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| Posted: 22 Feb 2013 07:30 AM PST From Ian: Latma: Clash of the Jew hating Titans, and Bibi searches for the perfect costume Sarah Honig: Another Tack: Not created equal Facts will never be allowed to interfere with popular prejudice – not so long as any refugee episode can be linked to some Jewish aspect or another. There's no end to the shameless perversion of truth. Soon after Israel's independence, the young, embattled country was covered with tent cities full of refugees, many of them from Arab countries. In early 1950, legendary photographer Robert Capa captured the image of a tiny weeping girl in Haifa's Sha'ar Ha'aliya transit camp. Why does the world target Israel? by Kasim Hafeez Op-ed: By singling out Israel, human rights activists abandon those who really suffer from apartheid For me, a particular source of pain and anger is the situation of minorities and women in my parents' homeland. In Pakistan, not a week goes by without a story of rape, murder, humiliation and torture. In this Islamic country, terms such as Jesus Christ are banned in text messages and a young girl is shot for demanding basic education. Yet apart from the attempted murder of Malala Yusufzai, these stories rarely make it to the press. The brutally oppressed Christian minority suffers at the hands of an archaic blasphemy law, yet, apart from small-scale protests held by Pakistani Christian groups, there were no calls to boycott Pakistan and no flotillas were planned. I guess murdered Pakistani Christians maybe not a trendy enough cause. I wonder if a British newspaper would publish a cartoon of a Pakistani mullah murdering minorities to pave the way for a Sharia state. Our journalists love freedom and liberty, but the love their lives a little bit more. Arab Group: Kotel is a Muslim Site, And Jews Don't Belong There An Israeli Arab group says, Israel is "defiling the holiness" of the Kotel - as defined by Islam - by conducting Jewish prayers there. An Israeli Arab group, "The Al-Aqsa Heritage Institute," on Thursday issued a statement demanding that Israel halt its plans to bring more Jews to the Kotel (Western Wall) – which, the group claims, is holy not to Jews, but to Muslims. CAMERA: In Washington Post, Palestinian Oxymorons Threaten Israeli Archaeology The article's lead paragraphs make clear that material in the exhibit was found at Herodium, built by Herod, a Roman-era king of Judea—that is, king of the Jews and their land. Yet it relays with a straight face, without contradictory context, BBC Watch: Yolande Knell parrots Palestinian political propaganda Did the BBC Jerusalem Bureau's Yolande Knell even bother to check the facts behind the Palestinian claims featured widely in both of her recent reports about the new exhibition of archaeological finds from Herodium at the Israel Museum? It seems not. Richard Millett: Shlomo Sand at SOAS: Israel is "a shitty nation" and "the most racist society in the world". He was speaking in London at the SOAS launch of his new book The Invention of The Land of Israel. The much discredited thesis of his previous book The Invention of The Jewish People is that there was no expulsion of the Jews from the Holy Land; diaspora Jews, therefore, must have all descended from converts and so have no right to return to Israel.Also: Shlomo Sand on BBC Radio Three Israelis to protest outside Argentinian embassy Immigrants, family members of AMIA bombing victims reject joint probe with Iran Argentinians living in Israel have organized a rally to protest the agreement signed between Argentina and Iran on a joint investigation of the 1994 AMIA Jewish center bombing. Recession, xenophobia prompting Jews to ditch Hungary Though the couple would prefer to raise their child near their Jewish families in Budapest, rising nationalism and an economic recession are leading them to stay in Austria. Purim goodies to your home, courtesy of Samsung Using a Facebook app, you can send out a free holiday candy basket sponsored by the Korean electronics giant. It's for a good cause In a combination marketing campaign and charity project, Samsung is sending 10,000 Purim baskets (mishloah manot) to anyone in Israel lucky enough to have a friend that signs them up for one on the Samsung Mobile Israel Facebook page. Each basket is full of Purim goodies (candies and the like), and will be delivered by the end of Shushan Purim (on Monday) to any address in Israel. Samsung is paying for the candy, and is paying two Israeli organizations, Variety Israel and the Enosh Fund, to assemble them. Israel Daily Picture: A Purim Potpurri from Tiberias, Scotland, America.. The mirthful festival of Purim will be celebrated in the Jewish world on Sunday. Residents of Jerusalem celebrate "Shushan Purim" on Monday.           |
| Posted: 22 Feb 2013 06:00 AM PST From Ian: Palestinians Plan Violence to Force the US to Extract Concessions from Israel by Khaled Abu Toameh The Palestinian Authority leadership is hoping that the anti-US protests will scare Obama and force him to exert even more pressure on Israel. 50,000 Tell Obama: Bring Pollard With You Former president, MKs and Nobel Prize winners among 50,000 Israelis calling on Obama to free Jonathan Pollard. More than 50,000 people have signed a letter calling on United States President Barack Obama to free Jonathan Pollard. An ongoing campaign to free Pollard has gone into high gear in light of Obama's plan to visit Israel in March. The neighboring Kingdom of Mahmoud Abbas Today, these basic tenets of democracy are sorely lacking in the Palestinian governing bodies. The PLO in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza vet and approve every appointment of every civil servant to every public position, from teachers in schools to judges in courts. Both of these organizations have been recognized in the past by the US government and other Western nations as terrorist organizations. UK court finds 3 guilty in 'spectacular' plot aimed at synagogue Muslim extremists face life in prison for plan to carry out 'another 9/11′; watchdog decries 'disturbing example of would-be anti-Semitic terrorism' LONDON — Three men were found guilty Thursday of planning a "spectacular bombing campaign" in the UK, including an attack on a synagogue. Guardian reports on UK terror plot ignore facts regarding potential Jewish targets The document also outlined specific plans to attack the Stamford Hill and Golders Green neighborhoods in London, areas in which, the terror group chillingly noted, "tens of thousands of Jews" are "crammed in a small area." Israel's Deputy Ambassador to the UK Forced to Flee Essex University Roth-Snir was speaking at Essex University when 40 students disrupted the meeting, university officials split students into two groups, according to who was and wasn't supportive of Mr Roth-Snir's presence, and allowed the lecture to continue in a small side room. Israeli-British student had earlier run-in with boycotting MP Following George Galloway debate walkout, officials say Israeli engagement on British campuses will continue despite a series of recent pro-Palestinian disruptions, protests Aslan-Levy, a dual national who was born and educated in London and who would have been 16 at the time, says he challenged the MP on a previous statement that there should be no engagement with anyone connected to the state of Israel. Hizbullah Terror Group Scanning EU for Israeli, Jewish Targets Hizbullah terror operatives are in Europe scanning for area for Jewish targets, according to a source quoted by The New York Times. Israel has for months tried unsuccessfully to persuade the European Union to add Hizbullah to its official list of terrorist organizations. Experts decry EU 'delays' on Hezbollah sanctions Israeli analysts believe European reluctance to label Hezbollah a terrorist group stem from fear of antagonizing organization. Prof. Gerald M. Steinberg, a political scientist at Bar-Ilan University, told the Post that "the leaders of the European Union claim to promote moral foreign policies, but the cynical excuses used to avoid designating Hezbollah as a terrorist organization are anything but moral. For years, the EU turned a blind eye to Hezbollah's role in rocket and mass terror attacks – every one a war crime – and allowed this organization to raise funds and operate freely." President Peres: "The Time Has Come for Every Country in the World" to Add Hezbollah to its Terror List "On our border, in Lebanon, Nasrallah [Hezbollah's leader], wrapped in a cloak of religiosity, is pushing Lebanon into a bloody war. It is time to call Hezbollah what it really is – a murderous terror organization. The United States of America and other countries have already included Hezbollah in its list of terrorist organizations. Now, after it has been proved that Hezbollah was behind the terror attack in Bulgaria, on European soil, and murdered innocent civilians, and as reports increase of its involvement, along with Iran, in attacks in Cyprus and Nigeria, the time has come for every country in the world, and especially the European Union, to add Hezbollah to its list of terror organizations," he said. 'Gazans seek elections as Hamas support declines' AWRAD poll shows support for Hamas declined since December; 68% support negotiations if Israel halts settlement construction. Support for Hamas in the West Bank and Gaza has declined by four percentage points to 18 percent since December, according to a poll published Thursday. Gaza man self-immolates in government office A man set himself on fire at a government office in the northern Gaza Strip on Thursday, wounding himself and four others, witnesses and medics said. Nazi Thugs Attack Soccer Fans in Lyon Pub Fans of the English Premier League soccer club Tottenham Hotspur were the target of an anti-Semitic attack in France Wednesday night ahead of the club's Thursday match in the country. A gang of thugs chanting Nazi slogans descended upon the Smoking Dog pub in Lyon in what police believe was an incident "of an anti-Semitic" nature and was "well-coordinated." Barcelona to play in Israel for peace Top Spanish soccer club will fly over in July, face Israeli-Palestinian squad Barcelona FC, one of the most prestigious soccer teams in the world, will play a game in Israel against a team made up of Israeli and Palestinian players, President Shimon Peres and Barcelona's president, Sandro Rosell, announced Thursday evening.      |
| Was there a "naqba" in 1967? One way anti-Israel propaganda works Posted: 22 Feb 2013 04:45 AM PST Sometimes the most insidious lies one sees in the media are the ones that are not directly related to the topic being discussed. From the UN's news service, IRIN: Ahmed Dweik's family knows a thing or two about the refugee experience.Excuse me? Not one Gazan was expelled when Israel took it over in 1967. During the Six Day War there wasn't even time for the Gazans to flee. But thousands of them decided to flee anyway after the war. The reason was simple: they didn't want to live under Jewish rule. Many thousands went to Jordan - going through Israel itself. Many others, as was the case with Dweik's father, chose to go to other Arab countries to get jobs. When IRIN quotes the younger Dweik as saying that his fleeing war-torn Syria is similar to his father fleeing Gaza in 1967, the implication is that Israel was treating Gazans the way Syria is treating its citizens today. This is a baldfaced lie. Readers, not being on the lookout for anti-Israel bias in an article that is about the problems of Palestinians in Syria, will accept this nugget of misinformation as fact. Multiply that by tens of thousands of such lies one sees in newspapers and books and other media, and you can see how even well-meaning people can be indoctrinated with anti-Israel propaganda without realizing it.      |
| Five more Palestinian Arabs killed without the media noticing Posted: 22 Feb 2013 01:48 AM PST On Wednesday, five more Palestinian Arabs were killed in Syria. A rocket shot at the Yarmouk camp killed three, including a mother expecting her sixth child. Another was killed in Jobar and one in Homs. Of course, "pro-Palestinian" groups have been silent. Meanwhile, the Free Syrian Army warned Hezbollah to stop interfering in Syria or else they might attack Hezbollah in Lebanon. And Reuters has a story on the increased numbers of refugees streaming into Jordan from Syria - but doesn't mention that Jordan still turns Palestinian Arabs back at the Syrian border, another small fact that "pro-Palestinian" groups are ignoring.      |
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