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MB member: Jews are thieves, Americans are cows,

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:00 PM PST

From MEMRI:


Following are excerpts from an interview with Mahmoud Khalil, a member of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood's Freedom and Justice Party, which aired on Al-Nas TV on September 11, 2012.
Mahmoud Khalil: Your regular American is not such a great intellectual as we imagine him to be.
Interviewer: He is not interested in politics...
Mahmoud Khalil: He has a huge body. Eats like a pig. He is like a raging bull or a runaway train. America is marching towards its death. It has the greatest debt in the world. The U.S. debt amounts to 32 million miles of $100 banknotes. Its debt consumes 102% of its Gross National Product. America has the largest debt in the world. America is deceiving...
Interviewer: Nevertheless, it is the mightiest power on Earth.
Mahmoud Khalil: Yes, I hear you, but the American citizen is after his best interests, not after values.
[...]
America will disintegrate. This is inevitable. America will go back to civil wars. This is inevitable. America is over. It is a thing of the past. The US banks have dragged one another into crisis. America is involved in global thievery.
[...]
The Jews brought their thieving [nature] to America. They have used all methods of global criminality. The case of the US banks is no less severe than what the Americans did to the blacks and the Indians, or what the English did to the Aborigines in Australia. These people are slaughterers. They are the greatest thugs in history. They are not the cowboys. They are the cows!
The Jews are money merchants. Throw a Jew into the sea, and he will emerge with a fish in his mouth.
[...]
They successfully infiltrated the U.S. political decision-making centers, and then they gained control of the world's gold or money through the economy.

Epic Moses vs. Santa rap battle (video)

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 05:00 PM PST

At that awkward time between Chanukah and Christmas,  here is an appropriate - and appropriately bizarre - video:



(h/t Yerushalimey)

25 PalArabs killed in Syrian mosque airstrike. "Pro-Palestinian" groups silent.

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 01:42 PM PST

From France24:
Syrian fighter jets bombed the Palestinian Yarmouk camp in Damascus on Sunday, killing at least 25 people sheltering in a mosque in an area where Syrian rebels have been trying to advance into the capital, opposition activists said.

The attack was part of a month-long campaign by President Bashar al-Assad's forces to eject rebels fighting to overthrow him from positions hemming in Damascus. It came a day after warplanes bombed rebels on the road to Damascus international airport.

A video posted on YouTube showed bodies and body parts scattered on the stairs of what appeared to be the mosque.
Here's the video (GRAPHIC):



Somehow, Electronic Intifada hasn't covered this story yet although it is six hours old. Neither has Free Gaza.

Dead Syrians of Palestinian origin aren't really worth getting too upset over if Israel can't be blamed.

Sunday linkdump

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 12:00 PM PST

Stellar links from Ian, as always:
'The Western Wall and the State of Israel will be ours forever,' says Netanyahu
Lighting eighth candle of Hanukkah in Jerusalem, prime minister responds to Palestinian claims that Kotel is 'occupied territory'
"The Western Wall and the State of Israel will forever belong to the Jews, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saturday night, as he lit the eight candle of Hanukkah at the Wall, in Jerusalem's Old City.
"In recent days, I have heard that the Palestinians are saying that the Western Wall is occupied territory," said the prime minister, referring to a speech in Gaza last week by Hamas chief Khaled Mashaal marking the terrorist organization's 25th anniversary, in which Mashaal said that the Palestinians "cannot recognize" Israel's legitimacy and would fight relentlessly against the Jewish state. Dating from the Second Temple era, the Western Wall, or Kotel, is the only remnant of the outer wall that surrounded the Jewish Temple, the holiest site in Judaism."

Challah Hu Akbar: The Last Month Without a Rocket or Mortar Fired from Gaza into Israel Was...
"There has not been a single month since at least 2007 in which the # of rockets and mortars fired from Gaza into Israel was 0."
"Thus far in December, there have been no rockets or mortars fired from Gaza into Israel. Will this be the first month in 5 plus years without a rocket or mortar being fired from Gaza into Israel?"

Why are Christian charities bashing Israel?
Unfortunately, mixed in with some Christian charities' good work is an alarming amount of hostility toward the Jewish state. It smacks of opportunism
"Israel sets the gold standard for human rights in the Middle East, treating its enemies, minorities and dissidents with far greater humanity than any other country, regime or political movement in the region. Instead of acknowledging this reality, Church World Service promoted the demonization of Israel.
Apparently, the people who run these charities have concluded that treating Israel fairly doesn't help their bottom line and that anti-Zionism is an integral part of their brand."

BBC Watch: BBC amplifies PA claim that corruption is due to "occupation"
The Palestinian Authority's envoy to the European Union – Leila Shahid – appeared on 'Hardtalk' (broadcast on the BBC World Service) on December 14th 2012.
Shahid's statement that Israel "killed 1,400 civilians" during Operation Cast Lead went uncorrected, as did her use of the phrase "67 borders". Most seriously, her claim that Palestinians were "ethnically cleansed" in 1948 raised a barely audible and certainly incomprehensible grumble from Sackur, but was not properly refuted.

No funds for BDS backers - Bishop
PUBLIC funds must not be given to groups that support the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, the opposition insists.
"The Australian reported on Monday that AusAID gave $47,000 to the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies in 2010. It has also received $131,000 in Australian Research Council grants.
The centre has been attacked by the government and opposition, academics and leaders of the Jewish community since The Australian revealed its head, Jake Lynch, citing his centre's BDS support, had rejected a request for help from Israeli academic Dan Avnon. Professor Avnon is credited with developing the country's only civics curriculum designed for Jewish and Arab school students.
Opposition foreign affairs spokeswoman Julie Bishop ramped up her criticisms of the BDS movement and demanded Foreign Minister Bob Carr make a public statement denouncing BDS in the light of recent comments he has made over Israel."

Ed Koch on Chuck Hagel as Defense Secretary: "It Would be a Terrible Appointment"
"Koch says that since his election, Obama has acted in support of Israel. "He has been stalwart since the election, nobody has stood up as well as he in support of Israel, I hope he continues with that," he said. But the appointment of Hagel, he concluded, "would be a great mistake."

The upheavals in ME and their impact on the Kurds
The past hundred years were perhaps the worst in Kurdish history, including division among different states, campaigns of assimilation and even genocide. But the 21st century heralds new and better things.

Saudi Textbooks Retain Hateful Refrains
Schoolchildren primed with pre-persecution slurs against 'infidels.'
"The education minister acknowledged that reform of grade 1-12 textbooks was needed but indicated it was not a government priority. I also met with Saudi Justice Minister Muhammad al-Issa and asked him why the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion," an infamously anti-Semitic fabrication at the time of the Russian revolution, is included in the textbook on Hadiths (traditions of Islam's Prophet Muhammad) where it continues to be taught as historical fact. The Saudi justice minister said that the Protocols is treated as part of Islamic culture because it is a book that has long been found in plentiful supply in Saudi Arabia (one of the relatively few non-Muslim books to be so), and was a book that his father had in his home."

Tehran warns Ankara over NATO missile system
Iranian military commander cautions Turkey against having 'Zionist defense line' on its territory
"Patriot missiles are a defense line for the Zionists and a result of (the West's) concerns over Iran's missiles and Russia's presence to defend Syria," he said. "Western countries approve the deployment of Patriots on the Syria-Turkey border as they design a world war," he said in a separate quote carried by state TV's website.

Canada-Iran Crisis: Canada Accuses Iran Of Subversive Activity On Its Soil
Canada's Foreign Ministry strongly objected to Mohammadi's statements, warning Tehran to stop using its embassy in Ottawa to recruit Iranian-Canadians to serve the Islamic Republic's interests.
"Iranian-Canadians have rejected the oppressive Iranian regime and have chosen to come to Canada to build better lives," a spokesperson for Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird said in a statement to the National Post. "The Iranian embassy should not interfere in their choices. Canadian security organizations will act to prevent threats and intimidation of Canadians."

Militants' threaten Pakistan church school for Malala support
Authorities in Pakistan have held three people over a threat to bomb a church school in Islamabad unless it paid them $51,000 (£38,000), officials say.
"A letter sent to the school, apparently by a little-known militant group, demanded cash for not bombing it.
It accused the church school of offering prayers for Pakistani schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai, who was injured by a Taliban gunmen in October."

Der Spiegel essay: Our 'nation of perpetrators' is still under the spell of its Nazi past
In plaintive article, author whose grandfather served in the Nazi SA says Germany is still dominated by its dark history
"Kurbjuweit cited a poem by celebrated German author Günter Grass that heavily criticized Israel — with which most Germans were in agreement, according to a survey — as one example of the rise of anti-Semitism, neo-Nazism and xenophobia in Germany. "Of course Germans can criticize Israel, and I too cannot endorse the Netanyahu government's settlement policy," he wrote. "But I think that we have to find a special tone, and that we can't argue without taking history into account. Grass, a man of words, wasn't able to find this tone."

British Jews rail against Hebrew-less list of languages approved for school study
Forcing students to learn a second language that isn't Hebrew detrimental to Jewish education, Board of Deputies warn
"The proposal was "extremely detrimental to our community's identity, as language — including modern and classical Hebrew — is a vital ingredient to understanding our faith and culture," Laura Marks, a senior vice-president in the Board of Deputies was quoted as saying.
Marks reportedly urged the British government to expand the list to include more than "just a narrow range of languages."

Israeli delegation brings urban water expertise to India
"There is a an almost uncanny fit between India's needs in the urban water arena, and what Israeli companies are able to offer," so says Abraham Tenne, VP Desalination at Israel's Water Authority following a visit last week to India. The visit was one implementation of an agreement signed this past February between the two nations aimed at fostering cooperation, with a focus on urban water management.
The delegation of Israeli water experts included, in addition to Tenne, Oded Distel, head of Israel NewTech, Zohar Yinon, CEO of the Jerusalem Water Authority "Hagihon" , and Elisha Arad of the Standards Institute of Israel.

Visit Israel!
Following last month's Operation Pillar of Defense, which severely harmed tourism, the Tourism Ministry announces it is investing NIS 15 million in a new campaign overseas as well as one in Israel to promote tourism to South.
"Israel is also seeing an increase in tourism from emerging markets such as Brazil, India and South Korea.
The ministry recently launched a campaign to rehabilitate domestic tourism to the Southern region under the slogan, "It's so good you've come South."

HRW contradicts itself on ICC and Israel

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 10:00 AM PST

From UN Watch:
Minutes after the U.N. voted on Nov. 29 to call "Palestine" a state, the New York-based group Human Rights Watch (HRW) issued a press release urging the Palestinians to use their new status to pursue Israel in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Yet few noticed that HRW's lobbying contradicted its own promises that this scenario would never happen.

In 2001, when Americans were debating whether or not to support the ICC, Human Rights Watch published "Myths and Facts About the International Criminal Court."

As part of its campaign to get the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute and join the ICC, Human Rights Watch affirmed that the new court would never be used "to pursue politically motivated cases against Israel." This concern was nothing but a "myth," insisted HRW.

This was because "Future actions on Israeli or Palestinian territory will be covered only if the ICC treaty is ratified by Israel or by a broadly recognized Palestinian state." And as HRW explained, in aWashington Post op-ed, "That will not happen until after a peace agreement, in which case the likelihood of Israeli military action against Palestinians greatly diminishes."

Fast forward several years. Suddenly, HRW is lobbying for the Palestinian bid to become a U.N. state and an ICC member before a peace agreement — and indeed while the Palestinians have refused to even sit at the negotiating table with Israel.

What happened to HRW's "that will not happen"promise?

The truth is that over the past several years, HRW has actively lobbied to make happen everything that it assured Americans would never happen.

...While HRW was sometimes cagey on expressing outright support for the formal ICC request submitted by the PA, there was no mistaking where they stood: "Human Rights Watch called on the ICC prosecutor to make a prompt legal determination on the Palestinian National Authority request, consistent with the ICC's mandate to end impunity." The latter phrase could only mean HRW wanted the ICC to decide in the affirmative.

Similarly, in a September 2010 speech to the U.N. Human Rights Council, HRW called on the 47-nation body to "urge the prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to determine in a prompt manner whether he believes the court has jurisdiction over the Gaza conflict. Such a determination will clarify the avenues of international justice available."

Again, HRW made it clear how they wanted the jurisdiction question to be decided: "The parties... have thus far not shown a willingness to conduct investigations up to international standards, so international prosecutions may be required." Peace talks, said HRW, "in no way lessen the need for accountability. On the contrary, justice [i.e., ICC prosecution] for serious violations should be part of the discussion."

...
The greatest supporter of the Goldstone Report's call for ICC prosecutions, apart from HRW, was the Hamas terrorist organization. ...
By actively lobbying for Palestinian statehood prior to a peace agreement, and by urging Palestinians to pursue Israel in the ICC, Human Rights Watch promotes the Hamas agenda and the politicization of international law.

More than that, HRW breaks its word, and undermines the credibility of its organization. 
Read the whole thing.

Maybe HRW needs a new logo.

(h/t Arsen Ostrovsky)

Reuters gets a D+ in Gaza strawberry story

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 08:00 AM PST

From Reuters:
Farmers in Gaza's Beit Lahia are out in force in the coastal enclave's strawberry fields. Israel has given them the green light to start exporting their produce to Europe, and the farmers are keen to fill as many boxes with their locally grown produce.

But strawberry farming is a costly and labor intensive process, and the farmers have already suffered a huge loss due to an export ban imposed on them by the Jewish state.
Observing those at work is Ahmed al-Shafai, Head of the Gaza Association for Marketing Fruit And Vegetables.

According to al-Shafai farmers in the coastal enclave have lost more than 300,000 U.S dollars due to Israeli export restrictions.

"We thought we were going to export on the 18th November, but Israel only gave us the permit from 2nd December, which meant that farmers suffer a great loss. How? Well instead of exporting the strawberries we sold them in Gaza for four shekels a kilo, when it was meant to be sold in Europe for 22 shekels, so we lost 18 shekels per kilo. Which meant that farmers lost, in this period of time before the 2nd December 1, 400,000 shekels, and this was a loss for the farmers," he said.
November, November, I'm sure something was happening the week of November 18, what could it have been?

Oh yeah, Gazans were "exporting" about 1400 rockets to Israel at that time!

Obviously the exports were delayed because of the little war that was going on then. For Reuters not to mention that is essentially journalistic malpractice.

The other thing Reuters doesn't bother to mention is that Israel has been steadily increasing the number of exports from Gaza, and that Israeli exporters are working hard to market the Gaza strawberries in Europe.

But Reuters doesn't quite flunk, because it does mention this little fact that other reports about Gaza exports ignore:
Exports have been seen by Israel as highly suspect since March 2004, when two Palestinian teenagers infiltrated the Israeli port of Ashdod by hiding in a shipping container. They blew themselves up, killing 10 people.
Wow! A relevant fact! Buried in paragraph 11, true, but this is the first "poor Gaza farmer" story I can recall that noted that terror attack.

87.7% of Palestinian Arabs support Hamas-style terror

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 06:00 AM PST

From the latest AWRAD poll we see this question:
"The results of the recent Gaza conflict prove that armed struggle, as adopted by Hamas, is the best means of achieving Palestinian independence"
Among all Palestinian Arabs, 55.6% said they "strongly agree" and 32.1% said they "agree."

In the "moderate" West Bank, the percentage that agreed was 86.4%.

Rockets aimed at civilians are nothing less than terrorism. Which means that Palestinian Arabs overwhelmingly support terror.

(h/t IMRA)

Palestinian Arabs - killing their own kids to win a propaganda war

Posted: 16 Dec 2012 02:26 AM PST

Iran's ABNA news agency reports:
Israeli hospital refuses to treat Palestinian child with cancer

The Israeli Kaplan hospital has expelled a Palestinian girl, Lin Hassan, who has been suffering from cancer in both her kidneys despite her treatment was not completed.

The child's mother said in a statement on Saturday that immediately after her daughter started receiving treatment, she was surprised when the hospital administration informed them of the decision to stop all treatments for Lin.
And why is this happening, according to the story?
She said that her child was scheduled to be operated on for the removal of the tumor, but the hospital administration expelled her because the Palestinian Authority did not pay the dues of Lin's previous stay in the Israeli hospital.
Interestingly, Iran seemed to have this story before any Palestinian Arab sources did. Islamic Jihad media's newer version was published today.

Even if this story is true, it reveals an astonishingly cynical use of children's lives for the apparent purpose of endangering them to blame Israel.

Hamas has already gloatingly tweeted this story.

The PA has been refusing to pay for Israeli hospital stays for years, much to the consternation of Israeli medical professionals. From the New York Times, 2009:
Scores of Palestinian patients being treated in Israeli hospitals, a rare bright spot of coexistence here, are being sent home because the Palestinian Authority has stopped paying for their treatment, partly in anger over the war in Gaza.

Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem says that for the past week, no payments have come in and Palestinians whose children it is treating have been instructed by Palestinian health officials to place them in facilities in the West Bank, Jordan or Egypt.

"Suddenly we have had 57 patients dropped from our rolls," said Dr. Michael Weintraub, director of pediatric hematology, oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Hadassah. "We have been bombarded by frantic parents. This is a political decision taken on the backs of patients."
Meanwhile, for at least some patients, the IDF pays for their treatment itself.
Yesterday (Tuesday), a Palestinian girl from the West Bank was released from the Rambam hospital in Haifa. She had been admitted two months ago for a bone marrow transplant, which was funded by the Israeli Civil Administration.

"Without undergoing this transplant, this young girl would not still be with us," said Dalia Bessa, the Health Coordinator for the Civil Administration in the West Bank. The three and a half year old girl has been undergoing treatment for the last three years, after being diagnosed with thalassemia, a blood disorder.

"The only possible way to save her life was to undergo a bone marrow transplant," said Hanna Nishri, who is responsible for patient intake at the hospital. "Since funds for the procedure were not forthcoming from the Palestinian Authority, the Civil Administration, working through the Health Coordinator, decided to help save the girl's life."

Think about it from the Palestinian Arab leaderships' perspective. If Israel gives them free treatment, they win. If the children die because Israeli hospitals cannot afford to provide free care for them, they simply publicize this and they win even more.

The only losers are the Palestinian Arab people - and they are just cannon fodder anyway, if you are Mahmoud Abbas or Khaled Meshal.

(h/t Gidon, IranAware)
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