יום שבת, 18 בפברואר 2012

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Elder of Ziyon Daily Digest

Iranian terrorists partied with prostitutes before explosion

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:55 PM PST

From the Bangkok Times:

Two Thai women have fun with the three Iranian bomb suspects at a restaurant in Pattaya. Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, left, was arrested in Malaysia, Mohammad Khazaei, centre, was detained at Suvarnabhumi Airport, and Saied Moradi was badly injured in the bombings.
Officials at the Immigration Department's Chon Buri office yesterday identified a Thai woman in Pattaya who had escorted the Iranian bomb suspects during their stay in the resort town.

Her account, and photographs taken with her mobile phone, could help authorities confirm whether the suspects know one another.

The woman, in her twenties, and identified only as Nan, told the immigration officers that she had escorted Mohammad Khazaei, who was detained at Suvarnabhumi airport late on Tuesday after a series of explosions on Sukhumvit Soi 71.

Mr Khazaei met Ms Nan near the Balihai area in Pattaya. She said the Iranian asked her to escort him during his stay there because he was not good at speaking English.

Ms Nan later asked two friends to escort Mr Khazaei's two companions.

They were later identified from a group photo on Ms Nan's mobile phone as Saeid Moradi and Masoud Sedaghat Zadeh, the third bomb suspect who was arrested in Malaysia yesterday.

During their stay in Pattaya, from Feb 8 to 13 according to their hotel's registration, Ms Nan and her friends hung out with the three men. In one group gathering, shown in a photo, they were winding down in a bar in a hotel. Ms Nan said they had drinks and played snooker together.

Ms Nan was with Mr Khazaei in his room as well but didn't detect any irregularities except one time when he barred her from approaching a closet in the room. On the last day, Monday, Mr Khazaei told her that he would go home. So she phoned a taxi to pick him up.

"What we got from Ms Nan is circumstantial evidence that helps confirm to us that they were here together in Pattaya," Pol Lt Gol Thawatchai Nongbua, inspector of Chon Buri Immigration Office, said.
I guess the stress of planning to blow infidels up forces otherwise religious jihadis to bend the rules a little.

I mean, how are you going to handle those virgins in Paradise if you don't practice a little first?

New Orleans "Boogie-Woogie" musician visits Jewish, Arab students

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 11:30 AM PST

From the US Embassy in Tel Aviv:



New Orleans Boogie-Woogie pianist Mitch Woods visit Israel as a "target of opportunity" artist for three master classes and a performance for Jewish and Arab music students in Tel Aviv, Jaffa, and Shfar'am. Woods amazed the students with his bursting energies and virtuosity. He explained the origins of Rock-n-Roll, the uniqueness of his American style and technique, and its connection to jazz music. He also taught the students several pieces and played with them in spontaneous jam sessions. The show in Shfar'am was especially moving due to the opening of a brand new jazz department in the Beit Almusica Conservatory only few months ago.

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Posted: 17 Feb 2012 10:40 AM PST

Hamas using electricity crisis to cement its independence from Ramallah

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 09:10 AM PST

For the past week, I've been reporting that the current power crisis in Gaza is wholly Hamas' fault. It was Hamas that started refusing to take in any heavy-duty diesel from Israel a year ago and it is Hamas that refuses to accept fuel from Israel today - fuel that could turn the power plant on and provide hospitals, water treatment plants and other important infrastructure running in Gaza.

The question is - why? Why is Hamas willing to gamble with the lives of its citizens this way?

Yesterday, the Gaza health minister issued an appeal:
The Palestinian Minister of Health in Gaza, Dr Bassem Naim, is to declare a state of emergency in Gaza's hospitals due to acute power cuts and fuel shortages.

The Health Minister called for an immediate intervention to restore fuel supplies to the Gaza Strip. He appealed to the Egyptian leadership and parliament - the People's Assembly - to provide the necessary fuel to Gaza and to work toward resolving this recurrent problem.
Over the past year, Hamas has relied on smuggled fuel, going through inconsistent suppliers and being locally purified in Gaza, to run the power plant. It seems to be a very inefficient method to run the electric grid of a quasi-nation. Hate for Israel does't explain this completely, as plenty of other aid - including cooking gas - is arriving in Gaza from Israel every day.

It can be assumed that Hamas was trying to show that it can run its own infrastructure without help from either Israel or the PA. In other words, Hamas wants to act like - and be treated like - its own nation.

With the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, which soundly trounced all opponents in the parliamentary elections, Hamas has a friendly neighbor with which it can establish "international" relations.

Already, Hamas extracted a promise that Egypt would build electric lines to Gaza. Hamas managed to get the post-Mubarak leadership to open the Rafah border, bypassing Ramallah. Gaza officials now regularly travel around the world by going through Egypt. Egypt is even considering adding a regular direct flight from El Arish to Mecca to accommodate Gaza pilgrims (there have only been chartered flights between the two destinations so far.)

It looks like Hamas is using the humanitarian argument to secure an Egyptian pledge to permanently provide fuel to the Gaza area.  Hamas is explicitly calling on Egypt to promise to provide Gaza with a consistent, reliable supply of fuel - but not as charity, but as a signed agreement between peers.

I think we can expect to see future agreements from a sympathetic Muslim Brotherhood-run Egypt where the Rafah crossing is expanded to allow much larger quantities of goods to travel through without the need for smuggling tunnels, but as normal trade. All of this will cut the PA out completely.

Fatah official admits the truth (in Arabic)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 08:05 AM PST

From MEMRI:



Following are excerpts from an interview with Munir Miqdah, head of the Fatah militia in Lebanon, which aired on Al-Quds TV on January 9, 2012:

Munir Miqdah: Our Palestinian people – in Palestine and abroad – are fed up with the negotiations. They fed up with the policy of negotiating with the Israeli occupation. Allah willing, there will be armed resistance very soon, and Allah willing, we will witness the beginning of the end of the Israeli entity on the land of Palestine. This will also be achieved as the result of what we see in the Arab world.

Interviewer: Are you part of what is happening in the Fatah? Are we supposed to consider you "classic Fatah," and then "Fatah light" or "diet Fatah"?

Munir Miqdah: Some people believe that through negotiations they will be able to extract the establishment of a Palestinian state, first within the 1967 borders, and then moving on. I believe, however, that most of the Fatah leaders now support a return to armed struggle, and our abandoning these futile negotiations, which will only bring upon the Palestinian people further confiscation of land and further killings.
[…]
[Mahmoud Abbas] no longer believes in negotiations, and all the Fatah leaders believe in armed struggle and resistance.
Miqnah admits that even the "doves" who want to negotiate are still adhering to the PLO Phased Plan of 1974, where any areas of Palestine that get "liberated" are used as a foothold to get more and more of the land until the Jews are forced out altogether.

UPDATE: I have no idea why MEMRI removed the video, both from YouTube and its own site.

A heinous honor killing in Hebron reported in Arab media

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 07:00 AM PST

From Emirates 24/7:
A Palestinian mother waited for her 16-year-old daughter to go to bed, tied a rope around her neck and strangled her to death. The woman murdered her own daughter after neighbours lied to her that the girl had an affair with their son.

The crime, which moved local residents, had remained underground for a while before it was revealed by police and a Palestinian female activist, who described it as "one of the most heinous criminal acts" in Palestine.

The crime took place in Bait Oula, a tiny village in the West Bank town of Hebron and it was publicized several weeks after it was perpetrated by the mother.

Residents, who spoke to the Palestinian Arabic language daily Donia Al Watan, said the mother had already been cruel to her daughter as she used to force her to do all household work because she does not like female offspring.

It was this cruelty that made her rush and murder the girl without bothering to check if what neighbours said about her daughter was true.

"Just go and see your daughter's pictures on my son's mobile phone," the neighbouring woman told the mother after an argument, according to the paper.

"The mother then started her plan to kill her daughter…residents said she had made her daughter clean the house for two days so the family will be prepared to receive would-be mourners on their daughter's death."

After the murder, the family left the girl in her bed all the night. In the morning, they went straight to hospital and said their daughter had died of heart attack.

"But doctors noticed the swelling in her neck and that her body was bluish….they informed the authorities, who later wrested a confession about the murder…the mother said she killed her to wash off shame and clean the family's honour….a day later, hospital tests showed the girl was still virgin and pure….it was a hasty crime of honour, which has never been marred or even touched."
It is hard to confirm this story. It is attributed to a PalArab women's rights activist who revealed it while visiting Jordan. The earliest mention I found was from Albawaba on January 26th.

I couldn't find anything about it on Palestinian Arab human rights sites.

(h/t jzaik)

Work accident!

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 05:45 AM PST

Islamic Jihad terrorist Hamad Abu Shallouf, 25, was killed in a "jihad operation" in Rafah on Tuesday.

The group issued a poetic statement asking that the "blood of the martyrs will remain a lamp that illuminates the path of the faithful to victory and empowerment, and we renew our commitment to the option of jihad and resistance, the perfect choice for the Liberation of the Holy Land from the filth of the usurpers."

Let's hope that the blood of Islamic Jihad martyrs flows like a mighty river as thousands more manage to die from their own actions - without hurting a single innocent person.

The hypocrites who voted against Syria resolution at UN (Zvi)

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 03:23 AM PST

From Zvi:
Who voted against the UN resolution condemning the brutal crackdown by the al-Assad regime? Who voted in favor? (Israel supported the resolution, for one) Who abstained?

The usual suspects.

Here is what various countries had to say about it at the podium.

Voting against - the usual crew of raving hypocrites (notice how many of them have served on the Human Rights Council!):

* Bolivia (*cough lapdog of Venezuela cough*)
* China (anti regime change)
* Cuba
* Ecuador (ditto)
* Iran (anti foreign intervention)
* North Korea (sovereignty)
* Russia (wanted resolution to restrict rebels)
* Syria
* Venezuela
* Yemen (claimed surprise at appearance of Article 19)

I think that the others were Myanmar and Zimbabwe.

Abstainers included Algeria, Armenia (historically abstains, possibly for fear of persecution of Armenians in Syria), Comoros (said that they had screwed up and failed to cast their votes properly), Burundi (said that they had screwed up), Kyrgyzstan (said that they had screwed up) and 11 others.

The Venezuelan regime launched into a conspiracy-theorist tirade that included accusations that the West wants to occupy Syria and the claim that "instead, the Assembly should be concerned about recognition of a Palestinian State, the end of Israeli rights violations and ending the blockade on Cuba." Because of course the slaughter of thousands of Arabs by other Arabs doesn't matter at all; what do they care about dead Arabs? What matters to the Chavez regime is trying to destroy Israel and attacking the US.

The representative of Syria also made a general statement, saying that a "Trojan horse" had been unmasked today as the resolution's Western co-sponsors had paved the way to internationalizing the situation. It was clear that the Arab League had been kidnapped by the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, he added. Syria had left the Arab League temporarily; it was broken, politically and morally, he said, congratulating it on its new alliance with Israel. Syria no longer wanted the League to stand by it following its shameful actions, but it did want them to save whatever face it had left and cease the plotting against other Arab States.

He went on to warn that the wealth of all the Gulf Cooperation Council countries would be squandered on losing causes and the price would be borne by all Arabs, who would be used as fuel to obtain the objectives of Israel and the West.
I would add that Iran's representative said, "As long as armed groups continued to resort to violence, the crisis would continue, serving the interests of the Zionist regime."

"Israel weakening Al Aqsa with underground chemicals"

Posted: 17 Feb 2012 01:08 AM PST

The Hamas-run, British-based Palestine Info site "reports":
The Israeli occupation authority (IOA) is using chemical materials to accelerate excavation underneath the Aqsa mosque in occupied Jerusalem, Kamal Al-Khatib, the deputy leader of the Islamic movement in 1948 occupied Palestine, said.

He said in a press release on Tuesday that the use of chemical materials was meant to speed up the erosion of the rocky layer or foundation that protects the Aqsa mosque.

He opined that the IOA was planning to weaken the foundation of the holy site in preparation for demolishing it and building the alleged temple in its place.

The network of tunnels underneath the mosque had caused a big hole and any explosion of any kind or a minor earthquake could pose a dangerous and permanent threat to the Aqsa mosque, Khatib warned.

He charged that the IOA was hoping that such a natural phenomenon would occur in order to appear as if the mosque was destroyed due to a natural cause.
Challah Hu Akbar reported on this a couple of days ago; Arab media even ran photos of the tunnels that are adjacent to the Temple Mount and the newly re-opened Roman-era Jerusalem water channel as "proof" somehow of this chemical attack.




I'm sure that people who build tunnels underneath mountains would be most interested in this new, high-tech method of excavating tunnels using only chemicals.

And who is pushing this absurd story in English? Why, Mondoweiss, of course! Because according to the high journalistic standards of the anti-Zionist crowd, any accusation against Israel must be true by definition.

(h/t Dan C)
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