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On 30 September 2000, Charles Enderlin, the Jerusalem-based head of the Middle East Bureau of the French television station France 2, presented sixty seconds of footage of what he described as the killing of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy named Muhammad al-Dura targeted by Israeli soldiers. Enderlin claimed that he had additional film material of the boy's "death throes" that was too shocking to be shown. The selectively presented photo material, accompanied by the accusation of deliberate murder of a defenseless Palestinian boy, led to mass demonstrations against Israel and the Jews in the Western world. It also contributed to riots...

... When talking about the creationists to people who don’t follow these controversies closely, I have found that the hardest thing to get across is the shifty, low-cunning aspect of the whole modern creationist enterprise. Individual creationists can be very nice people, though they get nicer the further away they are from the full-time core enterprise of modern creationism at the Discovery Institute. The enterprise as a whole, however, really doesn’t smell good. You notice this when you’re around it a lot. I shall give some more examples in a minute; but what accounts for all this dishonesty and misrepresentation?...

A recent undercover investigation into slaughterhouse practices in South America has revealed the heinous use of the animal restraint method known as "shackling and hoisting" during the kosher slaughter process. We in Israel have no reason to feel immune from responsibility for these barbaric practices as South America is the largest source of kosher beef imports into Israel. Additionally, South America is the largest offshore supplier of kosher meat to the United States. Both the Israeli rabbinate and the Orthodox Union (OU) in the US explicitly endorse these methods by providing their kosher authorizations to the resulting meat. Shackling and...

With the revival of anti-Semitism as a global phenomenon, everything old is new again. A new Holocaust is threatened in Iran, a former top military leader and presidential candidate speaks in code of the dark power of New York money circles, and now, shockingly, the ancient blood libel against the Jews is revived in seemingly respectable quarters. After all the terrible things that have been done because of this lie, who could be so reckless as to give it new life? Two Jewish professors, one an Israeli of Italian origin who teaches at a prestigious religious Jewish university in Israel,...

Jimmy Carter's engagement in foreign affairs as a former president is unprecedented in U.S. history. Because he regards the Arab-Israeli conflict as among Washington's most important foreign policy topics, he has written more than two dozen articles and commentaries about the conflict, eight in the past year alone. In these publications, Carter uses his credibility as a former president, Nobel laureate, and key player in the September 1978 Camp David accords and the Egypt-Israel peace treaty to unfold his set of truths and often to criticize U.S. policy. He relishes the role of elder statesman and believes that with his...

Christians are Jews' best friends Toronto Sun Sat, August 12, 2006 By MICHAEL COREN One of the most difficult things about spending time in Israel is returning home, as I did two weeks ago. As dangerous as life might be in the Jewish state at the moment, daily existence is layered in significance. Then it's back to North America, where the trivial is made to seem profound. I refer to Mel Gibson's drunken stupidity when he made various repugnant comments about Jewish people. As a Roman Catholic with three Jewish grandparents, and someone who worries every day about the...

Reiner: Gibson, Come Clean on `Passion' LOS ANGELES (AP) - Mel Gibson's apology for making drunken anti-Semitic remarks isn't enough to redeem him, actor-producer Rob Reiner said. The actor also must acknowledge that "his work reflects anti-Semitism," particularly the 2004 hit movie "The Passion of the Christ," Reiner told Associated Press Radio. "When he comes to the understanding that he has done that, and can come out and say, you know, 'My views have been reflected in my work and I feel bad that I've done that,' then that will be the beginning of some reconciliation for him," Reiner said....

"Jump the Shark" is a semi-known phrase meaning "lose all credibility" or "it's all downhill from here." The phrase comes from www.jumptheshark.com - which catalogs and debates the (paraphrase) "defining moment when you know you're favorite TV Show has reached its peak and its all downhill from here." The phrase "jump the shark" comes from a Happy Days episode - late in the series - where Fonzie went on a vacation with the Cunninghams. In that episode of the sitcom, Fonzie jumped over a jaws-like shark while waterskiing on the ocean. Fans generally thought this moment was so absurd, that...

Citing only alleged European "secret reports," an article in a Saudi government daily accused the U.S. Army of harvesting the organs of Iraqis and selling them. The story in Al-Watan also was published in the Iranian daily Jomhouri-ye Islami and the Syrian daily Teshreen, reports the Middle East Media Research Institute, or MEMRI.

After Arab terrorist Yassir Arafat died on November 11, USA Today, among other outlets, talked about how "enraged" the Arabs in the territories in Israel were. You may ask, "How could they be enraged?" USA Today supplied no answer at the time, but I can. Many of Arafat's supporters have spread the blood libel that the Mossad, in league with some of Arafat's own goons, poisoned him. All over again, "The Jews did it!" Hamas leader Khaled Mesha'al said, "I do not hesitate accusing Israel of killing Yasser Arafat and I call on my brothers in Fatah and in the...

<p>ISLAMABAD, Pakistan _ A tape purportedly featuring the voice of Ayman al-Zawahiri on Thursday urged Pakistanis to overthrow the government of President Pervez Musharraf, as expectations faded that the senior al-Qaida leader was on the verge of being captured in Pakistan's tribal region.</p>

TAMARAC, Fla. — What do you do 25 years after creating a new artistic genre? If you are Will Eisner, you do the same thing again in your late 80's. "A Contract With God," set in the tenements of his Bronx youth and published in 1978, established Mr. Eisner as the father of the graphic novel. Now he has taken the adult comic-book format a step further, with a graphic history that applies his dark, 1930's-style illustrations to real events of a century ago. This latest work, called "The Plot," tells the story behind the creation of "The Protocols of...

Receive FREE updates by email: | Author Reveals Depths of Hatred in Muslim World By Sean GrindlayNovember 25, 2003 Anyone trying to make sense of the situation in the Middle East must understand the mindset that pervades most of the Muslim world, says Kenneth Timmerman, author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America. This mindset, he says, is characterized by an extremely intense and deep-seated hatred of all things Jewish-and, by extension, all things Western. Timmerman discussed this and other aspects of his book at a November 20 luncheon held by Accuracy in Media. Drawing on...

                                THURSDAY NOVEMBER 20 2003                   ShopNetDaily   Page 1 News   Page 2 News   G2 Bulletin   BizNetDaily   LocalNetDaily   Commentary   Classified Ads   Letters   People Search   SportsNetDaily   Health   Weather   TV Guide   MusicNetDaily   Movies   Stocks     Arab TV: Jews ate Christian's blood Syrian-produced prime-time show airs anti-Semitic libel Posted: November 20, 20031:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com In a reassertion of the age-old anti-Semitic blood libel, a Syrian-produced television program depicted Jews murdering a Christian boy to drain his blood for use...

On May 1, 1948 two weeks before the declaration of Israeli independence Arab League secretary-general Azzam Pasha declared: "If the Zionists dare establish a state, we will slaughter them. The massacre will dwarf anything which Genghis Khan and Hitler did." The Arabs had flagrantly premeditated ethnic cleansing and genocide. Their schemes were foiled by Jewish resistance. That was when the would-be destroyers started piteously posing as the innocent victims of precisely what they planned to perpetrate. Their fabricated accounts of mass expulsions and atrocious carnage gained currency. For much of its existence Israel had to expend much diplomatic energy to...

The Israeli public's reaction to a Belgian court ruling that would allow war crimes charges to be filed against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon after he leaves office was "hysterical," Belgium's ambassador to Israel said Monday. Israel recalled its ambassador to Belgium last Thursday to protest the Supreme Court decision, and Israeli leaders, including the country's president and chief rabbi, harshly criticized the ruling. Also, Foreign Minister Benjamin Netanyahu summoned Belgian Ambassador Wilfred Geens and made a strong protest. Geens said the Belgian Embassy in Tel Aviv had received insulting faxes and e-mails "bordering on the verge of hysteria." Speaking to...

LONDON - The Israeli Embassy in London has sent a strongly worded letter of protest to The Independent, following an editorial cartoon yesterday by Dave Brown, depicting Prime Minister Ariel Sharon biting the flesh of a Palestinian baby. In the cartoon, Sharon says: "What's wrong? Have you never seen a politician kissing a baby?" The background shows Apache attack helicopters sending missiles from the cockpit with the message "Vote Likud." In her letter, Shuli Davidovich, the embassy's press secretary, writes: "As Britain commemorates National Holocaust Day, I am shocked that The Independent has chosen to evoke an ancient Jewish stereotype...

'It is not the cartoon's skewed picture of the Middle East conflict that is at issue. It is the use of the classic "blood libel" of Jews murdering gentile children for their blood' I am not easily offended, much less shocked – at least not by media coverage of Israel and the Middle East. For though I have edited the oldest and most influential Jewish newspaper in the world for the past dozen years, for a dozen years before that I was a foreign correspondent, often a war correspondent – beginning in the late 1970s in the Middle East and...

On Sunday morning, as I listened to radio and TV news bulletins and leafed through the papers, one story stood out as a subject for the next day's cartoon: Ariel Sharon's attack on Gaza City. It was not the first time I had been prompted to criticise Sharon. But what stood out was the timing – the thought that the assault was not unconnected with the approaching Israeli election. The task was to create an image illustrating that, although the missiles had been targeted at Gaza, the message was aimed squarely at the Israeli electorate. My starting-point was the newsreel...

GOTTA SEE THIS - War for Enduring Freedom 9/24/02 - Kabul, Babil, Sukkot, Ramallah, al-Shorja, Kosovo BREAKING: Babil, Babylon International Festival, BREAKING: Western Wall, Sukkot, BREAKING: Ramallah, clean underwear, BREAKING: Kosovo, UN accountability, Kabul, firewood, Ashiana center, brick factory, bodybuilders, Kandahar, Bagram, Baghdad, al-Shorja market, Baghdad, women's food rations, Jerusalem, Israel, Bethlehem, Gaza, Hamas, Al Aqsa Terrorists' Brigade, Palestinian police and terror, Gaza blood libel, Hebron, Tel Aviv, Tehran, ===================== Kabul =================== In Kabul, collecting firewood. In Kabul, women are free. Painting at the Ashiana center is allowed These people were FREED BY THE USA. In Kabul, at the brick...

GOTTA SEE THIS-War for Enduring Freedom 9/23/02 BREAKING: Mitzvot in Petah Tikva, Israel BREAKING: Ramallah, Terrorist-in_Chief Arafat, BREAKING: Perps in Gaza, Ramallah, Hebron, and Ein el-Hilweh, Lebanon, BREAKING: Blood libel against America in Damascus, Syria, Heroes in Bagram on Hydrema 910 MCVs Kabul, dog fight, zoo, children -- FREED BY THE USA, dwindling firewood Kandahar, samovar, teahouse, court ISRAEL - The Good, The Bad and the Ugly More Murders by the Insane Terrorist Palestinians ============ Bagram, Afghanistan =========== In Bagram, the Army's Hydrema 910 MCVs (Mine Clearing Vehicles) are driven by heroes as they clear deep personel and tank mines....

08/26/2002 Conspiracy Theory by Dr. Aaron Lerner Arutz Sheva August 23, 2002 It is said that the Arabs are big believers in grand conspiracies. When they see Israeli leaders act foolishly, the Arabs interpret the foolishness as if it were part of a sophisticated Israeli plot. But I find it hard to believe that even the most suspicious Arab thinks that the latest news from Israel is part of grand scheme. First we have "Gaza-Bethlehem First". Under this program the Palestinians can do anything they want as long as they don't open fire. And I mean anything. The terror militias...

Egypt Editor Criticizes French Crt Anti-Semitism Summons   08/01/2002 Dow Jones International News (Copyright (c) 2002, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)     CAIRO (AP)--A prominent Egyptian editor Thursday defended his newspaper's publication of anti-Semitic tales about Jewish rites and said a French court's attempt to prosecute him for the publication amounted to "ideological terrorism." Al-Ahram, one of Egypt's main dailies, said its government-appointed editor-in-chief, Ibrahim Nafie, received the French summons earlier this week over an article the paper published nearly two years ago. The article repeated centuries-old anti-Semitic myths that Jews use Christian blood in their rites.  ...

Pressure on FBI to declare LA airport shooting terror attackBy TOM TUGENDLOS ANGELES - As the family of Victoria Hen, slain in the July 4 attack at the Los Angeles International Airport, prepares to mark the end of the 30-day mourning period with a public memorial service, pressure is increasing on US authorities to declare the shooting by an Egyptian immigrant an act of terrorism. The graveside memorial service will be held on Monday, August 5 at 8:30 a.m. at the Eden Memorial Park in Mission Hills, California. The family of the 25-year old murdered El Al ground hostess invited...

The BBC is quickly becoming one of the world's 'kosher' purveyors of hate By Douglas Davis http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- Would I, asked the BBC researcher who called, be available to appear again on the Nicky Campbell programme -- Britain's equivalent of Larry King Live -- the following morning? "It should be very interesting," she said, warming to her sales pitch. "We want to discuss whether Israel is a morally repugnant society." "Thanks, but no thanks." "You sure?" she asked, disbelief mingled with impatience. "Absolutely positive. Absolutely," I replied, to avoid any possible confusion. A moment's silence, then icily: "Okay," and the...