| On Tisha B'Av, a story of how Jews infighting in the seventh century has worldwide implications, todaynoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 06 Aug 10:30 PM | | When Mohammed was starting his new religion, the Arabian peninsula had many Jewish tribes. A 2012 Aish article by Sarah Yocheved Rigler explains: According to Dr. Hagai Mazuz, an Orientalist specializing in Arabic language, Islam, and Islamic culture, "The Jewish community of northern Arabia was one of the largest ancient Jewish communities in the history of the Jewish people." They were powerful and wealthy. They were respected by the local Arabian tribes for their religion, culture, erudition, and literacy. They built castles on mountaintops and developed productive plantations. They had military prowess, horses, and advanced weaponry. And they were almost totally annihilated in the short span of a few years. The Jews of Medina were divided into three groups: The Banu Qaynuqa were blacksmiths, weapon wrights, and goldsmiths. The Banu Nadir had date plantations. The Banu QurayUa were wine merchants. These groups often quarreled. Sometimes the hostility among them broke out into actual fighting. When Mohammed fled from Mecca in 622, he went to Medina. At first, he entered into an alliance with the Jews. He studied in their study halls and adopted many of their customs into his incipient religion (e.g. not eating pork). But when, after two years, Mohammed could not convince the Jews to accept him as a prophet and convert to his religion, his attitude turned toward open hostility. He instructed his friends...Read More |
From Ian: David Horovitz: As Islamic Jihad sparks Gaza-Israel conflict, all eyes are on Hamas Israel did its utmost in the first hours of the conflict to stress that it was solely targeting PIJ assets, not those of Hamas. The IDF was engaged in "a targeted campaign against PIJ," spokesman Kochav said repeatedly in his TV interview, and military officials made the same point in media briefings. This contrasts sharply with previous Gaza escalations and potential escalations, when Israeli leaders have often stressed that no matter which terror group was attacking or threatening Israel, Hamas would be held responsible as Gaza's ruling force. Hamas asserted victory in the last major round of conflict, in May 2021, when its rocket fire toward Jerusalem against a background of growing tensions in and around the Old City triggered an 11-day confrontation. To its delight, the fighting helped foster deadly Arab-Jewish confrontations inside Israel, West Bank riots, and even minor cross-border fire from Lebanon and Syria. It also featured heavy Israeli airstrikes on the Strip, causing considerable damage to Hamas and its infrastructure — though nowhere near as much as Israel would have wanted. The question that will define the course of this new PIJ-prompted surge in violence is whether Hamas judges its interests to be best served by staying out or wading in. In brief Friday...Read More |
From Ian: Melanie Phillips: Bolting from the fight for civilisation This was a great achievement by the CIA and whatever other shadowy actors were involved in tracking down al Zawahiri and killing him. But by doing so, Biden exposed the terrible consequences of his action in abandoning Afghanistan. For al Zawahiri was killed in a house owned by the acting minister of the interior, Sirajuddin Haqqani, a powerful Taliban official whose Haqqani network played a key role in the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan. Al Zawahiri's hiding place, showing his cosy relationship with a top Taleban official, signified that once again al Qaeda is entrenched in Afghanistan. To this shattering revelation, the US Secretary of State Antony Blinken riposted that by hosting and sheltering Zawahiri, the Taliban had "grossly" violated the 2020 Doha Agreement. This stipulated that the US withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan was conditional on the Taliban's undertaking "not to co-operate with groups or individuals threatening the security of the United States and its allies", to "prevent them from recruiting, training, and fundraising" and not to " host them". Blinken's comment displayed an asinine and all-too revealing naivety. For this agreement was always worthless — as is any agreement made with manipulative, lying, cheating warlords, whether in Kabul or Tehran. As the former British army commander...Read More |
Every time a war breaks out in Gaza, the media gets it wrong. Spectacularly wrong.
I described many of them in 2021; here is an updated version of that post. A large percentage of Gaza rockets fall in Gaza, and many Gazans are killed because of them. I've documented this for years. I've shown how Hamas' own videos show rockets falling short. When a family is killed in Gaza, it is very rare that it is an IDF mistake. Most of the time it is because a terrorist operative is in the house - either because he is a member of the family, sometimes it seems because he is using them as human shields. Other times it is because of Hamas rockets falling short. Sometimes it is because the IDF targeted a legitimate target that had a larger cache of explosives than was thought and it caused far more collateral damage than expected. Hamas and Islamic Jihad hides the names of most of those killed. They do this...Read More |
From Ian: 'Pathetic and Unconvincing': Israel Rejects UN Investigator's Apology for 'Antisemitic' Remarks Israel called an apology by UN investigator Miloon Kothari "pathetic and unconvincing" and reiterated its demand to disband the inquiry commission on the 2021 Israel-Hamas conflict over his "antisemitic" remarks. "The hollow apology of commission of inquiry member Miloon Kothari is a pathetic and unconvincing maneuver, which doesn't compensate for the long record of anti-Israeli and antisemitic statements made by him and the other COI members," Israel's Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "In light of the antisemitic and anti-Israeli statements of the commissioners, and the fact that they do not meet the minimal standards of neutrality and impartiality required from individuals in these positions in the UN, Kothari and his colleagues must resign immediately." "If the UN is committed to fighting antisemitism and to upholding its values, this is the only reasonable and acceptable result," the ministry's statement read. Kothari, a member of the UN's International Commission of Inquiry (COI) expressed his "regret" on Thursday for using the words "Jewish lobby" when talking about its influence on social media. "It was completely wrong for me to describe the social media as 'being controlled largely by the Jewish lobby,' Kothari wrote...Read More |
Islamic Jihad is ecstatic this morning at the legitimacy given to it after a visit from a UN official to the house of its West Bank leader in Jenin. Jody Barrett, Chief Regional Affairs Unit of the UN Special Coordinator's Office in Jerusalem, visited the home of the family of the terrorist leader Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi in the Jenin camp this morning. Al-Saadi was arrested by Israeli security forces this past week. The delegation was received by family members, leading figures in Islamic Jihad, and Fatah figures. The media office of the Islamic Jihad stated in a press release after the visit: The United Nations delegate listened to the painful details of what happened to Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi at the hands of the occupation forces at the moment of his arrest, dragging and assaulting him and his family members in a brutal and barbaric manner. Mrs. Nawal Al-Saadi spoke about the details of this event and the moments of terror that they experienced at the moment of the storming. The United Nations representative, Jody Barrett, expressed her strong disapproval and sympathy with the family of Sheikh Bassam Al-Saadi, after hearing the details of the attack. As the leader of Islamic Jihad in the West Bank, al-Saadi was almost certainly responsible...Read More |
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Last week, one of the preachers at the Great Mosque in Mecca, Imam Saleh Bin Al-Humeid, gave an antisemitic sermon, calling for genocide of all Jews.
He said, "Oh Allah, bring annihilation upon the plundering and occupying Jews, for they are no match for You. Oh Allah, bring down upon them Your punishment, from which criminals cannot escape. Oh Allah, we make You our shield against them, and take refuge with You against their evil."
These sermons are televised and approved by the Saudi kingdom.
Popular Israeli expert on the Arab world Edy Cohen launched a one man campaign against Humeid, demanding that he be fired and that the Saudi government apologize for this clear incitement against world Jewry.
His campaign has been noticed and widely publicized in the Arab world - and the backlash has resulted in many major Islamic figures defending Humeid.
The Grand Mufti of the Sultanate of Oman, Ahmed bin Hamad Al Khalili, expressed his solidarity with Humeid on Thursday, saying his Jew-hatred "warmed our hearts."
The head of the Palestine Scholars Association, Nassim Yassin, used similar language, saying "Sheikh bin Hamid warmed our hearts with his support for our cause and our Palestinian...Read More
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