Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Elder of Ziyon
Continuing the series...
I couldn't think of a sarcastic tagline that would be better than just showing the photos straight (with URLs so people can see for themselves.)
US: Trialing novel Mine clearing system.
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Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Tuesday, January 04, 2011
Elder of Ziyon
The Al Aqsa Foundation (the same one that just freaked out over the iKotel iPhone app) is upset that Israel is spending "millions of dollars" to Judaize the site of Samuel's Tomb which, they say, is a mosque.
Just FYI: Samuel is not mentioned once in the Quran (although he is implied in 2:247-8.)
Long-time readers may remember my visit to the site four years ago - right after it was vandalized, and holy objects stolen, by Arabs. So let's hope that part of this money will go towards security.
But I suppose they weren't trying to vandalize it - just to "de-Judaize" it.
Just FYI: Samuel is not mentioned once in the Quran (although he is implied in 2:247-8.)
Long-time readers may remember my visit to the site four years ago - right after it was vandalized, and holy objects stolen, by Arabs. So let's hope that part of this money will go towards security.
But I suppose they weren't trying to vandalize it - just to "de-Judaize" it.
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
Prominent sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, one of the most popular religious figures in Sunni Islam, has issued a scathing attack the PLO for not being radical enough.
He criticized them for cooperating with the Zionist entity, and demanded that they return to "resistance" (i.e., terrorism, since they already claim to be doing non-violent resistance.)
He stressed that security coordination with Israel implies that Jews have a right to at least some of Palestine, which is completely unacceptable.
Qaradawi, who has some 40 million people viewing his al Jazeera TV show, also said these words that show in yet another way why the peace process could never work:
"Palestine does not belong to the Palestinians to do as they like but for [it belongs to] the entire Arab and Islamic nation."
Which means that even if Abbas and his henchmen manage to compromise and come to terms with Israel, the Arab world has effective veto power - certainly those who follow Qaradawi.
He criticized them for cooperating with the Zionist entity, and demanded that they return to "resistance" (i.e., terrorism, since they already claim to be doing non-violent resistance.)
He stressed that security coordination with Israel implies that Jews have a right to at least some of Palestine, which is completely unacceptable.
Qaradawi, who has some 40 million people viewing his al Jazeera TV show, also said these words that show in yet another way why the peace process could never work:
"Palestine does not belong to the Palestinians to do as they like but for [it belongs to] the entire Arab and Islamic nation."
Which means that even if Abbas and his henchmen manage to compromise and come to terms with Israel, the Arab world has effective veto power - certainly those who follow Qaradawi.
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
Poster
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
Physicians for Human Rights wrote a paper in 1989 to try to make tear gas sound as dangerous as possible. Here's the main point of the paper concerning CS, which is the type used by the IDF and Israeli police.
After discussing how CS could be potentially lethal if used indoors, the paper says:
So for it to be lethal for a normal adult, there would have to be exposure for a full minute at concentrations that are ten to thirty times higher than is physically possible outdoors. I don't know how long CS takes to disperse, but certainly the highest concentrations of up to 5000 mg/m3 would not last for more than a few seconds.
The studies done of people who have been seriously injured from CS all show that they were indoors at the time, and had prolonged exposure - far more than a few seconds - and they could not leave the room.
I cannot find any case of someone succumbing quickly (within a day) to any level of exposure to CS.
In 1989, some human rights groups charged that Israeli use of tear gas - the more dangerous CN gas at the time - was responsible for increases in miscarriages and even 400 deaths. A US government GAO study found the claims to be baseless.
So this is nothing new.
UPDATE: Some blogs are saying "The U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine warns that at a concentration of 2mg per cubic meter, CS gas “is immediately dangerous to life…”
The document does say that - and it is a typo.
The document cached here says that for CS,
LCt50 = 61,000 mg-min/m3
which means that the median lethal dose of CS is 61,000 mg per cubic meter for a full minute - well within the range described by PHR and way, way higher than is possible outdoors. There is simply no way that it is dangerous to life at 1/30,500 of the median lethal dose, if the words "median lethal dose" have any meaning.
Not to mention that if the dose of 2 mg/m3 is immediately dangerous to life, then Bil'in protesters would all have been dead for years. A minor point.
After discussing how CS could be potentially lethal if used indoors, the paper says:
The respiratory concentration of CS that would be lethal for 50% of healthy adults has been estimated to be 25,000 to 150,000 mg/m 3 per minute, based on animal studies (15). When detonated outside, a CS grenade generates a cloud 6 to 9 m in diameter, at the center of which a concentration of 2,000 to 5,000 mg/m 3 can be produced, with concentrations rapidly tapering off at the periphery. (16)
So for it to be lethal for a normal adult, there would have to be exposure for a full minute at concentrations that are ten to thirty times higher than is physically possible outdoors. I don't know how long CS takes to disperse, but certainly the highest concentrations of up to 5000 mg/m3 would not last for more than a few seconds.
The studies done of people who have been seriously injured from CS all show that they were indoors at the time, and had prolonged exposure - far more than a few seconds - and they could not leave the room.
I cannot find any case of someone succumbing quickly (within a day) to any level of exposure to CS.
In 1989, some human rights groups charged that Israeli use of tear gas - the more dangerous CN gas at the time - was responsible for increases in miscarriages and even 400 deaths. A US government GAO study found the claims to be baseless.
So this is nothing new.
UPDATE: Some blogs are saying "The U.S. Army Center for Health Promotion and Preventive Medicine warns that at a concentration of 2mg per cubic meter, CS gas “is immediately dangerous to life…”
The document does say that - and it is a typo.
The document cached here says that for CS,
LCt50 = 61,000 mg-min/m3
which means that the median lethal dose of CS is 61,000 mg per cubic meter for a full minute - well within the range described by PHR and way, way higher than is possible outdoors. There is simply no way that it is dangerous to life at 1/30,500 of the median lethal dose, if the words "median lethal dose" have any meaning.
Not to mention that if the dose of 2 mg/m3 is immediately dangerous to life, then Bil'in protesters would all have been dead for years. A minor point.
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
- Poster
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
- Poster
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
- Poster
A friend wrote to tell me that there was an anti-Israel protest (called "Gaza Massacre Remembrance") in New York's Herald Square on Sunday.
So, for any counter-protesters, I'm going to make some quick posters that they can plaster all over the place. Of course, anyone can use them for any similar purpose.
Here's the first:
So, for any counter-protesters, I'm going to make some quick posters that they can plaster all over the place. Of course, anyone can use them for any similar purpose.
Here's the first:
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
Recently, the Western Wall Heritage Foundation released iKotel, an iPhone app that lets you see a live camera view of the Western Wall and also allows you to send notes to be placed between the stones. It also helps point the user towards the Temple Mount for prayers.
Muslims aren't happy.
The Al Aqsa Foundation put out a press release, quoted by Ma'an, saying that the Jews - through this app - are attempting to get the younger generation to forge a closer connection to what they falsely call the "Al Buraq Wall."
Palestine News Network quoted them:
Next week the Al Aqsa Foundation will probably come out with a press release slamming the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah, which depicts the Second Temple in Jerusalem:
Also, the official WAFA news agency of the Palestinian Authority quotes the Al Aqsa press release with obvious approval of the contents. The PA had previously published a paper claiming that there is no Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.
Is there any daylight between the rantings of the "extremists" of the Al Aqsa foundation and the "moderate" Palestinian Authority?
Muslims aren't happy.
The Al Aqsa Foundation put out a press release, quoted by Ma'an, saying that the Jews - through this app - are attempting to get the younger generation to forge a closer connection to what they falsely call the "Al Buraq Wall."
Palestine News Network quoted them:
The "Al-Aqsa Foundation" said that the Wailing Wall is an integral part of the Al Aqsa Mosque, and it is exclusively Islamic, linked ideologically and religiously fully with the incident of [al-Buraq] with the Prophet Mohammed - peace be upon him - and non-Muslims have no right to it, even to the dust of the Wailing Wall, it is the right of Muslims and will remain so, even though it came under the control of Israeli occupation.
Next week the Al Aqsa Foundation will probably come out with a press release slamming the 1695 Amsterdam Haggadah, which depicts the Second Temple in Jerusalem:
Also, the official WAFA news agency of the Palestinian Authority quotes the Al Aqsa press release with obvious approval of the contents. The PA had previously published a paper claiming that there is no Jewish connection to the Temple Mount.
Is there any daylight between the rantings of the "extremists" of the Al Aqsa foundation and the "moderate" Palestinian Authority?
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
Jonathan Halevi at JCPA has a monograph on Hamas' continuing genocidal intent - even while people continue to call for Israel to talk to Hamas.
Michael Horesh has a nice posting about European investment in the PA.
Fatah says that Hamas arrested over 3000 of its loyalists in 2010 in Gaza.
Charles Jacobs writes an important piece on "Jewish malware:Why is World Jewry So Bad at Defending Itself?"
I mentioned the Jewish and Zionist frontman for the heavy metal band Disturbed. There is an Israeli heavy-metal band that is gaining Arab fans too.
And for those who think that I shouldn't only highlight Latma's brand of right-wing humor, here is a funny piece from Israeli comedy program Eretz Nehederet that skewers the Right:
(h/t Yerushalimey and Gidon)
Michael Horesh has a nice posting about European investment in the PA.
Fatah says that Hamas arrested over 3000 of its loyalists in 2010 in Gaza.
Charles Jacobs writes an important piece on "Jewish malware:Why is World Jewry So Bad at Defending Itself?"
Jews may be susceptible to a particular type of rhetorical virus, so devastating that once implanted it prevents them from acting in their own self-defense and turns otherwise eloquent people into stuttering blockheads. The worm is simple, and ancient. It’s called “accusation.”
Accuse the Jews. Accuse them unfairly and with such disproportionate frequency that anyone who wishes to can see there’s an agenda at work that has little to do with the actual charges raised. Accuse the Jews and they instinctively, like moths fly to candles, start believing they can cleverly explain themselves, and convince their accusers of their innocence and their goodness.
I mentioned the Jewish and Zionist frontman for the heavy metal band Disturbed. There is an Israeli heavy-metal band that is gaining Arab fans too.
And for those who think that I shouldn't only highlight Latma's brand of right-wing humor, here is a funny piece from Israeli comedy program Eretz Nehederet that skewers the Right:
(h/t Yerushalimey and Gidon)
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
- zionist attack zoo
Last week I wrote about a large bird being caught in Saudi Arabia, with markings indicating "Tel Aviv University," and the Saudi suspicions that it is part of an Israeli espionage plot. (It was, of course, part of a research program.)
The Hebrew media finally caught up to the story, nearly a week later.
The bird is evidently a vulture.
An English version of the story is here.
(h/t Joel)
The Hebrew media finally caught up to the story, nearly a week later.
The bird is evidently a vulture.
An English version of the story is here.
(h/t Joel)
- Tuesday, January 04, 2011
- Elder of Ziyon
From President Obama's 2009 speech in Cairo:
From Al Masry al-Youm:
As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam. It was Islam -- at places like Al-Azhar -- that carried the light of learning through so many centuries, paving the way for Europe's Renaissance and Enlightenment.
From Al Masry al-Youm:
Al-Azhar's Islamic Research Academy on Thursday proposed a new law mandating 15-year jail terms for printing and publishing houses found guilty of making copy mistakes in published versions of the Quran.Enlightened!
Under the proposed law, the transgression would be classified as a felony rather than a misdemeanor, while offending printing or publishing houses would be forced to close.
According to Academy Secretary-General Sheikh Ali Abdel Baqi, a committee composed of academy members, Al-Azhar scholars and legal experts would draft the proposed legislation before referring it to the Shura Council (the consultative house of Egypt's parliament) for discussion.
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