יום רביעי, 21 בדצמבר 2011

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Video: Arab destroying gravestones at historic Mount of Olives cemetery

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:00 PM PST

From Arutz-7:
An incident of cemetery vandalism at the Mount of Olives Jewish Cemetery in Jerusalem was documented on video on November 29, 2011. The Arab perpetrator, who was consequently found guilty due to the video evidence, was sentenced to three months in prison for his crime. He admitted that he received NIS 1,000 to commit his acts of cemetery desecration.


"This is not a freak occurrence", [said] Charley J. Levine, adviser to the Preservation Committee in Israel, "This sort of vicious vandalism and desecration occurs at Har Hazeitim every single day, some orchestrated and some spontaneous. It is a shame of enormous proportion that this takes place at the oldest and largest Jewish cemetery in the entire world!"
Did you hear about this anywhere else? Was it mentioned in the New York Times or Time magazine? Perhaps the Huffington Post or Salon? Surely the Jerusalem Post or Ha'aretz?

Of course not. 

Arabs desecrating Jewish shrines and cemeteries is expected behavior; it is a dog-bites-man story.

While the world is riveted at the unconscionable and reprehensible "price tag" attacks being done against some mosques and other places in Israel, no one even notices this even more disgusting desecration of the dead at one of the most venerable Jewish holy places in the world. It is simply a non-event. And the reason is because this is considered normal.

Mahmoud Abbas won't even get a chance to do one of his patented fake condemnations - because no reporter will ask him about it. The story is stuck in the ghetto of an Israeli right-wing news site where such stories are reported nearly every day, only to sit there to die.

Nearly four years ago I visited Israel and saw the sickening desecration of another Jewish holy place, the Tomb of Samuel. And that incident was also all but ignored by the Israeli media, let alone international news sources. Then too, it was simply not news, even in Israel.

Why are Jewish cemeteries and shrines being vandalized in Israel considered less important than mosques? Why is there an international outcry when a stupid kid spray-paints a hateful slogan on a Muslim site but the actual destruction of historic Jewish holy sites is  downplayed and ignored?

Even worse, the desecration at Har HaZeitim was paid for - there is an organization behind the destruction of Jewish gravestones! This is more than just an isolated incident of vandalism - it is literally a conspiracy to uproot all Jewish history from the land!

Where is the outrage? More importantly - where are the reporters?

In a country that probably has more international reporters per square mile than any other - where the hell are they? Why is this video not being shown on CNN?

The scandal is not only that such acts are occurring - it is that such acts are not being even noticed or reported. And if it isn't in the paper, it might as well have never happened. UNESCO won't be bothered to make a statement, the EU will continue to criticize Israel disproportionately, and the leftist crowd will never, ever say a negative word against Arabs who are fighting a daily war against Jewish history and culture.

Acknowledging such inconvenient facts  isn't "progressive."

(h/t Israel Matzav)

Released female terrorist wants to try again (video)

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:31 PM PST

From the MFA, June 20, 2005:
Twenty-one-year-old Wafa Samir Ibrahim al-Biss was arrested Monday morning, June 20, 2005, at the Erez crossing, after attempting to smuggle an explosives belt through the crossing with the intent of carrying out a suicide bombing attack.

Wafa, 21, a resident of Jabaliya, aroused the suspicion of the soldiers at the crossing and during her security check, and when she realized they had discovered the explosive belt on her body, she attempted unsuccessfully to detonate it.

Wafa stated in her questioning that she had been dispatched as a suicide bomber by the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade infrastructure based in the northern Gaza Strip. Wafa was to use her personal medical authorization documents, allowing her to cross through into Israel to receive medical treatment. Wafa stated that she had been directed to carry out the suicide attack in a crowded Israeli hospital.
Al-Biss was released in the Gilad Shalit deal.

Fox News interviewed her and is surprised that she has not changed one bit.



She has asked children to follow her footsteps and kill themselves for her wonderful cause - of killing as many random Jews as possible.

(h/t jzaik)

Chanukah Video Night 1: Yeshiva Boys Choir

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:30 PM PST

This song has been getting a fair amount of play, and I saw the boys were even on a Sunday morning news show performing it, so here is "Those Were The Nights (of Chanukah):"

I made a bizarre Chanukah video

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 11:15 AM PST

Presenting: The Anti-Zionist menorah!

Lebanon blames rocket fire to Israel on - Israel!

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 10:15 AM PST

Yesterday's Daily Star of Lebanon reports:
Lebanon's government has information about who is behind recent security incidents in the south, Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn said, denying rumors that UNIFIL might abort its mission in the country.

"We know who has been firing the rockets, who makes the explosives and who is jeopardizing security in the south and southerners and to which party they belong to whose aim is to destabilize Lebanon," Ghosn told As-Safir newspaper in an article published Monday.

"We have reliable leads in our investigation but we will not disclose them to the public except when [the information is confirmed]," he added.
He didn't leave us in suspense long. Today's Daily Star says:
Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn Monday blamed Israel and its agents for the firing of mysterious rockets from Lebanon into the Jewish state in an attempt to undermine security and stability in south Lebanon.

"The party that has launched mysterious rockets from the south is known," Ghosn told The Daily Star by telephone, in a clear reference to Israel and its agents. However, he did not elaborate.

"Lebanon's enemies, namely Israel, have no interest in the continuation of calm and stability in the south," he said.
In case you are wondering where this idiot's head is at, well, here's what he said in August:
Lebanese Defense Minister Fayez Ghosn has praised Iran's support for his country's independence and dignity, expressing optimism about his visit to Tehran in a near future.

"Iran respects the independency and dignity of Lebanon and always stands by Lebanon in all conditions," said Ghosn in a meeting with Iran's Ambassador to Beirut Ghazanfar Roknabadi on Tuesday, Mehr news agency reported.

The Lebanese defense minister described Iran as "a model in loyalty and aid" to regional states, especially the Palestinian cause.




That famous Israeli/American/Masonic/Al-Jazeera conspiracy

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 09:15 AM PST

From Bikya al Masr:
The flyer below, distributed to taxi drivers across Cairo, details a conspiracy to foment violence in the country. It blames America, Israel, Masons, Al-Jazeera and called leading writer Alaa al-Aswany agent number 1 in creating the clashes in the country, which has left 14 dead and over 700 injured.
That reminds me, I need to renew my Masonic membership, as well as submit more of my writings to Al Jazeera.

(h/t Elder of Lobby)

South Sudan's president visits Israel

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 08:15 AM PST

From AFP:

South Sudan's President Salva Kiir on Tuesday visited Israel for the first time for talks with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other top officials, a diplomatic source told AFP.

"This is a working visit of just one day," he said, indicating Kiir would also meet President Shimon Peres, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman.

But the source said the aim was to keep the visit "low-profile" at the request of South Sudan, and Kiir was not expected to make any public remarks.

The South Sudanese leader arrived late on Monday, press reports said, and was due to visit the Yad Vashem Holocaust museum in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.

Israel recognized South Sudan and established full diplomatic relations with Kiir's government shortly after it declared independence in July following a 22-year civil war with the mostly-Muslim north.

The Jewish state does not have relations with Khartoum, which it has accused of serving as a base for Islamic militants, and instead supported the rebel movement of the mainly Christian and animist south during the war.

Israel's ties with the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement, which is now the south's ruling party, have reportedly long been close, with the Jewish state allegedly providing arms during the war, although neither side has publicly acknowledged any weapons transfers.

Tuesday's meetings were expected to focus on the issue of refugees.

Israel is home to thousands of refugees from the former united Sudan, including hundreds from the south.

So far, this year, more than 12,000 illegal immigrants have sneaked across the Egyptian border into southern Israel, the vast majority of them economic migrants from Africa, prompting Israel to ramp up measures to stop the flow.

Notably, South Sudan abstained on a UN resolution yesterday about the right of self-determination of the Palestinian Arab people. 182 countries - including all of Europe - voted in favor.

Technion/Cornell win bid for NYC science campus

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 07:15 AM PST

Another BDS Fail.

From PC Magazine:

New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced today that Cornell University, in partnership with the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, has been selected to build a new graduate engineering school on an 11-acre site at Roosevelt Island. Bloomberg aims to make New York City "the world's leading city in technological innovation."


Bloomberg said the two schools were picked out of seven applications from consortiums of multiple schools as part of the city's applied sciences initiative. They were selected based on their plans for the site, economic impact, and speed of development. The new campus, which will be run as a joint venture by the two universities, is expected to eventually host 2,000 graduate students and 300 faculty members. (The selection of the Cornell-Technion group wasn't a surprise, as Stanford University dropped out of the running on Friday, meanwhile Cornell announced it had received a $350 million donation to help build the new campus.)

The new school plans to start operation off-site next year. The first phase of the development will be completed in 2017, with 300 students and 70 faculty members on the campus in 2018. Bloomberg said the project will create up to 20,000 construction jobs and up to 8,000 permanent jobs. He expects that over the next three decades, it will spawn 600 new companies, which will result in 30,000 new jobs.

Technion President Peretz Lavie said the new facility, known as the NYC Tech Campus, is "not an extension of the Technion or Cornell, but something new." It will be built around the concept of applied sciences and based on various hubs including Connecting Media, Healthier Life, and Built Environment—all of which are in turn based on computer science, electrical engineering, information sciences, economics, and business.

Bloomberg called the plan a "game-changer," and said the push for more applied sciences in the city would "prime the economic pump for generations to come." A university has the power to be "a magnet for economic innovation and growth," Bloomberg said, citing the influence of land-grant colleges such as Cornell in the 19th century.

(h/t Aviv)

Over 100 killed yesterday in Syria

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 06:14 AM PST

From Al Jazeera:
Activists on Monday reported the deaths of more than 60 Syrian army defectors and at least 48 civilians.

Speaking to Al Jazeera, Rami Abdel Rahman, the founder of the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, said the defectors were trying to flee from their base in Kan Safra to Kafar Ouwaied in Jabal al-Zawyeh when they were shot dead by members of Syria's regular army.

Meanwhile, the Local Co-ordination Committees activist network said 14 civilians were killed in the province of Deraa, 12 in Homs, nine in Kansafra in the province of Idlib, three in Damascus, three in Qoriya in Deir al-Zor, three in Hama, two in Saraqeb, and one in a Damascus suburb.
This happened while Syria signed an agreement with the Arab League aiming at stopping the killing.

JPost publishes an op-ed from a "friend"

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 04:09 AM PST

An op-ed by James Adler in JPost:
There is a common thread linking The Jerusalem Post's attack on Thomas Friedman last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's refusal to write an opinion column for The New York Times and an attack on my views by Haifa resident Ella Berkovitz on the Post letters page last Thursday. In all three instances, the individuals in question showed they prefer to take the easy road of crowd-pleasingly attacking the New York Times and one of its senior columnists, without addressing the fact that similar views are held by the United States government and most Western democracies.

To begin with, Berkovitz's honorable and intelligent letter drew a comparison between Palestinian Israelis and Jewish residents of the West Bank. She is certainly correct that Israeli Arabs live on a nearly equal footing with Jews in Israel, and that the Israel we love and are so proud is an admirable and egalitarian democracy. So if Arabs can live as citizens in Israel, goes the argument, why can't Jews live in Palestine?

But the comparison is fallacious because the Palestinians had lived throughout Palestine as 98 percent of the population for many centuries before 1948. In contrast, Israel has only recently settled the West Bank, outside her internationally recognized boundaries.
It amazes me that intelligent people, people who think that they love Israel, get basic facts so wrong.

Jews lived in Judea and Samaria continuously since the fall of Judea. Jews lived in Hebron and in the Old City of Jerusalem, for example. Adler's implication that Jews only moved there after 1967 institutionalized the anomalous 19-year history of the area being Jew-free as if that is the status quo. This is incredibly offensive, yet he cannot conceive of that. And it appears that he knows this, because he changes the terminology from "Jews" (as the letter writer wrote) to "Israelis." What a friend, using semantics to avoid the truth!

And he does it again by referring to the 1949 armistice lines as "internationally recognized boundaries." He carefully doesn't call them "borders" because he knows very well that they weren't internationally recognized as borders at all. The "boundaries" are merely an accident of where the Jewish and Arab armies ended up when the cease fire went into effect. No one considered them national borders; they were simply armistice lines.

Adler knows the truth - he just wants to fuzz it a little.

[T]he post-1967 settlement drive occured at a time when we already had a country to call home, and Jews around the world had a safe haven to run to in case of persecution. The Zionist dream had indeed been met. Israel had no choice but to fight the Six Day War, but there was no need to plant civilian communities around the newly conquered territories in the aftermath of that victory.

So according to this lover of Israel, Jews have no right to live in the heart of their historic homeland because the Jordanians expelled them from it. They have no right to visit their holy places. They must be barred from the Cave of the Patriarchs, the Western Wall, the Temple Mount (obviously) and Rachel's Tomb, and only be allowed to visit if the magnanimous Palestinian Arabs allow them to. Since these same Palestinian Arabs are known to be so moderate and tolerant towards Jews, this is no problem at all.

One would expect a graduate of Harvard Divinity School to be a little sensitive to the feelings of those for whom the Land of Israel is more than just a "refuge" with no religious significance whatsoever.
Most modern Israeli historians conclude that the yishuv – the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine – knew full well that as a tiny minority, it needed to "cleanse" the area in order to create a Jewish majority and to make the new state viable. Jewish leaders at the time said as much, and carried through. Those are the historical facts and are well known around the world. That is also the (obvious) reason why Palestinians, even women and children, were not then allowed to come back home. In this light, it is Dermer's view, not Friedman's, that could not survive elementary fact checking.
Perhaps Adler considers Ilan Pappe to be the foremost Israeli historian, but in fact it is a distinct minority view that the Zionists actively worked to expel most of the Arabs in their territory. A minority were expelled, yes. A larger minority - including many community leaders and wealthy businessmen - left quite voluntarily to get out of the way, especially in the early days of fighting. But the vast majority fled out of fear and in response to wild rumors of Israeli massacres.

Also, his use of the word "cleanse" in quotes appears to be a libel. I am not aware of that word being used by any of the Zionist leaders, even in the out of context or false quotes attributed to them - usually, the word is "transfer," a word that the British used as well in the Peel partition plan.

If I am right, Adler is using the terminology of the Israel haters, claiming that Israel "ethnically cleansed" the Palestinian Arabs - which is the worst kind of libel.

[T]he Post editorial repeats that fallacy there was a conflict even before the the settlements began and so that the settlements are irrelevant. Yes, there was already a conflict – for the obvious reasons just stated – but the fallacy here is a simple one; time moves on. In contrast to Khartoum's "three nos," the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative has been on the table for a decade, but Israel has resolutely ignored in order to keep its settlements.
Time does move on, abut the Palestinian Arabs have not modified their goals of destroying Israel. One only has to look at Saeb Erekat's JPost op-ed piece last week:
[W]e have engaged Israel and the international community and exerted sincere efforts to achieve our inalienable right to self-determination through the establishment of a viable and sovereign Palestinian state on the territory occupied by Israel in 1967, including East Jerusalem, and a just solution to the Palestinian refugee issue in accordance with UN General Assembly Resolution 194.
As Adler no doubt knows, the "right of return" and "Resolution 194" are code words for destroying the Jewish state. He may downplay it but the fact is that this has been a consistent motif of the Palestinian Arabs and the Arabs altogether since 1948 - including the heralded 2002 Arab Peace initiative. Wishful thinking that this demand will just disappear will not make it so, and it has been drilled into the minds of generations of Arabs as non-negotiable.

In other words, it is the encapsulation of Arab intransigence, and it has not changed one bit. And the Palestinian Arabs themselves are quite clear that they view the two-state solution as a mere stage to ultimately destroy Israel.
Unfortunately for the Post, and for Ron Dermer, and for Ella Berkovitz, the democratic world just isn't buying the transparent fallacies put forth by current Israeli hasbara (public diplomacy). It's not just Tom Friedman, The New York Times or their "liberal Northeastern Jewish" readers. Israel is unfortunately on a path to over-extend itself demographically and to force upon itself either a one-state solution or an unjust apartheid state. That will lead violent uprisings and a worldwide South Africa-style BDS movement, and eventually to national suicide.
Another pundit falls for the "all or nothing" fallacy. There is a large range of solutions between the Palestinian Arab maximalist demands and any danger to Israel's demographic nature.

Israel has made many peace offers; all of them were rejected. Any of those plans would have forestalled the apocalyptic predictions of frightened Jews like Adler. Yet the Adlers, the Friedmans, the Walts and other who pretend they love Israel insist that the world must pressure Israel, and only Israel, to continue to sweeten the peace offers even further, rather than pressure the Palestinian Arab leadership to accept them.

Palestinian Arabs, seeing the overwhelming acceptance by leftist Jews of their maximal demands as being normative, have no incentive to compromise on those demands.

Which means that Jews like Adler are encouraging Palestinian Arab intransigence.

Does that sound like something a friend to Israel does?

EoZ Facebook changes

Posted: 20 Dec 2011 02:49 AM PST

Facebook disabled my account because I didn't use my real name. It will take time for me to get things back up and running as a Facebook Page, since I am no FB expert.

Meanwhile, the new page is here if you want to "Like" it while I try to get it working in whatever free time I have.
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