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13 Palestinian terrorists deported (05.10.2002)


NewsCNN just posted a good article that summarized the situation at the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem.

Five weeks ago, over 100 Palestinians took over the Church as they were running away from the IDF (Israel's army). Among them were 40 terrorists from the Islamic Jihad, Hamas and other terrorist groups. About a dozen were directly involved in the killing of innocent Israeli civilians and were on a list of terrorists that Israel had asked Arafat and the Palestinian Authority to arrest, which they never did.

These 13 Palestinian terrorists are now going to be deported to European countries after the EU accepted to host them. The deal also calls for another 26 to face trial in Gaza, although I sincerely doubt this will happen. As the article says "upon their arrival in Gaza, the 26 were greeted by crowds as heroes".

Here are additional interesting points:

"After the Palestinians' departure an Israel Defense Forces spokesman said 40 "explosive devices" were found in the church compound. The spokesman said the IDF was invited into the compound by church officials who asked the military to check the facility."

"Another priest told The Associated Press that foreign peace activists who sneaked into the church later desecrated the holy site by smoking and drinking alcohol inside."

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Anti-Israel publication is full of mistakes (04.05.2006)


OpinionTwo anti-Israeli professors published a "study" that basically said that it is against the United States' interests to support Israel in her fight against Islamic supremacism.

In addition they accuse pro-Israel Jews of controlling the United States, something that anti-Semites have done and will continue to do for years.

Alan Dershowitz has written a response to these false statements and he shows how the paper from the Harvard professor is basically trash:

[...] If these charges sound familiar, it is because, as I will show, they can be found on the websites of extremists of the hard right, like David Duke, and the hard left, like Alexander Cockburn. They appear daily in the Arab and Muslim press. They are contemporary variations on old themes such as those promulgated in the notorious czarist forgery, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, in the Nazi and America First literature of the 1930s and early ’40s, 20 and in the propaganda pamphlets of the Soviet Union.



In essence, the working paper is little more than a compilation of old, false, and authoritatively discredited charges dressed up in academic garb. The only thing new about it is the imprimatur these recycled assertions have now been given by the prominence of its authors and their institutional affiliations. As David Duke observed: “The Harvard report contains little new information. I and a few other American commentators have for years been making the same assertions as this new paper.”21 It “validates every major point I [Duke] have been making.”22 It should have been easily predictable – especially to “realists” – that their “Harvard report” would be featured, as it has been, on neo-Nazi and extremist websites, and even by terrorist organizations, and that it would be used by overt anti-Semites to “validate” their paranoid claims of a worldwide Jewish conspiracy.


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80% of Israeli fatalities are unarmed civilians, most Palestinian fatalities are armed violent men (08.10.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismThe International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism (www.ict.org.il) has published a statistical analysis of Palestinian and Israeli fatalities since Arafat and his thugs refused peace and started to murder unarmed Israeli civilians in October of 2000.

Here are some interesting facts:





* 80% of the Israeli fatalities were non-combattants, unarmed civilians.
* 30% of the Israeli fatalities were women.
* 2% of the Israeli fatalities were killed by Israeli actions, by mistake.
* 30% of the Israeli fatalities were non-combattants over the age of 39.





* 54% of the Palestinian fatalities were combattants, mostly armed men.
* 3% of the Palestinian fatalities were women.
* 14% of the Palestinian fatalities were killed by the Palestinians themselves, for "collaborating" with the enemy.
* 5% of the Palestinian fatalities victims were non-combattants over the age of 39.

Most media outlets will report something like this: "The latest clashes in the Middle East have claimed the lives of 1574 Palestinians and 599 Israelis".

This moral equivalency of mixing up armed Palestinian terrorists, whose goal is to murder unarmed civilians, with Israeli women and kids, whose crime is simply to breathe, is shocking.

I copy below the breakdown of Fatalities from 9/27/2000 through 8/6/2002. For a more detailed statistical analysis of the fatalities, see also "An Engineered Tragedy: Statistical Analysis of Fatalities".

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California's 12th District: please vote for Congressman Tom Lantos (03.02.2004)


NewsToday elections are taking place in California. In San Mateo, California's 12th district, we have both the Democratic party's primaries and elections for the US Senate and House of Congress.

Particularly important (and relevant to FactsOfIsrael.com) are the elections for our representative in the US Congress. The candidates are very much linked to Israel and the Middle East:

1) Our current Congressman is Tom Lantos (Dem.). Mr. Lantos was born in Hungary and is a Holocaust survivor. He has been our representative since 1981, suports the War on Islamic Terrorism, the War on Iraq and the Patriot Act. He's a passionate defender of Israel and he's a true Eagle, as defined by Andrew Sullivan. His site is http://www.lantos.org/

2) One of Mr. Lantos main opponents is Maad Abu-Ghazalah, a Palestinian born in Nablus, in the West Bank, who grew up in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He's today running as a Democrat and his main qualifications are that he served as the President of the San Francisco Chapter of the "American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee". His current platform calls for America abandoning Iraq and moving our troops out, and a more "evenhanded" policy in America's role in the Middle East peace process (this probably means no support for Israel's right to defend herself against Islamic mass murderers). He also wishes to repeal the Patriot Act, and he's against standardized testing. How can one person be so wrong?

3) There's also a Republican candidate, Mr. Mike Garza, who has mentioned that, if elected, he'll cancel all military and financial aid to Israel.

In our last elections, on 11/5/2002, Mr. Lantos received 68.2% of the vote, and his Republican counterpart, Mr. Michael Moloney, received 24.7%. Mr. Abu-Ghazalah ran then as a Libertarian and got 7.1% of the vote.

If you live in California's 12th district, please go out and vote. Israel, freedom, and Mr. Lantos need your support. For more information on the candidates and the elections try out www.smartvoter.org - type in your street address and ZIP code in the top right and click "Find Ballot".

Update: The election results have been published and I have some great news! Our Congressman, Mr. Tom Lantos, has won the Democratic ticket by a landslide:

United States Reprensentative 12th Congressional District (356 of 356 Precints Reported):

Tom Lantos: 74.18%
Ro Khanna: 18.21%
Maad Abu-Ghazalah: 7.61%

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Palestinians chant "Death to America", stand once again with Iraq (01.20.2003)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that many Palestinians are calling for the destruction of America and are supporting Iraq, just as they did in 1991, during the Gulf War:

Thousands of Palestinians chanting "Death to America" marched in West Bank cities on Sunday, while on the third day of Iraq Solidarity Week expressing their opposition to a possible US military strike against Iraq.

At Sunday's demonstrations, spokesmen for various Palestinian groups called on Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein to fire Scud missiles at Israel.
"O beloved Saddam, strike Tel Aviv," chanted several thousand demonstrators in Jenin. The protesters carried Palestinian and Iraqi flags and chanted, "We sacrifice our soul and blood for Saddam."

Holding aloft pictures of Saddam Hussein, some 1,000 Palestinians including gunmen who fired shots into the air marched through the streets of Tulkarm. [...]

At one of the rallies organized by Hamas, some 3,000 participants waved signs bearing slogans such as "Death to America" and "Victory from Jerusalem to Baghdad."

Hamas leader Dr. Abdel Aziz Rantisi urged the Iraqi people to stage suicide attacks against the US. "I call on Iraq to establish an army of future martyrs (suicide bombers) and to prepare tens of thousands of explosive belts. Explode next to American soldiers. Blow them up in Baghdad. I call upon all Arab states to scorch the earth that the Americans walk on in every Arab capital city."


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Arab Muslims residents of Jerusalem turn out to be terrorists (08.22.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismCBS News (www.cbsnews.com) reports that Israel has arrested a Palestinian Hamas (Islamic Resistance) group responsible for the murder of 35 unarmed Israeli and American civilians.

A Palestinian house painter employed by Jerusalem's Hebrew University has been arrested on suspicion he planted a bomb at the student cafeteria that killed nine people, including five Americans, last month, security officials announced Wednesday.

The suspect was part of a 15-member cell run by the Islamic militant group Hamas, the announcement said.

In addition to the university bombing, the group is believed to have chosen the targets and brought suicide bombers to an attack on Cafe Moment in Jerusalem and a billiard club in Rishon Letzion.

The cell members are also believed to have planted several bombs along Israeli train tracks and one on a fuel tanker which was parked at the Pi Glilot gas depot near Tel Aviv but failed to ignite the fuel storage tanks when it detonated, media said.


Many of the members of this Hamas cell were Arab Muslim residents of Jerusalem in possession of Israeli ID cards. This allowed them to plant their bombs in the places they worked, such as the student cafeteria in the Hebrew University that killed 5 Americans and 4 Israelis. About 1 million Arab Muslims are citizens of Israel, see the Democracy and Stats pages for more info.

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Abba Eban, the father of Israeli statesmanship, dies at the age of 87 (11.18.2002)


NewsThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) reports that Abba Eban has passed away at the age of 87:

Abba Eban, the father of Israeli statesmanship, former foreign minister and ambassador to the United States and United Nations died Sunday at 87 in the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva. As diplomat and author, he was throughout his long and brilliant career the voice of Israel, a profound interpreter of our national character and history.




Abba Eban, 1915 - 2002


Mr. Eban was a great man, someone who has been involved with Zionism and Israel from the beginning, from the roots of it all. I remember Abba Eban coming up with some incredible quotes when he served as Israel's ambassador to the UN:

Time and again these governments have rejected proposals today-and longed for them tomorrow.

Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.

I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.


You'd think he said that after Arafat and the Palestinians rejected peace in October of 2000? He said the above 30-40 years before the thugs from the Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas started their current murdering spree of women and children. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

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Arafat and his thugs chose war, they should be removed from power (09.04.2002)


OpinionThe Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) has published an article by Moshe Arens, who has been a member of Israel's government in multiple occasions.

For the first 25 years of its existence, Israel was threatened by the regular armies of the surrounding Arab countries, which repeatedly launched attacks in the expectation of a victory that would lead to the destruction of the Jewish state. [...]

But over these past two years, a third threat to Israel's existence has arisen - the Palestinian war of terror launched by Yasser Arafat in September 2000. Although possessing no tanks or aircraft that could begin to match the power of the IDF, Arafat believed that by terrorizing Israel's civilian population, he would manage to bring Israel to its knees. [...]

Now, the IDF's operations must be vigorously pursued till a decisive victory is attained - an end to Palestinian terror and the removal of the entire Palestinian leadership that launched this war. Such a victory, and nothing less, will serve as a deterrent to a renewal of this threat to Israel's existence in future years. There can be no greater mistake than returning at this time to negotiations with representatives of this leadership. Their removal must be an object lesson to future leaders of the Palestinian cause.


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Please call the White House comment line: No to creation of Palestinian terror State (06.19.2002)


OpinionThere are reports that President Bush is going to make a speech where he will outline the idea of a temporary Palestinian State.

In light of the latest homicide/suicide bombings by Palestinian murderers, this temporary Palestinian State would not only be a reward for terror but would in itself be a base for future killings of unarmed Israeli civilians.

If you live in the United States, please call the White House comment line and complain about this temporary Palestinian State idea:

White House
COMMENTS: 202-456-1111
SWITCHBOARD: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461

I called and it took me literally 2 minutes to make the following points (you don't have to give your name or address):

1) In light of the suicide bombing today killing 19 people mainly teenagers and in light of the Palestinians' support for such bombings, I have to ask the question is it wise to give these people a country?

2) These are the same people who cheered and danced when three thousand Americans were murdered on 9/11.

3) To reward these terrorists with a state seems like a foolish thing to do and sends a wrong message to the enemies of the US and will hurt the war on terror.

4) Given their past actions and probable future actions, the Palestinians currently do not seem like a good candidate for a country. They will not be a positive contributor to the world community, they will be another terrorist state. We do not need another terrorist state.

5) If a people supported the bombing of a bus full of teenagers in the U.S., I hope we would wipe them off the map, not give them territory.

6) Palestinian surveys show that a majority of Palestinians support suicide attacks like those on the bus and on 9/11 and that a majority of them support the destruction of the entire State of Israel.

7) They oppose the War on Terror and support Iraq and get weapons from Iran.

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Syria can get away with murder (literally) (07.09.2002)


OpinionIsrael Insider (www.israelinsider.com) has an article that asks some good questions about Syria and its presence in the UN Security Council.

Syria, driven by the idea that Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine (also known as Southern Syria), are part of Greater Syria, has worked for almost three decades, unhindered, to pacify Lebanon, and make it vanish as an independent state. Daniel Pipes in "Greater Syria: The History of an Ambition," has written extensively about the Greater Syria ideology that drove Bashar Al-Assad's father and continues to motivate the new Syrian president.

Where are all the cries of occupation? Why doesn't the world seem to care about the poor Lebanese? I know that many Lebanese (at risk of death) have protested against the Syrian occupation. I met Lebanese activists in Israel, asking for our help to promote a Free Democratic Lebanon, before Barak's election in 1999 (and subsequent withdrawal from southern. Lebanon). Yet the world is silent.


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National Public Radio (NPR) shows its anti-Israel bias once again (10.24.2002)


OpinionCamera.org has another great article on how the leftist American National Public Radio (NPR) is biased against Israel in its support of Palestinian nationalism:

So far in its series on the Middle East, NPR has proven that it can mangle history at least as well as it can mangle breaking news. Thus, while the network routinely features a preponderance of Arab and pro-Arab guests in its daily reporting, its stable of experts for this series is even more tilted in the pro-Arab direction, with nine harsh critics of Israel against only three guests who might seem likely to be fair to Israel. [...]

By ignoring the Mufti, NPR is thus able to keep from its listeners the fact that the leader of the Palestinian national movement was an ally of Nazi Germany and fled to Berlin at the outbreak of World War II, where he closely collaborated with the Nazi leadership, including Hitler and Himmler. Among the Mufti’s notable achievements during his Nazi years was his creation of a special Muslim Waffen SS Division in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Known as the Handschar Division, it committed brutal war crimes against Serb Christians, leading the postwar Yugoslavian government to indict the Mufti as a war criminal.


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European Union funds Yasser Arafat and other Palestinian terrorists (08.09.2004)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Telegraph (www.telegraph.co.uk) reports on a new commission created by the European Union to investigate how funds were transferred from the EU to the Palestinian Authority, and then to the mass murdering bastdards from Yasser Arafat's Al-Aksa brigades:

The European Union is planning to send investigators to Israel to interview Palestinians held in Israeli prisons over suspicions that the Palestinian Authority may have diverted EU donations to fund terrorist operations. [...]

There had been claims that Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestinian Authority, and senior officials transferred EU funds to the Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, the military wing of Mr Arafat's Fatah faction. [...]

Olaf officials visited Israel at the beginning of the year and reviewed documents and testimony presented by the Israeli defence forces and Shin Bet security service relating to the issue.

Some of the documents were seized during an army raid on Mr Arafat's compound in Ramallah in April 2002. Investigators decided that the material was authentic and now want to substantiate the allegations from the testimony of Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades members held in Israel. [...]

A BBC documentary broadcast last year claimed that the Palestinian Authority was paying members of the brigades, which have carried out suicide attacks on Israelis, up to £27,500 a month.


Most Palestinians make about $50 a month, so £27,500 (over $30,000 US dollars) per month is a small fortunate for these mass murdering scum.

Don't expect news on how the European Union and Yasser Arafat directly finance Islamic terrorists to reach your local news outlet - it would greatly offend the European leftists who do not wish to look at reality but prefer to continue to support the mass murdering Palestinians.

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The real reason behind the US's continuing support of Israel (08.24.2002)


HumorAngie Schultz from the "The Machinery of Night" has found the real reason behind the US's continuing support of Israel:

Drooling white supremacists and supercilious Euro-leftists assert that it's because of the obscene amounts of gold that the Vast Jewish Conspiracy pumps into the coffers of our elected officials.

Other Europeans warn darkly of the crazed snake-handling, tongues-babbling, American fundamentalist Christians, who take literally Biblical claims that the Jews are the Chosen People of God.

More moderate thinkers assert that the US's support is due to cultural sympathy between Israel and the US, like the fact that it is the only real democracy in a sea of warlords, kleptocrats, and supreme-ruler-for-lifes.

But none of these is the true reason. I have the true reason.

It's the bagels.

Yes! Bagels! Bagels make all the difference! America breakfasts on bagels, and love and respect for the chewy breads forms our attitudes toward Israel. [...]

And the Europeans? Feh. Vedrine and Chirac are of course croissant men, no hope for them, ever. Chris Patten fell into strange and foreign ways during his tenure as governor of Hong Kong, and now eats bangers and eggs with a side of rice. I believe someone in the British military slips Tony Blair a bagel now and again, probably at lunch when Cherie's not looking.


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Saudia Arabia media attacks United States (08.29.2002)


NewsThe Middle East Media Research Institute (www.memri.org) which translates articles from the Arab Media, has published a report on the latest attacks of the Saudi Arabian media against the United States. This criticism of the US occurs after the families of the victims of 9/11 sued Saudi Arabians who financed the terrorists involved in the attacks.

The lawsuit against Saudi and other Arab officials and organizations by the families of September 11 victims has aroused the ire of the Saudi media. The following are excerpts from articles that appeared in Saudi newspapers on this subject:

Saudi Columnists: The U.S. Should be Sued for Killing Millions
"If America wants to open up the issue of compensation for those who died in the two towers," wrote the Saudi daily Al-Riyadh in an editorial, "it must agree to the establishment of an international court that will examine [its own] war crimes, plundering, coups, what American intelligence did with the drug barons, the policy of abductions and murder, the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings, the claims still pending regarding the black slave trade, and the deliberate annihilation of the Indians – and apply all this to all countries, without statute of limitations, so that we feel we live on one planet that functions according to the same moral principles..."(1) [...]

"America, that carried out the Hiroshima massacre and the Vietnam massacre; America, that incited South Korea against North Korea and Taiwan against China; America, that interfered in the affairs of Chile, Nicaragua, and Panama; America, that tried to assassinate many of the world’s leaders... among them Castro, who alone was subject to 30 assassination attempts – one of them by mixing deadly plutonium poison in the cigars he smokes! America, that erected the Statue of Liberty so as to plunder others by it; America, that established liberty in order to kill millions of people in its name, from the Indians to Afghan children... Behind all this stood members of the CIA... This is America, the tyrannous, and all that remains is for it to turn into a pharaoh [the symbol of an evil regime]. This is America, the land of freedom, the land of democracy."


Wow. You tell the Saudi Arabians that financed the September 11 massacre that they are responsible for the consequences of their acts and they get really touchy. Imagine if we didn't tell them.

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A Texan, a Frenchman and an Israeli (11.30.2002)


HumorA Texan, a Frenchman and an Israeli are on a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean when the engines stop functioning. The plane crash lands on a Pacific Island and the three are immediately captured by a tribe of cannibals and taken to their village.

The Chief tells the three captives that these cannibals are civilized and they have a custom on their island that before they eat anyone, they grant that person his or her last wishes--no matter what they are.

He asks the Texan, "What is your last wish?" The Texan replies: "I want a 2 inch thick steak with all thetrimmings, Cajun fries and a case of Budweiser Beer." The Chief motions to some of his tribesmen who immediately runs into the jungle and come back with the steak, the fries and the beer. The Texan eats his meal and he is thrown in the cooking pot.

The Frenchman is asked: "What is your last wish?" He replies: "I would like a case of Dom Perignon and I would also like a big plate of escargots cooked in the French manner." The Chief motions to his tribesmen who immediately rushes off into the jungle and bring back everything the Frenchman asked for. He eats and drinks his fill, and he is then thrown in the cooking pot.

The Chief turns to the Israeli and asks, "And what is your wish?" The Israeli looks the Chief squarely in the eyes and replies: "I want you to kick me as hard as you can." The Chief is bewildered and asks the Israeli again, only to receive the same reply. "I want you to kick me as hard as you can."

The Chief shrugs his shoulders, asks the Israeli to turn around, and kicks him as hard as he can. With that, the Israeli pulls out a gun and kills the Chief and all of the other cannibals. The Texan and the Frenchman get out of the pot, look at the Israeli and say: "If you had that gun why did not you do anything sooner?"

The Israeli replies: "What? And risk being condemned by the UN, the European Union, and the US State Department for overreacting to insufficient provocation?"

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