יום שבת, 18 באוגוסט 2012

Elder of Ziyon Daily News

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"Quds Day" photos. Feel the love.

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 01:50 PM PDT

From Pakistan, some kids who didn't get the memo that they live in a country that is friendly to the US.


More kids from Pakistan. The poster in the front is most interesting: "We don't shy away from declaring that Islam is ready to rule the world."


 Which pretty much shows why they hate Israel - not because of "Palestinians" but because it is not an Islamic state.

Here's an effigy of Netanyahu in Tehran, but I find the Hezbollah flag to be more interesting:


Here's a classic scene from Iran that's got it all: US president, Star of David, swastika - and another Hezbollah flag:


Lots of flag burnings (both US and Israeli, naturally) as well.


Can't you feel the love?

The Muslim Brotherhood spins a bizarre conspiracy theory

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 12:20 PM PDT

But I thought they were so rational!
Senior members of the Muslim Brotherhood have accused Mohamed Dahlan, the former leader of the Palestinian Fatah party, of orchestrating the 5 August attacks near the Rafah border that left 16 Egyptian soldiers dead.

Brotherhood leader Ali Abdel Fatah told Al-Masry Al-Youm that Dahlan has a dark history of violence, and that he had attempted to stage a coup against former Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and current President Mahmoud Abbas. Fatah expressed hope that security bodies would find the real culprits.

Freedom and Justice Party MP Hassan al-Birins claimed on Twitter that Dahlan was dismissed from Fatah for collusion with Israel in recruiting Palestinians as mercenaries against the Hamas government and he smuggled some of these recruits into Israel. When Hamas took control of Gaza, some of these recruits remained in Egypt.

Israel used eight of these mercenaries in Sinai to carry out the attack, he claimed, alleging that the culprits jumped from an armored vehicle the Israeli forces destroyed.
Wow! The only other person I can think of who can come up with such a convoluted anti-Israel conspiracy theory lives in Seattle.

In other Sinai news, the "Salafi Jihad Front" organization denied any connection to the attacks on Egyptian soldiers. They admit shooting rockets at Eilat; they admit to sabotaging the natural gas pipeline to Israel, but they say they wouldn't attack Egyptian soldiers.

Interestingly, they are clearly not afraid of being arrested by Egyptian security for shooting rockets from the Sinai or blowing up gas pipelines.

Shining, gleaming, streaming, Moroccan (Israeli) hair

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 10:45 AM PDT

I've seen a TV commercial for Garnier Fructis Moroccan Sleek Oil Treatment, and I wondered why "Moroccan" is a selling point for a hair product? If they said "Algerian" oil treatment, would it sell too?

Well, it turns out that Moroccan oil is the selling point.

And it also turns out that the leader in that field is - Israel!

From Israel21c:
Charlize Theron is one of the hottest A-list celebrities in Hollywood. In a recent red carpet event at the MTV Movie Awards she wore a Lanvin dress, Jimmy Choo shoes, Cartier jewels, and hair styled with Moroccanoil from Israel.

Also on the list of celebs reported to be using the products based on oil from the rare argan nut are Madonna, Katy Perry, Angelina Jolie, Scarlet Johansson and French beauty Marion Cotillard.

The idea for the novel product took root when a Chilean woman, Carmen Tal, went to get an emergency hair treatment while visiting Israel with her Israeli husband. Tal was introduced to a special product at the salon that she felt made her hair healthier, softer and more manageable.

"Carmen's hair was damaged and someone used the product on her hair, and she ended up buying the company," says celebrity hair stylist Antonio Corral Colero from Barcelona, Moroccanoil's artistic director.

The key ingredient is grown only in Morocco and more recently in Israel, where special cultivars of argan trees are producing more oil than the native Moroccan cultivars.
Those Israelis! First they steal falafel, then hummus, then the keffiyeh, and now Moroccan argan oil!


Friday links

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 09:15 AM PDT

From Ian:
Latma: How much does it cost to attack Iran and the most decorated president




J Street Makes an Attack on Iran More Likely by Alan Dershowitz
"J Street should get out of the business of telling Israel how to balance existential risks regarding the security of its citizens. It should stop undercutting American policy with regard to Iran. And as an organization that claims it is both pro-Israel and pro-peace, it should recognize that its superficial approach to this complex problem is bad for peace, bad for Israel and bad for American efforts to prevent a nuclear Iran without the need for a military attack."

How Palestinians Keep Shooting Themselves in the Foot by Hisham Jarallah
Instead of using the billions of dollars that were given to them by Americans and Europeans to create new jobs, the PLO leadership stole most of the funds and later blamed Israel for damaging the Palestinian economy.
As the Arab countries continue to impose strict employment restrictions on Palestinians, Israel is opening its doors to Palestinian workers from the West Bank. Palestinians say, in fact, that Israel is becoming one of the largest employers of Palestinians in the Middle East.

Southern Poverty Law Center Joining Pro-Hamas, Hezbollah, Groups in Blasting 'Haters' – Mostly Jews
"The Center's views have now been stretched so far that, in the name of tolerance and equality, the SPLC is partnering with, on the one hand, a Muslim group whose followers revere and support Hamas and Hezbollah, and a far-left think tank whose writers were spewing accusations of dual loyalty and other anti-Semitic canards just a few months ago."

The War Against the Jews by Efraim Karsh
"A saddening thought, indeed. But is there any other explanation as to why, more than sixty years after its establishment, Israel remains the only state in the world whose citizens are presented as the heirs to the Nazi mantle; whose economy faces relentless calls for sanctions, boycotts, and divestment; whose policies and actions year in and year out are condemned by the international community, and whose right to exist is constantly debated and challenged?"

York University Professor Lauds Palestinian Terrorist in Toronto Star Op-Ed
"In an op-ed published in the Toronto Star on August 12, Faisal Bhahba, a Law Professor at York University's Osgoode Hall Law School, promotes the morally repugnant belief that Marwan Barghouti, a Palestinian arch-terrorist convicted of five counts of cold-blooded murder, is a "a popular and promising Palestinian politician" who he implies has been wrongly "imprisoned by Israel since 2002."

PM shoots down dangerous quotes from Arab world
For the second time in a week Israel found itself on Thursday denying potentially dangerous and erroneous statements attributed to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the Arab world.

Santa Monica hotel discriminated against Jews, court rules
According to the testimony, the plaintiffs, young leaders of the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces, held a poolside party on the afternoon of July 11, 2010. As the event commenced, hotel staff confronted the revelers, telling them to remove their banners and barring them from using the pool.

Iranians commemorate 'Al-Quds Day' by burning Israeli, US flags
Millions of demonstrators march with Palestinian flags, shouting 'Death to Israel'; Ahmadinejad calls Israel 'an insult to all humanity'

Securing Syria chemical weapons may take tens of thousands of troops

Two Egyptian journalists to stand trial for criticizing Morsi

Militant group warns Egyptian army over Sinai crackdown

Salafi Terror Group Threatens to Attack in the Heart of Cairo
Army of Islam threatens to carry out mass suicide bombings in the heart of Cairo, in response to the Egyptian operation in the Sinai.

Hamas helps Egypt in hunt for Sinai terrorists

State Dept. Trained 450 Imams on the 'Compatibility of Women's Rights and Islam'

IDF Blog Introducing IDF's History on Facebook

Melville in Jerusalem
The Moby-Dick author sought spiritual connection on an 1857 Holy Land trip. He found dust and rocks instead.
Also

"This Programme Is Sponsored By Auckland City Council" & "To Bring Down The Israeli State"(videos) at Daphne Anson

(h/t O)

Sinai Jihad group says its only targets Jews

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 07:45 AM PDT

From Al Ahram English:

The media committee of the Mujahideen Shura Council, a jihadist group, issued a statement on Thursday denying any involvement in the 5 August attack near Egypt's border with the Gaza Strip in which 16 Egyptian borders guards were killed.
In its statement, the militant group said that it, along with other Jihadist groups, was being falsely accused by the media of standing behind the attack based only on statements by Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee.

The Mujahideen Shura Council also rejected "baseless accusations" against the Palestinian people in general, saying that such accusations were merely aimed at justifying the six-year-old Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip.

The council also condemned the ongoing "media campaign" against it, stressing that the group's sole objective was "to fight the Jewish invaders" of Palestine.
Their English version waters down the their Arabic version significantly.

In Arabic, the headline says that the Shura jihadists "assert that the Jihad is against the Jews." In the article it mentions that their targets are "Jews," "Jewish usurpers" and the "Jewish forces."

But state-run Al-Ahram wouldn't want their Western audience to think that the jihadists were anti-semitic or anything.

How many people can fit on the Temple Mount?

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 06:10 AM PDT

Arab media are reporting that some half a million people are expected to go to the Temple Mount today, the last Friday of Ramadan. Similarly, they reported that over 400,000 people came to the courtyard on the night of Laylat al-Qadr earlier this week.

The Temple Mount is about 35 acres (14 hectares); this number would be reduced by the many structures on it where people cannot stand.

Approximately 5000 people can fit in an acre assuming one square yard (meter) per person. Certainly you can jam pack more in that space but not if they want to kneel and prostrate themselves, which the Muslims do in prayer.

Here's a photo from last Friday when the number of worshipers was estimated at "250,000," showing how much space is between them:




So at no time can the Temple Mount support more than 150,000 people, and probably the number is significantly lower than that.

I supposed it is possible that people are not staying the entire time, but I'm not sure.

However, it seems likely that the figure of half a million visiting the Al Aqsa Mosque today is a very large exaggeration.

Salafists in Tunisia try to lynch terrorist Samir Kuntar!

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 04:45 AM PDT

Samir Kuntar, the disgusting child-murdering terrorist who is considered a hero to the Palestinian Arabs, visited Tunisia this week.

And he was almost lynched.

On Thursday evening, police used tear gas to disperse Salafists who attacked a cultural festival in the northern city of Bizerte.

They had sticks and swords.

The festival's guest of honor was the child-murderer Kuntar, known in Arabic as the "Dean of the Lebanese prisoners."

The reason for the attack was that Kuntar enraged the Salafists by criticizing the Syrian uprising and praising the Assad regime in Syria, which has been killing tens of thousands of its citizens over the past year and a half.

Many of those present received serious injuries and were rushed to the hospital. This included some of the organizers of the festival. Kuntar fled out the back door while he let his sponsors get beaten for him.

Because that's what heroes do.

It is indeed unfortunate that Kuntar was not ripped into little terrorist bits to be eaten by the flies.

Work accident!

Posted: 17 Aug 2012 02:57 AM PDT

Ma'an reports:
The military wing of the Hamas movement said Friday that one of its members had been killed a day earlier in the Gaza Strip after an explosive device mistakenly detonated.

The Al-Qassam Brigades said Majed Zaki Al-Kahlout, 40, from Jabalia refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, had died on Thursday.

The accident took place in Jabalia, the brigades said.
Hamas praises him as having been a great career Jihadist, and hoping that the unfortunate circumstances of his death don't prevent him from being accepted to paradise.

Since Hamas is getting all respectable and all, with its leaders being greeted with honor in all Arab countries and its PR hacks writing op-eds in major US and European newspapers, perhaps it is time for Hamas to start taking out workman's compensation policies (not to mention life insurance) for its employees, the career jihadists. I'm sure with all the respect they receive from the world as a legitimate global player they won't have a problem finding an insurance company willing to underwrite them.


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