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- It's only graffiti, right?
- Sufis insult Muslim Brotherhood in the worst possible way
- Wednesday Links Part 2
- Joke of the day: PLO says they support Kerry plan (ElderToon)
- Wednesday Links Part 1
- PA Foreign Affairs ministry calls J'lem light show "explicit call to religious war"
- What's Thomas Friedman smoking?
- Report: Qassam Brigades chooses to side with Hezbollah and Iran after all
- Miftah deliberately ignored PA incitement and delegitimization - and supported terrorists as heroes
| Posted: 05 Jun 2013 07:10 PM PDT From the Belfast Telegraph: From La Repubblica (Italian):  Two swastikas, a Star of David and the word "Juden" have been painted with black spray paint on the facade of the Synagogue of Verona. The anti-Semitic action the other night was done by some hooded people, videoed by surveillance cameras that have provided the police the first evidence to start an investigation. It's not the first time such events happened in Verona: over the years and in recent months swastikas had been painted on Jewish cemetery, but never on the facade of the synagogue in the city center.           |
| Sufis insult Muslim Brotherhood in the worst possible way Posted: 05 Jun 2013 04:41 PM PDT Now, this is an insult. Egyptian Sufi leader Abdul Halim said that the Muslim Brotherhood was celebrating today, the anniversary of the beginning of the Six Day War. According to Halim, the Brotherhood in Egypt hated Nasser so much that they wanted Egypt to lose the war and for the Jews to take over the Al Aqsa Mosque. He said that the Brotherhood was joyful together with the Jews and acted as agents of Israel. Arab insults don't get any nastier than that.      |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2013 02:00 PM PDT From Ian: Syrian Refugees Quietly Treated by Israel while UN Makes Latest 'Parody of Itself' The script reads like this: Israel treats wounded Syrian refugees in its own hospitals. Syria produces a report alleging an "acute shortage of primary and tertiary health care services" in the Golan Heights region. A United Nations agency, citing the Syrian report rather than acknowledging Israel's actions, condemns Israel.Alan Dershowitz: Syria Shows Why Israel Must Remain Strong The hatred directed against Jews in general and Israel in particular by Israel's enemies is far more malignant than the animosity between Sunni and Shia Muslims or between Muslim and Christian Arabs. It is taught in schools, preached in mosques and repeated in the media. There would be no mercy shown. Israeli armies would not be allowed to surrender and be repatriated, as the Egyptian army was when it was trapped in Sinai at the end of the 1973 war.Radical Islam Arrives in Ramallah by Khaled Abu Toameh Palestinian Authority officials have not offered an explanation as to why Hizb-ut-Tahrir, whose members are frequently targeted by Palestinian security forces in the West Bank, was given permission to hold a rally in favor of jihad [holy war] against Israel.PA Arabs Fete 'New Mahdi," Establishment of Calpihate Thousands of PA Arabs participated in a mass rally in Ramallah earlier this week calling for the establishment of the Muslim Caliphate – the worldwide Islamist government that will "bring the coming of the Mahdi." the Muslim messiah.Muslim Zionist, Christian Arab Explain Islamic Hatred of Israel Two Zionist, one a Pakistani Muslim and the other an Egyptian Christian Reverend, explained to Arutz Sheva why "anti-Zionist" has become the new code word for anti-Semitism in the Muslim world.Belgian lawmaker tramples Israeli flag at pro-Assad rally A Belgian lawmaker trampled the Israeli flag at a support rally for Hezbollah and Syrian President Bashar Assad held in front of Israel's embassy in Brussels."The Jeu de Paume Honours Killers Of Jews" The Jeu de Paume a well known museum in the world subsidized by The French Ministry of Culture has since May 28 to September 1, 2013 offered visitors, an exhibition of Palestinian photographer Ahlam Shibli.Arabs, Not Jews, Worst-Hit by EU Labeling Scheme The labeling of products made by Jews in Judea and Samaria would damage Israel, a report by the Foreign Ministry said – but it would damage PA Arabs even more.Bi-Partisan Call: Move US Embassy to J'slm, but Obama Renews Waiver On Tuesday, June 4, a bi-partisan congressional call went out for the United States government to move its Embassy from Tel Aviv, to the capital of Israel, in Jerusalem.Ray LaHood's son sentenced to jail in Egypt in absentia over pro-democracy dispute The son of U.S. Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood was among 16 Americans sentenced to jail in absentia by a court in Egypt Tuesday, part of a diplomatic dispute over the activities and funding of U.S.-backed pro-democracy groups.Feting Jerusalem As we mark the 46th anniversary of the outbreak of the Six Day War, it is fitting to be humbled by the tremendous challenges we face and the obstacles to peace that remain to be overcome. But we should also be proud of our tremendous achievements.Apple to Inaugurate High School Development Center in Northern Israel Apple Inc. will inaugurate the first entrepreneurship development center of its kind at a High School in Hadera next week, Globes is reporting.'Extinct' Frog Appears in Israel The first amphibian to have been officially declared extinct by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) has been rediscovered in the north of Israel after some 60 years and turns out to be a unique "living fossil," without close relatives among other living frogs, according to researchers at Hebrew University.From a Hamas prisoner to a globetrotting Israel emissary Former Hamas captive Gilad Shalit has been receiving rock star receptions around the world as the United Israel Appeal's (UIA) newest fundraiser.Anne Frank's tree now grows in Boston A sapling taken from Anne Frank's solace-giving chestnut tree put roots down in the heart of Boston on Tuesday.      |
| Joke of the day: PLO says they support Kerry plan (ElderToon) Posted: 05 Jun 2013 12:15 PM PDT From Ma'an: No one loses more than the Palestinians if US Secretary of State John Kerry's efforts to restart peace talks fail, the PLO's top negotiator said Tuesday. Look how interested the PLO is in negotiating all of a sudden! Just a couple of small caveats:  In another joke, Abbas yet again threatens to dissolve the PA if he doesn't get what he demands.      |
| Posted: 05 Jun 2013 11:00 AM PDT From Ian: Riots in Turkey and Tens of Thousands Dead in Syria, Caused by West Bank Settlements If this is the beginning of another Middle East revolution, one wonders what the new map of the Middle East will look like even 2 years from now. Amazing how times change – only five years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert asked Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to mediate peace negotiations with Syria. That wouldn't have ended well – and today, reports indicate that up to 100,000 people have been slaughtered in Syria.Fatah Central Committee member urges destruction of Israel, advocates turning a blind-eye to terrorists Watch as a representative of Israel's so-called "partner for peace" Fatah, calls for the end of Israel, and for the Palestinian people to turn a blind eye to terrorist attacks on the Jewish State. Soft BBC portrait of new PA prime minister The BBC also chooses to ignore the fact that under Hamdallah's presidency, students at An Najar University staged an exhibition glorifying suicide bombers in September 2001 (described by the BBC at the time as an "art show" in a report placed in its website's "entertainment: arts" section) which included a gory representation of the Sbarro pizza restaurant where fifteen civilians – many of them women and children – had been murdered only six weeks previously.Abbas threatens to dismantle PA if talks don't start Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has threatened to dismantle the PA should US Secretary of State John Kerry fail to "salvage the peace process," a senior PA official said Tuesday.PMW: Compilation of 5 versions of a Palestinian song presenting Israeli cities as part of "Palestine" Five church schools in Gaza face closure after Hamas order Five schools in Gaza – two Catholic and three Christian – face closure if the Hamas government follows through on an order forbidding co-educational institutions, according to the director general of Latin Patriarchate Schools in Palestine and Israel.France, Britain confirm sarin gas used in Syria France said Tuesday it has confirmed that the nerve gas sarin was used "multiple times and in a localized way" in Syria, including at least once by the regime. It was the most specific claim by any Western power about chemical weapons attacks in the 27-month-old conflict.EXCLUSIVE: How Israeli Intelligence Is Updating Its Knowledge of Syria's Missile Arsenal Israel has taken the opportunity to watch, study, and analyze the performance of the Syrian missiles. Among the most important discoveries is the detection and observation of the Scud D missile, which has a separating (detachable) warhead with cluster bombs. Israeli intelligence officials knew about the existence of this missile for at least ten years, and even got some information about it from Turkish counterparts when relations between the two countries were better. Israel is now updating its knowledge on its own.MEMRI: Egyptian Blooper: Politicians, Unaware They Are on Air, Threaten Ethiopia over Dam Construction VIDEO Signature campaign on Egyptian streets tests Morsi Thousands of volunteers are hitting the pavement around Egypt, on streets, in metro stations, even in hospitals, passing out black-and-white forms to whoever will take them. The goal: To collect millions of signatures on a petition calling for the removal of Egypt's Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.Thousands of Iranians chant to end dictatorship Tens of thousands of Iranians chanted for the downfall of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, branding him a "dictator," as they attended the funeral of a religious leader who opposed the current regime.Diplomats say Iran nuclear reactor damaged by quake Diplomats say countries monitoring Iran's nuclear program have picked up information that the country's only power-producing nuclear reactor was damaged by one or more recent earthquakes.Wife of Imprisoned Iranian-American Pastor Pleas Before UN Human Rights Council The wife of imprisoned Iranian-American Pastor Saeed Abedini, Naghmeh, made an impassioned plea for the release of her husband before the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva on Monday.Claire Berlinski: Erdoğan Over the Edge So no, the unrest roiling Turkey is not about Gezi Park, though it would have been poetic if it had been: the park was once an Armenian cemetery, appropriated by the government and transformed into a barracks after the Armenians "abandoned" it. The protests are about authoritarianism, plain and simple. What will happen now is anyone's guess. The demonstrators are disorganized, and while they know what they don't want, they aren't sure what they do want. (h/t Silke)Daniel Pipes: The good news in Turkey This is excellent news. Turkey has been heading in the wrong direction under the AKP. Although a democracy, the AKP government has jailed more journalists than any other state in the world. Although secular, it has with growing urgency imposed arrays of Islamist regulations, including last week's rushed limitation on alcohol as well as warnings against public displays of affection.      |
| PA Foreign Affairs ministry calls J'lem light show "explicit call to religious war" Posted: 05 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT The fourth annual Jerusalem Festival of Light starts tonight, and I wish I was in Israel to see it! Not everyone is happy about this, of course. In fact, according to the Palestinian Foreign Ministry, it is nothing less than Israel's bid to start a regional war. Al Jazeera (Arabic) reports: Palestinians protested strongly on Tuesday ahead of planned Israeli celebrations in the municipality of Jerusalem scheduled tomorrow in the eastern part of the city to commemorate the occupation of the West Bank in 1967.The PA foreign ministry's website is not functional and shows a default Linux test page, so I couldn't verify this with them directly. (They are also running an outdated version of Apache, if any Israeli hacker is looking for an easy target...)      |
| What's Thomas Friedman smoking? Posted: 05 Jun 2013 07:15 AM PDT Today's fantasy of a better world, courtesy of Thomas Friedman: With these iron-fisted leaders being toppled — and true, multisectarian democracies with effective governments yet to emerge in their place — Israel is potentially facing decades of unstable or no governments surrounding it. Only Jordan offers Israel a normal border. In the hinterlands beyond, Israel is looking at dysfunctional states that are either imploding (like Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain and Libya) or exploding (like Syria).So far, so good. But then his 1990s-think takes over: In my view, that makes resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict more important than ever for three reasons: 1) to reverse the trend of international delegitimization closing in on Israel; 2) to disconnect Israel as much as possible from the regional conflicts around it; and 3) to offer a model.Let's take these one at a time: 1) The delegitimization movement Friedman refers to is not interested in a peace agreement. They want the destruction of Israel. Their basic demands include the insistence that Israel be forced to accept millions of Arab faux-"refugees" and end the Jewish state. They already regard the PA as a sell-out for not restarting the intifada. This is a variation of the "if/then" fallacy that has been fashionable for decades, but is still around thanks to so-called "experts" like Friedman. In this case the fallacy is that the Israel-haters would be weakened by Israeli concessions, but in fact it is the opposite. 2) Friedman thinks that an Israel whose border is in constant threat of being taken over by Islamists would "disconnect" it from the regional conflicts around it? It would ensure that Israel is surrounded by them! Friedman's bizarre assumption that a Palestinian Arab state would be inoculated from the chaos surrounding it has no basis in reality. Like so many other pseudo-experts on the region, Friedman cannot distinguish between his wishful thinking and the cold reality - in this case, that "Palestine" would be a peaceful, democratic, secular state, inoculated from the Islamist Spring. Oh, and don't forget Friedman's other "if-then" fallacy here - that the world would allow Israel to keep the Jordan Valley as a buffer if only it would offer the Palestinian Arabs a state. Wasn't that already offered and rejected? The result was nothing less than a six year-long war on Israeli civilians. Again, Friedman is stuck in the 1990s. 3) It takes an amazing amount of willful blindness to ignore Gaza's Hamastan, to ignore the fact that there haven't been elections for so long, to ignore the daily incitement in the PA media, to ignore the fact that the PA's last two prime ministers that the West loved so much were not elected and have no support from the people, and to ignore the daily vitriol between Hamas and Fatah. Friedman's eyes can shut tightly enough to allow an occasional "Sure, there are problems..." right before ignoring them. The PA has now been around for nearly two decades. Every real accomplishment it has made so far wasn't from its own initiative but from Western pressure. On its own, it would devolve back into a fragmented, corrupt dictatorship that it never truly escaped. Besides that -the Islamists are winning. To them, democracy and freedom and human rights are not an end but a means. They are not remotely willing to give their political opponents the rights that they insist for themselves. The hatred that Arabs have for Israel has nothing to do with "Palestine." Tom - Instead of relying on your Western-educated translators when you parachute into Egypt to pretend to do reporting, read their freaking newspapers in Arabic itself. Even the most liberal, secular Lebanese Christians despise Israel. The wealthy Arabs of Dubai, who don't really give a damn about Palestinians, all agree they hate Israel. Antisemitism - not anti-Zionism, but antisemitism - has been steadily increasing in Arabic media, especially in Egypt and the "new, improved" Iraq. Their hate is not logical - it is pathological. And it is as much a part of Palestinian Arab society as it is in the fabric of the rest of the Arab world. To even imagine that any Israeli actions could result in Israel being accepted by the Arabs is a breathtakingly stupid idea. Luckily, usually Israel is smart enough not to make concessions based on what is literally a fantasy based on ignorance and dreams from deluded Pulitzer-winning "experts."      |
| Report: Qassam Brigades chooses to side with Hezbollah and Iran after all Posted: 05 Jun 2013 05:30 AM PDT Al Quds al Arabi, the London-based pan-Arab newspaper, reports that the "military wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, has decided to re-align itself with Hezbollah and Iran after bitter infighting over the direction the group should take. Iran has made no secret of its displeasure at Hamas public statements against the Assad regime in Syria. Apparently, the recent visit to Gaza by popular preacher Yusuf Qaradawi, where he said that he wanted the West to support the Syrian rebels, upset the militant Hamas leadership. The report says that Brigades wrote a letter to the political leadership of Hamas demanding an alliance with Hezbollah. In the letter, the Qassam leadership stated that liberation will come from arms, not money, a reference to the cash that Qatar has been giving Gaza. Mahmoud al Zahar, hawkish Hamas leader, apparently supports this initiative. The Al Quds sources hinted that a Hamas delegation is currently visiting Iran, including Marwan Issa, the commander of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, in the framework of strengthening the alliance between the movement and Iran. The message stressed by the delegation is that the "resistance" and the ability to fire rockets into Tel Aviv in the recent war was thanks to the alliance with Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah, and not because of Arab money, referring to the financial support of Qatar.      |
| Miftah deliberately ignored PA incitement and delegitimization - and supported terrorists as heroes Posted: 05 Jun 2013 02:00 AM PDT Miftah, the Palestinian Arab NGO that has published a blood libel and has extolled terrorism (but deleted the offending articles when they were made public), has another initiative that has been dormant for a few years but is still very enlightening. It is called the Media Monitoring Unit, and its goals are set forth as: In fact, Miftah teams with an Israeli organization, Keshev, an organization that monitors Israeli media from the Left. Keshev would look for bias and anti-Arab incitement in Israeli media and Miftah's unit would purportedly look for the same in Palestinian Arab media. Miftah's part of the initiative seems to have only been active from 2008 to 2010, and some ten reports were written and released during that time period. Amazingly, during those two years, Miftah could not find a single example of anti-Israel or antisemitic incitement in Palestinian Arab media. No delegitimization! No dehumanization! While a couple of the reports would imply that newspaper use of the word "martyr" to describe suicide bombers is not strictly accurate, Miftah never said that this glorification of terrorism in the media reaches the level of incitement. Moreover, the many cases of pure antisemitism and maps that erase Israel in the print and broadcast media - well documented by Palestinian Media Watch - are uniformly ignored, by the very unit that is supposedly meant to search for it and fight against it! If a map of "Palestine" that erases Israel is not an example of delegitimization, then what is? The steering committee of the Media Monitoring Unit included Hanan Ashrawi and Joharah Baker. In what can only be considered a massive waste of Western money, this unit was funded by the EU and the Ford Foundation. Even worse, in the cases that incitement was found and publicized by Israeli sources, Miftah would tend to deny that any incitement existed, and would defend the PA's honoring of terrorists. Here is Miftah's Joharah Baker in an official Miftah editorial, "Let Us Honor Our Own": When Palestinians named a square after Dalal Al Mughrabi, a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978, Israel was up in arms, claiming the Palestinians should not be allowed to name streets or squares after "terrorists." Israeli watchdog groups and the Israeli government play on the fact that Palestinians have named streets after Abu Jihad (Khalil Al Wazir) and Yehya Ayash. The prisoner stipends are just the latest episode in the drama.Instead of promoting peace and fighting incitement, Miftah defends incitement and supports the terrorists as national heroes. (Notice how even Dalal Mughrabi, responsible for the deaths of 13 children, is considered a heroine by Miftah.) If Mughrabi is a national hero, then Miftah can' t be too serious about being upset that newspapers refer to terrorists as "martyrs." Indeed, their objection to that is seen to be more from the perspective of accuracy rather than incitement and nationalistic support of terrorist acts. The media review unit seems to have run out of funding. Considering that it spent more time obfuscating Palestinian Arab incitement and dehumanizing Israelis rather than exposing it, this is probably a good thing. When will the remaining funders of this NGO that promotes incitement against "the other" realize that their money is being used for the exact opposite of what they intended?      |
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