יום שישי, 16 בספטמבר 2011

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Palestinian Arab "refugees" wouldn't be citizens of "Palestine" - even if they live there!

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 12:43 PM PDT

Did you think that 63 years of Arabs using the "refugees" as political pawns would end if there was a Palestinian Arab state?

If you want to know the depths of cynicism of the Palestinian Arab leadership towards their people, you must read this article in The Daily Star Lebanon:
Palestinian refugees will not become citizens of a new Palestinian state, according to Palestine's ambassador to Lebanon.

From behind a desk topped by a miniature model of Palestine's hoped-for blue United Nations chair, Ambassador Abdullah Abdullah spoke to The Daily Star Wednesday about Palestine's upcoming bid for U.N. statehood.

The ambassador unequivocally says that Palestinian refugees would not become citizens of the sought for U.N.-recognized Palestinian state, an issue that has been much discussed. "They are Palestinians, that's their identity," he says. "But … they are not automatically citizens."

This would not only apply to refugees in countries such as Lebanon, Egypt, Syria and Jordan or the other 132 countries where Abdullah says Palestinians reside. Abdullah said that "even Palestinian refugees who are living in [refugee camps] inside the [Palestinian] state, they are still refugees. They will not be considered citizens."
Let's read that again, shall we?

"Even Palestinian refugees who are living in [refugee camps] inside the [Palestinian] state, they are still refugees. They will not be considered citizens."

People who live in camps in their own state would be barred, by their own leaders, from becoming citizens of that very state!

Why? Because, to Palestinian Arab leaders, the "refugees" are not an oppressed group who must be helped. They are human weapons in a never ending war against Israel. Giving them citizenship removes their status as weapons.

The most important issue to the Palestinian Arab leadership is not to end the suffering of their people, or achieving independence. It is to destroy Israel, using the nonexistent "right of return." Nothing could be more obvious - yet most of the world refuses to believe that Mahmoud Abbas and his cronies could possibly be so indescribably cruel and callous to their own people.
Abdullah said that the new Palestinian state would "absolutely not" be issuing Palestinian passports to refugees.

Neither this definitional status nor U.N. statehood, Abdullah says, would affect the eventual return of refugees to Palestine. "How the issue of the right of return will be solved I don't know, it's too early [to say], but it is a sacred right that has to be dealt with and solved [with] the acceptance of all." He says statehood "will never affect the right of return for Palestinian refugees."

The right of return that Abdullah says is to be negotiated would not only apply to those Palestinians whose origins are within the 1967 borders of the state, he adds. "The state is the 1967 borders, but the refugees are not only from the 1967 borders. The refugees are from all over Palestine. When we have a state accepted as a member of the United Nations, this is not the end of the conflict. This is not a solution to the conflict. This is only a new framework that will change the rules of the game."
And make it easier for Palestinian Arabs to achieve their real goal - the end of the Jewish state.

For 63 years, three generations of Palestinian Arabs are being brought up being told that they must return to a non-existent state that their ancestors came from, and nothing else is acceptable. And the potential establishment of a Palestinian Arab state would ironically make their wishes to become citizens even more remote.

If there is to be a Palestinian Arab uprising, it should be against leaders like these who are happy to tell their own people to stay in hell - and to be happy about it.

(h/t Effector)

Israeli youth plan to storm Egyptian embassy - with love

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 11:42 AM PDT

Israeli youth have responded via Facebook to the mob that attacked the Israeli embassy in Cairo - by calling for a demonstration of love and peace tomorrow outside the Egyptian embassy in Tel Aviv.

From the page:
It is very easy to rise up and be angry after the incident at the Israeli embassy in Egypt; it was a case of extreme violence that has no place and should be condemned. The Egyptian people, especially its younger generation, are in a period of identity crisis, after the coup. They are trying to find their place and vent their frustrations after many years of suffering. At the same time also here we have a generation that wants to live in a a fair and better world that opposes hatred and tyranny and that fights for the basic rights and a deep desire to live a better life in a better world ... It's time we stop hating based on money and religion. We all want a better world, and it will happen only if we do it together! Let's put out a call to the Egyptian people of peace and love, and tell them that we don't want to fight them or hate them. On the contrary, we want to live as good neighbors with love, and together make life in the Middle East and the world better.... Let's show them our real faces, and perhaps open their minds .. Friday, 12:30, show love and support peace at the Egyptian Embassy.
This initiative is being appreciated by many Egyptians, some of whom are writing messages of support on the Facebook page and on Twitter.

It was also written up in Al Masry al Youm. (A few of the talkbacks are a bit more cynical, thinking this is a Jewish ploy.)

Al Quds al Arabi editor, and BBC darling, was on Gaddafi's payroll

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 10:44 AM PDT

Abdel Bari Atwan, editor in chief of pan-Arab daily Al Quds al Arabi who often appears on the BBC and CNN, has been a big supporter of terror attacks on Israel. From Wikipedia:
Speaking about Iran's nuclear capability in an interview on Lebanese television in June 2007, Atwan stated, "If the Iranian missiles strike Israel, by Allah, I will go to Trafalgar Square and dance with delight."

In March 2008, Atwan said that the Mercaz HaRav shooting, in which a Palestinian gunmen killed eight students (aged 15 to 26), "was justified." He added that the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva is responsible for "hatching Israeli extremists and fundamentalists" and that the celebrations in Gaza following the attack symbolized "the courage of the Palestinian nation."

Atwan described the the attacks on Israelis in Eilat as correcting "the course of the Arab revolutions and refocused them on the most dangerous disease, namely the Israeli tyranny. This disease is the cause of all the defects that have afflicted the region for the past 65 years."
He seems to be one of those people who speak differently in Arabic and in English:

Following an October 2003 article in which Atwan claimed that the U.S. is to blame for the Arab world's hatred of it, a Yemenite journalist and columnist for the London Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, Munir Al-Mawari, stated: "The Abd Al-Bari Atwan [appearing] on CNN is completely different from the Abdel Bari Atwan on the Al-Jazeera network or in his Al-Quds Al-Arabi daily. On CNN, Atwan speaks solemnly and with total composure, presenting rational and balanced views. This is in complete contrast with his fuming appearances on Al-Jazeera and in Al-Quds Al-Arabi, in which he whips up the emotions of multitudes of viewers and readers."

In response to Atwan's legitimization of the Mercaz HaRav shooting in March 2008, Lior Ben-Dor, a spokesman at the Israeli Embassy in London, said: "The problem is that when addressing the British public, he tends to hide his true opinions and ideology - his support for terror and the murder of civilians. This article reveals Atwan's real colors, a supporter of fundamentalism and terror, and hence he should be treated accordingly."

He has also been a big critic of the Libyan uprising:
On 17th April 2011, speaking on BBC News Channel's Dateline London, Atwan claimed that "We know that Eastern area of Libya is almost a hotbed of extremist Al-Qaeda people. I know that personally".
It appears that his opinions on Libya were a bit...tainted.

Arabic media has been reporting that the new Libyan government has released documents showing that Atwan, as well as Jordanian Al-Dostour reporter Khairy Mansour, were being paid by Gaddafi a sum of $3000 every month.

Atwan vehemently denies it and is threatening to sue everyone who makes these accusations.



Saudi Embassy in Egypt was also attacked last weekend!

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 09:43 AM PDT

From Sky News:
Not many people know this, but the Israeli Embassy was not the only one attacked in Cairo last weekend.

The Embassy of Saudi Arabia was also stormed by a mob. Strangely the Egyptian media mostly kept quiet about it. The Muslim Brotherhood, which welcomed the assault on the 'murderous Nazi Jewish invaders' had nothing to say about the Saudi incident.

Several cars were set alight but there was only minor damage to the building. however, it begs the question - why the Saudi Embassy?

...The spark which led to the weekend's violence came in the first week of September when thousands of Egyptians were trapped in Jeddah airport while trying to return home after undertaking the minor pilgrimage of the Umrah.

The Egyptians claim they were deliberately held back for days because of the January uprising against Mubarak. Some said officials insulted them and referred to the ongoing trial of the former President.

Tempers flared and Jeddah airport was treated to the unprecedented scene of a mass protest in the terminal. The final insult came as the Egyptians arrived back in Cairo to discover that hundreds of pieces of luggage were missing.

The violence of Friday/Saturday has not been repeated, but there have been smaller peaceful protests outside the embassy demanding the Ambassador leave the country.
Indeed, the Saudi ambassador to Egypt complained, saying that he was assaulted, a number of Saudi embassy vehicles were burned and people tried to break into his embassy.

The BBC notes Egyptian anti-semitism

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:57 AM PDT

From the BBC' s Thomas Dinham:
...A strong and sometimes violent dislike of Israel is a fact of Egyptian life, something I was unfortunate enough to discover after a cross-border raid by Israel killed several Egyptian security personnel.

The Israelis had been chasing a group of gunmen who had attacked an Israeli bus close to the border between the two countries.

While walking in the street someone pushed me from behind with such force that I nearly fell over.

Turning around, I found myself surrounded by five men, one of whom tried to punch me in the face. I stopped the attack by pointing out how shameful it was for a Muslim to assault a guest in his country, especially during Ramadan.

Relieved that a seemingly random assault was over, I was appalled by the apology offered by one of my assailants. "Sorry," he said contritely, offering his hand, "we thought you were a Jew."

Shaking his head in disbelief on hearing the news, an Egyptian friend sympathised: "That's stupid, you are obviously not a Jew."

The chilling implication I was left with was that, had I been Jewish, the assault would have apparently been justified.
(h/t Challah Hu Akbar)

PalArab historical revisionism, philatelic edition

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 08:15 AM PDT

From AFP:
At the headquarters of the Palestinian postal service in the West Bank city of Ramallah, excitement is growing over the bid to see UN membership for a Palestinian state.

The post office has already inked a deal to begin extricating its delivery system from Israeli supervision, and is eagerly preparing for the reality that could emerge after the Palestinians go to the United Nations next week to seek full membership for their state.

... The new system might seem like a small step, but the postal service considers it enough of a revolution to be issuing a new logo with the words: "We emerge again."
Again? Was there an Arab-run Palestine post office in the past?

Of course not. The postal system in Palestine before 1948 was run by the British. Somehow, I don't think Arabs would have issued a stamp that looked like this, showing Rachel's Tomb:
AFP also writes:
The postal service is also planning to switch the currency marked on its stamps from the Jordanian dinar to the Palestinian pound, which existed before Israel's establishment in 1948, though it is no longer in circulation.
As CAMERA notes linking to an older post of mine, the Palestinian pound was also British currency with Hebrew and Arabic written on it:



By the way, while looking for stamps I came up with this beauty from Jordan n 1964:

Jordan embassy protests scheduled for 6:30 PM in Amman

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 07:21 AM PDT

The "million man" protest scheduled by Jordanian Islamists and anti-Zionists is scheduled for 6:30 PM Jordan time - 11:30 AM EDT.

JPost reports:
A senior official in the Foreign Ministry said that the security assurances from Jordan have reduced fears of a serious attack against the embassy, Israel Radio reported Thursday, despite evacuations of the mission on Wednesday evening.

The evacuation occurred hours before a Facebook organized march under the banner (in Arabic) of "No Zionist embassy on Jordanian territory."

Unlike in Egypt, where diplomats lived with their families, in Amman the Israeli delegation serves without their families, and comes home for weekends.
On Facebook and Twitter, the evacuation of the ambassador is already being celebrated as a victory.

The next few hours will be interesting.

Zionist colonialism extends to outer space!

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 06:33 AM PDT

First those colonial Israelis wanted to send their pernicious Zio-objects to the moon.

Now, these expansionist Zionists are setting their sights to even farther reaches of the solar system:
Boaz Ron-Zohar, a high-school physics teacher from the Western Galilee, has officially identified an asteroid previously unknown to the scientific community. Ron-Zohar discovered the asteroid in July, while conducting a research project with Israeli high-school students as part of the international Faulkes Telescope Project. Ron-Zohar and his students are now requesting the Israeli public's help in naming the asteroid.
What name would upset the anti-Israel crowd the most?

Leftist code-word: "Justice" means destroying Israel

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 03:50 AM PDT

This week, an anti-Israel group bought some ads in New York subways:
New York City subways have recently started to display advertisements calling for the end of US military aid to Israel, deliberately coinciding with the United Nations General Assembly sessions next week.

The 25 posters in 18 Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Bronx subway stations are part of a mass transit advertising campaign by Be On Our Side to remedy what the advertisements call "the flawed and skewed representation in mainstream media" of Israeli-Palestinian relations.

The small print says that the New York ads were paid by The Wespac Foundation. 

Its website has articles that say that Mahmoud Abbas is a secret Zionist agent. Another posting, from  September 2010 when Israel had frozen construction in the territories and the US was seeking to get the PLO back to the negotiating table, quotes the "Palestinian community" in rejecting negotiations with Israel.

This campaign was done in conjunction with Jewish Voice for Peace, the fanatically anti-Israel movement that supports a full set of boycotting, divestment and sanctions against Israel. 

But look at the alleged photos of Palestinian Arabs and Israelis who want "peace and justice"! Who could be against such noble goals?

When people hear the word "peace," they usually associate it with the kind of peace that is agreed upon by two or more parties in order for them to live together in harmony. Such a peace requires, by definition, compromise on both sides. This is how marriages work, this is how businesses cooperate, this is how nations work together. This kind of peace comes through negotiations and good will on the part of both parties. 

But when the word "justice" is added to the formula, people  mean something quite different. Invariably, a demand for "justice" is not a call for negotiations or compromise; it is a call for an imposed solution where one side wins and the other loses.

Justice means there is a right and a wrong, not that both parties have valid claims. Justice in the context of international conflicts demands that one party be seen as pure and good and the other as oppressive and evil.

The word "justice" is a code word that is used by anti-Israel organizations to act as a cover to destroying Israel and denying the Jewish people the right to self-determination.

The concept of "justice" is used (by groups such as "Students for Justice in Palestine" and many others) to claim that Palestinian Arabs have the only historic claim to the area, that Jews are Western colonialists, that Palestinian Arab suffering is solely the responsibility of Israel, that the descendants of Palestinian Arabs have the "right" to  "return" to Israel and destroy the state demographically. Very often these same ""peace" groups will say that "justice" demands a Palestinian Arab right to terrorism ("armed resistance") as well.

If it was real "justice" they were after, they would demand that Jews continue to live in Gush Etzion and the entire Old City of Jerusalem where they were expelled in 1948. They would demand that Jordan compensate Israel for the destruction of dozens of synagogues in a single month. They would demand that residents of Sderot and Ashkelon be reimbursed by Hamas for the money spent on building rocket shelters. They would demand that convicted terrorists remain in jail for their full terms, and that Gilad Shalit be released immediately with no preconditions. They would demand payment of billions of dollars from Arab countries that expelled hundreds of thousands of Jews for the property they seized. They would demand that Jews be allowed to live in their historic homeland that they have always planned to return to. They would demand that the US stop funding a Palestinian Authority that praises terrorists and pays salaries to murderers in prison.

In order to have a true peace, there cannot be a demand for a one-sided and twisted version of "justice." That demand is completely antithetical to real peace between two parties, when each side has claims on the other that can never be reconciled.  

In other words, the phrase "peace and justice" is an oxymoron in the way that it is being used by anti-Israel activists like this. They cunningly use a term with universally positive connotations, justice, and twist it to mean accepting the false narrative of only one party and the absolute defeat of the other.

There is no advertising-friendly way to expose the contradiction between what these Israel haters try to imply by using the term "peace and justice." A poster like the one pictured above goes straight into one's subconscious thought, associating peace with abandoning one side of the conflict. 

Yes, a poster with smiling families and that calls for universally supported themes can be a cover for pure hate.

Similar campaigns have been answered pretty effectively with counter-campaigns that show that peace is impossible with people who raise their kids to love terror. 


And Divest This! came up with a nice parody poster:



So I figured I have to join the party, with a poster showing what they are really after:

Will a popular uprising begin in Algeria this Saturday? (updated)

Posted: 15 Sep 2011 01:46 AM PDT

There's a Facebook page that started last month calling for a Day of Anger in Algeria on September 17th.

This event mostly slipped under everyone's radar, but the Algerian government is taking no chances. So, of course, it announced that the September 17 movement is orchestrated by Zionists.

The Algerian Minister of Interior and Local Government, Dahou Ould Kablia said that foreign parties are involved in order to cause unrest in Algeria September 17. The survey conducted by security services, confirmed a general reluctance on these malicious calls from foreign parties whose purpose is to destabilize the country.

In a statement to Ennahar, Ould Kablia said that the authorities, who surveyed the streets of Algeria, through social networking sites, like Facebook, have concluded that there was no impact of these nuisance calls on the Algerians. On the contrary, many people, especially youth, organize to combat these ideas by calling for wisdom and mobilization in order to bar the way to any attempt to destabilize the country.

According to the Minister of Interior, "the appeals find no echo and there will be no demonstrations or disturbances at that precise date."

Responding to a question as to the results of the survey which was conducted by the security services, to reach the authors of this appeal, Ould Kablia said that they were foreign parties, given the date chosen which coincides with the Camp David and also with the events of Sabra and Shatila. It is, in his view, a Zionist plan against Algeria. "If it was the work of people inside the country, we would have unmasked and arrested them, but the clues point us to foreign parties in relation to the Zionist entity."
They even came up with a theory as to who is behind this entire enterprise: French philosopher Bernard Henri Levy:

The date of September 17, 2011 of the alleged revolution in Algeria, to which call hundreds of Facebook and Internet users as the French journalist of Jewish origin, Bernard Henri Levy, for the overthrow of the regime in Algeria, coincides with the same day when Napoleon III had trampled Algerian soil. The choice of the date by the French philosopher is not accidental. According to an article by Daniel R. published in the French magazine "Histoire" in January 1991, Napoleon III came to Algeria September 17, 1760 [sic]. He dreamed of creating a Jewish state stretching from Algiers to Baghdad, under a French protectorate.

So the date chosen by the French writer and journalist Levy, of Jewish origins, and his consorts fans of Napoleon Bonaparte, those who belong to the new philosophical movement whose slogan "liberation of nations from domination" and follow a new modern way, using the youth of the Arab countries, and Algerians in particular, by encouraging them to revolt; a way to re-colonize these nations and put their people once again under the boots of Napoleon Bonaparte.
(UPDATE): T34 found an article about Napoleon III by Daniel Rivet in L'Historie, but it says nothing about  him wanting to create a Jewish state. In fact, he wanted to create an Arab kingdom, with equal rights for all, although under the protection of France. And it does appear that he indeed came to Algeria on September 17th, 1860.

Chances are that this Saturday's actions will fizzle as the Algerian government is already on the offensive to stop the uprising before it starts. As always in the Muslim world, "Zionists" provide the pretext.
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