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LONDON - Two days after the assassination of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin last month, while Israel was taking blows from all sides, including sharply worded criticism from British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Gordon Brown made an extraordinary announcement: "The U.K. has been a leading country in implementing UN freezes of terrorist assets and taking appropriate domestic action," Gordon told the House of Commons. "I can announce that I have today instructed the Bank of England, under the Terrorism Order, to add further names to the list of those whose assets are to be frozen, including five...

Recently, a young student at the Hebrew University was gunned down while jogging through a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Arabs in north Jerusalem. The Aksa Martyrs Brigade, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, joyously claimed credit for the killing yet another innocent Jew. When it was later learned that the jogger was a Jerusalem Arab and not a Jew, al-Aksa quickly apologized to the family, calling it an accident. But the killing of the innocent young jogger was not an accident; the murderer had deliberately taken aim at his head and midsection, intending to end his life....

To the east and south of the Old City of Jerusalem is a deep gash in the landscape. It is identified as the Hinnom Valley. Today it is a lush area lending itself to picnics, outdoor concerts, and public events. However, to ancients it was known as the valley of the sons of Hinnom and later the Valley of Topheth. In the seventh century BCE it became Gehenna, a designation synonymous with hell, the place of burning. Most notorious in the history of Hinnom is the practice of child sacrifice – placing infants and children in the fire to appease...

Several Israeli media outlets reported that Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority condemned the Palestinian human bomb attack tonight north of Tel Aviv. But the truth is a little different. Neither Voice of Palestine Radio nor Palestinian State television reported the "condemnation," and VOP radio--which is directly supervised by Arafat-- referred to man who set off the bomb as a "heroic martyr." He was described as having "died a heroic martyr's death" (Arabic: istash-hada, tenth form reflexive verb for martyrdom). Occasionally the Paletinian media have used more neutral terms to describe the deaths of human bombers, but not in this case. Describing...

[With movie] Illicit Weaponry Seized by the IDF IDF Spokesperson 23 December 2003 Over the weekend, IDF forces arrested 22 Hamas operatives who took part in terrorist activities, including the murder of five Israeli civilians north of Ramallah and the murder of five IDF soldiers in the following locations: Ain Yabrud, Sudra, Dura al Kara. Eleven rifles and pistols, as well as ammunition, were found in the possession of the operatives. It should also be noted that IDF forces found three rifles belonging to the IDF soldiers killed by terrorist gunfire in Ain Yabrud. Rifles belonging to the three IDF...

Police and the Shin Bet recently arrested Muhammed Tushiya,19, from Kfar Yassin in the West Bank. Tushiya, an Islamic Jihad terrorist, was planning a terrorist attack in Afula but changed his target to a synagogue at the nearby settlement of Shaked in the northern West Bank. He told interrogators that the heavy police presence around Afula prevented him from carrying out an attack there. The terrorist was riding a dune buggy heading for Afula, loaded with 10kg of explosives when he spotted a heavy Israeli security presence. Tushiya told the Shin Bet after his capture that he changed his mind...

A Palestinian terrorist blew up late this morning while on his way to perpetrating a murderous attack against Israelis. It is assumed that he was on his way to Jerusalem last night, but because a high terror alert was in force, he was deterred by the high numbers of security personnel, and turned back. He then tried to enter a city in the Sharon region today, but again did not succeed. Arutz-7's Kobi Finkler reports that near the village of Azoun, between Karnei Shomron and Alfei Menashe, an IDF force saw the suspicious-looking Arab and called for him to stop....

Palestinian terror organizations have the ability to carry out a chemical attack in Israel, but have refrained from doing so to date due to the repercussions of such an attack, a senior Israeli security official said this week. "It is not a problem for terror organizations to attain chemical materials, and they are aware of the advantages of such an attack, but on the other hand [they know] it would be considered breaking all the rules of the game," the official said at a briefing. He noted that such an attack could kill hundreds or thousands of people, as opposed...

These mortars hit this family during the Sukkot Jewish holiday evening. Every day numerous mortars are shot into Jewish communities. Most of the damage is in property, not lives. These communities are under constant fire from terrorists. The media turns a blind eye to the fact terrorists continue their terror no matter what Israel does, and rarely publishes such photos. Israel usually does not take action against these terrorists, due to the fact they operate from within population centers, firing rockets while surrounded by Palestinian Arab women and children. This happened yesterday (one of about a dozen mortar rockets that...

Body of Palestinian, 25, accused of collaborating with Israel, found in West Bank city of Ramallah (Haaretz)

(IsraelNN.com) A prominent Australian cleric has justified Palestinian terror attacks against Israel, asserting they are a “desperate cry for justice”, the Canberra Times reports. In an address to the synod of his diocese, George Browning, the Anglican Bishop of Canberra, denounced Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians, saying that the Jewish state is “perpetrating continued humiliation and deprivation of the Palestinian people.” “Terrorism must be condemned,” Browning said, “it is too often an action of simple bastardry. However, it is not always: in Palestine it is as much a desperate cry for justice in the face of injustice.” While the bishop...

When Yasser Arafat was staying in Frankfurt, Germany, in the second half of the 1960s Mossad agents gained access to his bedroom. Arafat was then already engaged in directing murder and terror operations against Israel. While he was conducting a wild adulterous affair with the widow of one of the heads of the Moslem Brotherhood in Egypt, some Mossad officers maintained it was essential that Arafat be eliminated. The Israeli leadership was opposed, not understanding that this was one of the most dangerous carriers of the terror plague, a menace to innocent citizens. But Yitzhak Rabin, in his first period...

Dr. David Bukay of Haifa University's Political Science Department, speaking with Arutz-7 today, took a very clear stand: "Who cares which terrorist organization perpetrated the attack? What's important is that the PA is a terrorist organization, and that in 1993 we did not crush it, and that this continues to be the main problem right up until today. We have not yet understood that we must crush the Palestinian Authority." A-7: "Don't you see a difference between Abu Mazen and Arafat? After all, Abu Mazen even condemned today's attacks in public appearances to his own people." Bukay: "It's just like...

The Justice Ministry and Israel Prison Service will publicize on the internet this morning the names of 350 Arab terrorist prisoners that the government has decided to release. The purpose is in accordance with a relatively new law that guarantees the rights of the victim of a crime. It will allow victims to find out that the terrorist who perpetrated "their" attack is being released, so that they may sue to prevent it if they so desire. The publication is to be made at least 48 hours in advance of the release. This is not enough, say some terror victims...

(IsraelNN.com) “After last night’s terrorist attack,” Knesset member Uri Ariel (National Union) said today, “Bethlehem must be re-conquered.” Ariel, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said that he would warn the Prime Minister at today’s committee meeting not to repeat the failures of Oslo and allow the PA to default on its commitments without serious consequences.

An 11-year-old Israeli girl was shot inside a car as she was traveling with her parents in the West Bank last night, a military source told The Jerusalem Post . "The terror attack took place near the Jewish settlement of Itzhar, west of Nablus at 1:30 a.m.," the source said. "She was lightly wounded in her legs and the IDF evacuated her by helicopter to Belinson hospital in Petah Tikva where she is now receiving medical treatment." There were four other passengers, including children, in the car who escaped injury, the source said. The car was damaged with numerous bullet...

NEW YORK - Contrary to media reports that the Bush Road Map proposes to create a Palestinian Arab state in the year 2005, the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) points out that the plan, in fact, calls for establishing such a state within five months, by the end of this year. "Phase II" of the Road Map plan, which is defined as ending in December 2003, includes "creation of an independent Palestinian state with provisional borders". Those "provisional" borders are to become "final, permanent" borders in Phase III of the plan, which is defined as ending in 2005. ZOA National...