04/06 Links: Kerry can’t keep kidding himself; Staring Down the Devil at the UoM
From Ian:David Singer: Kerry can’t keep kidding himselfKerry now needs to immediately focus his attention on Jordan – the last Arab State to have occupied the West Bank between 1948 -1967 and which –...
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Palestinian Arab businessman denies peaceful statements after critics slam him
Munib al-Masri, the richest Palestinian Arab businessman and associate with Mahmoud Abbas, wrote an article in Walla where he seems to support a two-state solution. He denies that the Saudi "Arab Peace...
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Marwan Barghouti says prisoner releases are the "core of resistance"
Terrorist Marwan Barghouti, one of the architects of the deadly second intifada, released a statement that"liberation of the prisoners should be considered a core national priority of the march of...
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Latest BDS conundrum: Salt 424 - boycott or not?
From Tablet:Salt 424, which gets its name from the fact that the surface of the Dead Sea is 424 meters below sea level, is the first company to bring gourmet salt from the Dead Sea to the Israeli and...
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Egyptians facing severe energy shortages
From Egypt Independent last week:Power outages could be extended from two and a half hours to 6 hours aday due to fuel shortage, Minister of Electricity and Renewable Energy Mohamed Shaker told CBC...
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#OpIsrael brags about hacking a cancer therapy website
This week, Israel is supposed to be besieged by cyber-attacks by one of the "Anonymous" groups.“On April 7, 2014, we call upon our brothers and sisters to hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin...
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Israeli biscuits cause major scandal at Palestinian press conference
There was a press conference in the Al-Ram neighborhood Sunday morning, sponsored by the "Consumer Protection Association", to emphasize the importance of Palestinian Arabs buying Arab products rather...
View Article04/07 Links Pt1: The Myth of the Thirsty Palestinian; Erekat: Hamas Were...
From Ian:The Myth of the Thirsty PalestinianThe latest line of anti-Israel attack claims the Jewish state withholds water from the Palestinians. As usual, the haters have their facts wrong.The issue of...
View ArticleRabbi Eric Yoffie can't define the problem with US Jewish students
Rabbi Eric Yoffie in Haaretz asks why young US Jews are supposedly turning off from Israel. What he doesn’t realize is that he is part of the problem.To be sure, students don’t want to hear sweeping...
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Arafat's bodyguard: Arafat lied when he condemned suicide bombings
From MEMRI:Muhammad Al-Daya, longtime bodyguard of Yasser Arafat, said in a recent TV interview that Arafat used to lie when he denounced bombings in Israel. Arafat "would condemn the bombing in his...
View Article04/07 Links Pt2: Democracy, Friedman-style; Beinart’s double standards; Hugh...
From Ian:John B. Judis and the Future of Liberal Support for IsraelJudis’ historical narrative, where it is not outright erroneous, is marked by the tendentiousness of someone with an ideological ax to...
View ArticleVideo of BDSer flipping out in Brighton
This might not be quite as funny as "Meltdown Girl," but it is great nonetheless.An anti-Israel protester, appropriately named Dick, apparently went crazy when a pro-Israel person played a kazoo during...
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Mondoweiss' (and "human rights activist") fawning interview with a terrorist
Frank Barat's byline in Mondoweiss says that he is a "Human Rights activist based in London."Mondoweiss publishes his adulatory interview with Leila Khaled, the notorious hijacker from the 1970s, who...
View ArticleGeorge Galloway says Tzipi Livni admits to sleeping with hundreds of men...
A couple of years ago, Arab media started reporting that Tzipi Livni had admitted to sleeping with prominent people to extort/steal information while she was at the Mossad.The rumor was utterly...
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So what was a booby-trapped book doing at the Palestinian embassy?
From Reuters:The Palestinian ambassador to Prague who died in a blast in January was most likely killed by a decades-old charge of Semtex plastic explosive concealed in a book, a newspaper reported on...
View ArticleAustralia bans cattle exports to Gaza due to animal cruelty
From The West Australian:Commonwealth authorities have effectively banned live cattle exports to the Gaza while they investigate shocking images of animal cruelty in the streets of the Palestinian...
View Article04/08 Links Pt1: The Retrograde Israeli Left; Carter Backs PA's UN Move; US...
From Ian:Khaled Abu Toameh: What's Behind Abbas's Renewed Courtship of Hamas?Abbas is now waging a battle aimed at extracting as many concessions as possible from Israel and the US. He has used the...
View ArticleA Turkey-Gaza "waterway"?
Palestine Today quotes the head of the Euro-Mid Observer for Human Rights, Rami Abdo, saying that NGOs from Europe are asking Turkey to demand a ferry of sorts between Turkey and Gaza in the context of...
View ArticleGaza newlyweds forced to divorce over Fatah song at wedding
Palestine Press Agency reports that a song played at a wedding caused the newlyweds to get a divorce.It's the old story: the Montagues and the Capulets, the Jets and the Sharks, Fatah and Hamas.The...
View Article04/08 Links Pt2: UNHRC: When Palestinian Men Beat Their Wives, It’s Israel’s...
From Ian:UN: When Palestinian Men Beat Their Wives, It’s Israel’s FaultIn her recent report to the U.N. Human Rights Council, High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay revives the bizarre charge,...
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