Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- Video: Hamas police - including women - assault female demonstrators
- Some thoughts on Abbas' upcoming UN gimmick
- Tuesday links
- Arafat's Corpse for PA President!
- AFP blames Gaza crocodile on - Israel!
- Fatah official: Oslo dead after UN vote; Jordanian option open
- Microsoft signs tech agreement with Israel, BDSers silent
| Video: Hamas police - including women - assault female demonstrators Posted: 06 Nov 2012 08:33 PM PST Women in Gaza held a peaceful demonstration for unity yesterday - and Hamas police, including policewomen, came in to break it up by hitting them with sticks. The women represented a number of factions, including Fatah, the DFLP, and the PFLP. One women and one man ended up in the hospital. Hamas says they will hold an investigation into the matter. 
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| Some thoughts on Abbas' upcoming UN gimmick Posted: 06 Nov 2012 02:00 PM PST Mahmoud Abbas is gearing up to upgrade the UN's status of "Palestine" from a "non-member entity" to a "non-member state" later this month. In reality, there does not seem to be any legal weight from such the change from "non-member entity" to "non-member state." The only difference between the two that I have seen is the possibility that the International Criminal Court has jurisdiction over cases occurring within a "state", and from what I can tell "only a state that is sovereign in a particular territory can confer jurisdiction on the ICC in that territory." Obviously an "entity" is not a "state" so perhaps the non-binding UNGA resolution will have a slight legal weight in the ICC, if they decide that the PA is sovereign. By the way, if the ICC does accept jurisdiction on "Palestine," that means that Israel will have the right to file complaints as well against that state - which would include Hamas rocket fire and terror attacks, for example. According to Al Quds, Abbas' preference is to request recognition from the General Assembly on the 15th, which would be the 24th anniversary of Yasir Arafat's declaration of independence for a phantom state. If that doesn't work out, he wants to do it on November 29th, the anniversary of the UN partition resolution of Palestine. In other words, Abbas' main goals of becoming accepted as a state are two-fold: the symbolism of the timing, and the perceived increased ability to prosecute Israel in international venues. But there is another aspect of Abbas' gimmick that he makes very clear, and that the UN has no legal ability to deliver. Abbas has said repeatedly, "After returning from the United Nations and getting a non-member State on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital, the way will be open for a return to direct negotiations to achieve security and stability on these grounds." Abbas is positioning this UN bid as a way to have the UN declare the borders of "Palestine" to include everything behind the Green Line, which was never an international border and indeed which was explicitly defined as being something to be negotiated in UNSC 242. So the thing to watch for in Abbas' UN bid is the exact language of the resolution. If the resolution includes a mention of borders and Jerusalem, and the UNGA rubber-stamps it as expected, that is more proof that the General Assembly is dismissive of international law when it comes to demonizing Israel. And indeed, even though Abbas claims that this bid is not meant to delegitimize Israel, this language indicates that he is intending to use the UN to delegitimize Israel's legal claims to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria. The language of the resolution will almost certainly make it apparent what a joke the UN has become. 
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| Posted: 06 Nov 2012 12:00 PM PST From Ian: Anti-Israel Speaker Whitewashes Palestinian Terrorism in Harvard Talk "Speaking on Palestinian terrorism, including rockets and suicide bombings, Buttu downplayed the lethality of Qassam rockets, claiming "Qassams don't have an explosive head" and claimed that no "grad rockets were fired in 2008 and 2009," according to CAMERA." UN Watch: Ken Roth Flip-Flop: HRW Promised ICC Wouldn't Target Israel, Yet Now Lobbies for It "In 2001, when trying to convince Americans to buy into the ICC, Human Rights Watch promised one thing; now it actively lobbies for the opposite. British TV show airs Israeli think-tank's upbeat simulation of attack on Iran Channel 4′s 'Dispatches' screens footage of recent 'war game,' raises questions about whether Israel's top strategists are overly optimistic about the outcome of a strike "An Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear facilities could set back the country's nuclear program by three years — at least according to the scenario used as the basis for a "war game" conducted by a leading Israeli think tank, the Institute for National Security Studies, in late September." Iran not cooperating with inspection of nuclear sites, IAEA chief says 'We cannot conclude that all nuclear material in Iran is in peaceful activities,' Yukiya Amano warns Iran says three Arab countries let Israel use their air space to strike in Sudan Tehran's foreign minister says countries were told in advance of last month's attack on Khartoum munitions factory Obama's personal emissary holding secret talks with Iran, Israeli paper claims Iranian-born special adviser Valerie Jarrett said to be negotiating with representative of Tehran's supreme leader Khamenei It's about time Cameron made an official visit to Israel As a key trading partner, a key security partner and the only legitimate and inclusive democracy in the region, Cameron has an obligation to make an official visit to Israel "After all, Israel is the UK's largest individual trading partner in the Near East and North Africa. We are ranked 1st in Europe and 3rd in the world for exports from Israel and have done so for a number of years. Why is David Cameron trying to sell weapons to Arabs and not Israelis? Turkey tries Israeli commanders in absentia, seeks 18,000-year sentence Jerusalem dismisses Mavi Marmara case as 'show trial' and 'political theater' 3 soldiers injured by explosion on Gaza border IDF troops attacked while conducting routine sweep near Kibbutz Nirim; Kassam rocket lands in south Israeli ambassador demands UN intervention in Syrian truce violations IDF on heightened alert on northern border due to spillover from civil war "Israel's ambassador to the UN sent a strongly worded letter to the secretary general of the UN and the UN Security Council president on Monday protesting a "grave violation" of the treaty between Israel and Syria. Hanne Nabintu Herland's lecture at JCPA in Jerusalem: How the Radical Left turned Norway into the most Anti-Semitic country in the West "I believe, that were the Norwegian people given a balanced, just information from an informative objective angle instead of the dividing harsh propaganda from the Radical Left that has dominated the Norwegian public now for so long, we would see great change in public opinion. And at the moment, the majority of Norwegians push for political change in the next election in 2013." Jewish Family Attacked in Marseille, France The father of a Jewish family was badly beaten and the family home was completely trashed on Sunday by local youths in Marseille, France. Churchill bust unveiled in capital Bronze statue of wartime British PM installed opposite the Old City in recognition of his support for a Jewish state 
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| Arafat's Corpse for PA President! Posted: 06 Nov 2012 10:00 AM PST On November 26, the bones of Palestinian Arab terrorist leader Yasir Arafat are being dug up. Given the withering disapproval that Mahmoud Abbas has been getting for declaring that he would no longer want to live in Safed, this is an opportunity for another set of elections in the territories - and Arafat's bones should run. Why not elect the skeleton of the only leader they ever had and who they romantically pine for? The bag of bones would win in a landslide! There are other advantages to keeping Arafat's bones above ground. He can be counted on not to make the same mistakes on TV that Abbas made. And his speeches will be less boring than Abbas'. He is not in danger of being assassinated by Israel. His political positions will never change, showing the strength of conviction that Arabs admire so much. World leaders can invite Dead Arafat to their state dinners and UN events, just like the old days. He'll be praised as a moderate by New York Times columnists and "Middle East experts," just like the old days. And Suha will get just as much love and affection as she did from him when he was alive. No one will dare protest against such a revered figure, and Hamas would be rendered ineffective against the charisma of Arafat's corpse. The new dead Arafat can no longer steal hundreds of millions of dollars from his beloved people. There is a decent chance that he would win another Nobel Peace Prize. From Israel's perspective, Arafat's corpse won't negotiate - but then again, neither did Abbas, so there is no change there. And new dead Arafat will not lie as much as either Abbas or the old Arafat. He also can't secretly mastermind terror sprees. I think this is an idea whose time has come.  
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| AFP blames Gaza crocodile on - Israel! Posted: 06 Nov 2012 08:00 AM PST  Leave it to AFP to find an anti-Israel angle in this story:Police in the Gaza Strip on Monday captured a crocodile that roamed the sewerage system of a town in the north of the enclave, the Palestinian territory's Hamas rulers said.So the crocodile was able to slither around Gaza's sewers because of Israel's blockade? Not only that, but Israel has allowed plenty of materials for Gaza sewage and waste treatment programs to be transferred to Gaza since Cast Lead, something AFP could have found out quite easily if they just made a phone call. That last gratuitous paragraph shows that AFP simply cannot resist blaming Israel for literally everything bad that happens in the territories. Even escaped crocodiles. By the way, even Al Jazeera couldn't find an anti-Israel angle to the Gaza crocodile story. Surprisingly, none of the Arab media has found out yet that the croc was a Mossad agent. (h/t Gidon Shaviv) 
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| Fatah official: Oslo dead after UN vote; Jordanian option open Posted: 06 Nov 2012 06:00 AM PST  Zaki said that as soon as "Palestine" is accepted as a non-member state in the UN, then Oslo is officially dead, presumably because Oslo was an accord between Israel and the PLO, and the PLO would be superseded by "Palestine." Zaki calls for a Palestinian Arab conference to be held after the UN vote to determine next steps. He doesn't address whether Hamas would have a place at such a conference. Like other PalArab leaders, he is making the false assumption that the UNGA can assign borders to the non-member state of "Palestine," which it cannot legally do. Zaki also discussed the idea of "Palestine" federating with Jordan, which PLO official Farouk Kaddumi recently suggested. Zaki said that this is of course a possible option - but now is not the time to talk about it. Apparently, the PLO knows quite well that independence was never its goal - destroying Israel has been, and the entire facade of a "two-state solution" is simply another stage in that goal. But if the PalArab leaders publicly acknowledge that they really are indistinguishable from Jordan, the UN member states might wonder why they really want their own state. The priority now, Zaki stressed, is to gain recognition by the UN so that "Palestine" can then prosecute Israel in the International Criminal Court and other venues. It us clear that independence has never been the priority for the PLO to help their people - it is simply a tactic in the larger Arab effort to destroy Israel. Once it is achieved, then the existence of "Palestine" is unnecessary, and all the talk about a distinct "Palestinian people" and "Palestinian culture" will be forgotten in short order. 
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| Microsoft signs tech agreement with Israel, BDSers silent Posted: 06 Nov 2012 03:30 AM PST From Times of Israel: This was Ballmer's fourth visit to Israel, and he also met with Bibi. During the visit, Microsoft kicked off its international campaign for promoting Windows 8, introducing models of smartphones running that operating system. Interestingly, although one can find Facebook groups for pretty much anything, I have failed to find a single group that pushes for boycotting Microsoft products because of their cooperation with Israel. Nothing about boycotting Microsoft on the major BDS webpages either. I guess their idea of morality is to only go after toy stores and chocolate shops. 
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