יום שני, 16 במאי 2011

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

How many lies can Seattle's Israel haters push in a day?

Posted: 15 May 2011 08:54 PM PDT

Anti-Israel activists held a "Nakba Day" today in a square in Seattle. The exhibit included many placards with half-truths and lies.

How many people who are walking along think that the posters they are seeing have willful lies?

Here's one: An "occupation board game" included this scenario:
When was the last time Israel declared a curfew on a Gaza beach? Let alone fired on innocent people from a battleship?

Here they say that Hamas would accept Israel if it ended the "occupation" and withdrew to the 1949 armistice lines.

This is, of course, a baldfaced lie.

Even worse, here was one placard among many:

Only one problem: It never happened. An Israeli student wrote a masters thesis that made claimed a massacre at Tantura and it was found to be fraudulent. 

It doesn't look like too many people actually looked at the exhibit, so chances are that these lies didn't make too much headway. But it is a lot easier to make up lies than it is to debunk them, and there are a lot more haters out there willing to lie than people willing to tell the truth.

The person who sent this to me went there and documented all this while waving a large Israeli flag!

This photo says it all

Posted: 15 May 2011 03:43 PM PDT

An Israeli soldier fires tear gas canisters during clashes with Palestinian stone throwers at the Israeli manned Qalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and and the West Bank city if Ramallah
The two mothers have no problem walking with their children right next to the armed, supposedly genocidal Israel soldiers.

Aren't they afraid that the soldiers will turn around and shoot them? After all, isn't that what IDF soldiers do? Isn't that what Goldstone and his cohorts accused Israel of? Isn't that what HRW routinely says Israel is guilty of? Don't they know that IDF soldiers wantonly and maliciously target and shoot civilians even when there is zero military reason to do so? Haven't they seen the lists of women and children killed by the IDF circulated by PCHR?

Or do they know something that the "experts" at the human rights organizations don't?

Another Naqba celebration

Posted: 15 May 2011 01:48 PM PDT

From YNet:
Two police officers suffered mild injuries in the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber.

The two were in the process of checking the papers of Palestinian suspects when a car ran them over. Two Palestinians were also lightly injured. Police forces are canvassing the area for the car and driver.
I guess if you can't hijack a plane, you just use trucks or cars to try to murder people. Same concept, essentially.

Syria rejects Kuwaiti aid convoy to besieged Daraa

Posted: 15 May 2011 08:06 AM PDT

Al Masry al Youm reports that Syria rejected the idea of humanitarian aid being sent to the besieged city of Daraa.

Kuwaiti organizations had been organizing a convoy to be sent to Syria to help the citizens of Daraa, which has been under siege without access to basic food and medicine for weeks by Syrian security.

The Syrian embassy in Kuwait issued a statement saying that "the convoy has nothing to do with any humanitarian situation, but has a special-purpose, and those who stand behind that purpose are well-known....The convoy is unjustified, because the food and other materials are available to all citizens, including residents of Daraa."

No one seems to be noting the irony.

IDF briefing on "Naqba day" riots (updated)

Posted: 15 May 2011 07:46 AM PDT

I was just on a brief conference call with the IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Avital Leibovitch, where she gave an update on the day's events.

On the Syrian border, a few thousand people - including women and children - gathered at the border around noon. This was not unusual for annual May 15th protests. This time, though, many of them stormed the fence, breaking it. The Syrian army was there and did nothing to stop them. They met up with villagers on the israeli side from the Drize village of Majdal al Shams, who participated in riots with them. The IDF used selective fire to disperse the crowds and discourage more from coming.

On the Lebanese border, there were two separate incidents. In one (Metula), the Lebanese army fired quite forcefully to stop the protesters from storming the fence; in the other, Maroun al-Ras, they did not and the IDF opened fire.

The IDF believes that Hezbollah and Syria organized and helped out in the clashes up north.

In Gaza, the IDF says that its fire stopped the rioters from breaking through the fence.

In Qalandiya, the rioters used somewhat different methods than in the past. They also threw Molotov cocktails at the soldiers and hid themselves behind ambulances. (UPDATE: Photo via Peter Lerner Twitter:)


The IDF could not confirm any casualties. Ma'an says 6 dead up north, 1 killed in Gaza, and many dozens injured in the incidents. The IDF says ten soldiers were lightly wounded.

More from the IDF Spokesperson blog.

Video: Veiled woman describes being raped by Syrian forces

Posted: 15 May 2011 07:32 AM PDT

This video is being circulated by Syrian activists. It was uploaded to YouTube on May 12:


The woman in the video calls herself "Mother of Abdullah." She is holding a Koran to emphasize that her words are true. According to the video, she is a widow who went to attend a funeral of her cousin in Syria. She heard gunshots and ran to her house for cover, locking herself and her son in a room.

After a few minutes she heard a door open and she thought it was her parents. Instead, it was five Syrian security officers, dressed in black. They asked if there were any weapons in the home, and searched the house without finding any.

Then, according to the video, they took off her veil and clothes and took turns raping her, threatening to slaughter her son if she screamed.

Videos of rioting in Qalandia

Posted: 15 May 2011 06:20 AM PDT

 From Russia Today:


Such peaceful protesters! (DougPologe tells me that the above video was taken in Qalandia.)

And this is from the IDF, on riots in Qalandiya this morning:

Naqba day: Reports of violence on Gaza, Lebanese, Syrian borders

Posted: 15 May 2011 04:29 AM PDT

In Gaza, Palestinian Arabic media and Israeli media are reporting that people were injured at the Erez crossing during a demonstration there as the IDF allegedly fired at the demonstrators. One of the injured was photojournalist Mohamed Osman.

In the Golan Heights, reports say that 4 were killed and 20-30 injured when apparently Syrians overran the border fence near the village of Majdal al Shams. Some of the injured were Israelis, so this wasn't one of those "peaceful" demonstrations we hear so much about.

There is a sketchy report of firing at the Lebanese border, near Maroun al-Ras, towards demonstrators who were bussed there to commemorate the "naqba."

The Israeli bloggers are more up to date than I am, so follow Israel Matzav and The Muqata for the latest.

Terror in Tel Aviv; Arabs hail "beginning of third intifada"

Posted: 15 May 2011 03:32 AM PDT

This morning:
One man died and 17 people were injured in what police suspect was a terror attack in Tel Aviv on Sunday. A truck driving along Bar-Lev street hit and ran over several vehicles but continued to drive on.

Magen David Adom units were dispatched to the site. One person, a man in his 40s, died of his wounds.

The driver, a 22-year-old man from Kfar Kassem, was arrested and brought in for questioning.

During a preliminary investigation, the driver told police his tire had exploded causing him to lose control of the vehicle. However police doubted his version.

Police Spokesman Micky Rosenfeld speaking at the scene of the truck rampage, said "Based on the level of destruction, and the number of people who have been injured and one person killed, it looks as if this was deliberate, but the investigation is still ongoing."
Palestine Press Agency adds that the driver continued to try to run over pedestrians even after police arrived, and then he fled the scene and police gave chase and caught him.

The first commenter at that Fatah-aligned site thanked the truck driver for starting the third intifada, adding "We will not stop, O Israel."

Firas Press readers also hailed the operation.
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