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Background Information Michael Coren is a jew who converted to Catholicism and then became an IslamoFascist appeaser. Because of all the misinformation Michael Coren has been writing and telling people about Islam being a "peaceful religion" and because "God" knows Michael Coren has apparently not read or listened to what the Fundamantalist Christians and Jewish faiths have to say about Islam:  I think its about time he read what more informed people in the Catholic Church have to say about Islam by clicking on this link MAny 'catholics' in the past have been soft on Fascism, but more dangerously,...

Hussein Used Oil to Dilute Sanctions WA Post and Agencies = ByRobin Wright and Colum Lynch,  10-07-2004 Oil "vouchers" that could be resold for large profits were given to officials including Indonesian President Megawati Sukarnoputri, French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua and former Russian presidential candidate Vladimir Zhirinovsky as well as governments, companies and influential individuals in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the report said. Another recipient was Benon Sevan, the former top U.N. official in charge of humanitarian relief. Sevan ran the former oil-for-food program designed to benefit the Iraqi people in the face of economic sanctions intended to...

UN's Hanson Admits Hamas on UNRWA Payroll October 06, 2004 UNRWA Terrorist Activity Under-Reported The top UNRWA official in Gaza, Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, admitted that Hamas terrorists are on the payroll of the supposedly neutral body - but the world media are ignoring the story. A significant news item reported by Arutz-7 yesterday has received little coverage in the international media: The top UNRWA official in Gaza admitted that Hamas terrorists are on the payroll of the supposedly neutral body. Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA in Gaza, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation two days ago that...

UN Official Admits Hamas on UNWRA Payroll October 06, '04 The top UNRWA official in Gaza, Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA, admitted that Hamas terrorists are on the payroll of the supposedly neutral body - but the world media are ignoring the story. A significant news item reported by Arutz-7 yesterday has received little coverage in the international media: The top UNRWA official in Gaza admitted that Hamas terrorists are on the payroll of the supposedly neutral body. Peter Hansen, the Commissioner-General of UNRWA in Gaza, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation two days ago that some UNRWA workers are...

US congressman Lantos criticizes Egypt on Palestinian weapons smugglingTue Aug 17, 1:25 PM ET CAIRO (AFP) - United States Congressman Tom Lantos accused Egypt of not doing enough to halt the smuggling of weapons by Palestinian militants across the Egyptian border. "I do not believe that the Egyptian government has done enough historically," Lantos, the high-ranking Democratic Party member on the House International Relations Committee, told a news conference in Cairo. Israel has repeatedly accused the Palestinians of using tunnels dug under the Rafah border crossing to smuggle weapons from Egypt for attacks against Israel. "I believe Egypt has the...

Defeating terrorism through engagementA UPI Ouside View - By Alon Ben-MeirA plan in 10 distinct, critical domestic and international policy agendas. New York, NY, Aug. 17 (UPI) -- EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the first part of a two-part article. To prevent catastrophic attacks and ultimately defeat terrorism the next administration must develop a comprehensive strategy comprised of 10 distinct critical domestic and international policy agendas it needs to be act on simultaneously. The following article, Rogue States: A Strategy of Containment Through Engagement -- is the first installment of the fifth of 10 policy papers: Considering the Iraq war and...

EU to build wall after blasting Israel'sWorldNetDaily.com-- (08/17/04)   'European hypocrisy is as rank as it is blatant'Just one month after the U.N. and EU launched a furious campaign against Israel's security fence, culminating in the International Court of Justice ruling that the fence is illegal, the EU announced it's planning to build a separation fence of its own, and invited Israel to participate in the construction. The fence is being built to separate recently added EU members Poland and Hungary from their new neighbors – Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. The EU said the fence is necessary to "prevent the...

Stop gargling from the font of Arafat! -- A response to Rayah El Islam from Iowa State blog My Advice to you is:Rayah, GET OFF YOUR KNEES- and stop gargling from the font of Arafat!--and drink from the Font of Knowledge: Perhaps, we need to define our terms: When Arabs say occupation, they mean the occupation of Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Haifa by Jews, not the occupation of the Kurds in Iraq and Turkey, Christians in Lebanon and Sudan or their own people by fraudulent "royal families" and dictatorships. Since 1948, the Arab world was given the choice of sharing...

Col. Qadhafi goes 'ballistic' over name (Humor Gazette) By John Breneman (10/04/02) http://www.humorgazette.com/section_terror1.htm Libyan crazy man Moammar Gadhafi has informed the United Nations that he is "sick and tired of having my name spelled 10 different ways." Col. Gadhaffi, whose name is routinely spelled Kadhafi, Gadhdhafi, Qadhafi, Khaddafi and countless other variations in press reports, said he believes the spelling fiasco is part of a western conspiracy to irritate him into "firing off a bunch of nuclear bombs and maybe a little mustard gas." Qadhafi, whose first name is also spelled Muammar, Mu'ammar or Mohammar, is reportedly "going ballistic" over...

LIBYA’S COVERT RELATIONSHIP WITH CANADA Though the world, awestruck, is becoming accustomed to the idea of a moderate Mu’ammar Al-Qadhafi offering his friendship to the international community, Libya has maintained quieter ties with the West since the state was ostracized for terror in the 1980s. Canada has maintained relations with the pariah North African nation since the 1960s, when Al-Qadhafi set off the country’s populist “revolution.” From 1986 on, Canada, along with the U.N., the U.S., and other Western countries, imposed sanctions on the country following numerous Libya-sponsored terror attacks, including the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie,...

HAMAS INVESTS IN U.S. REAL ESTATE WASHINGTON [MENL] -- Hamas was said to have invested up to $25 million in housing projects throughout the United States.U.S. officials said the investment was believed to have stemmed from Saudi and other Gulf Arab sources as part of an effort to finance Hamas insurgency operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. They said the funding pointed to the close links between Hamas and Gulf Arab supporters.Hamas investments in the United States began in the early 1990s through Mussa Abu Marzouk, a member of Hamas's political bureau, officials said. The investments were handled...

Gaza´s Killing School - Reported By Skynews  Jul 14, '04 http://www.skynews.co.uk/skynews/article/0,,30200-13154917,00.html   Children brandish weapons Children as young as 10 are being recruited to fight for the Palestinian cause, Skynews reports. Reporting from a young people's camp in Gaza, Sky's Middle East Correspondent Emma Hurd explained that the "only lesson taught [there] is how to kill Israelis. " The camp, at an undisclosed location, was set up to drill children in the ways of war, Hurd reported, and, "The recruits, some of whom are dwarfed by their AK-47 assault rifles, are taught how to carry out ambushes," as well...

Dear Maariv Newspaper Editor, Please Publish... The following is a translation of a letter written in the Online Forum of one of Israel's major newspapers, Maariv, by a female reader named  Rachel. The letter was in response to the major online headline about The Bodies of the Six Soldiers that had died in a Gaza security offensive and how their remains had been defiled by the Palestinian terror groups. See: Palestinians Parade Israeli Soldiers’ Remains (DEBKAfile) (05/11/04) http://www.debka.com/article_print.php?aid=843 This letter  may be one of the most popular letters ever written in this widely read forum receiving unanimous and unequivocal...

Dozens of internal United Nations audits of the troubled oil-for-food program in Iraq were routinely shown only to the U.N. official now at the center of an international scandal over kickbacks from the regime of Saddam Hussein, a congressional investigator said yesterday. Joseph A. Christoff, director of international affairs and trade at the General Accounting Office, told a House hearing that U.N. auditors had refused to release the internal audits to GAO investigators probing the scandal that poured an estimated $10.1 billion from secret oil sales and inflated contracts into Saddam's coffers under the U.N. program. "We sure asked for...

<p>In the last few weeks, CNN has suffered a series of embarrassing incidents calling into question its news judgment and ability to meet the most basic standards of fairness in reporting on Israel. CNN boss Ted Turner made the following statement about the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. "I would make the case that both sides are engaged in terrorism," he told the Guardian newspaper. Although Mr. Turner subsequently apologized for suggesting that Israel was behaving this way, the damage had been done.</p>

Arafat's $Billions in Assets and Investments (Mideast Newswire Archive) Arafat's Wife's Spends Millions While Palestinian Children Starve (Irish Blog Via FR Forum) (02/11/04) ------------------------------------------------------------- On the eve of the famous "hand shake" on the White House lawn which rewarded Rabin and Arafat with the Nobel Prize for Peace, the PLO made Britain's most dangerous terrorist/criminal organizations list. The British National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS) also reported that the PLO had world-wide assets approaching $10 billion and an additional annual income of about $1.5 to 2 billion, generated from illegal activities. Surprisingly, the report was not picked up by the media....

ALSO SEE: Arafat's Wife on a Luxury Trip NY DAILY NEWS (11/06/03)---------------------------------------------Last week we were told that "Malnutrition in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is as bad as in sub-Saharan Africa because the Palestinian economy has all but collapsed under Israeli restrictions." (Irish Times February 6, 2004) A report by the cross-party International Development Select Committee also called on Britain to press the European Union to impose trade sanctions on Israel until it lifts its restrictions on Palestinian trade. The World Bank said last year that the Palestinian economy was in steep decline after the Israeli army blockaded and...

CommentsTHE UNITED STATES SHOULD NOT TRY to play a "neutral arbiter" in the Israeli/Palestinian dispute. We should, in fact, be doing our best to make the Palestinians suffer until they change their ways, because, to put it bluntly, they are our enemies. Read this to see how they feel about America. And read this piece by Amir Taheri on the Iraqi "resistance," which notes Palestinian terror connections by the Iraqi insurgents, and features a Palestinian "journalist" egging them on. These folks are our enemies, and deserve to be treated as such. They don't deserve a state of their own. It's...

The author is a professor of law and director of the Frederick K. Cox International Law Center at Case Western Reserve University School of Law. With the simple press of a button, the pilot of an Israeli helicopter gunship unleashed three missiles, instantly killing Sheik Ahmed Yassin, founder of Hamas, as he was being driven home from prayers at his local mosque in the Gaza Strip. Yassin had not been sentenced to death by any court, nor was he on a battlefield in any conventional sense. Seven others died in the attack. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon made no apologies,...

When the 5-year-old boy ran home bleeding and weeping, his family first thought he had injured himself in a fall. At the doctor, they discovered Zainul Abideen had been stabbed, with wounds to the chest and abdomen requiring 20 stitches. Now they believe the boy was attacked by a serial killer targeting young children in this small town, where three children have been knifed to death in the past three weeks. Police say the slayings could be part of a black magic rite and have arrested about 20 suspects. One confessed to the first three assaults, including stabbing Zainul. Then,...