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The State of Israel was the real winner in Miss Universenoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Dec 05:45 AM I watched the last 90 minutes of the Miss Uni Like   Tweet   The State of Israel was the real winner in Miss Universe noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 13 Dec 05:45 AM I watched the last 90 minutes of the Miss Universe competition, which was apparently broadcast live from Israel while it was the middle of the night there. (The Philippines contestant, a crowd favorite because of all the Filipino workers in Israel, said "Boker Tov Israel!" meaning it was early morning there.) All through that hour and a half I was rooting for the South African contestant, who came to Israel despite pressure from the modern antisemites of her home country who tried to prevent it. She made it to the final 16, then final 10, then final 5, then final 3. (Yes, the broadcast is a little padded.) Unfortunately, she didn't win. The best parts were the many short films showing the contestants visiting all of Israel - and in the short time they were there, they sure saw a lot! Jaffa, Haifa, Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, the Sea of Galilee, Masada, the Judean Desert, Caesarea, Bedouin encampments, Nazareth, the Ramon Crater - and so many more places. The contestants were thrilled to be in Israel; the Mexico contestant was almost in tears at the opportunity to see it. This was the real Israel that was shown. They also showed off the great food they ate, and the Israel haters are no doubt very angry at so many examples of Israeli cuisine that borrowed from so many other cultures, from fancy ice cream to shakshuka. One of the judges, apparently from India, also gave a call out to how great Israel is. Israel's Ministry of Tourism took advantage of the invaluable publicity and had...Read More Elder Comix: PFLP day job noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Dec 03:30 PM * * * * * * ...Read More 12/12 Links: Is the Biden Administration at War with Israel?; Bennett takes off to UAE for first Israeli PM visit; Three dead at funeral of Hamas member killed in Lebanon explosion noreply@blogger.com (Ian), 12 Dec 01:00 PM From Ian: "Is the Biden Administration at War with Israel?" "The US does not want to open a consulate merely to have a place for diplomatic connections with the PA [Palestinian Authority]. If that is all they wanted, they could easily do this by opening a mission in Abu Dis or Ramallah -- where most other countries conduct their relations with the PA... the purpose of opening the consulate is to recognize Palestinian claims to Jerusalem." — Eugene Kontorovitch, professor, George Mason University, Antonin Scalia School of Law, Israel Hayom, December 5, 2021. The 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations states that "a consular post may be established in the territory of the receiving State only with that State's consent". In other words, reopening the consulate may be done only with the consent of the Israeli government. All this cannot be dissociated from the general hostile attitude of the Biden administration towards Israel from the moment it came to power. Earlier in March, an internal memo from the US State Department was leaked to The National, a daily newspaper in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The National reported that "The Biden administration memo recommends voicing US principles on achieving Israeli-Palestinian peace under a two-state solution framework 'based on the 1967 lines'". The author of the memo is Hady Amr, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Israeli-Palestinian Affairs...Read More Texas man's threats to kill Chabad rabbis are still up on YouTube noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Dec 10:50 AM From the Jerusalem Post: A man in Amarillo, Texas, is facing up to five years in federal prison, accused of directing death threats at three rabbis, according to a statement published on Friday by the office of the US Attorney for the Northern District of Texas, Chad E. Meacham. 37-year-old Christopher Stephen Brown is charged with interstate threatening communications after he allegedly repeatedly contacted Chabad, calling for the death of all Jews, threatening to murder members of the Beit Din (Jewish court) and sending a link to his YouTube channel, on which he said Chabad's chairman, vice chairman and the son of another member of the organization must die. He later called again, threatening to "tear out" rabbis' eyes and tongues and kill as many as he could, then again the following day saying he would blow their heads off, according to the statement. When police went to Brown's residence to apprehend him, he resisted arrest, and his girlfriend, 28-year-old Rebekah Jones engaged physically with the law enforcement officers, aiming a gun at an FBI agent who then successfully disarmed her. Brown's YouTube channel is still up, calling himself "The Maleficent Mystifying Oracle Dr. Obadiah." As of this writing, one can still watch his crazed screeds accusing Chabad of raping hundreds of thousands of children and of the Church wanting to assassinate him. His explicit...Read More Hamas claims Lebanon weapons depot explosion was only "oxygen and disinfectants for COVID patients" noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 12 Dec 07:57 AM On Friday night, a large explosion in Tyre killed at least one person and injured a dozen others. You can hear secondary explosions in this video. While Lebanese and Arab media quoted Hamas members who admitted that the explosion was in a Hamas weapons depot - which may have been beneath a mosque that was destroyed - Hamas had a different explanation. After examining the circumstances surrounding the accident and listening to eyewitnesses, it is revealed that the explosion was caused by a short circuit in a warehouse that includes oxygen cylinders for coronavirus patients and an amount of cleaning products, disinfectants, and preliminary material allocated to fight the Covid-19 pandemic. But then one of the people injured in the explosion, Hamza Ibrahim Shaheen, died of his injuries. He was a member of the Al Qassam Brigades of Hamas. Their description of his heroic death contradicts the story about the short circuit, as they said that he was...Read More    ©2021 EoZ | EoZ, NYC area Web Version   Preferences   Forward   Unsubscribe     Powered by Mad Mimi®A GoDaddy® company