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Monday, November 08, 2010

Invisible convoy arrives in Gaza

35 trucks of food and medicine arrived in Egypt's El Arish port today to be sent to Gaza. They include some 500 tons of food and refrigerated trucks with medicine. It was coordinated between the UAE's Red Crescent, Egypt, UNRWA and Palestinian Red Crescent in Gaza. No one is reporting this story. The reason? Because the purpose of this aid convoy is - surprise! - aid. It is not meant to be a political statement, it is not meant to demonize Israel,...

Iran tested advanced nuclear warhead design (updated x3)

UPDATE: Sorry, this article is from last year. Even so, as Zach points out in the comments...things are no better now. Additional updates at the end. From The Guardian: The UN's nuclear watchdog has asked Iran to explain evidence suggesting that Iranian scientists have experimented with an advanced nuclear warhead design, the Guardian has learned. The very existence of the technology, known as a "two-point implosion" device, is officially secret...

AP doesn't even try to find out the facts anymore... Former "Baywatch" star Pamela Anderson said Sunday she will try her powers of seduction while in Israel on an unlikely audience — ultra-Orthodox Jewish lawmakers. An anti-fur bill has been put on hold in Israel over concerns by ultra-Orthodox leaders that it could impact production of the characteristic fur hats worn by...

B'tselem's hypocrisy

From Israel Today, translated by NGO Monitor: Here is a quote from the “Bubbes and Zaydes for Peace” (BZP) website: "First launched in Toronto in 2005, ‘Israeli Apartheid Week’ has grown to become one of the most important global events in the Palestine solidarity calendar... This year, IAW occurs in the wake of Israel's barbaric assault against the people of Gaza. Lectures, films, and actions will make the point that these latest massacres further...

The fanatically anti-Israel Al Aqsa Foundation has, on its website, an article about the restoration of a minaret in Safed. According to the article, the minaret dates back a few hundred years and was in danger of collapse. Repairs cost some $25,000. Even though this same organization will accuse Israel of doing everything possible to erase Muslim heritage in "Palestine,"...

Hamas refuses any Gaza ceremony to memorialize Arafat

There have been a number of stories lately indicating that Hamas and Fatah are getting closer to a re-unification. These stories are cyclical - they pop up every few months and Palestinian Arabs get excited, then something goes wrong and they then start accusing the other side of collaborating with Israel, the worst insult they can muster. That is the reason I stopped covering those stories in my regular round-ups of the PalArabic...

Links to start off the day

Gaza's Surfer Girls (The Atlantic) (h/t t34zakat) IsraeliGirl/Giyus interview with Professor Eyal Zisser, an Israeli expert on Syria From Berlin gang to IDF spokesman (Ha'aretz, h/t Silke) From anti-Zionism to anti-semitism at University of Texas at Austin, see also this video (h/t Joel) and here. UNRWA and the code of silence (JPost) The Muqata on Rachel Corrie's propaganda trial Israel Matzav on Saeb Erekat's praise of a murder...

Palestinians, leftists caught burning a forest in the West Bank

From YNet: Six foreign nationals and Palestinians set fires alight near the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin in the Gush Etzion bloc. Police said the suspects were taken in for questioning on suspicion of arson and illegal congregation. Settlers said that at about 11 am they saw fires on lands they said belonged to Bat Ayin. Security sources said it was apparently land whose ownership is not regulated. Dov Mark, land supervisor for the Gush Etzion...

This rose bush is in front of Chez Elder, and I can assure you that the leaves are just as painful as they look. However, the bush seems to thrive as the temperature goes down. (This photo was also taken by my phone, and heavily cropped.) Google started keeping statistics for Blogger sites. The stats go back to July 2010. According to Google, the number of pageviews that...

The Virginity Capsule - now for sale

We have discussed the phenomenon of hymen restoration surgery for Muslim women to appear more like virgins for their wedding night, and how it is illegal in many Arab countries. But since it can save the lives of many women who might be murdered by their new husbands, the procedure is even covered by British national health insurance. But now, there is a cheaper method. According to Elaph.com, a capsule is being sold in Arab communities...

PA arrests atheist for his online activities

Palestine Press Agency reports that PA police arrested a man for his postings on Facebook and his blog. The man, who was not identified, was caught as he was at an Internet cafe in Qalqilya. In his Facebook postings, he supposedly claims to be God and he attacks other monotheistic religions, including Islam. He reproduced the Danish Mohammed cartoons and, according to the article, angered hundreds of thousands of people with his atheistic arguments....

Weekend Christian conference in DC hosts a would-be ethnic cleanser

The mission of the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation is to ensure "the continued presence and well-being of Arab Christians in the Holy Land and to developing the bonds of solidarity between them and Christians elsewhere." This is admirable. Christians are disappearing from the Middle East at an alarming rate (everywhere, in fact, except for Israel.) Unfortunately, the HCEF seems to be a bit fixated on supposed Israeli actions...

Gaza businessmen must be really stupid

From Ma'an: Nablus businessman Munib Al-Masri on Sunday toured industrial projects being carried out by the Palestine Development and Investment Company in the Gaza Strip. The West Bank multimillionaire told journalists Friday that after three years of waiting, his company decided to inaugurate a five-star hotel in the northern Gaza Strip. The hotel was completed in 2007, but its opening was delayed due to the dire conditions in the Strip. I guess...

Video of Israel's "Dancing with the Stars" same-sex couple

I mentioned it last week, so how can I not show it? Especially since it is a magnet for blog hits.... This is the first time that any incarnation of "Dancing with the Stars" has shown a same-sex dance team. And, come on - who is going to objec...

Did you ever received a parcel saying "fragile" but the sticker "this side up" was missing so you never knew how to handle the package carefully? This is how I feel towards Lebanon. How to approach Lebanons fragile state at this moment? Hezbollah is threatening, because of the Hariri Tribunal, which it wants to boycott amid unconfirmed reports that an impending indictment...