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Hamas Uses Israel's Warnings to Prepare Human Shields
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Study: Hamas Uses Israel's Warnings to Prepare Human Shields

Tevet 10, 5769, 06 January 09 10:23by Gil Ronen

(IsraelNN.com) Israel's notifications to civilians in Gaza to leave populated locations before they are bombed are cynically used by Hamas for organizing human shields, a new study says.

The study by the Terror and Intelligence Information Center shows that when the IDF warns Arab civilians of an impending attack in their neighborhood, Hamas uses the information in order to organize the civilians into human shields in the hope of protecting the targets from the IDF's wrath.

Hamas's de facto prime minister Ismail Haniyeh and other top terrorists, including Nizar Riyan, who was killed in the course of Operation Cast Lead, have publicly boasted of using the warnings as "intelligence" and then using civilians, including women and children, as human shields to protect the homes of terrorists.

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Protesters Call for Israel to "Go Back to the Ovens"
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What is Palestine?
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The declared Arab intention to obliterate the state of Israel, the closing of international waterways to Israeli shipping and the massing of armies on its southern, northern and eastern borders which triggered the Six Day War, are, we are meant to believe, issues of marginal importance and do not count in the balance of Barghouti’s personal resentment. Note, too, that the Palestinian fault is only “shortsightedness.” View Full Article

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Gaza: The Inside Story
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Gaza: The Inside Story

By Jamie Glazov
FrontPageMagazine.com | 12/31/2008

Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Jonathan Schanzer, deputy director of the Jewish Policy Center. He has served as a counterterrorism analyst at the U.S. Department of Treasury and as a research fellow at Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the author of the new book, Hamas vs. Fatah: The Struggle For Palestine. Daniel Pipes wrote the foreword to the book and some of the research was undertaken at Pipes' Middle East Forum.
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Five Basic Arguments Against a Palestinian State
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Contrary to the governments of the United States and Israel, various experts in both countries reject the “two-state” solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. I shall mention their views while developing five decisive arguments against a Palestinian state: Economic, Demographic, Political, Strategic, and Democratic. Let’s begin with:
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Palestine: Mirage in the Desert
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Hollywood, too, has contributed to the fiction. Director Paul Haggis’ anti-war film, In the Valley of Elah, locates the contest of David and Goliath in Palestine, when no such entity existed. Haggis may have been ignorant of his biblical history, but his well-known leftish inclinations suggest a specific design at work.

It is highly appropriate that In the Valley of Elah was filmed in Hollywood, an illusion factory that is about as “real” as Palestine. It is no exaggeration to suggest that the concept of “Palestine,” the simulacrum of the “Palestinian,” is, when all is said and done, not much more than a Tinseltown movie, an empty fabrication—the historical grounding is absent and the sense of a cohesive national identity has been artificially generated by a political cabal working in tandem with the international media. The fact of the matter is, to adapt a current catch phrase, that the Palestinians are all keffiyeh and no sheep.

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Once an Arafat Man, now a Christian--WND
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Meet the Arafat sniper who now works for Jesus

Fatah terrorist used to throw grenades in Christian homes

By Joseph Farah

WorldNetDaily

WASHINGTON – When Taysir Saada served as a trained assassin for Yasser Arafat's Fatah organization in the late 1960s, he admits he hated Christians.

If he found a home belonging to followers of Jesus, he would sometimes throw a grenade inside and shoot it up with bursts of machine-gun fire.

He has no idea how many people were killed and wounded in such attacks.

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New Thinking on the Palestinians
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New Thinking on the Palestinians

By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | 9/12/2008

“We support the vision of two democratic states living in peace and security: Israel, with Jerusalem as its capital, and Palestine. For that to become a reality, the Palestinian people must support leaders who reject terror, embrace the institutions and ethos of democracy, and respect the rule of law. We call on Arab governments throughout the region to help advance that goal.”

Back in 2004 President Bush had those words introduced into the GOP platform. A source informs me that this year one delegate proposed striking those words from the platform, but the attempt got nowhere.
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Palestinian Summer Camps Train Children to Hate and Kill
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Palestinian summer camps teach kids to hate and kill

Across the Gaza Strip, Palestinian children signed in to summer camps this month not to swim, play and learn about nature, but rather to be indoctrinated with hatred for the Jewish people and to be instructed in the methods of terrorist warfare.

Ynet reported that between Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the groups are hosting around 50,000 Palestinian children at some 400 camps throughout the small coastal territory.

Children participating in the camps are required to memorize passages from Koran, and are then taken outside to train with assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) and Kassam rocket launchers.

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Arab Leaders Caused Refugee Problem--Farah
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Arab leaders caused refugee problem

Exclusive: Joseph Farah explains why Jewish state cannot solve crisis it did not create

Posted: July 28, 2008

By Joseph Farah

I've written about the world's collective amnesia" when it comes to the so-called "root causes of the Middle East crisis."

The conventional wisdom today suggests the new state of Israel in 1948 was to blame for the creation of the Arab refugee problem.

The mantra is repeated endlessly by U.S. State Department apparatchiks, Israel's enemies around the globe and even by well-meaning, guilt-ridden Jews.

The entire Middle East peace process is based on this notion – that repatriation of Arab Palestinians in a new homeland of their own will solve the conflict.

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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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Prime Time on Terror TV--MEMRI
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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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Palestinian Infanticide
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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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A Palestinian Poll--Wash.Times
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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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The Children Schooled by Arafat--Hal Lindsey
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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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Funding the Palestinians
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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"Moderate" Palestinians Still Look to Israel's Destruction
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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"
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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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Palestinians Crucify the Holy Land--Oct. 11
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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The Real Roots of Palestinian Terror--July 30
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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
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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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"Palestine," the Lie
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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
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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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Why is America Pouring Money Into this Cause?
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
--> Posted to Palestine for April, 2006

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
--> Posted to Palestine for April, 2006

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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The PA's Masterful Doublespeak
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2006

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 Web Site: Nuke Israel
--> Posted to Palestine for February, 2006

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!"
--> Posted to Palestine for February, 2006

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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Who Really is Oppressing the Palestinians?
--> Posted to Palestine for February, 2006

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
--> Posted to Palestine for January, 2006

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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Democracy, Muslim Style--Hal Lindsey
--> Posted to Palestine for January, 2006

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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Phased Plan for Israel's Destruction Continues--Kinsella
--> Posted to Palestine for January, 2006

Phased Plan for Israel's Destruction Alive and Well
Palestinians Prepare for Phase Three
Israel - Middle East

Jack Kinsella - Omega Letter Editor

As Ariel Sharon clings to life and Israel's government is forced into a limbo-like state until they can figure out what to do, the Palestinians are making preparations for the final phase of Yasser Arafat's Phased Plan For the Destruction of Israel.

According to most mainstream Middle East analysts, PA Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas has lost control of the Palestinian Authority and the PA is in political free-fall.

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Politiically Correct Hell: Gaza
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2005

Politically-Correct Hell
By P. David Hornik
FrontPageMagazine.com | October 20, 2005

Two politically-correct statements:

1. There is no worse fate for Palestinians than to be ruled by Israel; any Palestinian rule is better.

2. There is no worse fate for Israel than to rule Palestinians; any way of leaving the territories, whether by bilateral agreement or unilateral withdrawal, is better.

Regarding the first statement, a moment’s thought reveals that actually it is far from axiomatic. Terrible things can happen to Arabs who live under rule by other Arabs—merely saying the words Iraq, Algeria, or Syria is enough to illustrate this.

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The Occupation of the Palestinian Mind
--> Posted to Palestine for October, 2005

The Occupation of the Palestinian Mind

In May of 2000, the Lebanese-based Hezbollah terrorist group faced an unexpected challenge. Israel's unilateral withdrawal from Lebanon has threatened to pull the raison d'etre for its existence out from under its feet. After all, what can an organization that dedicated its life to fighting the “Israeli occupation of Lebanon” do after the last Israeli solider shut the border gate and the UN announced that Israel is in full compliance with Security Council resolution 425, recognizing the Israeli-Lebanese permanent border in the north? How about fighting for Jerusalem?

Organizations have a life of their own – and certainly “vision” driven groups like Hezbollah will not falter on technicalities. Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, was quick to announce that the group will not lay down its arms until Israel leaves the Shaba farms, Syrian land that is located at the Golan Heights under Israeli control. Since then, Hezbollah, a group responsible for the killing of more than 800 people in the Middle East, Europe and South America, has only increased its activities. It did so not only in Lebanon, but also in the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas and in Iraq.

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Funding Palestinian Terror: U.S. Tax Dollars at Work
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2005

Funding Palestinian Terror
By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Paul E. Vallely
The Washington Times

Nothing seems to disrupt the momentum towards the creation of a Palestinian state that supports martyrdom, not even repeated, clear statements by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas. “[Martyrs] receive their reward in the Garden of Eden,” he told a group of students returning to school in Gaza on September 4. Those who died “according to a national order,” he said—including suicide terrorists—“brought about the withdrawal from Gaza.”

These are fighting words, not those of a leader committed to living side by side in peace with Israel. That Abbas sounds just like the leaders of HAMAS and Islamic Jihad, has not stopped the Quartet—the United States, United Nations, Russia and the European Union—from giving $750 million to the PA by the end of 2005. Nor did it stop the Japanese from giving $49.7 million in aid to the Palestinians through the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), nor the Canadians from giving $36.7 million in aid to the PA this year.

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Palestinians and Peace?--Wash.Times
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2005

This may be the only case in history of a country voluntarily giving up part of its land, telling its people to abandon their homes and livelihood, in order to make peace with an enemy. Unfortunately, the response from the Palestinian side has been less than encouraging.

In spite of this, in his recent speech at the United Nations, Mr. Sharon went out of his way to reach out to the Palestinians; he called on them to "end the bloody conflict and embark on the path which leads to peace and understanding," adding that "the right of the Jewish people to the Land of Israel does not mean disregarding the rights of others in the land," thus specifically endorsing Palestinian statehood -- and echoing President Bush's vision of a future democratic, viable Palestinian state living in peace alongside Israel (though some may be reminded of Jonathan Swift's definition of visions: "the art of seeing things invisible").
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The Ugly Face of Palestinian Hate
--> Posted to Palestine for September, 2005

The Ugly Face of Palestinian Hate
By Paula R. Stern

Today, as I knew they would, crazed Palestinian mobs are desecrating 25 synagogues in Gaza, setting them on fire and destroying what it took years to build. I have visited almost all of these synagogues and prayed in many of them. I cannot even begin to put into words the pain I feel today, the anger, and the sadness.

The world, as I expected, is silent. The UN’s Kofi Annan was asked to protect the remaining synagogues, but we hear nothing. Empty buildings, they will protest quietly, and what did you expect? Unspoken is the silent message that while the Christian world and the Jewish world would respect places of worship, the Moslem world cannot be held to the same level of accountability. Did you expect any different? No, I did not, though it would be a mistake to assume that knowing they would destroy these holy places in any way lessens the pain.

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The Greatest Fraud in History--Kinsella
--> Posted to Palestine for May, 2005

A planned Temple Mount march and protest last month fizzled when Jerusalem police, backed up by Army units, closed the Temple Mount to both Jews and Arabs.

Throughout the Old City police had set up roadblocks and checkpoints barring all private vehicles from entering the area, while a strict security cordon of hundreds of police officers lined the Western Wall Plaza.

In defiance of police, hundreds of Palestinian youths, together with West Bank Hamas leader, Sheikh Hassan Youssef, managed to enter the Temple Mount compound.

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The Joy of Killing Your Kids--PMW
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2005

The Joy of Killing Your Kids
By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook
Palestinian Media Watch Bulletin

Introduction

Creating a supportive social environment for terrorists has been a critical factor in the Palestinian Authority’s successful promotion of suicide terrorism. To this end, PA policy has been to honor terrorists as Shahids (Martyrs for Allah), and to teach Palestinian mothers to celebrate when their children die as terrorist Shahids. Categorizing these dead terrorists as Shahids grants them the highest honor a Muslim can achieve, and is therefore cause for a mother to celebrate, according to this PA teaching. This pressure on Palestinian mothers to celebrate their dead sons as Shahids continues under the regime of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, and even increased this past week with repeated PA TV promotion connected to International Woman’s Day.

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The Sad Joke of "Palestinian Aid"
--> Posted to Palestine for March, 2005

The Sad Joke of "Palestinian Aid"

FrontPageMagazine.com | March 2, 2005

The London conference of donors to the Palestinian Authority (PA), currently being convened under the auspices of the ‘Quartet’, is a timely opportunity to review the size and affect of international donations to the PA. Fortunately, international pressure forced the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Finance to publish summary accounts, including a breakdown of international donations.

The table below summarises donations given directly to the PA for the years 2003 and 2004.

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How Strong The Arab Claim To "Palestine"?
--> Posted to Palestine for August, 2004

There is a myth hanging over all discussion of the Palestinian problem: the myth that this land was "Arab" land taken from its native inhabitants by invading Jews. Whatever may be the correct solution to the problems of the Middle East, let's get a few things straight:

- As a strictly legal matter, the Jews didn't take Palestine from the Arabs; they took it from the British, who exercised sovereign authority in Palestine under a League of Nations mandate for thirty years prior to Israel's declaration of independence in 1948. And the British don't want it back.

- If you consider the British illegitimate usurpers, fine. In that case, this territory is not Arab land but Turkish land, a province of the Ottoman Empire for hundreds of years until the British wrested it from them during the Great War in 1917. And the Turks don't want it back.

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The State of a Palestinian State
--> Posted to Palestine for July, 2003

The state of a Palestinian state

The Palestinian people want their own state. They lobby for it. They implore any interested third party to politic for it. They are willing to kill for it. It is, right now, what some die for.

George Bush and The United States support their desire. So do Ariel Sharon and Israel.

But has anyone thought about how this state will work? What form of government will it have? What about infrastructure? How will services be administered? Is there funding for a national budget?
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We Have Been Had
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2003

Sharon Nader Sloan

Did you know that there was never any country called Palestine? Did you know that there is no such thing as a Palestinian people?

The ideas that the West Bank and Gaza are occupied Palestinian land, and that the Palestinian people are fighting for their land, have been accepted by most of the governments of the world and by most of the media in the world. But if you read on, you will see that these two claims are the biggest lies ever deliberately perpetrated on humanity.

Check out any map of the Middle East and see for yourself. You will find Palestine listed as a region as it always has been, but definitely not a country. We can locate the Mojave Desert on the map, but we still do not recognize it as our 51st state, let alone a country. Similarly, the region of Siberia is a region not a state. Or the Sahara is a region not a state, etc. Neither is Palestine a state. It never was a country, just a region.

Importantly, the Jews did not displace anyone, because no one permanently resided there. It was a land inhabited by nomadic, Bedouin tribes. The whole region was nothing but deserts and swamps. Only about 120,000 Arabs resided in an area that covered the territories, the state of Israel and Jordan. When Mark Twain visited the area, he wrote he found nothing but a wasteland.

During the 19 years that the territories - including Jerusalem and Gaza - were occupied by the kingdoms of Jordan and Egypt, no one talked about a Palestinian state - not the Arab countries, not the United Nations. Nobody asked Jordan or Egypt to abdicate their ownership and give it to the Palestinians. Not even the Palestinians themselves said anything about a Palestinian state or a Palestinian people, because nobody heard of a Palestinian people. It never existed.

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The World's Collective Amnesia
--> Posted to Palestine for June, 2003

By Joseph Farah

Yasser Arafat may have lost some of his personal political clout of late, but the political movement he began - demanding justice for Palestinian Arabs expelled from their homes in 1948 - remains as strong as ever.

There's just one problem. There's not the slightest historical evidence to suggest Arabs were expelled in significant numbers - certainly not by Jews.

I know this statement is going to be met with gasps, guffaws and gnashing of teeth. Nevertheless, let me defend it, not with my own words, not with the words of Jews and Israelis, but with the words of Arabs closer to the time of the events.

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