Elder of Ziyon Daily News |  |
- Arab group calls Coke Super Bowl ad "racist"
- Arab media making fun of Iran's empty threats against Israel
- How did I miss the fatwa against Spongebob????
- Sunday links: Iran currency drop, Yemen confirms arms ship was Iran's, Alibi Antisemitism
- Richard Falk justifies and supports Hamas rockets
- Hezbollah member killed - apparently in Syria - doing his "Jihadist duty"
- Egyptian paper denies, and then defends, Muslim Brotherhood anti-semitism
| Arab group calls Coke Super Bowl ad "racist" Posted: 03 Feb 2013 05:45 PM PST From Reuters: Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking through the desert with a camel, and one group said it would ask the beverage giant to change it before CBS airs the game on Sunday before an expected audience of more than 100 million U.S. viewers. The Arab League boycotted Coke from 1968 to 1991, and some Arabs still boycott Coke. A hat tip here to the first one to identify the classical piece in the first ten seconds of the commercial. And which movement.           |
| Arab media making fun of Iran's empty threats against Israel Posted: 03 Feb 2013 03:47 PM PST  Middle East Online, however, remembers that only last week Iran declared that any Israeli strike on Syria will be considered an attack against Iran and Iran would retaliate. That statement, the latest of a long line of similar declarations, was made by Ali Akbar Velayati, assistant to the Supreme Leader Khamanei. As the MEO headline says, Iran is telling Syria to go and fight while Iran is doing nothing. This isn't stopping Iran from saying that the Syrian response is imminent, and "will put Israel in a coma." Tehran also announced that thousands of Israelis are preparing to leave the country in anticipation of the massive Syrian response. It it too early to say that Iran is not preparing a response, but history shows that Tehran likes to do its dirty work through proxies like Hezbollah or by attacking Israeli and Jewish targets worldwide through its spy services. One cannot also underestimate Muslim pride - Iran is undoubtedly not happy with being made fun of and of having its fellow Muslim countries see it as breaking its own promises.      |
| How did I miss the fatwa against Spongebob???? Posted: 03 Feb 2013 12:30 PM PST From Ansamed: He's posing with little girls whom he believes would be sexually enticing if they wouldn't wear a veil, and he says SpongeBob is perverted???  (h/t Ian)      |
| Sunday links: Iran currency drop, Yemen confirms arms ship was Iran's, Alibi Antisemitism Posted: 03 Feb 2013 10:30 AM PST From Ian: Alibi Antisemitism Israel has been made an alibi for a new climate of antisemitism on the left. "It is a moral scandal that some few decades after the unmeasurable catastrophe that overtook the Jewish people in Europe, these anti-Semitic themes and ruses are once again respectable; respectable not just down there with the thugs but pervasively also within polite society, and within the perimeters of a self-flattering liberal and left opinion. It is a bleak lesson to all but those unwilling to see. The message of 'never again' has already proved to have been too sanguine. Genocides still occur. We now know, as well, that should a new calamity ever befall the Jewish people, there will be, again, not only the direct architects and executants but also those who collaborate, who collude, who look away and find the words to go with doing so. Some of these, dismayingly, shamefully, will be of the left.This is not a hopeful conclusion, but it is a necessary one. The best of hope in politics must always be allied to a truthful realism. We need to know what we are up against." Lessons from the Holocaust? Try these two (An article by Daniel Finkelstein that appeared in today's Times) The Jews have learnt all about Man's inhumanity to Man. But also that you cannot rely on others to keep you safe.
Israel Election: How The Pundits Got It Wrong Many have failed to understand the currents of Israeli society - illustrated in the recent election and Holocaust Memorial Day. "A similar lack of what is not really such a subtle argument, was shown by a cartoon in the Sunday Times depicting Mr Netanyahu as a big nosed, large-eared, bloodthirsty Jew cementing what appear to be screaming Arabs into a wall as blood oozes from the bricks. NYC Mayoral Candidate Bill Thompson Blasts Brooklyn College for Anti Israel BDS Event "New York City Democratic mayoral candidate Bill Thompson ripped Brooklyn College Thursday for its plan to hold a BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) event against Israel with the co-sponsorship of the school's political science department. CAMERA: Maligning Israel at American Public Health Association Annual Meeting "Why does an association formally devoted to improving the health of Americans not only concern itself with the Palestinian-Israeli situation – but also side with one (the Palestinian Arabs) against the other This is exactly what the American Public Health Association did in its recent (2012) 140th annual meeting's closing keynote speech delivered to hundreds of enthusiasts by Angela Davis. PA Asks Israel to Allow Terrorist into Areas it Controls The PA is making efforts to bring the leader of a group that carried out a terror attack in Israel in 1974 into Judea and Samaria. "The man, Nayef Hawatmeh, is the leader of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), one of the main factions in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)." Israeli civilian, soldier hurt in West Bank clashes Dismantlement of protest camp turns violent as soldiers fire stun grenades at rock-throwing Palestinians near village of Burin Yemen says intercepted ship carrying weapons was Iranian Yemen confirmed on Saturday that a ship intercepted last month off its coast was an Iranian vessel trying to smuggle explosives and surface-to-air missiles to the country, the state news agency Saba reported. 'Failure to blacklist Hezbollah undermines security' London conference discusses EU failure to list Hezbollah as terrorist organization as "undermining security goals." "It is a "very bad thing that Hezbollah can operate in Europe regarding fund-raising and logistics," US Ambassador Daniel Benjamin, a former coordinator for counterterrorism at the State Department in the first Obama administration, said. Hezbollah's legal status in the EU "undermines security goals," he said." Ex-Iran bank head busted with $70 million check Tahmasb Mazaheri, who was governor of the Central Bank of Iran from 2007-2008, suspected of money laundering by German authorities Iran's Currency Plummets to All-Time Low Iran's rial has plummeted to an all-time low, dropping more than 21 percent over two weeks. Islamist threatens to attack Germany, Merkel: paper A German Islamist has threatened to attack Berlin this summer and kill Chancellor Angela Merkel in a video posted on the Internet, a newspaper reported on Saturday. Also: Not a Mistake, Misunderstanding, or Well-Intended Criticism But a Deliberate Campaign to Bash Israel (Barry Rubin) Inventing words to demonize Israel (CJ News) (h/t Jason) Linking Obligations with Rights at the UNHRC (Commentary - Evelyn Gordon) (h/t YM)      |
| Richard Falk justifies and supports Hamas rockets Posted: 03 Feb 2013 08:30 AM PST I had missed this essay from December by Richard Falk. It is always interesting to see a special rapporteur of the UN justify targeting Jews - and for a supposed expert on international law to say that the laws themselves are insufficient in allowing the right of Hamas to shoot rockets at Jewish civilians: There is no doubt that Hamas's reliance on rockets fired in the direction of Israeli civilian population centers are violations of international humanitarian law, and should be condemned as such, but even this condemnation is not without its problematic aspects. The Goldstone Report did condemn the reliance of these rockets in a typically decontextualized manner, that is, without reference to the unlawfulness of the occupation, including its pronounced reliance on collective punishment in the form of the blockade as well as arbitrary violent incursions, frequent military overflights, and a terrifying regime of subjugation that imparts on Palestinians a sense of total vulnerability and helplessness. The Goldstone Report also was silent as to the nature and extent of a Palestinian right of resistance. Such unconditional condemnations of Hamas as 'a terrorist organization' are unreasonably one-sided to the extent that Palestinian moral, political, and legal rights of resistance are ignored and Israel's unlawful policies are not considered. This issue also reveals a serious deficiency in international humanitarian law, especially, as here, in the context of a prolonged occupation that includes many violations of the most fundamental and inalienable rights of an occupied people. The prerogatives of states are upheld, while those of peoples are overlooked or treated as non-existent.Falk is admitting that Hamas terror rockets aimed at Israeli civilians are unlawful - but he cannot say that they are wrong! You see, Hamas is just like the French and Dutch resistance fighters! The major argument Falk advances is that Khaled Meshal's statements in Arabic flatly stating his desire to destroy Israel should also be "contextualized" and his ambiguous statements to the Western media being misinterpreted as showing flexibility should be what we believe. Oh, and he is again not above lying with statistics: Although not the whole story, the one-sided ratio of deaths as between Israel and Palestine is a good first approximation of comparative responsibility over the period of Hamas ascendancy in Gaza, and it is striking. For instance, between the ceasefire in 2009 and the Israeli attack in November 2012, 271 Palestinians were killed and not a single Israeli. [B'Teselm [sic] report]Actually, B'tzelem counts 4 Israeli fatalities from Gaza in that time period. But moreover, looking at the details of B'Tselem's statistics for that time period, we see that the vast majority of Gazans killed were terrorists! 200 of them were either actively engaged in hostilities against Israel (165) or targeted as leaders of terror groups (35)! Of the remainder, a large percentage were either smugglers in tunnels killed during air raids, Arabs trying to sneak into Israel or found directly next to the perimeter fence, or rock-throwing protesters. (Also, 45 Gazans killed by other Gazans, and 14 executed by Hamas.) Then again, why should anyone be surprised when someone who clearly supports terrorism as legitimate "resistance" is also a liar? (h/t Missing Peace)      |
| Hezbollah member killed - apparently in Syria - doing his "Jihadist duty" Posted: 03 Feb 2013 06:30 AM PST From Naharnet: Hizbullah held a funeral on Saturday for Hussein Mohammed Nether in the southern town of Arabsalim, a member who died while "performing his Jihadi duty", the party said in a released statement.That last figure seems high, but who knows? The comments are worth reading with both sides truly hating each other.      |
| Egyptian paper denies, and then defends, Muslim Brotherhood anti-semitism Posted: 03 Feb 2013 04:04 AM PST Al Mesryoon, a major Egyptian newspaper, has an article saying that the Muslim Brotherhood and its founder, Hassan al-Banna, were not anti-semitic but only anti-Zionist. The author, Sawfat Hussein, brings proof from testimony that al-Banna gave towards the Anglo American Inquiry on Palestine in 1946, where he said that Islam had no problem with Jews, but only with Jewish immigration to Palestine. Hussein then goes on to describe why the Brotherhood was against the Jews - of Egypt. The reason? Well, we need to understand the context. 98% of those in the Egyptian Stock Exchange were Jewish. One third of the major industries in Egypt were owned by Jews. Jews controlled the newspapers in Egypt at the time, and the newspapers they didn't control they indirectly controlled by how they advertised their Jew-goods. Jews were also over-represented in the political sphere compared to their actual numbers. And- get this - Jews in Egypt celebrated the Balfour Declaration! Putting the facts together, you see that Egyptian Jews were of course a danger to Egypt and had to be fought against, and Hassan al-Banna was merely defending his country by issuing statements that might, on the surface, appear anti-semitic. For example, Hussein notes, al-Banna published a pamphlet called "The risk of Jews in Egypt," where he warned of the Jewish domination of the economy, gold, major hotels and real estate, and their control of advertising and newspapers. See? this is all perfectly understandable! No anti-semitism there! In a 1938 pamphlet, al-Banna wrote that Jews of Egypt who enjoy wealth and prosperity and that while Muslims and Copts have held meetings and conferences supporting Palestinian Arabs the Jews did not. "Show me a Jew who attended a meeting or contributed to an [Arab]Palestine conference. Show me a Jew who marched in a demonstration or protested against the criminal acts in Palestine. Show me a a Jew who collected money or sent a donation to the mujahideen Arabs in Palestine," he wrote. In 1947, al-Banna wrote a letter to a leading rabbi in Egypt, where he noted that the Egyptian government had pledged to protect Jews from rioters and protesters. Al-Banna said that he would love to believe that all Egyptian citizens were equal, but in fact "now we're in front of an international Zionist conspiracy to uproot Palestine from the body of the Arab nation...." and he threatened the Jewish community if they do not publicly support the Muslims of Palestine with their wealth and media. Hussein says that it is eminently reasonable that anything less than full-fledged support by all Jews of the people who wanted to throw their co-religionists into the sea would be regarded as treasonous. But this isn't anti-semitism! Hussein ends off saying that "It could be argued that the Muslim Brotherhood knew very well the difference between Judaism as an religion and the Jewish Zionist belonging to this political movement in theory, but they did not find a difference between the two in practice and the difficulty of finding a clear difference between Jews and Zionists" was the reason for any seeming anti-semitism in Egypt. There you go! (Of course, al-Banna in Arabic was far more explicitly anti-semitic than is even noted here, and he was an enthusiastic supporter of Nazism as a partner in his "anti-Zionist" positions. He also welcomed the Nazi collaborator the Mufti of Jerusalem who escaped war-crimes trials in Europe as being someone whose goals of exterminating the Jews outlived Hitler and would continue on. His group also translated Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion into Arabic.) At the same time that Al Mesryoon was publishing this subconscious Jew-hate in the guise of some sort of liberalism, it also published this article denying the Holocaust, calling it a "myth," "false propaganda," "lies" and "fantasies," saying that no more than a couple hundred thousand Jews were killed by the Nazis. They even say that Israeli Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer agrees that the six million number is very exaggerated - a claim seen on many anti-semitic sites - and one that is manifestly false. Egyptian anti-semitism is so ingrained that they are completely blind to it. And it is far more public today than it was under the previous regime. (Here's another article from this weekend denying the Holocaust.)      |
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