Elder of Ziyon Daily News

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• Saturday night links
• Egyptian cleric involved in new constitution wants girls to marry at 14
• Report: Syria murdered downed Turkish pilots on Russian advice

Saturday night links Posted: 29 Sep 2012 10:00 PM PDT From Ian: Anti-Semitism in left-wing online media Articles critical of Israel are a magnet for anti-Semites and are used as a vehicle to express their Jew-hatred. "The second factor is the growing social acceptability of anti-Semitism when it is cloaked as anti-Zionism. Support for the Palestinians and opposition to Israel has become a part of the orthodoxy of the contemporary political Left. The Left prides itself on its progressive, anti-racist beliefs and policies, yet when it comes to Israel, left-wing media articles and posted comments frequently cross the line into outright anti-Jewish racism." Liberman: Abbas is the 'main obstacle' to peace FM blasts PA chairman for UN speech full of 'slander and incitement' Poll: 70% of Americans view Israel favorably Respondents to Foreign Policy Initiative survey list Israel as United State's second best ally in the world, second only to UK. Video: Rice skipped Netanyahu speech at the UN "First, the US delegation decides to stick around for one of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's speeches at the UN, and then the highest-ranking US diplomat at Turtle Bay takes a powder when Israel's Prime Minister gets up to speak. Instead, UN Ambassador Susan Rice chose to attend a luncheon in which she wasn't even the highest-ranking American diplomat." Barcelona invites three Palestinians to join Gilad Shalit at match against Madrid Hamas called for a media boycott of the Spanish soccer team following former soldier's invitation Border Police arrest Palestinian for attempted attack on soldier 26-year-old suspect bearing large knife admits to trying to attack IDF personnel outside Jerusalem Video Shows Professors Teaching Anti-Semitism, Anti-Israelism According to Dr. Charles Jacobs, APT President, one tenured professor in the Boston-based school consistently defamed Israel, and his department of Middle East Center for Peace, Culture and Development "has been built to inculcate students with a hostile and demonized view of the Jewish state, with repeated comparisons to the Nazis." Northeastern U's Muslim Chaplain Removed After Video Exposes Support for Terrorists "This happened just days after we published an expose documenting that Faaruuq is a supporter of convicted Islamist terrorists who is inciting Boston Muslims against the U.S government." Panetta: We've Lost Track of Some Syrian Chemical Weapons The U.S. has lost track of some of Syria's chemical weapons, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said Friday, and does not know if any potentially lethal chemicals have fallen into the hands of Syrian rebels or Iranian forces inside the country. Syrian Rebels Claim to Take Over Chemical Weapons A statement published by the Syrian rebels says that they have taken over a military base and found missiles with non-conventional warheads. House lawmaker blocks $450M in US aid for Egypt The Obama administration's plan to transfer $450 million in cash to Egypt hit a roadblock Friday as a top House committee chairwoman blocked the move, saying it warrants further review. US Embassy issues terror warning for Americans in Egypt Citing credible threat to women engaged in missionary activities, diplomats urge citizens to exercise vigilance Presidency asks Egyptian Consulate to monitor Eltahawy case Eltahawy was arrested for vandalising a pro-Israel ad in a subway station at Times Square, while another woman who supported the billboard's content, Pamela Hall, was standing against the wall to prevent her from doing so. Egypt's Copts abandon Sinai after threats, attack Israeli wave power company to ring India with power plants SDE will help the country avoid a repeat of last summer's massive power failure "Last July, India lived through a modern nightmare — a massive power failure that left some 600 million people in the dark, in the heat and out of work for days. Lesson learned: A country that strives to take its place in the modern world, touting itself as a place for multinationals to set up shop, needs a power insurance policy. And for that, India is turning to an Israeli company, SDE, which will build a series of power plants along the Indian coastline, supplying the country with power from waves." Also: Dispatches From The War That Nobody Wants by Walter Russell Mead As everybody knows, there is no such thing as a global war on terror anymore. Instead we live in a harmonious world of interfaith comity with only the occasional criminal act that is quickly and competently handled by law enforcement officials. ...We may be tired of the war on terror, but the terrorists aren't tired of waging war on us. Far from it. They are just warming up.

Egyptian cleric involved in new constitution wants girls to marry at 14 Posted: 29 Sep 2012 07:20 PM PDT From Bikya Masr: An Egyptian cleric and member of the Constituent Assembly tasked with drafting Egypt's new constitution has said that girls 14-years-old are permitted to have sexual relations under Islam and has proposed reducing the marriage age limit as a result. "It is permissible for the girl at the age of 9 or 10 to marry," Yassir Barhami said in discussing a woman's sexual reproduction and his interpretation of Islam. The Salafist – ultra-conservative – preacher claimed that under Islam when a girl begins to ovulate she is ready for marriage. He added during a television debate on Dream TV last Tuesday that "marriage of a girl would not be a supplement for education," but added that it "was better" to marry a girl young "than falling into sin with customary marriage." The cleric cited the Qur'an in arguing that any girl who is menstruating should be married and begin having children. Manal al-Taibi, a now resigned member of the Constituent Assembly, said that this call is the promotion of child marriage and is akin to rape. She has resigned her position on the assembly in protest to the overuse of Sharia law, or Islamic law, permeating the drafting process. Actually, in some ways this is much worse than rape. A rape victim has legal recourse, but a girl forced into an marriage is almost always imprisoned and forced to have sex against her will for life. Note also that Barhami is really saying that girls should be allowed to marry at 9 or 10, but he is - for now - only favoring reducing the marriage age to 14. If that effort succeeds, look to a new lowering of the age of "consent" in coming years. (h/t Ian)

Report: Syria murdered downed Turkish pilots on Russian advice Posted: 29 Sep 2012 05:25 PM PDT From Al Arabiya: As political tensions mount between neighboring Syria and Turkey, newly-leaked Syrian intelligence documents obtained by Al Arabiya disclose shocking claims shedding light on the dreadful fate of two Turkish Air Force pilots. Contrary to what was publically claimed, the documents reveal that the pilots survived the crash, but were later executed by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad! On June 22, a Turkish military jet was shot down by a Syrian missile in international airspace, Ankara's official report said; a claim Damascus has refuted. Assad's regime said the country's defense forces shot down the two-seater F-4 Phantom as it was in the Syrian airspace. However, after investigating the leaked documents it obtained, Al Arabiya can now reveal for the first time an alternative narrative of what might have happened to the two Turkish pilots. One highly confidential document was sent directly from the presidential office of President Assad to brigadier Hassan Abdel Rahman (who Al Arabiya's sources identify as the chief of the Syrian Special Operations Unit) states the following: "Two Turkish pilots were captured by the Syrian Air Force Intelligence after their jet was shot down in coordination with the Russian naval base in (the Syrian city of) Tartus." The file therefore reveals two critical reports. First, the pilots were still alive after the plane had crashed. And second, that Russia held its share of involvement in this secretive mission. The same document orders the concerned parties to treat both Turkish pilots according to the protocol of war prisoners, as instructed by the president. It also requests that both men be investigated about Turkey's role in supporting the Free Syrian Army (FSA), the country's main armed opposition group. The report also suggests the possibility of transferring the pilots into the neighboring Lebanese territory, leaving them in the custody of Assad's ally, Hezbollah. However, if the Turkish air commanders were not killed upon the crash of their F-4 Phantom, further leaked documents confirm that their death was inevitable. A subsequently leaked file, also sent from the presidential palace and addressed to all heads of units of the Syrian foreign intelligence, reads: "Based on information and guidance from the Russian leadership comes a need to eliminate the two Turkish pilots detained by the Special Operations Unit in a natural way and their bodies need to be returned to the crash site in international waters." The document also suggests the Syrian government sends a "menacing" message to the Turkish government, insinuating Syria's capability of mobilizing Kurdistan's Workers Party (PKK) on the Turkish borders, notifying Ankara from the danger it might face in case of any hostile move. The report insists that the Syrian leadership should hasten and make a formal apology to the Turkish government for bringing down the plane, which would embarrass the Turks and win the support of international public opinion. As such, the Syrian Regime did apologize. The reaction from the talkbacks at the English Hurriyet paper in Turkey are mostly skeptical about the report. (The Turkish version has no talkbacks, and neither does Zaman, another Turkish paper.) Al Arabiya claims to have received via the Syrian opposition hundreds of classified Syrian government documents which it plans to publicize in the coming days.

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