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- Jordanian writer looking forward to final battle between Muslims and Jews
- Sunday links
- Arab belly dancers heading to Israel
- MSM gives Morsi a free pass for calling Jews "apes and pigs"
- Egyptians still riled over idea of Jews returning
- The rose-colored glasses of Daniel Kurtzer
- Saddam Hussein praised as a "martyr" at Fatah rally
- PalArabs lie, claim Peres admits Israel assassinated Arafat
| Jordanian writer looking forward to final battle between Muslims and Jews Posted: 13 Jan 2013 07:00 PM PST In Ammon News, Asaad Aezzona uses last week's flooding to lament the sorry state of the Jordan River - and he naturally blames Israel wholly for its problems. (Of course, he doesn't mention that Jordan and Syria have diverted the Jordan's headwaters into their territories.) Sometimes, though, you can learn more about how people think from their throwaway lines than from their main points. Aezzona writes: [The Jordan] is also the crossing used by the invaders to Palestine who were often vanquished. Therefore, we find the ground of the Jordan teeming with treasures buried by these invaders and fugitives, and [the river] will witness, God willing, the battle between Jews and Muslims.Inshallah. (The author also notes that the Jordan was never a national boundary until the British made it one. This pretty much buries the myth of "historic Palestine" but the author does not think about that.)           |
| Posted: 13 Jan 2013 03:30 PM PST From Ian: Isi Leibler: Hagel nomination conveys chilling message If Hagel's appointment is confirmed, the newly appointed defense secretary will have a clear track record of appeasing the Iranians, reaching out to Hamas and being highly critical of pro- Israeli influence in Washington. "The Israeli government has, correctly, not commented on what is clearly a US domestic issue. But we should be under no illusions. If Hagel's appointment is confirmed, the newly appointed defense secretary will have a clear track record of appeasing the Iranians, reaching out to Hamas and being highly critical of pro- Israeli influence in Washington." Ros-Lehtinen: Hagel may not see Israel as 'ally' Florida Republican Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, stepping down this year as chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said Saturday she has deep concerns about former Sen. Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee for secretary of defense, citing in particular his views on Israel and Iran. Extremists attend more than 200 university events Islamic extremists preached at more than 200 university events last year raising fresh fears over radicalisation on campus. "Rupert Sutton, Head Researcher at Student Rights said: "These statistics demonstrate that the presence of extremist preachers on campus is not a figment of people's imaginations, but a serious issue that universities cannot afford to be complacent about. Guardian asks 'expert' what Hamas can do to "kickstart the peace process" "I guess it never occurred to the British academic that a good way to "kick-start the peace process" would be for the Palestinian leadership in the W. Bank to avoid aligning themselves with a group whose leadership characterizes Jews as "blood suckers" and "wild beasts" who deserve to be annihilated." Mufti of Australia Ibrahim Salem: "The West Produces Lies As Much as It Produces Technology" VIDEO Video: Arabs Gang Up on Hareidi Jews in Jerusalem 1930s Berlin or Jerusalem, 2013? Arabs kick and humiliate Jews, videotape themselves doing it. "A disturbing video began circulating on Facebook Saturday evening. It shows a group of about 20 Arabs ganging up on two helpless hareidi-religious Jews, kicking one of them, hurling snowballs in their faces and humiliating them. At one point, one of the Jews falls to the ground, apparently slipping on the ice as he is chased up some steps." Iranian Weapons Support for Hamas Shows No Signs of Slowing New report shows Iran is committed towards rebuilding Hamas weapons stockpile. "It's no secret that Iran has been supplying Hamas with weapons and rockets to use against Israel, but a special report by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center concluded just how deep the terror link between Iran and Hamas runs, and showed how Operation Pillar of Defense marked a major turning point in the relationship between the terrorist organization and the renegade state." Hamas Tests Long-Range Missiles "Hamas has tested long-range missiles by firing them out to sea, according to Arab media reports quoted Sunday in Yisrael Hayom. Masked men attack protest camp near Morsi's palace At least 15 injured after assailants torch tents, fire shots at demonstrators who oppose new Islamist constitution Belgian Senate recognizes authorities' role during Holocaust Body adopts resolution acknowledging 'collaboration unfitting of a democracy' "A Belgian Senate committee adopted a resolution acknowledging the country's complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust." 'But when the sun rises, no one knows where they are' At Mount Herzl Military Heritage Site — home to the Garden of the Missing in Action — fallen heroes are honored. Prepare yourself for an emotional trip "Called the Garden of the Missing in Action, the next memorial was created in 2004 and includes over 200 stones dedicated to soldiers who fought in the Yom Kippur War, the War of Independence, and others whose bodies have never been recovered. Below the sculptured everlasting flame are inscribed the following words: "But when the sun rises, no one knows where they are." [Nahum 3:17]."      |
| Arab belly dancers heading to Israel Posted: 13 Jan 2013 01:30 PM PST From YNet: Arab media has picked up on this story. The official webpage for the festival is here.      |
| MSM gives Morsi a free pass for calling Jews "apes and pigs" Posted: 13 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST A must read from Richard Behar at Forbes: Last Friday, the sitting president of Egypt – the world's 15th most populous nation — was exposed for calling Jews "apes and pigs." And he did it in a TV interview (in Arabic) in 2010, less than two years before he took office.Read the whole thing. This is, of course, only one tiny example of how the daily incitement in Arabic media gets ignored by the mainstream media - the major newspapers, networks and wire services. Here are a few of the anti-semitic articles and actions in the Arab and Iranian media I've reported on in only the past month: Egyptians upset that constitution gives Jews rights Iraq News Agency spouting pure anti-semitism Whoops! PressTV forgot to replace "Jews" with "Zionists" Run of the mill anti-semitism in Saudi Arabia media MB member: Jews are thieves, Americans are cows Some anti-semitism from a "moderate" Palestinian "peace activist" Tunisian cleric calls Jews apes and prays for their genocide Houthi logo says "Damn the Jews" Egyptian sheikh says secularists are even worse than Jews Today's anti-semitism on Iranian PressTV Are we starting to see a pattern here? The people who claim that Arabs and Muslims are merely "anti-Zionist" are ignorant - or purposefully lying. Anti-semitism can be seen every day in Arabic-language media. Obviously, the Morsi story is bigger than these, but any of them rates more than a mention in a blog. And the more general issue of Arab anti-semitism is being disgracefully downplayed. (h/t Ian)      |
| Egyptians still riled over idea of Jews returning Posted: 13 Jan 2013 09:30 AM PST Over two weeks after Muslim Brotherhood leader Essam el-Erian said that Jewish Egyptians should be allowed to return (to leave room for Palestinian Arabs to move to Israel), Egypt's media is still in an uproar about it. Interestingly, it is also opening up a debate about the history of Jews in Egypt. Not that all these histories are accurate - many still claim that the Jews willingly gave up their property - but the role of Jews in Egypt and the fact that the Jewish community disappeared while being persecuted cannot be covered up. Some newspapers are visiting the old Jewish Quarter of Cairo and interviewing older residents who remember their Jewish neighbors. One claimed that he bought the land of a fleeing Jew for the market price, but admits that others simply stole their land. Yet right after he described how much he loved his Jewish neighbors, he railed against the idea of them returning, saying that they are all now Zionist usurpers of Palestinian lands. Erian's comments are also being used by opponents of the Muslim Brotherhood. Some are arguing that it wasn't the Egyptian government that persecuted Jews - but the Muslim Brotherhood itself, which has been anti-semitic since its founding. This was even noted on TV: Some, also noting the historic Jew-hatred of the Islamists, say that now they want to get more support from the US by pretending to love Jews and attempting to fool American Jews into supporting them. Others, playing on natural Egyptian anti-semitism, are accusing the Muslim Brotherhood of "embracing Jews." Even more egregiously, the controversy is giving cover for people to make more explicit anti-semitic statements, such as a sports minister saying he would refuse to allow Jews to invest in Egyptian sports stadiums. A newspaper poll shows that 79% of those responding would refuse to allow Jews back into Egypt. For this to still be discussed so prominently for so long shows that the idea has definitely touched a nerve in the Egyptian public. Keep in mind that in polls conducted in both 2006 and 2011, only 2% of Egyptians had favorable views of Jews.      |
| The rose-colored glasses of Daniel Kurtzer Posted: 13 Jan 2013 07:30 AM PST  Kurtzer is a soft-spoken man, and he built up his case that the peace process - ultimately ending with a solution along the rough lines of the Clinton Parameters or the Olmert plan - is the only way forward. One of his major arguments is that both Israelis and Palestinian Arabs support these rough parameters when asked about their support for them in a package. In other words, he says that while both Israelis and Palestinian Arabs may say to pollsters that they want more hawkish specific policies against the other side, when presented with a comprehensive peace plan ("aggregate") along the rough outline of the Clinton parameters, both sides overwhelmingly agree. I asked him about the Israel Project poll of 2011 that showed that when Palestinian Arabs were asked more specifically about a two-state solution, they overwhelmingly admitted that they envisioned it as a mere stage towards the takeover of Israel. He answered, disingenuously, that this poll was also non-aggregated. Yet the people who answer that they want a two-state solution are already the ones who are being celebrated as the pragmatists by the likes of Kurtzer, and the slim majority they allegedly represent what he is bringing as proof that Palestinian Arabs are ready and willing to compromise. But let's look at the last poll of Palestinian Arabs and see if it fits Kurtzer's theory. According to him, the more radical ones would be represented more prominently in questions about specific policies, and the more pragmatic ones in questions about comprehensive peace plans. The answers show something quite different. When asked if they support a two-state solution, 52% said they do. But when asked if they support the Clinton Parameters/Geneva Initiative for a two-state solution, including solutions to the "refugees," Jerusalem and so on, only 43% support it. In fact, when asked if they support dividing Jerusalem and allowing Jewish control over only the Jewish Quarter and the Western Wall, 70% oppose even that compromise. So Kurtzer is wrong. Arabs do not support a Clinton-style peace plan, and the only possible reason more accept a "two-state solution" over the Clinton plan is what the Israel Project showed - that they regard the two-state solution as a Trojan horse to destroy Israel! How about the Israelis that Kurtzer says supports the Clinton-type solution? The poll he is probably referring to was one where the specific conditions were those that Palestinian Arabs have found unacceptable. Specifically, the plan it floated to the people being polled included: Two states: Israel the state of the Jewish people and Palestine the statePalestinian Arabs have repeatedly and overwhelmingly been against every one of these conditions. While Kurtzer tries to paint the results of these polls as proof that there is little daylight between ordinary Israelis and Palestinian Arabs, it doesn't take much research to conclude the exact opposite. There are other problems with Kurtzer's views. For example, his 2009 book almost completely downplayed the threat of radical Islam, partially blamed Israeli policies for the rise of radical groups and even suggested that Israeli-Palestinian Arab peace would reduce Islamic radicalism, something that the recent events in the Arab world disprove quite handily. But what does it say when a well-informed former diplomat, and now member of a prominent think-tank, a person who is no idiot, espouses ideas that are so clearly false? My charitable impression is that as a diplomat, Kurtzer cannot accept the possibility that diplomacy cannot solve the problem. He is a hammer and every problem is therefore a nail. But wishful thinking must not be a substitute for sober analysis, and this is a trap that too many pundits, journalists, politicians - and former diplomats - fall into, when it comes to Israel.      |
| Saddam Hussein praised as a "martyr" at Fatah rally Posted: 13 Jan 2013 05:34 AM PST From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from footage of a Fatah rally held in Gaza, which aired on PA TV on December 31, 2012. Speaker: We shall never forget, accept, or ignore... Fatah has taught me courage and bravery, and how one should never keep silent about the truth.      |
| PalArabs lie, claim Peres admits Israel assassinated Arafat Posted: 13 Jan 2013 02:43 AM PST From Palestine Times (Hamas): Hamas demanded the judicial prosecution of Israel, after President Shimon Peres implicitly admitted that the late Palestinian President Yasser Arafat was assassinated. "Hamas" spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said in a press statement, Saturday, 12/1/2013, that "Peres' remarks in which he said that the assassination of Arafat was a mistake was the first recognition of the Israeli assassination, which puts an end to the clamor about this issue and holds the occupation responsible for the assassination."The IMEMC makes a similar mistranslation, in English, with the headline "Peres: 'Arafat Should Not Have Been Assassinated'". Naturally, Iran's media does the same thing, as did the Fatah-oriented Al Quds. And what did Peres actually say? The NYT asked him: "You didn't think that Arafat should be assassinated." He answered: No. I thought it was possible to do business with him. Without him, it was much more complicated. With who else could we have closed the Oslo deal? With who else could we have reached the Hebron agreement? On the other hand, I tried to explain to him, for hours on end, a complete educational course: how to be a true leader. We sat together, with me eating from his hand. It took courage. I told him he must be like Lincoln, like Ben-Gurion: one nation, one gun, not innumerable armed forces with each firing in a different direction. At first, Arafat refused, he said, "La, la, la" [Peres does a fairly convincing imitation of Arafat saying "no" in Arabic], but later he said, "O.K." He lied right to my face, without any problem [regarding promises to fight Palestinian militias and insurgencies].So Peres never even implied that Israel assassinated Arafat; that wording was from the interviewer, not Peres.      |
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