| Jews dance on Chanukah, Arab media reports "Settlers perform provocative dances"noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 02 Dec 05:45 AM There are dozens of a | | Weekly column by Vic Rosenthal Did you ever notice how from time to time a particular theme appears simultaneously in various media? One that I've seen a lot of lately is "Israel doesn't have the ability to destroy Iran's nuclear program, so we need to find a way to live with it." Here is yet another example, from security analyst Yossi Melman, writing in Ha'aretz: As the nuclear talks with Iran resume in Vienna, Israel must try to reach an agreement with Washington, by which the U.S. will extend it a nuclear umbrella and openly acknowledge it. … The deployment of a nuclear umbrella is the ultimate guarantee of deterrence in the face of Iran's nuclear program and, if Tehran succeeds in assembling a nuclear weapon, the possibility that Iran will threaten Israel in order to extract concessions from it. … You don't have to be a general or a military strategist to understand [why Israel can't destroy Iran's nuclear program]. It's enough to look at the map, at the forces operating in the area and to read about the air force power from available sources. … I've left out Melman's detailed arguments about why it would be difficult. He discusses countries the IAF can and can't fly over, the need for refueling, the fact that we would almost certainly lose...Read More |
From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Lighting a candle in Hebron beyond the seventh step The same pattern was repeated in the 20th century when Arabs – egged on by the incitement of Haj Amin el-Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem – led a pogrom in 1929 in which 69 Jews were murdered with scores of others wounded, maimed or raped. Jewish life in the city didn't fully resume until after it was taken by Israeli forces in 1967, an event that also signaled the end of religious discrimination at the Tomb of the Patriarchs with worship for both faiths allowed inside as Jews were finally allowed past the seventh step. The memory of the atrocities of 1929 hang heavy over the small community that has restarted Jewish life in properties that Jews owned before 1929 with terrorism from their Arab neighbors a constant threat. Nor is it odd that Herzog should also be affected by memories of 1929 since his great-grandmother, Faya Hillman, survived the massacre by feigning death among the corpses of her neighbors. Herzog noted that Jews are not the only ones who "trace their roots" to Hebron since it's also considered sacred by Muslims. The shared burial place ought to be a connection for peace. Instead, it has become a focus of mutual hostility – the result not only of constant Arab attacks on Jews in the city but also the 1994 shooting attack at Machpelah by Baruch Goldstein, a Jewish extremist who...Read More |
And some impressive guitar from Jeremiah Lockwood: (h/t Yerushalimey) * * * * * *
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Dear President Biden and Vice President Harris, Thank you so much for explaining Chanuka and its customs to me. Had it not been for you, President Biden, I would never have known that Chanuka is "undeniably American." Had it not been for you, Vice President Harris, I would never have known that non-Jewish spouses may help light the menorah by placing a hand under the Jewish spouse's hand as he lights. From our family to yours, Happy Hanukkah. pic.twitter.com/yfCQfsE1uX — Douglas Emhoff (@SecondGentleman) November 29, 2021 President Biden, Vice President Harris, I had always thought that Chanuka was about battling foreign influences, multiculturalism, and assimilation. I thought Chanuka was about fighting to preserve Jewish observance at a time the Greek occupiers of Jewish indigenous territory had made such observance illegal. Perhaps that is why it seems strange to me that the non-Jewish wife of a Jew who married out would make a public ceremony of the two of you lighting the menorah. But be patient with me. I have a lot to learn. President Biden, I'd like to know more about that thing you said regarding Chanuka being undeniably American. I thought the Chanuka story had nothing to do with America at all, being...Read More |
This tweet is from an Iraqi with the Twitter handle of Sufian Al-Samarrai. He has almost 100,000 followers.
Translation: I reached the Wailing Wall in Israel. I was imagining that the Jews are savages who will stand in my way and say to me, O Muslim, do not approach or storm [here.]
I found visitors from Muslims, Christians and all religions there
I did not find racism and Jewish hatred as they claim
But I found it in the Palestinians' dealings with the Arabs!
My family and grandparents supported their cause dearly. * * * * * *
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From Ian: David Singer: If Israel swallows Arab propaganda on Judea and Samaria why shouldn't EU and UN? United Nations (UN), European Union (EU) and Arab propaganda has perverted the history of the Arab-Jewish conflict. Their heinous conduct enables them to falsely claim that Jews have no legal right to live in Judea and Samaria ('West Bank'). Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) has seemingly swallowed parts of their disingenuous narrative hook line and sinker. Achieving this triumvirate's sinister agenda has been amazingly simple: Start with the year 1967 – instead of 1920 – when talking about resolving a conflict that has in fact been raging for more than 100 years. Doing so has seen the UN, EU and Arab propagandists:
-Term the conflict: The "Israel-Arab conflict" or the "Israeli-Palestinian conflict" - instead of what it has always been – the "Jewish-Arab conflict".
-Ignore that Arabs living in Palestine in 1922 were only regarded as part of the "existing non-Jewish communities" – that "Israelis" and "Palestinians" did not then exist.
-Paper over that the San Remo Conference and Treaty of Sevres in 1920 decided that: Arab self-determination was to occur in 99.99% of the territory captured from the Ottoman Empire in World War 1 - including those territories designated under the Mandate for Syria and Lebanon and the Mandate for Mesopotamia (now Iraq) Jewish self-determination was to occur in...Read More |
From Palestinian Media Watch: Niece of terrorist prisoner Muhammad Aref Oudeh: "They came to say that my homeland is their homeland My land, my history, my residence have become their land
Jerusalem – could it be, people, that it would become the occupiers' property?
Is it the capital of the impure?
No, it is the capital of Palestine
So it will remain, and so we will remain" … Daughter of prisoner Husam Al-Dik: "O Palestine, the days of Saladin will return If you only knew, the victory that you will have is the victory of Hattin
A Jew defiled Jerusalem and behaved tyrannically and violently
He gathered the world's dogs inside you and [placed] a military camp on your land
Resistance is a weapon and a rock, you will never lose
Resistance is a weapon and a rock, Allahu Akbar ("Allah is greatest")" Clueless Westerners still think that if only Israel would give more concessions, there will be peace. Palestinians teach their kids that there can never be peace as long as there is an Israel. * * * * * *
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The Festival Arabofolies (Arab World Festival) is a thrice-yearly cultural event sponsored by the Arab World Institute in Paris. This week the winter version will take place.
The Arab World Institute has been admirably showing exhibitions featuring Jews of the East recently. Last week, to much fanfare, French President Macron inaugurated an exhibit titled "Jews of the Orient." It is now featuring an exhibit on how the six-pointed star is a recurring motif in Islamic and Jewish art. And one of the performers at the Festival Arabofolies is Neta Elkayam, an Israeli who sings Jewish-Moroccan tunes.
When the BDS movement found out that an Israeli was performing, they put out a call for Arabs to boycott a festival that was curated and organized by Arabs. They then...Read More |
Twenty years ago today, 11 people were killed and 188 injured two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the crowded Ben Yehuda Street mall at 11:30 P.M. on a Saturday night. Five of the victims were children: Assaf Avitan, 15
Israel Ya'akov Danino, 17
Golan Turgeman, 15
Adam Weinstein, 14
Ido Cohen, 17 A car bomb exploded nearby 20 minutes later.
Hamas often celebrates the anniversaries of terror attacks, and this is no exception. They created a video to honor the occasion.
But the Palestinian Press Agency Safa which is a mainstream Palestinian news site not associated with Hamas also celebrates this attack, along with another attack from December 1, 1993 murdering 2 Israelis, Shalva Ozana and Yitzhak Weinstock, who were on the side of a road because of...Read More |
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