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Wednesday, December 07, 2011

Stunning academic study: Reuters engages in anti-Israel propaganda

From PRWeb: Roosevelt University academic study documents systematic use of propaganda by world's largest news agency. A study published in the November/December issue of the Journal of Applied Business Research finds that Reuters coverage of the Middle East conflict is systematically tainted by propaganda and influences readers to side with the Palestinians and Arab states against the Israelis. Researcher Henry Silverman of Roosevelt University...

Reuters vs. the truth

Reuters has an article implying that Israel is a reckless ally, prone to doing dangerous acts without informing the US ahead of time: The Obama administration does not know Israel's intentions regarding potential military action against Iran, and the uncertainty is stoking concern in Washington, where the preferred course for now is sanctions and diplomatic pressure. Although Israel remains one of the United States' closest allies and the two...

From Al Masry al Youm: Horrific accounts of torture, rape and organ theft are continuing to emerge from Egypt’s Sinai desert, seven rights organizations said last week in a press statement. Human trafficking networks operating in northern Sinai detain migrants and hold them in what the rights organizations describe as “torture camps” until relatives pay a ransom. The statement...

Max Blumenthal fabricates a quote (updated)

I had been reading on Twitter that an article by rabid Israel hater and serial liar Max Blumenthal contained a blockbuster quote that could not be verified - and now Jeffrey Goldberg has proven it: A couple of Goldblog readers alerted me to a Max Blumenthal story in which Karen Greenberg, the director of the Fordham School of Law's Center on National Security, is quoted accusing Israel of teaching American interrogators the dark art of torture: "After...

PA stops cancer patients from being treated in Israel

From PCHR: The Ministry of Health in Ramallah issued a decision decreasing transfers of patients to Israeli hospitals starting from 02 November 2011, and the Department of External Treatment in Gaza has been committed to this decision. The decision is attributed, according to sources of the Ministry, to the high costs of treatment in Israeli hospitals. These sources pointed out that this decision had been studied and discussed in the Ministry...

From Bikya Masr: An Islamic cleric residing in Europe said that women should not be close to bananas or cucumbers, in order to avoid any “sexual thoughts.” The unnamed sheikh, who was featured in an article on el-Senousa news, was quoted saying that if women wish to eat these food items, a third party, preferably a male related to them such as their a father or husband,...

From YNet: Israeli aircraft attacked terror cells in two separate locations in north Gaza overnight Wednesday. Palestinian sources said one of the cells, which belonged to Islamic Jihad's armed wing, was holed up in a building in Gaza City's Zeitun neighborhood, not far from the border fence separating Israel from the Hamas-ruled territory. According to the sources, one...

Assad: The buck stops...elsewhere

This morning, ABC will air an exclusive interview with Bashir Assad. Syria allowed Barbara Walters to interview the dictator. Why Walters? Because she already has a Vogue-ish track record. And she is the go-to interviewer to help celebrities rehabilitate their reputations, since she will never embarrass her guests. For example, in March, Walters gushed about how great the Assads are on her TV show The View: According to YNet, in this interview...

From Eric Trager at TNR: At one of my polling place visits, a van full of women that had been brought to vote for Nour called me over to extol the Nour Party’s virtues. “They are good people and serve the community,” said Nour al-Hoda Desouki, excitedly holding a Nour party sample ballot. “We are a conservative people but we’ll talk to you.” But her good deed couldn’t go...

Palestine Today reports that car dealers in Gaza are suffering - because they have too many cars available. Between the dozens of cars that enter via Kerem Shalom each week and the cars that arrive through the smuggling tunnels, the profit margins are plummeting. In some cases they have had to reduce car prices by as much as $8000. Car dealers are also complaining that the...

100 years ago: Zionist Jews help injured Muslim soldiers in Tripoli

The Italo-Turkish war was fought from September 1911 through October 1912 in what is now Libya. The American Jewish Yearbook roundup of the year's events has a number of entries that shows that the Jews of Palestine solidly supported the Ottoman war effort. October 15, 1911: The Anglo-Palestine Bank is the forerunner of the current Bank Leumi. November 11 and 13: December...

Swedish public radio's correspondent in the Middle East, Cecilia Uddén, did some heavy-hitting investigative journalism to get to the bottom of what the newsly powerful Salafists in Egypt think. She spoke to one of their female spokespersons, Sarry Gamal Ahmed. Ahmed complained that the West only concentrates on Islamic punishments like cutting off hands for theft. She...

Robinson's Arch A couple of weeks ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority announced an astonishing find of coins underneath the paved street near Robinson's Arch that showed that parts of the western supporting walls of the Temple Mount has been built after Herod's death. I noted at the time that the Palestinian Arabic press was saying that this was somehow proof that there...

Chanukah Rock of Ages (Aish video)

A funny Aish Chanukah video...too good to wait: (h/t Yerushalime...

"Jihad is the Way" - Muslim Brotherhood manifesto translated

Palestinian Media Watch has translated part of "Jihad is the Way," written by Mustafa Mashhur, who was the official leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt 1996-2002. Here are some of their selected quotes: Muslim Brotherhood goal: Islamic world domination - "...the Islamic Ummah [nation]... can regain its power and be liberated and assume its rightful position which was intended by Allah, as the most exalted nation among men,...

From PJMedia: How to Eliminate Israel, a book written by a group seminarians in the city of Qom, was being promoted at the 13th book fair held in the north eastern Province of Khorasan Province, last week. In an interview with RASA News, Hojjat ol’Eslam Mohammad Ebrahim-Nia, who headed up the team of writers, said: “How to Eliminate Israel won the Book of the Year award...

Even though Hamas' military threats against Israel are an every day occurrence, too many so-called Middle East experts pretend that it doesn't exist - or even that Hamas accepts Israel's existence - so I have to document it in English. The latest comes once again from Hamas Gaza leader Mahmoud Zahar, who spoke at a conference on "defending Jerusalem" from Zionists yesterday. Zahar...

Leader of Tunisia's Islamist party pretends to be moderate in DC

Rachid Ghannouchi, the leader of Tunisian Islamist Ennahda party, came to Washington last week to push the idea that his Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated group is moderate. Palestine Press Agency quotes him at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy as saying that he will not include any anti-Zionist statements in the new constitution and that he disagrees with the language of Iranian ayatollahs describing the US as "the devil." He also said...

From AFP: An Al-Qaeda-inspired group has denied claiming responsibility for a recent rocket attack from southern Lebanon against Israel, instead blaming a group linked to Hezbollah, a US monitoring group said Monday. In a statement issued on jihadist forums, the Brigades of Abdullah Azzam said the Nov. 29 attack should be seen as a warning to the West and Israel from embattled...

Danny Ayalon's speech at Bet El Dinner

I took video of Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon's keynote speech at the Bet El dinner where I had interviewed him on Sunday night. Ayalon is not known as a religious person, but he evidently knows his audience, because his speech was chock full of Torah references to the and religious justifications for the State of Israel to remain in the Land of Israel. In other words, people who already hate him for his political views will have...