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Yesterday’s award for over-acting has to go to this palestinian protester, for this Linda Blair Exorcist impersonation.

An injured Palestinian is helped by foreign activists after clashes between demonstrators and Israeli border police officers erupted during a protest against Israel’s separation barrier in the West Bank village Naalin, near Modin, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008. Israel says the barrier is necessary for security while Palestinians call it a land grab. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)

In case you are indignant that I would accuse this man of over-acting (or even acting for that matter), consider that there is not even one news story - not from the palestinian sources nor “human rights” organizations terror enablers such as the ISM - mentioning anyone injured at Naalin yesterday (see update below). And trust me, when a protester suffers as much as a scratch, they’re sure to mention it.

This is reinforced by the captions accompanying the other photos taken of this man.

Take this one from AFP/Getty Images:

Activists hold a comrade who was hurt during a scuffle with Israeli soldiers at a protest against the construction of Israel’s controversial separation barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin near Ramallah on August 7, 2008. Over the last four years the village of Nilin has been the scene of near daily demonstrations against Israel’s barrier of concrete and steel that cuts through parts of the West Bank. Israel says that the barrier is needed for its security, critics describe it as a land grab. Earlier in the week a young Palestinian boy was fatally shot in the back of the head at one such demonstration in the village.

A scuffle is a minor fight or altercation. You would not expect someone from a scuffle to emerge looking like Jim Morrison after a bad trip.

Now consider this next picture and caption from Reuters, in which the caption writer does not even make mention of any injury.

A Palestinian reacts during a protest against the construction of the controversial Israeli barrier in the West Bank village of Nilin near Ramallah August 7, 2008. REUTERS/Fadi Arouri (WEST BANK)

Yep, that’s some reaction.

Once again, proof that for the palestinians and the mainstream media, the whole world really is a stage.

Update: I have subsequently found a palestinian report claiming demonstrators were injured after being “showered with rubber-coated metal bullets and sound bombs.” However, I still smell a rat, especially considering Ma’an’s track record in unreliability, as well as the captions mentioned above.

Update: Commenter Ms Missive writes:

It looks more like an epileptic seizure which, in all seriousness, can be triggered by stressful situations.

Again, I am sure the palestinian media, as well as the likes of the ISM, would have reported such an occurrence had it occurred. And the caption writers from Reuters and AFP would not have written of a man merely “hurt during a scuffle” or “reacting.”

If I am proven wrong, I’ll retract my contention that this seems like an act. But until then, I stand by it.

Update: Soccer Dad raises a good point:

I thought something looked off about the picture. But notice something else. There’s a guy off to the left with a kerchief over his mouth standing around nonchalantly holding a water bottle. If there was a real emergency, I don’t think that’s the pose he’d likely have. Even if he weren’t among the throng attending to the eye-rolling guy, he’d be looking at them - not looking away.

The palestinian Ma’an News Agency proudly reports that the palestinians have the world’s lowest divorce rate.

The world’s lowest divorce rate, 10.82% was announced in Palestine on Tuesday in the biannual report of Palestine’s Supreme Court.

Taysir At-Tamimi, a supreme judge and head of highest council of the legislative judiciary, issued the report on the first part of 2008. The report tracked the 67,196 legal cases that were brought before it in the first half of the year.

For the first part of 2008 the courts reported 15642 marriage contracts, of these 800 were repeats. Repeated marriages are counted when a widow remarries, or on rare occasions when Muslim men marry a second or third time. The court also recorded 1,693 cases of divorce.

The report thanked the department of family consultation and reconciliation for its commendable efforts in working through family problems before they end in divorce. In the first half of this year the department consulted on 2,239 cases of which 1,148 were reconciled, and 10,91 were transferred to the courts.

I would be sending the palestinians a congratulatory bouquet of flowers had it not been for a number of issues:

• Based on past experience, I cannot trust palestinian statistics
• Even assuming they are accurate, 10.82% is nowhere near the world’s lowest divorce rate.
• Palestinian divorce rates would likely be higher if the women did not have other options for getting out of unhappy marriages

It’s been a Fatah vs Hamas bloodbath today, with 4 killed and 80 wounded, including 12 children.

But according to the palestinian Ma’an News Agency, the real news is the leg injury sustained by a Fatah clan member.

Hillis family shot in leg by Israel near Nahal Oz crossing after day of Hamas/Fatah clashes in Gaza City

According to Al-Jazira Ahmad Hillis, head of a Fatah-affiliated family in Gaza City, was shot in the leg during clashes next to Nahal Oz crossing. Reports say that Israeli soldiers shot him as he approached the crossing area.

Clashes between the family and the de facto Hamas-led government police lasted all day Saturday, and saw the deaths of two Hamas-affiliated security officers and two others who have not been identified. More than 80 people have been injured including more than 12 children, says Khalid Radi, the spokesperson of de facto ministry of health.

Because you can’t let a day go by without blaming Israel.

Despite the fact that this leg injury is hardly the important story of the day, there is another problem with it.

It’s not true.

In fact, not only did Israel not shoot Ahmad Hillis and his clan, but we actually allowed them into Israel.

More than two dozens members of the Fatah-linked Hilles clan fled the Gaza Strip on Saturday and entered Israel, after a day of clashes with the ruling Hamas faction had left at least four people dead and more than 80 wounded.

Israeli officials said Saturday that the Hilles clan members were allowed through a Gaza crossing into Israel, speaking on condition of anonymity since no official announcement had been made.

Clan leader and senior Fatah official Ahmed Hilles was among those who had reached Israel, according to a Palestinian official close to the events.

Meanwhile, notice how the usual voices condemning Israel when palestinians die after we target terrorists are silent while the palestinians kill each other. The reason is simple, really. They do not condemn Israel because of their great love for the palestinians, but rather because of their hate for Israel.

Come to think of it, I wonder if anyone is going to condemn Israel for Ahmad Hillis’ “leg injury.”

In the LA Times Babylon and Beyond blog section, Ashraf Khalil in Chicago complains about his nine hours at the Eretz checkpoint.

But that’s nothing compared to the treatment he receives in the comments.

Sample:

Instead of moaning and groaning about how bad Israelis treat Palestinians maybe you should focus on how bad Palestinians treat other Palestinians. The problems are among Arabs and how you treat each other. No wonder Israelis try to protect themselves.

Posted by: Dan | July 26, 2008 at 08:29 AM

Do remember that the checkpoint was built because terrorists would bring explosives to the previous checkpoint, trying to blow open a gate and kill as many Israelis as possible. Movements “restricted”? The Palestinians are free to move about Gaza - why do they have a “right” to move freely about in a foreign nation? A nation that provides free hospital care, as noted here? Why, with the billions in aid given to them in the past 20 years have they not built hospitals that can treat their own people? Even with these medical cases, we see pregnant women - in labor - bringing suicide bomb-belts to blow up the hospitals. That any nation would tolerate this, and still provide the humanitarian aid that they do, boggles the mind.

Posted by: Victor Williams | July 26, 2008 at 07:39 AM

How completely selfish. Not a word, about attacks by Hamas on these checkpoints. Instead, only complaints, about an individual’s perception of disrespect. Consider how kidnapped Israeli’s are treated (held captive or killed), compared to a few hours of inconvenience.

Posted by: DL | July 25, 2008 at 02:13 PM

It’s great to see more and more people seeing right through the propaganda and “getting it.”

Ami Isseroff brings to our attention the latest example of anti-Israel propaganda/anti-Semitism going mainstream.

The culprit? Yourdictionary.com

Yourdictionary.com is the latest example of how anti-Israel propaganda, anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism have gone mainstream. Previously, we noted how anti-Israel propaganda had permeated Wikipedia, thanks to the efforts of a few dedicated anti-Israel editors. But Wikipedia, despite its tremendous authority, is a source open to public editing. Yourdictionary.com is supposedly a neutral source, which provides “educational content” for profit. When the propaganda gets into dictionary definitions, it is a sign that it really has become part of the mainstream culture.

The most remarkable thing about yourdictionary.com is perhaps the entries that are NOT there. Neither “anti-Semitism” nor “antisemitism” were listed in this dictionary as of July 19!

For the entry Jew, the dictionary lists the anti-Semitic verb form first. To be fair, it states that the usage is racist, but I have never seen the verb form of “Jew” listed first in any dictionary (as in “He Jewed me down”).

For other entries that we found, the definitions were correct, but the examples included vicious anti-Israel propaganda and opinionated slurs, including deliberate misuse of other words.

Examples:

Occupation
“The only way for Israelis to have security is, quite simply, to end the 35-year-old Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.”

“The Israeli occupation will never respect the human rights or civil rights of the people.”

“The cause of the problem is the illegal occupation, by Zionist racists, of the land of the Palestinians.”

Apartheid:

The apartheid wall alone makes a mockery of the pride’s slogan of ‘ Love Without Borders ‘.

“Israel, like South Africa, is an apartheid state, ” he said.

ethnic cleansing

The end of Zionist ethnic cleansing, and the right of all refugees to return to their homelands.

Ami then suggests to write to both the Web site owners and to ADL.

Protest that politicization of dictionary entries is unacceptable, and that omission of “anti-Semitism” (in whatever spelling) could not be accidental. Yourdictionary.com has a disclaimer stating that examples do not reflect their opinions. The omission of “anti-Semitism” and the use of the verb form of “Jew” first must “reflect their opinions” and the examples, consistently anti-Israel were chosen by them. How could they not reflect their opinions?

What is your kid learning as he or she do their homework and use this dictionary?

Contact Information:
ADL: Via contact form at:
http://www.adl.org/contact_us.asp

Yourdictionary.com (Love to Know)
1325 Howard Ave
Suite 307
Burlingame, CA 94010
US
admin@lovetoknow.com

Please check yourdictionary.com for other entries that might yield “interesting” examples.

Do not accuse them of “anti-Semitism.” It is enough to mention that they fail to define anti-Semitism. Keep reminding ADL and lovetoknow until these problems are resolved.

What happened to palestinian Muhammad Daraghmah?

a) He was shot 3 times in the heart by IDF soldiers after he stopped painting his house (for his sister’s graduation from high school) to see what was going on outside

b) He was shot 8 times at close range by IDF soldiers while he was throwing stones, and was then buried during a funeral in Tubas

c) He was shot by IDF soldiers while on the main road downtown, and then had his body transferred to an unknown place by the soldiers

And the answer is d) all of the above, thanks to the reliable folks at the various palestinian news outlets.

Do you remember the dumbass palestinian terrorist group who recently claimed they had kidnapped a fictitious female Israeli soldier?

Well, since that worked out so well for them (/sarcasm), they have decided to up the ante and claim a fictitious bombing attack in Tel Aviv.

Funnily enough, there seems to be nothing fictitious about their stupidity.

(hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)

Update: Below (left) is a picture of the supposedly recently kidnapped soldier “Dana,” as published by the terrorist group, along with a picture of Dana Benett (right), a Tiberias teenager who went missing in 2003:

The palestinians may claim they are suffering from food, electricity and gas shortages, but one thing there is clearly no shortage of is dumbasses.

Palestinian faction claimed responsibility of killing an Israeli female soldier and kidnapping her corps.

In a statement received by RNA, “Ahrar Al-Jalil Brigades” said that it killed an Israeli female soldier, Dana Binjamin, 24, on June 2, 2008.

The Brigades added that it issued a statement calling the Israelis for prisoners trade for her corps but the Israelis did not take it seriously.

Probably because no female soldier was killed on June 2.

Oh, and no soldiers were kidnapped either.

Either someone wasn’t paying attention in those Propaganda 101 classes, or the palestinians figure we’d believe anything.

Which I guess isn’t that far from the truth, given all their other lies for which we have fallen.

Update: The palestinians have now released a picture of the supposedly captured female soldier Binjamin.

Introducing our latest weapon: Zionist Death Ninjas.^TM

Forget the garden variety ninja. Our highly skilled assassins are even deadlier, given they cause pain and confuse the hell out of their victims.

For example, the victims of their latest attack cannot tell whether it was at least 10 ninjas who attacked 3 palestinians, seriously wounding at least one of them

Jewish colonisers attacked and wounded on Sunday three citizens in the West Bank city of south Hebron, local sources said.

They added that ten of colonisers attacked the house of Khalil al-Nawaj’a 70, and his wife Tamam 68, and Ismael 32, and wounded them. The wife was taken to Soroka hospital as her injuries serious.

..6 ninjas who attacked 7 palestinians, rendering one of them unconscious

A group of Palestinian shepherds on Sunday said that six masked settlers attacked them with clubs and rods earlier in the evening near the West Bank settlement of Susya.

Four of the Palestinians were wounded in the incident, one of whom, a woman, was later taken unconscious to the Soroka medical center in Be’er Sheva for treatment. The three others were lightly wounded and received treatment at a hospital in Hebron.

..or some other number who attacked 4 palestinians, causing them all to faint.

Four Palestinians, including a woman, were injured when masked Israeli settlers attacked shepherds on Sunday in the West Bank village of Sussia, south of the city of Hebron.

Shepherds told to the Israeli police, who were present during the attack, that the attackers were Israeli settlers and they beat them with sticks and clubs.

The shepherds fainted and were transferred to Soroka hospital in the Israeli city of Beer Sheva for treatment.

Of course, they are not yet the perfect weapon, given they were not able to render the palestinians sufficiently confused, as evidenced by the fact the palestinians were still able to positively identify their attackers as settlers, despite the fact they were wearing masks.

Update: I almost feel sorry for the palestinians, who also have to contend with the always deadly Zionist Death Boars.^TM

Boars released by Israeli settlers from Ariel settlement attacked an elderly Palestinian farmer, 70-year-old Ahmad Ad-Dims, while he was heading to his olive groves near the separation wall in northern Salfit on Sunday.

The farmer said that a huge boar attacked him while en route to his fields at Wadi An-Najjar and he fell off his horse.

He added that the boars were hiding amidst oak trees. When Ad-Dims approached, one of them attacked him. He sustained wounds in his neck and back and he was unable to tend his field because of pain in his spine, he said.

It’s a good day for truth, justice and the American way with the French Court of Appeals overturning last year’s judgment against Philippe Karsenty (that’s him to the left of me in the picture), who was found liable for “insulting” France 2 TV and reporter Charles Enderlin, after he wrote an article claiming the Mohammed Al Durah clip broadcast by France 2 was a fraud.

There has been no blogger who has followed this as closely as my friend Richard Landes. This is what he had to say after the decision:

Now we get to see how the French (and Western) MSM handle this. It’s a stunning victory for Karsenty and loss for Enderlin and France2 who initiated this case when they didn’t have to.

In order for an appeals court to reverse a decision, they must have strong evidence to the contrary.

The fact that they did indicates that their written decision will be very critical of France2. The implications of this decision are immense.

Be sure to check out his blog for updates and further discussion on the decision.

Despite the fact that a terrorist group has admitted that the palestinian man killed at Hawara checkpoint on Monday afternoon was intending to blow the soldiers to kingdom come, his parents have a different take.

You see, he wasn’t carrying explosives. It was really a mobile phone.

A really big one.

With a heck of a loud timer.

The Palestinian teenager shot dead on Monday at Huwwara checkpoint south of Nablus in the northern West Bank was carrying explosives to attack Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint, a little known group calling themselves the “Struggle and Return Brigades” announced on Tuesday afternoon.

The group, who are affiliated to Fatah’s Al-Aqsa Brigades, said in a statement that 16-year-old Fahmi Ad-Dardouk was in possession of three explosive devices.

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The Dardouk family said that Fahmi left home 24 hours before they identified his corpse in Rafedia Hospital. They said he used to work with his father in a bakery in the centre of Nablus. He left home in the morning and never returned.

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Dardouk’s family denied he was carrying explosives, saying the Israeli soldiers killed him in cold blood.

Ad-Dardouk’s father said that his son was going to Ramallah to visit some relatives and his mobile phone was hanging on his belt connected to a set of headphones. He said he was in contact with his son to make sure he crossed the checkpoint safely. In his last call with his father, Fahmi told him that he had crossed the checkpoint.

More Israeli checkpoint brutality yesterday with the IDF killing a 16-year-old palestinian.

The poor youth was obviously so driven to despair by his demeaning treatment at the checkpoint, that he decided to blow himself up. And the IDF wouldn’t even grant him that right.

The Israel Defense Forces killed an armed Palestinian man at the Hawara checkpoint in the West Bank city of Nablus Monday afternoon.

The IDF said that a Palestinian man arrived at a checkpoint acting suspiciously while pacing back and forth. The force manning the checkpoint called on him to identify himself and noted that he was handling an object that appeared to be an explosives belt secured to his body.

A witness, taxi driver Mohammed Mustafa, told The Associated Press “they asked him to lift up his shirt and raise his arms and then they shot him.”

The troops then fired at the man when he lowered his hands suddenly toward the explosives.

An IDF investigation revealed that the man had been carrying three pipe bombs. The IDF spokeswoman said army sappers later detonated the pipe bombs at the scene in a controlled explosion.

A Palestinian security source in Nablus said the dead individual was a 16-year-old youth from the village of Beit Furik near the city. Other details were not immediately available.

Corporal Michal Ya’akov of the military police told Haaretz that “the entire event lasted maybe 30 seconds. I was a half a meter away from him [the attacker] and I asked him to pass through the metal detector. When he went through, the apparatus beeped. I asked him to raise his arms and then I saw under his shirt the explosives, secured to his pants. I yelled ‘explosives in the checkpoint’ and the entire team reacted perfectly. We told him to lie on the ground so that the explosion will go down into the ground, but he refused. Then I saw that he was lowering his arms suddenly and the checkpoint commander fired several shots at him. I suppose he was trying to detonate the explosives and blow himself up.”

Ya’akov added that there was no prior intelligence regarding a possible suicide bomber making his way toward Israel.

Another IDF soldier involved in the incident told reporters that it was clear to her that the man was intending to attack the checkpoint.

“There were no other Palestinians in the area when he tried to blow himself up, from his behavior it appeared as if he was not intending to get into Israel but wanted to blow himself up at the checkpoint and attack the soldiers there,” she said in a telephone interview.

IDF troops later entered the village to search for the house of the attacker’s family, local residents said.

Israel maintains it needs the checkpoints in order to stop Palestinian attackers.

As if.

Update: The above post was clearly my way of using sarcasm to prove a point. But believe it or not, it is not far from the way the palestinians have portrayed this incident. Consider the Ma’an News report of the incident:

Israeli forces shot dead a young Palestinian man at the Hawwara checkpoint, south of Nablus on Monday evening.

Israeli military sources said the young man refused to comply with soldiers who ordered him to stop and raise his hands. They then opened fire on him, thinking he was wearing an explosive belt.

Eyewitnesses told Ma’an’s Nablus correspondent that Israeli soldiers manning the checkpoint fired a volley of six shots at the young man, who appeared to be around 16 years of age, hitting him several times in the back.

They then completely closed the checkpoint preventing anyone from passing through.

According to the eyewitnesses, the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint had asked the young man to lift up his shirt and when he refused they immediately opened fire on him.

Notice how they omit the minor detail of him actually carrying pipe bombs that he was about to detonate.

Update: Here’s the Ramattan News report of the incident:

Israeli soldiers on Monday killed a Palestinian teenager on Monday night in Nablus, north of the West Bank.

Palestinian medics said that Nael Hini, 16, was killed by Israeli soldiers stationed at a checkpoint at the entrance of Howara villege, south of Nablus.

Witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers opened fire at the boy and prevented paramedics from evacuating him.

Paramedics said that the 16-year-old boy bled several hours to death.

Israeli military sources affirmed that the soldiers killed a suspected one near the checkpoint.

And Wafa’s:

A citizen who was shot and wounded on Monday by an Israeli gunfire on Hawwara military checkpoint in the West Bank city of south Nablus died, medical sources said and witnesses said.

The sources added that the citizen who has not identified yet was shot and left bleeding until he pronounced his death at the checkpoint.

Witnesses said that the Israeli soldiers at the checkpoint prevented an ambulance to evacuate him to hospital; instead they closed the checkpoint and hurled gas and sonic grenades towards the citizens.

If you didn’t before, maybe you now understand why you can’t trust palestinian reports.