Tuesday, March 01, 2011

  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Ma'an Arabic reports the story we posted this morning  about how the Palestinian Arab delegation to the Human Rights Council meeting in Geneva walked out during Hillary Clinton's speech, upset that she said that the UNHRC spends way too much time criticizing Israel.

The Palestinian Arab ambassador to the UNHRC, Ibrahim Khreisheh, was interviewed on the radio about the decision, complaining about Clinton's referring to the "structural bias" that the UNHRC has against only one state. He said that the speech referred to human rights violations against citizens of Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain, Yemen, and Iran, but not "Palestine."

However, Ma'an's English edition does not yet have this story.

It's been 24 hours since her speech and still no English language news outlet has covered the Palestinian Arab walkout.

A major insult to the US by the Palestinian Arabs is being knowingly covered up by the media.

UPDATE: Ma'an finally mentioned it. We'll see if anyone else does.
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
My list of things to post keeps getting longer...

Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs documents the Palestinian Arab political offensive against Israel, including the agreements they are breaking.

Challah Hu Akbar documents the anti-semitic undercurrents in the Libyan protests

Omri at Commentary asks, "So Who Exactly Thought Syria Engagement Would Work?"

Richard at Augean Stables shows how Turkey acts towards the West when they feel they have the upper hand. He also has a nice linkdump from yesterday as well as a thorough fisking of the Kristof piece I looked at on Sunday.

JCPA has a good interview with Dore Gold about the US veto of the UNSC resolution demonizing Israel.

Anne Bayefsky on the US trying to prop up the UNHRC.

Was financial terrorism responsible for the 2008 economic downturn? (h/t O)

The IDF successfully uses the Trophy tank defense system against an anti-tank missile in Gaza. (h/t Silke)

OBL's former mentor trying to turn Yemen into an Islamist state (h/t DM)
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
One of the top stories in the US over the past couple of weeks has been the bizarre behavior of comic actor Charlie Sheen - possibly the highest paid TV star in the world - and the resultant stoppage of the popular TV show Two and a Half Men.

One of Sheen's rants has been towards the creator of the show, Chuck Lorre. He has been referring to Lorre in interviews as "Chaim Levine."

So where did that come from?

Entertainment Weekly finds the answer. It came from Lorre himself.

At the end of every one of his shows, Chuck Lorre flashes a dense screenful of text for about a half second, requiring people who want to read it to pause their DVDs. These "vanity cards" are often quite funny, as one can expect from the creator of two very funny shows (he is also the co-creator of The Big Bang Theory.)

On February 7th, Lorre's vanity card gave what was actually mostly a very nice and funny mini-essay about Israel and Jewish identity:

I'm writing this vanity card in Israel. I like it here. Not for the geography, or architecture, or even the history. No, I like it because for the first time in my life I'm surrounded with DNA much like my own. Until I got here, until I wandered around Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, I didn't realize how much my double helix yearned to be around similar strands. Now that's not to say that I don't occasionally have that very same genetic experience in Beverly Hills (particularly in Chinese restaurants on Sunday night). But the sheer homogeneity of Israel overwhelms any over-priced kung pao gathering at Mr. Chow's. The cop, the cab driver, the hotel concierge, the pilot, the waiter, the shoe salesman, the beautiful girl looking right through me as if I didn't exist -- all Jewish! If I had to sum it up, I'd say the sensation is like being at a B'nai B'rith summer camp that is surrounded by millions of crazy bastards who hate the sound of kids playing tetherball, and all the poor little camp has going for it is pluckiness and nukes. Anyway, I have to believe my visceral and very pleasant reaction is some sort of evolutionary, tribal thing. Some sort of survival gene that makes human beings want to stay with their birth group. Which raises the question, why have I spent a lifetime moving away from that group? How did Chaim become Chuck? How did Levine become Lorre? The only answer I come up with is this: When I was a little boy in Hebrew school the rabbis regularly told us that we were the chosen people. That we were God's favorites. Which is all well and good except that I went home, observed my family and, despite my tender age, thought to myself, "bull$#*!."

This is where Charlie Sheen, obsessively reading Lorre's vanity cards to find any insults to his star, found out Lorre's Hebrew name. Whether his use of that name is borderline anti-semitic is a topic for debate.

As for me, I like Chuck Lorre even more than I did before. (The humor on Two and a Half Men crosses the line a bit too often for my tastes - this season there doesn't even seem to be an attempt at subtlety in the myriad sex jokes - but The Big Bang Theory is brilliant. Of course, I'm a geek.)
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Honest Reporting Canada:
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Even though the number of rockets from Gaza has accelerated in recent months, there are a number of reports that  Hamas is trying to stop them.

The latest evidence is from an internal memo obtained by the anti-Hamas Palestine Press Agency that apparently shows a Hamas police directive to find rocket launchers and stop all rocket attacks against Israel, saying it is a severe violation of the law:


GANSO reports that Hamas police did discover and stop one rocket attack, on February 10th, from central Gaza. None of the recent rocket attacks have been claimed by Hamas.

One interesting incident mentioned in that same report occurred last month, when a test rocket was fired out to sea on February 8th. It is unclear if that was Hamas or another group. But it is possible that they were testing out a newer Grad rocket, as the rocket that hit Beersheba might have been a new rocket that was manufactured in China.

Is it plausible that the smaller Salafist groups or Islamic Jihad are importing longer-range Grads? Even if so, Hamas is certainly aware of it.
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From David G:

From NYT:

As Regimes Fall in Arab World, Al Qaeda Sees History Fly By

Scott Shane interviews Paul Pillar, Brian Fishman (from the New America Foundation), Steven Simon, Michael Scheuer and Christopher Boucek (from the Carnegie Endowment for Peace) for this news analysis.

The article is tailored to promote a view such as:
“These uprisings have shown that the new generation is not terribly interested in Al Qaeda’s ideology,” Mr. Simon said. He called the Zawahri statements “forlorn, if not pathetic.”

From what I read, Scheuer is the voice of reason. *gasp* (EoZ: Here's a video of Scheuer going on an anti-Zionist and cirtually anti-semitic rant on C-SPAN)

Mr. Scheuer says he believes that Americans, including many experts, have wildly misjudged the uprisings by focusing on the secular, English-speaking, Westernized protesters who are a natural draw for television. Thousands of Islamists have been released from prisons in Egypt alone, and the ouster of Al Qaeda’s enemy, Mr. Mubarak, will help revitalize every stripe of Islamism, including that of Al Qaeda and its allies, he said.

Boaz Ganor in the Jerusalem Post wrote

The revolutions and US euphoria

Talhami points out that it is still too early to tell where the Egyptian revolution is headed, but claims one conclusion is evident – this is Osama bin Laden’s nightmare, since peaceful masses, not the murder of innocents, overthrew the regime.

The loser is therefore al-Qaida, since it has tried to convince the Muslim masses that the only way to fulfill their ambitions is through violence.
This argument reflects an erroneous understanding of the essence and goals of al-Qaida. This terrorist organization, like most others, is not merely a group of bloodthirsty madmen who commit violence for violence’s sake. Al- Qaida carries out terror attacks to advance its religious-ideological goal – the foundation of a global Islamic caliphate governed by Shari’a. If the Egyptian process will eventually lead to an Iran-like state, al-Qaida will have gained greatly.

The assumption that the loser is al- Qaida may lead to the erroneous conclusion that the winner is the bloc opposing al-Qaida – the Western nations led by the US. Such a victory may yet prove to be Pyrrhic.

This is similar (though the particulars are different) to what Barry Rubin's written recently about the need to be realistic not optimistic.

The Times article is marked by that optimism. True it's a great story. Millions of disenfranchised people across the region bring down entrenched autocrats using little more than Facebook. With the Facebook angle it is a great story for this era. The bonus of defeating the terrorists would be a wonderfully happy ending. Too bad that real life doesn't always follow a Hollywood plot line.

For what it's worth another writer for the Times does present the only fly in the ointment. Not surprisingly Roger Cohen sees Israel as a possible obstacle to the democratic paradise emerging in the Middle East.

Evoking Emerson Lake and Palmer, Cohen wrote a Paean to President Obama, Oh What a Lucky Man.

(Does Cohen even understand the song? It's about a man of war, not the man of peace he is portraying.)

In one case, Cohen channels his inner Walt and Mearsheimer.

By contrast, the American right has found itself tied up in knots, wondering how to disentangle the words “freedom” and “Arab,” the first demanding its hard-wired allegiance, the second demanding its Israel-dictated skepticism. Pity the poor Republican newbies, once so full of certainties, confronted by a nuanced world.

Why is the skepticism "Israel-dictated?" One would think that the return of Yousef al Qaradawi to huge crowds, the new smuggling into Gaza or increased persecution of Copts as reasons for skepticism about the direction of Egypt revolution. Instead Cohen turns to the first refuge of the foreign policy scoundrel and blames Israel.

Later Cohen writes:
How can the West help forge the new regional safe house of emergent Arab democracies? Obama must bring the best minds to bear on that question and a related one: How to coax Israel from its paralyzing siege mentality into seizing this moment to seek peace?
"Siege mentality?" Israel negotiated with Arafat granting him land, arms and legitimacy while he encouraged terrorism. Israel withdrew from southern Lebanon only to see Hezbollah increase its influence and power and then saw the same thing happen when it withdrew from Gaza with Hamas. Now the major players in Egypt have made it clear that they view the peace treaty with Israel as a negative for their country. This isn't a "mentality" it's experience.

There's a lot more in Cohen's absurd op-ed. I'll leave it to others to fisk as an exercise.

Over at the Washington Post...The editors have questions, and they're pretty happy with the answers.

The Arab revolution swells

THREE QUESTIONS have driven discussion of the ongoing Arab revolt and how the United States should respond to it. Can it spread to all of the Arab states, including seemingly stable kingdoms, such as Saudi Arabia, and the most repressive police states, such as Syria? Can it be stopped with violence by regimes more ruthless than those of Tunisia and Egypt? And can entrenched power structures succeed in limiting the amount of change, through bribes or negotiation?

The answers are not yet in - but so far, the trends point toward a "no" to all three questions. That's an exciting prospect for supporters of democracy, above all young Arabs who yearn for their countries to refound themselves. But it also means more instabilility ahead in the region, along with some hard choices for the United States.

Richard Cohen (more and more he makes sense, what's happened?) has a different question. More importantly his question is based on history, and isn't asked (and answered) in a vacuum.

Can the Arab world leave anti-Semitism behind?

During World War II, the leader of the Palestinians lived in a Berlin villa, a gift from a very grateful Adolf Hitler, who clearly got his money's worth. Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem and as such the titular leader of Muslim Palestinians, broadcast Nazi propaganda to the Middle East, recruited European Muslims for the SS, exulted in the Holocaust and after the war went on to represent his people in the Arab League. He died somewhat ignored but never repudiated.

Husseini might have been a Nazi to his very soul, but he was also a Palestinian nationalist with genuine support among his own people. The Allies originally considered him a war criminal, but to many Arabs, he was just a patriot. His exterminationist anti-Semitism was considered neither overly repugnant nor all that exceptional. The Arab world is saturated by Jew-hatred.

Some of this hatred was planted by Husseini and some of it long existed, but whatever the case, it remains a remarkable, if unremarked, feature of Arab nationalism. The other day, for instance, about 1 million Egyptians in Tahrir Square heard from Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an esteemed religious leader and Muslim Brotherhood figure whose anti-Semitic credentials are unimpeachable. Among other things, he has said that Hitler was sent by Allah as "divine punishment" for the Jews. His al-Jazeera program is one of that TV network's most popular.
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From the IHH website:
The IHH relief teams have been conducting relief works in al Bayda and Benghazi cities of Libya.

The IHH team that managed to enter Libya, which is undergoing riots against Gaddafi, starts urgent relief works right away.

The team visited various hospitals in al Bayda along with a group of 35 medical doctors and distributed medicine. The team also observed the situation about the injured at the hospitals.

Another relief work by IHH Libya team is distributing the food aid packages to the suffering families in al-Bayda city of Libya. Food aid including cheese, floor, canned food, tea, sugar, rice, olive oil, tomato paste and milk, is distributed to 100 families in different neighborhoods of the city al-Bayda. The distribution will be continued to other families.

After al Bayda, the IHH team moved to Benghazi which is where the riots first broke out. The team still conducting relief works in this city.
Another case where the West is caught flatfooted and the Islamists take the first step to gain hearts and minds. Charity is wonderful, but there is a long green string attached.

(h/t Suzanne)
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Since Iran seems to have multiple problems with the London 2012 Olympics logo, why not show off the wonderful Zionist version?

The T-shirts (and sweatshirts)  are now available for purchase at my Printfection store:





(h/t Liza's Welt via Silke for the idea)
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
One guess:
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh accused Israel of financing and plotting protests in his country and other Arab states, and criticized U.S. President Barack Obama for expressing support for the protesters.

Saleh, speaking to a gathering of Sanaa University professors and students, said Obama was "meddling in the affairs of Arab countries."
Well, that was an easy one.

UPDATE: More details from JPost:
"There is an operations room in Tel Aviv with the aim of destabilizing the Arab world," Saleh said as he gave a speech at Sanaa University. He explained that the "operations room" is "run by the White House."
(h/t Dan)
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Bloomberg:
Israel is at the “very top of the list” when it came to human-rights violations, Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said, showing little thaw in relations between the once-close countries.

Davutoglu was speaking at Ankara’s Esenboga Airport before leaving for a meeting of the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva, where ministers from around the world will meet to discuss a coordinated response to Colonel Muammar Qaddafi’s crackdown against anti-regime rebels in Libya.

“If you’re going to make a list ranking human-rights violations, Israel’s probably at the very top of the list,” Davutoglu said in remarks carried today by Turkey’s state-run Anatolia news agency.
Turkey's human rights record is far worse than Israel's. has extrajudicially killed hundreds of citizens and is complicit in the murders of thousands of Kurds. Hundreds of others have "disappeared." It routinely tortures its citizens in prison, and hundreds of prisoners are thought to have been tortured to death. It has laws that curtail freedom of expression. Human rights activists are in constant danger.

No wonder Davutoglu wants to divert the UN's attention to Israel.
  • Tuesday, March 01, 2011
  • Elder of Ziyon
Hillary Clinton gave a speech at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.

Most of the speech was dedicated to talking about Libya and about the events happening in the Arab world as a whole. She spoke about the importance of democracy and freedom.

In a very brief section of the speech, she said:
And I must add, the structural bias against Israel – including a standing agenda item for Israel, whereas all other countries are treated under a common item – is wrong. And it undermines the important work we are trying to do together.
This was the only mention of Israel in the speech.

According to Palestine Press Agency and other Arabic news agencies, quoting unnamed Arab diplomatic sources, the Palestinian delegation walked out because of her remarks, saying that she has double standards by speaking about Libyan human rights but downplaying (in their minds) Palestinian Arab human rights.

Here is another insult that the Palestinian Arabs have hurled at the US - and another insult that goes unreported by the media. Imagine the outcry if an Israeli delegate walked out during any speech by an American!

(h/t Ali for translation help)
It is unfortunately necessary to resume keeping track of rockets and mortars shot by Gaza terrorists towards Israel so people can see that the threat to Israel's southern communities is growing.

G=Grad
Q=Qassam
M=Mortar
P=Unidentified projectile
S=Fell short in Gaza
F=Fatality (Green-Gaza, Red-Israel)


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According to GANSO, 4 Palestinian Arabs have been injured and one killed as a result of Qassam rockets that fell short or exploded prematurely in the first two months of the year.

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