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1) A Summit based on Arabist false language. 2) Is Israel's survival on the table? Re: ILLEGAL Arab "Palestinians" have semantics Let's see, those Arab immigrants grandchildren, the so called "Palestinians", don't really pay much for their parents/grandparents, and their own crimes of initiating attacks on little Israel with a clear attempt of annihilation (What "occupation"? what was their plan in 1929, 1948, and all those years priort to 1967? and why are most attacks on innocent unarmed Israelis in: Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Netanya, Haifa, etc.?) So basically, they are back at square one, when the ILLEGAL Arab "Palestinians" refused...

Fake "Palestinians" - Fake victims BAD CHOICES Can you feel for those that choose to stay in misery out of blind hate, an evil choice of having hate for the other [non Arab-Muslim entity in the middle east, though on it's historic land]. A choice that would prefer schools for DEATH, [indoctrination of "martyrdom"] suicide, homicide and genocide, over any improvement in it's life education of LIFE. The vast investment of human energy, national and individual, towards Jihadism, racism and Islamic-fascism replacing any natural growth of any group of people. ONE BIG LIE FROM THE START AND STILL GOING ON...

Al-Dura Anti Israel Propaganda Film Fails to Convince Court in France By Alex Margolin Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel ---- November 21, 2007 ..... Images of a young, terrified Mohammed al-Dura and his father crouching to avoid gunfire quickly became an iconic symbol of the nascent Palestinian intifada. The images broadcast around the world led to harsh international criticism of Israel. Seven years later, a courtroom in France reacted with skepticism – this time for France 2 TV, which aired the al-Dura anti Israel propaganda video. The raw footage was screened in a Paris courtroom last week, part of an...

A blogger writes to me as follows: PALLYWOOD Blogger, the Arab Muslim ‘Palestinian’ that comments on blogs posting as a “jew� If you thought that ‘Pallywood’ [The infamous Palestinian industry of lying “stories� and faking images] is limited to Gaza and Ramallah, think again. Among their devious propagandists, there’s one articular Arab that goes from one blog to another trying to make Zionists look bad, interesting enough you have a few chit-chats with him you expose him, he immediately bugs off with his tale between his legs. He likes to stress the phrase: “we Jews�, or/and “I am a Jew�....

In response to "Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week" the Arab Muslim Lobbyists do what they do "best", bash the infidel, especially their most favorite one, the 'Israelis'. Reaffirming their 'FASCISM. Sent To: mailtoReem_Yusuf@brown.edu ________________ "Nice" & typical response by YOU to the 'Islamo-Fascism awareness week'. 1) Are you denying that the Arab racist attacks on Jews in Israel/&"palestine" has started since 1838 (Safed) [so were the attacks in 1883, 1920, 1921, 1929 - Hebron, etc.]? 2) Had Israel be a (mostly) Arab-Muslim State, would the intolerant Arab-Muslim Goliath world not accept them? 3) Why is their a complete silence on the historical...

MSA = HATRED I was first introduced to MSA ‘Muslim Student Association’ by an Arab poster (posing as “Italian�) on AOL that posted again & again a video propaganda “little ones�, on Arab “Palestinians� killed (mostly) due to Arab Muslim terrorists using them as shields, but of course the blame was entirely on “The Zionists�, a typical smear campaign tool using most graphic bloody photos of the dead or wounded, “accompanied� by blatant lies such as calling tear gas (used by the careful & moral driven IDF to disperse protesters and minimize loss of lives) as “chemical weapons�, imagine that!...

Pali Dictionary (2007)   The guide to the Arab Muslim 'Palestinian' propagandist    A security 'check point' (the one you have in the airports that effects all Israelis too) = "oppression".   Arrests of terrorists = "subjugation".   Equal rights, equal treatment, freedom for all & democracy = "apartheid".   Terror camps = "refugee camps".   Terror attacks aiming at the unarmed innocent civilians = "freedom fighting".   Cowards hiding among civilians = "fighters".   Reluctance to shoot at terrorists surrounded by civilians = "weak Zionists".   Use of human shields = "heroism".   Unintended deaths of human shields = "victims...

BBC reporter's freedom 'really staged for movie' WorldNetDaily, OR - Jul 4, 2007 http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=56515 Rabbo charged Hamas was in "cahoots" with Johnston's kidnappers...

Islamists' Criminal Excuses to commit crimes against humanity all over the world Rice Urges World to Stop Making Excuses for Terrorists, "When are we going to stop making excuses for the terrorists and saying that somebody ... Read more on this subject in related Hot Topics: War on Terrorism ...http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2005/7/29/204707.shtml   The Star - News - 'Stop making excuses for Muslim criminals', 'Stop making excuses for Muslim criminals' ... The impression is that they are making excuses for terrorism and that's wrong. "Terrorism is a terrible thing ..."http://www.thestar.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=1698420the jihad's excuses for its mass-murders are not even worth a hearing. ...http://watch.windsofchange.net/2004/04_0308_0314.htmStraw said...

The "Palestinian" Contributions to Humanity 1) Commit the crimes on your own kids (human bombs, human shields) and always blame the Zionist victim. 2) How to united the Arab world, bring about "Dead Arab kids", Hezbollah picked up on that very fast. 3) The bastion of (fake) excuse for Islamists' crimes against humanity. 4) The phenomenon of "brown" Arabs Kissing up to "white" Hitler, Hitlerists, never mind what one wishes the other. 5) Inventing big drama words, such as "apartheid", "racism" for those daring to stand up against Racist, Fascist terrorists. 6) The lucky invention of the 1960's, One of the 21...

http://houseoflabor.tpmcafe.com/blog/lel66/2007/jan/21/the_right_of_return_myth http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2007/where-the-iraq- study-group-had-it-all-wrong/...Thus, the accusations that the creation of the State of Israel led to the eradication and dispossession of a Palestinian ‘nation,’ and that Israel continues to obstruct and deny the Palestinian’s right of self-determination, are spurious at best, since, as Robert Spencer, scholar of Islamic history, notes, before the 1967 war when Israel took control of Gaza and the West Bank, no one — including the Palestinians themselves — thought of themselves as a nation, that this “supposed national identity was invented in the 1960s in what turned about to be an extraordinarily successful ploy to adjust the...

What Right of Return, Mr. Baker? http://hnn.us/articles/33928.html By Richard L. Cravatts Mr. Cravatts, PhD, director of Boston University’s Program in Book & Magazine Publishing at the Center for Professional Education, writes frequently on law, politics, religion, housing, and culture. President Bush’s January 10th speech about a strategy for the Iraqi war going forward did ignore two key suggestions found last month in Jim Baker and company’s meretricious Iraqi Study Group report: that, first, the U.S. should initiate diplomatic conversations with Syria and Iran, and, second, that it should withdraw its troops in 2008. Thankfully, another specious suggestion from the report...

The all out myth of 'all Arabs being natives in all of the middle east'     A myth that terrorists which have far greater ambitions such as to Islamize the entire region if not the entire world or racist local Arabization, have been using it (still do) to the loss of so many lives among Israelis, 'Palestinians', but it is a tool in the wider Arab land to fuel bitterness at the entire west, (with historic colonialists like Great Britain, France, Belgium, etc. in mind).   To be true to history, the Berbers were before the other Arabs...

Jimmy Carter Distorts Facts, Demonizes Israel in New Book Former President Jimmy Carter has written an egregiously biased book called Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid and is currently doing numerous interviews to sell the book and its ideas.  Carter is attempting to rewrite history, and in his alternate universe, the Arabs are blameless and Israel is at fault for almost all the conflicts in the world. One gets the feeling after reading just a few pages that if he could have blamed Hurricane Katrina on Israel, he would have. His main messages are that Israel is badly mistreating the Palestinians and that the cause of the conflict is Israel's...

The infamous J. Carter has another destructive launch his hateful anti Israel book "Palestine peace not apartheid". Carter as in to be blamed partially for his role in today's entire world's danger from the fanatical Islamic regime in Iran, would he just not push so hard for a change in Iran, when we are told as Americans, time and time again, not to interfer into other states' affaires, but it seems it is a selective call. Now, Carter has from self hatred anti Americanism to anti Israelism, rest assuree it was by "advice" from his Arab tyrants buddies. As Prof....

A Pathetic Arabist-Propagandist face when facing the truth On Italian TV's Rai station on "Porta a Porta" (Nov, 23, 2006) the discussion went to the question if Italian troops should change their original mission from "peace keeping" to finally disarming the terrorists group Husbullah. It got some momentum at the background of Syrian - Iranian allies inside Lebanon murdered the Christian leader: P. Gemayel, and fear of civil war. The higlight was actually further on, You should have seen the response from all in the room to the cheap propaganda that the Communist part leader Mr. Giordani (wha was sitting...

Finally Euro media sees "pro palestinian" marches as racist - they are Italian TV - Rai's "Porta a Porta" had (on Nov, 20,2006) an interview about the protests by pro "palestinian" Muslims in Milano and in Rome. Interesting and encouraging and even suprisingly enough the media representatives interviewd - raised the issue of the ridicuous titles of these despicable protests that claim to be "peace marches" or for "peace in the middle east", they noted the 2 very important facts: 1) There were ONLY "palestinian" flags, not ONE Israeli flag. 2) There was not one word against "palestinian" terrorism but...

The Arab racism of playing Israelis' fear of Arab terror as "racism" How the Arab propaganda abuses Israelis' fear of terror into ludicrous charges of "racism". 1) The Wall which is between two different identity card holders, between Israeli Arabs or Jews on one side and the SAME (race, same people!) Arabs that are (just) not Israelis on the other hand. No one denies Israel is under infiltration menace from the Arabs across the fence, from radicals that try to massacre innocent Israelis 24/7. But anti-Israel racist Arab propaganda tries to portray this as "racist" or as "apartheid", go...

Canada takes pro-Israel stance at UN National Post, Canada - UNITED NATIONS - Canada under the Conservatives demonstrated a marked shift in favour of Israel in votes at the United Nations Thursday, registering its third ...

On October 1, 2006, the Boston Globe published an article by Rashid Khalidi, “Unwritten History,” bemoaning the lack of a comprehensive Palestinian national historical narrative, before and after the so-called “Nakba” of the creation of the state of Israel. Khalidi offers a feeble excuse for the absence of historical records: “There is no Palestinian state to create and maintain a Palestinian state archive. There is no central repository of Palestinian records, and a vast quantity of private Palestinian archival material—a considerable portion of the patrimony of an entire people—has been either irretrievably lost in 1948 or was carried off by...

Thousands attend funeral procession of Palestinians killed in IDF shelling, most of them members of Atamna family. Relatives talk about unbearable sights and about what keeps them alive. MK Mohammad Barakeh calls on mourners to 'unite against the root of evil – the occupation' Ali Waked, Beit Hanoun Published: 11.09.06, 13:55 Maali Atamna, whose brothers, nephews, brother-in-law and sisters-in-law were killed in Wednesday's tragic incident in Beit Hanoun, told Ynet on Thursday that "we only want to see the Jews put their casualties into sacks. This is all we pray for to Allah." Confused and hurting, she finds it difficult...

To be a "good" Muslim! Part I http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1726241/posts Part II http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1727912/posts Part III http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1728361/posts Dehumaize victims of Islamic terror, especially Israeli men, women & children as "tanks". Never apologize for the continuing exposed (Like Muhammad Aldura, Reuters "images", Jenin "numbers" & added bodies) long tradition of lying, faking, inventing hoaxes, faking images, etc. but rather be already busy with preparing the next one. Islamic violence and bloodshed is always ahead of West's "reprisal", in other words, Bin Laden, Muhammad Atta, etc. have massacred Americans on 9/11/2001 was because the US will eventually go into Afghanistan afterwards, Islamists almost succeeded with...

PARIS (Reuters) - Broadcaster France 2 won a libel case on Thursday over accusations it faked a report into the killing of a Palestinian boy whose death in 2000 became a symbol of the uprising known as the second intifada. The Court of First Instance in Paris ordered Philippe Karsenty, director of Media Ratings, a website that comments on the media, to pay France 2 and its Israel correspondent Charles Enderlin symbolic damages of one euro ($1.25) each. "Hopefully this decision will end a campaign of defamation that is particularly dangerous because it affects those with a duty to inform...

Beautiful Compassionate Humane Kind Zionism VS Evil, Racist Arabism, Islamism Kindness, Tolerance, multi racial, multi color cosmoplitan open, free & democratic: Zionism - Israelvs Racist, fascist, totalitarian, ethnic cleansing, cruel, oppressive: Arabism, IslamismZionism - Israel has established aMulti-racial Multi Coloured Cosmoplitan society, not only Israeli Arabs are integrated but all colors from black through Latino Chinese, (Vietnamese that have been rescued when no one wanted them) to the whitest of whites are all part of the same Israeli system.Arabism, Islamism - fascism & racism not only persecutes minorities in all Arab & Muslims countries, be the Kurds in Arab counries...

The Arab world's hatred, racism, & Islamofascism's Jihad drive to isolate, hurt and demonize Israel As Israel is the non Arab, non Muslim 'entity' in Islamo Arab world, the campaign of genocide on the Jews that has started (before the sophistication of excuses like "occupation" or so many new & more "modern" terms thereafter, whether it's emphasizing Israeli security checkpoints on Arab Palestinians -- branding them as "racist" -- more than all the checkpoints inside "proper" Israel on ALL Israelis that are ignored, or that lie of "apartheid wall" when it really seperates between the same Arabs but with different...

Arabs Faking Attacks to Earn Matriculation Diplomas (IsraelNN.com) Arab residents of Judea and Samaria are faking terror attacks, carrying knives or other weapons at IDF checkpoints in the hope of getting arrested. Doing so permits them an opportunity to spend time in an Israeli jail, where they can quietly study for a high school matriculation diploma, at no cost.

PALESTINIANS RELEASE U.S. STUDENT HELD HOSTAGE IN W.BANK - SECURITY SOURCE Haaretz.com - Militants demand Israel release Palestinians for U.S. hostage

Arab lying racists (still) criticize beautiful democratic Israel? What happens when the Atlas (Arab) of Racism invents-lies libel "racism" on a remarkable democracy? Ignoring Israel's reality First, the Arab Islamic hate media Goliath is systematically ingnoring or lying openly about the fact that Israel's Arabs are not only equal, but giving opportunities & rights without demanding of them the natural obligation that exists on all Israelis to serve in it's service, moreover they're often first class citizens in courts etc. even ahead of Israeli Jews. Remarkable! Israel's free, democratic status should be held especially remarkable giving the fact of...

Chirac at it again, silly appeasing line: "extremists on both sides", while Israel VS evil of mainstream "Palestinians"From http://gabriellegoldwater.com Chirac: He said it was time for leaders to take back the issue from the hands of extremists on both sides and work to restore confidence between Israelis and Palestinians. Would Chirac please point out who are the extremist on Israel's side - since he obviously implies same. This man never seems to amaze anyone. It is very simple to restore confidence Mr. Al-Chiraq - stop terrorism SOLUTION TO MIDDLE EAST CONFLICT REQUIRES NEW GLOBAL STRATEGY, FRENCH PRESIDENT TELLS UN New...

The father of all fauxtography By Michelle Malkin   ·   September 12, 2006 03:54 PM The staging of pro-terrorist photos for the theater of jihad has been going on a long time. I've blogged before about a notorious incident involving iconic images of a Palestinian boy, Mohammed al Doura, broadcast by French state-owned television in 2000. The boy was allegedly gunned down by Israeli soldiers. But as Nidra Poller and David Gelernter, among others, have reported, the truth was not on the terror sympathizers' side. See also Pallywood and the investigation by Richard Landes here. Now France-2 TV is suing critics...

A collection of 9/11 tributes I’ll add to the list below, and if you have any you’d like to add to this (or any other sort of tribute/remembrance), please do so here. Either leave a comment with the link, or link to this post and send a trackback. 9/11: The 5th Year Anniversary Tribute Blood of Heroes September 11th, Uncensored From Brain Terminal: Crystal Morning: September 11th, 2001 From William Teach: 9/11 Plus 5 From Crusader: WTC Tribute More from YouTube: 911 tribute September 11th - Five Years Later: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 September 11th - Flash...

Top 10 Reasons Islam Might Not Be a Religion of Peace Written by Don Feder Thursday, August 31, 2006 A passenger revolt occurred on a Malaga-Manchester flight.  Vacationing Brits refused to fly with two Arabic-speaking men.  This came in the wake of arrests of 21 British-born Muslims who were plotting to blow up as many as 11 trans-Atlantic flights. A spokesman for Britain’s opposition Tory party said the passengers panicked into “behaving irrationally.”  Fancy that, not wanting to fly with members of a faith whose adherents keep trying to blow things up.  Oh, how irrational! Within days of this incident, a Lebanese student...

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IT'S bad enough that friends of Hezbollah terrorists could trick so many journalists with just a tall story and a rusty Lebanese ambulance. Worse is that some of those journalists seemed so eager to believe this ambulance was indeed wickedly blown up by an Israeli missile fired straight through the big red cross on its roof -- leaving not even a scorch mark. But worst is that even now that this hoax has been exposed, none of the countless writers and commentators who fell for it have admitted to passing on as fact the propaganda of terrorists. It is this...

The media war against Israel Early in the recent Lebanon war, the blogosphere revealed the fabrication of images by Reuters, whose reputation is now in shreds among those dwindling numbers in the western mainstream media who still acknowledge there is such a thing as the truth. Since then, the nature and scale of the various frauds perpetrated by the media during that war put those doctored Reuters pictures into the shade. The western media are no longer merely producing questionable professional practices in reporting a war. They are now active participants in it — and on the wrong side of...

International journalists discuss Lebanon war coverage; NYT bureau chief: Israel 'not interested in Lebanese deaths' A number of journalists claimed during a convention in Jerusalem Monday evening that Israel and the IDF were mostly to blame for the way the foreign media covered the Lebanon war. The panel of journalists, largely from the international media, convened to discuss their coverage of the war, at a conference arranged by the Media Line agency's Mideast Press Club. "Journalists' access to the battlefield is controlled exclusively by the IDF," said Simon McGregor-Wood, Chairman of the Foreign Press Association, and Bureau Chief of ABC...

Elsewhere on the fake Middle Eastern news front, the Second Draft has two must-see videos (HT: Instapundit) that look at a famous "news" item from 2000 in which a young Palestinian boy is reportedly shot by Israeli soldiers while crouching behind a barrel. The footage was filmed by a Palestinian cameraman working for a French television station. Upon further examination, like many pictures from that part of the world, the video appears to not be what actually happened.

Fauxtography Defender's Faux News Turns out that Greg Mitchell, the Editor & Publisher editor who has been attacking the blogosphere like a rabid ferret for pointing out the bogus news from the Middle East, has first-hand experience with staging news. (Hat tip: Confederate Yankee.) Since the press seems to be in full-disclosure mode these days, I want to finally come clean. Back when I worked for the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Gazette (now the Niagara Gazette), our city editor asked me to find out what tourists thought about an amazing local event: Engineers had literally “turned off” the famous cataracts,...

Reuters Photo Fraud, nothing new! Dear friends, The blogosphere expressed a level of surprise when Reuters was caught falsifying and staging photos, seeming to completely integrate into the Hezballywod propaganda machine. I have been loading my archive history, and came across Reuters complicity in anti-Israel propaganda early in 2001. See http://dfrankfurter.livejournal.com/2001/02/21/ - exposing staged photography by Reuters journalist Suhaib Salem, with a blatantly misleading caption. And a Google search on the man stumbled over the following piece from the Wall Street Journal of a year and a half later. Wonder what motivates Reuters? Monday, June 3, 2002 2:40 p.m. EDT...

All Your Fakes Are Belong to Us A jawa video spoof on Beirut Fauxtography.

Amid the controversy over certain pictures from Lebanon, a longtime student of war photography asks, "I'm not sure if the craft I love is being murdered, committing suicide, or both." By David D. Perlmutter (August 18, 2006) -- The Israeli-Hezbollah war has left many dead bodies, ruined towns, and wobbling politicians in its wake, but the media historian of the future may also count as one more victim the profession of photojournalism. In twenty years of researching and teaching about the art and trade and doing photo-documentary work, I have never witnessed or heard of such a wave of attacks...

It's the story that the journalistic elite would rather just go away. In the aftermath of Reuters' admission that one of its photographers, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated two war images from Lebanon after bloggers smoked out his crude Photoshop alterations, and all 920 of his Reuters photos were pulled, evidence of far more troubling photo staging and media deception in the Middle East continues to pour in. Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs (littlegreenfootballs.com) calls it "fauxtography." Reuters on Sunday withdrew an image of smoke rising from burning buildings after an Israeli air strike on the suburbs of Beirut on...

The first Photoshop war Lebanon war's doctored photos could be harbinger of photojournalism crisis Gal Mor The photo of an apparently new Mickey Mouse doll, resting on a ruined street in the Lebanese town of Tyre following an Israeli Air Force attack, took me back to a British TV show called "Drop the Dead Monkey," which aired in Israel about 15 years ago. One of the journalists in Channel 4's satirical show used to hang around battle zones with a teddy bear in his trunk and place it at disaster zones a short time before cameras began shooting, in order...

Many of the mainstream media apologists have conceded – and they had little choice but to do so – that many of the photographs of the Israelis’ response to Hez b’Allah’s act of war, were staged. The evidence of staging and Photoshopping is too public. The media allowed itself to be used to defame Israel, stir up sympathy for Lebanon and halt the advance into Lebanon. But the concessions of wrongdoing stop short with digital alterations. Media spokesmen are still in denial about the biggest media fraud of all: the dramatic dead baby display at Qana. EUreferendum has not given...

When Reuters was forced to sever ties with free-lance photographer Adnan Hajj and remove more than 900 of his photos from its database earlier this month, long-whispered questions about the reliability of Arab stringers and freelancers came to the forefront. But while the widespread use of Arab locals in covering the Middle East raises many legitimate concerns, the Palestinian propaganda machine has enjoyed tremendous success over the years hoodwinking supposedly sophisticated Western journalists. And Hezbollah appears to have done the same over the past month. In short, almost nothing that is purported to happen in the Arab world can automatically...

Thanks to some intrepid digging from commenters Lancelot and Harris at EU Referendum, another video of the events at Qana has been found. This is one that I have never seen before and really shows what was going on that day. It is truly a must see for anyone that believes that the photos at Qana were staged. It completely debunks the "our photographers do not set up photos" and "the rescuers were not holding up the children for photos" claims. Believe it or not, it is a link from Wikipedia of all places. Here's the direct link to the...

Lebanese rescuer 'Green Helmet' injured A civil defense worker who has drawn controversy for holding up the bodies of children killed in Lebanon said Tuesday he was lightly injured fighting a weekend fire sparked by an Israeli bomb. Salam Daher, dubbed the Green Helmet for the color of his civil defense headgear, said he was hit by debris Sunday when a bomb or missile fell on a building while he was helping to battle a fire at a gas station in the port city of Tyre. "I fell over when the bomb hit, and I got some scratches from debris...

Ray Robison has yet another example of staged photojournalism from Lebanon, a car with verses from the Koran strategically placed for propaganda effect: Al-AP at it again with staged photos. Ray comments: Notice this car has a wall-hanging positioned on the door. An Arabic reader tells me this board has verses from the Koran on it. Because Islam does not allow for images of the Prophet Mohammed, Muslims use verses to adorn their homes the same way some Christians use paintings of Jesus. If you want to make the argument that this wall-hanging got where it is by chance, then...

Fox is now showing the German TV video of Qana showing Green Helmet Guy posing a dead child Click here to watch the Fox News video Here is the original FR post Here is the original video on YouTube: Green Helmet the movie director [Germany's NDR busts him in the act]

The recent discovery that a Lebanese freelance photographer, Adnan Hajj, had manipulated pictures he took for Reuters has raised questions about the standards of photojournalism at a time of widespread digital photography. The case also increased pressure on news photo editors, who select and edit thousands of photographs under deadline pressure each day, to detect digital alterations. "The Soviets had to have a whole department to doctor pictures," said David Friend, an editor at Vanity Fair and a former director of photography for Life magazine. "Now all it takes is a swipe of a mouse, and the kid down the...