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Where are the moderate Muslims? (11.01.2002)


OpinionLaura Ingraham from the Jewish World Review (www.jewishworldreview.com) asks where can moderate Muslims be found:

For much of the last century, white Southerners were routinely (and rightly) taken to task for not speaking out against the violent actions of racists. For a time at least, the Klan seemed to be able to lynch and beat black men with impunity.

White Southern silence meant tacit approval to many. The South eventually left its racist past behind, but only when its politicians and community leaders spoke out aggressively against the hateful acts of white supremacists. Silence was no longer an option for the majority, for it became clear that the longer violence against blacks continued, the more likely it was that the rest of the country would think all white Southerners were KKK supporters.

Muslims worldwide face the same problem. In the last few weeks, Muslim terrorists killed nearly 200 in Bali, tried to kill more in Kuwait. But where were all the statements of condemnation from the Muslim "moderate" leadership? I heard not one. This, despite President Bush's oft-repeated reminder to the world that this is not a war against Islam and his visit to an Islamic Center just days after September 11th.

In the aftermath of the attacks on America, Muslims in the U.S. complained that they were being unfairly tarred by the acts of a few extremists. "Islam is a religion of peace," President Bush himself said the week after the attacks on America. Yet just as white Southerners couldn't shake their racist past so long as the Klan was still kicking, Muslims will find it difficult to shake its link to terrorism if al Qaeda continues to strike and Muslim leaders continue to say or do little.

More people are beginning to ask why the burden should be on America to prove to the world that we are a tolerant nation. The more appropriate formulation: after September 11th, the burden is on Muslims worldwide to demonstrate their intolerance for the terrorists.


Where are the moderate Muslims?
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/
1002/ingraham.html

If someone finds a site managed by moderate Muslims, please let me know (excluding the brave Iranian students, of course).

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Jewish and Israeli Names: Vladimir or Ze'ev? (09.06.2002)


Jewish HistoryBar-Ilan University (www.biu.ac.il) has a good article on Jewish and Israeli names.

"In Israel today," explains Prof. Demsky, an authority on Biblical names and genealogy in the Department of Jewish History, "The trend is to opt for monosyllabic names which are Hebrew, but don't necessarily sound Jewish, like Shir, Din, Ben, Tom, Tal and Bar. Many of these names are given to both girls and boys, reflecting the idea of equality. The names are simple and noncommittal. They are not Jewish in the sense of having a literary or religious connotation. Many of these parents want their children to feel comfortable in the outside world. They want these names to be pronounceable in any language. This definitely says something about today's Israeli society," concludes Demsky.


I studied at Bar-Ilan University in the early 90's, just as the Oslo process was starting - it's an Israeli University that has a large number of national religious students, many who became my friends.

I copy the full article below, but if you are looking for a Jewish name, you might also want to check "Naming your Jewish Baby".

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Carta Aberta a Midia Brasileira (Portuguese) (08.29.2002)


OpinionO Grupo de Acao Pro-Israel escreveu uma carta aberta a midia Brasileira:

Antes, uma apresentação. Nós judeus brasileiros, que redigimos esta carta, não pertencemos a nenhum partido de direita israelense. Pertencemos sim ao time de torcedores por uma convivência pacífica entre o Estado de Israel (menor que Sergipe) e as nações árabes (do Marrocos ao Paquistão). Ou seja, entre cinco milhões de judeus e seus trezentos milhões de vizinhos árabes. Enfim, entre a única democracia do Oriente Médio (onde inclusive seus cidadãos árabes são eleitos livremente ) e vinte ditaduras, regimes fundamentalistas e monarquias. [...]

As ações terroristas que visam deliberadamente assassinar cidadãos judeus, são equiparadas às retaliações que visam eliminar seus perpetradores. Em outras palavras, se "x" invade a casa de "y" matando sua mulher e filho, e "y" persegue e mata "x", o ato dos dois é igualmente hediondo? Vocês classificam como "terrorismo de Estado" a política de eliminação de terroristas, levado a cabo com precisão pelos dois últimos governos. O que vocês recomendam a Israel? Queixar-se ao bispo e assistir de braços cruzados civis sendo explodidos em pizzarias? Chamar alguma comissão de direitos humanos para dialogar com suicidas assassinos e seus "guias espirituais"?

Vocês focam o conflito judaico-palestino esquecendo-se do trapézio maior em que ele acontece, que é a contínua não aceitação da existência de Israel por grande parte de seus finos vizinhos. Por motivos óbvios, nunca foi, é ou será do interesse de Israel ocupar áreas densamente povoadas por palestinos, Justamente por isso Israel, mesmo correndo riscos, retirou-se de 90% de Gaza e das principais cidades palestinas. A ironia é que vocês não perceberam que um país ao lado, como a Jordânia com população majoritariamente palestina, poderia também ser uma alternativa de pátria palestina. Bastava para isso o direito de elegerem seus governantes. Mas claro... que heresia...


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Bomb-Sniffing dogs joing the fight against Palestinian terrorism (08.31.2002)


NewsThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that bomb-sniffing dogs are being trained in the US to help Israel in its fight against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas:



Pups for Peace: Bomb-Sniffing dogs
joing the fight against Palestinian terrorism


Pups for Peace, an organization founded by US Jews and the Israeli-based Golan Fund to help Israel defend itself against suicide attacks, announced on Thursday that it plans to provide 1,000 trained dogs capable of detecting explosives to the Israel Police and the IDF by 2004.

The dogs are scheduled to fly to Israel in October for an additional 30-day training program in the Golan Heights, after which they'll be deployed to sites throughout the country, including supermarkets, sports events, and discos.

The dogs are trained to locate an explosives source and indicate the find to its handler, after which the military or police takes over to prevent an explosion, said the group's director of canine operations, Mike Herstik.


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No peace is possible with murderous terrorists from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (08.21.2003)


OpinionThe Wall Street Journal (www.wsj.com) has published an excellent article that clearly shows that Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian prime minister has to make a choice:

Tuesday night's suicide bombings in Israel powerfully demonstrated the failure of the current strategy of Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas in implementing the road map. Unfortunately it had to take the death of 20 Israelis, and the injury of more than 100 others, to prove the point.

Central to the first stage of the road map is the requirement that the Palestinians dismantle their terrorist organizations. Mr. Abbas believed he could succeed in disarming them through negotiation, rather than force, and heralded a three-month cease-fire declared by the terrorists in June as a sign of his progress. Tuesday night (the second major attack in violation of the cease-fire) came ironically as Islamic Jihad leaders were meeting with Mr. Abbas to discuss their cease-fire. Islamic Jihad, along with Hamas, claimed responsibility for the killings (although Hamas incredibly denied the cease-fire was over). [...]

Like his long-time benefactor, Mr. Abbas speaks of "living in peace with Israel" and "dismantling terror." Arafat had a habit of then switching into Arabic and encouraging the suicide bombers in their deadly work, which was financed by Arafat's Palestinian Authority. So far Mr. Abbas has been more consistent. But he cannot straddle the worlds of jihad and international respectability.

For the first time in years, the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's regime, the refusal to deal with Arafat and the presence of a U.S. President committed to fighting terrorism have produced a glimmer of hope that the Israeli-Palestinian question can be resolved. Mr. Abbas has a chance to turn Palestinians away from terror and lead his people to statehood in peace with Israel. To do that, however, he must forcibly disarm these terrorists. If he doesn't, Israel has a responsibility to its citizens to do it instead.


Thanks to RS for the info. I copy the full article below - read it, it touches on all of the right points.

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Summary: why is there a war in Gaza? (01.18.2009)


Palestinian Terrorism

Here's a great video that gives a summary of events in the Middle East from the last few years:

Here are some articles posted in the last few years that support what is outlined in the above presentation:

This war against Hamas did not start in a vacuum.  When the Palestinians stop firing rockets at Israeli children, this war will stop.  In the meantime, the war on Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad ("Holy War") and other Islamic fanatics continues. 

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8-month-old girl, her father and her grandmother murdered by Palestinian terrorists (07.17.2002)


VictimsThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) has more information on yesterday's victims of the Palestinian terrorist attack on a bus (the Islamic Jihad, Hamas and Arafat's Al-Aksa brigades have all claimed responsibility for the murder).

Among the victims in Tuesday's ambush were 8-month-old Tiferet Shilon, her father and maternal grandmother.

Shilon's twin sister, two-year-old brother and mother were injured in the attack. The mother, Ayelet, frantically called her husband, Gal, at home in Emmanuel after the bomb went off beside their bus.

"They're shooting at us!" she yelled into the phone, Israel media reported. "There are terrorists here, they set off bombs." Gal Shilon rushed out of the house and tried to borrow a car from a neighbor to get to the scene of the attack. He couldn't find a car so he began running.

A local gardener soon picked him up and they sped to the scene where they saw gunmen dressed in Israeli army uniforms firing at the bus and its passengers.

The gardener, who had a pistol on him, fired at the Palestinians, several newspapers reported. They returned fire with automatic rifles, killing Gal Shilon. On the bus, Tiferet and her grandmother were shot and killed.


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Palestinian homicide bomber murders three Israelis (12.25.2003)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that a Palestinian homicide bomber has murdered three Israelis:

At least Three people were killed and twenty wounded on Thursday after a suicide bombing at the Geha bridge on Jabotinsky street near Tel Aviv at 18:20. Two of the victims were women, and their bodies were taken to Abu Kabir Forensic Institute.

The blast took place at a busy bus stop under the Geha Bridge - a major junction just outside Tel Aviv used by commuters to reach Tel Aviv, Petah Tikva and Bnei Brak.

A Palestinian suicide bomber, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) blew himself up at a bus stop under the Geha Bridge. Police have closed the area and are conducting searches. A helicopter joined the search. [...]

"After three months without a terror attack within the Green Line there were many foiled attempts but the situation is still volatile and today's attack shows that on the other side there is no strategic change," Aharonishky said. Security services have thwarted 22 terror attacks in the past month alone, Israel Radio reported.


The Hamas, the PFLP, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Arafat's Al-Aksa Brigrades are racist murderers whose only goal is to destroy the State of Israel and kill all of her citizens. They reject peace with the "Jews" and the "Infidels" and almost daily try to blow themselves up targetting women and babies. For more information, click here; for a list of homicide bombings executed by these fanatic bastards, click here.

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Muslim killer murders 4 Israelis in homicide bombing (04.29.2003)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that a Muslim has murdered 4 Israelis in a homicide bombing in Tel-Aviv:



An Israeli woman in shock,
after a Muslim homicide bomber
murdered 4 and injured over 50


A terror attack took place this evening in Tel Aviv killing at least 4 people and injuring 50. Magen David Adom emergency medical services has stated that 10 people are in serious to critical condition.

An American male tourist and a French female tourist were among the wounded, according to Israel police.

Israel radio reports that a suicide bomber attempted to enter Mike's Place, a seafront coffee house near the US Embassy in Tel Aviv.

Intial reports state the security guard at the restaurant tried to wrestle the terrorist to the ground when the terrorist detonated his explosives. The security guard survived the attack and is presently fighting for his life in hospital, according to the Israel police. [...] "Again we have witnessed yet another terror attack on innocent civilians," said Kleiman.

"The Israeli police have information that these terror attacks will continue to take place. We can't stop one hundred percent of these attacks from taking place, but we have been very successful in preventing the majority from taking place," said Kleiman.

Kleiman added that 115 Palestinian terror suicide attacks were attempted in 2002 in which many of these attacks had been foiled by Israeli security forces.




"Mike's Place', an American bar
in Tel-Aviv, and the target
of a Palestinian homicide bombing


While most of the Western media is reporting on how the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza have a new "Prime Minister", Mahmoud Abbas, Arafat's thugs continue their campaign of death and terror.

Mr. Abbas has declared that he will attempt to stop the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas from deliberately murdering Israeli women and babies. I hope that's true, but I seriously doubt it.

In the meantime, the Israeli army will continue to hunt down the murderous Islamic Palestinian terrorists wherever they are.

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Muslim immigrant kills 2 unarmed civilians in Los Angeles (07.05.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismCNN (www.cnn.com) reports that a terrorist attack has occurred in Los Angeles, California in the United States. The killer chose to strike in front of El Al's (Israel's national carrier) at LAX, Los Angeles' international airport.

The gunman opened fire around 11:30 a.m. (2:30 p.m. EDT) inside the Tom Bradley International Terminal, a separate building from the domestic terminals, officials said.

He shot dead a 20-year-old female El Al ticket agent -- an Israeli national -- and a 46-year-old man who was a diamond importer, investigators said. Four others were injured, including a 61-year-old woman who was shot and wounded, a man who was pistol-whipped by the gunman, and the El Al security chief who was stabbed in the back, officials said

Authorities identified the gunman as 41-year-old Hesham Mohamed Hadayet, who came to the United States from Egypt in 1992 and had been living in Irvine, California. Investigators were asking for the public's help in obtaining more information about the man.


I find it interesting that many are not calling this a terrorist attack. The murderer, Mohamed Hadayet, a Muslim immigrant from Egypt, deliberately aimed, shot and killed two unarmed civilians. He specifically looked to kill Jews and Israelis, but the FBI is saying that if a man is not part of a terrorist organization he/she cannot commit terrorist attacks.

Whether the Egyptian murderer was part of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other organized terrorist group is irrelevant. The deliberate killing of unarmed civilians is terrorism.

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Life goes on in Israel and Jerusalem (09.01.2002)


NewsJacob R. was yesterday at the Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair and he took 132 pictures - for those that won't be visiting Jerusalem this week, you can check it out online thanks to Jacob.



One of the many attractions at
the Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair


Over the past weeks, the downtown area of Jerusalem has been filled with people enjoying many outdoor shows and fairs. It is wonderful to see the center of Jerusalem returning to a festive atmosphere.

This week's attraction has been the "Khutsot Hayotser" - Jerusalem Arts and Crafts Fair on the Ben Yehuda Mall from August 25 thru August 31 (excluding the Jewish Shabbat).

Yesterday (August 28) I paid a visit to the fair at 5pm before it started to get crowded. For those of you who will not be visiting the city this week, I have taken 132 pictures of the fair and have placed them on the web. The address of the online picture exhibit is:


http://www.jr.co.il/pictures/
israel/jerusalem/index.html


It is good to realize sometimes that life does go on in Israel without Palestinian murderers disrupting it. Make sure you check out the pictures, they are great.

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Palestinian Television continues to broadcast hate, racism and calls for war (09.25.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismIn one of the forums I read daily, someone posted an article that described how Arafat calls for peace:

“Only peace and dialogue can help solve the crisis in the Middle East, Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat told Malta's President Guido de Marco”.


Arafat continues to speak of peace in English while calling for war, murder and “one million martyrs” (suicide bombers) in Arabic. Here are sample transcripts of sermons that are continuously being transmitted on Palestinian Television, which is under the complete control of Arafat and his thugs from the Palestinian authority:

"Blessings to whoever waged Jihad for the sake of Allah; blessings to whoever raided for the sake of Allah; blessings to whoever put a belt of explosives on his body or on his sons' and plunged into the midst of the Jews, crying "Allahu Akbar, praise to Allah, There is no God but Allah and Muhammad is His messenger." […]

"Whoever can fight them with his weapons, should go out [to the battle]; whoever can fight them with a machinegun, should go out; whoever can fight them with a sword or a knife, should go out; whoever can fight them with his hands, should go out; This is our destiny. The people who are the most hostile toward the believers are the Jews and the Polytheists... The Jews have exposed their fangs. Nothing will deter them, except the color of their filthy people’s blood; nothing will deter them except for us voluntarily detonating ourselves in their midst. They have nuclear power, but we have the power of the belief in Allah..." […]

"This good news... has passed down to our people who still make great sacrifices, defending the honor of the Islamic nation. The sacrifice of convoys of martyrs [will continue] until Allah grants us victory very soon. The willingness for sacrifice and for death we see amongst those who were cast by Allah into a war with the Jews, should not come at all as a surprise..."


Click here to watch a subtitled video (Realplayer required). Titled "Friday Sermons on Palestinian Authority TV,"(c) it was compiled from Palestinian Authority TV broadcasts of Friday sermons delivered at mosques under the authority of the PA. This subtitled video was distributed by the House Committee on International Relations to members of the House of Representatives in 2002.

These are mosques that are under the control of Arafat and the Palestinian Authority, and these messages were transmitted on Palestinian television, which was built with European money and is under Arafat’s control.

Peace will come when Arafat, the Hamas, the Islamic Jihad love their kids more than they hate the Jews. That is not the case today, but their hate, racism and murder of Israeli women and children will lead them nowhere.

I copy below the transcripts of portions of the video from Memri.org.

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Islamic Fanatics win Palestinian Elections (01.28.2006)


NewsThe Globe and Mail (www.theglobeandmail.com) reports that the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has won elections in the Palestinian territories:

The incoming Hamas government will move quickly to make Islamic sharia "a source" of law in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and will overhaul the Palestinian education system to separate boys and girls and introduce a more Islamic curriculum, a senior official in the movement said yesterday.



Spelling out the domestic agenda of Hamas for the first time since the group's stunning victory in a legislative election this week, Sheik Mohammed Abu Teir also said Hamas would not go to foreign donors on bended knee if they withdrew aid to the Palestinian Authority.



Mr. Abu Teir, who was No. 2 on the Hamas list of candidates for Wednesday's election, said introducing sharia -- a controversial moral and legal code based on the Koran -- would be the first act of the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian Legislative Council.



"The No. 1 thing we will do is take sharia as a source for legislation. Sharia has a soul in it and is good for all occasions," Mr. Abu Teir said in an interview with The Globe and Mail


For many years Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and other Israeli leaders have said that there is unfortunately no partner for peace among the gang of Palestinian murderers from the Islamic Jihad, Fatah or Hamas.

After Geneva peace talks with Arab countries on 12/21/1973 Abba Eban said "Palestinians never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity".

This turns out to be true once again: as Israeli elections were to take place in two months, the centrist Israeli partist "Kadima" was ready to make concessions and maybe even allow for a Palestinian state to be created. With Islamic mass murderers in power in the Palestinian territories, this will not happen.

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CNN creates site in memory of Israeli victims of Palestinian Terror (06.24.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismCNN (www.cnn.com) has published a site that lists Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism.

Last night on Israeli TV, CNN’s President gave an interview where he apologized for some of the mistakes CNN has made covering the Middle East.

This came after a lot of criticism on CNN last week: the parents of 5-year-old Gal Eizenman, killed in one of last week’s homicide bombings, had been interviewed by CNN, but when the story was shown, CNN decided not to show Gal’s parents but instead showed an interview with the mother of the homicide/suicide bomber! Gal’s mother (who also lost her mother in the attack) was interviewed on Israeli TV and told the whole story. For more information on Gal and her Grandmother, click here.

The latest site on Israeli victims of terror is probably a result of CNN trying to clear its image, particularly after Ted Turner said last week that Israel is involved in terrorism. The site is well done and covers victims since killed since January 1st 2002 - you may find it here

You may also want to check “Faces of the victims” which has been publishing the stories of the victims since October 2000 (when Arafat and his thugs decided to turn down the offer for a Palestinian State and decided to kill unarmed Israeli civilians instead, see the history page for details):

http://www.walk4israel.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Victims

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The Palestinian National Covenant is fascist (08.27.2002)


OpinionChuck Morse (www.chuckmorse.com) has published an article that goes over the Palestinian National Covenant.

The covenant views Palestine as "an integral part of the Arab nation" rather than as a potentially sovereign state in its own right. This position is reminiscent of Nazi claims of the right of Germans to control all Aryan peoples under one empire. The Nazis justified their expansionism, and the liquidation of non-Germans within their expanding borders, with the same premise as the one articulated in this Palestinian covenant.

In fact, Palestine hadn't been Arab since medieval times, but was rather an Ottoman Turkish sub-province for 400 years before the British Mandate. Most Arabs who now declare themselves to be Palestinian actually settled in the region around the same time as the Jews. [...]

Article 12 further reveals Palestinian identity to be a ruse with the statement that "The Palestinian people believe in Arab unity. In order to contribute their share toward the attainment of that objective, however, they must, at the present stage of their struggle, safeguard their Palestinian identity." This totalitarian notion finds its origin in Islamic teachings of a world divided into Islamic and infidel spheres with the Muslim commanded by Allah to engage in Jihad, or war against the infidels until the entire planet is subdued. The idea resonates as well with modern scientific socialism, which also believes, as an article of faith, in world revolution to create a utopian world government. Both Islam and socialism would view a Palestinian movement as a dialectical temporary device toward the greater goal.


I remember that after the Oslo agreements there was a lot of talk about Arafat and the PLO not cancelling the Palestine National Covenant. At least the Palestinians are consistent in their hate and wish for their destruction of Israel - you have to be blind not to see this today.

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