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Video: Tariq Aziz, racist Iraqi foreign minister, refuses to answer Israeli journalist (02.16.2003)


MultimediaI just heard an interview on Israeli radio with Menachem Gantz, an Israeli journalist who was humiliated by Tariq Aziz, the racist Iraqi foreign minister. The Boston Globe (www.boston.com) reports:



Racist Iraqi foreign minister
refuses to acknowledge the
existence of Israeli journalist


Touching off hoots and boos, a top Iraqi official snubbed an Israeli journalist yesterday, refusing to answer the correspondent's question about whether Baghdad might attack Israel in case of a US military strike on Iraq.

At a news conference here, correspondent Menachem Gantz, based in Rome for the Israeli newspaper Maariv, asked Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy prime minister: ''Are you considering any kind of attack as a possibility against Israel in case of an American attack?''

Aziz, invited by the Foreign Press Association, responded:

''When I came to this press conference it was not in my agenda to answer questions by the Israeli media. Sorry.''

Journalists whistled and booed.

The association's president, Eric Jozsef, a French journalist, urged Aziz to respond. ''No, I'm not going to answer,'' the Iraqi official said.

The room was packed with about 100 journalists. Twenty of them, including Gantz, walked out.


Iraq is the only country that has never accepted or signed a cease fire with Israel, even though it attacked and lost many wars against the Jewish state (see the history page for details).

Iraq also fired dozens of Scud missiles, directly aiming at women and children in Israeli cities during the gulf war in 1991. I spent many nights in the bomb shelter, or in a sealed room, wearing my gas mask and hoping the next missile would not kill me, my family or my friends.

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Grandmother of 11 deliberately murdered by a Palestinian genocide bomber (10.02.2002)


VictimsFaces of the Victims has published the story of Tirza Polonsky, a 66-year-old Israeli grandmother of 11 who was deliberately murdered by a genocide bomber from the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas ("Islamic Resistance").



Tirza Polonsky, 66
Murdered by a
Palestinian terrorist


On May 18, 2001, Tirza Polonsky, 66, of Moshav Kfar Haim was killed in a suicide bombing at Hasharon Mall in the seaside city of Netanya.

Tirza Polonsky was shopping in the Hasharon Mall as she does every Friday when the terrorist exploded the bomb he was carrying at the entrance to the shopping mall.

Four other people were killed in the blast and over 100 were injured.

Polonsky was a teacher for many years and worked at a community day-club in Hadera after her retirement. The day-club asked her to replace another teacher that fateful Friday, but she refused because she did not want to give up her day of shopping.

Tirza Polonsky is survived by a husband, three daughters, two sons and 11 grandchildren. She was laid to rest at the Kfar Haim cemetery.


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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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Plus de details sur un nouveau livre raciste publie en France (French) (11.27.2002)


Anti-SemitismIl y a une semaine, j'ai publie une lettre que j'ai envoye aux editions Flammarion. Voici la raison:

En contravention avec la loi de juillet 1949, les éditions Flammarion viennent de publier dans leur département jeunesse un livre d'une adolescente, Randa Ghazi. "Rêver la Palestine" est en effet, sous couvert d'une fiction s'appuyant sur des faits d'actualité, un brulôt d'incitation à la haine, à la violence, au jihad contre les Israéliens et les juifs. Un livre qui, dans le contexte socio-politique français, ne peut qu'encourager les actes antisémites. Élisabeth Schemla, auteur Flammarion, a enquêté et s'est heurtée à un refus catégorique de l'éditeur de se reconnaître une responsabilité quelconque vis-à-vis de ses jeunes lecteurs. Récit et extraits.


Le site Proche-Orient.info vient de publier un article sur ce livre raciste qui encourage la violence et le meurtre:

Dans un premier temps, j'ai lu de conséquents extraits de « Rêver la Palestine », paru début novembre chez Flammarion. Un livre écrit par une adolescente, Randa Ghazy, née en Italie de parents égyptiens et qui fréquente, près de Milan, un lycée classique. Et d'abord, je l'avoue, l'indignation provoquée par ces mots explosifs que j'avais devant les yeux, incitation à la violence, à la haine, au terrorisme, au jihad, cette indignation l'a presque cédé à la surprise, voire à l'incrédulité. Flammarion, avoir publié ces phrases ? Pourquoi ? Comment ? Et tous ceux que j'y connais y auraient souscrit ? [...]

Quant à moi, je me suis alors plongée dans la lecture de « Rêver la Palestine », roman fantasmatique d'une jeune fille arabe en fleur vénéneuse dont les héros sont des jeunes Palestiniens, perdant âme, espoir, souvent vie, dans la guerre. J'en suis sortie horrifiée par ce bloc de haine pure truffé de mensonges glaçants, parce que volontaires. A partir de la page 24 et jusqu'à la fin sans discontinuer, tout y passe : le regret qu'un des jeunes commettant un attentat suicide ne tue que cinq Israéliens, « un nombre insignifiant » alors qu'ils étaient des centaines, et la glorification de ce martyr, « nous vaincrons grâce à toi… » ; la profanation des mosquées et le viol des femmes palestiniennes par les soldats de Tsahal (peut-être lus dans le Nouvel Observateur) ; leur barbarie arrogante et permanente ; la légitimité du jihad exprimée en maints endroits, mais, seule et unique fois où le procédé est utilisé, en caractère gras et majuscules, page 165, elle prend un relief particulier, « Combattez pour la cause d'Allah contre ceux qui vous combattent ! Tuez-les partout où vous les rencontrerez » etc… ; l'antisémitisme fou, « un peuple maudit » auquel dans le Coran, sourate II, Al-Baqara, Allah dit « ô fils d'Israël, rappelez-vous les faveurs dont je vous ai comblés et de quelle façon je vous ai préférés aux autres peuples du monde… » Il [ Dieu] les a libérés et sauvés et c'est comme ça qu'ils le remercient ? En tuant ses fils [Les musulmans] ? Mais ce sont des pécheurs ! » ; d'où bien sûr les pages 140, 141, 142, les plus abjectes de l'ouvrage, dans lesquelles le peuple victime de la Shoah est décrit comme commettant « le deuxième génocide de l'histoire….ils ont décidé de torturer comme ils ont été torturés… tiens, les camps de concentration, non ne les cherche pas du regard, tu ne les verras pas, ces camps sont dans l'esprit des Hébreux qui…recréent les délires d'un chancelier allemand, dans les esprits de ces juifs qui semblent représenter tous les juifs du monde, même si ça n'est pas ça…. ».


N'achetez plus rien aux editions Flammarion et envoyez leurs un message a bgautrand@flammarion.fr. Merci a "Merde in France" pour le lien - je copie l'article entier ci-dessous.

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Contacting the United Nations to start an investigation into Palestinian war crimes against Israeli children (11.11.2002)


OpinionAfter the latest deliberate massacre of two Israeli children by Palestinian murderers, there's a new initiative by Ribbity Frog, picked up by Imshin.



Noam, 4, and Matan, 5
Two Israeli kids deliberately murdered in their house
by one of Arafat's Palestinian terrorists


The initiative calls to Save the Children by contacting United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and asking him to set up an investigation into Palestinian war crimes against Israeli children:

SAVE THE CHILDREN
The current United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights is Sergio Vieira de Mello.

His address is:

OHCHR-UNOG
8-14 Avenue de la Paix
1211 Geneva 10, Switzerland
Telephone: (41-22) 917-9000 (Geneva, Switzerland)
Fax: (41-22) 917 9010


It is interesting to note that Mr. De Mello attended the French-Brasilian high school in Rio de Janeiro. I attended the Licee Pasteur, the French-Brasilian high school in Sao Paulo - I called and gave my 2 cents to Mr. De Mello in Portuguese, French and Englih.

Please send a link to this article to everyone you know and ask your friends and family to contact Mr. De Mello and ask him when he is going to investigate this war crime against children. You might also want to send an email to info@crin.org, the Child Rights Information Network (CRIN).

For a list of children murdered by Palestinian terrorists, check out the Victims page.

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Let the International Kangaroo Court know that Israel's Security fence is here to stay (07.16.2004)


OpinionA few days ago, the International Kangaroo court at the Hague ruled that Israel does not have the right to build a security fence to stop Palestinian mass murderers from killing Israeli women and children (click here for more details, and click here for more information on Israel's security fence).

The Silent Running web site (silentrunning.tv) had a good idea: to create a template for everyone to cut and paste and send to the United Nations, the EU parliament and the EU court of "justice":

Please read and forward far and wide (Link)

Within the next 48 hours, Jews and non-Jews worldwide will be sending email messages to the United Nations, the EU Parliament and the EU Court of Justice with the identical message that appears below.

To: mail@icj-cij.org - Internation Kangaroo Court of (In)Justice
To: ecu@un.org - United Nations
To: civis@europarl.eu.int - EU Parliament
To: info@curia.eu.int - EU Court of Justice

Subject: The building of the Israeli security fence


To Whom It May Concern:

When Israel builds a fence to keep out terrorists, the UN and EU are up in arms because it makes it difficult for terrorists to kill more Jews.

When terrorists shoot (point blank!) an 8-month-pregnant Jewish woman and her 4 little girls, there is absolute silence from your organizations.

The security fence is a temporary and nonviolent way to reduce terrorism. The fence is a proportional response to the ongoing Palestinian Campaign of terror. When the terrorism stops, the fence can be taken down. The route of the fence was designed to save the lives of innocent people. Israel has the right and the duty to protect its citizens from terrorist attacks.

Since the erection of the security fence there has been a 90% decrease in the number of attacks against Israelis-from an average of 26 attacks per year before the fence to three attacks after the fence was built.

The Israeli Supreme Court has ruled that areas of the fence must be adjusted in order to relieve Palestinian hardship. Unlike any othercountry in the region, Israel has an independent judiciary. Israel, a democracy committed to the rule of law, will comply with the Israeli Supreme Court's decision.

The security fence is not a wall, as the court states. The majority of the fence is constructed of barb wire-8.5 kilometers of the fence consists of concrete slabs, in order to prevent sniper fire [Note: 97% of the fence is made of barb wire].

There are many disputed security fences around the world-India has constructed a fence in the contested area of Kashmir, and Saudi Arabia has constructed a barrier in an undefined area along the Saudi Arabia-Yemen border-yet only Israel's security fence has prompted an International Court of Justice ruling. See this website:

http://www.washingtoninstitute.org/distribution/PCE465.doc


Israel is willing to make painful sacrifices for peace. Israel has made peace with Jordan and Egypt, and gave up the entire Sinai-land larger than the current state of Israel.

If you think your indifference goes unnoticed, count the number of messages you will receive world-wide in the next 48 to 72 hours on this subject.

Respectfully,


Please take a quick moment to tell the International Kangaroo court what you think of their hypocrisy. Copy this message and paste it into a new email that should be sent to the email addresses listed above.

if you don't know how to "copy and paste" the above text, please ask a friend or a relative who's good with computers - thanks in advance.

I copy the content from the link above with information on disbuted fences around the World below. Found this on the great Imshin blog.

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The Hanukah Song (12.04.2002)


HumorRight now we are right in the middle of Hanukah, the Jewish festival of lights.



A Dreidel
"A Great Miracle Happened There"


Adam Sandler wrote a pretty funny song on Hanukah - see below for the full song and lyrics.

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Firsthand report of massacre of Israelis at Kenyan beach hotel (11.28.2002)


VictimsAs I reported last night, Arab Muslim terrorists have attacked Israeli tourists in Kenya (click here for more information). Here's a firsthand account of the murders:

At around 7:30 a.m. local time we arrived from the airport in Mombasa at the Israeli-owned Paradise Hotel, where we were greeted by beautiful dancing girls.

On the plane were hundreds of Israelis, most of them families on their Hanukka vacation who had come as part of a weeklong package tour organized by "Paradise Mombasa," an Israeli travel agency. [...]

We'd arrived in big buses and he suggested we go and have breakfast first, so our small group of 10 went to have breakfast and maybe five or 10 minutes later, we heard this massive explosion.

The hotel has thatched roofs and suddenly everything set on fire there were bits flying everywhere. In the distance all you saw was a mass of billowing smoke. Our hotel is situated right on the beach. We were all pushed towards the beach and everybody started helping everybody else.

I saw horrific sights: I saw people covered with blood, including children. people with gashes, with huge wounds in their backs, stretchers being carried out. Everyone seemed to be screaming.

The entire building shook. From what I can gather, a car crashed through the gates of the hotel and into the lobby. Bombs were then thrown from the car.

People were screaming for water, but there was no bottled water and the tap water is undrinkable. Our guide was missing. I tried to occupy myself tending to the children.

"I want to go home," they said. "Where are my parents?"


The Arab Muslims who deliberately murder children are enemies of humanity. I copy the full article below.

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David Melle on vacation (10.15.2002)


AnnouncementIn the next couple of weeks I'll be driving down to Mexico. Baja California, just south of California, is a beautiful Mexican state and my girlfriend and I will be doing a lot of Scuba diving.

Please don't abandon FactsOfIsrael.com completely - although the frequency of new links and articles will slow down I will be posting from Internet Cafes whenever I get a chance. In the meantime, check out some of the older entries or the maps, history, stats and Palestine pages.

I promise a new screensaver when I get back - new UI and hundreds of additional facts will be available for free!

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Saudi Arabia finances Palestinian genocide bombers (07.01.2002)


OpinionCommentary (www.commentary.org), has a good analysis on our "friend", Saudi Arabia.

Polygamy is legal, and practiced, among the Saudi elite. Everywhere in the kingdom, women are veiled, secluded, and subject to the harsh protocols of a sexual apartheid. A few female Saudi professionals who in 1991 drove cars as a sign of protest mostly ended up arrested and jailed. Women who have traveled to the West remain under the constant surveillance of the Committee for the Advancement of Virtue and Elimination of Sin, a Taliban-like government watchdog group of clerics and whip-bearing fanatics. [...]

IT IS common to hear that Osama bin Laden, anaturalized Saudi Arabian whose family still has close ties to the inner circles of the monarchy, deliberately chose Saudi nationals for the September 11 murders in order to poison the otherwise amicable relations between the kingdom and the United States.

Maybe so—but the gambit, if that is what it was, was certainly made easier by the thousands of Saudis who willingly traveled to Afghanistan over the last few years to train in bin Laden’s terrorist camps. Royal denials notwithstanding, Saudi government money has for years been funneled into madrassas to encourage radical anti-Americanism as well as to fund the al Qaeda terrorists. Allegedly the purpose has been as much to provide insurance against subversive activity directed at the kingdom itself as to subsidize attacks on the United States. And there may be, after all, a sick genius in a system that can shift the hatreds of an illiterate Saudi youth away from the jet-setting sheiks who have diverted his nation’s treasure and onto the anonymous Americans who created that wealth, who ship the kingdom its consumer goods, and who defend it from the neighborhood’s carnivores. [...]

The PLO archives made public by the Israeli army in the wake of its recent operations on the West Bank have confirmed that the kingdom actively gives cash to a variety of terrorist organizations and showers with money (or free trips to Mecca) the families of suicide bombers. This bounty can no longer be seen as mere postmortem charity, but rather as premeditated financial incentives for murder. What that means is that the kingdom’s suicide-killers of September 11 who butchered our civilians were not so at odds with basic Saudi approaches to conflict after all.


As Golda Meir, Israel's 3rd Prime Minister, said about France: "With friends like these who needs enemies?".

I copy the full article below. It's long but Victor Hanson, the author, has made some great points - it's well worth the read.

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Racist high ranking Palestinian Politician calls Israel "a Satanic offspring that cannot exist among human beings" (02.15.2004)


Palestinian TerrorismThe Independent Media Review Analysis website (www.imra.org.il) has translated a racist interview given on Palestinian TV by Ahmad Nasser, the Secretary of the
"Palestinian Legislative Council":

A top Palestinian Authority official insists that Israel has no right to exist because it is "Satan's offspring," founded on theft and racism.

In an interview broadcast Feb. 6 on PATV, Ahmad Nasser, Secretary of the Palestinian Legislative Council, asserts that Israel cannot exist "among human beings" because it was "founded on the basis of robbery, terror, killing, torture, assassination, death, stealing land and killing people."

His comments reflect the PA's continuing campaign to challenge and deny Israel's right to exist.

The interview also cites 'The Protocols of the Elders of Zion', the infamous Russian forgery that was presented as the Jews' secret plan to rule the world, as the basis for the recent exchange of 400 Arab prisoners for one Israeli and the bodies of three soldiers. Nasser says the prisoner exchange is part of Israel's plan to show that a Jewish life is worth more than an Arab life, and proves that Israel is a "racist country" that "hates all the goyim, all the foreigners."


This excuse for a political leader is not part of the delusional Palestinian Islamic Jihad, but is part of Arafat's secular group, which is supposedly more moderate. Unfortunately, it seems that today even Palestinian "moderates" call Israel "a Satanic offspring" and wish for her destruction and the genocide of her citizens.

It is not "despair" that pushes the Palestinian mass murderers to slaughter Israeli women and children. It's racism, incitement, intolerance and hate - luckily Israel has a strong army and a strong will to defend herself and survive.

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Palestinian homicide/suicide bomber kills 19 unarmed Israeli civilians in Jerusalem bombing (06.18.2002)


Palestinian TerrorismHa'aretz (www.haaretzdaily.com) reports that a Palestinian homicide/suicide bomber has murdered 19 unarmed Israeli civilians when he blew himself up on a bus full of passengers.



The remains of the Jerusalem bus where
19 unarmed Israeli civilians were murdered


Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack in an official statement broadcast on the militant movement's television station. It said that the bomber was Muhammad Haza el-Rol, a 22-year-old student at al-Najah University in the West Bank city of Nablus, and that he came from the Jenin area.

He had apparently disappeared about three days ago. His father told Reuters from his home in the al-Fara refugee camp, near Nablus, that he was "very happy" to hear that his son was the bomber.


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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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Russia, 1898, The Czar bars Jews from living in major Russian cities (10.04.2002)


Jewish HistoryThe Jerusalem Post's feature "This day in history" reports on October 1, 1898, when a racist Russian Czar bars Jews from living in major Russian cities:

1898: A decree by the Russian czar Nicholas II explicitly bars Jews from living in major Russian cities. The action follows laws issued the previous May, restricting Jewish settlement to the Pale of Settlement. In Kiev, alone, some 7000 Jews are forced to relocate.


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Palestinian terrorist murders 7-year-old Israeli girl (06.18.2003)


Palestinian TerrorismIsrael Insider (www.israelinsider.com) reports that a Palestinian terrorist has murdered an Israeli 7-year-old girl and wounded a 3-year-old:

Seven-year-old Noam Leibovitch was killed, her three-year-old sister was seriously wounded, and two other family members were injured when terrorists opened fire on their car late Tuesday night on the Trans-Israel highway, not far from the Palestinian town of Kalkilya. The army imposed a curfew on Kalkilya, but the gunmen managed to escape. It was the first terror attack to occur on the new toll highway.

The attack occurred after 11 p.m. Tuesday night as the Leibovitch family was returning from a bar mitzvah celebration in Jerusalem to their home in Yamin Orde, near Haifa. It was the first time that the family had traveled on the north-south Trans-Israel No. 6 highway, Israel's first toll road. "We thought Highway 6 was safe," Noam's mother screamed as her daughter was brought into Petach Tikva's Beilinson Hospital, where she died of her injuries.


The terrorist groups Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and Arafat's Al-Aksa brigades reject peace with Israel. They call for the destruction of the Jewish State and for the genocide of her Jewish citizens - for more info click here. To see a list of homicide bombings executed by these Palestinian mass murderers, click here.

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