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*Islamists protest film about Jews at Tangier Film Festival/other news*
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/
Islamists protest film about Jews at Tangier Film
Festival<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/PDbq/~3/34sZSlG4MT8/islamists-protest-film-about-jews-at.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
Posted: 05 Feb 2013 08:05 PM PST
Last year I reported
<http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2012/04/documentary-by-muslim-shows-jews-from.html>about
a film made by an Arab about the Jews of Morocco:
TINGHIR-JERUSALEM, ECHOES FROM THE MELLAH: The Rediscovery of a
Judeo-Berber Culture
<http://www.sephardicfilmfest.org/images/tinghir.jpg>
*Director: Kamal Hachkar*
Kamal Hachkar grew up in France with the idea that all Berbers were
Muslims. From his grandparents he learns that some Berbers were Jewish and
that in many villages, Muslims and Jews lived together for a long time. His
search leads him to Israel where he meets families originally from
Tinghir. Elders spoke of their lives in Tinghir, answering many of his
questions. On meeting Jews of his generation, with origins in Tinghir,
Kamal realizes that he is not alone in his desire to restore this buried
part of their identities. He hopes that his generation will be able to
acknowledge the bonds broken by history.
Now the film is being shown at a Moroccan film festival - and the Islamists
aren't happy.
Hundreds protested <http://www.france24.com/ar/node/844285> the film at a
festival in Tangier, shouting "*No to normalization with Israel!*"
The director, when asked his reaction, shrugged and simply said they could
watch the film if they wanted and decide then. Naturally, this wasn't what
they wanted to hear.
EoZ in Israel next
week<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/PDbq/~3/ZeFsHHGOjio/eoz-in-israel-next-week.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
Posted: 05 Feb 2013 03:00 PM PST
It's been three years, and way past time to visit Israel again. I'm
planning to leave in a week for a two-week stay.
While I am there, with whatever spare time I have I'd like to make some
videos for the blog. I'll be doing interviews and stories you would never
see in the mainstream media. I have a few topics and people lined up, but
am looking for more ideas.
So if you are a famous writer or politician who is also a secret EoZ fan *(that
means you, Bibi!) *or someone I've criticized who wants to set the record
straight, or anyone else who thinks they might have a good idea for a
video, or you have something fantastic that I really must check out around
Jerusalem that no one knows about - please let me know. If I like the idea,
I might do it - and give you a video hat tip!
Tuesday
links<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/PDbq/~3/0-8wYqcwevw/tuesday-links.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
Posted: 05 Feb 2013 01:00 PM PST
>From Ian:
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Douglas Murray: Take Iran at Its
Word<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324445904578283680795993450.html>
Diplomats still think the answer to the nuclear standoff is to talk to
Tehran. Perhaps because they don't believe what the regime says.
“In his remarks, Rafael Bardaji, a former national security advisor to the
Spanish prime minister, relayed his tale of meeting with Khamenei some
years back. Summoned to breakfast while on a visit to Iran, the Spanish
guests decided to ask an ice-breaking question: Within the apparently
complex power structure of contemporary Iran, what was the Supreme Leader's
job?
"My job," Khamenei replied, "is to set Israel on fire."
*They say it. They mean it. Yet still the world refuses to take them at
their word. Shame on them or shame on us?*”
How Ed Koch Honored My Son by Judea
Pearl<http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/123319/how-ed-koch-honored-my-son>
The late New York mayor told me he wanted to be remembered by my son Daniel
Pearl’s final words: ‘I am Jewish.’
"The echo of Danny’s words has not subsided. Koch took the dramatic act of
putting it on his tombstone, but many others carry Danny’s words and are
nurtured by them, quietly. For the book, we commissioned many prominent
Jews to reflect on what the phrase “I am Jewish” meant to them, and Koch
was one of the 300 people we asked. Koch sent in an essay mainly expressing
anger about the terrorists—how they act against civilized society, and how
they should be dealt with. It was about our world and how we got into this
war, and we felt it didn’t fit the theme. The theme was what does being
Jewish mean to you, a very personal question, and we asked Koch if he’d be
open to revising it. Koch’s answer was definitive: That’s how I feel, he
said, and I can’t change it."
Israeli writer targeted for massive hate mail from Ireland after
column<http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Israeli-writer-targeted-for-massive-hate-mail-from-Ireland-after-column-189493081.html>
"A Jerusalem Post columnist has said she has been targeted for vicious
anti-Semitic mail from Ireland after writing about anti-Jewish comments she
heard in County Kerry.
Sarah Hoenig was on a visit to Cahirsiveen in Kerry when she met school
boys collecting for Palestinian rights on behalf of the Third World agency
Trocaire.
*She wrote that they told her they hated Jews, that they had killed Jesus
and that their fundraising for Palestine was endorsed by the local school.*"
PMW: US behind civil wars and atrocities in Arab
countries<http://www.palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=157&doc_id=8520>
"The official Palestinian Authority daily newspaper has accused the United
States of ordering radical Islamists to commit atrocities in order to
justify America's war on terror and its actions against Arabs.
A recent opinion piece in Al-Hayat Al-Jadida claims that after the fall of
the Soviet Union, the US needed "a new straw man, whose existence would
justify all its wars, all its conspiracies and its policies of supporting
oppression."
Song dedicated to Palestinian prisoners honors arch-terrorists, on PA TV
VIDEO <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZWXurWLYE4>
All Quiet on the Gaza
Front<http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/02/all-quiet-on-the-gaza-front/272794/>
It will take more than two months without rocket fire for this Israeli
border town to return to normalcy.
"And then, for the first time since the early days of the last decade, the
rocket fire stopped. Not stopped in the sense that the frequency of attacks
on the town had been reduced -- even during official cease-fires, of which
there have been four in the last six years, the town withstood occasional
fire. Rather, for the first time, they have been totally stopped. December
of 2012 was the first month since 2004 that there had been no rocket fire
on Israel from the Gaza Strip. The official statistics aren't out yet, but
January of 2013 will almost certainly be the second."
NY Daily News: Israel in the
dock<http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/israel-dock-article-1.1253541>
"UN Human Rights Council is unfit to judge the Middle East's only democracy
Refusing to be stomped by the kangaroo in a kangaroo court, Israel has
declined to participate in a United Nations dissection of its moral
standing in the world."
Andres Oppenheimer: Argentina-Iran deal makes a mockery of
justice<http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/01/30/3208968/argentina-iran-deal-makes-a-mockery.html>
"My opinion: Argentina has crossed a line by making a deal with the prime
suspect in the 1994 terrorist attack.
I hope I’m wrong about this, but *the end result of this so-called
Argentina-Iran “truth commission” will be a finding saying that a handful
of low-level Iranian officials were involved in the case, which allows
Iran’s regime to claim it didn’t have anything to do with it, and Argentina
to claim it has solved the case.*That would amount to a big blow to
justice, and an insult to the memory of the 85 Jews and non-Jews who died
in the terrorist attack."
Iran Calls For Third Intifada At Conference Honoring
Gaza<http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/6971.htm>
"The two-day conference, held on January 17-18, was attended by senior
Iranian officials, including Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani, who described
Israel as "a Zionist plague that arrived in the Middle East," and his
advisor Hossein Sheikh Al-Islam, who called to launch a third Intifada in
the West Bank."
Was Iran really responsible for Lockerbie bombing? French spy expert claims
that CIA and FBI know but have covered the information
up<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2272945/Was-Iran-really-responsible-Lockerbie-bombing-French-spy-expert-claims-CIA-FBI-know-covered-information-up.html>
"Ignored for almost 25-years as an unverified conspiracy theory, the
respected New York Times journalist and Middle-East expert Robert Worth
claims in a recent piece that a former CIA operative confirmed to him an
Iranian role in the December bombing.
The controversial claim that 'the best intelligence' on the Lockerbie
bombing leads to Iran, rewrites a quarter of a century of accepted history
that Colonel Muammar Gaddafi's Libya ordered the terror outrage as revenge
for a 1986 U.S. attack on the North African country."
Iran reportedly refuses Assad request to hit back at
Israel<http://www.timesofisrael.com/iran-reportedly-refuses-assad-request-to-hit-back-at-israel/>
Tehran tells president to ‘take care of your business’ after air strike,
Israeli TV says; analyst worries about rash of Syrian TV interviews
demanding attacks on the Golan
‘Argo’ a runaway hit in
Iran<http://www.timesofisrael.com/argo-a-runaway-hit-in-iran/>
Hundreds of thousands of bootleg DVDs of film on the 1979 Iran hostage
crisis reportedly circulating in the Islamic Republic
Ground control to Major
Ahmadinejad<http://www.timesofisrael.com/ground-control-to-major-ahmadinejad/>
Iranian leader wants to be the ‘first human’ sent to space by Iran,
thwarting ‘devil’s hatred’ of ‘Iranian greatness’
"Space tourist Anousheh Ansari was the first Iranian to make a journey into
space aboard a Soyuz TMA-9 capsule from Baikonur, Kazakhastan, in September
2006. The 40-year-old telecommunications entrepreneur paid a reported $20
million for a space station visit. Her journey became an inspiration to
women in male-dominated Iran."
McCain Compares Ahmadinejad to Monkey, Sparking
Outrage<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164913>
"Sen. McCain came under fire after posting tweet comparing Ahmadinejad to
the monkey the Iranian government claims it launched into space.
“So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn't he just there
last week?” McCain tweeted, citing a recent Yahoo News story: “Iran
launches monkey into space.”
Official: Turkish tirades reveal 'brazen
hypocrisy'<http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=302160>
Israeli official says Turkey's leaders have become “laughingstock of the
international community with their self-righteous discourse.”
Turkish Politician: Gov't Cooperated with Israel in Syria
Attack<http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/164907>
Vice Chairman of the Turkish Labor Party accuses the Erdogan government of
working with Israel to carry out an alleged airstrike in Syria.
100 imams to commemorate Holocaust in
France<http://www.timesofisrael.com/100-imams-to-commemorate-holocaust-in-france/>
Following visit to Yad Vashem, Muslim leaders to hold memorial in Drancy,
where Jews were held before being transported to extermination camps
Blood test for
Alzheimer’s<http://israel21c.org/health/blood-test-for-alzheimers/>
An Israeli company’s experimental blood test can detect dementia while the
disease is still mild enough to treat more effectively.
“Today one of the main weaknesses in the Alzheimer’s area is that patients
don’t find out until it’s too late,” says Ilya Budik, CEO of NeuroQuest, an
Israeli company developing a novel blood test for early detection of the
most common cause of dementia worldwide.
“There are many new therapies under development, and the most successful
trials are showing the earlier a patient is treated, the better likelihood
of responding to the treatment,” he says."
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Also:
Is Palestinian-Israeli Peace the Key to Happiness in the Middle
East?<http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/02/is-palestinian-israeli-peace-the-key-to-happiness-in-the-middle-east/272819/>
(Jeffrey
Goldberg) (h/t Silke)
Among many Middle East analysts, particularly those of the so-called
"realist" school of foreign policy thought, "linkage" is a holy doctrine.
It holds that peaceful compromise between Israel and the Palestinians will
lead to a generally placid Middle East. But it's a false notion. One of its
more famous advocates is Chuck Hagel, President Obama's nominee to be
secretary of defense.
Saudi preacher who raped, murdered daughter freed
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4340959,00.html>(Ynet)
(h/t Al Gharqad)
More hypocrisy and lies from the BDS crowd. Pretty funny,
actually.<http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/blogspot/PDbq/~3/yhtNRAJdY1A/more-hypocrisy-and-lies-from-bds-crowd.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email>
Posted: 05 Feb 2013 11:00 AM PST
Another day, another new initiative to boycott
Israel<http://electronicintifada.net/blogs/michael-deas/day-action-target-israeli-settlement-firms-new-research-reveals-complicity>
:
Activists are gearing up for a day of action on 9 February that will target
Israeli agricultural export companies such as Mehadrin and Hadakalim over
their role in Israeli settlements and the dispossession of Palestinian
farmers.
In a statement titled “Farming
Injustice”<http://www.bdsmovement.net/2013/farming-injustice-feb9-call-10352>
released
earlier this month, *all major Palestinian agricultural organizations* called
for “the launching of worldwide campaigns on 9 February against Israeli
agricultural export corporations in light of their deep complicity in
Israel’s ongoing violations of international law and Palestinian human
rights.”
Once again, a bunch of tiny self-proclaimed leaders who pretend to speak
for all Palestinian Arab farmers are saying that they want to kill the
farms, since the bulk of exports from the Palestinian Arab territories use
Israeli exporters.
The reality is, of course, quite different, as real Palestinian Arab
farmers work closely with
Israel<http://www.cogat.idf.il/901-10747-en/Cogat.aspx> in
order to maximize their efficiencies and profits:
On Tuesday (29.1), the Civil Administration coordinated and funded the
departure of about 150 Palestinians agriculture workers from Judea and
Samaria to the exhibition "Cleantech" - the 17th annual international event
for water technologies, energy efficiency , renewable energy, gree
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