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Egyptian TV produces racist, anti-Jewish, show (10.28.2002)


Anti-SemitismThe New York Times (www.nytimes.com) reports that a government controlled Egyptian TV station (they all are) is producing a racist, anti-Jewish, show based on the fact that Jews have conspired to rule the world:

An Egyptian satellite television channel has begun teasers for its blockbuster Ramadan series that its producers acknowledge incorporates ideas from the infamous czarist forgery "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion." That document, a pillar of anti-Semitic hatred for about a century, appears to be gaining a new foothold in parts of the Arab world, some scholars and observers say. [...]

The "Protocols," which purports to depict Jewish leaders plotting world dominion, has long been recognized as a fabrication by the czarist secret police. It was used in early 20th-century Russia and in Nazi Germany as a pretext for persecution of Jews. Still, the show's backers say they are keeping an open mind about its authenticity. They say that in any event, reality seems to bear them out, in that Israel controls part of the Middle East. [...]

"Once it goes on television it enters everyone's living room, and that's where the danger is," said Samir Raafat, a writer and chronicler of Cairene life who is critical of the series. "You are spoon-feeding them more hate propaganda. This is not conducive to tolerance of the other or knowing the other. There's a price going to be paid."


Thank God we have peace with Egypt, can you imagine what shows they'd produce if we were at war?

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Palestinian genocide bomber murders one Israeli (09.18.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that a Palestinian genocide bomber has blown himself in a northern Israeli-Arab town, murdering one:

A suicide bomber blew himself up Wednesday afternoon at a busy intersection outside the Israeli-Arab city of Umm el Fahm, killing a police officer and wounding three people, police and media reports said.

According to Channel 2, the bomber detonated his explosives while standing on the highway, after police approached him because he was suspiciously weaving between trucks on foot.


The main title on CNN currently is "One killed in West Bank suicide bombing" - that's completely wrong.

As the Jerusalem Post correctly pointed out, Umm el Fahm is an Israeli-Arab city from the North of the country, near Afula. I purchased olive oil there a few times as I drove by Umm el Fahm on my way to reserve duty (miluim).

Of course, if the Palestinian barbaric attacks are made in the West Bank, only "settlers" will be murdered and American extreme liberals will certainly not condemn that. I suspect CNN will change the title soon, but when it makes such basic mistakes, you start to question its credibility.

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Palestinian patients treated in Israeli hospitals cheer when Jewish victims of terror are brought in (08.21.2002)


OpinionThe Weekly Standard (www.weeklystandard.com) has a good article written by the comedian Larry Miller who visited Israel last week.

I was in two other hospitals recently, just a week ago, in Israel. It was part of my trip, to meet some victims of the terror bombings and their families. As an aside to this, you might like to hear something good and something not so good. [...]

All right, back to the story. As I said, I went to two places to meet the terror victims. One was in Tel Aviv. I met an emergency room doctor, a woman, whose husband was killed a year ago in a bombing. She has two children. Had. Now she has one. She was on duty, weeks ago, in the middle of the night (Don't they call that the graveyard shift?), the night a disco was bombed. Maybe you heard about it. The victims were brought to her hospital. To her. Her daughter was one of them. Now the mother is a patient. "It was good of you to let her tell you her story," the head of the place told me. "It's therapeutic." Good of me? What do you say to that? "I'm glad I could help so much. Gotta go now. Soon I'll be back in the hotel room."

Then we went to Hadassah Hospital, in Jerusalem. This is the hospital where they brought the victims of the bombing at Hebrew University. I met a woman who had been having lunch that day, in the Frank Sinatra Commissary (really) with her daughter, a student. An "A" student, the mother told me. It wasn't possible for the daughter to tell me, since they were still trying to put her back together. At this writing she's still alive, thank God. Just. An "A" student, the mother kept saying. She was the lucky one, whatever that means. Hey, what's that on the table? Oh, it's a cup with the nails they took out of me. Some are still inside. They can't take them out yet. Oh. Okay. Gotta go. Wait, go in there, here's someone else, the brother of someone else, the fiancee of someone else, the father of someone else. Thank you for letting them tell their stories. Yes, I know, it's therapeutic.

Downstairs, before we left, the head of the hospital, an Israeli named Audrey, was showing me the children's waiting room. I couldn't help but notice, all around, an Arab woman with her son, an Arab family over there checking in, Arab children playing with the toys while waiting. The doctor saw the look on my face and laughed. "Oh, yes, we treat everyone." I guess I was astonished. She just shrugged. "We're Jews. This is how we live. It's also for the future. They're not going anywhere, and we're not going anywhere. There will eventually be peace. There has to be." When? A month? A year? A hundred years? More? She didn't know. I had to say it. You're incredible. You take everyone, you treat everyone, no one goes first, no one goes last, you just go in order of who needs help. That's, like, Mother Teresa stuff. "We're not saints, we're just doing our jobs. It's not easy, I admit. And it gets hard when they cheer when the bodies are brought in." I looked at her. What did you say? She sighed. "Yes, it gets hard when they cheer." This was one of the times during my trip when I held up my hands and said, "Stop. Wait." I turned and walked away to breathe deeply for a minute. I wonder if they've restocked that mini-bar. Yeah, probably. It's a good hotel.

I didn't meet one Jew the whole trip who didn't think there would be peace, not one. "We can work it out. We have to. They're not going anywhere. Neither are we."

Of course, it gets hard when they cheer.


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Palestinian terrorist from Islamic Jihad murders 65 year-old Israeli grandmother (07.08.2003)


Palestinian TerrorismIsrael Insider (www.israelinsider.com) reports that a murderer from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad has killed a grandmother and injured three of her grandchildren:



Moshe Afari, Mazal's husband, weeps
after a Palestinian from the Islamic Jihad
murdered his 65-year-old wife


Mazal Afari, 65, a resident of Moshav Kfar Yavetz, east of Netanya, was killed and three of her grandchildren were lightly injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside their home, causing it to collapse. Initially police thought a gas balloon had exploded, but later discovered explosives and a switch among the rubble. Representatives of Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the blast, the first since the start of the Palestinian cease-fire. [...]

"The destruction of the house was total," said one of Afari's neighbors, who arrived at the scene ahead of rescue teams. "The right half of the house, the living room and porch, were destroyed, and also the tiled roof."


The Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, and Arafat's Al-Aksa brigades reject peace and wish for the destruction of Israel and the genocide of her citizens. For a list of mass murders executed by these bastards, click here.

This is the end of the "cease fire". The members of Palestinian Islamic Jihad will now be hunted down just like the members of Hamas.

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One more Palestinian mass murderer destroyed by Israel (04.17.2004)


NewsIsrael National News (www.israelnn.com) reports that one more Palestinian mass murderer has been destroyed by Israel:

As the United States continues to pursue Bin Laden in Afghanistan, Israel got its man this evening. The extreme terrorist leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi, who became the leader of Hamas in Gaza less than a month ago, was felled in an Israeli helicopter missile attack in his car. Two of his bodyguards were also killed in the attack. [...]

Dan Gillerman, Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations, said that the attack on Rantisi was not a retaliation for today's murderous attack by a Palestinian suicide terrorist, in which an Israeli policeman was killed, but "was part of Israel's long-term war against terrorism.

We see this war taking place in Spain and Kenya and Bali, and Israel is fighting this war as well." Another government source told Army Radio that this was the first opportunity to strike at Rantisi, and that Israel will continue targeting terrorist leaders who seek to kill innocent Israelis - including whomever replaces Rantisi as leader of Hamas. "People who want to see stability in our region should not ask themselves why Israel killed him now," said Gillerman, "but rather why we did not do this before."


Hamas (in Arabic "Islamic Resistance") is an organization with one goal: to destroy the State of Israel and murder all of her Jewish citizens. A few weeks ago, another Palestinian mass murderer, who originally created Hamas was also destroyed by the Israeli army. Click here for more details.

Hamas is responsible for murdering hundreds of Israeli women and children in the last few years. For a complete list of homicide bombings executed by these bastards, click here.

The war against Al-Qaeda, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hamas, Arafat's Al-Aksa Brigades and other Islamic mass murderers continues.

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Syria violates UN arms embargo and delivers weapons to Iraq (07.14.2002)


NewsHa'aretz (www.haaretzdaily.com) reports that Syria is violating the UN arms embargo on Iraq. Syria has apparently purchased tank engines, Mig parts, and other weapons, and has secretely delivered it all to Iraq.

Syria, current president of the UN Security Council, is violating the UN arms embargo on Iraq by sending weapons and military equipment delivered to Syrian ports on to Iraq via trucks and rail. Most, but not all, of the supplies come from East European countries. Among other things, Russian-made jet engines, refurbished Russian tank engines and Czech anti-aircraft cannon are being delivered to Iraq via this route.


This is particularly outrageous since Syria is currently the president of the UN security council. But then again, what would you expect from a regime that openly supports and hosts terrorist groups such as the Islamic Jihad and the PFLP? Syria is in the US State Departments' list of countries that support terrorism.

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England, 1189, 30 Jews are killed in London (09.03.2002)


Jewish HistoryThe Jerusalem Post's feature "This day in history" reports on September 3, 1189:

Richard the Lionhearted was crowned at Westminster. He was favorably inclined towards the Jews. Unfortunately, he was influenced by Thomas, a Becket who had a fanatical hatred of them.

During his coronation (from which Jews and women were banned), Baldwin, the Archbishop of Canterbury, convinced Richard not to accept presents from Jewish dignitaries and to evict them from the palace. The crowd took it to mean that the king encouraged persecution of the Jews, and they began rioting against the Jews in London that same day.

The riots soon spread to Norwich, Dunstable and Stamford. In London 30 Jews were killed including Rabbi Jacob of Orleans, a pupil of Rabbenu Tam. Richard did his best to protect the Jews - as long as he was in England.

This day also marked the beginning of the Third Crusade in England under the patronage of King Richard. England, which had taken no real part in the first two crusades, decided to sponsor a crusade joined by France and Germany.

Its goal was to recapture Jerusalem (taken in 1187) but when Frederick Barbarossa accidentally drowned, Philip II of France gave up, and Richard succeeded only in capturing Acre. The Jews of England were the crusade's chief victims.

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Biased BBC reporter openly cries over mass murdering Muslim terrorist's health (11.07.2004)


Media BiasThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that a reporter for the BCC has clearly shown her anti-Israel bias after she openly admitted crying over the health of a Palestinian mass murdering terrorist:

Senior editors at the BBC are understood to have remonstrated with their correspondent, Barbara Plett, over her "misjudgment" in revealing on air that she had cried when Yasser Arafat's Jordanian helicopter carried him away from Ramallah en route to hospital in France.

The BBC has received some 500 complaints about Plett's broadcast, which was broadcast on its Radio 4 program, "From Our Own Correspondent."

In her report, Plett said: "When the helicopter carrying the frail old man rose above his ruined compound, I started to cry . . . without warning."

[...] In her report, entitled "Yasser Arafat's unrelenting journey," Plett noted that "foreign journalists seemed much more excited about Mr. Arafat's fate than anyone in Ramallah We hovered around the gate to his compound, swarming around the Palestinian officials who drove by, poking our microphones through their dark, half-open windows."


This BBC reporter is just as biased as the journalists from other leftist western media outlets such as CBS or NPR. The only difference is that this one was stupid enough to openly admit it.

Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian's excuse for a leader, is directly responsible for murdering thousands of innocent women and children over the years in his career as a terrorist bastard. He has personally refused peace with Israel and turned down an offer for an independent Palestinian state four years ago (for more information, click here).

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Saudi Arabia funds Palestinian terrorism (05.08.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismIsrael's Education Minister, Limor Livnat, disclosed at a press conference yesterday in Washington that Saudia Arabia has funneled $135 million over the last 16 months to the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas and the families of suicide bombers and other dead terrorists.

Hey, it pays to be a Palestinian murderer: the Palestinian terrorists believe they will find 72 virgins when they get to heaven. This can only be acomplished if they kill as many innocent Israeli civilians as possible, and now they have the extra bonus of knowing their families will be taken care of. Kind of like a "life insurance" for homicide / suicide bombers and other Palestinian terrorists, directly funded by Saudi Arabia.

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Palestinian terrorist blows herself up murdering 4 Israelis (01.15.2004)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that a Palestinian murderer, mother of 2, has blown herself killing 4 Israelis and injuring 9:

Two soldiers, a border policeman, and a security guard for a private manpower company, [who were] murdered by a female suicide bomber at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning, will be laid to rest Thursday.

The four were killed and nine others wounded when a female suicide bomber blew herself up inside the terminal at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip on Wednesday morning.


On any given day between 10,000 to 30,000 Palestinians are allowed to go through the Erez crossing, a gateway between the Gaza strip and the State of Israel (see the maps page for more details).

Most of these Palestinians wish to simply work and feed their families, but unfortunately some Islamic fascists continue their murderous terrorist attacks. After the mass murdering terrorist blew herself up, the flow of Palestinian workers going into Israel was stopped.

The Hamas ("Islamic Resistance"), the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Arafat's Al-Aksa Brigades are racist intolerant bastards who reject any peace with Israel and wish to murder all Israelis and Jews - for more information click here. For a list of mass murdering homicide bombings executed by these Muslim fascists since October 2000, click here.

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The deliberate killing of unarmed civilians is terrorism, part 2 (06.19.2002)


OpinionI just wrote an email to Michael Moran from MSNBC.com . Mr. Moran is critical of the TerrorPetition.com campaign which is collecting 100,000 signatures to call on the media:

1) To demonstrate moral leadership and journalistic integrity.
2) To label Palestinian suicide bombers as “terrorists”.
3) To stop whitewashing heinous acts of murder.

If you haven't already done so, please click here to sign the petition - the deliberate killing of unarmed civilians is terrorism. It's as simple as that, but some journalists, like Mr. Moran, have a different agenda - please help them understand that they can't get away it.

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Arab Support for Palestinian homicide/suicide bombers (06.16.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Weekly Standard (www.weeklystandard.com) has a good article on MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute.

MEMRI has pioneered the careful translation, and dissemination to European and American audiences, of print and broadcast news sources in the Arab world. The group's work now pops up everywhere; here in the States, hardly a week goes by when some major daily or cable news show doesn't make use (generally without attribution) of a MEMRI translation.


It gives a few examples on recent work done by MEMRI:

And it is hair-raisingly insane. The April 25, 2002 interview with Prof. 'Adel Sadeq, head of the psychiatry faculty at 'Ein Shams University in Cairo, for example. Professor Sadeq beams with glee as he explains how Western civilization "has no concepts such as self-sacrifice and honor," which is why Americans fail to understand that the suicide bomber experiences "the height of ecstasy and happiness" just at the moment when, "ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one, and then he presses the button to blow himself up." Big smile.

Then there's the May 9, 2002, program on "discipline in the family," featuring one Jasem Al-Mutawah, an "expert on family matters," who patiently describes to his viewers where on her body, how severely, with what weapon, and under what circumstances a man should beat his wife.


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Israel Advocacy Pamphlets (07.10.2003)


AnnouncementI have just received the following email:



Great pamphlets on "Checkpoints",
the "Occupation", Refugees and more at
www.israelcampaign.com



Recently, there has been a theater troup in my hometown performing checkpoints on people walking in parks to show people "Palestinian suffering". So I decided to go there and hand out pamphlets that explained why there are checkpoints.

I started designing one, and then another, and then others until I had about 10 pamphlets, each treating a key topic in the conflict. I decided to put them up on the web in high quality format so that people from around the world can print them, photocopy, and distribute them on campuses, at the office, at rallies, etc...

What I am asking from you is that since I have just started, would it be possible for you to add a link to my site on your website? The address is:

http://www.israelcampaign.com


Please let me know,

Thank You,
E.A.


Well E.A., I checked out your site and I am really impressed with the pamphlets - you've done some excellent work! I've also added a link to www.israelcampaign.com in the FactsOfIsrael.com links page - I hope you get a lot of hits.

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19-year-old young woman murdered by the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (12.07.2002)


VictimsFaces of the Victims has published the story of Sharon Tubol, a 19-year-old Israeli young woman who was deliberately murdered by a genocide bomber from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.



Sharon Tubol, 19
Murdered by a terrorist
from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad


On October 21, 2002, Cpl. Sharon Tubol, 19, of Arad, was one of 14 persons killed when a bus was blown up in a suicide attack by a terrorist driving an explosives-laden jeep near the Karkur junction.

Sharon had boarded the bus for home in the Negev city and was killed outright in the explosion. She was on special leave from the army, where she served in the PX on a base in the Golan Heights, to prepare for her sister Miri's wedding. The affair, which had been scheduled for Wednesday, was postponed.

The youngest in the family, Sharon grew up in Arad and graduated from the Mitzpe Ramon High School of the Arts, majoring in theater. She was inducted in the army just a month ago. Army mates described her as a "colorful, warm-hearted person," who loved to go out to the pub in Arad, and with whom "every phone call turned into an laugh-filled event." Her father, Avraham Tubol, a former director of the Masada archeological site, died last year.

Cpl. Sharon Tubol is survived by her mother, two brothers, and a sister. She will be buried in the military section of the Arad Cemetery.


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70-year-old Israeli murdered by a Palestinian terrorist (11.18.2002)


VictimsFaces of the Victims has published the story of Yosef Haviv, a 70-year-old Israeli who was deliberately murdered by a genocide bomber from the Palestinian terrorist group PFLP ("Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine").



Yosef Haviv, 70
Murdered by a
Palestinian terrorist


On May 20, 2002, Yosef Haviv, 70, of Netanya was one of three Israelis killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded section of Netanya’s open-air market.

Yosef Haviv moved to Israel from Iraq at the age of 18. Yosef worked as a construction worker until his retirement in 1984.

Since retiring, Yosef was in the habit of going to the Netanya esplanade to meet friends and returning home via the open-air market. His son-in-law, Itzak, said Haviv enjoyed the daily walk to the nearby market to do the family shopping. He wasn’t afraid and always said, “nothing will happen to me.” Miriam Fierberg, the mayor of Netanya, spoke at his funeral and told of his love for the city during the 40 years he resided there.

Haviv was scheduled to attend a family wedding that evening and when he was late returning home, his family began to worry and call local hospitals. Later that night, they received the terrible news of his death in the market bombing.


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