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(IsraelNN.com) On the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day and Israel's 60th anniversary, a new survey of Israeli teenagers issued by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) found that most do not believe another Holocaust against the Jewish people could take place. But a majority thinks Israel is under threat of destruction.
82% of the youths surveyed answered in the positive when asked if Israel was under threat of destruction – down 1% from last year's poll result. However, a larger percentage of those polled said they believe that "Israel is under a serious threat of destruction" this year: 30% compared to 24% in 2007. The others said they believe Israel is under "a certain threat of destruction." On the question of whether "a second Holocaust of the Jewish people is possible or not," 9% said there was a real possibility, compared to 6% in 2007; 30% said there was a certain possibility and 59% said a second Holocaust was not possible.
While most teens still relate to anti-Semitism as an historic event, there was a significant increase in awareness of contemporary anti-Semitic manifestations, to include current issues such as "Iran, Arabs and terror" -- 27%, compared to 9% in 2007. "Israeli teenagers understand anti-Semitism in the context of history and not as something they might encounter in their daily lives. Yet there is a growing awareness of contemporary anti-Semitism and threats to Israel's existence," said Abraham H. Foxman, ADL National Director. "As the YouTube generation, they are much more aware of attacks on Jews and the Jewish State."
(IsraelNN.com) A 15-minute film by a Dutch legislator exposing the Koran as a vehicle for violence has been posted on YouTube, triggering a wave of support and criticism. The film by right wing legislator Geert Wilders is called Fitna, the Arabic word for strife, and features clips of the September 2001 Arab terrorists aerial attacks on the United States interspersed with quotes from the Koran.
The film follows the word "The Netherlands in the future?" with pictures of Muslim children with blood on their faces, a woman being stoned and an image of genital mutilation.
The Netherlands has placed its embassies around the world on high alert out of fear of violent Muslim protests, and the government has placed Wilders under heavy guard.
(IsraelNN.com) Several nationalist organizations are calling upon the public to join them as they march on the home of the terrorist who massacred eight Merkaz HaRav students and destroy it.
The police, already on high alert because of terrorist warnings, are planning to deploy large forces to stop the march.
The march is set to begin at 5 p.m. Sunday afternoon from the Banks Junction on Hevron Rd. in the south Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiyot. It is being sponsored by Beit El-based Komemiyut (Standing Tall), Women in Green, Lev Yehudi (Jewish Heart), and the bereaved families.
Red, black and white posters that can be seen all around Jerusalem blare, "The Arab enemy is inside Jerusalem! The mourning period is over. It's time to destroy the terrorist's house and wipe out the evil from our midst."
Zionsake: Israeli Arab girls: The expression on their faces seems to say, "Don't photograph us, we don't belong here!"
"Government Has Done Nothing" Moshe Musa Cohen, a Komemiyut organizer, told Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine about the initiative: "It's been over a week, and our government has not yet provided a real response to the slaughter in Merkaz HaRav. The same government that destroyed thousands of homes in Gush Katif can't destroy the home of just one terrorist? The still-standing home of the terrorist is a symbol of the government's weakness and failure to act. They want quiet while they carry out their mistaken diplomatic policies, and are generally unwilling to take action, and that's why the house is still standing."
"They keep talking about completing the partition fence," Cohen said, "yet this terrorist came from within the fence! He is a full-fledged resident of Israel." Most Arabs of eastern Jerusalem are residents with near-total citizenship rights, except for the right to vote in national elections. In 1980, when Israel annexed the entire city of Jerusalem, the Arab residents were given the right to full citizenship, just like the other Arabs of Israel, if they would learn Hebrew and pledge allegiance to the country; most of them refused.
The Message: Internal Enemy Must be Fought "When a country is afraid to deal with its enemies in its own capital," Cohen said, "that is a sign of bankruptcy... For us, it is hard to sit quietly; we want to express our protest and destroy the house."
Cohen does not expect to fulfill his second objective of destroying the house: "The same police whose men stayed outside Merkaz HaRav while the terrorist massacred the students, will be out in force to make sure that we don't get close to the house. But at least we will get our message across: We have an Arab enemy in Israel, and we must protect ourselves and fight against him."
"There is a fifth column inside the State of Israel," Cohen said, "and that is the Israeli-Arabs. We don't see a solution to this problem."
Matar: Boycott Arab Transport Company Nadia Matar of Women in Green said, "The family of this terrorist is a wealthy one; it runs the Tiyulei HaPninah transportation company in Jerusalem, and we should boycott it."
Matar further said, "Today's protest is an important one. It begins a new campaign regarding the future of our country, and it is good that this issue is being raised... The government has not razed the house because it is afraid of the Arab MKs' reaction - just like it is afraid to attack Gaza and stop the Kassams. The government thus does not represent Jewish interests."
Israeli-Arabs Happy With Attack Not only have the Arab Knesset Members not condemned or spoken out against the murder of the eight yeshiva students, other Israeli-Arab elements have actually implied praise of it. The main headline in the Islamic Movement’s Al-Mithaak weekly the day after the attack read, “The First Response to the Massacre in Gaza!!!”
The body of the story said: “In a first response to [Israel's] acts of slaughter [in Gaza], Palestinians carried out an operation yesterday in which eight Israelis were killed and ten wounded.” The story refrained from using the term “terror attack,” “murder” or “terrorist.”
This week’s edition of the Al-Mithaak weekly reported on Wednesday's IDF liquidation of four senior terrorists in Bethlehem as follows: “After the Massacre in Gaza: The occupation turns to perpetrating massacres in the West Bank as undercover agents carry out massacre in heart of Bethlehem.”
Chabad Response: Israel is the Only Place Rabbi Menachem Brod of the Young Chabad movement wrote in this week's Sichat HaShavua:
"If there is something more horrific than the terrible massacre of the yeshiva students hunched over their Torah texts, it is the quick return to the daily routine and the indications that the government is not planning to do a thing to respond appropriately to this crime. Nearly 52 years ago, we saw similar photos when terrorists infiltrated Kfar Chabad and shot and killed five students and a teacher as they were praying Maariv [the evening prayer]. This event was one of the factors that caused the Government of Israel to begin the Kadesh Operation [Suez Canal War of 1956]. But today, the government merely suffices with an expression of sorrow.
"In the past, this type of event was called a pogrom. Jewish communities were aroused to demand that the world not stand silently in the face of Jewish bloodshed. We used to be told that the establishment of the State of Israel was in order to prevent Jewish blood from being spilled wantonly - but now it turns out that the Jewish State is the only place in the world where yeshiva students can be massacred, and within a few days everything is back to normal, as if this is something we must learn to live with."
The New Republic: Arab-Israeli Conflict Solution Can Be Reached By Dealing With Primary Instigator, Iran
March 12, 2008
(The New Republic) This column was written by Yossi Klein Halevi.
Immediately after the massacre of eight students in a yeshiva library in Jerusalem last week, speculation began within the Israeli security establishment and the media about who had dispatched the lone murderer. Was it Hamas? Hezbollah? Perhaps a new, unknown organization claiming to act on behalf of the "liberation" of the Galilee? In fact, the speculation was pointless. Regardless of the affiliation of the actual perpetrator, the ultimate responsibility for this attack, as for almost all the terror attacks on Israel in recent years, lies with Iran.
The Palestinian struggle is no longer about creating an independent state. It is about being a front-line participant in the Iranian-led jihad to destroy Israel, evolving from a nationalist to a religious war. The thousands of celebrants in Gaza who, following the yeshiva massacre, offered prayers of thanksgiving in the mosques and distributed candies to passersby weren't only indulging in feelings of revenge for Israel's recent military incursion but heralding the coming jihadist victory over the enemies of God. A real solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict can only be reached by dealing with its primary instigator: Iran.
Israel's seventh war began in September 2000, and was launched by Yasser Arafat, who transformed Fatah into a quasi-Islamist movement, nurturing the rhetoric and martyrology of jihad. Arafat no doubt assumed he could manipulate Islamist trappings for nationalist aims. But then he went one step farther: He initiated an alliance with Iran's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Until then, Iran's only client within the Palestinian national movement had been the Islamic Jihad, the smallest of the Palestinian terrorist factions. According to a former chief of Israeli military intelligence, Arafat promised the Iranians that he would turn Gaza into a second southern Lebanon, and Iran began providing weapons and funds to Arafat's Fatah. But then, in January 2002, Israel intercepted the Karine A, a ship carrying Iranian-supplied Katyusha rockets and mortars and C-4 explosives for use in suicide bombings. Exposed and under international pressure, Arafat severed the connection.
Ironically, Hamas was initially more reluctant than Fatah to enter into an Iranian alliance, precisely because the Sunni Hamas takes religion more seriously than Fatah and was loathe to accept the authority of the Iranian Shiites. But that squeamishness ended three years ago with a formal alliance, orchestrated by the Damascus-based Hamas leader, Khaled Meshal, and today Hamas is an integral part of the Iranian war against Israel. Iran has trained hundreds of Hamas operatives -- and, according to the former intelligence chief, continues to fund individual members of Fatah's Al Aqsa Brigades. Iran's goal is twofold: to extend its influence in the Arab world, and to transform itself, via proxies, into a frontline confrontation state with Israel.
The jihadist war against Israel has shifted from one front to another -- suicide bombings inside Israeli cities until 2004, Katyushas on Haifa in the north in 2006, and now Katyushas on Ashkelon in the south. All are battles in the same war. So far, it is a war without an all-encompassing name, and that linguistic failure reflects a larger Israeli failure to treat this as a unified conflict. We still refer to the suicide bombings of 2000-2004 by the Palestinians' misnomer, "the second intifada" -- which falsely implies a popular uprising, like the first intifada, rather the orchestrated slew of terror attacks that it was. Awkwardly, we call the 2006 battle against Hezbollah "the second Lebanon War," a name that places the conflict in the wrong context -- the first Lebanon War against Palestinian nationalist terrorism in the early 1980s rather than one more front in the Iranian war against Israel. And now we are calling the daily rocket attacks against southern Israel "the war of the Qassams," even as the Qassams are augmented by the far more deadly Katyushas
In contending with Hezbollah and Hamas, Israel is trying to treat the symptoms, rather than the cause. Not surprisingly, it finds itself repeatedly stymied in efforts to stop the attacks on the home front. All of Israel's options in dealing with Hamas seem unbearable. Allowing rockets to continue to fall on southern towns creates despair among Israelis, who see their nation's sovereignty unraveling. Engaging in limited but costly military operations in Gaza, as Israel did last week, creates international outrage and little lasting security gain. Re-conquering Gaza and its dense refugee camps will result in a devastating number of causalities, both among Israeli soldiers and Palestinian civilians. And even if Israel succeeds in destroying the Hamas infrastructure, Israelis will confront the same dilemmas that forced them to leave Gaza two years ago.
A ceasefire with Hamas -- which Prime Minister Ehud Olmert seems to be implementing even as he denies it -- may well be the worst option of all. Hamas will likely use that interim period to turn itself into a second Hezbollah, equipped with Iranian weapons. And when Hamas feels empowered to break the ceasefire and resume its attacks, Israel will face a far more formidable enemy.
To deal effectively with the jihad requires an awareness that Israel is in fact at war with the Iranian regime, which manipulates proxies along Israel's borders, supplying them with weapons and training, and energizing them with the promise of imminent victory.
Understandably, Israel has avoided a confrontation with Iran, which could result in the most devastating war Israel has fought. But as the siege around Israel's borders tightens and as the Iranian nuclear program quickens, that direct confrontation becomes increasingly likely.
According to a just-released strategic assessment by the Israeli intelligence community, 2008 will be the "Year of Iran." The Lebanese government, warns the assessment, could collapse in the coming months, allowing Hezbollah to take power. Meanwhile, Hezbollah and Hamas are considering a coordinated rocket assault on Israeli population centers, almost all of which are within rocket range of either group. And, according to the strategic assessment, sometime within the coming year, or by early 2009 at the latest, Iran will achieve nuclear capability. The threat that emerges from the intelligence assessment may well be the most acute that Israel has ever faced.
Following the yeshiva massacre, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown speculated that the gunman was attempting to "derail" the peace process. Brown's implication, widely shared in the West, is that the best way to defeat the jihadists is to create a Palestinian state.
But a viable Palestinian state living peacefully beside Israel will not be possible without disconnecting Iran from these groups who are attacking Israel on its behalf. This may require destabilizing the Iranian regime -- hopefully through intensified sanctions against its nuclear program, and by military force against its nuclear installations if sanctions fail. Without stopping the momentum of the Iranian-led jihad against Israel, the appeal of Hamas among Palestinians will grow. So long as the international community tries to create a Palestinian state without seriously confronting the jihadists, Iran and its proxies will continue to make peace impossible -- not by "derailing" negotiations, but by making those negotiations irrelevant.
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Thoughts after the terror attack -Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav
I was sitting in my office tonight, meeting with the director of Mattot-Arim, activist Susie Dym, when the beeper started beeping. I read it, wiped my eyes, and read it again: 20:42 - (8:42 PM) - Magen David Adom Jerusalem reports shooting inside Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav in Jerusalem. More ...
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MED USA (07/03/08) Islamists have seen their crescent moon. Several times I've mentioned in my comments on A7, that when the Islamists see the crescent moon either before or after the new moon, it's a signal for them to shed innocent blood to their moon god, allah.
Why are these Arab barbarians still allowed to worship their moon god on the holiest site of the Jews? High time the Temple Mount was cleansed of all these thugs.
Zionsake: (08/03/08) If Yeshivot were Zionist - alla Eitam...
First of all, if yeshivot were Zionist, yeshiva students would swarm to serve in the IDF.
Secondly their Rabbis would have the discernment to realize that their god wouldn't tell his Muslim followers to kill Jews. Bottomline: Allah is not the same god, he is a fertility moon god from Babylon - actually a follow-up of Molech who loved human sacrifice - viz. suicide of his own people, Jews and other infidels! Ex 20:3 You shall have no other gods before Me. NKJV
In other words, there are other gods. In Allah's case, a moon god with a phallic tower (minaret) as his symbol. Actually, many Rabbis, esp. the chief ones, serve another version of this fertility god; the one with an obelisk as his symbol - they are Freemasons!
(IsraelNN.com) Few would think twice about an old Arab man driving his wagon through a copse of trees while clashes between IDF soldiers and Palestinian Authority terrorists rage in the streets of Gaza,
But the idyllic scene near the northern Gaza community of Jabalya belies an ominous reality.
The elderly Arab "civilian" and the cart pulled by his plodding donkey were carrying a cargo of death to be delivered to southern Israel. Concealed beneath the innocent load of produced piled high was a Grad missile, later used by terrorists in an attack on the Israeli coastal city of Ashkelon.
Security forces have the incident on tape to prove it.
General Security Service (Shin Bet) chief Yuval Diskin used the tape on Sunday in a presentation to cabinet ministers to illustrate how terrorists use purported "civilians" in the Gaza war against Israel.
IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi also informed the ministers that despite media hype based on Hamas sources, approximately 90 percent of the Arabs killed in Gaza since last Thursday were terrorists.
IDF soldiers and tanks withdrew from northern Gaza early Monday after four days of clashes with terrorists from Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other PA terror groups. Two IDF soldiers gave their lives in one shootout, but some 90 terrorists were also killed in "Operation Warm Winter."
Another two terrorists were eliminated by IAF pilots in an air strike early Monday morning. Defense officials have not yet announced what the IDF's next move will be.
Zionsake: So much for INNOCENT CIVILIANS! A good Muslim is a Jihadisd Martyr because that's the only sure way to Muslim heaven!
So the IDF withdraws absolutely prematurely! Why? Condoleezza arrives this afternood!
The heavy laden donkey cart reminded me of this photo:
It is astounding to see how, whereas most Muslims claim to practice 'a peaceful religion' - as even President George W. Bush affirmed concerning Islam - and even as they continually praise their Allah as "the merciful one," that they nevertheless win their battles and subjugate people the world over by terror and jihad.
Mohammed himself, in his short lifetime, fought more than 50 wars to spread the teachings of ISLAM. Across the planet today Muslims are killing, threatening and terrorizing nation after nation and, where deemed necessary, political leaders, journalists or others who dare to stand in their way, even while their spokesmen cleverly and misleadingly tell the world that Islam is a religion of peace.
Sure it is!
Looking at a map of today's world we see Muslims terrorizing and massacring hundreds of thousands of south Sudanese - many of them peace-loving Christians - terrorizing and killing in many parts of the Philippines, Indonesia, India and in other regions. In fact the majority of recent wars has been initiated or fought by Muslims, in Lebanon, Syria, in Somalia, Afghanistan, and most recently in Kenya.
Even fellow Muslims are not safe from this scourge of terror and jihad, as the Muslims in Iran found out when the Muslim Saddam Hussein fought and attacked them; as Sunni Muslims in Iraq are experiencing as they are blown up - in their own mosques - by Muslim Shiites; as Muslim Lebanese lawmakers, even presidents (like Bishara, Jemayel and Harrari) found out when they were murdered in cold blood by Syrian-supported Muslim intruders. The list is long.
As seen in poor Lebanon, endless suffering is inflicted on anyone who stands in the way of those who have made themselves the final judges and authorities of what Islam stands for. It is committed by Hezbollah or Syrian infiltrators, against Lebanese who simply want to be Lebanese citizens, or against peace-loving Palestinians hanged and pierced on poles by other Muslim Palestinians: Issam Sartawi murdered in Portugal because he really wanted to have peace with Israel; Anwar Sadat murdered in Egypt - all this done by Muslim terrorists who believe they are the upholders of ISLAM in its purest form.
When individuals in the West who finally wake up to this all-encompassing threat and danger are willing to warn or speak out, they are immediately threatened or silenced by the very Islamic terror they so courageously alerted against.
This happened to Pope Benedict XVI in September 2006 after he dared to quote a medieval source saying that there is an inherent violence in ISLAM. He was immediately made to pay for his courage by churches and Christians being attacked and killed in different places because of this remark.
So it went after the Danish newspaper Jyllends-Posten published caricatures of Mohammed in September 2005.
Thus it happened to the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh murdered in November 2004 in front of his house by Muslims who did not like his film about the degradation of women in Muslim societies.
Do we have to go on to describe the terrible anguish of around 3000 men and woman trapped in New York's Twin Towers in September 2001 before their lives were snuffed out, again by Muslim-inspired terrorists, mostly from Saudi Arabia?
Do we have to revisit the thousands of people in Israel, killed, lynched and terrorized for decades by Muslim neighbors, all in the name of ISLAM, whose adherents claim that Allah wants to purify the ISLAMIC Middle East first from a sovereign Jewish state and then from Christians, as their children sing: "We shall fight first the Saturday people and then the Sunday people."
So they win, by threatening anyone and everyone who wants to stop their advance. And they win by terror or jihad. They do so in Europe where they have paralyzed people in fear of what would happen if they would let an ever increasing number of Europeans speak their mind. It is all too late, the backlash too enormous to even contemplate.
New York's Twin Towers stand (or stood!) as a stark reminder of what happens to nations whose policies are at war with the forces of ISLAM, whether they be in Afghanistan, Iraq or the Middle East or the ever more aggressively-demanded rights of Muslims living in the West.
When U.S.-led soldiers of westerners and Iraqis truly want to bring democracy into war-torn and terrorized Iraq, they are killed by the thousands for daring to introduce this - to Islam, strange - concept of freedom and democracy.
When Benazir Bhutto, a courageous woman, wants to introduce as a possible candidate for her Pakistani nation the same principles of freedom and democracy, she is killed by these same Islamic fanatics.
So all over the world from the Philippines to the Sudan, from Europe to the United States, ISLAM wins through terror and jihad, as it did from its beginnings.
So by Terror they win
They have won in Iran
They win in Afghanistan
They win in Iraq
They win in Lebanon
They win in Sudan and Somalia
They win in the Pakistan
They are beginning to win in the West, first in Europe and then in the States and there is little that can stop them. They have the oil and the money. They have the masses and many of them have the fanatically held faith that Allah wants them to conquer and submit the whole world.
Against the horrifying background of all this, would anyone have believed on September the 11th 2001, when all of America was weeping for those whose lives had been brutally ended by Islamic-inspired terror, that Americans by the millions would soon vote in favor of a young, ex-Muslim Senator; a man who, when in power, would be loath to fight the very sponsors and initiators of this all-encompassing threat, and instead want to try and reason with them? This may not just spell the end of America, that great land of the brave: but with it also the end of the whole free world!
Kenya was one of the only countries on the Africa Continent that had a stable, pro-Western and Israel-friendly government, a country where Obama's Muslim family still lives. Obama not long ago visited this country and stirred trouble, igniting Raila Odinga to challenge the just-chosen pro-Western, pro-Israel President Mwai Kibaki with the resulting massacres and unrest. This is how The Jerusalem Post's Caroline Glick reported (January 21, 2008) on this disturbing episode:
"Kenya currently teeters at the edge of political chaos and civil war in the wake of the disputed Dec. 27 presidential elections. Those elections pitted incumbent President Mwai Kibaki against Raila Odinga who leads the Orange Democratic Movement. While the polls showed the public favoring Odinga, Kibaki was declared the winner. Odinga rejected the results and his supporters have gone on rampages throughout the country that have killed some 700 people so far. Fifty people were murdered when a pro-Odinga mob set ablaze a church in which they were hiding.
Kibaki is close ally of the US in the war against Islamic terror. In stark contrast, Odinga is an ally of Islamic extremists. On August 29 Odinga wrote a letter to Kenya's pro-jihadist National Muslim Leaders Forum. There he pledged that if elected he would establish Sharia courts throughout the country; enact Islamic dress codes for women; ban alcohol and pork; indoctrinate schoolchildren in the tenets of Islam; ban Christian missionary activities, and dismiss the police commissioner, "Who has allowed himself to be used by heathens and Zionists."
Although Odinga is an Anglican, he referred to Islam as the "one true religion" and scorned Christians as "worshipers of the cross." Obama strongly supports Odinga who claims to be his cousin. As Daniel Johnson reported recently in the New York Sun, during his 2006 visit to Kenya, Obama was so outspoken in his support for Odinga that the Kenyan government complained to the State Department that Obama was interfering with the internal politics of the country. After the Dec. 27 elections Obama interrupted a campaign appearance in New Hampshire to take a call from Odinga."
So ISLAM wins. It wins in Kenya, it wins in the West. It wins in Lebanon, in Iran, in Afghanistan, in Syria and in Iraq, in Sudan and in Somalia. It begins even to win in Turkey and many other places in the world: Through terror and jihad, or just through clever infiltration, till it all will be too late also for Europe and America!
Min. Herzog : European antisemitism 'not Islam as such'
By Stan Goodenough February 04, 2008
Perpetuating a politically correct - and deceptive - point of view, Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs Isaac Herzog said that the Muslim antisemites in Europe do not represent "Islam as such."
Herzog was responding to a report by the visiting European Commissioner for Justice, Freedom and Security, Franco Frattini, who said thatMuslims are responsible for more than 50 percent of antisemitic acts perptrated on the Continent.
Speaking to The Jerusalem Post, Herzog said that it was "not new that Frattini relates a large percentage of antisemitic incidents to radical Islam, and it's important to say, not Islam as such."
In line with most western leaders, Israel tries consistently to differentiate between "radical" and "moderate" Islam despite the incontrovertible fact that, from its founding to the present day, the religion has employed terrorism and war in its jihad against non-Muslims around the world.
To face this rising threat, Israel must look in the mirror
By Richard Z. Chesnoff
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | As President Bush returns from the Mideast, he and all those who hope for a strong and secure Israel should wake up to an unpleasant reality: The biggest danger to Israel's future may not come from Hamas rockets or even Iranian nuclear yearnings. It could be from Israel's own, increasingly restive, Arab minority.
More than 20% of the Jewish state's 7.2 million citizens are Israeli Arabs — Muslims, Christians and Druze, descendants of the approximately 180,000 Palestinian Arabs who chose not to become refugees during Israel's 1948 War of Independence but stayed and cast their lot in with the Jewish state.
Over the past 60 years, Israeli Arabs have grown and prospered like the state itself. Indeed, their population growth rate outstrips that of Jews.
It is probably no coincidence that a nationalist and Islamic militancy is spreading among many of them that now ominously demands not only cultural, but even political separation from the Jewish state.
No, the lives of Israeli Arabs have not always been easy. Their loyalties suspect in the early days of the state, they were once subject to security restrictions. Nor have their economic fortunes always been equal. Aside from election time — when Israeli politicians scrounged for their votes — Israeli Arab public works have rarely been as strongly supported as those of Israeli Jews.
Still, to appreciate how well Israeli Arabs live now, one need only look at how their once-dusty towns sprinkling the Galilee and the Ara Valley are now sprawling communities of brand-new villas and two-car families. Israeli Arabs have superb medical care, and their children have a wealth of educational opportunities. They vote, have Arab members of parliament, Arab judges and now even an Arab member of Israel's cabinet.
For some, however, that's not enough. Israeli Arabs can often be heard repeating the Arab world's renewed anti-Zionist mantra — that Israel has no right to be a "Jewish state," despite the fact that countless Arab and other nations consider themselves to be Islamic states.
Indeed, during the war against Hezbollah in 2006, some openly demonstrated against their country — and for the terrorist group.
Just this month, an Israeli Arab anti-Zionist group called for a boycott of American Jewish groups that contribute to the social and economic betterment of Israeli Arab communities. Their twisted reasoning: These American groups favor a "Jewish state of Israel." One group of Israeli Arab activists publicly denounced the boycott call as self-defeating — but most kept silent.
New York recently hosted an event dubbed "The Other Israel Film Festival," which showcased productions by and about Israeli Arabs. Some, like "The Syrian Bride," were excellent cinema. But almost all of the films I saw revealed a split personality. Their mentaliyut (as they put it in the Hebrew that sprinkles their Arabic) was Israeli (modern, liberal, open-minded), their sympathies Arab. "We are caught between two worlds," one Palestinian director told me.
That may be so — but it does not give them a right to deny Israel's very raison d'etre — its unique status as the world's only Jewish state.
Indeed, there are few greater examples of political chutzpah than the worldwide Arab claim that while at least a dozen sprawling states declare themselves officially Islamic and even some European nations are formally "Christian," the Jews — a nation and culture as well as a faith — have no right to a state, no matter how small it is.
Israeli Arabs have every right to maintain their own minority community — and participate fully in Israeli life — but they must accept the basic concept of Israeli Jewishness. The alternative is to consider moving elsewhere, perhaps to the future independent Palestine.
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With great misfortune, Yossi Zur has a deep understanding of Arab terror.His son, Asaf (nicknamed Blondi), was a victim of a deadly terror attack, which occurred nearly five years ago in Haifa.
Recently, Yossi asked that we publicize this moving tribute to his son, and all of the victims of terror in Israel.
Please Read, place a flower and forward on ....
2008 Campaign: Let's place 60,000 flowers in remembrance of Terror victims for Israel's 60 birthday
Terror victims Remembrance campaign 2008 - Israel's 60th birthday
This year, on Wednesday May 7th, Israel's memorial day, we will remember the Israelis fallen in the long battle for the existence of the state and for our right to a normal, sane and peaceful life in this small piece of land we call home.
We will remember the soldiers fallen in wars and battles and also the civilians and children fallen in busses coming back from school, in restaurants dining with their families, and in the streets going to shop or to visit friends.
On the next day, May 8th, we will celebrate the 60th Independence Day of the State of Israel. The mixture of remembrance and mourning with happiness and hope symbolizes the life we live in Israel day after day.
On March 5th 2003, my son Asaf, almost seventeen years old, nicknamed by his friends Blondi, came back from school riding a city bus. A suicide murderer exploded on the bus killing seventeen men, women and children. Nine of them were school children on their way home from school – including Asaf.
Shortly after Asaf's death, I started looking and learning how Israel and Israelis commemorate their fallen dear ones. Terror didn't start in year 2000. The Israeli Arab conflict has cost the lives of many Jews during the last 100 years, and these are commemorated in many ways.
I documented hundreds of commemoration sites, and created a web site that lists the sites in Israel, from as early as 1913, and all the way to today, after the second Lebanon war.
Each site has its own web page, text explaining the event, and pictures from the commemoration site.
I ask all of you getting this letter to participate in this remembrance campaign. Enter the web site, find a place you know or want to see, search for a commemoration, read about it and look at it.
Then at the bottom of the web page, place a virtual flower on the memorial.
Let's get to the 60th Independence Day celebrations with 60,000 flowers laid by people from all over the world on fallen terror victims' commemoration sites.
's make the crossing from remembrance to celebration the biggest ever and let's stand there for a moment, remembering those that are not with us to celebrate.
The Hebrew version web site is www.ezy.co.il , clicking on "English" will take you to the English version of the web site. For direct access to the English version .
By clicking the 'search' button on the top you can search for an attack place (free text search) or search for a commemoration by city or area (from a list of values) and even by range of dates.
(IsraelNN.com) Security agents of the Israel Airport Authority (IAA) discovered two tons of material used to manufacture explosives on a truck supposedly delivering humanitarian aid for residents of the Palestinian Authority. The discovery was made at the IDF checkpoint at the Kerem Shalom Crossing into southern Gaza, a transit point for goods from Egypt destined for the PA.
The bomb-making ingredient was found by IAA officials during routine and random inspections of vehicles supposedly carrying humanitarian supplies into southern Gaza. According to security sources, the chemical compound, made from fertilizer, is used as fuel for PA rockets and in the manufacture of incendiary devices. The quantity of material discovered was sufficient for hundreds of rockets.
Security officials have yet to determine the source and destination of the explosives supplies. The investigation continues.
The smuggling incident was the second of its kind in less than a month. In late December, IDF soldiers discovered 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate hidden in sacks marked "sugar" and earmarked for needy Arabs in Gaza. Potassium nitrate is a banned substance in Gaza, Judea and Samaria due to its use by terrorists for the manufacturing of explosives and Kassam rockets. The bags were marked as humanitarian aid from the European Union, Gaza's biggest source of assistance.
While security officials investigating the December case do not assume that the potassium nitrate was sent by the European Union, they have noted that terrorist groups have learned to take advantage of such shipments. An IDF source said at the time, "This is another example of how the terror organizations exploit the humanitarian aid that is delivered to the Palestinian population in Gaza with Israel's approval."
PM Olmert Opposes Gaza Incursion Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Monday that Israel was at "war" with Arab terrorists in Gaza, but said he opposed a full-scale invasion of the area "right now."
The prime minister explained his position: "Hundreds of fatalities amongst terror organizations in Gaza in the last year are a heavy price for the terror groups to have paid. I highly recommend that we do not get involved in operations and costs out of all proportion to the issues we are dealing with."
At the same time, Olmert stressed that he did not underestimate the severity of Kassam attacks on Sderot and other Jewish communities located near Gaza.
Israel Lifting Fuel Sanctions The random discovery of the bomb-making material last month and on Monday did not change Defense Minister Ehud Barak's decision to drop fuel sanctions imposed on Gaza by the government last month.
The cutbacks in fuel supplies were implemented as part of the effort to isolate and pressure the Hamas government in Gaza. The High Court of Justice heard several petitions against the move. On Thursday, the state submitted a motion in which it announced the suspension of the punitive measures.
Canada to Provide Aid In addition to the assistance from the EU for the PA, Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier announced that his government would allocate $300 million for the PA over the course of the next five years. The money will be used to reform the PA and to fund its security forces, Bernier said.
The PA security forces have begun patrolling Shechem and Bethlehem in an effort to prove that the PA is able to fight terrorism and control crime. Terrorists who are caught by PA forces serve up to three months in prison and then become members of the force, provided with weapons and a salary from the PA.
(IsraelNN.com) A Palestinian Authority TV mainstay is back on the screen, with the Virgins of Paradise reminding would-be suicide bomber terrorist shahids (martyrs) of the reward that awaits them when they die fighting the Jews.
Palestinian Media Watch alerted the public this week to the return of the program, which has been broadcast regularly over the past month after a hiatus of more than a year. The constant reruns may signal the need to increase motivation among PA Arab men to join the terrorist ranks and donate their lives to fighting Israelis.
The music video depicts a lovely Arab woman being shot in the chest, as she runs forward to greet a PA terrorist being released by IDF soldiers on the other side of a barbed wire fence.
The young woman is next seen dressed in a white robe dancing with other similar maidens in a shining pool of water, while her grief-stricken lover hunches over her tomb in the night, grim determination in his eyes.
The terrorist is then seen getting up and being shot in the back by Israeli soldiers as he is running from the gravesite. The scene flashes to the dancing maidens, including his love welcoming him, presumably to Paradise in reward for his Shahada (Death for Allah).
This scenario is based on Islamic traditions described in the Muslim holy book, the Koran (Suras 42, 44, 52, 56 and others) which states that a man who dies as a martyr is rewarded with eternal Paradise and 70 virgins upon his arrival.
Palestinian Authority officials and other Arab leaders are beginning to exhibit concern about the regular bulletins from the PMW that expose the reality of PA messages to the Arab world.
According to the organization, PA TV and Arab internet news agencies are starting to respond quickly to PMW bulletins, including Fatah TV, Hamas TV and an Arabic-language internet site in London.
PMW expressed satisfaction that the monitored are now feeling the need to monitor.
Iran makes Magog a Present-day Reality israeltoday.co.ilFriday, November 02, 2007
Netanyahu: The Jewish State is the front line of the Christian West. As soon as Islam has broken through the Jewish front line in the Middle East, it will conquer the West. Israel is the Christian West’s security wall.
By Aviel Schneider
US President George Bush’s recent warning of a possible third world war in connection with Iran’s atomic program caused worldwide unrest. Only a few months earlier, Israel’s former Mossad chief, Ephraim HaLevy, also warned of a looming outbreak of a third world war.
In Europe politicians barely give credence to the threat of a World War III and say instead that “rhetoric,” such as HaLevy’s comments, endangers a peace process. Meanwhile, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls UN sanctions against his country useless.
“The resolution of the UN Security Council is not worth the paper on which it is printed,” Ahmadinejad shouted on the Iranian TV while publicizing that his country is capable of firing 11,000 rockets per minute on Israel.
Israeli politicians and scientists warn that a world war in the atomic age would spell the end of mankind. Israeli combat jets had bombed a Syrian atomic reactor, whose construction began three years ago with the help of North Korea and was held under strict secrecy, according to reports in the foreign media. Six weeks later, the Israeli army called on the people of Israel to prepare security rooms and bunkers just as during the first gulf war of 1990. Even though the army emphasized repeatedly that there was no imminent threat of war, a state of preparedness seems to be necessary.
Israeli physician and former general Professor Yitzhak Ben Israel believes that the first Iranian atomic bombs will be ready for use within three to five years—three years earlier than predicted. Israel Today spoke with leading politicians, rabbis, academics and Messianic Jews about the possibility of an end-time world war. All three religions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, mention a great war of nations under the names Gog and Magog. In the Bible it is mentioned in Ezekiel 38-39, Zechariah 12-14, Jeremiah 30, Daniel 11-12, Joel 2, Obadiah 1 and Revelation and in the Koran in Suras 18, 97 and 21,96.
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Sep 25, 2007 20:30 | Updated Sep 26, 2007 9:46 Civil Fights: Debunking a persistent canard By EVELYN GORDON
The mantra "there is no military solution to terrorism" is so rarely challenged these days that it was shocking to see the following commentary last Wednesday on the front page of Haaretz, a leading bastion of the "no military solution" theory.
"It's common to claim it is impossible to defeat terrorism," the analysis stated. But in the seven years since the intifada began, "the IDF and Shin Bet have come as close as possible to achieving victory. Since the beginning of the year, two soldiers (one each in the West Bank and Gaza) and six civilians (three in a suicide bombing in Eilat, two from Kassam rockets in Sderot and one who was stabbed to death in Gush Etzion) have been killed by terrorism. This is a very small number, considering the number of attempted attacks, and also compared to the high point of the intifada, when 450 Israelis were killed in 2002. The last suicide bombing in central Israel occurred 18 months ago, in April 2006.
"The formula that produced this achievement is known," it continued: aggressive intelligence gathering, the security fence and "the IDF's complete freedom of action in West Bank cities."
If this is not victory, it is a close enough approximation that most Israelis would happily settle for it. That is why the June Peace Index poll found Jewish Israelis overwhelmingly opposed to security concessions to the Palestinian Authority, with 79 percent against arming the PA, 71 percent against removing checkpoints and 54 percent against releasing prisoners: Few Israelis want to scrap measures that have reduced Israeli fatalities from 450 to eight over the last five years.
It also helps explain the stunning reversal in Israeli attitudes toward Sderot revealed by August's Peace Index poll. According to that poll, fully 69 percent of Jewish Israelis now support an extensive ground operation in Gaza to stop the Kassam fire at southern Israel - whereas last December, 57 percent opposed such an operation. Moreover, this support crossed party lines: Even among people who voted for the leftist Labor and Meretz parties, 64 and 67 percent, respectively, favored a major military operation in Gaza.
CLEARLY, THIS reversal occurred partly because in the interim, all other options had been exhausted. The December poll came a month after Hamas declared a cease-fire in Gaza, and while the truce had not fully taken hold, many still hoped that it would. By August, those hopes had died: Not only were rockets fired at Sderot almost daily during the "cease-fire," but in May, Hamas trumpeted its contempt for the truce by claiming credit for over 100 Kassam launches in a single week. Additionally, in December, Mahmoud Abbas was nominally in control of Gaza, and many still hoped that he would take action to stop the rocket fire. By August, Hamas was in full control.
The fact that Israel first sought nonmilitary solutions in Gaza resembles its behavior during the first 18 months of the intifada: It signed cease-fires (which instantly collapsed), declined to respond even to major suicide bombings inside Israel (Dolphinarium and Sbarro), and generally sought to get the Palestinian security services to reassert control. But as the casualty toll, especially inside Israel, mounted, it became clear that salvation would not come from the PA. So in March 2002, Israel reconquered the West Bank in Operation Defensive Shield - and Israeli fatalities dropped dramatically, that year and every year thereafter.
HOWEVER, there is one crucial difference between the intifada's early years and the recent Israeli quest for a nonmilitary solution in Gaza: While Israelis would always prefer to avoid risking soldiers' lives, they now know, as they did not in 2002, that the military option works. After all, not a single Kassam has been fired at Israel from the West Bank. Hence Israelis are not awaiting leadership from above; they are backing military action even as the politicians still vehemently reject it.
Given this growing recognition among the Israeli public, it is bizarre to hear senior politicians and military officers still parroting the "no military solution to terror" mantra. But at least these officials understand that in practice, Israel's defensive measures in the West Bank work, and therefore, ending them would be a bad idea (not to mention unpopular with the voters).
International agencies and diplomats, in contrast, have not even gotten that far. Any of them could, if they took five minutes to examine the data, realize that Israel's military measures in the West Bank have dramatically reduced Israeli fatalities, especially inside Israel, since 2002; yet they persist in declaring that these measures are unnecessary and must be scrapped. Thus Condoleezza Rice uses her every visit to pressure Israel on this issue, while the World Bank once again demanded last week that Israel remove West Bank checkpoints, open its border with Gaza and restore freedom of movement between Gaza and the West Bank.
Or perhaps this is feigned ignorance, meant to cover a willingness to sacrifice Israeli lives in order to demonstrate "progress" in the peace process. The World Bank report, for instance, coyly stated that "the costs are subjective to each side and are beyond the scope of this report" - thereby sparing it the need to acknowledge that the likely cost is Israeli lives - but "all parties will need to expend more resources and assume more risks than they have done in the past."
Is it really unaware of what those carefully unstated risks are? Either way, however, this willful blindness perpetuates the conflict by ensuring that a key obstacle to resolving it - Palestinian terror - remains unaddressed. In 1993, many Israelis hoped that a peace agreement would end terror. Fourteen years later, after having suffered more fatalities from Palestinian terror post-Oslo than during the entire preceding 45 years, most Israelis have concluded that the allegedly nonexistent military solution does a much better job of protecting their lives. And until there is concrete evidence of Palestinian willingness and ability to do the job as well or better, there will be no Israeli majority for any deal with the PA.
IANS via Yahoo! India News Thu, 13 Sep 2007 5:08 AM PDT Gaza, Sep 13 (Xinhua) The Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), a militant group, Thursday announced rocket attacks against Israel lasting until the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which began today.
Zionsake: It has long been a proven fact that scores more demons get whipped up during Ramadan and that more terror attacks (statistically) are perpetrated during this UN-HOLY month. And then Israel's ungodly governments go out of their way to make goodwill gestures to the Muslims in honor of the month in which they perpetrate more EVIL (ala Bush) than usual!
The idea of using suicide pilots to obliterate the skyscrapers of Manhattan originated in 1940s Berlin. "In the latter stages of the war, I never saw Hitler so beside himself as when, as if in a delirium, he was picturing to himself and to us the downfall of New York in towers of flame," wrote Albert Speer in his diary. "He described the skyscrapers turning into huge burning torches and falling hither and thither, and the reflection of the disintegrating city in the dark sky."
