| Cowardly Islamic Jihad leaders care more about their own lives than that of ordinary Gazansnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown), 11 May 04:45 AM The head o | | The head of Islamic Jihad's "political wing," Dr. Muhammad al-Hindi, spoke to Gaza media of demands that his group has before any cease fire.
There was only one: "Stop targeting our leaders!"
He couched the demands in bravado, claiming that Islamic Jihad caused great damage to Israeli towns, but he didn't say Israel should stop bombing Gaza or anything like that.
These supposed brave warriors only want to save their own skins. Al-Hindi explained in an interview with the Al-Jazeera Mubasher channel, on Wednesday evening, that the ongoing negotiations between the mediators to stop the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip have failed due to the intransigence of the Israeli occupation in continuing the policy of assassination. He said, "One of the most important issues that thwarted the negotiations is that" Israel is procrastinating in making a commitment to stop the policy of assassinations "against the leaders of the Palestinian...Read More |
From Ian: Jonathan Tobin: Palestinians are addicted to an endless cycle of 'nakbas' The most important facts about the latest violence in the Middle East were the ones that were left out of The New York Times' sidebar explainer published in the wake of a series of Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip. "What Is Islamic Jihad and Why Is Israel Targeting It?" by correspondent Raja Abdulrahim did contain some pertinent facts. Among them were that Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ)—the second-largest Palestinian "armed group"—has an uneasy relationship with the much bigger Hamas, also based in the coastal enclave; and that both have been designated as terrorist organizations by the United States, and receive funding and arms from Iran. Yet Abdulrahim's explanation of the goal of Islamic Jihad was purposely vague. She left out the fact that it is an Islamist party that believes that the entire country—Israel and the territories—should be governed solely by Islamic law. Even more important, she wrote that it was created in the 1980s "to fight the Israeli occupation." To most Times readers and consumers of other corporate media outlets, that sounds like the organization wants to end Israel's "occupation" of Judea and Samaria (the "West Bank"), as well as Jerusalem. But for Palestinian Arabs, the phrase means something different. When members of PIJ, or for that matter, those affiliated with...Read More |
Einstein and fellow string quartet members meet in his Princeton home to practice for a Waldorf-Astoria benefit (December 15, 1933) to raise money for German-Jewish refugees.
Einstein didn't speak full sentences until he was five years
old, but by the time he was six, he had mastered the violin. And while we think
of Einstein as a scientist, he had two loves: science and music. So fond was he
of his violin that he took it with him when he traveled, and named it/her "Lina." "He
seized any opportunity to immerse himself in music, playing with fellow
scientists, people from his neighbourhood or anyone who offered him the chance.
He took part in public and private concerts, played the organ at synagogues and
on more than one occasion contributed with his music to raising funds for the
Zionist cause," wrote scientist and Einstein specialist
Moreno González: His favourite composers were Mozart, Bach, Schubert,
Vivaldi, Corelli and Scarlatti. He was not so keen on Beethoven, whom he
considered to be too dramatic and personal. He had varying opinions on other
composers, but the one he most opposed was Wagner, although he did appreciate
his contribution to the new forms of opera. After work he would relax, sometimes playing in the kitchen so as not to bother
the neighbours: "First I improvise and if that doesn't help, I seek
consolation...Read More |
Lebanese hotel that hosted the UN Palestine committee in1947
It isn't politically correct to point this out, but Palestinian Arabs and their supporters tend to exaggerate.
A lot.
Everything that happens to them is the worst injustice or tragedy or catastrophe in human history. Any other news story must be subsumed under or hijacked to their eternal victimhood.
The word "nakba" is a perfect example. It obviously was bad for 600,000 Palestinian Arabs to become suddenly stateless, but coming on the heels of World War II - when some 40-60 million people were displaced - this is a footnote.
The partition of India, the same year as the "nakba," displaced some 20 million people and resulted in the deaths of as many as 2 million people. Some 100,000 women were kidnapped or raped.
The "nakba" narrative was made up afterwards to make Palestinian suffering appear to be one of the worst human rights catastrophes in history, and the people who created that narrative were quite aware that this was not close to true.
But another example, which is quite comical, of Palestinian exaggeration for their suffering came in 1947, before their displacement.
Speaking on behalf of the Palestinian Arabs at a UN meeting in Lebanon in July 1947, Saudi Arabia delegate Fouad Hamza said, "Never in the history of human conflicts have any people or country suffered an injustice so grave as the injustice and calamities suffered by the Arabs of Palestine. "
The idea of a Jewish state existing - even a tiny...Read More |
From Ian: Netanyahu: We're ready for broader campaign, severe blows against Gaza Israel is ready to expand Operation Shield and Arrow to strike Gaza even harder, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday. Netanyahu made the remarks in a phone call with mayors of towns in Israel's south, as terrorists shot hundreds of rockets from Gaza to Israeli civilian centers, mostly in the South. "We're prepared for the possibility of broadening the campaign and for very severe blows, now and later as well," the prime minister said. "I think we will have the upper hand but we are in this battle and I appreciate your support and your standing strong," he added. As of Wednesday afternoon, defense sources' assessment was that the rockets came from Palestinian Islamic Jihad, such that Israel has not expanded its pool of targets to include Hamas. Israel sent messages to Hamas via Egypt on Tuesday that it should stay out of the fight or Israel will strike Hamas's leaders. Earlier Wednesday, the prime minister received updates from his military secretary Brig.-Gen. Avi Gil and held a security assessment at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv. Netanyahu briefed opposition leader Yair Lapid on the goals and details of Operation Shield and Arrow on Wednesday morning. Foreign Minister Eli Cohen held a video conference with over 100 foreign ambassadors and diplomats stationed in Israel to tell them about Operation Shield and...Read More |
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On Monday I showed that the website of the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine publishes virulently antisemitic articles, including claims that Jews slaughter children to harvest their blood for Jewish rituals.
Most Westerners would admit that this is clearly antisemitic and unacceptable.
But the blood libel is accepted as normal and even laudatory by leftist Westerners - as long as the PFLP and their pals apply a few tweaks.
Defence for Children International-Palestine has extensive links with the same terrorist, antisemitic PFLP. But they get funded by European foundations, so they have to be a little more sophisticated in their blood libels.
Instead of saying that Jews target and murder children, they say that Israel targets and murders children.
DCI-P issued a press release (so far, only in Arabic) about the Israeli airstrikes early Tuesday morning. They titled it, "Targeting and killing Palestinian children is a consistent policy of the Israeli occupation." And they make the same claim that they have made for years - that targeting children "is a consistent policy of the Israeli occupation authorities, and at the highest political and military level."
Not one word is written about the Islamic Jihad terrorists...Read More |
Yesterday, there was a somewhat cryptic press release from Bahrain's Crown Prince and prime minister: Manama, May 09 (BNA): Committed to the approach of His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, the great King of the Kingdom of Bahrain, may God preserve and protect him, in protecting our Islamic religion and its tolerant faith; His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and Prime Minister, may God protect him, ordered the Minister of Education to immediately stop any changes to educational curricula that are incompatible with our national values represented in protecting religion, not compromising its constants, and adhering to Islam as a creed, law and method, according to what was reported in the National Action Charter and the Constitution. An article about this announcement gives a hint as to the kinds of changes that are being stopped that the Education Ministry had approved. One was adding the name "Israel" to a map, one deleted a lesson about Jews, and a third added a discussion of the Abraham...Read More |
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