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Weekend Links, part 2 (Ian)

Posted: 04 May 2012 01:20 PM PDT

From Ian:

Honest Reporting replies to the Guardian
Tel Aviv is Israel's Capital (According to the Guardian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyMRUyRmvk0


 Co-op bans settlement produce in Israel boycott
But the JC can reveal that at least two of the four companies with which the Co-op is now refusing to do business - Arava Export Growers and Mehadrin - had no contracts to sell produce to the UK
group before the boycott.

Mehadrin's Rami Hesel said: "We were not dealing withthe Co-op, even before the boycott. We had no business with them and didn't sell them anything. For us it is irrelevant.

"We have many Arab workers with us in the fields and packing houses. There are families who have been with us for many years. Any attempt to harm us harms the Palestinians, too."

http://www.thejc.com/news/uk-news/67113/co-op-bans-settlement-produce-israel-boycott

Daphne Anson points out 

'Despite the Co-op's claims that they are applying their policy even-handed, goods from Occupied Northern Cyprus, for example, may still be sold in Co-ops and labelled as "produce of Turkey".

"Produce Of Turkey": The Co-op, The Boycott, & Double Standards

http://daphneanson.blogspot.com.au/2012/05/produce-of-turkey-co-op-boycott-double.html

Released bin Laden papers show Al-Qaeda with Israel in its sights

"Al-Qaeda considered the use of drugs to infiltrate Israel's borders and security infrastructure, thought of the Arab Spring as a positive development, called on Christians in Israel to convert to Islam, and slammed the Mubarak regime for its relations with Israel in newly declassified papers found by US
commandos in Osama bin Laden's Pakistan compound."

AQ Received funding from Iran and Fatah
http://www.timesofisrael.com/released-bin-laden-papers-show-al-qaeda-with-israel-in-sights/

Letter Excerpts: What al Qaeda Thought of Fox News, CNN, ABC
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2012/05/03/media-strategy-what-al-qaeda-thought-of-fox-cnn-abc/

Al Qaeda Loves Keith Olbermann, Hates Fox
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/05/03/Al-Qaeda-Loves-Olbermann-Hates-Fox

Revealed: How bin Laden plotted to bring down Air Force One to kill Obama and replace him with 'totally unprepared' Biden

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138851/Osama-bin-Laden-files-reveal-plot-bring-Air-Force-One-kill-Barack-Obama.html#ixzz1tpy6pQdq

More shameful BBC propaganda against Israel
The BBC has now sunk to pinning its stories against Israel on people who refer to the Jewish state in terms of Nazism and Apartheid
http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1172/more_shameful_bbc_propaganda_against_israel


DOJ Refuses to Prosecute Palestinian Terrorists
Tamimi was released even though she has admitted – on television – that she participated in the Sbarro terrorist bombing. In the interview, she even expressed her delight at the number of children among the dead.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/05/03/DOJ-Refuses-to-Prosecute-Terrorists


Former Egyptian PM Says He'd Visit Israel
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/05/03/Former-Egyptian-Prime-Minister-Israel


Hamas denies Israeli report on contact with Olmert
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hamas-denies-israeli-report-on-contact-with-olmert/


How The Palestinian Authority Fights Corruption by Khaled Abu Toameh

"Palestinians say that the campaign of intimidation and harassment against the media is designed to prevent "negative reporting" about the Palestinian Authority government. The Palestinian Authority does not want anyone to report about corruption and abuse of power out of fear that this would affect financial aid from the US, EU and other countries."
http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/3043/palestinian-authority-corruption

What about UN crimes?
Op-ed: IDF actions pale in comparison to crimes committed by UN peacekeeping forces 
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4223342,00.html

Pat Condell - Hello Saudi Arabia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnLTHHpKl60

London won't hold minute of silence for 1972 victims
http://www.jpost.com/Sports/Article.aspx?id=268493

USS Cole Commander Slams Obama Adhttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2012/05/02/USS-Cole-Commander-Slams-Obama-Ad

Six army battalions called up under emergency orders to meet growing threat on Egypt, Syria borders
http://www.timesofisrael.com/knesset-approves-call-up-of-22-idf-battalions/

American Methodists vote against divesting from Israel
http://www.timesofisrael.com/american-methodists-vote-against-divesting-from-israel/


Also, Barry Rubin's article on new NYT Israel correspondent Jodi Rudoren's romanticizing terrorists who are hunger striking.

Weekend Links, part 1

Posted: 04 May 2012 11:55 AM PDT

Camera: Desmond Tutu Assails Israel, Gives Palestinians a Pass (Again)


and Elie Wiesel Challenges President Obama; Washington Post Misses Story


HuffPo: Israel, Canada has Accepted your Friend Request
Deputy Leader of the Islamic Movement in Israel Kamal Khatib: Our Babies Are a Demographic Time Bomb for Israel

WSJ: Inciting Genocide is a Crime (partial paywall but Google search it to read it)

JPost: Egyptian-Jews seek rehearing in Coca-Cola case

BBC: Swastikas daubed on Jewish woman's car in Brighton


Times of Israel: Israeli teacher aims to galvanize Syria fly-in, to highlight need for global intervention

The Commentator: UK ignores Palestinian incitement

NYT interview with "The Dictator" plus the latest trailer

Guess what country was in the top ten Lonely Planet destinations for 2011? Yup - Syria.


(h/t Sophie, John, D., Ian, Joel B, Shmuel)

Lebanon outsourcing education to - Iran!

Posted: 04 May 2012 10:30 AM PDT

A couple of months ago I posted about how Hezbollah was imposing its curriculum on all schools in Lebanon by forcing everyone to take a class on "the resistance." Afterwards, I wrote sarcastically, "When will they cut out the middleman and just let Ayatollah Khamanei write the course materials for every class?"

Maybe they read my blog.
Education Minister Hasan Diab expressed hope Thursday that Lebanon would soon sign a cooperation agreement in education with Iran.

"We look forward to signing an agreement in the near future to benefit from the educational experience of Iran," Diab told reporters after receiving his Iranian counterpart Hamid-Reza Haji Babaee, who is accompanying Vice President Mohammad Reza Rahimi on an official visit.

Diab said the agreement would help the implementation of the ministry's "salvation" plan for the sector.

Asked by reporters about remarks that the agreement would amount to a "Persian invasion," Diab said: "This is untrue ... the Education Ministry is a sovereign ministry and in many aspects, it is crucial for all Lebanese."
There are many reasons to overthrow Bashir Assad, but one of them not often mentioned often enough: it would weaken Hezbollah and give hope that Lebanon can become independent of Islamist rule again.

And dangerous ideas like having Lebanon depend on the mullahs in Iran to teach their students would not even be considered.

(h/t @JCampbellUKIP)

The PLO's "acceptance" of two states, 1977

Posted: 04 May 2012 08:30 AM PDT

From JTA, February 28, 1977:
In London, Said Hammami, the PLO's representative there, said in an interview today in the Observer that the Palestine National Council when it meets in Cairo March 12 cannot amend the charter because it represents ideology rather than a practical program.

However, he said the PLO is ready to accept two states in Palestine "because since 1948 there has been a new factor, the Israeli people, not the Jewish people." But he said that Israel cannot survive in the long run as a Jewish State but will eventually become a Hebrew-speaking corner of the Arab world.

Hammami listed three points that comprise the PLO policy: a demand for complete withdrawal of Israel from occupied territory; that the West Bank and the Gaza Strip be handed over to the Palestinians to form an independent state under the PLO with the option later of deciding whether it wanted to join with Jordan and/or Syria; and the recognition of the right of all Palestinians to return to their homes, although this right might not be exercised "for a number of years."
Over the past 35 years Israel has changed its position drastically towards concessions to the PLO - and the PLO has not changed its position one iota towards peace with Israel.

It still considers Israel a temporary anomaly; it still rejects the idea of a Jewish state or of "two states for two peoples;" it still insists on the "right" to have millions of Arabs immigrate to Israel to destroy it demographically.

The only difference is that 35 years ago they were explicit about their ultimate goal of using the territories as a stage in the ultimate destruction of Israel, and after Oslo they pretend that they really want peace. Yet in Arabic they are still quite clear, and their people know it.

And in the 35 years of Israel giving up land, making unilateral concessions and accepting the concept of two states, it has not moderated the Arabs one tiny bit from their hard-line position of 1977 - which is in fact identical to the infamous 1974 Phased Plan for the destruction of Israel, piece by piece.

Saudi women's only village bans "indecently dressed" and "tomboys"

Posted: 04 May 2012 07:20 AM PDT

From Al Arabiya:
An all-female village in Saudi banned women who are not dressed conservatively or dressed like men from entering the village grounds in an attempt to combat "alien" phenomena that violate social traditions and spread negative practices.

The Women's Village in Sakakah, the capital city of al-Jawf Province in northwestern Saudi Arabia, issued a statement banning the entry of women who are deemed to be "dressed indecently" as well as those who look or behave like men, the Saudi newspaper al-Sharq reported.

The statement, which was sent by the village administration via mobile text messages, was issued after a large number of girls engaging in behavior that contradicts the conservative character of the Saudi society started frequenting the village and taking part in many of its activities.

In several women-only parties, the statement explained, teenage girls dressed in revealing clothes or maintained a manly appearance and some of them performed what was seen as "provocative" dances, considered not in line with social norms of the place.

"Those phenomena are alien to our society and do not reflect its conservative character. That is why they need to combated and have their causes uprooted," said the statement.

The clampdown on "indecent" behavior is not the first in Sakakah. The village administration had issued an earlier statement banning visitors from entering with mobile phones with cameras and prohibiting events that involve noisy music and dancing.

The implementation of such resolutions is overseen by a team of Saudi security women who are in charge of maintaining law and order in the village and detecting violations committed by visitors throughout the year.

The decision of the Sakakah administration is also not the first to target tomboyish girls as they are also banned from entering public schools and universities together with men who maintain an "effeminate" or "punk" appearance.
So if you are a woman in Saudi Arabia, you cannot even dance in front of other women!

Other articles make it appear that makeup is also prohibited.

I cannot find out much about this women's village; it certainly does not take up the entire town. And since cameras seem to be forbidden, there are no photos except for the outside gate.

I wonder if they built roads for cars in this "women's village"?

Latest Latma

Posted: 04 May 2012 06:30 AM PDT

Very "inside" this week.

Death penalty for those who mock God, Koran, prophets in Kuwait

Posted: 04 May 2012 05:20 AM PDT

From Al Arabiya:
Kuwait's parliament on Thursday passed a bill stipulating the death penalty for Muslims who curse or mock God, the Muslim holy book, all prophets and the wives of Islam's Prophet Mohammed.

The same punishment is applied to those who "describe themselves as new prophets or messengers from God," the Kuwaiti state news agency KUNA reported.

"But if the accused is a non-Muslim, the punishment would be lowered to jail for no more than 10 years," the report added, according to the bill.

Forty MPs, including cabinet ministers, voted for the bill in the second and final round of voting, against six opponents who included all five Shi'ite MPs present and liberal MP Mohammad al-Sager.

The bill introduces two new articles to the Gulf state's penal code specifically to stiffen penalties for such offences.

Defendants who repent in court will be spared capital punishment but will get a jail sentence for five years and a fine of $36,000 or one of them, while repentance by those who repeat the crime is not acceptable, the bill says.

"We do not want to execute people with opinions or thought because Islam respects these people... But we need this legislation because incidents of cursing God have increased. We need to deter them," opposition MP Ali al-Deqbasi said during the debate.
Nothing says "respect" like threatening to kill someone.

Oh, and the reason that the Shi'ite MPs opposed the law?
Shiite MPs also demanded that the bill impose the death penalty on anyone who curses their sect's 12 revered Imams, but the Sunni-dominated parliament rejected their request.
But once their amendment was defeated, then they became advocates of freedom of expression:
Shiite MP Abdulhameed Dashti said the bill breaches the Kuwaiti constitution and the principles of Islam.

"Why are we trying to show Islam as a religion of death and blood when it is actually the opposite of that," Dashti said.

Hamas cynically celebrates World Press Freedom Day

Posted: 04 May 2012 03:13 AM PDT

Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh held a ceremony yesterday to celebrate World Press Freedom Day.

Hamas routinely attacks Gaza journalists and who disagree with its policies. Right now, there is no freedom of the press in Gaza and reporters self-censor out of fear for their lives. They have beaten journalists who try to cover anti-Hamas demonstrations, they have banned Fatah newspapers from Gaza, and they have even attacked documentary filmmakers.

Haniyeh cynically praised the journalists who follow Hamas' propaganda goals, saying that Palestinian Arab journalists are "in the trenches" in the battle with Israel.

Journalists who spoke at the event were naturally careful to blame all their problems on the "occupation."

Meanwhile, in the West Bank, activists protested against the US Consulate holding an event in Ramallah to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. Palestinian Arab journalist unions demanded their members boycott the event. Because, after all, that's what press freedom is all about in the territories. (PalPress claims that the entire event was foiled because of the protests; however Ma'an quotes the Consul General as speaking at the event to at least some journalists.)

(h/t CHA)
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