INTERNATIONAL PULSE Period: November 2008 6666666 End-Time Church / Pluralism Global Politics Israel

ISRAEL UNREPENTANT VATICAN by Steven Shamrak - In memory of the Kristallnacht - "Crystal Night pogroms" Not long ago, a spokesperson for Pope Benedict XVI said that the Pope would not visit Israel until a caption attached to a photo hanging in Yad Vashem of Pope Pius XII, who reigned during the Holocaust era, was removed. The caption states that Pius XII "abstained from signing the Allied declaration condemning the extermination of the Jews" and "maintained his neutral position throughout the war". Yad Vashem, the Israeli Holocaust Museum in Jerusalem, stands by the description and affirms that it has ensured that the presentation of the subject in the Holocaust History Museum at Yad Vashem is based on the best research regarding this topic. Millions of Christians also died during WW2 including priests and nuns, but Pope Pius XII did not protest! The Church did not protest about the genocide of the Roma people or the Nazi hunt for the members of the 'wicked' Christian denominations. The Vatican claims that Pius worked "secretly and silently". We must be direct and honest about it: Yes, he was silent! Some assert that the Vatican was actively involved in saving up to 860,000 Jews by establishing an escape network in some countries. Even if this is true, they disregard the fact that by speaking out against Nazi policy toward Jews, Pope Pius XII could have stopped or at least greatly reduced collaboration with Nazis by the Catholics in Poland, the Baltic region, Ukraine and France, as well as the co-operation of all Christians in Europe. Without the local 'assistance' that the Christian population eagerly provided to the Fascists, or their silence, the Holocaust would not happened and most Jews in Europe would have survived! In addition to physical reduction of the 'unholy' Jewish population in Europe, the Vatican had another hidden agenda - 'Saving' Jewish souls! For example, it is estimated that in Hungary alone, up to 80,000 Jews were baptised by the Church authorities. Most of the time, newly issued baptismal certificates were ignored by the Nazis and many Jews were killed as 'Christians', at least in the twisted mind of the Church's statistical bureaucracy. Conversion of Jews, which the Church is still pursuing since the end of the Great Inquisition, is another big theological and moral issue! The ugliest part of this saga is that during the last 60 years since the end of WW2, and several pontiffs later, the Vatican has still not changed its medieval attitude toward Jews. The Church leadership has shown a high level of contempt for the main Christian doctrines: "Love your neighbour" and "Repentance". They are applicable to everything and anything, as long as it is not about Jews! Ordinary Catholics must confess their sins, but not the leaders of the Church with the blood of the fellow Christians, Jews, Hindus, Muslims, Africans, American Indians and Australian Aborigines on their hands, spilled during the many centuries of Catholic reign and influence. Well, with this continuous anti-Israel attitude and the lame apology made by the Vatican several years ago, who needs another... Well, unfortunately, there are too many hostile international hypocrites visiting Israel! Note: Dear Friends, this independent editorial letter has been published since August, 2001. We are not sponsored by or affiliated with any government or political party. Our aim is to present Jewish point of view on the Arab-Israel conflict and future of Israel. Source: http://www.shamrak.com ----- PEACE DEAL BY YEAR-END NO LONGER POSSIBLE Stating the Obvious and still Maliciously Delusional. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice all but conceded on Thursday that an Israeli-Palestinian peace deal by a year-end deadline is no longer possible. But she also continues her mantra that it is important to maintain momentum and support for the negotiations. (How long does it take for an intelligent person to realise that it is INSANE to keep "doing the same thing and expecting different results.") And yet, she could not stop herself from saying: "They are dignified people and I am certain the day is coming soon when they have a state that will be in accordance with that great national dignity." Source: http://www.shamrak.com ----- HYPOCRISY OF THE "LOADED" HEADLINES "Israel airstrike imperils Gaza truce with Hamas" - washingtontimes.com - The fact that IDF was targeting rocket launchers, which were ready to attack Israeli soldiers and civilians had no room in a headline! So, who "imperils" the ‘truce'? And, why did an American newspaper make an attempt to hide the ugly intentions of ‘Palestinian' terrorists from its readers? Gaza is Hizballah-style Firing Position.More than 50 Qassam rockets and 15 mortar shells have hit the western Negev region in Israel since Wednesday morning, Nov. 5. They were fired from houses close to the border fence which Hamas had turned into fortified firing positions. Borrowing Hizballah's tricks from the 2006 Lebanon war, the Hamas firing squads remove the roofs and cover the top floors with camouflage netting easily removed for attacks. (This is a direct result of the fake ‘Calm' and politics of negotiation with terrorists! Maybe now Israel realise that clearing Gaza of enemies, starting with the demolition of the Hamas firing positions, is the first step toward peace.) Source: http://www.shamrak.com ----- HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS TO MORMONS: STOP BAPTISMS OF DEAD JEWS NEW YORK (AP) — Holocaust survivors said Monday they are through trying to negotiate with the Mormon church over posthumous baptisms of Jews killed in Nazi concentration camps, saying the church has repeatedly violated a 13-year-old agreement barring the practice. Leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints say they are making changes to their massive genealogical database that will make it more difficult for names of Holocaust victims to be entered for posthumous baptism by proxy, a rite that has been a common Mormon practice for more than a century. But Ernest Michel, honorary chairman of the American Gathering of Holocaust Survivors, said that is not enough. At a news conference in New York City on Monday, he said the church also must “implement a mechanism to undo what you have done.” “Baptism of a Jewish Holocaust victim and then merely removing that name from the database is just not acceptable,” said Michel, whose parents died at Auschwitz. He spoke on the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi-incited riots against Jews. “We ask you to respect us and our Judaism just as we respect your religion,” Michel said in a statement released ahead of the news conference. “We ask you to leave our six million Jews, all victims of the Holocaust, alone, they suffered enough.” Source: Holocaust survivors to Mormons: Stop baptisms of dead Jews, AP via CNN, Nov. 11, 2008 — Summarized by Religion News Blog Continued: http://www.religionnewsblog.com/22918/baptism-for-the-dead ----- OLMERT: WE HAVE NO CHOICE BUT TO LOSE OUR LAND By Stan Goodenough - November 11, 2008 - Whoever forms Israel's government after the February 10 general election will have to accept the tearing away of many parts of Eretz Yisrael - the Jews' ancient homeland. So said caretaker Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert speaking in the Knesset Monday, "Any government will have to tell the truth, and that truth, unfortunately, will require us to tear away many parts of the homeland, in Judea, Samaria, Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. "We must relinquish Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem, and return to that territory which comprised the State of Israel until 1967," he said. Olmert's replacement as chair of the Kadima Party, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, was quick to reject his statement as "irrelevant," according to The Jerusalem Post. "As the head of the Kadima party, I am obligated not to the outgoing words of Olmert, but to Kadima's platform, which I wrote and which I believe in," Livni told Army Radio. Notwithstanding her election-motivated riposte, Livni has been working very closely with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as the Bush administration has bulldozed ahead with its efforts to see Jewish lands used for the creation of a State of Palestine. The mantra of the Israeli leftists is that there is no choice, no other way to reach peace than to give away land. This land-for-peace process has been discredited repeatedly since the Oslo Accords was signed in 1993. Since then, every Israeli withdrawal - from Arab parts of Gaza, from Jericho and other towns throughout Samaria and Judea, from southern Lebanon and from the entire Gaza Strip - has always and only been followed by massive spikes in violence and terrorism. Still, when Israelis say they have no choice, what they really mean is "the United States gives us no choice." After every fresh outburst of terrorism since 1993, the US has pressured Israel to continue with the "peace process," because not to do so means to "give in to the enemies of peace." Re: http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2554 ----- 'AT LONG LAST', THE ONE WORLD CHURCH IN JERUSALEM by BARRY CHAMISH - www.barrychamish.com - UNITED NATIONS: Israel's president had rare praise for Saudi Arabia's king at a U.N. interfaith conference Wednesday, saying King Abdullah's initiative to end the Arab-Israeli conflict inspired hope that all countries in the Middle East could live in peace. Speaking to hundreds of guests in the General Assembly chamber, where Israel has often been villified by its Arab neighbors, Shimon Peres appealed to Abdullah to maintain his leadership in the Arab world during the difficult peace process. Minutes earlier, Abdullah said it was "high time" the world learned the harsh lesson of history ­ that differences between followers of different religions and cultures "engendered intolerance, causing devastating wars and considerable bloodshed without any sound logical or ideological justification." Continued: http://www.cephas-library.com/israel_at_long_last_the_one_world_church_in_jerusalem.html ----- ARISE YE, SAINTS AND KNIGHTS By Barry Chamish ".... On Thursday, Benedict put his moral weight (though not yet his signature) behind the cause for sainthood for Pope Pius XII. At a special Mass on Thursday marking 50 years since Pius' death, Benedict praised his wartime predecessor's actions to save Jews and called on Catholics to "pray that the cause of his beatification goes forward smoothly." Continued: http;//www.cephas-library.com/israel_arise_ye_saints.html ----- WHO PULLED THE TRIGGER: Barry Chamish live on radio: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/248 ----- RAHM EMANUEL ISRAEL BAGMAN IN THE WHITE HOUSE BAIT AND SWITCH http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/474.html ----- HIDDEN AGENDA, GOODWILL GESTURES POLITICAL COURAGE IS NEEDED By by Steven Shamrak - www.shamrak.com - September 7, 2008 - American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's visit to Israel last week will be the 17th time in two years she has visited the region. Expectations are low that she will succeed in her newest bid to forge any viable agreement. (The fake peace process is fostered by the USA and international hypocrisy. It has been creating an illusion of progress and the possibility of peace with the enemies of Israel. As a result the ugliness of Islamic terror, detrimental to the lives of Jews and the future of Israel, is prolonged. This pretence hinders the implementation of the actions Israel must take against the terror-infested ideology and people in order to obtain national integrity and secure the future of Jewish people!) U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's freeing of nearly 200 Arab terrorists the day before was a "good step" but not enough. However, her only specific suggestions were aimed at Israel. She made no comments on obligations by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to fight terror! (Have we seen any 'Goodwill' from the enemies of the Jewish people?) Palestinian Authority Chairman and Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) fulfilled the time-honoured PA tradition of rejecting any form of peace with Israel last week as soon as nearly 200 convicted terrorists crossed the border into PA territory. "I promise we won't rest until we bring about the release of all the prisoners," vowed Abbas in a special welcome ceremony for the 198 terrorists released by Israel in the latest "goodwill gesture" (The only way not to have terrorists imprisoned in Israel's prisons is to end terror and recognise Israel. Is it too much to ask?) Abbas reiterated his intention (as Arafat before him) to reject peace with Israel, despite numerous security concessions by the Olmert government. He has said he would accept only an agreement that includes contiguous land between Gaza, Judea and Samaria, and with Jerusalem as the capital of the new PA state. (That means – No Israel! The contiguous 'Palestinian' state can be only established in Sinai. In order to facilitate this there is a need for political vision, courage and love for their own people, Jews, on the part of Israeli politicians. No one else can deliver an end of Islamic terror in Israel but Israel. Stop looking over your shoulder and do what is right for the future of your own people! Every other country does!) Double Standard of International Hypocrisy: Recent US-led air strike killed, according to UN and Afghan officials, as many as 90 civilians. There is not U.N. Security Council emergency meeting! No international condemnation! What would happen if mistake like this was made by Israel? Food for Thought: by Steven Shamrak PA Rejected Peace Again. The PA president Mahmoud Abbas rejected Olmert's plea of an interim agreement. Abas told Olmert during talks in Jerusalem that 'Palestinians' "will not be part of any interim agreement. Either everything will be agreed or nothing will be agreed" and dismissed the idea of a pact by the end of this year. ('Peace Process' is just a game for PA. All Palestine, including Jordan, is the ultimate PA's objective!) Never Ending Escalation of Demands. Israel may be willing to release up to 450 Hamas terrorists from its jails in return for Cpl. Gilad Shalit. But, Hamas spokesman Abu Obeida said on Saturday the group would not settle for its earlier demand for 450 Palestinian prisoners, but is seeking the release of more than 1,000 in exchange for Shalit. (Humiliation of Israel, not release of the prisoners, is the objective of Hamas!)... Is Israel in Africa? Officials from 21 African countries meeting in Nigeria have adopted a blueprint for a Geneva meeting on racism next April to raise "concern about the plight of the 'Palestinian' people under foreign occupations." (African countries have forsaken the Sudanese genocide in Darfur and do not want address problems in Uganda and instead use Israel bashing as a good distracter! The AIDS epidemic, corruption and poverty are also not their concern. Why Israel is?) Olmert's Leaving, But Hold the Celebrations. by Rob Muchnick and Tova Abadi, Manhigut Yehudit. Before Israelis celebrate the impending exit of the inept and corrupt Ehud Olmert from the Prime Minister's chair, it should be understood that there will be no real change in Israel until there is a leader who will guide Israel with Jewish values and will put the best interests of the Jewish People ahead of their own fortunes. It makes no difference if Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni or Transportation Minister Shaul Mofaz head Kadima and then sit in the Prime Minister's office, as both of these pretenders have clearly demonstrated their lack of commitment to any ideology except their political advancement. In fact, the situation may go from very, very bad to worst. Olmert was unable (due to the multitude of corruption charges against him) to carry out further Israeli concessions. However, Livni or Mofaz - by benefit of only being ideologically and not financially corrupt - may have the political capital to continue the so-called "peace" process which only serves to tear at the heart of the Jewish people by giving away our Divinely-given land. Tragically, it also serves to weaken the belief in the righteousness of our cause by Jews worldwide. It is impossible for Israel to survive as a Jewish Nation when the real war being fought is against Jewish identity. It is equally impossible to survive with policies of appeasement and "painful concessions." Israel needs an honest, moral leader who will act in the best interests of Israel and the Jewish People and not as a puppet for the nations. http://www.shamrak.com ----- PA WANTS LIVINI AND OBAMA By Stan Goodenough - October 06, 2008 - The veteran terrorist Palestine Liberation Organization is hoping for a double whammy in its favor next month when it hopes Israel will come under the prime ministership of Kadima Party leader Tzipi Livni and Americans will put Barack Obama in the White House. This is according to the "Palestinian" so-called foreign minister, Riyad al-Malki, during a conference held at the Israeli Foreign Ministry Sunday."We hope that [Livni] will succeed [in forming a new government] because this will also show continuity and commitment to the peace process and to the negotiations [for] a Palestinian state," Malki said, according to the leftist daily Ha'aretz. As for America: "We are waiting to see who will be the next president, (Barack) Obama versus [John] McCain, and believe me there is a big difference between the two vis-a-vis the situation in the Middle East ... the Middle East peace process and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict." Continued: http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2530 ----- BARACK OBAMA, JEWISH-AMERICAN AND ISRAEL October 16, 2008 - By: David Bedein - The Philadelphia Bulletin From a personal and professional perspective, this is the sixth American Presidential campaign that I have covered from Israel, concentrating on the "Israel aspect" of the story. This time I not only have covered the campaign from Israel - This time, I was assigned by The [Philadelphia] Bulletin to fly over and cover the Obama campaign at the time of the Pennsylvania primary in April. My observation of the "Jewish American view of Sen. Obama" was that there was an atmosphere of unreality surrounding Jewish advocacy and Jewish opposition to Sen. Barack Obama. Both pro-Obama and anti- Obama forces in the Jewish world related to the senator with an attitude of superficiality, paying more attention paid to the company that he keeps than to the policies that he stands for. Yet here is the rub: None one has really heard where Sen. Obama stands on Middle East issues. When I interviewed three of Sen. Obama's staffers who specialize in Middle East issues, I presented them with 18 questions. Besides the issue of Palestinian incitement, which his staffers said that he abhors, they could not provide any answers whatsover to basic questions put forward by The Bulletin last April. With the multi-billion dollar arms package to Saudi Arabia about to reach the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which Sen. Obama is a member, his staffers could not even say what his position was on arms to Saudi Arabia, which remains in a state of active war with Israel. Indeed, Saudi Arabia currently funds Hamas, the Popular Front For The Liberation of Palestine (PLFP) and the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), all of which are Palestinian terror organizations that actively engaged in planning operations against the Jewish state Continued: http://support.tjci.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=5443&JServSessionIdr001=sqhhl2x8u1.app14b ----- LIVINI AND PERES AT INTERFAITH U.N. CONFERENCE IN NEW YORK (ROADMAP) http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1194419829128&pagename=JPost%2FPage%2FVideo Player&videoId=1226404728797 ----- ARISE, PERES, KNIGHT COMMANDER? By HERB KEINON AND JONNY PAUL - Oct 24, 2008 - Efforts to have President Shimon Peres "knighted" during a visit to London next month may have been set back by premature publication of the move, Foreign Ministry sources said Thursday. Slideshow: Pictures of the week Yediot Aharonot, under a headline "Sir Peres," reported Wednesday that Peres was expected to be appointed an honorary knight by Queen Elizabeth II in appreciation of his contribution to peace efforts in the Middle East and to furthering Israeli-British ties. While admitting that the embassy in London was working on the issue, the sources said that revealing these efforts prematurely could lead anti-Israeli forces in Britain to try to scuttle the idea. What is at issue is an appointment for Peres as an honorary member to the Order of St. Michael and St. George. Appointment to this Order, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica Web site, is conferred mostly on officials in colonial affairs, foreign-service officers and diplomats, and others who have performed important duties in Commonwealth countries. Continued: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017613200&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ----- PEREZ TO BE KNIGHTED Israeli president to be awarded United Kingdom's highest honor, hailed as one of Queen Elizabeth's knights. Official presidential tour of kingdom to include meeting with British premier, address at Oxford University - Itamar Eichner Published: 10.23.08, 09:27 / Israel News http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3479700,00.html Queen Elizabeth II is expected to bestow an unusual honor on President Shimon Peres in a few weeks, and name him a knight in her order. http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3422041,00.html Peres is to be awarded the title, regarded as the United Kingdom's highest honor, for his contribution to world peace and the relationship between Israel and the UK. Peres is expected to leave for an official presidential visit in Britain on November 18. When in London, he is slated to meet with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Foreign Secretary David Miliband. The highlight of Peres' visit will be a speech before both houses of the British Parliament – the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Peres is also scheduled to visit Oxford University and speak before 1,000 of its students. The president will also meet with heads of the British Academia and urge them to lift the unofficial academic ban placed on Israeli institutions. UK foreign secretary: Academic boycott a mistake     Acting President and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik meets in Britain with former Prime Minister Tony Blair, Prince Charles. Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells her University and College Union's vote in favor of facilitating boycott of Israeli academics caused damage to British citizens Hagit Klaiman Published: 07.06.07, 20:45 / Israel News LONDON – British Foreign Secretary David Miliband on Friday slammed the University and College Union's vote in favor of considering a boycott of Israeli academics and institutions in May. Miliband spoke during a meeting with Acting President and Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, who arrived in the United Kingdom for an official visit. She also met with Prince Charles and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, who has been appointed the Quartet's Middle East envoy. Itzik said that Miliband was the one to raise the issue of the academic boycott, saying that the call for a boycott was a bad mistake which had caused damage to his country's citizens. The foreign secretary also called on Israel to find a quick solution for the families of two British citizens killed by the IDF, James Miller and Tom Hurndall. http://www.ynet.co.il/english/articles/0,7340,L-3422041,00.html ----- ZIONIST ISRAELIS CHARGE GOVERNMENT MINISTRIES WITH INCITEMENT By Stan Goodenough - November 05, 2008 - Rifts continue to deepen between secular and religious Israelis, with two ministers in the Ehud Olmert government accused Monday of inciting public opinion against the Zionists who live in the historic heartland of the Jewish people. The Jerusalem Post reports that "[t]he Committee of Samaria Settlers is set to file a complaint against Vice Premier Haim Ramon and National Infrastructures Minister Binymain Ben-Eliezer, claiming that remarks made by the two during a cabinet meeting Sunday constituted libel and incitement against the settler community." During that meeting Ramon, a convicted criminal himself, charged that the security forces "practiced discrimination and apartheid" in how they dealt with Arabs and Jews involved in "disturbances" in Judea and Samaria." Ben-Eliezer said of the overwhelmingly religious Jews who live in Samaria and Judea: "They don't think like us; their thoughts are messianic, mystical, satanic and irrational." He reportedly also called for "a blitz" (a loaded German word in Jewish ears) against the settlers. Continued: http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2549 ----- STRIKE ON IRAN DEBATED IN WASHINGTON November 3, 2008 - U.S. lawmakers, think tanks and independent experts of various political backgrounds are weighing the need for military strikes on Iranian nuclear sites as well as new diplomatic alternatives aimed halting disputed elements of the country’s atomic program, according to a New York Times commentary today (see GSN, Oct. 31). The United States suspects that Iran’s atomic efforts are geared toward weapons development, but Tehran insists that its nuclear work is strictly aimed at civilian energy development. The incoming presidential administration “might have little time and fewer options to deal with this threat,” warns a report by the Bipartisan Policy Center. The analysis examines measures such as a blockade that would prevent Iran from receiving gasoline, but adds that “a military strike is a feasible option and must remain a last resort.” Continued: http://www.globalsecuritynewswire.org/gsn/nw_20081103_8278.php ----- WHO MURDERED YITZHAK RABIN? Barry Chamish (1-8 videos) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i78vKlbP5w&feature=PlayList&p=E9A044AE24067CBA&index=0&playnext=1 ----- VETERAN ZIONIST POLITICIAN MOVES RIGHT By Stan Goodenough - November 17, 2008 - A long-serving Israeli politician and former minister made news Monday with the announcement that he had decided to leave his political home of 22 years and moved into the right-wing Yisrael Beiteinu (Israel Our Home) party. Uzi Landau, who was a Likud Party Knesset Member for most of his political life, will hold the number two position in Yisrael Beiteinu, under its leader Avigdor Lieberman. Speaking at a joint press conference with Lieberman, Landau said he was "leaving the Likud, which was my political home since my youth. I served there with many friends for many years. "Even after it cleaned itself off the Kadima gang, which has no way and no ideology and is essentially an expression of opportunism, the Likud is still gradually losing its identity, and it's unclear to me where it is heading," he said. Continued: http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2566 ----- ISRAELI COURT ORDERS JEWS OUT OF HEBRON HOUSE By Stan Goodenough - November 17, 2008 - Israelis living in Hebron and other parts of their nation's biblical and historical heartland were angered Sunday when Israel's High Court of Justice ruled in favor of the Olmert government and against Jews claiming ownership of a Hebron home. According to the ruling, 20 Jewish families have three days to vacate a four-storey house despite the fact they have papers proving the property was legally bought from a Palestinian Arab. Situated about halfway between the Cave of the Patriarchs (where Israel's founding father's lie buried) and the Jewish town of Kiryat Arba, the house has been the center of a dispute since Jews moved in in March 2007. Hebron's overwhelmingly Muslim Arab population outright rejects the Jews' right to live in the city, despite its having been the longest-inhabited Jewish town, with Jews residing there for 3000 years before Arabs massacred them nearly a century ago. After Judea was restored to Jewish control in 1967, Israelis began moving back into Hebron, triggering frequent expressions of usually-violent Arab intolerance. Continued: http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2562 ----- WHO HAS CONTROLLED THE MIDDLE EAST OVER THE LAST FIVE THOUSAND YEARS? Who has controlled the Middle East over the course of history? Pretty much everyone. Egyptians, Turks, Jews, Romans, Arabs, Persians, Europeans...the list goes on. Who will control the Middle East today? That is a much bigger question. See in 90 seconds the answer to the previous quesiton: http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html ----- POLLS SHOW LIKUD HEADING TO VICTORY IN ELECTIONS By JPOST.COM STAFF AND GIL HOFFMAN - Following a string of newcomers joining Likud, including former IDF chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon and former science minister Bennie Begin, three polls showed the party opening up a substantial lead over Kadima, with Labor continuing to slide. Dahaf poll gave Binyamin Netanyahu's party 32 seats, Kadima 26 and Labor just eight. The poll projected that Shas would get 11 seats, Yisrael Beiteinu nine, Meretz seven and Arab parties 11. The right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party, formed Tuesday after the National Religious Party disbanded, would only get six seats, according to the poll, and the Greens would get three. The poll was conducted with a representative sample of 500 people and a 4.6-percent margin of error. Continued: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404785627&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull ----- OBAMA FAVORS SAUDI INITIATIVE, DEVIDING JERUSALEM News Cheshvan 18, 5769 / November 16, '08 - by Maayana Miskin - (IsraelNN.com) United States President-Elect Barack Obama will support the Saudi Initiative for peace between Israel and Arab nations, the British Sunday Times reported Sunday. Obama told Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, “The Israelis would be crazy not to accept this initiative,” according to the Times. The initiative calls on Israel to withdraw completely to its 1949 borders in exchange for normalized relations with Arab League countries. It includes a full retreat from the eastern half of Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, and from the strategic Golan Heights in northern Israel. The Saudi Plan has won limited support from President Shimon Peres, who says it could be used to launch negotiations. Other senior politicians and defense officials have dismissed the plan, saying it wold compromise Israel's security. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, the heads of the Kadima and Labor parties, have not ruled out the Saudi Initiative completely. However, neither has expressed willingness to give away the Temple Mount or major Israeli population centers located east of Israel's 1949 borders. Approximately 600,000 Israeli citizens live in the areas, including eastern neighborhoods of Jerusalem, demanded for the PA under the Saudi plan. The plan also calls on Israel to find a solution for the plight of millions of foreign Arabs who claim descent from those who fled Israel during the War of Independence. They are considered refugees by Arab governments and continually have been denied citizenship in their countries of birth. While proponents of the plan have welcomed the plan as a chance to deal with the refugees without granting them Israeli citizenship, some Arab leaders have warned that any alternative to allowing the millions to “return” to Israel is unacceptable. PA-based terrorist groups such as Hamas and Islamic Jihad are among those who insist that every Arab who identifies as a descendant of a former resident of Israel be allowed to live in Israel. Abbas: Retreat or War Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas addressed a letter to PA Arabs on Saturday saying Israel must retreat to its 1949 borders or face war. “The passage of years... will not force us to abandon or surrender a single inch,” of Judea, Samaria or Jerusalem, Abbas said in the letter, which was published by PA media. The letter was sent in honor of PA “Independence Day.” While the PA does not rule an independent country, it celebrates “independence” each year in honor of the PA having declared itself an independent entity 20 years ago. (submitted by Ron White) -----  NEWSLETTERS  NEWS INDEX MAIN INDEX