יום שני, 3 בספטמבר 2012

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Shana Tova from the Technion (video)

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 08:00 PM PDT

Kippa "flashmob" in Germany against anti-semitism

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 02:34 PM PDT

The best story of the week.

From Berliner-Zeitung:
More than a hundred demonstrators protested against anti-Semitism in Charlottenburg. Most participants wore a yarmulke - the traditional Jewish head covering. The reason was the attack on a Berlin rabbi last Wednesday in the Schöneberg district of Berlin.

After the attack on a Berlin rabbi over a hundred people in Charlottenburg staged a spontaneous demonstration protesting against anti-Semitism. In the so-called flash mob participants moved silently from the Fasanenstraße to KaDeWe department store on the Kurfürstendamm. A majority of the protesters wore it the traditional Jewish head covering.

Police said they were notified of the event shortly beforehand. "But everything remained peaceful," said a spokesman. On Facebook, the organizers had called for the action. "We do not want people on our streets are attacked because they identify themselves as visibly Jewish," they wrote on their website.

Last Wednesday, the rabbi was in the Schöneberg district of Berlin surrounded by several young people, beaten and insulted.

Abba Eban and Ivory Soap

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 01:00 PM PDT

A funny exchange in the UN from the debates that led to Security Council Resolution 242:
Mr. DAOUDY (Syria): Day by day it becomes increasingly clear that that aggression was precisely calculated and planned in advance as if by a computer. The numerous statements of high-ranking Israel spokesmen, quoted on many occasions, confirm this, if ever confirmation be needed. But let me quote an illuminating paragraph concerning what transpired with regard to the total mobilization of Israel forces for the definite purpose of aggression. This is taken from a book entitled Six Days in June by Robert J. Donovan and the staff of the Los Angeles Times, which was written especially to glorify the so-called heroic deeds of Israel:
"Robert C. Toth, Los Angeles Times correspondent in Israel, was able to circumvent military censorship on the scope of the Israel mobilization before hostilities. To keep the extent of the call-up secret, Israel said it had undertaken 'partial mobilization'. Censors would pass no other phrase. Deep in a story on war preparations filed three days before the fighting began, Toth inserted the phrase, 'Israel's partial mobilization was Ivory-pure.' The story cleared. On the foreign desk in Los Angeles, editors quickly realized Toth was referring to the Ivory soap slogan--99 and 44/100ths per cent pure--and rewrote Toth's lead paragraph to say that Israel was 'fully mobilized'."
Thus any doubt which may still be entertained by anyone regarding the identity of the real aggressor is removed, even by sources sympathetic to the Israel point of view.

Mr. EBAN (Israel): It is very difficult for me to reply to the address of the Syrian representative without taking the level of this debate below the level that it has reached. I am a much less assiduous reader than he is of the Los Angeles Times, and I know very little about the qualities of Ivory soap. Nor do I feel that I have to analyse again the address of mine to which he took exception. I said what I said on Monday [1375th meeting], and I have noted the reports of what I have said throughout the world, and I am content that Israel's meaning is clear.

The Syrian representative began with a long and rather sinister description of the fact that Israel armed forces were mobilized in the first days of June. Of course the Cabinet of which I am a member ordered mobilization in the early days of June. Ninety thousand Egyptian troops in the Sinai; 45,000 poised on the Syrian heights; the entire Jordan army in order of battle; all surrounding airfields with operation orders about targets for attack; a complete naval blockade of our southern frontiers: if, in these conditions, Israel mobilized its forces for defense, this simply proves that the Israel Government was possessed of a normal sanity.

Mr. DAOUDY (Syria): Apparently my reference to Robert J. Donovan's book called Six Days in June, which I have here in my hand, was not to the liking of the Foreign Minister of Israel. But that book was not written by an Arab, nor is it considered to be pro-Arab. That book, which is being sold in New York by the thousands, was written precisely to propagate the Israel point of view and is definitely a pro-Israel book. Naturally, the Israel authorities do not like the fact that the Los Angeles Times correspondent was able to convey to his paper, despite the Israel censorship, the fact that Israel had totally mobilized its troops while the Israel authorities were deceiving the world in stating that there was no mobilization whatsoever. Whether Mr. Eban reads the Los Angeles Times or not is beside the point. I can assure him that I have no special knowledge of Ivory soap or the slogans put out by the Ivory soap company. My stay in this country has been very short, and he should know better about these things in view of the fact that his stay has been much longer and he has very intimate and very valuable connections in this country.

Iran covers up Star of David at airport. Swastikas are OK, though.

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 11:00 AM PDT

Two years ago, I noted that Google Earth images of Mehrabad International Airport in Iran showed what appeared to be a Star of David on its roof:


Iranian media were aghast, claiming that Israeli engineers had built the building for the Shah and demanded that this hated symbol be removed.

More recent satellite images show that the star has indeed been covered up:


Another victory of the Islamic Republic over the Zionist enemy!

This mimics the similar brouhaha over dozens of six-pointed stars found on the dome in Revolution Square, in Tehran, which was similarly destroyed.

But while six-pointed stars associated with Judaism are anathema to Iranian leaders, other patterns  - like this set of four swastikas at Islamic Azad University - don't seem to bother them so much:

Sunday links

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 09:00 AM PDT

From Ian:

Netanyahu: Time for world to set 'clear red lines' for Iran
PM says at cabinet meeting that sanctions hurting Iranian economy but not deterring Tehran's nuclear advance; decries lack of protest at "anti-Semitic rants" of Iranian leadership during NAM conference.
"I think that the truth must be told," Netanyahu continued. "The international community is not putting down a clear red line to Iran, and Iran is not seeing international determination to stop its nuclear program."
Until the Iranians see a clear red line and this determination, he said, they will not stop moving their nuclear program forward. "Iran cannot get a nuclear weapon," he declared.

J'lem puzzled by Dempsey comment on Iran strike
Dempsey said he did not want to be 'complicit' in strike; Israeli source says comment doesn't represent White House position.

The futility of relying on the international community By ISI LEIBLER
"Ultimately, the bottom line is that we must not succumb to pressures from those seeking to deter us from taking steps to thwart threats to our survival. Nor should we be tempted to rely on undertakings from other, "friendly" nations. We have learned from bitter experience, that when the chips are down we must rely on ourselves. As Vice Prime Minister Moshe Ya'alon recently stated "the righteous work may be done by others, but we have to prepare as if no one else will do it for us".

German Jews slam Muslims for anti-Semitism
"After a Berlin rabbi and his young daughter were assaulted, the president of Germany's Jewish community on Friday called on the country's Muslim associations to tackle anti-Semitism within their communities and urged Jews to continue wearing kippot in public."

Photo fraud: CNN resurrects the Rachel Corrie libel
"Now, nine years later, with the Israeli court verdict, CNN still hasn't learned its lesson. Due either to anti-Israel bias or to pure sloppiness, CNN continues to use the megaphone photos, promoting the libel of Israel intentionally murdering Americans."

MEMRI: British MP Galloway: I Support Bashar For The Reason I Supported Saddam (6 min)


Turkey's appeal for safe zone in Syria sputters

Jordan, UN appeal for $700 million to help deal with influx of Syrian refugees

Abu Hamza's son stole £70,000 of gems in armed smash and grab raid on jewellers
Hamza has seven children and in the past his relatives have been arrested for various offences.
Sons Hamza Mustafa Kamel, Mohamed Kamel Mostafa and Mohssin Ghailan were jailed in 2009 for their part in a £1million luxury car scam.

Imam held in blasphemy case after new testimony
ISLAMABAD: A blasphemy case took a bizarre turn here on Saturday when police arrested Khalid Jadoon, a prayer leader who had allegedly put some pages of the holy Quran among the burnt papers to strengthen the case against a Christian girl.

A high-tech bridge between London and Israel
The UK's TexChange program will bring the spirit of the Start-Up Nation to UK investors and corporations
"Israel's got the technology, and Britain has the markets — or at least access to them. Why not bring the two together, letting British companies get access to Israeli start-up technology, to bring new products and services to existing and new markets?"

Israeli water power that doesn't give a dam
The Jerusalem-based company that invented the Wind Tulip unveils a device to create hydroelectricity inside municipal water pipes.

Top 10 Israeli advances against Alzheimer's disease
Israel's researchers are making inroads against the devastating and fatal condition through brain science, drugs and memory enhancement.

Israel's top 45 greatest inventions of all time
A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.

Gaza power plant might shut down Thursday - from lack of maintenance

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 07:00 AM PDT

Another Gaza power crisis is on the horizon, and again it has nothing to do with Israel.

The head of Palestine Electricity Company, Walid Saad Sayel, warns that the Energy Authority owes millions for maintenance of the power plant. While the free fuel from Dubai has been helping keep the plant running, no money has been coming for the provision of equipment and spare parts for maintenance work in the Gaza power plant, as well as payment for the maintenance crews and staff, forcing the plant to stop its generator this week.

He said that both the Hamas and Fatah governments owe money to the company.

Sayel added that the proposed natural gas pipeline from Egypt to Gaza to run the plant would help things considerably. That pipeline would cost between $20-30 million.

Given that Egyptians are suffering from their own energy shortages, it will be interesting to see if that pipeline -if it ever gets built - also gets sabotaged the way that the one to Israel (and Jordan) was, repeatedly, since the Egyptian revolution.


Arab admits poisoning family because he "hates Jews"

Posted: 02 Sep 2012 05:00 AM PDT

From YNet:
A Palestinian man residing in the West Bank village of Beit Furik, near Nablus, was arrested for allegedly poisoning a Raanana family and a police volunteer in October 2011.

Adnan Othman Nasaara, 46, has reportedly admitted to lacing food and drink in the Lerner family home with pesticides, because he "hates Jews."

The police also arrested two other suspects in the case. One has been identified as Hassan Abd el-Rahim, 27, from Tira, who denies involvement in the act. The identity of the second suspect has not been revealed.

According to the police, he admitted his involvement in the case and reenacted it for the investigators.

Police investigator Ilana Kosinovesko told Ynet that in his interrogation, Nasaara said he "hates Jews because they're Jews."
But YNet says something curious:
Major-General Ilan Mor, of Hasharon Subdistrict Police, said that it was unclear whether the suspect was planning to perpetrate similar nationalistically-motivated crimes in the future.
When the criminal admits that he "hates Jews because they are Jews," how can anyone construe his crime as "nationalistically motivated"?

Israel's critics accuse Zionists of bringing up anti-semitism at the drop of a hat, and yet YNet is going out of its way to claim that an admitted anti-semite is really just "pro-Palestinian"!

UPDATE: Hebrew-speaking commenters note that the Hebrew phrase "for nationalistic reasons," על רקע לאומני, is a known euphemism for racial attacks.
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