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Jun. 23, 2002 (Israeli) Food marketing project to US gets boost By TAL MUSCAL A special project to boost the sale of Israeli food products in the US was launched launched today in a joint effort by the Industry and Trade Ministry, its economic attache in New York Zohar Peri, the Export Institute of Israel, local food exporters, executives of Israeli supermarket chains and Jewish leaders in the US. Sale of Israeli made food in the US totals some $50 million annually. Behind the latest push is a growing interest in Mediterranean food by US consumers, and a desire to...

Thousands of supportive New Yorkers demonstrate for Israel By MELISSA RADLER NEW YORK - Thousands of New Yorkers gathered outside the Israeli consulate today to demonstrate their support for Israel and voice their opposition to the establishment of a Palestinian state. Sponsored by 30 Orthodox, Reform and Conservative rabbis and six local Jewish groups, the demonstration featured the chief rabbi of Efrat, Shlomo Riskin, who led the crowd in a chant: "No, no, no, to a state of the PLO!" After the names of 31 Israeli civilians and 2 IDF soldiers who were killed this week were read out and...

Can you find the 16 Books of the Bible hidden in the paragraph below? (One minister found 15 books in 20 minutes, but it took him weeks to find the last one.) I once made a remark about the hidden books of the Bible. It was a lulu; kept people looking so hard for the facts….and for others it was a revelation. Some were in a jam, especially since the names of the books were not capitalized. But the truth finally struck home to numbers of our readers. To others it was a real job. We want it to be...

The Israelites had settled in the blessed land, Palestine.  They ruled for a long time.  They had a vast kingdom.  Allah, the Almighty chose many prophets from among them.  They followed the Holy Book, the Torah.  The Prophet Dawud (peace be upon him) and his son Prophet Sulaiman (peace be upon him) won great popularity as kings and commanded high respect.  Their followers believed in God and led noble lives.  As the time passed by, they began to pay less attention to the teachings of God.  They forgot the Divine favours.  They made alterations in the Holy Book according to...

For most of the three decades since Watergate, Americans have retained a healthy, democratic skepticism about their Presidents. In this new era of apprehension and insecurity, however, White House flacks and their friends in the national media have seized on the changed public mood to encourage an opposite tendency. We are now supposed to admire the occupant of the Oval Office, mostly because he is there, and to believe things about him that are very unlikely to be true. This recent trend scraped the nadir of credibility the other day when George W. Bush’s aides provided a press briefing about...

Not so long ago, in 1999 and 2000, Bill Clinton was hosting conferences of "third way" center-left politicians, including the heads of government of the United States, Britain, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy. Today only one, Tony Blair, is still securely in power; another, Gerhard Schröder of Germany, is trailing in polls in the run-up to the September election; all the rest are out of office, replaced by parties of the right. The right has also recently ousted the center-left in Denmark, Sweden, Portugal, and Austria, and conservative governments were handsomely re-elected in Spain and Australia. At one moment,...

Once again the push is on for the Senate to ratify CEDAW, the United Nations women's rights treaty that has been hanging around since 1979. CEDAW is the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women. There's a good reason that the Senate has ignored it for a generation: It's an incredibly toxic document, the work of international bureaucrats determined to impose a worldwide makeover of family relations and "gender roles." CEDAW is a blueprint for foisting the West's radical feminism on every nation gullible enough to sign. (Talk about cultural imperialism.) Some 167 nations have signed...

I have problem that is about to make me snap. There is a demon somewhere and I pray we can find it. It isn't all that easy to explain, but I shall try. When browsing web pages and clicking links within web pages… I can be going along just fine for much of the day, and then suddenly my browser will begin to "act up" and rather than opening the desired page… it begins sending me to some other place in never never land instead. It isn't directing me to good sites from advertisers, like I have a sneaky adware...

<p>Washington -- The statues keep moving in the hall of recent American presidents. John F.</p> <p>Kennedy retains the paramount place of honor. No recent U.S. leader commands a higher approval rating -- JFK's remains in satellite orbit at 83 percent -- or lower disapproval rating than his ground-level 7 percent.</p>

Over 300 FBI and CIA Operatives Arrive in PakistanKarachi (Azzam) Over the last week more than 300 FBI and CIA agents have secretly arrived in Pakistan. Sources state that this influx of US agents into Pakistan is as a result of a recent US Government report stating that it feared Al-Qaida has chosen Pakistan to reorganize itself. This report then goes on to say that Al-Qaida has shifted large amounts of ammunition into Pakistan to carry out more attacks on US interests in there. High level meetings between top ranking CIA agents and Pakistani Intelligence officers have occurred recently resulting...

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) -- Jose Padilla, accused of conspiring to explode a "dirty bomb" in the United States, worked at a suburban Taco Bell and discovered Islam here. Two young Pakistani immigrants from nearby Hollywood allegedly hatched a plan to attack South Florida power plants and a National Guard Armory. And several of the Sept. 11 hijackers roamed the area's libraries, gyms and beachfront motels. They all made their home -- at least temporarily -- in South Florida's Broward County, leading some to wonder if this growing suburban and tourist area north of Miami has become a common destination...

Head of Sept. 11 Probe Allegedly Obstructed Danforth's Waco Inquiry Former FBI Counsel Held Onto Papers By Richard Leiby and Dana Priest Washington Post Staff Writers Saturday, June 22, 2002; Page A06 The official in charge of ferreting out information about the FBI for a joint congressional intelligence panel allegedly obstructed a Justice Department probe of the bureau two years ago. As the FBI's deputy general counsel, Thomas A. Kelley was the bureau's point of contact for special counsel John C. Danforth's inquiry into the 1993 Waco debacle in which 75 Branch Davidians died in a fire after a 51-day...

Calgary — Thabo Mbeki will occupy pride of place in Kananaskis on Thursday as the world's most powerful nations allow a group of African leaders to attend their annual summit for the first time. The South African leader wants the Group of Eight's support for a plan to boost the flows of aid, trade and investment to the world's poorest continent. But how credible is Mr. Mbeki as spearhead of an African recovery? He certainly knows what makes Western leaders sit up and salivate. While Nelson Mandela led the struggle against apartheid from his prison cell, Mr. Mbeki was in...

(New York-AP) -- The number of immigrants moving to New York City has decreased since the September 11th terrorist attacks. That's according to a report published in this weeks Crain's New York Business. The report says it is the first decline in a decade.Crain's says the decrease can be attributed to tighter visa restrictions and a weakened economy.Both legal and illegal immigration will fall by more than 30 percent this year, the report says.The largest decline is among illegal immigrants, with as few as ten thousand illegal immigrants overstaying their temporary visas this year. Crain's says that through the 1990s,...

House Speaker Dennis Hastert said Sunday he hoped that Rep. J.C. Watts, the only black Republican in Congress and a member of the GOP leadership, would seek re-election but acknowledged that the Oklahoman might retire. Watts' district is in limbo as a result of a legislative redistricting plan and last week he left open the possibility of retirement. Hastert, R-Ill., said Watts, now in his fourth term, is important to the GOP's House leadership team, where he is the chairman of the House Republican Conference. "J.C. Watts is certainly somebody who I depend on," Hastert said on NBC's "Meet the...

I am adding this new thread here but also going to add this to the Marco Island Rape thread as well. These are 2 websites the rapist Hicham had been visiting. Anyone still care to guess if there was more to him being here?? The info was ok to release obviously because it was passed onto me by fellow employee's and they had been questioned already. Thoughts on the following websites? http://www.azzam.com/ http://www.jihadunspun.net/home.php

INS revives plans for exit checks at border By DOUGLAS TURNER News Washington Bureau Chief6/23/2002 WASHINGTON - The Immigration and Naturalization Service is moving to install exit checkpoints on the U.S. side of the Canadian border - a development Congress thought it had thwarted two years ago. The terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 and the new powers Congress gave Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, who oversees the INS, have given the controversial program new life. Tougher enforcement measures are planned than the first time around in the 1990s. With them, concerns over how they might impede tourism and commerce...

NewsMax.com   Saturday, June 22, 2002 12:05 p.m. EDTCBS Poll: 25% Back Preemptive U.S. Nuke Strike A surprisingly high percentage of Americans surveyed this week said they would support a preemptive nuclear strike on countries that harbor terrorists if President Bush decides it is justified to stop another attack on the United States, a CBS News poll released late Friday found. While still a mere fraction of the population, a full 25 percent of respondents told CBS pollsters that the U.S. would be "justified in using a nuclear weapon first against another country" if that country is planning another terrorist...

Israel and the Anti-Semites by Gabriel SchoenfeldJune 2002 HAS a new and potent form of anti-Semitism come to life in the world? If so, what does it portend?Let us for the moment bracket off the Muslim world. The evidence of anti-Jewish hatred in that immense pocket of humanity has been copiously documented and is simply too overwhelming to warrant extended discussion. The more interesting question concerns Europe—a continent, it was widely assumed, effectively inoculated against a toxin that a mere half-century ago had reduced it to ruin and that, in the decades since World War II, had been confined to...

<p>A long-simmering environmental dispute over oil drilling off the California coast has exploded into full-blown political theater, pitting Gov. Gray Davis and Republican challenger Bill Simon in a battle of one-upmanship.</p> <p>Last week, the White House waded into the debate on behalf of Simon, catapulting the conservative Pacific Palisades businessman into the spotlight on an issue that the Democratic governor once claimed as his own.</p>