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- The dreaded threaded open thread
- Wednesday Links Part 2
- Iran's PressTV finds pro-Assad protesters in Tunisia
- Report :Saudi businessman offers $10 million to kill Nasrallah
- Wednesday Links Part 1
- World's oldest complete Torah scroll discovered in Bologna
- Bizarre "Palestinian history" argument between Arabs
- The PLO was founded as an antisemitic movement
| The dreaded threaded open thread Posted: 29 May 2013 05:00 PM PDT It's been a while since I had an open thread, and I'm too busy today to post much more, so....here it is. If it would be covered in batter and cut into tiny pieces, it could be a shredded threaded breaded dreaded thread.           |
| Posted: 29 May 2013 02:30 PM PDT From Ian: Another scandalous session of the UNHRC By Anne Bayefsky It is opening week of another session of the UN's top human rights body, the UN Human Rights Council, and anti-Semitism will once again be promoted around the globe via an organization built on the ashes of the Jewish people and sworn to hatred's eradication.Fighting anti-Semitism with subtlety - and vision Analyzing this soft anti-Semitism, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the former US ambassador to the UN and New York's liberal Democratic Senator for 24 years, lamented decades ago that "anti-Semitism has become a unifying global ideology of the totalitarian Left. An intense propaganda campaign, begun in the Soviet Union in the 1970s... was designed to undermine the legitimacy of the State of Israel by explicitly compar[ing] Zionism to Nazism."PM lashes out at 'anti-Semitic' Israel critics "What is fashionable today is to say: 'Well, I don't hate Jews – I just don't think they should have a state' or, effectively, that their state is an illegitimate one that doesn't have a right to exist," said Netanyahu, asserting that to deny the Jewish people's right to a state was anti-Semitic.France arrests six in connection to Toulouse shooting French police on Tuesday arrested six men suspected of being accomplices of Islamist terrorist Mohammed Merah.French university slammed for play featuring Goldberg, the greedy money dealer She was reacting to a statement by Richard Prasquier, former president of the CRIF umbrella organization of French Jewish communities, who said a theater play entitled "Your Children's Role in the Global Economic Recovery" was "grossly anti-Semitic."Robert De Niro to visit Israel in June Robert De Niro, considered one of the greatest American actors of all times, will arrive in Israel next month to attend the Israeli Presidential Conference and take part in President Shimon Peres' 90th birthday celebrations, Yedioth Ahronoth has learned.Anything's possible Yityish "Titi" Aynaw was crowned this year as the first Ethiopian-born Miss Israel.University of Haifa to mark Christian, Arab holidays The University of Haifa will become the first Israeli university to give days off to the student body for Christian and Arab holidays.Righteous Gentile Honored Following Work of Kansas Teens A walkway in Warsaw has been named in honor of a Polish woman who is credited with saving 2,5000 Jewish children during the Holocaust, after students in Kansas succeeded in bringing the story of the righteous gentile to the attention of Polish officials.Jewish Writer Howard Jacobson Presented with a Pig at Literary Festival (VIDEO) Jacobson, who is British, was presented with a pet pig at the Telegraph Hay Festival as part of his winnings for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse prize for comic fiction.Top 12 new fruit and vegetables species developed in Israel Since the first half of the 20th century, Israeli agricultural wizards have been partnering with Mother Nature to bring new fruit and vegetable varieties to the global market, from vividly colored squash to seedless peppers.Qatar seeking to bolster trade ties with Israel Coming to promote high-tech cooperation, Prince Khalifa Al-Thani's upcoming visit will mark the first official stopover in Israel by Qatar royalty.Controlling Emergency Relief from the Sheltered War Room However, there is another side to air raid drills, and that is a practice session for the emergency services that would be needed in case the drills turned into reality.IDF Blog: IDF Soldiers Assist Palestinian Farmers Israel Daily Picture: Journal Article Abstract: The Zionist Message Hidden within Antique Pictures of the Holy Land A 110-year-old trove of pictures taken by the Christian photographers of the American Colony in Jerusalem provides dramatic proof of thriving Jewish communities in Palestine.      |
| Iran's PressTV finds pro-Assad protesters in Tunisia Posted: 29 May 2013 01:30 PM PDT I found this report from Iran's PressTV to be amusing: Tunisians have held a demonstration in the capital, Tunis, in protest against the presence of foreign-backed militants in Syria, Press TV reports.Those Qatari and Saudi Zionists strike again! It is telling that Iran's major rhetorical weapon is still using anti-Israel feeling, clueless that most Arabs have higher priorities nowadays. Notice also that Hamas is off Iran's list of "resistance" to Israel. It is only a matter of time before they are considered Zionist as well.      |
| Report :Saudi businessman offers $10 million to kill Nasrallah Posted: 29 May 2013 11:39 AM PDT  Assabeel and other Arabic media are reporting that a wealthy Saudi businessman has offered $10 million to anyone who killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.Abdullah Mohammed Al Anzi, who is a supporter and financier of the Syrian rebels, has already reportedly donated some 30 million Saudi rials to the rebels. The reports say that Anzi offered the bounty for Nasrallah's head, and will even pay up if the killer is a Shiite. I don't know if he would pay the IDF for assassinating Nasrallah. Some things are beyond the pale, after all.      |
| Posted: 29 May 2013 09:50 AM PDT From Ian: Ayaan Hirsi Ali: The Problem of Muslim Leadership I've seen this before. A Muslim terrorist slays a non-Muslim citizen in the West, and representatives of the Muslim community rush to dissociate themselves and their faith from the horror. After British soldier Lee Rigby was hacked to death last week in Woolwich in south London, Julie Siddiqi, representing the Islamic Society of Britain, quickly stepped before the microphones to attest that all good Muslims were "sickened" by the attack, "just like everyone else."Dutch school stalls Shoah memorial to avoid vandalism Last week, the De Telegraaf daily reported that the school dropped the plan following objections by local residents who said a Holocaust plaque might not be acceptable to some members of Schilderswijk's sizable Muslim population, but Brasjen said he was not aware of such objections.Barry Rubin: Can the U.S. Government Buy Moderation in the Middle East? No! Can the Obama Administration turn radicals into moderates with money?Netanyahu: We Anticipate a Deterioration Israel is gearing up for a deterioration in the regional situation, with a growing number of new threats facing the Jewish state, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, the AFP news agency reports.92nd St. Y to Embrace Another Israel Hater: Alice Walker In addition to lots of other anti-Israel activity, Alice Walker was front and center with Roger Waters as the two of them attempted to block Carnegie Hall from hosting the Israeli Philharmonic in October, 2012. Now Alice Walker is scheduled to appear at the 92nd Street Y on Thursday, May 30.Guardian provides PR for failing BDS campaign against EU football championship in Israel Whilst this campaign, like so many other abysmal attempts to isolate Israel by the anti-Zionist left, will certainly fail, it's important to contextualize BDS in all of its manifestations as the political derivative of various Arab (and Soviet) led boycotts which have been used for many decades as weapons in the war against Israel. In its modern incarnation BDS represents the main component of the "Durban strategy" – adopted by the NGO Forum of the UN's Durban Conference (2001) – adopted by pro-Palestinian groups to completely isolate Israel by promoting economic, academic, cultural and even (as in this case) sporting boycotts of Israel.CAMERA: Financial Times Fantasy Air Strikes in Ramallah You don't need to live in Ramallah, or travel weekly to Gaza, Hebron, Nablus and Jerusalem, to know that there have been no air strikes in Ramallah -- random or otherwise -- in something like 10 years. And with all due respect to Hill, his "good perspective" does not stretch back that far. According to the article, he and his wife arrived in Israel in May 2012, moved on to Ramallah sometime later. A photo caption at the top of the article (see screen capture below) repeats the false claim that there are air strikes in Ramallah.3-Year-Old Critically Wounded in Rock Attack Released from Hospital Three-year-old Adelle Biton of the West Bank Jewish community of Yakir, who was critically wounded in an Arab rock attack two-and-a-half months ago near the city of Ariel, was released from Schneider Children's Hospital in Petach Tikva on Sunday, Israel International News reported. According to the report, her life is no longer in danger, though she is only partially conscious.Abbas' Adviser Calls Israel-PA High-Tech Meeting 'Unacceptable' The adviser, Sabri Saydam, told the Bethlehem-based Ma'an news agency that Palestinian Authority companies should reconsider their participation and "give priority to Palestinian interests."Hamas to Abbas: 'Abducting soldiers is at the heart of our culture' The kidnapping of IDF soldiers is at the heart of Palestinian culture, a military Hamas spokesman said on Tuesday, responding to a speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas called such abductions alien to Palestinian norms.Report: Obama Asks for Plan for No-Fly Zone Over Syria The White House has asked the Pentagon to draw up plans for a no-fly zone inside Syria that would be enforced by the U.S. and other countries such as France and Great Britain, two administration officials told The Daily Beast on Tuesday.Report: 'Solid Proof' of Assad's Chemical Weapons Use Reporters working with the French paper Le Monde may have solid proof that chemical weapons were used in Syria. The reporters spent several weeks with rebels on the front lines of Syria's bloody civil war, and returned with samples of weapons used by President Bashar Assad's army.Syrian rebels near Israel border stole UN's armored trucks A Syrian rebel group that twice abducted United Nations peacekeepers near the Israeli border in the past three months stole several UN vehicles, a UN Peacekeeping spokesperson acknowledged to The Times of Israel — including at least two sophisticated armored personnel carriers.BBC trumpets Hizballah narrative of 'resistance' The move by EU countries to finally designate Hizballah as a terrorist organization is, of course, both necessary and long overdue. Whilst Jonathan Marcus' analysis of the reasons behind that shift may be useful, the fact that he is apparently unable to avoid the temptation of adopting and promoting the terrorist organisation's own narrative with regard to the euphemism of "resistance" does not enhance BBC audience's understanding of Hizballah or the basis for its designation.Nasrallah's worn out rhetoric Now, as Assad, the Iranians and Hezbollah slaughter Syrians and Palestinians, Nasrallah has become a farce whose time is over. The Sunni Arabs expect the West to eliminate Iran, Assad and Nasrallah for them. Israel must not intervene because there is a good chance that this axis will crumble on its own.      |
| World's oldest complete Torah scroll discovered in Bologna Posted: 29 May 2013 08:00 AM PDT A fascinating story: A professor at the University of Bologna has discovered the oldest complete Torah scroll in the world in the University Library of Bologna.Unfortunately, I don't know enough about Maimonides' laws of writing a Torah to know what rules were violated. From the poor quality images, though, it is clear that the Torah looks fundamentally like the Torahs in use today. (h/t Yerushalimey)      |
| Bizarre "Palestinian history" argument between Arabs Posted: 29 May 2013 06:00 AM PDT In Assabeel, Abdullah Azzak quotes a paper by Muslim Brotherhood personality Professor Abdel Fattah Dukhan. Given at a conference on Palestinian Arab issues, Dukhan argues that the ancient Canaanites were Arabs who fiercely defended their land from the invading Hebrew hordes and held off the invasion for 140 years before David conquered Jerusalem and the Jews occupied this Arab land (way before the Arabs came from, um, Arabia.) Azzak is pained at this view of history, especially coming from the Muslim Brotherhood. To him, this argument ignores the holiness of the Land of Palestine and Dukhan is ignoring the Quran. You see, Allah did promise the land to Abraham - who was, of course, Muslim. All the prophets who followed him - Isaac, Jacob, Joseph, Moses, Jesus - were Muslim too, and they understood the importance of Palestine to the Muslim people. The Hebrews were an Arab tribe and their language is just a variant of Arabic. The Quran says that David was not a Jewish king but a Muslim as well, and it describes his conquering Palestine as a great event. How can Dukhan ignore this clear Quranic fact?? Today's Jews are not the descendants of the holy prophets of old. Today's Jews are all Khazars, as everyone knows. Hamas founder Ahmed Yassin, and Islamic Jihad founder Fathi Shikaki, and Fatah leader Abu Jihad, are the real descendants of Abraham and the other prophets who Allah promised Palestine to, says Azzak. You see? It is a fundamental disagreement between people who believe history from a book of myths and those who create their own modern myths.      |
| The PLO was founded as an antisemitic movement Posted: 29 May 2013 02:43 AM PDT Ma'an reports: President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday hailed the creation of the Palestine Liberation Organization as the most significant event in Palestinian people's history.It is nice that Abbas is admitting that the "Palestinian people" aren't very ancient. What other people who have been around for millennia would say that their most significant event was the founding of an organization in 1964? Imagine the Greeks saying that the most important event in their history was something so trite and recent. However, this anniversary gives us the opportunity to revisit the original PLO charter, which stated: Article 24: This Organization does not exercise any territorial sovereignty over the West Bank in the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, on the Gaza Strip or in the Himmah Area.According to the PLO, areas occupied by Arabs were already "liberated." Only the parts controlled by Jews were meant to be targeted to obtain their goals. Curiously, the words "state" and "independence" are also missing from the charter in relationship with its goals. So is any mention of an ancient and historic Palestinian Arab people. If the original goal of the PLO was not to create a state, not to be independent, and not even to re-establish an ancient homeland, then what was its raison d'être? The answer can be seen in Article 18: Article 18:...The claims of historic and spiritual ties between Jews and Palestine are not in agreement with the facts of history or with the true basis of sound statehood. Judaism, because it is a divine religion, is not a nationality with independent existence.All this is proof positive that the establishment of the PLO, the "most important and significant event in the history of the Palestinian people," was not concerned with creating a nation - but in denying one from the Jewish people. And this stance continues to this day by Palestinian Arab leaders. In other words, the founding principle of the PLO was not nationhood, it was not independence, it was not an appeal to historic ties of a "people" to the land. It was simple antisemitism. And the mindset that created that document has not changed one bit since then.      |
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