יום שבת, 9 במרץ 2013

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EoZ Interview with editors of Mida (video)

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 12:30 PM PST

After Mida wrote their great story on me, it is only fair for me to do the same.

Mida is a conservative leaning, but non-religious, magazine that came onto the Israeli scene late last year. It has already broken major stories and made some waves.



For a startup, they have a really beautiful office in Jerusalem, with a great view (not seen in this video unfortunately.) I'm very, very jealous.

Friday Links Part 2

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 11:00 AM PST

From Ian:
LATMA: The media's greatest detective, and Europe remains focused on what is truly important



AIPAC conference highlights Canada-Israel ties
Analysis: Canadian FM Baird earned accolades from experts on Israel, leading to a crystallization of Canadian-Israeli ties into a non-formal special relationship.
Canadian Foreign Minister John Baird electrified the massive pro-Israel crowd at this week's AIPAC's policy conference with his straight-talking affirmation of Israeli-Canadian shared values.
Known for his no-nonsense anti-terror policies toward Iranian- sponsored terrorism and its main proxy – the Lebanese terrorist group Hezbollah – Baird earned accolades from experts on Israel, leading to a crystallization of Canadian-Israeli ties into a non-formal special relationship.
Daphne Anson At UNSW, Will The Chocolatier Conquer Campus?
An article in University of New South Wales student newspaper Tharunka, with the heading "Hot Chocolate and War Crimes," reports that a Max Brenner franchise will in all likelihood soon be opening on campus:
"[T]he move to allow a Max Brenner store on campus comes after the chocolate shop was identified in the top three food and beverage outlet suggestions by students and staff in the 2011 Retail Survey conducted by UNSW.
The survey was completed by nearly 7000 students and staff, the most successful participation rate of any survey conducted by UNSW," the report notes.
However, the usual suspects are predictably unhappy:
Leviticus, the Video Game
A new iPhone game turns the Bible's most detailed book into fast-paced, educational entertainment
Titled Leviticus!, the game, as its title suggests, is both irreverent and deeply faithful to the source text—all that business about doves and cows and purity is right there in the book. But whereas Leviticus is too thick with rules to make for a very compelling read, it's perfect when played.
How do you say 'Fire' in Hebrew?
Some 500 immigrants serving in the IDF graduate a crash course in the national language
Almost 500 new immigrants enlisted in the IDF graduated from a special Hebrew course on Wednesday. Many of the soldiers who finished the course are set to join combat units, while the remainder will serve in various posts throughout the army.
Some 40 percent of the graduates, 190, are "lone soldiers" — a term applied to those in Israel without their families — who moved to Israel from 25 countries around the world. About 100 of those lone soldiers, who hail from locales as diverse as Cuba, Denmark and Azerbaijan, will head on to serve in combat units.
IDF Blog: Newly-Revealed Letter from David Ben-Gurion: Women Must Play Equal Part in the IDF
"The army is the supreme symbol of duty and as long as women are not equal to men in performing this duty, they have not yet obtained true equality. If the daughters of Israel are absent from the army, then the character of the Yishuv will be distorted."
—David Ben-Gurion, first Israeli Prime Minister
IDF Most Female-Friendly Army on Earth
The IDF is the world's most female-friendly army according to new numbers compiled by the Manpower Directorate.
34 percent of IDF soldiers are women – a figure unparalleled among other militaries. 57% of all officers are women, 28% of career officers are women, and 92% of all army positions are open to women.
Mixed-Gender Caracal Battalion Beret March



Watch the young men and women of the Caracal combat battalion march towards their coveted beret. This is their last step before joining the battalion as full-fledged combat soldiers.

Playboy goes to Gaza. Really.

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 09:45 AM PST

This seems appropriate for International Women's Day.

Playboy has a report on how the Islamist surge in North Africa has affected sexual mores.

It provides a few insights into the underground club scene in Tunisia and elsewhere, but it ends in Gaza:
1.7 million people live under the rugged rule of Hamas, the Islamist movement that won power through a combination of ballots and bullets in 2006 and 2007. It has clung to power religiously ever since, and despite being pummeled by Israeli sieges, incursions and most recently a bombardment waged from land, sea and air, Hamas succeeded in forming and preserving the first Islamist government on the Mediterranean. Initially, God squads scoured the beaches, searching for female skin. Vigilantes interrupted lovers and hauled them into court. "When a man and a woman are together, their first thoughts are of fornication, so we have to take care," explains a guard outside rows of beach chalets where, he claims, Hamas's corrupt secular predecessors—Yasir Arafat's security guards—had swapped wives by locking them in their chalets, dropping the keys in a bucket and playing lucky dip.

And yet once ensconced, the Islamists slowly relaxed. Despite the frowns of the religious affairs minister, Gaza clothes shops fill their windows with scarlet dresses and heart-shaped cushions to celebrate Valentine's Day, or as Palestinians call it, the Love Fest. Gazans call Hamas women "two jays" because they wear jeans beneath their jilbabs. Long bereft of cinemas and bars, Gaza at night bubbles with the honks of wedding parties touring the streets; the beaches where a few Gaza girls once dared to wear bikinis are now lined with resorts that celebrate mass weddings. Most curious of all, I discovered that what claims to be the Mediterranean's largest polygamous dating agency is government-subsidized—it sports a photograph on its walls of Gaza's Islamist prime minister, Ismail Haniya, handing over a $100,000 check. The agency's owner, Fahmi al-Atiri, cites Hamas's stocky interior minister, who was reputed to have found at least one of his six wives through the agency (to keep within Islam's statutory limits, he divorced two). Having put me in a sufficiently sympathetic frame of mind, al-Atiri gives me a guided tour of his "marriage-facilitation charity," proudly plying me with albums of the women on offer. He suggests I assuage my wife's doubts by letting her choose the second, in the name of equal opportunity. It had worked for him, he says, noting with relief that his wife had selected a pretty divorcée 12 years his junior.

Friday Links Part 1

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 08:15 AM PST

From Ian:
Palestinians Plan "Warm" Welcome for Obama by Khaled Abu Toameh
One plan being discussed among Palestinian activists includes staging anti-US demonstrations in Palestinian cities, particularly outside the place Obama is scheduled to meet with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
Activists in Ramallah said they would try to block the roads leading to the location of the Obama-Abbas meeting to protest against US "bias in favor of Israel."
Some activists have even prepared American flags and portraits of Obama that would be set on fire in front of TV crews covering the visit.
Palestinian activists say they are also hoping to humiliate Obama when and if he decides to visit the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Many Palestinians have already called on Obama to refrain from visiting the holy site, especially if he would be escorted by Israeli policemen and security officials.
NYT OpEd: End the Arab Boycott of Israel By Ed Husain
I abandoned Muslim groupthink and went to Israel because there is a new momentum in the region. Egypt's former grand mufti, Ali Gomaa, and the prominent scholar Habib Ali al-Jifri, broke ranks with Qaradawi and went to Jerusalem last April. They justified their visit on scriptural grounds, citing the Prophet Muhammad's encouragement for believers to visit the Holy Land. Their trip was facilitated by Prince Ghazi bin Muhammad bin Talal of Jordan, the principal religious adviser to King Abdullah II.
Muslim leaders in Jerusalem welcomed both men and Palestinian imams called for the end of the Arab boycott on Al Jazeera Arabic and other media outlets. This was a direct challenge to radicals like Qaradawi and his supporters in the Muslim Brotherhood in Cairo and the Islamist party Ennahda in Tunis. Why do they want to continue the boycott?
CIF Watch: The inevitable CiF essay using nixed Gaza marathon as fodder to demonize Israel
So, evidently, Ramdani's primary concern is that Hamas made a tactical mistake by forcing the cancellation of a charity marathon (raising money for Gaza's children) which would have had the effect of exposing Israeli oppression. Note also that Ramdani falsely characterizes Israel's blockade as illegal when, in fact, the UN Palmer Report definitively concluded that the blockade was indeed legal under international law.
Further in the essay, Ramdani even manages to implicitly blame Israel for Hamas's misogynistic and repressive policies against its own citizens.
Israel prepares for next war with Hezbollah
While tensions along Israel's northern border run high, the army is down south, simulating battles with its Lebanese arch-foe
As the Syrian civil war intensifies, military planners are growing increasingly jittery that the fighting could spill over into Israel, potentially dragging the Islamic militant group that is allied with President Bashar Assad into the fray. After battling Hezbollah to a stalemate in 2006, the Israeli military says it has learned key lessons and is prepared to inflict heavy damage on the group if fighting begins again.
Company Whose Cranes Were Used for Public Hangings Withdraws From Iran
After the revelation that its cranes were being used for executions in Iran, Austrian company Palfinger has communicated to United Against a Nuclear Iran (UANI) that it is no longer doing business in the country.
In fact, the company hadn't been doing business in Iran for some time. In a letter sent by Palfinger's CEO, Herbert Ortner, to UANI in response to its February appeal that the company withdraw from Iran, Ortner made it clear that Palfinger had made attempts to cut ties with Iran since 2011.
Syria releases photos of alleged Israeli spy devices
Equipment designed to photograph, register and transfer data, state TV claims
Syrian state-run TV released pictures on Thursday of the Israeli espionage equipment Damascus claimed to have found on Wednesday.
Authorities near the country's coast were said to have found Israeli devices designed to photograph, register and transfer data, according to a brief report in the regime-run Syrian Arab News Agency.
Wiesenthal Centre Urges Investigation after Report Shows Anti-Semitic Hungarian Political Party Moves Closer to Iran
After a three-day visit to the country by officials, the Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging the Hungarian government–as well as the European Parliament– to investigate reports of a growing relationship between Iran and the anti-Semitic Jobbik Hungarian political party.
"Hungarian leaders we met confirmed that the Jobbik party and the Iranian regime share a hatred for Jews, Israel, the European Union and the United States," Rabbi Abraham Cooper associate Dean and Dr. Shimon Samuels Director of International Relations of the Centre reported, adding that "a Socialist Party MP told them that Jobbik's increasingly anti-Semitic and anti-Israel attacks can be linked in part to the growing connection."
Ohio buys $42 million of Israel Bonds
CJN EXCLUSIVE: Treasurer Mandel makes largest such purchase in United States history
"We believe this is a sound investment for the taxpayers of Ohio and consistent with our strategy of investing in safe and strong securities," Mandel said in a telephone interview March 4.
SingTel opens tech center in Israel
Singapore giant's partnership with Amdocs to help local startups get footing in Asia market.
"We have been extremely satisfied with the wealth of talent in Israel. We experienced this through our recently acquired global mobile advertising company Amobee which has a technology center in Israel, as well as through our venture capital investments in two Israeli companies in the mobile Internet business. This has propelled us to open this new development center to scout for new growth engines for SingTel," said Allen Lew, Chief Executive Officer of Group Digital L!fe, SingTel.

Reminder of who the PA wants to make peace with

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 06:45 AM PST

For many Muslims, the "one state solution" is the Caliphate

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 05:00 AM PST

Virtually wandering around some Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem on Google Street View, I came across this graffitum in Silwan/Kfar HaShiloach:


The flag is effectively the Saudi flag, with its Muslim declaration of faith.

Underneath, the Arabic writing says "We pray to Allah that next year's hajj will be under the shadow of the Caliphate."

The end game for Islamists isn't a one-state solution in "Palestine" - that is merely a stage, and they are happy to recruit people who pretend to love democracy and human rights and the rule of law to get to that stage. Their goal - as stated explicitly in the Hamas charter - is to establish a single Muslim state in the entire Middle East.

What believing Muslim would publicly disagree?

(h/t Al Gharqad for translation)

Jordanian newspaper wraps up series of antisemitic articles

Posted: 08 Mar 2013 02:29 AM PST

Ad-Dustour "The Constitution," a major Jordanian newspaper publishing since 1967, has just finished a three-part series that is pure antisemitism.

The point of the series is to show that Zionism is simply an extension of traditional Jewish racism dating back to Biblical times.

Written by a "researcher in religious studies," the series seems almost entirely lifted off of neo-Nazi sites like Stormfront.

The author, Ahmed Ashkar, claims that there are six themes in Judaism that run through Zionism as well:

1. The divine promise and colonizing the country
2. Messianism
3. Expulsion and displacement and the destruction of villages and cities
4. The purity of Jewish race
5. Seizing the property and lives of the "goyim"
6. Religious-sanctioned violence

Part 3, just published, climaxes with a long series of fake Talmud quotes purportedly allowing Jews to kill and steal from non-Jews with impunity. (Answers to these can be found here.)

Again, Ad-Dustour is a respected, mainstream, independent Jordanian newspaper. Ashkar has been writing on this topic for years.

Needless to say, one would be hard-pressed to find a single word of protest against this series or indeed against any anti-semitic article in Arab media.

This is yet another example of how entrenched anti-semitism is in Arab society, even among "moderate" states. Samira Ibrahim is not the exception - she is the rule.
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