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Wednesday, July 02, 2014

07/02 Links Pt1: Kidnapping roundup, Op Ed's, Reactions and Media Malpractice

From Ian: Where do we go from here? Shortly after the bodies were found, a Hamas spokesman said that any Israeli action over deaths of the three teens would "open the gates of hell." No, the gates of hell were opened when you decided to mercilessly slaughter three of our children. Israel will however be the one to close the gates on you. Now, I can’t help but ask: Was the murder of these three boys also the death of peace, or whatever shreds of hope...

The cultural roots of violence in the Middle East - nothing to do with "statelessness"

Yesterday I showed what an idiot Juan Cole was for claiming that "statelessness" is the driving factor behind terrorism (and, therefore, Israel becomes responsible for every terror attack against it.) To see some real analysis, this article by a PhD candidate published in Now Lebanon highlights once again the difference between a real academic and a fraud like Cole: The Middle East has developed its own identity-based hierarchal order through...

From Khaled Abu Toameh in JPost: In a move that could lead to the collapse of the Hamas-Fatah reconciliation agreement, the Palestinian “national consensus” government on Tuesday ordered Palestinian Authority civil servants in the Gaza Strip to return to their workplaces. Some 70,000 PA civil servants were left jobless after Hamas seized full control of the Gaza Strip in...

We mentioned the implicit moral equivalence by Jodi Rudoren in the New York Times between the (then) kidnapping of Naftali Frankel, a boy who was simply trying to get home, and the IDF killing rock-throwing teen combatant Mohammed Dudeen, who sneaked out of his house just to attack Israeli soldiers. Rudoren denied that she was making any moral equivalence, but the article...

07/01 Links Pt2: What Happened at Lydda; How Abbas Duped Kerry and Indyk

From Ian: What Happened at Lydda In his celebrated new book, Ari Shavit claims that “Zionism” committed a massacre in July 1948. Can the claim withstand scrutiny? Others have found Shavit’s account of Lydda “riveting” (Avi Shlaim), “a sickening tour de force” (Leon Wieseltier), and “brutally honest” (Thomas Friedman). As I read through it, however, the alleged actions and attitudes of Shavit’s Israeli protagonists struck me as implausible. To me...

Even as the nation mourns, Israel is planning to improve the lives of Arabs living in Jerusalem. From Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs: The Cabinet, at its weekly meeting today (Sunday, 29 June 2014), approved Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's plan for the socio-economic development of Jerusalem. This is the first time that a comprehensive socio-economic development...

We've looked before at sixth-rate "academic" Juan Cole before. We've shown him to be a liar a number of times. He twists statistics, and sometimes he just makes them up. He compared an Islamist dictator to Thomas Jefferson. Once, because he was apparently so sick of how many times I showed him to be a lying piece of garbage, he even (falsely) accused me of inspiring a mass...

07/01 Links Pt1: Tens of thousands stream to cemetery for burial of three teens

From Ian: Live Blog: Tens of thousands stream to cemetery for burial of three teens Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon vows the Israeli security forces “will not rest” until the operatives behind the deaths of the teenagers are brought to justice. Speaking at the funeral for Eyal Yifrach, 19, in Elad, the defense minister says the teenagers “were kidnapped and murdered just because they were Jews.” “The grief and agony that envelops you since receiving...

Ammon News reported yesterday: Groups of Jewish settlers on Monday raided the al-Aqsa Mosque’s compound through the Al-Magarbah Gate, under the protection of Israeli soldiers. The settlers stormed the compound and carried out provocative tours inside the compound grounds. The intrusion angered the Palestinian worshippers and the mosque's guards who stay inside the mosque,...

The Qawasameh family, which includes suspected kidnapper Marwan Qawasameh, has a long tradition of terror: Notable Qawasameh Hamas members: Mahmud Amaran Qawasameh (suicide bomber in Haifa bus 37, dead) Hazem Qawasameh (committed shooting attack in Kiryat Arba, dead) Fuad Qawasameh (suicide bomber in Gross square in Hebron, dead) Hamza Qawasameh (killed Netanel Uzari,...

We've looked before at the Euro-Mid Observer, a Geneva-based organization that has no compunction about lying about Israel in order to push its agenda. We've seen that one of its members openly celebrated a Hamas murderer. We've seen them write a report blaming Israel for Gaza men beating their wives. In the same report, they falsely claim that Israel limits medical equipment...

IDF wishes Muslims worldwide a happy Ramadan

The IDF Arabic spokesperson, Avichai Adraee, has posted a YouTube message wishing Muslims a happy and blessed Ramadan, saying that true religion rejects terrorism. Nearly 10,000 people watched it in one day. Adraee has nearly 100,000 followers on Twitter and his Facebook page has over 430,000 "Likes." (Sorry, not translated) One Arabic newspaper marveled at the message, and while saying it is clearly propaganda it asked if there are any Muslim...

Why Hamas denies the kidnappings

Hamas continues to deny that they were behind the kidnappings and murders of Eyal, Gil-ad and Naftali: A Hamas spokesman denied responsibility Monday evening for the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli teenagers, threatening to “open the gates of hell” against Israel if it launched an attack against the Gaza Strip. “The story of the disappearance and killing of the three...

06/30 Links Pt2: International leaders condemn murder of kidnapped teens

From Ian: International leaders condemn murder of kidnapped teens Politicians and leaders throughout the world fiercely condemned Monday the murder of three Israeli teenagers, Eyal Yifrach, Naftali Fraenkel and Gil-ad Shaar, whose bodies were found several hours earlier near the Palestinian village of Halhul, north of Hebron. The three had been abducted on June 12 while they were hitchhiking from a bus stop in the Etzion Bloc in the West Bank. “We...

Will the US react to the murder of an American by Hamas? Oh, please!

I see some tweets wondering whether the White House will react strongly to the murder of an American citizen by Hamas. You gotta be kidding. The US treated a case where three Americans were killed in a diplomatic convoy in Gaza with kid gloves! Back in 2003: A powerful remote-controlled bomb detonated beneath an American diplomatic convoy in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, killing three American security specialists assigned to the American Embassy...