The Fallacy of Moderate Mideast Muslim Countries

And The Misguided Tenets Of The Israeli Left, Center-Left and Mainstream Media

By Noam A. Rotem

Yitzhak (Isaac) Herzog, chairman of the Israeli Labour party (aka The Zionist Union), came out with a statement on Saturday, that the latest wave of terror needs to be stopped by security or diplomatic measures, and that this is the time for negotiations with the Palestinians, and with moderate Muslim elements in the region, including Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the Gulf States.

Throughout this most recent wave of savage Palestinian stabbing attacks, against Israelis, the Israeli left and center-left, with the backing of mainstream media, have consistently insinuated that the source of this latest wave of terrorism, is somehow related to a lack of diplomatic negotiations with the Palestinian Authority, rather than the Nazi style incitement and propaganda that the Arab masses are fed each day, by both official Hamas and PA media, as well as online social media. They also often fail to talk about the virulent antisemitic religious hatred, preached in mosques, and taught in schools. And lastly, they make little mention of the veneration, and massive funding, in millions of dollars, that Palestinian terrorists are granted, by the PA. In the same breath, this Troika (of the Israeli left, center-left and mainstream media), suggests, that there's some historic, almost cosmic, last opportunity, for cooperation with so called "moderate" regional Sunni regimes, like those mentioned in Herzog's statement.

Here are the facts. Saudi Arabia is an Islamic theocracy and one of the most repressive regimes on the face of the earth. Religious minorities do not have the right to practice their religion and conversion from Islam to another religion is punishable by death. It practices gender apartheid against women, and capital punishment without western due-process, that is carried out by beheading with a sword, stoning, or firing squad. Just last week the Associated Press reported that Saudi Arabia carried out at least 157 executions in 2015, with beheadings reaching their highest level in two decades. Last year, liberal Saudi blogger, Raif Badawi, was sentenced to 1,000 lashes for "insulting Islam". Other forms of punishment in the kingdom, include amputations of hands and feet for robbery, and flogging for crimes such as "sexual deviance" and adultery.

A Pew Research Center study published in 2013 of the world's Muslims, found widespread support for Sharia law, in Egypt 74%, Jordan 71%, and in the PA 89%. And among those, a very high percent supporting the death penalty for apostasy (those who leave or convert out of Islam), in Egypt 86%, Jordan 82%, and the PA 66%.

In Egypt, 92% of married women aged 15 to 49 have been subjected to female genital mutilation, according to an official Egyptian government report from 2014. And Jordanian law criminalizes speech deemed critical of the king, government officials, institutions, and Islam.

Last but not least all of these so called "moderate" Arab countries, in one form or another, continue to actively support the BDS, uphold rampant lies about the Jewish state, consistently vote and operate against Israel in the UN, and antisemitic teachings and hatred of Israel, is widespread in all these countries. The Israeli Troika refrains to point all of this out, about their "moderate" Sunni Arab partners, as their entire political belief system would collapse should they do so.

Moreover the Israeli left, center-left, and mainstream media, fail to realize, that true peace cannot be achieved in the mideast, until real democratic reform comes to the Arab and Muslim world, and it doesn't look like that will be happening anytime soon. True peace, is one between nations with shared democratic values, and not just between governments, and certainly not dictatorships. Sadly the Israeli Troika, fails to grasp this most basic foundation to what makes a real and lasting peace.

Having said that, Israel by all means should be pursuing tactical and strategic alliances with Mideast regimes who are sincerely interested in joining forces, to combat terrorists and state sponsored terrorism. Moreover, Israel's moral and existential imperative, must be to seek out and build bridges to true moderates, and democratic reformers, that do exist in the Mideast, and work together with them, to be agents of true democratic change and coexistence. Often these reformers are pro-Israel, believe in cooperation with the Jewish state, yet are sadly ignored by the Israeli Troika. One such example is Greek Orthodox Israeli priest, Gabriel Naddaf, who is a proponent of integrating Arabic-speaking Christians into Israeli society, and to serving in the Israeli Army. Like him, there are Christian, Muslim, and democratic reformers of other faiths and ethnicities, around the Mideast and in exile beyond, who see Israel as a beacon of democracy in this troubled region.

Arab nation states are crumbling before our eyes, and deteriorating into barbaric, bloody and violent chaos. This is hardly the time to be pursuing peace agreements, based on concessions, to authoritarian, anti-Israel and immoral regimes, that may not be around tomorrow. Let us not forget the cry of the center-left, to quickly pursue a 'peace' agreement with Syria, while Assad was still in power, in exchange for the Golan Heights, before it is too late...

The refrain "when will they ever learn", from the 1960's political folk classic "Where have all the flowers gone?" feels likes a curiously appropriate question for the Israeli Troika.

Map of the Arab Spring

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This article was also published on the Op-Ed page of Arutz Sheva:
Op-Ed: The fallacy of moderate mideast Muslim countries

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Frontpage Mag: Palestine is Terroristine

This is what it has always meant. It stands for the murder of Jews. That is its only real objective and goal. 

Palestinian Authority Celebrated UN Bid w/Murder of Rabbi in Front of his Children | Frontpage Mag

By Daniel Greenfield

After Abbas disavowed negotiations with Israel and the Oslo Accords at the UN, after the UN flew the flag of Terroristine over New York, the killers of the Palestinian Authority celebrated the only way they knew how. By murdering more Jews.

Read full article at Frontpage Mag

Also from Frontpage Mag: Time To Deport The PLO From Israel

The Utter Hypocrisy About The Boycott Against Israel

Short intro and commentary to Yair Lapid's article by Noam A. Rotem
Yair Lapid did a great job of putting the Israeli Palestinian conflict into its correct proportions, and no less importantly, its correct moral proportions where he writes:

12,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in this conflict. A large proportion of those were terrorists, suicide bombers, terror tunnel diggers from various global jihadist organizations...  in 67 years less innocent Palestinians were killed than in one week (!) in Syria. In fact, in that same period around 12 million people were killed in the Arab world. A simple calculation shows that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict caused 0.01% of the numbers killed in conflicts in the Islamic world.

He poignantly ends the article with:

Hamas has no intention of creating a Palestinian democracy but a dark theocracy in which homosexuals are hanged from telephone poles, women aren’t allowed to leave their homes and Christians and Jews are murdered for being Christians and Jews. Are those values acceptable to the Reykjavik City Council? If not then that’s strange, because they voted in favor of them. 

My only small criticism, would be that missing from the article, is a little more info about the violent Jihadist and virulent anti-Semitic indoctrination that Palestinians are subjected to massively and systematically, not just by Hamas, but also by the Palestinian Authority. Their intention, is the liquidation of the Jewish State, and in the case of Hamas, also includes a call to obliterate Israel and murder of all its Jews.

Also worth pointing out, the heinous persecutions, and human rights violations across the rest of the Arab Muslim world. From rampant suicide bombings of civilians, mass rape and enslavement of women in the Islamic State, persecutions of Christians and other minorities, corporal punishment and execution of LGBTs, as well as gender apartheid in Saudi Arabia, and the wide spread practice of FGM in Egypt, is but a partial list of countries with terrible human rights, yet aren't being boycotted by Reykjavik, Iceland or the EU.

One last thought, given this, how can Lapid seriously be against the Likud and Netanyahu on this matter, who are saying very similar things. Moreover, how can he seriously be for the so called two state solution, given the above, and given the Palestinian's relentless hate preaching and delegitimizing of Jews and Israel.

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The Hypocrisy of Boycott

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By Yair Lapid 

Originally appeared in Fréttabladid (Iceland) on September 18, 2015 and as a Post on Yair Lapid's Facebook Page

As you know by now, the Reykjavik City Council decided this week to boycott products from Israel. All products. From all of Israel.

I have a few questions:

Does the boycott include products made by Israel’s Arab minority which is 20% of the population? Does the boycott include the 14 Arab Israeli parliamentarians who sit beside me in Israel’s parliament?

Does the boycott include Israeli factories which employ tens of thousands of Palestinians for whom this is the only opportunity to provide for their children?
Does the boycott include Israeli hospitals at which tens of thousands of Palestinians are treated every year?

Does the boycott include produce made by the 71% of Israeli’s who, according to the latest survey, support a two state solution and the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel?

Wait, don’t go yet, I’ve got a few more:

Among the products being boycotted is Copaxone, for MS sufferers, included?
Does the boycott include “Tulip” wine which is made by people with special needs and those who suffer from autism?

And what about the books of Israeli Nobel Prize Laureate in literature, Shai Agnon?
Does the boycott include Microsoft Office, cellphone cameras, Google – all of which contain elements invented or produced in Israel?

If the answer to all these questions is “yes” then I’ll move aside and wish you all an enjoyable life until the sadly unavoidable heart attack (sorry but pacemakers are also an Israeli invention). The other option is that someone at Reykjavik City Council didn’t think the issue through.

If they had then why stop at Israel? One of the best kept secrets about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is that it is one of the smallest conflicts in the Middle East. In fact, there is no correlation between its actual size and the media coverage it receives.

Since the end of Israel’s War of Independence, 67 years ago, around 12,000 Palestinians have lost their lives in this conflict. A large proportion of those were terrorists, suicide bombers, terror tunnel diggers from various global jihadist organizations.

With that we can’t ignore the fact that in those years there were a few thousand innocents who lost their lives. I believe that’s terrible. It keeps me awake at night, like most Israelis. With that the simple fact is – and it’s easy to check – that in 67 years less innocent Palestinians were killed than in one week (!) in Syria. In fact, in that same period around 12 million people were killed in the Arab world. A simple calculation shows that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict caused 0.01% of the numbers killed in conflicts in the Islamic world.

An interesting question then is what is the position of Reykjavik City Council about the Islamic world? Do they boycott it also? All of it?

But of course this isn’t a discussion about statistics, it is about morals. Israel is a vibrant democracy fighting for its existence in tough circumstances. Our major sin, in the eyes of the world and the Reykjavik City Council, is that we are winning that war.

Yes, in this conflict more Palestinians are killed than Israelis. Why? Because we have a better army and we have the Iron Dome system which protects our cities from rockets. If our military lays down its weapons and we disarm Iron Dome, we’d be murdered within 24 hours.

So Israel will continue to defend itself, and will continue doing all it can to avoid civilian casualties.

At the same time, we will continue to search for the path to peace with the Palestinians. Twice, in the year 2000 and in the year 2008, Israel offered them over 90% of the land so they could build a state for themselves. Both times they refused.

The boycott industry is not new. It is a vast industry of media and public relations organized by Islamist groups funded by Qatar and Iran. Their purpose is not the creation of a Palestinian state alongside Israel but a Palestinian state on the ashes of Israel.

They know that message won’t be acceptable to liberal Europe. So they decided – as has been exposed time and again – to sell the naïve Europeans humanitarian values of freedom and solidarity which they don’t believe for even one second.

Hamas has no intention of creating a Palestinian democracy but a dark theocracy in which homosexuals are hanged from telephone poles, women aren’t allowed to leave their homes and Christians and Jews are murdered for being Christians and Jews. Are those values acceptable to the Reykjavik City Council? If not then that’s strange, because they voted in favor of them.

Palestinians Rejoicing the Violent Murder of Thousands of Innocent Civilians on 9-11

A reminder of which side of humanity the Palestinians are on

By Noam A. Rotem (a repost from last year)

They're with those who rejoice the violent murder of thousands of innocent civilians, their national heroes are suicide bombers (they glorify and name city squares after them), and they celebrate when members of their people (Arab, Muslims) conduct indiscriminate, cold blooded, murderous attacks on free western democratic societies.

From The Palestinian Hamas Covenant

Islam Will Obliterate Israel
In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah “Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it”.

Article Seven:
“The Day of Judgement will not come about until Moslems fight the Jews (killing the Jews), when the Jew will hide behind stones and trees. The stones and trees will say O Moslems, O Abdulla, there is a Jew behind me, come and kill him.

Encouraging Martyrdom
Article Eight:
Allah is its target, the Prophet is its model, the Koran its constitution: Jihad is its path and death for the sake of Allah is the loftiest of its wishes.

And if you think radical Jihadist hatred stops with Hamas, you need to be spending time at Palestinian Media Watch, like this section on Demonization of Jews/Israelis where most all of the hateful material is from the so called "moderate" Palestinian Authority. These are the people ill-informed liberals in the west want to give a state to -- violent, Anti-Semitic, corrupt, undemocratic, supporters of theocratic, fascist radical Islam. 

The Root Cause, Triggering the Wave of Refugees into Europe, is Conspicuously Missing from Mainstream Media Reports

By Noam A. Rotem

What is glaringly missing from many reports by the mainstream media on this topic, is that there is no mention, of the key root causes and culprits, triggering this historic migration. Namely, the disintegration of 20th century fabricated Arab nationalism, and the vortex of violent, anti-democratic, often barbaric and fascist, radical Islam, swirling across swaths of the middle east, and projecting far beyond -- from the far-east, through central Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.

Take this CBS News report for example:
The story behind the images that shocked Europe.

Screen-capture from CBS News. See article link.

From the title one would expect it to also weigh-in on the barbaric Arab Syrian regime, Islamic State, the bloody and explosive hatred between Sunnis and Shiites in Iraq, fundamental Islam in Afghanistan, and lawless Arab gangs in Libya, as causes for this unprecedented migration. But no, stating the painful and naked truth of reality would just be politically incorrect.

Another thing that till now, has not gotten enough focus in western broadcast media, but is generating quite a bit of discussion on social media, is the question as to why the nearby rich Arab gulf states aren't taking in any of their brethren refugees. To be fair, this debate is being held in some online news-outlets like this article from the "Daily Beast": The Middle East Needs To Take Care Of Its Own Refugees, and has even made in into some online mainstream publications, like this article from "The Washington Post": The Arab world’s wealthiest nations are doing next to nothing for Syria’s refugees.

Having said that, neither article, weighed-in on the role that Radical Islam is playing, in creating these waves of refugees.

Mainstream media, plays a powerful role in shaping public opinion. For decades now, it has been narrating news according to a left leaning politically correct ideology. The media's focus on the tragic image of the 3 year old Syrian boy who washed ashore, is deliberate, and intended to create pressure on western European governments to open the floodgates. The media largely omitted offering any alternative destinations, like the much closer wealthy gulf states, as PC European politics has a long standing policy,  in favor of large scale immigration from the mideast and North Africa. Similarly their omission of what is causing the plight of these refugees is intentional.

For the past 4 years, children have been killed and murdered on a daily basis in Syria and Iraq, yet their photos are not regular headlines in mainstream media news, as that would undermine their political correct ideology, that desperately promotes the notion, that radical Islam, is only a fringe phenomenon.

השמאל והמרכז-שמאל בגיבוי המדיה, לא מסוגלים להפנים, שהדבר היחיד שמניע את ה-בי.די.אס., בגיבוי הרשות הפלסטינית, הוא חיסול המדינה היהודית

מאת נעם רותם     By Noam A. Rotem

השמאל ומרכז-שמאל, בגיבוי המדיה, נעולים בתפיסת עולם, שמתעלמת מעובדות, וע״כ הם  לא מסוגלים להפנים שהדבר היחיד שמניע את ה-בי.די.אס. בגיבוי אש״ף והרשות הפלסטינית, הוא חיסול המדינה היהודית.

״הסבב הבא כבר בדרך״ כותב עופר שלח בפוסט שלו בפייסבוק, אך לא בגלל חוסר תהליך מדיני כפי שהוא טוען, אלא בגלל,  שעד שלא יובס הטרור האיסלמיסטי, המונע משנאת יהודים, שנאת מדינת ישראל, שנאת נוצרים, המערב, ערכים דמוקרטים והאחר, הם ימשיכו לנסות לחסל אותנו.

הנ״ל היא תגובה שלי לפוסט של עופר שלח:
https://www.facebook.com/OferYeshAtid/posts/893380460734091

עופר שלח -- או שאתה מנותק מהמציאות, או שבוי בתפיסה אידאולוגית שלא נותנת לעובדות לבלבל אותך. תראה את הברבריות האיסלמיסטית האלימה חסרת הרחמים המשתוללת בכל האיזור. הפלסטינים הם חלק מאותה רקמת תרבותית ג׳הדיסטית.

לך תבלה כמה שעות טובות באתר מבט לתקשורת פלסטינית - ותראה שכל מטרת התנועה הפלסטינית מבוססת על שנאת יהודים וחיסול המדינה היהודית -- את זה אתה לא אומר, ולא מסביר, למרות שזאת האמת ואלו הן העובדות. אתה מתעלם לגמרי מאמנת החמאס שקוראת להריגת כל היהודים.

תראה מה עשו, כשנתנו להם במתנה את כל החממות החקלאיות - הם הרסו אותן, במקום לדאוג לכלכלת התושבים שלהם (וזה היה אש״ף, לאלו שאתה קורא מתונים).

מיליארדי דולרים השקיעה החמאס בכלי נשק, ע״מ לרצוח אזרחים במדינת ישראל, במקום להשקיע ברווחת האזרחים שלהם -- איפה אתה חי? על מי אתה מנסה לעבוד? עם ישראל רואה את המציאות שאתה בוחר לצנזר.

לבסוף בוא תראה את קלואי ולדרי, סטודנטית אפרו-אמריקאית צעירה, שמבינה יותר טוב ממך, מהי האנטישמיות החדשה, ומהי באמת תנועת ה-BDS.

אם אתם מסכימים, נא שתפו, תודה מראש, נעם

Pro-Palestinian Protestors Disrupt NYC Council Holocaust Memorial - Councilman David G. Greenfield Delivers a Poignant Response

Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian, protestors, prove what they're really all about -- naked blind anti-semitism 

After the protestors were removed from the chamber, New York City Councilman David G. Greenfield delivered a poignant and powerful response -- that must be seen! 

Israeli diplomats and politicians should take notes!

התנועה הפרו-פלסטינית/אנטי-ציונית חושפת את פניה האמיתיות -- תנועה אנטישמית גרידא. חובה לראות ולהפיץ!

יהודי מרשים, וחבר מועצת העיר ניו-יורק -- דוד גרינפלד, נותן מענה נוקב, מרגש, מילים כדורבנות, כתגובה לחוליגנים הפרו-פלסטינים, שהפריעו לישיבה זיכרון מיוחדת, של מועצת העיר, ליום השואה הבינלאומי ושחרור אשוויץ.

פוליטיקאים, ודיפלומטים שלנו כאן בישראל, יכולים ללמוד פרק מהרהיטות המרגשת שלו בנושא!

מלך ירדן מתקיף אותנו באו״ם למה אנחנו שותקים!?

by Noam A. Rotem

בנאומו באו״ם בשבוע שעבר, מלך ירדן אמר:

http://www.un.org/en/ga/69/meetings/gadebate/24sep/jordan.shtml

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We cannot address the future of my region without addressing its central conflict: the denial of Palestinian rights and statehood.

איזה שקר!

עוד בנאומו אמר:

Jordan strongly opposes threats to Jerusalem's Arab Muslim and Christian identity. As Hashemite custodian of Jerusalem's Muslim and Christian Holy Sites, I will continue to oppose any violation of Al Aqsa Mosque's sanctity.

איזה שקר נבזי!

ובמיוחד לאור העובדה שבזמן הכיבוש הירדני -- היהודים גורשו מהעיר העתיקה, הרובע היהודי נהרס, מעל חמישים בתי כנסת נהרסו וחוללו. חלק מהאתרים היהודיים הם הפכו לאורוות. בית הקברות בהר הזיתים ששימש את הקהילה היהודית לאלפי שנים, חולל, ואלפי מצבות נופצו!

חייבים לומר את זה!

זהו חלק ממסע הדה-לגיטימציה שעושים למדינת ישראל,  עם שקרים שערורייתיים. ובמקום לתקוף חזרה עם האמת והעובדות ההיסטוריות המובהקות, אנחנו שותקים. לא פלא שכל העולם שונא אותנו, כי הם שומעים רק את השקרים הנבזיים של הערבים ולא את האמת על בסיס עובדות היסטוריות.

האמת היא, שממלכת ירדן היא אולי אחד המכשולים הגדולים לסיום הסכסוך הישראלי הפלסטיני. מעל 60% מאוכלוסיית ירדן מגדירים את עצמם כערבים פלסטינים. לו היו מתקיימות היום בחירות חופשיות ודמוקרטיות בירדן, היא הייתה הופכת למדינה פלסטינית, ובכך הייתה מסתיימת התביעה למדינה פלסטינית.​ 

בלתי אפשרי לנצח את מלחמת ההסברה הישראלית מעמדת פחד ומגננה. אם נשתוק, אז הרי השקרים מקבלים תוקף וגושפנקה. כנגד מסע הדה לגיטימציה נגדינו שמנהלים באמצעות שקרים, יש להילחם חזרה בדה לגיטימציה של הצד השני, אבל עם האמת שמגובה בעובדות. 

בהתחשב לכל מה שקורה בארצות איסלאם וערב, מטיהורים אתניים ברברים, לרדיפת מיעוטים, הפרות זכויות אדם, נשים, ילדים תעשייתית, חוקי שעריה של ימי הביניים,  ועד נושא האנטישמיות והסתה, משימת הדה לגיטימציה של התוקפים אותנו קלה, לו רק נעשה שימוש, לשם שינוי, באמת.

אירוע ''יחסים של 3,500 שנה בין היהודים וא''י''בוטל ע''י אונסק''ו בגלל לחץ ערבי‎

מכתב גלוי לשרת התרבות והספורט לימור לבנת

לשרת התרבות והספורט לימור לבנת, בתור שרת התרבות ​ של מדינת ישראל, אני מצפה לגינוי ומחאה חריפה ממך, ממשלת ישראל, ​​​וממשרד החוץ כלפי מעשה זה של ארגון אונסק"ו ( ארגון החינוך, המדע והתרבות של האו"ם​​)

Unesco Cancels Event on Jewish Ties to the Land of Israel

 ​זהו הסיפור האמיתי של הסכסוך הישראלי-ערבי והוא ניסיונותיהם הבלתי נלאים ​של הפלסטינים ומדינות ערב ואיסלאם ​למחוק את ההיסטוריה היהודית בארץ ישראל ושלכתבה לנרטיב ערבי שקרי, שגם מהווה הוכחה ניצחת לכוונותיהם האמיתיות כלפי מדינת היהודים. עד שזה לא ​ ​ישתנה, כל דבריהם לגביי הסכם שלום לכאורה, הן פארסה​,​ ואם אנחנו לא נדרוש את השינוי הזה, אז מי ידרוש? ​

 בכבוד רב​,
נעם רותם תל אביב-יפו

By Noam A. Rotem

עבאס: לחדש את השבועה לשאהידים הגיבורים וללכת בדרכם

לכל הטוענים שעבאס מתון ופרטנר -- דורי גולד מביא עדוית שלא כך הם הדברים.

לא תשמעו על זה בתקשרות המיינסטרים הישראלית בפריימטיים. 

עבאס חושף את הצד הקיצוני

ביום שישי האחרון, יום השנה להקמת פת"ח, נשא מחמוד עבאס (אבו מאזן) נאום שאולי מסמן נקודת מפנה ביחסים בין יו"ר הרשות הפלשתינית למדינת ישראל. עבאס השתמש ברטוריקה קיצונית שלא נקט עד כה, ודיבר על הצורך של הפלשתינים "לחדש את השבועה לשאהידים הגיבורים וללכת בדרכם".

ברשימת השאהידים הפלשתינים שלו נכללו לא רק מנהיגי חמאס מהשנים האחרונות, כגון השייח' אחמד יאסין, או גורמים פרו-איראניים מהג'יהאד האיסאלמי, כגון פתחי שקאקי, אלא גם דמויות משנות ה-30 של המאה הקודמת, כגון עז א-דין אל-קסאם, ובייחוד המופתי הירושלמי הידוע לשמצה, חאג' אמין אל-חוסייני, ששיתף פעולה בגלוי עם הנאצים במהלך מלחמת העולם השנייה.

להמשך קראו את הכתבה המלאה באתר ישראל היום:

http://www.israelhayom.co.il/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=10462&hp=1&newsletter=11.01.2013

Palestinians target civilians from the cover of their own civilian population

Just a reminder, that the Palestinians are targeting civilians, and attacking civilian populations from the cover of their own civilian populations. A double war crime, that the world hypocritically remains utterly silent about... Moreover the civilian population there is far from innocent, they voted in a tyrannous regime, with an ideology of hate and destruction, bent on the destruction of the Jewish state and as such they have a collective responsibility, and while Israel will never target civilian populations, till they reform, they sadly deserve to bear any collateral damage they might incur in order to destroy the 10,000's of missiles their leaders have stockpiled, by spending all their money and energy on hate and destruction rather than the welfare of their own citizens

Ending Demonization of Jews Must Be Part of Egypt's Democratic Aspirations

Huffington Post, surprises with an important article by Rabbi Abraham Cooper, an Associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center and its Museum of Tolerance:

Ending Demonization of Jews Must Be Part of Egypt's Democratic Aspirations

Let's face it. The people's revolt in the streets of Egypt caught everyone by surprise and so-called experts and pundits are still scrambling to contextualize it and prophesy about the nation's future.

But the 18-day drama proved that revolutions are messy -- even ones birthed on Google and sustained by Facebook and Twitter. Ask CNN's Anderson Cooper or FOX News' Gregg Palkot, who were among the journalists attacked in Tahrir Square.

Now comes belated word of the brutal mob sexual assault on Lara Logan, a veteran correspondent covering for CBS' 60 Minutes during the jubilant celebration over Hosni Mubarak's ouster. The network had apparently made a decision not to go public about the incident and released details only after it was clear that other media would break the story.

It was painful listening to CBS's description of the horrors the mother of two suffered after she was separated from her crew and assaulted. Thank G-d she was finally rescued and we pray for her full recovery.

But it is a shame that CBS omitted one important detail from their release: The 200 member mob was screaming "Jew, Jew" during their vicious attack. Logan is not Jewish.

Why is this important? Because the issue isn't just the hate of one frenzied mob, but a society's mindset. For in today's Egypt, a nation searching for its 21st century identity, there is no more vile a curse that you can hurl at someone than to call him or her a Jew. A dangerous exaggeration? I don't think so: A 2010 Pew Poll confirmed that 95 percent of Egyptians hold negative views about Jews.

That fact may help explain why simultaneously there were anti-Mubarak protesters holding posters with President Mubarak's face covered by the reviled Star of David, even as pro-Mubarak forces depicted western media as spies for Israel and protesters as agents of "outside forces." And who might those sinister forces be? A few years back, official Egyptian state television ran a 41-part series during Ramadan titled "Horseman without A Horse" based on the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion, the vicious Czarist-era conspiratorial screed swallowed whole by large swaths of Arabs and Muslims "proving" that Jews lurk behind every evil in the world.

Officially sanctioned anti-Semitism, the popular negative stereotypes ingrained in books, combined with the hatred of the Muslim Brotherhood, make the Jew Egypt's poster child for all things hated or feared.

Read rest of the article here: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rabbi-abraham-cooper/jewhatreds-next-victim-ma_b_824709.html

Radical Muslims Cynically and Sinisterly Abuse Democratic Tenets of Free Speech

Radical Muslims play with words and, cynically and sinisterly abuse democratic tenets of free speech in order to spread their intolerant hatred and undermine western civilization

Fatah dedicates square to woman who led massacre that killed 37 Israeli civilians

An event that was largely ignored by Israeli and global mainstream media that occurred the same week when Biden visited Israel and the only news that got attention was a building complex in east Jerusalem.

Fatah holds ceremony naming square after terrorist By KHALED ABU TOAMEH 15/03/2010

Despite the Palestinian Authority’s announcement that it had postponed the inauguration of a square in el-Bireh named after Dalal Mughrabi, the Fatah woman who led the 1978 Coastal Road massacre in which 37 Israeli civilians and an American photographer were killed, and 71 were wounded, Fatah officials on Thursday evening went ahead with the ceremony.

Persecution of Christians in Gaza

Israel Channel 2 reports on the persecution of Christian Arabs in Gaza: http://www.mako.co.il/news-channel2/Friday-Newscast/Article-d9e226ca42b7621004.htm
Accounts of churches being torched, Christians being denied their freedom of expression and religion, physical and even lethal use of aggression against the Christian community in Gaza.

ישראל היום מדווח על שנאת ישראל במצרים

http://www.israelhayom.co.il/site/newsletter_opinion.php?a=2700

יעקב אחימאיר:בביקור במצרים:

הוזמנתי לשם כדי להיפגש עם עיתונאים מצרים ואחרים, יוזמה שנועדה לסדוק את הקרח - סליחה, את האיבה והשנאה המקיפות את צוות השגרירות. לא, אינני מוכן להמיר את הביטוי "שנאה" במונח מרוכך לתיאור היחס המצרי לשגרירות ולישראל! אם אעשה כך, אחטא לאמת...כן, גם עיתונאי שאמור לדעת, להבין, מתקשה לתפוס את עומק השנאה הסובבת את ישראל במצרים. את המציאות הזאת אין לטייח. יום־יום "חוטפות" ישראל ושגרירותה בקהיר "מטחים" מצד אמצעי התקשורת... ערה נוספת נאמרה לי: גם אם ישראל תיסוג לגבולות 67', יחסה של מצרים לא ישתנההמצריים...ואפילו במאוחר, הציגה הליגה נגד השמצה, הארגון היהודי־אמריקני החשוב, דו"ח חמור על עוצמת האנטישמיות באמצעי התקשורת.הדו"ח נשלח למובארק כדי למחות על האדישות שבה מצרים הרשמית מתייחסת לתופעה הנפוצה.

From Baghdad—frightening reports of gay pogroms, where homosexual men are targeted, tortured, slayed

New York Magazine, brings the chilling details in this exposé, which hasn't made any of the mainstream evening news reports, nor are there any signs that there will ever be some equivalent Goldstone report for these prevalent atrocities

http://nymag.com/news/features/59695/

Netanyahu delivers a poignant, dignified, stirring, "keep it real", no holds barred, speech at the UN

Netanyahu delivers a poignant, dignified, stirring, "keep it real", no holds barred, speech stating the simple yet obvious multifaceted historical connection of Jews to the land of Israel. That the real danger in the world is a cold blooded, barbaric fundamen...tal Islamic creed of terror that undermines all basic and decent human rights achieved in the past 400 years and yet this threat is met with misappropriated and hypocritical agendas by the UN, mainstream media and the World at large

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.