Tuesday, June 02, 2015

  • Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
No, I am not referring to this story from earlier today.

Yesterday, IMEMC reported:
A group claiming allegiance with ISIS issued a statement, Sunday, claiming responsibility for assassinating a senior Hamas commander in the Gaza Strip, by detonating his store in Khan Younis.

The group, calling itself Supporters of the Islamic State in Beit al-Maqdis, said it assassinated Saber Siam for what it claimed, “participating in the heretical war against the Mujahidin," and called on Hamas to “end its war on religion in Gaza, or face the consequences.”

The group also warned the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to stay away from government-run offices and facilities, and all Hamas-run security or military centers, in the coastal region. Hamas officials and Hamas-run websites did not comment on the attack.

Earlier the month, the group fired shells into a training center for the Al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of Hamas in Khan Younis, Agence France Presse said.

The attack is believed to be related to an alleged attack by Hamas on a mosque, reportedly “frequented by ISIS supporters plotting against the government,” in Deir al-Balah.
And today:
A suspected Salafist gunman was killed by Hamas security officers in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City on Tuesday morning, security sources told Ma'an.

Sources said that officers arrived at the house of 27-year-old Yussef al-Hatarman with the intention of arresting him because he was keeping "illegal" weapons.

"The officers asked him to turn himself in, but he refused and threatened to blow himself up," they said.

They said that security officers then clashed with the gunman, "and managed to hit him before he could blow himself up."

Witnesses reported seeing an ambulance remove a second casualty from the building following the gun battle, though this was not confirmed.
Here's the weapons stash Hamas claims to have found in Hatarman's home:


See? Hamas is a moderate force fighting ISIS terrorists! We're practically allies!

But the best part is this, from FT:
Night-time security checkpoints have gone up around Gaza City over the past month — the most visible sign of a crackdown by the ruling Islamist movement Hamas on local followers of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (or Isis).
Checkpoint? Aren't they the worst possible thing anyone can do to anyone else? Aren't they a basic violation of the fundamentals of human rights? Aren't checkpoints a war crime?

Oh, sorry. It all depends on the context.

(h/t Yoel, Adam L)
From Ian:

Yes Peter Beinart Anti Zionism is Anti Semitism
Zionism, the national liberation movement of the Jewish people, brought about the establishment of the State of Israel, and views a Jewish, Zionist, democratic and secure State of Israel to be the expression of the common responsibility of the Jewish people for its continuity and future.
Therefore to be Anti-Zionist is to declare that the Jewish people, unlike every other people does not have the right to self determination, Being anti Zionist means viewing the creation of the Jewish state, as an “injustice and historic error” that should be reversed . It is anti-Semitism pure and simple.
One would have hoped Mr. Beinart would be far more than “worried” about the trends he describes among young American Jews. Mr. Beinart is self-proclaimed believer in a Jewish state alongside a Palestinian democratic state, calling out Anti Zionism for what it Isanti Semitism it is an imperative to do this at every opportunity…and regardless one’s position on current Israeli policy to aggressively challenge it at every opportunity.
In his article Beinart notes the following:
Omar Barghouti declared late last year at Columbia University: “We’ve got to give credit to Netanyahu. Without him we could not have reached this far.
But Barghouti is not an opponent solely of “settlement” nor does he share Beinart’s 2 state solution and his definition of occupied Palestine stretches from the “river to the sea” it doesn’t stop at the Green Line. Barghouti is gloating that he has succeeded in a giant shell game gaining support for a policy opposed to the existence of Israel by manipulating opponents of the occupation into supporters of BDS. Yet Beinart puts the blame on current Israeli policies with regards to areas over the Green line not Baarghouti’s anti-Semitic denial of the right of Jews to self-determination. And his reaction to this is limited to “worry”.
How much better would it be if Mr. Beinart a self-proclaimed advocates of a two state solution with two democratic states and the young students he describes to ask the Mr. Barghouti and his followers 2 questions. 1. Please draw a map of what you consider to be occupied Palestine? 2. In your envisioned outcome would Jewish citizens have exactly equal rights to all other citizens anywhere in Palestine/Israel?
How low can the UN sink?
But the UN’s next move against Israel is already being planned: according to a Y-Net report, the “UN secretary-general’s envoy for Children and Armed Conflict recommended this week to include the IDF on a blacklist of countries and organizations accused of regularly causing harm to children. The blacklist includes terror organizations like al-Qaeda, Boko Haram, the Islamic State, and Taliban, as well as African countries such as the Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic and others.”
As the report notes, the UN is “facing heavy pressure from the Palestinians, their supporters and human rights organizations to include the Israeli army on the list.” However, few people know that this kind of “pressure” is in part generated by the UN itself, which sustains “a whole network of anti-Israel institutions ” that were built up in the wake of the infamous “Zionism is Racism”-resolution of 1975. Even though the resolution was repealed in 1991, this “network of extremely well-funded UN structures and offices” continues to exist to this day.
Needless to say, those who love the Nazi-slogan “Die Juden sind unser Unglück” in its 21st-century version “The Jewish State is our misfortune” are excited about the prospect to have the IDF equated with terror organizations like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State (IS) – and as was only to be expected, Max Blumenthal tweeted the Y-Net report adding the hashtag JSIL, which he popularized to associate Israel with the terror group Islamic State (once known as ISIL, i.e. Islamic State in the Levant) as “Jewish State in the Levant” (JSIL).
If the UN will once again please Jew-haters everywhere with yet another bigoted condemnation that puts the IDF on the same level as savage terror groups like IS remains to be seen. But in the unlikely case that the UN actually cares about the welfare of Palestinian children, Leila Zerrougui, the Special Representative for Children and Armed Conflict, could highlight the longstanding abuse of Palestinian children as child-soldiers – indeed, campaigning against this kind of child abuse is supposedly an important part of her work. While all Palestinian factions have used children to fight, nowadays mostly Hamas and other Gaza terror groups openly boast of providing military training to children; one of the most recent examples is a “graduation ceremony” in a Gaza kindergarten. (h/t Alexi)
'Catch a Jew' Reveals Surprising 'Tribe' Fueling Hate (h/t zozosophie)
When it comes to Middle East peace, the world often asks what prevents Israelis and Palestinians from making it work. A new book blames a hidden party for fueling the hate between the two.


  • Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon


In view of some current publicity about the Farhud of 1941 and the latter’s ripple-like repercussions for the Jews of the Arab world, I’ve decided to focus in this week’s column on the pogroms that occurred in Libya in November 1945.

Born in northern England, the son of Lithuanian-born rabbi and scholar M. H. (Moshe Zvi) Segal, who made aliya in 1926 and became a renowned professor at the Hebrew University – Judah Benzion (Ben) Segal (1912-2003) would himself become a distinguished academic.

His knowledge of Arabic ensured that at the outbreak of the war young Segal, with the rank of lieutenant, was appointed to British Intelligence in North Africa; he served, as a captain, at the general headquarters of the Middle East Force from 1942-43, and in 1943 helped to achieve the surrender to the Allies of the Italian garrison at Derna, the second largest city in Cyrenaica, a feat for which he was awarded the Military Cross.  From 1945-46 he served as Education Officer in the British Military Administration in Tripolitania.

 ‘It was 9.30 on Friday morning, a holiday for the Moslem members of my department,’ he would recall regarding events that erupted in Tripoli in the first week of November 1945 and spread.

 ‘But none of the Christian officials had arrived either. There was an ominous silence in the air.  I realised suddenly that there was no traffic on the roads. Ill at ease, I brushed aside my correspondence, and went out into the crisp sunshine. I saw that one, then another, and finally a succession of the concrete houses of the New City carried on their walls the freshly painted legend “Italiano.”
The message was clear.
If I had not understood I was to be enlightened soon enough. A low growl could be heard from the distance. Suddenly they appeared – young hoodlums in their hundreds, sweeping along the road some ten or fifteen abreast screaming “Yahud, Yahud”…’
Standing firm on the spot – owing not to any feelings of bravery but to sheer amazement at what met his eyes and ears – Segal, evidently appearing stern and resolute in his captain’s uniform, was unmolested by the mob.  The yelling procession snaked around him, single-mindedly intent on causing havoc in the Jewish quarter: ‘Then the looting started, shop windows were smashed, and doors battered down.’

Jumping into his military vehicle, Segal

‘visited the Jewish schools in the ghetto area. There was little panic. The children who lived nearby had been sent home; they had nothing to fear, for the Jewish district was too densely populated to be penetrated by even the most daring of the mob.
The staff, mostly Italian Jews, stood in a little knot, speaking in whispers, making their plans calmly with their leader, a professor from Rome, a small ungainly woman with an aquiline nose and nervous smile. I put some children on my lorry and returned them to their mothers in the New City.’
Then,
‘From a remote building I heard moaning. In the bare courtyard, an old Jewish woman in Arab dress sat on the ground, her face streaked with blood, swaying to and fro, keening rhythmically.
Some yards away a man lay wrapped in his coat; his head had been battered like the cheap pans beside him.
Where had the mob gone? Where had they entered here? It was useless to question the woman; God had given and God had taken away.’
Knowing that the police and the military had been alerted, Segal drove back to headquarters:

‘In the palatial villa of the mess everything appeared normal. The fountain played in the sunshine, deck chairs were set out, as usual under the arches, aperitifs stood on the table. The servants reminded me that the Brigadier [Temple] had gone on leave to Cairo. And only a few hundred yards away murderers were hunting down their victims’.
He later wrote:
‘It was the unsuspecting Jews of the outlying villages who were helpless, and the killings were many – in all, I think, more than 130. We could chart on the map the progress of murder, rape and looting passing from Tripoli across the countryside – east, west and south, like a well-organised contagion.
At some points it needed only one or two men to halt the onset – as at Homs where a brave British officer and a Jewish doctor from Alexandria stood at the entrance to the Jewish quarter and threatened to blow out the brains of the first rioter to approach.
Everywhere the bloodshed continued for two days. Jewish refugees were brought to a hastily constructed camp in the capital, I escorted a cortège from Zawiya – one lorry heaped with the bodies of the dead, others with their relatives and friends, some wounded, all dazed and silent, clutching their mean bundles. There was no passion, but submission to the inevitable.’
Reported The Times (8 November 1945):
‘Reports up to yesterday gave totals of 74 Jews and one Arab killed, and 183 Jews, 36 Arabs, and two Italians injured.…
The disturbances began on Sunday night, and were repeated the next night when the mob attacked the Jewish quarter in an eastern suburb.  It was here that the heaviest casualties were caused, 40 Jews being killed and scores wounded.  The Tripolitanian provinces generally remained quiet, but in the eastern provinces there were riots at Cussabat and Zliten…
Stern measures have been taken to prevent further outrages, including a curfew, intensive patrolling by troops and police, who have orders to shoot all looters and to open fire, if necessary, to disperse groups of more than five persons.
The curfew at first was from 9 p.m. to 5 a.m., but was confined to the city of Tripoli, but yesterday it was extended throughout Tripolitania and prolonged till 6 a.m.  Plundering has been proclaimed an offence punishable by death, and the British administration has publicly announced that it will not hesitate to increase its measures until peace is restored…
Brigadier Temple, the British military commander in Tripoli,  yesterday received the members of the Arab Advisory Council, headed by the Grand Cadi, and informed them that they must exercise their influence and authority to re-establish law and order.’
The following day the paper advised:

‘The death roll in the Tripolitania riots is now over 100.  A statement received in Cairo tonight from the public information office at Tripoli says that though the city is quiet further attacks against Jews are reported from the provinces.  On Tuesday night rioting occurred at Zliten, in the eastern province, and at Zavia and Zanzur, in the western province.
There was a particularly brutal assault in the Jewish quarter of Zanzur, where Arabs looted and set fire to houses and a synagogue.  Over thirty Jews, including children, were killed in this attack.
At Zavia six Jews lost their lives.  Troops were forced to open fire on the mob several times …’
It added:
‘The Governor of Cairo today called on the Grand Rabbi and expressed the Government’s regret at the attacks on Jews in Cairo last Friday [instigated by the Muslim Brotherhood and rightwing nationalists, apparently trying to whip up anti-Jewish feeling on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration].  He said that the Egyptian Government had decided to rebuild at its own expense the [Ashkenazi] synagogue that was looted and burned by the rioters.
An official statement issued last night forbids the holding of meetings and demonstrations on November 13, the Egyptian national day.’
The murders, sexual violence, looting, and incendiarism in Libya subsided as the British restored order.
To quote Ben Segal:
‘After a couple of weeks, the situation – in the words of the Army authorities – was under control. The Governor had returned to his post at Tripoli. I suppose there was an official inquiry – there usually is. Arab extremists who had been detained after the outbreak of the riots were released. And within a few months (was it by coincidence?) three Jewish officers in the Military Administration had been transferred to duties outside Libya – the major responsible for the municipality (who had been outstandingly successful in his dealings with Arab officials), a doctor, and myself.’
Some 700 Muslims in all were arrested for taking part in the disturbances, which in addition to taking Jewish lives, left hundreds of Jews injured, caused panic among Libya’s non-Muslim minorities, and triggered a refugee crisis.

Reflected Segal:

‘From 1949 the Jewish community of Libya – even the ancient settlement of cave-dwellers at Tarhuna – virtually ceased to exist. Many emigrated to a new life in Israel. Only a handful remained in Tripoli and Benghazi to become the target of anti-Israel malice after the Six-Day War.
The Jews of Libya had never played an important part in the life of their country – they were no more than a pawn in a sinister game of politics. We need not point the finger at the fanatical ignorant Moslem mob. But it should be part of the training of every Foreign Office official and of every responsible journalist to witness at first hand the violence of a rampaging mob – and to learn how fanaticism and violence are manipulated.’
His account was printed in the Jewish Chronicle of 13 November 1970, when he was a prominent academic covered with honours.   For since 1946 he had lectured in Hebrew and Aramaic at the School of Oriental Studies (Professor of Semitic Languages from 1961) – that constituent of London University which (as SOAS) is now notorious for rampant hostility to Israel – retiring in 1978, and serving from 1982-85 as Principal of Leo Baeck College. 

An echo of the events of November 1945 in the form of the Libyan pogrom of June 1967 was provided to the Jewish Chronicle of 21 February 1969 by a non-Jewish New Zealander, Miss Joanne Holland, who had in December 1968 returned to London from Libya, where she had worked as a secretary since 1966 and where she got to know a number of Jews.

The pogrom she described entailed harrowing murders and the burning to the ground of Jewish homes and businesses.  Armed police, she said, stood idly by while Jewish-owned shops were broken into, looted, and set alight.  Such premises included a restaurant-cum-liquor store; Arab rioters ran up and down the street swigging the drink from the stolen bottles, and going back for more, while four armed soldiers with grins on their faces looked on.  A family of Jews who barricaded themselves in their apartment for over a week were shocked when their Arab neighbours, whom they'd lived alongside for 30 years, attempted to gain entry and set the place ablaze.

Children as young as eight were among the mob, and Joanne Holland was "horrified to see women, under normal circumstances never seen, except occasionally peeping out from behind their veils, standing by and watching the destruction and murder with apparent glee".

She herself was several times surrounded by Libyan crowds, and spat at, and once, when visiting a Jewish family, she was almost killed by Arabs wielding iron bars and knives.

She recalled that one Jew, who having hidden in his house for about a week, ventured outside to discover the fate of the shop he owned.  Arabs recognised him and gave chase, so he ran towards a police car, expecting assistance.  Instead of rescuing him, the police ran him over.

One evening, a jeep-load of armed police led by a colonel took two Jewish families – comprising a total of thirteen persons including two young children – from their home on the pretext of taking them to the airport so that they might reach safety.  The families were, however, driven out into the desert, and put to death.

The murderous colonel later explained that he had "wanted to avenge my Arab brothers" (i.e. for Israel's victory in the Six Day War).  However, this appears somewhat disingenuous.  To quote Lucky Nahum, in an observation to me:

‘I am one of the 6,000 Jews in Libya that suffered through the pogrom of 1967 and ultimately exiled. [T]he pogrom was not in reaction to Israel's victory in the Six Day War; if so, it would have started at the war's end. The pogrom began on the very first day of the war, a typically sunny day in Tripoli that turned out to be the beginning of the last pogrom in Libya. [S]ince this was not a reaction to the humiliating defeat of the Arab nations by Israel, it needs to be re-evaluated. I have heard many "excuses" for the pogrom of 1967 (and those before), none that are worthy of consideration. Nasser and his Pan-Arab dreams had fed the beast that desired to not only see Israel destroyed but clearly all Jews.’
The Libyan authorities had finally permitted Jews to leave Libya on temporary travel documents, which prohibited them from taking their belongings or more than £20 with them and would not permit them to return after being away for four months. Those that departed were herded together at dawn by armed soldiers in the forecourt of a hotel, and were surrounded by hostile Arabs shouting and swearing.


What particularly struck Joanne Holland during the pogrom was the unwillingness of westerners stationed in Tripoli to intervene and try to help the Jews being harassed and hunted.  What also shocked her was the apathy of contacts in London, to whom she recounted what she'd witnessed.  "[T]hey seemed bored and showed no interest," she said.  "Many Britons still had some romantic concept of the Arabs.  How wrong they were."
  • Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
From Palestinian Media Watch:



Sheikh Khaled Al-Mughrabi, teaches Islam twice a week in the Al-Aqsa Mosque:

"The Children of Israel have more than one god... They say that our god is number ten. It's an internal [secret] matter of theirs...

They have smaller gods, from one to nine, and they have gods who are stronger than Allah, from 11 to 34. Devil or Satan is number 11 for them. If you look at history, my brothers, you'll see that the number 11 is holy for the Jews, and 666 is also a holy number, three times six signifies the Devil.

These two numbers, 11 and three times six, are holy numbers. Everything they wish to happen, or that they want to do and succeed at, they try to make happen on the 11th of the month... Therefore, notice the attacks on America (i.e., 9-11 attack on World Trade Center) that took place. When were they? On the 11th of the month. Why? Because who was behind them? ... It's known that the Jews were behind them. The evidence discovered afterward points to the fact that the Jews were behind the attack...

I will show you the ways of Satan, through which he deceives the Children of Israel... The first way is the promise of eternal life... The American film industry is owned by the Children of Israel. Among the most notable film [themes] that this film industry focuses on is the idea of eternal life. You can see films, all of which are about vampires. On what is this idea based? On the fact that if you killed a human being and drank his blood in a certain way, you would attain eternal life. Why did Satan put this in their minds? To cause them to spill each other's blood. One will kill the other and drink his blood, and thus attain eternal life...

The Children of Israel had the holiday of Pesach, what is now called Passover. Every holiday, every group would look for a small child, kidnap and steal him, bring a barrel called the barrel of nails... They would put the small child in the barrel and his body would be pierced by these nails. In the bottom of the barrel they would put a faucet and pour the blood... The Devil or one of the big gods, demanded it of them as a condition for fulfilling their wishes, that they eat [matzah] bread kneaded with the blood of children.

On the holiday of Passover it is forbidden for them to eat regular bread. They prepare their matzahs. These matzahs were not kneaded in the regular way, but rather with the blood of children. When these stories were exposed, the Children of Israel were expelled from all of Europe and the tragedy of the Children of Israel began in all Europe. In the end it reached the point where they were burned in Germany, because of these things, because they kidnapped young children. These stories are known. There is proof of them. They are in court files. There were a lot of trials against the Children of Israel in these matters. You can see a long list of these stories. Even though there is a news blackout about them, they are on the internet. Write: "Jews' bread" in Google, "Jews' bread" or "Jews' matzah" ... You will see all of these stories, and for all of them there is proof and evidence, with dates and police files in which the material is found...

The Freemason lodges are witchcraft gatherings of the Children of Israel. One of the ceremonies, for instance if someone wants to be accepted as a new member, or rise in rank... he has to somehow bring one of his sons or daughters, or his wife or one of his male or female relatives, and put them on the table and slaughter them with his own hands as a sacrifice to Satan, in order to rise in the ranks of the Freemasons. My brothers, this exists until today."
[Al-Msjed Al-Aqsa YouTube channel, May 29, 2015]
Jews controlling Hollywood, Jews behind 9/11, the medieval blood libel and the Jews slaughtering their own families for Satan. Not bad for a single lecture.

Even more obscene than the fact that Muslim leaders teach their students this hate is that they are doing it from the holiest spot in Judaism.

And there will almost certainly not be a peep of protest from a single Muslim Arab who lives in the Middle East. There will be no denunciations. There will be no Arab leaders distancing themselves from these words,

No, this is mainstream, and that is a fact that the West refuses to believe.


From Ian:

UN Watch to Appeal to 54-Nation Body to Overturn NGO Status for Hamas Front
UN Watch announced that it will contest yesterday’s “incomprehensible” decision by a UN committee to recommend NGO status for a group intimately linked to the Hamas terrorist organization, by appealing for it to be overturned by the 54-nation ECOSOC when it meets in July to consider the application.
At UN headquarters in New York yesterday, the 19-nation Committee on NGOs yesterday voted in favor of the application by the Palestinian Return Centre, a Hamas affiliate in Europe, by a vote of 12 to 3.
Hamas is designated as a terrorist organization by the European Union, Canada, Israel, Japan, and the United States, and, its armed wing is designated a terrorist organization by Australia and the United Kingdom.
Voting for the Hamas-linked group were committee members China, Cuba, Iran, Venezuela, Nicaragua, South Africa, Sudan, Azerbaijan, Guinea, Turkey, Pakistan and Mauritania.
The USA, Uruguay and Israel opposed the application, while India, Russia and Greece abstained. Burundi was absent.
Gold: World media misled by Hamas version of summer war
Last summer’s war with Hamas in Gaza presented a case of dueling narratives that Israel is still fighting to this day, ambassador Dore Gold told a press briefing at his Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs think tank on Monday.
Gold, a confidant of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, will be temporarily leaving his post as the head of the JCPA as he assumes his role as the director-general of the Foreign Ministry.
“Part of Israel’s challenge in all these conflicts is when ideas and conclusions are asserted even though they can’t be checked, they become the lingua franca on the nature of the conflict,” he explained.
As an example, he cited unchecked figures from officials, such as then-UN commissioner for human rights Navi Pillay’s assertion that 74 percent of the casualties in the Gaza Strip were civilians.
“You can’t blame the whole UN. It’s one official who decided to go public with a figure that can’t possibly be true,” Gold said, adding that it was impossible to verify such a claim while the war raged and it could only be checked once the dust settled.
Trailer Forthcoming Explosive “War Crimes In Gaza” Documentary
Pierre has said this is now coming very soon! Some top names are interviewed in there such as Col Richard Kemp and Matti Freedman. Pierre Rehov has a long history of making excellent documentaries and I became aware of him after he made the Road to Jenin.
War Crimes In GAZA


  • Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
A recent "Nakba" story, published in Palestine News Network, includes this factoid:

Palestinian refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs) are the largest and longest-standing case of displaced persons in the world today. There are at least 7.7 million displaced Palestinians including 360,000 IDPs in Israel, representing 66 percent of the entire Palestinian population (12.1 million) worldwide. Among them are 5.0 million who are registered with and assisted by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA).
We've debunked the idea of 7 million Palestinian Arab refugees dozens of times, pointing out that no other group's refugee status is inherited forever.

But doing the same for "internally displaced persons" is new for me.

There were about 30,000 Arabs displaced by the War of Independence in 1948. Now, there are supposedly 360,000 IDPs in Israel, who won't have "justice" until the villages they lived in are rebuilt brick by brick and they can all move back.

It turns out that groups that have created this new category of "displaced persons" have been around since at least 1995. The Association for the Defense of the Rights of the Internally Displaced in Israel (ADRID) won a "human rights" award and $75,000 from the skin care company The Body Shop. This NGO has no website, no known board members, yet based apparently only on its name it can get tens of thousands of dollars from supposed "human rights" experts.

A similar group was started as far back as 1995.

The BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency & Refugee Rights has research papers on this topic.

If you accept the absurdity that "internally displaced persons" is hereditary, then even Palestinian Arabs who "return" to Israel would still be considered IDPs unless they move to their ancestral homes. Since there are far more of them today than in 1948 and they couldn't physically fit in their homes even if they exist, then they are doomed to be "IDPs" forever.

Although, if Jews would be nice enough to evacuate the entire country, then perhaps they will reconsider their status as unending victims.

Jews should create a similar organization for people who were expelled from Gush Etzion and Jerusalem in 1948 along with their descendants and apply for funding. The rejection letters could make an entertaining book.

There are real IDPs and it is a real problem. Redefining Israeli Arabs as IDPs is another attempt to make Palestinian Arabs into the ultimate victims in every context.

  • Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
Gazans yesterday were surprised to see a "checkpoint" with Hebrew signs, Israeli flags  and "Israeli soldiers" in a park in Gaza City.


It was to show Gazans' solidarity with Arabs in the West Bank, because they know that checkpoints are so terrible.

After all, Gazams may have it bad, but at least they never have to physically see a Jew in person.


The protest also was to call to boycott HP, for providing technology to Israel that, they claim, is used to oppress their West Bank cousins.


Of course, all good street theater must provide some drama and violence.




I'm sure the people who live in mansions in Ramallah appreciate being thought of.

  • Tuesday, June 02, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
The Secretary General of the Islamic-Christian Committee to Support Occupied Jerusalem and Holy Sites, Hanna Issa, along with the current Mufti of Jerusalem, Sheikh Mohammad Hussein,and  "expert in Jerusalem affairs" Jamal Amr held a joint press conference yesterday to bash Israel.

This sort of thing is an everyday occurrence.

Most of their statements were the usual, tired boilerplate about supposed Israeli crimes in Jerusalem.

But Issa said something a little different.

Issa said that Israel allocated $17 million this year, and prepared six new laws for a vote in the Knesset, to Judaize Jerusalem.

What kind of laws "Judaize" Jerusalem?

One supposed law is that will work to obliterate Islamic Arab landmarks. I missed that story.

He also claimed that Israel planned to divide Al-Aqsa Mosque in time and space, and ban the entry of some Muslims to the Temple Mount, and an "iron fist" policy in dealing with Jerusalem, and the a policy of development of Jewish character in Jerusalem (maybe they'll build another Kotel?), in order to establish a major and undivided Jerusalem.

The last law that "Judaizes" Jerusalem is a law that tightens penalties for stone throwers, where (Issa claims) prison sentence could be for 35 years.

Apparently, if more Palestinian Arabs who throw cinder blocks on the heads of Jews go to prison, then Jerusalem will have a few fewer Arabs and Jerusalem will be Judaized!

This proposed law (which is in fact for up to 10 years of prison for stone throwers who are not proven to have intended to hurt people, amending an existing law that includes a maximum term of 20 years for stone throwers with intent to harm) has also caused the PLO to complain - because it is "discriminatory."
"When it comes to the Palestinians and Israelis, Israel has two different judicial systems. One is applicable to Israeli citizens and the other for Palestinians," Maen Rashid Areikat, the chief of Palestinian Liberation Organisation Delegation in Washington DC, told Al Jazeera.

"I don't think it [the bill] will have any effect on Israelis, because it is, in terms of content, only applicable to Palestinians. It is discriminatory, singling out Palestinians."
Here's a picture of the poor victims of apartheid laws like this.




By the same logic, a law against bus bombers would also be discriminatory, because only Arabs do that crime too.

The fact that one of the PA's most important diplomats can say such nonsense without being challenged in the US speaks volumes.

Issa added that there are now 28 tunnels beneath the Old City, linking settlements and Jewish neighborhoods in and around Jerusalem "Wailing Wall," and surrounding Jerusalem with three rings of settlements, and a "collar" around the Old City, and the "collar" around the Arab neighborhoods, in addition to the 29 settlements existing in the city limits of Jerusalem, and 104 synagogues.

Yes, some Arabs are keeping a database of synagogues. Because of their legendary tolerance, I suppose.

Monday, June 01, 2015

From Ian:

UN grants observer status to Hamas-linked NGO
Israel slams decision saying the British-based Palestinian advocacy group is a 'front' for Hamas
A British-based Palestinian advocacy group allegedly linked to Hamas was on Monday granted an observer status at the United Nations, in a move that sparked ire among Israeli officials.
The decision to approve the application of the Palestinian Return Center (PRC) was made by the 19-member Committee on NGOs, which is understood to be dominated by Israel's regional arch enemy Iran.
Israel's UN mission issued a statement condemning the decision.
The group, which does not acknowledge Israel's right to exist, has denied allegations by the Israeli government and other bodies that it acts as “a front” for Hamas. Yet in 2010 it was outlawed in Israel over suspected Hamas links.
Twelver[sic] members of the Committee on NGOs voted in favor of the motion (Including Iran, Pakistan, Sudan, Turkey, Venezuela, China and Cuba), three were against in (USA, Uruguay and Israel), and three abstained (India, Russia and Greece). Burundi was absent from the vote.
Israel’s Ambassador to the UN, Ron Prosor slammed the decision, saying “Until today, the UN has given Hamas discounts and let it strengthen its activities. Now, the UN went one step further, and gave Hamas a welcoming celebration at its main entrance, allowing it to be a full participant.
"According to this script, one day we may find Hezbollah sitting at the Security Council and ISIS voting at the Human Rights Council. This is the peak season for the UN’s Theatre of the Absurd." (h/t Yenta Press)
JPost Editorial: Jew Hatred
Turkey’s Jews are looking for a way out in part because they are concerned by anti-Semitic comments made by the leaders of the Islamist Justice and Development Party. In 2013, for instance, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused an “interest rate lobby” of backing the widespread anti-government protests that he said were aimed at bringing down the economy and toppling his government. This was a thinly veiled attack on “Jewish banking interests.”
Last May, after Freedom House downgraded press freedom in Turkey from “partly free” to “not free” – thus putting the country in the same category as Libya, South Sudan, Ukraine, and Zambia – Erdogan said the move was motivated by Jewish and American interests.
“Could you expect a Freedom House ranking of world media to draft a positive about Turkey while David Cramer, a Jew, or James Woolsey, a CIA boss, or Donald Rumsfeld, a drug baron, are at its helm?” he asked.
Instead of admitting that there has been a serious crackdown on freedom of the press, Erdogan has instead deflected criticism by deploying conspiracy theories.
In Ankara and Buenos Aires, in the corridors of FIFA and Tehran, Jew-hatred blinds people to the facts, undermines the rational process of learning from mistakes and is ultimately self-destructive. Venomous anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism can only be obstacles to rational decision- making.
World powers should especially be reminded of this truth as they deal with the Iranian regime, which does not hide its hatred toward Israel, ahead of the scheduled deadline for a nuclear deal at the end of this month.
Turkey's 'Jerusalem Fetish'
It is truly fascinating that Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, a professor of political science, believes that Jerusalem, built a millennium before the birth of Islam, is originally a Muslim city. And that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, -- Saudis should please not get offended -- thinks Jerusalem is the Muslims' "most important Mecca."
Jerusalem has always had a spectacular place in a Turkish Islamist's heart and mind. But pre-election fervor in Turkey has lifted their "Jerusalem fetish" to new heights.
Turkey's Islamists today look like Egypt's second president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, a Pan-Arab nationalist, and his army commanders almost half a century ago. On May 16, 1967, Nasser ordered U.N. Emergency Force Commander, Indar Jit Rykhye, to evacuate his force from the Sinai buffer zone within 48 hours. When Rykhye asked one Egyptian commander if Egypt was aware of the consequences, the commander replied: "Oh sir, I'll meet you at lunch in Tel Aviv." The UN force left, and Egypt and Israel were left alone to fight the 1967 war. This author does not know where the Egyptian commander had lunch the next day, but definitely not in Tel Aviv. His words, however, may have inspired Turkey's leaders.
Prime Minister Davutoglu, formerly foreign minister, has reiterated countless times since he joined the Turkish cabinet in 2009 that, "We will have prayers at the al-Aqsa mosque in the Palestinian capital 'Quds' ([Jerusalem]." This wish remains to be fulfilled. But that does not discourage Turkish leaders from cherishing increasing doses of "Jerusalem-fetish."
When a Kurdish politician said in a public speech that "Jerusalem is the holy city for the Jews," a furious Davutoglu held a rally and said at the top of his voice: "Jerusalem is our holy place;" and that he would never allow the city's "Islamic character" to change.

  • Monday, June 01, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
Sadda is a tabloid type Arab news site, with gossip and Hollywood celebrity stories along with regular and unusual news items.

Sadda also has a section dedicated to Islamic issues and fatwas.

One story posted today says that Jews and Christians are damned to hell, a "humiliating punishment" foretold in the Quran that involves lots of fire.

The more you know...


  • Monday, June 01, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
Egyptian actor Ahmed El Sakka is finishing up filming of a new series to be shown during Ramadan, "Go and Return."

The plot is that a doting Egyptian father whose son is kidnapped in a shopping mall. His attempts to find the boy eventually bring him to Israel where an organ smuggling ring is behind the abduction. The evil Israeli smuggler wants the boy's spinal fluid for his own son.

The story takes place during the chaos when Mohammed Morsi was overthrown. In reality, there was an epidemic of child abductions at the time for organs - by Egyptians.

Which means this is probably just another blood libel against Israel.

Some scenes meant to be in Israel are being filmed in Lebanon. One article I saw said that some Lebanese Druze violently protested when they saw Hebrew street signs in their neighborhood.

Interestingly, there is another Ramadan miniseries that is getting a huge amount of attention, with stories about it daily in the Arab media. It is called "Jewish Quarter" and it is a seemingly nostalgic look at Egypt in the 1950s, and how Jews and Arabs interacted. I see no evidence that it is even slightly antisemitic.

From Ian:

After FIFA tussle, PM warns of global campaign to ‘blacken Israel’s name’
Netanyahu made the comments Sunday at a meeting of his new Cabinet just two days after a Palestinian proposal to suspend Israel from world football was dropped at the last moment. Netanyahu warned that such efforts to boycott Israel continue. Palestinians accelerated their campaign to boycott Israel and Israeli-made products after peace talks collapsed last year.
“We are in the midst of a great struggle being waged against the state of Israel, an international campaign to blacken its name. It is not connected to our actions; it is connected to our very existence. It does not matter what we do; it matters what we symbolize and what we are,” Netanyahu said.
“I think that it is important to understand that these things do not stem from the fact that if only we were nicer or a little more generous — we are very generous, we have made many offers, we have made many concessions — that anything would change because this campaign to delegitimize Israel entails something much deeper that is being directed at us and seeks to deny our very right to live here,” he said.
The Israeli prime minister said the Palestinian boycott is reminiscent of similar attacks the Jewish people faced in the past.
PA teaches kids to despise Jews
The Palestinian Authority continues to destroy any chance for lasting peace by teaching children that Palestinians and Muslims are in conflict with Jews. The PA teaches that Jews have an intrinsically evil nature and that this conflict is part of Islam. The PA repeatedly sends the message that the conflict is much more than a conflict over territory.
On the latest broadcast of the official PA TV children's program The Best Home, a young girl recited a poem calling Jews "barbaric monkeys," "the most evil among creations," and those "who murdered Allah's pious prophets." Jews are said to be "throngs... brought up on spilling blood... impure... [and] filth."
In spite of all this, the girl, continuing her recital, declares she is not afraid of the Jews' "barbarity" because Jerusalem will "vomit out" the impure Jews. The poem continues, "My heart is my city and my Quran":
Jews are "barbaric monkeys," "most evil among creations," in poem recited by girl on PA TV


Child soldier promotes violence in Fatah video
Fatah reiterated on Facebook last month its adherence to violence and the use of weapons, by posting a music video with an armed child soldier and visuals of Fatah soldiers' military training and firing of rockets.
In the video, a young boy singer dressed in a military uniform is seen going through a training program like adult soldiers and brandishing different weapons. Promoting child soldiers is forbidden according to international humanitarian law.
In the video, the boy soldier sings about the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades' soldier, praising him and his weapons:
Child soldier encourages violence against Israel in Fatah Facebook ‎music video


Fatah threatens Israel with war in video showing armed fighters training for battle


  • Monday, June 01, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
YNet Hebrew reports:

Every two weeks, Elishema Sandman, 19, from Safed rises up to visit the Temple Mount . Sandman came to the Mughrabi Gate at 7:30 with another six Jews who wanted to visit.
Under the scorching sun, Sandman got thirsty and sought to use the water fountains to drink. But when he reached the taps, the police stopped him.

"Naturally, on a hot day here, I went to drink. When I approached the taps, the policeman stopped me and told me that I had no authorization to drink. I asked him what the story was, and he replied that he had received a new directive that Jews were forbidden to drink." Sandman wondered whether the prohibition applies only to the Jews. "Are tourists are allowed to drink?", he asked the police officer and he replied yes, adding that "only for Jews is it forbidden."
The article goes on to say that there are no written guidelines as to what Jews are forbidden to do on the Mount, although everyone knows they cannot pray, mutter, bring holy books or the like. Other police interviewed said they hadn't heard of this new directive.

I've previously shown a photo of Jewish children drinking water at a Muslim washing station.


As I noted then, they say the Jewish blessing before drinking, out loud, which is a Talmudic ritual!

Maybe that is the reason for the new rule - to stop Jews (who are, as we know, terrorists according to the PA) from saying blessings on their holiest site.

(h/t YMedad)





I mentioned recently that I was reading Tuvia Tenenbom's "Catch the Jew" and that it was great.

Tenenbom, who grew up Haredi in Bnei Brak and left Judaism and Israel, returned to Israel to write this book of his impressions as he met people around the country.. He goes where the wind (and his stomach) takes him, usually playing a German journalist, asking innocent and simple questions from people who aren't used to being questioned at all.

Arabs, upon hearing that he is German, often welcome him as a fellow antisemite. To an extent, so do some of the  never ending stream of Europeans who visit Israel and the territories to spend money against Israel. And that is exactly what they are doing - not trying to help Palestinians but to hurt Israel.

The book is amazing. It beautifully deconstructs the current culture of the Israel-hating crowd, from within and without Israel.

Every page has examples of malicious Europeans, lying Arabs and clueless (or self-hating) Israeli Jews. Here are only a tiny percentage of the many anecdotes that Tenenbom mentions - each of which would be worth an entire blog post or article.:
  • An Al Quds University professor tells Tenenbom that Israel won't allow the university to paint a small spot on the ceiling, and hours later he sees that the Israel is allowing the EU to spend 2.4 million euros to refurbish a Turkish bathhouse in east Jerusalem. 
  • As he walks from the Mount of Olives to Gethsemane, he sees the remains of thousands of Jewish gravestones lining the road, with Hebrew letters still visible.
  • Hanan Ashrawi says that Palestinians have lived there for "hundreds of thousands of years." She also gets upset when Tenenbom asks her why the Christian population has diminished so quickly under PA control. 
  • A PA spokesman, when asked for his definition of Palestinian culture, says "Tolerance and coherence." Tenenbom then asks him why he cannot smoke in public on Ramadan. "It is about respect." Tuvia then tells him that Ashrawi said that twenty years earlier, Christians could smoke on Ramadan in the daylight.
  • A Palestinian woman describes how Israel oppresses her but then mentions that she got free university education in Israel.
  • He relates to a Jewish liberal lady how intolerant the Arabs in Ramallah are, She insists that he is lying. He asks her how many times she's been in Ramallah and the answer is zero.
  • An Israeli leftist professor says she has studied Judaism for years and years. He then asks her a basic Bible question that stumps her.
  • Tenenbom sees multi-million dollar mansions in Hebron, with plaques outside saying that they are being paid for by the EU.
  • Gideon Levy describes how wonderful Palestinians are and how terrible Israeli Jews are. But he admits when questioned that he does not have a single Palestinian friend.
  • The Palestinian Antiquities Minister, when asked, makes it clear that she really wants all Jews to leave Israel even if she can't say it out loud.
  • There is an  EU-funded trip to Yad Vashem hosted by an "ex-Jew" who tells his tourists that Israelis just as bad as the Nazis were - and that Herzl died of syphilis.
  • Jibril Rajoub tells Tanenbom that the reason the EU funds "pro-Palestinian" NGOs is so that they won't get terror attacks like they did in the '70s.. (He backtracks when asked to clarify.)
  • Rabbi Arik Asherman, of "Rabbis for Human Rights," is exposed as being ignorant of the basics of the Torah, lying about his organization being apolitical, and shown to simper as the Arabs he pretends to love mercilessly treat him like dirt.
  • Tenenbom goes to Al Quds University to attend a "human rights competition" but finds out that it is a scam - the EU pays for competitions that are never held. (After this book was published, I saw that one was held the following year.)
  • An ICRC spokeswoman gets caught in a lie when she says she saw Israeli soldiers beat up a diplomat with her own eyes, then admits she wasn't anywhere near the alleged event.(In fact, the diplomat attacked the IDF.)
  • A movie house in Jenin is generously funded by Europeans, but has practically no customers.
  • A highly educated Jewish couple are told by their Arab friends that soon the land will be free of Jews, one of them had been gang-raped by an Arab gang and an old Arab friend had sexually abused their granddaughter. But the husband insisted that they really wanted peace. (After prodding, the wife admitted that they were fools.)
  • After much discouragement, Tenenbom visits.a run-down Bedouin shack in the Negev, and finds that while the outside is ugly, the inside is like paradise.
Tenenbom sees all of this and is amazed, and eventually angry. He exposes diplomats who behave the exact opposite of how diplomats should act, journalists who don't ask the simplest questions, and NGOs who pretend that they care about oppressed people yet would never, ever give a dime to a poor or oppressed Jew (or Egyptian or Yemeni, for that matter.)

The entire situation is quite literally theater, where everyone plays their parts and everyone denies the obvious - because the truth would destroy the illusions that so many people have invested their lives in. Tenenbom's genius is to expose the obvious to the players themselves, who react with anger or denial. Their world is surrounded with like-minded unthinking drones and they cannot abide a truth-teller, often reacting by accusing Tuvia of being a Jew. It is very clear that they would not act the way they act  or say the things they do initially if they knew he was Jewish. (At one point, a Norwegian asks him "Are you a J-" and Tenenbom lets the question hang there for a minute before saying he is German. The man, who had claimed that he is there because of a long tradition of Norwegian care about the poor and downtrodden, then admits that his country collaborated with the Nazis and deported their Jews, who were presumably not poor or downtrodden.)

The author also exposes Jewish charlatans and extremists, but his main target remains the self-delusional (or knowingly deceptive) Leftists and Arabs.

In the end, Tenenbom is pessimistic about the long-term prospects of Israel, given that he has seen so many Jews who have aligned with their enemies. However, he does not seem to realize that his methods of research - while very entertaining - are not a representative sampling of Israelis (nor Arabs.) Most Israeli Jews who are proud of their country and work to make it successful are not the ones who are hanging around in areas Tenenbom frequents. Most Israelis are normal and see quite clearly what kind of neighborhood they are in; but they are not as entertaining as the hypocrites at Haaretz or the latte-drinkers in Tel Aviv, so there was less effort to reach them.

All in all, this book is a must-read.
  • Monday, June 01, 2015
  • Elder of Ziyon
DW reveals something interesting about Gaza:

Scenes of destruction in this neighborhood are a constant reminder of the 52-day war in 2014. Nearly a year later, some of the rubble has been cleared, but damaged and bombed-out homes across vast fields of grey rubble still dominate the landscape. The neighborhood is clearly far from being rebuilt. Residents often see convoys of armored cars passing through; a tour through the neighborhood has become a must for foreign dignitaries and politicians visiting the Gaza Strip, which remains isolated from the world as Israel and Egypt tightly control their borders with it.

Issam Alewa has seen many of those convoys passing through in the past months. He said it is important that foreigners come to Gaza and see the damage first hand.

"We welcome them. Let them all come and see it," said the father of 13 children. But expectations are low that the situation will improve any time soon. Alewa's home is barely inhabitable. Most of the outer walls of the three-story house are gone. The ceilings are riddled with holes. The family lives on the first floor with a sitting room that doesn't have any walls.

"Everybody tells me that it is not safe to stay here, and that I should tear it down," the 52-year-old said. "But I don't know where else to go."
The article later admits that tens of thousands of Gazans have reconstructed their damaged homes:

Almost 60 000 families have so far received aid to repair their damaged homes through the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism (GRM), which was brokered by the UN with Israel and the Palestinian Authority last October. However, financial pressure and strict controls over importing building materials from Israel make the GRM a very complicated process.
Yet for some reason the reporter didn't go to any neighborhoods to witness the repair of tens of thousands of homes. (And if the process is so complicated ,how have 60,000 families managed to navigate it successfully?)

It seems likely that Hamas, and to an extent NGOs like UNRWA, want to keep Shujaiyeh as a zoo to show the world how evil Israel is.

To put it simply, there is no excuse for not clearing rubble nine months after the war. There are bulldozers in Gaza, and indeed entrepreneurs recycle rubble to create new concrete and aggregate. Gaza's 40% unemployment rate means that there are plenty of people around willing to recover and sell this rubble.

Yet Shujaiyeh remains almost the same as it was in August, except perhaps for clearing the streets for the constant convoys filled with gawking Europeans.

This photo was taken in April by AFP.



The Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism says that 58,000 families have received 100% of the materials they need to rebuild.  Another 30,000 have purchased part of their needs, and they can buy the rest whenever they want to. (The reason that no completely destroyed houses have been rebuilt is because of bureaucracy, not a shortage of materials or restrictions from Israel. And very possibly that bureaucracy is also meant to keep Shujaiyeh in the shape it is in today.)

Given these facts, it seems likely that the very PR-conscious Gaza leaders (and NGOs) are purposefully keeping Shujaiyeh in ruins, and keeping its residents in misery, in order to use it for propaganda. Reporters, happily complicit with a story that hands them such great visuals, won't ask the hard questions and will not be allowed to visit the areas of Gaza where people have rebuilt - or sold their cement to Hamas on the black market.

Gazans are kept homeless so that reporters can take photos such as these and write articles such as this one.

(h/t American Guy)

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