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- Remaining Christian schools in Gaza face closure by Hamas
- Thursday Links Part 2
- Today's antisemitism from Palestine News Network
- A new twist on "honor killing," and how it relates to peace
- Thursday Links Part 1
- If the Six Day War hadn't happened...
- Palestinians in Lebanon torch Hezbollah aid
- Intra-Hamas split reportedly widening
- Paris museum to exhibit pro-terrorist "art"
| Remaining Christian schools in Gaza face closure by Hamas Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:57 PM PDT From Catholic Herald: 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. What a coincidence that the only schools affected by Hamas' new rule are all Christian! (h/t Benny)           |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2013 04:00 PM PDT From Ian: Daniel Pipes: Happy Israel Listen up, anti-Zionists and anti-Semites, Palestinians and Islamists, extreme right- and left-wingers: You are fighting a losing battle; the Jewish state is prevailing. As Inbar rightly concludes, "Time seems to be on Israel's side." Give up and find some other country to torment.France's 1st gay married couple to attend TA Pride The first gay couple to be legally wed in France will spend the upcoming weekend in Tel Aviv and will attend the city's Gay Pride Parade as part of their Honeymoon celebrations, a Tel Aviv Municipality spokesperson announced Thursday.CAMERA: Where's the Coverage? Gaza Youth Flee TO Israel Surprising, then, that Al Monitor reports young men from Gaza are fleeing TO Israel, seeking the opportunities available in the Jewish state. Yes, fleeing to Israel, even knowing that they might be apprehended and detained.The Secret Military Unit Behind Israel's Stunning Six Day War Victory One of the key factors which led to the success of the military operation in general, and the air strikes in particular, was the collection of data and information by Israel's intelligence units in the years which preceded the war. One of the most intriguing episodes revealed here for the first time is related to unit 504 (then 154) of the Military Intelligence. The unit was and still is responsible for detecting, recruiting, and running agents – a tradecraft known as "humint".IDF Blog: 6 Photos From the 6-Day War You've Never Seen Before In the Six-Day War (June 5-10, 1967), the IDF fought some of the defining battles of Israeli history and of the 20th Century. But what happened during preparation beforehand, and during those six days in between the battles? These are the people who fought for Israel's freedom – some famous, some not – and six very heartfelt moments that happened behind the headlines.Terror victim's father demands Norway take action against PA salaries to terrorists Israeli Arnold Roth is on his way to Parliament to tell a story of terror. His daughter Malki never made it past her 15th year because a Palestinian suicide bomber blew himself up in this pizza restaurant in Jerusalem in 2001. The person responsible for making the bomb - Abdullah Barghouti - is now in Israeli prison. Palestine honors hundreds of Palestinian prisoners, including many terrorists, with a monthly salary. Abdullah Barghouti receives every month 10,000 [Norwegian] kroners from Palestine.CAMERA: What the Media Won't Tell You About Palestinian Prisoners All too often, mainstream media outlets have whitewashed the terrorist acts and violent crimes of Palestinian prisoners by failing to mention the crimes at all or by falsely minimizing the degree of violence. In some cases, media outlets euphemistically refer to prisoners incarcerated since before 1994 as "political prisoners," covering up the atrocities they carried out. CAMERA is the first to publish a detailed list (below), obtained from Israel's Ministry of Justice, of 118 pre-Oslo Palestinian prisoners, including their names and violent crimes.IDF Blog: 8 weapon seizures you didn't hear about from May 2013 Every day of the year, the IDF works towards preventing terror and keeping the citizens of Israel safe. In May, IDF forces seized a large number of illegal weapons and apprehended the would-be terrorists in possession of them. Thanks to the work of the IDF, here are 8 weapon seizures you didn't hear about from the month of May.Arab Stone-Throwing Attacks on Jews are Daily Occurrence in East Jerusalem Israel Defense Forces Maj. Gen. Kobi Dudian of the Jerusalem District Police told the Knesset's Internal Affairs and Environment Committee on Wednesday that 207 stone-throwing perpetrators have been arrested in eastern Jerusalem in 2013, the majority of whom were minors, and that only 47 of them were detained, pending the conclusion of the legal proceedings against them.Group of teens attacks rabbi in Germany A group of youths attacked a rabbi on Sunday evening in Offenbach, a city near Franfurt.ZOA Opposes Samantha Power's Nomination as UN Ambassador "As her own words show, Ms. Power indulges in astonishing false equivalence between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). She clearly has difficulty in appreciating the distinction between a law-based, free society and democracy like Israel that is defending itself from those who seek its elimination, and a terror-sponsoring, terrorist-glorifying, violence-inculcating PA that has neither signed peace with Israel nor recognized Israel as a Jewish state," he said.Melanie Phillips: A perfect match And despite her advocacy of attack or invasion to prevent threatened genocides, she has sneered at concerns about the race to build a nuclear bomb by Iran, which has repeatedly threatened genocide against the Jews of Israel, as a figment of the war-mongering Republican imagination.SodaStream Continues Uptick,Take That! BDSM Advocates SodaStream is an Israeli company which has shaken up the soft drink business. Because its competitors are Coke and Pepsi, it has to take its business seriously. But because it is made in Israel, of course the organized world of Israel haters and those who support them have targeted SodaStream for boycotts and other economic mayhem.Divestment from Israel Resolution Defeated at UC Santa Cruz "We are pleased that a divestment resolution was once again defeated, this time at UC Santa Cruz. We applaud UCSC's student senate for recognizing the complexity of the conflict and the bigotry in this resolution… Hopefully, next year, students who are obsessed with condemning Israel while they cover up the terrorism of Palestinian groups like Hamas, will consider more constructive actions and resolutions," said Roz Rothstein, CEO of the pro-Israel education group StandWithUs.Keshet, Northern Pictures launch Australian joint venture Israeli producer-distributor Keshet International is teaming up former Fox Networks Group president David Haslingden to launch a local production outfit, Keshet Australia.Grow cooperation with us, says Indian pol during Israel visit Add India to that list, too, says Dr. Arvind Gupta, the head of technology affairs in India's BJP (Bharatiya Janata Party), the largest opposition party in the country. Although Israeli tech and business deals with other Asian countries — especially China — seem to grab most of the headlines, there is considerable trade between Israel and India. India is the largest purchaser of Israeli military equipment, and Israel is the second-largest military partner of India after Russia. In 2009, that business was was worth about $9 billion.Israeli 'bubble tech' to help keep UK's water clean Mapal systems have been installed in Israel, as well as in Brazil, South Africa and India for a total of 30 locations worldwide. Now, the company has its first European contract, closing a deal with the UK's Anglian Water to deploy its solution for a water company serving 4 million customers. Mapal's bubble-spreaders will be installed in as many as 400 of Anglian's 1,100 wastewater treatment facilities, the company said, adding that it is in "advanced talks" with other UK water treatment companies.Israel Daily Picture: In Memory of Robert F. Kennedy on the 45th Anniversary of his Assassination We leave our regular historical features to pay tribute to Robert Kennedy who was murdered on this day in 1968.      |
| Today's antisemitism from Palestine News Network Posted: 06 Jun 2013 01:30 PM PDT This op-ed tries really had to pretend to be only against Zionists, but its illustrative photo indicates its true target:  Yes, it is time for the (haredi) Jews to take over the Arab world again! Zionism is the problem of this era, a cancer of the Islamic nation, ...(whose policy is) mostly based on the demolition and weakening the Arab and Islamic worlds. Allah Almighty says of them "Every time they [the Jews] kindled the fire of war [against you], Allah extinguished it. And they strive throughout the land [causing] corruption, and Allah does not like corrupters."(Table 64)A Koranic quote about how evil Jews are is always a nice touch. The Zionist enemy seeks to create economic and political crises to many countries with different interests, specifically Egypt. We will find there are serious problems that threaten the security and stability and growth of Egypt, and these problems of the dam which is located in Ethiopia located on the Blue Nile, which is still under construction and upon completion of its establishment will become the largest hydroelectric dam in the African continent, and the world's tenth largest dams for electricity production.Finally, after trying mightily to avoid saying the J-word, the writer can't stop himself any more: We ask God Almighty to foil their evil schemes against the Islamic nation, (as there is no God but Allah and Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah,) and [we ask Allah to] cleanse the land of Palestine from defiled Jews and their supporters, and to support the mujahideen everywhere in Burma, Syria, Palestine, ...and may this century herald the era of the beginning of Islamic Renaissance, God willing.I want to once again stress that the existence of Jew-hatred in the mainstream Palestinian Arab media every once in a while is not necessarily such a problem - if other Arabs would be upset. The problem is the complete absence of a counter-narrative in the Arab world - virtually never does one see any comments or talkbacks that say, "hey, you do know you are advocating genocide against Jews, which is just a slight violation of human rights, don't you?" While the entire Arab world might not be as explicit in their goals as this writer, they are simply not exposed to anything positive about Jews, except in the nostalgic sense of remembering how nice the Jews who were ethnically cleansed from their countries 60 years ago were. As I have been emphasizing recently, Arab antisemitism is a human rights issue, yet it has been completely ignored by the major human rights organizations. If you haven't done it yet, please sign the petition I set up to pressure Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International to fulfill their own mandates and condemn an upcoming blockbuster antisemitic TV series that will potentially reach hundreds of millions of Arabs.      |
| A new twist on "honor killing," and how it relates to peace Posted: 06 Jun 2013 12:00 PM PDT From Ma'an: Is there any difference between "family honor" and the "honor" of a spurned beau? Not really. In both cases, men decide that when they are embarrassed by a woman for whatever reason, she must be killed. Saying it is to defend "honor" is a deflection, but one that gullible observers swallow. After all, one major reason there is no Palestinian Arab state now is, indeed, "honor." Compromise, to an extent, involves swallowing one's pride for the greater good. Since "everyone knows" that Arabs value their honor more than Israeli Jews, it seems logical to push the Israelis to make concessions while justifying Arab intransigence. It is a cultural thing, and to decry Arab culture seems vaguely colonialist. The same logic that allows Arab nations to minimize punishments for "honor crimes" allows Western nations to give them a free pass for prioritizing "honor" over peace.      |
| Posted: 06 Jun 2013 10:40 AM PDT From Ian: Rearranging the Middle East Rearranging the Middle East's map would be costly in terms of material resources, with people resettling from one area to another, but, in the long run, it will save lives and reduce injustices. The U.S.'s insistence on keeping the artificial and troublesome states of Iraq and Syria whole is incomprehensible since it betrays the cherished ideals of freedom of choice. Given the hodgepodge composition of Iraq and Syria, the natural inclination of the minority groups would be for self-determination. The oppressed minorities have long awaited self-rule. The Kurdish, Christian, Druze, and Alawi states will also diminish the intensity of the Arab-Israeli conflict by serving as a barrier between the Sunni-Arab state and Israel. The civil war in Syria and Iraq creates a perfect opportunity for America to support the right thing.Improbable new pact shows Iran's ally in Baghdad is losing power Pro-Western Iraqi Kurdistan, with ties to US and Israel, has squeezed concessions out of Iraq's weakened Shiite PM Maliki. He may not intend to honor the deal, but the fact that he signed it speaks volumesBarry Rubin: Kerry's Embarrassing "Peace Process" Obsession A case can be made for Kerry showing himself as working hard for peace in order to defuse any possible effect on events elsewhere in the region. But by working too hard, spending too much of his time on the issue, and making absurd claims that he is going to succeed, Kerry is setting himself up for an embarrassing fall.Netanyahu to Abbas: Give Peace a Chance Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu on Wednesday called on Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas to "give peace a chance."Khaled Abu Toameh: Abbas: No peace without J'lem as Palestinian capital Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas declared Wednesday that there would be no peace or a Palestinian state without Jerusalem as the capital of that state.Hamas Slams 'Illegal' New PA Government Abbas' move "proves that the Fatah leadership is willing to maintain and prolong the state of disagreement," read a Hamas statement printed by Maan news.UN Watch: Why the UN's Falk is Lobbying to Silence UN Watch Douglas Murray: "Debating" Beheading People who believe in the murder of British troops abroad are trying to pretend that they can find a way to oppose their murder on British streets. Those who believe in the murder of two-year old Israeli children are trying to find a way to explain why the murder of a British man in his twenties is wrong. How can those who claim that killing "infidel" warriors in war zones is a good thing hope people will believe them when they say that killing an "infidel" soldier in London is a bad thing?Jordan Islamist delegation enters Gaza via tunnels A delegation of Jordanian politicians entered the Gaza Strip this week via smuggling tunnels under the Egypt-Gaza border, Egyptian security officials said Wednesday.Al-Qaeda Syrian Rebel Group Now Sitting on Israeli Border The IDF verified reports Thursday morning that Syrian rebel forces had conquered parts of the Golan city of Kuneitra, placing them directly on the border with Israel. IDF officials said that the takeover of the area by rebel forces was a "significant development."Al-Qaida leader calls for Jihad against Israel Al-Qaida leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged Syrians to unite to bring down President Bashar Assad and thwart what he said were US plans to set up a client state in Syria to safeguard Israel's security.'Anti-Semitism Pervades Al Qaeda Magazine' In an ongoing effort to recruit and attract jihadists, Al Qaeda's "Inspire" magazine continues to promote anti-Semitic narratives, depicting Jews as being at war with Islam and calling for the destruction of Israel," according to an analysis by the Anti-Defamation League.Arab League condemns Hezbollah's role in Syria The Arab League on Wednesday condemned the military intervention in Syria by the Lebanese Shi'ite militant group Hezbollah, Arab League Secretary General Nabil Elaraby said.Report: Iran, Hizbullah to 'Fight to the Death' for Assad Iran and Hizbullah are doing everything they can to keep Bashar Assad in power in Syria, said a special report by the The Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center (ITIC), an independent organization that keeps track of terror groups and activities in the Middle East and around the world. "For Iran and Hizbullah, the preservation of Bashar Assad's regime is of supreme strategic importance," ITIC says in its latest report.Hollande wins UNESCO peace prize for Mali intervention Francois Hollande was awarded the annual Felix Houphouet-Boigny Peace Prize by Unesco at a ceremony in Paris.Defiance: Host of Turkish Scrabble-Like Quiz Show Crafts 70 Questions Whose Answers Discomfort the Government One guy, a game show host (of all things!), decided to defy the complete ban on mentioning what everyone could see outside their windows by writing 70 questions for his show for which all answers related to the protests and provoked the government -- and not in a playful way, either.      |
| If the Six Day War hadn't happened... Posted: 06 Jun 2013 09:00 AM PDT
If the answers to all of these are "no," and they almost certainly are, then why does anyone think that Israel turning the clock back to early 1967 would improve things - today?      |
| Palestinians in Lebanon torch Hezbollah aid Posted: 06 Jun 2013 07:15 AM PDT From Daily Star (Lebanon): Certainly over the past few months, the hatred between Shi'ites and Sunnis in the Middle East has become a predominant theme in the Arab media - and as much as both groups hate Jews, they hate each other more. The Syria crisis just brought the hatreds to the fore. (h/t Gidon Shaviv)      |
| Intra-Hamas split reportedly widening Posted: 06 Jun 2013 05:30 AM PDT Palestine Press Agency is reporting that the split between Hamas' political wing of Khaled Meshal and its Qassam Brigades is getting deeper. According to the report, the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is trying to fix the rift, caused by the Qassam Brigades wanting to ally with Iran and Hezbollah while Meshal wants to be on the side of the Islamists in Syria. Hezbollah has reportedly expelled Hamas from Lebanon because of Meshal's position. Muhammad Badi, leader of the Muslim Brotherhood movement, and his deputy Khairat Al-Shater tried and failed to achieve a consensus between the two groups, which led to the postponement of the Hamas Shura Council meeting that had been scheduled to take place last Monday in Cairo. Hamas leaders fear that the split will become public, which could account for the meeting being postponed indefinitely. No official reason was given for the postponement. It looks like not only is unity impossible between Hamas and Fatah, but also between Hamas and Hamas.      |
| Paris museum to exhibit pro-terrorist "art" Posted: 06 Jun 2013 02:55 AM PDT The Jeu de Paume Museum in Paris is scheduled to show an "art" exhibit by Ahlam Shibli, purportedly to explore the concept of "home." The description of the exhibition: It deals with the loss of land and the fight against this expropriation, but restrictions and limitations that the idea of land imposes on individuals and communities affected by a criminal identity-politics groups. Among the places affected by this problem, we include the occupied Palestinian territories; monuments honoring both the French resistance fighters who opposed the Nazis and the French fighters in colonial wars against the people who wanted to turn their independence. In recent years, the photographic arena of Shibli has expanded to other questions around social exclusion across the situation of lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender people from Eastern countries and communities of children in Polish orphanages . Death, the latest round of Shibli specially designed for the occasion, shows the efforts of the Palestinian society to preserve the presence of those who lost their lives fighting the occupier. This series gives a large place to their absence through photographs, posters, and graffiti graves, presented as a form of resistance to colonial rule. Here are some of the photos being exhibited of Palestinian Arabs honoring suicide bombers and other terrorists:    The exhibit pamphlet also shows that he has photos of Bedouin soldiers in the IDF, but the idea that they are there because of loyalty to Israel is dismissed: Trackers series conducted in 2005, focuses on Palestinians of Bedouin origin who have served or still serve as volunteers in the army Israeli. This project questions the price that colonized minority is obliged to pay to a majority composed of settlers, perhaps to be accept, perhaps changing identity, perhaps to survive, perhaps for all these reasons and others.There is a protest planned as well as an online petition against this "art" that glorifies murderers and demonizes Israel. (h/t Irene)      |
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