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- New York Times declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel!
- Iraq News Agency spouting pure anti-semitism
- Abbas Commemorates 'Martyrs,' Including Hajj Amin Al-Husseini
- Thank you
- Is Iran After A Syrian Uranium Stockpile?
- Wednesday Morning Links
- Iran Behind Hacking of American Banks
| New York Times declares Jerusalem the capital of Israel! Posted: 09 Jan 2013 04:29 PM PST Well, they said it in 1967 - before the Six Day War - in an editorial, no less:  Which just goes to show that facts that are evident to all can be eroded by years of propaganda.           |
| Iraq News Agency spouting pure anti-semitism Posted: 09 Jan 2013 01:23 PM PST I've been seeing more and more pure anti-semitic drivel from the Iraq News Agency lately, much of it reproduced elsewhere. But this sentence is a classic distillation of hate, the type that is never reported in the West: There is no harmful insect on the planet more dangerous than the Jews, and there is no incurable disease eating away at the human body is the worse than the Jews; and there is not any book since the inception of the world to warn nations and peoples of the psychological and intellectual epidemics of the Jews like the Koran.      |
| Abbas Commemorates 'Martyrs,' Including Hajj Amin Al-Husseini Posted: 09 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST Guest post by Challah Hu Akbar, aka CHA or Challah *** CHALLAH @ MEMRI Mahmoud 'Abbas: "On the anniversary of Fatah, we renew the pledge to our fortunate martyrs. We pledge to continue on the path of the martyr brother Abu Ammar, and his comrades and brothers, the leaders from all the fighting factions – all the martyrs. "Let me mention the martyr Abu Jihad, Khalil Al-Wazir, the martyr Abu Iyad, Salah Khalaf, the martyr Abd Al-Fattah Hamoud, the martyr Abu Ali Iyad, the martyr Abu Sabri Saydam, the martyr Abu Yousuf Al-Najjar, the martyr Kamal Adwan, the martyr Kamal Nasser, the martyr Abu Al-Waleed Saad Sael, the martyr Faysal Al-Husseini, the martyr Abu Al-Hol, the martyr Abu Al-Mundhir, the martyr Khaled Al-Hassan, the martyr Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, the martyr Abd Al-Aziz Al-Rantissi, the martyr Ismail Abu Shanab, the martyr Fathi Shiqaqi, the martyr George Habash, the martyr Omar A-Qassem, the martyr Sakhr Habash, the martyr Suleiman Al-Najjar, the martyr Bashir Al-Barghouthi, the martyr Hani Al-Hassan, the martyr Abu Ali Mustafa, the martyr Abu Al-'Abbas, the martyr Samir Ghosheh, and today's martyr, the martyr of the Intifada, Abu Al-Abd Khattab. Allah's mercy upon them all. "In addition, there were tens of thousands of martyrs and heroes. Here we must remember the pioneers – the Grand Mufti of Palestine, Hajj Muhammad Amin Al-Husseini, as well as Ahmad Al-Shukeiri, the founder of the PLO, and Yahya Hamouda, the head of the PLO Executive Committee. Let us not forget the martyr Izz Al-Din Al-Qassam, who sparked the 1936 revolution." [...]      |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2013 10:13 AM PST My shiva ended this morning, and I'm easing into getting back into the swing of things at work and for the blog. Things might remain slow on the blog for the next few days, though. Thanks so much for the many messages of condolence sent to me, in the comments, email, Twitter and Facebook. I really do appreciate it. Thanks also to Challah Hu Akbar for agreeing to pinch-hit for me. Please add his excellent blog to your bookmarks. Special thanks to the two bloggers who attended the funeral in Israel, Aussie Dave of Israellycool and "Caleb ben Yefuneh" of Love of the Land. While I generally do not talk about my personal life on my blog, I will make a brief exception here. My father was a remarkable man. He was a Holocaust survivor who witnessed unspeakable horrors and the loss of family members when he was only a teenager. Yet he still managed to survive, marry a fellow survivor and raise a family in America, sacrificing much to allow his children to receive a Jewish education at a time that many of his fellow survivors abandoned Judaism altogether. He built a small business, literally starting it in our garage. He, and lehavdil bein chaim lechaim, my mother, tried very hard to ensure that their kids would be raised normally despite what they went through. As Dad stated on the videotape he made for the USC Shoah Foundation, he just wanted his children to be good Jews - and not to ever have to go through one percent of what he went through.      |
| Is Iran After A Syrian Uranium Stockpile? Posted: 09 Jan 2013 07:30 AM PST Guest post by Challah Hu Akbar, aka CHA or Challah *** CHALLAH @ Ynet Nuclear experts in the US and Middle East have raised concerns about the security of up to 50 metric tons of unenriched uranium in Syria, the Financial Times reported Tuesday. Such a stockpile could be a vital resource to building a nuclear bomb and could have disastrous implications if seized by Iran. Not much is known about the Syrian nuclear program, and the country denied ever having had one. But intelligence data collected at the time indicated that President Bashar Assad regime's was close to completing a nuclear reactor at Al-Kibar, in the east of the country, when it was reportedly destroyed by Israeli jets in September 2007. Intelligence officials have long believed that the reactor was familiar in its design to the Yongbyon facility in North Korea, which aided Syria with its program. By comparing the two reactors, experts have concluded that Al-Kibar would have required about 50 tonnes of natural uranium fuel to become operational. Government officials and nuclear experts have recently told the Financial Times that there were legitimate concerns about a uranium stockpile of such magnitude which may have remained in Syria. According to experts, such a stockpile would be enough to provide weapons grade fuel for five atomic devices. … An IAEA inspection team visited the destroyed Al-Kibar site in May 2008 and only found traces of uranium, adding to the mystery of where the stockpile might be. According to the report, some government officials have expressed fears that Iran, which is closely allied to Syria and needs uranium for its nuclear program, might be trying to seize the uranium. These concerns have been brought upon by signs of movement at what they allege is a secret uranium conversion facility that the Syrian regime built at the town of Marj al-Sultan near Damascus. "You could draw the conclusion that there may be something at this site that the Syrian authorities are keen to defend from opposition forces," said Albright, an expert on the Iranian nuclear program. "It would be interesting to know what it is." While the officials were unable to unequivocally determine whether uranium was in fact stored at the site, they said that Syria is almost certainly in possession of the element urgently sought by Iran. "It would certainly be possible to transfer this from Syria to Iran by air," one official said.      |
| Posted: 09 Jan 2013 05:05 AM PST From Ian: "An article published this month argues, based on economic and other data, that Israeli Arabs' standard of living has risen dramatically, while Israeli Arab leaders have increasingly radicalized their community." "Entitled "Israel's Arabs: Deprived or Radicalized?" the article cites statistical evidence demonstrating that Israeli Arabs have had an increasingly better quality of life since the Jews began settling in large numbers in British Mandate-era Palestine. For this reason, Arabs continued to move to Jewish population centers in order to improve their socioeconomic living conditions." In 2012, Israel suffered terror attacks on all fronts. Some made headline news around the world. Most of the others you've probably never heard about. Here's our rundown of the major terror attacks in 2012. "A thesis titled 'The politicization of the Oslo water agreement' written by Lauro Burkart a Swiss graduate of the Institute of International and Development studies in Geneva gives a more accurate and impartial picture of the topic of the scarcity of water in the Palestinian Authority." "I did have a polite discussion with a 23 year old who had just finished studying accountancy. We talked about the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Needless to say we disagreed on everything but he did tell me of his future plans. He wanted to leave his family and head to Pakistan to start up a political party that would "bomb the whole of Israel". "Palestinian Media Watch has reported how similar libels were voiced by the PA during the PA's terror campaign (the Intifada). In 2003, PA TV viewers were told that Israelis "drop objects from jet planes that attract children to play with them and then they blow up. These are bombs and mines designed as toys." Daphne Anson: A Mondoweiss Contributor Reports On Gaza For The BBC "The website article in question is the work of a woman who appears to be a seasoned anti-Israel campaigner." "An Iranian minister breaks ranks with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and admits US-backed sanctions have sliced oil exports by 45 percent – but says the nuclear weapon program continues." Syrian fighting has returned to an area of Damascus which serves as a camp for people registered as "Palestinian refugees." Ghoulish work was displayed in a Swedish gallery and later pulled following protests from Jewish groups "UEFA has begun disciplinary proceedings against Rome, Italy's Lazio football club for its fan's "alleged racist behavior" toward British club Tottenham's fans during a match in Rome in November. The Lazio fans chanted "Juden Tottenham" and held up signs that read "Free Palestine" in an effort to taunt Tottenham's fans. Tottenham is an historically Jewish neighborhood in London and has a large Jewish fan base." Both national teams to pay fines, play in empty stadiums as a disciplinary measure Jewish students' union takes issue of anti-Semitic tweets to Paris court after Twitter refuses to hand over details of account holders. The son of immigrants from Iran, Siavosh Derakhti recently won an award for his efforts to promote tolerance and educate about the Holocaust In 2011 an amazing 40% of Israel's GDP was based on exports, and the president recognized some of the country's biggest exporters at a ceremony "Israeli tech startups were bought out for a record total of $5.5 billion in 2012, according to a report published Monday. The report also suggests a maturity in the Israeli sector with fewer, but larger, deals transacted. The report by analysts Pricewaterhouse Coopers showed 2012 had 50 deals with an average deal size of $111 million, compared with 63 deals with an average size of $81 million in 2011. The report didn't cover IPOs."      |
| Iran Behind Hacking of American Banks Posted: 09 Jan 2013 02:30 AM PST Guest post by Challah Hu Akbar, aka CHA or Challah *** CHALLAH @ New York Times The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later. But there was something disturbingly different about the wave of online attacks on American banks in recent weeks. Security researchers say that instead of exploiting individual computers, the attackers engineered networks of computers in data centers, transforming the online equivalent of a few yapping Chihuahuas into a pack of fire-breathing Godzillas. The skill required to carry out attacks on this scale has convinced United States government officials and security researchers that they are the work of Iran, most likely in retaliation for economic sanctions and online attacks by the United States. "There is no doubt within the U.S. government that Iran is behind these attacks," said James A. Lewis, a former official in the State and Commerce Departments and a computer security expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. ...Since September, intruders have caused major disruptions to the online banking sites of Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo, U.S. Bancorp, PNC, Capital One, Fifth Third Bank, BB&T and HSBC. They employed DDoS attacks, or distributed denial of service attacks, named because hackers deny customers service by directing large volumes of traffic to a site until it collapses. No bank accounts were breached and no customers' money was taken. By using data centers, the attackers are simply keeping up with the times. Companies and consumers are increasingly conducting their business over large-scale "clouds" of hundreds, even thousands, of networked computer servers ...A hacker group calling itself Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters has claimed in online posts that it was responsible for the attacks. ...But American intelligence officials say the group is actually a cover for Iran. They claim Iran is waging the attacks in retaliation for Western economic sanctions and for a series of cyberattacks on its own systems.      |
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