Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- Shabbat Shalom/administrivia
- Egyptian terrorists joining in?
- Friday links
- Illuminating news story from last week
- IDF Arabic spokesperson is busy
- Hamas shoots missiles at Jerusalem
- How many Gazans are killed by Hamas munitions?
- Israel's MFA slams UN Human Rights Council
- "Collaborator" murdered in Gaza City
- Hamas war crimes, illustrated
| Posted: 16 Nov 2012 01:00 PM PST I hope that my you have noticed that I added a Twitter widget to the right side of my webpage, showing tweets and retweets from Israeli officials and spokespeople. It is a good place to keep up with what is happening - even when I am not online. You should follow my Twitter feed as well, there is plenty there that I do not have a chance to post. Follow me on Twitter, too! In fact, many of you have done just that. I gained about a hundred followers over the past three days, pushing my follower count to over 3000! I also got mentioned in the New York Times Lede column for a tweet I sent out:  Which also goes to show how absurdly biased Al Jazeera correspondents are. The blog has been getting lots of hits as well, doubling its normal traffic. One tip that can be very helpful: when you see an anti-Israel image online, on a blog or tweet, you can check to see if it is really a new image or a recycled one by using Google Image Search. You can drag the image to the search box in http://images.google.com or you can use the Firefox and Chrome plugins to search from the image itself. Already the anti-Israel crowd has been caught many times posting fake images of dead babies from Syria or elsewhere. (h/t O) Anyway, it is getting close to Shabbat where I am. I wish all my readers a Shabbat Shalom in the truest sense of the words. Here is the text of the prayer for the welfare of the Israeli army that is said in many synagogues every week, and which has a special poignancy this Shabbat as Israel prepares for a likely ground invasion: מִי שֶׁבֵּרַךְ אֲבוֹתֵינוּ אַבְרָהָם יִצְחָק וְיַעֲקֹב הוּא יְבָרֵךְ אֶת חַיָּלֵי צְבָא הֲגַנָּה לְיִשְׂרָאֵל, הָעוֹמְדִים עַל מִשְׁמַר אַרְצֵנוּ וְעָרֵי אֱל-הֵינוּ מִגְּבוּל הַלְּבָנוֹן וְעַד מִדְבַּר מִצְרַיִם וּמִן הַיָּם הַגָּדוֹל עַד לְבוֹא הָעֲרָבָה בַּיַּבָּשָׁה בָּאֲוִיר וּבַיָּם. יִתֵּן ה' אֶת אוֹיְבֵינוּ הַקָּמִים עָלֵינוּ נִגָּפִים לִפְנֵיהֶם. הַקָּדוֹשׁ בָּרוּךְ הוּא יִשְׁמֹר וְיַצִּיל אֶת חַיָלֵינוּ מִכָּל צָרָה וְצוּקָה וּמִכָּל נֶגַע וּמַחְלָה וְיִשְׁלַח בְּרָכָה וְהַצְלָחָה בְּכָל מַעֲשֵׂה יְדֵיהֶם. יַדְבֵּר שׂוֹנְאֵינוּ תַּחְתֵּיהֶם וִיעַטְרֵם בְּכֶתֶר יְשׁוּעָה וּבְעֲטֶרֶת נִצָּחוֹן. וִיקֻיַּם בָּהֶם הַכָּתוּב: כִּי ה' אֱלֹ-הֵיכֶם הַהֹלֵךְ עִמָּכֶם לְהִלָּחֵם לָכֶם עִם איבֵיכֶם לְהוֹשִׁיעַ אֶתְכֶם: וְנאמַר אָמֵן: 
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| Egyptian terrorists joining in? Posted: 16 Nov 2012 12:00 PM PST There are initial reports that mortars that hit near the Kerem Shalom crossing came from Egypt. In the hours before Operation Pillar of Defense, there were four rockets fired from the Sinai towards Israel. I can imagine the Islamists in the Sinai itching to join in the shooting, especially since they know Israel isn't going to attack Egypt. At least one major Sinai jihadist group openly claims to cooperate with Hamas when firing rockets. Egypt, publicly a staunch defender of Hamas but privately far more cautious, will need to make clear very soon how it intends to deal with such actions. Morsi will probably string this out as long as possible, claiming plausible deniability to the West while tacitly supporting the groups by dragging his feet to stop them. As far as I can tell, Egyptian security did little or nothing after the last round of fire on Israel. Even if this report doesn't pan out, there is a good chance that Sinai groups will be firing towards Jewish communities. The target of Kerem Shalom is interesting. It is the crossing through which Gazans get most of their food and other supplies via Israel. The crossing was closed on Sunday and Monday because of the rocket fire, reopened Tuesday and Wednesday and then closed again since then. (By the way, Israel keeps the Erez crossing open for diplomats and reporters. A number of diplomats, trying to flee Gaza on Thursday, were stopped from leaving - by Hamas. They were detained for several hours. Too bad none of them will talk about it. I received this information from an Israeli military source.) 
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| Posted: 16 Nov 2012 11:00 AM PST From Ian: LATMA: Learn the language of the Arab man The Strong Hearts of Israel's City of Angels: Kiryat Malachi's Residents React to Rocket Attacks and Fatalities "As I make my way back down the stairs of the heavily damaged building, an elderly man leaves his apartment and walks slowly down the blood-stained stairs. He looks sadly at the memorial candles at the bottom, and whispers a few words, and then continues on to the synagogue to pray. Meanwhile, outside the apartment building, soldiers, security personnel and local Israeli press continue their activities, as tired residents in the city prepare for a long night ahead." Melanie Phillips: Pallywood, and the stench of an ancient score being settled "When you look in horror and astonishment at the British media's coverage of the onslaught upon Israel from Gaza and Israel's actions in self-defence – and from the messages I am receiving, there are still many, many decent Brits who are indeed appalled beyond measure by the eye-watering bias of the coverage from the BBC, Sky and much of the press – you might well conclude that more, much more, is actually going on here than standard knee-jerk prejudice or ignorance. This is the ugly sound of a very old score indeed that is being settled." NGO hypocrisy in Gaza by Gerald Steinberg For these groups, their Palestinian counterparts that also use the façade and language of human rights, and their funder-enablers, Israelis do not have human rights. Turn off the lights in Gaza "Scholars of genocide and mass atrocity crimes know that these outcomes result from human choice and bystander indifference. It follows that what happens in the next few days, weeks and months will be determined by the degree to which public diplomacy will make the case for holding the perpetrator, Hamas, accountable for this latest round of crimes against humanity – the rocketing of civilian populations with intent to kill, maim, injure, destroy and intimidate. But what the bystanders do or do not do may be even more important: The US has to make aid to Egypt conditional on it reining in on Hamas." Rockets? What Hamas Rockets? The Council on American-Islamic Relations' (CAIR) New York Advocacy Director Cyrus McGoldrick even seemed to defend their use in a Twitter post Thursday. PM slams Hamas for 'hiding behind civilians' Islamists 'deliberately target our children,' says PM in English remarks directed at international audience Foreign Ministry slams UN human rights chief for 'ringing silence' on Gaza rocket fire High Commissioner does not care for Israelis' human rights, spokesman charges Obama administration condemns Hamas rocket fire, backs Israel's right to self-defense Australian Leaders say Israel's actions appropriate PMW: Special Report on Operation Pillar of Defense pt1 From the PMW archives: Al-Ja'abari: "The Jew who comes to the soil of Palestine... is fighting us, and we will fight him and kill him" Special Report on Operation Pillar of Defense pt2: PA glorifes Hamas' Ahmed Al-Ja'abari Official PA daily: "His self-sacrificing actions (i.e., terror attacks) will be told for generations to come and will be eternalized in memory" CAMERA: The New York Times Evades the Facts to Blame Israel "With all its evasions about the situation and its unrealistic demands for restraint on Israel's part, the editorial belied its statement that Israel has the right to defend itself. Indeed, it makes clear just one thing– that no matter what the reality is, in the eyes of The New York Times editorial board, Israel will always be at fault." BBC Journalist on Twitter Misinforms BBC's Wyre Davies told his 9,100 Twitter followers earlier today that "nearly all" of the Palestinians and Israelis killed during the fighting today were civilians. BBC Calls Tel Aviv Israel's Capital, Not Jerusalem Gaza cyber-struggle takes missile war to second battlefield "Supporters of Israel and those opposing Operation Pillar of Defense tussle on social media As offensive rages, Hamas resorts to disinformation Islamic movement claims it struck Tel Aviv, while eulogizing its slain military leader; Abbas condemns rocket fire on Israel IDF: Hamas Using Facebook, Twitter Posts To Guide Rocket Calculations The Israeli Defense Force has issued a warning to all Israelis on all social networking sites. Their warning urges Israelis not to post information on Facebook or Twitter about where rockets are falling and where sirens are being sounded. Hamas intelligence, IDF is warning, is closely monitoring Facebook and Twitter for such information; they're then using that information in recalibrating their firing angles in order to target the rockets more efficiently. Jordan Preparing To Jettison PLO by David Singer "Reinstating Jordan 's severed legal and administrative ties with the West Bank in direct negotiations with Israel is now rapidly shaping up as the most viable option to resolve sovereignty in the West Bank as the PLO slowly sinks into the political sunset." Poll: Anti-Semitism, Facism Rife in Germany "A new poll shows a shocking level of anti-Semitism among Germans. According to the poll, taken by the Friedrich Ebert Foundation (associated with the SPD, the Social Democratic Party of Germany), 15.8% of German residents in the former East German part of the country identify themselves with the fascistic far right, and subscribe to its beliefs, including hatred of Jews." Being Black in the Muslim World "When I'm Just Walking Down the Street, People Will Call Me a Dirty Black Man or Slave" Behind the Veil of Islamophobia The murder of Shaima Alawadi isn't a sign of increasing prejudice, but of writers' credulousness "The Facebook group "One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi," which was a hive of activity in the weeks following her murder, has since been taken offline. Despite some posts about women's rights and feminism, the Islamophobia angle was what the organizers were interested in pushing. She was, it now seems, killed because she was a woman who attempted to throw off the shackles of an oppressive husband. Which makes this case doubly tragic. Just because Shaima Alawadi wasn't killed by an American racist doesn't mean that there isn't cause for activist outrage." 150-Year-Old Pictures Released for Online Viewers Thank You Library of Congress for Responding to Our Request "Israel Daily Picture requested that the Library remove copyright restrictions on the 147-year-old photos. The pictures were posted on the Internet this week and appear here. The Library's site allows visitors to enlarge the photographs to see amazing details, in these cases more than 12 MB in size."
Also: Joke going around cyberspace  Anti-Israel leftists in Tel Aviv forced to break up rally - because of Gaza rockets (h/t Josh, Sophie) 
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| Illuminating news story from last week Posted: 16 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST On Wednesday, the government started an offensive against a terrorist group, killing dozens in the next three days. But not in Israel and not this past Wednesday. From Reuters, one week ago: Turkish air force jets and attack helicopters pounded Kurdish militants along the border with Iraq and Iran for three days, killing 42 militants, the local governor's office said on Friday.Turkey continued killing Kurds this week. Did you catch that story? 
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| IDF Arabic spokesperson is busy Posted: 16 Nov 2012 09:15 AM PST  The IDF has an Arabic YouTube page where they show the same aerial videos we've seen elsewhere, sprinkled with video interviews of the IDF's Arab spokesperson, Avichai Adraee. It looks like he has been keeping busy, too. Al Masry al-Youm quoted him using an Arabic phrase to describe Hamas. The phrase literally means "He hit me and cried, and also went to complain to me," saying that Hamas has no right to whine about a war that they started. I see him most often quoted in Egyptian media, like Al Ahram and Shorouk News; but Arabic media outside Egypt has not been as obsessed over this operation as they had been in the past. Jordan is busy with its own now-daily (and sometimes deadly) anti-government protests, Lebanon is far more nervous about Syria, and everyone else seems pretty blase about this whole thing. 
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| Hamas shoots missiles at Jerusalem Posted: 16 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST From YNet: After Tel Aviv metropolitan area, capital under fire too: An air raid siren was sounded in Jerusalem and surrounding communities early Friday evening. After residents reported hearing blast sounds, security forces confirmed that one rocket had landed in the Gush Etzion area.Hamas first announced the missile to Jerusalem a couple of hours earlier, and that report was false. Similarly, they announced bombing Tel Aviv several hours before the actualattack. Hamas released this loop video of a rocket, claiming that it is the one shot to Jerusalem. This seems unlikely as it was already nightfall when the rockets hit. Hamas calls the rocket used a Qassam M75, and claims that it was manufactured in Gaza. They made the same claim about the Tel Aviv rockets. This seems unlikely but it is possible that Iran designed a rocket for Hamas that could go far but not be accurate. (Islamic Jihad said that the Tel Aviv rockets were Iranian-manufactured Fajr-5's.) While the rockets are reported to have landed in Gush Etzion, it is important to note that Hamas announced the target to be Jerusalem supposedly Islam's third holiest city, and a city that is roughly half Arab. Which goes to show that their concern about the lives of their fellow Arabs is far lower than Israel's. 
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| How many Gazans are killed by Hamas munitions? Posted: 16 Nov 2012 07:00 AM PST Gaza terror groups have fired well over 340 rockets towards Israel since Wednesday - but how many of them exploded in Gaza? The latest bimonthly Gaza NSO Safety Report notes that in the second half of October there were 59 rockets fired from northern Gaza towards Israel. Of those, eight of them fell short or exploded on the launch sites. Historically, between 15-30% (sometimes even 40%) of Gaza rockets do not make it to Israel. And many Gazans have been killed or injured as a result of those misfirings. most recently with the death of 18 month old Hadeel Haddad last June and also the previous August. And in both those cases, the lying Gaza government claimed that the deaths were due to Israeli airstrikes. Similarly, in the Hamas rocket barrage that immediately preceded Cast Lead (that no one remembers), two girls were killed by a Qassam rocket. A UNRWA school was hit last December. And on and on. If only 20% of the rockets fired now - very hurriedly - are landing in Gaza, that means that we can estimate over 65 rockets have fallen in Gaza over the past three days alone! And the number can easily be much higher. How many killed people? How many leveled houses? How many injuries? We'll never know, because Hamas will do everything they can to ensure that all deaths are blamed on Israel, just like they did with the death of Hadeel Haddad. Similarly, look at the secondary explosions from this Israeli airstrike:  This means that before reporters automatically say that children are killed by Israeli missiles, they should verify the facts first. And if they cannot do that, they should say so. Because the chances are quite high that many of the civilians being killed are dying from terrorist rockets or munitions. 
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| Israel's MFA slams UN Human Rights Council Posted: 16 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST From Israel's MFA:
(Communicated by the Permanent Mission of Israel to UN Geneva) Since the beginning of 2012, more than 800 rockets were launched from Hamas-controlled Gaza into Israeli cities, over 200 of them just this the past week. Zing. (h/t Omri) 
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| "Collaborator" murdered in Gaza City Posted: 16 Nov 2012 04:30 AM PST From Islamic Jihad's website Palestine Today:
Lets see if any "human rights" organizations issue any condemnations over this extrajudicial killing. Want to bet that this guy will end up on lists of victims of Israeli aggression? 
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| Posted: 16 Nov 2012 02:13 AM PST Geneva Conventions 2. The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack. Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.Protocol IAdditional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts, 8 June 1977Article 51:
4. Indiscriminate attacks are prohibited. Indiscriminate attacks are: (a) those which are not directed at a specific military objective; (b) those which employ a method or means of combat which cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or (c) those which employ a method or means of combat the effects of which cannot be limited as required by this Protocol; and consequently, in each such case, are of a nature to strike military objectives and civilians or civilian objects without distinction.
5. Among others, the following types of attacks are to be considered as indiscriminate: ... an attack which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.  Ultra Orthodox Jewish men gather around the body of Mirah Sharf who was killed in the southern town of Kiryat Malachi by a rocket thought to have been fired [!] by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, during her funeral in Jerusalem, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. 6. Attacks against the civilian population or civilians by way of reprisals are prohibited.
7. The presence or movements of the civilian population or individual civilians shall not be used to render certain points or areas immune from military operations, in particular in attempts to shield military objectives from attacks or to shield, favour or impede military operations.  A rocket launched by Palestinian militants towards Israel [from a heavily populated area of Gaza] makes its way from the northern Gaza Strip, seen from the Israel Gaza Border, southern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit) 
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