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01/10 Links Pt2: Israel: The first modern indigenous state, Meryl Streep Blasts Walt Disney

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST

From Ian:
Israel: The first modern indigenous state
Just as black people struggled for their rights and basic human dignity during the American Civil Rights Movement, so the Jews continue to struggle for our rights and basic human dignity within our 3,500 year old national home. Just as native peoples everywhere seek to free themselves from the negative influence of hostile conquering populations, so the Jews of the Middle East seek to free themselves from the never-ending hostility of their former masters in that part of the world.
The so-called "Palestinian national movement" is not a national movement of an indigenous people. It is a national movement designed specifically to overthrow the indigenous people and replace that people with the very people who conquered them and held them in something akin to servitude (dhimmitude) for thirteen long centuries.
Like indigenous peoples throughout the world, the Jewish people, too, are worthy of self-determination and self-defense.
Actress Meryl Streep Blasts Walt Disney as Anti-Semitic; ZOA Condemns Actress Emma Thompson
Hollywood actress Meryl Streep blasted Walt Disney as an anti-Semitic misogynist in an unusually long and scathing speech at a film awards dinner on Tuesday night, Variety reported on Thursday.
Ironically, Streep's nine-minute speech was to honor the actress who portrayed 'Mary Poppins' creator P.L. Travers in The Walt Disney Company's 'Saving Mr. Banks,' Emma Thompson, who the Zionist Organization of America denounced on Thursday for her letter in the Guardian advocating for a boycott of Israel's Habima Theater troupe, which is to perform later this year at Shakespeare's Globe Theater, in London.
Nelson Mandela: Co-opted, Re-mixed and Re-delivered
Anti-Israel activists deliberately manipulated footage of Nelson Mandela, speaking at a 1990 Town Hall meeting anchored by Ted Koppel on ABC Nightline in New York, in an effort to eliminate his declaration "The support for Yassir Arafat in his struggle does not mean that the ANC has ever doubted the right of Israel to exist as a state. We have stood quite openly and firmly for the right of that state to exist within secured borders"
Lies. Manipulation. Selective editing. Could these ethically bankrupt anti-Israeli propagandists stoop any lower?
SWU: Anti-Israel Propaganda Exposed





Former head of pro-Palestinian student group accused of hate speech over violent martyrdom posts on Facebook
A pro-Israel group says it has complained to Calgary police over Facebook comments made by a former university student group president who urged Palestinians to ''spill blood.''
"My body and soul are ready to fight and die," wrote Ala'a Hamdan, former president of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights, a University of Calgary student group. "This land will be proud that Palestinian babies are born men and women ready to spill their blood."
In a battle hymn written to a son, Ms. Hamdan wrote: "I will soak a koffiah with your blood and save it to show to your siblings … I will be named the mother of the martyr."
Hussein Ibish Bashes Columnist Jeff Jacoby as He Searches for Missing Son
Twitter was alight on Thursday with angry reactions to American Task Force on Palestine Senior Fellow Hussein Ibish, who bashed Boston Globe columnist Jeff Jacoby, as the writer works to mobilize the city of Boston to search for his 16-year old son Caleb, who went missing on Monday.
"Jeff Jacoby is a hateful fanatic, but I very much hope his son is quickly found safe and sound," Ibish tweeted, linking to an article about the search for Caleb.
Max Blumenthal Showing Compassion
The entire world was praying for Caleb's return. So was Max Blumenthal. He was praying he could use a much-awaited news story to further his aim: the destruction of his own people and his own land.
A really strange way of showing compassion.
Dutch FM: We are opposed to divestment, sanctions
Dutch Foreign Minister Frans Timmermans said in a television interview Friday that the Netherlands opposes divestment from Israel, as well as sanctions against the Jewish state.
"That has been the policy for years," said Timmermans, according to the Dutch News website.
The announcement came on the same day that Israel's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Jerusalem for a clarification on the PGGM pension fund's decision to divest from Israel.
BBC promotes unverified claims from terror groups as news
In that 124 word report, ninety-two words are used to present assorted versions of the story of the death of Mohammed al Ijla (also Ijlah or Ejlla in other reports) put out by the spokesman for the Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (to which al Ijla belonged as a member of the Al Quds Brigades) and the family.
Thirty-two words are used to present the statement made by the IDF clarifying that there was no Israeli activity in the area at the time.
Mein Kampf ebook surging in popularity
Various ebook English-language editions of Adolf Hitler's magnum opus, "Mein Kampf," first published in German in 1928, have over the last year become among the most downloaded political science tracts online.
On Amazon alone, there are over 10 different e-versions of the book, with one of them, a $.99 version, holding the #1 spot in the "Propaganda & Political Psychology" category. On Archive.org, a free ebook version has been downloaded over 100,000 times. The book has also been popular on iTunes.
Ban on French anti-Semitic comedian may be start of long legal drama
A French comic who is considered anti-Semitic was banned from performing Thursday night just hours after a court in Nantes said he could go ahead with his show.
As conflicting rulings by French authorities over Dieudonne M'Bala M'Bala's act sowed widespread confusion, riot police carrying shields blocked access to the Zenith theater in the western city of Nantes.
Thousands of stunned ticket-holders in the nearly sold-out show chanted and hissed.
Who are these people?
As an American I can't imagine a disgusting "comedian" like Dieudonné, who gets laughs from mocking the near-extermination of Europe's Jews, appealing to any more than a psychologically-damaged fringe of neo-Nazis.
So who (sociologically speaking) are these young French fans of his who have turned out for his performances in their thousands– until his shows were banned on Thursday?
The Race-Baiting Antisemite Amiri Baraka's Death, and How the Obits Treat Him
The African-American poet Amiri Baraka (born Everett Leroi Jones) died yesterday. Already, the press is whitewashing — or should I say, in deference to the deranged late race hater, blackwashing — his real record of obscenity.
Leading the charge, naturally, is NPR, whose obituary tells us that he was "controversial," and that he "co-founded the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s. His literary legacy is as complicated as the times he lived through, from his childhood — where he recalled not being allowed to enter a segregated library — to the 2001 attack on the World Trade Center. His poem about that attack, 'Somebody Blew Up America,' quickly became infamous."
'Let Him Burn in Hell': Sharon's Deteriorating Condition Celebrated on Polish Websites
In Poland, the story of Sharon's worsening condition is being covered extensively. Several heavily trafficked Polish websites reporting on the Sharon story have been deluged with anti-Semitic remarks, aimed at the former Israeli premier in particular as well as the entire Jewish people, Ma'ariv said.
German movie on boy's Holocaust survival premieres in Poland
A German-French co-production featuring mostly Polish actors, "Run, Boy, Run" is the true story of 10-year-old Yoram Friedman who escaped the Warsaw ghetto in 1943 and -- hunted by the Nazis -- hid in the forest near the city. The boy fed on snails and mushrooms, braved snowstorms and hid in water to avoid Nazi sniffer dogs.
He received the occasional help of farmers, but also faced indifference, hatred and betrayal. By posing as a Catholic named Jurek Staniak, he was able to find lodgings in exchange for farm work.
Israeli high-school kids build life-saving satellite
In a first for Israel, a one-of-a-kind a satellite is set to be launched in April that will provide a much-needed boost to an aging emergency alert system for hikers and travelers around the world who can't use phone or wifi connections to send distress signals.
Even better – the nano-sized satellite measures just ten centimeters square; once in orbit, it should last for several years, providing services for users of Automatic Packet Reporting System (APRS) compatible devices who need help and are unable to connect with rescue services.
Why Israel's Richest Woman Is Promoting The Business Benefits Of Doing Good
Shari Arison, a petite woman with a calm demeanor, has learned that to get the message out, it helps to simplify things. The billionaire businesswoman and philanthropist told FORBES during a recent visit to San Francisco that at one point her vision was to "secure the human existence." But, she says, "It was hard to instill it all the way down."
In other words, not everyone got what she meant. In 2009, she reworked her vision to "Doing Good." Or more specifically, "think good, speak good, and do good." That has proved easier to translate.
Israel's TinyTap snags million-dollar Verizon prize
TinyTap, an Israeli start-up that has developed an easy to use platform allowing parents and teachers to design games for kids, is a million dollars richer Thursday, after having been chosen as one of the winners of the Verizon Powerful Answers award. TinyTap was one of three chosen for the million-dollar award, winning the award for best education idea.
The award, given out by the cellular giant to companies that came up with "powerful solutions to the world's toughest challenges," was distributed Wednesday night in Las Vegas, as part of the festivities surrounding the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Hundreds of companies from around the world participated in the contest, which gave away $10 million to 15 companies in three categories (Education, Healthcare, and Sustainability). TinyTap was one of the three winners of the top prize, while four other companies in each category won lesser sums of money.
Canada's important support for Israel
Under the leadership of Prime Minister Stephen J. Harper, who is to visit Israel in nine days, Canada has emerged as Israel's staunchest ally in the world.
Yet many observers dismiss Canada as a bit player on the international scene, and write off the relevance of its interventions on behalf of Israel.
They couldn't be more wrong.
The Palestinians are Jews, apparently
Back issues of the New York Times are available online. Skimming through the articles, I've learned something fascinating. Years ago, the term "Palestinians" as often as not, referred to Jews.
This 1948 article promotes a "Palestinian Music Program", entitled "Melodies of Zion".

"How Israel plans to expand from the Nile to the Euphrates"

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

We all know the Arab theory that the two blue lines on the Israeli flag stand for the Nile and Euphrates rivers, symbolizing Israel's dream to expand to a huge state as promised in the Bible.


Today, Arabs and antisemites are convinced that the "Greater Israel" plan is alive and well.

How does that jive with the fact that Israel has been doing nothing but giving land up since 1977?

Glad you asked. You see, it is all explained in this article in a Hezbollah-leaning website, but apparently it got the ideas from this recent Global Research article expanding on old bizarre theories by the late antisemite Israel Shahak.


You see, Shahak was obsessed with an obscure article written in an Israeli journal in 1982 by someone named Oded Yinon. Out of all the hundreds and thousands of articles written by Israelis, Shahak was convinced that this article, available for all to see, represented Israel's real strategy.

The Global Research article says:
When viewed in the current context, the war on Iraq, the 2006 war on Lebanon, the 2011 war on Libya, the ongoing war on Syria, not to mention the process of regime change in Egypt, must be understood in relation to the Zionist Plan for the Middle East. The latter consists in weakening and eventually fracturing neighboring Arab states as part of an Israeli expansionist project.

"Greater Israel" consists in an area extending from the Nile Valley to the Euphrates.

The Zionist project supports the Jewish settlement movement. More broadly it involves a policy of excluding Palestinians from Palestine leading to the eventual annexation of both the West Bank and Gaza to the State of Israel.

Greater Israel would create a number of proxy States. It would include parts of Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, the Sinai, as well as parts of Iraq and Saudi Arabia. (See map).
The funny thing is that Shahak's translation of Yinon's article has very little to say about Israel actively causing Arab regimes to fracture. In fact, most of the article (and possibly all, since Shahak cannot be trusted to translate accurately) talks about how this dissolution of the Arab world is inevitable, given the hatred between Sunnis and Shiites, different tribes in Syria, Iraq and Jordan, oil rich states run by a tiny elite but not sharing the wealth with the poor citizens, and so forth. In some ways Yinon's article has been vindicated; he pretty much predicted the Arab Spring in 1982. (Yinon does seem to say that Israel must re-acquire the Sinai from Egypt because the loss of its oil would send Israel into an economic tailspin otherwise. That seems a bit quaint nowadays that Israel is looking to be an energy exporter.)

If Israel's strategy in the 1980s was to cause the Arab world to collapse, it failed, as the current Arab Spring upheavals came over 20 years later.

But the beauty of the theory - especially for Shiites - is that the problems in Egypt, Syria, Libya and so forth can now be blamed on Israel, which is behind everything! Sunni leaders are Israel's puppets!

The Hezbollah article says:
The Zionists ruling Egypt want to turn Egypt gradually into a state of no states, as in Somalia, Iraq, as is happening now in Syria; to destroy Egypt to achieve the dream of a Zionist state from the Nile to the Euphrates.
So that explains everything! Israel is going to rule perhaps 150 million Arabs, because it just wants to. The Arab leaders are Israel's puppets. And the Protocols will be realized! Bwahahaha!

(See also this post from 2007 of a reasonable sounding Egyptian going off the rails when discussing this.)

01/10 Links Pt1: Israel kills fewest innocents but takes most heat, Kerry goes home with three No’s

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST

From Ian:
Israel kills fewest innocents but takes most heat
Professor Richard Falk is a top UN official. Recently he declared that Israel wreaks carnage upon the Palestinians, harboring what he termed "genocidal intent." If we want to understand the relationship between the industry of lies and the discourse of human rights, we could do worse than examine the case of this bad man, perhaps a Jew, who is an embodiment of this link.
Let us gauge the genocide claim. In 2013, 36 Palestinians were killed, according to the human rights organization B'Tselem. At least 30 of those were either involved in clashes with IDF soldiers or were members of terrorist organizations. Only a few innocents were killed. The death of each one of them is to be deeply regretted. Yet one should add that there isn't another conflict in the world where the fatality rate among civilians is as low as in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In other conflicts it is estimated that between 60 and 90 percent of fatalities are innocents. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, they are a minority.
IDF Blog: After Mortars Fired from Gaza, Israel Air Force Targets Terrorists, Terror Site
After mortars were fired from Gaza at Israel, the IDF targeted terrorists during their final preparations to launch rockets toward Israel early Thursday morning (January 9). No damage or injuries were reported among the soldiers.
WATCH as the IAF targets a Gazan terrorist site preparing to launch rockets:

Charles Krauthammer: How to fight academic bigotry
Which makes obvious that the ASA boycott has nothing to do with human rights. It's an exercise in radical chic, giving marginalized academics a frisson of pretend anti-colonialism, seasoned with a dose of edgy anti-Semitism.
And don't tell me this is merely about Zionism. The ruse is transparent. Israel is the world's only Jewish state. To apply to the state of the Jews a double standard that you apply to none other, to judge one people in a way you judge no other, to single out that one people for condemnation and isolation — is to engage in a gross act of discrimination.
And discrimination against Jews has a name. It's called anti-Semitism.



Academic boycotters blame "Israel Lobby" money for negative reaction
Several of most prominent promoters of the American Studies Association academic boycott of Israel attended a bizarre "redwashing" panel discussion in Beirut, at which they tried to delegitimize the Jewish people's indigenous history in Israel and connection to other indigenous peoples. I'll have much more on that insidious conference in another post, but for now you can read the posts by Jeffrey Goldberg and Prof. Jonathan Marks.
These academic boycotters gave an interview to The Daily Star of Lebanon that is very revealing. They played upon classic anti-Semitic tropes of Jewish money controlling the press in trying to minimize the overwhelming rejection of the academic boycott throughout most of academia.
U.S.-Israeli Prof. Slams MLA Conference as Assault on Academic Freedom (INTERVIEW)
In a revealing interview with The Algemeiner, Ilan Troen, Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University and Professor Emeritus at Israel's Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, said the core accusation of the MLA resolution which condemns Israel for restricting foreign scholars from visiting the Palestinian territories is "simply not true."
Ironically, he said, the main voice behind the MLA resolution is Omar Barghouti, a founding committee member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, who was born in Qatar, received a Masters in electrical engineering from Columbia University, in New York, and graduate degree in Ethics from Tel Aviv University, where a petition, with 184,000 signatures, was presented to expel him for his work denigrating Israel. But the president of the school refused to do so, on the basis of academic freedom.
The MLA's Top Five BDS Blunders This Week
The Modern Language Association (MLA) has blundered repeatedly over its treatment of Israel in the run-up to its annual conference this week. Technically the 30,000 member association is not contemplating a resolution to boycott, divest from, or sanction Israel (BDS) per se at this week's upcoming confab. Instead it is debating a halfway measure that insiders observe is intended to be a stepping-stone to worse actions. But it is doing so in a way that should embarrass every one of its members. This is not just a mistake. This is five blunders rolled into one.
MLA Panel Discusses Israel Boycott
Regardless of where you stand on the issue of the boycott itself, this development is terrifying. What's on display in Chicago today is the new model for intellectual discussion and debate in American academia: begin a debate about boycotting academics from another country by boycotting anyone who disagrees with the boycotters. While this Stalinist style of discourse may be familiar to academics in North Korea, it has nothing to do with the free exchange of ideas on which American universities pride themselves. This level of hostility to open discourse and critical inquiry has no place in institutions of higher learning in a free society, regardless of the subject being discussed.
Jerusalem cannot be sacrificed for peace
Jerusalem is not another dark terrorist release deal, nor is it even Oslo A or Oslo B. It has been the subject of Jewish yearning from time immemorial. All past and future generations should voice their opinion about the fact it is being discussed, but due to technical constraints Regev is suggesting settling for the Knesset's approval. What's so terrible about that? Who says Regev is more ridiculous than the MKs who believe in the possibility of peace with a guy like Abbas? (h/t NormanF)
John Kerry goes home with three "No's"
President Obama's Secretary of State, John Kerry, should be given a top international award when he leaves office – an award for irrepressible optimism in the face of brutal reality.
The responses he received to his unpublicised "framework document" for peace between Israel and the Palestinians were reminiscent of the Arab League's "three no's" issued following the 1967 Six Day War with Israel.
Back then, the League swore themselves to "no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel and no negotiation with Israel". Attitudes have relaxed a bit since (well, some), but John Kerry has discovered that feelings about peace with Israel run high and strong among America's Middle Eastern Arab allies.
Kerry Frustrated by PA Refusal to Recognize Israel as Jewish State
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry is getting frustrated by Palestinian Authority leaders who are refusing to recognize Israel as a Jewish state, creating the most significant philosophical hurdle in the peace talks, according to The Daily Telegraph on Thursday, citing an unnamed PA official.
"The Americans have made it very clear that [recognition of Israel as a Jewish state] is their position," the PA official told the Telegraph. "They talk about it in meetings with our side and make an issue out of it. We have made it very clear that we are not going to sign any agreement that recognizes Israel as a Jewish state."
US denies Kerry pressing Arab League to recognize Israel as Jewish state
Kerry met the kings of both countries on Sunday, and is scheduled to meet in Paris in the coming days with representatives of the Arab League's Arab Peace Initiative Follow-up Committee to update them on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, as part of his continued efforts to drum up wide Arab support for the negotiations.
"It would not be accurate to say there was an attempt to change the Arab Peace Initiative," Psaki said.
Despite persistent questioning on the matter, Psaki would not say whether the US would like to see a change on this matter in the Arab league plan.
'Kerry threatens to cut PA aid if no peace deal signed'
Taysir Khaled, a member of the PLO Executive Committee, said that the US had implied it would stop giving financial aid to the Palestinian Authority and would not be able to prevent Israeli expansion of West Bank settlements, if a framework for a long-lasting accord was not agreed upon, Maariv reported.
According to the Israeli daily, Khaled accused Kerry of committing political blackmail by pressuring Palestinians to make concessions.
Israel wants the Jordan Valley in case Jordan's king falls
I have not read anyone talk about it, but Israel's demand to maintain the Jordan Valley as a wall against security breaches from the east only makes sense if you assume there will be new threats in the future. At the moment, Israel and Jordan have a strong security-based relationship for unspoken reasons: Jordan fears the fall of Fatah; Israel fears the fall of King Hussein.
Poll: 53.5% mistrust Kerry as impartial peace talks' mediator
According to the poll, held Wednesday among 500 Jewish Israelis ages 18 and over, 53.5 percent do not trust Kerry in that respect. Some 19.8% of those polled said Kerry is an unbiased mediator, and 26.7% said they had no opinion on the matter.
The poll further sought to discern the public's opinion on a recent proposal, brought up as part of the negotiations on a framework peace deal, suggesting that Israel withdraw its security forces from the Jordan Valley, and found that 69.8% oppose such a move, while only 14.3% support it. Some 15.9% of those polled said they had no opinion on the matter.
Hamas Releases Fatah Prisoners in Reconciliation Gesture
"The release of these condemned men comes as part of the prime minister's decisions to strengthen national reconciliation," Hamas interior ministry spokesman Islam Shahwan told reporters.
"More positive steps will follow," he added, without elaborating.
The releases came two days after Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniyeh reached out to Fatah, saying that those of its members who had fled Gaza when the Islamists seized the territory in 2007 would be allowed to return, except for those accused of killing Hamas members.
The Middle East's Disappearing Borders
The article is among a recent crop of stories that have taken the Obama administration's triumphant declarations of success against al-Qaeda from the category of "wishful thinking" to "punch line." Al-Qaeda does not seem to be on the run, and the wider world of jihadism seems to be thriving as well. In the Middle East and North Africa, terrorists are doing the chasing, not the retreating. But in fact there is reason to believe there is more happening here than the normal ebb and flow of terrorism in a region that is no stranger to it. The most damaging story to the Obama administration's narrative came yesterday from CNN's Peter Bergen:
From around Aleppo in western Syria to small areas of Falluja in central Iraq, al Qaeda now controls territory that stretches more than 400 miles across the heart of the Middle East, according to English and Arab language news accounts as well as accounts on jihadist websites.
Indeed, al Qaeda appears to control more territory in the Arab world than it has done at any time in its history.
Amid turmoil, 'Egypt's Jon Stewart' prepares comeback
Private broadcaster CBC suspended the show, called "The Program" in Arabic, last fall after the season's first episode, which was highly critical of the military and the nationalist fervor gripping the nation after the popularly backed overthrow of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.
With a military-backed interim government in place and sensitivities high, Youssef says his team of writers and comedians face a tough challenge. But they are not planning to hold back.
Egyptian courts convict 113 over pro-Mursi protests
Thursday's rulings included three-year prison terms for 63 people in a single case, one of the biggest mass sentencings to date. The judge fined each of them 50,000 Egyptian pounds ($7,200). He set a bail of 5,000 pounds which allows them to avoid prison while they appeal the verdict.
The case related to protests in Cairo in late November.
In a separate case, another 24 Brotherhood supporters were also sentenced to three years in prison, with labor, over clashes around the same time in a different part of Cairo.
Despite claims, Iranians didn't hack Israeli aviation system
Iranian hackers did not compromise the Israel Airports Authority, despite claims by the Islamic Cyber Resistance Group that it was able to hack into databases controlling air routes for Israeli and foreign airlines, said Israeli Internet expert Tal Pavel.
"It's just another example of Iranian psychological warfare by the Iranians," he told The Times of Israel. "There is nothing for anyone to worry about from these people."
Iran, Russia negotiating big oil-for-goods deal
Iran and Russia are negotiating an oil-for-goods swap worth $1.5 billion a month that would let Iran lift oil exports substantially, in defiance of Western sanctions that helped force Tehran to agree a preliminary deal to end its nuclear program.
Russian and Iranian sources close to the barter negotiations said final details were in discussion for a deal that would see Moscow buy up to 500,000 barrels a day of Iranian oil in exchange for Russian equipment and goods.
UAE frees American jailed for YouTube parody video
An American citizen was released from jail in the United Arab Emirates on Thursday after serving nine months for posting a parody video on YouTube, his family said.
Shezanne Cassim, 29, was sentenced to a year in prison last month over a 20-minute "mockumentary" video which poked fun at young Emirati men who imitate US hip hop culture. (an update on this EOZ story)

Iran says again Israel must be destroyed, and Hezbollah will fire the missiles

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 06:35 AM PST

This week there was a double memorial service at the Hazrat Zahra mosque in Tehran.

The first person being remembered was General Ahmad Kazemi, commander of Iran's Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution who died in a plane crash in 2006, which some allege was sabotage.

The other was not for an Iranian at all, but for the Hezbollah commander Hassan Lakkis, assassinated a month ago in Beirut.

One of the facts revealed at the memorial is that Hezbollah was "the first nucleus of the resistance in Lebanon was formed by forces of the [Iranian] Revolutionary Guards," and that Lakkis was trained by Iran and had a "special loyalty to Imam Khomeini."

The ceremony showed (yet again) how Hezbollah is nothing more or less than a remote arm of Iran's military.

Two banners were set up at the service, showing two quotes: one from Ayatollah Khomeini and the other from Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. The quote from Khomeini says "Israel must vanish from the entire world."



The Farsi in the Nasrallah photo says "to target Israel, we need only a few missiles." They mistranslated "a few" as "some."

The juxtaposition of the two banners makes an unmistakable statement: Iran is threatening Israel, militarily, and Hezbollah is the means that it intends to use to accomplish that.

At the event, which had many senior Iranian military figures, officials spoke of a "big surprise that Hezbollah has in store for Israel, and that Hezbollah warehouses are filled with highly accurate missiles aimed at Israel. Another speaker spoke of a time, not so far in the future, that will witness "an apocalyptic battle" across the region for the Holy Land.

Iran is supplying even more advanced missiles to Hezbollah - today.

A few years ago when Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that "Israel should be wiped off the map/off the pages of time" there was a lot of apologetics saying it was a mistranslation, or that he didn't mean "militarily," or that Ahmadinejad was just a blowhard and didn't set Iranian policy so it was no big deal.

Iran is saying that Hezbollah, as an arm of Iran, will wipe Israel out. There is no ambiguity here. But people who refuse to see the truth will always find reasons to ignore the facts, even when the facts are printed on large banners in English.

Photos of today's Islamic Jihad rally against Kerry

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST

Just another day in Gaza.

This is an Islamic Jihad rally to denounce any possible peace deal - because any deal would allow Israel to still exist, which is against Palestinian Arab principles.

Dr. Mohammed al-Hindi, a member of Islamic Jihad's "political wing," spoke and led the crowd in both marching and in the obligatory stepping on an Israeli and American flags.

Hysteria!

Posted: 10 Jan 2014 03:07 AM PST

Ma'an says:

A Palestinian inmate in Israel's Ofer prison suffered from "hysteria" after carrying out an extended hunger strike, a prisoners' ministry lawyer said Thursday.

Ehab al-Ghaleet, a lawyer for the Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners' Affairs, said that Thaer Abdullah was on hunger strike for 50 days, as a result of which he was treated in Assaf Harofeh medical center.

Throughout that period Abdullah suffered from brain dehydration and had to stop his strike before he was returned to Ofer prison, al-Ghaleet said.

Abdullah was brought to a psychiatrist when he returned to Ofer due to his hysteria, al-Ghaleet said.
There has not been a psychological diagnosis of "hysteria" for decades.

What would Def Leppard think?





Ma'an goes on:

Since 1967, more than 650,000 Palestinians have been detained by Israel, representing 20 percent of the total population and 40 percent of all males in the occupied territories.
I showed that these numbers are complete fiction a number of times.

Anti-Israel groups love to pick up on ridiculous claims like these.

It would be hysterical -  if so many didn't believe and disseminate the lies so easily.

(h/t Bob Knot)
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