Another Pal. Pallywood Prevarication

Last Tuesday, I caught out our neighbors prevaricating about a supposed fire we set that destroyed Arab trees and crops.

It was all a lie.

And now they are doing it again, or at least, trying to do so.

Don't believe them.

They've published this:

UPDATED WITH VIDEO: 
13 year-old boy shot at by settlers, tortured by soldiers, denied medical attention

19th May 2013 | International Solidarity Movement, Team Nablus | Qaryut, Occupied Palestine

UPDATED: The 13-year-old Qaryut boy attacked by settlers on 16 May completed an operation on his lower leg and foot on Friday and has since been released to recover at home. He also provided a full account of his attack and the time he spent in an Israeli jeep untreated and tortured for information he neither had nor could speak of due to the pain from his untreated injury.

The boy said he was alone on his land near the illegal settlement of Eli when he was attacked. His friend was coming to join him when settlers began shooting at the boy. He ran, but fell from a big drop in the land, being on the mountainside. Settlers pursued him but he dragged himself on his stomach by some bushes. He was in great pain but kept quiet, afraid of settlers or soldiers finding him and continuing to attack him. After some time, his phone rang when his sister and friend called him. The soldiers then found and descended on him, threatening him with their guns while he lay, unable to move, on the ground.

Below is video [shot by B. Qaryoute] of the boy’s harassment when the Israeli soldiers found him; the video is taken in the village area down the mountain from the nearest illegal Eli settlement houses, in view of the land where the boy was attacked. He said that the soldiers and settlement security official (DCI) threatened to kill him.

No one from the village could come to the boy’s aid for risk of being shot at by the soldiers. Local Red Crescent representatives said that a man from the municipality was with the soldiers and was told that the boy would be treated in an Israeli ambulance and possibly taken to an Israeli hospital. However, as the Red Crescent, the boy’s family, solidarity activists and nearby villagers waited, watching the soldiers on top of the mountain for two to three hours, the boy was untreated and tortured by Israeli army officials for information. “They said I was trying to set fire to the land by the settlement; they said I was with three others and had a lighter and a firebomb,” the boy said. “They would twist my leg every ten minutes or so when I would not give them names [of those with whom he was accused of conspiring].” The boy said he was also beat for information.

The boy’s interrogators also told him they had pictures him, evidence against him, and that a soldier had seen him. “Why don’t you ask the soldier, then?” the boy said. Reportedly the response to this question was, “No, I want to ask you.”

Finally, the local Red Crescent brought an ambulance to the entrance of the illegal settlement where they were given the boy, untreated. The boy’s grandfather said that his grandson’s flesh near his ankle was open, his leg wobbly, and black flesh showed from the boy’s yet untreated injury. The Red Crescent immediately took the boy to the nearest hospital in Nablus: Rafedia hospital 30-45 minutes away. 
When solidarity activists saw the boy, his entire right leg was wrapped in a cast. Later he described that he was sitting on his land which is close to an illegal Israeli settlement bordering Qaryut and famous for attacks such as olive tree torching. Settlers shot at him and he ran from the shots. When he fell, the settlers beat him and were going to kill him, but soldiers arrived and told the settlers could not. Afterwards, the soldiers also shouted at the boy with guns pointed at him.
The boy may undergo surgery for his broken bones.
Just two days before this attack, Qaryut faced an olive tree torching attack from another nearby illegal Israeli settlement and the village has a history of well-documented settler attacks on its land.  In addition, Israeli military have closed a Qaryut road to Nablus and Ramallah for Palestinian use as the road is not far from illegal Israeli settlements on Qaryut land. Currently, 15 mostly young Qaryut men have been arrested for activism in peaceful demonstrations against the key road’s closure.

The simple truth is that that boy and his friend attempted to infiltrate the HaYovel neighborhood of Eli.

The alert system caused soldiers to begin scouting the area, which is not far from Qaryut.  Seeing that they were about to be discovered, they two fled.  One managed to escape while the other fell while descending the terraced hillside and severely fractured his leg.

He lay there for at least 20 minutes, undiscovered.

Once he was spotted, the first concern was that he had a bomb on his body and you can them approaching him with extreme caution.  His injury was not immediately apparent until the soldiers drew close.

They did not torture him. 

They did call an ambulance which, after a complicated extraction off the slope, transferred him to a Red Crescent ambulance with due haste.

All the rest is lies, fabrications.

Again,, the Pals. or the ISMers, perhaps, engaged in a Pallywood production.

Worse, as I suspect, they sent the kids off of a mission so they could film perhaps a real death and thus create a martyr.

These people are dangerous - dangerous to Arab children.

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Weaving for the Temple

Women are invited to Tel Shiloh this Wednesday for a workshop intriduction to weaving and a lecture on linen.

Natural cheeses on sale, too.

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The Kabbalah Kutie Sweatshirt

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Story.

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Take 7 And Watch This

The trailer for "Above and Beyond" on the Machal volunteers and the beginning of the Israel Air Force.

(Thanks to Eve)

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The UN Denies Itself

A PMW Bulletin claims, correctly, that we witness a

False claim by UNRWA in response to PMW report: Map without Israel that official posed with does not represent today but "pre-1948" Palestine

(The pictures broadcast on Palestinian Authority TV are here)

here

 



and they detail:

UNRWA spokesperson Christopher Gunness, responding on UNRWA's website, rejected PMW's report. He claimed that the map in question was not intended to reflect the present, but reflected the period before Israel was
established:

"...The map in question is an embroidery depicting a pre-1948 map and therefore ante-dates the creation of the state of Israel. The allegations are therefore completely false."
[UNRWA's website, May 14, 2013]

UNRWA spokesperson Gunness' justification that the map "depict[s] a pre-1948 map" is baseless, as the map includes the PLO-PA flag and not a British flag.

And they add a final note, that

Israel's representative to the UN Ron Prosor reacted to PMW's original report about the map, protesting to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a letter:

"The map identified 'Palestine' as the geographic area extending from the Mediterranean Sea to the Jordan River. The State of Israel was conspicuously absent. It doesn't take a PHD in Middle Eastern history or geography to realize that a map of the Middle East that doesn't include Israel is deeply and profoundly prejudiced."

I think the message could have been sharpened.

"Palestine", geo-politically, existed only under the British Mandate, awarded to it by the League of Nations.  There was never any defined "Palestine" previously in history.  Even under Ottoman Empire rule the borders altered and were never fixed in any international legal fashion.  Indeed, there never was a "state of Palestine", ever.  The only time the country was an independent state was when it was ruled by the Jews.

Under the terms of the Mandate, no Arab state was to be established.  Only a Jewish national home was the purpose of the Mandate.  Indeed, the territory of the Jewish national home, in its original configuration, was altered and some 75% of it was separated, Jewish settlement therein was banned, and eventually, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was created east of the Jordan River.

The map shown, therefore, is an ephemeral memory.

The November 29, 1947 UN-recommended partition, and there were previous maps of partition in 1937-1939, included much different borders of what was to be an "Arab state", but that proposal was rejected.  The Arabs have no claim to that map.

The map shown most definitely erases Israel, either today's Israel or the "Jewish state" that the UN itself suggested be established.

In other words, the UN today is denying the UN past and rewarding Arab rejectionism, terror and denial of Jewish nationalism.

Either Gunness is:

(a) ignorant;

(b) lying;

(c) acting on behalf of Arab propaganda;

(d) or all of the above.

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One-Dimensional Media

A promotion ad for Delo, a news portal in the Ukraine:-

Yikes!

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Come Hear Qanta Ahmed

I will be greeting Professor Qanta Ahmed

author of In the Land of Invisible Women: A Female Doctor's Journey in the Saudi Kingdom who will be speaking at the Begin Center symposium on

Radicalization and Purging of Minorities in the Middle East: How Should the West Respond?

Response: Dr. Michael Widlanski, Bar-Ilan University
Arab affairs expert and author of "Battle for Our Minds: Western Elites and The Terror Threat"

Wednesday, May 22, 2013 20:00 (light refreshments at 19:30)

Greetings:
Yisrael Medad – Menachem Begin Heritage Center
Alan Schneider, Director, B'nai B'rith World Center – Jerusalem
Rev. Dr. Petra Heldt, Director, Ecumenical Theological Research Fraternity Jerusalem

RSVP: Tel. 02-6251743

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Bicycle Around Shiloh

On Friday, 400 bicyclists inaugurated a new terrain bicycle track around Shiloh:

Avital Sela

 Yoav Lavi





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Mixing Fashion and Politics - Another Graphic Zionsim Post

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What A Little Access Can Do

First,

Dozens of Palestinians in Jerusalem protested Friday after Israel granted access to right-wingers at the al-Aqsa compound.

Protesters raised Palestinian flags and chanted for the protection of al-Aqsa in a rally in the Old City. 

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Then, 

Clashes broke overnight Friday between young Palestinian men and Israeli forces in Jerusalem's Old City.

Palestinian protesters threw stones and fireworks at Israeli forces in the neighborhoods of Hatta Gate, the Council Gate and al-Wad street. They also blocked roads with rocks and garbage skips, witnesses told Ma'an.

To remind you:

The Jerusalem District Police closed the Temple Mount to Jewish and other non-Muslim visitors on Thursday morning.  The Joint Association of Temple Organizations had organized a 9 a.m. visit to the site for approximately 100 children. However, police decided to close the site to non-Muslim visitors, citing a concern that the visit would provoke riots by Muslim worshipers.

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Eating Your Heart Out

We all read the heart-rendering news:

A graphic video allegedly showing a Syrian rebel cutting open a pro-government fighter’s chest and biting into one of his internal organs sparked outrage Tuesday, reviving concerns about the makeup of opposition forces even as the United States warned that it is ready to bolster its support for them...a man identified as a rebel commander [Khaled al-Hamad, nicknamed Abu Sakkar, a commander of the Omar al-Farouq Brigade] bends over a body and cuts open the chest with a knife before standing to face the camera with an organ in each hand. “I swear to God, we will eat your hearts and your livers, you soldiers of Bashar the dog,” he declares, before lifting the flesh to his mouth and biting it, to shouts of “God is great!”

The act was condemned:

Human Rights Watch and the Syrian opposition National Coalition have condemned a gruesome video apparently showing a Syrian rebel fighter cutting out the heart of a regime soldier and eating it...“The Syrian Coalition strongly condemns this act - if it is revealed to be true. The Coalition stresses that such an act contradicts the morals of the Syrian people, as well as the values and principles of the Free Syrian Army.” Human Rights Watch said the man depicted in the video appeared to be from a rebel brigade in central Homs province that fired indiscriminately at Lebanese villages earlier this year.

Eating an organ?

Now, where did I hear about that previously?

I remembered a movie I saw years ago on an Arab TV station and looked for a scene that

Here:

During the Battle of Uhud, Mūsá ibn ‘Uqbah narrated that Wahshi gouged out the liver of Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib and took it to Hind bint ‘Utbah and she spat it out...She is claimed to have been the one responsible for inciting Wahshy ibn Harb to murder Muhammad's uncle Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib, who was claimed responsible for the death of her father and brother, and she offered Wahshi his freedom and her jewelry in return if he managed to murder Hamza and bring back his heart to her.

    Wahshi eventually did so by hiding behind a tree and striking Hamza with a spear which left him dead; Wahshi then split open Hamza's belly and took out his raw heart and brought it back to Hind as promised. Hind was claimed to have tasted the raw heart as a prominent sign of revenge, but was said to have not relished it and immediately spat it out.

    One of the earliest chronicles of Islamic history, Ibn Ishaq's Sirah Rasul Allah, a life of Muhammad, says that Hind accompanied the Meccan forces that went to besiege the Muslims in Medina. At the Battle of Uhud, Hind and her women sang and danced, urging on their warriors. The Muslims were forced to flee and, according to Ibn Ishaq, Hind and the others mutilated the Muslim corpses, making garlands of ears and noses.

    According to Ibn Ishaq, after the battle, Hind cut open the body of Muhammad's uncle Hamza, whom she believed responsible for the death of her relatives, cut out his heart, and gnawed on it. According to Ibn Ishaq, she couldn't swallow it and spat it out. Ibn ‘Abdu l-Barr states in his book "al-Istī‘āb" that she cooked Hamza's heart before eating it. This report has been widely copied by Muslim historians.

Another description:

At the end of the battle when the disbelievers won Muslims, Hind committed a very repugnant act. She began maiming the corpses of Muslims one by one. She was cutting ears and noses. She approached Hamzah ibn `Andil-Muttalib and split open his interior, she pulled out his liver and, out of rancor, she masticated it, but she spit it out as it tasted unpleasant to her...she prompted people of Mecca to kill her husband as he acted submissively to the prophet...[later] the prophet paid attention and said: is it you Hind bint `Utbah?! She replied: yes, it is me, Hind. forgive me! May Allah forgive you!...the prophet pardoned her and gave no word reflecting his depression, rather; he waived all his rights and simply accepted her Islam and went on paying homage to women as if not depressed at all!!...Hind acted very well after embracing Islam.  She began going out with the Muslim armies prompting them on fighting, exactly as she used to do with the disbeliever armies. In this connection, she was a factor of victory of Muslims over 200 thousands of Romans in the Battle of Yarmuk.  Hind bint `Utbah made many advantages to the Muslim nation by virtue of the wonderful attitude of the prophet Muhammad towards her.

Who was that lady?

Hind bint ‘Utbah was the wife of Abu Sufyan ibn Harb of Mecca and was the mother of Muawiyah I, the founder of the Umayyad dynasty, and of Ramlah bint Abi Sufyan, who was one of Muhammad's wives.  And, yes, she is infamous for her exultation at the defeat of the Muslims at the Battle of Uhud when she ate the liver of Muhammad's slain uncle Hamza ibn ‘Abd al-Muttalib.


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I've Been Included

My wife has included a post of mine in her
 Jewish Blog Round Up, Let's Link Up Together

I am honored.

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Do You Oppose The Death Penalty?

If so, what have you do or what are you doing or what will you do about this, as reported by the UN's OCHA Protection of Civilians Weekly Report | 7 - 13 May 2013 :

On 9 May, a military court in Gaza sentenced a 48 year-old civilian man to death by hanging, allegedly for collaborating with what the court described as a “hostile element”.  According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, this is the second death sentence to be issued since the beginning of 2013, bringing the total number of death sentences issued since the establishment of the Palestinian Authority in 1994 to 134. These include 107 sentences issued in Gaza and 27 in the West Bank; 46 of these death sentences have been issued since 2007, following the Hamas takeover of the Gaza Strip. 

In total, 27 have been executed, including 25 in the Gaza Strip (14 without the required Palestinian presidential ratification) and two in the West Bank.

Let me know, please.

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There Sit the Muslims; There Go the Jews

The reality on the Temple Mount:

The Muslims sit, try to restrict movement and limit access by taking up space, engage in study of Islamic literary sources (what they call "terrace sciences") and are on call to provoke, claiming faking insult or injury, shout, yell, push, shove and eventually throw chairs, stones and any other moveable object including firebombs.

Here:

And the Jews?

They walk in, cannot pray, cannot recite Psalms or Lamentations, are accompanied by police and Waqf officials and those who are observant, have to stay away from certain areas, mainly the raised platform section:

The story report of yesterday included this:

32 settlers and hundreds of foreign tourists broke into and desecrated the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the morning, amid tight security by Israeli police.

In contrast...hundreds of students of the "terraces science" and the children inside Palestine and Jerusalem congregated and came to reinforce Aqsa...and raised magnified voices during the presence of intruders.

In Al-Aqsa Mosque prevailed a state of caution and anticipation, especially in light of the invitations of the Temple Mount organizations to revive the so-called "children in celebration of the Temple Mount," on the occasion of the conclusion of the so-called Eid "Albwakir" [Shavu'ot].

This is a situation of pre-planned with malice aforethought incitement and truth perversion as regards the historical narrative, the law and natural justice.

But we're working on setting it all right.

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Reconfirmation of Worth of Polls

From Dr. Lerner, as I have stressed here over the years (here's 2007), on what the polls taken here on peace, negotiations, Jewish communities in YESHA and security, what I term the Great Dichotomy or just plain schizophrenia:

So Israelis would like talks, don’t think they will bring peace and don’t expect them to take place and don’t think that talking with the Palestinians should be a priority for the government and for the most part aren’t particularly concerned about the security situation despite the expect continued absence of either negotiations or of a deal with the Palestinians.

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Hamas: No "Two-State Solution"

As relayed:

Khaled Mashaal, head of the political bureau of Hamas movement, confirmed his movement’s adherence to resistance in confronting the occupation and liberating Palestine.

Khaled Meshaal said [ina Foreign Policy interview*] that Hamas will continue the armed struggle as an option to liberate the land, while Fatah movement has chosen to continue its diplomatic efforts.

Meshaal renewed Hamas’s rejection of a two-state solution, stressing that his movement is not against the Israelis because they hold a different belief, but it struggles against the occupation of its land.

“Palestinians are suffering from the settlement. They are suffering in the detention camps and in the prisons of the occupation,” Meshaal said “[We aim] to stop the suffering of our people in Jerusalem as they are suffering from the judaization of the city … We want real peace that would regain the rights of our people.”

The Palestinian leader has also criticized the visit of U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, saying that “Kerry does not have a new project for peace.”

“Kerry does not have a serious project or vision. The international community should focus on the real problem here, which is that Israel occupies the land and commits most brutal kinds of murders.”

The interview, incidentally, was headlined:

'We Are Not Fanatic Killers'

And also had this:

Describing his agenda for his new four-year term at the head of Hamas, Meshaal emphasized one issue above all others: The need to end what he described as the "occupation" of the Palestinian people's land, and the "atrocities" being committed against them by Israel.

"[Palestinians] are suffering from the settlements, they are suffering in the detention camps and the prisons of the occupation," Meshaal said. "[We aim] to stop the suffering of our people in Jerusalem, as they are suffering from the Judaization of the city... We want a real peace that would regain the rights for our people."

Don't be fooled.  Those "rights" are no rights for Jews.

Hamas is a military organization employing terror.

Read all about it.

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A Double Mazal Tov

Mazal Tov to Geula Even and Gideon Sa'ar on their wedding last night.

And what appears to me an upcoming birth:

Geula is an IBA TV show host and interviewer.

Gideon is Minister of the Interior.



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Hadar Cohen snapped the picture.

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So, J Street Really is Pro-Israel, Just Not Kosher

Adam Kredo claims that J Street, in hosting a dinner at a Chinese restaurant on Jewish holy day, committed a

A Shavuot Faux Pas

and that 

Jewish Democrats are upset with the liberal fringe group

The essence:

J Street, a far left advocacy group that bills itself as “pro-Israel” and was founded by Jewish Democrats, is scheduled to hold a dinner discussion tonight with members of Congress at the Hunan Dynasty Chinese restaurant in Washington, D.C., according to a copy of the invitation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

The event is taking place during the Jewish holiday of Shavuot, which began Tuesday evening and commemorates the biblical day in which God is believed to have given the Jewish prophet Moses the Torah.

...The Chinese food dinner is scheduled to run from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Capitol Hill’s Hunan Dynasty restaurant Wednesday. The holiday ends Thursday at sunset...Lawmakers attending the event are invited to talk about a recent trip to Israel they attended with J Street.

“The objective of the dinner is to share and discuss the insights of Members who participated in the mission [to Israel]—from thoughts on recent developments in the region to perspectives on advancing U.S. diplomatic leadership toward a two-state solution,” reads the invitation, which is signed by J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami...Members attending the event will be able to discuss the Jewish state as they eat steamed meat dumplings, Imperial Shrimp, or Yaki Soba, a sautéed Japanese noodle dish, according to the restaurant’s menu. Adventurous eaters can enjoy squid or octopus.

Okay, the non-kosher bit is really stupid but let's be generous with J Street, in the holiday spirit.

They are so pro-Israel, that they decided to transfer the Israeli custom of keeping but one day of the festival, unlike Diaspora communities onlifated to keep two.

How's that?

Er, what time did the holiday go out?

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Are You Sure This is The Solution?

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Has He Lost Direction?

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All You Have to Do is Threaten Violence

For the Muslims, it's simple: threaten violence.  

Provoke violence.

Scream and yell, and throw chairs and chant.

And what happens?

The police capitulate.

And the courts declare, "it's too sensitive a matter for the law".

Continuing the banning of the children -

AFP:-

Israel limits non-Muslim visits to Jerusalem mosque

JERUSALEM — Jerusalem police closed the flashpoint Al-Aqsa mosque compound to non-Muslim visitors on Thursday, in what they said was an effort to avoid a repetition of recent Palestinian unrest.

The decision followed disturbances on Wednesday...

"A decision was taken after the past 24 to 48 hours of incidents...and measures have been taken to prevent incidents on the Temple Mount," police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld told AFP, using the Jewish term for the compound in the walled Old City, which houses the Dome of the Rock and Al-Aqsa mosques.

...Rosenfeld said that there had been no reported disturbance there on Thursday and the limitation of visitors was a preemptive move which would be reviewed later in the day.

"At the moment it's quiet and we want it to continue to be quiet," he said.

Clearer at JTA:-

Israel Police barred Israeli Jews and tourists from the Temple Mount following threats of Muslim violence

The ban on Thursday came a day after violence between a group of Orthodox Jews and Muslim worshippers on the Temple Mount. The group was prevented from entering the Temple Mount.

The Thursday ban came after Muslim groups threatened to protest the visit of Jewish children to the Temple Mount as part of an educational program to study Temple rituals, including the Shavuot holiday ritual of bringing first fruits to the Temple.

Hundreds of Jews visited the Temple Mount on Wednesday, the holiday of Shavuot, though thousands attempted to gain entrance, according to Arutz-7.

Jews generally are not permitted to pray or bring any ritual objects to the Temple Mount, which is considered Judaism’s holiest site, in order to avoid confrontation with Muslim worshipers at the Al-Aksa Mosque, Islam’s third holiest site. The site is overseen by the Muslim Wakf, the Muslim religious administration charged with managing the Temple Mount site.

There was no "violence between Jews and Muslims".

There were violent attacks by Muslims against Jews and attempts to deny Jews basic civil liberties.

Sorry.  To "preempt" their freedoms of access and worship.

Actually, a few Jews did enter early in the day:

Pictures from the Bikkurim (First Fruits) re-enactment at the Little Kotel near the Iron Gate:

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More Graphic Zionism

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Peace Now's Slapping Israel Around

From this report:

In a reply to a Supreme Court petition by the Israeli anti-settlement group Peace Now, the government said it had taken steps in recent weeks to authorize retroactively four West Bank outposts built without official permission.
"The intention to legalize outposts as new settlements is no less than a slap in the face of Secretary Kerry's new process and is blatant reassurance to settler interests," Peace Now said in a statement.

...Last week, Peace Now and Israeli media reports said Netanyahu has been quietly curbing some settlement activity by freezing tenders for new housing projects, in an apparent effort to help the U.S. drive to renew peace talks.

a) the Oslo Accords do not deny Israel the privilege of continuing the construction of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.  Indeed, "settlements" are not a cause of the conflict.

b) if the court is satisfied legalities are in order, Peace Now is judicially wrong.

and note this headline:

 Israel to 'legalise' wildcat settler outposts: NGO

the outposts are not strictly "illegal" but rather unauthorized as a result of bureaucratic and political considerations, in the main.

c) if a "slap in the face" is problematic, Peace Now has been slapping Israel around for three decades, ever weakening its public diplomacy.

d) even if a "Palestinian state" be established, Heavens forbid, the idea that Jews cannot live there and build homes there is morally abhorrent - I'd call it apartheid - and illegal.

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Inspired by the Women of the Wall

Inspired by Women of the Wall, a new organization is launching to advocate gender equality in Jewish public ritual life. Men of the Mikvah will go to local mikvaot around the country each month to be balaniot. It's time for a more, um, supportive balanit.
 

No, no mikveh life guard positions are open.

As yet.

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The Children's Ascent to Temple Mount Thwarted

Following up on my earlier report, some 100 children who planned to tour the Temple Mount this morning were denied entrance.  Police closed the Mount to all non-Muslims.

Pictures:

And now the JPost report:

Jerusalem Police on Thursday closed the Temple Mount to visitors due to the sensitivity created in recent days.

The police stated that they would act forcefully against any party who violates the order.

More.

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UPDATE

From Jordan, on:

 

threats by extremist settlers to storm the mosque, according to Palestinian sources.  The settlers want to storm the mosque in order to organise what they are calling a pilgrimage for their youths.

The sources added that small groups of Israeli settlers moved into Al-Aqsa compound from "Bab Al Maghariba" (Maghariba Gate), protected by Israeli special police. Furthermore, the Israeli troops stationed at the outer gates of Al-Aqsa compound are scrutinizing Palestinian worshippers’ ID cards in an attempt to hinder them from entering the compound.

Meanwhile, the extremist Jewish rabbi, Yisrael Ariel, stormed Al-Aqsa mosque earlier in the day, along with a group of Jewish extremists from Kiryat Arba – a settlement on the outskirts of Hebron.

Rabbi Ariel was escorted by the Israeli police during his tour of Al-Aqsa compound.

Earlier, the rabbi had announced that he would storm Al-Aqsa Mosque to mark what they call the "Torah Revelation".

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Another Temple Mount Photoshop

BREAKING UPDATE

The Temple Mount was closed this morning

to all non-Muslims on order from the

Jerusalem Police Chief and we can only surmise

that the Muslim threats worked.

 

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Following up on this post, this photoshopped postcard was first produced around 1978:

Let's not forget this:

the second bloody massacre of Jews by the Arabs took place, in 1929. The story put about that the Jews planned to tear down the Mosque of Omar, and to rebuild the Temple on the site – a tactic that has been used to arouse the Arabs to this day.
 

elaborated:

 
Zionist literature published throughout the world used the imagery of a domed structure on the Temple Mount to symbolize their national aspirations. Zionists had appropriated an Islamic minaret from the Ottoman period on the old city wall as a symbol for their propaganda. A Zionist flag was depicted atop of a building very reminiscent of the Dome of the Rock in one publication, which was later picked up and redistributed by Arab propagandists.

see here

 

Haj Amin al Husseini, the Mufti of Jerusalem distributed leaflets to Arabs in Palestine and throughout the Arab world which claimed that the Jews were planning to take over the al-Aqsa Mosque. The leaflet stated that the Government was "responsible for any consequences of any measures which the Moslems may adopt for the purpose of defending the holy Burak themselves in the event of the failure of the Government…to prevent any such intrusion on the part of the Jews." A memorandum issued by the Moslem Supreme Council stated, "Having realized by bitter experience the unlimited greedy aspirations of the Jews in this respect, Moslems believe that the Jews’ aim is to take possession of the Mosque of Al-Aqsa gradually on the pretence that it is the Temple", and it advised the Jews "to stop this hostile propaganda which will naturally engender a parallel action in the whole Moslem world, the responsibility for which will rest with the Jews".

 

There is this testimony, too, from the book "Days of our Years" by Pierre van Paassen (Hillman-Curl Inc, 1939), page 360:

Upon receipt of Mr. Vincent Sheean's dispatch from Jerusalem, wherein a minor disturbance at the Wailing Wall was attributed to the provocative attitude of young "Jewish Fascists," the publisher of my paper, no doubt perturbed by the storm of indignation the story produced in American Jewish circles, instructed me to proceed posthaste from Paris to Palestine and investigate. The New York Jewish community, which had for years been thoroughly informed on day-by-day events in the Holy Land by a corps of resident correspondents representing the three great Yiddish dailies, unanimously rejected Mr. Sheean's interpretation that a parade by a troop of Jewish boy scouts in the vicinity of the Wailing Wall had been responsible for the outbreak of the disturbances. That incident, these journals argued (and they were subsequently proved correct), had been a mere subterfuge on which the Arabs had seized to bring their long-smoldering revolt to a head. In fact, no person even superficially acquainted with Jewish aims in the Holy Land and with the eminently humane record the Jews had established in their dealings with the Arabs, could possibly believe that the Palestinian Jews in one moment deliberately destroyed what they had striven for long years to establish: a close collaboration with the Arab population as the sole basis for a successful restoration of the Jewish land.

Those who remembered what had happened eight years earlier realized at once that the party of Arab landlords, headed by the Mufti of Jerusalem who had been sentenced to ten years of labor in 1921 for incitement to riot and soon thereafter amnestied by a Jewish High Commissioner, had returned to the attack. The flag-waving incident at the Wall had been as good a device as any to throw sand in the eyes of public opinion. Clever propagandists easily - and did - magnify this intrinsically insignificant demonstration on the part of children into a challenge of Jewish chauvinists. The Mufti had carefully prepared the stage for what was to follow: early in the upheaval of 1929, foreign public opinion was provided with a false premise on which to judge later developments.

And contemporary fanaticism:

A senior Palestinian official called for protecting Al-Aqsa Mosque from a “new Nakba” threatening it due to the occupation practices that aim to impose Jewish control over it in preparation to demolish it and build the alleged temple on its ruins.

Yousef Edais, head of the Supreme Council of the Islamic courts in Palestine, called on the residents of Jerusalem and the 1948-occupied territories to intensify their presence in Al-Aqsa Mosque, in order to confront the repeated raids into its courtyards by the settlers and the extremist Jewish groups.

Edais said in a statement on Wednesday that Al-Aqsa Mosque has been witnessing daily raids by Jewish groups under the protection of the Israeli police, warning of attempts to divide it as they did in the Ibrahimi Mosque. He warned of a scheme made by settlers’ leaders and senior Jewish rabbis to divide Al-Aqsa; stressing that it is a purely Islamic endowment and that the Jews have no right in it.

They have no bounds.

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This Is NOT An Islamophobic Post

This Is NOT An Islamophobic Post.

It's just funny.

Mohammed Ahmed, a 21-year-old of Illonois, was arrested in Florida.

He

...answered an online ad posted by an undercover detective posing as a hooker...Ahmed was arrested when he arrived for his paid liaison.  Ahmed, an Illinois resident, was in the Sunshine State on his honeymoon when busted for soliciting prostitution and pot possession.  When Ahmed did not return to his bride at the Omni Hotel, she called police to report him missing. The woman was subsequently told by cops that her husband was not MIA, that he had been arrested - for seeking to pay for sex from a hooker while he was celebrating his nuptials.

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A Basic Problem

From this article:

The basic problem is that, for the last two generations, it has been Palestinian policy to teach their children, and anyone that will listen to these Arab language screeds that Israel has no right to exist. The kids get indoctrinated with anti-Semitic propaganda at a young age and as adults they continue to be bombarded by anti-Semitic propaganda. Thus most Palestinians (unless they were educated outside of the Middle East) take it for granted that any peace deal with Israel is just a tactical move in the effort to eventually destroy Israel and drive all Jews from the Middle East. People outside the Middle East have a hard time comprehending this attitude...

...Palestinian attitudes towards the non-existence of Israel goes beyond teaching their kids that Israel doesn’t even exist. The children are taught that what the rest of the world calls Israel is really just a bunch of Zionists illegally occupying Arab land. While Arabs love to call Israelis "Nazis", it is the Arab world that is the true heir to the Adolph Hitler's vision of how the world should be. A major weapon in the Palestinian arsenal is anti-Semitism...

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This Will Drive the Muslims Wild

What a little photoshopping will do - stay tuned.

The actual photo provided so that you can see it was faked, despite proble Waqf insistence that it's real:

Oh, and these two gentlemen, despite the beard and yarmulke, are Muslim:

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Dr. Michael Rosenak z"l

My instructor in Jewish religious and Zionist thought and philosophy during my year in Israel 1966-1967 at the Machon L'Madrichei Chutz La'Aretz, Michael Rosenak, has passed away at the age of 81.

He was brilliant, challenging and a friend to us upcoming leaders of youth movements.

Professor Rosenak was on the founding team who established the Mandel Jerusalem Fellows in 1981 and was a central driving force in the formation of the unique educational ethos of the Fellows Program. 

He was a member of HaShomer HaDati and made Aliyah in 1958.

His six points that "lay foundations for a comprehensive religious Jewish education" are knesset Yisrael (the community of Israel), adam (existence), bnai Noach (humanity), hod (problem-solving), chochmat lev and hiddur (beauty), and da'at (understanding).

On the Machon program, his introspections into Franz Rosensweig were riveting. 

And I thank him for tolerating my Betar outlook.

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After the Jordan Butt-in, Egypt's Turn

After Jordan butting-in on the matter of the Temple Mount*, it's Egypt's turn.

This week, the Egyptian Ambassador to Palestine Yasser Othman paid an inspection visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque, 

during which he was briefed on the recent Israeli practices against the mosque, especially the escalation of daily incursions into him, and repressive measures against the worshipers and terraces of science students and insulting the Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Hussein by his arrest.

Among those conferring with him were the Mufti of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Shaykh Muhammad Hussein, Sheikh Abdel Azim Salhab Chairman of the Islamic Waqf, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah, a member of the Revolutionary Council of Fatah, and Joseph Mukhaimar, Abdullah Siam deputy governor of Jerusalem and Amer Abu Sham.

Ambassador Osman said that

Egypt has stood and stands all the time with the legitimate national rights of the brotherly Palestinian people, and his today come commissioned by the Egyptian leadership, to emphasize on this matter and to send a message rejection of the unilateral measures taken by the Israeli side...the position of Al-Azhar also was clear about the encroachment of Israeli-Aqsa Mosque, and that Al-Azhar also has warned of sharing temporal and spatial Al-Aqsa Mosque, warning of growing extremism in the Israeli side, according to what was produced by the recent Israeli elections...noting that the Israeli actions last in the Al-Aqsa Mosque was unprecedented and violent against worshipers and students terraces science.The Mufti warned the Israeli government of the consequences of doing these procedures legislation, which aims to initiate the application sharing time at the Al Aqsa Mosque as a prelude to the split, and perhaps unlock racist extremist ideas which demands remove it.

To remind you: Egypt is run by the Muslim Brotherhood, partners with Hamas.


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Found:-
 

The official Jordanian news agency has reported that Jordan's ambassador in Israel is conducting intensive negotiations with the Israeli foreign ministry and Prime Minister's Office in an attempt to immediately halt "the entrance of extremist Jews into the Temple Mount area.   According to the report he claimed that the Israeli government "is responsible for preventing the systematic attack on holy sites.

Here:

- Jordan's Ambassador to Israel, Walid Obeidat, has called for an immediate end to the entry of Jewish extremists into Al Haram Al Sharif compound in occupied Jerusalem.

Obeidat, who made intensive contacts with the Israeli Foreign Ministry and the prime minister’s office, under the directives of Minister for Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Affairs Nasser Judeh, said Israel, as the occupying power in Jerusalem, should stop the regular attacks against the holy sites in Jerusalem.

Such acts, he added, violate international resolutions and charters, undermine efforts to achieve peace in the region and provoke anger among Arabs and Muslims around the world.

And more.


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