יום שישי, 19 באוקטובר 2012

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The red line (video)

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:00 PM PDT

Well worth watching:



Website here.

Hamas releases video, magazine about Shalit kidnapping

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 06:38 PM PDT

From JPost:
Hamas on Thursday marked the one-year anniversary of the Gilad Schalit deal, in which the captive IDF soldier was exchanged for 1027 Palestinian prisoners, by releasing a 45-minute film describing the kidnapping and including interviews with terrorists who took part in the abduction.

The video, produced by Hamas's armed wing, the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, depicts military preparations for the operation, maps of the area in which Schalit was captured, the tunnels through which his captives accessed the soldier, as well as what appears to be a re-creation of the mission itself. It also includes some of the first footage of Schalit upon his release from captivity.


But Hamas' Al Qassam media unit has been also working on a magazine - a slick 84-page publication that is sort of like a grade-B version of Al Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine.

Like the video, the magazine goes into detail on the Shalit kidnapping, with lots of pictures. It also has the posters and graphic we expect from Hamas, such as this guide to Hamas' weapons.

The modern terrorist knows that he must use the media at least as much as he uses explosives. And for the times when Hamas can't get op-eds in major Western newspapers, this is the next best thing.

Thursday links...

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 01:25 PM PDT

From Ian:
Israel to UN: Send Humanitarian Boat to Syria, not Gaza
Israel's Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor has asked the international organization to convince pro-Arab activists not to try to sail the "Estelle" boat to Gaza and try to break the maritime embargo on Hamas. Syria is need of the aid, he added.

Abbas is right - Education can incite
In which case, he may want to take a closer look at what Palestinian children are learning in their classrooms
"Israel's educational curriculum – the official approved textbooks by Israel's ministry of education - actually includes an overwhelming amount of messages that vehemently oppose racism and violence towards our Palestinian neighbours.""Sadly, a similar search in Palestinian textbooks did not uncover equivalent quotes. The newest Palestinian textbooks hardly acknowledge the existence of the State of Israel. Take, for example, this quote taken from the Al-Sham grade five history books, stating that "The Levant countries presently consist of the states of Palestine, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria." Israel remains absent in the vast majority of textbook maps as well."

UN agency funded with Saudi money wants to edit worldwide textbooks
The UN agency that promotes education wants a say in how future textbooks are written, and Saudi Arabia -- a nation whose own school books have been criticized for promoting hatred of Christians and Jews -- is helping to bankroll the effort.

Feeling judgemental? Think twice
"At HonestReporting, we are often dumbfounded at how blind to logic some commentators can be. As if living under a rock during a Hamas missile assault on Israel last year, some media led their coverage with Israel's attempts to prevent continued attacks by firing on terrorists and their weapons caches.
Those journalists inverted the chronology of events to the point that a news consumer would reasonably infer that Israel fired at targets in Gaza, which met with a response of rocket fire on Israel's civilians."

FBI: Man Pleads Guilty in New York to Conspiring with Iranian Military Officials to Assassinate Saudi Arabian Ambassador to the United States

Time to impose sanctions on Scandinavia?
Sweden and Norway have a long history of courting radicals and anti-Israel sentiments.
"Other than their latent – and sometimes blatant - support for radical Islamists, both Norway and Sweden have a history of spearheading the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement. So for those of us in Israel, perhaps the time has come to think twice before stepping into Ikea and purchasing that conveniently flat-packed sofa."
Iran further expanding enrichment capacity – diplomats

Irish ties to Israel hurt by NGO funding
The Irish government is either oblivious to Trócaire's extensive anti-peace activities, or knowingly carrying on a long tradition of anti-Israel bias.
The answer may have something to do with the fact that Trócaire's "Occupied Palestinian Territories/Israel Programme Officer," Garry Walsh, was previously employed as the National Coordinator for Ireland Palestinian Solidarity Campaign – an openly partisan and biased organization far removed from any humanitarian objectives.

National Geographic Channel 'bombarded' with terror threats over bin Laden raid movie
The National Geographic Channel has beefed up security at its Washington headquarters after being 'bombarded' by threats over its upcoming film, "SEAL Team Six: The Raid on Osama Bin Laden," a source has said.

MEMRI: Muslim Brotherhood General Guide Muhammad Badi': Jerusalem Will Be Regained Only Through Jihad, Not Through Negotiations

IDF Blog: 3 Breathtaking Stories of Injured Soldiers Who Returned to Service

Stand With Us: StandWithUs Pro-Israel ads to go up on San Francisco buses
"...encourages the public to "Tell Congress Not to Support Palestinian Groups Like Hamas Because They Don't Want Peace."

CIF Watch: Unchosen: Memoirs of a Philosemite
"..Julie [Burchill] is going to write a new book. Like me, she's a gentile who loves Israel, and she's going to write a memoir based on this theme, entitled Unchosen: Memoirs of a Philosemite. Given her deep and longstanding love of Israel and the Jewish people, together with her outrageous sense of humour and unrivalled literary dexterity, it won't be anything less than a fascinating read."
Also:

Arab Lawyers Union honors Palestinian suicide bomber
The Arab Lawyers Union on Friday awarded its highest decoration to the Palestinian woman who carried out the 2003 suicide bombing at Maxim's Restaurant in Haifa, which killed 21 and wounded 51. The Cairo-based union, which represents lawyers from 15 Arab countries, dispatched a delegation to the home of suicide bomber Hanadi Jaradat in Jenin to present her family with the award.

Jeffrey Goldberg on How to Beat Obama in next debate (h/t Omri)
Biden said the U.S. would know if the Iranians had begun to manufacture a warhead. But the U.S. didn't know its ambassador in Libya would be assassinated. It didn't know that the World Trade Center would be attacked. American intelligence doesn't know a lot of things. Such is the nature of intelligence. Biden's sanguine approach to weaponization suggests either that he strayed far from Obama administration policy, or that the White House is more relaxed and confident about stopping Iran than it should be.

Obama's record in the greater Middle East had already provided Romney with ample opportunities in the next debate on Oct. 22. Biden just gave him another.

CiFWatch: Guardian contributor tells Palestinians to boycott Western aid if it 'disempowers' terrorist groups


Morsi's warm letter to Peres sparks anger and denial in Egypt


 And Challah Hu Akbar doing what he does best.


Here's a fundraising idea for the Arabs "defending Jerusalem"

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 11:35 AM PDT

Every so often, I come across Arabic sites that talk about various Muslim organizations are raising funds to "defend Jerusalem." While they raise millions of dollars, it is never enough. (I have a sneaking suspicion that there is not much transparency in these supposed charities, and that a great deal of the money raised ends up in pious people's pockets.)

But I have a win-win idea that can help them raise funds.

You know how when you go on an amusement park ride, or embark on a boat ride, people take pictures of you and your significant other to sell it to you as a souvenir of your trip?

Well, the Islamists are already taking tons of photos of unsuspecting Jews who visit the Temple Mount. Like this one from today, for example:


That could be a great souvenir shot that this couple can show their grandchildren! Why put it on the Internet for free when you can charge a few shekels for it? Maybe make a cheap plastic commemorative frame to jack up the price!


Islamists can make trinkets that say "I did a Talmudic ritual - in Islam's third holiest place!", "Proud Settler" and "I'm a usurper par excellence!"

This will help the economy of Arab Jerusalem more than any number of unpaid pledges.

Muslims should take some of the spaces they use now for volleyball nets on the Temple Mount and build a gift shop to fleece those usurping Jews. Everyone will end up happy.

Egyptian teacher cuts girls' hair for not wearing hijab

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 10:10 AM PDT

From AP:
A teacher in southern Egypt punished two 12-year-old schoolgirls for not wearing the Muslim headscarf by cutting their hair, the father of one girl said Wednesday, in an incident that stokes concerns over personal rights following the rise of Islamist political movements.

This is the teacher. You'l have to trust me.
The governor of Luxor province where the incident occurred called the teacher's actions "shameful" and said she had been transferred to another school. But rights groups say that some Islamic conservatives have been emboldened by the success of groups like Muslim Brotherhood and the ultraconservative Salafi trend in parliamentary and presidential elections and have been increasingly brazen about forcing their standards on other Egyptians.

In the village of Qurna in Luxor province, 500 kilometers (300 miles) south of Cairo, father Berbesh Khairi El-Rawi said the teacher forced the two girls to stand with their hands above their heads for two hours and then cut their hair in their school.

The teacher, Eman Abu Bakar, could not be reached. She told the Egyptian semi-official newspaper al-Ahram that the amount of hair she cut off of the girls' heads "did not exceed two centimeters" (one inch).

Abu Bakar was quoted as saying she only resorted to cutting her students' hair after warning them repeatedly to cover their heads. After these repeated warnings, a student handed her a scissors from his bag, and that he and other students asked her to "implement" her threats.

In a photo published by Al-Ahram, Abu Bakar is shown wearing the niqab, a garment that covers everything but a woman's eyes.
And so it goes...

Hamas' "majestic parade" missing an important component

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 08:30 AM PDT

Yesterday, on the first anniversary of the Gilad Shalit prisoner swap, Hamas' Al Qassam Brigades staged a parade that they labeled "majestic" in the streets of Gaza City, as scores of SUVs filled with masked terrorists with machine guns and RPGs passed by:





What is missing?

No one is watching the parade!

No throngs of families crowded on the sidewalks cheering on their favorite celebrity terrorists. No stands of officials greeting the incoming brave jihadists. Nothing.

This becomes very obvious when you watch the video:


There is one other thing  that other parades have that this one seemed to lack: the leaders of the group throwing the parade, in the open.

What happens when you stage a parade and nobody comes?

You issue press releases saying that the parade brought " joy and happiness the people of the Gaza Strip!"

(Now, if the IDF had decided to drop a few guided bombs on all these celebrating jihadists, that would be a compelling video!)

Hamas raids Salafi sites in Gaza, arrests leaders

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 07:00 AM PDT

Palestine Press quotes Gaza Salafi officials saying that Hamas staged a series of raids against prominent Salafist sites in Gaza this morning, arresting a number of leaders.

Hamas has a history of animosity and attacks towards these groups, the only terror groups remaining in Gaza that do not cooperate with Hamas.

One of the Salafi groups, the Masada al Mujahideen organization, has blamed Hamas for the Israeli attacks against their leaders on Friday night, implying that Hamas tipped the IDF off. Israel's Terror Watch website makes the same claim that Hamas acted as an informer to Israel to rid themselves of their rivals. This seems unlikely, although it is possible that Hamas is "turnng" the "collaborators" that they have already caught to feed the IDF intelligence for those they want to eliminate.

(h/t Yoel, Challah Hu Akbar)

Arab groups rush to agree teaching the Holocaust is a crime!

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 05:15 AM PDT

What happens after Arab teachers in Jordan freak out over an unsubstantiated rumor that UNRWA schools will teach the Holocaust?

Their brethren in neighboring areas try to outdo their Jordanian cousins on being revolted at the very idea!

From JPost:
Hamas on Wednesday reiterated its strong opposition to teaching the Holocaust in UNRWA-run schools in the Gaza Strip.

The Refugees Affairs Department of Hamas said that teaching the Holocaust was a "crime against the issue of the refugees that is aimed at cancelling their right of return."
You get that? The Holocaust wasn't a crime, but teaching about it is!

The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine also condemned the fictional claim, saying that teaching the Holocaust would be "a serious violation in the work of the education process."

A PLO spokesman said that the idea "constitutes a serious violation towards education and a clear deviation against all educational goals for the children of refugees...this is an indication that the presidency of UNRWA and local heads began to systematically adopt the Israeli narrative."

In Lebanon, things aren't much better. Al Akhbar reports that Palestinian Lebanese officials are assuming that UNRWA's donors, being Zionist, are the ones pushing this idea. They also said that it would be unconscionable to teach the Holocaust without teaching about alleged Israeli massacres of Arabs.

An op-ed in Al Watan Voice says this supposed UNRWA curriculum is "filled with poison" because of its emphasis on teaching students about "peace and tolerance."

By the way, since I exposed the UNRWA Gaza school websites that were filled with material glorifying jihad and martyrdom over the summer, every single one of those individual school websites mysteriously disappeared from the Internet, as did their curricula. And at least at the moment, there are no UNRWA job openings for teachers who specialize in Islamic studies as there were when I reported them.

Does this mean that UNRWA has reformed its curricula in Gaza? Or just that they don't want probing eyes into what they are doing?

Ha'aretz lies to paint Israel as "apartheid" (CAMERA)

Posted: 18 Oct 2012 02:42 AM PDT

Two days ago, I started seeing dozens of Arabic articles all gleefully quoting the same Ha'aretz article by Akiva Eldar:
Amid a dry economic report published yesterday in TheMarker lies an official announcement/acknowledgment of unparalleled importance: The government of Israel confirms that between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River there is no longer a Jewish majority. In other words, in the territory under Israel's jurisdiction a situation of apartheid exists. A Jewish minority rules over an Arab majority.

Hila Raz's article reports that the Tax Authority is trying to pass an amendment to the law for the purpose of revising the ceiling for eligibility for tax benefits, whose aim, in turn, is to encourage exports. According to the Export Promotion Law approved in 2005, a factory is entitled to a tax break if at least 25 percent of its income stemmed from sales to a market with at least 12 million residents. A Ministry of Finance memorandum on the amendment to the law notes that in 2011 the population of Israel and the Palestinian Authority exceeded the 12 million mark, which enables manufacturers who market to these consumers to enjoy a tax break. The Tax Authority's diligent officials would like to raise the threshold for qualifying for the benefit by two million residents, so that they will not have to grant the benefit to exporters who sell their wares in Israel and the territories.

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics (which is subordinate to the Prime Minister's Office ), of the 12 million residents living under Israeli rule, the number of Jews is just under 5.9 million (as of April 25 ). Twelve million minus 5.9 million Jews equals 6.1 million non-Jews. In other words, between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River, there is a pretty Jewish state as far as its laws and customs, but the reality is not so democratic. Foreign sources report that Jews had already become a minority in the area of the greater Land of Israel several years ago. From now on, it is an official statistic.
CAMERA looks at the claims and finds, quite simply, that Eldar is lying, purposefully, to make his case:

Let's try to lay out Eldar's false claim, which is based on an item which appeared several days earlier in The Marker, a financial newspaper published by Ha'aretz, regarding the Export Promotion Law. According to this law, a factory is eligible for tax benefits intended to promote exports if at least 25 percent of its income stemmed from sales in markets of at least 12 million residents. Approximately one week ago, the Ministry of Finance sought to revise the law and increase the threshold to 14 milllion residents. Why? Because, wrote Eldar, the population of Israel together with the Palestinian Authority already reaches 12 million people, and therefore even those manufacturers who sell only to the local market are eligible for the aforementioned tax benefit even though it was not intended for them.

At this point, Eldar cites a figure from the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), that there are 5.9 million Jews living under Israeli rule. Using basic math, Eldar calculates that the rest of the population totals 6.1 million. In conclusion, given that the CBS is subordinate to the Prime Minister's Office, the government acknowledges that Jews are the minority between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

The Falsehood

Apparently, Eldar did not at all read the Ministry of Finance's memorandum upon which he relied. He wrote:
A Ministry of Fiance memorandum on the amendment to the law notes that in 2011 the population of Israel and the Palestinian Authority exceeded the 12 million mark, which enables manufacturers who market to these consumers to enjoy a tax break.
This is an outright falsehood. The memorandum, which can be read (in Hebrew) here, does not at all refer to the population of Israel or the Palestinian Authority and does not mention its number of residents, Jews or Arabs. The relevant excerpt from the memorandum follows:
Since Amendment 60 went into affect, more than seven years ago, the law has not been revised despite the increase in the world's population and its markets.
It is recommended to amend clause 18a  of the law and to determine what will constitute a manufacturer which contributes to the economic independence of the national economy and a competitor for the local product if 25 percent or more of its income from the manufacturer's sales in the tax year are to a certain market of at least 14 million residents.
It is also recommended to establish a mechanism to automatically update the number of residents that constitute a substantial market, of 2 percent per year, in accordance with the world's population growth rate. (Emphases added.)
In other words, the Ministry of Finance is concerned with the growth of the world's population, not with Israel's population. Moreover, the number 12 million does not even appear in the entire memorandum. It only appears in Hila Raz's item in The Marker:
Since 2011 the population in Israel and the Palestinian Authority has surpassed the threshold of 12 million residents, and so an Israeli industrialist who sells to these populations is entitled to enjoy the tax benefit.
That is not a figure from the Ministry of Finance. It is an unsubstantiated claim by The Marker reporter. And Eldar has turned it into an official, governmental statistic.


...To summarize, Akiva Eldar took an unsubstantiated figure which appeared in The Marker (12 million residents from the Jordan River to the sea) and attributed this figure to the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bureau of Statistics, two governmental bodies, despite the fact that neither of them mentioned the figure. And, based on these journalistic acrobatics, we have the false headline "The government's acknowledgement that Jews are a minority in this land. . . "
...Why did Eldar invest so much effort into manipulating this data? The answer appears in the online subheadline, which posits that even the Israeli government acknowledges that "apartheid is here." Appealing to the most rabid anti-Israel activists, Ha'aretz pulls the "apartheid" genie out of the bottle, all by relying on an incorrect, unsubstantiated figure falsely attributed to the government. Ha'aretz knows precisely for whom they are writing overseas, and Eldar knows how to deliver.
As Mark Twain famously wrote, a lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. And here this lie from Ha'aretz didn't just travel halfway.

It spread like wildfire from local Palestinian Arab press to Al Jazeera to Arabic UPI, all falsely claiming as fact that Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics say that there are 12 million people that Israel is ruling. (Not to mention Mondoweiss, whose journalistic standards fall somewhat beneath those of The National Enquirer.)

Palestinian Arab demographics are famously suspect anyway, but to claim that Israel officially inflates them to be hundreds of thousands beyond what even the Palestinian Authority claims itself is something that can only be believed by those for whom facts are merely an option in their quest to demonize the Jewish state.
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