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| Despicable Hamas politician and mother of terrorists near death Posted: 17 Mar 2013 12:00 AM PDT Maryam Farhat, known as Umm Nidal, is in a Gaza hospital in failing health. She is famous for being the mother of three terrorist "martyrs" - including one who killed five students at a school, after which she gave out chocolates to her friends - and for running in the PA elections as a Hamas candidate. She was even praised by "moderate" Sari Nussibeh. Here is this sick woman being interviewed on Arab TV: It would be a good idea for President Obama to watch this video before he goes to Israel, instead of reading the latest NYT piece - the second major article this weekend - about "settlements." Here is the photo that Palestine Today uses of this Palestinian Arab heroine:            |
| More friction between Egypt and Hamas Posted: 16 Mar 2013 09:30 PM PDT From Ma'an: Seven Palestinians being detained in Egypt are due to be deported to the Gaza Strip on Friday, sources at Cairo International Airport said.Gazans spying on Egypt - after being trained in Iran? There aren't enough details in this report, but the distrust that Egypt has for Hamas seems to be growing, despite Hamas' efforts to calm things down.      |
| NYT writes another huge romantic story about Arab rioters Posted: 16 Mar 2013 05:00 PM PDT The New York Times on Friday published a very long piece by Ben Ehrenreich about Palestinian Arab rioters in Nabi Saleh (the home of "Shirley Temper.") There's a lot to criticize in the story that romanticizes rioting - for example, the blunt characterization of neighboring Halamish as being built entirely on Palestinian Arab-own private land, which is simply not true - but I found this part especially tasteless: "We see our stones as our message," Bassem explained. The message they carried, he said, was "We don't accept you." While Bassem spoke admiringly of Mahatma Gandhi, he didn't worry over whether stone-throwing counted as violence. The question annoyed him: Israel uses far greater and more lethal force on a regular basis, he pointed out, without being asked to clarify its attitude toward violence. If the loincloth functioned as the sign of Gandhi's resistance, of India's nakedness in front of British colonial might, Bassem said, "Our sign is the stone." The weekly clashes with the I.D.F. were hence in part symbolic. The stones were not just flinty yellow rocks, but symbols of defiance, of a refusal to submit to occupation, regardless of the odds.But Tamimi claims to be non-violent, and he claims that stone throwing is "non-violent." Israel never claimed that their response to violent rioters is Gandhi-like. I wrote a comment; as of this writing is was not yet posted: Too bad Mr. Ehrenreich didn't think of pushing back on Bassem Tamimi's irritation at justifying his idea that stone throwing is supposedly "non-violent." (h/t EBoZ)      |
| Posted: 16 Mar 2013 04:30 PM PDT From Ian: 'Human rights' are a weapon in the political arsenal of Israel's enemies By Anne Bayefsky Today at the United Nations in New York City, the UN's top women's rights body, the Commission on the Status of Women, will wrap up its annual session by condemning only one state for violating the rights of women anywhere in the world. Not Syria, or China, or Saudi Arabia. But Israel, for violating the rights of Palestinian women. Ban Ki-Moon is wrong about Israeli settlements Settlements not illegal under international law There he goes again. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon erroneously has asserted, for the fourth time in two years, that "all [Israeli] settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, is illegal under international law." Sarah Honig: Another Tack: Out of the box, Obama Before Obama begins coaxing us with honeyed blandishments, he must take a long, hard and unbiased look out of the box. That makes it all the more morally imperative that Obama remove his ideological blinders – before he begins coaxing us with honeyed blandishments – and that he take a long, hard and unbiased look out of the box. If he doesn't, then his inability to shake off his affinities, orientations and inclinations should not only perturb Israelis and Jews. From Churchill to Assad Toward a new Middle East order? In conclusion, Robert Kaplan is of the opinion that there is still no solution to the problem of how to divide the former Ottoman Empire. No one knows yet who will have the power to control which territories, or whether there will be new tribal and sectarian lines. The Middle East borders are (along with the African ones) the most distorted in the world and, to quote Ralph Peters, "the greatest taboo in striving to understand the region's comprehensive failure isn't Islam but the awful-but-sacrosanct international boundaries worshiped by our own diplomats." Correcting borders to reflect the will of all the different peoples may be impossible, but the opposite would probably lead to more violence and bloodshed. Egypt: Will the army step in? There are those who believe that President Mursi is slowly turning into another Mubarak; relying increasingly on the Ministry of Interior and the discredited police force. Some believe he is not ruling but takes his marching orders from the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood, especially the powerful Khairat Al Shatter. It is in fact difficult to defend the president because every decision that he had taken in recent months has backfired and provided further evidence that he lacked leadership qualities. Davutoglu Invokes Ottomanism As a New Order for Mideast It's time for the Erdogan government to listen to the critics of its policies, and at the very least begin toning down these arrogant suggestions that Turkey be the core country for setting a new order for those once-Ottoman lands. Interpol won't lift warrants for 6 Iranians in AMIA bombing Arrest orders to remain active despite Tehran's participation in probe of 1994 terror attack Interpol will not lift the arrest warrants for Iranians suspected of involvement in the 1994 bombing of the AMIA Jewish community center in Buenos Aires, despite Tehran's supposed cooperation with Argentina in investigating the event. French Jews slam TV portrayal of school killer Watched by millions, Mohammed Merah doc omits family testimony about anti-Semitism and portrays terrorist as mental health victim Pierre Besnainou, a former president of the European Jewish Congress and president of the FSJU social and cultural arm of the French Jewish community, said "the film demonstrates a total misconception of the true nature of jihadist indoctrination." And the CRIF's Prasquier said the Jewish community must fight the tendency to portray Merah in a sympathetic light. Man sentenced to 10 years for NYC synagogue bomb plot And he said that Ferhani's conduct was deplorable, noting that almost any civilized person would have reacted with anger and outrage, rather than sympathy, to a proposed plot to blow up a building. New Numbers Show UK-Israel Trade is Booming Trade between Britain and Israel is booming. Last year's two-way trade reached more than £3.81 billion ($5.77 billion), as compared with the £3.7 billion ($5.66 billion) recorded the previous year and on track for UK Trade and Investment's target of topping £4 billion (roughly $6 billion) by the middle of the decade. Israel remains the UK's largest individual trading partner in the near East and North Africa. Passover Items from the Holocaust Discovered at Concentration Camp Site The Israel-based Shem Olam Holocaust and Faith Institute on Thursday showcased items that may have been used for Passover rituals at the Chelmno death camp in western Poland. The items were discovered during excavations of the site in pits containing prisoners' belongings. Prague Schoolchildren Push to Have World War II Hero Given Nobel Prize Sir Winton visited Prague, then a part of Czechoslovakia, in 1938 shortly after Britain and France had agreed to give the Sudetenland – the largely German-speaking areas of Czechoslovakia – to Hitler and Nazi Germany. Appalled by the condition of refugees there, and certain that matters could only get worse for them and the Jewish population, he began organizing the transport of children out of the country, mostly to new homes in Britain. Over the next nine months – even after Germany had invaded Czechoslovakia in March 1939 – special trains left Prague for London, carrying a total of 669 children to safety. Americans' sympathy for Israel at 22-year high Ahead of Obama's visit, Gallup poll finds 64% of Americans sympathize more with Israel, just 12% with the Palestinians Americans' sympathy for Israel is at a 22-year high, according to Gallup figures released on Friday, just five days ahead of Barack Obama's first visit to Israel as president. Using robotic device, paraplegic Israeli finishes Tel Aviv race "This was my dream, and it feels great to achieve it,"' said Kaiuf, whose spine was wounded in a 1988 firefight in Lebanon.      |
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