יום שני, 19 במרץ 2012

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Two more tourists in Egypt kidnapped

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 08:31 PM PDT

Say bye-bye to your tourist trade, Egypt:

Gunmen kidnapped two Brazilian tourists travelling through Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Sunday after a visit to an isolated mountain monastery, security sources said.

The gunmen were believed to be Bedouin who wanted hostages to negotiate the release of prisoners held by the government, the sources said.

They stopped a bus carrying a group of tourists to St. Catherine's Monastery but only took the two Brazilian women. The government was contacting local Bedouin sheikhs to try to negotiate the women's release, the sources added.

Bedouin tribesmen in the Sinai have attacked police stations, blocked access to towns and taken hostages to show their discontent with what they see as poor treatment from Cairo and to press for the release of jailed kinsmen.

Last month, two American women were held in a short-lived kidnapping until Egyptian authorities negotiated their release a few hours later. Two dozen Chinese cement factory workers were also kidnapped last month and released a day later.
As if things weren't bad enough already.

I guess Psalms must have been written by a "Palestinian"

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 12:00 PM PDT

From PMW:



Official Palestinian Authority TV has produced and broadcast a music video imitating the Jewish tradition regarding Jerusalem, mimicking the Biblical expression "If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill, may my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee," [Psalms 137:5]. This verse from the Book of Psalms expresses Jewish longing for Jerusalem after its destruction and the Jewish exile.

The song broadcast on PA TV and performed by an Egyptian singer includes scenes from the markets in the old city of Jerusalem, Arab children playing, the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Dome of the Rock and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, blended with scenes of riots, stone-throwing, and clashes with Israeli soldiers in Jerusalem. No Jewish holy sites or landmarks are shown and the only Israelis seen are soldiers.

The song, which mimics the Jewish longing for Jerusalem described in the Bible, includes the following lyrics:

"May my right arm forget me, may my left arm forget me.
May the light of my eyes and the openings of songs forget me, if I forget Jerusalem."
Of course, Muslim interest in Jerusalem has always been proportional to Jewish control.  Under Ottoman and Jordanian rule, Jerusalem was a slum.

To add a tiny bit of truth to this discussion, here is are a couple of amateur videos - among literally hundreds on YouTube - set to the Hebrew verse in Psalms:

UN Human Rights Council invites Hamas official to speak

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 10:36 AM PDT

From Ma'an:
Senior Hamas official Ismail al-Ashqar is set to speak before the United Nations Human Rights Council on Monday, a statement said.

Al-Ashqar arrived in Switzerland on Sunday, ahead of a talk which will address the issue of Hamas members being held in Israeli jails, the statement added.
Ismail al-Ashqar is perhaps Hamas' foremost expert on human rights.

He has publicly called for Hamas to kidnap lots of Israeli soldiers:
"More of Shalit's kind are coming," Hamas lawmaker Ismail al-Ashqar vowed, adding that the "efforts to kidnap soldiers will continue until all Palestinian prisoners are freed."
That happens to be a war crime, or, as the UNHRC might call it, "proper resistance against the scourge of Zionism."

Another statement that Ashqar has given, that makes him truly a perfect person to testify before the UN Human Rights Council, is that "Jerusalem cannot be liberated through negotiations or dialogue ... resistance and Jihad is the only way to liberate Jerusalem from the dirt of the Zionist occupation."

Obviously, Ashqar is all about human rights. The UNHRC should be honored to add him, and Hamas, to their roster of distinguished supporters and members.

(h/t Challah Hu Akbar)

Syria blames Israel for deadly suicide bombings

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 09:10 AM PDT

From Israel HaYom:
Israel is behind a set of twin car bombings in Damascus on Saturday, Syrian state-run television said Sunday. The blasts killed at least 27 people, Army Radio reported.

"Israel committed these crimes by use of its agents," said Sheik Abdul-Kader al-Shehabi from Damascus on Sunday, providing no motive, but adding that Israel was "created by the devil as a product of his sinful thoughts."
So it must not have been the will of Allah, but of his arch-nemesis that he cannot control. Just trying to keep track of the Islamic theology of Zionism.
Sharing the screen with Shehabi was the Anglican Bishop of Aleppo, Ibrahim Nassir, who shared the sentiment. Army Radio quoted Nassir as saying, "This criminal act gives the Israeli entity a real opportunity to extend its control over the region."

The two near-simultaneous bombings involved explosives-laden vehicles detonated near heavily guarded intelligence and security buildings in the Syrian capital.

The regime blamed the opposition, which denied having a role or the capabilities to carry out such a sophisticated attack. And after other similar attacks, U.S. officials suggested that al-Qaida militants may be joining the fray.

The early morning explosions struck the heavily fortified air force intelligence building and the criminal security department, several miles apart in Damascus, around the same time, the Interior Ministry said. Much of the facade of the intelligence building appeared to have been ripped away.

State-run news agency SANA said a third blast went off near a military bus at the Palestinian refugee camp Yarmouk in Damascus, killing the two suicide bombers.
That third blast killed a number of Palestinians - and the vehicle that exploded belonged to the "Palestine Liberation Army" which is a division of Syria's armed forces.
A Damascus source noted security forces had threatened the camp just days earlier due to reported dissent.

A security official threatened to raid the camp due to Fatah's alleged support of demonstrations against Syrian leader Bashar Assad, sources in the camp told Ma'an this week.

"Yarmouk is not more precious than (Homs neighborhood) Baba Amro, and it will be raided if the demonstrations which Fatah movement organizes" continue, a security agent was quoted as saying.
There was another car bomb in Aleppo today.

Gaza fuel crisis continues and Hamas keeps blaming everyone else

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 07:45 AM PDT

Even though there were reports that the Gaza government would allow some power plant fuel from Egypt to enter Gaza via Kerem Shalom, it has not yet happened.

This time, Hamas is blaming "Egyptian intelligence" for the delay.

A Hamas official pretty much admitted that the Gaza government strategy is to put pressure on Arab governments to deal directly with Hamas and give them what they want by using public pressure: He "expressed confidence that the Arab peoples of the Spring would pressure their governments to improve living conditions in Gaza."

Another Hamas official said that Egypt had no reason to insist that fuel go thorough Israel, calling it "political blackmail" and an "attempt to subdue Hamas." Fuel transferred via Israel to Gaza gets taxed by the PA and Hamas is seeking to get fuel straight from Egypt so it can tax the fuel directly to blunt Hamas' own cash crunch.

The Rafah crossing cannot handle large amounts of fuel, as it has no pipelines to Gaza.

Meanwhile, Hamas has also reduced the supply of cooking gas via Israel to Gaza, causing people in Gaza serious problems, but they are still blaming Israel.

Yesterday, Palestinian Arabs protested the energy crisis, but instead of demanding that Hamas allow fuel to enter the area through Kerem Shalom - which they have resisted for over a year - they are demanding that Egypt increase their electrical grid connectivity to Gaza. It has already increased from 17 to 22 megawatts, with plans to increase it to 27 mW in the near future.

Israel directly supplies 120 megawatts to Gaza daily.

"IDF dogs are crossbred between wolves and pigs" says Pal. "human rights" org

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 06:11 AM PDT

Palestine Times quotes the "International Solidarity Foundation for Human Rights" as saying that the dogs used by the IDF were crossbred from wolves and pigs in order to be especially vicious.

The Foundation was quoted as saying "the use of dogs is behavior that demonstrates the extent of the low-level moral culture of the occupation, and the extent of malice and hatred and violating the dignity of the Palestinian citizens, turning their bodies into pieces of meat for these big dogs."

That sounds like an objective report, doesn't it?

The English-language Hamas site that reported on this story was apparently too embarrassed to mention the charge about the cross-breeding. But since their report also had standard charges against Israel, it is quoted as an authentic human rights organization.

The ISFHR, or "Tadamun Society," has been quoted by rabidly anti-Israel media a couple of times in the past year, but appears to have no website. It seems it is one of those "insta-NGOs" that sprout up in the territories to take advantage of the huge amounts of money that seems to always be available for any anti-Israel organization, especially if they throw the words "human rights" in their title. It is based out of Nablus and appears to have a single member, Dr. Ahmed Al-Beitawi.

Now, who do you think funds the ISFHR/Tadamun Society? Europeans? Gulf states? Iran? The PA?

Too bad there are no real investigative journalists in the territories who would bother to ask these questions.

Sunday morning linkdump

Posted: 18 Mar 2012 04:13 AM PDT

Several Palestinian  Arabs killed by a massive bomb, but it no one cares because they weren't killed by Israel.

Ephraim Karsh writes about the Middle East's real apartheid.

The English editor of Ma'an describes how Hamas intimidates journalists. But he doesn't write it in Ma'an,  proving that he is one of those intimidated.

Remember how the Beirut River turned blood red? Now the Litani turned milk-white.

An Iranian link between the Delhi and Bangkok blasts.

Female Israeli pro-Palestinian Arab activists complain they are being sexually harassed by PalArabs and fellow enlightened leftists.

A Fatah leader charges Iran with paying off Hamas to stop any unity between the two.

Gazans protest the fuel crisis - but carefully avoid blaming Hamas.

Does the UN care about human rights? Hahahahaha!


(h/t Yoel, Dan, Benny)
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