AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/15/2003 09:21:00 AM
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BODY: Open call to kill Danish Jews - Update

ollowing my previous post on the call to kill Danish Jews, I found this via Lynn B:

Ha’aretz: “COPENHAGEN, Denmark - The spokesman for a radical Muslim group that urged people to kill Jews had his conviction of violating Denmark's anti-racism law upheld Friday. Fadi Abdullatif, the Danish spokesman for the Hizb-ut-Tahrir group, was convicted of breaking the country's anti-racism laws and given a 60-day suspended jail sentence in October 2002, but appealed. The Eastern High Court upheld his conviction and the sentence. Members of the group passed out handbills outside Copenhagen mosques in spring 2002 quoting a verse from the Qu'ran: "And kill them wherever you find them, and turn them out from where they have turned you out." The text of the flyer, which was also posted on the group's Web site, called Jews "people of slander" and said they should be killed. Danish law prohibits public statements that are deemed insulting or indignant about race, religion, nationality or sexual preference. Convictions can result in jail terms as long as two years.”…(continued).

If someone was questioning that letter posted at Shark Blog, here is the needed prouf. Instead os 2 years in jail that inciter for murder got a measly 60-day suspended jail sentence.

Here is qsi (blogging from Europe) take on the letter posted at Shark Blog: “The weak response thus far from the Danish authorities to these threats from the Islamofascists is deeply worrying. Something as blatantly despicable as this should show up as a blip even on the radar of the most deranged multiculturalist. But apparently the decades of multiculturalist propaganda have led to the evisceration of any sense of right and wrong, giving a pass to anyone who is the Officially Recognized Victim Groups.

This is a serious threat to our way of life, the values of liberal democracy, and in fact all we hold dear; the things that make life worth living, the foundation of our freedom and prosperity, that which sets our minds free to create, argue and think without fear. Whether it's the Dutch AEL calling for the destruction of Israel, or these calls for the extermination of Jews in Denmark, they're part of the forces that arrayed against us. Not just the US and Britain, as the appeasers delude themselves, but they're arrayed against all of us in Europe. We'd better start dealing with the problem.”

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/14/2003 09:35:00 PM
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BODY: Absolutely hilarious

nother good one by The Sun, check it out at Imshin

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/13/2003 11:51:00 PM
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BODY: Hamifkad Haleumi

ou probably already heard about the joint peace initiative of Sari Nusseibeh, president of Al Quds University and the PLO member, and Ami Ayalon, the former head of Israel's Shabak internal security service and former admiral of the navy.

The two have reached an agreement on how to end the Israeli – Palestinian conflict. Now their goal is to sign one million people on both sides that will support their initiative. By that they want to generate pressure on the Israeli and on the Palestinian governments to accept the Ayalon – Nusseibeh agreement.

Okay I know it sounds totally naïve, but lets give it a go.

Here are the basic points of the agreement:

- Two states for two nations
- Permanent borders based on the June 4, 1967 borders (with possible exchanges of territory for reasons of security, demography or territorial integrity).
- Jerusalem – an open city – to be the capital of both states. Arab neighborhoods shall be under sovereignty of the Palestinian state, While Jewish neighborhoods shall be under sovereignty of the state of Israel. There shall be no political sovereignty over the Temple Mount.
- The right of return: the Palestinian refugees shall be allowed to return to the territories of the Palestinian State only. Jews shall return only to territories of the State of Israel. An international fund shall be established for the compensation and rehabilitation of the Palestinian refugees.
- The Palestinian state shall be demilitarized
- The end of the dispute: Upon the implementation of the Statement of Principles, by the signing of a political peace accord, the claims of both sides shall terminate.

More detailed Statement of Principles can be found here.

Sounds familiar doesn’t it? It’s basically what PM Barak offered Arafat in Camp David. There can be no other solution, blood is being shed for nothing, that’s what so frustrating in this war.

It very much feasible to gather 1 million Israeli signatures on that statement but I can’t see how it could be done in the Palestinian side. This problem is not hidden from the eyes of the people behind the statement but they don’t have a real answer for that. Israelis need to see true willingness on the Palestinian side and I think we won’t see many Palestinians signing on that statement.

Another big question left unanswered is what about the cease of Palestinian violence because no final agreement will be reached under fire, under Palestinian blood blackmail.

The site was launched silently for the national campaign hasn’t begun yet, it will probably begin in after the war in Iraq ends.

As I said, I’m pretty skeptic but I sure wish it will succeed. I signed the petition and if you are an Israeli you can sign as well over here.

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/12/2003 11:21:00 PM
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BODY: Thinking of Middle East studies abroad

oday I finally had my final exam of semester A courses. It was an off economics course called the Japanese perspective of the other. We basically had an overview on Japanese history and on past and these days Japanese society. The lecturer was Japanese who speaks perfect Hebrew. It might seem usual in the US but in Israel you rarely encounter Japanese that are not tourists (and there are no tourists these days anyway). I wasn’t totally ignorant about Japan before this course but most of what I know on Japan today is what I learnt from my Japanese lecturer. Automatically I take what I’ve learned to be truth, I don’t have a counter or different point of view to rely on. Yes I can find out everything in the Internet or just browse at the university library for more information about Japan, but I won’t.

What’s my point here? Well it made think about students in distant countries from the Middle East attending a course on Israel and the Palestinian taught by a Palestinian or just by an anti-Israeli professor. Most of those students will take what their professor says as an absolute truth. Most of them won’t bother to search for different views on the subject and will stick with an anti-Israeli perspective for many years.

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/12/2003 12:26:00 AM
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BODY: Google – efficient as always

’ve posted a screen shot (that I got by e-mail) of a Google search for: “French military victories” that showed a rather funny result. I thought that someone played a little bit with Photoshop but it turns out that this is what you get (not always) when you run such a search in Google. Go ahead try it: go to Google, type/paste “french military victories” and press the “I’m Feeling Lucky” button. You should end up in this page.

Update: A Canadian student is behind this prank. Way to go!

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/12/2003 12:01:00 AM
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BODY: Money interests

ussia is constantly putting a stick in the wheel of the up coming American attack on Iraq. Why are the Russians doing it? I think they are only guided by how much money they can make in each scenario, nothing more nothing less.

Everybody is focusing on futures US financial/business interests in after the war Iraq but in the meanwhile Russia is making profits from extending the pre war period. Oil prices are continuously rising up and Russia as a major oil producer is making tons of money from the rise in oil price. Sure, oil price will rise higher during the war but will become chipper when the American victory is achieved. Putin must be thinking, why not try to prolong this pre-war tension that brings up oil price and bring in a lot of money to Russian pockets.

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/11/2003 10:56:00 PM
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BODY: A special post for worried reader miranda

few weeks back I quoted Ma’ariv’s story that the Patriot missiles batteries that Germany sent to Israel are an old model ones and basically don’t have a chance to intercept Iraqi Scuds. Miranda was questioning whether Ma’ariv’s story is right. I hadn’t seen any other mentioning of that kind so there is a good chance that Ma’ariv’s story was false. In fact the two German Patriot batteries were deployed in the north, less threatened, part of Israel along Israeli batteries.

The Americans batteries were deployed around Tel Aviv as their missiles are from the newest model: PAC-3JAM, the Israeli missiles, it was published, are a bit less new but are also intended to intercept missiles. What about the German ones? There was no mention of their capabilities. I guess they are from an old model not so good but also aren’t worth nothing as suggested in Ma’ariv’s story.

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/11/2003 10:34:00 PM
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BODY: Okay so blogging was resumed before Thursday

new Israeli Blog: Watching the World From Ra'anana by Alison. Another English blogger in the Sharon area, Ra’anana is only a few kilometers north west from Hod Hasharon. Check it out.

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AUTHOR:G.
DATE:3/09/2003 11:25:00 PM
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BODY: Blogging will resume on Thursday

’ve got yet another exam this Wednesday so I don't have time to blog, sorry.

Go read Civax’s latest post (via Imshin) and pay a visit to Diane’s new Letter From Gotham (I’m thinking of moving out blogspot too, do you think they’ll have place for me at realwomenonline.com where Diane has moved to:-).

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