volatility and baffling uncertainty. And this is not to speak of the impact of events on nominally peripheral powers like Turkey, Ethiopia, and Iran—the last-named of which presents a regional challenge of major proportions—or on such formerly inhibited but now emergent actors as the Kurds, the Christians, the Druze, even the Alawites.
At the eye of this regional hurricane, Israel is eerily quiet, tensely following the turbulence and endeavoring, amid the wreckage, to fathom the shape of the new Middle Eastern reality. Much is still unknown—other than that the old order is gone for good, an epochal shift is under way, and Israel’s three-decades-old strategy for survival may have to be abandoned. Can it be replaced by a better one—even an older one? (h/t Bob Knot)

Ariel Sharon Obituaries
Netanyahu: Sharon will go down as one of Israel's most prominent leaders, courageous commanders
IDF Blog: IDF Remembers Ariel Sharon, 1928-2014
Caroline Glick: Ariel Sharon, Larger than life
Benny Morris: Ariel Sharon: 1928-2014
Times of Israel: Israel’s indomitable protector, Ariel Sharon emblemized military audacity, evolving politics
JPost: Salute to Sharon
Tom Gross: Sharon: Myths, Facts, and Blood Libels (h/t Bob Knot)
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: Ariel Sharon - fearless warrior leaves complicated political legacy
The Tower: Ariel Sharon (1928-2014)
The Tower: Ariel Sharon, the Last Lion of Judaea
Algemeiner: Ariel Sharon: The End of the Romance

Occupation glasses - 2014 edition

A few years ago I wrote a post about what I call "occupation glasses" - the widespread phenomenon where no matter what happens in Israel, certain people see it as a part of "occupation."

I even designed a pair:

On Friday, Tal Öfer tweeted a photo of French antisemite Dieudonne with Mahmoud Ahmadinajed, two Jew-hating peas in a pod.

Rabid anti-Israel nutcase Mira bar-Hillel responded in a predictable way by ignoring the point and trying to change the subject back to what is near and dear to her heart, saying sarcastically that the photo was "Far more important than the additional 1,400 illegal homes in occupied West Bank, Mr Kerry."

CiFWatch responded to her, quite accurately, with a link to my post on the Occupation Glasses.

Bar-Hillel responded back,

@CiFWatch @TalOfer @JeremyJacobs @TheCommentator @elderofziyon Oh my dear, that is just SOOOOO 2011! Do keep up!
— Mira Bar-Hillel (@mirabarhillel) January 10, 2014

I can only assume that anti-Israel fanatic Bar Hillel is referring to the clunky style of those glasses. I agree, the color and shape are not at all acceptable for 2014 (and probably never were.) Bar-Hillel is obviously up on the latest anti-Israel fashion. (I should ask her if the keffiyeh is acceptable to wear nowadays among her crowd or if that is also "so 2011.")

So, because she asked, I designed a new pair of Occupation Glasses, that are much more subtle, sleek and stylish.

People who wear these can rest assured that not only will everything they say have to do with "occupation," but even better - the rimless style makes it harder for people to tell that they are wearing them.

Until they open their mouths, of course.