22 Saturday Nov 2014
Arwa Othman won Human Rights Watch’s Alison Des Forges Award in September. At a Thursday celebration in Sanaa, Othman called for “tolerance” and dedicated her award to “brothers and friends from the Jewish community.”
Othman has been subjected to a smear campaign by hardline Salafist groups because of her civil rights work and support for the Jewish community.
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2014/11/22/Yemeni-minister-dedicates-awards-to-her-country-s-Jews-.html – 11/22/2014.
21 Friday Nov 2014
Rani Bibi (42) says, “I work as a hawker, vending utensils around villages, bartering them for raw material such as rubber and metallic goods. It is very rare when someone buys it for cash. I make One to Two Hundred Rupees a day and sometimes nothing after a whole day of vending under difficult conditions”.
According to UN-HABITAT Rani Bibi, is one of the 863 million people living in slums globally, making up 33% of the urban population in the developing world in 2012.
Taking into account various appraisals, it can be securely concluded that approximately 23 to 32 million people in Pakistan are slum dwellers. This constitutes a small but significant share of the one billion slum dweller across the globe. The influx of Afghans during the 1980s added to the number of katch abadi inhabitants.
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/the-problem-of-slums/#sthash.VO0vzEiS.dpuf – 11/21/2014.
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18 Tuesday Nov 2014
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The two assailants, Uday and Ghassan Abu Jamal, in their 20s, were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
Four Dead in Jerusalem Synagogue Terror Attack, Victims Named (VIDEO)
What are the ghosts of skyjackers doing back on the front pages of the world’s news?
Along that axis I call “Putin-Assad-Khamenei” (or, possibly more accurately, Khamenei-Putin, given the way wise guys get power over one another), the post-Soviet still pan-Arab socialist whizbang PFLP believes it has a cause worth killing for, and while we can’t see the Big Money that helps move the mouths that incite the crime, one may suspect it’s there: plainly, “Jew hate” cloaks the piratical among leaders, Russia, for the time being excepted although Putin may be working an “anti- anti-Semitism” look-good card as players around the “vertical of power” continue to accrue corrupt treasure for burial or cleaning safely in the rule-of-law west.
For the regime hated by Persians in Tehran, today’s murderous act fits with its promise of the destruction of the “Zionist Entity”, which has been the best cover (by deflection of attention) for thieving on behalf of Ayatollah Khamenei.
It may be broad connecting today’s attack (on the pious before God) with Moscow and Tehran and, by way of suggestion, perhaps others profiting from the promotion of chaos and conflict in the world, but nonetheless — and with mention of the PFLP — today’s act stinks of an old grave dug open and left to foul the air.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/jerusalem-synagogue-attack-claimed-by-popular-front-liberation-palestine-1475373 – 11/18/2014
http://www.timesofisrael.com/suspected-terror-attack-in-jerusalem-synagogue/#ixzz3JQZutwQd – 11/18/2014
http://www.miamioh.edu/cas/academics/centers/havighurst/cultural-academic-resources/putins-russia/
http://www.reuters.com/investigates/iran/#article/part1
Yossi Dagan, the head of media relations for the Samaria Regional Council, filed a formal complaint Tuesday with the Government Press Office (GPO) against a CNN reporter for equating the terrorists involved in the Har Nof massacre with the victims.
According to Dagan, American CNN reporter Ben Wedeman was responsible for the headline describing the massacre under the headline, “Israeli police shot dead two Palestinian civilians” – when, in fact, the shooters were Palestinian terrorists who killed four Jews and wounded eight others as they prayed the morning service before being killed in a gun battle with police.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/187600#.VGtu0TTF98F – 11/18/2014
Related:
http://honestreporting.com/idns-11182014-four-killed/ – 11/18/2014.
http://honestreporting.com/cnn-gaffe-deadly-attack-on-jerusalem-mosque/ – 11/18/2014.
“We are proud of our sons who act fearlessly in the face of terrorist attacks,” Tarif said. “This is a black day for Israeli society and the State of Israel, when its citizens are murdered just for being Jewish.
“The Druze community condemns with revulsion the act of terrorism in which a Palestinian terrorist massacred and slaughtered innocent civilians. Such a situation, in which the country’s citizens are murdered on a daily basis, cannot continue,” Tarif said, and praised Israel’s security forces.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/18/family-of-israeli-policeman-who-killed-terrorist-praying-for-his-safety-video/ – 11/18/2014.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2014/11/18/as-abbas-uses-synagogue-atrocity-to-condemn-israeli-incitement-fatah-officials-celebrate/ – 11/18/2014.
Mosques in the neighborhood of the terrorists who attacked a synagogue this morning announced three days of mourning – for the murderers.
This is being reported by the Shehab news agency.
This happens at the same time that Arabs are celebrating the murders with candy.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-big-palestinian-question-do-they.html#.VGuqzjTF98E – 11/18/2014.
One of the most shocking aspects of the murderous attack on a Jerusalem synagogue this morning by men with guns and axes is not the attack itself—we’ve seen, from time to time, this sort of sectarian barbarism take place in places like Jerusalem, and Hebron. The most shocking aspect is the wholesale endorsement of this slaughter by Hamas, a group that, during this summer’s war in Gaza, half-succeeded in convincing the world that it wasn’t what it actually is: a group with actual genocidal intentions.
http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/11/hamas-shows-its-true-face/382873/ – 11/18/2014.
The first is that Jews can be forgiven for thinking that the world sees them as sacrificial pawns. Today’s victims are of course not the first deaths in the Palestinians’ latest not-quite-intifada. And they were not the first Americans killed either. And they were not the first victims of Abbas’s incitement or his directive to take action against Jews in Jerusalem. The sad fact is that the world regards a certain amount of Jewish blood as the cost of doing business–not worth getting all worked up about.
The word for that is “expendable.” And that’s what the families of victims and those who survived previous attacks understand all too well: their loved ones were expendable to the international community and, most painfully, to the government of the United States of America. A line has now been crossed, apparently, and the Jews under attack are no longer considered expendable. But it’s unfortunate that the line was there to begin with.
http://www.commentarymagazine.com/2014/11/18/kerry-calls-out-palestinian-incitement-will-anything-change/ – 11/18/2014.
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17 Monday Nov 2014
The currency will free ISIS members from the “tyrannical monetary system that was imposed on the Muslims and was a reason for their enslavement and impoverishment, and the wasting the fortunes of the Ummah [the community of Muslims worldwide], making it easy prey in the hands of the Jews and Crusaders,” according to a translation via the Site Intelligence Group.
http://www.ibtimes.com/islamic-state-money-isis-mint-its-own-currency-create-financial-system-1723433 – 11/13/2014.
16 Sunday Nov 2014
A new photographic exhibition in London follows the journey taken by England’s Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) in 1862, as he undertook a four month tour around the Middle East.
And as usual, no sign of mosques or active Palestinian presence as the decades old argument from the Palestinian side to keep up the saga to fight and occupy, for the sake of jihad and foreign aid.
In the exhibition we find more photographs from Jerusalem in 1862, when the so called “palestinians” allegedly were already 1 million in population on land they profess to have “lost to Jewish occupation” a few decades later. The only problem with this argument is that, as with all photographs up to the second decade of 1900’s, there are rarely any Muslims or mosques to be found on any photographs. The only mosque – and a confiscated synagogue converted after Muslim invasion…
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14 Friday Nov 2014
“The easiest day of the air campaign against ISIS was the first day,” said Christopher Harmer, an analyst with the Institute for the Study of War. U.S. pilots knew the locations of ISIS command and control facilities and storage depots, and to an extent the group was taken at least partially by surprise, since it didn’t know the precise time the strikes would begin. “Past that first day or two of easy targets, ISIS predictably dispersed into the civilian population. They quit using high-power radios, satellite and cellphones, starting moving to a dispersed command and control model,” Harmer said.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/11/13/isis-keeps-getting-better-at-dodging-u-s-spies.html – 11/13/2014.
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13 Thursday Nov 2014
In fact, the present-day phenomenon in this context has become an obligatory part of populist rhetoric in which American involvement is blamed for everything — from terrorist attacks, to the energy crises, to perhaps even the outbreak of dengue fever!
“Anti-Americanism in Pakistan: A brief history”
Nadeem F. Paracha
http://www.dawn.com/news/1144214
Reading highly recommended.
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