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A convoy of medical equipment broke the Gaza "siege!"

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 08:37 PM PDT

From COGAT (Israel's Coordination of Government Activities in the Territories):
COGAT has coordinated the crossing of the Jordanian supply convoy bound for the Jordanian Hospital in the Gaza Strip.

This convoy includes 12 supply truckloads carrying medical equipment, medications and food for the hospital.
Yes, somehow 12 trucks filled with medical equipment managed to break the Israeli "siege" of Gaza, by going...through Israel, with its full cooperation.

No threats, no incidents, no one killed.

And, of course ..no media.

So the myth of the "siege" can remain the conventional wisdom.

More links: Syrians hack Haifa water?, interview with Lebanese Israeli, pro-settler piece in The Guardian

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:00 PM PDT

Syrian hackers claim to have hacked Haifa's water system:
A Syrian hackers' group paraded the secret information it has allegedly obtained from Israeli
websites by means of a cyber attack, transferring it to Israel's regional foe Iran.

Two weeks after Yitzhak Ben-Yisrael, chairman of the National Council for Research and Development, said Syrian Electronic Army's hackers attempted two weeks ago to launch a cyber attack against Haifa's water system, failing, the semi-official Iranian news agency FARS published the documents, complete with writings in Hebrew, allegedly obtained in the course of the attack against the websites of Haifa's municipal services.
Interview with Jonathan El Khoury: Lebanese citizen of Israel defending Medinat Israel



Palestinian Arabs lay foundations for state in Area C
Six cities, two airports, a high-tech complex, a university and a system of highways to connect all of the above are included in the new Palestinian construction plan aimed at setting facts on the ground and creating a territorial continuity in the West Bank.

Dozens of sites in the West Bank are part of the new trend of construction, as the authorities refuse to wait for the revival of peace talks and are laying down the foundations and infrastructure for an independent state.

Yedioth Ahronoth obtained a document detailing the planned construction projects that are part of the "Fayyad Plan," a template for a de facto Palestinian statehood.

The majority of the projects are in the Israel-controlled Area C, and many of them have already begun. Some are awaiting the approval of the Civil Administration, the Israeli governing body that operates in the West Bank.

The Palestinians hope to push the projects that the Civil Administration will reject through negotiations as "confidence-building steps." In view of US Secretary of State John Kerry's frequent visits to the region, the plan looks grounded in reality.

The Blaze picked up my story about the Paris "art" exhibition glorifying Arab terrorists.

Middle East Monitor honors an Arab "expert" on Judaism. I looked at his website; it looks like his "expertise" is in translating Encyclopedia Judaic entries into Arabic. Plus some of the usual rumors ("Thousands of Jews joined the Nazi army!" "Most Zionist archaelology is fake!")

Anti-Hezbollah protester killed in Lebanon. Ho-hum.

I mentioned this in passing this morning, but this NGO Monitor report is important:
The European Commission transfers hundreds of millions of Euros annually to political advocacy organizations globally through frameworks such as EIDHR, PfP, AIDCO, the Anna Lindh Foundation, and others. In many cases, particularly in the Middle East, this European Union funding is allocated in non-transparent processes to organizations whose activities are entirely inconsistent with the stated objectives.

This report examines one case in detail – EIDHR and PfP grants (total €602,798 for 2011-2014) to the Coalition of Women for Peace (CWP) and partners. CWP is a leader in the campaigns to demonize Israel, including boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) via the "Who Profits" website, and sponsoring "Nakba Day" activities that repeat Palestinian narratives. EC policy opposes BDS and other forms of demonization as counter-productive to peace efforts. In 2011, due to CWP's radical activities, the US-based New Israel Fund (NIF) ended funding of CWP.
A surprising venue for Dani Dayan, an Israeli supporter of Jews living in Judea and Samaria - The Guardian!
This week marks 46 years since the agonising days of June 1967, when the Arab world physically tried to annihilate Israel. We defeated them and liberated the strategic hills that overlook 70% of Israel's population. If partition of this contested land was ever the just solution to the conflict, it ceased the moment one side refused. It was not a mere rejection: they launched repeated assaults to take it all by force. Returning Israel to its indefensible nine-mile waistline would once again place us in mortal danger, while rewarding the aggressor.

Our communities stand on solid moral ground. Built on vacant land, no settlement stands on the ruins of any Arab village. Naturally, there are civil disputes over land ownership. Some are real, others mere provocations. All should be resolved by courts of law. Last year in Migron and Ulpana, we had serious doubts about the judge's verdict, but still we abided by the court decision. In Judea and Samaria there is ample room for many Jews, many Palestinians and peaceful coexistence.

Our communities stand on solid moral ground because the right of Jews to live in Shiloh, Hebron or Beth El is inalienable. These sites are the cradles of Jewish civilisation, the birthplace of Hebraic culture. Negating the right of Jews to live in these historic parts of the Jewish homeland would be morally wrong.

Our communities stand on solid moral ground, because they are not – and never were – an impediment to peace. Statements such as Baroness Ashton's are misinformed, erroneous and the real obstruction. Ashton and her colleagues are most welcome to visit our communities to see for themselves how distant reality is from their perception.
Finally, this is a pretty interesting MEMRI video:



(h/t Yoel, Israel Muse, Y Medad))

Saudi paper blasts Hezbollah as "ruthless terrorist organization"

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 01:00 PM PDT

It is truly scary when Gulf Arabs have a better sense of how to characterize Hezbollah than Europeans do.

This op-ed from the Saudi Gazette last week is perhaps a tad overly optimistic, but at least it gets one thing right:
THERE will be those who wonder why the GCC did not declare Hezbollah a terrorist organization long ago. Hezbollah rode high in the opinion of some after it threw back the 2006 Israeli assault on southern Lebanon. However, the reality has always been that this is a group that is entirely preoccupied with its own agenda and has no interest in promoting the unity and reconstruction of Lebanon.

Indeed, in order to protect its mini-state within the country, the Hezbollah leadership has been prepared to act as an agent for Iran and its Syrian ally Bashar Al-Assad. In return for dancing to Tehran's tune and seeking to carry out the disruptive interventions desired by the Iranian leadership, its militiamen have been armed and trained and the movement as a whole has seen many millions of Iranian dollars poured into its coffers.

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah may, however, have now overreached himself. Some wonder if he has not become a victim of his own propaganda about a militant and victorious organization and really believes that his forces are actually capable of turning the tide of defeat that is engulfing the Assad regime. Not only this, but he clearly had little idea of how, by throwing in its lot with the hated Assad, Hezbollah would unmask itself in the Arab world as an Iranian cipher. Even the leadership of Hamas, with which Hezbollah once had close relations, recoiled in disgust when it threw in its lot with the Assad dictatorship.

In recognizing that Hezbollah, for all its attempts to portray itself as a responsible political movement, is in fact simply a terror group, the GCC member states have taken a bold and decisive step. No longer will Hezbollah be able to present itself convincingly as a champion of any Arab cause. No longer will it be able to pretend that its men are dying for the rest of the Arab world.

Indeed, by rushing to fight alongside Assad's faltering army and Shabiha militiamen, this terror group has allied itself with a government that has sought and failed to terrorize its own people into obedience.

It must be wondered if some Hezbollah leaders do not already appreciate the considerable risks of rushing to the aid of a doomed regime. Once Assad is gone, there will be no easy supply line to Hezbollah-occupied areas of Lebanon. Nasrallah might have argued that it was for this very reason, plus the need to keep Iranian support, that its commanders simply had to send young Lebanese to Syria to fight and die alongside Assad's forces. But it will prove to be a desperate move.

When Syria is free, Hezbollah will be alone and isolated in its south Lebanon territory. Its murderous and malign influence in the country will be challenged by moderate Lebanese, who are fed up with its strutting thugs and the obstruction of its leaders in the country's delicate political process. The time is past when the Hezbollah leadership can pose as a champion of the Arab cause. Thanks to its slavish support for Iran and Syria, it has actually defined itself as an enemy of the Arab world in general and the Palestinian cause in particular.

Hezbollah needs to be seen for the ruthless terrorist organization that it really is and the GCC's decision to call it such is surely a crucial nail in the terror group's coffin.

(h/t Arsen)

Isaac Newton's Hebrew handwriting

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 11:30 AM PDT

In 2007, I wrote this post:

The Jewish National and University Library in Jerusalem has a collection of Isaac Newton's non-scientific writings, many of them theological.

In a manuscript where Newton discussed aspects of the Temple in Jerusalem, we can see here where he actually writes in Hebrew in addition to English and Latin:
At the time I used an image host that no longer exists, so my picture of Newton's Hebrew handwriting (in this case, while discussing Maimonides) was lost. (I cannot edit posts more than 5000 posts ago, due to a strange Blogger glitch, so I am missing many old images.)

So here again is Isaac Newton's writing:


His vowelization of the Talmudic phrase which is today pronounced as "Tah Sh'ma" as "Tay Shayma" is interesting too.

6/9 Links: US denounces Falk, Egypt rejected Golda peace offer in 1973, Pals protest new PM

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 10:00 AM PDT

From Ian:
US Denounces Falk's 'Outrageous Abuse' of UN Position
"We welcome U.S. Ambassador Donahoe's strong rejection and condemnation of Richard Falk's latest report on the human rights situation of the Palestinians, and call on Secretary General Ban Ki-moon, U.N. High Commissioner Navi Pillay and member states of the Human Rights Council to denounce Falk and his outrageous abuse of the position he holds," said ADL National Director Abraham Foxman.
"Mr. Falk's attempt to paint himself as the victim of an Israeli government-sponsored defamation campaign, carried out by U.N. Watch, has echoes of classical anti-Semitic conspiracy theories," asserted Foxman.
My prediction: Please help prove it wrong
A determined domestic thrust is under way to compress Israel back into its precarious pre-1967 frontiers, imperiling the viability of Jewish sovereignty.
It is important to note the metamorphosis that has taken place in the rationale of the two-state doctrine. For in contrast to the not too- distant past, withdrawal from the territories across the 1967 Green Line is now no longer presented – as least not, primarily – as a measure designed to attain a peace accord with the Palestinians. Rather, it is portrayed as a desired value in, and of, itself. Today, territorial retreat is being promoted as a standalone moral imperative which must be aspired to, no matter what the peace negotiations with the Palestinians achieve. Or don't.
Golda Meir offered Egypt most of Sinai for peace before 1973 war
Several months before the 1973 Yom Kippur War, then-Israeli prime minister Golda Meir used West German diplomatic channels to offer Egypt most of the Sinai Peninsula in exchange for peace, according to documents released Sunday by the state archives.
Leftists won't Apologize over Gay Murder Smear
For four years, leftists blamed the religious sector, and especially hareidim, for the 2009 double murder in Tel Aviv's Barnoar club, which caters to homosexual youths. A gunman opened fire on youths at the club, killing a young man and a young woman, and leaving others crippled.
Now, police have arrested four people in connection with the attack. According to leaks, the police have solid evidence that the attack was carried out by a group of young men with criminal backgrounds in revenge for the alleged rape of their relative, a male youth, by the manager of the club.
BBC self-censors on gay rights in Middle East
The BBC ignored the event completely, with no reporting on the Middle East page of its website or in the 'In Pictures' features for that day or that week.
One brief reference to the event was, however, to be found at the bottom of a strangely headlined article concerning the arrest of suspects in the investigation into the shooting at the Bar Noar (not "Bar Noah" as stated in the BBC article) LGBT youth club in 2009 which – contrary to the headline's implication (Four held over Israel 'gay attack')– appears at this stage not to have been motivated by anti-gay sentiment on the part of the perpetrators.
Alert Soldiers Thwart Stabbing in Hevron
Alert Border Police officers thwarted an attempted terrorist attack at the Tomb of the Patriarchs (Ma'arat Hamachpelah) in Hevron on Saturday night.
Palestinians protest against new PA prime minister
The first protest against Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah took place in Hebron on Saturday.
Dozens of Palestinians staged a sit-in-strike in the center of the city in protest of Hamdallah's failure to appoint more than one minister from Hebron to his new government, which was sworn in before PA President Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday.
UN Official: Syrian Army Asked IDF Not to Hit its Tanks in the Golan
"The Government of Israel Liaison Officer informed UNDOF that the IDF had provided emergency medical treatment to a total of 16 armed members of the opposition."
'Despite Qusair victory, Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis showing cracks'
The Iran-Syria-Hezbollah axis is showing cracks, but until the Syrian rebels unite and receive a steady supply of weapons, Syrian President Bashar Assad has high chances of survival, the former head of the IDF Intelligence Directorate, Amos Yadlin, said Saturday.
"This development [cracks in the axis] is beneficial for Israel, but the price is sporadic terrorist activity in the Golan Heights," Yadlin said, during a Channel 2 interview.
German report: Berlin a hub of Hezbollah activity
Hezbollah has 950 members in Germany, including 250 in the capital, a reported released by Berlin's domestic intelligence agency released last week showed.
A Hezbollah-controlled orphans organization in Lower Saxony state is used to raise money for the families of suicide bombers targeting Israelis, the 140-page German-language report examined by The Jerusalem Post also showed.
Erdogan rules out early elections as thousands defy call to end protest
Tens of thousands of people thronged Istanbul's Taksim Square Saturday, and thousands more turned out in central Ankara as protests that have presented Turkey's prime minister with the first serious challenge to his leadership entered their second week.
Hours earlier, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's governing party dismissed the protests, which have spread across the country, as an opposition attempt to topple the government, and rejected calls for early elections.
Weeklong protests crack Turkey's international image
A violent police crackdown on a small environmental sit-in at Istanbul's central Taksim Square has done more than spawn a week of protests across the country. It has left cracks in the shiny international image of a tolerant and deeply democratic Turkey.
It might even have rattled the nation's grand ambitions on the world stage, which include a bid to host the 2020 Olympics and its long-standing aim to join the European Union.
Arab boycott of Lebanese movie filmed in Israel is the 'height of obscenity'
When bestselling Algerian writer Mohammed Moulessehoul discovered the Arab League had asked its 22 member states to boycott the award-winning film based on his book, "The Attack," he says, he wasn't at all surprised.
To the 58-year-old, who publishes under the pen name Yasmina Khadra, the Arab League's attitude is emblematic of "how ridiculous the Arabic political elite can be."
Lebanese Film Director Ziad Dweiri/Doueiri ("The Attack") Defends His Visit to Israel: Boycott Harms Us, Not Israel


Omri Casspi, 'Jewish Jordan' Partner on Basketball Camps to Inspire Youths On and Off the Court
Before last year, basketball camps for Jewish youths never had an instructor quite like Omri Casspi, a forward for the National Basketball Association's (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers and the first Israeli-born player in NBA history.
Tel Aviv U. helps discover new planet
"This is the first time that this aspect of Einstein's Theory of Relativity has been used to discover a planet," said Mazeh. "We have been searching for this elusive effect for more than two years, and we finally found a planet… It is a dream come true."
For Ethiopia-born Miss Israel, an emotional return
Israel's first Ethiopian-born beauty queen Yityish Titi Aynaw made an emotional return trip this week to her native homeland, to accompany extended members of her family on their aliyah journey to Israel.
Aynaw, 21, from Netanya, was chosen Miss Israel 2013 in February. She had left Ethiopia with members of her immediate family at age 10.

Russia detains 300 Muslim worshippers. Just imagine if Israel had done this!

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT

Ya Libnan reports:
In a new crackdown on Russian Muslims, Moscow police have detained more than 300 worshippers after rounding them up during prayer at a Muslim prayer room in the Russian capital.

"The situation in the North Caucasus should be kept under particular control," President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of security force officers, Reuters reported on Friday, June 7.
"The policy in the fight against corruption, crime and the insurgency has to be carried out harshly and consistently."

In a raid carried on Friday, the forces detained 300 Muslims, including 170 foreigners, without disclosing reasons behind their arrest.

The forces, led by Federal Security Service (FSB), also confiscated Islamic literature to check its content.

Friday's raid is the third targeting Muslim places of worship in Moscow or St Petersburg this year.
I have no idea whether the detainees were planning something dangerous while pretending to pray, or if the Russian security forces are simply targeting Muslims.

But if Israel had done anything close to this, there would be multiple UN sessions announced by now, along with outraged op-eds and a firestorm on Twitter.

Saudi cleric: "It's obvious Jews are the most hostile to Muslims"

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 07:00 AM PDT

Umm al-Khair, a Saudi preacher, went into classic Islamic projection mode during his Friday sermon,
reported in Saudi daily Al-Madina.

Al-Khair said that Jews who are most hostile of all peoples to the Islamic nation since Allah sent the Prophet Muhammad.

According to the cleric, it is not permissible for a Muslim to hide the fact that the Jews are most hostile to them, and in second place are the Christians - who are behind the Jews, and who are paying the Jews, and are now seeking to change the map of the Muslim world with the help of the Magi idolaters and their slaves.

We are truly honored that such a high percentages of the brains of Muslim clerics are obsessed with Jews.

Arabic media hotly anticipating antisemitic "Khaybar" Ramadan miniseries (sign the petition!)

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 05:30 AM PDT

There were a couple of newer articles about the upcoming antisemitic mini-series "Khaybar" scheduled to run in various Arab countries during Ramadan - and they generally do not even try to mask the film's Jew-hatred.

"Khaybar" has an all-star pan-Arab cast, with famous actors from Syria, Jordan and Egypt acting out roles from the linchpin event of the series, the defeat of Jews in the battle of Khaybar.

Egyptian actor Khalil Marsa gives behind-the-scenes tidbits in an Egyptian article, where we learn that "The series 'Khaybar' focuses mainly the Jewish community, their ideas, characteristics, tactics and the extent of entrenched hostility between them and the Arabs from the days of Moses."

Youm7 talks about how the director is working day and night to complete post-production before Ramadan next month. It says that the film as "addresses issues to uncover the betrayal of the Jews and their false promises since the battle."

DPNews Arabic says that besides the historical parts of the series, it "sheds light on Jews' attributes and how they have caused the enmity and hatred of others."

One webpage dedicated to Ramadan TV series expects Khaybar to have no less than 30 parts.

I was wondering if perhaps the reason that HRW and Amnesty refuse to condemn this upcoming series, or indeed any Arab antisemitism, is because they support free speech, and refuse to condemn any incitement or hate speech. However, this is not the case.

In 2012, HRW noted that "International human rights law provides strong protections for free expression. It grants states leeway to restrict it, provided that such restrictions are both defined narrowly and necessary in a democratic society for national security or public safety, public order, the protection of public health or morals or the protection of the rights and freedoms of others. In addition, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights requires states to prohibit "advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence."

 Amnesty similarly states "[T]he right to freedom of expression is not absolute -- neither for the creators of material nor their critics. It carries responsibilities and it may, therefore, be subject to restrictions in the name of safeguarding the rights of others. In particular, any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence cannot be considered legitimate exercise of freedom of expression. Under international standards, such 'hate speech' should be prohibited by law."

Can Khaybar - a slick film production whose entire purpose is to demonize Jews as a people - be seen as anything other than hate speech? Do human rights organizations think that Hollywood-style production shields a film from the fact that its entire purpose is to promote hate?

We have a chance to publicize this hate before it airs, and to force the promoters and state sponsors to answer for their hate. It is a shame that "human rights" organizations are hiding from their responsibility to lead against such incitement.

Please sign the petition to convince Amnesty and HRW to simply make a statement against this upcoming mass incitement. Their adamant refusal to speak against it so far, under their own definitions of hate speech, is truly hypocritical.

BDSMers force PA minister to flee conference; PA responds by beating BDSMer

Posted: 09 Jun 2013 03:06 AM PDT

From JPost:
Palestinian Authority Economy Minister Jawad al-Naji was forced to walk out of The Palestinian Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Conference on Saturday after participants demanded that he leave for insulting a man who asked a "provocative" question.

The man was later severely beaten by PA security officers accompanying the minister and taken to hospital.

Eyewitnesses reported that one of the participants, Nizar Banat, asked the minister why the PA and President Mahmoud Abbas were continuing to conduct security coordination with Israel while fighting "normalization" with Israelis.

In response, the angry minister called on the activist to to "stop barking." The minister's remark drew sharp criticism from the participants, who demanded that he leave the conference instantly.

When the moderator asked the minister to apologize, al- Naji walked out of the conference.

One of the participants said that PA security officers and Fatah "thugs" later beat Banat as he exited the conference.

Banat was taken to the hospital, where he was being treated for bruises, the participant said.

He said that at least seven men attacked him shortly after he left the conference hall.

"They tried to pull me out of a car," he said. "When I resisted, they dragged me out and beat me." He added that some of the attackers were aides to the minister.

The participant said that PA security officers also started searching the cellphones of some participants to make sure they had not filmed the confrontation between Banat and the minister.

"What happened today at the Bethlehem University conference is very serious," she said. "The activist only asked the minister why he and President Abbas were campaigning against normalization with Israel while at the same time conducting security coordination with Israel."

She insisted that the minister was "expelled" from the university and did not voluntarily walk out.
Here's video of al-Naji walking out, as the haters cheer:



We have seen before that the BDS movement is far more radical than even the PA and is against any two-state solution.

The PA, for its part, acts like a dictatorship in response to even the slightest criticism.

Thomas Friedman thinks "Palestine" could be a "model" for how other Arab regimes act. It already is!

And it would only be a matter of time before it is replaced with a leadership that's even worse!

NGO Monitor has just revealed that the BDS movement is funded, in part, by the EU - which officially supports a two-state solution.
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