יום שישי, 20 בינואר 2012

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

EoZ Facebook issue fixed

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:10 PM PST

Things are now working again; people can paste links to EoZ from Facebook and you can "Like" my posts again.

Unfortunately, I had to pull some strings to get it done; I don't think FB ever read any of the complaints sent to them through their own forms.

I don't like to use my vast worldwide Zio-powers to accomplish something so trivial, but sometimes you have to bend the rules....Thanks to the members of the International Zionist Conspiracy for helping me out!

Funny Israeli commercial (Well, Iran won't think so.)

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 01:30 PM PST

Click the CC button to read the subtitles. Not the greatest subtitles, but you'll get it.

Iranian actress told not to return home after nude photo

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 12:25 PM PST

From The Daily Mail:
An actress who has starred with Leonardo DiCaprio and Russell Crowe has been banished from her home country of Iran - because she posed nude in a French news magazine.

Golshifteh Farahani says she has been contacted by the Iranian government, telling her that she is no longer welcome in the country and advising her not to return home.

The offending photo - a black-and-white 'art shot' featuring the 28-year-old Farahani posing against a black backdrop with her hands strategically placed over her breasts - was first published in Madame Le Figaro.


Click picture to see the topless photo

Jimmy Carter blames the Jooos for Christian exodus from "Palestine"

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

Yeah, he's an honest broker:


I wonder how he explains all the Christians leaving Egypt, Iraq, and every other Muslim-majority area? It's got to be Israel's fault somehow; I mean, what else could all those Christian populations have in common?

And the fact that Israel's own Christian population is increasing is just more evidence for Israel's evil. You see, they are nice to some Christians in order to cover their seething hate for Christians.

Call it "crosswashing."

It is so obvious, once you know how the sickening Israeli mind works, right? Luckily Jimmy is an expert. 

(h/t jzaik)

The Delilah cruise missile

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 09:45 AM PST

From the IDF:

"Honestly, it's the most amazing weapon in the Air Force today." – These are the words an IAF officer used to describe the Delilah and it's easy to understand why he is right.

For many years the Delilah was one of the IDF's biggest secrets, quietly undergoing improvement after improvement, until it became what it is today. Delilah is a cruise missile but it possesses some very unique capabilities that set it apart from the rest.

A typical cruise missile is launched and finds its pre-programmed target with the help of its navigational system. The navigator can send the missile commands and make small adjustments in its flight path, but once the missile begins its final approach no changes can be made. If the missile attacks a target that moves in the last moment or even a wrong target, the missile simply misses with possibly devastating consequences. This is where the Delilah's special abilities come into play.

Let's say Delilah is approaching a target and in the last moment the navigator sees on the images transmitted from the missile's camera that there are civilians in the target zone. All he needs to do is push a button and Delilah aborts its attack, returns to the air and keeps loitering in the target zone until it receives new instructions. Delilah can also be launched in the direction of a suspected target and be instructed to patrol the area and search for its target, effectively functioning as a surveillance drone. Once the navigator identifies the target, he instructs Delilah to approach it. If the target was correctly identified Delilah will attack. If it was not the correct target, a push of a button is enough and Delilah will abort its approach and continue to search for the real target.

In the same article about the latest IDF technology, you can learn about the Simon, an amazing door-breaching weapon:



What do these weapons have in common? They represent years of effort and huge sums of money to create weapons that do not kill innocent people.

How to square that simple fact with the way that Israel-haters prefer to portray the country and the IDF is left as an exercise to the reader.

(h/t JW)

PalArab newspaper reminds readers to shut up about terror orgs

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 08:30 AM PST


Palestine Today, which is associated with Islamic Jihad, has a curious article telling its readers that some things about "resistance organizations" that must remain unsaid.

Examples of things about members of terror groups that must never be revealed:

  • Names, jobs and social status 
  • Affiliation
  • Type of work done
  • Distinctive marks that could identify someone
  • Members' temperaments, habits 
  • Members' routines
  • Where they hang out (mosques, cafes, parks)
  • Their relatives and friends
  • Telephone numbers and addresses
  • Details on their cars or transportation methods

As far as the organizations themselves go:

  • Objectives, strategies
  • Precautions
  • Where secret work is done
  • Where they get money from
  • The organization chart
  • How they recruit
  • How they communicate
  • Their front organizations

Somehow, I don't think a "Wikileaks" in Gaza would go over very well.

A paper on Israel-India relations

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 07:15 AM PST

A student at Israel's National Defense College, Itzhak Gerberg, wrote a nice monograph in 2010 on "India–Israel Relations: Strategic Interests, Politics and Diplomatic Pragmatism." It discusses the reasons why India made its decision in 1992 to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel, and by implication it provides a blueprint of how Israel's unique strengths position it to make diplomatic victories.
The transformation of Indian policy on Israel and the establishment of the diplomatic relations on 29 January 1992 are considered by India one of the most important steps in Indian diplomacy. The former Secretary of the Indian Ministry of External Affairs J. N. Dixit, described it thus:
I consider our establishing relations with South Africa and then with Israel as the most significant among developments in India's foreign policy, which occurred during my period as Foreign Secretary (Dixit 1996).
To comprehend India-Israel relations it is essential to understand the change of the Indian policy towards Israel as a formative event that led to the evolving relationship between the two countries.

After the establishment of diplomatic ties, the relationship became a cornerstone of the two countries' foreign policy, with direct implications for their national security. This was particularly notable under the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) governments in India. In May 2004 a new Indian government, the United Progressive Alliance (UPA), was formed by the Congress party headed by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Relations with Israel thereupon were moderated somewhat. Nevertheless, the relations of the two countries with regard to defence have continued to develop, based on the convergence of their strategic interests.
The paper describes the congruence of interests between the two states:
  • Military
  • Counter-terrorism
  • Intelligence
  • Foreign Affairs
  • Economic
  • Geo-strategic (energy and the Indian Ocean)
  • Nuclear power
The National Defense College itself is fascinating. It focuses on the study of national defense: the relationship between economic strength, military power, social strength, and the international status of the country. Upon graduation, students get a masters degree in political science and an NDC graduation certificate. Students are required to conduct a research, submit several papers, to write tests and to participate in simulations.

There are between thirty and forty students in the NDC. The students are colonels and lieutenant colonels of the Israeli Defense Force, and their equivalents in the government service.

The NDC inaugurated an international program in 2006, in which officers from other countries study in Israel at the NDC for one year towards receiving an M.A. from Haifa University. The students are usually colonels. There have been students every year from the United States, Singapore, Germany - and India. In addition, the NDC has taught French and Italian officers.

But, I am told, no British officer has ever attended.

(h/t Ruchie)

Security conference in Bahrain reveals Arab fears. Israel not mentioned.

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 05:36 AM PST

There was a major regional security conference held in Bahrain this week, meant to position the Gulf Cooperation Council countries for the challenges in the new Middle East.

One of the themes of the conference was the threat from Iran:
Saudi Arabia's former intelligence chief says the Iranian escalation will lead to "misadventure", stressing the readiness of the Arab Gulf States to use all options available to defend their interests.

Prince Turki al-Faisal said that "everyone heard about the provocative maneuvers carried out in the Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz and the Arabian Sea, as well as statements by the leaders of Iran on the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the targeting of neighboring countries."

Quoted by the local media Wednesday the senior prince stated that "the increasing escalation and tension may lead to a misadventure or a military confrontation." Prince Turki stressed that the Gulf states are not part of the conflict between Iran and the West over Tehran's nuclear program, however he noted that the GCC countries are fully committed to "legitimacy and international laws."

Many of the speakers talked about the challenges of economic disparities and some speakers floated the idea of a federation between the six GCC states in the face of external threats. Women's rights were also a minor topic.

(One of the less serious speakers was our old friend Lieutenant General Dahi Khalfan, General Commander of Dubai Police, who had his fifteen minutes of fame with his bizarre announcements after the assassination of Mahmoud Mabhouh in Dubai. He said that the Muslim Brotherhood was no less dangerous as Iran is. He also criticized US policy in the Gulf.)

The Bahrain News Agency summarized every speech.

And it is most interesting that in a major Gulf conference of the priorities for regional security, neither the word "Israel" nor the word "Palestine" was mentioned once - but Iran was mentioned in the summary 50 times. 

When these same leaders speak to Western leaders and newspapers, they always position Israel as the single biggest threat to the world's security, and pretend it is their top priority. But when they are speaking to their own, they show their true feelings and fears. They aren't afraid of Israeli "aggression" because they know that Israel is not a threat to them, directly or indirectly.

They fear the Islamists, they fear Iran, and they fear modernization sprinting ahead of their own abilities to lead their people.

But they don't fear Israel.

UPDATE: Ma'ariv reported that a Gulf country communicated with Israel that sanctions against Iran will not help, "and in the end we will all go to Heaven." (h/t Yoel)

The godmother of today's Jewish defamers of Israel

Posted: 19 Jan 2012 02:45 AM PST

Sol Stern in City Journal writes a long and excellent article, "Hannah Arendt and the Origins of Israelophobia." Here are some excerpts:

In last year's extensive commentary marking the 50th anniversary of the Eichmann trial, one name—Hannah Arendt—was mentioned nearly as often as that of the trial's notorious defendant. It's hard to think of another major twentieth-century event so closely linked with one author's interpretation of it. Arendt, who fled Nazi Germany at 27, was already an internationally renowned scholar and public intellectual when she arrived in Jerusalem in April 1961 to cover the trial for The New Yorker. Arendt's five articles, which were then expanded into the 1963 book Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil, proved hugely controversial. Many Jewish readers—and non-Jews, too—were shocked by three principal themes in Arendt's report: her portrayal of Israeli prime minister David Ben-Gurion as the cynical puppet master manipulating the trial to serve the state's Zionist ideology; her assertion that Eichmann was a faceless, unthinking bureaucrat, a cog in the machinery of the Final Solution rather than one of its masterminds; and her accusation that leaders of the Judenräte (Jewish councils) in Nazi-occupied Europe had engaged in "sordid and pathetic" behavior, making it easier for the Nazis to manage the logistics of the extermination process.

Since the publication of Eichmann in Jerusalem, serious scholars have debunked the most inflammatory of Arendt's charges. Nevertheless, for today's defamers of Israel, Arendt is a patron saint, a courageous Jewish intellectual who saw Israel's moral catastrophe coming. These leftist intellectuals don't merely believe, as Arendt did, that she was the victim of "excommunication" for the sin of criticizing Israel. Their homage to Arendt runs deeper. In fact, their campaign to delegitimize the state of Israel and exile it from the family of nations—another kind of excommunication, if you will—derives several of its themes from Arendt's writings on Zionism and the Holocaust. Those writings, though deeply marred by political naivety and personal rancor, have now metastasized into a destructive legacy that undermines Israel's ability to survive as a lonely democracy, surrounded by hostile Islamic societies.

...When you review Hannah Arendt's voluminous writings on Jewish affairs in the decades from 1942 to 1963, it is shocking to discover how mistaken she was on so many issues. She was wrong on the charge of "fascism" leveled against Jabotinsky, Bergson, and Begin; she was wrong in her judgment that the Soviet Union was protecting Jewish national rights; she was wrong to remain silent about the Roosevelt administration's abandonment of the European Jews; she was wrong about Israel's ability to defend itself in 1948 without foreign intervention; she was wrong in insisting that the binational approach provided a realistic solution for the Arab-Israeli conflict; and, above all, she was wrong to claim that the Holocaust had become Israel's justification for abusing innocent Palestinians.

Despite these monumental errors of political and moral judgment, Arendt's published work on Zionism, Israel, and the Holocaust continues to be viewed by leftist intellectuals as a model of truth-telling and integrity. In the pages of the liberal journals that Arendt once wrote for, we hear echoes of her disdain for a Jewish (now Israeli) tribalism that threatens world peace and universal human rights. How familiar it sounds when her disciples instruct the people of Israel that they must make amends for their previous sins by risking their own security and either ushering in an independent Palestinian state or creating a new binational state with their Palestinian brothers. Familiar, too, are the complaints of excommunication and suppression when the stubborn, parochial Jews decide to reject this gratuitous advice.
Arendt got pretty much everything wrong about Israel, but is regarded as a saint by the anti-Zionist Left. There are a number of cogent analogies between Arendt and today's leftist critics of Israel - including the charge of being "excommunicated" by the all powerful Jewish community when in fact their very criticism of Israel is what catapults them to fame.

The article is well worth reading.

(h/t Samson)
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