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            <title>Aboriginal Jews, Native Jews, their natural rights in their historic homeland VS Arab immigrants (&quot;Palestinians&quot;)</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;strong&gt;Aboriginal Jews, Native Jews, their natural rights in their historic homeland VS Arab immigrants (&amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Their fight against the bigotry by Arabism &amp;amp; Islamism who won&#039;t &amp;quot;accept&#039;&amp;quot; them&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Contents &lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/nataliagino/gGxpJQ#Definition&quot;&gt;1 Definition&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/nataliagino/gGxpJQ#Historical_Roots&quot;&gt;2 Historical Roots&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/nataliagino/gGxpJQ#Jews&quot;&gt;2.1 Jews&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/nataliagino/gGxpJQ#Arabs&quot;&gt;2.2 Arabs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/nataliagino/gGxpJQ#National_Liberation&quot;&gt;3 National Liberation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Definition&quot; title=&quot;Definition&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Definition &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel - Rightful Historic Homeland of Aboriginal Jews&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Canadian MP and former justice minister Irwin Cotler: For Israel, rooted in the Jewish people, as an Abrahamic people, is a prototypical First Nation or aboriginal people, just as the Jewish religion is a prototypical aboriginal religion, the first of the Abrahamic religions. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In a WORD, the Jewish people is the only people that still inhabits the same land, embraces the same religion, studies the same Torah, hearkens to the same prophets, speaks the same aboriginal language - Hebrew - and bears the same aboriginal name, Israel, as it did 3,500 years ago. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Israel, then, is the aboriginal homeland of the Jewish people across space and time. It is not just a homeland for the Jewish people, a place of refuge, asylum and protection. It is the homeland of the Jewish people, wherever and whenever it may be; and its birth certificate originates in its inception as a First Nation, and not simply, however important, in its United Nations international birth certificate. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The State of Israel, then, as a political and juridical entity, overlaps with the &amp;quot;aboriginal Jewish homeland&amp;quot;; it is, in international legal terms, a successor state to the biblical, or aboriginal, Jewish kingdoms.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1210668636678&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1210668636678&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Historical_Roots&quot; title=&quot;Historical_Roots&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Historical Roots&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Jews&quot; title=&quot;Jews&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jews &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aboriginal Rights to Israel, Aboriginal Native Jews to Israel &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is an enormous body of archaeological and historical evidence demonstrating that the Jewish People -- like the Greek People or the Han Chinese People -- is among the oldest of the world&#039;s Peoples. Thus, it is well known that the Jewish People has more than 3,500 years of continuous history, with a subjective-objective national identity that, in each century, has kept a link to the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. For example, the Jewish Bible, the Christian Gospels and the Koran all specifically testify to the connection between the Jewish People and its historic homeland. Like other Peoples, the Jewish People has a right to self-determination. Though the self-determination of the Arab People is expressed via twenty-one Arab countries, Israel is the sole expression of the self-determination of the &lt;strong&gt;Jewish People, which of all extant Peoples, has the strongest claim to be considered aboriginal to the territory west of the Jordan River&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thus, &lt;em&gt;the Jewish People is aboriginal to Israel in the same way that, in Canada, certain First Nations are deemed aboriginal to their ancestral lands. And, it is noteworthy that the Supreme Court of Canada has decided that, where aboriginals maintain their historical connection with the land, aboriginal title can survive both sovereignty changes and influx of new populations resulting from foreign conquest.&lt;/em&gt;Yet, (bigotry by) Arabs, Muslims have denied that the Jews are a People within the context of the modern political and legal doctrine of the self-determination of Peoples. Keeping in mind that the Middle East has always had a significant Jewish population, including some Jews who, in each century, continued to live west of the Jordan River. Today, many of the sons and daughters of these Middle Eastern Jews are citizens of Israel, where they have been joined by Jews from many other countries. When In October 1917, the British Cabinet adopted, as a declared war aim, the creation of an entirely new country called &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; to serve as &amp;quot;a national home for the Jewish People,&amp;quot; it was done to help realize the Jewish People&amp;#65533;s self-determination on its ancestral lands... so was the announcment to the world of &lt;em&gt;Jewish-National-Home Palestine&lt;/em&gt; in the November 1917 Balfour Declaration. As the international decision to establish &amp;quot;a national home for the Jewish People&amp;quot; was the sole rationale for the 1922 creation of Jewish-National-Home Palestine which, under the aegis of the League of Nations. While deep into the 20th century, Arab leaders themselves failed to recognize the right to self-determination of a distinct Palestinian Arab People. For example, as principal Arab leader at the 1919-1920 Paris Peace Conference, Prince Feisal specifically accepted the plan to create Palestine as &amp;#65533;a national home for the Jewish People&amp;#65533; and his father, the Hashemite King of the Hedjaz (later part of Saudi Arabia) was party to the 1920 Sevres Treaty that explicitly stipulated that the newly-created Palestine would be &amp;quot;a national home for the Jewish People.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/23/1004598/aboriginal-rights-to-israel&quot; title=&quot;http://jta.org/news/article/2009/04/23/1004598/aboriginal-rights-to-israel&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One has described a &amp;quot;remarkable synergy&amp;quot; between the Australian aboriginals and the Jews: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Jewish community is an ancient and oppressed people, as the Aborigines are; we were the indigenous people of the land of Israel who were kicked out of our land 2000 years ago.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theage.com.au/national/aboriginal-campaigner-took-up-a-faraway-fight-for-the-oppressed-20081107-5k8e.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.theage.com.au/national/aboriginal-campaigner-took-up-a-faraway-fight-for-the-oppressed-20081107-5k8e.html&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jews - Ancient Indigenous Natives in the area&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There&#039;s extensive research on The Dhimmi: (Indigenous) Jews &amp;amp; Christians Under Islam &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Dhimmi-Jews-Christians-Under-Islam/dp/0838632629&quot; title=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Dhimmi-Jews-Christians-Under-Islam/dp/0838632629&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;, 850,000 Jews had to flee Arab Muslim lands where they had lived for centuries - often longer than the Arabs who now claim to be its indigenous national people. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.think-israel.org/winston.character.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.think-israel.org/winston.character.html&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jimena.org/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.jimena.org/images/Wahba.gif&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JIMENA stands for: &#039;Jews Indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa&#039;, it is &lt;em&gt;a human rights organization seeking to educate and advocate for the plight of Jewish refugees from the Middle East. Prior to 1948, approximately 850,000 Jews lived in Muslim countries of the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf. Today, 99 percent of these ancient Jewish communities no longer exist due to Arab and Islamic government actions that directly led to their displacement&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jimena.org/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jimena.org/&quot;&gt;[6]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jews are a multi-racial, multi-ethnic people. For about 50 years, the majority of the Jewish population of Israel has been Mizrahim - Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa. Moreover, this community of Jews has lived in the Middle East and North Africa since time immemorial. Until the mid-twentieth century, in the 4,000-year history of the Jewish people, Mizrahim never left the region. (When Arab Muslims conquered the Middle East and North Africa, Jews were one of the few indigenous peoples that resisted conversion to Islam), &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/aj2a.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.sullivan-county.com/x/aj2a.htm&quot;&gt;[7]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Arabs&quot; title=&quot;Arabs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Arabs &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arab immigrants and their lies about being &amp;quot;natives&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Arabs in the Holy Land - Aliens, not Natives! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html&quot;&gt;[8]&lt;/a&gt;, The True Identity of the So-called Palestinians. &lt;em&gt;The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot;, until the Jews came and &amp;quot;displaced&amp;quot; them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into the Land of Israel displaced the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in the Holy Land for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a &amp;quot;Palestinian refugee&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Palestinians are the newest of all the peoples on the face of the Earth, and began to exist in a single day by a kind of supernatural phenomenon that is unique in the whole history of mankind, as it is witnessed by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist that acknowledged the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against: &amp;quot;Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out&amp;quot;.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&quot;&gt;[9]&lt;/a&gt;, in fact, the myth of the Palestinian People serves as the justification for Arab occupation of the Land of Israel. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=747&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=747&quot;&gt;[10]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An explanatory film came out to &#039;dispel Arab propaganda&#039;, on the tactics disguising the Arab immigrants as &amp;quot;indigenous native Palestinian&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27661&quot; title=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27661&quot;&gt;[11]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even Fatah&#039;s Mahmoud Abbas Admits &lt;em&gt;Palestinian Arabs Are Not Indigenous&lt;/em&gt;. From a speech given to the PLO &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.camera.org/archives/2007/06/in_heated_speech_the_truth_spi.html&quot; title=&quot;http://blog.camera.org/archives/2007/06/in_heated_speech_the_truth_spi.html&quot;&gt;[12]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A writer in: &#039;The Myth Of The Palestinian People,&#039; &lt;em&gt;Only one question never seems to be addressed: Who are the Palestinians? Who are these people who claim the Holy Land as their own? What is their history? Where did they come from? How did they arrive in the country they call Palestine?&lt;/em&gt; &lt;em&gt;Not only pre-state Arabs lied about being indigenous. Even today, many prominent so-called Palestinians, it turns out, are foreign born. Edward Said, an Ivy League Professor of Literature and a major Palestinian propagandist, long claimed to have been raised in Jerusalem. However, in an article in the September 1999 issue of Commentary Magazine Justus Reid Weiner revealed that Said actually grew up in Cairo, Egypt, a fact which Said himself was later forced to admit. But why bother with Said? PLO chief Yasir Arafat himself, self declared &#039;leader of the Palestinian people&#039;, has always claimed to have been born and raised in &#039;Palestine&#039;. In fact, according to his official biographer Richard Hart, as well as the BBC, Arafat was born in Cairo on August 24, 1929 and that&#039;s where he grew up.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/747&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/747&quot;&gt;[13]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A writer in &amp;quot;The Real Palestinian Refugees&amp;quot;: Jews have lived in Israel/Palestine for 4000 years and those Jewish families who have constantly lived in the country since Biblical times, the mustarabim, are the indigenous Palestinians. (There has never been a 2000 year absence). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The first Arabs came to the country in the 7th century in the wake of their conquering armies after the death of Mohammed. They&#039;ve been immigrating, and emigrating, ever since, bringing with them their civil wars (in which Jews were severely persecuted by both sides) and their screwed-up environmental concepts that turned forest into desert. Other groups of peoples also immigrated to Israel/Palestine during this time, especially the Druze. (Today, if you call a Druze an Arab, you&#039;ve just insulted him. This was told to me by a Druze.) Perhaps the earliest Zionist pioneers did have to fight Arab marauders and make the desert bloom, but they did not come to an empty land. Maybe it was sparsely populated, but it was not empty of Jews. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1920/1. The first Palestinian refugees were Jews. In the aftermath of WWI, after the Arab riots. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 1922, in a continuing policy of appeasing the Arabs, 75% of Palestine was taken away from the Jews and the Emirate of Transjordan was created, later to become Jordan. First the British, then the Arabs, banned the entry of Jews from the area - a policy that continued until very recently. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2921&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2921&quot;&gt;[14]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Desolated &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; in the late 1800&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Land of Israel, according to dozens of visitors to the land, was, until the beginning of the last century, practically empty. Alphonse de Lamartine visited the land in 1835. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/747&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/747&quot;&gt;[15]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On a visit to the Ottoman-controlled Holy Land in 1860, Mark Twain described it as &amp;quot;the prince of desolation.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The hills are barren&amp;#65533; the valleys unsightly deserts&amp;#65533; peopled by swarms of beggars struck with ghastly sores and malformations&amp;#65533; Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes&amp;#65533; only the music of angels could charm its shrubs and flowers again into life.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Other writers and artists visiting the Holy Land (chiefly from Britain and Germany) &amp;#65533; as well as geographers, archeologists, and cartographers &amp;#65533; were equally stunned by its utter desolation. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was only toward the end of the 18th century, when a growing stream of Jewish immigrants rehabilitated the land &amp;#65533; draining swamps, reclaiming deserts, and controlling the diseases (chiefly malaria) &amp;#65533; that a decimated Arab population began increasing. The resuscitation of the land by the Jews and the economic opportunity they created brought an influx of Arab immigrants from dirt-poor neighboring Arab states to swell the number of Arabs in Palestine, so that by the turn of the century there were about 250,000 Arab Muslims and 150,00 Jews living there. 100,000 Christians and others was common colonial practice: divide and rule. In India, it enabled the British to subdue the subcontinent with few troops by pitting hostile segments of the indigenous population against each other. They employed this strategy in Palestine too. British officials, many of them avowed anti-Semites, fanned Arab resentment over broken British promises to make the Arabian chieftain, Faisal, king of Damascus and Syria, and redirected it against Jewish aspirations in Palestine. Their naming the mandate over the Holy Land &amp;quot;Palestine,&amp;quot; rather than the land of Israel, was a deliberate effort to obliterate the Jewish connection to the land by calling it by its Roman name. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-doron081402.asp&quot; title=&quot;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-doron081402.asp&quot;&gt;[16]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the early 19th century, Palestine was a backward, neglected province of the Ottoman Empire. Travelers to Palestine from the Western world left records of what they saw there. The theme throughout their reports is dismal: The land was empty, neglected, abandoned, desolate, fallen into ruins. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Jerusalem, all reports and journals of travelers, pilgrims and government representatives during these years, repeatedly record the poverty, filth and neglect and the desolate nature of the countryside. Early photographs show lepers in rags and dilapidated buildings. Jerusalem was surrounded by marauding bands of Bedouin Arabs and had to close her gates at nightfall and reopen them at first light, a practice that was similar in Biblical times. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Some quotes from the writings of these visitors before modern times: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Nothing there [Jerusalem] to be seen but a little of the old walls which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds. [English pilgrim in 1590] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population. [British consul in 1857] &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [valley of Jezreel] -- not for 30 miles in either direction... One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. ... For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee ... Nazareth is forlorn ... Jericho lies a moldering ruin ... Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation... untenanted by any living creature... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds ... a silent, mournful expanse ... a desolation ... We never saw a human being on the whole route ... Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country ... Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery Palestine must be the prince. The hills barren and dull, the valleys unsightly deserts [inhabited by] swarms of beggars with ghastly sores and malformations. Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes ... desolate and unlovely ... [Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1867] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_zionists_impact.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_zionists_impact.php&quot;&gt;[17]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;National_Liberation&quot; title=&quot;National_Liberation&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;National Liberation &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel - result of a national Liberation of the aboriginal Jews&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel can be seen as the result of the national liberation movement of the region&#039;s aboriginal Jews. Liberation of the aboriginal Jews (and anyone else lucky enough to find refuge within Israel&#039;s borders) from the &lt;strong&gt;twin fascisms of pan-Arabism and Islamism which have oppressed and even eliminated so many of the region&amp;#65533;s aboriginal ethnic groups&lt;/strong&gt;. Israel&#039;s aboriginal Jews were not unique in accepting outside help (and even immigration) in their liberation struggle, so were Lebanon&#039;s Maronites; Egypt&#039;s Copts, Iraq and Turkey&#039;s Kurds, and Iran&#039;s Zoroastrians. &lt;a href=&quot;http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzY4ZjgzMDY3NmExNmE4ODM5NDRmODg3N2I5YTU4YWI=&quot; title=&quot;http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YzY4ZjgzMDY3NmExNmE4ODM5NDRmODg3N2I5YTU4YWI=&quot;&gt;[18]&lt;/a&gt;, as a commentator said: It is immoral to ethnically cleanse Judea of its aboriginal Jews. as It is immoral to ethnically cleanse Australia of its Australian aborigines, It is immoral to ethnically cleanse Judea of its Jewish aborigines (&lt;em&gt;Jews = originally from Judea&lt;/em&gt;). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/ResponseDetails.jhtml?resNo=2568657&amp;amp;itemno=901389&amp;amp;cont=2&quot; title=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/objects/pages/ResponseDetails.jhtml?resNo=2568657&amp;amp;itemno=901389&amp;amp;cont=2&quot;&gt;[19]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;One major difference between the Jews&#039; return to the Land of Israel and the restitution of the title that indigenous groups have to their traditional lands in Australia and Canada is that the latter occurred within the political framework of states that have established legislative and judicial institutions and law enforcement agencies. These institutions draft the principles that define the relationships among all of their subjects, and they settle any disputes which might arise. In contrast, the Jews&#039; return to Palestine occurred in an international context in which such legislative, judicial, and law enforcement institutions were in their embryonic stages.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=pDy4-dS47y8C&amp;amp;pg=RA1-PA38&quot; title=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=pDy4-dS47y8C&amp;amp;pg=RA1-PA38&quot;&gt;[20]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Adolf Hitler / Nazis hated Arabs &quot;inferior race,&quot; yet used them as disposable tools against Jews</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Adolf Hitler / Nazis hated Arabs as an inferior &amp;ldquo;race&amp;rdquo;, yet praised Islam in its &amp;lsquo;war like&amp;rsquo; TOTALITARIAN ideology&lt;/strong&gt; He saw them as a great disposable tool to be used against the Jews, the mufti fell for it. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.psywarrior.com/mufti539.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;SPLCenter.org: The Swastika and the Crescent, Although &lt;strong&gt;he loathed Arabs &lt;/strong&gt;(&lt;strong&gt;he once described them as &amp;ldquo;lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;ldquo;), Hitler understood that he and the Mufti shared the same rivals, British and the Jews&amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=242&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.splcenter.org/intel/intelreport/article.jsp?pid=242&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;ESSAY - May 2002 By Martin A. Lee &amp;hellip;Ahmed Huber: Neo-Nazi, Islamic convert&amp;hellip; The roots of the Muslim Brotherhood and, in many ways, the Nazi-Muslim axis go back to the organisation&amp;rsquo;s formation in Egypt in 1928. Marking the start of modern political &amp;ldquo;Islamic fundamentalism,&amp;rdquo; the Brotherhood from the outset envisioned a time when an Islamic state would prevail in Egypt and other Arab countries. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The growth of the Muslim Brotherhood coincided with the rise of fascist movements in Europe - a parallel noted by Muhammad Sa&amp;rsquo;id al-&amp;rsquo;Ashmawy, former chief justice of Egypt&amp;rsquo;s High Criminal Court, who decried &amp;ldquo;the perversion of Islam&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;the fascistic ideology&amp;rdquo; that infuses the world view of the Brothers. Youssef Nada, current board chairman of Al Taqwa, had joined the armed branch of the Muslim Brotherhood as a young man in Egypt during World War II.&amp;nbsp;Nada and several of his cohorts in the Sunni Muslim fraternity were recruited by German military intelligence. Hassan al-Banna, the Egyptian schoolteacher who founded the Muslim Brotherhood, also collaborated with spies of the Third Reich. Advocating a pan-Islamic insurgency in British-controlled Palestine, the Brotherhood proclaimed their support for the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Al-Husseini, in the late 1930s. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Grand Mufti, the preeminent religious figure among Palestinian Muslims, was the most notable Arab leader to seek an alliance with Nazi Germany. Although he loathed Arabs (he once described them as &amp;ldquo;lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped&amp;rdquo;), Hitler understood that he and the Mufti shared the same rivals - the British, the Jews and the Communists. They met in Berlin, where the Mufti lived in exile during the war. The Mufti agreed to help organise a special Muslim division of the Waffen SS. Powerful radio transmitters were put at the Mufti&amp;rsquo;s disposal so that his pro-Axis propaganda could be heard throughout the Arab world. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2002/275/essay275.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.aijac.org.au/review/2002/275/essay275.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;War aims in the second world war: the war aims of the major belligerents &amp;hellip;&amp;lrm; - by Victor Rothwell - History - 2005 - 244 pages (Page 41) However, the Nazis were clear in their minds that the Arabs were racially inferior, and there would, therefore, be no pleasure to be had from helping them in anything except for the extermination of Jews in their region. &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=XfgLbSc94MEC&amp;amp;pg=PA41&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=XfgLbSc94MEC&amp;amp;pg=PA41&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Islam, Nazism, and Totalitarianism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;During an interview conducted in the late 1930s (published in 1939), Carl Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychiatry, was asked &amp;ldquo;&amp;hellip;had he any views on what was likely to be the next step in religious development?&amp;rdquo; Jung replied, in reference to the Nazi fervor that had gripped Germany &lt;em&gt;We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future. &lt;/em&gt;Albert Speer, who was Hitler&amp;rsquo;s Minister of Armaments and War Production, wrote a contrite memoir of his World War II experiences while serving a 20-year prison sentence imposed by the Nuremberg tribunal. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Speer&amp;rsquo;s narrative includes this discussion, which captures &lt;strong&gt;Hitler&amp;rsquo;s racist views of Arabs on the one hand, and his effusive praise for Islam on the other&lt;/strong&gt;: &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Hitler had been much impressed by a scrap of history he had learned from a delegation of distinguished Arabs. When the Mohammedans attempted to penetrate beyond France into Central Europe during the eighth century, his visitors had told him, they had been driven back at the Battle of Tours. Had the Arabs won this battle, the world would be Mohammedan today. For theirs was a religion that believed in spreading the faith by the sword and subjugating all nations to that faith. Such a creed was perfectly suited to the Germanic temperament. Hitler said that the conquering Arabs, because of their racial inferiority, would in the long run have been unable to contend with the harsher climate and conditions of the country. They could not have kept down the more vigorous natives, so that ultimately not Arabs but Islamized Germans could have stood at the head of this Mohammedan Empire. Hitler usually concluded this historical speculation by remarking, &amp;ldquo;You see, it&amp;rsquo;s been our misfortune to have the wrong religion. Why didn&amp;rsquo;t we have the religion of the Japanese, who regard sacrifice for the Fatherland as the highest good? The Mohammedan religion too would have been much more compatible to us than Christianity. Why did it have to be Christianity with its meekness and flabbiness?&amp;rdquo; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/61/55/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.andrewbostom.org/content/view/61/55/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The roots of Arab Anti-Semitism - By David Greenberg - Slate Magazine Oct 31, 2001 &amp;hellip; As he notes, anti-Semitism in Arab countries (and non-Arab Islamic states such as Iran) &amp;hellip;. East&amp;mdash;they were eager to make common cause with Hitler, despite Nazi belief that they, like the Jews, were inferior to Aryans. &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/id/2057949/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.slate.com/id/2057949/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The third Reich &amp;amp; the Palestine question - Francis R. Nicosia - 2000 - History - 319 pages (Page 85) Most Arabs never realized that the Nazis would consider them racially inferior as well and that Germany had no intention of undermining British authority in &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=xh4m-OMrhJUC&amp;amp;pg=PA85&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=xh4m-OMrhJUC&amp;amp;pg=PA85&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Nazi Connection to Islamic Terrorism: Adolf Hitler and Haj &amp;hellip; Chuck Morse - 2003 - History - 188 pages (page 53) &amp;hellip; as Hitler was known to have described the Arabs as &amp;ldquo;lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped,&amp;rdquo; to a lower race &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&amp;amp;pg=PA53&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=HGkthBwbNg8C&amp;amp;pg=PA53&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite Hitler&amp;rsquo;s personal antipathy towards Arabs, who he once described as lacquered half apes who ought to be whipped, he nevertheless was prepared to &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/An%20unholy%20alliance%201801%20original.doc&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.thecst.org.uk/docs/An%20unholy%20alliance%201801%20original.doc&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Beast Reawakens: Fascism&amp;rsquo;s Resurgence from Hitler&amp;rsquo;s Spymasters &amp;hellip;Martin A. Lee - 1999 - Political Science - 560 pages (page 122) Even though he loathed Arabs (he once described them as &amp;ldquo;lacquered half-apes who ought to be whipped&amp;rdquo;), Hitler was nonetheless the idol of the paramilitary &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=SX4B7pNG3W8C&amp;amp;pg=PA122&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?id=SX4B7pNG3W8C&amp;amp;pg=PA122&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot; align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/ss/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;strong&gt;ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN&amp;rsquo;S PERSECUTION OPPRESSION OF MINORITIES - ISLAMIC APARTHEID&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#general&quot;&gt;In General&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#christians&quot;&gt;Christians&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#bahai&quot;&gt;Baha&amp;rsquo;i&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#kurds&quot;&gt;Kurds&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#jews&quot;&gt;Jews&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#azeris&quot;&gt;Azeris&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#baluchis&quot;&gt;Baluchis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;#ahwazi&quot;&gt;Ahwazi Arabs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;general&quot; title=&quot;general&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again, religious persecution in Iran&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;February 20, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Ethel C. Fenig&lt;br /&gt;As Thomas Lifson noted yesterday Iranian authorities destroyed a Sufi holy site, continuing their practice of pressuring and discriminating against religions that do not strictly follow the Shi&amp;rsquo;ite form of Islam. But the Sufis are not the only religious minority suffering discrimination in Iran. &lt;p&gt;The 2500 year old Jewish community, which numbered over 80,000 thirty years ago at the time of the Khoemeni Revolution which overthrew the Shah, has dwindled to about 20,000. Those remaining Jews live restricted personal and religious lives, always under suspicion of being traitors for pro &amp;ldquo;Zionist&amp;rdquo; activities.&lt;br /&gt;Despite the official distinction between &amp;ldquo;Jews,&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;Zionists,&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Israel,&amp;rdquo; the most common accusation the Jews encounter is that of maintaining contacts with Zionists. The Jewish community does enjoy a measure of religious freedom but is faced with constant suspicion of cooperating with the Zionist state and with &amp;ldquo;imperialistic America&amp;rdquo; &amp;mdash; both such activities are punishable by death. Jews who apply for a passport to travel abroad must do so in a special bureau and are immediately put under surveillance. The government does not generally allow all members of a family to travel abroad at the same time to prevent Jewish emigration. Again, the Jews live under the status of dhimmi, with the restrictions im posed on religious minorities. Jewish leaders fear government reprisals if they draw attention to official mistreatment of their community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Iran&amp;rsquo;s official government-controlled media often issues anti-Semitic propaganda. A prime example is the government&amp;rsquo;s publishing of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, a notorious Czarist forgery, in 1994 and 1999.2 Jews also suffer varying degrees of officially sanctioned discrimination, particularly in the areas of employment, education, and public accommodations.The Islamization of the country has brought about strict control over Jewish educational institutions. Before the revolution, there were some 20 Jewish schools functioning throughout the country. In recent years, most of these have been closed down. In the remaining schools, Jewish principals have been replaced by Muslims. In Teheran there are still three schools in which Jewish pupils constitute a majority. The curriculum is Islamic, and Persian is forbidden as the language of instruction for Jewish studies. Special Hebrew lessons are conducted on Fridays by the Orthodox Otzar ha-Torah organization, which is responsible for Jewish religious education. Saturday is no longer officially recognized as the Jewish sabbath, and Jewish pupils are compelled to attend school on that day. There are three synagogues in Teheran, but since 1994, there has been no rabbi in Iran, and the bet din does not function.At least 13 Jews have been executed in Iran since the Islamic revolution 30 years ago, most of them for either religious reasons or their connection to Israel. For example, in May 1998, Jewish businessman Ruhollah Kakhodah-Zadeh was hanged in prison without a public charge or legal proceeding, apparently for assisting Jews to emigrate.Other religious groups are persecuted too. This week Iran admitted that seven Bahai leaders arrested and detained more than eight months ago would be charged with spying for Israel. The Bahai faith, which began in the 19th century in what is now Iran, claims their founder, Baha&amp;rsquo;a&#039;llah, is the last Moslem prophet, not Mohammed. Bahai&amp;rsquo;s international headquarters are located in Haifa, Israel where Bahais, along with Moslems and Christians of various backgrounds, plus other religions in addition to Jews can practice freely.This is not true in Iran.Bahais claim 300,000 followers in Iran, but there are no independent statistics on the denomination&amp;rsquo;s size in the country. The Islamic republic allows Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians, who are regarded as members of monotheistic religions, to hold religious gatherings. Bahais are forbidden to hold such meetings, and those who make their faith public are banned from studying at universities serving in the army and working in government offices. The Iranian prosecutors claim&amp;ldquo;All evidence points to the fact that the Bahai organization is in direct contact with the foreign enemies of Iran,&amp;rdquo; Dorri-Najafabadi wrote in the letter, (snip) &amp;ldquo;The ghastly Bahai organization is illegal on all levels, their dependence on Israel has been documented, their antagonism with Islam and the Islamic System is obvious, their danger for national security is proven and any replacement organization must also be dealt with according to the law,&amp;rdquo;This charge is part of the latest prosecution against Iranian Bahais. The Bahai International Community, which represents members of the faith worldwide, says hundreds of followers have been jailed and some executed in the years since Iran&amp;rsquo;s 1979 Islamic revolution.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/again_religious_persecution_in.html&quot;&gt;http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2009/02/again_religious_persecution_in.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Religious minorities in Iran: Information from Answers.com &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521770734&quot;&gt;http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521770734&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Iran Minority News&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://iranminoritynews.org/&quot;&gt;http://iranminoritynews.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Middle East Minorities Unite! by Joseph &amp;hellip; Iran &amp;rsquo;s Islamic republic has created serious problems for the large communities of non-Persian minorities, including the Azeri&amp;rsquo;s and the Baluchis and is &amp;hellip; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24209&quot;&gt;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24209&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Q&amp;amp;A: Iran&amp;rsquo;s Waning Human Rights - New York Times, Iran is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, which affords legal rights to minorities and minors. Persecution of religious minorities &amp;hellip;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/world/slot1_081006.html?_r=3&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;oref=slogin&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/cfr/world/slot1_081006.html?_r=3&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;oref=slogin&amp;amp;oref=slogin&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>What a world:: Racist Arabs &amp; Islamic bigots call the victims of their racism - &quot;racists&quot;</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What a world:: Racist Arabs &amp;amp; Islamic bigots call the victims of their racism - &amp;quot;racists&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;Forget the fact that Israel is multi-racial for all colors from the whitest of white to the darkest of black, whereas Arab countries (including &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; authorities&amp;quot;) asides from oppressing all non-Arab minorities, are almost entirely &amp;quot;judenrein&amp;quot;, but in democratic Israel, an Arab can get the highest office!But the brazenness of Arab racism not only fails to admit of it&#039;s racist war on Jews/Israel since the 1920&#039;s, but it brands Israel&#039;s defense FROM it as &amp;quot;racist&amp;quot;..&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Israelis aren&#039;t &#039;racist&#039; - they&#039;re worried Op-Ed Contributors ...Israel&#039;s Arab citizens are being drawn toward radicalism by their leadership. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1167467807212&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1167467807212&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Racism of] Killing Jews in Israel a young Israeli student at Hebron University was gunned down while jogging through a mixed neighborhood of Jews and Arabs. The al Aqsa Brigade, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Yassir Arafat&#039;s Fatah movement, joyously claimed credit for the killing of yet another innocent Jew. When it was later learned that the jogger was an Arab-Israeli and not a Jew, al Aqsa quickly apologized to the family, calling it an accident. But the killing of the innocent young jogger was not an accident; the murderer had deliberately taken aim at his head and midsection, intending to end his life. The only thing accidental about the murder was the religion of the victim. The al Aqsa Brigade had sent the assassin to murder a Jew - any Jew, so long as he was a Jew.This is racism, pure and simple. And despite efforts by supporters of Palestinian terrorism to justify the murder of innocent civilians as national liberationor by any other euphemism, this case proves that the Palestinian terrorists targeting of Jews and only Jews - as many as possible - is little different in intent than other forms of lethal or exterminatory anti-Jewish murders&amp;nbsp;(I dont use the term anti-Semitic only because some Arabs claim that because they too are Semites, they cant be anti-Semitic). Obviously the numbers are different, because Israel is capable of defending its Jewish citizens, but if it were not, the goal of Palestinian terrorist groups would not be very different from that of previous groups intent on murdering as many Jews as possible. &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israeljewsracismdersh130112.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israeljewsracismdersh130112.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The Hamas advocates Killing Jews, simply for being Jews &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=14650&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=14650&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;If justifying the murder of innocents because they belong to a certain hated group is not abject racism, I&#039;d like to know what is.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999795.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/999795.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;______________&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD &#039;Racist&#039; speech walkout&amp;lrm; - Apr 21, 2009 Diplomats from across the world have walked out of a speech delivered by Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at a global anti-racism conference, ... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/world/2009/04/21/mass-walk-out-at-un-conference-after-racist-iranian-speech.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/home/regularieninhalte/world-news-ticker/world/2009/04/21/mass-walk-out-at-un-conference-after-racist-iranian-speech.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Lebanon news - NOW Lebanon -Western leaders horrified at &#039;racist ...Western leaders horrified at &#039;racist&#039; Ahmadinejad speech. April 20, 2009. Western leaders recoiled in horror Monday at a fierce anti-Israel outburst by Iran&#039;s president at a UN ... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=89673&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.nowlebanon.com/NewsArticleDetails.aspx?ID=89673&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;When representatives of many Arab and Muslim nations publicly applaud Ahmadinejad&#039;s racist rant, the real losers are the Palestinians. ... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/durbanII&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.tikkun.org/article.php/durbanII&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/10/01/1191292848_7819/300h.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20090420/capt.82b5f3f867c9469eb72c10642b56638f.switzerland_un_racism_conference__ge132.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>A few points about the racist UN - Durban &quot;anti-racism&quot; conference&lt;br /&gt;
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1) When will Arab racists &amp; Islamic bigots let go of the UN and stop hijacking it with it&#039;s lobbies (silencing Arab racist genocide in Darfur, yet daming innocent Israelis who merely try to survive)?&lt;br /&gt;
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2) Why is Arab terror singling out Jews not racist?&lt;br /&gt;
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3) Why is the essence of the entire &quot;conflict&#039;&quot; in the M.E. not a form of bigotry by Arab Muslims who can&#039;t &quot;accept&quot; the non Arab non Muslim pluralistic democratic Israel?&lt;br /&gt;
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4) Are Jews living, or even allowed to live in racist &quot;Palestinian&quot; controlled territories (Judenrein - ethnic cleaning)?&lt;br /&gt;
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5) When will lefty radicals (Meretz/B&#039;Tzelem) talk about preferential treatments to Arabs OVER Jews inside Israel, like in Hebron and in other cases?&lt;br /&gt;
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6) Why are (Arab Palestinian or Hezbollah) the ones using its own kids as cannon fodders considered &quot;innocent victims&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
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7) Is Israel battling just terrorism or an ARAB MUSLIM CAMPAIGN  OF GENOCIDE since the 1920&#039;s?&lt;br /&gt;
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8) Since Muslim nations (OIC &amp; Iran) push to criminalize criticism of Islamists&#039; bigotry, doesn&#039;t it mean that anything being said in that conference is the opposite of tolerance and of truth?&lt;br /&gt;
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9) How can the UN avoid the largest practitioner of racism, which is Arabism (against: Kurds, Berbers, Africans, Jews, Assyrians, Asians, etc.), but focuses on the so called &quot;anti-Arab racism&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
[ http://geocities.com/panarabism - Arabism is racism! ]&lt;br /&gt;
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10) How more racist can the Durban-conference get, If the two oppressive regimes: Libya &amp; Iran are the &quot;stars&quot;?&lt;br /&gt;
Libya - whose Muamar Qaddafi (besides his own persecution of non-Arabs, especially blacks in his country) the one of the champions in today&#039;s racist Arabization, and Arabist racism against Africa (whose &quot;vision&quot; has been compared to Hitler&#039;s &quot;lebensraum&quot;), in: Chad, Nigeria, etc., ultimately his crimes  in the Sudan region helped in leading the current Al-Bashir&#039;s genocide on Millions of Africans (financed mainly by Libya and S. Arabia).&lt;br /&gt;
Iran, the regime of Islamic bigotry&#039;s oppression on its own population with an added special persecution on all on-Muslims: Christians, Baha&#039;i, Jews, etc. or on non-&quot;pure-Persians&quot; like: Ahwazi - Arabs, Kurds, Azeris, Baluchis, etc. now under the leadership of: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad [EichmannJihad - the Islamic Hitler] who plays as if he &quot;denies&quot; the holocaust only in order to prepare for (his wishful) the second, &quot;wiping off Israel&quot;.&lt;br /&gt;
Thus, the shame of the UN, kidnapped by the epitome of intolerance today, the infamous twin fascism: Arab racism, as in Gadhafi, and Islamic bigotry as in Amadinejad, are going to be &quot;preaching&quot; (and determine) to the world on tolerance.</description>
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            <description>&lt;strong&gt;The race card by Arab Muslim bigots at the UN (Durban II)&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Even though it&amp;rsquo;s really &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamo-fascism/73/islamic-bigotry/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Islamism that is the epitome of bigotry&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and it&amp;rsquo;s Arabism that &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/authors.aspx?GUID=c5a848fc-9632-41e6-939a-83baf99c48a9&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Equals Racism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gzyn.com/cmp/contentReadingActions.do?method=readArticle&amp;amp;id=31&amp;amp;edition=1&amp;amp;title=Arab+Racism&quot;&gt;against all non-Arabs, including: Kurds, Berbers, Jews (not only inside Israel), Persians, Africans (not only the millions of victims in Sudan), etc.&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;and as an Arab admitted the true &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP83504&amp;amp;Page=archives&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Nature of the Twin Fascisms of Islamism and Pan-Arabism&amp;rsquo; that dominates the Arab Muslim world &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, yet the UN, in its Durban proclaiming to be an anti-racism forum, bows to the Arab Muslim lobby control to ignore the above but concentrate rather on anti-Arabism and Islamophobia, both terms which have been used as tools by Islamists to gage any criticism of intolerance in the Arab-Muslim world (and radicals have been politicizing genuine feelings, to call true &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1167467807212&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;fear of terror as &amp;ldquo;racism&amp;rdquo;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;______________ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Kicking Israel Around [Anne Bayefsky] April 07, 2009 What&amp;rsquo;s behind all this? The OIC countries are locked in a struggle with EU states over the ability to stifle free speech (such as &amp;ldquo;defaming&amp;rdquo; Islam) in the name of protecting religion. The Russian move helps the OIC nations by letting them use the anti-semitism clause as a bargaining chip, to be played in exchange for the EU&amp;rsquo;s allowing free-speech restrictions. In a related issue, the Danish are unhappy with the mention of something the U.N. invented called &amp;ldquo;anti-Arabism.&amp;rdquo; That phrase has been inserted in the paragraph about discrimination in the form of Islamophobia, Christianophobia and anti-semitism. But the rest of the EU has told the Danes to get lost, on the grounds that if the EU proposes deleting anti-Arabism, the OIC will insist on deleting anti-semitism. As EU officials explain to observers, &amp;ldquo;We want to show restraint.&amp;rdquo; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Mzk3YjI3NDQxNDMzYzE1ZTQ4NzY4ZjU4Y2VkNTE4ZTI&quot;&gt;http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Mzk3YjI3NDQxNDMzYzE1ZTQ4NzY4ZjU4Y2VkNTE4ZTI&lt;/a&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Human Rights of Non-believers, Apostates and Free-thinkers &amp;ldquo;The terms belief and religion are to be broadly construed&amp;rdquo;. General Comment 22 on Article 18, United Nations Human Rights Committee, 1993. We find paragraph 10 of the draft outcome document to be deeply flawed in that it singles out only Christians, Jews and Muslims as named victims of &amp;ldquo;phobias&amp;rdquo;. Furthermore, while the term &amp;ldquo;Islamophobia&amp;rdquo;, for example, is undefined, it is used to falsely equate disdain for or opposition to Islam with intolerance of, or violence and hatred towards the believer. Secondly, no mention is made in paragraph 10 of discrimination, intolerance and violence towards non-believers, Polytheists, apostates, and free-thinkers. Yet the human rights of non-believers, free-thinkers and those of other faiths are systematically denied in many parts of the world, and many face discrimination, abuse and even death. We urge delegations to recognise that all are entitled to protection from discrimination, whatever their belief or lack of belief. We therefore respectfully suggest either that the list of specific types of discrimination be deleted from paragraph 10, or the list be expanded to include non-believers, polytheists, apostates and free-thinkers. We are equally concerned that anti-Arabism is included in the list, while no mention is made of the anti-Westernism endemic in many parts of the world. Again, we would respectfully suggest that either the reference to anti-Arabism be deleted or that the list should be extended to include anti-Westernism. Our preferred text, which we respectfully offer to delegations, then becomes: 10. Recognizes with deep concern the negative stereotyping of religions, beliefs and non-beliefs, and the global rise in the number of incidents of racial or religious intolerance and violence. With, as an alternative: 10. Recognizes with deep concern the negative stereotyping of religion, beliefs, and non-beliefs, and the global rise in the number of incidents of racial or religious intolerance and violence, including Judeophobia, Christianophobia, Islamophobia, anti-Arabism, anti-Westernism and intolerance and violence towards non-believers, polytheists, apostates and free-thinkers. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025617.php&quot;&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/025617.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Islamic Agenda: &amp;ldquo;Defamation of Religion&amp;rdquo; The Islamic Group (Pakistan) stated, &amp;ldquo;Defamation is not about freedom of expression, but the abuse of this freedom.&amp;rdquo; Iran was very active throughout the week, taking the floor more than any other country on this issue. It consistently advocated &amp;ldquo;elaborating&amp;rdquo; legislation to fight racism, proposing further, &amp;ldquo;Model legislation on the necessity of upholding respect for&amp;hellip;reputation, public morals as well as incitement to racial and religious hatred [code for defamation].&amp;rdquo; As the debate on defamation was getting underway, the chair asked two journalists to leave the room, explaining that members of two regional groups had requested that the cameras be removed from the room in that they have had adequate time for filming. The journalists were from the French-German cultural channel ARTE and were making a documentary about the human rights debate at the UN. Pakistan, South Africa, and Egypt expressed their concerns that these journalists would engage in &amp;ldquo;selective interpretation&amp;rdquo; of the discussion. Counter-terrorism, Islamophobia Pakistan wanted to include even more language to equate counter-terrorism with racism. Pakistan, Algeria, and Iran also wanted the words, &amp;ldquo;Islamophobia&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;anti-Arabism&amp;rdquo; to remain in the document. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&amp;amp;b=1316871&amp;amp;ct=6645721&amp;amp;printmode=1&quot;&gt;http://www.unwatch.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=bdKKISNqEmG&amp;amp;b=1316871&amp;amp;ct=6645721&amp;amp;printmode=1&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/jordan/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The US/Britain 200 Years war against Islamic pirates - terrorists&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;For young Somalis, piracy offers power, prosperity &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Associated Press &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are several known pirate groups in Somalia. One is based in the southern port town of Kismayo, which is controlled by Islamic insurgents. &amp;hellip; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iR9XICoYi0CQt77GJUw5lNAPpG_AD97EGS200&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iR9XICoYi0CQt77GJUw5lNAPpG_AD97EGS200&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hot Air &amp;raquo; Blog Archive &amp;raquo; Somali pirates seize American ship, crew &amp;hellip; by Ed Morrissey Jefferson Versus the Muslim Pirates &amp;hellip;one cannot get around what Jefferson heard when he went with John Adams to wait upon Tripoli&amp;rsquo;s ambassador to London in March 1785. When they inquired by what right the Barbary states preyed upon American shipping &amp;hellip; So here was an early instance of the &amp;ldquo;heads I win, tails you lose&amp;rdquo; dilemma, in which the United States is faced with corrupt regimes, on the one hand, and Islamic militants, on the other&amp;mdash;or indeed a collusion between them. &amp;hellip; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/08/somali-pirates-seize-american-ship-crew/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://hotair.com/archives/2009/04/08/somali-pirates-seize-american-ship-crew/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A look back at history&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Britain&amp;rsquo;s 200-year jihad (and US facing them)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Britain&amp;rsquo;s 200-year jihad There are many similarities between the stateless jihad of the 1700&amp;rsquo;s and &amp;hellip;.. The pirate ships set sail for Algeria later that day, with the captives on &amp;hellip; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008320.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/008320.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;America&amp;rsquo;s Earliest Terrorists &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lessons from America&amp;rsquo;s first war against Islamic terror.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;December 16, 2005, 9:55 a.m. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Joshua E. London &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;At the dawn of a new century, a newly elected United States president was forced to confront a grave threat to the nation &amp;mdash; an escalating series of unprovoked attacks on Americans by Muslim terrorists. Worse still, these Islamic partisans operated under the protection and sponsorship of rogue Arab states ruled by ruthless and cunning dictators. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sluggish in recognizing the full nature of the threat, America entered the war well after the enemy&amp;rsquo;s call to arms. Poorly planned and feebly executed, the American effort proceeded badly and at great expense &amp;mdash; resulting in a hastily negotiated peace and an equally hasty declaration of victory. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As timely and familiar as these events may seem, they occurred more than two centuries ago. The president was Thomas Jefferson, and the terrorists were the Barbary pirates. Unfortunately, many of the easy lessons to be plucked from this experience have yet to be fully learned. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Barbary states, modern-day Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya, are collectively known to the Arab world as the Maghrib (&amp;rdquo;Land of Sunset&amp;rdquo;), denoting Islam&amp;rsquo;s territorial holdings west of Egypt. With the advance of Mohammed&amp;rsquo;s armies into the Christian Levant in the seventh century, the Mediterranean was slowly transformed into the backwater frontier of the battles between crescent and cross. Battles raged on both land and sea, and religious piracy flourished. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Maghrib served as a staging ground for Muslim piracy throughout the Mediterranean, and even parts of the Atlantic. America&amp;rsquo;s struggle with the terror of Muslim piracy from the Barbary states began soon after the 13 colonies declared their independence from Britain in 1776, and continued for roughly four decades, finally ending in 1815. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although there is much in the history of America&amp;rsquo;s wars with the Barbary pirates that is of direct relevance to the current &amp;ldquo;war on terror,&amp;rdquo; one aspect seems particularly instructive to informing our understanding of contemporary Islamic terrorists. Very simply put, the Barbary pirates were committed, militant Muslims who meant to do exactly what they said. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Take, for example, the 1786 meeting in London of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Tripolitan ambassador to Britain. As American ambassadors to France and Britain respectively, Jefferson and Adams met with Ambassador Adja to negotiate a peace treaty and protect the United States from the threat of Barbary piracy. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;These future United States presidents questioned the ambassador as to why his government was so hostile to the new American republic even though America had done nothing to provoke any such animosity. Ambassador Adja answered them, as they reported to the Continental Congress, &amp;ldquo;that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.&amp;rdquo; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sound familiar? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The candor of that Tripolitan ambassador is admirable in its way, but it certainly foreshadows the equally forthright declarations of, say, the Shiite Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in the 1980s and the Sunni Osama bin Laden in the 1990s, not to mention the many pronouncements of their various minions, admirers, and followers. Note that America&amp;rsquo;s Barbary experience took place well before colonialism entered the lands of Islam, before there were any oil interests dragging the U.S. into the fray, and long before the founding of the state of Israel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;America became entangled in the Islamic world and was dragged into a war with the Barbary states simply because of the religious obligation within Islam to bring belief to those who do not share it. This is not something limited to &amp;ldquo;radical&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;fundamentalist&amp;rdquo; Muslims. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Which is not to say that such obligations lead inevitably to physical conflict, at least not in principle. After all peaceful proselytizing among various religious groups continues apace throughout the world, but within the teachings of Islam, and the history of Muslims, this is a well-established militant thread. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Islamic basis for piracy in the Mediterranean was an old doctrine relating to the physical or armed jihad, or struggle&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;To Muslims in the heyday of Barbary piracy, there were, at least in principle, only two forces at play in the world: the Dar al-Islam, or House of Islam, and the Dar al-Harb, or House of War. The House of Islam meant Muslim governance and the unrivaled authority of the sharia, Islam&amp;rsquo;s complex system of holy law. The House of War was simply everything that fell outside of the House of Islam &amp;mdash; that area of the globe not under Muslim authority, where the infidel ruled. For Muslims, these two houses were perpetually at war &amp;mdash; at least until mankind should finally embrace Allah and his teachings as revealed through his prophet, Mohammed. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The point of jihad is not to convert by force, but to remove the obstacles to the infidels&amp;rsquo; conversion so that they shall either convert or become a dhimmi (a non-Muslim who accepts Islamic dominion) and pay the jizya, or poll tax. The goal is to bring all of the Dar al-Harb into the peace of the Dar al-Islam, and to eradicate unbelief. The Koran also promises rewards to those who fight in the jihad, plunder and glory in this world and the delights of paradise in the next. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Although the piratical activities of Barbary genuinely degenerated over the centuries from pure considerations of the glory of jihad to less grandiose visions of booty and state revenues, it is important to remember that the religious foundations of the institution of piracy remained central. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Even after it became commonplace for the pirate captains or their crew to be renegade Europeans, it was essential that these former Christians &amp;ldquo;turn Turk&amp;rdquo; and convert to Islam before they could be accorded the honor of engagement in al-jihad fil-bahr, the holy war at sea. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In fact, the peoples of Barbary continued to consider the pirates as holy warriors even after the Barbary rulers began to allow non-religious commitments to command their strategic use of piracy. The changes that the religious institution of piracy underwent were natural, if pathological. Just as the concept of jihad is invoked by Muslim terrorists today to legitimize suicide bombings of noncombatants for political gain, so too al-jihad fil-bahr, the holy war at sea, served as the cornerstone of the Barbary states&amp;rsquo; interaction with Christendom.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;In times of conflict, America tends to focus on personalities over ideas or movements, trying to play the man, not the board &amp;mdash; as if capturing or killing Osama bin Laden, for example, would instantly end the present conflict. But such thinking loses sight of the fact that ideas have consequences. If one believes that God commands something, this belief is not likely to dissipate just because the person who elucidated it has been silenced. Islam, as a faith, is as essential a feature of the terrorist threat today as it was of the Barbary piracy over two centuries ago. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Barbary pirates were not a &amp;ldquo;radical&amp;rdquo; or &amp;ldquo;fundamentalist&amp;rdquo; sect that had twisted religious doctrine for power and politics, or that came to recast aspects of their faith out of some form of insanity. They were simply a North African warrior caste involved in an armed jihad &amp;mdash; a mainstream Muslim doctrine. This is how the Muslims understood Barbary piracy and armed jihad at the time, and, indeed, how the physical jihad has been understood since Mohammed revealed it as the prophecy of Allah. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Obviously, and thankfully, not every Muslim is obligated, or even really inclined, to take up this jihad. Indeed, many Muslims are loath to personally embrace this physical struggle. But that does not mean they are all opposed to such a struggle any more than the choice of many Westerners not to join the police force or the armed services means they do not support those institutions. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Whether &amp;ldquo;insurgents&amp;rdquo; are fighting in Iraq or &amp;ldquo;rebels&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;militants&amp;rdquo; are skirmishing in Chechnya or Hamas &amp;ldquo;activists&amp;rdquo; are detonating themselves in Israel, Westerners seem unwilling to bring attention to the most salient feature of all these groups: They claim to be acting in the name of Islam. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is very easy to chalk it all up to regional squabbles, economic depression, racism, or post-colonial nationalistic self-determinism. Such explanations undoubtedly enter into part of the equation &amp;mdash; they are already part of the propaganda that clouds contemporary analysis. But as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams came to learn back in 1786, the situation becomes a lot clearer when you listen to the stated intentions and motivations of the terrorists and take them at face value. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;mdash; Joshua E. London is the author of Victory in Tripoli: How America&amp;rsquo;s War with the Barbary Pirates Established the U.S. Navy and Shaped a Nation (John Wiley &amp;amp; Sons, September 2005); for more about the book visit www.victoryintripoli.com. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/london200512160955.asp&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/london200512160955.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jihad in the Days of Jefferson &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961230585&amp;amp;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961230585&amp;amp;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the Founding Fathers Faced Islamists May 27, 2008 &amp;hellip; birth of US Naval power and the campaign against the Barbary pirates: &amp;hellip;. that United States did not start the war with the Jihadists. &amp;hellip; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/when-the-founding-fathers-faced-islamists/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/when-the-founding-fathers-faced-islamists/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sally Rovers incident, at the height of North African Arab Muslim pirates&amp;rsquo; crimes against Christians, mainly British&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Britain&amp;rsquo;s 200-year jihad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;On my travels for the past few days, I have been reading a book which tells the story of a quite astonishing part of British history of which I was previously unaware. In &amp;lsquo;White Gold&amp;rsquo;, Giles Milton records the appalling details &amp;mdash; gleaned,it appears, from a wealth of historical documents including diaries and letters &amp;mdash; of a seaborne Islamic jihad against Britain which lasted for no less than two centuries.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;From the early seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, thousands of British men women and children were kidnapped by Arab corsairs and sold into slavery in Morocco where they were kept in conditions of unspeakable barbarism. The astounding thing is that these British victims were not merely seized at sea where they ran the gauntlet of such pirates in places such as the Straits of Gibraltar. They were actually abducted from Britain itself.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Corsairs from a place in Morocco called Sale &amp;mdash; who became known in Britain as the &amp;lsquo;Sally Rovers&amp;rsquo; &amp;mdash; sailed up the Cornish coast in July 1625, for example, came ashore dressed in djellabas and wielding damascene scimitars, burst into the parish church at Mount&amp;rsquo;s Bay and dragged out 60 men women and children whom they shipped off to Morocco. Thousands more Britons were seized from their villages or their ships and dispatched to the hell-holes of the Moroccan slave pens, from where they were forced to work all hours in appalling conditions building the vast palace of the monstrous and psychopathic Sultan, Moulay Ismail, who tortured and butchered them at whim. Most of them perished, but the book records the survival of a tenacious Cornish boy Thomas Pellow, who survived 23 years of this ordeal and whose descendant, Lord Exmouth, finally ended the white slave trade when he destroyed Algiers in 1816.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The book makes clear that this assault upon the British people (and upon Europeans and Americans who were similarly seized) was a jihad. The Sally Rovers, writes Milton, were called &amp;lsquo;al-ghuzat&amp;rsquo;&amp;ndash; the term once used for the soldiers who fought with the Prophet &amp;mdash; and were hailed as religious warriors engaged in a holy war against the infidel Christians who were pressurised to convert to Islam under threat of hideous punishment. What is even more striking was the response of the British crown. For almost two centuries, it made only the most ineffectual attempts to rescue its enslaved subjects. Those who had succumbed to the torture and inhumanity of the Sultan and converted to Islam were deemed to be no longer British and therefore outside the scope of any rescue. The pleas of Pellow&amp;rsquo;s parents were simply brushed aside. Popular outrage forced successive Kings to dispatch a series of feeble emissaries to try to get the Sultan to end this vile traffic and release the slaves, all to no avail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;But this went on for virtually two centuries. For almost 200 years the British state either sat on its hands or wrung them impotently while the Islamic jihad seized, enslaved and butchered its people. And then it appears, this staggering onslaught was all but airbrushed out of our history.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Food for disquieting thought. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001423.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.melaniephillips.com/diary/archives/001423.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;Pirates of Penzance&amp;rsquo; redo? James Zumwalt &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Thursday, October 2, 2008 &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soon after winning independence from England, the United States faced another war. Muslim pirates operating off North Africa&amp;rsquo;s Barbary Coast were seizing U.S., as well as European, ships sailing in international waters, holding them for tribute payment or plunder. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In 1786, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, meeting in London with Tripoli&amp;rsquo;s Muslim ambassador to Britain, inquired as to the reason for such Arab hostility. Acknowledging their attacks were unprovoked, the Tripoli ambassador explained it was their right and duty under the Koran as faithful Muslim followers to plunder and enslave the unfaithful - with those Muslims dying in the process going to paradise. To stop the attacks, the United States initially agreed to pay the Barbary pirates tribute, equal to about 20 percent of government revenues. Only later did an indignant United States launch two wars against them, ending in victory in 1815 and no further payments. European nations, acting individually and collectively, suppressed pirate activity as well, with the French conquest of Algiers in 1830 providing the last nail in the Barbary Pirates&amp;rsquo; coffin. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today, Muslim pirates again sail the seas off Africa&amp;rsquo;s coast. Mostly Somalis, these pirates have already attacked more than 60 ships this year in the vicinity of the Gulf of Aden - almost 5 times more than occurred all last year. Pirates gain confidence as owners prove willing to pay ransoms for the safe return of ships and crews, much like the United States first did with the Barbary Pirates. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/02/pirates-of-penzance-redo/&quot;&gt;http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/02/pirates-of-penzance-redo/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Here we go again, Fake &quot;war crimes&quot; by Israel bashers exposed - damning effect still on</title>
            <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here we go again, Fake &amp;quot;war crimes&amp;quot; by Israel bashers exposed - damning effect still on&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.golivewire.com/quoteleft.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; Reports of IDF Crimes: Fiction Based on Rumors - Defense/Middle ...Claims that IDF soldiers deliberately killed civilians during Operation Cast Lead were based in hearsay, a military investigation has concluded. The two soldiers who first reported the alleged incidents several weeks ago had not seen the incidents themselves, and had no personal knowledge to support the allegations... &amp;nbsp;B&#039;Tselem, accused the IDF... ... &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130684&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130684&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130684&quot;&gt;www.israelnationalnews.co...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://img.golivewire.com/quoteright.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Then again, it (false accusations by the infamous &amp;nbsp;un-reliable radical political group: B&#039;tzelem) reminds us all the UN&#039;s such loud &amp;amp; harsh &amp;quot;accusation&amp;quot; of Israel of &amp;quot;killing Kids in Gaza&amp;quot;, then later on &amp;quot;woke up&amp;quot; told the truth, AKA retracted it ,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img.golivewire.com/quoteleft.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;UN retracts claim over Gaza school attack [Feb 4, 2009] ... The UN has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike, which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza last month, hit a school run by a UN ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html&quot;&gt;www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm&quot;&gt;www.abc.net.au/news/stori...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com.au/a/-/world/5301175/un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com.au/a/-/world/5301175/un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com.au/a/-/world/5301175/un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school/&quot;&gt;news.yahoo.com.au/a/-/wor...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worthychristianforums.com/Retracts-Claim-Gaza-Sc-t100098.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worthychristianforums.com/Retracts-Claim-Gaza-Sc-t100098.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;http://www.worthychristianforums.com/Retracts-Claim-Gaza-Sc-t100098.html&quot;&gt;www.worthychristianforums...&lt;/a&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://img.golivewire.com/quoteright.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;yet, the damage of the false accusations on innocent Israel is still there, full force.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 01:16:38 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>More revelations on Arab Palestinians  fake &quot;victimhood&quot; - Israel&#039;s Gaza toll far lower than Palestinian tally (Pallywood, Jeninitis)</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;More revelations on Arab Palestinians&amp;nbsp; fake &amp;quot;victimhood&amp;quot; - Israel&#039;s Gaza toll far lower than Palestinian tally (Pallywood, Jeninitis)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s Gaza toll far lower than Palestinian tally (Pallywood, Jeninitis)&lt;br /&gt;Thu Mar 26, 2009 11:56am EDT&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;JERUSALEM, March 26 (Reuters) - Israel says far more armed fighters and far fewer Palestinian civilians were killed during its 22-day offensive in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip in January than reported in widely-used Palestinian figures.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the first Israeli death tally to appear in an official publication since the Dec 27-Jan 18 war, it said a total of 1,166 Palestinians were killed, not 1,417 as reported by Palestinian human rights activists.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The figures were contained in a briefing paper issued by the public affairs department of the Israeli embassy in London on Wednesday (&lt;a href=&quot;http://london/mfa/gov/il&quot;&gt;http://london/mfa/gov/il&lt;/a&gt;). They were later confirmed in a press release by the Israeli army.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The tally says 295 civilians lost their lives -- about a third of the figure of 926 reported by Gaza&#039;s Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pchrgaza.org&quot;&gt;www.pchrgaza.org&lt;/a&gt;), which published a full list of names earlier this month.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The army statement, citing data gathered by its research department, said its count was based on &amp;quot;the names of Palestinians killed&amp;quot;. It said at least 709 of the dead in Gaza were armed militants, not 236 as reported by the Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Palestinian group said &amp;quot;255 police and 236 fighters&amp;quot; died in Israeli bombing and shelling -- a total of 491.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel has made clear it regards police under the control of the Islamist Hamas rulers of Gaza as the equivalent of armed fighters.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Israeli embassy paper said the &amp;quot;degree of involvement&amp;quot; in the armed conflict of a further 162 killed in its offensive was &amp;quot;still under investigation&amp;quot;. The army statement said they are &amp;quot;162 names of men that have not yet been yet attributed to any organisation&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It did not say how the list of names was obtained.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;DIED NATURALLY&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights on Thursday reaffirmed its own figures, saying &amp;quot;extensive investigation and cross-checking .. determined that a total of 1,417 Palestinians died in the offensive&amp;quot; of whom 926 were civilians, including 313 children and 116 women.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The group&#039;s Hamdi Shaqoura told Reuters the centre took a long time and employed great efforts to research the numbers and identities of Palestinians killed.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;We have the numbers and the names of the victims. The process was very well and carefully researched and our numbers reflected the truth,&amp;quot; he said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;International law regards policemen who are not engaged in fighting as non-combatants or civilians,&amp;quot; he added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Israeli security source said the army&#039;s research made clear &amp;quot;about a quarter&amp;quot; of those killed were uninvolved in the fighting &amp;quot;and that&#039;s relatively low on any scale&amp;quot; for conflict in an urban environment.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The source suggested that the Palestinian count may have included death by natural causes during the period, which he said statistically would account for approximately 400 deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shaqoura said Palestinian researchers made sure not to include deaths caused by &amp;quot;internal events&amp;quot; or natural deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;He added: &amp;quot;When speaking about Israeli people, Israel regards all people under 18 years of age as children. But when speaking about the Palestinians Israel lowers the age to 16, in order to provide a cover for its army.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The central aim of the Israel embassy briefing paper was to reject charges of war crimes by Israeli forces in Gaza from human rights groups. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human Rights Watch said this week Israel&#039;s use of white phosphorus shells over densely populated Gaza areas was evidence of war crimes, and United Nations investigators said Israel had targeted civilians. Israel rejected both charges.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The embassy paper said there was so far no adequate ethical code of war &amp;quot;to regulate the war on terror&amp;quot; in which &amp;quot;amoral&amp;quot; adversaries flouted the rules of war and used human shields with total indifference to human suffering.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSLQ977827&quot;&gt;http://www.reuters.com/article/featuredCrisis/idUSLQ977827&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:45:46 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>What is bias in the middle east conflict? [March, 2009]</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What is bias in the middle east conflict? [March, 2009]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Arabs&amp;rsquo; racist killing (specifically) Jews &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnewsagency.com/israeljewsracismdersh130112.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, is accepted &amp;ldquo;freedom fighting&amp;rsquo;&#039;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Israelis worried of Arab terror &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fpagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull%26cid%3D1167467807212&amp;amp;ei=_zrISbvlPImMsAPFt6CAAQ&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=spellmeleon_result&amp;amp;resnum=2&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNEPQdm-2_blSEbpLIxdEp-ckXR_Lg&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, branded as &amp;ldquo;racists&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;War crimes, crimes against humanity by Palestinian Arab leadership - regime in Gaza &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-dershowitz10-2009jan10,0,2587090.story&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687815&amp;amp;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yourish.com/2008/12/31/5871&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; of using Arab civilians, making sure their kids die, for the &amp;ldquo;greater &lt;em&gt;good&lt;/em&gt; (Jihadi-fascism&amp;rsquo;s goodness) of making Israel look bad&amp;hellip;&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&amp;amp;cid=1204546401057&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Hamas+war+against+Israel/Hamas+exploitation+of+civilians+as+human+shields+-+Photographic+evidence.htm&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0901/04/cnr.03.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.camera.org/archives/2008/05/hamass_human_shields_1.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/020217.php&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/gazahumanshields.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/3211736/human-shields-killed-lets-blame-israel.thtml&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, using hospitals &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=42093&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, schools, UN medical vehicles &lt;a href=&quot;http://defend-israel.org/hasbara=hamas-uses-un-ambulances/&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/world_news/Hamas_Uses_UN_Red_Cross_Ambulance_For_Transporting_Troops&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, even aid material sent by humanitarian Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite%3Fcid%3D1233304770155%26pagename%3DJPost%252FJPArticle%252FShowFull&amp;amp;ei=0kfISdqrConOtQO2s-12&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=spellmeleon_result&amp;amp;resnum=1&amp;amp;ct=result&amp;amp;cd=1&amp;amp;usg=AFQjCNHxiEJgXn8sxUNobTKcOwfCn6oxEg&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; for murder, targeting at Israeli civilians, - shoved aside, ignored &lt;a href=&quot;http://littlegreenfootballs.com/article/32669_Human_Rights_Groups-_We_Ignore_Hamas_War_Crimes_Because_Theyre_So_Obvious&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Israel&amp;rsquo;s humane army&amp;rsquo;s extreme measures not to hit civilians (including 250,000 warning phone calls to Arab residents to evacuate a particular area designated to be included in an op., knowing full well terrorists can cease the opportunity and flea, as well as risking young soldiers&amp;rsquo; lives in going door to door) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/91024&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israellycool.com/2008/12/27/israel-strikes-back/&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.propeller.com/story/2009/01/13/israeli-air-force-avoids-civilian-casualties-in-gaza-video/&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/let_them_eat_rockets.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; aiming only at Hamas terrorists is denounced of &amp;ldquo;random shooting&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;war crimes&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;[Arab led pressure forcing Israel to conduct] Uprooting Jews from their homes and their ancestors&amp;rsquo;, AKA Transfer &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/3086&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/4638.htm&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; AKA Arab Palestinian Apartheid &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.intellectualconservative.com/article4043.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; is &amp;ldquo;good for peace&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Transfer of Arabs (who don&amp;rsquo;t have more than 2 or 3 generations of history in Judea / Israel / Palestine &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2139&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404769705&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/459/667425?highlight&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/immigration-oslo.html&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;) is &amp;ldquo;apartheid, fascist and racist&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href=&quot;http://pajamasmedia.com/ronradosh/2009/03/19/israes-predicament-and-the-worlds-response/&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; (AKA Avigdor Lieberman).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;*&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;While Hamas or even &amp;ldquo;Moderate&amp;rdquo; Fatah refuses to recognize Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=43158&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, international aid is flowing their way.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;UN is &amp;ldquo;busy&amp;rdquo; condemning Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.unwatch.org/unandisrael&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/AIPAC-2002-05-20.asp&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; on whatever is being told (forced) by the global Arab Muslim oil lobby.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/zonists/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Anti-Zionism is hate, racism</title>
            <description>&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Anti-Zionism is hate&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;By Judea Pearl March 22, 2009 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;In January, four longtime Israel bashers were invited to the University of California, Los Angeles, to analyze the human rights conditions in Gaza, and used the stage to attack the legitimacy of Zionism and its vision of a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;They criminalized Israel&amp;rsquo;s existence, distorted its motives and maligned its character, its birth, even its conception. At one point, the excited audience reportedly chanted &amp;ldquo;Zionism is Nazism&amp;rdquo; and worse.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Jewish leaders condemned this hate-fest as a dangerous invitation to anti-Semitic hysteria. The organizers, some of them Jewish, took refuge in &amp;ldquo;academic freedom&amp;rdquo; and the argument that anti-Zionism is not anti-Semitism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;I fully support this mantra, not because it exonerates anti-Zionists from charges of anti-Semitism but because the distinction helps us focus attention on the discriminatory, immoral and more dangerous character of anti-Zionism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Anti-Zionism rejects the very notion that Jews are a nation - a collective bonded by a common history - and, accordingly, denies Jews the right to self-determination in their historical birthplace. It seeks the dismantling of the Jewish nation-state: Israel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Anti-Zionism earns its discriminatory character by denying the Jewish people what it grants to other historically bonded collectives (e.g., French, Spanish, Palestinians): namely, the right to nationhood, self-determination and legitimate coexistence with other indigenous claimants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Anti-Semitism rejects Jews as equal members of the human race; anti-Zionism rejects Israel as an equal member in the family of nations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Are Jews a nation? Some philosophers would argue Jews are a nation first and religion second. Indeed, the narrative of Exodus and the vision of the impending journey to the land of Canaan were etched in the minds of the Jewish people before they received the Torah at Mount Sinai. But philosophy aside, the unshaken conviction in their eventual repatriation to the birthplace of their history has been the engine behind Jewish endurance and hopes throughout their turbulent journey that started with the Roman expulsion in A.D. 70.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;More important, shared history, not religion, is today the primary uniting force behind the secular, multiethnic society of Israel. The majority of its members do not practice religious laws and do not believe in divine supervision or the afterlife. The same applies to American Jewry, which is likewise largely secular. Identification with a common historical ethos, culminating in the re-establishment of the state of Israel, is the central bond of Jewish collectivity in America.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;There are, of course, Jews who are non-Zionists and even anti-Zionists. There are also Jews who find it difficult to defend their identity against the growing viciousness of anti-Israel propaganda. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;But these are marginal minorities at best; the vital tissues of Jewish identity today feed on Jewish history and its natural derivatives - the state of Israel, its struggle for survival, its cultural and scientific achievements and its relentless drive for peace.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Given this understanding of Jewish nationhood, anti-Zionism is in many ways more dangerous than anti-Semitism.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;First, anti-Zionism targets the most vulnerable part of the Jewish people, namely, the Jewish population of Israel, whose physical safety and personal dignity depend crucially on maintaining Israel&amp;rsquo;s sovereignty. Put bluntly, the anti-Zionist plan to do away with Israel condemns 5.5 million human beings, mostly refugees or children of refugees, to eternal defenselessness in a region where genocidal designs are not uncommon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Second, modern society has developed antibodies against anti-Semitism but not against anti-Zionism. Today, anti-Semitic stereotypes evoke revulsion in most people of conscience, while anti-Zionist rhetoric has become a mark of academic sophistication and social acceptance in certain extreme yet vocal circles of U.S. academia and media elite. Anti-Zionism disguises itself in the cloak of political debate, exempt from sensitivities and rules of civility that govern inter-religious discourse, to attack the most cherished symbol of Jewish identity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Finally, anti-Zionist rhetoric is a stab in the back to the Israeli peace camp, which overwhelmingly stands for a two-state solution. It also gives credence to enemies of coexistence who claim that the eventual elimination of Israel is the hidden agenda of every Palestinian.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;It is anti-Zionism, then, not anti-Semitism, that poses a more dangerous threat to lives, historical justice and the prospects of peace in the Middle East.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;Judea Pearl is a professor at UCLA and the president of the Daniel Pearl Foundation. This article originally appeared in the Los Angeles Times. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.israel22mar22,0,72685.story&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bal-op.israel22mar22,0,72685.story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;snap_preview&quot;&gt;____________________________________________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/zionists/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Terrorists - justifier Rashid Khalidi has a &quot;new&quot; book - yet he&#039;s the same old &quot;average Arab racist&quot;</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Terrorists&amp;nbsp;- justifier&amp;nbsp;Rashid Khalidi has a &amp;quot;new&amp;quot; book - yet he&#039;s the same old &amp;quot;average Arab racist&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rashid Khalidi (on c-span 2, books) (Author: &#039;Sowing Crisis&#039;) wants us to believe that Islamic republic of Iran is &amp;quot;not&amp;quot; linked to the terror organizations: Hamas, Hezbollah and that these groups have &amp;quot;legitimate&amp;quot; concerns.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Desperate as he is to act as if he&#039;s on a &#039;research&#039; row and making a show of someone who&#039;s really &amp;quot;looking at the region from a broader angle&amp;quot;, he did talk at first quite smoothly, dancing around and mentioning &amp;quot;other&amp;quot; problems we the USA have (supposedly) created in the region, like Afghanistan, Iraq&amp;nbsp;and Iran (no, he didn&#039;t mention Carter&#039;s role in indirectly overthrowing the Shah, that led to the current Islamofascistic totalitarianism), you almost thought that Rashid might really be an academic, in the real sense of the word.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But&amp;nbsp;as an average Arab Muslim &amp;quot;academic&amp;quot; he can never escape his burning Arab-racism against the Jews, though polishing his way to the maximum,&amp;nbsp;he had to come to his essential venomous point, all in all, his punch line is really, the same old hateful cliche theme, &lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;It&#039;s all Israel&#039;s fault&amp;quot;,&lt;/strong&gt; especially towards the end, when he was asked some questions, you could see how he was &amp;quot;lit&amp;quot; as if by a switch that turns on the Arab &amp;quot;moderates&amp;quot; hatred flames -&amp;nbsp;they can never seem to resist, and fall into it each and every time.To his credit, most Arab propagandists are less patient... you don&#039;t have to wait even that long to see their outbursts.It was a small room, filled by either Arabs, or the gullible, one Arab &amp;quot;American&amp;quot; journalist is even a brazen open Jihadists-Hamas-Hezbollah supporter, none has asked about his propaganda statement that &lt;em&gt;Iran fears Israel&#039;s nukes - as a &amp;quot;reason&amp;quot; for why they might be pursuing nuclear weapons&lt;/em&gt;, no one has asked the obvious: Did (democratic) Israel ever threaten to wipe out (oppressive) Iran like the Islamic fascist genocidal Republic did? or did Israel ever attack Iran like Iran attacked Israel via Hezbullah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Never mind his Pro-Jihad statement defending Hamas, Hezbollah, portraying them as &amp;quot;political&amp;quot; movements with &amp;quot;concerns&amp;quot;, and no one was refuting him - pointing to the true nature of these Jihadists that openly declare their real goal - to erase Israel.If you were to turn in towards the end, all you could hear is repeated word &amp;quot;occupation&amp;quot;, more than a few times... (as you know), all crimes under the sun are all washed by this excuse, used by the children of Arab immigrants, (that have invaded the land of Israel - &amp;quot;Palestine,&amp;quot; since the 1800&#039;s), and is being heard&amp;nbsp; by him, as by any Arab &amp;quot;journalist&amp;quot; like a&amp;nbsp;spiral.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_______________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Related:&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Khalidi&#039;s New Book and Old Story &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2009/03/khalidis-new-book-and-old-story.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://myrightword.blogspot.com/2009/03/khalidis-new-book-and-old-story.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Solomonia Archive: Columbia Watch: Rashid Khalidi On the other hand, this is Rashid Khalidi, and he does represent Columbia ... .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009032.shtml&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archives/009032.shtml&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Rashid Khalidi&#039;s Appointment at Columbia University...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/1234/rashid-khalidis-appointment-at-columbia-university&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.danielpipes.org/1234/rashid-khalidis-appointment-at-columbia-university&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Jan 20, 2009 ... Hamas&#039;s Academic Cheerleaders [incl. Hamid Dabashi, Rashid Khalidi, Fawaz Gerges, Joseph Massad, Muqtedar Khan, Mark LeVine, et al.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6708&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6708&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Camera-Ready Victims [incl. Rashid Khalidi]: Hamas practices human sacrifice; the world shrugs. - Campus Watch.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6622&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.campus-watch.org/article/id/6622&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EC10B67C-1843-496E-BB28-4FECE2DCF3F8&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.americansagainsthate.org/images/CAIRing%20for%20Khalidi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Arabism - Racism virus spreading in... Venezuela under Dictator Chavez</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Arabism - Racism virus spreading in... Venezuela&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So... is Hugo Chavez &amp;quot;arab&amp;quot; enough now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From a 2000-2001 Report of Antisemitism And Racism, &lt;em&gt;Responses to the intifada in the media, in wall graffiti and by Arab organizations in Venezuela such as FEARAB (Arab Federation for Latin America) were directed at de-legitimizing the State of Israel, which was accused of causing the Palestinian tragedy.&lt;br /&gt;The radical language used against Israel was not infrequently antisemitic, for example, the comparison of Israeli soldiers with Nazis&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://antisemitism.tau.ac.il/asw2000-1/venezuela.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In January 2009, Venezuela expelled Israeli ambassador over Gaza, due to influence by Chavez&#039;s government&#039;s Justice Minister Tarek El Aissami, who is of Arab descent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cleveland.com/world/index.ssf/2009/01/venezuela_expels_israeli_ambas.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; and a sizable population of Arab descent, hundreds of people who marched against Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://cbs5.com/national/Venezuela.israel.gaza.2.901451.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; (at Israel&#039;s anti terror operation of cast lead &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terror+Groups/Hamas_Exploitation_Civilians_Human_Shields.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kadmiel.com/israelhamaswarcastlead&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, Descendants of Arabs thriving in S. America, Venezuela has a flourishing Arab community of about 1.5 million, business and commerce. Shop names like Flower of Palestine are a common &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dawn.com/2005/05/14/int14.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In Jan. 1, 2009, Antisemitic graffiti was painted on the corner of Cristobal Colon Sinai Jewish School in Caracas &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/37038/Venezuela_-_Antisemitic_graffiti&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There was worldwide condemnation pouring down on Venezuela After Synagogue Attack in Caracas, with written racist messages like: &amp;quot;Jews, get out,&amp;quot; in the worst ever attack on the Venezualan Jewish community &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism/article/security_briefings/020209&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, Death threats against rabbis and the menacing of the Jewish community has apparently led to vandalism of a synagogue in Caracas. Marauders entered the temple and profaned the Torah and Ark, strewing them on the floor and fired shots in the air &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.speroforum.com/a/17962/Synagogue-violently-attacked-in-Venezuela&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, it has been said that &#039;Palestinian&#039; and Arab supporters in Venezuela were responsible &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.laht.com/article.asp?CategoryId=10717&amp;amp;ArticleId=326963&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; and Chavez&#039;s (described by many as a dictator &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.europeanvoice.com/article/2009/02/mep-unrepentant-about-calling-ch%C3%A1vez-a-dictator/63980.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dictatorofthemonth.com/Chavez/Jun2005ChavezEN.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anchorrising.com/barnacles/001656.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/news/050531a.aspx&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/3341771.stm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=4199&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.securityaffairs.org/issues/2006/11/fleischman.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/world_news/Chavez_Becomes_Dictator_in_Venezuala_Now_Rules_by_Decree&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://sweetness-light.com/archive/vote-on-chavez-lifetime-rule-begins&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, who is a new &amp;quot;hero&amp;quot; in the Arab world &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.usnews.com/blogs/mideast-watch/2009/1/16/venezuelas-chavez-the-new-hero-in-the-arab-world.html?s_cid=etRR-0224&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;) close ties with the radical Islamic Republic of Iran&#039;s leader Ahmadinejad (that has called for genocide, to &#039;wipe out Israel&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stopahmadinejad.com/congressman-condemns-genocidal-ahmadinejad&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/dec/13/secondworldwar.iran&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; ) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.examiner.com/x-2086-NY-Foreign-Policy-Examiner~y2009m1d8-A-mini-Kristallnacht-in-Caracas&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://jta.org/news/article/2009/02/03/1002741/jewish-leaders-hold-chavez-responsible-for-synagogue-attack&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hugo Chavez - extreme &lt;em&gt;Arabism&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, he also forged alliances with dictators of rogue Arab states such as Libya&#039; s Qaddafi, Iraq&#039;s Saddam Hussein, Exhorting his countrymen to return to their &amp;quot;Arab roots&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1571/is_6_19/ai_98415813&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, he has illegally given more than 270 Venezuelan passports to Arab extremists &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defenddemocracy.org/in_the_media/in_the_media_show.htm?doc_id=265102&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;, Waleed al-Tabtabai A Kuwaiti Islamist MP called for moving Arab League headquarters from Cairo to Caracas after he expelled the Israel&#039;s ambassador, Tabtabai said that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez &amp;quot;has proved that he was more Arab than some Arabs&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/dhimmiwatch/archives/2009/01/024435print.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;*&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Courage vs Arab Muslim racist (anti Jewish apartheid) hijacking of Durban&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;European states consider boycotting Durban 2 summit - Haaretz ...Mar 1, 2009 ... following United States&#039; footsteps... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067540.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1067540.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;Canada: Durban II Promotes Racism &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016733.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/016733.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Denmark threatens boycott of Durban II ... Other European countries have warned against crossing EU &amp;quot;red lines.&amp;quot;... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=15657&amp;amp;Itemid=86&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=15657&amp;amp;Itemid=86&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Danish foreign minister threatens Western boycott of Durban II ...Oct 28, 2008 ... Why the UN&#039;s Durban Review Conference Must Be Boycotted ... European MPs earning &amp;pound;1 million profits in a term, report finds ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://europenews.dk/en/node/15473&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://europenews.dk/en/node/15473&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Learning the lessons from the Arab racist hijacking of the UN &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/panarabism/#At_the_UN&quot;&gt;link..&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>At least one case of &quot;Moderate&quot; Arab Muslims&#039; bigotry - defeated [Arabism&#039;s racism]</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;At least one case of &amp;quot;Moderate&amp;quot; Arab Muslims&#039; bigotry - defeated [Arabism&#039;s racism]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bret Stephens on&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/journal/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.foxnews.com/journal/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;hits &amp;amp; misses&amp;quot;, The Fining of UAE over&amp;nbsp;denial of visa to Israeli tennis player is a &amp;quot;defeat for bigotry&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;WTA fines Dubai Open organisers after Israeli Shahar Peer denied visa - Feb 20, 2009 The Women&#039;s Tennis Association has fined the Dubai Open organisers $US300,000 ($A465,000) after the United Arab Emirates refused to grant a visa to Israeli ...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25086276-23209,00.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.foxsports.com.au/story/0,8659,25086276-23209,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Under-fire UAE likely to give Israel&#039;s Andy Ram a visa&lt;br /&gt;Israeli doubles specialist Andy Ram is likely to be granted a visa by the United Arab Emirates to play in the Dubai Championships next week, which could prevent a major crisis for tennis...&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;To discriminate as the UAE did against one player in this way smacks of bigotry and racism,&amp;quot; the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organisations said in a statement. &amp;quot;This must be declared unacceptable by the WTA and all international sporting associations. As we learned in the past, failure to condemn such actions and take corrective measures, proves destructive to international sporting competition.&amp;quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/atptour/4692024/Under-fire-UAE-likely-to-give-Israels-Andy-Ram-a-visa.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/atptour/4692024/Under-fire-UAE-likely-to-give-Israels-Andy-Ram-a-visa.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Sponsors pull out of Dubai Open after UAE deny visa to Israeli&lt;br /&gt;RACISM ROW: The Wall Street Journal Europe and the Tennis Channel have revoked their sponsorship of the WTA Dubai Open because the UAE denied a visa to Israeli player Shahar Peer.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25072951-5005401,00.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21598,25072951-5005401,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Tennis: Racism Rears Its Ugly Head Shahar Peer is an Israeli tennis player. The United Arab Emirates barred her from participating in the Barclays Dubai tournament&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ballhype.com/story/tennis_racism_rears_its_ugly_head/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://ballhype.com/story/tennis_racism_rears_its_ugly_head/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;United Arab Emirates (UAE), which has no diplomatic links with Israel, denied her an entry visa into the country. &amp;quot;To discriminate as the UAE did against one player in this way smacks of bigotry and racism,&amp;quot;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.javno.com/en-sports/jewish-leaders-call-on-wta-to-sanction-dubai-event_235390&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.javno.com/en-sports/jewish-leaders-call-on-wta-to-sanction-dubai-event_235390&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Shahar_Pe&#039;er_Israel_tennis_championship_2008_7.jpg/250px-Shahar_Pe&#039;er_Israel_tennis_championship_2008_7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.debbieschlussel.com/archives/shaharpeer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.topnews.in/files/Shahar.Peer.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>The &#039;Qassam Kindergarten&#039; Jihad</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The &#039;Qassam Kindergarten&#039; Jihad&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#039;Palestinians&#039; Islamic Hamas, &amp;quot;loves&amp;quot; children, well, in their special &#039;death cult&#039; type of way anyway.You already know how they love their own children... to die for propaganda, and make every effort in succeeding in it - unfortunately.But there are also other children under the &amp;quot;wings of Jihadi love&amp;quot; of Hamas, the Israeli children in schools, in kindergartens, they are &amp;quot;favorites&amp;quot;, favorites in Hamas&#039; targets that is, planning the time/place when/where they go to school, thank God for so many miracles where children weren&#039;t harmed.Call it &#039;Qassam kindergarten&#039;, &#039;Kindergarten Jihad&#039;, or plain &#039;Jihad on kids&#039; the broader reality. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Qassam Kindergarten&lt;br /&gt;[Dec 2007]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2007/12/qassam-kindergarten/index.shtml&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.solomonia.com/blog/archive/2007/12/qassam-kindergarten/index.shtml&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;May 15, 2007 ...Major Injuries In Sderot Rocket Barrage. Children Wounded As Rockets Score Direct Hits On School and Home. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11273760.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11273760.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The reality of Sderot, the city where I live&lt;br /&gt;By Noam Bedein&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; January 22, 2008&lt;br /&gt;Barrage of rockets hits Sderot as kids go to school ... ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12586.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/views/12586.htm&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Kassam alert- kindergarten &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://sderotmedia.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://sderotmedia.com&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFss6p5sTPE&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFss6p5sTPE&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;SderotMedia - &#039;Kindergarten&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;rlz=1T4HPID_enCR310US204&amp;amp;q=site%3Asderotmedia.com+kindergarten&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&amp;amp;rlz=1T4HPID_enCR310US204&amp;amp;q=site%3Asderotmedia.com+kindergarten&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Qassam hits kindergarten; 2 children lightly wounded - [Jul 28, 2006] ... News: Rocket lands next to kindergarten in town south of Ashkelon; 2 children hurt, 8 suffer shock. Earlier a number of rockets hit central ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282603,00.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3282603,00.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Qassam lands near Sderot kindergarten &lt;br /&gt;Rocket hits neighborhood in southern town, causes damage to private house located near kindergarten; several people suffer from shock, one woman loses consciousness. Military sources say IDF policy in Gaza may change &lt;br /&gt;[Published:&amp;nbsp; 05.07.07] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3396608,00.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3396608,00.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;12 Sderot Children Hospitalized for Shock After Kassam Attacks ...Sep 3, 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123570&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/123570&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Two IDF soldiers, civilian lightly hurt as Gaza mortars hit Negev&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Three rockets struck the Eshkol region, two of them landing in open fields and the third between two kindergartens. [01/02/2009] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/1060562.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasen/spages/1060562.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;Rocket hits Ashdod kindergarten - &amp;quot;Thankfully, no children were in the kindergarten, and no one was badly hurt... [Jan 11, 2009 8:08 | Updated Jan 12, 2009 2:37] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1231424913241&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1231424913241&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Pat Dollard | Hamas Violates Humanitarian Cease Fire, Shells Kindergarten ... hit a house next to a school in the Israeli southern city of Sderot, ... Children would also drill evacuating their class rooms...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://patdollard.com/2009/01/hamas-violates-humanitarian-cease-fire-shells-kindergarten/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://patdollard.com/2009/01/hamas-violates-humanitarian-cease-fire-shells-kindergarten/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;[January 6, 2009] a Hamas leader warned that the Islamists would kill Jewish children anywhere in the world &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454204.ece?Submitted=true&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5454204.ece?Submitted=true&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;STRATEGIC QASSAM vs. DIPLOMATIC BLITZ Harari, now an analyst at the Herzliya Center, warned that if a Qassam rocket hits a crowded synagogue or kindergarten it will trigger a massive IDF ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=769&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.isracast.com/article.aspx?ID=769&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;brave&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; masked &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;freedom fighters&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; Islamic butchers&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.weaponsurvey.com/graphics/qassam.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli innocent Victims &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/02012008/1398046/ashkelon_wa.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_nWpwm6lhWUs/R4_-e-SrJlI/AAAAAAAABK0/81XVmbK11Es/s400/Qassam%2BRocket%2BDamage.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/04V055q3bk2oF/610x.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://freund.typepad.com/my_weblog/images/qassam_in_ashkelon.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/zionists/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Disgraceful &#039;Jihad Appeaser&#039; Jimmy Carter LIES openly on CNN&#039;s Larry King and no one refutes him?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Disgraceful &#039;Jihad Appeaser&#039; Jimmy Carter LIES openly on CNN&#039;s Larry King and no one refutes him?&amp;nbsp;Sat. (Feb. 7, 2009) night, Jimmy Carter said: &amp;rsquo;Israel, it could have responded to the rocket attacks without firing on churches (excuse me, what churches in Islamic Gaza is he talking about???) and on Mosques&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;A short while after that Larry confronted the worst-ex-president &amp;ldquo;You said earlier that Israel fired on mosques and on schools, what was Israel supposed to do as they responded to where the FIRING CAME FROM&amp;rdquo;?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy, &amp;quot;I don&amp;rsquo;t known I wasn&amp;rsquo;t there, I only know that the UN said that Israel fired on them and there were only civilians there&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey, Jimmy, so what if we show you now the updated version by the UN where they retracted their false accusation on Israel will you have the guts and say the truth about humane Israel that Israel was (as always is) humane on targeting only Islamic terrorists but Palestinian (&amp;rdquo;legitimate voted govt in Gaza - Hamas&amp;rdquo;.)&amp;nbsp;Muslims commit crimes against humanity - target civilians? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN: IDF did not shell UNRWA school Feb. 4, 2009. A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687916&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687916&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN retracts claim strike hit Gaza school &amp;hellip;The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last month hit a school &amp;hellip; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/international-politics/17399-un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/international-politics/17399-un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Disgraceful &#039;Jihad Appeaser&#039; Jimmy Carter LIES openly on CNN&#039;s Larry King and no one refutes him?&amp;nbsp;Sat. (Feb. 7, 2009) night, Jimmy Carter said: &amp;rsquo;Israel, it could have responded to the rocket attacks without firing on churches (excuse me, what churches in Islamic Gaza is he talking about???) and on Mosques&amp;rsquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;A short while after that Larry confronted the worst-ex-president &amp;ldquo;You said earlier that Israel fired on mosques and on schools, what was Israel supposed to do as they responded to where the FIRING CAME FROM&amp;rdquo;?&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jimmy, &amp;quot;I don&amp;rsquo;t known I wasn&amp;rsquo;t there, I only know that the UN said that Israel fired on them and there were only civilians there&amp;quot;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey, Jimmy, so what if we show you now the updated version by the UN where they retracted their false accusation on Israel will you have the guts and say the truth about humane Israel that Israel was (as always is) humane on targeting only Islamic terrorists but Palestinian (&amp;rdquo;legitimate voted govt in Gaza - Hamas&amp;rdquo;.)&amp;nbsp;Muslims commit crimes against humanity - target civilians? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN: IDF did not shell UNRWA school Feb. 4, 2009. A clerical error led the UN to falsely accuse Israel... &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687916&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304687916&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;UN retracts claim strike hit Gaza school &amp;hellip;The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last month hit a school &amp;hellip; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/international-politics/17399-un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.republicanoperative.com/forums/international-politics/17399-un-retracts-claim-strike-hit-gaza-school.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>What good does it do now,  UN&#039;s apology and retracting from fake &#039;war crimes charges&#039; after UN&#039;s criminal tarnishing Innocent Israel damage is already done?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;What good does it do now,&amp;nbsp; UN&#039;s apology and retracting from fake &#039;war crimes charges&#039; after UN&#039;s criminal tarnishing Innocent Israel damage is already done?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UN retracts claim over Gaza school attackFeb 4, 2009 &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html&quot;&gt;http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0204/gaza.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school - ABC News ...Feb 5, 2009 ... The United Nations has retracted a claim that an Israeli strike which killed more than 40 people in northern Gaza city of Jabaliya last ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/02/05/2482698.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school Feb 4, 2009 ... The News International - Get breaking news, latest top stories, business, sports and entertainment news. See the news happening as the ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=67566&quot;&gt;http://www.thenews.com.pk/updates.asp?id=67566&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UN retracts claim deadly Israeli strike hit Gaza school All ...Feb 4, 2009 ... remember all those viral emails that you have received - here are all of them. &lt;a href=&quot;http://allviralemails.com/2009/02/04/un-retracts-claim-deadly-israeli-strike-hit-gaza-school&quot;&gt;http://allviralemails.com/2009/02/04/un-retracts-claim-deadly-israeli-strike-hit-gaza-school&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Abbas, Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, American Muslims, Arab lobby, Arabs, CAIR, Cast Lead, Council of American Islamic Relations, counter terrorism, Fatah, FBI, Gaza, GWOT, Hamas, HLS, human shields, IAF, IDF, Islam, Islamic Jihad, Islamic Lobby, Islamofascism, Jews, Jihad, Muslim, Muslims, oil, oil lobby, Palestine, Palestinians, Qassam, rockets attack, Suicide bombing, terrorism, US, war on terror, Zionism, UN, War crimes - lies, Zionists&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Israel VS Genocide (updated Feb. 2009)</title>
            <description>&lt;strong&gt;Israel VS Genocide&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Israel VS Islamo Arab campaign of Genocide. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Attempted Genocide From the Start &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=1248&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=1248&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt; Israel has always faced (radical) Arab genocide, To fully understand current conflicts in the Middle East, history must be recalled. &lt;a href=&quot;http://christianactionforisrael.org/newsl/news150.html&quot; title=&quot;http://christianactionforisrael.org/newsl/news150.html&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; It exist a common phrase: &#039;If the Jews would just lay down their weapons there would be no more Israel&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Blog/Read.aspx?guid=97eaf38c-ff4d-43a5-b9bc-9b3d153150eb&quot; title=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Blog/Read.aspx?guid=97eaf38c-ff4d-43a5-b9bc-9b3d153150eb&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Table of Contents&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#1920s&quot;&gt;1 1920s&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#1967&quot;&gt;2 1967&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Current&quot;&gt;3 Current&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Radical_Islam_.28as_a_whole.29&quot;&gt;4 Radical Islam (as a whole)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Al_Qaeda&quot;&gt;4.1 Al Qaeda&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Hezbollah&quot;&gt;4.2 Hezbollah&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#The_Muslim_Brotherhood&quot;&gt;4.3 The Muslim Brotherhood&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Ahmadinejad&quot;&gt;4.4 Ahmadinejad&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Mainstream_.5BPalestinian_.26_other.5D_Arabs&quot;&gt;5 Mainstream [Palestinian &amp;amp; other] Arabs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt;&lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Genocidal_Agenda_under_.27Pro_Palestinian.27_propaganda&quot;&gt;5.1 Genocidal Agenda under &#039;Pro Palestinian&#039; propaganda&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;1920s&quot; title=&quot;1920s&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;1920s&lt;p&gt;The first Arab sponsored terrorist attacks upon Jews occurred in 1920 &lt;a href=&quot;http://lindasog.com/public/terrorvictims.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://lindasog.com/public/terrorvictims.htm&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt; a highlighted tragedy is The Hebron Massacre of 1929 where thousands of Arabs descended from Har Hebron, shouting &amp;quot;Kill the Jews!&amp;quot; in Arabic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron29.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/hebron29.html&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.saudades.org/Jewish%20_history.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.saudades.org/Jewish%20_history.htm&quot;&gt;[6]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This was not the first mass racist attack by Arabs against unarmed civilian Jews in British Mandate &amp;lsquo;Palestine,&amp;rsquo; nor would it be the last attempted extermination. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.hirhome.com/israel/pal_mov.htm&quot;&gt;[7]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was the Mufti who sought to annihilate the tiny State of Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishmag.com/116mag/chuckmorse/chuckmorse.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jewishmag.com/116mag/chuckmorse/chuckmorse.htm&quot;&gt;[8]&lt;/a&gt;, The Palestinian Mufti&#039;s Deal with Hitler: &#039;Kill All the Jews in the Middle East&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opednews.com/populum/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_rob_kall_070612_the_palestinian_muft.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.opednews.com/populum/print_friendly.php?p=opedne_rob_kall_070612_the_palestinian_muft.htm&quot;&gt;[9]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;1967&quot; title=&quot;1967&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;1967&lt;p&gt;Though Haim Weizmann declared he would accept a Jewish state even with the size of a tablecloth &amp;mdash; still, even that was rejected by the Arabs who swore to &amp;quot;throw the Jews into the sea&amp;quot; and attacked in force to fulfill that oath. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/san-diego-jewish-archives/071129-jewish-thur209.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jewishsightseeing.com/san-diego-jewish-archives/071129-jewish-thur209.html&quot;&gt;[10]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What the Fight in Israel Is All About... Spring of 1967 the Arab countries, led by Gamal Abdul Nasser of Egypt, prepared to attack Israel and, in their own words, &amp;ldquo;throw the Jews into the sea. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/what-the-fight-in-israel-is-all-about.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.simpletoremember.com/vitals/what-the-fight-in-israel-is-all-about.htm&quot;&gt;[11]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20940.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20940.html&quot;&gt;[12]&lt;/a&gt;, the Arab leaders&#039; slogan&amp;nbsp;: We&amp;rsquo;ll Throw Them into the Sea&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1314&quot; title=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=1314&quot;&gt;[13]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Current&quot; title=&quot;Current&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;Current&lt;a name=&quot;Radical_Islam_.28as_a_whole.29&quot; title=&quot;Radical_Islam_.28as_a_whole.29&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Radical Islam (as a whole)&lt;p&gt;New Radical Islamic Thinking Justifying The Genocide of Infidels &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/rob_imm.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.sullivan-county.com/immigration/rob_imm.htm&quot;&gt;[14]&lt;/a&gt;, Specifically Radical Islam&#039;s Threat of Genocide against the Jews is more and more revealed &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.genocidewatch.org/IranFascismIslamismandAntiSemitism3Jan2006.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.genocidewatch.org/IranFascismIslamismandAntiSemitism3Jan2006.htm&quot;&gt;[15]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2001/israel/sept/01/0108311102.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2001/israel/sept/01/0108311102.html&quot;&gt;[16]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2004/1/Radical%20Islam-s%20Threat%20of%20Genocide%20against%20the%20Jew&quot; title=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/MFAArchive/2000_2009/2004/1/Radical%20Islam-s%20Threat%20of%20Genocide%20against%20the%20Jew&quot;&gt;[17]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Palestinians Encourage Genocide &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part6.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part6.html&quot;&gt;[18]&lt;/a&gt; and on Palestinian TV openly call: Kill All The Jews &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Palestinian_TV_Kill_All_The_Jews.asp&quot; title=&quot;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Palestinian_TV_Kill_All_The_Jews.asp&quot;&gt;[19]&lt;/a&gt;, Palestinian Muslim cleric urges all Arabs to kill Jews, Christians &lt;a href=&quot;http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1418.cfm&quot; title=&quot;http://cuttingedge.org/news/n1418.cfm&quot;&gt;[20]&lt;/a&gt;, (Even calling to Kill all Americans &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178020746583&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1178020746583&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;[21]&lt;/a&gt;), Islamic sermons broadcast on Palestinian Authority have also been openly genocidal &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9BD9AD1D-04E9-430D-B59C-C58567667B51&quot; title=&quot;http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=9BD9AD1D-04E9-430D-B59C-C58567667B51&quot;&gt;[22]&lt;/a&gt; An ideology of genocidal radical Islamism - Jihad-Islamism.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2001/israel/sept/01/108311102.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.kokhavivpublications.com/2001/israel/sept/01/108311102.html&quot;&gt;[23]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At the second Palestinian violent Intifada, they came up with a new (tool in) Genocide: Suicide Bombing, designed to massacre the most masses of civilians possible &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.9.22.03.HTM&quot; title=&quot;http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/COMM.9.22.03.HTM&quot;&gt;[24]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000166.html&quot; title=&quot;http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000166.html&quot;&gt;[25]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An emphasis in radicals&#039; work is indoctrinating Palestinian Children to Genocidal Hate, Imams are extremely influential in successfully emphasizing the goals of jihad and martyrdom &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EC938B12-F1AE-4FEB-A134-80F4BDBD4EA8&quot; title=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=EC938B12-F1AE-4FEB-A134-80F4BDBD4EA8&quot;&gt;[26]&lt;/a&gt; Especially the Islamic party: Hamas promotes Islamic supremacy over the world, &amp;quot;The Hamas Ideology of Hatred and Genocide: Islamic supremacy over the world, destroying Israel and Jews &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016618.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/016618.php&quot;&gt;[27]&lt;/a&gt;, vows to &#039;drink&#039; Jewish blood, group would drink the blood of Jews &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48844&quot; title=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48844&quot;&gt;[28]&lt;/a&gt;, Hamas Mickey-Mouse-like character to incite for genocide &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1932&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1932&quot;&gt;[29]&lt;/a&gt;, Genocide of Jews remains Hamas goal &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part6.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/tv%20part6.html&quot;&gt;[30]&lt;/a&gt; and declare: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Final Goal of the Resistance is to Wipe This Entity Off the Face of the Earth&amp;quot; &amp;quot;We are making the preparations for a confrontation. This is not because we need to be prepared for an Israeli act of aggression - after all, aggression is intrinsic to this entity - but because the final goal of the resistance is to wipe this entity off the face of the Earth. This goal necessitates the development of the capabilities of the resistance, until this entity is wiped out.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;amp;Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP168207&quot; title=&quot;http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;amp;Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP168207&quot;&gt;[31]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hamas, the Muslim-Brotherhood-linked terror group dedicated to the annihilation of Israel through jihad &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1108/west111708.php3?printer_friendly&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1108/west111708.php3?printer_friendly&quot;&gt;[32]&lt;/a&gt;, The people who comprise Hamas are dedicated to the annihilation of Israel and the slaughter of every Jew who lives there &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2007/06/irans-victory.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2007/06/irans-victory.php&quot;&gt;[33]&lt;/a&gt; in its Charter 1988 it states: &#039;Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it&#039; ... Hamas wants the &amp;lsquo;islamisation&amp;rsquo; of all the Middle East (as a first phase) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelpolitik.org/2008/12/31/hamas-charter-1988/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelpolitik.org/2008/12/31/hamas-charter-1988/&quot;&gt;[34]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;Al_Qaeda&quot; title=&quot;Al_Qaeda&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Al Qaeda&lt;p&gt;In Al-Qaeda&#039;s Intellectual Legacy - Islamic Thinking justifying the genocide of infidels, According to al- Ali, all citizens of Israel are to be considered combatants. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp508.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp508.htm&quot;&gt;[35]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;Hezbollah&quot; title=&quot;Hezbollah&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Hezbollah&lt;p&gt;In her book &#039;Lebanon&#039;s Hezbollah&#039; (2003, Page 49) Ann Byers writes: &#039;In the 1990s, Hezbollah was training members of the terrorist groups Al Qaeda... (it supported the PLO as) in its early days the PLO was dedicated to the annihilation of Israel&#039;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=l8jlj2oYtgsC&amp;amp;pg=PA49&quot; title=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=l8jlj2oYtgsC&amp;amp;pg=PA49&quot;&gt;[36]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Hezbollah Founding Statement contains a section titled &amp;ldquo;The Necessity for the Destruction of Israel,&amp;rdquo; which reads as follows: &amp;ldquo;We see in Israel the vanguard of the United States in our Islamic world. It is the hated enemy that must be fought until the hated ones get what they deserve . . . Therefore our struggle will end only when this entity is obliterated. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256&quot; title=&quot;http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6256&quot;&gt;[37]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hezbollah calling on Muslims to kill all Jewish Israelis with firearms, knives and poison &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370117&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370117&quot;&gt;[38]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The widening arena of Hezbollah&#039;s attacks stemmed from Nasrallah&#039;s perception that Jews anywhere are legitimate targets. In fact, Hasan Nasarallah has said: If they (Jews) all gather in Israel, it will save us the trouble of going after them worldwide. (Daily Star, Oct. 23, 2002) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thelikud.org/channels/features/feature_07.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.thelikud.org/channels/features/feature_07.html&quot;&gt;[39]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More from Hassan Nasrallah, Leader of Hezbollah on Al Manar: &amp;quot;Let the entire world hear me. Our hostility to the Great Satan, America, is absolute. Regardless of how the world has changed after September 11, death to America will remain our reverberating and powerful slogan: Death to America.&amp;quot; (House Record: &#039;war is ugly but tyranny is uglier&#039;). &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=110-h20070606-77&amp;amp;person=400260&quot; title=&quot;http://www.govtrack.us/congress/record.xpd?id=110-h20070606-77&amp;amp;person=400260&quot;&gt;[40]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;Martyrdom operations -- suicide bombings -- should be exported outside Palestine. I encourage Palestinians to take suicide bombings worldwide. Don&#039;t be shy about it.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief2-12.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/brief/brief2-12.htm&quot;&gt;[41]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hezbollah&amp;rsquo;s renewal of Jihad Genocide on Global &amp;ldquo;Jewish Targets&amp;rdquo; (June, 2008) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2008/06/21/global-jewish-targets-renewing-hezbollahs-jihad-genocide/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.andrewbostom.org/blog/2008/06/21/global-&amp;ldquo;jewish-targets&amp;rdquo;-renewing-hezbollah&amp;rsquo;s-jihad-genocide/&quot;&gt;[42]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;The_Muslim_Brotherhood&quot; title=&quot;The_Muslim_Brotherhood&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;The Muslim Brotherhood&lt;p&gt;The &#039;Muslim Brotherhood&#039;s Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi: &#039;There is No Dialogue between Us and the Jews Except by the Sword and the Rifle&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP75304&amp;amp;Page=archives&quot; title=&quot;http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP75304&amp;amp;Page=archives&quot;&gt;[43]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Ahmadinejad&quot; title=&quot;Ahmadinejad&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;Ahmadinejad&lt;p&gt;Islamic Republic of Iran&#039;s President Mahmud Ahmadinejad&#039;s call for Israel to be &amp;quot;wiped off the map&amp;quot; has triggered a sharp international response and widespread condemnation &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/E15E03D6-1013-440F-BDCF-E61D727624ED.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2005/10/E15E03D6-1013-440F-BDCF-E61D727624ED.html&quot;&gt;[44]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/international/middleeast/6cnd-iran.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/26/international/middleeast/6cnd-iran.html&quot;&gt;[45]&lt;/a&gt; (It was not mistranslated &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf&quot;&gt;[46]&lt;/a&gt;). has been described as wanting to carry out another genocide aimed at destroying the State of Israel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014421.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/014421.php&quot;&gt;[47]&lt;/a&gt;, He &#039;faced genocide case&#039;, in 14 Dec 2006 was expected to be the target of a lawsuit which accuses him of inciting genocide against Israel. &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6181029.stm&quot; title=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6181029.stm&quot;&gt;[48]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/800870.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/800870.html&quot;&gt;[49]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In 2007, Ahmadinejad has threatened (again) the State of Israel with annihilation, Iran: &#039;Israel, US will soon die&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356154,00.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3356154,00.html&quot;&gt;[50]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Mainstream_.5BPalestinian_.26_other.5D_Arabs&quot; title=&quot;Mainstream_.5BPalestinian_.26_other.5D_Arabs&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;Mainstream [Palestinian &amp;amp; other] Arabs&lt;p&gt;Even many of &#039;moderate Arabs&#039; have been accused of this &lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/3728.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/3728.htm&quot;&gt;[51]&lt;/a&gt;, in a poll of February 16, 2007 &#039;75% of Palestinians do not think that Israel has the right to exist&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=33100&quot; title=&quot;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=33100&quot;&gt;[52]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jerusalem Post&#039;s C. Glick: &lt;em&gt;No Tolerance for Genocide , Genocide: The Spirit of Palestine... in Palestinian society today. It is not just Hamas or Tanzim or Islamic Jihad that we must fight, but Palestinian society itself must be transformed for there to be peaceful coexistence. Poll after poll shows that a solid majority of Palestinians from all socio-economic levels supports suicide bombers and other forms of terrorism against Israel. In fact the polls show that the higher the socio-economic level of the respondents, the stronger their support for terrorism. Virulent, Nazi-style Jew hatred and dehumanization has become for the Palestinians, as for the Germans before them, the central unifying theme of society. The best-seller lists in the PA for years have included such works as Mein Kampf and the Protocols of the Elders of Zion.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tampabayprimer.org/index.cfm?action=articles&amp;amp;drill=viewArt&amp;amp;art=513&quot; title=&quot;http://www.tampabayprimer.org/index.cfm?action=articles&amp;amp;drill=viewArt&amp;amp;art=513&quot;&gt;[53]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/Read.aspx?guid=7534483e-43a2-46fd-8cbd-9721edbcbd12&amp;amp;rating=3&quot; title=&quot;https://www.frontpagemag.com/blog/Read.aspx?guid=7534483e-43a2-46fd-8cbd-9721edbcbd12&amp;amp;rating=3&quot;&gt;[54]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jr.co.il/articles/politics/genocide.txt&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jr.co.il/articles/politics/genocide.txt&quot;&gt;[55]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2002/08/no_tolerance_for_genocide.asp&quot; title=&quot;http://www.carolineglick.com/e/2002/08/no_tolerance_for_genocide.asp&quot;&gt;[56]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;a name=&quot;Genocidal_Agenda_under_.27Pro_Palestinian.27_propaganda&quot; title=&quot;Genocidal_Agenda_under_.27Pro_Palestinian.27_propaganda&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;Genocidal Agenda under &#039;Pro Palestinian&#039; propaganda&lt;p&gt;On the so called &#039;Palestinian documentaries&#039;. T. Menaker: &#039;College Film Festival: Kill the Jews&#039;, &lt;em&gt;It is understandable that the mere existence of Israel in such close proximity is unbearable. What is strikingly serious in all these films is that if one were to count the most often used words, these words would be &amp;quot;humiliation&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Kill the Jews!&amp;quot; Even in the most peaceful and idealistic documentary... a young boy asked what he wants to do when he grows up is prompted by his father: &amp;quot;Kill the Jews!&amp;quot; When asked to draw a picture of his future he draws himself killing Israelis&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D9474705-7934-4F97-9CBC-E0C7CC81CBA9&quot; title=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=D9474705-7934-4F97-9CBC-E0C7CC81CBA9&quot;&gt;[57]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The International Solidarity Movement - a &#039;Palestinian&#039; propaganda machine, organized many activities, including on US campus, both, the ISM and PSM support in thinly veiled language suicide bombings... in their gatherings the audience chanted &amp;quot;Kill the Jews&amp;quot; - &amp;quot;Ittbach al yahood&amp;quot; in Arabic &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.take-a-pen.org/Campus/Articles/Art01102004.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.take-a-pen.org/Campus/Articles/Art01102004.htm&quot;&gt;[58]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;The International Solidarity Movement (ISM), its American, student affiliate the Palestinian Solidarity Movement, and other radical left-wing groups label every inch of Israeli territory as &amp;ldquo;occupied Palestine,&amp;rdquo; advocate destroying the Jewish State by &amp;ldquo;any means necessary,&amp;rdquo; and openly condone terrorism and Muslim suicide bombers as a means for accomplishing this goal. These groups are working to eliminate a population of six million Jews&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://netwmd.com/articles/article253.html&quot; title=&quot;http://netwmd.com/articles/article253.html&quot;&gt;[59]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;At Israel&#039;s operation against Hamas terrorists in &#039;cast lead&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Fundamentalism-/Aerial_strike_weapon_development_center+_Gaza_28-Dec-2008.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Terrorism-+Obstacle+to+Peace/Terrorism+and+Islamic+Fundamentalism-/Aerial_strike_weapon_development_center+_Gaza_28-Dec-2008.htm&quot;&gt;[60]&lt;/a&gt; December 2008-January 2009, anti Israel Arab Muslim protesters called for Jews to &#039;Go Back to the Oven&#039;, to &#039;kill all the Jews&#039;, or: &amp;ldquo;Hamas, Hamas, Jews to the gas&amp;rdquo; &lt;a href=&quot;http://wwww.israpundit.com/2008/?p=7167&quot; title=&quot;http://wwww.israpundit.com/2008/?p=7167&quot;&gt;[61]&lt;/a&gt;, Other demonstrators held signs that said &amp;quot;Nuke Israel,&amp;quot; and a number made comparisons to the Holocaust &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477450,00.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477450,00.html&quot;&gt;[62]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30271&quot; title=&quot;http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=30271&quot;&gt;[63]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/melaniephillips/3214791/the-hysteria-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.thtml&quot; title=&quot;http://www.spectator.co.uk/print/melaniephillips/3214791/the-hysteria-that-dare-not-speak-its-name.thtml&quot;&gt;[64]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024366.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024366.php&quot;&gt;[65]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024349.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024349.php&quot;&gt;[66]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishblogging.com/blog.php?bid=177815&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jewishblogging.com/blog.php?bid=177815&quot;&gt;[67]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Phyllis Chesler: &lt;em&gt;Today, we have grown used to seeing Palestinian and Hamas supporters goose-step, Nazi-style, shoot out their arms as they deliver the Hitlerian &amp;quot;Sieg Heil&amp;quot; salute. They also chant and scream: &amp;quot;Jews to the ovens,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Hitler did not kill enough of you,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Jews to the gas chambers.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/01/30/jews-to-the-muslim-gas-chamber/&quot; title=&quot;http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/01/30/jews-to-the-muslim-gas-chamber/&quot;&gt;[68]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Obama: U.S. not your enemy &amp;ldquo;I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries,&amp;rdquo; Obama said, according to a White House transcript. ...Obama&#039;s shift Monday was one of tone, not of policy, and he also affirmed America&#039;s support for Israel. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Israel is a strong ally of the United States. They will not stop being a strong ally of the United States. And I will continue to believe that Israel&#039;s security is paramount,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;But I also believe that there are Israelis who recognize that it is important to achieve peace. They will be willing to make sacrifices if the time is...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18016.html&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0109/18016.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;____________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The answer to&amp;nbsp;these spinning words (hinting a possiblity to interpret it by the Muslim world, as if peace and pro Israel are contradictory), in fact, you can be pro democracy, pro freedom, pro Israel (anti Jihad) and wanting to achieve peace.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How about some true words, like: &#039;Pro Palestinian&#039; means more Jihadism, oppression and dictatorship in the name of Islam, terrorism masked as &amp;quot;freedom fighting&amp;quot;, war using kids in the theater of war under the banner of &amp;quot;freeing land&amp;quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Next time Mr. Obama, please be clear in what you say don&#039;t intentionally mislead and create room for different &amp;quot;versions&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jan 2009 20:26:14 EST</pubDate>
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            <description>&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;JENINITIS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    Jeninitis is Islamic Palestinian Pallywood&amp;rsquo;s syndrome of lying, 1) inflating numbers of casualties, collateral by-standers in Israel&amp;rsquo;s anti terrorists operation (heck, they even had the audacity to add dead bodies dug out of graves),&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2) Lying about the authentic percentage of combatants vs non-combatants, all as part of its staged drama hype, their strategy is, first lie, after the anti Israel bigoted tarnishing bombarding propaganda is done, whatever real facts surface later on, don&amp;rsquo;t matter, as the damage to Israel is already done.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; In Jenin 2002, the Arab Palestinians have been exposed as inflating the numbers of casualties on Israel&amp;rsquo;s operation, Saeb Erekat initially claimed on CNN that there were more than 500 dead, at the end it turned out that there were no more than (around) 50, mostly combatants.&lt;br /&gt;When confronted on CNN on the &amp;lsquo;numbers&amp;rsquo;, he stuttered, spun, and changed subject.&lt;br /&gt; So was the case in Dec. - Jan. 2009, at operation &amp;lsquo;Cast Lead&amp;rsquo; against Palestinian Islamic terrorists Hamas (who openly seeks annihilation of all Jews in the area) rockets targeting of Israeli southern zone, where about a Million civilians were under their range, fear of terror, and using Arab civilians to mingle with them and as shields to cause as many civilian casualties, the world TV have been broadcasting constantly from Jihadists&amp;rsquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas hospitals with invented exaggerated numbers up to 1,200 and up.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Later on it turned out that no more than 500-600 have died, and of course, 90% were Hamas terror combatants.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Point is, that a death cult &amp;ldquo;people&amp;rdquo; that are willing to murder&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(directly or indirectly) its own civilians for the sake of gaining sympathy&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;to its fake victimhood, there is never a shred of logic to take seriously&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;anything coming from their  &amp;ldquo;source&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Augean Stables &amp;raquo; Jenin Redux: Casualty Figures Reconsidered&lt;br /&gt;22 Jan 2009 &amp;hellip; The UN&amp;rsquo;s humanitarian chief began a tour of the Gaza Strip on Thursday to examine the extent &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/01/22/1610/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2009/01/22/1610/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;lsquo;Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza&amp;rsquo; , (Jan 22, 2009) Israel Cremonesi interviewed Gazans who echoed Israel&amp;rsquo;s insistence of how Hamas gunmen used civilians as human shields. One Gazan recalled civilians in Gaza &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gazan doctor says death toll inflated -  Ynetnews&lt;br /&gt;22 Jan 2009 &amp;hellip;Gaza&amp;rsquo;s Shifa Hospital claimed that Hamas has intentionally &amp;hellip;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3660423,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Gaza doctor: Hamas exaggerated Gaza death toll &amp;ndash; 500 to 600 killed, mostly fighters, not 1,250&lt;br /&gt;January 22, 2009&lt;br /&gt;* Italy&amp;rsquo;s leading newspaper, after a thorough investigation in Gaza, reports that the Gaza death toll was 500 to 600, mostly fighters, not 1,250 as other media have claimed. Other media relying on thoroughly impartial, bigoted UN sources&lt;br /&gt;* &amp;ldquo;Hamas using UNRWA school buildings and hospitals as torture centers&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Torture by Hamas of Palestinian opponents continues at a children&amp;rsquo;s hospital, but Western media and NGOs are suddenly silent&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* Pro-Gaza demonstration in Ramallah canceled for a lack of protesters. Third Intifada? Not anytime soon&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* New polls show only a minority of Americans now think Palestinians should have their own state&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[This is a further dispatch on this month&amp;rsquo;s Israel-Hamas mini-war. This dispatch contains various notes and comments, mainly by myself. Another dispatch with articles by others on the war&amp;rsquo;s outcome, provisionally titled &amp;ldquo;Israel refuses to win,&amp;rdquo; will follow over the weekend. (Previous dispatches can be read here.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001004.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/001004.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMRA - Saturday, April 27, 2002 The Palestinians in the Jenin ...&lt;br /&gt;investigate the happenings in the Jenin refugee camp, Palestinians are ... bodies recently added, those from the hospital cemetery, bring the number up ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=11656&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=11656&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Truth About Jenin [PPT]&lt;br /&gt;File Format: Microsoft Powerpoint&lt;br /&gt;Israel&amp;rsquo;s casualties in Jenin were the highest of all West bank fighting: 23. &amp;hellip; The bodies recently added, those from the hospital cemetery, &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.deolhonamidia.org.br/includes/redirect.asp?URL=../Slides/TruthJenin.ppt&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.deolhonamidia.org.br/includes/redirect.asp?URL=../Slides/TruthJenin.ppt&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;The Big Jenin Lie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weeklystandard.com/Cntent/Public/Articles/000/000/001/218vnicq.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/001/218vnicq.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Jenin Lie&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Jenin_Lies.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Jenin_Lies.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Anatomy of Anti-Israel Incitement:Jenin, World Opinion and the Massacre That Wasn&amp;rsquo;t. International organizations, non-governmental agencies and many foreign &amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adl.org/Israel/jenin/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.adl.org/Israel/jenin/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Jenin: Massacring Truth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/Jenin_Massacring_Truth.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/mediaobjectivity/Jenin_Massacring_Truth.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <title>Only &#039;Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza&#039; (re: Pallywood inflated numbers)</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;&#039;Maximum 600 Palestinians died in Gaza&#039;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Jerusalem Post, Israel (Jan 22, 2009) &lt;br /&gt;Cremonesi interviewed Gazans who echoed Israel&#039;s insistence of how Hamas gunmen &lt;br /&gt;used civilians as human shields. One Gazan recalled civilians in Gaza ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#039;Video: Palestinians in Gaza Reopen Smuggling Tunnels&#039; - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/v/w1_CJXAzows&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/v/w1_CJXAzows&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1232292939271&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:34:46 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>More Palestinian Crimes on their kids - Hamas TV calls Gaza Children to form a human shield [video] liveleak.com — News flash on Hamas TV - following a threatened air strike, Hamas calls all Gaza CHILDREN to gather near the house of Abu Hatai to form a hu</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Hamas TV calls Gaza Children to form a human shield [video] liveleak.com &amp;mdash; News flash on Hamas TV - following a threatened air strike, Hamas calls all Gaza CHILDREN to gather near the house of Abu Hatai to form a human shield. (Jan 2009) &lt;br /&gt;Video - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=351_1231430391&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=351_1231430391&lt;/a&gt; Hamas calls upon all Gaza children to gather near a house to form a human shield &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://digg.com/world_news/Hamas_TV_calls_Gaza_Children_to_form_a_human_shield_video&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://digg.com/world_news/Hamas_TV_calls_Gaza_Children_to_form_a_human_shield_video&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Then we will see the dead Arab kids parading on global TV screens again!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Palestinian Muslims&#039; crimes on their people never stops!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>How the BBC does it - legitimizing monsters in the M.E. (Hamas palestinian bloody Jihad, etc.)</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;BBC&#039;s way of how to legitimize monsters in the middle east&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Forget BBC bias, BBC is totally anti Israel committed, 100% on the side of most radical Islamic group on the middle east, the Genocidal Hamas!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When it interviewed (Jan 18, 2009) the Hamas spokesperson in Syria Osama Hamdan (the monster who said that the purpose of the &amp;quot;resistance&amp;quot; is to wipe off Israel) it handled him in such a manner as if he is a &amp;quot;normal&amp;quot; and average statesman.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite the &#039;big words&#039; by the jihadi group who on top of all has that stupidity of arrogance that is only laughable if it weren&#039;t such a serious bunch of bloody murderous thugs, but BBC&#039;s audacity of replaying Hamas&#039; phrase of: &#039;&amp;quot;giving&amp;quot; Israel a week to pull out&#039;, as if we all don&#039;t know that Israel pulls out or back in, when it sees the situation fit to do so.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Later on (on the same day) BBC said: who is responsible for the civilian causalities in Gaza will be disputed between Israel and Hamas, (besides the fact that BBC never to explain that its all Hamas fault, but I want to talk about BCC&#039;s worse part than just bias anyway) again this &amp;quot;en par&amp;quot; equation between a democratic free for all unique country in the middle east (where an Arab can get to highest position in Israel&#039;s govt.) vs the Islamic group that oppresses any non Muslims and acts towards a totalitarian repressive Caliphate.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>PEACE IN JERUSALEM</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jewish and Arab Neighbors Hold Hands for Peace&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Saturday 300 Jews and Arabs from the Wadi Ara region of Israel demonstrated against the harming of innocent civilians in Gaza and the surrounding Israeli region. The rally was organized by NIF grantee&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;Awareness for You&lt;/em&gt;, which runs empowerment courses for Arab women in the village of Kfar Kara.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I only expected about 90 people to attend the rally,&amp;quot; explained Amna Ka&#039;anana, &amp;quot;so I was surprised when we had 300 people all dressed in white and holding olive branches, about half and half Jews and Arabs. Many of the drivers who passed by, both Jews and Arabs, called out their support.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition to being a forum to voice concern over the conflict in Gaza, the rally was also an opportunity for the Jews and Arabs of Wadi Ara to come together. Among the many banners, one carried by an Arab read &amp;quot;Neighbors call for peace,&amp;quot; while another carried by a Jew said &amp;quot;Jews and Arabs hand in hand.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; Amna Ka&#039;anana hosts Jewish neighbors in her home in Kfar Kara.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ka&#039;anana said: &amp;quot;We sent a message of peace and coexistence to all of Wadi Ara, to all of Israel and to the entire world.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ka&#039;anana, who is an Orthodox Muslim, received NIF&#039;s London-Yaari Scholarship in 2007 for her work in women&#039;s empowerment. Last year she received the Knesset Speaker&#039;s Prize for Quality of Life.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;When the fighting erupted in Gaza last month, she feared that the tensions could spill over into violent conflicts between Jews and Arabs in Wadi Ara. She invited several dozen Jewish and Arab activists to her home to discuss the situation, and they hit upon the idea of the Shabbat rally.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I have always wanted to initiate social activities that bring Jews and Arabs together,&amp;quot; explained Ka&#039;anana, &amp;quot;so that we can understand one another&#039;s culture. Now the war has taken matters in a different direction. At the end of last week&#039;s rally many people started crying and that started me crying.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The rally ended with Jewish and Muslim prayers. Awareness for You plans similar peaceful rallies, with increased expected turnout, every Shabbat while the fighting continues.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;barackobama.com sources:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;http://arabamericans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbx3&quot; title=&quot;Peace in Jerusalem&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;http://arabamericans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbx3&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. &lt;a href=&quot;http://jewishamericans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbx3&quot; title=&quot;Peace in Jerusalem&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;http://jewishamericans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbx3&lt;/u&gt; &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. &lt;a href=&quot;http://faith.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbx3&quot; title=&quot;Peace in Jerusalem&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;http://faith.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbx3&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also see &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxqRt&quot; title=&quot;Spirit of Reconciliation&quot;&gt;Spirit of Reconciliation&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Op &#039; cast Lead&#039; Israel/Gaza: Triple Islamic Crime: 1) Firing upon Israeli civilians, 2) using its own populations&#039; women and children to make sure they die, so they can bash Israel even more, 3) Calling for genocide on Israelis or on all Jews.</title>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;December, 2008 - January 2009&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Triple Islamic Crime: 1) Firing upon Israeli civilians, 2) using its own populations&#039; women and children to make sure they die, so they can bash Israel even more, 3) Calling for genocide on Israelis or on all Jews.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Operation &#039;Cast Lead&#039; - Israel decided it had (1) - enough of: Years of Islamic &#039;Palestinian&#039; Hamas&#039; barrage of rocket attacks aimed intentionally on Israeli civilians, preferably children (at the times they go to schools and kindergartens), around a Millions Israelis are under this threatening range. &lt;br /&gt;(2) - The Islamic terror Hamas fights the Israeli humane anti-terror defensive forces via most inhumane tactics - using its own civilians, women and children as human shields in order to cause Arab kids&#039; deaths and then parade with them on global TV cameras. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(3) - An expolsion of Islamofascism&#039;s hatred and call for genocide on (all) Jews in wordlwide demonstrations under the flag of &amp;quot;free Palestine&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309901,00.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/PicServer2/20122005/903793/Kassam_2_wa.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onefamilyfund.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1193&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.onefamilyfund.org/Portals/0/WWH_Pics/Sderot/1193_Sderot_Attack_Jan08/Sderot_Jan08_Wounded.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yonitheblogger.com/2006/11/rocket_in_sderot.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.yonitheblogger.com/Kassam_2_wa.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309901,00.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onefamilyfund.org/Default.aspx?tabid=1193&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.yonitheblogger.com/2006/11/rocket_in_sderot.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;On Dec. 27, Israel began defensive operations to dismantle Iran-backed Hamas&amp;rsquo;s terrorist infrastructure in Gaza and stop the terrorist group from its 8-years-long campaign of attacking Israeli civilians with 10,000 rockets, missiles and mortars. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Despite Hamas&amp;rsquo;s unrelenting rocket attacks, Israel continues to facilitate the delivery of humanitarian aid to Palestinians in Gaza, warning the civilian population to stay clear of terrorist sites. Said Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, &amp;quot;Israel has made it clear that we are fighting against terrorism, not the Gazan residents, and the extremists are the ones who are taking advantage of the concern of the humanitarian organizations and the international community as a means of pressuring Israel.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&amp;amp;b=689705&amp;amp;ct=6479919&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=hsJPK0PIJpH&amp;amp;b=689705&amp;amp;ct=6479 919&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a name=&quot;hamashumanshieldsgazacastlead&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Harris noted that Israel has always gone to great lengths in an attempt to avoid civilian casualties, but that, tragically, Hamas uses civilians &amp;quot;as human shields,&amp;quot; making Israel&#039;s efforts still more challenging. (Dec 27, 2008)&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&amp;amp;STORY=/www/story/12-27-2008/0004947081&amp;amp;EDATE=&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&amp;amp;STORY=/www/story/12-27-2008/00049 47081&amp;amp;EDATE=&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas Prepares 15,000 Soldiers, Civilian Human Shields For Full Confrontation With Israel (Dec 27, 2008) &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275253.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275253.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas took no heed of the plight of their own brethren, &amp;quot;and just as they have used human shields in their terror operations, they are now taking the whole ... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868820574&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868820574&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Israel&#039;s Challenge Family Security Matters, NJ - Dec 26, 2008 Why is criticism never leveled at Hamas or Hezbollah who regularly use children as human shields to protect their leaders and their weapons? ... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2115/pub_detail.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2115/pub_detail.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Israel retaliation in Gaza, Hamas hit hard Canada Free Press, Canada Any suspected hideouts of Hamas leadership must be taken out. Israel had opportunities in earlier decades to do this and refused because of the human shield&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7171&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7171&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas Explains Use of Civilians as Human Shields&lt;p&gt;By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;We desire death as you desire life.&amp;quot; &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The UN announcement that 51 civilians have died in the conflict in Gaza must be understood in the context of Hamas&#039;s declared ideology to use civilians as human shields for Hamas fighters. Indeed, Hamas continues to emphasize and promote the religious ideology that death for Allah is an ideal to be actively pursued. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The goal is to convince Palestinians, including women and children, not to fear death but even to face it at the front to protect Hamas fighters. Hamas&#039;s placement of its military installations and fighters among civilians reflects this ideology, and has led to these 51 deaths. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A Hamas representative in the PA legislative council this year expressed pride in the fact that women and children are used as human shields in fighting Israel. He described it as part of a &amp;quot;death industry&amp;quot; at which Palestinians excel, and explained that the Palestinians &amp;quot;desire death&amp;quot; with the same intensity that Israelis &amp;quot;desire life.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The following is the full text of the comments by Hamas representative Fathi Hamad: &amp;quot;For the Palestinian people death became an industry, at which women excel and so do all people on this land: the elderly excel, the Jihad fighters excel, and the children excel. Accordingly [Palestinians] created a human shield of women, children, the elderly and the Jihad fighters against the Zionist bombing machine, as if they were saying to the Zionist enemy: We desire death as you desire life.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://newsblaze.com/story/20081229092838zzzz.nb/topstory.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Injured Palestinian girl: Hamas is the cause of all wars &lt;br /&gt;A haunting clip from an outfit that specializes in them: Portrait of a human shield, her four-year-old sister one of 60 civilians killed... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/30/injured-palestinian-girl-hamas-is-the-cause-of-all-wars/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/30/injured-palestinian-girl-hamas-is-the-cause-of-all-wars/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;The suffering that Hamas causes (Dec 2008) ...&lt;br /&gt;But it isn&#039;t only Israelis whose fundamental human rights Hamas is violating. It is those of the Palestinian population about whose welfare Hamas professes to care. &lt;br /&gt;In direct contravention of international law, Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields, utilizing homes, schools and community centers as launching pads, content in the knowledge that if innocent Palestinian civilians are caught in the cross-fire, it will be Israel that is criticized. This amounts to a sort of Daily Double of human rights violations: the use of innocent Palestinians as human shields for the infliction of violence upon innocent Israelis. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/30/the_suffering_that_hamas_causes/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2008/12/30/the_suffering_that_hama s_causes/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;The Father of the Human Shield Dead&lt;br /&gt;DigitalJournal.com - 2 Jan 2009&lt;br /&gt;Nizar al-Rayyan invented the Human Shields method. IsraelPolitik reports that Hamas has released an official statement &amp;ldquo;declaring that Dr. Nizar al-Rayyan, ...&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264390&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/264390&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Ground push / Mission: Break Hamas Ha&#039;aretz - Jan 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Hamas may also use children as &amp;quot;human shields&amp;quot; for weapons caches inside mosques.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052336.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052336.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;IDF launches Gaza ground operation&lt;br /&gt;Ha&#039;aretz - Jan 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Those who use civilians, the elderly, women and children as &amp;quot;human shields&amp;quot; are responsible for any and all injuries to the civilian population. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052341.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052341.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;They Asked For It! Hamas goads Israeli military to invade Gaza Strip&lt;br /&gt;Gather.com - Jan 3, 2009&lt;br /&gt;They&#039;re showing no regard for the high, civilian casualties due to the upcoming, street fighting. They&#039;re using their countrymen as human shields.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35544&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/35544&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;NETANYAHU: This humanitarian crisis is the direct result of the Hamas tactic of firing at our civilians and hiding behind their civilians, and it&amp;rsquo;s something that we cannot tolerate. No nation would tolerate 6,000 rockets fired on its cities, and Israel finally decided to take action.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We have to make sure that we don&amp;rsquo;t just have a cease-fire, but that this criminal rocketing of our cities is not resumed a few months from now. Because that&amp;rsquo;s exactly what happened a few months ago. They were firing rockets at us, the Hamas. We had a cease-fire. They used the cease-fire to get further range &amp;mdash; longer-range rockets, which they have now fired at Beersheba and Ashdod and into the southern suburbs of Tel Aviv. So obviously, we have to remove the threat, not just stop the firing. And that&amp;rsquo;s what Israel is engaged in right now. &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&amp;amp;docID=news-000003002618&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?parm1=5&amp;amp;docID=news-000003002618&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Crush Hamas and brave the backlash | The Australian - But as was pointed out - Israel attempts to target military and political sites. hamas attacks civilians. there is no such thing as disproportionate attacks &amp;hellip; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24853482-7583,00.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24853482-7583,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Rocket alert sends New York&amp;rsquo;s Bloomberg running for cover in Sderot&amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;the onus of the civilian deaths was on Hamas for using them as human shields.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;ldquo;They have been the main victimizers of the innocent Palestinian people by inviting these kinds of attacks,&amp;rdquo; he said. &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052557.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052557.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;IDF coordination chief: There is no humanitarian crisis&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamas terrorists are using civilian infrastructure in the Gaza Strip - including hospitals, mosques and areas next to offices of international aid groups - to conduct terrorist activity and fire rockets at Israel, Col. Moshe Levi, commander of the IDF&amp;rsquo;s Gaza Coordination and Liaison Administration (CLA), said Thursday. &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1230733138893&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1230733138893&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas Exploitation of Civilians as Human Shields&lt;br /&gt;Right Side News&lt;br /&gt;This study examines how Hamas and the other terrorist organizations in the Gaza Strip make extensive use of Palestinian civilians as human shields. ... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://rightsidenews.com/200901063218/global-terrorism/hamas-exploitation-of-civilians-as-human-shields.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://rightsidenews.com/200901063218/global-terrorism/hamas-exploitation-of-civilians-as-human-shie lds.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&#039;Hamas is guilty of war crime&#039;&lt;br /&gt;BBC News&lt;br /&gt;... artillery attack near a UN school in the Gaza Strip. On Radio 4&#039;s The World Tonight he claimed that Hamas were guilty of using civilians as &amp;quot;human shields&amp;quot;. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7814762.stm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7814762.stm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Yes, free Gaza &amp;mdash; from terrorist tyranny&lt;br /&gt;By REDA MANSOUR&lt;br /&gt;Wednesday, January 07, 2009&lt;br /&gt;Some of the Arab and Muslim demonstrators who recently came to our offices were holding signs that said &amp;ldquo;Free Gaza.&amp;rdquo; Many Israelis would raise that same sign, me included, but for different reasons. People tend to forget that as of August 2005, Israel has not been in Gaza, and that the Gazans have been under Hamas control since June 2007. Indeed, Gaza needs to be freed from many different extremist forces.&lt;br /&gt;Gaza should be freed from Hamas, a terrorist organization that seized the strip by force. Since the takeover, Hamas has run Gaza&amp;rsquo;s economy into the ground and now nearly half of the work force is unemployed. Hamas has built a Taliban-style state in Gaza and introduced many of the Islamic Shari&amp;rsquo;a laws, institutionalizing the persecution of women and minorities.&lt;br /&gt;Hamas has transformed Gaza from a free territory to a large bunker, a place where rockets are stored under families, schools and places of prayer. Unfortunately, Gazans not only live among this militarization, but are now a tool in Hamas&amp;rsquo; aggression. The terrorist organization has developed a strategy of using innocent civilians as human shields. When Israel warns that the houses of Hamas operatives and commanders will be targeted, the terrorists bring in innocent citizens, often by force, in an effort to increase the likelihood of civilian casualties. Hamas&amp;rsquo; leaders rely on the strict Israeli moral code, hoping to avoid being attacked or that a strike will allow them to score points in the media by sacrificing their own people, creating what looks like acts of Israeli military aggression.&lt;br /&gt;Gaza should be freed from the intervention of Iran, a state that openly admits to financing Hamas. Iran is also helping Palestinian terror organizations with training, intelligence and equipment. Some of this &amp;ldquo;aid&amp;rdquo; is channeled through Hezbollah in Lebanon &amp;mdash; yet another Iranian proxy organization. Hezbollah and Iran use the Gazans to maintain regional political relevance in their empty agenda against Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Gaza should be freed from some of the Arab satellite channels like Al-Jazeera. These television stations engage in the direct incitement of the Arab and Muslim world. Everything is acceptable in their eyes to raise their ratings: including long shots of bodies and injuries. Some of these channels do not dismiss any editing trick and consider propaganda as a normal part of their news reporting.&lt;br /&gt;As far as Israel is concerned, Gaza is free and it is the decision of its inhabitants what the area&amp;rsquo;s destiny will be. They can continue to buy into the self-defeating promises of terrorist organizations and extremist ideologies. Even worse, they can continue to let these organizations use them as human shields and demolish their hopes and futures.&lt;br /&gt;Gazans can only truly be free by declaring Gaza a terror-free zone. The people of Gaza have many resources in their hands to achieve success. Gaza could use its beautiful Mediterranean coast to attract Israeli and Egyptian tourists. It can renew the flower and fruit exports to Europe that Israel left behind. The airport that was built there can be reopened. The seaport that is planned and even the natural gas fields in its waters could be built. &lt;br /&gt;The people of this region need to make the decision that Gaza will become a model of peace and stability and hopefully, the beginning of the two-state solution: Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2009/01/07/mansoured_0107.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2009/01/07/mansoured_0107.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas uses people as shields&lt;br /&gt;Updated: 01/06/2009 06:53:52 AM EST&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has heated up again. A cease-fire agreement has collapsed and Hamas, a Palestinian terrorist organization, immediately renewed its rocket attacks from Gaza into Israeli civilian areas.&lt;br /&gt;Hamas does not attack military targets. They openly declare their intent to kill civilians, including women and children.&lt;br /&gt;These rocket attacks have gone on for years and have steadily increased in intensity. The range of these weapons has increased as well, bringing more civilian areas in Israel under attack, with an increase in danger to civilians.&lt;br /&gt;There is no warning for these attacks, no air-raid sirens, just the sudden explosion of a rocket missile in your neighborhood with the possibility of death and destruction.&lt;br /&gt;During the several years that these rocket attacks have continued, never has anyone raised a voice condemning these attacks, which are knowingly directed against civilians.&lt;br /&gt;Hamas deliberately sets its rocket launchers and mortars in densely populated areas using their own people as human shields against retaliation.&lt;br /&gt;Now that Israel is striking back, the Israelis are being condemned for causing civilian casualties. Where were these voices during the years that Hamas was deliberately and admittedly killing Israeli civilians? Where were these voices when Hamas implemented its policy of using its own people as human shields against retaliation?&lt;br /&gt;Two facts become obvious:&lt;br /&gt;Israel values the lives of its citizens and is now doing and will continue doing what is necessary to protect its citizens.&lt;br /&gt;Hamas views its own people as expendable pawns and willingly and knowingly places them in danger in order to gain a propaganda victory against Israel. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11376001&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11376001&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas at fault, not Israelis&lt;br /&gt;Sir:It amazes me that every time Israel makes a move to protect its citizens and sovereignty, bleeding hearts at the CBC continue to pester Israel over its alleged unbalanced response.&lt;br /&gt;Even when the ceasefire was signed, Hamas militants fire rockets haphazardly into Israel.&lt;br /&gt;Hit a military compound, that&#039;s nice. Hit a school or hospital, equally nice.&lt;br /&gt;This is terrorism on a daily basis.&lt;br /&gt;To feel sorry for the Palestinian people is a stretch considering they voted for Hamas, knowing the blow-back they would receive not only from their immediate neighbours but from most western powers as well.&lt;br /&gt;As a matter of fact, Palestinians should be thankful that Israel still considers its targets as carefully as it does and not use the laissez faire targeting of Hamas.&lt;br /&gt;The reason why there are civilian casualties at all is again due to the cowardice of the militants using civilians as human shields.&lt;br /&gt;I would certainly hope that those at the liberal CBC that think Israel should open its borders to incoming Palestinian workers when such a threat exists for suicide bombers never end up with the job of minister for public safety in this country.&lt;br /&gt;Hard hats and bomb shelters for all! &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1374059&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1374059&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;The Volokh Conspiracy - Human Shields in Gaza:&lt;br /&gt;But it takes a special kind of depravity to use your own civilians as human ... If the Hamas civilians *know* they are acting as human shields for the ... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://volokh.com/posts/1230756039.shtml&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://volokh.com/posts/1230756039.shtml&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Children of Hamas &lt;br /&gt;Hamas has been firing these rockets from within densely populated areas using the Palestinian people as human shields. Mosques, hospitals, kindergartens &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://anadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7366&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://anadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7366&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Peres: Europe must &#039;open eyes&#039; on Gaza&lt;br /&gt;United Press International&lt;br /&gt;Peres blamed Hamas for the deaths of innocent civilians in the siege, saying the militants use them as human shields... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/06/Peres_Europe_must_open_eyes_on_Gaza/UPI-94771231247258/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/06/Peres_Europe_must_open_eyes_on_Gaza/UPI-94771231247258/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas exploits public opinion&lt;br /&gt;Newstimes Updated: 01/06/2009 07:23:35 PM EST&lt;br /&gt;It is time to support Israel in her time of need. After living in a war zone with relentless rockets firing on innocent citizens even in a &amp;quot;cease-fire&amp;quot; agreement with Hamas, Israel has no choice but to destroy the terrorists who have one goal and that is to destroy Israel.&lt;br /&gt;If the press would comment on Hamas&#039; tactics of using women and children as human shields, of firing rockets from residential neighborhoods, of dressing Hamas officials in medical uniforms in hospitals, the tragic deaths of innocent Palestinians may be understood.&lt;br /&gt;Israel has no choice but to destroy the point of rocket fire. If it comes from a mosque, a hospital, a home, a school, it is designed that way by the terrorists to hurt Israel.&lt;br /&gt;They have no regard for their citizens and use them as propaganda tools to affect world opinion.&lt;br /&gt;It would be helpful if the press would mention the tactics at the same time as they mention the tragic deaths of innocent bystanders. It is all calculated by Hamas and unfortunately not everyone is aware of their depth of cruelty.&lt;br /&gt;Our tradition teaches us, &amp;quot;He who saves a single life, it is as if he saved an entire world.&amp;quot; Israel reveres life and the terrorists revere death. It is unfortunate and tragic.&lt;br /&gt;When the terrorists will show the same passion for peace as they do for death and hatred, there will be peace. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11387960&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11387960&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;We have counseled our ally Israel to be very cautious about protecting innocents, and I do think that the Israelis take great care to do so. I saw the reports about the school. I don&#039;t have any information about that. I think that we should not jump to conclusions, and we should wait to find out what the evidence says. What we do know is that Hamas often hides amongst innocents, and uses innocent people, including children, as human shields. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=5435:press-briefing-by-press-secretary-dana-perino-&amp;amp;catid=88888933&amp;amp;Itemid=88889535&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.enewspf.com/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;view=article&amp;amp;id=5435:press-briefing-by-p ress-secretary-dana-perino-&amp;amp;catid=88888933&amp;amp;Itemid=88889535 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Evidence of Hamas Use of Human Shields &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/06/2278116-evidence-of-hamas-use-of-human-shields&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.newsvine.com/_vine/images/users/nws/yaakov/2278142.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://yaakov.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/06/2278116-evidence-of-hamas-use-of-human-shields&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;islamonazismcastlead&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Global Islamo fascism&#039;s Genocidal Anti - Jewish demonstrations using the Gaza anti terror operation &#039; cast lead&#039; as a cover (Dec 2008 - Jan 2009)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Jan 2009) Jihad Watch reports that in the Netherlands, anti-Israel demonstrators have once again been chanting &lt;br /&gt;Hamas Hamas, Jews to the gas &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024231.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024231.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Atlas has pictures of the Muslims that have taken over Europe chanting &amp;ldquo;Jews to the gas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/01/video-anne-fran.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2009/01/video-anne-fran.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Demonstrators cry &#039;nuke Israel,&#039; carry Hezbollah flags at U.S. ... 6 Jan 2009 ... ... Florida last week featured demonstrators carrying signs reading ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052901.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1052901.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Florida demonstrator: Jews - you need a big oven&#039; - 6 Jan 2009 ... Florida demonstrator: Jews - you need a big oven&#039; ... Nuke, nuke Israel,&amp;quot; followed by &amp;quot;Go to hell; go to hell; go to hell!&amp;quot; ...Another woman, wearing a (Muslim) headscarf, shouted: &amp;quot;Go steal other lands. Go! Murderers! Go back to the oven! You need a big oven.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Other signs accused Israel of &amp;quot;ethnic cleansing.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Israel is the terrorist,&amp;quot; read a second, while a third wondered whether Israel had taken &amp;quot;notes during the Holocaust?&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;An imam led the crowd in prayer. &amp;quot;Allahu Akhbar,&amp;quot; they chanted before prostrating themselves on their prayer mats.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We want to educate the people about what Islam really is so that they can appreciate the beauty of it,&amp;quot; the imam told a reporter. &amp;quot;Once people understand the real beauty of Islam they will have no choice but to accept it because they will realize that it&#039;s part of their nature.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;Following their (Islamic) prayers, the crowd crossed the road and confronted the pro-Israel group&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2606&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jnewswire.com/article/2606&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Genocidal hatred from pro-Hamas demonstrators -- &amp;quot;Nuke, nuke Israel.&amp;quot; Chilling video from Tom Trento of WatchObsession.org. .... Florida A Tampa highway was lined with anti-Gaza War demonstrators on ...The stone, which is thrown at the Jews, hates these Jews, these Zionists, because Allah .... Muslims in American mosques praying for destruction of Israel ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?p=36183&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israelmilitary.net/showthread.php?p=36183&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Protesting Against Israel or Hating Jews? - 6 Jan 2009 ... &#039;Muslim American Society&#039;... The anti-Israel demonstration of some 200 to 300 people outside the ... for instance, carried signs saying &amp;quot;Nuke Israel,&amp;quot;...Now the notion of using of a nuclear device to eliminate Israel and thereby attempting to kill its roughly 5 million Jews is not a unique one, since words to that effect are regularly uttered, among others, by Iran&#039;s raving president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who dreams of such apocalyptic final solutions. What is unique is the morally-defective logic that would enable someone to justify a second Holocaust, the mass murder of Jews, on the basis of Israel having defended itself from years of rocket attacks and having killed several hundred murderous terrorists in the process. Making the Middle East free of Jews, Judenfrein, is exactly what Hamas, the group of murderous thugs being cheered on by the demonstrators here, ardently longs for; Hamas&#039; charter, in fact, expresses as one of its core tenets that Israel should be eliminated, that &amp;quot;Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/protesting_against_israel_or_h.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/01/protesting_against_israel_or_h.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;December 31, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Death to all juice&amp;quot;: Calling for genocide with plausible deniability?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024163.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024163.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;January 4, 2009 chill and evil wind is blowing over the world. Genocidal Eurabia Alert &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Denmark (Islamic banner reads): &amp;quot;Kill Jewish people evry where in ther world&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024235.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/024235.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The banner reads, &amp;quot;Jews go to hell.&amp;quot; Attached Images ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.goldtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=226463&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.goldtalk.com/forum/showthread.php?p=226463&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Indonesian Muslim protesters hold a banner during a rally against . ... The banner reads, &#039;Jews go to hell.&#039; REUTERS/Beawiharta. (INDONESIA) ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Israel--Indonesian-Muslim-protesters-hold-banner-during-rally-against-Israeli-attacks-Gaza-Strip-Jakarta-January-2-2009-banner-reads-Jews-go/ss/events/wl/20070128_israel/im:/02012009/6/photo/photos-n-news-indonesian-muslim-protesters-hold-banner-during-rally-against-israeli.html/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://ca.news.yahoo.com/nphotos/Israel--Indonesian-Muslim-protesters-hold-banner-during-rally-again st-Israeli-attacks-Gaza-Strip-Jakarta-January-2-2009-banner-reads-Jews-go/ss/events/wl/20070128_isra el/im:/02012009/6/photo/photos-n-news-indonesian-muslim-protesters-hold-banner-during-rally-against- israeli.html/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;That Old Lovable &amp;ldquo;Jews Are Apes And Pigs&amp;rdquo; Canard&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://outoftheblu.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/that-old-lovable-jews-are-apes-and-pigs-canard/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://outoftheblu.wordpress.com/2009/01/04/that-old-lovable-jews-are-apes-and-pigs-canard/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MSM, stop showing the images! stop rewarding Jihadists&#039; tricks in causing Arab civilians&#039; deaths!&lt;/strong&gt; &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hey, BBC, CNN, Stop showing again and again &#039;Pallywood&#039; TV from Gaza of Arab children killed due to Arab adults&#039; using them as cannon fodders. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;Jan 2009 &amp;nbsp; Operation: Cast &amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;Lead&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Islamic butchers know all too well they succeed toying with their kids on their death cult&#039;s death beds, no matter how you will explain the real cause how their civilians die, they are experienced in the power of &#039;a picture is worth a thousand words&#039; when it comes to blooded Arab bodies. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;What is the responsibility of the MSM BBC, CNN in serving the conveyer of these orchestrated images, Images that enrage the world against Israel who is nothing but a defender of it&#039;s people? The media owe&#039;s itself the professionalism not to show these images.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1) One can not take &#039;Palestinian&#039; word for anything, much less about accuracy of photos or numbers of the so called &amp;quot;civilians&#039;, we have been here before [we still remember the inflated &amp;quot;numbers&amp;quot; in Jenin including added bodies]. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;2) These images influence anyone&#039;s mind (or heart), it is the most horrendous form of bias!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) By showing these photos you guys are aiding Islamic Hamas (like Hezbollah), which is to bring about dead Arab kids to parade with them on world stage.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4) Moreover it is you who is (also) fueling Jihadism&#039;s best tool of: &amp;quot;We Muslims are victims of the west&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/pictures/200606267Hamas01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;The Humane Aspect of anti terror airstrikes in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How does Israel&amp;rsquo;s humane army manage to cause only a few hundreds deaths (w/ 90% terrorists) after so many strikes in 5 days?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Let&amp;rsquo;s see, 5 days of continues bombardment of (specific terrorists&amp;rsquo; targets) - hundreds of air strikes, and only about 400 are dead?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How do the cool and compassionate soldiers manage to avoid so many casualties, each bombing (coming from that famous &amp;ldquo;strong Israeli army&amp;rdquo; which the Arabs keep reminding us) could at least kill a few hundreds if one is not very careful.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This relative success - While the terrible Muslim radicals (Hamas or Hezbollah, etc.) keep tricking in civilians into dying (Let alone the sad fact of &amp;ldquo;densely populated&amp;rdquo; Gaza), especially little kids, for the goal of appearing as &amp;ldquo;victims&amp;rdquo; and tarnishing Israeli who is in fact the only party in the entire neighborhood that couldn&amp;rsquo;t care less about image but about saving lives, on both sides.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet, all the biased CNN, BBC can talk about is: &amp;ldquo;civilians&amp;rdquo; deaths.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;T&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;br /&gt;Where on earth does CNN get the &amp;ldquo;information&amp;rdquo; that there are &amp;ldquo;scores of civilians&amp;rdquo; (Jim Clancy this morning) in the air strike targeting Hamas?&amp;nbsp; CNN admits that they are not allowed into Gaza because of the danger, so they &amp;ldquo;rely&amp;rdquo; on Arab &amp;ldquo;journalists&amp;rdquo; but mainly on Palestinian sources in Gaza for info, oh well, because the Pallywood is a new thing? they have not been known to add dead bodies in Jenin or to fake images as a whole?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; We realize that they have SOME kids dead, as this was Hamas&amp;rsquo; (like Hezbollah&#039;s) intention when they fire rockets from most densely-populated houses, so that their graphic &amp;lsquo;shocking&amp;rsquo; photos gets spread well in the &amp;ldquo;world propaganda arena&amp;rdquo;, but &amp;ldquo;scores&amp;rdquo; - out of the 300? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;How do they know that it&#039;s not the 90% Islamic Hamas? Why would there be only 300 dead after 3 days of pounding warplanes if Israel really hadn&#039;t be careful NOT to hit at civilians?&lt;br /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;fhttp://zioneocon.blogspot.com/hamas-mortar-youths.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://zioneocon.blogspot.com/hamas-mortar-youths.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <title>Defending Israel&#039;s action against bloodthirsty Islamic &quot;Palestinians&quot; who use their own kids as human shields</title>
            <description>&lt;strong&gt;Defending Israel&#039;s action against bloodthirsty Islamic &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; who use their own kids as human shields&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Boston Jewish leaders defend Gaza strike Boston Globe, United States Hamas&#039;s disregard for Israeli life is matched by its disregard for the lives of Palestinians living in Gaza. Using innocent Palestinians as human shields, Hamas purposely fires its missiles from homes, schools and community centers, confident in the knowledge that when Israel finally acts to stop the killing of its own civilians, Palestinians will also inevitably be harmed. The use of Palestinian civilians as human shields is not merely unspeakably cruel. It is also a fundamental violation of Palestinian human rights by the Hamas leadership. Israel cares deeply about protecting the lives of civilians, both in Israel and in the Gaza Strip. Its efforts this weekend to stop the Hamas attacks represent classic self-defense, undertaken reluctantly by an Israeli nation that longs for peace. Israel is now compelled to act to defend its citizens. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/12/boston_jewish_l.html&quot;&gt;http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles_of_faith/2008/12/boston_jewish_l.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Hamas took no heed of the plight of their own brethren, &amp;quot;and just as they have used human shields in their terror operations, they are now taking the whole ... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868820574&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1229868820574&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Israel&amp;rsquo;s Challenge Family Security Matters, NJ - Dec 26, 2008 Why is criticism never leveled at Hamas or Hezbollah who regularly use children as human shields to protect their leaders and their weapons? ... &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2115/pub_detail.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.2115/pub_detail.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Israel retaliation in Gaza, Hamas hit hard Canada Free Press, Canada Any suspected hideouts of Hamas leadership must be taken out. Israel had opportunities in earlier decades to do this and refused because of the human shield&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7171&quot;&gt;http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/7171&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;So, &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; -- unfortunaletly-- had caused a few kids (besides the majority militants killed today), they succeeded in their objective to make Israel look bad, that&#039;s very important in their objective of hating Israel (Arab racism &amp;amp; Islamic bigotry) no matter what Israel does, and &amp;quot;legitimizing&amp;quot; their radicalism so that the world looks away Hamas&#039; real ultimate goal, Genocide of course, or &amp;quot;wiping off map&amp;quot; in its Islamic protectors of Tehran&#039;s vocabulary...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;blockquote&gt;Palestinian rocket misfires, kills 2 girls in Gaza &lt;img src=&quot;http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/ap/20081226/capt.572874df9f154899a56eecdbeee946be.mideast_israel_palestinians_jrl111.jpg?x=213&amp;amp;y=137&amp;amp;xc=1&amp;amp;yc=1&amp;amp;wc=410&amp;amp;hc=264&amp;amp;q=100&amp;amp;sig=mUSKixaO4foG5g5aHEE1HA--&quot; alt=&quot;Masked Palestinian militants are seen during an Islamic Jihad rally in Bureij,&quot; width=&quot;213&quot; height=&quot;137&quot; /&gt; AP &amp;ndash; Masked Palestinian militants are seen during an Islamic Jihad rally in Bureij, central Gaza Strip, Friday, &amp;hellip; GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip &amp;ndash; A crude rocket fired by Palestinian militants fell short of its target in Israel on Friday, striking a house in the northern Gaza Strip and killing two schoolgirls. The attack came as Israel sent mixed signals over its plans to respond to continuing Palestinian rocket fire. Israeli defense officials say politicians have approved a large-scale incursion into the territory once rainy conditions clear. But at the same time, Israel appeared receptive to international pressure against an invasion, opening the Gaza border Friday to allow in deliveries of humanitarian aid.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians&quot;&gt;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081226/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_palestinians&lt;/a&gt; &lt;strong&gt;If it was &#039;Palestinians&#039; plan again, to murder own civilians of their own population and pin it on the Zionists, this time, Pallywood failed!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/freedom-fighting-bull/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Christmas, &#039;Palestinian&#039; Muslims Oppress Bethlehem&#039;s Christians</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Xmas, &#039;Palestinian&#039; Muslims Oppress Bethlehem&#039;s Christians&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; * &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/023936.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Jihadists persecuting Palestinian Christians in Gaza&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; * &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48064&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Muslim grinches steal Bethlehem Christmas&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=49569&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Christians persecuted in Bethlehem&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1167467807655&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Bethlehem Christians fear neighbors A number of Christian families have finally decided to break their silence and talk openly about what they describe as Muslim persecution of the Christian minority in this city&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Racist Arabism &amp; Violence: Dictatorship, Oppression, War, Terrorism</title>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Arabism - Violence &lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Racist Arabism &amp;amp; Violence: Dictatorship, Oppression, War, Terrorism&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;The front runners of Pan-Arabism, brutal tyrants and waged large scale wars, such as Egypt&#039;s Nasser &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.markhumphrys.com/world.bodies.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.markhumphrys.com/world.bodies.html&quot;&gt;[168]&lt;/a&gt;, Saddam Hussein &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.saddam.profile/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/12/14/sprj.irq.saddam.profile/&quot;&gt;[169]&lt;/a&gt;, Syria&#039;s Assad (on Lebanon &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.generalaoun.org/freedomwriter52.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.generalaoun.org/freedomwriter52.html&quot;&gt;[170]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lgic.org/en/help_resistance.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.lgic.org/en/help_resistance.php&quot;&gt;[171]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aina.org/news/20081122141733.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.aina.org/news/20081122141733.htm&quot;&gt;[172]&lt;/a&gt; and on it&#039;s own people &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a220.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.freelebanon.org/articles/a220.htm&quot;&gt;[173]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.2la.org/lebanon/ee/terrorsy.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.2la.org/lebanon/ee/terrorsy.htm&quot;&gt;[174]&lt;/a&gt; including the Hama massacre &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shrc.org/data/aspx/d0/1260.aspx&quot; title=&quot;http://www.shrc.org/data/aspx/d0/1260.aspx&quot;&gt;[175]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/190&quot; title=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/190&quot;&gt;[176]&lt;/a&gt; and the dictator in Sudan Al Bashir &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/2403770/Sudan-dictator-Omar-al-Bashir-committed-Darfur-genocide.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/sudan/2403770/Sudan-dictator-Omar-al-Bashir-committed-Darfur-genocide.html&quot;&gt;[177]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/sudans-dictator-charged-with-war-crimes-1433126.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.independent.ie/world-news/africa/sudans-dictator-charged-with-war-crimes-1433126.html&quot;&gt;[178]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The linkage to terror&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Protecting terrorism, Pan-Arabism: the inhuman progenitor of Islamic Terrorism &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pan-arabism-inhuman-progenitor-islamic-terrorism.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pan-arabism-inhuman-progenitor-islamic-terrorism.html&quot;&gt;[179]&lt;/a&gt;. &amp;quot;Terror was used by the Arabs against the Jews in the Land of Israel since the dawn of Zionism.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://shalem-enews.com/6_day_war_communique/day%203-4.html&quot; title=&quot;http://shalem-enews.com/6_day_war_communique/day%203-4.html&quot;&gt;[180]&lt;/a&gt;. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An Arabist group called Jamiat-e Dawa el al Qurani Wasouna. The J.D.Q., as it is known by American intelligence, is suspected of having links to both the Saudi and Kuwaiti governments &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/12/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/12/&quot;&gt;[181]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Osama bin Laden is in fact the latest and quintessential product of pan-Arabism &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=11777086&amp;amp;Itemid=347&quot; title=&quot;http://www.defenddemocracy.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=11777086&amp;amp;Itemid=347&quot;&gt;[182]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Palestinian Fatah Leader, School Books Supports Terrorism Against US in Iraq, quote: &amp;quot;We [however,] take pride in this [Arab nationalist] language because we are the authentic Arabs who believe in our Arabism, our faith, our cause&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125485&quot; title=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125485&quot;&gt;[183]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:53:09 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Israel &#039;occupies&#039; no Arab territory</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Israel &#039;occupies&#039; no Arab territory&lt;br /&gt;Nov 18, 2008 19:32 Updated Nov 19, 2008 10:03&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Israel &#039;occupies&#039; no Arab territories&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; By LOUIS RENE BERES&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;In urgent matters of national survival and geopolitics, words matter. The still generally unchallenged language referring provocatively to an Israeli &amp;quot;Occupation&amp;quot; always overlooks the pertinent and incontestable history of the West Bank (Judea/Samaria) and Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A topographical map of Israel, delineating the 1967 borders. Photo: Courtesy Perhaps the most evident omission concerns the unwitting manner in which these &amp;quot;Territories&amp;quot; fell into Israel&#039;s hands in the first place.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; It is simply and widely disregarded that &amp;quot;occupation&amp;quot; followed the multi-state Arab aggression of 1967 - one never disguised by Egypt, Syria or Jordan. A sovereign state of Palestine did not exist before 1967 or 1948. Nor was a state of Palestine ever promised by UN Security Council Resolution 242. Contrary to popular understanding, a state of Palestine has never existed. Never. Even as a nonstate legal entity, &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; ceased to exist in 1948, when Great Britain relinquished its League of Nations mandate. During the 1948-49 Israeli War of Independence (a war of survival fought because the entire Arab world had rejected the authoritative United Nations resolution creating a Jewish state), the West Bank and Gaza came under the illegal control of Jordan and Egypt respectively. These Arab conquests did not put an end to an already-existing state or to an ongoing trust territory.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; What these aggressions did accomplish was the effective prevention, sui generis, of a state of Palestine. The original hopes for Palestine were dashed, therefore, not by the new Jewish state or by its supporters, but by the Arab states, especially Jordan and Egypt. LET US return to an earlier history. From the Biblical Period (ca. 1350 BCE to 586 BCE) to the British Mandate (1918 - 1948), the land named by the Romans after the ancient Philistines was controlled only by non-Palestinian elements. Significantly, however, a continuous chain of Jewish possession of the land was legally recognized after World War I, at the San Remo Peace Conference of April 1920.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There, a binding treaty was signed in which Great Britain was given mandatory authority over &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; (the area had been ruled by the Ottoman Turks since 1516) to prepare it to become the &amp;quot;national home for the Jewish People.&amp;quot; Palestine, according to the Treaty, comprised territories encompassing what are now the states of Jordan and Israel, including the West Bank and Gaza. Present-day Israel comprises only 22 percent of Palestine as defined and ratified at the San Remo Peace Conference. In 1922, Great Britain unilaterally and without any lawful authority split off 78 percent of the lands promised to the Jews - all of Palestine east of the Jordan River - and gave it to Abdullah, the non-Palestinian son of the Sharif of Mecca. Eastern Palestine now took the name Transjordan, which it retained until April 1949, when it was renamed as Jordan.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; From the moment of its creation, Transjordan was closed to all Jewish migration and settlement, a clear betrayal of the British promise in the Balfour Declaration of 1917, and a patent contravention of its Mandatory obligations under international law.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On July 20, 1951, a Palestinian Arab assassinated King Abdullah for the latter&#039;s hostility to Palestinian aspirations and concerns. Regarding these aspirations, Jordan&#039;s &amp;quot;moderate&amp;quot; King Hussein - 19 years later, during September 1970 - brutally murdered thousands of defenseless Palestinians under his jurisdiction. IN 1947, several years prior to Abdullah&#039;s killing, the newly-formed United Nations, rather than designate the entire land west of the Jordan River as the long-promised Jewish national homeland, enacted a second partition. Curiously, considering that this second fission again gave complete advantage to Arab interests, Jewish leaders accepted the painful judgment. The Arab states did not. On May 15, 1948, exactly 24 hours after the State of Israel came into existence, Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, declared to a tiny new country founded upon the ashes of the Holocaust: &amp;quot;This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This unambiguous declaration has been at the very heart of all subsequent Arab orientations toward Israel, including those of &amp;quot;moderate&amp;quot; Fatah. Even by the strict legal standards of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Arab actions and attitudes toward the microscopic Jewish state in their midst has remained patently genocidal. For some reason, this persistence has repeatedly been made to appear benign.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;IN 1967, almost 20 years after Israel&#039;s entry into the community of nations, the Jewish state, as a result of its unexpected military victory over Arab aggressor states, gained unintended control over the West Bank and Gaza. Although the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war is codified in the UN Charter, there existed no authoritative sovereign to whom the Territories could be &amp;quot;returned.&amp;quot; Israel could hardly have been expected to transfer them back to Jordan and Egypt, which had exercised unauthorized and terribly cruel control since the Arab-initiated war of &amp;quot;extermination&amp;quot; in 1948-49. Moreover, the idea of Palestinian &amp;quot;self-determination&amp;quot; had only just begun to emerge after the Six Day War, and - significantly - had not even been included in UN Security Council Resolution 242, which was adopted on November 22, 1967. For their part, the Arab states convened a summit in Khartoum in August 1967, concluding: &amp;quot;No peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it....&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed three years earlier, in 1964, before there were any &amp;quot;Israeli Occupied Territories.&amp;quot; Exactly what was it, therefore, that the PLO sought to &amp;quot;liberate&amp;quot; between 1964 and 1967? This question should now be raised in connection with the US-sponsored &amp;quot;Road Map To Peace in the Middle East,&amp;quot; a twisted cartography leading to &amp;quot;Palestine.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;THIS HAS been a very brief account of essential historic reasons why the so-called &amp;quot;Palestinian Territories&amp;quot; are not occupied by Israel. Several other equally valid reasons stem from Israel&#039;s inherent legal right to security and self-defense. International law is not a suicide pact. Because a Palestinian state would severely threaten the very existence of Israel - a fact that remains altogether unhidden in Arab media and governments - the Jewish State is under no binding obligation to end a falsely alleged &amp;quot;Occupation.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No state can ever be required to accept complicity in its own dismemberment and annihilation. Both Israel and the United States will soon have new leadership. Neither Jerusalem nor Washington should be deceived by the so-called &amp;quot;Road Map To Peace in the Middle East,&amp;quot; a twisted bit of highway that makes entirely inaccurate claims about &amp;quot;Palestinian Territories&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Israeli Occupation.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;For substantially documented reasons of history and national security, it is imperative that a twenty-third Arab state never be carved out of the still-living body of Israel. A topographical map of Israel, delineating the 1967 borders.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Photo: Courtesy If anyone should still have doubts about Palestinian intentions, they need look only to former Prime Minister Sharon&#039;s &amp;quot;disengagement&amp;quot; from Gaza, an area that is now used by Hamas to stage rocket attacks upon Israeli noncombatants, and by al-Qaeda to mount future terrorist operations against American cities. The writer, a professor of International Law at Purdue University, is the author of many books and articles dealing with military affairs and international law.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404769705&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1226404769705&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt; T&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:10:40 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Trickle Down Propaganda in the Middle East</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;In order for any &amp;quot;Peace Agreement&amp;quot; in the Middle East to be effective and long lasting, it would appear to me that incendiary rhetoric against Jews and Infidels emanating from the minarets, Arab media and the internet must cease.&amp;nbsp; Calling Jews and Americans &amp;quot;pigs&amp;quot; and calling for the elimination of Jews, America&amp;nbsp;and the State of Israel is the kind of dangerous trickle-down propaganda that infuses the mind-set of citizens of these &amp;quot;fundamentalist regimes&amp;quot; and elevates &amp;quot;hatred&amp;quot; to a kind of twisted idealism that would relegate any peace treaty to a &amp;quot;temporary&amp;quot; measure.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Its not that they are &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; people.&amp;nbsp; Its just that living in unicultural countries without a free press and with no exposure to &amp;quot;others&amp;quot; generally leads to this kind of retrograde xenophobia.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Lasting peace requires a humanistic groundwork based on 21st century principles of inclusion and respect of all peoples - regardless of their religion, race or ethnic backgrounds.&amp;nbsp; At the moment that&#039;s a far cry from the &amp;quot;racist, Nazi-like&amp;quot; declarations that are currently being propogated by countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq (despite a US presence), Lybia, some radical forces in Palestine&amp;nbsp;and others.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe, under your worldly influence,&amp;nbsp;these governments&amp;nbsp;can be encouraged to change their &amp;quot;racist&amp;quot; mantras.&amp;nbsp; Failing that, these countries may finally come to their senses when the United States and other western nations have developed &amp;quot;alternative green-energy sources&amp;quot; and we are no longer beholden to their hegemony on oil.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a Jew, who is very&amp;nbsp;much in favour&amp;nbsp;of a just and lasting peace for Palestinians and Israelis, I hope that you, Barack, as a brilliant, worldly and enlightened human being, will recognize the hazards of this type of &amp;quot;institutionalized hate mongering&amp;quot; and work to bring true peace to all human beings.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As a person who supported, trusts and believes in your human decency, I know that you will make this request a part of your peace efforts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Good Luck to you Barack.&amp;nbsp; I don&#039;t expect miracles.&amp;nbsp; But I believe that you, more than anyone else,&amp;nbsp;can point the world in the direction of enlightenment.&amp;nbsp; Millions of us all over the world can hardly wait for your &amp;quot;inauguration&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 14:30:44 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Arabized media in the west, the CNN case</title>
            <description>Arabized media in the west, the CNN caseNov. 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arabized media in the west, the CNN case.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Bombarding propaganda&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Qatar is one of CNN&#039;s major financier, (Qatar airlines and its financial center) you are getting sick of the repeated advertisement of Arab media tools how so hypocritically they show you their &amp;quot;equality&amp;quot; for everyone,&amp;nbsp;covering the awful truth about oppressing all minorities, all those that are not Arab in the middle east who the supremacists Arabs think its&#039; all &amp;quot;theirs&amp;quot; (ironic funny enough Qatar airlines shows in its ad a green eyed white face of a woman...).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&#039;Inside the middle east&#039;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For years, the Syrian born Hala Gorani was going up ranks her &amp;quot;inside the middle east&amp;quot; is still going strong.&#039;Inside the middle east&#039; sponsored by the Egyptian telecom &#039;Orascom&#039; (who tells us over an over again in its silly advertisement that &amp;quot;&lt;em&gt;we share the same belief&lt;/em&gt;&amp;quot; creating the impression as if Christians and Jews -- the few left after the racist expulsion in the late 1940s -- are not discriminated in Apartheid Arab Muslim middle east) is basically an Arabic program that its aim is to hide its oppressive tyranny, in a region where no Arab country is true democratic or free (in the true sense, including the Iranian/Syrian occupied Lebanon - the terrorized Hezbollahland),&amp;nbsp;by exaggerating&amp;nbsp;true or untrue stories that can be used to idolize Arab middle east.&#039;Inside the middle east&#039; will never show you the true (story of) repressed conditions of non Arabs such as: Kurds, Berbers, Jews, or non Muslims such as: Copts in Egypt, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ugly &#039;Palestinianism&#039;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Also appearing in that Arab program which is only to &amp;quot;&lt;strong&gt;educate Americans only about the cherry picked stories - Arabs want us to see&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;quot;... is Ben Wederman, the notorious west bank based CNN&amp;nbsp; terribly biased journalist, who never seems to find a spot to reveal the oppression of &#039;Palestinians&#039; upon their people: whether its out of blind radical Islamic motivation or typical Arabisn dictatorship, or the Islamic apartheid against the minority Christian Arab community that live in fear and under persecution, or the genocide campaign that is rampant among most &#039;Palestinians to &amp;quot;eradicate&amp;quot; the &amp;quot;Zionist entity&amp;quot; or about the epidemic of &#039;honor killing&#039; crimes, or about corruptive leadership that robs its own people ever since Arafat era, but Ben Wederman doesn&#039;t see any &amp;quot;use&amp;quot; in reporting these burning issues,&amp;nbsp;he&amp;nbsp;is instead a&amp;nbsp;great spokesman for the &#039;Palestinian cause&#039;,&amp;nbsp;an&amp;nbsp;example from Nov 7-8 (2008), Ben had a program about &amp;quot;olives&amp;quot;, supposedly just talking about olive oil... soon you saw the blatant despicable &#039;Palestinianism&#039; as the Arab farmer talked about how &amp;quot;old&amp;quot; his tradition is and how the land is so &amp;quot;his&amp;quot;... nothing about Arab immigration into Israel-Palestine of course, that&#039;s a no-no mention in &lt;u&gt;rewriting - Palestine&lt;/u&gt;.He had his camera ready to film Israeli police dispersing a crowd that protested illegal Arab infiltrators into Jewish land... (the true story Ben didn&#039;t tell you)&amp;nbsp;when he was asked politely by the police to evacuate the area he refused (after all, he knows very well he wouldn&#039;t dare refuse any order from the &#039;Palestinian&#039; police... what he never bothers explaining his &amp;quot;situation&amp;quot; living in the west bank, how &amp;quot;neutral&amp;quot; a journalist can be), only the 3rd time when he&amp;nbsp;made sure he had enough to portray the Israeli restrained cops as &amp;quot;bad occupiers&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;he said he is &amp;quot;going&amp;quot;...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As if it wasn&#039;t enough with Arab tyrants&#039; regimes &amp;quot;culture&amp;quot; infesting the mainstream media in the US, CNN made yet another Arab program, &amp;quot;MME&amp;quot; Market middle east, by the rich Arabian Dubai financial center DIFC, who pays a man by the name of J. Defterios, &#039;paid&#039; to glorify its host (besides the weekly Friday Arabist program, here&#039;s an example, on Nov 16 2008 at the same time the G20 summit was still on, he &amp;quot;revealed&amp;quot; to us that the Gulf Arabs who combine 1.5 triillion dollar of GDP, &amp;quot;lost&amp;quot; 1.5 billion since June peak season, what a &amp;quot;creative&amp;quot; way of portraying the oil masters that with out any shame exploit the world&#039;s need for energy overcharging all of us as &amp;quot;losing&amp;quot; because they lowered a bit&amp;nbsp;their outrageous overcharge as soon as they saw westerners consuming less of it...), where one of the very first opening broadcasts was &amp;quot;naturally&amp;quot; about &amp;quot;how to help the &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;poor&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; (no, not how the filthy rich Gulf oil Arabs should help, not those Arab regimes that have encouraged the Arabs --not yet called &amp;quot;palestinians&amp;quot;-- in 1948 to evacuate Israel-Palestine, but how the west should rather help them), those self destructive guys, the violence-happy crowd, where bigoted Jihadism and militant racist Arabism&amp;nbsp;was always mainstream, ever since the Mufti Al-Husseini led the massacres in the 1920&#039;s - the &amp;quot;creme de la creme&amp;quot; of the middle east.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The middle east insider&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Piercing through the thick cloud obscuring any clarity,&amp;nbsp;clotted by the oily&amp;nbsp;international Arab lobby...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There&#039;s no room there&amp;nbsp;for criticism of call for change in the diabolic &#039;Palestinian&#039; society to leave hatred and terror behind and to choose education for their children and &#039;normal life&#039; for themselves.There&#039;s no space for criticism of all Arab regimes that rule their people with an iron fist, Arabian middle east&amp;nbsp;where synonymous with torture, no, not the light type attributed to the CIA in Gtmo., but the darkest kind, where most of all: Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iran (and its Hezbullah thugs) &amp;amp; Egypt are doing it with passion and special &amp;quot;tender love&amp;quot;.That&#039;s true Islamism &amp;amp; Arabism, to keep&amp;nbsp;committing the crimes in the middle east and to show [fake] unity outside, that&#039;s the true &amp;quot;middle east insider&amp;quot;.</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;#65279; &lt;strong&gt;The Anti Human &#039;Palestinian&#039; Arabs use of &#039;Human rights&#039; organizations&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One of the propaganda tools the Arab &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; have been using to further its goals of eradicating the mostly non-Muslim / non-Arab entity Israel, was/is the use of international &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot; organizations.The &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot; propaganda.The demoization of Israel that dares to fight for its survival as a &#039;bad guy&#039; has been since the 1970&#039;s well oil-ed by Saudi Arabia and other filthy rich Arab tycoons that never seem to have an iota of sympathy for the Arab &#039;Palestinian&#039; brethren and their situation, instead they&amp;nbsp;rather shed its billions to destructive anti Israel propaganda.Using the image of a &amp;quot;weak&amp;quot; people vs a &amp;quot;mighty&amp;quot; Israel, they have psychologically gained the upper hand, as it looks pretty convincing and even more convenient for an Amnesty or HRW personnel to side with the supposed &amp;quot;victim&amp;quot;.Even though the real source of Arab &#039;Palestinian&#039; misery, which was always largely due to its 1) mass corruption, 2) oppression, stepping all over human rights of its people &amp;amp; 3) culture of hatred of Israel&amp;nbsp;substituting for&amp;nbsp;all &amp;quot;love&amp;quot; for its own population.HRW does not disclose its private donors identity, one can only imagine the Arab oil lobby connection here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel as a whole and Israelis are always edgy from Arab attackers, ever since 1920&#039;s massacres on the Jews in Israel/Palestine.As Israel is and always was under threat upon its existence, it mobilizes force, understandably, to the gullible eye it might look like the goliath is Israel, when it&#039;s never the case in reality.An inhumane Arab bomber hiding under its kids&#039; shoulders presents a far greater danger than the restrained Israeli hesitating to&amp;nbsp;fire if&amp;nbsp;a non-combatant is able to get hurt, this explains why the casualties are not in the thousands each time humane&amp;nbsp;Israel conducts an anti terror-war operation.The famous fact of terrorizing journalists by Arab &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; have forced all that are in [or all those wishing to gain access to] their area&amp;nbsp;to be biased.And so, Arabs, as the real Goliath, masked as poor-poor people have been managing the HRW organizations to report in a total Arabist way, condemning Israel based on unreliable sources, hardly condemning the Arabs for their constant real human rights abuse upon it&#039;s kids and on Israeli victims of Arab terror.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch 2005 Annual Report Israeli-Palestinian Section Lacks Credibility and Reflects Political Bias By NGO Monitor January 15, 2005 ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258&quot;&gt;http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6258&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;NGO Monitor&amp;rsquo;s 2007 Report on HRW: Bias and Double Standards Continue&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;April 29, 2008The following analysis demonstrates that HRW&#039;s own activities related to Israel continue to fall short of this basic standard of universalitySummary:* Analysis of Human Rights Watch&#039;s use of the rhetoric of international law and other terminology shows continued double standards and misleading or false claims. &lt;br /&gt;* HRW accuses Israel of &amp;ldquo;collective punishment&amp;rdquo; of Palestinians in a way that is inconsistent with both international law and past and present usage of the term by HRW itself. &lt;br /&gt;* HRW&amp;rsquo;s focus on Israel in 2007 dropped to 2005 levels after 2006 marked a return to the extreme bias of the 2000-2004 period. The change in 2007 allowed more resources to be focused on countries committing major human rights violations. &lt;br /&gt;* However, disproportionate emphasis on Israel continued, with major reports covering 400 pages in 2007, using the same methodologies as in 2006 that lack credibility. &lt;br /&gt;* This contrasts with the limited attention on human rights violations in Libya, Syria, and other countries in the region. &lt;br /&gt;* Israel was the focus of more multimedia items (audio, video, graphics) than any other country in the region. &lt;br /&gt;* Reports on Israel continue to be based on unverifiable evidence provided by &amp;ldquo;eyewitnesses,&amp;rdquo; selected journalists, and other inappropriate sources. In some cases hard evidence has shown this testimony to be blatantly untrue. &lt;br /&gt;* HRW mentioned one or more of the kidnapped Israeli soldiers in a total of only 6 publications. Of these, only two refer to them by name; the other references are in passing. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngo_monitor_s_report_on_hrw_bias_and_double_standards_continue&quot;&gt;http://www.ngo-monitor.org/article/ngo_monitor_s_report_on_hrw_bias_and_double_standards_continue&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Terrorists: Amnesty shamnesty! We prefer human slaughterTerrorists: Amnesty shamnesty! We prefer human slaughter ... Today, Palestinian Information Minister Riyad al-Maliki told Israel&#039;s Haaretz daily Olmert ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57234&quot;&gt;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57234&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Amnesty International and the Red Cross? With their selective, disgustingly political &amp;quot;commitment&amp;quot; to human rights, Higgins somehow wasn&#039;t worthy of their ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php/index.php?pageId=12559&quot;&gt;http://www.wnd.com/index.php/index.php/index.php?pageId=12559&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Amnesty is a Travesty&lt;br /&gt;One would have thought that after so many heinous acts, Amnesty International, which claims to be &amp;quot;Protecting Human Rights Around the World&amp;quot;, would have issued 16 reports condemning each and every one of these terrible acts of Palestinian terrorism. In fact, AI issued only one report and even though it pertained to the Park Hotel slaughter, the heading &amp;quot;Deliberate Killing of Civilians is Never Justified&amp;quot; was pretty benign and totally belied the atrocity of this appalling act. The three short paragraphs was almost non-committal. While apparently recognizing the massacre as &amp;quot;a grave breach of the fundamental principle of international humanitarian law&amp;quot;, Amnesty then refuse to call Hamas a terrorist organization, but made a pathetic plea to &amp;quot;armed Palestinian groups&amp;quot; to cease killing civilians. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/4025&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/4025&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The only &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot; the Palestinians want are for their fellow terrorists. ... After all, Bush was pushing for the amnesty of three million Mexicans who ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2582&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/2582&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human Rights Watch&#039;s Credibility&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://volokh.com/posts/1210943742.shtml&quot;&gt;http://volokh.com/posts/1210943742.shtmlA&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;mnesty International&#039;s Reporting of Human Rights&lt;br /&gt;The report does not make use of the latest research on what happened in Jenin (accepted by the UN, the vast majority of the international press and governments) and does not define its terms when talking about international law. Amnesty secretary-general Irene Khan has been quoted on numerous occasions talking of &#039;war crimes&#039;... To sprinkle the vocabulary of &#039;war crimes&#039; in reports is misleading and reveals an ideological bias...&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, there is a disturbing amount of inaccurate and anecdotal evidence used in the report...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/ngo/ngo-4-AI.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/ngo/ngo-4-AI.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;EXCHANGE OF LETTERS WITH HRW (IN WSJ-E): HRW AGENDA CLOUDS RESPONSE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=253&quot;&gt;http://www.spme.net/cgi-bin/articles.cgi?ID=253&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;UPDATE to The Red Cross Ambulance Incident:&lt;br /&gt;The Human Rights Watch Report&lt;br /&gt;A Point-by-Point Examination of the Document Titled &amp;quot;The &#039;Hoax&#039; That Wasn&#039;t&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;On December 19, 2006, the international advocacy organization Human Rights Watch issued a detailed, intensively researched report unequivocally affirming the factuality of an intentional Israeli attack on Red Cross ambulances at Qana on July 23. The report (titled &amp;quot;The &#039;Hoax&#039; That Wasn&#039;t&amp;quot;) by Human Rights Watch was created specifically to counter the claims made in my original essay titled &amp;quot;The Red Cross Ambulance Incident.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;This commentary is a response to Human Rights Watch&#039;s new allegations.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/hrw/&quot;&gt;http://www.zombietime.com/fraud/ambulance/hrw/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Amnesty International&#039;s Reporting of Human Rights&lt;br /&gt;The report does not make use of the latest research on what happened in Jenin (accepted by the UN, the vast majority of the international press and governments) and does not define its terms when talking about international law. Amnesty secretary-general Irene Khan has been quoted on numerous occasions talking of &#039;war crimes&#039;... To sprinkle the vocabulary of &#039;war crimes&#039; in reports is misleading and reveals an ideological bias...&lt;br /&gt;Moreover, there is a disturbing amount of inaccurate and anecdotal evidence used in the report...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/ngo/ngo-4-AI.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/ngo/ngo-4-AI.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human Rights Watch, Watched | Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International both jumped the shark a long time ... claims are blatantly untrue and indicative of a strong anti-Israel bias.&lt;br /&gt;August 21, 2006 &lt;br /&gt;Human Rights Watch, Watched &amp;quot;Who will guard the guardians?&amp;quot; asked Roman satirist Juvenal. Now we must ask, who is watching Human Rights Watch, one of the world&#039;s best-financed and most influential human rights organizations? It turns out that they cook the books about facts, cheat on interviews, and put out pre-determined conclusions that are driven more by their ideology than by evidence. These are serious accusations, and they are demonstrably true. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-human-rights-watch-_b_27701.html&quot;&gt;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-dershowitz/the-human-rights-watch-_b_27701.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Human Rights Watch - Conservapedia Its annual budget is 22 million, ten million behind Amnesty ... with the Palestinians and Hezbollah has brought about serious questions of HRW objectivity. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.conservapedia.com/Human_Rights_Watch&quot;&gt;http://www.conservapedia.com/Human_Rights_Watch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WATCH OUT for &#039;Human Rights Watch&#039; and &#039;Amnesty&#039; !&lt;br /&gt;Copy of a letter to the New York&amp;nbsp; Sun &lt;br /&gt;from Maurice Ostroff:&amp;nbsp; A critic&#039;s first duty is to get his facts right &lt;br /&gt;To The Editor&amp;nbsp;September 3, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&amp;amp;LNGID=1&amp;amp;TMID=84&amp;amp;FID=851&quot;&gt;http://www.takeapen.org/Takeapen/Templates/showpage.asp?DBID=1&amp;amp;LNGID=1&amp;amp;TMID=84&amp;amp;FID=851&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;T&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;here couldn&#039;t be a more perfect time&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Dec 10, 2006 3:18Today, December 10, marks International Human Rights Day, and the presence in Israel of Irene Khan, head of Amnesty International, highlights the demise of once-lofty goals. Amnesty International is a superpower with an annual budget of almost $200 million, used to promote radical political agendas and photo-ops for its leaders. Amnesty International Secretary-General Irene Khan, right, tours a house damaged last month by IAF shelling during a visit to Beit Hanun, in the northern Gaza Strip, Saturday, Dec. 9, 2006. Khan is leading a mission to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza to discuss human rights issues.&lt;br /&gt;Photo: AP , AP&lt;br /&gt;As a result, little remains of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, adopted in the shadow of the Holocaust. Officials of Amnesty and other non-governmental organizations focus their attacks on democracies attempting to defend against terror, with far fewer resources to oppose totalitarian and genocidal regimes such as Sudan and Iran. The silence of Khan and other officials regarding the human rights of the Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Palestinians and by Hizbullah, and the human rights of Ron Arad, is damning. Amnesty and HRW (founded as Helsinki Watch) gained their legitimacy by campaigning on behalf of political prisoners, including Natan (then Anatoly) Sharansky. Genuine human rights groups would be leading the campaigns to win the freedom of Israeli prisoners held by terrorists. THE HYPOCRISY and political bias of these NGOs, in collaboration with the United Nations Human Rights Council, is particularly blatant in the case of Israel. Amnesty, Human Rights Watch (HRW), Christian Aid (UK), and pro-Palestinian partners actively implement the 2001 Durban agenda using the rhetoric of human rights to demonize Israel. Adopting the version of history starting with &amp;quot;Israeli occupation,&amp;quot; these groups advance an ideology that presents Arabs as victims and Israelis as aggressors. The war between Hizbullah and Israel produced another wave in which defensive actions were automatically condemned as &amp;quot;war crimes,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;collective punishment&amp;quot; or violations of international law. Amnesty and HRW together issued dozens of press releases, almost all of which focused on allegations against Israel. Without providing criteria, Amnesty statements declared that the Israeli strikes in Beirut were &amp;quot;grossly disproportionate,&amp;quot; while acknowledging this was where &amp;quot;Hizbullah had its headquarters,&amp;quot; directing the firing of thousands of rockets against Israel. No one seemed to notice the logical disconnect.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;THE &amp;quot;DISCOVERY&amp;quot; of Hizbullah&#039;s cluster bombs and human shields came weeks or months later. In another surreal statement demonstrating their detachment from reality, Amnesty officials observed that &amp;quot;No investigation into violations of international humanitarian law by Hizbullah is known to have been conducted by Hizbullah commanders....&amp;quot; The NGOs that dominate the human rights discourse also feed journalists and diplomats with false or unverifiable claims. Their reports are based on &amp;quot;eyewitness testimony,&amp;quot; such as by Palestinians in Gaza and Lebanese in areas controlled by Hizbullah. During the recent war, HRW and Amnesty claimed to have found no evidence of Hizbullah activities in the areas struck by Israel. There is no reason to conclude that these &amp;quot;researchers&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;military experts&amp;quot; bothered to check the allegiance and credibility of their sources. But HRW&#039;s 49-page report - the largest PR effort during the war - enntitled &amp;quot;Fatal Strikes: Israel&#039;s Indiscriminate Attacks Against Civilians in Lebanon,&amp;quot; was headlined without question by journalists around the world. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;IN ADDITION, the European Union and its member states fund many groups that also use the language of human rights to promote conflict and demonization of Israel. The grandly named Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN) issued a torrent of political statements and one-sided condemnations during the Lebanon War. Other EU-supported &amp;quot;human rights&amp;quot; groups campaign against Israel&#039;s security barrier, with terms such as &amp;quot;apartheid wall&amp;quot; and call for boycotts, sanctions and other measures that are part of the political war. Some of these NGOs refer to &amp;quot;resistance&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;martyrdom&amp;quot; operations against &amp;quot;Israel Occupation Forces,&amp;quot; meaning terror attacks and suicide bombers that have killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. In this way, European governments, including Switzerland and Norway, are contributing to the destruction of human rights based on universal principles, and undermining peace efforts they claim to promote. This moral decay is also evident in the activities of the newly reformed United Nations Human Rights Council, which has focused on gratuitous Israel-bashing. The pseudo-reform process was strongly supported by the NGO network, which criticized the US and Israel for warning that the new UNHRC was no better than the old, discredited version.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;IT WAS ONLY after the activities of the new UNHRC brought the use of double-standards to record levels that these human rights NGOs finally began speaking out against the abuse. (HRW&#039;s recent criticism of the Palestinian use of human shields to protect terrorists was attacked by fringe groups seeking to paint this illegal practice as non-violent protest.) To reverse course, and restore the credibility, universality and substance of human rights the credibility and accountability of groups like Amnesty and Human Rights Watch must also be restored. Ideology and political preferences can no longer dominate their agendas and publications, and human rights cannot use double standards which punish democracies and reward dictatorships. Ethical norms must be freed from political and ideological agendas, particularly when these are used by those who declare the goal of &amp;quot;wiping Israel off the map.&amp;quot; International Human Rights Day is an appropriate time to start. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1164881857754&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1164881857754&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Gaza Anomalies Blow PCP&amp;rsquo;s Circuits: Result - The Sounds of Silence&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;August 4, 2008&lt;br /&gt;A few friends of mine went to a party in Jerusalem that was primarily made up Anglophone reporters, people who work for NGOs and UN agencies. What amazed them was the pervasive sense of the people they met and spoke with that Israel was the greatest human rights violator in the world and that the dismantling of Israel would be a great step forward for global human rights. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Now the idiocy of this position, the suicidal nature of this strategy to advance human rights is nothing short of breathtaking. Take Israel out of the Middle East and the region becomes nothing but &lt;a href=&quot;http://gunsandbutter.blogspot.com/2005/02/thomas-friedmans-hama-rules.html&quot;&gt;Hama rules&lt;/a&gt;&amp;hellip; especially when the nastiest people &amp;mdash; those who want to destroy Israel &amp;mdash; would feel empowered by such a victory. But try and tell that to people who are smart enough to believe they can&amp;rsquo;t be wrong, and credulous enough to believe the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/demopaths-dupes/&quot;&gt;demopaths&lt;/a&gt; who pull their chains on a daily basis. And as a result, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.richardsilverstein.com/tikun_olam/2007/10/15/hnn-keeps-peddling-same-old-recycled-garbage-about-nadia-abu-el-haj/&quot;&gt;they are prime targets&lt;/a&gt; for a &lt;a href=&quot;http://hnn.us/articles/52723.html&quot;&gt;hate campaign against Israel&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The latest news from Gaza, Israel, and the West Bank illustrates all the anomalies involved in this fundamental failure of the &amp;ldquo;human rights&amp;rdquo; community to understand what&amp;rsquo;s going on: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2006/04/10/black-hearts-and-red-spades-the-media-gets-the-intifada-wrong/&quot;&gt;black hearts and red spades&lt;/a&gt; galore. Melanie Phillips has a superb column which analyzes the current, mind-boggling situation in the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the Fatah &amp;ldquo;refugees&amp;rdquo; from Gaza seeking asylum in Israel. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/875566/refugees-from-whom.thtml&quot;&gt;Refugees From Whom?&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Spectator MONDAY, 4TH AUGUST 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/08/04/gaza-anomalies-blow-pcps-circuits-result-the-sounds-of-silence/melanie@melaniephillips.com&quot;&gt;Melanie Phillips&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Extraordinary developments in Gaza have given a new meaning to the term &amp;lsquo;Palestinian refugees&amp;rsquo;. As the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215331177349&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;Jerusalem Post reports&lt;/a&gt;, fierce fighting in Gaza between Fatah and Hamas over the weekend, in which 11 people died and dozens more were wounded, resulted in 180 Fatah refugees fleeing from what they called a &amp;lsquo;war of genocide&amp;rsquo; by Hamas against Fatah supporters. And where did they flee to? Why, to Israel, of course &amp;mdash; which allowed them in and proceeded to treat 23 of them (some of whom were wounded by the Israeli army after they approached the crossing into Israel) in Israeli hospitals. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is one of the most important anomalies for those who follow the current &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/paradigms-and-the-middle-east-conflict/paradigms-and-the-middle-east-conflict-pcp-1-and-2/&quot;&gt;PCP&lt;/a&gt; narrative about the Middle East in which Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people explain the ferocious hatred of the Palestinians for the Israelis. According to that version of events &amp;mdash; largely the one that liberals have taken over by adopting the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/reflections-from-second-draft/palestinian-suffering/&quot;&gt;Palestinian narrative of suffering&lt;/a&gt; &amp;mdash; the last place these Palestinian &amp;ldquo;warriors&amp;rdquo; would go was Israel, their mortal enemy who is trying to commit genocide against their people. If the Israelis want to wipe out Palestinian civilians, how much the more would they want to kill Palestinian &amp;ldquo;militants&amp;rdquo;?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And yet, this is not a new story. When King Hussein, &amp;ldquo;the moderate,&amp;rdquo; found himself dealing with a restive Palestinian population in 1970, he slaughtered some 10,000 of them &amp;mdash; men, women and children &amp;mdash; in &amp;ldquo;&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September&quot;&gt;Black September&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;rdquo; The Palestinians fled his tender mercies across the Jordan to Israel where the Israelis, obligingly, shipped them over to Lebanon, where, within five years, they plunged that unhappy land into a seven-year war that killed over 100,000 civilians. When Israel finally put an end to that civil war by invading in 1982, and the Phalanage took advantage of their upper hand to slaughter several hundred Palestinians at &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabra_and_Shatila_massacre&quot;&gt;Sabra and Shatilla&lt;/a&gt; in revenge for &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damour_massacre&quot;&gt;Damur&lt;/a&gt;, the terrified inhabitants of the camps ran immediately to the Israeli positions outside the camp for protection. Why? Because they knew, despite all the &amp;ldquo;narratives&amp;rdquo; that when the chips are down, you can expect more mercy from the Jews than your fellow Arabs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are revelatory moments, when you see not the &amp;ldquo;public transcript&amp;rdquo; but what people really think. In honor-shame cultures they can be deeply embarrassing, since the public transcript is the &amp;ldquo;honorable&amp;rdquo; one, and the revelations that reverse that &amp;mdash; like in the story of the Emperor&amp;rsquo;s New Clothes &amp;mdash; are almost by definition shameful. Participants might prefer not to remember these, might even seek to reverse them by insisting still more shrilly on the original &amp;ldquo;narrative.&amp;rdquo; But outsiders need to pay close attention, because these rare moments are infinitely more revealing than the &amp;ldquo;public transcript.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;These refugees say they cannot return to Gaza because they will be killed. How fortunate, therefore, that their own Fatah leader, Mahmoud Abbas, can give them sanctuary in the West Bank!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But hang on &amp;ndash; Abbas won&amp;rsquo;t let them in. Yup, with the exception of five individuals whom he did allow in, he&amp;rsquo;s denied them all sanctuary. He says they should go back to Gaza. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Before we get into the explanations proferred, let me make a medievalist&amp;rsquo;s remark. This is a staggering act of cowardice. Any warlord has to protect his men above all. If he fails to do so, he loses their loyalty. To refuse safety to men who have suffered from their adherence to your banner &amp;mdash; unless it was their fault &amp;mdash; shows your weakness.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;And the invaluable Khaled abu Toameh tells us the reason why:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ul&gt;PA officials explained that the reason behind their refusal to absorb the new &amp;lsquo;refugees&amp;rsquo; was their desire not to encourage other residents of the Gaza Strip to leave. &amp;lsquo;Everyone knows that if we allow people to leave the Gaza Strip, almost all the residents living there would try to cross the border into Israel,&amp;rsquo; said a senior PA official. &lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;More... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/08/04/gaza-anomalies-blow-pcps-circuits-result-the-sounds-of-silence/&quot;&gt;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/08/04/gaza-anomalies-blow-pcps-circuits-result-the-sounds-of-silence/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://visit.geocities.com/visit.gif?&amp;amp;r=http%3A//www.geocities.com/palestiniansarelies/AntiHumanPalestiniansHumanRights.html&amp;amp;b=Microsoft%20Internet%20Explorer%204.0%20%28compatible%3B%20MSIE%207.0%3B%20Windows%20NT%205.1%3B%20.NET%20CLR%201.1.4322%29&amp;amp;s=1280x800&amp;amp;o=Win32&amp;amp;c=32&amp;amp;j=true&amp;amp;v=1.2&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://geo.yahoo.com/serv?s=76001073&amp;amp;t=1224979069&amp;amp;f=us-w60&quot; alt=&quot;1&quot; width=&quot;1&quot; height=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;</description>
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            <description>Arab racism against Jews inside Israel: Arabs&#039; rampage in Acre [Oct 2008]... &lt;blockquote&gt;the violence continued as Arabs heading back to their neighborhoods ran riot through Jewish areas of the city. Calling &amp;quot;Death to the Jews&amp;quot; and Allah hu akbar (&amp;quot;Allah is great&amp;quot;), the rioters vandalized hundreds of Jewish-owned shops and vehicles, and threw rocks at people on their way to or from Yom Kippur prayers.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127921&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127921&lt;/a&gt; &lt;blockquote&gt;Police arrest Acre Yom Kippur driver... Police on Monday arrested 48 year-old Jamal Taufik, the driver who entered Jewish east Acre on the evening of Yom Kippur and who is blamed by police for sparking a provocation that deteriorated into several nights of racial violence and rioting. &lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1222017521503&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&amp;amp;cid=1222017521503&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <description>The Zionist, Israeli, Jewish answer to Islamic Genocide: &lt;blockquote&gt;Iranian boy is treated for brain tumour at Israeli hospital &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3178088/Iranian-boy-is-treated-for-brain-tumour-at-Israeli-hospital.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Telegraph ^&lt;/a&gt; 11 Oct 2008 Carolynne Wheeler&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3178088/Iranian-boy-is-treated-for-brain-tumour-at-Israeli-hospital.html&quot;&gt;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/3178088/Iranian-boy-is-treated-for-brain-tumour-at-Israeli-hospital.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel = Humanitarian, &lt;a href=&quot;http://geocities.com/israelthegem&quot;&gt;Israel the Gem&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;The recent clip of the woman accusing Barack Obama is frightening.&amp;nbsp; John Lewis made a great statement, not in comparing McCain to George Wallace, but the hatred that is generated against Obama that is based purely on race.&amp;nbsp; Even McCain&#039;s &amp;quot;defense&amp;quot; of Obama was even more shocking.&amp;nbsp; After a woman calls Obama an Arab, McCain &amp;quot;defended&amp;quot; him by saying that he is not Arab and is a good American.&amp;nbsp; What??&amp;nbsp; Suddenly, it has become a crime to be an Arab...&amp;nbsp; I am surprised that the response wasn&#039;t &amp;quot;what&#039;s wrong with being an Arab?&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; This shows McCain&#039;s clear inability to deal with sensitive issues that he is not comfortable with.&amp;nbsp; We harken back to the situation where another crazy lady asked McCain &amp;quot;How we defeat the B****?&amp;nbsp; when referring to Hillary.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the way in which the Iraq war is justified.&amp;nbsp; Branding the &amp;quot;Arabs&amp;quot; as a subhuman species, where they are the enemy and their body count is something to be cheered for.&amp;nbsp; It is a sad day when we can see in America that there are some amongst us that do not recognize the value of human life.&amp;nbsp; The men, women, and children in Iraq bleed just like we do...&amp;nbsp; they cry just like we do...&amp;nbsp; They too can be patriotic, just like we are...&amp;nbsp; This is why the actions of the McCain campaign are so dangerous, the dehumanization of another individual purely based on race or ethnicity is exactly what happened during slavery and Jim Crow.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&#039;s the excuse that you all may hear from the right...&amp;nbsp; Bush had it worse for the last 8 years.&amp;nbsp; He has more hateful things shouted at him.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2 counters for that:&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1.&amp;nbsp; Bush received the hatred because of his actions as president, not because of his race.&amp;nbsp; It is a very different situation where you cannot change the color of your skin, but you can change your actions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2.&amp;nbsp; The linking between terrorism and Obama is clearly a racially motivated action.&amp;nbsp; No one constantly reminds the public that Ayers is white.&amp;nbsp; When the low information voters hear terrorist, they think Black Panthers and Al Qaeda.&amp;nbsp; Both were not white groups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I understand that McCain cannot control who comes to his rallies.&amp;nbsp; However, it clearly shows that McCain only brings out the worst in this country.&amp;nbsp; This is why John McCain is why we can&#039;t afford John McCain.&amp;nbsp; I hope that Arab Americans all across the country take a strong stand against McCain. &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>The Arab immigrants that started to call themselves (in the 1960&#039;s as) &quot;palestinians&quot;</title>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Arab immigrants that started to call themselves (in the 1960&#039;s as) &amp;quot;palestinians&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;The Arabs in the Holy Land - Natives or Aliens? Unknown to most of the world population, the origin of the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; Arabs&#039; claim to the Holy Land spans ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ldolphin.org/palestinians.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; The True Identity of the So-called Palestinians.&lt;br /&gt;The current myth is that these Arabs were long established in &amp;ldquo;Palestine&amp;rdquo;, until the Jews came and &amp;ldquo;displaced&amp;rdquo; them. The fact is, that recent Arab immigration into the Land of Israel displaced the Jews. That the massive increase in Arab population was very recent is attested by the ruling of the United Nations: That any Arab who had lived in the Holy Land for two years and then left in 1948 qualifies as a &amp;ldquo;Palestinian refugee&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From Time Immemorial - Evidence of Unrecorded Arab Immigration 9 Fred M. Gottheil, &amp;ldquo;Arab Immigration into Pre-State Israel: 1922-1931&amp;Prime;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2139&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2139&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; But as she continued, the anomaly of the Palestinians &amp;quot;began to nag and ... Thanks to British unconcern, Arab immigrants were generally left alone and ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1110&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/1110&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;Palestinian people do not exist! They love to say her statement is patently false &amp;ndash; an intentional lie, ... The Palestinian people does not exist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28222&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=28222&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;The True Identity of the So-called Palestinians  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In this essay I would like to present the true origin and identity of the Arab people commonly known as &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;, and the widespread myths surrounding them. This research is intended to be completely neutral and objective, based on historic and archaeological evidences as well as other documents, including Arab sources, and quoting statements by authoritative Islamic personalities.&lt;br /&gt;There are some modern myths -or more exactly, lies- that we can hear everyday through the mass-media as if they were true, of course, hiding the actual truth. For example, whenever the Temple Mount or Jerusalem are mentioned, it is usually remarked that is &amp;quot;the third holy place for muslims&amp;quot;, but why it is never said that is the FIRST Holy Place for Jews? It sounds like an utterly biased information! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In order to make this essay better comprehensible, it will be presented in two units: &lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;1) Myths and facts concerning the origin and identity of the so-called Palestinians; &lt;br /&gt;&amp;middot;2) Myths and facts regarding Jerusalem and the Land of Israel.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I - Origin and identity of the so-called Palestinians &lt;br /&gt;Palestinians are the newest of all the peoples on the face of the Earth, and began to exist in a single day by a kind of supernatural phenomenon that is unique in the whole history of mankind, as it is witnessed by Walid Shoebat, a former PLO terrorist that acknowledged the lie he was fighting for and the truth he was fighting against: ,br&amp;gt; &lt;em&gt;&amp;ldquo;Why is it that on June 4th 1967 I was a Jordanian and overnight I became a Palestinian?&amp;rdquo; &amp;ldquo;We did not particularly mind Jordanian rule. The teaching of the destruction of Israel was a definite part of the curriculum, but we considered ourselves Jordanian until the Jews returned to Jerusalem. Then all of the sudden we were Palestinians - they removed the star from the Jordanian flag and all at once we had a Palestinian flag&amp;rdquo;. &amp;ldquo;When I finally realized the lies and myths I was taught, it is my duty as a righteous person to speak out&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This declaration by a true &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; should have some significance for a sincerely neutral observer. Indeed, there is no such a thing like a Palestinian people, or a Palestinian culture, or a Palestinian language, or a Palestinian history. There has never been any Palestinian state, neither any Palestinian archaeological find nor coinage. The present-day &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; are an Arab people, with Arab culture, Arabic language and Arab history. They have their own Arab states from where they came into the Land of Israel about one century ago to contrast the Jewish immigration. That is the historical truth. They were Jordanians (another recent British invention, as there has never been any people known as &amp;quot;Jordanians&amp;quot;), and after the Six-Day War in which Israel utterly defeated the coalition of nine Arab states and took legitimate possession of Judea and Samaria, the Arab dwellers in those regions underwent a kind of anthropological miracle and discovered that they were Palestinians - something they did not know the day before. Of course, these people having a new identity had to build themselves a history, namely, had to steal some others&#039; history, and the only way that the victims of the theft would not complain is if those victims do no longer exist. Therefore, the Palestinian leaders claimed two contradictory lineages from ancient peoples that inhabited in the Land of Israel: the Canaanites and the Philistines. Let us consider both of them before going on with the Palestinian issue. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.imninalu.net/myths-pals.htm&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Myth Of The Palestinian People - The answer is that the myth of the Palestinian People serves as the justification for Arab occupation of the Land of Israel. While the Arabs already possess 21 sovereign countries of their own (more than any other single people on earth) and control a land mass 800 times the size of the Land of Israel, this is apparently not enough for them. They therefore feel the need to rob the Jews of their one and only country, one of the smallest on the planet. Unfortunately, many people ignorant of the history of the region, including much of the world media, are only too willing to help. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=747&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=747&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All Things Beautiful: The Myth Of Palestine, Whenever there were Arab riots, Jewish immigration was restricted. .... Listed below are links to weblogs that reference The Myth Of Palestine: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.allthingsbeautiful.com/all_things_beautiful/2006/01/the_myth_of_pal.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.allthingsbeautiful.com/all_things_beautiful/2006/01/the_myth_of_pal.html&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Smoking Gun: Arab Immigration into Palestine, 1922-1931 - Middle East Quarterly.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meforum.org/article/522&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.meforum.org/article/522&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp; In the early 19th century, Palestine was a backward, neglected province of the Ottoman Empire. Travelers to Palestine from the Western world left records of what they saw there. The theme throughout their reports is dismal: The land was empty, neglected, abandoned, desolate, fallen into ruins.  &amp;nbsp; In Jerusalem, all reports and journals of travelers, pilgrims and government representatives during these years, repeatedly record the poverty, filth and neglect and the desolate nature of the countryside. Early photographs show lepers in rags and dilapidated buildings. Jerusalem was surrounded by marauding bands of Bedouin Arabs and had to close her gates at nightfall and reopen them at first light, a practice that was similar in Biblical times.  &amp;nbsp; Some quotes from the writings of these visitors before modern times: &amp;nbsp; Nothing there [Jerusalem] to be seen but a little of the old walls which is yet remaining and all the rest is grass, moss and weeds. [English pilgrim in 1590] &amp;nbsp; The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is of a body of population. [British consul in 1857] &amp;nbsp; There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent [valley of Jezreel] -- not for 30 miles in either direction... One may ride ten miles hereabouts and not see ten human beings. ... For the sort of solitude to make one dreary, come to Galilee ... Nazareth is forlorn ... Jericho lies a moldering ruin ... Bethlehem and Bethany, in their poverty and humiliation... untenanted by any living creature... A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds ... a silent, mournful expanse ... a desolation ... We never saw a human being on the whole route ... Hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil had almost deserted the country ... Of all the lands there are for dismal scenery Palestine must be the prince. The hills barren and dull, the valleys unsightly deserts [inhabited by] swarms of beggars with ghastly sores and malformations. Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes ... desolate and unlovely ... [Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, 1867] &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_zionists_impact.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_early_palestine_zionists_impact.php&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; WHY DID THE ARABS FLEE IN 1948? &amp;quot;The Arab armies entered Palestine to protect the Palestinians from the Zionist ... they were not indigenous. That Palestine was not their ancient homeland. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem100.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem100.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; israelinsider: The myth of the Palestinian People, To portray themselves as indigenous, Arab settlers adopted the name of an ... State of Israel an independent Arab Palestinian state existed in its place. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0240.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israelinsider.com/views/articles/views_0240.htm&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; Film to &#039;dispel Arab propaganda&#039; ... disguising the Arab immigrants as &amp;quot;indigenous native Palestinian ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27661&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=27661&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; Mahmoud Abbas Admits Palestinian Arabs Are Not Indigenous. From a speech given to the PLO Central ... The Difference Between Palestinian Arab Moderates . ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://primerct.blogspot.com/2007/06/mahmoud-abbas-admits-palestinian-arabs.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://primerct.blogspot.com/2007/06/mahmoud-abbas-admits-palestinian-arabs.html&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; On a visit to the Ottoman-controlled Holy Land in 1860, Mark Twain described it as &amp;quot;the prince of desolation.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;The hills are barren&amp;hellip; the valleys unsightly deserts&amp;hellip; peopled by swarms of beggars struck with ghastly sores and malformations&amp;hellip; Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes&amp;hellip; only the music of angels could charm its shrubs and flowers again into life.&amp;quot;  &amp;nbsp; Other writers and artists visiting the Holy Land (chiefly from Britain and Germany) &amp;mdash; as well as geographers, archeologists, and cartographers &amp;mdash; were equally stunned by its utter desolation.  &amp;nbsp; It was only toward the end of the 18th century, when a growing stream of Jewish immigrants rehabilitated the land &amp;mdash; draining swamps, reclaiming deserts, and controlling the diseases (chiefly malaria) &amp;mdash; that a decimated Arab population began increasing. The resuscitation of the land by the Jews and the economic opportunity they created brought an influx of Arab immigrants from dirt-poor neighboring Arab states to swell the number of Arabs in Palestine, so that by the turn of the century there were about 250,000 Arab Muslims and 150,00 Jews living there. 100,000 Christians and others  &amp;nbsp; It was in fact British colonial machinations that turned initial Arab acceptance of a Jewish homeland in British-protected Palestine into unmitigated and disastrous hostility. British behavior in the Middle East in general, and in Palestine in particular, was common colonial practice: divide and rule. In India, it enabled the British to subdue the subcontinent with few troops by pitting hostile segments of the indigenous population against each other. They employed this strategy in Palestine too.  &amp;nbsp; From the very first days of the mandate, a group of very influential British officials in the Colonial and the War Offices, who wanted to maintain control over the land and to prevent the establishment of an independent Jewish national home, started undermining their government&#039;s efforts to fulfill its obligation toward the Jews. These British officials, many of them avowed anti-Semites, fanned Arab resentment over broken British promises to make the Arabian chieftain, Faisal, king of Damascus and Syria, and redirected it against Jewish aspirations in Palestine.  &amp;nbsp; Indeed, their naming the mandate over the Holy Land &amp;quot;Palestine,&amp;quot; rather than the land of Israel, was a deliberate effort to obliterate the Jewish connection to the land by calling it by its Roman name. They also, in 1923, unilaterally removed from the original mandatory area all the land east of the Jordan River-75 percent of the territory promised to the Jews &amp;mdash; and gave it to the Emir Abdullah of Arabia, Faisal&#039;s brother, in compensation to the Hashemite family for other broken promises. They did so despite objections from the League of Nations. The small area that had been designated as a home for the Jews was thus reduced to a mere sliver.  &amp;nbsp; A distinct Palestinian Arab nationalism evolved only after the dream of an Arab Syrian kingdom &amp;mdash; the brainchild of T. E. Lawrence &amp;mdash; was shattered when the French evicted his prot&amp;eacute;g&amp;eacute;, the Emir Faisal, from Damascus in 1920. Only then did the South Syrian Arabs living under Britain&#039;s Palestine mandate separate themselves from Syria and start defining themselves as Palestinians. The process was accelerated by their growing negative reaction to the League of Nations&#039; designation of Palestine as a Jewish national home.  &amp;nbsp; The British helped make hostility to Zionism the defining issue of local Arab politics, and assisted in its exploitation as a lethal weapon in bloody Arab inter-clan struggles for dominance. Muslim clerics and Arab effendis exploited hostility against the Jews, always convenient scapegoats, to deflect the rage of their destitute, exploited people.  &amp;nbsp; The British appointed an extremely radical upstart politician, Hajj Amin al-Hussieni, with a record of violence and incitement, as chief mufti of Jerusalem. They gave him the authority of a spiritual leader to the Arabs, and control of the considerable funds and properties managed by Muslim religious trusts. The mufti promptly proceeded to exploit these resources for his nefarious campaign against the Jews and against his Arab opponents &amp;mdash; much as Arafat does today.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-doron081402.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-doron081402.asp&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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&#039;Arabs, Israel should sit together,&#039; says Bahrain minister Web posted at: 10/2/2008 1:35:54 Source ::: AFP dubai • The foreign minister of staunch US ally Bahrain has called for the creation of a regional grouping of Arab states with historic foe Israel, as well as Iran and Turkey, a newspaper reported yesterday. &quot;Israel, Iran, Turkey and Arab states should sit together in one organisation,&quot; Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al Khalifa was quoted in the pan-Arab daily Al Hayat as saying. &quot;Aren&#039;t we all members of a global organisation called the United Nations? Why not (come together) on a regional basis? This is the only way to solve our problems. There&#039;s no other way to solve them, now or in 200 years.&quot; Al Hayat, which interviewed the Bahraini chief diplomat in New York, said he had proposed the establishment of a regional bloc in a speech to the UN General Assembly. Bahrain&#039;s crown prince, Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, met Israeli officials during World Economic Forum summits in 2000 and 2003, while Sheikh Khaled met Israeli counterpart Tzipi Livni at the UN last year. But political groupings in Bahrain, which is ruled by a Sunni dynasty and has a Shia majority, resist any attempt at normalisation of ties with Israel. &quot;Why don&#039;t we sit together even if we disagree, even if we don&#039;t recognise each other? Let&#039;s be in a single organisation in order to overcome the difficult stage through which the Middle East is passing -- a stage that remains hostage to the past,&quot; Sheikh Khaled told Al Hayat, referring to the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict. &lt;a href=-&quot;http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&amp;month=October2008&amp;file=World_News2008100213554.xml&quot;&gt;http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&amp;month=October2008&amp;file=World_News2008100213554.xml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
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Bahrain activists slam call for grouping of Arabs, Israel by AFP&lt;br /&gt;
This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it on Friday, 03 October 2008 PLAN SLAMMED: Lawmakers and opposition activists in Bahrain have slammed foreign minister Sheikh Khaled bin Ahmad Al-Khalifa (pictured) for calling for a regional bloc. (AFP) Lawmakers and opposition activists in Bahrain on Thursday slammed the foreign minister of the Gulf state, a staunch US ally, after he called for a regional grouping of Arabs and historic foe Israel. &lt;br /&gt;
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            <title>&quot;Palestinian&quot; Savages - Arab Palestinian Savagery - ANIMALISM!</title>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; Savages - Arab Palestinian  Savagery&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Dealing with Savages... [July 19, 2008 ] Four times since 1948 the Arab countries have attacked Israel with the objective of exterminating every Jew who lived there. The result of these wars was defeat and humiliation for the Arabs and more-defensible borders for the Israelis. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nowpublic.com/world/dealing-savages?page=1&quot;&gt;http://www.nowpublic.com/world/dealing-savages?page=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Photos: Palestinian savages shoot, beat, stomp alleged collaborator &lt;a href=&quot;http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/14/photos-palestinian-savages-shoot-beat-stomp-alleged-collaborator/&quot;&gt;http://hotair.com/archives/2006/08/14/photos-palestinian-savages-shoot-beat-stomp-alleged-collaborator/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Palestinian savages threw stones at Jews because real weapons were hard to procure. The PLO knows what we all know; namely, that Olmert is afraid to ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://atangledweb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/06/index.html&quot;&gt;http://atangledweb.typepad.com/weblog/2006/06/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Palestinian Car Swarm WatchThere were no dead bodies in the car after today&#039;s failed missile attack, so raging Palestinian savages had to rip apart the car instead.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/index.php?entry=7979_Palestinian_Car_Swarm_Watch&amp;amp;only&quot;&gt;http://littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/index.php?entry=7979_Palestinian_Car_Swarm_Watch&amp;amp;only&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ANIMALISM!&lt;/strong&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; ________________ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Eating Jews&amp;quot;?&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Hamas TV&#039;s &#039;Jew-eating&#039; cuddly bunny  13 Feb 2008 ... VIDEO: A toy rabbit who vows to &#039;eat Jews&#039; is being used on TV by Hamas to encourage Palestinian children to take up arms against Israelis. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=98899&amp;amp;in_page_id=34&quot;&gt;http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=98899&amp;amp;in_page_id=34&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; February 12, 2008. Hamas Bugs Bunny Wants to &amp;quot;Eat the Jews&amp;quot; ... YET, the Palestinians say Israel violates the peace agreements. ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://blog.camera.org/archives/2008/02/hamas_bugs_bunny_wants_to_eat.html&quot;&gt;http://blog.camera.org/archives/2008/02/hamas_bugs_bunny_wants_to_eat.html&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Feb. 2008&lt;br /&gt; Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said Wednesday that he doesn&#039;t rule out ... Hamas rabbit to children: &amp;quot;I&#039;ll finish off the Jews and eat them!&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/Bulletins_feb2008.html&quot;&gt;http://www.pmw.org.il/Bulletins_feb2008.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Hamas Bunny &amp;quot;I&#039;ll Eat Jews&amp;quot;. Hamas has reached a new low in its cartoon ... hate and violence,&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.drudge.com/archive/104106/hamas-bunny-ill-eat-jews&quot;&gt;http://www.drudge.com/archive/104106/hamas-bunny-ill-eat-jews&lt;/a&gt;   &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; ________________ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;quot;Drinking Blood&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; PMW - Latest Bulletins One message was for Jews, whose blood Hamas promises to drink until Jews &amp;quot;leave the Muslim ... To view the Hamas&#039; Drink Jew&#039;s blood video click here ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/latest%20bulletins%20new.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.pmw.org.il/latest%20bulletins%20new.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Hamas in its own words One message was for Jews, whose blood Hamas promises to drink until Jews &amp;quot;leave the Muslim countries,&amp;quot; and the second to a mother, as she helps dress her ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pmw.org.il/tv-hamas.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.pmw.org.il/tv-hamas.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Jihad Watch: Hamas Video: We will drink the blood of the Jews 15 Feb 2006 ... One message was for Jews, whose blood Hamas promises to drink until Jews &amp;quot;leave the Muslim countries,&amp;quot; and the second to a mother, ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jihadwatch.org/archives/010236.php&quot;&gt;http://jihadwatch.org/archives/010236.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; J. Grant Swank, Jr.: HAMAS DRINKS JEWS&#039; BLOOD DRY Trust Hamas? &amp;quot;We are a nation that drinks blood. &amp;quot;We will drink the blood of Jews until we have quenched our thirst with your blood - until you leave the ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/264/11878&quot;&gt;http://www.michnews.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/view.cgi/264/11878&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; HAMAS: &#039;We will drink the blood of the Jews&#039; - The Video :: Middle ... 15 Feb 2006 ... (via Palestinian Media Watch) The Hamas website this week presented the parting video messages of two Hamas suicide terrorists. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/02/hamas_we_will_d.php&quot;&gt;http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2006/02/hamas_we_will_d.php&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.chayas.com/media.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.chayas.com/images/blood.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Blood on his hands, a Palestinian savage waves to the crowd after lynching innocent Israeli FATHER to death--see below.&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://firebaseamerica.blogspot.com/2008/03/palestinian-savages.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://bp2.blogger.com/_IQJNLgHT0GM/R9FVrcQuRaI/AAAAAAAACC4/PqZHRhXmfPg/s400/030708_PALESTINIANCHEERS.jpeg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Savage &amp;quot;palestinians&amp;quot; cheer for massacre -Palestinians celebrate in the streets of  Gaza City after news spread about gunman who fired into crowded Jerusalem rabbinical seminary, slaughtering eight students, wounding nine. &lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://rotter.net/israel/&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://rotter.net/israel/37.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt; ...another Palestinian savage  http://rotter.net/israel/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4422/2704/1600/bodyparts.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;120&quot; height=&quot;120&quot; /&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://img87.imageshack.us/img87/2113/lebaneseisraeliwar1001azi8.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=17637&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Palestinian Car Swarm Watch... that human-beings find repulsive. &#039;car swarms&#039; are simply more proof of palestinian animalism. the palestinian is truly a sub-human species...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://backspin.typepad.com/backspin/%202004/05/coverage_of_two.html&quot;&gt;A day after members of Palestinian factions mutilated the bodies of six IDF ... and heinous animalism, is by their CULT rather a pride and &amp;quot;celebration&amp;quot;...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://lightonthings.blogspot.com/2005/11/washing-jihadi-crimes-with-palestinian.html&quot;&gt;Washing Jihadi CRIMES with the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; CRIME? 11) &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; unique ANIMALISM, the &amp;quot;way&amp;quot; the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; savages kill (example: Life &amp;amp; Death in the Jungle&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shaister.com/index.php/?p=142&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;The Palestinian Problem And then some Palestinian animals go and murder a pregnant Israeli woman and her four daughters and I feel that trying to talk to these people is pointless...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1283319/posts&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;PALESTINIANS CALLED &#039;FILTHY ANIMALS&#039;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=13652&amp;amp;only=yes&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Islamist group CAIR&amp;rsquo;s propaganda jihad Going after Don: Palestinians Called &amp;lsquo;Filthy Animals&amp;rsquo;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geocities.com/realtrueactuality/PalestiniansNeedAZooKeeper.htm&quot;&gt;Because they (the so called &#039;palestinians&#039;) need a Zoo keeper&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/truthwilldominate/#animalism&quot;&gt; palestinian Animalism &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-513925/Hamas-launches-TV-Bugs-Bunny-lookalike-declares-I-eat-Jews.html&quot;&gt;Hamas teaches kids to &#039;eat Jews&#039;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&#039;Palestinian&#039; &amp;quot;street justice&amp;quot; system, their crimes on their own people: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/crime.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&#039;Palestinians&#039; Killing &#039;Palestinians&#039;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.glennbeck.com/news/04252002.shtml&quot;&gt;Proof of War Crimes&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gamla.org.il/english/feature/lynch2.htm&quot;&gt;Lynch&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L17447366.htm&quot;&gt;Hamas admits: VIOLENCE = PALESTINIAN DISEASE&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;br /&gt;</description>
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            <description>I can&#039;t say I&#039;m a fan of T. Boone Pickens (Swift Boater), but his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.pickensplan.com/&quot;&gt;Energy Independence Plan&lt;/a&gt; is certainly a start. Mr. Pickens is asking people to join him and send letters to their members of congress asking them to pledge their support for the Pickens plan. I just want to talk about some of the points in the plan that I think could be slightly misleading. I would like to clarify them and offer a counter letter for people to send to their congressional representative.&lt;br /&gt;According to the CIA&#039;s World Factbook &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/us.html&quot;&gt;Imported oil accounts for about two-thirds of US consumption.&lt;/a&gt; For our purpose lets use T. Boone Pickens&#039; numbers and we actually import 70% at a cost of $700 billion. The Pickens plan would like to reduce our IMPORTED oil consumption not our overall consumption. Reducing our &amp;quot;imported&amp;quot; oil is like saying that drinking from one side of the cup makes a difference from drinking from the other side of a cup. Oil however is an international commodity. Think of oil like water in a bathtub. It really doesn&#039;t matter where you take the water from. As long as you take from the tub then money goes to those who put the water in the tub to begin with. It doesn&#039;t matter if we buy our own oil or someone else&#039;s. It all comes from the same bathtub. Therefore, the $700 billion that we send abroad to rogue or hostile nations still get the same amount of money. They&#039;ll just get it from someone else. The only way to keep that kind of money from reaching those countries is if we reduce, not simply our IMPORTED oil, but our consumption, period.&lt;br /&gt;The T. Boone Pickens plan should ask our members of congress to pledge to reduce our overall consumption of oil and NOT just our imported oil. We should help move the world off of an oil based energy platform and onto other form of energy, preferably cleaner local energy. Only curtailing our consumption and developing a comprehensive energy plan, can we halt the huge flight of capital continuing to flow to those countries by others!!&lt;br /&gt; Here&#039;s a sample letter that I believe should be sent to your Congressional delegation:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our fight against terrorism, our fight for the environment, our fight against our growing balance of payments deficits and our fight for our health care in this country can all be improved by getting our country off of the debilitating effects of our oil addiction/consumption.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We must get this country, and others, off of oil and stop the unprecedented flight of capital to rogue and hostile nations. This plan must include proven American technology and resources; the development of new energy sources; and the expansion and modernization of the national electrical grid to transport renewable energy to homes and businesses.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Delaying is tantamount to negligent homicide by continuing America&#039;s, and the world&#039;s,  addiction to oil.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I urge you to support any and all plans that can legitimately move this country from an oil based energy economy to one that relies on local, clean technology/energy. This should be the call of a new generation. This should be part of the new president&#039;s first 100 days of the new administration.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sincerely,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jonathan Zucker&amp;quot;</description>
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            <title>The Arab racism of playing Israelis&#039; fear of Arab terror as &quot;racism&quot;</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Arab racism of playing Israelis&#039; fear of Arab terror as &amp;quot;racism&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How the Arab propaganda abuses Israelis&#039; fear of terror into ludicrous charges of &amp;quot;racism&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;strong&gt;Not only are these racists the same ones pushing, backing, supporting the Arab terrorism but even exploit Israelis&#039; fear of it.&lt;/strong&gt; The (Islamofascist and Arab racist) terrorism on Israel has a double-edged sword--it cuts both ways.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;1) The Wall which is between two different identity card holders, between Israeli Arabs or Jews on one side and the SAME (race, same people!) Arabs that are (just) not Israelis on the other hand.&lt;br /&gt; No one denies Israel is under infiltration menace from the Arabs across the fence, from radicals that try to massacre innocent Israelis 24/7.&lt;br /&gt; But anti-Israel racist Arab propaganda tries to portray this as &amp;quot;racist&amp;quot; or as &amp;quot;apartheid&amp;quot;, go figure.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;2) The massive arrests of so many Israeli Arabs for assisting &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; Arab terrorists in the terror activities has caused many Israelis to fear, so an Israeli Arab organization made up a poll of these fears and of choosing &amp;quot;where to live&amp;quot;, knowing the reality that Israeli parents are so wary of their kids, but this Arab group turned it into &amp;quot;racism&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;3) Who doesn&#039;t know what a &amp;quot;checkpoint&amp;quot; is? and for what reason?, whether you are about to fly or about to enter a major sport event, etc.&lt;br /&gt; Especially Israelis of ALL backgrounds have been exposed to Islamo Arab terrorism so much, that they can understand all to well the checkpoints INSIDE Israeli major crowded places, but Arab anti-Israel-racism propaganda turns the security checkpoints in the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; controlled (better yet, UNCONTROLLLED...) areas, as &amp;quot;racism&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;4) Highly Democratic Israel which is one of the most self criticized states in the world (not only is there no such Arab country that you can voice such anti state opinions and activities, but even in western standards, Israel has such a high diversity of opinions, moreover the self criticism is at times up to levels of charges of most outrageous exaggerated terms), with a large portion of Jews with SUPER GUILT has seen the term &amp;quot;racism&amp;quot; overblown-used, even when it comes to class-ism, which naturally effects EVERY COUNTRY in the WORLD, but anti-Israel racists &amp;amp; bigots have managed to USE it as &amp;quot;facts&amp;quot;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:22:13 EDT</pubDate>
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            <dc:creator>Matias from Carrollton, KY</dc:creator>
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            <title>Escape from Arab racism&#039;s genocide</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b8976906-ac91-4405-82bb-28b25c7cdc9d&quot;&gt;Escape from (Sudan) &lt;strong&gt;genocide&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Gazette (Montreal),&amp;nbsp;Canada&amp;nbsp;- 20 Sep 2008&lt;br /&gt;There are inklings of the horrors to come when she describes the &lt;strong&gt;racism&lt;/strong&gt; she experienced from &lt;strong&gt;Arab&lt;/strong&gt; students and teachers at her boarding school, &lt;strong&gt;...so graphic...&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b8976906-ac91-4405-82bb-28b25c7cdc9d&quot;&gt;http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=b8976906-ac91-4405-82bb-28b25c7cdc9d&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 12:18:03 EDT</pubDate>
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            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ARABISM = THE RACISM!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arabism Equals Racism&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?%20%20ID=24912&quot;&gt;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?  ID=24912&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The Kurdish people in Syria has been subjected to racist Arabist   policies ... social backwardness and the repression of non-Arab nations   and minorities &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Edbonni1/18-3-03-opinion-kamal-%20%20miraddeli.html&quot;&gt;http://home.cogeco.ca/~dbonni1/18-3-03-opinion-kamal-  miraddeli.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Hanging Saddam: New Middle East&#039;s Aurora America&#039;s lethal enemy:   Pan-Arabism &lt;br /&gt;A free Iraqi, free of the mental pestilence of Pan-  Arabism. He was free of any criminal intimidation expressed by any   criminal bogus-ambassador of a Pan-Arabist tyranny! And the verdict was   a victory for the long tyrannized peoples of that land... - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/20525.html&quot;&gt;http://ww  w.theconservativevoice.com/article/20525.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arabism at its Most Ugly &lt;a href=&quot;http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-its-most-%20%20ugly_23.html&quot;&gt;http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-  its-most-ugly_23.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&#039;Eurabia&#039; Defined Arab and Islamic anti-Israeli propaganda, barely   disguised in academic and ... and geopolitics of Euro-Arabism; in this   process, European anti-Americanism...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.faithfreedom.org/oped/AndrewBostom51116.htm&quot;&gt;http://ww  w.faithfreedom.org/oped/AndrewBostom51116.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Lounsbury: Darfur - On Racism, On Ignorance, [Arabism, Arab   supremacist government in Sudan,]&amp;nbsp; On Laziness and just plain   stupidity (and Arab responses)&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://lounsbury.aqoul.com/archives/2004/08/darfur_on_racis.html&quot;&gt;http://lounsbury.aqoul.com/archives/2004/08/darfur_on_racis.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp;n  bsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Origin of Islam - A historical human rights guide to Islam ...Today   Islam&#039;s main weapon has been oil-money serving pan-Arabism. ...   dictatorship and Arabic racism and the systematic killing and raping in   Sudan/Darfur &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/klevius/MuslimRacism.html?%20%201111924826171&quot;&gt;http://www.geocities.com/klevius/MuslimRacism.html?  1111924826171&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arabism and the on-going Palestinian terrorism&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://media.www.mustangdaily.net/media/storage/paper860/news/200%20%206/04/27/LettersToTheEditor/Arabism.And.The.OnGoing.Palestinian.Terroris%20%20m-2100073.shtml?%20%20sourcedomain=www.mustangdaily.net&amp;amp;MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.co%20%20m&quot;&gt;http://media.www.mustangdaily.net/media/storage/paper860/news/2006/0  4/27/LettersToTheEditor/Arabism.And.The.OnGoing.Palestinian.Terrorism-  2100073.shtml?  sourcedomain=www.mustangdaily.net&amp;amp;MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.co  m&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Sudan is a perfect illustration of a mix of islamofascism and   &amp;quot;Arabism is Racism&amp;quot; gone unopposed. Want to make a movie? Here are some   additional ideas...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anti-%20%20com.com/weblog/archives/2004_06.html&quot;&gt;http://www.anti-  com.com/weblog/archives/2004_06.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Across the Bay: Arabism at its Most Ugly She left out that other   still unresolved horror show in Sudan where the victims ... There you   have it, Arabism at its finest. And this deadly ideology is ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-at-its-%20%20most-ugly_23.html&quot;&gt;http://beirut2bayside.blogspot.com/2004/07/arabism-  at-its-most-ugly_23.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Arabists, &amp;quot;Arab Oil Interests&amp;quot;, &amp;quot;Pro-Arab Sympathisers&amp;quot; - The Peace   Encyclopedia&lt;br /&gt; Arabists in government do not have names like Hamadi or Abdullah.&amp;nbsp;   &lt;br /&gt;  They can be generally defined as either motivated by money or as   Arabists: meaning they ideologically agree with Arab orders.&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://peace.heebz.com/arabists.html&quot;&gt;http://peace.heebz.com/arab  ists.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Arabists vs. the Middle East - Campus Watch&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Having done hardly any independent research on the twentieth-century   Middle East, Cole&#039;s analysis of this era is essentially derivative,   echoing the conventional wisdom among Arabists and Orientalists   regarding Islamic and Arab history...&lt;br /&gt; Cole, the Arabist, expresses the views of Arab nationalists and their   Islamist allies.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt; Arab nationalists express their views through the use of terrorism,   financial incentives and ethnic cleansing. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.campus-%20%20watch.org/article/id/1967&quot;&gt;http://www.campus-  watch.org/article/id/1967&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Terrorism and Racism: The Aftermath of Durban,&amp;quot; by Anne F. Bayefsky   Durban uncovered racism as a real root cause of terrorism, a motivation   which the ... by the victims of anti-Arabism in the United States and   elsewhere. ...&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp468.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp468.ht  m&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; Islam Watch - &amp;quot;An Introduction to Real Islam&amp;quot; by Shabana Muhammad... is   the cradle of pan-Arabism and the root cause of not only ... Allah   favours Arab racism&#039; prophet is to be of Quraysh stock and of white   complexion. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.islam-%20%20watch.org/Shabana/RealIslam/Chapter2.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.islam-  watch.org/Shabana/RealIslam/Chapter2.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; Racism Masquerading As Arab-Islamic Nationalism By Charles Deng - This   racist attitude leads the troika to the obvious hostility to the SPLM   and ... North imposition of Arabism and Islamism on the African   South...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sudaneseonline.com/en2/publish/Articles_and_Analysies_%20%2012/Racism_Masquerading_As_Arab-%20%20Islamic_Nationalism_By_27.shtml&quot;&gt;http://www.sudaneseonline.com/en2/publ  ish/Articles_and_Analysies_12/Racism_Masquerading_As_Arab-  Islamic_Nationalism_By_27.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Kurdistan Observer The Arab League as a useless ideological racist   Arabist institution has existed only to promote Arabism and Arab racism   against colonised non-Arab nations. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://mywebpage.netscape.com/KO%20News/23-9-03-opinion-%20%20mirawdeli-kurdistani-intellec.html&quot;&gt;http://mywebpage.netscape.com/KO%  20News/23-9-03-opinion-mirawdeli-kurdistani-intellec.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;CMIP - CENTER FOR MONITORING THE IMPACT OF PEACE: REPORTS [the sense   of] Arabism is firmly established in (Arab racist textbooks) Israel is   depicted as an alien entity that Imperialism has planted in the midst   of the Arab homeland in order to crush the Arabs. Hence, it is both   illegitimate and artificial. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.edume.org/reports/6/5.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.edume.org/report  s/6/5.htm&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Undoubtedly, Iranians of all stripes are offended at the &amp;quot;Arab Gulf&amp;quot;   scandal, not to mention pan-Arabist attempts at fomenting Arab racism   against Iranians. &lt;br /&gt; &amp;nbsp; Arabs have complained (with justification) that they are   portrayed negatively in western press, media and education, yet so many   in the Arab world are unaware of the Husri-Shawkat-Aflaq legacy of   racism within their own ranks. &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ven  usproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Who is Racist in the Middle East - Zionism or Arabism? &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.zionism-%20%20israel.com/log/archives/00000012.html&quot;&gt;http://www.zionism-  israel.com/log/archives/00000012.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Understanding the Problem in the Middle East Netanyahu says: &amp;quot;The   soldiers of militant Islam and Pan-Arabism do not hate ... need a place   to escape to because of a specific racism called antisemitism. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.omdurman.org/mideast.html&quot;&gt;http://www.omdurman.org/mid  east.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Berber Leader:&lt;strong&gt; &amp;quot;No Worse Colonialism Than That   of the Pan-Arabist Clan&amp;quot;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?%20%20ID=SD156907&quot;&gt;http://www.memri.org/bin/opener_latest.cgi?  ID=SD156907&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Why black Africa should resist Arab domination of African Union &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://afgen.com/arab_domination.html&quot;&gt;http://afgen.com/arab_domi  nation.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Arab Colonization Series: Pan-Africanism vs Pan-Arabism | Nigerian   ...Arab racism, whose wellspring is the Koran itself...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/arab-%20%20colonization-series-pan-africanism-vs-pan-ar-%20%202.html&quot;&gt;http://www.nigeriavillagesquare.com/articles/chinweizu/arab-  colonization-series-pan-africanism-vs-pan-ar-2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;MAURITANIA: SLAVERY, ETHNIC CLEANSING, DEMOCRATIC OPPOSITION   ...unfortunately, coming back to pan-Arabism and the international   Baath .... And I believe the struggle against racism and slavery in   Mauritania...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://ww4report.com/node/1022&quot;&gt;http://ww4report.com/node/1022&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;FIFTY YEARS OLD AND DYING - Amir Taheri - Benador Associates, Nasser   had his dream of pan-Arabism which would make Egypt the leader...&amp;nbsp;   to the capital of suffering left by centuries of slavery and   oppression. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/14024&quot;&gt;http://www.benado  rassociates.com/article/14024&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Amazon.com: Islamic Imperialism : A History: Books: Efraim Karsh,   Middle East scholar Karsh surveys for a general audience the region&#039;s   Islamic political past. Parallel to his narrative, Karsh frequently   contrasts the universalistic proclamations of Islam with cycles of   imperial consolidation and fragmentation. After recounting the Prophet   Muhammad&#039;s religio-political establishment of Islam, and the discord   about his legacy that continues today, Karsh narrates the battles over   Muhammad&#039;s caliphate that eventuated in the Umayyad and Abbasid   Empires. Karsh&#039;s commentary often looks forward to contemporary   ideologues of Islam who ransack history to justify grievances. In   Karsh&#039;s coverage, the irruption of the Crusaders into the Levant hardly   provoked a jihad to eject them; that occurred, in his account, through   politically ordinary processes of empire building, eventually by the   celebrated Saladin. Islamic unity and zeal, however, had always to be   affirmed by reestablishers of the caliphate, a theme Karsh incorporates   into his chronicling of the rise and decline of the Ottoman Empire, the   distribution of its territories after World War I, and varieties of   pan-Arabism prevalent after World War II. An informative foundation for   further exploration of Islamic history. &lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Imperialism-History-Efraim-%20%20Karsh/dp/0300106033&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.com/Islamic-Imperialism-History  -Efraim-Karsh/dp/0300106033&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt; How a British jihadi saw the light - Times Online I sat there pondering   on the pan-Arab denial of the truth, a refusal to accept that the .....   Racism and even slavery are rampant in the Middle East. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment%20%20/books/book_extracts/article1685726.ece&quot;&gt;http://entertainment.timesonli  ne.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_extracts/article1685726.  ece&lt;/a&gt; - Jun 30, 2007 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Op-Ed: What apartheid is and is not - The Stanford Daily OnlineAnd   while black labor was exploited in slavery-like conditions under   apartheid, ..... Islam is clearly anti-Semitic and racist against the   Jews. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/11/13/opedWhatApartheidIsA%20%20ndIsNot&quot;&gt;http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2006/11/13/opedWhatApartheid  IsAndIsNot&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;  Pan-Arabism&#039;s Legacy Undoubtedly, Iranians of all stripes are   offended at  the &amp;quot;Arab Gulf&amp;quot; scandal, not to mention pan-Arabist attempts at   fomenting Arab  racism against Iranians. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ven  usproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html&lt;/a&gt;    &amp;nbsp; In Sudan&#039;s largely non-Muslim south, it&#039;s a combination of both   Arab racism  and the conquest of the Dar ul-Islam&#039;s exemplified also in the expected  subjugation and dhimmitude of Egyptian Copts, Lebanon&#039;s Christians,   Near Eastern  Assyrians, and Israel, the Jew of the Nations, home to whom Arabs call   &amp;quot;their   kilab yahud&amp;quot; Jew dogs.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_20134.shtml&quot;&gt;http:  //www.michnews.com/artman/publish/article_20134.shtml&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; Back in the &#039;60s, the first modern civil war broke out between the  non-Muslim black African south and the Arab and Arabized... north in   the Sudan,  Sudanese President Nimeiry&#039;s stated during the slaughter of over a half   million  blacks at this time (and over a million more ever since) that: &#039;the   Sudan is the  basis of the Arab thrust into...black Africa, the Arab civilizing   mission  (Arabism and Pan-Arabism in Sudanese Politics, Journal of Modern   African  Studies, Vol. 11, #2, 1973, pp. 177-78).&#039; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://geraldahonigman.com/blog.php?%20%20id=P98&quot;&gt;http://geraldahonigman.com/blog.php?id=P98&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes: &#039;There Is No Worse Colonialism Than   That of  the Pan-Arabist Clan that Wants to Dominate Our People&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?%20%20id_article=403&quot;&gt;http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?  id_article=403&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;  Hiding Arab Racism, May 1, 2005 &lt;br /&gt;By&amp;nbsp; Adel Makhoul   &amp;nbsp; This book, like Culture and Imperialism, is essentially about   Western  prejudice against Islam. [Edward] Said condemns intellectuals in the   West who in  his eyes are &amp;quot;agents of exploitation&amp;quot;. Yet Said himself is an agent of   racism:  Arab Racism.  &amp;nbsp; A Pan Arabist, he always supported Arab unity and &amp;quot;Islam&amp;quot; at the   expense of  non-Arab and non-Moslem peoples. Said directs and manipulates the   Western taste  for self criticim, and all that does is deflect the world&#039;s attention   from Arab  and Moslem attrocities committed against Christians, Kurds, Jews,   Israelis,  Coptic Christians, non-Arab Sudanese, etc. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FZS0RYTC94JP&quot;&gt;http://www.amazon.co  m/review/R1FZS0RYTC94JP&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp; South Sudan and the problem of Arab racism in Black Africa  &lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;Khartoum&#039;s project is the Arabization of Sudan. Khartoum is  determined that Sudan will eventually become wholly an Arab land with   all its  diverse African peoples converted into Arabs. Sudan is Khartoum&#039;s pilot   project,  backed by the Arab League, in the Islamisation and Arabisation of Black   Africa.    &amp;nbsp; It has been noted by Opoku Agyeman that Pan-Arabism, in its so-  called  &#039;civilizing mission&#039; perceives Africa as a &#039;cultural vacuum&#039; waiting to   be  filled by Arab culture &amp;quot;by all conceivable means&amp;quot; (Agyeman, Opoku &amp;quot;Pan  Africanism vs. Pan Arabism&amp;quot;, Black Renaissance, 1994, p.39) including  Islamisation, and the settlement of Arab populations on lands forcibly   seized  from Africans. The assumptions, objectives and methods of this project   may be  illustrated from the statements of its principal implementers in Sudan   since the  1820s:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/article11//indexn3%20%20_html?pdate=300308&amp;amp;ptitle=South%20Sudan%20and%20the%20problem%%20%2020of%20Arab%20racism%20in%20Black%20Africa%%20%2020&amp;amp;cpdate=010408&quot;&gt;http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/ar  ticle11//indexn3_html?pdate=300308&amp;amp;ptitle=South%20Sudan%20and%  20the%20problem%20of%20Arab%20racism%20in%20Black%20Africa%  20&amp;amp;cpdate=010408&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;p&gt;To this day, Islam has retained its imperial ambitions. The dream of   regional and world domination has remained very much alive, despite the   destruction long ago of the last great Muslim empire, which has left   the Islamic caliphate vacant. The 20th century doctrine   of pan-Arabism (exemplified by Egypt&#039;s Gamal Abdel Nasser), though   secular in appearance, has been effectively Islamic in its ethos,   worldview, and imperialist vision. Karsh quotes Nuri Said,   longtime prime minister of Iraq and a prominent early champion of pan-  Arabism: &amp;quot;Although Arabs are naturally attached to their native land,   their nationalism is not confined by boundaries. It is an aspiration to   restore the great tolerant civilization of the early caliphate.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2008/0815/columns/018.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishtimes-  sj.com/news/2008/0815/columns/018.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Attacks on Jews by Arabs in Concordia University the &amp;quot;centre of   militant Arabism in Canada&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2002_09_08_kesher_archive.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.hfienberg.com/kesher/2002_09_08_kesher_archive.  html&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Doing Zionism - Resources and articles on Israeli Arabs&lt;br /&gt; There was a certain degree of anti-Jewish rhetoric present in these   protests. ... Once the Israeli Arabs had re-encountered their   Palestinian brethren in ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wzo.org.il/doingzionism/resources/expand_subject.asp?%20%20id=151&quot;&gt;http://www.wzo.org.il/doingzionism/resources/expand_subject.asp  ?id=151&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;So much for the good Israeli Arabs | Jewish Journal&lt;br /&gt; Sam - The word Ultra Orthodox is an invention of the anti Jewish media   that seeks ..... Israeli Arabs feel the same denial of Israel as a   Jewish State as do ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishjournal.com/forums/viewthread/1367/P75/&quot;&gt;http://  www.jewishjournal.com/forums/viewthread/1367/P75/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Similarly, the assorted versions of pan-Arabism &amp;mdash; Nasserism, Ba&amp;rsquo;  athism &amp;mdash; were seen as alternatives to Islam, when in fact they were not   alternatives at all. They merely displayed, for quite specific and   local reasons, an emphasis on &amp;ldquo;Uruba&amp;rdquo; or Arabdom that was explicable   given the impoverished state of the &amp;ldquo;Islamic world&amp;rdquo; and the fact that   there were local stumbling blocks to pan-Islamism (including the lack   of financial wherewithal). In Turkey Kemalists were in control; in Iran   there was the Shah, trying in his maladroit way to emphasize the pre-  Islamic past. Pan-Arabism was a version of pan-Islamism, a subset,   which at the time seemed to be as much as one could hope for. Nasser or   Saddam Hussein could dream of being King of the Arabs, but the idea of   a much bigger operation, especially since for both Nasser and Saddam   Hussein the most dangerous political opposition was mosque-based (the   Muslim Brotherhood for Nasser, the Shi&amp;rsquo;a clerics for Saddam Hussein),   was out of the question.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm?%20%20blog_id=5685&quot;&gt;http://newenglishreview.org/blog_display.cfm?  blog_id=5685&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Myth of the Jewish Race - Google Books Result&lt;br /&gt;  by Raphael Patai, Jennifer Patai - 1989 - History - 456 pages&lt;br /&gt; In 1960 the French Comite d&amp;rsquo;Action de Defense Democrat ique published a   pamphlet titled Racism and Pan-Arabism: A Conspiracy against Human   Liberties, ...&lt;br /&gt; this is followed by a paper by Shlomo Friedrich on &amp;ldquo;Pan-Arabism: A New   Racist Menace? ..&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?%20%20id=Xt7f6WBEP0EC&amp;amp;pg=PA187&amp;amp;lpg=PA187&amp;amp;dq=pan-%20%20arabism+is+a+menace&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ots=tJRgYj1k9x&amp;amp;sig=DSzYzEbg2%20%20-%20%20woZhyI8itan6DX4Uc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;resnum=5&amp;amp;am%20%20p;ct=result&quot;&gt;http://books.google.com/books?  id=Xt7f6WBEP0EC&amp;amp;pg=PA187&amp;amp;lpg=PA187&amp;amp;dq=pan-  arabism+is+a+menace&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ots=tJRgYj1k9x&amp;amp;sig=DSzYzEbg2  -  woZhyI8itan6DX4Uc&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=book_result&amp;amp;resnum=5&amp;amp;am  p;ct=result&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;Syrian Liberal Nidhal Na&amp;rsquo;isa On the West, Pan-Arabism, Islamism, and   Al-Jazeera&lt;br /&gt; MEMRI ^ | May 17 2007&lt;br /&gt; Syrian liberal author Nidhal Na&amp;rsquo;isa began his career in journalism as a   teenager, at the government dailies Al-Thawra and Syria Times,(1) but   today he is a vocal opponent of the Arab regimes and the pan-Arab   ideology, as well as of Islamism and Islamist terrorism. He has written   that due to the Islamist &amp;ldquo;tsunami,&amp;rdquo; the Middle East could be declared   an &amp;ldquo;intellectual disaster zone&amp;rdquo;; that if one were to try to sell pan-  Arab identity to &amp;ldquo;the bushmen and the cannibals&amp;rdquo; they wouldn&amp;rsquo;t buy it;   and that the pan-Arab media is &amp;ldquo;a harbinger of ill, pain, and   destruction.&amp;rdquo; In contrast, he praises the West for its humanism and its   respect for the individual, and writes that, given the current state of   affairs in the Arab world, the real question is not &amp;ldquo;why does the West   hate us?&amp;rdquo; but rather why it does not.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The following are excerpts from some of Nidhal Na&amp;rsquo;isa&amp;rsquo;s recent   articles:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;We Could Declare [The Middle East] an Intellectual Disaster Zone   After the Surging Fundamentalist Tsunami Swept Through&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In an interview published April 23, 2007 on the liberal Arab website   Aafaq, Na&amp;rsquo;isa discussed the Islamist phenomenon:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;The world is swept up in globalization, whereas our unfortunate   regions are being swept up everywhere by fundamentalism. We could   declare [the Middle East] an intellectual disaster area after the   surging fundamentalist tsunami swept through it.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;This is a wave that came after the slaughter, on the debris of the   failure and disintegration of the leftist pan-Arab projects, [when]   their intellectual hollowness and the superficiality of their   proposals... became evident...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Fundamentalism is a notion that disturbs the sleep of everybody   concerned with the present and the future of this region. All of us are   fundamentalists, when fundamentalism is taken in the sense of tenacious   clinging to [our] opinion and rejection of the other. I see   fundamentalism on the faces of all, in their thoughts and proposals.   Nobody comes to terms with the other; no one pays attention to anyone   else. In my view, this is fundamentalism in its more important and   fuller meaning...&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In Our Totalitarian Societies... Leaving [the Fold of] Collective   Thought is Considered Error, Heresy, and Atheism&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;When asked about the phenomenon of increasing religiosity in Syria,   Na&amp;rsquo;isa said that it was part of &amp;ldquo;the spread of the culture of the herd   and &amp;lsquo;group&amp;rsquo; thinking, which means the negation of the individual and   the individual&amp;rsquo;s importance in creation, development, and   originality.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;He continued: &amp;ldquo;Western civilization was founded on unleashing   individual initiative and glorification of individual reason &amp;ndash; and not   collective reason, which is generally emotive and not of sound   judgment.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In our totalitarian societies, the collective &amp;lsquo;I&amp;rsquo; prevails over the   individual &amp;lsquo;I,&amp;rsquo; and all become equals under the podiums of the   [Islamic] jurisprudents. Leaving [the fold of] collective thought is   considered error, heresy, and atheism...&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Na&amp;rsquo;isa&amp;rsquo;s praise for the West does not, however, extend to current   U.S. policy in the region, which he feels has been counterproductive   and has fed extremism: &amp;ldquo;Much of the religiosity in our societies is   based on the principle &amp;lsquo;not out of love for &amp;lsquo;Ali, but in order to spite   Mu&amp;rsquo;awiya,&amp;rsquo; [i.e.] in order to spite the current regimes, and in order   to goad George Bush and the U.S., which acts in a reckless,   thoughtless, and foolish manner, and, through its policies, increases   the strength of this [fundamentalist] current...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;So long as the [Syrian] nationalist opposition forces remain   repressed and banned, and religious activity is the sole [kind of   activity] permitted and tolerated, many will see in it a shelter for   the expression of... their identities as [people who] reject the Arab   constellation of despotism...&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Syrian Media is &amp;ldquo;A Mongoloid Child, Retarded and   Underdeveloped&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In the interview, Na&amp;rsquo;isa draws a clear distinction between past   heroes of resistance to colonialism and those whom the modern Arab   media crowns as martyrs:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;It goes without saying, and is clear to anyone with eyes to see,   that there is a distinction between [on the one hand] someone who ends   a life full of human giving and sacrifice... and who worked for a noble   and lofty goal, and [on the other hand] someone with a black history...   The lying pan-Arabist, Islamist-propagandist media will never succeed   in creating saints and martyrs out of slaughterers, butchers, and hired   killers...&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;The hypocritical pan-Arab hissing [i.e. the pan-Arab media]... has   poisoned our lives and turned them into a cheap lie.... The viper,   before it bites, emits a hissing sound, which is a harbinger of ill,   pain, and destruction.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Na&amp;rsquo;isa said of the Syrian media in particular that it is &amp;ldquo;a   mongoloid child, retarded and underdeveloped.&amp;rdquo;(2)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In Truth, I Think That Those Wicked &amp;lsquo;Infidels&amp;rsquo; Love Us More Than We   Hate Them&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On April 22, 2007, Nidhal Na&amp;rsquo;isa published an article on the liberal   Arab website Elaph titled &amp;ldquo;Why Don&amp;rsquo;t They Hate Us?&amp;rdquo; in which he   lampooned the Islamists&amp;rsquo; anti-West discourse:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;A great part of the fiery, devout, [Islamic] revivalist   discourse... is based on [the claim] that the &amp;lsquo;infidel&amp;rsquo; West is our   mortal archenemy, that it hates us with the greatest hatred, and that   it does not let any opportunity pass for hatching conspiracies and   striking at us.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[It is also based on the claim] that all of the backwardness,   misery, deterioration, decline, defeats, and baseness currently present   in the Arab and Muslim worlds are due to an uninterrupted flood of   machinations on the part of those evil infidels. [The claim is] that   they target our religion and our being because they have no religion,   and because we are better than them in Allah&amp;rsquo;s view, and that they envy   us for this very reason.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[The Islamists claim] that we are a great source of concern for   [the West], and that we are their sole preoccupation and fear, and that   the green [i.e. Islamic] &amp;lsquo;giant&amp;rsquo; is ambushing them with its   extraordinary capabilities of poverty, hunger, corruption, despotism,   ignorance, prisons, delusion, superstitions, and preachers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[According to the Islamists, Islam] is, for this reason, the only   one capable of destroying Western civilization, defeating it on its   home ground, and wiping it out of existence through &amp;lsquo;a few explosive   belts&amp;rsquo; that do nothing other than kill and target Arab and Muslim   children and their innocent blood.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[They say that] the mother of all decisive [battles] &amp;ndash; the fateful   war with the atheist, sinful infidels &amp;ndash; passes by way of those   innocents, and that if it were not for accursed Israel, wicked America,   the infidels, and the descendants of apes and pigs that lie in wait for   us night and day, our countries and homelands would be like Copenhagen,   Stockholm, Helsinki, and Oslo... When Allah rids us of those wicked,   accursed people, we will live in tranquility and bliss, and live   happily ever after, and we will have offspring, and girls whom we will   dress in chadors, veils, and hijabs.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;But in truth... I think that those wicked &amp;lsquo;infidels&amp;rsquo; love us much   more than we hate them. If it were not for them, life would be   transformed into hell and fire.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;London Has Become a Safe Haven for Fundamentalists Fleeing the Hell   of Middle Eastern Despotism&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[The West] has contributed greatly &amp;ndash; through material aid,   technical expertise, and advisory assistance &amp;ndash; to many of the amenities   of life we enjoy. Tens of millions of humans have benefited from the   West&amp;rsquo;s achievements in the sciences, and Western universities have   opened [their doors] to the multitudes of students arriving from all   countries of the world.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;They have granted citizenship and inducements &amp;ndash; material and other   &amp;ndash; to all of the outstanding, the gifted, and the creative to live in   those countries &amp;ndash; and even to those who were chased out of their own   countries. For instance... London has become a safe haven for   fundamentalists fleeing the hell of Middle Eastern despotism. They   release, from London, their fiery communiqu&amp;eacute;s for the destruction of   the infidel West ...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;The prophecy has been fulfilled, and [these Islamists in London]   have, in fact, become the only group to be redeemed from the inferno of   tyranny, the hell of oppression, and the fire of despotism.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;It was the infidel West, for instance, that extracted oil from the   Arabian desert, and turned it into a green paradise and expansive oases   full of vitality. [In these oases,] various kinds of economic,   intellectual, athletic and artistic activities flourish, and   conferences and conventions are held to revile the infidel West and to   accuse [other Arabs] of treachery, in the intoxicating atmosphere of   the heart of the desert.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;If it were not for this massive technological aid, those countries   would be living now as [they lived] in the earliest period of that   great, time-honored history of theirs, before there was a West and   before there were infidels.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In addition, this infidel West dedicated its utmost efforts and   thinking... to the medical sphere, and eliminated many of the   contagious, infectious diseases that used to be predominant in the   world. And it is this same West that gives [the Arabs] electricity with   which to desalinate water...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;If the West Were To Reciprocate the Enmity of the Arab Satellite   Stations, &amp;ldquo;It Could Turn Their Lights Off and Send Them Back to the   Early Camel Age&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;And it was [the West] that launched satellites &amp;lsquo;that float in the   sky&amp;rsquo;(3) [that made possible] the [Arab] satellite TV stations which   show up every day on the [TV] screens, and which sprinkle their unique   &amp;lsquo;masterpieces&amp;rsquo; over mankind. If the West wanted to, and if it were to   act with the same logic of unveiled enmity [as the Arab satellite   stations do], it could turn their lights off with one push of a button   and send them back to the deep black depths and the Early Camel   Age...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I believe that applying oneself to putting forward all of the   overwhelming conclusive arguments concerning the humanism of the West,   the loftiness of its endeavors, and the nobility of its intentions,   would be... a pointless linguistic digression. The general concept can   be summed up by [the fact] that the West has not been grudging in   [sharing] its humanism and its civilization with others, and it demands   of them only a bit of quiet &amp;ndash; if there is to be no good faith,   recognition, and return of the favor...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;The world has become a narrow lane in a small global village. It   listens, follows [developments], thinks, contemplates, and analyzes &amp;ndash;   and it cannot at all fathom the motives and the goals of this hostile   and vicious discourse of incitement that some tirelessly market,   exploiting their alliance with despotic regimes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;One painful conclusion can be drawn from all of this... [and it is]   that the more logical question... is not &amp;lsquo;why do they hate us?&amp;rsquo; &amp;ndash; if   there is indeed some degree of hatred &amp;ndash; but rather &amp;lsquo;why don&amp;rsquo;t they hate   us?&amp;rsquo;...(4)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Al-Jazeera Talk Shows as a Window on Arab Society&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In an April 15, 2007 article on Elaph.com, Na&amp;rsquo;isa took issue with   those who criticize the popular Al-Jazeera talk show &amp;ldquo;The Opposite   Direction.&amp;rdquo; In a rather backhanded compliment, he &amp;ldquo;praises&amp;rdquo; the   confrontational show as an accurate, if pale, reflection of the   conflictual state of contemporary Arab society:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I don&amp;rsquo;t understand why many criticize &amp;lsquo;The Opposite Direction&amp;rsquo;...   and call it... a cockfight, or a boxing ring, or a dialogue of the   deaf.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;All the aforementioned program does is to pass on, through its   participants and its unaffected interviews, some random aspects of a   head-butting, fragmented Arab reality...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;&amp;rsquo;The Opposite Direction&amp;rsquo; is a microcosm of the larger &amp;lsquo;opposite   directions&amp;rsquo; that are to be found in every home, in the street, within   every institution, group, and political party, and in every small   gathering, even those around a hookah and a backgammon table in a   popular caf&amp;eacute;, or in an out-of-the-way village.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In fact, relatively speaking, [&amp;rsquo;The Opposite Direction&amp;rsquo;] is far   less violent than what goes on in reality: the deafness, the anger, the   resistance, the mutual shoving and head-butting. It often seems to me   as though no one understands the other, and no one wants to listen to   the other.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;If Allah, may He be praised and elevated &amp;ndash; and the fact that he has   not done this is [due to] His great wisdom &amp;ndash; [but] if Allah were to   bestow upon us weapons of mass destruction, we would destroy one   another down to the last man... And then we could rest, and give   tortured humanity a respite from our long and wearying problems,   discussions, and talks.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Hopefully our discussions will remain at the level of the &amp;lsquo;The   Opposite Direction&amp;rsquo; &amp;ndash; a &amp;lsquo;bit&amp;rsquo; of yelling and vituperation... and will   not transform into a deadly hell and tremendous bloodshed...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;So first off, I would like to sincerely thank all of the   participants... in this program, because they express, in a true and   spontaneous manner, the nature of our societies, their innermost being,   without any &amp;lsquo;touchup&amp;rsquo;... These are our people and our peoples. This is   how we are. This is what we have to offer...&amp;rdquo;(5)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On the Arab Media&amp;rsquo;s Version of &amp;ldquo;Arab Identity&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In an April 26 article on Elaph, Na&amp;rsquo;isa wrote: &amp;ldquo;The charlatan...   propagandistic media glories in the bombastic term &amp;lsquo;Arab identity,&amp;rsquo; and   it extols it and promotes it as the heavens&amp;rsquo; gift to those sinking into   a morass of backwardness...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In truth, I tried hard, exhausted with fatigue and worn down by   sleeplessness, and I [still] am trying, to define the basic   characteristics of this identity vaunted by the Arab nationalists,   professional pan-Arabists, and the Islamists, [thinking that] perhaps I   could find a single reason or convincing explanation as to the   uniqueness of this gift of nature that they dote on night and day.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[I thought that] perhaps I could stumble on just one find by which   I could advance a single proof concerning the enigma of the Zionist,   colonialist, Burmese, Bengal, and Nepalese conspiracies to make this   identity disappear from existence...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I couldn&amp;rsquo;t find any convincing reason [to make] people cleave to   this identity, apart from a wicked and obscure desire, not free of bad   intent, to take revenge on them, deceive them, and keep them in their   state of misery, decline, and in their humiliating position.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;This identity has come to mean... oppression, despotism, coercion,   repression, prison, mass graves, security chases, exploitation,   persecution, the organized plunder of national resources, odious racist   discrimination against minorities and women, monopolization of thought,   talent, and creativity, and the punishment of the free. It contains   many distinguishing characteristics, such as: corruption,   fragmentation, wars, tribal conflict, clannishness, blood feuds, and   deep-rooted hostilities that never had any basis in the first   place.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;[In the Arab world] the ruler is the army boot..., dictatorship,   demagoguery..., military coups, and deification of the leaders. Without   these unique characteristics, Arab identity loses its... customary and   familiar luster and glamour...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In light of all of these saddening and oppressive facts, if we were   to put this identity... up for sale &amp;ndash; to the bushmen or the cannibals   in the jungle, to outcasts or refugees, to gypsies or to vagabonds &amp;ndash;   would any of them agree to buy it?...&amp;rdquo;(6)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Endnotes: (1) www.aafaq.org, April 23, 2007. (2) www.aafaq.org,   April 23, 2007. (3) Paraphrase of Koran 21:33. (4) www.elaph.com, April   22, 2007. (5) www.elaph.com, April 15, 2007. Several weeks after   publishing this article, Na&amp;rsquo;isa himself was invited to appear on &amp;ldquo;The   Opposite Direction&amp;rdquo; on Al-Jazeera; see MEMRI TV Clip No. 1448, May 8,   2007: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?%20%20ACT=S9&amp;amp;P1=1448&quot;&gt;http://www.memritv.org/search.asp?  ACT=S9&amp;amp;P1=1448&lt;/a&gt;. (6) www.elaph.com, April 26, 2007.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?%20%20Page=archives&amp;amp;Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP159007&quot;&gt;http://www.memri.org/bin/art  icles.cgi?Page=archives&amp;amp;Area=sd&amp;amp;ID=SP159007&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;PLAN OF ACTION AGAINST EGYPTIAN GOVERNMENT AND OTHERS... what   happened in Egypt is the plain and clear manifestation of Arabist   hatred of Africans, Arabism&amp;rsquo;s disrespect of Africaness, and naked   Racism. ...&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sudaneseonline.com/cgi-bin/sdb/2bb.cgi?%20%20seq=print&amp;amp;board=50&amp;amp;msg=1137188574&amp;amp;rn&quot;&gt;http://www.sudaneseon  line.com/cgi-bin/sdb/2bb.cgi?  seq=print&amp;amp;board=50&amp;amp;msg=1137188574&amp;amp;rn&lt;/a&gt;=&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Israelism defines its borders, respectful of alternative   cultures.&lt;br /&gt; Arabism is rogue and misinformed, it believes that all cultures must   adopt its ideologies.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/06/obama-the-%20%20self.html&quot;&gt;http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2008/06/obama-the-  self.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;One thing we should do immediately is drop the lazy concept of &amp;ldquo;the   Arab street&amp;rdquo;: it means nothing, it doesn&amp;rsquo;t exist. Like most   formulations beloved by the left, it&amp;rsquo;s an excuse to avoid having to   learn anything hard or specific - facts, dates, trade patterns,   economic relationships. The Bahraini street has nothing in common with   the Ramallah street. The &amp;ldquo;Arab street&amp;rdquo; is as useless a notion as the   &amp;ldquo;European street&amp;rdquo;: Americans should compare, for example, France and   Belgium with Kuwait and Qatar. Who are the real allies? The difference   at Arab League meetings henceforth will be between those members of a   moderate, modernizing tendency and a dwindling number of decrepit thug   states who prefer to carry on taking refuge in pan-Arabism&amp;rsquo;s perversion   of traditional Arab fatalism and celebrating their failure.&amp;rdquo; - Mark   Steyn&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://wso.williams.edu/%%20%207Eljacobso/quotes/ME.shtml&quot;&gt;http://wso.williams.edu/~ljacobso/quotes/ME  .shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;denouncing Pan-Arabism in all its forms of practice as racism,   ...&lt;br /&gt;  &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/end-darfur-genocide-21st-%20%20century-most-outrageous-crime-against-%20%20mankind.html&quot;&gt;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/end-darfur-genocide-21st-  century-most-outrageous-crime-against-mankind.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Last Chance for Sudan to Exist: Get Out of the Arab League Now   ...&lt;br /&gt; Pan-Arabism: the Epitome of the most Anti-Human Racism, a Forgery   aiming at bestializing the Human Being. An inquisitive approach to the   chances of the ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-4-2004-%20%2058911.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/9-4-2004-58911.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Deep down in Darfur - TLS Highlights - Times Online&lt;br /&gt; Handicapped by the latent Arabist racism of the leadership, which   hails, as it always has, almost entirely from Khartoum and the Middle   Nile Valley, ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25346-%20%201886267_4,00.html&quot;&gt;http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25346-  1886267_4,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Arabists VS Middle East&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/04/arabists-vs-the%20%20-middle-%20%20east.php&quot;&gt;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/04/arabists-vs-  the-middle-east.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt; The Arab League as a useless ideological racist Arabist institution has   existed only to promote Arabism and Arab racism against colonised non-  Arab nations. ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?%20%20id=9285&quot;&gt;http://www.kurdmedia.com/article.aspx?id=9285&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Islamist and Arabist-racist attitudes, refracted through the honor-  shame paradigm, greatly multiplied the scope and duration of the [Arabs   vs Israel] conflict, ...&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/06/22/writing-away-ones-%20%20future&quot;&gt;http://www.theaugeanstables.com/2008/06/22/writing-away-ones-  future&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;OLD STAND-BY ARABIST RACIST&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem74.html&quot;&gt;http:/  /www.shalomjerusalem.com/jerusalem/jerusalem74.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Their grievance is not really Russian imperialism, or the 5 to 10   percent of the West Bank under dispute, or black African encroachment   on Arab land, or purported French insensitivity to legitimate Islamic   pride, much less an American &amp;ldquo;crusade&amp;rdquo; to harm Muslims.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;All these issues and the hundreds of others &amp;mdash; from the right to   build a reactor in Iran to the desire for a semi-autonomous Chechnya &amp;mdash;   in theory could be discussed, argued about, and adjudicated through   democratic dialogue.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;But that is impossible. For you see, the real problem is the   democratic dialogue itself &amp;mdash; unknown in the Arab Middle East and much   of the Islamic world, and a hindrance to both sharia and the pan-  Arabist thug with epaulettes and sunglasses. Yet consensual government   alone is the key to ending failed statist economies, gender apartheid,   religious intolerance, state-controlled media, and tribalism. It alone   might stop the self-induced misery and with it the tedious scapegoating   of &amp;ldquo;the Jews and America.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Much of the Islamic Middle East continues to blame others for its   own induced catastrophe, apparently unaware &amp;mdash; thanks to the lever of   oil it didn&amp;rsquo;t discover, doesn&amp;rsquo;t know how to develop, and uses to   intensify rather than alleviate its poverty &amp;mdash; that its entire culture   is becoming an international pariah. Islamic young men on European   flights are looked at with distrust; they are not welcome in Russia.   China wants&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;none of them. They are wary of visiting India. Australia learned   from Bali. The whole world is watching &amp;mdash; in disgust.&lt;br /&gt; In short, the suicide bomber, the improvised explosive device, the car   bomb, the televised beheading, the wacko fatwa, the sleazy propaganda   streamer on the Internet, the new cult of death &amp;mdash; all cowardly and   lethal phenomena &amp;mdash; these are now the innovations that the world   associates with the Middle East in lieu of gene research, car   production, or computer breakthroughs. If you look for gender equity in   the Middle East, you won&amp;rsquo;t find it in Arab Olympic delegations, Saudi   schools, or the Iranian government, but in the opportunity for young   women to blow themselves up right beside men. Indeed, killing infidels   is the nascent women&amp;rsquo;s-liberation movement of the radical Muslim   world.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://factsofisrael.com/blog/archives/000790.html&quot;&gt;http://factso  fisrael.com/blog/archives/000790.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;    &lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Arabism - Racism [Wiki style]&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Racism&quot; title=&quot;Racism&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;For the historic &lt;strong&gt;Pan-Arabism&lt;/strong&gt; movement see &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Arabism&quot; title=&quot;Pan-Arabism&quot;&gt;Pan-  Arabism&lt;/a&gt;. This page is more about the nature of Arabism as a whole,   not just the Pan-Arabism movement.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Arabism and Arabization - asides from association with the a   movement for &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification&quot; title=&quot;Unification&quot;&gt;unification&lt;/a&gt; among the peoples and countries of   the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_World&quot; title=&quot;Arab   World&quot;&gt;Arab World&lt;/a&gt;, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean&quot; title=&quot;Atlantic   Ocean&quot;&gt;Atlantic Ocean&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea&quot; title=&quot;Arabian   Sea&quot;&gt;Arabian Sea&lt;/a&gt;. it is more about &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_nationalism&quot; title=&quot;Arab   nationalism&quot;&gt;Arab nationalism&lt;/a&gt; which asserts that the Arabs   constitute a single nation. At times Pan-Arabism has tended to be &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Secular&quot; title=&quot;Secular&quot;&gt;secular&lt;/a&gt; and often &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism&quot; title=&quot;Socialism&quot;&gt;socialist&lt;/a&gt;, but often it embeds within it Islamic   tradition and culture or Islamism (like the genocide in Darfur). and   has strongly opposed &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism&quot; title=&quot;Colonialism&quot;&gt;colonialism&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_countries&quot; title=&quot;Western   countries&quot;&gt;Western&lt;/a&gt; political involvement in the   &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_world&quot; title=&quot;Arab world&quot;&gt;Arab world&lt;/a&gt;. Also historic Arabizing of the   middle east &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/72490&quot; title=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/72490&quot;&gt;[1]  &lt;/a&gt; and in Africa that process is still going on today &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/article11//indexn3%20%20_html?pdate=300308&amp;amp;ptitle=South%20Sudan%20and%20the%20problem%%20%2020of%20Arab%20racism%20in%20Black%20Africa%20&amp;amp;cpdate=010408&quot; title=&quot;http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/article11//indexn  3_html?pdate=300308&amp;amp;ptitle=South%20Sudan%20and%20the%20problem%  20of%20Arab%20racism%20in%20Black%20Africa%20&amp;amp;cpdate=010408&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;There&#039;s a strong argument that Arabism was never detached from   Islamism, &lt;em&gt;To this day, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam&quot; title=&quot;Islam&quot;&gt;Islam&lt;/a&gt; has retained its imperial ambitions. The dream   of regional and world domination has remained very much alive, despite   the destruction long ago of the last great Muslim empire, which has   left the Islamic caliphate vacant. The 20th century doctrine of pan-  Arabism (exemplified by &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt&quot; title=&quot;Egypt&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser&quot; title=&quot;Gamal Abdel   Nasser&quot;&gt;Gamal Abdel Nasser&lt;/a&gt;), though secular in appearance, has been   effectively Islamic in its ethos, worldview, and imperialist vision.   Karsh quotes Nuri Said, longtime prime minister of Iraq and a prominent   early champion of pan-Arabism: &amp;quot;Although &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs&quot; title=&quot;Arabs&quot;&gt;Arabs&lt;/a&gt; are naturally attached to their native land, their   nationalism is not confined by boundaries. It is an aspiration to   restore the great tolerant civilization of the early &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliphate&quot; title=&quot;Caliphate&quot;&gt;caliphate&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishtimes-%20%20sj.com/news/2008/0815/columns/018.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2008/0815/columns/018.html&quot;&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;An Arabist can be referred to someone that is well knowlodgeable of   Arab culture and nationality but can also be referred to a radical   nationalist anti non-Arab.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;As an ultra nationalist ideology it has been embedded with bigotry   in its roots and in its motivated action.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;     Contents  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-1&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Racism&quot;&gt;1 Racism&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#In_General&quot;&gt;1.1 In   General&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Anti-Persian&quot;&gt;1.2 Anti-  Persian&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Anti-Kurd&quot;&gt;1.3 Anti-  Kurd&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Anti-Berber&quot;&gt;1.4 Anti-  Berber&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#On_Caucasians&quot;&gt;1.5 On   Caucasians&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Anti-Jewish&quot;&gt;1.6 Anti-  Jewish&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#In_General_2&quot;&gt;1.6.1 In   General&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Roots_and_cause_of_Middle_east_conflict&quot;&gt;1.6.2 Roots and cause of   Middle east conflict&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;  &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Anti-Jewish_by_Israeli-Arabs&quot;&gt;1.6.3 Anti-Jewish by   Israeli-Arabs&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-2&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Anti-African&quot;&gt;1.7 Anti-  African&lt;/a&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li class=&quot;toclevel-3&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;#Genocide_in_Sudan&quot;&gt;1.7.1 Genocide in   Sudan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;  &lt;/li&gt;  &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt;     //  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Racism&quot; title=&quot;Racism&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Racism  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;In_General&quot; title=&quot;In_General&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; In General  &lt;p&gt;&#039;Arabism Equals Racism&#039;, in an elaborated article, Gerald A.   Honigman writes on the &amp;quot;acceptance of anyone else&amp;rsquo;s political rights in   a multi-ethnic region that most Arabs see exclusively as &amp;quot;purely Arab   patrimony.&amp;quot; That&#039;s the Arab-Israel conflict in a nutshell; but it is   also the core of the Arab-Berber, Arab-Kurd, Arab-Black African, Arab-  Copt, Arab-Assyrian, Arab-non-Arab Lebanese conflicts, as well, among   others. The Arabs&#039; Anfal Campaign against the Kurds and their actions   in Darfur and the rest of the southern Sudan are just a few of many   examples of Arab genocidal actions against all who might disagree.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912&quot; title=&quot;http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=24912&quot;&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The bigotry linkage of Arabism&#039;s supremacy and radical Islam&lt;/strong&gt;,   by A &#039;Short Critique of Islamic Fundamentalism&#039; Around the late 1920s   the Moslem Brotherhood was formed by Arabist thinkers racial supremacy   &lt;a href=&quot;#cite_note-0&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;. In the aftermath of 7/7/ &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/London_bombing&quot; title=&quot;London bombing&quot;&gt;London bombing&lt;/a&gt; a group calling itself:   &amp;quot;Organization of Qaidat Al-Jihad in Europe&amp;quot; posted: &lt;em&gt;Rejoice O   Islamic nation. Rejoice O Pan-Arab nation. Rejoice, for the time of   revenge on the British Zionist Crusading government has come&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?%20%20Page=archives&amp;amp;Area=sr&amp;amp;ID=SR3605&quot; title=&quot;http://memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?  Page=archives&amp;amp;Area=sr&amp;amp;ID=SR3605&quot;&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Walid_Phares&quot; title=&quot;Walid   Phares&quot;&gt;Walid Phares&lt;/a&gt; writes about Arabism&#039;s denial of identity of   millions of indigenous non-Arab nations as an ethnic cleansing on a   politico-cultural level &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.arabicbible.com/christian/intro_arab_christians.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.arabicbible.com/christian/intro_arab_christians.htm&quot;&gt;[6]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/w/index.php?%20%20title=Christians_of_Iraq&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; title=&quot;Christians of Iraq (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;Christians of Iraq&lt;/a&gt;   site published an extensive historic account on &amp;quot;The Foolishness of   imposing Oppressive Arab Nationalism on Non Arabs, Non-Arab Muslim   minorities such as the Amazigh, or Berbers, Kurds, and Turkmen found   themselves officially out of favor. They faced the prospect of becoming   &amp;quot;Arabized&amp;quot; or of being denied political and even civil rights. Groups   that identified themselves as neither Arab nor Muslim had it even   worse: Southern Sudanese, Copts, Jews, and Assyrians were plunged into   a protracted nightmare that saw their communities ground into   anonymity, forcing many to emigrate permanently. Even Maronites, whose   retention of political power in Lebanon immunized them from utter   marginalization, watched with alarm as Arab nationalist propaganda   increasingly portrayed them as a foreign and sinister element in the   heart of the Arab nation.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.christiansofiraq.com/ArabismMar236.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.christiansofiraq.com/ArabismMar236.html&quot;&gt;[7]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/w/index.php?%20%20title=Adel_Makhoul&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; title=&quot;Adel Makhoul (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;Adel Makhoul&lt;/a&gt; wrote in   May 1, 2005 about &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/w/index.php?title=Pan-%20%20Arabists&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; title=&quot;Pan-Arabists   (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;Pan-Arabists&lt;/a&gt;: Hiding Arab Racism, that   they&#039;re agents of racism: Arab Racism, that always supported Arab unity   and &amp;quot;Islam&amp;quot; at the expense of non-Arab and non-Moslem peoples and tries   to deflect the world&#039;s attention from Arab and Moslem attrocities   committed against Christians, Kurds, Jews, Israelis, Coptic Christians,   non-Arab Sudanese, etc. he also points to the fact that Sadam Hussein&#039;s   poisoning of the Kurds has never been condemned by one Arab   intellectual or leader. This is because a racist prevalent attitude in   the Arab mind is that the entire Middle East should be Arab. This also   explains the attitude towards Israel, a country that is predominantly   non-Moslem and speaks a Middle Eastern language other than Arabic.&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FZS0RYTC94JP&quot; title=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/review/R1FZS0RYTC94JP&quot;&gt;[8]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Totten&quot; title=&quot;Michael   Totten&quot;&gt;Michael Totten&lt;/a&gt; decries the tired Arab nationalist myth that   Arabism protects Christians. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/04/arabists-vs-the-%20%20middle-east.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/04/arabists-vs-the-  middle-east.php&quot;&gt;[9]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The linkage to terror - Protecting terrorism, Pan-Arabism: the   inhuman progenitor of Islamic Terrorism &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pan-arabism-inhuman-progenitor-%20%20islamic-terrorism.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pan-arabism-inhuman-progenitor-  islamic-terrorism.html&quot;&gt;[10]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Anti-Persian&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Persian&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  Anti-Persian &lt;p&gt;A historic account of Pan-Arabism&#039;s Legacy of Confrontation with   Iran &amp;amp; Arab racism against Iranians. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.venusproject.com/ecs/aFarrokhArab.html&quot;&gt;[11]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/w/index.php?%20%20title=Iran_Heritage&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; title=&quot;Iran Heritage (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;Iran Heritage&lt;/a&gt; says that   It was in Saddam Hussein&#039;s Iraq where Arab racism attained its most   vulgar ... The &amp;quot;Arabization&amp;quot; of Persian contributions on the world   stage was in full. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iran-%20%20heritage.org/interestgroups/history-article2.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.iran-heritage.org/interestgroups/history  -article2.htm&quot;&gt;[12]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt&quot; title=&quot;Egypt&quot;&gt;Egyptian&lt;/a&gt; Arab in the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Qaeda&quot; title=&quot;Al Qaeda&quot;&gt;Al Qaeda&lt;/a&gt; organization, A. &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Zawahri&quot; title=&quot;Zawahri&quot;&gt;Zawahri&lt;/a&gt; described in April 2008 the &amp;quot;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Persians&quot; title=&quot;Persians&quot;&gt;Persians&lt;/a&gt;&amp;quot; as the enemy of &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabs&quot; title=&quot;Arabs&quot;&gt;Arabs&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;#cite_note-1&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Anti-Kurd&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Kurd&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Anti-Kurd &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurds&quot; title=&quot;Kurds&quot;&gt;Kurds&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria&quot; title=&quot;Syria&quot;&gt;Syria&lt;/a&gt; between   2 to 2.5 million &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Ekurdistan2/14-3-04-%20%20opinion-badrakhan-freedom-for-kurds-w-kurdistan.html&quot; title=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan2/14-3-04-opinion-  badrakhan-freedom-for-kurds-w-kurdistan.html&quot;&gt;[13]&lt;/a&gt;   they&#039;re second class citizens, for many not citizens at all, the   attempts of Erasing Ethnic Identity. Syrian Kurds were banned from   giving their children names reflecting their ethnic identity. Pary   Karadaghi, Director of Kurdish Human Rights Watch in Washington, says   one of the most basic ways of showing Kurdish identity was taken away.   &amp;quot;The campaign of &#039;Arabization&#039; actually replaced the Kurdish names,   People could not have Kurdish names on cities, buildings [and]   businesses. Children&#039;s names could not be Kurdish.&amp;quot; Syria&#039;s Kurds   struggle for years to survive despite government oppression on many   fronts. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.khrw.org/advocate/2005/syrias_kurds_struggle_for_right%20%20s.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.khrw.org/advocate/2005/syrias_kurds_struggle_for_righ  ts.htm&quot;&gt;[14]&lt;/a&gt; And a cry against syria&#039;s oppression   has gone out. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.reformsyria.org/index.php?%20%20option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=296&amp;amp;Itemid=67&quot; title=&quot;http://www.reformsyria.org/index.php?  option=com_content&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;id=296&amp;amp;Itemid=67&quot;&gt;[15]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq&quot; title=&quot;Iraq&quot;&gt;Iraq&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein&quot; title=&quot;Saddam   Hussein&quot;&gt;Saddam Hussein&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anfal&quot; title=&quot;Anfal&quot;&gt;Anfal&lt;/a&gt; campaign was designed to   depopulate &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_cleansing&quot; title=&quot;Ethnic cleansing&quot;&gt;ethnic cleansing&lt;/a&gt; the Kurdish regions in   northern Iraq. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1595623,00.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1595623,00.html&quot;&gt;[16]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish&quot; title=&quot;Kurdish&quot;&gt;Kurdish&lt;/a&gt; writers decry the massacre of Halabja and   The Racism of so-called Arab Intellectuals towards Kurds and Kurdistan   &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wadinet.de/news/iraq/newsarticle.php?id=569&quot; title=&quot;http://www.wadinet.de/news/iraq/newsarticle.php?id=569&quot;&gt;[17]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/%7Ekurdistan4/15-%20%2010-04-opinion-yawer-referendum.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://home.cogeco.ca/~kurdistan4/15-10-04-opinion-yawer-  referendum.htm&quot;&gt;[18]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Anti-Berber&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Berber&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; Anti-Berber &lt;p&gt;The &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/UN&quot; title=&quot;UN&quot;&gt;UN&lt;/a&gt; documented the racism against Indigenous peoples   Multi-ethnic States, The Imazighen &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Berbers&quot; title=&quot;Berbers&quot;&gt;Berbers&lt;/a&gt; are the indigenous peoples of northern Africa and   the Sahel &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.un.org/WCAR/e-kit/backgrounder4.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.un.org/WCAR/e-  kit/backgrounder4.htm&quot;&gt;[19]&lt;/a&gt;. Despite Arabization&#039;s   oppression in north-Africa, they are a proud people&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010423_berber%20%20s.shtml&quot; title=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010423_berbe  rs.shtml&quot;&gt;[20]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Morocco&quot; title=&quot;Morocco&quot;&gt;Morocco&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s   Berbers Battle to Keep Their Culture &lt;a href=&quot;http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/linguistics/news/berber.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www2.sjsu.edu/depts/linguistics/news/berber.htm&quot;&gt;[21]&lt;/a&gt;, in 2004 they spoke out and attacked &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Moroccan&quot; title=&quot;Moroccan&quot;&gt;Moroccan&lt;/a&gt; state racism &lt;a href=&quot;http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/06/13/berbers-attack-moroccan-%20%20state-racism&quot; title=&quot;http://oreneta.com/kalebeul/2004/06/13/berbers-attack-moroccan-  state-racism&quot;&gt;[22]&lt;/a&gt;. Berber Leader Belkacem Lounes:   &lt;em&gt;&amp;rsquo;There Is No Worse Colonialism Than That of the Pan-Arabist Clan   that Wants to Dominate Our People&amp;rsquo;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.north-of-%20%20africa.com/article.php3?id_article=403&quot; title=&quot;http://www.north-of-africa.com/article.php3?id_article=403&quot;&gt;[23]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/w/index.php?%20%20title=Kabylia_info&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;redlink=1&quot; title=&quot;Kabylia info (page does not exist)&quot;&gt;Kabylia info&lt;/a&gt; writes   about oppression and tyranny of its people by Arabic-Islamic   colonialism &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.kabylia.info/letters/when-will-the-%20%20arabic-islamic-colonialism-end.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.kabylia.info/letters/when-will-the-arabic-islamic-  colonialism-end.html&quot;&gt;[24]&lt;/a&gt;, the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/IHT&quot; title=&quot;IHT&quot;&gt;IHT&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s description:   This is Kabylia, one of &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Algeria&quot; title=&quot;Algeria&quot;&gt;Algeria&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s most restive regions - home to a stubborn   and proud ethnic minority of Berbers who since the end of the colonial   era four decades ago have fought to preserve their cultural identity   and independence. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/10/news/algeria.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/10/news/algeria.php&quot;&gt;[25]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;On_Caucasians&quot; title=&quot;On_Caucasians&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  On Caucasians  &lt;p&gt;SHEIK &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Din_al-Hilali&quot; title=&quot;Taj Din al-Hilali&quot;&gt;Taj Din al-Hilali&lt;/a&gt;:   &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;The Western people are the biggest liars and oppressors and   especially the English race,&amp;quot; the Mufti of Australia said in Arabic   during the extensive interview in Egypt, his birthplace.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21046724-%20%20601,00.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21046724-  601,00.html&quot;&gt;[26]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;On the racist gang rape spree by Arab &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_people&quot; title=&quot;Lebanese   people&quot;&gt;Lebanese&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia&quot; title=&quot;Australia&quot;&gt;Australia&lt;/a&gt; targeting specifically white girls,   From the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Morning_Herald&quot; title=&quot;Sydney Morning Herald&quot;&gt;Sydney Morning   Herald&lt;/a&gt; 2002 &lt;em&gt;Racist rapes: Finally the truth comes out, So now we   know the facts, straight from the Supreme Court, that a group of   Lebanese Muslim gang rapists from south-western Sydney hunted their   victims on the basis of their ethnicity and subjected them to hours of   degrading, dehumanising torture. The young women, and girls as young as   14, were &amp;quot;sluts&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Aussie pigs&amp;quot;, the rapists said. So now that some   of the perpetrators are in jail, will those people who cried racism and   media &amp;quot;sensationalism&amp;quot; hang their heads in shame? Hardly.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/13/1026185124700.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/07/13/1026185124700.html&quot;&gt;[27]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Saudi_Arabia&quot; title=&quot;Saudi   Arabia&quot;&gt;Saudi Arabia&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s King Fahd Bin Abdul-Aziz, Jeddeh 1993: &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;I   summon my blue-eyed slaves anytime it pleases me. I command the   Americans to send me their bravest soldiers to die for me. Anytime I   clap my hands a stupid genie called the American ambassador appears to   do my bidding. When the Americans die in my service their bodies are   frozen in metal boxes by the US Embassy and American airplanes carry   them away, as if they never existed. Truly, America is my favorite   slave.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.sauduction.com/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.sauduction.com/&quot;&gt;[28]  &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;In 2006 Arab &amp;quot;Youths&amp;rdquo; Kick Man to Death on Crowded Bus in Antwerp   Belgium &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1130&quot; title=&quot;http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/1130&quot;&gt;[29]  &lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;Anti-Jewish&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Jewish&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;  Anti-Jewish  &lt;p&gt;&lt;a name=&quot;In_General_2&quot; title=&quot;In_General_2&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;   In General &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pan-Arabism&#039;s anti-Jewish ideology&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The champion of pan-Arabism &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Egypt&quot; title=&quot;Egypt&quot;&gt;Egypt&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamal_Abdel_Nasser&quot; title=&quot;Gamal Abdel   Nasser&quot;&gt;Gamal Abdel Nasser&lt;/a&gt; used the infamous anti-Semitic   &amp;quot;protocols&amp;quot; libel in his war against Israel. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newstatesman.com/200212020013&quot; title=&quot;http://www.newstatesman.com/200212020013&quot;&gt;[30]&lt;/a&gt;, Both pan-Arabism and pan-Islamic ideologies   looked to &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler&quot; title=&quot;Hitler&quot;&gt;Hitler&lt;/a&gt;&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany&quot; title=&quot;Germany&quot;&gt;Germany&lt;/a&gt; as   a model &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Haj_Amin_al-Husseini&quot; title=&quot;Haj Amin al-Husseini&quot;&gt;Haj Amin al-  Husseini&lt;/a&gt; expressed his admiration for the way &#039;the Germans have   definitively solved the Jewish problem,&#039; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict/Articles/Ettinger%20%20-2003-08-16.asp&quot; title=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-  conflict/Articles/Ettinger-2003-08-16.asp&quot;&gt;[31]&lt;/a&gt;   &amp;amp; Gamal Abdel Nasser&#039;s affinity for the Mufti was great &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/946831.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/946831.html&quot;&gt;[32]&lt;/a&gt;, Joachim Wurst describes &lt;em&gt;the emergence and   psychological mechanisms of modern &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Semitism&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Semitism&quot;&gt;anti-Semitism&lt;/a&gt; and particularly of genocidal   Islamist anti-Semitism. He traces the development of this trend from   the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Muslim_Brotherhood&quot; title=&quot;Muslim Brotherhood&quot;&gt;Muslim Brotherhood&lt;/a&gt; and the Mufti of   Jerusalem in the 1930s and 1940s through the &lt;strong&gt;pan-Arabism&lt;/strong&gt; of the   1950s and 1960s up to the present-day Islamism&lt;/em&gt;. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?%20%20DRIT=5&amp;amp;DBID=1&amp;amp;LNGID=1&amp;amp;TMID=</description>
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            <dc:creator>Matias from Carrollton, KY</dc:creator>
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            <description>&lt;p class=&quot;body&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;[Hooked nose Arabs paint hooked noses?]&lt;br /&gt;Author Derided by Muslim Students [Association] in Anti Semitic Cartoon &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;Author David Horowitz responded today to his recent controversy at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. David Horowitz, a popular conservative writer, was derided in a Nazi-like anti-Semitic cartoon, put out by the Muslim Student Association. The cartoon, which was copied and spread around campus, portrays Horowitz, a Jewish man, as a hooked-nose Nazi hiding in a trash can. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://tothecenter.com/news.php?readmore=4895&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://tothecenter.com/news.php?readmore=4895&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;em&gt;The MSA-As Sabiqun Connection&lt;br /&gt;[July 2008]&lt;br /&gt;The Terrorism Awareness Project has just released this very informative video of the blatant&amp;nbsp; Islamic pro-terror movement As Sabiqun, and their influence on life at UC Irvine, and universities across the United States.&amp;nbsp; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.redcounty.com/rccampuswatch/2008/07/the-msa-as-sabiqun-connection/&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.redcounty.com/rccampuswatch/2008/07/the-msa-as-sabiqun-connection/&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;</description>
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            <description>&amp;quot;Moderate&amp;quot; Palestinians&#039; support &amp;amp; Glorification of mass murder! &lt;blockquote&gt;ADL Disturbed at Palestinian President&#039;s Outreach to Cold-Blooded Terrorist New York, NY, September 3, 2008 &amp;hellip; The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) today said that Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas had &amp;quot;handed a propaganda victory to Hezbollah&amp;quot; and sent a wrong message to Israelis and Palestinians by meeting with newly freed terrorist Samir Kuntar, the man responsible for one of the most infamous and cold-blooded attacks in Israel&#039;s history.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adl.org/PresRele/TerrorismIntl_93/5352_93.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.adl.org/PresRele/TerrorismIntl_93/5352_93.htm&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;a name=&quot;top&quot; title=&quot;top&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel&#039;s extraordinary help for the Arab &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; should overshadow any consequences in its war on terror stemming out of &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; initiated violence&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Let alone current contributions and aid, even in the years that the &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; love to refer to as &amp;quot;occupation&amp;quot;, just How &amp;quot;bad&amp;quot; was it really&amp;nbsp;for them?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1967 - 1993&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Economic prosperity&lt;/strong&gt;, Israeli investment in &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; business, industry and infrastructure helped the PA GNP grow 13% annually between 1967 and 1980, per capita income grew tenfold, unemployment dropped from 40% to below 5%.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Standard of living soared&lt;/strong&gt;, Health gains: Israel built 166 clinics, provided universal insurance and medical programs for &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;. Mortality rates plummeted by 2/3 (1970-1990). Israel also expanded water, sewage and electric systems.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Political and civil freedoms&lt;/strong&gt;, Freedom of association, trade unions, civic organizations and opposition parties permitted. Voting rights extended to poorer classes and to women for local elections (for the first time in &#039;Palestinian&amp;quot; - Arabs&#039; history).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Freedom of the press&lt;/strong&gt;, even for extreme anti Israel opinions.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Educational development&lt;/strong&gt;, Israel built 6 universities and 20 community colleges for the &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;. illiteracy dropped from 50% to 30% between 1967 and 1980.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Jobs&lt;/strong&gt;, Except during terrorists upsurges, Israel employs about 120,000 &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; from the disputed territories. Their earning accounts for the chunk of the income of their overall population.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Funding&lt;/strong&gt;, Israel allocated $90 million between 1993-1999, facilitated investments in &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot;&#039; private sector and granted 2,522 fellowships to &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; for professional training between 1995-1999.Israel contributed more annually than even Saudi Arabia until 1973. Kuwait and Libya did not match Israeli donations until 1980. (Bard pg. 182).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;strong&gt;Refugees&lt;/strong&gt;, Between 1949 and 1971, Israel repatriated 140,000 &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; refugees who are now full Israeli citizens.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;__________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISRAEL&#039;S IMPRESSIVE AID TO ARABS &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Without any feedback from the other side &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;CNN.com - Israeli shipper endorses DP World - Mar 2, 2006&lt;br /&gt;Hillary Clinton obtained exclusively by CNN, Israel&#039;s Zim Integrated Shipping ... A Dubai government official said no goods or containers enter UAE ports &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/02/port.security/index.html&quot;&gt;http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/03/02/port.security/index.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;NPR : The President&#039;s Unlikely Allies in UAE Ports DealIt&#039;s from the CEO of Israel&#039;s largest shipping company. Dubai Ports World, that they had never experienced any security issues...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5243869&quot;&gt;http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5243869&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_____________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It was Lieberman, Zogby said, who helped to involve Arab Americans in President Bill Clinton&#039;s 1992 run for the White House, personally calling campaign officials who appeared reluctant to allow Arab Americans to associate publicly with the campaign. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/14/campaign.arabamericans.reut&quot;&gt;http://archives.cnn.com/2000/ALLPOLITICS/stories/08/14/campaign.arabamericans.reut&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_____________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In shift since Hezbollah war, Jewish Agency aids Israeli Arabs &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/About/Press+Room/Jewish+Agency+In+The+News/2006/5/sep06cjta.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishagency.org/JewishAgency/English/Home/About/Press+Room/Jewish+Agency+In+The+News/2006/5/sep06cjta.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;______________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel helps rescue Arabs in Saudi desert, Thanks to Israel the Israeli Arabs where helped &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;amp;nid=10989&quot;&gt;http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&amp;amp;nid=10989&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;____________________________________________________&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Already in 2000 Israel was struggling so hard to keep on being...&lt;/strong&gt; Israel&#039;s Humane Army&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Israels_Humane_Army.asp&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://articles.aish.com/graphics/articles/Israel&#039;s_Humane_Army_230x150_m.jpg&quot; border=&quot;0&quot; alt=&quot;Israel&#039;s Humane Army&quot; width=&quot;230&quot; height=&quot;150&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;p&gt;The head of the International Law Branch of the Israeli Defense Forces talks about Israeli restraint, and efforts to reduce Palestinian casualties. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jerusalem - November 15, 2000 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Many people tend to compare between the current situation and the Intifada of 1987-92. I would like to explain to you in a few words the differences, from my perspective, in relation to the current situation and the Intifada in 1987...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Israels_Humane_Army.asp&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Israels_Humane_Army.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;________________________________&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel Is Much Too Nice&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By Irwin N. Graulich&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; July 30, 2006&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just like America, Israel is much too kind to its enemies. Had America fought the war in Iraq in the same manner used by Roosevelt during WWII, Iraq would have been over 2 years ago--and it would be much closer to a real democracy. Israel--the only country to use rubber bullets against evil; the only country to use pinpoint targeted assassination to destroy monsters who plan mass murder against civilians; the only country to drop leaflets written in Arabic to warn population centers that the bombs are coming; the only country to absorb rocket attacks against totally innocent civilians for 6 years with almost no response, gets labeled, &amp;quot;the bad guys.&amp;quot; Imagine, tiny Israel continuously being blamed for using &amp;quot;excessive, disproportionate force&amp;quot; by the media, the Arab/Muslim world, the Vatican, Ireland and that ultimate pimp, Jacques Chirac. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please, I need a barf bag! These bleeding heart leftist/liberals want us to believe that the innocent (sic) Lebanese government and its people never saw any of the 13,000 rockets being shipped around their country which were pointed towards Israel. No Lebanese ever came across 20,000 Hezbollah fighters with weapons over their shoulders and heavy artillery, which covered 90% of the territory south of Beirut. Prime Minister Fouad Siniora knew nothing about large weapons shipments sent via plane, ship and truck from Syria, Iran and Egypt. Please, I need a barf bag! The reason that the Arab/Muslim world uses the terminology, &amp;quot;excessive force on innocent civilians,&amp;quot; is because according to the Koran they are supposed to be tough and win the battles. Yet a small bunch of bible studying Yeshiva boys and &amp;quot;weak looking&amp;quot; Jews in Israel completely decimated all those tough Arab countries in 1948, 1967 and 1973. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Muslim world of over 1 billion people can never defeat 5 million Jews, no matter how hard they try--and they all know it. So they have turned to the Joseph Goebbals method of &amp;quot;Propaganda Weaponry,&amp;quot; and most of the world, except for America, has fallen for it. America is without question, a much better, more moral country than all the rest of the world combined, by a factor of 1000.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The entire world sees this fact quite clearly, which is the reason why America is constantly being criticized. It is difficult for other nations to see goodness prevail, when they had absolutely nothing to do with it. So how and why did all this begin? As usual, it is blamed on the age old Arab-Israeli problem, a code word for the Muslim-Jewish battle, aka Islam versus the Judeo/Christian world. According to the Koran, it should be a lot easier for Islamicists to prevail, since they have Mohammed on their side. Well, the God of Moses seems to be superior, a smack in the face to over 1 billion people. There is a man in Iran who considers himself to be a present day Messiah, a prophet cut from the same kaffiah as Mohammed. His name--Ahmadinejad (pronounced &amp;quot;A--mad--dog--on--Jihad&amp;quot;). Denying The Holocaust, calling Israel a Nazi state, labeling Americans infidels are just a few of his many talents. Unfortunately, it is people like him and Osama that make Islam appear to be a total fraud. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The crazy mullahs throughout the Arab/Muslim world refuse to acknowledge the direct, obvious involvement in current events of the One true God on earth, who began his reign in the Old and New Testament. Of course the secular media will never acknowledge an obvious truth when it emanates from a religious perspective. They are simply too sophisticated to believe in so called &amp;quot;voodoo.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;The key message of Judaism and Christianity is to make God&#039;s world a better place. It seems that God checked his &amp;quot;Moral Radar&amp;quot; here on earth, only to discover the evil of Radical Islam, a cancer matasticizing throughout the Middle East. To protect this terrific world from evil, God initially used the Palestinians, who He first tried to placate by permitting Israel to give up some land which He originally promised to the Jews. God made the Jews leave Gaza &amp;quot;temporarily,&amp;quot; in order to show the world that even when Israel painfully gives up territory without getting a thing in return, peace is still impossible. Instead of taking the greenhouses that Jews built in Gaza to create an industry which would cultivate and export flowers to Europe, thus creating a vibrant economy, the Palestinian Arabs immediately destroyed all the irrigation piping and greenhouses because &amp;quot;the Jews&amp;quot; built them. No thank you&#039;s, no gratitude--only terrorism in return. Please--I need a barf bag! God was not very happy with the deeds of Palestinian Arabs heaped upon the original Palestinians--the Jews. So, the God of the Torah made the evil Palestinian Arabs sneak into Israeli territory and kidnap Gilad Shalit, an Israeli soldier. Big mistake, because this action gave Israel the moral authority to &amp;quot;burn evil out of the Palestinian midst,&amp;quot; as the Bible teaches. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Somehow, the world reaction to this event was not the usual overreaction condemning Israel. Palestinian ingratitude was recognized and except for a few radical leftists, the coffee shops throughout Europe ignored the situation, allowing the socialists to drink their morning kava and read the newspapers. Again, the secular world has not paid attention to one of the most important statements in the Bible--&amp;quot;Those who bless the Jews will be blessed, and those who curse the Jews will be cursed.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;No country in history has blessed the Jews more than America, and no country is as blessed today. No countries throughout history have cursed the Jews more than the Arab/Muslim world, and no countries have been more cursed than those nations today. With Southern Evil being contained, Northern Evil was now growing uncontrollably to Israel&#039;s north. So again, God pulled a few more strings and &amp;quot;allowed&amp;quot; evil men to cross the border into Israel and kidnap two Israeli soldiers. Unfortunately, those Hezbollah terrorists have &amp;quot;Free Will,&amp;quot; which resulted in four dead Israelis. So now the cancer is finally being cleaned out by the IDF surgeons, in one of the most ethical war surgeries on record. Decent religious people around the world understand that there is no need to worry about goodness being triumphant, since the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is with Israel. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is the reason why Israel can do virtually whatever it desires against the evil terrorists and the nations that harbor them, without much of a response. Let the critics say whatever they want. Ahmadinejad is just a hooker for the mullah pimps in his country, who all realize that the prophecies found in the Koran are just not happening. Quite a rude awakening for those Islamic religious figures who see more truth and strength in the Old and New Testament; which is why they are trying to go nuclear. What these Iranian fools do not realize is that if they attack Israel or America, they will receive the same results as the Palestinians and Lebanese. So bring it on Mr. Mad Dog Jihad, and you can rest assured that the Iranian oil fields will have signs in Hebrew very shortly. And the world will not complain much when they see their gas pumps reading $1.00 a gallon. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/8988.htm&quot;&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/8988.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;___________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel - good vs evil&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More on humane Israel the giver and Arab Palestinian the exploiter&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;December 26, 2006&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Reality Check&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Excessive restrain not &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;excessive force&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The restrained Israel that is only branded with ridiculous charges of &amp;quot;excessive force&amp;quot;.Since the cease fire broken between Israel and all &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; (December 2006), more than 55 rockets were launched from &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; on Israeli civilians&amp;nbsp;including on a nursery school in Sderot, that particular attack was immediately after Israel pledged for releasing 100 Million dollars to them.But the UN can never seem to find any time to pressure &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;, the same UN will jump all over Israel as soon as some Arabs get hurt by Arab militants&#039; cruel tactics.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The cycle of responding fire for olive branches not &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;cycle of violence&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But this cycle of Israel giving and giving and Palestinian Arabs only responding with more and more violence is as old at least as this group started to call themselves as &#039;Palestinians&amp;quot;. Take for example this biggest give away for the &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; that no Arab nation was ever willing to do, which is giving them land that was never theirs as a &#039;sovereign land&#039;, the Gaza give away in 2005, What was the Palestinian Arab respond?You guessed it, more and more violence, stabbing civilians, bombing or continuous attempt-to-bomb, massacres.Let alone the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; almost collective dark voice for more crimes, in so shamefully overwhelmingly supporting the radical racist Hamas, at the time that Israel&#039;s heroic painful dramatic sacrifice of evacuating families was seen &amp;amp; heard around the globe, when compassionate Israelis overwhlmingly were thinking ahead for a brighter future, when these courageous Zionists decided overlooking narrow borders so vital to it&#039;s security for the sake of peace, these Arabisn bloodthirsty war mongers hurried only to vote in these masters of genocide, for the cruel endorsers of mass suicide, for the cult of death, another huge step backwards, just as Israel makes another giant step forward, towards a slight chance of peace &amp;amp; the betterment for the coming generations of both people.But this of course is hardly a recent picture, this has been happening time &amp;amp; time again, each gesture &amp;amp; good will Israel has been presenting the Arabs, whether it is releasing dangerous prisoners, or more financial help, it never saw/sees anything positive feedback.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Arab Palestinians see Israel&#039;s gesture as &lt;em&gt;&amp;quot;weakness&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Undoubtedly the more Israel gives them the more their Arab adversaries see it as a weakness, and not as a natural good hearted Israel, just as these cold hearted terrible Arab racists that have been brainwashed into &#039;not seeing the Zionists as humans&#039;, can&#039;t seem to see the humanity that motivates Israeli soldiers&#039; hesitation to fire when Arab terrorists hide among civilians, they interpret it of course as &amp;quot;cowardice&amp;quot;..This reaffirms the danger, appeasing Islamic terrorists contain.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;____________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;TOO NICE TO WIN? ISRAEL&#039;S DILEMMA&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, July 25, 2006&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;From John Podhoretz in the NY Post: WHAT if liberal democracies have now evolved to a point where they can no longer wage war effectively because they have achieved a level of humanitarian concern for others that dwarfs any really cold-eyed pursuit of their own national interests?What if the universalist idea of liberal democracy - the idea that all people are created equal - has sunk in so deeply that we no longer assign special value to the lives and interests of our own people as opposed to those in other countries?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What if this triumph of universalism is demonstrated by the Left&#039;s insistence that American and Israeli military actions marked by an extraordinary concern for preventing civilian casualties are in fact unacceptably brutal? And is also apparent in the Right&#039;s claim that a war against a country has nothing to do with the people but only with that country&#039;s leaders? Can any war be won when this is the nature of the discussion in the countries fighting the war? Can any war be won when one of the combatants voluntarily limits itself in this manner?Could World War II have been won by Britain and the United States if the two countries did not have it in them to firebomb Dresden and nuke Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Didn&#039;t the willingness of their leaders to inflict mass casualties on civilians indicate a cold-eyed singleness of purpose that helped break the will and the back of their enemies? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Didn&#039;t that singleness of purpose extend down to the populations in those countries in those days, who would have and did support almost any action at any time that would lead to the deaths of Germans and Japanese?What if the tactical mistake we made in Iraq was that we didn&#039;t kill enough Sunnis in the early going to intimidate them and make them so afraid of us they would go along with anything? Wasn&#039;t the survival of Sunni men between the ages of 15 and 35 the reason there was an insurgency and the basic cause of the sectarian violence now?If you can&#039;t imagine George W. Bush issuing such an order, is there any American leader you could imagine doing so?And if America can&#039;t do it, can Israel? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Could Israel - even hardy, strong, universally conscripted Israel - possibly stomach the bloodshed that would accompany the total destruction of Hezbollah?If Lebanon&#039;s 300-plus civilian casualties are already rocking the world, what if it would take 10,000 civilian casualties to finish off Hezbollah? Could Israel inflict that kind of damage on Lebanon - not because of world opinion, but because of its own modern sensibilities and its understanding of the value of every human life?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Where do these questions lead us?What if Israel&#039;s caution about casualties among its own soldiers and Lebanese civilians has demonstrated to Hezbollah and Hamas that as long as they can duck and cover when the missiles fly and the bombs fall, they can survive and possibly even thrive?What if Israel has every capability of achieving its aim, but cannot unleash itself against a foe more dangerous, more unscrupulous, more unprincipled and more barbaric than even the monstrous leaders of the Intifada it managed to quell after years of suicide attacks?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And as for the United States, what if we have every tool at our disposal to win a war - every weapons system we could want manned by the most superbly trained military in history - except the ability to match or exceed our antagonists in ruthlessness?Is this the horrifying paradox of 21st century warfare? If Israel and the United States cannot be defeated militarily in any conventional sense, have our foes discovered a new way to win? Are they seeking victory through demoralization alone - by daring us to match them in barbarity and knowing we will fail?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Are we becoming unwitting participants in their victory and our defeat? Can it be that the moral greatness of our civilization - its astonishing focus on the value of the individual above all - is endangering the future of our civilization as well? &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://watch.windsofchange.net/2006/06_0724_0730.htm#dilemma&quot;&gt;http://watch.windsofchange.net/2006/06_0724_0730.htm#dilemma&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://1918.com/article.php?article_id=5677&amp;amp;type=read&quot;&gt;http://1918.com/article.php?article_id=5677&amp;amp;type=read&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;YouTube - Israel humanitarian acts 2 Videos. &lt;strong&gt;ISRAELI ARMY MOST HUMANE ARMY IN THE WORLD&lt;/strong&gt; ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/user/ninyostorm&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/user/ninyostorm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Humane war is costly &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://samsonblinded.org/titles/Israeli_military_strategy.htm#_Toc118557266&quot;&gt;http://samsonblinded.org/titles/Israeli_military_strategy.htm#_Toc118557266&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;How did the most humane state in history become demonized? - Opinion Feb 7, 2008 ... How did the most humane state in history - facing comparable threats - become demonized and accused of apartheid? ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nyunews.com/news/2008/02/07/Opinion/How-Did.The.Most.Humane.State.In.History.Become.Demonized-3194623.shtml&quot;&gt;http://www.nyunews.com/news/2008/02/07/Opinion/How-Did.The.Most.Humane.State.In.History.Become.Demonized-3194623.shtml&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;__________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Arabs should kiss kind Israel&#039;s feet&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;For... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Taking it&amp;quot; for so long.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Looking for, trying, sweating in efforts NOT to hit at ANY CIVILIANS (in anti terrorists operations).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For taking care of Arabs in their country far better than they&#039;re in their own -- most -- Arab countries.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For not pushing US to boycott the Arabs as Arab-Muslims do so with Europe.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For taking in the Arab &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; when no Arab nation wants them while the guilty part of those &#039;refugees&#039; is still Arab Leaders&#039;, that have chased them out in 1948 with promises of &#039;defeating&#039; Israel, and all these years did NOT let Western aid to reach those poor in order to defame Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For giving land to the Arab SETTLERS (with no more than a recent history there) while NON of the ARAB GOLIATH LAND-COUNTRIES would give them an inch.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For being overly morally right in feeling guilty for DEFENDING THEIR lives against Arab Muslims mass murderer-terrorists, that comes on the terrible expense of some Arabists using it to tarnish in a silly false &amp;quot;pointing-finger&#039; at kind Israel.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For not treating the Arabs in a racial discriminatory even though danger is at every restaurant, bus, bus-stops, markets, etc., Would they differentiate, no Arab Genocide Bomber would be able to mingle in &amp;amp; Comit the atrocities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For NOT behaving like their &amp;quot;brotherly&amp;quot; Arab-Syria Arab Jordan (&amp;amp; others) that have just simply massacred 10,000 (some estimate 25,000) in one month after Radical Muslim &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; started uprising.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For not AS banging daily the UN &amp;amp; International media with real charges on &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; Arab leaders&#039; crimes on their own people&#039;s kids &amp;amp; on Israeli civilians, While Islamo Arab world feels a &#039;duty&#039; to defame this struggling victim Israel via blatant vicious libels &amp;amp; lies &amp;amp; never apologize even when exposed.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnn.com/view_message.php?&amp;amp;res_id=12720&quot;&gt;Doing It the Arab Way&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Faces of the Israeli Army&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By SHALOM FREEDMAN &lt;em&gt;A PSALM IN JENIN&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/em&gt;By Brett Goldberg &lt;br /&gt;304 pages. Modan Publishing House. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In March 2002, Israel suffered the worst month of terror attacks in its history. Over two hundred people were killed and many hundreds more injured. This wave of attacks climaxed at Netanya&amp;#65533;s Park Hotel, where on Seder night a suicide bomber murdered thirty people and injured scores more. In response to this horrifying crime, the Israeli government undertook the sort of military operation many Israelis had been clamoring for during the previous months. Operation Defensive Shield was launched; it turned out to be decisive in greatly reducing Palestinian terror in the following days and months. The most well-known focus of military action during this operation was Jenin, the West Bank city considered the capital of Palestinian suicide-bombing...&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Goldberg does not confine himself to the military action alone but also tells the stories of the soldiers&#039; families. He depicts the ethnic mix of Israelis and their moral and religious strengths. The unit he concentrates upon consists in large part of what are known in Israel as &amp;quot;national-religious&amp;quot; soldiers, though it includes a good mix of other types, as well. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Remarkably, Goldberg shows soldiers fighting for their lives and, at the same time, contending with moral issues, seeking to fulfill their extremely unpleasant duties in the most humane way possible.&amp;nbsp;Despite snipers nests, booby traps, ambushes, and above all their own losses and injuries, these soldiers maintain their own dignity and consideration for their enemies.&amp;nbsp;Many within Israel claim this consideration was taken too far in Jenin: had Israel acted as &amp;quot;normal army,&amp;quot; some say, and bombed the camp from above (as, for example, the U.S. did when it razed a building in Baghdad in an effort to kill Saddam Hussein), sixteen of the Israelis soldiers&amp;nbsp;who were killed in&amp;nbsp;an ambush in the camp would still be alive today.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Goldberg&#039;s book illustrates the thesis that to truly understand the way an army works, one must look at relations within platoons and small units. The friendship networks Goldberg presents enforce our sense of how loyalty and courage play a central role in the life of the everyday soldier. There are no superheroes here, but plenty of quietly courageous people,&amp;nbsp;a number of whom regrettably&amp;nbsp;are lost in the battle. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Clearly and movingly written, Goldberg&#039;s book is a must read for anyone who wishes to understand the challenges Israel, its people, and its soldiers have faced in the past three years, and continue to face now. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Freedman2.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.jbooks.com/nonfiction/index/NF_Freedman2.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;__________________________________&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;ISRAEL VS ARAB - THE WAR OF THE HUMANITARIAN VS THE UN-HUMANITARIAN&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;January 22, 2008&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one has been talking in the mainstream media about the daily &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; barrage of missiles aimed specifically at Israeli kids, the southern Israel under siege of &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; occupation, the trembling fear of Israeli women for their children&#039;s safety in Sderot (&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.monstersandcritics.com/middleeast/features/article_1387353.php/Fear_and_trauma_as_rockets_impact_Israeli_town&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Fear and trauma as rockets impact Israeli town&lt;/a&gt;), but everyone is up in arms&lt;br /&gt;if Israel acts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No one has been talking in mainstream media as Israel has been successfully eliminating terrorists [with unimaginable efforts in carrying it out] without any damage upon civilians in hundreds of operations, but I bet you, you&#039;ll hear them loud and clear, if its humane precision-tactics fails just once.&lt;br /&gt;Just as no one in the mainstream media talks about the constant Israel VS Arab, as humanitarian vs un-humanitarian war, &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; and Hezbollah Arabs always try to draw Israel into responding in operations, awaiting cheerfully such responds to play the fake &amp;quot;victim&amp;quot; card, Israel - however - is never happy to carry out any anti terror activities, and when reluctantly it has to go ahead with it, it puts immense efforts to fail Arabs&#039; desire for mass casualties among its civilians, Israel&#039;s struggle against Arab cruelty on its population is&lt;br /&gt;relentless, but never appreciated.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why is humanitarian Israel still (January 2008) supplying two&lt;br /&gt;thirds of fuel supply to un-humanitarian &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I mean, What would one expect from a self hating sickening hypocritical typical whining of the NPR reporting about a &amp;quot;humanitarian crisis&amp;quot; in Gaza? (Jan. 2008 at the height of Arab attacking rockets) What&#039;s &amp;quot;humanitarian&amp;quot; about Hamas-tan? [as twisted NPR is, it first reports of what Hamas &amp;quot;says&amp;quot; that all fuel supply is shut down, only thereafter is quotes Israel&#039;s declaration and harsh accusation that the &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot; simply LIE, and that two thirds are still supplied, as if the world hasn&#039;t seen enough of the minus zero credibility of &amp;quot;what Palestinian Pallywood says&amp;quot;], the cruel terrorist militant Islamic totalitarian regime? The oppression of non Muslims (Christians per se)? The investments of its limited resources into deadly Jihad, or the criminal use of its civilians to attack Israeli civilians via rockets and other cowardice methods?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Try and make a survey, a poll on how many are really aware of the targets by the Arabs, kids! how they fire exactly when and where the children go to kindergarten (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3495939,00.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Barrage of rockets hits Sderot as kids go to school&lt;/a&gt;), the fact that with God&#039;s grace the damage is low is of course totally irrelevant to Arabs&#039; [usual] genocide attempts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As it is rare for the NPR, it shockingly did interview some Israelis about the Hamas attack of Israeli civilians and how Israel should respond to it, as one Israeli has put it very real: &amp;quot;We Israelis have been setting us up in high moral standards we have a huge dilemma on how to respond&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;Yet, it is rather the Arab Palestinian &amp;quot;victim-hood&amp;quot; that still manages to&lt;br /&gt;generate fans.&lt;br /&gt;Amazing how the terrible unromantic cult of destruction is still not seen by some as what it is, a self inflicted cult, and that no one else can ever be blamed on whatever is going on there.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;And just as you thought that the Fatah is much better, you hear that the &amp;quot;moderate&amp;quot; Abbas regime decided to allocate 40% of the billions of dollars in aid [the Europeans have pledged to give] to the Hamas terror &amp;quot;government&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;I have got news for the fake &amp;quot;humanitarian&amp;quot; singers - reporters in biased media: There&#039;s nothing humanitarian about pointing fingers anywhere outside the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; cruel leadership and&lt;br /&gt;those that elect them.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;______________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel suffers because Israel is BETTER!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;(Written in 2003) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What happened when the Palestinian Arabs tried to take control of Jordan? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;King Hussein of Jordan ejected Arafat&#039;s Palestinians in September 1970, called Black September because they were trying to take over his kingdom. King Hussein drove them into Lebanon after killing more than 10,000. The Lebanese welcomed the fleeing Palestinians into their bosom, but suddenly found themselves under attack by Arafat&#039;s Palestinians who set up a mini Terror State within Lebanon. For the next 12 years terror raged and over 100,000 Lebanese were murdered by their Palestinian brothers. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But BEAUTIFUL Israel: risks lives going DOOR to DOOR on the look out for Arab TERRORISTS. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Door to Door Risky&amp;nbsp;Operations&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;(In Jenin...) You [IDF] went door-to-door, risking young Israeli lives, in a town that was booby trapped with explosives from top to bottom. In any other war, rockets from the air force would have been launched, demolishing everything in sight, with no regard for civilian lives. Remember Nagasaki and Hiroshima? But you - Israel, a country built on family-oriented, freedom loving people - you had to worry about civilian casualties. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.joe4rep.com/KC%205-1-02.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.joe4rep.com/KC%205-1-02.htm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jan 6, 2006 ... In Jenin in 2002 the Israeli army sent soldiers to locate terrorists in door to door fighting rather than risk innocent civilian lives by ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/charen200601060710.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/charen200601060710.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again HUMANE &amp;amp; Super- restrained Israel only attacks terrorists after warning to civilians for evacuate&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;Instead of the mass excitement in most of the mass media to attack Israel for daring to defend itself with that silly charge of &amp;quot;excessive force&amp;quot;, you never hear one word of appreciation of the immense sacrifice in its lives and it&#039;s security for the customary warning to non combatants to leave the area before operations, including often cases of alerting even the Hamas terror leaders&#039; wives... &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;An Israel Air Force aircraft bombed two structures in the Gaza Strip late Wednesday after warning their occupants to evacuate the premises &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3328799,00.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3328799,00.html&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt; (Nov, 15 2006)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More on this:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Cox &amp;amp; Forkum: Disproportionate Response &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000889.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.coxandforkum.com/archives/000889.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Restraint after suicide blast in Israel,The army said the fugitives had drawn pistols before they were shot. ... Israeli officials had said they would show restraint in military operations - World News - MSNBC.com &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6379588/&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6379588/&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s Humane Army - Israel Update &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aish.com/Israel/articles/Israels_Humane_Army.asp&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.aish.com/Israel/articles/Israels_Humane_Army.asp&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s restraint in case of an attack could harm its deterrent &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/sa/v1n2p1_n.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.tau.ac.il/jcss/sa/v1n2p1_n.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The call-up came as Israel dropped leaflets on southern Lebanon warning residents to immediately evacuate an area approximately 32km (20 miles) wide &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5202142.stm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5202142.stm&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel warning to Lebanese civilians: get out &lt;a href=&quot;http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&amp;amp;id=4370345&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=nation_world&amp;amp;id=4370345&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Racist Islamo Arab Terrorist Leader Warns Only ARABS to Evacuate; Media Who Condemned Similar Non-Racist Warnings From Israel Say Nothing &lt;a href=&quot;http://ginacobb.typepad.com/gina_cobb/2006/08/racist_terroris.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://ginacobb.typepad.com/gina_cobb/2006/08/racist_terroris.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel calls on northern Gaza residents to evacuate &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.people.com.cn/200512/29/eng20051229_231469.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://english.people.com.cn/200512/29/eng20051229_231469.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;__________ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnewsagency.com/palestinechildterrorismisrael88480521.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnewsagency.com/palestinechildterrorismisrael88480521.html&lt;/a&gt; Israel Tears For Palestine Child &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0806/kay081006.php3?printer_friendly&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0806/kay081006.php3?printer_friendly&lt;/a&gt; Jonathan Kay: How Israel fights --- What the media does NOT report, humane methods &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;________________________________________________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israel&#039;s Restraint&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelemb.org/press/2000/October/2000102704.html&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.israelemb.org//press/pictures/059.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By Ambassador of Israel to the United States &lt;br /&gt;His Excellency &lt;br /&gt;Ambassador David Ivry &lt;br /&gt;Published in the Washington Post &lt;br /&gt;Friday, October 27, 2000; Page A35&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelemb.org/press/2000/October/2000102704.html&quot;&gt;http://www.israelemb.org/press/2000/October/2000102704.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&#039;We exercised restraint in Lebanon war&#039; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710407335&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710407335&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Olmert: Don&#039;t interpret Israel&#039;s restraint in Gaza as weakness ...Olmert: Don&#039;t interpret Israel&#039;s restraint in Gaza as weakness-News and commentary relating to events in Israel, the occupied territories, and the world, ... (01/07/2008)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/997999.html&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/997999.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;[2007] ...In the face of Israeli restraint, Hezbollah grew bolder. ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meforum.org/article/1630&quot;&gt;http://www.meforum.org/article/1630&lt;/a&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israeli Restraint Continues to Enrage Muslim World&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;AZCONSERVATIVE &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s restraint in the face of Kassam rockets launched from Palestinian territory is said to be heightening tensions in the Middle East. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two rockets slammed into Sderot, one of them striking a community center and another hitting a bus. Three people were injured. A separate attack hit the port city of Ashkelon. In total, 45 rockets have been launched from Gaza into Israel since the November 26 truce went into effect. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s lack of retaliatory response has been widely decried as &amp;quot;provocative.&amp;quot; &#039;The failure of the Jews to strike back reveals their evil scheming nature,&#039; said Sheik Hassan Nasrallah of Hezbollah. &amp;quot;It&#039;s inhuman to adhere to a truce under such conditions. The evidence of the Jews&#039; link to satanic powers couldn&#039;t be clearer. For the love of God they must be exterminated.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Iranian President Mahmud Ahmadinejad called Israel&#039;s actions &#039;sinister.&#039; &amp;quot;Throughout recorded history the Jews have tried to lull the unwary by their nonviolent responses to pogroms and repression,&amp;quot; Ahmadinejad warned. &amp;quot;Their diabolical cunning brought down the great Adolf Hitler. It will bring down the world if we are not careful.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The United Nations has promised to look into the matter. &amp;quot;We should not allow ourselves to be fooled by Jewish trickery,&amp;quot; outgoing Secretary-General Kofi Annan advised. &amp;quot;If Jews are being attacked there must be a good reason. We will get to the bottom of this.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(Excerpt) Read more at &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.azconservative.org/Semmens1.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;_______________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&amp;amp;cid=1167467848938&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;IDF ordered not to change Gaza RESTRAINT policy (DESPITE TERROR ATTACK)&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Jerusalem Post, Israel - Despite Monday&#039;s suicide attack in Eilat, the government will maintain its policy of restraint in Gaza. (Janurary, 31, 2007) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;________&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Hamas&#039;s Human Shields&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Updated Mar 4, 2008)&lt;br /&gt;...That same month, the IAF warned Muhammad Weil Baroud, responsible for firing Kassam rockets at Israel, to evacuate his home in Beit Lahiya in advance of an air strike. Instead, hundreds of locals, mostly women and children, were recruited to Baroud&#039;s house. Israel suspended the air strike, lest these human shields be harmed. In response to the incident, Hamas crowed: &amp;quot;We won. From now on we will form human chains around every house threatened with demolition.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The above episode illustrates the potential problems with Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna&#039;i&#039;s proposal to bulldoze houses from which rockets are fired. The same goes for suggestions such as warning systems giving Gazan civilians time to get out. Even smoke bombs directed at precise coordinates to further warn civilians to depart - in advance of live fire and the destruction of launch sites - could be thwarted by human shields. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Principled despite its vilified reputation, Israel wrestles with a wrenching quandary callously imposed upon it. But Israel shouldn&#039;t be the only one to grapple with the ruthlessness of terrorists toward their human shields. Democracies the world over need to internalize what is taking place here, to pin blame where it is due, and to condemn Hamas for its heartlessness toward its own people. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&amp;amp;cid=1204546401057&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&amp;amp;cid=1204546401057&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/nataliagino/gG5tXt#top&quot;&gt;Back to Top&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <title>WHAT IF IT WASN’T THE ISLAMIC LOBBY THAT CONTROLS?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;WHAT IF IT WASN&amp;rsquo;T THE ISLAMIC LOBBY THAT CONTROLS?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;What if it was not Islamo Arab [oil] lobby that sucks you to the bone and controls all international bodies?&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* We wouldn&amp;rsquo;t have been sending so many billions (in gas money) to those that hate us (no matter what we do).&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* The UN would finally start doing something, stopping the Arab genocide in the Sudan for starters&amp;hellip;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* The UN would have less bigoted anti-Israel obsessive &amp;ldquo;condemnations&amp;rdquo;.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* US &amp;amp; EU could breath a little...&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* Anti American bashing wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be a &amp;ldquo;fashionable&amp;rdquo; feature.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* War on terror would be easier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* Oppressive totalitarian Islamic Republic of&amp;nbsp;Iran wouldn&amp;rsquo;t get their ultimate weapon to destroy the world.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;* Islamic militants&amp;rsquo; crimes against humanity wouldn&amp;rsquo;t be &amp;ldquo;justified&amp;rdquo; as &amp;ldquo;victim-hood&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Arab Muslims first class citizens in Israel whereas Israeli Jews are second class citizens</title>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Palestinian Arab Muslims first class citizens in Israel whereas Israeli Jews are second class citizens?&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Imagine, Israeli non Arabs (i.e., Jews) have to put up with:1) Back stabbing -- example #1:Constant finding out on more and more Israeli Arabs aiding genocide bombers (whether with info or more than that), stabbing the very Israel, they&#039;re citizens of, thus indirectly murdering their fellow Israelis, the Israeli Jews...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;2) Back stabbing -- example #2:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli Arab parliament members constantly whine about being &amp;quot;second class&amp;quot; citizens, after getting free education and achieving whatever they achieve, inside equal-rights &amp;amp; equal-access democractic Israel. As payback, these back stabbers are tarnishing Israel&#039;s image all over, especially on Arab global media.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3) Uneven rights -- Arab&#039;s advantage over Jews:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli Arabs (unlike Israeli Jews) are exempt from serving in Israeli army (which is naturally for the protection of all Israelis), still they enjoy the same rights as Israeli Jews: voting, education, free speech, etc.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4) Now the favorite part: Israeli Courts (&amp;amp; often security) favor Israeli Arabs over Jews&lt;br /&gt;Who&#039;s second class now?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;5) Wait, there&#039;s more: Israeli government allowing Arabs more rights far MORE than Jews, blatantly, especially in access to land.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Who&#039;s second class now?&lt;br /&gt;Favoring Arabs over Jews Inside Israel&lt;br /&gt;Fact Sheet #24:&lt;br /&gt;Israel&#039;s Security Fence Every effort is being made to exclude Palestinian villages from the area within the fence and no territories are being annexed... Israel&#039;s Supreme Court took up the grievances of Palestinians and required the government to move the fence in the area near Jerusalem to make things easier for the Palestinians. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/24_fence.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/talking/24_fence.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fence Rulings: Democracy in Action Israel&#039;s Supreme Court sided with the Palestinians in a precedent-setting decision Wednesday, ordering the government to reroute part of its West Bank ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Fence_Rulings_Democracy_in_Action.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/critiques/Fence_Rulings_Democrac y_in_Action.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Divesting from Morality [Jews can&#039;t live in Arab states or in the Palestinian Authority but] ... Israeli Arabs sit in the Knesset, serve on the Israeli Supreme Court and ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/dershowitz/Articles/morality.html&quot;&gt;http://www.law.harvard.edu/faculty/dershowitz/Articles/morality.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nightmare or Dream (Eugene Narrett, PhD) May, 2000 When Jews try to collect other debts from Arabs, the same ingratitude emerges, not just from the Arabs, but enforced by Israeli courts where &amp;quot;the chances ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may00/narrett.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.freeman.org/m_online/may00/narrett.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arabs, Muslims first class citizens in democratic Israel? (Temple Mount shut to non-Muslims on election eve) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1139395680496&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1139395680496&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Temple Mount shut to non-Muslims on election eve&lt;br /&gt;The Temple Mount - was closed to Jews today in response to Muslim threats of violence if Jews were allowed to visit. ... (July - 2004) [clearly more rights to Arabs in Israel than for any Jews] &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ourjerusalem.com/ourjerusalem/story/oj20040728.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ourjerusalem.com/ourjerusalem/story/oj20040728.html &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Expulsion from &#039;Peace House&#039; in Hevron?... The extreme-left group Peace Now has been pressuring Peretz to expel the Jewish families, claiming that Jews should need special government permission to buy Arab houses. The group has made no similar request requiring special permission for Arabs to buy Jewish homes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121909&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121909&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Army Declares Hevron Closed to Jews - Inside Israel - Israel News ...Arabs then sued in Israel&#039;s Supreme Court against what they called the &amp;quot;infiltration&amp;quot; of the Jews to the stores, and the Court ruled in their favor ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3? id=96728&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3? id=96728&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Moreover, when it comes to residential land, the ILA sometimes offers Israeli Arabs more favorable terms from than it does to Israeli Jews. Thus, the ILA charged the equivalent of $24,000 for a capital lease on a quarter of an acre in new Jewish communities near Beersheva while Bedouin families in the nearby community of Rahat paid only $150 for the same amount of land.16 In a different case, when a Jewish policeman from Beersheva, Eleizer Avitan, applied to the ILA to lease land in a Bedouin community under the same highly subsidized terms available to the Bedouins, the ILA refused to lease him land there under any terms, so he sued. Israel&#039;s Supreme Court ruled in favor of the ILA, saying that what might be viewed as ILA discrimination against the Jewish citizen Avitan was justified as affirmative action for Bedouin citizens.17&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meforum.org/article/370&quot;&gt;http://www.meforum.org/article/370&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In several cases, where Palestinian farmers utilized the Israeli court system to lodge complaints that the army was unnecessarily taking land without proper military purpose, the Israeli High Court of Justice decided in favor of the plaintiffs. The army site at Beth El (near Ramallah) is the best-known case, and probably one of the few cases in all of world history where the legal system of the victorious country decided in favor of the defeated, contrary to the security-related demands of the army. The IDF was forced to move its base about ten kilometers further west, to accommodate the land claims of the local Palestinians. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.think-israel.org/meir-levi.settlements.html&quot;&gt;http://www.think-israel.org/meir-levi.settlements.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s Supreme Court is among the finest courts in the world today. ... We see that the Israelis routinely decide in favor of the Palestinians against their own government... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13590&quot;&gt;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp? ID=13590&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israeli Court: Israel must re-route (the life saving anti-terror) barrier (because of inconvenience of some Arab &#039;Palestinians) August 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_barrier_9&quot;&gt;http://news.yahoo. com/s/ap/20070904/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_barrier_9&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel&#039;s Supreme Court is perhaps the worst enemy and offender favoring Arabs over Jews in its self-image of supreme fairness and justice. It has given its &amp;quot;supreme&amp;quot; ruling against an area of peace and security which should be left to military and security experts - a supreme ruling against the security barrier and separation fence against terrorism in support of a similar stupid ruling by the Arab-Islamist controlled U.N. International Court of Justice (or Injustice as the case may be). What about the rights of Jews in Arab controlled and dominated lands and nations? Are there any? &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/gfitleberg_20050130.html&quot;&gt;http://www.opinioneditorials.com/guestcontributors/gfitleberg_20050130.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israeli text book tells Arab story - World - theage.com.au Israel approves school text book acknowledging to country&#039;s minority ... what had been British-ruled Palestine prompted an invasion by Arab armies and the ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/israeli-text-book-tells-arab-story/2007/07/23/1185043028015.html&quot;&gt;http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/israeli-text-book-tells-arab- story/2007/07/23/1185043028015.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Affirmative Action ? the Israeli Edition It is now official. Last week, the Israeli Council on Higher Education decided to make Jews second class citizens within Israeli universities. Yes, after 1,300 years in which Jews were discriminated against in the Middle East and discrimination in favor of Arabs took place, the semi-governmental Council on Higher Education has decided that Israeli universities must discriminate in favor of Arab. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/844&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/844&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;More on Arabs, Muslims (first class citizens inside Israel) having more rights than Jews in Israel &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jerusalem holy sites&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Israeli government shied away from ensuring the right of Jews to pray on the temple Mount, opting instead to grant the Muslims the right to administer the Mount. Jewish prayer was immediately forbidden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_45.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_images/ishmaelite_prayer_gallery.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;Image&quot; width=&quot;200&quot; height=&quot;200&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_45.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_45.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Regardless of what the Judaic law says about permitting Jews on the temple mount, the issue of Arabs, Muslims INSIDE Israel&#039;s democracy having far more rights is overwhelming.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_45.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.templeinstitute.org/gallery_45.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;PA Arab Squatters Remain on Jerusalem Property&lt;br /&gt;16 November 07 11:38by Ezra HaLevi(IsraelNN.com) Yitzchak Herskovitz, in his eighties, continues to battle Arab squatters in the courts as yet another eviction was postponed Sunday.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx? print=print&amp;amp;type=0&amp;amp;item=124251&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/SendMail.aspx? print=print&amp;amp;type=0&amp;amp;item=124251&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(Arab Racism even inside Israel, So Israel is a free democracy and Arabs are elected into high offices.... whereas in &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; controlled areas a Jew... can&#039;t even live there - Islamic apartheid &amp;amp; Judenrein! &lt;br /&gt;What then do Arab representatives do instead?&lt;br /&gt;Stab Israel in the back and call for it&#039;s destruction and for it to be a fascist &#039;Arab Only State&#039;....)&lt;br /&gt;Arab MK: &#039;Palestine Belongs to Arabs, Not Jews&#039; - News Briefs ...Tibi wrote in the editorial that Palestine belongs to its Arab residents, not to the Jewish occupiers. Tibi told Palestinian Authority Arabs in Ramallah ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/130741&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/130741&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Gov&#039;t Allows Arabs To Squat on Jewish Farmland 22:19 Jan 07, &#039;07&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118929&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=118929&lt;/a&gt; [again the Israeli very govt. gives more rights to Israeli-Arabs intruders over Israeli-Jews].&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;(IsraelNN.com) The Civil Lands Administration has allowed Arabs from Yatta,&lt;br /&gt;near Hevron, to squat on land 10 miles away that has been farmed by Jews for&lt;br /&gt;10 years. Nearby residents of Beit Yatir, in the southern Hevron Hills,&lt;br /&gt;protested on the property Friday, claiming that the presence of the Arabs&lt;br /&gt;presents a danger to the area.&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Their tractors are unlicensed and they drive them on the roads at night&lt;br /&gt;without lights,&amp;quot; said a Yatir spokesman. Army officers who arrived on the&lt;br /&gt;scene confirmed that the Arabs left their identity cards at a nearby&lt;br /&gt;checkpoint because they had no permit to live on the grounds, but Civil Lands&lt;br /&gt;officers later said temporary permission would be given until the dispute is&lt;br /&gt;settled in the courts.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Jew Fights for his home, invaded by Arab Squatters&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://esseragaroth.blogspot.com/2007/07/jew-fights-for-his-%20home.html&quot;&gt;http://esseragaroth.blogspot.com/2007/07/jew-fights-for-his-home.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;July 2007&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yitzhaq Hershkovitz is fighting to regain control of his house from Arab squatters in &amp;quot;East&amp;quot; Jerusalem.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;The INN TV Report with Aharon Deutch can been viewed by clicking here &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/? act=one&amp;amp;id=1988&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/TV/?act=one&amp;amp;id=1988&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;...After a 15-year fight, Mr. Hershkovitz finally obtained a court order to have the squatters removed. Yet, the police has not been helpful in enforcing the evacuation. One of the issues was that the Arabs were keeping their goats hidden inside the house, which apparently is against the zoning regulations. However, every time the police arrived to execute the order, or rather do a pre-execution investigation, the goats are taken outside through the back an and hidden somehow. There is now a stay on the eviction order.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;Fortunately, he has been getting some support from friends, including the Defense-training and Torah-study, IBF Canine Unit, based in K&#039;far Tapu&#039;ah.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#039;ll try to find out more information about what can be done to assist and support him.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Again, and again, Israeli Arabs are often favored OVER Israeli Jews, Did somebody (in the Arabist camp) say &amp;quot;apartheid&amp;quot;? &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israeli Arabs are first class citizens over Israeli Jews!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;___&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;israelinsider: politics: Police order Temple Mount closed ahead of demo by Jewish activists&lt;br /&gt;(April 7, 2005)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/5288.htm&quot;&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Politics/5288.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;One Jerusalem -- Blog -- Help Keep Jerusalem United! After spending over an hour discussing Israel&#039;s challenges I came away with the ... Anyway, since Olmert prefers to beat and threaten Jews in Hebron, ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2006/01/israels_challen.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.onejerusalem.org/blog/archives/2006/01/israels_challen.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish struggle Against Arabs in Israel Wherever there&#039;s a problem with Arabs, a new &amp;quot;disengagement&amp;quot; plan?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/4511.htm&quot;&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/4511.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Supreme Court Rulings - Jews Protest in Jerusalem to protest against the recent anti-Jewish rulings of the Israeli Supreme Court. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ahavat-%20israel.com/protest/rulings.php&quot;&gt;http://www.ahavat- israel.com/protest/rulings.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;An Israeli Supreme Court ruling did not deny that the land was Jewish-owned, but ordered the Jews to be moved out in order that ... sinners not go unpunished. ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ourjerusalem.com/action/story/protest-against-the-pogrom-in-%20amona.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ourjerusalem.com/action/story/protest- against-the-pogrom-in-amona.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;The Hell of Israel Is Better than the Paradise of Arafat the 200000 Arab residents of Jerusalem preferred to remain under Israeli ... In fact, most of the Arabs in the city prefer to live under Israeli rule ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2534&quot;&gt;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/2534&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Israel is the only country in the Middle East in which an Arab can file a case against his country in the Supreme Court. Israel&#039;s Supreme Court is among the finest courts in the world today. It enforces the rule of law on a daily basis against inevitable abuses that occur when a nation is at war. As we look at the United States Supreme Court this week there are two big cases -- the Hamdi case and the Padilla case. At question is if we can detain and hold terrorist combatants at Guantanamo indefinitely, while deciding if they are prisoners of war or common criminals.&lt;br /&gt;One has only to look to Israel, which see resolved these things 20 years ago.&lt;br /&gt;We see that the Israelis routinely decide in favor of the Palestinians against their own government. In 1989, Justice Brennan, perhaps the most liberal justice in America&#039;s court, went to Israel at the invitation of Justice Aharon Barak of the Israeli Supreme Court. Brennan said, &amp;quot;God forbid that terrorism should ever come to the shores of the United States. At least we in America have the model to help balance the needs of security against the needs of liberty. That model is Israel.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=13590&quot;&gt;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp? ID=13590&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;URGENT: Free Daniel Pinner b4 23.3.06 [Archive] - Israel Forum Daniel claims that he only shot in the air to disperse the Arab attackers. The judge favored the testimonies given by several Arabs, despite countless ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t-9920.html&quot;&gt;http://www.israelforum.com/board/archive/index.php/t- 9920.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Creating a Palestinian Apartheid State?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jan05/pasko.php&quot;&gt;http://www.freeman.org/m_online/jan05/pasko.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;There are currently 12 Arabs elected to the 120-member Israeli Knesset representing Arab nationalist, communist and Islamic parties. There is an Arab justice on the Israeli Supreme Court. This is apartheid? (Dec - 2006) &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA122706.07B.gurwitz.1%20dd1635.html&quot;&gt;http://www.mysanantonio.com/opinion/stories/MYSA122706.07B.gurwitz.1 dd1635.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;Myths VS Facts&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Human Rights in Israel and the Territories Today, within Israel, Jews are a majority, but the Arab minority are full citizens who enjoy equal rights. Arabs are represented in the Knesset, ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf18.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf18.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli Arabs: Expectations and Realities, Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Deputy President of the Nazareth District Court, became the first Arab to sit on Israel&#039;s Supreme Court. ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp478.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp478.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;A Free People in Our Land: The Status of the Arab Sector in Israel ... an Arab Justice was appointed to the Supreme Court and Arab ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Facts+about+Israel-%20+The+State/A+Free+People+in+Our+Land-+The+Arab+Sector.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Facts+about+Israel- +The+State/A+Free+People+in+Our+Land-+The+Arab+Sector.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Israeli Arab explodes Mideast &#039;lies&#039;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Lebanese woman says she discovered freedom in Jewish state... &amp;quot;As a Middle Easterner brought up on this patent &#039;Israel is a racist state&#039; propaganda, I discovered it is total hate-inspired nonsense,&amp;quot; she said.&amp;quot; I&#039;ve seen with my own eyes what kind of society Israel is. I consider Israel to be one of the most multi-racial and multi-cultural countries in the world. There are no racial restrictions on becoming a citizen of Israel like there are in many Arab countries. Remember, Jews can&#039;t live in the neighboring Arab Kingdom of Jordan or in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;She explained that more than 100 different countries of the world are represented in the population of Israel. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Consider how the Israeli government spent tens of millions of dollars airlifting more than 40,000 black Ethiopian Jews to Israel in 1984 and 1991,&amp;quot; she said. &amp;quot;Since 2001 Israel has reached out to help others taking in non-Jewish refugees from Lebanon, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Vietnam, Liberia, Congo and even Bosnian Muslims. How many such refugees have the 22 states in the Arab league taken in? The Arab world won&#039;t even give Palestinian refugees citizenship in their host countries.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;She added that more than 1 million Arabs are full Israel citizens, that an Arab sits on the Supreme Court of Israel, that there are Arab political parties expressing views inimical to the state of Israel sitting in the Knesset, that women are equal partners in Israel and have complete human rights. &lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Show me an Arab nation with a Jew in its government,&amp;quot; she challenged. &amp;quot;Show me an Arab country with half as many Jewish citizens as Israel has Arab citizens. I&#039;ll borrow some of your academic freedom now and say that Arab nations are the real racist and oppressive states.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43175&quot;&gt;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=43175&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;Israelis aren&#039;t &#039;racist&#039; - they&#039;re worried&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?%20cid=1167467807212&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite? cid=1167467807212&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FPrinter&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;Apartheid&amp;quot;? The High Court and leading Israeli Arab Politicians &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beyondimages.info/b53.html&quot;&gt;http://www.beyondimages.info/b53.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AJN - Israeli Arab involvement in terror grows Since the intifada began in September 2000 -- and Israeli Arabs rioted in sympathy ... scores of Israeli Arabs have been detained for alleged contacts with ..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ajn.com.au/pages/archives/intifada/0028-intifada-%2002.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ajn.com.au/pages/archives/intifada/0028-intifada- 02.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Twisted Words and Phrases (2) More examples of Arab propaganda, giving new meaning to old words.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_87.html&quot;&gt;http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_87.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;FLAME: The Arabs of Israel: Are they (really) a &amp;quot;persecuted minority? Like all other Israeli citizens, they have full rights to vote and to hold elective office. Both Arabs and Druze hold seats in the Knesset, the Israeli ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_08.html&quot;&gt;http://www.factsandlogic.org/ad_08.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Middle -East-Info.org - Arabs and Muslims in Israel Israeli Arabs and Muslims have the right to vote and to hold public office, ... They have full rights to citizenship. They are free to speak their minds. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.middle-east-%20info.org/gateway/arabsinisrael/index.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.middle-east- info.org/gateway/arabsinisrael/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict To the contrary, today one-fifth of Israel&#039;s citizens are non-Jews, including over one million Arabs, and Arabic is an official national language. ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=414&quot;&gt;http://www.ict.org.il/articles/articledet.cfm?articleid=414&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arab Refugees and the Right of Return After the end of hostilities in 1949, there were 140000 Arabs in Israel. ... the Jews lived for generations as second-class citizens in a primitive, ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/refugees.html&quot;&gt;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~samuel/refugees.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish Refugees From Arab Countries - Israel&#039;s War Against ...Jews had never been more than &amp;quot;second-class citizens&amp;quot; under Arab rule, the report says, but their life became &amp;quot;simply untenable&amp;quot; after Israel appeared. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israel-wat.com/jewishrefugees_eng.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.israel-wat.com/jewishrefugees_eng.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Arabs of Israel (Part 1) Israel is first and foremost a society of Jewish immigrants. ... The Arabs of Israel became bi-cultural and bi-lingual citizens, educated in accordance with ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=24&quot;&gt;http://www.wzo.org.il/en/resources/view.asp?id=24&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;IHC [In Muslim countries] Ethnic minorities such as Azeris, Arabs, Kurds, Turkomans and Baluchis, are treated as second-class citizens. Women in Iran are struggling for their rights, ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?%20source=3/e/050720029&quot;&gt;http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl? source=3/e/050720029&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli Arabs: Expectations And Realities&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp478.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp478.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;WorldNetDaily: Israel: Island of justice in the Middle EastIsrael&#039;s High Court has ruled that the route, along which a 25-mile barrier ... in the Middle East, Israel is committed to justice for Jews and Arabs alike. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39242&quot;&gt;http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=39242&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Myths &amp;amp; Facts - Human Rights in Israel and the Territories... the Israeli Supreme Court also ruled that the government cannot allocate land based on religion or ethnicity, and may not prevent Arab citizens ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf18.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/myths/mf18.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Israeli Arab appointed as a JNF [Jewish National Fund...] director despite court appeal ...Israeli Arab appointed as a JNF director despite court appeal-News and commentary relating ... where there are MKs from the Arab sector,&amp;quot; .&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878859.html&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878859.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lying About Discrimination With Statistics And let&#039;s not hear any nonsense about Israeli universities discriminating against Arabs, because they all discriminate in favor of Arabs under affirmative action ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21226/Lying_About_Discrimination_%20With_Statistics.html&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/21226/Lying_About_Discrimination_ With_Statistics.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Jewish struggle Against Arabs in Israel [and Courts favoring Arabs in Jews&#039; historic land and that was redeemed by Jewish money]&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/4511.htm&quot;&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/Views/4511.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Arab Treatment of Palestinians There is much information regarding Israel&#039;s treatment of Palestinians. However there is not much out there discussing Arab treatment of Palestinian ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.themiddleeastnow.com/arabtreatmentofpalestinians.html&quot;&gt;http://www.themiddleeastnow.com/arabtreatmentofpalestinians.html &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The &amp;quot;Brutal&amp;quot; Israeli Occupation? Every Arab who fell under Israeli &amp;quot;occupation&amp;quot; was free to live his life ... The Israeli treatment of captured populations had a lot in common with the ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/29/31242.shtml&quot;&gt;http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/29/31242.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;AN ANSWER TO THE NEW ANTI-ZIONISTS: THE RIGHTS OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE TO A SOVEREIGN STATE IN THEIR HISTORIC HOMELAND &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp507.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp507.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Free People in Our Land: The Status of the Arab Sector in Israel For the first time, an Arab Justice was appointed to the Supreme Court and Arab deputy ministers have served in Israel&#039;s Government. Arab citizens serve in ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Facts+about+Israel-%20+The+State/A+Free+People+in+Our+Land-+The+Arab+Sector.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Facts+about+Israel- +The+State/A+Free+People+in+Our+Land-+The+Arab+Sector.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;YI Guide to the Israeli-Palestinian Dispute Distorting Israeli Arab RealityThe co-existence of Jewish and Arab citizens of Israel has long been a model for ... Miller&#039;s first claim -- that Israeli Arabs lack &#039;access to military or ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youngisrael.org/israel.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.youngisrael.org/israel.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Critiques Distorting Israeli Arab Reality &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Distorting_Isra%20eli_Arab_Reality.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.honestreporting.com/articles/45884734/critiques/Distorting_Isra eli_Arab_Reality.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The missing piece &lt;a href=&quot;http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013494.php&quot;&gt;http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013494.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Review of The Forgotten Millions: The Modern Jewish Exodus from Arab Lands. The volume contains some first-class talent, mostly Israel academics, and they cover ... &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/817&quot;&gt;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/817&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Dennis Prager -- First they came for Israel, then they came for America . ... everywhere in the Arab and Muslim worlds are usually second-class citizens at best and terribly ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0206/prager020706.php3&quot;&gt;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0206/prager020706.php3&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;left&quot;&gt;israelinsider: Views: A virtual tour of (so called) &amp;quot;Apartheid&amp;quot; Israel... a dhimmi (second class citizen) and an enemy of their state. ... In the Apartheid State of Israel there are almost one million Arabs. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/views/6787.htm&quot;&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/views/6787.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;JIMENA Jews Indigenous to the Middle East &amp;amp; North Africa were considered dhimmi, a &amp;quot;protected&amp;quot; group of second-class 