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A Palestinian rocket attack missed a Jewish school in the Israeli city of Sderot on Monday afternoon but damaged its adjacent playground in a scenario all too common in that region. The school is located near the Gaza Strip, where violence against Israelis is ongoing. This attack came just hours after Democratic presidential frontrunner and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders cited "bigotry" as the reason he would not attend the American Israel Public Affairs Committee's conference next week.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday spoke at a Fatah assembly in Gaza, commemoration 13 years since arch-terrorist and Palestine Liberation Organization leader Yasser Arafat died. In his speech, broadcast on television, Abbas said "no one" cares more about Gaza's people than he does, and promised that there would be "no [Palestinian] state without Gaza, or a state only in Gaza." However, he also said the PA would support a "one-state solution" with "full equality of rights for all its citizens" if the two-state solution proved impossible. It is not clear what a "one-state" solution means...

MK Ahmed Tibi (Arab Joint List) said that if the idea of a two-state solution is shelved, he himself will be Prime Minister of the resulting one state. In an interview with CNN, Tibi addressed the declarations of Netanyahu and Trump at their joint press briefing and said that, should a “one-state solution” be decided upon, he intends to run for Prime Minister against Netanyahu. Tibi said that he had no doubt that he would win against Netanyahu, since all Palestinians would vote for him - as would some Israelis. The significance of such a vote, he said, would be...

PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas must have gotten a kick out of it on Monday when he visited the White House and President Barack Obama praised him as "somebody who has consistently renounced violence, has consistently sought a diplomatic and peaceful solution that allows for two states, side by side, in peace and security." After all, the same day the men met, Abbas's regime continued its week-long celebration of the deadliest Palestinian terrorist attack on Israel to date. As Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon explained last Saturday, Abbas is "a partner for taking, not for giving." Israeli Leftists, who have slavishly championed...

In its annual survey of American Jewry published last October, the American Jewish Committee found that 75 percent of American Jews agree with the statement, "The goal of the Arabs is not a peaceful two-state agreement with Israel, but rather the destruction of Israel." And yet, American Jews supported the establishment of a Palestinian state 50% to 47%. Next week over 10,000 predominantly Jewish American supporters of Israel will gather in Washington at AIPAC's annual policy conference. Given their high commitment to Israel, probably most of those gathered belong to the 47% of American Jews who opposed Palestinian statehood. Yet...

September 20, 2011Winthrop Poll Results Of SC Registered Voters Winthrop Poll Results Of September 2011 Among Republicans/GOP Leaners Definitely Planning to Vote in SC Primary Rick Perry Gets Nod Over Mitt Romney 30.5% to 27.3% Bachmann Losing Momentum While Cain Slowly Rising 11% Say They’re Unsure Who They’ll Vote For Among SC Democrats, Republicans and Independents Combined 83% Disapprove of the Way Congress is Doing its Job 50% Feel Same Way About Obama, With 40% Giving Him a Thumbs-Up ************ Among SC Republicans/Republican Leaners Almost 75% Say Term “Socialist” Describes President Well or Very Well, 36% Say He Was Definitely...

... So don't tell me that you want peace: Mr. Nawash and cohorts, you want to cleanse the Jewish state and bring in Islam. You want a 24th Muslim state to add to the many failed states and terror enclaves in the region. You are destroyers of peace, not proponents of peace. Peace exists in Israel. Peace does not exist in the countries surrounding Israel. Peace is not and has never been offered to Israel. You cannot tell me that the model of Gaza is normal nor will another Islamic state established in the region erase the root cause of...

Former US president Jimmy Carter said Sunday Palestinian leaders were "seriously considering" a one-state solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, following a visit to the Middle East. "A majority of the Palestinian leaders with whom we met are seriously considering acceptance of one state, between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea," Carter wrote in an op-ed piece in The Washington Post. "By renouncing the dream of an independent Palestine, they would become fellow citizens with their Jewish neighbors and then demand equal rights within a democracy," he explained. "In this non-violent civil rights struggle, their examples would be Mahatma Gandhi,...

The Free State Project: A Project for Idaho What is a "free state"? Whatever a free state is, it's certainly not being served and protected by regimes posing as constitutionally authorized state and federal governments. Our current government has all the trappings of a police state; they are managed through emergency proclamations, executive orders, bureaucratic mandates and judicial fiat. We are further whipped into a frenzy by the propagandists of terror who have been given unconscionable and unconstitutional license by the corporately purchased buffoons in the legislative branch. Our nation no longer bears any real resemblance to the government our...