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EU Institutes Yesha Tax The European Union has decreed that importers must pay a deposit of 5-11% on goods from Judea, Samaria, Gaza and the Golan Heights. The tax will of course be charged back to the Israeli producers, and the livelihoods of thousands of Jewish and Arab workers from both sides of the Green Line will thus be affected. The Barkan industrial zone near Ariel, for example, employs 4,500 workers - including Israelis from the Tel Aviv area and from Judea and Samaria, as well as Arabs. A spokeswoman for Barkan told Arutz-7 that no companies have left the ...

<p>From Colombia to Palestine, the Clinton era of appeasement is over.</p> <p>As the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia fled the country's "demilitarized" zone over the weekend, they left behind terror training camps worthy of al Qaeda. Advancing soldiers and reporters found instructions on how to down aircraft, threats against "gringos," libraries of Marxist theory, and even a printed Web page from the American Embassy in Bogota. The U.S., it said, will not make concessions to kidnappers and will help its allies fight terrorism.</p>

LONDON 24 Feb. (IPS) Iran has decided to scrap, for the time being, the costly "Shahab-4" ballistic missiles and concentrate on the production of anti-aircraft rockets, according to the London and Riyadh-based international Arabic daily "Al Sharq Al-Awsat". Quoting "highly informed" Iranian military source, Dr. Alireza Noorizadeh, an independent Iranian journalist with good connections to Iranian establishment attributed the change in the policy concerning the production of missiles to the latest threats by American President George W. Bush against Iran. In his 29 January State of the Union speech to the Congress, President Bush put Iran in the same "axis ...

Saturday, February 16, 2002 Adar 4, 5762 Israel Time:&nbsp; if (!document.layers)document.write('') 17:35&nbsp;(GMT+2) startTime('17:35:41'); if (document.layers) document.write(""); Vatican: Mosque will be `cancer' in ties between Jews, Christians By Ori Nir A "deep rift" could develop between the Jewish people and the Christian world if Israel does not retract its decision to permit construction of a mosque opposite the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, representatives of the Vatican warned this week. Speaking at Monday's session of a special ministerial committee that has been set up to review the issue, two Vatican representatives - Archbishop Pietro Sambi, the papal nuncio in ...

On March 3 last year, I picked up a message on my service: "Mr. Jonas, my name is Jim Welsh," the flat American voice said. "I'm curious about something regarding the Munich Olympic massacre that you wrote about many years ago. I worked in the Palestinian section of the National Security Agency, and I am curious whether you were aware of a particular aspect of the incident." The NSA is a cryptologic organization, dealing with, among other things, signals intelligence. I'm no specialist in clandestine affairs, but I did write a book about an Israeli counterterrorist team set up ...

Israel's General Security Service released a report today recommending that the restrictions banning Jews from visiting the Temple Mount and praying there be lifted. With this recommendation, the General Security Service comes down on the side of justice. Israel's Declaration of Independence guarantees all people the right to worship as they see fit, and successive Israeli administrations have bent over backward to ensure that Muslims and Christians be allowed free worship at their holy sites. But for Jews, it has been a different story. The Temple Mount, the holiest site in Judaism, has been prohibited to Jewish worship since Israel ...

<p>RAMALLAH, West Bank — Israeli troops blew up the Voice of Palestine radio station early today, setting the five-story building on fire when the explosive charges detonated, witnesses said.</p> <p>A Reuters cameraman at the scene in the West Bank city of Ramallah said the explosives sent up a large cloud of smoke and debris into the sky still dark before dawn. Flames burst out from inside the building.</p>

“Nobody does Israel any service by proclaiming its 'right to exist.'Israel's right to exist, like that of the United States, Saudi Arabia and 152 other states, is axiomatic and unreserved. Israel's legitimacy is not suspended in midair awaiting acknowledgement.... There is certainly no other state, big or small, young or old, that would consider mere recognition of its 'right to exist' a favor, or a negotiable concession. -- Abba Eban, former Foreign Minister of IsraelBACKGROUNDThe Condition of Palestine prior to 1900For many centuries, Palestine was a sparsely populated, poorly cultivated and widely-neglected expanse of eroded hills, sandy deserts and malarial ...

Account on Kabul PC parallels moves of alleged shoe-bomber By Alan Cullison and Andrew Higgins THE WALL STREET JOURNAL KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 16 — Less than a month before hijacked airplanes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, al Qaeda chieftains received a report spelling out “exceptionally good opportunities” for terrorism in Israel and Egypt. Among the suggested targets: tall buildings and planes. THE REPORT, found on a computer used by Osama bin Laden’s lieutenants in the Afghan capital, details a target-scouting mission by an operative who flew from Amsterdam to Tel Aviv on El Al with a ...

(20:00) Terrorists kill Israeli motorist near Jerusalem By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff Palestinian terrorists shot and killed a woman motorist near Givat Ze'ev, northwest of Jerusalem, a short while ago. Another occupant of the car was moderately to seriously wounded in the chest and leg. Medics took her to Hadassah-University Hospital in Ein Kerem. The attack took place on Route 443 near a gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev. The terrorists reportedly fled in the direction of Ramallah. Security forces are searching for them, Israel Radio reported.

. SPECIAL GUEST COMMENTARY: THE ARAFAT I KNOW The following article, which appeared in the Wall Street Journal last week, is one of the more insightful commentaries on the "Karine A" arms shipment since Israel's capture of the vessel on January 3. The Arafat I Know By Ion Mihai Pacepa Wall Street Journal - January 10, 2002 Gen. Pacepa was the highest ranking intelligence officer ever to have defected from the former Soviet bloc. He is author of "Red Horizons" (1987), a memoir. Last week, Israel seized a boat carrying 50 tons of Iranian-made mortars, long-range missiles and anti-tank ...

18:35) Israeli killed in West Bank terror shooting By The Jerusalem Post Internet Staff One Israeli was killed and two more were wounded just after 5:30 p.m. in a shooting attack northwest of Nablus in Samaria. One of the victims was critically wounded, a second was moderately wounded, and a third very lightly wounded by Palestinian gunfire near the Kuchin intersection adjacent to Kedumim. IDF doctors were unable to revive the critically wounded Israeli and he died in the field. The moderately wounded Israeli was hit in his shoulder by gunfire, Israel Radio reported. The wounded were treated by an ...

One Dead In Arab Attack Arabs opened fire on an IDF vehicle this evening, killing one soldier and wounding two others. The soldiers were traveling near Kedumim, east of Ra'anana. One of the wounded is in serious condition and was transported by helicopter to Tel Aviv’s Tel HaShomer Hospital. The other soldier was lightly wounded. At this time, it is unclear if the victims were shot at from a passing car or from a stationary ambush. A series of shooting and other attacks was triggered off this evening. For details, see the Latest News section. Women-in-Green released a statement saying ...

CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS REQUIRE COURSE ON ISLAM Some California public schools are requiring students to attend a three-week course on Islam since the September 11 terrorist attacks in America. ASSIST News Service is reporting that seventh-graders must learn the tenets of Islam, study the important figures of the faith, adopt a Muslim name and stage their own jihad. Students must memorize many verses in the Koran, are taught to pray "in the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful" and are instructed to chant, "Praise to Allah, Lord of Creation." Nancy Castro, principal of Intermediate-Excelsior School of Byron, told ANS that ...

Prejudice and Abuse Have the French and English learned nothing from the 20th century? By Tom Gross, a British journalist January 10, 2002 8:30 a.m. week before Christmas, the Israeli ambassador to Berlin wrote a letter to Der Spiegel, Germany's leading newsmagazine, protesting an editorial they had published comparing the policies of the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, to those pursued by Adolf Hitler. The comparison, wrote the ambassador, was "an insult to all Holocaust survivors and to the entire Jewish people." In the ensuing days, the editorial was widely condemned in Germany. Though neo-Nazi elements do still exist in ...

January 10, 2001 EUROPE’S PANDERING TO ANTISEMITISM OPENS THE FLOODGATES OF HATE - EDITORIAL BY RABBI ABRAHAM COOPER In the overall scheme of things, the incident doesn’t seem to merit more attention than the screaming headlines in England’s tabloid press. After all, with the world anxiously awaiting the next terrorist shoe to drop on civilization, why make a big deal over ‘private’ comments made recently by the French Ambassador to St. James Court at a private dinner party in London. In between drinks and canapés, Ambassador Daniel Bernard, a close confidant of French President Chiraq, was overheard saying: “Why should ...

Extract from the Rocca Report October 2001 SOUTH AFRICA MOVES CLOSER TO MUSLIMS The challenge US President George Bush threw down was: “Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.” Clearly, a lot of South Africans are not with America! South Africa’s statement on US attacks on Afghanistan came nearly two days after they began. “This was a long diplomatic pause which served to underscore government’s hesitant support for the strikes,” reported Jonathan Katzenellenbogen (Business Day 12/10/2001). “To those versed in the language of diplomacy, the statement was almost a statement of concern about the attacks rather ...

WHO are the PALESTINIANS? WHAT & WHERE is PALESTINE? These and other questions will be addressed more fully as you go through this website. However, there is a preliminary historical fact that must be established now. There has never been a civilization or a nation referred to as "Palestine" and the very notion of a "Palestinian Arab nation" having ancient attachments to the Holy Land going back to time immemorial is one of the biggest hoaxes ever perpetrated upon the world! There is not, nor has there ever been, a distinct "Palestinian" culture or language. Further, there has never been ...

CASUALTIES OF THE OSLO PEACE ACCORDS THIS "PEACE" IS KILLING US! . . The Oslo Accords were signed on September 9, 1993. They were supposed to finally bring peace to the People of Israel. They brought anything but peace! SINCE SEPTEMBER 1993, 643 Jews have been murdered by their so-called "Peace partners." The number wounded and the amount of heartbreak to their loved ones is incalculable! The United States has a population of 280 million PEOPLE. ISRAEL HAS 4½ MILLION jEWS. BASED UPON THIS 62:1 POPULATION RATIO, this would be as if the United States had LOST OVER 40,000 ...

The Moslem Waqf renewed its illegal construction works on the Temple Mount this week in a major way. Trucks brought in the materials, earth was moved from the eastern part of the Mount to the northern part, and tiling of a section on the northern part is beginning. The Committee for the Prevention of the Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities says it has aerial photos from yesterday documenting the progress of the work. The Committee says the police fabricated a report this week to the effect that the arriving truckloads were for the purpose of repairing an area damaged by ...