Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- Weekend open thread
- Israel's historical nuclear ambiguity and the lessons for Iran
- Today's Mossad plot
- Friday links
- Al Arabiya "news:" "Abraham built the Kaaba"
- More links between Sinai terrorists and Palestinian Arabs
- 972mag says Egypt attack is really Israel's fault
- New Gaza "flotilla" planned; because the world is too obsessed with Syria
| Posted: 10 Aug 2012 02:19 PM PDT Shabbat Shalom!  
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| Israel's historical nuclear ambiguity and the lessons for Iran Posted: 10 Aug 2012 12:49 PM PDT It is well-known that for a long time, Israel's public position about whether it had a nuclear arsenal was the very ambiguous statement that "Israel will not be the first area state to introduce nuclear weapons into the Middle East." I found a State Department memo from 1969 that shows an attempt to pin down exactly what that means. .Here are some excerpts:     No one can blame the State Department from trying to parse the Israelis' words, wondering if that means that the weapons might be manufactured but not tested, or perhaps manufactured except for the very final screw being attached. This is relevant today now that a new NIE (or similar intelligence assessment) has leaked that Iran is moving quickly to build nuclear weapons. Anti-Israel activists and Iran supporters have been using the 2007 NIE and other estimates as a talisman to deflect charges that Iran even has a nuclear weapons program, even as everyone could see for years that the Iranians were doing everything consistent with such a program short of actually announcing it - from enrichment beyond what is necessary for nuclear power to building nuclear-capable ballistic missiles to building huge underground nuclear facilities to hiding evidence of testing facilities. The US skepticism of Israel's announcements in the 1960s was well-founded, and Israel's refusal to clarify was equally understandable. At the time, though, no one seriously believed that Israel did not have the ability to deploy a nuclear bomb in minutes if it felt it was necessary. But for people who want to believe the Iranian denials, they have no such skepticism. 
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| Posted: 10 Aug 2012 11:30 AM PDT The Islamic Jihad newspaper Palestine Today reports that Gaza authorities have foiled the latest Mossad plot to subjugate them to Zionist whims. What did they do? They discovered a stash of Tramadol, which appears to be the drug of choice for Gaza smugglers.  According to these officials, the Mossad smuggles Tramadol into Gaza via organized crime rings. The Mossad works together with Sinai Bedouin to bring the drugs into Gaza via smuggling tunnels. I would compliment them on their imagination, but when every story ends with "The Israelis did it!," it gets a little boring after a while. 
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| Posted: 10 Aug 2012 09:50 AM PDT From Ian: LATMA Palestinian heritage sites and rifts among the social justice protesters Stop Iran at all costs by Prof. Benny Morris "Israel's reasons for a future strike on Iran's nuclear facilities are logical and clear: Iran armed with nuclear weapons threatens Israel's existence; the weapons can fall into the hands of terrorists; and it will undoubtedly ignite an arms race in the Middle East that could end in nuclear war. In light of these threats an Israeli government that chooses to sit by and do nothing will have betrayed its public." Tom Friedman — mistaken or misleading? "Consumed by wishful-thinking, Friedman assumed that Assad could liberalize Syria, attract international investors, normalize relations with Israel and end the Arab rejection of the Jewish state — thus demolishing the Iran-Syria axis and ending Iran's involvement in Lebanon." Under Olympic cover, Russian cargo ship approaches Syria "The voyage of the Alaed shows the irresponsibility of the Russian government to allow a transfer of weapons to a regime that is responsible for the brutal slaughter of its own citizens" In Egypt, Anti-Semitism Is Back in Fashion "As Walter Russell Mead has written on his blog, countries "where vicious anti-Semitism is rife are almost always backward and poor." They aren't backward and poor because the Elders of Zion conspire against them. They're backward and poor because, Mead argues, they lack the ability to "see the world clearly and discern cause and effect relations in complex social settings." He calls anti-Semitism the "sociology of the befuddled." Attacks on Christians Sharpen with Government Collusion by Khaled Abu Toameh "While the number of Christians in the Arab world continues to decline, Israel remains the only country in the Middle East where they feel safe and comfortable. That explains why Christians living in Israel have been appealing to Israel to open its borders to absorb their brothers who are fleeing from the Gaza Strip, Bethlehem, Egypt, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt and Sudan." United Church of Canada leaders team up with 9-11 conspiracy nuts to demonize Israel "As one might expect, Ms Ralph is not the only 9-11 conspiracy theorist in the organization she co-founded. Her co-Chair and fellow Independent Jewish Voices founder Sid Shiniad shares her views and the organization of fringe radicals is liberally peppered with adherents to a movement that proposes the attack by Muslim terrorists on the World Trade Center and Pentagon was actually the work of "neo-cons and Zionists." HuffPost front-page headline: Romney chased by "pack of Jews" Swiss group suspends 'anti-Semitic' Norway scholar Researcher Johan Galtung suspended form Swiss World Peace Academy after he remarks that Jews control the American media. London won't pull bus ad campaign for Iran-linked anti-Israel march Iran court upholds practicing Christianity sentence Nepal women banned from Middle East over exploitation Nepal has banned women under the age of 30 from going to work in Middle Eastern countries amid growing concerns that they are being exploited. Officials fear wave of fires may be new kind of terror attack PMW Ramallah municipality to build mausoleum to honor terrorist murderers "The Ramallah municipality voted this week to build a mausoleum in honor of PLO terrorists responsible for the deaths of 11 Israelis in the 1975 Savoy Hotel attack. Ramallah is the Palestinian Authority's seat of government." Iranian festival accepts Israeli movie, invites filmmaker to attend "David Shadi submitted his short comedy 'GentleDog' around the world; a new Iranian international festival said yes and sent him a visa form" Ali's daughter visits Israeli hospital "Rasheda Ali tours Hadassah-University Hospital-Ein Kerem to see how they combat diseases like Parkinson's, which afflicts her father" Chinese 'very impressed' with Israeli economy "Major Beijing university to offer courses on Israel's high-tech, business culture; another school teaches Hebrew language, culture" Israel Daily Picture: The 'Kotel' Exposed with the Advent of Photography Old/New Photos of the Kotel Now Online in Great Detail -- With Thanks to the Library of Congress Archives  
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| Al Arabiya "news:" "Abraham built the Kaaba" Posted: 10 Aug 2012 08:20 AM PDT No disclaimers here: The shrine of the Prophet Abraham was adjacent to the Kaaaba, next to its gate, in the same condition he had left it. It had been there since the building of the Kaaba and until the time of second Caliph Omar Ibn Kattab who moved to the east, an action that only someone as strong and pious as him would be capable of doing. 
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| More links between Sinai terrorists and Palestinian Arabs Posted: 10 Aug 2012 06:50 AM PDT Egypt Independent reports: The initial forensic report on the bodies of the Rafah checkpoint attackers suggests that the perpetrators were wearing military uniforms made in Nablus, Palestine at the time of the attack. Today, Egypt raided another suspected terrorist base in the Sinai, and arrested six people. According to Arabic media, four of the suspects were of Palestinian origin. 
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| 972mag says Egypt attack is really Israel's fault Posted: 10 Aug 2012 05:20 AM PDT The zeal to blame Israel for everything would be comical if so many on the left didn't actually believe it. The summary of Roi Maor's article in 972mag tells you the latest in 972's absurd anti-Israel "logic": Lethal Sinai attack is connected to the Gaza blockadeWow, how brilliant! But 972 doesn't go far enough. In fact, much of the smuggling industry in the Sinai is also from smuggling Africans to Israel. If Israel didn't have Western values and prosperity, then the Africans wouldn't come, there would be less smuggling traffic and Sinai would be safer. Israel should really stop being so damned successful! It's all Israel's fault! But wait, there's more: if Israel never signed an agreement with Egypt limiting Egypt's army activities in the Sinai, then Egypt could have done more to stop the smugglers and terrorists in the Sinai. Israel should not have insisted in a 1979 peace agreement that their former implacable foe should stay away from the border. They should have allowed the Egyptian army to stay right up against the border to stop the future infiltration of Islamists, which should have been foreseen. It is all Israel's fault! In fact, if Israel wouldn't have signed a peace agreement with Egypt altogether, then the Sinai would still be under Israeli control and the smugglers and Islamists would never have even come close to Gaza or Israel. How dare Israel sign a peace treaty that inevitably end up killing so many Egyptians in the Sinai. Without Camp David, there wouldn't be any Egyptian soldiers in the Sinai! It is all Israel's fault! But, of course, you must then go back to the original sin of Israel's creation.... Incidentally, it is interesting that 972 regards an attack on Egyptian soldiers to be a terrorist attack. ("On Sunday evening, terrorists attacked an Egyptian military outpost in the Sinai Peninsula.") Maybe someone can go through the site to see if they ever refer to Arabs who attack Israeli soldiers to be terrorists, without scare quotes. 
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| New Gaza "flotilla" planned; because the world is too obsessed with Syria Posted: 10 Aug 2012 03:08 AM PDT A new Gaza "flotilla" that will probably go nowhere is being planned: So it isn't a flotilla, it is a boat. The website doesn't even bother to list what aid it is bringing to Gaza; it just says it is bringing a "cargo of necessities." The article goes on: Many detractors claim that the blockade is not the problem, and that the activists are merely staging a publicity stunt.Palestinian Arabs who have built their entire culture on the idea of being victims are jealous of those Syrians who have the audacity to be murdered by the thousands, therefore depriving PalArabs of their rightful place in the headlines! 
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