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For Israel to Survive by Ari Bussel For Israel to survive she needs to change direction. First, she needs to admit that peace will not emerge from the current mistaken path of the last two decades. Further concessions only perpetuate the delusion on the Israeli side that peace is attainable and continue to weaken Israel’s already inferior position vis-à-vis the Palestinians. Second, she needs to start responding to the blood libels against her, observe, deduct trends and act before the 12th hour. Refusing to act until it is almost too late to react only worsens Israel’s position, and then we...

"... Hand in hand, arm in arm, we will protect your land, Palestine... "The land is Arab in history and identity "Palestine is Arab in history and identity... "From Jerusalem and Acre, from Haifa and Jericho and Gaza and Ramallah "From Bethlehem and Jaffa, from Beersheva and Ramla, "From Nablus to the Galilee, from Tiberias to Hebron." These lines, translated by Palestinian Media Watch, are some lyrics of a song played many times daily on Fatah-TV, the television outlet of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s party, beginning about six weeks before the Annapolis conference in late November. The song, in...

Because Arab - 'Palestine' is worse than any "apartheid", because Arab - "Palestine" means Genocide When will matter win over theater? reality over fantasy?Enough of the games of silly definitions, of sheer absurdity, slanderous attack, smear campaign over & over again, time for assessment of reality, clarity amids confusion, calling a spade a spade. I wonder when some in the UN will finally break away from the mighty grip of Arabian oil lobbyists mafia giants (another of Kofi Annan's bloody legacies, those that always determine what is an "issue" or even which is a 'burning agenda' on UN's diray) &...

'Palestine': UNITED WE STAND IN EVIL! 'Palestinian' unity Israel, US rebuff Makkah accord http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/19/stories/2007021902451400.htm For the only 'unity' among 'Palestinian Arabs' is the anti Israel fascism of not even recognizing the "stranger", the "other", the non Muslim (mainly), the non Arab (mostly). A "unity" Orchestrated by those that export to the world the textbooks as "Christians being Pigs, Jews apes", the wonderful "moderate" Saudi Arabia, the Hatred kingdom, of course. Did you ever think this oily rich Goliath would ever lift a finger for it's Arab brothers? "Next to the Jews, we hate the 'Palestinians' the most." said Saudi King...

Anti-Semitism has leapfrogged from isolated attacks against Jews to incitement to genocide -- the actual elimination of the Jewish state. Just over three years ago, at the first-ever global forum on anti-Semitism organized by the State of Israel, the essential task was to define the beast -- the new anti-Semitism. Since then, as the fourth such global gathering meets this week, efforts to incorporate the "three-D" distinction between legitimate criticism of Israel and the new anti-Semitism -- demonization, double standards and delegitimization -- have become part of international documents and discourse. These and other accomplishments, as important as they are,...

The bigotry of anti Israel   Facts & Causes     The obvious, or the 'should be obvious'   This is not really all about the Arab Muslim world, who's anti Israel feeling and action is motivated (not by any feeling to help fellow Arab Muslims, fact is, the Arab "Palestinians" are persecuted all throughout the Arab world) by Arab racism (just as the Kurds, Maronites, Sudanese and other non Arabs suffer from the global Arabization) & Islamofascism or Islamic-Fascism, the evil ideology as Tony Blair calls it (just as non Muslims in general, dhimmi or kuffars, non-believers suffer, global...

The Middle East conflict is difficult to solve, but it is among the simplest conflicts in history to understand. The Arab and other Muslim enemies of Israel (for the easily confused, this does not mean every Arab or every Muslim) want Israel destroyed. That is why there is a Middle East conflict. Everything else is commentary. Those who deny this and ascribe the conflict to other reasons, such as "Israeli occupation," "Jewish settlements," a "cycle of violence," "the Zionist lobby" and the like, do so despite the fact that Israel's enemies regularly announce the reason for the conflict. The Iranian...

Delegitimize the debate By Aluf Benn "A world without Israel," screams the cover of the new January 2005 issue of the American magazine, Foreign Policy. Imagine that Israel never existed, asks the subheading, would that solve the problems in the Middle East? Would America then be loved by the Muslim world? Not at all, responds the author of the article, Josef Joff, the publisher and editor of the German weekly Die Zeit. The problems of the region, the poverty, ignorance and political oppression, did not come about as a response to Zionism and the establishment of Israel. The Arabs...

As columnist Charles Krauthammer recently observed: "The world is experiencing the worst resurgence of anti-Semitism in 50 years. Its main objective is the demonization and delegitimation of Israel, to the point that the idea of eradicating... the world's only Jewish state becomes respectable, indeed laudable. The psychological grounds for the final solution are being prepared." Party to this grim preparation is one Tony Judt, former Oxford don and now a history professor at New York University. Accomplished in the academy, where Israel is widely vilified, he has evidently, as a Jew, suffered discomfiting criticism among his colleagues - perhaps even...

Israel is insisting that the Palestinians recognize its right to exist as a Jewish state at the outset of negotiations on the U.S.-backed 'road map' for peace in the Middle East, which could be released as early as next week. Interviewed on CNN on Friday, Israel's consul-general in New York, Alon Pinkas, said that while Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat had recognized Israel's existence as a fact, he had never recognized its right to exist as a Jewish state. Meanwhile, as part of a list of measures it intends to implement after the swearing in of new Palestinian Authority Prime...