In a way it is nice to see the veneer of politics coming off and something approximating what they really think being revealed. That muslims simply cannot tolerate any land being autonomously controlled by non-muslims. And that this is about antisemitism and islamic supremacism and not about the fiction of Israel’s right to exist in any rational debate.
Category Archives: Attacks on Jews – Israelis
Being anti-Israel does not have to mean one is antisemetic. It just always does.
I hear quite often from critics that
“…and if you say anything bad about Israel they call you an antisemite making it impossible to criticize the state!”
…and dozens of variations on that theme.
This article from the J-post points out how one British member of Parliament in a secretly filmed meeting, shows how the two ideas are typically conflated. But before anyone points out that this is an ‘isolated incident’ it may be worth trying this more practical experiment yourself.
Find someone at a BDS event or even someone you know that claims to be critical of Israel and not the people and ask a few simple questions such as:
1: You believe that Israel is deserving of special sanctions and punitive measures because of human rights violations X, Y, and Z. Do you also advocate the same measures be imposed on countries A, B, C, D, and E that not only are guilty of the same things but are indisputably so whereas the charges against Israel are vague and abstract and leveled by those sworn to her destruction, but say they were true. Why have I not heard you demand the same measures on anywhere else guilty of the same offense?
2. If Israel has no right to exist based on your line of thinking, then why do you not also demand that Pakistan be returned to Indian sovereignty? (Pretty much every reason given for the destruction of the state of Israel applies equally or even to a greater degree to the state of Pakistan. Every reason but one that is)
3. If you object to the security fence Israel built which has dramatically reduced terrorist attacks on its civilian population, have you also been strident and visible when it comes to:
3a. The new Saudi fence?
3b. The US – Mexico border fence?
3c. The fence between Gaza and Egypt?
3d. The Great Wall of China built to keep out the Mongols? Don’t the Mongols have every right to invade China?
It doesn’t take long to see there is usually only one reason left why it is Israel which is singled out for this special hatred, criticism, street theater, and demonization that doesn’t apply better to many other states, and that is granting that the accusations are true, which is very seldom the case. (See the Al Dura affair)
And I wonder, what might that one difference be?
Independent member of parliament in Belgium holds anti-Israel event outside the Israeli embassy June 2 2013
It is weird seeing grown men play with badly made model aircraft and model rockets and chanting stuff and stamping them into the ground. Its like a mass temper tantrum at the special olympics.
US report highlights rise in Iranian-backed international terror attacks against Israeli targets
Hamas to Abbas: ‘Abducting soldiers is at the heart of our culture’
Is it just me, or is this actually an insanely funny headline?
H/T Richard
Times of Israel:
Kidnapping Israelis is a source of pride, not shame, declares spokesman in rebuttal to PA president’s speech
By Elhanan Miller May 28, 2013, 7:56 pm
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas speaks at the World Economic Forum on the Middle East and North Africa at the King Hussein Convention Center at the Dead Sea in Jordan Sunday, May 26, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jim Young)
The kidnapping of IDF soldiers is at the heart of Palestinian culture, a military Hamas spokesman said on Tuesday, responding to a speech by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in which Abbas called such abductions alien to Palestinian norms.
In Iran, Two Bombing Suspects Run for President
H/T Tundra T
The Atlantic:
The dark connections between Argentina’s government and Tehran.>Jonathan Schanzer May 27 2013, 8:35 AM ET
Rescue workers search for survivors and victims in the rubble left after a powerful car bomb destroyed the Buenos Aires headquarters of the Argentine Israeli Mutual Association (AMIA), on July 18, 1994 photo. (Reuters)
After disqualifying a number of presidential candidates from the June 14 elections, Iran’s Guardian Council has pared the list down to eight. Remarkably, two of the remaining candidates — Mohsen Rezai and Ali Akbar Velayati — are suspects in the 1994 bombing of the Argentina Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) headquarters in Buenos Aires that killed 85 and wounded 300.
Until recently, this might have been seen as problematic for a presidential candidate. But the Argentine government’s May 20 establishment of a joint commission to re-investigate the attack makes it all but certain that the two men (and their accomplices) will be exonerated.
Italian court sentences Moroccan man to 5 years in jail for planning terrorist attacks on Milan synagogue, Jewish school.
J-Post:
Milan syangogue. Photo: REUTERS/Paolo Bona
ROME – A 22-year-old Moroccan man has been sentenced to more than five years in prison for planning terrorist attacks on Milan’s main synagogue and Jewish school.
The five year and four month sentence against Mohamed Jarmoune was handed down by a court in Brescia on Thursday.
H/T M for vid
Palestinian ambitions cannot be stated a lot more clearly than this
BBC misrepresents Stephen Hawking’s illness ‘apparently’ to bash Israel
Muslim states loathing of Israel so strong they seek to strip Canada of its role in civil aviation
OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail
Disgruntled Arab states look to strip Canada of UN agency
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Growing discontent among Arab nations over the Harper government’s pro-Israel stand is prompting joint talks on retaliation, with some eyeing a campaign to strip Canada of a major UN agency, the ICAO.
Kenya Finds Iranians Guilty of Plotting Attacks Against Israelis
Israel National News:
Two Iranians were found guilty by a Kenyan court Thursday for possessing explosives allegedly for use in bomb attacks.
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By Arutz Sheva staff
First Publish: 5/2/2013, 3:13 PM
Arab terrorists (illustrative)
Reuters
Two Iranians were found guilty by a Kenyan court Thursday for possessing explosives allegedly for use in bomb attacks.
Ahmed Mohammed and Sayed Mansour, who were arrested last June, were found guilty of possessing 15 kilos (33 pounds) of the powerful explosive RDX. The court said they had suspected links to a terror network planning bombings in Mombasa and Nairobi, the AFP news agency reported.
Iranian with Canadian passport arrested in Bulgaria
J-Post:
Agent who monitored Sofia Chabad Jewish center and synagogue arrested with Canadian passport weeks after Burgas bombing.
Bulgaria bus bomb. Photo: REUTERS
BERLIN – Bulgarian police officers last summer arrested a Canadian citizen linked to the Iranian government who engaged in surveillance of the local Chabad center in the capital of Sofia, a well-placed and reliable local source told The Jerusalem Post last week, on condition of anonymity due to security reasons.
An Iranian-sponsored female agent in her 50s, holding a Canadian passport, traveled from Istanbul to Sofia several weeks after the bombing of the Israeli tour bus in the Black Sea resort town of Burgas in July 2012. She was arrested on her first day in Sofia after the Bulgarian police, on high alert, noticed she was monitoring the Chabad center.
Tard-rockets hit Eilat
No wonder Obama tasked NASA with Muslim outreach. Rocketry is pretty much the only thing Gazanian Muslims take at school.
This is a terrorist’s video where I removed the crappy jihadi ‘music’ at the start and some of their odd propaganda and then added BBC footage at the end of the target areas.
Israeli city of Eilat struck by two rockets
H/T Shabnam
France24:
© AFP
A jihadist group on Wednesday claimed responsibility for the two rockets that hit the resort town of Eilat in southern Israel earlier in the day. Israeli officials said nobody was injured.
By FRANCE 24 (text)
Militants in the Sinai peninsula fired at least two rockets at Israel’s southern resort town of Eilat early Wednesday, officials said, highlighting what Israel says is a dire security situation in neighboring Egypt. A jihadist group later claimed the attack.
Nobody was hurt in the attack, police said, although one rocket exploded near the courtyard of a house. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said the remains of two Grad-style katyusha rockets had been found and bomb experts were looking for more.