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- Al Azhar sheikh justifies Jew-hatred on Egyptian TV
- 11/21 Links Pt2: The Social Construction of Hatred, Norwegian Prof. boycotts Kristallnacht memorial
- Israel worried about Hamas spy balloons?
- ElderToons: Iran draws a red line
- 11/21 Links Pt1: Al-Quds are only sorry they were caught, Bibi: No nukes for Iran’s ‘dark regime’
- The ICRC again twists international law to damn Israel (updated)
- Khamenei graphic falsely implies IDF uses dogs to attack elderly women
- More Palestinian Arabs working in Israel and the settlements, with twice the average wages
- Khamenei tweet reveals all
| Al Azhar sheikh justifies Jew-hatred on Egyptian TV Posted: 21 Nov 2013 07:41 PM PST From MEMRI: Following are excerpts from an interview with Sheik of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb, which aired on Channel 1, Egyptian TV on October 25, 2013:It's funny - Muslims usually say how wonderful their relationships were with Jews before Zionism, but now Al-Tayeb says that Jews (and Zionists!) have oppressed Muslims for 1400 years. Of course, neither are true. Nevertheless, antisemitism continues to be broadcast on mainstream Egyptian TV. Today.           |
| 11/21 Links Pt2: The Social Construction of Hatred, Norwegian Prof. boycotts Kristallnacht memorial Posted: 21 Nov 2013 03:00 PM PST From Ian: The Social Construction of Hatred The social construction of hatred toward the Jewish people by the Islamic world and the western-left should, at this point in human history, be axiomatic.The Trial of Mahmoud Abbas: Fanning the Flames of Incitement As such, an application of international law to Mahmoud Abbas' statements and actions demonstrates a compelling case for prosecution. He has a clear record of incitement to genocide as defined under the Genocide Convention and its application to date. Furthermore, Abbas' Palestinian Authority has repeatedly sought to dehumanize Israelis and Jews. An especially egregious example of PA-sanctioned incitement is its perpetuation of the "Holocaust myth," which remains rampant in Palestinian society – particularly in the education system and media.European Anti-Semitism and the Fear of Muslims When European history teachers omit the Holocaust from their curriculum, they do not do this because they hate their Jewish students more than their Muslim students. They omit it because they are afraid of their Muslim students. They might also believe they do it to be "nice," but then how come this same "niceness" is not afforded to the Jews?The ignorant Israel boycott advocates, in America too Contrary to the expressed opinion of some BDS supporters there is nothing vague about academic freedom. It denotes a free exchange of ideas and opinions, an exchange in which the validity of those ideas can be examined and challenged, and which is not limited either internally in a particular country or externally. John Stuart Mill knew that free inquiry is the basis for acceptance or rejection of wrong or incorrect ideas and information.MEMRI: Sheik of Al-Azhar Ahmad Al-Tayeb Justifies Antisemitism on the Basis of the Koran VIDEO MEMRI: Egyptian Journalist Amr Sombol: U.S. Foreign Policy and World's Oil Supply Controlled by Jews VIDEO Interviewer: Okay. So what you want to show is that the April 6 movement is supported by, or in fact, founded by Jews.'Israelis Don't Believe in Two-State Solution' In an exclusive Arutz Sheva interview, Middle East expert Dr. Mordechai Kedar, of Bar-Ilan University's BESA Center (Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies), dismissed calls for the establishment of a Palestinian Authority state in Judea and Samaria, saying that the number of Israelis who still believe in the "Two-State Solution" can "fit in two telephone booths".Bennett: Leaving Gaza Cost 1,000 Times More than Staying At an address to the Conference of Major Jewish Organizations today, Minister of Economy Naftali Bennett was asked about the economic costs of staying in Judea and Samaria. In an unequivocal response, he explained why withdrawing from the region would cost Israel far more than remaining.UN Watch: What happened to UN interpreter caught on hot mic? UN chief responds (& disowns her critique) MKs Unite, Call on US to Release Jonathan Pollard Twenty-eight years less one day have passed since US intelligence officer Jonathan Pollard was arrested by FBI agents outside the Israeli Embassy on Washington, DC, on suspicion that he had spied for Israel on the US. He has been in jail ever since.Nasties on Video At the Arc de Triomphe, with a big banner in English, the better, no doubt, to (try to) catch headlines, a bunch of French screamers reacts to the Hollande government's cordiality with Israel:Dutch Catholic TV airs Jews-killed-Jesus video A Dutch Catholic public broadcaster has apologized for and pulled off the air a video clip featuring a song which accuses Jews of plotting to kill Jesus.Georgetown Rescinds Invite to Egyptian Nazi Jan is listed representing "Christians Against the Coup" in a promotional flier for the event posted by Georgetown Tuesday morning. He is omitted from an updated flier posted six hours later. In between the two, Jan's Nazi ideology was exposed in a Twitter post by Hudson Institute Fellow Samuel Tadros.Norwegian prof boycotts Kristallnacht memorial A Norwegian university distanced itself from a professor who said he opposed commemorating Nazi-era pogroms because it serves Israeli propaganda.'Norway unwilling to confront war crimes' The government of Norway is unwilling to "confront the issue" of crimes allegedly committed by some of its citizens during World War II, said Efraim Zuroff, a Nazi hunter and the director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center's Jerusalem office.Congressman presses Turkish FM on anti-Semitism Rep. Steve Cohen (D-Tenn.), a co-chairman of the Congressional caucus on Turkey, pressed the Turkish foreign minister on reports of anti-Semitism and human rights abuses in his country.Elderly Jewish Woman Punched in 'Knockout' Attack A 78-year-old Jewish woman was punched in the face by a group of teenagers while walking in the Midwood section of Brooklyn this weekend, becoming the eighth victim of the so-called knockout attacks that have been occurring in New York City over the past few weeks.At Microsoft 2.0, start-ups get top billing The idea came from Israel, said Zack Weisfeld, a senior director of Microsoft Ventures, the start-up investment arm and sponsor of the MS accelerators. The Israeli accelerator in Herzliya set up just two years ago was the first of the dozen Microsoft Ventures Accelerators and the role model for them all.Keshet's 'Rising Star' earns US deal "Rising Star," the Israeli singing competition that has been the darling of the international television market since its launch here in September, has landed its biggest international deal yet: a 10-episode order for US screens from major American network ABC.Dylan video coup for Israeli digital ad whiz The first official music video for Bob Dylan's "Like a Rolling Stone" is making the rounds on the internet. And Dylan's endorsement is only half the reason why.Pillar of Defense: A Year Later IDF Soldier Reveals How Flow of Humanitarian Aid Was Maintained Sgt. (Res.) Evan Pelz, an American who made aliyah to Israel, served as a lone soldier from 2011 to 2013, and now lives in Jerusalem and studies law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In a guest post on the IDF blog on Wednesday, Sergeant (Res.) Pelz described his time in the Coordination and Liaison Administration for Gaza (CLA) unit that acts as a liaison between the IDF and the civilian population in the Gaza Strip.      |
| Israel worried about Hamas spy balloons? Posted: 21 Nov 2013 12:59 PM PST From Algemeiner:  As Israel Defense Forces work to close the terror tunnels dug by Gaza-based Hamas, the Islamist party has resorted to using reconnaissance balloons to spy on Israel, even posting photos of them aloft onto the Hamas Facebook page.This doesn't make much sense. I can't find any Hamas announcement of these balloons, and I can't find the Hamas Facebook page the article refers to. The only Arabic articles I'm finding are quoting Hebrew sources. But even stranger is the simple question: if the IDF is worried about balloons, why don't they just shoot them down? It can't be that hard. It is not as if it is a violation of the laws of armed conflict to destroy an enemy surveillance system. A few months ago I wrote about IDF balloons being used for reconnaissance into Gaza. If this report didn't seem legit (IDF officer interviewed on TV), I would have guessed that this was the same story after a few rounds of Arabic media "telephone." And it still seems possible to me that there was a mis-communication, that an Arabic site that screwed up the earlier balloon story somehow got onto a Hamas page and the IDF officer was only reacting to a rumor, which got mixed up again in this report. I know it sounds unlikely, but this Hamas surveillance balloon story is more than weird. UPDATE: I found the Walla article about this. It shows a photo from the Hamas Facebook page of the supposed balloon:  Sorry, this has got to be Photoshopped. There is no way a balloon this large is hovering over a building in Gaza and no one is reporting it. UPDATE: Commenter Heb Macman notes that the photo wasn't Photoshopped but taken at an angle to make it look much bigger. Even so, commenter Bob Knot found another photo that also makes it look pretty big, although again it could just be the angle:       |
| ElderToons: Iran draws a red line Posted: 21 Nov 2013 11:00 AM PST Al Arabiya reports: Iran will not sign up to a nuclear deal with world powers unless they accept its right to enrich uranium, its chief negotiator told reporters on Thursday.Whoa, no one said that it was a red line! That's serious - one you declare a red line, the rules say we cannot cross them!       |
| 11/21 Links Pt1: Al-Quds are only sorry they were caught, Bibi: No nukes for Iran’s ‘dark regime’ Posted: 21 Nov 2013 09:00 AM PST From Ian: Tom Gross: Al-Quds seems only to be sorry that they were caught out As I wrote last week, a better outcome would have been for Brandeis to work with Al-Quds to ensure that this kind of activity never happens again, and for the Al-Quds president unequivocally to condemn this kind of behavior to his students. It seems clear that Brandeis would also have preferred this.What Americans Don't Know About Palestinian Culture But the point about campus activities at Al Quds is that there is nothing exceptional about large groups of students demonstrating their hate for Israel and their devotion not to Palestinian nationalism but its extreme Islamist adherents such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad that call for the death of Jews. Such groups are not just welcome at Palestinian schools but an essential part of the fabric of student life as well as the general culture.Roy Amlot in The Times: Israeli soldiers kill Palestinian children with relative impunity Beyond the specifics, however, the smear that Israeli soldiers murder Palestinian children with impunity is part of a larger lethal narrative advanced by anti-Israel activists and some Guardian "journalists" which we've addressed previously. Indeed, no matter how absurd the charges that the IDF targets innocent Palestinian kids, such morally reckless memes evoking the specter of unimaginable Jewish malevolence have become so ingrained in the Islamist and extreme-left imagination that the facts regarding such libels become almost irrelevant.Huffington Post Serves as a Mouthpiece for Hamas In the article, Almodallal voices her support for standard-issue genocidal Hamas threats (that all of Israel should be wiped out, as it sits on Palestinian land), and her belief that Hamas has a bad reputation not because of its terrorism, genocidal threats, or suicide bombings, but because of "unfair Israeli media." Her new job, she says, is to make the Palestinian issues "more human" to the outside world.Azerbaijan jails Iranian for plot against Israeli embassy Hasan Faraji, 31, was arrested in late October after he was seen wandering near the embassy, Azeri news site APA reported. A security guard stopped him for questioning and, after refusing to cooperate, Faraji was detained and taken to a nearby police station. He was later sentenced to 30 days in prison, but there was no indication from the report why he was incarcerated.Drifting from US, Liberman calls to diversify foreign policy "For many years, Israel's foreign policy has been one-directional toward Washington," he said, speaking at the Sderot Conference for Society. "I support multi-directional foreign policy."Moroccan parliament moves to outlaw contacts with Israelis The bill was proposed by five parties in the Moroccan House of Representatives — including that of Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane. Introduced earlier this summer, and largely unnoticed at the time, it was given the heading "Criminalizing Normalization with the Israeli Entity."Palestinian official accuses 'fool' Bush of colluding in Arafat's death A Palestinian Authority official accused former US President George W. Bush of colluding with former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon in the assassination of PA President Yasser Arafat, Palestinian Media Watch revealed Wednesday.PMW: Song glorifying violence at PA cultural event: "No force can remove the weapon from my hand" Netanyahu vows: No nukes for Iran's 'dark regime' The Iranian government is reminiscent of "dark regimes of the past" that tried to wipe out the Jews and then conquer the world, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday in Moscow, vowing to deny Iran nuclear weapons.Iran has all but become Nazi There were other troubling features in his rare public appearance, but stripping Jews of their humanity was the lowest point. The world has looked the other way. It is not lending its ears. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton have tried to play dumb, as if the subconscious malice-filled campaign coming out of Tehran has been somehow lost on them. They yearn for a deal, at any price. Despite the draft agreement being taken off the table -- because France had sobered-up in the nick of time -- Iran now wants to discuss it again. But it wants more than that -- it also wants to punish the West; it seeks revenge after the West slammed the brakes and did some thinking.John Bolton: Obama's 'Deal' Will Let Iran Get the Bomb Secretary of State John Kerry has spared no effort to avoid another Geneva debacle, almost certainly making more concessions to Iran to secure agreement. The failed deal was certainly wretched from America's perspective, involving countless problems and deficiencies. This week's deal will be worse.Israel starting to consider 'day after' Iran agreement Israel's main problem with the proposed deal is that it freezes Iran's program but does not dismantle it or significantly roll it back, in exchange for sanctions relief that Jerusalem believes severely weakens the pressure on Tehran. Intelligence Minister Yuval Steinitz said on Tuesday that in accepting this agreement, the world would be demonstrating that it "is willing to deceive itself."Israel Warns US: Iran Building ICBMs for YOU, Not for Us Tuesday evening, Nov. 19, Israeli government spokesperson Mark Regev told CNN's Jake Tapper that it isn't just Israel in Iran's cross-hairs, but it is the U.S. itself that is an intended target of Iran's nuclear weapon.Israel, Gulf in 'strange alliance' against Iran There seems little chance of major diplomatic breakthroughs between Israel and the Gulf's array of ruling monarchs and sheiks. But their shared worries over Iran's influence and ambitions already has brought back-channel contacts and "intimate relationships" on defense and other strategic interests through forums such as the UN, said Dan Gillerman, a former Israeli ambassador to the world body.Obama's Israel Spat Boosts Iran's Leverage By downgrading the alliance with Israel and Saudi Arabia and trying to delegitimize his critics as warmongers, the president has strengthened Iran's bargaining position and made it less rather than more likely that there will be a satisfactory conclusion to both the current negotiations and those that will follow. Rather than allowing diplomacy to succeed, what he has done may have ensured that Iran will never be convinced to give up its nukes by any means short of a use of force that no one wants.Despite critique, Jewish groups continue Iran push A day after columnist Thomas Friedman blasted Jewish groups for allying with Saudi Arabia in what he described as a push to derail nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Jewish Federations of North America issued a statement calling for strong caps on Iran's nuclear program. In a resolution passed by the JFNA's executive committee, the organization aligned itself closely with the policy advocated by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, insisting that any diplomatic solution reached in nuclear talks with Iran must result in the "complete dismantling of Iran's capability of producing nuclear weapons and ensure mechanisms for ongoing verification of Iranian compliance."Iranians will 'cut your throat,' ex-US official warns negotiators "The Iranians are known as great rug merchants, not for nothing," the 92-year-old former US secretary of state George Shultz told the BBC in an interview. "They're good at this business of smiling, encouraging you on and then cutting your throat, so you have to be tough-minded, you have to be realistic."Al Arabiya Chief: Obama Boosting Iran's Confidence to Become Nuclear Country "The ideal solution is to insist on preventing Iran from building nuclear weapons. Unfortunately, however, the involvement of U.S. President Barack Obama's government in six months of negotiations boosts Iran's confidence that it can force the international community to accept it as a nuclear country, despite all the offers, guarantees and promises made to stop this from happening," Al-Rashed said, according to a translation provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute.Egypt: Two Dead in Clashes at Cairo University More than 1,500 students had marched earlier from the university campus in Cairo's Nasr City to Al-Azhar's central administrative building, the state-owned Al-Ahram news website reported.Kerry: Muslim Brotherhood 'Stole' Egypt's Revolution U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Wednesday accused the Muslim Brotherhood of "stealing Egypt's revolution", AFP reported.IDF Blog: Hezbollah Indoctrinates Youth with Messages of Hate and Murder      |
| The ICRC again twists international law to damn Israel (updated) Posted: 21 Nov 2013 07:00 AM PST Juan Pedro Schaerer, "head of delegation of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Israel and occupied territories," writes in the Jerusalem Post: It is not the ICRC, but rather the facts on the ground that determine whether a territory is under occupation. The facts are such that the Israel Defense Forces established their presence in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in June 1967, and exerted their authority there in place of the Jordanian authorities who were no longer able to exert their own authority.Since at this point Schaerer is only quoting the Hague Regulations, perhaps he should look at the title of the section that Article 42 falls under on the ICRC website: SECTION IIIWhile this isn't proof positive that the Hague Regulations do not apply to non-state entities, it is also proof that Schaerer's blanket statement is not as clear cut as he pretends. He gives no source for his assertion, and based on primary sources, his statement is only that - an assertion. The Geneva Conventions shed no additional light on this question, so as far as actual texts of international humanitarian law are concerned, Schaerer's statement is not supported at all. The ICRC can interpret all it wants, but its interpretation is only that. To characterize it as definitive is deceptive, and that is what is happening here. Regarding settlements, it is long established in international law that settlement activities by an occupying power in an occupied territory are unlawful.This is a flat-out lie. I have many times dissected the text of Article 49 of the Geneva Conventions, and I have even dug up the travaux préparatoires that show that when the article was drafted not a word is said about transfer that is voluntary or even encouraged. Indeed, international law writings, when discussing transfer of populations, are very careful to distinguish between voluntary and involuntary transfer. Some transfers are said to be voluntary but are in fact involuntary. An example Egypt's expulsion of British subjects in November 1956. Egypt force them to sign an Arabic document where they stated that they were leaving of their own free will and relinquish any claims against Egypt. That is a case of involuntary transfer because the transferees were not given a choice. The definition of voluntary transfer is very simple: "For the transfer to comply with human rights standards as developed, prospective transferees must have an option to remain in their homes if they prefer." Nothing in any international law source insists that a nation forcibly stop its citizens from voluntarily moving, but that is apparently how Schaerer is purposefully misinterpreting Geneva. Moreover, Schaerer characterizes the primary purpose of Article 49 as to "demographic and other changes in the territory which occupation law was designed to prevent." This is also a lie. All of the discussions recorded in the travaux préparatoires center on forced population transfer because of the obvious human rights issues that deportation and forced transfer entails, of forcibly uprooting people from their homes. Nobody said a word about demographic changes being an issue at least in that paragraph. Thus, when the international community regards the Israeli settlements in the West Bank as unlawful, it does so simply because of that very prohibition, and not because of an opinion of the ICRC.As I have shown, the source texts do not support Schaerer's interpretation. The ICRC might have some support for its position, but some legal scholars have proof for the opposite. That is why it is clearly, by definition, the ICRC's opinion. This article proves the opposite of Schaerer's intention. By simply looking up the sources, we see that the ICRC is creating its own interpretation of international humanitarian law specifically to target Israel. UPDATE: A lengthy comment at the JPost site is worth reading in full: (h/t Ian) Mr. Schaerer's OpEd raises more questions than it provides answers. For starters, the most obvious one is why is the ICRC so inconsistent in applying the same rules to so many similar situations? To wit, if "It is not the ICRC, but rather the facts on the ground that determine whether a territory is under occupation." as he claims, how come the ICRC didn't apply the same criteria when Jordan illegally occupied and annexed the West Bank and Egypt did the same with Gaza in 1948? Similarly, how come the ICRC has never said a word regarding the (exceedingly brutal) invasion, occupation and annexation of Tibet by China in 1950 (which is still ongoing)? And what about Northern Cyprus, still illegally occupied by Turkey since 1974, and Morocco still illegally occupying the Western Sahara since 1975? Oh, I also forgot two provinces of Georgia still illegally occupied by Russia since 2008? In all these cases, the facts on the ground certainly proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that the territories in question are under occupation. Additionally, all these territories were acquired through wars of aggression, making them illegal, whereas Israel's occupation of the West Bank was the result of a defensive war, which makes it lawful. And yet it is on Israel that the ICRC keeps picking mercilessly, the only case of lawful occupation, while ignoring all the illegal ones! Could it be that the ICRC is scared to offend the culprits in all these other cases, whereas it knows it has nothing to fear from Israel in terms of retaliation? If not, how come the ICRC doesn't have extensive delegations of expatriates and local employees (as it does in Israel where they criss-cross the country taking care of every need of the Palestinians) in Tibet, Northern Cyprus and the Western Sahara? This is the core of the problem the ICRC faces when it keeps accusing Israel of something it is not guilty of while ignoring the countries who are really guilty of the offenses it accuses Israel of: by accepting to apply a double standard against Israel alone, the ICRC has shed much of its credibility as a so-called neutral agency. International law applies equally to all nations, or it applies to none, but it can't be applied to just a few and ignored by the rest.      |
| Khamenei graphic falsely implies IDF uses dogs to attack elderly women Posted: 21 Nov 2013 05:00 AM PST This week, in a speech to tens of thousands of volunteer Basij militiamen in Tehran broadcast live on TV, Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei referred to Israel as an "unclean, rabid dog," which in Persian culture is one of the worst insults possible. He repeats this in a new tweet and Facebook post, together with a graphic:  What was happening in this photo? The original photo caption was: An Israeli army dog attacks a Palestinian woman as soldiers try to stop it during an army raid in the West Bank village of Obadiyah, near Bethlehem, Wednesday, March 21, 2007. The troops were searching for a wanted militant from the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades who managed to escape. I also saw the photo here with the same caption but different photo credit. And there is video, which was immediately seized by the Arab world as if the IDF was attacking the woman and not trying to help her:  Another photo (right) of the same dog attack is also popular on anti-Israel sites. Its caption adds that "the woman received medical attention from the troops on the scene." While the video was edited to make it look as if the solders are detaining the woman, in fact they were helping her. Context is everything, and the Israel haters have no compunction about twisting facts.      |
| More Palestinian Arabs working in Israel and the settlements, with twice the average wages Posted: 21 Nov 2013 02:32 AM PST  Last year, the PCBS said that 15,000 Palestinians worked in the settlements. Now, the number has increased to 20,000. Last year, some 90,000 worked for Israelis on both sides of the Green Line. In the second quarter it increased to 96,000, it has now increased to 103,000. Nearly one in seven West Bank Arabs work for Israelis. 61% of them work in construction. The average daily wage for those working in PA-administered areas in the West Bank is NIS 88.3 compared and NIS 59.3 in Gaza Strip. In contrast, the average daily wage for those working for Israelis increased from NIS 172.1 in the 2nd quarter to NIS 178.9 in the 3rd quarter, over double the wages of those that work in the PA areas,and a 10% increase in wages over last year. In PA areas, the wage during the same time period increased only about 1%. I believe this is the first time that Israeli wages have doubled Palestinian Arab wages. This means that about one third of total wages in the PA ruled areas come from Israeli employers. The impact to the PA economy if there was an international border between their state and Israel would be devastating, although the World Bank never looks at that statistic when it blames Israel for the PA's economic woes. Somehow, over a hundred thousand people manage to travel to Israeli-controlled areas every day, past all those checkpoints and "apartheid walls" and guard towers we keep hearing so much about. While they do have to wait in long lines to enter Israel, it is clearly worth it.      |
| Posted: 21 Nov 2013 12:00 AM PST This is a tweet from Iran's Supreme Leader and Grand Poobah, Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei, on Monday: He who resorts to #terrorism is devoid of reasoning 20/7/94 #BeirutFrom JPost today: An Iranian national was arrested in Azerbaijan two weeks ago on the suspicion he was planning an attack on the Israeli embassy in Baku, Channel 10 reported on Wednesday.But I thought terrorism was devoid of reasoning? By the way, Khamenei has been very upset at France recently: Unfortunately, some Europeans go towards #Zionist officials & pay them lip service & humiliate their nation. #FranceSupporting miserable #Zionist regime will be a great dishonor to the Europeans. But the #French nation itself should find a remedy for that.      |
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