“Come Tiptoe Through the Tulips with Me.”

From Yedioth Ahronot (YNET) today we have these gems–all in one article about the above bus burning:

“When the driver, accompanied by the police officers, returned to the bus, they discovered it was on fire. Firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze. Investigators are examining the possibility that the fire started due to a thrown Molotov cocktail.”

Umm . . . let’s see . . . actually, the driver ran away after the bus was hit by a Molotov cocktail (the terrorists took pictures of themselves attacking); firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze (really, it looks like it pretty much burned the bus) . . .

The article concludes with reference to the violence on the Temple Mount:

“Despite tensions, estimates are that the incidents experienced on Rosh Hashanah eve and during the holiday, of masked men barricading themselves inside Al-Aqsa mosque will not be repeated, since Jewish people are not expected to visit the area on Friday.”

“Jewish people”? And Yedioth is supposed to be an Israeli newspaper? It sounds more like Ma’an or Wafa Palestinian News.

**”The filthy feet of the Jews will not desecrate” revisited . . .

Just to follow up briefly on the Mahmoud Abbas’ comments two days ago, it turns out that no one condemned Abbas’ comments. Because he made them in Arabic, it is as if he never made them at all.

By the way, one of Abbas’ new comments yesterday was that Israel’s demand to be a Jewish state legitimizes IS/DAAS because it merely wants to be an Islamic State.

Let’s not even go into the lunacy of that statement today.

**Get used to seeing this face . . .

Stephen Mull.

John Kerry announced yesterday that Stephen Mull will be the primary coordinator for implementing the Democratic Iranian Nuclear Appeasement Agreement. Mull is a former US ambassador to Poland who fell afoul of Polish authorities when he said that Poles, in addition to Germans, were also responsible for the Holocaust.

TODAY’S BLOG:

Tiptoe through the window
By the window, that is where I’ll be
Come tiptoe through the tulips with me . . .

Song sung by “Tiny Tim” (nee Herbert Khaury, the son of  Tillie, a Jewish garment worker and Butros Khaury, a Lebanese-Christian textile worker).

Everyone who reads this blog knows that the Netherlands is a country that goes out of its way to undermine and delegitimize Israel at every turn. One of the primary ways that it does this is by funding every conceivable anti-Israel NGO. Some of those NGOs include Yesh Din, Bimkom, Ir Amin, and Ha-Moked (for a complete discussion of Dutch demonization of Israel click on this link from NGO Monitor). 

Of course, the Dutch specialize (as do other European groups) in hiding their activities behind seemingly benign and “well-meaning humanitarian” organizations and institutions. For example, one way the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs doles out money is through the “Human Rights Tulip” award.

What a lovely logo is used to obfuscate what is really going on.

According to the Dutch Foreign Ministry website: “The Human Rights Tulip is an award of the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs for courageous human rights defenders who promote and support human rights in innovative ways.” The value of the award is 100,000 Euros.

How is the recipient of the award chosen? Though the initial process is a bit unclear, it appears that the Foreign Ministry chooses 30 “worthy recipients”–both groups and individuals. Of the 30 chosen this year, there were indeed a number of worthy recipients such as “Under the Same Sun” that protects Africans with albinism, and Martin Macwan who is leading the fight in India to do away with the caste system.

However, there were two distinctly unworthy possible recipients chosen this year:  B’Tselem (described on the Dutch website at “Breaking Israel’s silence on the Occupied Territories), and Adalah (described as “Pursuing equality for Palestinians in Israel”). As we all know, B’Tselem and Adalah are both rabidly anti-Israel.

In any case, let’s return to how the award is chosen. Once the 30 are selected, they are all put on the Dutch website and the public votes on them. Anybody in the world can vote–not merely residents of the Netherlands. There is a set time period for the vote to take place; this year the public online voting period was from September 9 until September 16.

From these 30, the three top vote getters are chosen. Also three more “wild cards” are chosen by an international jury based on the “quality of their entries.” These six entries will then be analyzed by the jury, which will then make a recommendation to the Minister of Foreign Affairs who will then choose the winner.

So remember that the voting started on September 9. By September 10, whom do you think was in the lead by a sizable margin? If you guessed B’Tselem, you would be correct.

But fortunately, a number of people led by “My Israel” who know what a despicable organization B’Tselem is, decided to begin voting–in an organized way–for other entries. By the time the voting closed two days ago, B’Tselem had dropped into 4th place (Adalah was in 6th). This doesn’t mean that B’Tselem and Adalah will not be in the final six (they could still be  wild cards), but it does mean that neither of them will be one of the automatic first three.

Who were the top three? A Burmese student leader fighting for education reform, an Iranian journalist who “speaks for” minority rights, and Afghani high school principal who heads a program “to install hope in Afghan youth.”

In sum, your humble servant would like to commend the hard workers over at My Israel for all of their efforts during the course of the last ten days.