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- Maccabeats' Passover version of Les Misérables (video)
- Which embassy's "Obama in Israel" video is more bizarre?
- Now you can buy land in Palestine on-line! (Except for you Jews.)
- The "Jewish" Daily Forward now promotes the Hamas Haggadah
- Tuesday Links Part 2
- Gaza strawberry farmers must be traitors, according to anti-Israel Left
- Tuesday Links Part 1
- Followup on NYT magazine piece romanticizing riots
- Catherine Ashton and the EU throw the Oslo process under the bus
- Followup on Oakland assault of Zionist woman
- On eve of Obama visit, Mahmoud Abbas gives terrorist mom high honors
| Maccabeats' Passover version of Les Misérables (video) Posted: 19 Mar 2013 10:30 PM PDT (h/t Yerushalimey, of course)           |
| Which embassy's "Obama in Israel" video is more bizarre? Posted: 19 Mar 2013 07:30 PM PDT From the US Embassy in Israel: From the Israeli Embassy in the US: Do you get the impression that everyone is trying too hard?      |
| Now you can buy land in Palestine on-line! (Except for you Jews.) Posted: 19 Mar 2013 03:15 PM PDT A new website being promoted in Arab media allows Arabs to buy land in "Palestine." Just pick the plot you want, pay 20% with your credit card, fill out some paperwork, and voilà! When you go to the Tabo webpage you can learn: For the first time, you have the opportunity to make your connection to the holy land a reality. Since time immemorial, the ancient and historic lands of Palestine have been among the most coveted in the world. For thousands of years, kings and paupers, emperors and peasants, Popes and pilgrims alike have come to Palestine for salvation, for redemption, for fulfillment, and for riches. Palestine's unprecedented historical significance is a testament to its value as a land.When you start reading the fine print, something interesting appears: Once you receive your UCI Land Purchase LPOA, the following steps must be followed:When they say a "Palestinian with an Israeli ID," they are excluding all Palestinian Jews. In other words, an Israeli Arab can buy land in the West Bank - but an Israeli Jew cannot. Israeli Jews legally buying land are evil "settlers" and merit being boycotted, stoned, firebombed and shot., and their homes must be dismantled and their hard work and investment on the land they bought must be forfeited. Even if their families had lived in the area for centuries, the land is simply not available for them. Because they are Jews wishing to return to their ancestral lands. Israeli Arabs buying land there, on the other hand, are welcome! Because they are - not Jews! Sounds like apartheid, doesn't it? I think we need to call a UNHRC session. We must inform Amnesty about this blatant discrimination. Human Rights Watch will be most interested. No doubt they will jump right on it. If the PA is found to be involved in this project, they should be boycotted. Because such blatant discrimination is ugly, and cannot be accepted. Right? UPDATE: I wonder what would happen if an Israeli Jew with an Arabic name would buy some land. Might be worth the money just to find out!      |
| The "Jewish" Daily Forward now promotes the Hamas Haggadah Posted: 19 Mar 2013 01:30 PM PDT Last year, I noted that the "Jewish Voice for Peace" came out with a "Haggadah" that Hamas would love. Excerpt: It is time to look at the overcrowded Seder plate, which includes: Olive – Symbolizing the self-determination of the Palestinian people and an invitation to Jewish communities to become allies to Palestinian liberation struggles. When breaking the middle matzah, we must of course say that Israel should be overrun with Arabs. As we break the middle matzah we acknowledge the break that occurred in Palestinian life and culture with the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948 when hundreds of villages were destroyed and hundreds of thousands of people displaced. This damage cannot be undone — but repair and return are possible. A new set of four questions must be asked, including this one: How will we, as Jews, bear witness to the unjust actions committed in our name?The actual Passover story is long and noring, so we will skip over that, except for the Ten Plagues, because we want to remember the suffering of the Egyptians: Our freedom was bought with the suffering of others. As we packed our bags that last night in Egypt, the darkness was pierced with screams. May the next sea-opening not also be a drowning; may our singing never again be their wailing. We shall all be free, or none of us shall be free because our liberations are intertwined. However, we would be remiss if we didn't talk about the ten plagues that Jews are inflicting on Palestinian Arabs today, including:
Then comes the Palestinian Freedom Riders Song. Now, the Forward has published an article by a JVP member encouraging this same self-hating mentality! Passover has become a complicated holiday for me. I am still moved and inspired by the recounting of the Exodus. But the irony of celebrating Jewish freedom and deliverance into Israel, especially when, in today's Israel, it is the Palestinians who face oppression at the hands of the Israelis, makes it painful. Yet it also renews my commitment to pursue the kind of justice that the story of Exodus teaches us is part of our legacy.Yisrael Medad of My Right Word published a cogent comment at the Forward: First of all, regards from Shiloh, a community I think you know well. I would be remiss if I didn't point to the hilarious spoof of the JVP Haggadah made by Divest This! last year. It is a shame that the Forward wouldn't get the jokes.      |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2013 12:15 PM PDT From Ian: LATMA: An Israeli Soldier's song to the world for Passover Alan Baker: Biased, Prejudiced, and Unprofessional: The UN Human Rights Council Fact-Finding Mission Report on Israeli Settlements Issuing such a slanted and biased report implants within the international community an incorrect and inaccurate view of a complex reality, in a manner that inevitably steers the debate away from practical or fruitful directions and in fact assists in entrenching the beliefs of the more extreme elements on all sides. It serves to mobilize the international community in a manner prejudicial to any future prospect of agreement and settlement of the dispute.Lord David Trimble Nobel Peace Laureate addressed UN debate on settlements Nobel Peace Laureate David Trimble, member of the British House of Lords, took the floor in this morning's UN Human Rights Council debate on a new report by a fact-finding mission on Israeli settlements, to deliver the following statement on behalf of the Geneva non-governmental organization UN Watch.Pakistan arrests suspect in Daniel Pearl murder Pakistan arrested a suspect in connection with the 2002 kidnapping and brutal murder of Daniel Pearl, a journalist for The Wall Street Journal.George Galloway Banned from University of Chester An invitation for George Galloway MP to speak at an event organised by the University of Chester's Debating Society has been revoked by the Student Union, after it upheld the National Union of Students' no-platform order against Galloway — a consequence of Galloway's recent bigoted behaviour.Don't be surprised by Lord Ahmed's anti-Semitic rant Lord Ahmed's comments did not appear in a vacuum. They reflect a dangerous indulgence for conspiracy theory and Jew baiting in significant sections of the Islamic worldObama and Netanyahu: Reboot In their second act, will Benjamin Netanyahu and Barack Obama find happiness, and cooperate on policies that will best serve both Israeli and American interests?Barry Rubin: The Region: Note to Obama Current US strategy is to support anti-American, anti-Semitic radicals, with even arms and money, believing that "it pays off in the end."Poll: Most Israeli Jews don't trust Obama to safeguard country's interests Ahead of visit, 62% of Israelis say US president is incapable of bringing about a breakthrough in peace talksIsraelis give video welcome to Obama US Embassy in Tel Aviv hits the streets with cardboard cutout of the President so that locals can say a big 'hello'Netanyahu's tiny gift to Obama: A marvel of Israeli nanotech VIDEO Prime minister to present the US president with a minuscule version of both countries' declarations of independence 'Our Christmas dinners with the pope' Argentina's Jewish leaders describe an extraordinary relationship with Francis I, who comes to synagogue for 'selichot' and loaned out a cathedral for a Shoah event Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina made history last week by becoming the first pope from Latin America and the first from the Jesuit order. This week, Argentine Jewish leaders, attending a World Jewish Congress meeting in Greece, predicted a new era for Catholic-Jewish relations and described a man who is very close to the Jewish community, who regularly visits synagogues and has invited Jewish friends to Christmas dinner.Israel's iOnRoad wins top new mobile app prize Qualcomm grants Israeli-created safety road app a total of $250,000 in venture capital, after it beat out apps from around the world As far as international telecom giant Qualcomm is concerned, Israeli-created road safety app iOnRoad is the best new mobile app in the world. That's why Qualcomm awarded iOnRoad a total of $250,000 in funding and assistance, as the winner of its third annual QPrize international venture investment competition.Surgery without scars or scalpels Israel's InSightec is transforming the operating room with a new ultrasound technology that enables surgeons to destroy tumors and cysts without incisions. Surgery without scalpels and scars? It's not science fiction. Israel's InSightec is in the midst of transforming the operating room with its ExAblate MRI-guided high-intensity ultrasound technology.      |
| Gaza strawberry farmers must be traitors, according to anti-Israel Left Posted: 19 Mar 2013 10:30 AM PDT Here is yet another story showing that Gaza farmers are happily cooperating with Israel - which, to anti-Israel idiots and boycotters, must mean that they are traitors to the cause. On Monday (March 11th, 2013), the Israeli Coordination and Liaison Administration (ICLA) for the Gaza Strip hosted twenty-nine farmers from Gaza to attend the annual Strawberry Fair in Qalansuwa, Israel.      |
| Posted: 19 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PDT From Ian: Rashid Khalidi and Palestinian Rejectionism While Shavit, as an Israeli, tries to assess the situation both critically and self-critically, seeking a realistic way forward, Khalidi, blinded by hatred of Israel, places the entire onus for the conflict at its doorstep, refusing to engage in any introspection.Honest Reporting: Doctors Respond to Lancet Article on Israeli Doctors and Torture The absence of any comment or reference to medical literature or non-biased expertise as relating to trauma induced during CPR, immediately places Ms. Devi's article outside the realm of objective, medical/scientific publication standards. Responsibility for accepting the article for publication rests on The Lancet editor.Why Let An Inconvenient Truth Spoil a Great Mood? What were the circumstances of their eviction? Did the family really own the property in question? What was the basis for the Jewish claims? Had they failed to pay rent? Were they in fact squatters? Was Israeli bureaucracy running amok?Jonathan Freedland promotes the myth of 'non-violent' Palestinian protests in Bil'in Over the past several years more than 200 Israeli security personnel have been injured by Palestinian rioters in Bil'in.IDF Blog: Rocks Can Kill Rock throwing is common in Judea and Samaria, and along with Molotov Cocktail and booby-trapped tire throwing, is a terror act that comes under the definition of 'popular terror'. These incidents happen daily, and are easily ignored by the mainstream media, because they don't seem that serious. But did you know that a simple rock can kill?2 Jerusalem Arabs Charged in Foiled Terror Plot Two Jerusalem Arab men were indicted Monday morning on charges of plotting to carry out a terrorist attack on Jews in the holy city.Gaza terrorist to serve 18 years for firing rockets Man involved in firing rockets at Sderot; arrested in 2011, when he crossed into Israel from Gaza for reconnaissance.Lawyer sues Mubarak for failing to 'reclaim' Eilat An Egyptian lawyer has filed a lawsuit against former president Hosni Mubarak and other state officials for neglecting to "reclaim" Um Rashrash — the Israeli city of Eilat — and demanded that Egypt take the southern resort from Israel. The town, which had been occupied by the British and was claimed by Jordan, was captured by Israel during the War of Independence in March 1949.UN report reveals Iranian violence against Bahais Research discloses extreme state-sponsored discrimination against minority community, says Bahais "systematically deprived."German university fires Holocaust-denying professor The University of Aachen in Germany has fired historian Vladimir Iliescu for claiming the Holocaust never happened in Romania. The institution "cancelled the teaching contract" of Iliescu "immediately after statements he made to the Romanian Academy became known," a spokesperson for RWTH Aachen said, adding that the university was "appalled" by his words.Greek player banned for life for Nazi salute Giorgos Katidis booted from Greek national soccer team after making gesture to celebrate goalReport: Vidal Sassoon Center Lecture Funding PA terrorists is only the tip of the iceberg. Dr. Gerstenfeld spells out the details of Norwegian anti-Semitism. During his lecture at the Vidal Sassoon Center at Hebrew University, anti-Semitism expert Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld said that Norway serves as a most useful example to expose anti-Semitism and anti-Israel hate-mongering in the Western world. He listed a number of events in this Labor party-dominated Scandinavian country which would have been admired by Nazis.      |
| Followup on NYT magazine piece romanticizing riots Posted: 19 Mar 2013 08:15 AM PDT Lots of people have written about the New York Times Sunday magazine front-page story (that I wrote about on Friday) that effectively romanticized and justified violent riots and was an advertisement for a third intifada. David G summarized many of them well: The New York Times has done it again. Less then two weeks after publishing an intellectual attack against Israel, it publishes an article glorifying physical attacks on Israel. The front page story of yesterday's New York Times Magazine, Is This Where the Third Intifada Will Start? by Ben Ehrenriech. (The cover has the more provocative phrase, "If there is a third intifada, we want to be the ones who started it." Chemi Shalev of the left wing paper Ha'aretz lets us in on a little secret about Ehrenreich: In 2009, Ehrenreich published a direct attack on Zionism in the Los Angeles Times entitled "Zionism is the Problem". In the article, Ehrenreich castigates not only the "deplorable conditions in which Palestinians live and die in Gaza and the West Bank" but "the Zionist tenets on which the state was founded "as well. In other words, Ehrenreich is every bit the anti-Israel ideologue as Joseph Levine who recently explained why Israel could not legitimately be both a Jewish and a democratic state. The article is written in a measured, professorial tone. So the outrageous aspects of the article will be omissions that indicate that Ehrenreich is not telling the whole story. For example, Ehrenreich writes: But little was resolved in Oslo. A second intifada erupted in 2000, at first mostly following the model set by the earlier uprising. Palestinians blocked roads and threw stones. But the second intifada didn't just erupt. It was orchestrated by Yasser Arafat. The available evidence is overwhelming. But Ehrenreich isn't interested. At the blog, This Ongoing War, the Roths note another omission: That's all he writes about Ahlam Tamimi but we can tell you more. She is a Jordanian who was 21 years old and the news-reader on official Palestinian Authority television when she signed on with Hamas to become a terrorist. She engineered, planned and helped execute a massacre in the center of Jerusalem on a hot summer afternoon in 2001. She chose the target, a restaurant filled with Jewish children. And she brought the bomb. The outcome (15 killed, a sixteenth still in a vegetative state today, 130 injured) was so uplifting to her that she has gone on camera again and again to say, smiling into the camera lens, how proud she is of what she did. She is entirely free of regret. A convicted felon and a mass-murderer convicted on multiple homicide charges, she has never denied the role she embraced and justifies it fully. One of the children killed at Sbarro's by Ahlam Tamimi, was the Roth's 15 year old daughter Malki. Israelly Cool notes the Roth's story and adds another detail that was somehow omitted: I will add the following: As I posted recently with regards to a Ha'aretz puff piece on Bassem Tamimi, his Tamimi Press Facebook page clearly indicates he is fighting for a one-state solution – a palestinian state – and supports terrorism and the terrorists who perpetrate heinous killings in support of this very goal. Ehrenreich's goal is to portray another intifada as a justified non-violent response to Israeli "occupation." But as Elder of Ziyon notes, rock throwing isn't exactly non-violent: 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." It's like the reporters wants it to happen. He wants another violent intifada in which hundreds will be killed, God forbid. Believe it or not this isn't the first time the New York Times has glamorized an intifada. The Sunday Magazine of October 29, 1989 featured Inside the Intifada by then Israel correspondent, Joel Brinkley. In the light from the nearly full moon, the shebab, crouching behind the low boulders, watch the bus approach. Sitting in a front seat is a soldier in olive green, pointing his M-16 out the window. In the jeeps leading and following the bus, troops also sit with their weapons aimed into the dark and their plexiglass face shields lowered. As they reach the town the soldiers hear several shrill whistles – the shebab signaling to one another. From the convoy, as if in reply, comes the sound of rifle bolts snapping into place, loading bullets into chambers. Joel Brinkley currently teaches journalism at Stanford University. I wonder if he discusses the ethics of running with a group of vandals intent on attacking civilians. But the bigger problem is with the New York Times. The paper runs frequent editorials castigating the Israeli government for not doing enough for peace. However the paper uses its influence not to encourage compromise, but to promote and prolong Palestinian grievances against Israel. The hypocrisy of the New York is astounding. Jonathan Tobin at Commentary also wrote an excellent response: Ehrenreich is a curious choice to write an in-depth piece on the Israeli-Palestinian struggle for the supposedly objective Times. If the piece seems incredibly skewed toward the point of view of the Palestinians, it's no accident. Ehrenreich has never made any secret about his view about the State of Israel: he thinks Zionism is the moral equivalent of Nazism and believes the Jewish state should not exist. He stated as much in a 2009 op-ed published in the Los Angeles Times titled "Zionism is the problem." In that piece he didn't merely repeat the canard that Israel was an apartheid state but actually said the racist South African government compared favorably to the Jewish state.      |
| Catherine Ashton and the EU throw the Oslo process under the bus Posted: 19 Mar 2013 06:45 AM PDT Under existing agreements between Israel and the PLO, borders is one of the "final status" issues that are meant to be hammered out in negotiations. Since at least 2009, the PA changed the rules - frustrating US government mediators - and refused to go back to the negotiating table without Israel agreeing, against UNSC 242, that the 1949 armistice lines should be the basis of the negotiations - arbitrary, indefensible lines that were never considered national borders for any purpose.  Instead of supporting the Israeli position that negotiations should continue without preconditions, the EU has given support to the Palestinian Arab position and strengthened Abbas' intransigence.Here is the latest example, as the EU's Catherine Ashton announces, in effect, that the negotiating framework that has given autonomy and land to the Palestinian Arabs is dead, and giving the PLO carte blanche to tear up the Oslo Accords: EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton and Palestinian Premier Salam Fayyad on Tuesday signed in the headquarters of the European diplomatic service, an accord with which the EU will grant 7 million euros in aid for the development of the so-called 'C area' representing roughly 60% of the West Bank. Fayyad is in Brussels to take part in a meeting of the ad hoc committee to coordinate assistance to the Palestinians.Ashton's statement is here, where she states that the EU is "focusing our efforts on East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip and Area C." Effectively, Abbas' temper tantrum in 2009 has now become EU policy. Amazing how much you can be rewarded by just saying "no" repeatedly.      |
| Followup on Oakland assault of Zionist woman Posted: 19 Mar 2013 05:30 AM PDT Last week I posted a video showing the repeated assault of a woman in Oakland after she wrote "Am Yisrael Chai" in chalk on what appeared to be a public park. The Jewish Press' Lori Lowenthal Marcus did some real reporting: Ogawa Park was named for a civil rights activist who was the first Japanese member of the Oakland City Council. But Ogawa Park was "renamed" by Occupy Oakland protesters to "honor" Oscar Grant, a felon who had been imprisoned for drug dealing and weapons offenses, and who was shot by Oakland police 1n 2009, while resisting arrest.Read the whole thing. I saw on Twitter that the Oakland police are looking at this incident.      |
| On eve of Obama visit, Mahmoud Abbas gives terrorist mom high honors Posted: 19 Mar 2013 02:56 AM PDT Mahmoud Abbas has gone out of his way to honor Maryam Farhat, known as Umm Nidal, the mother of three "martyrs." Farhat is the Hamas lawmaker and mother of terrorists who justified killing Israeli civilians and enthusiastically celebrated her son's death after he killed several Jewish pre-army students. Abbas opened a "tent of condolences" for Farhat at his headquarters in the Muqata in Ramallah. Not only that, but he gave her a high Palestinian Authority posthumous honor, the "Order of Sacrifice." Abbas is showering honor on Farhat on the eve of being visited by President Obama. Yesterday I showed a video of Farhat which made even the Arab interviewer cringe with her naked support of terror. Here's a video of her with her son who is about to murder Israeli civilians. She talks about her happiness at her son's forthcoming murder spree and expected death: This sick creature is considered a hero worthy of the greatest honor by Israel's supposedly "moderate" peace partner. Will President Obama address this issue when he meets Abbas in Ramallah? Will he even pass by the mourning tent on his way to the meeting? That would be a photograph that would haunt him. If he has any sense of morality at all, if the tent is there Obama should turn around and nix the meeting. This is a prime example of how the Palestinian Arab leadership supports and glorifies terror, and sweeping it under the rug is exactly the wrong approach. It is their despicable embrace of the most disgusting terrorists and their actions that is the real "obstacle to peace" and here we can see it as explicitly as possible. Incidentally, this shows how Palestinian Arab "unity" would work - Fatah would go towards Hamas' positions, not the other way around, as here is a prominent Hamas member that Fatah and Abbas is happy to publicly embrace.      |
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