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- Long lost 1913 film of Jews in Israel restored
- Here's another word missing from the Iran nuclear deal: Parchin
- Simple explanation of what's wrong with the Iranian nuclear deal
- PA TV hostess expresses her "respect and love" for Sbarro's suicide bomber
- 11/24 Links: BDS is just the same old, same old hate, IDF restores eyesight to blind Filipinos
- Turkey, Egypt expel each others' ambassadors
- Ukrainian game show is source for latest anti-Israel blood libel. Really.
- John Kerry praises Iran and insults US allies as warmongers (updated)
Long lost 1913 film of Jews in Israel restored Posted: 24 Nov 2013 08:00 PM PST Haaretz reports: For 80 years, the movie "The Life of the Jews in the Land of Israel: 1913" was thought to be lost. The film, shot in prestate Israel in 1913, disappeared during World War I. In 1975, a copy was found in a private collection in the United States. However, when the cases were opened, it transpired that the film reels had disintegrated.We can see two glimpses of the film here; first some footage of the farming communities: And here is film of the Jewish Quarter and the Kotel: |
Here's another word missing from the Iran nuclear deal: Parchin Posted: 24 Nov 2013 04:14 PM PST Yes, Parchin. As Reuters reported some 18 months ago: Six world powers demanded Iran keep its promise to let international inspectors visit a military installation where the U.N. nuclear watchdog believes explosives tests geared to developing atomic bombs may have taken place.The word "Parchin" is not mentioned at all in the actual published deal. As bad as we already know the deal to be, it is astonishing that the US-led alliance did not consider inspections at Parchin to be of paramount importance. Remember, Parchin is where evidence of a weaponization program was clearly being actively hidden by Iran, even to the point that they built large pink tarps to cover the complex to stymie satellite intel. |
Simple explanation of what's wrong with the Iranian nuclear deal Posted: 24 Nov 2013 02:00 PM PST The full text of the nuclear deal has been published. The best description I could find of why it is a disaster comes from former US ambassador to the UN, John Bolton: This interim agreement is badly skewed from America's perspective. Iran retains its full capacity to enrich uranium, thus abandoning a decade of Western insistence and Security Council resolutions that Iran stop all uranium-enrichment activities. Allowing Iran to continue enriching, and despite modest (indeed, utterly inadequate) measures to prevent it from increasing its enriched-uranium stockpiles and its overall nuclear infrastructure, lays the predicate for Iran fully enjoying its "right" to enrichment in any "final" agreement. Indeed, the interim agreement itself acknowledges that a "comprehensive solution" will "involve a mutually defined enrichment program." This is not, as the Obama administration leaked before the deal became public, a "compromise" on Iran's claimed "right" to enrichment. This is abject surrender by the United States.Indeed, that's what the agreement says: This comprehensive solution would involve a mutually defined enrichment program with practical limits and transparency measures to ensure the peaceful nature of the program. It is hard to interpret this as anything other than the "right to enrich," something that Kerry strenuously denied last night. In this specific example, Iran clearly won. Bolton goes on: In exchange for superficial concessions, Iran achieved three critical breakthroughs. Even if you disagree with Bolton's politics, all three points seem incontrovertible. He continues: [T]he deal leaves the basic strategic realities unchanged. Iran's nuclear program was, from its inception, a weapons program, and it remains one today. Even modest constraints, easily and rapidly reversible, do not change that fundamental political and operational reality. And while some already-known aspects of Iran's nuclear program are returned to enhanced scrutiny, the undeclared and likely unknown military work will continue to expand, thus recalling the drunk looking for his lost car keys under the street lamp because of the better lighting.(h/t Lauri) |
PA TV hostess expresses her "respect and love" for Sbarro's suicide bomber Posted: 24 Nov 2013 12:00 PM PST From Palestinian Media Watch: Palestinian Authority TV recently interviewed released terrorist Qahira Al-Sa'adi, who drove a suicide bomber to an attack that killed 3 and injured 80 in Jerusalem on March 21, 2002. During the interview, the host chose to send greetings to another terrorist, Ahlam Tamimi, who led a suicide bomber to the Sbarro pizza shop in Jerusalem on August 9, 2001. 15 people were murdered in the attack, 7 of them children, and 130 were injured. PA TV host: "We send greetings to the released female prisoner Ahlam Tamimi and to all the female prisoners who were released. I focus here on Ahlam because Ahlam chose a way that increases the respect and love I feel for her. I send greetings to you, dear Ahlam, and to your husband Nizar. Ahlam chose the way of media (i.e., as a journalist), and now hosts a program for prisoners." |
11/24 Links: BDS is just the same old, same old hate, IDF restores eyesight to blind Filipinos Posted: 24 Nov 2013 10:00 AM PST From Ian: BDS is just the same old, same old hate The BDS movement is particularly strong on campuses in part because of the support from anti-Israel faculty and outside groups that target campuses.Pro-Israel Festival in New Orleans this Spring. Breaking the Silence: Group's message emboldens enemies, delegitimizes Israel NGO Monitor's detailed analysis of the book shows that Breaking the Silence tailored the anecdotal and unverifiable accounts of low-ranking soldiers to fit a predetermined conclusion that Israeli policy is the "intimidation, instilling of fear, and indiscriminate punishment of the Palestinian population." In fact, many testimonies contradict this harsh claim, explicitly noting that incidents of individual misconduct were opposed and punished by officers.British university heads back Islamists in pro-segregation scandal Outrage is sweeping across Britain's higher education sector after it emerged yesterday that Universities UK (UUK), an organisation constructed of university vice chancellors from around the country, has caved to Islamist demands to encourage gender segregation of events on university campuses.Brandeis president 'reaches out' to al-Quds counterpart in row over Jihad rally In a statement, Lawrence said Nusseibeh had "made a number of remarks and serious accusations to the media that have not been conveyed to me personally or through my staff. I am reaching out to President Nusseibeh today and hope that he will be open to that discussion." (h/t Bob Knot)Incitement: The oxygen keeping the conflict alive With such ferocious hatred being disseminated by the PA, it is little wonder that Palestinians find it hard to see an end to this conflict. Incitement is the oxygen keeping the conflict alive.Iran nuclear agreement a 'historic mistake,' Netanyahu says "What was accomplished last night in Geneva is not a historic agreement; it's a historic mistake," Netanyahu said at the start of Sunday morning's weekly cabinet meeting. "Today the world has become much more dangerous, because the most dangerous regime in the world took a meaningful step toward acquiring the most dangerous weapon in the world."Israeli Ministers Line Up to Lambast Iran Nuclear Deal; Choice Was Between 'Plague and Cholera' Says Lapid In an interview on Israel Defense Forces radio, Israel's Finance Minister, Yair Lapid, widely believed to be the second most influential politician in the country, sounded a bitter tone.Trumpeting deal, Iranians say agreement stymies 'Zionist plot' The agreement, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said, represented "a big success for Iran" and an indication that "all plots hatched by the Zionist regime to stop the nuclear agreement have failed," according to a report from state-sponsored Islamic Republic News Agency.MEMRI VIDEO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani: Iran's Enrichment Activities Will Proceed Similar to the Past The art of hiding nuclear enrichment facilities Foreign intelligence would thus prefer to keep mum on its knowledge of an attempted hidden facility, so as not to induce the country in question to increase its on-site defensive capabilities or construct another hidden facility.Iran announces plan to build two more nuclear power plants Iran is expected to build two new nuclear power plants in the near future, an Iranian official said Saturday.Saudi Arabia: We Won't 'Sit Idly By' if West Fails with Iran Ambassador Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf bin Abdulaziz, who was speaking to the British Times, called the Obama administration's "rush" to embrace Tehran "incomprehensible."Region will lose sleep over Iran deal -Saudi adviser "The government of Iran, month after month, has proven that it has an ugly agenda in the region, and in this regard no one in the region will sleep and assume things are going smoothly," Askar said.Al-Hayat Editor: We Are In The Midst Of A Regional Sectarian War That Threatens The National Cohesion Of Countries Near And Far, Especially Lebanon In a November 20 article in the London-based Saudi daily Al-Hayat, the daily's editor, the Lebanese Ghassan Charbel, wrote that the war in Syria poses a horrific threat to the entire Middle East, since it has sparked a region-wide sectarian war in which Sunnis and Shi'ites travel to Syria from other countries in order to fight each other there. This, he says, has virtually eliminated the boundaries between countries and shattered their internal cohesion, creating a conflagration of unprecedented severity that cannot be controlled or contained.Palestinian identified as 2nd Iran embassy bomber in Beirut Lebanese authorities identified the second man involved in the deadly attack on the Iranian embassy in Beirut on Tuesday which killed 23 people as a Palestinian with ties to a fugitive Lebanese cleric, Reuters reported Saturday.'Father of Suicide Bombing' Reportedly Injured in Iran Suicide Bomb In a he-had-it-coming-to-him-moment, the self-proclaimed father of suicide bombing appears to have been injured on Tuesday in Beirut, where the Iranian embassy was targeted by an Al-Qaeda faction, The Times of London reported. 23 people were killed in the attack, including an Iranian diplomat, and 140 were injured.Lebanese Army Defuses 250-Pound Car Bomb, Averting Major Terror Attack The Lebanese army prevented another massive bomb attack Friday, diffusing a 250-pound car bomb just three days after twin suicide bombings targeting the Iranian embassy in Beirut killed 25 people.Jordan's king and the Islamists: In one boat? In a congressional hearing, US Senator Lindsey Graham said Jordan's king had told him he "did not think he would be in power within a year from now" because of the crisis in Syria. To which US Chief of Staff General Martin Dempsey responded: "Yes, that is basically his fear."Turkey Gives Seized Media to Erdogan Ally Last spring, as President Obama stood beside his good friend Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House Rose Garden, Turkish officials were raiding the media assets of the Çukurova Group, one of the last business conglomerates whose media outlets maintained an independent rather than hagiographic take on Turkey's prime minister. Obama, of course, was silent. Not only did Obama not speak up in defense of media freedom, but he chose Sabah, a once-independent paper seized by Erdogan's administration and transferred to Erdogan's son-in-law for an op-ed about Obama's love for Turkey.Israeli agritech IPO could be first of a controversial wave The Evogene IPO could have an a major impact on these and other agritech start-ups, said Kardish. "Evogene is such a great example of Israeli 'Ag Valley,' our agricultural version of 'Silicon Valley.' Evogene started out as a small company with a combination of plant genetics science and hi-tech software, and now it is providing cutting edge solutions for all the big industry players worldwide. Although GMO is considered a controversial topic, I believe that to feed the growing population we'll have to use methods that increase crop productivity, and this is what GM eventually does," Kardish said.Israeli delegation restores eyesight of blind Philippines residents The Israeli medical delegation to the Philippines has managed to restore the eyesight of four residents of the Philippines, aged 40 to 74, who were blind as a result of pterygia – growths in the eyes, associated with ultraviolet-light exposure, low humidity and dust.IDF treats 2,000th patient in the Philippines Another baby was named for the Israeli doctors over the weekend. Louis, the head of security in Cebu, named his daughter Shai, after IDF Military Attaché to the Philippines Col. Shai Brovender. Baby Shai was born in the IDF field hospital.Duluth nurse joins Israelis to offer aid to Filipinos recovering from typhoon The IDF has essentially turned a developing world, rural hospital into a fairly modern-day medical facility in just 48 hours, all in the context of a major disaster. They have integrated electronic records, ultrasound, digital X-ray, a fairly sophisticated laboratory, an active surgery suite and incredible medical staff with varying specialty backgrounds. I've been mainly working with the orthopedic specialists and surgeons. We have been treating a lot of septic wounds, fractures and fresh wounds from falls, motorcycle crashes and — particularly — soft-tissue wounds sustained in the process of the local residents' cleanup efforts; machetes, axes, things falling, the list goes on. |
Turkey, Egypt expel each others' ambassadors Posted: 24 Nov 2013 08:00 AM PST From BBC: Egypt has told the Turkish ambassador to leave the country, a day after the Turkish leader called for ousted President Mohammed Morsi to be freed.From DW: Egypt's decision on Saturday to downgrade relations with Turkey and expel the country's ambassador, Hussein Awni Botsala, from Cairo led to an escalation in diplomatic exchanges between the two countries.If self-avowed Middle East experts are right, then in no time Sisi will send Erdogan a bouquet of flowers, because that's how things work there. (h/t Yoel) |
Ukrainian game show is source for latest anti-Israel blood libel. Really. Posted: 24 Nov 2013 06:00 AM PST From Ma'an: An Israeli soldier admitted that she shot and killed unknown numbers of Palestinian people, including children, on a Ukrainian television program that aired in early November.So a person on a game show - a game show that encourages people to try to beat a lie detector - is the latest source for supposed Israeli atrocities. Her story about her supposed IDF service was peripheral to the point of the show; she was saying to her mother than she'd rather kill children than live with her, which is why she says she went to Israel as a lone soldier. She also claims she was abused both by her mother and by her schoolmates. She does not sound like a very reliable source. (On the show, she passed the lie detector test, but people who believe their own lies would pass easily.) The IDF investigates every killing, in great detail, especially children. But Zakusilo says she has no idea how many children or adults she killed. She says she only would speak about her troubles to her superior - a general! - and he would calm her down about a dead kitten! There have been extraordinarily few killings by women in combat in the IDF. On the day that Arafat died, exactly one Palestinian Arab was killed during riots, and it was not a child. (Two more were killed in Gaza during a house raid.) None were killed the day after nor the day after that. I have never heard of IDF dogs being "controlled" by remote control from ten miles away without any soldiers around, and a quick search came up empty, even though this is supposedly a 10-year old technology. I also find it highly unlikely that a woman whose specialty is training dogs would also be thrown into a live fire situation with rioters, let alone be responsible for multiple deaths. The Israelis I asked about this say it is not even close to being plausible. Russian language social media in Israel are also extremely skeptical about these claims. But none of that matters to the Israel-haters, who will believe anything as long as it fits their preconceived notions of evil bloodthirsty Israeli soldiers who enjoy aiming at children. |
John Kerry praises Iran and insults US allies as warmongers (updated) Posted: 24 Nov 2013 03:32 AM PST |
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