| Zionist assassin dolphins!noreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 10 Jan 10:00 PM Hamas has announced that they have uncovered a cell of Israeli spy...dolphi | | Hamas has announced that they have uncovered a cell of Israeli spy...dolphins. On Monday, the Hamas' Al-Qassam Brigades said that Israel used dolphins to pursue its naval commandos off the coast of the Gaza Strip. During an hour long infomercial for Hamas, in a video called "Suqur al-Sahel," a Hamas naval spokesman claimed that the battalions succeeded in discovering a dolphin used by Israel to chase Hamas "into the depths of the sea." Hamas claims to have recovered devices attached to the dolphins that were prepared for use in assassinations. According to the video, a Hamas terrorist was killed by one of the dolphins. In the video, the spokesman did not disclose the time and place where they found the dolphins or the dolphin weapons. But they did show an image of something that looks like it could have been a dolphin harness with a harpoon-like weapon attached: Other nations like Russia do train dolphins for military tasks, but not usually lethal force. This military site says that this is plausible, but there is no way to know if this evidence is legitimate. Back in 2011, I published the...Read More |
From Ian: 'Murdered Because They Were Jews': Victims Remembered on 7th Anniversary of French Kosher Market Killings Jewish community leaders and French officials gathered on Sunday to mark the seventh anniversary of a terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris, paying tribute and expressing solidarity against antisemitic violence. Organized by the Representative Council of French Jewish Institutions (CRIF), the main communal body of French Jewry, the ceremony took place in front of the Hyper Cacher where an Islamist gunman shot dead four Jewish hostages on Jan. 9, 2015 — Yohan Cohen, 20; Yoav Hattab, 21; Philippe Braham, 45; and François-Michel Saada, 63. A couple of days before the attack, two Islamist gunmen killed a dozen people at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Multiple French politicians were present at the commemoration, among them former French Prime Minister Manuel Valls, who described it on social media as a "necessary tribute" to the "victims of Islamist terrorism." Also in attendance were Marlène Schiappa, minister for citizenship; Sophie Cluzel, secretary of state for people with disabilities; Jean-Michel Blanquer, minister of education, youth, and sports; and Aurore Bergé, a lawmaker from French President Emmanuel Macron's party. "Murdered because they were Jews," wrote Equality Minister Élisabeth...Read More |
Iran's ABNA news agency reports: Israeli occupation began importing aluminium from Bahrain, Manama-based newspaper al-Ayam reported on Sunday, citing an interview with Eitan Na'eh, the Zionist ambassador to Bahrain. "We have already started buying aluminium from Bahrain, and I am sure this aspect will see growth in purchasing rates," he added. Bahrain Aluminium is one the largest smelters in the Middle East region. However, the ambassador did not specify the quantities or the value of Israel's aluminium imports from Bahrain Israel's airline El Al should start flights to Manama soon, Na'eh said, according to the newspaper. Bahrain's Gulf Air in September announced the launch of direct flights to Tel Aviv, according to the newspaper. The occupation ambassador also said that in the near future, An air transport agreement will be launched that will allow the transport of goods from ships docked in Bahrain to aircraft bound for occupied Palestine. I couldn't find any Israeli media outlet reporting this story from yesterday, at least in English, but it was reported in Arab and Iranian sites. (Plus Reuters.) Normalization with Israel is now normal. Only those who hate it consider it news. And that's good news! * * * * * *
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From Ian: Daniel Gordis: "The Massacre That Never Was" Eliezer Tauber's fascinating book reveals, therefore, the critical details of what did and did not happen in Deir Yassin on that fateful day, details that should (but undoubtedly will not) put to rest claims of massacre. There was killing, but not a massacre. No less important, though, is Tauber's illustration of how exaggerations of the carnage—intentionally concocted by the Palestinian press and others—led to widespread Palestinian flight and thus contributed to the Palestinian refugee problem. That is almost never discussed. Does that lessen the moral urgency of addressing the Palestinian problem? Probably not. But it should, at least, add nuance to the conversation about how to do so by highlighting that the causes of the problem are far more complex than many would like to acknowledge. Other "massacres" that probably didn't happen
Finally, it bears mention that Tauber's book is part of a wider trend among some Israeli scholars who are upending long-held assumptions about massacres during the War of Independence and beyond. Another example is Martin Kramer's masterful re-evaluation of the question of "What Happened at Lydda?" You may recall that years ago, when Ari Shavit published a chapter of his (in many ways excellent and lyrical) book, My Promised Land, in the New Yorker, the chapter published was the one about the "massacre" at Lydda...Read More |
Yesterday I reported that an official page at Morocco's Religious Affairs Ministry included an admiring article about an Arabic translation of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion. It turns out that there are plenty of other examples of state antisemitism on that site. While most of Morocco's official websites are complimentary to Jews and talk about coexistence, the Religious Affairs Ministry site has a definite problem with Jews. An article describes how crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire converted to Islam in order to subvert the nation and turn it towards Western ways, like changing the weekend from Friday to Sunday. It also says that Jews control the media worldwide. Another expands on the popular Arab theme of how much Zionists hated Mizrahi Jews, making this absurd claim: "In October 1948, the Jewish Agency decided to stop the immigration of Eastern Arab Jews to Israel, and its spokesmen declared the following: 'We must not forget that the State of Israel was established on the Palestinian lands to solve the problem of Ashkenazi Jews.'" Then the Zionists changed their minds, the article says, because they couldn't attract enough Ashkenazi Jews. This article about the tiny...Read More |
\Last week: The Netherlands stopped its funding of the Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), one of six Palestinian NGOs Israel banned last year due to ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization. The Dutch government had donated €21.5 million to UAWC, but suspended funding in 2020 after two senior UAWC officials were indicted for taking part in a bombing that killed Rina Shnerb, 17, in August 2019. In a letter to the Dutch parliament released on Wednesday, two ministers wrote that the investigation found that 34 UAWC employees were active in the PFLP in 2007-2020, some at the same time as holding leadership positions in the terrorist group. "The large number of board members of UAWC with a dual mandate is particularly worrying," Development Cooperation Minister Tom de Bruijn and Foreign Affairs Minister Ben Knapen wrote.
However, contrary to what Israel has said, the Dutch investigation did not find that UAWC itself was linked to the PFLP, organizationally or financially. Still, the Dutch government criticized the UAWC board, saying that its behavior was a betrayal of trust. The ministers pointed out that the NGO's own guidelines say employees may not be politically active and said the board should have been more transparent about those ties, and as such, they have decided to permanently stop funding UAWC. The report also finds that several other Palestinian...Read More |
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