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Video report on luxury homes in the West Bank

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 06:00 PM PST

Speaking of luxury houses in the West Bank....Here is a BBC report.





(h/t jzaik, Elder of Lobby)

PA TV: "Jesus was Palestinian, the first Shahid"

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 03:00 PM PST

From Palestinian Media Watch:



Issa Karake: "We are standing at Jesus' Plaza, in front of the Church of the Nativity, [to convey] to those who uphold human rights: Take action before it is too late, take action to save [the Palestinian prisoners] the sons of Nativity, the sons of Jerusalem, and the sons of Jesus, the Palestinian, and the sons of Jesus, the Palestinian, the first prisoner and the first Martyr (Shahid) in history."
[PA TV (Fatah), May 4, 2012]

(h/t Ian)

12 11/11/12 links

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 01:30 PM PST

12 from Ian:
BDS Fail in Brighton by Jonathan Hoffman
Brighton Argus: "A large group of pro-israel supporters gatecrashed a planned protest outside the Brighton Dome last night. Pro-Palestinian campaigners had arranged to picket the performance of controversial dance group the Batsheva ensemble. But unknown to them, their opposite numbers had arranged a counter-demo, outnumbering the original protest."

Finance minister threatens to withhold tax revenues if Palestinians make UN statehood bid
Yuval Steinitz points at success of freezing assets in preventing similar measure last year

BBC Watch: Petition for release of BBC's Balen Report
"We call upon the BBC to release the findings to the general public of the Balen report that looked into its Middle East coverage and allegations of bias against Israel by the BBC. The BBC has spent over a third of a million pounds on covering up these findings for eight years."

Islamic Leader Praises Zawahiri, Calls For Shariah Law in Egypt
"Rifai Taha, the former president of Gamaa Islamiyya's Shura council in Egypt, said that al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri should be praised and called on Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi to allow Zawahiri's return to Egypt."

EU to mull listing Hezbollah as terror group
Austria's Foreign Ministry tells 'Post' discussions underway to designate Lebanese Shi'ite group as terrorist organization.

Turkey searches Armenian plane en route to Syria
Aircraft flying to Damascus detained, searched by Ankara authorities in attempt to thwart potential arms delivery to Syrian military

Refugee-Turned-Activist Seeks Attention for Plight of Egyptian Jews
"The difference between the Israeli refugee camps and the Palestinian ones is that in Israel we worked, studied, got out, and prospered," Zamir says. "The Palestinians keep themselves in their camps for four generations, with UNRWA (the United Nation Relief and Works Agency) giving more and more money."

Cotler to Canada: Recognize Jewish refugee rights
Canadian MP proposes formal government recognition of 850,000 Jews "forcibly displaced and exiled from Arab countries."

His deep, dark secret: He's Arab, Muslim and serves in the IDF
New film looks at the tiniest of Israel's minorities — Muslim Arabs who voluntarily enlist
Video with Hebrew subtitles

Israeli team to help put 'disaster robots' on their feet
Researchers from BGU to participate in US-sponsored program to develop robots to assist in an emergency

The top 10 advances in diabetes research in Israel
Israel is a powerhouse in diabetes research. In honor of World Diabetes Day, November 14, ISRAEL21c brings you the top developments emerging from the country.

Bahá'í Shrine voted most beautiful structure in Israel
More than 40,000 readers of lifestyle portal Xnet rank 50 public structures famous for unique architecture
Also, Christian Zionism - a Overdue Reality Check by David Brog

PalWatch on PA kids saying "the Jews" killed Arafat






(h/t AC)

Seen in Cape Town

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 11:30 AM PST


The Arabic says "Hezbollah."

The Zionist community in South Africa is concerned that this is more than just a private person or organization showing approval for Hamas and Hezbollah, pointing to a very tall radio tower on top of the building. Whether or not this is true, the fact that people in parts of Cape Town are willing to loudly advertise their support for terror organizations is alarming enough.

(h/t Israel Muse)

EU's Catherine Ashton's latest folly (Missing Peace)

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 09:30 AM PST

From Missing Peace:

On Thursday EU high commissioner Catherine Ashton issued a statement in which she condemned the issuing of tenders for some 1200 new housing units in the Jerusalem neighborhoods of Pisqat Ze'ev and Ramot.
Ashton labeled these neighborhoods 'settlements' and called them 'illegal under international law'. She furthermore claimed that the building in Ramot and Pisqat Ze'ev was threatening to make the two state solution impossible.
Ashton's condemnation of the new building in Jerusalem is once again based on gross distortion of the facts. This happened earlier when she condemned a housing plan for the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem.
Pisqat Ze'ev:  illegal settlement?
Pisqat Ze'ev,  for example was mainly built on land that was legally bought by Jews during the British Mandate - before the establishment of the state of Israel.
The Jews who bought the land almost a century ago planned to build a new settlement by the name of Chawtselet Benjamin.  The Holocaust foiled the plan since most of the Jewish landowners perished in Hitler's death camps. This wasreported by the Israeli paper Ha'aretz earlier this year. Ha'aretz based its story on original documents in the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem
Settlements illegal under international law?
The EU consistently labels Jewish settlement in the West Bank 'illegal under international law'.
Many experts on international law disagree with this EU position. Among them are Professor David Phillips, Professor Eugene Kontorovich ,  Professor Julius Stone, who wrote a book on the subject titled "Assault on the law of nations", and Eugene Rostow the former dean of Yale Law School..
Here's what Rostow wrote at the time about Jewish settlement in what is now termed the West Bank:
"The heated question of Israel's settlements in the West Bank during the occupation period should be viewed in this perspective. The British Mandate recognized the right of the Jewish people to "close settlement" in the whole of the Mandated territory. It was provided that local conditions might require Great Britain to "postpone" or "withhold" Jewish settlement in what is now Jordan. This was done in 1922. But the Jewish right of settlement in Palestine west of the Jordan river, that is, in Israel, the West Bank, Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, was made unassailable. That right has never been terminated and cannot be terminated except by a recognized peace between Israel and its neighbors. And perhaps not even then, in view of Article 80 of the U.N. Charter, "the Palestine article," which provides that "nothing in the Charter shall be construed … to alter in any manner the rights whatsoever of any states or any peoples or the terms of existing international instruments…."
Threat to two state solution?
Ashton writes that the new housing projects in Ramot and Pisqat Ze'ev threaten the two state solution.
However the so called 'Palestine Papers' which give a detailed description of the  peace talks between the Olmert government and the Palestinian Authority tell a different story.
In fact the Palestinians proposed during these negotiations that Israel annex these neighborhoods.
Here's what the Palestinian negotiator Abu Allah said to former US secretary of state Condoleeza Rice during the talks:
  • We proposed that Israel annexes all settlements in Jerusalem except Jabal Abu Ghneim (Har Homa).This is the first time in history that we make such a proposition; we refused to do so in Camp David.
  •  We cannot accept the annexation of Ma?ale Adumim, Ariel, Giv'at Ze?ev, Ephrat and Har Homa settlements
So the only Israeli settlements that were unacceptable to the Palestinians and could have threaten the two state solution were  Ma'aleh Adumim, Givat Ze'ev,Ariel, Efrat and Har Homa.
Har Homa is in that list the sole Jerusalem neighborhood: the rest are towns outside Jerusalem.
So how can building in neighborhoods that the Palestinians themselves proposed for annexation by Israel threaten the two state solution?

Jordanians freak over tiny map in health brochure that mentions "Israel"

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 07:40 AM PST

Assabeel notes that Jordan's "Association Against Zionism and Racism" is strongly protesting a tiny map shown in the background of an illustration in a pamphlet meant to teach health awareness.

Here's the drawing:


And here is the offensive map, enlarged:


The anti-Zionist group is upset at a number of things.

One, of course, is that "Israel" is mentioned within the 1949 armistice lines.

Second, is that instead of saying "Palestine" in the area between Israel and Jordan, it only says "West Bank."

Third is the complete absence of the word "Jordan" at all in the light blue area.

Fourth is that the Golan Heights is referred to as "occupied by Israel" - which implies that other areas of the territories, and Israel itself, are not themselves "occupied."

Their research showed that other health brochures were partially funded by USAID, so their little conspiracy-leaning minds went into overdrive, saying that the US has been behind this travesty.

They are claiming that the US is pushing a "Jordan is Palestine" scenario by publishing this map in the background and not mentioning Jordan, as well as forcing Jordanians to recognize a state that their government already recognizes.

The commenters wholeheartedly are latching on this conspiracy theory of US -funded brainwashing of innocent Jordanian kids. After all, don't all kids obsess over the background details of boring health pamphlets?

(h/t Yisrael Medad)

Religious and moral Hezbollah involved in drug scandal

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST

From Al Arabiya:
Lebanon has been rocked by a scandal involving the brother of a top Hezbollah official suspected of importing untested pharmaceutical products through forged government documents.

Lebanon's Parliamentary Health Committee chief Atef Majdalan revelead on Thursday that "four pharmaceutical importers were involved in an operation to import more than 100 types of drugs through forged [documentation]."

It later emerged that a brother of Minister of State for Administrative Reform Mohammad Fneish -- also a Hezbollah member –was involved in the scandal. Media reports even suggested minister Fneish might have facilitated the forging of health ministry documents for his brother and that four pharmaceutical firms implicated in the case had ties to Hezbollah.

Future News television reported on Friday that Fneish's brother "forged the signature" of Health Minister Ali Hassan Khalil to import untested drugs. The television added that the drugs entered the country "10 months ago" and that the firms involved in the importation had ties with Hezbollah.

Future News is close to the Lebanese Future Movement critical of Hezbollah and its military arsenal.

Lebanese al-Nahar newspaper reported that the firms imported most of the drugs from South East Asia and sealed them with the stamp of an accomplice company in Britain to suggest that the medicines were made in Europe.
Of course, Hezbollah has been involved in the South American cocaine trade, so this is child's play for them. But it shows that they have as little regard for the lives of fellow Lebanese as they do for infidel drug addicts in the West.

Videos of Gaza "firecracker" launches

Posted: 11 Nov 2012 03:12 AM PST

Terrorist apologists love to refer to Gaza rockets as harmless "firecrackers."

Here are two videos, from Hamas and Islamic Jihad respectively, showing off their multiple rocket firing ability to their own people. Both were posted in the past 24 hours.





Over 70 such "firecrackers" were shot at Israeli civilians overnight, causing injuries (which the terrorist websites also celebrated.)
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