Elder of Ziyon Daily News

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• Israelis eating hummus is now a war crime, according to Electronic Intifada
• Jordan increasingly nervous about jihadists
• Qaradawi hospitalized
• Administrivia and Wednesday links
• Guns don't kill people. Electric cables shot down by guns at Saudi weddings kill people.
• Today's anti-semitism in Jordanian media
• Arabs don't care about the horrible lives of the Gazans in Jordan

Israelis eating hummus is now a war crime, according to Electronic Intifada Posted: 31 Oct 2012 05:38 PM PDT Ha'aretz has a food column called Modern Manna. This week it scored an interview withe the White House chef, asking him if he makes any foods that could be considered Jewish or Israeli, presumably because that critical information would help President Obama get more Jewish votes. The entire column is written from Ha'aretz' viewpoint, even saying in a tongue-in-cheek fashion: So, if Obama loves hummus it must mean he loves us Israelis too! Israelis, self-acclaimed hummus connoisseurs, prefer their hummus with fresh pita bread, but even they have learned to accept the American usage of hummus as a dip for veggies. Enter Ali Abumineh, famous Israel-hater and blogger at Electronic Intifada. Apparently, the very mention of Obama together with hummus in an utterly vacuous Haaretz article is enough to make him foam at the mouth: Notice how Israelis are positioned as the "connoisseurs" and arbiters of how hummus should and should not be correctly consumed. There is absolutely no mention of the Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian or other indigenous Arab origins of these foods in the interview, where hummus, its key ingredient tahini, and the flat bread Palestinians typically eat with them are easily subsumed into "Jewish foods" used to celebrate Zionist occasions... Is this 2000 year old olive press "Palestinian"? He then rails against how he thinks Israelis have stolen "Palestinian" foods and culture, and how the Obama White House is complicit in that awful activity of Israelis stealing foods that are all generically Middle Eastern. Keep in mind that the chef didn't say a word about how these foods were Israeli. Only the Ha'aretz writer did. Abuminah links back to this equally ridiculous posting where he claims that these foods are "Palestinian" - they aren't  - and that Israelis are stealing olive oil cultivation from Palestinian Arabs as well, even though Jews were cultivating olive oil in that exact spot way thousands of years before any "Palestinians" existed. To wrap it all up, Abuninah tweeted his magnum opus about a stupid Haaretz columnist saying that White  House hummus is somehow Israeli this way: Yes - Israeli pride in their Middle Eastern food is a war crime! The mystery isn't that Israel-haters are this stupendously idiotic. The mystery is why so many people in the real world seem to regard them as anything less than stupendously idiotic.

Jordan increasingly nervous about jihadists Posted: 31 Oct 2012 03:55 PM PDT From UPI: Jihadists are becoming increasingly active in Jordan, already gripped by political crisis and buffeted by a growing spillover from the 19-month-old civil war in neighboring Syria that could threaten the Hashemite throne. On Oct. 20, the kingdom's General Intelligence Directorate reportedly arrested 11 men, all Jordanians, it said were part of a plot by a cell linked to al-Qaida to bomb shopping malls in Amman and assassinate Western diplomats. At least two major malls were targeted, Information Minister Samih al-Maaytah said. Another target was the upscale Abdoun quarter in the city where many foreign embassies and diplomats' homes are located. Officials said the group called itself "11-9 the Second," after the last major jihadist attack in Amman on Nov. 9, 2005, in which suicide bombers hit three top Amman hotels, killing 63 people. The new plot included suicide bombers, whom the group was seeking to recruit, and car bombings against hotels, nightclubs and other public places, security sources reported. Had the attacks taken place, hundreds of people would have killed, officials said. ... Although there's skepticism about the latest jihadist plot, there's little doubt the kingdom faces a threat from Islamic militants, one magnified by the bloodletting in Syria. "This kind of threat could have happened with or without Syria," a Western diplomat in Amman observed. "But if you've got a worsening situation in Syria, structures continuing to breakdown and extremists going around with more and more weapons, of course it's a worry." Some 300 Jordanians are reported to have gone to Syria to jihadists fighting the Assad regime. Two of Zarqawi's cousins were arrested this month when they returned to Jordan from five months of combat in Syria. "If the regime falls in Syria and radical Islamist groups become influential there, it'll be easier for these extremist groups to work in Jordan to destabilize the country," warned former lawmaker Hazem al-Awran.

Qaradawi hospitalized Posted: 31 Oct 2012 01:40 PM PDT Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, one of the most prominent Islamic leaders who supports suicide bombings but it considered a "moderate," is in a hospital in Jeddah for undisclosed reasons. His aide asked that his followers pray for him. Qaradawi, 86, is the president of the World Federation of Muslim Scholars and his Friday speeches are televised to tens of millions of Muslims. He has called to "cleanse Palestine" from Jews. One of his most famous fatwas was this one: Question: I would like to ask about the ruling of Palestinian women carrying out martyr operations. Fulfilling this mission may demand that they travel alone, without a mahram,[5] and they may need to take off their hijab, the matter which may expose part of their 'awrah.[6] Would you please comment on this? I'd prefer Dr. Qaradawi to answer this urgent question, if you please. Dr. Qaradawi answers: The martyr operation is the greatest of all sorts of jihad in the cause of Allah. A martyr operation is carried out by a person who sacrifices himself, deeming his life [of] less value than striving in the cause of Allah, in the cause of restoring the land and preserving the dignity. To such a valorous attitude applies the following Qur'anic verse: "And of mankind is he who would sell himself, seeking the pleasure of Allah; and Allah hath compassion on (His) bondmen." (Qur'an, 2: 207) ...Martyrdom is a heroic act of choosing to suffer death in the cause of Allah, and that's why it's considered by most Muslim scholars as one of the greatest forms of jihad. When jihad becomes an individual duty, as when the enemy seizes the Muslim territory, a woman becomes entitled to take part in it alongside men. ...A woman should go out even without the consent of her husband, a son can go too without the permission of his parent, a slave without the approval of his master, and the employee without the leave of his employer....I believe a woman can participate in this form of jihad according to her own means and condition. Also, the organizers of these martyr operations can benefit from some, believing women as they may do, in some cases, what is impossible for men to do. As for the point that carrying out this operation may involve woman's travel from [one] place to another without a mahram, we say that a woman can travel to perform Hajj [pilgrimage to Mecca] in the company of other trustworthy women and without the presence of any mahram as long as the road is safe and secured. Concerning the point on hijab, a woman can put on a hat or anything else to cover her hair. Even when necessary, she may take off her hijab in order to carry out the operation, for she is going to die in the cause of Allah and not to show off her beauty or uncover her hair. I don't see any problem in her taking off hijab in this case. To conclude, I think the committed Muslim women in Palestine have the right to participate and have their own role in jihad and to attain martyrdom. Hamas sent out women suicide bombers after this fatwa. So prayers might indeed be in order - to finally rid the world of this evil man.

Administrivia and Wednesday links Posted: 31 Oct 2012 11:20 AM PDT Power has returned to the Elder Manor, but not phone/internet/cable. As a result, I am surfing and blogging with a very, very slow connection through a cell phone, so blogging will remain lighter than usual - especially since I need to do my regular day job through that same slow connection. Here's one tree that fell nearby. There seem to be at least one or two trees toppled on every block. Meanwhile, here are today's links from Ian: Israeli strike on Iran would be a relief to the Middle East, Netanyahu tells French paper Prime minister in France to discuss Iranian nuclear threat, attend memorial ceremony for Toulouse shooting victims "Iran is not popular in the Arab world, far from it, and some governments in the region, as well as their citizens, have understood that a nuclear-armed Iran would be dangerous for them, not just for Israel," he said. The storm that united a nation by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach We are capable of being positive and unified, even while we contest some of the great political issues of our day. We can be one people while we entertain vastly different opinions. And we can have one heart even when we are of a different mind. May G-d watch over America always, and may those who have suffered in Hurricane Sandy find solace and a blessing. Meanwhile: Hurricane Sandy a 'divine slap on the face of U.S. arrogance,' Toronto Islamist website declares 'Heroic' Iran, 'resistive' Syria behind Sandy, pro-Assad group claims Washington's Failure to Rein in UNRWA General Assembly resolution 194 of December 11, 1948, offers two options, repatriation and resettlement, to achieve the reintegration of the Palestinian Arab refugees "into the economic life of the Near East." Yet, U.S. Department of State documents from 1949 through the early 1950s reveal that despite the lip service paid to repatriation, Washington and its allies effectively equated reintegration with the resettlement of the refugees in the neighboring Arab states. Ha'aretz Poll roundup: The Haaretz Poll Travesty, NIF Funding, and the Durban Strategy Journalistic Sham: Haaretz Acknowledges Misleading 'Apartheid' Survey Report Haaretz changes tack on major story that alleged widespread 'apartheid' attitudes in Israel The case for President Obama's reelection By Alan Dershowitz The Obama administration has strongly supported Israel's security by helping to construct the Iron Dome, by backing Israel's responses to rocket attacks from Gaza and by coordinating closely with its military. [I think I made my thinking clear! - EoZ] Lévy: Jews of Diaspora and Israel are under attack Prominent French-Jewish intellectual says the Jewish people are facing a twin threat of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism. UK Jews complain to Church of England over 'anti-Semitic' vicar "Reverend Stephen Sizer is "an avid reader and publicizer of websites that are openly and virulently anti-Semitic, and Rev. Sizer has himself descended into making anti-Semitic statements," according to the complaint, lodged by the Board of Deputies of British Jews, the community's main representative organization." CIF Watch: Glenn Greenwald admits that "anti-Semitism plays a role in some hostility toward Israel". PMW: PA TV visits family of terrorist prisoner Ibrahim Hamed, responsible for murder of 46 'PLO leader backs Jordan annexation of W. Bank' New proposal suggests establishment of a Palestinian-Jordanian confederation, Kaddoumi tells 'Al-Quds Al-Arabi.' A repeat of 1985? The Hussein-Arafat Accord, 11 February 1985 Gaza Rocket Attacks Close Beersheba Schools for a Day Economist reporter: GAZA economy fastest growing in the world For example in 2011 the Gazan economy grew by a whopping 27 % , that makes it the fastest growing economy in the world. Senior Bahrain official to visit Gaza, open new schools Royal Charity Organization head Mustafa al-Sayed to lead delegation to Strip this week; visit follows Qatari emirate's visit last week End of the Line for HLF The United States Supreme Court has decided not to accept appeals from the five Holy Land Foundation officials convicted of illegally funneling more than $12 million to Hamas, essentially concluding the case. Syria Rebels 'Clash with Army, Palestinian Fighters' Fierce clashes broke out before dawn Tuesday in a major Palestinian refugee camp south of Syria's capital, pitting rebels against troops backed by pro-regime Palestinian fighters, activists and a watchdog said. Egyptian court dismisses suit against president to amend peace accord with Israel Complainants had claimed Egypt's revolution obligates leaders to review all previously signed agreements Three members of Egypt's revolutionary youth movement filed a lawsuit Monday against President Mohammed Morsi, Prime Minister Hisham Kandil, and foreign minister Muhammad Kamel Amr, demanding the leaders amend the Camp David Peace accords with Israel. But the case was swiftly dismissed in an Egyptian court on Tuesday. Women's council demands authorities find girl 'kidnapped' in Matrouh Egypt's National Council for Women calls on Interior Ministry and security forces to locate missing 13-year-old who was allegedly married off; denounces child marriages Somali comedian shot dead after poking fun at al Shabaab Gunmen assassinated a well-known comedian and musician who poked fun at al Qaeda-linked Shabaab insurgents in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and colleagues said Tuesday. Rome provincial council calls to ban websites promoting Jew-hatred Move, in cooperation with Jewish community, follows anti-Semitic attacks on neo-Nazi website 'Forward' Cartoon Mocks Zionism Through Anne Frank DNA Experiment Dutch soccer fans to be punished for anti-Semitic songs FC Utrecht director says racism will not be tolerated; ADO Den Haag banned eight fans banned in April for 'Hamas, Jews to the gas' chants A would-be new leader of Israel's Arabs urges full integration with Israel Bedouin politician Aatef Karinaoui launches a Knesset bid, slamming Arab MKs and calling for an 'Arab Spring' to provide a fresh direction for his community It is hard to envisage an Arab Knesset member declaring that "if something were to happen to Israel, this democracy that protects everyone, the whole Middle East would be doomed." Israel's Technion, iCreate to jointly incubate start-ups Having signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU), Israeli university Technion and the International Centre for Entrepreneurship and Technology (iCreate) of India are now set to jointly incubate few start-ups from both the countries. High-tech diplomacy puts Israel and UK on the same page The UK is very keen to promote relationships between Israeli start-ups and British entrepreneurs, ignoring the politics that usually frame the relationship between the two countries

Guns don't kill people. Electric cables shot down by guns at Saudi weddings kill people. Posted: 31 Oct 2012 09:46 AM PDT From Reuters: Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defense official said. "At the wedding, the cable fell on a metal door and the 23 people who died were all electrocuted," Eastern Province official Abdullah Khashman said by phone. A photograph of the aftermath of the accident, published on local newspapers' websites showed a large courtyard strewn with fallen chairs and a pole in the middle supporting cables carrying lightbulbs. All those killed were from the same tribe, Khashman said. Thirty others were injured in the incident near Abqaiq, a center of the Saudi energy industry. Saudi Arabia banned the shooting of firearms at weddings, a popular tradition in tribal areas of the conservative Islamic kingdom, last month. Guns only kill one or two people at a time at Arab weddings, so they are clearly not the problem. Non-bulletproof electric wiring is obviously the real danger to people at weddings. (h/t Ian, Ronald)

Today's anti-semitism in Jordanian media Posted: 31 Oct 2012 07:36 AM PDT Addustour, a mainstream Jordanian newspaper, has an op-ed today that accepts the Protocols of the Elders of Zion as an established fact and states that Israel is following it to achieve world domination. Rashid Hassan writes: I spent the holiday [Eid al Adha] reading "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" edited by the Arab thinker Ajaj Noueihed, for the second time, to discover that without exaggeration, what is happening in occupied Palestine and in the world at the hands of the Zionists are pronounced by these Protocols. The Jews control the financial markets and banks and media, etc., and they seem to exert control over many of the decision-making centers in America and European countries and others. The [Jews] "create a spirit of intrusion and revenge, and this means blood and sword, destruction and bodies of confidentiality etc., hence terrorism carried out by Zionist gangs during World War II and onwards, starting from the massacre of Deir Yassin through massacres Qibya and Dawayima and Kafr Kassem .. etc, following through on the doctrine of [Protocols author] Ginzberg" (pp. 56.) In this regard, we find a clear difference in the proposals of Herzl, founder of Zionism and Ginzberg, who created the idea of assembly and intrusion, which led to the crystallization proposed in the idea of "return to Palestine" as a place to gather and receive incoming Jews from all over the world, which means waging wars of genocide and a holocaust and the massacres against the Palestinian people, and for over a hundred years. Still this Zionist ideology is dominant on the Zionist mind, which led to the massacres, and which is embodied today in the trinity of terrorism "Netanyahu, Barak, Lieberman" as an embodiment of theses protocols of Zionism by Ginzberg. The main idea of the protocols is based on the Jews controlling the world from behind the scenes, and this will only happen through sex and money, and hitting at the system of morals and values, and distorting Islam and Christianity. A review of the suffering of the Islamic religion today through smear campaigns confirms what we have referred to, and confirms that the Zionists are behind the constant campaigns of incitement and hatred that are against Islam and the Prophet of Islam Muhammad peace be upon him. The book shows that the protocols were written at the end of the nineteenth century, and describe the evils of Zionism, as shown by the Talmud, and presented to the First Zionist Congress in 1897, and during the conference Russian secret police attacked the venue, and seized all the documents including these protocols, where they were translated into many languages ​​then, to publicize to the world the Jewish conspiracy, and the seriousness of what is happening in the invisible world. We call the Arab reader to read this book, It answers a lot of heretofore unanswered questions. As much as the West likes to sweep it under the rug, Jew-hatred is mainstream in the Arab world, and ridiculous articles like this can be published without even a hint of dissent from other newspapers, politicians or pundits. (h/t Lachlan)

Arabs don't care about the horrible lives of the Gazans in Jordan Posted: 31 Oct 2012 03:57 AM PDT From Ma'an: The Gaza camp in Jordan, near the northwestern historical ruins of Jerrash where the Greco Roman Empire once flourished, was set up by the UN as an emergency measure in 1968. During the 1967 Arab-Israeli War war, about 12,000 refugees fled from Gaza to this area. It now has a population of about 30,000 Gazans. Hidden in the outskirts of Jerrash, connected to the rest of civilization by a single neglected dirt road, most tourists have no idea about the camp. Locals are known to respond to visitors' inquiries with a suspicious: "Why do you want to go there?!" Some tourists wonder if Jerrash municipality wants to keep foreigners out, to hide the dilapidated squalor that is so close to a bustling tourist attraction and well kept city. Living conditions at the Gaza camp have been described as the worst in Jordan. Surrounded by an empty desert, its streets are filled with children playing near sewage and trash. The pathways are cluttered with discarded food, old recyclables and other materials, which are burned frequently because garbage collection is unreliable. It is a wonder that children playing football across sewage drains do not seem to notice the offensive smell. The solution is expensive. Residents pay exorbitant fees in comparison to other Jordanian cities to have this sewage intermittently dumped outside of the city. Water for bathing and drinking is also sporadically available every two weeks, and sometimes mixes sewage and drinking water as a result of the scarcity of functioning modern pipes. Further, the living quarters are squalid, antiquated with cracks in the concrete walls, and teeming with residents. Sometimes 10 people can be found in a room of a windowless metal-roofed apartment. There are known cases of 25 residents living in one house. Others live in roofless apartments or outside in tents where they are exposed to the challenges of the extremely cold seasonal weather. The infrastructure also lacks recreational areas like parks for children and a functioning road system. Most camp residents possess neither an ID nor passport. Like visible ghosts, after five decades of living and giving birth in Jordan, their families are not recognized. They cannot work, receive government benefits, have full access to education, own a car, nor travel freely. Unemployment tops at 50 percent, school dropout rates are high and life expectancy is much lower than regional averages. The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, UNRWA, has tried to remedy these conditions. It provides education at four schools up to the 10th grade, as well as a food distribution center. Some of these displaced Gazans receive financial assistance from the United Nations. The health conditions of the residents is horrifying. Volunteers report the presence of many diseases that are easily preventable with access to Western medicine. There are instances of diabetes, nervous disorders, cancers, high blood pressure and others, which go untreated. Amid the huge flow of curious guests looking for enlightenment at Jerash's ancient ruins, the Gazan refugees living next door feel forgotten. The article doesn't mention some crucial facts. Israel did not drive anyone out of Gaza in 1967. Tens of thousands of Gazans (and many more West Bankers) chose to flee to Jordan voluntarily because they did not want to live under Jewish rule. They are not refugees according to any definition, even UNRWA's. Jordan used to automatically give citizenship to any Palestinian Arab, but they did not do so for Gazans who fled in 1967. So they are the victims of a deliberate Jordanian policy of discrimination. This discrimination includes barring Gazans from many jobs. As in Lebanon camps, it is illegal for Jerash residents to build new buildings. In other words, ordan is practicing apartheid against Arabs born in Gaza as opposed to citizens of any Arab country. Many of them would like to return to Gaza, and were hoping to do so after Israel's withdrawal. Even though Arab governments and the PA and Hamas all insist that the "right to return" is sacred, not a single one is lifting a finger to insist that these Gazans in Jordan return to Gaza! There is nothing stopping Jerash residents from deciding to travel via Egypt to Gaza. Except the laws in Jordan, Egypt and Gaza! So the residents of Jerash teach us that the "right of return" is not anything Arabs really care about - when the "return" is not to territory that Jews live in. It is a facade for the eventual destruction of Israel disguised as a "right." G Gazans in Jordan can rot away - the Arabs don't care because they cannot contribute to the relentless campaign to delegitimize Israel.

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