60 Minutes Report on Torture In Iran

While the world gathered to ostracize Israel on false and warped claims in Durban II -- here’s just one example of hundreds of millions of real cases of true evil and abhorrent human rights violations that are overlooked regularly and daily by the mainstream media

Ahmad Batebi tells CNN's Anderson Cooper, in his 1st U.S. television interview how he was tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison and how he managed to escape.

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Cleric on Egyptian TV calls for Boycott of Starbucks Because Logo has Queen Esther in it

This is actually a news item that poignantly and befittingly came out around Purim time this year.

Sadly many politically correct left wing Israelis misguidingly find Purim too war mongering for their tastes -- as the Jews at the end of the biblical story actually get to defend themselves from their enemies, which they end up, killing and defeating. Regardless of the sophomoric skewing of both the story and its historical context, which is an obvious allegory to a scenario that sadly repeated itself through out Jewish history countless times from the Greeks and Romans through the Crusaders, middle-ages and up to and including modern times, where Jews did not actually have the opportunity to defend themselves -- it would serve these and other PC moonbats worldwide to catch this news worthy item about the dangerous dim-wittedness of "modern" Islamic culture in so called "moderate" countries like Egypt.

If should be duly noted that Egypt is not a free country nor free society, and as such lacks free speech -- so that if this anti-semetic mind boggling idiocy was on Egyptian TV its because it was not just allowed to be on -- but in fact had the full backing of the authorities.

A quintessential depiction of the nature of Israel’s struggle against Arab terrorist and guerrilla forces

A sad but true quintessential depiction of the nature of Israel’s struggle against Arab terrorist and guerrilla forces

Hamas takes pride in using women and children as human shields in fighting Israel

From Palestinian Media Watch:

A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council, takes pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shield in fighting Israel. He describes it as part of the "Death Industry" at which they excel, and explains that the Palestinians "desire death" the same way Israelis "desire life".

The following is the full text:

For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters againset the Zionist bombing machine, as they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire Life.

Hamas is committing three war crimes

Alan Dershowitz poignantly stated the obvious in an op-ed he wrote today for the WSJ titled: Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate' Hamas are the real war criminals in this conflict

Until the world recognizes that Hamas is committing three war crimes -- targeting Israeli civilians, using Palestinian civilians as human shields, and seeking the destruction of a member state of the United Nations -- and that Israel is acting in self-defense and out of military necessity, the conflict will continue.

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In a recent incident related to me by the former head of the Israeli air force, Israeli intelligence learned that a family's house in Gaza was being used to manufacture rockets. The Israeli military gave the residents 30 minutes to leave. Instead, the owner called Hamas, which sent mothers carrying babies to the house.

Hamas knew that Israel would never fire at a home with civilians in it. They also knew that if Israeli authorities did not learn there were civilians in the house and fired on it, Hamas would win a public relations victory by displaying the dead. Israel held its fire. The Hamas rockets that were protected by the human shields were then used against Israeli civilians.

These despicable tactics -- targeting Israeli civilians while hiding behind Palestinian civilians -- can only work against moral democracies that care deeply about minimizing civilian casualties. They never work against amoral nations such as Russia, whose military has few inhibitions against killing civilians among whom enemy combatants are hiding.
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See the full op-ed on the WSJ website:
Israel's Policy Is Perfectly 'Proportionate' Hamas are the real war criminals in this conflict

Mr. Dershowitz is a law professor at Harvard. His latest book is "The Case Against Israel's Enemies" (Wiley, 2008).

Israel's answer to the "Obama Girl" youtube video clip: "The Livni Boy"

And here’s another one in a slightly different vain--a real LOL campy take-off of the original Obama Girl, with all the sexy trappings (Israeli style) for some young Likud MK candidate

Syria's genocidal intentions

From the Washington Times

Syria, like Iran, makes no secret of its genocidal intentions toward Israel. Both actively support a number of major terrorist groups. Syria maintains especially important links to Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the PFLP-GC and Hezbollah - which is an Iranian proxy.

Syria cannot afford to detach itself from Iran because Tehran provides the minority Allawi regime with protection against the Sunni majority in Syria. Also, Syria's dominant position in Lebanon is contingent on Hezbollah.

Tel Aviv Celebrates 10th Anniversary of Gay Pride Parade

Tel Aviv adorned it’s main boulevards this past week with rainbow colored flags as revelers of all persuasions streamed along the main route of the city’s 10th annual gay pride parade that converged at Gordon Beach, one of the city’s central beach fronts, for a free outdoor concert. As usual for this annual parade, gays and lesbians weren’t the only ones out celebrating. Tel Avivans of all ages and statuses were out embracing the event, the community, and the festivities. All of which made for a colorful love fest of freedom of expression in a city that enjoys celebrating its unbridled spirit, diversity and a good beach party.

It should be duly noted that in stark contrast, homosexuality is a crime under the Palestinian Authority, where Gay’s are persecuted and sent to jail. Similarly in Egypt gay men can be sentenced anywhere from 3 and up to 25 years for homosexuality. And in general, the status of gays and lesbians in the Arab and Muslim world is for the most part a dire one.

Some photos I snapped at the event:

Click on any photo for a larger view. The entire album can be viewed here

Some more photos from other people can be found on Flickr by clicking here and here -- don't miss the Israeli soldier girl with a rainbow flag in her shirt pocket

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit record high in 2007

Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit record high in 2007, Ha'aretz, 03/06/2008
By Rhonda Spivak

WINNIPEG - Anti-Semitic incidents in Canada hit a record high in 2007, according to a recently released report by the League of Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada.

The group recorded 1,042 anti-Semitic incidents in Canada in 2007, up 11.4% since 2006. A 59.1% increase was noted on Canadian college and university campuses.

In Montreal, anti-Semitic incidents increased 16 percent from 2006 to 2007, and regional Quebec showed a significant increase of 282 percent from the previous year.
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The study also showed that over the past 10 years anti-Semitic incidents have jumped 400 percent in Canada.

Nearly 30 percent of all incidents in 2007 were attributed to internet activity. Of these, nearly one-third involved threatening or harassing communications.

Synagogues were targeted in 22 incidents, in Montreal, Toronto, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Richmond British Columbia, Hamilton and Barrie, Ontario. There were 28 incidents of violence in 2007, down from 30 in 2006. Incidents of harassment were up from 588 in 2006 to 699 in 2007.

"The 2007 findings indicate that anti-Semitism is not just at the fringes of Canadian society," Frank Dimant, executive vice-president of B'nai Brith Canada said in a news release. He also noted that incidents are no longer "primarily confined to urban centers."

84% of Palestinian Arabs support the Massacre at the Rabbinical Seminary

Last month “Israel Today” headlined this story based on a survey by Khalil Shikaki based in Ramallah and is considered a reliable pollster of Palestinian society . The survey also shows unprecedented support for the shooting of rockets on Israeli towns from the Gaza Strip and for the end of the peace negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders.

The New York Times also covered this story which can be found here: Poll Shows Most Palestinians Favor Violence Over Talks

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs Celebrated Jerusalem Terrorist Attack on the Rabbinical Seminary

By Noam Rotem

Thousands of Palestinian Arabs in Gaza celebrated the Jerusalem terrorist attack on the Rabbinical seminary on March 5th. AP, Reuters, AFP, Jerusalem Post, Ynet and other news organizations reported on this story--here is one sample from Ynet:

Palestinians distribute sweets in celebration of Jerusalem terror attack as Hamas promises 'this is only the beginning'. Gaza's streets filled with joyous crowds of thousands on Thursday evening following the terror attack at a Jerusalem rabbinical seminary in which eight people were killed. In mosques in Gaza City and northern Gaza, many residents went to perform the prayers of thanksgiving. Armed men fired in the air in celebration and others passed out sweets to passersby.

Missing from these descriptions are what should have been the appropriate adjectives describing the nature of this kind of behavior by the popular masses of Palestinian Arabs, i.e. qualifiers such as : abhorrent, disgusting, despicable, nauseating, obnoxious, obscene, repugnant, repulsive just to mention a few.

Of course one of the main reasons these adjectives are missing, has to do in no small part to Political Correct ideological censorship, which has infected every corner of western perception, impeding on free uncensored speech and thought. Worse yet is the fact that societies afflicted with this autoimmune disease are unaware of the censorship that is continuous, is on going, and distorts the most essential and fundamental comprehension of reality.

Furthermore this PC distortion field, distracts from an important fact of the real story is, and that is that the Palestinian population is not really an innocent by stander. They voted in terrorist and fascist organization. As already reported in the past in Tel Aviv Vistas, a Pew research report from last year found that 70% of Palestinians believe that suicide bombings against civilians can be often or sometimes justified.

Israeli Cows are Greenest in the World

Dalia Mazori of Ma’ariv reported last week (28.02.2008) that Israeli cows were awarded "The Most Environmentally Friendly Cows" at the annual conference of International Dairy Federation (IDF). Dr. Yisrael Palmenbaum explained that the methane gas emitted by cows, is caused from the fermentation of food in the cows digestive system. Israeli cows are fed a rich diet of seeds as opposed to their counterparts in New Zealand and other grazing countries, that feed on a lot of green fiber, which takes much longer to digest causing more methane gas in the process.