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Arab League accuses Israel of "Judaizing" PA school curriculum

Posted: 26 May 2013 06:56 PM PDT

You might have missed it, but yesterday was the opening of the 87th Session of the Commission on Educational Programs Addressed to Arab students in the Occupied Arab Territories, which is part of the Arab League.

Perhaps in an effort to distinguish itself from the previous 86 sessions of this august body, they came up with something that is new, at least to me.

The august Commission now accuses Israel of "Judaizing" the Palestinian Arab school curriculum.

The only thing I can think of is that they are complaining that Israel regularly publicizes that the PA curricula include antisemitism and incitement to violence, and by pressuring them to remove patently offensive materials from their schoolbooks, that is considered "Judaization"!

If it is so easy for Israel to "Judaize" the curricula of schools over which it has zero responsibility, then maybe it is time for Israel to Judaize the Palestinian Arab flag as well:




The very existence of this blog post should be enough to start a new Arab League Commission on Dangers of Judaization of the Palestinian Flag, that would meet six times a year in different Arab capitals and issue harshly worded statements.

(h/t Irene for idea of adding blue to symbolize Israel's aggressive desire to take over every piece of land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in both directions.)

Jew-Bashing, the New Anti-Semitism (video parts 1-3)

Posted: 26 May 2013 02:00 PM PDT

3 parts of a 4-part series from Canada have aired so far. I believe that the filmmakers are the same as the one-hour Channel 2 Israel documentary I posted last week.

Antisemitism ,in Europe:

Jew Bashing - Anti-Semitism in Europe from Skeptic on Vimeo.

Antisemitism in the US

Jew Bashing - Anti-Semitism in the USA from Skeptic on Vimeo.

Antisemitism in the Middle East:

Jew Bashing - Anti-Semitism in the Middle East from Skeptic on Vimeo.

When part 4 is available I will post it here as well.

(h/t many people)

Islamists attack "kissing protest" in Turkey

Posted: 26 May 2013 12:00 PM PDT

From Al Arabiya:

Islamists attacked a group of kissing couples who locked lips in a Turkish metro station to protest a morality campaign by the authorities in Ankara, the local press reported on Sunday.

One person was stabbed when about 20 Islamists chanting "Allah Akhbar" (God is Greatest) and some carrying knives attacked the demonstrators on Saturday, the Milliyet and Hurriyet newspapers reported.

About 200 people staged the kissing protest after officials in the Ankara municipality, which is run by Turkey's ruling Islamist-rooted Justice and Development Party (AKP), admonished a young couple for kissing in the street.

Turkey is predominantly Muslim but staunchly secular, although the government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has introduced several measures opponents see as a sign of the creeping Islamization of the country, including restrictions on alcohol.

On Saturday, dozens of couples have locked lips at a subway stop in Ankara, to protest subway authorities' admonishment of a couple that kissed in public.
Turkish media say that, earlier in the week, Ankara subway officials made an announcement asking passengers "to act in accordance with moral rules" after security cameras spotted the couple kissing.

Sunday Links

Posted: 26 May 2013 10:30 AM PDT

From Ian:
PA officials: Abbas keeping us in the dark By Khaled Abu Toameh
The sources said that Abbas failed to brief the four officials on the outcome of his closed meeting with Kerry.
"Even chief PLO negotiator Saeb Erekat does not know the details of the discussions between Abbas and Kerry," the sources said. "Abbas has decided to keep everyone in the dark."
The sources said that Abbas had also failed to brief Palestinian officials on the results of his meeting with Kerry in Ankara several weeks ago.
Honest Reporting: How to Lie about Israel -- and Get Away With It!


'Peres, When Are You Going to Wake Up?'
"And in general, when are you going to wake up from your dream of a New Middle East to the reality of the Islamic Winter that we are living in?" Fuchs asked.
He concluded, "You are the president of the country, but this is not a Presidential regime. There is a government in Jerusalem. Respect it, and it will respect you in your representative role as the state president."
Israel preps for nationwide chemical warfare drill
Israel geared up for a massive military drill Monday to focus on coping with chemical weapons attacks. The nationwide exercise was to drill the civilian population as well as military and emergency services.
Woolwich attackers' university hosted 'extremist' preachers
It was reported today that the university of the attackers that killed Drummer Lee Rigby in Woolwich this week played host to a number of extremist speakers on campus over the past decade.
Greenwich University, which both Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale attended, recently hosted the likes of Dr. Khalid Fikry, Zahir Mahmoud and Abu Usamah.
This week's utterly disturbing Leftists
There is a sickness in the hard Left. Their unerring, almost sociopathic desire to direct the blame for terrible events onto our own country, our own ideology, our own people, is beneath contempt. Sometimes it is enough to just say "this was awful, this was evil, we will not waver".
By attacking our own, the Left is doing exactly what the terrorists wanted all along. As a result, they have become the useless idiots who encourage the status quo.
French soldier stabbed in throat outside Paris
According to French newspaper Le Parisien, police described the attacker as a North African man aged approximately 30-years-old with a beard, a black jacket and a light colored djellaba cloak.
Alleged member of Hezbollah arrested here
The FBI has arrested a San Antonio man on charges he lied to get into the United States and tried to get a sensitive Defense Department position.
Wissam Allouche, 44, appeared for an initial hearing Friday afternoon, and shook his head when U.S. Magistrate Judge Henry Bemporad read the charges leveled in a federal indictment. The judge ordered him held pending a bail hearing and his arraignment Tuesday.
In Depth: How Iranian weapons reach Hezbollah
For 20 years, Israeli intelligence has been playing a game of cat and mouse against the weapons smuggling axis of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in a battle in which "every imaginable method is employed."
Syrian Cyber-Attack on Haifa Water System
A Syrian organization launched a cyber-attack on Haifa's water system two weeks ago, a high ranking Israeli official revealed Saturday.
Speaking at a public panel in Be'er Sheva, Prof. Yitzhak Ben Yisrael, Chairman of the National Council for Research and Development in the Ministry of Science, said the attack was carried out by the "Syrian Electronic Army."
Russia-Syria S-300 sale still on, senior Israeli official says
Reports of this cancellation have "no basis in reality," the official said. "It's a fairy tale. There was no agreement between Putin and Netanyahu."
Still, the official assessed, "It's likely that the Russians will try to stall for time and use this as a bargaining chip without following through on the deal [with Syria]."
Tehran deploys 'massive' number of missile launchers
Iran has fielded a "massive" number of new long-range missile launchers, state TV reported Sunday.
The new weapon components delivered to Iranian military units would allow them to "crush the enemy" with the mass simultaneous fire of long-range surface-to-surface missiles, Defence Minister Gen. Ahmad Vahidi was quoted as saying.
Anti-Israel protesters crash Champions League dinner
The official Champions League final dinner was disrupted Friday night by three people infiltrating a London venue to protest to UEFA President Michel Platini about the under-21 European Championship being hosted by Israel next month.
Hungarian lawmaker doubts Auschwitz museum's historicity
A lawmaker for the ultra-nationalist Jobbik party in Hungary said the Auschwitz death camp museum "may not reflect real facts."
Tamas Gaudi-Nagy made the statement Thursday during a discussion in parliament on a proposal to facilitate visits by teenagers and young adults to the former Nazi camp in Poland.
Dead Sea Scroll fragments to hit the auction block
Nearly 70 years after the discovery of the world's oldest biblical manuscripts, the Palestinian family who originally sold them to scholars and institutions is now quietly marketing the leftovers — fragments the family says it has kept in a Swiss safe deposit box all these years.
India activist seeks Israeli 'volunteer technology'
Israel has a great deal of high-tech, agricultural technology, and environmental innovations it can help India with. But according to Joshua Victor, a social worker and activist, it has something else that can be just as important to the world's second most populous country: A network of volunteer organizations and programs that is a model for the rest of the world.

Libyan anti-Israel postage stamps

Posted: 26 May 2013 08:30 AM PDT

This is the third in a series. 

 As far as I can tell, no one has ever compiled an illustrated list of anti-Israel postage stamps since the 1970s.


 Libya's first stamps on the topic, as far as I can tell, was this 1971 series promoting Fatah terrorism:



There was a 1977 series called "Palestinian Fighters and their Families" but I do not have any images.

In 1979 and 1982 they had some pro-Palestinian Arab stamps that were not explicitly anti-Israel, such as Palestinian Children's Day.

Their stamps promoting "International Day of Cooperation with Palestinian People" would typically draw maps that erased Israel from 1983, 1984 and 1985:





In 1978 the stamps explicitly called for the destruction of Israel by war:



These stamps were to commemorate the "Anti-Israel Summit Conference" in Bahdad in December, 1978.

1986 continued the theme of violent pan-Arab war to destroy Israel:



The first intifada provided more stamps romanticizing violence, a theme that continued even during the Oslo process. This 1988 stamps shows rocks and Molotov cocktails - the "non-violent" resistance we hear so much about:



1992

1989
1994

1995
1996 - rock throwing

Hezbollah lashing out in Syria but feeling squeezed at home and in Europe

Posted: 26 May 2013 06:28 AM PDT

Hezbollah's leader Hassan Nasrallah gave a speech on Saturday where he, for the first time, admitted that Hezbollah is all-in to keep Bashar assad in power:
Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah on Saturday vowed "victory" in Syria, where militants of his powerful Lebanese Shiite movement are fighting alongside regular troops against rebels trying to topple the regime.

"I say to all the honorable people, to the mujahedin, to the heroes: I have always promised you a victory and now I pledge to you a new one" in Syria, he said at a ceremony marking the 13th anniversary of Israel's military withdrawal from Lebanon.

Nasrallah said Hezbollah would always stand by its allies in the Syrian regime of President Bashar Assad, stressing that its own interests were at stake.

"We will continue along the road... bear the responsibilities and the sacrifices," he said in a video-link of a speech delivered live on a huge screen.

"This battle is ours... and I promise you victory," he said.

"Syria is the rear guard of the resistance (Hezbollah's fight with Israel), its backbone, and the resistance cannot stay with its arms folded when its rear guard is exposed.

"We are idiots if we do not act," said Nasrallah who avoids appearing in public for security reasons.
He is bizarrely trying to justify this by playing the Israel card, one that the Arab public is increasingly sick of:
In a televised speech marking the 13th anniversary of the Israeli pullout from southern Lebanon, Nasrallah also said that "if Syria falls, so will Palestine, the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem. We will enter a very dark phase."

He also spoke about Israeli preparations for a possible conflict with Hezbollah and said that Israel formed a new government portfolio dedicated to protecting the home front. "In Israel everything is geared up for a conflict year round and all year they hold maneuvers. Israel fears rockets, because we have no air force. The Israelis built towns along its borders. They are bringing in Jews from Ethiopia, Romania, and Argentina, and placing them by our borders and providing them with money and arms. On our side of the border, our towns are nearly empty."

Nasrallah did not present the fighting as a conflict between Sunni and Shiite Muslims, but rather as one waged between heathens serving a Western Zionist agenda and the Syrian resistance that refuses to accept the dictates of the West.
Nasrallah unequivocally stressed that the fall of the Syrian regime would be a blow to the "resistance." "Syria is the backbone of the 'resistance,' that cannot sit still and wait while its backbone is being broken," he said. "If Syria falls in the hands of the Americans and the Israelis and the American representatives in the region, the 'resistance' will be isolated and Israel will enter Lebanon and force its laws upon it. Lebanon will return to the Israeli era."

In his speech, Nasrallah tied the U.S. and Israel to Jihadist organizations working under the aegis of al-Qaida in Syria: "These combatants coming from many countries received many allowances to leave their countries and arrive at Syria, this is the American method of destabilizing Syria from the inside, using these organizations that brand everyone is heathens, those organizations that had killed more Sunni Muslims than anyone else. An example of this is what is happening in Iraq, Pakistan, and Somalia. We think that the armed forces taking over Syria are a great danger to Lebanon and all the Lebanese, not only Hezbollah or the Lebanese Shiites."
Lebanon's majority non-Shi'ite population is not happy at being dragged into a war they have nothing to do with:
Al-Mustaqbal Party leader Saad Hariri stated on Saturday that Hizbullah leader Sayyed Hasan Nasrallah is demanding the recognition of the "State of Hizbullah," considering that the resistance has announced its "suicide" in the Syrian border town of al-Qusayr.

"You have announced yourself the end of the resistance on Liberation's Day," Hariri addressed Nasrallah in a released statement in which he responded to Hizbullah leader's speech in the commemoration of the liberation of the South earlier on Saturday.

"You have announced the resistance's political and military suicide in al-Qusayr."

Hariri accused Nasrallah of releasing a Fatwa that calls on the Lebanese to get involved in a war on Syrian territories.

"Your speech has no value to us, to most Lebanese and definitely to the Syrian people in all political, national, ethical, legal, religious and human measures."
The opposition to Hezbollah's Syrian adventure was apparent this morning, as a group fired rockets at Hezbollah positions in Lebanon itself:
Rockets slammed into a Hezbollah stronghold outside Beirut, injuring at least four people, hours after the Lebanese militant group's leader declared he could mobilize thousands of fighters to help Syria's rulers beat an insurgency.

As many as three rockets hit a southern suburb of Beirut this morning, damaging homes, Al Jazeera satellite TV said, showing shrapnel-damaged walls and cars. Lebanese President Michel Suleiman called the spillover from Syria's civil war an act of "terrorist saboteurs" who do not want peace and stability for Lebanon, Lebanon's National News Agency said.
Meanwhile, Hezbollah's willingness to bet Lebanon on Assad has pushed some European states to declare it a terror group:
At the beginning of this week, the United Kingdom submitted an official request to the European Union to list Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah's military wing as a terrorist organization. The move was shortly followed by supportive statements from both France and Germany.

"Given the decisions that Hezbollah has taken and the fact that it has fought extremely hard against the Syrian population, I confirm that France will propose to place Hezbollah's military wing on the list of terrorist organizations," French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius said on Wednesday after the Friends of Syria meeting in Amman.

The move from the EU Troika also comes almost a year after a suicide attack attributed to Hezbollah left 6 dead in the Bulgarian sea side resort town of Burgas in July 2012. At the same time that the Bulgarian investigation into the Burgas attack was underway, Cyprus was dealing with the case of Taleb Hussam Yacoub, a Swedish-Lebanese national who admitted in court that he had been recruited by Hezbollah. The young man described his role as a courier in several European capitals, as well as his surveillance missions on Israeli tourists in Cyprus and Turkey. However, it was Hezbollah's involvement in Syria and its increasing evidence of support to Bashar al-Assad's regime that made France and Germany abandon their hesitation, analysts say.
Now Lebanon has a scorecard of Hezbollah's diminishing clout as a legitimate player in Europe:

Video of Palestinian Arabs attacking IDF - from behind journalists

Posted: 26 May 2013 04:00 AM PDT

This exposes both the depravity of using journalists as human shields, and of journalists allowing themselves to be used in such a way.

From The Commentator:
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