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Obama/Kerry seek to renew funding to organization that accepts state" not recognized by U.S. – despite law forbidding this. The State Department has asked Congress for nearly a quarter of a billion dollars to fund UNESCO--the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization--even though this is currently against the law. The law states that the U.S. may not pay dues to any UN organization that grants the PLO full membership as a state--unless such a state has resulted from an Israel-PA negotiated settlement. Since 2011, when UNESCO voted to admit the "State of Palestine" as a member despite the fact

Netanyahu says the best way to defeat terror is by maintaining composure and national resilience. “We’re in the midst of a wave of terror,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday, after a week in which Palestinian violence against Israelis spiked. Three incidents occurred just on Wednesday alone, in which Israelis were stabbed and stoned by Palestinians in Kiryat Gat, Jerusalem and the West Bank road that leads to the capital’s Har Homa neighborhood.

A sweet, smiling, soft-voiced young Palestinian woman, whose child was the beneficiary of a life-saving procedure in an Israeli hospital, explains that there is no compromise. Palestinians must have Jerusalem, and whether children and others die in the process is irrelevant, because her culture is fine with death. Now that the Jews have saved her son hopefully he will be able to grow up and kill them.

The UN is now hosting in the public entrance hall of its New York headquarters a Palestinian exhibit which includes pieces that artfully depict all of Israel as Palestine. The display goes hand-in-hand with the logo featured at the top of the cover page of the speech that Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas’ delivered to the General Assembly on November 29, 2012. That emblem continues to promote a one state solution, Palestine without Israel. On November 29th the General Assembly granted “Palestine” the status of “non-member observer state” under the pretense that the move brought the world

In America we treasure our religious freedom. The First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution says that government will keep out of the religion business and guarantees religion will be practiced freely without interference by government. “The wall of separation” is revered. Have we misunderstood the meaning of the wall of separation? We all should be reminded that the First Amendment keeps government out of religion, but says nothing about keeping religion out of government. Under our Constitution, religious people and religious institutions are welcome in the halls of government. They are free to bring their religious convictions with them wherever...

And don't forget, American taxpayers subsidize dozens of UN "projects." Richard Falk, the UN Human Rights Council’s expert on Palestine, decided to draw a cartoon to depict how he saw the world. Imagining the nations of the world and their interaction with law and liberty, Falk drew a dog wearing a sacred Yarmulke with a Star of David emblazoned on it. In the dog's mouth were the bloody bones of an infant: Around the dog's waist is a piece of cloth reading "USA."

History teaches us that man learns nothing from history. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel[Editor's Note: Forty-nine years ago last month, the nation Israel was reestablished in the Land. Thirty years ago this month, as a result of the famed Six Day War, Israel regained Biblical Jerusalem, as well as Gaza, the Sinai, and the Golan Heights. Although these areas were part of the original mandated land, and are undeniably essential for Israel's defense, it has become strangely "politically correct" to assume that peace in the Middle East is dependent upon their yielding these lands-the so-called "West Bank"-back to their enemies which...

RAMADIN, Palestinian Territories (AFP) – Palestinians desperate for work in Israel will go to extremes to sneak past the West Bank barrier, but now they face a new hurdle -- army attack dogs sent to sniff them out. Workers say the use of dogs to hunt down anyone trying to enter Israel illegally is a new phenomenon which has only been occurring for about two months.

JERUSALEM – In partnership with a government fund initiated by Barack Obama, philanthropist and billionaire activist George Soros is investing in a private equity company that just launched in the Palestinian territories. The company, Siraj Fund Management Company, says it was created "for the sole purpose of managing investment funds in Palestine." The new company's website repeatedly refers to what it calls the "country" of "Palestine." There is, however, no such country as Palestine. Siraj is apparently referring to territories controlled by the Palestinian Authority. "Siraj has plans to launch future funds focused on the Palestinian market thereby contributing to...

Following their private meeting in the Oval Office, a joint communique was released by President Bush and Pope Benedict. Fulltext: His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI and President George W. Bush met today in the Oval Office of the White House. President Bush, on behalf of all Americans, welcomed the Holy Father, wished him a happy birthday, and thanked him for the spiritual and moral guidance, which he offers to the whole human family. The President wished the Pope every success in his Apostolic Journey and in his address at the United Nations, and expressed appreciation for the Pope’s upcoming...

Indeed, said the prime minister, there was currently an almost divinely ordained constellation of key personalities on the international stage favorably disposed to Israel, creating comfortable conditions for negotiations that might never be replicated. "It's a coincidence that is almost 'the hand of God,'" Olmert said, "that Bush is president of the United States, that Nicolas Sarkozy is the president of France, that Angela Merkel is the chancellor of Germany, that Gordon Brown is the prime minister of England and that the special envoy to the Middle East is Tony Blair."

ANAPOLIS, MARYLAND MEETING: PLAN: The U.S. is hosting a 3 day meeting in Anapolis, Maryland called a "Peace Summit." In a nutshell the USA is leading the pack in pressuring Israel during this meeting to: 1) Divide Jerusalem and give the Temple Mount to the Muslims 2) To cede all of Judea and Samaria and allow the establishment of an Arab terrorist state called Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital. ("West Bank" is the biblical Judea and Samaria, the heartland of Israel promised to the Jewish people by God's everlasting covenant.) 3) To give Palestinians control of the mountain ridge...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli-Palestinian violence escalated dangerously Monday when Israel killed five militants in airstrikes and hinted Hamas political leaders could be their next target. A rocket fired from Gaza killed an Israeli woman, inviting a harsh response. The woman was the first Israeli to die in a Palestinian rocket attack since November. Even before the fatal salvo, Hamas leaders feared for their safety. They turned off their cell phones, stayed out of official vehicles and reduced their movements as militant groups declared a state of emergency. The precautions followed an Israeli airstrike late Sunday on the...

Friday, Hamas escalated its internecine feud with Fatah to jihad December 16, 2006, 10:24 PM (GMT+02:00) Hamas leaders said Friday: “Abu Mazen and Fatah have declared war on Allah. Whoever joins them is a shahid.” They authorized the assassination of Fatah leader Mohammed Dahlan, accusing him of orchestrating an attempt on the life of Hamas prime minister Ismail Haniya, as his convoy entered Gaza Thursday night, Dec. 14. A bodyguard was killed and five members of his party injured, including Haniya’s son. Hamas vowed “to even the score”. The Hamas prime minister returned home from a two-week absence carrying $31...

Usually when the Palestinians declare a cease fire, they try to maintain the pretence of peaceful intent. But since six o'clock yesterday when another one of those "fake cease fires" was declared there hasn't even been a pretense of a move toward peace. Fern from the aloneinpublic blog emailed me, and said, "this isn't even a real fake cease fire, its a fake-fake cease fire. And she is absolutely right! Just llok at whay has happened since six o' clock yesterday and you will see how this misguided ceasefire is creating more danger for Israel

Gamla.org was hacked, as of the time of this posting. I noticed the link to the "Fly Our Flag" banner on my profile page was dead, so went to check it out. Looks like the criminals call themselves "Team-Evil Arab hackers." Gamla.org must be having a great impact if these "individuals" have to do this. The text of the posting, if the Gamla Administators shuts this down and you don't see it, looks like this: <==0wn3d By==>..:::Hacked By Team-Evil Arab hackers ::..When you'll stop killing our childs and exaction of our women ?!! Al-Quds is for us and it'll still...

How much longer must the Palestinian people be bombed, starved, humiliated and abused before the international community speaks up with one voice? How much longer will world leaders avert their eyes from the cruel way Israel is pursuing a land grab? How much longer will ordinary people prefer the World Cup and blissful ignorance to the facts of Israel’s crimes and their effects on an entire people? The US and the EU have labeled the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority “terrorist”, a move that has virtually given the Israeli government carte blanche to do its worst. George W. Bush says Israel has...

Anti-Semitism can appear in many forms, many disguises. Its latest camouflage can be seen in “The Israel Lobby,” an article in the March 23 London Review of Books by Political Science Professor John J. Mearsheimer of the University of Chicago and Dean Stephen M. Walt of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. This article is an extract from “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy,” their March 2006 self-published academic “working paper” that is neither peer reviewed nor published in any scholarly journal. Although ballyhooed as a work by two major scholars, they acknowledge that it “should not...

Jan 31 2006 3:13PM Hamas should disarm to work in parliament - Lavrov LONDON. Jan 31 (Interfax) - Russia is in favor of the Hamas movement's full disarmament and believes that it should work in the parliament only if this is completed. "We are sure that only unarmed groups not involved in military actions should work in the parliament," Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told journalists in London. "We believe that the wider picture should be seen while searching for a settlement in the Middle East and Hamas reflects the situation of the settlement," Lavrov said. He said he does...