Free Republic

NY’ers Rally for Israel Today A rally backing Israel's war on terrorism will take place this morning at the Israeli Consulate in Manhattan. The rally sponsored by several New York Jewish organizations, will call on the Bush Administration to allow Israel to defend herself against PLO-terror, just as the US fights Taliban and Al-Qaeda terror. The demonstrators will also be sending a message to the media: There is no moral equivalency between cold-blooded murder at the hands of Arabs and Israel’s self defense measures. Among those to address the crowd, will be Chief Rabbi of Efrat, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin.

Thousand more may need to be evacuated. This is a worst case scenario because the fire is forming a 50 mile long wall of flames. Forest firefighters are being redeployed to join local firefighters and focusing their efforts on saving homes.

China Catches Migrants Using World Cup Travel to Reach S. Korea  Police caught 12 illegal Chinese migrants trying to fly to South Korea by pretending to be soccer fans headed for the World Cup tournament, according to a report by China Daily Saturday. They were among 550 would-be migrants stopped since China launched a crackdown on migrant-smuggling April 1. Members of the group bound for South Korea were caught June 12 at an airport in eastern China after questioning by police revealed that they knew little about soccer. Thousands of Chinese traveled to South Korea for the World Cup this month,...

Jerusalem — Israeli tanks rolled into the Palestinian town of Qalqiliya early Sunday, taking up positions and imposing a curfew in the military's latest West Bank incursion. Also, the army called up a brigade of reserve soldiers to back up its regular forces in a widening search for Palestinian rebels. The new action came as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat accused Israeli forces of trying to take over all civil matters in areas occupied in the latest operation. Israeli Defence Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer denied that troops planned to take over civil administration. The Israeli army began an extensive new operation in...

Aviation Week for February 18 says that a Great Debate – “furious, behind-the-scenes” – rages over whether pilots of airliners should carry weapons. Granted, debate in Washington intellectually parallels professional wrestling, but without the dignity. Still: Did we not just lose four aircraft, several thousand people, two and a quarter buildings, and get ourselves into an open-ended string of wars, and begin to turn ourselves into an officious security state, at a cost of many, many billions of dollars -- because pilots did not have guns? Key point: A pistol is an overmatch for a small knife. You can probably...

'Made in China' Produces no Threat: Analysis In an age of globalization, it is natural that China, boasting rich and inexpensive labour resources, should become a popular destination for multinationals re-locating their production bases. However, the fact that many chief executive officers (CEO) favour China touches a nerve of some people. In his article "When everything is made in China," carried on the June 17 issue of the US magazine Business Week, Jeffrey E. Garten, dean of the Yale School of Management, warned that the world economy is becoming more reliant on Chinese factories. During the past few months, said...

Arab-American dollars shore up McKinney By MELANIE EVERSLEY Atlanta Journal-Constitution Staff Writer WASHINGTON -- The relationship that Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-Ga.) shares with Arab-Americans runs deeper than her call for more attention to the Palestinian side of the Middle Eastern conflict. The DeKalb County congresswoman's connections stretch significantly into the pockets and purses of the Arab-American and Muslim communities. About one-fourth of the individuals who have contributed to McKinney's campaigns over the past five years have names that appear to be Arab-American or Muslim, according to an informal study of Federal Election Commission records. Their contributions total $142,950, a full...

UPROOT 90-1 BUSH IN 2004 Bush has tied up 90% of federal revenues to help 1% of the nation's wealthiest become richer. He has left little or no federal revenue available to help poor Americans have a better life. Bush's 90-1 policy causes millions of Americans to suffer everyday of their lives. TOP 10 REASONS TO BRUSH-OFF BUSH IN 2004 1. Recently Bush defined himself, and his presidency, by turning his back on career EPA employees who authored a far ranging overview of how global warming will drastically affect the United States over the next half century by calling them...

I have been listening to him off and on over the years and generally take his opinions with a grain of salt but he certainly makes some sense when it comes to the Oaklahoma City bombing and the connection with 9/11 and terrorism, both foreign and domestic. Does anyone have some information on this guy, and is there some documentation to refute his claims? He supplies plenty to support his views.

1 .Documents captured in Ramallah clearly indicate that the Palestinian Authority funneled money from its official budget ,which is financed mainly by Arab and European states ,to Fatah and Tanzim branches in the West Bank .In this manner ,the PA created an infrastructure of terror activists in dozens of local branches. 2 .The money was drawn from the PA's salaries account and transferred via Marwan Barghouti's office to tens of provincial Fatah branches and sub-branches in the West Bank. 3 .A section on financing Fatah activities is not stipulated in the PA's official budget ,which is supposed to be transparent...

Why is it that Rick Perry does not respond to all of the negative ads that Sanchez has been running?

Context: I prefer to think of the Summers types, the neoliberal globalists, as the neo-Eichmanns. They are the technicians and ideological theoreticians/apologists of death of innocents while keeping their hands "clean" from directly pulling the trigger. They have as much death on their hands as any Pol Pot ... Good God! Take down your kill list for a day and look at the garbage that crawls out! I finally found this--I was looking for it maybe a month ago. It's selections from the "Introduction" to volume 3, _The Coming of the Cataclysm, 1961-66_ of Roderick MacFarquhar's _Origins of the Cultural...

— ROME (Reuters) - Italian investigators have broken up a Milan-based "terror cell" with links to al Qaeda which planned an attack on a 14th century church in Bologna earlier this year, a newspaper reported Sunday. Corriere della Sera newspaper said the group was identified after intercepted telephone conversations between several Tunisians and Moroccans with links to a Libyan known as Amsa, considered one of Osama bin Laden's chief operatives in Europe.Amsa was arrested last month in Britain, the paper said.The Milan-based cell, which included members of Algeria's radical Salafist Group of Preaching and Combat, allegedly planned an attack on...

The love-hate relationship between the United States and Syria has never seemed as complicated in contemporary memory as it is today. Recent weeks have seen the hate element increasing, thanks to the efforts of Washington’s pro-Israel lobby and the balances of power within the Bush administration itself, as well as domestic Syrian reasons. Washington and Damascus have always managed to preserve relations between them, despite the fact that Syria has figured on the State Department’s list of nations that sponsor terrorism for almost 20 years. In fact, Syria is the only country mentioned in the list to maintain diplomatic relations...

Newly translated documents captured during Operation Defensive Shield describe how the PA diverts foreign aid money for terrorism and corruption. Follow the Money: $6 Million a Month for War Each month the PA receives millions of dollars in foreign aid. The EU provides $9 million and the Arab states $45 million, according to a decision by the Arab League of October 2000. A part of these funds goes directly to the armed militias of Fatah. The salaries of all PA workers -- from clerks to police and security forces -- are listed in dollars but paid in shekels. The official...

A Hizbullah representative denied an Israeli report that Iran had provided them with fighters and arms via Damascus, the state IRNA news agency reported Thursday. Tyre MP Abdullah Qasir told IRNA in Beirut that “Hizbullah has the necessary arms to face any enemy attack.” He said Israeli accusations levelled against Hizbullah, Iran and Syria “are in reality an effort to strike a blow against this axis of stability in the face of Zionist plots,” IRNA reported. Referring to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, the representative said the “criminal Sharon, by throwing the ball outside of his court, is trying to...

Hundreds of Al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are clandestine guests of the Pakistani military and reside in its barracks in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir while many of its senior leaders live in the country's large cities and towns, according to Indian officials and intelligence analysts. They say US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was apparently referring to this when he said during his visit to New Delhi last week that Al-Qaeda fighters - many of them apparently Pakistanis -- were operating near the Line of Control (LoC) between India and Pakistan. "I do not have hard evidence of precisely how many or who or...

In its most recent impotent attempt to put an end to the suicidal butchery arriving from the Palestinian territories, the Israeli government has proposed a fence that would run from the Salem checkpoint in the north to Kafr Qasem in the south, while another stretch of fence would run through the Jerusalem area. The planned length of the entire fence is around 115 kilometers, and it will cost around $1 million per kilometer. There has already been impassioned disagreement over how advantageous such a fence would be, considering it seemingly abandons Jews on the wrong side of the Green Line,...

Osama Bin-Laden's terror group Al-Qaeda issued a series of threats Sunday morning against the United States and Jews, proclaiming that Bin-Laden and the other leaders of the organization were alive and well. The threatening message enunciated by Al-Qaeda spokeman Suleiman Abu-Gheith was the first major Al-Qaeda message in many weeks, specifically mentioning President George Bush and other key members of his Administration such as Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. "Sheikh Osama Bin-Laden is in good health, praise Allah," said the Al-Qaeda spokesman, "and so it is with Dr. Ayman Zawahri and Mullah Omar," he continued referring...

US experts back MMR doctor's findings (Filed: 23/06/2002) The man whose research first raised concern over the vaccine's safety is winning support. Lorraine Fraser reports from an influential Congressional hearing. Scientists in America have reported the first independent corroboration of the research findings of Dr Andrew Wakefield, the specialist who has questioned the safety of the childhood MMR vaccine. Dr Arthur Krigsman, from New York University School of Medicine, has observed serious intestinal inflammation in autistic children identical to that described by the controversial British doctor and his colleagues in a research paper four years ago. Dr Krigsman's discovery is...