| China's massive cyberattack against Israelnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Aug 05:59 AM From Haaretz: Dozens of Israeli organizations, both public | | From Haaretz: Dozens of Israeli organizations, both public and private, fell victim to a coordinated cyberattack that most likely originated in China, the international cybersecurity company FireEye announced Monday. This is the first documented case of a large-scale Chinese attack on Israel. It was part of a broader campaign that targeted many other countries, including Iran, Saudi Arabia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan and Thailand. FireEye has been monitoring the operation for two years. According to the company's report, the Israeli targets came from the fields of shipping, high-tech, telecommunications, defense, academia and information technology. IT companies are particularly sought-after targets because they are what is known as a supply chain threat – meaning that through them, the hackers can reach many other companies. The attacks were aimed at stealing know-how, commercial secrets and business intelligence. Sanaz Yashar, who led FireEye's investigation into Israeli targets, said that one possible factor in the attacks is China's Belt and Road Initiative, which is meant to create a continuous land and water route around the world for Chinese products. This initiative "is connected with huge infrastructure projects in which China is involved, including in Israel, like ports or railroads," she explained. "Another...Read More |
Arabi21 claims to have received details on an agreement between the US, Israel and Palestinian Authority that was hammered out by US Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli and Palestinian Affairs Hady Amr during his visit last month.
The agreement includes many of the things that Israel would insist upon, so the report might be credible.
According to Arabi21, the agreement was was signed on July 14. It includes the US imposing strict control over the Palestinian media and educational curricula, and the reactivation of the tripartite American-Israeli-Palestinian committee to track and report on incitement in Palestinian media.
It is also said to address the "pay for slay" issue, where the US and Israel would modify the Palestinian Prisoners Law in ways that would be acceptable. Additionally, the agreement is meant to strengthen the Palestinian Authority by providing strong auditing mechanisms against corruption and misuse of funds, with major US accounting firms like PriceWaterhouse performing the audits. The US also asked the Palestinian Authority to credibly investigate the apparent murder of Nizar Banat, to be completed within three months, to regain PA credibility...Read More |
From Ian: Understanding the 'hows' of antisemitism We all agree that antisemitism is bad. People are less likely to be seduced by this hate because we all know where it leads. But anti-Zionism is not perceived to be in the same category. It is sold as speaking truth to power, masked as justice. The antisemitism we all acknowledge as bad started out looking nothing like where it led. In fact, in comparing the beginnings of antisemitism with anti-Zionism the similarities are striking. In the secular 19th century, Jews were designated as Semites, yet it was never intended to mean anything but Jew. In the Soviet Union, which claimed to not notice differences in people or religion, Jews were designated as Zionists, and today the designation of Zionism in the West is described as having immutable loathsome qualities. To Christian Europe, we were Christ-killers. To the Nazis, we were an impure race. To the Soviets, we were capitalists. And today, when the greatest sins of the world are racism and colonialism, the Jewish collective is defined as the ultimate bastion of white supremacy, and Israel is seen as a state born in sin. Antisemitism relies on the greatest authority of any given time. Religion in ancient times, science in the modern era and human rights today. It is only by appealing to the religious doctrine that all Jews of the 12th century could be referred to as the killers of Jesus...Read More |
In this week's Torah portion, we see one of the verses that Israel haters love to quote: "Tzedek, Tzedek Tirdof" - "Justice, Justice You Shall Pursue." (Deuteronomy 16:20) It is all over the place, as the haters love to pretend that the verse shows that Israel is violating the tenets of the Torah that they don't believe in to begin with.
You will never hear them quote the entire verse. The verse is a promise by God to give the entire land of Israel to the Jews.
It is generally understood to mean that the Jewish nation must establish a functioning, moral legal system as a fundamental part of the nation's ethos.
Even though the modern State of Israel is not a religious state, it has an excellent legal system. People who want to denigrate Israel try not to attack Israel's justice system directly because they know that they cannot argue with their meticulous rulings that run circles around their own pathetic interpretation of the law. (All of...Read More |
From Ian: JISS: Israel's National Security Doctrine Israel has an unwritten but broadly accepted national security doctrine - "first principles" - which can assist in long-term planning, setting priorities and allocating resources. Israel will forever face a yawning gap between the size of its resident population and that of neighboring countries, which have all been hostile to Israel's existence in the past, and some remain so. Israel always will be a small country in size, and hence hyper-sensitive to any loss of territory and to artillery and rocket fire - unlike most of its neighbors. Israel can never attain a decisive victory in war - a moment which would radically transform the political culture of the region regarding the desire to annihilate it. No victory in any war would ensure, once and for all, that Israel again will not face threats to its existence. Moreover, Israel's first defeat may well be its last, if its territory ends up being conquered by Arab or Islamic forces. This is not the case for any Arab country which Israel might defeat and occupy its territory. Thus, Israel is doomed to plan for the next war at the end of any war it fights, no matter how successful; and in every war it must prevail against all odds. In sharp contrast to its adversaries, the IDF has no option of retreat. Israel's "center of gravity" is concentrated in a narrow geographical space in the greater Tel...Read More |
Here are only a sampling of boycotts of Jews around the world before 1920. They have different reasons (when any reasons are given) but the bottom line is that they are simply antisemitic.
The feel just like BDS does today. The last one I list is exactly like BDS today.
Germany, reported in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, January 9. 1881: West Fork, Indiana, from the Gazette of Cedar Rapids IA, March 1, 1893: Algiers, reported by Western Mail of Cardiff, December 9, 1898: This is exactly like Fatah saying that they keep track of and photograph Palestinians who shop at Rami Levy stores in Judea and Samaria. France, reported in the Chicago Tribune, May 10, 1900: Sounds lot like the extensive rules the BDSers have on what is forbidden. Ireland, from Inter-Ocean (Chicago), May 8, 1904: As always, instead of protecting the Jews, the Jews are told to run away "for their safety." Odessa, Russia, October 1906: Atlanta, GA, from Montgomery Times,. June 24, 1915: Jersey City, from the New York Times, June 5, 1919, in an echo of the current Polish refusal to admit complicity in atrocities against Jews during the Holocaust: And here was a justification for boycotting Jews in Europe, by pretending to care about a fictional Jewish boycott of Arabs in Palestine - this is pure BDS from 1894 reported in The Jewish Voice of St. Louis: BDS isn't new. It is just like the boycotts of Jews...Read More |
Hamas has started a military training camp under the name "Sword of Jerusalem" for Gazans. Its photos show that not only do they appear to be training children to join the Hamas Al Qassam Brigades, but also some grey-haired men. * * * * * *
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