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Iranian media rages about "Zionist New World Order"

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 06:00 PM PST

Here's a new op-ed in Iran's state-controlled PressTV by someone named Anisa Abd el Fattah:
What is in store for the world, should we not succeed in our efforts against global Zionism and stop it in its tracks, is a world where global corporations and banks rule and where we the people are little more than slaves.

How do we know this? Just look at what the NWO is doing and what is happening in the world as global Zionist rule takes shape.

It's clear that the primary interest of the NWO is economic. Its social perspective is shaped solely by its need for quiet as it initiates its transition period. This is why we have the militarization of law enforcement in most countries and also the common training, uniforms, equipment, etc.

...Laws are being passed that prohibit criticism of sacred cows like Zionism, war, occupations, poverty, monarchies, presidents and those traitors who open up their countries to NWO control.

....They also want wars. Contrary to the belief that a one world government can bring peace to the world, the reality is that the Zionist one world government is dependent upon perpetual war.

It must keep people and states at war with one another to prevent them from unifying against the authority's abuses; its greed, brutality, racism, elitism, etc.

The greatest downfall of the Zionist global economic scheme in my opinion is the destruction of sovereign domestic economies and the enslavement of entire populations to the international banks through debt.

...Global markets and economics are part of the Zionist world order scheme to break down domestic sovereignty of all kinds with the hope of transitioning failed states along with their failed economies into a single entity, governed by a single Zionist government.

...In such situations, the people are left with only two choices, both of which serve the interests of the Zionists. They either protest, creating disorder which leads by design to chaos, or they submit. The only way the people win is if the goal of the protests is to bring down the corporations and the banks, not the governments.

Such protests can succeed globally but only if the working people of the world unite and carry out protests that are coordinated and share a single message, that being to end corporate control and to shut down the international banking cartel.
Controlled by those "Zionists," of course.

El-Fattah claims to be "a political analyst and human/civil rights activist..she been published in many of the major newspapers in the United States such as the Boston Globe, The Washington Times and the New York Times and has lectured at some of the United State's most prestigious universities including Georgetown University, Columbia University in New York and the American University in Washington DC."

I couldn't find any evidence of her being quoted anywhere outside extremist sites. Her resume seems to be mostly wishful thinking.

But for some reason PressTV's blurb didn't mention that she ran for President in 2012, that she is a 9/11 "truther" who claims that Muslims had nothing to do with it, and that she has apparent Hamas ties.  You can spend a week following her Internet trail to terrorism.

01/06 Links Pt2: PA 1st to buy Israeli Natural Gas, NYE Desecration of Berlin Holocaust Memorial

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 03:00 PM PST

From Ian:
Natan Sharansky: The free world has betrayed democratic dissidents
"When the [uprising] against Assad began, 90 percent of the opposition was democratic. Today 90 percent of the opposition is fundamentalist," he said. Obama's "red lines" on Syria's chemical weapons were ignored almost as soon as they were uttered.
"In this situation, the only forces which can succeed are those which are already well-established: either civil dictatorships or fundamentalists… From the point of view of the free world, there should be no difference between Assad and the Muslim Brotherhood coming to power in Syria."
The West's "betrayal" of democratic dissidents in Iran's 2009 Green Revolution has sent an extremely negative message to democratic Arab oppositionists in the Middle East today, Sharansky argued. If no democratic forces emerged in the Arab world, the West should simply stay out.
How small is the Israel-Palestine conflict? Fun with statistics
So I ask- why is the world so obsessed with the Palestinian question in terms of media time, attention, foreign aid and diplomatic efforts? Is it something to do with oil money? Is hating Israel an integral part of a prevalent ideology? Or are the other conflicts, other displaced and hungry and embattled people of the world too boring to cover on the news and sprinkle with aid money? Does CNN think that they're ugly? Is this bias fair?
I don't know. But anyone who spends their time painting a red X on the Star of David that is superimposed on an Israeli flag, or designing fabulous 'Bethlehem seperation walls' to decorate churches with, may want to ask themselves that same question. And when they ask- if these 'Palestine activists' decide that a Palestinian life is more valuable than the life of a Papuan's, a Sudanese person's, or a Colombian's that they spend all their time focusing on that issue even if they have never been to Gaza, then they need to ask some serious questions about their perception of humanity.
Palestinians to be first buyers of Israeli natural gas
The first buyer of natural gas from Israel's largest gas field will be the Palestine Power Generation Company, which will purchase some $1.2 billion-worth of gas over 20 years, one of the major partners in the field announced on Sunday.
The Leviathan group will sell the PPGC, which supplies power to Palestinian areas in the West Bank, as much as 4.75 billion cubic meters of gas when the Leviathan reserve begins to yield in 2016 or 2017, the Delek Group said in a statement.



'Bethlehem Unwrapped': Rally for Israel – update
More Videos from Sussex Friends of Israel
I think St James's Church deserves priority to the Saturday BDS action.
On reflection, St James's response to us and their initial decision to build the 'Separation Wall' is even more bizarre!! To build a wall and then stop people going in to the wall, by way of a CHECK POINT!! (Yes, I did mean CHECK POINT!) is irony personified. Don't believe me……
The failed boycott campaign against Israel
The president of Haverford pronounced the boycott "[so] intellectually clumsy and shortsighted that it's hard to understand what actually they [the ASA] were thinking."
There is, in these statements, a return to clarity and confidence in academic principles, and a refusal to accord the rote declamations and slanders against Israel even minimal respect or notice.
And that has produced an interesting result. For is it not now the case that the group proposing the boycott, the American Studies Association, is far more tarnished and isolated than the academic institutions it was asking the whole world to shun?
If anyone deserves to be "boycotted," it's the ASA itself.
NYU Prof to Head ASA,
Supports Israel Boycott; NY Lawmakers Threaten to Withdraw State Aid
While New York University's president and provost have condemned a boycott of Israeli academics by the American Studies Association, NYU Social and Cultural Analysis Professor Lisa Duggan, set to become the next president of the ASA, told the New York Post that she supports the boycott.
The disagreement at NYU comes as New York State Senate Co-leader Jeffrey Klein (D-Bronx) and Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn) introduced legislation this week to withdraw state funding from any New York college that boycotts Israel, according to the New York Daily News.
Moral narcissism and the MLA's obsession with Israel
The lure of Palestinianism has proven to be positivity irresistible to left-leaning humanists and literary scholars who burrow into Western thought to uncover the dark underpinnings of imperialism, militarism, colonialism, oppression, racism, and, as a result of one of the MLA's notorious past presidents, Edward Said, the theory of "Orientalism," a mode of thought which claimed to reveal the inherent racism and imperialism imbedded in Western scholarship and politics. The fascination with Third-world victimism, identity politics, and multiculturalism, coupled with harsh critiques of both the U.S. and its proxy in the Middle East, Israel, have all led academics like those in the ASA and the MLA—whose fields are, in a normal world, unrelated to these issues—to involve themselves aggressively in answering calls for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions solely against the Jewish state.
Eleven links in four BBC articles promote baseless second Intifada myth
Since the evening of January 1st the BBC News website has produced no fewer than four separate reports at different URLs on the subject of the deteriorating health of Israel's former prime minister Ariel Sharon.
Each of those articles includes between two and three links to the BBC's recently updated profile of Ariel Sharon which still promotes the erroneous claim that his visit to Temple Mount in September 2000 was the cause of the second Intifada.
CAMERA Prompts Ha'aretz Corrections on Ethiopians' Contraception
Months after CAMERA's Israel office prompted Ha'aretz to publish corrections of coverage concerning Depo Provera contraception injections among Ethiopian women, the media watch organization last week set off another round of corrections at the influential Israeli news outlet.
Last week we flagged an end of the year round up by Ha'aretz's Mairav Zonszein, "Most Read Stories of 2013," which inaccurately quoted a directive sent out by Health Ministry director-general Prof. Roni Gamzu's to health-maintenance organizations concerning the use of the drug.
German Hooligans Desecrate Berlin Holocaust Memorial
Arutz Sheva has obtained shocking footage of a gang of hooligans partying and urinating on the world-famous Holocaust Memorial in central Berlin on New Year's Eve during the open air New Year's Eve party at the Brandenburg Gate.
From The MEMRI Archives: Reports On French Muslim Antisemitic Comedian Dieudonne
French Comic Dieudonné: 'Muslims and Christians Should Unite' Against The Jews; 'Together We Will Be Able To Fight This Satanic Spirit Which Now Heads The Highest International Institutions'
Iranian-French Co-Production by Antisemitic French Comedian Dieudonné Presents Spoof on Auschwitz Gas Chambers
Antisemitic French Comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala To Release Iran-Produced Film, 'The Anti-Semite'
French Comedian Dieudonné M'bala M'bala Promotes His New Song 'Shoahnanas' ('Holocaust Pineapples'), Claims: Greater Freedom of Speech in Iran Than in France; Most Slave Traders Were Jews
Archival - Dieudonné Praises Antisemitic "Quenelle" Salute, Calls for Coup in France


Paris mayor calls for ban on anti-Semitic comedian
In an interview on Europe 1 radio, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe said it was time to bring an end to the performer's outbursts, AFP reported on Monday.
"We must ban the performances (of the comedian)," Delanoe said, and described Dieudonne as someone who "defends crimes against humanity."
Dutch soccer team heads to Abu Dhabi without Israeli player
Two Dutch politicians and several media criticized the team, Vitesse of Arnhem, over the weekend for agreeing to play in Abu Dhabi despite the refusal Saturday to let Dan Mori into the country for matches against two German teams.
Geert Wilders, leader of the rightist, pro-Israel Party for Freedom, on Sunday called the team cowardly on his Twitter account. "Vitesse shouldn't have gone to the United Arab Emirates to protest the refusal to let Mori in. They are now accepting the emirates' Jew-hate. Cowardly."
Judge: 'Let's Burn the Jew' not Racism, Even if you Burn a Jew
A high school student grabbed a Jewish female classmate, held a lighter to her hair and said out loud, "let's burn the Jew," but a Canadian judge concluded that the incident was "not racially motivated."
The incident between two 15 year old Winnipeg, Canada high school students took place in 2011.
The lawyer for the defendant claimed, essentially, it was the girl's fault her hair caught on fire.
NY knockout suspect charged with hate crimes
Barry Baldwin, 35, was charged with six counts each of assault as a hate crime and aggravated harassment as a hate crime for attacks that allegedly took place in heavily Jewish neighborhoods from Nov. 9 to late December, the New York Police Department said Saturday, according to New York media.
The victims were all Jewish women who ranged in age from 20 to 78. One of the victims fell on the small child she was holding during the attack.
NY Post flogged over cover story on slain Hasidic man
New York government officials publicly condemned the New York Post Sunday, hours after the paper published a front-page picture of a slain Hasidic businessman and the headline "Who didn't want him dead?"
The smoldering, half-burned body of real estate developer Menachem Stark, 39, was found Saturday in a dumpster in Nassau County, two days after he was reported missing.
Tel Aviv to commemorate LGBT Holocaust victims
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality will unveil a monument to commemorate members of the LGBT community who were persecuted by the Nazi regime for their sexual orientation and gender identity on January 10.
The new monument will be mounted outside the Municipal LGBT Community Center in Meir Park (Gan Meir) which serves as the city's main hub of activity for the LGBT community.
After 68 years, daughter of Anne Frank's classmate finally gets her chance to thank the British officer who saved her mother from Nazi concentration camp
The daughter of a Jewish classmate of Anne Frank rescued from the horrors of Bergen Belsen concentration camp has met the British officer who saved her mother's life.
Grateful Elizabeth Kahn, 59, flew to Israel to meet Major Leonard Berney, 93, from Plymouth, Devon, and present him with a special silver platter paid for by the family in recognition of his heroics.
Jewish Leonard, of the British 11th Armoured division, was one of the first army officers through the gates of Belsen when the camp was liberated on April 15, 1945.
Pope Francis Announces Plans for May Trip to Israel, Jordan
Pope Francis officially announced his plans to visit Israel from May 24-26, 2014.
"In the climate of joy, typical of this Christmas season, I wish to announce that from 24 to 26 May next, God willing, I will make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land," Pope Francis said following his Sunday service, Vatican Radio reported.
A sweet discovery takes shape in Jerusalem
The Oramed Pharmaceuticals company, which until a few weeks ago occupied an even-smaller space a few steps away, buys only secondhand furniture – not because CEO Nadav Kidron and chief scientific officer Miriam Kidron – his biochemist mother – are cheapskates. They are just modest, and Oramed is a public company with stockholders and investors behind it.
But the Kidrons' eight-year-old biotech firm is currently the world's best hope for an oral insulin capsule, which could improve the lives and health of 400 million diabetics – both type 2 and type 1 – around the world. (h/t Norman F)
Israel Daily Picture: Funny, It Doesn't Look Like a Mountain or Hell --Vintage Photos from Jerusalem's Hinnom Valley
The archives at the University of California - Riverside contains this picture, but clearly the caption "Mount Tabor" was wrong.
This is a picture of "Gei Hinnom" (the Hinnom Valley) in Jerusalem, beneath the walls of the Old City.
Today, few residents or tourists know about the history of the area called "Breichat HaSultan (the Sultan's Pool), except for the occasional concert in the amphitheater.

The Palestinian Whining State

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 01:00 PM PST

UNRWA workers are on strike in the West Bank.

Why?

Because when you live in a culture that says that the world owes you everything for free, you believe it.

Demonstrations were held on Monday for the second day in a row in Bethlehem in protest against policies of the UN's Palestine refugee agency as one of 27 hunger strikers was taken to the hospital.

An UNRWA employee was taken to the hospital as five local employees continued their hunger strike for the fifth day running in protest of the termination of their contracts.

They held signs saying "the termination of the contracts of 50 employees is a great crime," "UNRWA employees union is the first line of defense for the issues of refugees," and "No to the systematic reductions policy," among others.

The hunger strikers called for their reinstatement at their places of work and demanded their full rights.

A member of the UNRWA Arab employees' union Ibrahim Hamdan said that "the UNRWA administration terminated the contracts of the hunger strikers after 10-12 years of employment."

"These employees must be given fixed contracts, and not dismissed," he said.

There are 27 UNRWA employees on hunger strike in the West Bank, from 55 whose contracts were terminated, and Hamdan said the UNRWA is responsible for their health.

Gunness told Ma'an on Thursday that the employees who were on hunger strike were temporary employees whose contracts were not renewed. The funding that provided those employees with salaries had been cut from $40 million to $25 million, he said.

UNRWA advertised 27 job openings after the layoffs took place, but "those on hunger strike did not apply," Gunness said.

The employees were aware that their positions were "never permanent. ... It seems a bit strange to go on hunger strike for that reason."
Notice the language used by the protesters - they use the language of "rights" because that is the only rhetoric they know, from years of insisting on "rights" that don't exist anywhere else.

Only with such a twisted view of the world can these people claim that temporary jobs give them the right to full employment with full medical benefits and higher salaries than their neighbors.

Yes - that is one of their demands:

[Union leader] Mahmoud Hamdan added that employees were calling for a fixed exchange rate to be applied to their basic salary to a assure a steady income.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian workers' union said in a statement that the crisis in Gaza was partially due to UNRWA's policies, without elaborating.

In response to the strike, UNRWA spokesman Chris Gunness said in a statement that the agency's "staff are paid over twenty per cent above the equivalent salaries in the Palestinian Authority. This is in accordance with our salary policy, which aims to keep our staff paid at the same rate or above PA equivalent."
Meanwhile, the "Popular Committees" in the camps - staffed by self-appointed "leaders" - are also protesting and shutting down services, because they say they are supposed to get paid by the PA.

A spokesman for the popular committees in the West Bank refugee camps, Imad Abu Simbel, said that the committees closed their offices and halted services on Monday in protest against UNRWA policies and the government's failure to transfer funds to them for the last three years.

"The directors of the committees took this step in response to the negligent policies of UNRWA and because government has not transferred the earnings of the committees for three years," Abu Simbel told Ma'an.

"It seems that the government is uninterested in ending the suffering of refugees in West Bank camps, through pressuring the UN or even transferring the earning of popular committees," Abu Simbel added, "as if camps are not part of the nation."
These self-serving committees are defining themselves as being the camps themselves!

There is an entire fake nation filled with people who only take, take and take some more, who literally believe that the world owes them free housing, medical care, schooling and guaranteed employment. The PA does nothing to dispel these demands, and indeed it fuels them - after all,  it demands outside funding to prop itself up.

In the 20 years since Oslo, an entire generation of high-tech entrepreneurs could have been raised. The Muslim world could be relying on Palestinian Arab tech expertise, done remotely. Petrodollars could have been pouring in to create an economy that isn't based on bureaucracy, tons of international NGOs, and 19th century agriculture and construction techniques.

Not only has this not happened, but  there are no major plans to do this in the next 20 years.

I have yet to see an op-ed in a Palestinian Arab paper that tells its people to grow up and start to actually work at state-building and taking responsibility. No, all you see is more whining about how awful everything is and it is the fault of someone else (usually Israel, but it could be Hamas, or the West, or Egypt, or anyone besides themselves.)

A state with such a mindset would collapse in about a week without being propped up by other countries. It would descend into chaos and violence in no time. It doesn't take clairvoyance to see this happening.

But the creation of such a doomed state is a vital world priority.

For "peace."

PLO's phased plan to destroy Israel is alive and well

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 11:00 AM PST

From Palestinian Media Watch:



Syrian TV host: "When they talk about [the US] imposing a solution, we know that it will be deficient."

Member of Fatah Central Committee Abbas Zaki: "You can relax. We find ourselves united for the first time. Even the most extreme among us, Hamas, or the fighting forces, want a state within the '67 borders. Afterward, we [will] have something to say, because the inspiring idea cannot be achieved all at once. [Rather] in stages."

[Official Syrian Satellite TV Channel, Dec. 23, 2013]

The "phased plan" to destroy Israel was spelled out by the PLO in 1974, and has never been rescinded.

And there is evidence that Mahmoud Abbas subscribes to it as well.




The 1974 plan states, in part:
The Palestine Liberation Organization will employ all means, and first and foremost armed struggle, to liberate Palestinian territory and to establish the independent combatant national authority for the people over every part of Palestinian territory that is liberated. This will require further changes being effected in the balance of power in favor of our people and their struggle.

...Any step taken towards liberation is a step towards the realization of the Liberation Organization's strategy of establishing the democratic Palestinian State specified in the resolutions of the previous Palestinian National Councils.

...Once it is established, the Palestinian national authority will strive to achieve a union of the confrontation countries, with the aim of completing the liberation of all Palestinian territory, and as a step along the road to comprehensive Arab unity.

Yasir Arafat mentioned his support for the phased plan immediately before the Oslo accords, in a speech broadcast on Jordanian TV, where he said "[the agreement] will be a basis for an independent Palestinian state in accordance with the Palestinian National Council resolution issued in 1974... The PNC resolution issued in 1974 calls for the establishment of a national authority on any part of Palestinian soil from which Israel withdraws or which is liberated."

As PMW points out:

These statements coming from Abbas Zaki are significant because he is a senior Palestinian official and a very close associate of Mahmoud Abbas. He was sent to Syria as Mahmoud Abbas' personal representative a few months ago and has spoken at public events representing Fatah.

There have been similar statements made by other senior Palestinian Arab officials in recent months, as the PMW article notes.

What about Mahmoud Abbas himself? Does he subscribe to the phased plan? Is his ultimate goal to destroy Israel as well?

On his homepage, Abbas has a section of books and articles he has written. These include his infamous Holocaust denial book.


One of the books listed is called "Zionism: Beginning and End."

It is a twisted history of Zionism from Abbas' perspective, with chapter titles like " "What Jews Themselves Have Done Against Zionism" and "Zionism and Antisemitism – Two Sides of the Same Coin."

Here is the last paragraph of the book:
Zionism began as an alien thing and it will end as an alien thing. It seemed to us (i.e. Palestinians) as a predestined matter, and its end has become a predestined matter. Both the Jews and us are its victims. We and the Jews will guarantee its destruction, so we will live after it as we have lived before it in a wide homeland full of resources which are enough for everyone and grants everyone wellness, love and equality.

While Abbas wrote this in 1977, there was a second printing in 2011 and it is featured on his own homepage, today.

Does it sound like Abbas supports a two state solution, or that he views it as a means to an end using the Phased Plan of his hero, Yasir Arafat?

The answer is obvious to everyone except those who choose to shut their eyes.

As far as I can tell, most of Abbas' writings listed there have never been translated into English. It is high time that this be done, and the world can read what this honored world leader really thinks.

(h/t Ibn Boutros)

01/06 Links Pt1: Netanyahu: We Are Not Foreigners in Hebron or Bet El, PA Incitement Funded by U.S.

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 09:00 AM PST

From Ian:
Khaled Abu Toameh: Israeli Arabs: We Do Not Want to Live in Palestinian State
It is much easier for Palestinians to accuse Israel of racism than to admit they do not want to be part of a Palestinian state.
"This is an imaginary proposal that relates to the Arabs as if they were chess pieces that could be moved around according to the wish of the players." — Ahmed Tibi, Member of Knesset.
If the Arab Knesset members are so worried about becoming citizens of a Palestinian state, they should be working toward integration into, and not separation from, Israel, and listening more to their constituents rather than the voices of Fatah and Hamas.
Palestinian Terror Education: Funded by U.S. Taxpayers
A ninth-grade PA textbook indoctrinates students into martyrdom. In an exercise where students are asked to connect two sentence, a correct answer links the phrase "Morning of glory and red redemption, nourished by the blood of Martyrs" with the concept of "hope for the liberation of Palestine."
When UNRWA promotes such sentiments, UNRWA schools violate children's basic right to protection from harmful influence. The question remains: Will US citizens file complaints against UNRWA with Congress and with the courts, or will US citizens let this kind of US-funded education for terror continue unabated?
The Palestinians want to dance at two weddings
Abbas can't dance at two weddings at the same time, nor can he have his cake and eat it. If he is declaring a Palestinian state based on Resolution 181, and if he genuinely wants a peaceful settlement, he must acknowledge the Jewish state called for in the Resolution.
The State of Israel is not changing its official name, even if it is, in the words of the Balfour Declaration, "a national home for the Jewish people." It is totally different from the case with Muslim countries.
At least four countries -- Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, -- officially term themselves "Islamic Republics." Even the Palestinian Basic Law of 2003 touches on the issue. Article 4 says, "Islam is the official religion in Palestine…Islamic Sharia shall be a principal source of legislation."



Barry Rubin: The presentation of the Palestinian Authority's argument is really pitiful
Despite 50 years of cross-border terrorist attacks against Israel, missiles fired against Israel, attempts of boycotts against Israel, and failure to pay Israel for providing electricity to the Palestinian territories, The New York Times article claims, "The Authority's financial insolvency is creating more problems for Palestinians in the Occupied Territories, especially the young." If a PA government that has existed for two decades wants a situation in which stability is impossible, how can the virtual state of war be blamed on Israelis? Note that when Israel withdrew from the Gaza settlements in 2005, the equipment that was left behind was either stolen or broken by Palestinians. And who started the rocket wars? For 50 years, Palestinian attacks and victims have been bragged about.
The basic construction of the argument is this: We fought and attacked Israelis and yet throughout the years, only the Israelis were responsible for our suffering. How can the PA make peace with Israel? How credible can it be? After two decades of self-rule, Palestinian public figures can say that Israelis don't want peace and that Jews subject Palestinian to Jim Crow treatment, yet Israelis and Jews say nothing of the kind and yet are condemned as horrible oppressors and racists.
Kerry seeks support for peace process from Saudi, Arab League
Saudi Arabia and the Arab League will be involved in building support for an Israeli-Palestinian agreement, US Secretary of State John Kerry said before leaving Riyadh and returning to Jerusalem Sunday night.
"Today his majesty was not just encouraging, but supported our efforts in the hopes that we can be successful in the days ahead," Kerry said of his meeting with Saudi King Abdullah.
Meanwhile, a senior Palestinian official in Ramallah on Sunday questioned Kerry's assertion that progress has been made.
"Kerry is revolving in a vicious cycle," said Azzam al-Ahmed, member of the Fatah Central Committee. "If he continues to propose to the Palestinian side what he's proposing, he won't achieve anything."
Netanyahu Says Arab Incitement at Root of Conflict; 'We Are Not Foreigners in Hebron or Bet El'
Speaking at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, Netanyahu said, "At today's meeting, we will discuss the periodic index of incitement in the Palestinian Authority. To my regret, this incitement is continuing."
"We have seen examples in recent days. Opposition to recognizing the Jewish state and our right to be here is continuing," Netanyahu said. "We are not foreigners in Jerusalem, Beit El or Hebron. I reiterate that in my view, this is the root of both the conflict and the incitement, the non-recognition of this basic fact."
Hateful anti-Israel education shows PA's true colors, minister charges
Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval Steinitz pointed to a number of cases of anti-Israel statements as proof that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was not trying to make peace.
"As it talks of peace in the United Nations, and in the international forums, it teaches for the destruction of the State of Israel and the expulsion or destruction of the Jewish people," Steinitz told Israel Radio. "It is an entire system of hatred and one that shows elements of admiration of Adolf Hitler as someone who knew how to deal with the Jewish people."
Steinitz's presentation focused on denials of Israel's right to exist; emphasis on Israel's inevitable disappearance; depiction of Jews as subhuman; and statements that all forms of resistance — including terror — are legitimate.
PA TV teaches children all Israel is "Palestine"
The official Palestinian Authority TV program for children, The Best Home, broadcast the song "Oh flying bird," which misrepresents cities and sites in Israel as "Palestine." The "Band of Palestine" accompanied several children singing the song:
"My country Palestine is beautiful. Turn to Safed, and then to Tiberias,and send regards to the sea of Acre and Haifa.
Don't forget Nazareth - the Arab fortress, and tell Beit Shean about its people's return. My country Palestine is beautiful."
Compilation of 8 versions of a Palestinian song presenting Israeli cities as part of "Palestine"


Parody site knocks 'huckster' Kerry
The website for "John Kerry Solutions Ltd.," at johnkerry.co.il, paints the secretary of state as a huckster peddling solutions — ranging from the merely half-baked to the downright ridiculous — to a plethora of problems.
"Having issues with a friend? Need an original idea for a costume?" reads a page on the site titled "About John."
You can probably guess where it goes from there: "John has the answer! John Kerry Solutions Ltd. We don't have good solutions, but you've got to try something, right?"
Palestinians held for October attack on Psagot girl
Israeli forces have arrested two Palestinian men in connection with an attack on a young girl in the Psagot settlement in October, the Shin Bet security service said Monday.
The attack was initially thought to be a terrorist shooting incident, but investigators now say 9-year-old Noam Glick was stabbed during a burglary gone wrong. Officials are still unsure whether the incident was nationalistically motivated.
'Observer' Vehicle Used as Cover in Hebron Stone Throwing
The drivers were surprised to realize the rocks were being thrown at them from behind a TIPH [Temporary International Presence in Hebron] vehicle, which was being used for cover.
The stated mandate of the mission is "to promote by their presence a feeling of security to the Palestinians of Hebron and to help to promote stability in the city."
It appears that TIPH is doing their job very well, as these Palestinian Authority citizens felt very secure in using a TIPH vehicle as cover for attacking Jews.
Israeli Mom Dies of Shrapnel Infection From 1970 School Bus Massacre
Leah Revivo, a survivor of the 1970 Avivim school bus massacre in northern Israel, died from a shrapnel infection at age 52 this past week. The shrapnel had been lodged in her brain since the time of the shooting, when she was nine years old. Nine other of Revivo's classmates from Moshav Avivm were killed in the terror attack that took place close to Kibbutz Baram, in the Upper Galilee near the Lebanese border, on May 22, 1970.
Palestinian terrorists, belonging to the Syrian-sponsored Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terror organization, fired two bazooka shells at the bus, killing 12 Israeli civilians and wounding 25 others.
Ex-navy chief: Israel has defenses against Russian missile coveted by Hezbollah
Israel has defenses in place against the supersonic Russian- made Yakhont anti-ship missile, ex-navy chief Vice-Admiral (res.) Eliezer Marom told The Jerusalem Post on Sunday, days after The Wall Street Journal reported that Hezbollah has been smuggling the weapon to Lebanon in pieces to evade Israeli strikes.
Describing the Yakhont as the most advanced missile of its kind in the world, Marom said the West does not know very much about the weapon, which flies at low altitude "right over the sea," reaching speeds of between Mach 2 and Mach 3 (up to three times the speed of sound).
Egypt Summons Qatari Ambassador Amid Row Over Brotherhood
"The Qatari ambassador was summoned over a statement by the Qatari foreign ministry," Egyptian foreign ministry spokesman Badr Abdelatty was quoted as having said.
In a statement earlier on Saturday, Qatar had said the recent decision to designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist group was "a prelude to a shoot-to-kill policy" against demonstrators.
Morsi's Third Trial to Begin January 28
The ousted president faces several trials, and this one is related to charges of organizing prison breaks with the help of foreign groups.
Head of Nile TV sacked for airing video on Morsi's achievements
Head of the state-owned Nile TV Mervat Mohsen was removed from her post on Sunday after the channel aired a video on the achievments of deposed president Mohamed Morsi.
Egypt bars Canadian Shi'ites from entering
Egypt stopped 61 Canadian Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims from entering the country and decided to hold them at Cairo airport until their onward flight, security officials said on Sunday.
The Canadians landed in Egypt from Iraq to complete a pilgrimage to Shi'ite sites in the region, but were kept out on the orders of security authorities, said airport security officials who gave no further explanation. Canadians are usually allowed into Egypt with a visa bought upon arrival.
Syrian rebels clash with al-Qaeda-linked fighters
Syrian opposition fighters battled rival rebels from an al-Qaida-linked faction across parts of northern Syria on Sunday, as deep fissures within the insurgency erupted into some of the most serious and sustained violence between groups opposed to President Bashar Assad since the country's conflict began.
The clashes, which broke out on Friday and have spread to parts of four provinces, pit an array of moderate and ultraconservative Islamist brigades against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, an extremist group that has become both feared and resented in parts of opposition-held areas for trying to impose its hardline interpretation of Islam.
Where is Turkey Going?
Gülen, in reaction to the implication by Erdogan and his supporters that Gülen, and his followers in the judiciary and police had turned against the AKP, burst out with rhetoric that belied his long-cultivated image of unruffled tranquility. Gülen issued a video sermon, rebroadcast widely on Turkish television channels, in which he denounced "Those who don't see the thief but go after those who chase the thief ... May Allah bring fire to their homes."
Erdogan replied in a subdued manner, on December 22, before leaving on a trip to Pakistan: "We pray for Muslims to reach the right way, not for their damnation. Cursing is such a trick among Muslims it will return to one who did this like a boomerang."
The unraveling of relations between Erdogan and Gülen has begun to overshadow the details of the corruption scandal that brought it about. On December 17, fifty individuals were arrested in Istanbul and Ankara. The focal point of the investigation was a deal between Turkey and Iran for Turkey to provide gold in payment for Iranian oil, circumventing international financial sanctions against Tehran.
Turkey Fires Cops Who Stopped Weapons Shipment to Syrian Jihadists
Police officers who followed and stopped a truck that was allegedly carrying weapons to Syria have been removed from their positions.
The truck was followed by a team of police from Hatay's Terror and Organized Crime Department on a tipoff that it was carrying weapons and ammunition to Syria. It was stopped twice by the police, first near a gendarmerie outpost on the Reyhanlı-Kırıkhan road and again on the Muratpaşa road. The police were prevented from searching the truck's cargo by an official statement from Gov. Celalettin Lekesiz, who said the cargo was a state secret.
Lebanese Christians Protest Burning of Library by Islamic Extremists
Hundreds of Lebanese Christians took to the streets in Tripoli to protest the torching of a decades-old library owned by a Greek Orthodox priest.
The demonstrators held up banners reading, "Tripoli, peaceful town" and "this is contrary to the values of the Prophet [Mohammed]," Ya Libnan reported.
Hezbollah's ideological crisis
As one Shiite Lebanese satirist put it the day after Nasrallah's speech, "Either the fighters have lost Palestine on the map and think it is in Syria [or] they were informed that the road to Jerusalem runs through Qusayr and Homs," locations in Syria where Hezbollah has fought with Assad loyalists against Sunni rebels.
The implication is clear: Lebanon's Party of God is no longer a pure "Islamic resistance" fighting Israel but a sectarian militia and Iranian proxy doing Bashar al-Assad and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei of Iran's bidding at the expense of fellow Muslims. And it therefore does not surprise that the pokes come from extremist circles too. In June, the Abdullah Azzam Brigades, a Lebanon-based al-Qaeda-affiliated group, released a statement challenging Nasrallah and his Hezbollah fighters "to fire one bullet at occupied Palestine and claim responsibility" for it. They could fire at Israel from either Lebanon or Syria, the statement continued, seeing as Hezbollah "fired thousands of shells and bullets upon unarmed Sunnis and their women, elderly, and children, and destroyed their homes on top of them."

The Guardian says only Jews can be considered settlers

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 07:00 AM PST

CiFWatch looked at The Guardian's style guide and found this:

Israeli Arabs who live - or move - into neighborhoods across the Green Line cannot be considered settlers - only Jews can!

And there are, indeed, Israeli Arabs who live across the Green Line - including many who moved there from other parts of Israel!

Only Jews can be "illegal settlers." Only Jews must be evicted from their homes en masse. Only Jews can violate international law. Which is pretty much the definition of antisemitism.

We've seen this type of double standard before. In 2012, Israel announced new building on the other side of the Green Line - but only the Jewish neighborhoods were condemned by the EU, not the Arab neighborhoods being built by Israel at the exact same time.

However, this definition makes this racist double standard official.

Judea and Samaria must be Judenrein, in the conventional wisdom of the enlightened West,and the people who hate the idea of Jews having  rights to live there won't let little things like double standards and antisemitism stop them.

In the case of the Guardian, the antisemitism is there for everyone to see, in black and white.

It's the latest "style."

(h/t Yoel)

Hamas may be kicked out of Cairo

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 05:00 AM PST

In 2012, as the Syrian civil war raged, Hamas moved its headquarters out of Damascus.

Khaled Meshal moved his offices to Doha, and his deputy Abu Marzouk moved to Cairo.

Now it looks like Egypt is not going to tolerate Hamas' presence there for much longer.

Egypt, which has labeled the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization and has accused Hamas of complicity in some Sinai terror attacks, is reportedly considering expelling Abu Marzouk. Hamas is expecting to be kicked out, and is considering either consolidating its offices in Doha or movng Abu Marzouk to Gaza, which is seen as less likely.

A few months ago there were rumors that Hamas' position in Qatar was similarly threatened, and that it was considering moving to Khartoum, as the Arab world has become less tolerant of an organization that was flying high only a year ago.

The birth of a new anti-Israel stunt - the soccer ball

Posted: 06 Jan 2014 02:33 AM PST

From Ma'an:
A group of children in a Palestinian village south of Tulkarem have taken the unprecedented step of writing a letter directly to the United Nations in a bold attempt to win back their soccer ball from Israeli occupation authorities.

The children in the village of Kafr Sur sent the letter to Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon via social media, asking him to intervene after the ball fell into lands confiscated by Israeli authorities to build the separation barrier through their village.

The campaign began after a local youth named Amir was playing soccer in the village and kicked the ball too far, hitting it into an area in the village under Israeli military control and beyond barbed wire, according to municipality head Imad Zibda.

The group of children spoke to Ma'an on Saturday, explaining that the Israeli occupation had impinged on their rights by not allowing them to retrieve their ball, which had disappeared behind the barbed wire of the separation barrier.

Ma'an helpfully publishes five staged photos of the kids playing soccer (somehow, they managed to find another ball for the photographer.)

When did the incident occur? Did the kids ask to get the ball back? We don't know, because the point of the story isn't facts, but propaganda.

They stressed that they have the right to play in their own lands without any restrictions. They expressed their fear that the ball would never be returned because it had fallen on the other side of the barbed wire. 
They feared that all of the lands that had been confiscated from the village would suffer a similar fate, they added.
Really? No prompting from any adults to come up with perfect anti-Israel quotes for the media?

Arabic reports do mention that it was an adult's idea to write to the UN and disseminate this story on social media.  The letter is clearly written by an adult in a child's voice, starting off with "We are a group of children in Kafr Sur who collected a sum of money by ourselves and bought a football for the exercise of our right to play like other children." Yeah, kids say stuff like that all the time.

Clearly the adults in town found that this is a media-friendly story and ran with it to make a soccer ball into an international incident, with the helpful collusion of Arab media. Now they are just waiting for it to go viral, and given how much people hate Israel, the chances are very good it will.

Indeed, a version of this story was played out, virtually, in 2009, to worldwide headlines.

The Israeli company Cellcom made a popular commercial then showing this same scenario. Look at how the IDF responds there:



The tagline is "We all just want to have fun." The company said the commercial was about overcoming obstacles.

At the time, the Israel haters made their own version, with the IDF responding to a soccer ball with tear gas and gunshots:



That episode showed very clearly which side actually wants to live together with the other side in peace and which side will take every opportunity to demonize the Other. The Israeli commercial humanizes the Palestinian Arabs; the PalArab response demonizes Israelis.

Can you imagine the outcry if an Israeli had made a commercial showing the soccer ball returning to the Israeli side as a shrapnel-filled bomb? That is the equivalent of the second ad - but only one side is expected and encouraged  to hate.
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