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Friday, May 24, 2013

Islamic Jihad says Fatah, Hamas unity meetings "a waste of time"

Ma'an reports: Talks between Fatah and Hamas on Tuesday and Wednesday accomplished little as the parties failed to reach any agreement, a top Islamic Jihad official said Thursday. Abu Imad al-Rifaei, the Islamist group's representative in a committee preparing for national elections, told Ma'an that the talks focused on the makeup of the Palestinian Legislative Council and the Palestinian National Council. But he said neither Fatah nor Hamas...

Lame Muslim hackers say they'll attack Israel again tomorrow

Their earlier video for "OpIsrael Reloaded" was even funnier: Hello World , Hello Human Rights Deffenders , Hello Israel .. We Are Anonymous . Israel ... This is an official message. The 7th day of april was an inforgettable day for you , all the world knew that we are the Power. you was afraid but you choosed to continue your violence , you promess to answer to our attacks and this was an insult for anonymous , but we gave you the time to...

Church of Scotland overwhelmingly approves anti-Israel report

From The Scotsman: THE General Assembly has ignored calls by Scottish Jews to rethink a controversial report on the Israel-Palestine situation. The Church and Society Council’s Inheritance of Abraham? A report on the Promised Land document prompted a storm of controversy around the world when it was first published. Although primarily about the treatment of Palestinian people by the Israeli government, it was interpreted by Jewish groups as questioning...

UN official: "Israeli-Palestinian conflict not less important than Syria crisis"

Nice to know that the UN has maintained its sense of proportion. A senior United Nations diplomat has warned the international community about the danger of focusing on the Syrian crisis at the expense of finding a resolution to Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Robert Serry, the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Process briefed the Security Council on Tuesday on the situation in the region. "Ending the conflict in Syria is a matter of great...

Why the Iranian regime pretends to care about Palestinian Arabs

Nice insight from Abdullah Al-Otaibi writing in Asharq al-Awsat: The stance of the Islamic Republic of Iran towards the Syrian crisis has exposed many slogans that it used to attract political Islamic movements, such as the Palestinian issue, or to attract some idiot Arab nationalists, such as the resistance. It was exposed to a number of Arab writers and intellectuals, but their voices were never heard and their ideas were faulted in a recognized...

Thursday Links Part 2

From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Who is Really Desecrating Holy Sites? Those who are now using the visits by Jews to initiate violence and incite violence against Israel and others are hoping that Arab and Islamic armies will launch a war against Israel over its "desecration" of the holy site. If anyone is desecrating the holy site, it is those who smuggle petrol bombs and stones into the compound to use them against visitors.London goes the way of Kabul Last...

Meanwhile, Iran expands its nuclear program

From AFP: Iran is making significant progress in expanding its nuclear program, including in opening up a potential second route to developing the bomb, a new U.N. atomic agency report showed Wednesday. The International Atomic Energy Agency’s latest quarterly update said Tehran had accelerated the installation of advanced uranium enrichment equipment at its central Natanz plant. It also outlined further progress at a reactor under construction...

American stabbed in Egypt exhibits breathtaking willful blindness

Sometimes you just have to shake your head.... Egyptian resentment toward US government policies may be justified – but this doesn't make Egypt a dangerous place for Americans, Christopher Stone, the American scholar stabbed outside the US embassy in Cairo earlier this month, told Ahram Online. His attacker, Mahmoud Badr, a 30-year-old man from the Nile Delta's Kafr El-Sheikh, told police that he had come to Cairo – motivated by hatred for the...

Thursday Links Part 1

From Ian: Prosor angered by UNRWA’s map of 'Arab Palestine' Since the photo opportunity in Lebanon on May 3, Prosor has pursued a campaign calling out Dismorr and UNRWA, starting off with a letter to US Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “Many in the international community doubt UNRWA’s impartiality and motives,” the letter reads. “Israel supports UNRWA’s important humanitarian work; however, actions that encourage incitement, conflict and, ultimately,...

Arab TV series inciting hate against Jews coming in July. Will anyone do anything to stop it?

Excitement is growing in the Arab world over the upcoming TV series Khaybar. While the series is ostensibly about the battle between Muslims and Jews in the city in 629 CE, the director and writer make it clear that the point of the film is to expose Jews and their evil plots. They explicitly say that they are drawing parallels between the Jews of Biblical times, the Jews of the Arabian peninsula in the seventh century and the Jews of Israel...

Will UNRWA schools officially teach terrorism in September?

UNRWA says: Schoolchildren in UNRWA schools follow the host authorities’ curricula and textbooks. UNRWA supplements these with its own materials on human rights. The Hamas ministry of education just announced that they will create a new curriculum in the coming school year. Junior high school students will be taught about the "legitimacy of resistance," which is the Hamas word for terrorism. Since Hamas is the effective host authority in Gaza,...

Yesterday I discussed the "Vulture Club" expose where some major journalists and human rights activists actively insult Israel in a private Facebook group. You can click the graphic at the right to see the entire anti-Israel thread there. The hate for Israel on the part of supposedly unbiased reporters and activists is palpable. Also yesterday I went into detail on...

Egypt pulls funding for dwindling Jewish community

An official in Egypt's Ministry of Social Affairs has stated that the small annual stipend that Egypt had been spending on the tiny Jewish community has been eliminated in the newest budget. Suad Makki, head of the Central Department for Financial and Administrative Affairs, told a meeting of the Commission on Human Rights of the Shura Council that the Egyptian government had been paying some $14,000 to the Jewish community almost every year since...

Arab review of Bibi's book: "As dangerous as Mein Kampf"

I am not sure why a Yemen newspaper decided to review Binyamin Netanyahu's 2000 book, A Durable Peace: Israel and its Place Among the Nations, but the review is most revealing. The reviewer says that the book is filled with "lies and slander as well as hatred and contempt for all that is Arab." This book does not less dangerous than the book Mein Kampf, Hitler's book, or The Jewish State by Herzl ... Netanyahu in this book turns historical...

Wednesday Links Part 2

From Ian: Throw Away That Rusty Key Palestinians are not "red indians" and Israelis are not colonialists. Quite the opposite. We Jews of the Middle East and North Africa are indigenous—predating Islam in Palestine, and the region, by 1,000 years. Israel is not only the "largest and most successful refugee camp" in the region, but the authentic expression of a native Middle Eastern people. Both sets of refugees suffered, with one glaring difference:...