יום חמישי, 26 ביולי 2012

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Zionist response to Metro-North lying map ads

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 05:54 PM PDT

As a response to the Metro-North ads showing the Map That Lies - which even the bankroller of the ads all but admitted were a lie - StandWithUs is placing a series of its own ads, starting next week.

Here are some of them:

Wednesday Links

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 12:35 PM PDT

From Ian:

Arab Spring: A Blessing for Hamas by Khaled Abu Toameh
"Egypt's Mursi has put Hamas's Mashaal on an equal footing with heads of state, thus granting legitimacy not only to the Hamas leader but to its entire movement. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, has also been officially invited to the Presidential Palace in Cairo."

NGO Monitor: On 'Jew-Washing' And BDS
"These were the "Jew-washers" – very visible actors in many such political attacks on Israel, particularly in Christian frameworks. They are influential beyond their actual numbers, providing a convenient means for cleansing such actions from the stains of double standards, demonization and sometimes anti-Semitism against the Jewish state of Israel, and even Judaism itself."
"In many cases, Jew-washing is also used to whitewash the blatant theological anti-Semitism that accompanies the church-based BDS attacks on Israel. One example is Sabeel, a Palestinian Christian group that is very influential in those mainline churches active in the BDS wars. Its theology includes supercessionism – a reading of the New Testament that considers the Church to have superseded the Jewish people in God's promises – and deicide – the charge that "the Jews" killed Jesus – that served as the basis for centuries of anti-Jewish persecution."

UN Watch: U.N.'s Richard Falk accuses "the organized Jewish community" of crimes against Palestinians

Honest Reporting BBC's Disgusting Response to Olympic Complaints
"Many people who complained to the BBC about its failure to recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital on its Olympic country website profile were answered with the following included in a
canned response:
We have received a range of feedback about the errors on the BBC Sport Olympics page and we feel it is worth explaining that a considerable number of those have been generated by online lobby activity.What exactly is the inference of referring to "online lobby activity?"

Max Brenner News plus a BDS Fail:
Baillieu seeks to toughen protest laws
"THE Victorian government will investigate whether tougher legislation is needed to prevent political protests closing down businesses, after a magistrate found in favour of anti-Israeli demonstrators targeting the Max Brenner chocolate shop chain."
"The BDS group in my opinion is better titled as bigoted, dangerous and shameful," Mr Baillieu said. "They have sought to close down businesses just because they are associated with the state of Israel."
Max Brenner announces hotel partnership across Australia
"The hotels that currently have special deals with Max Brenner products include: Stamford Hotels & Resorts, Blue Sydney (Taj Hotel) and the Radisson Blu Plaza Hotel."

Caroline Glick Syria threatens Israel with chemical weapons, Obama pressures Israel
"Many have criticized Obama by arguing that he has no policy on Syria. But actually, he does. He sees Syria in the same light that he sees Iran. In both cases, his main concern is to prevent Israel from defending itself."
Israelis scramble for gas masks as Syria deteriorates
Citizens lining up amid fears that terrorists will obtain chemical weapons

Romney slams Obama for 'lecturing Israel's leaders'
"Speaking ahead of Israel visit, Republican presidential candidate accuses Obama of neglect, "shabby treatment" of a key ally."

'Bomber argued with my husband before detonating,' Burgas victim recounts
"Bulgarian Prime Minister Boyko Borisov says suspected terrorist could have entered through EU"

Two Grad rockets fired at Ashkelon
"No injuries or damage reported; Iron Dome makes one interception"

Israel Daily Picture:
Anniversary of the Laying of the "Foundation Stone" for the Hebrew University in 1918
Old Jewish Men in the Old City
An incredible photographic study from the 1930s

Also:
The World Bank notices that the PA economy cannot support a state

Munich widows ask Olympic crowd to do their own moment of silence

CiF Watch gets results!

(h/t Ishai, Mike)

Iran's nuclear facilities infected with rock music virus

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Information security company F-Secure writes on its blog:
Over the weekend, I received a series of emails from Iran. They were sent by a scientist working at the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI).

The scientist reached out to publish information about Iranian nuclear systems getting struck by yet another cyber attack.

He wrote:

I am writing you to inform you that our nuclear program has once again been compromised and attacked by a new worm with exploits which have shut down our automation network at Natanz and another facility Fordo near Qom.

According to the email our cyber experts sent to our teams, they believe a hacker tool Metasploit was used. The hackers had access to our VPN. The automation network and Siemens hardware were attacked and shut down. I only know very little about these cyber issues as I am scientist not a computer expert.

There was also some music playing randomly on several of the workstations during the middle of the night with the volume maxed out. I believe it was playing 'Thunderstruck' by AC/DC.

I'm not sure what to think about this. We can't confirm any of the details. However, we can confirm that the researcher was sending and receiving emails from within the AEOI.
This is obviously the work of regular - but smart - hackers meaning to harass Iran. Metasploit is freely available and easily exploits known security vulnerabilities. While it is possible to write new exploits for Metasploit, using it is not indicative of a super-secret spy organization or nation/state behind it.

Not to mention that a nation state is not going to advertise that they hacked into a nuclear facility!

Most interesting from that email is the idea that Iranian nuclear facilities are accessible to the Internet via a VPN. And the VPN had access to the Siemens controllers. That is astonishingly poor security for a critical facility which should be completely cut off from the world. I assumed it was because Stuxnet was spread via USB drives, not the Internet, it was reported at the time.

So this is the work of mischievous hackers. But that doesn't stop "foreign policy experts" from saying stupid things implying this was a US operation:
This sort of thing isn't new. Music was central to 1989's Operation Just Cause, in which U.S. soldiers attempted to coerce Panamanian President Manuel Noriega from his refuge in the Vatican embassy by blaring loud music at the building. In documents acquired by the National Security Archives, U.S. SOUTHCOM admitted U.S. military DJs took requests, blaring a playlist that ranged from Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover, Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run and, an apparent favorite, AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long.

More recently, U.S. Psychological Operations Company (PsyOps) admitted to the use of heavy metal in Iraq as a mechanism to break uncooperative prisoners' resistance. Similar use was reported by the International Committee of the Red Cross as part of the "cruel, humane and degrading" treatment of Guantanamo inmates. Though the use of heavy metal as a interrogation technique incited some record companies to warn that the United States may owe royalty fees, military officials were unrepentant. As one officer told Newsweek, "Trust me, it works."
One can only hope that Iran remains as clueless about cyber-security as it has been so far. If hackers can get into a nuclear facility in Iran, hopefully the entire infrastructure is riddled with hidden viruses, trojans, and backdoors that cannot be removed without a wholesale replacement of every computer component and computer controller.

(h/t Yoel)

Israeli art school redesigns hacked webpages for Arab hackers

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 09:25 AM PDT

To Israelis who are under constant cyber-attack, the most offensive part is that the hackers have no sense of style.

From Business Insider:
Students from HaBezefer, the Israeli school of advertising and art, and ad agency McCann Digital Israel, came up with an unconventional response to cyberattacks: Re-design hacked takeover pages so they look more aesthetically pleasing.

McCann Digital art director Nir Refuah told BI that "Israel is under constant cyber attacks each month, dozens of Israeli websites are being hacked by Arab hacker groups and replaced with anti-Israeli web pages."

While McCann and the students didn't have an immediate answer to end the wave of cyberattacks, they did come up with a way to solve their other hacking qualms, the "uninspired designs each time: black background, grotesque low-res images and unbearable amounts of text."

The solution? Students found 50 hacked pages, and while they kept the content, they redesigned the pages to look more cheerful. Refuah told BI that the students sent the redesign templates to various hacker group forums with the message, "We would like to end all cyber wars, but in the meantime -- if you must hack our sites, at least leave something beautiful."
You can see how the students packaged their work as if they were presenting it to a potential client here.

So here are some old, ugly hacked Israeli sites, and how Betzefer re-designed them:





I love it!

(h/t Israellycool)

"Palestinian peace activist" Mazin Qumsiyeh calls for military destruction of Israel

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 07:40 AM PDT

Mazin Qumsiyeh is professor and outspoken anti-Israel activist who has gone on tours of high schools to push his peculiar brand of hate, couched in terms of "human rights." In fact, he even calls his website a "human rights web." He is referred to in countless places as a "peace activist."

His latest article at Palestine News Network shows the truth.

The title of the article is "PLO Charter Was Not Legally Amended," meaning that he admits what everyone but Bill Clinton knew anyway: that the PLO Charter of 1968 was never revised to eliminate the passages calling for the destruction of Israel, and no replacement has ever been drafted.

Emphasizing that the name of the PLO is the "Palestine LIBERATION Organization," Qumsiyeh goes on to quote the entire Charter, as a way to get the Palestinian Arabs back to their  terrorist roots to utterly destroy Israel. The Charter, as he approvingly quotes it, includes:
Armed struggle is the only way to liberate Palestine. Thus it is the overall strategy, not merely a tactical phase. The Palestinian Arab people assert their absolute determination and firm resolution to continue their armed struggle and to work for an armed popular revolution for the liberation of their country and their return to it.

...Commando action constitutes the nucleus of the Palestinian popular liberation war. This requires its escalation, comprehensiveness, and the mobilization of all the Palestinian popular and educational efforts and their organization and involvement in the armed Palestinian revolution. It also requires the achieving of unity for the national (watani) struggle among the different groupings of the Palestinian people, and between the Palestinian people and the Arab masses, so as to secure the continuation of the revolution, its escalation, and victory.

...The liberation of Palestine, from an Arab viewpoint, is a national (qawmi) duty and it attempts to repel the Zionist and imperialist aggression against the Arab homeland, and aims at the elimination of Zionism in Palestine. Absolute responsibility for this falls upon the Arab nation - peoples and governments - with the Arab people of Palestine in the vanguard. Accordingly, the Arab nation must mobilize all its military, human, moral, and spiritual capabilities to participate actively with the Palestinian people in the liberation of Palestine. It must, particularly in the phase of the armed Palestinian revolution, offer and furnish the Palestinian people with all possible help, and material and human support, and make available to them the means and opportunities that will enable them to continue to carry out their leading role in the armed revolution, until they liberate their homeland.

...The Arab Palestinian people, expressing themselves by the armed Palestinian revolution, reject all solutions which are substitutes for the total liberation of Palestine.
Qumsiyeh is explicitly calling for the PLO to set the clock back not only before Oslo but all the way back to 1968, to when they were mounting daily attacks against Israeli civilians.

This is what this hypocrite considers "human rights."

Interestingly, Qumsiyeh does emphasize "popular resistance" which Westerners understand to be "non-violent." But the Charter itself refers to "armed popular revolution," "the Palestinian popular liberation war," and "the popular army," all of which are consistent with the actual meaning of his words "popular resistance."

It is something to keep in mind when listening to the doubletalk of Palestinian Arab activists.

More (but somewhat dated) information on Qumsiyeh from the ADL and CAMERA.

The rockets keep coming from Gaza. Probably for Ramadan.

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 06:15 AM PDT

From YNet:
Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip fired two rockets at Israel Tuesday evening, one of which was intercepted over Ashkelon by the Iron Dome missile defense system. The second rocket hit open territory in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council. There were no reports of injuries or damage.

Ashkelon residents who did not hear an alert before Iron Dome intercepted the incoming rocket took the explosion as a matter of course.
GANSO said that two "homemade rockets" were fired last night, but of course Qassams do not have the range to reach Ashkelon. So at least one rocket was a Grad.

Not that the latest terror attack by Palestinian Arabs against Israeli civilians will get any news coverage outside Israel. It was probably just celebratory fireworks at a Ramadan breakfast.

Israel's PMO website removes The Levy Report. Here it is.

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Up until a day or two ago, the official Hebrew copy of the Levy Report, as well as the English translation of its Conclusions and Recommendations section, could be found on Israel's Prime Minister's Office website.

They are no longer there.

So while there has been no announcement saying that Netanyahu would reject or accept the report's recommendations, perhaps this indicates that he chose to reject it in a passive-aggressive way.

On the other hand, the earlier Sasson report that had far different conclusions than Levy has also gone missing from the site.

Someone should ask the PMO whether this was deliberate.

For reference, I added the English text of the conclusions and recommendations to my existing post with (now two) unofficial translations of the legal arguments given in the report.

For those who want to access the Hebrew original, here it is:

Levy Report in Hebrew

(h/t Avi)

EU says Hezbollah isn't a terrorist organization

Posted: 25 Jul 2012 02:00 AM PDT

From Al Arabiya:
The European Union turned down a request Tuesday by Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman to blacklist Hezbollah as a terrorist group after last week's deadly bombing in Bulgaria.

"There is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations," said Cypriot Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis, whose country currently holds the rotating EU presidency.

Israel blames Iran and the Lebanese group Hezbollah for Wednesday's suicide attack at the Black Sea airport of Burgas in which five Israelis and their Bulgarian driver died.

But an EU decision would require the unanimous approval of all its 27 members.
Sitting beside the Cypriot minister at a news conference held after annual EU-Israel talks, Lieberman said: "The time has come to put Hezbollah on the terrorist list of Europe."

"It would give the right signal to the international community and the Israeli people."

But Kozakou-Marcoullis said Hezbollah was an organization comprising a party as well as an armed wing and was "active in Lebanese politics".

"Taking into account this and other aspects there is no consensus for putting Hezbollah on the list of terrorist organizations," she said.

The EU would consider this if there were tangible evidence of Hezbollah engaging in acts of terror, she added.
Arutz-7 compiled a list of terror acts that are attributed to Hezbollah:


  • The 1982–1983 Tyre headquarters bombings.
  • The April 1983 U.S. Embassy bombing.
  • The 1983 barracks bombing that killed 241 US marines, 58 French paratroopers and 6 civilians at the US and French barracks in Beirut.
  • The Hijacking of TWA Flight 847 in 1985.
  • The Lebanon hostage crisis from 1982 to 1992, including the kidnapping and torture-murder of CIA Beirut station chief William Buckley.
  • The 1992 Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, killing 29, in Argentina.
  • The 1994 AMIA bombing of a Jewish cultural centre, killing 85, in Argentina.
  • The 1996 Khobar Towers bombing, which killed 19 Saudi citizens, and 1 American.
  • The 2000 cross-border kidnapping and murder of IDF soldiers Adi Avitan, Benyamin Avraham, and Omar Sawaidwere.
  • In 2002, Singapore accused Hizbullah of recruiting Singaporeans in a failed 1990s plot to attack US and Israeli ships in the Singapore Straits.
  • The 2005 assassination of Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri for which 4 Hizbullah members were indicted by the Hague.
  • The 2006 kidnapping and murder of IDF soldiers Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, which precipitated the 2006 Israel-Lebanon War.
  • Indiscriminately targeting Israeli civilians with rocket fire during the ensuing 34 day conflict.
  • The January 15, 2008, bombing of a U.S. Embassy vehicle in Beirut.
  • In 2009, a Hizbullah plot in Egypt was uncovered, where Egyptian authorities arrested 49 men for planning attacks against Israeli and Egyptian targets in the Sinai Peninsula.
  • A failed 2011 bombing in Istanbul targeting the Israeli consul, which left eight dead.
  • A spate of bombings targeting Israeli diplomats in India, Georgia, and Thailand in early 2012.
Yeah, but what has Hezbollah done lately?
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