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ISRAEL
- WORD FROM YERUSHALAIM
Simantov Allalouf - The link below will take you to a short 10
minute video which clearly illustrates the indoctrination of
the Palestinian people from birth. To hate and to kill. Is this
the people we in Israel should give up our promised land of inheritance
to? Watch this and then send it to your congressman and government
officials. They need to know that fuelling hatred will ultimately
cause it to even come to your home town one day. Click here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=im8L0Klhgds
http://www.wordfromyerushalaim.com
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- ISRAELI NUCLEAR STRIKE ON IRAN TURNED BACK
- By William Thomas - January 18th 2007 - recent strike by
nuclear-armed Israeli Air Force fighter-bombers bound for targets
in Iran was turned back after being intercepted by U.S. fighters
over Iraq, this reporter has learned. Two sources have independently
confirmed the encounter, which took place on January 7, 2007.
Though the first informant offered few details beyond an initial
tip, a second source long-known by this reporter to have well-placed
U.S. and “non-U.S.” military and government contacts
provided specific information regarding the raid, which was aimed
at the radical religious ayatollahs holding ultimate power in
Iran.
- Israeli nuclear strikes are not unprecedented. Soon after
Desert Storm, U.S. Navy pilots told this reporter in Kuwait how
in late 1990 Israel made good on its pledge to respond in kind
to WMD attacks by launching nuclear-armed aircraft against Baghdad
following a lethal assault on Tel Aviv by Scud missiles tipped
with chemical warheads. That air strike was called off when the
Americans refused to provide the vital IFF codes needed to fly
through U.S.-controlled airspace.
- When questioned concerning the “Identification Friend
or Foe” transponder codes needed to overfly Iraq today,
this source said that allied Israeli aircraft are routinely provided
“squawk codes” when flying missions aimed at acquiring
the characteristics of air defence radars triggered by their
approach to Syrian, Jordanian, Iranian and U.S.-controlled Iraqi
airspace. Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/israeli_nuclear_strike_on_iran_turned_back.html
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- JEWS AGAINST ZIONISM
- The Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem is a Direct Consequence
of the Zionist Ideology!
- November 9, 2006, the Central Rabbinical Congress (CRC) of
the United States and Canada will protest the Gay Pride Parade
scheduled in Jerusalem for this Friday, November 10. The protest
will take place in front of the Israeli Consulate at 800 Second
Avenue, in New York City, at 4:00 p.m.
- On Friday, in Jerusalem, protestors against the parade are
expected to number over 250,000 and additional local protests
have been organized in most of Israel's major cities.
- Israeli Police have been compelled to mobilize an incredible
force of 12,000 officers from all over the country to try to
prevent bloodshed and Magen Dovid Adom, the Israeli medical corps,
has been forced to mobilize 50 ambulances and 10 para-medic motorcycles.
- Spokesman Rabbi Joseph Dershowitz stated: "The Zionist
made it their goal to replace the eternal Jewish religion with
empty nationalism. They discarded the age-old Jewish hope for
the redemption of the messiah and replaced it with a political
military achievement. They discarded the Jewish reverence for
the Holy Land and longing for Jerusalem and the Temple, and replaced
it with a secular, democratic country in which sin and immorality
are defended as legal rights. It is only natural that this total
disrespect for all that is sacred to the Jewish people should
culminate in their trampling openly and proudly on the laws of
immoral relationships called by the Torah "abominations",
acts that even the most assimilated Jews in past generations
would never have dreamed of committing."
- Coincidentally the "Gay Pride" parade is scheduled
to occur during the week of the Torah lesson on the destruction
of the ancient city of Sodom. Rabbi Dershowitz continued, "And
now, in the week in which we read in the Torah about G-d's destruction
of Sodom (Genesis 19), the unthinkable is happening: the modern-day
Sodomites are bringing their perversion into the streets of Jerusalem,
with the smiling approval of the Israeli Supreme Court, threatening
to make the Holy City into the next Sodom."
http://www.jewsagainstzionism.com/news/newsletters/jaz110906.htm
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- IS KABALISTIC RABBI KADINI'S YESHUA THE REAL THING, OR THE
ANTICHRIST?
- By Stephen Yulish Ph.D.- In September of 2005, a friend sent
me an article from Arutz Sheva which is Israel National News,
entitled "Kabbalist (Rabbi Kaduri) urges Jews to Israel
ahead of impending disasters." I had been very tempted to
just delete the article because of my disdain for anything to
do with Jewish mystical lore (i.e. Kabbalah). From personal experience,
I had found out that it was not of God.
- Let me explain. There has been a resurgence of late in the
ancient Jewish mystical practice of Kabbalah as a result of many
Hollywood types, some Jewish and some not, falling into this
spiritual delusion. Don’t be fooled, dabbling in this type
of endeavor can have serious consequences on you and your children’s
lives. I am not going to quote scripture to you or give you an
intellectual argument for avoiding Kabbalah. I am going instead
to tell you a real story about one person’s descent into
the spiritual arrogance of Kabbalah and hope that it scares the
hell out of you. That person was me! Continued:
- http://therefinersfire.org/kabbalah_messiah.htm
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- A COVENANT WITH AND AGREEMENT WITH HELL
- THE PLAN CALLS FOR A FULL ISRAELI WITHDRAWAL FROM AREAS CAPTURED
1967
- ".... The plan calls for a full Israeli withdrawal from
areas captured in the 1967 Middle East war, paving the way for
the establishment of an independent Palestinian state. In exchange,
Israel would receive full diplomatic recognition from the Arab
world.
- Olmert told his Cabinet Sunday that he is "ready to
treat seriously" the proposal.
- "We hope very much that at the meeting of heads of Arab
states to take place in Riyadh, the positive elements expressed
in the Saudi initiative will be revalidated and will perhaps
improve the chances of negotiation between us and the Palestinian
Authority."
- In the past, Israel has rejected the plan's call for a full
withdrawal from the West Bank and east Jerusalem. It also objects
to language that apparently endorses a large-scale return of
Palestinian refugees to areas inside Israel. Israel says the
return of large numbers of refugees would mean the end of the
country as a Jewish state.
- "This is something that contradicts the concept of two
states," Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni told Israel Radio.
"Our position has long been, two national states, one a
Jewish state, a national home for the Jewish people and the future
Palestinian state, that is the solution for the Palestinian people,
including the refugees."
- Livni said, however, the proposal could be the basis for
negotiations. The Saudi initiative also is endorsed in the "road
map," an internationally backed peace plan accepted by Israel
and the Palestinians...
- Israel and Saudi Arabia are both staunch U.S. allies in the
Middle East. Both countries are interested in bolstering Arab
moderates to counter the rising influence of Iran and radical
anti-Israel groups, such as Hamas and Hezbollah.
- Israel media have been reporting an apparently chance meeting
between Israeli Deputy Defense Minister Ephraim Sneh and Saudi
Arabia's ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir, in
Washington over the weekend.
- The Yediot Ahronot newspaper said Monday that the encounter
occurred in the corridors of the State Department and quoted
al-Jubeir as telling Sneh, "I hope that in the coming weeks
we shall move onto a positive track."
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- THEY AGREE TO DIVIDE GOD'S PROMISED LAND.
See Joel 3:2 and Daniel 11:39 - U.S. President George W. Bush
shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in the
Oval Office at the White House. May 23, 2006 (Reuters) Immediately
prior to the first day of the tribulation and the covenant confirmation
ceremony, something exciting is going to happen to the true believers
in Christ Jesus: "For the Lord himself shall descend from
heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with
the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first; then
we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with
them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall
we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with
these words" (I Thessalonians 4:16-18). Pastor James McCutchan
jmccutchan@aol.com
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- INTRODUCTION: CHRISTIAN ZIONISM DEFINED
- The term Zionism refers to a political Jewish movement for
the establishment of a national homeland in Palestine for the
Jews that have been dispersed. On the other hand, a Christian
Zionist is a person who is more interested in helping God fulfil
His prophetic plan through the physical and political Israel,
rather than helping Him fulfil His evangelistic plan through
the Body of Christ. - At its simplest, Christian Zionism has
been defined as 'Christian support for Zionism.'1 In Der Judenstaat,
published in 1896, Theodor Herzl forcefully articulated the aspirations
of Jewish Zionists for their own homeland, although the Zionist
dream was largely nurtured and shaped by Christian Zionists long
before it was able to inspire widespread Jewish support in the
1940's.2
- At the First Zionist Congress which Herzl convened a year
later in Basle, the Zionist aspiration was formulated in a call
for a, 'publicly secured and legally assured homeland for the
Jews in Palestine.'3 At the 27th Zionist Congress held in Jerusalem
in 1968, Zionism was defined in terms of five principles:
- 1) the unity of the Jewish people and the centrality of Israel
in Jewish life; 2) the in-gathering of the Jewish people in its
historic homeland, Eretz Israel; 3) the strengthening of the
State of Israel; 4) the preservation of the identity of the Jewish
people; and 5) the protection of Jewish rights.4
- Sharif understands political Zionism to be '...the ideological
instrument for mobilizing international support for an exclusively
Jewish state in Palestine.' She observes how in 1975, the United
Nations General Assembly passed resolution 3379 (XXX) defining
Zionism as, 'a form of racism and racial discrimination.'5 It
was no longer politically correct to view Zionism as merely another
national liberation movement, in this case for Jews. Uri Davis
has written probably the most critical book on the realisation
of the Zionist goal, entitled, Israel, an Apartheid State.6 Contemporary
Christian Zionism is in part a reaction to this world-wide criticism.
- So, for example, in 1967, following the passing of U.N. Resolution
242 in protest at Israel's occupation of the West Bank, and Palestinian
Jerusalem, when the entire international community closed their
embassy's in Jerusalem, the International Christian Embassy moved
to Jerusalem expressly to show solidarity with Israel. They and
other Christian Zionists believe that the modern State of Israel,
and Zionism in general, are divinely mandated, the fulfilment
of God's promise to Abraham. 'I will bless those who bless you,
and whoever curses you I will curse; and all peoples on earth
will be blessed through you.' (Genesis 12:3)7 So, Hal Lindsey
could assert, 'The center of the entire prophetic forecast is
the State of Israel."8
- Christian Zionists see themselves as defenders of, and apologists
for, the Jewish people, and in particular, the State of Israel.
This support involves opposing those deemed to be critical of,
or hostile toward Israel.9 It is rare therefore to find Christian
Zionists who feel a similar solidarity with the Palestinians
http://www.theunjustmedia.com/Christian%20Zionists/Introduction%20christian%20zionism%20defined.htm
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- THE ZIONIST PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EAST
- Translated by Israel Shahak The Israel of Theodore Herzl
(1904) and of Rabbi Fischmann (1947
- "... From the brook of Egypt to the Euphrates"
said Theodore Herzl. In his Complete Diaries, Vol. II. p. 711,
Theodore Herzl, the founder of Zionism, says that the area of
the Jewish State stretches: "From the Brook of Egypt to
the Euphrates."
- Rabbi Fischmann, member of the Jewish Agency for Palestine,
declared in his testimony to the U.N. Special Committee of Enquiry
on 9 July 1947: "The Promised Land extends from the River
of Egypt up to the Euphrates, it includes parts of Syria and
Lebanon."
- from
- Oded Yinon's
 "A Strategy for Israel in
the Nineteen Eighties"
Published by the
Association of Arab-American University Graduates, Inc.
Belmont, Massachusetts, 1982
Special Document No. 1
(ISBN 0-937694-56-8)
The Association of Arab-American University Graduates finds it
compelling to inaugurate its new publication series, Special
Documents, with Oded Yinon's article which appeared in Kivunim
(Directions), the journal of the Department of Information of
the World Zionist Organization. Oded Yinon is an Israeli journalist
and was formerly attached to the Foreign Ministry of Israel.
To our knowledge, this document is the most explicit, detailed
and unambiguous statement to date of the Zionist strategy in
the Middle East. Furthermore, it stands as an accurate representation
of the "vision" for the entire Middle East of the presently
ruling Zionist regime of Begin, Sharon and Eitan. Its importance,
hence, lies not in its historical value but in the nightmare
which it presents.
- The plan operates on two essential premises. To survive,
Israel must 1) become an imperial regional power, and 2) must
effect the division of the whole area into small states by the
dissolution of all existing Arab states. Small here will depend
on the ethnic or sectarian composition of each state. Consequently,
the Zionist hope is that sectarian-based states become Israel's
satellites and, ironically, its source of moral legitimation.
- This is not a new idea, nor does it surface for the first
time in Zionist strategic thinking. Indeed, fragmenting all Arab
states into smaller units has been a recurrent theme. This theme
has been documented on a very modest scale in the AAUG publication,
Israel's Sacred Terrorism (1980), by Livia Rokach. Based on the
memoirs of Moshe Sharett, former Prime Minister of Israel, Rokach's
study documents, in convincing detail, the Zionist plan as it
applies to Lebanon and as it was prepared in the mid-fifties.
- The first massive Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1978 bore
this plan out to the minutest detail. The second and more barbaric
and encompassing Israeli invasion of Lebanon on June 6, 1982,
aims to effect certain parts of this plan which hopes to see
not only Lebanon, but Syria and Jordan as well, in fragments.
This ought to make mockery of Israeli public claims regarding
their desire for a strong and independent Lebanese central government.
More accurately, they want a Lebanese central government that
sanctions their regional imperialist designs by signing a peace
treaty with them. They also seek acquiescence in their designs
by the Syrian, Iraqi, Jordanian and other Arab governments as
well as by the Palestinian people. What they want and what they
are planning for is not an Arab world, but a world of Arab fragments
that is ready to succumb to Israeli hegemony. Hence, Oded Yinon
in his essay, "A Strategy for Israel in the 1980's,"
talks about "far-reaching opportunities for the first time
since 1967" that are created by the "very stormy situation
[that] surrounds Israel."
- The Zionist policy of displacing the Palestinians from Palestine
is very much an active policy, but is pursued more forcefully
in times of contlict, such as in the 1947-1948 war and in the
1967 war. An appendix entitled "Israel Talks of a New Exodus"
is included in this publication to demonstrate past Zionist dispersals
of Palestinians from their homeland and to show, besides the
main Zionist document we present, other Zionist planning for
the de-Palestinization of Palestine.
- It is clear from the Kivunim document, published in February,
1982, that the "far-reaching opportunities" of which
Zionist strategists have been thinking are the same "opportunities"
of which they are trying to convince the world and which they
claim were generated by their June, 1982 invasion. It is also
clear that the Palestinians were never the sole target of Zionist
plans, but the priority target since their viable and independent
presence as a people negates the essence of the Zionist state.
Every Arab state, however, especially those with cohesive and
clear nationalist directions, is a real target sooner or later.
- Contrasted with the detailed and unambiguous Zionist strategy
elucidated in this document, Arab and Palestinian strategy, unfortunately,
suffers from ambiguity and incoherence. There is no indication
that Arab strategists have internalized the Zionist plan in its
full ramifications. Instead, they react with incredulity and
shock whenever a new stage of it unfolds. This is apparent in
Arab reaction, albeit muted, to the Israeli siege of Beirut.
The sad fact is that as long as the Zionist strategy for the
Middle East is not taken seriously Arab reaction to any future
siege of other Arab capitals will be the same.
- Khalil Nakhleh July 23, 1982 Continued: http://www.theunjustmedia.com/the%20zionist_plan_for_the_middle_east.htm
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- HAMAS-FATAH DEAL SIGNED
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- Norway First to Resume Support Hamas and Fatah officially
signed a power-sharing agreement Saturday. Norway was the first
to announc its support for the Hamas-led PA government.
Norway was home to the original back-channel talks between left-wing
Israeli politicians and the PLO when it was still illegal to
meet with the terror group and later hosted the Ill-fated Oslo
Accords, which created and called for the arming of the Palestinian
Authority.
- Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere said Saturday
hat the new PA government is "taking steps toward complying
with international demands…Norway will thus on this basis
re-establish political and economic relations with the Palestinian
government,” he said. "We've resumed normal political
relations.”
- The move is expected to renew some of the foreign aid cut
since Hamas won a landslide victory over Fatah in parliamentary
elections over a year ago.
- Army Radio quoted diplomatic sources saying Spain and Ireland
may be next to embrace the new PA government. France has invited
PA officials on an official visit and Britain plans on interacting
with the government through its non-Hamas members.
- Among members of the so-called Quartet - the United Nations,
US, European Union and Russia - the latter two have responded
most positively to the new PA government.
- "It is inarguably an important event in terms of consolidation
of the Palestinian ranks," a statement from Russia’s
Foreign Ministry said. The European Union said it “welcomes
the formation of a Palestinian Government of National Unity pursuant
to the agreement reached in Mecca on 8 February 2007, which lays
the foundation for Palestinian reconciliation.” The EU stopped
short of pledging renewed support pending an assessment of the
government’s compliance with the Quartet’s principles.
"The Presidency of the EU recalls the readiness of the EU
to work with and to resume its assistance to a legitimate Palestinian
government adopting a platform reflecting the Quartet principles,”
a statement read. “The EU will carefully assess the platform
and actions of the new government and its ministers.”
- The US said that it stands by the unmet demands of the Quartet
that the PA renounce terrorism and recognize Israel. Israel announced
that it will boycott the new cabinet, though continue to conduct
meetings with Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas. Cabinet minister Raleb
Majadele called upon the government to launch talks with the
new PA government. Majadele argues that half of the members of
the cabinet already signed agreements with Israeli under the
Oslo Accords and other agreements. The radical northern branch
of the Israeli-Arab Islamic Movement congratulated both Hamas
and Fatah on the new power-sharing agreement and expressed its
hope that the arrangement would serve the interests of Muslims
living in Israel as well as in PA-controlled areas. The group
appealed to the new government to make Jerusalem and the Temple
Mount its top priorities. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121873
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- NEW ISRAELI ARAB MINISTER RALEB MAJADLE WON'T SING
- New Israeli Arab Minister Raleb Majadle Won’t Sing Israel's
National Anthem
Israel's first Muslim Arab Minister of Science, Culture, and
Sports, Raleb Majadle refuses to sing Israel’s national
anthem, HaTikvah. Majadle, a long-time member of the Labor party
defended his decision, saying he does not believe that “enlightened
and sane Jews” would request a Muslim to sing a song which
speaks to the Jewish people. “The Arabs are not in a mood
to sing right now,” the Arab minister in Israel's government
commented.
- The new minister said in an interview with the newspaper
Yedioth Ahronoth, “To the best of my knowledge, the law
does not require me to sing the anthem, but to honor it.”
He said he expresses his respect by standing up when the anthem
is sung. “Of course I would not sing the anthem in its current
form. But before we talk about symbols, I want to talk about
equal education for my children. It’s more important that
my son would be able to buy a house, live with dignity.”
Majadle’s announcement led to protests from National Religious
camp and staunch support from Israeli Arab Knesset Members.
- MK Aryeh Eldad (NU/NRP) explained that he does not desire
to force Majadle to sing the anthem, but believes that someone
who does not identify with the character of the state as expressed
by the national anthem should not be serving as a minister.
- MK Zevulun Orlev (NU/NRP) expressed concern that Majadle’s
refusal might be a violation of his declaration of loyalty to
the state, and requested that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert ask
Majadle if he is loyal to Israel as a Jewish state. Arab MK Ahmed
Tibi (United Arab List) responded, “The attacks on him from
the Right are hypocritical, self-righteous and ridiculous.”
MK Tibi added that he too never sings the anthem. “HaTikvah’s
words cannot be sung by any Arab citizen,” he pointed out.
“Lately we have witnessed a torrent of anti-Arab statements
and this should be understood in this context,” he said.
- http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121874
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- CRITICS: OLMERT UNPOPULAR BECAUSE HE IS A FAILURE
- By Hana Levi Julian - (IsraelNN.com) Knesset Members pounced
on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's speech to Kadima leaders Thursday
night, saying his statements demonstrated his failure as a leader.
- The Prime Minister dismissed polls showing his popularity
at a record low, saying he is leading the country rather than
trying to be popular. He also slammed investigators and journalists,
blaming them for his poor ratings. His statements denouncing
attacks by the media and opposition aroused even more criticism
by Knesset members who chided him for pushing the “victim”
button in his speech.
- Kadima with the notable exception of Foreign Minister and
Deputy Prime Minister Tzipi Livni expressed
 support
for the beleaguered Prime Minister, who is facing two investigations
on bribery and corruption charges, in addition to a personal
critique in the soon-to-be-published interim Winograd Report.
The Winograd Commission was appointed by Olmert himself to probe
the conduct of government officials during last summer’s
war against Hizbullah terrorists in Lebanon.
- Party officials were not as positive about Livni’s remarks
after the speech, however.
- Livni, a fellow Kadima member who is widely considered the
top candidate to replace Prime Minister Olmert if the government
fails, was the lone voice in the crowd who evaded expressing
outright support for him. She confined her remarks to calling
on party members to unite behind the Prime Minister.
- Kadima officials close to Olmert criticized her for putting
politics above the party’s welfare. “All of the party’s
top members stood behind the prime minister and managed to rise
above their own political concerns – except for Livni,”
said an Olmert aide. “The political situation isn’t
easy for anyone, but there were those who knew to do the right
thing and support the Prime Minister, and those who didn’t.”
- Members of other political parties were quick to add fuel
to the fire.
- Likud MK Yisrael Katz vowed to introduce a bill to
dissolve the Knesset because the speech "proved
that Olmert has lost control...and there is no choice other than
to call new elections."
- National Union MK Uri Ariel called for the Prime Minister
to resign.
- From the opposite side of the political spectrum, Meretz
Knesset Member Avshalom Vilan said, "The Prime Minister
sounded pathetic to a certain degree." He advised Olmert
to “examine himself instead of saying that everyone else
is wrong."
- Likud Knesset Member Limor Livnat scored Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert for making an "excellent" speech that "does
not forgive the tragedies of the past several months and collapse
of government policy...and security." Continued: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121866
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- NEW PA FOREIGN MINISTER: RECOGNITION OF ISRAEL IS IMPLICIT
- March 18, 2007 By KHALED ABU TOAMEH -
 Two
ministers in the Hamas-led unity coalition said on Saturday that
although there is no explicit recognition of Israel in the political
program of the government, such recognition is evident in the
fact that it has pledged to respect agreements reached with Israel
in the past.
- "I think this is a very moderate political program,"
said Palestinian Authority Foreign Minister Ziad Abu Amr, an
independent academic from the Gaza Strip. "I think it addresses
every single condition of the Quartet. There is no reason whatsoever
for any country, after this political program is embraced by
the new Palestinian government, to continue with the boycott."
- Israel certain Quartet wall won't crumble New Palestinian
unity government's platform
- Top ministers in PA unity coalition Abu Amr told The Jerusalem
Post the platform constituted an implicit recognition of Israel.
"The recognition of Israel is included in the various articles
of the program," he said. "The program talks about
honoring signed agreements that include the mutual recognition
between Israel and the PLO, as well as the Oslo Accords. I don't
think there is any excuse now to continue the boycott."
- Abu Amr expressed hope that the US administration and the
Europeans would reconsider their policy toward the Palestinians.
"We expect members of the international community and Washington
to review their old position, to change it and to start dealing
with the new government," he said. "I think the Palestinians
have made so many steps forward and we expect reciprocity."
- PA Information Minister Mustafa Barghouti, head of the Independent
Palestine list, told the Post the government's political program
was "very progressive." The program, he said, placed
great emphasis on the rights of women and respecting international
and humanitarian laws. "This is a government that must be
accepted and dealt with by the entire international community,
if there is justice in this world," he said.
- "We are recognizing and accepting and honoring the existing
agreements. The president [Abbas] is assigned - and will be supported
- by the government to negotiate with Israel. This government
says that our goal is the establishment of an independent, sovereign
and democratic Palestinian state in the 1967 borders.
- "If Israel wants recognition, it has to recognize the
Palestinians as well. Today there is no excuse for anybody not
to accept the government unless they want us to remain slaves
of occupation and Israel, which will never happen.
- Continued: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879107118&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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- ABBAS OFFERS ISRAEL 'PEACE OF FREEDOM''
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH - March 18, 2007 - The Palestinians have
received assurances from some European Union countries that they
will end their boycott of the PA government with the swearing-in
of the new unity coalition, Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-led
coalition, said on Saturday.
- He said the countries that have already signaled their willingness
to deal with the new government include Norway, France, Britain
and Germany. Labor, Kadima split on new PA gov't Analysis: Strategically
crafted ambiguity Hamad told The Jerusalem Post shortly before
the Palestinian Legislative Council endorsed the new coalition
that several Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt and
Qatar, had been exerting heavy pressure on the US to accept the
new government and to lift sanctions imposed in the aftermath
of Hamas's victory in the 2006 parliamentary election. Legislators
gave a standing ovation as the council approved the new government
by an 83-3 majority on Saturday evening.
- Eighty-seven out of the 132 members of the PLC participated
in separate sessions in Ramallah and Gaza City, which were linked
by videoconference. Forty-one legislators, among them 37 Hamas
members, are in Israeli prisons.
 The new program does
not explicitly meet the three conditions set by the Quartet for
dealing with the government - renouncing violence, recognizing
Israel and abiding by previous agreements - but its wording is
open to interpretation, with some arguing that it does meet these
conditions.
- Addressing the session in Gaza City, PA Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas said the unity government marked the beginning of "a
new phase in the Palestinian struggle to establish an independent
Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."
- Referring to the first intifada, which began in 1987, Abbas
said: "Today we are proud to say that all forms of struggle
that we carried out led more than 10 years ago to the establishment
of the Palestinian Authority and its institutions." He said
the "national unity" agreement reached between Fatah
and Hamas in Mecca last month was in the context of Palestinian
efforts to "end the occupation of our lands that were occupied
in 1967 and to ensure a just solution to the problem of the refugees
on the basis of United Nations [General Assembly] Resolution
194."
- Abbas's speech carried four messages, directed to Palestinians,
Israelis, Arabs and the international community, respectively.
- Addressing the Israelis, he said: "We are ready, without
preconditions, to move forward with the peace process and resume
negotiations between the Israeli government and the PLO. The
policy of settlements, the construction of the racist separation
fence and the siege of Jerusalem will only make the path to peace
more difficult and complicated. We are once again extending our
hand to achieve the peace of equality and freedom. Here I wish
to emphasize that the Palestinians reject all forms of violence."
- Abbas reiterated his pledge to do his utmost to secure the
release of kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit as part of a prisoner
swap. In his message to the Palestinians, Abbas expressed hope
that the new government would focus on tackling the anarchy and
lawlessness on the streets, implementing social and economic
reforms, maintaining the security calm in the Gaza Strip and
battling growing unemployment.
- Continued: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1173879107125&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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- US 'DISTURBED' BY PA GOV'T PLATFORM
By ASSOCIATED PRESS - March. 18, 2007 - The Bush administration
found little good to say Saturday about a Palestinian coalition
government that falls short of Western demands and complicates
US plans to revive long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks.
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said part of the platform
announced Saturday was disturbing, and he called Palestinian
Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh's introductory speech
disappointing.
- Israel sure Quartet wall won't crumble
The PA prime minister called for pursuing "resistance"
against Israel, adding that his government would support "all
forms of resistance. In addition, the terms of the new government
do not fully satisfy requirements imposed by international donors
and would-be peacemakers that Palestinian leaders renounce violence,
accept Israel's right to exist and abide by previous agreements
the Palestinians made with Israel and others. "The ... reference
to 'right of resistance' is disturbing and contradicts directly
the Quartet principle of renunciation of violence," McCormack
said, referring to the international peacemaking coalition of
the United States, United Nations, European Union and Russia.
- The rollout speech that Haniyeh delivered to the Palestinian
Legislative Council "was disappointing and inconsistent
with the quartet principles, as well as a missed opportunity"
to affirm the new government's commitment to peace, McCormack
said. Israeli officials went further, saying the platform "thumbs
its nose" at the international demands. "This is a
great disappointment and a severe blow to peace," said Sallai
Meridor, Israel's ambassador in Washington. "Not only does
this government call for continued terror attacks against Israel,
it arms the extremists with veto power over any future agreements,
with the intention of slamming the door on future prospects for
peace." McCormack said the United States would continue
to deal with PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas and would continue to
refuse dealings with Hamas officials. Contact with others would
be evaluated case by case, McCormack said.
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- THE SHAME OF BEING AN AMERICAN
By Paul Craig Roberts - July 22, 2006 - Gentle reader, do you
know that Israel is engaged in ethnic cleansing in southern Lebanon?
Israel has ordered all the villagers to clear out. Israel then
destroys their homes and murders the fleeing villagers. That
way there is no one to come back and nothing to which to return,
making it easier for Israel to grab the territory, just as Israel
has been stealing Palestine from the Palestinians.
- Do you know that one-third of the Lebanese civilians murdered
by Israel's attacks on civilian residential districts are children?
That is the report from Jan Egeland, the emergency relief coordinator
for the UN. He says it is impossible for help to reach the wounded
and those buried in rubble, because Israeli air strikes have
blown up all the bridges and roads. Considering how often (almost
always) Israel misses Hezbollah targets and hits civilian ones,
one might think that Israeli fire is being guided by US satellites
and US military GPS. Don't be surprised at US complicity. Why
would the puppet be any less evil than the puppet master?
- Of course, you don't know these things, because the US print
and TV media do not report them.
- Because Bush is so proud of himself, you do know that he
has blocked every effort to stop the Israeli slaughter of Lebanese
civilians. Bush has told the UN "NO." Bush has told
the European Union "NO." Bush has told the pro-American
Lebanese prime minister "NO." Twice. Bush is very proud
of his firmness. He is enjoying Israel's rampage and wishes he
could do the same thing in Iraq.
- Does it make you a Proud American that "your" president
gave Israel the green light to drop bombs on convoys of villagers
fleeing from Israeli shelling, on residential neighborhoods in
the capital of Beirut and throughout Lebanon, on hospitals, on
power plants, on food production and storage, on ports, on civilian
airports, on bridges, on roads, on every piece of infrastructure
on which civilized life depends? Are you a Proud American? Or
are you an Israeli puppet?
- On July 20, "your" House of Representatives voted
410-8 in favor of Israel's massive war crimes in Lebanon. Not
content with making every American complicit in war crimes, "your"
House of Representatives, according to the Associated Press,
also "condemns enemies of the Jewish state."
- Who are the "enemies of the Jewish state"?
- They are the Palestinians whose land has been stolen by the
Jewish state, whose homes and olive groves have been destroyed
by the Jewish state, whose children have been shot down in the
streets by the Jewish state, whose women have been abused by
the Jewish state. They are Palestinians who have been walled
off into ghettos, who cannot reach their farm lands or medical
care or schools, who cannot drive on roads through Palestine
that have been constructed for Israelis only. They are Palestinians
whose ancient towns have been invaded by militant Zionist "settlers"
under the protection of the Israeli army who beat and persecute
the Palestinians and drive them out of their towns. They are
Palestinians who cannot allow their children outside their homes
because they will be murdered by Israeli "settlers."
- The Palestinians who confront Israeli evil are called "terrorists."
When Bush forced free elections on Palestine, the people voted
for Hamas. Hamas is the organization that has stood up to Israel.
This means, of course, that Hamas is evil, anti-Semitic, un-American
and terrorist. The US and Israel responded by cutting off all
funds to the new government. Democracy is permitted only if it
produces the results Bush and Israel want.
- Israelis never practice terror. Only those who are in Israel's
way are terrorists.
- Another enemy of the Jewish state is Hezbollah. Hezbollah
is a militia of Shi'ite Muslims created in 1982 when Israel first
invaded Lebanon. During this invasion the great moral Jewish
state arranged for the murder of refugees in refugee camps. The
result of Israel's atrocities was Hezbollah, which fought the
Israeli Army, defeated it, and drove it out of Lebanon. Today
Hezbollah not only defends southern Lebanon but also provides
social services such as orphanages and medical care.
- To cut to the chase, the enemies of the Jewish state are
any Muslim country not ruled by an American puppet friendly to
Israel. Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the oil emirates have
sided with Israel against their own kind, because they are dependent
either on American money or on American protection from their
own people. Sooner or later these totally corrupt governments
that do not represent the people they rule will be overthrown.
It is only a matter of time.
- Indeed Bush and Israel may be hastening the process in their
frantic effort to overthrow the governments of Syria and Iran.
Both governments have more popular support than Bush has, but
the White House Moron doesn't know this. The Moron thinks Syria
and Iran will be "cakewalks" like Iraq, where ten proud
divisions of the US military are tied down by a few lightly armed
insurgents.
- If you are still a Proud American, consider that your pride
is doing nothing good for Israel or for America.
- On July 20 when "your" House of Representatives,
following "your" US Senate, passed the resolution in
support of Israel's war crimes, the most powerful lobby in Washington,
the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), quickly
got out a press release proclaiming "The American people
overwhelming support Israel's war on terrorism and understand
that we must stand by our closest ally in this time of crisis."
- The truth is that Israel created the crisis by invading a
country with a pro-American government. The truth is that the
American people do not support Israel's war crimes, as the CNN
quick poll results make clear and as was made clear by callers
into C-Span.
- Despite the Israeli spin on news provided by US "reporting,"
a majority of Americans do not approve of Israeli atrocities
against Lebanese civilians. Hezbollah is located in southern
Lebanon. If Israel is targeting Hezbollah, why are Israeli bombs
falling on northern Lebanon? Why are they falling on Beirut?
Why are they falling on civilian airports? On schools and hospitals?
- Now we arrive at the main point. When the US Senate and House
of Representatives pass resolutions in support of Israeli war
crimes and condemn those who resist Israeli aggression, the Senate
and House confirm Osama bin Laden's propaganda that America stands
with Israel against the Arab and Muslim world.
- Indeed, Israel, which has one of the world's largest per
capita incomes, is the largest recipient of US foreign aid. Many
believe that much of this "aid" comes back to AIPAC,
which uses it to elect "our" representatives in Congress.
- This perception is no favor to Israel, whose population is
declining, as the smart ones have seen the writing on the wall
and have been leaving. Israel is surrounded by hundreds of millions
of Muslims who are being turned into enemies of Israel by Israel's
actions and inhumane policies.
- The hope in the Muslim world has always been that the United
States would intervene in behalf of compromise and make Israel
realize that Israel cannot steal Palestine and turn every Palestinian
into a refugee Continued: http://www.antiwar.com/roberts/?articleid=9381
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'NEW' PA: BUT WE DO RECOGNIZE ISRAEL
- By Stan Goodenough - March 18, 2007 - The reconstituted,
but still Hamas-led, Palestinian Authority went right to work
at the weekend to spin further webs of deceit in an effort to
hoodwink the international community into lifting their sanctions
against the PA. But we do_ recognize Israel. The very fact that
we have agreed to respect past agreements signed between Israel
and the PLO proves that we do, two "ministers" argued,
according to a Sunday morning report in _The Jerusalem Post.
- The program of the "new" PA was "very moderate,"
cajoled so-called foreign minister Ziad Abu Amr, insisting that
it "addresses every single condition of the Quartet."
- "There is no reason whatsoever for any country, after
this political program is embraced by the new Palestinian [sic]
government, to continue with the boycott." While the PA's
protestations are so transparent as to be laughable, there is
concern in Israeli circles that the EU, Russia and the UN, the
three of the four Quartet members most ready to go along with
the Arab game, will be open to persuasion.
- The Quartet's conditions include the PA's explicit recognition
of the Jewish State of Israel, and its renunciation of violence
and terrorism. In the Fatah-Hamas talks leading up to the establishment
of the new PA, Hamas argued - and Fatah agreed - that it simply
was not politically viable for Hamas to recognize Israel, and
that the Islamist terror group (at least) must be permitted to
pursue the use of, and support all forms of "resistance."
These include "suicide" bombings and any other form
of terrorism the Arab side chooses to use. http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1801
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