Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- Lebanese newspaper editor goes on anti-semitic diatribe
- Saudi vice cop gets beaten
- Friday links
- "Why do they hate us?" (updated)
- Franklin Lamb is not only a liar - he's a thief and scam artist
- Hamas releases documentary on the dangers of "collaboration" (updated)
- Hamas accused of planning to escalate WB protests into a coup
| Lebanese newspaper editor goes on anti-semitic diatribe Posted: 14 Sep 2012 02:08 PM PDT Charles Ayoub is the editor of the Lebanese newspaper al-Diyar and is known to be close to Hezbollah and Syria.  But his latest article, about the absurd Mohammed video, is pure Jew-hatred. He doesn't even try to pretend to be anti-Zionist - he hangs his Jew-hate right out there, proudly. In this article, he says Jews want to divide Muslims from Christians so Jews can control both of them. He says 400 Jews disembarked off the airplane that eventually was bombed over Lockerbie. He says Moammar Gaddafi, his sons and his mistresses were Jewish, and that's why he sent arms to Lebanon to keep the civil war going. And, of course, he says all the Jews didn't come to work at the World Trade Center on 9/11. According to Ayoub, Jews control both the United States and Russia. The stupid Mohammed video? It wasn't released to coincide with 9/11. No, the Jews who (naturally) made the movie to cause a rift between Christians and Muslims released it right before the Pope was to visit Lebanon, in order to cause internal strife! The film's purpose is to incite Muslims to attack Christians while the Pope is there. So diabolical! There has been a definite uptick in explicit anti-semitism in the Arabic media in the past few months. It is starting to become as acceptable as it was in the days before MEMRI and the Web when Arabs didn't pretend to distinguish between Jews and Zionists. Usually, Arab anti-semites would hide their caricatures of big-nosed, black-hatted Jews by labeling them "Zionists" or they would claim that "Zionists" controlled the banks and the media, and so forth. And even though it was a joke, it revealed that they were at least embarrassed to admit that they really hated Jews. That embarrassment seems to be melting away. Only in the past week we saw explicitly anti-Jewish vitriol and incitement in Egyptian and Jordanian newspapers. As far as I can tell, there has been no pushback against these articles in the Arab media or in talkbacks. 
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| Posted: 14 Sep 2012 12:30 PM PDT Haven't done one of these for a while.... Two Saudi men and a woman allegedly beat up a member of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Hai'a) on Wednesday night after he caught one of their female relatives with an Arab man in a state of khulwa (seclusion) inside a car.Must be the occupation. 
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| Posted: 14 Sep 2012 10:30 AM PDT From Ian: A "Palestinian Spring": A Renewed Fatah Bid to Remove Fayyad by Khaled Abu Toameh "Palestinians noticed that in many cities, Fatah activists were organizing and leading the anti-Fayyad protests. Palestinian Security forces had been instructed not to prevent the protesters from burning posters and effigies of Fayyad." A cynical view of Middle East democracy -- One person, one vote, one time? The latest rampages following the "Innocence of Muslims" film do not augur well for the future of MidEast democracy Myths and realities: Israel and the refugee problem "The Palestinians' so-called leaders are busy selling their "narrative", but let's call a spade a spade – their narrative is nothing but propaganda, full of half-truths, omissions and outright lies and it's built on the tears of the crimes the Arab world committed against 850,000 Arab-Jewish (*) refugees and continues to commit against the 5,000,000, downtrodden Palestinian pawns." Irish Times: State did nothing to save Jews, says Shatter THE GOVERNMENT in the 1940s did nothing to oppose the extermination of the Jews in Europe, Minister for Justice and Defence Alan Shatter said yesterday. UN Watch: Hillel Neuer: New UN human rights official is a hero to Holocaust deniers "De Zayas is not a Holocaust denier. But he is a hero to them. His publications and lectures are promoted on websites such as "Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust." It's easy to see why.MEMRI Cartoon in PA daily shows Israel as a knife slitting Jerusalem's throat?  Israel urges world boycott of Ahmadinejad speech to the UN UN envoy Ron Prosor: 'Iran's nuclear program is like an express train, and the international community's response is like a local train that stops at every stop' U.N. shipment of high-tech to North Korea, Iran unjustified and unfathomable, say investigators "The high-tech shipments to two of the world's most dangerous governments were initially made public last April by Fox News, which reported that WIPO's method for carrying out the transaction in North Korea seemed designed to bypass safeguards set up in 2008 after a similar scandal involving another U.N. agency, the United Nations Development Program." Dramatic moustache causes man to flee hometown The iconoclastic facial hair caused him to abandon his hometown of Bara in Khyber Agency after the militants declared it 'un-Islamic'. IDF Blog A Rosh Hashana Greeting from the IDF Chief of Staff A great Jewish year for tourism: Record 3.5 million visit Israel Israel receives NIS 18 billion ($4.5 billion) in tourism revenue over past 12 months • Tourism Ministry approves construction grants for 18 new hotels, half of them in Jerusalem. Israel Daily Picture: Beneath the Old City of Jerusalem Lies a Huge Cave. Does It Date Back To King Solomon or King Zedekiah?  Also, check out Zach Novetsky in Tablet: Beware of Even Numbers - The film 'Innocence of Muslims' and the dangerous failing of the media 
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| "Why do they hate us?" (updated) Posted: 14 Sep 2012 08:29 AM PDT Once again the Muslim world is going crazy and we are seeing murderous rampages. And once again the pundits are asking "Why do they hate us?" Or, even more pointedly, Hillary Clinton asked "How could this happen? How could this happen in a country we helped liberate, in a city we helped save from destruction?" There is no shortage of people willing to immediately say that the US is the reason Muslims go on killing sprees in the name of Mohammed. Russia Today interviews a supposed "expert" who said "Washington and America are still living in their own Western bubble where they believe they don't have any chain of responsibility for the events that have happened to transform countries like Libya." The editor for Al Quds al Arabi writes, and Juan Cole agrees: US interferences in Arab and Muslim affairs in favor of Israel, its occupation, and Judaization of the holy places, and the US's embrace of groups hostile to Islam and Muslims are the main reason for the current scourge and instability, and even wars in our countries.This is idiocy. While the Benghazi murders seem to have been pre-planned and deliberate by radical Islamists, the riots that have broken out in Egypt, Lebanon, Yemen and elsewhere - where more people have died - are different. They are almost identical to the Mohammed cartoon riots of 2005 against Denmark. In both cases, individuals decided to do something provocative towards Islam. In the first case it was to prove the importance of free speech, and this time it was a crude attempt to incite hate against Islam, but in neither case was the nation that hosted the offensive media responsible for it. In fact, in both cases the nations' laeaders distanced themselves from the incidents. Yet in both cases the Muslims rioted against those blameless host countries. In other words, if you are going to ask why the Muslims hate the US, you must also ask why they hated Denmark - rioting outside Danish embassies, and causing deaths, just like today. All of a sudden, the self-righteous assumption that US policy is the source of their hate is revealed to be absurd. Denmark is hardly a symbol of oppression against Muslims. The common denominator isn't that the West is offending Islam; it is that Muslims today are almost eager to act offended - so they can flex their political muscles. There is no doubt that many Muslima resent the West. So does pretty much everyone else in the non-aligned movement. But they don't start murderous riots at the drop of a hat. Islam is a supremacist religion, and a supremacist political philosophy. If it was only a personal religion it wouldn't be so terrible - every religion believes that it is superior to others. But as a set of political philosophies, the idea of supremacy is dangerous. Muslims are taught that their way is superior - and that history is on their side, . They are told that inevitably Islam will take over the world, and it is a superior political movement compared to liberal democracy or any other political system. But in reality, most of the Muslim world suffers from infighting, from a backwards culture, from the inability to progress. And they see the Western world has left them in the dust since the 1600s. When the truth clashes with what people are taught, it tends to make them touchy. The Muslim world suffers from a mass inferiority complex as they see the success of people who they believe should be second-class dhimmis under their control. It is natural for people to be jealous. It is even natural to be resentful against those who are doing better than you. But resorting to violence for ridiculous perceived slights against one's honor is only natural in the Muslim world. And part of the reason is because of their complete inability to take responsibility. So please spare us the pseduo-intellectual analyses that blame America for Muslim violence. If the Muslim world is to ever progress, it requires that their members take personal responsibility for their actions. That isn't a Western concept, but apparently communities that embrace that simple idea are the ones that will ultimately prosper. As long as self-hating Westerners keep blaming the victims and holding the criminals blameless, they are encouraging the next round of senseless murders. UPDATE: Israel's Channel 2 reports that Arabs protesting in Acre today said that only an Islamic caliphate will cause the violence to stop. "Only Islamic rule throughout the world will make peace. Jews and Christians can live without fear under the wings of Islam." (h/t Yoel) 
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| Franklin Lamb is not only a liar - he's a thief and scam artist Posted: 14 Sep 2012 07:02 AM PDT Earlier this month I posted evidence that PressTV darling and Hezbollah groupie Franklin Lamb would simply make up lies about Israel and publish them. But they weren't ordinary lies - they were very detailed and seemingly well researched, as he would quote US intelligence reports and give historic anecdotes that he simply made up. It appears that Lamb is a known scam artist and criminal, and has been playing this game for decades. Check out this article in New York magazine, after Lamb scammed the Washington Post into believing that Israel destroyed a building in Lebanon with a "vacuum bomb":  Shoplifting and other theft convictions? How interesting! But it doesn't stop there. Commenter Carpe Diem pointed me to a most interesting site that shows court cases in Maryland, and Franklin Pierce Lamb - his full name - has a colorful record. (Proof: His full name is on this complaint against Israel given at the Hague.) He was found guilty of passing a bad check in 2001, and then convicted of violating parole.He was charged with harassing people through telephone calls. He was charged with fraud. He was charged with second degree assault and then with violating a protection order - very possibly against his wife, Nadia, who requested a restraining order against him before their divorce. Lamb also had numerous traffic infractions - speeding, driving without a license. He was sued for not paying for services. He apparently took out a loan and never paid back, with a judgment of $6500 against him. And there was this interesting summary judgment against him in 2000: Summary Judgment entered in favor of The Greenbrier Hotel, against Franklin Lamb, trading as US Arab American Association, in the amount of $140,862.00 plus interest and court costs. It appears that Lamb has violated probation from one or more of his convictions, because he has spent the past five years in Lebanon building up his reputation among the clueless Left as a defender of freedom while the State of Maryland has been summoning him and he has been playing legal games to avoid going back. There's lots more there, and this is only concerning ten years of his sordid life. All evidence points to Franklin Lamb being a repeat criminal and swindler and a probable scam artist. Noe of this stuff made it into his official bio at one of the sites he writes for, and it appears likely that very little of the information in his bio is true. From walking into the Washington Post offices in 1982 and finding that he can get lies published so easily, Lamb has learned that he can apply that same methodology as much as he wants. People simply cannot believe that the alleged lawyer in a suit is lying to their faces, so he keeps doing it. Don't expect the far-left outlets that publish his garbage to care, though. They just need material that fits their viewpoints, and the credibility of the writer is not an issue. 
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| Hamas releases documentary on the dangers of "collaboration" (updated) Posted: 14 Sep 2012 05:37 AM PDT I've seen lots of articles in the Arabic press trying to dissuade Gazans from being "collaborators" with Israel, but this production brings it to a whole new level. This propaganda took some time and money to make, and indicates that Hamas is very nervous about Israeli intelligence. At the end, the alleged spies all describe how relieved they are that they are in jail rather than at the mercy of their Israeli handlers. UPDATE: David G provides invaluable background here and here. UPDATE 2: Hamas sentenced a "collaborator" to death yesterday, and sentenced his wife to 10 years in prison. 
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| Hamas accused of planning to escalate WB protests into a coup Posted: 14 Sep 2012 03:16 AM PDT  While the agency is very anti-Hamas, they name specific Hamas members behind this alleged scheme: Khalil al-Hayya, Ismail al-Ashqar, and Zakaria Abu Muammar. According to the report, Muammar is responsible for the Bethlehem and Hebron protests, attracting "weak" and poor people and radical students to join and co-opt the otherwise peaceful rallies. al-Hayya and al-Ashqar are directing Hamas cells in the northern section, including Ramallah and Nablus. The report says that Hamas is attempting to guide the rallies into becoming anti-Abbas rallies, forcing confrontations with police with the intent of ultimately toppling the PA and taking over. Given the source, it is hard to know how accurate this is. The methodology described is very consistent with how Islamists try to guide popular revolts throughout the "Arab Spring," and the description of a "war room" behind the scheme is detailed. On the other hand, this is exactly what the PA would accuse Hamas of doing even if the rallies got out of control for different reasons. There is no doubt that Hamas media is doing all it can to praise and incite the protests, and whether it is a formal plan or not, no doubt the Islamists are ready to take advantage of any chaos for their own advantage. 
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