[Elder of Ziyon] Monday Morning Links

From Ian

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The Legal Case for Israel Video by Professor Eugene Kontorovich VIDEO

JPost Editorial: Palestinian irresponsibility

"Instead of choosing a path of self-empowerment and accepting responsibility for their own fate, Fayyad and other Palestinian leaders have opted yet again for the well-traversed road of self-victimization. Apparently, Palestinian leaders in the West Bank believe they will succeed in deflecting growing anger and frustration on the Palestinian street and redirect toward Israel. We hope they are wrong."

Barry Rubin: Al Gore Sells Out (to al-Jazeera)

"What would you call it if a former vice-president of the United States had sold his television network to a fascist or Communist front group at a time when such forces threatened America? Nothing very nice. But now Al Gore has sold out his admittedly obscure channel to al-Jazeera and taken a position on its board. Here's an interview of myself on this issue."

MEMRI: Chief Islamic Judge of PA: We Want to File Suit against Britain for Balfour Declaration "Crime" VIDEO and Wife of Hamas MP Al-Hayya: A Woman's Role Is to Instill Love of Jihad and Martyrdom in Her Children VIDEO

Supporting our Own Demise: Part 1 Terror Finance

"Successive British Governments continue to tolerate the existence of large charities that encourage and provide for Islamist terror groups. By failing to separate British Muslims from the Islamist charities that exploit them, we flatter and legitimize supporters of terrorism as humanitarians and community leaders. In the US, the charity Interpal is a proscribed organization: when you help terror groups build homes, you are also helping terror groups build bombs."

Egypt: Bahais cannot enroll in public schools, education minister says

"The education minister has repeated remarks that Bahais cannot enroll in public schools, saying it violates the Constitution. "The Constitution only recognizes the three Abrahamic religions," Ibrahim Ghoneim told Akbar Al-Youm newspaper Saturday. "And as religion is a subject taught in schools, they do not meet the requirements for enrollment."

Egypt's Morsi remakes cabinet, increasing Islamist presence

"Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi rebuilt his cabinet Sunday, replacing 10 ministers and amplifying the Islamist presence in the government. The move, in which at least three Islamists were appointed to head major economic ministries, comes a day ahead of a planned visit by a top International Monetary Fund official to discuss an impending $4.8 billion loan."

Chavez and the Jews: A sorry tale

"Before Chavez came to power in 1999, there were 30,000 Jews in Venezuela. Now, the community has dwindled to just less than 9,000. Having experienced virtually no anti-Semitism in their history, the Chavez years ushered in a set of new and frightening experiences for Venezuela's Jews, from cartoons in the press that could have been lifted from the notorious Nazi newspaper, Der Sturmer, to the vandalism of the main synagogue in Caracas in 2009. As a depressing summary by Tel Aviv University's Kantor Center for the Study of Anti-Semitism noted last September, "Recent years have witnessed a rise in anti-Semitic manifestations, including vandalism, media attacks, caricatures, and physical attacks on Venezuelan Jewish institutions."

Israelis to design San Diego-area desalination plant

IDE Americas Inc., a subsidiary of Israel's IDE Technologies Ltd, to design project - the largest of its kind in western hemisphere. "The Israeli desalination giant that is already responsible for the brunt of Israel's salty-to-fresh water transformation is now taking on San Diego, in the biggest desalination project to hit the western hemisphere."

GPS for brain surgeons

A line of products trusted by neurosurgeons and neuroscience researchers on six continents was developed by a Christian-Arab couple in Nazareth, Israel. "The company's recording and stimulation tools, which have both FDA (US) and CE (Europe) approvals, are helpful in two realms. Neuroscientists use them in the lab to understand more about the human brain, and neurosurgeons use them for treating patients with a variety of neural disorders such as Parkinson's disease and dystonia, a nervous system disorder that causes involuntary muscles contractions and spasms."

Drillers herald new Israeli gas find

"Israeli and Norwegian energy companies said they encountered a significant amount of natural gas in an offshore Israeli field. Norwegian energy company AGR said it encountered "significant signs of natural gas" during drilling operations in the Aphrodite-2 exploration well in the offshore Ishai license block. The well encountered a gas layer of 49 feet, the Platts news service reports."

A herbal remedy for the 'bug crisis'

Farmers nowadays are using more pesticides than ever. An innovation based on Negev herbs may be even more effective. "Herbs are for more than just tea — they may be the next big thing in the fight against pests. Particularly one herb that grows in Israel's Negev desert, whose medicinal properties have been known to the Bedouin for generations. Yaniv Kitron of Israel's EdenShield has discovered that it works pretty well as a natural "pesticide," too."

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Posted By Challah Hu Akbar to Elder of Ziyon at 1/07/2013 09:07:00 AM