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Today, March 29, 2005 marks the three year anniversary of the battle of Jenin. If there is one incident that summarizes the war in the Middle East, and the way the terror war is fought in the media, this is it. On this three year anniversary, we have received permission from Natan Sharansky to run the section of his indispensable book The Case for Democracy, in which he relates what happened in Jenin, how it was reported, and why this is crucial to understanding the war we face. -- The Editors Jenin: The Big Lie Two years before the ICJ's...

An Israeli boat patrolling near Iran is holding kidnapped babies to be used later for their organs, according to a new Iranian television program. "We are talking about children no one cares about that have been kidnapped on the excuse of being concerned for them and after they mature, the Zionists uses their hearts, kidneys and other organs," the TV program charges. The propaganda claims, "A white boat sails on the oceans and does not enter Iran's territorial waters or those of other countries. Our Arab brethren should be careful of this boat where the Zionists hold children from the...

Special Coverage of Saudi Counter-Terrorism Conference and Jihad on Saudi TV    #538 - Producer of Anti-Semitic Iranian TV Series "Zahra's Blue Eyes": A White Zionist Ship Sails Around the World, Kidnapping Babies to Use Their Organs Sahar TV (Iran) - 2/8/2005 - 00:03:10    #537 - Saudi Child Rahaf's Counter-Terrorism Poem Saudi TV Ch.1 - 2/8/2005 - 00:01:37    #536 - Pro-Saddam Egyptian Journalist Sayyed Nassar: Iraqi Elections Were a Theatrical Production Conducted by an American Film Maker. The Iraqi People Deserved Saddam Hussein Dream2 TV (Egypt) - 2/6/2005 - 00:02:46    #535 - Saudi Cleric Aed Al-Qarni...

A senior Israeli official said yesterday the Palestinian Authority, even under new President Mahmoud Abbas, is promoting genocide against Jews and has been running a propaganda campaign similar to that seen in Nazi Germany. Israel's Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky held a press conference to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, in which he blasted the PA for disseminating what he said was Nazi-like propaganda, and presented a report, "Kill a Jew – Go to Heaven," compiled by Palestinian Media Watch, an Israel-based media watchdog that monitors incitement in Palestinian society. "As in Nazi Germany, there...

Iran's Sahar 1 TV station is airing a weekly series entitled "For You, Palestine," or "Zahra's Blue Eyes." The hate-filled series premiered on December 13, and is set in Israel and the PA areas. MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) reports that the storyline follows an Israeli candidate for Prime Minister, Yitzchak Cohen, who is also the military commander of Judea and Samaria. The opening sequence of the show contains graphic scenes of surgery and images of an Arab girl in a hospital whose eyes have been removed, with bandages covering the sockets. In Episode 1, Cohen lectures at a...

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 22, 2004 The new leader of the ruling Fatah movement said the Palestinians want to replace Israel with a state of their own. Fatah chief Farouk Khaddoumi said the Palestinian strategy toward Israel was two-fold. In the first stage, he said, the Palestinians would accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. In the second stage, the Palestinians would seek to eliminate the Jewish state. In November, Khaddoumi replaced the late Yasser Arafat as leader of Fatah, Middle East Newsline reported. "At this stage there will be two states," Khaddoumi told Iran's Al Aram television. "Many...

(CNSNews.com) - A weekly TV series now airing in Iran claims the Israeli government is "stealing Palestinian children's eyes." According to the Middle East Media Research Institute, a group that monitors Arab and Iranian TV channels, the TV series premiered in Iran on Dec. 13 and airs every Monday on Iran's Sahar 1 TV station. MEMRI said the drama (called "For You, Palestine," or "Zahra's Blue Eyes") was written and directed by former Iranian education ministry official Ali Derakhshn. The series is set in Israel and the West Bank, and it details an Israeli plot to harvest organs from...

The number of terror attacks and terror fatalities dropped significantly in 2004, when only six suicide bombings were carried out within Israel and eight in the territories, an IDF Intelligence Branch official informed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday. According to the official, a total of 116 people have been killed in Palestinian attacks on Israeli targets in 2004, with 55 of them killed in suicide attacks. A total of 73 civilians and 43 security personnel were killed. The suicide attack fatality figure is a 60 percent decline compared with 2003. In addition, the number of attempted...

Abbas marks end of 40 days of mourning: By ASSOCIATED PRESS Marking the end of mourning for Yasser Arafat, his emerging successor said Tuesday that he remains committed to a peace deal with Israel that would produce a Palestinian state with Jerusalem as a capital. Mahmoud Abbas spoke at Arafat's old headquarters, to which the Palestinian leader had been confined for nearly three years, until just days before his November 11 death at a Paris hospital. Tuesday marked the end of 40 days of mourning for Arafat. Abbas, the PLO chief, is the front-runner in the January 9 elections to...