More evidence showing BBC reporter's son was killed by a Hamas rocket

During Operation Pillar of Defense, Western media uniformly reported that Omar Mishrawi, the baby son of BBC reporter Jihad Mishrawi, was killed by an Israeli airstrike. This iconic photo was reproduced all over the media of the father's grief.

I was the first to cast doubt on the idea that this was an Israeli airstrike, based my own observations of the damage to his home, knowledge of thefrequency of Gaza rockets that fall short as well as expert military testimony by JE Dyer. The BBC claimed that my evidence was not enough, and continued to say that the baby was "most likely" murdered by Israel.

I was also the first to report that a UN report released in March verified that Mishrawi was killed by a Hamas rocket. The BBC, however - which has no expertise in munitions or forensics - continued to claimthat it was an Israeli airstrike responsible, saying that there were no Hamas rocket attacks at the time the Mishrawi home was hit.

Now, of all places, Electronic Intifada - attempting to prove that Omar Mishrawi was killed by Israel - findsmore evidence that he was killed by a Gaza rocket, and that the BBC is not telling the truth:

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published a report on 22 November stating that Omar was killed when an Israeli missile struck the family home, and hasn’t published anything on the case since then. (PCHR did not reply to queries from The Electronic Intifada on the Masharawi case.) But the Gaza-based rights group Al-Mezan says that the UN report is based on its own investigation into the incident.

I spoke with Mohammed Suliman, who works with Al-Mezan, about Omar Masharawi’s case. (Disclosure: Suliman is an occasional contributor to The Electronic Intifada and has blogged for us in the past. Readers may also recognize Suliman from a viral video of an Israeli missile strike dramatically cutting him off during a debate with an Israeli in Ashkelon on CNN during the November attacks.)

The UN fact-finding mission’s conclusions were largely based on Al-Mezan’s fieldwork, though this is not mentioned in its report, Suliman said. Suliman explained to me that Al-Mezan’s fieldworker visited the Masharawi home in the wake of the strike and conducted interviews with people in the area. Its findings at the time were that baby Omar was most likely killed as a result of a Palestinian-fired rocket.

Al Mezan’s findings are based on the type of damage caused to the family home, which it says is not characteristic of an Israeli F-16, Apache helicopter or drone strike. Meanwhile,Palestinian armed groups were firing rockets towards Israel half a kilometer from the Masharawi home and Israeli strikes were targeting the sites of the rocket-launchers at the time of the incident, he said.

“Now, what happened is that during this short period of exchange of fire between Palestinian groups and Israeli war planes, Masharawi’s house was hit. So it was very ambiguous what the cause of that attack was — it could be Palestinian rocket fire or Israeli war planes,” Suliman explained.

“I understand from our fieldworker that the course or the direction of the rocket which hit Masharawi’s house [indicates] that it was Palestinian rocket fire,” in addition to the damage not being characteristic of an Israeli strike.

Of course, Al Mezan (and EI) then try to spin this incident into saying that baby Omar's death is really Israel's fault anyway using their usual tortured logic and sickening spin to absolve terrorist rockets in civilian neighborhoods. They ignore that Omar was not the only child killed by Hamas rockets that was publicly and loudly blamed on Israel.

When looking at actual facts, however, it is increasingly clear that I was right and the BBC was wrong - and that the BBC has been purposefully shading the truth about this case for the past five months. So has Human Rights Watch and other media and organizations that are reflexively anti-Israel whenever possible, even though the evidence on the ground from OCHA-OPT as early as late November indicated that Hamas rockets killed civilians in Gaza including Omar.

When will the BBC apologize for choosing the pathos of its employee's tragedy over accurate reporting? When will Human Rights Watch correct the record?

Honenu: Police Selectively Enforcing Law on Har Habayis

In a deliberation on Thursday, April 25 the Jerusalem Magistrate Court made a precedent making decision specifically stating that the state is discriminating against Jews on Har Habayis. The ruling is quite relevant in light of the announcement that the Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has prohibited MKMoshe Feiglin from entering Har Habayis.

On Thursday, April 25 A., a 56-year-old Jew who is accustomed to visiting Har Habayis from time to time after going to mikve, went onto the Temple Mount as is his custom. At the entrance A. passed the stringent security check and received the standard briefing: It is forbidden for Jews to act in anyway related to prayer or to make any action likely to disturb public order on the Temple Mount.

During A.’s visit on Har Habayis while he was surrounded by policemen and Waqf personnel a group of 30 Arab women approached him, calling out “Allah hu akbar”. After the women came very close to him and continued their menacing calls A. replied to them with his own call, “Mohammad died”, referring to the founder of Islam. The policemen who had accompanied him the entire time and had chosen not to distance the disruptive women, ordered A. to leave Har Habayis so as not to cause a clash. A. was later detained on a claim that he had disturbed public order on Har Habayis with his call.

A. was subsequently brought to the Jerusalem Magistrate Court where the police requested that A. be banned from entering the Temple Mount for 60 days on the charge of disturbing public order with his offensive call. In response to the police representative who said that the detainee received a briefing instructing him not to make any actions that would disturb public order when he entered the Temple Mount, the Honenu attorney representing A. asked if the disruptive women had received a briefing of that sort. The police representative was forced to admit that only Jews receive the briefing.
The attorney pleaded that the situation in which the women who provoked and attempted to threaten the detainee where not detained even though their identities are well known to the police whereas his client was detained is absurd. Also the attorney pleaded that the call “Mohammad is dead” is not offensive. “After I received the request to handle this case I took a survey of five Muslim lawyers and passers-by. I asked them all if Mohammad had died and they all replied in the affirmative: according to Islam Mohammad died and is buried in Medina, Saudi Arabia,” said the Honenu attorney. The group of Arab women who provoked the detainee are known as “Murbitat” and are known to the police as a group of ideological woman who protest against Jews entering Har Habayis. This is not the first time that the women have been involved with such a provocation.
Judge Gad Ehrenberg accepted the plea and agreed that the Arab women provoked the detainee and therefore there is no basis for the restrictive conditions which the police requested to impose on him. The judge based his ruling also on the selective enforcement of the law by the police and wrote in his decision, “Indeed the defendant’s representative was correct in his plea, according to which there was selective enforcement [of the law]…. the provocateurs were the women and not the defendant… in light of the selective enforcement [of the law], apparently not for the first time, I found no cause for placing restrictions on his release.” The detainee was unconditionally released to his home.
Honenu welcomes this important decision. “The policy of the police on the Temple Mount constitutes one of the most striking centers of discrimination in the State of Israel. We hope that this ruling by the Jerusalem Magistrate Court which has brought this serious problem to the public’s notice will be an positive influence and constitute the beginning of rectifying the embarrassing situation in which it is forbidden for Jews to freely and safely walk and all the more so to pray on what has been the holiest site of the Jewish people for thousands of years.”

Netanyahu: Conflict is Over Israel’s Existence, Not Land Israel-PA conflict is over Israel’s very existence, PM says

The conflict between Israel and the Palestinian Authority is not over land, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said Wednesday, speaking in a meeting with senior officials in the Foreign Ministry.

The conflict, he said, is over Israel’s very existence. In proof, he pointed to the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza in 2005, which included the forced removal of thousands of Jewish residents of the area.

Israel got rocket attacks in exchange, he said.

The Palestinian Authority does not wish to recognize Israel as the national homeland of the Jewish people, he continued. However, he said, Israel remains willing to restart negotiations with no preconditions.

Netanyahu is the acting Foreign Minister until a verdict is reached in the case of Avigdor Lieberman, Netanyahu’s choice for Foreign Minister, who faces corruption charges.

PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has stated that the PA will not recognize Israel as the Jewish state. Abbas argues that terming Israel the Jewish state would effectively mean giving up the Arab demand that millions of descendants of Arabs who fled pre-state Israel be given the “right of return” to modern Israel.

MK Shuli Moalem ascends Har Habayit in solidarity with MK Feiglin

In an interesting development, MK Shuli Moalem-Rafaeli (Habayit Hayehudi) decided to ascend Har Habayit in protest of the banning of MK Moshe Feiglin from the Mount. She specifically said in her announcement that she went up to pray, but I did not hear of any incidents with the police or Arabs, so I assume she prayed privately and not publicly.

Moalem said that she could not bear the shame of the prevention of MK Feiglin from Har Habayit. She further said that she is distressed over the manipulative use in the name of security in order to prevent Jews from praying on Har Habayit and to walk there freely without fear of foreigners.

Moalem announced that there will be a discussion about Har Habayit in the Knesset today, specifically about the issue of the Women of the Wall, in conjunction wit the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women as well as with the Committee of the Interior. She said that at this meeting she will raise the issue and state that conclusions reached regarding the prayers of Women of the Wall at the Kotel will also be relevant to the prayer of Jews at Har Habayit. I watched [part of] the meeting, and Moalem did indeed demand the right to pray on Har Habayit just as the WoW are deserving of the right to pray in their way.

I think Moalem's ascent is fairly similar in nature to the recent participation of MKs Tamar Zandberg (Meretz), Michal Rosen (Meretz), and Stav Shafir (Labor) in a Women of the Wall service at the Kotel donning their tallitot for the services. That soolidarity displayed by the MKs seemed to push the agenda forward. I do not think Moalem's solidarity visit today on Har Habayit will do the same, at least not directly. However, it can have a similar effect via her promotion of the issue in the Knesset meetings.

I think other MKs should do the same, with solidarity ascents of their own. Maybe even MKs Zandberg, Rosen, and Shafir should ascend Har Habayit, in line with their concern they displayed when showing solidarity with Women of the Wall. As a matter of fact, MK Shafir's statement explaining her participation fits perfectly well with showing solidarity with Jews praying on Har Habayit as well. Shafir said, at the time, "it is my honor and duty to stand here and protect the rights of all Jews from around the world to pray as they desire and believe.."

Israel ads perverted in battle for public opinion in Ireland‘Visit Israel’ becomes ‘Boycott Israel’ as pro-Palestinian activists move beyond mere rhetoric and demonstrations to property defacement

DUBLIN — An advertising campaign in the Irish city of Cork urging people to visit Israel was defaced almost immediately on its unveiling by anti-Israeli activists. The ad campaign, which featured colourful images of Israeli society with the slogan “Visit Israel,” was overwritten with the slogan “Boycott Israel” and other messages critical of Israeli policy. The vandalism was clearly well organized and photos of the defacement were posted on the Internet and the Facebook page of the Cork Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

The original ads were placed by a growing advocacy group for Israel in Ireland calledIrish4Israel which campaigns against the often vocal anti-Zionist sentiment in the country, and which has been robust and relatively successful in its advocacy efforts. The Irish4Israel group has already organized a Love Israel rally in Dublin’s city center, in front of the iconic General Post Office (venue of the 1916 uprising against the British), and has been active on social media in defence of Israel.

The poster campaign was actually the result of a partnership between two pro-Israel organizations on opposite sides of the Atlantic. It was funded by Blue Star, a San Francisco-based pro-Israel advocacy agency, which teamed up with Irish4Israel to raise funds for the advertising campaign in Cork, Ireland’s second-largest city. The money was raised over the St Patrick’s Day period of late March and went towards producing and putting up billboards with positive messages about Israel on bus stop shelters near University College Cork.

Visit Israel poster

Ireland’s reputation for having a vocal anti-Israel lobby was a big factor in BlueStar’s response to Irish4Israel’s request for a partner on the project. The organization has done other collaborative projects in Europe, but Ireland represented “one of Europe’s most challenging countries for Israel” said Blue Star in its fund raising letter. The Irish Government has been especially critical of Israel in an EU context and Irish activists are very involved in international protests against Israel and in the Palestinian territories.

However, such a perspective is not generally shared by the wider public in this island nation which is mostly indifferent to foreign issues.

Jonathan Carey, executive director of Blue Star, said they were impressed with the Israel advocacy work Irish4Israel had already been doing, and with how quickly it has developed. “We get a dozen emails daily from around the world with requests for assistance or partnering, but Irish4Israel stood out as a serious group and the kind we’d like to work with,” said Carey.

Irish4Israel was founded in 2010 by Barry Williams, a non-Jewish student at University College Cork, and mostly uses Facebook as its main platform for communication and organizing. The group has 2,500 members on Facebook, with most of them under the age of 35. Members are encouraged to sign petitions and write or call media outlets and politicians to protest anti-Israel coverage and rhetoric. The group also encourages “buycotts,” where it encourages consumers to go out and buy Israel-made products, in retaliation for calls for boycotts of such goods.

Despite the calls for boycotts, Israeli goods, especially fresh herbs and vegetables, continue to be prominently stocked and sold in the big supermarkets.

Visit Israel ad campaign defaced to Boycott Israel. (photo credit: courtesy)

Clearly, there are no winners in the battle for public opinion about Israel in Ireland. The rising articulation of pro-Israeli sentiment shows battle has been taken up against the pro-Palestinian lobby, who for years had a relative dominance in debate and in media coverage.

The Israeli Embassy in Dublin has also been very active and last week it held a large reception in the capital to celebrate Israeli Independence day, with a stirring performance by Mary Byrne, the Irish singing star who rose to fame on TV’s talent show the ‘X Factor’. Byrne, like many Irish Israel fans, spent a long spell on kibbutz when she was younger.

“The reception was packed, and Mary wouldn’t’ stop singing!” quipped one observer.

Significantly, for the first time the Independence Day reception was not picketed anti-Israeli activists, proof perhaps that the battle for opinion is now being fought out elsewhere, on social media — and in night time raids on bus shelter ad campaigns.

In this 1953 video, Albert Einstein thanks the Yeshiva University for honoring him by using his name in connection to their new college of medicine.

The Jew that Sheikh Qaradawi couldn't stand to be near

I noted last week that Sheikh Yusuf Qaradawi, influential Muslim preacher and terror supporter, refused to attend the 10th annual Doha Conference for Interfaith Dialogue" because he did not want to share the stage with Jews, who he blames for "usurping Palestine."

So who is the Jew who he snubbed?

Apparently, the only Jew to attend this conference - and he has attended it for years - is Reuven Firestone, a left wing reform rabbi, professor of medieval Judaism and Islam at Hebrew Union College, and founder and co-director of the Center for Muslim-Jewish Engagement. He has written books about Judaism for Muslims and about Islam for Jews.

In 2007, Firestone was invited to give a lecture at Ain Shams University but he ended up causing an uproarwhen it was revealed that he was Jewish - and a rabbi, to boot. 

The furore has caused ripples beyond academia, with 20 parliamentary members quick to jump on the bandwagon and demand that the speaker of the People's Assembly summon members of the parliament's Educational Committee for an urgent meeting to determine who is responsible for the convening of such seminars.

They have also demanded that Hani Helal, the minister of higher education, be sacked.

"We are not going to allow Jews to desecrate our universities, spread their Zionist views and brainwash our students," railed independent MP Gamal Zahran.

A video tape and Arabic translation of the lecture are currently being studied by a committee formed by the university to investigate whether there is any substance to claims that the lecture was offensive to Islam.

His book about Judaism for Muslims (available online in Arabic for free) also came under withering attack in major Arab media, aghast that a different perspective is available where Muslims might accidentally read it. 

Firestone is as pro-Islam as it is possible for a non-Muslim to be, but his very existence is threatening to many Muslims - because he is a Jew.

He wrote a paper about "contextualizing" anti-semitism in Islam. I don't have access to the full text, although in the first page extract you can see that he admits that there is plenty of Jew-hatred in Egypt, where he lived for a time. I would love to know how this specific brand of hate can be "contextualized."

But no matter how he can find excuses for Islamic Jew-hatred, it will never make the haters like him one bit more.

Not a single denunciation of terror attack in Arabic

When Israel haters need to find an easy "proof" that Jews and Zionists are racists, they go to Facebook or YouTube or any other uncensored comment forum and find some convenient anti-Arab or anti-Muslim bigot to quote. It is a lazy way to pretend to make a point, because every group has some idiots so the existence of idiots is used to generalize about the entire group. They ignore the denunciations of the bigots on those same forums, because that would ruin their thesis.

Of course, these "progressives" are engaging in stereotyping, and obvious dishonesty, which is a major crime when anyone else does it, but that doesn't matter to them. They pretend they are revealing a "higher truth," which is pretty much how they justify their own bigotry.

But in the aftermath of this morning's terror attack, and most* others, there is something striking about the Arab comments on various venues.

They are unanimously supportive of killing Israeli civilians.

I cannot find a single naysayer, a single person who says that killing a father of five standing at a bus stop is wrong. On the contrary, they will often try to justify it as a "right" or as if it is an obligation under international law. 

Hundreds of Palestinians on the Fatah Facebook page are cheering the attack. (Palestinian Media Watchhas more.) Every single person who identifies as "Palestinian" on Ma'an's English comment page is equally happy. (The official PA Wafa news agency reports the incident as the police shooting and wounding a Palestinian Arab around the same time that a "settler" was stabbed to death.) 

Finding idiots on message boards where thousands of people gather is easy. But finding an Arab who is willing, on his own, to publicly condemn murdering a Jewish civilian is well-nigh impossible.

That is a real story that can be gathered from reading message boards and Facebook. And it is a story that Western media will not touch with a ten foot pole.

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There is one exception I am aware of - the murder of the Fogel family in Itamar. While plenty of peoplepraised the murderers as heroes, that was the one time I saw pushback on Arabic-language forums, since stabbing a baby was too much even for them.

"The Jews use sorcery against Iran"

I love it when posts write themselves:

An Iranian regime official and a website close to the regime have recently accused the Jews of engaging in sorcery and of employing it against Iran.

Mehdi Taeb, Official Close to Khamenei: 'So Far, [The Jews] Have Not Used The Full [Scope Of] Their Sorcery Against Us'
Speaking on April 20, 2013 to students at a religious seminary in Ahwaz, Mehdi Taeb noted: "The Jews are currently subjecting us to an unprecedented trial. As you read in the Koran, [King] Solomon ruled the world… and God ordered a group of sorcerers to come out against him. The Jews have the greatest powers of sorcery, and they make use of this tool.

"All the measures that have been brought against us originate with the Zionists. The U.S. is a tool in their hands. So far, they have not used the full [scope of] their sorcery against us. Sorcery was the final means to which they resorted during the Ahmadinejad era, but they were defeated. This ability of the Jews was eliminated by Iran. Five years ago they tried to oust Ahmadinejad [by this means]."

Rasanews.ir, Website Associated With Qom Seminaries: The Jews Believe They Can Use Sorcery To Control God's Decisions

The article on Rasanews.com, published March 7, 2013, stated: "The Jews have always tended to resort to divination, [a practice] that has its roots in astronomy, astrology and sorcery, [which they picked up] when they consorted with various peoples in the course of history. They cherished this [knowledge] like a treasure, generation after generation. In most cases, they base their predictions on the holy book [the Old Testament], especially on the book of Daniel, and they create an ideological climate in which the appreciation of sorcery and the yearning for it increase.

"The [Jewish] people think that ruling over man, nature, and divine traditions can be achieved only by means of sorcery. They believe that it is possible to conquer nature and control the world, and even to control God's decisions, by using sorcery methods…

"Sorcery is known to be a practice of which the divine books [i.e., the Old Testament, the New Testament and the Koran and] and the monotheistic religions disapprove. But Jewish mysticism regards it as a [legitimate] means to uncover the secrets of the holy book [the Old Testament]."

Now you can understand how Jews managed to train squirrels to infiltrate and spy on Iran - we use our powers of sorcery to speak to the squirrels! Sort of like Parseltongue, but with a completely different accent.

Iran's earthquakes? All we have to do is point our magic wands at the general direction of Iran and say"Persae terraemotus!"

Do you think that it was Stuxnet that slowed down Iran's nuclear weapons program? No, it was the famous Kabbalistic spell, "Exploratio centrifugus!"

And when I need material like this for the blog, I simply use the famous curse "Missa stultitiae!"

As far as the charge that we can influence God's decisions, well, we have a secret Talmudic method for that too.

Professor: Our Boycott and Sanctions Campaign is Growing Arutz Sheva speaks to one of the U.S. professors seeking to boycott Israel, and asks why.

Several dozen professors and lecturers at Columbia University in New York are calling to divest their pension funds from companies that do business with Israelis in Judea and Samaria (Shomron).

Arutz Sheva’s Yoni Kempinski spoke to one of them and asked why.

Professor of Anthropology Brinkley Messick explained what he sees as a “very limited, very targeted moral campaign” to divest from a group of five companies.

When asked about the scope of the campaign of “boycott, divestment and sanctions” from Israel, he said, “The campaign is definitely growing. It’s growing very very strongly…. This is something that’s at many American colleges and universities, both the faculty and the students.”
Messick noted a similar campaign on University of California system campuses.
When asked why there do not appear to be similar campaigns against countries that violate human rights to the point of massive murder of civilians, such as Syria and North Korea, Messick said, “People oppose all sorts of oppressive regimes, in all sorts of contemporary colonial circumstances. This is one that has world implications.”
Arutz Sheva also asked what the boycotters’ problem with Israel is, why they do not see Israel’s court system as the place to seek redress for alleged land theft, as Arabs do, and whether they hope to see boycotted companies collapse – a result that would impact the Palestinian Authority and the many Arabs who are employed by them, as well as Israel, if not more so.

Egyptian newspaper publishes TWO articles saying Jews drink gentile blood on Passover

Egypt's Misrelgdida ("New Egypt") newspaper features not one but two articles on Tuesday that promote the libel that Jews drink Christian - and Muslim - blood on Passover.

The first one is written by a Palestinian Arab, Mennat al-Sayed. He gives a "history" of Passover blood rituals that, he claims, continues, at least in some form, to this day against Arabs.

In the past, al-Sayed says , Christian neighbors of Jews were  scared of the holiday because they were worried if they would travel they would be abducted and ritually slaughtered for their blood. Jews would hunt for Christian babies who never tasted wine and stab them to death in a ceremony in the synagogue, after which they would distribute the blood to drink four cups of "wine" during the Passover seder, while singing and dancing with their families.

Today, the writer goes on, the Jews are keeping this tradition by killing every single Palestinian in cold blood. Al Sayed says that the Jews' habits haven't changed and they continue to slaughter Arabs in every possible gruesome manner. He concludes by saying that Jews continue to (symbolically) eat food made from Palestinian Arab blood cooked with the flames of their suffering.

The second article is written more as a set of interesting facts about Jews and Passover. Written by Amr Abdel Rahman, the managing editor of the paper, it is entitled "When the Jews drank the blood of Egyptians on Passover."

Recently Jews celebrated their important Passover holiday, and this feast - for those who do not know - includes bloody and exciting rituals, and the most exciting of these rituals were probably still practiced secretly in Egypt by some members of the Jewish community ...

One visit to the Jewish Quarter brings controversial information, although it is not documented well - only signs and signals and tales on the tongues of some Egyptians who are afraid to talk about the customs and religious traditions of Jews while they lived here long ago, before finally departing in the late seventies.

"Uncle Hussein," a food seller, lives next to one of their synagogues. He says that that the Jews they had many holidays throughout the year and they were performing their prayers on a regular basis and they required to ten people to complete their prayers... Strangely enough, says "Uncle Hussein, "Despite being neighbors to them over the years, many of the rituals were carried out in the framework of mystery and secrecy and out of sight as they were held often in complete darkness, which made us wonder always about the nature of the rituals that take place inside the temple!"

For our part, we can not overlook the fact that the famous ritual for Jews, especially in their holiday of "Purim," which is followed by "Passover,", they would gather to celebrate and they required human blood in order to do their rituals. It is known that rumors in many countries of the world have talked about the children and girls who were abducted in the locations and times of this holiday in particular, where it is in accordance with the ritual of it has to be the shedding of the blood of people from "internationalist" communities as Jews call people who act contrary to their religion. It is known that these are considered - according to the counterfeit Torah - vile creatures or second-class and thus the Jews can use their blood, just as Muslims slaughtered sacrifices on Eid al-Adha!

"Hanafi Mohammed" - an elderly man - says that he heard from his father the story of a Jewish man who came to the city of Port Said in the late 19th century and lived next to a dealer of Greek nationality for a short period just before the date of Passover holiday. he forced the Greek's eight year old daughter to drink wine against her will. The next day the girl disappeared suddenly before they found her body with her throat cut and it seems to have been mutilated!

In the same context, says Dr. Umaymah Ahmed - a professor of ancient mythology - that during this feast of the Jewish people they are required to provide human blood in order to prepare pastries, in other words, they cannot perform their holiday ritual properly without draining the blood of mankind .. ..!!

This is historically a key reason that they were subjected to persecution and displacement .. In Europe and Asia during different times ..

The victim must be a non-Jewish young adult, of course, either Christian or Muslim. His blood is taken and dried to a powder so they may save the remainder for the next holiday .. The blood must be used where the Christians or Muslim victims are under ten years old...

They extract the blood with extremely sharp needles and put it in the barrel. These needles ensure that the blood exits the victim very slowly, and thus ensures the painful agony of the victim, his torment is pleasure for the vampire Jews who are keen to pursue this ritual in all its details, they love and enjoy it though it is difficult to understand!

The Jewish rabbi then brings to his countrymen complete happiness in their festival, presenting them with pancakes created with the blood of humans ..

It appears that the Muslim versions of the medieval blood libel are even more lurid and sickening than the Christian versions were centuries ago. And this one can be published on the Internet, instantly, to immediately create the next generation of antisemites who believe what they read in the newspaper.

This comes on the heels of the Miftah NGO publishing a similar screed in Arabic last month. Miftah has refused to publish an Arabic language apology for that article, ensuring that Arabic speakers continue to believe the most disgusting lies about Jews and contrary to its stated goals of peace and harmony.

The Misrelgdida  newspaper describes itself by saying "We believe in credibility and transparency and strive to symbolize the new Egypt..The truth is the basis of our profession, and we believe in humanity and compassion, and that justice is the basis of our humanity, and believe in the future as long as we are alive."

Enlightened, progressive Westerners know that this is nothing to worry about. They know that all Arab antisemitism will go away if Israel just makes more concessions, and it isn't really antisemitism anyway but a sophisticated form of anti-Zionism, which is admirable.

Jews get so touchy when they are accused of ritually slaughtering Christians and drinking their blood, don't they?

The Ayatollah's Billions

• Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, controls a substantial portion of the Iranian economy through his various holdings and foundations. The most notable foundations directly controlled by him are the Imam Khomeini Foundation, Mostazafan Foundation, Abdolazim Shrine, and Astan Qods. The heads of these foundations are directly appointed by the Supreme Leader. They do not pay taxes, cannot be audited by parliament or the judiciary, and operate as personal properties of Khamenei, outside the normal structure of the Iranian state.
• An official of the Imam Khomeini Foundation said in September 2008 that the foundation owned $45 billion in real estate and 36 firms on the Tehran stock exchange. It also owns the Iran Telecommunication Company, in partnership with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which is itself worth billions of dollars. The foundation has many profitable sectors including oil, gas, food and mining.
• Astan Qods owns almost the entire northeastern part of Iran. Abdolazim Shrine, located near Tehran, is controlled by Iran's former Minister of Intelligence, Mohammad ReyShahri. It has concentrated its economic activities in the Rey Group, which is run by a group of former high-ranking intelligence officials. The Rey Group is the official dealership of BMW in Iran, which makes Iran's Supreme Leader an automobile dealer as well.
• It has taken Khamenei decades to accumulate this wealth and position himself and his holdings at the heart of Iran's commercial life. Now that the fortune has been amassed, he uses the money to buy loyalty both inside and outside of Iran. Targeting his financial empire will diminish his political power.
• If the West truly wants to add some bite to its sanctions program before Iran builds its first nuclear bomb, directly targeting the Supreme Leader's commercial holdings is a good next step.

Fatah: Tapuah Junction stabber ‘a hero’Organization’s Facebook page congratulates Salam As’ad Zaghal, who murdered Evyatar Borowsky, a 31-year-old father of five

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Fatah party representatives praised as a hero a Palestinian attacker who stabbed an Israeli to death at a West Bank junction on Tuesday.

The organization posted pictures from the scene of the attack on its official Facebook page, accompanying each image with a caption boasting of the stabber’s “success.” Officials also expressed hope that he would be quickly released from prison.

“The settler who was killed today at al-Za’atara south of Nablus by the released prisoner hero Salam As’ad Zaghal from the city of Tulkarem,” read a caption beneath a picture of Evyatar Borowsky, a 31-year-old father of five who was stabbed to death by Zaghal earlier Tuesday at Tapuah junction.

Another photograph on the group’s Facebook page showed a portrait of Zaghal with an illustration of an AK-47 rifle beneath his head. “Peace be with you the day of your birth, on the day of your imprisonment and on the day of your freedom,” the caption wished the terrorist.

Zaghal was released from Israeli prison last month after serving a three-year term for throwing stones and Molotov cocktails, as well as other criminal offenses. Israeli security officials estimated that Zaghal’s attack may have been carried out in order to establish his credentials as a loyal Palestinian, after his brother was tried by a Palestinian Authority court Monday for allegedly collaborating with Israel.

Friends of Evyatar Borowsky were shocked by the news of his death. “He was a talented man who always laughed about everything,” Oshri Maimon, the director of the Erel theater group of which Borowsky was a member, told Ynet Tuesday. “He had quite a personality.”

“I remember Evyatar was always welcoming, always with a smile,” Borowski’s high school rabbi, Nesiel Ben-Tov, told Ynet. “He was a student with lots of good traits and love for others. He never did anything problematic.”

Following the deadly attack, the Israeli Almagor Terror Victims Association called on Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon to restate Israel’s defense policy in the West Bank and issue explicit orders to open fire on rock-throwing Palestinians.

“Central Command is responding to a wholesale ‘intifada’ by the Palestinians with the tools of low-intensity warfare,” Almagor CEO Meir Indor stated. “The terrorist was able to get to and murder Evyatar Borovski at an Egged bus stop solely because of soldiers’ orders to ‘go easy’ on rock throwers and let them move around freely.”

Later Tuesday, local media and human rights groups reported that retaliatory acts by settlers from Yitzhar, where Borowsky lived, and Tapuah followed the lethal stabbing. Rabbis for Human Rights, an Israeli watchdog, reported that settlers attacked and moderately injured a Palestinian farmer near the village of Furiq and uprooted some 100 olive trees near the village of Qaryut.

Six settlers were arrested in connection with the violence.

Meanwhile, the Palestinian Mujahideen movement, an Islamist offshoot of Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, congratulated the perpetrator of Tuesday’s fatal stabbing attack.

“We welcome any act of resistance against this corrupt enemy,” said the movement’s spokesman, Abu-Omar, in a statement published on the movement’s website.

The stabbing, the statement continued, is a “natural response to the occupation’s aggression and its continuous attacks on all things Palestinian in the West Bank.”

Australian Prime Minister Gillard Denounces BDS Movement

Prime Minister Julia Gillard has denounced the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement ahead of anti-Israeli protest action at the University of NSW on Tuesday. BDS action at UNSW has turned ugly, with anti-Semitic and Holocaust-denying material appearing on a Facebook page opposing the opening of a Max Brenner chocolate shop on campus.
    Gillard said Monday through a spokeswoman that "this campaign does not serve the cause of peace and diplomacy for agreement on a two-state solution between Israel and Palestine....I welcome the strong ties our universities have with Israeli researchers and academic institutions, and I hope those ties will deepen in the years ahead."  (The Australian)

Cable car to link Western Wall with rest of Jerusalem Jerusalem Municipality proceeds with plan to build two-line cable car system to connect Dung Gate with points to east and west • System to transport 6,000 passengers per hour • Mayor says it will be transportation solution and unique tourist attraction.

The Jerusalem Municipality is moving forward with a plan to build a cable car system that will bring visitors to and from the Western Wall.

One line will connect Dung Gate (the Old City gate closest to the Western Wall) with the Mount of Olives to the east. A second line will connect Dung Gate with the Khan Theater on Hinnom Ridge to the west.

The system will be able to transport 6,000 passengers per hour. Each of the 1.6 kilometer routes will take around four minutes to traverse.

The cable car system is a joint project of the Jerusalem Municipality, Jerusalem Development Authority and the Transportation Ministry.

Jerusalem municipal officials said the cable car system will meet the needs of the growing millions of people who visit the Western Wall and the Old City each year and will also benefit the residents of the area. The system will also link up with future additional light rail lines that are planned to be built within the city.

"Beyond being a transportation solution, the cable car will also serve as a unique and innovative tourist attraction that will provide breathtaking views," Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said.

The Tapuach Junction near you

A Jew was murdered on Tuesday. Read that last sentence again -- this time cry out the words: "A Jew was murdered." One of our own flesh and blood died. Salam Zaghal wanted to murder a Jew. He couldn't care less where that Jew resided and whom he voted for in the last election. Evyatar Borovsky happened to be the closest Jew available: He stood at the junction, hands tucked in his pockets, waiting for a friend to arrive and give him a ride to the rehearsal his ensemble was about to hold. He had just said goodbye to his five kids. For them, it was the beginning of just another ordinary day: They would drink chocolate milk; someone would tie their shoelaces.

Zaghal plunged the knife into Borovsky's abdomen -- our abdomen. Why? Because he was a Jew.

The evacuation of the wounded Zaghal from Tapuach Junction, which for many Israelis lies somewhere beyond the Mountains of Darkness, to Rabin Medical Center in Petach Tikva, took twenty minutes. The Israel that rushed Zaghal to the medical center to treat his wounds (he had been shot by Border Police as he carried out his attack) is the same Israel that had released him from prison several months earlier, and the same Israel that removed roadblocks to allow the Palestinians to lead a better life.

I wanted to ask, "But what about the life of Jews?" But then I looked at Evyatar's picture: a wonderful father; a gifted performer who wrote his own material; a man with new ideas, a big smile, and love for this land.

A life was nipped in the bud by a contaminated knife. And this, even as every Israeli radio station was reporting with great fanfare on the new Arab League peace initiative.

This is the face of peace: a medical doctor killed at a bus stop. This has been the face of peace since the Arab riots of 1929 and peace will continue to look like this.

Roadblocks are a necessary evil, a consequence of circumstances we did not seek. Over the past several years, these roadblocks have been gradually removed. Left-wing groups have proudly taken credit for effecting this change, and point to the fact that movement of Palestinians between their communities inside Judea and Samaria is no longer hindered by the checkpoints. In this new reality, Palestinians are only stopped when they try to leave Judea and Samaria. This allows tens of thousands of them to make a living in Israel. They have unrestricted access to the roads that connect Palestinian villages and towns and as a consequence, the more than 300,000 Israelis who reside behind the Security Fence live under constant threat.

A week ago, I was on the Channel 1 talk show "Politics." On my way back home, I noticed terrorists had placed rocks on the road, effectively blocking the way. Luckily, I managed to stop the car just in time. About a month ago, on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, a burning tire was hurled at my car. Driving on Samaria's roads has become impossible. The "quiet terrorism" disrupts our way of life.

If history is any guide, a new wave of terrorism that originates in "the territories" rapidly makes its way toward Israel's main population centers. This method has been tried and tested. If there is no response to terrorism perpetrated in Tapuach, soon enough it will strike Tel Aviv. When Israel remains silent in the face of attacks on Sderot, Ashdod is hit as well. It is now raining over the hills of Judea and Samaria, and unless something is done, the downpour will soon reach the skyscrapers in the Dan region. The Azrieli Center in the heart of Tel Aviv, by the way, is a 30-minute drive from Tapuach Junction.

Palestinians poll highest among world's Muslims favoring suicide bombings In most of the 21 countries where the question was asked, few Muslims endorse suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilians • 40% of Palestinian Muslims see suicide bombing as often or sometimes justified, while half take opposite view.

Out of all the Muslim respondents in a global survey, Palestinian Muslims polled highest in favor of suicide bombings as a justifiable means "to defend Islam."

A new Pew Research Center survey of Muslims around the globe finds that most adherents of the world’s second-largest religion are deeply committed to their faith and want its teachings to shape not only their personal lives but also their societies and politics.

In all but a handful of the 39 countries surveyed, a majority of Muslims say that Islam is the one true faith leading to eternal life in heaven and that belief in God is necessary to be a moral person. Many also think that their religious leaders should have at least some influence over political matters. And many express a desire for Shariah -- traditional Islamic law -- to be recognized as the official law of their country.

In most of the 21 countries where the question was asked, few Muslims endorse suicide bombing and other forms of violence against civilian targets as a means of defending Islam against its enemies. But in a few countries, substantial minorities believe suicide bombing can be often justified or sometimes justified.

Muslims in some countries surveyed in South Asia, the Middle East and North Africa are more likely than Muslims elsewhere to consider suicide bombing justified.

Four-in-ten Palestinian Muslims see suicide bombing as often or sometimes justified, while roughly half (49%) take the opposite view.

In Egypt, about three-in-ten (29%) consider suicide bombing justified at least sometimes. Elsewhere in the region, fewer Muslims believe such violence is often or sometimes justified, including fewer than one-in-six in Jordan (15%) and about one-in-ten in Tunisia (12%), Morocco (9%) and Iraq (7%).

In Afghanistan, a substantial minority of Muslims (39%) say that this form of violence against civilian targets is often or sometimes justifiable in defense of Islam. In Bangladesh, more than a quarter of Muslims (26%) take this view. Support for suicide bombing is lower in Pakistan (13%).

At least half of Muslims in most countries surveyed say they are concerned about religious extremist groups in their country, including two-thirds or more of Muslims in Egypt (67%), Tunisia (67%), Iraq  68%, Guinea Bissau (72%) and Indonesia (78%). On balance, more are worried about Islamic extremists than about Christian extremists.

The percentage of Muslims who say they want Shariah to be “the official law of the land” varies widely around the world, from fewer than one-in-ten in Azerbaijan (8%) to near unanimity in Afghanistan (99%). But solid majorities in most of the countries surveyed across the Middle East and North Africa, sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia favor the establishment of Shariah, including 71% of Muslims in Nigeria, 72% in Indonesia, 74% in Egypt and 89% in the Palestinian territories.

At the same time, the survey finds that even in many countries where there is strong backing for Shariah, most Muslims favor religious freedom for people of other faiths. In Pakistan, for example, three-quarters of Muslims say that non-Muslims are very free to practice their religion, and fully 96% of those who share this assessment say it is “a good thing.” Yet 84% of Pakistani Muslims favor enshrining Shariah as official law. These seemingly divergent views are possible partly because most supporters of Shariah in Pakistan -- as in many other countries -- think Islamic law should apply only to Muslims. Moreover, Muslims around the globe have differing understandings of what Shariah means in practice.

The survey -- which involved more than 38,000 face-to-face interviews in 80-plus languages with Muslims across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa -- shows that Muslims tend to be most comfortable with using Shariah in the domestic sphere, to settle family or property disputes. In most countries surveyed, there is considerably less support for severe punishments, such as cutting off the hands of thieves or executing people who convert from Islam to another faith. And even in the domestic sphere, Muslims differ widely on such questions as whether polygamy, divorce and family planning are morally acceptable and whether daughters should be able to receive the same inheritance as sons.

In most countries surveyed, majorities of Muslim women as well as men agree that a wife is always obliged to obey her husband.