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Fact 62: "Between October 2000 and February 2002, there were on average 21 terrorist attacks a day against Israeli civilians and security officials, including shootings, bombings, and mortar attacks."
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![]() 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 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. See below for the rest of the article.
![]() The ad reads: "Where does she vote freely" and below: "In Israel, the only democracy in the Middle East" About one million Arab Muslims are Israeli citizens that have full rights, including the right to vote. See the Democracy page for more details. Tomorrow I will be listening to Israeli radio and watching hours of live Israeli TV. In the next few days I will be updating the Democracy page , but you can get an idea of which parties are running by checking it here. In the meantime, I copy below an article from the Jerusalem Post (www.jpost.com) that gives more info on today's elections.
The verdict against Anwar Keneth, 40, a former government official, drew criticism from the nation's Christian Liberation Front, which lobbies for the interests of the small Christian community. Yahoo News also reports the story of an Iranian man, convicted of raping and killing his nephew that will be executed by being thrown off a cliff in a sack (!). If the unnamed man survives the fall down a rocky precipice, he will be hanged, legal experts said. He has 20 days to appeal the court sentence. These are both verdicts handed down by the official judiciary systems of Pakistan and Iran. Sometimes I wonder if there's a time gap between the United States, with its freedoms and respect for due process and Democracy, and the Arab/Muslim world with its barbaric "legal" practices which seems stuck in the 12th century. I copy both articles below.
ARAB BEATS UP JEWISH GIRL AT B'KLYN SCHOOL Thanks to LGF for the link.
![]() A racist bastard burns down a Jewish School in French Quebec, Canada A fire destroyed library books and damaged a library computer system at the St. Laurent branch of United Talmud Torahs (UTT) elementary school on the eve of the Passover holiday (April 5), and police found anti-Semitic notes, written in French taped to the school's walls. Yesterday I attended a Passover Seder with familiy and friends. Among those present was E., a 99-year-old woman who has been a leader all of her life. She will be one hundred years old in a few months but is incredibly witty, smart and funny. She's not Jewish, but feels a strong connection to the Jewish people and wanted to be present at a Seder. Last night, after she asked everyone to say a few words of thanks (she's still setting the agenda at 99), she said a few words about what Israel is going through. This is not new: Jewish history is full of pogroms, hate crimes, mass murders and the Holocaust. It would take me three days to just mention by name the pogroms of Poland, Russia, and Northern Africa. There is one difference however: in 2004 we have the State of Israel. We have institutions, we have an army, and we have an overall idea that Jews can and should defend themselves against barbaric racist bastards - from Al-Qaeda or the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, from Hitler's scum and Neo Nazis or from extreme European leftists and Communists. The Passover seder is mainly about the idea of freedom (on how the Israelites were slaves in Egypt and the story of their escape). It is also the idea that we should cherish this liberty (that some of us have in western Democracies) and that this freedom is worth fighting for. As Jewish schools burn down in France, Canada or Tunisia, it seems to me that the link between Jewish freedom and the State of Israel is very clear. I copy the full article below.
To: U.S. Congress Here are a few examples of European support for Palestinian terrorism: Palestinians schoolbooks are racist and teach hate and violence (All Palestinian schoolbooks were printed using European funds) European Union responsible for the murder of hundreds of unarmed Israeli and American civilians, including babies and children Why do Europeans continue in their policy of appeasement? Click here to sign the petition - let's show the EuroWinnies that supporting the Palestinians in their murderous war on Israel's women and children has consequences.
This week's fact is Fact 77: Jews in West Bank are "Settlers", Arab Muslims in Israel are "Citizens". Click here to check out the latest newsletter, and please subscribe (for free) if you haven't already done so.
Four IDF Navy sailors were wounded late Friday night after two Palestinians sailed their fishing boat up to a patrol boat off the Gaza Strip coast and detonated an explosive device, Israel Radio reported. Israel built an electronic fence around Gaza, stopping all Palestinian homicide/suicide bombers from carrying on their attacks. A similar fence is being built around the West Bank - soon it'll be much harder for Arafat and his thugs to commit their daily murders. I copy the full article below.
These posters are a way for ad companies to distribute their messages, and you'll generally see announcements on new movies, plays, rock concerts, new magazines, etc... This week, the citizens of Paris could see the picture of Dieudonne, a French racist bastard originally from Cameroon, dressed up in a Nazi uniform: ![]() A French racist bastard, Mr. Dieudonne, finds it funny to dress up as a German Nazi mass murderer This racist excuse for a human being was promoting his show "Mes Excuses" (My apologies), and apparently dressing up in a Nazi uniform and identifying with an entity that was responsible for the mass murder of millions of people seems funny to him. A few months ago, this same Islamic Fascist sympathizer dressed up as an Orthodox Jew on French national TV and raised his arm in a Nazi salute while shouting "Isra-Heil". Sadly, today, the call for the mass murder of French Jews is mainstream French comedy. No wonder Israel's Prime Minister Ariel Sharon called for French Jews to immigrate to Israel due to the high number of racist attacks against Jews that have occurred in France in the last few years. Found this on the excellent No Pasaran and LGF.
Saudi Arabia: No Visas for Jews, Link If you haven't already done so, click here to take a look at how you can get 50 miles per gallon using a Hybrid car. Also, click here to see how you can generate your own electricity using a solar power system. The less money we send to racist Islamic countries such as Saudi Arabia, the less money will flow into Al-Qaeda, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or Arafat's murderers from the Al-Aksa Brigades.
Suicide bomber kills four Doing a search on news.google.com on this terrorist attack only returned 10 results. I guess a murdering Palestinian bastard killing someone's grand-parents and an 18-year old girl is not news.
A rabbi was stabbed Friday night in a Paris synagogue by an unknown assailant who than fled, Israel Radio reported.
Ikhlas Yasin, 39, was shot in the town's main square. There was no trial or due process - just a bunch of Palestinian thugs shooting a Palestinian woman in the head. This is worst than Pakistani law, where only the word of a Muslim accuser is needed to prosecute a non-Muslim on blasphemy charges, which can carry the death penalty upon conviction (see "Pakistani Muslim Court sentences Christian to death for calling Islam a fake religion"). I copy the full article below.
As mentioned yesterday, 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, so whether he's part of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, or any other organized terrorist group is irrelevant. The deliberate killing of unarmed civilians is terrorism. Stefan Sharkansky (Shark Blog), being helpful as always, has found the real explanation for yesterday's murder of a 20 year-old El Al clerk and a 46 year-old Israeli who just happened to be at the airport at the wrong time. The man who shot to death two people at the LAX El Al counter has now been identified as an Egyptian national. Oddly, the FBI still maintains that there is no indication that this was an act of terrorism. I copy the 10 reasons below.
"The world hates us and always will," a neighbor said to me on the stairs before wishing me a good day. "What more do you need than the Holocaust?" He is Sephardi, without familial memory of Europe; but the bitter, new mood of besieged Israel has penetrated everywhere. In a full-page newspaper ad urging Israelis to boycott European nations that now refuse to sell Israel military equipment, employees of the country's military industry wrote, "In the moments of truth, we learn yet again that we can only rely on ourselves." Even the left isn't immune from the growing sense of siege. In a recent interview, the liberal novelist Amos Oz confessed he's haunted by his father's observation that, before the Holocaust, European graffiti read, "JEWS TO PALESTINE," only to be transformed in our time into, "JEWS OUT OF PALESTINE." The message to Jews, noted Oz: "Don't be here and don't be there. That is, don't be." [...] I copy the full article below, it hits on many good points, and is much of what I feel about the attitude of Europeans and the UN towards Israel, and my attitude towards the extreme right in Israel. FAIR USE NOTICE This site contains some copyrighted materials the use of which has not always been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. We are making such material available in our efforts to advance understanding of environmental, political, human rights, economic, democracy, scientific, and social justice issues, etc. We believe this constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use', you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. |
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