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- Overnight links
- A tree falls on the Temple Mount. Must be the Jooz!
- Hezbollah pretends to support free speech
- NYT Israel op-ed index for July (David G) - 5 anti-Israel, one pro
- Today's examples of legendary Muslim tolerance towards Christians
- Might want a paternity test on this
- Nice shooting!
- Blame everyone for PalArab misery except Arabs
- "Guests" must remain polite when they are being slaughtered
| Posted: 05 Aug 2012 10:00 PM PDT First, a great piece from Edgar Davidson: In response to the Co-Op's well publicised decision to boycott all goods from 'illegal Israeli settlements' I withdrew all the money I had in a Britannia building society account (Britannia is part of the Co-Op) and wrote a letter explaining why. From Ian: Sad news, Barry Rubin has lung cancer: Why I've Always Written So Much With Such Intensity And why I won't stop now "Nothing is stranger than having a normal life and then within a few hours knowing that it might end at almost any moment. That's what happened to me when I was just diagnosed with what is called inoperable lung cancer. I am still waiting final results of the tests and the choice of therapies." BDS Fail of the day: Lollapalooza festival to touch down in Israel Tel Aviv becomes third international destination for legendary Chicago concert CIFWatch: Jewish Refugee Day "Landmark news [last] week: Israel has approved a special memorial day to be set aside in the Jewish calendar to mark the exodus of Jews from Arab countries. On this Jewish Refugee Day, students will learn about the 850,000 Jewish refugees who fled from their native Arab countries since the establishment of the State of Israel. Here at Harif (the UK association of Jews from the Middle East and North Africa), we have worked tirelessly with other organisations across the globe to lobby for this day." Israel thanks 'Nazi hunters' from Sun paper "Several weeks after the capture of the world's most wanted Nazi war criminal — who helped send 15,700 Jews to their deaths in Auschwitz — Israeli ambassador to Britain Daniel Taub met Saturday with two Sun reporters — Brian Flynn and Ryan Parry — who were behind the journalistic investigation that enabled Laszlo Csatary's arrest in Hungary last month." ADL: Anti-Semitism pervasive in TV programming during Ramadan "The ADL cited several popular shows including Egypt's "Firqat Naji Attalah," which airs daily and chronicles the fictional adventures of Egyptian diplomats in Tel Aviv. In one episode, dealing with cheating Jewish bankers, one of the main Egyptian characters decides to rob a bank while dressed in Hassidic garb, and in another a character express delight whenever Hamas sends missiles into Israel." How Liberal Democrats who Support Israel Might Think about the Election by Alan M. Dershowitz Reuters site hacked, fake interview with Syrian rebel leader posted "One of the posts was an "interview" with the head of the Free Syrian Army, Riad al-Assad. Al-Assad allegedly said that his forces were pulling back from the northern province of Aleppo after repeated battles with the Syrian Army. Syrian rebels say detained Iranians are Revolutionary Guards, not pilgrims Opposition claims in video message that captives were on a reconnaissance mission Syria's Muslim Brotherhood confirms it has battalions fighting Assad Forces created three months ago are semi-independent but associated with the Free Syrian Army, spokesman says Fighting in southeastern Turkey leaves 19 dead, report says Fighting between Kurdish rebels and government troops in southeastern Turkey killed more than a dozen people over the weekend, according to the semi-official Anatolia news agency. Indo-Israel FTA likely by mid-2013 Indo-Israeli Free Trade Agreement is likely to be completed by the second quarter of 2013, paving the way for doubling of bi-lateral trade between the two countries.Also, some Arab mansions in "apartheid" Israel:   
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| A tree falls on the Temple Mount. Must be the Jooz! Posted: 05 Aug 2012 07:12 PM PDT A palm tree collapsed in the courtyard of the Temple Mount on Sunday, near where the Al Aqsa Mosque currently is.  One thing they all have in common - it was the fault of the evil Jews. Theory number 1 is the always popular idea that Jewish excavations under the mosque - which are wholly imaginary - have weakened the trees and caused this one to fall. Theory number 2 is that Jewish "settlers" are spraying chemicals to kill the trees when they visit the Temple Mount. Theory number 3 is that the Israelis have placed a camera on the Dome of the Rock and the trees were in the way, so they somehow knocked this one down. The Al Aqsa Foundation concludes: All this evidence suggests that occupation is the cause of such cases, and it remains for the competent Muslim Arab Palestinian engineers and agricultural engineers to examine such cases, in a professional and scientific manner, and come to their conclusion.It is nice to know that they want to find competent authorities to confirm what they already know. Otherwise one might think they weren't being fair in their wild conspiracy theories. 
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| Hezbollah pretends to support free speech Posted: 05 Aug 2012 12:50 PM PDT From The Daily Star Lebanon: Google and Apple's online stores have stopped offering the Web application for Al-Manar, Hezbollah's television station.Al Manar's response is priceless: Anchor: Let's begin with the Israeli incitement against Al-Manar TV, which led to the removal of Al-Manar mobile apps by Apple and Google. Al-Manar TV emphasized that its news services would reach its viewers through other means.While the Hezbollah/Al Manar spokesman brags about how Al Manar is a "resistance" (i.e., terrorist) channel, the Lebanese media head talks about free speech. Hezbollah does not have the best record on free speech - threatening reporters and barring them from places they don't want the media to see - but I haven't heard anything from Mr. Mahfouz about that. And you have got to love the head of the Lebanese IT association calling to boycott Apple and Google. I'm sure they are mighty frightened. 
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| NYT Israel op-ed index for July (David G) - 5 anti-Israel, one pro Posted: 05 Aug 2012 11:25 AM PDT From David G: New York Times Op-Ed Index for July, 2012 A) What does Morsi mean for Israel - Thomas Friedman - July 3, 2012 So Morsi is going to be under enormous pressure to follow the path of Turkey, not the Taliban. Will he? I have no idea. He should understand, though, that he holds a powerful card — one Israelis would greatly value: real peace with a Muslim Brotherhood-led Egypt, which could mean peace with the Muslim world and a true end to the conflict. Of course, that's the longest of long shots. Would Morsi ever dangle that under certain terms? Again, I don't know. I just know this: The Mubarak era is over — and with the conservative Muslim Brotherhood dominating Egypt and with conservative religious-nationalists dominating Israeli politics, both will either change their behaviors to make Camp David legitimate for both peoples or it will gradually become unsustainable.This is the final paragraph and the most chilling. Thirty years ago Israel sacrificed the strategic depth provided by the Sinai in return for peace with Egypt. Now Friedman's arguing that the deal (along with the substantial and concrete Israeli concession) will only be legitimate if Israel makes the concessions to the Palestinians demanded by the Muslim Brotherhood. So is there any peace deal that Israeli would make that Friedman would agree was not subject to revision at the request of Israel's partners? This is particularly pernicious coming from the same man who, ten years ago, promoted a "peace plan" endorsed by many Arab leaders now embattled, dead or deposed at the hands of their subjects. This is also no mistake, Friedman has made this argument a number of times over the past year and a half. Anti-Israel - 1 / Pro-Israel - 0 B) Wrong Time for new Settlements - Editorial - July 10, 2012 Although nonbinding, the commission's recommendations are bad law, bad policy and bad politics. Most of the world views the West Bank, which was taken by Israel from Jordan in the 1967 war, as occupied territory and all Israeli construction there as a violation of international law. The world court ruled this way in 2004. The Fourth Geneva Convention bars occupying powers from settling their own populations in occupied lands. And United Nations Security Council resolution 242, a core of Middle East policy, calls for the "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict."The commissions to which the editorial refers, is the Levy commission, which issued a report ruling that Israeli settlements in Judea and Samaria are legal. Legal expert, Prof. Avi Bell wrote about report (.pdf): Others have objected that the Levy report's conclusions can be disputed by international jurists, including by a controversial and non-binding advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice. It is true that like many legal controversies, the questions addressed by the Levy Commission are capable of being analyzed in a number of ways. The Levy Commission's conclusions are logical applications of reasonable understandings of the rules in an area where no authoritative resolution of the dispute has yet been rendered.In other words the New York Times was arguing against the report's conclusions because it doesn't like them, not because they were legally unsound. Anti-Israel - 2 / Pro-Israel - 0 C) Israel, when the lights go down - Jodi Rudoren - July 21, 2012 These two films, each portraying one of two key conflicts vexing Israeli society, were among 26 Israeli movies screened this month at the 29th annual Jerusalem Film Festival. Recently arrived to cover Israel and the Palestinian territories, I inhaled nine of the films — six documentaries and three features — over a week in hopes of gleaning some insights into the people, places and production values of my new beat.The new Jerusalem bureau chief of the New York Times, Jodi Rudoren wrote about her impressions of the recent Jerusalem film festival. I reproduced the above paragraph because of the words "conflicts vexing." This is often how American correspondents in Israel seem to view themselves. They are not reporters, but observers of great moral dilemmas (dilemmas where the Israelis more often than not make the wrong decision). Given the number of Israel correspondents who have gone on to write books, no doubt this is a good professional decision. But by focusing on the literary possibilities rather than the news, reporters usually fail to report accurately. (Rudoren here seems to admire "Five Broken Cameras" a movie about anti-Israel protests in Bil'in. Omitted from her report is any acknowledgment that the government, responding to the ruling of Israel's High Court of Justice rerouted the fence. The rerouting, following the dictates of court despite the possible security consequences, shows a lot more of Israel than these movies.) In general Rudoren seems to prefer ugly visions of Israel in the movies she saw - though she calls it "complexity" - which is not a good sign. Anti-Israel - 3 / Pro-Israel - 0 D) Israel's embattled democracy - Editorial - July 21, 2012 There are other worrisome developments. The Association for Civil Rights in Israel has expressed concern over "intensifying infringements on democratic freedoms." In the past two years, activists say, more than 25 bills have been proposed or passed by the Parliament to limit freedom of speech and of the press; penalize, defund or investigate nongovernmental groups; restrict judicial independence; and trample minority rights.This editorial was written immediately after Kadima left the governing coalition and it lamented the party's "moderating force" on the "hard line" government. (It took two weeks for any opinion writer to acknowledge Kadima joining the government.) The truth is that Israel has a high court run largely by right thinking liberals (by New York Times standards) that has an outsize influence on government policy. Why should the editors trust the word of self-interested activists? Even the bills that passed were still subject to review. What ACRI considers limiting freedom, many others see as introducing greater transparency to groups who have operated with little or no oversight. This theme has been seen in a number of New York Times articles over the past year. It's interesting how many Israelis can write or talk openly about declining Israeli democracy and not fear being arrested. Democracy is a messy business, you don't always get the results you want. But that's not the same thing as having freedom limited. Anti-Israel - 4 / Pro-Israel - 0 E) Israel's Settlers are here to stay - Dani Dayan - July 25, 2012 Given the irreversibility of the huge Israeli civilian presence in Judea and Samaria and continuing Palestinian rejectionism, Western governments must reassess their approach to resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They should acknowledge that no final-status solution is imminent. And consequently, instead of lamenting that the status quo is not sustainable, the international community should work together with the parties to improve it where possible and make it more viable.The international community's view of how to improve the situation is likely to differ significantly from Dayan's. But his analysis in this paragraph is correct. It is rather remarkable that the New York Times actually allowed this op-ed into print. Anti-Israel - 4 / Pro-Israel - 1 F) Mitt Romney stumps in Israel - Editorial - July 30, 2012 The real audience for Mr. Romney's tough talk was American Jews and evangelical Christians, some of whom accompanied him on his trip. He is courting votes and making an aggressive pitch to donors, including Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino magnate with the hard-line pro-Israel views who is spending more money than any other American — $100 million — to defeat Mr. Obama.There is real ugliness appearing in the opinion pages of the New York Times these days. So why hedge? Just say, "a rick American Jew is trying to buy the election to support Israel at America's expense." It didn't bother the New York Times when, four years ago, quite a few George Soros backed organizations worked hard to elect Barack Obama (and are still doing so.) Having too much influence is only a problem when it goes against the sensibilities of the editors of the New York Times. Final Total: Anti-Israel - 5 / Pro-Israel - 1 Methodology: The search index at the New York Times is going through some changes and makes it difficult to get a good search result. Instead I went through my local library and did a search in the Pro-Quest database for"Israel" in Editorial and Commentary documents for July, 2012 in the New York Times. (You will not be able to see the results unless you have a Pro-Quest account.) I only considered articles that were mostly about Israel. The impetus for this research was Clark Hoyt's The Danger of the One sided debate from 2007, in which he defended publishing an op-ed by a Hamas spokesman as necessary for balance. 
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| Today's examples of legendary Muslim tolerance towards Christians Posted: 05 Aug 2012 10:10 AM PDT From AP: When the angry mob was rampaging through town, storming her home and those of other Christians, the 70-year-old woman hid in her cow pen, pushing a rock against the door. There she cowered for hours, at one point passing out from tear gas being fired by police that seeped in.Al Arabiya: As cities of Damascus and Aleppo entered into the confrontation where the Christians demographic weight is at its most, the number of Syrian Christian families displaced to Lebanon is increasing significantly.JPost: Saudi Arabia deported 35 Ethiopian Christians last week after incarcerating them for over seven months for praying in advance of the Christmas season in December 2011, according to Christian media outlets and NGOs.(h/t Yoel) 
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| Might want a paternity test on this Posted: 05 Aug 2012 09:00 AM PDT From Ma'an: An increasing amount of prisoners serving long-term sentences are looking for new ways to have children from their prison cells, the Center for Prisoners Studies reported Saturday.I guess pretending that your child belongs to a prisoner is a lot less dangerous for the mother than the alternative... 
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| Posted: 05 Aug 2012 07:00 AM PDT Once again, a man on a motorcycle in Gaza was killed by an Israeli missile. And once again, he was no civilian. From the Islamic Jihad mouthpiece Palestine Today: According to our correspondent in the southern sector [of Gaza] a Zionist bombing suddenly targeted a motorcyclethat led to the martyrdom of 'Eid Okal Hijazi, 22, and wounding another who was taken to Abu Yousef Al Najjar Hospital, southern Gaza Strip.And we have pictures!   That's a mighty small crater. Which indicates that Israel has more regard for the lives of innocent Palestinian Arabs than Hamas does. 
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| Blame everyone for PalArab misery except Arabs Posted: 05 Aug 2012 05:09 AM PDT Ma'an publishes an op-ed filled with rubbish by Osama Kashoo: On June 21, 27 and 29, three asylum seeker vessels heading from the port of Pelabuhan Ratu on the south-eastern coast of Java, a popular embarkation point for Australia's coast, disappeared. The boats were overladen with men, women and children desperately seeking a new life when they sank.First of all, only two boats sank; the third was rescued by Australian authorities in dangerous waters. Secondly, I can find no source saying that any Palestinian Arabs were on the boats at all, let alone that they are the majority of those missing. Some 90-100 are thought dead in the sinkings, 28 is not the majority of 90, and that is a mighty specific number when no one knows their identities or even if they were on those specific boats. Thirdly, it is Australian authorities who rescued the survivors; to say that there was no search party (or, as the article implies, that somehow Palestinian Arabs who are lost at sea were treated with more indifference than any of the other asylum-seekers) is absurd. But the author needs to show how the world is indifferent to Palestinian Arabs, and he will twist whatever facts he can to do so: For an entire month now, families of the Palestinian refugees from Iraq have been waiting for news of their family members still missing at sea. Their story is the tragedy of the ongoing Palestinian refuge issue itself. The grandparents of those missing were forced to flee their homes in the cities of Acre and Haifa in 1948 after the creation of Israel. After years of hardships, roaming from refugee camp to refugee camp in the Middle East, these families arrived, penniless and stateless, in Iraq.Israel didn't force Arabs out of Haifa, they left on their own or at the urging of their own leaders. In Iraq, Palestinian Arabs were treated better than in most Arab countries, to the extent that they were favored under Saddam Hussein's regime. His fall led to their resentful Arab neighbors attacking and murdering them, forcing them to flee towards Syria. But they were not allowed in, and they were stuck in squalid refugee camps administered by UNHRC which desperately tried to resettle them elsewhere. And every single Arab country refused to take them in. Brazil was one country that did take in about 100 of them. They aren't in "the jungles of Brazil," they were settled in major cities with generous benefits and free housing. This op-ed tries to make it sound like the Western indifference is responsible for Palestinian Arab refugee suffering, but only a little research shows that it is the Arab nations and Palestinian leadership who have actively opposed the Palestinian Arabs from becoming normal, happy citizens anywhere - including the West! The Palestinian Arabs who lived in Iraq are only the most obvious example, and yet this op-ed has nothing bad to say about the Arab nations who refused to accept even the relatively small number of PalArab refugees from Iraq. Not only that, but the author is trying to make it sound like somehow Palestinian Arabs are being ignored, when in fact there is no refugee population - real or fake - who get even a fraction of the attention that Palestinian Arabs get in the media, in the UN or even in the parliaments of Western democracies. Op-eds must be fact-checked just like news stories are. In this case, Ma'an failed miserably. 
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| "Guests" must remain polite when they are being slaughtered Posted: 05 Aug 2012 01:00 AM PDT From Ma'an, a story that unintentionally highlights the everyday discrimination of Arabs towards their Palestinian "brethren" - and how Palestinian Arabs are willing to accept it silently: Palestinians in Syria will remain neutral in the conflict, a Palestinian Authority official said Saturday, as refugees become increasingly caught up in the violence.Is there any PalArab group who is demanding that Arabs in Syria who have lived there for generations be given the option of becoming citizens if they want? Of course not! Because their entire existence is meant to pressure Israel, not to enjoy equal rights in the only country most of them have ever lived in! So we have a bizarre situation where Palestinian Arabs are the "dhimmis" of Syria, second-class citizens that everyone pretends are happy with their situation. They are afraid to speak up because they might be targeted (and murdered) by their supposedly benevolent hosts if they do. They can't flee to Jordan because Jordan will send them - and only them - right back. So they shut up when they are murdered and try to become invisible in the country where they are celebrated as "guests." They are "dhimmis" not only because the Arab world insists on treating them that way, but because their supposed "leaders" work to keep them that way. 
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