tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72020222024-03-23T11:16:12.382-07:00NEWS FOR MEMBERS OF THE TRIBENews and commentary about Israel, Zionism, Judaism, the Middle East, Islamofascism, and anti-Semitism.motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.comBlogger8515125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-70338322873005705502019-06-07T21:16:00.001-07:002019-06-07T21:16:48.778-07:00Recommend a very fun iOS App<div dir="ltr">A very useful App, recommend to all of you.<br><br><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/app/id606710892">http://itunes.apple.com/app/id606710892</a><br><br><a href="http://www.orcbit.com">http://www.orcbit.com</a></div><br><br><div id="AppleMailSignature" dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-5321978833177375132008-04-01T11:27:00.000-07:002008-04-01T11:28:55.451-07:00THOSE DARN CHECKPOINTS!<a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3526464,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Palestinian youth caught with pipe bomb at Hawara checkpoint</span></span></span> </a>(YNet)<br />A search of a Palestinian youth at Hawara checkpoint, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, uncovered a pipe bomb. The bomb was detonated in a controlled environment by IDF soldiers. The youth was transferred to security forces for questioning.motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-77585494229409137222008-04-01T11:24:00.000-07:002008-04-01T11:26:28.601-07:00POLL: 76% OF ISRAELI JEWS FAVOR TRANSFERRING ISRAELI-ARABS TO "PALESTINE"<a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1206632376762"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Poll: Israelis favor Arab transfer to Palestine</span></span></span></a> (JPost)<br />A total of 76 percent of Israeli Jews give some degree of support to transferring Israeli Arabs to a future Palestinian state, a poll commissioned by the Knesset Channel revealed, Monday.<br /><br />The poll asked participants whether as part of an agreement to establish a Palestinian state there would be justification to demand that Arabs with Israeli citizenship relocate to Palestinian territory.<br /><br />Only 24% were totally against the idea.<br /><br />Of the remaining 76%, 29% said all Israeli Arabs should relocate. An additional 19% said only Arabs living in close proximity to the Palestinian state should relocate, and 28% said transfer should be decided based on loyalty or disloyalty to the State of Israel.motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-5152926629332415082008-04-01T11:17:00.000-07:002008-04-01T11:20:19.957-07:00NYT NOTICES THAT HAMAS HATES JEWS<span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">JUST A LITTLE "COMPLICATION." WHY SHOULDN'T ISRAEL MAKE NICE WITH PEOPLE COMMITTED TO THE DEATH OF EVERY JEW ON THE PLANET? HAMAS JUST NEEDS A HUG! </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><b><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/world/middleeast/01hamas.html" target="_blank" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hamas Ideology Complicates Peace Efforts</span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Steven Erlanger<br />In the Katib Wilayat mosque in Gaza one recent Friday, Imam Yousif al-Zahar of Hamas told the faithful: "Jews are a people who cannot be trusted." At Al Omari mosque, the imam cursed the Jews and the "Crusaders," or Christians, and the Danes, for reprinting cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. He referred to Jews as "the brothers of apes and pigs," while the Hamas television station, </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Al Aksa,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> praises suicide bombing and holy war. Such incitement against Israel and Jews was supposed to be banned under the 1993 Oslo accords and the 2003 Roadmap peace plan. Hamas, no party to those agreements, feels no such restraint.<br /><br /></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Since Hamas took over Gaza last June, Hamas sermons and media reports preaching violence and hatred have become more pervasive, extreme and sophisticated, on the model of Hizbullah and its television station </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Al Manar,</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in Lebanon. No matter what Israeli and Palestinian negotiators agree upon, there is concern that the attitudes being instilled will make a sustainable peace extremely difficult. (</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">New York Times</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></span></div>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-88875596976358915072008-04-01T10:07:00.000-07:002008-04-01T10:10:08.865-07:00GAZA PALIS ARE BARAK OBAMA'S BIGGEST FANS<object width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/21YF7ggCG6g"><param name="wmode" value="transparent"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/21YF7ggCG6g" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="425" height="355"></embed></object>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-4141939855923535922008-03-31T16:52:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:56:07.627-07:00HISTORIAN: BRITAIN NOW EURO CENTER OF ANTI-SEMITISM<a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1206632378756"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Historian: UK is now European center of anti-Semitism</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> </span></span></span>(JPost)<br />Britain has become the epicenter for anti-Semitic trends in Europe as traditional, age-old anti-Semitism in a country whose literature and cultural tradition were "drenched" in anti-Semitism has developed into a contemporary mix of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism, an Israeli historian said Monday.<br /><br />The problem of anti-Semitism in Britain is exacerbated by a growing and increasingly radical Muslim population, the weak approach taken by a timid British Jewish leadership, and the detachment of the British from their Christian roots, said Hebrew University historian Prof. Robert S. Wistrich in a lecture on British anti-Semitism at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs.<br /><br />"Britain has become the center point for the meeting of anti-Semitic trends in Europe," Wistrich said.<br /><br />In a wide-ranging two-hour address, the Cambridge University-educated historian, who has just completed a book on global anti-Semitism, traced the roots of British anti-Semitism to its history, culture and literature going back to medieval times.<br /><br />"Anti-Semitism in Great Britain is at least a millennial phenomenon and has been around for 1000 years of recorded history," Wistrich said.<br /><br />He noted that the expulsion of all Jews from Britain in 1290 by King Edward I following years of anti-Semitic violence was the first major expulsion of any Jewish community in Europe.<br /><br />Jews were banned from Britain until 1656, when Oliver Cromwell, who had overthrown the monarchy, authorized their return....<br /><br />In his address, Wistrich said that today's British media had taken an almost universally anti-Israel bias, especially but not exclusively on the BBC, with context removed from description of Israeli military actions, and Islamic jihadist activity such as suicide bombing never connected to ideology.<br /><br />"Under no circumstance will a Palestinian act of terrorism be referred to as terrorist, They are militants similar to the floor-shop dispute in Liverpool whose workers have decided to go on strike," he said.<br /><br />"Palestinian terrorism is portrayed as a minor pin-prick compared to 'massive' retaliation of this 'rogue' state [Israel]," he said.<br /><br />"You cannot read a British newspaper without encountering a variant of the libel that Zionism is racism or Zionism is Nazism," he said, describing a culture of "barely disguised hatred" when the subject of Zionism of British Jewry or Anglo-Israel relations is broached, unless they are "the good anti-Zionists."motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-78739059317059376212008-03-31T16:48:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:50:19.934-07:00HAMAS PUPPET THEATRE!<a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/greenwald/3138"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Hamas’s Puppets</span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"> by ABE GREENWALD (Commentary)<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); line-height: 18px; font-family:Verdana;font-size:13px;"><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">On March 30, Hamas’ Al-Aqsa TV aired a children’s </span><a href="http://www.memri.org/bin/latestnews.cgi?ID=SD188208" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(245, 108, 14); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">puppet show</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> in which a child puppet stabs a George W. Bush puppet to death. Here’s the child’s indictment of Bush:</span></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 20px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); "><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Child</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “You killed daddy in the Iraq war. It’s true, you killed him in the Iraq war. As for my mom - you and the criminal Zionists killed her in Lebanon. You and the criminal Zionists also killed my younger and older brothers in the Gaza holocaust. I’m an orphan, you criminal!”</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">I have to admit, I love the Bush puppet’s Larry David-esque response:</span></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 20px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); "><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Bush</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “What are you talking about? Where did you come from? Don’t I have enough troubles already? Where did you come from?”</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Good question. But this much is clear: If his father is Iraqi, his mother Lebanese, and his brothers Palestinian, the Democrats would champion him as being even better than Obama at leading America into a post-racial future.</span></p><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Of course, the kid is an amalgam of all the Muslim victims of American and Zionist imperialism. Which sheds a curious light on the scene’s final exchange:</span></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 20px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); "><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Child</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “You are impure, Bush, so you are not allowed inside the White House.”<br /></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Bush</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “What are you saying?! Why am I not allowed into the White House?”<br /></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Child</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “Because it has been turned into a great mosque for the nation of Islam. I will kill you just like Mu’az killed Abu Lahab. I will kill you, Bush, because that is your fate.”</span></p><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Child stabs Bush repeatedly </span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />Child</span></strong><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">: “Ahhh, I killed him.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But Abu Lahab was killed for rejecting Islam. These righteous anti-imperialists have the darndest time staying on message!</span></p></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-19095109367231776172008-03-31T16:45:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:48:13.631-07:00HAMAS LEADER OFFERS PARTIAL CEASE-FIRE, DENIES HOLOCAUST<a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1206632372365"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Mashaal offers to stop civilian attacks</span></span></span></a> (JPost)<br />Hamas has offered Israel a deal in which both sides would refrain from attacking civilian targets, the group's Damascus-based leader Khaled Mashaal said.<br /><br />In an interview with Sky News broadcast Monday, Mashaal said the offer was identical to one made to Israel 10 years ago.<br /><br />"We renew our offer to Israel to let the civilians on both sides not be a part of this conflict," he said. "We renew this offer today."<br /><br />Mashaal asserted that if the IDF refrained from killing any Palestinian civilians, Hamas would only carry out attacks against Israeli military targets.<br /><br />Mashaal went on to confirm that captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit was alive...<br /><br />Mashaal continued by saying that Hamas believed the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust was "exaggerated."<br /><br />"We don't deny the Holocaust, but we believe the Holocaust was exaggerated by the Zionist movement to whip up people," he said. "We don't deny the fact but we don't accept two issues. We don't accept the exaggerating of numbers and we don't accept that Israel uses this to do what it wants."motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-65172911334799882322008-03-31T16:42:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:45:05.195-07:00DID ASTEROID DESTROY SODOM AND GOMORRA?<a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343674,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Researchers: Asteroid Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah</span></span></span></a> (FOXNEWS)<br />A clay tablet that has baffled scientists for 150 years has been identified as a witness's account of the asteroid suspected of being behind the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah.<br /><br />Researchers who cracked the cuneiform symbols on the Planisphere tablet believe that it recorded an asteroid thought to have been more than half a mile across.<br /><br />The tablet, found by Henry Layard in the remains of the library in the royal place at Nineveh in the mid-19th century, is thought to be a 700 B.C. copy of notes made by a Sumerian astronomer watching the night sky.<br /><br />He referred to the asteroid as a "white stone bowl approaching" and recorded it as it "vigorously swept along."<br /><br />Using computers to recreate the night sky thousands of years ago, scientists have pinpointed his sighting to shortly before dawn on June 29 in the year 3123 B.C.<br /><br />About half the symbols on the tablet have survived and half of those refer to the asteroid. The other symbols record the positions of clouds and constellations. In the past 150 years scientists have made five unsuccessful attempts to translate the tablet.motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-67008313939660064332008-03-31T16:39:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:41:28.550-07:00NEW YORK'S NEXT GOVERNOR?<a href="http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?seriesId=6&id=3322012"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">London tab reportedly has video of FIA president in sex tape</span></span></span></a> (ESPN)<br />LONDON -- Formula One's governing body is keeping its distance from sexual allegations in a British tabloid newspaper about its president, Max Mosley. "This is a matter between Mr. Mosley and the paper in question," an International Automobile Federation (FIA) spokesman said. "We understand that Mr. Mosley's lawyers are now in contact with that newspaper and the FIA has no comment."<br /><br />The News of the World reported in a front page story that FIA president Mosley, 67, had taken part in a "sadomasochistic orgy" with five prostitutes that reportedly<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"> involved Nazi role-playing.</span><br /><br />According to a story posted by the London-based Times Online on Monday, Mosley and others "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">re-enacted a concentration camp scene in which he played the role of both guard and inmate</span>."motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-43538902479375622982008-03-31T16:37:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:38:13.750-07:00POLL: MOST AMERICANS SIDE WITH ISRAEL<a href="http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107776.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Most Americans side with Israel</span></span></span></a> (JTA)<br />A solid majority of Americans sympathize more with Israelis than with Palestinians, a poll found.<br /><br />The Gallup Poll published last week found that 59 percent of respondents placed their "sympathies more with the Israelis," with 17 percent sympathizing more with the Palestinians.<br /><br />The poll also found that Americans were split evenly on whether the Bush administration was doing enough to advance the peace process, with 46 percent agreeing that it is doing enough and 47 percent disagreeing.<br /><br />That was not a significant change from a year ago, before the Bush administration launched the Annapolis process and Condoleezza Rice, the U.S. secretary of state, started making frequent visits to the region.<br /><br />Such activity usually is reflected in polls. For instance, in June 2002, when President Bush launched his "road map" peace plan, 61 percent credited him with "doing enough." It's not clear why the administration's current efforts are not registering.<br /><br />Americans remain pessimistic about the prospects of peace. Only 39 percent believe Israel and its Arab neighbors at some time "will settle their differences and live in peace," compared to 59 percent who do not.<br /><br />The Feb. 11-14 poll of 1,007 Americans has a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-3219533764556307022008-03-31T16:28:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:30:26.182-07:00P.A. ANTI-SEMITES GET A FREE PASS FROM U.S. STATE DEPT.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><a href="http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=Y2ZmMmNhMTU0NjQyZDk1YTZhM2EwM2UxZWNiYzRhZmE=" target="_blank" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">PA Anti-Semites Get a Free Pass from the State Department</span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> - Rafael Medoff (</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">National Review</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)<br />The State Department conspicuously omitted the Palestinian Authority from its March 13 report on anti-Semitism around the world. The report did note that Hamas, which rules Gaza, treats the anti-Semitic </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Protocols of the Elders of Zion</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> as fact, denies the Holocaust, and broadcasts hateful TV shows aimed at children.<br /><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; font-family: verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">But the PA under Mahmoud Abbas, which controls the West Bank, managed to escape blame for the anti-Semitism that it promotes with no less energy. The American Jewish Committee released a study showing the PA's schoolbooks characterize Jews in "hateful" and "derogatory" language, cite the </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Protocols of the Elders of Zion</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> as a legitimate source of historical information, and omit any mention of the Holocaust. The State Department report did mention that in the 1990s, Holocaust denial became commonplace in popular media in the PA - without any acknowledgment that most of the "popular media" is government-controlled.</span></span></div>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-38089611794697242212008-03-31T16:21:00.000-07:002008-03-31T16:37:02.799-07:00ISRAEL MAKES MAJOR SECURITY CONCESSIONS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033000417.html" target="_blank" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Rice Wins Concessions from Israel</span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">- Matthew Lee<br />Secretary of State Rice, visiting the region for the second time this month, announced a series of concrete steps by Israel aimed at improving the Palestinian economy. The agreement includes: removing 50 travel barriers in and around Jenin, Tulkarem, Kalkilya and Ramallah; dismantling one permanent roadblock; deploying 700 Jordanian-trained Palestinian police in Jenin and allowing them to take delivery of armored vehicles; raising the number of Palestinian businessmen allowed into Israel; increasing the number of work permits for Palestinian laborers; building new housing for Palestinians in 25 villages; connecting Palestinian villages to the Israeli power grid; and Israeli support for large-scale economic development programs and encouragement of foreign investment. (</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AP/Washington Post</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">)</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">THE U.S. WAS "</span></span><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125731"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">VERY SURPRISED</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">" AT THE EXTENT OF ISRAELI CONCESSIONS. INDEED, ISRAEL SEEMS TO HAVE AGREED TO </span></span><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/trager/3136"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">SERIOUSLY COMPROMISE</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> ITS SECURITY. BUT CONDI </span></span><a href="http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343771,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">DIDN'T GET EVERYTHING</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">....</span></span></span></div><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);">LUCKILY, A CIVILIAN </span></span></span><a href="http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/107814.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">SAVED HIMSELF</span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 153);"> FROM BEING THE FIRST VICTIM OF ISRAEL'S CONCESSIONS.</span></span></span></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-44927750149205865062008-03-28T11:52:00.000-07:002008-03-28T11:56:23.992-07:00ROCKET HITS ISRAELI PRE-SCHOOL<a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1206632354848&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Kassam hits kibbutz school, none hurt</span></span></span></span></a> (JPost)<br />Three Kassam rockets were fired at Israel from the northern Gaza Strip on Friday morning, one of them hitting the outer wall of a preschool in one of the kibbutzim in the Sha'ar Hanegev region moments after the children were taken inside by their teacher.<br /><br />The teacher and a parent of one of the children suffered shock and the building was damaged.<br /><br />Two other Kassam rockets that were fired at the western Negev landed in open areas and caused no wounded or damage.motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-63209799724327822652008-03-28T11:49:00.000-07:002008-03-28T11:51:31.277-07:00MAGDI ALLAM: MEDIA DISCRIMINATES AGAINST ISRAEL<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 13px; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; text-align: left; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 10px; "><a href="http://blog.camera.org/archives/2008/03/magdi_allam_media_discriminate.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Magdi Allam: Media Discriminate Against Israel</span></span></a> (CAMERA)</h3><center style="text-align: left;"><img alt="allam.jpg" src="http://blog.camera.org/archives/allam.jpg" width="225" height="150" /></center><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; "></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born Italian intellectual who earlier this month made waves with his public conversion from Islam to Christianity — he was baptized at Saint Peter's Basilica on Easter night by the Pope — has weighed in on the media's (mis)treatment of Israel.</span></p><p style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In a March 1 column in Italy's best-selling </span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Corriere della Sera</span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">, Allam asserted that "If a comparison is made between the way the media have covered the battle Turkey has conducted against the PKK in Iraq, on the one hand, and the battle that Israel has conducted against Hamas in Gaza, on the other, one can see the clear discrimination against the Jewish state."</span></p><p style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 150%; text-align: left; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 15px; margin-right: 15px; ">The translation is according to <i>Ha'aretz</i>, which has published an interview with Allam. You can read it <a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969301.html" target="_blank" style="text-decoration: underline; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">here</span></span></span></a>.</p></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-1415013936879015332008-03-28T11:46:00.000-07:002008-03-28T11:47:23.867-07:00FORMER ARAFAT AIDE INVESTIGATED FOR EMBEZZLING FROM P.A.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><a href="http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=28495"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Former Arafat Aide Under Investigation for Embezzling Funds from PA</span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Maan News-PA</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)<br />PA Attorney General Ahmad Al-Mughani is considering taking legal action against Muhammad Rashid, a former economic advisor to Yasser Arafat, after news reports that Rashid is planning to invest $600 million in a construction project in the Jordanian Red Sea resort city of Aqaba. Rashid is suspected of having embezzled huge sums of money from the PA following Arafat's death in 2004.</span></span></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-57457622907306799882008-03-28T11:44:00.000-07:002008-03-28T15:07:21.655-07:00EU RELEASES $467M IN AID TO PALIS<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;"><b><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080325/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestinianeuaid_080325125736;_ylt=AgMUtu3bo3SPn8d44s8Dj.MUvioA"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EU Releases 300 Million Euros in Aid for Palestinians </span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(</span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AFP</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">)<br />The European Commission released 300 million euros ($467 million) in aid for the Palestinian territories Tuesday. Last week, the U.S. granted $150 million to the PA.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:verdana;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px;font-family:verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">SEE ALSO: </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; "><a href="http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20080328salamfayyad.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">Bush transfers $150 million to P.A.</span> </span></span></a>(JTA)</span></span></div>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-70140018609516616212008-03-28T11:43:00.000-07:002008-03-28T11:44:27.884-07:00HAMAS SMUGGLES IRANIAN ROCKET BLUEPRINTS INTO GAZA<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><a href="http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/969359.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Hamas Smuggles Iranian Blueprints into Gaza for Rocket Upgrades</span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">- Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel (</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Ha'aretz</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)<br />Hamas militants who recently returned to Gaza after training in Iran brought detailed blueprints for upgrading the capabilities of rockets, according to senior PA sources. The aim is to strike at Israeli communities north of Ashkelon. The source added that some 200 Hamas militants who received training in Iran, the Beqa'a Valley in Lebanon, and Syria have returned to Gaza. Hamas and Hizbullah militants are being trained in Iran together, and are learning the same fighting doctrines.</span></span></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-3970410725191045412008-03-28T11:42:00.000-07:002008-03-28T11:43:04.575-07:00JUDGE SETS ASIDE $200M TERROR AWARD V. P.A.<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); font-family: verdana; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/27/AR2008032703439.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Palestinian Authority Granted New Trial in Terrorism Damages Suit</span></span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">-</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> Glenn Kessler<br />The Palestinian Authority won a major legal victory when U.S. District Judge Victor Marrero Wednesday agreed to set aside a judgment of nearly $200 million awarded to American victims of Palestinian terrorist attacks in Israel and allow a new trial. The judge said that he would vacate the previous legal victory only if the PA put up a $192.7 million bond to ensure that it does not default again if it loses in court. He also ordered the Palestinians to reimburse the plaintiffs for previous legal expenses. But Marrero's decision gives the Palestinian government hope that it can escape from lawsuits that its officials said threatened to bankrupt it. (</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Washington Post</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)</span></span></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-87984747318164156152008-03-27T10:53:00.000-07:002008-03-27T10:56:28.566-07:00AFP DIGS UP INAPPROPRIATE FILE PHOTO<a href="http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/2008/03/afp-digs-up-ina.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;">AFP Digs Up Inappropriate File Photo</span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:verdana;"> (BackSpin)<br /></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:verdana;font-size:13px;"><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Palestinians in Silwan, adjacent to the Temple Mount, are protesting archeological work by the Israeli Antiquities Authority. Although the IAA digging is taking place </span><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">south</span></em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> of the Temple Mount and outside the Old City walls, this </span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/East-Jerusalem-Al-Aqsa-mosque/photo//080327/photos_lf_afp/4493771afc5758ee2bdd71605ed9c005//s:/afp/20080327/lf_afp/mideastconflictjerusalemarchaeology_080327062836;_ylt=Ana_JJ8oYec5W_gJ2SsXLqT2_sEF" style="color: rgb(25, 57, 121); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">file photo</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> accompanying </span><a href="http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqKLsrw_vAzHpA0MubslDP55VLgg" style="color: rgb(25, 57, 121); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AFP coverage</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> suggests something different:</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"><img alt="Afp_filephoto_ahmed_gharabli" title="Afp_filephoto_ahmed_gharabli" src="http://backspin.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/03/27/afp_filephoto_ahmed_gharabli.jpg" border="1" /></span></p><blockquote style="text-align: justify; "><em><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">File photo shows a trench being dug as part of an archaeological dig in the Al-Aqsa mosque compound. A tunnel that is being dug to access a Jewish temple and which passes under many Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem is causing new conflict in the city. (</span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/East-Jerusalem-Al-Aqsa-mosque/photo//080327/photos_lf_afp/4493771afc5758ee2bdd71605ed9c005//s:/afp/20080327/lf_afp/mideastconflictjerusalemarchaeology_080327062836;_ylt=Ana_JJ8oYec5W_gJ2SsXLqT2_sEF" style="color: rgb(25, 57, 121); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">AFP</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">/File/Ahmed Gharabli)</span></em></blockquote><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The implication is that the nasty Israelis are digging up the Temple Mount itself. Moreover, the caption omits that the excavation shown here was actually carried out by the Islamic Waqf when it </span><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6967457.stm" style="color: rgb(25, 57, 121); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">dug a massive trench</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;"> last August.</span></p><p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Related reading: </span><a href="http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DBID=1&LNGID=1&TMID=111&FID=254&PID=0&IID=2035" style="color: rgb(25, 57, 121); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">The Latest Damage to Antiquities on the Temple Mount</span></a></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">SEE ALSO: </span></span></span><a href="http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2008/03/afps-biased-article-of-day.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">AFP's biased article of the day</span></span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> (Elder of Ziyon)</span></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-51208942330132270382008-03-27T10:46:00.000-07:002008-03-27T10:52:46.155-07:00RANGE OF TERROR ROCKETS INCREASES<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;font-size:14px;"><b><a href="http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hqcNxFxXDLTcvkoYLAqNW_HCNt_AD8VLKCFG0"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">Israel: Hizbullah Increases Rocket Range</span></span></a></b> - Matti Friedman (<i>AP</i>)<br />Senior Israeli defense officials said Thursday that Hizbullah has dramatically increased its arsenal of rockets and their range. The officials said Hizbullah has acquired <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">new Iranian rockets with a range of 186 miles that can hit anywhere in Israel's heavily populated center</span>.<br /><br /></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:verdana;font-size:14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">See also </span><a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3524233,00.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;">I</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">DF: Islamic Jihad Producing Longer-Range Rockets</span></span></span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"> </span></span></span>- Hanan Greenberg (<i>Ynet News</i>)<br />The Islamic Jihad terror group has recently begun manufacturing rockets with a 12.5-mile range, similar to the Grad (Katyusha) rockets already in use by terror organizations in Gaza. The <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">new rockets are armed with a much deadlier warhead that carries double the amount of explosives</span> carried by Kassam rockets. Armed groups in Gaza have also recently obtained two new types of Iranian-made mortar shells, some of which can travel up to 6.2 miles.</span></div><br /><span style="font-weight:bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">SEE ALSO</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">: </span></span><span style="font-weight:bold;"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1206446113974"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;">Defense officials: Hizbullah has rockets that can reach Dimona</span></span></span></span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"> (JPost)</span></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-56096098602436731342008-03-27T10:45:00.000-07:002008-03-27T10:46:23.666-07:00ISLAMIC JIHAD LEADER ADMITS SECURITY FENCE THWARTS TERROR<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 128); -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><b><a href="http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/ct_250308e.htm"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Palestinian Terrorist Leader Admits Israeli Security Fence Blocks Suicide Bombing Attacks</span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></a></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(</span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">)<br /></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Abdallah Shalah told the Qatari newspaper </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Al-Sharq</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> on March 23 that rocket fire had replaced suicide bombing attacks because Israel had found ways to protect itself from such attacks.<br /><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: verdana;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">"For example, they built a separation fence in the West Bank. We do not deny that it limits the ability of the resistance to arrive deep within [Israeli territory] to carry out suicide bombing attacks."</span></span></span></div></div>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-59840181011654404422008-03-27T10:25:00.000-07:002008-03-27T10:27:13.719-07:00HAMAS: "WE DESIRE DEATH"<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(58, 58, 58); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 19px; "><h2 id="post-3099" style="font-family: Helvetica, sans-serif; text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; margin-top: 30px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/hazony/3099"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">“We Desire Death”</span></span></span></a></h2><span class="author" style="color: rgb(102, 0, 0); font-weight: 600; padding-top: 5px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 2px; padding-left: 0px; text-transform: uppercase; "><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/blogs/index.php/category/contentions?author_name=hazony" style="color: rgb(0, 102, 153); text-decoration: none; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">DAVID HAZONY</span></a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> - </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">(CONTENTIONS)</span></span><div class="entry" style="margin-top: 10px; line-height: 1.4em; "><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">How twisted is Hamas? Here is Fathi Hammad, a Hamas member of parliament, in a </span><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&cid=1194419829128&videoId=1205420714950" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(245, 108, 14); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">startling video</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> that everyone should watch. In a speech, Hammad described Hamas’ attitude towards the wondrousness of human life:</span></p><blockquote style="color: rgb(119, 119, 119); margin-top: 15px; margin-right: 30px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 10px; padding-left: 20px; border-left-width: 5px; border-left-style: solid; border-left-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); "><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">[The enemies of Allah] do not know that the Palestinian people has developed its methods of death and death-seeking. For the Palestinian people, death has become an industry, at which women excel, and so do all the people living on this land. The elderly excel at this, and so do the mujahideen and the children. This is why they have formed human shields of the women, the children, the elderly, and the mujahideen, in order to challenge the Zionist bombing machine. It is as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: “We desire death like you desire life.”</span></p></blockquote><p style="font-family: Verdana, 'Trebuchet MS', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; color: rgb(58, 58, 58) !important; line-height: 18px !important; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">Zowie. This is not a single suicide bomber, or a crazed lunatic, but a leading politician in the leading Palestinian political party. In </span><a href="http://www.commentarymagazine.com/index.php/hazony/2967" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(245, 108, 14); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;">recent posts</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"> I have suggested that the Palestinians have some important cultural issues which may need tackling before a genuine reconciliation with the West can happen. I do not know exactly how representative Hammad is of the average Palestinian’s worldview. But his party was voted in by a majority of Palestinians; even in the West Bank, traditionally a Fatah stronghold, Hamas has recently pulled even in polls.</span></p></div></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-64398913061709593062008-03-26T21:41:00.000-07:002008-03-26T21:42:32.172-07:00THE OVERLAP OF ANTI-ZIONISM AND ANTI-SEMITISM<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; "><h1 style="color: black; margin-bottom: 5px; text-transform: uppercase; margin-top: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"><a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/blog/2008/03/state-dept-overlap-of-anti-zionism.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">STATE DEPT: OVERLAP OF ANTI-ZIONISM & ANTI-SEMITISM</span></span></a> (JPC)</span></span></h1><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Jews worldwide are facing a new form of anti-Semitism disguised by hatred toward Israel, in addition to more traditional forms of anti-Semitism, according to a new report issued,</span></span><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080313/wl_mideast_afp/usjewscrime_080313232916"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';"> the AFP notes</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">"This new anti-Semitism is common throughout the Middle East and in Muslim communities in Europe, but it is not confined to these populations," the </span></span><a href="http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/102301.pdf"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">US State Department said in a report for 2007</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">.</span></span></p><p style=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">Even before this report was issued, Kenneth Marcus wrote about the dangerous and growing </span></span><a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/article/114"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">overlap between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism </span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">in the </span></span><a href="http://www.jewishpolicycenter.org/infocus/2008-03"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">newest edition of </span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">in</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">FOCUS Quarterly</span></span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'trebuchet ms';">.</span></span></p></span>motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7202022.post-60325365972858670472008-03-26T21:36:00.000-07:002008-03-26T22:08:31.689-07:00EGYPTIAN HATE SINGER TO RELEASE PRO-OBAMA SONG<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 2px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 2px; font-family:Times;font-size:13px;"><h2 style="clear: both; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Verdana, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: bold; line-height: 120%; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 6px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); letter-spacing: -0.05em; "><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=29400_Egyptian_Hate_Singer_to_Release_Pro-Obama_Song&only"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Egyptian Hate Singer to Release Pro-Obama Song</span></span></span></a></h2><p class="timedate" style="font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); line-height: 140%; margin-top: 2px; font-family:Verdana, Geneva, Arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">(LGF)</span></p><p style=" line-height: 170%; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Barack Obama has picked up another celebrity endorsement—</span><a href="http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=9666_Hey_People_It_was_Only_a_Tower&only" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Shaban AbdelRaheem</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">, the Egyptian pop singer whose best-known hit song is titled, “I Hate Israel:” </span><a href="http://www.sandmonkey.org/2008/03/21/anti-israel-egyptian-singer-makes-obama-song/" title="Rantings of a Sandmonkey » Anti-Israel egyptian singer makes Obama song" target="_blank" style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 102, 204); "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">Anti-Israel egyptian singer makes Obama song</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">.</span></p><p style=" line-height: 170%; font-style: normal; font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102);"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:medium;">EVEN IF OBAMA IS NOT AN ANTI-SEMITE, IT MUST GIVE YOU PAUSE THAT ANTI-SEMITES ARE DRAWN TO HIM.</span></span></span></p></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;">SEE ALSO:</span> <a href="http://politicalmavens.com/index.php/2008/03/26/cant-influence/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: bold;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: italic;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);">If Obama Can't Influence his Pastor, How is He Going to Influence Ahmadinejad?</span></span></span></a> (Political Mavens)motnewshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10523427917237366485noreply@blogger.com1