Contents:
Jerusalem News nos 511-540
Jerusalem News-511
Date: 21 Tishrei 5767, 13 October 2006
Contents:
1. Are All Conspiracy Freaks Dupes of The John Birch Society??
2. Terrorist with Explosive Belt Intercepted in Israel
3. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday,
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
October 11, 2006, 19 Tishrei 5767
(6. INDIAN OFFICIALS SUSPECTED OF TAKING BRIBES IN ISRAEL ARMS DEAL
(7. A7RADIO: ISRAEL NEARLY UNLEASHED NUCLEAR ARSENAL
4. The Under-reported Muslim War Against the West: A collection of headlines
5. Million whites leave SA - study
1. Are All Conspiracy Freaks Dupes of The John Birch Society??
<<For the first TWENTY YEARS of my membership in The John Birch Society, I never heard anyone ELSE EXCEPT The John Birch Society produce any expose on the CFR or The Illuminati or the Rockefellers. The information that The John Birch Society had; so painstakingly, made known, gradually worked its way into other groups. >>
John Perna
2. Terrorist with Explosive Belt Intercepted in Israel
From: imra@netvision.net.il
October 11th 2006
IDF SPOKESPERSON ANNOUNCEMENT
Terrorist with explosive belt intercepted in Israel, deadly attack thwarted
A terrorist carrying an explosive belt attempted to infiltrate Israel
yesterday evening. The man was identified immediately after crossing the
security fence into Israel, south of Karni crossing. The terrorist was shot
and killed, thus thwarting an attempt to carry out a deadly attack inside
Israel.
The terrorist's body was transferred into the Gaza Strip overnight.
3. Arutz Sheva News Wednesday,
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
October 11, 2006, 19 Tishrei 5767
(6. INDIAN OFFICIALS SUSPECTED OF TAKING BRIBES IN ISRAEL ARMS DEAL
By Hillel Fendel
Police in India have begun an investigation into a possible bribery
case involving senior government officials and a weapons deal with
Israel. Israel's arms company denies any connection.
Indias federal investigating agency named former Defense Minister
George Fernandes, his colleague and Samata Party leader Jaya Jaitley,
and former Navy chief Admiral Sushil Kumar as top suspects in a
half-million dollar bribe scandal. Some of the charges involve
India's purchase six years ago of the Barak missile system from
Israel.
India requires the Barak system, considered to be one of the world's
most advanced close-in weapons systems, against Pakistans sea-based
inventory.
Fernandes and Jaitley maintain that the Barak system was being
considered for purchase long before they entered the picture.
However, the owner of a plush hotel in Delhi has reportedly confessed
to being a middleman for a bribe to Jaitley that was later passed on
to Fernandes.
Fernandes is a controversial figure on the Indian political scene,
with many political enemies. He has blamed Sonia Gandhi, the
President of the Indian National Congress, for being behind the
accusations against him.
The Barak deal between India and Israel was worth $269 million.
Israel Aircraft Industries and Rafael Armaments Development Authority
released statements saying they have no connection with the
suspicions. India has not contacted Israel's Defense Ministry in
connection with the investigation, though Israel has said it would be
willing to cooperate if such a request was received.
India has made several arms purchases over the past decade from
Israel, including the famous Falcon spy-plane deal of October 2003 -
the largest in the history of Israel's defense industries. The
$1.2-billion deal involved the sale of three spy-and-early-warning
Falcon jets from Israel Aircraft Industries to India. The United
States, which had long objected to the sale, withdrew its objections
to the deal in light of the decreasing tensions between India and
Pakistan.
The Falcon is considered to have the most modern warning system in the
world, with radar installed on a large dish atop the plane. It can
detect air targets hundreds of kilometers away, and can track dozens
of targets simultaneously. It can also "hear" enemy broadcasts, sort
them, and extract necessary information in real time.
(7. A7RADIO: ISRAEL NEARLY UNLEASHED NUCLEAR ARSENAL
A7 Radio's "The Tovia Singer Show"
Expert: Israel Nearly Unleashed Her Vast Nuclear Arsenal during the
Yom Kippur War
Walter J. Boyne, author of "The Two OClock War: The 1973 Yom
Kippur War and the American Airlift that Saved Israel", reveals
that the IDF was within a hairbreadth of launching the "Samson Option"
when Nixon elected to help America's desperate ally with a tremendous
airlift that saved the friendless Jewish state from immanent
destruction. Boyde explains that this monumental US military
intervention successfully staved off Israel's immanent nuclear
attack against Egypt and Syria. Boyne is the former National Director
of the Air & Space Museum of the Smithsonian Institution.
Also on Tovia Singer:
Who do you Blame for the Blundered War in Lebanon, Israel or the
US?
Professor Eugene Narrett, author of Israel and the Endtimes, argues
that the US pressured Israel in accept the terms of the UN ceasefire,
enabling Hezbollah to reload for the next conflict with the Jewish
state.
For more A7 Radio visit www.IsraelNationalRadio.com.
4. The Under-reported Muslim War Against the West
A few (out of very many) Selected Headline Extracts from very recent events only
Source for headlines and access to articles in full:
http://amren.com/index.html
Third Night Of Ramadan Rioting In Capital Of Europe, Brussels Journal
Looting, arson, vandalism attend Muslim holy month in Brussels.
Honour Killing Claims Life of Six-Year-Old, Daily Mail (London)
Multiculturalism in Birmingham, England.
The Windsor Disturbances, MelaniePhillips.com
Details on a story the British press has ignored.
Unclean Guide Dog Banned By Muslim Cab Driver, Daily Mail (UK)
Muslim cab drivers in Britain, Australia and Norway will not let in seeing-eye dogs.
Boy Snatched Off Street, Set Alight And Murdered For Being White, Scotsman
Nothing would have happened if Kriss had been Chinese, African-American, or Asian.
People Smuggler Jailed, Daily Mail (UK)
Turks brought thousands of illegals into UK.
Publisher Pulls Book On Muslim Violence, Jewish Press
Company will not publish for fear of Muslim retaliation.
Race Clashes Hit Windsor, Daily Mail (UK)
Violent confrontations continue for third day.
Muslim Accosts Injured Para In Hospital, Daily Telegraph (UK),
Muslim walks in off street, threatens wounded soldier.
Anger In Holland Over Apartheid Islamic Hospital, Daily Telegraph (UK)
Hospital will treat only Muslims; sexes to be segregated.
Wild Scenes As GP Convicted, RiverinaMediaGroup.com.au
Muslim doctor found guilty in Australia of drugging and raping patient; calls conviction racism.
Muslims Are Waging Civil War Against Us, Claims Police Union, Daily Telegraph (UK)
2,500 police officers wounded so far this year in Frances intifada.
October 4, 2006
More US Hispanics Drawn To Islam, Christian Science Monitor
About 200,000 Hispanics embracing a heritage that was denied to them.
Hundreds Clash In Street Battle, Lancashire Evening Post
More violence in multi-racial Britain.
Is Islam Dying? Europe Certainly Is, Brussels Journal
More Muslims Arrive In US, After 9/11 Dip, New York Times
5. Million whites leave SA - study
http://www.fin24.co.za/articles/economy/display_article.aspx?Nav=ns&lvl2=econ&ArticleID=1518-25_2003186
Johannesburg - One million white South Africans - almost a fifth - have left the country in the past ten years.
Jerusalem News-512
Date: 24 Tishrei 5767, 16 October 2006
Contents:
1. 64-year old Turkish woman gives birth
2. Israel -a strategic asset for the US
3. Philistine Gaza on the Way to Explosion
1. 64-year old Turkish woman gives birth
A 64-year-old Turkish woman has given birth to a baby boy in Istanbul, becoming the second oldest mother in the world, a hospital spokesman said.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/
10/11/061011172654.94vpwg43.html
2. Israel -a strategic asset for the US
Efraim Inbar, THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 8, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193390726&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The major challenges to US diplomacy in the post Cold War era - threats to
the free flow of oil, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and
Islamic terrorism - originate in the Middle East. With America's invasion of
Afghanistan in 2002 and of Iraq in 2003, this region has become the focus of
US efforts to neutralize radical anti-American forces.
Washington thus welcomed Israel's military response to the provocations of
the radical Islamist Hizbullah, an Iranian proxy and an enemy of the US.
Yet, Israel's mixed military performance against Hizbullah in Lebanon has
raised questions in Washington as to whether Israel still constitutes a
strategic asset for the US.
For four decades, the US has provided Israel with generous financial aid and
with access to America's arsenal of the latest weaponry in order to
strengthen the IDF and make it into a mighty military machine. Yet, the IDF
failed to achieve a clear defeat of Hizbullah, an accomplishment that would
have enhanced Israel's deterrence and weakened the influence of Iran and
other radical factions in the region. In light of America's difficulties in
Iraq, Washington was more in need than ever of such a success against the
radical Islamic forces.
DESPITE THE troubling questions regarding Israel's strategic behavior in the
summer of 2006, Washington still understands that Israel remains its most
reliable ally in the Middle East and the eastern Mediterranean. There is no
other state in the Middle East where an American airplane can count with
certainty on being welcomed in the near future. Even American allies such as
Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey may have second thoughts about
hosting an American presence and all of them have a record of denying the US
military use of their facilities. Moreover, the stability of their regimes
cannot be taken for granted as all of them grapple with modernization and
are threatened to various degrees by Islamic radicals.
Israel is one of the few countries in the world that does not see US primacy
in international affairs as a troubling phenomenon. Unlike much of the rest
of the world, Israel is not preoccupied with how to tame American power. In
fact, Israeli foreign policy displays an unequivocal pro-American
orientation.
In addition, Israel's strategic culture is much closer to that of the US
than to that of many of the US's European allies. In contrast to Washington
and Jerusalem, European ruling elites usually have a low threat perception
and question the utility of the use of force in the international arena.
Indeed, it is becoming politically more and more difficult for European
capitals to dispatch troops to join the US in Afghanistan and Iraq. European
support for the seemingly inevitable American use of force against the
nascent Iranian nuclear program is also uncertain. Unlike other American
allies, Israel supports America's unilateralism, which is in fact in tune
with its own defense doctrine that stresses self-reliance and is skeptical
of the effectiveness of multilateral action.
Following 9/11, the US approach to the use of military force has come to
bear an even closer resemblance to that of Israel. In 2003, the US adopted
preemptive strikes as part of its official menu of policy options. Such
strikes have been part of the Israeli modus operandi since the 1950s.
Israel's preemptive posture, which was once a source of tension in the
bilateral ties, is now met with better understanding in the US, for which
the dilemmas involved in combating terrorists particularly in urban settings
with large civilian populations are no longer merely academic questions.
COOPERATION with Israel on security matters confers many advantages. The
American military uses Israeli training installations and has continuous
access to Israeli intelligence, military experience and doctrine. Currently,
officers serving in Iraq compare notes regularly with Israeli counterparts
on a variety of military issues connected to low-intensity conflict
operations. Israel has vast combat experience and an array of weaponry
specifically tailored for such situations - both of which the US capitalizes
upon. Similarly, the greater American effort to defend its homeland from
terrorist threats has intensified US cooperation with Israel, a country that
has coped with such threats for decades.
Israel is also an important source of military technology. While the US
dominates the international arms market, Israel enjoys a relative
technological advantage in several niches, upon which US firms have
capitalized. Israeli-developed systems are employed by the American military
and the US Senate, recognizing this contribution, has just approved an
appropriation of half a billion US dollars for American-Israeli weapon R&D.
The case for the continued US support of Israel as an important strategic
ally due to its strategic location and political stability, as well as its
technological and military assets, is very strong. The current strategic
relationship is based on a common strategic agenda that has survived the
Cold War politics. However, this commonality of strategic interests must be
continuously nurtured. Being a Western democracy in the Middle East with a
strong and supportive Jewish lobby in the US is not enough to secure
critical America support. Rather, Israel must take care to ensure that it is
playing a positive strategic role in an American-dominated world.
The writer is professor of political science at Bar-Ilan University and
director of the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies.
3. Philistine Gaza on the Way to Explosion
IDF intelligence: Hamas has anti-aircraft missiles
JPost.com Staff, THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 15, 2006
www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193444548&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
The head of the IDF intelligence research department, Brig.-Gen. Yossi
Baidatz, said Sunday that Hamas was smuggling advanced anti-tank and
anti-aircraft missiles into the Gaza Strip.
The development meant that the army had to prepare for a new reality in Gaza
that would likely include stiffer resistance to IDF raids. The new weapons
could also increase the danger for aircraft flying missions over Gaza,
Baidatz said.
Baidatz added that weapons smuggling from Syria to Lebanon was continuing,
in contravention of the UN ceasefire resolution.
Jerusalem News-513
Date: 25 Tishrei 5767, 17 October 2006
1. Arutz Sheva News Sunday,
(1. ACCO YESHIVA UNDER ARAB SIEGE
2. Irish king left a wide genetic trail
3. Archaeology: The Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9.25
1. Arutz Sheva News Sunday,
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
October 15, 2006, 23 Tishrei 5767
HEADLINES:
(1. ACCO YESHIVA UNDER ARAB SIEGE
By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz and Hillel Fendel
Hundreds of rioting Arabs surrounded a yeshiva in Acco (Acre) Saturday
night, preventing the students from leaving the building. An IDF
soldier was detained for shooting in the air.
Local police were called in to break the Arab siege on the Hesder
yeshiva, located in the Wolfson neighborhood of Acco. Police officers
took control of the volatile situation and the crowd began to
disperse. There were no injuries reported, but one person was arrested
for discharging a firearm.
Accounts from Acco indicate that the riot and subsequent siege was
preceded by verbal and possibly physical attacks on several yeshiva
students by local Arabs as the students were dancing Torah scrolls
through the streets. The police verified that a yeshiva student, an
active-duty IDF soldier, fired his weapon in the air when he believed
he detected a threat to himself and the other students, who were
dancing and singing in traditional post-Simchat Torah celebrations.
The gunfire led an Arab mob to surround the yeshiva, with the shooter
and several dozen students retreating inside.
*High Tensions*
Acco, on Israels Mediterranean coast north of the city of Haifa, is
an ethnically mixed city of Arabs and Jews. Tensions have been high
in the city since the beginning of the holy Moslem month of Ramadan
three weeks ago. The situation has been especially taut in the
Wolfson neighborhood, where Moslems have been broadcasting via
loudspeaker verses of the Koran every evening. The police originally
confiscated the loudspeakers, until local Arab leaders intervened. A
compromise was then reached wherein Moslem chants would be broadcast
at less-than-maximum volume and for two minutes each evening, to
announce the end of the daily Ramadan fast.
Jews in the neighborhood accused the authorities of caving in to the
Arab demands, in violation of city laws forbidding such announcements
in a residential neighborhood.
The Acco Hesder yeshiva has over 100 students who, in addition to
combining Torah studies and military service, take part in educational
activities with Acco schools and old age homes, assist children with
disabilities, volunteer with the Civil Guard, and other
community-serving projects.
Acco is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities, mentioned in
ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics dating back 3,500 years. In ancient
times, all ships that arrived in the Land of Israel from abroad would
dock at the port of Acco.
2. Irish King left a wide genetic trail
Scientists say 3 million men are descended from Niall of the Nine Hostages
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10892117/
Brit-Am Note: if this is what the descendants of Nial who lived ca
(c. 342 - c. 405) may have been capable of imagine what the descendants of
David who lived about 1300-1400 years earlier may have acheived!!
http://www.irishclans.com/articles/famirish/niall9hostages.html
<<Besides taking St. Patrick in his youth, Niall's reign is known mainly for two things. First, he consolidated the northern region of Ireland and created a dynasty that kept his descendants High Kings of Ireland for 600 years. Second, his military ability led him to the Irish Control of all of Alba and a large part of Britain. He seriously damaged the Romans ability to control Britain and even managed to carve out some Irish controlled territory in France. It is said this Irish Empire was only eclipsed in size by Dathi's, Niall's nephew and successor.>>
3. Archaeology: The Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9.25
Brit-Am Comments in Square [ ] brackets.
Adapted with permission.
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 9.25 October 15, 2006
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Burnt City roundup:
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1109.html
[Sistan, eastern Iran, destroyed ca 1000 BCE
by Assyrians?]
How water reached Zippori:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=772477
[Former capital of the Galilee in Israel]
A pair of Australian Radio programs on the Codex Sinaiticus:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1751700.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1751720.htm
[Earliest copy of Christian Bible in Greek]
More coverage of that Temple Treasure theory:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2397919,00.html
Latest Temple Mount news:
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1264
Iraq War and Archaeology:
http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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More coverage of that Thracian brain surgery find:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2028609.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005130486
http://tinyurl.com/y9pljl (Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/ynfu7k (USA Today)
Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Early Brits were dairy folk:
http://tinyurl.com/y4k5nb (DN)
Neolithic dwellings near Stonehenge:
http://tinyurl.com/upycs (DN)
In case you missed it the first time ... the Battle of
Hastings:
http://tinyurl.com/yk5vfo (BBC)
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A relic of Stone-age Sydney:
http://tinyurl.com/yjr728 (SMH)
An Eastern Hand Dynasty painted coffin from Inner Mongolia:
http://english.people.com.cn/200610/12/eng20061012_311295.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The latest 'peopling of the Americas' study:
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6059 (Portuguese)
.... cf. this semi-related bit of info on the Bering Strait:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061011/sc_nm/science_bering_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/yhk8sm (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012085548.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of that monolith from Mexico City:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15254497/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/sc_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/6050366.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_find
More coverage of the role of theater in Maya political
organization:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002214825.htm
More coverage of those 'cloud warrior mummies' from Peru:
http://tinyurl.com/ycluww (blog)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're looking at goats and human migration:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/science/10observ.html
http://tinyurl.com/y2252k (NG)
[<<A team of archaeologists and biologists has traced the origins of domesticated goats in Western Europe to the Middle East at the beginnings of the Neolithic period. >>
I guess you have to begin somewhere??]
.... while here's a somewhat different application of DNS technology:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15240873/
[<<More than 11 million Africans were forcibly shipped to the Americas during the slave trade that peaked in the 17th and 18th centuries.>>
Says that claims to trace individual Afro-Americans to specific African ethnic group only right in ca 10% of the cases]
More coverage of that Ptolemaic atlas sale:
http://tinyurl.com/ycalkw (This is London)
.... and what the results were:
http://tinyurl.com/yh2g3p (Reuters)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=151386
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101200282200.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yzlx6z (IOL)
Robin Hood as scholarly subject:
http://tinyurl.com/ycgugl (BBC)
Google Earth is turning out to be a major tool for identifying
potential sites:
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/15763952.htm
A miniseries about Henry VIII is in production:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/arts/television/11tudo.html
Jerusalem News-514
Date:26 Tishrei 5767, 18 October 2006
Contents:
1. Muslims Systematically Victimising and Gang-Raping Western Women
2. Dhimmitude for Dummies
3. Hezbollah Coming to Your Home Town Soon?
4. Daniel Pipes: Op Eds Now More Central in War than Bullets
5. Jonathan Levy and Thomas Easton: Vatican Bank partners with War Criminal Croatian Nazi-Ustasha?
6. Guysen Israel News
7. Israel Some Statistics and Thoughts
1. Muslims Systematically Victimising and Gang-Raping Western Women
The victims are usually young, sometimes very young.
Women admittedly are also frequently attacked in western countries by their own
kin but the attacks do not have any implied religious or cultural sanction.
Germany, France, Sweden, Australia, Norway, Denmark,
http://www.iris.org.il/blog/archives/757-Pan-European-Arab-Muslim-Gang-Rape-Epidemic.html
Western Muslims' Racist Rape Spree
http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=20646
Australia: 20-year-old jailed for 55 years on gang rape charges
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/sep2002/rape-s06.shtml
Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0802/steyn1.asp
Jihad through rape: Attacks on Western women by Muslims "resembles warfare" - media censors attack stories worldwide
http://www.militantislammonitor.org/article/id/1492
Muslim rapes of non-Muslim girls an epidemic
http://plancksconstant.org/blog1/2006/02/muslim_rapes_of_nonmuslim_girl.html
2. -Dhimmitude for Dummies
From: Johnstembridge1@aol.com
Subject: Fw: Dhimmitude for Dummies: Wake Up Call for the West
Dhimmitude for Dummies
By Victor Sharpe Front Page Magazine
Ask one hundred people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps two or three might know. In Western Europe the number would be slightly higher because of latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies over hundreds of years.
Dhimmitude is the direct outcome of jihad, which is the military conquest of non-Islamic territory mandated by Allah as a spiritual obligation for every individual Moslem and Moslem nation. From its beginnings in the seventh century, Islam spread through violent conquest of non-Moslem lands. In the eighth century, a formal set of rules to govern relationships between Moslems and non-Moslems was created based upon Moslem conquests of non-Moslem peoples. These rules were based upon jihad, which established how the Moslems would treat the conquered non-Moslems in terms of their submission to Islam. Jihad can be pursued through force or other means such as propaganda, writing, or subversion against the perceived enemy. The so-called enemies are those who oppose the establishment of Islamic law or its spread, mission, or sovereignty over them and their land.
Propaganda and subversion are the very means now being employed against the West and Judeo-Christian civilization, and Islamists have shown themselves to be brilliantly adept at manipulating the gullible and uninformed western media in pursuit of their aims of world domination.
...non-Islamic lands are considered the dar al-harb, the "house of war," until they submit to Islamic rule and enter the dar al-Islam. Since the Oslo Accords, successive Israeli governments have been guilty of the now thoroughly discredited notion of "land for peace" in which Israel gives away land but never receives peace. Even the peace treaties with Egypt and Jordan are cold at best and the lands given away to Lebanon and the Arab Palestinians has been a calamitous error. The belief that Moslem Arab powers respond to overtures of peace by ending their aggression is but a mirage in the desert. This is proven time and again to be a delusion and is, in fact, a classic example of the mindset and behavior of the dhimmi.
A non-Moslem community forced to accept dhimmitude is condemned to live in a system that will only protect it from jihad if it is subservient to the Moslem master. In return, it is guaranteed limited rights under a system of discriminations that it must accept, or face forced conversion, slavery, or death. According to Mitchell G. Bard, who has written extensively on the subject and produced the rebuttal to Arab and pro-Arab propaganda in his book, Myths and Facts,
"... dhimmis, on pain of death, were forbidden to mock or criticize the Koran, Islam or Muhammad, to proselytize among Moslems or to touch a Moslem woman (though a Moslem man could take a non-? Moslem as a wife)." Dhimmis were excluded from public office and armed service, and were forbidden to bear arms. The dhimmi had to show public deference toward Moslems, always yielding them the center of the road. The dhimmi was not allowed to give evidence in court against a Moslem, and his oath was unacceptable in an Islamic court. To defend himself the dhimmi would have to purchase Moslem witnesses at great expense. This left the dhimmi with little legal recourse when harmed by a Moslem. Dhimmis were also forced to wear distinctive clothing. In the ninth century, for example, Baghdad's Caliph al-Mutawakkil designated a yellow badge for Jews,a precedent that followed centuries later. By the twentieth century, the status of the dhimmi in Moslem lands had not significantly improved. H.E.W. Young, British Vice-Consul in Mosul, wrote in 1909: "The attitude of the Muslims toward Christians and the Jews is that of a master towards slaves, whom he treats with a certain lordly tolerance so long as they keep their place. Any sign of pretension to equality is promptly repressed." The concept of jihad is not something now discarded by Islam as a quaint belief appropriate to the distant past. On the contrary, it is a cardinal belief in the 21st century for Moslems based upon Koranic injunctions, believed in by millions of Moslems around the Third world, as much as by Moslems living in America, Britain, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
It is a belief, passionately held, that one day the entire world will become Islamic and accept completely the will of Allah. It is vital, therefore, that the general public in every non-Moslem country be made aware that Moslems consider themselves in a perpetual state of war with their non-Moslem neighbors. If Islamic armies are unable to defeat what they consider the "infidels," (that's you and me), then a period of "truce" exists. Sheikh Zayman al-Zawahiri, Al Qaida's second in command, recently invited America to embrace Islam. The invitation is always given, according to some experts, prior to a major assault upon the "infidel nation," because any rejection is considered by Moslems as an empirical reason to wage war upon the non-Moslem state; in this case the United States of America.
It is nearly impossible for sophisticated and secularized Western and European elites to understand or accept such medieval concepts, let alone the idea that a religious war is being waged against them. But their dismissal and amused disregard of what is taking place is as calamitous as that exemplified by the myopic politicians in Britain and America before the Second World War.
The lone voice in the wilderness at that time, Winston Churchill, appealed in vain to the political leaders who had not the ears to hear or the eyes to see the growing fascist menace during the 1930s posed by Germany and Italy.
Western notions of peaceful co-existence between states, human rights and liberal democracy are all alien to the bin-Ladens and Zawahiris of the Islamic world. Hizbullah, Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Hamas, Al Qaida, ad nauseum, all reject Judeo-Christian civilization as being in theological error. For them, the entire human race must embrace Allah's pre-eminence and the Moslem believer is the divine instrument to bring about the "Umma" (worldwide Moslem community) in whatever way possible, including warfare and terror. Jihad has reappeared as a way of wiping out the humiliation the Arab and Moslem world has felt as Western power became ascendant, especially after the defeat of the Ottoman Turkish Empire at the end of the First World War.
With a never ending flow of petrodollars pouring into Arab and Moslem coffers, the belief among Moslems is that the time is now right for Islam to reassert itself in dominating the world and bringing it to Allah through all out war, including nuclear war, if necessary.
The corollary to jihad is dhimmitude. This is what appeasement by non-Moslems to Islamist threats and terror leads to. Winston Churchill would have been shocked but not surprised at the craven appeasement displayed by today's elitists in the European political echelons. It is in marked contrast to the manner in which their ancestors confronted an earlier existential Islamic threat when they defeated decisively the Moslems at Tours, Iberia (Spain and Portugal), Lepanto and Vienna. But without a similarly decisive defeat of present day Islamist aggression and Islamo-fascism we may all be faced, sooner than we think,with the choice of forced conversion to Islam or subservience and wretchedness as dhimmis. Better, therefore, for us all to be aware of the facts and not also be dummies.
(THIS TEXT RECEIVED FROM: WWW.AMERICANCONGRESSFORTRUTH.COM)
Brit-Am Note: The above text only tells part of the story.
Even if the non-Muslim people were to accept the subservient status of "dhimmitude"
they would still be periodically robbed, beaten, raped, have their women and children abducted
and lost to them, and face periodic decimations often culminating in a choice between
Islam or death.
3. Hezbollah Coming to Your Home Town Soon?
From: Johnstembridge1@aol.com
How soon will Hezbollah be in you home town once we withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan?
Click here: http://www.youtube.com/v/-HlaVpqUXF0
4. Op Eds Now More Central in War than Bullets
by Daniel Pipes
New York Sun
October 17, 2006
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4059
[NY Sun title: The West Must Learn The Public Relations of War]
Soldiers, sailors, and airmen once determined the outcome of warfare, but no longer. Today, television producers, columnists, preachers, and politicians have the pivotal role in deciding how well the West fights. This shift has deep implications.
In a conventional conflict like World War II, fighting had two premises so basic, they went nearly unnoticed.
The first: Conventional armed forces engage in an all-out fight for victory. The opposing sides deploy serried ranks of soldiers, lines of tanks, fleets of ships, and squadrons of aircraft. Millions of youth go to war as civilians endure privations. Strategy and intelligence matter, but the size of one's population, economy, and arsenal count even more. An observer can assess the progress of war by keeping tabs of such objective factors as steel output, oil stocks, ship construction, and control of land.
Second assumption: Each side's population loyally backs its national leadership. To be sure, traitors and dissidents need to be rooted out, but a wide consensus backs the rulers. This was especially noteworthy in the Soviet Union, where even Stalin's demented mass-murdering did not stop the population from giving its all for "Mother Russia."
Both aspects of this paradigm are now defunct in the West.
First, battling all-out for victory against conventional enemy forces has nearly disappeared, replaced by the more indirect challenge of guerrilla operations, insurgencies, intifadas, and terrorism. This new pattern applied to the French in Algeria, Americans in Vietnam, and Soviets in Afghanistan. It currently holds for Israelis versus Palestinians, coalition forces in Iraq, and in the war on terror.
This change means that what the U.S. military calls "bean counting" counting soldiers and weapons is now nearly immaterial, as are diagnoses of the economy or control of territory. Lopsided wars resemble police operations more than combat in earlier eras. As in crime-fighting, the side enjoying a vast superiority in power operates under a dense array of constraints, while the weaker party freely breaks any law and taboo in its ruthless pursuit of power.
Second, the solidarity and consensus of old have unraveled. This process has been underway for just over a century now (starting with the British side of the Boer War in 1899-1902). As I wrote in 2005: "The notion of loyalty has fundamentally changed. Traditionally, a person was assumed faithful to his natal community. A Spaniard or Swede was loyal to his monarch, a Frenchman to his republic, an American to his constitution. That assumption is now obsolete, replaced by a loyalty to one's political community socialism, liberalism, conservatism, or Islamism, to name some options. Geographical and social ties matter much less than of old."
With loyalties now in play, wars are decided more on the Op Ed pages and less on the battlefield. Good arguments, eloquent rhetoric, subtle spin-doctoring, and strong poll numbers count more than taking a hill or crossing a river. Solidarity, morale, loyalty, and understanding are the new steel, rubber, oil, and ammunition. Opinion leaders are the new flag and general officers. Therefore, as I wrote in August, Western governments "need to see public relations as part of their strategy."
Even in a case like the Iranian regime's acquisition of atomic weaponry, Western public opinion is the key, not its arsenal. If united, Europeans and Americans will likely dissuade Iranians from going ahead with nuclear weapons. If disunited, Iranians will be emboldened to plunge ahead.
What Carl von Clausewitz called war's "center of gravity" has shifted from force of arms to the hearts and minds of citizens. Do Iranians accept the consequences of nuclear weapons? Do Iraqis welcome coalition troops as liberators? Do Palestinians willingly sacrifice their lives in suicide bombings? Do Europeans and Canadians want a credible military force? Do Americans see Islamism presenting a lethal danger?
Non-Western strategists recognize the primacy of politics and focus on it. A string of triumphs Algeria in 1962, Vietnam in 1975, and Afghanistan in 1989 all relied on eroding political will. Al-Qaeda's number two, Ayman al-Zawahiri, codified this idea in a letter in July 2005, observing that more than half of the Islamists' battle "is taking place in the battlefield of the media."
The West is fortunate to predominate in the military and economic arenas, but these no longer suffice. Along with its enemies, it needs to give due attention to the public relations of war.
5.Jonathan Levy and Thomas Easton: Vatican Bank partners with War Criminal Croatian Nazi-Ustasha?
From: "Root & Branch Association, Ltd." <rb@rb.org.il>
Lawyers for the Vatican Bank -- including Pope Benedict's personal attorney -- have argued that genocide committed in Croatia during the Second World War by a Nazi regime was permissible under international law.
In the ongoing lawsuit Alperin v. Vatican Bank, the Vatican Bank has filed a motion set for hearing in November [2006] which argues in part that the Vatican Bank is immune because the Nazi backed Croatian regime did not violate international law by slaughtering 500,000 of its own citizens - Serbs, Jews, and Roma (Gypsies) in an ethnic cleansing campaign.
The Vatican Bank stands accused of the post war laundering of the profits of genocide - including dental gold taken from the victims of the Nazi backed Croatian regime known as the Ustasha.
Attorneys for the Holocaust survivors are outraged that the Vatican Bank suggests genocide and plunder are permissible acts under international law. Jonathan Levy, one of the attorneys for the Holocaust survivors, questions whether the Pope is even aware of what the bank's attorneys are proposing:
"On the one hand the Vatican is quick to condemn Israel and Serbia in recent years but in essence says its O.K. to butcher 500,000 people, steal their belongings and stash it in the Vatican Bank...Pope Benedict should be concerned that the moral integrity of his Papacy is being undermined in a Federal Court".
The lawsuit has been ongoing since 1999. Despite growing evidence of the Vatican Bank's complicity in criminal acts, the lawsuit has been resisted tenaciously by the Vatican Bank.
Shavua Tov [Good Week] from San Francisco,
Jonathan Levy and Thomas Easton, Esqs.
Attorneys-at-Law
Tel: 202-318-2406
Email: mailto:resistk@yahoo.com
Website: www.vaticanbankclaims.com
6. Guysen Israel News
From: GuysenIsrael News <webmaster@guysen.com>
Subject: Mailinfo Guysen Israel News october 17, 2006
24 Tishri 5767
[]Heightened tension between Hamas and Israel. Hamas announced on Monday evening in Gaza that it was ready for a war with the IDF and added : "Your destroyed tanks will become an eternal witness to your failure". Hamas possesses many antitank missiles smuggled into the Gaza Strip.
23:50 Defense Minister Amir Peretz told the defense and foreign affairs committee that the head of the French contingent in Unifil warned Israel that it may be obliged to open fire on IDF planes if they continue to fly over Lebanese territory. Peretz added that Israel would continue its air patrols in Lebanese air space until the UN resolution 1701 was implemented. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
18:25 The American government has confirmed that the tests carried out by North Korea on the 9th October were indeed nuclear tests, but that they were limited in nature. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
18:17 Jerusalem welcomed more than 1.5 million tourists and Israeli holiday makers during Succot - a 30% increase with respect to last year. The most visited sites or events were the Kotel (750,000 people), the Jerusalem Parade (100,000 people, a 50% increase over last year) and the Biblical Zoo (40,000 visitors). (Guysen.Isra l.News)
16:33 10% of people who lived through the katyusha fire during the last war with Lebanon are still suffering from emotional disturbances and dysfunction in daily life, according to Dr. Rivka Yahav, of the Multidisciplinary Clinical Center of the University of Haifa. In collaboration with the Haifa municipality, a special therapeutic program is being created for these people. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
7.Israel Some Statistics and Thoughts
The Israeli population of Judea and Samaria numbered 246,100 as of December 31 2005, and had an annual growth rate of 5.1% from 2004 to 2005. Total voters [i.e. adults above 18 years of age] for 17th Knesset totaled 152,315.
The evicted Gush Katif voters accounted for an additional 3,569 votes for a total of 155,884 voters.
http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/pademographics.html
The 2004 Palestinian-Arab population was closer to 2.4 million than to the 3.8 million reported by Palestinian Authority (PA) officials.
According to the above Jews in Judah and Samaria are outnumbered 10 to 1 by Arabs.
Most of the area however remains underpopulated or hardly populated at all.
More than 70% of the Arabs would leave willingly tomorrow if enabled to do so
while the majority of those who would not leave immediately
would be open to consider the matter if reasonable alternatives were available.
As at October 1, 2006, the population of Israel stands at 6,990,700.
According to the annual statistical summary of 2005 published by the Central Bureau of Statistics,
76% of the population is Jewish and 19% Arab.
The population figure is comprised of: 5,313,800 Jews, 1,140,600 Muslims,
146,000 Christians (of them 118,000 Christian Arabs), 115,200 Druze and 272,200 who did not classify a religion.
Total Muslim Population (including Judah and Samaria) is ca 3.5 million.
Population classified as Jews includes ca. 300, 000 (or more?) who are
not so and would prefer not to identify as such.
On the other hand the Muslim population includes ca 10% (or more?) who would prefer to
be considered "Israeli" under any condition and no matter what the circumstance.
Jerusalem News-515
Date:27 Tishrei 5767, 19 October 2006
Contents:
1. Israeli statistics in general: Official
2. Winston Churchill:
THE LAST ROMANTIC ZIONIST GENTILE
3. Jews are not wanted"
4. Leftists For a Second Holocaust
5. Stan Goodenough: Italy and France Versus Israel
6. Jordan River, Syrian Dams, and Environment
7. Guysen Israel News
1. Israeli statistics in general: Official
http://www.cbs.gov.il/publications/isr_in_n05e.pdf
[free government booklet that can be downloaded]
2. Winston Churchill:
THE LAST ROMANTIC ZIONIST GENTILE
http://www.jewishpost.com/jewishpost/jpn201b.html
<<Churchill was in favour of Israel joining the Commonwealth. "Do not put that out of your mind," he said to Shuckburgh, "It would be a wonderful thing. So many people want to leave us; it might be the turning of the tide." Churchill's was Israel's best friend. And as a friend his attitude was shaped by sentiment as much as by pragmatic considerations. He was emotionally attached to Israel and its people, and his stance was a corollary of this. His oft-repeated, self-declared Zionist sympathies, his emotional attachment to the Jewish people and their restored sovereign entity, permeated his attitude toward Israel and the Arab-Israeli dispute.
<<He was perhaps the last romantic Zionist Gentile. Or perhaps the last romantic Zionist.
3. "Jews are not wanted"
A Thought-Provoking article from a secular point of view much of which we disagree with but it is worth reading:
"Israel"
by Philip Greenspun in February 2003
http://philip.greenspun.com/politics/israel/
Conclusions of the Article:
Jews are not wanted in Europe or in Islamic countries
Although initially settled by some idealistic Zionists, Israel has become primarily a dumping ground for the world's unwanted Jews and this is its principal significance to non-Muslim countries
For dictators in Muslim nations, inculcating mass hatred of Jews has substantial political value; Israel's principal significance to Muslim countries is as a focus of popular hatred
For the dictators and subjects of Arab nations, the State of Israel takes on an additional significance as a place whose successful conquest would signify a resurgence of Arab power as exciting as the Arab conquests circa 700 A.D.
Palestinian violence continues because it is yielding substantial material support from Arab and European nations, support that should lead to a gradual victory over the Jews and the liberation of all of Palestine.
4. Leftists For a Second Holocaust
Paul Bogdanor,
The Jewish Press,
http://www.paulbogdanor.com/secondholocaust.html
5. Stan Goodenough: Italy and France Versus Israel
Nations United Against Israel
Italy aids Lebanon against Israel
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1283
By Stan Goodenough
October 18, 2006
Reports out of Rome revealed Wednesday that the pro-Arab regime of Italian Prime Minister Romana Prodi has chosen to actively support Lebanon against Israel.
In order to ensure that Israeli aircraft do not overfly Lebanese territory to monitor Hizballah activity should hostilities resume between the two sides, Prodi has given instructions for his Italian Ministry of Defense to push through the sale of the advanced surface-to-air Aster 15 missile system.
DEBKAfile, which scooped this story, described the Aster 15 as the only Western surface-to-air missile with an active guidance system capable of last-minute corrections of targeting at the moment of interception.
It is designed to shoot down helicopters, warplanes and drones.
French president Jaques Chirac, whose country co-developed the Aster 15 with Italy, has approved to the sale.
Chirac, who presides over one of the most antisemitic populations in Europe, has had a long-standing love affair with the Arabs.
He oversaw the sale of the Osiris (god of the dead) nuclear reactor to Iraqi president Saddam Hussein, and exploded with fury when the Israeli Air Force successfully crippled it in 1981 to prevent Saddam from developing a nuclear bomb.
On top of thise, citing Israeli Defense Minister Amir Peretzs briefing to a Knesset panel on October 16, DEBKAfile reports that commanders of the French UNIFIL contingent have threatened to fire on Israeli warplanes in Lebanese skies.
Meanwhile, Italian instructors are expected to accompany the Aster 15 missile battery to Lebanon, there to train the Lebanese in how to use it against Israeli aircraft.
Says DEBKAfile: Since 50% of those officers are Shiites loyal to Hizballah or Amal, the Shiite terrorists are looking forward to gaining access for the first time to top-of-the-line Western anti-air missile technology.
Apparently ever the appeasers, Israels government has not yet lodged a formal protest with the Italian government.
Jerusalem has also not officially complained about ongoing illegal Hizballah movements and arms-smuggling.
6. Jordan River, Syrian Dams, and Environment
From: imra@netvision.net.il
Subject: Environmentalists: New Jordanian/Syrian dam may cause Jordan River
to dry up
Environmentalists: New dam may cause Jordan River to dry up
By Tzafrir Rinat, Haaretz Correspondent 18 October 2006
www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/776388.html
An environmental group warns of a dramatic drop in the quantity and quality
of the water in the southern section of the Jordan River, following the
completion of a joint Jordanian-Syrian dam.
The river could dry up completely over the next summer, the group also
warns.
The dam, expected to hold 110 million cubic meters of water, will reduce
significantly the flow of the Yarmuk River into the Jordan's section between
Lake Kinneret and the Dead Sea.
Ahead of the World Water Monitoring Day, held on Wednesday, Friends of the
Earth - Middle East have called for the rehabilitation of the southern
Jordan River by increasing the flow of its tributaries.
The region's shortage in water and the lack of cooperation between the
countries along the Jordan, however, will probably leave the call unheeded.
According to Friends of the Earth, 92 percent of the Jordan's waters are
already being used for human consumption. The new dam would reduce the water
flow by a further 25 percent.
The group says that the river, sacred to millions around the world, has
already become a polluted gutter that mainly channels sewage from Israeli
and Jordanian communities.
Efrat Farber, a researcher at the Ben Gurion University Geology Department,
says that despite the horrid state the river is in, the streaming of sewage
should continue as long as the river does not regain a solid source of fresh
water.
According to Farber, stopping sewage streaming would increase the river's
salinity and would harm the ecosystem, as well as the farmers that use the
river water for irrigation.
--------------------------------------------
IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il
7. Guysen Israel News
From: Guysen Israel News <webmaster@guysen.com>
[] 2006-10-17 , 25 Tishri 5767
[][PM] Ehud Olmert, on a visit to Moscow, said that his purpose was not to succeed in convincing President Vladimir Putin of the necessity of sanctions against Iran but to put an end to the nuclear armament of Teheran.
23:40 American and European officials have said that works at the Iranian nuclear plant in Bushehr will continue even if sanctions are imposed by the UN Security Council against Teheran. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
22:20 British Prime Minister Tony Blair said that a withdrawal of British troops from Iraq at the present time would have "disastrous consequences". He added that the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan were necessary for "world security". (Guysen.Isra l.News)
[19:14 According to Internal Security Minister Avi Dichter, Hizbollah carried out attacks with the assistance of Israeli Arabs. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
18:33 In a conference in the United States, Avi Dichter said that Hizbollah and Iran illegally transferred millions of dollars to the Palestinian Authority in the last six years. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
15:49 The IDF discovered a 12 meter deep tunnel in the south of the Gaza Strip, that was used for the transfer of arms from Egypt to the territories under Palestinian control. Soldiers blew it up in a controlled explosion. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
11:36 Zeev Boim (Minister of Immigrant Absorption)
considers that Israel will have to launch a vast offensive in the Gaza Strip to wipe out the firing of kassam rockets and arms smuggling. The minister also said that the Palestinians are responsible for the humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip, as they attack the border checkpoints. (Guysen.Isra l.News)
Jerusalem News-516
Date: 28 Tishrei 5767, 20 October 2006
Contents:
1. Google to open R&D facility in Tel Aviv
2. German Jews: Atmosphere like 1930s
3. French critic of Islam in hiding
4. Gigantic New Archaeological Center
and Museum being built in Jerusalem
5. Arutz-Sheva: selected items and extracts
(1) Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) Protest Planned Gay March
(2) Another Blood Libel - Courtesy of French TV
(3) Gentiles in Southern Italy Prefer that their Religious Tax Allocation go to Jews
1. Google to open R&D facility in Tel Aviv
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3316703,00.html
Web search leader says seeks to establish partnerships with Israeli institutes, universities
Reuters
Published: 10.18.06, 17:20
Google Inc. said on Tuesday it will open a research and development centre in Tel Aviv in early 2007 as part its strategy of expanding global R&D operations.
The Web search leader said in a statement it seeks to establish partnerships with Israeli institutes and universities.
Israel is considered one of the world's biggest high-tech centers and has large operations belonging to high-tech giants such as Intel, Motorola, Microsoft and IBM.
The Tel Aviv office will be headed by Yossi Matias, a scientist and expert on algorithms, databases and Internet technologies.
Matias is on leave from his faculty position at Tel Aviv University and was previously a research scientist at Bell Laboratories.
Google's centre in Tel Aviv adds to the recent opening of its Haifa center in northern Israel.
2. German Jews: Atmosphere like 1930s
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3316778,00.html
Ynet
Published: 10.18.06, 20:26
Copies of Anne Frank's diary burned at Neo-Nazi parties, Ethiopian youth beaten because of his ethnicity, student humiliated because of his association with Jews. These are only some manifestations of the rise in Neo-Nazi and anti-Semitic violence in Germany. Jewish community leaders say dangerous trend is being ignored by government
A sharp increase in acts of anti-Semitism has been recorded over the past two years in Germany so reports the 'Tagesspiegel' daily on Wednesday based on figures complied by the Interior Ministry.
According to the data, over the course of the first eight months of the year 8,000 acts of Neo-Nazi racial crime were documented. This compared to 6,605 in the previous year. The figures show a 20 percent increase compared to 2005 and a 50 percent increase compared to 2004. Over this time period 452 violent anti-Semitic attacks were reported, in which 325 people were injured. During the parallel time period in 2005 363 violent attacks occurred and 302 people were injured.
Among the incidents reported was the startling event reported last week, in which students forced a fellow classmate to bear a sign which said "I am the greatest pig of all because I am friends with Jews" and Neo-Nazi parties where copies of 'Anne Frank's Diary' were thrown into a campfire against the background of racist chants.
The figures were released while extremist right-wing party NPD achieves significant victories in regional elections in the federal state of Mecklenburg West-Pomerania last month, when it broke the votes threshold and ensure representation in the local parliament. Mecklenburg West-Pomerania joins Saxony and Thuringia as the third federal state with NPD parliament representation.
The figures have awoken intense public debate in Germany, several months after managing to display tolerance and openness during the World Cup. Charlotte Knobloch, president of the central Jewish-German council, warned that the trend was a dangerous one. "Anyone who still thinks that we're talking about isolated events doesn't grasp the danger to the community. The aggressiveness we're experiencing is reminiscent of 1933," she said to DPA, the German news agency.
In 1933 Hitler first rose to power as Prime Minister of Germany. Jewish businesses were boycotted and Nazi agents assaulted, threatened and kicked out Jews from German cities. Knobloch blamed the German political system which is ignoring the issue purposely, and is contributing to the rise of anti-Semitism and strengthens the extreme right.
German's domestic intelligence agency, Verfassungsschutz, is trusted with keeping tabs on Neo-Nazi activity in the country. According to the government's figures there are 40,000 right-wing extremists, about a quarter of which are defined as violent skinheads.
3. French critic of Islam in hiding
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5393892.stm
France's anti-terrorism authorities have launched an enquiry into death threats against a philosophy teacher who wrote an article criticising Islam.
Robert Redeker has been forced into hiding after making controversial remarks about the Prophet Muhammad.
Writing in France's Le Figaro, Mr Redeker described the religion's founder as "a merciless war leader".
Since publishing the article, he has been under police protection and forced to move between safe houses.
On Friday, the Paris prosecutor's office said it had opened a preliminary investigation into the threats to see if they were linked to terrorist activity.
French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin described the threats as "intolerable".
"We are in a democracy, everyone has the right to express his views freely - of course while respecting others," he said.
Punishment
Mr Redeker says that his personal details and home address are now available on Islamist websites.
His article was entitled "In the face of Islamist intimidation, what is the world to do?" and was written in reaction to Muslim protests following remarks made by Pope Benedict XVI.
The Pope has since apologised several times and said the views quoted were not his own.
In the article, published on 19 September, the French teacher describes the Koran as a "book of extraordinary violence" and Islam as a religion which "exalts violence and hate".
Mr Redeker says that he fears he will not be able to come out of hiding for the immediate future.
"The Islamists have succeeded in punishing me on French territory as if I were guilty of a speech crime," he said.
Paris-based press watchdog group Reporters Without Borders said the choice not to publish Mr Redeker's article would have represented "a defeat for freedom of thought".
France has one of Europe's largest Muslim communities with an estimated total of six million people, or ten percent of the population.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/europe/5393892.stm
4. Gigantic New Archaeological Center
and Museum being built in Jerusalem
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1159193446295&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Note: Brit-Am co-founder Rabbi Avraham Feld frequently speaks of the need for a Brit-Am Museum in which the Brit-Am case could be presented
graphically. Who knows if one day this will not be an acuality?
At present however our more immediate concerns include
continued functioning and more prosaic matters like paying the rent etc.
5. Arutz-Sheva: selected items and extracts
(1) Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) Protest Planned Gay March
First Anti-Pride Protest Held in Jerusalem
http://israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=113873
<<One of the speakers said, "Everyone whom G-d has blessed with children must check the level of modesty in his own home. You can't say, 'I don't know about this, I'm not involved in it.' We must all unite against this plot that has fallen on us, and fight against it. All of us together will fight against this scheme."
<<Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch, the head of the Eidah Hareidit Rabbinical Court, delivered a fiery speech, promising total dedication to the goal of stopping the march "in accordance with the rabbis' rulings." He quoted traditional Jewish sources saying that righteous people die because they fail to protest abominations. "We must protest against the filth [coming to] Jerusalem," he said.
(2) Another Blood Libel- Courtesy of French TV
French Court Rules in Favor of French TV in Al Durah Affair
http://israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=113870
Richard Landes, one of the experts who testified at the trial, explained in an article printed in The New Republic why he, a medieval historian, was relevant to the case:
Firstly, I noted almost immediately that Palestinians and anti-Zionists, insisting that Israel killed the boy on purpose, used Al Durah in a way familiar to medievalists--as a blood libel. This was the first blood libel of the twenty-first century, rendered global by cable and the Internet. Indeed, within a week, crowds the world over shouted We want Jewish blood! and Death to the Jews! For Europeans in particular, the libelous image came as balm to a troubled soul: This death erases, annuls that of the little boy in the Warsaw Gherro, intoned Europe1 editorialist Catherine Nay. The Israelis were the new Nazis.
(3) Gentiles in Southern Italy Prefer that their Religious Tax Allocation go to Jews
Italy's Jews Elect New President, Deal With New Problems
http://israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=113838
Gattegna: "There is an Italian law, passed eight years ago, that says that 8/10 of 1% of one's taxes can be transferred, at the discretion of the taxpayer, to the official bodies of various religions. Most of this, of course, goes to the Catholic Church, and some to the Protestants, and then come us, the Jews... The Moslems, for instance, have not yet signed this agreement, and therefore they cannot receive this money, and no one can ask to transfer his taxes to them."
Ouziel: "I have heard that not only Jews request to transfer these tax percentages to the Jewish communities."
Gattegna: "Correct. The number of signatures we receive [for transfer of tax money] is more than the number of Jews living in Italy. We get tax money from places in which not even one Jew lives. For instance, in southern Italy there are many families that give this money to the Jewish Communities, and we can't understand exactly why they are doing this..."
[Note: Our friend Aaron Menazzi points out that by these Southern Italian families
requesting that their religious taxation money go to Jewish organizations
they are consciously making an open and official declaration.
This is not an anonymous action.]
Jerusalem News-517
Date: 1 Heshvan 5767, 23 October 2006
Contents:
1. Arutz Sheva News Sunday,
(5. 76-YEAR-OLD RABBI TO RUN HIS 36TH NY MARATHON
2. The Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9:26
3. DNA
Genetic makeup of Macedonians and Greeks
Greek (or Macedonian) DNA amongst Pathans
4. Yad Sarah: Helping Others
5. 81% of U.S. Jews believe Arabs want to destroy Israel
6. Canadian PM defends backing Israel in war with Hezbollah
7. Hezbolla Using Israeli-Made Rockets??
1. Arutz Sheva News Sunday,
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
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October 22, 2006, 30 Tishrei 5767
(5. 76-YEAR-OLD RABBI TO RUN HIS 36TH NY MARATHON
By Ezra HaLevi
It isnt every day a rabbi ordained by the late Rabbi Moshe Feinstein
runs the New York City marathon but it is every year.
On November 5th, 76-year-old Rabbi Dr. Eliezer (Leon) Ehrenpreis
will run his 36th New York City marathon.
Since his first 26-mile run in 1970, Ehrenpreis has never missed the
marathon, despite a broken arm one year and a babys due date another.
He plans to run again this year.
The New York City marathon has become a global phenomenon, attracting
over 35,000 runners and two million spectators. The 2006 race,
however, bears little resemblance to the 1970 marathon, in which no
streets were closed to traffic and no barricades lined Central Park.
When I first ran the marathon, there were very few runners or
spectators, and it was like old home week, Rabbi Ehrenpreis
recalls. Everyone knew everyone else and it was like a family party.
Now its a huge race with media coverage, people fighting to get in,
and police protection. But, on the flip side - the enthusiasm and
excitement in New York is now incredible. People who dont know me
hear my wife and children calling my name and cheer along with them.
A renowned Torah scholar and mathematician, Ehrenpreis was ordained
and remained an advisor on mathematic and scientific issues to Rabbi Feinstein
until the famed authority on Jewish law passed away in 1986.
He has taught mathematics at New York University, Princeton, Harvard,
University of California at Berkeley and Yale Universities in the
United States. He as also taught at both Hebrew University and
Bar-Ilan in Israel, the Sorbonne in France and Kyoto University in
Japan. Ehrenpreis is currently a tenured professor at Temple
University in Philidelphia.
I spend most of my time doing research, and I find that I can train
without wasting time, Ehrenpreis says. I think about math while Im
running.
2. The Brit-Am Version of Explorator 9:26
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
================================================================
explorator 9.26 October 22, 2006
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Finds from various periods found from sifting the dirt from
Temple Mount:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=776922
A new archaeological campus is under construction in the heart
of Jerusalem:
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005191985
More coverage of theories about the Temple Treasure:
http://tinyurl.com/yx5zx8 (BG)
http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (JPost)
A construction boom in Jordan is threatening ancient sites:
http://tinyurl.com/y89von (MEFN)
The archaeological stuff of Messene:
http://tinyurl.com/y525f4 (AthensNews)
All about the Seven Wonders:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/7Wonders/story?id=2583185&page=1
Why ancient Greek monuments survived earthquakes (sort of):
http://tinyurl.com/y452g4 (Kathimerini)
Remains of nine Neolithic structures near Stonehenge:
http://tinyurl.com/wd8xb (GNN)
A 2000 b.p. 'city' near Inverness:
http://tinyurl.com/yy2sgg (Courier)
A Viking ship from Larvik:
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1498902.ece
A Chinese kiln in Bendigo:
http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1763246.htm?backyard
A mystery tower on Rhode Island:
http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5549834&nav=F2DO
Horses might have been first domesticated in Kazakhstan:
http://tinyurl.com/y2k46v (DN)
More coverage of archaeological use of Google Earth:
http://tinyurl.com/uhmut (Observer)
http://tinyurl.com/y4cr8c (Red Orbit)
http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/498957.html
Demystifying Columbus:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1017/p05s01-woeu.html
More Sardinia-as-Atlantis coverage:
http://www.physorg.com/news79968780.html
3. DNA
Genetic makeup of Macedonians and Greeks
Genetic makeup of Macedonians and Greeks
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=11260506&dopt=Abstract
Greeks (or Macedonian) DNA amongst Pathans
Eur J Hum Genet. 2006 Oct 18; [Epub ahead of print]
Y-chromosomal evidence for a limited Greek contribution to the Pathan
population of Pakistan.
Firasat S, Khaliq S, Mohyuddin A, Papaioannou M, Tyler-Smith C, Underhill PA,
Ayub Q.
Three Pakistani populations residing in northern Pakistan, the Burusho,
Kalash and Pathan claim descent from Greek soldiers associated with Alexander's
invasion of southwest Asia. Earlier studies have excluded a substantial Greek
genetic input into these populations, but left open the question of a smaller
contribution. We have now typed 90 binary polymorphisms and 16 multiallelic,
short-tandem-repeat (STR) loci mapping to the male-specific portion of the human Y
chromosome in 952 males, including 77 Greeks in order to re-investigate this
question. In pairwise comparisons between the Greeks and the three Pakistani
populations using genetic distance measures sensitive to recent events, the
lowest distances were observed between the Greeks and the Pathans. Clade E3b1
lineages, which were frequent in the Greeks but not in Pakistan, were
nevertheless observed in two Pathan individuals, one of whom shared a 16 Y-STR haplotype
with the Greeks. The worldwide distribution of a shortened (9 Y-STR) version
of this haplotype, determined from database information, was concentrated in
Macedonia and Greece, suggesting an origin there. Although based on only a few
unrelated descendants, this provides strong evidence for a European origin for
a small proportion of the Pathan Y chromosomes.European Journal of Human
Genetics advance online publication, 18 October 2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201726.
4. Yad Sarah: Helping Others
http://israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=114007
Photo Essay: Yad Sarah - Giving While Creating Givers
19:09 Oct 22, '06 / 30 Tishrei 5767
by Ezra HaLevi
Yad Sarah, with its grand nerve-center in Jerusalem, has become a model of professional charity that allows those receiving its services to "pay it forward." Arutz-7 takes you behind the scenes.
Yad Sarah is known for its wheel-chairs, used by nearly all Israelis who have found themselves in need - but the organization offers much more. In addition to a huge array of services and medical equipment, Yad Sarah has become a model of offering assistance in a way that spares those on the receiving end from feeling as though they are asking for charity and empowers them to become a part of the volunteer-powered organization in the future.
What started out as a neighborhood service founded by current Jerusalem Mayor Uri Lupolianski in 1976, now has over one hundred branches across Israel and more than 6,000 volunteers.
5. 81% of U.S. Jews believe Arabs want to destroy Israel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777950.html
Poll: 81% of U.S. Jews believe Arabs want to destroy Israel
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent
WASHINGTON - Eighty-one percent of American Jews believe that the real goal of the Arabs is the destruction of Israel and not the return of occupied land, according to the annual survey of the American Jewish Committee (AJC) on various issues.
While 54 percent said they supported the establishment of a Palestinian state, only 38 percent said Israel and the Arabs could solve the conflict peacefully. Another 56 percent said they believed the conflict could not be resolved.
6. Canadian PM defends backing Israel in war with Hezbollah
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777590.html
By Aluf Benn, Haaretz Correspondent
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper declared his support for Israel in an address to B'nai Brith Canada last Wednesday, saying "When it comes to dealing with a war between Israel and a terrorist organization, this country and this government cannot and will never be neutral."
Harper was justifying his government's support for Israel during the recent Lebanon War and in its aftermath.
"Our approach to the Middle East, as elsewhere, has been guided by our values," he said.
7. Hezbolla Using Israeli-Made Rockets??
The Israeli daily Newspaper "HaModia"
today carried news of a Russian counter to an Israeli
request to prevent Russian arms from reaching the
Hezbollah.
The Russian Minister said that more Hezbollah rockets are Israeli made than Russian!!
The report claimed that Ehud Olmert had spoken of the incident
in a Cabinet meeting.
The claim (if true) has so far been neither denied nor explained.
The report may yet turn out to be mistaken (news reports sometimes
are) but keep your eyes open. Could it be that Israel was selling rockets to some third-world country but in transit they were being diverted to Lebanon? Was it the Chinese? Somebody else? Another explanation? A false report?
Jerusalem News-518
Date: 2 Heshvan 5767, 24 October 2006
Contents:
1. Arutz Sheva News Monday,
(8. A7RADIO: SAVE THE CHILDREN OF JERUSALEM - STOP THE GAY PARADE
2. Poll: Americans Split on Pro-Israeli Influence on American Acts in Iraq, The Media Line,
3. Steven Collins: An Intersecting Russian Viewpoint
4. Report: IAF wiped out 59 Iranian missile launchers in 34 minutes
5. Jewish refugees from Arab states campaign for recognition
1. Arutz Sheva News Monday,
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
October 23, 2006, 1 Cheshvan 5767
(8. A7RADIO: SAVE THE CHILDREN OF JERUSALEM - STOP THE GAY PARADE
A7 Radio's "Weekend Edition" with Tamar Yonah and Malkah Fleisher
How to use
XML?
What's so bad about a gay pride parade? Tamar, Malkah, and Mina
Fenton of the Jerusalem Municipality give real reasons for stopping
the march in our holy city.
Also on Tamar and Malkah:
I'll Be Sending the Dove - Shlock Rock Rocks a New Album!
The Israeli Government is planning more expulsions -find out the
shocking details, and what you can do to stop the madness.
Plus: Lenny Solomon gets us ReJewVenated!
2. Poll: Americans Split on Pro-Israeli Influence on American Acts in Iraq, The Media Line,
http://www.israelunitycoalition.org/news/article.php?id=413
3. Steven Collins: An Intersecting Russian Viewpoint
From: Steve Collins <scollins@ll.net>
Subject: A Look at Modern Communist Theory and Strategy in Russia
Shalom Yair,
This interview with a Russian imperialist is lengthy and rambling, but there are nuggets of very interesting facts and plans in it. His hatred of the USA, UK and Israelis is palpable, and he claims we will all be invaded after 2010(?) with new Russian superweapons. He is an evolutionist who has no realization that our Creator will defend us at the end of this age.
I thought of Ezek. 38-39 when I read this prophecy.
Steve
http://www.globalpolitician.com/articles.asp?ID=717&print=true
4. Report: IAF wiped out 59 Iranian missile launchers in 34 minutes
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/778485.html
5. Jewish refugees from Arab states campaign for recognition
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/777955.html
Extracts:
<<Jewish groups have estimated that since 1948 at least 900,000 Jews have been forced to leave their homes in Arab countries such as Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.
<<At least 600,000 went to Israel. The rest sought sanctuary in France, Britain, the United States and other countries.
<<Linda Abdel Aziz, who fled to Israel in 1971, is one of many thousands of Jews born in Iraq who left or were expelled as conditions deteriorated due to discriminatory legislation, pogroms and public executions.
<<Abdel Aziz has recorded her testimony in the campaign. Her father, Jacob, who stayed behind in Iraq, disappeared in 1972, and family members believe he was executed by the ruling Baath party regime for being a Jew.
<<"We did not interfere in politics but we were persecuted. We are all haunted," said Abdel Aziz, 56.
Jerusalem News-519
Date: 4 Heshvan 5767, 26 October 2006
1. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM
2. Christians, Jews must unite in face of radical Islam'
3. Washington Post: North African Arab Participation for Good and Bad in the Holocaust
4. Caroline Glick: Prime-time blood libels
5. BBC Prejudiced?
1. WINSTON CHURCHILL ON ISLAM
From: surfer11 <surfer11@iprimus.com.au>
WINSTON CHURCHILL:
"How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its
votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a
man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy.
The effects are apparent in many countries. Improvident habits,
slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and
insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet
rule or live.
A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement;
the next of its dignity and sanctity. The fact that in Mohammedan law
every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property, either
as a child, a wife, or a concubine, must delay the final extinction
of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power
among men.
Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities, but the influence of
the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it.
No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being
moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has
already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors
at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the
strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly
struggled, the civilization of modern Europe might fall, as fell the
civilization of ancient Rome."
Sir Winston Churchill (The River War, first edition, Vol. II, pages
248-50 (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1899).
2.Christians, Jews must unite in face of radical Islam'
http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1298
3.Washington Post: North African Arab Participation for Good and Bad in the Holocaust
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/06/AR2006100601417.html
[Extracts]
The Holocaust's Arab Heroes
By Robert Satloff
Sunday, October 8, 2006; B01
[Limited Extracts Only]
Virtually alone among peoples of the world, Arabs appear to have won a free pass when it comes to denying or minimizing the Holocaust. Hezbollah leader Hasan Nasrallah has declared to his supporters that "Jews invented the legend of the Holocaust." ... And Hamas's official Web site labels the Nazi effort to exterminate Jews "an alleged and invented story with no basis."
Such Arab viewpoints are not exceptional. A respected Holocaust research institution recently reported that Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia all promote Holocaust denial and protect Holocaust deniers...
The Holocaust was an Arab story, too. From the beginning of World War II, Nazi plans to persecute and eventually exterminate Jews extended throughout the area that Germany and its allies hoped to conquer. That included a great Arab expanse, from Casablanca to Tripoli and on to Cairo, home to more than half a million Jews.
Though Germany and its allies controlled this region only briefly, they made substantial headway toward their goal. From June 1940 to May 1943, the Nazis, their Vichy French collaborators and their Italian fascist allies applied in Arab lands many of the precursors to the Final Solution. These included not only laws depriving Jews of property, education, livelihood, residence and free movement, but also torture, slave labor, deportation and execution.
About 1 percent of Jews in North Africa (4,000 to 5,000) perished under Axis control in Arab lands, compared with more than half of European Jews. These Jews were lucky to be on the southern shores of the Mediterranean, where the fighting ended relatively early and where boats -- not just cattle cars -- would have been needed to take them to the ovens in Europe. But if U.S. and British troops had not pushed Axis forces from the African continent by May 1943, the Jews of Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and perhaps even Egypt and Palestine almost certainly would have met the same fate as those in Europe.
The Arabs in these lands were not too different from Europeans: With war waging around them, most stood by and did nothing; many participated fully and willingly in the persecution of Jews; and a brave few even helped save Jews.
Arab collaborators were everywhere. These included Arab officials conniving against Jews at royal courts, Arab overseers of Jewish work gangs, sadistic Arab guards at Jewish labor camps and Arab interpreters who went house to house with SS officers pointing out where Jews lived. Without the help of local Arabs, the persecution of Jews would have been virtually impossible.
Were Arabs, then under the domination of European colonialists, merely following orders? An interviewer once posed that question to Harry Alexander, a Jew from Leipzig, Germany, who survived a notoriously harsh French labor camp at Djelfa, in the Algerian desert. "No, no, no!" he exploded in reply. "Nobody told them to beat us all the time. Nobody told them to chain us together. Nobody told them to tie us naked to a post and beat us and to hang us by our arms and hose us down, to bury us in the sand so our heads should look up and bash our brains in and urinate on our heads. . . . No, they took this into their own hands and they enjoyed what they did."
But not all Arabs joined with the European-spawned campaign against the Jews. The few who risked their lives to save Jews provide inspiration beyond their numbers.
Arabs welcomed Jews into their homes, guarded Jews' valuables so Germans could not confiscate them, shared with Jews their meager rations and warned Jewish leaders of coming SS raids. The sultan of Morocco and the bey of Tunis provided moral support and, at times, practical help to Jewish subjects. In Vichy-controlled Algiers, mosque preachers gave Friday sermons forbidding believers from serving as conservators of confiscated Jewish property. In the words of Yaacov Zrivy, from a small town near Sfax, Tunisia, "The Arabs watched over the Jews."
I found remarkable stories of rescue, too. In the rolling hills west of Tunis, 60 Jewish internees escaped from an Axis labor camp and banged on the farm door of a man named Si Ali Sakkat, who courageously hid them until liberation by the Allies. In the Tunisian coastal town of Mahdia, a dashing local notable named Khaled Abdelwahhab scooped up several families in the middle of the night and whisked them to his countryside estate to protect one of the women from the predations of a German officer bent on rape.
And there is strong evidence that the most influential Arab in Europe -- Si Kaddour Benghabrit, the rector of the Great Mosque of Paris -- saved as many as 100 Jews by having the mosque's administrative personnel give them certificates of Muslim identity, with which they could evade arrest and deportation. These men, and others, were true heroes.
According to the Koran: "Whoever saves one life, saves the entire world." This passage echoes the Talmud's injunction, "If you save one life, it is as if you have saved the world."
rsatloff@washingtoninstitute.org
4. Caroline Glick: Prime-time blood libels
From: Women in Green <wfit2@womeningreen.org>
Our World: Prime-time blood libels
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST
October 24, 2006
Last Thursday a French court found Philippe Karsenty guilty of libeling France 2 television network and its Jerusalem bureau chief Charles Enderlin. Karsenty, who runs a media watchdog Web site called Media Matters, called for Enderlin and his boss Arlette Chabot to be sacked for their September 30, 2000 televised report alleging that IDF forces had killed 12-year-old Muhammad al-Dura at Netzarim junction in Gaza that day.
Their lawsuit against Karsenty was the first of three lawsuits that Enderlin and France 2 filed against French Jews who accused them in various ways of manufacturing a blood libel against Israel by purposely distorting the events at Netzarim junction that day. The second trial, against Pierre Lur at, is set to begin this week. Lur at organized a mass demonstration against France 2 on October 2, 2002 after the broadcast of a German television documentary film by Esther Schapira called Three Bullets and a Dead Child: Who Shot Muhammad al-Dura? Schapira's film concludes that IDF bullets could not have killed Dura.
September 30, 2000 was the third day of the Palestinian jihad. That day an IDF position at Netzarim junction was attacked by Palestinian Authority security forces. A prolonged exchange of fire ensued. That afternoon, France 2's Palestinian cameraman Talal Abu Rahma submitted footage of a man and a boy at the junction cowering behind a barrel. The two were later identified as Jamal al-Dura and his 12-year-old son Muhammad. Enderlin, who had not been present at the scene, took Rahma's 27 minutes of raw footage and narrated a 50-second film in which he accused the IDF of having shot and killed the boy. Enderlin's film itself does not show the boy dying. There are no blood stains where the boy and his father were crouched. No ambulance came to evacuate them. No autopsy was performed on Muhammad's body.
FRANCE 2 distributed its film free of charge to anyone who wanted it - although not the full 27 minutes that Rahma filmed. The film was shown repeatedly worldwide and particularly on Arab television networks. The results of the footage were murderous. On October 12, two IDF reservists, Yosef Avrahami and Vadim Novesche, were lynched by a mob at a PA police station in Ramallah. The mob invoked Dura's death as a justification for its barbarism. The Orr Commission which investigated the violent rioting by Israeli Arabs in October 2000 stated in its final report that "Muhammad al-Dura's picture, which was distributed by the media, was one of the causes that led people in the Arab sector to take to the streets on October 1, 2000."
Countless suicide bombers and other Palestinian terrorists have cited Dura as a justification of their crimes. For the past six years PA television has continuously aired a film showing Dura in heaven beckoning other Palestinian children to "martyr" themselves by becoming terrorists and join him there.
The Palestinians are not the only ones who have used Dura as a terrorist recruitment tool. He is prominently featured in al-Qaida recruitment videos and on Hizbullah banners. Daniel Pearl's murderers interspersed their video of his beheading with the France 2 film. Throughout Europe, and particularly in France, Muslims have used Dura as a rallying cry in their attacks against Jews - attacks which broke out shortly after the Dura film was broadcast.
AT FIRST, Israel accepted responsibility for Dura's death without conducting an investigation. Yet, in the weeks that followed the event, engineers Nahum Shachaf and Yosef Doriel conducted investigations on behalf of the IDF's Southern Command.
Both men separately proved mathematically and physically that the IDF forces on the ground could not see the Duras from their position and that it was physically impossible for their bullets to have killed Muhammad. Then OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen.Yom Tov Samia held a news conference in late November based on their findings at which he said that the probability that the IDF had killed Dura was low.
Yet Samia was the only senior Israeli official to question the veracity of the film. Then chief of General Staff Shaul Mofaz disavowed Samia's investigation. Prime minister Ehud Barak never questioned the veracity of Enderlin's murderous accusation against the IDF.
In the intervening years, private researchers and media organizations have taken it upon themselves to investigate what happened that day. Their findings have shown that at a minimum, the probability that the IDF killed Dura is minuscule and more likely, the event was either staged or edited to engender the conclusion that Dura had been killed by Israel. The few people who have been allowed to watch Rahma's entire film have stated that it is impossible to conclude that Muhammad was killed because he raises his head and props himself up on his elbow after he was supposedly shot.
Respected media organizations like The Wall Street Journal, CBS News, Atlantic Monthly and Commentary magazine have published detailed investigations that all conclude that the footage was either staged or simply edited to show something that didn't happen.
Yet, even as private individuals were dedicating their time and passion to proving that France 2 had purposely broadcast a blood libel against Israel that caused the death and injury of Israelis and Jews throughout the world and marred the honor of the IDF, official Israel remained silent.
The Foreign Ministry never asked France 2 to show its officials the full 27-minute film. Neither the IDF nor the Foreign or Justice Ministries defended the IDF or called into question the veracity of Enderlin's film. As late as this past June 23, IDF spokeswoman Brig.-Gen. Miri Regev told Haaretz, "I cannot determine whether the IDF is or is not responsible for the killing of al-Dura."
IN THE French judicial system, the people's interest is represented by a special court reporter who recommends verdicts to the judges. It is rare for judges to disregard the reporter's recommendations. During his trial, Karsenty and his witnesses produced piece after piece of evidence that called into question the credibility of the France 2 film.
For its part, France 2 sent no representatives to the trial. Its attorney did not question any of the evidence submitted by Karsenty nor did she cross-examine any of his witnesses. She brought no witnesses of her own. She simply produced a letter of support for France 2 from President Jacques Chirac. The court reporter recommended dismissing the case.
In their judgment last week, the judges argued that Karsenty's allegations against Enderlin and France 2 could not be credible since "no Israeli authority, neither the army which is nonetheless most affected, nor the Justice [Ministry] have ever accorded the slightest credit to these allegations" regarding the mendacity of the Dura film.
Over the years Israeli officials have justified their silence by saying that it was a losing proposition to reopen the Dura case. We'll be accused of blaming the victim, they said.
This statement is both cowardly and irresponsible. As the French verdict shows, without an Israeli protest, the protests of private individuals, however substantial, ring hollow. When Israel refuses to defend itself from blood libels, it gives silent license to attacks against Israel and world Jewry in the name of those libels.
In 2000, Barak was desperately trying to close a peace deal with Yasser Arafat. The last thing he wanted was to admit that Arafat was promulgating blood libels against Israel. So he was silent. This is unforgivable, but understandable.
Israel's continued silence is a sign that Israeli officialdom has still not understood what the war of images demands of it. The Dura film, like the fictional massacre of Lebanese children at Kafr Kana in Lebanon this summer, shows that victory or defeat in wars is today largely determined on television. To win, Israel must go on the offensive and attack untruthful, distorted images that are used to justify the killing of Israelis and Jews throughout the world.
When Karsenty heard the court's verdict last week, he said, "If this judgment is upheld, Jews should ask themselves questions about their future in France. Justice covers the anti-Semitic lies of a public channel. It's a strong signal, it is very severe."
To this it should be added that if the Israeli government continues to be silent as the good name of the IDF, of Israel and of the Jewish people is dragged through the mud by distorted television images broadcast by foreign news outlets; if the Israeli government does nothing to defend those who are persecuted for fighting against these distortions, then Jews will have to ask themselves some questions about how on earth we are supposed to defend ourselves, let alone win this war against those who seek our destruction.
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Women For Israel's Tomorrow (Women in Green)
POB 7352, Jerusalem 91072, Israel
Tel: 972-2-624-9887 Fax: 972-2-624-5380
mailto:michael@womeningreen.org
http://www.womeningreen.org
5. BBC Prejudiced?
From: imra@netvision.net.il
We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News
By SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday
Last updated at 21:11pm on 21st October 2006
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411846&in_page_id=1770
It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted
what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by
trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in
favour of multiculturalism.
A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael
Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on
key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.
It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a
TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an
interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it
discloses that the BBC's 'diversity tsar', wants Muslim women newsreaders to
be allowed to wear veils when on air.
At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran
broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated
by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes
multiculturalism, is anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to
the feelings of Muslims than Christians.
Jerusalem News-520
Date: 5 Heshvan 5767, 27 October 2006
Contents:
1. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
(4. ARAB INTEREST IN EMIGRATION SOARS
2. Decorated (neolithic) skulls in Syria
3. Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look
New Maps to be drawn???
Maps: Before and After?
1. Arutz Sheva News Thursday
http://www.IsraelNationalNews.com
October 26, 2006, 4 Cheshvan 5767
(4. ARAB INTEREST IN EMIGRATION SOARS
By Gil Zohar
The percentage of Arabs in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha) willing to
relocate abroad jumped to 32%, according to a Birzeit University
survey last month.
For many years, that figure hovered just below 20 percent, according
to an October 24th report by the Christian Science Monitor's Middle
East correspondent Joshua Mitnick.
Birzeit University pollster Nader Said, who has monitored emigration
attitudes for 12 years, attributed the rise to dissatisfaction over
the Hamas-led government. Because of the international aid boycott of
the Palestinian Authority, some 165,000 civil servants have not been
paid a regular salary since January when Hamas was elected. Those
government employees and their families - one-third of the PA's
population - have fallen into severe poverty. Compounding that
hardship, the society has been disrupted by widespread strikes and
armed clashes between Hamas and Fatah gunmen which threaten to explode
into a full-blown civil war.
Even more telling, Said added, is that the percentage surges to 44
percent among Arabs in their 20s and 30s. Among younger men, it
surges beyond 50 percent. Said called this the "most shocking result"
of the survey.
Among the Arab residents of Yesha, the mere mention of hijra - Arabic
for emigration - is enough to stir up painful memories of the 1948
Arab-Israeli war that left hundreds of thousands of Arabs stranded
outside the newly independent Israeli state.
"Emigration means that you are escaping the occupation and that you
don't want to liberate your land. It's a shame on you," says Abdel
Nasser Najjar, a columnist for the Arab daily Al Ayyam. "Now it's
different. There are many pressures: economic pressure and
psychological pressure. Many people are speaking out."
While the interest in emigration is widespread, most Yesha Arabs do
not qualify for permission to immigrate to Western countries because
of limited professional experience or education.
The majority of Arabs, 62.3%, oppose the idea that Hamas must
recognize Israel at this point of time, the poll shows. Yet, 67%
support an immediate resumption of negotiations with Israel.
2. Decorated (neolithic) skulls in Syria
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2006/09/decorated-skulls-in-syria.html
3. Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look
New Maps to be drawn???
By Ralph Peters
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2006/09/redrawn-middle-east-maps.html
Jerusalem News-521
Date: 7 Heshvan 5767, 29 October 2006
Contents:
1. "Celts" in Xinjiang
2. Infant Twins Have Different Skin Color
3. Composite European Physical Types
4. Climate change 'hitting Africa'
5. DNA
Jews from Middle East
1. "Celts" in Xinjiang
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2006/08/celts-in-xinjiang.html
2. Infant Twins Have Different Skin Color
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/infant-twins-have-different-skin-color/20061027133609990004?ncid=NWS00010000000001
<<In an interview with Britain's Sky News program, mother Kerry Richardson said that the boys were both born white but as they've gotten older one of the boys got darker and the other lighter.
<<Today, she says, the twins attract attention wherever they go.
<<Richardson is of mixed race, with Nigerian and English heritage, while the father is white.
<<A genetics expert at Oxford University says such births are rare, as the genes that cause skin color normally mix together. In this case, he says, it appears the genes for skin color didn't combine for some reason and the boys may have inherited different genetic codes from their mother.
3. Composite European Physical Types
The geography of European phenotypical variation
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2006/03/geography-of-european-phenotypical.html
4. Climate change 'hitting Africa'
Droughts are becoming more frequent, the report says
Climate change is already affecting people across Africa and will wipe out efforts to tackle poverty there unless urgent action is taken, a report says.
Droughts are getting worse and climate uncertainty is growing, the research from a coalition of UK aid agencies and environmental groups says.
Climate change is an "unprecedented" threat to food security, it says.
5. DNA
Jews from Middle East
Jewish and Middle Eastern non-Jewish populations share a common pool of Y-chromosome biallelic haplotypes
http://vetinarilord.blogspot.com/2006/08/jewish-and-middle-eastern-non-jewish.html
The results support the hypothesis that the paternal gene pools of Jewish communities from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East descended from a common Middle Eastern ancestral population, and suggest that most Jewish communities have remained relatively isolated from neighboring non-Jewish communities during and after the Diaspora.
Jerusalem News-522
Date: 8 Heshvan 5767, 30 October 2006
Contents:
1. "Ethnic cleansing works"
2. The Brit-Am Version of
explorator 9.27
3. Israel's Heritage vrs. Palestinians
1. "Ethnic cleansing works"
Blood borders
How a better Middle East would look
http://www.armedforcesjournal.com/2006/06/1833899
By Ralph Peters
Extracts:
<<The boundaries projected in the maps accompanying this article redress the wrongs suffered by the most significant "cheated" population groups, such as the Kurds, Baluch and Arab Shia, but still fail to account adequately for Middle Eastern Christians, Bahais, Ismailis, Naqshbandis and many another numerically lesser minorities. And one haunting wrong can never be redressed with a reward of territory: the genocide perpetrated against the Armenians by the dying Ottoman Empire.
<<Yet, for all the injustices the borders re-imagined here leave unaddressed, without such major boundary revisions, we shall never see a more peaceful Middle East.
<<As for those who refuse to "think the unthinkable," declaring that boundaries must not change and that's that, it pays to remember that boundaries have never stopped changing through the centuries. Borders have never been static, and many frontiers, from Congo through Kosovo to the Caucasus, are changing even now (as ambassadors and special representatives avert their eyes to study the shine on their wingtips).
<<Oh, and one other dirty little secret from 5,000 years of history: Ethnic cleansing works.
<<The most glaring injustice in the notoriously unjust lands between the Balkan Mountains and the Himalayas is the absence of an independent Kurdish state. There are between 27 million and 36 million Kurds living in contiguous regions in the Middle East (the figures are imprecise because no state has ever allowed an honest census). Greater than the population of present-day Iraq, even the lower figure makes the Kurds the world's largest ethnic group without a state of its own. Worse, Kurds have been oppressed by every government controlling the hills and mountains where they've lived since Xenophon's day.
<<A just alignment in the region would leave Iraq's three Sunni-majority provinces as a truncated state that might eventually choose to unify with a Syria that loses its littoral to a Mediterranean-oriented Greater Lebanon: Phoenecia reborn.
<<Iran, a state with madcap boundaries, would lose a great deal of territory to Unified Azerbaijan, Free Kurdistan, the Arab Shia State and Free Baluchistan, but would gain the provinces around Herat in today's Afghanistan a region with a historical and linguistic affinity for Persia.
<<What Afghanistan would lose to Persia in the west, it would gain in the east, as Pakistan's Northwest Frontier tribes would be reunited with their Afghan brethren (the point of this exercise is not to draw maps as we would like them but as local populations would prefer them). Pakistan, another unnatural state, would also lose its Baluch territory to Free Baluchistan. The remaining "natural" Pakistan would lie entirely east of the Indus, except for a westward spur near Karachi.
2. The Brit-Am Version of
explorator 9.27
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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An undisturbed Syrian tomb dating to the third millennium
B.C./B.C.E. (coverage of this is quite varied):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025082150.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y7tpek (Telegraph ... interesting photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y49uh3 (Sun ... I think this is the same site)
http://tinyurl.com/y8pnu9 (NG)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/524603/?sc=rssn
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/science/24tomb.html (great photos)
Recent arrests of tomb raiders in Egypt have led to the discovery
of the tombs of some ancient Egyptian dentists:
http://tinyurl.com/y5swff (NG)
http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=67702
http://tiny