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Friday, December 14, 2007

This morning's peaceful Gaza news

* 34 people were injured, 5 seriously, from a grenade thrown at a funeral.UPDATE: 4 were killed - three by the grenade, one from falling off a building. The PalArab self-death count for the year is now at 597.* Today's kidnapping:Unidentified gunmen on Friday morning abducted 'Umar Al-Ghool, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's advisor for national affairs from his home in Gaza City.Al-Ghool's son, who lives in Ramallah in the central West Bank,...

Hamas' little Hitler

From MEMRI:Look at the mannerisms of this kid as he rails against the usual suspects - Zionists, America, Balfour. It's a midget Adolf without the mustache. (I cannot embed the video here, go to the MEMRI site to see it.)And don't miss the girl who casually mentions genocide.Transcript: Boy: My beloved brothers, as you know, today the Al-Aqsa Mosque is crying out: "Where is the people of the frontline, the Palestinian people?" Yes, my dear brothers,...

Palestinian Police Phunnies XXIX

The Jerusalem Post reveals:PA Civil Police commander Gen. Kamal al-Sheikh revealed that more than 600 Fatah-affiliated policemen helped Hamas take control of the Gaza Strip last June. "Out of 13,000 policemen in the Gaza Strip, only 612 participated in the Hamas coup against the Palestinian Authority," Sheikh said during a tour of Bethlehem. Downplaying the significance of the move, he noted that this constituted only 1.8 percent of the entire police...

PalArab UN rep compares Jews to Nazis

Anne Bayefsky notes:For those wondering whether the UN is going to continue to serve as a global platform for anti-Semitism—webcast around the world, free for all Internet users, and archived so that it may be accessed for a long, long time—the mystery is over. The UN Human Rights Council today broadcast uninterrupted hate speech—in the name of “human rights.” Palestinian UN representative Muhammad Abu-Koash had this to say on December 12, 2007 in...

Palestinian Arabs celebrate Festivus

From the Jerusalem Post:One Israeli diplomatic official, describing the atmosphere at the meeting in Jerusalem of the Israeli-Palestinian Steering Committee as "tense," said the sides came to the meeting with widely different ideas of what it was meant to accomplish.The officials said that while Israel saw the meeting as "a festive resumption of the peace process" that would deal with procedural issues about how to move the process forward, the Palestinians...

The Eids crisis

OK, not really a crisis, but...One of the vagaries of the Muslim lunar calendar is that the declarations of a new month (when the crescent moon is visible) often differ in different areas. So Islamic holidays sometimes are declared to be on different days by different Islamic leaders.This month is unusual, though, in that there are three separate declarations. This is important because the tenth of the current lunar month, Dhu al-Hijjah, is the beginning...

Israel allows 8th electricity generator in Gaza this year

Another story about the "hostile entity" that you won't read in the MSM:A new electricity generator is to be sent to the Gaza Strip, the Israeli liaison and coordination department for the Gaza Strip said in a statement on Wednesday.The generator will enhance power capabilities for the coastal region. It will be added to seven others which have been allowed into the Gaza Strip this year in coordination with the Palestinian power authorities in Ramallah.The...

These boots are made for walking - except in Iran

From AFP:...The [Iranian] police last week launched what was termed a "winter" crackdown on unIslamic dressing, to follow an unusually vigorous summer drive against women whose clothing was deemed overly flimsy.Tehran police chief Ahmad Reza Radan said women who wear high boots with their trousers tucked-in would be targeted by the moral police, as well as those who sport hats instead of headscarves and short tight winter coats.Radan had described...

Arabs abstain on Israel-sponsored "Puppies are cute" UN resolution

After decades of being treated as a pariah, Israel finally managed to get a resolution approved by the UN:The resolution encourages able nations of the world to develop farming technology for developing countries. The resolution was passed by the UN General Assembly's Second Committee, dealing with development issues. There were 118 votes in favor and 29 abstentions, with no opposing votes. The resolution will be brought before the full General Assembly...

Tunnel collapses in Rafah, one more terrorist dead

From PalPress (Arabic, autotranslated):Palestinian medical sources announced today, Wednesday, killing appeared citizen Mahmoud Abdel-Hamid alive "23 years" of the inhabitants of the city of Rafah following the collapse of a tunnel on the Palestinian-Egyptian border.The number of Palestinian Arabs who have been violently killed by their own actions this year is now at 591.UPDATE: A child-killer named Rami Khalifa has died "in mysterious circumstances"...

Britain's Lessons in Cultural SuicideThe perfect car for a trip to MeccaJews' subway hero a MuslimMy return to Kever YosefTestimony at the House Committee on Foreign Affairs by David Wurmsler (h/t Israel Matzav)Audit finds U.S. funded university linked to terrorism (h/t Anti-Racist Blog)Canada Praised For What Israel Should Have DoneSaudis give big to US colleges (h/t Smooth...

Tony Blair declares Bethlehem safe - what about Sderot?

Tony Blair stayed at the Intercontinental Hotel in Bethlehem last night, to show that Bethlehem was a safe place for Christians to visit and to jumpstart the Palestinian Arab economy:Palestine is a “safe destination” for tourists to visit, envoy to the Quartet Tony Blair said on Tuesday evening.Speaking to journalists at a joint press conference with the Palestinian minister for tourism, Khouloud Daibes, in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem,...

One last video for the eighth night

Happy Chanukah from the NBA Star...

"Humanitarian crisis" meme - since 1993

Did you ever get the feeling of déjà vu when reading news accounts about a "looming humanitarian crisis" in Gaza?You are not imagining it:November 17, 1993:...the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza continues to grow.December 6, 2000:...impoverishing families across The West Bank and Gaza Strip and risking a humanitarian crisis, according to international economists and aid workers...June 15, 2001:The United Nations has warned of a humanitarian crisis...

Bethlehem, 2007

Michael Gove in the Times (UK) mentions:There’s one invariable sign that Christmas is almost upon us – a story about how Bethlehem is suffering at the hands of wicked Israel. This year we’ve already had our first exercise in demonising Israel for its treatment of Bethlehem with the graffiti artist Banksy enjoying extensive coverage for his trip to decorate the security barrier near the town with his work. The message of Banksy’s work and the coverage...