ifaynsh | Feb. 29th, 2012

Feb. 29th, 2012

Через несколько дней в Хайфе состоится 62-й всеизраильский конкурс красоты, в котором примут участие двадцать красавиц в возрасте от 18 до 23 лет со всей страны. А за кого-бы вы отдали свой голос??? Ананда-Ли Тик, 20 лет, из Од а-Шарона, военнослужащая ЦАХАЛ, служит в разведке. Ее необычное для Израиля имя переводится с языка санскрит как [...]

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CPT Anna Ukolova Начальник отдела по связи с русскоязычными СМИ в Пресс-службе Армии Обороны Израиля Israel · http://www.idfspokesperson.com/ http://twitter.com/AnnaUkolova Filed under: CPT Anna Ukolova, IDF Tagged: #AnnaUkolova, IDF

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2 процента людей — думает, 3 процента — думает, что они думают, а 95 процентов людей лучше умрут, чем будут думать. Бернард Шоу Худший враг любой пропаганды — интеллектуализм. Йозеф Геббельс Шапиро Максим Анатольевич ШКОЛА: http://samlib.ru/s/shapiro_m_a/school.shtml http://ifaynsht.blogspot.com/2012/02/blog-post_29.html Filed under: Израиль Tagged: Израиль

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Above is a map of a possible attack route to Iran (Hat Tip: Mike P).The problem is that the route is so roundabout that 100 fighter planes traveling it are bound to be noticed. from Israel Matzav http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/02/way-for-israel-to-attack-iran.html Filed under: Israel, Israel Matzav Tagged: Israel, Israel Matzav

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From the latest Wikileaks dump of hacked Stratfor emails: Sending straight to alpha because no WO on. Replying to this thread because it’s in reference to the bias we should be aware of from Ma’an News Agency, whose story Mikey just pasted in response to the insight on what’s happening at Pal camps in Lebanon. [...]

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Hat Tip: Mrs. Carl from Israel Matzav http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/02/six-pictures-of-revenants.html Filed under: Israel, Israel Matzav Tagged: Israel, Israel Matzav

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February 1: Israel remembers Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli Astronaut. In 1997, Ramon was selected to be the only Payload Specialist during NASA Mission STS-107 aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. He and his crewmates perished tragically in 2003 when the infamous Columbia shuttle exploded while re-entering Earth’s atmosphere–only 16 minutes before its scheduled landing time. February 5: Maj.-Gen. Amir [...]

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What kind of explosions would we see in the event that Israel attacks Iran’s nuclear program? Retired US General James Cartwright has told the New York Times that the Iranians have become masters of ‘escalation control.’ While a missile retaliation against Israel would be virtually certain, according to these assessments, Iran would also be likely [...]

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Вообразите себе сюрреализм происходящего. Германцы, в иракской пустыне, в Газе, возле Иерусалима держат фронт, ради того, чтобы спасти турецкую оттоманскую империю, за пять веков до этого завоевавшую Левант, от неизбежного развала. Наступающие “британцы” – на самом деле австралийцы, индусы и новозеландцы кладут свои жизни за то, чтобы Бейрут и Дамаск отдали французам, а Иерусалиму предоставили [...]

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From YNet: Communication Ministry officials raided the al-Watan TV station in Ramallah Wednesday. The raid was headed by officers at the ministry’s Wireless Supervision Unit. Palestinian sources said that an IDF force accompanied them. The IDF said that the raid was prompted by the station’s use of unauthorized frequencies, which endanger flight routes over Ben [...]

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Jerusalem’s Mamilla Quarter One of the key speeches at this week’s International Conference for the Defense of Occupied Jerusalem” in Doha, Qatar (see “26-Feb-12: A moment to think about Jerusalem“) was the one delivered by Mahmoud Abbas. He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization since 2004 and the President of the Palestinian National Authority for the [...]

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A man claiming to be a General in the Free Syrian Army told Reuters that his group has received weapons and anti-aircraft missiles from the US and France as forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad launched an all-out assault on Homs’ Baba Amro neighborhood, where several Western journalists are holed up.Let’s go to the videotape.This morning [...]

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Some of you may recall that back in November, it was reported that several CIA operatives in Lebanon were ‘outed,’ and that as a result it was reported that the crucial CIA listening post in Beirut was shut down. Stratfor documents released by Wikileaks on Wednesday report that the station is still alive and well, [...]

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From DG: 1) Pin the blame on Bibi In The Two-State Solution is the Best, and Only, Solution, Jeffrey Goldberg writes: What is the alternative to a one-state solution? A two-state solution — a Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in East Jerusalem. Why is the one-state idea getting some airplay now? [...]

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In a remarkably tone-deaf interview, Hamas Gaza leader Mahmoud Zahar dismissed any claims that the power crisis in Gaza was a problem. The leader of the Hamas questioned those talking about a state of flux in the Gazan street as a result of successive crises such as lack of gas and power outages, saying: “There [...]

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A Stratfor email released by Wikileaks gives the impression that Stratfor operates a lot like Israel’s Defense Intelligence agency. On 12/15/11 10:30 AM, Marc Lanthemann wrote:Source is an old friend from college who is now a major in IDF intelligence. Had not seen one another in years. Very secretive of what they do; seemed pretty [...]

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I was browsing through the Quds Media site, which is one of the sources for some of the more ridiculous rumors about Israel and the Al Aqsa Mosque, and which has an English version. While there I saw this article: Jerusalem in the Qur’an is a great book that thrilled and delighted me in a [...]

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Women in the IDF can have critical roles in the training of IDF soldiers. One of these roles is that of a parachuting instructor, who trains soldiers of the Paratroopers Brigade and other elite forces of the IDF to master the art of parachuting. We present you with Staff Sergeant Ofir Hershkovitz. Related posts: IDF [...]

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I’ve been holding this post in the hope of finding video of Lara Friedman’s appearance on James Zogby’s Viewpoint on Sunday night in which this issue was discussed. I haven’t found it yet.In an earlier post, I reported that ‘Peace Now’s Lara Friedman attended the ‘International Conference to Save Jerusalem’ in Qatar. At the time, [...]

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The essay below appeared in the February 24 edition of the Forward. Give Gays a Chance Rabbi Avi Shafran Director of Public Affairs Agudath Israel of America The recent mini-drama of Rabbi Aryeh Ralbag’s suspension as chief rabbi of his native Amsterdam for signing a document about homosexuality, and his subsequent reinstatement, might well serve [...]

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It was a tall order for Brookings’ Shibley Telhami. Telhami needed to come up with a poll of ‘representative Israelis’ that opposed a unilateral attack on Iran, wasn’t particularly excited about any strike on Iran, and showed Israelis supporting Hussein Obama over any of his rivals. And then, Telhami had to get one of Israel’s [...]

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By Debbie Schlussel I’d like to know which teepshee [Hebrew for dummy] at Israel’s Ministry of Public Affairs agreed to book 89-year-old left-wing Israeli President Shimon Peres on ABC’s pro-Muslim yenta hag-fest, “The View,” this morning. Weak Minds Think Alike … All Four of ‘EmThere’s another Hebrew word I have in mind that the [...]

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Besides the leaked email I noted before about Ma’an’s editor, we have: Turkey planned on downgrading relations with Israel even before the May 2010 flotilla incident, documents published Wednesday by WikiLeaks suggest. A leaked email from George Friedman, the head of US-based global security analysis company Stratfor, reveals that Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan [...]

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In Turkey’s Hurriyet, Burak Bekedil concludes that Turkish foreign policy hasn’t gone exactly the way they wanted it to go since 2010, when Turkey made its major foreign policy center on isolating Israel. In fact, the Turkish policy has been a complete failure. Most ironically, as the Turkish Parliament condemned the Khojaly Massacre, in which [...]

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In an interview with Al Ahram, Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice party chairman Mohamed Morsi said that the new Egyptian government would welcome Hamas moving its headquarters from Damascus to Cairo: Q: Ismail Haniyeh, prime minister of Hamas support the Syrian revolution and the start of migration of the Syrian Palestinian leaders from Damascus…Will we [...]

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Shimon Peres on the View.Let’s go to the videotape.If you all want more of it, let me know and I’ll try to get it…. from Israel Matzav http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/02/just-when-you-thought-israels-pr-could.html Filed under: Israel, Israel Matzav Tagged: Israel, Israel Matzav

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Hamas is not alone in brainwashing their children with talk of death. Palestine Media Watch documents how Fatah has been encouraging their children with talk of death for over ten years. Here is a recent sample: Kids are “created to be fertilizer for land of Palestine, to saturate land with their blood” Transcript: PA TV [...]

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На Западе постепенно начинает преобладать здоровый скептицизм. Даже левая (другой нет) пресса вынуждена, скрежеща зубами, признавать очевидное. Сценарий арабских революций ведёт от лозунгов за свободу к этническим и религиозным распрям. Насильственная модернизация невозможна, считает Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. from Институт изучения проблем Ближнего Востока http://mishmar.info/konec-nemnogo-predskazuem.html from Mishmarinfo Filed under: Mishmarinfo Tagged: Mishmarinfo

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By Debbie Schlussel The “Last Train to Clarksville” has left the station. Davy Jones, lead singer of The Monkees, died of a heart attack in Florida at age 66. I will remember him for the famous episode of “The Brady Bunch”–”Getting Davy Jones“–in which he guest-starred. I was just a baby when it originally aired, [...]

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I had missed this from Palestinian Media Watch last month: PA TV narrator: “In the refugee camp Ein Al-Hilwe [in Lebanon], a rally was held in celebration of the [47th] anniversary [of Fatah]. A political symposium was also held on the occasion of the event.” Text on slide at event: “Our children are our honor [...]

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Here’s the full interview with Shimon Peres on The View with Barbara Walters.Let’s go to the videotape. You can bet that line about Obama being the best for Israel’s security is going into an Obama campaign ad.Something tells me that they won’t be inviting Prime Minister Netanyahu to be on The View. And no kiss [...]

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Mother Nature 1, Maccabi Haifa 0: February 29th, 2012: Maccabi Haifa took on Dynamo Kiev in a friendly today, ahead of Israel’s friendly with Ukraine, and the match was played in ridiculous weather conditions as the wind took on biblical proportions. The friendly match was only 60 minutes long but there was enough time for [...]

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Andrew Sullivan goes off the deep end, naming Prime Minister Netanyahu as President Obama’s most dangerous GOP opponent. Let’s fisk this paragraph. So Israel would, without warning, put US troops and Western civilians at direct risk of terrorist assaults, would likely tip Pakistan into even more outright hostility to any cooperation with the West, and [...]

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IAEA chief inspector Herman Nackaerts From a Reuters report this evening: The International Atomic Energy Agency, which serves as the UN’s nuclear watchdog, told diplomats today in a three-hour long closed-door briefing in Vienna that they are “very concerned” about what is going on at Iran’s Parchin military facility. The IAEA’s request to visit the site, which [...]

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Jerusalem: A Tale of One City – Part I By: Yedidya Atlas This week the world media was treated to another anti-Israel performance at the “The International Conference for the Defence of Occupied Jerusalem” in Qatar. According to the Qatar News Agency, a few hundred representatives from Arab, Islamic and other countries convened to discuss [...]

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Here’s Soccer Dad’s Middle East Media Sampler for Wednesday, February 29. 1) Pin the blame on BibiIn The Two-State Solution is the Best, and Only, Solution, Jeffrey Goldberg writes: What is the alternative to a one-state solution? A two-state solution — a Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza with its capital in East Jerusalem. [...]

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Another BDS failure… From Al Arabiya: Azerbaijan on Wednesday dismissed an Iranian protest over its reported deal to buy arms worth $1.5 billion from Tehran’s foe Israel amid increased tensions between the neighboring states. Azerbaijan’s ambassador was summoned to Iran’s foreign ministry on Tuesday to explain the weapons and to receive a warning that Israel [...]

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This is how ‘Palestinians’ continue to educate their children. Although this collection deals with Hamas, Fatah is no different (see following video).Let’s go to the videotape.Last week, a new video by Fatah was released. Last week, official Palestinian Authority TV repeatedly broadcast video tributes to terrorists from the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine [...]

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Citing an al-Arabiya report in Arabic, Robert Spencer reports that the United States has offered to trade Sheikh Omar Abdul Rahman, who is imprisoned in the United States for a conviction stemming from the first (1993) World Trade Center bombing, along with 49 other Egyptians being held in American prisons, for the 19 Americans currently [...]

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Here’s another Purim tape – this one of Shoshanath Yaakov (the Rose of Jacob), which is part of the prayer said after the Megilla is read on Purim.Let’s go to the videotape. from Israel Matzav http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/03/overnight-music-video.html Filed under: Israel, Israel Matzav Tagged: Israel, Israel Matzav

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From Now Lebanon, by blogger Louisa Ajami: You know when you like a celebrity, only to find out there’s something terribly unlikeable about them, like they charge for autographs or are bad tippers at restaurants? Well, I used to love Dr. Ruth. She’s an 83-year-old German sex doctor who’s been part of American popular culture [...]

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The Syrian opposition is already tied to al-Qaeda, Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, so why not make it complete by adding Hezbullah to the list? “There are no permanent enmities in politics as there are no permanent friendships. Alliances are built on goals,” Burhan Ghalioun [the leader of the opposition Syrian National Council] told the [...]

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In an interview on Media Matters’ anti-Semitic attacks on Israel, Alan Dershowitz tells Newsmax that President Obama could be the Neville Chamberlain of the 21st century.Let’s go to the videotape. from Israel Matzav http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/03/obama-could-be-chamberlain-of-21st.html Filed under: Israel, Israel Matzav Tagged: Israel, Israel Matzav

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At this writing, I am just nine followers short of 3,000. So this is your chance. Follow me on Twitter, and if you’re the lucky 3,000th, you’ll get a mention on the blog and on Twitter. from Israel Matzav http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2012/03/be-my-3000th-follower-on-twitter.html Filed under: Israel, Israel Matzav Tagged: Israel, Israel Matzav

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In an earlier post, I reported that the Syrian rebels want to open negotiations with Hezbullah, and quipped that the report ought to quiet calls in Kadima and Labor to support the Syrian rebels. The MK I really had in mind with that quip was Yitzchak (Buji) Herzog of Labor, but I didn’t have the [...]

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If you don’t trust Barack Obama, do you trust Hillary Clinton? (That was a rhetorical question – of course I don’t). Look at what she said on Wednesday. “It’s absolutely clear that the president’s policy is to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons capability,” she told the US House Committee on Foreign Affairs, when asked [...]

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