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A victory was won this week in Jerusalem for people who think the Fatah stream of Palestinian nationalism should not get away with murder and should be held accountable for its actions like other mortals on the planet. Such “people” sometimes need to be ordinary civilians since the Israeli and U.S. governments can by no means be relied on to apply normal moral and legal standards to the Fatah stream as now embodied in the Palestinian Authority. Back on June 9, 1996, two years after the PA was established, a couple named Yaron and Efrat Ungar were driving near Jerusalem...

The Massacre in Hebron Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 on IsraCast.com Headline in the newspaper "Baltimore" on the massacre in Hebron The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of 67 Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim Holy Places Related Articles bloodbath at jerusalem yeshiva .audiocontainer { <p> font-size: 11px; color: #996633; text-align: center; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: #CCCCCC;...

KHAN YUNES, Gaza Strip (AFP) - The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad on Saturday threatened to unleash "the fires of hell" on Israel, as it staged a military parade in the south of the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip "We will unleash the fires of hell if the Zionist enemy continues its crimes," said the group's military chief Abu Hamzeh after the parade by around 800 Islamic Jihad members, an AFP journalist reported. "We're getting ready for the next round," he added, saying "the Zionist enemy will have neither peace nor security while it occupies our land."

"The European Union is now helping pay the salaries and pensions of Palestinian Authority workers. On August 20, officials in Brussels announced that the EU will be providing the PA with an extra €40 million ($58.8 million) in financial aid. This money comes on top of the €440 million ($650 million) in aid the EU pledged to the PA at a donors’ conference in Paris last December." "In addition to covering some of the Palestinian Authority’s salary and pension costs, a part of this European cash has been earmarked for the construction of a new Palestinian security force headquarters in...

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity. The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research. I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in. Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp...

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered the Palestinian Authority a preliminary final status peace agreement that would see Israel surrender 93 percent of Judea and Samaria. Ha’aretz learned that Olmert presented the deal when he met last week with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and is still waiting on a reply from the Palestinian side. The offer also includes surrendering a small area of Israel’s Negev desert to the Palestinians to make up for the 7 percent of the so-called “West Bank” where large Jewish towns today exist that Israel would retain.

CUFI on Campus by: Bethany Stotts, August 07, 2008 As Accuracy in Academia has documented, many campuses have a long-standing bias toward the latter half of the Israeli-Palestinian debate, with some textbooks going so far as to insinuate that Israel was created primarily because of “Zionist terror tactics” toward the British. Pastor John Hagee, founder of the pro-Israel lobbying group, Christians United For Israel (CUFI), expressed his own concern about the obstacles facing pro-Israel students on campus at this year’s CUFI summit. “For pro-Israel students, college campuses can be extremely lonely places. These students go to classes where professors teach...

Americans who want to contribute to their presidential candidate of choice are strictly constrained in giving no more than $2300 per candidate election. But the same limits apparently don't apply in practice to foreigners who want to help Barack Hussein Obama get elected, although the Federal Election Commission clearly does not agree. The brothers Edwan -- Monir and Hasam -- hail from Rafah, GA. That's GA as in Gaza, not Georgia. As first revealed by the Atlas Shrugs blog and further developed in World Net Daily, they contributed a whopping $29,521.54 to Senator Obama's campaign, more than 13 times the...

Hamas officials have reintroduced the practice of removing hair from political rivals' upper lips to embarrass them, Fatah authorities alleged. The humiliating disciplinary action has been used by Hamas authorities in situations involving the arrests of senior Fatah members in the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Hamas officials alleged that Palestinian Authority members removed the beards of imprisoned Hamas members in the West Bank. Leading Fatah commander Nafez al-Namnam, 51, was the last detainee to have his mustache shaved off after being taken into Hamas custody, the newspaper said. Officials said he was taken into custody after a...

WASHINGTON – "The Palestinian people are having a very tough time right now economically, and it is in US interests to make sure that they have a sense of hope and opportunity and a Palestinian state. I think it's in Israelis' interest as well," US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told NBC's Meet the Press Sunday on the heels of his Mideast tour. "What I've said is that we're going to make sure that the Palestinians have a state that allows them to prosper as long as we also have certainty that Israel's security is not being compromised. I think...

(Notice that the one on the left was wearing a red kaffiyeh around his neck.)

According to new sources, Barack Obama will be meeting with Palestinian officials in Ramallah during his current Middle East Tour. After visiting with Israeli officials, Obama will be escorted by Israeli defense forces until security is handed over to...

One of the most striking aspects of our political discourse, particularly during election time, is how efficiently certain views that deviate from the elite consensus are banished from sight -- simply prohibited -- even when those views are held by the vast majority of citizens. The University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes -- the premiere organization for surveying international public opinion -- released a new survey a couple of weeks ago regarding public opinion on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including opinion among American citizens, and this is what it found: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that...

At a time when history is hardly being taught anymore, and journalists lie, it must be hard for our young people to understand who the good guys are in the conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis in what was called Palestine. In a land where both Jews and Arabs have dwelt and fought one another for ages, it was Solomon-like for the United Nations to divide the land between them in 1947 – yes, 1947, more than 60 years ago.

Under the Heading THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (THINGS TO COME, A Journal of Biblical Literature, Book One, Volume I, For July 1894, p.17) JEWISH LITERATURE A PALESTINE literature has sprung up, and books, pamphlets, and newspapers are taken up with this now all-absorbing theme. JEWISH SOCIETIES The whole nation [The United Kingdom] is honeycombed with societies having different names, but one object, viz., The Colonization of Palestine. 1. THE CHOVEVI SION is perhaps the largest. Its name means The Lover of Sion, and is from the word [Sorry, I can’t reproduce the Hebrew script], Chavav, which occurs only once...

Tony Blair has been forced to abandon a visit to Gaza today because of specific threats to his life. The tour, which was cancelled after a warning by the Israeli government, dashed the hopes of Gaza's Hamas governors of scoring a propaganda coup as Mr Blair was due to be the first senior Western politician to visit the isolated strip since the Islamist group took control. Mr Blair's convoy first delayed a planned 9am arrival, then, as it approached Israel's Erez crossing into the often-turbulent strip, turned back to Jerusalem after being told of the threat. "We received a specific...

Palestine - Some Info Please.... Start at any point in history and describe the Country of Palestine: When was it founded? What were its borders? What was its capital? What were its major cities? What constituted the basis of its economy? What was its form of government? Name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat? What was the language, currency, or religion of the country of Palestine? What was Palestine proud of? Known for? When did Palestine declare its independence? There is no Palestine today. When was it destroyed? Why have they not declared a Palestinian State in Gaza? Why...

A senior Palestinian Authority official on Thursday said the regime of US-backed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is pulling for Democratic candidate Barack Obama to win the upcoming US presidential election. PA Planning Minister Samir Abdullah told reporters on a visit to Tokyo that the assumption in Ramallah is that Obama will win the election, and once inaugurated will immediately set in motion the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian Arab state on the biblical Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria.

This blood libel of Israel, Jews, and John McCain’s father is sanctioned by Barack Obama’s official campaign It has been established [http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/obama-campaign-sanctioned-anti-semitic-and-other-hate-speech/] that Barack Obama’s official campaign site exercises editorial control over the content of my.barackobama.com, and is capable of finding and removing “offensive” and “disrespectful” material within two days. The following has been online for almost three weeks. It accuses Israel of deliberatly murdering the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty, American Jews with divided loyalties of complicity, and John McCain’s father of complicity in a cover up. The following entry is sanctioned (tolerated) by Barack Obama’s official campaign... Now,...

Israeli hackers broke into the Hamas Web site. The right-wing group of hackers posted Israel's national anthem on the site of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Kassem armed wing, as well on the sites of the Balad Arab-Israeli political party and left-wing organizations. The hacked home pages also featured photos of Palestinian children dressed as suicide bombers and an explanation of why the site was hacked, according to Ynet. Most of the sites had returned to their regular content within a few hours. A leader of the hackers told Ynet that the group is comprised of 16- to 18-year-olds and this wasn't...

There is currently no place on earth called “Palestine” – certainly not in any meaningful legal or diplomatic sense. Nonetheless, most of the world prefers to think otherwise. This basic misunderstanding and misrepresentation is now as common in great universities as it is in ordinary politics. Indeed, wherever one looks for commentary about the Middle East, a symmetrical condition is widely presumed to exist between two fully sovereign and hence equal states. Israel and Palestine. International law and jurisprudence? Forget about it! If this were the only pertinent falsehood here, Israel and its few allies could still deal effectively with...

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called Tuesday on donor nations to make good on their commitments to the Palestinian Authority and help build the security infrastructure needed for a viable state. "Because of the inter-related nature of the criminal justice sector it is crucial for the donor community to take on all the projects that the PA has identified. Neglecting any one could jeopardize the entire effort," Rice said. "We encourage donors to commit new pledges and to allocate uncommitted funds from existing pledges to support this effort." The international community pledged seven billion dollars in Paris in December...

JAKARTA, INDONESIA - WORLD leaders in religion, politics and business will gather in the Indonesian capital this week for a conference to address 'facets of violence' and its solutions, organisers said on Sunday. Muhammadiyah, Indonesia's second largest Muslim movement with some 30 million adherents, will host the second 'World Peace Forum' between June 24 and 26, with more than 200 participants expected to attend. 'This is not just an interfaith dialogue. We invite leaders in business, politics, media and academics to sit together and find solutions for peace,' Muhammadiyah chairman Din Syamsuddin told journalists. 'Violence is a reality, but what...

JAKARTA, Jun 21, 2008 (Xinhua via COMTEX News Network) -- Indonesia will host a ministerial- level conference for Asian and African countries to discuss technical assistance for Palestine and to plan for its future independence, local press said Saturday. The conference, co-hosted by South Africa, will run from July 14 to 15, and will bring together envoys from some 100 countries to discuss a list of capacity building projects for Palestine in the fields of governance, infrastructure, economy, security, health and sports. "The main objective is how Asian and African countries design programs to empower Palestine and its institutions, because...

A Hamas spokesman said Tuesday that his was committed to an Egyptian-mediated truce deal with Israel set to go into effect Thursday. Sami Abu Zuhri said Hamas would commit to the "zero hour" declared by Egypt. An official Egyptian statement released earlier Tuesday said the cease-fire would go into effect on Thursday at 6 a.m. The MENA agency report cited an unnamed high-level Egyptian official as saying that both sides "have agreed on the first phase" of an Egyptian package to end the violence in the Strip. It said the first phase was a "mutual and simultaneous calm" in the...

Senator Barack Obama (D-Ill.) earned a rousing ovation at the American Israel Public Affairs Committee policy conference by announcing that “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided.” While Obama was currying favor with Jewish voters he was alienating other allies. Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, called Obama’s remarks a “betrayal of the Muslim cause. President Carter assured us we could trust this man. What is he doing siding with the Zionists?” An Obama campaign advisor tried to clarify the Senator’s position by pointing out that “no specified period of...

....Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, brother of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Attorney General, was the leading Democratic candidate for president when he was gunned down at a primary victory celebration in California on June 5, 1968. His Palestinian assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, said he killed Kennedy due to his vocal support for Israel. In April 1948, one month before Israel declared independence, Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on the conflict for the Boston Post. His four dispatches from the scene were published in June 1948. The newspaper closed in 1956, and for decades...

A year into Hamas' rule in the Gaza Strip, courts are meting out justice, police are arresting thieves, motorists are paying for licenses and authorities are blocking Internet porn sites. At the same time, Gazans are stocking up on vegetable oil - not for cooking, but to run their cars during a severe fuel shortage. An Israeli-led blockade has forced 80 percent of the people to rely on United Nations food handouts. With sanitation services collapsing, millions of gallons of raw sewage are flowing into the sea. Enemies of the regime have been silenced. "We've only become stronger. We will...

Exiled Iraqi writer Najem Wali travelled to Israel to uncover some uncomfortable truths about the Arab leaders When a child is born in Israel or to us in the Arab world, the history of the Arab-Israeli conflict is flowing in its umbilical cord. Since the declaration of the state of Israel on May 14 1948, Israel has been the official enemy number one for the Arab states. But even as a child I found the rhetoric didn't add up. How could this somehow "all-powerful" country so successfully "let the Arab nations sink into lethargy", as the official speeches would have...

Britain and other European governments should break from the US over the international embargo on Gaza, former US president Jimmy Carter told the Guardian yesterday. Carter, visiting the Welsh border town of Hay for the Guardian literary festival, described the EU's position on the Israeli-Palestinian dispute as "supine" and its failure to criticise the Israeli blockade of Gaza as "embarrassing". Referring to the possibility of Europe breaking with the US in an interview with the Guardian, he said: "Why not? They're not our vassals. They occupy an equal position with the US."

Hadrian's Curse: The Secret All The Arabs Know At the Annapolis Conference, President Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples. One of those peoples – the Jewish people – has a clear identity. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of the second people. Already in 1977, a central spokesman of that “second people” (a PLO leader, Zahir Muhsein, head of the as-Sa’iqa Organization) revealed the truth in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw. Here are his words: “The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state...

Professor Beres is especially pleased to present this co-authored article with Clare Lopez, Central Intelligence Agency (Ret.). Ms. Lopez, who worked on the Operations side at CIA, is currently an author and consultant. President Bush – while waging a “war on terror” − remains determined to create a Palestinian state. Yet, Palestine would quickly become a primary launching point for terrorism against the United States, as well as Israel. Gaza is already the site of expanding new forms of tactical and strategic cooperation between Hamas and Al-Qaeda. Judea and Samaria (West Bank) and Lebanon are also witnessing an Al-Qaeda push...

US president presses on with Mideast tour, meets with Egypt's Mubarak in Sham el-Sheikh. Due to speak at World Economic Forum on Sunday, Bush says he will outline vision for reaching agreement on future Palestinian state while still in office US President George W. Bush said on Saturday he remained confident a deal on Palestinian statehood could be achieved before he leaves office, as he sought to ease Arab doubts about his commitment to even-handed peacemaking. In the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh for the final stop of his Middle East tour, Bush faces growing skepticism over his chances...

Foreign Affairs Minister says two-state solution only viable when 'nakba' stricken from Palestinian lexicon while Opposition leader Netanyahu warns Israel must learn from past, refuse to give up land with no return Ynet "With the establishment of a Palestinian state, we wish to see the end of the conflict. The Palestinians will be able to celebrate their independence if on that same day they also strike the word 'nakba' from their lexicon," Foreign Affairs Minister Tzipi Livni said on Thursday afternoon in her speech at the president's conference in Jerusalem. Livni addressed the events being held throughout the day by...

It was more an embarrassment than a ship. Nearly 20 years old, its single tall funnel poked out above dilapidated decks and scarred paintwork. It was heading for the breaker’s yard until the Haganah, the Jewish underground, bought it. Now, loaded with more than 4,500 Jewish refugees, many of them Holocaust survivors, it was approaching the Palestinian port of Haifa and its moment of destiny. Its commander that July day in 1947 was Yossi Harel, who has died at 90. The ship was the USS President Warfield but Harel had renamed it Exodus 1947. Nearing Haifa it was pursued by...

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished. This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006. The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair by all international observers. Israel and the US refused to accept the right of Palestinians to form a unity...

Over the past few years, the term nakba (also spelled naqba) has become the favorite nonsense word of the Anti-Israel Lobby. Meaning "catastrophe" in Arabic, it has been embraced by anti-Semites all over the planet to refer to Israel's creation, which supposedly imposed a "catastrophe" upon the "disenfranchised Palestinian Arabs." Of course, the real catastrophe that befell the Arabs in 1948-49 was that they failed in their attempt to annihilate Israel and exterminate its population, and for that they paid a price. Meanwhile, nakba Nonsense has been spreading. Google finds over 85,000 web pages referring to Israel's creation as a...

The international community's efforts at trying to weaken Hamas have failed and should be reevaluated, the EU's two leading diplomats to Israel and the PA said Monday, although they stopped well short of saying that Hamas should be engaged. "The policy implemented in the last year [toward the Gaza Strip] aimed at strengthening people [through providing direct economic assistance and humanitarian aid], and weakening Hamas... is having the opposite effect," said Ramiro Cibrián-Uzal, the EU's ambassador to Israel. "We need to think about alternative policies, because this has not been successful. This is important to recognize." Cibrian-Uzal's counterpart in the...

Sixty years after its establishment by an internationally recognized act of self-determination, Israel remains the only state in the world that is subjected to a constant outpouring of the most outlandish conspiracy theories and blood libels; whose policies and actions are obsessively condemned by the international community; and whose right to exist is constantly debated and challenged not only by its Arab enemies but by segments of advanced opinion in the West. During the past decade or so, the actual elimination of the Jewish state has become a cause célèbre among many of these educated Westerners. The “one-state solution,” as...

The United States Government registered an official protest with Israel after its ambassador to the United Nations, Dan Gillerman, called former U.S. President Jimmy Carter a “bigot’ and an “enemy of Israel.” The U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv asked that Gillerman be made aware that “the U.S. administration's formal position is that President Carter is an idiot, not a bigot.” The Israelis were asked to respect this position in all its future references to the ex-president.

Original caption for both photos: Palestinians take part in a play in commemoration of Nakba Day "The Day of Catastrophe" during a rally in Gaza May 1, 2008. Palestinians will mark Nakba on May 15 as a day of mourning for the establishment of Israel after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war which led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.

Despite former president Jimmy Carter’s claim to have negotiated an agreement for Hamas to recognize Israel’s right to exist and a promise to live in peace, Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, said his militant Islamic group will never recognize Israel nor agree to peace. “We love President Carter, but he doesn’t understand anything,” Mashaal explained. “We have offered a 10-year truce if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders. That should be enough time for them to pack up and vacate the rest of our lands.” Mashaal said that Carter’s misunderstanding is the “result of his inability to comprehend that the Quran...

Despite former president Jimmy Carter’s claim to have negotiated an agreement for Hamas to recognize Israel’s right to exist and a promise to live in peace, Hamas leader, Khaled Mashaal, said his militant Islamic group will never recognize Israel nor agree to peace. “We love President Carter, but he doesn’t understand anything,” Mashaal explained. “We have offered a 10-year truce if Israel withdraws to the 1967 borders. That should be enough time for them to pack up and vacate the rest of our lands.” Mashaal said that Carter’s misunderstanding is the “result of his inability to comprehend that the Quran...

During the week before the Pennsylvania primary, The Bulletin met with Sen. Barack Obama’s middle east advisers in Washington, Howard Guttman and former Californian Congressman Mel Levine, along with another Obama Middle East aide who spoke on condition of anonymity. These are the questions The Bulletin posed to Mr. Obama’s Middle East advisers and the responses that they provided: 1. How would a President Obama relate to the security threat posed by Saudi Arabia? [Declassified security reports confirm that Saudi Arabia continues to fund groups defined by the U.S. government as terrorist organizations, while Saudi Arabia maintains an active state...

Ex-President Jimmy Carter has hogged the media spotlight this week over his intended - and subsequent - meetings with Hamas head honcho Khaled Meshaal and other Hamas leaders - thereby incurring the wrath of Israel, the United States, the European Union and the Palestinian Authority.

German lawmakers touring the West Bank city of Hebron say they were insulted and threatened by Jewish settlers there and that IDF troops refused to step in. The seven lawmakers from various parties toured Hebron on Wednesday. IDF forces control the center of the Palestinian city to protect several hundred settlers there. The German lawmakers say in a statement that from the start of the tour, they were cursed, insulted and threatened by settlers. The statement says the lawmakers were astonished that Israeli police and soldiers in the area were unwilling to step in and told the visitors they couldn't...

An Arab citizen of Israel and member of the Israeli Knesset (parliament) Monday listed himself as a representative of "Palestine" at a high-profile conference in Qatar. Ahmed Tibi listed himself on the registry at the Doha Forum, which was attended by an Israeli delegation headed by Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, as heading up a six-man team from Palestine - a state which never has, and still does not exist, but which the international community headed by the US is working to create on ancient Jewish lands. At the conference, Tibi smeared the country that had elevated him to position of...

Beirut - A high-ranking Hezbollah official has said the party would launch an offensive on Israel in the Palestinian territories occupied in 1948 in case the Jewish state wages a new war. The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, made the statement in an interview with Syrian magazine "al-Hakika," the Iranian News Agency Fars reported. "We would not initiate war but in case they wage any war in the future ...there will be a counter attack behind the front lines...and for the first time since 1948 in Palestine itself," the official reportedly said. The Hizbullah Shura Council member also revealed...

In this final year of the Bush presidency, what was once a doctrine of preemption has given way to a weird presumption that threats that Washington doesn't officially acknowledge somehoe won't hurt us. It's an alarming sign when CIA director Michael Hayden says, as he did on NBC that, personally, he believes Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons, but officially he stands by the NIE report that maybe they aren't. So America sails on, under the fiction that nothing dramatic need be done, despite Hayden's further warning that in Iran, "the development of fissile material, the development of delivery systems, continue...

BEIRUT: The Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai quoted a Lebanese security source as saying Thursday that large numbers of Palestinian militants belonging to Fatah al-Intifada and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC) have been infiltrating Lebanon from Syria and heading to military bases in Deir al-Achayer, Al-Hilweh, and Qoussaya in the Bekaa. The source said that these factions' mobilization has links in Naame, Sabra and Shatila and is related to internal developments in Lebanon and the possibility of a new war between Israel and Hizbullah that might stretch to Syria.