02/11 Links Pt1: PA Minister Claims Western Wall; PA's Human Rights...
From Ian:Khaled Abu Toameh: Palestinian Authority Human Rights Violations Ignored by Media, WestThat Hamas is responsible for human rights violations and assaults on freedom of expression should not...
View Article"Zionists trying to hide Canaanite-Palestinian civilization"
You know how Israel is always accused of using archaeology to hide any traces of Muslim presence in the land (a charge that a simple visit to the Israel Museum would dispel)?Well, that's passe. Now...
View ArticleScarlett for Sec'y of State - and Israel: A Facebook Movie
Two items.One is a great article from Bret Stephens in the WSJ. Since it is a pain to get behind their paywall, here's the whole thing:Last month the Palestinian ambassador to the Czech Republic blew...
View Article02/11 Links Pt2: Arab, Muslim and pro-Israel; David Draiman Supports Scarlett...
From Ian:Arab, Muslim and pro-IsraelI’m Abdel. I was born in Algeria and lived there for a little over a decade. During that time, I had the distinct pleasure to go through a brutal civil war where...
View ArticleNutty Iranian site makes fun of Jews by quoting nutty Christian site
One of Iran's PressTV's antisemitic columnists writes:Will a Zionist apocalypse erupt during the coming two years?Some Zionists seem to think so. They are predicting that an unusual series of lunar...
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Palestinian minister denies saying he would allow Jews to pray on the Temple...
The Blaze reports:The Palestinian Authority’s Religious Affairs Minister says there will be no peace agreement with Israel unless all territories Israel captured in 1967, including the Western Wall –...
View ArticleReview: New Gaza Salafi group makes boring video threatening Israel
A new Al Qaeda-aligned Islamist group has announced itself in Gaza by releasing an unwatchably boring video filled with threats to Israel.Nine masked members of "The Victory of the Islamic State of...
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Mondoweiss really is hilarious sometimes
Only a week ago, Mondoweiss, along with many others, was crowing over the Sodastream stock price going down 3%, finding an analyst that said it was based on fears of the company being boycotted.At that...
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The truth behind the "State of Palestine"/Gaza patient story
Patient from Gaza going to IsraelThis story has been getting lots of play over the past couple of hours:Israel has denied entry permits to some 50 Palestinian medical patients from the Gaza Strip...
View Article02/12 Links Pt1: Why does the EU fund anti-peace NGOs?; 200 Attacks on...
From Ian:The BDS follyThere is, after all, something decent and intimate in the reciprocal relations imposed by the discipline of the market. The idea that businessmen produce tolerance as a by-product...
View ArticleFreedom, Turkish-style
There have been two interesting recent news stories from Turkey.From Naharnet:A Turkish court on Wednesday sentenced a group of protesters to two years in jail for chanting slogans deemed insulting to...
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95% of world's nations refuse to congratulate Iran on anniversary
Here's the best list I could generate of countries that (according to reports) sent their congratulations on the 35th anniversary of Iran's revolution:Turkey (an official spoke at a celebratory rally,...
View Article02/12 Links Pt2: A special thank you from Scarlett Johansson; Israel a...
From Ian:A special thank you from Scarlett Johansson to YOUThousands and thousands of you rose to the occasion and CCFP cannot express our thanks deeply enough. And we’re not the only ones. We have...
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How the PLO politicizes water as a weapon against Israel
Deutche Welle reports:European Parliament President Martin Schulz came under fire Wednesday after making remarks in the Israeli parliament, the Knesset, about the water usage of Palestinians and...
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Palestinian Arabs attacking their own doctors
In a culture that praises violence as a "right,"this is inevitable:Doctors from a public hospital in Nablus organized a demonstration on Wednesday to protest the assault of a colleague by the relatives...
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70 Iranian lawmakers want Zarif to explain his belief that the Holocaust was...
From PressTV:Seventy Iranian lawmakers have signed a letter to question Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif over his positions vis-a-vis the Holocaust and the Israeli regime.“The signatures for this...
View ArticleAntisemitic Egyptian play says Mossad behind Arab Spring (video)
I read translations of Arabic media all day. I see and post about the endemic antisemitism in the Arab world. But sometimes even I am surprised at how virulent it is.There is no comparison between...
View ArticleOther nations that supported the Balfour Declaration
I found this today in Establishment of a National Home in Palestine: Hearings before the Committee on foreign affairs, House of representatives, Sixty-seventh Congress, second session, on H. Con. Res....
View Article02/16 Links: BDS fail- Code Pink uses Israeli web platform; PA Paid...
From Ian:BDS fail: Code Pink uses Israeli web platform for their new website Code Pink's new website, promoting its Woman's delegation to Gaza was created using Wix. Its a great choice with cloud-based...
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Abbas opens his mouth, lies pour out
YNet reports:Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has told some 300 young Israelis visiting him on Sunday in the West Bank that he does not want to "drown Israel with millions of (Palestinian)...
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