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- G'mar chatima tovah 5774 - גמר חתימה טובה
- 9/13 Links Part 2: Oslo 20 Years on, 20 Hottest Startups in Israel, Yom Kippur 100 Years Ago.
- Photos from today's Islamic Jihad rally "to protect Jerusalem"
- 9/13 Links Part 1: Egyptian Tanks Cross Gaza Border, Putin’s Trollpolitik, AQ Praises Boston Bombing
- 25% of Red Sea hotels in Egypt closed down
- Dubai's police chief praises Jews, upsets Arabs
- Why did Muslims put a menorah on their coins?
| G'mar chatima tovah 5774 - גמר חתימה טובה Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:30 PM PDT  I will slightly update my Yom Kippur message of previous years: Since a high percentage of my traffic is from people asking about the phrase "G'mar Chatima Tova," here is its translation: Literally: A good final sealing Idiomatically: May you be inscribed (in the Book of Life) for Good I unconditionally forgive anyone who may have wronged me during this year, and I ask forgiveness for anyone I may have wronged as well. Specifically (as enumerated in previous years, courtesy of The Muqata from a few years back):
May this be a year of life, peace, prosperity, happiness and security. I wish all of my readers who observe Yom Kippur an easy and meaningful fast.           | ||
| 9/13 Links Part 2: Oslo 20 Years on, 20 Hottest Startups in Israel, Yom Kippur 100 Years Ago. Posted: 13 Sep 2013 03:00 PM PDT From Ian: Caroline Glick: Israel's 20-year nightmare Our media outlets run a constant stream of post-Zionist propaganda that has reduced our elected representatives' field of action to the size of a postage stamp. They ignore knowledgeable, well-spoken representatives of the majority. They regularly invite cognitively and aesthetically challenged nationalists to their studios to embarrass into silence the majority of viewers who share their opinions. Zionists are hired to high-profile but powerless positions to make the public feel uncomfortable about complaining that its views have no voice in the media.Sarah Honig: Flat earth – 20 years on The need to pay for our right to live is uniquely Jewish. We alone bear an onus to justify what's self-evident and inalienable to any other people. Our obsession to perceive things from our enemies' point of view is unparalleled.20 years to Oslo While the Oslo process failed to attain peace and security for Israel, it was conducive to a partition of the Land of Israel, relieving Israel of the Palestinian burden. Most Israelis have supported the traditional Zionist pro-partition position. They also supported the withdrawal from Gaza and the establishment of a security barrier that signal a desire to disengage from territories heavily populated by Arabs.What's wrong with a Zionist lobby anyway? Given that the Middle East conflict dominates world agendas, and has done for a long time, lobbies – pro, anti and powerful – are bound to be active volcanoes. In the American context everyone knows about the Israel lobby, AIPAC.Guardian's latest report on MOU between Israel and NSA: What we don't know The Guardian published another NSA document today, this time about a Memorandum of Understanding between the NSA and Israel's SIGINT agency, ISNU, that looks worrying.Security forces gear up for Yom Kippur In addition, the West Bank was placed under closure starting Thursday night, until Saturday evening when the Day of Atonement comes to an end.Revealed: How Terrorists Planned Jerusalem Mall Bombing In order to put his plan into action, Rumana learned how to make bombs using guides he found on the internet, and worked to gather the chemical materials he would need. He turned one of the rooms of his house into a bomb-making lab.Burgas bombing suspects to go on trial in early 2014 Sotir Tsatsarov told reporters that an indictment should be ready in the first three months of next year.Wiesenthal Center urges UN to press Olympic chief on pro-boycott stance The Simon Wiesenthal Center is urging the United Nations to pressure the International Olympic Committee to force its newly elected president, Thomas Bach, to resign his position as head of a German organization that advocates boycotting Israeli products, Israel Radio reported late Thursday.The 20 Hottest Startups in Israel The Israeli startup scene needs little introduction. Tel Aviv is rapidly becoming one of the most innovative tech hubs on the planet, vying with London, New York and Berlin as Silicon Valley's second.Advanced Technologies Park brings high-tech to the Negev Beersheva's new Advanced Technologies Park is being hailed as a defining moment for the high-tech industry as it stands to date. During the official inauguration, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who earlier this summer declared Beersheva the national cyber center — told the crowd gathered that "this is a day that will change the history of the State of Israel."Sea of Galilee gets 600,000 fresh fish The fish aren't only expected to increase the lake's biodiversity, but also to clear its waters of toxins originating in seaweed – the tilapias' food source – and act as biofilters to balance out the lake's ecosystem.Peres to honor Spielberg, Wiesel with annual award The president's office said Thursday that Spielberg will be recognized for his contribution to cinema and "his unique contribution to the memory of the Holocaust, to the State of Israel (and) to the Jewish people."Israel Daily Picture: Yom Kippur 100 Years Ago -- Or More For the 19 years that Jordan administered the Old City, 1948-1967, no Jews were permitted to pray at the Kotel.      | ||
| Photos from today's Islamic Jihad rally "to protect Jerusalem" Posted: 13 Sep 2013 11:15 AM PDT Today, Islamic Jihad held a demonstration against Israel allowing Jews to have anything to do with Jerusalem. It does not look that big, compared to other previous rallies, although perhaps the venue was not as large. 
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| 9/13 Links Part 1: Egyptian Tanks Cross Gaza Border, Putin’s Trollpolitik, AQ Praises Boston Bombing Posted: 13 Sep 2013 09:30 AM PDT From Ian: Egypt Tanks Cross Gaza Border Fence Two Egyptian army tanks have crossed an initial border fence leading to Gaza for the first time on Thursday, witnesses said.Hamas gives landmines to Egyptian Islamists, trains them in planting car bombs The Hamas Islamist group ruling Gaza has been teaching Egyptian Islamists how to plant bombs in cars, Egyptian state television said on Thursday.Prof. Gilboa: The Time to Decide is Now, Obama Arutz Sheva met this week with Gilboa, the Director of the Center for International Communication at Bar-Ilan University, who has made it clear that "time is running out" for United States President Barak Obama to diplomatically handle the crisis in the Middle East.Analysis: Syria chemical weapons proposal is Putin's masterstroke If, for whatever reason, the Syrians do choose to part with an appreciable fraction of their chemical weapons capability, President Vladmir Putin will be able to bask in an aura of statesmanship. It was he, after all, who proposed this path.Vladimir Putin's Trollpolitik This is Putin just taunting Obama, speaking to the president as Obama used to speak to his predecessor. It's difficult to know which part Obama will find most insulting. "The law is still the law" is a good one coming from the unreformed KGB gangster. The same goes for Putin's plea for Obama to listen to his people. Then there is his professed concern for America's allies, in which Putin suggests Obama is gambling with Israel's safety.7 Hypocritical, False and Misleading Statements in Vladamir Putin's NYT Op-ed 2. "A strike ... could undermine multilateral efforts to resolve the Iranian nuclear problem and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and further destabilize the Middle East and North Africa. It could throw the entire system of international law and order out of balance."Syria Expert says 'Assad Can Potentially Win this War' "There is a wide gap of the Russian proposal and what the United States is expecting of Russia and of Syria. The Americans are speaking of the destruction of chemical weapons, while the case for the Syrians and Russians, they are ready to declare that Syria has such weapons. It can end with no agreement and we can end up where we were a week ago."Syria Joins Anti-Chemical Weapons Treaty, U.S. Unimpressed State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf told reporters that the U.S. option to use military force remains on the table while discussions proceed with Russia on how to remove Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.Report: Assad Scattering Chemical Weapons According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, Bashar Al-Assad has begun scattering his massive stockpile of chemical weapons to as many as 50 different sites across the country.Syrian rebel chief claims Assad gave Hezbollah nerve gas According to a report Friday in Saudi Arabia's al-Watan newspaper, Syrian National Coalition member Kamal al-Labwani said the rebels obtained documents and testimony from a defector from one of the Syrian government's chemical weapons research centers that indicate Syrian President Bashar Assad transferred roughly one metric ton of VX nerve gas to its ally, Hezbollah.UN: Syria targets hospitals, denies healthcare as 'weapon of war' Syrian government forces have deliberately targeted hospitals, attacked field hospitals with fighter jets and prevented the sick and wounded from receiving medical care, UN war crimes investigators said on Friday.Syrian Shells Land in Golan Heights as Israeli Hospitals Treat Victims of War While there are no reports of injuries or damage resulting from the shells on Thursday, wounded Syrians continue being admitted for treatment in Israeli hospitals. Most recently, a Syrian man with a wound to his head, a one-year-old, and a 10-month old were admitted to Western Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya, according to the Jerusalem Post and Israel Radio.U.S. Calls on Egypt to Cancel State of Emergency The United States on Thursday once again called on Egypt's interim authorities to lift a state of emergency which has been in force since August. The call came after Cairo announced it would extend the state of emergency for two months.U.S. and Iran are edging toward direct talks Signaling a possible thaw in long-frozen relations, the Obama administration and the new leadership in Iran are communicating about Syria and are moving behind the scenes toward direct talks that both governments hope can ease the escalating confrontation over Tehran's nuclear program.U.S.: Iran Nuclear Developments Are 'Troubling' Both the United States and the EU expressed hope that the election of Hassan Rouhani, who has been described by the West as a relative moderate, would lead to a softening of the Islamic Republic's nuclear defiance.Iranian Media Lauds Humiliating Blow for U.S. Iran's conservative press trumpeted as a "humiliating blow" the decision by its arch-foe the United States to put on hold plans for a military intervention in Syria following a surprise Russian initiative aimed at defusing the stand-off.Erdogan vows to squelch efforts to 'create chaos' as police disperse protests Riot police used tear gas to disperse pockets of anti-government demonstrators in several Turkish cities for a third night and Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan vowed to stamp out what he described as efforts to "create chaos."Taliban attacks US Consulate in Afghanistan Taliban militants attacked the US Consulate in western Afghanistan on Friday morning, using a car bomb and guns to battle security forces just outside the compound in the city of Herat. It was not entirely clear whether any attackers managed to breach the facility, but at least two Afghans died, while the US said its personnel were all safe.Al-Qaida calls for terror attacks in US to 'bleed America economically' In his audio speech, Zawahri said Muslims should refuse to buy goods from America and its allies, as such spending only helped to fund US military action in Muslim lands. He added that Muslims should abandon the US dollar and replace it with the currency of nations that did not attack Muslims.      | ||
| 25% of Red Sea hotels in Egypt closed down Posted: 13 Sep 2013 08:15 AM PDT Egypt is heavily dependent on tourist dollars for its economy.  In other words, it is screwed. Five hotels were shut down in Hurghada, and four others in Marsa Alam and Safaga on Tuesday, bringing the total number of hotels that have been closed in the Red Sea Governorate, due to the tourism recession, to 86 hotels out of 248 hotels.      | ||
| Dubai's police chief praises Jews, upsets Arabs Posted: 13 Sep 2013 07:00 AM PDT  Remember Dahi Khalfan, the Dubai police chief who would go on TV every day talking about his investigation in the murder of Mahmoud Mabhouh?During the investigation he said that he would not allow any Jews into the country (translated by English-language media as "Israelis.") He also claimed that mixed-gender schools cause people to take up cross-dressing. Khalfan has also been a very vocal opponent of Islamism. All of his adventures seem to have given him some grudgiing respect for Jews. On his Twitter account today, he wrote that Jews are more trustworthy in business than Arabs are. He said Arabs are cheaters and Jews are more credible. Shortly afterwards, he tweeted that if it wasn't for Jews, Arabs would still be riding on mules and donkeys instead of cars and planes, which he seems to believe that Jews invented.      | ||
| Why did Muslims put a menorah on their coins? Posted: 13 Sep 2013 04:40 AM PDT  The Saudi Arabian "Journal of Archaeology" has an article by an "expert" that claims to debunk the claim that the medallion recently found with a seven-branched menorah in Jerusalem has anything to do with Judaism.The supposed scholar, named Abir Ziad, says that it is impossible that the find is Jewish - because there were no Jews in Jerusalem at the time. You see, Ziad says, Titus banned Jews from Jerusalem in the year 70 CE and the ban remained in effect until Saladin revoked it in 1187. This is of course news to every Western historian. There were only two times Jews were banned from Jerusalem: when Hadrian did it in 131 CE - a ban which was lifted during Emperor Julian's reign (361-363), and when Jordan banned Jews from the Old City from 1948-1967. But expert Ziad has more proof. You see, all the mikvaot (ritual baths) that archaeologists have found in very high concentrations around the Temple Mount aren't Jewish at all - they are just ordinary baths. Apparently, Byzantines or someone established a Bathing District in Jerusalem very close to the Temple that never existed. It is all an elaborate hoax, and all non-Muslim archaeologists are part of the conspiracy. Beyond these absurd "proofs" - which prove nothing more than the fact that Muslim "scholarship is little more than a sham" - her next "proof" is worth a closer look. She says that the menorah itself is not a Jewish symbol, and in fact some early Islamic Umayyad coins depict a branched candlestick along with the Islamic declaration of faith. This is actually true:   So what is going on? Why did Muslims put what appears to be a menorah-type object on their coins? Most of the candlesticks depicted have five branches, although apparently the earliest Islamic candlestick coins showed seven branches. All of these coins were clearly patterned after Jewish coins from centuries earlier.   But there are some differences. As mentioned, most of them have five branches, not seven, and some claim that this was meant to represent the five pillars of Islam. Notice the horizontal bar across the tops of the candlesticks (the medallion pictured above has that as well, but it is topped with flames.) Also, the base of the Islamic coins has two prongs, as opposed to the Jewish three-pronged base. All of the "menorah" coins were minted in - Jerusalem.  The coin above says "Aliya, Madinet Bayit al-Maqdis" - meaning Aelia Capitolina, the Roman name for Jerusalem, and "City of the Holy Temple." The Muslims knew quite well that the menorah symbolized Judaism, and that Jerusalem was the site of the Jewish Temple. Their use of the menorah symbol was an attempt to co-opt the religious symbols of Judaism, but the symbolism of the golden Menorah in the Jewish Temples of Jerusalem was obvious to the designers as well as the people using the coins. Other (real) scholars note that if you turn the Islamic coins upside down, the image resembles a dome - the Dome of the Rock.  The "base" of the menorah, with its two prongs, slightly resembles a crescent. And apparently, in at least some of the coins, the writing is oriented for viewing it as a dome, not as a menorah. According to this book, at least one other coin from the same era used a visual pun to show an image of an amphora (a type of jug used for ceremonial purposes) that, upside down resembled a poppy, another popular coin image. It is very possible that the Islamic "menorah coins" of Jerusalem were specifically designed to show that the Jewish Temple, universally symbolized by the golden Menorah within, had been "overturned" by the Muslim Dome of the Rock that was deliberately built on that site! Muslims are particularly attuned to symbolism, and this would be a powerful symbol showing Judaism's holiest site replaced with a Muslim structure, with a mere turn of the coin. The existence of these coins prove the exact opposite of what Abir Ziad claims. They prove that at the dawn of Islam, Jerusalem was universally understood by Muslims to be a Jewish city, housing the remains of the great Jewish Temple, and just as they deliberately built a structure on top of the Temple ruins to co-opt that site, they usurped the menorah symbol itself - and perhaps tried to symbolize their replacement of the Temple with the Dome on their coins!      |
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