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The following is an excerpt from Arafat's Bag Of Tricks dealing with the issue of who is the traditional owner of the land now called Israel. The Palestinian claim that the land for centuries sustained a thrivingpalestinian culture is not authorized by the facts of history. Yet the world community has given this claim a receptive hearing. PLO Chairman Yassir Arafat in his speach before the U.N. in 1974 falsely declared, "The Jewish invasion began in 1881... Palestine was then a verdant area, inhabited by mainly an Arab people in the course of building it's life and dynamically enriching it's ...

1 John 48 Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love.9 This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.10 This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.

James Beck: From cop to criminal By Bhavna Mistry Staff Writer STEVENSON RANCH -- Fired as a rookie cop, James Beck turned to crime -- spending a decade impersonating police officers, stealing from those he befriended and collecting weapons, police and court records show. Beck's life -- from August 1988, when he lost his job as an Arcadia police officer, to the day last month when authorities say he gunned down an sheriff's deputy in Stevenson Ranch -- is detailed in hundreds of pages of court documents. They paint a picture of a heartless man who stole cash from schoolgirls ...

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I find it quite interesting (but not surprising) to note that in the Sept issue of Field and Stream that the 4 letters regarding drilling for oil in AK that had a location, the two that were pro-drilling were from Alaskans, while the two that were adamantly opposed to drilling were from NY and WA States. I have also noticed that most people who are opposed to logging in the Tongrass National Forest are also not people who live in AK. It seems that everyone that has no personal connection with AK wants the people who live there to have ...

NAPOLEON AND WELLINGTONby Andrew RobertsWeidenfeld £25 pp 350 Christopher HibbertThe field of Napoleonic studies may be a crowded one, but Andrew Roberts, one of our brightest young historians, is by no means overshadowed in his new book. Well written and well organised, his study of the relationship between the emperor and the Duke of Wellington is as entertaining as it is instructive, and is original and judicious both as military and personal history. The book begins on the morning of June 18, 1815, the day upon which Napoleon encountered the Duke of Wellington on the battlefield for the first and ...

Folks, here is a screed I knocked out talking to one of my conservative friends. If you have nothing better to do , wade through this wordy thing. Once the frontier is gone, a stratification seems to take place. Those who were "firstest" with the "mostest" stake out a claim that is hard to break. Their progeny, no matter how mediocre, are put into positions of power that will continue unto the forth generation and beyond. You, I am sure, could cite many examples of this. It is true that inovation brings new blood to the ruling class, but slowly. ...

President Bush started the "second season" off with a bang in a Labor Day speech delivered to union carpenters at a picnic near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Dubya lambasted congressional critics of his $1.35 trillion tax-relief package (spread over a decade), noting that many are now saying we should not have had tax relief this year (read any year). "Does that mean you're for now raising people's taxes?" Bush taunted. He has a point -- Minority Leader Richard A. Gephardt had said in June that he will attempt to raise taxes if the Democrats win control of the House next year. ...

AS THE LIBS SEEM TO BE HOLDING THE ONCE GREAT STATE OF NY HOSTAGE, THEY HAVE A PLANNED PROTEST OF BUSH'S ADDRESS TO THE ANTI-AMERICAN UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY ON SEPTEMBER 24TH, AS A CONSERVATIVE I AM APPALLED AT THE DISRESPECT THE LIBS HAVE PORTRAYED AS OF LATE. THEY HAVE SOLIDIFIED THERE TROOPS AND ARE ORGANIZING MANY PROTESTS TO UNDERMINE ANY CONSERVATIVE AGENDA. SO, SHOULD WE JUST SIT ON OUR HANDS AND PERMIT THEM TO LIE, CHEAT AND BAMBOOZLE THE VOTING PUBLIC INTO WHAT THEY THINK IS GOOD FOR AMERICA? OR SHOULD WE BE OUT THERE IN FORCE, TELLING THE AMERICAN ...

He has a reputation as a reactionary curmudgeon who hits out with random ferocity. VS Naipaul has denounced Tony Blair as a pirate responsible for "a plebian culture" and, more recently, laid into EM Forster as a nasty homosexual who wrote "utter rubbish" and preyed on vulnerable Indians with his friend Maynard Keynes. It was with some trepidation, therefore, that I ventured down his drive, tucked away down a Wiltshire lane. At the door stood the man acclaimed as the finest living writer of English prose. Polite, fastidious in speech and resolutely austere, he offered a warm greeting, and we ...

World exclusive - must credit Alamance Independent: "Plainclothes Marines?" Yes - and the Marines openly admitted last Thursday that they are training such units for "urban warfare" missions, such as "peacekeeping." They even bragged about the unit's skills in an Aug. 31, 2000 press release. "Plainclothes Marines" - officially named "Radio Recon" units - are being trained at Ft. Hase in Hawaii now. At least a company of these Marines is now in training. Members of these units are armed with 9mm pistols as their main weapon - the same 9mm Beretta common throughout the U.S. military - and are ...

Unsettled Scores Past as prelude: The economy’s in trouble, Gore is stirring and in Florida the ghosts of 2000 are returning to battle anew By Howard Fineman NEWSWEEK Sept. 17 issue — Cathy Dubin was in her Lexus, visiting polling places in Palm Beach County last Nov. 7, when her mobile phone rang. As director of the county Democratic Party, she was on the lookout for Election Day crises, and now her husband was calling—minutes after the polls opened—to report from their own precinct. “You’ve got a major problem here,” he told her. “People can’t figure out the ballot.” ...

ROB LOWE: PRESIDENT CLINTON ONCE LET MY KIDS HANDLE NUKE SECRETS WEST WING star Robe Lowe claims President Clinton once let Lowe's two children play with the special briefcase that holds the coordinates for the nation's nuke bombs! MORE Lowe says that during one White House visit -- the president did nothing as his kids toyed with the case across the South Lawn. "My kids were carrying the football -- the briefcase with the nuclear coordinates with all of our launch codes," Lowe tells the magazine in fresh editions. "My 7-year-old and 4-year-old had the nuclear launch codes of the ...

Gore Readying Bush Attack Ex-Vice President Al Gore is said to be readying a blistering attack on President Bush, set for public debut at the Democratic Party's annual Jefferson-Jackson Day Dinner in Iowa on Sept. 28. A Gore insider tells next week's U.S. News & World Report's "Washington Whispers" that "He is focusing on Bush's economic stewardship, foreign policy, and the environment. He has been both sharp and sharp-tongued." Gore has already road-tested his Bush-whack in smaller venues in San Francisco, New York and D.C. and is said to be happy with audience reaction. Backers are describing the upcoming Iowa ...

Will the OK state authorities stifle or allow information in the Nichols OK state trial about the other John Does in OKC with McVeigh at the time of the OKC bombing? Since Nichols was in Kansas according to the Feds, John Does in OKC with McVeigh would possibly weaken an attempt to get a death penalty unless it is proven in court that Nichols provided crucial help to McVeigh AND John Does in the building and/or delivery of the truck bomb. Jurors in the Federal trial of Nichols did not believe the Feds had proved their case that Nichols and ...

In a rare working weekend President Bush has been meeting off and on with his economic advisors about the slumping economy Some of the ideas being floated by The Bush White House are: 1)An across the board spending cut in all federal funding. 2)A smaller than promised increase in military funding for this year. 3)Borrowing this year against next year's budget. While Republicans in the house seems ready to help President Bush they want a cut in the capital gains tax as a way to jump start the economy. President Bush has left the door up on that idea but ...

    Is this a holy war against Jews and Israelis?   Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, the founder and spiritual leader of the Moslem militant group Hamas, speaks to reporters in the Gaza Strip, September 9, 2001. The Izz el-Deen al-Qassam brigades, the military wing of Hamas, claimed responsibility for the Nahariya suicide bombing on Sunday, according to al-Jazeera satellite television, which broadcasts from Qatar. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem      

Collision Course? Smith and Sununu Make Nice at N.H. Event, Despite Rivalry September 6, 2001 By Rachel Van Dongen MANCHESTER, N.H. - At a gathering of New Hampshire businessmen last week, Sen. Bob Smith and his Republican colleague, Rep. John Sununu, politely fielded questions on subjects ranging from the budget surplus to the appropriate punishment for California Rep. Gary Condit (D). With the Republicans side by side in giant armchairs for the hour-and-a-half forum, agreeing more than disagreeing, there was little hint of the fact that Sununu, a three-term Congressman and son of the Granite State's former governor, is weighing ...

The Confederacy - So That Each State Could Remain Free"...Africans exported 11,000,000 Black slaves to the New World - 4,000,000 went to Brazil, 3,600,000 went to the British and French West Indies, and 2,500,000 went to Spanish possessions in Central and South America. About 500,000 slaves, 5 per cent of the total number shipped to the New World, came to America." A Jeffersonian View Of The Civil War By Donald W. Miller, Jr. www.lewrockwell.com 9-8-1 In the schoolbook account of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln rose to the Presidency and took the steps needed to end slavery. He ...

The Confederacy - So That Each State Could Remain Free"...Africans exported 11,000,000 Black slaves to the New World - 4,000,000 went to Brazil, 3,600,000 went to the British and French West Indies, and 2,500,000 went to Spanish possessions in Central and South America. About 500,000 slaves, 5 per cent of the total number shipped to the New World, came to America." A Jeffersonian View Of The Civil War By Donald W. Miller, Jr. www.lewrockwell.com 9-8-1 In the schoolbook account of the American Civil War, Abraham Lincoln rose to the Presidency and took the steps needed to end slavery. He ...