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GAZA CITY — An 18-year-old Palestinian woman strode defiantly toward an Israeli army checkpoint and blew herself up Monday, slightly wounding a soldier in the latest act of resistance among women to the occupation of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. Two other Palestinian teenagers died and nine were wounded in nearby Beit Lahiya when a missile that Israel said was aimed at fighters handling a rocket launcher struck near a school bus instead, police and witnesses in the town said.

Members of an armed Fatah militia which claimed to have kidnapped an Israeli Saturday transferred the individual in question, a U.S. citizen, to the custody of the Palestinian Authority before dawn Sunday. The PA security forces subsequently handed the American over to the Israel Defense Forces. Defense officials believe once the militants discovered the person was indeed an American citizen, they took steps to end the matter quickly. "Apparently, the kidnappers did not want to end up like Zarqawi," a defense official said. Advertisement Earlier Saturday, the IDF and the Shin Bet security service investigated a Palestinian claim that an...

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinians marked the worst day in their history Monday, determined to lift damaging economic sanctions and warning that Israeli unilateralism could kill off a two-state solution. The commemoration of the 58th anniversary of the "catastrophe" of Israel's creation came with Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas in Russia on a quest to shore up financial and political support for his beleaguered people. "Our first priority is to lift the economic and political siege imposed on our people, then to end the occupation of our land once and for all, and to establish our independent Palestinian state,"...

In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah "Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of them are transgressors. They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you, and they shall not be helped. They are...

Hamas just won big in "Palestine," capturing an outright majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council election (about 58%), backing up over five years of opinion surveys that "Palestinians" like their suicide bombers toasted. Or, put another way, they like killing Jews. Yet by contrast, in March 1933, Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party only won a plurality of the vote with 43.9% and needed a small right-wing nationalist party, the German National People's Party to form a coalition government with a slim 51.8% parliamentary majority. More Arabs in "Palestine" voted for Hamas than Germans for the Nazis. Think back to...

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 01:31 IST JNW HEADLINE NEWS 'Palestinians': We require Jerusalem By Ryan Jones November 14th, 2005 With many world leaders in Jerusalem this week to mark 10 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and discuss prospects for regional peace, the "Palestinians" have worked to ensure that these dignitaries all know that the Arab-Israeli conflict will not end until the PLO flag flies over the ancient Jewish capital. Chief “Palestinian” negotiator Saeb Erekat was quoted by the PLO-controlled news agency WAFA as saying a solution on Jerusalem in line with current Arab demands was necessary for lasting...

Though he is Palestinian by birth and by political disposition, when director Hany Abu-Assad began thinking about suicide bombers in the occupied territories of the West Bank, he imagined them as heartless monsters. "Like anybody else," he says, "I thought they had been brainwashed."In the film "Paradise Now," the final hours of a pair of auto mechanics who have been recruited as bombers are recounted, and the last thing the young men appear to be is unthinking. Abu-Assad used the interrogation transcripts of actual bombers who had failed to strike their targets when he was writing the script for the...

A knife-wielding Palestinian youth tried to stab Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint today before being shot and wounded by troops. The 13-year-old Palestinian ran toward the soldiers brandishing a knife and shouting “Allahu Akbar” or “God is greatest,” witnesses said. The soldiers fired at the youth, lightly wounding him, the witnesses said. The soldier was not wounded in the incident, the army said. Yesterday, a Palestinian was shot and killed after he stabbed a female soldier

Hamas Friday Sermons in Abandoned Gaza Settlements on Al-Jazeera TV : "We Can Liberate All of Palestine From the Mediterranean to the Jordan River" The following are excerpts from Hamas Friday sermons and military parades in abandoned Israeli settlements in Gaza. The footage aired on Al-Jazeera TV on September 16, 2005. TO VIEW THIS CLIP VISIT: http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=858. We Do Not Distinguish Between 1940s and 1960s Lines Sheikh Nazzar Rayan: "The vanquishing of the enemy in Gaza does not mean that this stage has ended. We still have Jerusalem and the pure West Bank. We will not rest until we...

In a sermon broadcast live on TV supervised by the Palestinian Authority, a cleric affiliated with Hamas, says Islam must rule over the U.S. and Great Britain, and exact revenge against the British. In a sermon broadcast live on TV supervised by the Palestinian Authority, a cleric affiliated with Hamas, says Islam must rule over the U.S. and Great Britain, and exact revenge against the British. A Moslem cleric called for exacting revenge against Great Britain in a virulent sermon broadcast live on Palestinian television on Friday, May 13. The cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiras, who has become a symbol of...

Arab League Ambassador to Britain Lecture at House of Parliament: Israel's Hand in the [9/11] Matter is Clear The April 1, 2005 issue of the online Saudi royal family weekly magazine Ain Al-Yaqeen included the transcript of a talk given by Arab League Ambassador Ali Muhsen Hamid to Britain before the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council at the Houses of Parliament. In his talk, titled "Arabs and the West: Indispensable Relation," Hamid emphasized the cultural affinities between the Arab world and the West, and portrayed Israel as the major factor standing between them. The following are excerpts from his talk...

Palestinians Slam Israeli Threats as Counterproductive Shaath: Sharon's Measures Would Sabotage Truce 28/02/2005 Palestine Media Center - PMC [Official PA website] www.palestine-pmc.com/details.asp?cat=1&id=810 The Palestine National Authority (PNA) has slammed as counterproductive and "a recipe for more violence" the Israeli Prime Minister's threats to escalate military actions against the Palestinian people, resume extra-judicial killings of anti-occupation activists, freeze peace contacts, and suspend the agreed upon confidence-building measures, including withdrawal from five Palestinian towns and releasing more detainees. Ariel Sharon said Sunday that peace efforts with the Palestinians would be frozen and "there will be no progress politically, and I repeat no...

To: National Desk Contact: Ibrahim Hooper, 202-488-8787 or 202-744-7726 or ihooper@cair-net.org, Rabiah Ahmed, 202-488-8787 or 202-439-1441 or rahmed@cair-net.org, both of the Council on American-Islamic Relations WASHINGTON, Nov. 18 /U.S. Newswire/ -- A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today called for an apology from the MSNBC cable television network over comments on its "Imus in the Morning" program that referred to Palestinians as "filthy animals" and suggested that they all be killed. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) also urged that the program's host, Don Imus, be reprimanded for failing to challenge his colleagues' inflammatory remarks. CAIR,...

(CNSNews.com) - An Islamic civil rights group wants MSNBC to apologize for comments on its "Imus in the Morning" program, in which one of Don Imus's colleagues called Palestinians "filthy animals" and suggested that they all be killed. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) said the program's host, Don Imus, should be reprimanded for failing to challenge the inflammatory remarks made by one of his colleagues. CAIR said it received numerous complaints about the November 12 broadcast where Imus and his on-air colleagues engaged in the following discussion during live coverage of Yasser Arafat's burial in Ramallah, an...

THERE is a world of papers and plans, politicians and policies – of grand schemes that work out perfectly in the clinical minds of the intelligentsia. But then a helicopter carrying Yasser Arafat's body lands in the midst of a howling, shooting, screaming, fainting, cursing mob, and you glimpse the bloody beast behind that drapery. Anyone who fancies the terror war on Israel will be solved by yet another peace plan must watch a replay of Arafat's body arriving for burial on Friday in the West Bank town of Ramallah. Palestinian officials knew they had to put on a show...

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...

A Palestinian woman waves a handgun as she shouts during a pro-Yasser Arafat rally at Gaza International Airport near Rafah in southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites), Tuesday Sept. 16, 2003. Workers rallied in support of the Palestinian leader. (AP Photo/Kevin Frayer)