Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest |
- About Delta, Saudi Arabia and Jews
- UN flotilla report to slam Turkey?
- Controversy over whether Muslim devils have sex with human women
- Who is destroying graves in Jerusalem?
- Alice Walker supports apartheid
- The "moderate" Palestinian Arabs add FOUR new preconditions for talks
- UN headquarters in Gaza bombed
| About Delta, Saudi Arabia and Jews Posted: 26 Jun 2011 05:37 PM PDT Last week a number of sites published the news that Delta Airlines, by partnering with Saudi Arabian Airlines, would actively be stopping Jews from traveling to Saudi Arabia. The whole thing sounded a little strange to me. While I have heard anecdotal evidence (see comments) that Saudi Arabia does not allow Jews into the country, and clear evidence that it does not allow anyone with an Israeli stamp on their passport or non-Muslim religious items, adding Saudi Arabian Airlines to Delta's "Skyteam Alliance" did not sound to me like Delta would be actively being discriminatory. Delta was still not flying to any Saudi cities; it was just making it easier to book flights through Delta to Saudi Arabian Airlines. So I waited a bit before discussing the story, and now things are a little clearer with Delta's denial and information from the ADL in Ha'aretz: The question of Saudi Arabia's policy on Jewish tourists came under the spotlight last week, after a rumor spread via the internet that Delta Air Lines was enforcing a Saudi "ban" on Jewish visitors. In response to heated public demands, both Delta and the Saudi Embassy in Washington attempted to quash the rumors.In 2004, the Saudi tourism website did say explicitly that Jews would not get visas. Embarrassed Saudis claimed it was a mistake and that they had no policy to discriminate against Jews. However, In 1956, it was discovered that the US agreed upon Saudi request not to station any Jewish troops in an airfield in Dharan, Saudi Arabia. And in 1975, when the state of California was planning to send some 200 workers to Saudi Arabia, the plan was scuttled when the Saudis said that no "Zionists" would be allowed, and it was pretty clear after a week of talks that they meant Jews. It seems to me that the anger at Delta Airlines is misplaced. The problem is with Saudi Arabia itself, as well as those that directly enable its policy of discrimination. These include Lufthansa, Air France, British Airways, KLM, Air Canada and SwissAir, all of which directly fly into Saudi Arabia. Where are the protests in Germany, Great Britain, Canada, Switzerland, Holland and France about having their airlines enforce Saudi Arabia's discrimination against Jews and Christians (and I imagine Hindus and Buddhists as well)? Once upon a time, I worked for a telecommunications company that presented a lecture about how their ethical standards would not allow them to partner with any company that has a discriminatory policy. I then asked them, if Saudi Arabia would offer a $50 billion contract for telecom services but stipulated that no Jews were allowed to work on the project, would they would reject it? Their hemming and hawing in response was priceless. In the end, everyone likes to pretend that they have ethical standards,but it looks like most can be convinced to let things slide for the right price. My guess is that much of the small success Israel has had in making its case in the world has nothing to do with people being revolted by the anti-semitism of the Israel haters, but because Israel's economy and innovation are forces to be reckoned with. In the end, that might provide more security than anything else. 
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| UN flotilla report to slam Turkey? Posted: 26 Jun 2011 11:18 AM PDT A fascinating Ha'aretz article: Turkey has asked Israel to agree to a toned-down version of the UN Secretary-General's report on last year's flotilla to Gaza, according to a senior government official in Jerusalem.Ha'aretz had an earlier story in May that also mentioned the report was harsh on Turkey and accepted the legality of Israel's blockade. 
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| Controversy over whether Muslim devils have sex with human women Posted: 26 Jun 2011 10:09 AM PDT The Arabic press had a number of stories over the weekend about whether it is possible for "jinn" (Muslim devils) can have sex with human women, and if so, if it breaks her hymen and if she can become pregnant. The main one being copied seems to have come from the Elaph site. It first quotes an Islamic scholar as saying that such an event is impossible. Some professional exorcists, however, disagree and claim to have evidence of such couplings. Anecdotal evidence is given from comments to a similar article in Saudi Arabia's Okaz where a story is told of a jinn fetus that was, thank Allah, aborted. Some women are so attached to their jinns that they refuse to marry. The auto-translation is difficult to interpret, so there might be some more interesting anecdotes. 
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| Who is destroying graves in Jerusalem? Posted: 26 Jun 2011 08:22 AM PDT From the Palestine Telegraph: Israeli bulldozers started yesterday overnight demolishing the historic Muslim cemetery of Mamila in Jerusalem according to the decision made by the planning and construction committee of Israeli Municipality to build the museum of tolerance on the ruins of the cemetery.What the story fails to mention is that the interred bodies were already removed, that the name was always Mamilla and never "Maaman Allah" and that the Israeli Supreme Court had already listened to all the arguments against the demolition of the cemetery - twice - and rejected them as baseless. Not to mention that, as I discovered last year, the Supreme Moslem Council of Jerusalem had made plans to build an office park - including their own headquarters - on top of the cemetery in 1945. And the small fact that Mahmoud Abbas' hero, the anti-semitic Mufti of Jerusalem, tried to hide the skeletons his workers found across the street when he built the Palace Hotel, and he redirected partially treated sewage into the Mamilla Cemetery itself! However, in a little reported story, there has been some real desecration of graves in Jerusalem recently: More than a dozen graves at the Mount of Olives cemetery in Jerusalem were vandalized, the latest in a series of attacks on one of Judaism's oldest cemeteries.(h/t Jihad watch) 
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| Alice Walker supports apartheid Posted: 26 Jun 2011 06:51 AM PDT Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alice Walker has been getting a lot of publicity for joining the latest planned flotilla to Gaza, and she has also gotten a bit of much-deserved criticism. Something she said over the weekend shows just how skewed her thinking is: I grew up in the South under segregation, under the state terrorism of apartheid. When I was in the West Bank and Gaza recently, it was like stepping back into that.While segregation in the 1950s and 1960s was reprehensible, characterizing it as "state terrorism of apartheid" is ridiculous. But even more absurd is this simple fact: The areas of the West Bank and Gaza that she visited did not have a single Jewish resident, and neither would "Palestine." She is supporting the creation of a state that would be founded upon ethnically cleansing every Jew from its borders. A state where selling land to a Jew invokes the death penalty. A state whose nascent constitution says explicitly that its laws are based on Islamic Shari'a law. A state where Christians have been persecuted by their Muslim neighbors, where tens of thousands have already fled and where the remainder are cowed into silence rather than standing up for equal rights. She is traveling to Gaza with groups that have met with and supported Hamas, whose charter explicitly calls for genocide against Jews and that offers an Islamic supremacist vision of the world. She is traveling with groups that have supported terrorism against Israelis Apparently, Alice Walker enthusiastically supports Palestinian Arab apartheid.  
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| The "moderate" Palestinian Arabs add FOUR new preconditions for talks Posted: 26 Jun 2011 04:20 AM PDT From Ma'an: The Palestinian Authority passed on four official demands to the Mideast Quartet for discussion in upcoming meetings, PLO official Saeb Erekat told Saudi newspaper Al-Watan on Friday. Demand #1, complete halt to all "settlement" activity (which of course includes Jerusalem) was never a precondition of talks before 2008. Demand #2, the 1967 borders as a basis for negotiations, was similarly never a precondition - it was what the PLO wanted as a result. Demand #3, EU support for Fatah to be reconciled with unrepentant terror organization Hamas, directly contravenes the Quartet position on Hamas. Hamas' statements since the "unity" agreement proves that it has no interest in living at peace with Israel so this demand proves that the official PLO position is that they prefer Hamas to peace. Demand #4, support for a unilateral state, is literally a demand to rip up the entire Oslo process. And the "acknowledgement" he is asking from the EU is pretty much self-contradictory - if the PLO gets recognition as a state then the point of peace talks is moot. It also implies that if such a state was declared tomorrow, it would not be at peace with Israel. These outrageous demands prove yet again that the so-called "moderate" PA is far, far more intransigent than the "hawkish" Likud. Not only that, it proves that there is nothing remotely peaceful about it as it insists on partnering with Hamas and demanding that the world support a genocidal terror organization. Apparently, Erekat really didn't resign from his role as chief negotiator as he pretended to in February. (h/t Mike) 
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| UN headquarters in Gaza bombed Posted: 26 Jun 2011 02:16 AM PDT On Thursday morning, to mark the fifth anniversary of Gilad Shalit's abduction, the International Committee of the Red Cross called on Hamas to prove that Gilad Shalit was still alive. Thursday afternoon, Gaza protesters attacked the Red Cross headquarters in Gaza in anger over that request. On Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon demanded that Hamas release Shalit (going way beyond what Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and other "humanitarian" organizations were willing to demand.) On Saturday, the UN headquarters in Gaza City was bombed. The compound includes the offices of UNESCO and the United Nations Coordinator in Gaza. One was injured and Hamas closed off the area. Think there is a pattern there? (h/t Jawa Report) 
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