Elder of Ziyon Daily News |
- Reminder: Panel discussion in NYC next week
- Leading Egyptian candidate: Israel "racist", OBL killing "state terrorism"
- Gazans threaten Red Cross and UN. World yawns.
- To Abbas, NGOs aren't for human rights - they're for bashing Israel
- Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference (video)
- Moroccan Islamists disapproved of her short dress, so they beat and stripped her
- Nasrallah, obeying his Iranian masters, threatens Israel
- Why aren't hunger strikers demanding an end to torture in Israeli prisons?
- Israel creating butterfly-sized UAV
Reminder: Panel discussion in NYC next week Posted: 13 May 2012 06:00 PM PDT Just a reminder that I will be part of a panel discussion next week in New York. You ought to show up. Not only because it is a rare opportunity to meet me (or someone who does a convincing impression of me.) Not only because you can meet some serious heavyweights of the pro-Israel media. You ought to come because, seriously, where in Manhattan can you get a kosher dinner for only $18? You can RSVP here. |
Leading Egyptian candidate: Israel "racist", OBL killing "state terrorism" Posted: 13 May 2012 03:00 PM PDT From Naharnet: A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt's presidential election has branded Israel a "racist state" and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was "a national security threat" that should be revised.Fotouh has gotten endorsements from both the Salafi al-Nour party and from Wael Ghonim, the Google employee who was one of the early leaders of the revolution. In a recent poll he was slightly in the lead. The thing is, compared to other candidates, Fotouh probably is moderate. You just have to move the goalposts a bit when talking about Arabs being "moderate" because it means something much different when applied to Arabs than to Westerners. |
Gazans threaten Red Cross and UN. World yawns. Posted: 13 May 2012 01:30 PM PDT From WAFA: Ma'an adds: "Since international organizations remain silent towards Israeli procedures against Palestinian prisoners, they are responsible for their lives, just as the occupying state," youth activist Hani Abu Mustafa said at a press conference near the ICRC offices.Here we have a direct threat against not only the UN but also the International Committee of the Red Cross. Did the ICRC condemn the forced closing of their offices and the threat to their employees' lives? Not quite: In return, the ICRC said that it understands and supports the demands of the prisoners. "We check the prisoners regularly and ask the Israeli authorities to take all the needed procedures to protect them and improve the circumstances of their detention," said Ayman Shahabi, spokesman for the ICRC. |
To Abbas, NGOs aren't for human rights - they're for bashing Israel Posted: 13 May 2012 11:40 AM PDT In the latest Crisis Group Middle East Report N°122, 7 May 2012, "The Emperor Has No Clothes: Palestinians and the End of the Peace Process," there is a most interesting footnote number 169: A U.S. official commented that Abbas had inquired into the activities of the National Democratic Institute and the International Republican Institute, two organisations Egypt's military authorities accused of seeking to interfere in domestic politics. According to him, "Abbas asked, 'What are these NGOs doing here? Are they trying to overthrow me?'" Crisis Group interview, Washington DC, March 2012. A presidential adviser expressed similar concern: "My worry is that NGOs can be easily used against the PA, rather than against Israel. They talk a lot about human rights in the PA, less about occupation". Crisis Group interview, Ramallah, April 2012.According to these two quotes, Abbas sees NGOs as having only a single purpose - to demonize Israel. They have nothing to do with human rights or improving people's lives - they are simply political tools to be used as he wishes. And for the vast majority of them, he gets his wishes. They spend much more time on Israel than on his own corrupt dictatorship. So when a couple of NGOs break the formula, Abbas is incensed at how they could dare to actually do anything against his interests! Another part of the same footnote is also notable, and shows that Abbas is more on the side of the Arab dictators than the protesters of the Arab Spring: A senior PLO official said that Abbas "believes that the Arab Spring is bad for Palestine and for the region". Crisis Group interview, Ramallah, November 2011.Despite how the West pretends to love him, Abbas' words and actions show that he is much more like Mubarak and Assad than those who are fighting against the Arab despots. (h/t Gidon Shaviv - Israel Research Fellow at NGO Monitor) |
Israel Inside: How a Small Nation Makes a Big Difference (video) Posted: 13 May 2012 10:00 AM PDT From Jerusalem Online U: You have to type in your email to see this. But you can then be entered into a raffle for a free trip to Israel. It was screened on some PBS stations last year. |
Moroccan Islamists disapproved of her short dress, so they beat and stripped her Posted: 13 May 2012 08:00 AM PDT From Bikya Masr: Women's rights in Morocco have come under the spotlight recently after a young woman was assaulted in a Rabat market by people she called "Salafists," or ultra-conservative Islamists. She said she was accosted by the men because of the short dress she was wearing.I don't quite get how stripping a girl is more modest than her wearing a dress, nor how beating a girl is less offensive than her wearing a skirt that reveals her shins. |
Nasrallah, obeying his Iranian masters, threatens Israel Posted: 13 May 2012 06:15 AM PDT From Reuters: The leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah said his group was capable of striking any target in Israel, saying "the days when we fled and they did not are over."As usual, the fearless Nasrallah made this speech via video from an undisclosed underground location. |
Why aren't hunger strikers demanding an end to torture in Israeli prisons? Posted: 13 May 2012 03:45 AM PDT Given that the list of demands of the hunger strikers covers everything from increased canteen use to restoration of education in Israeli universities, isn't it strange that they aren't mentioning torture at all? They are demanding things like more fruits and vegetables and access to more cable channels. But not a word about supposed Israeli torture. The reason is obvious - there isn't any torture in Israeli prisons, despite the bleatings of the anti-Zionist crowd. (h/t Margie) |
Israel creating butterfly-sized UAV Posted: 12 May 2012 09:45 PM PDT From Israel HaYom: At first, it seems like something "Q" developed for British superspy James Bond. The artificial butterfly is handheld and is capable of a vertical takeoff, just like a helicopter. Returning to the Bond movie, we will replace the two main characters: "Q" now becomes the IAI and "007" now becomes a Golani Brigade officer. True, the movie may not be a blockbuster, but no one will want to be the target of this metallic bug.They are even talking about weaponizing it. (h/t Elder of Lobby) |
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