Category Archives: Israel

Palestinian pop video: children sing of becoming martyrs

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Palestinian children sing of becoming martyrs. Without Palestine, they say, childhood has no meaning. It would not matter if thy had the rest of the world. In the video Jews are portrayed as cruel and bloodthirsty oppressors.

The person who retrieved this video says that they “Downloaded [it] from the site….. The source is an Islamic satellite channel for children called “Birds of Paradise” which broadcasts from Bahrain and aired in Gaza. The children’s choir is also called “Birds of Paradise”. The head of the channel, Khalid Maqdad, is a Palestinian Jordanian.”
H/T OxAO

US unions Islamists and communists block access to Israeli commercial ship

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From Pajamas Media:

An Israeli cargo ship arriving in Oakland today was forced to sit idle and not offload its containers when longshoremen joined forces with a coalition of communist and Islamist groups who picketed the port in protest against the recent violent incident off the coast of Gaza.

The ship, owned by Zim Lines, was not carrying any controversial cargo, nor is Zim involved in politics in any way; it was targeted simply because the shipping company is based in Israel.

The planned protest and blockade were organized by The Free Palestine Movement (one of the same groups which organized the Gaza “flotilla” in the first place) as well as a rogues’ gallery of nearly every communist, anti-Israel and radical Islamist group in the Bay Area:

Please visit the link at the top for the rest of this article:

IHH preperations for Israeli soldiers aboard the Gaza bound love boat.

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A youtube user named sion5509 has been making some fascinating comments on the video of the German news clip on the facts surrounding the people behind the main boat used to lure the Israelis into a public relations disaster.

I asked him to send me a link from where he was getting this information and he was kind enough to do so immediately. Here is the rest of the info from that page:

Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center
Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center

June 9, 2010

Video Recordings of Statements from Mavi Marmara Crew Members about Preparations Made by IHH Operatives for the Violent Confrontation with IDF Soldiers 1

Overview

1. The videotaped statements of two Mavi Marmara crew members show that preparations for a violent confrontation with IDF forces were put in motion about two hours before the boarding began, when the Israeli Navy hailed the ship and told it to halt.

2. According to the statements, the atmosphere aboard the Mavi Marmara was tense and the crew noticed a gathering on the main deck. When they checked the upper deck they discovered that IHH operatives were cutting the ship’s railings with metal disks they had brought with them into lengths suitable to be used as clubs. The crew members said the activities worried them and that they tried to stop the operatives but were unsuccessful.

3. The following are the statements of the one of the ship’s captains and an officer. This bulletin contains the text of the statements and the videotaped interviews.

Appendix

The Statements Continue Reading →

AS OSLO UNIVERSITY PREPARES TO DISCUSS POSSIBLE BOYCOTT OF ISRAEL, AN EXCHANGE BETWEEN THE JCPA CHAIRMAN AND RECTOR

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The Tundra Tabloids has obtained an email by Professor Leslie Wagner, chairman of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs’s Institute for Global Jewish Affairs, that was sent to the rector of the University of Oslo, Ole Petter Ottersen, Professor MD, PhD. The Tundra Tabloids has full permission to reprint the exchange between these two professors. KGS

NOTE: It’s good to know that the rector of the university is fully against such a boycott, let alone the discussion of one.

Correspondence:

Dear Professor Otterson,
I appreciate your prompt reply to my previous communication, and welcome your statement of your personal position regarding the boycott proposal. It is unfortunate from the university’s point of view that any member of the Board can make proposals, however damaging they may be to the good name of the university. I wish you success in mobilising the support of the Board for your position on this issue.
Leslie Wagner

Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2010 13:55:29 -0700
From: ol****@***oo.com
Subject: Re: [rektor] Boycott
To: re****@*io.no; vc******@*****il.com
CC: in*********@*******io.no; r.********@*****io.no; g.*************@*******io.no

Dear Dr Wagner,
Thank you for your mail regarding academic boycott. Please rest assured that the leadership of the university of Oslo is united behind its firm opposition to any form of academic boycott. The reason why this issue is to be discussed at the upcoming board meeting is a technical one: One of the board members insisted that the issue of boycott be brought to the board and the current rules then dictate that this wish has to be accommodated. For your information we can tell you that we have actively promoted our view in the press and declared that academic boycott is not a way to go in any conflict of this kind. In fact, the leadership of the university argues for a more active use of science diplomacy in conflicts where diplomatic contacts break down or prove inefficient.
I hope this helps clarify this issue. In short, we share your views on the harmful effects of academic boycott and trust that our board will rule against such a step with an overwhelming majority.
Ole Petter Ottersen, Professor MD, PhD
Rector, University of Oslo (http://www.uio.no/)

From: leslie wagner
To: re****@*io.no
Sent: Sun, June 20, 2010 10:46:53 PM
Subject: [rektor] Boycott

Dear Jan Petter Ottersen,
I write to you as a former vice chancellor of 2 British universities and a former chancellor of a third to express my shock that the University of Oslo is to consider a proposal to boycott Israeli universities and academics. Such political gestures have no place in academic discourse, and particularly at a university with the reputation of the University of Oslo.
That reputation can only be damaged, perhaps irrevocably, within the international academic community, if Oslo decides to judge which academics it will recognise on the basis of their passports rather than their academic merit. I urge you to do all in your power to prevent your university going down a route which not only breaches the core principles of academic life, but which will also do great and lasting harm to your fine institution.

Yours sincerely

Professor Leslie Wagner CBE

PM Harper on the brutal anti Israeli sentiments of the NDP

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I have never in my life been so proud to be Canadian as I was the moment I watched this clip. Thank you Stephen Harper for having the courage to stand alone against fashion and against the tidal wave of antisemitism and anti Israel policies that have become the norm for most nations, even though they know for a fact, are baseless.

Eeyore

Another truly excellent and thorough video on the Love boat to Gaza

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Maritime Martyrs from CJHS on Vimeo.

Helsinki Principles on the Law of Maritime Neutrality

5.1.2(3) Merchant ships flying the flag of a neutral State may be attacked if they are believed on reasonable grounds to be carrying contraband or breaching a blockade, and after prior warning they intentionally and clearly refuse to stop, or intentionally and clearly resist visit, search, capture or diversion.

5.1.2(4) Merchant ships flying the flag of a neutral State may be attacked if they:
(a) engage in belligerent acts on behalf of the enemy;
(c) are incorporated into or assist the enemy’s intelligence system;
(e) otherwise make an effective contribution to the enemy’s military action, e.g., by carrying military materials, and it is not feasible for the attacking forces to first place passengers and crew in a place of safety. Unless circumstances do not permit, they are to be given a warning, so that they can re-route, off-load, or take other precautions.

5.2.1 Visit and search
As an exception to Principle 5.1.2. paragraph 1 and in accordance with Principle 1.3 (2nd sentence), belligerent warships have a right to visit and search vis-a?-vis neutral commercial ships in order to ascertain the character and destination of their cargo. If a ship tries to evade this control or offers resistance, measures of coercion necessary to exercise this right are permissible. This includes the right to divert a ship where visit and search at the place where the ship is encountered are not practical.

5.2.10 Blockade
Blockade, i.e. the interdiction of all or certain maritime traffic coming from or going to a port or coast of a belligerent, is a legitimate method of naval warfare. In order to be valid, the blockade must be declared, notified to belligerent and neutral States, effective and applied impartially to ships of all States. A blockade may not bar access to neutral ports or coasts. Neutral vessels believed on reasonable and probable grounds to be breaching a blockade may be stopped and captured. If they, after prior warning, clearly resist capture, they may be attacked.

Bosnian Muslim arrested from ‘love boat’ by Israel

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June 1, 2010 – 12:46 pm Serbiana.com

During the raid on the Muslim terror ship, Israeli commandos have arrested a Bosnian Muslim national. His name is Yasser Mohamad Sabbagh and he is of the Syrian origin and he is pictured on the left.

Four additional Balkan Muslims were nabbed by the Israelis and presumably all of them are ethnic Albanian Muslims. One is from Kosovo and the 3 others are from Macedonia where Wahhabism is rampant among the Albanian Muslims.

The Kosovo Albanian arrested by Israel is Ramiqi Fuad President of Muslim Forum of Kosova and he said to Sabbagh:

“I was at this time stated the common suffering that we went during the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Kosovo war. Knowing what the situation in Palestine, at least we can contribute is that they carry a part of faith in the freedom that we achieved after long years, and will also one day have.

Sabbagh wrote in his last e-mail sent by the Organization of MFS in BiH saying that “Because of this mission has only one representative from Kosovo and a representative from Bosnia and Herzegovina, pleases you to more Bosnia. the media involved in monitoring these activities”.

Earlier this year, Israel warned via Macedonia’s PM that local Balkan Muslims are deep into world’s Islamic Jihad.

the rest at Serbiana

Saudi Arabia: Gives Israel Space To Attack Iranian Nuclear Sites

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A rather stunning little SITREP from STRATFOR:

This one sitrep basically justifies the expense I think! Chances are this is just a signal to Iran but still, its quite unexpected.

June 12, 2010
Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times reported June 12. Defense sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow strip of its airspace in the north of the country to diminish the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass safely, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defense systems not activated.

A preponderance of evidence of the non-peaceful intentions of the Gaza flotilla.

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First, this investigative journalism from German TV:

Here is a machine translation (Yes have a drink before reading this) of a Swedish site which is not exactly pro-Israel but simply cannot help but notice that the boat was loaded with fascists and totalitarians from Turkey to Germany.

Another Swedish article here. from this site. This should get the point through. But now as always, the first casualty of war, is truth. I prefer to try and preserve the truth anyway so that after the war, we have a clear direction again for a while.

Vlad Tepes interviews Bat Ye’or

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Our humble blog had the great opportunity on Monday to interview Bat Ye’or, Sam Solomon, and David G. Littman when they were in Ottawa to speak at an IFPS-Can joint event with the Fred Litwin’s Free Thinking Film Society.

With great thanks to them, here is part one of two of the interview with Bat Ye’or

UN Watch exposes Syria’s most recent blood libel

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I guess the ol’ Jews drink the blood of (whatever group wants to inspire hatred) never grows old. Here is from UN Watch Newsletter:

UN Watch Exposes Syrian Blood Libel, Calls on World Body to Condemn Anti-Semitic Speech

Geneva, June 8 — UN Watch is calling on the United Nations to condemn hateful and anti-Semitic remarks made today by the Syrian delegate to the UN Human Rights Council.

“Let me quote a song,” said Syrian diplomat Rania Al Rifaiy, “that a group of children on a school bus in Israel sing merrily as they go to school: `With my teeth I will rip your flesh, with my mouth I will suck your blood.”‘

She also accused Israel of being a state “built on hatred, discrimination, oppression and a paranoid feeling of superiority.” (See details below.)

UN Watch Executive Director Hillel Neuer urged an immediate condemnation from Council President Alex Van Meeuwen of Belgium, UN rights chief Navi Pillay, and UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, as well as by the member and observer states of the Council.

“Allegations of Israeli blood-sucking echoes the medieval blood libel about Jewish murder of children. Such statements, absurd and patently false, are historical incitements to prejudice and violence,” said Neuer.

“We had thought that they had been relegated to the ash-can of history. They have no place in the United Nations. They offend the decorum of the Human Rights Council and damage the credibility of its work.”

“We deeply regret that the Council, whose founding mission is to end intolerance toward any religious, racial, or ethnic group, was the venue for the expression of such crude and hateful allegations. It is now incumbent on all responsible UN authorities to speak out immediately and forcefully to condemn this bigotry.”

UN Watch’s exposé of today’s blood libel is already reported in the Canwest News article below.

Syrian envoy’s attack on Israel threatens to foil U.S. diplomatic drive

Steven Edwards, June 8, 2010

Syria on Tuesday accused Israel of indoctrinating its children with hatred towards Arabs, telling the United Nations Human Rights Council that Israeli youngsters sing about sucking Arab blood, and learn how to sign missiles destined for military activity against Arabs.

The tirade, delivered by Syrian diplomat Rania Al Rifaiy, was part of a Syrian appeal at the world body for countries to unite behind a campaign to “put an end to Israeli brutality.”

It came as Turkey sought a fresh condemnation of Israel over its deadly raid on Gaza-bound aid ships last week and hosted Syria and other regional leaders in Istanbul to discuss security in the region. Continue Reading →