יום שני, 30 ביולי 2012

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Oh, by the way, terrorists are still shooting rockets at Israel

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 08:00 PM PDT

YNet reports two Qassams being fired on Friday night, and four rockets being shot on Saturday. GANSO says on of the Saturday rockets was a Grad. Arutz 7 counted two rockets Saturday night, for a total of eight over the weekend.

But having terrorists shooting rockets aiming at women and children into your country is considered acceptable behavior by the world (when your country is Israel.)  So this is hardly even worth mentioning.

Muslims don't like loud calls to prayer either

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 06:00 PM PDT

From The Algemeiner, July 16:
Residents of the French Hill neighborhood in Jerusalem plan to combat Arab prayer-calls by blasting music from loudspeakers, in defiance of Arab religious conventions. According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, Israelis plan to broadcast music from loudspeakers positioned toward a mosque in the Arab village Al Issawiya, located in Jerusalem on Mount Scopus near Hadassah Hospital.

A widespread practice among Muslims, the adhan is a call for Muslims to attend voluntary prayers that are broadcast from a Mosque's large towers called minarets, like the one standing over the western wall in Jerusalem. In previous centuries, the muezzin, leader of the adhan, would stand atop the minaret and project his voice, but technological advances have yielded microphones and loudspeakers, which are now utilized to project the adhan remotely at volumes of up to 100 decibels. Jerusalem residents are often bothered by the noise because adhans occur before each of the five daily Muslims prayers, the first of which begins before sunrise, and feature Arabic versions of the basic Muslim creed, to persuade Muslims to attend mandatory prayer service.

In an effort to convey their displeasure, residents of Jerusalem's Givah Tsarfatit, or French Hill neighborhood, have approached an amplification company with intentions of buying four giant loudspeakers, from which rock and roll music will be played to clash with the Muslim prayer songs. The music, specifically chosen from the hard rock musical genre rather than mellower styles like classical or Mediterranean music, will be played when the Muslim broadcasts begin.

The campaign to limit the Muslim broadcast has until now taken place at Jerusalem's city hall, where attempted negotiations between the village of Al-Issawiya and the French Hill have taken place. The agreements yielded a promise by Al Issawiya to lower the noise level of their adhans, but French Hill inhabitants claim that no such change has been instituted, leading to the launch of their more drastic rock and roll campaign.

If the campaign is successful, other neighborhoods have pledged to follow suit.
There go those Jews again, disrespecting the rights of Muslims to blast their prayer calls as loud as they want at any hour of the day.

But the loudspeakers seem to bother some Muslims, too:
In Saudi Arabia, the Ministry of Islamic Affairs banned small mosques from using loudspeakers for the nightly tarawih prayer in Ramadan. The sounds of prayers coming from different mosques at the same time can be confusing, the ministry said explaining the rationale behind their decision.

"Raising the sound of loudspeakers above the accepted level is not permissible," said Sheikh Tawfiq al-Sayegh, imam of a mosque in the coastal city of Jeddah, to Okaz daily. "There are ill and elderly people in the neighboring houses who need rest and quietness."

However, the ministry is struggling to enforce their decision. Writing for the same paper, columnist Humoud Abu Talib said very few mosques have actually respected the ministry's instructions to control the noise levels.
And in Indonesia:
In a move few could have predicted, Indonesia's hard-line Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) threw their support on Wednesday behind calls to curb the excessive use of loud speakers by mosques during Ramadan.

"It is indeed better that mosques adjust their loud speakers when reciting the Koran, so as not to disturb other people, especially if the reciters can't recite fluently or don't understand what they are reading, lest there be negative comments from others," the head of the Jakarta office of the FPI, Habib Salim bin Umar Alatas, told beritasatu.com on Wednesday.

Central Kalimantan's deputy governor Achmad Diran asked local mosques on Wednesday to refrain from blasting their speakers sporadically throughout the day.

"Don't use loud speakers when reciting the Koran. Take pity on people of different faiths who want to rest," Achmad said during an event in Palangkaraya on Wednesday.

The Jakarta branch of the FPI — usually known for inciting angry protests against "immoral" culture — surprisingly agreed.

"If they recite well and understand what they read, then [using loud speakers] should be okay; it might even inspire remorse to those who hear it. But please don't be too loud, and do it only during the day not at night," Salim said.
The difference, of course, is when Muslims complain about loud calls to prayer, it is an internal matter; when Jews complain, it is Islamophobia.

Links

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 04:10 PM PDT

From Ian:
An Olympic insult to Israel's murdered athletes
A 12 word exchange tells you all you need to know about the international community and Israel
"You didn't hear the voice of the world," the two ladies exclaimed. "'Yes, I did," he replied. That, according to the Jewish Chronicle, was the exchange of words at a meeting earlier this week between two Munich massacre widows and the president of the International Olympic Committee, Jacques Rogge, who refused their request for a minute's silence at the opening of the London games."

Memorial for 1972 Israeli Athletes Held at Trafalgar Square Ahead of Opening Ceremonies

New York Jews lambast IOC over silence

Rudy Giuliani: Obama as Friend of Israel Is "Biggest Joke I've Ever Heard" (VIDEO)

'U.N. Me' is a must see
"Filmmaker Ami Horowitz joins Brian Lilley to discuss his new documentary which exposes the truly useless nature of the United Nations."

Bulgaria Attack: The Victims' Stories

Man in CCTV footage not the Burgas bomber, investigator claims
Doctor who carried out autopsy says evidence doesn't match suspect from airport video

MK blames Israel for Burgas bombing
'Israel is not a victim, and even when civilians are killed, the occupying Israeli policy is to blame,' says Haneen Zoabi

The Attacks on Israelis You Won't Read About Anywhere Else, July 24-26

Infographic: Last week, 39,795 Tons of Goods Entered Gaza From Israel

David Singer On The Palestine Mandate As Israel's Entitlement To Claim West Bank Sovereignty
'The Levy Commission's resurrection of the Mandate for Palestine as the legal title deed establishing Israel's entitlement to claim sovereignty in the West Bank has come 48 years after the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) first tried to bury it."

Why is EU refusing to label Hezbollah as terrorists?
Analysis: Dutch appear ready for ban on Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps, while Germany, France have showed no appetite for one.

Police bar Jews from Tisha B'Av visits to Temple Mount, fearing disturbances
"Activist says it's 'shameful' Jews can't ascend to site where Temples once stood"
PM tells Romney: We need 'strong and credible military threat' against Iran
Romney: I listen to your views with 'great seriousness.' Republican presidential candidate says he's honored to visit Jerusalem on Tisha B'Av and to 'recognize the solemnity of the day and also the suffering of the Jewish people'

Netanyahu flatly denies AP story on Israelis spying on CIA
'This is a false report,' says Prime Minister's Office, rejecting Associated Press article that claims US national security officials consider Israel to be 'a genuine counterintelligence threat'

Gaza terrorists fire 4 rockets on southern Israel
Missiles explode in unpopulated areas near Sderot and in Eshkol region

Jihadi Group Releases Video Documenting Its Attacks Against Egyptian Gas Pipeline To Israel

'Prisoners of War,' inspiration for TV drama 'Homeland,' now airing on Hulu
US online streaming site airing new episodes every Saturday

Archaeology news part 2: Stone seal depicting Samson?

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 02:30 PM PDT

Ma'ariv reports on the discovery of a stone seal that seems to depict an image of a man holding onto a lion-like animal with a large head and tail.


The seal was excavated in Tel Bet Shemesh, and comes from around the 11th century BCE, the same time period that the biblical Samson was said to have lived, according to the archaeologists who discovered it, Prof. Shlomo Bunimovitz and Dr. Zvi Lederman from Tel Aviv University.

In the Biblical story from Judges 14, Samson killed a lion with his bare hands, and used it as a source for a riddle that ended up starting a feud with the Philistines.

The archaeologists also discovered an early pre-Kingdom temple in the area, which had thousands of animal bones that seemed to be of Israelite origin.

(h/t Yoel)

Archaeology news part 1: "Mass grave from Temple destruction"

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 01:00 PM PDT

From Israel HaYom:


Remains of thousands of Jews massacred by the Romans on the Temple Mount at the time of the destruction of the Second Temple may have been uncovered in Jerusalem, according to a veteran archaeological journalist.

During a conference on Thursday at Megalim – the City of David Institute for Jerusalem Studies, journalist Benny Liss screened a movie recorded a few years ago that clearly shows thousands of skeletons and human bones in what appears to be a mass grave.

Liss, veteran archaeological correspondent for Israel's Channel 1, told the amazed audience that the film had been shot in a spacious, underground cavern in the area of the Mercy Gate, near the eastern wall of the Temple Mount, but just outside it. Liss raised the possibility that the skeletons were the remains of 6,000 Jews, mostly women and children, killed on the Temple Mount when the Romans destroyed the Second Temple, as described in the writings of Flavius Josephus, who witnessed the destruction.

The movie shows a group of people accessing the cavern with construction tools. Liss goes in first, followed by a lighting technician and cameraman. The three first pass through a narrow passage and then enter the cave with the skeletal remains. Liss says he tried to work out the size of the pile of remains by putting his hand in as far as he could, but he could not reach the bottom. The movie shows Liss crumbling some of the carbonized materials near the skeletons. As soon as Liss left the cave, Antiquities Authority staff resealed the cave, he says.

During the lecture, Liss also cites historical sources that show that in the area of the Old City where the Muslim cemetery now stands, there was once a Jewish neighborhood and cemetery, which was moved to the Valley of Josaphat. He basis his theory that the skeletons are the remains of the people killed on the Temple Mount on the site of the mass grave, the soot in the cave and the written history.

"The Romans stayed on the Temple Mount for a month after the destruction of the temple until going on to conquer the upper city [today's Jewish Quarter]," says Liss. "They had to get rid of the thousands of decomposing bodies and the most obvious place to do this would have been the natural caves on the upper slope of the mount, around Mercy Gate."

The veteran journalist emphasized that this was just a theory. "Now, after publishing this information, the experts should go into the field and examine what we found back then, evaluate it and publish their own findings," he says.

A host of senior archaeologists approached by Israel Hayom said that photographs were not enough to determine the history of the cave and that samples need to be taken from the site and dated.

The chances of the site being reopened are very slim as it is located in a particularly sensitive area, where the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf keeps a close watch and interprets every movement by Jews or Israeli authorities on the mount.

The Antiquities Authority said in response that it was unaware of the findings presented in Liss' movie, and it would be happy to receive the materials. One official told Israel Hayom that he was aware of unsubstantiated reports of a cave with a large amount of human remains in the area, but because of the extreme sensitivity of the location and its close proximity to the Muslim cemetery, the cave had never been explored.

Jordanians take biggest falafel record from "the Jews"

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 11:33 AM PDT

From MENAFN:

Jordan entered the Guinness Book of World Records on Saturday for the largest falafel weighing 74.75kg.

A representative from Guinness was present and confirmed that Jordan created the world's largest falafel.

"This is a great achievement and a difficult record to beat for years to come. We welcome everyone who successfully took part in the family of Guinness World Record holders," Annabel Lawady, adjudication manager at Guinness, said after announcing the results.

According to the Guinness World Book Record's official website, the previous record was set last year in the US when a 23.95kg ball of falafel was made at the Santa Clarita Valley Jewish Food and Cultural Festival in California.
In Arabic, the organizers make it clear that the idea that Jews had made the biggest falafel was an insult.

Jordan's Dostor newspaper describes the real impetus:

General Manager of Hotel Landmark Acer Batayneh told reporters that "the hotel managed this feat of stripping Jews of the claim to the Guinness world record for a falafel ball, as [Jews] try to market themselves to the world that they are the owners of heritage and roots in Palestine by stealing the culture of its inhabitants associated with the indigenous Palestinian dress and food to make it appear that they are the owners of the culture and roots in Palestine and the region. "

Batayneh said "We were able to break the record and to beat the Guinness record instead of the Jews to thwart the goal of the Jews aimed to introduce the impression in the minds of the West and the world that they are the makers and the heirs of Palestinian culture."
In other words, if some Chinese had decided to break the record, they wouldn't have minded so much, but when Jews did it, then they were all fired up.

Just more evidence that the Arab love of "Palestine" isn't real, but rather just a manifestation of hate towards Jews and Jewish nationalism.

As I've mentioned before, people who are secure in their own heritage aren't so quick to be insulted when others borrow it for whatever reason. I cannot imagine such hate coming from Jews or Israelis if Arabs decided to create the biggest gefilte fish or Bamba.

They would just laugh, which is the proper reaction to the constant Arab attempts to one-up Jews in order to assuage their own feelings of inferiority.


Bob Costas' moment of silence. Plus Al Jazeera's! (updated)

Posted: 29 Jul 2012 10:05 AM PDT

Here is what NBC's Bob Costas said when the Israeli Olympic delegation entered the stadium in London on Friday:



It might have only been five seconds, but it is appreciated.

Then again, Al Jazeera went silent at that same time, but for assuredly different reasons:
However, as soon as the Israeli delegation entered the stadium led by windsurfer Shahar Zubari who was wielding the Israeli flag with pride, the Arab broadcasters suddenly fell silent.

The festive ceremony was covered by the two renowned Arab sport commentators, Yousef Saif and Isam Shawali. As the Israeli team entered the stadium, Shawali said "They don't deserve it."

UPDATE: Here's the silence on Egyptian TV from commentator Essam Shawal when Israel entered the stadium, apparently the Al Jazeera feed:



(h/t Vandoren)

UPDATE 2: Canada's CTV's Brian Williams was even better:



(h/t Daled Amos)
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