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THE quot;ROAD MAPquot; IS A TROJAN HORSE by Emanuel A. Winston Date: Sun, 22 Dec 2002 14:46:05 EST From: BSaphir -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you recall Homer’s epics The Odyssey and The Illiad, the Greeks build a giant, wooden horse with a hollow belly. A handful of armed Greeks climbed in. The Trojans came out of Troy to receive the huge horse as an offering of peace. At night, the Greeks unsealed the belly of horse, climbed down and killed the Trojan sentries, opening the city gates to the hidden Greek army. After 10 years of useless battle, the Greeks freely slaughtered...

Thursday, December 26, 2002 B'nai Brith charges EU ignores Palestinian channel of aid to terrorists B'nai Brith charges EU ignores Palestinian channel of aid to terrorists By HERB KEINON The Jerusalem Post Dec. 26, 2002 The B'nai Brith World Center in Jerusalem released a 23-page report Wednesday that claims the EU has deliberately turned a blind eye to the alleged misuse of donated funds by the Palestinian Authority. The report, based on previously published material, documents allegations of PA corruption and the diversion of donor funds to pay for terrorism. It is entitled "The Palestinian Authority: Where Does the Money...

Thursday, December 26, 2002 Ha'aretz: Warning: Foreign agents at work [Foreign governments financing the Left] Ha'aretz: Warning: Foreign agents at work [Foreign governments financing the Left] By Aluf Benn Ha'aretz 26 January 2002 The Yossi Ginossar affair exposed a troubling legal lacuna. There is no supervision or limitation on Israelis, acting as paid emissaries of foreign governments and entities, getting involved in political, public and governmental activity in Israel. Anybody can advise the most corrupt foreign dictator, or conduct a campaign at the behest of a foreign political agency, without telling anyone. Israel has government controls over exporting military know-how...

Yemeni Politician on American Terrorism 26 December 2002 Email this story Print this story The speaker of the Yemeni parliament, Abdullah al-Ahmar, said last week, “America claims to be fighting terror but is practicing it... The war it is launching is a crusader war....” In remarks published in the Saudi Arabian newspaper Okaz, and reprinted in Syria Times and elsewhere, he said that America’s war is against all Arabs and Moslems. The anti-Arab American war, according to the Yemeni politician, will only begin with Iraq. Al-Ahmar, the head of the Islamist-tribal party al-Islah, believes that “America will not limit its...

Hitler and the Palestinian Arabs Chuck Morse 26 December 2002 Email this story Print this story Pro Palestinian spokespeople play bait-and-switch on the charge of Jew-hatred as the motivating factor behind suicide bombings with sanctimonious stock lectures on Christian complicity in the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews. They blame Israel for "occupation" without explaining why Muslims, where they maintain substantial populations, seem incapable of living peacefully in countries they don´t control, such as, besides Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus and elsewhere. These premises are false on three counts. Nazism was not Christian but neo-Pagan, Moslem imperialism today echoes Nazi aggression, and Arabs...

MWL seeks apology By a Staff Writer MAKKAH, 26 December 2002 — The Muslim World League yesterday condemned a media campaign in the United States against Islam, particularly against the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), and expressed the strong displeasure of the entire Muslim community at such vilification and insinuations. League Secretary-General Abdullah Al-Turki was reacting to the publication of a caricature by Doug Marlette in the Tallahassee Democrat, showing an Arab driving a lorry resembling the truck used by the Oklahoma bomber Thomas McVeigh in his attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Building. The cartoon showed the truck...

Liberals Still Control The Big Media By Reed Irvine, and Cliff Kincaid December 23, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Washington Post columnist E. J. Dionne Jr. has concluded that the media are increasingly conservative. "A couple of weeks back," said Dionne, "Senate Democratic Leader Tom Daschle lashed out at radio talk show host Rush Limbaugh. He said Limbaugh's attacks were so ‘shrill’ that ‘the threats against those of us in public life go up dramatically, against us and against our families." Dionne commented, "Note the response of the so-called liberal media. Rather than join an outcry against Limbaugh, the establishment commentary was mostly...

Farrakhan tells his followers in Britain to rise against 'Satanic' colonial powers By Matthew Beard 23 December 2002 The radical black leader Louis Farrakhan circumvented a ban on entering Britain yesterday by sending a sermon via a satellite link from the United States in which he urged the audience to rise up against "Satanic" colonial powers. The Nation of Islam leader, arguably America's most powerful black political figure, spoke to about 2,000 supporters gathered at the Hammersmith Apollo in West London and preached the virtues of self- respect and discipline. Speaking in front of a congregation at a small Nation...

War on terror 'threatens' UK Muslims Some Muslims suffered abuse after 11 September A large majority of Muslims living in the UK consider the war on terror to be a war on Islam, according to a BBC survey. And more than half of those questioned for BBC Radio 4's Today programme believed Osama Bin Laden and his al-Qaeda terrorist network should not have been blamed for the 11 September attacks. Muslims have replaced communists as the West's bogeymen Multi-culturalism expert Anshuman Mondal While 11% believe further attacks on America by al-Qaeda would be justified and 8% said such an attack...

Debating PBS's "Muhammad" Documentary MSNBC 'Countdown: Iraq' with Lester Holt December 18, 2002 http://www.danielpipes.org/article/983 A new documentary on the founder of Islam, the Prophet Muhammad, is sparking a war of words here in the states. At least one critic accuses the documentary producers and PBS, which partially funded the film, of trying to make converts to Islamic and using taxpayer dollars to do it. Here is a quick preview of what's causing all the controversy. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KAREN ARMSTRONG: Muhammad felt the first inspired words of a new scripture in Arabic pouring from his lips. KEVIN JAMES: The Koran...

The Palestine National Covenant Chuck Morse 16 December 2002 Email this story Print this story The Palestine National Covenant, passed by the Palestine National Council in July 1968, blatantly displays the imperialist-fascist nature of the Palestinian-Arab movement. Unlike Zionism, which focuses on the modest aspirations of the Jewish people for a national homeland in Palestine, the Palestinian covenant declares Palestine to be "an indivisible part of the Arab homeland."(Article 1) The covenant views Palestine as "an integral part of the Arab nation" rather than as a potentially sovereign state in its own right. This position is reminiscent of Nazi claims...

Below is a sample of some of the more enlightened stuff on the Lycos U.S. board. It is populated mostly by left wing nut cases, but realize millions of people from across the globe visit Lycos every week and this is the propaganda they are fed.Chad Ferrel states "On page 12 of the miami herald newspaper was a brief column of the murher of a 95 year old palestinian woman coming home in a taxi from the doctors office. The only expanation the jewish media could give was "the taxi was moving fast" witnesses of the murfer of the 95...

The Sword Cuts Both Ways -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Commentary by Jerry Brooks Dec 16, 2002 The maelstrom of controversy surrounding soon-to-be Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott’s (R-Miss.) comments during a birthday celebration for retiring 100 year-old senator Strom Thurmond last week has been a flashpoint for civil right leaders, the Congressional Black Caucus, and other liberal Democrats. Lott was quoted as saying: "I want to say this about my state: When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems...

The Jewish answer? At a time of mounting conflict in Israel, Geoffrey Wheatcroft examines Zionism and explains why many Jews were hostile to it Over the years, The Spectator has quite often found itself caught up in ‘the controversy of Zion’, to borrow a phrase from Isaiah. There have long been vigorous disputes here over what used to be called the Jewish Question: the place of the Jewish people in Western society; emancipation and assimilation; anti-Semitism, anti-anti-Semitism and even anti-anti-anti-Semitism; Zionism, its causes and consequences; the harsh and intractable conflict between Jew and Arab in the Holy Land, and its...

Militant group puts battle scenes on Web BORZOU DARAGAHI Associated Press SULAYMANIA, Iraq - A militant Islamic group operating in an autonomous region of northern Iraq - and accused of ties to al Qaida - has placed videos of its battle with a Kurdish militia on its Web site. Ansar al-Islam's www.ansarislam.com contains graphic images that show the ferocity of a battle earlier this month that left scores dead. In one scene, as a barrage of rockets hits a hilltop target, a voice cries "Allahu Akbar," or "God is great." The group's Web site claimed it killed 103 and wounded...

Australia concerned by Ba'asyir statement CANBERRA, Australia (JP): A statement by Abu Bakar Ba'asyir, the detained alleged leader of the banned Jama'ah Islamiyah organization, that Australia will be destroyed if it invades a Muslim country has created tension among some Australian leaders. Ba'asyir recently made the statement, which has been published in some Australian newspapers, to a journalist from the Sydney Morning Herald in Jakarta. He was asked to comment on the statement by Prime Minister John Howard that Australia would launch preemptive strikes against any neighboring country believed to be harboring terrorists. Ba'asyir, who chairs the Indonesian Mujahidin Council...

Hamas: “No Pressures by Our Brothers in Egypt” 13 December 2002 Email this story Print this story There are accusations floating around the Arab world that the Islamist terrorist group Hamas has been using suicide bombings against Israelis in order to exert political pressure in its negotiations with Yasser Arafat’s Fatah terrorist group. Furthermore, media reports suggested that Egypt was itself exerting pressure on Hamas to temporarily cease suicide bombings. Such rumors and reports led the Arab Internet gateway and news website Albawaba.com to pose questions on the issue to Hamas leader ‘Abdel ‘Aziz Rantisi. The terrorist leader “denied as...

The Legacy of Restrained Engagement Emanuel A. Winston 13 December 2002 Email this story Print this story The word and the actuality of "restraint" have different meanings and different results. "Restrained engagement" in the face of terrorism seems to be a formula of self-sacrifice for no reason whatsoever. US President George W. Bush and US Secretary of State Colin Powell have been insisting that Israel show restraint in punishing the Arab Palestinians after every major homicide bombing or shooting attack. While Bush and Powell may have enjoyed political advantage by uttering the word "restraint", Israel, conversely, experienced an even greater...

Bashir's warning to Australians December 13 2002 By Stephen Gibbs, Matthew Moore Jakarta The man who Western governments say is the spiritual leader of the terrorist group accused of masterminding the Bali bombing says Australia will be "destroyed instantly" if it launches a pre-emptive strike against terrorist targets in other countries. Abu Bakar Bashir, the cleric accused of heading recently banned South-East Asian group Jemaah Islamiah, said Australians would be dragged into a war with Muslims if they went along with the "crazy idea" of a pre-emptive strike floated recently by Prime Minister John Howard. "So, if John Howard's stance...

French kiss-off America galled France right from the start BY ROBERT KUNZIG What better symbol of enduring friendship between France and the United States than the Statue of Liberty? Yet the stately French gift was the work of a small group of pro-Americans, who enjoyed tepid support in 1880s France. "And when the statue was offered to the Americans, they were completely dumbfounded–they were annoyed," says Philippe Roger, a French intellectual historian. Both Congress and New York State balked at paying for a pedestal. Later the Americans ditched the inscription that Victor Hugo had dashed off–"The sea, great and agitated,...