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Israel rejected a reported Biden administration plan for a Palestinian state as the outcome of the war that Hamas began with the October 7 terror attack, saying Thursday that now is “not the time” for “gifts” to the Palestinians for having launched the war. President Joe Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken have pressed Israel, publicly and privately, to accept a Palestinian state. The Biden administration reportedly stalled a Saudi-Israeli peace plan, several weeks before the war, pressuring both sides to include a pathway to a Palestinian state. The White House has not changed its focus on a...

Time to call out the phony militant racists Arab Muslims who cry "racism"... Some pose as "leftists socialists", only to jump on their hate wagon. latest, Fresno State professor stirs outrage, calls Barbara Bush an 'amazing racist' BY BRYANT-JON ANTEOLA bjanteola@fresnobee.com April 17, 2018 09:13 PM Updated April 18, 2018 04:05 PM A Fresno State professor called former first lady Barbara Bush an “amazing racist” who raised a “war criminal,” and expressed no concern that she could be fired or reprimanded for her outspokenness on social media. Randa Jarrar, who in her Twitter messages describes herself as an Arab-American and...

Gilad Shalit, the Israeli soldier who's just been released after five years in a Palestinian jail, is relieved to be free. No wonder. To look at him now, compared with earlier photographs, he appears to have lost a good deal of weight. In the press conference this morning he seemed dozy, and his complexion is blanched. He looks as I imagine someone to look who's just emerged from lengthy seclusion in a darkened room. He appears undernourished.

In August 2010, Defense Minister Ehud Barak announced his decision to make the F-35 Lightning II ‏(aka the Joint Strike Fighter‏) as the future fighter plane of the Israel Air Force. Was it the right choice? The F-35 is a fifth-generation combat aircraft. As such it has some unique capabilities that would make every combat pilot’s mouth water: It is stealthy ‏(that is, nearly invisible to enemy radars‏); it has a suit of sensors that enables it to scan and track a large number of targets − in the air, in the sea and on the ground − and provide...

Pro-Israel group fights back with ads StandWithUs counters anti-Israel poster campaign on Washington DC subway with its own posters Yaakov Lappin Published:  05.15.07, 15:42 / Israel News P{margin:0;} UL{margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-right: 16; padding-right:0;} OL{margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0;margin-right: 32; padding-right:0;} P.pHeader {margin-bottom:3px;COLOR: #192862;font-size: 16px;font-weight: bold;}The subway system in America's capital city is set to be the scene of a poster campaign war between a pro-Palestinian organization seeking to harm Israel's image and a pro-Israel group which has decided to fight back.  Last month, the 'US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation' (ETO) placed 20 poster ads showing "an imposing tank pointing its main firing turret at...

[Archives]Weekly Commentary: Defining Palestinian Roadmap Compliance - Putting all terrorists on PA payroll? Weekly Commentary: Defining Palestinian Roadmap Compliance - Israel Must Pick Up The Ball Dr. Aaron Lerner Date: 18 January 2007 [Distributed again on 30 January when Egypt proposed "forming a united Palestinian army, representing all factions"] When Israeli officials link final status negotiations and the formation of a sovereign Palestinian state to Palestinian compliance with the Roadmap is there a clear understanding of what they have in mind? Let's first consider the wording of the Roadmap: Phase I + Palestinians declare an unequivocal end to violence and...

Super Power - Stupor Power By Randy A. Sprinkle “The terrorists today have the will to destroy us, but they don't have the power. We have the power to eradicate them, but we must now show that we have the will.” - Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with Brit Hume on the Fox News - Sept. 14th, 2001 The United States is often referred to as the world’s only super power and while that may be a valid statement, what does it really mean? The potential of a nation is only that. More often than not, the destiny of...

4 Citizens injured by Gunfire in a Wedding Celebration in Khan Yunis PCHRPalestinian Centre for Human Rights Security Chaos and Proliferation of Small ArmsMisuse of Weapons by Armed Groups and Security Personnel Field Update23 March 2006 4 Citizens injured by Gunfire in a Wedding Celebration in Khan Yunis In the evening of Wednesday, 22 March 2006, four citizens were injured in the city of Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip. The injuries occurred after an armed man fired a gun during a friend's wedding. PCHR's initial investigation indicates that at approximately 22:45 on Wednesday, an armed...

Condoleezza Rice With Israel Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni Secretary Condoleezza Rice Benjamin Franklin Room Washington, DC February 8, 2006 (12:25 p.m. EST) SECRETARY RICE: Good afternoon. I am delighted to welcome Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni of Israel. We have met on a number of occasions. We actually first met when neither of us was yet in government, in 2000, and so we've gotten to know each other over the years and I'm very much looking forward to working with you in what are clearly challenging times but still hopeful times in the Middle East. We've had an extensive discussion of...

Thief Takes Briefcase From IOC Member at Security Talks The Associated PressPublished: Nov 28, 2003 ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A thief stole a briefcase belonging to an Israeli International Olympic Committee member visiting Athens for discussions on security for the summer games, police said Friday. The briefcase containing committee documents, cash and credit cards was taken Tuesday from a limousine used by IOC member Alex Gilady. Gilady went to a police station to report the theft, which occurred while he was visiting the Greek Olympic Committee building. He was in Athens during a visit by IOC President Jacques Rogge, who...

In the Middle East, Israel is the only state that has developed and acquired nuclear weapons. Israel's nuclear program dates back to 1952 with the creation of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC). With the assistance of France, Israeli and French technicians secretly created a 24 megawatt reactor at Dimona, in southern Israel, in the Negev desert. Israel was finally prodded by France to make this nuclear plant public, which it did under the guise of creating peaceful nuclear energy. When U.S. weapons inspectors visited the Dimona reactor in the 1960s, they were unable to detect whether Israel was clandestinely...

FROM THE OFFICE OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS August 22, 2003 JS-672 U.S. Designates Five Charities Funding Hamas and Six Senior Hamas Leaders as Terrorist Entities Present Bush today announced that the U.S. Treasury is designating five Hamas related charities and six senior Hamas leaders as Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), freezing any assets in the U.S. and prohibiting transactions with U.S. nationals. “By claiming responsibility for the despicable act of terror on August 19, Hamas has reaffirmed that it is a terrorist organization committed to violence against Israelis and to undermining progress toward peace between Israel and the Palestinian people,” President...

Mob attacks researchers who found few Palestinians want their old homes now in Israel By Eric Silver in Jerusalem 14 July 2003 A mob of about 100 Palestinian refugees stormed the office of a Ramallah polling organisation yesterday to stop it publishing a survey showing that five times as many refugees would prefer to settle permanently in a Palestinian state than return to their old homes in what is now Israel.The protesters pelted Khalil Shikaki, the director of the Palestinian Centre for Policy and Survey Research, with eggs, smashed computers and assaulted the nine staff members on duty. A female...

Two thousand Jewish settlers brought the Israeli army to a grinding halt yesterday. The settlers, many carrying guns, converged around a cluster of tents and mobile homes on a hill in the West Bank to protect them from Israeli soldiers who had been ordered to dismantle them. The Jewish settlement, Havat Gilad, is named after Gilad Zar, who was killed by Palestinian militants in 2001. Settlements cover the hilltops of the West Bank and usually militants attack them and the Israeli army defends them. But unlike other settlements, Havat Gilad was set up without the permission of the government. The...

Arafat To Ask Palestinian Parliament To Condemn Bombings   09/08/2002 Dow Jones International News (Copyright (c) 2002, Dow Jones & Company, Inc.)     JERUSALEM (AP)--Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is to ask a key meeting of the Palestinian parliament on Monday to outlaw suicide bombings and to reaffirm the Palestinian commitment to peace with Israel. But violence continued on the eve of the parliamentary session. Palestinian security officials said two people were killed by Israeli tank fire in the Gaza Strip, as Israeli forces advanced along the main road, taking control.   A draft copy of Arafat's speech given...

<p>JABALYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip -- Keffaya al-Ajrami is proud to be the mother of a Palestinian suicide bomber.</p> <p>Last November, her 26-year-old son, Tayseer, strolled up to a guard booth at the Erez Crossing that separates the Gaza Strip and Israel. His mission: Kill as many Jews as possible.</p> <p>Tayseer calmly lifted a bomb up to a small rectangular slit in the guard booth and detonated it. The explosion ripped off his head and upper body. Two Israeli border police were injured.</p>

BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) - Religious differences between Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network and the militant Hezbollah group made an alliance between the two unlikely, a senior Shiite Muslim cleric said in remarks published Sunday. Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah described U.S. media reports accusing Hezbollah, a Lebanese Shiite Muslim organization, of assisting al-Qaida, a Sunni Muslim group, as "unreasonable."   "This is because al-Qaida, according to its religious and factional statement and according to statements made by most of its leaders, does not consider the Shiites as Muslims. Instead, they consider them as a renegade faction of Islam," Fadlallah...

<p>NEW YORK, July 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Israel's crack Palnat Company is on the front lines of the war against terror, and last week they offered Newsweek a rare view from their trenches. In the July 15 issue of Newsweek (on newsstands Monday, July 8), Jerusalem Bureau Chief Joshua Hammer reports the men are experienced reservists, and nearly all of them have seen active duty in Lebanon. And while compelled by a sense of duty, their views on the current conflict run the gamut from anti-war campaigners to right-wingers.</p>

Comedian Dennis Miller's Monologue on the Israeli - Palestinian Conflict A brief overview of the situation is always valuable, so as a service to all Americans who still don't get it, I now offer you the story of the Middle East in just a few paragraphs, which is all you really need. Don't thank me. I'm a giver. Here we go: The Palestinians want their own country. There's just one thing about that: There are no Palestinians. It's a made up word. Israel was called Palestine for 2000 years. Like "Wiccan," "Palestinian" sounds ancient but is really a modern invention....