Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- 2013 Hasby Award winners!
- Anti-Israel activist Anna Baltzer exposed as a fraud
- Holocaust doubt - and outright denial - in Arabic media for Remembrance Day
- Tuesday Links& Stuff
- Ten Palestinian Arabs killed Monday. Media silent.
- Arabic media starts a new "Israel behind 9/11" blitz
- EoZ speaking at YU tonight!
- To Churchill, Palestine was the Jewish State and Trans-Jordan the Arab state
- WND publishes more details on Fordow blast
| Posted: 29 Jan 2013 07:30 PM PST Right around now I should be announcing the 2013 winners of the Hasby Awards in a gala Manhattan ceremony. And here they are, using a super-secret algorithm that involves very complex interactions of the synapses in my brain: BEST PRO-ISRAEL TWEETER Nominees:
WINNER: Avi Mayer BEST PRO-ISRAEL MEDIA OUTLET NOT EXCLUSIVE TO ISRAEL Nominees:
WINNER: The Commentator BEST PRO-ISRAEL COMMENTATOR Nominees:
WINNER: Barry Rubin BEST ENGLISH-LANGUAGE PRO-ISRAEL MEDIA OUTLET Nominees:
WINNER: BEST MAINSTREAM MEDIA WATCHDOG Nominees:
WINNER: Honest Reporting (very tough call) BEST PRO-ISRAEL BLOG (PRESENT COMPANY EXCLUDED) Nominees:
WINNERS: BEST PRO-ISRAEL VIDEO Nominees:
WINNER: The other suggested categories did not get enough nominations or second,, but all of them are good. Complete list of nominations and seconds is here.           |
| Anti-Israel activist Anna Baltzer exposed as a fraud Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:20 PM PST From Lee Kaplan at Gatestone Institute: You mean that people who are dedicated to destroying the Jewish state and who condone terrorism lie about their background? I'm shocked. Shocked! (h/t Ian)      |
| Holocaust doubt - and outright denial - in Arabic media for Remembrance Day Posted: 29 Jan 2013 01:00 PM PST An article from Egypt's Youm7 (and copied in some other Arabic media outlets) talks about Holocaust Remembrance Day yesterday: Jews throughout the world on Sunday marked the anniversary of the alleged "Holocaust" genocide "Holocaust" launched by the German Nazi leadership under the command of Adolf Hitler, during World War II according to the so-called Jewish history. But that is nothing compared to Islamweb, which published a large article mentioning every major Holocaust denier or minimizer (from Faurrison to Finkelstein) as proof that the Holocaust was a myth created by Jews to take land away from the Arabs and to keep the West under their thumb. MEMRI brings us another recent example of Holocaust denial, this one also in Egypt.      |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2013 11:30 AM PST From Ian: UN's Falk Compares Hamas to French Resistance During WWII UN Special Rapporteur, Richard Falk, has comparing Hamas terrorists to fighters with the French resistance during the Holocaust. "The U.S. representative to the U.N., Susan Rice, said in a statement at the time that Falk's boycott call was "irresponsible and unacceptable." Taxpayer Funded BDS at CUNY Is Illegitimate, Racist and Anti-Semitic "These BDS advocates single out Israel as a cover for rank anti-Semitism. It is not about saving Palestinians (who mostly need to be saved from themselves and their leaders); its purpose is to delegitimize and destroy Israel. They do NOT want a two-state solution. To them Tel Aviv and Haifa are "occupied territories" as much as Gaza, long vacated by Israel and now one of the world's most prominent terrorist launching points. They want a one-state solution – to have yet another of the many Arab states. They deny – as anti-Semites do – the eternal connection, since recordable history, of the Jewish people to their land. They reject all peace offers by Israel. They subjugate their own people to a vile existence in the false belief that they can "wait out the Jews." BBC's Paul Moss promotes politically motivated stereotypes of Israelis "Of course Israel has not received economic aid from the US since 2008 and the vast majority of the military aid it does receive (around 1% of the Israeli economy) is spent in the United States, thus sustaining American jobs. As the Assistant Secretary of Political-Military Affairs at the State Department put it in 2011: "We don't just support Israel because of a long-standing bond, we support Israel because it is in our national interests to do so". British MEP Claims Party Leader in 'Israel's Pocket' "A British Liberal Member of the European Parliment has accused his party leader of being "in Israel's pocket" after the Liberal Democrat leadership condemned a party colleague for comparing Israel's treatment of the Palestinians with the Nazis' treatment of the Jews during the Holocaust. IDF: B'Tselem Report Another Defamation Attempt Far left group B'Tselem is again using half-truths, outdated information, and suspect sources to defame the IDF, an army spokesperson said Police Officer Hurt in Jerusalem Arab Rioting, 2 Bombs Found Police were busy in Jerusalem and along the city's outskirts on Monday. One officer hurt in Silwan riots, two bombs found at city's edge. Arabs Caught Red Handed Robbing Ancient Grave Three suspects were caught inside 1st century cave near Kibbutz Metzer. "Regretfully, heavy damage was caused to the cave and the archeological find," said Nir Distelfeld, of the Unit for Prevention of Theft in the Antiquities Authority. "Damage to archeological sites is like the erasing of complete pages from the cultural history of the nation and the land, and unfortunately, for the sake of greed and dreams of getting rich, many criminals thoughtlessly destroy the land's history and cultural assets." Israel to Summon Argentine Ambassador Over Bombing Commission Israel extremely disappointed by the decision to create a commission to investigate the 1994 attack on a Jewish center in Buenos Aires. Argentine Jews Slam 'Truth Commission' Deal With Iran Argentina's Jewish community is "vehemently opposed" to a deal between Argentina and Iran to investigate the Jewish community center attack Large arms shipment intercepted off Yemen, Iran eyed as source Surface-to-air missiles among weapons intercepted Yemeni forces intercepted a ship on Jan. 23 carrying a large cache of weapons - including surface-to-air missiles - that U.S. officials suspect were being smuggled from Iran and destined for Yemeni insurgents, officials said on Monday. Report: Hizbullah Sets Up Bases Near Syria's Chemical Arsenal Hizbullah terrorists are setting up bases in Syria close to known chemical weapons storage facilities, according to an Israeli media outlet. Ancient Timbuktu Manuscripts, 1 in Hebrew, Torched by Islamists The historic manuscripts of Timbuktu, including one written in Hebrew, are no more. They were destroyed by Islamic terrorists in Mali. Swiss Jews fault president for Holocaust statement Ueli Maurer says his was 'a country of freedom and law' during the war, neglects to mention it turned away those fleeing Nazis "But Switzerland's main Jewish organizations complained Monday that he neglected also to mention "the refugees who were turned back to a certain death." Evangelical leader: Israel is safest place on earth Apostolate Renê Terra Nova, who has brought thousands of Christians from Brazil, tells 'Post' tourists leave "in love." Muslim Sheikh in Italy: Islam is Pro-Israel! "Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, the secretary general of the Italian Muslim Assembly and the Khalifa for Europe's Qadiri Sufi Order, is a strong supporter of Israel's right to exist, as well as Jewish sovereignty over Jerusalem, based on his interpretation of Islam. He frequently speaks out for Israel despite the fact that it is highly unpopular within the Muslim world to do so. Sheikh Palazzi does so based on his religious convictions. He asserted, "Viewing the Jewish return to Israel as a Western invasion and Zionists as recent colonizers is new. It has no basis in the authentic Islamic faith." As co-founder and co-chairman of the Islam-Israel Fellowship, Sheikh Palazzi argues that Muslim religious opposition to the existence of Israel was created by the Grand Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini and is not grounded within classical Muslim religious texts, which surprisingly actually do support Israel's right to exist." Israel joins UN's Kiev Protocol Environmental Protection Ministry commits to following UN protocol on air pollution; pledges to grant public access to transparent emissions data Israel is the second country in the Middle East, after Cyprus, to join the protocol. The decision also coincides with Israel's duties as an OECD member. Free rehab center for southern Israelis breaks ground Sderot Medical Rehabilitation Center will provide missile-hit southern residents physical, occupational, communication, art, sensory and water therapies at no charge.      |
| Ten Palestinian Arabs killed Monday. Media silent. Posted: 29 Jan 2013 10:00 AM PST There are reports that ten Palestinian Arabs killed on Monday. Eight were killed in shelling, one by a sniper and one from torture. Of course, since it happened in Syria, you won't find anything in English about it. To the mainstream media, the value of Palestinian Arab lives is directly proportionate to how easily one can blame Jews for their deaths. UPDATE: I pasted the wrong link in this story and cannot find the original even though I know it was in the PalTimes site. This article describes airstrikes in the Palestinian Arab camps yesterday but doesn't give a tally.      |
| Arabic media starts a new "Israel behind 9/11" blitz Posted: 29 Jan 2013 08:30 AM PST Today, no fewer than three Arabic language news sites - from Egypt, the West Bank (Fatah) and Austria - are posting stories about a supposedly new US study that proves that Israel was behind 9/11. As of this writing, all of them were the top story in each site. I don't see anything new; it is simply a rehashing of the anti-semitic crackpot theories that are found throughout the Internet. This "study" finds four prominent Jews who supposedly stood to profit from 9/11, like Larry Silverstein and Ronald Lauder, and then says that the Mossad put explosives in the bottom of the Twin Towers set to explode when the planes hit, or something like that. And that Israeli companies had foreknowledge of the attacks and suddenly broke their lease with the WTC, losing millions of dollars. Except those that didn't. The usual idiocy. This "study" concludes that Netanyahu was behind the attacks, since he was prime minister at the time. Only one problem: he wasn't. So what does it say about the Arab media that they prioritize yet another anti-semitic theory on their front pages?      |
| Posted: 29 Jan 2013 07:30 AM PST Here's the (really well-done) flyer for my talk at Yeshiva University tonight:  It looks like there will be a good crowd based on the number of people who answered the invite on Facebook. Also, I am told that the sponsors will be serving kosher Dunkin' Munchkins. Who can resist that? So you might want to get there early to make sure you have a seat!      |
| To Churchill, Palestine was the Jewish State and Trans-Jordan the Arab state Posted: 29 Jan 2013 05:30 AM PST When looking at Juan Cole's absurd screed last week, I noticed a commenter named Charley James, who obviously worships Cole - and apparently uses his same methods of lying. Here was his comment: I've been reading Martin Gilbert's fascinating 2007 book, "Churchill and the Jews." What I learned for the first time is that, going all the way back to the Balfour Declaration in the early days of the 20th century, the British government (including Churchill, a major supporter of a Jewish homeland in Palestine) insisted on what, today, we call a two state solution. So I looked at Gilbert's book to see what Charley, the self proclaimed As-a-Jew, was talking about. My findings show how easily someone who hates can twist the facts. Gilbert proves that Great Britain supported a policy that is far to the right of the current Israeli government, and indeed one that even the most right-wing Israeli parties are not espousing: In April 1921, Churchill prepared to set off from London for Cairo and Jerusalem. His object was to determine the nature of British rule in both the Palestine and Iraq Mandates. He had set aside four weeks for the task, which, in Palestine, would include visits to Jewish towns and villages. Before he left London, his three senior Middle East Department advisers, Lawrence,Shuckburgh, and Major Hubert Young — who like Lawrence had helped the Arab forces during the revolt against the Turks — informed him that there was no conflict between Britain's wartime pledges to the Arabs and to the Jews. In 1915 the Arabs had been promised 'British recognition and support for their independence' in the Turkish districts of Damascus, Hama, Horns and Aleppo — each of which was mentioned in the promise — but which did not include Palestine or Jerusalem.4 Two years later Britain had promised a national home for the Jewish people in Palestine, but with no mention of specific borders. If, therefore, the land east of the Jordan became an Arab State, and the land west of the Jordan up to the Mediterranean Sea became the area of the Jewish National Home, Britain's two pledges would be fulfilled.We learn from Gilbert that Great Britain fully intended to give all of what later became British Mandate Palestine - and possibly even more! - to the Jews for their national home, and most of Transjordan and Syria to the Arabs for their own national aspirations. Not only that, but it was clear to the British that Jerusalem was not considered important to the Arabs in these days before the Mufti of Jerusalem started his anti-semitic campaign to kick Jews out of that city. So thank you, idiotic commenter at a third-rate academic's blog, for giving me the opportunity to learn something. Not to mention to prove how easily haters simply lie.      |
| WND publishes more details on Fordow blast Posted: 29 Jan 2013 02:23 AM PST If WND's Reza Kahlili is for real, then this is amazing: Sixteen North Koreans, including 14 technicians and two top military officers, are among those trapped after a Jan. 21 explosion destroyed much of Iran's Fordow nuclear site, a source reveals.The gap between what Kahlili writes and what can be confirmed is very wide. But there is enough confirmation that there was a blast last Monday that we need to at least consider that his sources are the real deal. The "power voltage frequency trigger" might jive with the stories last August of an explosion that disrupted power to the area. A test run? According to a report from Israel radio noted by commenter Yenta Press, the IAEA was planning a visit to Fordow this week. If true, we should have some ideas pretty soon whether Kahlili's fantastic stories are accurate. Moreover, the IAEA can perform spot inspections are Fordow and Natanz with only a couple of hours notice - if they think something happened, I cannot believe that they wouldn't be paying a visit very soon. Or get stopped trying to, which would be a confirmation of sorts as well.      |
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