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Friday Links Part 2

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 02:30 PM PDT

From Ian:
LATMA: An interview with GOC Central Command Leitzan Balloon and the FBI fights terror



Scottish hotel cancels Jewish event after "threats"
Student from St Andrews University have reportedly been stopped from holding a charity event due to threats sent to the venue - the St Andrews Golf Hotel.
Jewish students were due to hold a black tie Matzah Ball at the prestigious location with almost 100 expected to attend from around the UK. Money raised was to be sent to seven Israeli charities supported including the Jewish National Fund (JNF) and Friends of the Israel Defence Forces (FIDF).
But following pressure from the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign (SPSC), as reported by the Jewish Telegraph, hotel manager Niall Thompson cancelled the booking.
ZOA Criticizes Dustin Hoffman For Being Special Guest At Radical, Anti-Israel Muslim Public Affairs Council Gala
MPAC is headed by Salam al-Marayati, who has called for Israel's destruction, and has said that Israel may be responsible for the 9/11 attacks. Even left-wing Los Angeles rabbis have ceased to speak to him. The following is a small sampling of his record of Islamist extremism.
A Pallywood Hijacking
The photo above appears in the Facebook group "I acknowledge Apartheid Exists"
So why am I posting it? Because it's typical Palestinian lies and nonsense.
They hijacked a photo from 2005, which had the original caption:
Title: "Religious Jews Protest Against The Desecration Of Ancient Graves"
Birthday Party for Adelle at Hospital: 'May She be a Miracle'
Adelle Biton's family celebrated her third birthday Thursday at the Schneider Children's Hospital, where she is still unconscious after an Arab rock ambush last month.
Adelle's mother, Adva, exuded optimism and unshakable faith at the celebration.
Dutch Newspaper Utilizes Nazi Imagery to Defame Israel
"I referred to the respected Ebert Foundation poll that showed over 38% of Dutch respondents said that Israel is exterminating Palestinians the way the Germans exterminated the Jews! Shocking? Perhaps not, considering decisions like your paper's to publish a cartoon depicting Israel as the lying hooked-nosed religious Hassidic Jew commiserating with a North Korean counterpart over their nuclear capabilities," said Rabbi Cooper, referring to the abhorrent cartoon.
'Amazon Jews' on Their Way to Israel
Hundreds of descendants of Peruvian Jews are planning to make aliyah (immigrate) to Israel, the Jewish Agency reports.
Why U.S. Companies Are Drooling Over Israel's Amazing Startup Scene
U.S. companies and investors are falling over themselves to get a piece of Israel's startup action these days.
There are at least two dozen accelerator programs in the Tel Aviv area, including some run by Microsoft and Google.
It seems like every U.S. VC has at least one Israeli startup in its portfolio. Some even have full offices here, like Battery Ventures, Benchmark, Bessemer, Sequoia, according to the Mapped In Israel startup map.
Israeli firm named Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer
The Israeli "smart water" network and software management firm Whitewater was named a 2013 Bloomberg New Energy Pioneer at a ceremony in New York earlier this week.
Whitewater received the award at the sixth annual Bloomberg New Energy Finance Summit, along with what Bloomberg describes as nine other "game-changing companies in the field of clean energy technology and innovation."
Revealing secrets
His most recent publication is a book in Hebrew on Israel's major military operations, coauthored by Nissim Mishal.
"It looks at the IDF's 30 greatest operations, such as the Entebbe raid [in 1976], Sabena [the flight 571 hijacking in 1972], up until Pillar of Cloud [last November] which was the last one. There is even a last chapter about the operation that has not been carried out; about the attack on Iran, with a detailed description of how we shall try to do it."
Menachem Begin: A Life, by Avi Shilon (REVIEW)
Indeed, Shilon positions Begin as the most Jewish of Israeli leaders. Although he never ducks from documenting Begin's flaws, he ultimately presents a fine man and a loving leader. Begin was a humble man and a loyal husband. Such qualities were rare enough among the politicians of his era, nowadays they are rarer still. If only there were more of his calibre in politics now.

Tunisia riled up over Taekwondo match with Israel (update)

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 01:00 PM PDT

From Middle East Monitor:
The Tunisian public was surprised to hear the news that its national Taekwondo team would participate in a match against the Israeli national team, which is considered a form of normalisation with Israel. This participation has caused the issue of normalisation with Israel to resurface in Tunisia.

Once the news of the match spread, the Tunisian Ministry of Youth and Sports immediately expressed its condemnation of the national Tunisian Taekwondo team's participation in the international championship with Israel and described the participation as "a mockery."

In a statement aired by the official Tunisian radio station on Sunday, the Tunisian ministry said that it opened an immediate investigation of the "participation of members of the national Taekwondo team in an international championship in Belgium who are competing against Israel without prior discussion with the Supervising Authority."

It also explained in its statement that this investigation "aims to find out reasons for this participation" described as a "mockery."

The Tunisian Taekwondo Federation called for "immediate discontinuation of the activities of those causing this mockery - including the technical and administrative members accompanying the Tunisian delegation - until the investigation is over and accountability is established."

The Tunisian Taekwondo team has participated in the Belgian Open with Israel in the past, where some members of the Tunisian team competed against Israelis, which angered former coach of the Tunisian national Taekwondo team, Murad Al-Souli, who spoke out against what he considered "normalisation with Israel."

Al-Souli expressed his anger over this participation, pointing out that the Tunisian team has never participated in any match with Israel. He held the Tunisian Taekwondo Federation responsible for this, as well as the head of the Tunisian delegation participating in this championship.

In addition to this, activists on social media networks launched a campaign against the temporary Tunisian government, accusing it of normalisation with Israel. This explains the statement mentioned earlier by the Ministry of Youth and Sports, an effort to tone down this anger.
One coach, trying to avoid being lynched upon his return, claimed that one of the athletes didn't know he was competing against an Israeli.

UPDATE: Zvi adds:

It is time for global sporting federations to stop treating this disgusting behavior as normal behavior and to start censuring and expelling member organizations that refuse to participate in international competition against other countries.

The US and the USSR had no problem with competing against each other in sports for decades, even when they were aiming massive arsenals of nuclear weapons against each other and attempting to destroy each other through overt and covert means.

The behavior of the Arab sporting federations with regard to Israel is disgusting, the kind of behavior in which poor losers and small-minded bigots engage.

Israel, on the other hand, is happy to participate in sporting events anywhere and to compete against other countries - even ones that seek to destroy it - because international sporting and culture are supposed to be above politics in our global athletics system. Israel's stance is the stance that the nations of the world have embraced - all but a few regimes run by small-minded bigots.

Israel embodies the ideal of all sporting federations. Her enemies embody the antithesis of these ideals. This should be highlighted EVERY time one of these stories arises.

This week's Egyptian Muslim attack on a church

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 11:30 AM PDT

Seems to happen a lot, doesn't it?
Ahram Arabic website reported that clashes broke out between protesters and security forces at Saint George's Church in Beni Suef, with eight people injured and 11 arrested.

Angry Muslim protesters attempted to storm Saint George's Church in Al-Wasata city in the governorate of Beni Suef on Friday.

Tensions erupted in the city recently after reports that a 21-year-old Muslim girl had disappeared, with her family accusing a Christian family in the city of forcing her to convert to Christianity and facilitating her travel to Turkey with a Coptic Christian man.

Local Islamist groups had given the Christian family a deadline to return the girl, which expired on Friday, reported Ahram's Arabic language website.

Security forces fired teargas grenades at angry protesters, who attempted to storm the church following the Friday Muslim prayer, and arrested five people for throwing Molotov cocktails at the church.

Security vehicles and forces are reportedly surrounding churches in the city.

A number of traders have already closed their shops, particularly Christian jewelers who fear they will be targets.
It's remarkable that so many Copts haven't fled yet.

Iranian terrorist in Bangkok claims he was "stunned" to find bombs in his cupboard

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 10:00 AM PDT

Remember the three Iranian men found last year to be targeting Israeli diplomats using identical magnetic devices as the New Delhi attack?

One of them - who actually threw one of the bombs at police - claims it is all just a huge, huge misunderstanding:

An Iranian man whose legs were blown off during an alleged botched bomb plot last year against Israeli diplomats in Bangkok said Friday he found the explosives and was trying to dispose of them safely when they detonated.

Saeid Moradi, 29, told a Bangkok court that he was about to leave Thailand when he found four bombs hidden inside radios in a cupboard at a rented house in the city.

Two of the devices exploded as he ran into the street to throw them into a nearby canal -- the second tearing off his legs, he said.

Moradi and Mohammad Khazaei, 42, are among five Iranians suspected of involvement in the February 2012 blasts that followed attacks in India and Georgia and saw Tehran accused by Israel of a terror campaign.

Giving his evidence first, the younger defendant said he accidentally triggered one of the bombs when he opened a cupboard in the apartment.

"I was stunned and threw it into the corner, believing it was a smoke bomb," the wheelchair-bound suspect said via a translator, adding he grabbed two other bombs and ran outside to throw them into a nearby canal.

He did not refer to the fourth device.

Prosecutors accuse Moradi of hurling one bomb at a taxi and a second at two police officers as they approached him on the street, but it instead detonated near the suspect.

The defendant gave a different version of events saying he dropped one of the devices near the taxi by mistake, and tried to throw the other away as the policemen approached fearing it would detonate and hurt them.

"I knew if the police stopped me I'd have to drop the bomb which may have endangered them and people nearby.

"So I threw it about a metre in front of me," he said, adding he blacked out and woke up at hospital later to find his legs had been torn off in the blast.
He just innocently tried to dispose of the four bombs, that mysteriously popped up in his apartment for no apparent reason, in three different spots.

Of course, finding four bombs in your apartment is not a reason to run outside and call the police.

He was instead being a hero, trying to save lives, by disposing the bombs himself - throwing one towards, but not of course at, the police.

I can't wait for the testimony of his roommates. What are the odds that they blame the Mossad for planting the bombs?

Friday Links Part 1

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 08:45 AM PDT

From Ian:
Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinian Journalists Declare War On Israeli Colleagues
If Palestinian journalists have been so radicalized that some are even willing to resort to threats and violence against colleagues, what must one say about the rest of the Palestinians who, for the past two decades, have also been exposed to messages of hate by their leaders?
How can anyone talk about resuming the peace process when Palestinians are being told by their leaders, on a daily basis, how bad and evil Israel is? If Israel is so bad and evil, then how can any leader go to his people and say that he is negotiating with them?
Imagine: a Boston bombing every week
I genuinely empathize with the victims of the Boston bombing. They were killed, maimed, injured, and/or forever traumatized only because they happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. As they gathered to compete in or watch the marathon underway, they were – like all terrorism victims – the epitome of innocent.
But imagine if this happened again next week, at a pizzeria, killing 15 diners. And again, a week later, on a bus, killing 19 passengers. Then, at a discotheque, killing 21 teens. Then, at a church, killing 11 worshipers. And so on, with a new bombing terrorizing us almost every week.
Boston or Jerusalem, terrorism is terrorism
It is important to understand that terrorism is terrorism. It is simply never justifiable. Whether committed by al-Qaeda, Hamas, Fatah, Hezbollah or Ansar al Islam, once someone starts talking about "understanding the root cause," it provides them with a rationale and opens the door for more of these heinous acts against free people, anywhere around the globe.
Playing the Nihilists
"Public intellectual" seems a needlessly complicated term. Isn't "intellectual" already enough of a slur without "public" adding the suggestion of filthy municipal toilets and inefficient mass transport?
Then again, that's the role of your modern intellectual: to take something reasonably straightforward and render it incomprehensible. Here's public intellectual Juan Cole, for example, on the simple matter of two stupid Boston bombers:
Hamas Slams PA for Postponing Anti-Israel Resolutions
Gaza's Hamas terrorist rulers condemned on Thursday a decision by the Palestinian Authority to postpone five UNESCO resolutions against Israel.
"This step is like a reward to the occupation for its crimes and violations," Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said in a statement quoted by the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency.
EU Parliament Iran Visit Under Fire For Not Including Meeting with Human Rights Winners
By removing the requirement to meet with the winners, the European Parliament is "completely undermining the powerful human rights message that the award sent to Iran's oppressive, internationally isolated leadership," Schwammenthal added.
IDF shoots down drone near Haifa; Hezbollah denies involvement
Israeli officials maintain UAV likely sent by Lebanese terror group; 'attempt to violate our border' is grave, says Netanyahu, whose helicopter was forced to make emergency landing during incident
Analysis: Hezbollah drone a publicity stunt
Hezbollah's attempt – likely Iranian-backed – to fly a drone into Israeli air space on Thursday is a dangerous publicity stunt designed to distract attention from its large-scale and bloody involvement in the Syrian civil war.
Lebanese Youth Sign Up for 'Jihad' Against Hizbullah
Lebanese youth have begun to sign up for "armed Jihad in Syria" against Hizbullah terrorists helping Assad.
'Jordan king may be next casualty of Syrian war'
On eve of Abdullah II's talks with Obama, Senator Lindsey Graham says monarch may fall unless conflict on his northern border is contained
NY Judge Rules: Jordanian Bank Can Face Trial Over Terrorism
The victims claim in their lawsuit that the Amman-based Arab Bank "knowingly and purposefully supported" foreign terrorist organizations from 1995 to 2004 by providing financial support to terrorists, including administering payments to the families of Palestinian Authority Arab suicide bombers.
"Manchester Guardian Demands an Independent Jewish State in Palestine"
Remarkably, given the ideological bent of the institution today, there was a time when the Guardian was genuinely concerned over the possibility that 'only' a truncated Jewish state would emerge – one which would represent a mere fraction of the original territory legally assigned to it under the Mandate for Palestine.
My, how their moral sympathies have shifted.

BDS Condolence Cards

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 07:00 AM PDT

A few months ago, I created a series of "condolence cards" for BDS advocates for the many times Israel shows how utterly ineffective they are. They have been popular on Twitter.

I can't believe I never posted them here before....





UPDATE: It seems I did post the first two in context of different stories.

This is what happens when you approach being 2,000 years old.

In order to make up for it, here is a new one I just created:

Worries of Salafi attack at annual Jewish pilgrimage to Tunisia synagogue

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 05:15 AM PDT

From ANSAmed:
A Jewish pilgrimage this weekend to the most ancient synagogue in Africa will take place under huge police presence amidst fears of a Salafist attack. A little under 1000 Jews are arriving at the so called "island of dreams" on Djerba ahead of the pilgrimage on 26 - 28th April to the El Ghriba synagogue, Tunisia's most ancient Jewish site, and the scene of a 2002 suicide attack by Al Qaeda in which 21 people were killed when a bus full of explosives detonated against its walls. The synagogue, which is located in the Jewish village of Hara Seghira, or 'Er-Riadh', dates back to 586 BC and is revered for the chanting of the Torah which resonates from its walls. This peaceful and meditative place is a symbol to Tunisia's Jewish community, who, until yesterday, had been fully tolerated and fully integrated into Tunisian society. But today's pilgrims will make the visit under a shadow of fear as the threat of attack from certain Salafist elements threatens to cancel out what until now has been a peaceful co-existence.

Hundreds of armed officers are lining the entrance to the island as well as in the traditional sites where pilgrims gather for prayers. Most of the 2000 strong Jewish community - the biggest in the country, lives in Arryadh, where the synagogue is located, and the Tunisian government is determined not to be caught off guard by any potential Salafist trouble.

At a demonstration on January 14 last year to mark Ben Ali's escape, Salafist groups shouted at their Jewish neighbours, and threatened to attack them in their homes. Tunisian Salafists make no distinction between Jews and Zionists and Jewish community leaders are hard pressed to drive home the idea that they are first and foremost Tunisians - by many generations, and only second Israelites. In a bid to cut risk security forces have carried out a "clean sweep", arresting nearly 500 people in the last few weeks.
Hezbollah's Al Manar points to the security measures as proof that Arabs are only against Zionism. not Jews. They don't quite mention how the Al Qaeda attack against the synagogue fits in with that alleged tolerance.

Or how this Hassan Nasrallah's quote fits in with that tolerance as well:
If we searched the entire world for a person more cowardly, despicable, weak and feeble in psyche, mind, ideology and religion, we would not find anyone like the Jew. Notice, I do not say the Israeli. (New Yorker, Oct. 14, 2002)

Or how Hezbollah's deadly attack on the Jewish center in Buenos Aries fits in with that famous Muslim tolerance.

1944 Jewish Agency letter to Britain describing death camps in detail

Posted: 26 Apr 2013 03:04 AM PDT

The Guardian has an article about newly released archives describing how the British predicted in 1948 the Jews would win any war, and many other details.

Being the Guardian, it is spinning things to make the Jews look as evil as possible, and I cannot compare the Guardian's reporting with the actual documents yet because they do not seem to be available on the British National Archives website.

But while I was looking, I came across this:






As we all know, the British did nothing with this information to save the remainder of Europe's Jews.

That antipathy seems to have spilled over into the more recently released archives, based on the new report.

Hopefully we will be able to check it out soon rather than trust a newspaper that can be relied upon to always put on an anti-Zionist spin on history.
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