“The secret of all victory lies in the organization of the non-obvious.” -Marcus Aurelius
THE POISONING OF THE ARAB MIND STARTS YOUNG.
Jameel at the Muqata who forwards the following video taken yesterday at Silwan which is an Arab area adjacent from the Old City of J’lem, writes:
“Young children who are taught to scream the Islamic war-cry “Alla Hu Akbar” at Border Policemen who are trying to prevent a riot from going out of control speaks mountains about the Palestinian Naqba against Israel. Anyone who thinks that Islam isn’t playing a dominant role is simply fooling themselves.”
Lt.Col Avital Leibovitch: I want to give a rundown of the few events that we have today in the Naqba days as the Palestinians call it, I will begin with the north with the Syrian-Israeli border.
During the noon hours we noticed that a few thousands of Syrians were gathering up in the area of Majdal Shams, the Syrian area of the Majdal Shams village, and we know that every year this riot or protest there, so this was something that was not unusual.
However, suddenly approximately one thousand people ran for the border, the Syrian border fence, amongst them were women, children, youths, then a few dozens of them crossed the fence, they broke down the fence, they bust into the village of Majdal Sham (Israeli side).
The commander in the area decided to only open fire selectively for those people who targeted the structures in the area. In this way I believe it would prevent loss of life. I can also tell you that some of the Majdal Sham members, civilians, actually assisted those Syrians in passing the border.
I can tell you a half hour ago a group of Syrians left the village to Syria and few hours ago another group, maybe there are a few still left there but in the near time they will leave the village. We know that there was another area, in Quneitra which was relatively quiet, not violence just regular riots.
(whatever that means) Continue Reading →
By JPOST.COM STAFF, YAAKOV LAPPIN AND YAAKOV KATZ
05/15/2011 15:28
Sources say 2-4 Syrians dead as IDF opens fire on Nakba Day rioters crossing border at Majdal Shams; 4 protesters reportedly killed on Lebanon border; IDF spokesperson: “Iran-Hezbollah-Hamas axis very clear.”
IDF spokesman Brig.-Gen. Yoav “Poli” Mordechai described the incident in which pro-Palestinians demonstrators crossed from Syria into Israel as an “Iranian provocation”on Sunday.
“The radical axis of Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas is very clear,” Brig.-Gen. Yoav “Poli” Mordechai told Channel 10 News.
“We have one incident in Maroun a-Ras area on the Lebanese border and a second one at Majdal Shams, where we see fingerprints of Iranian provocation aimed at creating friction,” he said.
Several dozen pro-Palestinian protesters crossed the Syrian border into the Golan Heights on Sunday. Sources reported between two to four Syrians dead and 10-20 people injured in ensuing clashes.
The incident occurred at the “Screaming Hill,” where Syrian Druse and Israeli Druse families separated by the northern border are known to yell messages to each other. Several dozen Syrians crossed the hill, and IDF soldiers shot into the air to stop the infiltrators.
“The IDF has now stopped the advance of protesters at Syrian border and are dealing with those who infiltrated,” Mordechai added.
‘IDF holds Syrian gov’t responsible for violent protests’
A senior IDF officer told The Jerusalem Post that Israel views the Syrian government as responsible for the violent protests, and the IDF is trying to push back the infiltrators. Continue Reading →
The makers of the excellent film, ‘The Case for Israel’ were kind enough to allow all readers of Vlad to see this film free till midnight EST Monday night in honour of Israeli Independence day. Enjoy, spread the link and comment. If you use FIREFOX you may need to click this link to see the video but with any other browser the video should appear to you below.
Thank you very much to the makers of this excellent and important film for this gift. It was very thoughtful of them to do this.
I very much hope that the good David Horowitz is not too upset with me for what I am going to do here.
The film, ‘The Case for Israel’, is a critical component today in the war of propaganda Vs. information with respect to the nature of the state of Israel, and as a totem, the people identified as Jews world wide since so much anti-Israel rhetoric is really nothing more than ‘onion paper antisemitism.’
Please watch this excellent film and send the link around. If the people who made this film want it down, it will go down. But after having read today’s emails and articles, I feel the situation has become so dire that every tool that I can use to counter the spin of the Muslims and leftists who would attempt to de-legitimize the Jewish state, and far more often than not, attempt to cast aspersion onto anyone who can be identified as Jewish using reasons that would apply for more accurately to for example, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia or even Egypt and parts of Saudi Arabia itself, must be used.
If you are using FIREFOX you likely won’t see the video. So please click here or use another browser.
Dozens of Arab residents hold rally in support of assassinated al-Qaeda leader in east Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood; meanwhile, bin Laden’s burial at sea prompts Muslim rage, Egypt imam says US violated Islamic custom
Yair Altman and Reuters
Published: 05.03.11, 00:55 / Israel News
Arab support for terror chief: Dozens of Arab residents held a rally in support of assassinated al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in east Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood Monday evening.
Some of the participants at the site hurled stones at Israel Police forces deployed in the area. Police officers responded with crowd dispersal means.
Palestinian Response
Gaza government condemns US slaying of ‘Arab holy warrior’, asks ‘God to offer him mercy with true believers, martyrs’. Meanwhile, US source says special forces team’s mission had been to kill, not capture, arch terrorist in Pakistan
No reports of injuries or detainees were received following the rally.
Notably, bin Laden made various statements over the years in support of the Palestinians and against Israel.
In the past he declared that muslims were engaged in a war against Jews, and in March 2010 he slammed the United States for “its support of Israel and the ongoing occupation in Palestine.”
Meanwhile, news of Bin Laden’s sea burial ignited Muslim outcry worldwide, raising the possibility of wide backlash despite the apparent care the US military gave to his last rites.
A prominent imam in Egypt, Dr Ahmed El-Tayeb, said the US violated Islamic custom by not burying bin Laden on land, a move seen as a US attempt to prevent his resting place from becoming a shrine for extremist followers.
Islamist lawyer Montasser al-Zayat said bin Laden should have been buried in his native Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites. The US said earlier that Saudi officials refused to accept the body for burial.
Instead, bin Laden’s body was transported to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, which brought him to his final resting place somewhere in the north Arabian Sea.
“The burial of bin Laden’s remains was done in strict conformance with Islamist precepts and practices,” said John Brennan, US President Barack Obama’s top counter-terrorism adviser.
“The body was placed in a weighted bag. A military officer read prepared religious remarks which were translated into Arabic by a native speaker,” the US official said. “After the words were complete, the body was placed on a prepared flat board, tipped up, whereupon the deceased’s body eased into the sea.”
Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:20AM
A massive explosion at a gas terminal near Egypt’s border with Israel has leapt huge flames into the air and forced the shutdown of the pipeline.
The blast targeted the al-Sabil terminal near the town of El-Arish on Wednesday, located on the Mediterranean coast of the Sinai Peninsula and 344 kilometers (213 miles) northeast of the Egyptian capital, Cairo, the Associated Press reported.
Valves controlling the flow of gas to neighboring Jordan had been shut down as a result of the explosion, according to Egyptian officials.
The attack was the second in kind on the pipeline. On March 27, unknown armed men had placed explosives at the terminal to blow it up, but had failed to carry out their act of terror.
MP/HRF
Here is a STRATFOR SITREP on this incident
Israel: Youths Clash In West Bank After Religious Site Incident
April 24, 2011
Dozens of Israeli youths clashed with Palestinians in the West Bank village of Hawara on April 24, hours after one Israeli was killed and three wounded when Palestinian security forces opened fire on them at a religious site, Haaretz reported. Ben-Joseph Livnat, the 25-year-old nephew of Israeli Culture and Science Minister Limor Livnat, was killed when Palestinian forces opened fire on three vehicles that reportedly tried to break through a roadblock to enter the site. The Israeli youths threw stones at Palestinian vehicles, during which a child was injured. The youths set a car on fire and tried to burn down a house but were stopped after security forces were deployed to the area
Below is the email from the New English Review that alerted me to this incident:
Watch this IDF video of the commander of the Judea and Samaria Division discussing the killing of an Israeli at Joseph’s tomb. Note that Palestinian Security forces perpetrated the killing. This killing comes after last month’s slaughter of five members of the Fogel family in the community of Itamar in Samaria. The perpetrators came from the neighboring Arab village and were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. So this is the payback for hundreds of millions US taxpayer funds used to train these PA security forces. Time for Members of Congress
to raise this and the other matter: the hundreds of millions ‘donated’ via our State Department that have mindlessly supported the 60+ years eyesores of four generations in UNWRA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East) Palestinian refugee camps inciting hatred of the Jewish state of Israel.
Thanks for sending me this DP111
By YAAKOV LAPPIN JPOST
04/21/2011 22:25
Hezbollah is planning a terrorist attack against Israelis abroad within days, security sources warned on Thursday night.
The warning of the imminent attack did not mention specific locations. It was issued as many Israelis were abroad for the weeklong Pessah holiday.
Security is being stepped up at potential Jewish and Israeli targets overseas, the sources said.
They named Hezbollah operative Talal Hamia as the commander of a small but well-organized overseas unit that had been tasked by the Lebanese terrorist organization with carrying out the attack.
Hamia is alleged to have been involved in the 1992 and 1994 bombings in Buenos Aires that targeted the Israeli Embassy and the main Jewish community building.
Hezbollah has been seeking to avenge the assassination of its field commander, Imad Mughniyeh, in Damascus in 2008.
Ever since Mughniyeh was killed, Hezbollah has repeatedly vowed revenge and has reportedly tried to carry out revenge attacks several times. The group’s plans to stage powerful and painful attacks have been thwarted by security services worldwide, including in Azerbaijan, Thailand and Sinai in 2008, and in Turkey in 2009, according to foreign reports.
Hamia has replaced Mughniyeh as field commander since the assassination, and answers directly to Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah, as well as to Gen. Kassem Suleimani, commander of the al-Quds Division of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which assists in the organization of terrorism outside the Islamic Republic’s borders.
Channel 10 reported that Hamia was working closely with his right-hand man and bodyguard, Ahmed Faid.
Hezbollah’s operational command structure is overseeing the group’s technical department, led by explosives engineer Ali Najam al-Din and bomb assembly expert Malik Ovayad, who reportedly prepared the device used in the 1992 bombing of the embassy in Argentina. Ovayad uses the alias of an air conditioner repairman.
Majd al-Zakur, known as “the forger,” is responsible for preparing fake passports used by terrorist cell members, security sources said.
The cell is aided by businessmen, among them a Lebanese cellphone salesman and a Turkish national.
Failed plots have been reported in the past in Jordan, Egypt, Azerbaijan, Thailand and Sinai. In 2009, two Hezbollah members and four Azeri collaborators were accused of plotting a multiple car bomb attack on Israel’s Embassy in Baku.
In February, the Counter-Terrorism Bureau warned against traveling to Egypt, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, the Ivory Coast, Mali, Mauritania and Venezuela.
The advisory warned against traveling to these locations and to refrain from being in places with large groups of Israelis.
This is great. Thanks Cockney Doll. From the look of the website, its very pro-Islam and anti Israel etc. But you wouldn’t know it from reading this article. It appears to be an unwitting admission of how much Israel produces. Meanwhile, a BDS of the Muslim world would be unnoticed if it wasn’t for gasoline, which is a western product anyway. They just happen to live on top of the oil.
Eeyore
From this site. Please click here to see it all as I have only reposted about half of it here.
By Tania Kepler – The city of Marrickville is the first municipality in Australia to support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. The city is now under attack, following the publication of a report saying that support for BDS could end up costing taxpayers $4 million.
BDS protest – ArchiveIn December 2010 the local council in the Australian city of Marrickville became the first municipality in Australia to support the Palestinian initiated Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, and “boycott all goods made in Israel and any sporting, institutional academic, government or institutional cultural exchanges.”
The city is now under attack, following the publication of a report saying that support for BDS could end up costing taxpayers $4 million. Marrickville Mayor Fiona Byrne has denied that would be the case.
The paper was written by the council’s manager of services, Gary Moore, who says that signing onto BDS will require the replacement of the municipality’s Hewlett Packard computers, Holden and Volvo cars, telephones and other equipment from Motorola and concrete from Fulton Hogan.
Mr. Moore’s report found the boycott measure would lead to “substantial” impacts on council’s operations. “Significant change would have to be planned for and managed to enable council operations to be maintained whilst new sets of providers of computer hardware, concrete, waste services, some vehicles and some other construction materials and consumables are obtained and existing contracts are completed/suspended,” the report said.
According to Moore’s report for the council, it would cost about $3 million to replace Hewlett Packard computer systems, $300,000 for new record-keeping software and $150,000 for new Motorola products.
(CNN) — The Israel Defense Forces arrested two people it identified as responsible for the massacre of an Israeli family in the West Bank settlement of Itamar, officials said Sunday.
The two suspects, Amjad Awad. 19. and Hakim Awad, 28, were caught in the nearby Palestinian village of Awarta, Israeli General Security Services said. Six others have been arrested for helping them.
The pair are accused of killing Udi and Ruth Fogel and three of their children last month. The children were ages 11 years, 4 years and 3 months.
The two men were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, but acted independently, the security services said. They decided on the attack a few days before the killings, the officials said.
According to the investigation, the pair were unsuccessful in an initial attempt to acquire a gun, but on the night of the killings broke into an empty house in the settlement and stole an M-16 rifle.
They entered the Fogel’s home and stabbed two of the children, before struggling with the parents and stabbing and shooting them, the security services said. They fled the house, fearing the shots would have been heard, but then returned to steal another weapon and stabbed the baby, the officials said. Continue Reading →
The description below is from the blog, Daphne Ansen. Thanks to Cockney Doll for the tip. Click over to Daphne’s site for the details. (Sorry for having titled it with the wrong country initially)
Here they are, earlier this month outside the local Jewish community centre, all worked up and raucous, yelling against Reuven Rivlin (“blood on your hands”), Israel (“a police state”) , getting very angry against the Auckland police (screams of “police protect the Zionists!”) and civic authorities, and making general prats of themselves:
By JPOST.COM STAFF AND REUTERS
04/15/2011 03:15
GAZA – Security officials found the body of an Italian man who had been abducted in the Gaza Strip in an abandoned house overnight Thursday, a Hamas security official said.
Two men were arrested and others were being sought.
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In a You Tube clip the group posted online earlier Thursday, a Jihadist Salafi group in Gaza aligned with al Qaida had threatened to execute Italian rights activist Vittorio Arigoni by 17:00 local time (1400 GMT) unless their leader Hesham al-Sa’eedni, whom it detained last month, was freed.
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas condemned the kidnapping and called for Arigoni’s “immediate release without conditions,” in a statement overnight Thursday.
“The move does not serve the justification of the Palestinian nation, but harms it,” Abbas added.
“If our demands are not met within 30 hours the captive will be executed when the period is over,” a text on the video clip said.
Arrigoni, an Italian pacifist and blogger, has lived in the Gaza Strip for some time. He was shown blindfolded with blood around his right eye and a hand can be seen pulling his head up by his hair to face the camera.
A spokesman for the Hamas interior ministry in Gaza City said it was investigating the abduction.
It was unclear when Arrigoni was kidnapped or where he was being held, but an Italian diplomat who serves in the region confirmed to Reuters he had been abducted.
The Arabic text that accompanied the footage of Arrigoni also said “the Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption” and it described Italy as “the infidel state”.
Arrigoni, an Italian pacifist and blogger, has lived in the Gaza Strip for some time. He was shown blindfolded with blood around his right eye and a hand can be seen pulling his head up by his hair to face the camera.
A spokesman for the Hamas interior ministry in Gaza City said it was investigating the abduction.
It was unclear when Arrigoni was kidnapped or where he was being held, but an Italian diplomat who serves in the region confirmed to Reuters he had been abducted.
The Arabic text that accompanied the footage of Arrigoni also said “the Italian hostage entered our land only to spread corruption” and it described Italy as “the infidel state”.
This report is republished with permission of STRATFOR“
April 12, 2011
By George Friedman
There was one striking thing missing from the events in the Middle East in past months: Israel. While certainly mentioned and condemned, none of the demonstrations centered on the issue of Israel. Israel was a side issue for the demonstrators, with the focus being on replacing unpopular rulers.
This is odd. Since even before the creation of the state of Israel, anti-Zionism has been a driving force among the Arab public, perhaps more than it has been with Arab governments. While a few have been willing to develop open diplomatic relations with Israel, many more have maintained informal relations: Numerous Arab governments have been willing to maintain covert relations with Israel, with extensive cooperation on intelligence and related matters. They have been unwilling to incur the displeasure of the Arab masses through open cooperation, however.
That makes it all the more strange that the Arab opposition movements — from Libya to Bahrain — have not made overt and covert cooperation with Israel a central issue, if for no other reason than to mobilize the Arab masses. Let me emphasize that Israel was frequently an issue, but not the central one. If we go far back to the rise of Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser and his revolution for Pan-Arabism and socialism, his issues against King Farouk were tightly bound with anti-Zionism. Similarly, radical Islamists have always made Israel a central issue, yet it wasn’t there in this round of unrest. This was particularly surprising with regimes like Egypt’s, which had formal relations with Israel.
It is not clear why Israel was not a rallying point. One possible explanation is that the demonstrations in the Islamic world were focused on unpopular leaders and regimes, and the question of local governance was at their heart. That is possible, but particularly as the demonstrations faltered, invoking Israel would have seemed logical as a way to legitimize their cause. Another explanation might have rested in the reason that most of these risings failed, at least to this point, to achieve fundamental change. They were not mass movements involving all classes of society, but to a great extent the young and the better educated. This class was more sophisticated about the world and understood the need for American and European support in the long run; they understood that including Israel in their mix of grievances was likely to reduce Western pressure on the risings’ targets. We know of several leaders of the Egyptian rising, for example, who were close to Hamas yet deliberately chose to downplay their relations. They clearly were intensely anti-Israeli but didn’t want to make this a crucial issue. In the case of Egypt, they didn’t want to alienate the military or the West. They were sophisticated enough to take the matter step by step.
Hamas’ Opportunity
A second thing was missing from the unrest: There was no rising, no intifada, in the Palestinian territories. Given the general unrest sweeping the region, it would seem logical that the Palestinian public would have pressed both the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) and Hamas to organize massive demonstrations against Israel. This didn’t happen. Continue Reading →