יום שישי, 22 ביוני 2012

Elder of Ziyon Daily News

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Posted: 21 Jun 2012 03:00 PM PDT

From Ian:


Israeli Prime Minister meets with Google Executive
"(Google Chairman) Schmidt noted that an Israeli engineer created the database for organizing artefacts is now used by museums worldwide. He described how Israelis have a unique blend of discipline, motivation and creative thinking. Together these form a competitive advantage that is unlike any society in the world. Schmidt said, "The decision to invest in Israel was one of the best that Google has ever made."

Brian Lilley Interviews Glenn Beck –Video, he talks about Israel at 14min

Media bias in Australia Danby tackles the ABC over its Israel coverage
Michael Danby has written twice to the ABC complaining about two separate reports, one on an Australian man jailed in Israel for assisting Hamas and the second on a Four Corners Program in which Robert Fisk was invited on as an and made his usual crass, ill-informed attacks on Israel falsely claiming ( without host Kerry O'Brien demurring ) that Israel supported the massacres in Syria.

Media bias against a Palestinian hunger striker.........in Norway!
Palestinian woman on hunger strike for 3 weeks. She's not in Israel, so the Guardian yawns
Palestinians on hunger strike in Israel attract world's attention; in Norway we just let them die

Alice Walker reactions:
Alice Walker's Bigotry by Alan M. Dershowitz
Pulitzer winning writer Alice Walker sets shocking new low for anti-Israel boycotters Boycotting a whole language

From Peter Beinart's Death to Israel Open Zion page at The Daily Beast.
Some Context For The Rockets From Gaza
"But there are other facts to this story, facts that are no less important but which tend not to be discussed when rockets start flying out of Gaza. To wit: On Monday evening, the IDF carried out strikes in several locations in Gaza, and Palestinian[s] reported that five people were wounded. Shortly afterward, the IDF carried out two more strikes and killed four Palestinians."
In other words Israeli victims of terror like Saeed Fashafshe don't count.

Muslim couple planned to bomb Jews in al Qaeda inspired plot
"A Muslim couple were assembling components of a home-made bomb to attack Jewish neighbourhoods after becoming radicalised by al Qaeda propaganda on the internet, a court heard."

Belgium calls for Olympic ceremony to commemorate Munich massacre
"Flemish sports minister joins officials from Israel, US, Canada and Australia in supporting moment of silence"

Editor of pro-Israel Kurdish magazine vanishes in Iraq
Mawlud Afand's co-workers suspect he was kidnapped by Iran

Syrian fighter jet lands in Jordan, pilot requests asylum

Website Of Jordanian Muslim Brotherhood: The Days Of The Zionist Entity Are Numbered

Also, Michael Totten: Winter in Cairo

Assad using cyber warfare against rebels

Pro-Israel Kurd goes missing in Iraq, may have been kidnapped by Iran

Israeli help when you need it!

(h/t Missing Peace, Yoel, O.)

The Gaza tunnels that are nowhere near Egypt

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 01:45 PM PDT

From IMEMC:
Palestinian medical sources reported that twelve residents were wounded, on Thursday before noon, after a siege-busting tunnel collapsed, east of the Sheikh Zayed area, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

I'm not sure if it is the same one, but the tunnel collapse that killed 2 Hamas members earlier today was also in northern Gaza.

Which means that these were not tunnels to smuggle weapons from Egypt.

So what are they?

Hamas builds tunnels outside of Rafah for one of three reasons.

One is that they are used to travel between buildings in a town without going outside and being seen by the IDF.

Another is that they build underground bunkers with weapons, which makes their claim of the Hamas members being killed by "poisonous gas" most interesting.

And the third reason is that they build tunnels under the border to Israel in order to kidnap Israelis and hold them hostage.

Either way, they are legitimate military targets, and they aren't "siege busting" tunnels as the ridiculous IMEMC says.

(h/t YM and Elliott.)

An incomplete list of rockets that fell short in Gaza

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 12:35 PM PDT

From the Gaza NGO Safety Office's SMS alerts, an unfortunately incomplete list, but representative:

20 JUN, 0805hrs: Pal. ops fired 3 HMRs from Deir El Balah, MA. 1 of the rockets dropped short.

20 JUN, 0840hrs: Pal. ops fired 4 HMRs from Deir El Balah, MA. 1 of the rockets exploded prematurely. 1 Pal. injury reported.

20 JUN, 1550hrs: Pal. ops. fired 1 HMR from Nuseirat, MA. The rocket dropped short near Salah Ad Din St.

21 JUN, 1615hrs: Pal. ops. fired 1 HMR from N-E of Nuseirat, MA, toward the Green Line. The rocket exploded at the launching site.


Life magazine argues against a Jewish state, 1946

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 11:10 AM PDT

This is an earnest editorial published in Life in August, 1946, urging that Jewish refugees not be settled in Palestine (mostly because it would upset the Arabs.)

Other notable parts of the editorial are the perfect belief in the conventional wisdom of the day:

  • There is no way that Palestine can absorb so many people;
  • The Jewish lobby is pushing Truman to do things thatare against American interests;
  • The Middle East is not an American interest anyway;
  • The reasons the Arabs hated the Jews of Palestine is because of their higher standards of living;
  • Nationalism, at least in the case of Jewish nationalism, is wrong.

The most amazing part is the conclusion, where the editors of Life say that rather than create a Jewish homeland where Jews can live in safety, we should instead push for a utopian world where there is no discrimination, so Jews can feel free to live anywhere.

Except Palestine!


When you read reasonable-sounding editorials today spouting what passes for conventional wisdom and coming to conclusions based on them, keep in mind how wrong the accepted facts can be to begin with.

In a World unutterably wearied of seeing people pushed around, there is an understandable, though wishful, tendency to believe in some easy solution for the problem of Europe's homeless Jews. The notion is being broadcast that the solution is merely to let 100,000 more Jews into Palestine where they can be cared for by their own people. Thus they would be lifted from the world conscience. lt is also suggested that in a true, independent Jewish state, not just a "Home," the Children of Israel would continue to build out of arid wastes a land of hydroelectric milk and industrial honey so rich and so charming as to attract and provide for all unwanted Jews.

The Zionists are superb organizers; they are also religious idealists, with all the virtues - and_°someof the blind spots—-of zealots through-out history. It could only he wished they had the right answers. But they haven't.

lt is hard to say this, not only because of the immense humanitarian efforts of the Zionists but also because the situation is so tense and so full of domestic and international emotions and bitterness that it has almost become impossible to express an honest, dispassionate opinion. Yet the time has plainly come for some blunt
American speaking. The U.S. must adopt a Palestine policy and hold to it.

...The difficulty the Jews face, both as to immediate immigration and as to the long-range dream of a homeland, is primarily with the Arabs. Specifically it is with the l,000,000 Arabs in Palestine, hut generally it is with the 50,000,000 Arab population of the Middle East, now banded together in the Arab League and threatening that if they fail to obtain justiee in London they will turn to Moscow.

The differences between the Jews and the Arabs are such they can scarcely be understood unless one is an Arab or a Jew. The present obvious nub of friction is simply that the Jews in Palestine have come to enjoy a much higher standard of living than their Arab neighbors.

This View of the matter was reaffirmed only last spring hy the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry as a part of its long report on Palestine. This report also urged that l00,000 of the Jews currently in assembly camps in Germany and Austria—and most of them in or trying to get into the American zones-—should be immediately and humanely transported to Palestine.

The Arabs' response was such that Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin estimated that it would require dispatch of a British division and expenditure of $800,000,000 to effect the immigration. So he rejected the proposal.

When President Truman insists, in the face of British objections, that the 100.000 Jews be let in at once, he may have a nervous eye on the Jewish vote. But the President should approach it with the same bipartisan strategy he employed when the United Nations was organized at San Francisco. Otherwise the Palestine question, by becoming the price of a Zionist-led Jewish vote, could enter our politics in such a way that an entire national election might turn on how a few New Yorkers feel about an entirely extraneous issue. That wouldn't go down so well in Oklahoma.

...Britain and Zion are virtually at war today. Yet the Zionists must realize that the British, through the years, have been their truest friends and that removal of the Tommies now would probably tesult in the Arabs quickly pushing the Jews into the sea. This is what spoils the analogy between modern Palesttine and the Ireland of 25 years ago.

...It is clear that the immigration of the 100,000 Jews still in camp cannot really be decided until the central problem of Palestine's future is answered. To admit 100.000 more Jews - almost one fifth of the total Jews already there- without provision for land and industrial expansion to take care of them would only tend
to ghetto-ize the Jewish community. So, what of a Jewish state'? The Arabs regard it as an "exotic movement. internationally financed, artificially stimulated, holding no hope of ultimale or permanent sueeess." Unfortunately there is something to this point of view. Palestine is not self-supporting. Perhaps given land expansion. great power and irrigation projects and, above all, internal peace, the Jewish community might become self-supporting in a generation or two. That is a moot point and almost irrelevant, because prospects for such expansion, projects and even peace are slight.

Aside, however, from the physical limitations, there is the higher moral question that divides the Jews themselves: namely, is religious nationalism any more the answer to the over-all Jewish problem than is any other sort of nationalism the answer to any part of the world problem?

What the Jews really need is not a national state but the right sort of world. Probably there will always be a certain number of Jews who prefer segregation in the Holy land, but we hazard the opinion that it the nations carried out that provision in the United Nations Charter, presumably not lightly adopted, for "universal respect for, and observance of, human rights and fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language or religion," it would do far more to solve the Jewish problem than any multiplication of the Jewish population in Palestine.

Among other things this would mean the re-establishment of the 100,000 Jews in the assembly camps on the same basis, and with the same regard, as the resettlement of all of Europe's millions of displaced persons. If the remnants of Hitler's evil anti-Semitic brew precludes this in Eastern and Central Europe. then, assuredly, humanitarian gates must he opened. but not only in Palestine. The whole world must share the task. including the US.

This makes a bipartisan approach to the problem all the more desirable.
All this—a humane world and one in which a Jew ean live and prosper equally with all—is an easy solution, surely. It is only as hard as the human heart.


Jordanian rapist marries 15-year old victim to avoid jail

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 09:30 AM PDT

Ammon News has the sickening story.

The owner of a mobile phone store befriended a 15-year old girl who hung out at his store and he promised to marry her. Then he asked her to come to his shop to discuss their marriage plans. He then drugged her, drove her to another location and raped her while she was unconscious. She woke up outdoors, naked.

She filed a complaint with the police and they went to arrest the store owner. He freely admitted the rape, but he said that he would marry her - so they let him go.

According to Jordan's penal code article 308, a rapist can go free if he agrees to marry his victim.

There is a disgusting catch: he must remain married to her for at least five years, thus further victimizing the girl.

There are no words.

What's wrong with this headline?

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 08:00 AM PDT


I imagine it will only be a few months before The Guardian also starts to put "militants" in scare quotes when referring to people who purposefully fire rockets at Israeli civilians.

Hamas buries 2 year old girl it killed as a "martyr"

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 06:35 AM PDT

Two days ago, a 2-year old girl was killed in Gaza from a Hamas rocket that misfired. Ma'an gave the details and a Hamas official privately admitted that this is what happened to a BBC reporter.

Publicly, however, Hamas insists that the girl was killed by an Israeli airstrike. So Hamas staged a funeral for a girl they killed as a "martyr," wrapping her body in a Hamas flag.



And the locals ate it all up:



Sick, depraved people.

Nice shooting (and intelligence) (update)

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 05:12 AM PDT

The IDF struck a smuggling tunnel, killing two Hamas members and reportedly injuring 21 others.

Which means that it was a tunnel for smuggling weapons.

Of course, being the liars they are, the Gazans are accusing Israel of somehow injecting poison gas in the tunnels as they were bombing them.

UPDATE: Ma'an reports that Hamas is claiming not that Israel bombed the tunnel today, but that Hamas members went to inspect a damaged tunnel and died from inhaling poisonous gas. (h/ t Tam)

Israel continues to send supplies to Gaza while under attack

Posted: 21 Jun 2012 02:47 AM PDT

Palestine Press Agency reports that on Wednesday, Israel shipped 268 trucks filled with goods through the Kerem Shalom crossing, including 9 trucks of aid, 152 trucks for the commercial sector, including 11 trucks of wheat and 20 trucks of feed, 30 trucks for the agricultural sector, 5 trucks for the transportation sector, including, 30 vehicles, 9 trucks loaded with cement and iron for construction and 61 truckfuls of gravel for UNRWA projects, and also been pumping 159,510 kilos of cooking gas and 240,097 liters of diesel from Qatar, as well as 38,000 liters of diesel for transportation.

Gaza responded by"exporting" dozens of rockets towards Israeli civilians.

Today, after eight more rockets were fired overnight, Israel is sending another 310 trucks of aid through the crossing, including supplies to help upgrade the electric grid of Gaza.
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