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A pro-settler Miley Cyrus video spoof

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 05:00 PM PST

This is not something you see everyday, from Orit Arfa:



From the YouTube page:
Miley Cyrus raised eyebrows and tongues with her hyper-sexual performance of her hit "We Can't Stop" at the MTV Video Music Awards. But concerned Jewish parents need not fear! A new video take on Miley's song has channeled her defiant spirit towards a worthy cause: defending Jewish rights to live and thrive in the land of Israel. Jews can't stop building, loving, praying, doing what we want in their land, in their homes. Too quote Miley, "Only God can Judge ya. Forget the haters, cuz Somebody loves ya."

Lyrics:
It's our LAND we can BUILD where we want
It's our LAND we can PRAY WHERE we want
It's our LAND we can LIVE HOW we want
We can BE who we want
MAKE PEACE IF we want

Bare land and Jewish bodies everywhere
Rockets through the air but who cares?
Cause we came to build our home now
But somebody might get stoned now

If they wants Jews to leave home
Can I get a hell no
Cause we gonna fight all night
Till we get our birthright, alright

So la da di da di, we like to BE FREE
Dance in Tel Aviv
LIVIN' however we want
This is our home
This is our rules
And we can't stop
And we won't stop
Can't you see it's we who own the LAND
Can't you see it's we who TAKE A STAND
And we can't stop
And we won't stop
We BUILD things
Things don't BUILD we
We don't STEAL nothing from nobody

It's our LAND we can BUILD WHERE we want
It's our LAND we can PRAY WHERE we want
It's our LAND we can LIVE HOW we want
We can GIVE WHAT we want
MAKE PEACE if we want

To my home guys here with the big guns
Savin' Jews from gettin' all beat up
Remember only God can judge ya
Forget the haters cause somebody loves ya
And everyone in line to make peace
Trying to get a Nobel for peace
We all so fed up here
Getting fed up here, yeah, yeah

So la da di da di, we like to BE FREE
Dancing with Miley
LIVING however we want
This is our home
This is our rules
And we can't stop
And we won't stop
Can't you see it's we who own the LAND
Can't you see it we who TAKE A STAND
And we can't stop
And we won't stop
We BUILD things
Things don't BUILD we
Don't take nothing from JOHN KERRY

It's our LAND we can BUILD WHERE we want
It's our LAND we can PRAY WHERE we want
It's our LAND we can LIVE HOW we want
We can GIVE WHAT we want
MAKE PEACE if we want

It's our LAND we BUILD what we want to
It's our HOME we can LIVE HOW we want to
It's our song we can sing if we want to
It's my mouth I can PRAY what I want to
Yea, Yea, Yeah

And we can't stop
And we won't stop
Can't you see it's we who own the LAND
Can't you see it we who TOOK A STAND
And we can't stop
And we won't stop
We BUILD things
Things don't BUILD we
We don't STEAL nothing from nobody
Yea, Yea, Yea

12/12 Links Pt2: Peace Now and the facade of democratic debate, Falk Calls for ‘Legitimacy War’ against Israel

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 03:00 PM PST

From Ian:
Gerald Steinberg: Peace Now and the facade of democratic debate
Peace Now and its allies, which use the label but not the values of the "liberal progressive Left," have long ignored this demonization and political warfare targeting Israel. In their black vs. white political world, complex images that are presented by Einat Wilf, who entered the Knesset as a member of the Labor Party and promotes a two-state framework while denouncing the demonization campaigns, are perceived as outside the discourse. Similarly NGO Monitor, whose research played a central role in convincing Judge Goldstone to acknowledge the false foundation of his UN "report," is attacked and defamed as a dangerous enemy.
Why so many students love the pro-Palestinian movement
Having often watched young pro-Palestinian activists yell their prescribed chants and ditties outside Ecostream, and flashing "V for Victory" signs, I am reminded again of how often it seems "cool" to be a pro-Palestinian activist among some students in colleges and universities around the world.
Why?
With the younger members of the BDS, it appears as if the protest is all fun and games to them, and there have been several occasions when they really have no idea what they are supposed to be doing outside the Ecostream store, even the ones who have been indoctrinated by their activist parents. Some of them do understand what they are protesting against, but some do not, and others have, on occasions, whispered across to our group, asking us what this protest is all about! (One girl thought she was at an "anti-war" rally. I truly wonder if she expected to see "Ban the Bomb" icons!)
Student Leader Wants to Decapitate 'All Who Support the IDF'
Can the SFSU environment be considered a safe one with a student leader – let's say that again, a student leader! - who has already posed making threats while caressing a knife, and is now calling for the beheading of IDF soldiers and anyone who supports them? Surely any "dialogue with student groups and counseling resources" is a tack already taken, one revealed to be insufficient.
Will SFSU make clear that threats against its population will not be tolerated? The SFSU administration is already on notice. Any action taken after someone is already harmed will not be defensible.
Richard Falk Calls for 'Legitimacy War' against Israel
In a new interview, Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council's permanent investigator on "Israel's violations of international law," explained the strategy of his "legitimacy war" against Israel—but complained that UN Watch "complicated my task."
According to Falk, "extremely defamatory attacks by UN Watch"—which he described as "an ultra-Zionist, ultra-Israeli organization"—succeeded in getting him "attacked" by the American ambassadors in New York and Geneva, "and by the UN Secretary-General, actually, on a couple of occasions."
IsraellyCool: Roger Waters Receives Seal Of Approval From David Duke
Mazal tov to Roger Waters for making it to antisemite David Duke's website, for his choice words against Rabbis and the "Jewish lobby."
Does American Studies Association have guts to boycott Cornell too?
Regardless of any alleged military involvement, Technion would be covered by the ASA boycott resolution.
To be consistent and intellectually honest, if the ASA boycott resolution passes the membership, must ASA not also boycott the Cornell-Technion joint campus? And since the joint campus will draw resources, faculty, staff and students from Cornell's Ithaca campus, wouldn't the boycott of necessity have to include the greater Cornell University?
Picking on Israel is easy for tenured radicals. It comes at no professional cost, particularly for organizations and academics not in the sciences.
Preserve the truth of the Holocaust
One of the manifestations of modern Holocaust denial involves a new narrative-oriented discourse that seeks to create a new perception. To further this end, the deniers use unimportant facts that are fed to the public and give rise to new narratives. For example, the Polish historian who heads the State Museum at Majdanek claims that the death camp was never used for large-scale, deliberate extermination of the Jews with gas. He insists that Majdanek was a concentration and labor camp where Jews and Poles died because of the various hardships of the ongoing war all around them. The Poles were quick to embrace this narrative, because it expunges a large part of their collective record, a record marred by their decision not to lift a finger when the camp was active.
Until recently, such claims would have been dismissed out of hand. But during the recent "renovations" in the museum, the plaques that detailed the activity of gas chambers in a certain area were removed. Instead, the signs now indicate the area was used to do the laundry. Similarly, the explanations in a certain section of the museum where gas chambers were used now say they were built only in 1943, when the camp no longer had Jews. Such examples lead directly to the denial of any extermination activity in the chamber. Those who visit the "renovated" museum, among them many Israelis, learn about this new narrative without even talking about how the changes in the museum attempted to change reality. Auschwitz-Birkenau has seen similar "modifications," although those are more subtle.
Anne Frank tree cutting destroyed in Germany
A sapling that came from the tree that stood outside the hiding place of Anne Frank in Amsterdam was cut down and stolen in Frankfurt, German police said.
The cutting was planted in 2008 outside Frankfurt's Anne Frank School, named after the world-famous Jewish teenage diarist who was born in the German city in 1929 and murdered during the Holocaust in 1945 after her family was caught hiding in the Nazi-occupied Dutch capital, where they had moved to escape persecution in Germany.
Biden announces effort to help Holocaust survivors
The Obama administration is working to help Holocaust survivors in the United States, many of them living in poverty, by coordinating assistance, working with aid groups and using diplomatic means to help recover property confiscated during the Nazi era.
Vice President Joe Biden announced the effort this week in a speech to the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee. The administration says 100,000 Holocaust survivors are in the United States, and 25 percent live below the poverty level.
Bavaria Retracts Reprint Plans for Mein Kampf
In 2012, Bavaria announced plans to publish an annotated version with historians' commentary in 2016, citing "academic" purposes and to help "demystify" the text. While Bavaria's finance minister Markus Soeder made clear at the time that the book is full of "nonsense" that had "catastrophic consequences," he still advocated that the text be reprinted, as long as it would not be used to "incite hatred."
However, this week, reacting to complaints from Holocaust survivors, the government of state premier Horst Seehofer redacted the announcement.
Bavaria stated instead that the "seditious" book must stay off the market and warned that any publishers who print it will face criminal charges -- a move that was praised by Jewish groups.
Romanian state TV airs Christmas carol about burning Jews
TVR3 Verde, a television channel for rural communities, presented the carol on December 5 during its maiden transmission.
Sung by the Dor Transilvan ensemble, it featured the lyrics: "The kikes, damn kikes, Holy God would not leave the kike alive, neither in heaven nor on earth, only in the chimney as smoke, this is what the kike is good for, to make kike smoke through the chimney on the street."
In a statement, TVR3 (Romanian Public Television Channel 3) distanced itself from the broadcast, saying it did not select the carol but only broadcast songs that were chosen and compiled by the Center for Preservation and Promotion of Traditional Culture, which belongs to the eastern county of Cluj.
Esther Pollard: Pollard's Nightmare
In a Kafkaesque nightmare, Jonathan Pollard was sentenced to life in prison, without benefit of trial, in violation of a plea agreement. Now, nearly three decades later, he is kept in chains by being denied access to his full sentencing file. His only remaining hope is presidential clemency.
A recent op-ed in The Jerusalem Post declares that President Barack Obama will never pardon Jonathan.
However, a pardon is not what Jonathan is seeking. He is seeking commutation of his sentence to the 28 years he has already served. Unlike a pardon which exonerates the offender, commutation merely corrects the sentence. Among those American officials who have first-hand knowledge of the case there is consensus that Jonathan's sentence is grossly disproportionate. Even former heads of the CIA and the FBI have joined the calls for commutation.
Ex-UN envoy Richardson calls for Pollard's release
Bill Richardson, the former UN ambassador known for his efforts to release American captives overseas, called on President Obama to free Jonathan Pollard immediately.
In a Dec. 10 letter to Obama, whom he endorsed after dropping out of the 2008 presidential race, Richardson noted that an increasing number of figures involved in government when Pollard was given a 1987 life sentence for spying for Israel now believe his sentence should be commuted.
BBC picks up Israel's 'Hostages' — in Hebrew
BBC4 has announced its Saturday night programming lineup will include Israeli drama, Hostages. And while many Israeli TV shows have been acquired by global television channels, this is the first time the original series will be aired abroad in Hebrew.
Hostages is a 10-part thriller about the family of a surgeon who are taken hostage in order to coerce the doctor to assassinate the president on the operating table.
Daily Mail Travel Editor Endorses Israeli-Style Airport Security
Frank Barrett, Sunday Travel Editor for the UK's Daily Mail, lauded the Israeli airline for its no-nonsense approach to airport security in a recent op-ed.
"El Al security experts scoff at the way that other countries think they can deal with terrorism merely by introducing the likes of full body scanners or getting people to take their shoes off," Barrett wrote. Travelers with other airlines literally spend hours standing in line waiting to be examined by a machine, and Barrett thinks this is time that could be better spent. "The only sure way of dealing with the threat is to talk to every passenger," he wrote.
A helping Internet hand for shoppers, via Israeli tech
In a rare move for an American company, New York-based LivePerson dual-listed itself on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange in 2011 after having been traded on NASDAQ since 2000.
The TASE listing is more than the result of LivePerson's acquisition of several Israeli companies, according to company CEO Robert LoCascio. "About half of our employees are located in Israel, and all of our research and development is being done in Israel," LoCascio said. "We now have 400 people working at our Israel R&D center."
Israel Set to Become Full CERN Member
The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) is set to vote to admit Israel to full membership in the organization, making it the first non-European member of the group. Israel has been a provisional member of the group for the past two years.
CERN's current main activity is the administration and experimentation work of a particle accelerator, the Large Hadron Collider, located on the Swiss-French border. As a member country, Israel could send scientists and conduct experiments at the accelerator. As a member, Israel would also approve new experiments and the construction of new accelerators.
Katie Couric Hosts Event that Raises $1 Million for Magen David Adom
Television journalist Katie Couric, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Ron Prosor headlined a Dec. 9 dinner in Manhattan that raised $1 million for Magen David Adom (MDA), Israel's national emergency response, ambulance, and blood services organization.
Snow in Jerusalem -- Pictures We Presented in Winters Past
Strong rain, winds and snow storms are hitting the Middle East this week. And snow is falling today in Jerusalem, the Golan and parts of the Galilee.
We present here pictures of snow in Jerusalem taken early in the 20th century and found in the Library of Congress collection.

The CIA's Secret Arabists - and their 1950s anti-Israel organization

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 01:00 PM PST

From the WSJ:

Book Review: 'America's Great Game,' by Hugh Wilford

by Michael Doran

Kim Philby, the British turncoat who spied for the Soviet Union, described Kermit Roosevelt as "a courteous, soft-spoken Easterner with impeccable social connections, well-educated rather than intellectual, pleasant and unassuming as host and guest." Theodore Roosevelt's grandson, Philby thought, was "the last person that you would expect to be up to the neck in dirty tricks."

Roosevelt, who headed the CIA's Middle East division in the Eisenhower administration, is best remembered today for engineering the coup that toppled Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953. But in "America's Great Game," Hugh Wilford reminds us that Roosevelt was also deeply involved in the Arab world. Indeed, he was the agency's foremost "Arabist." The term usually refers to State Department regional experts who were the intellectual, and often biological, descendants of American missionaries in the Arab lands. These officials were fiercely anti-Zionist, convinced that American support for Israel was a strategic blunder of the first order. This was because, as Mr. Wilford writes, they believed "in the overriding importance of American-Arab, and Christian-Muslim, relations."

The book examines the role of CIA Arabists by tracing the careers of Roosevelt and two of his comrades: his cousin Archie and Miles Copeland, an Alabama jazz musician who, like many in the early CIA, wound up at the agency through his work in its wartime precursor, the Office of Strategic Services.

The author, a historian at California State University, Long Beach, makes deft use of declassified government documents. He also draws on the personal papers and memoirs of CIA agents and their associates, sources that until now have remained almost entirely untapped. We learn, for example, that Secretary of State John Foster Dulles often ran important diplomatic missions through Roosevelt rather than normal State Department channels. But the most important of the Arabists' efforts was the attempt, in Eisenhower's first term, to turn Gamal Abdel Nasser, Egypt's charismatic strongman, into a strategic partner—a gambit that failed miserably.
I noted a number of years ago that Time magazine (as well as other mainstream media) fawned over Nasser as the greatest hope for coming generations, "with the lithe grace of a big, handsome All-America fullback" who had "a row of regular, white teeth and a brilliant, easy smile" who really wanted to push Egypt towards democracy. It never occurred to me that the CIA might have arranged the interview!

Who needs PR firms?

...The Middle East in the 1950s offered surprising opportunities for such men. Kim was, for instance, the motive force behind the 1951 founding of the American Friends of the Middle East. Seemingly a private outfit dedicated to citizen diplomacy, it was actually a CIA front that sought to weaken support for the Jewish state in the U.S. You read that right: The CIA created an early counterbalance to the pro-Israel lobby, promoting an anti-Zionist reading of the region until 1967, when the radical magazine Ramparts exposed agency funding to domestic organizations.

The Roosevelt cousins, Copeland and other leading Arabists believed that a century of American missionary activity had paved the way for a Pax Americana in the region—if only the Israelis could be sidelined. The early Eisenhower administration was their heyday. Eisenhower and Dulles gave such professionals in the State Department and the CIA carte blanche. But the Arabists' massive efforts notwithstanding, Nasser drifted into the Soviet orbit and began spreading nationalist revolt throughout the region.

Why? In answering this question, Mr. Wilford rehashes the conventional wisdom, which holds that, despite its generally pro-Arab stance—including taking Egypt's side against Britain, France and Israel in the 1956 Suez Crisis—the U.S. under the Eisenhower administration still followed in the footsteps of empire and maligned the Arabs. The author might have questioned the core assumptions of the Arabists: Was sidelining Israel really the best way to create a Mideast Pax Americana? Would anti-Western Arabs led by Nasser ever have proved reliable U.S. allies?

But this criticism is a quibble. Mr. Wilford is a careful historian, with no Middle Eastern ax to grind. The main goal of "America's Great Game" is to shed light on the role of the CIA in the Middle East. It succeeds magnificently.

Mr. Doran, who served as a deputy assistant secretary of defense in 2007-08, is a senior fellow of the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution. He is writing a book on Eisenhower and the Middle East.
Looking for "American Friends of the Middle East" in old newspaper clippings  gives one a sense of déjà vu - they sound a lot like J-Street today. See this 1956 article in the Tuscaloosa News:



And this from the New York Times, October 11, 1955 again sounds just like the purportedly "pro-Israel-pro-peace" groups of today that are anything but:




The only differences are that, today, the groups saying this nonsense are headed by Jews. And in the 1950s, everyone was smart enough to realize that any such group saying they were "pro-Israel" and "worried about anti-semitism" was spouting self-serving garbage.

Unfortunately, today's Jews are not quite as bright as they were sixty years ago.

The CIA might have created the group, but who funded it? According to this book - the Saudis!


Follow they money and lots of interesting things pop up.

Who is funding today's modern "Jewish" versions of that same group?

(h/t David G)

IDF debunks Ukrainian game show contestant's claims

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 11:00 AM PST

Remember a couple of weeks ago, anti-Israel sites were enthusiastically quoting the supposed admission of a Ukrainian woman on a TV game show? Elena Zakusilo claimed she shot and killed lots of Arabs, probably including children.

Despite the glaring holes in her story, which was utterly inconsistent with everything known about how the IDF works, the haters trusted it as fact.

It took a bit too long, but the IDF just responded on Twitter as to whether there is any truth to the story:

Some of us already figured that out.

The haters will trust her inconsistent and bizarre story over an official IDF denial anyway.

(h/t EuroGirl)

12/12 Links Pt1: Abbas Awards Mass Murderer the 'Star of Honor', More Animal Cruelty in Gaza

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 09:00 AM PST

From Ian:
Abbas decorates terror leader Abu Jihadwith Star of Honor:"He was the model of a true fighter and devoted leader"
Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has granted a post-mortem honor to arch-terrorist Abu Jihad, who was responsible for the murder of at least 125 Israelis in numerous terror attacks that he planned, including a bus hijacking in 1978, in which 37 civilians were murdered.
Official PA TV News reported that Abbas, in order "to honor the founding leaders and the first generation of the Palestinian revolution and the PLO, and out of loyalty to their history of struggle," chose to decorate Abu Jihad with "the highest order of the Star of Honor."


'Cruel and vicious' treatment of cattle in Gaza sparks Labor call to ban exports
Labor has called for the suspension of selected animal export licences in the wake of harrowing new footage of "cruel and vicious" treatment of Australian cattle in Gaza.
The footage, filmed by local civilians and uploaded to YouTube, shows cattle tied to poles, trees and vehicles before being stabbed in the neck and eyes. One animal was kneecapped by bullets fired from an assault rifle.
Animals Australia said the footage, filmed during a ritual called the "festival of sacrifice", was some of the worst seen in a series of animal welfare outrages involving Australian cattle.
Kerry due back in Israel in new push for 'framework' peace accord
Palestinian officials briefed on talks last week between Kerry and Abbas said the US is aiming for a framework agreement by the end of January and have asked them to accept a change in the timetable of upcoming releases of Palestinian prisoners by Israel.
Having last week unveiled an American plan for security arrangements between Israel and the Palestinians under a permanent peace deal, Kerry reportedly also intends to set out American proposals in the near future to resolve the other core issues — Jerusalem, the borders of a Palestinian state, and the Palestinian refugees.
Kerry said last week that the two sides were closer to peace "than we have been in years." And Israel's chief negotiator said Wednesday there was a real opportunity for progress, and urged more hawkish cabinet colleagues not to block it. "We are facing a window of opportunity for peace and must not miss it," Justice Minister Tzipi Livni said in Tel Aviv, and warned "those who sit beside me in the cabinet to know there's a political price for not deciding in time."
Professor Advocates One-State Solution As Strategic Move
[Eugene] Kontorovich opened his remarks by stating that while "most Israelis now realize that the notion of 'land for peace' has almost disappeared," certain Israeli leaders and Obama administration officials are capitulating to Palestinian threats that if Israel doesn't give into Palestinian demands, "they [the Arabs] will impose a One State Solution," which [they threaten] will eliminate the Jewish majority in the Land of Israel.
"This is the argument that Minister [Tzipi] Livni, and [President] Obama make," said Kontorovich. "They are saying that you have to do this [make land concessions to the Palestinians], and if not they will demand to become citizens of the state of Israel, and that is a disaster. This helps explain why the Palestinian demands are so great."
Kontorovich stated that the idea of a one-state solution is being exploited by the Arabs "as if it was a nuclear bomb or if guns were being held to our heads. Those who believe [in the threat] are willing to give more, and the greater the extent to which Israeli leaders are willing to make concessions, the demands [of the Arabs] will only increase."


Dutch Report Blames Israel for PA Failures
A report released Wednesday by Tiny Kox, a Dutch member of the Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly, claims that Palestinians are not "democratic partners" according to the Council of Europe's standards, and further blames Israel for the phenomenon.
In the report Kox, a member of Holland's Socialist Party, attributed the prevention of weapons smuggling to Gaza, Judea and Samaria as well as Gilad Shalit's release as "Palestinian achievements."
PLO complaints against NBC program called ill-founded
Keshet is the creator and producer of the show, which it sold to NBC and will co-produce with the American network.
"There was no plan made to film the series in the City of David National Park or in the village of Silwan," the statement read. "Furthermore, location scouting and planning will not begin until February 2014, and any decisions regarding possible production sites will be made with respect for all concerned parties."
Officials with inside knowledge of the program insisted on Wednesday that no such plans have been made and all Jerusalem locations have yet to be decided.
Russia, Hamas leaders break the ice
Hamas government spokesman Taher Nunu said Haniyeh spoke with Lavrov for 35 minutes. He said the men discussed Israel's peace talks with the rival Palestinian government in the West Bank, the Israeli-Egyptian blockade of the Gaza Strip and "common relations."
Hamas, an Islamic terrorist group committed to Israel's destruction, is largely shunned by the international community. Although Russia has in the past hosted Hamas officials, the phone call was the first high-level conversation in months.
On PRI, Chris McGreal resuscitates his discredited 'theory' on Israel-SA nukes
In case you didn't catch it, McGreal claimed that Israel and South Africa "worked together on atomic issues, including South Africa's development of a nuclear weapon."
However, as we demonstrated in our previous post – and contrary to McGreal's suggestion during the interview – there is still no credible evidence that Israel helped develop South Africa's nuclear weapons program. (The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists reported that South Africa's nuclear program was supported by France, the United States and Germany.)
So, unless McGreal has new evidence we can reasonably conclude that this latest claim represents yet another example of the journalist's insistence that facts should never get in the way of a desired anti-Zionist conclusion.
Richard Millett: BBC News at 10 advertises Israel hate organisation from Mandela memorial event in Johannesburg
Instead, for part of her piece to camera, a BBC reporter stood directly in front of a banner advertising the Palestine Solidarity Alliance. Underneath that name and their logo was Nelson Mandela's quote "We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians". The reporter then walked away to give a clear view of the banner:
The piece in front of the banner lasted for some 15 seconds, which would have commanded a fair return in terms of advertising revenue. This is some of what those lovely folk at the Palestine Solidarity Alliance desire:
BBC: AIDS ribbon not allowed, PSC t-shirt fine
Readers may remember that last February the Palestine Solidarity Campaign's Tony Greenstein appeared on the BBC programme 'The Big Questions' wearing a PSC t-shirt and badge. A member of the public who complained was told by the BBC that:
"Tony Greenstein was expressing his views on Israel and the Palestinians, as were other contributors, so his clothing was another form of expression in this regard."
So to sum up, a ribbon in support of a disease-battling campaign which has a worldwide consensus and is promoted by the UN cannot be worn by a BBC presenter, but a t-shirt and badge promoting a terrorist supporting, opaquely-funded political campaign can be worn by an invited guest on a BBC programme.
Those are very bizarre interpretations of the BBC's guidelines.
Politico: "Rare Display of House Unity" in Rejecting Kerry Assurances on Iran
Politico reports that testimony given today by Secretary of State John Kerry to the House Foreign Affairs Committee fell far short of convincing lawmakers to adopt the administration's perspective on Iran, with Kerry not only stumbling in answering questions regarding the consistency of the White House's read on Iranian calculations – administration officials have sought to simultaneously insist that sanctions coerced Iran into coming to the table and that new sanctions will push Tehran away – but failing more broadly to convince lawmakers that Iran's nuclear program can be checked with the leverage that the U.S. currently has at its disposal. The outlet described "a rare display of House unity" with "all the members of the committee who questioned Kerry essentially [telling] him no."
White House: Iranian Ballistic Missile Test Not a Deal Killer
The White House says that an Iranian ballistic missile test would not invalidate a recently signed nuclear accord meant to temporarily halt some of Iran's most controversial nuclear work.
The White House clarified its stance just days before Iran is scheduled to launch another ballistic missile some 75 miles into the atmosphere.
Report: Iran May Receive $20 Billion in Sanctions Relief, Tripling Stated Figures
Senior Obama Administration officials are admitting that the interim nuclear deal between Iran and world powers may give the Islamic Republic sanctions relief that is three times as large as figures announced in official statements, Haaretz reported Wednesday.
While the U.S. has said Iran will receive about $7 billion in sanctions relief, Haaretz cited security sources in Israel who said the relief could actually amount to $20 billion.
As sanctions ease, Iran sees oil exports jump
Iranian oil exports rose 10 percent in November after sanctions against the Islamic Republic were eased as part of an interim deal with world powers, the International Energy Agency reported Wednesday.
Defending the deal, though, Washington's sanctions czar said Wednesday that pressure on Iran will continue to mount over the coming six months.
Royal Bank of Scotland settles Iran sanctions claim
Royal Bank of Scotland has agreed to pay $100 million to settle claims by US and New York state regulators that it violated US sanctions against Iran and other countries.
The Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve and the office of New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the settlement Wednesday with the bank, which is 80 percent owned by the British government.
It covers alleged violations of US sanctions against Iran, Sudan, Burma and Cuba from 2005 to 2009. The regulators said RBS channeled about $523 million in transactions to other banks for clients from those countries and concealed the clients' identities in the paperwork.
Congress Looks to Derail Turkey's Plan to Purchase, Integrate Chinese Missile Systems
Foreign Policy Magazine's The Complex yesterday outlined legislative efforts, written by Congress into the upcoming National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), to respond to Turkey's controversial decision to purchase missile defense assets from a Chinese company blacklisted by Washington.
Muslim Countries Top List of State-Persecution of Atheists
Islamic countries top the list of states which routinely discriminate against and persecute atheists and agnostics as well as members of other religions, according to a newly-released report.
The 2013 Freethought Report was published by the International Humanist and Ethical Union (IHEU) - an organization of religious skeptics, agnostics, and atheists. The study was released ahead of International Human Rights day Tuesday, The Huffington Post reported.
Two Saudi Women Detained for Driving
Saudi activists said on Wednesday that police have detained two women in Riyadh caught breaking an official ban on females driving.
The activists told The Associated Press (AP) that the women were stopped Wednesday afternoon and taken to a local police station where their male relatives were also called in.
A personal warning over women in Islamic countries
The book is important in two respects. Chesler reprimands the politically correct individuals, pro cultural relativists who are not only unwilling to criticize but actually defend traditional practices such as honor killings and also the wearing of niqab (face masks) and burqas (veil), which she calls "a sensory deprivation chamber."
These masks and veils are now seen in the US; Afghanistan has thus landed in the West while the West is still deployed in hostilities in Afghanistan.

Gazans going to Syria for jihad

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 07:00 AM PST

Palestine Press Agency reports that Salafi jihadists from Gaza are doing everything they can to sneak out and fight in Syria - and Hamas is trying to stop them.

A 37-year old dentist and father of four told his family he was going to a conference in Turkey. In September, the family found out that he had blown himself up in a suicide bombing in Syria - by watching his "martyrdom" farewell video.

Muhannad Nizar Habash, 27, also left his pregnant wife, and two year old daughter to fight in Syria. He was killed in an armed clash. His video told his family to rejoice because this is what he wanted.

Some 27 Gazans are known to have gone to Syria to fight this year. Seven have been killed, three of them in suicide attacks.

The family of Mohammed Za'anin (22 years old) from Beit Hanoun who was killed in a suicide attack in Syria in September last that the internal security prevented him from traveling three times, and he traveled the last time on 13 June last in order to perform Umrah.

Hamas is trying to stop the jihadists from leaving Gaza, putting severe restrictions on Salafis. The family of Mohammed Za'anin, 22, from Beit Hanoun who was killed in a suicide attack in Latakia in September said that the Hamas internal security prevented him from traveling three times, but he managed to leave on June 13th by pretending he was going on a pilgrimage to Mecca.

Za'anin had refused to attend his sister's wedding because he felt that the music was forbidden. In his farewell video on YouTube he said "people live life as a path to death, I choose death to a way to life."

The Salafis are attracting members from the more "moderate" Islamists in Hamas and Islamic Jihad. One jihadist said that his colleagues went to Syria because Hamaa was preventing him from shooting rockets at Israel. His logic was that he would help build an Islamic caliphate in Syria which could then "liberate Palestine."

Hamas is trying to establish dialogue with members of the Salafi Jihad in Gaza in order to moderate them! A Hamas official said "The problem that we face that these simple people think that these extremist ideas are the true religion."

How exactly this differs from Hamas and all the other Muslim Brotherhood offshoots is beyond me. But we can be certain that before too long, the media will be referring to Hamas as "moderate."

Iran's state-funded PressTV calls for the mass murder of all Jews

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 05:00 AM PST

A year ago, I noted that Iran's PressTV had hired a known, rabid antisemite named Mark Glenn.

This is part of a pattern at PressTV - they will publish the essays of Western antisemites under the thin excuse that these are in the "Viewpoints" section of the site, and therefore presumably not necessarily the opinions of the Iranian state government that funds it.

Glenn's insane hatred of Jews and Judaism has been known for a long time, so Iran knew exactly what it was doing when it hired him.

His latest essay is ostensibly about Binyamin Netanyahu, but it is really about the Jews -all Jews:
And if all of this weren't enough in jostling and exacerbating Netanyahu's already volcanic instability, added to it is the fact that powerful players within his own "famiglia" are working against him on a daily basis.

Yes, that's right ladies and gentilemen, an out-in-the-open gang war within La Kosher Nostra with billions of innocent bystanders caught in the crossfire.

The reason for this inter-familial conflict can be boiled down to one, primary item-the continued survival of Jewish power at a time when the seeds of the "Gentile Spring" have germinated and are beginning to grow.

Day by day, with the obvious meltdown of world order taking place and how much (most) of this is traceable directly to this one troublesome, meddlesome group of people and their control over the political, economic and military machinery of the West, the magic spell is wearing off and the deep sleep is coming to an end.

A flutter of the eyes, then a deep breath, and soon the Gentile giant is awake and studying his surroundings.
That might be too subtle for the intended audience to understand, so Glenn makes it a bit more obvious:
There are not, or rather-should not be-any "surprises" associated with the rise of Jewish power, the creation of the "Jewish state" and the present World War Z that mankind faces these days. Indeed, everything that has taken place, particularly over the course of the last century viz-a-viz the wars, the bloodshed and the nearly complete meltdown of established world order was/is as predictable as the proverbial slaughter at the henhouse after the jackals were put in charge of security.

The sad truth is that everything mankind needs to know about the deadly, radioactive nature of this political, social and cultural "element" on the periodic table of human ideas has been sitting there, screaming out to civilized man for literally thousands of years. Jewish power and violence, Jewish power and genocide, Jewish power and economic despoliation, Jewish power and corruption, none of this began in 1948 with the creation of Israel. It did not begin in 1913 with the creation of the Federal Reserve, as some like to imagine.

It did not even begin with the writing of a literary abomination known as the Babylonian Talmud.

It--the criminal, barbaric nature of Jewish power--has been there from the beginning, congenital from its birth, the moment a penniless nomad begins hearing voices in his head promising him kingdoms, riches and power beyond his wildest dreams, accompanied by the moral justification for doing whatever needs to be done in attaining these items, including lying, genocide, and theft.
He then quotes Deuteronomy 7, where God calls on Israel to destroy the nations of Canaan.
...This, a mere spec of spiritual DNA, a mere 94 words, contains all the information necessary in understanding the pathology of Jewish power, what it was, what it is and what it will always be. This, one tiny droplet amongst hundreds of others, accurately and precisely profiles and identifies the source of Jewish madness and criminality.

It is in effect the radioactive milk upon which psychopaths throughout history--including those such as Netanyahu--have been nursed for thousands of years and with undeniable deadly effects.

It is an open secret, an open conspiracy and an open declaration of war on the part of those who spiritually devour these words and make them part of their inner beings like communicants at a Black Mass and who then go forth and put into practice these precepts--to invade, displace, mass murder, destroy, lie, show no mercy, destroy the culture, debase the economy and to reduce every land they 'possess' to utter ruination, the entire justification for which is that the Jewish god Yahweh has demanded it.

And the tragedy, the crime-not of just the century, but rather of the last 2 milleniae-is that it has been there, in the open, for wise men to study and consider. Every microbe, every millisecond, every millimeter of conflict that has existed throughout history between Jewish power and the Gentiles they mean to rule over, from biblical Egypt to modern day Iran is explained and understood within those 94 words.

Benjamin Netanyahu and his army understand those words, their meaning, and have taken them to heart.

Perhaps the other side within this terrible conflict known as World War Z should do the same, while there is time.
Is that clear enough?

The commenters at PressTV certainly understood the message.

(h/t Yitzchak)

Jordanian parliament declares that "jihad against Israel" cannot be considered terrorism

Posted: 12 Dec 2013 02:00 AM PST

From Jordan Times:
Tareq Khoury
The Lower House on Wednesday endorsed draft amendments to the State Security Court (SSC) Law following extensive discussions over its provisions.

The deputies excluded "resistance actions" against Israel from the court's jurisdiction, following a proposal to do so by Deputy Tareq Khoury (Zarqa, 1st District).

The deputies agreed that any actions against Israel cannot be "terrorism" at all; hence, they approved a provision that excludes actions against Israel from terrorism crimes.

The draft amendments limit the jurisdiction of the SSC to five crimes specified in the Constitution: treason, espionage, terrorism, drugs and money counterfeiting.

The bill will be sent to the Senate for deliberations and endorsement, after which it will be forwarded to His Majesty King Abdullah for ratification.

It goes into effect once it is published in the Official Gazette.

Last month, the Lower House gave the bill urgency status and started deliberations over it immediately.

Under Article 101 of the Constitution, "no civilian may be tried in a criminal case where all its judges are not civilian, the exception to that are the crimes of treason, espionage, terrorism, the crimes of drugs and currency forgery."

The government changes to the SSC Law ensure that civilians indicted on state security charges, other than those listed in the said constitutional article, are tried before a court whose judges are all civilians and one that is affiliated with the Judicial Council rather than the SSC.
Khoury, the sponsor of the bill, quoted the Koran: "If inch of occupied land of Muslims, jihad has become an individual duty for every Muslim."

The MP said that the bill aimed to retain the right of Jordanians to defend Jerusalem, which Khoury promised "will only be achieved with resistance to the occupation of the Holy Land."

Khoury told Al Quds al Arabi "I feel betrayed when there an equivalence between Arab terrorists and those who work or are trying to work against Israel. It is not our job to protect the Zionist entity, which targets Jordan and Jordanians as well as Palestine and the Palestinians."

"Jordanians as a people support operations against Israel as long as it occupies the Al Aqsa Mosque and any inch of our land."

Khoury is a Christian.

(h/t Kramerica)
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