Category Archives: Israel

UN Official Admits Posting “Strongly Anti-Semitic” Cartoon

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There is lots before this. UN official posts clearly Nazi era antisemetic cartoon. UN official publishes apology to Jewish people, as well as dogs with the overall effect of simply heaping more insults to Jewish people. The same UN official has a history of anti-Israel remarks which go well beyond normal political criticism.

Now, we have this. From UN Watch:

 

UN Watch Calling for Richard Falk to be Fired

GENEVA, July 7 — After the UN Human Rights Council’s special rapporteur on the Palestinian territories finally admitted to posting a “strongly anti-Semitic” cartoon on his blog, in which Jews and Americans were depicted as bloodthirsty dogs, UN Watch today called on UN rights chief Navi Pillay to lead efforts to fire him. Click here for Falk statement and timeline.

Richard Falk’s “apology” raises serious questions that go to both his judgment and his character. Finding himself in a corner of his own making, he states that, “I oppose any denigration of a people based on ethnicity, race, religion,” as if this were a special badge of honor, and then adds to ethnicity, race, religion, “stage of development”—which is not a human rights issue.

Even stranger is the banality that follows, “We must . . .. treat animals with as much respect as possible.” Falk here appears not only to be equating animals with human beings, but to be apologizing for his cartoon’s insult to Jews as well as dogs.  Do these mutterings truly befit someone the UN Human Rights Council has chosen to employ as an expert on human rights?

This is only the latest of several Falk blog posts this year which have harmed the reputation of the UN as a whole.

In January he implied American complicity in the 9/11 attacks—Falk is a revered figure among proponents of the 9/11 conspiracy theory—while last month he called UN chief Ban Ki-moon a shameless secretary-general.” Continue Reading →

MAD is mad. Mutually assured destruction no longer a good plan.

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H/T Richard

Jewish World Review July 7, 2011 / 5 Tamuz, 5771

MAD in the 21st Century

By Clifford D. May

Why Mutually Assured Destruction makes no sense today

On June 28th, Iran’s rulers test-fired 14 ballistic missiles, including long- and medium-range Shahab missiles and short-range Zelzal missiles. Also, their new and improved centrifuges are turning out more enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.

In addition, departing Defense Secretary Robert Gates noted last month that North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile development “now constitutes a direct threat to the United States. …They are developing a road-mobile ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile). … It’s a huge problem.”

For national security experts, these developments raise a list of questions. For the rest of us, they should raise just two: Do Iran and North Korea represent threats we should take seriously? The answer, clearly, is yes. Are we building the missile defense system we need to protect America against these threats? The answer, just as clearly, is no.

To understand how this situation has come, recall a little history. During the Cold War, the U.S. adopted a strategic doctrine called MAD, for Mutually Assured Destruction. The logic behind it: So long as we were vulnerable to missile attack by the Soviets, and so long as the Soviets were vulnerable to missile attack by us, neither side would benefit by attacking first.

Veterans of the Cold War, still influential in the Obama administration, believe that if this kind of deterrence worked then, it can work now.

The current occupants of the Kremlin go further. They claim it is insulting for Americans and Europeans to attempt to protect themselves from the possibility of an Iranian or North Korean missile attack by building a missile defense system that one day may be robust enough also to thwart a Russian missile attack.

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STRTFOR SITREP: Iran: Nuclear Warhead Capabilities In Short Time – Israeli Intelligence Chief

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STRATFOR: July 5, 2011

Iran will have the capabilities to build a nuclear warhead within a short time, Israeli military intelligence chief Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said July 5, Ynet reported. Kochavi said Iran is running 5,000 active centrifuges and is working to reach 8,000. Iran has accumulated uranium enriched to a level of 3.5 at a weight of 4,300 kg, he said. The Jerusalem Post reported that Kochavi said Iran has recovered from the last wave of sanctions even though the international consensus surprised it. The closer relations between Iran and Turkey have mostly focused on trade but military matters have also been discussed, Kochavi added.

 

Toronto: An Imam Interrupted

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Blazing Cat Fur just sent me a link to this extraordinary video of an event at U of T. It appears that the Jewish Defense League has given some Islamic BDS people a taste of thier own medicine that we have seen at so many campus’ across the world from Scotland to Sweden and through the USA,

What’s that expression? Revenge is a dish best served in Yiddish?

There is more at BCF please click over and check.

Tunisia, Epi-Center of the “Arab Spring”, Rejects “Any Form of Normalization With the Zionist State”

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From Andrew Bostom’s site

July 3rd, 2011 by Andrew Bostom |

“Reformist” Yadh Ben Achour made the announcement rejecting “any form of normalization with the Zionist State,” …Yadh-a, Yadh-a, Yadh-a….

Res ipsa loquitur, from ANSA Med:

Tunisia’s commission of political reform announced that it adopted (by majority) a “republican pact’” that will be the basis of the future new Constitution, and in particular it states the rejection of any normalization with Israel. While announcing the pact the president of the commission, Yadh Ben Achour, did not offer any details, but the Arab speaking Tunisian press published its content, which defines Tunisia as a free and democratic country, whose official language is Arab and whose religion is Islam.

The pact, that will serve as the basis of the future Constitution, categorically rejects “any form of normalization with the Zionist State’”, and supports the Palestinian cause.


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Greece halts Canadian ship in Gaza flotilla

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So much wrong with the statements by the flotilla people it is hard to know where to start. For one thing, if they actually cared about delivering aid to the suffering in Gaza, they could start by identifying who they are, in what way are they suffering, what kind of aid they need and how much, and then buying it with the $550,000.00 they spent buying the boat and fitting it up and then giving it to the Israelis or Egyptians with instructions on delivery, and following it all with tons of reporters so that if Israel steals the aid or fails to deliver it they can get global condemnation for the act. Of course this was never about the suffering of Gazans. It’s about taking on a safe enemy where you can feel you have a moral victory standing up for the little guy as they imagine it to be. Islam. The self identified group that is both 1.5 billion strong and lives on top of the second most strategic resource in the world, and somehow also an oppressed minority by a few million Jews who live on 1/650th of the land mass of the middle east, and ironically the one where Arab Muslims also have more rights than those same Arab Muslims ever would in one of the Islamic nations nearby.

Some people will claim that this is about antisemitism. Some will say it is the real motive behind the flotilla. Well. One has to wonder. Why have none of these well meaning activists and peace-nicks, concerned human rights people never once committed themselves to ending actual slavery in Mauritania. Mass murder of Christians in Pakistan and every other Muslim nation for that matter or the brutal systemic inequality of women in Saudi Arabia. It does seem difficult to think of any reason to single out Israel for this treatment after all that.

H/T Dallas

From the Toronto Star

Banners hang from the Tahrir, a Canadian boat participating in Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza. Greek officials have placed the boat under surveillance and won't let if leave Agio Nikolaos, a town on Crete.Banners hang from the Tahrir, a Canadian boat participating in Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza. Greek officials have placed the boat under surveillance and won’t let if leave Agio Nikolaos, a town on Crete.

Jim Rankin/Toronto Star

Jim Rankin Staff Reporter

AGIO NIKOLAOS, GREECE—After months of remaining secret, the location of the Canadian boat participating in Freedom Flotilla II to Gaza was outed in this Greek seaside town — on Canada Day — when authorities boarded it and attempted to seize crucial paperwork.

Earlier in the week there had been alleged acts of sabotage against two boats in the flotilla. Then on Friday came an edict from the Greek government — under pressure from Israel, organizers charge — that blocked the Canadian and other ships from setting out on a mission to challenge the Israeli sea blockade of Gaza and to deliver humanitarian aid.

“We are being Gaza-fied,” Lyn Adamson, 59, a lifelong Toronto activist and chair of the Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, said outside the port authority office in this Mediterranean tourist destination on the island of Crete.

“What we’re doing is perfectly legal and we haven’t given up,” said Adamson, one of 22 Canadian hand-picked to be aboard the Canadian boat Tahrir, — Arabic for “liberation” and named after the square in Cairo where Egyptians gathered and toppled Hosni Mubarak early this year.

“It’s clearly coming from on high, and it’s really a shame that this Greek government would be pressured, as it has been, into stopping these boats. Why is Israel afraid of our aid?”

By nightfall, the 36 delegates on the Canadian boat — including contingents from Belgium, Denmark, Australia and Turkey — were signing out of hotel rooms to sleep aboard the Tahrir.

As well, there are 11 journalists from seven countries. The Star, in the region to cover the flotilla, has a space on the Canadian boat.

Participants come from all walks of life, men and women of all ages and from a spectrum of religious beliefs. The average age is 45; about a third of delegates are grandparents.

In addition to banning flotilla boats from leaving, the Greek order Friday said “the broader maritime area of eastern Mediterranean will be continuously monitored by electronic means for tracking, where applicable, the movements of the ships allegedly participating in such campaign.”

The U.S. boat — named “The Audacity of Hope” after the title of a book written by President Barack Obama — made a run for open water Friday. It steamed for nearly half an hour before the Greek coast guard intercepted it.

The boat, which counts Alice Walker, the Pulitzer Prize author of The Color Purple, among its delegates, returned to port in Athens.

The Canadian boat said in a statement that the flotilla has been subject to “diplomatic pressure and manipulation, economic blackmail, bureaucratic obstacles, baseless and slanderous allegations against the flotilla and the delegates, and sabotage of at least two vessels.” Continue Reading →

Greece bars boats leaving Greek ports for Gaza

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I post this as I still find it peculiar that someone who claims to be aboard the flotilla, presumably the Canadian boat dubbed, ‘The Sea Hitler’ (best boat name since the Flintstones combined the names, The Nautilus and The Sea Queen and Christened their new boat, The Nausea) wrote a comment to tell me that I am “full of shit” about the project. It is interesting that the Israeli’s have announced that a Hamas terrorist leader is among the organizers of this flotilla.

From the A.P.

In Jerusalem Friday, Israeli military spokeswoman Lt. Col. Avital Leibovich claimed that according to intelligence information a son-in-law of Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, Hamoud Tareq, was among the organizers of the flotilla.

She said that Tareq is active in the Islamic militant Hamas movement and other terror groups.

For the whole story please click over to the link above.

 

Some facts on Gaza and Israel’s support of the people and commerce there.

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I post this because the anti-Israel industry has attempted to mislead people that the weapons blockade, one which is legal in every way, is a siege. It is not. Normal commercial shipping is not interfered with. Only the traffic in weapons intended to attack Israeli civilians with, and parts and components of objects for use in breaking the weapons embargo such as specialized electric motors for illegal tunnels used to smuggle weapons disguised as wheelchair parts etc.

Interesting email exchange between a Canadian, and the CBC ombudsman concerning Israel.

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I have left the emails perfectly intact except for replacing the name of the complainant. After all, this is Canada and if you take an unfashionable view on politics well, could impact ones job and social status. Just like you would expect in a free country.

Complainant to CBC:

When CBC.ca first posted the report “Hamas, Fatah proclaim reconciliation deal” (http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/05/04/hama-fatah-cairo-agreement.html), it included the following two paragraphs:

 

“The Quartet of Mideast mediators — the U.S., the EU, the United Nations and Russia — has long demanded that Hamas renounce violence and recognize the principle of Israel’s right to exist.

 

But Abbas aide Nabil Shaath told Israel Radio ahead of Wednesday’s signing that these demands “are unfair, unworkable and do not make sense.”

CBC has since removed these paragraphs from the report. The report was altered without publishing a notice of retraction or correction.

These two paragraphs are critical to the reported story, and to Canadians’ understanding of what just occurred in the Palestinian Authority.

Following a unification agreement, the aide to the Chairman of the Palestinian Authority proclaimed to the world that it’s “unfair, unworkable and does not make sense” to recognize Israel, renounce violence and respect past agreements.

This remarkable comment comes from the office of the so-called moderate Palestinian leader, who is purportedly engaged in peace negotiations with Israel.

The deleted comment provides a valuable insight into the Palestinian Authority’s attitude towards Israel, and the possible reasons why peace negotiations have been so prolonged.

The lack of visible results in the middle eastern peace process is commonly blamed on Israel. This comment, which has been stealthily removed by CBC staff, clearly implicates the PA as partly responsible for the failure of the talks. Furthermore, it portrays them as supportive of Hamas terrorism, contrary to their stated claims of desiring a non-violent solution. Lastly, these are their words, their attitude.

 

Why was this statement removed from the story?

 

Why was a retraction or correction notice not published on CBC.ca?

 

Thank you for your attention

The CBC responds:

Dear Mr. (Complainant): Continue Reading →

Propellor on illegal flotilla boat to gaza cut.

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As the weapons blockade of Gaza is in fact, perfectly legal and in accordance with all military conventions including UN ones I can’t help but wonder if cutting the prop on a boat who’s stated intention is to break that blockade and deliver un-checked goods into the hands of a terrorist group that has on its charter, genocidal ambitions, is basically the same as police removing the tires from a getaway vehicle setting out for a bank robbery.

Any thoughts welcome.

MIDEAST: ACTIVISTS OF FLOTILLA 2 WANT TO KILL TROOPS, PRESS

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From Ansamed:

(ANSAmed) – TEL AVIV – Israel recently received information that pro-Palestinian activists who will be on board of the Flotilla headed for Gaza want to kill Israeli soldiers, several Israeli media report today. A Flotilla spokesman has already denied the accusations. Based on the information, also reported by military radio, bags filled with chemicals – including sulphuric acid – have been taken on board of some ships. The acid is reportedly meant to be thrown at Israeli troops in case they intercept the convoy, and then to be set on fire. ‘They come to kill’ is the dramatic headline in newspaper Maariv. The newspaper specifies that the pro-Palestinian activists headed for Gaza include members of Hamas and of the Turkish NGO Ihh, which staged an active resistance last year when the passenger ship Marmara was boarded by the Israeli Navy.

Nine Turkish passengers were killed. A spokesman of the Flotilla, Dror Feiler (former Israeli citizen) said in an interview on military radio that all participants of the expedition have promised not to use violence. If Israel has information that dangerous materials or people are present in the convoy, the organisers of the Flotilla should be informed. Feiler also accused Israel of being responsible in some way of a technical problem discovered yesterday in one of the Flotilla’s ships. The Flotilla is scheduled to depart in the coming days from a stretch of sea off the coast of Crete, headed for Gaza.

(ANSAmed).

 

Son of Hamas founder on Finnish TV.

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Thanks to Tundra Tabloids for sending me this link, here is an edited version of the interview with the Son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan Yousef. I have removed the Finnish translations from the interview for brevity, but this host is well known for honest translations so there is nothing missing in terms of honest content.