No mealy mouthed condemnation of 'occupation' or 'zionists'

It's so refreshing when those who hate you are honest enough to admit it. Unlike mealy mouthed Franciscan clerics and other assorted pro-palestinian arab 'peace' activists this muslim website is not abashed in naming those hated 'bloody jews'. 
No need here to talk euphemistically about 'zionists' and 'occupation' and rights for so-called 'palestinians'. This hatred for jews who won't accept conversion to christianity or islam is the basis of pro-palestinian arab activism. Were this not true, we would see flotillas to Syria to bring aid to the rebels, we would see headlines in Reuters and the BBC about the killing of women in arab countries such as Saudi Arabia. We would also find a little more interest in the western media about Russian forces' massacres in Ingushetia and Dagestan. The list is endless. When one house is built in Ir David (the city of David, the biblical term for ancient Jerusalem) the condemnations come from the White House, London and Europe. Whilst Darfurians, villagers in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan continue to die by the hundreds monthly at the hands of the Sudanese regime of Omar al Bashir, silence reigns.
We must remember that those who constantly single out the middle-east's only democracy (it still is after the rotten Arab 'Spring' that brought christian and women torturing islamists to power) have as their interest, the same old interest, to further blood libels against jews and the jewish state, to besmirch Israel, to bring it down.

Bloody Jews bombed factory in Sudan, killing two peaceful Muslims
 Publication time: 25 October 2012, 10:28

 Sudan has accused Jews from so-called "israel" of bombing a military arms factory, threatening retaliation after a resulting fire killed two Muslims and injured a third.

 "We think "israel" did the bombing", culture and information minister Ahmed Bilal Osman told a news conference.

 "We reserve the right to react at a place and time we choose".

 The minister said four radar-evading aircraft were involved in the attack, which occurred at about midnight (2100 GMT) on Tuesday at the Yarmouk military manufacturing facility in south Khartoum. It took troops several hours to contain the blaze.

 Evidence pointing to illegal Zionist enclave in Palestine was found among remnants of undetonated missiles, Mr Osman said.

 "The people have seen it with their eyes - four planes coming from the east, and we have no enemy other than "Israel"," he said.

 "The type of rockets which we have now - and some of them did not explode - we have the codes, we have seen the planes directly, this is recorded, and all this evidence we are going to take to the UN security council".

 As Sudan's cabinet met in an emergency session, about 300 protesters gathered nearby, denouncing "israel".

 "The army of Mohamed is returning," they reportedly chanted. [Ooops-this is a reference to the massacre of jews committed by the 'prophet' Muhammad wiping out Medina's whole jewish population. At rallies muslims often chant Khaybar al yahud...... reminding themselves in code of this massacre, i.e. that they will repeat it, will commit another Holocaust this time against the people of Israel]

 The information minister said that bloody illegal "israel" believed Sudan to be a threat, and was helping to arm opposition rebels.

 "They think that this factory supplies our army, and by attacking it, they are going to make it easier for the rebels to take over," Osman said. "Plus, they have accused us, saying that these arms would find their way to Hamas. These are allegations which are not correct."

 He also promised retribution, though ruled out any direct attack on so called "israel".

 There have been numerous reports from eyewitnesses, saying what initially many people thought was a plane passed over, and then there was a big, white explosion. These reports have come from many different sources.

 Fires flaring across a wide area, with heavy smoke and intermittent flashes of white light bursting above the state-owned factory, were seen from several kilometers away.

 Witnesses heard a sound like a plane in the sky, but didn't see any light from a plane. There were two explosions, and fire erupted in the compound.

 A woman living south of the compound also reported two initial blasts.

 The attack by murderous Jews destroyed part of the compound infrastructure, killed two people inside and injured another who is in serious condition.

 In 2009, a convoy carrying weapons in northeastern Sudan was targeted by bloody Jews from the air, killing dozens of Muslims. The Jews suspected it to be a weapons shipment heading for Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip.   

Source: Agencies

Kavkaz Center

Ignoring a serious attack on christians contrasted with the arson of Latrun and the Tuba Zangriya mosque burning

A story I first wrote about a month ago has finally been picked up by a wider jewish press. Adam Levick of the excellent CIF Watch website berates (along with other websites) the  mass media's differentiated response when a small scale arson and grafiti involving no violence, can be, possibly, ascribed to jews,

and when a very serious attack on christians happens in Jerusalem.

Of course the Latrun arson became a cause celebre in aid of further demonising Israel and 'settlers' whereas this serious attack against christians, for the third time was ignored. I didn't expect anything else to happen, as the mass media likes to reserve its bile for jews.

My interest was rather in why the Catholic authorities in Israel were so eager to repress their own story, as they have done an article by ex Latin 'Patriarch' Michel Sabbah an apologist for suicide bombers. He has been in Gaza pleading with Hamas to go easy on christians, not to forcibly convert them. The article reporting his trip which lauds Hamas and berates Israel was buried in the German language:

In diesem Sinne sage ich zu allen islamischen Kräften und Bewegungen in Gaza: bleibt eurem Islam treu, aber verpflichtet euch, die Christen zu schützen, und sie nicht zu Muslimen zu machen. In this spirit (of brotherliness, respect etc) 

I say to all the islamic forces and groups in Gaza: remain true to your islam and take it upon yourselves to protect christians, and not to convert them to islam.

My conclusion, since proved by one Father Aridah is that these prelates are still the same, unreconstructed haters of jews. Israel is for them fair game even if Israel protects Catholics whilst christians are being attacked and slowly ethnically cleansed from Palestinian Authority areas, as happens everywhere else in the arab and muslim world. They care less for their persecuted bretheren than for attacking jews. Of course they hope that if the church shows its hostility to Israel, the Muslim Brotherhood and the PA along with other assorted muslim zealots will go easier on their people. It hasn't happened in history, hasn't happened in the last ten years in Iraq, Gaza and the PA territories and isn't likely to happen in future

As regards the Latrun 'price tag' arson, the CIF article says that:

"The desecration, thought to be perpetrated by an Israeli Jew angry over the evacuation of Migron in the West Bank........... "

I think we should be very wary of accepting this incident on face value. With Qana and 'poor' Muhammed Dura who was very much alive after his death, the 'rocketed ' ambulance along with very many other incidents invented for camera in mind, we need to realise that our enemies are constantly concocting provocations which the mass media, often alerted in advance will pick up and run with.

The children were used to stop the car that had just swerved to avoid them, and to stone it

 It is to me suspicious that a group of settlers would single out a christian institution for attack. Christians don't really register much on settler radar who see only the daily attacks by muslims upon them, through stonings of their cars, of attempted and successful stabbings, of infiltration of jewish villages in Judea and Samaria where the murderers never discriminate between young, sick or old. The attackers do however try to avoid the soldiers and the guards whilst going about their bloody work.

The foolish youths who go in for price tag attacks will head for the nearest arab village, not go miles out of their way at night to an obscure Latrun monastery quietly nestled out in the hills where they would be heard by the monks, reported and caught by a police patrol as they returned to the surfaced main road.

There was a previous arson attack in an arab village of Tuba Zangriya which was used to besmirch settlers: The reporting of the Tuba Zangriya attack was lapped up by Reuters amongst others, including the Israeli press, and even Peres condemned settlers for an attack which they didn't commit:

In the burning of the mosque to the ground, hebrew graffitti was used indicating a price tag attack. But all was not as it seemed. Whilst Israeli reporters recounted the arab version of what had happened in the same manner as did the mass media.

The Elder of Ziyon found that one Israeli blogger had investigated the scene and uncovered what really happened. She proved conclusively that the attack had nothing to do with jews, and everything to do with criminality in an arab village.

Firstly the Price tag inscription was written in carbon which meant that the perpetrators had waited around until the wood carbonized, not a clever thing to do if you are jewish and burning down a mosque far off the beaten track and in an arab village! Our israeli sleuth masterfully unveils the deception lapped up by the world's media. Of course here explanation has sunk without trace in the blogosphere.

 It took me a while to find the links to the Elder article. The search term that eventually got it was "elder of ziyon mosque burning." There are no other jewish blogs or new sites that after an hour of searching have seen fit to reproduce this material refuting another blood libel against settlers.

Questions about the mosque arson at Tuba Zangaria
Israeli blog "Brilliant Disguise" has an intriguing article about the burning of the mosque in Tuba Zangaria in October.

The author, Gal Chen, is not a settler or even a rightist. She is against the settlements. But when this "price tag" attack was reported in October, a number of things bothered her - so she started researching it.

The first thing she noticed is that the village has a history of violence, corruption, intra-clan feuds and smuggling. Two years ago the office of the Jewish head of the town council appointed by Israel's Interior Ministry was hit with a hail of bullets.

Chen went to Tuba Zangaria to see it for herself.

It is not an easy village to travel to, especially for any settlers. It is really two villages - Tuba on the bottom of the mountain and Zangaria on top. The only way to get to Zangaria is to go through Tuba.

The village itself is in the Galilee, not very close to Judea and Samaria.

In Tuba itself, the mosque is easily visible and accessible - but it was untouched. The arsonists apparently spent the extra ten minutes to go up the mountain to find a  much less prominent mosque to burn.

There are houses surrounding the mosque. Chen wondered how outsiders could have made it to this inaccessible mosque in a small village without residents noticing, as well as how no one smelled the smoke or heard the fire before it became so large.

Here is the graffiti that seemed to prove this was a "price tag" attack:

The words say "[Price] tag" "Palmer" "Revenge", referring to the murder of Asher Palmer and his son in September.

But Chen noticed that the words were not written with spray paint, as is usual with this sort of vandalism - but with charred wood from the fire itself. She wonders how the arsonists could have forgotten a can of spray paint.

Not only that, but the diagonal pattern of the graffiti indicates that it was written after the fire had already blackened the wall.

Chen asked the villagers how anyone could have driven to the village without being noticed. They admitted that they are vigilant to see strange vehicles, especially at night, and conjectured that the arsonists walked there from the fields.

Which would mean that they decided to carry gallons of gasoline up a mountain, filled with thorns and stones, to get to an inaccessible mosque, in a crime-ridden Galilee village, surrounded by houses, miles from Judea and Samaria. Residents who live next door did not notice the fire until about half of the mosque was burned and destroyed, and yet the criminals managed to wait there long enough for the fire to cool down so they could write "Price tag/Palmer/Revenge" afterwards.

A few days later, village youths set fire to the local council building - led by a retired IDF general - and he fled, fearing for his life.

Chen ends her post without any accusations, but wondering about how the Israeli media at the scene jumped to conclusions without asking any of these questions.

I'm not by nature paranoid, but Israel's enemies really are out to get it. With so much invention of 'crimes' by jews, we need a healthy skepticism, something Mr Peres amongst many other Israelis, especially journalists seems to be lacking.

So who actually carried out the burning of a monastery door in Latrun? There is every chance that it was the work of either a local arab or even one of the monks themselves. We need to understand the forces arrayed against Israel. They understand that thirst of the media for stories that demonise Israel, and there is very possibly at least one amongst the hebrew proficient Latin community who, possibly without his community's cognizance, is not loathe to help along the anti-Israel cause by way of a burned door and a little scribbling in hebrew.