Wednesday 29 July 2009

Israel Matzav: Hizb ut-Tahrir conference displays anti-Semitic and anti-Christian materials

Hizb ut-Tahrir conference displays anti-Semitic and anti-Christian materials

Three weeks ago, I noted that Hizb ut-Tahrir, an Islamist organization was coming to Judea and Samaria. This past week, the group held a convention in Chicago, where they were quite open about their goals.

More than a dozen issues of a Hizb ut-Tahrir (HT) newsletter called The Shield were obtained from the conference by the Investigative Project on Terrorism. The publication repeatedly condemns interfaith "outreach initiatives" and shows HT believes in the death penalty for Muslims who leave the faith.

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Israel Matzav: Hizb ut-Tahrir conference displays anti-Semitic and anti-Christian materials

Israel Matzav: What Iran thinks America is offering

What Iran thinks America is offering

Amir Taheri looks at the same editorial from Iran's Kayhan that I discussed on Monday night here, and explains what Iran thinks the Obama administration is offering.

In this theory, President Obama is trying to establish a linkage, whereby Israel would accept a nuclear-armed Iran while Iran would withdraw its opposition to a two-state solution for the Palestinian problem.

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Israel Matzav: Oh joy! Look who's coming to town!

Oh joy! Look who's coming to town!

Jimmy Carter's 'Elders' - a group of 'elder statesmen' - plans to send a delegation to visit Israel, including Judea and Samaria, and the Gaza Strip in August. The delegation will include Carter himself and the anti-Semitic South African Bishop Desmond Tutu (pictured).

The Elders group says it wants to support Israelis and Palestinians seeking peace. The delegation, led by former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso, is set to arrive in late August to meet young Israelis and Palestinians, community organizers, business leaders and others "who are working hard for peaceful coexistence."

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Israel Matzav: Oh joy! Look who's coming to town!

Israel Matzav: Lebanese have had it with Hezbullah

Lebanese have had it with Hezbullah

During a United Nations Security Council special session on the Middle East on Monday night, Gabriela Shalev, Israel's ambassador to the UN, read a letter from Lebanese citizens to Lebanese President Suleiman in which the Lebanese demanded that their President take action against Hezbullah.

"The recent explosion (in Hezbollah's arms depot in south Lebanon) was very dangerous, and it prompted us to publicly say what everyone is trying to conceal: Illegal arms are being stored by Hezbollah within civilian population areas in basements near our children," the Lebanese citizens wrote in the letter, which was addressed to President Michel Suleiman and published by the Al Mustaqbal daily on July 16.

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Israel Matzav: Lebanese have had it with Hezbullah

Israel Matzav: Confirmed: Obama sent letters to Arab heads of state... and they were ignored

Confirmed: Obama sent letters to Arab heads of state... and they were ignored

White House press secretary Robert Gibbs confirmed in Monday's press briefing that President Obumbler sent letters to Arab heads of state asking them to make confidence building measures toward Israel. As usual, the President is being ignored.

Q Thank you, Robert. The President is sending Secretary Gates and George Mitchell to the Middle East. Can you confirm that he also wrote letters to a series of heads of state in the Arab countries, to push them for confidence-building measures towards Israel?

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Israel Matzav: Confirmed: Obama sent letters to Arab heads of state... and they were ignored

Israel Matzav: Winning back Israeli trust

Winning back Israeli trust

Writing at The New Republic, Yossi Klein HaLevi discusses the current crisis in US-Israel relations and gives six suggestions for things President Obumbler can do to resolve the crisis.

Are we in the early stages of an American-Israeli crisis? Or are the growing and public disagreements between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu government over settlements and Jerusalem merely arguments "within the family," as President Obama insisted in his recent meeting with American Jewish leaders?

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Israel Matzav: Winning back Israeli trust

Israel Matzav: Senators urge Obama to lean on Arab states

Senators urge Obama to lean on Arab states

Two Senators - Evan Bayh (D-Ind.) and James Risch (R-Idaho) are circulating a letter among their colleagues that urges the Obama administration to pressure the Arab states to make peace overtures to Israel.
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Israel Matzav: Senators urge Obama to lean on Arab states

Israel Matzav: Israel, Honduras and Obama

Israel, Honduras and Obama

David Solway draws some uneasy parallels between Israel and Honduras, and how they are being treated by the United States in the Age of Obama.

We now know that deposed Honduran President Manuel Zelaya was deeply implicated in acts attempting to overturn the Constitution governing the civil society of Honduras and replace it with a left-wing populist dictatorship in all but name. On July 17, 2009, the Honduran daily La Tribuna revealed that government computers containing results for an illegal referendum yet to be held had been confiscated in a building adjacent to the Presidential palace (Pajamas Media, July 21, 2009). There can be no disputing that Zelaya was plotting a coup d’etat that would have brought Honduras into the socialist camp of Venezuela, Cuba and Nicaragua.

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Israel Matzav: Clinton redefines 'going nuclear'

Clinton redefines 'going nuclear'

Picking up on comments that Secretary of State Clinton made about North Korea on Sunday's Meet the Press, the Washington Times suggests that Clinton may be re-defining what 'going nuclear' means in a way that will allow the Obama administration further leeway in pretending that Iran is not a nuclear power.

Asked by NBC's David Gregory if the effort to keep North Korea from going nuclear had failed, Mrs. Clinton answered, "No, I don't think so, because their program is still at the beginning stages." In other words, two nuclear tests and a stockpile of seven or eight nuclear weapons are no longer enough to join the club. Tough luck Pyongyang, you've been blackballed

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Israel Matzav: 'Palestinians': US 'settlement freeze' demand unchanged

'Palestinians': US 'settlement freeze' demand unchanged

'Palestinian' chief bottle washer negotiator Saeb Erekat claims that Special Envoy to the Middle East George Mitchell told moderate' 'Palestinian' President Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen on Monday that, contrary to what's been reported in the media, the US demand for a complete 'settlement freeze' in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem remains unchanged.

"Mitchell told Abbas that contrary to what has been said in the mass media there is no agreement with the Israeli side on anything," Erekat told reporters.

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Israel Matzav: 'Palestinians': US 'settlement freeze' demand unchanged

Israel Matzav: Aluf Benn almost gets one right

Israel Matzav: Aluf Benn almost gets one right

Israel Matzav: Former al-Aqsa 'martyr' suing Sacha Baron Cohen

Israel Matzav: Former al-Aqsa 'martyr' suing Sacha Baron Cohen

Israel Matzav: Home Game - the movie

Israel Matzav: Home Game - the movie

Israel Matzav: Solow denies he had a falling out with Obama

Israel Matzav: Solow denies he had a falling out with Obama

Israel Matzav: Revenants construct 11 new outposts

Revenants construct 11 new outposts

The revenants have just about completed constructing 11 new 'outposts' in Judea and Samaria - just in time for Prime Minister Netanyahu's meeting with US Special Middle East envoy George Mitchell.

Activists on Sunday announced that they wished to "put an end to the White Papers," and called for assistance in constructing the 11 outposts, an allusion to the 11 settlements established in the Negev during the British Mandate.

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Israel Matzav: Revenants construct 11 new outposts

Israel Matzav: Your tax dollars at work: The Yasser Arafat Museum

Your tax dollars at work: The Yasser Arafat Museum

The 'Palestinian Authority,' which perpetually has no money except what it receives from 'international aid' (i.e. your tax dollars and my tax shekels) has decided to spend $2 million on a museum to memorialize terrorist leader Yasser Arafat in Ramallah (the picture is of Arafat's mausoleum, which was constructed in 2007 at a cost of $1.5 million).
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Israel Matzav: Your tax dollars at work: The Yasser Arafat Museum

Israel Matzav: 8 US Representatives in Gaza Monday for 'low profile' visit

8 US Representatives in Gaza Monday for 'low profile' visit

Eight US members of Congress were in Gaza Monday for a 'low profile' visit. It's 'low profile' enough that I have not been able to find their identities online. They crossed into Gaza through the Erez crossing point in Israel.

After crossing from Israel into Gaza, the eight legislators headed for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA)'s headquarters in the city and started a meeting with John Ging, the UNRWA operations director, the sources said.

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Israel Matzav: 8 US Representatives in Gaza Monday for 'low profile' visit

Israel Matzav: Obama won't present 'peace plan'?

Obama won't present 'peace plan'?

After months of anticipation that President Obumbler would pro impose a 'peace plan,' Israeli officials now believe that the Obama administration has dropped the idea.

Ever since Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu met with Obama in Washington in May, there have been persistent reports that Obama would give a speech in which he would outline his vision of a peace agreement, much in the way that president Bill Clinton did in 2001, just before leaving office.


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Israel Matzav: Obama won't present 'peace plan'?

Israel Matzav: 7 Muslims arrested in North Carolina planned terror attacks in Israel

7 Muslims arrested in North Carolina planned terror attacks in Israel

Seven men - who just happen to be Muslims - have been arrested in North Carolina and charged with planning terror attacks, including in Israel.

The indictment said Boyd, a US citizen, trained in Afghanistan and fought there between 1989 and 1992 before returning to the United States. Court documents charged that Boyd, also known as 'Saifullah,' encouraged others to engage in jihad.

Boyd's faith was so brash that, this year, he stopped attending worship services in the Raleigh area and instead began meeting for Friday prayers in his home

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Israel Matzav: 7 Muslims arrested in North Carolina planned terror attacks in Israel

Jewish Defence League of Canada Protest Against President Obama

Jewish Defence League of Canada Protest Against President Obama




"Yes to Israel Independence, No to American Dictates!"

Date:
Friday, July 31, 2009
Time:
12:00am - 1:00pm

Location:
Consulate General of the United States of America
Street:
360 University Avenue
City/Town:
Toronto, ON

Join the Anti-Obama Rally in Toronto

Bring Canada and Israel Flags

The Jewish Defence League of Canada and Bob Kunst from Shalom International will lead a protest against President Obama on Friday July 31 at 12 noon at the Consulate General of the United States of America 360 University Avenue, Toronto, Ontario

MK Katz quoted the official figures released by the Central Bureau of Statistics today, indicating nearly 305,000 Israelis in Yesha, at a growth rate some three times higher than the rest of the country.

“If this is the official figure,” Katz said, “then we can assume that there are really close to 350,000 people, because of all those who have not changed their official addresses, and outposts, and the like. Together with the nearly 300,000 people in the new Jerusalem neighborhoods, this means that Barack Hussein Obama is telling well over 600,000 Jews that they must all stop having children and buildings and going to the store and sending their children to school and building roads and, in short, to stop growing. This is the type of decree that our worst enemies decreed against us, always accompanied by their Jewish advisors. But just as they did not succeed, the same will be with Obama.


For more information call 416-736-7000

taken from B'NAI ELIM (Sons of the Mighty)

Has Obama Already Talked to Us?

Has Obama Already Talked to Us?

Jeffrey Goldberg took Aluf Benn's Op-Ed (which I linked to earlier today) and asked some folks at the White House if perhaps their boss ought indeed to talk to the Israelis. No, they told him, because he already has. The Cairo speech was directed also at the Israelis; the president strongly emphasized America's committment to Israel, condemned terrorism and so on.

This is true, but not relevant; indeed, if Goldberg is quoting accurately, the White House response merely underlines the problem:

I spoke to two senior administration officials who seemed to feel fairly
strongly that Benn doesn't understand what the President is trying to do.


One of the things Obama needs to address is our growing conviction that in his arrogance he underestimates our intelligence. He preaches that we need to rethink our positions while demonstrating very little understanding of the complexities we've long since worked through; he assures us public bilateral agreements made a mere four years ago never happened; he seems incapable of distinguishing between settlements even when the Palestinians have already recognised such distinctions, and his position is empowering them to renounce positions they've already accepted.

Aluf Benn, as I've said in the past, is a lefty journalist at Haaretz, a staunchly left-leaning newspaper. He has been criticizing Obama's methods of dealing with Israel, while explaining how most left-leaning Israelis think the same. If the best Obama's aides can say in response is that he doesn't understand the intricacy their boss is applying, I think they've demonstrated how Benn has got it right.
taken from Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

What You See and What You Don't

What You See and What You Don't

Fascinating article in the NYT about the ability - partially natural and partially acquired through hard work and experience - to recognize danger at a glance, before there's enough data to know what you know. The article focuses on the ability of some American soldiers to identify hidden bombs from afar, because of some minute detail that's "wrong". Much of the discussion is about the psychology and physiology of the matter: electric pulses in sections of the brain, that sort of thing.

Yet the story also demonstrates the opposite: that sometimes you can have something staring at you in the face and still be unable to see it. It starts with a true story:

The sight was not that unusual, at least not for Mosul, Iraq, on a summer morning: a car parked on the sidewalk, facing opposite traffic, its windows rolled up tight. Two young boys stared out the back window, kindergarten age maybe, their faces leaning together as if to share a whisper.
The soldier patrolling closest to the car stopped. It had to be hot in there; it was 120 degrees outside. “Permission to approach, sir, to give them some water,” the soldier said to Sgt. First Class Edward Tierney, who led the nine-man patrol that morning.
“I said no — no,” Sergeant Tierney said in a telephone interview from Afghanistan. He said he had an urge to move back before he knew why: “My body suddenly got cooler; you know, that danger feeling.”


At the end of the article, we read the rest of the story

That morning in Mosul, Sergeant Tierney gave the command to fall back. The soldier who had asked to approach the car had just time enough to turn before the bomb exploded. Shrapnel clawed the side of his face; the shock wave threw the others to the ground. The two young boys were gone: killed in the blast, almost certainly, he said.

The striking thing about the article is that it misses the central part of the event: that some Iraqi murderer purposefully used two young Iraqi boys (5 year olds) as a deadly decoy to kill Americans. The murderer knew the Americans would notice the children and want to help; he was evil enough coldbloodedly to sacrifice them for the purpose of killing Americans; and the sergeant, unlike the NYT reporter, was so profoundly aware of this possibility that it tipped him off to the danger.

Do you wonder where the murderer got the children? He didn't kidnap them as they weren't panicking; that wouldn't have worked. He probably knew them, and they knew him, and when he left them in the car he told them he'd be back in a moment and they shouldn't worry. So they didn't. But the Sergeant did.

And the reporter didn't.
taken from Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

Obama Needs to Talk to Israelis

Obama Needs to Talk to Israelis

Says Aluf Benn, writing in the NYT.

Third, Mr. Obama seems to have confused American Jews with Israelis. We are close emotionally and politically, but we are different. We speak Hebrew and not English, we live in the Middle East and have separate historical narratives. Mr. Obama’s stop at Buchenwald and his strong rejection of Holocaust denial, immediately after his Cairo speech, appealed to American Jews but fell flat in Israel. Here we are taught that Zionist determination and struggle — not guilt over the Holocaust — brought Jews a homeland. Mr. Obama’s speech, which linked Israel’s existence to the Jewish tragedy, infuriated many Israelis who sensed its closeness to the narrative of enemies like Mahmoud Ahmedinejad.

taken from :Yaacov Lozowick's Ruminations

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