Wrong again, like normal,
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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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> Have Isreal that the palestinians have a right to exist ,,
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> In-Depth Issues:
> 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.
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
> 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."
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> 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.)
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/Fourteen+centuries+hatred/3655998/story.html
>
>
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfmEpKsUS5k
>
> 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!
>
> 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."
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Yosef Yakov-Lev, yours truly.
>
>
>
> http://www.zionism-israel.com/israel_news/2010/10/12/a-palestinian-israel-the-good-enemy/
> Oct 12, 2010
>
>
> A Palestinian says what many are thinking. and dare not say.
> Israel, The Good Enemy
> Mudar Zahran
> Israelâ?Ts relationship to the Palestinians has always been globally
> approached with standardized heavy criticism made to Israel. The main
> charges waved in Israelâ?Ts face have always been â?othe Disapropriate use
> of forceâ? and â?odiscriminationâ?.
> Israelâ?Ts 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
> Israelâ?Ts critics is bizarre when weighed by truth instead of myths.
> In December of 2008, Israel launched operation â?ocast leadâ? 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 Gazaâ?Ts population of 1.5 million, considering the
> high density of Gazaâ?Ts 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 governmentsâ?T 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 â?oPalestinians 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 â?ohostingâ? the
> Palestinians.
> Quoting a commentator on one of my articles; â?othe 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 â?oenemiesâ?.
> Meanwhile, the world will remain silent about the Palestiniansâ?T
> suffering at the hands of some of their â?obrothersâ?, as itâ?Ts too
> occupied with Israel.
> Mudar Zahran, Jordanian of a Palestinian heritage, is an academic who
> resides in the UK.
>
>
> THE 'REAL' STORY ABOUT CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
>
> 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
>
>
> 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\
> _comes_out_in_post-dispatch.php
>
>
> The elder Katz is going to have to learn something now, which is a good
> thing.
>
>
>
> http://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org/2010/10/florida-jewish-journal-beware-of-the-military-in-the-service-of-god/
>
> FLORIDA JEWISH JOURNAL â?" Beware of the Military in the Service of God
> Published: October 8, 2010
>
> 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 â?oTeam Jesus Christ.â? Pressure was put
> upon cadets to view Mel Gibsonâ?Ts movie, â?oThe Passion of Christ.â?
> When a Lutheran Air Force chaplain complained that the cadets were being
> abused by â?osystematic and pervasiveâ? 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: â?oIf everything goes well, itâ?Ts
> 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, â?oTo date, the allegation is not
> substantiated.â? 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 doesnâ?Tt want us to
> know?
> Veterans Today published a first-hand report by Darryl Wimberley, a
> former Air Force Academy professor, who wrote: â?oThe cadets donâ?Tt
> 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 Godâ?Ts Air Force.â? He
> continues, â?oOne 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 â?~voluntaryâ?T prayer service.â? 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: â?oMr. Weinstein, USAFA is literally
> overrun with Christian conservative fanaticsâ?¦I keep â?~Christianâ?
> books and â?~Christian CDâ?Ts in my room so others will be fooled and
> leave me alone.â?
> Why does this cadet feel pressured? He explains: â?oWe 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 â?~the
> systemâ?T 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 â?olockdownâ? because
> they refused to attend a Christian rock concert. Pvt. Anthony Smith, one
> of those soldiers said, â?oAnybody in the military will tell you that
> lockdown is a form of punishment. When we donâ?Tt want to go to this
> concert and weâ?Tre not allowed to use our laptops or our cell phones or
> music, weâ?Tre not allowed to be sitting in our beds â?" thatâ?Ts a form
> of punishment.â?
> What is truly scary is that this concert was part of the â?oCommanding
> Generalâ?Ts Spiritual Fitness Concert Series.â? 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 itâ?Ts 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: â?oPraise the Lord
> and pass the military contract.â?
> Why am I so upset about this? Hereâ?Ts 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 donâ?Tt want to let the
> camelâ?Ts nose into the tent. Thatâ?Ts the reason that Iâ?Tm alarmed over
> the current situation. Thatâ?Ts 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). Itâ?Ts free and open to the public. I
> donâ?Tt get paid for this promo, but I believe that Mikey Weinstein has an
> important message that we should hear. Iâ?Tll see you there.
> Rabbi Warshal is the publisher emeritus of the Jewish Journal and is the
> author of â?oProvocative Columns: A liberal Rabbi Reflects on Beliefs,
> Israel & American Politics.â? He can be reached at brucewarshal@...
>
>
> LET THE REAL JEW STAND UP: YouTube - (part 1) Galatians: Will the
> Real Jew Please Stand Up?
> <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcG0Q0BY9A4&feature=related>
>
>
> A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy
> enough people to make it worth the effort. ~Herm Albright~
>
>
> Israel should not be fearing world opinion. Israel should be making the
> world fear (respect) her!!! Mech'el B. Samberg
>
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