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- When Israel pays students to post on social media, it's terrible. But what about Turkey?
- Guardian reviews book on history of Jews, Arabs freak out
- 9/15 Links: BBC Claims Egypt acted 'pre-emptively' against Israel in '73, Jerusalem’s Etrog Man
- Ian Lustick's science fiction in the New York Times
- Arabic Jew-news roundup
- Yemen newspaper: "Jews are the natural enemy of Muslims"
| When Israel pays students to post on social media, it's terrible. But what about Turkey? Posted: 15 Sep 2013 06:10 PM PDT Last month, the world media breathlessly reported "Students offered grants if they tweet pro-Israeli propaganda." Reaction from the usual suspects was immediate and scathing, as if somehow it sullies the idea of social media to begin with. How dare Israel take advantage of the same tools that every company on the planet is trying to exploit? Today a story was released that will certainly get no such reactions: Turkey's ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has launched a massive project to boost the party's social media presence by hiring over 6,000 new employees for its newly formed social media team, according to daily Star.Do you hear that? It's the sound of a big yawn when someone other than Israel tries to take advantage of Twitter and Facebook. By the way, there was similar concern when the State of Israel put this infographic on Buzzfeed - even though the article admitted that the UK government also posts on BuzzFeed.            | ||
| Guardian reviews book on history of Jews, Arabs freak out Posted: 15 Sep 2013 12:30 PM PDT Last week, in The Guardian, Tom Holland wrote about a book by Simon Schama called The Story of the Jews, which has also been a recent TV series. The book appears to be interesting although quite at odds with the rabbinical traditions of how Jewish history unfolded. Nevertheless, it accepts that Jews today are descended from the Jews of Biblical times, who lived in Judea. This is too much for Arab newspaper Moheet, which blares on its headline that The Guardian is pushing The Big Lie that "Jews are God's Chosen People from their homeland Palestine." Here's what The Guardian says: How, though, are "Jews" to be defined: as an ethnic grouping or as the adherents of a god? The Bible, that titanic record of their beginnings, and without which they would surely long since have gone the way of the Moabites, blurs the question by casting them as both. Not merely a people, they are a Chosen People, united by a common line of descent from Abraham and a code of laws inherited, via Moses, directly from YHWH. Simultaneously fantastical and transcendent, this is a narrative that plays directly to one of Schama's greatest strengths. He has always had a genius for celebrating the myths he is simultaneously deconstructing. The methods of analysis he once applied to the Dutch republic and the French revolution are now applied to holy writ. Jews first become Jews, in Schama's telling of their story, by a feat of willpower. Tradition generates its own backstory, which then takes on the cast of reality. "The Hebrew Bible is the imprint of the Jewish mind, the picture of its imagined origins and ancestry."Through the bizarre filters of the Moheet author's mind, he translates this into "Jews are God's chosen people, according to the Torah, which is why the United States is an advocate for their rights!... [The book] confirms the idea that the Bible was written in Hebrew, which indicates that it represents the imprint of the Jewish mind." Moheet goes on: Then the author repeats fanatical Zionist lies: that Jews survived without their Palestine, spread out in different countries governed by various historical, political and cultural laws that helped to preserve their Jewish identity.Jewish history is now a Zionist lie! Moheet also says the article states: It's time to write about the history of the deep faith of the Jews, and the importance of following the Torah and the rabbis to return to their homeland and Jewish identity.I couldn't find anything close to that quote. In the end, this hysterical review proves that for Arabs, the threat isn't Zionism - the threat is Judaism. The very existence of Jews, conitnuing to practice a faith that predates Islam by millennia and that indeed Islam stole many of its ideas from, continuing to venerate Israel and its holy places that still exist from before Mohammed was born - that is the scariest idea in the Muslim world that must be fought tooth and nail. Because the truth indicates that Islam isn't so special, but rather it is a pale derivative of a religion that is still going strong.      | ||
| 9/15 Links: BBC Claims Egypt acted 'pre-emptively' against Israel in '73, Jerusalem’s Etrog Man Posted: 15 Sep 2013 10:30 AM PDT From Ian: BBC's educational resource website describes Yom Kippur attack by Syria and Egypt as 'pre-emptive' Consider then the statement below which appears in the section titled "The Middle East from the 1880s" on the BBC's 'Learning Zone' website: supposedly a resource for secondary school educators.Netanyahu: Actions, not words, will be test for Syria and Iran Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed cautious optimism over the US-Russian deal, which will begin its implementation with Syria reporting on its chemical weapons stock by the end of the week.Israel: We've been 'absolutely certain' for months Assad using nerve gas In his April address, Brun showed a photo of a child with narrowed pupils and foam coming out of his mouth. Both of these were indicative of a nerve agent, he said. He repeated those indicators in the Saturday interview, broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 news, while making plain that the IDF had other, more conclusive, sources of information.Kerry briefs Israel's leaders on Syria deal Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu earlier Sunday expressed cautious optimism about the deal.Obama: Military action still on table if Syria diplomacy fails Obama said the United States will continue working with Russia, the United Kingdom, France, the United Nations and others to "ensure that this process is verifiable, and that there are consequences should the Assad regime not comply with the framework agreed today."McCain and Graham Slam Syria Agreement The two called the agreement "meaningless" and said it sends the wrong signal to Iran, which is suspected of building a nuclear weapon.Putin Puts International Law Before War However, Putin now certainly needs to explain the lack of "real leverage" demonstrated by the failure of those same 5 Permanent Members to agree on the terms of a resolution to end the 30 month civil war in Syria that has already claimed over 100000 lives, created 2 million refugees and displaced 5 million Syrians in their own country.Video Reveals Key Iranian Role in Syrian Civil War Remarkable footage has emerged of Iranian military forces on the ground in Syria, fighting alongside pro-government militias.20 trucks with Syrian chemical equipment said sent to Iraq Twenty trucks laden with equipment used in the manufacture of chemical weapons were driven across the border from Syria into Iraq on Thursday and Friday, the Lebanese newspaper Al-Mustaqbal reported on Sunday.Guardian Jerusalem Syndrome: Giles Fraser fears Judaisation of Temple Mount Lending polemical support to such an often repeated lie that Israel – which allows freedom of worship for all faiths at holy sites in Jerusalem – represents a threat to the Temple Mount (the holiest site in Judaism), is the Guardian's Giles Fraser, whose latest piece at 'Comment is Free' is titled 'An Israeli claim to Temple Mount Would Trigger Unimaginable Violence.'Feiglin Challenges Waqf Control over Temple Mount In his response, Gordon stated that the policy of Muslim control over the Temple Mount was a government decision taken immediately after the liberation of Jerusalem in 1967.Israeli Health Care of Palestinians Once again Israel is coming under attack from a foreign government financed NGO, this time claiming Israel is ignoring its humanitarian obligations with regard to the taking care of the health of the Palestinians.Border Police Come Under Attack in Anata A video has been released showing Border Police unit coming under attack during a routine patrol on Yom Kippur. The unit was driving through the Arab town of Anata, near Jerusalem, when local youths attacked with concrete blocks, bottles, and buckets of paint.Putin to visit Iran for first time in six years "Putin has been invited to Iran, and he will certainly take advantage of this kind invitation," the Interfax news agency quoted spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying on Friday. "The dates of the visit will be agreed upon through diplomatic channels."New IOC head to resign from controversial Arab-German trade group Thomas Bach, a German sports functionary who was elected Tuesday for an initial eight-year term at the helm of the IOC, is the chairman of Ghorfa, the Arab-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry. Founded in 1976, the organization is accused of helping companies make sure they avoid any trade with Israel. Since Bach's election last week in Buenos Aires, several Jewish groups have called on Bach to step down from his position at the trade group.Tel Aviv University, China's Tsinghua University to Create XIN Life Sciences Center in China In a statement reported by Israel's Globes business daily, the two universities said they plan to create a research center to be called XIN, which means "new" in Chinese. They will dedicate "hundreds of millions of dollars" to set up the research institute which will focus on life sciences and nanotechnology, and co-ordinate frequently with high-tech industry.Sapiens wins 2 financial services contracts for NIS 80m One contract with Clal Insurance Enterprises Holdings Ltd. (TASE: CLIS), which selected Sapiens Life & Pensions software to manage its pensions portfolio, in a multimillion dollar deal.Meet Jerusalem's Etrog Man If you've ever been to the century-old Jerusalem marketplace Machane Yehuda and haven't stopped by the booth of third-generation Yemenite healer Uzi-Eli Chezi, it's time for a return visit.      | ||
| Ian Lustick's science fiction in the New York Times Posted: 15 Sep 2013 08:00 AM PDT Science fiction does not only deal with fantasies about the future. It also sometimes includes alternate history, describing how events would have unfolded had something different happened years ago. Ian Lustick in the New York Times shows his anti-Israel bias by writing both alternate history and a fantasy future in his article against the two-state solution. Not to mention some old-fashioned fiction: Israeli governments cling to the two-state notion because it seems to reflect the sentiments of the Jewish Israeli majority and it shields the country from international opprobrium, even as it camouflages relentless efforts to expand Israel's territory into the West Bank.No, the Israeli government supports a two state solution because of a combination of worries about a mostly mythical demographic time-bomb and because of relentless pressure from the US. These are pretty basic facts. Does Lustick really think, after so many years, that Israel would make decisions like this only to shield itself from criticism? He must have been asleep during 1967, Entebbe, Osirak, and a couple of times in Gaza. American politicians need the two-state slogan to show they are working toward a diplomatic solution, to keep the pro-Israel lobby from turning against them and to disguise their humiliating inability to allow any daylight between Washington and the Israeli government.Ah, it's all because of the Jewish Lobby. It isn't the Us driving the current peace talks, but AIPAC controlling, um, the State Department. I'm sorry. I shouldn't make fun of an "expert." It is true that the Oslo process is a sham. It is true that the current conventional wisdom that "everyone knows" what an eventual solution will look like has been dead wrong for at least 12 years, ever since the PLO rejected the Clinton parameters and chose to start a terror war instead. Oh, I'm sorry again. Lustick seems, throughout this entire 2200 word essay, to have ignored the intifada as being something that might be blamed on Palestinian Arabs. Instead, he obliquely blames Israel, starting his alternate history segment with: Had America blown the whistle on destructive Israeli policies back then it might have greatly enhanced prospects for peace under a different leader. It could have prevented Mr. Begin's narrow electoral victory in 1981 and brought a government to power that was ready to negotiate seriously with the Palestinians before the first or second intifada and before the construction of massive settlement complexes in the West Bank. We could have had an Oslo process a crucial decade earlier.He speaks about a "peace process" in 1980 which didn't exist. Indeed, Lustick seems to be peculiarly one-sided in assigning blame for the failure of Oslo. Terror, incitement, intransigence on the part of the PLO simply is not worth mentioning. Only Jews wanting to live in the homeland of their ancestors is the obstacle. Lustick then turns to more traditional science fiction, as he describes his hopes and dreams of how shuttering the peace process today will ultimately bring about a better Middle East: With a status but no role, what remains of the Palestinian Authority will disappear. Israel will face the stark challenge of controlling economic and political activity and all land and water resources from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea. The stage will be set for ruthless oppression, mass mobilization, riots, brutality, terror, Jewish and Arab emigration and rising tides of international condemnation of Israel. And faced with growing outrage, America will no longer be able to offer unconditional support for Israel. Once the illusion of a neat and palatable solution to the conflict disappears, Israeli leaders may then begin to see, as South Africa's white leaders saw in the late 1980s, that their behavior is producing isolation, emigration and hopelessness.You see? If we just abandon Oslo, then the ugly face of Jewish Israelis can be revealed to the world! Right now, articles like Lustick's in small papers like The New York Times aren't enough to demonize Israel - we need to set the stage for Israel to start killing lots and lots of Arabs, who will naturally and nobly start terrorizing Jews as is their right under oppression. The international pressure can properly blame Israel for its awful apartheid-like policies of trying to defend its civilian population and we can get rid of this ridiculous idea of a Jewish state once and for all. Palestinian Arab insistence on a capital in Jerusalem, on the 1949 armistice lines and on the "return" of millions of Arabs into Israel are "key political requirements." Israeli insistence on an undivided Jerusalem, defensible borders and a Jewish state are "maximizing Israeli prerogatives." Lustick's foray into science fiction moves more towards fantasy in his next paragraph: In such a radically new environment, secular Palestinians in Israel and the West Bank could ally with Tel Aviv's post-Zionists, non-Jewish Russian-speaking immigrants, foreign workers and global-village Israeli entrepreneurs. Anti-nationalist ultra-Orthodox Jews might find common cause with Muslim traditionalists. Untethered to statist Zionism in a rapidly changing Middle East, Israelis whose families came from Arab countries might find new reasons to think of themselves not as "Eastern," but as Arab. Masses of downtrodden and exploited Muslim and Arab refugees, in Gaza, the West Bank and in Israel itself could see democracy, not Islam, as the solution for translating what they have (numbers) into what they want (rights and resources). Israeli Jews committed above all to settling throughout the greater Land of Israel may find arrangements based on a confederation, or a regional formula more attractive than narrow Israeli nationalism.Every one of Lustick's scenarios betrays either a remarkable ability to write speculative fiction or a remarkable blindness to the Arab, Muslim, Zionist and Jewish psyches, all at once. And so it goes. An extremist position to dismantle Israel and eventually replace it with another Arab state (albeit with a large Jewish minority), spiced up with wishful thinking of a bizarre utopian fantasy where Jew-hatred is not an inherent part of the Arab and Muslim mindset so the resultant state will treat Jews as honored citizens with equal rights, is published in the New York Times. The fantasy fiction of Ian Lustick will be discussed over brunch this morning in New York and Washington as if it makes all the sense in the world.      | ||
| Posted: 15 Sep 2013 06:24 AM PDT Al Wafd, newspaper of a secular Egyptian party, accuses Hamas of being behind a lot of the Sinai jihadist "Instead of fighting the Jews, Hamas turned to fight the Egyptians."
The Jordanzad news site has an op-ed saying that the current talks between Israel and the PLO is really a talk between Jews...and Jews. Mahmoud Abbas, the writer says, has turned his job into doing whatever the Israelis tell him to do. Al Hadath News reports on the recent Washington Post interview with Brigitte Hoss, daughter of Rudolf Höss, Kommandant of Auschwitz who was found to be living in a Washington, DC suburb. While the WaPo article described the horrors of Auschwitz along with the interview, this Arab paper quoted only the parts of the interview that could be used to cast doubt on the Holocaust: She questions that millions were killed. "How can there be so many survivors if so many had been killed?" she asks.The article also quotes her saying "I am still scared here in Washington. There are a lot Jewish people, and they still hate the Germans. It never ends." Another JordanZad piece adds a wrinkle on an old conspiracy theory. You see, Israel installed cameras on the Temple Mount, and they allow Jews to visit "al-Aqsa." The reason is that they are planning an earthquake, and they want to bury Jews in the rubble, to make the world sympathetic with the dead Jews and no one will think about the destruction of the Al Aqsa Mosque. The Christian-Muslim Commission for support of Jerusalem, one of the many anti-Jewish groups out there, came out with a press release that was published verbatim in some Arab media outlets. It warns that Jews plan to march in the streets of Jerusalem during the upcoming Sukkot holiday and calls for Arabs to wake up and take action against it. This has been a motif that has been increasing lately in the Arab press, as organizations such as this one and the Al Aqsa Foundation are desperately trying to incite Arabs to revolt. Al Quds Educational TV notes that Yom Kippur brought Jerusalem to a standstil as thousands gathered for prayers at the Kotel, another unforgivable crime. The organization described Yom Kippur as the "anniversary of the 1973 October war."      | ||
| Yemen newspaper: "Jews are the natural enemy of Muslims" Posted: 15 Sep 2013 04:00 AM PDT Mainstream Yemen newspaper Al Masdar has an antisemitic op-ed today. Starting off with the idea that Jews are Freemasons who have endeavored to destabilize the Muslim world for centuries, the piece claims that Jews are behind the turmoil and revolutions in all Arab countries, using the playbook of - you guessed it - the Talmud. "Jews are the natural enemy of Muslims," the article continues, as they have been behind the murder of the Prophets. Now they are using their money to control the minds of weak Arab leaders. (It is unclear if he is referring to Yemen itself, which has seen lots of civil wars over recent decades.) Now Arab rulers are themselves in the lead, "under the Masonic tunic," to destroy the Muslim 'umma. But make no mistake - Jews are behind everything, their dirty fingers involved in all the strife in the Middle East. The sad part is, international focus on Israel from the UN, US and EU - where leaders routinely declare that the Israeli-Palestinian Arab conflict is the core issue of the region - shows that the world's viewpoint is not too different from what crazed Jew-hating Arab op-ed writers believe.      |
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