(Please remember that if you click on an individual article's link and get my personal AOL email page, to click on the main link for that website or else copy and paste it, in order to read entire article and see videos, and remember, it is the rich oil cartels that control the world, NOT the Zionists. If a specific article stands out for you, I ENCOURAGE you to copy and paste it in its entirety and send it to the groups. Permission is granted to fwd and share any posts that I send. MBS)
(Below is a list of some newsletters that you can either click on or copy and paste into your browser (in case the links don't work) if you care to
see more of today's news. I will be adding more websites to the newsletter list, as time permits . MBS)
hudson-ny.org
imra.org.il
http://savageinfidel.blogspot.com/
http://thereligionofpeace.com/
http://www.reutrcohen.com/
http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/
http://www.waronjihad.org/
www.israelwhat.com
http://muslimsforisrael.com/
http://arabsforisrael.blogspot.com/
http://www.terrorism-info.org.il
http://www.freeman.org
http://www.freeman.org/online.htm
http://www.freeman.org/serendipity/
jihadwatch.org
http://fresnozionism.org
http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com
http://salaswildthoughts.blogspot.com/
WorldJewishDaily.com
www.islamist-watch.org
www.memri.org
http://www.israpundit.com
http://sultanknish.blogspot.com/
http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/
www.cufi.org
www.jewishworldreview.com
http://grendelreport. posterous.com/
http://tundratabloid.blogspot.com/
sheikyermami.com
NEWSREALBLOG.COM
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/
http://www.israeltoday.co.il/
http://www.haaretz.com
http://www.wnd.com
http://www.ynetnews.com
www.familysecuritymatters.org
www.dailyalert.org
http://calevbenyefuneh.blogspot.com/
FRONTPAGEMAG.COM
yidwithlid.blogspot.com
israelnationalnews.com
jewishideasdaily.com
http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/faith-and-values/tim-townsend/article_21f54eff-989a-5112-9f99-62be7d22eab4.html
(Here is an article for those Jews haters who constantly lie and claim that the Jews never say anything good about Moslems. MBS)
Exhibit documents Muslims shielding Jews from the Holocaust
Exhibit documents Muslims shielding Jews from the Holocaust 
Chris Lee October 20, 2010 -- Imam Mufti Minhajuddin Ahmed of the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis (foreround left) and Rabbi Justin Kerber of Temple Emanuel (foreground right) were both present for the opening of an exhibit of photographs by Norman H. Gershman at Temple Emanuel in St. Louis, Mo. Gershman's portraits were of Albanian Muslims who saved Jews during World War II. The exhibit runs from October 21 to December 1 on Thursdays 5-8pm, Saturdays and Sundays noon-4pm and by appointment. Chris Lee clee@post-dispatch.com 
Loading… In 2003, Norman Gershman was looking for some of the righteous.
What he found astonished the investment banker-turned photographer and led him toward a project that is on display in a St. Louis synagogue.
The Righteous Among Nations are gentile rescuers who make up "a small minority who mustered extraordinary courage to uphold human values," according to Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial museum. "The few who helped Jews in the darkest time in their history."
Gershman's story begins during the Holocaust and involves Albanian Muslims — villagers, peasants and farmers — who risked their lives and the lives of their families to shelter Jews fleeing Nazi Germany.
Italy invaded Albania in 1939 and occupied the country until the overthrow of Benito Mussolini in 1943. Germany then took over the Albanian occupation. Before the war, Gershman estimates from his research, only about 200 Jews lived in Albania, a country that is about 70 percent Muslim. During the years of occupation, 10 times as many Jews streamed into Albania to escape persecution from Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Greece and Italy.
Gershman says it was the only country in Europe where the Jewish population grew by the end of the war. Most of the Jews who were hidden either fled to Israel or back to their native countries after the war. Albania's postwar communist regime made it impossible for the Jews who had been hidden to stay in touch with their Muslim shelterers back in Albania.
In 2003, New Jersey native Gershman heard hints of the story and began doing research, eventually traveling to Albania to begin interviewing those Muslims who took part and who were still alive. Gershman said it wasn't just Muslim families who shielded Jews from the Nazis, but also Orthodox and Catholic families.
All of them were motivated by an Albanian code of honor called "besa," a concept that can be translated into "keeping the promise," Gershman says. The Albanian villagers were motivated to risk their lives by the simple concept of helping one's neighbor.
"We chose to focus on the Muslims because, who ever heard of Muslims saving Jews?" Gershman said in a telephone interview from Israel, where he is at work on his next project.
Gershman's research eventually led to an exhibit of his photographs, "Besa: A Code to Live By," which opened at Congregation Temple Emanuel in Creve Coeur on Thursday, and a book, "Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in World War II."
The exhibit makes the case that the Muslim Albanian villagers who sheltered Jews from deportation to concentration camps did so from a sense of religious obligation.
"Besa is a cultural idea, but for the Muslims in Albania it was ingrained in their faith as well," Gershman said.
Ahmet Karamustafa, professor of history and religious studies at Washington University, said saving a life is a universally acknowledged Muslim value.
Protecting a life, Karamustafa said, "has always ranked at the very top of moral and legal categories articulated by legal and theological scholars in Islam."
The exhibit has been traveling the world since 2006, opening in Yad Vashem in Israel, the United Nations in New York, and synagogues, mosques, college campuses and Holocaust museums from Turkey to El Paso, Texas.
David Sherman, president of Temple Emanuel, said a member of the congregation was at a wedding last year in Philadelphia, where "Besa" was on display.
"The photos and the stories were so fantastic," Sherman said. "We decided it could be an opportunity to educate the public about this piece of history that was a model of dialogue and tolerance."
Temple Emanuel's spiritual leader, Rabbi Justin Kerber, said one of the Reform congregation's goals with the exhibit is to combat a common depiction of the modern relationship between Jews and Muslims.
"There's so much coverage about Muslim-Jewish strife and conflict," Kerber said. "It's important to tell people that's not the whole story, and these are examples of Muslim-Jewish respect, tolerance and love. This was a good opportunity for us to be part of that conversation."
Temple Emanuel partnered with the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Islamic Foundation of Greater St. Louis and the Brodsky Jewish Community Library to display 30 of Gershman's photographs through Dec. 1.
The exhibit includes a photograph of Lime Balla, born in 1910, who told Gershman that a group of 17 Jews came from Albania's capital, Tirana, to her village of Gjergi in 1943 during Ramadan.
"We divided them amongst the villagers," Balla said, according to Gershman. "We were poor. We had no dining table, but we didn't allow them to pay for food or shelter. We grew vegetables for all to eat. For 15 months, we dressed them as farmers like us. Even the local police knew."
In 2006, former President Jimmy Carter endorsed the exhibit, writing that at a time when conflict between Muslims and Jews attracts so much attention, "it is heartening to be reminded that mutual aid and friendship also have characterized the relationship."
Gershman's photos, Carter wrote, "offer hope for a future in which Muslims and Jews can overcome their conflicts and focus on their common humanity."
palwatch.org
Terrorists who threw grenades near Western Wall praised as "heroic prisoners" by PA TV
PA TV continues to honor terrorists who murdered Israelis as heroes.
A PA TV talk show host referred to five Palestinian terrorists who
threw grenades at soldiers and their families after a swearing-in
ceremony at the Western Wall as "the heroic prisoners of the Mughrabi
Gate operation." One Israeli was killed and 69 were injured in the
attack.
The talk show included interviews with the families
of the five terrorists who are serving long sentences in Israeli prisons
for the October 15, 1986, attack.
Palestinian Media Watch has
documented the ongoing policy of the PA to honor terrorists who have
killed Israelis as heroes. See PMW's report From Terrorists to Role Models.
For additional recent examples of the ongoing PA honoring of terrorists:
1. Terrorists who killed 6 lauded as "heroes" in clip shown seven times in three days on PA TV
2. PMW report leads to PA minister's defense of terrorists as "freedom fighters"
3. PA minister honors mother for having 4 terrorist sons
The following is the transcript of the PA TV host's words:
PA TV talk show Good Morning Jerusalem
interviews families of the five prisoners, Abd Al-Nasser and Tareq
Al-Khalisi, Samir Abu Na'ama, Ibrahim Alayan and Hazem Assala:
PA TV Host:
"We'll start our diverse discussions by expressing solidarity with the
prisoners from Jerusalem who, in October, have started their 25th year
of imprisonment in the occupation's jails. We will support them and of
course [send] greetings to all the prisoners in the occupation's jails,
but today we devote our expression of solidarity to five prisoners: the heroic prisoners of the Mughrabi Gate operation in 1986."
[PA TV (Fatah), Oct. 22, 2010]
VISIT PMW VIDEO ARCHIVES
israeltoday.co.il
Israeli lawmaker calls for arrest of US war criminals
Israeli MK seeks to turn the tables and show what Israel is forced to deal with when defending itself by calling on UN to launch probe of US military following leak of classified US documents by WikiLeaks
Read More >>
Israeli journalists 'not welcome' in Jericho
Palestinian spokesman tells foreign journalists they cannot cover Jericho's 10,000th birthday if they come through an Israeli organization
Read More >>
MEMRI Special Dispatch |3319|October 26, 2010
Palestinian Media Studies Project
From the Palestinian Media Studies Project Today
The following are reports released today from the MEMRI Palestinian Media
Studies Project. Visit daily at
http://www.memri.org/palestinianmediastudiesproject.
Special Dispatch No. 3319
Palestinian Reformist: The Islamization of the Palestinian Cause is an
Obstacle to Its Resolution
In an interview posted on the liberal Arab website Aafaq on October 4, 2010,
Palestinian reformist Zainab Rashid said that the Arab dictatorial regimes
exploit the Palestinian cause in order to divert attention from their own
domestic problems and suppress initiatives of democratization and reform.
She also opposed the Islamization of the Palestinian cause, saying the
Palestinian issue will never be resolved as long as it is construed as a
religious struggle destined to continue until Judgment Day.
She argued that violence and extremism in the Arab and Islamic world stem
from Islam's religious and legal texts, and called upon Arab intellectuals
to renounce such texts, and to struggle for one supreme goal: "the
secularization of the state and of society � which is to say, complete
separation of religion and state."
Following are excerpts from the interview.
Who Is Zainab Rashid?
Q: "...Who is Zainab Rashid? As a woman living in Ramallah, how has your
'controversial' personality been shaped by the oppressive atmosphere in
which women live in Arab states? What motivates you in choosing the topics
you write about?"
A: "My name is Zainab Rashid and I am a Palestinian who experiences and
endures the same things suffered by any Palestinian woman... The suffering
[of the Palestinian woman] is two-fold: she lives in a chauvinistic society,
which continues to treat women as immature and incompetent beings... and she
suffers [both] from the occupation and from the rule [of the Palestinian
Authority], whose methods, until some three years ago... resembled the
methods of gangs rather than institutions..."
The Palestinians Are Acting against Their Own National Interests
Q: "In your recent article, you declared yourself a Palestinian. Many,
however, view the things you write as offensive and hostile to Islam. What
makes people question your Palestinian identity and accuse you of being
hostile to Islam?"
To read in full, visit http://www.memri.org/report/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/4702.htm.
MEMRI TV Clip No. 2650 - Fatah Official Hatem Abd Al-Qadr: "I Don't Believe
We Can Achieve Anything in the Negotiations Without Resistance"
Following are excerpts from an interview with Hatem Abd Al-Qadr, who is in
charge of the Jerusalem portfolio in the Fatah movement. The interview aired
on Al-Jazeera TV on October 15, 2010.
To view this clip, visit
http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/2650.htm.
For assistance, please contact MEMRI at memri@memri.org.
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) is an independent,
non-profit organization that translates and analyzes the media of the Middle
East. Copies of articles and documents cited, as well as background
information, are available on request.
MEMRI holds copyrights on all translations. Materials may only be used with
proper attribution.
fresnozionism.org
In the peculiar mental space of the 'Palestinian' movements — the PLO, Hamas and their supporters — there are some words that are used very differently from the way most Israelis and Americans use them. Here are some definitions to keep in mind when you read or listen to their statements:
Palestine — The entire land area between the Jordan and the Mediterranean.
Palestinian land — All of Palestine as defined above.
Palestinian People — All Arabs that lived in Palestine in 1948 and their descendants, including those who migrated into the region from Egypt or Syria in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Jews — Adherents to the Jewish religion.
Jewish People — There isn't one. Unlike Palestinians, the PLO and Hamas do not consider Jews a 'people'.
Zionists — Jews who colonized Palestine.
Occupation — The presence of a Zionist colony on Palestinian land. The occupation began in 1948. It is illegitimate despite League of Nations and UN resolutions, either because it is a colonialist enterprise (the PLO) or for religious reasons (Hamas).
Palestinian Refugees — Those Palestinians who lived in the area of the Zionist colony and were displaced in 1948, and their descendants. There are 4.5 million of these, and they are the true owners of the land in the Zionist colony.
Palestinian Cause — To end the occupation and return all Palestinian refugees to their ancestral homes, as defined above.
Two-state solution — An outcome to the conflict which ends the occupation by declaring two states: one in Eastern Palestine which will be entirely populated by Arabs, and one in the part of Palestine occupied by the Zionists in 1949, where Palestinian refugees will return.
Although Hamas and the PLO diverge sharply on many issues, including the kind of state that should ultimately be created in 'Palestine' and the best way to end the 'occupation', they all agree on the definitions above.
If you keep these definitions in mind, you will have no trouble understanding:
The refusal of PA leaders and negotiators to recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish People. For one thing, they don't agree that there is a Jewish people (although with massive illogic they then insist that there is a 'Palestinian' people), and for another, this would declare the 'occupation' legitimate — in contradiction to the basic principle of the Palestinian Cause.
The rejection of the Camp David proposal in 2000 and Olmert's offer in 2008. Both of these would have created a state of Palestine in the territories and included unprecedented concessions on Jerusalem. But they didn't include return of 'Palestinian refugees' and contained various provisions that would safeguard and legitimize the 'Zionist colony'. They would not have ended the 'occupation' and so contradicted the Palestinian Cause.
The derisive response to PM Netanyahu's statement in support of a two-state solution. Netanyahu's position represented a significant departure from previous Likud principles that it would not accept a Palestinian state, and caused him internal difficulties with his supporters on the Right. But since he insisted on demilitarization and did not accept the 'return' of 'refugees', this was not considered a legitimate 'two-state solution'.
The continued rocket and suicide terrorism of Hamas after Israel withdrew from Gaza. Hamas considered the withdrawal as a victory in the battle to end the 'occupation', brought about by its policy of violent resistance. Therefore it chose to continue this successful policy to end the rest of the 'occupation'.
And of course, the persistence of the conflict.
Most Israelis and Americans, including — one hopes — the Obama Administration, believe that Israel is legitimate and that it is the nation-state of the Jewish people. They use the word 'occupation' to refer to territories occupied in 1967, and they imagine a two-state solution as one in which an Arab state of Palestine lives peacefully alongside a Jewish state of Israel. All of these usages are significantly different than the 'Palestinian' definitions above.
Those who — deliberately or from ignorance — deny these ambiguities may say things like "everybody knows what the general outlines of a solution are; we just need to work out the details." But that's far from true.
Communication is impossible without agreement on the meanings of words. As long as systematic ambiguity about basic concepts remains, the conflict cannot be ended by negotiation.
So why don't negotiators agree on terms?
The answer is that they are not trying to end the conflict. Diplomats love ambiguity, because it allows them to pretend to be making progress so they can demand concrete concessions from the other side or from third parties.
The dirty little secret about diplomacy is that it is more like warfare than problem-solving.
More Recent Articles www.dailyalert.org
Subscribe | | DAILY ALERT | Tuesday,
October 26, 2010 |
In-Depth Issues: WikiLeaks and the Gaza War - Evelyn Gordon ( Commentary) The New York Times tucked a remarkable statistic into an article on WikiLeaks' latest document dump, one with ramifications for the ongoing delegitimization campaign against Israel: for most of the last century, the normal civilian-to-combatant wartime fatality ratio has been 10:1. If civilians routinely account for 90% of all casualties in modern warfare, why is the world up in arms about the civilian casualty rate in last year's Israel-Hamas war in Gaza - which was markedly lower (39%, according to the IDF)? Judged against th e global norm, the IDF has actually been unusually successful at minimizing civilian casualties. See also Why Israel Sees Double Standard in Response to WikiLeaks' Iraq Files - Joshua Mitnick ( Christian Science Monitor) The WikiLeaks release of U.S. military field reports from Iraq that detail tens of thousands of civilian casualties in seven years of fighting is being used by some Israelis to argue that their country is a victim of an international double standard on human rights. They say that the world's likely response - or non-response - to the WikiLeaks revelations will demonstrate that Israel is held to a higher standard than other nations.
Report Reveals Alleged Hizbullah Arms Supply Route ( NOW Lebanon) The French Defense Ministry has information about Hizbullah's arms supply route to Lebanon through Syria, the French newspaper Le Figaro reported on Tuesday. Hizbullah has three logistics units that specialize in weapons transport: Unit 108, based in Damascus, is responsible for transporting arms and ammunition within Syria to arms storage units in Halab, Homs and Tartous. Unit 112 delivers arms to Hizbullah caches in Lebanon and supplies ammunition to Hizbullah in the Bekaa Valley. Unit 100 transports Hizbullah fighters and Iranian experts between Lebanon, Syria and Iran through Damascus airport.
PA Security Forces Flourish with U.S.-Supplied Vehicles - Jonathan Ferziger ( Bloomberg) Palestinian Brig.-Gen. Radi Assidi, commander of the Palestinian Security Forces in the West Bank city of Jenin, stood on a balcony overlooking a compound filled with U.S.-donated Chevrolet police vehicles. "We had eight vehicles for our security forces in Jenin before [U.S. security coordinator Lt.-Gen. Keith] Dayton came and now we have 100," Assidi said.
Tony Blair's Sister-in-Law Converts to Islam - Helen Carter ( Guardian-UK) Tony Blair's sister-in-law has converted to Islam after having what she describes as a "holy experience" during a visit to Iran. Journalist and broadcaster Lauren Booth, 43 - Cherie Blair's sister - who works for Press TV, the English-language Iranian news channel, now wears a hijab whenever she leaves her home, prays five times a day and visits her local mosque whenever she can. She decided to become a Muslim six weeks ago after visiting the shrine of Fatima al-Masumeh in the city of Qom.
|
| News Resources - North America, Europe, and Asia: - U.S.: "Iran Prefers Defiance and Secrecy to Transparency and Peace"
Special Assistant to the President Dennis Ross told the AIPAC National Summit on Monday: "Iran's own behavior over the past two years, however, has demonstrated that it prefers defiance and secrecy to transparency and peace....The Iranian government's continued repression and intimidation of its own people following the presidential election last year demonstrated the lack of respect it shows even to its own citizens. And in the Middle East, Iran continues to rely on tactics of intimidation and coercion to gain influence, a pattern clearly on display during President Ahmadinejad's provocative recent visit to Lebanon and through Iran's ongoing support for Hizbullah."
"Should Iran continue its defiance, despite its growing isolation and the damage to i ts economy, its leaders should listen carefully to President Obama who has said many times, 'we are determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.'" (Politico) - Iran Injects Fuel into First Nuclear Reactor
Iran began loading fuel into the core of its first nuclear power plant at Bushehr on Tuesday. (AP-New York Times) - Iran Admits Funding Afghan Government
Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Monday that he has received millions of dollars in cash from Iran. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said Tuesday that Iran has supplied assistance for reconstruction. (AP-Washington Post)
News Resources - Israel and the Mideast: - Livni: Gaza Flotilla Was "Turkish Provocation" - Barak Ravid
Israeli opposition leader Tzipi Livni testified Monday before a commission probing Israel's raid on the Gaza-bound flotilla in May, telling the panel that Turkey had exploited the event as a provocation against Israel. (Ha'aretz)
See also Turkish "Peace Activists" Visit Islamic Jihad Gunmen - Ali Waked
The Viva Palestina 5 ship which recently docked at the Egyptian port of al-Arish brought along Turkish "peace activists" who visited Islamic Jihad members in Gaza. Pictures show the Turks holding weapons and rocket launchers, while two are s een wearing the uniform of the al-Quds Brigades, Islamic Jihad's military wing. (Ynet News) - PA to "Resist" Jerusalem National Priority Bill
The Palestinian Authority cabinet has condemned Israel's decision to approve a draft law classifying Jerusalem as a national priority area. The PA would "resist this decision with all political and diplomatic means in accordance with international law, and take the necessary actions to defend the Arab character of the Holy City," a statement issued in Ramallah said. (Maan News-PA) - Conference to Showcase Israeli Homeland Security Capabilities - Yuval Azulai
Generations of experience in fighting terrorism in a violent Middle Eastern neighborhood is the inspiration for the first Homeland Security International Conference next week in Tel Aviv, organized by the Israel Export Institute. Defense News ranked Israel in third place last year for arms exports, after the U.S. and Russia. In homeland security-related exports, Israel is among the 10 leading countries, and the annual sales of Israeli defense companies are estimated at $1.5 billion.
About 40 Israeli companies engaged in developing and manufacturing components related to homeland security areas will attend the conference. Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is adapting one of its flagship products, the Heron dr one aircraft, for border patrol and surveillance and for protection of sensitive installations. (Globes)
Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel): - The Negotiating Process - Where Do We Go from Here? - Alan Baker
One way of enabling all sides to climb down from their respective trees would be to determine an agreed-upon "Code of Conduct" for the negotiating process that would bind all concerned, satisfy their requirements in general terms and hence obviate the need to impose individual and partisan preconditions. The principles of such a Code of Conduct should include: acknowledging the continued validity of previous agreements; refraining from dictating preconditions for entry into, continuation, or completion of negotiations; and refraining from derogatory statements regarding other parties to the negotiation. The writer served as the legal adviser to the Foreign Ministry and as ambassador to Canada. (Jerusalem Post) - Are Settlements Really the Major Obstacle to Peace? - Khaled Abu Toameh
For nearly two decades, the Palestinian Authority conducted peace talks with Israel while construction in the Jewish settlements was continuing. Until two years ago, Abbas was negotiating with former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and his foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, while the settlements were being expanded. Some Palestinians say that the settlements became a major issue only when the U.S. and other Western governments started demanding a freeze of settlement construction. Palestinian leaders can't afford a situation where Presidents Obama and Sarkozy appear to be more Palestinian than the Palestinians.
If the settlements were really the major obstacle to peace, how come peace did not prevail when Israel destroyed all the settlements in Gaza and evicted more than 8,000 Je ws from there? The major obstacle to peace is Iran and radical Muslims who want to destroy Israel, and not make peace with it. They are also threatening to kill any moderate Arab or Muslim who seeks to make peace with Israel. (Hudson Institute New York) - Lebanon's Laws Pay Only Lip Service to Palestinians' Plight - Jason Koutsoukis
Until recently, the 250,000 Palestinians living in Lebanon have been legally barred from working in all but the most menial of jobs. In August, after years of heated debate, the Lebanese parliament finally passed new laws formally lifting the work restrictions on Palestinians, but Leila El-Ali, executive director of Najdeh, a Palestinian advocacy group, says the new laws will have no impact on the ground. ''All of the professions - doctors, lawyers, engineers, pharmacists, academia - will remain closed to Palestinians,'' she says.
In addition, she noted, "We see political parties such as Hizbullah use the plight of Palestinians as a way to attract supporters. But when the law granting us working rights came before the parliament, Hizbullah could not bring themselves to vote in favor of the bill.'' (Sydney Morning Herald-Australia)
Observations: |
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright~
No comments:
Post a Comment