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Monday, October 04, 2010Elder of Ziyon
Monday, October 04, 2010Elder of Ziyon
Monday, October 04, 2010Elder of Ziyon
Monday, October 04, 2010Elder of ZiyonFor those of you who might think that this site’s comments verge on the anti-semitic, please look at http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/ or any of the blog links posted on it. For virulent pro-Zionism (and plain straightforward lies of course) there is nothing much to beat it.
Monday, October 04, 2010Elder of ZiyonThe Palestinian Authority Ministry of National Economy, charged with implementing the boycott of settlement-made goods, announced Tuesday it will be launching a boycott campaign against an Israeli chain of superstores, a statement read.
The ministry said the Rami Levi Shivok Hashikma chain, which has "spread like cancer" following the opening of new stores in Ramallah, Hebron and Bethlehem.
Distributors and promoters of Rami Levi products will be prosecuted for adverting or selling their goods in the West Bank, and consumers are encouraged to opt for locally made produce instead, which the ministry said is often "thrown and damaged at checkpoints" instead of being sold in the Israeli market.
The ministry further said it is working to form a "solid shield" to protect the Palestinian market and vowed to support locally-made goods.
The chain helps the destruction of the Palestinian economy, the ministry said, adding that it was working to break Israel's monopoly on the market and clear it of settlement-made produce.
According to the Rami Levi website, many of its 15 stores are located in East Jerusalem and West Bank settlements. It also has a number of sister companies, including a clothes store, real estate development, and a wholesale distributor.
"As a wholesale distributor, the company services 450 sales locations in Jerusalem and its surrounding area. The company employs around 1,000 employees and enjoys a constant, continuous growth," the website states.
The President of the Palestinian Society for Consumer Protection Azmi Shyoukhi said that the fact that the Rami Levy markets have had to bring Israeli security guards at the entrances and the area around the stores symbolizes a retreat on their economic plans and the failure of the store to break into Palestinian markets.
Monday, October 04, 2010Elder of ZiyonTwo escaped prisoners who had arrived in the Norwegian custody in southern Lebanon would not be left to their own fate, decided then Colonel Hagrup Haukland, chief of NORBATT, the Norwegian battalion in South Lebanon. That fate probably meant that they would again be taken prisoner, tortured and possibly killed in the Mossad-controlled Khiam prison in southern Lebanon.At the time, the two escapees " declined to talk about any guerrilla activity they had been engaged in before their capture." But they clearly didn't deny it.
Therefore, the two Lebanese fled in September 1992 dressed up in Norwegian uniform jackets and UN helmets, placed in a Norwegian armored vehicles and raced past Israeli soldiers and Lebanese militiamen who hunted them out of the Israeli occupied territory. It all happened in the deepest secrecy. Norwegian authorities did not know what had happened, and the management of the UN force in Lebanon, UNIFIL, was not informed before the operation had come so far that it had to be carried out.
The two Lebanese who had suffered through abuse and deplorable conditions in the Khiam prison told of her unique escape from the notorious prison at a press conference in the Lebanese capital of Beirut the next day, but they kept quiet about the help they had received from the Norwegian soldiers. That side of the story that has been kept secret by everyone who was involved for 18 years is now revealed in the NRK journalist Odd Karsten Tveit's new book "Goodbye Lebanon - Israel's first defeat." Tveit had received tips about the case, but until Haukland even gave the green light, he was kept quiet about what happened.
...The Norwegian soldiers put in place a bold plan to get the two escaped prisoners out of the area that was under Israeli occupation. Colonel Haukland wanted them away as quickly as possible, fearing that if the Israelis got wind that the Norwegians had come across the two Lebanese who were displaced, it could cause a very difficult situation. As Tveit writes in the book, Brigadier General Moshe Tamir appeared in the entrance to the camp (days later) and accused them directly, "You hid terrorists."
"They must escape, and quickly," said Haukland to his officers, according to the book. The Norwegian battalion commander was aware that if the smuggling was discovered, he would be sent home. It could also forcing Norway to withdraw from UNIFIL, which the Israelis had wanted for a long time.
The international UNIFIL management learned of the smuggling operation in the final phase - when Haukland and his men needed help to arrange the handover.
The Turkish political adviser who was contacted, first became irritated and felt the Norwegians should "turn your head, look the other way and let the prisoners take care of itselfthemselves."
- You Norwegians always have to be so good, he said, according to those who talked with him at the time.
But he also realized that the operation had gone too far and agreed to arrange the handover. The incident was never officially reported.
Sunday, October 03, 2010Elder of ZiyonIn Gaza, a French broadcast crew captured footage of a boy called Mohammed al-Durrah being shot repeatedly by Israeli forces as he clung to his father. Moments later, a paramedic from the Palestinian Red Crescent Society was killed as he attempted to treat the boy and his father.Not only was the al-Dura story exposed as a hoax, and the the paramedic story seems to have been completely made up - no such person was seen on any of the footage. (B'Tselem claims an ambulance driver was killed en route to the al-Duras, but not while attempting to treat them.)
By the end of the year, at least 275 Palestinians had been killed and thousands had been wounded, along with 19 members of the Israeli security forces and five Israeli civilians, according to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem.B'Tselem does list 19 Israeli security personnel killed. It also lists 22 civilians killed, not five. Most of the were civilians were shot with live ammunition, stabbed, blown up or burnt to death (not from stone throwing, as al Jazeera would have you believe.)
Palestinian stone-throwers were met with Israeli snipers; gunmen, with helicopter gunships and tanks. What began as a popular protest movement quickly began to look like a war.
By the end of 2003, the intifada began to wane, and Israelis were moving toward a territorial withdrawal for the first time in the history of Zionism.Um, what about the Sinai? What about Southern Lebanon? What about Area A?
From the announcement of the disengagement from Gaza in early 2004, Hamas attacks all but ceased - only one of Hamas' 38 suicide attacks occurred in 2004.I guess thousands of rockets aimed at civilians aren't considered "attacks" by Al Jazeera.
Sunday, October 03, 2010Elder of Ziyon
Elephants in the room, impossible peace, intransigence
Sunday, October 03, 2010Elder of ZiyonKuwaiti newspaper al-Anbaa quoted diplomatic sources as saying that Ahmadinejad’s scheduled visit to Lebanon around mid-October was brought up during the recent summit with Assad in Damascus.I couldn't find the original article in al-Anbaa, but I did find that it reported that Iran's Revolutionary Guards were already in Lebanon, preparing to provide security for the visit.
The sources said Assad asked Ahmadinejad why he wanted to visit Lebanon .The Iranian President has reportedly told Assad that the visit was “significant due to the strategic importance of the southern Lebanon .”
Ahmadinejad has also reportedly told Assad, according to the sources, that he viewed the entire area of southern Lebanon as Iran’s border with Israel.
At this point, the sources said, Assad advised that Ahmadinejad’s visit should not take place at this time.
Assad, however, also hoped in the event Ahmadinejad went ahead of his visit to tone down his statements during during his visit since Lebanon’s security was very important to Syria’s security interests.
Al-Anbaa said that Ahmadinejad promised Assad at the end of their meeting to “seriously consider” the Syrian president’s recommendations.
Sunday, October 03, 2010Elder of ZiyonArab world’s most prominent space scientist working in NASA believes in supernatural creatures, but admits he has no evidence to prove [it] except for his faith in the Quran.Even if he believes in jinn and ghouls, isn't it the height of stupidity to say so publicly? Does he think that his Arab scientific colleagues will benefit when their co-workers read this article and start wondering about them too?
Dr Farouq al-Baz, who worked 43 years in NASA, told Alarabiya.net that he was sure that the ghouls, Jinns and demons live among us and said that he came to the conclusion through his scientific predisposition meshed with his complete believe in Quran verses signifying their existence.
Quran denotes to Jinn as creatures created from fire, while humans are created from mud.
Sunday, October 03, 2010Elder of ZiyonNIHAD ALAEDDIN was once one of the great sirens of Syrian cinema. Working under the stage name Igraa, or Seduction, she embodied the openness and liberalism that reigned in the Arab world during the 1960s and ’70s, performing the region’s first cinematic nude scene and flippantly telling journalists that “we have to bring sex to the cinema because our audience is frustrated.”He would have her stoned to death for her life decisions, and she would die for him.
Now, after 15 years of self-imposed seclusion, she has returned as a ferocious critic of the Islamist wave sweeping the Middle East, and her courage has drawn the admiration of a younger and more constrained generation of actors and filmmakers.
...Igraa said she was a great admirer of Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Shiite militant group Hezbollah. She does not share his Islamist principles, but admires his honesty. “If he asked me to sacrifice my blood, I would,” she said.
Sunday, October 03, 2010Elder of ZiyonThe Obama administration is pressing Syria to resume long–stalled peace talks with Israel as part of its push for broad settlement between Arab countries and the Jewish state.Including two weeks ago.
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton met on Monday in New York with Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al–Moallem to make the case for negotiations. The State Department said Clinton was the first secretary of state to meet Syria's top diplomat in three years, although special Mideast envoy George Mitchell has made several visits to Syria in the past year.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad held a meeting with Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in Tehran on Saturday.The US begs Syria for a bone, Syria slaps America in the face about as publicly as humanly possible - and no one says a word.
During the meeting, Ayatollah Khamenei told Assad that the United States’ efforts to undermine the resistance movement in the Middle East region will not bear fruit.
The Leader praised Syria for its strength and forbearance in the face of external pressure and called for the expansion of ties between Tehran and Damascus.
There are no two other countries in the region with such strong bilateral relations, and efforts should be made to make the best use of this 30-year-old experience, he stated.
The Syrian president said that Iran-Syria relations serve as a model for other regional countries, adding that Damascus will continue to increase its cooperation with Tehran.
Earlier in the day, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad awarded Iran's highest national medal, the Grand National Order of the Islamic Republic of Iran, to the Syrian president for his support of the Palestinian and Lebanese nations.
This medal is a sign of Iran’s profound gratitude to the Syrian government and nation for their serious efforts to establish peace in the region, Ahmadinejad said during a ceremony held at the Foreign Ministry.
If it were not for Syria's resistance, no country in the region would have been unaffected by the Zionist regime’s aggression, the Iranian president added.
Following the ceremony, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Muallem signed a memorandum of understanding for the establishment of an Iran-Syria free trade zone.
Iranian Industries and Mines Minister Ali-Akbar Mehrabian and the Syrian foreign minister also signed an MOU on increasing bilateral industrial relations.
Saturday, October 02, 2010Elder of ZiyonControversy sells — and in Brooklyn Heights, it’s also good for the skin.Besides the beauty of the boycotters ending up promoting business for Ahava, you gotta love that a Brooklyn paper refers to Manhattan as "a neighboring city."
Local Jewish leaders and anti-Israel protesters faced off on Montague Street — again — on Tuesday, holding a raucous debate over whether West Bank-made lotions sold at Ricky’s cosmetics shop support Israel’s “illegal” occupation of the embattled region.
In the end, the boycott supporters ended up actually promoting the Ahava products, as Heights residents flocked to Ricky’s with their wallets open.
Ricky’s employees said that they sell out of Ahava products every time there is a protest — and there have been others in Manhattan, a neighboring city.
Saturday, October 02, 2010Elder of ZiyonThen there is the allusion to myrtus — which may be telling, or may be a red herring.To be precise, Myrtus=Myrtle=Haddassah, which was the Hebrew name of Esther.
Several of the teams of computer security researchers who have been dissecting the software found a text string that suggests that the attackers named their project Myrtus. The guava fruit is part of the Myrtus family, and one of the code modules is identified as Guava.
It was Mr. Langner who first noted that Myrtus is an allusion to the Hebrew word for Esther. The Book of Esther tells the story of a Persian plot against the Jews, who attacked their enemies pre-emptively.
“If you read the Bible you can make a guess,” said Mr. Langner, in a telephone interview from Germany on Wednesday.
There are many reasons to suspect Israel’s involvement in Stuxnet. Intelligence is the single largest section of its military and the unit devoted to signal, electronic and computer network intelligence, known as Unit 8200, is the largest group within intelligence.
Yossi Melman, who covers intelligence for the newspaper Haaretz and is at work on a book about Israeli intelligence over the past decade, said in a telephone interview that he suspected that Israel was involved.
He noted that Meir Dagan, head of Mossad, had his term extended last year partly because he was said to be involved in important projects. He added that in the past year Israeli estimates of when Iran will have a nuclear weapon had been extended to 2014.
“They seem to know something, that they have more time than originally thought,” he said.
...something — perhaps the worm or some other form of sabotage, bad parts or a dearth of skilled technicians — is indeed slowing Iran’s advance.
The reports on Iran show a fairly steady drop in the number of centrifuges used to enrich uranium at the main Natanz plant. After reaching a peak of 4,920 machines in May 2009, the numbers declined to 3,772 centrifuges this past August, the most recent reporting period. That is a decline of 23 percent. (At the same time, production of low-enriched uranium has remained fairly constant, indicating the Iranians have learned how to make better use of fewer working machines.)
Computer experts say the first versions of the worm appeared as early as 2009 and that the sophisticated version contained an internal time stamp from January of this year.
Personally I'd be surprised if a crack team of Israeli software engineers were so sloppy that they relied on outdated rootkit technology (e.g. hooking the Nt*() calls used by Kernel32.LoadLibrary() and using UPX to pack code). Most of the Israeli developers I've met are pretty sharp. Just ask Erez Metula.
http://www.blackhat.com/presentations/bh-usa-09/METULA/BHUSA09-Metula-ManagedCodeRootkits-PAPER.pdf
It may be that the "myrtus" string from the recovered Stuxnet file path "b:\myrtus\src\objfre_w2k_x86\i386\guava.pdb" stands for "My-RTUs"
as in Remote Terminal Unit. See the following white paper from Motorola, it examines RTUs and PICs in SCADA systems.
http://www.motorola.com/web/Business/Products/SCADA%20Products/_Documents/Static%20Files/SCADA_Sys_Wht_Ppr-2a_New.pdfBut, as the NYT article mentions, there is a psychological component to cyberwar, and a clue like Myrtus would play into already existing Iranian paranoia.
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