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ISRAEL
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- HAMAS WILL RECOGNIZE ISRAEL?
By David Bedein - FrontPageMagazine.com | Tuesday, April 22,
2008 - Republican congressional leader, called upon
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke Carter's passport
- In what will assuredly be seen as one of the greater gaffes
of his career, former president Jimmy Carter dramatically reassured
a packed crowd of diplomats and reporters this week that Hamas
would now recognize the Jewish State. Hamas, apparently, is now
ready to live at peace with Israel if a peace agreement is signed
and ratified by the Palestinians, which would assure that the
Palestinian state would be established in the areas taken by
Israel in the 1967 war. Carter made his statement at the Israel
Council of Foreign Relations at the King David Hotel in Jerusalem
on Monday, following his extensive visits with Hamas terror leaders
in Gaza, Egypt and Syria. It didn’t take long for Hamas
to clarify their intentions. Two hours after Carter’s speech
was broadcast on Israel radio, Hamas leader Khaled Maschal, who
had held extensive meetings with Carter in Damascus, denied that
any such assurance had been made. Maschal, who had overseen Carter’s
talks with other Hamas leaders in Egypt and in Gaza, once again
reaffirmed the Hamas commitment to liquidate the Jewish state.
Not for the first time, the ex-president was left looking like
a dupe of the terrorists.
- As a result of Carter’s consorting with Hamas terrorists,
a Michigan congressman proposed cutting off all federal funding
for the Carter Center. The CARTER Act, introduced by U.S. Rep.
Joe Knollenberg (D-Mich), would prevent any further federal aid
to finance discussions and negotiations with terrorist groups,
according to Knollenberg. Meanwhile, Rep. Sue Myrick ( R-N.C),
a Republican congressional leader, called upon U.S.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to revoke Carter's passport.
"Former President Carter has acted in contradiction of international
agreements to isolate Hamas," said Myrick, the deputy Republican
whip in the House. "He has acted in defiance of both United
States policy and international policy." For his part, Carter
is none the wiser. For his next visit, Carter reportedly plans
to meet with Fatah and then invite Hamas to join its governing
coalition. Although this may seem more sensible than his recent
outreach to Hamas, it suffers from the same delusion. Since 2002,
Fatah has officially been designated by the United States government
as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, an “F.T.O.” after
Hamas was designated by the United States Government as an "F.T.O."
in 1995.
- Although engaged in 18 years of negotiations with Israel,
Fatah is not much different in its purpose from its enemy, Hamas.
For instance, Fatah has yet to ratify the 1993 Oslo accords that
were reached with the late Fatah leader Yassir Arafat and his
protégé Mahmoud Abbas, and which provided Palestinian
recognition of Israel and renunciation of terrorism. But continued
Fatah negotiations with Israel have obfuscated the Fatah goal
of a Palestinian state that will replace Israel. This is a goal
that it shares with Hamas. Indeed, Fatah’s military wing,
the Al Aksa Brigades, remains on the list of organizations that
are designated by the United States government as a Foreign Terrorist
Organization. Despite its continued terror status, the governments
of the United States and Israel openly deal with Fatah. And if
recent history does not make the futility of such negotiations
obvious, one need only consider that their most vocal advocate
is none other than Jimmy Carter. http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=56D23761-CCA2-4D5F-80F8-44714DCCE34E
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- NETANYAHU CALLS FOR NEW ELECTIONS
- By Stan Goodenough - May 19, 2008 - The leader of the Israeli
opposition Likud Party, Benjamin Netanyahu, said Monday that
the coalition led by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert "must return
the mandate to the people to choose another government."
"The Olmert-Kadima government has no mandate to negotiate
on Israel’s borders," the former prime minister said,
according to Ynetnews. "This government was elected under
different circumstances and times. Most of the public knows that
any land we give away will become a terror base for Islam extremists
under Iran’s patronage," Netanyahu told a Likud faction
meeting, which along with the other parties' Knesset factions
was holding its first meeting in six weeks. "Bibi"
- as the Likud leader is widely known - steered clear of exploiting
the ongoing criminal investigation into Olmert, who is being
probed for having allegedly taken bribes. Instead he homed in
on the inability of Olmert's government to adhere to its basic
guidelines as laid out when it came to power on May 4, 2006.
- Olmert and his Kadima Party were elected to continue efforts
to pave the way for a two-state solution begun when Prime Minister
Ariel Sharon executed the "disengagement" [in reality,
retreat – Ed] from the Gaza Strip. [Ednote: We have an Interview
of Netanyahu with Glen Beck where he states what his attitude
is toward Iran. endofnote].
- The next step, which Sharon was gearing up to perpetrate
when he was felled by a hemorrhagic stroke in December 2005,
was retreat from Samaria and Judea - the ethnic cleansing of
Jews and the destruction of all Jewish towns and cities in those
areas in order that a Palestinian state can be created there.
- Samaria and Judea comprise the biblical heartland of the
Jewish people, the cradle of their nationhood. The Jewish patriarchs
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph are buried there, and the Old
City of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount and the Mount of
Olives are situated in those "occupied territories."
- According to "the Basic Guidelines of the 31st Government
of Israel" Olmert's administration committed itself to "take
action even in the absence of negotiations and agreement with
[the 'Palestinians'] on the basis of a broad national consensus
in Israel and a deep understanding with Israel’s friends
in the world, primarily the United States of America and President
George Bush [to establish] Israel’s territory, the borders
of which will be determined by the Government [and which] will
entail the reduction of Israeli settlement in Judea and Samaria."
- In the two years since the government's election, all Israel
has learned the price for relinquishing territory:
- The Palestinian Arabs turned the surrendered Gaza Strip into
a terrorist base from which thousands of rockets have been fired
into southern Israel - those attacks continuing to this day -
Israeli soldiers have been regularly attacked and Gilad Schalit
- the then 19-year-old IDF corporal - was kidnapped and is still
being held. In the summer of 2006 the Lebanese Hizb'allah, using
territory unilaterally vacated by Israel, kidnapped Israeli soldiers,
triggering the Second Lebanon War which saw thousands of rockets
fired into northern Israel, causing more than a million Israelis
to flee south. It is in the light of these painful realities,
Netanyahu said, that new elections have to be held. http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2449
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- ORTHODOX JEWISH YOUTHS BURN NEW TESTAMENTS IN ISRAEL
AP, via the International Herald Tribune, USA - May 20, 2008
- www.iht.com - JERUSALEM: Orthodox Jews set fire to hundreds
of copies of the New Testament in the latest act of violence
against Christian missionaries in the Holy Land. Or Yehuda Deputy
Mayor Uzi Aharon said missionaries recently entered a neighborhood
in the predominantly religious town of 34,000 in central Israel,
distributing hundreds of New Testaments and missionary material.
After receiving complaints, Aharon said, he got into a loudspeaker
car last Thursday and drove through the neighborhood, urging
people to turn over the material to Jewish religious students
who went door to door to collect it. The books were dumped into
a pile and set afire in a lot near a synagogue, he said.
- The Israeli Maariv daily reported Tuesday that hundreds of
Jewish religious school students took part in the book-burning.
But Aharon told The Associated Press that only a few students
were present, and that he was not there when the books were torched.
Not all of the New Testaments that were collected were burned,
but hundreds were, he said. He said he regretted the burning
of the books, but called it a “commandment” to burn
materials that urge Jews to convert. “I certainly don’t
denounce the burning of the booklets,” he said. “I
denounce those who distributed the booklets.” Continued:
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/21494/orthodox-jews-religious-intolerance
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- VISITING OBAMA MIDEAST ADVISOR: 'OBAMA WOULD BE GREAT FOR
ISRAEL'
Stated Obama on Brzezinsky: "one of our most outstanding
thinkers." - But, no way is he actually one of Obama's advisers.
Whenever Obama advisers are controversial, might cost him a few
votes, they go over the side. Whenever an Obama remark is offensive,
it is retracted and denied. That is not unusual. What is unusual
is that Obama seems to get away with it. It actually helps him,
by deflecting attention from the remaining advisers... Some of
whom are not much friendlier to Israel than Mr. Brzezinski. Clearly,
Obama does plan to enter direct dialogue with Iran "If the
current policies had failed." So, unless he declares Bush
Iran Policy a success... David Rochlin - USA (03/13/2008 )
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- BLAIR UNVEILE NEW 'WEST BANK PACKAGE'
May 13, 2008 By HERB KEINON - Quartet envoy Tony Blair on Tuesday
unveiled a package of steps designed to allow greater movement
in the West Bank, and help the Palestinian economy grow in a
way in which he said would be consistent with protecting Israeli
security. Blair, speaking a day before the arrival of US President
George Bush, said that the Israelis and the Palestinian Authority,
after weeks of negotiations, have agreed on the steps which he
said could begin to change the reality on the ground. "For
Palestinian statehood to be possible in the eyes of Palestinians
there must be hope that occupations will, over time, be lifted,"
Blair said. "For Palestinian statehood to be possible in
the eyes of Israelis, there must be hope, over time, that the
security of Israel will be improved and not harmed by the way
the Palestinians run their territory."
Blair, at a press conference at his headquarters in the American
Colony Hotel, said that the centerpiece of the package is an
area in and around Jenin which is greater in land mass than the
Gaza Strip, where the Palestinians will be given increased security
authority and a number of economic and social projects will begin
there. In addition, Blair said that the Israelis had agreed to
remove four checkpoints throughout the West Bank, upgrade seven
others, and move one.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668623995&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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- PRESIDENT BUSH MEETS WITH ISRAELI PRESIDENT PEREZ
 Residence of President Shimon
Peres - Jerusalem - In Focus: Middle East Trip - PRESIDENT PERES:
Mr. President, Secretary of State, distinguished delegation,
I got permission from the Americans to be -- and Tzipi Livni,
our Foreign Minister. I got permission to be all my life an optimist.
And you bring with you optimism, so I feel a sort of competition.
(Laughter.) But let me say that I know you have elections sometimes,
by the end of this year, and maybe there will be a change of
administration, a change of guards, I think before you will leave
office you will see a change of guards here in the Middle East.
What looks today so gloomy may be the last effort by some very
extremist group to remain alive, because it's concentrated, it
becomes sharp and clear, particularly in two places. In Lebanon,
Hezbollah is simply destroying Lebanon. It's a matter that concerns
not only the United States or Israel, it concerns the Arab world.
For them, the destruction of Lebanon is the destruction of statehood
in many other places. And it's a protest without a message. And
the second goes to Gaza, where Hamas is responding to the establishment
of a Palestinian state. I think you, and may I say the Secretary
of State, invested so much effort to enable the Palestinians
to correct the historic mistakes from 1947, because would they
then accept an Arab state, we wouldn't have all these troubles.
But never the mind, we cannot change the past. Continued: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2008/05/20080514-2.html
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- PRESIDENT BUSH ATTENDS ISRAEL ON THEIR 60TH ANNIVERSARY IN
ISRAEL
- AMD LEAVES IT TO OLMERT TO PUSH MIDEAST PEACE
Asoociated Press: U.S. President George W. Bush speaks during
the President's Conference in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 14, 2008.
President Bush said Wednesday that 60 years of Israel's existence
is cause for optimism for democratic change throughout the Middle
East. 'What happened here is possible everywhere,' Bush said,
opening a trip divided between ceremonial duties and a new push
for Israeli-Palestinian peace. (AP Photo/Ronen Zvulun, Pool)
(Ronen Zvulun - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, forth from bottom, gestures as
he attends the Israeli Presidential  Conference
along with Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Israel's President
Shimon Peres, in Jerusalem, Wednesday, May 14, 2008. President
Bush said Wednesday that 60 years of Israel's existence is cause
for optimism for democratic change throughout the Middle East.
"What happened here is possible everywhere," Bush said,
opening a trip divided between ceremonial duties and a new push
for Israeli-Palestinian peace.(AP Photo/Dan Balilty) (Dan Balilty
- AP)
President Bush is hugged by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert,
right, as Israeli President Shimon Peres watches at left, Wednesday,
May 14, 2008, at the Israeli Presidential Conference 2008 event
at the Jerusalem International Convention Center in Jerusalem.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh - AP)
Israeli fire fighters examine the damage at the site where a
rocket fired by Palestinian militants from the Gaza Strip, landed
at a shopping mall in the town of Ashkelon, southern Israel,
Wednesday, May 14, 2008. A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in
a shopping center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on
Wednesday, wounding at least 14 people, rescue officials said,
just as Israel's leader was discussing the violence with visiting
U.S. President George W. Bush and threatening large-scale retaliation.
(AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) (Tsafrir Abayov - AP)
Israeli paramedics carry a wounded woman on a stretcher from
a mall after it was hit by a rocket fired by Palestinian militants
in Gaza, in the city of Ashkelon, southern Israel, Wednesday,
May 14, 2008. A rocket fired from Gaza exploded in a shopping
center in the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon on Wednesday,
wounding at least 14 people, rescue officials said, just as Israel's
leader was discussing the violence with visiting U.S. President
George W. Bush and threatening large-scale retaliation. The rocket
ripped through the roof of the mall, causing a large chunk of
the roof to collapse in a huge pile of rubble and twisted metal.
Four windows were blown out of the side of the building. (AP
Photo/Gadi Kabalo) (Gadi Kabalo - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, right, and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert share a light moment as they visit Masada Historic
Site, Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Masada, Israel. the leaders
and their wives toured Masada, the ancient fortress on a plateau
in the desert overlooking the Dead Sea, said to be the place
where Jewish rebels killed themselves and each other 2,000-years
ago rather than fall into slavery under the Romans. (AP Photo/Susan
Walsh) (Susan Walsh - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush talks with Rafi Schraer of San
Diego, Calif., right, as Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is
at left, during a visit to Masada Historic Site, Thursday, May
15, 2008 in Masada, Israel. Schraer is a student working at Masada.
The leaders and their wives toured Masada, the ancient fortress
on a plateau in the desert overlooking the Dead Sea, said to
be the place where Jewish rebels killed themselves and each other
2,000-years ago rather than fall into slavery under the Romans.
(AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, left, and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert tour the historic fortress of Masada, Thursday, May
15, 2008, in Israel. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) (Haraz N. Ghanbari
- AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, right, and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert share a laugh after touring the historic fortress
of Masada, Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Israel. The leaders toured
Masada, the ancient fortress on a plateau in the desert overlooking
the Dead Sea, said to be the place where Jewish rebels killed
themselves and each other 2,000-years ago rather than fall into
slavery under the Romans. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) (Haraz
N. Ghanbari - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, left, and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert tour the historic fortress of Masada, Thursday, May
15, 2008, in Israel. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari) (Haraz N. Ghanbari
- AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, right, and Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert talk after touring the historic fortress of Masada,
Thursday, May 15, 2008, in Israel. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)
(Haraz N. Ghanbari - AP)
 President Bush addresses
the Knesset in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan
Walsh) (Susan Walsh - AP)
President Bush waves after addressing the Knesset in Jerusalem,
Thursday, May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh -
AP)
President Bush, center, and Aliza Olmert, wife of Israeli Prime
Minister Ehud Olmert, right, listen to Masada National Park Director
Eitan Campbell during their tour of the ancient fortress, on
a plateau in the desert overlooking the Dead Sea, Thursday, May
15, 2008. (AP Photo/Jennifer Loven) (Jennifer Lover - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, bottom center, inspects an honor
guard with Knesset speaker Dalia Itzik during a ceremony at the
Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 15,
2008. Marking the 60th anniversary of Israel's founding, President
Bush on Thursday criticized the deadly tactics of extremist groups
and denounced anti-Semitism, especially by those who want to
wipe the nation "off the map." (AP Photo/David Silverman,
Pool) (David Silverman - AP)
First lady Laura Bush waves as she walks with President Bush
and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, right, during an arrival ceremony
at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Thursday, May 15, 2008. (AP Photo/Susan
Walsh) (Susan Walsh - AP)
People are escorted from the floor of the Knesset in Jerusalem,
Thursday, May 15, 2008, prior to President Bush's remarks. (AP
Photo/Susan Walsh) (Susan Walsh - AP)
U.S. President George W. Bush, center, and Israel's President
Shimon Peres are greeted by Israeli parliament members at a special
session of the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem Thursday,
May 15, 2008. Bush on Thursday criticized the deadly tactics
of extremist groups like al-Qaida, Hezbollah and Hamas and said
he looks toward the day when Muslims "recognize the emptiness
of the terrorists' vision and the injustice of their cause."
(AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool) (Ariel Schalit - AP)
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The Associated Press By Terence Hunt - May 15, 2008 - JERUSALEM
-- President Bush gently urged Mideast leaders to "make
the hard choices necessary for peace," leaving it to embattled
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert to stand before a divided
parliament Thursday and forcefully declare that this war-weary
nation is ready for a historic agreement with Palestinians.
- On a day mourned by Palestinians as the 60th anniversary
of their uprooting by Israel's independence, Bush mentioned the
Palestinians only once in a 23-minute speech to the Knesset _
and then only in the context of what a Palestinian state would
look like six decades from now.
- Some Israelis and Palestinians were disappointed that Bush
failed to use his high-profile appearance to push the two sides
to take the concrete steps to achieve his own goal of a peace
deal before the end of his presidency. Most notably, Bush's speech
ignited a political uproar on the campaign trail back home.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/15/AR2008051500263.html
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- OLMERT WILL TRADE GOLAN TO SAVE HIS SKIN
- By Stan Goodenough - May 21, 2008 - Israeli Prime Minister
Ehud Olmert, increasingly desperate in the face of advanced criminal
investigations against him, had his office drop a political bombshell
on the country Wednesday by announcing that Israel and Syria
are holding peace talks in Turkey. This suspicion was the instinctive
reaction of a great many Israeli parliamentarians, including
members of Olmert's ruling coalition, following the surprise
news that hit Israel's airwaves Wednesday morning. "The
publication of the negotiations has a clear purpose, aimed at
covering up the prime minister's investigations," charged
angry Labor Party MK Danny Yatom. Yatom party colleague MK Shelly
Yacimovich said the prime minister's "only aim" was
to divert attention from "his cash envelopes" –
envelopes containing money Olmert allegedly received from businessmen
and placed in his own pocket.
- The chairman of the Likud faction, MK Gideon Sa'ar, said
the announcement demonstrated that "Olmert's calculated
cynicism when gambling Israel's strategic assets for his own
political survival knows no bounds… "He has no mandate
to make any concession in the Golan Heights," he declared.
- Likud, National Union-National Religious Party and Yisrael
Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party leaders all leveled criticism
at the prime minister. For his part, Syrian President Bashar
el-Assad has said that he is interested in negotiating with Israel.
He has warned, however, that if the talks collapse without an
agreement then "war may really be the only solution".
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2454
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- ISRAEL'S GOLAN HEIGHTS BACK ON THE TABLE
By Stan Goodenough - May 21, 2008 - The global effort to wrest
the Jews' restored homeland from them lurched ahead Wednesday
with the revelation that the Olmert government is - and has been
for more than a year – preparing to negotiate an agreement
with Damascus that is believed to involve Israel's surrender
to Syria of the Golan Heights. Indirect talks through Turkish
intermediaries, Israelis suddenly learned, are slated to start
two weeks from now according to an almost simultaneous announcement
made by Israel and Syria Wednesday morning. The Prime Minister's
Office in Jerusalem released a statement that read: "The
two sides have begun indirect talks under Turkish auspices [and]
have declared their intention to conduct the talks without prejudice
and with openness... They have decided to conduct the dialogue
in a serious and continuous manner with the aim of reaching a
comprehensive peace." Syria's foreign ministry said "Syria
has started indirect peace talks with Israel under Turkish auspices.
Both sides have expressed their desire to conduct the talks in
good will and decided to continue dialogue with seriousness to
achieve comprehensive peace."
- But according to the Israeli daily Ha'aretz, Syrian Foreign
Minister Walid al-Muallem added that in advance of the negotiations,
Israel has promised to give away the Golan Heights and withdraw
to the ceasefire line that was in place between 1949 and 1967.
Israeli officials denied this, but Syria has consistently conditioned
any peace treaty with Israel on such a surrender of the heights,
and the denials are being treated with some cynicism. The Golan
Heights is a ridge of slopes leading to a plateau high above
the Huleh Valley and Lake Kinneret in the Upper Galilee. An integral
part of the biblical Promised Land, and known in ancient Israel
as Bashan, the "Land of the Giants," Joshua awarded
the territory as an inheritance to the Israelite half-tribe of
Manasseh. In the second half of the first century of the Common
Era Rome, which then occupied the entire Land of Israel, attacked
the Jewish communities on the Golan - including the town of Gamla
- massacring their inhabitants and sending the survivors into
exile.
- For nearly 2000 years the Golan was part of Middle Eastern
territory that came under the control of one nation after another,
most notably the Ottoman Empire, to which it belonged as part
of the province of Palestine for 600 years until that empire
was destroyed during the First World War.
- The Heights was included in the territory pledged to the
Jews in the 1917 Balfour Declaration for the recreation of their
national homeland. But the British Empire, given the mandate
to oversee the creation of this Jewish state, instead lopped
off the Golan and gave it to the French protectorate of Syria.
- Syria - one of a number of Arab states newly-created out
of the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire - won its independence
in 1944 and so controlled the heights until 1967 - a period of
just 23 years.
- During that time Syria made no effort to develop the land,
instead using it as a platform from which to shoot down on the
Jews in the farms and communities below. After failing to destroy
Israel in her War of Independence, Syria between 1949 and 1967
violated the Armistice Agreement signed as a result of that war
some 400 times. At least 140 Israelis were killed by Syrian fire
in that period. In response to the unrelenting aggression and
terrorism, the Israel Defense Forces threw the Syrians off the
Golan in 1967, returning the land to Jewish rule for the first
time since the Romans conquered it nearly 2000 years ago.
- It has now been under Israeli control for 40 years. Israel
annexed the Golan Heights in 1981 and that land is under Israeli
law and home to approximately 40,000 Israelis - Jews, Druze and
Muslim Arabs.
- http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2453
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- SMUGNESS OF PERPETUATING HOLOCAUST.
- by Steven Shamrak "All that is necessary for the triumph
of evil is that good men do nothing." Edmund Burke. - Jew-haters
can't even do that! In his book "My Life", Adolf Hitler
clearly described his vision of the future of the Jews in Europe.
By 1939 his anti-Semitic and xenophobic vision became reality.
Concentration camps were built to detain Communists, Socialists,
Jews, Gypsies, Homosexuals and others. Disabled children and
adults were 'relieved' of their lives as a part of the systematic
campaign of German national purification. (Please visit and view
the chronology of the Holocaust.)
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- In 1939, when Europe's Jews most desperately needed a safe
haven, Britain issued the second White Paper further limiting
Jewish immigration to Palestine and imposed a limit of 75,000
Jewish immigrants for the five-year period 1940-1944. In the
summer of 1939, as immigration opportunities everywhere were
being denied to the desperate Jews of Europe, the S.S. St Louis,
full of Jewish passengers who had, with great difficulty legally
obtained visas for the United States, was turned away by the
US authorities. The St. Louis was a test case set by the Nazis
in order to confirm that the democracies were unconcerned about
the fate of the Jews, just as they had not cared about the genocide
of 1.5 million Armenians committed by Ottoman Turkey in 1915.
Most Jews, passengers on the St. Louis, perished in death camps.
-
- The intention of Nazi Germany toward Jews was a well-known
'secret' even before WW2 began, as many Jews escaped from Germany
and brought first hand accounts of the Fascists' persecution
and it was confirmed by press and diplomats. During the war,
the allied commands of the USA, UK and USSR were well informed
about atrocities perpetrated by the Fascist regime and local
Nazi collaborators against Jews. In spite of that, out of thousands
of air raids made by the US and British bombers, none of them
was carried out to deliberately disrupt the Nazi genocide machine.
No gas chamber, no concentration camp, no bridge or railway line
of the Holocaust machinery was destroyed or even targeted!
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- After the war, the same world powers made every conceivable
effort to ensure that new Jewish state would not survive. It
included: preventing Jews from reaching Palestine, the land which
was designated by the League of Nations in 1922 as Eretz-Israel;
disallowing Jews to arm themselves, while recently created Arab
countries already had established their own armed forces with
the clear intention of preventing the creation of the Jewish
state; imposing a trade blockade so that the newly created Jewish
state, which was being attacked by seven Muslim countries, was
not able to arm herself.
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- Even now, the international community is actively preventing
Israel from effective retaliation against Arab terrorism and
reunifying all Jewish land, Eretz-Israel. They even created international
laws, such as the Fourth Geneva convention which was adopted
immediately after Israel won the war of Independence, specifically
to deter Israel from removing Arabs from Jewish land! For the
last 60 years, over 50% of all resolutions adopted by the UN
Security Council and General Assembly have been critical of Israel.
At the same time, the current enemies of Israel, including the
Palestinian Authority, in spite of their acts of aggression and
terrorism, have the full support of the UN! It is almost tragi-comical
to see that the worst violators of Human rights - Iran, Iraq,
Indonesia, Sudan, Syria, Saudi Arabia etc – enjoy lenience
from the UN Human Rights commission. Israel is the only country
which is singled out as the special project!
- At the moment, our traditional and historical enemies are
not involved in the physical killing of Jews as they were in
the past, but they are doing their best to facilitate the destruction
of the State of Israel by proxy!
- It is time for every Jew and every decent person to realise
that Israel must do what is right for the future of Jewish people
and pay no attention to the fraudulent ideas of our enemies or
the patronisingly deceitful attitudes of our so-called friends.
We have our own destiny, which is fully supported by our religious,
moral, historical and legal rights! http://www.shamrak.com
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- 100,000 PALESTINIAN REFUGEES SET TO MARCH TOWARD NORTHERN
BORDER
Khaled Abu Toameh , THE JERUSALEM POST May. 1, 2008 - More than
100,000 Palestinian refugees living in Lebanon are expected to
march toward the border with Israel on May 14 in the context
of the Palestinian Authority's plan to mark the 60th anniversary
of the establishment of Israel, PA officials told The Jerusalem
Post Thursday. The PA leadership has, meanwhile, announced that
it would boycott any world leader who arrived in Israel to participate
in the anniversary celebrations. The officials said the boycott
would be a temporary action, adding that the Palestinians would
not receive the guests in the Palestinian territories during
their visits to Israel. The PA ambassador to Beirut, Zaki Abbas,
has been working in the past few weeks to recruit refugees from
various refugee camps throughout Lebanon for
the march. Fatah's top representative in Lebanon, Sultan Abu
Aynain, has also been instrumental in organizing the event, the
Post has learned. The two have been coordinating their efforts
with PA Deputy Minister for Prisoners Affairs, Ziad Abu Ein,
who has drawn up a plan calling on Palestinian refugees to "invade"
Israel by land, air and sea in protest against Israel's anniversary
celebrations. The plan states that the Palestinians have decided
to implement United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the Palestinian
refugees. http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1209626990196&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
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- FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
- by Steven Shamrak - The fact that during the past week a
hundred thousand Gaza residents easily crossed the border with
Egypt, to buy goods and visit their relatives, is definitive
proof that the Sinai Option is a practical way to start the process
of ending Arab occupation of Jewish land and establishing true
and permanent peace in Israel. 'Moderate' Libya. The United Nations
Security Council failed to pass a proposed resolution asking
Israel to end the "humanitarian crisis" in Gaza –
because of Libya's opposition to a provision condemning the firing
of Kassam rockets at Israel by Gaza Arab terrorists. (Everybody
plays games, while Jews continue to suffer!) No PA State without
Jerusalem. During a meeting of approximately 400 Arab leaders
in Ramallah, Mahmoud Abbas said that the PA would not establish
a state without Jerusalem as a capital city. Prime Minister Ehud
Olmert said on Monday that discussions over the status of Jerusalem
would take place after negotiations on other "core issues".
(The Arab position is clear and fixed. They are not going for
any compromise. Why waste time on useless negotiation?)
- Rabbi Metzger: Move Gaza Arabs to Sinai. Ashkenazi Chief
Rabbi Yona Metzger has called to build a state for Gaza Arabs
in the Sinai Peninsula. "We are now in a generation where
you can take a desert and build a city," Rabbi Metzger explained.
"…they will have a nice country, and we shall have
our country and we shall live in peace." He said that Muslims
did not have a connection to Jerusalem, as they pray facing Mecca,
with their backs to the city. "You have another place, Mecca
and Medina," he told Muslims. "You don't need a third
place." (Moving Arabs to Sinai from Jewish land is the only
viable resolution to the Arab-Israel conflict. It is worse to
discuss and plan!) http://www.shamrak.com
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- HOW TO TURN GAZA OVER TO EGYPT
February 7, 2008 - By: Daniel Pipes - Jerusalem Post  "Listen
to me carefully," President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt instructed
an interviewer on Jan. 30. "Gaza is not part of Egypt, nor
will it ever be …. I hear talk of a proposal to turn the
Strip into an extension of the Sinai peninsula, of offloading
responsibility for it onto Egypt" but Mubarak dismissed
this as "nothing but a dream."
Hardly a dream. It's a reality that surfaced since January 23,
when Hamas operatives breached large segments of the wall separating
Gaza from Egypt. That unexpected step alerted the world that
an Egyptian embargo, no less than an Israeli one, prevents Gazans
from leaving their territory or trading with the outside world.
Given that Gazans have shown themselves incapable of responsible
self-rule and Cairo has tacitly allowed the smuggling of arms
since 2000, Mubarak needs to be made responsible for the Gaza
Strip. As my column last week argued, "Washington and other
capitals should declare the experiment in Gazan self-rule a failure
and press Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to help." Continued: israel_how_to_turn_gaza_over_to_egypt.html
- A Palestinian Authority security official said: "Hamas
has turned the Gaza Strip into an international center for global
jihad. Most of the men who entered the Gaza Strip through the
breached border are now being trained in Hamas's camps and schools.
They brought with them tons of explosives and various types of
weapons, including anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles. What's
happening in the Gaza Strip is very dangerous not only for Israel,
but for many Palestinians as well." God says: "The
wise man sees evil coming and prepares, while the naive goes
on and is punished." ... "If a man digs a pit, he will
fall into it; if a man rolls a stone, it will roll back on him."
... "He who leads the upright along an evil path will fall
into his own trap." (Proverbs 22:3; 26:27; 28:10) http://www.tjci.org
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- FALSE ZIONISM
- By James Dierbeck - Hal Lindsey is the perfect example of
a Christian Zionist leader, with Zionist media support, teaching
Christians to support Israel and militarism until the Lord comes,
regardless what occurs meanwhile. Hal Lindsey is a student of
the Scofield Bible footnotes, funded by the Zionist ILLuminati
Rothschild faction to spin the Bible for mass mind control purposes.
http://www.whtt.org has the details about the Scofield footnotes,
which violate Rev 22 about adding or subtracting from scriptures.
WHTT cites the parable of separating the sheep from goats as
example of the spins. Christ said they are chosen by their works
and deeds, but the footnotes say that jews are those chosen.
Judaism rejects Christ collectively, and they rank above Christians?
Consider that when the Lord arrives in Jerusalem "with his
mighty angels" (2 Thessalonins 1:7), in the vision of Ezekiel
9:3-9, the Lord orders the angels to exterminate all around Jerusalem
EXCEPT those "that sigh and that cry for the abominations".
No favoritism there. As for the "redeemed" 144,000
of the 12 tribes; the 12 tribes are mixed with all the European
nations long ago, and other natons also. The earliest sort of
lost tribe would be when the tower of Babel incident scattered
genes around the world, just before the 12 sons were born. Continued:
- http://www.cephas-library.com/israel_false_zionism.html
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