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- Chag sameach!
- Israelis saving the world, again
- Tuesday Links Part 2
- Don't believe anything you read in the PalArab media
- Some Zionist Torah for Shavuot
- Tuesday Links Part 1
- Joseph Massad tries to equate anti-semitism with Zionism
- Egyptian Christian writer incites Copts against Jews
- Egyptian preacher calls on Allah to annihilate the Jews. @HRW, @Amnesty silent.
- Gazans can now order Kentucky Fried Chicken
| Posted: 14 May 2013 04:30 PM PDT Shavuot starts tonight, and I will not be blogging until at least Thursday night. Meanwhile, I'll be eating way to much of this:  Sure, I have a bit of lactose intolerance - but it is worth it.           |
| Israelis saving the world, again Posted: 14 May 2013 03:00 PM PDT From Science Daily: Some parts of the body, like the liver, can regenerate themselves after damage. But others, such as our nervous system, are considered either irreparable or slow to recover, leaving thousands with a lifetime of pain, limited mobility, or even paralysis.For some reason, even when so many people want to boycott the Jewish state, Israel has no problem offering its life-saving discoveries to the world. Obviously, it is a plot. (h/t Dror)      |
| Posted: 14 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT From Ian: Strange way to promote peace The Sydney Peace Foundation's stated purpose is "to promote universal human rights and peace with justice" as the building blocks of any civil society. Foundation chairman Stuart Rees, however, has cast a cloud over the organisation's bona fides by dismissing the London Declaration on Combating Anti-Semitism as "childish, thoughtless but easily populist". His condemnation of Julia Gillard and opposition education spokesman Christopher Pyne for "cowardice" in signing it almost beggars belief.Ralph Peters: Israel is a Civilizing Force RP: To me, when I look at Israel, I see not only a Jewish state rebuilt on the ancient Jewish homeland, I see an outpost of the civilization in which I believe. Because I do not believe that all civilizations are equivalent. I don't believe in a civilization that torments women and children, that's woefully corrupt, that in the 21st century, not only cannot build a competitive automobile, but cannot even build a competitive bicycle!Michael Totten: The Muslim Brotherhood's Empty Chair So the Washington Institute for Near East Policy invited senior Muslim Brotherhood official Helmy el-Gazzar to its annual conference in the US, booked him on a business class flight from Cairo, and put him up in the luxurious Ritz Carlton. El-Gazzar made it to Washington and checked into his room, but he refused to show up at the conference.An Open Letter to the Arab League: Thanks, but no Thanks In conclusion, dear neighbors, we – citizens of Israel – want very much to live in Peace, in a region of peace where you and we enjoy it together. But we do not think that there is any point in signing an agreement with someone who today is here and tomorrow is in a grave, and his successors won't honor his signature. When the Middle East becomes a region of peace, give us a call, perhaps we will join the peace that you will begin in the Middle East. until then please leave us alone.Isi Leibler: Candidly Speaking: Déjà vu: 'Peace in Our Time' Were we to have a genuine peace partner, we could achieve a peace treaty and grounds for long-term coexistence in a matter of days. But until then our friends should not seek to impose upon us a Chamberlain-style "Peace in our Time" formula.Jewish Group Honors US Ambassador to UN The American Jewish Committee last week honored U.S. Ambassador to the UN Susan Rice with its prestigious Distinguished Public Service Award.Tel Aviv holds White City celebrations Last weekend Tel Aviv celebrated exactly ten years since UNESCO proclaimed the historic zone of Tel Aviv, also known as the White City, as a World Cultural Heritage site.Wolfson heart surgeons save Syrian girl A four-year-old girl from Syria underwent successful lifesaving heart surgery at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon on Monday as part of its voluntary Save a Child's Heart (SACH) activities. The child, whose identity is not being released to keep the family safe from extremists in her country, was referred to SACH by an American humanitarian organization operating in Israel and Jordan.Ashton Kutcher looks to invest in Israeli high-tech American actor tells GarageGeeks gathering in Tel Aviv that he's looking for "original, creative startups." American actor Ashton Kutcher and his investment partner, Guy Oseary, a producer in the US music industry and Madonna's personal manager, stole the spotlight at the GarageGeeks gathering in Tel Aviv last night. Yossi Vardi, unofficial ambassador of the Israeli high-tech scene, hosted Kutcher and Oseary as part of a "Meet the Industry Leaders" event.Israel Daily Picture: The Shavuot Holiday, Celebrating the Giving of the Torah Jews around the world commemorate the holiday of Shavuot this week, the day on which tradition says the Torah was given to the people of Israel at Mt. Sinai.The Book of Ruth Comes Alive in Antique Photos Taken 100 Years Ago A major effort was made by the photographers to re-enact the story of Ruth. "Ruth," we believe, was a young member of the American Colony community; the remaining "cast" were villagers from the Bethlehem area who were actually harvesting, threshing and winnowing their crops. We have matched the pictures with corresponding verses from the Book of Ruth.      |
| Don't believe anything you read in the PalArab media Posted: 14 May 2013 12:15 PM PDT The "International Middle East Media Center" says: Monday evening, May 13 2013; a group of extremist Israeli settlers set ablaze Palestinian olive orchards and farmlands that belong the villages of Qaryout, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.And from Palestine Info: Jewish settlers set ablaze more than 20 dunums of cultivated land lots in Qaryut village, south of Nablus, on Monday and prevented their owners from approaching to put it off.There are stories like this daily in the PalArab media. Unfortunately, it is all too rare to find out the other side of the story. Luckily, this time we can. The land is owned by a Jew and this was upheld by a court judgment. He is the only person who ever cultivated that field. He started a controlled fire to get rid of overgrown brush. No barley, no wheat, no olives, no Arab owners. Every single word that was reported by the Arab media, and by the spokesman, was a lie. How can anyone believe anything these people say when we have proven time and time again that they lie with impunity?      |
| Some Zionist Torah for Shavuot Posted: 14 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT The holiday of Shavuot starts tonight, and it is traditionally known as the anniversary of God giving the Torah to the Jewish people. So here is a quick, slightly geeky and very Zionist, d'var Torah. The first Rashi on the Torah asks and answers a famous question: Why does the Torah, meant primarily as a means to derive Jewish laws and not meant to be a history book (the word Torah actually means "law,") start with "In the beginning of God's creation..."? Why doesn't it start with the first commandment given to Jews, about the sanctifying of new months? The answer is based on Psalms 111:6, "He declared to His people the power of His works, in giving them the heritage of the nations." For if the nations of the world should say to Israel, "You are robbers, for you conquered by force the lands of the seven nations [of Canaan]," they will reply, "The entire earth belongs to the Holy One, blessed be He; He created it (this we learn from the story of the Creation) and gave it to whomever He deemed proper When He wished, He gave it to them, and when He wished, He took it away from them and gave it to us. But beyond that, the Jewish sages taught, there are three places that are indisputably owned by Jews, because they were purchased even before God fulfilled his promise to the forefathers. The three places are the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron purchased by Abraham, the Temple Mount purchased by King David, and a section of Shechem (Nablus) purchased by Jacob from the family of the Canaanite ruler Hamor. I will not be discussing the irony of how so many tenaciously view these very places as places that Jews specifically have no rights to. I saw something interesting about Abraham's purchase in Hebron. How large was the land he bought? All we know is that he paid 400 silver shekels. (Gen. 23:16) Rabbi Yitzchak bar Yehudah (13th century CE) notes that in Leviticus 27:16, it says that the value of a field sized where you could plant a "chomer" of barley seeds is fifty silver shekels. A chomer is also known as a "kor" and it is equal to 30 se'ah in volume. The Talmud (Eruvin 96a) defines the size of a field that could be sown with a se'ah to be 2500 square cubits (Two "beit se'ah" is equal to 5000 square amot/cubits, the size of the Temple courtyard.) So the size of the 50-shekel measure mentioned in Leviticus, also known as a "beit kor", is 75,000 square amot. Abraham paid 400 shekels, so at the going rate he paid for 600,000 square cubits of land. The Talmud says that a man standing up takes up one square cubit. 600,000 is the number that is used to signify the total number of Jews, as it is roughly the number of Jews counted that left Egypt. This means that Abraham's purchase corresponds to the number of Jews counted when the Children of Israel became a nation. In other words, when Abraham made the first purchase of land in Israel, he bought enough to assure that every Jewish soul has a place in the Land of Israel! (h/t Chabad)      |
| Posted: 14 May 2013 09:10 AM PDT From Ian: Khaled Abu Toameh: Al-Qaradawi and the New Religious Conflict With Israel Al-Qaradawi's visit has further bolstered Hamas's standing, enabling it to tighten its grip over the 1.5 million Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. Moreover, the visit has granted legitimacy to Hamas's rule in the Gaza Strip and turned it, in the Arab and Islamic countries, into an acceptable Islamic party.Ken Livingstone's favourite Islamist spreads Jew-hatred in Gaza We have slept while Islamists such as Qaradawi have built a network of ideological institutions in the West, and an internet, television and publishing empire beyond the dreams of most political movements. Swathes of the liberal-Left have done more than sleep. They have acted as cheerleaders for the Islamists. When Ken Livingstone justified his public embrace of Qaradawi in 2005, he told us the cleric was "a progressive figure" who was "moving that religion in the correct direction".Britain's Lord Ahmed quits party over reported anti-Semitism A member of Britain's House of Lords quit the Labour Party on Monday, two days before he was due to face a hearing over allegations he made anti-Semitic remarks in a television interview.Barry Rubin: As Benghazi Scandal Builds, Libya Falls Apart A forgotten element in the Benghazi scandal is this one: If Obama had said it was a terrorist attack back in September 2012 he would have to have done something about it.Guardian's Milne diligently promotes Assad propaganda Like his ideological heroes in Damascus, Milne probably does not for one moment really believe that Israel is collaborating with Al Qaeda or – no less absurdly – that Al Qaida would agree to join forces with Israel. Such nonsense is just part of the propaganda strategy of the Assad regime.BBC's Bowen invents new quarter in Jerusalem Obviously Bowen's expertise in Jerusalem geography is about as precise as his knowledge of Jewish prayer traditions.Fox's Discredited Anti-Israel Guest Michael Scheuer Scheuer has been out of government nine years. He has written or said little in that time to burnish what were previously thin credentials as a Middle East expert, his CIA posting notwithstanding. He also seems to be obsessed negatively with the Jewish state and its supporters, repeatedly making false generalizations. Why is Fox so hospitable to Scheuer when he has so thoroughly discredited himself by his antisemitic bias and loony Middle East comments on TV and in other venues?Canada deports 1968 Palestinian El Al hijacker After a 25-year legal battle, Canada has finally deported a Palestinian convicted of an attack on an Israeli airliner in 1968, Immigration Minister Jason Kenney said on Monday.UN Watch: Iran to chair U.N. disarmament conference Iran will chair the United Nations' most important disarmament negotiating forum during the panel's May session, which opened today, sparking calls by an independent monitoring group for the U.S., the EU, and UN chief Ban Ki-moon to protest.US to boycott UN anti-nuke meetings chaired by Iran The United States said Monday it will refuse to send its ambassador to any meeting of the UN forum where nuclear disarmament is negotiated when it's chaired by Iran because countries under UN sanctions shouldn't be allowed to hold such positions.Nigeria court convicts Iranian of illegal arms shipment A Nigerian court on Monday sentenced an alleged member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and his Nigerian accomplice to five years in jail each over an illegal arms shipment.      |
| Joseph Massad tries to equate anti-semitism with Zionism Posted: 14 May 2013 07:48 AM PDT Joseph Massad, the Columbia professor whose anti-Zionist arguments are often little more than proof by assertion, has a new piece in Al Jazeera that includes his usual pseudo-scholarship, and ends up being almost unbelievably offensive. Here is the key section: Scientific anti-Semitism insisted that the Jews were different from Christian Europeans. Indeed that the Jews were not European at all and that their very presence in Europe is what causes anti-Semitism. The reason why Jews caused so many problems for European Christians had to do with their alleged rootlessness, that they lacked a country, and hence country-based loyalty. In the Romantic age of European nationalisms, anti-Semites argued that Jews did not fit in the new national configurations, and disrupted national and racial purity essential to most European nationalisms. This is why if the Jews remained in Europe, the anti-Semites argued, they could only cause hostility among Christian Europeans. The only solution was for the Jews to exit from Europe and have their own country. Needless to say, religious and secular Jews opposed this horrific anti-Semitic line of thinking. Orthodox and Reform Jews, Socialist and Communist Jews, cosmopolitan and Yiddishkeit cultural Jews, all agreed that this was a dangerous ideology of hostility that sought the expulsion of Jews from their European homelands.Is there anything wrong in this paragraph? Massad is not your typical neanderthal Israel-hater. He is smart enough to hide his agenda and sprinkle his lies so subtly that it requires a word-by-word analysis to see where they are. In this case, nearly all of this paragraph is slanted but accurate - except for five words. "The only solution was for the Jews to exit from Europe and have their own country." Nineteenth century anti-semites did not espouse Jews having their own country. They simply wanted to persecute and marginalize the Jews in their countries! Modern Zionism did not work in concert with 19th century "scientific" anti-semitism, it was a response to it. Here is the description of Jews in the 1898 International Yearbook describing the situation after two decades of "scientific" anti-semitism taking root in Europe: During the year 1898, the persecution of the Jews continued in many parts of the world, taking the form of violent anti-Semitic outbreaks, especially in Austria-Hungary and France. In France the hatred of the Jews is especially marked among the lower classes of society, including the laboring classes, and it has been employed by socialistic and radical leaders for party ends. The political importance of French anti-Semitism can be seen in connection with the Dreyfus case. (See FRANCE.) In Austria-Hungary, on the other hand, it is not only the lower classes who are opposed to Jews, nor is the anti-Jewish fanaticism found exclusively in districts where the educational standard is low. Vienna is a great centre of anti-Semitism, the mayor of the city being himself an anti-Semitic agitator. A numerous element of the population in Germany and Italy are also hostile to the Jews. In Germany, the anti-Semites include some of the large landed proprietors, and old nobility. In Russia where the persecution of the Jews has led in recent years to an extensive migration of that despised sect, the persecution seems to come mainly from the official class. The Russian laws discriminate against Jews, forbidding them to live outside of certain specified districts, and to follow certain pursuits. It is this revival of the old-time spirit of persecution in Europe that has led to the so-called Zionist movement for the repeopling of Palestine by the Jews. ...Appleton's Annual Cyclopedia of the same year makes this more explicit: The growth of anti-Semitism within the past few decades has had much to do with the Zionistic movement, for it is only in countries where civil and religious liberty is denied to the Jew that there is a desire to colonize in Palestine under any form.If the anti-semites wanted a state in Palestine for the Jews, where is the literature demanding this? Why were they restricting Jews to live in certain districts instead of encouraging their emigration? Massad helpfully links to the hard-to-find pamphlet written by the apparent coiner of the word "anti-semite," Wilhelm Marr, where he explains "scientifically" why he has a problem with Jews in Europe. Not once does he say that the Jews must have their own state to solve this problem. That idea is wholly made up by Massad in order to pretend that Zionism is the same as anti-semitism. This lying academic goes on to describe how Zionists, from Herzl onwards, allegedly collaborated with anti-semites - including, of course, Hitler - to help create Israel. Massad is purposefully fudging cause and effect, because only with that lie can he continue to build his wholly fictional thesis and try to separate historic anti-semitism with anti-Zionism. Massad believes that anti-Arabism is the only real anti-semitism, and he goes on to ludicrously claim that German reparations to Jews after the Holocaust is only because Germans belatedly came to realize that Jews were really "white." The article is a ludicrous and offensive twisting of history in order to demonize today's Jews. The good Jews in Massad's estimation were anti-Zionists who were wiped out in the Holocaust. He actually tries to imply that Hitler didn't target Zionist Jews: The Jewish holocaust [note the lower case - EoZ] killed off the majority of Jews who fought and struggled against European anti-Semitism, including Zionism. With their death, the only remaining "Semites" who are fighting against Zionism and its anti-Semitism today are the Palestinian people.This absurd piece reveals much - not about history or truth, but about Massad's seething hate and willingness to twist facts to fit his own agenda. It is a stain on Columbia University that they keep this fraud employed.      |
| Egyptian Christian writer incites Copts against Jews Posted: 14 May 2013 06:15 AM PDT It isn't only Arab Muslims who hate Jews. An article by an Egyptian Christian writer, Emile Amin, that was published both in Egypt and in the UAE decries (false) reports that Copts are seeking asylum in Israel as well as the true stories that Copts have traveled to Israel to visit holy places. In order to dissuade this awful "normalization," Amin stoops to classic Jew-hatred: The Jews are the primary enemy for the Christians, who have been suffering from them for seven centuries before Islam. The Jewish Talmud shows the spirit according to which Jews should behave towards Christians: "You can, nay, you must kill the best among the Christians." And what are the Freemasonry and other global organizations anyway, if not secret organizations which were established in 33 AD in order to fight Christianity which was developing secretly, after the Jews couldn't fight it in the open?The previous Coptic Pope harshly criticized the Vatican for exonerating Jews for the death of Jesus. If you want to know what medieval Christian antisemitism looked like, the Egyptian Coptic community is a good place to start. Like their Muslim neighbors, they have managed to jealously preserve their 15th century traditions of Jew hatred. Maybe UNESCO will offer to honor their admirable steadfastness in adhering to their antisemitic beliefs and culture for so many centuries. (h/t Ibn Boutros)      |
| Egyptian preacher calls on Allah to annihilate the Jews. @HRW, @Amnesty silent. Posted: 14 May 2013 04:45 AM PDT Nothing genocidal about this: Following are excerpts from a public address delivered by Egyptian cleric Sami Abu Al-'Ala, which aired on Al-Hafez TV on May 3, 2013: Sami Abu Al-'Ala: Oh Allah, make the conspiracies of the Jews their own ruin. Oh Allah, crush their soldiers and their weapons, destroy their homes, freeze the blood in their veins, disperse them, make their children orphans and their women widows, and shake the earth under their feet. Oh Allah, annihilate the Jews as you annihilated the peoples of 'Aad and Thamud. Oh Allah, make the Jews annihilate themselves. In related news, today a Jordanian newspaper had a major feature article about the upcoming Ramadan TV series "Khaybar" that is pure Jew-hatred. Anticipation of this TV series is very high, which the article seems to say is being readied for this upcoming Ramadan that starts in July "thanks to the technical team which works day and night to complete editing the scenes." (I thought they were aiming at Ramadan 2014.) Again, Human Rights Watch and Amnesty are silent about Arab and Muslim antisemitism, broadcast on TV. A single tweet or short report from them could put the Arab broadcasters on the defensive about their antisemitism, but they refuse to say a word, even though they are on the record as saying that antisemitism is a human rights issue. Tweet them, email them and post on their Facebook pages demanding that they condemn this upcoming series. Demand a response. Their silence in the face of imminent incitement of hundreds of millions of Arabs against Jews is unconscionable.      |
| Gazans can now order Kentucky Fried Chicken Posted: 14 May 2013 02:18 AM PDT  An enterprising Gaza entrepreneur has hooked up with a counterpart in Egypt to provide restaurant take-out services to Gaza from El Arish, Egypt.A Gaza food service company director, Khalil Efranji, stated that "a company that offers delivery service started about two weeks ago to take food orders from the Egyptian town of El Arish to the Gaza Strip, and these requests are for meals from the worldwide Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant." He added: "The idea of transferring meals from El Arish to Gaza came after repeated requests from people who are accustomed to travel, and eating in restaurants around the world"" The time it takes to cover the distance between El Arish and Gaza is less than three hours and the demand is great, according to Efranji. It appears that the meals are smuggled in via tunnels; I don't believe that Egypt would allow food delivery through the Rafah crossings. It is nice to know that starving Gazans have an alternative to basic food commodities like flour, rice and Chanukah chocolate coins. Here is El Arish's KFC Facebook page.      |
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