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JERUSALEM – Sen. Barack Obama's Chicago church reprinted a manifesto by Hamas that defended terrorism as legitimate resistance, refused to recognize the right of Israel to exist and compared the terror group's official charter – which calls for the murder of Jews – to America's Declaration of Independence.
The Hamas piece was published on the "Pastor's Page" of the Trinity United Church of Christ newsletter reserved for Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., whose anti-American, anti-Israel remarks landed Obama in hot water, prompting the presidential candidate to deliver a major race speech earlier this week.
Hamas, responsible for scores of shootings, suicide bombings and rocket launchings against civilian population centers, is listed as a terrorist group by the U.S. State Department.
The revelation follows a recent WND article quoting Israeli security officials who expressed "concern" about Robert Malley, an adviser to Obama who has advocated negotiations with Hamas and providing international assistance to the terrorist group.
In his July 22, 2007, church newsletter, Wright reprinted an article by Mousa Abu Marzook, identified in the publication as a "deputy of the political bureau of Hamas." A photo image of the piece was captured and posted today by the business blog BizzyBlog, which first brought attention to it. The Hamas article was first published by the Los Angeles Times, garnering the newspaper much criticism.
According to senior Israeli security officials, Marzook, who resides in Syria alongside Hamas chieftain Khaled Meshaal, is considered the "brains" behind Hamas, designing much of the terror group's policies and ideology. Israel possesses what it says is a large volume of specific evidence that Marzook has been directly involved in calling for or planning scores of Hamas terrorist offensives, including deadly suicide bombings. He was also accused of attempting to set up a Hamas network in the U.S.
Marzook's original piece was titled, "Hamas' stand" but was re-titled "A Fresh View of the Palestinian Struggle" by Obama's church newsletter. The newsletter also referred to Hamas as the "Islamic Resistance Movement," and added in its introduction that Marzook was addressing Hamas' goals for "all of Palestine."
In the manifesto, Marzook refers to Hamas' "resistance" – the group's perpetuation of anti-Israel terrorism targeting civilians – as "legal resistance," which, he argues, is "explicitly supported by the Fourth Geneva Convention."
The Convention, which refers to the rights of people living under occupation, does not support suicide bombings or rocket attacks against civilian population centers, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America noted.
Marzook refers to Hamas' official charter as "an essentially revolutionary document" and compares the violent creed to the Declaration of Independence, which, Marzook states, "simply did not countenance any such status for the 700,000 African slaves at that time."
Hamas' charter calls for the murder of Jews. Among its platforms is a statement that the "[resurrection] will not take place until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims kill them, and the rock and the tree will say: 'Oh Muslim, servant of Allah, there is a Jew behind me, kill him!'"
In his piece, Marzook says Hamas only targets Israel and denies that Hamas' war is meant to be waged against the U.S., even though Hamas officials have threatened America, and Hamas' charter calls for Muslims to "pursue the cause of the Movement (Hamas), all over the globe."
Trinity Church did not respond to a phone message requesting comment.
Obama's campaign also did not reply to phone and e-mail requests today for comment.
Obama aide wants talks with terrorists
WND reported in January that Malley, an Obama foreign policy adviser, has penned numerous opinion articles, many of them co-written with a former adviser to the late Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat, petitioning for dialogue with Hamas and blasting Israel for policies he says harm the Palestinian cause.
Malley also previously penned a well-circulated New York Review of Books piece largely blaming Israel for the collapse of the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations at Camp David in 2000 when Arafat turned down a Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza and eastern sections of Jerusalem and instead returned to the Middle East to launch an intifada, or terrorist campaign, against the Jewish state.
Malley's contentions have been strongly refuted by key participants at Camp David, including President Clinton, then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and primary U.S. envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross, all of whom squarely blamed Arafat's refusal to make peace for the talks' failure.
In February 2006, after Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian parliament and amid a U.S. and Israeli attempt to isolate the Hamas-run Palestinian Authority, Malley wrote an op-ed for the Baltimore Sun advocating international aid to the terror group's newly formed government.
"The Islamists (Hamas) ran on a campaign of effective government and promised to improve Palestinians' lives; they cannot do that if the international community turns its back," wrote Malley in a piece entitled, "Making the Best of Hamas' Victory."
Malley contended the election of Hamas expressed Palestinian "anger at years of humiliation and loss of self-respect because of Israeli settlement expansion, Arafat's imprisonment, Israel's incursions, Western lecturing and, most recently and tellingly, the threat of an aid cutoff in the event of an Islamist success."
Malley said the U.S. should not "discourage third-party unofficial contacts with [Hamas] in an attempt to moderate it."
In an op-ed in the Washington Post in January coauthored by Arafat adviser Hussein Agha, Malley – using what could be perceived as anti-Israel language – urged Israel's negotiating partner, Abbas, to reunite with Hamas.
"A renewed national compact and the return of Hamas to the political fold would upset Israel's strategy of perpetuating Palestinian geographic and political division," wrote Malley.
He further petitioned Israel to hold talks with Hamas.
"An arrangement between Israel and Hamas could advance both sides' interests," Malley wrote.
In numerous other op-eds, Malley advocated a policy of engagement with Hamas.
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Israel should release most of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by them as part of a plan. I say most because the worst ones, I.e. those with “blood on their hands”, must be kept to make a point, namely, that murderers must be held accountable.
So what’s the plan? But first, the context.
In December ‘05 the PA set a date for holding elections. At first, Israel wanted to restrict Arab residents in Jerusalem from voting and wanted to prevent Hamas from contesting them. Rice prevailed upon Israel to reverse its position on both matters. The result of the internationally supervised election, was that Hamas won 74 of the 132 seats. Hamas then formed the government and Fatah refused to be part of a coalition government.
This was bad news for the “peace process” because Hamas was adamantly against it. The US immediately started making plans to overthrow the Hamas government.
After failing to anticipate Hamas’s victory over Fatah in the 2006 Palestinian election, the White House cooked up yet another scandalously covert and self-defeating Middle East debacle: part Iran-contra, part Bay of Pigs. With confidential documents, corroborated by outraged former and current U.S. officials, David Rose reveals how President Bush, Condoleezza Rice, and Deputy National-Security Adviser Elliott Abrams backed an armed force under Fatah strongman Muhammad Dahlan, touching off a bloody civil war in Gaza and leaving Hamas stronger than ever.
After Congress turned down Bush’s request for $86 million to finance this effort, Bush asked the Saudis, who instead brokered the Mecca Accords (Feb ‘07) in an attempt to bring Fatah and Hamas together. Rice was apoplectic.
Hamas reacted to this attempted coup, by a coup of their own and took over Gaza in June ‘07.
David Wurmser accuses the Bush administration of “engaging in a dirty war in an effort to provide a corrupt dictatorship with victory.”
The botched plan has rendered the dream of Middle East peace more remote than ever, but what really galls neocons such as Wurmser is the hypocrisy it exposed. “There is a stunning disconnect between the president’s call for Middle East democracy and this policy,” he says. “It directly contradicts it.”
The US immediately switched gears and began a Westbank first option.
Gaza had 400 functioning factories and workshops at the start of 2007. By December, the intensified Israeli blockade had caused 90 percent of them to close. Seventy percent of Gaza’s population is now living on less than $2 a day.
Israel, meanwhile, is no safer. The emergency pro-peace government called for in the secret Action Plan is now in office—but only in the West Bank. In Gaza, the exact thing both Israel and the U.S. Congress warned against came to pass when Hamas captured most of Fatah’s arms and ammunition—including the new Egyptian guns supplied under the covert U.S.-Arab aid program.
Thus it was clear that the Roadmap was no longer workable so Rice and Livni agreed to change it by discussing final status issues before the end of terror, even if the resulting agreement was only a “shelf agreement”. Presumably, if such an agreement were arrived at, the US would then arrange for the international community to adopt it. But this plan too is not working out because no one wants to compromise. Thus the Annapolis initiative is over.
Now, Michael Wise has suggested a plan. Israel should annex Judea and Samaria, hopefully with US approval, and relocate the prisoners to Gaza. Lest anyone claim that Israel would be pursuing ethnic cleansing, Israel should offer to accept an equal number of peaceful Gazans into Israel and give them Blue cards enabling them to work.
Not only would Israel free itself of the responsibility for their care and feeding and of incessant demands that they be released, she would be giving notice to all would be terrorists in Judea and Samaria that they too will be relocated to Gaza. In order not to separate them from their families, the families should also be relocated to Gaza. Now that’s what I call deterrence.
Rice is responsible for all the failed US initiatives in the conflict which I list here.
- Rice demanded Israel abandon Rafah as part of the disengagement from Gaza. This was contained in the Rafah Agreement which she brokered.
- Rice demanded that Hamas be allowed to contest the elections resulting in its victory.
- Rice embraced Abbas as a great moderate and friend of the US. He has proved anything but.
- Rice engineered the plan to have Dahlan, supported by the US, execute a military coup of the Hamas government resulting in the Hamas coup of Gaza.
- Rice backed the plan to build up the Fatah forces with arms and munitions all of which were seized by Hamas.
- Rice then promoted the coalition of moderates which went nowhere.
- Rice also decided on the Annapolis Initiative that has produced only increased violence.
- Rice demanded Olmert stop the Gaza operations which killed over 100 Gazan, most of whom were terrorists on the basis that she would arrange a ceasefire through Egypt. This too will fail.
Some legacy. Rice has been an absolute and total disaster.
America has run out of options. Bush should declare that the Palestinians haven’t met the preconditions for statehood as set out in his vision speech in 2002 and should abandon his support for a Palestinian state.
Prof. Francisco Gil-White, Editor of 'Historical and Investigative Research' and co-founder of www.StrongIsrael.org, speaks about the origins of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) as well as its goals and visions for a new international order and the dissolving of the 'Nation-State'. What does this mean to you? Do they really have the power to turn the United States into an entity under a 'North American Union'? If the world united under a centralized government body with fluid borders, nation states would have to give up much of their sovereignty and conform to a central ideology. This would result in nations having to give up many of their values and beliefs. All the three major U.S. Presidential Candidates (Clinton, Obama & McCain) are members of the CFR. Does it really matter who you vote for?
Tamar Yonah is a longtime show host, activist, wife and mother from Judea and Samaria. She hosts the Tamar Yonah Show live on Israel National Radio. Visit her blog at http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/3.
Muslim megalomaniac and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - who foretells Israel's destruction in almost every one of his public speeches - received a hero's welcome when he arrived in Iraq on a state visit Sunday.
Ahmadinejad - the first Iranian leader to visit Iraq since the 1980s - is scheduled to meet with the country's US-planted president and prime minister during his tour of the country his predecessors waged war against for eight years.
The leaders of the two former enemy states were reportedly to hold their meetings behind closed doors.
Some of the issues to be discussed included deals of Iranian electricity supplies to Iraqi cities and Tehran's offer to build a powerplant for Iraq. Iran has already given Iraq $ 1 billion in aid.
While it is not difficult to assess what this strengthening of ties and Iraq's growing debt to Iran portends for the future of the region, we are left to speculate about what Ahmadinejad and fellow-Shiite, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, will say in their meetings about Israel.
Ahmadinejad's hatred for the Jewish state is often in the news, but Al-Maliki's feelings are less well known.
The Iraqi did earn the ire of American lawmakers in the 2006 Second Lebanon War when he one-sidedly condemned Israel.
In a letter to Al-Maliki, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, Democratic Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York described the Iraqi leader's comments as troubling.
"Your failure to condemn Hezbollah's aggression and recognize Israel's right to defend itself raise serious questions about whether Iraq under your leadership can play a constructive role in resolving the current crisis and bringing stability to the Middle East," their letter said.
In December of that year US President George W. Bush endorsed Al-Maliki as "the right guy for the job" of leading Iraq
Last August, the Iraqi flew to Syria for meetings with top officials in a country Iran has also been working hard to cement relations with.
In Obamas book, DREAMS OF MY FATHER..and THE AUDACITY Of HOPE
In Obama's book THE AUDACITY Of HOPE
* He wrote "I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction."
In Obama's book, DREAMS OF MY FATHER..
* "I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER'S RACE"
* "I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites"
* "That hate hadn't gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people -- some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
However, while campaigning in Kansas, Obama frequently emphasized that his mother was white, and that he had grown up in a predominantly white world.
* (Obama) vowed that he would "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
* "I was trying to raise myself to be a black man in America, and beyond the given of my appearance, no one around me seemed to know exactly what that meant." Honolulu's paucity of African-Americans meant he had to learn to be black from the media: "TV, movies, the radio; those were places to start. Pop culture was color-coded, after all, an arcade of images from which you could cop a walk, a talk, a step, a style."
* About student life and race at Occidental College Obama wrote "There were enough of us on campus to constitute a tribe, and when it came to hanging out many of us chose to function like a tribe, staying close together, traveling in packs," he wrote. "It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names." He added: "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists."
* While in college, Obama wrote(he) disapproved of what he called other "half-breeds" who gravitated toward whites instead of blacks.
Again, from Colonel Ray
"And after college, he once fell in love with a white woman, only to push her away when he concluded he would have to assimilate into her world, not the other way around. He later married a black woman."
* After making his first visit to Kenya, Obama wrote of being disappointed to learn that his paternal grandfather had been a servant to rich whites. The revelation caused "ugly words to flash across my mind. Uncle Tom. Collaborator. House *igger.
Some tough words for someone who wants to embrase us all.
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And I doubt if many Obama supporters have read his books. That is a shame.
Yep! I've read these books and the content of said books is one of the biggest reasons Senator Obama will not be getting my vote. He is definitely portraying a different persona to the American public than the one he portrayed in his books.
Why is it "understandable" for Blacks to vote for BO because he's Black, but Whites who won't vote for him because he's not White are "racist"? President Barack Obama sound good to you? Sounds good for Africa, Asia or some Arab country - but not for the United States of America.
The Tenessee Republicans have published here a report on the anti-Semites who support Obama. It includes:
'On Sunday, Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday likened Obama to a new messiah, calling him “the hope of the entire world.” That’s the same Louis Farrakhan who has a history of making openly anti-Semitic statements, calling Judaism a “gutter religion,” and suggesting that crack cocaine might have been a CIA plot to enslave blacks. Farrakhan, addressing 20,000 people at the annual Savior’s Day celebration in Chicago, praised the Democrat presidential candidate, calling Obama “The hope of the entire world that America will change and be made better.” He also compared Obama to the founder of Islam, remarking that both had a white mother and black father, according to the Associated Press. “A black man with a white mother became a savior to us,” Farrakhan said. “A black man with a white mother could turn out to be one who can lift America from her fall.”'
In addition, 'alongside Obama was current University of Illinois-Chicago professor William C. Ayers, who was a member of the Weathermen terrorist group which sought to overthrow of the U.S. government and took responsibility for bombing the U.S. Capitol in 1971.'
For its survival Israel turns, not to God, but to Europe.
This was the thrust of the top story in The Jerusalem Post Sunday: that Israel’s Foreign Ministry has taken a strategic decision to establish strong relations with the European Union and thereby develop a “third pillar” to help ensure the survival of the Jewish state.
Where secular Israelis have traditionally seen their country’s security supported by the twin pillars of a strong IDF and an unbreakable diplomatic relationship with the United States, the thinking is now that, with the fast-growing EU intent on contending with America for the position of superpower #1, it is important to plug Israel into the Continent too.
In exchange, Israel is allowing Europe to play a greater role in Israeli diplomatic and economic processes.
Historically, and to the present day, European countries have been almost exclusively pro-Arab and anti-Israel. After centuries of saturating antisemitism the soil of Europe is still permeated with prejudice - undiluted by either the pre-Holocaust Enlightenment or the post-Holocaust and post-communist transition to a more modern, politically-”corrected” society.
Still, secular-humanist politicians in Israel have grasped at the straws offered by “friendly” heads of European states like former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu was spotted at MIT in 1973 and the grooming began there when he was in his early twenties. After graduating, he received a high paying job at Boston Consulting. His boss was Ira Magaziner (CFR). But he quit the job in 1979, returned to Israel, staring selling furniture at the Rim company, then organized an anti-terror convention. Inexplicably, the CFR sent a team of their biggest guns including George Bush Sr., Richard Perle and George Shultz to this unknown 27 year old's get-together. Once the convention was over, Netanyahu returned to work selling home furniture for three years until 1982, when Washington Ambassador Moshe Arens invited him to be his deputy. He claimed the choice was indirectly made by those who came to his convention and "were impressed with his performance." That means Bush and Shultz pressed Arens to bring Bibi to Washington. From there, they pushed his career higher. In 1985, Shultz chaired another anti-terror convention in Washington supposedly organized by Netanyahu. By the time Bibi was UN Ambassador Schultz visited him every time he was in New York, and that was often.
Having groomed and financed Netanyahu into office, the CFR made certain his tenure as head of the opposition did not endanger the Oslo process. Though Netanyahu had the goods and scandals to fell Labor, he was a remarkably restrained opposition leader.
In September 1995, PM Rabin told what he thought was a funny story on Israel Television One. It seems his CFR handler, Henry Kissinger phoned him to relate that Netanyahu called to ask him to declare that American troops would not be placed on the Golan Heights as part of a peace deal with Syria. Who Kissinger was supposed to make this declaration to was not revealed. Kissinger, according to Rabin, laughed at Bibi and told him to quit bothering him. The next day Netanyahu confirmed his phone call but denied Rabin's mocking version of it.
The moral of the story is that both the leader of the government and opposition got their commands from their CFR officer.
(IsraelNN.com) A “senior diplomatic source” quoted in the Jerusalem Post said Tuesday that United States President George Bush is “very conscious” of the history of Jewish refugees who fled Arab persecution beginning in the 1940s. The official said the Jewish refugees situation was “parallel” to that of Arabs who fled Israeli during the 1947-1948 war, and that the solution to the Arabs’ problem was to become citizens in a state called “Palestine,” to be established by the Palestinian Authority.
Israeli officials said the diplomat’s statements showed that Israel’s efforts to raise awareness of the Jewish refugees from Arab lands were paying off. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni have both mentioned the Jewish refugee issue with foreign diplomats, they said.
President George W. Bush gave Israel the nod for its long-delayed military operation against Hamas in the Gaza before he ended his 50-hour visit to Jerusalem and Ramallah on Friday, Jan. 11 – except that his provisos stop the Israeli military short of its objectives, namely stamping out the Palestinian missile campaign, halting smuggling and eradicating Hamas military stockpiles, as reported here by DEBKAfile’s military sources:
1. Israeli forces must limit their invasion to two or three strips abutting the Gaza-Israeli border of the 365 sq. km square Hamas-ruled territory on Israel’s southwestern border. Those sources identify those strips as the northern pocket of Beit Hanoun, Beit Lahiya and the fringes of the Jebalya camp; the southern areas east of Khan Younes up to the Sufa and Kerem Shalom crossings; and sections of the Philadelphi border strip with Egypt, up to and excluding the Mediterranean coast.
Operationally, this means the Israeli army may push back the Qassam missile launching sites from the border and distance this harassment from the Israeli population, but may not destroy terrorist arms and missile caches and their means of production.
Israel is also enabled to deal only partially with the smuggling system for the weapons, explosives, fighters and cash, which nourish the Gaza Strip’s Palestinian terrorist groups through Sinai.
2. The IDF must operate only in sparsely-populated areas and desist from actions that may cause extensive Palestinian civilian casualties.
3. The IDF will not capture the main cities, e.g. Gaza City, Rafah and Khan Younes.
4. After clearing captured areas of Hamas, Jihad Islami and other Palestinian terrorists, the Israeli army must pull out and hand the cleansed territory to the forces of the Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Israel must enable the passage of those forces from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip and allow them to establish military bases for launching their offensives to recapture the entire Gaza Strip, thereby reversing Hamas’ success in forcing their retreat six months ago.
Point 4 was tagged onto the list during the US president’s talks with Abbas in Ramallah Thursday, Jan. 10.
The Palestinian leader proposed that Bush’s assent to an Israel counter-terror operation in the Gaza Strip be exploited for the IDF to prepare the ground for his Fatah-ruled Palestinian Authority to regain its control of the lost territory.
It was agreed between Bush, Abbas and Olmert, that the details of this plan be worked out after the US president returns home at the end of his Middle East tour.
The Bush-Olmert understanding entrusted defense minister Ehud Barak with leading and charting the Gaza operation, determining its timeline and being responsible to Washington for the IDF not stepping out of the above preset boundaries.
It will also be up to Barak to decide whether to pursue the objective in phased offensives.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Olmert government’s acceptance of this plan has stirred outrage in the IDF high command, general staff, southern command and the security establishment.
For the first time in its 60 years of independence, Israel’s national army is being pressed into service to capture a territory on behalf of a foreign entity. They ask by what authority did the prime minister and defense minister sign off on a plan which is an immoral distortion of the IDF’s longstanding mission.
The notion that members of Israel’s people’s army, which is duty bound to defend the state, may be ordered to fight and lay down their lives in the service of the Palestinian Authority, presents every serviceman with an irreconcilable dilemma.
It might be easier if they were permitted to eradicate the Palestinian missile threat and war machine, stock, lock and barrel. But this is ruled out by Bush.
The IDF found it difficult enough to recover its equilibrium from the political task to forcibly evict Jewish communities from the Gaza Strip foisted on it by the Sharon-Olmert-Livni government in 2005. Today, Israeli policy-makers, the United States and the Palestinian Authority are contemplating saddling the soldiers with another political undertaking: to turn around the Fatah’s defeat in its internecine war with Hamas.
Israeli generals and security chiefs caution the government against accepting this perilous and self-destructive adventure and point to its glaring flaws.
Its very conception has distorted the peace process so that the burden of its success rests on the IDF’s shoulders. If a military campaign succeeds in gaining control of parts of Gaza on behalf of the Palestinian Authority, peace talks will resume with Abbas’ standing much enhanced. But if the results are mixed, like in the 2006 Lebanon War under Olmert’s direction, the Palestinian leader will drop Israel and the United States like hot coals, turn coat and seek an understanding with Hamas for a re-united front against Israel.
Already, since the plan was floated, Israel-Palestinian talks have petered out and become irrelevant, while negotiations for the release of the kidnapped Israeli soldier Gilead Shalit have been put on ice. Hamas will on no account discuss terms for his release with a large-scale Israeli offensive hanging over Gaza.
Another of the plan’s fundamental flaws is that the Palestinian Authority is in effect leaderless, rudderless and is bereft of the professional security strength for following up on the deal.
The Bush-Olmert-Abbas plan would have the Israeli military pull their irons out of the fire when it is common knowledge that once inside Gaza, PA security forces will quickly disintegrate and be swallowed up by the far more resolute Hamas. It was therefore proposed in Bush’s talks in Ramallah and Jerusalem that the Israeli Air Force and artillery provide support for the Palestinian takeover of the Gaza Strip, a tactic the US army employs for local forces in Iraq.
For the Israeli Defense Forces, this proposal is totally unacceptable.
For one thing, the Palestinian Authority’s security services are riddled with wanted terrorists.
Furthermore, Abbas and his elite officials are not considered representative by the bulk of the Palestinian people (who in Jan. 2006 voted Hamas into office). Neither are they trusted to execute complicated strategies.
Finally, the Bush-Olmert policy of placing all their bets for a Middle East breakthrough on the inept Mahmoud Abbas condemns their plan to failure.
At the dinner Olmert hosted in honor of the US president Thursday night, several ministers pointed out these hard facts to Bush and told him bluntly that he is gambling all his hopes for peace on a non-existent entity called the Palestinian Authority.
The US president answered: “I agree. That really is a problem.”
Scroll to Mr. Bush Reminds Him of His Historic Role
by Hillel Fendel January 8, '08
(IsraelNN.com) A historic document is planned to be submitted to visiting US President George Bush upon his arrival this week, calling upon him to choose to be remembered like Cyrus, and not like Nebuchadnezzar.
The document, grandly transcribed on parchment and furled into a scroll, is addressed to the the "Leader of the West." It reminds President Bush to "declare to the world" that he will honor G-d's word and act "towards settling the Jewish People throughout their entire Land."
The document was signed by three figures, including the world-renowned Torah scholar, philosopher, social critic and author Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz, once termed by Time magazine as a "once-in-a-millennium scholar." Rabbi Chaim Richman, representing the Temple Mount movements, and Dr. Gadi Eshel of the New Jewish Congress are also signed upon the proclamation.
Rabbi Steinsaltz signing the proclamation
The scroll is likely to be presented to Mr. Bush during his visit this week to Israel by a prominent political and social figure.
Bush Can Choose His Historic Record The impressive document includes a detailed reminder to Bush that he has the chance to help G-d's eternal word be fulfilled, and thus pave the way for world peace, or to take the opposite path.
It begins by saying that Mr. Bush can "make a declaration, as did Cyrus, King of Persia... who, in the year 538 BCE, returned the exiled nations to their lands, recognized the full right of the Jewish people to reestablish their Holy Temple, the “house of prayer for all nations” (Isaiah 56:7), and called upon them to return to their land."
"And thus," the manifesto continues, "if you truly desire peace and benevolence, and you would be counted in the company of the truly righteous, we call upon you to declare to all the world: The Land of Israel was bequeathed to the nation of Israel by the Creator of the world. Neither could I, as a son of my faith, nor the Muslims according to their faith, ever take away even the slightest grain from the Eternal’s gift, which He gave to His people Israel, the eternal people."
The Wrong of a Palestinian State Bush is thus also bidden to declare, "I cannot simultaneously support the establishment of a foreign state for an alien nation in the Land of Israel, and I will not lend my hand to this wrong."
The proclamation also takes a foreboding tone: "Or – Heaven forbid – you can choose the second option – to willfully aid in the destruction, under the guise of peace! You certainly know what the G-d of Israel did to Egypt and Assyria and to all Israel’s enemies from time immemorial: Do you imagine that you will be able to save yourself if you have come to implement a plan that intends to steal the land of “the people that survived the sword” (Jeremiah 31:1), and to cut off those who survived the Holocaust, to rob the land that was given to them by the Creator?"
"All of the peace treaties and initiatives which have been based upon the decisions of the government of Israel, indeed the entire Oslo process, and the ‘Disengagement,’ and the establishment of a terrorist state within the Land of Israel known as ‘Palestine’ – regrettably, all of these agreements are the result of a lack of sufficient faith in the Divine promises that the Lord made to the patriarchs of our nation, and all that is written in the Torah of Israel.
"Understand this well: the nations of the world cannot excuse their actions and their decisions on account of the weakness of Israel and her government. G-d ordained that the role of the nations of the world is to strengthen the nation of Israel. This will benefit all humanity and bring about world peace, as the prophets have foretold.
"Do you imagine you can escape from the struggles in Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Egypt, and Lebanon, by offering up sacrifices of the Jews who are slaughtered daily by their enemies who speak of peace but live by the sword?
Bring Pollard With You!
The document also includes a call for Bush to allow Jonathan Pollard to return home to Israel - either on the same plane to Israel as the President, or by "authoriz[ing] his immediate release while you are yet in Jerusalem, before you return to the United States. This will be a positive step that will build confidence."
The first page of the manifesto to President Bush
The document also provides a list of Biblical verses "for meditation" that "testify to the eternal promise and the inexorable link between the land of Israel and the Jewish people." The entire document is posted for viewing and reading on the TempleInstitute.org site.
Rabbi Dov Stein, secretary of the Sanhedrin, which is headed by Rabbi Steinsaltz, met on Monday morning with a public figure and presented him with the scroll, asking that he please submit it by hand to Mr. Bush during their upcoming meeting.
(IsraelNN.com) This week’s upcoming visit of U.S. President George Bush to Israel has awakened activists on Israel’s political right, many of whom have kept a low profile since the 2005 evacuation from Gush Katif and Northern Samaria settlements.
On Monday afternoon at 2:30, Jerusalem's Paris Square, situated near the official residence of the Prime Minister, was renamed Jonathan Pollard Square by the Municipality of Jerusalem. Activists for Pollard placed large signs on Israeli buses and around the city, calling for President Bush to release his “Prisoner of War."
On Tuesday afternoon at 2:00, the One Jerusalem organization will create a human chain surrounding the Old City, to proclaim that Ehud Olmert does not have a national mandate from the people to divide the Holy City. Later in the day, starting at 6:00 PM, a coalition of activist groups will gather in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa to declare that building in the settlements will continue in defiance of the Olmert/Bush freeze on further expansion. From there, groups will set out to establish new hilltop communities throughout Judea and Samaria.
The coalition has collected donations from many countries and from 35 states in the USA. They have prepared the following poster for their ceremony tomorrow:
Thank you poster from the Coalition to Build the Land of Israel
In addition to the “Bush, Read Your Bible!” poster produced by “Am K’Lavee,” an anonymous poster showing Olmert behind jail bars is being pasted on billboards around the city.
An anonymous poster hung in Jerusalem
The poster which reads, “Not Even Bush Can Save You,” refers to the criminal investigations pending against Olmert, and the claim that President Bush is coming to Israel to give a boost to Olmert’s dismal public image and political instability.
Nevertheless, the Almagor Terror Victims Association has announced a series of protest vigils outside the main locations where President Bush will hold meetings. They are planning to erect a gigantic poster, pictured below which shows President Bush as the founding father of “HAMAStine."
Poster by Almagor Victims of Arab Terror organization
The Almagor organization has also produced a video clip “Hamastine,” which shows America establishing a Hamas terrorist haven in the Land of Israel, to the tune of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
View the HAMAStine video clip above or by clicking here or DOWNLOAD the HAMAStine video clip.
Another Bush protest poster was posted in a several Jerusalem neighborhoods but raised the ire of Jerusalemites who quickly tore it off the billboards. The poster is, however, being circulated over the internet and has been condemned by Israeli and American Jewish groups.
Roundly condemned poster torn off Jerusalem's billboards
Mr. Malcolm Hoenlein, Executive Vice Chairman of the Conference of Major American Jewish Organizations, said that the poster is an "obscene depiction which is not only a violation of the truth, but of every sensibility, and is only counterproductive and insulting." He added, "If you have points to make that can be done intelligently with facts and discussion, do so, but not this kind of blasphemous poster."
Baruch Marzel of the far right Hazit party said that the poster was "in bad taste." but added that it "expresses the sentiments of many Israelis who are appalled that a United States president would lend his hand to a plan to divide the holy city of Jerusalem."
Over ten thousand policemen and security forces will be stationed in Jerusalem during the Presidential visit to keep protestors and any possible security threats far away from US President Bush. Traffic in the city is expected to be paralyzed. All cars parked in the area of the King David Hotel, and along the routes of the Bush motorcade, will be towed away to the outskirts of the city.
RAFAH, Gaza, Jan. 5 (UPI)-- Israel requested U.S. approval to establish military outposts at the Rafah border crossing between the Gaza Strip and Egypt, reports in the Arab media say.
The al-Quds al-Arabi in London reported Saturday that Israeli issued letters to U.S. and European Union officials objecting to Egypt's decision to allow Palestinian refugees to cross the Egyptian border to the Gaza Strip without passing through Israeli checkpoints, Ynetnews said Saturday.
The Israelis also requested U.S. approval to retake the Rafah border crossing and asked that ultimate control over Rafah be placed in the hands of international observers.
Israeli fears militant Hamas members and others potentially harmful to Israeli interests may cross into the region unchecked.
Israel is supposed to be an independent, sovereign country, but here, like in many other cases, the approval of the USA is needed to act.
It is said that the Oslo Peace Process has turned Israel into a dictatorship - Israel's liberal leaders doing what their international peace handlers want without approval of a majority of Israeli citizens. Arial Sharon made a big show of how the US was supporting his withdrawal from Gaza, that was a lie; they didn't really approve it to the extent that they were going to help pay for it. Now Olmert has the story that even Israel's friends say the land of Israel should be divided to form a Palestinian state. Some friend who would demand that Israel relinquish the little strategic depth she has to make room for a neighboring state that will, like Hamas run Gaza, not live side by side in peace with her - as the rhetoric goes.
Jer 8:11 They dress the wound of my people as though it were not serious. "Peace, peace," they say, when there is no peace. 12 Are they ashamed of their loathsome conduct? No, they have no shame at all; they do not even know how to blush. So they will fall among the fallen; they will be brought down when they are punished, says the LORD.
November 5, '07
Sderot: ‘Whoever Put These Stops Up is a Murderer’
(IsraelNN.com) Residents of Sderot expressed anger on Sunday after learning that dozens of special bus stops that were to provide protection from rockets are vulnerable to rocket attacks, and in fact could create an additional danger, as the material used in the bus stops could shatter during a rocket strike and create dangerous shrapnel. Parents Forum head Sasson Sarah said, “Whoever put these stops up is a criminal and a murderer, because young children could have hidden in them expecting security and been killed.”
Sderot Task Force head Alon Davidi said, “It’s not enough that the government fails to fulfill its function and does not order the IDF to begin ground operations in Gaza—now we feel they’ve turned their backs on us in this matter as well.”
Other residents of the city said they were unsurprised that the bus stops would not provide protection from rockets. A rocket had entered a supposedly reinforced community center, they said, and the Homefront Command spent millions of shekels to reinforce a school building, only to discover that the reinforced building was still vulnerable to rocket strikes.
Report: ‘Safe’ Bus Stops Vulnerable to Attack
(IsraelNN.com) According to a report done by Channel 10 News, 51 specially protected bus stops that have been stationed throughout the city of Sderot are vulnerable to rocket attacks.
The bus stops, which are meant to protect residents against terrorist rockets from Gaza, were built with 20-centimeter thick walls, as opposed to the 40-centimeter walls required by the Homefront Command. In addition, experts quoted by the news station said the material used in the bus stops could shatter in case of a direct rocket strike, endangering bystanders.
Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal responded to the report by halting the installment of the special bus stops, saying he could not approve the use of bus stops that do not protect residents against rocket strikes. Moyal said he would hold an urgent meeting on Monday with officials from the Homefront Command, the company that built the bus stops, and other relevant parties.
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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The Hamas terrorist organization found common ground with US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday when its Gaza-based leadership heaped praise on the man who would be Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem.
In a rare peaceful visit to Christian property in the Gaza Strip, the area's Muslim overlords arrived at Gaza City's main Greek Orthodox church to publicly laud Theofilos III for his firm refusal to sell church-owned lands to Israel and his efforts to nullify deals struck between his predecessor and the Jewish state, reported WorldNetDaily.
The Hamas endorsement came just days after Rice warmly greeted and took part in a photo-op with Theofilos during what was described as an emotional visit to Bethlehem.
The American's apparent support for Theofilos came despite Israel's protests over his election as Greek Orthodox patriarch of Jerusalem. The Israeli authorities maintain that Theofilos gained the needed votes over his predecessor, Irineos, by striking a deal with church officials whereby he would work to regain former church lands sold to Israel.
Regional laws require any incoming Greek Orthodox patriarch to gain the approval of Jordan, Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Only Israel has refused to recognize Theofilos.
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Is it possible that Rice''s siding with the terrorist is the cause of all the "wildfires" happening in California? She is messing with "the apple of God''s eye and we are receiving the WRATH from God because of her ignorance in this matter. No, I do not think she has read the Bible!!! Nancy from Texas 10/23/2007 8:24 PM
Ps 83:4 They have said, Come, and let us cut them off from being a nation that the name of Israel may be no more in remembrance. 5 For they have consulted together with one consent: they are confederate against thee: KJV Ps 129: 5 Let them all be confounded and turned back that hate Zion Jim Qualls10/23/2007 3:56 PM
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Prophesy received by Timothy Snodgrass on 10/20/07: :
STAR OF JUDGMENT ABOUT TO DESCEND
I have been traveling in the Philippines for the last three weeks, and on Monday, October 22, I will be returning to the United States. I would appreciate your prayers during the next 30 days while traveling in Texas, North Carolina and California. During the last seven days the enemy has tried to take my life on three separate occasions. Yesterday afternoon, I narrowly escaped a bombing at the Glorietta II Mall in Manila, which left 10 dead and 113 injured in the Philippine capital. The enemy hates intercession. Be forewarned: Any church or ministry planning intercessory conferences or meetings this fall which center on restoring Americaʼs spiritual covering through prayer and repentance can expect major opposition. But do not let opposition from the enemy distract you from being obedient to the Holy Spirit, whereas I believe that literally thousands of lives are now hanging in the balance.
This morning as the sun was rising in Asia, I was interceding on the sands of the Pacific Ocean facing the east, and received a vision. I saw a brilliant star falling upon the United States. The star was an angel of judgment, and he descended without warning. I saw flags across the nation being lowered at half-mast, . because of the severity of the judgment. Until the very moment that star descends, there is still time to intercede for mercy. As world leaders prepare to gather this fall in Annapolis, Maryland, to discuss dividing Jerusalem and the creation of a Palestinian state within Godʼs covenant land of Israel, pray for wisdom and boldness; for the right decisions THese right decisions may not be politically correct or popular, but necessary in order to avert judgment. If the United States continues to pressure Israel to divide Jerusalem and concede covenant territory given as an eternal inheritance to Abraham by God, a great star of judgment will soon descend upon America without warning. It is not wise to join the bandwagon of nations who join together to take counsel against Jerusalem (read the Book of Zechariah).
After meeting with Israeli, Egyptian and PA leaders for the past four days, U.S. Sec'y of State Rice hinted the Mideast summit will be postponed.
18 October 07
US Sec'y of State and PA Chairman in Ramallah
(IsraelNN.com) Four days of shuttle diplomacy between Jerusalem, Ramallah and Cairo has apparently convinced U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that it would be wise to postpone the much publicized upcoming Mideast summit, originally scheduled to be held November 26 in Annapolis.
Rice told reporters after meeting Wednesday with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni that she would “continue to say that the summit will be held in the fall,” but that “there are two months in the fall, November and December.” No new date was given for the conference.
The Secretary of State acknowledged that the obstacles to reaching any form of agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority are daunting, a fact echoed by every leader in the region.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak told Rice at their meeting Tuesday in Cairo that he was willing to back the event. Foreign Minister Ahmed Aboul Gheit warned in a statement a day earlier, however: “Rushing into holding the meeting without an agreement over a substantive and positive document may damage opportunities to achieve a just peace.”
U.S. State Department officials expressed equally pessimistic predictions Monday after Rice had met separately with Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas.
Abbas said bluntly in a news conference Wednesday that the summit would be a waste of time that would be “in no one’s interests” if Israel came unprepared to agree to hand over Judea, Samaria, Gaza and half of Jerusalem, to be established as the capital of a new PA state. He added that he and other PA officials “are not interested in participating in a conference that will not bear fruit.”
Most of the region’s leaders have informed the Bush administration that little is likely to be accomplished at the summit other than more posturing, seeing as the Israeli and PA positions are still poles apart on most issues. Prime Minister Olmert has made numerous concessions and "goodwill gestures" to the PA in order to prop up Abbas’s government in the past few months, with little to show for it. Hundreds of thousands of shekels in tax monies collected on behalf of the PA, withheld after the Hamas terrorist organization took control of the government in 2006, were transferred to the Abbas government months ago as an initial gesture. Despite promises that none of the funds would be used to pay Hamas, money nonetheless found its way to Hamas employees’ pockets.
Relaxation of security measures at IDF checkpoints around the country were met with claims of “not good enough.” The release of hundreds of PA terrorists being held in Israeli jails was met with similar contempt. Amnesty for hundreds more terrorists who were still at large, on condition they signed a document promising not to take up arms and return to their violent ways was also minimized. Many of those who were pardoned did not bother to fulfill their end of the deal and skipped the signatures and the commitment. Several of those have since been caught planning and attempting to carry out more terrorist attacks.
Promises by Abbas to crack down on terrorism emanating from PA-controlled areas were only partially kept: while Abbas’s security forces allegedly did make an effort to reduce terrorism from Fatah-controlled areas in Judea and Samaria, they had lukewarm success
But the commitments made by Abbas were broken repeatedly by Fatah-sponsored terrorists from the Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades organization who were caught attempting to carry out attacks against Israeli civilians.
The lack of Abbas’s ability or willingness to match Israel’s largesse in security risks taken in the hopes of making progress in talks has slowed down the Olmert government’s race toward the negotiation table, a fact that has not gone unnoticed by the U.S. and others.
“I want to stress that the summit is the first point in an ongoing process,” Rice told reporters. “There will be an international conference…but there [also] has to be a day after.”
Public Security Minister Avi Dichter was equally skeptical about what could be accomplished at the summit, saying he had a problem with demands by the U.S. that Israel “show some creativity” in finding a way to reach an agreement with the PA.
Speaking at Tel Aviv University, Dichter asked, “What does that mean? How many Palestinians were murdered because we didn’t vacate outposts, as opposed to how many Israelis were killed because the Palestinians didn’t fulfill their end of the agreements?”
"Before Annapolis, if we go to Annapolis, it is important to give the Authority a boost and doff our hats for the efforts they will make, but we should take care to take off the hat without the head," he said.
PA Talk of Two States, TV Shows Only One
18 October 07
(IsraelNN.com) Palestinian Authority (PA) television this week showed its viewers a flag depicting the map of Israel with a visual display of the PA flag covering the entire country, according to Palestinian Media Watch (PMW). PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas recently stated that a proposed new Arab state would include Judea, Samaria and Gaza, leaving Israel with its 1949 Armistice Line as borders.
The PA also has promised for more than two years to end incitement against Israel, but a recent Fatah faction editorial shows a Muslim kneeling in prayer with an American bomber in the background. He prays, "Allah, scatter them. And turn their wives into widows. And turn their children into orphans."
October 15, '07
Fatah Threatens to Reunite With Hamas
(IsraelNN.com) Senior Fatah terrorists said Monday that Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas could decide to create another unity PA with Hamas. Abbas does not want to join forces with Hamas, they said, but is forced to do so due to his political weakness.
The Fatah leaders blamed Israel for the situation, accusing Israel of weakening Abbas. While Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has released hundreds of terrorist prisoners, pardoned hundreds more, and agreed to allow thousands of foreign Arabs into Judea and Samaria under a “family reunification” program in order to strengthen Abbas, sources in Fatah said the “gestures” were insufficient. They called on Israel to stop requisitioning land around Jerusalem for state use and to halt IDF anti-terrorist operations in Judea and Samaria.
Israel should release most of the 10,000 Palestinian prisoners held by them as part of a plan. I say most because the worst ones, I.e. those with “blood on their hands”, must be kept to make a point, namely, that murderers must be held accountable.
