Gee, duh. They have all of Gaza, most of the West bank, are in Jordan, Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. They are existing just fine unless one believes that , ahem, "anti-Zionist" venomous propaganda that you and others spew.
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> PA Rejects Inferred Recognition of Jewish State - Kevin Flower (CNN)
> Top PA negotiator Nabil Sha'ath, an advisor to Mahmoud Abbas, distanced the PA government from comments by PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo inferring that Palestinians might recognize Israel as a Jewish state in exchange for a future Palestinian state based on the 1967 borders.
> "We are not going to do it - forget it," Sha'ath told CNN, adding that Abed Rabbo's comments did not represent the position of the PLO or the Fatah faction which dominates the Palestinian Authority.
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> Fayyad's Advisor Demonizes Israel - Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook (Palestinian Media Watch)
> PA Prime Minister Salam Fayyad's national affairs advisor Omar Hilmi al-Ghoul used last week's arson attack at a West Bank mosque to libel and demonize Israel.
> Al-Hayat Al-Jadida reported on Oct. 6 that al-Ghoul said "what happened in Beit Fajar was not incidental, but rather represents part of a policy of state terror, which the Zionist apartheid state is carrying out against the Palestinians."
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> The First Muslim IDF Officer - Yana Pevzner (Ynet News)
> Lt. Hisham Abu Varia, a Muslim Israeli from Sakhnin in the Galilee, was inspired to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces by one of his older brothers who had joined up.
> "The army is the entry pass into Israeli society," he explains. "The Arab sector thinks it's second rate here, but to get privileges one has to give and not just receive."
> See also Muslim Arab Officer Proudly Serving in IDF - Tammy Habteyes (Israel Defense Forces)
> "My job is to prepare the Arab community to handle any type of emergency. Whether it's an earthquake, a flood or a war, the community must be prepared with the same level of readiness as the Jewish community," Lt. Abu Varia explains.
> "The IDF is a strong, challenging, non-discriminatory army, and is a great supporter of human rights. This is the first step to bringing both the Jewish and Muslim nations together," he says.
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> Iraqi Child Saved in Israel - Bat-Hen Epstein Elias (Ynet News)
> Boland, a three-year-old Iraqi child with a heart defect, recently underwent surgery at Safra Hospital for Children at the Sheba medical center near Tel Aviv.
> The Shevet Achim foundation, which flew him to Israel, is working to bring another 30 Iraqi children to Safra Hospital for life-saving operations.
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> News Resources - North America, Europe, and Asia:
> a.. Hizbullah Chief Echoes Iran's Call for Israel to Disappear - Mohamad Ali Harissi
> Hizbullah chief Hassan Nasrallah echoed Iran's call on Wednesday for Israel to disappear, speaking during a mass rally in Beirut organized in honor of visiting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. "President Ahmadinejad is right when he says Israel is illegitimate and should cease to exist," Nasrallah told an ecstatic crowd. Ahmadinejad, who has called Israel a "tumor," has denied the Holocaust and repeatedly said the Jewish state is "doomed to be wiped off the map." Last month he said the people of the Middle East are "capable of removing the Zionist regime" from the world scene. (AFP)
> See also Ahmadinejad: Lebanon a School of Jihad - Attila Somfalvi (Ynet News)
> See also Ahmadinejad Denounces U.S. "Colonial Goals" at Hizbullah Rally - Nicholas Blanford (Christian Science Monitor)
> See also U.S. Lawmakers: Lebanon's Embrace of Ahmadinejad May Affect Military Aid - Jack Khoury (Ha'aretz)
> b.. 18 Iran Guards Killed by Blast at Their Base - William Yong
> An explosion on Tuesday at an Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps base near Khorramabad in southwestern Iran killed 18 and wounded 14 more, Iranian state media reported Wednesday. The Revolutionary Guards said the blast was caused by a fire spreading to an ammunition store at the base, which the research group Global Security says houses underground launching and storage facilities for Iran's medium-range Shahab-3 ballistic missiles. The base is close to Iran's restive Kurdistan region, the site in recent months of several attacks on Revolutionary Guards installations and personnel. (New York Times)
> c.. Deputy PM: Israel Officials Doubt Peace Reachable - Amy Teibel
> Deputy Prime Minister Moshe Yaalon said Tuesday that top officials doubt a peace deal with the Palestinians can be reached soon even though the prime minister has committed to try to reach an agreement within a year. "I don't know a single minister in the septet who thinks it's possible to reach a deal in the foreseeable future," he said, referring to the seven-member decision-making body in the Cabinet. Yaalon, speaking to Army Radio, accused the Palestinians of being intransigent and of carrying out repeated violence and incitement since 1993, when the two sides signed their first, interim peace accord. (AP)
> News Resources - Israel and the Mideast:
> a.. Israel Eyes Ahmadinejad's Visit to Lebanon - Herb Keinon and Yaakov Lappin
> Ahmadinejad in Lebanon is "like a landlord coming to inspect his domain," Foreign Minister spokesman Yigal Palmor said. Netanyahu's spokesman Mark Regev said that "Iran's domination of Lebanon, through its proxy Hizbullah, has prevented Lebanon from being a partner in peace and turned Lebanon into an Iranian satellite and a hub of regional terror and instability."
> Sources in Jerusalem said the visit demonstrates that Lebanon - thanks to Hizbullah - has turned into an Iranian client state firmly in the axis of extreme countries that support terrorism and are opposed to peace. (Jerusalem Post)
> b.. Israel: EU Call to Equality "Kicking at an Open Door" - Herb Keinon
> Israel dismissed as "preaching to the converted" a comment by EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton's spokeswoman on Tuesday that Europe expected Israel to guarantee equal rights for all its citizens, "whether they are Jewish or not." Foreign Ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor responded, "It was never on anyone's agenda to deny equality of rights to all citizens of Israel, as is guaranteed by the Declaration of Independence and by constitutional law....Warning against a phantom danger does not contribute to advancing the debate."
> Another diplomatic official said there was "no question whatsoever that Israel's non-Jewish citizens will continue to enjoy full civil and legal equality. This is fundamental for Israel and not a matter of debate - it is something we demand of ourselves." The official questioned wha t exactly equality for Jews would mean in a future Palestinian state - where the PA recently reaffirmed that the death penalty would be applied to anyone convicted of selling land to Jews. (Jerusalem Post)
> Global Commentary and Think-Tank Analysis (Best of U.S., UK, and Israel):
> a.. Why the Demand to Recognize Israel as a Jewish State Is Legitimate - Ari Shavit
> The demand to recognize Israel as the nation-state of the Jewish people is a legitimate one. That is why we came here. The supreme goal of Zionism is that in the Land of Israel the people of Israel will have a national home. Those who don't believe in the right of the Jewish people to a national home are racists.
> This is the heart of the conflict. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict stems from the fact that for a century, the Jewish national movement and the Palestinian national movement refused to recognize each other. In 1993, Israel recognized the Palestinian people and its rights. But to this day the Palestinians have not recognized the Jewish people and its rights. For true peace to prevail, there must be peace between the Arab Palestinian nation-state and the Jewish Israel i nation-state. (Ha'aretz)
> b.. Who Invited You? Ahmadinejad Visits Lebanon - Judith Miller
> No one in Lebanon seems to know who invited Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Beirut for a two-day "official visit." No Lebanese official has claimed credit for the trip, but it's shaping up as a huge political embarrassment for Lebanon. Ahmadinejad has visited southern Lebanon before. More than two decades ago, he came to the Bekaa Valley as an officer in the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps to help train the Lebanese Shiites who became the nascent Hizbullah.
> Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah was giving speeches in the late 1980s declaring that "Lebanon should not be an Islamic republic on its own, but rather, part of the Greater Islamic Republic, governed by the Master of Time [the Mahdi], and his rightful deputy, the Jurisprudent Ruler, Imam Khomeini," according to a speech published by MEMRI. (Fox News)
> c.. Welcome Ahmadinejad! - Tariq Alhomayed
> Contrary to everything that is being said about the Iranian president's visit to Lebanon, I believe that this is an important visit that will contribute to raising awareness in Lebanon and the region to the reality of Hizbullah and its subservience to Tehran, and the danger of following Iranian slogans. Hizbullah is welcoming a man that is opposed by half the people of Iran, and criticized by the Iranian conservatives more than the reformists due to the deteriorating economic conditions in his country.
> Nasrallah, who has excelled at corrupting the entire political process in Lebanon, is welcoming a guest that shares his hostility towards almost all Arab countries and the international community. Many in the region need to be shocked in order to see what is being plotted against them, and Ahmadinejad's visit is one such beneficial sh ock. This will help the Lebanese and Arabs see the danger that Hizbullah's subservience to Iran represents to Lebanon. The writer is the editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat. (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)
> See also Arab Media Slam Ahmadinejad over Visit - Meris Lutz (Los Angeles Times)
> Observations:
> Efforts to Reinforce Israel's Jewish Identity - Ruth Gavison (Ynet News)
> a.. I subscribe to the majority opinion of Jews in Israel, who believe that Israel is indeed the place where the Jewish people can realize its right to national self-determination, and that this characteristic is a crucial and just one.
> b.. I also believe that the gap between the state's Jewishness and a true commitment to democracy and human rights - including individual and collective rights for the Arab minority in Israel - is not unbridgeable.
> c.. Israeli-born citizens are not required to pledge their allegiance. Naturalized citizens (with the exception of those entitled under the Law of Return) are.
> d.. A nation is under no obligation to grant citizenship to anyone and it most certainly does not have to grant citizenship to an individual who is opposed to key elements in its creed. A nation is under no obligation to "volunteer" to accept those who object to its fundamental goals. A nation can condition citizenship. All nations do.
> e.. Naturalized citizens' pledge of allegiance to the state should include not only their wish to enjoy the benefits of citizenship, but also their willingness to undertake the obligations that come with it. It is a shame that the Arabs see the need to recognize Israel as the Jewish state as a beacon of discrimination or exclusion.
> Prof. Ruth Gavison is a law professor at Hebrew University, a senior fellow emeritus at the Israel Democracy Institute, and founder of the Metzilah Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanist Thought.
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> Fourteen centuries of hatred Jonathan Kay, © Commentary Magazine · Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2010
>
> When Israeli planes smashed Egyptian airf ields in the opening hours of the Six-Day War, announcers on Radio Cairo took to the airwaves, calling on Arabs in neighbouring countries to attack any Jews they could find. In the Libyan capital of Tripoli, then home to about 5,000 Jews, rioters responded with an orgy of murder, arson and looting that lasted three days. Even after the survivors had fled to Israel and the West, leaving Libya effectively judenrein, the anti-Semitic bloodlust remained unquenched. It was "the unavoidable duty of the city councils," opined one Libyan newspaper, "to remove [Jewish] cemeteries immediately, and throw the bodies of the dead, which even in their eternal rest soil our country, into the depths of the sea ... Only then can the hatred of the Libyan people toward the Jews be satiated."
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> Shocking words. Yet they do not come as a shock when one comes upon them in Martin Gilbert's newly published history of Jews in Muslim lands, recently excerpted on these pages. By that point in the chronology, I had become so numbed by the author's relentless catalogue of pogroms, executions, expulsions, forced conversions and the generalized terrorizing of Jews that the atrocities had lost their power to appall. It is not that Gilbert, the official biographer of Winston Churchill and author of books too numerous to count on Jewish and Israeli themes, is an unimaginative storyteller; this simply is the grim, unchanging nature of the epic hatred he has taken as his subject.
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> The Koran contains several very specific curses against Jews. And as modern terrorists often like to remind their YouTube audiences, Muhammad himself was a prolific Jew-killer. This passage from In Ishmael's House, for instance, describes events that took place after the Prophet's soldiers captured members of the Jewish Banu Qurayza tribe in the year 627: "[All] 700 Jewish men were taken to the market at Medina. Trenches were dug in the market square and the men, tied together in groups, were beheaded. Their headless bodies were then buried in the trenches while Mohammed watched ... All Jewish males who had not reached puberty, and all the remaining women and girls, were sold into slavery." This mass slaughter came to be described in Muslim religious literature as the product of divine revelation. To this day, it is cited as clear proof that Allah permits the most hideous forms of punishment to be meted out against nonbelievers.
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> In the decades following Mohammed's death, the rapid expansion of Islam across the Levant, North Africa, Iran, Central Asia and parts of Europe swallowed up a great multitude of ancient Jewish communities. In some cases, Jews initially welcomed, and even joined, Muslim armies, expecting deliverance from the bigotry and cruelty they suffered under Christian and other pre-Islamic regimes. And in many Muslim lands, Jewish religious and commercial life was permitted to continue.
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> But even in the best of circumstances, Jews were not treated as anything near equals. The eighth Umayyad caliph, Omar Abd-al-Aziz, commonly is credited with enumerating the rights of Jews and Christians-- "People of the book" -- under his codified rules for dhimmi communities. Yet his rules (whose spirit survives in many modern Islamic societies to this day) also declared that dhimmis could not ride horses, only donkeys; had to wear special clothing and shoes; could not serve as a witness in a case involving a Muslim; could enter bathhouses only when wearing a special sign around their neck; could not inherit property from a Muslim, or even bequeath their own property to their children.
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> The prospect of a Muslim being in any way subservient to a Jew was seen as especially obscene. In this regard, Gilbert describes a telling 19th-century episode from the Moroccan town of Entifa, where a 65-year-old Jewish man took in an impoverished Muslim woman as a servant during a period of extreme famine. When the town's governor caught wind of the arrangement, he thundered, "Can a Jew have a Moorish woman serve him? He deserved to be burnt!" The man was nailed to the ground and beaten to death.
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> Gilbert avoids broad generalizations. As his narrative moves forward from century to century, he shows snapshots from different Muslim lands -- emphasizing scattered instances, such as in Cordoba and, later, the Ottoman Empire, where truly humane and enlightened Muslim leaders took pains to protect Jewish subjects. In the courts of such leaders, Jews often rose to positions of wealth and power -- typically as doctors, linguists and commercial liaisons. Yet these successes didn't help Jews win acceptance but rather the opposite: Muslims saw Jews' good fortune as an insult to the revealed order of the universe. In this climate of poisonous jealousy, it took only a single isolated violent spark for an entire Jewish community to be engulfed in an inferno of murder, rape and looting. In 1066, for instance, the murder by a single Jewish vizier in Muslim Spain was followed by pogroms that killed 5,000 Jews. Centuries later, the appointment of a Jewish vizier by the Mongol emperor Arghun Khan led to similar massacres of Jews in Persia and Babylonia.
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> It goes without saying that Muslim civilization has no monopoly on violent and systematic anti-Semitism: Spasms of murderous Jew hatred were common all across Christendom during the 14 centuries of Islam's existence. But in recent generations, Western societies at least have tried to come to terms with their history in a morally serious way. Gilbert's book makes clear that this self-critical approach to history remains foreign to Muslim societies, especially where Jews are concerned. While Israelis have wrung their hands for three generations over the relatively minor (by historical standards) bloodshed incurred in their nation's creation and the wars that have unfolded since, no equivalent soul-searching has accompanied the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Jews from Muslim lands in the middle of the 20th century or the persecution and pillaging of countless Jewish communities throughout the entire history of the Islamic faith.
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> To this day, in fact, bloody episodes from early Muslim history involving the killings of Jews are often cited casually in Arab propaganda against Israel. No effort is made to interpret these stories in any sort of allegorical sense; instead, they are celebrated at face value as victories that validate the foundational Muslim narrative of conquest and submission.
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> The historical pattern Gilbert describes should inform the current debate over Muslim enmity toward Israel, and the exterminationist rhetoric and deeds that flow out of it. In the dream world of foreign-policy pop-punditry, it often is taken for granted that Jews and Muslims will get along like North and South Dakotans once Israel agrees to become an even smaller country than it already is. Yet this argument -- reflecting Western leaders' Asperger's-like fixation on international law and lines drawn on maps -- finds absolutely no support in the region's history. In the unending account of violence Gilbert has compiled, it is hard to find a single episode that centres mainly on real estate: The issue was always the fact of Judaism itself rubbing up against Muslims' pride and conceits.
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> The creation of the Zionist movement radically changed the Western understanding of the Muslim-Jewish conflict -- sweeping up generations of campus intellectuals who have projected upon it all their own obsessions with colonialism and class struggle. But in the Muslim world, Gilbert's narrative shows us, Israel's creation actually didn't change the Muslim-Jewish dynamic as much as is commonly imagined. The rhetoric and barbarism hurled against Israeli Jews after the Zionist project began were not new but simply the old, more diffuse rhetoric and barbarism being redirected, as by a lens, toward a particular pinprick on a map. This is tied up with the reason that many Muslims refuse even to say the word "Israel," preferring terms such as "the Zionist entity": Deep down, they regard Israel not as a country in the proper sense but rather as a sort of soil-and-concrete stand-in for the stubborn, maddeningly ineradicable Jewish presence in Middle Eastern life since the age of Muhammad.
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> Aside from its value as a purely historical exposition, In Ishmael's House is a splash of cold water for all those supporters of Israel who imagine that the world can be brought around to their side if it can just be made to appreciate how successful and advanced the Jewish state has become. As the author shows us, the continued vibrancy and economic success of Jewish civilization -- so close to Islam's very heartland -- is precisely what has fed Muslim rage and jealousy for 14 centuries. The obscure, hardscrabble Jewish holy cities of Jerusalem, Hebron, Safed and Tiberias attracted little attention from Muslims when they were poor. It was only once the desert started to bloom during the Zionist period that Muslims became obsessed with a holy city that doesn't warrant even a single explicit mention in the Koran and that Muhammad seems never to have visited. (Indeed, it is one of the great ironies of Middle Eastern history that the ancestors of many of the Palestinians now described as "refugees" originally migrated to the area from neighbouring Arab countries only in order to profit from the regional economic boom created by the well-educated European Jews who arrived in the early part of the 20th century.)
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> In past eras, spiteful Muslim leaders and mobs gave expression to their ugliest sentiments by unleashing violence against defenseless Jewish communities. Until Iran gets the bomb, the closest they can come to replicating this in our own era is by way of occasional bouts of suicide terrorism and missile volleys -- which is why those acts are encouraged and fetishized in such a lurid manner and why so few Middle Eastern Muslims regard them as a disgraceful or even regrettable part of their culture. However self-destructive such acts may seem to our eyes, they faithfully reflect a hateful pathology rooted in 14 centuries of Muslim history.
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> http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Fourteen+centuries+hatred/3655998/story.html
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmEpKsUS5k
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> Muslim Policeman in Britain doesn't have to protect a Jew
> Added by Yosef Yakov-Lev (videos)
> 1:58
> Muslim Policeman doesn't have to protect a Jew - it's the British law now!
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> Christian (as it was) Europe has done maximum possible to give Jewish Bethlehem to Arabs. Why? For only one reason - to make it worth for the Jews... Christian Europe doesn't care AT ALL that as the direct result of this action, almost all the Christians of the Middle East were exterminated. The only thing Europe ever wanted - to make troubles to the Jews, whatever it cost...
>
> A wise man once said to me:
> "Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed 6 million Jews and we trade them with 20 millions of Muslims... In Auschwitz we burned culture, thoughts, talent.
> We destroyed the chosen people - chosen to work for the good of all of us! Their contribution we can see in every aspect in life: science, arts, trading - the conscience of the world.
> We were pretending to be patient because after this terrible kill of all our Jews we wanted to prove ourselves that we are not racists. We have opened our gates to 20 million muslims which brought stupidity and ignorance, Islamic radicalism, crime and poverty...
> We traded culture with a fanatic hate; we traded creative talents with destruction; intelligence with prejudice; peace with those who seek to die...
> WHAT A TERRIBLE MISTAKE."
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> The good news is
> WE HAVE CREATED THE REAL SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEMS : http://summary.JewishStatement.org/
> PLEASE LEARN THE SOLUTION DEEPLY, print it (the first 2-sided page is enough to start with) and INFORM ALL THE SUPPORTERS.
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> It's time to win!
> And we will - as soon as we unite around the real wise solution, not around primitive catchwords and oversimplified slogans.
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> Yosef Yakov-Lev, yours truly.
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> http://www.zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2010/10/12/a-palestinian-israel-the-good-enemy/
> Oct 12, 2010
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> A Palestinian says what many are thinking. and dare not say.
> Israel, The Good Enemy
> Mudar Zahran
> Israel’s relationship to the Palestinians has always been globally approached with standardized heavy criticism made to Israel. The main charges waved in Israel’s face have always been “the Disapropriate use of force†and “discriminationâ€.
> Israel’s critics, either willingly or out of ignorance, choose to overlook the way many Arab countries mistreat Palestinians. Some Arab countries are almost never blamed for what they have been doing to the Palestinians for decades. Such selective recognition of facts by Israel’s critics is bizarre when weighed by truth instead of myths.
> In December of 2008, Israel launched operation “cast lead†against Hamas which was launching rockets on Southern Israel on a daily basis. This operation has resulted in the death of more than 1,400 Palestinians, many said to be civilians; an absolute tragedy, nonetheless, those criticizing Israel fail to recognize that the number of causalities is small comparing to Gaza’s population of 1.5 million, considering the high density of Gaza’s population per square kilometre, the number suggests the Israeli forces were very cautious in carrying out their attacks, despite the fact that they were chasing a moving target, Hamas militants. If Israeli forces were targeting Palestinian civilians, the number of the dead would have reached tens of thousands.
> On comparison; in 1976, Lebanese militiamen butchered 2,000 Palestinians; almost wiping out the entire population of Tell al-Zaatar refugee camp within days. This was revisited again in 1982 in Sabra and Shatelah massacre; where, in less than four days, Lebanese militiamen killed thousands of women and children who posed no threat as most Palestinian fighters had left then to Tunisia. Two years ago, al-Jazeera satellite network aired rare footage of Palestinians running to Israeli soldiers for refuge from the massacre.
> Furthermore, most Arab atrocities against Palestinians have included documented rape cases, even of children, while not a single rape case has been reported against Israeli forces in more than sixty years of operations.
> Arab governments’ oppression of the Palestinians does not stop at bloodshed and wholesale slaughters, in fact the more troubling aspects of the way they treat Palestinians is in the systematic long-range exclusion and discrimination. In Arab countries where Palestinians make up a good percentage of the population; they are depraved of all basic necessities, starting with education, down to basic healthcare. Even at countries that have granted the Palestinians citizenships; the Palestinians stand helpless and banned from every potential to improve their livelihoods.
> Israel, on the other hand, has always allowed Palestinians to work there and to get paid in Western standards, and even had allowed them generous access to healthcare. In fact, Israel has also welcomed Palestinians as visitors, patients and even as investors, this generosity was only limited when Hamas started bombing Israeli civilians with no signs of an end in sight.
> The complexity Israel has with Palestinians revolves around security rather than ideological issues; Israel does not have an aim to enslave the Palestinians for life or purposely degrade their humanity. While many Arab countries have designed their systems to discriminate and humiliate the Palestinians, squeezing them into illiteracy and poverty while milking them for tax money.
> This has become most visible recently with calls in some Arab countries to revoke citizenships of all Palestinians there and actually to force them to seek local guarantors to obtain residency, thus enslaving them for life.
> This comes as a deeper shock for Palestinians when they see Israeli Arabs, with many of them describing themselves as “Palestinians in Israelâ€; those are full citizens of Israel with access to all privileges. Israeli Arabs are fully represented inside the Knesset while Palestinians, in their Arab homeland, are allowed only symbolic presence in parliaments, even at countries where they are the majority. And while some Arab countries selectively withdraw citizenships from Palestinians, many Arab Knesset members do not hesitate to speak against Israel with no fear of losing their citizenships or entitlements.
> Still, while the world is most vocal about Israeli military operations, it fails to recognize that Israel has been dealing with non-stop unrest on its soil since the breakout of the Intifada in 1987. Has that Intifada taken place in any Arab country; it would have ended within the first couple of weeks with an Arab army killing more than ten thousands Palestinians, most being civilians. Examples of this are countless and in all Arab countries hosting Palestinians; yet the world seems to think this reality is too overrated to recognize.
> Today, with peace negotiations up and running, some Arab governments seem to want to butcher the Palestinians again on the altar of dictatorship by worsening their living conditions and making their lives more miserable, just to secure a better negotiating position or merely a seat at the negotiations table. Not to mention that many of those actually would rather see the negotiations fail in order to keep more international aid money flowing to them for “hosting†the Palestinians.
> Quoting a commentator on one of my articles; “the Palestinians, do obviously need a break from their sworn Arab friendsâ€, and perhaps they can reconnect to them when they have learned a lesson or two from their Israeli “enemiesâ€.
> Meanwhile, the world will remain silent about the Palestinians’ suffering at the hands of some of their “brothersâ€, as it’s too occupied with Israel.
> Mudar Zahran, Jordanian of a Palestinian heritage, is an academic who resides in the UK.
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> THE 'REAL' STORY ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
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> http://www.truthquestonline.info/NEWS_VIEWS.html
>
> HAPPY MARRANO DAY!!
>
> A few years ago I posted a short dissertation on this at Wickepedia that was removed before the day was over.
>
> My hundred year old politically incorrect Britannica has the proper story on Columbus. He was commissioned by Isabella to hide her favorite money-lending Marrano friends beyond reach of the Inquisition. Torquemada went after them because he sensed that they were not really converts to Catholicism, but still very much closet jews. After Columbus - who some suspect was also a Marrano jew - the bulk of the remaining Marranos voluntarily fled Spain and Portugal, largely settling in Hamburg, Amsterdam (then largest jewish city in the world, and London. Their instant reversion proved Torquemada right in his suspicions. Amsterdam then became the seat of the first big debt-bank in the world, London the second. Meanwhile Isabella's money lenders constituted the basis for jewish money power in Latin America.
> So forget about Columbus Day having anything to do with Italians, instead have a very HAPPY MARRANO DAY today, and help honor the money power over us all.
>
> PS: This reminds me of an old FDR joke: Comparing FDR to Columbus: "he didn't know where he was going, he didn't know where he was when he got there, and he did it all on borrowed money."
>
> Best regards,.
> Bob Taft
> The Taft Ranch
> Upton, Wyoming
>
> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/10/oy_the_passover_dinner_is_goin.php
> Oy, the Passover dinner is going to be awkward this year
>
> Posted on: October 11, 2010 1:21 PM, by PZ Myers
> It's a standing joke that the most homophobic ranters are likely to turn up in
> the news some day getting their luggage lifted. As it turns out, though, some
> of them face a fate that's even sadder.
> Remember Jonathan Katz, the physicist who briefly held an advisory position
> with the Obama administration until his online essay declaring that he was
> proud to be a homophobe
> http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/05/proud_homophobe_gets_just_dess.php
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> made the news? He raved about how homosexuality was simply disgusting and
> people with "unnatural desires" need to learn to repress them, for their own
> good and to prevent disease from spreading through the population.
> Surprise, Jonathan Katz has not been exposed as a practicing homosexual.
> Instead, his son Isaac has come out publicly as a homosexual.
> http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2010/10/son_of_avowed_wash_u_homophobe\
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> The elder Katz is going to have to learn something now, which is a good thing.
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> http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2010/10/florida-jewish-journal-beware-of-the-military-in-the-service-of-god/
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> FLORIDA JEWISH JOURNAL â€" Beware of the Military in the Service of God
> Published: October 8, 2010
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> By Rabbi Bruce Warshal
> November 10, 2010
> The following article will be published in the Florida Jewish
> Journal on November 10, 2010. At that time it will also be
> available at floridajewishjournal.com.
> The Journal is the largest Jewish newspaper in the country,
> with a weekly circulation of over 150,000.
> Four years ago Mikey Weinstein, the founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, led the fight to cleanse the Air Force Academy of Christian proselytizing. At that time cadets were pressured by faculty members and chaplains in command to accept Jesus. The football coach displayed a banner proclaiming “Team Jesus Christ.†Pressure was put upon cadets to view Mel Gibson’s movie, “The Passion of Christ.â€
> When a Lutheran Air Force chaplain complained that the cadets were being abused by “systematic and pervasive†proselytizing she was immediately transferred to Asia. Finally the superintendant of the Academy acknowledged the problem and predicted that it will take years to rid the campus of religious intolerance: “If everything goes well, it’s probably going to take six years to fix it.â€
> Apparently everything is not going well. This month Weinstein is preparing legal action against the Academy in light of new evidence that Cadets for Christ, an organization that many consider a cult, including Evangelicals like Pat Robertson, is actively proselytizing on campus with the help of officers and some faculty.
> When confronted with evidence of this activity by the Military Religious Freedom Foundation the Academy Superintendant Lt. Gen. Michael Gould answered through a press release that, “To date, the allegation is not substantiated.†But at the same time Gen. Gould has not released the annual Climate Survey for the first time in the history of the Academy. The obvious question is what does he know that he doesn’t want us to know?
> Veterans Today published a first-hand report by Darryl Wimberley, a former Air Force Academy professor, who wrote: “The cadets don’t harass other cadets under religious pretext on their own; they take their cues from officers, junior and senior, a core of whom believe, or at least behave as if, the USAFA is the seminary of God’s Air Force.†He continues, “One of the officers speaking with Gen. Gould, at the meeting where I was present, spoke of how his own son had been punished for not attending a ‘voluntary’ prayer service.†He also reported that the wife of an officer was told that her husband would never be promoted unless he started to attend Sunday school.
> Mikey Weinstein has allegations from 51 cadets who have corroborated that Cadets for Christ is actively influencing cadets on the academy grounds. One of those cadets writes: “Mr. Weinstein, USAFA is literally overrun with Christian conservative fanatics…I keep ‘Christian†books and ‘Christian CD’s in my room so others will be fooled and leave me alone.â€
> Why does this cadet feel pressured? He explains: “We all need those discretionary academic instructor points. We all need our AOCs and Wing and Group and Squadron staff to want to support us. We all want more playing time with our athletic teams. We all need help from ‘the system’ in an infinite number of ways, but we will never get that help if we do not appear to be extreme conservative evangelistic Christians in every way.â€
> This past month has not been a good time for the separation of church and state, the bedrock of religious freedom as guaranteed by the First Amendment. The Army Times reported that 80 soldiers at Fort Eustis, Virginia were confined to their barracks and put in “lockdown†because they refused to attend a Christian rock concert. Pvt. Anthony Smith, one of those soldiers said, “Anybody in the military will tell you that lockdown is a form of punishment. When we don’t want to go to this concert and we’re not allowed to use our laptops or our cell phones or music, we’re not allowed to be sitting in our beds â€" that’s a form of punishment.â€
> What is truly scary is that this concert was part of the “Commanding General’s Spiritual Fitness Concert Series.†I understand the need for physical fitness, but I question the legitimacy of born-again generals to define spiritual fitness. There should not be such a program in the military. But there is and it’s expensive.
> The Military Religious Freedom Foundation reports that a Christian headline group costs between $30,000 and $100,000. Weinstein looked into the Department of Defense contracts for other spiritual fitness events and programs and discovered that one outside consulting firm was paid $3.5 million. A columnist in the dailypress.com commented: “Praise the Lord and pass the military contract.â€
> Why am I so upset about this? Here’s my doomsday scenario: As this country is becoming more religiously and culturally diverse the military command is becoming more fundamentally Christian. As America slides into if not third-rate at least second-rate status over the next century there could become a cadre of officers who decide to revitalize us through Christian fundamentalism. I know that I will not live to see this and I pray that my grandchildren will not either. But nightmares sometime come true.
> A military that thinks it answers to God and not to the president (whether that president is a Republican or Democrat, white or black, male or female) is a dangerous force in society. I don’t want to let the camel’s nose into the tent. That’s the reason that I’m alarmed over the current situation. That’s why Mikey Weinstein and his Military Religious Freedom Foundation is an important organization.
> I have spoken to Weinstein on the telephone. I have never met him, but I intend to meet him this coming Monday, November 15 when he will be speaking at the Palm Beach Democratic Club meeting at 7:30 PM at the Marriott Hotel on Okeechobee Boulevard, West Palm Beach (near the Kravis Center and the Convention Center). It’s free and open to the public. I don’t get paid for this promo, but I believe that Mikey Weinstein has an important message that we should hear. I’ll see you there.
> Rabbi Warshal is the publisher emeritus of the Jewish Journal and is the author of “Provocative Columns: A liberal Rabbi Reflects on Beliefs, Israel & American Politics.†He can be reached at brucewarshal@...
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