| Syria claims Israel killed civilians in Damascus strike. They know they are lying, but the media parrots their lies anyway.noreply@blogger.com (Unkno | | Reuters "reports:" An Israeli attack over the Syrian capital Damascus killed two civilians and left some material damage, the country's state media reported Monday, citing a military source. No attempt it made to verify or refute the claim, even though to my knowledge no civilian has died in the scores of Israeli airstrikes on Syria aiming to stem the flow of Iranian weapons to Hezbollah. It is like Hamas' Health Ministry - if it makes a claim of civilians being killed, reporters assume they are telling the truth. When people object, the reporters hide behind the fiction that they are only reporting what the officials are saying. But these reporters never even attempt to verify or refute the claim. It takes a lot less effort to act as a stenographer for Hamas or Syria then it takes to do, you know, actual reporting. Al Jazeera's reporting is slightly better than that of Reuters. After parroting the claims, it added: The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), a monitoring group, said the missiles hit "a weapons and ammunition depot operated by Iran-backed militias near the Damascus International Airport". The group, which relies on an extensive network of sources inside Syria, said it could not confirm civilian deaths. Al Jazeera drops the topic there. But anyone who checks the website of...Read More |
From Ian: Caroline Glick: Biden Shatters Israel's Delusions For decades, senior Israeli defense officials beat a path to the Pentagon, the State Department, the CIA and the National Security Council with briefcases full of documents providing conclusive proof that Iran's nuclear program is a military program and that its purpose is to transform the Islamic Republic of Iran into a nuclear-armed state. The officers arrived in Washington convinced that the smoking gun they were providing the Americans would compel Washington to abandon its long-held delusion that there is a "grand bargain" to be had with the fanatical Islamist theocracy whose leaders believe that Iran's rise will herald an era of unmitigated Shiite global domination. All of the Israeli officers made their best cases to their American counterparts. Most believed the Americans were open to the information they provided, and left Washington convinced that the Americans finally recognized the danger and would act to block Iran from achieving its nefarious goal. On at least one occasion, their efforts were rewarded. In 2018, after Israel's Mossad spy agency spirited Iran's nuclear archive out of a warehouse in Tehran and brought it to Israel, Israel's spy chiefs flew to Washington to share the findings with the Trump administration. The documents provided incontrovertible proof of Israel's long-standing contentions that Iran's...Read More |
The Shin Bet released the statistics of terror attacks in February. While there were no fatal attacks, the quantity of violent attacks increased over January. The number of Molotov cocktails increased 35%, from 101 to 136. And the number of pipe bombs soared from 17 to 29. Small arms fire more than doubled, from 6 to 14 incidents.
The media doesn't bother covering these attacks, and luckily none of them were fatal, but firebombs are still firebombs - and they are hurled multiple times daily at Jews. An average of one pipe bomb a day is something to be alarmed over, not complacent about. The good news is that there were no rockets or mortars fired from Gaza in January. * * * * * * * * * Buy the EoZ book, PROTOCOLS: Exposing Modern Antisemitism today at Amazon! Read all about it here!...Read More |
From Ian: Natan Sharansky (WSJ$): Israel, Russia and the U.S. Moral Abdication Israel had no choice but to reach a strategic agreement with Russia to fight against Iran and its proxies. In protecting itself from terrorist aggression, Israel must consider Russia's presence in Syria and secure Mr. Putin's agreement for airstrikes against targets there. This arrangement, which began under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, renders Israel dependent on Russia's goodwill even now, during Mr. Putin's worst aggressions to date. Making matters worse, an imminent nuclear deal with Iran will give yet more money to the regime without any linkage to its behavior. As a result, Israel will become even more dependent on Russia. Israel would not have been forced to choose between its principles and survival had it not been for the lack of moral clarity in Europe and the U.S. The same free world that now stands in solidarity against one dictator is on the verge of signing—with that very dictator—an agreement that would give hundreds of billions of dollars to another corrupt, oppressive regime that has vowed to destroy Israel. It isn't too late to change this state of affairs. One option is to table the latest Iranian nuclear agreement and instead make clear to Tehran's theocrats that their aggressions won't be tolerated...Read More |
Nadia Abu El Haj is a professor of anthropology at Columbia University's Barnard College.
In 2002, she published "Facts on the Ground: Archaeological Practice and Territorial Self-Fashioning in Israeli Society." The book is meant to be a discussion of how Israel uses and misuses archaeology for its own political purposes.
But she asserts, in her own voice, something so shocking that it should disqualify her in her own field, in a section of her book that discusses Palestinian looting of Jewish artifacts at archaeological sites - something that is rampant. Looting could well be analyzed as a form of resistance to the Israeli state and an archaeological project, understood by many Palestinians, to stand at the very heart of Zionist historical claims to the land. In James Scott's words, looting is perhaps a "weapon of the weak" [1985].
Here we have an anthropologist who is praising Palestinian looting of Jewish heritage - because it is "resistance." (James Scott's book, called "Weapons of the Weak," does not talk about looting of archaeological sites, and indeed does not appear to discuss the permanent destruction or loss of any major items. Abu El Haj is twisting his thesis.) In Palestinian thought, any crime, including murder, is justifiable under the rubric of "resistance...Read More |
Tuesday is International Women's Day. And as usual, Palestinians are using it not to look at their own issues of misogyny and abuse, but as yet another excuse to attack Israel. Women in Gaza held a demonstration in front of the ICRC headquarters there ahead of the occasion, but their issues with spouse abuse took a significant back seat to the accusations that somehow Israel is treating Palestinian women badly. The women raised Palestinian flags, pictures of prisoners in the occupation prisons, and placards calling for an end to the Israeli attacks on the Palestinian people. Bisan Abu Jiyab, a feminist activist for Ma'an, said that the eighth of March comes in light of the repeated Israeli violations against female prisoners behind the occupation prisons. Abu Jiyab called on the international world to stand in front of its stances against the occupation policies practiced against the female prisoners and the daily policy of repression, blatant violation and denial of phone calls and family visits, and in light of the deliberate medical neglect of female prisoners. Buried later in the article is the grudging admission that, yeah, Palestinian women are beaten by their husbands, and the Palestinian leadership is not adhering to the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, but that is only a side issue. Female prisoners are the overarching human rights issue. Another...Read More |
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