Thursday, August 29, 2013
From City AM:
The Syrian parliament appears to have dropped a reference to Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" in a letter to UK MPs.
In the second paragraph of a document obtained by Sky News, Mohammad Jihad al-Laham, speaker of the people's assembly of Syria, writes:
We write to you as fathers and mothers, as members of families and communities really not so different to yours. We write to you as fellow human beings for, if you bomb us,...
- Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Ian
From Ian:
TIME: Obama Can Strike Syria Unilaterally
Obama wrote congressional leaders two days after the war against Libya began in March 2011, saying U.S. military action was needed “to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and address the threat posed to international peace and security by the crisis in Libya.” The U.S. strikes, he said, would be “limited in their nature, duration and scope” before the U.S. handed off command of the operation to NATO.
Actually,...
- Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
- propaganda
From Ma'an:
The director of education in Jerusalem has urged families with schoolchildren in Jerusalem to be aware that at least five Palestinian schools are switching to Israeli education materials.
Sameer Jibril said the Ebin Rushd and Abdulla bin Hussain schools were using Israeli education materials in the seventh and eighth grades. The Sour Baher school is using them...
- Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
- Al Tagheer, conspiracy theories, Jews control the world
A writer at Al Tagheer was evidently perusing anti-semitic websites in search for material when he stumbled onto an amazing find: Israel controls the weather, and regularly attacks the US with hurricanes!
While his version seems to be somewhat embellished, I found a conspiracy site that describes this theory in English so you can get the basics:
First of all, we need to establish, without ANY REASONABLE DOUBT – the very basic, foundational premise...
- Thursday, August 29, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
In the coverage I've seen on the Israel-haters taking out a lying ad on Vancouver mass transit, the reaction of the organized Jewish community has been to ban the ads based on, pretty much, antisemitism:
Jewish leaders including Mitchell Gropper, chair of the Jewish Federation of Greater Vancouver, called the ads a provocative attack on Jewish people that will incite hatred. "This is of grave concern to our community at large, because the ads make...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
- South Africa
I mentioned a few weeks ago that a concert by the Daniel Zamir Quartet was coming to Wits University in South Africa in order to make up for the concert by Yossi Reshef last March that was cut short by obnoxious protesters who crashed into the show.
The haters, of course, were going crazy that an Israeli jazz group would be playing. The sponsors, including the South Africa...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
A rumor was started (apparently on Facebook) that this video shows IDF soldiers dancing at a wedding near Hebron with Palestinian Arabs:
In fact, the YouTube caption says that this was a Druze wedding inside the Green Line. The Druze, of course, join the IDF so these may have been Jewish or Druze soldiers. (It doesn't appear to be a Muslim wedding at all.)
But the rumors are out there that this was a Palestinian Arab event, with comments...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Ian
8/28 Links Pt2: PA Violates Oslo Accords, PA Lying About Cancelled Talks, Raising Nemo in the Desert
From Ian:
Khaled Abu Toameh: The Palestinian Authority's "Israeli Affairs Committee"
Instead of preparing Palestinians for peace with Israel, the Palestinian Authority leadership has decided to focus its efforts on winning the support of the Israeli public for a peaceful settlement based on the two-state solution.
In the context of its efforts to "convince" Israelis to accept the two-state solution, the Palestinian Authority recently established...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
- the map that lies
From The Province:
Jewish groups in Vancouver say they are considering suing Trans-Link for accepting controversial political advertisements showing the "disappearance of Palestine due to Israeli occupation over the past 66 years."
On Tuesday, a group called the Palestine Awareness Coalition announced the launch of 15 bus posters and a large mural in a central Vancouver...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Ian
From Ian:
‘A pity they both can’t lose’
The US is in a similar situation. It needs to rush, while the outrage over Assad’s alleged chemical attack remains fresh, but it needs time to assemble itself. Once the obligatory moves to the UN have been made and the machinery of war is in place, the US should offer Bashar Assad an ultimatum. It could even be sugar-coated. Everyone detests the usage of chemical weapons, President Barack Obama could say....
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
A couple of days ago, Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh had a fantastic idea to graphically explain the Middle East:
I loved the idea but wasn't happy with the execution. I thought maybe I could make it easier to follow, streamlined and even add more detail. I admire good graphic design and it seemed like it was do-able.
Well, I don't think I succeeded in making it simpler.
Adding...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
Ma'an, whose English edition pretends to adhere to basic journalistic standards, writes:
Jews visiting Mount on Monday
Settlers escorted into Aqsa mosque compound
JERUSALEM (Ma’an) – Dozens of Israeli rightists broke into al-Aqsa Mosque compound through the Old City’s Moroccan Gate Wednesday morning heavily escorted with Israeli police officers, Palestinian officials...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
Palestine Press Agency reports that Hamas arrested five members of the Abu Ali Mustafa Brigades, the armed wing of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, after they fired mortar shells at Israeli communities adjacent to the Gaza Strip.
Sources told the agency that Hamas security arrested a number of PFLP members in northern Gaza in their homes after they fired shells to commemorate the twelfth anniversary of "martyrdom" of Abu Ali Mustafa,...
- Wednesday, August 28, 2013
- Elder of Ziyon
Adam Kredo at the Washington Free Beacon has followed up on my scoops from this year and last about how Pepsi's Gaza bottler is using the Pepsi name and logo to sponsor Hamas-approved soccer games and to make anti-Israel political statements in Pepsi's name.
Excerpts:
A controversy is brewing in the Gaza Strip over the Pepsi Company’s controversial ties to Palestinian sports...
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