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            <title>The real solution of Middle-East tragic conflicts!</title>
            <description>&lt;p dir=&quot;rtl&quot; class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; align=&quot;right&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;With the help of G-d,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Dear Honorable President of the United States of America,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr. Barack H. Obama,&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My name is Avraham,I am a Jewish resident in Palestine,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am Georgian citizen too,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I ask from you do not be deceived by the Zionists,The Zionists want to conceal their war crimes against Palestinian people around Palestine, but they will be not succeeding.There was Genocide on Gaza between end of December 2008 to January 2009!!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Do not fear from the Zionists and the massive pressure of the&amp;nbsp;Zionist lobby.Show solidarity with the Palestinian people whom persecuted and oppressed and subjugated by the Israeli regime more than 60 years.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I am a Jew,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And I am against &amp;quot;ISRAEL&amp;quot; &lt;u&gt;because &lt;/u&gt;I am a Jew.The state of &amp;quot;Israel&amp;quot; has no right to be called in the Holy Name of the Jewish people- &amp;quot;ISRAEL&amp;quot;, the Zionists stolen the name of the Jewish people which means spirituality and subservience and worship G-d, who commanded us his holy law, the Holy Torah, and the Zionists, the state of Israel, desecrating the laws of G-d, and rebelling against his holy laws, against Judaism.Judaism is spirituality, religion.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zionism is nationality and racism which total opposing the principles of Judaism, and, Zionists are opposing Judaism by the exist of their illegitimate Zionist state.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Israeli-Zionists leaders, before more than 70 years ago since the Zionism established, they deceived the majority of the religious Jewish people by the falsify and distortion of the Jewish law and brainwashed them by Zionist propaganda, the Zionists forced themselves on the whole Jewish people in the world by lies and inciting against Judaism and against the Jewish belief of redemption by G-d, and called to move to Palestine by falsify claims, when in truth, actually, Jews are in exile everywhere, and are forbidden to have own state and any kind of regime and even forbidden to have a political movement like the Zionist movement, and we are forbidden to oppress and subjugate other people and nations like the Palestinian people, we must live under all nations in the world by peace and subservience, not like Zionists done.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Zionists does not represent the Jewish law and Judaism, and they have no right to speak in the name of the Jewish people and represent us, they are false Jews, they do not stopping to desecrate the Jewish law and they making crimes against whom are refusing to recognize their &amp;quot;legitimacy&amp;rdquo; like Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Authentic Jews not Zionists, condemn and reject the atrocities and the provocations of the Zionists against humanity, authentic Jews have no part in the crimes of Zionists, and have no part with religious Zionists whom joined to the secular Zionists.&amp;nbsp;Judaism is a religion! &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zionism is a racism and Anti-Judaism!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anti-Zionism &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;is not&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; Anti-Semitism!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Judaism &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;forbids&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; the existence of state of Israel!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The State of &amp;ldquo;ISRAEL&amp;quot; based on racism, robbery, and on bloodshed of Jews and Arabs and other Non-Jews.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The state of &amp;quot;Israel&amp;quot; based on ethnic cleansing, and stealing the land of Palestine until today.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The only &amp;quot;achievements&amp;quot; that the Zionists and Zionist state brought and still bringing upon Jews are danger, tragedies, wars, destruction, suffering, deaths, killings, and Anti-Semitism everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Zionists became the blessed land of Palestine- the land of peace, harmony and holiness, the Holy Land, to a cursed place, to land of war zones and battle zones, with Blood and tear Rivers of Jews and Arabs more than 60 years.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Zionism is completely opposing the principles of Judaism, and these criminals whom made genocide against Palestinians more than 60 years, especially on January 2009, on the war on Gaza ,on defenseless Palestinian people , these Zionists criminals are really do not represent the authentic Jewish people.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Zionists, by the cover of &amp;quot;defense&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;saving&amp;quot; will not succeed to hide and justify their crimes against the humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The exist of the Zionist State and the fake and false &amp;quot;defense&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;saving&amp;quot; of&amp;nbsp; Jews by Zionists and its terrorist army the &amp;quot;IDF&amp;quot;, is not, but a destruction and heavy danger for Jews everywhere.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the tragedy of the Jewish people in Europe, the holocaust, if the world thinks to make a favor for Jews by giving to rule over Palestine and over nation in Palestine, on the back of defenseless nation in Palestine, the Palestinian people, the world make a mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is not a favor, not for Jews and not for Arabs and other Non-Jews,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;This is a mistake, this is an injustice!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After the holocaust, by giving to Jews to reside in the countries of the world with no persecutions, but only in peace, compassion, security and harmony, to live the Jewish lives, in Europe, America, Asia and Australia and Africa, this is a really favor.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Favor for the whole world and favor for the Jewish people!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make justice, and support the weak and defenseless Palestinian people, and stop to call the Zionist state in the Holy Name of the Jewish people, &amp;quot;ISRAEL&amp;quot;, and act to dismantle the Zionists state, and restore in the holy land a Palestinian state, which there, Jews and Non-Jews will live together in peace and friendship and harmony, like it was in the holy land, in Palestine, before the establishment of Zionism and the Zionist movement. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mr. President&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Today, when you see that most of the religious orthodox Jews whom are supporting the Zionist state, voting in the Zionist elections, co-operating with the Zionist government inside, and with Zionist authorities, and even are recruiting in the Zionist army, its because most of them today born into the reality of the Zionism and the Zionist state, that they falsely think that Judaism and Zionism are same, but it is wrong and tragic mistake.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is because, unfortunately, that the most of the early rabbinical orthodox leaders of Jewish communities in the era when Zionism established since 1896, &lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;and their successors until today&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; influenced by the Zionist propaganda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Part of them supported Zionism by unintentionally and erroneously.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Naivety, they thought that there is some physically and spiritually benefit by Zionism and by joining Zionists, but later they understood that they made mistake by their decision to support Zionism, when they saw the large dangerous of Zionism for Jews. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And most of them whom joined to Zionists by willful wrongdoer and deliberately, they justified the forbidden joining to the Zionist movements, by distortion of the Holy Jewish teachings which prohibits political human efforts to redeem the Jewish people, like Zionism, for granting permission to Zionism according to malicious false explanation of the Jewish law, by willful wrongdoer, self-concept corruption, by non-believing in the redemption by G-d, by revulsion and break the waiting for the time of heavenly redemption when most of Jews sitting in exile, and bribed by Zionist&amp;nbsp; allowances and promises, for supporting the forbidden human political efforts to try save the Jews and for taking part in Zionist budgets and government.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By these chains of events and processes they did not save, but they damaged and still damaging and endangering Jews spiritually and physically, because of their Anti-Jewish views and dangerous insane Zionist vision, which are stranger to Judaism and to the principles of the Jewish belief.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And all their actions failed, and the Jews until today very suffer by the terrible existence of Zionist movement and Zionist state in generally. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Palestinian people and the Jews are both victims of the Zionist state, and the cause of the Zionist-Arab conflict is hidden in fact of the existence of the illegitimate Zionist state, and only making historic justice for Palestinian people and Palestinian refugees whom expelled by Zionist forces, and give them to rule over the holy land around all parts of Palestine by &lt;u&gt;dismantlement of the Zionist state&lt;/u&gt;, this is the real solution to solve the tragic injustice and the bloodshed in the Middle-East.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;May G-d bless you!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yours Truly&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Avraham Ben-Yosef,&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Email: avibey@gmail.com &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;</description>
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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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            <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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            <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>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Islamists threaten terror attacks in Germany (For betraying &#039;Granddad Hitler&#039; / Islamo-nazism)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;adnkronos ^ | 04,22,09 &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Terrorism: Islamists threaten terror attacks in Germany &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Berlin, 22 April (AKI) - The Al-Qaeda linked Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan on Wednesday released a video threatening the &amp;quot;criminal&amp;quot; German government and citizens of the Jewish faith, according to German media. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the video, the third released this year, shows a man identified as &amp;quot;Commander Mohammad&amp;quot;, who criticises the presence of German troops in Afghanistan. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The man accuses &amp;quot;the sons of Germany of being in the service of the Jews&amp;quot; unlike &amp;quot;Granddad Hitler&amp;quot;.&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Investigators believe the video&#039;s release may be linked to a major Islamist terrorism trial which opened on Wednesday at a high-security court in the northwestern German city of Duesseldorf . &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In the trial, three Germans and one Turkish national are accused of planning a series of simultaneous bomb attacks against discos and pubs and the United States airbase in Ramstein and against Germany&#039;s Federal Prosecutor&#039;s Office. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Two of the German suspects are converts to Islam while the third is a German citizen of Turkish descent. They face charges of belonging to a terrorist organisation, plotting murder, and conspiracy to conduct a bomb attack. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The trial is expected to last one to two years. If the defendants are found guilty, they could face prison terms of up to 15 years. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prosecutors claimed the men were planning to use about 10 times as much explosives as were used in the deadly July 2005 attacks on London transport that killed 56 people and injured thousands. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The plot was at an advanced stage and the attacks could have killed over 50 people, according to police. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Around 300 German federal agents were involved in monitoring the cell for several months, before police swooped in on the group in what was one of Germany&#039;s biggest anti-terror operations to date. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Three of the defendants were arrested in the Germany&#039;s western Sauerland region and the fourth was arrested in Turkey and extradited to Germany in November last year. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Prosecutors say the four men belong to a little-known group called the Islamic Jihad Union with roots in Uzbekistan and ties to Al-Qaeda.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3239023359&quot;&gt;http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Security/?id=3.0.3239023359&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>A few points about the racist UN - Durban &quot;anti-racism&quot; conference</title>
            <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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            <title>The race card by Arab Muslim bigots at the UN (Durban II)</title>
            <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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            <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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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:57:01 EDT</pubDate>
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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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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:33:40 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE ?</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;There has been numerous crimes against humanity with the tax payers money here in america.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There needs to be additional building for the over 400,000 members and other thosands of groups and there members...so when they are arrested the hague will be able to accomidate them.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Tribunals for the past american and british and occupational khazars in Palestine must be held soon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The atomic bombs and weapons factories and there employees whom are also complicit in these warcrimes shall be arrested.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Crimes against humanity will not be tolerated and the people and groups ALL will be searched for till caught (no matter their ages) depending on the role they will meet a similar end as the ones they are complicit with.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NO duel citizens, all money, loans for the occuping khazars (jews) must be recalled.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;all settlements in the west bank of Palestine cleared out a border wall of 1967 is the very lest you can negotiate...ever. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the weapons and military equipment throughout the middle east only at borders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;otherwise you will have made sure of nostradomus&#039;s prediction comming true in your term..the end will be very bad for the worlds people....as we will not be guinea pigs for torture and crimes against basic rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Educate the people and bring them up to speed...no more khazars in a political seat and ALL khazarian lobbiest also arrested for the complicitness in the 18 million and cash repreations of a million to each member of the families that have been subjected to the concurrently run genocide of a farming communities that make up Palestine. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;To convince the slight of hand for a martyr who would set of a detonation of nuclear missles has come and is here now and this is what the khazars (jews ) have wanted for so long...to end the world and bring their massiah. There can be no more adherance of the stolen stories of ancient middle east that had been put into a book which is now called the bible...it is not as it is written and there is too much proof to prove other wise.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;these are only a miniscule of what is parcially acceptible to get by for the people of the world and especially the usa and occupiers to survive...or&amp;nbsp;it can be a nuclear holocaust..I do not care whom it is that tells you otherwise.....I am terrified and do not care to be a martyr and the entire country here can be EASILY shut down..yes the entire country can be and that is something I wish no one to bluff...it is not anything we can survive as a species and come out the same or even any resemblence of a civilization..we would be nobetter off than Palestine an unmilitarised people whom have not done anything to deserve being ethnically cleansed and murdered systematically with the usa tax payers money...which technically would make all the people of the &amp;nbsp;usa complicit in the crimes against humanity.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;These are very dark days this is not some dammed movie it is reality of what will eventually happen if the usa allows the ethnic cleansing to continue..so please put some suggestions into the feedback that we can try and figure a way to have the occupationist and administration and congress etc come to their senses. We are creating a world of hate towards us and if any of these people are successful, we would have food shortages and gas will not be accessible either, and don&#039;t forget the water...we will need the same tablets used in third would countries just to have safe water...if at all.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;are these people that have murdered the Palestinians with our money for over 60+ years worth all this trouble..they should never have been allowed to do it and we will all need survival skills for what is inevitible to happen at anytime and from one end of the usa to the other.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please lets get suggestions on how to stop such traggedy from happening and put ink in and give the reparations needed to the Palestinians for years to come...just as after the nuremburg trials when the jews where given reparations etc. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks ............by the way I am a modern day peace loving jew whom has never fallen for the religious mumbo jumbo that has been past on throughout time.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; It just is not true ...s0o free up some of the land here throughout the usa from the churchs mosques and temples and ban all religion from being involved in the politics&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <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>(3 Years to) MUSLIMS&#039; FACSIST GANG ATTACK ON ILAN HALIMI - QURANIC TORTURE</title>
            <description>&lt;strong&gt;(3 Years to) MUSLIMS&#039; FACSIST GANG ATTACK ON ILAN HALIMI - QURANIC TORTURE&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;MUSLIMS&#039; FACSIST GANG ATTACK ON ILAN HALIMI &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The Shocking unimaginable Torture for weeks (to the sound of reciting the Quran...) and murder by a gang of (about) 30 Muslims called the &amp;quot;Barbarians&amp;quot; [with additional &amp;quot;drop in&amp;quot; Muslim friends that happily participated in the torture] of the young french Jew Ilan Halimi (seduced by a Muslim prostitute sent by the gang to get into a trap).&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/images/iht_daily/D050308/Hailmi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.seraphicpress.com/images/Ilan_Halimi.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/images/2006/02/26/imageXFM11502261942.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.jewishjournal.com/images/photos/NW_french_030306.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://jewishtoronto.net/display_image.aspx?id=85264&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2006/02/24/PH2006022402017.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41378000/jpg/_41378478_flag-afp203.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt; &lt;img src=&quot;http://southdakotapolitics.blogs.com/south_dakota_politics/images/antisemitismparis48.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;100&quot; height=&quot;100&quot; /&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The grisly murder of Ilan Halimi should concern the entire Jewish world.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The highest echelons of the French government -- led by President Jacques Chirac and Premier Dominique DeVillepin -- went out of their way Thursday night to express sympathy and solidarity with their country&#039;s Jews, following the torture and murder of Ilan Halimi. Their attendance of memorial services at Paris&#039;s Victoire Synagogue for the 23-year-old victim constituted the most unequivocal and authoritative admission that Halimi fell prey to a horrid hate crime.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The knee-jerk inclination of French officialdom, however, was refusal to categorize this as an anti-Semitic homicide. Initially there even was reluctance to note the Jewish identity of the victim.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The discovery of the dying Halimi near rail tracks in the Paris suburb of St. Genevieve on February 13 sent shock waves throughout France. The cell phone salesman was found handcuffed, gagged, battered, slashed and with burns over most of his naked body. He had obviously been tortured to death. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The interrogation of the since-apprehended gang, which abducted and then for three weeks held Halimi for ransom -- before, as French police report, dousing him with flammable liquid and setting him alight -- indicated that greed wasn&#039;t the sole motive.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A pretty young woman lured Halimi from the store in which he was employed. He was kept naked, bound and hooded, subjected throughout to gruesome torments. The kidnappers, who demanded ransom, were told that the family was far from wealthy. They replied that funds be elicited &amp;quot;from the synagogue,&amp;quot; because &amp;quot;all Jews are rich.&amp;quot; The French-Arab and African-Muslim ringleaders also recited verses from the Koran in their communications with the family.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French interior minister Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed that the perpetrators &amp;quot;were convinced that &#039;Jews have money&#039;... That&#039;s called anti-Semitism by conflation.&amp;quot; He added that four of six persons the same gang attempted to capture were also Jews.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sarkozy revealed that some suspects possessed extreme Islamic and pro-Palestinian literature and documents. What they confessed to the police further confirmed the apprehension that Halimi was subjected to barbaric abuse because he was a Jew.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The grisly attack came at a time in which some French higher-ups boasted that they had beaten back the anti-Semitic tide that accompanied the 2000 intifada. Indeed the French government oversaw a dramatic drop in anti-Jewish incidents. Reportedly the number of anti-Semitic assaults in France for 2005 is 47% below that of 2004. In this respect the French approach and record is better than that of other European states.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;But this clearly isn&#039;t the whole story. Physical attacks are only one expression of the distress experienced by French Jews, many of whom live in close proximity to Muslim immigrants (estimated at 12% of the population). Jewish children in public schools are frequently bullied by Arab classmates. It&#039;s almost impossible to teach the Holocaust in schools with large Arab/Muslim student bodies.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In certain urban French neighborhoods it&#039;s risky for Jews to wear skullcaps. Many French Muslims regard local Jews, their houses of worship and communal institutions fair game in their attempts to wreak vengeance on Israel. This indeed is something for Israelis to ponder. The Jewish state&#039;s enemies often consider all Jews legitimate targets, as the 1994 blast in Buenos Aires&#039;s AMIA Jewish Community Center (which claimed 86 lives) demonstrated on a tragic scale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;France was late in combating the &amp;quot;collective punishment&amp;quot; meted by some Muslims on their Jewish neighbors. It first turned a blind eye to numerous anti-Semitic outbreaks, insisting that &amp;quot;there is no anti-Semitism in France.&amp;quot; Jews were essentially requested not to bother the authorities.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Official downplaying of rampant anti-Semitism between 2000-2003 left deep emotional scars in the Jewish community. The Halimi murder and the initial disinclination to treat it as a hate crime reopened many old wounds. DeVillepin promised &amp;quot;the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth&amp;quot; about the crime that alarmed France&#039;s Jews. He will have to convince them, but not only them.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Anti-Semitism in Paris isn&#039;t just an internal French matter. It should concern all of us in the Jewish state. We mustn&#039;t be wary of speaking up lest we offend French sensibilities. Ariel Sharon didn&#039;t shrink a few years back from calling on French Jews to make aliya. Our government&#039;s concern over the Halimi murder should be conveyed directly to the French government at the highest levels, and our solidarity more emphatically shown with the embattled French Jewish community.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/The_Halimi_Murder.asp&quot;&gt;http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/jewishsociety/The_Halimi_Murder.asp&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French authorities admit: RACISM played a &amp;quot;role&amp;quot; in barbarian act.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/AntiSemi/7856.htm&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/AntiSemi/7856.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Murder of Targeted French Jew: &amp;quot;They acted with indescribable cruelty,&amp;quot; the judiciary police chief leading the investigation said. &amp;quot;They kept him naked and tied up for weeks. They cut him and in the end poured flammable liquid on him and set him alight.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/02/murder_of_targe.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2006/02/murder_of_targe.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Murder of Ilan Halimi&lt;br /&gt;Tuesday, March 07, 2006&lt;br /&gt;...Little by little, information emerged about the crime. There were at least fifteen thugs, maybe more. They had used a girl to seduce Halimi into the trap where he was captured. They knew he was a Jew and they had chosen him for that reason. In his pocket they found the phone number of a rabbi and he was the first person they called, telling him: &amp;quot;We have a Jew. The family has to pay. If the family cannot pay, it will be the synagogue.&amp;quot; In succeeding days, they called the rabbi again, howling sentences full of hatred. Later, they called the family, asking for $600,000, before lowering the price to $5,000. They spoke to the mother, to Halimi&amp;rsquo;s sisters, uncle, and father. When they were not asking for money, they were reciting suras from the Quran. In some of the conversations it was possible to hear Halimi screaming in the background. The thugs sent a videotape showing the young man naked, humiliated, handcuffed, just like on a Zarqawi videos from Iraq. ..&lt;br /&gt;During the last ten weeks, the people who tortured and killed Ilan Halimi had tried unsuccessfully to kidnap four other Jews..&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=609AC68E-E190-4749-A7E8-CF30DF89AF58&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=609AC68E-E190-4749-A7E8-CF30DF89AF58&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... Barbarians seemed an appropriate name. The shocking cruelty inflicted on Halimi seemed to have little to do with efforts to extract money from his anguished family. It evoked the sadistic moral universe of A Clockwork Orange, the novel by Anthony Burgess, with a dose of anti-semitism thrown in.&lt;br /&gt;Thanks to Yalda&#039;s charms, Halimi was imprisoned and tortured with acid and cigarette burns for more than three weeks in the heart of a council estate.&lt;br /&gt;More than 30 neighbours in the building knew what was happening but said nothing about the crime, part of a worrying wave of attacks against Jews all over the country.&lt;br /&gt;Besides Yalda, several women have been arrested in an investigation into their role in botched efforts to lure other Jewish men into &amp;quot;honey traps&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;He wanted a Jew,&amp;quot; a girl called Audrey told police, referring to Youssouf Fofana, the charismatic leader of the Barbarians, who was listed by the girls in their telephone directories as &amp;quot;Youssouf the barbarian&amp;quot;.&lt;br /&gt;His choice of victims was based on two anti-semitic myths: that Jews are all rich and that they stick together. &amp;quot;They&#039;re a big community,&amp;quot; Fofana told Audrey. &amp;quot;United and willing to pay.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2114296_2,00.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2114296_2,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brutal murder was anti-Semitic crime, says Sarkozy | World news ...Feb 22, 2006 ... Mr Sarkozy told the French parliament that the gang sought for the murder of Ilan Halimi, 23, whose naked body was found by railway tracks ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/22/france.mainsection&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2006/feb/22/france.mainsection&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tale of Torture and Murder Horrifies the Whole of France ...Feb 22, 2006 ... The murder of a 23-year-old cell-phone salesman, Ilan Halimi, took place over three weeks, during which he was tortured while his captors ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nysun.com/foreign/tale-of-torture-and-murder-horrifies-the-whole/27948/&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.nysun.com/foreign/tale-of-torture-and-murder-horrifies-the-whole/27948/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The murder of Ilan Halimi-Commentary&lt;br /&gt;by Melanie Philips February 24, 2006&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;As if the kidnap, torture and murder of Ilan Halimi near Paris wasn&#039;t bad enough, the way it has been dealt with and reported has graphically illustrated what can only be described as a pathological refusal within Europe to acknowledge the fact that French Jews are being attacked and murdered by Muslims in a kind of rolling pogrom. Ilan Halami was a Jew. He was... kidnapped and murdered because he was singled out as a Jew for this fate. A number of recent kidnappings have taken place of which the vast majority of victims have been Jews and their kidnappers Muslims. As Nidra Poller has reported in the Wall Street Journal [&lt;a href=&quot;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114064452021880485.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://online.wsj.com/article/SB114064452021880485.html&lt;/a&gt;]:&lt;br /&gt;...&lt;br /&gt;the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Quran, while Ilan&#039;s tortured screams could be heard in the background. The family has publicly criticized the police for deliberately ignoring the explicit anti-Semitic motives, which were repeatedly expressed and should have dictated an entirely different approach to the case from the start. Police searches have now revealed the presence of Islamist literature in the home of at least one of the gang members. The highest echelons of the French government are now preoccupied with the murder of Ilan Halimi. Paris is well aware that the case threatens France&#039;s international reputation, but far more than that is at stake. Once again, as in the suburban riots of 2005, the country is forced to come face to face with the criminalized, alienated and racist Muslim youth and their adult enablers in its midst. Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin declared, in a long speech delivered at the annual dinner of the CRIF, that this heinous crime was anti-Semitic, and that anti-Semitism is not acceptable in France&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=236&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=236&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;according to reports in the French press, some of the suspects in police custody said that they tortured Ilan with particular cruelty simply because he was Jewish.&lt;br /&gt;No longer able to deny or play down the racial motive, the investigation is entering a new phase. One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the probable involvement of relatives and neighbors, beyond the immediate circle of the gang, who were told about the Jewish hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture.&lt;br /&gt;Ilan&#039;s uncle Rafi Halimi told reporters that the gang phoned the family on several occasions and made them listen to the recitation of verses from the Koran, while Ilan&#039;s tortured screams could be heard in the background. The family has publicly criticized the police for deliberately ignoring the explicit anti-Semitic motives, which were repeatedly expressed and should have dictated an entirely different approach to the case from the start. Police searches have now revealed the presence of Islamist literature in the home of at least one of the gang members.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008006&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.opinionjournal.com/extra/?id=110008006&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halimi suspect Extradited&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/world/?content_id=2941&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.totallyjewish.com/news/world/?content_id=2941&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mideast Dispatch Archive: Ilan Halimi: Tortured and killed in ...Feb 23, 2006 ... ILAN HALIMI A VICTIM OF &amp;ldquo;ISLAMO-FASCISM&amp;rdquo; ....&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000645.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.tomgrossmedia.com/mideastdispatches/archives/000645.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gang of Barbarians&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031506D&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=031506D&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French suburban &#039;barbarians&#039; (mainly Arab Muslims) target Jews&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060402-092358-1704r&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060402-092358-1704r&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mark Steyn on the murder of Ilan Halimi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.judeoscope.ca/breve.php3?id_breve=0860&quot;&gt;http://www.judeoscope.ca/breve.php3?id_breve=0860&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;May his memory be a democratic blessing&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8755&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8755&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halimi died because he was Jewish&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/692684.html&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/692684.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Halimi&#039;s recent murder is only now being recognized in France as a racist hate crime. While the delay in such recognition needs to be addressed, the French are finally beginning to acknowledge that such offences are being perpetrated in France and must not be explained away or ignored - for the good of the country as a whole.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/010320061&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=4/b/viii/010320061&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;NY Memorial for Ilan&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=99333&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=99333&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Commentary&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=236&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.israpundit.com/2006/?p=236&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Remembering Ilan Halimi&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013259.php&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://powerlineblog.com/archives/013259.php&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;French leaders pay tribute to Ilan Halimi at Paris synagogue&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/france/6232&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.ejpress.org/article/news/france/6232&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mother of murdered French Jew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16437&amp;amp;intcategoryid=2&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jta.org/page_view_story.asp?intarticleid=16437&amp;amp;intcategoryid=2&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Father of Ilan Halimi describes kidnapping ordeal&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395555768&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395555768&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The story of Ilan Halimi&#039;s murder at the hands of a terrorist gang of French Muslims brings to the surface the various pathologies now converging to make the prospect of annihilating all Jews seem possible to our enemies. First, there are the murderers who took such apparent pleasure and felt such pride in the fact that for 20 days they tortured their Jewish hostage to death.&lt;br /&gt;This makes sense. Anti-Semitism in the Muslim dominated suburbs of Paris and other French cities is all-encompassing. As Nidra Poller related in Thursday&#039;s Wall Street Journal, &amp;quot;One of the most troubling aspects of this affair is the probable involvement of relatives and neighbors, beyond the immediate circle of the gang [of kidnappers], who were told about the Jewish hostage and dropped in to participate in the torture.&amp;quot;&lt;br /&gt;It appears that Ilan Halimi&#039;s murderers had some connection to Hamas. Tuesday, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said that police found propaganda published by the Palestinian Charity Committee or the CBSP at the home of one of the suspects. The European Jewish Press reported this week that Israel has alleged that the organization is a front group for Palestinian terrorists and that in August 2003 the US government froze the organization&#039;s US bank accounts, accusing it of links with Hamas.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395477657&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1139395477657&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ottawa memorial service recalls murdered/tortured Jew&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8735&quot;&gt;http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=8735&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;There you have it, Quranic [Quran-ic] Torture, Islamic Fascistic hatred, &amp;quot;Palestinian - charity&amp;quot; &amp;amp; Propaganda, all in one case, involving around 30 Muslims, plus &amp;quot;ordinary&amp;quot; 30+ Muslims (neighbours) that knew and said nothing!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;______&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A Follow-up attack?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jewish teen tortured in French town where Ilan Halimi was killed&lt;br /&gt;06/03/2008&lt;br /&gt;The incident of brutal abuse began at 10 A.M. on February 22. Mathieu Roumi, 19, whose father is Jewish, was strolling through his neighborhood in the Paris suburb of Bagneux, which has been the site of violent riots by immigrants in the past two years. The suburb became notorious as the scene of Ilan Halimi&#039;s 2006 murder, which horrified France.&lt;br /&gt;...after which they beat him and, with the help of a third friend, dragged him to a dark basement. The three assailants were joined by three other youths, all neighborhood residents and neighbors of Roumi.&lt;br /&gt;For two hours the attackers tortured the young man. One shoved cigarette butts into his mouth, another took issue with Roumi&#039;s Jewish origin, grabbed correction fluid and scrawled &amp;quot;dirty Jew&amp;quot; on his forehead. The six men proceeded to scream at him and threaten that he would die the way Halimi did.&lt;br /&gt;They identified themselves as members of the &amp;quot;Barbarians,&amp;quot; the same gang that kidnapped Halimi from his store, demanded ransom for his release, and when that was not forthcoming, tortured the 23-year-old over the course of three weeks. Moments after he was dumped on the street, Halimi died. ...&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We admire Youssouf Fofana!&amp;quot; they shouted at him, referring to the leader of the gang that murdered Halimi. Fofana and 29 other suspects are on trial for abduction, torture and murder. If convicted, they can expect a life sentence.&lt;br /&gt;...the six assailants were arrested. Most are in their 20s, two come from Muslim homes...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961212.html&quot; target=&quot;blank&quot;&gt;http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/961212.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;postmetadata&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <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>Will Obama’s stimulus plan work………  NO</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Will Obama&amp;rsquo;s stimulus plan work&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;&amp;nbsp; NO&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You don&amp;rsquo;t need to be great economist to figure it out.&amp;nbsp;First look into why US went into this recession. Is it just irresponsible sub-prime lending by financial institution??? &amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;.NO. That is just one of the superficial reasons which brought recession.&amp;nbsp;The main reason is overall US foreign policies.&amp;nbsp;For the US economy to sustain and grow, it has to do business with ALL over the world. The stimulus plan will create only short term growth. For long term sustained growth, it has to sell its products &amp;amp; services all over the world. To sell all over the world it has to make friends &amp;amp; allies. Thanks to US foreign polices over the years and mainly during George &amp;ldquo;W&amp;rdquo; Bush tenure, it has made more adversaries than allies. &amp;nbsp;Even the last biggest recession in 1970&amp;rsquo;s came thanks to US foreign policy of unilaterally supporting Israel by air lifting more than 25,000 tons of military equipment for its war against its neighboring countries, which made them turn against US and block sale of oil to US.&amp;nbsp;This time, its direct war with Iraq which cost it more than 600 billion and counting. Why did US did attack on Iraq when Atomic energy agencies had given it clean chit that it doesn&amp;rsquo;t have any nuclear war heads or WMD? (Till not a single was found). Effortless answer is to get rid of tyrant Saddam Hussein&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;..NO &amp;nbsp;It was to demolish a country that was challenging the existence of Israel. US fought on behalf of Israel and itself into recession for second time. &amp;nbsp;Zionist lobbies in US capitol is making US take those decision which just benefitting Israel become a more and more diabolic &amp;amp; regional terror, by which it not just making 57 Muslim countries adversary of US but also many other countries are becoming its foe.&amp;nbsp;What is US getting in return from Israel &amp;hellip;&amp;hellip;.. nothing except recessions &amp;amp; enemies.&lt;strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Till the time US does not close this hole in the economy, till will never grow to true potential and long term sustained growth. &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;In-depth Study:&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;How much is US Tax payers are funding Israel???? &lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Generous as it is, what Israelis actually got in U.S. aid is considerably less than what it has cost U.S. taxpayers to provide it. The principal difference is that so long as the U.S. runs an annual budget deficit, every dollar of aid the U.S. gives Israel has to be raised through U.S. government borrowing.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.wrmea.com/backissues/1291/9112033.htm&quot;&gt;In an article in The Washington Report for December 1991/January 1992&lt;/a&gt;, Frank Collins estimated the costs of this interest, based upon prevailing interest rates for every year since 1949. I have updated this by applying a very conservative 5 percent interest rate for subsequent years, and confined the amount upon which the interest is calculated to grants, not loans or loan guarantees.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;On this basis the $84.8 billion in grants, loans and commodities Israel has received from the U.S. since 1949 cost the U.S. an additional $49,936,880,000 in interest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There are many other costs of Israel to U.S. taxpayers, such as most or all of the $45.6 billion in U.S. foreign aid to Egypt since Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979 (compared to $4.2 billion in U.S. aid to Egypt for the preceding 26 years). U.S. foreign aid to Egypt, which is pegged at two-thirds of U.S. foreign aid to Israel, averages $2.2 billion per year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There also have been immense political and military costs to the U.S. for its consistent support of Israel during Israel&#039;s half-century of disputes with the Palestinians and all of its Arab neighbors. In addition, there have been the approximately $10 billion in U.S. loan guarantees and perhaps $20 billion in tax-exempt contributions made to Israel by American Jews in the nearly half-century since Israel was created.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even excluding all of these extra costs, America&#039;s $84.8 billion in aid to Israel from fiscal years 1949 through 1998, and the interest the U.S. paid to borrow this money, has cost U.S. taxpayers $134.8 billion, not adjusted for inflation. Or, put another way, the nearly $14,630 every one of 5.8 million Israelis received from the U.S. government by Oct. 31, 1997 has cost American taxpayers $23,240 per Israeli.&lt;/p&gt;It would be interesting to know how many of those American taxpayers believe they and their families have received as much from the U.S. Treasury as has everyone who has chosen to become a citizen of Israel. But it&#039;s a question that will never occur to the American public because, so long as America&#039;s mainstream media, Congress and president maintain their pact of silence, few Americans will ever know the true cost of Israel to U.S. taxpayers.&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;The only members of Congress who even suspect the full total of U.S. funds received by Israel each year are the privileged few committee members who actually mark it up. And almost all members of the concerned committees are Jewish, have taken huge campaign donations orchestrated by Israel&#039;s Washington, DC lobby, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), or both. These congressional committee members are paid to act, not talk. So they do and they don&#039;t.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The same applies to the president, the secretary of state, and the foreign aid administrator. They all submit a budget that includes aid for Israel, which Congress approves, or increases, but never cuts. But no one in the executive branch mentions that of the few remaining U.S. aid recipients worldwide, all of the others are developing nations which either make their military bases available to the U.S., are key members of international alliances in which the U.S. participates, or have suffered some crippling blow of nature to their abilities to feed their people such as earthquakes, floods or droughts.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Benefits to Israel of U.S. Aid&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Since 1949 (As of November 1, 1997)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Foreign Aid Grants and Loans&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$74,157,600,000&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Other U.S. Aid (12.2% of Foreign Aid)&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$9,047,227,200&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interest to Israel from Advanced Payments&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$1,650,000,000&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grand Total&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$84,854,827,200&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Benefits per Israeli&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$14,630&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cost to U.S. Taxpayers of U.S.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Aid to Israel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Grand Total&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$84,854,827,200&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Interest Costs Borne by U.S.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$49,936,680,000&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Cost to U.S. Taxpayers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$134,791,507,200&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Total Taxpayer Cost per Israeli&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;$23,240&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;p&gt;Since 1992, the U.S. has offered Israel an additional $2 billion annually in loan guarantees. Congressional researchers have disclosed that between 1974 and 1989, $16.4 billion in U.S. military loans were converted to grants and that this was the understanding from the beginning. Indeed, all past U.S. loans to Israel have eventually been forgiven by Congress, which has undoubtedly helped Israel&#039;s often-touted claim that they have never defaulted on a U.S. government loan. U.S. policy since 1984 has been that economic assistance to Israel must equal or exceed Israel&#039;s annual debt repayment to the United States. Unlike other countries, which receive aid in quarterly installments, aid to Israel since 1982 has been given in a lump sum at the beginning of the fiscal year, leaving the U.S. government to borrow from future revenues. Israel even lends some of this money back through U.S. treasury bills and collects the additional interest. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In addition, there is the more than $1.5 billion in private U.S. funds that go to Israel annually in the form of $1 billion in private tax-deductible donations and $500 million in Israeli bonds. The ability of Americans to make what amounts to tax-deductible contributions to a foreign government, made possible through a number of Jewish charities, does not exist with any other country. Nor do these figures include short- and long-term commercial loans from U.S. banks, which have been as high as $1 billion annually in recent years.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Total U.S. aid to Israel is approximately one-third of the American foreign-aid budget, even though Israel comprises just .001 percent of the world&#039;s population and already has one of the world&#039;s higher per capita incomes. Indeed, Israel&#039;s GNP is higher than the combined GNP of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza. With a per capita income of about $14,000, Israel ranks as the sixteenth wealthiest country in the world; Israelis enjoy a higher per capita income than oil-rich Saudi Arabia and are only slightly less well-off than most Western European countries. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AID does not term economic aid to Israel as development assistance, but instead uses the term &amp;quot;economic support funding.&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;For the fiscal year ending in September 30, 1997, the U.S. has given Israel $6.72 billion: $6.194 billion falls under Israel&#039;s foreign aid allotment and $526 million comes from agencies such as the Department of Commerce, the U.S. Information Agency and the Pentagon. The $6.72 billion figure does not include loan guarantees and annual compound interest totalling $3.122 billion the U.S. pays on money borrowed to give to Israel. It does not include the cost to U.S. taxpayers of IRS tax exemptions that donors can claim when they donate money to Israeli charities. (Donors claim approximately $1 billion in Federal tax deductions annually. This ultimately costs other U.S. tax payers $280 million to $390 million.)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;u&gt;Military aid&lt;/u&gt;Israel has received more U.S. military assistance than any other country, both in terms of grant aid and military sales on a concessional basis. Since 1987, the U.S. has provided an average of $1.8 billion annually in the form of Foreign Military Sales (FMS), Foreign Military Financing (FMF) and funds to support research and development.&lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel%E2%80%93United_States_military_relations#cite_note-sent-NA-1#cite_note-sent-NA-1&quot;&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt;A bilateral memorandum of understanding was signed in January 2001, at the end of the Clinton administration, under which defense aid was increased to $2.4 billion annually from $1.8 billion, while the $1.2 billion of economic aid would be eliminated. This was predicated on the basis of the defense aid being increased by $60 million per year until the full amount was reached in 2008, while the economic aid is decreased by $120 million per year until eliminated. In 2007, the United States increased its military aid to Israel by over 25%, to an average of $3 billion per year for the following ten year period (starting at $2.550 billion for 2008, growing by $150 million each year) The package is scheduled to start October 2008, when regular economic aid to Israel&#039;s economy is to end. U.S. President &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush&quot; title=&quot;George W. Bush&quot;&gt;George W. Bush&lt;/a&gt; assured Israeli Prime Minister &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ehud_Olmert&quot; title=&quot;Ehud Olmert&quot;&gt;Ehud Olmert&lt;/a&gt; that the U.S. would help keep a &amp;quot;qualitative advantage&amp;quot; to Israel over other nations in the region &lt;p&gt;Israel, whose troubles arise solely from its unwillingness to give back land it seized in the 1967 war in return for peace with its neighbors, does not fit those criteria. In fact, Israel&#039;s 1995 per capita gross domestic product was $15,800. That put it below Britain at $19,500 and Italy at $18,700 and just above Ireland at $15,400 and Spain at $14,300.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All four of those European countries have contributed a very large share of immigrants to the U.S., yet none has organized an ethnic group to lobby for U.S. foreign aid. Instead, all four send funds and volunteers to do economic development and emergency relief work in other less fortunate parts of the world.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The lobby that Israel and its supporters have built in the United States to make all this aid happen, and to ban discussion of it from the national dialogue, goes far beyond AIPAC, with its $15 million budget, its 150 employees, and its five or six registered lobbyists who manage to visit every member of Congress individually once or twice a year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;AIPAC, in turn, can draw upon the resources of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, a roof group set up solely to coordinate the efforts of some 52 national Jewish organizations on behalf of Israel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Among them are Hadassah, the Zionist women&#039;s organization, which organizes a steady stream of American Jewish visitors to Israel; the American Jewish Congress, which mobilizes support for Israel among members of the traditionally left-of-center Jewish mainstream; and the American Jewish Committee, which plays the same role within the growing middle-of-the-road and right-of-center Jewish community. The American Jewish Committee also publishes Commentary, one of the Israel lobby&#039;s principal national publications.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Perhaps the most controversial of these groups is B&#039;nai B&#039;rith&#039;s Anti-Defamation League (ADL). Its original highly commendable purpose was to protect the civil rights of American Jews. Over the past generation, however, the ADL has regressed into a conspiratorial and, with a $45 million budget, extremely well-funded hate group.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;More recently, FBI raids on ADL&#039;s Los Angeles and San Francisco offices revealed that an ADL operative had purchased files stolen from the San Francisco police department that a court had ordered destroyed because they violated the civil rights of the individuals on whom they had been compiled. ADL, it was shown, had added the illegally prepared and obtained material to its own secret files, compiled by planting informants among Arab-American, African-American, anti-Apartheid and peace and justice groups.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The ADL infiltrators took notes of the names and remarks of speakers and members of audiences at programs organized by such groups. ADL agents even recorded the license plates of persons attending such programs and then suborned corrupt motor vehicles department employees or renegade police officers to identify the owners.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although one of the principal offenders fled the United States to escape prosecution, no significant penalties were assessed. ADL&#039;s Northern California office was ordered to comply with requests by persons upon whom dossiers had been prepared to see their own files, but no one went to jail and as yet no one has paid fines.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not surprisingly, a defecting employee revealed in an article he published in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs that AIPAC, too, has such &amp;quot;enemies&amp;quot; files. They are compiled for use by pro-Israel journalists like Steven Emerson and other so-called &amp;quot;terrorism experts,&amp;quot; and also by professional, academic or journalistic rivals of the persons described for use in black-listing, defaming, or denouncing them. What is never revealed is that AIPAC&#039;s &amp;quot;opposition research&amp;quot; department, under the supervision of Michael Lewis, son of famed Princeton University Orientalist Bernard Lewis, is the source of this defamatory material.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But this is not AIPAC&#039;s most controversial activity. In the 1970s, when Congress put a cap on the amount its members could earn from speakers&#039; fees and book royalties over and above their salaries, it halted AIPAC&#039;s most effective ways of paying off members for voting according to AIPAC recommendations. Members of AIPAC&#039;s national board of directors solved the problem by returning to their home states and creating political action committees (PACs).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most special interests have PACs, as do many major corporations, labor unions, trade associations and public-interest groups. But the pro-Israel groups went wild. To date some 126 pro-Israel PACs have been registered, and no fewer than 50 have been active in every national election over the past generation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;An individual voter can give up to $2,000 to a candidate in an election cycle, and a PAC can give a candidate up to $10,000. However, a single special interest with 50 PACs can give a candidate who is facing a tough opponent, and who has voted according to its recommendations, up to half a million dollars. That&#039;s enough to buy all the television time needed to get elected in most parts of the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Even candidates who don&#039;t need this kind of money certainly don&#039;t want it to become available to a rival from their own party in a primary election, or to an opponent from the opposing party in a general election. As a result, all but a handful of the 535 members of the Senate and House vote as AIPAC instructs when it comes to aid to Israel, or other aspects of U.S. Middle East policy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There is something else very special about AIPAC&#039;s network of political action committees. Nearly all have deceptive names. Who could possibly know that the Delaware Valley Good Government Association in Philadelphia, San Franciscans for Good Government in California, Cactus PAC in Arizona, Beaver PAC in Wisconsin, and even Icepac in New York are really pro-Israel PACs under deep cover?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Hiding AIPAC&#039;s Tracks&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;In fact, the congress members know it when they list the contributions they receive on the campaign statements they have to prepare for the Federal Election Commission. But their constituents don&#039;t know this when they read these statements. So just as no other special interest can put so much &amp;quot;hard money&amp;quot; into any candidate&#039;s election campaign as can the Israel lobby, no other special interest has gone to such elaborate lengths to hide its tracks.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although AIPAC, Washington&#039;s most feared special-interest lobby, can hide how it uses both carrots and sticks to bribe or intimidate members of Congress, it can&#039;t hide all of the results.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Anyone can ask one of their representatives in Congress for a chart prepared by the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress, that shows Israel received $62.5 billion in foreign aid from fiscal year 1949 through fiscal year 1996. People in the national capital area also can visit the library of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Rosslyn, Virginia, and obtain the same information, plus charts showing how much foreign aid the U.S. has given other countries as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Visitors will learn that in precisely the same 1949-1996 time frame, the total of U.S. foreign aid to all of the countries of sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean combined was $62,497,800,000--almost exactly the amount given to tiny Israel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;According to the Population Reference Bureau of Washington, DC, in mid-1995 the sub-Saharan countries had a combined population of 568 million. The $24,415,700,000 in foreign aid they had received by then amounted to $42.99 per sub-Saharan African.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Similarly, with a combined population of 486 million, all of the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean together had received $38,254,400,000. This amounted to $79 per person.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The per capita U.S. foreign aid to Israel&#039;s 5.8 million people during the same period was $10,775.48. This meant that for every dollar the U.S. spent on an African, it spent $250.65 on an Israeli, and for every dollar it spent on someone from the Western Hemisphere outside the United States, it spent $214 on an Israeli.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;Shocking Comparisons&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;p&gt;These comparisons already seem shocking, but they are far from the whole truth. Using reports compiled by Clyde Mark of the Congressional Research Service and other sources, freelance writer Frank Collins tallied for The Washington Report all of the extra items for Israel buried in the budgets of the Pentagon and other federal agencies in fiscal year 1993.Washington Report news editor Shawn Twing did the same thing for fiscal years 1996 and 1997.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;They uncovered $1.271 billion in extras in FY 1993, $355.3 million in FY 1996 and $525.8 million in FY 1997. These represent an average increase of 12.2 percent over the officially recorded foreign aid totals for the same fiscal years, and they probably are not complete. It&#039;s reasonable to assume, therefore, that a similar 12.2 percent hidden increase has prevailed over all of the years Israel has received aid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As of Oct. 31, 1997 Israel will have received $3.05 billion in U.S. foreign aid for fiscal year 1997 and $3.08 billion in foreign aid for fiscal year 1998. Adding the 1997 and 1998 totals to those of previous years since 1949 yields a total of $74,157,600,000 in foreign aid grants and loans. Assuming that the actual totals from other budgets average 12.2 percent of that amount, that brings the grand total to $83,204,827,200.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But that&#039;s not quite all. Receiving its annual foreign aid appropriation during the first month of the fiscal year, instead of in quarterly installments as do other recipients, is just another special privilege Congress has voted for Israel. It enables Israel to invest the money in U.S. Treasury notes. That means that the U.S., which has to borrow the money it gives to Israel, pays interest on the money it has granted to Israel in advance, while at the same time Israel is collecting interest on the money. That interest to Israel from advance payments adds another $1.650 billion to the total, making it $84,854,827,200.That&#039;s the number you should write down for total aid to Israel. And that&#039;s $14,346 each for each man, woman and child in Israel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It&#039;s worth noting that that figure does not include U.S. government loan guarantees to Israel, of which Israel has drawn $9.8 billion to date. They greatly reduce the interest rate the Israeli government pays on commercial loans, and they place additional burdens on U.S. taxpayers, especially if the Israeli government should default on any of them. But since neither the savings to Israel nor the costs to U.S. taxpayers can be accurately quantified, they are excluded from consideration here.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Further, friends of Israel never tire of saying that Israel has never defaulted on repayment of a U.S. government loan. It would be equally accurate to say Israel has never been required to repay a U.S. government loan. The truth of the matter is complex, and designed to be so by those who seek to conceal it from the U.S. taxpayer.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Most U.S. loans to Israel are forgiven, and many were made with the explicit understanding that they would be forgiven before Israel was required to repay them. By disguising as loans what in fact were grants, cooperating members of Congress exempted Israel from the U.S. oversight that would have accompanied grants. On other loans, Israel was expected to pay the interest and eventually to begin repaying the principal. But the so-called Cranston Amendment, which has been attached by Congress to every foreign aid appropriation since 1983, provides that economic aid to Israel will never dip below the amount Israel is required to pay on its outstanding loans. In short, whether U.S. aid is extended as grants or loans to Israel, it never returns to the Treasury.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Israel enjoys other privileges. While most countries receiving U.S. military aid funds are expected to use them for U.S. arms, ammunition and training, Israel can spend part of these funds on weapons made by Israeli manufacturers. Also, when it spends its U.S. military aid money on U.S. products, Israel frequently requires the U.S. vendor to buy components or materials from Israeli manufacturers. Thus, though Israeli politicians say that their own manufacturers and exporters are making them progressively less dependent upon U.S. aid, in fact those Israeli manufacturers and exporters are heavily subsidized by U.S. aid.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Although it&#039;s beyond the parameters of this study, it&#039;s worth mentioning that Israel also receives foreign aid from some other countries. After the United States, the principal donor of both economic and military aid to Israel is Germany.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;By far the largest component of German aid has been in the form of restitution payments to victims of Nazi atrocities. But there also has been extensive German military assistance to Israel during and since the Gulf war, and a variety of German educational and research grants go to Israeli institutions. The total of German assistance in all of these categories to the Israeli government, Israeli individuals and Israeli private institutions has been some $31 billion or $5,345 per capita, bringing the per capita total of U.S. and German assistance combined to almost $20,000 per Israeli. Since very little public money is spent on the more than 20 percent of Israeli citizens who are Muslim or Christian, the actual per capita benefits received by Israel&#039;s Jewish citizens would be considerably higher.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; &amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;Till the time US does not close this hole in the economy, till will never grow to true potential and long term sustained growth. &lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;</description>
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            <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 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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            <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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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:53:22 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>JEWISH ANTI-SEMITISM</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Amid anti-Semitic storm, Europe&amp;rsquo;s Jews stand for Israel&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;By &lt;a href=&quot;http://jta.org/user/profile/8544&quot; title=&quot;click to view&quot;&gt;Dinah Spritzer&lt;/a&gt; &amp;middot;                 13 January 2009&lt;/p&gt;see &lt;a href=&quot;http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/13/1002216/amid-anti-semitic-storm-europes-jews-stand-for-israel&quot;&gt;http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/13/1002216/amid-anti-semitic-storm-europes-jews-stand-for-israel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;PRAGUE (JTA) -- Confronting a rising storm of anti-Semitism as the conflict in Gaza intensifies, European Jews are grappling with the best way to express their support for Israel&#039;s fight against Hamas.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Recent assaults on Jews in European capitals range from the beating of a Jewish teenager in a Paris suburb by assailants who vowed she would &amp;ldquo;pay for Israel&#039;s acts&amp;rdquo; to the compilation on an Islamist Web site of a hit list of prominent British Jews. Jewish monuments in France and Sweden have been firebombed. And in Italy, a workers&amp;rsquo; political party called for a boycott of Jewish stores.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;While Jews have taken to the streets in the hundreds or thousands to demonstrate for peace and Israel&amp;rsquo;s right to defend itself, they are dwarfed by the tens and hundreds of thousands participating in protests against Israel. In many cases, top European political figures have supported the protests. Sometimes the rallies have turned violent.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The 27-country European Union has approximately 1.8 million Jews and 17 million Muslims, and that difference is keenly visible in the size of events relating to the war in Gaza and southern Israel.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;After some 1,000 Jews turned out last week for a rally in Brussels in support of Israel -- held opposite the Embassy of Iran, which funds Hamas --&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ytICSWG5S4&quot;&gt;tens of thousands showed up Sunday&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;for a march against what they called Israel&#039;s &amp;ldquo;massacre in Gaza.&amp;rdquo; The pro-Palestinian rally was organized by three of the four main political parities in the French-speaking part of Belgium, along with some 100 or so nongovernmental organizations.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Chanting &amp;ldquo;Death to Jews!&amp;rdquo; in Arabic, the crowd burned Israeli flags and carried signs calling Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni &amp;ldquo;Hitler&#039;s wife.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;In a way, Jews feel alone,&amp;rdquo; said Joel Rubinfeld, the president of the umbrella group of French-speaking Jews in Belgium, known by the acronym CCOJB. &amp;ldquo;But lots of non-Jews are disgusted, too&amp;rdquo; with the anti-Semitic messages, he added.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Massive anti-Israel demonstrations last weekend in France, Brussels and Madrid have included anti-Semitic chants such as &amp;ldquo;Jews to the gas&amp;rdquo; and swastikas paired with the Star of David.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Israeli Foreign Ministry, the European Jewish Congress, the Simon Wiesenthal Center and the Anti-Defamation League have implored European officials to acknowledge and combat the importing of the Middle East conflict to Europe and the scapegoating of Jews.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Countries with large Muslims populations, including France, Belgium and Britain, have seen the largest number of anti-Semitic incidents.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Britain&#039;s Community Security Trust, which monitors Jewish security issues, recorded a huge surge in anti-Semitic attacks -- 80 in total -- since Israel began bombing Hamas targets in Gaza on Dec. 27.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Undeterred, British Jews staged the largest European demonstration in support of Israel&#039;s right to security in this conflict. Sunday&#039;s demonstration, which also expressed sympathy for Palestinian civilians, drew 17,000 people to London&#039;s Trafalgar Square.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I decided to do something after watching too much television and seeing the huge coverage of the anti-Israel demonstrations,&amp;rdquo; said one Jewish Londoner, Matt Freelander, who participated in a pro-Israel rally last week.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In France, Nicole Yardeni, the president of the CRIF Jewish umbrella group in Toulouse, decided not to hold a pro-Israel rally in the region after a car filled with Molotov cocktails rammed into the front gate of a synagogue Jan. 5.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;It&#039;s not that we are afraid,&amp;rdquo; she said of the community of approximately 20,000. But faced with consistent pro-Palestinian rallies that outnumber Toulouse Jews, Yardeni said the community &amp;ldquo;could not hold its own on the street&amp;rdquo; and thus could not have a &amp;ldquo;successful&amp;rdquo; protest.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In recent days, the CRIF held pro-Israel rallies in Paris, Marseilles and near Lyon.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Marseilles rally was unusual in that every major local politician joined the crowd of about 4,000. The Paris rally did not have the same political backing. Many attendees said they left family and friends behind because they were afraid of publicly supporting Israel after seeing the violence and virulent anti-Zionism in a pro-Palestinian protest a day earlier.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;Once again, when in trouble, we&#039;ve found ourselves alone,&amp;quot; Patrick Gaubert, the president of the International League Against Racism and Anti-Semitism, wrote in a letter published Jan. 8 in a French Jewish weekly.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Italy, whose prime minister, Silvio Berlusconi, has been honored by Jewish groups for being pro-Israel, pro-Israel rallies drew government officials.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Germany, anti-Israel marches were relatively calm, but some marchers carried signs reading &amp;ldquo;Out with Jews&amp;rdquo; or &amp;quot;Israelis are child murderers.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;German Jews have turned out for pro-Israel rallies, too, albeit in small numbers. A rally in Frankfurt drew 2,000, while one in Berlin had 1,500 participants.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;When people see our small group,&amp;rdquo; said Sharon Adler, who co-organized the Berlin rally on Sunday, &amp;quot;perhaps they will understand that Israel is also a much smaller country than all the Arab countries around it, and that Jews in Germany are also a small minority.&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Stockholm, where the Jewish community numbers 5,000, a peace event in support of Israel held Saturday night at a church drew 800 people -- about half of whom were not Jewish, according to Lena Posner, the president of the Swedish Jewish community.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;There were about 100 people outside the church shouting insults against Israel,&amp;rdquo; Posner said. &amp;ldquo;The police had to close off the whole area around the church and we were escorted back to our cars in groups of 15.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Earlier in the day, 8,000 protesters chanting anti-Israel slogans gathered for a mostly Muslim demonstration in Stockholm that included the head of the Swedish Socialist Party and the country&amp;rsquo;s former foreign minister. A Liberal Party legislator attended the pro-Israel event.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Elsewhere in the country, a burial chapel in the Jewish cemetery in central Malmo was firebombed for the third time since Israel began its operation in Gaza.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Spain, violent incidents have been minimal, although an anti-Israel rally there on Saturday was Europe&amp;rsquo;s biggest such rally thus far, with crowd estimates ranging from 50,000 to 250,000.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Representatives of Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero and his ruling Socialist Party were among those who participated. Some participants called for jihad, or holy war, praised Hezbollah and cursed Israel. The Israeli Embassy in Madrid took the rare step of openly chastising the prime minister for fueling anti-Israel anger.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;There was hate speech definitely, and a few marched to the Israeli Embassy and threw stones and the police had to intervene,&amp;rdquo; said Derek Wise, the general manager of Madrid&amp;rsquo;s Jewish community. &amp;ldquo;Our prime minister incited what was going on.&#039;&#039;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Wise said Spanish Friends of Israel was planning a public pro-Israel event for Jan. 18.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;I understand there might be people afraid to come,&amp;quot; he said, &amp;quot;but we want to show it is not only Jews, it&#039;s normal Spaniards who also understand that a democratic state like Israel has a right to defend itself.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;(JTA correspondents Devorah Lauter contributed to this story from Paris, Toby Axelrod from Berlin and Daphna Vardi from London.&lt;/em&gt;)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;source: &lt;a href=&quot;http://jewishamericans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbN2 &quot; title=&quot;Jewish Anti-Semitism&quot;&gt;http://jewishamericans.barackobama.com/page/community/post/president/gGxbN2 &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Dear Friends,&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;There has been a growing cry for a community gathering about the Gaza crisis that calls for an end to the violence while expressing our anguish for both the Israeli and Palestinian peoples.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Boston-area Muslim, Christian, and Jewish leaders have jointly written a statement calling for a ceasefire in Gaza and expressing our desire to demonstrate that during these most difficult of times we are prepared to stretch our hands out to each other. The statement with initial signatures can be found at the URL below.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Join us for a silent &lt;strong&gt;INTERFAITH VIGIL&lt;/strong&gt; to make the declaration public and stand shoulder to shoulder with members of Boston&amp;rsquo;s Muslim, Jewish, and Christian communities. Signs (drawn from the statement) will be provided. No other signs please.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <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;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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            <title>Oh Israel....</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;A new war for a new year. &amp;nbsp;Go for it Jews! &amp;nbsp;Nobody else is hogging the spotlight right now so we need new news. &amp;nbsp;Our press has given up on Iraq and abandoned Baghdad to itinerant bloggers. &amp;nbsp;Bloggers, &amp;nbsp;We all know how accurate their (our) reports are! &amp;nbsp;But then, whom are we writing to out there anyway? &amp;nbsp;I wrote, this morning, about the fact that it is Monday the Thirtieth. &amp;nbsp;Well, it is Tuesday, but my readership either got the joke or simply did not notice, or care. &amp;nbsp;My attempt at geek humor. &amp;nbsp;Failed, most probably. &amp;nbsp;Maybe I will do better at the party tonight. &amp;nbsp;The Jews are busting heads and kicking butt over there to beat the Jesus out of the Arabs. &amp;nbsp;This time it is Hamas on the Gaza strip. &amp;nbsp;Because they shot rockets into Israel. &amp;nbsp;Now when have any of those countries, over there, not to mention, regions, tribes, communes or whatever, ever shot rockets at each other? &amp;nbsp;When have they not shot rockets at each other? &amp;nbsp;The neighbors of Israel are never ever going to get along with the Israelis. &amp;nbsp;You see, with our, and other&#039;s, help following WWII, we took a chunk of that region and gave it to the Jews. &amp;nbsp;We, and other&#039;s including the Catholic Church, felt guilty because we knew what the German&#039;s were doing to the Jews during the war and we didn&#039;t do anything about it. &amp;nbsp;After the war we hung few Germans, but then also accepted a lot of them into this country because they had secrets and skills we needed. &amp;nbsp;Guilt. &amp;nbsp;So we did the right thing. &amp;nbsp;We gave them somebody else&#039;s property. &amp;nbsp;Yeah, the land was not unowned or unoccupied. &amp;nbsp;We gave them property that other&#039;s still claim, and will always claim until there is not another breathing soul of the respective owner families alive. &amp;nbsp;And so we have rockets, and now another war. &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;All is going well on the Oceanic Front.&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;Will the Jews ever give fair compensation to try to settle the situation? &amp;nbsp;No. &amp;nbsp;They don&#039;t have to. &amp;nbsp;They have nuclear weapons, for all the good that has done them. &amp;nbsp;You think the Palestinian&#039;s are ever going to get over the loss of their property? &amp;nbsp;Consider the feelings of the Native American&#039;s here. &amp;nbsp;Or the Irish over there in Ireland. &amp;nbsp;The Afghans. &amp;nbsp;Even the Iraqi people. &amp;nbsp;They want their land. &amp;nbsp;And they make no bones about it....or a lot of bones.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Isn&#039;t Governor Rod doing great? &amp;nbsp;It is like he is following the advice on my blogs. &amp;nbsp;His new appointment. &amp;nbsp;Terrific. &amp;nbsp;What can they do? &amp;nbsp;Deny him a seat? &amp;nbsp;A black guy? &amp;nbsp;In this current environment? &amp;nbsp;A laughing dancing Negro that the Republican&#039;s love to hate? &amp;nbsp;You go governor! &amp;nbsp;&amp;quot;Make my day,&amp;quot; the hair-dropped whacked-out Blago whispers to himself. He is not even aware that he is fighting for state&#039;s rights. &amp;nbsp;He is fighting for opposition to the overwhelming dominance that Federal Prosecutors have had in this country for the last fifty years. &amp;nbsp;Fitzgerald is now trying to release some of the Governor Rod tapes to his political opponents so they can impeach. &amp;nbsp;He has already released them to the media, back on the first day. &amp;nbsp;Attack back, Governor Rod. &amp;nbsp;Go after that righteous man, meddling in the politics of Illinois for his very own personal benefit. &amp;nbsp;Yeah, he wants to be the only person of integrity left standing. &amp;nbsp;The best way to be that man is to tear everyone else down who might hold the crown. &amp;nbsp;And he is doing it all using this screwed up system of justice that has wormed it&#039;s way right into the heart of our culture. &amp;nbsp;Being legal is not necessarily being right. &amp;nbsp;Or honest. &amp;nbsp;Or caring. &amp;nbsp;Or any of it. &amp;nbsp;The hard financial times are coming, however, and they are bringing change. &amp;nbsp;Obama is not bringing change there, he is merely the leader who is going to make us feel better while we go through it. &amp;nbsp;And these changes coming, a lot of them will reduce righteous people back into the schoolyard bullies they came out of being, and set us free. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Maybe I will wear all of one color tonight, and keep my mouth shut. &amp;nbsp;Or fairly shut. &amp;nbsp;I am trying to fit in here, really. &amp;nbsp;I don&#039;t even give this blog address out to local people. &amp;nbsp;They might read it. &amp;nbsp;And believe me. &amp;nbsp;What good could that possibly do? &amp;nbsp;I mean, if the big astroid is really coming on 12/21/12, and it is, then what good does it do to know that? &amp;nbsp;Someone once said to me &amp;quot;your predictions are uncannily accurate and it is amazing that you can find out so much, but, why do all of your predictions have to be bad?&amp;quot; &amp;nbsp;They aren&#039;t. &amp;nbsp;But readers really only remember bad ones. &amp;nbsp;It is how we are conditioned to survive. &amp;nbsp;Hyper-vigilance never lost a tribe to the nomadic raiders of old. &amp;nbsp;But the warriors who were hyper-vigilant died from stress and worry at young ages. &amp;nbsp;But then, that is the lot of the warrior. &amp;nbsp;I sometimes wonder, being one that has grown older, whether we don&#039;t spend those waning years, months, weeks, and days thinking about how we should really be among the fallen too. &amp;nbsp;What are we doing here, still? &amp;nbsp;Getting dressed in a yellow outfit (I am told it is yellow), getting ready to go out and alienate a bunch more people who live right in my back yard. &amp;nbsp;Oh Israel...oh me....oh bother....&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;from-the-chateau-dif.blogspot.com&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Frank Rich Overreaches Again</title>
            <description>&amp;ldquo;You&amp;rsquo;re Likable Enough, Gay People&amp;rdquo; is the title of a &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/28/opinion/28rich.html&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;column&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; by Frank Rich in today&amp;rsquo;s New York Times. After several weeks of fairly serious columns, he has reverted to his usual hyperbolic style. The main focus is on Obama&amp;rsquo;s choice of Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. Here are some excerpts: &lt;p&gt;Barack Obama has little in common with George W. Bush, thank God, his &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/24/AR2008122402590.html&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;obsessive workouts&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/21/magazine/21Gibbs-t.html&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;message control&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; notwithstanding.As we saw during primary season, our president-elect is not free of his own brand of hubris and arrogance, and sometimes it comes before a fall: &amp;ldquo;You&amp;rsquo;re likable enough, Hillary&amp;rdquo; was &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/opinion/13rich.html&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;the prelude to his defeat&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in New Hampshire. He has hit this same note again by assigning the invocation at his inauguration to the Rev. Rick Warren, the Orange County, Calif., megachurch preacher who has &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.beliefnet.com/Video/Beliefnet-Interviews/Rick-Warren/Rick-Warren-Interview-On-Gay-Marriage-And-Divorce.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;likened committed gay relationships&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to incest, polygamy and &amp;ldquo;an older guy marrying a child.&amp;rdquo; &lt;p&gt;You can&amp;rsquo;t blame V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop and an early Obama booster, for feeling as if he&amp;rsquo;d been slapped in the face. &amp;ldquo;I&amp;rsquo;m all for Rick Warren being at the table,&amp;rdquo; he &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/20/us/politics/20warren.html&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;told The Times&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, but &amp;ldquo;we&amp;rsquo;re talking about putting someone up front and center at what will be the most-watched inauguration in history, and asking his blessing on the nation. And the God that he&amp;rsquo;s praying to is not the God that I know.&amp;rdquo; Unlike Bush, Obama has been the vocal advocate of gay civil rights he claims to be. It is over the top to assert, &lt;/p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1867664,00.html&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;as a gay writer at Time&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; did, that the president-elect is &amp;ldquo;a very tolerant, very rational-sounding sort of bigot.&amp;rdquo; Much more to the point is the astute criticism leveled by the gay Democratic congressman Barney Frank, who, in dissenting from the Warren choice, &lt;a href=&quot;http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/12/22/rep-frank-obama-overestimates-ability-to-charm/&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;said of Obama&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &amp;ldquo;I think he overestimates his ability to get people to put aside fundamental differences.&amp;rdquo; That&amp;rsquo;s a polite way of describing the Obama cockiness. It will take more than the force of the new president&amp;rsquo;s personality and eloquence to turn our nation into the United States of America he and we all want it to be. &lt;p&gt;(end of excerpts)&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here is the comment I posted.*&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Obama tends to see the good side only, when it comes to ministers. Didn&#039;t his relationship with the Reverend Wright teach us this? To me this shows naivet&amp;eacute; rather than cockiness. I hope this &amp;ldquo;one-sided vision&amp;rdquo; doesn&amp;rsquo;t apply to heads of state. I&amp;rsquo;m glad he&amp;rsquo;ll have Hillary as a buffer. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for &amp;ldquo;you&amp;rsquo;re likable enough Hillary&amp;rdquo;, that has been way overblown. Watch the tape again. He was caught by surprise and had to say something. Maybe a bit sardonic, but not arrogant.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And &amp;ldquo;obsessive workouts&amp;rdquo;? Daily exercise is important, especially when one wants to relieve stress and stay in shape. With George W. Bush, on the contrary, it was clear that being a &amp;ldquo;physical trainer&amp;rdquo; was a more important role to him than being president. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for Bishop Gene Robinson&amp;rsquo;s comment that &amp;ldquo;the God that [Rick Warren] is praying to is not the God that I know.&amp;rdquo; That statement is off the mark. I guess he meant &amp;quot;interpreting&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;praying to&amp;quot; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;As for Warren&amp;rsquo;s role at the inaugural, it bothers me too. I would have preferred a &amp;rdquo;Billy Graham&amp;rdquo; type, one who doesn&amp;rsquo;t state that Jews don&amp;rsquo;t go to Heaven, as Warren did when asked about it at an Aspen Ideas Festival. ** &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Barack Obama is only human, not divine. So let&amp;rsquo;s all stay in the big tent and wait to see how he actually governs as president. We&amp;rsquo;re really not sure, but &lt;em&gt;most&lt;/em&gt; of the early signs are positive. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(end of comment)&lt;/p&gt;** &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/15/opinion/main4353149.shtml&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;To be precise&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, Warren answered &amp;ldquo;yes&amp;rdquo; when a woman proclaimed her Judaism and asked him if she was going to burn in Hell. Graham, on the other hand, once &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slate.com/id/32438/&quot;&gt;&lt;u&gt;advised&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/a&gt; George W. Bush to &amp;quot;never play God&amp;quot; by ruling on who gets into heaven. &lt;p&gt;*This comment actually appeared. Number 938.&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&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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            <pubDate>Sat, 27 Dec 2008 21:14:20 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Pallywood slow (this time) to pin its usual murder (of Arabs) on the &quot;zionists&quot;</title>
            <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>BBC has got a Muslim trying to rewrite historic Jewish Jesus from Judea (attempting — to no avail — to “Arabize” &amp; confuse JUDEA with Arabia…)</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;BBC has got a Muslim trying to rewrite historic Jewish Jesus from Judea (attempting &amp;mdash; to no avail &amp;mdash; to &amp;ldquo;Arabize&amp;rdquo; &amp;amp; confuse JUDEA with Arabia&amp;hellip;).&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Accompanied with a typical Islamic-bigotry&amp;rsquo;s bombarding propaganda of the &amp;ldquo;bad&amp;rdquo; Israelis that dare to try fight (with security checkpoints) the Arab Muslim (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.meforum.org/article/522&quot;&gt;invaders&lt;/a&gt;) that &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.lindasog.com/public/terrorvictims.htm&quot;&gt;terrorize&lt;/a&gt; the Jews.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Just another typical biased BBC&amp;rsquo;s blend of radical Islamism &amp;amp; Arabism re-&amp;rdquo;view&amp;rdquo; of true facts, in Islamic culture there&amp;rsquo;s a word for it: Taqiyya (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018169.php#c451487&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/018169.php#c451487&lt;/a&gt;) - an intentional planned lying to and deceit of the infidel, it&amp;rsquo;s encouraged, as long as the infidel &amp;ldquo;buys&amp;rdquo; it.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7784227.stm - BBC&amp;rsquo;s Aleem Maqbool: The road to Bethlehem&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Islamists define &quot;Zionism&quot; anyone standing up against terror-massacres and for security and survival</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Islamic Pakistani TV channel blames the Islamic massacre on &amp;ldquo;Indian (hindu) zionists&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;Pak TV channel says 26/11 hatched by Hindu Zionists - &lt;a href=&quot;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Pak_TV_channel_says_2611_hatched_by_Hindu_Zionists/articles%20how/3785654.cms&quot;&gt;http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Pak_TV_channel_says_2611_hatched_by_Hindu_Zionists/articles%20how/3785654.cms&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;mdash;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;There you go, the usual Islamic follow-up crime, after committing the massacre - (on top of everything) blaming the victims!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;What the heck is an &amp;ldquo;hindu zionist&amp;rdquo; anyway??? then again, Who said Islamofascism makes sense?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The truth &amp;mdash; however &amp;mdash; is that the Islamists consider ANY anti terrorists pro-security, pro-survival, pro-life acting &amp;ldquo;entity&amp;rdquo; as &amp;ldquo;zionists&amp;rdquo;, that&amp;rsquo;s IslamiPedia for &amp;ldquo;Zionism&amp;rdquo;.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;Good guy Israel&#039;s good will vs dangerous &amp;quot;modereate palestinian&amp;quot; - Israel&#039;s plan to free Palestinian prisoners is foolish &amp;ndash; and illegal&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Christian Science Monitor, MA - Dec 14, 2008&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Outgoing Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert intends to free 230 Palestinian prisoners Monday &amp;ndash; a &amp;quot;gesture of goodwill&amp;quot; toward the Mahmoud Abbas-led Palestinians. We shouldn&#039;t worry, we&#039;re told, because the men belong to the &amp;quot;moderate&amp;quot; Fatah, not Hamas or Islamic Jihad, are &amp;quot;without blood on their hands,&amp;quot; and must sign a commitment not to return to violence. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Make no mistake: These outlaws are, to all intents and purposes, terrorists bent on Israel&#039;s destruction. And, if past is prologue, Israel can expect more terror as a result of this appeasement. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;A formal agreement from terrorists not to terrorize is a silly document. Likewise, the presumption that a Fatah-led &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; would be better for Israel is plainly wrong. Fatah&#039;s present statements may be moderate, but its past and its hoped-for future tell a different story. In its bloody history of violence against Israelis, Fatah is essentially indistinguishable from Hamas. And a glance at official Palestinian maps of &amp;quot;Palestine,&amp;quot; which encompass all of Israel, shows what it really thinks of the &amp;quot;two-state solution.&amp;quot; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1215/p09s01-coop.html&quot;&gt;http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/1215/p09s01-coop.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>Human Rights, Islamic Supremacism, and Our Responsibilities Right Side News, GA - Dec 9, 2008 In April 2008, Mr. Carter met with leaders of the Islamic supremacist group Hamas, linked to the Islamic supremacist Muslim Brotherhood. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812092933/culture-wars/human-rights-islamic-supremacism-and-our-responsibilities.html&quot;&gt;http://www.rightsidenews.com/200812092933/culture-wars/human-rights-islamic-supremacism-and-our-responsibilities.html&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://push.pickensplan.com/profile/webmaster&quot; title=&quot;T Boone Pickens - Webmaster&quot;&gt;The Pickens Plan&lt;/a&gt;: For those who would like to become an active participant in a solution for our nations energy needs I urge you to join with T.Boone Pickens in his quest for a cleaner planet through alternative energy.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also see Green Wave Energy: Green Wave was founded by Mark Holmes and was formulated for&amp;nbsp;viable alternative energy solutions. Green Wave Energy is&amp;nbsp;promoting state-of-the-art energy-saving products and services throughout the country.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Green Wave Energy understands alternative energy technology will become &amp;ldquo;main stream&amp;rdquo; when&lt;/p&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;individuals and organizations understand that alternative energy technology exists and&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;when people&amp;nbsp;see the economic benefits of using alternative energy technologies&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;&lt;p&gt;Call 949.645.1701 for information on how &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.gweconline.com&quot; title=&quot;Green Wave Energy&quot;&gt;Green Wave Energy&lt;/a&gt; can help you save the planet.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://green-wave-energy.blogspot.com/2009/02/alternative-energy-index.html&quot; title=&quot;Alternative Energy&quot;&gt;Alternative Energy&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Source: David Apperson&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;url: &lt;a href=&quot;http://veterans.barackobama.com/page/community/tag/alternative-energy&quot;&gt;http://veterans.barackobama.com/page/community/tag/alternative-energy&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Awful Truth about Islamic Iranian Ahmadinejad&#039;s Genocide Call to wipe off Israel and the &quot;Palestinian&quot; support for it</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Truth about Islamic Iranian Ahmadinejad&#039;s Genocide Call to wipe off Israel and the &amp;quot;Palestinian&amp;quot; support for it&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Ahmadinejad Was Not Mistranslated&lt;br /&gt;June 17, 2008 - 11:32 am &lt;br /&gt;A new study by Joshua Teitelbaum of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs sets out to refute the claim that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and other Iranian leaders are being misquoted when they call for the destruction of Israel and the Jewish people. As the executive summary states: &amp;quot;What emerges from a comprehensive analysis of what Ahmadinejad actually said - and how it has been interpreted in Iran - is that the Iranian president was not just calling for &#039;regime change&#039; in Jerusalem, but rather the actual physical destruction of the State of Israel . When Ahmadinejad punctuates his speech with &#039;Death to Israel&#039; (marg bar Esraiil ), this is no longer open to various interpretations.&amp;quot; Download this thorough - and chilling - analysis, in PDF format - &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf&quot;&gt;http://www.jcpa.org/text/ahmadinejad2-words.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.cicweb.ca/scene/2008/06/ahmadinejad-was-not-mistranslated/&quot;&gt;http://www.cicweb.ca/scene/2008/06/ahmadinejad-was-not-mistranslated/&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; 29 Feb 2008 ...Ahmadinejad was not mistranslated, and has in fact reiterated the threat to commit genocide several times, including recently at ... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/530786/the-mother-of-all-mistranslations.thtml&quot;&gt;http://www.spectator.co.uk/melaniephillips/530786/the-mother-of-all-mistranslations.thtml&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Nytimes research debukes Juan Cole and others who tried to claim that Ahmadinejad did &amp;quot;not&amp;quot; call on Israel to be wiped off)&lt;br /&gt;Just How Far Did They Go, Those Words Against Israel? - New York Times... But translators in Tehran who work for the president&#039;s office and the foreign ministry disagree with them. All official translations of Mr. Ahmadinejad&#039;s statement, including a description of it on his Web site (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.president.ir/eng/&quot;&gt;www.president.ir/eng/&lt;/a&gt;), refer to wiping Israel away. ...When combined with Iran&#039;s longstanding support for Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hezbollah of Lebanon, two groups that have killed numerous Israelis, and Mr. Ahmadinejad&#039;s refusal to acknowledge the Holocaust, it is hard to argue that, from Israel&#039;s point of view, Mr. Ahmadinejad poses no threat. Still, it is true that he has never specifically threatened war against Israel.&lt;br /&gt;So did Iran&#039;s president call for Israel to be wiped off the map? It certainly seems so. Did that amount to a call for war? That remains an open question.&lt;br /&gt;Nazila Fathi contributed reporting from Tehran for this article.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&amp;amp;en=efa2bd266224e880&quot;&gt;http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/11/weekinreview/11bronner.html?ex=1307678400&amp;amp;en=efa2bd266224e880&lt;/a&gt;&amp;amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp; amp;ei=5088&amp;amp;partner=rssnyt&amp;amp;emc=rss&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; Was Wiping Israel Off the Map a Misquote? - Michael Rubin (National Review)&lt;br /&gt;Some &amp;quot;academics&amp;quot; ... misquoted ...&amp;nbsp; a line which originated with Juan Cole, a University of Michigan professor, who wrote: &amp;quot;This idiom does not exist in Persian, and that what Ahmadinejad actually said was, &#039;This occupation regime over Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time.&#039;&amp;quot; But here, the Islamic Republic provides its own clarification. In its official translations, it headlined Ahmadinejad&#039;s call to &amp;quot;wipe Israel off the map.&amp;quot; &lt;a href=&quot;http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWEwNDliNzBjYjY3NzQ3ZWM5YWY4ZTc2ZDg4NTg4N2E&quot;&gt;http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=YWEwNDliNzBjYjY3NzQ3ZWM5YWY4ZTc2ZDg4NTg4N2E&lt;/a&gt;=&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Ahmadinejad: Israel&#039;s &amp;quot;annihilation&amp;quot; is a necessary part of the &amp;quot;historic war&amp;quot; between Islam &amp;amp; the West (Al Jazeera). &lt;a href=&quot;http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-ahmadinejad-means-once-again.html&quot;&gt;http://jeffweintraub.blogspot.com/2006/09/what-ahmadinejad-means-once-again.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;Since Ahmadinejad&#039;s call to &amp;quot;wipe Israel off the map&amp;quot; last October, some academics have claimed the Iranian leader was mistranslated or misunderstood. &amp;quot;Ahmadinejad did not say he was going to wipe Israel off the map, because no such idiom exists in Persian,&amp;quot; left-wing University of Michigan professor Juan Cole told the New York Times. &amp;quot;He did say he hoped its regime, i.e., a Jewish-Zionist state occupying Jerusalem, would collapse... Since Iran has not attacked another country aggressively for over a century, I smell the whiff of war propaganda.&amp;quot; Jonathan Steele of the British Guardian newspaper also told the Times: &amp;quot;The Iranian president was quoting an ancient statement by Iran&#039;s first Islamist leader, the late Ayatollah Khomeini, that &#039;this regime occupying Jerusalem must vanish from the page of time,&#039; just as the Shah&#039;s regime in Iran had vanished. He was not making a military threat. He was calling for an end to the occupation of Jerusalem at some point in the future. The &#039;page of time&#039; phrase suggests he did not expect it to happen soon.&amp;quot; Neither of the two have responded to Ahmadinejad&#039;s latest clarification and call to action, which were translated and distributed by the Iranian state-run IRNA news agency. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/106893&quot;&gt;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/106893&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;How Iranian propaganda try to &amp;quot;rewrite&amp;quot; Ahmadniejad&#039;s words in blaming it on Israel&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/01/24/irib_the_enemy_intends_to_wipe_palestine_off_the&quot;&gt;http://soccerdad.baltiblogs.com/archives/2008/01/24/irib_the_enemy_intends_to_wipe_palestine_off_the&lt;/a&gt; _world_map.html&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;IRAN - Oct 26 - Wipe Israel From Map, Says Ahmadi-Nejad.(Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11680539_ITM&quot;&gt;http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-11680539_ITM&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;(Palestinian Islamic) Al-Aqsa: We identify with Iranian remark - 6 Nov 2005 ... Iranian President &#039;to wipe Israel off world map&#039;; Palestinian preacher calls on Palestinians to support al-Qaeda masterminds Bin-Laden, ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164720,00.html&quot;&gt;http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3164720,00.html&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Aksa Brigades echo Ahmadinejad&#039;s call | Middle East | Jerusalem Post6 Nov 2005 ... Why Americans support Israel? It&#039;s the &amp;quot;values&amp;quot;, stupid ... have refrained from reacting to the call to wipe Israel off the map. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1131043735699&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&quot;&gt;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1131043735699&amp;amp;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp; Osama Hamdan, the Hamas representative in Lebanon, told Iranian television that suicide bombing attacks against Israel were justified, especially attacks in buses. He rejected the historical Jewish connection to the Land of Israel and stated that Hamas&#039; avowed intention was to wipe Israel off the face of the map. &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/osama_hamdan0807e.htm&quot;&gt;http://www.terrorism-info.org.il/malam_multimedia/English/eng_n/html/osama_hamdan0807e.htm&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;(&amp;quot;Moderate Palestinian&amp;quot;) Fatah agrees: Wipe out IsraelIn a leaflet published by Fatah&#039;s Al Aqsa Martyrs&#039; Brigades, the group stressed its ... who called with all honesty to wipe Israel off the map of the world. ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jnewswire.com/article/727&quot;&gt;http://www.jnewswire.com/article/727&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <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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            <title>(Just like racist Palestinians) - Al Qaeda  racist slurs on Obama - Racist Arabism!</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;(Arab racism by Islamic) Al Qaeda&amp;rsquo;s No. 2 leader -  uses racial epithet against Barack Obama&lt;br /&gt;latimes ^ | Nov 20, 2008&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Al Qaeda&amp;rsquo;s No. 2 leader uses racial epithet against Barack Obama Los Angeles Times - Nov. 20, 2008 In a video, Ayman Zawahiri says the president-elect is &amp;lsquo;the direct opposite of honorable black Americans&amp;rsquo; and says Obama, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice are &amp;lsquo;house Negroes.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-house-slave20-2008nov20,0,1727083.story&quot;&gt;http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-house-slave20-2008nov20,0,1727083.story&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Both forms of bigotry &amp;quot;working together&amp;quot; Arabism &amp;amp; Islamism, just like the terrible &amp;quot;palestinians&amp;quot;...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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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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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Nov 2008 10:11:19 EST</pubDate>
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            <title>Do They See Something We Don&#039;t See?</title>
            <description>I was reading an article recently about &lt;a href=&quot;http://worldblog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/10/30/1617406.aspx&quot;&gt;Palestinians&#039; views on the upcoming elections&lt;/a&gt;. While the people don&#039;t see a big change in US policy regardless of who wins the election it seems that many people on the street believe that Obama will be better for their cause. The question of course is why.</description>
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            <title>Prominent Jewish Clevlanders Show Their Support for Obama...</title>
            <description>I had the honor of being hired by the Cleveland chapter of the NJDC to design an ad in support of Barack Obama. The ad ran in last weeks issue of Cleveland Jewish News and included &lt;strong&gt;OVER 1,000&lt;/strong&gt; names of prominent Cleveland Jewish families who will be voting for Barack Obama! To see a copy of the ad please see the posting titled &amp;quot;Prominent Jewish Clevlanders Show Their Support for Obama...&amp;quot; at www.85andchange.com . &lt;strong&gt;PLEASE PASS IT ON TO ANYONE WHO MIGHT BE INFLUENCED BY IT!!&lt;/strong&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 14:16:34 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Human rights &amp; peace in the middle east - Arabism &amp; Islam discrimination on the &quot;other&quot;</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;Human rights &amp;amp; peace in the middle east - Arabism &amp;amp; Islam discrimination on the &amp;quot;other&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;[Analysis] Peace will prevail when economic, social and cultural rights are granted to all ...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The Middle East... conflicts...&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;For example:&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the Israel and [so called] &amp;quot;Occupied Territories&amp;quot; (Palestine) issue&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the conflict between Hamas and the Fatah; the Iraq conflict&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the conflict in Afghanistan&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* conflicts within Saudi Arabia&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the security concerns, especially the nuclear threat, that Ahmadinajad&#039;s Iran poses&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the Kurdish situation with serious discrimination from Turkey, Syria, Iran and Iraq with very limited support from any powers&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the Lebanon conflict&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the rise of Islamic militancy in Egypt and Algeria&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* the suppression of any opposition in Saudi Arabia and most of Middle East countries&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;*&lt;br /&gt; the spread of fundamentalist Islam -- Wahabbi style -- and the attempt&lt;br /&gt; to suppress any modern civil secular democratic voices in the Middle&lt;br /&gt; East region&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;* and not to forget the problems in Sudan where civilians are being massacred in Darfur by the government and the military.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;[...]&lt;br /&gt; Islam is at the center of all social order and of the moral and&lt;br /&gt; intellectual values of Middle Eastern Muslims. In fact, it is the&lt;br /&gt; official religion in most Arab and Islamic countries. Considering&lt;br /&gt; Arabism and Islam as synonyms embodies discrimination against various&lt;br /&gt; ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East. [...]&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Conclusion&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Most&lt;br /&gt; regimes in Middle East are authoritarian, if not dictatorships, ruling&lt;br /&gt; for decades by fear or reward. The elites who rule in Middle East&lt;br /&gt; countries used religious faith with ideology of nationalism for&lt;br /&gt; blinding people and controlling them ... conflicts in the Middle East&lt;br /&gt; all look different, but the real cause root is related to human rights&lt;br /&gt; abuses.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=&amp;amp;no=383905&amp;amp;rel_no=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=&amp;amp;no=383905&amp;amp;rel_no=1&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p XSSCleaned=&quot;text-align: center&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://english.ohmynews.com/articleview/article_view.asp?article_class=&amp;amp;no=383905&amp;amp;rel_no=1&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://technorati.com/tag/anti+semitism/&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:21:06 EDT</pubDate>
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            <title>Anti Human &#039;Palestinian&#039; Arabs use of &#039;Human rights&#039; organizations - the &quot;human rights&quot; propaganda</title>
            <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>Aid Worker&#039;s Death Brutal Reminder of Jihadi Extremism&lt;br /&gt;&amp;quot;We must remember that these men have a ruthless plan for the world in the form of a theocratic Islamic caliphate. In Taliban-ruled Afghanistan we saw a glimpse of their utopia: women degraded, freedom denied and followers of other brands of Islam exterminated.&amp;quot; -- Faith J.H. McDonnell, Director of IRD&#039;s Religious Liberty Programs&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/597668352.html&quot;&gt;http://www.christiannewswire.com/news/597668352.html&lt;/a&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;I was blessed with the most wonderful Grandma who ever walked the planet. She was a devout, Orthodox Jew who never turned on a light let alone rode in a car on Shabbas until the day my equally wonderful Grandpa was dying. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Becoming a citizen was one of the highlights of her life, not only because she loved this country and viewed her citizenship as an honor, but because she had also earned the right to vote. I was very close with my Grandma, and I know if she were here today she would have proudly voted for Barack Obama. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot;&gt;Grandma was a very smart lady even though she had almost no formal education. She read the The Forward everyday and watched the news every night in their little one-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn. &amp;nbsp;She sat on the benches on Ocean Parkway and talked about everything, from politics, to her adoring family.&amp;nbsp;With all that she had been through and seen in her life she believed that there was good in everyone, but recognized that being a good person and having good judgment were entirely two different things .&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>The BEAUTIFUL Zionist, Israeli, Jewish answer to (Iranian) UGLY Islamic Genocide:  Iranian boy is treated for brain tumour at Israeli hospital</title>
            <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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            <dc:creator>Natalia from Acampo, CA</dc:creator>
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            <description>There is an old Yiddish saying: &lt;em&gt;A mench trachts, und Got Lachts&lt;/em&gt; &amp;ndash; which roughly translates as:&amp;nbsp; &lt;em&gt;A man thinks/has ideas and God laughs&lt;/em&gt;.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps He was laughing when Focus on the Family commanded their flock to pray for rain during the DNC, and drown out Obama&amp;rsquo;s speech at Mile High Stadium.&amp;nbsp; So he sent Hurricane Gustov, glooming the RNC instead.Perhaps He was laughing when John McCain answered the prayers of the religious base of his party and chose a little known politico from Alaska as his running mate; Sarah Palin. &amp;nbsp;Sarah who?&amp;nbsp; S-A-R-A-H&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; P-A-L-I-N!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Hallelujah!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Perhaps God laughed at Sarah Palin, firm in her stance against sexual education with an abstinence only credo,&amp;nbsp; and now she is a soon-to-be grandmother at 44.&amp;nbsp; The RNC and McCain himself remind us of his public service.&amp;nbsp; We are very well aware of John McCain&amp;rsquo;s sacrifice to our country and what he endured as a POW in Viet Nam at the so-called Hanoi Hilton. They won&#039;t let us forget it to the point it has become trivial.&amp;nbsp; OK, we get it!&amp;nbsp; He&amp;rsquo;s war a hero. Thank you John McCain!&amp;nbsp; God Bless You, John McCain!&amp;nbsp; Mazel Tov, &amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp; John McCain!&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; That being said, the office of President of the United States is not a prize to be rewarded like an Academy Award or gold watch for public duty.&amp;nbsp; It is also about his voting record, his vision and his agenda for the next four years.&amp;nbsp; And it is also about sound judgment.&amp;nbsp; McCain&amp;rsquo;s premature poorly vetted decision for VP is as premature as the upcoming impulsive nuptials of Palin&amp;rsquo;s daughter Bristol. And we all know how that happened.&amp;nbsp; Someone did not get all the info, did not listen to the message, and poor choices were made, and they ended up getting screwed. The deserving candidate has to be a person with the best plan of improving our country from the current morass that has been created by eight years of Republican control from the Bush/Cheney/Rove era.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; A poor foreign policy, a failed energy plan, economic decline and a greater social chasm of Americans.&amp;nbsp; Remember when, on September 12, 2001 we stood shoulder to shoulder and declared &amp;ldquo;I AM AN AMERICAN&amp;rdquo;.&amp;nbsp; Look how far we have fallen.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; John McCain&amp;rsquo;s voting record supported George W Bush&amp;rsquo;s policies by 90%.&amp;nbsp; That is more of the same than any change he expects us to believe.&amp;nbsp; All that John McCain seemed to say in his acceptance speech aside from his ad-nauseous military service record was that he was going to clean up DC by kicking butt and taking names!&amp;nbsp; Nothing substantial about healthcare, better jobs, and the bread and butter issues of the middle class.&amp;nbsp; And he has been part of the beltway for decades.And what of Palin&amp;rsquo;s religious affiliations?&amp;nbsp; On August 17, 2008, at her church, Palin sat in the pews and listened to David Brickner, of the Jews for Jesus group sermonize that God is punishing Israel with suicide bombers because the Jews refuse to accept Jesus as their lord and savior.&amp;nbsp; That is just as despicable as Jeremiah Wright&amp;rsquo;s screed at Obama&amp;rsquo;s church to which he was made to account, and he wasn&amp;rsquo;t even there when Wright said it.&amp;nbsp; Obama answered to his critics and we have yet to hear from Sarah Palin.&amp;nbsp; I have heard that she supports Israel as does Obama, Biden and McCain. But it concerns me if she is of the same heart as Jews for Jesus, that Israelis deserve to be killed because of their particular beliefs in the almighty.&amp;nbsp; Perhaps God is not laughing now.</description>
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            <dc:creator>Michael from Denver, CO</dc:creator>
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            <title>Defending Barack&#039;s Good Name</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;David Scheim wrote an article in the Washington Post (August 28) exploring the origins of Obama&#039;s first name and making use of linguisitic, historical, and archeological evidence. it should prove of interest to anyone trying to combat the smears that often start by impugning his name. It also shows that Barack comes from Baruch (meaning &amp;quot;blessed&amp;quot; in Hebrew) rather than Barak (which means lightning in the same language). its url is:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/guestvoices/2008/08/barack_thy_name_is_biblical.html&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;or:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://tinyurl.com/5q2zm5&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It&#039;s well researched, with enough facts about Obama&#039;s name to impress scholars, scpetics, and those of many faiths and pilitical persuasions!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Baruch traslated, of course, means &amp;quot;Benedict.&amp;quot;&amp;nbsp; Barack, in becoming president would be following in the footsteps of other presdents with biblical names:&amp;nbsp; Zachary Taylor, Benjamin Harrison,&amp;nbsp; and Abrahan Lincoln.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;McCain and Joe Lieberman, however much they may support Israel, have sold themselves and their supporters to the End Time Christian fundamentalists like Sarah Palin.&amp;nbsp; End Timers are looking forward to a war to end all wars in the Middle East.&amp;nbsp; Are you?&amp;nbsp; Is your family?&amp;nbsp; Are your friends?&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Please get the word out, particulary to people you know in swing states like Virginia and Florida, and ask people you know in those states to help!&amp;nbsp; Send them to this and other relevant web pages, and if they care about the future of jews in this country, show them this YouTube video on Barack Obama: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96chUuvoe0&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot; title=&quot;Watch Jewish Americans for Obama&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m96chUuvoe0&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If you liked this message, then please have a look at the rest of&amp;nbsp;my blog, &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu&quot; title=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu&quot;&gt;http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/henrymu&lt;/a&gt; and please consider donating to the campaign: &lt;a href=&quot;http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/PListe4Obama&quot;&gt;http://my.barackobama.com/page/outreach/view/main/PListe4Obama&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Henry M&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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            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/schlep/images/1_01.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;  The Great Schlep &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.thegreatschlep.com&quot; title=&quot;http://www.thegreatschlep.com&quot;&gt;http://www.thegreatschlep.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; Graphic &lt;a href=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/schlep/images/1_01.jpg&quot; title=&quot;http://s3.amazonaws.com/schlep/images/1_01.jpg&quot;&gt;http://s3.amazonaws.com/schlep/images/1_01.jpg&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;WELCOME TO THE GREAT SCHLEP &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;4:22 video  Sarah Silverman and The Great Schlep &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHX9R4Qtk&quot; title=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHX9R4Qtk&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgHHX9R4Qtk&lt;/a&gt;  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Great Schlep aims to have Jewish grandchildren visit their grandparents in Florida, educate them about Obama, and therefore swing the crucial Florida vote in his favor. Don&amp;rsquo;t have grandparents in Florida? Not Jewish? No problem! You can still become a schlepper and make change happen in 2008, simply by talking to your relatives about Obama. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; --- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;# When is the The Great Schlep? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Columbus Day weekend from October 10&amp;ndash;13, 2008.  &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;# How do I go? &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Call up your grandparents and tell them to get the couch ready. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; --- &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Jews Vote &lt;a href=&quot;http://jewsvote.org&quot; title=&quot;http://jewsvote.org&quot;&gt;http://jewsvote.org&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <description>&lt;p&gt;JewsVote.info is NOT a a project of the &lt;strong&gt;Jewish Council for Education &amp;amp; Research&lt;/strong&gt;. &lt;strong&gt;Jews Vote&lt;/strong&gt; is a website dedicated to &lt;a href=&quot;http://jewsvote.info&quot;&gt;Jews Voting around the world&lt;/a&gt;. Check us out at JewsVote.info and help spread the word! &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The world is in financial crisis and there is only one person who can help us out of it. Though &lt;a href=&quot;http://jewsvote.info&quot;&gt;JewsVote.org&lt;/a&gt; is not affiliated with any candidate, Jews Voting is very important to us and we want to educate. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Please help us out, doesn&#039;t matter is you are Jewish, Christian or Muslim, it is important that you get educated. &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Thanks, &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://jewsvote.info&quot;&gt;Jews Vote&lt;/a&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;</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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            <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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            <description>&lt;p&gt;Here is a link to: &#039;Watch Obsession&#039; - Website&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;America is at War Though we would like to think differently, there really are evil people who spend all their time thinking and planning the destruction of American men, women and children. While Christians and Jews are primary targets, these very bad terrorists do not discriminate in their desire to kill and destroy anyone who does not believe as they do. For our enemy, this is a cultural war, this is a religious war, this is a necessary war. Radical, militant Muslims have declared war on America.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.watchobsession.org/&quot;&gt;https://www.watchobsession.org/&lt;/a&gt; &amp;nbsp;  &lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Everyone should see ISLAMOFASCISM - IN ACTION at &quot;Obsession&quot; movie - it&#039;s not about politics</title>
            <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Everyone should see ISLAMOFASCISM - IN ACTION at &amp;quot;Obsession&amp;quot; movie - it&#039;s not about politics&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;OBSESSION does NOT endorse any candidate!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;How low can Islamic lobby CAIR go and trying to politicize the danger to ALL Humanity coming from radical Islam???&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2008/09/you_must_watch.php&quot;&gt;You Must Watch Obsession Because CAIR Doesn&#039;t Want You To Know The Truth About Radical Islam&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;em&gt;September 22, 2008&lt;/em&gt;) &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It is not about al Muslims, but about the radical Islamic fascism (fascism in the name of Islam) force. And CAIR is a very radical Islamic organization that its founders have stated that &#039;Islam isn&#039;t in America to be equal but to DOMINATE!&#039; besides, CAIR is a pro Hamas group (that still haven&#039;t rejected its genocide of the Jews &lt;em&gt;Hamas reiterates goal of world domination by Islam - annihilation of Israel -establishment of Caliphate in Jerusalem&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2790&quot; title=&quot;http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/2790&quot;&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;, oh! Don&#039;t lie to me that they&#039;re about &amp;quot;land&amp;quot;) and is linked with Al-Arian that raised funds for the terror organization. CAIR Is basically a HATE &#039;wolf pack&#039; organzation masked in &amp;quot;civil rights group&amp;quot; sheep cloting.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.americansagainsthate.org/cw/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.americansagainsthate.org/cw/&quot;&gt;Americans Agianst Hate CAIR Watch&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://cairhateandterror.blogspot.com/&quot; title=&quot;http://CairHateAndTerror.blogspot.com&quot;&gt;CAIR = Hate &amp;amp; Terror&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/search/label/CAIR-OH&quot; title=&quot;http://ohioagainstterror.blogspot.com/search/label/CAIR-OH&quot;&gt;Ohio against Terror&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.anti-cair-net.org/&quot; title=&quot;http://www.anti-cair-net.org/&quot;&gt;Anti-Cair, Defending America from the CAIR threat&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;* &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/arabmuslimlobby/CAIR1.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.geocities.com/arabmuslimlobby/CAIR1.html&quot;&gt;The CAIR Files&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description>
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            <title>Arabism&#039;s Racism and Wikipedia bias</title>
            <description>&lt;p align=&quot;center&quot;&gt;&lt;strong&gt;The wiki Pan - Arabism page&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;A Jordanian Arab &#039;Contrieng&#039; &lt;/strong&gt;(that some how has no idea about history, that 1800&#039;s &amp;amp; 1900&#039;s attack on Jews by Arabism&#039; nationalism&#039; is long before any lame excuses connecting it to the M.E. conflict, or other gross misinformation trying to alter PEW&#039;s polling that shows anti Jewish racism among Jordanian Arabs, where 100% viewed ANY Jews unfavorably trying to charactorize it as &#039;anti-zionist-occupation&#039;)&lt;strong&gt; &amp;amp; a Kurd &#039;KhoiKhoi&#039; &lt;/strong&gt;(who should know better after Saddam&#039;s Arabist anti-Kurd genocide campaign or in light of Syrian anti-Kurdish policy)&lt;strong&gt; have been &amp;quot;objecting&amp;quot; the &amp;quot;relativity&amp;quot; of Arab racism in wikipedia&#039;s&lt;/strong&gt; &#039;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Arabism&quot;&gt;Pan-Arabism&lt;/a&gt;&#039;. &lt;p&gt;The Arab Contrieng&#039;s &amp;quot;objection&amp;quot; is mainly against Atabism&#039;s anti-Jewish section, which is of course only reaffirming again Arab racism by staunch Pro-Arabism. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;(There&#039;s also a bias tendency on some at the wikipedia &amp;quot;administrators&amp;quot; to block certain users under a cover of baseless &amp;quot;charge&amp;quot; of sockpuppet-ing, no, not when it comes to anti Jewish racist editors...). &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, here we reiterate it again, I am the editor and I distribute it to others [free to use it] who might use wikipedia [figthing unfairness &amp;amp; bias]. &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Well, here are a few points about the undisputable connection.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Another important point, the POV push by some on wikipedia that Arabism is &#039;only&#039; secular is totally wrong, historically or present, though not always is it &#039;religious&#039; either, but there have been Islamism &amp;amp; Arabism connection since the beginning, and still going on today.&lt;/p&gt;_______________ &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&amp;amp;action=edit&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;[29]&lt;/a&gt;, Both pan-Arabism and pan-Islamic ideologies looked to &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&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-2003-08-16.asp&quot; title=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict/Articles/Ettinger-2003-08-16.asp&quot;&gt;[30]&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;[31]&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?DRIT=5&amp;amp;DBID=1&amp;amp;LNGID=1&amp;amp;TMID=111&amp;amp;FID=625&amp;amp;PID=0&amp;amp;IID=2326&amp;amp;TTL=Simon_Erlanger_on_Insel_der_Aufkl%C3%A4rung:_Israel_im_Kontext,_vol._3,_Schriften_zur_politischen_Bildung,_Kultur_und_Kommunikation_(Island_of_Enlightenment:_Israel_in_Context,_vol._3,_Papers_on_Political&quot; title=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/JCPA/Templates/ShowPage.asp?DRIT=5&amp;amp;DBID=1&amp;amp;LNGID=1&amp;amp;TMID=111&amp;amp;FID=625&amp;amp;PID=0&amp;amp;IID=2326&amp;amp;TTL=Simon_Erlanger_on_Insel_der_Aufkl%C3%A4rung:_Israel_im_Kontext,_vol._3,_Schriften_zur_politischen_Bildung,_Kultur_und_Kommunikation_(Island_of_Enlightenment:_Israel_in_Context,_vol._3,_Papers_on_Political&quot;&gt;[32]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;1800&#039;s &amp;amp; 1920&#039;s.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The origin of anti-Jewish feelings among Arabs do not originate from what they preceive as &#039;the occupation of Palestine&#039; and the creation of Israel. Even before the creation of the Israeli state in 1948 on what was before Palestine, a largely uninhabited terrain, many Jews were recorded attacked in various settlements by Arabs since the late 1800&#039;s &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/bhyom/mar.htm&quot; title=&quot;http://www.ou.org/about/judaism/bhyom/mar.htm&quot;&gt;[33]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;_________ &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The WIKI Script can be copied from here: &lt;a href=&quot;http://geocities.com/masteringwiki/Wiki-Arabism.html&quot;&gt;http://geocities.com/masteringwiki/Wiki-Arabism.html&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Pan-Arabism&lt;/strong&gt; and Arabization - a movement for &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Arab World&quot;&gt;Arab World&lt;/a&gt;, from the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_Ocean&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Atlantic Ocean&quot;&gt;Atlantic Ocean&lt;/a&gt; to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabian_Sea&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Arabian Sea&quot;&gt;Arabian Sea&lt;/a&gt;. It is closely connected to &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arab_nationalism&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Secular&quot;&gt;secular&lt;/a&gt; and often &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Colonialism&quot;&gt;colonialism&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_countries&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&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_html?pdate=300308&amp;amp;ptitle=South%20Sudan%20and%20the%20problem%20of%20Arab%20racism%20in%20Black%20Africa%20&amp;amp;cpdate=010408&quot; title=&quot;http://www.guardiannewsngr.com/sunday_magazine/article11//indexn3_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;. Pan-Arabism is a form of &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationalism&quot; title=&quot;Nationalism&quot;&gt;nationalism&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_nationalism&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Cultural nationalism&quot;&gt;cultural nationalism&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&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&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&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Caliphate&quot;&gt;caliphate&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;quot;&lt;/em&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishtimes-sj.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;&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;/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;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabism&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=1&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Racism&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;a name=&quot;Racism&quot; title=&quot;Racism&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Racism[&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabism&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=2&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: In General&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;a name=&quot;In_General&quot; title=&quot;In_General&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&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;#65533;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;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;[5]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Christians_of_Iraq&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Christians of Iraq&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;[6]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Adel_Makhoul&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Adel Makhoul&quot;&gt;Adel Makhoul&lt;/a&gt; wrote in May 1, 2005 about &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan-Arabists&amp;amp;action=edit&quot; title=&quot;Pan-Arabists&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;[7]&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Totten&amp;amp;action=edit&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-middle-east.php&quot; title=&quot;http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2005/04/arabists-vs-the-middle-east.php&quot;&gt;[8]&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-islamic-terrorism.html&quot; title=&quot;http://www.buzzle.com/articles/pan-arabism-inhuman-progenitor-islamic-terrorism.html&quot;&gt;[9]&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;[&lt;a href=&quot;http://wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabism&amp;amp;action=edit&amp;amp;section=3&quot; title=&quot;Edit section: Anti-Persian&quot;&gt;edit&lt;/a&gt;]&lt;a name=&quot;Anti-Persian&quot; title=&quot;Anti-Persian&quot;&gt;&lt;/a&g