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- Iranian general says Iran might attack Israel, US "pre-emptively"
- How Muslims treated Jews in Algiers, 1818
- Israeli feminists freak over gas field names
- Sunday links
- Iran: Greatest Threat to Western Civilization (video)
- Hamas: underground prisons, bunkers in WB
- The issue of Jewish refugees has been brought up to the UN before
- Report: Spy device at Fordo caused August explosion
| Iranian general says Iran might attack Israel, US "pre-emptively" Posted: 23 Sep 2012 05:24 PM PDT From Reuters: Iran could launch a pre-emptive strike on Israel if it was sure the Jewish state was preparing to attack it, a senior commander of its elite Revolutionary Guards was quoted as saying on Sunday.In the Arabic reports, Hajizadeh says that Iran considers US bases in Bahrain, Qatar and Afghanistan to be US soil: "We definitely will target U.S. bases because we see these as part of U.S. territory and not Bahraini or Afghan territories." He also said that if Iran doesn't benefit from the Strait of Hormuz, then they will ensure that nobody benefits from it. In related news, Le Monde reports: According to informed sources, [Iran and Syria have a] mutual defense agreement signed in 2006 and strengthened by a secret additional protocol in 2008: Damascus is committed to open a second front in the event of an Israeli attack against Iran, in exchange for "unlimited" support by Tehran for Bashar al-Assad that he remains in power. (h/t Mohammed the Teddy Bear, Yoel) 
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| How Muslims treated Jews in Algiers, 1818 Posted: 23 Sep 2012 03:00 PM PDT Here is yet another account of how Jews were treated in Muslim countries many decades before modern Zionism arose, again disproving the Muslim lie that Jews were treated with respect. From NARRATIVE OF A RESIDENCE IW ALGIERS by Signor Pananti, 1818: Of Jews, there is an immense number scattered all over the coast of Barbary. The city of Algiers contains about eight thousand, most of whom have swerved considerably from the belief of their ancestors, following the Talmud and Kabbala, with the exception of those called free, who generally come from Leghorn to this place, and are allowed entire liberty in their movements. The unhappy sons of Israel, so badly treated in other countries, can expect little indulgence from the barbarians ; consequently there is no species of outrage or vexation to which they are not exposed. They are prohibited from writing or speaking Arabic, to prevent their being able to read the divine Koran. They cannot ride on horseback, but are obliged to go on mules and asses ; the first being too noble an animal for them. When passing a mosque, they are obliged to go bare-footed. They dare not approach a well or fountain, if there be a Moor drinking there ; or sit down opposite a Mahometan. Their clothing Is obliged to be black ; which colour is held in contempt by the Moors. The Jewish women are only permitted to veil a part of their features. The indolent Moor, with a pipe in his mouth and his legs crossed, calls any Jew who is passing, and makes him perform the offices of a servant. Others amuse themselves by smearing the hands, visage, hair, and clothes of the Jewish boys, with paint or mud ; while the Turkish soldiers often enter their houses, insulting the females, without the heads of the family having the privilege of desiring them to retire. See also: Arab and Muslim attacks against Jews, 1907-1915 Jews and Arabs living peacefully together That age old respect Islam had for Christians and Jews Jewish relations with Muslims in Palestine in the 1850s The richest Jew in Damascus, 1816 (h/t Callen) 
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| Israeli feminists freak over gas field names Posted: 23 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT This is too funny: "We regret that the people who picked the names 'Myra' and 'Sarah' imagined in their minds women when they thought of land for drilling. I am sorry to have to surprise you, but our names and our bodies are not for drilling, and the giving of such nicknames strengthens the perception of women as objects for penetration and drilling," said a group of women's organizations.However... The women's organizations have apparently forgotten that the oil and gas exploratory licenses were often named for women family members of the geologists responsible for mapping the licenses. For example, the Tamar discovery is named for the granddaughter of geologist Yossi Langotski, and Myra and Sarah were named for the daughters of Petromed Corporation geologist David Peace.Sounds like Israeli feminists can give some Muslims a run for their money in finding reasons to be outraged. (h/t Sophie) 
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| Posted: 23 Sep 2012 11:30 AM PDT From Ian: NGO Monitor: 'Investigate UK funding of Palestinian NGOs' "Professor Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor, who briefed Jewish organisations on a UK visit, said: "Either the officials who decide on and are responsible for this counter-productive funding for NGOs are completely unaware of the details regarding the use of UK taxpayer monies, or they are consciously using NGO funding to promote Palestinian political attacks under the facade of peace-making." Stand with Us: West Bank Communities, and Peace (video) Romney: PA State Airspace Would Endanger Israel Airspace is another problem that Israel would face if there ever arose a PLO state next door. PMW: "By the blood of the youth, Jerusalem will come back to us" - girl sings song on PA TV (video) iOS6 Apple Maps Feature Shows No Capital City for State of Israel "Apple's new operating system iOS6 was released earlier this week, and one of the highly touted features is the addition of Apple Maps, but the new mapping feature fails to list Jersualem as the capital of Israel. In fact, according to the new Apple Maps application, Israel has no capital city." CAMERA: CNN's "Situation Room" Resituates Israel's Capital On Sept. 17, "The Situation Room" host Joe Johns (standing in for Wolf Blitzer) and guest Frances Townsend, a formal(sic) U.S. national security advisor, refer to Tel Aviv as Israel's capital. In wake of border attack, IDF tells soldiers to use caution when dealing with asylum-seekers Netanel Yahalomi killed on Friday while bringing water to migrants, underscoring lingering lawlessness in Egyptian territory Honest Reporting: IDF Soldier's Death Vanishes in UK Media Coverage See Anti-Semitic Elmo Arrested (Again!) In Times Square "Adam "Anti-Semitic Elmo" Sandler is at it again! After getting quite a bit of press for harassing tourists in Central Park earlier this summer we hadn't heard much about from the hate-filled Elmo impersonator. But just because we haven't heard much about him doesn't mean he hasn't been out and about, spewing hate. In fact, he was arrested again yesterday." Syrian rebels: "We have a big fight against the Jews ahead of us" Hamas: Arab Jews are not refugees, but criminals Egypt's Morsi urges 'full rights' for Palestinians, affirms Iran's role in Syria Tehran 'part of the solution' to bloodshed, which 'goes against all laws, desires, history and humanity,' president says Pakistani bounty placed on anti-Islam filmmaker A Pakistani minister offered $100,000 on Saturday to anyone who kills the maker of an online video which insults Islam, as sporadic protests rumbled on across parts of the Muslim world. Hamburg mosque may have violated anti-hate contract "The Imam Ali Mosque in Hamburg, widely considered by experts in Germany and abroad the long arm of Iran's regime in the Federal Republic, appears to have violated the spirit – and perhaps the terms – of its contractual partnership with the city of Hamburg. New technique could sniff out malignancies A Technion scientist has developed a breath test to determine whether a growth is benign or malignant Claire Danes focuses glowing New York Times spotlight on Israel Actress raves about the visits she's made to film TV series 'Homeland,' offering high praise in cover story and fashion spread for paper's style magazine. 
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| Iran: Greatest Threat to Western Civilization (video) Posted: 23 Sep 2012 10:00 AM PDT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Hamas: underground prisons, bunkers in WB Posted: 23 Sep 2012 08:20 AM PDT From Ma'an: Palestinian Authority security services spokesman Adnan Dmeiri said that forces on Sunday discovered an underground bunker used by Hamas members in the northern West Bank.Bunkers? Secret prisons? Communications equipment? Oh, just a silent war between Hamas and Fatah in the West Bank, some 18 months after "unity." And Hamas gets funding from Iran to take over the West Bank. Nothing to see here. Move along. Just close your eyes, click your heels three times and repeat this mantra until things get clear in your head and consistent with the mainstream media's portrait of the situation:  
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| The issue of Jewish refugees has been brought up to the UN before Posted: 23 Sep 2012 06:00 AM PDT From JPost: Arabic media have been hysterical over this conference for the past month, with scores of Arabic articles have been written only in the past day. They are uniformly critical of the conference, claiming that there is no such thing as a Jewish refugee, or that any compensation to Jewish refugees is against international conventions, or even that "Zionist terror" is what caused Jewish refugees to flee Arab countries. But mostly they are claiming that this is a brand-new, contrived attempt to take attention away from Palestinian refugees. So here is a brief survey of times that Israel or Jews brought the topic up to the attention of the UN: 1951: The plight of the Arab refugees was the direct result of the hostilities launched by the Arab themselves against Israel to crush her out of existence at birth. The real claim of the refugees lay against the Arab Governments which had sent their armies to invade Israel, in cynical violation of their international obligations. For its part, the Israel Government was willing to make a contribution to the resettlement of the refugees, provided that such an arrangement be mutual. Israel had taken in some 200,000 Jewish refugees from the Arab Governments concerned. His delegation was willing to embark upon a discussion of the question with the Arab States, with a view to finding a constructive overall solution. 1987: Mr. RAMIN (Israel), speaking in exercise of the right of reply, said that the representatives of the Sudan and the United Arab Emirates had referred to only one side of the refugee problem. A study published by the United Nations Department of International Economic and Social Affairs, entitled Trends and Characteristics of International Migration since 1950, dealt with the Palestine refugees as part of the broader phenomenon of international migration. According to that study, as a result of the partition of Palestine, about 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had left the territory that now constituted the State of Israel, while a large proportion of the Jewish population of the Arab States of Asia and North Africa had moved to Israel, the latter migration extending well into the 1960s. The study indicated that 578,000 Jewish immigrants from Arab-speaking nations had been received by Israel. Both the Palestinian Arabs and the Jewish refugees from Arab countries were dealt with in the study under the same heading. Also 1987: That war had caused a large-scale movement of Arabs out of Israeli territory and an increased exodus of Jews from the Arab States where their families had lived for centuries. At that time, there had been about 1 million Jews in the Arab countries, the majority of whom had since found refuge in the Jewish State and within a relatively short time had become self-supporting citizens. With the acquiescence of the Arab Governments, there had been a virtual exchange of population between Israel and the Arab countries, somewhat similar to that between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s and between India and Pakistan in the late 1940s. The search for a possible settlement could not be based on reversing those two parallel movements of large masses of people but must be guided by the successful integration of refugees in other parts of the world.1991: Significantly, the sponsors of this resolution have not suggested at any time that similar steps be taken regarding the confiscated Jewish property in Arab countries. As a result of the 1948 War, approximately 800,000 Jewish refugees from Arab countries were resettled in Israel. The property left behind by these Jewish refugees (estimated to be worth billions of dollars) was expropriated by the governments of the Arab countries in which they lived. There can be no difference in law, justice or equity between the claims of Arab and Jewish property owners. By doing so, the sponsors of resolution 45/73 H are suggesting that Israel's sovereignty is limited or restricted by some provision that does not apply to other Member States of the United Nations. 2001: DAVID LITTMAN, of the World Union For Progressive Judaism, addressed the question of Jewish refugees from Arab countries in 1947. After the proclamation of independence of the State of Israel, the armies of five Arab countries, with the support of the Arabs of Palestine under British mandate, had invaded the new State. This war was a pretext for the intensification and legitimization of a settling of accounts in Arab countries. The leaders of these countries had forced Jews to abandon their homes and property and take the path to exile. The State of Israel constituted a natural refuge for the great majority of these refugees from the Arab world. These Jewish refugees had been the victims of waves of pogroms and humiliation. These refugees, unlike the Arab refugees of Palestine, did not receive any compensation from the international community, and had not even requested any compensation. 2003, written statement submitted by World Union for Progressive Judaism to the UN: During the first half of the 20th century thousands of Jewish men, women, and children, the young and the old, were brutally massacred in Arab countries in North Africa, Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Libya, and Aden — even under French and British colonial rule — and also in Palestine by lawless gangs soon after the British conquest in 1918, and throughout the Mandate period. Similar statement from WUPJ to the UN, 2010: The transfer of populations on a large scale has been a characteristic of human history, particularly in the Orient – deportations, expropriations and expulsion of dhimmis (Jews, Christians and other indigenous peoples) was a constant factor over a long history of dhimmitude – after the Arab jihad-wars of conquest, expropriation and occupation. This policy continues, while a historically-flawed memory systematically spotlights only Arab refugees from a part of Mandatory Palestine as a result of war while forgetting others – particularly dhimmi Jews in their ancestral homeland, expropriated and expelled over the centuries, and their numerous brethren in the Arab-Muslim dar al-Islam. Jews were forbidden to reside in Arabia since the advent of Islam (except for Yemen and a part of the Gulf region), and in the eastern part of Palestine since 1922, when it became the Hashemite Emirate.It isn't that the issue of Jewish refugees has never been mentioned at the UN before. The issue is that for 65 years, the issue of Jewish refugees was deliberately ignored by the UN. By the way, here is a chart of the disappearance of Jews from Arab countries since 1948:
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| Report: Spy device at Fordo caused August explosion Posted: 23 Sep 2012 02:45 AM PDT From YNet: Iranian troops uncovered a monitoring device disguised as a rock near the underground nuclear enrichment plant at Fordo, according to western intelligence sources.Israel has been suspected of using similar booby-trapped devices to intercept voice and data transmissions from Hezbollah in Lebanon. This report seems more plausible than the idea that the West would arbitrarily send a message to Iran by noisily destroying power lines that could be easily replaced. However, the initial reports said that power lines to Natanz were also destroyed in a separate explosion. Were power lines also being monitored? I can imagine that Western intelligence can estimate the number of centrifuges being placed on line by watching how much power is being used incrementally at Fordo. All of this is guesswork, of course, as no one is going to tell the full truth. Perhaps this alleged device was a critical piece in harvesting intelligence at Fordo. But for all we know there is a huge infrastructure of dozens or thousands of similar spy and sabotage devices sprinkled around Iranian nuclear facilities and Iran itself. 
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