October 03, 2009

Farewell Marek Edelman

The last living leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising has passed on. I read his memoirs of those days many years ago and still today, they haunt me:

It is a long way to the "Umschlag". The Deportation Point, from which the cars leave, is situated on the very edge of the ghetto, on Stawki Street. The tall walls surrounding it and closely guarded by gendarmes are broken at only one narrow place. Through this entrance the groups of helpless, powerless people are brought in. Everyone holds some papers, working certificates, identification cards. The gendarme at the entrance looks them over briefly. "Rechts"--means life, "links"--means death. Although everyone knows in advance the futility of all arguments, he still tries to show his particular helpfulness to German industry, to his German master, and hopes for the magic little order, "rechts". The gendarme does not even listen. Sometimes he orders the passing people to show him their hands--he chooses all small ones: "rechts"; sometimes he separates blondes: "links"; in the morning he favours short people; in the evening he takes a liking to tall ones. "Links", "links", "links".

The human torrent grows, deepens, floods the square, floods three large three-storey buildings, former schools. More people are assembled here than are necessary to fill the next four days' quota, they are just being brought in as "reserves". People wait four or five days before they are loaded into the railroad cars. People fill every inch of free space, crowd the buildings, bivouac in empty rooms, hallways, on the stairs. Dirty, slimy mud floods the floors. One's foot sinks in human excrement at every step. The odour of sweat and urine sticks in one's throat. There are no panes in the windows, and the nights are cold. Some are dressed only in night-shirts or house-coats.

On the second day hunger begins to twist the stomach in painful spasms, cracked lips long for a drop of water. The times when people were given three loaves of bread are long since gone. Sweating, feverish children lie helplessly in their mothers'arms. People seem to shrink, become smaller, greyer.

All eyes have a wild, crazy, fearful look. People look pale, helpless, desperate. There is a sudden flash of revelation that soon the worst, the incredible, the thing one would not believe to the very last moment is bound to happen. Here, in this crowded square, all the continually nursed illusions collapse, all the brittle hopes that "maybe I may save myself and my dearest ones from total destruction"... collapse. A nightmare settles on one's chest, grips one's throat, shoves one's eyes out of their sockets, opens one's mouth to a soundless cry. An old man imploringly and feverishly hangs on to strangers around him. A helplessly suffering mother presses three children to her heart. One wants to yell, but there is nobody to yell to; to implore, to argue--there is nobody to argue with; one is alone, completely alone in this multitudinous crowd. One can almost feel the ten--nay, hundred, thousand--rifles aimed at one's heart. The figures of the Ukrainians grow to gigantic proportions. And then one does not know of anything any more, does not think about anything, one sits down dully in a corner, right in the mud and dung of the wet floor. The air becomes more and more stuffy, the place becomes more and more crowded, not because of the thousands of bodies and the odour of the rooms, but because of the sudden understanding that all is lost, that nothing can be done, that one must perish.

We parrot "Never again," but for the most part, we have forgotten what that means. This year, the United States of America took a mighty step backwards and now teeters on the abyss of hell. The man we call President counts himself amongst the tyrants and evil dictators of the United Nations who close their eyes to the reign of arab terror perpetuated against Israeli citizens in complete mockery of the UN human rights charter as they declined the complete and total rejection of the Goldstone report. Instead, they choose to support and embrace terrorism and the efforts of those who vow to destroy the State of Israel and murder the six million Jews who live there.

What does "never again" mean? It becomes ever more obvious every day that the meaning of those words has been forgotten and how close the world is to coming full circle once again to closing its eyes to the murder of yet another six million Jews. The plan has been announced, the ways and means are being prepared, and nothing, nothing is being done to prevent it.

In April of 2009, Marek Edelman said “Don’t forget that evil can grow bigger."

I fear that warning has come too late, and no one is listening.

Oh. If I may... one final thought, on the recent exchange of freedom of terrorists for a videotape of a smiling Gilad Shalit praising his treatment and pleading for negotiated freedom from hands of the terrorists of hamas. Bravo Bibi, for cowering and negotiating and kowtowing to terrorists, and giving the terrorists of hamas an opportunity to use Gilad to broadcast their propaganda to the world.

What was it you said Bibi, to the UN?

"Yesterday, the man who calls the Holocaust a lie spoke from this podium," he said. "A mere six decades after the Holocaust, you give legitimacy to a man who denies the murder of six million Jews while promising to wipe out the State of Israel, the State of the Jews. What a disgrace. What a mockery of the charter of the United Nations."

You said these words Bibi, you, who has sat down with, and negotiated with, and shaken the hand of Abu Mazen, who not only denied the Holocaust, but claimed that the milllion or so Jews he grudgingly admitted might have died were really killed by Jewish Zionists. Forgive me for saying so, but, the last time I looked, you still speak of him as your partner in peace while he still promises his people that they will succeed in destroying Israel.

Once you had an opportunity to view that film and confirm that Gilad was in fact alive, you should never have released even a single solitary terrorist from Israeli prison. That was a despicable act of appeasement and accomplished nothing.

Israel has released thousands of terrorists and received nothing but dead bodies in return. And the thousands Israels has released have caused the deaths of hundreds of other innocent Israelis who would likely be alive today but for the foolish and futile actions of the Israeli government.

In 2007, The Almagor Terrorist Victims Association published a report on the results of Israel's release of imprisoned terrorists in prisoner exchanges. At least 30 recent terror attacks were perpetrated by terrorists who were released from Israeli jails. Those 30 attacks perpetrated by those terrorists freed in those prisoner exchanges killed no fewer than 177 innocent citizens, mostly Israeli Jews. These are their faces:

Look at them, each and every one of the people pictured were brutally murdered by palestinian terrorists after those terrorists were released by the Israeli government from Israeli prisons and for what? For stupid, ineffective and meaningless gestures of goodwill or one-sided negotiations with terrorists who want only to kill Jews.

The terrorists will continue to kill Jews no matter what we do and this exchange will surely encourage more kidnappings of more Israeli soldiers. But then, it's true that there would likely be more kidnappings anyway.

I look at those faces, and I want to cry. I watched Gilad on that video, and I want to cry.

But the bottom line, the final fact, the final truth of the matter, this release of the prisoners got Israel only the tape and not the man. Hamas will never, ever release Gilad Shalit and even now they are planning and plotting and dreaming and hoping for the next kidnapping of the next Israeli soldier. That is what each and every prisoner release has gotten for Israel, the promise of more kidnappings, more videos and more threats to Gilad's health and well being.

I've said it before and I will say it again, and again, and again.

There can only be one solution.

First, Israel must immediate institute the death penalty for terrorist acts, and they must make it retroactive to all those who have been convicted of terrorism. Then, they must schedule executions to commence, taking the list of prisoners the palestinians want released the most, and put them at the top of the execution list.

Then, offer as a goodwill gesture for peace to hold executions in abeyance, provided Gilad Shalit is immediately released, alive and well, as he was in the video. If Hamas is not agreeable, or, if something should happen to Gilad along the way, well, then Israel will have no choice but to commence immediate implementation of the death penalty, until Gilad is returned alive and well, or Israel runs out of prisoners.

That way, the end result is a good one, either way.

What is the worst that could happen? Will Israel be condemned by the international community for executing murdering terrorists? Oh. Been there. Done that. Got the t-shirt...

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September 27, 2009

Yadda yadda no more!

from now on, it's shigityshigityshigitydu!

bravo! I found it at the oh-so-wonderful Elder of Zion!

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September 13, 2009

A terrible loss for Israel

The Yeshiva World reports that after hours of rumors, the IDF has lifted a gag order and permits the publication of the sad news that an IAF F-16 fighter plane went down in the Southern Chevron Hills area. The pilot, Lt. Assaf Ramon, was killed in the crash, which occurred near the community of Maale Chever.

Assaf Ramon was the son of Israel’s first astronaut, the late Colonel Ilan Ramon z”l, who was on board the ill-fated NASA STS-107 Columbia mission in 2003.

It took air force search officials about 90 minutes before locating the remains of the fighter jet. Blackhawk choppers were carrying members of the elite 669 rescue unit, hoping to find the pilot alive.

IAF Commander Major-General Ido Nehushtan is with the grief-stricken family, as is former commander Eitan Eliyahu, who was a colleague of Colonel Ilan. Nehushtan has ordered an investigation into the fatal crash to determine the cause.

The young pilot escaped death in a training flight in March, and recently received his pilot’s wings, graduating the training program a number of weeks ago. He was the oldest of four children, and his father, Colonel Ilan Ramon Z”L, was Israel’s first astronaut, who perished along with the crew of the ill-fated Columbia NASA STS-107 Columbia mission in 2003.

A picture taken on January 14, 2004 shows Assaf Ramon, the orphaned son of Israel's first astronaut Colonel Ilan Ramon who died in the crash of the US space shuttle Colombia in 2003, posing next to photographs of his father in Clear Lake City, Texas. Assaf Ramon survived an emergency landing during his air force training, Israeli public television reported on March 25, 2009. Ramon, who is training to follow in his father's footsteps and become a pilot, was guided down by his instructor after an engine failure, the television said, without specifying the date of the incident.

Truly a tragedy.

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September 06, 2009

Gosh but I just love Texans

here's one more reason why:

That's the CUFI Cornerstone Singers. Awesome stuff, especially around 1:35, the originality and Texas joy of life comes shining through. I was bouncing in my chair!

and thanks to The Old Man for finding it! You're right, it is so freakin' cool!

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August 04, 2009

Sigh


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July 14, 2009

La la la...

Hizbullah Weapons Depot Explodes in Lebanon

Lebanese and Israeli sources confirmed Tuesday afternoon that a series of explosions that rocked the border area earlier in the day took place at a Hizbullah terrorist weapons depot.

The storehouse, located near in the Lebanese village of Khirbet Salim, some 20 kilometers from Israel's northern border, was filled with Katyusha rockets, automatic rifles and ammunition.

The Lebanese Army and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) immediately closed off the area and began an investigation into the incident. Journalists were barred from the scene.

A sad lesson for the people of Khirbet Salim, as they bury their dead and tend to the many people injured in this accident, they can reflect upon the end result of what comes from harboring terrorists in your neighborhoods where your children play.

And yes, I'm sure there were deaths and injuries to the people of Khirbet Salim, I'm sure that's why journalists were barred from the scene. And, I'm sure Hezbollah are even now gnashing their teeth that they did not have an current incident with Israel so they could blame the deaths on the evil Zionists. If they could lay the blame on Israel, then we would see the horror, but since they can't, they'll hide it.

Oh well. Allah fubar. So it goes.

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June 07, 2009

Code Name: Opera

In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an "Osiris class" nuclear reactor from France. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor without exposing the Iraqi civilian population to nuclear fallout. After that point, the reactor would be loaded with nuclear fuel.

Israel had learned that Iraq was about to receive a shipment of enriched uranium for its reactor near Baghdad -- enough to build four or five Hiroshima-size bombs, the reactor was 600 miles from Israel.

On June 7, 1981, a squadron of Israeli F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed and heavily damaged the Osirak reactor.

Then Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the attack to occur before the uranium arrived and the reactor went "hot," at which point bombing would have scattered radioactive waste over Baghdad.

Eight Israeli F-16’s took off in the late afternoon from an Israeli air base in the Sinai. Behind them six Israeli F-15’s took off, as well, to provide cover for a very special and important mission. Flying low and in a tight formation, the fighter jets passed through Jordanian and Saudi Arabian airspace undetected.

Finally, the jets enter Iraqi airspace. At 5:35 in the evening, about an hour and a half after the jets took off, they reach their target. Two minutes later Operation Opera comes to a successful conclusion. The Iraqi nuclear reactor, Osirak, has been totally destroyed.

From Lieutenant-Colonel's Ze'ev Raz - (squadron's leader and leader of the attack) briefing :

The route: "We are about to fly a course over Eilat and Aquaba, and then south of Jordan along Saudi-Arabia's border. This route is planned to avoid Arab villages and cities where we might be discovered, so we will fly over desert area until Baghdad. This is not the shortest path to fly, but it would avoid radar detection, so we will remain undetected just until we get over target. On the way to the target we will fly at an altitude of 150 ft. On our way back we will fly at high altitude. We are short on fuel ! Those who get engaged in dogfights won't make it back !"

The bombing technique: "About 20 km east to the reactor we will ignite the afterburner to full power and start a climb. At the peak we will roll over, identify the target and dive at the speed of 600 knots at 35 degrees. Release the bombs at an altitude of 3,500 feet, aiming at the base of the structure, and release flares to avoid hits by ground fire. All pilots will drop their bombs in intervals of 5 seconds - You will drop 16 bombs in total, but a hit of 8 bombs could do the job !"

The weapons : "You will be armed with two 1,000 kg "iron" bombs, equipped with delay fuses, to ensure explosion deep in the reactors core to maximize the damage."

Target defense : "The reactor has its own air defense system, combined of AAA guns and missiles. Target is surrounded by high earth ramparts."

Code-named Opera, the raid was a spectacular success.

While this operation was initially almost universally condemned by the world community, in retrospect this Israeli operation is highly praised by many.

Opera was not Israel's first preemptive act against Iraq's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. In April 1979 unidentified saboteurs blew up reactor parts at a French port, parts awaiting shipment to Iraq. In August 1980 an Egyptian-born nuclear physicist important to Iraq's nuclear program was killed in Paris.

News of the audacious raid did not actually emerge until 24 hours later when Israel made its announcement. Only then did Iraq admit it had happened and express indignation.

One of the pilots involved was Colonel Ilan Ramon who trained as Israel's first astronaut but was killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003. He flew in Number 4 of the first formation and described the flight:

"We fly deep within Iraq, It is all desert around us while we pass another marking point on our route. I try to concentrate on flying my F-16, but from time to time I think about the target we are about to attack, and the responsibility we've got. It's the first time in my life that I really feel responsible for the destiny of a whole nation. The view changes - a blue river in the middle of the desert. We have been here 2500 years ago... I see buildings and a deserted airfield. Somebody calls over the radio : "Watch out for AAA fire !" and the sky gets filled with flashes of exploding rounds. I light the afterburner and pull up. Just in front of my eyes I see the earth ramparts and behind it - you can't miss - the silver dome of the reactor...

"Eshkol 8" sounds the radio, "Everybody Charlie!" - Charlie was the code name meaning all pilots have dropped their bombs.

It was amazing - I managed to see how the bombs of the pilots in front of me hit the target and the dome collapsed into the structure ! The hits were excellent, and now we fly at high altitude back to our base. I hope they didn't start a chase, to run us out of fuel...

We cross the Arava and we are back in Israel. The IAF commander calls on the radio, and says: "All you have to do now is land"...

Lest we forget, against all odds, on her own and on her own initiative, with complete secrecy and complete success, Israel removed a grave threat to her existence. And in doing so, Israel also removed a threat that endangered the entire free world.

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June 05, 2009

Just words?

In his Cairo speech, immediately after talking about the Holocaust, Obama said that "on the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."

"Obama shockingly equated the destruction of European Jewry to the suffering Arabs brought upon themselves when they declared war on the nascent state of Israel," National Union MK Arye Eldad said. "If he doesn't understand the difference, perhaps he will when he visits the Buchenwald concentration camp [on Friday]. And if he still won't get it then, the Muslims will teach him a painful lesson that his predecessor learned on September 11."

Diaspora Affairs and Public Relations Minister Yuli Edelstein (Likud) blamed Obama's comparison between the Holocaust and the Palestinians' plight on previous Israeli governments for accepting the Palestinian narrative. He singled out Kadima leader Tzipi Livni, who he said emphasized Palestinian interests over Israel's as foreign minister.

Eldad's National Union colleague, MK Michael Ben-Ari, compared Obama to Pharoah and said that just as the Jewish people overcame one, the Jewish state would overcome the other.

Likud MK Danny Dannon wrote a letter to members of Congress criticizing Obama for his "new and disturbing trend of intensifying pressure on Israel," and asking them to join him in highlighting the dangers of Obama's policies.

While Netanyahu asked his ministers not to attack Obama after the speech, some refused to remain silent.

"Obama ignored the fact that the Palestinians have not abandoned terror," Habayit Hayehudi chairman Daniel Herschkowitz said during a tour of settlements south of Hebron. "The government of Israel is not America's lackey. The relations with the Americans are based on friendship and not submission, and therefore Israel must tell Obama that stopping natural growth in the settlements is a red line."

and... The citizens committees of Judea and Samaria refused to remain silent as well:

"... Hussein Obama chose to adopt the lying versions of the Arabs, which were always stated persistently and brazenly, over the Jewish truth, which is stated in a weak and stuttering voice," the settlers said in a statement.

It was time for Netanyahu to join the ranks of Menachem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir, "arise as a proud Jewish leader and declare that he rejects with repugnance the rewritten history that Obama attempted to dictate today," they said.

G-d help us. There can be no doubt as to the intentions of this president.

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May 24, 2009

Camping it up with the IDF

This is a blast from the past, a 1962 documentary on the Women of the World featuring the Women of the IDF... stick with it for a few minutes, you won't be sorry...

An amazing bit of film, the slight mocking tone of the commentator showed that he found the thoughts that women, especially good looking young women, that they might possibly be soldiers, and might possibly contribute to the protection of a nation, well, his attitutde and opinions and prejudices come through loud and clear. But these brave women, now in their 60s, served with courage and honor, they were brave and true, and yes, they were Jews, they were women, they were soldiers and they helped protect a nation.

Hat tip to IDF Soldier and blogger Double Tapper, who always has something good.

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May 23, 2009

Trial Balloon?

Much ado about nothing seems to pretty much sum up last week's meeting between the 0bamamessiah and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. Neither one gave in to the other, nothing was resolved or even agreed upon, and Bibi went home without any DVDs or even an iPod. No fuss no bother, no real news bites, at least, on this side of the world.

However, once Bibi arrived home, things got a little interesting, that is, if you were paying attention. I was, after all, it was a landmark anniversay for Israel last week, Yom Yerushalayim, Jerusalem Day, the celebration of the Liberation of Jerusalem from the Jordanians in 1967 in the Six Day War. And Bibi showed up at Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva in Jerusalem.

Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva is the Yeshiva where an arab scum murdered eight young yeshiva students last year in a brutal terrorist attack that Israel's "Partners in Peace," the palestinians, celebrated in the streets and the rest of the world refused to condemn. But I digress.

The headline you didn't see in the American newspapers:

Prime Minister Netanyahu declared, "The flag that flies over the Kotel is the Israeli flag... Our holy places, the Temple Mount -- will remain under Israeli sovereignty forever.”

Between 1949 and 1967, the religious sites in the City, as well as all of Judea and Samaria, had been under the control of Jordan, which forbid entry of Jews to the Western Wall (Kotel) and other holy places, as well as barring Christians from churches. Israel immediately opened all holy sites to all religions after the entire city was re-united in 1967, returning the Old City to Israeli sovereignty after nearly 2,000 years.

That says so much, and yet so little.

It was a victory against all odds. The moment is preserved for eternity on this old clip, the soldiers and their commanders are in awe of their accomplishment. Watch as soldiers announce that they are in the Old City. Their CO signals back “Mazal Tov, Mazal Tov!” “The Temple Mount is in our hands.” “All honor to you” is the reply. Gen. Mordechai Gur's paratroopers raise the Israeli flag, and sing the Hatikvah, the national anthem. Jewish soldiers weep as they touch the Western Wall. Chief Rabbi Shlomo Goren carries a Torah into the Old City. General Dayan and his staff arrive. The shofar is blown signaling victory in battle and the joy in, once again, having access to holy Jewish land. (thanks to Robert J. Avrech at Seraphic Secret for the translation)

All of Jerusalem is now united and it will stay united. The Flag that flies over the Kotel is the Israeli Flag.

If you know anything about the history of Jerusalem, you know that before Israel took control of the Old City, the arabs had no interest in it whatsoever. The only Arab head of state to visit Jerusalem was King Abdullah of Jordan. He did so in 1951 and during that visit and because of that visit, Abdullah was assassinated on the steps of the Al Aqsa Mosque by an Arab who accused him of making peace with Israel.

Until Israel united Jerusalem, the arabs had in interest in it, none at all.

Of course, the American Media is not going to tell us that 0bamamessiah had the arrogance to tell Israel to turn the Kotel over to the United Nations, an entity run by thugs and dictators whose purpose seems to be first the destruction of the State of Israel, and then the destruction of America. They might have told us, if only Israel had bowed to 0bamessiah's demand, but Bibi declined. I wonder what else the media is not telling us.

They tell us seventy-five percent of the Jewish vote went to this man, okay then. I find it somewhat amusing that hardly anyone I know will admit to voting for him, so those that did are now deeply ashamed and nearly all of the 0bama bumper stickers have disappeared, I hardly see any on the road these days.

Can't say that I blame them. If I had voted for him, I'd be ashamed too.

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May 10, 2009

Defiance


DEFIANCE - THE COMPLETE MOVIE - FULL-LENGTH (runtime - 2 hours and 16 minutes) - Four Jewish brothers living in Nazi occupied Poland escape into the forest where they join up with Russian resistance fighters in battling the Nazis. Throughout the war they built a village in the forest and saved the lives of more then 1200 other Jews. Based on a true story.

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April 20, 2009

Today's Zionist Conspiracy

is none other than.... the Somali Pirates of the Red Sea!

Analysts are openly accusing Israel of sponsoring piracy off Somalia waters with the aim of transforming Red Sea into a Jewish lake. The immediate objective of USA, Israel and European countries is to prevent the inflow of arms to Islamist Al-Shabab that is on the verge of snatching power in Somalia and to steal Arab oil.

Of course the only "analyst" I could find openly making this ridiculous accusation is Asif Haroon Raja, the writer of this article titled "Rise of Islamists, and Sea-Piracy in Somalia." He is obviously an adherent to the "baffle them with bullshit" style of writing as it is used liberally throughout the article, but I found the concept of turning the Red Sea into a "Jewish Lake" very funny. Later, he manages to turn around and justify Israel's takeover quite neatly and nicely, leaving me to wonder if perhaps he might be Jewish.

I know this, Jewish or not, when it comes to pirates, the guy is almost as smart as Susie Madrak of Crooks and Liars, she would have us believe that "in the big picture, the Somali pirates are acting in self-defense."


Jewish Pirate Struts His Stuff on "Jewish Lake"

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April 13, 2009

They tried. Oh yes, they tried.

Jameel at The Muqata reports...

Hamas successfully smuggled anti-aircraft Stinger missiles into Gaza, and they were given the order by Hamas commanders to shoot down IAF Apache helicopters during the past IDF "Cast Lead" offensive.

But it didn't work out.

The US manufactured Stinger anti-aircraft rockets have built in sensors that prevent firing upon friendly aircraft...Apache helicopters included.

"We were disappointed by them, and they were found to have been useless," a Hamas source said.

la la la....

There's more over at The Muqata.

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March 16, 2009

When enough is enough


Terror victims' relatives vow revenge

Terror victims' relatives vow revenge

Brothers who lost family in Jerusalem attack: We'll pursue terrorists freed in swap deal
Tzvika Brot Published: 03.16.09, 17:22 / Israel News

The relatives of some Israeli terror victims are preparing for the "day after" a possible Shalit prisoner swap, in an effort to locate and target terrorists freed as part of the deal, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Monday.

The new organization has already started to raise funds and held several meetings in order to formulate its "eye for an eye" policy. The initiative is being led by Attorney Meir Schijveschuurder and his brother Shvuel, who lost their parents and three siblings in the suicide bombing at the Sbarro pizza parlor in Jerusalem in 2001.

The brothers recently started to bring together relatives of terror victims and initiated contacts with donors in Israel and abroad. The new organization aims to prepare an "intelligence dossier" on terrorists with blood on their hands to be released in future swaps and pursue them worldwide.

"We have a file about most of the murderers, including information about their families," Meir Schijveschuurder said "The parents of one of the terrorists involved in the Sbarro attack, for example, own a pizza parlor in Jenin. We have their residential address."

"In addition, there is the female terrorist who organized the terror attack, and she will be the first one for me," he said. "She kept on smiling during the trial, and we shall erase her smile. I am mentally and physically ready to send her to the next world. As to the ones who will remain in Palestinian Authority areas, we will implement against them the customary law there: Eye for an eye."

Schijveschuurder made it clear that he has no qualms with the Israeli government, but added that "the moment it decided to stop punishing them, we will do it as a last result. It would be very worthwhile for those killers to remain in Israeli prisons, with all the benefits and perks. Out of jail they won't be able to sleep well at night. We will pursue them and get to all of them.

Meanwhile, victims' relatives made it clear that they will deal with every terrorist in line with the laws prevalent in his or her place of residence. For example, terrorists located in Germany or Holland will be subjected to lawsuits.

"We need about $5 million in order to hire teams and complete the mission, and we already have a part of this sum," one of the organizers said.

All this is so unnecessary. If Israel would just sentence these terrorists to death when they are convicted of terrorism, there would be no more demands to let them go.

The Knesset should meet, today, and declare into law the death penalty for acts of terrorism in Israel, retroactive for fifty years and then, vote to hold the implementation of executions of convicted terrorists in abeyance in exchange for the immediate release of Gilad Shalit. Give the arabs 24 hours to do so, and, if they fail to do so, then, immediately begin putting the monsters Israel holds in prisons to death until they do. And if they do, well. Then, announce that the executions will continue unless and until all of Israel's missing soldiers are returned, Ron Arad, Zachary Baumel, Tzvi Feldman, Yehuda Katz, Guy Hever.

That won't happen. Israel will continue to release monsters like Samir Kuntar, and it will soon release the monster Marwan Bin Khatib Barghouti. Hundreds of terrorists released from prison every few months, bombs falling with no repurcussions, Jewish blood spilled in the streets time and time again. I don't blame Israeli citizens and the families of victims for saying enough!

There are those who will call what is being proposed here revenge. Fine. Call it revenge if you like. I might call it delayed justice but to me that's a little trite, because I know what happens when Israel opens the doors of its prisons and releases terrorists to kill again. I call it protecting the innocent and saving lives.

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons, swapped for meaningless promises of peace, one-sided gestures of goodwill, in other words, for nothing. and...

Let us not forget Yohai Lifshitz, 18, from Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, from Shilo; Yonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, from Kohav Hashahar, Neria Cohen, 15, also from the capital, Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, from Neve Daniel, Avraham David Moses, 16, from Efrat, Roee Roth, 18, from Elkana and Doron Meherete, 26, from Ashdod. They are the 8 young Yeshiva students brutally murdered in Jerusalem by Alaa Abu Dheim, who was arrested by Israeli authorities four months prior to the murders and then released two months later.

The innocent men, women and children you see pictured above were all brutally murdered by heartless animals, monsters with no morals, no empathy, no compassion, no soul, no dreams, no hopes, no goals, other than to bring death and destruction to everything and anything within reach, raised from the cradle to hate and murder Jews, to cause pain, and sorrow, to cause havoc, to hurt and to maim and to kill.

These monsters should have been put to death the first time they were caught killing innocent people, they should have been stopped before they had a chance to kill again. Setting them free to allow them to kill again is a crime against humanity. Setting them free to do murder is surely an act as evil as the murder they themselves commit. Those responsible for setting them free to do murder are as guilty as the murderers themselves.

It would be a mitzvah to help put a stop to the reign of terror perpetuated by the cycle of catch and release the Israeli government is playing with palestinian prisoners and Jewish lives. I've left a message with the local One Family Fund office to see if that's where I can send a donation to help.

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February 16, 2009

Sometimes a rumor is just a rumor

You know that rumor that's going around, the one I talked about yesterday?

The rumor that Israel's Minister of Defense said during his address at the Herzliya Conference that Obama was going to lift the Bush sanctions on Iran:

The United States has abandoned its policy of sanctioning companies that aid Iran's nuclear and missile program, they said.

The officials said the new Obama administration of has decided to end sanctions against Iranian government agencies or companies that aid Teheran's missile and nuclear program. The officials said Israel has been informed of the new U.S. policy.

"We were told that sanctions do not help the new U.S. policy of dialogue with Iran," an official said.

Barak confirmed the new U.S. policy. In an address to the Herzliya Conference on Feb. 3, Barak said Washington did not say whether it would resume sanctions against Iran.

The rumor that was published in that pay per view article at Geostrategy-Direct, an open source intelligence (OSINT) newsletter that is supposed to have a good track record?

Well, I had doubts, big time and it bugged me all day. So, I did a bit of investigation and now, I'm about ready to call bullshit on this one.

You see, I can tell you right now that Geostrategy-Direct most certainly did not get that information from Ehud Barak's address at the 2009 Herzliya Conference and I can tell you that with certainty because I just listened to Barak's entire presentation and Barak most certainly did not say anything about Obama lifting sanctions against Iran.

Absolutely, positively not. And if you have any doubts, you can listen to it yourself.

Now, in all fairness, I haven't seen the Geostrategy-Direct article, only the claims that say the article is based on Ehud Barak's address at the Herziya Conference. Now that we know Ehud Barak did not speak those words during his presentation at the Conference, the question is, if he really did say those words, when did he say them and why is there no confirmation of this anywhere by anyone.

After listening to what Ehud Barak did say about Obama in his presentation, I don't think he said what Geostrategy-Direct claims he said. If you listen to the presentation, you'll see what I mean.

Here's a funny thing... after thinking about it all day, I wouldn't have been surprised to find that it was true and now I almost expect that Obama will lift those sanctions, because that's the kind of man he is. But I don't think Ehud Barak expects it for the same reason, because that's the kind of man he is.

UPDATE:

I'd like to extend a warm welcome to my visitors from the NY Times:

Feel free to look around. Who knows... ya might learn something...

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February 15, 2009

Today's Really Scary Rumor

Found at Gateway Pundit via Israel Matzav, the word comes via Tel Aviv where Israel's Defense Minister Ehud Barak reports that United States President Barack Hussein Obama has decided to lift all sanctions against Iran. Supposedly, it's based on an address given by outgoing Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak at the Herzliya conference last week:

The United States has abandoned its policy of sanctioning companies that aid Iran's nuclear and missile program, they said.

The officials said the new Obama administration of has decided to end sanctions against Iranian government agencies or companies that aid Teheran's missile and nuclear program. The officials said Israel has been informed of the new U.S. policy.

"We were told that sanctions do not help the new U.S. policy of dialogue with Iran," an official said.

[Israeli Defense Minister Ehud] Barak confirmed the new U.S. policy. In an address to the Herzliya Conference on Feb. 3, Barak said Washington did not say whether it would resume sanctions against Iran.

"We must arrive at a strategic understanding with the United States over Iran's military nuclear program and ensure that even if at this time they opt for the diplomatic option, it will only last a short time before harsh and necessary sanctions are imposed," Barak said.

Obama decided to end sanctions against Iran after determining that the U.S. measures had failed to block Teheran's missile or nuclear weapons program, officials said. Under the administration of former President George Bush, the United States accelerated sanctions on Iran in 2008.

In his address, the Israeli defense minister indicated that Obama had forged an entirely new approach toward Iran. He said the Israeli government has sought a briefing from the new U.S. administration.

A U.S. defense source said the White House would no longer enforce sanctions imposed by the Bush administration. The source said the decision has already been relayed to Iran.

"The administration has abandoned sanctions entirely," the U.S. source said. "It is a completely new ballgame."

I refuse to believe this. It cannot be true.

G-d help us if it is.

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February 01, 2009

Here we go again

Those murderous palestinians just can't control their desire to kill Jews, no matter what the consequences might be.

At least 15 Kassam rockets and mortar shells struck Israel on Sunday. One rocket landed between two kindergartens in the Eshkol region, one struck Sderot, two others hit open areas nearby and a fourth hit the Sdot Negev region.

They've shot rocket after mortar after rocket since the ceasefire, but now, it appears there will be consequences...

Palestinians in Khan Yunis and Rafah said on Sunday that the IDF had sent them messages by phone telling them that they should evacuate their houses "immediately," Channel 10 reported.

The announcement comes just hours after two soldiers and a civilian were lightly wounded by shrapnel from mortar shells which were fired from the Gaza Strip into the Sha'ar Hanegev region of the western Negev.

and...

"Everybody who is near any place used for terror or weapon storage facility or tunnels, should evacuate the area immediately," the voice message warned, according to witnesses. Similar warnings have preceded Israeli attacks, but not in all cases.

Let's hope they mean it this time, because the murderous bastards won't stop, and it's not just Hamas attacking, Fatah's military wing, the Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, took responsibility for one of the rocket attacks.

Olmert is promising a "disproportionate" response. So. Enough is enough. Shut up and respond already!

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January 25, 2009

And now.... the news

In case you're wondering what's happening out there in the world tonight, here it is, according to CNN:

Wow! Benjamin Button, a prison fight in Florida, an arson investigation, Obama cashing in on some political capital, and the market bracing for some "awful news." Oh, and an exclusive tribute to Obama, something about 'Lipstick Jungle' thefts, they got an important article about what tots want Obama to accomplish, some crap about Michelle Obama and the great fashion debate, more crap about the Year of the Ox and an anti-Bush article titled "No love for Bush," along with an oh-so-important blurb about why women should feel good naked. That's the news according to CNN tonight.

So. If you want to know what's happening, forget about CNN. There's important stuff going on out there and if you want to know about it, you have to look elsewhere.

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January 21, 2009

Hope and Change Comes to Gaza

The uber poor and desperate people of Gaza don't have any gas or food or diapers or milk because Hamas stole what's been donated to them so they could sell it and make money to buy more weapons.

Okay, so they don't have gas or food or diapers or even houses anymore, but don't feel too bad. Iran promised to send more rockets and hey, just look at the obama bling they can use to drink their morning cup of coffee out of, if only the evil Hamas Overlords Zionist Oppressors would allow them to have a morning cup of coffee:

Gaza Obama Mugs

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what do you suppose that picture says? I know, so how about if I just give ya a little hint:

"We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections," Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' top political adviser in the Gaza Strip, said in an exclusive interview with World Net Daily and with the John Batchelor Show on WABC Radio in New York.

He saw Obama's comments about Hamas as political posturing that was understandable to lull supporters of Israel before the election.

"I understand American politics and this is the season for elections and everybody tries to sound like he's a friend of the Israelis," he said. All that would change if Obama would get elected. "I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse....

Hang on people. Hopey Changey is coming right up, not just here, but everywhere, even in Gaza.

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January 18, 2009

This is Fort Lauderdale

on January 15, 2009.

and once again, these are the people in my neighborhood, shouting "Go Go Hitler, he should have finished you off."

Yes, these are my neighbors, essentially calling for the killing of Jews on the streets of America. I can't dismiss this, no, I can't, so don't ask me to. Because when they call for the killing of Jews, they're talking about me, that's right, they're talking about killing me, my family, my loved ones, my people. No, I can't dismiss it, because one of those bastards looked mighty familiar, but I'm just not sure from where.

You know, I always say I live in paradise. Beautiful sunny South Florida. Sigh. I guess I can't say that anymore, because it looks like paradise is well on its way to becoming just another moslem shithole.

It might be time to move but where do I go?

P.S. before I forget, special thanks go to my friend Joe Kaufman of Americans Against Hate for taking the video, and sending it to me. AAH does good things. Support them if you can.

Posted by LindaSoG at 04:08 PM | Comments (10)

Today's Islamotard

managed to kill himself, without killing anyone else, and therefore will likely miss on his hoped for 72:

(IsraelNN.com) A Palestinian Authority Arab teenager hurled heavy stones at Israeli-owned vehicles along a Samaria highway last Tuesday evening. He managed to hit one car, which was driven by a resident of the nearby town of Emmanuel.

Fearing further attacks, the driver fired a single shot in the air to frighten away the stone-thrower. He then contacted local security officers to report both the attack and his own response.

A short time later, Israeli paramedics received a report of an Arab teen found unconscious and badly wounded next to a highway. The teen suffered a serious head injury that appeared to be a bullet wound. Medical personnel rushed to the scene but were unable to save the young Arab, who died a short time later.

Police originally believed that the resident of Emmanuel who reported firing in the air had in fact fired at his attacker, killing him. The man was arrested and questioned. However, an initial forensic report showed that the attacker had not been killed by a bullet, and the detainee was released.

A final forensic report, released over the weekend, showed that the attacker was killed when a stone he threw hit the car driven by the man from Emmanuel. The stone hit the car's tire and bounced back at high speed, hitting the attacker and leaving him with a fatal head injury.

Too bad about the virgins and all that, but hey, his parents will be proud, why not? His name will still be added to the martyr registry, the number of innocent palestinians slaughtered by the evil Zionists will be increased by one, and young palestinian children will sing his praises as a shahid and vow to avenge his death with their own.

Of course, it is a sweet bit of irony that the rock he threw at a Jew caused his death. Do you suppose he yelled Allah fubar before he threw that rock? D'oh.

מיתה בידי שמיים.

Posted by LindaSoG at 11:26 AM | Comments (4)

Once again.

We cease and they fire.

I picked the contents of the following paragraph out of the very excellent live reporting at The Muqata:

A mere nineteen minutes into the ceasefire Hamas attempted to launch rockets into Israel, forcing the IAF to hit a rocket launcher in Northern Gaza and a little before 8:00 am, Reshet Bet reported helicopter attacks in Gaza and residents of Sderot reported hearing heavy fire. A minute or two after noon, rockets fell on a chicken coop in Kiryat Melachi and one landed in the Kiryat Gat area. A little before 1:00, Mortar rockets were fired from Gaza at IDF Erez checkpoint, and sirens were heard in Ashkelon, no injures in that rocket attack. Two more rockets fell in the Western Negev region, bringing the ceasefire total for the day up to 12, so far. And then, a Grad rocket hit a house in Ashdod and 1 person was wounded from shrapnel. Sadly, the sirens had a malfunction.

As they have in each and every break in firing that Israel has allowed, Hamas has used the opportunity to fire at will on Israeli citizens, and this ceasefire will be no different. But still, watch and see, if Israel takes any action to stop the rocket fire on its citizens, all we will hear on the news is how the evil Zionists refuse to abide by the ceasefire.

Meanwhile... The Muqata also tells us that 03FM Israeli Radio is reporting that IDF soldiers left messages in Hebrew in Gaza City on the walls of buildings: "Gilad, We were here. [looking for you]."

My eyes burned when I read those words and I had to stand up and walk away from the desk for a minute or two. If only Gilad could see those words or even know they exist.

I think of Gilad Shalit and I wonder at his thoughts throughout these days, as he heard the bombs falling and the shouts and the screams and the pounding of footsteps. Somehow, you just know he waited and hoped and prayed for the miracle of a rescue that did not come.

And today, Gilad Shalit sits in silence once again, hearing only the lies of the terrorists who have held him for 936 days, abandoned once again by those who claim to lead his country, abandoned by his government, and by the international community that continues to side time and time again with the terrorists who hold him against international law and against all common decency.

BTW... Joe Settler's excellent Who rules in palestine should be required reading on the subject. Don't miss it.

and... Save Gaza by Destroying the Heart of Terror: by Natan Sharansky. Don't miss it.

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January 15, 2009

Hey! I'm still here!

I've been AWOL, I know, and I'm sorry. If you'll allow me to give you short explanation, I got a little... distracted.

I was chatting with a friend and we wanted to do something for the IDF, something personal. So, I wrote a firend in Israel and asked her if she could put us together with a unit we could help. Well, turned out she could, in fact, she put me with a unit that had just suffered through a loss, and without going into any great detail, it was an especially difficult loss. So besides just sending them some supplies, which we'll talk about in a bit, I wanted to do something else, something a little more personal, so I asked, well, what if I got some kids to draw them some pictures?

That sounded good all around, so I asked a couple of JCCs and a Temple if the kiddies would draw some pictures for the IDF, pictures I could send to Israel to cheer up a unit I knew of that could use a little cheering up. And what I got, well, I got stuff like this...

It about knocked me over.

I was talking to my friend in Israel, telling her how very awesome these drawing are, and you know, she lives in the North so we decided I would mail them to another friend in the South, so we could get them to the soldiers that much faster. "Oh but then I won't get to see them," she said. And me, being me, said, "well, why don't I scan them for you?" never mind that I don't own a scanner. sheesh. Me and my big mouth.

And so, that night, I started to photograph them. One at a time, I was up until oh-dark-thirty, taking picture after picture. And at some point or another, I must have been delirous because I began to think about posting them on the internet. I thought, if I did, we could send the link to other IDF soldiers and they would also be able to see them, and other people would see them too and be inspired by the love and caring that these children have for these soldiers fighting for Israel. There's so much negativity on the news and in the media. Heck, the whole darn world should see them. I fell asleep thinking that, and I woke up thinking the same thing.

So. I did it. I put them on the internet.

So that's what I've been doing. I guess I'll be doing it for a while, as I have more pictures and I'm expecting more to come in. But, now that's all set up, it won't be an every day thing and I can get back to normal. Thanks for your patience and your indulgence once again.

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January 06, 2009

Pssst...

Got a minute?

Here's a wonderful opportunity from Chabad:

It's time to show them that we care. That we are in awe of their heroism and brimming with admiration for their courage. That all of us across the world are hoping, praying, learning and doing extra good deeds for their safety.

Write your thoughts to an IDF soldier, or an Israeli living in an area where rockets are falling. We will hand-deliver your words of encouragement, and if you choose, your picture as well.

Be there with them, hand in hand, providing even more strength and courage.

They are also including your email address with your message, you might hear back from whoever receives your message. I've more than done a few myself already.

and hey... spread that link around, 'kay?

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January 05, 2009

Home Sweet Home

in Gaza:

I guess I just didn't realize that innocent peace loving people always keep rockets and explosives hidden in secret compartments in the bathroom, and that doing such a thing is not only perfectly acceptable but in reality, it's just an indication of a how peaceful a person truly is. Silly me!

You have to admit though, it does have somewhat of a negative impact on property values.

Oh well.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:35 PM | Comments (1)

January 03, 2009

It has begun

In case you have not yet heard, about 8:15 p.m. Israel time, the IDF Ground Offensive into Gaza has commenced. Please send a prayer and good wishes to the Israel Defense Forces for much success and safety.

Prayer for the Welfare of Soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces:

May He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, bless the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces who keep guard over our country and cities of our Lord from the border with Lebanon to the Egyptian desert and from the Mediterranean Sea to the approach to the Arava, be they on land, air or sea.

May the Almighty deliver us our enemies who arise against us, may the Holy One, blessed be He, preserve them and save them from all sorrow and peril, from danger and ill.

May He send blessing and success in all their endeavors, may He deliver to them those who hate us and crown them with salvation and victory, so that the saying may be fulfilled through them, "For the Lord, your God, who walks with you and to fight your enemies for you and to save you", and let us say, Amen.

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January 02, 2009

Introducing...

the one and only




and... yes, The Spokesperson is Blogging!

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January 01, 2009

This is America

Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Eighteen miles from my home. and yeah, I've been there, in fact, I used to work right around the corner.

Right here in beautiful Sunny South Florida, a young moslem woman, joined by three hundred other moslem and various American leftists, "peace activists," and obvious obama supporters, screams in the street for the mass murder of Jewish people, crying out for ovens, for Jews to be put into ovens, for Jewish people to be nuked, to be killed.

Make no mistake, that would be me she is talking about killing. She is calling out on the streets of South Florida for me to be killed, she is calling out on the streets of America to put me to death, to put my family to death, to put me and my family into an oven. There she stands, surrounded by several hundred others, all of them like minded, all of them wanting the same thing, for people to rise up, to kill the Jews, to put the Jews into an oven, to kill me and to kill my family. Such is the "beauty" of islam.

This woman is calling for my death. She is my neighbor, I could pass her on the street tomorrow or the next day or next week. She could be the woman next in line at the grocery store, or in the car behind me on the way to work, she could be at the lunch counter, or the dry cleaners, or the drug store, or the gas station, or anywhere, and she wants to kill me.

Good thing I'm armed, huh?

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:19 PM | Comments (11)

Surprise Surprise Surprise


No, really. How much fun is that?

Posted by LindaSoG at 04:10 PM | Comments (3)

Now that's what I call propaganda

After years and years of rockets raining down on civilians in Israeli towns bordering Hamas controlled Gaza Strip, after years and years of Hamas bragging each time one of those rockets manages to do damage and Hamas celebrations when they manage to take a life and after years and years of continued threats of additional rockets to be shot into Israel from Hamas leadership, we get this...

Don't bother rubbing your eyes, you read that right. Hamas leadership is now attempting to claim that it was Israel that has ordered collaberators inside Gaza to shoot rockets into Israel in order to have an excuse to attack innocent Hamas and to kill innocent Palestinians who only wanted to keep the truce with Israel and have peace in the Middle East.

SIEGEL: But, wasn't the response of firing rockets into Israel…

Mr. YUSUF: There is no - actually, when we…

SIEGEL: Wasn't that guaranteed to bring on this retaliation by the Israelis?

Mr. YUSUF: No. No. This has nothing to do with firing rockets because there is no rockets fired. There are collaborators, sometimes they fire based on the Israeli asking them maybe to fire some of these home-made projectiles. They know that Hamas did their best to protect the border and not to let anybody firing rockets.

SIEGEL: But you're saying that when rockets have been fired out of Gaza, you're saying that those are being fired by Israeli collaborators whom the Israelis are arranging for them to do that, so that…

Mr. YUSUF: Actually, we all - let me try me to check if there is anybody actually - we check with those political and militant group who are really showing their commitment. And when we check, well, they - all them denied any of them been firing rockets. So, who been firing these rockets? We don't have an explanation except from those Israeli collaborators. So, we told them, we would like to keep this cease-fire and keep the - stop their aggression and also opening the gate. Hamas is willing to keep the cease-fire, and we are willing to extend it to another six months, but we need a commitment from the Israeli side.

Unfortunately, all the time they deceive the world community by claiming many things, and unfortunately, we are the people who really suffering, and this air strike they targeting everything, universities, mosques, schools, civilian home, residential areas, and also all the governmental building, which has nothing to do with these firing rockets as they keep claiming.

SIEGEL: The United Nations reported that, out of more than 300 Palestinian deaths, there were a little bit over 50 civilians. Does that mean that many Hamas gunmen and many Hamas officials have been killed in these Israeli strikes?

Mr. YUSUF: There are many people, actually, from the police force, because they targeting all the police station, which has nothing to do with all what they claim the firing rockets or anything of this. This is the police force who tried to keep the state of security, enforcing the state of law. And this kind of aggression is against international law. It is a crime against humanity.

I just can't stand that my tax dollars goes to support NPR and they use it to promote terrorist propaganda like this. It horrifies me to know that somewhere out there, there are idiots sitting at their kitchen table, fermenting the kind of hatred in their hearts for Jews that prompts them to go out into the streets of America and burn down synagogues, paint swastikas on Yeshivas and beat innocent Jewish people in the streets.

Just the other day, an elderly woman on Miami Beach first admired the Star of David I wear on a chain around my neck and then kindly suggested that I put it under my shirt, because perhaps it is not a such good time to be wearing it. I told her I understood how she felt, and not to worry, I was just sorry it was so small. She reminded me of my Grandmother, who worried about such things back in Brooklyn when I was growing up.

Thanks to media outlets like the NPR, who are more than happy to promote terrorist propaganda and to present Israel in the worst possible way, there is violence against Jews in America, and ignorant idiots stand side by side in support of terrorists and promote genocide and murder in the streets of America.

It sounds outrageous, yes, I know, but if you read arabic, you would see for yourself the truth in that statement, and now, thanks to a post found At the back of the hill, you can see the truth in that statement:

You would see your fellow Americans, you would see your friends, and your neighbors standing with people holding signs, perhaps even holding signs themselves, signs that say things like "Palestine will be free, from the river to the sea" - which frankly states the intent to destroy the Jewish state and ethnically cleanse the land of Jews. That my friends, is genocide. If that wasn't bad enough well, you might see them with signs that say "Falastin balad'na w'al Yahud qalab'na" which translates to say "Palestine is our land and the Jews are our dogs." Is that something you agree with? No? Maybe you might agree with "ba ruh, ba dam, nafdeek ya Falastin" which translates to say "with our soul, with our blood, we will cleanse you oh Palestine." Now, that's something every American can agree with, yes? With your soul and your blood, you will cleanse Palestine of Jews.

Then again, there is the standard "Itbach al Yahud" which translates to say "slaughter the Jews." Slaughter, now, you know what that means, don't you? And of course, "al mawt al Yahud" which translates to say "death to the Jews." Another fine sentiment for the streets of America, perhaps part of the American dream?

This is what you see on the streets of America, and it's not something that has appeared overnight. I saw it in 2006, when Americans held up signs that said "We are all Hezbollah" in support of the same brand of terrorism as Hamas, different name, same terror.

As I said in my comment over At the Back of the Hill, violence against Jews in America is not new, and it did not begin all of a sudden with this latest Operation against the Hamas.

Just last month, a young man with three children was beaten in the streets of Bal Harbour, Florida, only a few miles from my home, for the crime of being Jewish. He was attacked only because he was wearing kippot.

Broken glass was placed in a Yeshiva playground sandbox in Philadelphia back in June of 2008. In May of 2008, they painted swastikas on a Parkland Florida Synagogue.

The Holocaust Memorial in SanFran was defaced this month, but it has been defaced before the Israelis began this operation.

Swastikas were drawn on a sidewalk and the walls of a Yeshiva in my neighborhood over this past summer and a Chabad House on Miami Beach was gutted by arson last year.

So. The terrorists shoot their rockets into Israel and I am always telling my friends who live there how worried I am for them, that they are surrounded by people who hate them. And they say, But not everyone, not everyone hates us, and we love each other.

And these attacks happen here, like the one in Bal Harbour, and my friends, they say to me, Linda, we are so worried about you living there in Miami where these terrible attacks on Jews are happening. They say to me, "You are surrounded by people who hate you." And I say to them, but not everyone hates us, and we love each other.

Am Yisrael Chai. We live. Here, and there. We live.

Finally, to all of you people out there protesting the Israeli rockets being shot into Gaza, if you feel a need to defend yourself and your support of terrorism and genocide of Jews on the streets of America, before you do so here, you must first answer one question, where have you been for all of these past years while thousands of rockets have been shot from Gaza into Israel?

I ask because I have not seen you on the street with your signs, protesting the terrorist acts aimed at innocent Israeli civilians, I have not seen you protesting Hamas rockets aimed directly at homes and schools and playgrounds and cities and towns. I have not heard your cries of outrage, your demands for sanctions or for international action. In fact, the rockets have been falling in Israeli towns for years and I have heard nothing from you about it.

But even worse, rather than hearing you say "stop the genocide of Jews," instead, I have seen you on the streets of America holding signs promoting the genocide of Jews, so before you say anything at all in my comments, first answer that question, because without a straight, honest and forthright explanation as to your actions, you have no moral standing to say anything at all about anything at all.

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:50 AM | Comments (3)

December 31, 2008

Once upon a time

There was a terror mosque in Gaza, where terrorists met to plot and carry out murderous attacks against Jews. Its grounds were used primarily to store rockets and munitions to build rockets, and the surrounding area was used to launch rockets and carry out attacks. And then, one fine day, from the skies above, there came the sound of jets, as the Israeli Air Force locked on target:

The first explosion was the IAF blowing the Terror Mosque and the terrorists inside straight to hell, and the secondary explosions you see are the rockets and munitions that Hamas stored inside the mosque blowing straight to hell behind them.

The gloves are off and the Hamas terror mosque is no more.

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December 30, 2008

Sewage Pipes.

That's what the Government gives them.

Many of the Jewish residents from Gaza who were removed by the Israeli Government during the "Disengagement" were relocated to temporary housing in Nitzan (3 years in temporary housing with no solution is another issue).

The problem is their temporary housing is made totally of sheetrock, and there are no shelters or concrete walls in case of the falling rockets from Gaza.

Today, the IDF Homefront command brought in concrete sewage pipes as a temporary measure...

I found that at The Muqata, where the Muqata Staff is live blogging the War around the clock.

The picture just hit me hard, after all, this is really the end result of the stupidity of the "disengagement" and that photo really makes the point. Imagine, your government kicks you out of your home and off your land to give it to terrorists who want to kill you and your family and your people. In return for taking your home, your land, and your livelihood, the Government promises you a new house, and enough land to rebuild your farm, and your life but instead puts you in a temporary house made of what amounts to compacted dust and cardboard and charges you rent while you wait for the promised home and land. And then, when the terrorists bomb your new temporary neighborhood from your old neighborhood, your Government gives you a sewage pipe to protect you and your children. And you are, of course, grateful.

When the Israeli Government gave Gaza to the Palestinians, we knew that Gaza would become a terrorist state and it has. The Palestinians are terrorists, with one goal, to destroy Israel, and cleanse the land of Jews. Hamas is no different from Fatah. There is no such thing as a moderate terrorist. No matter which one kills you, you are still dead.

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December 28, 2008

This just in from Gaza

John Belushi???

Dang, but it looks just like him, don't it?

I found that over at IsraellyCool, now that Shabbat is over, Dave is live blogging what's happening in Gaza, and as always, he's doing a fine job of it. I can do no better, so head over there for information, that's where I'm getting most of what I know, and there's no reason for me to duplicate his efforts over here.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:42 AM | Comments (5)

December 14, 2008

Today's Anti-Semite

is the Church of England, where about two weeks ago a service was held at the historic Wren church of St. James's, Picadily, in Central London that included lessons on how to hate Jews.

The stars of the show were a group of anti-Israel activists, most of them Palestinians and some Jews, who are urging a boycott of products made in the Jewish state.

... and The "Twelve Days of Christmas" was sung as "Twelve assassinations/11 homes demolished/10 wells obstructed/Nine sniper towers/Eight gunships firing/Seven checkpoints blocking/Six tanks a-rolling/Five settlement rings. Four falling bombs/Three trench guns/Two trampled doves/And an uprooted olive tree."

Pretty lame lyrics though, they were not a very accurate depiction of the "conflict," as it was missing so many daily common elements. I couldn't resist giving it a try myself:

12 quassam rockets
11 smuggler tunnels
10 suicide bombers
9 blown up busses
8 kidnapped soldiers
7 fake dead children
6 rocks a throwing
5 martyrs' mommys
4 honor killings
3 churches burning (sshhhh)
2 more blood libels
and 1 Jew pushed into the sea.

After the event was publicized, Israeli Ambassador to Britain Ron Prosor accused the Church of England and its heads of failing to sufficiently condemn the service. "Unfortunately, the criticism from within the Church of England, that should have echoed with bold moral clarity, has instead sounded like a silent night, but far from holy."

In other words, the Church declined to object or otherwise condemn the blatant attack on Israel made from the pulpit of the Church, and in its silence, it effectively gave its seal of approval to the message.

The Church of England, well, it appears to have forgetten their own origins, and somehow lost its way. If this is the message the Church is giving today, then perhaps it's not so surprising that less than 15% of its membership bother to show up for services even once a year anywhere, even in the City of Bethlehem itself.

Of course, I'm no expert on Christmas Carols, but I seem to remember some of the words to one... "Noel, noel! Noel, noel! Born is the King of ..." um... now let me see... what was that next word? Yannow, I don't think it was Palestine. and.... um.... when was that song written anyways? Yannow, I think its almost two hundred years older than what the Palestinians call nabka.

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December 10, 2008

Happy Anniversary

To The Universal Declaration of Human Rights!

That's right! Today is the 60th Anniversary of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) on 10 December 1948.

Although, in all fairness, times have changed since then, and really, there should be some updating to properly reflect today's current United Nations policies on Human Rights, so, in the interests of honesty and full disclosure, I thought I'd give it a bit of a re-write, starting with the Preamble:

PREAMBLE
Whereas recognition that a belief in Islam as the one true religion of the inherent dignity and of the equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family is the foundation of freedom, justice and peace in the world,

Whereas disregard and contempt for human rights perpetuated by the Evil Zionist Entity with the assistance of the Great Satan America have resulted in barbarous acts which have outraged Muslims and offended the Prophet the conscience of mankind, and the advent of a world in which human beings shall enjoy freedom of speech and belief and freedom from fear and want has been proclaimed as the highest aspiration of the common people,

Whereas it is essential, if man is not to be all Muslims are compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against the Evil Zionists and the Great Satan America, and to fight against their tyranny and oppression, that human Muslim rights should be protected by the rule of law, and therefore said Zionist and American tyrants and oppressors shall be blown to bits whenever and wherever they may be found,

Whereas it is essential to promote the development of friendly relations between nations, in order to lull them into a false sense of security before overthrowing their government and implementing Islamic Law,

Whereas the peoples of the United Nations have in the Charter reaffirmed their faith in Islam and their rejection of all other fundamental human rights, believing only in the dignity and worth of the human person who follows the Prophet Mohamed, and in the equal rights of men and women who follow the Prophet Mohamedand have determined to promote Islam as the one true religion, social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom,

Whereas Member States have pledged themselves to achieve, in co-operation with the United Nations, the promotion of universal respect for and observance of Islam as the one true religion, denying all other human rights and fundamental freedoms,

Whereas a common understanding of these rights and freedoms is of the greatest importance for the full realization of this pledge,

Now, Therefore THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY proclaims THIS UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF AN END TO ALL OTHER HUMAN RIGHTS as a common standard of achievement for all peoples and all nations, to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote Islam as the one true religion, and to bring about an end to the Zionist Entity and the Great Satan America by any means, fair or foul, to strike down the infidel wherever found, in any way possible, at all times, using any and all means at hand, by progressive measures, national and international, to secure the universal and effective recognition and observance of Islam, both among the peoples of Member States themselves and among the peoples of territories under their jurisdiction.

Article 1.
All human beings Muslims are born free and equal in dignity and rights.They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood. Infidels should be converted or, if they refuse to convert, killed.

Wait... brief interruption to say... Welcome to my visitors from the NY Times. Stick around. Ya might learn something.

OMG! That just cracks me up! okay. hahaha. sorry.

Article 2.
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

Article 3.
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

Article 4.
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Article 5.
No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.

Article 6.
Everyone has the right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law.

Article 7.
All are equal before the law and are entitled without any discrimination to equal protection of the law. All are entitled to equal protection against any discrimination in violation of this Declaration and against any incitement to such discrimination.

Article 8.
Everyone has the right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunals for acts violating the fundamental rights granted him by the constitution or by law.

Article 9.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile.

Article 10.
Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him.

Article 11.
(1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence.

(2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed.

Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.

Article 13.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state.

(2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country.

Article 14.
(1) Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.

(2) This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes or from acts contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 15.
(1) Everyone has the right to a nationality.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his nationality nor denied the right to change his nationality.

Article 16.
(1) Men and women of full age, without any limitation due to race, nationality or religion, have the right to marry and to found a family. They are entitled to equal rights as to marriage, during marriage and at its dissolution.

(2) Marriage shall be entered into only with the free and full consent of the intending spouses.

(3) The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State.

Article 17.
(1) Everyone has the right to own property alone as well as in association with others.

(2) No one shall be arbitrarily deprived of his property.

Article 18.
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.

Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.

Article 20.
(1) Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association.

(2) No one may be compelled to belong to an association.

Article 21.
(1) Everyone has the right to take part in the government of his country, directly or through freely chosen representatives.

(2) Everyone has the right of equal access to public service in his country.

(3) The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government; this will shall be expressed in periodic and genuine elections which shall be by universal and equal suffrage and shall be held by secret vote or by equivalent free voting procedures.

Article 22.
Everyone, as a member of society, has the right to social security and is entitled to realization, through national effort and international co-operation and in accordance with the organization and resources of each State, of the economic, social and cultural rights indispensable for his dignity and the free development of his personality.

Article 23.
(1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favourable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.

(2) Everyone, without any discrimination, has the right to equal pay for equal work.

(3) Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity, and supplemented, if necessary, by other means of social protection.

(4) Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions for the protection of his interests.

Article 24.
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Article 25.
(1) Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control.

(2) Motherhood and childhood are entitled to special care and assistance. All children, whether born in or out of wedlock, shall enjoy the same social protection.

Article 26.
(1) Everyone has the right to education. Education shall be free, at least in the elementary and fundamental stages. Elementary education shall be compulsory. Technical and professional education shall be made generally available and higher education shall be equally accessible to all on the basis of merit.

(2) Education shall be directed to the full development of the human personality and to the strengthening of respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. It shall promote understanding, tolerance and friendship among all nations, racial or religious groups, and shall further the activities of the United Nations for the maintenance of peace.

(3) Parents have a prior right to choose the kind of education that shall be given to their children.

Article 27.
(1) Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.

(2) Everyone has the right to the protection of the moral and material interests resulting from any scientific, literary or artistic production of which he is the author.

Article 28.
Everyone is entitled to a social and international order in which the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration can be fully realized.

Article 29.
(1) Everyone has duties to the community in which alone the free and full development of his personality is possible.

(2) In the exercise of his rights and freedoms, everyone shall be subject only to such limitations as are determined by law solely for the purpose of securing due recognition and respect for the rights and freedoms of others and of meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society.

(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.

Article 30.
Nothing in this Declaration may be interpreted as implying for any State, group or person any right to engage in any activity or to perform any act aimed at the destruction of any of the rights and freedoms set forth herein.

There. That about sums up today's United Nations and its actions, despite the intent of its "Universal Declaration of Human Rights."

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September 02, 2008

Surprise Surprise Surprise

This is no less than amazing!

Four years after Yaron and Efrat Ungar were murdered in 1996 by Palestinian terrorists who assaulted their vehicle, the couple’s family took a law suit against the Palestinian Authority to the US Supreme Court. The family claimed that the tragic deaths of the Ungars - both American citizens - were caused by Hamas, with the aid of PA security mechanisms.

In July 2004, the Supreme Court ordered the PLO and PA to pay $116 million dollars to the couple’s family, following which, the family turned to the Jerusalem District Court with a petition to enforce the US court’s ruling in Israel.

The PA responded with a counter-petition, stating that the enforcement of such a suit would have public, political, financial and security implications both for the Palestinians and for Israel. Specifically, they claimed that paying compensations to the families of terror victims could bankrupt the PA, especially since it could lead to similar suits against the organization.

“How can one accept the claim that a legal ruling should not be enforced because it might hurt the perpetrator financially? Should we not punish convicted persons for no other reason than that it might cause their bankruptcy?” Judge Farkash wrote.

Indeed. Well said Judge. And what a shame it is that, after you first froze Palestinian Authority monies held here in America for payment of the Ungar's judgment, Judge Marrero had to come in after you, release those monies back into terrorist hands and allow those terrorists to to spend it freely on whatever they chose, without enforcing payment of the judgment here in American courts, forcing them to seek justice outside of the United States of America.

So, it now would appear that Israel is willng to enforce the judgment against the Palestinian Authority for terrorist attacks perpetuated in coordination and cooperation with Hamas, and Mahmoud Abbas and his moderate terrorist organization is gonna have to cough up some cash to compensate at least some of the victims who were killed by his mentor and his hero, arch terrorist Yassir Arafat.

Good. Every dollar paid by these moderate terrorists in compensation for the loss of life in a moderate terror attack is a dollar less spent by moderate terrorists in taking another life in another moderate terror attack.

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September 01, 2008

We hear you Joe

We heard you then:

Last year, in a widely quoted interview with year the Jewish American Shalom TV, Biden said, "I am a Zionist. You don't have to be a Jew to be a Zionist," adding that "Israel is the single greatest strength that America has in the Middle East," and that its presence as a strategic ally meant that America need station far fewer troops and warships in the region.

but more importantly, we hear you now:

Democratic vice-presidential candidate Joe Biden was quoted Monday as telling senior Israeli officials behind closed doors that the Jewish state will have to reconcile itself to a nuclear Iran.

In the unsourced report, Army Radio also quoted Biden as saying that he opposed "opening a additional military and diplomatic front."

Biden, chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has long been considered strongly pro-Israel. His nomination as Barack Obama's running mate had been expected to shore up the Democrats' strength with U.S. Jewish voters.

Army Radio said Israeli officials expressed "amazement" over the remarks attributed to him.

"Israel will have to reconcile itself with the nuclearization of Iran," Army Radio quoted Biden as telling the unnamed officials.

"It's doubtful if the economic sanctions will be effective, and I am against opening an additional military and diplomatic front."

Yes Joe, we hear you now, now that you are asking us to make you Vice President. My my, how things have changed now that you're working for Barack and his agenda. Accept Iran having nukes, so what if their leader has sworn to wipe you off the face of the earth, just accept it!

No wonder the terror supporters in the Gaza strip are dialing America citizens and urging them to support Barack Obama for President. Amazing bit of propaganda there, and yeah, sure, buddy, you really think we believe you when you say you have some fear about what Hamas is gonna think about what your're doing? We know how things go in Gaza my friend, they kill you if they don't like how long your beard is, and the fact of the matter is, Hamas came out in support of Barack Hussein Obama right from the start, and I'll just bet they're paying your bills.

As for you Joe Biden, you're a dangerous man, and so is your boss. Dangerous for America, and dangerous for Israel. Keep talking, because with every word you say, it becomes as obvious as the nose on your face.

UPDATE: Joe denies saying it, vehemently, even!

Meanwhile... Rumors circulate all over Europe, Sabers continue to rattle. But the mainstream American media? Well, they ain't gonna talk about none of that, oh no. They're just gonna tell ya that Toni the Tiger thinks Obama/Biden is Great! Because that's what's really important, right?

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August 28, 2008

Where were you when you turned 22?

Today is Gilad Shalit's 22nd birthday, his third birthday in the hands of Hamas terrorists.

Gilad Shalit was raised, the middle of three siblings in a small community in the rolling hills of northern Galilee, near Israel’s border with Lebanon. His father, Noam, is a manager at the Iscar machine tools company; his mother, Aviva, works at the Society for the Protection of Nature. His brother is a college student and his sister is at high school.

Friends describe Gilad as studious, good at physics and a little shy. But they say he is quite determined in his own quiet way, and that when he was called up a year ago he volunteered to join a combat unit. His elder brother, Yoel, 21, is a student at a polytechnic in the northern Israeli port of Haifa. He has a younger sister at high school.

Gilad was kidnapped on June 25, 2006 by Hamas terrorists who attacked an Israeli army post on the Israeli side of the southern Gaza Strip border after having crossed through an underground tunnel near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. During the morning attack, two IDF soldiers were killed and three others wounded.

His kidnapping was the catalyst for Israel's subsequent attack on Gaza in a failed attempt to gain his freedom.

Today, no one knows where Gilad is, or even whether he is still alive. Hamas acknowledges they have him, and they taunt his family and his country with reports of his failing health. The IDF claims they know where Hamas hold Gilad, but they do nothing, no, they do less than nothing, while the Israeli Government continues to reward his kidnappers by releasing prisoners in exchange for less than nothing and the international community (including the United States of America) rewards his kidnappers by giving them more and more cash money to fund more and more terrorist attacks.

It's so hard to write about Gilad, my heart just hurts. How can the world accept what has happened to him and expect Israel to work with these animals?

Israel gave up the Gush as a "show of good faith" to her "Partners in Peace." And in return, Israel's "Partners in Peace" sent thousands of rockets raining down on Israeli civilians, women, children, schools.

Israel should have fought until Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were released or until every single square inch of Lebanon and Gaza was buried under rubble. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Fatah should have been destroyed, completely destroyed, along with every single one of their supporters. The world would be a better place. Instead, Israel gave up and accomplished nothing, and now, Israel has again this week released even more palestinian terrorists from its prisons in exchange for nothing, calling it a show of good faith to the evil bastards who hold Gilad captive.

How would you like to spend your 22nd birthday in the hands of terrorists, knowing that your country, and the entire world has abandoned you?

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August 19, 2008

Unleash the Skunk!

I find this vastly amusing:

The Palestinian protesters massed at the fence expected tear gas and rubber bullets; what they got instead was a putrid yellow wind, Israel's newest weapon against West Bank demonstrators.

The noxious mist, which Israeli police refer to as "skunk," was used for the first time earlier this month, when a truck-mounted cannon sprayed it over the heads of protesters, sending them racing down the hillside, retching and tearing off their shirts to try to escape the stench.

Dozens of Palestinians from the village of Bilin, along with international and Israeli activists, had marched to a nearby segment of Israel's controversial separation barrier to demand its removal, just as they have done every Friday for the last three and a half years.

Then the skunk truck arrived, spraying a cloud of yellow mist and filling the air with the suffocating stench of faeces and urine.

More than one demonstrator said he preferred the tear gas Israeli troops usually use for crowd control, which sears the skin, nose, throat and eyes.

Israeli police say "skunk" is more effective at dispersing crowds than tear gas or the more lethal rubber-coated bullets, which killed Amira.

"It's the start of a change in tactics in dealing with crowd control and dispersing violent demonstrations and violent instances," Israeli police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said.

"It protects the protesters because it doesn't require us to use tear gas and rubber bullets."

Rosenfeld would not say what exactly goes into the pungent mixture used last Friday but insisted it is not dangerous. "It's not a chemical, it is a smelling liquid. It doesn't cause any harm or any physical damage whatsoever, even if it gets in people's eyes." The protestors were not so sure-many suspected it was toilet water. "This is the first time they use this water. It is going to make everyone sick," Abu Rahma said. "I saw one boy who couldn't breathe, and a lot of other people were throwing up.

Word is that they tried wearing hefty trash bags for protection.

You would think it a brilliant tactic really, to repel them with concentrated Eau de Hippie. but, it strikes me as kinda funny that the first time the Israelis used the skunk, there wasn't that much of a fuss about it:

Israeli police say a water-spraying device showered the liquid on the demonstrators, forcing most to rush off to change their clothes.

Most rushed off to change their clothes? Most, but not all? Well. I guess we can assume that at least some of them must have enjoyed the scent.

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August 17, 2008

Boosting Abbas and His Moderate Terrorists


The government on Sunday approved the release of some 200 Palestinian prisoners as a gesture to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

The Prime Minister's Office released a statement saying, "This is a gesture and a trust-building move aimed at bolstering the moderates in the Palestinian Authority and the peace process."

Among the prisoners who are slated to be released are two Palestinians who were sentenced to long prison terms about 30 years ago. One of them actually murdered Israelis and the other sent murderers. The names of the rest of the prisoners will be brought to a ministerial committee for approval.

"This is a gesture for Abu Mazen (Abbas) ahead of the holiday of Ramadan," said a senior official at the Prime Minister's Office.

I simply do not understand the concept of a "moderate" terrorist, how is "moderate terrorist" defined, what is the criteria for qualification as a "moderate terrorist" and what exactly is it that makes one terrorist a "moderate" and another terrorist simply a terrorist? If you are murdered by a moderate terrorist, are you any less dead?

I am reminded of speech made just this past May before the Knesset in the State of Israel, before the Israeli people, the American people, and the world:

The fight against terror and extremism is the defining challenge of our time. It is more than a clash of arms. It is a clash of visions, a great ideological struggle. On the one side are those who defend the ideals of justice and dignity with the power of reason and truth. On the other side are those who pursue a narrow vision of cruelty and control by committing murder, inciting fear, and spreading lies.

This struggle is waged with the technology of the 21st century, but at its core it is an ancient battle between good and evil. The killers claim the mantle of Islam, but they are not religious men. No one who prays to the God of Abraham could strap a suicide vest to an innocent child, or blow up guiltless guests at a Passover Seder, or fly planes into office buildings filled with unsuspecting workers. In truth, the men who carry out these savage acts serve no higher goal than their own desire for power. They accept no God before themselves. And they reserve a special hatred for the most ardent defenders of liberty, including Americans and Israelis.

And that is why the founding charter of Hamas calls for the "elimination" of Israel. And that is why the followers of Hezbollah chant "Death to Israel, Death to America!" That is why Osama bin Laden teaches that "the killing of Jews and Americans is one of the biggest duties." And that is why the President of Iran dreams of returning the Middle East to the Middle Ages and calls for Israel to be wiped off the map.

There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain away their words. It's natural, but it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred. And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century.

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Some people suggest if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of the enemies of peace, and America utterly rejects it. Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because the United States of America stands with you.

If you don't recognize it, the quote is from a speech given by U.S. President George W. Bush.

Nice words, full of power, and oh-so true. But... words mean nothing when they are only words and not backed up by deed and when your every action contradicts your very words, when you fail time and time again to practice what you preach, when you pander to terrorism and sacrifice innocent lives at the alter of appeasement.

Following is a list of innnocent people who have been maimed and murdered during George W. Bush's presidency, maimed and murdered by "moderate" terrorists, in "moderate" terrorist attacks perpetuated by the "moderate" terrorists of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is the military arm of President Bush's pet terrorist, "Moderate" Mahmoud Abbas, and his "moderate" Fatah Party:

May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving in the West Bank between Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 29, 2001 - Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 18, 2001 - Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was shot and killed in his car by sniper fire near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli, 19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers, members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the Palestinian terrorist security forces, were killed by IDF soldiers.

Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman, 58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon near the entrance to the village of Zaita, opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 06, 2001 - Lt. Erez Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A female officer with him in the car was seriously injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 11, 2001 - Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv, and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel, were killed just after midnight when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani, 26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning and her husband Shai was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem. The couple's three children who were traveling in the vehicle were not injured. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 04, 2001 - Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel. The Tanzim wing of Fatah claimed responsibility for the murder.

Nov 02, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.

Nov 29, 2001 - Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a homicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel; Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel; David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya'akov Tzarfati, 64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 15, 2002 - Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma'aleh Adumim, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem area. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 15, 2002 - Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev shortly before 20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car was injured. The Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra'anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a homicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.

Feb 06, 2002 - Miri Ohana, 45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier, St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She'an, was also killed in the attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.

Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a homicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi, 30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky, 20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman, 20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21, of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21, of Haifa were killed and one wounded in an attack near a roadblock west of Ramallah. Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers at the roadblock, including three off-duty soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock, killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian terrorist employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.

Mar 02, 2002 - Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a homicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

Mar 03, 2002 - Ten Israelis - 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria: Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.) David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat, 26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss, 24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Birmov, 33, of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 05, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 05, 2002 - Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka, 9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye, 27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and two soldiers were injured early Thursday morning when a tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.

Mar 21, 2002 - Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a homicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29, 2002 - Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female homicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female terrorist blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with two Palestinian terrorists trying to cross into Israel to carry out a terrorist attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Mar 30, 2002 - One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a homicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian terrorist driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 04, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured when a terrorist detonated himself in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Apr 04, 2002 - Border Police Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Apr 12, 2002 - Nissan Cohen, 57; Rivka Fink, 75; Suheila Hushi, 48; and Yelena Konrab, 43, all of Jerusalem; and Ling Chang Mai, 34, and Chai Siang Yang, 32, both foreign workers from China, were killed and 104 people were wounded when a woman terrorist blew hereselt up by detonating a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 20, 2002 - Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21 of Ashkelon was killed in an exchange of fire near the Erez industrial park in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pursued the Palestinian terrorist gunman and killed him. An explosive belt was found on his body. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

May 27, 2002 - Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a terrorist detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road. Maloul and his cousin, who was lightly injured, were returning home to Jerusalem from Eli, where they operate the swimming pool. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 28, 2002 - Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya'akov; Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian terrorist gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball, before he was shot dead by a security guard. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2002 - Seven people were killed and 50 injured - three of them in critical condition - when a homicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2002 - Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 10, 2002 - IDF officer Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy commander of a Givati reconaissance unit, was killed by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire while conducting a search for weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting.

Jul 25, 2002 - Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, of Peduel, was killed and another civilian injured in a shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 26, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 30, 2002 - Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 04, 2002 - Yekutiel Amitai, 34, of Jerusalem, a security guard, and Nizal Awassat, 52, of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in East Jerusalem, were killed and 17 were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. Border policemen exchanged fire with the gunman, killing him. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 05, 2002 - Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 03, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian terrorist Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 10, 2002 - Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home. The terrorist was killed by soldiers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 05, 2002 - 1st Lt. Malik Grifat, 24, of Zarzir was killed and a soldier wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire, from a crowded school, towards an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 18, 2002 - Yosef Ajami, 36, of Jerusalem was killed Wednesday afternoon when terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. The other occupant of the car, a foreign worker, was lightly injured. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 29, 2002 - Three Hermesh residents - Orna Eshel, 53, Linoy Saroussi and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed and two were wounded when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 05, and Noam, 04, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 28, 2002 - Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Ya'acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48 - all of Beit She'an; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about 40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 02, 2003 - The charred body of Massoud Makhluf Alon, 72, from Menahemiya in the Lower Galilee, was found in the northern Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 05, 2003 - Twenty-three people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals - were killed and about 120 wounded when two terrorists blew themselves up near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.

Feb 06, 2003 - 2nd Lt. Amir Ben-Aryeh, 21, of Maccabim, and St.-Sgt. Idan Suzin, 20, of Kiryat Tivon were killed and two more soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack in the area of Nablus. Both gunmen were killed by return fire from IDF troops. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 19, 2003 - Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern Jordan Valley. The PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 24, 2003 - Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a terrorist bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 30, 2003 - Ran Baron, 23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass, 29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of Holon, were murdered and about 60 people were wounded when a terrorist bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub, "Mike's Place," in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.

May 05, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Ahiya, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 11, 2003 - Zion David, 53, of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem, was shot in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorists in a roadside ambush half a kilometer from Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2003 - Kiryl Shremko, 22, of Afula; Hassan Ismail Tawatha, 41, of Jisr a-Zarqa; and Avi Zerihan, 36, of Beit Shean were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a terrorist bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 08, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She'an; and Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming responsibility for the attack.

Jun 12, 2003 - Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian terrorist sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 17, 2003 - Noam Leibowitz, 7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members of her family wounded in a shooting attack near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 26, 2003 - Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots were fired by a Palestinian terrorist teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 30, 2003 - Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.

Jul 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian terrorist armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafe and was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 29, 2003 - Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, of Homesh was killed in a shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 04, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Gabriel Uziel, 20, of Givat Ze'ev was shot and mortally wounded by a terrorist sniper in Jenin; he died en route to the hospital. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Erez Idan, 19, of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Elad Pollack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roi Ya'acov Solomon, 21, of Tel Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Lt. Leonardo (Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2004 - Ro'i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or, 20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed and 10 wounded when a female terrorist detonated herself at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a terrorist bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist policeman from Bethlehem.

Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a terrorist bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area.

Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double terrorist detonation at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology for killing a non-Jew.

Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 25, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 02, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunfire following a search in the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Sep 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a terrorist bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 21, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami, 21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire from Palestinian terrorist territory west of the community. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF post at the Rafah crossing, followed by the infiltration of the post by two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device. Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp. Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat.

Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot; Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Mar 1, 2006 - Eldar Abir, 48, of Migdalim was killed when two Palestinian shot him at point blank range at the gas station near Migdalim in the West Bank. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 17, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and six IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist activity. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 27, 2006 - The burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 19, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjoun, 21, of Yehud was killed when a terrorist opened fire at the Bekaot chekpoint in the Jordan Valley. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2007 - Three people were killed in a suicide bombing in a bakery in the southern city of Eilat: bakery employees and Eilat residents Emi Haim Elmaliah, 32, Michael Ben Sa'adon, 27, and Israel Zamalloa, 26. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 24, 2008 - Border Guard Lance Corporal Rami Zuari, 20, of Beersheva was shot and killed at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Shuafat, north of Jerusalem. The Battalions of Struggle and Return, a previously anonymous offshoot of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Remember, this is not a complete list of terrorist attacks against innocent people in Israel since President Bush was elected, this is only a list of the "moderate" terrorist attacks claimed by the "moderate" terrorists of Mahmoud Abbas's "moderate" Al Aqsa Brigades, the only terrorist group which carries the George W. Bush Seal of Approval. A careful read of the list will reveal that in at least some of the those "moderate" terrorist attacks, the "moderates" were working with the "non-moderates" to murder innocents, yet still manage to maintain their "moderate" designation. The complete list of attacks, both "moderate" and non-moderate, can be found here.

But wait... there's more...

Twenty-nine-year old Ido Zoldan of Shavei Shomron was murdered on November 19, 2007 in a terror attack, leaving behind his wife Tehila and his children, three-year-old Aharon and one-year-old Rachel.

Ido Zoldan and his family were putting their lives together after being expelled from their home in the community of Homesh during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza.

Who killed him?

Mahmoud Abbas's "moderate" Fatah terrorist branch, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it carried out the attack to demonstrate its opposition to the Annapolis conference.

But wait! There's more, yes, there is always more:

Later, we found out that one day after the terror attack, the IDF arrested three "Palestinian policemen" for the murder of Ido Zoldan, two of them confessed, and they picked up the third.

Yes. And they waited a week before telling us who was behind this murder, to avoid any negative press before Annapolis, so Condi Rice could sit down and schmooze with Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the most active and evil terrorist group in the world.

And... in case you are wondering, yes, these would be the same "Palestinian policemen," members of Mahmoud Abbas's "Moderate" Fatah Party, that the United States of America has supported, armed and trained to kill, using our tax dollars to support terrorism.

But there's more. There's always more:

Let us not forget Yohai Lifshitz, 18, from Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, from Shilo; Yonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, from Kohav Hashahar, Neria Cohen, 15, also from the capital, Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, from Neve Daniel, Avraham David Moses, 16, from Efrat, Roee Roth, 18, from Elkana and Doron Meherete, 26, from Ashdod. They are the 8 young Yeshiva students brutally murdered in Jerusalem by Alaa Abu Dheim, who was arrested by Israeli authorities four months prior to the murders and then released two months later.

There is still no word on what Alaa Abu Dheim was locked up for in the first place, anyone want to take a guess? Israel let this bastard go as a gesture of good will after Annapolis. He didn't have blood on his hands when they let him go, but thanks to the international community, he got another chance at it and he damn sure has blood on his hands now, along with everyone connected with Annapolis and his release.

Abu Dheim is a perfect example of what happens when Israel releases terrorists from its prisons, Ehud Olmert let him go and he went right back to trying to kill Jews. Now, 200 more set free in the name of appeasement and how many more innocent people will die as a result?

Call them Hamas or Fatah, no matter, they are one and the same, a people with no conscience, no soul, no compassion, no empathy, no values. They desire only death and destruction, that is the sum total of their hopes and dreams and that is their only goal.

This is what the future holds, acceptable, respectable "Moderate" Terrorists, and one day soon these "Moderate" terrorists will be coming for you, and for your children, and they'll be bringing their "moderate" guns and their "moderate" bombs and they will perpetuate "moderate" terrorist attacks that will have have been paid for with your tax dollars. It is what they have been raised to do, trained to do, it is what they have been born to do. And make no mistake, with every condemnation of Israel, with every U.N. Resolution, with every bit of support from the international community, with every "Free Palestine" rally on the streets of the world, with every U.S. dollar sent, it is what America and the rest of the world is helping them to do.

It's all part of the peace process, good will gestures, and all that stuff, right?

Sure. Sure it is.

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August 12, 2008

High-Stepping with Hamas

This just in from the Gaza Strip:

In anticipation of becoming Israeli citizens, Hamas terrorists hold group practice to hone their "Hava Nagila" skills, after first being taught which foot is right, and which foot is left. However, it appears that at least one of them needed to repeat the first lesson. Shouts of "your other left" were met with much laughter and gaiety, before the misstepping terrorist was shot several times for the crime of dance disruption. His lifeless body was then tossed on a trash heap where it was first stoned by local children and then devoured by homeless dogs. The dance practice then continued without further incident.

Don't worry, we haven't heard the last of the dead man. After dance practice, whatever is left of him after the dogs are done will be buried with full honors and his name shall be inscribed as a brave freedom fighter and martyr. After all, if it weren't for the evil zionists, who created the evil hava nagila dance with cruel intent for the sole purpose of killing innocent palestinians, he would be alive today.

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August 09, 2008

Today's PSA

So you want to boycott Israel?

That was kinda fun, they did a fairly good job with that, except well... they did miss an important little tidbit of information for those looking to punish supporters of the Evil Zionist Regime...

If you're gonna boycott L'Oreal and Sara Lee, Starbucks and McDonald's, Motorola and Coca Cola, because they do business in Israel, or with Israel, or with Israeli companies, well then... I'm afraid you're just gonna have to miss the new Bond movie coming out this November because it's an MGM movie, and if you're going to fully support the Israeli boycott, you're gonna have to give up MGM movies. You see, MGM is guilty of working with Israeli companies and if you gave them your money, well... then you too would be guilty of helping to support the Evil Zionist Regime.

And, I'm sure that you are already aware that watching CNN would help support the Evil Zionist Regime, but did you know that if you are watching ABC, NBC and CBS, you would also be guilty of supporting the Evil Zionist Regime? Oh yes, and if you're watching MSNBC and ESPN, FOX News and Reuters, you're guilty as well! And.... if you're watching Al Jazeera, you too are guilty of supporting the Evil Zionist Regime.

That's right. You're guilty because they're guilty. They all do business with the Evil Zionists.

RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. is an experienced comprehensive world-class provider of end-to-end transmission via satellites and production services to the global broadcasting industry. The company was founded in 1981 and operates under license from the Israeli Ministry of Communications.

Yup. RRSat is an Israeli company, run by Jews (gasp). Its Board of Directors is not only full of Jews, its Chairman of the Board is a Brigadier General (res.) in the Israel Defense Forces who served as the Israeli Defense Forces' Air Defense Forces Commander from 1994 to 1998!

These are some of RRSat's clients:

Imagine that! Al Jazeera, along with most of the mainstream media, relies on an Israeli company to help distribute its pro-terrorist, anti-Israel propaganda and yes, that includes their call to boycott Israeli companies and their call to boycott companies (like Al Jazeera), that do business with Israeli companies (like RRSat).

Irony is so... ironic.

But wait.... there's more:

Hat tip to the Jawa Report for that one!

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August 05, 2008

Is anyone listening?

It doesn't seem so.

Ongoing debate on Shalit prisoner swap diverts attention from military option

By Arieh Eldad

Gilad Shalit has been in captivity for more than two years now. The media is replete with harsh descriptions regarding the conditions his captors are holding him in - a cellar or a narrow tunnel, without any daylight. I don't know what the source of these descriptions is and whether they are based on intelligence information or imagination. However, there is no doubt that we need to get Shalit back home.

The debate seemingly focuses on how many terrorists should be released for him and how much blood we may accept on their hands. Is it moral to free hundreds of terrorists when everyone knows that anywhere between a third and a half of them will attempt to kill Jews again?

In our cemeteries one can find hundreds of buried Jews who were murdered by those released from Israeli prison in these types of tainted deals. Yet the debate regarding the number of prisoners and blood on their hands diverts it from what should be its main focus: The military option.

The Gaza Strip is a terror hub established through the folly of Israeli governments and by ignoring our national and security interests. This terror hub can be dismantled, however. We can fix what we ruined. Yet thecorrection has to start from this point. Capitulation to Arab terrorism in the form of Hamas' Gaza regime paves the way for a complete Arab victory over Israel. What's hanging in the balance is no longer Shalit's release,but rather, the State of Israel's liberation. Israel is a hostage at this time. Moreover, the Gaza Strip is within arm's reach; within walking distance.

In the 1970s and 1980s Israel scored important victories against terror; these triumphs often exacted a heavy human toll, as was the case with the hijacked bus on the Coastal Road and the hostage-taking in Maalot. We even went as far as Uganda in order to rescue our hostages. Yet there is no doubt that had Olmert and his spineless government were leading Israel at the time, we wouldn't even be considering a military move: Because of the distance and risk. Instead, we would have released thousands of terrorists. Yet during those days, capitulation to terrorism wasn't an option.

Even when IDF soldier Nachshon Waxman was abducted, Israel's leaders chose a risky military operation that ultimately ended in failure - the captive was killed, as did Nir Poraz, a Sayeret Matkal officer who died during the rescue operation. Yet the message conveyed to terror groups was that Israel does not capitulate to terror.

There is a military option There is a military option in Gaza. We can issue an ultimatum to Hamas that Israel would assassinate one of its leaders in Gaza or elsewhere every day if Gilad Shalit is not released at once. We can embark on a targeted operation based on existing intelligence information, or a broad operation if we lack such accurate intelligence information. We can kill every terrorist on the way, go from one house to the next, and while we're at it blow up Qassam rocket workshops, arms caches, and tunnels. We can pulverize Hamas in Gaza as we pulverized the PLO in the First Lebanon War, and unlike what we did to Hizbullah in the Second Lebanon War (the reason we didn't do it was not lack of power, but rather, deficient political and military leadership.)

The alternative is not only capitulation to terror and the release of thousands of murderers. The alternative is reconciling ourselves to Hamas' military buildup and fortification, until its rockets reach Tel Aviv and Dimona - then, we shall have to enter Gaza and pay a much greater price because of our current cowardice, hesitation, and flawed political considerations, which come in place of decisive national considerations.

Gilad Shalit must not become the reason for avoiding a war on terror. If this materializes and this is the way adopted by Israel, terror groups will realize that they found the way not only to release the murderers in ourjails, but also "their entire Palestine."

Tomorrow, more soldiers will be abducted for the sake of Mount Dov (which they refer to as the Shebaa Farms,) and two days from now, they will kidnap more troops and demand that we withdraw from Hebron. They will demand Temple Mount in exchange for several abducted civilians, and if, heaven forbid, they take over a kindergarten, they'll demand Arab autonomy in the Galilee.

There is no logical reason for them to stop, unless we stop and say: No more.

Arieh Eldad is right. I can't count how many times I've posted this picture:

The faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons. and...

Let us not forget Yohai Lifshitz, 18, from Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, from Shilo; Yonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, from Kohav Hashahar, Neria Cohen, 15, also from the capital, Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, from Neve Daniel, Avraham David Moses, 16, from Efrat, Roee Roth, 18, from Elkana and Doron Meherete, 26, from Ashdod. They are the 8 young Yeshiva students brutally murdered in Jerusalem by Alaa Abu Dheim, who was arrested by Israeli authorities four months prior to the murders and then released two months later.

Fact: More than 75 Israeli Arabs have been arrested over the past three years on suspicion of being involved in terror. Nearly half of them are arabs who have received a permit to stay in Israel and an Israeli identity card on the backdrop of their marriage to an Israeli Arab, and terror groups seek to recruit them due to their access to Israeli targets.

There is still no word on what Alaa Abu Dheim was locked up for in the first place, anyone want to take a guess? Israel let this bastard go as a gesture of good will after Annapolis. He didn't have blood on his hands when they let him go, but thanks to the international community, he got another chance at it and he damn sure has blood on his hands now, along with everyone connected with Annapolis and his release.

Abu Dheim is a perfect example of what happens when Israel releases terrorists from its prisons, Ehud Olmert let him go and he went right back to trying to kill Jews.

Here's another fact: If Israel did not release those terrorists, the innocent people pictured above would still be alive. In fact, if terrorism was punishable by death, the innocent people pictured above would still be alive and the terrorists who killed them would be dead. Sadly, in Israel only Nazis are eligible for the death penalty, a truly stupid policy when you consider the number of Nazis in Israel as against the number of terrorists.

Israel will never get any sympathy nor support from the international community. No matter what we Jews do - or don't do, those that hate us will always hate us and they will always find some rationalization or justification for terrorism against us and for the murder of innocents among us.

Bottom line, no one respects a victim. When Israel won the 1967 war, she had international support in her fight to stay alive. Today, the support is for the murderers, for the people who are responsible for this, and this...

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:07 PM | Comments (27)

July 22, 2008

Here we go again...

Monkey see, monkey do:

A bulldozer driver went on a rampage in central Jerusalem Tuesday afternoon in an apparent attempt to recreate the terror attack in the capital a few weeks ago.

The wounded were evacuated to Sha'are Tzedek Hospital in the capital.

I don't suppose this one had his broken by a Jewish girl too, maybe his toaster broke or something. Or maybe he was so impressed by the last bulldozer terrorist that he had to try it for himself.

The damn palestinians will try anything and stop at nothing when it comes to killing Jews.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:39 AM | Comments (3)

July 21, 2008

Say good-bye to Mahmoud Abbas

Once upon a time, it was believed that releasing Fatah's monster, Marwan Bargouti, would strengthen the position of terrorist leader Mahmoud Abbas, in his battle for dominance over Hamas. Now, Israel will release him at the request of Hamas, in exchange for Gilad Shalit.

Israel has agreed in principle to release Marwan Barguti and a number of prominent Hamas leaders from prison – diplomatic sources were quoted as saying in Monday's 'Al-Bayan' newspaper, based in the United Arab Emirates.

The former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade, Fatah's active "military wing," Bargouti is serving several life sentences for for the death of at least 26 Jews during the Al-Dura Intifada.

While in prison, Bargouti ran for President of the Palestinian Authority in 2004, he generated a lot of support from palestinians and his announcement threw the presidental race into chaos, but he was convinced to back off and withdrew after only a few weeks.

Bargouti will soon be on the streets, ready to jump into the fray, and in serious debt to Hamas for obtaining his freedom. His release can only mean one thing for Mahmoud Abbas, make way, resign or be killed. I imagine killing him and blaming it on the Jews will be preferable to Hamas.

Say hello to the next Head Terrorist of the Palestinian Authority:

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July 20, 2008

Its Carnival Time

The 174th Edition of Haveil Havalim is up and once again, Esser Agaroth is hosting.

Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'

As always, there are some excellent writers and articles linked. I am honored to be included.

Enjoy!

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July 18, 2008

Hey Matt! They ain't Jews!

Perhaps you saw Matt Drudge's headline today:

Except its kinda misleading, the fact is that Israel arrested arabs in an al-Queda plot to assassinate President Bush, two "palestinians" and two residents of Jerusalem .

A better, more accurate headline:

Terror Mosque Exposed: Israel arrests palestinian al-Qaida members plotting to assassinate George Bush

just saying...

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July 16, 2008

Coffins.

Early this morning, Hezbollah turned over two black coffins which presumably contain the remains of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev. After first checking to be sure the coffins were not booby-trapped (we are dealing with arabs after all), they were discovered to contain bodies mutilated beyond all recognition.

Right up to the last minute, Hezbollah continued its claims that maybe, perhaps, could be, possibly one or both soldiers were alive, and the families of both men had their hopes shattered via television news. Heartbreaking.

As the State of Israel mourns the loss of these two men, men who were killed while serving their country and protecting their families and countrymen, Lebanon rolled out a red carpet and the arab world is now celebrating the release of Samir Kuntar, a monster so evil that he cannot be called human.

In Gaza, they are already handing out candies and celebrating Samir Kuntar in the streets. Israel's "partner in peace," Mahmoud Abbas, has already publically passed along his congratulations to Hezbollah for obtaining the release of their monster.

Soon there will come the photographs and video of the celebrations, and the world will watch as the arabs celebrate the release of their monster, showing us that they are no better than Samir Kuntar, that they are one and the same, hate-filled murderers without soul or conscience, without compassion, without a single, solitary shred of humanity within their twisted hearts and minds.

And, as expected...

Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh called Kantar an "Arab nationalist hero" and said his release was a great day for the Arab nation. He warned Israel it would have to pay the price for a soldier Hamas has been holding since June 2006 and presumed alive.

"As there was an honorable exchange today, we are determined to have an honorable exchange for our own prisoners, held in Israeli jails," Haniyeh said. "There is a captive Israeli soldier, and thousands of our sons are in prison. ...

and

"Today is a great victory for the resistance movements and to Hezbollah, said Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri. "It shows that the only successful way to free the prisoners is by kidnapping soldiers."

I wish the Knesset would meet, today, and declare into law the death penalty for acts of terrorism in Israel, retroactive for fifty years and then, vote to hold the implementation of executions of convicted terrorists in abeyance in exchange for the immediate release of Gilad Shalit. Give the arabs 24 hours to do so, and, if they fail to do so, then, immediately begin putting the monsters Israel holds in prisons to death until they do. And then, announce that the executions will continue unless and until all of Israel's missing soldiers are returned, Ron Arad, Zachary Baumel, Tzvi Feldman, Yehuda Katz, Guy Hever.

Sigh. Such a thing will never happen, because Israel is full of Jews, and Jews are not the monsters that the arabs are.

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June 29, 2008

It will never end

as long as we do things like this:

Israel's Cabinet voted 22-3 to OK the deal to return the bodies of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, captured by Hezbollah in a July 2006 cross-border raid that sparked a vicious monthlong war.

Before a six-hour Cabinet debate, Olmert announced for the first time that the soldiers were dead. He nevertheless pushed for the deal to be approved, citing the country's deep moral commitment to its dead and captive soldiers.

Commitment? Commitment? I read those words and I don't know whether to laugh or to cry. Samir Kuntar should be dead, as dead as the innocent people he killed and there can be no justification for releasing that animal to kill again. The Israeli Government rewards kidnappers by releasing prisoners and the international community (including the United States of America) rewards his kidnappers by giving them cash money to fund more terrorist attacks. No wonder they keep kidnapping soldiers, they get a big return.

I suppose I should be grateful that at least this time we get something in return, but I'm not. I'm just sick and tired of appeasing terror. I will never understand why the War on Terror stops at the border of Israel and terrorists suddenly become partners in peace, and politicians.

Like many, I have believed that Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were killed when they were captured, or immediately thereafter. Back in July of 2007, it was reported that at least one of them were dead, and it was denied by Nasrallah. No one cared then, and no one will care now. I look at the remains of their humvee, and I wonder how much they suffered:

Were they alive when captured, were they injured? And if so, who treated their injuries, what medicines were they given by the animals who took them? I look at that humvee, and I believe that they were injured, and I know that they were likely just bandaged up and left to live or die on their own. That's murder and no one seems to care, as no one cared when we suffered through reports that Gilad Shalit was gravely injured and in need of medical attention.

Amazing how the world continued to pressure Israel to make concessions to these terrorists even as it turned its back on Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev, indifferent as to whether they lived or died, or how they were killed.

The "war" that immediately followed should not have ended unless and until they were returned, dead or alive. Now, two years later, we release a monster to obtain their bodies in what can only be called a victory for the terrorists. Israel should have fought until Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were released or until every single square inch of Lebanon and Gaza was buried under rubble. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Fatah should have been destroyed, completely destroyed, along with every single one of their supporters. The world would be a better place. Instead, Israel gave up and accomplished nothing.

Olmert is not compelled by any moral commitment, he has done this deal for political gain.

Their lives mattered only to those who love them. To the terrorists, and to the country they served, they were pawns, bargaining chips. And to the rest of the world, their lives mean nothing.

I hoped and I prayed for them, even as their names and their faces had already faded from the news, as the world forgot they ever existed, as they have forgotten other Israeli soldiers who have disappeared into the hands of terrorists, never to be seen or heard from again:

Three soldiers, captured by terrorists during a battle with Syrian and Palestinian forces near the Lebanese village of Sultan Yaqub. June 11, 1982. Twenty-six years ago, over 9,000 days.

Two soldiers captured with them were released in prisoner exchanges with Syria and Achmed Jibril's PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command). Every once in a while, their names come up (including the 1988 Amnesty International Report and the 1993 Amnesty International December Update) but reports are conflicting and nothing is verifiable. Zachary Baumel is an American citizen.

Israeli air-force navigator Ron Arad was taken captive after his F-4 Phantom warplane went down over Lebanon. October 16, 1982. Twenty-five years ago, almost 9,000 days.

Ron Arad was taken captive by Amal, a Lebanese Shi’ite militia group lead by Nabih Berri, who today is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. In 1987, Arad’s family received several letters and a photo of Arad confirming that the missing navigator was alive and in Amal’s hands. Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him. It is believed that Dirani then "sold" Arad to either Hizbullah or Iranian elements.

According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, as recently as 2003, three former Iranian diplomats and intelligence officials living in Europe claimed that Ron Arad is alive and being held in a prison near Tehran. But these reports cannot be verified.

Twenty years later, we know nothing about the fate of Ron Arad, although I have my own thoughts on that.

Guy Hever, a soldier in the Israeli Army who was reportedly last seen standing at the Katzabiya junction, just a kilometer away from the Syrian border. He disappeared, and has not been heard of since. August 17, 1997. Almost eleven years ago, over 4,000 days.

Does Olmert, or anyone else, feel a deep moral commitment to these men? Does anyone even remember who they are? Sadly, no, most people don't remember them, if they ever knew about them in the first place. Disappearing Jews don't make headlines.

We'll be hearing from Samir Kuntar again, and when we do, it will likely be because he killed again. That's what they do. Israel lets them go, and they kill again.

There should be the death penalty for terror attacks and attempts at terror attacks, but in Israel, they only give the death penalty to a convicted nazi. Stupid, considering how many terrorists with blood on their hands are in Israeli prisons.

I've said this before, I've said all of this before and I'll say it again. My solution would be to take the list of prisoners the palestinians want released, and I would execute one a day, until all our men are returned, or I run out of prisoners. That way, the end result is a good one, either way.

Anything less is nothing but appeasement.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:39 PM | Comments (10)

June 27, 2008

About that ceasefire...

It's still going well:

The Gaza truce was broken yet again on Friday morning as terrorists fired two mortar shells at southern Israel.

One of the shells landed near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, in the Sha'ar Hanegev region, while the other hit an open area. No one was wounded and no damage was reported.

On Thursday afternoon, a Kassam rocket fired from Gaza hit the Sderot industrial zone, exploding near a gas station. No casualties or damage to property were reported in the attack, for which Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Al-Aksa, that's just another name for Fatah. And Fatah? Well, that's the party of Israel's Partner-in-Peace, Mahmoud Abbas, heir to the terror reign of Yasser Arafat (may he rot in hell). Why would they do such a thing?

Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa brigades claimed responsibility for launching a projectile at the Israeli town of Sderot on Thursday afternoon, calling for the truce to include the West Bank.

Hmph. They broke the truce to expand the truce. Brilliant! They later denied that statement, but hey, that's just the kind of logic that appeals to Olmert... what do ya wanna bet he goes for it?

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June 23, 2008

Surprise Surprise!

You'll be glad to know that the ceasefire between Israel and the palestinians is going well:

A mortar fired by Palestinian gunmen in Gaza Wednesday night landed in Israel's western Negev region.

The shell landed in an open area in close proximity to a community, but no injuries or damage were reported.

The incident was the first breach of the ceasefire agreement reached between Israel and armed Palestinian groups in the Strip, which went into effect Thursday morning.

Kinda reminds me of what happened after the 2005 "ceasefire" or "truce" or "hudna" or whatever you want to call it, you know, the one that was predicated on the expulsion of Jews from Gaza:

Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.

May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second terrorist was apprehended.

Mar 7, 2005 - Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.

Jun 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 29, 2005 - Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position at Mt. Dov from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.

Jul 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

And then... Israel emptied Gaza for peace, the truce was still in effect and all we got was more dead Jews:

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 3, 2005 - Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demonstrators in Sderot. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children.

Aug 24, 2005 - Shmuel Mett, 21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. Two other students were wounded.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Sept 21, 2005 - Sasson Nuriel, 55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Oct 26, 2005 - Six people were killed and 55 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Michael Kaufman, 68, of Hadera; Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera; Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv; Jamil Qa'adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya; and Ya'acov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera. A sixth victim, Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds 11 days later, on November 5.

Nov 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near Jenin. He died en route to hospital.

Nov 21, 2005 - Eleven Israeli soldiers and one civilian are injured by a Hezbollah attack in Metulla, Northern Israel..

Dec 5, 2005 - Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya, a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky, 65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya; Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Dec 29, 2005 - Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. Two Palestinians were also killed, one the taxi driver who was carrying the bomber. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

The ceasefire in 2006 wasn't much better for Israeli citizens, in the seven months following the Gaza Expulsion, the palestinians fired 800 rockets into Israel, In January of 2006, Hezbollah joined in, paying palestinians to fire Kassam rockets into Israel from Gaza.

"Palestinian terrorists get thousands of dollars per attack. Sometimes they are paid before the attack and sometimes they submit a bill to Lebanon afterward and the money gets transferred a short while later."

Peretz told the cabinet on Sunday that there have been cases over the last month where the IDF spotted terrorists preparing to fire rockets, but - because of the cease-fire - did not act.

I have to wonder at Ehud Olmert, why is he so willing to bloody his hands, to allow Israelis to be slaughtered by these animals?

Back in 2006, Olmert argued that the cease-fire had strategic value, and that Israel's policy of restraint had earned it "a lot of understanding and appreciation" around the world that would provide "leeway" in the future.

Leeway for what? Leeway for the arabs to kill more Jews? Does that mean the rest of the world appeciates that Olmert forces the IDF to stand aside while rockets land on Jews?

It would appear so.

Back then Olmert argued that "a strong military response would only unite Hamas and Fatah" and I'm sure he'll make the same tired argument again this time, as if Hamas and Fatah were not already united in their hatred of Jews.

The proper response is to bomb the hell out of Hamas and Fatah each and every time they try to kill Jews.

Any ceasefire has always meant the same thing, we cease, and they fire. This ceasefire will be no different.

Once upon a time, to be the Prime Minister of Israel meant that you defended Israel, and protected her people. Olmert has failed over and over again, he has done nothing but give way to arab demands and arab terror, and emboldened Israel's enemies.

There can be no negotiations with these arabs, because, when you negotiate with evil, evil wins.

and meanwhile, Gilad Shalit is still in the hands of the terrorists. Tomorrow it will be two years.

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June 12, 2008

In the name of Peace

On Wednesday, Israel's political-security cabinet decided not to launch a military operation in Gaza, preferring to give Egyptian negotiators additional time to broker a ceasefire with Hamas.

and what do you suppose happens?

Well, I'm told that at least 40 mortars and 25 Qassams landed in Israel, primarily in the Hof Ashkelon Regional Council, a number of fires have broken out as a result.

In Kibbutz Yad Mordechai, a 59-year-old woman was wounded by shrapnel to her neck. She is currently being treated by emergency medical service personnel. Fires are buring

One of the mortars landed in Palestinian territory near the Erez crossing, lightly injuring a Palestinan.

and... a missile, apparently of a type "Grad" landed near Ashkelon. No injuries were reported but a number of people suffered from shock. The city's alert system did not sound prior to the missile's landing.

The attacks are supposedly a "response" to death of a high-ranking terrorist who mishandled some explosives and blew himself (and a few other terrorists) to bits.

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June 11, 2008

Only in Israel

would such a statement be necessary:

Dozens of soldiers and officers from a reserve IDF infantry brigade have written a letter to the chief of the general staff, asking that he prevent Israel from freeing hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in exchange for their release in the event that they are captured by the enemy, Channel 2 reported Tuesday.

"We are willing to sit in the enemy's prison as long as it takes," wrote the soldiers of the brigade, which is considered to be one of the army's finest, and would be one of the first to enter the Gaza Strip if the government decides on a large-scale military operation there.

The soldiers intend to send the letter to IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen Gabi Ashkenazi when such a decision is made.

In it, they also request that no negotiations be held over bodies or body parts.

Because Israel is the only country in the world that is forced to accomodate and negotiate with terrorists.

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June 06, 2008

oooh! Smackdown!

What do you wanna bet Al Jazeera burns this tape:

Bar Ilan University political scientist Dr. Mordechai Kedar told a Moslem show host on the Arabic-language Al Jazeera television network, "Jews were in Jerusalem while your ancestors were drinking wine and blowing to idols." In a heated debate with the narrator, he added, "We don't need your permission to build" in the capital of Israel, Jerusalem.

The encounter occurred earlier this week, when Jews around the world celebrated Jerusalem Unification Day. Dr. Kedar has frequently appeared on the widely viewed Qatar-based network but this time encountered a sharp attack from the show's host, Jimal Rian.

"Building in Jerusalem is another nail in the coffin in negotiations with the Palestinian Authority," narrator Jimal Rian asserted. Dr. Kedar answered in fluent Arabic, "This was our capital 3,000 years ago, and we were here when your forefathers were drinking wine, burying girls alive and worshipping pre-Muslim idols. This is our city and it will be our city forever."

His reference to Muslims drinking wine, which is forbidden in Islam, infuriated the host. Rian wagged his finger in the air and said excitedly, "If you want to talk about history, you cannot erase Jerusalem from the Koran, and don’t attack the Muslim religion if we want to continue talking."

Dr. Kedar replied, "Jerusalem is not mentioned even once in the Koran. Jerusalem is a Jewish city."

The Al Jazeera host responded by quoting a verse from the Koran in which he thought Jerusalem was mentioned by name, but stopped in the middle upon realizing that it only refers to "the farthest place."

Dr. Kedar: "Jerusalem is not mentioned in the Koran even once. You can't rewrite the Koran on air on Al Jazeera."

In case you're wondering... from the koran, Sura 17, verse 1:

"Glory to Him who caused His servant to travel by night from the Sacred Mosque to the Farthest Mosque, whose precincts We have blessed, in order to show him some of Our Signs, He is indeed the All-Hearing, the All-Seeing."

The moslems base their claim to Jerusalem on this verse, which is based on mohammad's claim that Allah miraculously transported him there from mecca in one night, on the back of al-Buraq, a magical horse with the head of a woman, wings of an eagle, the tail of a peacock, and hoofs reaching to the horizon.

Of course, only one of his followers at the time believed mohammed's magical horse claim, everyone else believed he was full of proverbial poo-poo. The one person who did, Abu Bakr, was henceforth known as "al-Siddiq" (the "believer").

Despite arab attempts to revise history, the cult of islam was established 1300 years ago, more then 1700 years after Jews made Jerusalem their capital. The prophet of doom never made it to Jerusalem, and the word "Jerusalem" appears nowhere in the koran. The city of Jerusalem is mentioned 622 times in the Torah by name and is referred to thousands of times by other names.

I was slightly amused to note that Jimal Rian was "outraged" at the suggestion that moslems were drinking wine back in the day, and was not troubled at all by the suggestion that moslems were burying girls alive. Of course, the moslems have since changed that practice, now they only bury them to the waist, and throw stones at them until they are dead. Such is the progress of 1300 years of islam.

Dr. Kedar, Kol HaKavod!

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June 02, 2008

Powerful Words

From a Righteous Man:

and you wonder why I hold McCain in such contempt?

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June 01, 2008

Today's Hamasshole

Nader Abu Shaban:

Health officials in Gaza City said Saturday morning that an explosion in the house of a Hamas gunman has killed the man and wounded 16 relatives and neighbors.

The Palestinian Interior Ministry said it was investigating the cause of Saturday's blast at the home of Hamas operative Nader Abu Shaban.

Hamas sources said Abu Shaban was handling explosives when the blast went off. Doctors said two of the 16 wounded are in critical condition.

la la la...

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May 29, 2008

Today's Zionist Conspiracy

B.J.'s bj...

"If a Democrat comes to power, like [Bill] Clinton – who served them well in Oslo and elsewhere, and almost served them in the second Camp David, but then, he made statements [they didn't like] – what did Zionism do? It sent him the Jewish Monica, with whom Clinton had sex in the American White House. Clinton left [the White House], but there are thousands of pages documenting his sexual depravity, because he had sex in the White House. I read a report that Clinton used to call Arab leaders and talk to them, while she was having sex with him." -- Saleh Riqab, Hamas deputy minister of religious endowment, Al-Aqsa Terrorist TV on May 14, 2008

But wait! There's more!

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Defining Treason


What did MK Prof. Arieh Eldad say to earn a death threat? He quoted the law:

"There is not a sane nation in the world that gives up the territory of its homeland," MK Eldad declared, in response to statements by senior politicians in the Kadima party in favor of relinquishing the Golan to Syria. "Whoever removes land from the State of Israel's sovereign territory is subject to the death penalty," Eldad explained, adding, "Giving away the Golan Heights to Syria is treason, and the punishment for a person who commits treason under Israeli law is death."

It's true.

Section B: Treason

97 (a). A person who, with intent to violate the sovereignty of the state, commits an act that has the potential to violate the state's sovereignty is liable to life imprisonment or the death penalty.

97 (b). A person who, with intent that any area be withdrawn from the sovereignty of the state or placed under the sovereignty of a foreign state, commits an act that has the potential to bring this about is liable to life imprisonment or the death penalty...

Its likely too late to prop up Ariel Sharon before a firing squad, but its not too late to put Olmert before one, alongside thee rest of the members of Knesset who voted for the expulsion of Jews from Gaza is guilty.

I hope Mr. Berman enjoys all the attention I am sure he is getting.

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May 25, 2008

Today's Not News

For the past year, Netivot has been the choice location for families moving from Sderot to escape the daily barrage of rockets raining down from the terrorists in Gaza. Most Sderot refugees prefer to rent rather than buy, with the hope of returning to Sderot one day soon. And now...

Olmert does nothing to stop these terrorists while the rest of the world, including the United States of America, sends them money, money that is used to buy more rockets, more bombs, so they can kill more Jews.

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May 20, 2008

Presented without commentary

None needed:

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May 18, 2008

Who Would Mohammed Bomb?

Well... now that there are no Jews in Gaza to bomb, the arabs who are not lucky enough to own rocket launchers are being forced to satisfy their murder lust with the bombing of Christians, and... of course... each other:

Unknown assailants detonated a bomb outside a popular cafe in Gaza City early Sunday morning, apparently part of a campaign by shadowy extremists to eliminate perceived symbols of Western influence.

The pre-dawn blast smashed the cafe's windows and damaged its door. No one was hurt.

Cafe owner Khalid Harbid said another bomb went off outside his cafe last month. He charged that Gaza's Hamas rulers are not protecting his business.

On Friday, assailants detonated a bomb outside a Christian school, causing no injuries.

Over the past two years, extremists in Gaza have detonated bombs near cafes, hairdressers, record stores and institutions linked to the area's tiny Christian community, an apparent campaign to shut down Western-style or non-Islamic outlets.

Best quote from the article:

"My cafe has become Sderot," Harbid said, referring the Israeli town that is the target of daily Palestinian rocket fire.

and... the Hamas regime is pursuing a policy of enforcing a strict Islamic moral code. Now that's something to look forward to! What the heck. Let's give 'em a state, wall it off, and wait till they exterminate each other.

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May 16, 2008

Say What?

Words...

The fight against terror and extremism is the defining challenge of our time. It is more than a clash of arms. It is a clash of visions, a great ideological struggle. On the one side are those who defend the ideals of justice and dignity with the power of reason and truth. On the other side are those who pursue a narrow vision of cruelty and control by committing murder, inciting fear, and spreading lies.

This struggle is waged with the technology of the 21st century, but at its core it is an ancient battle between good and evil. The killers claim the mantle of Islam, but they are not religious men. No one who prays to the God of Abraham could strap a suicide vest to an innocent child, or blow up guiltless guests at a Passover Seder, or fly planes into office buildings filled with unsuspecting workers. In truth, the men who carry out these savage acts serve no higher goal than their own desire for power. They accept no God before themselves. And they reserve a special hatred for the most ardent defenders of liberty, including Americans and Israelis.

And that is why the founding charter of Hamas calls for the "elimination" of Israel. And that is why the followers of Hezbollah chant "Death to Israel, Death to America!" That is why Osama bin Laden teaches that "the killing of Jews and Americans is one of the biggest duties." And that is why the President of Iran dreams of returning the Middle East to the Middle Ages and calls for Israel to be wiped off the map.

There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness in these men and try to explain away their words. It's natural, but it is deadly wrong. As witnesses to evil in the past, we carry a solemn responsibility to take these words seriously. Jews and Americans have seen the consequences of disregarding the words of leaders who espouse hatred. And that is a mistake the world must not repeat in the 21st century.

Some seem to believe that we should negotiate with the terrorists and radicals, as if some ingenious argument will persuade them they have been wrong all along. We have heard this foolish delusion before. As Nazi tanks crossed into Poland in 1939, an American senator declared: "Lord, if I could only have talked to Hitler, all this might have been avoided." We have an obligation to call this what it is -- the false comfort of appeasement, which has been repeatedly discredited by history.

Some people suggest if the United States would just break ties with Israel, all our problems in the Middle East would go away. This is a tired argument that buys into the propaganda of the enemies of peace, and America utterly rejects it. Israel's population may be just over 7 million. But when you confront terror and evil, you are 307 million strong, because the United States of America stands with you.

So sayeth President George W. Bush at the Knesset and he is absolutely, positively, right, but... words mean nothing when you don't practice what you preach, and George W. Bush most certainly does not practice what he preached at the Knesset.

Following is a list of innnocent people who have been maimed and murdered during George W. Bush's presidency, maimed and murdered by terrorists, in terrorist attacks perpetuated by the palestinian terrorists of the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades. The Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which is the military arm of President Bush's pet terrorist, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Fatah Party:

May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving in the West Bank between Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 29, 2001 - Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 18, 2001 - Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was shot and killed in his car by sniper fire near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli, 19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers, members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the Palestinian terrorist security forces, were killed by IDF soldiers.

Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman, 58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon near the entrance to the village of Zaita, opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 06, 2001 - Lt. Erez Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A female officer with him in the car was seriously injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 11, 2001 - Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv, and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel, were killed just after midnight when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani, 26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning and her husband Shai was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem. The couple's three children who were traveling in the vehicle were not injured. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 04, 2001 - Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel. The Tanzim wing of Fatah claimed responsibility for the murder.

Nov 02, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.

Nov 29, 2001 - Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a homicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel; Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel; David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya'akov Tzarfati, 64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 15, 2002 - Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma'aleh Adumim, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem area. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 15, 2002 - Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev shortly before 20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car was injured. The Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra'anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a homicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.

Feb 06, 2002 - Miri Ohana, 45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier, St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She'an, was also killed in the attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.

Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a homicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi, 30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky, 20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman, 20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21, of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21, of Haifa were killed and one wounded in an attack near a roadblock west of Ramallah. Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers at the roadblock, including three off-duty soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock, killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian terrorist employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.

Mar 02, 2002 - Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a homicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

Mar 03, 2002 - Ten Israelis - 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria: Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.) David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat, 26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss, 24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Birmov, 33, of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 05, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 05, 2002 - Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka, 9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye, 27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and two soldiers were injured early Thursday morning when a tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.

Mar 21, 2002 - Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a homicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29, 2002 - Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female homicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female terrorist blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with two Palestinian terrorists trying to cross into Israel to carry out a terrorist attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Mar 30, 2002 - One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a homicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian terrorist driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 04, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured when a terrorist detonated himself in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Apr 04, 2002 - Border Police Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Apr 12, 2002 - Nissan Cohen, 57; Rivka Fink, 75; Suheila Hushi, 48; and Yelena Konrab, 43, all of Jerusalem; and Ling Chang Mai, 34, and Chai Siang Yang, 32, both foreign workers from China, were killed and 104 people were wounded when a woman terrorist blew hereselt up by detonating a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 20, 2002 - Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21 of Ashkelon was killed in an exchange of fire near the Erez industrial park in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pursued the Palestinian terrorist gunman and killed him. An explosive belt was found on his body. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

May 27, 2002 - Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a terrorist detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road. Maloul and his cousin, who was lightly injured, were returning home to Jerusalem from Eli, where they operate the swimming pool. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 28, 2002 - Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya'akov; Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian terrorist gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball, before he was shot dead by a security guard. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2002 - Seven people were killed and 50 injured - three of them in critical condition - when a homicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2002 - Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 10, 2002 - IDF officer Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy commander of a Givati reconaissance unit, was killed by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire while conducting a search for weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting.

Jul 25, 2002 - Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, of Peduel, was killed and another civilian injured in a shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 26, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 30, 2002 - Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 04, 2002 - Yekutiel Amitai, 34, of Jerusalem, a security guard, and Nizal Awassat, 52, of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in East Jerusalem, were killed and 17 were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. Border policemen exchanged fire with the gunman, killing him. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 05, 2002 - Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 03, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian terrorist Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 10, 2002 - Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home. The terrorist was killed by soldiers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 05, 2002 - 1st Lt. Malik Grifat, 24, of Zarzir was killed and a soldier wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire, from a crowded school, towards an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 18, 2002 - Yosef Ajami, 36, of Jerusalem was killed Wednesday afternoon when terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. The other occupant of the car, a foreign worker, was lightly injured. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 29, 2002 - Three Hermesh residents - Orna Eshel, 53, Linoy Saroussi and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed and two were wounded when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 05, and Noam, 04, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 28, 2002 - Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Ya'acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48 - all of Beit She'an; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about 40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 02, 2003 - The charred body of Massoud Makhluf Alon, 72, from Menahemiya in the Lower Galilee, was found in the northern Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 05, 2003 - Twenty-three people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals - were killed and about 120 wounded when two terrorists blew themselves up near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.

Feb 06, 2003 - 2nd Lt. Amir Ben-Aryeh, 21, of Maccabim, and St.-Sgt. Idan Suzin, 20, of Kiryat Tivon were killed and two more soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack in the area of Nablus. Both gunmen were killed by return fire from IDF troops. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 19, 2003 - Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern Jordan Valley. The PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 24, 2003 - Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a terrorist bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 30, 2003 - Ran Baron, 23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass, 29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of Holon, were murdered and about 60 people were wounded when a terrorist bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub, "Mike's Place," in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.

May 05, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Ahiya, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 11, 2003 - Zion David, 53, of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem, was shot in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorists in a roadside ambush half a kilometer from Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2003 - Kiryl Shremko, 22, of Afula; Hassan Ismail Tawatha, 41, of Jisr a-Zarqa; and Avi Zerihan, 36, of Beit Shean were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a terrorist bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 08, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She'an; and Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming responsibility for the attack.

Jun 12, 2003 - Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian terrorist sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 17, 2003 - Noam Leibowitz, 7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members of her family wounded in a shooting attack near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 26, 2003 - Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots were fired by a Palestinian terrorist teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 30, 2003 - Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.

Jul 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian terrorist armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafe and was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 29, 2003 - Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, of Homesh was killed in a shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 04, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Gabriel Uziel, 20, of Givat Ze'ev was shot and mortally wounded by a terrorist sniper in Jenin; he died en route to the hospital. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Erez Idan, 19, of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Elad Pollack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roi Ya'acov Solomon, 21, of Tel Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Lt. Leonardo (Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2004 - Ro'i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or, 20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed and 10 wounded when a female terrorist detonated herself at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a terrorist bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist policeman from Bethlehem.

Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a terrorist bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area.

Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double terrorist detonation at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology for killing a non-Jew.

Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 25, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 02, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunfire following a search in the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Sep 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a terrorist bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 21, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami, 21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire from Palestinian terrorist territory west of the community. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF post at the Rafah crossing, followed by the infiltration of the post by two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device. Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp. Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat.

Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot; Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Mar 1, 2006 - Eldar Abir, 48, of Migdalim was killed when two Palestinian shot him at point blank range at the gas station near Migdalim in the West Bank. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 17, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and six IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist activity. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 27, 2006 - The burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 19, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjoun, 21, of Yehud was killed when a terrorist opened fire at the Bekaot chekpoint in the Jordan Valley. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2007 - Three people were killed in a suicide bombing in a bakery in the southern city of Eilat: bakery employees and Eilat residents Emi Haim Elmaliah, 32, Michael Ben Sa'adon, 27, and Israel Zamalloa, 26. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 24, 2008 - Border Guard Lance Corporal Rami Zuari, 20, of Beersheva was shot and killed at a checkpoint at the northern entrance to Shuafat, north of Jerusalem. The Battalions of Struggle and Return, a previously anonymous offshoot of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Remember, this is not a complete list of terrorist attacks against innocent people in Israel since President Bush was elected, this is only a list of those attacks claimed by Mahmoud Abbas's Al Aqsa Brigades, the only terrorist group which carries the George W. Bush Seal of Approval. The complete list can be found here.

But wait... there's more...

Twenty-nine-year old Ido Zoldan of Shavei Shomron was murdered on November 19, 2007 in a terror attack, leaving behind his wife Tehila and his children, three-year-old Aharon and one-year-old Rachel.

Ido Zoldan and his family were putting their lives together after being expelled from their home in the community of Homesh during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza.

Who killed him?

Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah terrorist branch, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it carried out the attack to demonstrate its opposition to the Annapolis conference.

But wait! There's more, yes, there is always more:

Later, we found out that one day after the terror attack, the IDF arrested three "Palestinian policemen" for the murder of Ido Zoldan, two of them confessed, and they picked up the third.

Yes. And they waited a week before telling us who was behind this murder, to avoid any negative press before Annapolis, so Condi Rice could sit down and schmooze with Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the most active and evil terrorist group in the world.

And... in case you are wondering, yes, these would be the same "Palestinian policemen" that the United States of America has supported, armed and trained to kill, using our tax dollars to support terrorism.

Call them Hamas or Fatah, no matter, they are one and the same, a people with no conscience, no soul, no compassion, no empathy, no values. They desire only death and destruction, that is the sum total of their hopes and dreams and that is their only goal.

And... they will be coming for you, and for your children, and they'll be bringing their guns and their bomb belts and yes, their swords, all which have been paid for with your tax dollars. It is what they have been raised to do, trained to do, it is what they have been born to do. And make no mistake, with every condemnation of Israel, with every U.N. Resolution, with every bit of support from the international community, with every "Free Palestine" rally on the streets of the world, with every U.S. dollar sent, it is what America and the rest of the world is helping them to do.

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May 11, 2008

Thorns

First it was written:

"And if you do not drive out the inhabitants of the Land from before you, then those of them whom you allow to remain will become spikes in your eyes and thorns in your sides; and they will harass you upon the Land in which you dwell." -- Numbers 33:55

and now:

"In the beginning, in 1948, we were 150,000 Palestinians; and today, we are 1,300,000 thorns in their sides and rocks on their chests." -- Sheikh Kamal Khatib, Deuputy head of the Israeli Islamic Movement, Northern Branch, on May 9, 2008 at the Naqba rally in Kafr Kana, Israel.

At least 21 Qassam rockets fired from the Gaza Strip struck the western Negev on Saturday. A mortar strike filred by Hamas killed Jimmy Kdoshim, a 48-year-old Israeli civilian, as he was tending the garden of his home on Kibbutz Kfar Aza.

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May 08, 2008

The Independence Dance



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May 05, 2008

Its hard to say Happy Birthday

But it is equally hard to let the day pass unnoticed.

Ron Arad was born on May 5, 1958 in Israel. He is the son of Batya and the late Dov Arad, and is the oldest of their three sons. Arad, an air-force navigator in an F-4 Phantom jet, had just completed his first year of chemical engineering at The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa when he was called up for reserve duty.

On October 16, 1986, while on a mission over southern Lebanon, Lieutenant Colonel Ron Arad and his pilot were forced to parachute out of their Phantom jet due to a technical problem. While the pilot was rescued in a daring helicopter raid, Arad fell captive to terrorists belonging to the Amal organization.

About a year after his capture, Israel received photographs and letters from Arad’s captors.

Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him. It is believed that Dirani then "sold" Arad to either Hizbullah or Iranian elements.

According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, as recently as 2003, three former Iranian diplomats and intelligence officials living in Europe claimed that Ron Arad is alive and being held in a prison near Tehran.

These reports cannot be verified.

One of them claimed that Arad was being held in a secret, heavily-guard prison near Tehran in the late 1990's. He claimed that he had access to Arad's files, saw Arad several times, and even exchanged words with him.

According to this Iranian, Arad tried to escape from his captivity while in Lebanon and was shot and wounded by his guards. He claims that in mid 1994, Arad was transferred via Syria to Iran. He claims that before being transferred, Arad underwent an operation to paralyze his legs in order to prevent him from escaping, and that as a result, Arad is confined to a wheelchair. He also claimed that Arad was hospitalized twice for heart problems.

Twenty years later, we know nothing about the fate of Ron Arad.

Or do we?

Nick Berg's body was found decapitated on May 8, 2004 on a Baghdad overpass by a U.S. military patrol. Berg's family was informed of his death on May 10. Military sources stated publicly at that time that Berg's body showed "signs of trauma", but did not disclose that he had been decapitated.

On May 11, 2004, the website of the militant Islamist group Muntada al-Ansar [6] allegedly broadcast a video with the opening title of "Abu Musa'b al-Zarqawi slaughters an American", which supposedly shows Berg being decapitated.

Is Nick Berg dead? Yes, and likely beheaded afterwards, but is the man seen in the beheading video Nick Berg?

Journalist Jamie Francis of the St. Petersburg Times ran into Nick at a gym in Baghdad's old Jewish quarter less than a month before this video was released. Nick was a regular at the gym and well known by its owner. Francis described Nick's ivory skin and thin red beard, adding that Nick looked the part of a construction worker, and spoke of Nick's muscular build.

The victim in the video does not have ivory skin or a red beard, he is not muscular at all, is much smaller than Nick Berg and he looks nothing like Nick Berg. However, he does look a lot like Ron Arad.

Question: How do you know an islamist is lying?
Answer: His lips are moving.

The victim in the video did not stand up or even move his legs through anything that was happening. He sat on the floor, legs bent at the knees. When they flipped him over sideways, his legs did not move, the body just fell onto the floor. This lead some to believe that the victim was heavily sedated, however, this is consistent with reports that Arad had been disabled to prevent escape.

The quality of the movie is not consistent with today's technology, and voice-overs cannot be confirmed. The sound could easily have been dubbed over. Despite the lies perpetuated by CNN, the voice over on the video has been confirmed as Zarqawi.

Coincidentally, Arad was in news at the time of the release of the beheading video. His remains were being used as a negotiation tool by Hezbullah, who were seeking an exchange of live terrorists for his remains. Israeli intelligence and defense officials have said that another purpose of the recent spate of media reports on Arad is to try to remove Iran from the picture. Hezbullah of course is Iran's hit squad.

The same day the execution video was posted on the internet, Hezbullah announced they had located Ron Arad's grave in Lebanon. A short time later, they handed over a piece of bone supposedly that of Ron Arad's. The bone was proved to be fake a few days later.

I don't believe in coincidence. Remember, these are the same people who released photos of a toy marine, claiming to have captured another member of the U.S. Military.

I believe Nick Berg is dead, I believe that Ron Arad is dead. What I do not believe is that Nick Berg was the man in the video, I believe that man was Ron Arad. I believe the video was made years ago, and withheld to be released at an opportune time. I believe that eventually, it was decided that a "Ron Arad" beheading was less valuable than a "Nick Berg" beheading and that the timing of the release of the video was a "crime of opportunity." As Moshe Dyan once said, "The Arabs will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

I am not alone in my beliefs. You may look at the pictures, look at the video and draw your conclusion.

We may never know the truth behind the video.

When I think about Nick Berg and Ron Arad, I cannot help but think of Johnny "Mike" Spann who was attacked by a mob of Islamist prisoners and beaten to death, his body full of bites as though animals had been tearing at his flesh.

Know thy enemy.

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The Art of Corruption

Ha’aretz claims that their probe indicates that the current Olmert investigation revolves around Olmert using his position to help promote his wife’s artwork and art career.

After looking at Aliza "art," it seems more likely that Joe's wife is right, its a case of easy campaign finance, or... buy the politician's wife’s artwork in exchange for favors.

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May 02, 2008

Don't turn away, look

horror unbelievable, yet true.

To deny the Holocaust is the moral equivalent of taking upon yourself personal responsibility for it, as if you yourself participated in committing these atrocities against mankind.

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April 28, 2008

Reason #9438272874859

Why I don't watch television:

CBS’s Simon to Israeli Air Force Pilot: ‘You Don't Look Like a Killer’

On Sunday’s CBS "60 Minutes," anchor Bob Simon talked to members of the Israeli Air Force and asked one pilot, Captain Omri, about air strikes in the Gaza strip in which civilians occasionally are killed:

It's a classic guerilla war. Fifty dollar rockets made in the back alleys of Gaza against Israel's $50,000 missiles. The Israelis will tell you that kind of expense buys precise weapons which limit collateral damage. But it also gives the air force the capability of assassinating their enemy's leadership. The Israelis call this "targeted killings"; the Palestinians call it murder. Have you hit any targets?

Simon then went on to say to Omri: "But I must tell you, your face, your manners, your demeanor, you don't look like a killer. And yet what you do a lot of the time when you're over Gaza, you're killing." The pilot responded: "I agree. I don't think I'm a killer. When I look at my face in the mirror, I don't see a killer."

What would you expect from a man who yearns to recapture the days when he was held hostage and beaten by those who imprisoned him because he found the experience to be more intense than taking drugs?

He's more than just a moron, he's a friggin' moron.

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April 21, 2008

No clear winner emerged

from the Annual Holy Frond Fight in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

Christian Armenian worshippers scuffle with Israeli policemen inside Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Israeli police rushed into the church to break up fist fights between dozens of Greek and Armenian worshippers on Orthodox Palm Sunday, witnesses said. (AFP/Gali Tibbon)

Israeli police rushed into Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulchre to break up fist fights between dozens of Greek and Armenian worshippers on Orthodox Palm Sunday, witnesses said. Some 20 officers intervened after Armenian worshippers threw a Greek Orthodox priest out of the church, sparking a free-for-all, they said.

Several worshippers then started beating the police officers with palm fronds they were holding for the Palm Sunday celebrations that mark the return of Jesus to the Holy City a week before he was crucified.

After the incident, dozens of members of Jerusalem's Armenian community marched from the church to the Old City's police headquarters in protest at the detention of two Armenians.

Brawls are not uncommon at the church, which is shared by various branches of Christianity, each of which controls and jealously guards part of site -- considered one of the holiest in Christianity.

Precisely in order to prevent such disturbances, two Muslim families have been entrusted for the past 800 years with opening and closing the gates of the church, a cavernous labyrinth of chapels and crypts built on the site where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified and buried.

Over 800 years of brawling in church, now that's what I call tradition. Really, it just wouldn't be Easter without it!

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April 17, 2008

Move 'em out of Gaza

Give them what they want!

(IsraelNN.com) Eighty percent of the residents of Gaza find it difficult to cope with the situation there and are considering emigration, a survey by the Gaza-based Institute of Development Studies has found. Gazans are finding it progressively more difficult to deal with the economic situation there, according to the institute, and 44 percent said explicitly that they want to leave Gaza.

The findings of a Near East Consulting poll released Tuesday showed that some 94 percent of Gaza residents believe their economic situation under Hamas rule is significantly worse than it was before the terrorist organization took over the region. Hamas ousted the rival Fatah faction in what amounted to a civil war. Now Hamas controls Gaza; Fatah controls the PA areas of Judea and Samaria. In elections before the military coup a majority of the Arabs who live in those areas voted for Hamas.

The survey, which polled 900 Gaza residents, found that 64 percents of respondents live under the poverty line. More than two out of every five, (41 percent) said they would leave Gaza immediately if they could. Half of those polled feel less security since Hamas took over the region in June 2007 and 18 percent feel no change in the level of security. Some 32 percent said they feel more security since Hamas took control of Gaza.

There are less than 5 milliion arabs registered as refugees with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). UNRWA’s sole purpose is to help the "palestinian refugees." Its regular cash and in-kind budget for 2007 is $505 million dollars, but no matter what the budget, its never enough. Every year, UNRWA launches repeated emergency appeals for emergency food, employment and cash assistance, in 2007 UNRWA was begging for an additional $246 million to cover emergency needs, yes, $246 million dollars above and beyond its $505 million dollar budget.

Over $700 million dollars was spent by UNRWA in 2007 alone, to keep 5 million arabs living in what is claimed to be sub-human conditions, in poverty and starvation. Over seven hundred million dollars in cash money, and that's without factoring in millions in aid sent directly to the Palestinian Authority in cold cash, food, medicine, and of course, weapons.

Seven hundred million dollars in one year, to support five million people living in poverty. Think about how much money has been spent by UNWRA over time, or even in just the past 10 years.

Why not give each and every so-called refugee arab the money to move to the islamic country of their choice, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, England, France, Indonesia, where they would be free to live their lives amongst their people, under the islamic laws they so desire? Why not put an end to the insanity of the "palestinian refugee" problem once and for all?

Why is the world at large so opposed to the dismantling of the camps and giving them the freedom to choose their own destiny, to make a life for themselves?

By its own admission, UNRWA "is by far the largest United Nations operation in the Middle East." It employs some "24,324 staff, of whom more than 99 per cent are locally-recruited Palestinians, almost all of them Palestine refugees." UNRWA's international staff posts and senior staff posts are paid for by the UN, the World Health Organization and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and yet...

Staff costs account for two-thirds of the Agency's regular budget.

Think about that for a minute. According to the UNRWA website, international and senior staff are paid by other organizations. That means that two-thirds of the budget, two-thirds of $505 million dollars, is spent on staff costs, staff that consists of 24,324 palestinians. Oh how I would love to go over their checkbooks.

All that money spent all these years past, we are talking about billions and billions of donated dollars, and these arabs are no better off. Why? They are pawns in a much bigger game, big business, UN business. If the camps were dismantled and the people absorbed into other arab countries, as they should have been right from the beginning, the UN would have nothing to talk about at their meetings, no resolutions to pass, no one to condemn, nothing to do whatsoever.

That is one reason why the palestinians are forced into "refugee" camps by the UN and kept there for decades, and the other reason is, the destruction of Israel.

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." -- PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977

All that money is spent, year after year, decade after decade, supposedly to support a fictional people who do not exist except as pawns to be used by others to destroy the State of Israel, money spent solely to support UNRWA officials and palestinian leaders, and to fight the existence of Israel.

All that money certainly isn't helping the "poor downtrodden palestinians," who obviously would prefer to get out of the game and get on with their lives.

There is only one way to help the palestinians:

They want it.

The problem is, the world doesn't pay any attention whatsoever to what the "palestinian people" want, and the world won't listen to them either, unless of course, they are complaining about the evil Jews in Israel. That's when the world listens.

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April 15, 2008

Welcome to Israel

What does daily life look like in Israel and the Palestinian territory? Two editors of the Arabic desk of Radio Netherlands Worldwide, Nicolien den Boer and Abir Sarras, will be - separately - travelling through the region in the coming weeks.

Their trip coincides with the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel and the commemoration of the naqba (catastrophe) for the Palestinians. They are keeping a travel diary.

In the first contribution of Nicolien den Boer: five hours at Tel Aviv airport.

It’s 4 a.m. at Tel Aviv Airport and this is the third time I’ve been questioned so far. My passport has stamps from various Arab countries: Dubai, Yemen and archenemy Syria. Finally I get my passport back and am allowed to enter.

If they treat me, a Dutch woman like this, what’s it like for a Palestinian? I’d started going on about getting the Dutch embassy involved. I even rang them up - they were closed, of course. But a Palestinian wouldn’t have any embassy to call. I’m trying not to think in simplistic terms of ‘good guy, bad guy’, but it’s difficult.

I save my complaint for the government press office in Jerusalem, where I go to pick up my press card the next day. “Security measures,” is the explanation I get from the press officer, a tired looking woman by the name of Pnina Aizenman. “What do you think it’s like for us, waking up each morning and never knowing what the day will bring?” she says, clearly referring to Palestinian suicide attacks on Israeli civilians.

While Pnina’s busy getting my press card ready, I take a look at the photos of children and a newspaper article on the wall behind me. The article is about a woman who lost her mother and her five-year-old child in a Palestinian suicide bombing. The name of the woman is Pnina Aizenman. I get the shivers. “That’s you,” I stammer. “Yes. Do you understand now what I mean by security measures?” she replies. I suddenly feel ashamed that I’ve just been complaining about being kept waiting for five hours when this woman’s life has been totally wrecked by a bomb.

Reality sucks sometimes, doesn't it?

Visit Sderot Nicole.

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April 09, 2008

Guess Who?

Guess who is meeting with Hamas?

NEW YORK CITY — Former President Jimmy Carter is reportedly preparing an unprecedented meeting with the leader of Hamas, an organization that the U.S. government considers one of the leading terrorist threats in the world.

The Arabic-language newspaper Al-Hayat reported Tuesday that Carter was planning a trip to Syria for mid-April, during which he would meet with Khaled Meshal, the exiled head of the Palestinian terror group Hamas, on April 18.

This is an outstanding opportunity for Hamas! Is it too much to hope for, that Al-Hayat will realize what a wonderful hostage Jimmy Carter would make? I sure would like to see a video of his sorry ass sitting in front of bunch of jihadis with a flag, some AKs and at least one kitchen knife. Yep, I'd call that a win-win situation, just think! Carter could give his all for his principles and beliefs, and we would be spared having to listen to the happy horseshit that pours out of his mouth every time he opens it. I'd call it poetic justice, and it would surely be a very fitting end to a very stupid man.

And... as long as we're playing guess who, guess who said this...

… I am opposed to an independent Palestinian state, because in my own judgement and in the judgement of many leaders in the Middle East, including Arab leaders, this would be a destabilizing factor in the Middle East and would certainly not serve the United States interests.

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…we oppose the creation of an independent Palestinian state. The United States, as all of you know, has a warm and unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America’s own strategic interests.

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We are committed to Israel’s security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer to the world. A strong Israel and a strong Egypt serve our own security interests.We are committed to Israel’s right to live in peace with all its neighbors, within secure and recognized borders, free from terrorism. We are committed to a Jerusalem that will forever remain undivided with free access to all faiths to the holy places. Nothing will deflect us from these fundamental principles and committments.

The answer is... Jimmy Carter and he said it back in 1980. I wonder, what was it that deflected him from those fundamental principles and committments? How did Carter get from there to here:

I suppose we'll never know.

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April 04, 2008

The Golan Heights Model

Because nothing succeeds like success...

Have you ever asked yourself where the safest place in Israel is? Where do you not have to worry about Arabs throwing rocks at your car? Where can you walk around at night without fear of arms or drugs smugglers crossing the border? Where don't missiles fly and where don't bombs explode? In short, where is the place that you are safest from both external enemies and from internal Arab terror and crime?

That place is the Golan Heights. Without even trying, possibly even by mistake, Israel enjoys real peace there. Any new peace plan must follow the principles that have brought us true peace in the Golan.

There are just five easy steps...

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March 19, 2008

Tomorrow!




Together for Israel

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March 18, 2008

Step by Step

inch by inch, we move closer to the Day of Reckoning:

The Palestinian Authority is planning to mark Israel's 60th anniversary by calling on all Palestinians living abroad to converge on Israel by land, sea and air.

The plan, drawn by Ziad Abu Ein, a senior Fatah operative and Deputy Minister for Prisoners' Affairs in the Palestinian Authority, states that the Palestinians have decided to implement United Nations Resolution 194 regarding the refugees.

Article 11 of the resolution, which was passed in December 1948, says that "refugees wishing to return to their homes and live at peace with their neighbors should be permitted to do so at the earliest practicable date, and that compensation should be paid for the property of those choosing not to return and for loss of or damage to property which, under principles of international law or in equity, should be made good by the Governments or authorities responsible."

The initiative is the first of its kind and is clearly aimed at embarrassing Israel during the anniversary celebrations by highlighting the issue of the "right of return" for the refugees.

Entitled "The Initiative of Return and Coexistence," the plan suggests that the PA has abandoned a two-state solution in favor of one state where all Arabs and Jews would live together.

"The Palestinians, backed by all those who believe in peace, coexistence, human rights and the UN resolutions, shall recruit all their energies and efforts to return to their homeland and live with the Jews in peace and security," the plan says.

"Fulfilling the right of return is a human, moral and legal will that can't be denied by the Jews or the international community. On the [60th] anniversary of the great suffering, the Palestinian people are determined to end this injustice."

Abu Ein's initiative, which has won the backing of many PA leaders in Ramallah, calls on all Israelis to welcome the Palestinians "who will be returning to live together with them in the land of peace."

The plan calls on the refugees to return to Israel on May 14, 2008 with their suitcases and tents so that they could settle in their former villages and towns. The refugees are also requested to carry UN flags upon their return and to be equipped with their UNRWA-issued ID cards.

I've discussed such a scenario many times in private conversations over the years. The question troubled me, what could Israel do if the palestinians sent their women and children marching into Israel? How could Israel stop it? How could Israel protect itself? The only answer would be by force and while that's just fine with me, it could be somewhat troublesome in the eyes of the rest of the world. Could Israel use overwhelming force against the invaders and still exist afterwards?

The question troubled me, but I have never written about it, after all, this is the internet and there's no sense in giving anyone ideas.

Now we have this "Initiative," which is not designed to embarrass Israel, oh no. It is designed to destroy Israel as a Jewish State, to kill the Jews and to overrun and overtake the land. There can be no coexistence with the palestinians, how can there be, when among the palestinian young, ages 18 -25, an overwhelming number - between 84% - 93% -- deny Israel's right to exist. How can there be, when overall, 75% of palestinians deny Israel's right to exist.

And now, the invaders are coming, with their suitcases and their tents, their bomb belts and their guns and their knives and their sticks and their stones. They are coming to kill the Jews and they will put their women and children on the front lines, and try to overrun the checkpoints. Hezbollah and Hamas will likely attack at the same time, and engage the IDF. If the arabs kill a few arabs, so what? They will blame the deaths on Israel, as they have before.

What will happen?

In the end, it will be Israel's citizens who decide what will happen.

I know what those on the right will do, and I support them in the fight to keep their land, to keep Israel a Jewish State. But I wonder, what will the leftists do, those who want to give the country to the arabs to make peace. Will they give up their homes and their lives to the invaders, or will they fight for life and for Eretz Yisrael?

If this really happens, it could be the final Day of Reckoning. May 14, 2008.

Isaiah 31:4 For thus saith the LORD unto me: Like as the lion, or the young lion, growling over his prey, though a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them; so will the LORD of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

Isaiah 31:5 As birds hovering, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.

I believe in miracles.

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March 17, 2008

Please let it be a gang thing

and not a copy cat thing:

ABC in Brooklyn is also reporting no injuries but there's not much information coming out. If you hear anything more, please let me know.

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Iranian Justice Seeking Students

want your kidneys "for the cause":

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian hardline students have offered rewards totalling a million dollars for the "execution" of three Israeli military leaders over the deadly strikes on Gaza, the student news agency ISNA reported on Monday.

The group is even encouraging Iranians to donate their kidneys to increase the bounties on the heads of Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad spy agency director Meir Dagan and military intelligence chief Amos Yadlin.

The rewards were announced by the Justice Seeking Students Group on Sunday at a ceremony in Tehran entitled "setting the bounty for the revolutionary execution of the designers of state terrorism," ISNA said.

The bounty for Barak is set at 400,000 dollars while those for Dagan and Yadlin are 300,000 each, the report said. It is not clear where the money is coming from.

"These sums will be given to any person or their families who could punish these individuals in any part of the world," the organisers of the event announced.

Pictures taken at the ceremony showed a banner bearing pictures of the three Israelis against the backdrop of an Israeli flag, with rifle sights stencilled onto the foreheads of the trio.

"Israel must be wiped off the map," read a quote from Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini printed on the top of the banner.

The event in Tehran was concluded by organisers distributing application forms for volunteers to donate kidneys to increase the bounties for the three men.

"This is one of the very good moves that shows we are ready to sacrifice our own health to support Palestinians and annihilate the heads of the Zionist regime," one of the event's organisers, Forouz Rajaifar, was quoted as saying.

Sheesh. Are the organizers donating their own kidneys?

Why not do the world a favor and just set each other on fire in protest?

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Surprise Surprise Surprise

An update to Upheaval:

Police: We were surprised by intensity of rightists' riots

The Jerusalem Police on Sunday failed to prevent hundreds of extreme right-wing activists from arriving at the east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber and hurling stones at its residents, despite repeated threats to by rightists to avenge the murder of eight yeshiva students in Jerusalem 10 days ago and destroy the terrorist's home.

"We were surprised by the intensity of the riots," a senior police official admitted.

Hundreds of extreme right-wing activists break through police barriers, enter east Jerusalem neighborhood of Jabel Mukaber in bid to destroy house of terrorist who killed eight yeshiva students in Jerusalem. Two policemen lightly hurt in clashes; 22 people arrested.

A senior police official told Ynet,"There was marked violence towards police personnel and local residents, and protestors stormed their way into the village using stones, fire crackers and anything else they could get their hands on."

Large police forces were deployed at Jerusalem's Armon Hanatziv promenade in a bid to block the protestors and prevent them from reaching the Arab neighborhood.

'We outflanked police and descended to the village'

According to the demonstration organizers, some 200 right-wing activists gathered at the Armon Hanatziv promenade, located above the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in the afternoon hours, where they were faced by about 100 police officers.

The rightists, who were unimpressed by the police forces' presence, turned to a banquet hall opposite the hill and outflanked the police forces from the left, arriving at the neighborhood's first houses within minutes.

According to the protestors, the police paid attention to what was happening only after a few minutes, and forces were sent to chase the activists.

"We descended to the village from around the UN building and threw stones at the homes of the Arabs, who shouted at us. Some tried to hurl stones, but most of them stayed at home," one of the organizers told Ynet.

Shortly afterwards, violent clashes erupted between the police and the rioters. When the activists began hurling stones at the neighborhood's homes, police forces began separating between the houses and the demonstrators. The rightists claimed that the police officers used excessive force.

"The Arabs of Israel and Jerusalem must understand that the Jews have stopped being suckers. If they identify with Hamas and Hizbullah, they will pay a price for it," one of the right-wing activists said.

According to Baruch Marzel, "What happened was unexpected. There is a limit to our tolerance and restraint. The police must know that there is a price for the fact that they are not demolishing the terrorist's house. Apparently other people have to complete the job for this to happen."

Itamar Ben-Gvir told Ynet, "This is only the beginning. This is the opening shot for a much more complicated struggle against our enemies. We are fed up with the fact that Jewish blood is abandoned and that the prime minister doesn’t care. The rage is erupting and leads to the incidents and anger we saw at the village."

Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of the Elon Moreh yeshiva said, "We are not here to fight the police, but rather to demand that the enemies be dealt with."

and...

The rightists called for revenge, and one of them told Ynet, "We are fed up with keeping silent. Jewish blood will not be abandoned. It's time to stop the defamation of God and this disgrace. We are going to destroy the terrorist's house."

Right-wing activist Itamar Ben-Gvir said, "The Israeli government and the Israel Police are responsible for what is happening in Jabel Mukaber."

"This is the beginning of our war on the fifth column. We shall not let them live amongst us," said one of the demonstrators, Nadia Matar of the Women in Green organization.

In the absence of any effective government, it is the people who must show the way.

UPDATE: Videos here.

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March 16, 2008

Haveil Havalim # 158

Thanks to Jack at Random Thoughts, The "Almost Purim" Edition of Haveil Havalim is up.

Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'

As always, there are some excellent articles linked. Two of my posts, In my heart, I knew it and Yadda Yadda, are included this week. Enjoy!

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March 13, 2008

Upheaval

BEREAVED FAMILIES TO MARCH ON TERRORIST'S JERUSALEM HOME

Posters have gone up around Jerusalem announcing a march on the house of the terrorist that murdered eight yeshiva students to take place Sunday. Bereaved families will be taking part.

"Getting up from mourning and taking action - destroying the home of the terrorist," proclaim the posters in large red letters. On the top, the terrorist's uncle is quoted: "We are proud of him and happy about his actions - every resident of Jabel Mukaber is," he said, referring to the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood where the terroristís family lives.

Organizers say that bereaved families, from the most recent attack as well as the thousands of victims since the Oslo Accords, will be taking part in the march and invite the masses to march on the Arab neighborhood with the aim of 'destroying the home of the murderer and expelling his family and supporters.'

Tzemach Hirschfeld, whose son was murdered at Merkaz HaRav last Thursday, told Arutz-7 that he calls on all to join in the scheduled march, and expressed his hope that the terrible murders will influence the government to act with greater resolve.

The march is set to begin at the Armon HaNetziv promenade in Jerusalem at 5 PM on Sunday.

"The Arab enemy that is among us - in Lod, Akko, Wadi Ara and in the holy city of Jerusalem - supports and encourages the murder of Jews," organizers wrote, followed by a quote from the Scroll of Esther, which will be read next week for the Purim Festival: "And there was an upheaval, what was to be done to the Jews was perpetrated upon their enemies."

The posters are signed by the Kommemiyut, Lev Yehudi, Women in Green and the bereaved families. Yesha Rabbis Council head Rabbi Dov Lior has also called on the public to participate.

In the absence of any effective government, it is the people who must show the way.

Am Yisrael Chai!

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Yadda Yadda

More bluster from Israel's Foreign Ministry:

(IsraelNN.com) Israel has decided to impose an official embargo of the Arabic Al Jazeera satellite TV network due to the Foreign Ministry's assessment that the station functions as a propaganda arm in the Arab war against the Jewish State.

"After discussions on the issue, the Foreign Ministry has decided to embargo the station," Deputy Foreign Minister Majali Wahabe told Army Radio Wednesday. "[Al Jazeera’s] reports are untrustworthy and they hurt us. They incite people to terrorist activities."

The Foreign Ministry intends to demand that Qatar, where Al Jazeera is based, investigate specific allegations regarding coverage of recent events in Gaza and other incidents. It alleges that Al Jazeera has cooperated fully with Hamas propoganda efforts.

Except...

As of yet, however, no press cards of Al Jazeera personnel have been revoked, and Israeli government spokesmen will continue to speak on the agency’s English-language channel.

Nothing but more bluster from the Israeli Ministry, a useless and stupid statement that will never see any real results in terms of what comes out Al Jazeera.

However, you might ask yourself, besides the obvious bias against Israel, what does CNN have in common with Al Jazeera? And... what does ABC, NBC, CBS, MSNBC, ESPN, and FOX News have in common with Al Jazeera? And... what does Reuters have in common with Al Jazeera?

The answer is... RRSat.

RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. is an experienced comprehensive world-class provider of end-to-end transmission via satellites and production services to the global broadcasting industry. The company was founded in 1981 and operates under license from the Israeli Ministry of Communications.

Yup. You read that right. RRSat is an Israeli company and these are some of their clients:

Al Jazeera, along with most of the mainstream media, relies on an Israeli company to distribute its anti-Israel propaganda, including their constant calls to boycott Israeli companies, and other companies that do business with Israel.

Irony is so... ironic.

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March 10, 2008

Fighting fire with fire


"From this day onwards, we will push back to the stone age every place which dares shoot missiles into Israel's sovereign territory. It is time the world understood Israelis' lives are not expendable."

"I'm afraid this is the only language the Palestinians understand, and this is the language in which we'll speak to them. I have many Gazan Palestinian friends who live as Hamas hostages. Once we bring an end to the rocket fire, Gaza's residents will also live in peace." -- Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor

Ashkelon resident Moshe Nissimpor decided that the best way to halt rocket fire from Gaza - in light of what he terms the government's failure to do so - is some vigilante justice.

Nissimpor developed a homemade 200-millimeter ballistic missile which he planned to launch from Ashkelon into the Gaza Strip.

Nissimpor arrived at the Ashkelon Municipality building with the missile painted black and lettered "to Hamas, from the residents of Ashkelon" in red, and was planning to launch it.

Ashkelon residents gathered round to cheer him on and protest the government's conduct, but at the eleventh hour, police stopped him from firing the missile and seized it.

"I wish there were more 'crazies' like me in Israel," Nissimpor said as the crowd was dispersed by the police.

Earlier Wdnesday, as the security cabinet met and emerged with a message that the government will stop the rocket attacks against Israeli communities from the Gaza Strip, three rockets struck the western Negev.

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March 09, 2008

In my heart, I knew it.

This is Alaa Abu Dheim:

He is the terrorist responsible for the death of 8 young Yeshiva students in Jerusalem this week. He carried a blue Israeli identity card and came from east Jerusalem and he worked as a driver at the seminary. But here's a little something about him that you likely won't read about in the mainstream media:

... he was arrested by Israeli authorities four months ago and then released two months later.

I was on vacation when this happened, but as soon as I heard, in my heart, I knew that if I looked long enough and hard enough, I would find that the murderer was a recently released prisoner. As soon as I had access to my computer, well, it didn't take all that long to find that out.

Fact: More than 50 Israeli Arabs have been arrested over the past three years on suspicion of being involved in terror. Nearly half of them are Palestinians who have received a permit to stay in Israel and an Israeli identity card on the backdrop of their marriage to an Israeli Arab, and terror groups seek to recruit them due to their access to Israeli targets.

No word on what he was locked up for in the first place, anyone want to take a guess? Israel let this bastard go as a gesture of good will after Annapolis. He didn't have blood on his hands when they let him go, but thanks to the international community, he got another chance at it and he damn sure has blood on his hands now, along with everyone connected with Annapolis and his release.

Abu Dheim is a perfect example of what happens when Israel releases terrorists from its prisons, Ehud Olmert let him go and he went right back to trying to kill Jews. His victims:

They were identified as: Yohai Lifshitz, 18, from Jerusalem; Yonatan Yitzhak Eldar, 16, from Shilo; Yonadav Haim Hirschfeld, 19, from Kohav Hashahar, Neria Cohen, 15, also from the capital, Segev Peniel Avihail, 15, from Neve Daniel, Avraham David Moses, 16, from Efrat, Roee Roth, 18, from Elkana and Doron Meherete, 26, from Ashdod.

Ten other young men were wounded in the attack, seven remain hospitalized. The public is asked to pray for the recovery of: Naftali ben [son of] Gila from Sderot, Yonatan ben Avital, Shimon ben Tirza, Nadav ben Hadas, Reuven ben Naomi and Elchanan ben Zehava.

Abu Dheim pulled the trigger, but the deaths of these 8 young men have been caused by the Annapolis peace process, and the appeasement of a terrorist nation whose soldiers live in safety as citizens of the State of Israel. They have been armed by the international community who turns a blind eye to the murder of Jews and a deaf ear to the tears and sorrow they cause.

These are the faces of 177 other Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons. If terrorism was punishable by death, these innocent people would be alive today, as would the 8 young men that we mourn today. Sadly, in Israel only Nazis are eligible for the death penalty, a truly stupid policy when you consider the number of Nazis in Israel as against the number of terrorists.

Israel will never get any sympathy nor support from the international community. No matter what we Jews do - or don't do, those that hate us will always hate us and they will always find some rationalization or justification for terrorism against us and for the murder of innocents among us.

Bottom line, no one respects a victim. When Israel won the 1967 war, she had international support in her fight to stay alive. Today, well...

My heart hurts.

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March 03, 2008

Well said!

Palestinian self-destruction from today's National Post:

On Friday, a 13-month-old Palestinian girl was killed by shrapnel in the Gaza town of Beit Hanoun. Hamas blamed Israel for the death. But according to locals, the deadly explosion occurred when a Palestinian rocket aimed at Israel went off course and blew up the victim's house. By the time the weekend was over, dozens more Palestinians would be killed -- as well as two Israeli soldiers -- as Israel waged an air and ground campaign against Palestinian rocket crews and their Hamas enablers.

As in any war, it is the child casualties that attract the greatest sympathy and anguish. But Friday's 13-month-old victim carries special significance: Her death by the Palestinians' own rocket fire perfectly symbolizes the self-destructive pathology that has afflicted the Palestinians since the 1960s. Palestinian leaders would quite literally prefer to slaughter their own people than turn Gaza into a normal country that deals on civilized terms with its neighbours.

On Saturday, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned Israel for "excessive and disproportionate" use of force. We reject that censure of Israeli actions, as should leaders of all civilized nations. No nation on Earth would sit back passively as a neighbouring territory bombarded its cities with rockets.

It is true that the Palestinians have suffered the bulk of the casualties in the ensuing counterterrorism operations. But such arithmetic does not change the moral calculus: It is not Israel's fault that the Palestinians choose to keep reigniting a lopsided and unwinnable war. Moreover, so long as Palestinians maintain the inhumane and terroristic practise of launching their rockets from civilian areas, Israel is blameless -- under both the letter and spirit of international law -- for the fact that some civilians die alongside the jihadis who deploy among them.

The situation of the Palestinians is a gruesome tragedy. But insofar as post-occupation Gaza is concerned, it is entirely self-inflicted. When Hamas, or whoever else takes over Gaza in coming years, decides to stop using the Palestinian people as one collective suicide bomber, they will find a willing peace partner in Israel. Until then, the Palestinian blood that flows won't stain Israeli hands.

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March 01, 2008

Today's dose of bullshit

Here's Matt Drudge spreading palestinian propaganda from the AP:

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) - Israeli troops turned heavy firepower on rocket squads bombarding southern Israel Saturday, killing 54 Palestinians in the deadliest day in Gaza since the current round of fighting erupted in 2000.

Except... that's not quite true, some of the dead palestinians were killed by the palestinians themselves:

According to Palestinian sources, at least 16 of those killed were civilians, including a baby - reported to have been struck when a Palestinian rocket misfired - and two teenagers. Palestinian gunmen bombarded Israel with at least 50 rockets and mortar rounds the evening, undeterred by Israeli troops backed by tanks and attack aircrafts.

and...

Hamas's armed wing, Izzadin Kassam, claimed responsibility for firing five rockets at Israel, one of which misfired, wounding five Gazans.

Never mind the truth, just blindly support the terrorists in their efforts to kill the Jews and blame the Jews when they fight back. And... there's no need to mention the end result of those 50 rockets shot by palestinian terrorists into Israeli towns:

Twenty-two residents of Sderot and Ashkelon were transported to Barzilai Medical Center in Ashkelon for treatment Saturday after being injured by the rocket salvo on the two southern cities.

Three of the city's residents, two of them children, were injured by shrapnel.

Oh, and by the way, the children who were injured? They were asleep in their beds when a rocket fell on their home. and... those were not just any rockets. They were Iranian rockets.

There is only way to improve the situation in Gaza, and that's with daisy cutters.

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February 24, 2008

Haveil Havalim #155

Thanks to Jack at Random Thoughts, The 155th Edition of Haveil Havalim is up.

Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'

As always, there are some excellent articles linked. One of my posts, An Absence of Hope, is included this week.

Enjoy!

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February 19, 2008

An Absence of Hope

Nineteen months after the kidnapping of Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev by the Lebanese Hezbollah, there has been a dramatic shift in the negotiations for their return. Until now, the Israeli government assumed that at least one and perhaps even both of the soldiers survived the Shiite militia's attack on their border patrol on July 12, 2006. But intelligence information suggests that this assumption was wrong (more...). According to information obtained by SPIEGEL, Jerusalem has now concluded that the two soldiers are dead.

Even in the absence of unequivocal evidence, the negotiators have already abandoned hope. Nevertheless, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is hesitant to publicly pronounce Goldwasser and Regev dead. It would be a bitter setback for Olmert, who defined the return of the soldiers as the objective of the Lebanon war in the summer of 2006.

Back in July of 2007, it was reported that at least one of them were dead, and it was denied by Nasrallah. No one cared then, and no one will care now, as no one cared when we suffered through reports that Gilad Shalit was gravely injured and in need of medical attention.

Nineteen months. Amazing how time marches on, while the world pressures Israel to make concessions to these terrorists even as it turns its back on Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser, and Eldad Regev, indifferent as to whether they are alive, or dead. I look at the remains of their humvee, and I wonder.

Were they alive when captured, were they injured? And if so, who treated their injuries, what medicines were they given by the animals who took them? I look at that humvee, and I believe that they were injured, and I know that they were likely just bandaged up and left to live or die on their own. If they were alive, or are alive, every additional day of captivity makes it more likely that they will never be free.

Their lives matter only to those who love them. To the terrorists, they are pawns, bargaining chips. To their country, they are an inconvenience. And to the rest of the world, their lives mean nothing. I hope and I pray for them, but I expect the worst, and with good reason. Their names and their faces had already faded from the news, and soon, the world will forget they ever existed, as they have forgotten other Israeli soldiers who have disappeared into the hands of terrorists, never to be seen or heard from again:

Three soldiers, captured by terrorists during a battle with Syrian and Palestinian forces near the Lebanese village of Sultan Yaqub. June 11, 1982. Twenty-five years ago, over 9,000 days.

Two soldiers captured with them were released in prisoner exchanges with Syria and Achmed Jibril's PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command). Every once in a while, their names come up (including the 1988 Amnesty International Report and the 1993 Amnesty International December Update) but reports are conflicting and nothing is verifiable. Zachary Baumel is an American citizen.

Israeli air-force navigator Ron Arad was taken captive after his F-4 Phantom warplane went down over Lebanon. October 16, 1982. Twenty-four years ago, over 8,000 days.

Ron Arad was taken captive by Amal, a Lebanese Shi’ite militia group lead by Nabih Berri, who today is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. In 1987, Arad’s family received several letters and a photo of Arad confirming that the missing navigator was alive and in Amal’s hands. Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him. It is believed that Dirani then "sold" Arad to either Hizbullah or Iranian elements.

According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, as recently as 2003, three former Iranian diplomats and intelligence officials living in Europe claimed that Ron Arad is alive and being held in a prison near Tehran. But these reports cannot be verified.

Twenty years later, we know nothing about the fate of Ron Arad, although I have my own thoughts on that.

Guy Hever, a soldier in the Israeli Army who was reportedly last seen standing at the Katzabiya junction, just a kilometer away from the Syrian border. He disappeared, and has not been heard of since. August 17, 1997. Ten years ago, over 3,500 days.

Does anyone remember these men today? Sadly, no, most people don't remember them, if they ever knew about them in the first place. Disappearing Jews don't make headlines. And if you notice where that link goes, well, its not anything in the mainstream media. Even dead Jews don't make headlines.

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February 17, 2008

Carnival Time

The 154th Edition of Haveil Havalim is up and Esser Agaroth is hosting.

Haveil Havalim is a carnival of Jewish blogs -- a weekly collection of Jewish & Israeli blog highlights, tidbits and points of interest collected from blogs all around the world. It's hosted by different bloggers each week. The term 'Haveil Havalim,' which means "Vanity of Vanities," is from Qoheleth, (Ecclesiastes) which was written by King Solomon. King Solomon built the Holy Temple in Jerusalem and later on got all bogged down in materialism and other 'excesses' and realized that it was nothing but 'hevel,' or in English, 'vanity.'

As always, there are some excellent articles linked. One of my posts is included this week.

Enjoy!

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February 13, 2008

Speaking of Terrorists

I hope it hurt!

and... here's a bit of wisdom from The Real King of France, who is also responsible for the picture you see above...

Killed as many as 800 Americans... At the going rate of exchange - 100,000 Islamo MF for 1 American - Islamo fascists still owe us 7,9999,999 for Imad alone.

Gah but I love ya Rodger!

and... In case you didn't know... that was one of the bastards responsible for 1983 bombing of the Marine Barracks in Beirut which resulted the death of 241 Marines.

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Tit for Tat

Can you imagine an America where every day is a horror of rockets raining down indiscriminately on schools, homes, parks and gardens? Where a trip to the grocery store becomes an nightmare of dodging and ducking an unseen threat falling out of the sky? An America where a fifteen second warning is all you get before death and destruction rains down upon you? Imagine living in an America where every minute of every day, whether awake or asleep, the threat of a random strike killing you and/or your loved ones hangs over your head. Imagine such horrors in your home town, near-deserted streets, the empty malls and cafes, and the air of impending doom hanging over you like a cloud.

Every minute of every day.

You cannot imagine it, unless you are in Sderot, Israel. What is it like to live like this?

The Israeli government has turned a blind eye to the daily attacks on its people and the rest of the world is worse than silent, as there are constant recriminations and accusations of abuse heaped upon even the pathetic attempts made by Israel to stop these attacks. The palestinians shoot rockets at civilians, Israel shuts off their electricity and the world condemns Israel. It is simply ridiculous.

Today, I cannot help but remember when, on the day before the expulsion from Gaza, I sat with Dr. Yitschak Ben Gad, the Consul General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico as he defended Sharon and the "disengagement." On that day, we came to the Consulate seeking help for our people. The Consul General talked to us, smiled at us, shook our hands, took pictures with us, and he lied to us. I asked him, what will the government do when the rockets start and he said... we will bombard them. He sat in that room, he looked me directly in the eye, and he lied.

And last May, at the end of his term as Consulate, I again stood together with Dr. Ben Gad, he turned to me with anger because of what I said to him in that room, on that day before his government expelled the Jews of Gush Katif from their homes and turned the land over to terrorists who now shoot rockets on civilians. And Ben Gad raised his voice to me in a room full of people, to tell me "The disengagement was a disaster," as if I hadn't told him that before it happened, as if he were the first person to realize it and not the last.

I was able to shoulder that anger from Dr. Ben Gad, because I knew that his anger was misdirected away from himself and projected on me, and merely the result of his guilt and his shame. And he is guilty, and he should be shamed, as should the Israeli government, for not standing against what they knew was wrong and for saying what they knew was not true. Israel's leaders turned their back on what was right, turned their back on the State of Israel and turned their back on their people. They have bloodied their hands.

What kind of world do we live in where leaders will protest the inhumanity of lights out in Gaza, and yet ignore the rockets raining down on the citizens of Sderot? And how long can good people suffer before they fight back?

'Let's make our own rockets'

A new Facebook group is urging Sderot residents to use the Internet to learn how to build crude rockets, much like the Kassams launched at them from the Gaza Strip, and fire them back at the Palestinians.

The group, which currently has 45 members, posts material from the Internet on how to manufacture rockets.

The group's creators, Shai and Batya Messenberg from Petah Tikva, posted a description that reads: "It cannot be so difficult: If those retards from the Gaza Strip can do it then so can you."

The description encourages residents of the town to trawl the Net for information on how to build ballistic missiles from materials found in the home.

"I'm sure that very soon they [the Gazans] will get the message," the group's creator wrote.

The article in JPost was published on February 11th, the group has swelled to 335 people, of which I am one. I can't be there, but I can send money, and I will send money. The time has come to fight back. Tit for tat, and somehow, I don't think the palestinians are gonna like it much.

And maybe, just maybe, the peace-loving palestinians we keep hearing about will rise up and put an end to these terrorist attacks against Israel. Maybe, just maybe, they will stop allowing their homes, their schools, their children, to serve as shields for the animals who commit these acts.

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February 10, 2008

In the wilderness

a voice cries out...

Apparently, many Arabs seem to believe that Palestine is our one and only tragedy. Often when we campaign for other things, a lot of people angrily write us back with, “What about Palestine?”

What about it? Is it not enough that it has hijacked every single news hour, every single newspaper, every other conversation, every other blog? Of course it is worthy of this attention, what is happening is horrible and people need to stay aware. But there is so much more than awareness here - there is a consistent obsession with this Palestinian conflict that so many Arabs love to collectively rave about, despite not proposing or doing anything to help solve this problem or the Palestinian people in general.

Secondly, when fellow Arabs are racist against Palestinians, I don’t see anyone being revolted by it. Like the numerous Arab Facebook groups wanting Palestinians out of their territory. And who could forget the Kuwaiti author who once wrote that most Palestinians are backstabbing and are thus deserving of death?

Almost no outcries from the public. Why? Because apparently, Arabs are only wronged by the “enemy.” We’re so perfect and precious to ever wrong ourselves.

Finally, an honest assessment of arab-think:

I am sickened by the question, “what about Palestine?”

Please remind me, how many rallies took place in defense of innocent Darfurians? How many newspapers demanded action and justice against honour crimes? How many news networks revealed what the Baha’is are suffering through in many of our countries? How many people cared enough to focus on foreign workers in an attempt to abolish the widespread slavery in the Gulf? How many people in this region cared to network with Afghans who come from a country where many people are without electricity, an education, basic rights, an opportunity to communicate with the world, where the life expectancy is below 40?

How many people stood up and echoed the voices of the voiceless? Must one obsess with Palestine in order to be taken seriously?

Over the years, I've been known to mock MidEast Youth for the same kind of thinking that Esra'a bemoans, and I have taken quite a bit of heat for it. I did not expect the article to be very well received, but to my surprise, a good bit of the followup comments are somewhat agreeable, even if still peppered with that very same obsessive thinking. And, the honest evaluation in at least some of the comments surprised me:

Unfortunately it has gone as far as being an obsession, and sometimes even a diversionary tactic used by our governments when they want locals to focus on something other than their own human rights abuses.

Is there hope? Perhaps there is.

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February 05, 2008

Yadda Yadda

This is an article in Hebrew concerning the bombing attack in Dimona, Israel that killed one woman and injured many more. There were two bombers, and it appears that one was so anxious to have pervert sex in heaven with virgins and young boys that he detonated a bit earlier than was anticipated. His premature detonation injured the second bomber, who fell to the ground, still in one piece. Although originally mistaken for a victim, the second bomber's explosive belt gave him away, and before he could recoup and detonate, an alert policeman shot him five times in the head.

Most of us have already heard about it, but the one unique aspect of this particular article is that it reports that the palestinians are complaining that the shooting of the second bomber was inhumane.

No, really. And if you follow that link, prepare to be disgusted, the commentary there is truly unbelievable.

No sympathy for the innocent people killed or injured, no compassion, no consideration that lives were surely saved by the killing of this monster before he could pull his ripcord and kill more innocent people. No, nothing but outrage that he was killed before he could come to his senses and reach his goal. No, the only outrage you see there is about how inhumane the Israeli people are for killing him.

Can there really be those who truly believe that suicide bombers killing innocent Israelis is good and innocent Israelis killing suicide bombers is bad? It would appear so, and surprise! Not all of them work at the UN. Some of them are your neighbors, your co-workers.

More and more, I dream of that little cabin on the top of the mountain, with the moat and the drawbridge.

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February 03, 2008

Contempt, Israeli Style

Seems to be the weekend for butt jokes, and again, you can blame Pat Riotic, who sent me this little bit of news...

Peace activist films Israeli soldiers exposing rear ends to Palestinian shepherds

Sean, the foreign peace activist who filmed the soldiers, said activists and foreign volunteers from a Christian organization were escorting Palestinians in the south Mount Hebron area to protect them from local Jewish settlers when the soldiers arrived.

"It was around noon; we were accompanying shepherds from the village of Tuba to a nearby Wadi, because the settlers regularly hassle them and throw stones in our direction," he recounted.

"The settlers demanded that the shepherds evacuate the area, and IDF soldiers who arrived at the scene also attempted to clear the Palestinian shepherds from their grazing fields; then, in the middle of the argument and for no apparent reason, the soldiers pulled down their pants and exposed their rear ends to us."

Oh the horror!

Sheesh. Come on Sean, where is you sense of humor? It was silly thing to do, but hey, no one died. So...

MK Ahmad Tibi (United Arab List-Ta'al) said the footage was "Abu Ghraib prison (in Iraq), IDF-style… the soldiers of any occupation are immoral by definition, but the IDF soldiers who exposed themselves have long been stripped of their humane values.

"It's not surprising that this vile act happened in the (West Bank city of) Hebron. The Israeli society should be shamed by this footage, especially the families who raised such monsters," added Tibi.

Monsters? You want to talk about vile acts and monsters Tibi? Three days in Israel... these are the actions of your monsters:

Proud of that, aren't you Tibi? Of course you are, that's why you celebrate your monsters in the streets, glorify them to your children, and encourage them to do the same, over and over again.

Perhaps next time the IDF might employ some arab tactics and we'll see if you like that better.

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February 02, 2008

The Path to the Final Solution

Thank you Kafir

and thanks Vinnie for the tip!

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January 29, 2008

To Gaza...

The word from the Boston Globe's Ministry of Arab Propaganda is that the poor palestinians are starving, yes starving.

Although Gaza daily requires 680,000 tons of flour to feed its population, Israel had cut this to 90 tons per day by November 2007, a reduction of 99 percent.

Martin Kramer points out that if you allow for a population of 1.5 million arabs as stated in the article, well then, that rounds out to the consumption of about half a ton of flour each, for every man, woman and child in Gaza. Sheesh! Someone ought to tell those people about the Atkins diet.

Oh, those evil Joos!

Speaking of Jews... you know the world has gone completely nuts when the Zionists are climbing into bed with the likes of Ron Paul. The Sultan Knish is talking about that, and quite frankly, his insights scared the heck of me.

Oh... and... before I forget... despite the rockets raining down, suicide bombers, iranian nuke rattling, boycotts, and George Bush wandering over to the dark side, the Israel Foreign Ministry has now found the time to deal with the real important issue: Extending an official apology to The Beatles, 43 years after the British band was banned from performing in the Jewish state.

It seems to me that if they were issuing apologies to the Beatles, perhaps they should have apologized for this:

*snort* Personally, I think it gained something in the translation! (a special thank you to Wollf, who sent me the story, and gave me a good reason to post that song!).

And... just in case sucking up to the Beatles doesn't bring about peace in the Middle East, no worries... there is a back-up plan:

Israel's ambassador to Britain, Ron Prosor hopes soccer can foster peace with the Palestinians. "There are a lot of supporters of Manchester United in Israel and for United to come out on the 60th anniversary can push football as a diplomatic tool in the region."

"Through football, we can bridge peace between people and enhance better understanding. Football is a game where you need discipline, teamwork and we're working together to achieve common targets and objectives in the region."

I don't know about you, but I'm so glad that the Israeli Foreign Ministry has finally come up with a way to foster peace in the Middle East. Football and the Beatles = peace! Who'da thunk it?

After that fails miserably, perhaps we can just start airlifting 680,000 tons of flour to Gaza each and every day, it would take what, a week, maybe a month, to bury the murderous bastards and end their reign of terror?

yeah.

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January 27, 2008

Never Again

In mid-January 1945, as Soviet forces approached the Auschwitz camp complex, the SS began evacuating Auschwitz and its satellite camps. Nearly 60,000 prisoners were forced to march west from the Auschwitz camp system. Thousands had been killed in the camps in the days before these death marches began. Tens of thousands of prisoners, mostly Jews, were forced to march to the city of Wodzislaw in the western part of Upper Silesia. SS guards shot anyone who fell behind or could not continue. Prisoners also suffered from the cold weather, starvation, and exposure on these marches. More than 15,000 died during the death marches from Auschwitz.

Sixty-three years ago today, on January 27, 1945, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz and liberated more than 7,000 remaining prisoners, who were mostly ill and dying.

From Belsen a crate of gold teeth,
from Dachau a mountain of shoes,
from Auschwitz a skin lampshade.
Who killed the Jews?

-- William Heyden

The Holocaust, symbolized by Auschwitz, the worst of the death camps, occurred in the wake of consistent, systematic, unrelenting anti-Jewish propaganda campaigns. As a result, the elimination of the Jews from German society was accepted as axiomatic, leaving open only two questions: when and how.

As Germany expanded its domination and occupation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, the Low Countries, Yugoslavia, Poland, parts of the USSR, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Italy and others countries, the way was open for Hitler to realize his well-publicized plan of destroying the Jewish people.

After experimentation, the use of Zyklon B was adopted by the Nazis as the means of choice for killing Jews, and the Auschwitz-Birkenau Complex was selected as the main factory of death. The green light for mass annihilation was given at the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942.

The Wannsee Conference formalized "the final solution" - the plan to transport Europe's Jews to eastern labour and death camps. Ever efficient and bureaucratic, the Nazi kept a record of the meeting, discovered in 1947 in the files of the German Foreign Office. The record represents a summary made by Adolf Eichmann, he was later tried and convicted in Jerusalem, and executed in 1962 in Ramlah prison.

The mass gassings of Europe's Jews took place in Auschwitz between 1942 and the end of 1944, when the Nazis retreated before the advancing Red Army. Jews were transported to Auschwitz from all over Nazi-occupied or Nazi-dominated Europe and most were slaughtered in Auschwitz upon arrival, sometimes as many as 12,000 in one day. Some victims were selected for slave labour or "medical" experimentation before they were murdered or allowed to die. All were subject to brutal treatment.


Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach, Florida

In all, between three and four million people, mostly Jews, but also Poles and Red Army POWs, were slaughtered in Auschwitz alone. Other death camps were located at Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec (Belzek), Majdanek and Treblinka. Adding the toll of these and other camps, as well as the mass executions and the starvation in the Ghettos, six million Jews, men, women, the elderly and children lost their lives as a consequence of the Nazi atrocities. Amongst the ashes of the Holocaust, are the remains of my family.

Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army on 27 January 1945, sixty-three years ago, after most of the prisoners were forced into a Death March westwards. The Red Army found in Auschwitz about 7,600 survivors, but not all could be saved.

For a long time, the Allies were well aware of the mass murder, but deliberately refused to bomb the camp or the railways leading to it. Ironically, during the Polish uprising, the Allies had no hesitation in flying aid to Warsaw, sometimes flying right over Auschwitz.

There are troubling parallels between the systematic vilification of Jews before the Holocaust and the current vilification of the Jewish people and Israel. Suffice it to note the annual flood of anti-Israel resolutions at the UN; or the public opinion polls taken in Europe, which single out Israel as a danger to world peace; or the divestment campaigns being waged in the US against Israel; or the attempts to delegitimize Israel’s very existence. The complicity of the Allies in WW II is mirrored by the support the palestinians have been receiving from the United States, Europe, China and Russia to this very day.

If remembering Auschwitz should teach us anything, it is that we cannot, we must not ignore the cries of "Death to Israel" and "Chrad al Yahood" (Kill the Jews) from the Middle East. The meaning is clear, the intent is clear, the danger is clear. We must meet the threat head on, and support Israel and the Jewish people against the vilification and the complicity we are witnessing, knowing where it inevitably leads.


The Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida

Never Again!

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January 20, 2008

Zeh lo catastrof

Just go here and read this. I wanted to cry when I did, but instead, I found myself laughing.

It is one of the most powerful bits of writing that I have read in a very long time.


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January 15, 2008

If at first you don't succeed..

try try again...

Security workers employed by the Israel Airport Authority uncovered two tons of fertilizer used in the manufacturing of Qassam rockets on Monday afternoon, the substantial amount of explosive material was concealed in a truck allegedly transporting humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

The security officials manning the Kerem Shalom border crossing discovered the smuggling attempt during a random inspection of vehicles carrying humanitarian equipment and goods.

This is the second such incident to occur this week.

And, before you go thinking that the "second such incident" was the 6.5 ton shipment of potassium nitrate hidden in "sugar" bags, well, that was back on December 29, 2007.

Here's some good news... it appears that Ehud Olmert is now considering a sure fire way to stop the palestinians from using humanitarian aid shipments to sneak weapons past the IDF and into Israel:

Way to go Olmert! That ought to kill at least a few Jews!

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January 14, 2008

Olmert agrees to the right of return

As it turns out, the deleted article I talked about here was 100% accurate. President Bush did indeed talk about negotiating the palestinian right of return. Last night, the Sultan Knish linked me to the White House release that confirmed it.

And early this morning, one of the posters at The Muqata stopped by to give me a heads up, he not only heard President Bush's remarks on the radio, he has a screenshot of the deleted JPost article:

I also saw this story on the Jerusalem Post website, on Wednesday night. The headline was "Says 'Palestinian right of return' must be discussed", and it contained the following paragraph:

At the same time Bush called for all issues to be addressed during negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians -- including the Palestinian 'right of return.'

This article was located here. However, the content of the article was altered significantly within a few hours after I read it. The headline was changed from "Says 'Palestinian right of return' must be discussed" to "Bush: An historic opportunity for peace". Most significantly, the key passage citing Bush's call for negotiations on the "right of return" was mysteriously deleted, and in its place was the following:

Upon his arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, Bush said that the US's alliance with Israel helps "guarantee Israel's security as a Jewish state." This is widely considered code for a rejection of the Palestinian claim of the "right of return." Bush made no mention of this at the press conference.

In other words, not only did the Post expunge the fact that Bush spoke of the "right of return" and imply instead that he actually opposes it -- but they even went so far as to state that Bush "made no mention" of it! This is a complete, outright lie: Bush most certainly did make mention of it. It can be found in the transcript provided by the White House, cited above. I myself heard it on tape, played on Reshet Bet Thursday morning. And the Jerusalem Post itself reported it – before they deleted that report and flatly denied that the statement was ever made. Luckily, I didn’t have to start doubting my own sanity: The original version of the article was still open on my computer, and I saved a copy of it.

And this morning, Arutz Sheva has this:

(IsraelNN.com) The issue of "Arab refugees" has long been a matter of widespread consensus in Israel, with even left-wing parties declaring that allowing them into Israel would endanger its very existence as a Jewish state. Nevertheless, the subject does not appear to be going away. Reports are that Prime Minister Olmert has now agreed to allow 50,000 Arabs who left Israel in 1948 - or are descendants of those who did - to enter and live in Israel.

Channel Ten reported Thursday night that in a private meeting between Olmert and Palestinian Authority Chairman Abu Mazen, the two agreed that in the final-status agreement, Israel would withdraw from 92% of Judea and Samaria, including all the non-Jewish neighborhoods in eastern Jerusalem. It was also agreed that 50,000 "refugees from 1948" would enter and live in the State of Israel.

Staffers in Olmert's office did not deny the report, and even hinted that it was at least partially accurate.

Let's be clear about exactly who these 50,000 palestinians are, and what they believe:

Let there be no doubt, the palestinian people are monsters, obsessed with death and destruction.

Woe unto thee, America, for you have no idea what the consequences of these actions will mean in the future, for what is happening in Israel is nothing but a small part of the islamic agenda to cleanse all lands of all kufirs, infidels and jews, and to rule those lands according to islamic law.

Woe unto you George W. Bush, for you have embraced a monster. If your actions today bear fruit tomorrow, it is your children who will suffer. As they suffer, surely they will curse your name and your memory. They will curse you and those like you who bowed their head and looked the other way, who supported and nurtured the beast. Indeed, for if the islamic agenda is successful, it will have been because of the actions of you and those like you that in end, sentenced them to suffer under the very same monster you embrace today.

As Israel suffers, so shall the world, for nothing less than the death or enslavement of every single American, every single "unbeliever" throughout the world, will satisfy Islamists. This is not new and has nothing to do with Israel, which is considered by Islam to be the "Little Satan" that must be destroyed before they can destroy the "Big Satan" that is America.

Woe unto you Ehud Olmert, as you do the work of our enemies and bring upon us the darkest darkness. We of faith know that the darkest darkness heralds the coming of the light. We of faith have faith in Hashem.

“Kol Ha’hatchalot kashot” -- “Beginnings are always difficult”

"... the march of resistance will continue until the islamic flag is raised not only over the minarets of Jerusalem but over the whole universe... " Hamas Leader Mahmoud Zahar, January 16, 2004

It has begun.

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January 11, 2008

JPost Switcheroo - What did Bush Say about the Right of Return?

The Jerusalem Post has materially altered an article on President Bush's visit to Israel yesterday to remove a statement by President Bush that appears to be in support of the palestinian right of return, changing the article so radically that it now that President Bush said the direct opposite of what the original article reported.

On January 9, 2008, the Jerusalem Post published an article about President Bush's comments during his visit. I first saw it at Theodore's World, and it said:

Visiting US President George Bush called on Israel to remove "illegal outposts" in the West Bank, saying that "they simply ought to go" during an evening press conference shared by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Wednesday.

At the same time Bush called for all issues to be addressed during negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians - including the Palestinian 'right of return.'

The article was linked on the interent, I found discussions about it posted on other websites besides Theodore's World. Mere Rhetoric posted about it here and I found the same article on Free Republic.

My first thought was "what fresh hell is this?" Did Bush really say that the right of return has to be negotiated? Can that possibly be true?

Bush has never pushed this issue before, and in fact, he has supported the opposite. In April of 2004, Bush outraged the entire arab world when he backed Israel’s declaration that Palestinian refugees have no right of return. That declaration came at a critical time in Israel's history, as Sharon was preparing for the expulsion of Jews from Gaza as a "good faith" gesture for peace. At that time, not only did Bush denounce the "right of return," Bush stated he believed the Israelis in Judea and Samaria should stay where they are.

Today, George Bush wants to see those same Israelis thrown out of Judea and Samaria. Today, Bush has changed his mind on that issue, he now wants Judea and Samaria to be Jew-free, but is he also now backing the right of return? It cannot be disputed that President Bush has done a tremendous amount of harm to Israel with his "road map," perhaps more harm than any previous American President, but President Bush has never before backed the right of return.

But then, never means "up till now," doesn't it? And it would appear from the original JPost article that George Bush has changed his mind, not only about a Judenrein Judea and Samaria, but also on the right of return.

And now, the article has been changed to reflect a completely different view of the issue:

"Upon his arrival at Ben-Gurion Airport, Bush said that the US's alliance with Israel helps "guarantee Israel's security as a Jewish state." This is widely considered code for a rejection of the Palestinian claim of the "right of return." Bush made no mention of this at the press conference."

At some point yesterday, January 10, 2008, almost 24 hours after the article was originally published, the quotes concerning Bush's comments about the right of return vanished without a trace, and without an explanation. Instead of issuing a correction or clarification, JPost just deleted it. Why?

The early commentary on the JPost article showed quite a bit of outrage:

17. BushThere is no "Right of return". Therefore, only resettlement and/or compensation is to be discussed.
yudl - (01/09/2008 22:15)

22. THE FIX IS IN !The fix is in. The agreement is that Omertwill say that the arabs will give in on the right of return, and in order to avoid having a a few million arabs return, he will have no choice but to give in on Jerusalem. After all, he's only trying to save Israel for the Jews. What a load of baloney. He's trying to save himself.
Bubba - (01/09/2008 22:31)

25. Right Of Return - Kibbosh!The "right of return" huh? If that's really on the table, there is nothing to talk about. Unless Israel wants to sign its death warrant.

29. right of return and two statesI agree with the many posters past and present that there already exist two states and a new "2nd" one is redundant. Disregarding that for the moment though, if there has to be another "Palestinian " state, why on earth do we need to discuss the right of return? This seems to mean, carve up Israel a bit more and then flood what's left with masses of "Palestinians". I O W why do you need both a new state as well as the right to return to Israel? the answer to that rhetorical question is obvious, is it not?
norman a blumberg - USA (01/09/2008 23:22

33. Surprise! Bush just voided his own committment letter of 2004 to SharonThat letter made clear that any Palestinian "right of return" would only be to a Palestinian state, and that any territorial settlement must take into account the demographic changes on the ground. The suggestion that the right of return be "addressed" during negotiations effectively negates his own commitments. Any push to move to the borders of 1967 would similarly show that this President's words mean nothing. And, really, his first question to Abbas should deal with incitement, not rockets.
Raymond from DC - USA (01/09/2008 23:42)

34. The Right of Return is a Non-Starter!The Palestinian "right of r eturn" cannot be implemented - not because it will be the end of the Jewish State (through peaceful assimilation- but because the lunatic moslems will simply create death and destruction once they are on the territory of the Zionist entity!
philip freed - USA (01/09/2008 23:42)

38. Says x and means yHow about right of return for all the American Indians. How about a roadmap for a black African state. How about making painful concession of cancilling out sale of smart bombs for 30 billion bucks to the Saudis in a few days or freeing pollard. How about if your country was in similar predicament as Israel's, you would tear up roadmap to bits, remember Cuba 90 miles away what if they were 2 miles away like Palestine to Israel. Who's kidding who.
Truth Puller - (01/09/2008 23:54

42. A 'Right of Return'implies a 'past'. A past that is documented in history. A past as a nation perhaps. I rather wonder what 'PAST' is being referred to when one 'discusses' a Palestinian Right to Return. Seems that the definition is much like Clinton's definition of sex.
Morton Friedman - USA (01/10/2008 00:15)

48. Right of return = death to the Jewish StateBush is 100% insane to go to Israel and tell it to commit suicide. Send that evil moron and Rice packing!
Preston - USA (01/10/2008 00:36)

50. Right of Return?If Bush is so interested in the right of return, I'd suggest he'd better be careful of what he wishes for. He might not like what he gets. I have relatives who could be interested in their return to their ancestrial homes in Kreis Stolp in Pommerania. I have some old friends out in the Rosebud in South Dakota who would be interested in the return of the Black Hills. And my sons have some Cherokee ancestry, so they might be interested in the return of the Cherokee to Georgia.
Gary Glaser - USA (01/10/2008 00:50)

51. Bush's statement (if it was just the following) was just a clumsy bungle.I suppose the "right of return" statement was the following by Bush, in response to a question: "You just heard the man [ i.e. Olmert] talk about their desire to deal with core issues, which I guess for the uneducated on the issue, that means dealing with the issues like territory and right of return and Jerusalem." This would seem to be just a clumsy bungled statement, not a thought-through statement of US principles. It can thus be forgotten as insignificant.
Arnold - Canada (01/10/2008 01:05)

54. Land promiseGod promised the land already populated. God promised the land to the people that never lived at the land. Where is beginning? Do Israel have any obligations for $30bn, or it is for free lunch.
Lana - USA (01/10/2008 02:21)

55. bush is grasping at straws...israel should never be forced into palistinian "right of return" nor should he be dictating removal of settlements. the arabs will not honor any agreement anyway. bush is stalling to forgo the next major war,but it's coming anyway.
doug - usa (01/10/2008 02:39)

78. What Right of Return ?The Right of Return is a request totally out of line, because it was the "Pal"Arabs to begin with, who started the war in 1948 immediately after the state of Israel came into being and the Arab-neighbours told the Arabs in Israel to flee, which they did ! They left believing that they will temporarily stay out of the way of their Arab-brothers determined to annihiliate the Jews. The Arabs born after 1948 outside Israel, have NO right to Israel whatsoever!
Aliza - (01/10/2008 18:33)

79. What Right of Return? - 2The Persian Moslems invaded Israel, the Land of the JEWS, where they already had lived 2000 years(!), in 614 AC. These Moslem invadors islamisized the JEWS´ HOMEland in the following 400 years and changed the name of Jerusalem for "El Kuds"! The presence of these Moslem ivadors in Israel has lasted the past 1396 years. NOW they demand a "right of return" to the Land they STOLE, INVADED and OCCUPIED !Aliza - (01/10/2008 18:40)

That's nearly 22 hours of commentary objecting to the right of return, and then, the commentary changes, with no mention of the right of return at all, presumably after the article itself changed. While it's clear that the article was changed, it's unclear when, or why. If it was a misquote, that's one hell of a misquote. What exactly did Bush say? It seems impossible that such a grave mistake was made in understanding what the President said.

The facts of the "refugee problem" do not support any right of return.

Immediately after the formation of Israel in 1948, they were invaded by five arab states, hell bent on destruction. Their stated goal was to drive the Jews into the sea. The arab armies told the locals to evacuate so they wouldn’t be caught in the crossfire, promising them that later they could return and dance on the graves of dead Jews. It is estimated that roughly 600,000 arabs followed that advice, but, the number is highly disputed. UN estimates have ranged from 360,000 to 950,000. The discrepancy is due to the fact that arabs from every arab country in the MidEast came running to be a "refugee."

At the same time, 800,000 Jews were literally driven out of other arab countries, some from homes their families had known for millennia. They had a choice, stay and be killed by rampaging arabs or emigrate to Israel.

There is no right of return and there are no "refugees." It's called mass migration, generally caused by war, revolution or politics. Traditionally, those migrants are absorbed by other countries. At the end of World War II, there were Hindus and Moslems who ended up in India or Pakistan respectively, there were Greeks and Armenians who fled from Turkey, Holocaust survivors weren’t permitted to return to their homes in Eastern Europe, and there were plenty of French settlers who forced out of Algeria at the time of its independence.

These so-called "refugees" have not been allowed to settle in the "indivisible Arab nation." They have been supported in camps since 1948, receiving hundreds of millions, billions of dollars over the years.. and while the arabs throughout the Middle East cry crocodile tears for their poor suffering palestinian brothers and sisters, none of the 24 arab countries has opened their arms to embrace them as new citizens. Instead, these refugees and their descendants, were dumped into camps of poverty and degradation for the world to see, further fanning the flames of hatred. Bottom line is that these arabs are not now, and never were, the problem or responsibility of Israel.

The facts of the "refugee problem" do not support any right of return, not for the so-called palestinian refugees and not for the Jews expelled from arab countries at the same time. You see, no matter the circumstances, it really boils down to a population exchange. Israel absorbed the Jews expelled from arab countries, those arab countries should absorb the arabs who fled from Israel.If there were 600,000 arabs, well, there were 800,000 Jews. To even things up and make it really fair, Israel should be able to expel another 200,000 arabs.

The number of so called refugees is still disputed, but are said to now number between 4 and 6 million and that number would more than double if the right of return is ever given to the arabs. Israel would be overwhelmed and overcome by arab hordes rushing triumphantly into Israel, crying out their victory, Chrad al Yahood - Kill the Jews. Israel would cease to exist, and in its place, there would be just another arab country. Let there be no mistake, to support the right of return is to support the destruction of the State of Israel.

Yahoo had an article that highlighted the new elements to Bush's peace plan for the Middle East which said the direct opposite to the JPost article quoted above:

One new element was the suggestion that the international community should help compensate Palestinians and their descendants who claim a right to return to land they held before Israel's formation.

That doesn't sound like Bush is backing the right of return to me, but he's changed his mind before, has he changed it again? Did the JPost make it up? Or did they get with the program?

I've written the author of the article, Herb Keinon, and asked for an explanation. That was over 12 hours ago and I've not yet received a reply. I don't expect to.

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January 09, 2008

A warm welcome for GWB

Along with Qassams from Gaza and katyushas from Lebanon, to welcome President Bush the residents of Hamastan waved signs showing George W. Bush as a vampire swigging Muslim blood and burned the American Flag:

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January 04, 2008

The Last Fanatic

You either "get it" or you don't.

A brilliant bit of promotion from Israel Initiative for the Right Road to Peace.

I pray it will become a reality.

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December 30, 2007

Viva la terrorism

A show of support for terrorism highlighted on the EuroPalestine website:

''The Municipality of Bordeaux had the good taste to decorate its trees imaginatively, paying tribute to Palestine. We must encourage such initiatives, by sending photos of the most "resistant" pines.

One of the photos shows a woman admiring a tree decorated with Christmas lights, Palestinian flags and terrorist propaganda:

The photos show an Israeli soldier who appears to be targeting civilians, and the various flyers proclaim:

''The true face of the Israeli occupation. They bully. They starve us."
"Sanctions against Israel."
"Stop collaboration with the terrorism of the state of Israel."
"Free Salah Hamouri."

If the palestinians are starving, well, that's because their leaders and supporters prefer to import bomb making materials rather than food, and they prefer to dig tunnels to smuggle weapons rather than grow food. They would rather kill Jews than eat, but what the heck, blame the Jews! They get blamed for everything.

Don't be fooled by the poster that claims Salah Hamouri is a palestinian student unfairly imprisoned in Israel. Hamouri is not a palestinian student, he is one of three Israeli arab members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine who plotted to carry out terror attacks against Israeli targets in Jerusalem, including a conspiracy to murder Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, and the purchasing of weapons and ammunition to carry out those attacks. They are presently incarcerated in an Israeli jail, having been tried before a court of law and convicted of assisting the enemy at a time of war.

Contributing to this show of support for Hamouri in this venue is the fact that he is of French descent and nationality. However, no such similar support is offered to Gilad Shalit, also of French descent and nationality. The contrast between these two "prisoners" and the obvious double standard is sickening, and a true reflection of the level of hatred in Europe of all things Jewish and of all things Israeli.

Hamouri is a terrorist who was arrested for plotting terrorist attacks and convicted for that crime. Hamouri visits regularly with his family, the Red Cross and even Amnesty International. The world knows he is safe and well looked after. He is fed three halal meals a day, he has access to medical care, he even has a cellphone to call home whenever he wishes. And... Hamouri, his family, and the world, know exactly how long his sentence is and when he will be freed.

Gilad Shalit is an innocent man, abducted by terrorists during a terrorist attack and he remains in the hands of terrorists. He has been denied access to anyone and everyone, including his family or the Red Cross. There has been no news from Gilad Shalit, except that he was gravely injured during his abduction and that he is suffering from those injuries. The world knows that he is not safe nor well looked after. Despite his injuries, Gilad Shalit has been denied medical treatment. No one knows where he is, how he is, or even whether he is still alive. And no one knows if or when Gilad Shalit will be freed.

Blinded by hatred for Israel and the Jewish people, the EU champions the guilty and condemns the innocent. All in "good taste" of course.

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December 29, 2007

How sweet it ain't

The IDF and Shin Bet uncovered 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate hidden in sacks that were disguised as aid from the European Union, the army announced on Saturday.

Security forces discovered the stash in the cargo of a Palestinian truck at a West Bank checkpoint earlier in December. According to the IDF, the material, hidden in sugar sacks, was planned to be used by terrorists in the Gaza Strip.

"Potassium Nitrate is a banned substance in the Gaza Strip and the Judea and Samaria region due to its use by terrorists for the manufacturing of explosives and Kassam rockets," the IDF spokesperson wrote in a statement.

"This is another example of how the terror organizations exploit the humanitarian aid that is delivered to the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip with Israel's approval," the statement read.

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But but but... it was EU aid, the EU supports Hamas and now you know why the EU is bound and determined to remove the checkpoints.

Somebody was in a rush to get that ASAP. I suppose 6.5 tons of potassium nitrate would have taken too long via the usual smuggling method. Supplies like that are usually smuggled in by UN ambulances, they get checked less often and if the IDF stops one going in, even if they find contraband, it becomes an international incident.

Hat tip to SondraK for the story.

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December 22, 2007

Here Kitty Kitty Kitty...

One second of surprise:

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December 09, 2007

Today's IDF Moment

The soldiers of the Yahalom ("Diamond") unit, the elite unit of the Combat Engineering corps, have found an original way to celebrate Hannukah. The "Andros" robot lit the Menorah, which in normal times is used for ongoing security uses and lessens the chances of soldiers being hurt. Besides lighting candles the robot also served as a waiter when it dished up doughnuts.

The "Andros" robot, like the other IDF robots, is part of the "Bezeq" division, the IDF's robotics division, part of Yahalom. "Bezeq" is responsible for developing and operating the robots which are used for various tasks in the IDF, especially in removal and neutralizing of bombs. The unit's soldiers who operate the robots stand at the forefront together with the IDF's fighters and are resposnible for operating the robots in real time. The various robots are used by the IDF in dangerous tasks which in the past would have been carried out by soliders, thus avoiding needless danger.

From last year, but I love it!

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:41 AM

December 07, 2007

O Little Lights of Mystery

O little lights of mystery
You recall our history
And all that went before
The battles and the bravery
And our release from slavery
Miracles galore.

As my eyes behold your flames
I recall our heroes' names
And our ancient dream:
“Jews were learning how to fight
To defeat an awesome might
They could reign supreme”

“They would rule their own domain
When the enemy was slain,
The Temple cleansed and whole.
Once there was a Jewish land
And a mighty Jewish hand.”
Oh, how it moves my soul!

O little lights of mystery
You retell our history
Your tales are tales of pain.
My heart is filled with fears
My eyes are filled with tears
"What now?" says the haunting refrain

The above Chanukah poem was written by Morris Rosenfeld, in Yiddish, at a time when the land of Israel was a dream within a dream and the idea of Jews fighting for and gaining their homeland seemed impossible. Morris died in 1924, before the dream first became a reality, and then, became a nightmare:

Hell is a Jewish state devoid of Jewish values that picks up where the anti-Semites, the pogromers, and the exilers left off. Hell is a Jewish prime minister who has become a cannibal of his own people. Hell is when a country has lost its will to exist and begins a process of national suicide. Hell is when Jews with Jewish values have become outcast in their own land. Hell is when the Jewish state becomes worse than the exile. - Gershon Perlman

Tonight is not just Shabbat, its Shabbat Chanukah.

Isaiah 31:4 For thus saith the LORD unto me: Like as the lion, or the young lion, growling over his prey, though a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them; so will the LORD of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

Isaiah 31:5 As birds hovering, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.

I believe in miracles.

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen.

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December 04, 2007

Ohforcryinoutloud!

Will the stupidity ever end?

The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.

"The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle," said Liad Ortar, the campaign's cofounder, who runs the Arkada environmental consulting firm and the Ynet Web site's environmental forum.

As if we Jews didn't have enough to worry about:

Thanks for the tip, DoubleU!

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December 03, 2007

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Twenty-nine-year old Ido Zoldan of Shavei Shomron was murdered on November 19, 2007 in a terror attack, leaving behind his wife Tehila and his children, three-year-old Aharon and one-year-old Rachel.

Ido Zoldan and his family were putting their lives together after being expelled from their home in the community of Homesh during the 2005 disengagement from Gaza.

Who killed him?

Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah terrorist branch, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades said it carried out the attack to demonstrate its opposition to the Annapolis conference.

But, earlier today in Israel, the news was released that one day after the terror attack, the IDF arrested three "Palestinian policemen" for the murder of Ido Zoldan, two of them confessed, and they picked up the third.

So. They waited a week before telling us who was behind this murder, obviously to avoid any negative press before Annapolis, so Condi Rice could sit down and schmooze with Mahmoud Abbas, leader of the most active and evil terrorist group in the world.

And... in case you are wondering, yes, these would be the same "Palestinian policemen" that the United States of America has armed and trained to kill, using our tax dollars to support terrorism.

Posted by LindaSoG at 05:57 AM | Comments (4)

November 30, 2007

Post-Annapolis


These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons in exchange for nothing, for the stupid, ineffective and meaningless negotiations with terrorists who want only to kill us.

and the insanity continues...

Proof positive that Annapolis was a success for those dedicated to killing Jews.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:11 AM

November 28, 2007

Fabio. Yes, Fabio!

Believe it or not, he said this:

"The Israeli people have been the sacrificial lamb of history.”

And this:

“It’s about f****ing time [said as Fox News reported on Israel’s attempt to push Hezbollah out of Southern Lebanon]. ..[The Jews] have been getting killed for 5,000 years. Enough is enough. The rest of the world does not give a shit, except America, because the Israelis have no oil. Everyone sticks with those Arabs—because they have the oil.”

And this:

“We should f****ing get alternative energy and tell all the Arabs and the rest of the world to stick it up their ass. F*** them and the oil!”

And this:

“They are talking about Ahmadinejad coming to New York. I hate the bastard. He sponsors terrorists! The shitface …”

Dang! No wonder George Clooney hates him. Who'da thunk it?

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:25 AM | Comments (3)

November 27, 2007

SSDP**

**Same Shit, Different President...


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November 15, 2007

So. They have their secrets

But not for long...

Its Pallywood.

The Al-Durah hoax:


click

and... Icon of Hatred.

Melanie Phillips reports from a courtroom in France, where she witnessed the showing of the missing and long disputed 27 minutes of footage concerning the "death" of Mohammed Al-Durah at the hands of the evil Israelis.

Well, sort of. What it actually produced was 18 minutes out of the 27 it was required to bring forward. From this footage, which according to France 2’s Palestinian cameraman was filmed during an implausible 45 minutes of continuous shooting by Israeli soldiers, there is no evidence that anyone at all was killed or injured -- including Mohammed al Durah who by the end of the frames in which he figured seemed to be still very much alive and unmarked by any wound whatsoever.

The drama of today’s hearing was enhanced by the appearance of Enderlin himself, who until today had not graced this case with his presence. As the film was shown to a packed and overheated (in every sense) courtroom, Enderlin and Karsenty offered rival interpretations of the images on the screen. If Enderlin thought he would thus demonstrate the inadequacy of Karsenty’s case, he was very much mistaken. On the contrary, parts of his commentary were so absurd that the courtroom several times burst into incredulous laughter.

Enderlin offered only a vague, rambling and unconvincing explanation of why he had only produced 18 minutes of footage rather than the 27 he claimed to have received from his cameraman in Gaza (Enderlin himself was not in Gaza when these events occurred). After the hearing Professor Richard Landes, one of the people who had already seen the contested footage, said that two scenes had been cut out which clearly showed that the violence had been staged -- including one in which a Palestinian preparing to throw a missile is suddenly picked up and carried into an ambulance despite showing no signs of injury. This scene, said Landes, was filmed by Reuters, who actually filmed the France 2 cameraman filming it. Yet there was no sign of it today.

But wait! There's more:

What struck me very forcibly about the 18 minutes overall was that, although this was supposed to have been filmed during continuous firing by the Israelis for 45 minutes, much of the footage consisted merely of a violent demonstration by stone throwing youths, many of whom who appeared to be enjoying the exercise. One child was pictured riding a bicycle through the melee. There was no evidence of any of them being killed or injured. From time to time, to be sure, youths were dragged onto stretchers and into ambulances – but there was no sign of anyone actually being shot, no-one falling under fire, no sign of any blood or injuries whatever. The nearest it got to an injury was a sequence in which a young man coyly pulled his shirt open a little to provide a glimpse of a neat red circle on his stomach, which he claimed was a (rubber?) bullet wound. But since he appeared to be in no pain whatever and was grinning throughout his turn for the camera, this seemed an eminently implausible way for someone who had just been hit by gunfire to behave.

and...

When it came to the footage of the ‘killing’ of Mohammed al Durah, the following stood out:

* This sequence was not a continuous narrative but was repeatedly broken up and spliced onto footage of other scenes from the demonstration

* Although the France 2 cameraman had told a German film-maker, Esther Shapira, that he had filmed six minutes of the al Durah father and son under continuous Israeli fire, the footage of them lasted for less than one minute

* There was a camera tripod next to them

* There was no evidence of the boy actually being hit

* At one point, people in the crowd cried out that the boy was dead, while he was sitting up large as life clinging onto his father with his mouth wide open

* After he was said to be dead, he moved his arm (the sequence I have already reported which has been available on the web for years).

The man behind the Al Durah hoax, Talal abu Rahma, claimed "I am the journalist, I decide what's important." Now, many years and many deaths later, the truth becomes important.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:51 AM | Comments (2)

November 12, 2007

Sigh


Posted by LindaSoG at 07:00 AM

November 07, 2007

Telling it like it is

Here's a UN moment, via IsraellyCool...

Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Dan Gillerman on Tuesday slammed the UN Human Rights Council, saying that its “ritualistic and virulent campaign against Israel is abhorrent and intolerable.

“Equally troubling is the Council’s resulting disregard for serious human rights violations in many other parts of the world, including among its own members,” Gillerman added in his speech.

The Israeli ambassador accused the council of having a specific section in its guidelines meant to examine “the state of human rights in Palestine and the other occupied Arab territories”.

Israel contends that the wording of the guidelines completely excludes any deliberation on grave human rights violation in other countries around the world.

Gillerman accused the Commission on Human Rights of “moral bankruptcy”. He noted that “after all, the Council’s membership includes some countries whose own records on human rights fall markedly below the standards of the international community, and who cannot genuinely serve as a beacon for human rights when their respective performances are so dismal and poor.

“According to Freedom House, more than half of the Council’s 47 members are considered ‘not-free’ or only ‘partially free’ countries. More importantly and most flagrantly, many of these same countries share a political agenda that precludes the State of Israel, and utterly dismiss our inherent right to live in peace and security in our homeland.”

The Israeli ambassador noted that the Human Rights Council report had eliminated violations by countries like Cuba and Belarus.

“Countless others suffering around the globe, living under tyrannical rule and oppression and violated by human rights abusers, do not gain this Council’s attention.

“My delegation does not ask for special treatment. Israel, like any other country in this hall, should be subject to review and constructive criticism on a fair and impartial basis,” Gillerman said.

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It turned out to be a little too much for them to take...

Gillerman’s speech at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York was cut short, after the building’s emergency alarm sounded. All those present in the Assembly hall were asked to vacate the premises immediately, and were escorted to the building’s security shelters. The cause of the alarm has yet to be determined.

Dan Gillerman is an amazing speaker, powerful and commanding. Dave is on the lookout for the video, and I can't wait to see it.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:21 AM

November 02, 2007

Partners in Peace™

From the mouth of Israel's Prime Minister, Ehud Olmert:

Presumably, he is talking about Mahmoud Abbas, President of Fatah, as this wonderous Palestinian leader who truly wants peace with Israel. and... Just a little earlier in the day, Fatah's military wing had this to say:

Ah yes, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the military arm of Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah Party, designated a terrorist organization by Israel, the U.S., Canada, the European Union, and Japan.

Those are Israel's Partners in Peace™ - the Palestinian moderates who have been killing Jews for over 40 years.

Its a funny thing about terrorists, whether you call them extremist or moderate, no matter which brand of terrorist kills you, you are still dead. The list of murders committed by Israel's Partner in Peace™ is staggering, so, tell ya what, I'll just list some of the more recent murders, since October of 2000 to make the point:

Oct 19, 2000 - Rabbi Binyamin Herling, 64, of Kedumim, was killed when Fatah members and Palestinian terrorist security forces opened fire on a group of Israeli men, women, and children on a trip at Mount Ebal near Nablus.

May 29, 2001 - Gilad Zar, 41, of Itamar, was shot dead in a terrorist ambush while driving in the West Bank between Kedumim and Yizhar. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 29, 2001 - Sara Blaustein, 53, and Esther Alvan, 20, of Efrat, were killed in a drive-by shooting near Neve Daniel in the Gush Etzion bloc south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 18, 2001 - Doron Zisserman, 38, of Einav, was shot and killed in his car by sniper fire near the entrance to Einav, east of Tulkarem. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 25, 2001 - Maj. Gil Oz, 30, of Kfar Sava; St.-Sgt. Kobi Nir, 21, of Kfar Sava; and Sgt. Tzahi Grabli, 19 of Holon were killed and seven soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists infiltrated an IDF base in Gush Katif in the Gaza Strip at about 3:00 AM Saturday morning. The attackers, members of the PLO Fatah faction and of the Palestinian terrorist security forces, were killed by IDF soldiers.

Aug 26, 2001 - Dov Rosman, 58, of Netanya was killed in a shooting attack shortly before 17:00 on Sunday afternoon near the entrance to the village of Zaita, opposite Kibbutz Magal. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 06, 2001 - Lt. Erez Merhavi, 23, of Moshav Tarum was killed in an ambush shooting near Kibbutz Bahan, east of Hadera, while driving to a wedding. A female officer with him in the car was seriously injured. Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 11, 2001 - Border Policemen Sgt. Tzachi David, 19, of Tel-Aviv, and St.-Sgt. Andrei Zledkin, 26, of Carmiel, were killed just after midnight when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire on the Ivtan Border Police base near Kibbutz Bachan in central Israel. A Fatah group claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 20, 2001 - Sarit Amrani, 26, of Nokdim, was killed Thursday morning and her husband Shai was seriously wounded in a shooting attack near Tekoa, south of Bethlehem. The couple's three children who were traveling in the vehicle were not injured. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 04, 2001 - Sgt. Tali Ben-Armon, 19, an off-duty woman soldier from Pardesia, Haim Ben-Ezra, 76, of Givat Hamoreh, and Sergei Freidin, 20, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist, dressed as an Israeli paratrooper, opened fire on Israeli civilians waiting at the central bus station in Afula. 13 other Israelis were wounded in the attack. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 28, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Yaniv Levy, 22, of Zichron Yaakov was killed by Palestinian terrorists in a drive-by machine-gun ambush near Kibbutz Metzer in northern Israel. The Tanzim wing of Fatah claimed responsibility for the murder.

Nov 02, 2001 - St.-Sgt. Raz Mintz, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunmen 5:45 P.M. on Friday at an IDF roadblock at near Ofra, north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 27, 2001 - Noam Gozovsky, 23, of Moshav Ramat Zvi, and Michal Mor, 25, of Afula were killed when two Palestinian terrorists from the Jenin area opened fire with Kalashnikov assault rifles on a crowd of people near the central bus station in Afula. Police officers and a reserve soldier confronted them, killing the terrorists in the ensuing firefight. Another 50 people were injured, 10 of them moderately to seriously. Fatah and the Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility.

Nov 29, 2001 - Three people were killed and nine others were wounded in a homicide bombing on an Egged 823 bus en route from Nazereth to Tel Aviv near the city of Hadera. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 12, 2001 - Yair Amar, 13, of Emmanuel; Esther Avraham, 42, of Emmanuel; Border Police Chief Warrant Officer Yoel Bienenfeld, 35, of Moshav Tel Shahar; Moshe Gutman, 40, of Emmanuel; Avraham Nahman Nitzani, 17, of Betar Illit; Yirmiyahu Salem, 48, of Emmanuel; Israel Sternberg, 46, of Emmanuel; David Tzarfati, 38, of Ginot Shomron; Hananya Tzarfati, 32, of Kfar Saba; Ya'akov Tzarfati, 64, of Kfar Saba were killed when three terrorists attacked a No. 189 Dan bus and several passenger cars with a roadside bomb, anti-tank grenades, and light arms fire near the entrance to Emmanuel in Samaria at 18:00 P.M. About 30 others were injured. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2002 - Sgt. Elad Abu-Gani, 19, of Tiberias, was killed and an officer sustained gunshot wounds in a terrorist ambush near Kuchin, between Nablus and Tulkarm. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 15, 2002 - Avraham (Avi) Boaz, 71, of Ma'aleh Adumim, an American citizen, was kidnapped at a PA security checkpoint in Beit Jala. His bullet-riddled body was found in a car in Beit Sahur, in the Bethlehem area. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 15, 2002 - Yoela Chen, 45, of Givat Ze'ev, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists near the gas station at the entrance to Givat Ze'ev shortly before 20:00. Her aunt who was with her in the car was injured. The Fatah's Al-Aqsa Brigade claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 17, 2002 - Edward Bakshayev, 48, of Or Akiva; Anatoly Bakshayev, 63, of Or Akiva; Aharon Ben Yisrael-Ellis, 32, of Ra'anana; Dina Binayev, 48, of Ashkelon; Boris Melikhov, 56, of Sderot; and Avi Yazdi, 25, of Hadera were killed and 35 injured, several seriously, when a terrorist burst into a bat mitzva reception in a banquet hall in Hadera shortly before 23:00, opening fire with an M-16 assault rifle. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 22, 2002 - Sarah Hamburger, 79, and Svetlana Sandler, 56, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 40 were injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with an M-16 assault rifle near a bus stop in downtown Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 27, 2002 - Pinhas Tokatli, 81, of Jerusalem was killed and over 150 people were wounded, four seriously, in a homicide bombing on Jaffa Road, in the center of Jerusalem, shortly before 12:30. The female terrorist, identified as a Fatah member, was armed with more than 10 kilos of explosives.

Feb 06, 2002 - Miri Ohana, 45, and her daughter Yael, 11, were murdered in their home when an armed terrorist infiltrated Moshav Hamra, halfway between Jericho and Beit She'an in the Jordan Valley on Wednesday evening, opening fire. IDF reserve soldier, St.-Sgt. Maj.(res.) Moshe Majos Meconen, 33, of Beit She'an, was also killed in the attack. The terrorist, who entered the Ohana home disguised in IDF uniform, was killed by IDF forces. Both Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility.

Feb 15, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Lee Nahman Akunis, 20, of Holon, was shot and killed by gunmen on Friday night at a roadblock north of Ramallah. The Fatah's Al-Aksa Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 - Policeman Ahmed Mazarib, 32, of the Bedouin village Beit Zarzir in the Galilee, was killed by a homicide bomber whom he had stopped for questioning on the Ma'ale Adumim-Jerusalem road. The terrorist succeeded in detonating the bomb in his car. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 18, 2002 - Ahuva Amergi, 30, of Ganei Tal in Gush Katif was killed and a 60-year old man was injured when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on her car. Maj. Mor Elraz, 25, of Kiryat Ata and St.-Sgt. Amir Mansouri, 21, of Kiryat Arba, who came to their assistance, were killed while trying to intercept the terrorist. The terrorist was killed when the explosives he was carrying were detonated. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 19, 2002 - Lt. Moshe Eini, 21, of Petah Tikva; St.-Sgt. Benny Kikis, 20, of Carmiel; St.-Sgt. Mark Podolsky, 20, of Tel Aviv; St.-Sgt. Erez Turgeman, 20, of Jerusalem; St.-Sgt. Tamir Atsmi, 21, of Kiryat Ono; and St.-Sgt. Michael Oxsman, 21, of Haifa were killed and one wounded in an attack near a roadblock west of Ramallah. Several terrorists opened fire at soldiers at the roadblock, including three off-duty soldiers inside a structure at the roadblock, killing them at point-blank range. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 22, 2002 - Valery Ahmir, 59, of Beit Shemesh was killed by terrorists in a drive-by shooting on the Atarot-Givat Ze'ev road north of Jerusalem as he returned home from work. Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2002 - Avraham Fish, 65, and Aharon Gorov, 46, both of Nokdim, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack between Tekoa and Nokdim, south of Bethlehem. Fish's daughter, 9 months pregnant, was seriously injured but delivered a baby girl. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 25, 2002 - Police officer 1st Sgt. Galit Arbiv, 21, of Nesher, died after being fatally shot, when a terrorist opened fire at a bus stop in the Neve Ya'akov residential neighborhood in northern Jerusalem. Eight others were injured, two seriously. The Fatah al-Aksa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2002 - Gad Rejwan, 34, of Jerusalem, was shot and killed early Wednesday morning by one of his Palestinian terrorist employees in a factory in the Atarot industrial area, north of Jerusalem. Two Fatah groups issued a joint statement taking responsibility for the murder.

Mar 02, 2002 - Ten people were killed and over 50 were injured, 4 critically, in a homicide bombing at 19:15 on Saturday evening near a yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox Beit Yisrael neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem where people had gathered for a bar-mitzva celebration. The terrorist detonated the bomb next to a group of women waiting with their baby carriages for their husbands to leave the nearby synagogue. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade took responsibility for the attack.

Mar 03, 2002 - Ten Israelis - 7 soldiers and 3 civilians - were killed and 6 injured when a terrorist opened fire at an IDF roadblock near Ofra in Samaria: Capt. Ariel Hovav, 25, of Eli; Lt.(res.) David Damelin, 29, of Kibbutz Metzar; 1st Sgt.(res.) Rafael Levy, 42, of Rishon Lezion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Avraham Ezra, 38, of Kiryat Bialik; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Eran Gad, 24, of Rishon Letzion; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Yochai Porat, 26, of Kfar Sava; Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Kfir Weiss, 24, of Beit Shemesh; Sergei Birmov, 33, of Ariel; Vadim Balagula, 32, of Ariel; and Didi Yitzhak, 66, of Eli. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 05, 2002 - Police officer FSM Salim Barakat, 33, of Yarka; Yosef Habi, 52, of Herzliya; and Eli Dahan, 53, of Lod were killed and over 30 people were wounded in Tel-Aviv when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire on two adjacent restaurants shortly after 2:00 AM. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 05, 2002 - Devorah Friedman, 45, of Efrat, was killed and her husband injured in shooting attack on the Bethlehem bypass "tunnel road", south of Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 9, 2002 - Avia Malka, 9 months, of South Africa, and Israel Yihye, 27, of Bnei Brak were killed and about 50 people were injured, several seriously, when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at cars and pedestrians in the coastal city of Netanya on Saturday evening, close to the city's boardwalk and hotels. The terrorists were killed by Israeli border police. The Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 14, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Matan Biderman, 21, of Carmiel, St.-Sgt. Ala Hubeishi, 21, of Julis, and Sgt. Rotem Shani, 19, of Hod Hasharon were killed and two soldiers were injured early Thursday morning when a tank escorting a civilian convoy drove over a land mine exploded on the Karni-Netzarim road in the Gaza Strip. Terrorists hiding in a nearby mosque detonated the remote-controlled explosive charge beneath the armored vehicle. The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Fatah's al-Aksa Martyrs Brigade both claimed responsibility.

Mar 21, 2002 - Three people were killed and 86 injured, 3 of them seriously, in a homicide bombing on King George Street in the center of Jerusalem. The terrorist detonated the bomb, packed with metal spikes and nails, in the center of a crowd of shoppers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29, 2002 - Two people were killed and 28 injured, two seriously when a female homicide bomber blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 29, 2002 - Rachel Levy, 17, and Haim Smadar, 55, the security guard, both of Jerusalem, were killed and 28 people were injured, two seriously, when a female terrorist blew herself up in the Kiryat Yovel supermarket in Jerusalem. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 30, 2002 - Border Policeman Sgt.-Maj. Constantine Danilov, 23, of Or Akiva was shot and killed in Baka al-Garbiyeh, during an exchange of fire with two Palestinian terrorists trying to cross into Israel to carry out a terrorist attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Mar 30, 2002 - One person was killed and about 30 people were injured in a homicide bombing in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - A police officer was killed in Jerusalem when a Palestinian terrorist homicide bomber heading toward the city center blew himself up in his car after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 01, 2002 - Tomer Mordechai, 19, of Tel-Aviv, a policeman, was killed in Jerusalem, when a Palestinian terrorist driving toward the city center blew himself up after being stopped at a roadblock. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 04, 2002 - Rachel Charhi, 36, of Bat-Yam, critically injured when a terrorist detonated himself in a cafe on the corner of Allenby and Bialik streets in Tel-Aviv on March 30, died of her wounds. Some 30 others were injured in the attack. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Apr 04, 2002 - Border Police Supt. Patrick Pereg, 30, of Rosh Ha'ayin, head of operations in an undercover unit, was killed Thursday while attempting to arrest a wanted member of Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade.

Apr 12, 2002 - Nissan Cohen, 57; Rivka Fink, 75; Suheila Hushi, 48; and Yelena Konrab, 43, all of Jerusalem; and Ling Chang Mai, 34, and Chai Siang Yang, 32, both foreign workers from China, were killed and 104 people were wounded when a woman terrorist blew hereselt up by detonating a powerful charge at a bus stop on Jaffa road at the entrance to Jerusalem's Mahane Yehuda open-air market. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 20, 2002 - Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Uriel Bar-Maimon, 21 of Ashkelon was killed in an exchange of fire near the Erez industrial park in the northern Gaza Strip. Israeli forces pursued the Palestinian terrorist gunman and killed him. An explosive belt was found on his body. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

May 27, 2002 - Ruth Peled, 56, of Herzliya and her infant granddaughter Sinai Keinan, aged 14 months, of Petah Tikva were killed and 37 people were injured, some seriously, when a terrorist detonated himself near an ice cream parlor outside a shopping mall in Petah Tikva. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 28, 2002 - Albert Maloul, 50, of Jerusalem, was killed when shots were fired at the car in which he was traveling south on the Ramallah bypass road. Maloul and his cousin, who was lightly injured, were returning home to Jerusalem from Eli, where they operate the swimming pool. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 28, 2002 - Netanel Riachi, 17, of Kochav Ya'akov; Gilad Stiglitz, 14, of Yakir; and Avraham Siton, 17, of Shilo - three yeshiva high school students - were killed and two others wounded in Itamar, southeast of Nablus, when a Palestinian terrorist gunman infiltrated the community and opened fire on the teenagers playing basketball, before he was shot dead by a security guard. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2002 - Seven people were killed and 50 injured - three of them in critical condition - when a homicide bomber blew himself up at a crowded bus stop and hitchhiking post at the French Hill intersection in northern Jerusalem shortly after 7:00 P.M., as people were returning home from work. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2002 - Rachel Shabo, 40, and three of her sons - Neria, 16, Zvika, 12, and Avishai, 5 - as well as a neighbor, Yosef Twito, 31, who came to their aid, were murdered when a terrorist entered their home in Itamar, south of Nablus, and opened fire. Two other children were injured, as well as two soldiers. The terrorist was killed by IDF forces. The PFLP and the Fatah Al Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 10, 2002 - IDF officer Capt. Hagai Lev, 24, of Jerusalem, deputy commander of a Givati reconaissance unit, was killed by Palestinian terrorist sniper fire while conducting a search for weapons smuggling tunnels in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip. The Fatah Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the shooting.

Jul 25, 2002 - Rabbi Elimelech Shapira, 43, of Peduel, was killed and another civilian injured in a shooting attack near the West Bank community of Alei Zahav, west of Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 26, 2002 - St.-Sgt. Elazar Lebovitch, 21, of Hebron; Rabbi Yosef Dikstein, 45, of Psagot, his wife Hannah, 42, and their 9-year-old son Shuv'el Zion were killed in a shooting attack south of Hebron. Two other of their children were injured. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 30, 2002 - Shlomo Odesser, 60, and his brother Mordechai, 52, both of Tapuach in Samaria, were shot and killed when their truck came under fire in the West Bank village of Jama'in, near Ariel. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 04, 2002 - Yekutiel Amitai, 34, of Jerusalem, a security guard, and Nizal Awassat, 52, of the Jabel Mukaber neighborhood in East Jerusalem, were killed and 17 were wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire with a pistol near the Damascus Gate of Jerusalem's Old City. Border policemen exchanged fire with the gunman, killing him. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 05, 2002 - Avi Wolanski (29) and his wife Avital (27), of Eli, were killed and one of their children, aged 03, was injured when terrorists opened fire on their car as they were traveling on the Ramallah-Nablus road near Eli in Samaria. The Martyrs of the Palestinian terrorist Popular Army, a splinter group associated with Arafat's Fatah movement, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 10, 2002 - Yafit Herenstein, 31, of Moshav Mechora in the Jordan Valley, was killed and her husband, Arno, seriously wounded when a Palestinian terrorist infiltrated the moshav and opened fire outside their home. The terrorist was killed by soldiers. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 05, 2002 - 1st Lt. Malik Grifat, 24, of Zarzir was killed and a soldier wounded when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire, from a crowded school, towards an IDF patrol near Nisanit in the northern Gaza Strip. The terrorist was killed. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 18, 2002 - Yosef Ajami, 36, of Jerusalem was killed Wednesday afternoon when terrorists opened fire on his car near Mevo Dotan, north of Jenin in the West Bank. The other occupant of the car, a foreign worker, was lightly injured. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 29, 2002 - Three Hermesh residents - Orna Eshel, 53, Linoy Saroussi and Hadas Turgeman, both 14 - were killed and two were wounded when a terrorist armed with a Kalashnikov assault rifle and wearing an explosive belt opened fire, after infiltrating the settlement in northern Samaria. The terrorist was shot dead. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 10, 2002 - Revital Ohayon, 34, and her two sons, Matan, 05, and Noam, 04, as well as Yitzhak Dori, 44 - all of Kibbutz Metzer - and Tirza Damari, 42, of Elyachin, were killed when a terrorist infiltrated the kibbutz, located east of Hadera near the Green Line, and opened fire. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 28, 2002 - Haim Amar, 56; Ehud (Yehuda) Avitan, 54; Mordechai Avraham, 44; Ya'acov Lary, 35; and David Peretz, 48 - all of Beit She'an; and Shaul Zilberstein, 36, of Upper Nazareth, were killed and about 40 wounded when two terrorists opened fire and threw grenades at the Likud polling station in Beit She'an, near the central bus station, where party members were casting their votes in the Likud primary. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 02, 2003 - The charred body of Massoud Makhluf Alon, 72, from Menahemiya in the Lower Galilee, was found in the northern Jordan Valley in his burned out car. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder.

Jan 05, 2003 - Twenty-three people - 15 Israelis and 8 foreign nationals - were killed and about 120 wounded when two terrorists blew themselves up near the old Central Bus Station in Tel-Aviv. The attack was apparently carried out by two members of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, with the help of the Islamic Jihad.

Feb 06, 2003 - 2nd Lt. Amir Ben-Aryeh, 21, of Maccabim, and St.-Sgt. Idan Suzin, 20, of Kiryat Tivon were killed and two more soldiers were wounded in a shooting attack in the area of Nablus. Both gunmen were killed by return fire from IDF troops. The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and Fatah-Tanzim claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 19, 2003 - Zion Boshirian, 51, of Mevo Dotan was shot and killed while driving in his car between Mevo Dotan and Shaked in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 10, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Yigal Lifshitz, 20, of Rishon Lezion, and St.-Sgt. Ofer Sharabi, 21, of Givat Shmuel were killed and nine others wounded when Palestinian terrorists opened fire before dawn on their base near Bekaot in the northern Jordan Valley. The PFLP and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Apr 24, 2003 - Alexander Kostyuk, a 23-year-old security guard from Bat Yam, was killed and 13 were wounded, two seriously, in a terrorist bombing outside the train station in Kfar Sava. Groups related to the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the PFLP clamied joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 30, 2003 - Ran Baron, 23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass, 29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of Holon, were murdered and about 60 people were wounded when a terrorist bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub, "Mike's Place," in Tel Aviv. The Fatah Tanzim and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, carried out as a joint operation. Investigation revealed that the two British Muslims involved in the bombing were dispatched to perpetrate the attack by the Hamas military command in the Gaza Strip.

May 05, 2003 - Gideon Lichterman, 27, of Ahiya, was killed and two other passengers, his six-year-old daughter Moriah and a reserve soldier, were seriously wounded when terrorists fired shots at their vehicle near Shvut Rachel, in Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 11, 2003 - Zion David, 53, of Givat Ze'ev near Jerusalem, was shot in the head and killed by Palestinian terrorists in a roadside ambush half a kilometer from Ofra, north of Jerusalem. Both Fatah and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 19, 2003 - Kiryl Shremko, 22, of Afula; Hassan Ismail Tawatha, 41, of Jisr a-Zarqa; and Avi Zerihan, 36, of Beit Shean were killed and about 70 people were wounded in a terrorist bombing at the entrance to the Amakim Mall in Afula. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 08, 2003 - Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Assaf Abergil, 23, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Udi Eilat, 38, of Eilat; Sgt. Maj. Boaz Emete, 24, of Beit She'an; and Sgt. Maj. (Res.) Chen Engel, 32, of Ramat Gan were killed and four reserve soldiers were wounded when Palestinian terrorists wearing IDF uniforms opened fire on an IDF outpost near the Erez checkpoint and industrial zone in the Gaza Strip. Three terrorists were killed by IDF soldiers. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Hamas and the Islamic Jihad issued a joint statement claiming responsibility for the attack.

Jun 12, 2003 - Avner Maimon, 51, of Netanya, was found shot to death in his car near Yabed in northern Samaria. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 13, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Mordechai Sayada, 22, of Tirat Carmel, was shot to death in Jenin by a Palestinian terrorist sniper as his jeep patrol passed by. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 17, 2003 - Noam Leibowitz, 7, of Yemin Orde was killed and three members of her family wounded in a shooting attack near the Kibbutz Eyal junction on the Trans-Israel Highway. The terrorist fired from the outskirts of the West Bank city of Kalkilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine - General Command claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 26, 2003 - Amos (Amit) Mantin, 31, of Hadera, a Bezeq employee, was killed in a shooting attack in the Israeli Arab town of Baka al-Garbiyeh. The shots were fired by a Palestinian terrorist teenager, who was apprehended by police. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 30, 2003 - Krastyu Radkov, 46, a construction worker from Bulgaria, was killed in a shooting attack on the Yabed bypass road in northern Samaria, west of Jenin, while driving a truck. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, in opposition to the declared ceasefire.

Jul 15, 2003 - Amir Simhon, 24, of Bat Yam was killed when a Palestinian terrorist armed with a long-bladed knife stabbed passersby on Tel Aviv's beachfront promenade, after a security guard prevented him from entering the Tarabin cafe and was wounded. The terrorist, who was shot and apprehended, is a member of the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, which claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 29, 2003 - Shalom Har-Melekh, 25, of Homesh was killed in a shooting attack while driving northeast of Ramallah. His wife, Limor, who was seven months pregnant, sustained moderate injuries, and gave birth to a baby girl by Caesarean section. The Fatah al-Aqsa Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 04, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Gabriel Uziel, 20, of Givat Ze'ev was shot and mortally wounded by a terrorist sniper in Jenin; he died en route to the hospital. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 2003 - St.-Sgt. Erez Idan, 19, of Rishon Lezion, Sgt. Elad Pollack, 19, of Kiryat Motzkin, and Sgt. Roi Ya'acov Solomon, 21, of Tel Aviv, were killed and another soldier was seriously wounded while on patrol in Ein Yabrud, north of Ramallah, when terrorists fired on them from behind. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 18, 2003 - Two IDF soldiers, Sgt.-Maj. Shlomi Belsky, 23, of Haifa, and St.-Sgt. Shaul Lahav, 20, of Kibbutz Shomrat, were killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire with an AK-47 assault rifle, hidden in a prayer rug, at a checkpoint on the tunnel bypass road, linking Jerusalem and the Gush Etzion bloc. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Nov 22, 2003 - Two Israeli security guards, Ilya Reiger, 58, of Jerusalem, and Samer Fathi Afan, 25, of the Bedouin village Uzeir near Nazareth, were shot dead at a construction site along the route of the security fence near Abu Dis in East Jerusalem. The Jenin Martyrs' Brigades, affiliated with Fatah, claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 22, 2003 - Capt. Hagai Bibi, 24, of Maaleh Adumim, and Lt. Leonardo (Alex) Weissman, 23, of Afula were killed when a Palestinian terrorist opened fire and threw hand grenades as they emerged from their jeep on the Kissufim-Gush Katif road in the Gaza Strip. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2004 - Ro'i Arbel, 29, of Talmon, was killed in a terror shooting ambush near his home in Samaria. Three other passengers of the vehicle were wounded. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 14, 2004 - Cpl. Andrei Kegeles, 19, of Nahariya; St.-Sgt. Tzur Or, 20, of Rishon Lezion; security guard Gal Shapira, 29, of Ashkelon; and Border Policeman St.-Sgt. Vladimir Trostinsky, 22, of Rehovot were killed and 10 wounded when a female terrorist detonated herself at the Erez Crossing in the Gaza Strip. Hamas and the Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2004 - Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded, 13 of them seriously, in a terrorist bombing of an Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah-related Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist policeman from Bethlehem.

Feb 22, 2004 - Eight people were killed and over 60 wounded, 11 of them school pupils, in a terrorist bombing on Jerusalem bus no. 14A near the Liberty Bell Park. The Fatah Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack, which was carried out by Mohammed Za'ul, from the Bethlehem area.

Feb 26, 2004 - Sgt.-Maj.(res.) Amir Zimmerman, 25, of Kfar Monash was killed and two other soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists opened fire near the Erez Crossing between the Gaza Strip and Israel. The terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Feb 27, 2004 - Eitan Kukoi, 30, and his wife, Rima Novikov Kukoi, 25, were killed in a terrorist shooting attack on the Lahav-Ashkelon road, along the Green Line. The PFLP and the Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades both claimed responsibility for the attack.
Mar 14, 2004 - Ten people were killed and 16 wounded in a double terrorist detonation at Ashdod Port. Hamas and Fatah claimed responsibility for the attack.

Mar 19, 2004 - George Khoury, 20, a Christian Arab and the son of well-known veteran attorney Elias Khoury of Beit Hanina, was shot to death from a vehicle while jogging in the north Jerusalem neighborhood of French Hill. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, which claimed responsibility for the attack, later published an apology for killing a non-Jew.

Apr 17, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Kfir Ohayon, 20, of Eilat was killed, three others wounded when a Palestinian terrorist blew himself up at the Erez Crossing. Hamas and Fatah claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Apr 25, 2004 - Border Policeman Cpl. Yaniv Mashiah, 20, of Jaffa, was killed and three others lightly wounded just an hour after the beginning of Memorial Day for Israel's fallen soldiers when shots were fired at their vehicle near Hebron. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

May 02, 2004 - Tali Hatuel, 34, and her daughters - Hila, 11, Hadar, 9, Roni, 7, and Merav, 2 - of Katif in the Gaza Strip were killed and another civilian and two soldiers wounded when two Palestinian terrorists fired on an Israeli car at the entrance to the Gaza Strip settlement bloc of Gush Katif. Fatah and Islamic Jihad claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

May 29, 2004 - Maj. Shachar Ben-Yishai, 25, of Menahemia was killed by Palestinian terrorist gunfire following a search in the Balata camp near Nablus. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 13, 2004 - Shlomo Miller, 50, of Itamar in Samaria was killed by a Palestinian terrorist who opened fire outside the settlement gate. The The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility.

Sep 22, 2004 - Two Border Policemen - Lance Cpl. Menashe Komemi, 19, of Moshav Aminadav and Lance Cpl. Mamoya Tahio, 20, of Rehovot - were killed and 17 Israelis wounded in a terrorist bombing carried out by a female terrorist at the French Hill junction hitchhiking post in northern Jerusalem. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Sep 23, 2004 - Capt. Tal Bardugo, 21, of Jerusalem, St.-Sgt. Nir Sami, 21, of Jerusalem, and St.-Sgt. Israel Lutati, 20, of Neve Dekalim were killed by several Palestinian terrorists, armed with AK-47 assault riffles and hand grenades, who infiltrated the military post near the community of Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Another soldier and a journalist were also wounded in the exchange of fire in which the terrorists were killed. Two Fatah-related terror groups and the Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 19, 2004 - St.-Sgt. Yair Nisim Turgemann, 22, of Kiryat Arba, was killed at an IDF base near Mevo Dotan in Samaria when Palestinian terrorist gunmen opened fire from Palestinian terrorist territory west of the community. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 12, 2004 - Five IDF soldiers were killed and five wounded when a tunnel filled with 1.5 tons of explosives were detonated under an IDF post at the Rafah crossing, followed by the infiltration of the post by two terrorists who opened fire and activated another explosive device. Hamas and the Fatah Hawks claimed responsibility for the attack. The soldiers killed: Sgt. Araf Azbarga, 19, of Kseifeh; Sgt. Sa'id Jahaja, 19, of Arara; Sgt. Hussein Abu Leil, 23, of Ein Mahal; Corp. Adham Shehada, 19, of Turan; and Sgt. Tarek al-Ziadne, 20, of Rahat.

Dec 22, 2004 - Salem (Sami) al-Kimlat, 28, a Bedouin from the town of Rahat employed as a security guard at the construction site of the security fence west of Hebron, was shot and killed by Palestinian terrorists. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot; Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Mar 1, 2006 - Eldar Abir, 48, of Migdalim was killed when two Palestinian shot him at point blank range at the gas station near Migdalim in the West Bank. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 17, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Osher Damari, 20, of Netanya was killed and six IDF soldiers wounded by an explosive device in Nablus as troops from the Haruv Battalion were engaged in anti-terrorist activity. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

July 27, 2006 - The burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 19, 2006 - St.-Sgt. Ro'i Farjoun, 21, of Yehud was killed when a terrorist opened fire at the Bekaot chekpoint in the Jordan Valley. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 29, 2007 - Three people were killed in a suicide bombing in a bakery in the southern city of Eilat: bakery employees and Eilat residents Emi Haim Elmaliah, 32, Michael Ben Sa'adon, 27, and Israel Zamalloa, 26. The Islamic Jihad and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

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November 01, 2007

Oh.. those evil Joos!

YCMTSU!

The Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carried a story this past week about IDF tactics that surpassed all previous accusations of supposed Israeli deviousness - poisoned candies, hormone-laced gum, poisoned wells, magnetized belts - in its bizarreness.

The Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida carried a story this week about IDF tactics that surpassed all previous accusations of supposed Israeli deviousness - poisoned candies, hormone-laced gum, poisoned wells, magnetized belts - in its bizarreness.

According to an Al-Hayat Al-Jadida front page report, the IDF has turned to using armed, female strippers in its war on upstanding Palestinian boys.

The newspaper reports that when the Arab rock-throwing begins, IDF soldiers run for cover. Then, the story continues, after some time of hiding, an Israeli woman stands up on top of a barricade and begins to perform an alluring strip tease. Innocent Arab teenage boys, distracted from the business of rioting, are enticed to approach, when, according to the newspaper, the woman ? an IDF soldier ? shoots them with a pistol she had hidden in her underwear.

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October 27, 2007

An Exchange of Words

Last week, Israeli MK Yossi Beilin introduced a bill into the Knesset calling for the expulsion of all Jews from Hebron. But, before the vote, MK Arieh Eldad announced he had prepared an identical bill... with one slight but important difference.

Mk Eldad exchanged the words "Jewish Community of Hebron" for the words "Hebron Palestinians." Otherwise, the bill was exactly the same. Beilin's bill called to expel the the Jews of Hebron and Eldad's bill called to expel the Palestinians of Hebron.

and... oh! the outrage of the left! He called for the expulsion of Palestinians!?! Oh! Voices were raised, cries of racism rang out, to which, I have been told, MK Eldad replied, "What about you?"

Indeed. Expel the Jews, that's okay, but expel the Palestinians, that's racist. Why? Why is it racist to expel the Palestinians and not racist to expel the Jews?

Beilin's bill to expel the Jews from Hebron was defeated 47 to 11. Eldad's bill was not put to vote.

Thank you MK Arieh Eldad!

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October 26, 2007

Shabbat Shalom

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

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October 19, 2007

I wish I hadn't seen this


WTF??

This is so wrong, on so many levels. I've been arguing with myself all morning, ever since I saw this blurb. The big shocker is not that Israel is considering giving up prisoners for Galit, Israel is always releasing terrorists back into the wild for some reason, or for no reason. But permission? Israel has to seek permission to try negotiate to get Gilad Shalit back? Is it true? Probably, but who can say for sure?

I don't want to argue over a maybe, so as upsetting as that little blurb is, I'll just let it be... until I get confirmation from somewhere that its true.

But the release of yet more terrorists is troubling, Olmert let a few hundred go just last month for no good reason at all. So, I guess somewhere between 200 and 1000 terrorists will be released in exchanged for Gilad Shalit, be he dead or alive. Alive I pray, but... we are dealing with Hamas, remember? I haven't forgotten the kidnapping and murder of 18 year old Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri in June of 2006, and I haven't forgotten that Hamas tried to negotiate for his life after they put a bullet through his head.

And, I haven't forgotten what happens when you negotiate with evil:

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons.

With permission from the United States or without, when you consider what we know the aftermath will be, should Israel release more terrorists to obtain the freedom of Gilad Shalit?

Well, consider that we know the Israeli left will release those terrorist eventually anyway, as they have in the past, for the stupid, ineffective and meaningless negotiations with terrorists who want only to kill us. They have before, and they will again.

Gilad Shalit is only one life. But perhaps Gilad Shalit is the one Jewish life that can be saved.

Still, the terrorists will continue to kill us no matter what.

And... this exchange will surely encourage more kidnappings of more Israeli soldiers.

But then, there would likely be more kidnappings anyway.

I look at those faces, and I want to cry.

I could argue with myself all day about such things, one Jew, three opinions.

I'll say it again. My solution would be to take the list of prisoners the palestinians want released, and I would execute one a day, until Gilad Shalit is released, or I run out of prisoners.

That way, the end result is a good one, either way.

But, that's just me.

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October 16, 2007

The Forgotten People

This video has been selected for screening along with 100 films during the 11th Annual Hollywood Film Festival, October 17-22, with award to be presented on October 22, 2007.

From Galilee of the Nations Music, a Christian music company.

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October 14, 2007

A Light in the Darkness of War

A year has passed but First Lieutenant M. has not forgotten about the activities of Migdal Ohr which had been discreetly accomplished. With minor changes, we publish here for the first time in English, Lieutenant M's written recording of his experience.

"I remember the two weeks of near face-to-face combat, the confused orders and insufficient combat gear, the intense hunger, physical and emotional exhaustion and toughest of all, the self-imposed silence and disassociation with our surroundings."Now is not the right time to complain, but when it is over," we thought to ourselves, "when the air raid sirens stop and we are out of these fatigues, we can talk and the truth will be known."

When the news came that we were receiving a day off, our hearts soared. We suffered so much stress and hardship. Where would we go? How should we take full advantage of this gift? Rumors begin to circulate that we were going to some school in Migdal Ha'Emek. "This must be a joke! Who ordered ten buses to bring us to some yeshiva with some Rabbi who is just going to try and brainwash us?"

Then, a few of the guys remembered. "Rabbi Grossman, that's the Disco Rabbi right? The guys all give him great respect." But what do they know? He is still some rabbi. Tired and emotionally drained, we got off the buses and stood face to face with an old-world looking Jew, complete with a white beard, side locks and long jacket.

"So here it comes," I thought, "the push to put on tefillin or to say prayers together. Some day off." "Boys," the rabbi's words thundered, "I suggest that first thing you do is take a dip in the pool and freshen up. In the meantime, we will make you something to eat."

In amazing simplicity, Rabbi Grossman heard in passing that the brigade was looking for a home for a day, and he immediately volunteered his campus. "What's the problem? 600 soldiers? They should all come, of course we have room!"

With the echoes of war from the battlefield still in our ears, it seemed like a mirage or hallucination. Soft music came from everywhere and flowing water and greenery surrounded us. Within minutes, the tables were set with cold refreshing watermelon, cakes, and beverages, followed by cheeses, fresh vegetables, and soft rolls.

Then we heard, "Out of the pool, get dressed and eat something."We saw piles of new undergarments. 600 new undershirts and underwear appeared as if out of nowhere, laid out on tables for our choosing.

Rabbi Grossman sat with us and laughed, "Have a good time boys! Have a great time! This evening, I will put on the most spectacular performance you have ever seen."

I am not a religious person by any means, but I can't help but envision the first Jew, Avraham, standing and personally serving his guests perfectly naturally and without the slightest hint of condescension. He respected each individual and cared for all their needs. Like Avraham, Rabbi Grossman saw in this an obvious act of kindness, a mission of a Mitzvah that had fallen into his hands.

As the evening continued, we learned quickly that this was the essence of who Rabbi Grossman is and what he is all about. He loves everyone and accepts everyone as they are with all his heart and soul. "Tell me friends," Rabbi Grossman said, "I heard you are lacking different pieces of equipment. Do me a favor. Here is a pencil and paper, just write down everything you are missing and leave the paper on the table."

That night, we enjoyed the entertainment and afterwards, slept in soft beds and air-conditioned rooms. Like in a fairytale, we awoke in the morning and could not believe our eyes. Mounds of gear which we so desperately needed had arrived at Migdal Ohr. Attached, was a small note from Rabbi Grossman, "To my dear soldiers, from all my heart!"

Rabbi Grossman personally and immediately raised over $60,000 worth of equipment from friends literally overnight! The essential equipment included ceramic bulletproof vests, helmets, canteens, knee pads, backpack water canteens, night vision goggles, toothbrushes, socks and more.

Interestingly, a few months before the war broke out, a special friend of Rabbi Grossman from France was interested in donating a new Torah scroll to the main Migdal Ohr Beit Midrash (studyhall).

For some reason, Rabbi Grossman requested to postpone the event until an unspecified later date."Now is the right time!" Rabbi Grossman realized. He immediately made arrangements and in an early evening ceremony, we participated in the completion of writing the Torah.

While the scroll was carefully laid on the table next to a special pen and ink, Rabbi Grossman addressed the soldiers. "My holy ones! I am going to bestow upon you the merit of a holy mitzvah, which can be considered a once in a life time opportunity. Each one of you will complete a letter in the Torah scroll. While you are executing this holy task, each one of you should pray the prayer of his heart and request from G-d that the merit of the letter he has completed will protect him in battle. Holy sparks will emanate from these sacred letters and disperse around you, creating a protective shield which will keep you safe and bring you home safely.

"Those moments were the most exciting and emotional ones in my life. Shaking from the intensity of the immeasurable experience,still not believing, we held the edges of the Torah scroll while our hearts beat rapidly. There was complete silence all around. One after the other, we dipped the quill in the ink and completed a letter in the Torah scroll.

A bystander would have seen a breathtaking scene of incredible elation and spiritual exuberance. The world seemed as if shrouded in silence. The strings of our heart felt strummed and the tears flowed freely down our cheeks.

"Mother!" cried one of the soldiers into his cell phone, "you wont believe what I have done! I have written a letter in a Torah scroll! Mother, are you there? Can you hear?! Me, a Shmutznik (a member of a non- religious Kibbutz), who can't differentiate between Shabbat and the rest of the week, who has not seen tzizit (ritual garment) in my life. Me, I wrote a letter in a Torah scroll! I can't believe it. I can't believe it. "

After the completion of the Torah, the ceremony continued. Leading the procession was a decorated car with multi-colored lights strung all over it and with a crown of lights spinning around on its roof. Following the car, bearers of a decorated canopy marched while people danced around it. Under the canopy, others held the Torah scroll, which was clothed in white and crimson with a silver crown at its top. 600 soldiers and thousands of the town residents marched and danced in the procession, a loud speaker accompanying them, playing traditional Jewish music.

As the ceremony came to a close, Rabbi Grossman approached every soldier and kissed him while placing a half-shekel coin in his hand and said "shliach mitzvah aino nezok," messengers of a mitzvah are not harmed. Rabbi Grossman concluded, "When you return, G-d willing, healthy and unharmed, you will fulfill this mission I am placing upon you, and you will donate this money to charity.

"The night came. Twelve buses made their way atop the Galilee Mountains. Heavy darkness engulfed us, yet behind, in the growing distance, a bright flame pierced the night sky. In the midst of war and violence, we found love and unending human compassion at Migdal Ohr, the educational center established in Migdal Ha'Emek by Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman. Rabbi Grossman speaks "This was an immense "Kiddush Hashem."

For a long period of time, I cried and was very emotional." Thus Rabbi Grossman recalled the moment when he first read the words above written by First Lieutenant M.Rabbi Grossman has what to add to the end of this exciting memoir. "A moment before they returned to Lebanon, I told the soldiers, 'in the merit that you said "shema" and put on tefillin, wrote a letter in the torah, and are messengers of a mitzvah, I promise you, that you will all return safe and sound. None of you will be wounded or killed.'"

"Wasn't the Rabbi scared to commit to 600 soldiers that they would return home safe and sound?" asked Shula Weissfer, a journalist. "That is what came out of my mouth word for word," he replied. "This was a moment of exuberance."

"I continued and told them," Rabbi Grossman relates, "if this does actually happen that you come back safely, the first place you must come back to - before you go home - is Migdal Ohr. We will thank G-d together and from there we will say goodbye." I told them, "think of this as an emergency call-up. Do you accept?" The commanding officer replied in the affirmative.

Two weeks later, around midnight, Rabbi Grossman received a phone call. "Rabbi, your blessing has come true!" exclaimed the commander over the phone. "Everyone is safe and we are on our way to you. We will be there by two 'o clock in the morning"

Rabbi Grossman immediately contacted the kitchen staff and asked them to prepare a meal while he worked to organize a band. People asked him 'You need a band at 2 a.m.? Is Moshiach here?'

"At 2:30 a.m. the soldiers disembarked from the buses, each one carrying 60 kilo of equipment on his back. The band started playing music and the soldiers approached Rabbi Grossman, each one lovingly received with a hug and a kiss. This continued for two hours.

"I felt as I had never felt before," recalls Rabbi Grossman. "Each one told me his personal miracle. "One soldier, a kibbutznik and a lawyer in civilian life, relayed an incredible miracle. A group of soldiers were gathered in an empty house in a Lebanese village when one of them forgetfully lit a cigarette. Hezbollah terrorists immediately noticed the light and fired an anti-tank missile at the house. Coincidentally, two horses from the village ran in front of the house and were hit and killed. The missile, deflected by the horses, veered away from the house, landing elsewhere. Incredibly, the horses miraculously saved the soldiers inside the house.

After the warm reception, the soldiers recited "birkat hagomel,"and together with Rabbi Grossman, sang and danced until daybreak.

"To this day," says Rabbi Grossman, "we maintain contact with each soldier and have thus become one family."

Rabbi Grossman is a recipient of the "Award of Recognition for his Actions on Behalf of Soldiers of the Israeli Defense Forces and the Second Lebanon War"

Original article written by Shula Weissfer

Link to JPost Article

Rabbi Grossman is an Israel Prize laureate and often referred to as the "disco rabbi" for his work reaching out to youths at clubs.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:43 AM | Comments (2)

October 01, 2007

When is enough, enough?

Daniel Katz was born on January 3, 1969. In 1983, at age 14, he was kidnapped, brutally raped and murdered, his badly beaten body found days later in a cave in Carmel. In 1991, five palestinian men confessed to the crime, and were sentenced to life imprisonment for abducting, sexually assaulting and murdering Katz. According to the original indictment against the five, they met a few days before the murder and decided to kidnap and kill a Jewish child.

Today, Shimon Peres released Danny's confessed killers, he set them free to kill again. Why would Peres do such a terrible thing? Well, there are those who believe he did it in return for the arab votes that gave him the Presidency, and it could be true. What other explanation is possible?

Fifty-five terrorists released this morning, and another thirty will be released later today. As Shimon Peres rewards palestinian terror with the release of convicted terrorists who have killed and who will now kill again, palestinians will celebrate their victory, while rockets continue to rain down on Israeli civilians, molotov cocktails are thrown, and people are shot at in the streets and in their homes. In schools and shopping malls and on buses, innocent people are blown to bits.

The ultimate irony, all of the terrorists released today are Fatah terrorists, all of whom are part of the terrorist regime of Mahmoud Abbas, the so-called moderate terrorist and Israel's "partner in peace." Its a funny thing about terrorists, whether you call them extremist or moderate, no matter which one kills you, you are still dead. Danny Katz was killed by Fatah's moderates, and he is still dead.

When you consider what we know the aftermath will be, why would and why should Israel release more terrorists to bolster the terrorist forces of Mahmoud Abbas? The very idea is ludicrous and suicidal.

There are 11,000 murderous, psychotic, cold-blooded palestinian terrorists waiting in Israeli prisons for their release into the wild, waiting for the day they can continue the systematic murder of innocent Israeli citizens. Chrad al Yahood, they see the light at the end of the tunnel, their day is coming. One by one, bit by bit, Israel's government will release those terrorists, as they have today, and as they have in the past, for the stupid, ineffective and meaningless negotiations with terrorists who want only to kill.

And meanwhile, Gilad Shalit, Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser remain in terrorist hands, no one knows if they are dead or alive, although according to reports one of them is in fact, dead:

One of the two kidnapped IDF soldiers in Lebanon are dead, according to estimates by German security sources, who were quoted in the Lebanese newspaper, An-Nahar, Saturday.

“Security forces understood that one of the kidnapped soldiers is still alive, however, the other is dead,” An-Nahar reported.

There is nothing like a little psychological warfare, "they're dead" or "no, they're alive" or "they are desperate need of medical attention" as they said last June, when we suffered through reports that Gilad Shalit was in dire need of medical attention. There was no international outcry or outrage, no pressure put on Hamas to give him the medical attention he needs, oh no. The world was too busy worrying about the kidnapped BBC reporter who of course was released in perfect health, as he was obviously not Jewish.

Two years ago, we gave up the Gush as a show of good faith. And in return, we got thousands of rockets raining down on Israeli civilians, women, children, schools.

Last year, Israel should have fought until these men were released or until every single square inch of Lebanon and Gaza was buried under rubble. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Fatah should have been destroyed, completely destroyed.

Instead, Israel gave up and accomplished nothing, and now, Israel has again released palestinian terrorists from its prisons in exchange for nothing, calling it a show of good faith to the evil bastards who hold these men captive. Originally, the plan was to negotiate the release of prisoners in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, but in the end, they just let the terrorists go free.

The Israeli government has again closed its eyes to what happens when you appease terrorists and negotiate with evil:

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons. Look at their faces. Did they not deserve to live? Do they not deserve justice?

I look at those faces, and I want to cry.

There is no death penalty in Israel, except for Nazi war criminals. But when is enough, enough? An act of terrorism should merit the death penalty. There should be no prisoners to release.

I've said it before, I've said all of this before, many times. I'll say it again now, and I'll likely say it again... my solution would be to take the terrorists locked up in Israeli jails and execute them, one by one, until all our soldiers are released, or I run out of prisoners. That way, the end result is a good one, either way.

Enough is enough right now.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:30 AM | Comments (2)

September 24, 2007

One Man's Metaphor

Is another man's garbage:

I think I'll just stick to the basic definition of garbage and leave all that crap to the anti-Israel kumbaya crowd.

Garbage: discarded or useless material

Yep. That about sums it up.

UPDATE: To my new friends at Sadly, No, this one is for you.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:33 AM | Comments (4)

September 17, 2007

Buying Salvation

So many of you have written me privately, to send me links to the story, quotes, and pictures of Madonna in the Holy Land, claiming to be an Ambassador for Judaism. It was my intention to just let this one slip by, mostly because I have no interest in Madonna, and I'm disgusted with both Shimon Peres and the Kabballah Centre. But, since you asked...

I am Jewish. My parents are Jewish. My Grandparents are Jewish. My Great Grandparents are Jewish, all the way back to the beginning of time. I am an Ashkenazi Jew, to be specific, Tay Sachs gene and all. That doesn't make me an expert on all things Jewish, its just a fact of what I am, what I was born to be, and what I will always be. I don't speak for other Jews, I speak only for myself, and from my own personal experience.

Regardless of what she says, Madonna is not Jewish. She is just playing with Hollywood's religion of the month, a designer religion made up by a savvy entrepreneur who has discovered a way to make a boatload of cash off lost souls searching for validation and salvation.

I visited the local Kabballah Centre back in 1998, after my brain surgery. Since I was forbidden to work, I had too much time on my hands, and I was curious. So I sat in on a beginner's class, with my head still wrapped in bandages, topped off with a baseball cap. Kabballah 101. It was interesting, and I liked the Rabbi. He was a young and personable guy.

So, I signed up for a few classes, and attended the first few faithfully. I'm not going to go into the basics of what they teach, its just too complicated to get into here and now. Suffice it say that it is based upon redemption, deed and action and the consequences of one's behavior. Sound familiar?

After a couple of classes, the Rabbi singled me out for a little talk after class. He urged me to make an appointment to meet with him privately, he had noticed my bandages, and he told me he knew things that would help me. It seems that my tumor was the result of my behavior in my past life, and I needed to do certain things to correct the situation or my next life would be even worse. Whoa!

Call me crazy, but I have never believed that my brain tumor was a punishment from G-d.

Still, I am a curious creature, and the next day, I called to make the appointment. I wanted to hear what he had to say. The lady who answered the phone passed me to the Rabbi's secretary, who made the appointment for me. When I asked how much the appointment would cost... she said the strangest thing. "Bring your credit card."

My credit card? Whatever for? Just tell me how much I can expect to pay. And the Rabbi's secretary explained that the Rabbi would likely give me a prescription to be filled, of course, at the Kabballah Centre store, all for my salvation. Yes, the Kabballah Centre store, where one can buy Kabballah Water (bottled straight from the tap in Canada) for $10.00 a bottle. Special Canadian water that they claim can cure cancer. Yeah, sure.

There is also available special incense and candles and special red string to wear around my wrist, to ward off the evil eye spell that was surely placed on me by an evil enemy and likely caused my brain tumor, the same brain tumor that presumably was the fault of my bad behavior in another life, or perhaps caused by my failure to drink many bottles of $10.00 Canadian tap water surrounded by the smoke and smell of special Kabballah Centre scented horseshit on a stick.

At that point, I just sighed, and hung up the phone.

The Kabballah Centre has created the perfect religion for someone like lost little Madge, beseiged by the guilt of a lifetime of debauchery and regret, consummed by hopes and dreams of salvation. She is the perfect mark for a con man like Phillip Berg, and the perfect victim of religious fraud. Combine her ego with her self serving attitude, and the end result is the self-proclaimed Ambassador for Judaism busy absorbing the light and becoming one with her retailer.

Phillip Berg and the Kabballah Centre are Jewish equivalent of the cult of Jim Bakker. They give Judaism a bad name.

I've heard it argued that Madge is a serving as a beacon, and that she's attracting people to Judaism, but, she's not. Madge is not Jewish, and what she practices is not Judaism, its merchandising. Drinking $10.00 bottles of Canadian tap water and wearing red string does not make you Jewish and it won't get you salvation. There's quite a bit more to it than that. She's just helping Phillip Berg sell some overpriced water and some red string.

Most of the time, Madonna flies beneath my radar, as I am completely uninterested in what she says and what she does. But Shimon Peres, he is a dangerous man, committed to the dismantling and eventual destruction of the Land of Israel, he is the enemy within.

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September 16, 2007

Surprise, Surprise

Am Yisrael Chai!

It was just after midnight when the 69th Squadron of Israeli F15Is crossed the Syrian coast-line. On the ground, Syria’s formidable air defences went dead. An audacious raid on a Syrian target 50 miles from the Iraqi border was under way.

At a rendezvous point on the ground, a Shaldag air force commando team was waiting to direct their laser beams at the target for the approaching jets. The team had arrived a day earlier, taking up position near a large underground depot. Soon the bunkers were in flames.

“This was supposed to be a devastating Syrian surprise for Israel,” said an Israeli source. “We’ve known for a long time that Syria has deadly chemical warheads on its Scuds, but Israel can’t live with a nuclear warhead.”

and a footnote:

This weekend President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sent Ali Akbar Mehrabian, his nephew, to Syria to assess the damage. The new “axis of evil” may have lost one of its spokes.

Its time to stop playing appeasement games with Iran, Syria, Lebanon, and the rest of the Middle East. The threat to civilization has never been greater.

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August 28, 2007

Where were you when you turned 21?

Today is Gilad Shalit's 21st birthday, his second birthday in the hands of Hamas terrorists.

Gilad Shalit was raised, the middle of three siblings in a small community in the rolling hills of northern Galilee, near Israel’s border with Lebanon. His father, Noam, is a manager at the Iscar machine tools company; his mother, Aviva, works at the Society for the Protection of Nature. His brother is a college student and his sister is at high school.

Friends describe Gilad as studious, good at physics and a little shy. But they say he is quite determined in his own quiet way, and that when he was called up a year ago he volunteered to join a combat unit. His elder brother, Yoel, 21, is a student at a polytechnic in the northern Israeli port of Haifa. He has a younger sister at high school.

Gilad was kidnapped on June 25, 2006 by Hamas terrorists who attacked an Israeli army post on the Israeli side of the southern Gaza Strip border after having crossed through an underground tunnel near the Kerem Shalom border crossing. During the morning attack, two IDF soldiers were killed and three others wounded.

His kidnapping was the catalyst for Israel's subsequent attack on Gaza in a failed attempt to gain his freedom.

Today, no one knows where Gilad is, or even whether he is still alive. There has been one note early on, but no "proof of life" since then for Gilad. Hamas acknowledges they have him, and they taunt his family and his country with reports of his failing health.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Government rewards his kidnappers by releasing prisoners and the international community (including the United States of America) rewards his kidnappers by giving them cash money to fund more terrorist attacks. Its so hard to write about him. My heart just hurts. How the hell can the world accept this and expect Israel to work with these animals?

Two years ago, Israel gave up the Gush as a "show of good faith" to her "Partners in Peace." And in return, Israel's "Partners in Peace" sent thousands of rockets raining down on Israeli civilians, women, children, schools.

Last year, Israel should have fought until Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev were released or until every single square inch of Lebanon and Gaza was buried under rubble. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Fatah should have been destroyed, completely destroyed, along with every single one of their supporters. The world would be a better place.

Instead, Israel gave up and accomplished nothing, and now, Israel has again released palestinian terrorists from its prisons in exchange for nothing, calling it a show of good faith to the evil bastards who hold these men captive. Originally, the plan was to negotiate the release of prisoners in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, but in the end, they just let the terrorists go free.

How would you like to spend your 21st birthday in the hands of terrorists, knowing that your country, and the entire world has abandoned you?

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:25 AM

August 26, 2007

Carnival Time

The 131st Edition of Haveil Havalim is up and Soccer Dad is hosting. It is, of course, a round-up of this week'e best posts from the Jewish Blogosphere, covering a wide range of topics. As always, there are some excellent articles up and the commentary is exceptional, especially on CNN's attack on Israel, G-d's Warriors.

One of my posts is included this week.

Enjoy!

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:10 AM

August 21, 2007

Its lights out in Gaza

Going on four days now. Bummer.

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - Hundreds of thousands of Gaza residents were forced to make do without electricity Monday as the coastal strip's power supply became the latest victim of feuding between Gaza's Hamas rulers and their Fatah rivals.

What? How could such a thing happen?

European donors stopped paying key electricity aid over the weekend, concerned that Hamas is siphoning off revenues. As Fatah and Hamas traded charges of corruption, at least half of Gaza's 1.4 million people were plunged into darkness.

Abbas released a statement Monday saying the electricity crisis took place "after Hamas took over the electric company and began collecting revenues from the population to fund its militia, which in turn drove the EU to withhold its aid for providing fuel."

Jawwad Hirzallah, deputy minister of economy, said Hamas was pocketing electricity revenues while the EU footed the power bill.

"Hamas is collecting all the electricity fees and never pays the costs of the electricity," he said.

Wow. Did I read that right? You mean... they're not blaming Israel?

Israeli Fuel Blockade

Palestinian children hold candles during a power cut in Gaza city August 18, 2007. Israel plans to open a Gaza Strip crossing for several hours to let fuel be transported to the territory, the army said on Saturday, a day after power generators there shut down due to a fuel blockade. REUTERS/Suhaib Salem (GAZA)

Ah ha! An Israeli fuel blockade. See that! I knew it had to be Israel's fault!

Residents scrambled to improvise, following the irregular electricity supply from neighborhood to neighborhood to charge mobile phones and laptop computers.

Oh those poor palestinians, unemployed because of Israel, starving because of Israel and living far below the poverty level because of Israel, and... scrambling around to charge up them cell phones and laptops. Wow. Heartbreaking, ain't it?

However, there is a bit of good news in all of this...

Three residents of El-Fokhari, southeast of Khan Yunis in Gaza, were injured Sunday after rumors spread of the appearance of IDF forces in the area. A fire fight ensued between the armed groups, each suspecting the other to be Israelis. Only afterwards did they realize that no Israeli forces had entered the area and they had shot at each other.

Its so dark, they don't know who they're shooting at, so they're shooting each other. Too bad they're such lousy shots.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:17 AM | Comments (4)

August 03, 2007

Incoming...

A bit of Israeli snark courtesy of Snapped Shot:

Hmph. Any minute now, the palestinian propaganda machine will furnish photos of innocent palestinian children killed by evil zionist tomatoes and the UN will issue yet another resolution.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:32 AM | Comments (4)

August 01, 2007

Imagine No Israel

If you think such a thing would never happen, could never happen, think again. It can, and it will, with a little help from the US State Department:

On the first day of her Middle East tour, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday signed a joint statement with Egypt, Jordan and six Persian Gulf states, endorsing the 2002 Arab peace initiative as one of the foundations for Middle East peace. Visiting the region with Rice is Secretary of Defense Robert Gates.

The initiative offers Israel normalized relations with all Arab countries in return for full withdrawal from the territory Israel captured in 1967.

Didn't waste any time at all, did you Condi? There is no need to play games and mouth platitudes anymore. Now we see what your goals are, as your plan, according to the definitive study by the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, will make Israel 'indefensible':

* A study by the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff in June 1967 concluded: “From a strictly military point of view Israel would require the retention of some captured Arab territory in order to provide militarily defensible borders … [including] control of the prominent high ground running north-south through the middle of West Jordan [Judea-Samaria],” as well as the entire Gaza Strip and the entire Golan Heights.

* Lt.-Gen. Thomas Kelly, director of operations for the Joint Chiefs of Staff during the 1991 Gulf War, said: “It is impossible to defend Jerusalem unless you hold that high ground [in Judea-Samaria]. I look out from those heights and look onto the West Bank and say to myself, ‘If I’m the chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces, I cannot defend this land without that terrain.’” (Jerusalem Post, Nov.7, 1991)

Now that Fatah has given all its U.S. provided arms to its trojan horse, Hamas, the U.S. can re-arm Fatah with everything it needs to destroy Israel, with a little help from Iran and Syria. All that's left is to shrink Israel's borders, and hinder her ability to defend herself, and for that, well, the arabs know that only the Great Satan can accomplish that goal.

Congratulations Condi, for being a terrorist tool.

Posted by LindaSoG at 05:16 AM | Comments (1)

July 28, 2007

Report from Lebanon

One of captive soldiers dead

One of the two kidnapped IDF soldiers in Lebanon are dead, according to estimates by German security sources, who were quoted in the Lebanese newspaper, An-Nahar, Saturday.

“Security forces understood that one of the kidnapped soldiers is still alive, however, the other is dead,” An-Nahar reported.

Nasrallah of course, denies this report, telling Al-Jazeera “I’m the only one authorized to give information about their condition.” and he's not giving any information.

Nothing like a little psychological warfare, just like last month, when we suffered through reports that Gilad Shalit was in dire need of medical attention. There was no international outcry or outrage, no pressure put on Hamas to give him the medical attention he needs. The State of Israel and the rest of the world shrugged it off.

Time marches on, the world continues to pressure Israel to make concessions to these terrorists even as it turns its back on Ehud Goldwasser, Eldad Regev and Gilad Shalit, indifferent as to whether they are alive, or dead. I look at the remains of their humvee, and I wonder.

Were they alive when captured, were they injured? And if so, who treated their injuries, what medicines were they given by the animals who took them? I look at that humvee, and I believe that they were injured, and I know that they were likely just bandaged up and left to live or die on their own. And I know that every additional day of captivity makes it more likely that they will never be free.

Their lives matter only to those who love them. To the terrorists, they are pawns, bargaining chips. To their country, they are an inconvenience. And to the rest of the world, their lives mean nothing. I hope and I pray for them, but I expect the worst, and with good reason. One year later, their names and their faces are fading from the news, and soon, the world will forget they ever existed, as they have forgotten other Israeli soldiers who have disappeared into the hands of terrorists, never to be seen or heard from again:

Three soldiers, captured by terrorists during a battle with Syrian and Palestinian forces near the Lebanese village of Sultan Yaqub. June 11, 1982. Twenty-five years ago, over 9,000 days.

Two soldiers captured with them were released in prisoner exchanges with Syria and Achmed Jibril's PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command). Every once in a while, their names come up (including the 1988 Amnesty International Report and the 1993 Amnesty International December Update) but reports are conflicting and nothing is verifiable. Zachary Baumel is an American citizen.

Israeli air-force navigator Ron Arad was taken captive after his F-4 Phantom warplane went down over Lebanon. October 16, 1982. Twenty-four years ago, over 8,000 days.

Ron Arad was taken captive by Amal, a Lebanese Shi’ite militia group lead by Nabih Berri, who today is the speaker of the Lebanese Parliament. In 1987, Arad’s family received several letters and a photo of Arad confirming that the missing navigator was alive and in Amal’s hands. Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him. It is believed that Dirani then "sold" Arad to either Hizbullah or Iranian elements.

According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, as recently as 2003, three former Iranian diplomats and intelligence officials living in Europe claimed that Ron Arad is alive and being held in a prison near Tehran. But these reports cannot be verified.

Twenty years later, we know nothing about the fate of Ron Arad, although I have my own thoughts on that.

Guy Hever, a soldier in the Israeli Army who was reportedly last seen standing at the Katzabiya junction, just a kilometer away from the Syrian border. He disappeared, and has not been heard of since. August 17, 1997. Ten years ago, over 3,500 days.

Does anyone remember these men today? Sadly, no, most people don't remember them, if they ever knew about them in the first place. Disappearing Jews don't make headlines.

Two years ago, we gave up the Gush as a show of good faith. And in return, we got thousands of rockets raining down on Israeli civilians, women, children, schools.

Last year, Israel should have fought until these men were released or until every single square inch of Lebanon and Gaza was buried under rubble. Hezbollah, Hamas, and Fatah should have been destroyed, completely destroyed.

Instead, Israel gave up and accomplished nothing, and now, Israel has again released palestinian terrorists from its prisons in exchange for nothing, calling it a show of good faith to the evil bastards who hold these men captive. Originally, the plan was to negotiate the release of prisoners in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, but in the end, they just let the terrorists go free.

The Israeli government has again closed its eyes to what happens when you appease terrorists and negotiate with evil:

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons.

I look at those faces, and I want to cry.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again... my solution would be to take the terrorists locked up in Israeli jails and execute them, one by one, until all our soldiers are released, or I run out of prisoners.

That way, the end result is a good one, either way.

But, that's just me.

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:44 PM | Comments (8)

July 26, 2007

Faith Under Fire

During the 33 days of War with Lebanon last year, my heart was turned to the State of Israel, waiting, hoping, fearing, and praying for the safety of my people and my friends. As the bombs rained down on the Holy City of Tsfas, a voice reached out to me over the internet through my friend Chana, and her emails told revealed a story of a people bound together by faith in G-d and love for one another even as the terrorists tried to take away their faith, their hopes, their dreams and their very lives. I shared some of Chana's emails with you, here, and now, one year later, there is...

Faith Under Fire

33 days...3,699 missiles...500,000 Jewish refugees...Infinite faith and uncounted miracles.
One year ago missiles rained down on Israel's North and began an unprecedented war whose consequences are still felt today. From her "safe corner" in Tzefat the author gives us riveting real-time emails, stories, diaries, and prayers from ordinary people living under constant fire during the war, and records the endless miracles and chessed during those fateful danger-filled days. Includes contributions from leading Jewish leaders and educators: the Bostoner Rebbe, HaRav Mordechai Twerski, and Rebbetzin Tziporah Heller.

I am going through my second reading now, because the first time, I read it too fast, and I went through so many emotions the first time. I know that when I do that, I miss things, they don't sink in, so I'm reading it again, and I already know that I'll soon be reading it yet again. It's simply that good.

And no, this is not an advertisement for the book, this is a recommendation of the book, from me, to you, and I make it now because the publisher is offering the book at a 20% discount through the end of July. So, if you are interested, now would be a good time to get it.

Let me know if you do, I'd like to hear your thoughts.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:57 AM | Comments (2)

July 08, 2007

The latest in Urban Warfare

"The Tavor is the latest assault rifle to enter on the world stage of weapon systems. It posesses the fire power of the M-16 but is smaller. Designed specifically for close quarter combat, but it is as accurate as a sniper rifle."

The new rifle is very different from other rifles. Its body is made from alloy-like metal substitutes; it is extremely lightweight, is a dark green color, and is very well insulated, so that it does not heat up after prolonged firing.

The Tavor was not equipped with the normal metal sight that requires closing one eye for shooting. Instead, the Tavor has an optical sight known as a "red dot." The soldier looking through the sight sees both his target and the red dot. When the red dot aligns with the target, the bullets fired will make exact hits.

The rifle can also be equipped with a dual-purpose sight: at the press of a button, the sight can be adjusted to a laser finder, so that the rifle can be fired from hip height, using the laser to illuminate the target.

The Tavor is also designed for night fighting. Night goggles can be taken from the soldier's helmet and attached to the rifle, making the red dot system effective also at night. The entire rifle was designed to be user-friendly.

The design of the Tavor is based largely on lessons learned during military operations in the West Bank and Gaza Strip during the 34-month-old Al Aqsa intifada.

"The Tavor would be useful anywhere where close quarters battle is the rule, and from vehicles," said Charles Cutshaw, firearms editor at Jane's International Defense Review Magazine.

H/T: JChannel

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July 07, 2007

Two Weeks in May

In the Israeli town of Sderot.

Israel is the only place in the world where it is acceptable to bomb civilian towns, schools, homes, places of worship, provided of course, that its the Israelis that are being bombed.

Posted by LindaSoG at 11:54 PM | Comments (1)

July 02, 2007

Does he have a crystal ball?

This cartoon is one year old today:

Posted by LindaSoG at 05:40 AM

June 29, 2007

Congressional Anti-Jew Who's Who

Ed Lasky over at American Thinker points out:

Congressman Mike Pence (R-Indiana) has been a stalwart supporter of the American-Israel alliance. He recently introduced an amendment to the foreign aid bill that would prohibit groups that deny Israel's right to exist from receiving American (taxpayer dollar) foreign aid. The amendment passed 390-30.

Of the 30 members of Congress who have no problem with giving money to groups that advocate and plan for the destruction of Israel, 27 of them were Democrats.

So. Let's talk numbers. When given a choice, 12% of Congressional Democrats voted to support countries that deny Israel's right to exist, against 1.5% of the Republicans. It would appear that one in eight democrats are in favor of pushing the Jews into the sea, and I'm sorry to say, the majority of black members of Congress are part of that 12%.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:40 AM | Comments (7)

June 25, 2007

One Year Ago Today

Today marks one year that Gilad Shalit has been in the hands of terrorists.

Gilad Shalit was raised, the middle of three siblings in a small community in the rolling hills of northern Galilee, near Israel’s border with Lebanon. His father, Noam, is a manager at the Iscar machine tools company; his mother, Aviva, works at the Society for the Protection of Nature. His brother is a college student and his sister is at high school.

Friends describe Gilad as studious, good at physics and a little shy. But they say he is quite determined in his own quiet way, and that when he was called up a year ago he volunteered to join a combat unit. His elder brother, Yoel, 21, is a student at a polytechnic in the northern Israeli port of Haifa. He has a younger sister at high school.

Today, no one knows where Gilad is, or even whether he is still alive. There has been one note early on, but no "proof of life" since then for Gilad. Hamas acknowledges they have him, the Israeli Government rewards his kidnappers and the rest of the world is silent. Its so hard to write about him. My heart just hurts.

Please, take a moment to think of Gilad Shalit, and pray for his well being and safe return.

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UPDATE: An obviously coerced and cruelly calculated audio tape of Gilad has been released by Hamas.

How the hell can the world accept this and expect Israel to work with these animals? Consider what its saying, his health is deteriorating, he needs a prolonged hospitalization and they have him buried in a hole in the sand, denying him even basic medical care.

Dear L-rd, how I hate those bastards.

and... speaking of bastards, this is the true face of the democrats. Its hard to believe that this people are human, much less Americans.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:18 AM | Comments (7)

June 24, 2007

Hardball in the Holy Land!

The Inaugural Game is today! I wish I could be there.
Modi'in Miracle @ Petach Tikva Pioneers
06/24/2007
06:00 PM

Don't miss the Biblical reference page for mentions of Baseball in the Bible... although I must point out that they missed the very first one...

In the Big Inning...

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:01 AM | Comments (2)

June 21, 2007

Because I needed a laugh


Well done John! Thank you!

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:26 AM | Comments (1)

June 20, 2007

Oh the times... they are a changing...

Sheikh Abu Saqer, leader of the group Jihadia Salafiya, said that Gaza's Muslims "expect our Christian neighbors to understand the new Hamas rule means real changes. They must be ready for Islamic rule if they want to live in peace in Gaza".

In case you were wondering what that might be like:

“A group of unknown people attacked, burnt and looted the nuns’ building. They destroyed everything inside and stole the computers,” Father Manuel said. “They then invade the chapel, broke the furniture, burnt the sacred images and holy books. They threw the Sacred Species to the ground and destroyed everything on their path: beds, chairs, tables, curtains, shooting at the walls and setting them on fire. We don’t know who the thugs were because they came at night when the sisters were not present.”

I shudder to think what might have happened if the sisters were present when Hamas came a calling.

For his final comment on the subject, Gaza priest Fr Manuel Musallam said: "Our relations with the Muslims are not only good, they are excellent."

If he says so, well, I guess the definition of excellent relations means the desecration of your church, and the burning of your sacred images and holy books.

Maybe "excellent relations" means they just let you live.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:49 AM | Comments (4)

And the real winner is...


Environment Minister Gidon Ezra (Kadima) has said that it is necessary to release the terrorist leader of the Tanzim, of Fatah, Marwan Barghouti, in order to strengthen the position of PA president Mahmoud Abbas and the moderate elements capable of leading the Palestinians. Marwan Barghouti was sentenced to several life sentences for his involvement in dozens of bloody attacks during the second Intifada. (Guysen.Israël.News)

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:09 AM

Yup


Posted by LindaSoG at 06:53 AM

June 19, 2007

Ohfercryinoutloud

STFU already!

The United States, Israel and the European Union must end their policy of favoring Fatah over Hamas, or they will doom the Palestinian people to deepening conflict between the rival movements, former US President Jimmy Carter said Tuesday.

I just can't stand it.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:19 PM | Comments (3)

June 18, 2007

Your tax dollars at work

Supporting the so-called moderates of Abbas's Fatah:

Let's give them a state!

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:36 AM | Comments (5)

June 15, 2007

Lights! Camera! Action!

The Associated Press is covering Gaza, and continuing with its efforts to bring you all the news that's fit to stage.


Hat tip: Vince at YankeeGator

Posted by LindaSoG at 05:17 PM

Kill Kill Kill Kill

Burn, destroy, hate and kill some more. That's all they know.

I could link articles all day about this, the media is spinning out of control, nothing but news about the fighters and nothing about the terrorists. You want to know what's really happening, then read about it at IsraellyCool.

There are public executions, one man being shot more than 40 times in the back, while he was in the hospital. People being tossed off of buildings, madmen in the streets destroying everything and anything in their path, shouting alluah akbar.

As Gaza falls to Hamas, and the so-called Unity Government falls to pieces, the world lines up behind Abbas, the Holocaust denier and so-called moderate.

It would do the world well to remember that Abbas and his Fatah party has enjoyed the support of the United States of America and the EU, and UN since he came into power, and before that, Fatah, under Arafat, enjoyed our support.

The end result of that support is terrorism in Israel funded by United States taxpayer dollars. We fund and arm the Al-Aqsa terrorist group, which is part and parcel of Fatah, and they are responsible for many terrorist attacks on Israeli citizens. Even only a few months ago, Al-Aqsa was combining efforts with Hamas to plan and implement terrorist attacks.

It is the Palestinian Authority, run by Abbas and his Fatah party, which brought us things like Suicide Mickey to teach young children to hate and kill, and the United States of America provided at least some of the funds.

Thousands of palestinians hit the streets of Gaza to celebrate Hamas's victory, but you won't see that on the evening news. No, you will only see footage of relatively few "peaceful palestinians" running from Hamas. But, they were not just running from Hamas, they were running to Fatah, from one terrorist group to another terrorist group.

They are not choosing peace over terrorism, they are choosing which terrorist group they support. And in choosing Fatah over Hamas, we would do the same.

One man tells the cameras "I wish Israel would come back to Gaza" and everyone makes a big deal out of it, as if that one guy speaks for millions and yet, we have seen millions of them waving guns in the air shouting Death to Israel and Death to America, but we are not supposed to think they speak for themselves. No, instead, we are supposed to look at that one guy and believe he is representative of his people.

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!

Never mind the dancing and celebrations in the street when an Israeli is blown to bits, these people are peaceful! Never mind the dancing and celebrations in the street after 9/11, these people love America. Never mind their persecution of Christians, and the destruction of Christian Holy Places, these people are tolerant of other religions, they attack Christians because they're mad at the Jews, and they're just mad at the Jews because of the occupation.

Never mind that they attacked Israel in blood-frenzy to kill Jews and that's why they lost the land in the first place, they were just mad because of the occupation that was to come after they attacked and lost.

Never mind that the Al-Aqsa Brigade is a terrorist organization that shoots rockets into Israeli neighborhoods and sends suicide bombers into Israel, never mind that Al-Aqsa shoots men and women and children down in the streets, in their homes and in their cars, Al-Aqsa is part of Abbas's Fatah and therefore, we should support them, arm them and fund them with American taxpayer dollars.

Never mind that they put machine guns into the hands of children and train them to kill starting at age 3. Never mind that they strap bombs on their teenagers and send them into the streets to murder and die. They love their children, same as you do, and they just want to live in peace and have basic human rights like everyone else. That's why the ones in Israel, who live in peace and enjoy rights that no arab has in any arab country, use their ID cards and their access to help terrorists into Israel to kill Jews.

Are you going to believe what you see with your own eyes and hear with your own ears, or are you going to believe what the media tell you?

I have been watching events in Israel with my own eyes and listening to what they say with my own ears for all of my adult life.

The "reporting" of "events" in Israel has not changed over that time. The disinformation that you see now has been happening all along. Thanks to the internet, more people are aware of it, but I have always been aware of it.

My belief system tells me that "As Israel suffers, so shall the world" and the Jews are chosen by G-d to be a light unto nations.

In Israel, the darkness that is islam has that righteous light shining on it right now and the evil is no longer hidden in the shadows. What you see is what you get but the world denies what it sees.

There are training camps all over America for crying out loud, but still, people don't take the threat seriously.

The future is being shown to the world, and what life will be like if we continue to ignore what is happening.

If we support the terrorists, any terrorists, we will get more terrorists.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:20 AM | Comments (4)

June 12, 2007

Brain surgery sucks

On March 4, 1998, I spent eleven and one-half hours in surgery to remove a tumor the size of a man's fist from my head. Having brain surgery was both the most horrible thing that ever happened to me, and the most wonderful. Fifty years ago, it would have killed me. Today, thanks to G-d and Dr. Landy, I am alive and tumor free.

Thus far, the tumor has not come back, but the periodic MRIs that I have are always a terrible time for me. I don't think I could face brain surgery again, knowing full and well what it will be like. I panic just thinking about it.

and now... a real breakthrough...

An Israeli researcher has developed and successfully tested a new device to combat glioblastoma mulitforme (GBM), the most common and aggressive type of brain cancer.

Professor Emeritus Yoram Palti, at Haifa's Technion Institute, told the website Israel21c that in tests on 10 cancer patients over the past year, his device has more than doubled the median overall survival rate of GBM patients.

The overwhelming success of tests has prompted 12 cancer centers in the US and another eight in Europe to initiate large-scale studies of the method.

Palti's device consists of small nodes that are attached to the scalp and use electrical fields to kill the cancer cells by interfering with the division of the cells, thereby arresting the growth of the tumor.

The nodes are powered by a small battery pack, allowing patients to undergo constant treatment while going about their daily lives.

Unlike chemotherapy, there are no side-effects.

A far cry from drinking camel piss for your health, ain't it?

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:20 AM | Comments (4)

June 11, 2007

A Nazi Moment from the past

Brought to you by the ACLU:

In 1977, a neo-Nazi group planned to march in Skokie, Illinois, in a largely Jewish neighborhood that was home to many Holocaust survivors. It was believed that the march would be disruptive, and the city refused to allow it.

The American Civil Liberties Union came to the Nazis' support, and in 1978 a high court upheld the Nazis' right to march, on the grounds that the public display of the Nazi flag is a constitutionally protected free expression. After winning the court battle, the Nazis decided to march in Chicago's Marquette Park instead.

Ten years later, in 1987, a Holocaust Monument and Museum was opened in Skokie. On the night of its dedication, the monument was desecrated with swastikas.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:57 AM | Comments (1)

June 10, 2007

Stay and die... Its Allah's Will!

Fatwa forbids PA Muslims to emigrate:

Alarmed by the growing number of Palestinians who are emigrating from the Palestinian territories, the Palestinian Authority's mufti has issued a fatwa [religious decree] forbidding Muslims to leave.Sources in the PA Foreign Ministry told The Jerusalem Post that some 10,000 Palestinians have filed requests to emigrate from the West Bank and the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the year. They said the requests had been approved.

"Every day we hear about hundreds of Palestinians who file requests for emigration with different consulates and diplomatic missions," the sources said.

"According to our statistics, there are at least 45,000 emigration applications being reviewed by different countries."

The sources said most of the applicants were young men seeking work abroad. They said the majority of them wanted to move to the US, EU and Canada.

WTF? The preferred destination is the West? The Great Satan, or another country that is directly under the influence of the evil Zionist Entity? What about all the democratic, tolerant and freedom loving arab states in the region? Why not emigrate to one of the "blessed" Islamic countries to enjoy living in freedom from tyranny and oppression? I hear Saudi Arabia is nice this time of year...

Sorry, but I can't muster up any sympathy for them, they chose their leaders and their way of life, what they reap, they now sow and if the harvest is bitter, they have only themselves to blame. And... each bullet fired by a palestinian at another palestinian is one less bullet fired at a Jew.

Posted by LindaSoG at 01:28 PM | Comments (1)

June 07, 2007

Code-Name: Opera

In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an "Osiris class" nuclear reactor from France. Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor without exposing the Iraqi civilian population to nuclear fallout. After that point, the reactor would be loaded with nuclear fuel.

Israel had learned that Iraq was about to receive a shipment of enriched uranium for its reactor near Baghdad -- enough to build four or five Hiroshima-size bombs, the reactor was 600 miles from Israel.

On June 7, 1981, a squadron of Israeli F-16A fighter aircraft, with an escort of F-15As, bombed and heavily damaged the Osirak reactor.

Then Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the attack to occur before the uranium arrived and the reactor went "hot," at which point bombing would have scattered radioactive waste over Baghdad.

Eight Israeli F-16’s took off in the late afternoon from an Israeli air base in the Sinai. Behind them six Israeli F-15’s took off, as well, to provide cover for a very special and important mission. Flying low and in a tight formation, the fighter jets passed through Jordanian and Saudi Arabian airspace undetected.

Finally, the jets enter Iraqi airspace. At 5:35 in the evening, about an hour and a half after the jets took off, they reach their target. Two minutes later Operation Opera comes to a successful conclusion. The Iraqi nuclear reactor, Osirak, has been totally destroyed.

From Lieutenant-Colonel's Ze'ev Raz - (squadron's leader and leader of the attack) briefing :

The route: "We are about to fly a course over Eilat and Aquaba, and then south of Jordan along Saudi-Arabia's border. This route is planned to avoid Arab villages and cities where we might be discovered, so we will fly over desert area until Baghdad. This is not the shortest path to fly, but it would avoid radar detection, so we will remain undetected just until we get over target. On the way to the target we will fly at an altitude of 150 ft. On our way back we will fly at high altitude. We are short on fuel ! Those who get engaged in dogfights won't make it back !"

The bombing technique: "About 20 km east to the reactor we will ignite the afterburner to full power and start a climb. At the peak we will roll over, identify the target and dive at the speed of 600 knots at 35 degrees. Release the bombs at an altitude of 3,500 feet, aiming at the base of the structure, and release flares to avoid hits by ground fire. All pilots will drop their bombs in intervals of 5 seconds - You will drop 16 bombs in total, but a hit of 8 bombs could do the job !"

The weapons : "You will be armed with two 1,000 kg "iron" bombs, equipped with delay fuses, to ensure explosion deep in the reactors core to maximize the damage."

Target defense : "The reactor has its own air defense system, combined of AAA guns and missiles. Target is surrounded by high earth ramparts."

Code-named Opera, the raid was a spectacular success.

While this operation was initially almost universally condemned by the world community, in retrospect this Israeli operation is highly praised by many.

Opera was not Israel's first preemptive act against Iraq's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. In April 1979 unidentified saboteurs blew up reactor parts at a French port, parts awaiting shipment to Iraq. In August 1980 an Egyptian-born nuclear physicist important to Iraq's nuclear program was killed in Paris.

News of the audacious raid did not actually emerge until 24 hours later when Israel made its announcement. Only then did Iraq admit it had happened and express indignation.

One of the pilots involved was Colonel Ilan Ramon who trained as Israel's first astronaut but was killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003. He flew in Number 4 of the first formation and described the flight:

"We fly deep within Iraq, It is all desert around us while we pass another marking point on our route. I try to concentrate on flying my F-16, but from time to time I think about the target we are about to attack, and the responsibility we've got. It's the first time in my life that I really feel responsible for the destiny of a whole nation. The view changes - a blue river in the middle of the desert. We have been here 2500 years ago... I see buildings and a deserted airfield. Somebody calls over the radio : "Watch out for AAA fire !" and the sky gets filled with flashes of exploding rounds. I light the afterburner and pull up. Just in front of my eyes I see the earth ramparts and behind it - you can't miss - the silver dome of the reactor...

"Eshkol 8" sounds the radio, "Everybody Charlie!" - Charlie was the code name meaning all pilots have dropped their bombs.

It was amazing - I managed to see how the bombs of the pilots in front of me hit the target and the dome collapsed into the structure ! The hits were excellent, and now we fly at high altitude back to our base. I hope they didn't start a chase, to run us out of fuel...

We cross the Arava and we are back in Israel. The IAF commander calls on the radio, and says: "All you have to do now is land"...


Thank you Israel!

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:25 AM | Comments (2)

May 29, 2007

Today's Not News

You won't see this story in the mainstream media:


No word on what she was locked up for in the first place, anyone want to take a guess? Nadwa Dirbas is a perfect example of what happens when Israel releases terrorists from its prisons, she was released and went right back to trying to kill Jews.

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons.

In Israel only Nazis are eligible for the death penalty, a truly stupid policy when you consider the number of Nazis in Israel as against the number of terrorists.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:51 AM | Comments (2)

May 27, 2007

The Insanity Continues

In Sderot, 36 year old Oshri Oz was killed this morning after a rocket landed near his car. Wounded in the neck by shrapnel, he lost control of the vehicle, crashed into a wall and staggered into the street before collapsing. He died on the way to the hospital, leaving behind his pregnant wife and a 2-year-old daughter.

In retaliation, the IDF dropped a few bombs on Gaza this week, killing a few innocent terrorists before they could shoot a few rockets into Israel and to the dismay of the U.S. State Department, arrested a few hammasshole politicians.

"Arrests are better than shooting," said Israel's Defense MinisterAmir Peretz, as rockets continue to rain down on Israeli civilians.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said the arrests were a blow to peace efforts, as his al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigade claimed responsibility for another terror attack in Jerusalem over the weekend.

and a spokesman for PA Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh demanded the immediate release of the detainees and called on the UN and European Union to impose sanctions on Israel, while the BBC journalists redefine the definition of "several" in reporting of the IDF strike on Gaza:

"Israel resumed airstrikes on Gaza on Tuesday after a six-month lull. It followed several rocket attacks on Israel."

The "six month lull" refers to a lull in Israel's "attacks" on Gaza, and not the firing of rockets into Israel, which occurs on daily basis, but you wouldn't know that from reading the BBC article; and, considering that a total of 22 rockets landed in or near Sderot just this weekend and a total of 170 rockets just this week, "several" seems a bit understated to me, but then, we are talking about Israel, aren't we?

Israel, where terrorists are freedom fighters supported and protected by the United States of America as its citizens turn a blind eye.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:23 AM

May 25, 2007

I just don't get it

WTF has happened to America?

"The US government is concerned with the IDF's operation in the West Bank, and the arrest of Palestinian legislators," US State Department spokesman Tom Casey said Thursday.

"Hamas is a terror organization, but we have made it clear before that arresting elected Palestinian officials is a cause for concern," Casey added.

Oh. Okay, so if the terrorists are elected to a position in government, then they are immune? Then they can continue their terrorist activities without any worries of prosecution or consequences?

So all Osama needs is to be elected to something and he's home free huh?

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:35 AM | Comments (5)

May 22, 2007

Today's Anti-Semite:

Pope Shenouda of the Coptic Church:

THE LEADER of the Coptic Church, Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria told Egyptian television last month the Western Churches were wrong to exonerate Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, and criticised recent statements apologising for Christian anti-Semitism. In an interview with Dream 2 TV broadcast on April 8, Shenouda was asked if the Coptic Church would follow the lead of the Western Christian churches. Shenouda responded that the Christian Churches had “done nothing that warrants an apology,” adding he believed the apologies were being “done for appearance’s sake.”

Asked whether Jews were “Christ-killers”, responsible for the crucifixion, Shenouda stated, “The New Testament says that they are,” and asked rhetorically whether the Vatican was “against the teachings of the New Testament?”

Shenouda stated he had banned Copts from visiting Israel for fear they will “be influenced by the Israeli media, and we will not be able to prevent this. Who knows what ideas they will return with?”

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Hmph. I don't personally know anyone from the Coptic Church. I wonder how they feel about this.

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:27 PM | Comments (6)

May 21, 2007

It was bound to happen

With all those rockets raining down every day on homes and schools and shops, it was a miracle that no one had yet been killed. Just this past week, 130 rockets were fired in Sderot, and today, we ran out of miracles:

Qassam hits car near southern town's commercial center, killing Shirel Feldman, 32, and moderately wounding another man. Residents clash with police in response to attack. About 17 rockets fired from Gaza Strip since Monday morning

Residents are rioting in the streets, who can blame them? The Israeli government has turned a blind eye to the daily attacks on its people.

Today, I cannot help but remember two years ago, the day before the expulsion from Gaza, when I sat with Dr. Yitschak Ben Gad, the Consul General of Israel to Florida and Puerto Rico as he defended Sharon and the "disengagement."

On that day, we came to the Consulate seeking help for our people. The Consul General talked to us, smiled at us, shook our hands, took pictures with us, and he lied to us. I asked him, what will the government do when the rockets start and he said... we will bombard them.

And only two months ago, I again stood together with Dr. Ben Gad, and he turned to me with anger because of what was said two years ago, in that room, on that day.

Now, at the end of your term as Consulate, Dr. Ben Gad, you said to me, "The disengagement was a disaster," as if I didn't know and as if you only just found out. I was able to shoulder your anger Dr. Ben Gad, because I knew that your anger was misdirected away from yourself and projected on me, and merely the result of your shame. And you should be shamed, Dr. Ben Gad, for not standing against what you knew was wrong and for saying what you knew was not true. The consequences are that you have blood on your hands, the same blood as Olmert, and Perez. This woman is dead and so many are injured because you turned your back on what you knew was right, your turned your back on the State of Israel and you turned your back on your people. You did it for polical reasons, to keep your Consulate another two years, may Hashem forgive you.

And may Hashem forgive me for directing my anger at you.

Even as I write this, the rockets continue to fall.

My heart hurts.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:47 PM | Comments (3)

May 17, 2007

Maybe I am evil

because... I laughed out loud when I read this...

Dozens of Gaza residents turned out for a rally on Wednesday to demand an end to factional fighting...

“Just as we used to protect you from the occupation by acting as human shields, we have come to protect you from yourselves,” one protester shouted at gunmen, referring to instances when Palestinian civilians positioned themselves between militants and Israeli forces. (Reuters)

Heh. and that's when the "gunmen" opened fire and wounded eight of them, or maybe it was fifteen of them, depending on who's telling the story.

Hat tip to the Elder of Zion, who notes "They forgot the cardinal rule: human shields only work when defending against people who value human life."

Posted by LindaSoG at 01:02 PM | Comments (1)

May 16, 2007

The peace-loving palestinians

are at it again...

Hamas gunmen fatally shot six bodyguards from the rival Fatah movement and mistakenly ambushed a jeep carrying their own fighters, killing five.

The streets of central Gaza City echoed with gunfire and were empty except for gunmen in black ski masks.

Police from the Fatah-allied Preventive Security organization arrested five Hamas men and were driving them through Gaza City when the vehicle was ambushed by Hamas fighters, Preventive Security officials said. The five Hamas men were killed, along with two Fatah men, they said.

Hamas radio reported that a Hamas man was killed in a separate clash, and a nurse in an ambulance was shot in the head after being caught in the crossfire, hospital officials said. Her family said she was brain-dead and on a respirator.

But wait... there's more!

In another incident, Hamas gunmen set fire to an 11-story apartment building housing Fatah lawmaker Nema Sheik Ali, the wife of the head of Preventive Security. Witnesses said the gunmen broke into her apartment and struck her and two of her children with their weapons. One of the children is 14 years old; the age of the other wasn't immediately known.

"They came, they broke the door," she said. "They assaulted my children and they pushed me aside, then they torched the apartment."

Shadi al-Kashir, a building resident, said his father, wife, five children and two sisters had been trapped inside by smoke in the halls and gunbattles raging in the entranceway. "They tried to send ambulances, but the ambulances came under fire," he said.

Believe it or not, there's more!

A group of about 200 Palestinians marched in central Gaza City, waving Palestinian flags and demanding an end to the fighting. Dozens of masked gunmen used the cover of the demonstration to improve their positions on the street, and then opened fire on the demonstrators, wounding one in the leg. The rest fled.

and even while killing themselves and each other, they still find time to shoot rockets at Jews:

Hamas officials said the organization's men launched eight rockets at Israel, following a barrage of around 20 rockets Tuesday. That salvo at the Israeli town of Sderot, just outside Gaza, wounded five Israelis, one seriously, said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.

Let's give 'em their own state already.
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UPDATE: In case you were wondering why the palestinians are killing each other...

"The international community and Arab countries shoulder part of the responsibility for the current events due to their attitudes toward the national unity government," Abu Marzouk told The Associated Press by telephone in Damascus. "The continued financial and political siege has pushed matters to this simmering tension."

and...

"The Israelis are behind all these events," Abu Marzouk said. "It's illogical that the Arabs stand idle watching the Palestinian arena while it's on the verge of explosion under the siege. ... This is a constant pressure that has led to a real explosion."

Nothing like a little illogical logic, huh?

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May 15, 2007

Today's No-Brainer


Click it.

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OMG! Its a massacre!

Palestinian style:

GAZA, May 15 (Reuters) - Hamas gunmen killed at least eight members of Mahmoud Abbas's Presidential Guard on Tuesday, security officials said, as Palestinian factional fighting threatened to spill into full civil war.

The battle, at a Presidential Guard training base near the Karni Crossing, Gaza's main commercial lifeline with Israel, erupted despite a renewed pledge by warring groups to pull gunmen off the streets.

"They are attacking the headquarters and the crossing with RPGs (rocket-propelled grenades) and mortar bombs... I warn of a massacre* here (by Hamas)," Ali al-Qessi, a Presidential Guard spokesman said in a call for help on Palestinian television.

* This massacre has been brought to you by the US State Department and your tax dollars.

But wait... there's more!

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:06 AM

May 14, 2007

Eenie Meenie Minee Mo

This is what happens when you support one terrorist group over another:

(IsraelNN.com) In clashed earlier Monday, Hamas terrorists captured three trucks loaded with weapons that the US provided to Fatah-affiliated security forces. Hamas spokesmen said that they are aware that the US and Israel are using Fatah as a proxy to try and topple the Hamas-led government.

So, once again, my tax dollars are paying for weapons that will be used to kill Jews. I can't begin to tell you how that makes me feel.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:37 PM

May 11, 2007

Friday Freak Show

The State of Israel has more than its share of enemies, and thank goodness for Jimmy Carter, who identifies Israel's number one enemy: Christians Zionists!

Former President Carter reportedly said Jews should not align themselves with Zionist Christians. Tikkun magazine editor Michael Lerner said Carter made the May 2 remarks at an interfaith gathering, according to The New York Jewish Week.

"He said it was a terrible error for Jews to become allied with Christian Zionists who actually desire our conversion or burning in hell," Rabbi Lerner related in an interview Tuesday with The Jewish Week. "He pointed out that the Christian Zionist view is part of that general theology that essentially views the Jews as an obstacle, not as friends, but temporarily views the Jews as friends in the process of bringing back Jesus and at that point having all of us convert."

This is what happens when you put Anti-Jewish Jimmy Carter in the same room as Anti-Jew Michael Lerner. I'm sure Jimmy would feel like he was preaching to the choir at Tikkun, where else would you find Jews for Jimmy?

Tell you what Jimmy, and you too Michael, ya'll stand over there with your jihadis and I'll stand over here with the Chrisitian Zionists. Let's see who gets blown up first.

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May 06, 2007

Buh Bye

and good riddance!

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel's defense minister said Saturday he will step down after an inquiry commission criticized his handling of the war in Lebanon last summer, but he will probably wait until his Labor Party has held its primaries at the end of the month.

The government probe found that Amir Peretz did not fulfill his duty as defense minister, in part due to his inexperience in military matters.

Peretz, who is under public pressure to resign, told Channel Two TV Saturday that he would leave his post, probably after primaries in the Labor Party which he leads.

"I have made my decision," Peretz said. "But I think if I decided from one day to the next to get up and flee the defense ministry, I would be doing something bad, bad for the security and the state of Israel."

About 100,000 people from across the political spectrum demonstrated Thursday in Tel Aviv to urge Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Peretz to resign.

Actually, that number was close to 200,000, but who's counting.

"The person who will inherit the defense portfolio from me will receive a ministry in better condition than the one I headed," Defense Minister Amir Peretz said in a Channel 2 TV interview aired on Saturday.

Peretz was responding to the Winograd Committee's interim report, published on Monday, which put the most of the blame for the outcome of the Second Lebanon War on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Peretz and former IDF chief of general staff Lt. -Gen. [res.] Dan Halutz.

This, from the man who, in February of this year, said that 'he plans to go all the way' in the the evacuation of what he calls "illegal" outposts. Because that's the single most important issue for Israel.

This weekend, palestinian terrorists operating out of Gaza, fired at least eight rockets at nearby Israeli towns and communities. In one attack, a rocket scored a direct hit on a family home in the working-class town of Sderot. The family was not in the house at the time.

After the barrage, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told reporters, "We are prepared for a war in Gaza... There is a plan."

Plan? You have a plan? Thousands of rockets have rained down on Israel since you turned Gaza over to the terrorists Amir, so what is this famous plan we keep hearing about?

IDF officials told the Yisraeli daily commuter paper that the Gaza region will be “heating up” in the coming months. They said that the government has operative plans ready, but will not allow the IDF to carry them out unless there are fatal injuries due to a Kassam rocket strike.

If this is true and you are waiting for Jewish blood to be spilled before you do anything, when that blood is spilled Amir, it will be on your hands, as surely as if you had killed them yourself.

Get out Peretz and take Ehud with you, you're both incompetent, inexeperienced and incapable of doing your job.

It is written in the Book of Proverbs "Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth." Forgive me G-d, but today, there is joy in my heart to know that Halutz is gone, and soon Peretz will be gone. Two down, one to go. The future of Israel depends upon it.

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April 23, 2007

Yom Ha'Atzmaut

In honor of Yom Ha'Atzmaut (Israel Independence Day) I give you Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav) by the late Ofra Haza:

"Jerusalem of Gold" was written by Naomi Shefer in 1967 to commemorate the Israeli victory over the arab nations in the war. It won the Israeli Prize that year and remains one of the best loved songs of modern Israel.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:23 AM

April 19, 2007

The 2007 Pulitzer Prize Winner




Awarded to Oded Balilty of The Associated Press for his powerful
photograph of a lone Jewish woman defying Israeli security forces
as they remove illegal settlers in the West Bank.

From YNet News:

Israeli photographer Oded Balilty's photo of the violent clashes in Amona between police and settlers, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize for for breaking news photography this year, is "a disgrace to Israel" says Nili, the high school girl pictured in the shot.

In a conversation with Ynet, Nili, a 16-year-old from Jerusalem who studies at an all-girls religious high school, had nothing but criticism for the acclaimed photograph.

"The picture is simply an embarrassment to the nation of Israel. Instead of defending the people and land of Israel, security forces destroy Jewish homes. A picture like this one is a mark of disgrace for the state of Israel and is nothing to be proud of. The picture looks like it represents a work of art, but that isn't what went on there. What happened in Amona was totally different."

Nili says that after the photo was taken, police beat her and she absorbed numerous blows. "People who see the picture ask me: What were you thinking? What were you doing, one girl against a wave of policemen in black? Why didn't you run away?

"The answer is that we came to fight. We didn't come to give in or run away. We felt and thought that all this injustice and evil must run into the wall of our determination. You have to understand that there is a whole generation of youth that grew up in Israel, that believe in Israel and in the Torah and want and insist on leading the people of Israel in a different direction. And we're willing to fight for it."

Nili's mother, Devorah, described what happened after the snapshot was taken. "What happened afterwards was completely different, and there are pictures documenting that too. The police pulled Nili by the hair and beat her with clubs. It was simply horrifying.

"You see that the photo presents a problematic situation. It shows a civil war, with the government going against the people. The people of Israel are for the land of Israel, and only the prime minister and the Knesset go against it," she said.

The picture was taken during violent clashes that erupted when police evacuated illegal homes in the West Bank settlement of Amona, west of Ramallah, in February 2006. Security forces were operating in conjunction with a court ruling which authorized the razing of nine houses on the settlement.

Some 200 people were wounded when hundreds of settlers and their supporters forcefully resisted the evacuation.

The Associated Press photographer Balilty said that he and a number of other photographers were covering the events, and at a certain point they decided to split up to capture different views.

"The violence and cruelty at Amona didn't break us, but strengthened us," said Nili, who says she would willingly stand up to the police and the army again. "Policemen in black don't scare us. They can break our skulls but they can't break our spirits. What I did in Amona – I'm willing to do again and again if need be. I've been in Hebron and I told the Jewish families living in the 'Shalom House' that if forces come to expel them – I'll be there. And I believe that likewise the thousands of youths that were in Amona.

"You see me in the photograph, one against many, but that is only an illusion – behind the many stands one man - Olmert, but behind me stand the Lord and the people of Israel."

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April 17, 2007

In Memory of Daniel Pearl?

This past Sunday, on Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Rememberance Day, a new name was added to the 30,000 names on the Memorial Wall at the Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida. Slain journalist Daniel Pearl's name was etched on the Memorial Wall of Victims of the Holocaust.

The picture to the left is from the Wall on the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial. It clearly states the purpose of the Memorial, and what its founders, and creators conceived of in building it. It states the intent of the people who donated money to have it built.

Daniel Pearl did not perish at the hands of the Nazis. Daniel Pearl was killed in 2002, a victim of islam, he was not a victim of Nazi Germany. The Holocaust ended 60 years ago, long before Daniel Pearl was born. Daniel Pearl is not a victim of the Holocaust and including his name on a Memorial dedicated to the memory of the victims of the Holocaust is an insult to their memory.

Thousands of Jews have been murdered in modern times, post-Holocaust, by islam. Daniel Pearl is not the first one, nor is he the only one. Putting his name on the Holocaust Memorial is also an insult to all Jews who have been murdered by islam. Why single out Daniel Pearl, over all the rest?

Yes, Daniel Pearl was a victim and he was a Jew, but, he was not killed because he was a Jew, his murderers kidnapped him because he was American, and he was handy, in the right place at the right time. They didn't know he was a Jew when they picked him up and he was not killed only because he was a Jew, that was just viewed as an extra bonus by his murderers.

Daniel Pearl was a victim of islam, and if the world is ready to acknowledge what his death means, and what the meaning is behind the thousands of innocents murdered in the name of islam, then its time to build a memorial to them, one which could, and should, include the names of all people murdered by the hand of islam.

I cannot imagine that Daniel Pearl's name would be included on a Memorial to those who died on September 11, 2001, but putting his name on a memorial for the victims of 9/11 would surely be more appropriate than putting his name on a memorial for the victims of the Holocaust.

And why the Miami Memorial? Daniel Pearl did not live here, and he had no connection to South Florida.

I wrote the Memorial's Committee to ask, and you can too (info@holocaustmmb.org), but they haven't bothered to answer me, and they probably won't answer you. They refuse to explain to me why they have betrayed the trust placed in them to maintain the Memorial and its purpose, to honor the memory of those who perished by the hands of Nazi Germany. I suppose they can't find a way to rationalize and justify their betrayal.

The end result, well, I have always been a strong supporter of the Miami Beach Holocaust Memorial, in thought, and deed, and financially as well. As I now consider the Memorial to be tainted with politics and money, I will now withdraw all my support until this wrong is made right, which likely means forever.

Cross-posted at My Vast Right Wing Conspiracy (thank you Beth!)

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April 15, 2007

One Wing and a Prayer

An Israeli Air Force pilot flys and safely lands an F15 with one wing shot off. Amazing...

Hat tip to Rafi at Life in Israel, by way of Bloggie.

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Yom HaShoah

Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery, and death. I see the world gradually being turned into a wilderness, I hear the ever-approaching thunder, which will destroy us too. I can feel the sufferings of millions and yet, if I look up into the heavens, I think that it will all come right, that this cruelty too will end, and that peace and tranquility will return again.

In the meantime, I must uphold my ideals, for perhaps the time will come when I shall be able to carry them out.

Anne Frank, Diary of a Young Girl, entry for Saturday, July 15, 1944

The photograph above was taken at the Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach, Florida.
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This is wrong. So very wrong.

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- The name of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl will be added to the Holocaust Memorial Wall and will be unveiled during a ceremony Sunday.

The Holocaust Memorial is in memory of those who died in the Holocaust. Not for those who died at any other time, or place. What a terrible insult to the people who died during the Holocaust this is, shame on Daniel's parents for what they have done. I will never again visit the Memorial, nor will I support it financially.

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April 12, 2007

Aftermath

As the government of Israel considers releasing palestinian terrorists it holds within its prisons in exchange for the release of Gilad Shalit, I urge the world to consider what happens when you negotiate with evil:

These are the faces of 177 Jews, all of whom were murdered by palestinian terrorists after the terrorists were released from Israeli prisons.

When you consider what we know the aftermath will be, should Israel release more terrorists to obtain the freedom of Gilad Shalit?

Well, consider that we know the Israeli left will release those terrorist eventually anyway, as they have in the past, for the stupid, ineffective and meaningless negotiations with terrorists who want only to kill us. They have before, and they will again.

Gilad Shalit is only one life. But perhaps Gilad Shalit is the one Jewish life that can be saved.

Still, the terrorists will continue to kill us no matter what.

And... this exchange will surely encourage more kidnappings of more Israeli soldiers.

But then, there would likely be more kidnappings anyway.

I look at those faces, and I want to cry.

I could argue with myself all day about such things, one Jew, three opinions.

My solution? I would take the list of prisoners the palestinians want released, and I would execute one a day, until Gilad Shalit is released, or I run out of prisoners.

That way, the end result is a good one, either way.

But, that's just me.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:17 AM | Comments (5)

Israel - The Big Falafel

I just love Dan Gillerman. How does he keep a straight face?

H/T to Bloggie!

UPDATE: Dang. I had the wrong video embedded. That's been fixed.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:38 AM

April 11, 2007

Sanctuary!

So, according to the UN, the US has offered sanctuary to 7,000 palestinians from Iraq. Ain't that grand! Just think, no other country in the world will welcome them, even their arab "brothers" reject them, but the US is throwing open its doors.

Just forget about all those "Death to America" chants and the post-9/11 celebrations. Remember, palestinians are our friends.

In a perfect world, these palestinians would be settled in a blue state, preferably Massachusetts, but this is not a perfect world. Goodness knows where these palestinians might end up, but if you're lucky, it could be your state! And what if it is your state? What changes could you expect?

Well, in accordance with the demands made on Israel when it comes to the palestinians, we can assume that any state offering sanctuary to palestinians will provide the same fair and equitable treatment of palestinians that the world has demanded from Israel. Despite their "reputation" for blowing themselves up in discos and pizzarias and shooting rockets at hospitals and grade schools, you shouldn't worry, and your sensitivity to what has been described as their "natural reaction to oppression" will help them overcome these character flaws.

In accordance with palestinian religious beliefs, one of the first things the palestinians will want to do upon their arrival in your state will be to destroy any and all places of worship already existing in your state and to build a mosque on top of the land where they once stood. All religious books other than the Koran will be burned or otherwise destroyed. The fires are very pretty and will be enjoyed by your entire community.

Any attempt to stop the palestinians from exercising their religious freedom in your state will be considered an act of oppression and result in the immediate declaration of an intifada, and the lives (and the land) of its citizens will be forfeit. The declaration of an intifada means that the palestinians are now allowed to kill as many of your state's citizens as possible, using any and all ways and means available, while the rest of the world cheers them on. In accordance with condemnations of Israel for taking actions to protect her citizens, you can be sure that your state will not make any attempt to deter its palestinians from slaughtering its citizens in great numbers, and will to allow them to do so without any hinderance. In fact, your state will likely provide them with bus passes. Failure to do so will result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

As a citizen of your state, you would do well to remember that once the mosque is standing, you will not be permitted to enter the grounds, lest you defile such a holy place. Should you, or any citizen who is not a palestinian, ever set foot on the grounds, another intifada will be declared.

Jews and Christians are offensive to palestinians, and your state should immediately relocate any and all Jews and Christians out of the state and to a place far away enough so as not to offend the sensibilities of the palestinians, perhaps the moon. Failure to do so will result in the immediate declaration of yet another intifada.

Once your state gets its intifada(s), the re-education of your children in the fine arts of rock throwing and suicide bombing will immediately commence. The palestinians will then smuggle weapons and arabs from other countries like Jordan and Syria and Iran to support the intifada(s) (which your state will have brought upon itself). Any such arabs who manage to sneak into your state to kill its citizens should immediately be considered just another one of your state's palestinians. Construction of a border fence to keep "future" palestinians out of your state and/or the failure to make these palestinians welcome in your state will result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

In order to support the intifada(s), safe houses will need to be established to allow for the storage of munitions and the manufacture of suicide bombs, tunnels will need to be dug to transport them from one neighborhood to the next. The destruction of these safehouses and/or tunnels will be considered a massacre of poor oppressed palestinians and will result in the immediate declaration of another intifada. Any palestinians killed in the preparation of bombs will be considered to have been a freedom fighter killed by your state and their deaths will result in the declaration of another intifada.

Of course, eventually, your state should offer its palestinians their own state within your state, since the failure to do so would be considered an act of oppression and result in the declaration of another intifada. In order to establish the palestinian state within your state, your state should forcibly remove a large number of its citizens from their homes and businesses and put those citizens in tents, caravans and/or jail if they resist, in order to provide the palestinians with the free housing they deserve. Failure to do so will also result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

Yes, there is much to look forward to if your state becomes a sanctuary for palestinians, I'm sure you will enjoy your new neighbors as much as Israel does.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:19 AM | Comments (13)

April 08, 2007

Tonight is the night

to raise our hands to the heavens:

Halailah Zeh Hazman by Gadi Elbaz & Alon De Loco. Israeli rap.

I don't like rap, at all. Generally, it just ticks me off, the beat, the words, the style, the rhythm of rap is made to tick you off. But this is Israeli, so its different. I wouldn't even call it rap, and it didn't tick me off, it made me feel good, so good that I was bouncing around in my chair!

In the comments on YouTube, the arabs accuse the Israelis of stealing their music style and using the music to put down arabs. Pretty funny, since its not Israelis and arabs in the video, its Hasidic Jews and non-Hasidic Jews, the ultra religious and the not. The song is about coming together. "Tonight is the night to raise our hands to the heavens."

I'm looking for a clear translation of the lyrics, haven't found them yet.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:02 AM

March 30, 2007

Shabbat Shalom!

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

Posted by LindaSoG at 11:46 AM | Comments (1)

March 22, 2007

Add this to the Boycott of Israeli Products!

'Cause the world don't need no steenkin' water:

"Sokol is a sweet water purification system for emergencies and crises which can purify water in a much bigger amount," explained Shani. "In a situation like the New Orleans flood when the water was contaminated, water can be loaded in to the Sokol tank, it goes through the Sulis process and within a half hour, you have 100 liters of fresh drinking water."

"It's really a universal solution to the problem of contaminated drinking water."

"Above everything else, the product we've developed is going to save lives," explained Yossi Sandak, the CEO of Watersheer, the Israeli company which has developed the Sulis PPS. "Over 1.6 million children under the age of five die each year in the undeveloped world from drinking untreated water. What we have is a solution to reduce death in the world that is not a medical solution, but simply providing people with clean drinking water."

Of course, if you're boycotting Israel and you happen to be thirsty, islam has the answer:

Bottoms up!

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March 21, 2007

Sigh


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Iraq steps up anti-Israel boycott.

The US-backed Iraqi government is enforcing the Arab boycott of Israel with increasing frequency, The Jerusalem Post has learned, with the number of boycott-related incidents involving US firms operating in Iraq nearly quadrupling last year, according to official US statistics. ...

US law bars American firms from complying with boycott-related requests and requires them to report any such incidents to the authorities. These might include demands made of companies to verify that their products do not contain components made in the Jewish state or signing forms attesting that they do not do business with Israel.

What can I say? Read the article below this one, about the euroweenies and tell me, when will the world wake up?

Why is it that all the rules change when it comes to Israel, the only place on earth where terrorists are partners in peace? Why does my country kill terrorists who kill Iraqis in Iraq and support terrorists who kill Jews in Israel?

In 2006, international aid to palestinians and its terrorist government rose from $1 billion in 2005 to more than $1.2 billion in 2006. (and that's not counting some $68 million smuggled into Gaza by Hamas officials in 2006). Despite its vow not to support a Hamas government, the United States contributed $468 million last year, up from $400 million in 2005.

This shames me and there are days when I am overwhelmed by the urge to Aliyah.

This is one of them.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:11 PM | Comments (1)

Irony is so... Ironic

So. It seems that the Euroweenies who came to Gaza specifically to keep the evil joos from oppressing the peaceful palestinians, are now terrified that the peaceful palestinians will slaughter them and have turned to the evil joos for rescue!

The European Union monitors who so enthusiastically took up positions on the Gaza-Egypt border in 2005 to help make sure Israel could not close it for security reasons no longer want to be there.

The monitors have raised concerns for their safety following a number of threats to their lives over the past few weeks. An Israeli defense official reportedly told The Jerusalem Post that a bomb was found on a road frequented by the monitors in Gaza several weeks ago.

"They are genuinely concerned for their lives," a senior defense official said of the EU monitors.

The head of the 80-man EU team, Italian Maj.-Gen. Pietro Pistolese, met last week with IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi to plot an escape route should the Palestinians decide to attack them.

The meeting came before the scheduled signing of an agreement to extent the group's permission to monitor in Gaza for another year. The agreement was first signed following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza in 2005.

"They want to know that we will help them escape if the need arises," the Israeli defense official said, according to The Jerusalem Post. He added, "Their concerns are understandable if you take into account the large number of threats they face."

The escape proposal that was reportedly accepted would have the Europeans make a dash for the security fence that separates Gaza from southern Israel, where the much-maligned IDF would then rescue them from the oncoming hordes of peace-loving Palestinians.

YCMTSU!

Of course, the UN pulled out of Gaza earlier this month after peaceful palestinians tried to kidnap John Ging, head of U.N. Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees, and when that failed, fired 11 bullets at his car as he tried to drive off.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:15 PM | Comments (1)

March 20, 2007

Cartoon Show Time


Posted by LindaSoG at 07:25 AM

March 19, 2007

This is NOT funny

But I laughed anyway. Sometimes, you have to laugh to keep from crying... yannow?

See it while you can. I get the feeling it won't be up long...

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:37 PM

March 17, 2007

One more time!

I posted this at the beginning of the year, but here it is again, by popular demand:

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:27 PM

March 16, 2007

Remembering Rachel

On March 16, 2003, in the town of Rafah in southern Gaza, Rachel Corrie, 23, an "international peace protester," dropped to her knees in front of an Israeli bulldozer during an IDF anti-terrorism action. She was squished flat, and therefore shall forever be known as St. Pancake.

On the anniversary of her squishing, rather than think about a stupid, brainwashed, terrorist apologist, I'll spend the day thinking about a few other Rachels, all of whom were murdered by the palestinian terrorists who were Rachel Corrie's friends:


Rachel Thaler, 16, was enjoying dinner with her
14-year old brothers and friends at an Israeli
pizzeria when a palestinian bomber detonated
himself at the restaurant.


Rachel Levi, 19, murdered when a Palestinian
rammed a bus into a crowded Israel bus stop,
killing Rachel and five others on February 14, 2001.


Rachel Levy, 17, was a high-school student
who was killed when a Palestinian suicide
bomber detonated herself at an Israeli supermarket.
Her death came on the heels of the death of Rachel's
cousin one month earlier in a terrorist shooting.


Rachel Charhi, 36, was killed when a
Palestinian terrorist detonated himself in a
café in Israel on April 4, 2002.


Rachel Gavish, 50, was murdered by a Palestinian
terrorist who infiltrated her home in Israel,
shooting dead Rachel, her husband David,
her son and Rachel's father.


Rachel Kol, 53, who worked for 20 years
in the neurology lab at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital,
was murdered with her husband in a drive-by shooting by the Fatah.


Rachel Ben Abu, 16, killed with her teenage friends by a suicide
bomber at the Netanya shopping mall, in July 2005 (in the midst
of a supposed Palestinian truce)


Rachel Shabo, 40, (top right) and three of her sons
were murdered on June 20, 2002 when a Palestinian
terrorist entered the family home and opened fire.

If you want the truth about Rachel Corrie's death, The Rachel Corrie Round-up is here, and here is a list of other murders by Rachel Corrie's friends.

From Naomi Ragen

Friends,

Who can forget David Hatuel, the young father from Gush Katif whose beautiful wife Tali and four beautiful daughters were murdered in cold blood by a Palestinan terrorist, who opened fire on the pregnant mother and her four little girls, killing them all as they sat in their car?


Tali Hatuel, with her daughters.

As we think back on the events of the Intifada, so many horrors, nevertheless this stands out in our minds as the ultimate expression of barbarity from our enemies, and the ultimate challenge to our strength to continue our lives in the land of our forefathers.

David, quiet, modest, said that he had two choices: To disintegrate and fall, or to live. He chose life. A year ago, he remarried. Today, 37 year-old David holds in his arms another baby girl, born of his second marriage to Limor, an occupational therpist.

This is the ultimate answer we Jews have to give our enemies. This is our secret, why we are still here when so many other peoples have become extinct. It is David Hatuel's answer: choose life. Rebuild.

May God bless him and his wife and child with every blessing known to mankind. My he and his kind flourish and prosper, and give example to the rest of mankind.

And may our enemies, who choose death and destruction, reap what they sow.

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March 06, 2007

Cheese Please!

An adorable feta commercial from Israel:

The Hebrew at the end: "Pireus cheeses: The taste of Mediterranean love."

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:00 AM

February 23, 2007

"I see" said the blind man

Israeli newspapers on Thursday ran front-page pictures of Defense Minister Amir Peretz on a hill in the Golan Heights, inspecting his troops through binoculars with the lens caps on.

Peretz joined the new army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, watching Wednesday's large-scale maneuvers. The pictures show the two side by side with military binoculars held up to their eyes — but Peretz's still have the lens caps in place. The photographer said Peretz raised the capped binoculars three times, nodding as Ashkenazi explained what he was "seeing."


In other news, yesterday Peretz said that 'he plans to go all the way' in the the evacuation of what he calls"illegal" outposts. Because that's the single most important issue for Israel right now.

There are none so blind as those who will not see.

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February 20, 2007

It was probably a botched joke

Or maybe he just mispoke.

The aggressively photogenic John Edwards was cruising along, detailing
his litany of liberal causes last week until, during question time, he
invoked the "I" word -- Israel.

Perhaps the greatest short-term threat to world peace, Edwards remarked,
was the possibility that Israel would bomb Iran's nuclear facilities. As a chill
descended on the gathering, the Edwards event was brought to a polite close."


Surely he didn't mean that Israel is the greatest threat to world peace, that the people that Iran has vowed to wipe off the face of the earth is the greatest threat to world peace.

It sure sounded like that to me. Especially since acknowledging the threat from Iran would make his anti-war stance a tad ridiculous, wouldn't it? So... what else is there to do but blame the joos.

I don't expect John Edwards to take responsiblity for the anti-semitic streak that is now competing with the yellow streak in him that we've come to know so well.

However, I do expect Jewish people to sit up and take notice of the anti-semitism radiating out of this man.

Thanks Billy, pointing me to Variety, of all places. I don't expect we'll see that reported by the mainstream media.

UPDATE: He denies it.

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The Sweet Taste of Anti-Semitism

Is now available for your coffee:

Small packets of sugar bearing the likeness of Adolf Hitler and carrying Holocaust jokes have been found in some cafes in Croatia, prompting an investigation, the office of the state prosecutor said on Monday.

The company responsible is Pinki and its owner Anita Ivanecic has no comment: "You can write whatever you want, but I won’t comment anything."

Of course not, since the Novi List daily newspaper noted that the packets have become very popular in local cafes and restaurants. Thousands of these packets have been distributed for months and it took an official protest by The Simon Wiesenthal Centre before they were recalled. Holocaust denial is not a crime in Croatia, unlike a dozen European countries including Austria. There was no immediate response from the authorities, but Zuroff said that the existing law against ethnic, religious and racial intolerance should be applied.

"The local district attorney in (the eastern town of) Pozega has opened an investigation and is currently looking at the matter," said Martina Mihordin.

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February 16, 2007

With Condi Rice siding with the terrorists

Israel needs your prayers!

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

Shabbat Shalom

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February 15, 2007

Temple Mount Dig - The Truth


Posted by LindaSoG at 09:24 PM

February 07, 2007

I got lost

Wandering in the Swann Galleries, where they are auctioning thousands of vintage propaganda posters.

vintage Early Zionism:

vintage Evil Joos:

vintage American Military:

and...

and...

I could easily spend a small fortune, if I had a small fortune.

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February 04, 2007

That's one way to slow them down

It's only one guy, but it may buy some time:

Iranian nuclear scientist ‘assassinated by Mossad’

A PRIZE-WINNING Iranian nuclear scientist has died in mysterious circumstances, according to Radio Farda, which is funded by the US State Department and broadcasts to Iran.

An intelligence source suggested that Ardeshire Hassanpour, 44, a nuclear physicist, had been assassinated by Mossad, the Israeli security service.

Hassanpour worked at a plant in Isfahan where uranium hexafluoride gas is produced. The gas is needed to enrich uranium in another plant at Natanz which has become the focus of concerns that Iran may be developing nuclear weapons.

and then again... it could be only another "blame the joos" story in preparation for an attack on Israel in celebration of the 28th anniversary of the islamic revolution.

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:16 AM

January 31, 2007

WYSIWYG

Caroline Glick sums up the Palestinian State:

Leaders worldwide are so busy speaking of how essential it is for a State of Palestine to be founded that none of them seems to have noticed that it already exists.

This state was officially founded in the summer of 2005, when Israel removed its military forces and civilian population from the Gaza Strip and so established the first wholly independent Palestinian state in history.

And so it is that as statesmen and activists worldwide loudly proclaim their commitment to establishing the sovereign State of Palestine, they miss the fact that Palestine exists. And it is a nightmare.

In the State of Palestine 88 percent of the public feels insecure. Perhaps the other 12 percent are members of the multitude of regular and irregular militias. For in the State of Palestine the ratio of police/militiamen/men-under-arms to civilians is higher than in any other country on earth.

In the State of Palestine, two-year-olds are killed and no one cares. Children are woken up in the middle of the night and murdered in front of their parents. Worshipers in mosques are gunned down by terrorists who attend competing mosques. And no one cares. No international human rights groups publish reports calling for an end to the slaughter. No UN body condemns anyone or sends a fact-finding mission to investigate the murders.

In the State of Palestine, women are stripped naked and forced to march in the streets to humiliate their husbands. Ambulances are stopped on the way to hospitals and wounded are shot in cold blood. Terrorists enter operating rooms in hospitals and unplug patients from life-support machines.

This is Palestine. Enter at your own risk.

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January 29, 2007

Bloody Hands

Today, in Israel, a 21-year-old Gaza resident and member of Al Aksa Martyrs Brigades blew himself up in an Eilat "Lachmim" bakery, murdering three people and wounding others.

Al Aksa is, of course, part of Fatah, the United States' preferred terrorist group, armed and sponsored by our State Department through Israel's Partner in Peace, Mohammed Abbas to the tune of billions of dollars every year.

This is the first time there has been a terrorist suicide bombing in the southernmost city of Eilat. Meanwhile, Qassam rockets continue to rain down near Sederot and Ashkelon while rocks and molotov cocktails are thrown at Jews in other cities.

Rumors are making the rounds that the Israeli Government is planning to "temporarily" evacuate Israelis from communities around the Gaza strip, to protect Jews from slaughter by terrorists who have moved into Gaza.

Considering the success of the evacuation of Gaza for the same reason, and the cooperation of our State Department in providing money and arms to the terrorists, we can only assume that eventually, little by little, town by town, inch by inch, the Israeli Government will evacuate the entire State of Israel to protect Jews from slaughter by palestinian terrorists.

And then, the terrorist dream of destroying the Little Satan will have been made true, with the help of the United States and with the approval of the international community. And then, the palestinians can turn their full attention to the terrorist dream of destroying the Big Satan, using the same ways and means.

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UPDATE: The proud mother of a murderer speaks:

The mother of Muhammad Faisal Saksak, the 21-year-old suicide bomber who carried out Monday's attack in Eilat, said she was aware of her son's plan to blow himself up and that she had wished him "good luck."

"I wished him good luck and I knew of his decision to become a martyr. Although I was aware of his intention, I did not know exactly when he was planning to carry out a martyrdom attack."

The mother of nine said she was proud of her son for carrying out the suicide attack.

Ruwaidah said she was prepared to "sacrifice" all her sons "for the sake of the Aksa Mosque and Palestine."

and the wife of a murderer speaks:

Muhammad's wife, Nadia, said she shared the family's sense of "pride" for what her husband did.

"When I heard that he was martyred, I felt very proud of him," she said. "Why shouldn't I feel so when I know that he died for the sake of Palestine and Al-Aksa? It's much better than dying in the internal fighting between Fatah and Hamas."

These are Israel's partners in peace, and they flourish with the help of our state department and the international community. If they were your neighbors, you would kill them before you allowed them to kill your family.

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January 27, 2007

Run for your lives...

Oh, those evil joos...

Beirut - Israeli planes violated Lebanese airspace Saturday and dumped green balloons over the southern port city of Tyre, Lebanese security sources said.

Lebanese troops cordoned off the area around the coast of Tyre and prevented people from touching the 'suspicious balloons' after reports indicated that some people were poisoned when they did.

According to a hospital source in Nabatiyeh, similar green balloons were dropped over the market-town of Nabatiyeh, 54 kilometres south of Beirut.

Five people suffering from nausea and dizziness were brought into hospital after they touched the 'suspicious green balloons,' the source said.

What really happened?

(IsraelNN.com) An Israeli newspaper released green balloons during a promotional event on Saturday in the North. Some of the balloons were carried by the wind across the border to southern Lebanon. Residents of the towns of Tyre and Nabatiyeh notified the Lebanese army of the strange balloons, and were warned not to touch them. The balloons were gathered into a cluster and destroyed in a controlled explosion.

Lebanese official media reported that the balloons were poisoned, and were part of an Israeli attack. Residents claimed that the balloons were dropped from IDF aircraft. Residents were apparently confused by the writing on the balloons as well: the balloons carried the name of the newspaper, HaIr, which somewhat resembles the Hebrew word for “caution,” Hizaher. Hizbullah’s news station, Al-Manar, reported that the balloons bore the word “caution” in Hebrew and claimed that several locals were hospitalized after inhaling the balloons' gas.

Oh my.

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January 23, 2007

Where there is life, there is hope

I believe that, I always have and I always will.

But, hope is not enough, we must be proactive, we must take an active part in our survival because without life, there is no hope.

In his essay, This Place Called Hope, Mr. Gordis is brutally honest. Its a must-read.

A century ago, the early Zionist ideologues promised the Jews that if a Jewish state were created, there would finally be one place on earth where Jews could be safe. It might not be big, it might not be beautiful, but it would be safe. Here, it was said, Jews would be able to defend themselves. Here, it was said, they would be spared the capriciousness of the world.

~snip~

As the rockets flew over the entire north, few people in Israel missed the irony of the fact that it’s now more dangerous to be a Jew in Israel (at least in certain periods, like in Jerusalem during the Intifada, or in Haifa during the war) than in any other place in the world.

~snip~

And if Hezbollah wasn’t bad enough, Israelis are asking, what about Iran? What will happen when they get the bomb? What does it mean for Jews, and for Zionism, that just seventy years after the world conspired to let the Jews be erased, more than half the world’s Jewish children (i.e., those living in Israel) could soon live in the crosshairs of a nuclear-armed maniacal Muslim fanatic? That’s a refuge? That’s success for Zionism? What does it mean that the world is clearly demonstrating that it is willing to watch this happen and not intervene?

~snip~

Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Darfur – all conflicts that have taken infinitely more lives than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict – receive nowhere near the attention that Israel does. Thousands are raped and butchered in Darfur, and days go by with scarcely a mention in the world’s papers. There are 200,000 child soldiers in Sierra Leone alone, but who even knows about that? Yet one protester ignores IDF warnings to stay out of the way and accidentally gets crushed by a bulldozer, and the world goes ape. Then Broadway produces a (bad) play about her. This is normalcy?

~snip~

Jimmy Carter writes a book calling Israel an Apartheid state, and despite the numerous reviews which point to the book’s unfairness and numerous errors of fact, the book rockets to the bestseller list. In the United States, not Egypt. It should be lost on no one that people tend to buy books that espouse positions with which they agree.

~snip~

If it’s unthinkable that more than half the world’s Jews could live in Ahmadenijad’s crosshairs, then we’d better figure out what we’re going to do. The world won’t stop him. Will we? What kind of power would we be willing to use to put an end to Iran’s nuclear capabilities? Would be it moral to use weapons we’ve never used if that’s what it would take? Would be it moral not to, if the future of the Jewish people is at stake? How much are the Jews willing to do in order to survive?

~snip~

The problem isn’t Olmert, or Katzav. This is not about Israel. It’s not even about Zionism. It’s about the future of what we call the Jewish people. Hezbollah gets that. Hamas gets it. Ahmadinejad gets it. Gaarder gets it.

Why don’t we?

~snip~

Why don't we get it?

Reality is, when people talk about ridding the world of Jews, they are talking about me, and my family.

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January 21, 2007

and now... Nazi News


The level of ignorance displayed in this video by "Mich Bubba" is no less than amazing. Avi Shafran explains:

The conspiracy Mr. Bubba proudly exposes is the “Jewish tax” that hides in plain sight from unsuspecting non-Jews in secret code on food packaging. Long familiar to Hebrews of traditional bent, the various kosher symbols (the popular “u” inscribed in an “o” that is a trademark of the Orthodox Union – which Bubba calls the “United Rabbinical Council” – as well as myriad graphic riffs on the letter “k”) are indications that the product so marked was produced under the supervision of a rabbi expert in the intricacies of both kosher law and food science. Bubba hews to the belief that such foods are simply “blessed by a rabbi” and identifies one product as carrying a second sinister rabbinical group’s certification – “parve” – which he pronounces “parVEY” (French rabbis, probably).

In his essential point, of course, Bubba’s right. Companies do indeed pay for kosher certification.

As they also do, of course, for the right to display, say, the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval (for which manufacturers must purchase advertisement space in Good Housekeeping magazine). Or as they indirectly do through increased manufacturing costs for the right to call their products “organic” or “natural.” To Bubba, however, the Jewish arrangement is singularly unkosher; it smacks, to his fuzzy lights, of a Jewish “shakedown.” If companies pay for a rabbi’s service, he unreasons, the cost must surely be passed on… secretly, of course… to “Gentile” consumers.

The risible accusation is nothing new; it resurfaces almost every time logic-challenged anti-Semites manage to catch their breath between rants on the Middle-East and “Jewish control of the media.” As to inconvenient facts, The New York Times reported in 1975 that the cost to General Foods for rabbinical supervision of its “Bird’s Eye” products worked out to .0000065 of a cent per item. A Heinz Company representative maintained that its own kosher labeling actually decreases the cost of items, by increasing the market for them – the only rational reason, of course, a company would choose to pay for such a service in the first place.

Thank you Avi, although, in true nazi tradition, I don't think Bubba has much interest in facts, he appears to prefer to distribute misinformation in order to promote hate.

and The NaziHunter responds by video:

Yasher Koach Nazi Hunter, that was well done and much appreciated!

By the way, Bubba's video is produced by RegionFive, and their website (no, I won't link it) has the following quote of the day:

I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it. - Voltaire

Indeed, Miche Bubba Bill certainly makes the enemies of the Jewish people ridiculous. Bravo! Well done Bill.

Irony is so... ironic.

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January 18, 2007

Stumble Stones

They are called stolpersteine -- stumble stones. They are meant to trip memory.


"Here lived
Berta Spiegel
Born "Scheuer"
[In the] Year 1879
Deported to Theresienstadt
Dead 16-2-1942"

Berta Spiegel, whose maiden name was Scheuer, and her husband, Josef Spiegel, ran a sporting goods shop at 6 Buccheimer St. in the Cologne suburb of Muelheim. The couple was "deported," the Nazi euphemism for removal of Jews from Germany, to Theresienstadt concentration camp, located in the present-day Czech Republic. They died there. Berta on Feb. 16, 1942, Josef on Aug. 7, 1942.

One stone, one life.

Each is a brass plaque measuring about 4 by 4 inches and hand-engraved by artist Gunter Demnig with the name and a few terse details of someone lost to the Holocaust. Each stumble stone is set permanently into the sidewalk outside the place where the individual lived, laughed, and loved -- usually a house or apartment building and sometimes a shop or office.

Demnig, 59, has hammered more than 10,000 plaques into the sidewalks of 202 German cities and towns. The artist and two associates, Uta Franke and Michael Friedrich, have been at it for a decade. Each stone represents archival research by families or Jewish groups as well as the painstaking work of carving of the malleable yellow metal.

One person, who lived, and then died at the hands of a madman.

A few stumble stones have been wrenched from the ground by irate neighbors or neo-Nazis. Others have been defaced with swastikas. There are still a few places in Germany where ultra-right sentiment burns fiercely enough among locals that Demnig can go about his labor only with a police escort.

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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January 09, 2007

In the realm of fiction

Richard North Patterson gives Jimmy Carter a run for his anti-semetic money:

The Sultan Knish has excerpts:

David looked around the ruins of Rammalah. The Israeli war machine had sent its tanks rumbling through there and smashed entire buildings flat with their massive treads. Airplanes continued dropping explosives from the sky as lovable Palestinian schoolchildren fled into hills of rubble. From the warplanes raining death and destruction in the name of the Israeli God, David Wolfe could see the Israeli soldiers grinning as they competed to see who could kill more Palestinian children.

Okay, not really, but this book has it all, sexy palestinian women turned into murderers by evil joos, brave freedom fighters with suicide belts trying to save the world from evil joos, admirable palestinians who are forced into barbaric acts of murder and mayhem by evil joos, oppressive Israelis murdered by innocent palestinians who were forced to do so by evil joos, and of course, more evil joos.

I'm sure it will be a blockbuster big seller, and eventually, an epic film directed by Mel "I was drunk" Gibson.

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January 08, 2007

Why am I not surprised?


Obviously, the horrors that have befallen Eretz Yisrael at the hands of the arabs, and the Israeli government, have taken its toll over recent years.

Like most American Jews, I have considered Aliyah many times. But, Aliyah to where? Gaza? Amona? Judea? Samaria? If I had made Aliyah, Ariel Sharon or Ehud Olmert would have made me homeless. Considering that today, Israel is the only place in the world where Jews can be forced from their homes for being Jewish, where should I Aliyah to?

Hell is a Jewish state devoid of Jewish values that picks up where the anti-Semites, the pogromers, and the exilers left off. Hell is a Jewish prime minister who has become a cannibal of his own people. Hell is when a country has lost its will to exist and begins a process of national suicide. Hell is when Jews with Jewish values have become outcast in their own land. Hell is when the Jewish state becomes worse than the exile. - Gershon Perlman

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January 06, 2007

Seeds of Hate


thanks for the tip someone, write me anytime!

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December 28, 2006

We cease and they fire

So, now we learn that Hezbollah is paying palestinians to fire Kassam rockets into Israel from Gaza.

"Palestinian terrorists get thousands of dollars per attack. Sometimes they are paid before the attack and sometimes they submit a bill to Lebanon afterward and the money gets transferred a short while later."

Peretz told the cabinet on Sunday that there have been cases over the last month where the IDF spotted terrorists preparing to fire rockets, but - because of the cease-fire - did not act.

I have to wonder at Ehud Olmert, why is he so willing to bloody his hands, to allow Israelis to be slaughtered by these arabs?

According to government officials, Olmert argued at Wednesday's meeting that the cease-fire had strategic value, and that Israel's policy of restraint had earned it "a lot of understanding and appreciation" around the world that would provide "leeway" in the future.

Leeway for what? Leeway for the arabs to kill more Jews? Does that mean the rest of the world appeciates that Olmert forces the IDF to stand aside while rockets land on Jews?

It would appear so.

The article also says that "Olmert has argued in recent days that a strong military response would only unite Hamas and Fatah."

They are already united in their hatred of Jews. The proper response is to bomb the hell out of Hamas and Fatah each and every time they try to kill Jews.

Any truce is a hudna, and any ceasefire has always meant the same thing, we cease, and they fire.

Once upon a time, to be the Prime Minister of Israel meant that you defended Israel, and protected her people. Olmert has failed over and over again, he has done nothing but give way to arab demands and arab terror, and emboldened Israel's enemies.

The Islamic Jihad is not worried by the possibility that Israel will embark on a broad operation against the Qassams.

Spokesman of Islamic Jihad's military arm, al-Quds Brigades, Abu Ahmad claimed in an interview with Ynet that this is just the beginning. His organization is simultaneously preparing for a wave of suicide attacks to be carried out within Israel.

There can be no negotiations with these arabs, because, when you negotiate with evil, evil wins.

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December 25, 2006

Boo Frickin' Hoo

Jobless Gaza Arabs Miss Jewish Employers, Turn to Drugs

Gaza Arabs, left jobless by the Oslo War and by last year's expulsion of Gush Katif farmers, have turned to drugs that are smuggled from Lebanon and Egypt, the United Nations reported.

Tens of thousands of Arabs worked throughout Israel in factories and in construction until the Oslo War broke out in 2000. The constant flow of terrorists from Gaza forced Israel to severely restrict traffic and to withdraw work permits, which terrorists exploited to carry out attacks.

Thousands of Arabs still were able to work for Jewish farmers until the summer of 2005, when the government forced 10,000 Jewish residents out of their homes, destroyed their communities and turned them over to the Palestinian Authority (PA).

And then what?

Hopes for a robust PA economy turned to dust, and the former greenhouses became training grounds for terrorists.

The Christian Science Monitor reported last year, "... Palestinian looters damaged many of the greenhouses, stripping them bare, for instance, of computers that the settlers used to monitor crops. Irrigation pumps were stolen, electricity networks paralyzed, and protective sheeting for the hothouses was torn.

That's right. Gaza's Greenhouses went from this:

to this:

That's right. Immediately after the expulsion, they descended like locusts on Gush Katif, pillaged and destroyed what took a generation to build. One year later, the desert that bloomed is a barren wasteland.

Whose fault is that?

Husni Shaheen, secretary general of the Palestinian Supreme National Committee against Drugs blamed Israel for the poor economic conditions in Gaza...

Of course! It was the joos!

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December 19, 2006

Second-Ever



Mrs. Laura Bush is joined by Rabbi Binyomin Taub, Rabbi Hillel Baron, Peter Olster and Rabbi Mendy Minkowitz on Monday, December 18, 2006 during the second-ever kosherizing of the White House kitchen. White House photo by Kimberlee Hewitt

Guess when the first time was!

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Today's IDF Moment

The soldiers of the Yahalom ("Diamond") unit, the elite unit of the Combat Engineering corps, have found an original way to celebrate Hannukah. The "Andros" robot lit the Menorah, which in normal times is used for ongoing security uses and lessens the chances of soldiers being hurt. Besides lighting candles the robot also served as a waiter when it dished up doughnuts.

The "Andros" robot, like the other IDF robots, is part of the "Bezeq" division, the IDF's robotics division, part of Yahalom. "Bezeq" is responsible for developing and operating the robots which are used for various tasks in the IDF, especially in removal and neutralizing of bombs. The unit's soldiers who operate the robots stand at the forefront together with the IDF's fighters and are resposnible for operating the robots in real time. The various robots are used by the IDF in dangerous tasks which in the past would have been carried out by soliders, thus avoiding needless danger.

From the IDF Website.

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December 16, 2006

Candles of Hope


Since the abduction of IDF soldiers Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev more than five months ago, the citizens of Israel and pro-Israel communities around the world have been praying for their wellbeing. This Hanukkah - the holiday of lights – Ynetnews, in coordination with the Jewish Agency and the World Zionist Organization, invite you to light a Hanukkah candle in their honor.
As individuals our light is weak, but together we will shine brightly and light a huge flame to express our common concern and hope that Gilad, Ehud and Eldad return safely home.

So, I lit a candle. It may not seem like much, but it's more than Olmert has done to bring them home, and their families will see the outpouring of support. 10045 have been lit so far, you can light one by clicking on the picture.

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December 14, 2006

An oldie but a goodie

In light of the recent news from Israel, I thought I'd post this again...



Posted by LindaSoG at 07:09 AM

December 12, 2006

Ka-Ching

Israel has just turned itself into a cash machine for terrorists.

In July 2005, the Knesset voted to amend an existing law and enable the Defense Minister to decree parts of Judea and Samaria as "conflict areas" - areas where the IDF is forced to take military action against terrorists. This categorization prevented Arabs in those areas who were hurt physically or monetarily by IDF activities from suing the State for damages.

Shortly afterwards, nine left-wing civil-rights groups, including Adallah and the Society for Civil Rights, filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the amendment. They claimed it violated basic tenets of humanitarian and international law, and that it impaired basic rights, in violation of the Basic Law dealing with Human Dignity and Freedom.

The Supreme Court's ruling, handed down today, left intact the fact that Arabs hurt in anti-terror activities may not apply for damages. However, it nullified the blanket assertion that all IDF activity in a given place automatically renders such activity "anti-terrorist." The Defense Minister may no longer categorize certain areas as "conflict areas" in which damage to Arab property or persons need not be compensated.

Instead, such Arabs may now apply for damages.

If nothing else, the litigation itself is liable to bankrupt the country, considering that everything that happens to arabs is blamed on Israel:

MK Benny Elon (National Union) responded sharply: "Israel has always been responsible for damages caused in non-war activities, such as car accidents and the like. But now, the Court has changed the concept of war activities and reduced their scope."

That's right Benny, the evil Joos are responsible for everything, including injuries on a playground swing set.

The insanity of the left is destroying Israel faster than the Katyushas and Qassams, already, the vultures are circling.

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December 05, 2006

That was then...

Guess who said this... and bonus points for when it was said

… I am opposed to an independent Palestinian state, because in my own judgement and in the judgement of many leaders in the Middle East, including Arab leaders, this would be a destabilizing factor in the Middle East and would certainly not serve the United States interests.
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…we oppose the creation of an independent Palestinian state. The United States, as all of you know, has a warm and unique relationship of friendship with Israel that is morally right. It is compatible with our deepest religious convictions, and it is right in terms of America’s own strategic interests. We are committed to Israel’s security, prosperity, and future as a land that has so much to offer to the world. A strong Israel and a strong Egypt serve our own security interests.We are committed to Israel’s right to live in peace with all its neighbors, within secure and recognized borders, free from terrorism. We are committed to a Jerusalem that will forever remain undivided with free access to all faiths to the holy places. Nothing will deflect us from these fundamental principles and committments.

The answer is...

If you guessed Jimmy Carter, 1980, congratulations.

Jeff Ballabon takes a look at what has changed in 26 years.

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November 29, 2006

And pigs will fly!


Ehud, you've helped kill enough Jews, resign already!

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Darfur Genocide - It's time to blame the Joos!

If you think that the Jihad in Darfur is being perpetuated by arab moslems, think again.

Sudan's President Field Marshal Omar Hassan Ahmed al-Bashir claimed Tuesday that reports in western newspapers of hundreds of thousands dead in his country's brutal civil war are all part of an Israeli-led worldwide conspiracy.

Al-Bashir asserted that all talk of a serious conflict - and accusations that his Government has supported, trained and armed the brutal Arab Janjaweed militia, which has displaced, raped and robbed an estimated 2.5 million people in Darfur - were a western conspiracy engineered by Israel to divert attention from the conflicts in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Palestinian territories.

In statements that appeared to be more in keeping with 1920s anti-Semitism than statesmanship, Field Marshal al-Bashir added that Israeli influence was at the center of the conflict, and all the world's disputes.

"You cannot at all rule out the Israeli role in any problem that any Arab country is facing because the security of Israel is based on weakening Arab states," he said.

"Israel would do everything through their media and their different mechanisms - you can't deny they have such influence in circles all over the world so they can do what they want."

Boggles the mind, don't it?

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November 27, 2006

Snark Jerusalem Style-Part II

Graffiti spotted in Jerusalem, back in August and during Olmert's Lebanon fiasco...

For the Hebrew impaired, the graffiti says: "Sharon wake up - Olmert is in a coma!" and the caption at the bottom says "No additional words are required."

But that's old snark, it is however, somewhat related to the new snark making the rounds via email, titled "If Arik (Sharon) would wake up today...."

It is a rainy night and we are at Tel Hashomer Hospital. Only one assistant is around, named Shmiel. He is on night duty tonight in the room of "sleeping" former PM Sharon.

Everybody, but Sharon himself, knows he is no longer the Prime Minister of Israel. Shmiel is sitting peeling an apple and G the Shaba"k agent is nodding off.

Suddenly, all the machines start to beep. The PM is waking up!

Sharon says, "I haven't slept like that for a long time! Get me [Reuven] Adler, I have some ideas for a new direction."

Shmiel says, "Good morning, sir. How do you feel?"

Sharon answers, "I am dying of hunger. Where am I?"

The shabak agent continues to sleep while Shmiel explains to Sharon what had happened to him.

Sharon does not take him seriously and says, "So tonight you fooled with the PM, eh Shmiel?"

Shmiel says, "Sorry sir but you are really no longer the PM."

After a few minutes Sharon asks, "So who replaced me?"

Shmiel answers, "Ehud Olmert."

Sharon reacts, "Olmert? That Jerusalemite putz? What will happen if war breaks out, he does not know how to run the army! At least Shaul [Mofaz] is still there!"

Shmiel answers, "Mofaz is the Minister of Transportation."

"So who is the Defence Minister?"

Shmiel says, "Peretz."

"That old man is still alive?!" asks Sharon in wonderment.

Shmiel whispers trembling, "not Peres, Peretz. Amir Peretz."

"What? Are you crazy? I close my eyes for a minute and you guys let a labor leader take over the defence of the country?! Not all the factories in Dimona are the same. Does he know that? Listen, get Omri here right away. He will fix everything."

"Sorry sir, Omri is on his way to jail."

"Jail?? for that shtus? I do not believe it. So get me my lawyer quickly. Get Klagsbald."

Shmiel responds, Klagsbald is on his way to jail."

Sharon calms down and says, "I knew I could count on Klagsbald. he will get Omri out of it."

Shmiel corrects him and says, "No, sir. Klagsbald is also on his way to jail. He was driving and not paying attention and caused an accident unintentionally running over and killing a young woman and her son."

Sharon said, "So bring me [Avigdor] Yitzchaki. He always knows how to fix these situations."

"Sorry, sir. Yitzchaki is under his own investigation for tax fraud. He fixed things too much this time."

"Can't be. I know Yitzchaki. They must be framing him. So get me the Head of Police."

"Sorry, sir, but Karadi is in investigation."

"Of course he is. He is the head of police. I am sure he is in the middle of a number of investigations!"

"No, sir. This is an investigation against him!"

Sharon takes a deep breath. It can't be. The whole justice system has been ruined! We must get them out of this. Get me the minister of Internal Security, Tzachi [Hanegbi]."

"Sir, Hanegbi has been indicted for fraud, bribery and job fixing. He is not a minister anymore."

"So get me the Justice Minister. Who did Olmert appoint?"

"Haim Ramon"

"So get him here!"

"Sorry sir. I can't. He has been indicted and is on trial for misconduct."

"What? So get me the president. That is still Katzav, right?"

"sorry sir, but Katzav is under investigation as well, for misconduct and wiretapping."

"So get me the Chief of Staff, Boogie [Moshe Ayalon]. Sorry I mean Halutz, right?"

" Sir, he got into some trouble in the Lebanon War. Nothing criminal. he sold some stocks. He will soon be giving testimony to an investigative committee."

"Halutz?? he was a young Piper pilot during the Lebanon War!"

"Sir, that would be the second Lebanon War, while you were sleeping. We... how should I say? lost the war but the PM said we should be patient, victory is coming."

Sharon looked around his room. "What is your name and what is your position?"

"Shmiel, sir. I am a hospital attendant."

"Ok, Shmiel. Do not tell anyone about this conversation."

"You can count on me, sir."

"I am going back to sleep."

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November 26, 2006

Surprise Surprise!

You'll be glad to know that the Truce between Israel and Hamas is off to a good start:

Hamas claimed responsibility for firing rockets into Israel on Sunday morning after a truce aimed at ending five months of violence in Gaza was supposed to have taken effect.

The last count was six rockets.

Of course, some of us remember what happened after the last "Truce" or "Hudna" or whatever you want to call it agreed to by Sharon and Abu Mazen that began February 8, 2005, the one that was predicated on the expulsion of Jews from Gaza:

Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.

May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second terrorist was apprehended.

Mar 7, 2005 - Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.

Jun 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 29, 2005 - Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position at Mt. Dov from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.

Jul 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

And then... Israel emptied Gaza for peace, the Truce was still in effect and all we got was more dead Jews:

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 3, 2005 - Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demonstrators in Sderot. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children.

Aug 24, 2005 - Shmuel Mett, 21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. Two other students were wounded.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Sept 21, 2005 - Sasson Nuriel, 55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Oct 26, 2005 - Six people were killed and 55 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Michael Kaufman, 68, of Hadera; Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera; Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv; Jamil Qa'adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya; and Ya'acov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera. A sixth victim, Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds 11 days later, on November 5.

Nov 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near Jenin. He died en route to hospital.

Nov 21, 2005 - Eleven Israeli soldiers and one civilian are injured by a Hezbollah attack in Metulla, Northern Israel..

Dec 5, 2005 - Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya, a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky, 65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya; Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Dec 29, 2005 - Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. Two Palestinians were also killed, one the taxi driver who was carrying the bomber. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

That's just 2005. The history is here.

and meanwhile, Gilad Shalit is still in the hands of the terrorists.

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November 20, 2006

Israel's Secret Weapon

Here is an article on John Bolton's latest speech Friday night at the UN, from the Calcutta News. The biased anti-Israel American media won't tell you about it.

The Malaysian Sun reports that John Bolton, the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, has been described by Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman as, "Israel's secret weapon."

John Bolton is the first USA representative to the UN who has had the courage to stand up and speak out against the obscene abuse that the UN heaps upon Israel and upon the USA.

and the Democrats want to remove him.

The U.S. Ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, launched a scathing attack on the United Nations Friday.

Bolton was furious over the adoption by the General Assembly of a resolution which said the assembly regretted the deaths of 19 civilians in an attack by the Israeli military in the town of Beit Hanoun last week.

Despite the resolution being significantly watered down at the behest of the United States, and being passing by 156 votes to seven, Bolton launched a blistering attack on the UN, and many of its members.

"Many of the sponsors of that resolution are notorious abusers of human rights themselves, and were seeking to deflect criticism of their own policies," he said.

"This type of resolution serves only to exacerbate tensions by serving the interests of elements hostile to Israel's inalienable and recognized right to exist."

"This deepens suspicions about the United Nations that will lead many to conclude that the organization is incapable of playing a helpful role in the region," Bolton continued.

"In a larger sense, the United Nations must confront a more significant question, that of its relevance and utility in confronting the challenges of the 21st century. We believe that the United Nations is ill served when its members seek to transform the organization into a forum that is a little more than a self-serving and a polemical attack against Israel or the United States," he said.

"The Human Rights Council has quickly fallen into the same trap and de-legitimized itself by focusing attention exclusively on Israel. Meanwhile, it has failed to address real human rights abuses in Burma, Darfur, the DPRK, and other countries," Bolton charged.

"The problem of anti-Israel bias is not unique to the Human Rights Council. It is endemic to the culture of the United Nations. It is a decades-old, systematic problem that transcends the whole panoply of the UN organizations and agencies," he continued.

The United States, and Australia joined Israel in voting against the motion, together with four small Pacific island nations. All countries in Europe, including Britain, voted to support the resolution.

I will never, never, never understand why Jews continue to vote for democrats.

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November 14, 2006

The Coffee and the Fly

What happens when a fly falls into a coffee cup?

The Englishman - throws the cup and walks away.

The American - takes out the fly, and drinks the coffee.

The Chinese - eats the fly and throws away the coffee.

The Japanese - drinks the coffee with the fly, since it was extra with no charge.

The Israeli - sells the coffee to the American, the fly to the Chinese, and buys himself a new cup of coffee.

The Palestinian - blames the Israeli for the violent act of putting the fly in his coffee, asks the UN for aid, takes a loan from the European Union to buy a new cup of coffee, uses the money to purchase explosives and then blows up the coffee house where the Englishman, the American, the Chinese, the Japanese all try to explain to the Israeli that he was too aggressive.

Thanks Dan!

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November 12, 2006

Oh those pesky Jews

all the time wanting to live!

How annoying that must be to the rest of the world.

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November 09, 2006

Night of Broken Glass

On this day in 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht."

The term "Kristallnacht" ('Night of Broken Glass") refers to the organized anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria, November 9-10, 1938. These riots marked a major transition in Nazi policy, and were, in many ways, a harbinger of the "Final Solution."

Seventeen year old Herschel Grynszpan was living in Paris in the autumn of 1938 when his family in Hannover - father, mother, sister and brother - were among ten thousand Jews ruthlessly removed from their homes and deported to Poland in boxcars. His sister Berta managed to send a postcard to Herschel in Paris, describing the torments his family went through. Enraged by what he read, Herschel bought a pistol and went to the German Embassy in Paris on November 7, 1938, to take revenge and kill the ambassador, Count von Welczek. But the Third Secretary, Ernst vom Rath, was sent out to see what the young man wanted and Herschel shot him.

Herschel Grynszpan was arrested and in a poignant statement taken immediately after the arrest the young Jew told the police: "Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people have a right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have been I have been chased like an animal." He declared that he had to avenge the Jews, to draw the attention of the world to what was happening in Germany.

For Adolf Hitler, the shooting in Paris provided an opportunity to incite Germans to "rise in bloody vengeance against the Jews." It supplied the pretext for massive Nazi pogroms launched against Jews in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland - the orgy of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The tide of anti-Semitism under Nazi rule was given impetus: in the next 24 hours Nazi storm troopers along with members of the SS and Hitler Youth beat and murdered Jews, broke into and wrecked Jewish homes, brutalized Jewish women and children, destroyed 265 synagogues, looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, smashed Jewish cemeteries, hospitals and schools. At least 96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, more than 1,000 synagogues were burned (and possibly as many as 2,000), almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, cemeteries and schools were vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

The official German position on these events, was that they were spontaneous outbursts. The Fuehrer, Goebbels reported to Party officials in Munich, "has decided that such demonstrations are not to be prepared or organized by the party, but so far as they originate spontaneously, they are not to be discouraged either."

Kristallnacht was a crucial turning point in German policy regarding the Jews and may be considered as the actual beginning of what is now called the Holocaust.

A Synagogue Burns

There are important lessons to be drawn from Kristallnacht, for it served as a bridge experience for both Jews and Nazis. For the Jews, there was the terrifying realization that political antisemitism can lead to violence, even in Western Civilization. It also demonstrated that apathy can still pervade the world when the lives of Jews or other minorities are threatened.

For the Nazis, Kristallnacht taught that while the world might condemn their pogroms, it would not actively oppose them. World opinion, however, taught the Nazis the value of secrecy in the perpetration of future actions against Jews. Added to the complaints of Germans offended by the random violence of Kristallnacht, the stage was set for the "Final Solution"--the organized, bureaucratically efficient genocide of 6,000,000 men, women, and children.

In retrospect, Kristallnacht was more than the shattering of windows and illusions. It portended the physical destruction of European Jewry. As such, this commemoration must be observed both as a memorial and as a warning. -- Simon Wiesenthal Center

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Surviving Terrorism

A reminder of what we are fighting.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:02 AM

November 07, 2006

Another warning from the palestinians

"Palestinians protest Saddam death sentence" and threaten America. Again.

Schoolgirls marched and shopkeepers closed down their stores in Jenin on Monday in protest at the death sentence handed down against Saddam Hussein by a Baghdad court which found him guilty of crimes against humanity.

Carrying pictures of Saddam, about 250 girls from seven to 13 years old paraded through the town's refugee camp, chanting "Beloved Saddam, strike Tel Aviv," the same slogan shouted by jubilant Palestinians when Iraqi rockets slammed into Israel during the 1991 Gulf War - before the marchers were born.

Under Saddam's rule Iraq donated $25,000 per household for Jenin residents to rebuild homes destroyed in a 2002 Israeli military offensive there.

In the Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, masked gunmen from a previously unknown group calling itself Arafat's Army threatened reprisals against foreign citizens in the Palestinian territories if the sentence against Saddam is carried out.

Reprisals?

"We warn the American administration and its collaborators not to hurt Saddam Hussein because ... we will target all foreigners, especially the Americans and their British supporters," one of the men said, without giving his name. "We warn all foreigners in the Gaza Strip, especially the Americans, that they will be kidnapped and killed in front of witnesses."

Yeah, right, as if palestinians have never done anything like that before!

Let us not forget, these are the same people passing out candy, and dancing in the street to celebrate 9/11.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:30 AM

November 06, 2006

Common Ground?

Ask yourself, what does Fox News have in common with Al Jazeera? Or, what does CNN, NBC, MGM, CBS, ESPN, AsiaNet, Eurosport, and MCNBC have in common with Al Jazeera? What does Reuters have in common with Al Jazeera?

The answer is... RRSat.

RRSat Global Communications Network Ltd. is an experienced comprehensive world-class provider of end-to-end transmission via satellites and production services to the global broadcasting industry. The company was founded in 1981 and operates under license from the Israeli Ministry of Communications.

Yup. You read that right.

Al Jazeera relies on an Israeli company to distribute its anti-Israel propaganda, including calls to boycott Israeli companies, and other companies that do business with Israel.

Irony is so... ironic.

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November 05, 2006

UNIFIL - Getting the Job Done

You'll be glad to know that the UNIFIL peacekeeping force in Lebanon is doing one heck of a job with the terrorist forces of Hezbollah:

Despite the 20,000 troops deployed in southern Lebanon, the United Nations admits that weapons smuggling from Syria continues unhindered. A German report finds UNIFIL does not patrol after dark.

Hizbullah terrorists are free to roam at night without fear of being identified by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL), according to a report by the German paper Der Spiegel.

UNIFIL commanders were interviewed by the paper, saying their function is to "observe changes in the behavior of the local population," with Spanish UNIFIL official Richard Ortax admitting that no patrols are carried out at night “because of the danger involved.”

One junior officer told Der Spiegel he was glad that his battalion only left their camp once. "It's absurd," he said. "We landed here and set up our tent city, but since then we've only left the camp to drive around and to make sure that we're seen."

The report cites a long tradition of UNIFIL inaction, which it says allowed time for a Finnish contingent to construct a giant sauna and an Indian contingent to decorate its base with tradition Indian artwork.

Fabulous! I don't know about you, but I'm truly heartened to know that there is finally a giant suana decorated with Indian artwork for UNIFIL to relax in during those dark and scary nights while the terrorists smuggle in weapons to slaughter Jews.

But, if you think that it's all fun and games for UNIFIL in Lebanon... think again!

UN and Israeli tanks were involved in a brief face-off Thursday on a road in southern Lebanon where the Israeli army has been setting up checkpoints, AFP correspondents said.

Four French Leclerc tanks with the UN peacekeepers moved up the hill to stand 500 meters (yards) from the entrance to the border village of Marwaheen, as two Israeli Merkava tanks operated nearby on Lebanese soil.

Standing some 50 metres (yards) apart, the tanks were locked in a 20-minute face-off, the first between the Israeli army and UNIFIL, which has been boosted to oversee the current truce.

The French tanks then withdrew, as observers of the UN Truce Supervision Organisation came to the scene.

I guess I missed the fine print of UN Resolution 1701 that called for keeping Israel out of the way while Hezbollah re-armed, but luckily for UNIFIL, they don't have to do that job all by themselves:

The Lebanese army even attempted to shoot down Israeli fighter jets.

SSDD.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:46 AM

October 29, 2006

It's Official



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October 27, 2006

Oh those evil Joos

The latest from Al-Reuters:

Israel's policy towards Palestinian prisoners is "arbitrary and disproportionate" and violates international humanitarian law by moving them out of occupied territory, an Israeli rights group said on Thursday.

B'Tselem, an independent body that monitors Israeli actions towards the Palestinians, said the vast majority of the 9,000 Palestinians being held by Israel were illegally imprisoned inside the Jewish state.

"Holding these prisoners and detainees in Israel flagrantly breaches international humanitarian law, which prohibits the transfer of civilians, including detainees and prisoners, from the occupied territory to the territory of the occupying state," B'Tselem said in a 53-page report.

Wow, 53 pages on condemnation for Israel, not quite a record, but its up there. The article complains about the location of the prisons, and the fact that some prisoners are denied visitation:

One-third of the relatives of Palestinian prisoners held in Israel are barred from entering the country to visit their loved ones, the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem reported on Thursday.

The report, which focused on the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israel, said that children under the age of six are not allowed physical contact with their jailed fathers or brothers, according to Army Radio.

Anat Bar-Sela, the author of the report, said "the onus to facilitate the visits is placed on Israel by international law, due to the fact that Israel is the ruling power."


Why would Israel move its prisons closer the lawlessness and chaos of palestinian territories, where they are more likely to come under attack by terrorists? So they can visit each other? Their victims don't get to visit each other, do they?

Reality is that one-third of the prisoners are denied visitors because their family members are not allowed into Israel under any circumstances. Why? Well, presumably because they are terrorists. Others are likely denied visitors because of the kind of prisoners they are (terrorist leaders). Or perhaps visitors are denied to those prisoners as a form of punishment for misbehavior. Either way, there must be a reason if it's the exception rather than the rule. America also keeps certain prisoners in isolation, still, it is Israel after all, and so, we get 53 pages of condemnation.

Perhaps the Israeli government should look to the palestinian government for policy on how to treat prisoners. Hamas executed 18 year old Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri within hours after kidnapping him. Gilad Shalit has completely disappeared, no one has heard from him since Hamas kidnapped him.

I wonder if that would shut B'Tselem up. Probably not, I am sure they would still manage to fault Israel and praise Hamas at the same time. All that hypocrisy must be tiring.

When it comes to terrorists, I'm a take no prisoners kind of person. They should be shot while trying to escape.

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October 26, 2006

I used to like Alan Rickman

Not anymore.

The Truth
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October 25, 2006

When Zionists are Outlaws

Alejandro de Llano claims he has been charged with the great crime of supporting Israel and being against the Palestinian people.

It began two years ago, the Galician nationalist Major of Oleiros began a campaign against Israel. His catchy slogans - “Stop the beast. Sharon murderer” and “Stop to new Nazis.” Of course, the campaign also included anti-US slogans, and raised money selling toilet paper with the US Flag on it, bearning the legend “USAme.” Translation: “USE me.”

Alejandro de Llano reports that he sent a letter to the Major to critisize his campaign and mentioned that it could be a crime to divert public money to support international terrorism. Two years later, on October 13th, 2006, he has received a summons from a Criminal Judge announcing him that he is held responsible of the crime of supporting Israel and acting against Palestinian people.

An outrageous story, is it true? It is being claimed that the The Major has been watched by the CIA because of his ties to Cuba and his connections with palestinians, but Alejandro doesn't have a copy of the summons.

It could be true.

Hat tip to the Sultan!

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October 24, 2006

Another Convert to Islam?

Associated Press photographer Emilio Morenatti is on the fast track for conversion to the Religion of Peace, having been kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip today. He was snatched off the street at gunpoint as he left his apartment.

I can hear his protests now... "hey, wait a minute, I'm with the AP, I'm on your side."

No matter, its still a good bet that Morenatti is about to embrace islam either way, just like the fox news reporters kidnapped in August.

Ghazi Hamad, spokesman for the Hamas-led Palestinian government, condemned the kidnapping, saying it "damages the reputation of the Palestinian people."

Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas spokesman, said the kidnapping "contradicts our culture and our morals and our religion."

Saeb Erekat, a confidant of President Mahmoud Abbas of the moderate Fatah terrorist Party, also condemned Morenatti's kidnapping, saying it "harms Palestinian interests."

Yeah, sure. That's why Hamas published its handy dandy guidebook to kidnapping, complete with illustrations...

Yeah, yeah, I know I shouldn't bother you with facts, especially when they contradict our ever so honest and forthright media:

Palestinian militants terrorists in Gaza have often kidnapped foreign journalists and aid workers. All those kidnapped have been released unharmed.

Sure, all of those kidnapped by them there palestinian terrorists were released unharmed. Unless, of course, they're Jewish. Then, they get a bullet to the head, like Eliahu Asehri.

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:42 PM

October 23, 2006

What a difference a year makes

Gaza's Greenhouses in Jewish hands:

Gaza's Greenhouses one year later:

In September of 2005 they descended like locusts on Gush Katif, pillaged and destroyed what took a generation to build. One year later, the desert that bloomed is a barren wasteland, ravaged by palestinians who know nothing, care for nothing, and think of nothing except death and destruction.

Hat tip to the Sultan Knish, who today exposes George Soros for exactly who and what he is.

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October 20, 2006

Defining Terrorism

Never, ever deal with terrorists. Hunt them down and, more important, mercilessly punish those states and groups that fund, arm, support, or simply allow their territories to be used by the terrorists with impunity. - Rabbi Meir Kahane

So. A unanimous decision by United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has upheld a terrorist designation for Kahane Chai.

Rabbi Kahane is dead, killed by a moslem terrorist. Before he died, Rabbi Kahane looked into the future and saw what so many still refuse to see. From "Forty Years," written by Rabbi Kahane in 1980:

... Israel will become an ever-growing world pariah, subject to economic and military sanctions by a United Nations of gangsters. This will be no matter what she does, for short of national suicide, the world... will not be satisfied. And the Ally will melt away like snow in the warming spring sun. American largesse will shrink...

As the more radical Arabs overthrow the conservative, feudal regimes and pressure America to strangle Israel, this is what will be. And it makes no difference if the administration is Republican or Democrat. Both are near unto themselves. The reality is that America will — not necessarily through hatred or anti-Semitism — will become the major enemy of Israel. And there is nothing, no amount of concessions that will change this.

... the Arabs will grow in quantity and quality. As technology advances, the Arab states also move towards their skills. And how many times can we bomb a reactor in Iraq, especially when it will be not only Iraq but Pakistan... and others who will soon join the Club of nuclear destruction?

As the reality becomes more clearly perceived, more and more of the Jewish people of faithlessness will turn in greater desperation to the camp of ‘peace.' They will take the path of more concessions as the only way to ‘peace.'

The nations will be panic-stricken — socially, economically, and politically. Destruction and calamity will reign; the desolation will spread. At the center of it all will be Edom (the Christian world) and Ishmael (the Moslem world)...

Zechariah: "I will gather all the nations against Jerusalem to battle, the city shall be taken... and half of it (East Jerusalem, perhaps) will go into exile."

These are the realities of a state that has lost its way.

Well. All I can say is:

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

Shabbat Shalom

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How much is one Jew worth?



$50 Million

Of course, the first question is, why? I think the answer is simple. If Hamas releases Shalit, Hezbollah looks bad. Added bonus, reducing Hamas dependency on Egypt and turning its loyalties to the paymaster.

And of course, $50 million in a french bank account don't hurt none.

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Group Therapy

Israeli style:

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:24 AM

October 17, 2006

Fucking French

Yeah, you read that right.

Those low-life cowardly yellow-bellied surrender monkeys sit on the border of Lebanon and close their eyes to the re-arming of Hezbollah and then they have the fucking nerve, the fucking balls, to say this:

Commanders of the French contingent of the United Nations force in Lebanon have warned that they might have to open fire if Israel Air Force warplanes continue their overflights in Lebanon, Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Monday.

For crying out loud, you stupid UNIFIL soldiers are there to do a job, and that job is to enforce UN Resolution whatever the fuck number it is, you know, the one that is not only supposed to disarm Hezbollah but is also supposed to stop the re-arming of Hezbollah. Can't you figure that out, you asshole?

You shut your eyes to weapons pouring in from Syria and now you threaten Israel?

I could likely kick the French Army's collective ass with one hand tied behind my back, the stupid bastards have no business in a war zone, except as stepping stones over the border and that's just what you'll end up as if you keep this shit up.

Why don't you get the fuck out of the Middle East before you get hurt.

What a fucking joke.

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October 13, 2006

Dear Condi

"The Palestinian people deserve a better life ... free of the humiliation of occupation."
"I promise you my personal commitment to that goal."

- Condoleezza Rice

Well Condi, you sure sound determined in your support of the palestinian people. Such resolve! I can't help but wonder what convinced you that they are so deserving Condi, what did they do to garner your support?

Was it the kidnapping and murder of 18 year old Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri last June? Never mind that they tried to negotiate for his life after they put a bullet through his head, surely that makes them worthy of your support.

Or was it the murder of Lt. Hanan Barak, 20, of Arad and Staff-Sgt. Pavel Slutzker, 20, both of whom were killed when terrorists from the Hamas and Popular Resistance Committees terror organizations infiltrated Israeli territory between the Kerem Shalom and Sufa crossings, by means of a tunnel dug from the Rafah area.

Or maybe it was the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit, who is still in the hands of your palestinians Condi, and suffering their tender mercies.

Maybe it was the kidnapping of two journalists who were then forced to convert to islam?

What did the palestinians do to convince you Condi, that they are so deserving? Was it the thousands of katyushas rockets that they have sent into Israeli communities over the years? The thousands of katyushas that have landed in civilian areas, schools and such?

Or perhaps it was the sweet sound of "Death to America" chanted in the streets? The celebration of 9/11? Or the government sponsored television aimed at children to blow up Israelis and Americans? What was it Condi, that moved you to support the palestinians?

Were you moved by the sight of palestinians dancing on the streets of Gaza, firing weapons? Or was it the sight of palestinians burning Gaza after Israel gave it up for peace, was it their destruction of the greenhouses? Or was it the palestinians' burning of Christian churches burned to protest the Pope's remarks earlier this year that moved you?

Maybe it was the June 2006 discovery of the burnt body of Dr. Daniel Yaakobi, 59, a doctor from Yakir in the West Bank, that convinced you. He was found in the trunk of his car near Qalqilya and your friend Abbas' Fatah Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

What makes a people deserving of such favor from you Condi? Was it the suicide bombing during the Passover holiday this year? You remember, it was at the Rosh Ha'ir shawarma restaurant, the one that killed eleven people and wounded over 60? The Islamic Jihad proudly claimed responsibility for that attack. Do you remember the victims Condi? Philip Balhasan, 45, of Ashdod; Rozalia Beseneyi, 48, and Piroşca Boda 50, of Romania; Marcel Cohen, 73, of Nice, France; Ariel Darhi, 31, of Bat Yam; Victor Erez, 60, of Givatayim; Binyamin Haputa, 47, of Lod; David Shaulov, 29, of Holon; Lily Yunes, 42, of Oranit. Lior Anidzar, 26, of Tel Aviv died of his wounds on May 13. Daniel Wultz, 16, of Weston, Florida (USA) later died from wounds he suffered in that attack. They got an American that time, is that what hardened your resolve to reward them?

Perhaps it was the humanity of your friend Abbas' Fatah party when they opened fired at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem in October of 2005. They killed Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon, and they wounded three. On the same day, another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria.

Was it the March 2003 bombing of Egged Bus #37 by Hamas? Seventeen people were killed that day, many of them teenagers. 53 were wounded. Or was it the home invasion that occurred that same month when Rabbi Eli Horowitz, 52, and his wife Dina, 50, of Kiryat Arba, were killed and five wounded by Hamas terrorists? The terrorists disguised themselves as Jewish worshippers, infiltrated Kiryat Arba, entered the Horowitz home and murdered them while they were celebrating the Sabbath. Did that convince you that the palestinians were so deserving Condi?

The world recognizes your efforts to get hamas to work with fatah Condi, but some of us remember what happens when they do work together. Ran Baron, 23, of Tel Aviv, Dominique Caroline Hass, 29, of Tel Aviv, and Yanai Weiss, 46, of Holon, were murdered and about 60 people were wounded when a terrorist bomber blew himself up at a beachfront pub, "Mike's Place," in Tel Aviv. Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, they carried it out as a joint operation. Is this the inspiration to encourage these two terrorist groups to work together? Maybe the inspiration was the bombing of Egged bus no. 19 at the corner of Gaza and Arlozorov streets in Jerusalem. Both the Fatah and Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, naming the bomber as Ali Yusuf Jaara, a 24-year-old Palestinian terrorist policeman from Bethlehem. Is that a good reason to support the palestinian police? Eleven people were killed and over 50 wounded on that day.

Twenty-three people were killed and over 130 wounded when a Palestinian terrorist detonated himself on a No. 2 Egged bus in Jerusalem's Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack, is this what triggered you to support them?

Was it the "Truce" or "Hudna" or whatever you want to call it agreed to by Sharon and Abu Mazen that began February 8, 2005 that hardened your resolve and curried your favor? That would make perfect sense, considering what happened during the so called Truce:

Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.

May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second terrorist was apprehended.

Mar 7, 2005 - Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.

Jun 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 29, 2005 - Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position at Mt. Dov from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.

Jul 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

The world was determined to kick the Jews out of Gaza for peace and that worked, didn't it? Your palestinians destroyed the oasis in the desert built by Israelis, burning it to the ground, and what they didn't burn, they tore apart with their bare hands. The number of rockets and mortar shells on Israeli targets sharply increased after Israel gave up Gaza for peace, with 130 attacks from January through July of 2005, the eve of the expulsion. After Israel gave up Gaza for peace, 179 rockets rained down on Israel over the following five months. And many of them came from Gaza. But that's not all the palestinians accomplished after getting Gaza:

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 3, 2005 - Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demonstrators in Sderot. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children.

Aug 24, 2005 - Shmuel Mett, 21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. Two other students were wounded.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Sept 21, 2005 - Sasson Nuriel, 55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Oct 26, 2005 - Six people were killed and 55 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Michael Kaufman, 68, of Hadera; Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera; Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv; Jamil Qa'adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya; and Ya'acov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera. A sixth victim, Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds 11 days later, on November 5.

Nov 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near Jenin. He died en route to hospital.

Nov 21, 2005 - Eleven Israeli soldiers and one civilian are injured by a Hezbollah attack in Metulla, Northern Israel..

Dec 5, 2005 - Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya, a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky, 65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya; Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Dec 29, 2005 - Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. Two Palestinians were also killed, one the taxi driver who was carrying the bomber. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

How wonderful that you have hardened your resolve to support the palestinian people in their goals. Except, by helping them to acheive their goals and by rewarding the palestinians for their actions, by even speaking of rewarding them for their actions, you encourage them to more of the same. Remember Condi, because of this, because of your support of the palestinians in their quest to kill the Jews, because you promise them rewards for doing so, you are responsible for the end result of your efforts. And we all know what the end result will be.

More of this.

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October 10, 2006

Somewhere on the Lebanon Border


Care to guess his nationality?

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October 09, 2006

Watch this one

before it disappears:

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September 27, 2006

Illogical logic



Demonstrators burn an Israeli flag during a protest against Pope
Benedict's remarks on Islam after Friday prayers in Tehran
September 22, 2006. Some 300 people chanted 'Death to America'
and 'Death to Israel' as they burned U.S., British and Israeli flags, witnesses said.
AL-REUTERS/Caren Firouz (IRAN)

Yup. They burned an Israeli flag to protest the Pope.

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September 23, 2006

Dream On

Steven Tyler, lead singer of the rock band Aerosmith, dedicated the group's hit song "Dream On" to abducted soldier Ehud Goldwasser at the request of his wife Karnit during a New York concert this week.

In an interview with Army Radio, Karnit Goldwasser said that her husband loves Aerosmith, and that she was moved to tears when Tyler dedicated the song to the abducted soldiers.

I guess we all we know what Ehud Goldwasser is dreaming of today, his family, his home and his freedom.

Dream until your dream comes true!

Every time I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face getting clearer
The past is gone
It goes by, like dusk to dawn
Isn't that the way
Everybody's got their dues in life to pay

Yeah, I know nobody knows
where it comes and where it goes
I know it's everybody's sin
You got to lose to know how to win

Half my life
is in books' written pages
Lived and learned from fools and
from sages
You know it's true
All the things come back to you

Sing with me, sing for the year
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good lord will take you away

Yeah, sing with me, sing for the year
sing for the laughter, sing for the tear
sing with me, if it's just for today
Maybe tomorrow, the good Lord will take you away

Dream On Dream On Dream On
Dream until your dreams come true

Thank you Steven Tyler, that was beautiful gesture, and more than Olmert is willing to do for our soldiers who are in enemy hands.

Thank you Beth!

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September 22, 2006

Olmert Habayta

It means "Olmert Go Home."

Like a general in search of troops, Olmert gathered 2000 of what were supposed to be his Kadima loyalists for a New Year's Ball and began delivering a string of self-congratulatory platitudes that distinctly suggested he was living on another planet from the rest of us. With a poll showing that only 7 percent of Israelis still want him to be Prime Minister (and most of that 7 percent probably live in Tel Aviv and rarely venture out of cafes), Olmert delivered a delusional speech full of quotes such as;

"Kadima is today the most important political force in the country...Kadima has had no major failure in the last Knesset...the public's feelings towards the war do not reflect its real achievements...the nations of the world understand the great achievements of this war."

As Olmert was addressing the crowd claiming that Israel is stronger than ever under him and Sharon's Disengagement plan made it that way, a number of IDF Reservists and parents of dead soldiers began to disrupt his speech raising banners, chanting protests and demanding he resign.

In the video you will see the father of a dead Golani soldier holding up the Golani flag and saying that Olmert doesn't care and doesn't know what he's doing, while another father shouts that Olmert should resign; as a Kadima party member attempts to violently assault them.

Slogans are chanted especially.

"Olmert Habayta. Olmert Go Home."

While the cameras turn to the audience ignoring Olmert's speech, Olmert breaks into his speech to say that, "this is a democracy and I recognize there are many different opinions but the majority agree with me."

There's more at Sultan Knish, and he has the video as well.

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September 18, 2006

Where is the outrage?


The above was shamelessly stolen from AbbaGav, who reminds us that:

It's possible that the sneaky Zionists are slowly coloring his naturally red beard to a faded gray color to rob this icon of the Hamas movement of his flourescent virility. It's possible.

I'm still laughing. Yannow, if you don't read his site regularly, you should! Its one of my favorite places on the internet.

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September 12, 2006

Hezbollah is in trouble now

The Fwench have arrived...


French soldiers from the United Nations Interim Force
in Lebanon (UNIFIL).(AFP/Dominique Faget)

Notice the name of the photographer? YCMTSU!

H/T: IsraellyCool, get over there and read the comments.

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September 08, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

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September 05, 2006

Heroes


Its a long load, but worth it.

Hat tip to the Sultan Knish, I read his site every day, without fail.

And... don't miss:

Broadcasting Jewish and Israeli Videos

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September 01, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

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August 28, 2006

Worst Birthday Ever

How would you like to spend your 20th birthday in the hands of terrorists, knowing that your country, and the entire world has abandoned you?


Today is Gilad Shalit's 20th Birthday

A Girl on the Right has Birthday wishes for Gilad, and she says it much better than I can right now. I'm just too angry right now to express myself.

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August 25, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

Our Father in Heaven, Rock and Redeemer of Israel, bless the State of Israel, the first manifestation of the approach of our redemption. Shield it with Your loving kindness, envelop it in Your peace, and bestow Your light and truth upon its leaders, ministers, and advisors, and grace them with Your good counsel. Strengthen the hands of those who defend our holy land, grant them deliverance, and adorn them in a mantle of victory.

Ordain peace in the land and grant its inhabitants eternal happiness. Lead them, swiftly and upright, to Your city Zion and to Jerusalem, the abode of Your Name, as is written in the Torah of Your servant Moses: “Even if your outcasts are at the ends of the world, from there the Lord your God will gather you, from there He will fetch you. And the Lord your God will bring you to the land that your fathers possessed, and you shall possess it; and He will make you more prosperous and more numerous than your fathers.”

Draw our hearts together to revere and venerate Your name and to observe all the precepts of Your Torah, and send us quickly the Messiah son of David, agent of Your vindication, to redeem those who await Your deliverance.

Manifest yourself in the splendor of Your boldness before the eyes of all inhabitants of Your world, and may everyone endowed with a soul affirm that the Lord, God of Israel, is king and his dominion is absolute.

Amen

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August 22, 2006

Snark Jerusalem Style


Translation (for the Hebrew impaired):

Graffiti: "Sharon wake up - Olmert is in a coma!"

Caption: "No additional words are required."

H/T: Israel Matzav

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August 20, 2006

Just for the fun of it

First click the pic, then click the Hebrew words, bottom center, to start. Then choose your weapon...

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August 14, 2006

Yup


Tel Aviv----August 14
Just 4 hours after a UN brokered Israel Lebanon ceasefire was to take affect, the terror organization Hezbollah attacked an IDF force in south Lebanon.

"A group of armed Hezbollah terrorists approached an IDF force in the south Lebanon village of Hadatha," an Israel Defense Forces spokesperson told the Israel News Agency.

"The IDF force took defensive positions, requested that they lay their arms down, fired warning shots and then fired at the approaching Hezbollah terrorists. The firefight occurs over a short period of time. No IDF injuries were reported."

In accepting UN Resolution 1701 for which both the Lebanon and Israel governments accepted, Israel maintained the right to defend herself. As such, the 40,000 IDF troops now operating on the Lebanon Israel border will continue to "neutralize" all areas between the Israel border and the Litani river of Hezbollah terrorists.

Hezbollah has refused to lay their weapons down. This has created a schism between Hezbollah and the Lebanon government which is waiting to deploy their army and open humanitarian aid to south Lebanon.

A tense Mayor of northern Israel, Shlomo Buhbut was briefed by Minister of Infrastructure Binyamin Ben Eliezer who had come to assess damage. Buhbut was a Labor Knesset Member during the Oslo years, between 1992-1996. Today he tells Ben Eliezer to go back to Jerusalem and tell Prime Minister Olmert that the Forum of Mayors of Northern Cities demands that there be no cessation of the campaign to rid the area of Hezbollah.

"We need to eradicate them. They're an obstacle to peace," Buhbut asserts. Ben Eliezer responds with fighting words. "We're not going to let Nasrallah play games with us any more. If anyone will dare touch our people on this side of the border we'll destroy them, and they'll be responsible. There's no moderation," the minister asserts. "Nasrallah thinks he can control the life of people in the Middle East. No more."

Ben Eliezer tells us that there's interaction between Hezbollah and every terrorist group in the world, and leaves no doubt that he has little hope of anything positive coming from the idea of leaving the Lebanese Army in control of southern Lebanon. "They're under the control of Hezbollah. They're Hezbollah in uniform," he concludes.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:25 AM | Comments (1)

August 13, 2006

There are things you can't bear to think about

This is one of them.

"We have it from a credible source that Hizbullah, alarmed by Siniora's plan, has concocted an incident that would help thwart the negotiations. Knowing full well that Israel will not hesitate to bombard civilian targets, Hizbullah gunmen placed a rocket launcher on the roof in Qana and brought disabled children inside, in a bid to provoke a response by the Israeli Air Force. In this way, they were planning to take advantage of the death of innocents and curtail the negotiation initiative," the site stated.

... "There were 15 physically or mentally handicapped children among the children killed in Qana," said Bahia Hariri, who represents south Lebanon.

and...

"The probability that the families in the building had several multiply-handicapped children, that all of these children had been killed, and that all of the publicized photographs would show precisely these children, is the probability of winning the lottery. On the other hand, the probability that members of Hezbollah scored a two-for-one by relieving themselves of their burdens while playing the innocent victims seems much more credible to me."

Know thy enemy, read the rest.

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:40 PM | Comments (1)

UN Resolution 1701?

Now we have UN Resolution 1701 which calls for the implementation of UN Resolution 1559, which calls for the disarming of Hezbollah. One day we will have another UN Resolution that will call for the implementation of Resolution 1701, which calls for the implementation of Resolution 1559. And so on, and so on, and so on. And, in between Resolutions, more innocent Jewish people will be brutally slaughtered in the State of Israel, and three IDF Soldiers, Gilad Shalit, Ehud Goldwasser and Eldad Regev, will disappear into memory, never to be seen again.

The Worst Government in the History of Israel by Naomi Ragen

We finished a quiet Sabbath in the relative safety of Jerusalem, only to check the news and find out the heartbreaking news that seven more Israeli soldiers have been killed and eight-four injured in the worst-led war in Israel's history.

In addition, the government who interfered with the military (i.e.go win the war without upsetting CNN and the BBC), imposing guidelines that have helped get not only our boys killed left and right, but our civilians as well, has now decided to accept a Security Council resolution which ensures that Israel's soldiers and her people have made their ultimate sacrifice for nothing: our kidnapped soldiers will not be returned. Hezbollah will not be disarmed. And Israeli forces will be replaced by some U.N. force and a bunch of European anti-Semites who will allow Hezbollah to rearm.

The full text of the resolution has been published in YNET. So far, 1,784 Israelis have responded. The overwhelming majority have this to say:

We went to war to free our kidnapped soldiers. Why aren't they mentioned? For shame. Olmert, Peretz, Halutz, the triumvirate of losers.

Let me add this: Mr. Olmert, Mr. Peretz, Mr. Halutz: You have squandered the lives of our soldiers. You have squandered our opportunity to free the nation of Israel from a deadly enemy. You have set the stage for the next war. By September, we will be under attack once more. Do the decent thing: Resign, all of you, and let Mr. Netanyahu, General Alon (who was kicked out because he refused to go along with the disengagement) take over. Resign Mr. Olmert. Resign in shame for your incompetence. Your inability to carry out a single one of the objectives you so stirringly announced at the beginning of this war. With all of you and your incompetent Kadima-led government out of office, we will all be safer and better prepared when the rockets start to fall once again, as they inevitably will with the U.N. and the French guarding our borders.

And if you won't do the honorable thing, we will do everything we can to get you fired. You make me sick. I am ashamed to be a citizen of my country under your leadership. I am appalled to have a son in the IDF under your leadership. For shame, for shame, for shame!

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:30 AM | Comments (4)

Girl on the Right

Stands up for Israel and against Hezbollah!

There's Wendy holding the Israeli Flag, across from the enemy in Toronto.

Thank you my friend! I'm proud to know you!

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:08 AM

BiHatzalacha!



A family in the North removed strategic roof tiles so that the light from their attic spells out "BiHatzalacha" (Good Luck) -- its clearly visible to all IAF planes and helicopters flying into Lebanon from Israel....

H/T: The Muqata

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:46 AM | Comments (1)

August 11, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

May he who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, bless the soldiers of the Israel Defense forces and the security personnel who stand guard over our country and the cities of our God, from the Lebanese border to the Egyptian wilderness and from the Mediterranean Sea to the edges of the desert – or wherever they might be – on land, in the air or at sea.

May God cause our enemies who attack us to suffer defeat at the hands of our troops. May the Holy One, may He be blessed, shield and protect them from any adversity or anguish, any ordeal or suffering, and send blessing and success to everything they do.

May He bring those who hate us under their sway, and glorify our forces with the crown of salvation and the mantle of victory, so that the verse: ‘The Lord your God marches with you to do battle for you against your enemies and to save you,’ will be fulfilled through them;’ and let us say, Amen

Posted by LindaSoG at 05:21 PM

Question for Parents

Your five year old daughter falls off the swings at the playground. She hits her head and it appears serious. What do you do?

A. Pick her up and rush her to the hospital where she can get immediate medical attention, have someone call ahead so the doctors will be waiting to give her the best medical care possible; or

B. Call Hamas and then the media, so the photographers can be waiting to assist you in using your daughter's body as fodder in the war and to make it look like she was killed by evil baby killing jooos

This palestinian father chose option B, his little girl died and later, his lie was exposed:


EDS NOTE GRAPHIC CONTENT ** A Relative carries the body of Rajaa Abu Shaban, 5, into Shifa hospital in Gaza City, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2006. On Thursday, doctors said that the 5-year-old Palestinian girl initially believed to have been killed by an Israeli military strike Wednesday apparently died after sustaining head injuries during a fall from a swing in the same area shortly before the strike.(AP Photo/Adel Hana)

The doctors initially believed what they were told by her father. You would think a parent's primary concern might be the well being of their child. Not in palestine, where children are nothing but a potential bloody media bite in their goal to destroy Israel. And, of course, no one will make any real effort to get the facts out, so the original accusation will stand against Israel.

This incident leads to one more question: How do you tell a muslim is lying?
The answer is: His lips are moving.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:54 AM | Comments (3)

August 07, 2006

This is the punch line:


The joke is here.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:24 PM | Comments (2)

That about sums it up


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Posted by LindaSoG at 09:19 AM

By his words, you shall know him

One of the problems with anti-semitism is that it encourages more anti-semitism. Sadly, the recent Mel Gibson episode has proven that point once again.

In an essay titled "Mel, Poor Mel," the learned Thomas Fleming takes anti-semitism to the next level:

The fact that so many troublemakers of the past 150 years have been of Jewish extraction—Marx, Freud, the Neoconservatives—is certainly no argument in their favor. Jewish “intellectuals” continue to be in the forefront of the movements that aim to destroy our religion and culture.

Well, Mr. Fleming sure showed Mel what anti-semitism really is, didn't he?

Mr. Fleming's rant is published by Chronicle Magazine, and - here's a surprise - Fleming is the editor. Chronicle is owned by The Rockford Institute, a non-profit research institute for which Fleming acts as "agent" and which is funded by... "Foundations, donations, membership fees, sales of publications." On its "website" it claims a budget for the year 2000 in the amount of $900,000. No budgets for any subsequent years are mentioned.

But, at those prices, don't assume that Fleming's learned essays are based upon the extensive research provided by The Rockford Institute. After all, no research by the Rockford Institute is referenced in his anti-semetic rant and in fact, it appears from its website that the Rockford Institute has not done any research for the past five years. It does appear to have sold a lot of books, audio taped lectures and whatnot.

In his essay titled "Bleeding Lebanon," Mr. Fleming insinuates that Israel is a terrorist nation 10 times worse than Hezbollah, based on the fact that not enough Israelis have died yet.

But if Hezbollah’s initial missile strikes were acts of terrorism, so is the much greater Israeli campaign that has so far killed nearly 400 Lebanese, mostly civilians. This is ten times the number of Israelis who have died in the conflict. If sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander, that makes Israel ten times more terrorist than Hezbollah.

I guess the crack research team at Rockford somehow failed to uncover all of these deaths, or maybe Fleming was too lazy to inquire. Still, Mr. Fleming is a little more tempered than Mel, who claims "The Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world." Fleming only blames the Jews for the war in Iraq:

If there had ever been any doubts that the security of Israel was Bush’s primary motive for invading Iraq, those doubts have been dispelled by his unequivocal support for a war against Lebanese civilians that is being condemned around the world.

Mel was drunk on tequila, and to his credit, he apologized. While there can be no doubt what flavor koolaid Fleming has been drinking, somehow, I don't think an apology will be forthcoming.

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:04 AM | Comments (2)

August 06, 2006

Go Go Godzilla

Oh those evil Zionist Oppressors!

WTF? Beth has the story and a boatload of links...

H/T to Slublog for the pic!

UPDATE: Reuters admits the photo is fake!

So much for credibility!

Beth has the "updated" photo that Reuters claims is the original, untouched photo and She Who Will Be Obeyed has something to say about the wording of Reuters' "correction."

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:55 AM | Comments (1)

Why We Fight

This video concerns a three day period of terrorist attacks in Israel. It is approximately six-minutes long and uses photos, video and text to show in no uncertain terms exactly what it is like after a terrorist attack.

Please be warned: This video is very graphic and very disturbing. Yet, I believe it should be seen, that it must be seen.

Know thy enemy.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:01 AM

August 02, 2006

Amid the Rubble

There lies an ammunition can:

Or, if you're a member of the mainstream media, a child's snoopy lunchbox.

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:00 AM

July 30, 2006

Do you see what I see?


H/T: SondraK

The face looks feminine to me but I wonder, is it real?
What does it mean?
Any thoughts?

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:43 PM | Comments (4)

USA! USA! Stand by Israel!

U. S. To Block U.N. Denunciation of Israel
22:06 Jul 30, '06 / 5 Av 5766

(IsraelNN.com) The United States is expected to block a United Nations Security Council resolution denouncing Israel for the killing of about 60 civilians in the Lebanese village of Kana Sunday morning. Israel has said that the explosion in the building that caused the deaths may have been caused by stockpiles of Hizbullah weapons and not by the Israeli attack.

The Council is taking a recess at this hour and will resume its meeting in two hours.

Posted by LindaSoG at 03:33 PM

July 28, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, may He bless the soldiers of Israel who stand guard on our country and the cities of our God. From Lebanon until the deserts of Egypt, from the Mediterranean Sea until the Plains of Jordan - on dry land, in the air and sea. May God afflict the enemies that rise against them before them. The Holy One, Blessed is He, should protect and save our soldiers from any misfortune or calamity, and from any sickenss or disease. May he send blessing and success in all their handiwork, destroy their enemies below them, and crown them with the crown of redemption and the crown of victory. And the verse "For God walks among you, to wage war for you with your enemies, to save you" should be fulfilled, and let us say, Amen.

Posted by LindaSoG at 05:05 PM

July 27, 2006

You know what to do


Do it!
click it!

UPDATE: Mission accomplished!

Posted by LindaSoG at 11:30 PM | Comments (1)

UN Participants in Terror

The photo is everywhere, Hezbollah's flag flying next to the UN flag at the outpost in Lebanon that was hit by an Israeli missle this week.

The fact that the UN participates in terrorism against Israel is old news, watch this video, shot by a Reuters reporter on May 11, 2004.

In the video, Palestinian terrorists commit a terrorist act in Israel and waiting nearby is a UN ambulance. After the shooting, the UN ambulance pulls up, the terrorists jump in, and they are spirited away from the scene of the crime.

There can be no doubt whose side the UN is on. There can be no doubt that UN equipment, personnel and resources are used to commit terrorist attacks in Israel.

I've had this video for years, and I forgot about it. Thank you Chrissie, for reminding me.

CLARIFICATION:

In response to the many inquiries I've had concerning this video, following is a clarification of the event caught on film. This was stored on my old hard drive (what a pain to hook it up but worth it). I don't know who wrote most of this, the links were not there in my notes, I just touched it up a bit and posted it. There is no plagiarism intended, I just don't know who to credit Source turns out to be a JWR article by Michelle Malkin.

As I indicated above, the video shot by a Reuters cameraman on May 11, 2004. The film documents two ambulances with flashing lights entering a street in Southern Gaza. Shots ring out accompanied by shouts in arabic, including the ever popular allah akbar. The terrorists make their escape in the ambulances, which are clearly marked with the UN logo and which are flying the UN flag.

What the video does not show is the result of the terrorist raid. The terrorists you see in the film murdered six Israeli soldiers that night, aided and abetted by paid employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA). That's your tax dollars at work!

Rueters declined to show the footage to American viewers and it was AccessMiddleEast.org, a nonprofit global news monitoring service, who originally posted the video on its Web approximately one month after it was filmed. Not a single U.S. television news station has ever expressed interest in showing the footage to American viewers.

UNRWA denies the incident and denies other similar documented incidents as well. UNRWA claims that their drivers were forced to cooperate in terrorist attacks despite the fact that one of its senior employees, Nahed Rashid Ahmed Attalah, has confessed to using his official U.N. vehicle to bypass security and smuggle arms, explosives, and terrorists to and from attacks, while he was supposed to be distributing food supplies to Palestinian refugees. Hamas terrorist Nidal 'Abd al-Fataah 'Abdallah Nizal worked as an UNRWA ambulance driver and freely admits he has used an emergency vehicle to transport munitions to terrorists.

But the UN isn't the only humanitarian organization to assist terrorists in Israel. An intensive care ambulance carrying the acronym of the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) was used to deliver an explosive belt found underneath a stretcher on which a sick child was lying in spring 2002. Female suicide bomber Wafa Idris, who blew herself up in a 2002 attack in Jerusalem, was a medical secretary for the PRCS.

UNRWA has long been suspected of providing aid and comfort to terrorists. Rep. Eric Cantor (R.-Va.), chairman of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare, documented how "buildings and warehouses under UNRWA supervision are allegedly being used as storage areas for Palestinian ammunition and counterfeit currency factories."

Cantor's 2002 report also noted that UNRWA hosts summer camps in martyrdom for young terrorists-in-training. Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ.) has also lobbied for increased scrutiny of UNRWA funding, which has been used to publish anti-Semitic textbooks and posters in schools that "glorify homicide bombers and the slaughter of innocents."

Moreover, according to Smith, a UNRWA school hosted a Hamas rally by a key Hamas leader in 2001 and another UNRWA employee praised homicide bombers, proclaiming: "The road to Palestine passes through the blood of the fallen, and these fallen have written history with parts of their flesh and their bodies."

While jihadists gain shelter in its emergency vehicles, the U.N. continues to lambaste the U.S. for assorted wartime "atrocities." Not one more American dime should go to fund the bloody self-righteousness of the world's most generous terrorist relief organization.

Posted by LindaSoG at 02:02 AM | Comments (9)

July 26, 2006

Internet Megaphone

Some on-line activism for you:

Many of us recognize the importance of the Internet as the new battleground for Israel's image. It's time to do it better, and coordinate our on-line efforts on behalf of Israel. An Israeli software company have developed a free, safe and useful tool for us - the Internet Megaphone.

Please go to www.giyus.org, download the Megaphone, and you will receive daily updates with instant links to important internet polls, problematic articles that require a talk back, etc.

We need 100,000 Megaphone users to make a difference. So, please distribute this mail to all Israel's supporters.

Do it now. For Israel.

Amir Gissin
Director
Public Affairs (Hasbara) Department
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Jerusalem

If you don't want to download the software, you can go directly to the Alerts page and find the internet action items.

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:53 AM

July 25, 2006

Israel Defense Force

In the Shadow of Death:

Gam Ki Eilech Begei Tzal Mavet -
Though I walk in the valley of the shadow of death

Lo Yira Ra -
I will fear no evil

Ki Ata Imadi -
For You are with me

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:19 PM | Comments (4)

Confession re: Gush Katif

I received this by email today, forwarded to me from someone else, I was speaking to a friend just yesterday about this very same thing.:

Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 12:17 AM
Subject: confession - must read!!

Enclosed is the translation of the letter I got today.

Please read

Friends and family members are being injured and killed.
Some of us are without a roof on our heads.
I closed my business since the beginning of the battle and I don't know what will happen.
We are wandering between family and good people.
Our family life has been impaired.
I never thought that I, a Haifa resident for 30 years, would be a refugee in my own land.
Every thing sound so familiar from the close past.
During 5 years you coped with bombs – and I didn't care
You buried family and friends - and I was indifferent
You found yourselves without a home, like that and you never had someone that listened to you.
Even when you came to visit me to my house, to explain, to convince, to share your feelings with me – I refused to listen to you.
It has already been a week. I am out of my house, without my regular routine, it is very hard to me – but the empathy, the support, and people identifying with our plight helped me go on.
You , don't even have that.
You – In guest houses, hotels and even in tents- It's not easy to say: "Who cares?!"
People from Gush Katif and the Shomron!
Forgive me!
Forgive us for letting you on your own.
Forgive us for not understanding you.
I am not a religious man, and not a mystic person.
But we cannot ignore the deep relation
Between my attitude towards you
And the price that I am paying now for my understanding.

I could not have expressed this any better. It's true! Those who closed their eyes to the fate of our people in Gaza last year are now suffering the same fate.

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:17 AM | Comments (1)

Worldwide Prayer Rally

PLEASE JOIN US!

The Chief Rabbinate's governing council announced a worldwide prayer rally on Tuesday, the eve of the new Jewish month of Menahem-Av.

At 6:00 p.m. Israel time, three verses of Psalms that the Rabbinate has recommended be said every day - verses 83, 130 and 142 - will be recited simultaneously by Jewish communities all over the world.

If you are here in the States and you would like to pray with us, that would be 11:00 am Eastern Time.

Psalms 83

Psalms 130

Psalms 142

If they seem a bit different than what you are used to, bear in mind that this a literal translation from Hebrew.

Posted by LindaSoG at 10:06 AM | Comments (1)

July 21, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, may He bless the soldiers of Israel who stand guard on our country and the cities of our God. From Lebanon until the deserts of Egypt, from the Mediterranean Sea until the Plains of Jordan - on dry land, in the air and sea. May God afflict the enemies that rise against them before them. The Holy One, Blessed is He, should protect and save our soldiers from any misfortune or calamity, and from any sickenss or disease. May he send blessing and success in all their handiwork, destroy their enemies below them, and crown them with the crown of redemption and the crown of victory. And the verse "For God walks among you, to wage war for you with your enemies, to save you" should be fulfilled, and let us say, Amen.

Posted by LindaSoG at 06:30 PM | Comments (3)

What do they want?

In exchange for two Israeli soldiers Hezbollah demands the release of Samir Kuntar.

Who is Samir Kuntar?

In 1979, Samir Kuntar led a raid that targeted civilians in Nahariya. His group entered the apartment of a young couple, Danny and Smadar Haran. They took Danny and his 4-year-old daughter, Einat, hostage and retreated to the beach. Trapped there, first, according to witnesses, they killed Danny. The murder of her father would be the last scene Einat would see. For then the raiders killed the little girl — by bashing her head against a rock. Back at their apartment, Danny's wife, Smadar, had escaped execution by hiding in the crawlspace above a bedroom with their other daughter, two-year-old Yael. Afraid the child would reveal their hiding place, she had covered Yael's mouth with her hand. When she took her hand away, the mother realized she had smothered her child to death.

The World Should Know What He Did To My Family by Smadar Haran

Posted by LindaSoG at 03:11 PM | Comments (3)

July 20, 2006

L'Chiam!

Even in a war zone, life goes on.

Wedding under fire.

Posted by LindaSoG at 03:30 PM | Comments (1)

Guerilla Granny


And if she misses with that thing, I suppose she'll throw her dentures at you.

Posted by LindaSoG at 02:34 PM | Comments (6)

Let the lawsuits begin!

Is it too soon to ask who will pay for the property and businesses damaged by Hezbollah rockets?

Attorneys Yehudah Talmon, Yoram Dantziger, and Nitzah Libai preparing symbolic lawsuit to be presented in US against Lebanese government for compensation to be paid to Israeli businesses, citizens for war damages.

Talmon, aided by a team of lawyers and accountants, will claim in the lawsuit that the Lebanese government is responsible for damages caused to residents of Israel because it didn't prevent Hizbullah from acting from its territory to harm Israeli citizens, thus violating the International Convention for the Suppression of Terrorism.

Is there precedent?

"A few years ago, a claim was submitted in the United States against the Iranian government for damaging property belonging to American citizens. The prosecutors won. Lebanon, as a sovereign state, was not supposed to permit Hizbullah to hurt Israelis from its land. This is against international law."

It would appear that harboring terrorists has consequences.

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:15 PM

July 19, 2006

Two words

Fuck you, you stupid bastard. I won't dignify your bullshit with any commentary.

Wait! That was more than two words. Let me try that again.

Fuck you!

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:28 PM | Comments (4)

Nosecone Video of Israeli Aerial Attacks on Hezbollah


Posted by LindaSoG at 06:39 PM

July 18, 2006

Dry Bones Sums it up


Posted by LindaSoG at 09:51 AM

July 17, 2006

Animals, they are Animals

Haaretz is reporting that early this morning palestinian terrorists managed to explode a bomb and kill an IDF soldier in Nablus. One soldier, Osher Damari, 20, from Netanya was killed. The "people" of palestine immediately grabbed up body parts from the corpse to play with them.

Photo
An armed Palestinian holds a boot belonging, according to Palestinians,
to an Israeli soldier killed earlier in the Old City of Nablus Monday July 17, 2006.

When this happened to Americans in Fallujah, America leveled the place. Israel should do the same.

Have a look at the slide show at Yahoo, just click on the picture above. You will see lots of pictures of the destruction in Lebanon, but I looked through more than half of it and saw no pictures of the destruction in Israel caused by Hebollah bombs. The anti-Israel bias is amazing. You would think the entire war is one sided with Israel the aggressor.

British Prime Minister Tony Blair and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan have called for the deployment of an international force in southern Lebanon and the French are sending Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin to Beirut on Monday to express support for Lebanon. OI course, the French won't go to Israel to show their support, because there is none.

"How do you get peace, love and understanding? First of all you have to find all the bad people. Then, you kill them." - Ted Nugent

Yup.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:11 AM | Comments (4)

July 14, 2006

Shabbat Shalom

He who blessed our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, may He bless the soldiers of Israel who stand guard on our country and the cities of our God. From Lebanon until the deserts of Egypt, from the Mediterranean Sea until the Plains of Jordan - on dry land, in the air and sea. May God afflict the enemies that rise against them before them. The Holy One, Blessed is He, should protect and save our soldiers from any misfortune or calamity, and from any sickenss or disease. May he send blessing and success in all their handiwork, destroy their enemies below them, and crown them with the crown of redemption and the crown of victory. And the verse "For God walks among you, to wage war for you with your enemies, to save you" should be fulfilled, and let us say, Amen.

Posted by LindaSoG at 03:20 PM | Comments (7)

Fouad Screams

From Welcome to my Lebanese Dream:

We are ALL guilty. ALL OF US. Emergency hiwar watani session??? I am not sure if I should laugh or puke my guts out on the table. Let it be known to all. We are scared, our lives are on the line, our country is history, but it's all our fault. Each and every one of us. These are the people we elected, these are the people we let freely thrive in their little haven of hatred and murderous ideals, and this is us, scared and incapacitated, failing but to point fingers and complain. Well let me tell you this folks, we pulled our pants down and stuck our naked asses out, and now that we're fucked, we really don't have jack shit to complain about.

Be well, be safe Fouad. You are not the enemy, Hezbollah is the enemy. I hope you and yours are not hurt.

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:58 AM | Comments (2)

July 13, 2006

Fox News Fucks Up

Reporting live from Gaza, Fox News reporter' David Lee Miller broadcasts the exact location of an Israeli tank and a drone, and immediately afterward, his crew came under fire.

Who's side are you on David? Stupid doesn't even begin to cover what you did. Get out!!!

H/T: The Raw Story, via SondraK

Posted by LindaSoG at 03:43 PM | Comments (3)

The war rages on

As Eretz Yisrael fights for life.


Israeli 155mm mobile Howitzer returns
fire from Lebanese border near Moshav Zar'it.

The news from Israel is that Senior IDF sources are threatening to bomb and level Beirut skyscrapers if the Katuysha barrages continue. The Israeli army has imposed an air, land and sea blockade on Lebanon, in an effort to force the goverment to take action against Hizbullah.

According to MSM, Israel has bombed the Lebanon Airport and are harrying the shipping.

My friends in Israel tell me that fires are raging in Northern Israel due to katyusha fire and the hot and dry weather conditions. Citizens are in bomb shelters.

Another worry is an uprising in Israeli jails. If that happens, I hope the murderers are all shot while trying to escape.

The best place I've found for news directly from Israel is "Israel at Ground Level" although IsraellyCool is updating as often as he can and Hot Air is also updating regularly.

I'm praying. What else can I do?

Posted by LindaSoG at 08:09 AM

July 12, 2006

Lebanon Has Declared War On Israel

A meeting to plot terrorist attacks on Israel was interrupted with an IAF strike in Gaza City earlier today. The terrorist Nabil al-Salmiah was killed along with his family, who were acting as human shields during the meeting. Terrorist Mohammed Deif got away, but not without injury.

IDF troops moved into central Gaza for the first time after midnight, effectively cutting the Strip in half.

Olmert issued the following statement:

"Israel is engaged in an on-going war to thwart Palestinian terrorism and stop it in its tracks before it reaches the hearts of our own communities. Palestinian terrorist leaders continue to look for refuge and hide behind their own population. Israel is compelled to take measures to stop this terror, including neutralizing the threat posed by Palestinians terrorists who are actively planning terror attacks against Israel."

Meanwhile, now there's another war, this time with Lebanon, to contend with:

Hezbollah kidnapped two Israel Defense Forces soldiers on the northern border in the midst of massive shelling attacks on Israel's north Wednesday morning. The IDF confirmed two of its soldiers were missing on the Lebanese border.

Israel's response:

Senior Israel Defense Forces officers said Wednesday in response to Hezbollah's attack on Israel's northern border and the kidnapping of two IDF soldiers that "if the abucted soldiers are not returned we'll turn Lebanon's clock back 20 years."

and then:

The IDF responded to the attacks from Lebanon with heavy artillery and tank fire.

How long before Syria jumps in? and Iran?

Enough already with putting IDF soldiers at risk to reduce enemy casualties. Israel can solve this problem without putting her soldiers at risk, just bomb the shit out of on city after the other, destroying them completely, until they surrender once and for all.

Arabs do not understand restraint, they do not understand compassion, they do not understand peace. They do not value life, they value death, destruction and chaos. The only thing they understand is merciless, relentless and continuous war until the enemy is so decimated that they cannot stand up long enough to fight.

Posted by LindaSoG at 07:11 AM | Comments (7)

July 10, 2006

Utterly Critical, Incredibly Urgent Breaking Story

Check this out...

AbbaGav is on it

Posted by LindaSoG at 02:19 PM | Comments (2)

Cartoon Show Time


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Cox & Forkum's commentary on this should not be missed.

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:10 PM

July 08, 2006

Talk about delusional!


I might comment on this if I could stop laughing long enough to do so.

Maybe later...

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July 07, 2006

The appeasement begins

How can they even consider such a thing?

"If Israel needs to release prisoners in exchange for releasing the soldier Gilad Shalit, Israel will do it. - Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter, the former chief of the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency).

You would think we would have learned by now that giving in to terrorist demands causes more terrorism.

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Yup


Posted by LindaSoG at 07:56 AM

July 06, 2006

Hoochie?

I found this picture of hamasshole terrorists in a CNN slideshow:


So, whats with the cheap hoochie clothes being sold in Gaza?

Interestingly, Guysen.Israël.News reports:

Despite the United States' reputation as an evil nation in the Gaza Strip, due to their support for Israel and their intervention in Iraq, the American army uniform has become the latest thing in Palestinian fashion.

According to Omar Bilbaysi, owner of three clothing stores in the center of Rafah, "the words US Army are not important; what counts is wearing a military uniform and the fact that the American army is powerful"

Meanwhile, CNN reports that hamassholes shot at a car full of Al-Jazeera reporters on Wednesday in Gaza City. Unfortunately, no one was injured.

UPDATE: The Emperor is reporting that the hamassholes managed to injure two of them there Al-Jazeera reporters after all. Too bad. So sad.

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July 01, 2006

Holy Shit!

was my first thought when I saw this:


ISRAEL last night threatened to assassinate Palestinian Prime Minister Ismael Haniyeh if Hamas militants did not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed.

The unprecedented warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter as Israel debated a deal offered by Hamas to free Corporal Gilad Shalit.

The article is here, its from a paper called The Australian. I haven't seen confirmation anywhere. No one else is running this story.

Its unlikely that the Israeli Government would make such an announcement on the Sabbath. But then again, it is permitted to break the Sabbath if a life is at stake.

True or not, the timing is perfect either way, as Israel will not be discussing this until after the Sabbath.

Who knows what will happen between now and then.

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UPDATE VIA MVRWC: From YNet News:

Palestinian president warns Palestinian prime minister Israel may hurt him, other Hamas ministers if crisis around Israeli soldier's abduction is not resolved soon, al-Hayat newspaper reports; Palestinian security sources believe Israel will prefer to target senior Hamas members in Damascus

and United Press International is quoting The Australian:

GAZA, July 1 (UPI) -- Israel has threatened to assassinate the Palestinian prime minister if Hamas militants do not release a captured Israeli soldier unharmed, it was reported.

The warning was delivered to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in a letter, as Israeli officials considered an offer by Hamas to free Cpl. Gilad Shalit -- and Israeli military officials prepared an invasion force for a second major offensive into Gaza, The Australian reported.

Hamas political leaders in Gaza -- including Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh -- had gone into hiding.

This is gonna be interesting.

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June 30, 2006

Hamassholes claim another IDF Kidnapping

The IDF is checking another claim by Abba's Fatah affiliated Al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades, that operatives from the terror group had managed to kidnap an IDF soldier somewhere in the West Bank on Friday afternoon.

Meanwhile, the UN prepares for a special meeting to issue yet another condemnation of Israel. Jordan, Syria, Lebanaon and Russia have already issued their own condemnations.

The Palestinian-run Benevolent Order of St. Pancake, a/k/a ISM is accusing Israel of "execution" of palestinians.

But Israel does not stand totally alone.

Strumming guitars and banging bongos, Christian pilgrims journeyed to Israel's dusty border with the Gaza Strip on Thursday to offer support to Israeli troops participating in the military action.

About 25 people, wearing white T-shirts that said "Your God is my God," waved Israeli flags and sang religious songs.

"We are here to support Israel, and we are here to tell it we support you, we pray for you and we want to bless Israel." -- Leena Eronen of Finland.

Tonight is the Sabbath. I need the rest, although I feel guilty for taking it, as Israel must maintain its vigilance.

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:38 AM

June 29, 2006

Palestinians Murder Yet Another Jew



Eliyahu Pinchas ben Miriam

His resting place shall be in the Garden of Eden.
Therefore, the Master of mercy will care for him
under the protection of His wings for all time
And bind his soul in the bond of everlasting life.
God is his inheritance and he will rest in peace
and let us say Amen.

On Tuesday, the Hamas-affiliated PRC told Al-Jazeera that 18 year old Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri would be "butchered in front of TV cameras" if the IDF operation in Gaza did not stop.

On Tuesday, when these animals were threatening to butcher him, Eliyahu Pinchas Asheri had already been shot to death. Eliyahu Asheri was likely murdered on Sunday, before the IDF began Operation Summer Rain. His body was found late Wednesday night in an open field.

Still, the palestinians will claim to have killed him because Israel attacked Gaza, and the media will publish that lie as the truth. Make no mistake, palestinians killed Eliyahu Asheri because he was a Jew and that's what palestinians do, they kill Jews.

My heart aches for his family, may G-d comfort them in this most terrible time.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement claims to have fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early on Thursday.

The Northern border of Israel is also on high alert because Hizbolla has threatened to open up another front.

IsraellyCool is still blogging live and I picked up a few excerpts:

It has been confirmed that Eliyahu Asheri had been shot in the head immediately after the kidnapping on Sunday and his body was buried on a mountainside, north of Ramallah. CAIR says Israel is a bunch of war criminals for blowing up a bridge, but they are silent about the murder of Eliyahu Asheri.

The body of Noah Moscowitz, 62, from Rishon Lezion, was been found. It appears that he was not kidnapped, despite the claims of terrorists. I wonder if they have Jimmy Hoffa too.

IDF troops launched the major arrest operation against Hamas officials overnight, detaining 64 of the ruling militant group's ministers and parliamentarians in the West Bank and 23 military operatives. That's 87 hamassholes who should be shot while trying to escape.

2:20 pm EST: The IDF insursion planned for Thursday night into Northern Gaza has been delayed by Olmert in order to seek a diplomatic resolution.

The palestinian response: Four rockets, launched from the northern Gaza Strip, landed in open territory in an industrial zone south of Ashkelon on Thursday night.

Whose side is Olmert on anyways?

Egypt is meeting with head hamasshole al-Zahar to broker a deal. Not surprising since its likely that kidnapped IDF Cpl. Gilad Shalit was smuggled into Egypt earlier, via a hole blown in the border wall in Gaza. I pray that Cpl. Shalit does not disappear into the same islamist hell hole that swallowed IDF pilot Ron Arad.

and... two more rockets were launched from Northern Gaza into Sderot, one landed near a school gymnasuim, and another damaged a zoo.

and... United States Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice joined the G8 industrialized nations group in calling for restraint by IDF forces that entered Gaza to rescue a soldier who was kidnapped by Hamas terrorists on Sunday.

7:30 p.m. EST: Hmph. It appears that Abbas will be looking for office space in the morning, along with the rest of the Fatah party and the hamassoles...

IAF warplanes hit offices of the Fatah movement and a Hamas facility in Gaza City at around 200 a.m. Friday, witnesses said. There were no reports of casualties. The airstrikes followed an attack on the Palestinian Interior Ministry in Gaza City, among more than a dozen air attacks by IDF forces in the Gaza Strip in the last few hours.

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June 28, 2006

Gaza Round-Up

Tanks and troops in position on the southern border, jets launch missiles at open areas; a bridge is blown up, then a power station and then, another bridge. Tanks and troops cross the south border into southern Gaza and now airstikes begin in the north. Tanks and troops get in position on the northern border.


Gaza's Power Station

After a year of blowing up empty buildings and empty fields in response to the wanton and brutal murders of Israeli citizens, Olmert has grown balls big enough to bomb a bridge and a power station. Meanwhile, the lives of two young men hang in the balance, and one, 18 year old Eliyahu Asheri, may have already been killed by Hamas. If he's not dead, then another Jew is, as a body has been found and not yet identified.

Its like watching a train wreck and other than those that contain a mere four-letters, I find myself mostly at a loss for words. So, for now, I can only give you links:

Dave at Israelly Cool is blogging it live, AbbaGav predicts the aftermath (and don't his link about the "teenagers in Israel's prisons). Point Five has a bit of reality based humor on the subject.

More later, after I calm down a bit.
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10:44 am EST: While Gaza burns, palestinians were playing with a grenade in the town of Khan Yunis when it exploded, killing 23-year-old Qassem Massud and his one-year-old niece.

3:30 pm EST: Israel threatened to kill exiled Syrian-based leaders of the ruling Palestinian Hamas movement, blaming them for the kidnapping of a soldier by militants in the Gaza Strip. To drive the point home, four Israeli warplanes overflew President Bashar al-Assad's palace in northern Syria early Wednesday while the leader was inside.

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June 27, 2006

Know Thy Partner in Peace

"We will rule the nations, by Allah’s will, the USA will be conquered, Israel will be conquered, Rome and Britain will be conquered."

“Just as the Jews ran from Gaza, the Americans will run from Iraq and Afghanistan…"

So sayeth Hamas leader, Yasser Ghalban.

Think you know Hamas? Take the Quiz:

Take the test

Yesterday Hamas claimed to have kidnapped a second person. Although there has been no official confirmation of the claim, it appears to be true. Earlier, I received this from friends in Israel:

...the second Jew who was kidnapped by Hamas last night, is an 18 year old yeshiva student who has been labeled by the press as a 'settler' from Itamar. His name is Eliyahu Asheri, and he is now sitting in a Hamas torture chamber. Please pray for Eliyahu Asheri and for Gilad Shalit.

In other news, Olmert is still looking for empty buildings to bomb later.......

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:36 AM

June 26, 2006

Send in the Clowns...

Clowns 'Boost Fertility'

Women undergoing treatment at a fertility clinic in Israel began falling pregnant after a bedside performance by professional clown Shlomi Algussi.

Dressed in a chef's hat and yellow and white vest he told jokes, did magic tricks, and played the fool in front of patients, asking them: "Did you order steak flambe or chocolate gateaux?"

The women, who had been implanted with embryos, saw their pregnancy rates shoot up from 20% to 35%.

Dr Shevach Friedler, who came up with the idea, said: "We know that fertility patients are very stressed, and laughter could have an effect on the immune system."

Dr Friedler has a theatrical background himself, having graduated from the Jacques Lecoq school of mime in Paris.

"A clown with a red nose is fine for children, but we had to invent a new character for these adult women," he said.

The restaurant chef character was found to produce the desired response from patients.

A study of the effect of "medical clowning" was presented to the annual meeting of the European Society of Human Fertilisation and Embryology in Prague.

"After embryo transfer, stress could be critical, so we think this is a good time to use clowning," said Dr Friedler. "I didn't expect such a good result. The response from the women was wonderful."

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June 11, 2006

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise


Its like a scene straight out of Pallywood.

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June 10, 2006

Zarqawi's Legacy

The last line says it all...

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June 03, 2006

The IDF is back in Gaza

Israel launches fierce battle inside Gaza Strip

Jerusalem -- Israel launched its first ground military operation inside the Gaza Strip since it pulled out of the region nearly a year ago, killing three members of a Palestinian rocket squad and a policeman in a fierce battle, the Israeli army said.

The gunfight between Israeli commandos and Islamic Jihad militants took place about three kilometres inside northern Gaza, from where militants have fired hundreds of homemade rockets at Israeli border communities in more than five years of fighting.

Amos Harel, the military affairs reporter for the Haaretz daily, said the commandos sneaked into Gaza before dawn and set up an ambush in the area of the former Jewish settlement of Dugit.

This story is from May 31, 2006, but no one is talking about it.

Interesting.

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June 01, 2006

Shavu'ot


Three thousand, three hundred and sixteen years ago, the infinite G-d burst through the barrier of human finitude and in the presence of an entire nation revealed His Commandments.

Shavu'ot commemorates the world-shaking event of the Divine revelation at Sinai. It is a day to reaffirm our commitment to studying and implementing the Torah.

If we abuse our freedom and attach ourselves to things of an exclusively physical, temporary nature, we lose the freedom needed to achieve the very purpose for which we were placed here: to become closer to G-d by being more like G-d.

I'll be gone until late Saturday, click the pic for info on Shavu'ot.

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May 16, 2006

Islamic Jihad bombs poultry

So. Yesterday, Crack Israeli troops surrounded a house in the Jenin-area village of Kabatia after intelligence indicated Elias Ashkar, the top wanted Islamic Jihad commander behind the terrorist murders of at least 40 people, including 11 in Tel Aviv last month, was holed up inside.

The Israelis were immediately engaged in what became an hours-long shootout, resulting in the deaths of Ashkar and four other terrorists belonging to different organizations, including Fatah. There were no Israeli casualties.

To add insult to injury, earlier in the day, a Palestinian Authority intelligence officer was reportedly shot dead by soldiers in nearby Jenin while apparently obstructing an arrest operation.

Islamic Jihad leader Sheik Khaled el-Batsh vowed to avenge Ashkar's death and this morning, he fired an advanced Russian-designed rocket from the Gaza Strip. The Grad-type Katyusha slammed into the community of Netiv Ha'asarah. Israeli casualties: About 30 chickens.

Yes. Thirty chickens.

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May 12, 2006

Dimona


Posted by LindaSoG at 11:27 PM

May 03, 2006

Boom!

I might comment on this... if I could stop laughing long enough...

Two Palestinian policemen killed in rocket strike on their Gaza base

Two Palestinian policemen were killed in a rocket strike Tuesday on a building at the Palestinian national security compound in the northern Gaza Strip.

Palestinian sources said that the rocket hit the base of the Third Brigade of the Palestinian national security forces, east of the Jabaliya refugee camp.

The rocket was apparently a locally made Qassam rocket, used by Palestinians to fire on southern Israel. The blast caused the one-story building to collapse.

Maybe later.

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April 28, 2006

Miracles Happen

Today, Daniel Wultz awakened from his coma.

Daniel, a high school student from Weston, Florida, was sitting with his Israeli-born father, Yekutiel (Tuly), eating a felafel lunch in Tel Aviv during their Passover vacation when the bomb that killed nine people on April 17 exploded. His father escaped with a minor leg injury, but Daniel fell into a coma.

Daniel regained consciousness Tuesday, said Yale Tsubary, spokeswoman for Tel Aviv's Ichilov Hospital, where Daniel is being treated. He is not yet able to speak, she said, but he can communicate with his eyes. Although the teenager's condition is still listed as critical, Tsubary said he is likely to recover.

Yesterday, I received an email that seemed to indicate that Daniel's condition had worsened, and now, there is this very, very good news! Our prayers have been answered. Thank you, G-d, thank you!

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April 17, 2006

Murder in Israel

A psychotic, evil and demented palestinian blew himself up at the old central bus station in Tel Aviv, Israel, killing eight innocent people and wounding forty-nine in his quest for everlasting deviant sex in paradise as promised by his evil demon god.

Bomber kills 6 in Tel Aviv

The Hamas terrorist rulers of the Palestinian Authority Monday publicly supported the murders as an "act of self defense." Olmert said, "'We will know how to respond, we know what to do." Shimon Peres opened the 17th Knesset assembly with a nearly one hour speech extolling the potential for peace as rescue workers cleaned up the blood and body parts from the scene of the lastest terrorist massacre.


Sami Omar was the murderer from Jenin.

May he rot in hell, along with the rest of the followers of the death cult known as islam.

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April 12, 2006

Chag Sameach

The Lord saved the children of Israel from Pharaoh and his army.

Malla Raphael Gallery

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April 04, 2006

Sweden: Okay, Kill the Jews!

Its a crime in Sweden to express derogatory statements about ethnic, racial, national, religious and sexual minorities or to incite hatred and violence against them. That is, its a crime unless you are talking about the Jews.

Sweden's Chancellor of Justice, Goran Lambertz, has redefined hate crimes in his country and decreed that calling Jews "apes and pigs" and calling for the death of Jewish people in Sweden is legal and not an incitement to hatred.

At the beginning of this year, the Chancellor of Justice*, Goran Lambertz, discontinued his preliminary investigation against the great mosque in Stockholm. Cassette tapes had been sold in the bookshop of the mosque with a violently Anti-Semitic contents. After a couple of broadcasts on the 26 and 27th November last year, the Stockholm mosque was reported to the police.

In his decision to discontinue the preliminary investigation Lambertz wrote that “the lecture at hand contains statements that are strongly degrading to Jews, among other things, they are throughout called brothers of apes and pigs.” Furthermore a curse is expressed over the Jews and “Jihad is called for, to kill the Jews, whereby suicide bombers - celebrated as martyrs - are the most effective weapon”.

The Chancellor raises the question whether the statements “should be judged differently, and be considered allowed, because they are used by one side in a continuing profound conflict, where battle cries and invectives are part of everyday occurrences in the rhetoric that surround the conflict.”

Lambertz thought that the “recently mentioned statements in spite of their contents are not to be considered “incitement against an ethnic group according to Swedish law”. His conclusions were that the preliminary investigation should be discontinued because this case of incitement against Jews could be said to originate from the Middle East conflict.

That is, in spite of the calls for ”killing the Jews”, these statements are not a crime in the legal sense in Sweden, because of the current conflict in the Middle East, according to the Chancellor of Justice. The logical conclusion is clear. If one mentions Palestine in hate speeches and calls for massmurder against Jews, one risks nothing in Sweden.

The 'current conflict in the Middle East' involves Arabs and Jews, not just Jews, so if incitement against Jews is acceptable, why isn't incitement against Arabs also acceptable? No, no, that would be incitment against a racial group. You can call for the death of Jews in Sweden, but not the death of arabs. You can have websites like Radio Islam, but you can't post cartoons of mohammed.

How can such a thing come to pass? Consider that one out of every 22 Swedes are Muslim and Islam is the nation's second largest religion. Of the nearly 9 million people in Sweden, 400,000 are Muslim, leading to a drastic increase in anti-Semitic acts against Sweden's 18,000 Jews. But, Sweden may well come to regret its pro-muslim stance.

The Brussels Journal, reporting on a muslim immigrant crime wave in Sweden:

The number of rape charges in Sweden has quadrupled in just above twenty years. Rape cases involving children under the age of 15 are six times as common today as they were a generation ago. Most other kinds of violent crime have rapidly increased, too. Instability is spreading to most urban and suburban areas. Resident aliens from Algeria, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia dominate the group of rape suspects. Lawyer Ann Christine Hjelm found that 85 per cent of the convicted rapists were born on foreign soil or from foreign parents.

The phenomenon is not restricted to Sweden. The number of rapes committed by Muslim immigrants in Western nations is so extremely high that it is difficult to view these rapes as merely random acts of individuals. It resembles warfare. This is happening in most Western European countries, as well as in other non muslim countries such as India. European jails are filling up with Muslims imprisoned for robberies and all kinds of violent crimes, and Muslims bomb European civilians. One can see the mainstream media are struggling to make sense of all of this. That is because they cannot, or do not want to, see the obvious: this is exactly how an invading army would behave: rape, pillage and bombing. If many of the Muslim immigrants see themselves as conquerors in a war, it all makes perfect sense.

Do the Swedes know what's coming? I hope its to their liking. I also hope the good Jewish people of Sweden see which way the wind blows, and get out. The country ain't worth fighting for.

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March 27, 2006

It was the Joooos...

Last year, I received some pictures of a bunch of arabs running over a little boy's arm, supposedly as a punishment for stealing bread in Iran. The pictures were disturbing, and I posted them here. So, it turned out that the pictures were taken during a bit of "arab street theater," its amazing what passes for entertainment for the followers of the prophet of doom. I am sure it wasn't as entertaining as a hanging, or a stoning, or a beheading, but in pinch, I suppose running over a little boy's arm will do. That such a thing could be considered entertainment in the arab world, that they would stand around and watch such a thing, was the true lesson of that little photo essay.

Anyways, the old post got flagged by a few motorcycle and car forums last month, and it became very popular. Thousands of viewers from these forums flocked to my site to take a peek. Some stayed and commented there, including this asshole from Australia:

Sorry cessey, but I'm not posting your comment back there, I'm posting it here along with your email address and your ip address, because I want everyone to see your lying cowardly statement and I want everyone to know who you are.

Trying to blame such an atrocity on the Jooos only proves once again that whenever they are caught doing something so repulsive that the world cries out in horror, the followers of the prophet of doom will blame it on the Joooos. Its like a scene straight out of...

Pallywood - Click to watch!!

Screw you cessey, you speak from both sides of your mouth, your heart is black and your soul is forfeit. You worship a demon straight from the bowels of hell and you will burn for eternity. Allah fubar and so on and so forth.

Just thought you'd like to know.

Asshole.

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March 15, 2006

I'm speechless

The United States hopes to find a way to increase humanitarian donations to the Palestinians following Hamas’ election victory, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Sunday.

"We are looking at ways to even increase our humanitarian assistance to the Palestinian people during this period of time," Rice said.

Oh for crying out loud!

All I can say is.... what he said!

Other Condi posts here, here and here.

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March 13, 2006

Purim Parody Carnival

Happy Purim! Click the pic and enjoy the best of the Jewish Blogosphere...

From Aish.com:

The official "Jewish day of laughter" is Purim. We get dressed up in funny costumes and act silly -- which is surprising since the Purim story is all about an impending annihilation of the Jewish people!

But then the story turns upside down. The Jews went from being the target of annihilation, to being the heroes and victors. Haman is hung and the Jewish people are rescued. It was a miraculous 180-degree shift in fortune. One who thought he was in danger and suddenly discovers he's safe laughs aloud in relief. One who thought he lived alone in a hostile world and suddenly discovers that God is really there laughs aloud in joy.

Human beings see the world from a finite perspective. Since we're tied to the physical world by our bodies, we're forced to live with the illusion of what we perceive.

Laughter is an opportunity to transcend limitations that blind us to seeing God more clearly. Even when things look bad, even if we're suffering, in some way it has got to be all for the best, because there's a beneficent God behind everything, manipulating events for our good.

And that's the story of the Jewish people.

The Talmud says that in the times of the Messiah, "THEN our mouths will be filled with laughter." Why then and not now? Because today, the world is beset by jealousy, greed, violence, intolerance and fraud. We are suspicious of our neighbors and cynical of our leaders. We are manipulative and seek advantage at the expense of others. Rather than cooperate, we compete.

But in the Messianic era, all that will turn around. As the prophet says: "The lamb will lie down with the lion ... and young children will play at the cobra's nest" (Isaiah 11:6). At that time, when all truth is revealed, "THEN our mouths will be filled with laughter."

If we were truly clear on the idea that the only real power in the world is God, we wouldn't have nearly as much worry and anxiety. With trust in God, we would be fully relaxed. So we need a good laugh in order to loosen up, forget our anxieties -- and break down our walls. Then we can reaffirm our belief that God's world is good, and everything will work out.


An armed Israeli settler disguised as a clown gives a Purim gift to a border policeman, during the Purim parade, in the divided West Bank city of Hebron, in March 2005. (AFP/File/Gali Tibbon)

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March 12, 2006

Palestine's Mother of the Year

Arab mother Um Nidal, is also known as Mariam Farahat, and she became famous when she was filmed bidding her 17-year-old son Mohammed farewell to die through a terrorist attack. She ordered him "not to return except as a shahid [martyr for Allah]." Ordering one son to die was not enough, Um sent three of her sons to die and murder others in the process.

When a mother orders three of her children to kill themselves and to kill innocent civilians with them, what better candidate could you have to help run the new Palestinian government?

Today, Mariam Farahat, is part of the Palestinian parliament and she has this to say to mothers everwhere:

Umm Nidal on raising children:

Ever since [my son] Muhammad was a little boy, he carried and used a weapon. This was natural for him. It is not that he all of a sudden took up a weapon, carried out operations, and so on. This was a gradual process for him, ever since he was little.

Umm Nidal on sibling rivalry:

There was an operation that was about to take place - the same operation that he eventually carried out. [My eldest son] Nidal, may he rest in peace, said to me: "I want to give this operation to my brother Muhammad." He insisted on this because he loved Muhammad very much. He chose him. He chose him for the operation over the rest of the guys. Some of the guys were even a little mad at him for not considering them for this operation, but he said: "By Allah, this operation leads to Paradise, and I will choose nobody but my brother."

Umm Nidal on what boys want:

Allah be praised, we have thousands of young men. They all yearn for martyrdom for the sake of Allah. Some of them even cry when they do not get the chance to commit martyrdom. As long as we have such determination, we will prevail, Allah willing.

Umm Nidal on the meaning of life:

We believe in the faith charted for us by Allah, and believe that if someone is destined to die, he will die, even if he hides in a crate - but why shouldn't we take the initiative and die as martyrs? There is an abyss between one form of dying and the other. So why shouldn't we choose martyrdom? Allah has chosen us, from among all people, and has bestowed upon us the honor of Jihad in the front line of Palestine. So it is all the more fitting for us to initiate martyrdom, before death reaches us while we sit at home.

and finally, Umm Nidal's message to all the Muslim mothers, who want to raise their sons, and hope they will attain worldly things, university degrees, luxurious palaces, and fancy cars:

A Muslim mother should raise her children on prayer, good deeds, and, of course, on Jihad, which is one of the duties on which we should raise our children.

Jihad in Islam is a duty that one cannot forego. It is like any other religious duty. If we understand the true meaning of Islam, the notion of Jihad will be included among the Islamic duties, and in Palestine - an individual duty. If we are remiss in this duty, we sin.

Kinda makes you feel all warm and mushy inside, don't it?

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March 08, 2006

Know thy Peace Partner

Do you? Click the pic and take the quiz:

Take the test

I got seven out of ten.

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March 07, 2006

Let 'em eat pancakes

The Rachel Corrie Memorial Committee of Victoria Invites you to a pancake breakfast at Denny's Restaurant Sunday March 12 , 2006 10 am to celebrate the squishing of Rachel Corrie, Peace Activist with the International Solidarity Movement.

I'll pass, thanks, and perhaps spend the day thinking about a few other Rachels, all of whom were murdered by Rachel Corrie's friends:


Rachel Thaler, 16, was enjoying dinner with her
14-year old brothers and friends at an Israeli
pizzeria when a palestinian bomber detonated
himself at the restaurant.


Rachel Levi, 19, murdered when a Palestinian
rammed a bus into a crowded Israel bus stop,
killing Rachel and five others on February 14, 2001.


Rachel Levy, 17, was a high-school student
who was killed when a Palestinian suicide
bomber detonated herself at an Israeli supermarket.
Her death came on the heels of the death of Rachel's
cousin once month earlier in a terrorist shooting.


Rachel Charhi, 36, 36, was killed when a
Palestinian terrorist detonated himself in a
café in Israel on April 4, 2002.


Rachel Gavish, 50, was murdered by a Palestinian
terrorist who infiltrated her home in Israel,
shooting dead Rachel, her husband David,
her son and Rachel's father.


Rachel Kol, 53, who worked for 20 years
in the neurology lab at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital,
was murdered with her husband in a drive-by shooting by the Fatah.
al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, in July 2005 (in the midst of a
supposed Palestinian truce)


Rachel Ben Abu, 16, killed with her teenage friends by a suicide
bomber at the Netanya shopping mall, in July 2005 (in the midst
of a supposed Palestinian truce)


Rachel Shabo, 40, (top right) and three of her sons
were murdered on June 20, 2002 when a Palestinian
terrorist entered the family home and opened fire.

The Rachel Corrie Round-up is here, and here is a list of other murders by Rachel Corrie's friends.

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March 05, 2006

Define Paradise

Today is the third anniversary of the murders glorified and justified in the film "Paradise Now."

Paradise Now is a movie that attempts to explain away the actions behind mass-murderers. It legitimizes the murder of innocent people and portrays the murderers themselves as victims. Hundreds of innocent men, women and children have been murdered by "palestinian" suicide-murderers.

Paradise Now conveniently ends before the carnage begins. This is the end result of the bombing of Egged Bus No 37 in Haifa on March 5, 2003:

These are the real victims of the events portrayed in Paradise Now:


Maryam Atar		  
Smadar Firstater		  
Kamar Abu Hamed		  
Daniel Haroush

Motti Hershko		  
Tom Hershko		  
Meital Katav		  
Liz Katzman

Tal Kehrmann		  
Eliyahu Laham		  
Abigail Litle		  
Y.Mendellevich

Be'eri Oved		  
Mark Takash		  
Asaf Zur		  
Anatoly Biryakov

Moran Shushan

Paradise Now has already been awarded the Golden Globe for glorifying the act of terrorism that took their lives. And tonight, on the third anniversary of their deaths, Hollywood will likely award Paradise Now with its highest honor, the Oscar.

Giving an Oscar to this movie will further glorify these murderers and the groups that have sent them. It will encourage more murder.

The first arab sponsored terrorist attack upon Jews occurred in 1920, long before the establishment of Israel and long before there were any so-called palestinians.

Eighty years later, the death toll from arab terrorism in Israel continues to grow. Where is the outrage?

You want to know what arab terrorism is really like? The film Three Days in Israel will sum it up for you in six minutes. Three Days in Israel is approximately six-minutes long and uses photos, video and text to show in no uncertain terms exactly what it is like after a terrorist attack.

Three Days in Israel shows you what Paradise Now refused to show you, the end result of evil. But it won't get an Oscar, or a Golden Globe award.

Three Days In Israel.

It is not Paradise Now. Its hell.

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March 01, 2006

Kadima: Follow me to the Middle of Nowhere

I rarely post an entire article written by someone else, and rarely manage to post anything without some kind of running commentary from me. This is one of those rare occassions:

Kadima: Follow me to the Middle of Nowhere
by Naomi Ragen
March 01, 2006

During dinner one evening at the recent Herzlyia Conference I sat next to a well-fed local businessman, a man of middle-age with an expensive black suit and shiny black hair. We were there to hear Benjamin Netanyahu, so we got to talking politics. Are you going to vote for him? I asked. He shook his head no. "I'm going to vote for Kadima," he said, painting a straight line in the air with his finger. "Right down the middle."

"In what way," I asked him in surprise, "is Kadima in the middle?"

He looked at me blankly, astonished at the question.

Israelis love slogans. Come up with the right slogan, even if it makes no sense, if it's a total lie, and they will support anyone, and any cause. Sell them "Peace Now" wrapped up in little white doves, and they'll vote for that. And if instead they get exploding buses and pizza parlors, dead babies on the streets, they won't stop believing. They won't look back and say: "Gee, those politicians were incompetent liars, let's kick them out of office and keep them there. " Not at all. Come up with another slogan and the exact same politicians will get their vote again.

Take Shimon Peres, architect of Oslo. author of the "The New Middle East" which has to go down in history with "Peace in Our Time" as the political blooper of the century. Peres has a new slogan: Kadima! Peres is now "in the center."

Kadima is a great slogan. It's the cry of a general leading men on a battlefield. It means: Forward! Follow me! Don't look around at the fallen and dying all around you! Keep going. Don't look back! Never mind that it was founded by a controversial general known for his impulsiveness and determination - qualities sometimes helpful on the battlefield, but quite disastrous in matters of state.

Never mind that his greatest accomplishment in office, carried out with bulldozer determination, has in record time already proven an unmitigated disaster: The disengagement provided the Hamas with its successful campaign slogan:" Ten years of negotiation, five years of Intifada." Never mind that daily rockets now land in the Negev and Ashkelon and Ashdod and Sderot. Never mind that for the first time in our history the national consensus towards the IDF has begun to unravel. Never mind that. Kadima!

So the head of the party and its moving force is now incapacitated? Replace him! Never mind that Ehud Olmert was the worst Mayor Jerusalem ever had. A man whose coalition with the haredim turned the city into a filthy, poor backwater full of ugly high-rises. In between his own police investigations, Mr. Olmert has had a chance to totally change his political slogans with the times. He is a man who stands for nothing and has accomplished even less.
But never mind that. Kadima!

Never mind that the Party has collected such Israeli political luminaries as Dalia Itzik, Haim Ramon, Ruhama Avraham, and Omri Sharon. Never mind that Tzachi Hanegbi now sits with them, and that Avi Dichter, a former head of intelligence, who said: "The numbers speak for themselves... it is clear that disengagement has decreased terror" is number five on their list. Never mind. Give them your vote. Kadima!

The Jews, the bible tells us, are a stiff-necked people. As everyone knows, when you have a stiff-neck, you can't turn around and look behind you. You have to face forward. Those voting Kadima can only do it if they stick with the slogans and don't check them against reality. If you turn around and look at where the party came from and who is in it, you, like my friend in Herzylia, would be astonished.

Why, you would ask yourself, would anyone vote for the biggest collection of losers in Israel's political history all gathered in one spot?

Brothers and sisters, we have a very little country. We have made so many, many mistakes. Isn't it time we stopped electing leaders who blindly put our women and children on the front lines against our enemies? Isn't it time we stopped listening to our not very intelligent journalists and TV news people, clueless leftists all? Isn't it time to look back before we jump over the cliff once more? Kadima is in the middle all right. In the middle of no where.

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February 19, 2006

About them Danish

I am told that this article discusses the fact that, in order to gain contracts with the muslim, quite a few Danish firms have agreements in place that they will not do business with Israel. One of the firms, Arla, claims such agreements are routine practice in the country.

Hmph. Guess no one told them that when you lie down with dogs, you get fleas.

The friend of my enemy is my enemy.

UPDATE 02/23/06: More accurate information can be found at Hodjas Blog.

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February 15, 2006

For this we gave up Gaza?

Israel's Partners in Peace™ presented video messages promising to drink Jewish blood until Jews "leave the Muslim countries."

"My message to the loathed Jews is that there is no god but Allah, we will chase you everywhere! We are a nation that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better than the blood of Jews. We will not leave you alone until we have quenched our thirst with your blood, and our children's thirst with your blood. We will not leave until you leave the Muslim countries."

"In the name of Allah, we will destroy you, blow you up, take revenge against you, [and] purify the land of you, pigs that have defiled our country... This operation is revenge against the sons of monkeys and pigs."

After filming their goodbyes, the two Hamas suicide terrorists went to the Karni Crossing and killed an Israeli soldier. The clip includes scenes of preparation of a tunnel, and hiding explosives in the tunnel.

Hamas placed the video on its website in February 2006 - after the Palestinian parliamentary elections. The terrorist act glorified in the video occurred over a year ago, on December 7, 2004.

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February 02, 2006

Am Yisrael Chai

My eyes, my ears, my heart and my soul is in Eretz Yisrael, as my people suffer unspeakable horrors. I am overwhelmed with anger and grief, this is an abomination:

 

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Woe unto you Ehud Olmert, as you do the work of our enemies and bring upon us the darkest darkness. We of faith know that the darkest darkness heralds the coming of the light. We of faith have faith in Hashem.

“Kol Ha’hatchalot kashot” -- “Beginnings are always difficult”

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January 29, 2006

Rav Kaduri, zatza'l

Rav Yitzchak Kaduri zatza"l (of saintly and blessed memory) - the world's beloved 108-year-old sage and Kabbalist master - returned his soul to the Creator earlier today after Shabbos terminated, following a 2-week bout with pneumonia.

Words cannot describe the tremendous loss that Rav Kaduri's passing causes for the Jewish people. Rav Kaduri devoted his entire life to Hashem, the Torah, and the Jewish people. Thousands benefitted from his blessings and guidance.

May Hashem in His everloving mercy end our long and arduous exile, and send a complete redemption to the Jewish people. May the mourners of Zion and Yerushalayim be comforted, and may our agony - especially at the loss of our holy tzaddikim - turn into the joy of Geula and Moshiach, speedily in our days, amen.

The foregoing is from Lazer Beams, the following are the words of Rabbi Kaduri:

"We are now in the fourth year of what could be the seven-year Redemption period, according to the calculation of the Vilna Gaon. [However.] in the coming three years, uncertainty about the future will hang over our heads, unless we work and strive that the Mashiach be revealed.

The Mashiach is already in Israel. Whatever people are sure will not happen, is liable to happen, and whatever we are certain will happen may disappoint us. But in the end, there will be peace throughout the world. The world is mitmatek mehadinim (or becoming sweet from strict justice).

Great tragedies in the world are foreseen, that's the thing of the Jews going to the East. But our enemies will not prevail over us in the Land of Israel, 'fear and trembling will fall upon them,' in the power of Torah."

Rabbi Yitzchak Kaduri, September, 2005

Students of the righteous Rabbi say that the blessing of the Ben Ish Chai (considered the leading rabbi of Sephardic Jewry, d. 1904) and that of the Lubavitcher Rebbe - both of whom blessed him that he might live to see the Final Redeemer - came true. The Rabbi's closest followers say that Rabbi Kaduri told them he met the Messiah on Cheshvan 9, 5764 (Nov. 4, 2003). He reportedly said that the Messiah is not promoting himself, and that a study of his [Rabbi Kaduri's] words in recent months would provide hints of his identity.

"He is not saying, 'I am the Mashiach, give me the leadership.' Rather the nation is pushing him to lead them, after they find [in my words] signs showing that he has the status of Mashiach." So said Rabbi Kaduri to one of his close relatives.

Rabbi Kaduri has also been quoted of late as saying that the imminent arrival of the Mashiach will "save Jerusalem from Islam and Christianity that wish to take Jerusalem from the Jewish Nation - but they will not succeed, and they will fight each other."

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January 26, 2006

Israel's Partner In Peace

Meet Um Nidal:

Arab mother Um Nidal, is also known as Mariam Farahat, and she became famous when she was filmed bidding her 17-year-old son Mohammed farewell to die through a terrorist attack. She ordered him "not to return except as a shahid [martyr for Allah]." Ordering one son to die was not enough, Um sent three of her sons to die and murder others in the process.

When a mother orders three of her children to kill themselves and to kill innocent civilians with them, what better candidate could you have to help run the new Palestinian government?

Yesterday, Mariam Farahat was a star in the Arab world, because her son murdered 5 high school students.

Today, Mariam Farahat, was elected to the Palestinian parliament.

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The Terrorists Win


Palestinian shocker: Hamas claims election victory

Palestinians elected the terrorist group Hamas, which is committed to the destruction of first Israel, to lead them.

"... the march of resistance will continue until the Islamic flag is raised, not only on the minarets of Jerusalem, but over the whole universe..." - Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar, January 13, 2005

"We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain and the entire world..." Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, May 13, 2005

"Sons of Islam everywhere, the jihad is a duty - to establish the rule of Allah on earth and to liberate your countries and yourselves from America's domination and its Zionist allies, it is your battle - either victory or martyrdom."

"Muslims must prepare themselves for a long battle because this century is the century of Islam, its ability and its victory."

- Sheikh Ahmad Yassin

Is anyone listening? It appears not.

"The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That's not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. - U.S. President George W. Bush, September 17, 2001

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January 07, 2006

Ariel Sharon

I have posted some very harsh words here for Ariel Sharon, resulting from the very harsh thoughts and feelings I hold in my heart. I am angry at Ariel Sharon, I do not understand how he came to be what he is, how he has gone from being a hero of Israel to a destroyer of Israel.

Ariel Sharon has betrayed the political party platform upon which he was elected. Ariel Sharon has placed parts of Eretz Yisrael into the hands of the enemy. Ariel Sharon has all but destroyed the lives of 9,000 Jews, leaving them homeless and taking away their livelihoods. Ariel Sharon has appeased the very terrorists who have murdered Jews consistently and continuously for decades. The people of Israel have paid the price for what Ariel Sharon has wrought in blood and tears.

The horrors that have befallen Eretz Yisrael have effected me deeply. The grief I feel for what has happened in Eretz Yisrael is real and painful. Like most American Jews, I have considered Aliyah many times. Aliyah to where? Gaza? If I had, Ariel Sharon would have made me homeless. Considering that today, Israel is the only place in the world where Jews can be forced from their homes for being Jewish, where should I Aliyah to?

Hell is a Jewish state devoid of Jewish values that picks up where the anti-Semites, the pogromers, and the exilers left off. Hell is a Jewish prime minister who has become a cannibal of his own people. Hell is when a country has lost its will to exist and begins a process of national suicide. Hell is when Jews with Jewish values have become outcast in their own land. Hell is when the Jewish state becomes worse than the exile. - Gershon Perlman

As an American, I am shamed before G-d that my country continues to support the terrorists who murder Jews freely and openly. For Israel, the War on Terror stops at the border.

I have prayed for Ariel Sharon, I prayed the power he has over Israel be taken from him. I did not pray for the death of Ariel Sharon, the weight of such a deed would crush my heart and my soul.

Today, Ariel Sharon is at the end of his political career, and he lies at the brink of death. While I would have preferred that Ariel Sharon see defeat at the polls, I believe everything happens for a reason, and yes, there is a reason for what has befallen Ariel Sharon. His illness is the result of the way he has chosen to live his life. Ariel Sharon is 77 years old, horribly overweight, he himself has destroyed his health and today, he suffers the consequences of his own actions. I do not believe his illness results from a punishment by G-d, I believe Ariel Sharon is responsible for his own suffering, it is the result of his own choices.

I also believe in G-d, and I believe that G-d uses all ways and means to His own purpose.

And so, I will continue to pray for Ariel Sharon. I will pray that Ariel Sharon be relieved of his pain and suffering. As for how that comes about, be it through healing or death, is in the hands of G-d , where it has always been.

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January 01, 2006

For this, we gave up Gaza?

Terrorist attacks in 2005, before the expulsion:

Jan 2, 2005 - Nissim Arbiv, 25, of Nissanit in the Gaza Strip was mortally wounded in a mortar shell attack while working in the Erez Industrial Zone. He died of his wounds on January 11. Two others were wounded in the attack, for which Hamas claimed responsibility.

Jan 7, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yosef (Yossi) Atia, 21, of Petah Tikva, was killed and three fellow off-duty soldiers were wounded when Palestinian gunmen opened fire on their car on the Trans-Samaria Highway. The Fatah al-Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 9, 2005 - An Israeli officer is killed, and three others injured, in a Hezbollah rocket attack along the Lebanese border (Shebba Farms).

Jan 12, 2005 - Gideon Rivlin, 50, of Ganei Tal was killed and three IDF soldiers were wounded when a bomb was detonated as a military vehicle patroled the route near Morag in the southern Gaza Strip. Two terrorists were killed by IDF forces. The area was booby-trapped with explosive devices, in addition to the bomb that exploded. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 13, 2005 - On Thursday night, shortly before the closing of the Karni Crossing, terrorists activated an explosive device on the Palestinian side, blowing a hole in the door through which Palestinian terrorists infiltrated the Israeli side of the crossing and opened fire at Israeli civilians. As a result of the explosion and exchanges of fire, six Israeli civilians and three Palestinian terrorists were killed, and five Israeli civilians were wounded. Hamas and the Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsiblity for the attack. The victims: Dror Gizri, 30, of Sderot; Ibrahim Kahili, 46, of Umm al-Ghanem; Munam Abu Sabia, 33, of Daburiyeh; Ivan Shmilov, 53, of Sderot; Herzl Shlomo, 51, of Sderot; and Ofer Tiri, 23, of Ashkelon.

Jan 15, 2005 - Ayala-Haya (Ella) Abukasis, 17, of Sderot was mortally wounded when a Qassam rocket landed near her and shrapnel penetrated her cerebellum, leaving her brain dead. She was struck while protecting her younger brother, who was lightly wounded. Kept on life support throughout the week, her parents agreed to stop treatment when doctors told them there was no chance of recovery. She died on January 21.

Jan 18, 2005 - Oded Sharon, 36, from Gan Yavne, an ISA officer, was killed, an IDF officer seriously wounded, and four IDF soldiers and three members of the ISA were lightly wounded in a suicide bombing attack at the Gush Katif junction in the central Gaza Strip. While search procedures were being implemented at a post at the junction, the suicide bomber with explosives strapped to his body detonated himself. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jan 18, 2005 - 17-year-old Israeli girl dies trying to protect her 10-year-old brother from a Hamas rocket attack (on 1-15 in Sderot).

The "Truce" or "Hudna" or whatever you want to call it agreed to by Sharon and Abu Mazen began February 8, 2005. The following attacks occured during the so called Truce:

Feb 25, 2005 - Five people were killed and 50 wounded Friday night, when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Stage club on the Tel Aviv promenade at around 11:20 P.M., on the corner of Herbert Samuel and Yonah Hanavi streets. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.
The victims: Yitzhak Buzaglo, 40, of Mishmar Hayarden; Aryeh Nagar, 37, of Kfar Sava; Yael Orbach, 28, of Rehovot; Ronen Reuvenov, 30, of Tel Aviv. Odelia Hubara, 26, of Jerusalem, died of her wounds on February 28.

May 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Dan Talasnikov, 21, of Nir Galim was killed and another soldier lightly wounded in an exchange of fire during an operation to arrest wanted terrorists from the Islamic Jihad in the village of Saida, north of Tulkarem. One of the terrorists, responsible for the February 25 suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, was killed. The second terrorist was apprehended.

Mar 7, 2005 - Two Israelis are wounded by a Palestinian sniper in Hebron.

Jun 7, 2005 - Three workers were killed and five wounded when a Qassam rocket hit a packing shed in Ganei Tal, in the Gaza Strip, penetrating the building's roof and exploding indoors. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 19, 2005 - IDF NCO Sgt.-Maj. Avi Karouchi, 25, of Beersheba was killed and two soldiers were wounded in a coordinated Palestinian attack in which RPG missiles and gunfire were fired at an IDF engineering force conducting construction work on the Philadelphi route along the Israeli-Egyptian border. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 20, 2005 - Yevgeny Reider, 28 of Hermesh was killed and a 16-year old teenager was wounded in a terrorist shooting attack in the village of Baka A-Sharkiya in the northern West Bank. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 24, 2005 - Avihai Levy, 17, of Beit Hagai was killed in a drive-by terrorist shooting at a hitchhiking stop about 200 meters from the entrance to Beit Hagai, south of Hebron. Aviad Mansour, 16, of Otniel, fatally wounded in the attack, died on June 26. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jun 29, 2005 - Hezbollah attacks an Israeli position at Mt. Dov from across the Lebanese border, killing one and injuring three.

Jul 12, 2005 - Rachel Ben Abu, 16, of Tel Aviv; Nofar Horowitz, 16, of Tel Aviv; and Julia Voloshin, 31, of Netanya were killed and about 90 people were wounded when a suicide bomber detonated himself outside Hasharon Mall in Netanya. Anya Lifshitz, 50, of Netanya, who was mortally wounded, succumbed to her wounds on July 13. Cpl. Moshe Maor Jan, 21, of Netanya died of his wounds on July 14. The bomber was identified as Ahmed Abu Khalil, 18, from the West Bank village of Atil. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

Jul 14, 2005 - Dana Gelkovitch, 22, of Kibbutz Bror Hayil, was killed by a Qassam rocket fired at Netiv Ha'asara in the northern Gaza Strip. Hamas, Islamic Jihad and Fatah all claimed responsibility for the attack.

Terrorist attacks after the expulsion and during the Truce:

Jul 23, 2005 - Dov, 58, and Rachel Kol, 53, of Jerusalem were killed shortly after midnight on Saturday night near the Kissufim crossing in the southern Gaza Strip while returning home from visiting family in Gush Katif. Three others were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Aug 3, 2005 - Palestinian terrorists fire a rocket at a group of Israeli demonstrators in Sderot. The missile hits their own group instead, killing a 3-year-old boy and injuring nine others, including five children.

Aug 24, 2005 - Shmuel Mett, 21, of Britain, a Mir Yeshiva student, was returning from the Western Wall to the yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood when he was fatally stabbed near Jaffa Gate in the Old City. Two other students were wounded.

Aug 28, 2005 - A Fatah terrorist detonated a suicide bomb in Beersheba, eight Israelis are hospitalized, including two guards that were seriously wounded.

Sept 21, 2005 - Sasson Nuriel, 55, of Jerusalem was kidnapped and slain by Palestinian terrorists. His body was found on Sept 26 in a garbage dump in the industrial zone of Bitunya, west of Ramallah. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.

Oct 16, 2005 - Matat (Rosenfeld) Adler, 21, and her cousin, Kineret Mandel, 23, both of Carmel, and Oz Ben-Meir, 15, of Maon were killed and three were wounded when Palestinians opened fire at the Gush Etzion junction south of Jerusalem. Another teenager was shot and seriously wounded near Eli, in Samaria. The Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for both attacks.

Oct 26, 2005 - Six people were killed and 55 wounded, six seriously, in a suicide bombing at the Hadera open-air market. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Michael Kaufman, 68, of Hadera; Pirhiya Machlouf, 53, of Hadera; Sabiha Nissim, 66, of Moshav Ahituv; Jamil Qa'adan, 48, of Baka al-Gharbiya; and Ya'acov Rahmani, 68, of Hadera. A sixth victim, Genia Poleis, 66, of Hadera, died of her wounds 11 days later, on November 5.

Nov 2, 2005 - St.-Sgt. Yonatan Evron, 20, of Rishon Lezion, was mortally wounded in a gun battle with terrorists near Jenin. He died en route to hospital.

Nov 21, 2005 - Eleven Israeli soldiers and one civilian are injured by a Hezbollah attack in Metulla, Northern Israel..

Dec 5, 2005 - Five people were killed and over 50 wounded in a suicide bombing at the entrance to the Sharon shopping mall in Netanya. The terrorist detonated the bomb when he was stopped by security guards, one of whom was killed. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack. The victims: Haim Amram, 26, of Netanya, a security guard at the mall; Alexandra Garmitzky, 65, of Netanya; Daniel Golani, 45, of Nahariya; Elia Rosen, 38, of Bat Hefer; and Keinan Tsuami, 20, of Petah Tikva.

Dec 8, 2005 - Sgt. Nir Kahane, 20, of Kiryat Tivon, was stabbed to death at the Kalandiya checkpoint, south of Ramallah. The assailant was apprehended. The Fatah al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed responsibility for the attack.

Dec 16, 2005 - Yosef (Yossi) Shok, 35, of Beit Hagai was killed in a shooting attack while driving home in the southern Hebron hills. Two passengers were wounded. The Islamic Jihad and Fatah Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades claimed joint responsibility for the attack.

Dec 29, 2005 - Lt. Ori Binamo, 21, of Nesher was killed when a terrorist en route to carry out an attack in Israel detonated himself at roadblock set up near Tulkarm following an intelligence tip. Two Palestinians were also killed, one the taxi driver who was carrying the bomber. Three soldiers and seven Palestinians were wounded.

The number of rockets and mortar shells on Israeli targets has sharply increased since the expulsion, with 130 attacks from January through July, the eve of the expulsion, and 179 since then. Most of them fell during the Truce. And many of them came from Gaza. Three Kassam rockets struck the western Negev today.

Now, the Truce over. What can Israel expect?

More of this.

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December 01, 2005

And the Winner is...

Guess who?

That's right. Israel's Partners in Peace have chosen a leader... the mass murderer Marwan Barghouti. Guess we know who the loser is.

Hat Tip for the picture: Patrick al-Kafir at Clarity & Resolve.

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November 09, 2005

Night of Broken Glass

On this day in 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht."

The term "Kristallnacht" ('Night of Broken Glass") refers to the organized anti-Jewish riots in Germany and Austria, November 9-10, 1938. These riots marked a major transition in Nazi policy, and were, in many ways, a harbinger of the "Final Solution."

Seventeen year old Herschel Grynszpan was living in Paris in the autumn of 1938 when his family in Hannover - father, mother, sister and brother - were among ten thousand Jews ruthlessly removed from their homes and deported to Poland in boxcars. His sister Berta managed to send a postcard to Herschel in Paris, describing the torments his family went through. Enraged by what he read, Herschel bought a pistol and went to the German Embassy in Paris on November 7, 1938, to take revenge and kill the ambassador, Count von Welczek. But the Third Secretary, Ernst vom Rath, was sent out to see what the young man wanted and Herschel shot him.

Herschel Grynszpan was arrested and in a poignant statement taken immediately after the arrest the young Jew told the police: "Being a Jew is not a crime. I am not a dog. I have a right to live and the Jewish people have a right to exist on this earth. Wherever I have been I have been chased like an animal." He declared that he had to avenge the Jews, to draw the attention of the world to what was happening in Germany.

For Adolf Hitler, the shooting in Paris provided an opportunity to incite Germans to "rise in bloody vengeance against the Jews." It supplied the pretext for massive Nazi pogroms launched against Jews in Germany, Austria and the Sudetenland - the orgy of Kristallnacht, the Night of Broken Glass. The tide of anti-Semitism under Nazi rule was given impetus: in the next 24 hours Nazi storm troopers along with members of the SS and Hitler Youth beat and murdered Jews, broke into and wrecked Jewish homes, brutalized Jewish women and children, destroyed 265 synagogues, looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, smashed Jewish cemeteries, hospitals and schools. At least 96 Jews were killed and hundreds more injured, more than 1,000 synagogues were burned (and possibly as many as 2,000), almost 7,500 Jewish businesses were destroyed, cemeteries and schools were vandalized, and 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps.

The official German position on these events, was that they were spontaneous outbursts. The Fuehrer, Goebbels reported to Party officials in Munich, "has decided that such demonstrations are not to be prepared or organized by the party, but so far as they originate spontaneously, they are not to be discouraged either."

Kristallnacht was a crucial turning point in German policy regarding the Jews and may be considered as the actual beginning of what is now called the Holocaust.

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There are important lessons to be drawn from Kristallnacht, for it served as a bridge experience for both Jews and Nazis. For the Jews, there was the terrifying realization that political antisemitism can lead to violence, even in Western Civilization. It also demonstrated that apathy can still pervade the world when the lives of Jews or other minorities are threatened.

For the Nazis, Kristallnacht taught that while the world might condemn their pogroms, it would not actively oppose them. World opinion, however, taught the Nazis the value of secrecy in the perpetration of future actions against Jews. Added to the complaints of Germans offended by the random violence of Kristallnacht, the stage was set for the "Final Solution"--the organized, bureaucratically efficient genocide of 6,000,000 men, women, and children.

In retrospect, Kristallnacht was more than the shattering of windows and illusions. It portended the physical destruction of European Jewry. As such, this commemoration must be observed both as a memorial and as a warning. -- Simon Wiesenthal Center

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October 16, 2005

Where is Ron Arad?

Ron Arad was born on May 5, 1958 in Israel. He is the son of Batya and the late Dov Arad, and is the oldest of their three sons. Arad, an air-force navigator in an F-4 Phantom jet, had just completed his first year of chemical engineering at The Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa when he was called up for reserve duty.

On October 16, 1986, while on a mission over southern Lebanon, Lieutenant Colonel Ron Arad and his pilot were forced to parachute out of their Phantom jet due to a technical problem. While the pilot was rescued in a daring helicopter raid, Arad fell captive to terrorists belonging to the Amal organization.

About a year after his capture, Israel received photographs and letters from Arad’s captors.

Mustafa Dirani, the Amal security chief who allegedly captured Ron Arad when his plane crashed in Lebanon, reportedly broke away from the terrorist group in 1987, taking Arad with him. It is believed that Dirani then "sold" Arad to either Hizbullah or Iranian elements.

According to Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot, as recently as 2003, three former Iranian diplomats and intelligence officials living in Europe claimed that Ron Arad is alive and being held in a prison near Tehran.

These reports cannot be verified.

One of them claimed that Arad was being held in a secret, heavily-guard prison near Tehran in the late 1990's. He claimed that he had access to Arad's files, saw Arad several times, and even exchanged words with him.

According to this Iranian, Arad tried to escape from his captivity while in Lebanon and was shot and wounded by his guards. He claims that in mid 1994, Arad was transferred via Syria to Iran. He claims that before being transferred, Arad underwent an operation to paralyze his legs in order to prevent him from escaping, and that as a result, Arad is confined to a wheelchair. He also claimed that Arad was hospitalized twice for heart problems.

Twenty years later, we know nothing about the fate of Ron Arad.

Or do we?

Nick Berg's body was found decapitated on May 8, 2004 on a Baghdad overpass by a U.S. military patrol. Berg's family was informed of his death on May 10. Military sources stated publicly at that time that Berg's body showed "signs of trauma", but did not disclose that he had been decapitated.

On May 11, 2004, the website of the militant Islamist group Muntada al-Ansar [6] allegedly broadcast a video with the opening title of "Abu Musa'b al-Zarqawi slaughters an American", which supposedly shows Berg being decapitated.

Is Nick Berg dead? Yes, and likely beheaded afterwards, but is the man seen in the beheading video Nick Berg?

Journalist Jamie Francis of the St. Petersburg Times ran into Nick at a gym in Baghdad's old Jewish quarter less than a month before this video was released. Nick was a regular at the gym and well known by its owner. Francis described Nick's ivory skin and thin red beard, adding that Nick looked the part of a construction worker, and spoke of Nick's muscular build.

The victim in the video does not have ivory skin or a red beard, he is not muscular at all, is much smaller than Nick Berg and he looks nothing like Nick Berg. However, he does look a lot like Ron Arad.

Question: How do you know an islamist is lying?

Answer: His lips are moving.

The victim in the video did not stand up or even move his legs through anything that was happening. He sat on the floor, legs bent at the knees. When they flipped him over sideways, his legs did not move, the body just fell onto the floor. This lead some to believe that the victim was heavily sedated, however, this is consistent with reports that Arad had been disabled to prevent escape.

The quality of the movie is not consistent with today's technology, and voice-overs cannot be confirmed. The sound could easily have beed dubbed over. Despite the lies perpetuated by CNN, the voice over on the video has been confirmed as Zarqawi.

Coincidentally, Arad was in news at the time of the release of the beheading video. His remains were being used as a negotiation tool by Hezbullah, who were seeking an exchange of live terrorists for his remains. Israeli intelligence and defense officials have said that another purpose of the recent spate of media reports on Arad is to try to remove Iran from the picture. Hezbullah of course is Iran's hit squad.

The same day the execution video was posted on the internet, Hezbullah announced they had located Ron Arad's grave in Lebanon. A short time later, they handed over a piece of bone supposedly that of Ron Arad's. The bone was proved to be fake a few days later.

I don't believe in coincidence. Remember, these are the same people who released photos of a toy marine, claiming to have captured another member of the U.S. Military.

I believe Nick Berg is dead, I believe that Ron Arad is dead. What I do not believe is that Nick Berg was the man in the video, I believe that man was Ron Arad. I believe the video was made years ago, and withheld to be released at an opportune time. I believe that eventually, it was decided that a "Ron Arad" beheading was less valuable than a "Nick Berg" beheading and that the timing of the release of the video was a "crime of opportunity." As Moshe Dyan once said, "The Arabs will never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity."

I am not alone in my beliefs. You may look at the pictures, look at the video and draw your conclusion.

We may never know the truth behind the video.

When I think about Nick Berg and Ron Arad, I cannot help but think of Johnny "Mike" Spann who was attacked by a mob of Islamist prisoners and beaten to death, his body full of bites as though animals had been tearing at his flesh.

Know thy enemy.

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September 24, 2005

Oh. D'uh

Abbas: Hamas to blame for Gaza blast

In unusually scathing attack, Palestinian leader openly criticizes terror group after explosion during Friday rally kills 19 people.

Yeah. So. What do you expect?

Following the blast, Hamas fired rockets on Israeli communities in the south.

And then...

On Saturday, the IDF killed four Hamas members in a Gaza air strike.

So, nothing much has changed since we gave up Gaza, unless you count all the Jews now living in tents after having given up their homes, and their livelihood to these same pathetic murdering little bastards.

Oh excuse me. I guess I should have said militants.

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September 23, 2005

Ooops

A Palestinian pickup truck carrying rockets exploded today at a large Hamas rally as the terrorists paraded their weapons through a densely packed refugee camp in the Gaza Strip.

At least 19 Palestinians were killed, many of whom were children, and more than 80 were injured.

Witnesses said the truck carried homemade weapons, and Palestinian security officials said the blast apparently was caused by the mishandling of weapons.

Hamas denied involvement and blamed Israel for the explosion, no surprise. That's how its done in...

Pallywood - Click to watch!!

Click to watch Pallywood, "According to Palestinian Sources..." a film by Richard Landes.

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September 20, 2005

He did not forget.

Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Nazi Hunter, has died in Vienna at the age of 96.

Said Rabbi Marvin Hier, dean and founder of the International Human Rights NGO named in Mr. Wiesenthal’s honor:

"Simon Wiesenthal was the conscience of the Holocaust.When the Holocaust ended in 1945 and the whole world went home to forget, he alone remained behind to remember. He did not forget.

He became the permanent representative of the victims, determined to bring the perpetrators of the history’s greatest crime to justice. There was no press conference, and no president, prime minister, or world leader announced his appointment. He just took the job. It was a job no one else wanted.

The task was overwhelming. The cause had few friends. The Allies were already focused on the Cold War, the survivors were rebuilding their shattered lives and Simon Wiesenthal was all alone, combining the role of both prosecutor and detective at the same time.

Overcoming the world’s indifference and apathy, Simon Wiesenthal helped bring over 1,100 Nazi War Criminals before the bar of Justice."

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September 12, 2005

The Eve of Appeasement

Gaza has been "turned over" to Abu Mazen and his peace loving terrorists.

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Israeli soldiers take down an Israeli flag at the end of a ceremony in an army base in Gush Katif, Gaza Strip, September 11, 2005. (Nir Elias/Reuters)

Speaking about the withdrawal from Gaza, former Finance Minister Binyamin Netanyahu warned: "Like at the time of the Oslo agreements, we are witnessing a general euphoria and the internaitonal community hastens to praise a Prime Minister who makes territorial concessions that go beyond imagination. And like Oslo, we will regain consciousness and we will pay a very heavy price."

Excited Palestinian children run to the fence around the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 11, 2005.

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Excited Palestinian children throw stones at Israeli soldiers on the other side of the fence around the Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip September 11, 2005.

Abu Mazen is expected to enforce order and rein in militant groups which refuse to disarm.

Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom told UN Secretary General Kofi Annan that the preservation of the Gaza Strip synagogues was a moral and ethical test for the Palestinian Authority.

And so... it begins...

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Supporters of the terrorist group Hamas wave flags in celebration, as the synagogue of the former Jewish settlement of Netzarim burns, in the Gaza Strip, September 12, 2005. (AFP/Thomas Coex)

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Palestinian terrorists armed with rocket-propelled grenades burn the former Jewish settlement of Netzarim in the northern Gaza strip September 12, 2005.

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Terrorists celebrate the burning of Jewish holy places in former Jewish settlement of Netzarim, south of Gaza City, early Monday, Sept. 12, 2005

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Terrorists wave flags atop the burning synagogue in the former Jewish settlement of Netzarim in northern Gaza strip September 12, 2005.

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Terrorists burn and destroy a synagogue in the evacuated Jewish settlement of Netzarim near Gaza City early Monday, Sept. 12, 2005.

Dawn comes to Gaza on the first day of Palestinian occupation, and the light of day shows the world what we can expect in the days to come:

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Armed Palestinian terrorists are reflected on a mirror on the ceiling as they survey the destruction of a synagogue in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim, Gaza Strip, September 12, 2005.

Hamas vowed to continue its armed struggle until all Palestinian land was freed from occupation, despite Israel's historic withdrawal from the Gaza Strip.

Obviously, Hamas is not doing battle alone...

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A Palestinian Islamic Jihahd terrorist, holding a rocket propelled grenade launcher, stands in triumph on top of a synagogue in the former Jewish settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip on Monday Sept. 12, 2005.

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One of Abu Mazen's Palestinian policemen runs with a national flag behind the smashed doors of an Israeli synagogue in the former Israeli settlement of Neve Dekalim in the southern Gaza Strip.

Peace loving Palestinians today, in Gaza.

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"This is the ultimate proof of the terrible future we can expect from the terrorists of Gaza." -- Knesset Member Shaul Yahalom

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September 04, 2005

No one is safe in Palestine

What happens when a palestinian woman falls in love with a Christian? Well. First, her family kills her to restore their honor, and then...

At least 14 houses belonging to Christian residents of Taybeh, a West Bank village northeast of Ramallah, were torched by Muslims from neighboring Dir Jarir on Sunday, to avenge what they termed the dishonor of a Muslim woman.

According to Taybeh residents, several dozen young men from Dir Jarir descended on their village before dawn, torched the homes and destroyed a great deal of other property.

"The young men, who were holding Molotov cocktails, threw them at the houses, which began to go up in flames, one after another," said Buthaina Sha'aban, a Taybeh resident and the sister of the town's mayor. "They vandalized parked cars and beat village residents who went out into the streets. Entire families were thrown into the street after their homes were torched. Not much remains of their property."

The Mayor's sister went on to say, "We urge all international, Israeli and Palestinian actors to intervene and protect village residents from the Muslim rage."

Yeah. Right. Good luck with that.

Cross-posted at IsraPundit.

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August 28, 2005

For This We Gave Up Gaza

Terrorist Attack in Israel

A suicide bomber rocked the center of the Negev capital of Be'er Sheva early Sunday, wounding at least 48 people, two of them seriously, in the first such terror attack since Israel began its withdrawal from the Gaza Strip earlier this month.

The bomber had aroused the suspicions of the driver of a crowded Number 9 bus. Asked by the bomber if his bus went to Soroka, the driver directed him to another area, then alerted security guards, who pursued the attacker until he set off the bomb.

Witnesses said the alertness of the driver and the guards prevented what could have been a much more costly attack. The explosion occurred during the morning rush hour at the start of the Israeli work week.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast, which came three days after the Islamic Jihad had sworn "painful" revenge for a raid in which IDF troops killed five Palestinians in their hideout in the West Bank city of Tulkarm.

But Army Radio quoted unnamed security officials saying Sunday that the Hamas organization in Hebron is believed to have launched the attack.

The bus driver told Israel Radio the suicide bomber was carrying a heavy bag and drew his suspicion.

"I was suspicious of him, he had a large back pack and a plastic bag in his hand," a witness who identified himself as a bus driver named Rami told Israel Radio. "I pointed him out to the guard. He was about 20 meters from the bus when he blew up. It was a huge explosion, very big," he said.

The bomber then detonated the explosives, seriously wounding the two guards. The wounded were all taken to Soroka Hospital in the city.

Yehuda Shoshan, a paramedic, said the two security guards were critically wounded. "They were suffering from shrapnel wounds and burns all over their bodies," he told Channel 10 TV.

And so it begins continues.

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August 21, 2005

What now?

Radio Al-Aqsa, Hamas' radio station, continues to broadcast crude hate-mongering songs inciting terrorism and violence against Israel, and songs praising and encouraging members of the Izzadine al-Qassam Battalions, the terrorist-operative wing of the organization.

"We will be victorious over Sharon, and you will realize that tomorrow with the help of Allah. The Izzadine al-Qassam Battalions will make you tremble in Haifa, in Tel Aviv. They will strike you in Safed, in Acre.

Wait for us in Jaffa, Haifa, Tel Aviv, Ashkelon. The knights of Gaza are coming. Our beloved sons of Palestine, we make no distinction between [Israeli-controlled] Palestine and [the West Bank and Gaza Strip] Palestine. There is no difference between Jaffa and Gaza, between the Galilee and Hebron. Hamas will leave Gaza and break out throughout Palestine to show the way of jihad, which will bring our nation to its summit. Oh sons of Zion, the defeat you suffered in Gaza is just the beginning."

it says... You will never return. We will drive you out [by force] of the belly of the earth and you will [also] disappear from the surface of the earth. In other words... we will force you to disappear entirely.

Yes, Hamas, the terror group that makes up a major portion of Palestinian Government, has launched a public relations campaign in the Palestinian Authority, taking credit for the withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and vowing to bring terror to “Haifa and Tel Aviv” until Israel is defeated and all of Palestine is returned to the Arabs.

it says... Israel will no longer exist

So. What now, Ariel Sharon? What now?

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August 18, 2005

Lazer Beams

In these days of sadness and horror, I found a bit of comfort at Lazer Beams, the internet home of Rabbi Lazer Brody. I thought I would share:

The magnificent people of Am Yisroel!

Tattered, torn, but still flying

Out of the ashes of Gush Katif, the glowing embers of the world's most noble people illuminate the world. The day's images from Gush Katif include soldiers joining anti-withdrawal protesters in prayer before evicting them; an elderly rabbi hugging a Torah scroll as he's being escorted away; a young man reading from his prayer book as soldiers carry him to a bus. Only in Israel, can you find border police gently loading diapers and toys onto buses for evacuation. Few of the soldiers, neither men nor women, performed their duties with dry eyes. There is no nation like you, Israel!

Read more.

Game over, or new beginning?

Settler departing from his home in the Alei Sinai
village of Gush Katif, with Sefer Torah in hand

Some are saying that the game's over. I disagree; everything that Hashem does is for the absolute best. People now know that neither side of secular Zionism - whether Labor or Likud - can be trusted. Religious Zionist leaders now realize that for years, they bet on the wrong horse. The tribulations of recent weeks have brought all of Hashem's faithful together, in a new unity. The growing Torah alliance will flourish, G-d willing, and lead the way to the final redemption of our people and our homeland.

Read more.

Thank you Rabbi Brody, for sharing your wisdom with us, and for helping me find a moment of peace during this difficult and painful time.

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August 16, 2005

My Sentiments Exactly


Nothing else to say.

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August 14, 2005

SoFla Solidarity

Miami Tisha B'Av Prayer Vigil Video
Click above!

On Saturday, August 13, 2005, at Midnight, more than 300 people attended a candlelight vigil was held outside the office building housing the Israeli Consulate, in downtown Miami. The night of August 13th corresponds to one of the most auspicious days in the Jewish calendar - the 9th of Av (“Tisha B’av”).

At a time when Jews around the world mourn and lament the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem and calamities that befell the Jewish People throughout history, we raised our voices in prayer.

Photo by Dean Lautermilch. More photos here.

Rally coordinator Jon Kowal stated, “On this day of mourning and fasting, we pray that our Jewish Leaders in Israel will, at this eleventh hour, have a change of heart and that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will abide by the platform on which he was elected, as expressed in his statements that Jews of Gush Katif are essential to the Safety and Security of the State of Israel and not to give in to terrorism.”

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From Jerusalem

Earlier today, I received these photos from a friend in Jerusalem. She was on the streets, along with several hundred others, most of whom were victims of the expulsion edicts issued by the Israeli Government.

The sign says: "The refugees of Netzer Chazani have no place to sleep at night"

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August 12, 2005

Today Gaza - Tomorrow Jerusalem

TODAY GAZA - TOMORROW JERUSALEM: The PA Terrorist infrastructure is prepared for the next step in pushing Jews out of their Holiest Cities- Jerusalem and Hebron. All those who have remained silent about the Disengagement Plan have now heard from the mouth of the PA Terror Regime themselves exactly what their Plan is. George Bush knows it. Ariel Sharon knows it. Mofaz knows it. Peres knows it. Mazuz knows it. All assurances they gave that this "Pullout" of Jews was not a first step to other expulsions and surrenders of Land to terror were undemocratic decisions based on false rationales. They know that once the precedence of expelling Jews from this site is set, other Expulsions from other Jewish cities can be easily achieved.

ATTENTION SOUTH FLORIDA: The time to speak up is now.

JOIN US IN PRAYER: On Saturday, August 13, 2005, at Midnight, a candlelight vigil will be held outside the office building housing the Israeli Consulate, 100 N. Biscayne Blvd. in downtown Miami. The night of August 13th corresponds to one of the most auspicious days in the Jewish calendar - the 9th of Av (“Tisha B’av”). Jews around the world mourn and lament the destruction of the two Temples in Jerusalem and calamities that befell the Jewish People throughout history. Rally coordinator Jon Kowal stated, “On this day of mourning and fasting, we pray that our Jewish Leaders in Israel will, at this eleventh hour, have a change of heart and that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will abide by the platform on which he was elected, as expressed in his statements that Jews of Gush Katif are essential to the Safety and Security of the State of Israel and not to give in to terrorism.”

SIGN YOUR NAME TO SOUTH FLORIDA'S PROCLAMATION TO THE ISRAELI GOVERNMENT: On Monday, August 15, 2005, at 7:00 PM a second Solidarity Rally at the Torch of Friendship in Miami will demonstrate support of the heroic Jewish pioneer families of Gush Katif – Gaza, and against Sharon's suicidal plan to expel over 10,000 Jews in the Gaza District and northern Samaria. The Torch of Friendship is located on Biscayne Boulevard between NE 3rd and NE 4th Streets in downtown Miami.

The Alliance for Eretz Yisrael will gather signatures to a Special Proclamation urging Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to reconsider his plan to surrender the sacred Land of Israel into terrorist hands. The Special Proclamation will be delivered directly to the Israeli Government by rally organizers by placing it into the hands of Consul General of Israel, Dr. Yitschak Ben Gad and to be sent to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

Israeli retreat in the face of Islamic terrorism will have a severe worldwide effect, as terrorists are emboldened with the reward of territory for terror. The result: Gaza will be become a Hamas mini-state - a headquarters for a new wave of terrorism. The seaport and airport will be used to freely import weapons and ammunition to destroy Israel and to supply more suicide bombers to fight American soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan.

For more information regarding the South Florida Rally, Midnight Israeli Consulate Prayer Vigil, Saturday Prayer Vigils taking place in area synagogues, please visit www.letmypeoplestay.org or for solidarity events around the world, please visit www.telavivrally.com

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August 05, 2005

Cycle of Violence

Israel develops highly sophisticated non-lethal weapons so that they can avoid injuring Palestinian civilians in close quarters:

The Israeli military said Sunday it is changing riot control methods, replacing its sometimes lethal rubber-coated steel pellets with compressed sand bullets.

... and the Palestinians fire rockets into a crowd of 50,000 Israelis:

Hamas tonight fired a rocket in the direction of an anti-Gaza withdrawal rally that attracted tens of thousands of supporters who are planning to march momentarily toward Gaza's Jewish communities. About 50,000 Israelis congregated here in Sderot.

Those murderers ended up killing a 3 year old Palestinian boy when one of the rockets went astray. The Israelis do everything possible to avoid harming Palestinians, the Palestinians fire rockets into crowds to indiscriminately kill both Israelis and Palestinians, but somehow it's a cycle of violence that both sides are equally responsible for.

So says Omri, and he's right.

Meanwhile... the San Fran Chronicle says:

Seventeen-year-old Osama Abu Asi knows what Hamas stands for: swimming lessons, horseback riding, potato sack races and other summertime fun -- including religious education and paramilitary training.

What else does Hamas stand for?

"They also learn how to sing "intifada songs," including one urging them to "kill Zionists wherever they are, in the name of God."

Just in case you had any doubts.

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July 31, 2005

Six Years of Terror???

According to General Security Service Director Yuval Diskin, Israel has been attacked by Palestinian Arab terrorists 25,375 times since October 2000.

Think about it: that equates to one terrorist attack every 90 minutes.

The world forgets that the first arab sponsored terrorist attack upon Jews occurred in 1920, long before the establishment of Israel and long before there were any so-called palestinians.

For over eighty years, the Jews have suffered at the hands of these monsters.

Now the United States wants the Israelis to give bullets to their Palestinian Partners in Peace.

Enough!

There can be only one solution, The Elon Peace Initiative.

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July 28, 2005

On the Road to Gush Katif

"We say to the entire world: Today Gaza, tomorrow Jerusalem." - Ahmed Qurei, known as Abu Ala, the prime minister of the Palestinian Authority.

According to the most senior Hamas member in Gaza, Mahmoud al Zahar, the arabs are getting Gaza because their terrorism campaign is successful:

"Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave." That is because of the "effective armed struggle."

According to the most senior Hamas member in Gaza, Mahmoud al Zahar, its time for step two:

Zahar said the process needs to continue -- until Jews also leave the entire West Bank and all of Israel.

"They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians," Zahar said in an interview at his home in Gaza. "This is because they are defeated here."

Hamas will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region, said Zahar.

Is anyone listening? Yes. Some of us are.

יהודי לא מגרש יהודי

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July 24, 2005

Rice does Israel - Again

Condi Rice is back in Israel. Why?

Well, Condi is in Israel because she is worried that Sharon might not be able to force them there irksome right wing extremist radical Jews to stick to the "peace plan" and give up their homes and land to arab terrorists Israel's partners in peace right quick.

Condi is worried that them there irksome Jews might view the constant exploding arabs and rocket and mortar attacks on Israel as an indication that the cease fire is a farce and the arab terrorists Israel's partners in peace really do want to kill them.

Condi really should explain things better to the average Jew, perhaps if she did, they might not be irksome about arab terrorists Israel's partners in peace. Yes, Condi should speak the average Israeli, and she should start with the family of Dov and Rachel Kol.

Dov Kol, 58, and his wife Rachel, 53, were murdered today by arab terrorists Israel's partners in peace while returning to their home in Jerusalem after an extended-family Sabbath in Ganei Tal.

The Kols are survived by three children: Hila, 24, who has a one-month-old daughter, the Kols' only grandchild; Tamar, 17, and Yehonatan, 15. The family will be conveniently gathered together at the double funeral today.

Go, Condi, talk to them about cease fires and partners in peace.

Don't like that idea Condi? Well then, why don't you go talk peace to the 18-year-old terrorist partner in peace who was picked up Friday night by the IDF, wearing a five-kilogram (11-pound) suicide belt in a field in Kibbutz Nir Am near Sderot in the Negev. He's still alive, only because the device failed.

He was a member of Abu Mazen's Fatah party, which committed itself at Sharm el-Sheikh in February to cease from terrorist attacks.

Cross-posted at IsraPundit.

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July 23, 2005

Well said!

The following picture is from The Jewish News collection of photos taken at the Miami Solidarity Rally for Gush Katif on July 19, 2005:

More pictures from the Rally here.

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July 22, 2005

In the name of peace

She goes to jail:

He goes to jail:

While he goes free:


and he goes free:


and he goes free:


and he goes free:


and he goes free:

Wrong has become right.

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July 21, 2005

Same Shit, Different Day

Palestinian sources reported Wednesday evening that 12-year-old Yazan Juhar and his cousin Hamza went to a stream near the West Bank village of Kfar Krayot in order to fly kites, at which point four settlers attacked them, and one stabbed the 12-year-old.

"We were flying kites when all of sudden we saw four settlers from afar getting closer to us. We started to run, but as we did, I saw one settler, a tall man with a large body, stab Yazan in the neck." - Hamza Juhar

Except... Palestinian officials soon admitted that the boy was killed by arabs and not by Jews. Ooops.

No matter, the well oiled arab propaganda machine will continue to chug along. Yazan Juhar will be placed on the list of "innocent palestinians" who were murdered by the evil Jews, along with Mohammed al-Dura, who was killed by the PLO and the three-year old Arab girl in Yesha who was killed by a faulty Kassam rocket.

The same list that includes the palestinians who kill themselves with bomb belts, after all, to the palestinians, killing yourself in order to kill some Jewish school kids is the same as being killed by those Jewish school kids and you get on the list too.

The same list that includes those killed in work accidents (preparing and/or transporting bombs to kill Jews which pre-detonate and kill them), after all, to the palestinians, if you mean to die in order to kill some Jews, and you screw it up, it counts as being killed by Jews and you get on the list too.

The same list that includes those palestinians killed by palestinians for "collaborating with the evil Jews," after all, if you try to keep a palestinian from killing Jews, and the palestinians kill you for it, it counts as being killed by Jews and you get on the list too.

So, what the heck, let's give them a state, it will bring peace, right?

Wrong.

According to the most senior Hamas member in Gaza, Mahmoud al Zahar, the arabs are getting Gaza because their terrorism campaign is successful:

"Two years ago, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon described the Gaza Strip settlement of Netzarim as a vital part of Israel's national security and now he is going to leave." That is because of the "effective armed struggle."

According to the most senior Hamas member in Gaza, Mahmoud al Zahar, its time for step two:

Zahar said the process needs to continue -- until Jews also leave the entire West Bank and all of Israel.

"They are going to leave [Gaza], not because this is a gift from Israel. This is because they failed to confront our people, so don't describe their withdrawal from here...as a gift for the Palestinians," Zahar said in an interview at his home in Gaza. "This is because they are defeated here."

Hamas will never recognize the existence of a Jewish State in the region, said Zahar.

Is anyone listening?

Cross-posted at IsraPundit.

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July 20, 2005

Miami Solidarity Rally

The Miami Rally was 600 strong, with people of all faiths coming together in Solidarity with Gush Katif, from all over South Florida and some from as far away as Orlando and Fort Myers. Attendance was twice our expectations, especially considering that we put this Rally together in a week and day!

The purpose of the Rally was to send a message to the powers that be, in Israel and here in the United States of America, that the expulsion of Jews from their homes and their land in Israel is an abomination and must not happen.

We had a live hook up with Gush Katif, Rachel Saperstein encouraged all to come to Israel and join in the struggle, and recent recorded announcements from Danielle Weiss, Mayor of Kidumim and Chaver Kenneset Arial Eldad. Local speakers included Heather Andron, of AFSI, and Capt Gary Kosak of the International Christian Zionists. Kayla Kowal, age 16, led us in prayer for two 16 years old girls, Nofar Horowitz and Rachel ben Abu who were both murdered by a terrorist last week in Netanyana and for the speedy recovery of Yigal ben Zahava and Sh'altiel ben Sara who were both injured in mortar shell attack in N'vei Dekalim this week.

During the Prayer for Gush Katif led by the M.C. Roni Raab, host of the popular "Shalom South Florida" Radio station, a beautiful rainbow appeared in the sky above us, a strong reminder that G-d has not abandoned us.

Shlomi Boxer's Yachad band, reminded us all that during times of distress, the Jewish response is to sing and dance, and dance we did!

As one, we raised our voices, calling upon the powers that be in Israel, and here in America, to "Let My People Stay."

Please click on the above collage for more photos of the Miami Rally.

The Broward Sun Sentinel pre-Rally article is here. The Miami Herald ignored us. The Miami Sun Post put us on the front page, with the inside story here. The Florida Jewish News covered us here, with lots of excellent photos here, including photos of the rainbow. Arutz Sheva covered us here.

My most heartful thanks to everyone who attended.

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July 19, 2005

Clarity of Vision

The day of reckoning has come. Where will you be?

How much longer will Israel continue to plan military defense operations against its peaceful citizens while ignoring the missile rampage from its true enemies? The clear feeling in Israel is: not much longer. - Shlomo Wollins

On the Road to Gush Katif, July 19, 2004

Hell is a Jewish state devoid of Jewish values that picks up where the anti-Semites, the pogromers, and the exilers left off. Hell is a Jewish prime minister who has become a cannibal of his own people. Hell is when a country has lost its will to exist and begins a process of national suicide. Hell is when Jews with Jewish values have become outcast in their own land. Hell is when the Jewish state becomes worse than the exile. - Gershon Perlman

Where do you stand? I stand with Israel! I stand with Gush Katif!

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July 15, 2005

Nothing is Not an Option

Corporal Avi Bieber is now in an Israeli Army prison serving the maximum sentence of 56 days because he refused to beat Jews.

IDF Cpl. Avi Bieber became the first to refuse to take part in Sharon's evacuation of the Gaza Strip was motivated by a love of the G-d-given Land of Israel.

As violent scuffles ensued, Cpl. Avi Bieber, felt compelled to cry out against the beating of the protesters, young and old alike. "Soldiers do not beat Jews! A Jew does not expel a Jew!" Bieber cried out and refused orders after seeing his officers beating Jewish residents. He was immediately relieved of his weapon and taken into custody.

"Jews are hitting Jews here," Bieber told the television cameras as he was led to a waiting army jeep and taken into custody. "This is not right. This is not justice."

According to witnesses, although Bieber's refusal was the most public, fellow soldiers in his combat engineer unit shared his sentiments with regard to the task given to them. In fact, twelve of his comrades informed their commander that very evening of the fact that they refuse to take part in any future operations connected with the Disengagement Plan.

Cpl. Avi Bieber was sentenced to 56 days of imprisonment for allegedly insulting his commanders and refusing to fulfill orders. Last week, his 56 day sentence was cut in half due to flaws in the legal procedures preceding his speedy sentencing. Soon after, a second hearing was held and the IDF commander of the Gaza region added 28 days back to his sentence.

Cpl. Avi Bieber has made his stand against the abomination that is happening in Israel as its government gives in and gives over its land to create what can only become a terrorist state. Jews throughout the world are saddened and sickened to watch as Israel puts itself and its people at the mercy of the terrorists who are sworn to destroy Israel and kill all Jews.

The main street in the Gush Katif community of Gadid has been renamed Avi Bieber Road in recognition of the IDF soldier serving jail time for publicly refusing Disengagement orders.

Please visit Friends of Avi to express your support for this brave man.

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July 10, 2005

Soldiers do not beat Jews!

Corporal Avi Bieber will stand trial again in a disciplinary hearing because of his refusal to beat Jews.

IDF Cpl. Avi Bieber became the first to refuse to take part in Sharon's evacuation of the Gaza Strip was motivated by a love of the G-d-given Land of Israel.

As violent scuffles ensued, Cpl. Avi Bieber, felt compelled to cry out against the beating of the protesters, young and old alike. "Soldiers do not beat Jews! A Jew does not expel a Jew!" Bieber cried out and refused orders after seeing his officers beating Jewish residents. He was immediately relieved of his weapon and taken into custody.

Cpl. Avi Bieber was sentenced to 56 days of imprisonment for allegedly insulting his commanders and refusing to fulfill orders.

However, last week the Chief Army Prosecutor cancelled his conviction due to the possibility that the legal process was procedurally defective. This evening, he will be judged by the Commander of the Gaza Brigade, Brig. General Aviv Cochavi.

UPDATE: Corporal Avi Bieber demanded that Brig. Gen. Aviv Cochavi disqualify himself as the judge in his case. Bieber claims that Cochavi is not objective and has already made his decision when, in a press conference, he called Bieber “insubordinate” and claimed that he insulted his superiors. If Cochavi refuses to disqualify himself, Bieber plans to turn to the High Court to disqualify the entire legal procedure.

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Worldwide Solidarity Rally


On July 19th a special event in Tel Aviv will shout "NO!" to the forcible removal of Jews from their homes and the giving of these homes to terrorists. The Tel Aviv event will be simultaneously broadcast by satellite worldwide.

One major broadcast will be held in New York at Times Square between 41st and 42nd Street. The program is expected to draw thousands of Americans who firmly oppose the expelling and transferring of 8,000 Jewish residents from their homes and businesses in Gaza.

Participate in one of the 40 rallies throughout the world including Neve Dekalim, Homesh, London, Paris, Melbourne, Sao Paulo, Montreal, Miami, Chicago, Los Angeles, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Toronto, San Diego, and San Francisco.

FOR MORE INFORMATION go to Tel Aviv Rally

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July 04, 2005

How can there be any doubt?

It is a terrorist state, it has always been a terrorist state and it will always be a terrorist state.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ahmed Qorei (Abu Ala) said that discussions about a national unity government joined by Hamas, Fatah, and Islamic Jihad will begin this week.

--snip--

According to an article posted on the Hamas Web site, the use of Kassam rockets in the West Bank will become its ''deterrence weapon'' in the next phase of its struggle against Israel.

"The distance between Kalkilya and Tel Aviv is 7 kilometers, the disance between Tulkerem and Netnaya is only 4 kilometers. Ramallah and Bethlehem are also close to Jerusalem. All of Israel will be within our reach" reads the statement.

Guysen Israel News.

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July 03, 2005

Thank G-d for Ariel Sharon

Thank G-d for Ariel Sharon
by: Shmuel Sackett
International Director of Manhigut Yehudit

He has woken up the "right wing."

He has invigorated the youth.

He has created a level of excitement in Israel that is unparalleled!

He has brought people from America to Yesha in a show of solidarity and support.

He has increased the population in Gush Katif, Sa-Nur and Homesh more in the last year than in the previous 5 years combined!

His name is Ariel Sharon.

But wait... there's more!

Thanks to Ariel Sharon, the impossible dream has become real. Less than two years ago we were depressed, beaten and pessimistic about our future. Today we have hope. Today we have a vision and today we have a plan.

The new and exciting energy that exists in Israel will be channeled into the creation of a real and proud Jewish State! The frustrated IDF (Israeli Defense Forces) will soon emerge with the G-d given Jewish power it always had, but was afraid to use, and the Jewish People will finally rise to the challenge of spreading G-d's light and wisdom throughout the world!

Why all of a sudden? What did Ariel Sharon do to cause this revolutionary and historic shift?

Simple... he challenged us. He put us up against the wall and made us rethink exactly who we were. Are we proud Jews with an unbreakable bond to the Land or just homeowners who move out when the neighborhood gets bad? Are we connected to the promise G-d gave to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob or is it all just lip service? Do we truly believe in the Torah -- and all that it says -- or do we bend the rules for convenience sake?

Read the rest here and remember... everything happens for a reason. Am Yisrael Chai!

Isaiah 31:4 For thus saith the LORD unto me: Like as the lion, or the young lion, growling over his prey, though a multitude of shepherds be called forth against him, will not be dismayed at their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them; so will the LORD of hosts come down to fight upon mount Zion, and upon the hill thereof.

Isaiah 31:5 As birds hovering, so will the LORD of hosts protect Jerusalem; He will deliver it as He protecteth it, He will rescue it as He passeth over.

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June 27, 2005

A Jew Does Not Expel a Jew

IDF Cpl. Avi Bieber became the first to refuse to take part in Sharon's evacuation of the Gaza Strip was motivated by a love of the G-d-given Land of Israel.

As violent scuffles ensued, Avi, who according to his father did not plan on publicly refusing orders, felt compelled to cry out against the beating of the protesters, young and old alike. “Soldiers do not beat Jews! A Jew does not expel a Jew!” Bieber cried out and refused orders after seeing his officers beating Jewish residents. He was immediately relieved of his weapon and taken into custody.

Twelve of his comrades have now refused orders as well.

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June 19, 2005

Suffer the Children

"I imagine that it's not the dream of Palestinian mothers to see their children become suicide bombers." - Condoleeza Rice

With his mother’s encouragement ringing in his ears, Mohammed Farhat attacked a Jewish seminary, killing five young students before he received his desired "martyrdom" at the hands of Israeli soldiers. His mother later stated in an interview that she "always longed to be the mother of a shahid (martyr) ... let all my sons be shahids."

The New York Times reported in March of 2004, this is not an unusual sentiment: "Many Palestinian parents have praised their sons and daughters for carrying out suicide attacks, hailing them as heroes and martyrs."

17-year-old Iyad al Masri died when the suicide bomb strapped to his body exploded prematurely killing only himself. His family expressed outrage and demanded an investigation, not of the decision to recruit a 17 year old boy for a suicide operation, but of the poor planning that left "no chance of success ". They complained that he was sent during a time of curfew on the city and their son had no experience leaving the city during a curfew "which made it impossible for him to reach his target."

After a 22-year-old suicide bomber two months earlier killed 21 Israelis at a Tel Aviv discotheque, his father announced: "I am very happy and proud of what my son did and, frankly, am a bit jealous... I wish I had done it myself."

Another Palestinian mother was quoted in the London Times: "I am happy that [my 13-year-old son] has been martyred. I will sacrifice all my [12] sons and daughters to Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem."

Hiba Daraghmeh was a suicide bomber. She detonated the explosives around her waist outside the Amakim Shopping Mall in the northern Israeli town of Afula, killing three Israelis and wounding 48. And Hiba's family say they are proud of her.

A video released by Hamas shows a proud mother taking up arms beside her favorite son. As he prepared to go off and commit suicide in order to kill some Jews, she said "This is the best day of my life."

The mother of the first female Palestinian suicide bomber has said she is proud of her daughter and hopes more women will follow her example.

On March 5, 2003, Mahmoud Hamdan Kwasma detonated the explosives belt he was wearing inside an Israeli bus, in the city of Haifa. Sixteen Israelis, including Arabs and Druze young people, were murdered. Scores more were wounded, many of them schoolchildren and students. Many of the injured remain in critical condition. The mother of the suicide bomber, described as "Um Shadi," praised her son's deeds, and refused to act as if in mourning. "I am proud of my son's deed" said she.

Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, Condoleezza Rice said:

"What does that picture of a baby dressed as a suicide bomber say about the hopes of Palestinians for life with the Israeli people as good neighbors? You know, we've all, in our lives, had experiences with hatred. I certainly have in Birmingham, Alabama. And it all starts with recognizing that the other person is human and deserves a future. If you're going to send your babies and your teenagers to kill other teenagers, something has broken down in this concept of humanity."

So, Condi, when did you decide to consort with terrorists and reward them for the murder of innocent people? Indeed, it would appear that something has broken down in your concept of humanity.

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Surprise!

Surprise: As Israel continues its plan to appease the Islamic death cults by relinquishing Israeli sovereignty, Condi Rice chastised Israel's efforts towards peace once again.

Surprise: The IDF and the Shabak (General Security Services) arrested an Islamic Jihad terrorist who was planning an attack in Israel. Turns out this terrorist was among the hundreds of prisoners released by Israel last February in its terrorist appeasement efforts.

Surprise: Palestinians fired Kassam rockets at Jewish communities in northern Gaza but they didn't manage to kill any Jews this time.

Surprise: Four Palestinians were wounded - one shot - in clashes with Israeli citizens near the Gaza community of Neveh Dekalim.

Surprise: The Palestinian Interior Ministry immediately condemned Israel for allowing its citizens to defend themselves, while neglecting to condemn the Kassam rocket attack.

Surprise: Near Jenin (Samaria), security forces uncovered a bomb factory and neutralized 50 kilograms of ready to use explosives.

Surprise: Sixteen year old Halil Hashash was apprehended by soldiers at the Hawarah Checkpoint south of Shechem with five pipe bombs readied for detonation, complete with shrapnel to maximize devastation when detonated.

Surprise: A 23-year-old Upper Nazareth area resident was shot and lightly wounded this morning after he began stoning Jews on G’dud HaIvri Street in Tel Aviv.

Surprise: An IDF Soldier fell victim today to a terrorist shooting attack in southern Gaza. He died of his injuries in Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva.

Cross-posted at Engage - For a Secure Israel

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June 12, 2005

Palestinian Acceptance Program

Dear Concerned Country:

Thank you for your criticism of the treatment of the hodge podge of arabs currently occupying Israeli land.

Israel takes these matters seriously, and your opinion was heard loud and clear. You'll be pleased to learn that, thanks to the concerns of Countries like yours, we are creating the "Palestinian Acceptance Program," to be implemented immediately.

In accordance with the guidelines of this new program, we will place Palestinians in various Countries around the world, in order that they might receive the fair and equitable treatment suggested by those Countries in their condemnations of Israel.

Your Country will receive several hundred thousand Palestinians, the number of which will be proportionate to number of condemnations you have voiced against Israel. Yes, your Palestinians have been already been selected and scheduled for transportation under heavily armed guard to your Country's border next Monday.

These Palestinians are to be accepted as full citizens of your Country in accordance with the demands made in your condemnations of Israel.

Weekly inspections will take place to ensure that your standards of care for these Palestinians are commensurate with those you so strongly recommended in your condemnations of Israel. Although these Palestinians are sociopaths and extremely violent, we hope that your sensitivity to what you described as their "natural reaction to oppression" will help them overcome these character flaws.

Jews and Christians are offensive to your Palestinians, and you will therefore be required to relocate any and all such Jews and Christians from your Country to a place far away enough so as not to offend the sensibilities of your Palestinians, you might want to consider transporting them to the moon. Failure to do so will result in the immediate declaration of an intifada, and the lives (and the land) of all your citizens will be forfeit.

The declaration of an intifada means that the Palestinians are now allowed to kill as many of your citizens as possible, using any and all ways and means available. In accordance with your condemnation of Israel for taking actions to protect her citizens from murder, you may not make any attempt to deter your Palestinians from slaughtering your citizens in great numbers, and you must to allow them to do so without any hinderance. In fact, you may want to provide them with bus passes. Failure to do so will also result in the immediate declaration of yet another intifada.

Your Palestinians will be making a wide variety of explosive devices from common household products, so you will be required to keep those items readily available so as to not offend their murderous religious beliefs. Failure to do so will result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

In accordance with Palestinian religious beliefs, one of the first things your Palestinians will want to do upon their arrival in your Country will be to destroy any and all places of worship in your Country and to build a mosque on top of the land where they once stood. All religious books other than the Koran will be burned or otherwise destroyed. Any attempt to stop them will also result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

You would do well to remember that once the mosque is standing, none of your citizens will permitted to enter the grounds, lest they defile such a holy place. Should any citizen of your Country who is not a Palestinian step foot on the spot, another intifada will be declared.

Your Palestinains will also smuggle additional weapons and arabs from other countries to support the intifada(s) and help them kill your citizens. Any such arabs who manage to sneak into your borders to kill your citizens will immediately be considered just another one of your Palestinians. Construction of a border fence to keep them out and/or the failure to make these new Palestinians welcome in your Country will result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

Of course, some Palestinians prefer to murder by stoning, this is part and parcel of their religious beliefs and you must allow it. You should therefore provide easily accessible piles of rocks for this purpose, failure to do so would certainly offend their religious beliefs and result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

We expect that you will offer your Palestinians their own state within your Country, as you demanded that Israel do. We also expect that in order to establish the Palestinian State within your Country, you will remove a number of your citizens from their homes and businesses and put those citizens in tents, caravans and/or jail if they resist, in order to provide your Palestinians with the free housing they deserve. Failure to do so will also result in the immediate declaration of another intifada.

Thanks again for your concern. We truly appreciate it when Countries like yours, who are so knowledgeable, keep us informed of the proper way to appease terrorists.

You take good care of your Palestinians - and remember... we'll be watching. Good luck!

The Citizens of Israel

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June 07, 2005

Code-Name: Opera

June 7th, 1981

Thanks to the 1979 Revolution that toppled the Shah of Iran, Israel's air force was able to secure some of the 75 F-16s originally ordered by Iran from the United States.

Israel had learned that Iraq was about to receive a shipment of enriched uranium for its reactor near Baghdad -- enough to build four or five Hiroshima-size bombs, the reactor was 600 miles from Israel. Then Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the attack to occur before the uranium arrived and the reactor went "hot," at which point bombing would have scattered radioactive waste over Baghdad.

Eight Israeli F-16’s took off in the late afternoon from an Israeli air base in the Sinai. Behind them six Israeli F-15’s took off, as well, to provide cover for a very special and important mission. Flying low and in a tight formation, the fighter jets passed through Jordanian and Saudi Arabian airspace undetected.

Finally, the jets enter Iraqi airspace. At 5:35 in the evening, about an hour and a half after the jets took off, they reach their target. Two minutes later Operation Opera comes to a successful conclusion. The Iraqi nuclear reactor, Osirak, has been totally destroyed.

Code-named Opera, the raid was a spectacular success.

While this operation was initially almost universally condemned by the world community, in retrospect this Israeli operation is highly praised by many.

Opera was not Israel's first preemptive act against Iraq's attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. In April 1979 unidentified saboteurs blew up reactor parts at a French port, parts awaiting shipment to Iraq. In August 1980 an Egyptian-born nuclear physicist important to Iraq's nuclear program was killed in Paris.

News of the audacious raid did not actually emerge until 24 hours later when Israel made its announcement. Only then did Iraq admit it had happened and express indignation.

One of the pilots involved was Ilan Ramon who trained as Israel's first astronaut but was killed in the Columbia shuttle disaster in 2003.

More information can be found here: Operation Opera - The Destruction of Tammuz 1

Thank you Israel!

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May 19, 2005

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Palestinian Terrorist Abu Mazen will meet with President Bush in Washington May 26. In case you were wondering why... well... according to the White House, its because Abu Mazen has done so much to lead his people merrily along the road map for Middle East peace.

Yes, Abu Mazen has proven beyond a doubt that exactly what his intentions are with regard to peace. After all, yesterday, his people fired 30 missiles into Israel communities. Whew! Good thing there is a cease fire in effect, huh?

You might wonder what else has Abu Mazen accomplished... well... Cal Thomas reports:

... one issue that is beyond debate is Abbas' failure to end the incitement to violence that President Bush mentioned nearly three years ago as a precondition for implementing the road map.

In its print and broadcast media, the Palestinian Authority has increased the level of invective against Israel, the Jewish people and the United States.

According to a report commissioned by the Center for Near East Policy Research, the level of invective, incitement, paranoia, spreading of false accusations and rumors and inflammatory sermons from Palestinian mosques has not changed under Abbas.

These include assertions from Palestinian officials and their media that Israel is planning attacks on Islamic holy sites such as the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount; charging Israel with using radiation to poison Palestinian travelers and remarks on Palestinian radio that claim "America is using her troops to uproot Islam and (true) belief from the hearts of those imprisoned in her jails."

On official Palestinian television, viewers saw three hours of non-stop incitement against Jews and Israel. And on a program called "Good Morning Jerusalem," calls were taken from viewers who berated Jews and Americans with the approval of the show's hosts.

From numerous Palestinian mosques comes rhetoric which, if used by an American preacher about anyone, would properly be condemned as bigotry and an incitement to violence.

Sheik Ibrahim Mudeiris, a paid employee of the PA, said in a sermon aired May 13 on PA TV, "Allah has tormented us with 'the people most hostile to believers' — the Jews … and the polytheists." That's code for Christians, who believe in a triune G-d. The sheik added, "You will find that the Jews were behind all civil strife in this world. The Jews are behind the suffering of the nations."

If that isn't enough incitement for the president, how about this from the same sermon: "We have ruled the world before, and by Allah, the day will come when we will rule the entire world again. The day will come when we will rule America. The day will come when we will rule Britain."

What about those "troublesome" Jews? The sheik said, "The stones and trees will want the Muslims to finish off every Jew." In case people think this is merely the ranting of a single cleric, they should visit the Palestinian Media Watch Web site where there is a full report outlining the PA's systematic justification for genocide (www.pmw.org.il/KAJ_eng.htm).

This isn't only a sermon; it is the official policy of the Palestinian government which the Bush Administration believes is capable of making peace and living side-by-side with Israel. If it weren't official policy, one would expect Abbas to denounce and silence it.

If words have meaning, the definition of "incite" should inform administration policy: "stresses a stirring up and urging on; move to action." (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary)

Sermons from Palestinian mosques, along with words and images in Palestinian media, are not the American equivalent of an editorial or opinion column, or a sermon or homily from an American church or synagogue. They are designed to stir up and move to violent action. A preponderance of sermons I have read call for the eradication of Jews, Christians and anyone else who doesn't believe as they do.

Yes, the United States of America should surely honor Abu Mazen for his successes in furthering the agenda of Islam. Why, at this rate, Abu Mazen will succeed where every one else has failed, and there will surely be peace in the Middle East, if only because all the Jews in Israel will be dead.

"You're either with us or against us in the fight against terror." -- U.S. President George W. Bush

Yes. Talk is cheap.

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May 02, 2005

Woe unto you, oh Israel!

From "A Case For Democracy":

"Now that we are entering what some have called World War IV, we must restore the moral clarity that helped win the last world war without firing a shot. We must understand the difference between fear societies and free societies, between dictators and democrats. We must understand the link between democracy and peace and between human rights and security."

"...the mechanics of democracy make democracies inherently peaceful, the mechanics of tyranny make nondemocracies inherently belligerent."

"When Freedom’s skeptics argue today that freedom cannot be 'imposed' from the outside, or that the free world has no role to play in spreading democracy around the world, I cannot but be amazed. Less than one generation has passed since the West found the Achilles heel of the Soviet Union by pursuing an activist policy that linked the rights of the Soviet people to the USSR's international standing. The same formula will work today."

Great words from a great man. And today, Natan Sharansky resigned.

Jerusalem, 23 Nissan 5765
May 2, 2005

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Office of the Prime Minister
Jerusalem


Dear Mr. Prime Minister,

I am writing to inform you of my decision to resign as Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Jerusalem.

As you know, I have opposed the disengagement plan from the beginning on the grounds that I believe any concessions in the peace process must be linked to democratic reforms within Palestinian society. Not only does the disengagement plan ignore such reforms, it will in fact weaken the prospects for building a free Palestinian society and at the same time strengthen the forces of terror.

Will our departure from Gaza encourage building a society where freedom of speech is protected, where independent courts protect individual rights and where a free market enables Palestinians to build an independent economic life beyond government control? Will our departure from Gaza end incitement in the Palestinian media or hate-filled indoctrination in Palestinian schools? Will our departure from Gaza result in the dismantling of terror groups or the dismantling of the refugee camps in which four generation of Palestinians have lived in miserable conditions?

Clearly, the answer to all these questions is no.

The guiding principle behind the disengagement plan is based on the illusion that by leaving Gaza we will leave the problems of Gaza behind us. As the familiar mantra goes "we will be here, and they will be there". Once again, we are repeating the mistakes of the past by not understanding that the key to building a stable and lasting peace with our Palestinian neighbors lies in encouraging and supporting their efforts to build a democratic society. Obviously, these changes surely will take time, but Israel is not even linking its departure from Gaza upon the initiation of the first steps in this direction.

In my view, the disengagement plan is a tragic mistake that will exacerbate the conflict with the Palestinians, increase terrorism, and dim the prospects of forging a genuine peace. Yet what turns this tragic mistake into a missed opportunity of historic proportions is the fact that as a result of changes in the Palestinian leadership and the firm conviction of the leader of the free world that democracy is essential to stability and peace - a conviction that is guiding America's actions in other places around the world - an unprecedented window of opportunity has opened. Recent events across the globe, whether in former Soviet republics like Ukraine or Kyrgyzstan, or in Arab states like Lebanon and Egypt, prove again and again the ability of democratic forces to induce dramatic change. How absurd that Israel, the sole democracy in the Middle East, still refuses to believe in the power of freedom to transform the world.

Alongside my concerns, about the danger entailed in a unilateral disengagement from Gaza, I am even more concerned about how the government's approach to disengagement is dividing Israeli society. We are heading towards a terrible rift in the nation and to my great chagrin, I feel that the government is making no serious effort to prevent it.

As Minister I share collective responsibility for every government decision. Now, when the disengagement plan is in the beginning of its implementation stages and all government institutions are exclusively focused on this process, I no longer feel that I can faithfully serve in a government whose central policy - indeed, sole raison d'etre - has become one to which I am so adamantly opposed.

I would like to thank you for our productive cooperation over the last four years. In particular, you sensitivity toward issues of concern to the Jewish People and the strong backing you gave to my efforts to combat anti-Semitism and to strengthen Israel's connection with the Diaspora made possible for the State of Israel to forge the many successes which we achieved together in these areas.

I would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for the central role you played in integrating Israel B'aliya into the Likud, a historic step of great national importance.

As in the past, I will continue my lifelong efforts to contribute to the unity and strength of the Jewish People both in Israel and in the Diaspora. I will also continue to advocate and promote the idea that freedom and democracy are essential to peace and security.

Sincerely,

Natan Sharansky

Much has been made about George W. Bush's affinity for the ideas of Soviet-dissident-turned-Israeli-politician Natan Sharansky, whose recent book with Ron Dermer, "The Case for Democracy," is subtitled "The Power of Freedom to Overcome Tyranny and Terror."

In fact, President Bush's address sounded like the Cliff Notes version of that book. Talk is cheap and it seems it is getting cheaper by the minute.

The parroting of ideas means nothing, and at the end of the road map lies the destruction of Israel.

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April 03, 2005

Living on Zionist Time

In most parts of the world, the switch away from Daylight Saving Time proceeds smoothly. But in 1999, the time change raised havoc with Palestinian terrorists.

Israel made a premature switch from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time in order to accommodate a week of pre-sunrise prayers. Palestinians refused to live on "Zionist Time." Two weeks of scheduling havoc ensued. Nobody knew the "correct" time.

At precisely 5:30pm on Sunday, two coordinated car bombs exploded in different cities, killing three terrorists who were transporting the bombs. It was initially believed that the devices had been detonated prematurely by klutzy amateurs. A closer look revealed the truth behind the explosions.

The bombs had been prepared in a Palestine-controlled area, and set to detonate on Daylight Saving Time. But the confused drivers had already switched to Standard Time. When they picked up the bombs, they neglected to ask whose watch was used to set the timing mechanism. As a result, the cars were still en-route when the explosives — one hour too early — killing three terrorists instead of two busloads of people.

Think its funny? I don't, for I have seen Three Days In Israel.

Cross posted at IsraPundit

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April 02, 2005

Peace Loving Palestinians are at it again

Inside the IDF

As the IDF eases restrictions and removes checkpoints throughout Judea, Samaria and Gaza - Arab civilians continue to be caught smuggling weapons in increasingly creative ways.


IDF soldiers discovered over 100 M16 bullets hidden in a bottle of olives being brought through the Tufah crossing by an Arab woman. The checkpoint is located in southern Gaza, between the beachfront Mouassi area and Khan Younis.


A bus of PA Arabs was stopped at the Hawara checkpoint today for a routine search that uncovered M16 bullets being smuggled into Shechem in the shoes of an old man.


IDF soldiers intercepted scores of Kalachnikov (AK-47) rifles being smuggled into Gaza from Egypt through tunnels below the Philadelphi Corridor.


Three suspicious Arab men were stopped in a vehicle on the outskirts of Shechem. They tried to outrun an IDF jeep and one attempted to flee the scene. All three were apprehended and three handguns were found in the vehicle.


IDF forces intercepted a terrorist who had infiltrated the Israeli Egyptian border Wednesday evening. On his person, dozens of handguns, a sniper rifle, multiple clips and ammunition was discovered.


Two Carbines, a Kalachnikov rifle, two clips and military binoculars discovered in the home of a Hamas terrorist in a small village outside Shechem.


A Hamas terrorist in Sawhara, southeast of Bethlehem, was discovered hiding in a cache hidden below a sink in the bathroom.


Islamic Jihad terrorist Hosni Hassan Yassin was arrested in a joint military and security services operation near Jenin. He was involved with several attempted bomb attacks on Israeli population centers as well as numerous shooting attacks in recent years


IDF soldiers discovered numerous M16 bullets hidden in a bag of nargila tobacco being brought through the Tufah crossing by an Arab woman.


An explosives factory in the Rafidiya neighborhood of Shechem was uncovered in an Arab home by the IDF. 55 pounds of explosives were found beneath the home's furniture, ready for use.


Homemade pipe-bombs discovered by the IDF near Ramallah

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March 14, 2005

Never Again?

"Hitler was great; I can't say more"

So says Udo Voigt, leader of the German far-right Nationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands (NPD), who faces inquiry for 'glorification' of Nazism. "Adolf Hitler was a great German statesman," says he, as he sits in a room darkened by bombproof shutters.

"There are no busts of the Führer in Herr Voigt’s bunker-like office, just maps of Germany as it was, various German and neo-Nazi flags and a poster that declares: “May 1945, Nothing to Celebrate.”

Herr Voigt, 52 and a former army captain, is the mastermind. Since taking charge in 1996 he has converted the NPD from a mouthpiece for embittered war veterans into "a radical voice for the silent majority". He addresses rallies using the slogan: "We are everywhere."

The NPD is widening its appeal. Last month, during the anniversary of the Dresden bombing, 8,000 neo-Nazis marched silently through the streets, and they seemed to enjoy the sympathy of many citizens.

Voigt is promising violent retaliation against any who oppose them by force. And violence is the calling card and the legacy of the nationalist movement in Germany. "We will no longer be the whipping-boys of the left," said Voigt. "Whoever attacks us, should expect to get hurt."

Voigt, and the NPD use "freedom of speech" as their basis to justify the propagation of Nazi slogans and philosophies. The NPD won more than 9 per cent of the vote in Saxony and has become a pivotal element in the Dresden parliament. Its representatives walked out of Parliament rather than stand in silence for the victims of Auschwitz.

He began by harnessing the raw energy of eastern Germany’s racist skinheads, recruiting them from pubs and placing them under near- military discipline. "More than 600 have passed through our training centers, and many of them have become our leadership cadres," he boasted, pointing at a picture of a graduation ceremony. With the help of other far-right parties it is starting to make inroads in western Germany. "We are now in the middle of society, not on the fringes."

So says Udo Voight.

Cross-posted at IsraPundit

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January 28, 2005

It wasn't the Jooos....

In case you were wondering just who it was that murdered the three-year old Arab girl in Yesha... we have the answer from Steven Plaut:

Oh how embarrassing. The anti-Israel crowd, the Jew baiters, and the tenured traitors were having a field day this morning. A 3 year old Palestinian girl had been killed this morning in the Gaza Strip and it looked like she was killed when Israeli troops returned fire at Palestinian terrorists firing at THEM. Now that, you might say, would mean the Palestinians are responsible for the girl's death, since they opened fire, and they must be held accountable for any collateral damage from Israel returning fire.

AH, but we know the real world does not work that way and the Jews are always to blame when they shoot back.

So here we were witnessing the anti-Semites of the world having a celebration without precedent of Israel being blamed for the 3 year old girl's death - when the truth comes out. It was even more embarrassing than when the truth came out that the PLO had killed the little boy Mohammed al-Dura and not Israeli troops!

It was revealed this afternoon that the girl was NOT killed by Israeli return fire. She was killed by a Kassam rocket. The Kassam rockets are PLO weapons fired into Jewish civilian areas, and the PLO has been continuing to fire tham at the Jews even during the current make-pretend ceasefire. Except that the one fired this morning had a structural default, and landed short, inside the Palestinian area of the Gaza Strip. It blew the girl to smithereens.

Hat tip: IsraPundit

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." -- PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977

Posted by LindaSoG at 09:12 PM

It wasn't the Jooos....

In case you were wondering just who it was that murdered the three-year old Arab girl in Yesha... we have the answer from Steven Plaut:

Oh how embarrassing. The anti-Israel crowd, the Jew baiters, and the tenured traitors were having a field day this morning. A 3 year old Palestinian girl had been killed this morning in the Gaza Strip and it looked like she was killed when Israeli troops returned fire at Palestinian terrorists firing at THEM. Now that, you might say, would mean the Palestinians are responsible for the girl's death, since they opened fire, and they must be held accountable for any collateral damage from Israel returning fire.

AH, but we know the real world does not work that way and the Jews are always to blame when they shoot back.

So here we were witnessing the anti-Semites of the world having a celebration without precedent of Israel being blamed for the 3 year old girl's death - when the truth comes out. It was even more embarrassing than when the truth came out that the PLO had killed the little boy Mohammed al-Dura and not Israeli troops!

It was revealed this afternoon that the girl was NOT killed by Israeli return fire. She was killed by a Kassam rocket. The Kassam rockets are PLO weapons fired into Jewish civilian areas, and the PLO has been continuing to fire tham at the Jews even during the current make-pretend ceasefire. Except that the one fired this morning had a structural default, and landed short, inside the Palestinian area of the Gaza Strip. It blew the girl to smithereens.

Hat tip: IsraPundit

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct 'Palestinian people' to oppose Zionism." -- PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, 1977

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January 27, 2005

Remembering the Wannsee Conference and the Liberation of Auschwitz


From Belsen a crate of gold teeth,
from Dachau a mountain of shoes,
from Auschwitz a skin lampshade.
Who killed the Jews?

-- William Heyden

This article is posted as part of the January 27, 2005, BlogBurst coordinated by IsraPundit, to remember the liberation of the Auschwitz death camp, sixty years ago, on January 27, 1945. A complete list of participants in the BlogBurst can be found here.

On January 20th, we marked the anniversary of the 1942 Wannsee Conference. In the course of that Conference, the Nazi hierarchy formalized the plan to annihilate the Jewish people. Understanding the horrors of Auschwitz requires that one be aware of the premeditated mass-murder that was presented at Wannsee.

Highlighting these events now has become particularly important, even as the press reports that '45% of Britons have never heard of Auschwitz' (Jerusalem Post, December 2, 2004)

The Holocaust, symbolized by Auschwitz, the worst of the death camps, occurred in the wake of consistent, systematic, unrelenting anti-Jewish propaganda campaigns. As a result, the elimination of the Jews from German society was accepted as axiomatic, leaving open only two questions: when and how.

As Germany expanded its domination and occupation of Austria, Czechoslovakia, France, the Low Countries, Yugoslavia, Poland, parts of the USSR, Greece, Romania, Hungary, Italy and others countries, the way was open for Hitler to realize his well-publicized plan of destroying the Jewish people.

After experimentation, the use of Zyklon B on unsuspecting victim was adopted by the Nazis as the means of choice, and Auschwitz was selected as the main factory of death (more accurately, one should refer to the "Auschwitz-Birkenau complex"). The green light for mass annihilation was given at the Wannsee Conference, January 20, 1942.

The Wannsee Conference formalized "the final solution" - the plan to transport Europe's Jews to eastern labour and death camps. Ever efficient and bureaucratic, the Nazi kept a record of the meeting, which were discovered in 1947 in the files of the German Foreign Office. The record represents a summary made by Adolf Eichmann at the time, even though they are sometime referred to as "minutes".

Several of the Conference participants survived the war to be convicted at Nuremberg. One notorious participant, Adolf Eichmann, was tried and convicted in Jerusalem, and executed in 1962 in Ramlah prison.

The mass gassings of Europe's took place in Auschwitz between 1942 and the end of 1944, when the Nazis retreated before the advancing Red Army. Jews were transported to Auschwitz from all over Nazi-occupied or Nazi-dominated Europe and most were slaughtered in Auschwitz upon arrival, sometimes as many as 12,000 in one day. Some victims were selected for slave labour or "medical" experimentation before they were murdered or allowed to die. All were subject to brutal treatment.


Children, victims of Nazi "medical" experiments

In all, between three and four million people, mostly Jews, but also Poles and Red Army POWs, were slaughtered in Auschwitz alone (though some authors put the number at 1.3 million). Other death camps were located at Sobibor, Chelmno, Belzec (Belzek), Majdanek and Treblinka. Adding the toll of these and other camps, as well as the mass executions and the starvation im the Ghettos, six million Jews, men, women, the elderly and children lost their lives as a consequence of the Nazi atrocities.

Auschwitz was liberated by the Red Army on 27 January 1945, sixty years ago, after most of the prisoners were forced into a Death March westwards. The Red Army found in Auschwitz about 7,600 survivors, but not all could be saved.

For a long time, the Allies were well aware of the mass murder, but deliberately refused to bomb the camp or the railways leading to it. Ironically, during the Polish uprising, the Allies had no hesitation in flying aid to Warsaw, sometimes flying right over Auschwitz.

There are troubling parallels between the systematic vilification of Jews before the Holocaust and the current vilification of the Jewish people and Israel. Suffice it to note the annual flood of anti-Israel resolutions at the UN; or the public opinion polls taken in Europe, which single out Israel as a danger to world peace; or the divestment campaigns being waged in the US against Israel; or the attempts to delegitimize Israel’s very existence. The complicity of the Allies in WW II is mirrored by the support the PLO has been receiving from Europe, China and Russia to this very day.

If remembering Auschwitz should teach us anything, it is that we must all support Israel and the Jewish people against the vilification and the complicity we are witnessing, knowing where it inevitably leads.

To read an extended version of this post, click here.

This BlogBurst was conceived, written, organized and coordinated by Joseph Alexander Norland, of IsraPundit. Without his efforts it could not and would not have happened.

Thank you Joseph, for all you do.


The Holocaust Memorial in Miami Beach, Florida

Never Forget!

Posted by LindaSoG at 12:01 AM

January 19, 2005

Supporting Terrorism

On January 29, 2004, a Palestinian terrorist climbed aboard Bus 19 in Jerusalem and blew himself up. In the process, he murdered 11 innocent people, and injured 50.

The mangled shell of the bus was later sent to The Hague, in the Netherlands, where it was displayed outside the International Court of Justice to protest the court's ruling against Israel's separation barrier -- which is intended to prevent attacks exactly like the one that destroyed Bus 19. A Christian humanitarian group now called The Jerusalem Connection subsequently bought the bus and had it shipped to the United States, where, loaded on the back of a flatbed trailer, it has since made stops at anti-terror rallies across the country.

On January 16, 2005, the bus made a stop in Berkeley, California for an anti-terror rally organized by the "Israel Action Committee of East Bay."

And the insanity began...

SF Gate reports that

"a Berkeley rally against terrorism that featured a bombed Israeli bus turned briefly violent Sunday when angry counter demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags marched into the mostly pro-Israel crowd."

"... some 40 people, mostly men of Middle Eastern descent, yelled and exchanged taunts with pro-Israeli demonstrators across the street."

"Two, four, six, eight, we are martyrs, we can't wait,'' chanted the group, most of whom wore kaffiyehs -- the cloth headdress closely associated with Palestinian militants. Some drove around the park, their faces covered, waving Palestinian flags."

Not quite accurate reporting, as proven by a recording made by an attendee of the rally:

One, three, five, seven, all our martyrs go to heaven!
Two, four, six, eight, we are martyrs, we can't wait!
One, three, five, seven, all our martyrs go to heaven!
One, three, five, seven, all our martyrs go to heaven!
Two, four, six, eight, we are martyrs, we can't wait!
Two, four, six, eight, we are martyrs, we can't wait!
One, three, five, seven, all our martyrs go to heaven!
One, Allahu Ackbar! Allahu Ackbar! Allahu Ackbar!

America. Land of Free, Home of Brave. And in Berkeley, California, home of terrorism and moonbats who support it.

There are photographs, soundbites and additional details here.

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January 17, 2005

Justice Palestinian Style

Two young Palestinian men suspected of "collaboration" with Israel were murdered in the Nablus area over the weekend.

They said the man died instantly after being hit in the head with at least 25 bullets. The assailants and camp residents refused to allow an ambulance to take the body to a hospital. Instead, they threw it into a nearby dumpster.

The second victim was murdered on Saturday, also by Fatah gunmen. He was identified as Ramzi Assi, 18, also a resident of Nablus. Sources in the city said his bullet-riddled body was thrown from a passing vehicle outside the Rafidiyeh Hospital. They said the gunmen accused him of assisting Israel in the killing of two of their colleagues last year.

"We didn't use any form of physical pressure," a spokesman for the Aksa Martyrs Brigades claimed. "The confession was videotaped and the fact that there weren't any signs of abuse on his body shows that he hadn't been tortured."

Doctor Horsefeathers sums it up here.

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January 16, 2005

Harry and his Swastika

I am not going to defend Harry, what he did was stupid, insensitive and childish. But I would like to take a moment to point out the hypocrisy of all this outrage.

Nazi: German, by shortening & alteration from Nationalsozialist, from national + Sozialist. "National Socialist"

There are plenty of liberal democrats out there who claim to be socialists, like socialism is a good thing. They like to compare George Bush to