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- 6/28 Links Part 2: LATMA The Kerry Peace Plan, Alicia Keys Smacks Down BDSers and Stuxnet Leaker ID
- Consumer Electronics Show coming to Israel
- 6/28 Links Part 1: The Truth About the Peace Process and Egypt Now World’s Jihadist Training Ground
- Amnesty thinks terrorists can reform from email campaigns. Um, look in the mirror.
- Khaybar petition is top story at Algemeiner
- Egypt concerned with Israeli ties in Africa
- New UN counter-terrorism head doesn't know what terrorism is
- Human Rights Watch condemns incitement against Shiites, but not Jews
6/28 Links Part 2: LATMA The Kerry Peace Plan, Alicia Keys Smacks Down BDSers and Stuxnet Leaker ID Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT From Ian: Latma: The Kerry peace plan and the Heath Minister's organ donor program Return of the yellow star Back to the yellow star; what is the tactical word for Jude? What caricature now gets up everyone's nose? In the post Holocaust era it is infra dig to hate Jews, publicly at least. So the Jude that everyone loved to hate has transmogrified into a Zionist. Nowadays people don't hate Jews, they hate Zionists.BDS fail: Alicia Keys continues to fight against anti-Israel bigotry And now, since the anti-Israel brigade has failed to pipe down, Ms. Keys has delivered a further blow to the BDS movement.Jews from Muslim lands: The forgotten refugees of 1948 On the recent World Refugee Day, the Israeli Knesset member Shimon Ohayon, whose family fled Morocco in 1956, called on the Arab League to "accept their great responsibility for driving out almost a million Jews from lands [in] which they had lived for millennia." He explained that "In 1947, the Political Committee of the Arab League drafted a law that...called for the freezing of bank accounts of Jews, their internment and [the confiscation of their assets]. Various other discriminatory measures were taken by Arab nations and subsequent meetings reportedly called for the expulsion of Jews from member states of the Arab League."French justice: Overruling the truth This week the Paris Court of Appeals disgraced itself and revealed the dark side of France's arcane laws of defamation, elevating the principle of French honor above the value of truth-telling for French journalists. The appellate court's sentencing of Philippe Karsenty to a fine of 7,000 Euros for the "crime" of speaking truth to power telegraphs how France has decided to treat whistle-blowers who have the temerity to demand that state-sponsored media outlets differentiate between theater and news. Perhaps this second panel of the appellate court was not entirely at fault for its misstep. It operated with blinders, since the French Supreme Court forbade it from viewing the relevant evidence that led the first panel of the court to acquit Karsenty. For the French legal system, the facts of what happened at Netzarim were and are essentially irrelevant. This case was not about getting at the truth, but about protecting the honor of French institutions.Doctor: Here's Why Mohammed al-Dura Really Died Dr. Yehuda David won his case in France's Supreme Court in 2012 after being accused of libel for revealing that Jamal Al-Dura, Mohammed al-Dura's father, had lied. Karsenty lost his own Supreme Court case this week, and was convicted of defamation for accusing French state television of deliberately staging the hoax.Anti-Semitic Graffiti on Montreal Shoe Store In the latest anti-Semitic incident in Montreal, the phrase "f--- Israhell" and two swastikas were scrawled on June 14 on the Naot shoe store located on St. Denis Street, Shalom Toronto reported.'Retired US general leaked details of Stuxnet virus' A retired US general who served in the Pentagon's upper echelon is under investigation for allegedly leaking classified information about a covert cyberattack on Iran's nuclear facilities, according to media reports.Dzokhar Tsarnaev Inspired by Hamas Founder, Indictment Reveals The charges against Tsarnaev include 17 different counts that carry the possibility of the death penalty, including the use of a weapon of mass destruction, and other counts for which life imprisonment are potential sentences.Archbishop of Canterbury: Israel the center of the world Israel is the center of the world "in so many ways," the archbishop of Canterbury said Thursday in Jerusalem. He stressed Israel's legitimacy and right to security, and also spoke, in the context of persecution of Christians by Islamists in the Middle East, about the Christian imperative to "love our enemies."Ford Foundation makes $1 million grant for Yad Vashem trees The Ford Foundation has supported the work of Yad Vashem's Righteous Among the Nations department since 2006, according to the memorial.Rare manuscript put in UNESCO's book The Israel Museum's Rothschild Miscellany, a rare, Hebrew illuminated 15th-century manuscript and one of the jewels of the national museum's collection, was included in UNESCO's Memory of the World Register for 2013, along with Yad Vashem's Pages of Testimony collection.Israeli Cardboard Bicycle Mastermind Seeks Crowdfunding for Mass Production (VIDEO) Izhar Gafni's cardboard bicycle became a hit last year after he posted a video online. Now he and his business partner, Nimrod Elmish, are looking for $2 million dollars through crowd-funding site Indiegogo so that they can offer it to everyone.A TV news channel in your iPhone, with Wibbitz Imagine putting your daily newspaper through a shrink machine, with the version coming out on the other side no bigger than 4 inches high and two inches wide. It sounds ridiculous — and unreadable — but that is exactly what millions of people are doing every day with their iPhones, says Zohar Dayan, CEO of Israeli start-up Wibbitz.IDF Blog: A Different Set of Eyes: Bedouin Muslim Officer on Journey to Poland Lt. Col. Hayib, 45, is from the Jezreel Valley, where he lives with his wife and five children. He has been serving in the IDF for 28 years and is currently an officer in the tracking unit of the IDF's Edom Division, charged with obstructing illegal breaches of Israel's southern border regions.Israel Daily Picture: A Photo Diary from Palestine, 1936, by a Tour Guide, Writer, Diplomat ... and Spy John David Whiting, born in 1888 in Jerusalem, grew up within the American Colony community the Old City. The Library of Congress records that he was a "tour guide, businessman, writer and photographer." He served as American Vice-Consul of Jerusalem from 1908-1910 and from 1915-1917. |
Consumer Electronics Show coming to Israel Posted: 28 Jun 2013 12:15 PM PDT From YNet: The international Consumer Electronics Show (CES) is coming to Israel. The major technology-related trade show, which takes place each January in Las Vegas, is also held in a smaller format in New York, Paris and London – and now in Tel Aviv too. It appears that the major point of the show is to attract Israelis to CES Las Vegas in January 2014. 40 company exhibits is not very large compared to the 2000 that exhibit at the main show. Even so, it is yet another BDSFail. (h/t Herb) |
6/28 Links Part 1: The Truth About the Peace Process and Egypt Now World’s Jihadist Training Ground Posted: 28 Jun 2013 11:10 AM PDT From Ian: Barry Rubin: It's Time to Tell the Truth About the "Peace Process" Is the peace process after 40 years (if you count from its origins) or 20 years (if you count from the time of the "Oslo" agreement) at a dead end? Of course it is. That should be obvious.Elliott Abrams: Kerry, Jerusalem, and the Palestinian concessions I wonder what Kerry thinks. After all, the Palestinians should be jumping at the chance for serious negotiations, not creating obstacles for their resumption -- yet PLO and Palestinian Authority head Abbas does not appear anxious for talks to start. He seems to be satisfied with the status quo, and concerned above all with Palestinian internal politics -- right now, with appointing a new prime minister. After former Prime Minister Salam Fayyad was forced out, the next appointee resigned after only 18 days in office and the power struggle continues.Caroline Glick: Obama's war of ideas Obama has two ideas that inform his Middle East policy. First, the Muslim Brotherhood is good. And so his policy is to support the Muslim Brotherhood, everywhere. That's his idea, and as long as the US continues to support the Brotherhood, its foreign policy is successful. For Obama it doesn't matter whether the policy is harmful to US national security. It doesn't matter if the Brotherhood slaughters Christians and Shi'ites and persecutes women and girls. It doesn't matter if the Brotherhood's governing incompetence transforms Egypt – and Tunisia, and Libya and etc., into hell on earth. As far as Obama is concerned, as long as he is true to his idea, his foreign policy is a success.Ayaan Hirsi Ali: 'Even if you give up all the land, it won't solve the problems in the Mideast' An interview with Ayaan Hirsi Ali, author of "Infidel" "From the perspective of the Arab leaders, reaching a two-state solution is to betray God. If you want peace and not merely a process, you must make peace with the people. The negotiators themselves are of no importance."Sarah Honig: Another Tack: Iran's Latterday Goering But the problem isn't Rohani. It's not even Khamenei. It's the mindset of the world's good-guys, the ones serially shy of confrontation, the ones forever in search of facile solutions and compromises, preferably only at the Jews' expense.Ha'aretz Columnist: 'Benjamin Netanyahu Was Right' on Iran An unlikely voice is sounding the alarm on a nuclear Iran—the liberal Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz, which is well known for its often diametrical opposition to official government policy.Melanie Phillips: The British government's jihad against free thought What an extraordinary thing to say. Geller and Spencer don't go round calling for people to be killed, or preaching genocide or holy war, or spreading conspiracy theories and lies to foment hysteria and hatred. But when he was chairman of the Parliamentary Labour Party, Tony Lloyd led a delegation to Gaza to meet leaders of Hamas, where he was photographed fraternally shaking the hand of the Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.New BBC style guide on 'Israel and the Palestinians' This new revised style guide provides no reason for optimism with regard to improvements in the accuracy or impartiality of BBC reporting on Israel and the Arab-Israeli conflict. As was the case with the old 'Key Terms' guide, it is based upon partial and politically motivated interpretations of "international law" and refuses to acknowledge the existence of any history before 1967. The clear adoption of a specific political narrative is shown by the use of language such as "Israel says this is in response to rockets fired from Gaza towards Israel" in the section concerning the Gaza Strip and "[t]he presence of settlements is one of the most contentious issues of the Israeli/Palestinian conflict". The notion that "[i]t is normally best to talk about 'Jewish settlers' rather than 'Israeli settlers' – some settlers are not Israeli citizens" is bizarre and the self-appointed quasi-divine authority reflected in the sentence "The BBC does not call Jerusalem the 'capital' of Israel" is frankly offensive.UN Watch: Why the UN Scapegoats Israel: Hillel Neuer on CJAD Radio News Editor Admits Media Bias after his Brother is Attacked "Three dry sentences in the 10:00 p.m. news edition. Three sentences that do not convey the drama that took place there. This fire bomb was thrown at a car that was driven by my brother, Tal. At the last moment, he managed to see a person who was about to throw something at him, and stepped on the gas with full force. In the rear view mirror, he managed to see an explosion on the road behind him. There was a lot of luck here.IDF deploys Iron Dome near Haifa amid heightened tensions in North The IDF deployed an Iron Dome anti-rocket battery in the Haifa area early Friday morning, amid heightened tensions in the North stemming from the ongoing Syrian civil war.IDF Seizes Large Weapons Stash Among the weapons seized were handguns, M-16 assault rifle parts, dozens of magazines and a large variety of ammunition and military equipment. Three suspects were arrested in connection with the weapons and transferred to security forces for questioning.Hizbullah Connection to Judea Terror Shooting Terrorist from Hevron points to PFLP-Hizbullah cooperation in planning terror.Amnesty International Calls for Campaign Against Gaza Executions Amnesty International on Thursday called on the public to mail Gaza's Hamas terrorist rulers in order to protest the hanging of two local men and to appeal against other executions, AFP reported.'EU decision on blacklisting Hezbollah in late 2013' Italian Deputy Foreign Minister for Development and Cooperation Lapo Pistelli said on Wednesday in Beirut that the EU is slated to make a decision in late 2013 on whether to include Hezbollah on its list of terrorist organizations.Egypt's security clampdown disrupts Gaza smuggling Egypt's military clamped down on the lawless Sinai Peninsula, which abuts Gaza, in the run-up to mass protests planned for Sunday by Egyptian opposition activists trying to force out the country's president, Mohammed Morsi.German Intelligence: Egypt Now World's Main Jihadist Training Ground A new German intelligence report presented on Tuesday showed that Egypt had replaced Waziristan as the main centre for the training of militants. German intelligence voiced concern over the growing number of ultra-conservative Islamic extremists in the country, some of whom are swelling militant ranks abroad, while warning of an increasingly violent German extreme right. |
Amnesty thinks terrorists can reform from email campaigns. Um, look in the mirror. Posted: 28 Jun 2013 09:50 AM PDT Amnesty International rightly condemns the recent execution of two Gazans alleged to be spies and warns about many others who face hanging for the same charge. But their proposed solution is so naive, it is painful. PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 08 AUGUST 2013 TO:I especially like the generic "info@" address for Fathi Hammad. I'm sure he checks out all the generic email going to the interior ministry website personally. I mean, if Amnesty itself doesn't acknowledge over a thousand emails and tweets along with a petition on a human rights issue, how can they expect Hamas to react? UPDATE: If only Bin Laden had an email address, thousands of lives could have been saved! |
Khaybar petition is top story at Algemeiner Posted: 28 Jun 2013 08:42 AM PDT From The Algemeiner: A petition urging human rights groups to condemn an anti-Semitic mini-series due to air throughout the Arab world in July is gathering momentum, with over 1200 people from 47 countries having signed it thus far.Read the whole thing and tell your friends to sign the petition! |
Egypt concerned with Israeli ties in Africa Posted: 28 Jun 2013 07:30 AM PDT Al Ahram has an article warning about close Israeli ties with sub-Saharan Africa. Under Nasser, Egypt used to be in the forefront of cultivating relationships with many African nations, sending engineers, teachers and other experts to help build up Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria and Congo (Zaire.) Nasser also used his influence to block Israeli initiatives in Africa in the 1950s and 60s. But now Israel has taken the lead in offering services for African nations, and Egypt is only watching helplessly. Meanwhile, the article details Israeli help towards Africa in health service, agriculture, dairy farming, and shipping, to name a few examples. In return, Israel is reaping the benefits of Africa's natural resources. The article does not have an angry tone. It is more upset that Egypt has ceded these lucrative ties to Israel and, to a smaller extent, to Iran, India and Turkey who also have flourishing trade with African states. Especially since Egypt is on the same continent. |
New UN counter-terrorism head doesn't know what terrorism is Posted: 28 Jun 2013 05:30 AM PDT From the UN: – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today [June 20] confirmed the appointment of French criminal justice veteran Jean-Paul Laborde as the new Executive Director of the Counter-Terrorism Executive Directorate (CTED), following the concurrence of the Security Council.There are major problems with Laborde as the lead person to combat terrorism. He is on the record as saying that Hamas and Hezbollah are not terrorist organizations and he holds the absurd view that somehow international terrorism would decrease if there was a peace agreement: A senior UN official says the threat of terrorism will be diminished in the Middle East once the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved. Jean Paul Laborde, adviser to the UN Under-Secretary General for Political Affairs, said on Thursday that terrorism has deteriorated since the September 11 attacks and will not diminish unless the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is resolved.He also says that defining terrorism is not very important to combating it: I would also like to clarify one popular misperception that the absence of a definition of terrorism hampers the international legal framework on countering terrorism. That is not true. There is an often expressed desire to have a general definition of terrorism. However, it is important to point out that, due to the principle of legality which is fortunately very strict in criminal law and international criminal law, we need to speak more specifically of defining the acts of terrorism, thereby covering all the aspects of the terrorist activities.Laborde is essentially saying that terrorism is like crime. He has no interest in the philosophical or religious justifications for terrorism, only that the acts themselves must fought - which is the same thing as crime, his other field of interest. If there is no difference between a jihadist killing someone with a bomb or a burglar killing someone with a knife, then there is really no reason for the UN to have a separate counter-terror group to begin with. Indeed, the speech that this section was taken from was from a conference on 'Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Systems and their Development in a Changing World.' From what I can tell, the UN calls out only Al Qaeda and the Taliban as being groups that should be proscribed - and even they are not specifically defined as terror groups! Moreover, one would hope that the UN counter-terrorism head would concentrate on fighting terror, and letting other UN groups fight for human rights. But Laborde is more concerned with the possibility that counter-terror actions might impede on human rights than in fighting the terrorism itself. Laborde is a poor choice for being at the forefront of international fight against terror. (h/t Anne Bayefsky) |
Human Rights Watch condemns incitement against Shiites, but not Jews Posted: 28 Jun 2013 02:56 AM PDT From Human Rights Watch: The lynching of four Shia by a mob apparently led by Salafi sheikhs in the village of Abu Musallim in Greater Cairo on June 23, 2013, came after months of anti-Shia hate speech at times involving the ruling Muslim Brotherhood and its political party, Human Rights Watch said today. The episode shows that the government needs to recognize that Shia in Egypt are at risk and to take protective measure to ensure their protection and equal rights.Look at that - HRW has the ability to condemn hate speech that could lead to people being killed! But Arab antisemitism has never been condemned by HRW, or Amnesty. Not once. Even though there are still Jews living in Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and elsewhere. Even though the Arab antisemitism is being spread among Muslims in Europe and results in attacks against Jews there. Even though there happens to be a Jewish state in the midst of the Arab world. The Khaybar miniseries is being broadcast throughout the Arab world in July. The entire point of the series is to instill hatred of Jews under the guise of entertainment. Despite repeated calls for HRW and Amnesty to condemn it, and the delivery of a petition this week to their offices in New York, these "human rights groups" remain silent about incitement against Jews that will be seen by tens, or perhaps hundreds, of millions of Arabs. HRW is showing its hypocrisy with its belated denunciation of the Egyptian incitement against Shiites. Yet how was this incitement framed? By saying that Shiites are even worse than Jews. In other words, for Muslims, Jews are the standard against which all hate must be compared. HRW and Amnesty apparently have no problem with this. They are happy to condemn white European antisemitism. They are happy to condemn Arab hate against other Arabs. But direct Arab incitement against Jews? Nothing. (You can still sign the petition demanding HRW and Amnesty condemn Arab antisemitism and the Khaybar series in particular - all signatures get emailed to them. Now including Joe Stork.) |
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