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Palestinian TV: "Baby-Killer" a Lesson for Us
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Palestinian TV: Baby-Killer "A Lesson for Us"

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Palestinian Media Watch | 6/30/2008

According to the Palestinian Authority leadership, Samir Quntar epitomizes the ideal Palestinian prisoner. Quntar, who crushed the head of four-year-old Eynat Haran with his rifle, is serving four life sentences for murder in an Israeli prison, but is almost certain to be freed in a prisoner swap with Hizbullah this week.

On one hand, Quntar embodies what the PA considers the "heroism" of terrorists fighting Israel. On the other hand, he's the ultimate symbol of all terrorist prisoners who have murdered Israelis and will eventually be freed as a result of future kidnappings or through some other means.
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77% of Palestinian Arabs Like Living in Israel Best
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77% Palestinian Arabs: We like Living in Israel best

By Judith A. Klinghoffer (bio)

It is difficult to find a more neglected story than the relative satisfaction of Palestinian Arabs living in Israel as is revealed from a recent Harvard Study. (Palestinians Arabs (including those living in greater Jerusalem) constitute 20% of the population). Aware of inconvenient polls which reveal that Palestinian living in Israel are vehemently opposed to becoming citizens of Palestine, the researchers did their best to lower the satisfaction number by phrasing the question so as to receive the most negative number. They asked Palestinian Arab if they would rather live in Israel or in any other country in the world.

Let yourselves go, dream away, they researchers seemed to be say. Fantasize. How about living in Dubai, in Britain or the US?

What a disappointment. Israel’s Arab citizens refused to play along. The vast majority of them insisted that like Israel best.

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Victims of Their Own Making
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Victims of their Own Making

By Dr. Earl Tilford
FrontPageMagazine.com | 5/27/2008

As Israel celebrates its 60th anniversary, there are voices raised accusing Israel of victimizing the Palestinian Arabs and “running them out” of the Jewish state. Ironically, some 1,300,000 Arab-Israeli citizens live and work in Israel. They worship freely in mosques from Haifa to Gaza and from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Arab-Israeli citizens enjoy full civil rights, study at Israeli universities, serve in the Knesset, every department of the Israeli government and even in the armed forces. Meanwhile, the 4,000,000 Palestinians living in the West Bank, Gaza and in refugee camps in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon are largely victims of their own making.

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The Self-Inflicted Catastrophe Continues
--> Posted to Palestine for May, 2008

The Self-Inflicted Catastrophe Continues

By Asaf Romirowsky
The Jewish Exponent | 5/19/2008

Marking Israel's 60th anniversary has engendered much debate within Palestinian society about the Nakba ("catastrophe") and its celebration on May 15. Truth be told, the real catastrophe did not occur in 1948; it happened much earlier and it continues today under the leadership of Hamas. That is, the inability of the Palestinian national movement to create the political and social institutional infrastructure necessary for the foundation of a nation-state.

And although, Palestinians like to see themselves as the victims of the Zionist movement's triumphant creation of a Jewish state, they should actually turn inward and look at the history of their own leaders who failed them.

This ongoing debate always raises the issue of the territorial bond between the land and the people and who rightfully owns the land.

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Prime Time on Terror TV--MEMRI
--> Posted to Palestine for April, 2008

Chaim Weizmann Admitted the Protocols Were Genuine

"He admitted that Ahad Ha'am was his mentor, and he also admitted that The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is nothing but a wicked Jewish conspiracy to control the world. Weizmann unequivocally described this conspiracy as wicked.

"This book, which Al-'Aqqad described as 'hellish' in his introduction to the Mahmoud Khalifa Al-Tunisi translation… The Jews deny this book exists, but Weizmann admits it."

The Evil of the Jews That We See Around the World is Based on the First Protocol

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No Good Guys in "Palestine"--Farah
--> Posted to Palestine for April, 2008

No good guys in 'Palestine'

Exclusive: Joseph Farah condemns U.S.-backed creation of independent, terrorist state

Posted: April 21, 2008

By Joseph Farah

Why does the U.S. government continue to promote the creation of an independent state of Palestine, which has never existed in the history of the world, which is born of terrorist violence and which is pledged to the destruction of Israel?

Even more interesting, why does the Israeli political and cultural elite support this movement?

I know this is not the first time I have raised these troubling questions.

But they need asking, again, in light of the recent remarks of Abbas Zaki, the Palestinian Authority's ambassador to Lebanon on Lebanese television.

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The Price of Washington's Obsession with the Palestinians
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2008

JERUSALEM POST

Of course, these labors have thus far failed to achieve anything, other than to send a message to the Palestinians that they can continue to use violence against the Jewish state while hoping to wring out still more concessions at the negotiating table.

But there is a much deeper, and even greater, cost involved in all the American time and energy that are being expended on cajoling the recalcitrant Palestinian leadership.

For just as there are a finite number of hours in the day, so too there are a finite number of issues that senior US diplomats can grapple with. And the more time they spend banging their heads against the Palestinian wall, the less they have to devote to a far more pressing matter, one which threatens to shake the foundations of the entire region - the growing danger of a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

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Palestinian Infanticide
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2008

Palestinian Infanticide

By Frimet Roth
FrontPageMagazine.com | 3/27/2008

The welfare of Palestinian children has always stood at the center of the Middle East conflict. Whether in debates, in photographs or in casualty figures they are the substance of the local news.

In the early days of the Second Intifada, Israeli Brigadier General Benjamin Gantz (now Israel's military attache in the US) appeared on the popular American television program, Sixty Minutes, hosted by Bob Simon, in a segment entitled "To Be Continued..."

Predictably, the discussion turned to Palestinian children. With candor and prescience rarely encountered nowadays, Gantz tackled the issue head on. He asserted that Palestinians often deliberately place their children at the front lines of the clashes where they are killed, adding: "When they are sending their kids forward and they are firing at us and then the kids are in the killing zone so unfortunately, really unfortunately, those things happen."
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Palestinian "Holocaust Exhibit"--Nazi Israelis Throw Arab Kids Into Ovens
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2008

ISRAELINSIDER

Palestinian children gathered for an exhibition that depicts Israel burning children in a crematorium. Young children are seen standing beside dolls being placed into a model of a cremation oven. According to the article in Al Ayyam (March 20, 2008), "The National Committee for defense of Children from the Holocaust opened its activities with a Holocaust exhibit. View Full Article

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A Palestinian Poll--Wash.Times
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2008

A Palestinian poll

By R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
March 21, 2008

On the evening of March 6 in Jerusalem, a heavily armed Palestinian terrorist from nearby East Jerusalem entered the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva and opened fire on the unarmed teenaged students studying there. Eight died, and 11 were badly wounded before another student and an off-duty soldier shot the terrorist. The atrocity ignited wild celebrations in Gaza.

If you thought the celebrations were anomalous, you might want to know about recent findings just published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, an independent polling organization based on the West Bank. According to its polls, 84 percent of Palestinians approved of this attack. Moreover, 64 percent approve of Hamas randomly firing rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israeli communities and 75 percent favor ending negotiations between their leaders and the Israeli government.
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Why is it that Good Deeds Towards Palestinians go Unrewarded?--March 20
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2008

On the evening of March 6 in Jerusalem, a heavily armed Palestinian terrorist from nearby east Jerusalem entered the Mercaz Harav yeshiva and opened fire on the unarmed teenage students studying there. Eight died, and 11 were badly wounded before another student and an off-duty soldier shot the terrorist. The atrocity ignited wild celebrations in Gaza.

If you thought that the celebrations were anomalous, you might want to know about recent findings just published by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, an independent polling organization based on the West Bank. According to its polls, 84 percent of Palestinians approved of this attack. Moreover, 64 percent approve of Hamas randomly firing rockets and mortars from Gaza into Israeli communities, and 75 percent favor ending negotiations between their leaders and the Israeli government.

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GAZA: The Palestinians' Genocide Paln
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2008

Gaza: Hamas’s Suicide Bomb

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | 3/7/2008

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Kenneth Levin, a clinical instructor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, a Princeton-trained historian, and a commentator on Israeli politics. He is the author of the new book The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege.

FP: Kenneth Levin, welcome back to Frontpage Interview.

Levin: A pleasure to be with you once again.

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Hamas TV to Kids: Eat a Dane, not a Danish
--> Posted to Palestine for February, 2008

Hamas children's TV dedicated a program to hatred of Denmark, the West and Israel, climaxing with a statement about the West by the co-host, a giant rabbit character named Assud: "If they repeat it we will kill them ... I will bite them and eat them!"

The program focuses on the demand to boycott Danish and Israeli products. Denmark and the West are targeted because of the cartoons featuring Muhammad that first appeared in a Danish newspaper. Israel is targeted because it exists. Saraa, the young TV hostess, describes the publication of the Muhammad cartoons as "the West's attack against the Messenger [Muhammad]."
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Why Gaza Suffers
--> Posted to Palestine for January, 2008

Why Gaza suffers

What few are willing to report

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | There was a time — a rather short-lived moment in the history of the Middle East — when the people of Gaza thought life would get better, and the people of Israel's town of Sderot thought they, too, would stop living in hell. ''We thought we would live in peace,'' one Israeli woman in Sderot told me.

That moment of dashed hopes came in the summer of 2005, when Israeli forces removed all the Jews in Gaza. With Gaza free of Israelis, Palestinians there would have full autonomy — a step toward nationhood — and Israelis could live without constant attacks. The optimists, as it turned out, were tragically wrong. Life has become even worse for people on both sides, with events in the last few days highlighting the need to find a solution to the dangerous Gaza predicament.

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The Children Schooled by Arafat--Hal Lindsey
--> Posted to Palestine for January, 2008

President Bush made the first trip of his presidency to the Holy Land this week to, as he put it, push for a peace treaty and an independent Palestinian state by the end of his term in office. That leaves just over a year to solve one of the most complex problems in modern history.

In order to accomplish this goal, the president said, ''Israeli and Palestinian negotiation teams will begin discussing 'core issues' such as Jerusalem, the Palestinian demand for a 'right of return' for alleged Palestinian 'refugees' from the 1948 War of Independence, and firm borders for an eventual Palestinian state.''

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Paying Islam for our Western Guilt
--> Posted to Palestine for December, 2007

Paying Islam for our Western guilt

By Diana West

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Christmas came early to the Palestinian Authority when the "international community" decided not only to meet PA President Mahmoud Abbas' request for $5.6 billion in aid, but to throw in almost $2 billion more. Why? Did the PA end its terrorist ways? Stop state-sanctioned incitement against Israel and the West? Change Fatah's charter (forget about Hamas) calling for Israel's destruction?

Alas, no, no and no. We are heaping riches on the PA for other reasons, one of which I discuss below.

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The "Benefits" of Palestinian Economic Collapse--Pipes
--> Posted to Palestine for December, 2007

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Western financial aid to the Palestinians has, I showed last week, the perverse and counterintuitive effect of increasing their rate of homicides, including terrorist ones. This week, I offer two pieces of perhaps even stranger news about the many billions of dollars and record-shattering per-capita donations from the West: First, these have rendered the Palestinians poorer. Second, Palestinian impoverishment is a long-term positive development.
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Funding the Palestinians
--> Posted to Palestine for December, 2007

Funding the Palestinians

By Daniel Pipes
FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/18/2007

Lavishing funds on Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority to achieve peace has been a mainstay of Western, including Israeli, policy since Hamas seized Gaza in June. But this open spigot has counterproductive results and urgently must be stopped.

Some background: Paul Morro of the Congressional Research Service reports that, in 2006, the European Union and its member states gave US$815 million to the Palestinian Authority, while the United States sent it $468 million. When other donors are included, the total receipts come to about $1.5 billion.

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Liberating the Palestine Liberation Organization(PLO)
--> Posted to Palestine for December, 2007

For better or for worse Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) are the parties that will -- for the next 12 months -- be negotiating the resolution of sovereignty in the West Bank with a view to ultimately creating a new independent Arab State between Israel and Jordan. These identical parties have been negotiating on the same issue for the last 14 years without the slightest sign of success.

One major reason has been the inability of the PLO to seriously change its mindset and specifically revoke or amend the offending provisions of the PLO Covenant that call for the destruction of Israel and that prevent the creation of this new State as envisioned by Oslo, former President Bill Clinton, President George Bush and his Quartet partners - Russia, the European Union and the United Nations.
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The Communist Roots of Palestinian Terror
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The Communist Roots of Palestinian Terror

By David Meir-Levi
FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/14/2007

The following is chapter from David Meir-Levi's new book, History Upside Down: The Roots of Palestinian Fascism and the Myth of Israeli Aggression. The Terrorism Awareness Project previous printed his history of the "right-wing" influence on Islamic extremism, "The Nazi Roots of Palestinian Nationalism and Islamic Jihad." Taken together (with his entire book), these chapters show that Islamofascism is a political, not merely a religious force; and the potent and deadly offspring of the totalitarian ideologies of the past. -- The Editors.
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The Distortion of Palestinian Aid Policies
--> Posted to Palestine for December, 2007

The distortion of Palestinian aid politics

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | My favorite sentence of the week is: "Asking for record $5.8 billion in aid through 2010, Palestinians promise fiscal reform." Karen Laub wrote on this subject for the AP, December 5, 2007. The request came from "Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas" to double projected aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA).

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Palestinian Radio Celebrates Hitler
--> Posted to Palestine for December, 2007

Palestinian radio celebrates Hitler

Voice of Palestine radio last month broadcast a biography of Adolph Hitler celebrating his military victories and heroism, the watchdog group Palestinian Media Watch reported this week.

The radio station, which is controlled by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' government, failed to mention Hitler's attempted extermination of the Jews. That came as little surprise to those familiar with Abbas' previous denial of the Holocaust.

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The Palestinians Final Solution for Israel
--> Posted to Palestine for November, 2007

The Palestinians' Final Solution For Israel

By Joseph Klein
FrontPageMagazine.com | 11/29/2007

The Palestinians’ idea of a final solution for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is to obliterate Israel’s existence as a Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, and his Hamas rivals share that same vision.

Accordingly, the Palestinian negotiators at the ‘peace’ conference in Annapolis have refused to start negotiating a two-state solution that recognizes Israel as the homeland for the Jewish people, living side by side in peace and security with a separate homeland state for the Palestinian people.

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Palestinians: Agressors, Not Victims
--> Posted to Palestine for November, 2007

Palestinians: Aggressors, Not Victims

By David Meir-Levi
FrontPageMagazine.com | 11/27/2007

Arab propaganda has been successful in presenting a picture of the Palestinian people as the helpless and innocent victims of Israeli aggression -- potential friends of America who have been alienated by America’s support for Israel and its failure to support a Palestinian national state. This decision is itself the result of a “Jewish Lobby” run by “neocons” and “receiving its orders” from Israel. The fact that Palestinians are now led by two terrorist organizations, Fatah and Hamas, is also blamed on Israel and the United States rather than on the Palestinians who elected terrorists as leaders. View Full Article

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Rice: Palestinian State at Any Price
--> Posted to Palestine for November, 2007

ISRAEL INSIDER

Rice, speaking at the Remarks at the Saban Forum Dinner, named after the Israeli-born, Hollywood resident creator of Mutant Ninja Turtles, warned that Israel had to help out Mahmoud Abbas by giving him a State, or be blamed for what would follow: "if we do not act now to show the Palestinians a way forward, others will show them a way forward....My fear is that if Palestinian reformers cannot deliver on the hope of an independent state, then the moderate center could collapse forever and the next generation of Palestinians could become lost souls of unbridled extremism."
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The Rules of Palestinian Politics
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2007

And why they make negotiated peace impossible for now

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Several Fatah security force officers assigned to protect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he went to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, it has just been revealed, planned to assassinate him instead. This event should be amazing enough to get people to rethink their premises. After all, it is late 2007, with a supposedly moderate leadership running the PA and Fatah, and this kind of thing is still happening.

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"Moderate" Palestinians Still Look to Israel's Destruction
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2007

ISRAEL TODAY

'Moderate' Palestinians still look to Israel's destruction

A television station controlled by "moderate" Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas' ruling Fatah movement has for the past week been repeatedly broadcasting a video propaganda clip promising the eventual destruction of Israel and its replacement with an Arab Muslim state.

Accompanied by emotional music, the video lists numerous Jewish towns inside sovereign Israel, promising that they will soon be "liberated" because their true identity is and always will be "Palestinian."

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Map of Israel is "Palestine"
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2007

Map of Israel Shown in Palestinian Colors

By Julie Stahl
CNSNews.com Jerusalem Bureau Chief
October 18, 2007

Jerusalem (CNSNews.com) - At a time when Israel and the Palestinians are discussing their respective visions for the creation of a Palestinian state, the official Palestinian Authority television station has broadcast images of an Israeli map draped with a Palestinian flag.
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Palestinian Statehood Bush's Goal--Wash.Times
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2007

JERUSALEM — The Bush administration hopes to get as close as possible to establishing a Palestinian state during its remaining months in office, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said yesterday at the start of a five-day Middle East shuttle mission.

Speaking to reporters en route to Israel, Miss Rice acknowledged "a lot of work" will be necessary before Palestinian statehood, but she promised a 100 percent effort and suggested that the chance for a peace deal has never been better.

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Palestinians Crucify the Holy Land--Oct. 11
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2007

Palestinians Crucify the Holy Land

By Robert Spencer
FrontPageMagazine.com | 10/11/2007

Last Saturday, Palestinian Christian Rami Ayyad was abducted and murdered. His body was found the next day. Six months ago, a bomb destroyed Ayyad’s Christian bookstore, the Holy Bible Society in Gaza City.

No group claimed responsibility for the murder of Ayyad, but the bombing of his bookstore was consistent with the pattern of bombings carried out by a jihadist group calling itself “The Righteous Swords of Islam.”

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Palestinian Propaganda Coup--WSJ
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2007

Palestinian Propaganda Coup

A judge in France has a chance to hold the media accountable.

BY NATAN SHARANSKY
Sunday, October 7, 2007

Last month, a French court heard an appeals case whose forthcoming verdict will have far-reaching ramifications for all who value truth and accuracy in Middle East news reporting. The case involves Philippe Karsenty, a French journalist and media commentator, who was found guilty of defamation after he called for the firing of two France 2 Television journalists responsible for the Sept. 30, 2000, news report on the alleged killing of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammed al-Dura, by the Israel Defense Forces.

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The Most Wrecked People on Earth--Mark Steyn
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2007

The Most Wrecked People on Earth

The Palestinians have no examples but corruption and violence.

By Mark Steyn

EDITOR'S NOTE: This piece appears in the April 10, 2006, issue of National Review.

If I were a Palestinian, I’d occasionally wonder what I had to do to get a bad press.

Elect a terrorist government explicitly committed to the destruction of Israel? No, no, no, don’t jump to conclusions, explains Bill Clinton. It’s just a vote for better municipal services. Send my daughter to explode in an Israeli restaurant? Oh, well, shrug the experts, it’s an act born of “desperation” and “frustration.” You have to remember Palestinians don’t have any tanks, so they have to make do with what the mayor of London’s favorite imam calls “the children bomb.”

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The Myth of Palestine
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2007

The Palestinian people [do] 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.

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Palestinians Celebrate 9/11 Attacks on America
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2007

Palestinians celebrate 9/11 attacks on US

While the Bush Administration pours millions of US taxpayers’ dollars into the Palestinian Authority in a vain hope that that regime will ever build and govern a viable state-like entity, the Palestinian Authority is busy celebrating the victories of America’s enemies.

For those Americans who believe the Palestinian Authority of Mahmoud Abbas is either moderate or pro-American, take a look at this cartoon that featured prominently last week in a newspaper fully controlled by Abbas’ office:

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Palestinians Receive Russian Intelligence Training
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2007

Palestinians receive Russian intel training

The government of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has begun sending security agents to receive high-level training from Russian intelligence agencies, reported Middle East Newsline.

A Palestinian official said his government regards Russian intelligence methods as “more effective than the Americans in stopping Hamas.”

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Hamas: We Fired American-Made Weapons at Israel
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2007

WND

JERUSALEM – Hamas and other Palestinian terror organizations in the Gaza Strip utilized American and international weaponry to attack the Jewish state yesterday, top terror leaders claimed to WND.

The weapons were seized in June when Hamas took control of Gaza and overran U.S.-backed security compounds of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization, the terror leaders said.

"The American weapons and Western weapons that reached Fatah before Hamas took over Gaza [are] being used by the Palestinian resistance, including in our aerial attack yesterday," Muhammad Abdel-El, spokesperson and a senior of the Hamas-allied Popular Resistance Committees terror organization, told WND.

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"Palestine": Arab Massacres and Leftist Lies
--> Posted to Palestine for August, 2007

FRONT PAGE MAG

As negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority aimed at creating a Palestinian state willing to live side-by-side with Israel in peace resume, one of the major sticking points continues to be the Arab refugee issue. Bitter arguments among politicians and scholars continue to surround the creation of the refugee problem during Israel's War of Independence in 1948.

It has become fashionable in recent decades to frame the 1948 war as one in which the Arabs were victims of Zionist aggression. Anti-Zionist scholars such as Noam Chomsky, Rashid Khalidi and Ilan Pappe have presented the war as if the only important events were Deir Yassin and the flight or expulsion of Arabs from Haifa, Acre, Tiberias, west Jerusalem, Jaffa and numerous villages.

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U.S. State Department to Train PLO Terrorists
--> Posted to Palestine for August, 2007

This fall, the United States State Department will begin training terrorists belonging to the Palestine Liberation Organization to help secure their chief, Mahmoud Abbas, against being overthrown by Hamas.

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The Moral Cunundrum Over "Palestine"
--> Posted to Palestine for August, 2007

The Moral Conundrum Over Palestine

By Joseph Puder
FrontPageMagazine.com | 8/8/2007

Many in the Western world find themselves in a moral conundrum regarding Israel and the Palestinians. Living in an age that worships “victimhood” the politically correct West is in a difficult quandary. On the one hand, guilt over the Holocaust was the major force behind the creation of the Jewish State in 1948, at least according to common perceptions. On the other hand, Western guilt, already burdened by the dislocation and exploitation caused by Colonialism, has manifested itself in sympathy for the Palestinians, and the still unsettled Palestinian refugees in Gaza, Lebanon, and elsewhere in the Middle East.

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The Real Roots of Palestinian Terror--July 30
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2007

The Real Roots of Palestinian Terror
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | July 30, 2007

Some thought the spectacle of horrific Palestinian internecine violence in Gaza would lead the world to cool off toward the Palestinians for a while. In fact, the opposite has happened. Recent days particularly have seen intensified diplomatic and other activity in the Palestinian sphere.

Tony Blair, in his new role as the Quartet’s envoy to the Israeli-Palestinian front, was in Israel and the Palestinian Authority last week to prepare for his task of “institution building” in Palestinian society.
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Jordan is Palestine
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2007

Jordan is Palestine
By MK Arieh Eldad

Slowly, almost stealthily, the voices are beginning to break through.

For years people have been trying to brainwash us with the slogan "two states for two peoples." Anyone who dared to deny this falsehood was mocked. Anyone who continued to argue that a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River would be a strategic threat to Israel was branded a stubborn mule, someone who denied what the whole world believes.
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The Palestinian Blood Libel Bee
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2007

FRONTPAGE MAG

The promotion of hatred of Jews through their depiction as cold-blooded murderers is a recurring theme on Hamas TV. Over the weekend at least 2 broadcasts presented these images.

One was during the latest episode of the children's program with Nahool the Hamas Bee, in which Nahool twice reminds the children that the Jews are guilty of murder.

Click to view video on YouTube or PMW website

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Why There Can be no Peace--2 min. video
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2007

The Hamas Mickey Mouse look alike, Farfour who incited hatred and violence, met his death at the hands of an Israeli Shin Bet official.

Wasting no time, the Hamas television show Tomorrow's Pioneers have introduced a new figure to continue his path - Farfour's cousin Nahoul, the bee. MEMRI provided the excerpts of the show. 07/17/07

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"Palestine," the Lie
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2007

Arab Propaganda

"A Lie, Told a Thousand Times, is Still a Lie"
SERIES: Palestine the Lie :

"The Big Lie" of today--a nonsensical fabrication spawned in the Middle East, has rapidly evolved into an Arab propaganda locomotive powered by the steam engines of anti-Semitic vitriol. The lie--this falsehood of our time--purports that the "Palestinians", a mythical people whose ancestral beginnings simply cannot be defined nor traced, were ejected from their own land--to which they refer as "Palestine", and thus were "victimized" by the creation of the state of Israel, in May, 1948.
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Money Down the Drain--July 9
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2007

As the United States prepares to send approximately $86 million in financial aid to bolster Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah militias in the West Bank against possible threats from Hamas, it has been learned that in recent years two PA officials who were Fatah members stole tens of millions of U.S. dollars that also had been earmarked to help Fatah ward off Hamas. View Full Article

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Poll: "Palestinians" Most Enthusiastic for a Nuclear Iran
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2007

More than any other nation in the world, the Palestinian Arabs (who do not historically constitute a nation) want to see Iran obtain a nuclear bomb.

Nearly 60 percent of “Palestinians” polled by the Pew Global Attitudes Project are in favor of Tehran acquiring atomic weapons.
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Why is America Pouring Money Into this Cause?
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2007

Why is America trying to pour new money and more weapons into Palestinian Arab hands barely days after the Gaza debacle? It is an ill-considered policy, both premature and useless. The only sure result will be that warring gangs in the West Bank will use every new weapon to continue the mayhem and that the millions paid out won't buy as much as a bottle of milk for Palestinian Arab civilians. Instead, the money will end up in the pockets and bank accounts of the same crooks who lost Gaza.
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Abbas Forms Cabinet Free of Hamas
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2007

WASHINGTON TIMES

RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas swore in an emergency Cabinet free of Hamas members yesterday, prompting an immediate promise that the new government will have the "full support" of the U.S. government.
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Israeli Military: Hamastan Will Endanger all of Israel--June15
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2007

ISRAEL INSIDER

Former IDF Intelligence Deputy Chief Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror said that Gaza's transformation into an Islamic preserve ruled brutally by Hamas poses huge and imminent dangers to Israeli security. While the corrupt Fatah was "busy stealing public monies," Amidror told Ynet, Hamas was strengthening militarily and was poised to "turn Gaza into Hamastan like Hizbullah in Lebanon, with Iranian and Al-Qaeda elements. We will have a full-fledged terrorist state on our borders. This will affect not only Sderot, but soon Kiryat Gat and Ashdod as well, and in the long run, rockets will even be directed at Haifa."
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Arafatistan
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2007

TOWNHALL

The streets of the Gaza Strip echo with gunfire as masked men fire on one another. Hundreds of Palestinians have been kidnapped, tortured and executed by other Palestinians in the past two years. In recent days, the fighting between Hamas and Fatah has intensified.

The New York Times reports that "two Palestinians were thrown from the roofs of high-rise buildings in Gaza City. One was an officer of the Presidential Guard, loyal to Fatah, and the other a member of the Executive Force, which was set up by Hamas as a counterweight to the Fatah-dominated official security forces."

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Palestinian Mythologies--June 4
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Palestinian Mythologies
By David Singer
FrontPageMagazine.com | June 4, 2007

Jordan's Prime Minister, Marouf al-Bakhit, has now added one new myth to the countless many concerning Palestine that have been invented by Arab propagandists.

Speaking at a recent seminar marking the 61st anniversary of Jordan's independence, the Prime Minister asserted that everyone should realize that "this small country [Jordan] was not accidentally born nor was the outcome of deals, conferences or conspiracies."

Jordan's history is well documented and totally contradicts the Prime Minister's amazing assertion.

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Palestinian Kids Perform Death Cult Rites (film included)--June 3
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ISRAEL INSIDER

Well, it's springtime, time for school plays and graduation ceremonies. The same holds true in the Palestinian school system, except that kids perform the ceremonies that celebrate suicide bombing, killings and martyrdom.

Here's a school play, in which children in Gaza, dressed as suicide bombers and terrorists, waving knives and guns, in front of a crowd of doting parents.
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The Real Palestinian "Catastrophe"
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FRONTPAGE MAG

It is worth noting that the Palestinians use the same day Israel declared its independence to mark their national day. As is the case with so much of Palestinian society and culture, it is the actions of their Jewish neighbors - not anything of their own doing - that's the constant focus of their attention.

Which brings us to the question: What exactly is the real "catastrophe"? Given that this year's al-Naqba commemoration has been overshadowed by the anarchy and infighting in Gaza, many Palestinians say that the real Naqba is the lack of unity in their society.
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Hitler's Mouse and a Mother's Suicide Mission
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HONEST REPORTING

Incitement within the Palestinian media and education system is certainly not a new phenomenon. Promoting hatred and brainwashing children into a cult of death worship, this shocking form of child abuse poisons young minds and destroys any prospects for peace in the future. The international media recently took up this challenge, highlighting the appalling Mickey Mouse lookalike who incites children and promotes Islamic domination on a Hamas-run TV station.

Why does the media ignore another equally abhorrent video, which is still running on Hamas TV? Why has it turned a blind eye to this latest appalling example of Hamas's incitement of children into becoming terrorists and suicide bombers?

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Hamas to the World: Give Us Your Money or Else--April 1
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Hamas has threatened to end its charade of relative moderation and revert to openly seeking Israel's demise if the international community does not start sending money soon.

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Bush, Rice, Misreprenting Palestinian Intentions--March 30
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The Bush administration is purposely misrepresenting the true feelings and intentions of the Palestinian Arabs toward Israel as it makes a final major push for "peace" in the Middle East. View Full Article

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The Price of Palestianism--March 28
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The Price of Palestinianism
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 28, 2007

"It is impossible to ignore the fact that the chairman of the PA blatantly breached commitments that he gave Israel, especially the commitment that a national unity government would not be established before Gilad Shalit was released,” Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet on Sunday. He was referring to PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas; and to the Israeli soldier abducted by terrorists who infiltrated Israel from Abbas’s PA last June.

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Hamas: Killing Israelis More Precious than Children--March 25
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ISRAELINSIDER

Hopes of achieving peace between Arabs and Jews were dealt another, long-lasting blow this week.

It happened even as European and American diplomats began meeting with members of the re-constituted, but still Hamas-led, Palestinian Authority (PA), hoping to re-start the stalled land-for-promises-of-peace process.

Tens of thousands of Palestinian children were Wednesday treated to a special television film broadcast from Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas.
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Desperate Search for "Peace-Loving" Palestinians--Hal Lindsey--March 23
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The whole world seems to be trying to push the Israelis into the elusive "two-states-living-side-by-side-in-peace" solution. And all of this despite an avalanche of hard evidence that there is no such thing as a "peace-seeking Muslim Palestinian." Just ask the Christian Palestinians who have been driven from their centuries-old homes in Bethlehem by them.

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Palestinian Handouts--March 23
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One year ago, the United States and the European Union decided to cut off aid to the Palestinian Authority after Palestinians elected Hamas, a U.S. and E.U.-designated terrorist organization, to lead their government. Now, it turns out, Western sources, including the U.S. government, have actually put more money into the West Bank and Gaza since Hamas took over than in previous years.

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Straight Talk on "Palestine"--WSJ--March 20
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Straight Talk on Palestine

The new government still hasn't renounced terror or recognized Israel.

BY KHALED ABU TOAMEH
Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Even before the Palestinian "unity" government was sworn in Saturday at least five European countries announced that they would resume their business with the Hamas-led coalition.

The U.S. has endorsed Israel's position on the Palestinian government--namely, that its political platform does not meet the conditions set by the so-called "Quartet" of the U.S., EU, U.N. and Russia for ending the boycott. Washington is now under heavy pressure from its Arab allies in the Middle East to deal with it.

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Hamas TV: How Many Jews Did Momma Kill?--March 15
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Al-Aqsa TV, a station run by Hamas, aired an interview with the two young children of female Palestinian suicide bomber Rim al-Riyashi last week. The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) translated the interview and posted it on its website.

During the TV segment, the interviewer gently asked the children to count the number of Jews murdered by their mother and asked them to recite "Mama Rim," most likely a poem written in honor of the woman's "martyrdom."
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Reuters Lies About Why Christians Fleeing PA Areas--March 12
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Reuters on Monday reported matter-of-factly that Israeli oppression is fueling a Christian exodus from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas, when in fact the evidence points to Muslim intimidation as the primary culprit.

Reporting from Bethlehem, special correspondent Alistair Lyon wasted no time in setting the anti-Israel tone of his piece, starting it thus:

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Palestine Awareness Week
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Palestine Awareness Week at SLU
By Donald Meissner
FrontPageMagazine.com | March 1, 2007

Saint Louis University was the site for a weeklong series of presentations entitled “Palestine Awareness Week.” The student group “SLU Solidarity with Palestine” sponsored the event. The term “Solidarity” signifies the SLU group’s affiliation with the “International Solidarity Movement” which disrupts and interferes with the security operations of Israeli military and police units. The week’s events were presented in collaboration with the Muslim Student Group and the off-campus “Center for Theology and Social Analysis.” I endured three of the five presentations: a film by John Pilger, a lecture by Norman Finkelstein, and a seminar taught by students entitled “Palestine 101.” View Full Article

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Palestinian Destruction of Jewish Holy Places "a Joy"--Feb. 27
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TEL AVIV – The ruins of two large synagogues in Gush Katif, the evacuated Jewish communities of the Gaza Strip, have been transformed into a military base used by Palestinian groups to fire rockets at Israeli cities and train for attacks against the Jewish state, according to a senior terror leader in Gaza.
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The Face of Palestinian "Moderation"---Feb. 26
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President of the Palestinian Authority

Leading politician of Fatah

Born in March 1935, Mahmoud Abbas, commonly known as Abu Mazen, is a leading politician in Fatah. He served as Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA) from March to October 2003. In January 2005 he was elected President of the PA.

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Who Really Owns "Palestine"?--Kinsella
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We are constantly amazed at the number of people who write in complaining that we are too pro-Israel and 'what about the Palestinians -- are you ever going to stand up for them'? It is hard to do when they haven't a leg to stand on historically. And even harder when they take the stand that killing Jews for being Jews isn't racist, but that Israel fighting back is genocide. But Hal asked me to do a little digging and see what's what. Does Israel have a right to exist? Who owns the land? Is it Arab land? What is historical Palestine? This is what I ended up with.

The Palestinian Authority has never revised its Charter calling for Israel's destruction or denying its right to exist. Oh, they convened a meeting to discuss it. Then they said they had a meeting and agreed to change it. That was as far as they went.

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Not One Thin Dime for Abbas--NRO
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Not One Thin Dime for Abbas

As State presses Congress for more aid, Fatah’s terror wing murders more Israelis.

When will the madness end? When will the Bush administration and Condoleezza Rice’s State Department finally stop their deranged midwifery of the Palestinian terror state conceived by the Clinton administration amid the mood music of two Intifadas?

On Monday, a 21-year-old suicide bomber, Muhammad Faisal al-Siksik, self-detonated at a bakery in the coastal town of Eilat on the Red Sea. Three innocents were killed: the bakery’s two Israeli owners and their Peruvian employee (whose family hails from Miami). Soon after came the claim of responsibility. The operation was carried out by the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, working in conjunction with Palestinian Islamic Jihad.

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Welcome to Palestine--Glick
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | In the world of international diplomacy few issues receive more wall-to-wall support than the notion that it is essential to establish a 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.
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How Arafat Got Away with Murder
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How Arafat Got Away with Murder

The State Department covered up his responsibility for the 1973 slaughter of two American diplomats.

Twenty years before he joined Bill Clinton and Yitzhak Rabin in Washington for that famous handshake--and proceeded to become Clinton's most frequent foreign guest at the White House--Yasser Arafat planned and directed the murder of an American ambassador and his deputy chief of mission. From the first moment of the deadly operation, which took place in Khartoum on March 1, 1973, the State Department possessed direct evidence of Arafat's responsibility, yet neither the State Department nor any other government agency made public its knowledge. Indeed, as recently as the summer of 2002, the State Department denied that such evidence existed. Across seven administrations, the State Department hewed to silence and denial.

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Palestinians Introduce Saddam Hussein Soccer Tournament
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The First Annual Saddam Hussein Soccer Tournament
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Palestinian Media Watch

A soccer tournament for Palestinian youth has been named after Saddam Hussein, the official newspaper of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, reported. The Palestinians have fervently supported Iraq and the terror against US soldiers, and in the past have honored Iraqis for killing Americans. A region of the Jenin refugee camp was named after the first suicide terrorist in Iraq who killed four American soldiers, Ali Al-Na’amani. [Al-Quds, April 2, 2003]

The PA routinely names youth sporting events after terrorists, including a soccer tournament the PA named for the Passover eve suicide terrorist who killed 31 Israelis, and summer camps for girls were named after Wafa Idris, the first woman suicide terrorist, and Ayaat al Akhras a 17 year old, the youngest girl suicide terrorist. [Al Hayat Al Jadida, Jan. 21, 2003; Al-Ayyam, July 18, 2003; Al Quds, Aug. 14, 2003]

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The Longest Running Big Lie Exposed--Glick---Jan. 2
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Time for world to admit it was duped to the tune of billions of dollars

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Yasser Arafat was a master of the big lie. Since he invented global terrorism with the founding of the Fatah terror organization in 1959, Arafat successfully portrayed himself as a freedom fighter while introducing the world to passenger jet hijackings, schoolhouse massacres and embassy takeovers.

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Acceptable Holocaust Denial
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On Monday, the Israeli government issued vehement denunciation of the conference convened by the Iranian government in Teheran to promote the denial of the mass murder of the Jews in World War II, in an act of holocaust denial. Our news agency asked the spokespeople of the government of Israel if they would also denounce the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas, also known as Abu Mazen, for the holocaust denial which has been an integral part of his legacy.
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Forcing Women to Die in "Palestine"
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Just recently, in the northern Gaza town of Beit Hanoun, Hamas ordered Palestinian women to act as human shields for terrorists who had holed themselves up inside al-Nasser Mosque. Israeli soldiers ended up inadvertently killing two of the women, and injuring ten others, as they tried to shoot militants escaping amongst the human shields.

This horrid example of the Palestinian culture’s violent misogyny replayed itself again shortly after, as a female Palestinian suicide bomber blew herself up in the same Gaza town in an effort to kill Israeli soldiers. One soldier was slightly wounded and evacuated to a hospital. The militant Islamic Jihad group claimed responsibility for the suicide bombing.

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The Truth About "Palestine
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The Truth About "Palestine"
By Gerald A. Honigman
FrontPageMagazine.com

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice recently gave a speech in which she said something to the effect that there would be no greater cause than the birth of Palestine.
Horsefeathers...

While my own limited Arabic, Turkish, and so forth from my own doctoral studies' days has grown all too rusty over the decades, Condi better stick to her Russian expertise for sure. And relying on the Arabists who too often run the show at Foggy Bottom doesn't change this for the better either. Together, on this topic at least, they all behave as if they are deaf, dumb, and blind to what is happening on the real Planet Earth. The sad reality is that they do know better...yet don't hesitate to stick it to the Jews anyway. Recall that Condi's crew fought President Truman over the very rebirth of Israel in the first place. But as Truman himself also said, "the buck stops here." So President Bush must agree with what's going on.

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The PA's Nazi Propaganda
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The PA's Nazi Propaganda
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The official Palestinian Authority newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida published a vicious anti-Semitic article last week that included many of the classic anti-Semitic libels and modern "updates":

Jews start wars, including the war in Iraq, to promote Jews' power and control

Jews are the dominant force in United States policy

Jews control international finance

Jews control international media

In the article, Muhammad Khalifa, columnist from the United Arab Emirates, argues that the US is planning to control all of the world's countries from a single central government in New York. The Jews, who dominate or control every key element in the US, including the stock market, the media and international finance, have used their "custom" of starting international wars to cement this US control.

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Palestinians Invite Disaster--Again
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Palestinians invite disaster, yet again

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Here's one of the Mideast's few sure things: When there's a bad decision to make, Palestinian leadership will make it.

Consider the region's latest intelligence buzz. Anyone with even an iota of sense would take one look at the loss of Lebanese life and property caused by Hezbollah's war on Israel and steer clear of provoking Israel's army again. Instead, Hamas is reportedly studying the Lebanese war to figure out ways to adopt Hezbollah's fighting tactics. The results are bound to be a new nightmare not just for Israel, but for the Palestinian people themselves.

What's more, these Hezbollah-style weapons and guerrilla cells will apparently also be used against Hamas rival Fatah in the mini-Palestinian civil war that's now underway.

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"Democracy" in Palestine
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The tradition of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, which falls this year on both Saturday and Sunday, is for Jews to engage in reflection, prayer and in communal religious introspection.

One year ago this week, on the eve of the Rosh Hashanah, this reporter covered an event in Washington during which President George W. Bush exuded a clear, unequivocal appreciation and commitment to Israel. On that same occasion, President Bush called for a democratic state of Palestine to be created alongside Israel as a way to foster peace in the Middle East.

Yet four months later, a parliamentary election supervised by the US government took place in the Palestinian Authority resulting in an overwhelming victory for Hamas, the Islamic Palestinian terrorist group that leads the fight to exterminate Israel.

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U.S. Taxpayers Fund Palestinian Terrorists--Human Events
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U.S. Taxpayers Fund Palestinian Militants

With the violence only starting to escalate, emotions were unusually high when the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA) met on Capitol Hill recently. After one guest stood up to personally criticize Sen. Norm Coleman (R.-Minn.) for never having visited a Palestinian refugee camp (and to invite him to one), a Philadelphian rabbi rose from his chair to respond forcefully: “They invite you to the refugee camps because you’re a United States senator,” he declared. “But as a Jew who would love to help out, I can’t walk into a camp without getting my neck slit open.”

The topic at hand was the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), the UN organization created in 1949 to manage the administration of healthcare, education, housing, and food for the 700,000 Palestinian refugees displaced by Israel’s war of independence. Originally envisioned as a temporary organization, the UN General Assembly continues to renew UNRWA’s mandate, and today’s operation cares for more than 4 million descendents of the original refugees, as only 150,000 displaced Palestinians remain alive.
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Pro-Palestinian Ignorance--Mowbray/Wash. Times
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Early in 2006, pro-Palestinian activists around the world were downright giddy at the momentum behind their efforts to brand Israel as an apartheid state and divest accordingly. At the year's midpoint, however, the political cause that had looked so vibrant is now on the ropes, following the defeat dealt to it by Presbyterians at the church's biannual conference last month.

Meeting in Birmingham, Ala., the 500-plus voting members overwhelmingly disavowed the previous assembly's enthusiastic embrace of initiating "a process of phased, selective divestment in multinational corporations operating in Israel." But while the Presbyterians' ostensible about-face is a huge blow for those wishing to demonize Israel, the issue is far from dead within the church -- or, for that matter, within other Christian denominations across the United States.
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U.S. Weapons Transferred to PA Terrorists
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TEL AVIV -- It was the United States that coordinated the transfer of weapons last week by Israel to Force 17, the presidential guard units of Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, WorldNetDaily has learned. The transfer consisted of American-made weapons, Palestinian officials said.

Abu Yousuf, a senior member of Force 17, told WND in an exclusive interview last week the weapons will be shared with the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades terror group and utilized for attacks against Jews. He hinted the weapons already were used in two shooting attacks the past few days that killed one Israeli civilian and wounded another.

Many Force 17 gunmen are well known to also be members of the Al Aqsa Brigades, an offshoot of Abbas' Fatah party that is responsible for scores of recent suicide bombings, shooting attacks and rocket firings at Israel.

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The Palestinians: Hitler's New Youth?
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Hitler's New Youth
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The Hamas newspaper this week chronicled with pride the ways in which different foreign leaders singled out the Palestinians as examples of ideal revolutionaries. The first leader cited by the Hamas weekly, Al-Rissala, for praising the Palestinians was Adolf Hitler:
"Adolf Hitler, while exciting the Germans of the Sudetenland - the Sudetenland is a German province that the Allies had annexed to Czechoslovakia after the First World War - told them in his broadcasts: Look at what the Palestinian revolutionaries are doing to Great Britain!!"
[Al-Rissala (Hamas Weekly), May 18, 2006]

Overview: Admiration of Hitler in the Palestinian Authority:

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When Are We Getting Tough with the PA?
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http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | If democracy makes leaders accountable to the people who elect them, it works the other way as well: People are also accountable for their elected leaders. Which is why the United States, in agreeing to provide a $10 million care package to the Palestinian Authority (PA), is so dangerously wrong in failing to hold the people of the PA accountable for the democratically elected terror chieftains of Hamas.

Here's what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said this week when she announced the United States would provide medical and other supplies to the PA, which, after two months of no American or European Union aid, has run desperately low on such necessities: "The Hamas-run Palestinian Authority government bears sole responsibility for the hardships facing the Palestinian people and the international isolation that the PA is now experiencing due to its refusal to recognize Israel, renounce terrorism, and abide by previous agreements and obligations."

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How We Brought Hamas to Power
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How We Brought Hamas to Power
By Elan Journo
FrontPageMagazine.com | May 15, 2006

America's policy of backing "land for peace" deals in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was supposed to stop Palestinian terrorism and culminate in a Palestinian state coexisting with Israel "side by side in peace and security." But after years of Israeli concessions, and after American pleas to embrace "leaders uncompromised by terror," the Palestinians chose Hamas--a terrorist group committed to destroying Israel and creating a totalitarian Islamic regime.

Washington proclaimed itself shocked at this development. But the ascendance of Hamas should have been expected; it is the logical product of America's foreign policy.

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David & Goliath: The Myth of Palestinian Victimhood
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The perception of Palestinians as victims has become the most powerful marketing tool Palestinians have and no one uses it more effectively. Time after time we have seen Palestinian figureheads like Michael Terazi and Hanan Ashwari plead the Palestinian cause and point to the Israeli "occupation" as the root cause of all Palestinian problems.

Conversely, for years, Israel preferred to deal with the war on the ground and put the war of ideas with the media on hold. This has come back to haunt Israelis in almost every news outlet. It has also sowed disaffection among the Israeli electorate. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s recent electoral victory highlights the apathy that exists within the Israeli population towards the new guard of political leaders. Another factor that was quite evident is the fact that the security threats that Israel faces were put on “hold” in these past elections.

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Dismantle the Palestinian Authority
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Dismantle the Palestinian Authority
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 28, 2006

Last week’s suicide bombing in Tel Aviv, which killed nine and wounded eighty, was the ninth suicide bombing in Israel since Ariel Sharon and Mahmoud Abbas declared a truce on February 8, 2005. It was also the sixth in the last six months, which is, roughly, the period since Israel completed the disengagement from Gaza and northern Samaria.

If in the last half-year there had been six suicide bombings in Denmark, which has a similar population size to Israel’s, the reaction would be a sense of calamity and emergency. The murder of a single individual, Theo van Gogh, by a jihadist in Holland profoundly rocked that country and caused a mood of crisis.

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Dollars for Terror: Hamas Gets its Way
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Dollars For Terror
By Dr. Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen

Humanitarian aid is universally understood to provide “assistance to victims of natural disasters, war situations or other catastrophic events.” However, now this definition is expanding to include aiding a terrorist regime. Under the guise of “humanitarian aid,” money is beginning to flow to the HAMAS government.

To date, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Qatar have given the HAMAS led Palestinian Authority $192 million; the Saudis gave $92 million, and Qatar and Iran $50 each. Russia gave another $10 million, bringing total aid to the new PA administration to just over $200 million. The U.S. says it has authorized of $245 million for “Basic humanitarian assistance -- including health, food and education.”

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Terror Camps Sprout in Gaza--Wash. Times
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(Come on Washington Times, call them terrorists, not militants.--jm)

KHAN YOUNIS, Gaza Strip -- Militant squatters loyal to rivals Hamas and the Palestinian Authority are turning open lots in the Gaza Strip into ad hoc military bases, a development that some fear will lead to open warfare between rival Palestinian factions.

Leaders at the camps say they are acting in the name of the Palestinian uprising against Israel, but the growing presence of what are essentially guerrilla training camps comes at a time of growing instability in Gaza.
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Palestinians Step Up Anti-U.S. Rhetoric
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Rhetorical attacks against the U.S. and the West by the official Palestinian Authority press are increasing, with stories in the past week equating Western leader with Adolf Hitler, according to a media monitor.

In separate stories, the PA's leading daily newspaper evoked Hitler and defined American neo-conservative ideology as Nazi "Aryan supremacy doctrine," reports Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch.

"There is a new ideological Nazism, which has started to dominate the West, but it doesn't speak openly about its totalitarian Nazism, but carries it out in practice," wrote Hafez Barghuthi, editor in chief of Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, March 4.
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The PA's Masterful Doublespeak
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Mastering Doublespeak

In electing Hamas to lead their government, the Palestinian people have proven to themselves and to the world that they climbed over and moved beyond the legacy left them by Yasser Arafat. The newly-elected Hamas leaders, however, have begun to show the world how very much they themselves learned from the legacy of Arafat and how they are adapting that legacy to their governance.
Hamas watched Arafat, watched him closely, for many years. And Hamas learned the value and saw the rewards of delivering the "double message."

Arafat was the Master of Doublespeak. He would deliver one message to the West and an entirely other message to his people and to the Arab world. Arafat was smiles and soft-spoken to the West, he was a fire breathing hell raiser before Arab audiences. In English, Arafat spoke of "the peace of the brave," in Arabic he called for Jihad. In Washington Arafat told world leaders what they wanted to hear in Ramallah and Beirut and Cairo he told his people what they needed to hear.

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Hamas in Charge Puts Iran Just Outside Tel Aviv
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Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told U.S. envoy David Walsh on Sunday that the Hamas and its sponsor in Iran were attempting to create “an axis of evil, here,” on Israel’s doorstep.

Mofaz said, “The latest contacts between the Hamas and Iran, and Khaled Mashal’s trip to Teheran, in order to obtain Iranian support, and to create an alliance, brings the axis of evil: Iran, Syria, Hezbollah, and Hamas, right here.”

Mofaz told Walsh that the Hamas had specific plans to intensify its relationship with Iran and the Hezbollah. “We know about their intentions,” said Mofaz, “and Israel cannot agree to that.”

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Hamas Web Site: Nuke Israel
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The terrorist wing of the new Palestinian majority party Hamas has placed on its website a graphic depicting Israel's symbol, the Star of David, enveloped in a nuclear blast.

The Macromedia Flash Player animation can be seen here at the top of the homepage of the Az A-Din Al-Qassam Brigades, points out the Israel-based Palestinian Media Watch.

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Palestinians Cry, "bin Laden, Strike Again!"
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Thousands of Palestinians protest bomb-attired prophet cartoon

Thousands of Palestinians, some firing rifles in the air, others burning Danish flags, demonstrated Friday against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad in a Danish newspaper.

The drawings, which have been reprinted in publications across Europe, sparked outrage across the Islamic world, with violent protests in Iran, Syria, Lebanon and Afghanistan. In recent weeks, Palestinians held mass protests, threatened to kidnap Europeans in Gaza and chased foreign observers out of the West Bank city of Hebron.

The demonstrations following Friday afternoon's Muslim prayers were smaller than other recent protests here, but indicated the Palestinians remained angry at Denmark's refusal to apologize for the cartoons.

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Talk Peace to Israelis and Terror to Palestinians
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PA Leadership Duplicity: PA leader Qadura Faras talks peace to Israelis and terror to Palestinians

By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook - January 11, 2006

Palestinian Media Watch has for years documented the duplicity of the Palestinian Authority leadership, which sends a peaceful message to the world media and hate and terror message to its own people in Arabic.

A new example was documented this week, involving Palestinian Legislative Council member Qadura Faras. Faras has been a prominent supporter of the "Geneva Initiative," an unofficial peace proposal drafted in 2003 by a group of leftist Israelis led by Yossi Beilin and Palestinians, and appears on the Geneva Initiative website, conveying a message of peace to Israelis.

However, when Faras recently addressed Palestinians, he used his speech to honor and praise a terrorist who murdered 10 Israelis. He further spoke in memory of one he called a "Shahid" [martyr for Allah], a term that places blame for his death on Israel - even though he had died of cancer in an Israeli prison. Finally, he pledged to continue in the path of these terrorists. This is a totally different Qadura Faras than the one promoting peace on the "Geneva Initiative" web site. View Full Article

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Who Really is Oppressing the Palestinians?
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The exploitation of Palestinian Arabs began more than 170 years ago, when Israel was still an impossible dream, and intifadas and suicide bombers were unimaginable. At the height of its rule in the early 19th century, the Ottoman Empire instituted “Tanzimat,” a series of laws promulgated over several decades which radically changed the nature of land ownership. As a result of the new laws, wealthy land owners, bankers, business owners, and money lenders anywhere in the Empire could now buy land formerly owned communally by the Arab peasants (fellahin) in the towns and villages of the region that would later become known as Israel.

From the mid-1830s to the late 1850s, wealthy Arabs (effendi) from Cairo to Beirut, Jaffa to Damascus, purchased land previously owned by hundreds of thousands of fellahin, who suddenly found themselves landless serfs instead of successful small farmers, now working what had once been their own land as tenants of the effendi.

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Electing Terror--Pipes
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Electing Terror
By Daniel Pipes
National Post

Now that Hamas has apparently won the Palestinian elections, the West is hoist with its own petard.

On the one hand, Hamas is a terrorist group that unabashedly targets Israeli civilians and calls for the elimination of the Jewish state. On the other hand, it just won what observers deem to have been a reasonably fair election, and so enjoys the legitimacy that comes from the ballot box. Every foreign ministry now confronts a dilemma: Nudge it to moderation or give up on it as irredeemably extremist? Meet with Hamas members or avoid them? Continue to donate to the Palestinian Authority or starve it of funds?

This double bind is of our own making because, with Washington in the lead, virtually every Western government adopted a two-prong approach to solving the problems of the Middle East.

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A History of Hamas' Terrorist Acts
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History of Hamas Murderous Attacks

Hamas has set the destruction of Israel as its goal. Between September 2000 and April 2004, Hamas perpetrated 425 terrorist attacks against Israel and murdered 377 Israelis - nine every month.

Hamas was founded by Islamic militant extremists in the Gaza Strip in 1988, shortly after the first intifada broke out. The word Hamas is an acronym for the Arabic words for "Islamic Resistance Movement."

Though it is also involved in social and welfare programs, the organization is devoted chiefly to the obliteration of Israel. Its charter states, "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." View Full Article

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Democracy, Muslim Style--Hal Lindsey
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As you can imagine, everyone is asking me my take on the significance of the Hamas victory in "Democratic elections" held in the West Bank and Gaza.

Let me put this into the larger context of my view on the situation. I view all of this from the vantage point of God's prophecies concerning His miraculous restoration of Israel as a nation in the land He unconditionally promised them "in the last days."

God predicted the following things through the prophet Ezekiel, in stages:

Stage 1

The physical restoration of the Israelites to nationhood in their ancient home land from their worldwide dispersion:

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Arafat's Chickens Come Home to Roost
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Arafat's chickens have come home to roost

http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Final results of yesterday's Palestinian legislative elections are still trickling in. But one thing is sure: Yasser Arafat's chickens have come home to roost. After decades of dictatorial and corrupt control by the late Fatah leader and his cohorts, vast numbers of voters in both the West Bank and Gaza have angrily turned their back on Arafat's heirs and given their support to rival Hamas, the radical Islamic party.

The prime result: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas may feel obliged to let Hamas join a coalition government.

Trouble is Hamas remains the same terrorist party it's always been, a heavily armed, blood-drenched gang that boasts of suicide bombings and doesn't even pretend to want peace with Israel. Its goals are crystal clear: the total annihilation of the Jewish state in favor of an Islamic state throughout the entire Holy Land. Its presence in a Palestinian government is hardly incentive for Israel to follow up on its recent withdrawal from Gaza and move ahead on the U.S.-sponsored road map to Mideast peace.