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Let's go to the videotape.Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, anti-Semitism, BDS, British anti-Semitism, London, Muslim Jew hatred, Neturei Karta
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:34 PM
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Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, anti-Semitism, Neturei Karta, Toronto
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:52 PM
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Addressing the annual al-Quds Day rally on Saturday, Elias Hazineh, the former president of Palestine House in suburban Toronto, called for “an ultimatum” to Israelis: “You have to leave Jerusalem. You have to leave Palestine.
“We say get out or you’re dead! We give them two minutes and then we start shooting. And that’s the only way that they will understand,” Hazineh said to cheers from a crowd of approximately 400.
The annual rally took place at a park near the grounds of the Ontario capital building. Last week, the sergeant-at-arms of the Legislature denied a permit to hold the rally on the grounds surrounding the building for reasons of “public safety.”'Palestine House' receives (or at least it used to) Canadian government funding, but that funding was cut last year because of their extremism.
Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, Canada, Palestinian terrorism, Toronto
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:54 PM
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Since his election in a field in which he was supposedly the least fanatic, Rouhani has done nothing to disillusion his legions of Western fans, but while attending a solidarity event with Palestinians he dropped his façade of moderation just long enough to give us a glimpse of his real ideas. What he said was enough to show that the alleged distance between his view and his old friend Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei or outgoing President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was not very great after all. As the New York Times recounts:
Ahead of his inauguration, Iran’s new president on Friday called Israel an “old wound” that should be removed, while tens of thousands of Iranians marched in support of Muslim claims to the holy city of Jerusalem. Hassan Rouhani’s remarks about Israel — his country’s archenemy — echoed longstanding views of other Iranian leaders.
Except that... sure enough... there's traffic all over Twitter indicating that Rohani was 'misquoted' or that his words were 'mistranslated.' Reuters has gone so far as to issue a correction of sorts. It's saying that Iranian television is now saying that Rohani was 'misquoted.' Really? I'll wait for the MEMRI translation (which I trust, unlike all the Iranians on Twitter), but we have the video, and if this quote is correct it doesn't sound like he was misquoted.“The Zionist regime has been a wound on the body of the Islamic world for years and the wound should be removed,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency.While we should expect Iran’s legion of apologists to try and find a way to interpret this as not meaning exactly what it says, there’s little doubt about Rouhani’s sentiments. Like all the non-moderates whose views we were told he opposes, Rouhani believes Israel should be destroyed. Considering that he is also a supporter of the country’s drive for nuclear weapons, you don’t have to be a hawk or a neocon or even the prime minister of Israel to connect the dots between his beliefs and the threat that a nuclear Iran poses to understand that the conviction that he offers a way out of the nuclear impasse is naive.
Press TV then broadcast an excerpt from an exchange between Rouhani and journalists at a rally to mark Iran's annual Al Qods Day in support of the Palestinians.
The Arab-Muslim world does not differentiate between the 'occupation' of the '1967 territories' and the occupation of the '1948 territories.' For them, 'occupation' doesn't end at the 1949 armistice lines. They're one and the same. As far as the Arab-Muslim world is concerned, the entire state of Israel is 'occupying holy land of Palestine.'
"After all, in our region there's been a wound for years on the body of the Muslim world under the shadow of the occupation of the holy land of Palestine and the beloved al-Qods (Jerusalem)," Rouhani said in the segment.
Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, Hassan Rohani, Iranian nuclear threat, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 6:01 PM
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Netanyahu said in a statement that Rohani, who won a landslide victory in Iran’s June 14 presidential election and is seen by some Western analysts as more moderate than his predecessor, had “revealed his true face sooner than expected.”
“This is what the man is thinking and this is the Iranian regime’s plan of action,” Netanyahu said in a statement Friday. “This statement should awaken the world from the illusion some have taken to entertaining since the elections in Iran.
That statement could be seen as being aimed at U.S. President Obama and a number of U.S. lawmakers who have said Rohani’s expressed willingness to make Iran’s nuclear program more transparent should be tested.
“The president was replaced but the goal of the regime remained obtaining nuclear weapons to threaten Israel, the Middle East and the safety of the world,” Netanyahu said. “A country which threatens to destroy Israel must not have weapons of mass destruction.”
Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, Binyamin Netanyahu, Hassan Rohani, Iranian nuclear threat, Ramadamadan
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:10 PM
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A Toronto man, 47-year old Allan Einstoss, who was arrested for walking his dog, Cupcake, at an 'al-Quds day' demonstration in Toronto has threatened to sue (Hat Tip: Jack W). Einstoss said after two young Muslim women asked about Cupcake, he was told by a male Al-Quds demonstrator he was “not allowed to go near our women” with the dog. Einstoss said that after exclaiming his right to go where he pleased, he walked away with Cupcake, but was “punched in the chest” by another demonstrator.I think he should seek some money as well. If the city doesn't have to pay anything for this kind of behavior, they will continue to arrest people without cause and will continue to allow Muslims to terrorize the general population. Just like in Europe.
Einstoss shoved back, and within seconds was grabbed by several officers.
He claimed that while in custody, one officer called him “insensitive” for attending an Islamic rally with a dog.
Einstoss added his assailant wasn’t even questioned by police.
The officer allegedly threatened Einstoss with charges of incitement to riot and assault. After around 30 minutes, Einstoss was let go after agreeing to leave Queen’s Park.
Toronto Police Const. Victor Kwong insisted that while officers at the rally first noticed Einstoss because of his “large” dog, his arrest was because of the subsequent scuffle.
“Officers took notice of (Einstoss) because they did see an extremely large dog with an Israeli flag around its neck,” Kwong said.
He added that Einstoss was the only person arrested at the rally and refused to discuss specifics about the incident.
If he pursues legal action, Einstoss said he’ll seek a public inquiry into his arrest instead of money.
Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, dhimmi, Toronto
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:37 AM
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Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, dhimmi, Toronto
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:21 AM
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Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, incitement
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 11:31 PM
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Israel's Channel 2 interviewed a Tehran woman on Friday night, who spoke about how her fellow Iranians really feel about Israel, and about the effect on Iran of the economic sanctions. While I wonder how reliable this interview is (surely the Iranian government knows who she is and will arrest her if it so chooses), much of it does seem plausible. Shaharanz said most of the people who demonstrated against Israel earlier in the day “have no idea what Quds Day is.” She said people were compelled and paid by the regime to demonstrate.Read the whole thing. Reading this interview makes me question even more strongly the assumption - by the Obama administration and others - that an Israeli strike on Iran would result in the Iranian people rallying around the regime. I just don't see that happening.
She and a group of her friends, she said, decided to remain at home. ”I am exposed to information from the outside world and talk about things to my friends, but most of the people are ignorant of what’s going on. The regime wants to keep people in the dark,” she said.
There were plenty of people in Tehran, “not simple people,” who didn’t even know there was an earthquake in Iran last week. Local news outlets were simply “full of lies,” she said.
She said the regime was feeding “senseless hatred of Israel” — that officials “go to the villages and talk about Israel” and “people believe what they are told.”
Asked whether people believed Israel would strike, Shaharanz said that the Iranian public was divided into those who consumed news solely from government agencies, who were convinced that Israel was about to attack Iran, and those who got their news from other sources, who thought it wouldn’t.
“Frankly,” she said laughing, “I don’t think many of the people would know what you mean if you asked them about uranium enrichment. They’d have no clue.”
If they anticipate an attack on Iran, she also said, they think it will come from America, not Israel.
The regime did not want war, she said, since it would harm its strategic objectives. But “the authorities” were not being hurt by sanctions; only the ordinary people were. She spoke of people “pleading for a piece of meat” and cried when describing a child who didn’t have the money to pay for vegetables.
More laughter came when she said that Israel “is not on the map” here — and it turned out she meant this literally. A Facebook friend in Israel’s father died and she wanted to phone him to offer condolences. But when she went to the authorities in Tehran to make the call, Israel was not on the list of countries. “They laughed at me. They thought I was playing a joke.”
Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, Iran, Iranian nuclear threat
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 4:42 AM
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Buses in London are advertising an al-Quds day march by a group called the Islamic Human Rights Commission, a misnomer if there ever was one. The IHRC is an Iranian regime front group in the UK. The al-Quds march is an openly pro-Iranian regime parade through central London where Hamas and Hezbollah flags, pictures of the Iranian ayatollah and calls for Israel's destruction can all be found.Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, Londonistan
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:53 AM
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Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism, Toronto
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:25 PM
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Look at the screen in the middle of the square. Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, London, Neturei Karta
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 2:32 PM
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If the 'Palestinians' get their way, the Kotel (Western Wall) may not look so quiet later on Tuesday as it appears below. Internet organizers are continuing efforts to bring Palestinians to the streets on Tuesday, the last day in a three-day “Naksa Day” commemoration that began on Friday and continued on Sunday.Maybe the 'Palestinians' can't get any 'real Palestinians' to show up for a demonstration in Jerusalem, because all the 'real Palestinians' are figuring out how to remain Israeli citizens if - God forbid - there is a 'Palestinian state.' Heh.
The Facebook group “Countdown to the Third Palestinian Intifada” – which has amassed 379,000 followers, or “likes” – has designated Tuesday as the “Day of Allegiance to Jerusalem” and called on supporters to march on the capital’s Al-Aksa Mosque in a display of loyalty to the city.
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While police will be on high alert in Jerusalem, both Arab and left-wing activists said they were unaware of any protests planned in the capital on Tuesday, despite Internet plans to march on the Aksa Mosque.
Activists had similar plans on Sunday, but marchers trying to enter Jerusalem from the Kalandiya checkpoint were turned back just meters past the checkpoint, and the march degenerated into skirmishes between approximately 250 Palestinians and the army along the Jerusalem-Ramallah highway.
In the clashes, one policeman and 40 demonstrators were wounded.
Jerusalem police spokesman Shmuel Ben-Ruby dismissed the chances of a march from Kalandiya successfully reaching the capital, on Tuesday or any day.
“We have the army in front of us, and the army certainly knows how to deal with this situation,” he said on Monday. “So far, [the Naksa demonstrations] haven’t caught on in Jerusalem. If they do develop here, we will do everything necessary to contain it.”
Labels: al-Quds day demonstrations, Naqsa day, Qalandia crossing, real 'Palestinians'
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 8:39 AM
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