On a drive through the Bik’aa, the Jordan Valley, on Route 90, the road on which Birthright trips do not travel,

as it is well into the “West Bank,” it was amusing to see this new red sign.

As you can see on this close-up, the new Coke Cola marketing gimmick is to put Hebrew names on the Coke bottles. Everyone seems to love to find their name, especially on a billboard in what looks like the middle of nowhere.

This is that contested “land” you hear so much about.

Not far away is another red sign at the entrance to another road,

with this close-up so you can clearly read that Israelis are “Forbidden” to enter as it is “Dangerous To Your Lives.”

So to protect Israelis from being murdered by our “peace partners,” Israelis by law cannot enter “Area A” or the roads leading to it.

This is not a new policy, but what is new is that these signs are now starting to appear in more locations.

So what made me see red?

Not so far away from that sign, this Arab family came to enjoy a picnic on the beach

on the shores of the Kinneret, the Sea of Galilee, where Israeli Arab families can and do visit freely and safely.

Besides being dangerous now, repeatedly the Palestinian Authority has stated that NO Jews will be allowed to live in their state.

And yet Israel is called an Apartheid State!

Why isn’t this enough to make everyone see red?

Answer, as well as a bunch of other fascinating photos, can be found here (hat tip: Shirlee).

The reason I am posting this video is what you will see and hear from 0:32-0:40: one of the speakers very nonchalantly saying that without support and funds, Israel would not continue to exist.

Notice he doesn’t say that without the support and funds, Israel would be forced to agree to a palestinian state living alongside her in peace and security. Because that’s simply not the BDSholes’ aim.

The BDSholes are getting very sloppy, lowering their guard and making such comments – as well as antisemitic ones – publicly. Despite the protestations of BDSholes like Patrick Harrison, the evidence is there for all to see, and people like me are going to continue to shine a light on them.

“Concessions”

“Political Scene”

Sure enough, one year later, The same site hosts same caricaturist with same caricature message of how Israel is secretly orchestrating the world’s reaction to the genocide in Syria.

Said caricaturist is none other than Ali Farzat, renowned for having his hands broken by Assad’s thugs.

Farzat has also won the EU Parliament sanctioned Sakharov Prize

The Sakharov Prize for freedom of thought, named in honour of the Soviet physicist and political dissident Andrei Sakharov, has been awarded by the European Parliament every year since 1988 to individuals or organizations that have made an important contribution to the fight for human rights or democracy.

I guess the award committee missed this “important contribution”:

]]> http://www.israellycool.com/2013/05/24/a-year-later-same-old-story-from-sky-news-arabia/feed/ 1 http://www.israellycool.com/2013/05/23/summarizing-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-in-one-sentence/ http://www.israellycool.com/2013/05/23/summarizing-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict-in-one-sentence/#comments Thu, 23 May 2013 19:58:48 +0000 Judge Dan http://www.israellycool.com/?p=50106 Earlier this year I posted about the football game between FC Barcelona and a joint Israeli-Palestinian team, as way to promote coexistence.

Now comes the Palestinian reply:

The star-studded soccer team Barcelona FC will host two soccer clinics for children in the Holy Land in August, one in the West Bank and one in Israel. The events, scheduled for August 3 and 4, aim to promote “peace between Israelis and Palestinians through the values of sport,” the club announced on Wednesday. But a planned exhibition match, pitting Barcelona against a joint Israeli-Palestinian team, has been cancelled because of Palestinian objections.

And who made the call? Jibril Rajoub:

“Because of the behavior of the Israelis, that targets sport and athletes, our movement is limited,” Palestinian football Association head Jibril Rajoub told Reuters in early May. “I believe that it’s too early to talk about a joint match because of the discriminatory behavior, even on the playing field, which is being practiced by Israel,’’ he said.

Yes, the same guy who recently said he’ll use an atomic bomb on Israel if he had one, and that Israel is their main enemy.

And now you know why after 65 years there still isn’t peace in the Middle East. FC Barcelona will have better luck teaching pigs how to fly, than teaching Palestinians about alternatives to zero-sum games.

The Jerusalem Post is reporting about a 4 year old Syrian refugee girl that has been brought to Israel by the charity “Save a Child’s Heart” (or SACH for short) for life saving heart surgery.

It’s an unprecedented story – a refugee child from Syria, maybe Israel’s most bitter enemy, brought to Israel two weeks ago for heart surgery, a decision doctors said saved her life.

Its definitely worth reading the whole article as it goes into the complexities of juggling the obvious PR ramifications/opportunities of such an endeavour.

It appears to be a complicated balancing act for the charity; on the one hand they seek out the PR such operations bring, especially one as remarkable as bringing a girl from Syria to Israel for life-saving surgery, but on the other hand, they realize that the very media exposure that creates the PR could potentially jeopardize the girl’s safety back home and her ability to return to Israel to finish her surgery. Such exposure could also potentially deter the parents of future children in need from Iraq, over 200 of which have been treated in Israel through SACH.

Indeed! Its also worth checking out SACH’s website. From their Mission Statement:

Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) is an Israeli-based international humanitarian project, whose mission is to improve the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children from developing countries who suffer from heart disease and to create centers of competence in these countries. SACH is totally dedicated to the idea that every child deserves the best medical treatment available, regardless of the child’s nationality, religion, color, gender or financial situation.

SACH is motivated by the age-old Jewish tradition of Tikkun Olam – repairing the world. By mending the hearts of children, regardless of their origin, SACH is contributing to a better and more peaceful future for all of our children.

If you have ever wondered what is the REAL meaning of “Tikkun Olam” and wanted a good practial example of it in action, you will find it there.

Abbas’ hand-drawn map (Walla)

A sketched map of Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert’s land-for-peace offer to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in 2008 — hurriedly drawn up by Abbas after a meeting with Olmert that December, and made public for the first time on Thursday — suggests that Israel was prepared to withdraw to borders very similar to the pre-1967 lines and swap areas of northern and southern Israel in return for maintaining the larger settlement blocs.

The map, published by Walla news, was based on an offer Olmert made to Abbas on December 16, 2008, during a meeting in Jerusalem. Olmert presented Abbas with a large formal map showing his territorial compromise proposal for the contours of a Palestinian state as part of a permanent peace accord, and demanded that Abbas initial the proposal before taking it back to Ramallah for consideration by the Palestinians. Abbas refused to do so, but on his return to his headquarters, he gathered his officials and asked them to remain silent while he hastily recreated the offer on a sheet of official Palestinian Authority notepaper.

The sketch, which includes no place names, indicates that Olmert was apparently willing to more or less return to the pre-1967 lines, while maintaining the Gush Etzion settlement bloc south of Jerusalem, the settlement city of Ma’ale Adumin to the east, and a slice of territory that apparently would encompass the large settlement of Ariel in Samaria. In exchange for expanding Israeli sovereignty to those areas, Israel would have given up some of its own land to the new Palestinian state.

According to Walla, Olmert envisaged relinquishing Israeli territory on a one-for-one basis to the Palestinians in areas including near Afula; near Tirat Zvi south of Beit She’an; north of Jerusalem; in the Judean Desert, and in the Lachish area. He also endorsed a tunnel route to link Gaza and the West Bank.

Olmert, as he has subsequently confirmed, was also prepared to divide Jerusalem into Israeli- and Palestinian-controlled neighborhoods, and to relinquish Israeli sovereignty at the Temple Mount and the entire Old City. He proposed that the “Holy Basin” be overseen instead by a five-member, non-sovereign international trusteeship, comprising Israel, the PA, Jordan, the US and Saudi Arabia.

A sketch of the land for peace offer made by former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas in December 2008. The map was hand-drawn by Abbas.

According to Walla, Olmert has confirmed that Abbas’s sketched map is similar to that depicted in his proposal, and reconfirmed his readiness to have relinquished sovereignty at the Temple Mount.

I dunno. Methink Abbas wasn’t drawing a map, but rather sketching Olmert during some monotonous parts of the talks.

Introducing Ahmed Angel.

What. A. Dreamboat.

Meet Ahmed Angel, the bright-eyed, unabashedly narcissistic male model from Iraq who is conquering the internet one creepy, sparkling selfie at a time.

With his flawless (perhaps slightly Photoshopped) porcelain skin, fair Ahmed looks like a cross between Frodo Baggins and post-transformation Michael Jackson. Which can only be a good thing.

If there’s one word that Ahmed thinks describes himself, it is..planet?!

Yeah, he’s not the most modest person in the world.

“Now I’m a international star And the most popular ….I love all of you,” Ahmed told his legion of fans on Facebook last week.

“You should be king of all the Earth,” replied one keen commenter.

“You are a god,” said another.

And then there was our personal favourite: “It’s your planet. Thank you for allowing us all to live on it.”

The Ahmed admirers aren’t just on Facebook. Ahmed’s Imgur album has been viewed almost a million times, and his luminescence has spawned a series of threads on reddit.

And probably not the sharpest tool in the shed either. Or is he?

“The most important thing in my life is to study medicine!!!” Ahmed told the International Business Times.

“I’m busy my studies so I decided to postpone these (modelling) offers to another time.”

There is a mine of gold in his Facebook photo albums, including the following:

Yep, Ahmed thinks he’s too sexy for your cat.

Which begs the question?

Yesterday evening a British soldier was knocked to the ground by a car and then butchered in the street as people watched. One of the butchers was happy to speak to passers by. You can read all about it in the press. The videos are out there too.

From the Times of Israel Yisrael Medad pointed out the following paragraph:

The Associated Press examined the footage to verify its authenticity, cross-referencing images from the scene, aerial shots, the location of a car behind the alleged attacker and the appearance of a body and a car in the background. There was no immediate way for the AP to verify who the cameraman was.

Thirteen years after Mohammad Al Durah and they have never applied this level of fact checking to any of the fake footage that comes out of Pallywood, even less acknowledge that they even tried to do it.

Ramallah 2000 Aziz Salha waving his blood-stained hands from the police station window. A building that was formerly an Israeli base, handed to the PA during Oslo. Salha was sentenced to life imprisonment, but was released in 2011 as one of hundreds release to return Gilad Shalit

And of course, it’s pretty clear this guy is a terrorist right? He’s not a militant stabbing a “settler” at a bus stop. And even though it appears his target was “military” we’re not going to build in a ton of background material to the story justifying his actions are we?

Here’s how the BBC work hard to help “explain” why Jews should be stabbed with impunity and why the last dead Jew had it coming because they have the temerity to live in “Muslim lands”

Tuesday’s attack is the first time a settler has been killed by a Palestinian in the West Bank since 2011.

Earlier this month violence flared between Israeli troops and Palestinians protesting against the continued detention of a group of Palestinians on hunger strike in Israeli prisons.

According to Reuters news agency, nine Palestinians have been killed in various incidents with Israeli forces in the West Bank since the start of this year.

About 500,000 Jews live in more than 100 settlements built since Israel’s 1967 occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

The settlements are considered illegal under international law, though Israel disputes this.

But hey, you’re welcome to it. Parts of East London are now Muslim lands and you, my British friends, are occupiers in your own lands too.

Look at the way these people kill you on what were your streets. They don’t run away and hide, they give interviews with blood stained hands. They’re proud of slaughtering infidels.

We’ve seen these bloody hands before. I’m very sorry you’re seeing them now in London.

Special mention goes out to Peter Bouckaert from Human Rights Watch. You remember them, they were the ones employing Nazi memorabilia collector Marc Garlasco.

The Washington Free Beacon has the scoop:

A “secret” Facebook group of foreign correspondents and human rights activists quickly devolved into an anti-Israel hate-fest on Tuesday following the release of a new Israeli government report that cleared the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) of wrongdoing in the 2000 death of a Palestinian boy.

The Israeli government report contests the claim that the IDF killed a Palestinian boy, Muhammad al-Durrah, in a famous 2000 incident in Gaza that helped ignite the Second Intifada.

Journalists and activists mocked the report, attacked the IDF, and claimed pro-Israel lobbyists were influencing the media coverage, in a private Facebook group for foreign correspondents known as the “Vulture Club.”

Peter Bouckaert, a senior official at Human Rights Watch, dismissed the report as “typical IDF lies.”

“As usual, it takes them a long time to really build up the falsehood,” wrote Bouckaert.

Bouckaert also blasted the New York Times for its coverage of the report.

“It really isn’t good journalism to write this up as if these are credible allegations when it is a pack of lies,” he wrote.

Correspondents from numerous outlets, including the Associated Press and the Agence France-Presse, also piled on.

“[T]he lobby uses all its strength and is able to push anything in majors [sic] English newspapers or in the NYT[imes],” wrote El Mundo reporter Javier Espinosa. “Israeli embassies call their contacts in all those newspapers and they agree to publish that information.”

“That reinforces lack of media credibility and conspiracy theories as we are being used as mouthpieces for propaganda,” Espinosa added.

Associated Press photojournalist Jerome Delay wrote, “The IDF thinks the earth is flat, btw.”

The journalists also took shots at Philippe Karsenty, a French media analyst who was sued by France 2 television after he accused the network of airing staged footage of the al-Durrah incident.

“And fuck no, it’s not true that ‘Everyone in France knows the footage is a hoax,’ as Karsenty says,” wrote AFP reporter Marc Bastian. “Everyone here knows that [France 2 journalist Charles] Enderlin is an honest man, and Karsenty is an extremist.”

“That’s about the kindest way to describe Karsenty,” replied Bouckaert. “I would add a few descriptive words after extremist.”

You’ll want to read the rest.