Contents: Jerusalem News nos 661-690

 magen_david_1948@yahoo.com   magen_david_1948
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By Aaron Klein
Extracts:
RAMALLAH ? United States-run programs that train militias
from Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah
organization have been utilized to kill Jews and were
instrumental in the "success" of the Palestinian intifada that
began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant trained by the U.S. told
WND.

"I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance
would have been so successful and would have killed more than
1,000 Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza
without these [American] trainings," said Abu Yousuf, a senior
officer of Abbas' Force 17 Presidential Guard unit in Ramallah.

The U.S. has long run training programs at a base in the West
Bank city of Jericho for members of Force 17, which serves as de
facto police units in the West Bank, and for the Palestinian
Preventative Security Services, another major Fatah security
force.

The training program, which includes courses in the use of
weapons, is paid for by $86.5 million in U.S. tax dollars granted
to the PA by Congress in April.

Many members of Force 17 and the Preventative Security Services
also openly serve in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, Fatah's
declared "military wing," which took credit along with the
Islamic Jihad terror group for every suicide bombing in Israel in
2005 and 2006. Statistically, the Brigades is responsible for
more terrorism from the West Bank than any other Palestinian
organization.

Yousuf received U.S. training in Jericho in 1999 as a member of
the Preventative Security Services. He is a chief of the Al Aqsa
Martyrs Brigades in Ramallah, where he is accused of
participating in anti-Israel terrorism, including recent
shootings, attacks against Israeli forces operating in the city
and a shooting attack in northern Samaria in December 2000 that
killed Benyamin Kahane, leader of the ultranationalist Kahane
Chai organization.

After the Kahane murder, Yousuf was extended refuge by Yasser
Arafat to live in the late PLO leader's Ramallah compound, widely
known as the Muqata. Yousuf still lives in the compound.

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert last month granted Yousuf amnesty
along with 178 other Brigades leaders reportedly as a gesture to
Abbas.

Speaking during a sit-down exclusive interview for the upcoming
book "Schmoozing with Terrorists,"
<http://www.wnd.com/redir/r.asp?http://www.amazon.com/Schmoozing-\
Terrorists-Interviews-Terrorist-Bombers/dp/0979045126/ref=pd_bbs_\
sr_1/102-1550720-4245719?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1187707793&sr=8-1>
Yousuf said his American training sessions were instrumental in
killing Jews:

"All the methods and techniques that we studied in these
trainings, we applied them against the Israelis," he said.

"We sniped at Israeli settlers and soldiers. We broke into
settlements and Israeli army bases and posts. We collected
information on the movements of soldiers and settlers. We
collected information about the best timing to infiltrate our
bombers inside Israel. We used weapons and we produced
explosives, and of course the trainings we received from the
Americans and the Europeans were a great help to the resistance."

Yousuf describing his U.S.-provided training:

"I myself received American trainings in Jericho. Together with
my Preventative comrades, I received trainings in intelligence
methods and military trainings. In the intelligence part, we
learned collection of information regarding suspected persons,
how to follow suspected guys, how to infiltrate organizations and
penetrate cells of groups that we were working on and how to
prevent attacks and to steal in places.

"On the military level, we received trainings on the use of
weapons, all kind of weapons and explosives. We received sniping
trainings, work of special units especially as part of what they
call the fight against terror. We learned how to put siege, how
to break into places where our enemies closed themselves in, how
to oppress protest movements, demonstrations and other activities
of opposition.

"We also learned to discover agents that Israel tried to plant in
our cells," he said.

Yousuf stressed he "isn't talking about U.S. training in order to
irritate the Americans or the Israelis and not in order to create
provocations. I'm just telling you the truth. We applied against
Israel all that we learned from the Americans."

4. Guysen Israel News -
Thursday 2007-08-22 , 8 Elul 5767
 PM Ehud Olmert has praised the positive figures for economic growth. The Israeli economy is in constant growth, with the GNP standing at 6.6%.
23:17  President Bush said on Wednesday that the early withdrawal of American troops from Iraq would lead to chaos in the country. According to him the situation would resemble Vietnam after the departure of the Americans.  (Guysen.International.News)
12:50  According to the Palestinian press agency Maan, the Israeli navy assisted by combat helicopters has destroyed 7 Palestinian boats off the coast of Rafah, in the south of the Gaza Strip, and proceeded to a vast swoop. Several Palestinians have already been arrested. (Guysen.International.News)
11:27  Twelve million Nazi archive documents have been transferred to Yad Vashem. These archives were held until now by the Red Cross in Bad Arolsen, in Germany. They will allow new information on the millions of Jews exterminated during the Shoah. This is the first delivery and another one is expected soon in Israel. (Guysen.International.News)
10:11  If a war were to break out between Israel and Syria, the IDF would conquer Damascus in a few hours, according to a new report by the CSIS, the American Center for Strategic and International Research. The supremacy of the Israeli airforce over that of the Arabs should suffice to neutralize in a few hours the Syrian airforce and DCA systems. This report also considers that it is unlikely that an armed conflict will break out between the two countries. (Guysen.International.News)
08:27  Kirk Douglas: ''Never without my Torah''. The American actor, producer and director Kirk Douglas, or Issur Danielovitch Demsky, his real name, will no longer travel without his Torah scrolls since his helicopter accident in 1991, when he was the sole survivor. He has since then taken to learning Torah, feeling that his life was spared for this purpose: to rediscover his Judaism.  (Guysen.International.News)

5. The Occult Origins of Conspiracy Theories
Extract from
"WINSTON CHURCHILL,
THE JEWS AND ZIONISM"
 in "Brit-Am TRUTH" issue no.10

The First World War ended in 1918, the Russian Revolution had taken place in 1917. Russian Counter ("White")-Revolutionaries, under General Denikin..The native Russian and Ukrainian Forces of Denikin viciously attacked Jewish communities. In the Ukraine, between 1918-1920 more than 60,000 Jews were massacred with many more raped and injured. Churchill, though an anti-Communist and supporter of Denikin, attempted to prevent these pogroms but with limited successes. Anti-Jewish propaganda relied heavily on distribution of "The Protocols of Zion".  Incidentally, Henry Ford in the USA subsidized distribution of "The Protocols" in America and overseas and had long excerpts from them published in his own newspaper, "The Dearborn Independent".
 
(a) The Protocols
"The Protocols of Zion" purported to describe a plot by the Jews and Freemasons to undermine the traditional foundations of society, crate anarchy and licentiousness, and then take over the World. The Protocols originally were taken from works of fiction and political satire in France and Germany that described secret organizations plotting to corrupt society. Later they were republished, Jews included amongst the villains, and presented as fact. When the Protocols were first published in their "World Jewish-Plot" permutation it was a period of upheavals and revolutions that appeared to fit the "master plan" outlined by them. "The Times" newspaper in England at first tended to consider the Protocols as genuine but later published articles by Philip Graves that exposed them as a forgery. Philip Graves used information provided by Lucien Wolf in 1921. Modern Conspiracy Theory to some degree is a development of "The Protocols". The Jesuits along with the Secret Services of Prussia and Russia helped spread the Protocols and/or similar literature in an attempt to counter reform movements in Europe.
 
[Belief in the Protocols has been recently revived by Arabs and Conspiracy Freaks including Jewish ones such as Barry Chamish and Marvin Antelman. Even otherwise God-fearing, intelligent, well-informed, nationalist, patriotic supporters of Zionism have been taken in by such scallywags. The justification used by these scoundrels is that there are "bad" Jews and "good" Jews with the "bad" ones being responsible for the "Conspiracy" plots!]
 
(b) Nesta Webster 
In Britain, Nesta Helen Webster (1876-1960) in 1920 wrote "The Jewish Peril" based on "The Protocols". ...It should be noted that Nesta Webster was involved in the occult. There was a school of devil worshippers and Hindu aficionados popular in intellectual circles. It was headed by Aleister Crowley (1874-1947) but included Irish Nationalists and leading anti-Semites amonst the British Upper Classes. Members of this circle became early supporters of the Nazis in Germany. Quite a few leading anti-Semites all over Europe were involved with occultic (witchcraft) practices. They were the ones who propagated The Protocols and Conspiracy Theory.  They themselves could do with some examining.
 

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[Satire?] Beware the Irish Conspiracy?

Posted by: "Shield of David List Moderator" magen_david_1948@yahoo.com   magen_david_1948
Fri Sep 7, 2007 10:51 am (PST)

Very good satire. :-)

http://www.americanthinker.com/2007/09/beware_the_irish_conspiracy.html

September 07, 2007 Beware the Irish Conspiracy? By James Lewis
<http://www.americanthinker.com/james_lewis/>
As every conspiracy theorist knows with certainty, hidden hands manipulate the innocents of the world. Jews have a commanding lead over all other groups as the target of suspicion in the vast literature of conspiracists. But this tradition, reinforced by the new book
<http://www.amazon.com/Israel-Lobby-U-S-Foreign-Policy/dp/0374177\
724/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-0518856-6731247?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=11891\
17690&sr=8-1> The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy by Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer, should not blind us to other dangers, more deeply hidden and cleverly disguised.

In fact, the biggest hidden influence in American politics is no doubt the Irish Conspiracy. Largely staying in the background of American life, the Irish have penetrated all our institutions, even the Presidency itself. No less than twelve American presidents are believed to have had Irish ancestry <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_American#Irish_in_politics_an\ d_government> . (See Kennedy, Reagan). Irish politicians have been rife at all levels of American government (Tip O'Neill, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Ed Rendell).

In many cities entire police and fire departments are stacked with the Irish. The iron fist of paramilitary dominance is exercised every year for all the world to see, as Fifth Avenue in New York City has its center line painted green and the Chicago River flows into Lake Michigan dyed green on St. Patrick's Day, a demonstration of raw power that chills to the bone knowledgeable initiates into the secrets of this cabal. None will ever reveal to the rest of us the dark truths they hide.

They have infiltrated major American religious institutions, like the Catholic Church. The upper ranks of the Church in America are of predominantly Irish descent, and many of the priests accused of sexually abusing altar boys likewise have been of Irish extraction.
Need I say more?

Dual loyalties Are the Irish loyal to this country? The question is intriguing, but the answer is not clear. Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., a known Nazi sympathizer prior to World War II, made his money as an organized crime chief, smuggling illegal substances that brought more families to ruin than crack cocaine or heroin. An IRA supporter, Kennedy, Sr. and his Irish friend Mayor Richard Daley of Chicago are widely believed to have stolen the presidential election of 1960 for Kennedy's son Jack.
American IRA sympathizers have long been a mainstay of terrorist support, paying for decades of bombings and shootings against our closest European ally, Britain -- including attempts to assassinate Prime Ministers Margaret Thatcher and John Major.
During World War Two, the IRA secretly plotted with Nazi Germany, and even today, the Irish Republican Army receives funds from hidden sympathizers in Boston and elsewhere.
Do the Irish have dual loyalties? According to Wikipedia
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emergency> (which sometimes is
accurate), during World War II:
"The IRA fostered links with German intelligence (the Abwehr) and Foreign Ministry, with men such as Francis Stuart travelling to Germany to talk, though these attempts were largely ineffectual due to a combination of Abwehr and Foreign Ministry incompetence and IRA weakness. Germans also came to Ireland, the most notable of whom was Hermann G rtz, who was captured in possession of "Plan Kathleen"- an IRA plan that detailed a Nazi supported invasion of Northern Ireland." The Irish Diaspora Do the Irish ever give up their distinctive identity? The Constitution of Ireland reads, "the Irish nation cherishes its special affinity with people of Irish ancestry living abroad who share its cultural identity and heritage." There are more than 80 million people of Irish descent in the world, only six million of them living in Ireland.
Legally, Irish citizens can maintain their native citizenship for three generations after departing the Auld Sod. Therefore thousands of Irish immigrants, legal and illegal, can blend into the American population and still consider themselves Irish citizens. 26,000 people in America speak Gaelic, making covert coded communcations <http://www.irishgaelictranslator.com/>
possible.

Fifth column anyone?
Take the case of Che Guevara, who was half-Irish. Che was a
ruthless killer who dedicated his adult lifetime to stirring up
anti-American hatreds in Latin America. His influence is still
felt. Wouldn't it be more honest if his name was Che O'Houllihan?

Media control:

The smiling face of the Irish menace
What do the following media figures have in common?

* Maureen O'Hara
* Princess Grace of Monaco
* Eugene O'Neill
* Peter O'Toole
* Anthony Quinn
* Michael Flatley, creator of Riverdance
* Paul McCartney, John Lennon and George Harrison of the
Beatles.
* Bruce Springsteen
* Judy Garland
* Gene Kelly
* Johnny Rotten, Lead singer of the Sex Pistols.
Obviously they are major Irish media figures. The Irish influence in Hollywood and the media is both visible and hidden. The reason why Ireland gets such a good press, why Hollywood celebrates it in sentimental movies, and why Saint Patrick's Day (a Catholic and ethnic holiday) is celebrated with supermarket specials on beer and corned beef, is that the Irish maintain a virtual stranglehold over the media, luring millions of innocent non-Irish into unwitting participation in the rituals of their sinister ceremonies.

Is it a conspiracy or a culture?
Why is the Irish Conspiracy so powerful and well-hidden? We can only speculate. But notice that author Stephen Walt, who is sounding the alarm about the Jewish lobby in America, has his academic position at the Kennedy (!) School of Government.
Clever conspirators always divert attention to sidewhows, lest their true powers become visible. The very lack of active public discussion of the Irish Conspiracy is the most convincing proof of all of the real power exercised by it, and the cunning intelligence of the puppet masters behind it.
Next week: How the British Foreign Office drew America into two world wars.
[Editor's note: in case it isn't obvious, this article is satirical. You can relax about the Irish -- at least until next St. Patrick's Day]

James Lewis blogs at dangeroustimes.wordpress.com/
<http://dangeroustimes.wordpress.com/>

Jerusalem News-674
11 Tishrey 5768, 23 September 2007
Contents:
1. Homos in Germany (and Rest of World) Victimize Little Children!
2. Environmental Crisis:  An Alternative Opinion
3. Israeli Commandos in Action
 'IDF seized nuclear materials in Syria'


1. Homos in Germany (and Rest of World) Victimize Little Children!
From: Eliezer <abrams32@telus.net>

INCESTUOUS PEDOPHELIA PROMOTED
BY GERMAN GOVERNMENT
http://www.newswithviews.com/NWV-News/news4.htm
 
Child molestation and pedophilia, as now encouraged by the German
government, occur far more commonly among homosexuals than among
heterosexuals on a per capita basis, according to a new study.  In her
thesis -- also written for the Regent University Law Review -- Doctor
Judith Reisman cited psychologist Eugene Abel, whose research
found that homosexuals "sexually molest young boys with an
incidence that is occurring from five times greater than the
molestation of girls. ?"
 
This has all happened in Germany before. As recent as the Weimar
Republic (1918-1933) to be exact. Read "Between The Flames..."
A Dance Between Flames: Berlin Between the Wars (Hardcover)
by Anton Gill (Author)
http://www.amazon.com/Dance-Between-Flames-Berlin-Wars/dp/0786700637/ref=sr_1_1/102-4430202-2633753?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1190270590&sr=1-1
 
Plus... The Poisoned Stream
http://www.abidingtruth.com/pfrc/books/poisonedstream/poisonedstream.pdf
The Poisoned Stream is derived from Samuel Igra's 1945 book,
Germany's National Vice. During the Weimar Era (1918-1933)
Germany was popularly known as the most sexually corrupt
nation in the world. Seems they haven't learned a thing from
history. As Voltaire Writes - "History Never Repeats Itself,
Man Always Does."
 
Eliezer

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Zionism's Bleak Present
by Daniel Pipes
Jerusalem Post
October 11, 2007
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/4997

"We are all Keynsians now," Richard Nixon famously asserted just as the economic theories of John Maynard Keynes fell into disrepute. Likewise, one could have said with similar confidence in 1989, as Israel's existence reached wide acceptance, "We are all Zionists now." No longer.

Count the ways Israel is under siege: from Iranians building a nuclear bomb, Syrians stockpiling chemical weapons, Egyptians and Saudis developing serious conventional forces, Hizbullah attacking from Lebanon, Fatah from the West Bank, Hamas from Gaza, and Israel's Muslim citizens becoming politically restive and more violent.

World-wide, professors, editorialists, and foreign ministry bureaucrats challenge the continued existence of a Jewish state. Even friendly governments, notably the Bush administration, pursue diplomatic initiatives that undermine Israeli deterrence even as their arms sales erode its security.

Let's suppose, however, that the country muddles through these many problems. That leaves it face to face with its ultimate challenge: a Jewish population increasingly disenchanted with, even embarrassed by, the country's founding ideology, Zionism, the Jewish national movement.

As developed by Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) and other theoreticians, Zionism's call for a sovereign Jewish state fit the political context and mood of its time. If Chinese, Arabs, and Irish sought to establish a national state, why not Jews?

Indeed, especially Jews, for through nearly two millennia they had paid the greatest price of any people for their political weakness, having been expelled, victimized, persecuted and mass murdered as none other. Zionism offered an escape to this tragic history by standing tall and taking up the sword.

From its inception, Zionism had its share of Jewish opponents, ranging from the Haredim (Ultra-Orthodox) to nostalgic Iraqis to reform rabbis, But, until recently, these were marginal elements. Now, due to high birth rates, the once-tiny Haredi community constitutes 22 percent of Israel's current first-grade class; add to this the roughly equivalent number of Arab first-graders and a sea-change in Israeli politics can be expected about 2025.

Worse for Israel, Jewish nationalism has lost the near-automatic support it once had among secular Jews, many of whom find this nineteenth-century ideology out of date. Some accept arguments that a Jewish state represents racism or ethnic supremacism, others find universalist and multi-cultural alternatives compelling. Consider some signs of the changes underway:
Young Israelis are avoiding the military in record numbers, with 26 percent of enlistment-age Jewish males and 43 percent of females not drafted in 2006. An alarmed Israel Defense Forces has requested legislation to deny state-provided benefits to Jewish Israelis who do not serve.
Israel's Attorney General Menachem Mazuz has up-ended the work of the Jewish National Fund, one of the pioneer Zionist institutions (founded in 1901) by determining that its role of acquiring land specifically for Jews cannot continue in the future with state assistance.
Prominent Israeli historians focus on showing how Israel was conceived in sin and has been a force for evil.
Israel's ministry of education has approved school books for third-grade Arab students that present the creation of Israel in 1948 as a "catastrophe" (Arabic: nakba).
Avraham Burg, scion of a leading Zionist household and himself a prominent Labor Party figure, has published a book comparing Israel with 1930s Germany.
A 2004 poll found only 17 percent of American Jews call themselves "Zionist."

Abraham Burg, a former Labor Party leader, compares Israel with 1930s Germany.
Seen in a larger context, this turn from Zionism echoes trends in other Western countries, where old-style patriotism and national pride have also declined. In Western Europe, citizens tend to see little of special value in their own history, customs, and mores. Last month, for example, the Netherlands' Princess Maxima, wife to the heir to the throne, announced to wide acclaim that "The Dutch identity does not exist." This Western-wide decline of patriotism aggravates Israel's predicament, suggesting that developments there fit into a larger trend, making them the more difficult to resist or reverse.

To top it off, Arabs are moving these days in the opposite direction, reaching a fever pitch of ethnic and religious bellicosity.

As a Zionist myself, I watch these several trends with foreboding about Israel's future.

I console myself by recalling that few of today's problems were evident in 1989. Perhaps in 2025, Zionism's prospects will again brighten, as Westerners generally and Israelis specifically finally awake to the dangers posed by Palestinian irredentists, jihadists, and other extremist Middle Easterners.
Other items in category Israel

B. Reactions from Yair Davidiy
We actually like Daniel Pipes and read his column regularly.
Unfortunately and exceptionally this time he seems to have said the wrong things on a few points.

Pines notes that,
*Israel is in danger as usual.
In our opinion, Israel needs to become more religious, stop abortions, have more children,be more patriotic in its attitudes. Perhaps consider Brit-Am options.

*The US Administration to a degree appears to be working against Israel.
If the USA abandons Israel both nations will suffer.
The answer for the USA is also to turn back to the God of Israel and be aware of its Israelite destiny as explained by Brit-Am.

*Theodor Herzl (1860-1904) and other theoreticians was responsible for Zionism's call for a sovereign Jewish state.
Zionism did receive something of its modern form from Herzl but basically it is an expression of the Tanach (Bible) and of traditional Jewish aspirations.

*The Haredim are Increasing.
Concerning the "Haredi" (ultra-Orthodox) community Daniel Pipes refers to "The end of Zionism" by Nehemia Shtrasler
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=883868&contrassID=2&subContrassID=4
and to
"Retreat from reason" by Isi Leibler
http://www.leibler.com/article/247

The prime lament of Shtrasler is that Haredim do not all serve in the army.
Religious youth however make the best soldiers. About 40% of all new officers and up to 50% of the front-line elites unites are comprised of religious.
The North and South Irish in the British Army sang,

1. Germany's Iranian secret
2. Transfer of a Million Arabs by Iran
3. Mini-Earthquake Sets Off Predictions of a Larger One

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1. Germany's Iranian secret

Extract: Over a million Arabs have been deported from the district of Al-Ahwaz [Khuzestan], home to some eight million Arabs, in Southern-East Iran, near the Iraqi border. They have been replaced with Persian Iranians. Human rights activists in this area have been arrested and placed in detention centres. Detainees have been subject to torture and at times execution. As part of a broader Iranization policy, the teaching of Arabic is forbidden in Ahwaz while it is compulsory for students to learn Farsi.

Jerusalem News-684
10 Cheshvan 5768, 22 October 2007
Contents:
1. The Kurdish Revival
2. Israeli No-Confidence Motion
3. Arutz Sheva News
(5. Report: Israel Had Man on Inside of Syrian Nuclear Facility
(6. Priestly Blessing on Temple Mount

1. The Kurdish Revival
From: imra@netvision.net.il
ARAB NEWS (Saudi) 18 Oct.'07:"Kurds: Stateless on Regional Fault
Line"Christophe de Roquefeuil, Agence France Presse -

PARIS, 18 October 2007: Above and beyond the current tensions between Ankara
and Baghdad, the Kurdish question represents a perennial risk in an
explosive area at the crossroads of Turkey, Iran, Iraq and Syria. "The
mountains are our only friend," goes a Kurdish saying, which encapsulates
perfectly the history of a people on one of the most unstable fault lines in
the world.
With no access to the sea and no state to represent them, the 25 to 35
million Kurds have maintained their language, traditions and clan-based form
of social organization. "Up to the end of the 19th century, the Kurds were
used as tools by the Persian and Ottoman empires, which gave them great
latitude and hired them as auxiliaries" to keep the peace on their borders
or control other minorities, said Oliver Roy, a specialist in the region.
"It was when the Persian and Turkish worlds went secular - with Ataturk in
Ankara and the Pahlavis in Tehran - that the Kurds developed in reaction
their own ethno-national claims," he said.
But the countries of the region have regularly acted together to quell
aspirations for Kurdish independence. In 1947, Baghdad, Tehran and Ankara
signed the Pact of Saadabad, aimed at coordinating efforts against the
"armed gangs."
And today the three countries - secular Turkey, Islamic Iran and Iraq under
US tutelage - still waver between fear of separatism and the temptation to
use the Kurdish question to further their own designs against neighbors. The
games of the great powers created uncertain times for the Kurds themselves.
World War I saw the break-up of the Ottoman Empire, but left no lasting
solution for Kurdistan, which continued to be claimed by Turkey.
The League of Nations for a time considered the idea of an independent
Kurdish state, but in 1926 it opted instead to attach the region around the
Kurdish city of Mosul to the British protectorate of Iraq. Not until the
first Gulf War of 1991 did the Western powers intervene to protect Kurds
against the exactions of Saddam Hussein.
Allied to the US, the Kurds were major beneficiaries of the American
intervention, which confirmed their substantial autonomy and the relative
stability of their region. The downfall of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad then
profoundly changed the balance of powers in the region.
"What we are now seeing is a meeting between the Kurds of northern Iraq and
the Kurds of Turkey on the cultural, linguistic and economic levels in a way
never seen before," said Roy. Iran is also involved, with a "very clear
increase in state repression in Iranian Kurdistan," Roy said.

2. Israeli No-Confidence Motion
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3. Arutz Sheva News
<news@israelnationalnews.com>
9 Cheshvan 5768 / Sunday, Oct. 21 '07

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(5. Report: Israel Had Man on Inside of Syrian Nuclear Facility

by Ezra HaLevi

The latest in the string of foreign press reports regarding Israel's September 6 strike in Syria claims Israel had a mole inside a Syrian nuclear facility. The IDF has released no information regarding the mission.

ABC News reported Saturday that, Israeli officials believed that a target their forces bombed inside Syria last month was a nuclear facility, because they had detailed photographs taken by a possible spy inside the complex.

The report quotes an unnamed senior U.S. official saying Israel noticed the Syrian nuclear facility this summer, leading the Mossad to either co-opt one of the facility's workers or to insert a spy posing as an employee. As a result, the Israelis obtained many detailed pictures of the facility from the ground.

The official described the photographs as showing a large "cylindrical structure with very thick walls all well-reinforced." He said it was located far from civilization, near a lone pumping station that was to supply the cooling tower for the nuclear reactor. He added that the facility was of North Korean design.

The report adds an element to previous reports on US involvement in the attack. The official said that Israel urged the US to destroy the reactor, but it refrained from doing so due to the lack of actual nuclear material in the photos.

"It was unmistakable what it was going to be," the official said. "No doubt in my mind."

Washington Post: Syria Burying the Evidence
Syria has begun destroying the remains of the facility, which was allegedly bombed in an Israel Air Force operation on September 6, according to the Washington Post.

The report, which also quotes an unnamed US official, says Syria is trying to get rid of the evidence that a nuclear facility was present at the site in order to obscure it from UN nuclear inspectors.

Last week, Syria brought reporters to a facility it claimed had been hit by the Israeli strike. The Post reported that it was a different place altogether.

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(6. Priestly Blessing on Temple Mount
by Hillel Fendel

A historic first: Last week, during a special visit to the Temple Mount, the Priestly Blessing (Numbers 6:24-26) was recited there, for arguably the first time since the 1st-century destruction.

The Blessing is recited daily in synagogues in Israel by descendants of Aaron the Priest, and only on festivals in the Diaspora.
On the Temple Mount: During the Priestly Blessing, the "Kohanim" raise their hands.
www.TempleInstitute.org

The special visit was held to commemorate the 842nd anniversary of Maimonides's famous visit to the Temple Mount, Judaism's holiest site.  A group of some 25 Jews, organized by the Temple Institute in Jerusalem, marked the special day with a commemorative visit.  Giving extra-special meaning to the occasion was a spontaneous Priestly Blessing delivered to the group by Yehuda Katz, the lead singer of the Reva L'Sheva band, and Eliezer Breuer, originally of the former Soviet Union and now from Kiryat Arba.

Rabbi Chaim Richman, one of the organizers of the trip, said, "This was probably the first time since the destruction of the Temple [1,928 years ago] that the Priestly Blessing was delivered on our holiest site.  At times like these, when there is talk of giving away our precious places, and when despair is sometimes in the air, events of this nature serve to remind us that G-d has not forgotten about us, and that He still has big plans for both us and the Holy Temple - and that the Temple will yet become the focal point of the world once again."

Another notable aspect of the visit was the welcoming attitude of the police.  "In an unusual departure from standard procedure," one participant said, "we found that the police were particularly sympathetic to our needs.  At one point, when the Moslem Wakf guards started yelling that we were praying, one of the policemen took our side and even threatened to remove them if necessary." 

Maimonides, also known as the Rambam, made his historic visit to the Temple Mount on the sixth day of the month of MarCheshvan in the year 1166 (4926 in the Jewish calendar). Unanimously considered one of Judaism's greatest figures, the Rambam wrote that he put himself in danger to make a trip to Jerusalem, where he entered "the Large and Holy House [the Temple Mount] and prayed." Three days later, he also visited the Machpelah Cave in Hevron, and vowed to commemorate the anniversaries of those days as his personal festivals for years to come. 
Thursday's visit to the Temple Mount
www.TempleInstitute.org

Last week's visit was also led by Rabbis Yisrael Ariel and Yehuda Glick.  Rabbi Ariel is a former Yeshiva head, founder of the Temple Institute, and one of the paratroopers who took part in the 1967 liberation of the Temple Mount. Rabbi Glick made news briefly over two years ago when, as Director of the Absorption Ministry's Ashkelon region, he became the first public official to resign in protest over the plans to withdraw from and destroy Gush Katif. 

Though the Chief Rabbinate disagrees, the Yesha Rabbis Council has ruled that one who ascends and visits the Temple Mount while adhering to three conditions - prior immersion in a mikveh; keeping the laws of Awe of the Temple (no leather shoes, proper respect, etc.); and knowledge of the precise permitted areas - is fulfilling a "great mitzvah [Torah commandment]."
The group stands on a staircase built recently by the Muslim Waqf on the Mount's southern end, leading to new mosques below.  The Waqf does not allow entry to non-Muslims.
www.TempleInstitute.org

To arrange a trip to the Temple Mount in accordance with the above requirements of Jewish law, click here.

"The more Jews who visit this holy site," Rabbi Richman told Arutz-7, "the more cooperative the police are with us and the more respectful they are of our needs - as some police officers have indicated to me.  And the more we encourage Jews with stories like what happened last week, the more they will come."
 

Jerusalem News-685
10 Cheshvan 5768, 22 October 2007
Contents:
1. European Governments Encourage Investment in Iran
2.For the First Time,  Archaeological Remains dated to the First
 Temple Period have been Discovered  on the Temple Mount
3. Archaeologists find link to First Temple

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1. European Governments Encourage Investment in Iran
One Smart European Policy Toward Iran
by Paolo Casaca, MEP
 in Realite EU:

Now is the time for Europe to end our two-headed policy on the world's
largest state sponsor of terrorism, Iran. Iran, in violation of the recent
unanimous UN Security Council Chapter 7 Resolution, has not only failed to
stop enriching uranium, it has said with defiance that it will continue to
enrich at a greater pace.

Until now, however, the response from Europe has been schizophrenic.
Security minded officials in the European Union have agreed to impose
sanctions on Iran. This is critical leadership that could help bring a
peaceful solution to a dangerous nuclear standoff.

Meanwhile, European big business interests have placed money before our
security an have twisted government policy so many European taxpayers (who
likely do it without even knowing) continue to lavish economic and
financial support to the Islamic Republic of Iran. Indeed, the European
Union has long been one of the largest trading partners of Iran, and as
surprising as it might sound today, it has developed its operations and
investments in Iran parallel with the development by Iran of its nuclear
program.

Between 2003 and 2005, Europe's exports to Iran rose 29% to ?12.9 billion;
machinery, transport equipment and chemicals make up the bulk of the
sales. European imports from Iran, predominantly oil, increased 62% to
?11.4 billion in that period. In addition, Europe heavily invests in
Iranian oil, gas, mining automotive, transportation and communications
companies.

Europe is Iran's main supplier of goods and makes up 44% of the country's
total imports. Much of that commerce is subsidized by European tax dollars
which underwrite deals with and within Iran. Indeed, in some European
nations such as Germany, the Federal government export credit guarantees
play a very important role for German exports to Iran. It insures, through
export guarantee programs, approximately 65% of the total German exports
to Iran. After Germany (with around 5.5 billions ? of export guarantees),
comes Italy (with around 4.5 billions ? of export guarantees), and then
France (with around 1 billion ? export guarantees). Austria too guarantees
about 800 million ? of exports to Iran....

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2.  For the First Time, Archaeological Remains dated to the First
 Temple Period have been Discovered  on the Temple Mount
From: imra@netvision.net.il

[Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA:  "The finds [AL: AFTER BEING SMASHED BY HEAVY
EQUIPMENT BEING OPERATED BY PALESTINIANS] include fragments of bowl rims,
bases and body sherds; the base of a juglet used for the ladling of oil; the
handle of a small juglet and the rim of a storage jar. The bowl sherds were
decorated with wheel burnishing lines characteristic of the First Temple
Period.  In addition, a piece of a white washed handmade object was found.
It may have been used to decorate a larger object or may have been part of a
figurine."

We will never know what bowls, jugs and other objects from the First Temple
waited over 2,600 years to be revealed only to be smashed by Palestinians
determined to erase any memory of the Jewish presence on the Temple Mount -
essentially aided and abetted by an Israeli Government that lacks the will
to protect the Jewish People's interests at this holiest of sites.]

Israel Antiquities Authority  October 18, 2007
For the First Time, Archaeological Remains dated to the First Temple Period
have been Discovered on the Temple Mount

Archaeological Inspection by the Israel Antiquities Authority over Works of
the Waqf has Uncovered Remnants of the First Temple Period (Iron Age IIB)

During a recent archaeological inspection of the Temple Mount, carried out
by the Israel Antiquities Authority on the maintenance work of the Waqf, an
apparently sealed archaeological level dated to the First Temple Period was
exposed in the area close to the south-eastern corner of the raised platform
surrounding the Dome of the Rock. Archaeological examination of a small
section of this level, undertaken by Yuval Baruch, the Jerusalem District
Archaeologist, uncovered finds that included fragments of ceramic table
wares and animal bones.  The finds are dated from the eighth to the sixth
centuries BCE.

Yuval Baruch of the IAA, Prof. Sy Gitin, Director of the W. F. Albright
Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Prof. Israel Finkelstein
of Tel Aviv University and Prof. Ronny Reich of Haifa University examined
the finds and the archaeological data and reached the conclusion that the
characteristics and location of the finds may aid scholars in reconstructing
the dimensions and boundaries of the Temple Mount during the First Temple
Period.

The finds include fragments of bowl rims, bases and body sherds; the base of
a juglet used for the ladling of oil; the handle of a small juglet and the
rim of a storage jar. The bowl sherds were decorated with wheel burnishing
lines characteristic of the First Temple Period.  In addition, a piece of a
white washed handmade object was found.  It may have been used to decorate a
larger object or may have been part of a figurine.

An archaeological seminar concerning these finds and their archaeological
interpretation will be organized by the Israel Antiquities Authority.

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IMRA - Independent Media Review and Analysis
Website: www.imra.org.il

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3. Archaeologists find link to First Temple
Etgar Lefkovits , THE JERUSALEM POST Oct. 21, 2007
www.jpost.com
/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380615840&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull

Israeli archaeologists overseeing contested Islamic infrastructure work on
Jerusalem's Temple Mount have stumbled upon a sealed archaeological level
dating back to the First Temple Period, the Israel Antiquities Authority
announced Sunday.

The find marks the first time that archaeological remains dating back to the
First Temple period have been found on the bitterly contested Jerusalem holy
site, the state-run archaeological body said.

No archaeological excavations have ever been carried out on the Temple
Mount, which is Judaism's holiest and Islam's third holiest site, due to
opposition from religious leaders.

The sealed archaeological level, which is dated from the eighth to the sixth
centuries BCE, was exposed at the end of August in the area close to the
south-eastern corner of the raised platform surrounding the Dome of the
Rock, and includes fragments of ceramic table wares and animal bone.

"The layer is a closed, sealed archaeological layer that has been untouched
since as early as the 8th century B.C.E," said Yuval Baruch, the Jerusalem
District Archaeologist for the Israel Antiquities Authority.

But independent Israeli archaeologists from the nonpartisan Committee
Against the Destruction of Antiquities on the Temple Mount which has
repeatedly lambasted the Antiquities Authority for allowing Islamic
officials to carry out the infrastructure work this summer downplayed the
findings.

The archeologists said that the maintenance work, which was carried out with
a tractor, left a 100-meter-long and roughly 1-1.5 meter deep trench, and
had badly damaged antiquities at the site.

"The Antiquities Authority is standing behind the barbaric Islamic
destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount, and then presents the
results of the destruction to show just how important the finds are," said
Hebrew University archeologist Dr Eilat Mazar, a leading Temple Mount
expert.

"This is a smoke screen for the destruction of antiquities," she said.

According to decades-old regulations in place at the Temple Mount, Israel
maintains overall security control at the site, while the Wakf, or Islamic
Trust, is charged with day- to-day administration of the ancient compound.

The Antiquities Authority, which by law is charged with supervising Israel's
archeological sites, has in the past been criticized by the nonpartisan
group of
archeologists and public officials for overlooking large-scale Islamic
construction on the site which has resulted in archeological damage because
of the political sensitivities involved.

The ancient compound is at the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian dispute over
control of Jerusalem.

 

Jerusalem News-686
12 Cheshvan 5768, 24 October 2007
Contents:
1. Scottish Clans Plan Mass Gathering
(a) BBC News Feature
(b) About The Gathering 2009
2. Report: British commando forces operated in Iran
3. 99.8 Percent of Criminal Trials End in Conviction
4. Dr. Mazar: PM's Office Complicit in Temple Mount Destruction
5. Israel reassures Turkey over Kurds

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1. Scottish Clans Plan Mass Gathering  

(a) BBC News Feature
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7056132.stm
Extracts:
Pledge to launch clan gathering
The "biggest" clan gathering for almost 200 years is to take place in Edinburgh after receiving ?300,000 in funding.

The Gathering, which is expected to attract 8,000 clan members and 30,000 spectators, is being planned for Holyrood Park in 2009.

Edinburgh City Council, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian, and EventScotland are helping to fund some of the ?1.5m cost of the event.

The rest of the money will come from ticket sales and private enterprise.

As well as the traditional displays of piping, dancing, athletics and heavy events, the games will have a food and drink fair.

There will also be an exhibition allowing visitors to trace their ancestry, and a live music stage featuring leading contemporary and traditional bands.

"The Gathering 2009 will focus the world's attention on Scotland's culture and as hosts we will be ready to make the most of this fantastic opportunity to promote Edinburg" Steve Cardownie, Edinburgh City Council

The highlight of the clan programme will be a clan parade up the Royal Mile and historic pageant of the clans in the arena on the Castle Esplanade.

The organisers led by Lord Sempill, chief of the Name and Arms of Sempill and vice convenor of the Standing Council of Scottish Chiefs, and Jenny Gilmour, expect to attract 30,000 local visitors to the event planned for 25 - 26 July 2009.

Already more than 60 clans have said they want to take part, including Clan Donald, the world's largest clan.

Lord Sempill, said: "Not since Sir Walter Scott's Royal Pageant in 1822 have so many clans come together, so The Gathering 2009 will be a meaningful historic, as well as cultural, event.

"Our clan tradition and cultural identity are very closely linked and, at a time when Scots are coming to terms with their identity, The Gathering is a fantastic opportunity to reinforce a very important part of our heritage and to celebrate its existence."

(b) About The Gathering 2009
http://www.clangathering.org/gathering
The Gathering 2009 has the honour of hosting the 2009 World Highland Games Heavy Athletic Championships. Over the weekend the largest highland games ever to have been held in Edinburgh will play host to the greatest international clan gathering to have taken place on Scottish soil.

Set in the magnificent Royal Park of Holyrood, with its breathtaking volcanic backdrop of Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags, it will showcase heavy events such as caber tossing and hammer throwing, accompanied by time honored disciplines such as piping and highland dancing. There will be a host of contemporary musicians, high-quality Scottish arts and crafts and a 'taste experience' of the best of Scotland's produce.

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2. Report: British commando forces operated in Iran
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3462328,00.html
Sunday Times reports special forces have crossed into Islamic republic several times in recent months as part of secret border war against Revolutionary Guards' al-Quds forces responsible for training Shiite militias in Iraq, supplying them with advanced weapons

British special forces have crossed into Iran several times in recent months as part of a secret border war against the Iranian Revolutionary Guard?s al-Quds special forces, British newspaper The Sunday Times reported, quoting defense sources.

According to Britain and the United States, the al-Quds forces are responsible for training the Shiite militias in Iraq and are supplying them with advanced weapons.

According to The Sunday Times, There have been at least half a dozen intense firefights between the SAS commando unit and arms smugglers, a mixture of Iranians and Shi?ite militiamen. The unreported fighting straddles the border between Iran and Iraq and has also involved the Iranian military firing mortars into Iraq.

UK commanders are concerned that Iran is using a militia ceasefire to step up arms supplies in preparation for an offensive against their base at Basra airport, the report said. A SAS squadron is carrying out operations along the Iranian border in Maysan and Basra provinces with other special forces, the Australian SAS and American special-operations troops.
 
The Sunday Times reported that the special forces were patrolling the border, ambushing arms smugglers bringing in surface-to-air missiles and components for roadside bombs. ?Last month, they were involved in six significant contacts, which killed 17 smugglers and recovered weapons, explosives and missiles,? a source said. It was not clear if any of the dead were Iranian or Iraqis.

Last week, British Armed Forces Minister Bob Ainsworth said the Ministry of Defense was unable to say whether British troops had killed or captured any Iranians in Iraq. The ministry declined to comment, but privately officials insisted British troops never carry out hot pursuit across the border, the report said.

There have been persistent reports of American special-operations missions inside Iran preparing for a possible attack. According to The Sunday Times, however, the security sources said British troops were solely stopping arms smuggling.

The fighting comes amid an increase in US and British intelligence operations against Iran. According to The Sunday Times, Britain?s forces have more than 70 Farsi experts monitoring Iranian communications, and the intelligence is shared with the United States.

In addition, seven American U2 spy planes have passed through RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire this year on their way to Akrotiri in Cyprus or Al-Dhafra in Abu Dhabi, the bases for flights over Iran.

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3. 99.8 Percent of Criminal Trials End in Conviction
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124015
 by Gil Ronen

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4. Dr. Mazar: PM's Office Complicit in Temple Mount Destruction
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124012
by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
Extracts:
(IsraelNN.com) Well-known archaeologist Dr. Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University told Arutz Sheva Radio that she sees the recent revelation of First Temple artifacts on the Temple Mount as further proof of what she called the Antiquities Authority's "criminal behavior."
The destruction on the Temple Mount continues... due to "a direct order from the Prime Minister's Office."
destruction on the Temple Mount continues, she charged, due to "a direct order from the Prime Minister's Office" to ignore the Islamic Waqf's violations of antiquities preservation laws.

Asked why the Prime Minister would issue such a directive, Dr. Mazar said, "I am an archaeologist, not a politician. However, it is clear that the Prime Minister must not avert his eyes from the destruction of antiquities on the Temple Mount. Not even at the cost of tranquility. These are artifacts that have been permanently ruined and we will never be able to restore them."

The Antiquities Authority, Mazar noted, allows construction by the Waqf, the Islamic religious authority, to proceed on the Temple Mount without consistent state oversight. In the past, Mazar, as a member of the Committee for the Prevention of Destruction of Temple Mount Antiquities, warned that ongoing Waqf digging of a trench on the Mount was destroying Second Temple artifacts.

In September, the Committee of which Dr. Mazar is a member filed a petition with the High Court of Justice to halt the destructive works being carried out by the Waqf. In addition to an immediate intervention, the Committee petitioned for the regulated oversight of any further Waqf construction on the Temple Mount.

"We would expect that the same demands [made during construction at other historical sites] be applied primarily at the Temple Mount," Mazar added, explaining that the Antiquities Authority provides precise regulations for such projects all around the country. Under existing law, contractors who discover artifacts while digging for their construction projects are obligated to freeze construction and inform the appropriate authorities. This law is completely ignored on the Temple Mount, according to Dr. Mazar and her colleagues.

Waqf Denies Existence of First Temple Artifacts
The director of the Waqf for holy sites in Jerusalem told a Lebanese newspaper that Israeli reports of archaeological finds from the First Temple period are baseless. Azzam Al-Hatib charged that Israel timed the reports to try to prove a Jewish link to the site at the same time the Palestinian Authority has demanded control of the Old City.

Muslims have been conducting a campaign that has escalated in the past two years to convince the world that there is no Jewish connection with the Old City of Jerusalem. They argue that the Western Wall (Kotel) was a hitching post for a mythical horse ridden by Islam's founder, Muhammad. Historically, the 7th-century Arabian leader never set foot in Jerusalem.

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5. Israel reassures Turkey over Kurds
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/104827.html
Published: 10/23/2007

Israel moved to allay Turkish concern over its alleged support for Kurdish rebels.

Turkey's recent threats to invade Kurdish areas of northern Iraq in retaliation for rebel attacks on its border troops have thrown a spotlight on Israeli ties to the Kurds.

Since the Saddam Hussein regime was overthrown in 2003, there have been high-profile reports of Israeli sponsorship of Iraqi Kurdish forces, either in the form of private military training or as an intelligence proxy for monitoring nearby Iran.

But Israel, which has carefully cultivated defense and trade relations with Turkey, denies that it supports Kurds fighting Ankara's rule from Iraqi bases. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert was scheduled to meet his Turkish counterpart, Tayyip Erdogan, in London on Tuesday to discuss the issue.

"We have no intention of cooperating with the Kurds in northern Iraq," an Olmert aide told Yediot Achronot. "Turkey is a top strategic partner, as far as we are concerned, and we don't plan to play with fire when it comes to our allies."

Israel has been active in Kurdistan since the 1960s, when it adopted a policy of building alliances with non-Arab players in the Middle East.


 

Jerusalem News-687
13 Cheshvan 5768, 25 October 2007
Contents:
1. More on the First Temple Finds
2. A Coming Alignment: USA and Israel versus Russia and Islam?
3. The Rabbit and the Wolf

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1. More on the First Temple Finds
Debka:
http://www.debka.com/headline.php?hid=4703
 
Relics of Solomon's Temple uncovered for the first time in a sealed layer on Temple Mount, Jerusalem
October 22, 2007, 8:56 PM (GMT+02:00)
Undisturbed since circa 800 B.C.E., the layer yielded fragments of bowls and shards decorated in the style of the First Temple Period, the base and handle of a small jug used to ladle oil, the rim of an oil storage jar and animal bone.
 
They may be the relics of a sacrificial rite held in the First Temple built by King Solomon in the 10th century B.C.E. before it was destroyed by the Babylonians in 586 B.C.E. thus ending the era in which Jewish kingdoms reigned over much of the present-day area of Palestine.
 
Jerusalem regional archeologist Jon Seligman said the find could finally help scholars place Solomon's Temple at its precise location and study its dimensions for the first time.
 
Surface relics of the Second Temple razed by the Romans in 70 C.E. survive on the Jerusalem's surface, including the Western Wall. But no artifacts or structures of Solomon's Temple were ever found on Temple Mount. Over the centuries, the Muslim rulers of Jerusalem built the al Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock on the holiest site of Judaism, paving it, calling it the Noble Sanctuary and making it the third holiest shrine of Islam They denied the Jewish Temple had every stood there.
 
The discovery of the First Temple artifacts occurred by chance when Israeli archeologists were brought in to oversee the Muslim Authorities work to replace power cables around the Dome of the Rock at the southeastern corner of Temple Mount. Archeologists and scholars were horrified to find the work was being performed illegally and with heavy earthmoving equipment.
 
Members of Knesset challenged the Jerusalem municipal authorities, the police and the state Antiquities Authority, for allowing a deep trench to be dug at the sensitive site, instead of having power lines run from the nearby al Aqsa mosque.
 
However, ironically, the illegal trench served an unexpected purpose: It uncovered the first of the long-sought relics ever found of Solomon's Temple.

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2. A Coming Alignment: USA and Israel versus Russia and Islam?
The Coming U.S.-Russian Train Wreck -
Is Israel Caught in the Middle?
 by Ariel Cohen
http://www.jcpa.org/
 Extracts below from the much longer and more detailed article:

Russia is in the midst of two overlapping political games: the Duma and presidential election cycle of December 2007-March 2008, and a real power struggle between competing pro-Putin factions over the architecture of the next Russian regime. Every move the Putin Administration makes today is dictated by the desire to shape Russia's future internal power structure.
For the last four years, the Kremlin has steadfastly allowed its once-close ties with Washington to decay. Keeping the relationship with Washington in a simmering crisis and inventing an imaginary "American enemy" is creating much needed legitimacy for the current Russian leadership.
Many foreign policy initiatives undertaken by former presidents Mikhail Gorbachev and Boris Yeltsin are often viewed today in Moscow as treasonous or at least as harmful to Russia's vital interests. Current Bush Administration policies, such as democracy promotion, are viewed as part of a sinister plot to undermine the Russian government through a series of "orange revolutions."
The current elites define Russia's strategic goals as being in opposition to the United States and its policies; and in de-facto alliance with the Muslim world, particularly Iran and Syria, as well as with China. The Kremlin is reaching out to anti-status quo players such as Hugo Chavez, and is convinced that Russia is culturally distinct from "the West."
The Moscow propaganda machine is only a step away from putting Israel on the "short list" of designated enemies. After all, the memory of fighting Zionism and promoting official anti-Semitism is fresh in the minds of the post-Soviet elites, and relations with the rich and fanatically anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli ayatollahs are cozy for many.
Israel is located on the fault line between the secular West and the Muslim East. In addition to confrontation with the Palestinians, the wider Sunni Arab world, and the Iranians, Jerusalem's relationship with Moscow may deteriorate if Russia continues to treat Israel as an American satellite state.

  Keeping the relationship with Washington in a simmering crisis and inventing an imaginary "American enemy" is creating much needed legitimacy for the current Russian leadership, which now has only Putin's personal popularity as its political base.

The image of Russia surrounded by enemies is absolutely necessary for today's Russian ruling class, composed of senior secret police officers, as it positions itself in the eyes of the people as the saviors and defenders of Mother Russia. This approach has venerable roots in Russian history, harking back to the Romanov police state of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Then, the monarchy busily promoted the fight against "the enemies within," including the Jews, and "the enemies without," such as the British Empire, the superpower of the day. This was done in order to delay democratic reforms and justify the outrageous privileges of the nobility and the court.

The old Soviet obsession - that Russia's fate, its cosmic goal, is to fight "American imperialism" - remains undiluted, even fifteen years after the collapse of communism, a tragic position for Russia, Europe, and the rest of the world.

Russia's foreign strategy is driven by military and security elites who view their country as the direct heir to the Russian Empire and the Soviet Union, and understand its role as America's principal counterbalance on the world scene. here was no significant changing of the guard in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union when it comes to Russia's foreign and defense policy-makers, in sharp contrast to the turnover that occurred in the fields of business and economics.

Despite the fact that tens of thousands of Russians have been killed by Muslim extremists in Afghanistan and in Chechnya, as well as in terror attacks in Russia's cities, the U.S. remains Russia's obsession, its "principal adversary."

The current elites define Russia's strategic goals as being in opposition to the United States and its policies; and in de-facto alliance with the Muslim world, particularly Iran and Syria, as well as with China. The Kremlin is reaching out to anti-status quo players such as Hugo Chavez, and is convinced that Russia is culturally distinct from "the West."

A massive stumbling block is also the central Europe-based U.S. anti-ballistic missile (ABM) defense, primarily intended to intercept possible future Iranian missiles. A senior Russian official in charge of defense and military technology told the author that the U.S. will install the Czech Republic-based radar to spy on Russian territory to the Urals. This same official does not believe Iran will ever develop nuclear intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). However, he recognized that Iran may be only 18 months away from producing enough fissile material to arm an atomic bomb. Thus, as Iran already possesses medium-range missiles capable of hitting parts of Europe and all of the Middle East, the deployment [by the USA] in Poland and the Czech Republic makes a lot of sense. Paradoxically, the Russian intent to modify the INF Treaty has to do with recognition that Iran may obtain intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) capable of reaching the majority of Russian cities, and could arm them with nuclear warheads. This would require Moscow to recreate an IRBM arsenal to maintain a balance of power with Teheran.

Putin has proposed substituting an old Russian radar tracking station in Gabala, Azerbaijan, and a modern one in Armavir in southern Russia for the Polish and Czech ABM systems. These offers may be accepted by the U.S., provided central European deployment is still on the table. But Moscow will most likely reject that deployment.

President Putin's proposal is not a new concept. In fact, it is surprisingly similar to the strategic vision that Ronald Reagan laid out more than two decades ago....While the utilization of former Soviet radar stations may or may not assist in tracking missiles fired from rogue states, sharing information gathered by U.S. and NATO systems with Russia, and possibly linking radar and early warning systems, would be useful in ensuring transparency and reaffirming our cooperative approach.

However, Senator Lugar may have missed the explicit lack of Russian trust of American intentions at the highest level; the absence of a desire to work together with the Americans; and a wealth of accumulated disappointment in Washington with Russia's domestic and foreign policies.

The current Russian elite feels more comfortable in confrontation with the U.S. than in peace. "The U.S. is not a friend. It is more like an enemy," a senior Russian politician recently told me. Russian leaders say they believe that the U.S. and the UK are behind every evil in the world, from supporting Chechens Islamists to the mysterious poisoning of former security services defector Alexander Litvinenko in London with a rare radioactive isotope. oday, unfortunately, it is Moscow which is often behaving in an unfriendly manner.

The Moscow propaganda machine is only a step away from putting Israel on the "short list" of designated enemies. After all, the memory of fighting Zionism and promoting official anti-Semitism is fresh in the minds of the post-Soviet elites, and relations with the rich and fanatically anti-Semitic and anti-Israeli ayatollahs are cozy for many.

Arms sales are but one item in Moscow's full array of modern international relations tools: from public diplomacy, to weapons sales backed up by the ample credit lines of an energy superpower; from putting former and possibly current political leaders on the petrodollar payroll, to strategic information operations (SIOs) aimed at depicting America as an out-of-control hyper-power and a threat to the international community, to coddling terrorist organizations. In the words of one incisive observer, "Russia has left the West."

History and geography have condemned Israel to live on the frontlines. Israel is located on the fault line between the secular West and the Muslim East. In addition to confrontation with the Palestinians, the wider Sunni Arab world, and the Iranians, Jerusalem's relationship with Moscow may deteriorate if Russia continues to treat Israel as an American satellite state. If things go wrong, Russia may amplify existing threats to Israeli security. However, if Israel devises and practices a foreign policy that serves Israeli national interests and relies on Israel's ample security and defense capabilities, the survival of the country and the people can be ensured for the long term.

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3. The Rabbit and the Wolf

http://www.104-0031.com/mainframe/contents/HG/main/Gallery/rabbit/rabbit.html
Educational and True
At least this is how things should be and God willing will continue to be.

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Jerusalem News-688
18 Cheshvan 5768, 30 October 2007
Contents:
1. British Leftwingers Caught Destroying Jewish Property in Israel
2. 100, 000 Turkish Troops on border opposite Kurds in Iraq
3. France Steps in Against Iran?

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1. British Leftwingers Nabbed Destroying Jewish Property in Israel
'Olive Harvest' Activists Caught Destroying Jewish Vineyards
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124055
by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) Jewish-owned vineyards in Samaria were once again destroyed by leftist ?humanitarian groups? Friday. This time some were caught in the act and arrested.

Shortly after residents of Dolev, located north of Jerusalem, discovered Friday that a local synagogue had been burned to the ground overnight, they saw that 3,000 plants in nearby vineyards had been destroyed. This is the third case of major agricultural vandalism in the region in recent months.

Vines were torn from the ground, and expensive irrigation equipment was damaged. The Jewish locals saw a group of foreign activists and Arabs heading toward an additional Jewish agricultural plot and alerted the police and IDF. The group fled, but three female activists from the United Kingdom were slower and were caught by police.

Destruction Under Guise of Humanitarian Assistance
Residents say the vandalism occurred under cover of the much-publicized PA Arab olive harvest. Local Arabs, joined by leftists ? many foreign nationals ? focus their harvest activities on trees abutting Jewish communities. This year, the IDF has been tasked with ensuring that Jewish residents do not leave their communities while the harvest activities are going on, citing fears of clashes. Two administrative orders have distanced two Jewish residents from all of Judea and Samaria for the duration of the harvest.

Adi Mintz, an area resident and member of the Council of Jewish Communities in Judea and Samaria (Yesha) who is running for mayor of the region, said that the Yesha's Jewish residents have now received ?a clear warning sign. Today it is synagogues and vineyards that are destroyed - tomorrow it will be the lives of human beings. The army must send in more forces to defend the residents of this area,? he said.

The owner of the destroyed vineyard, Shlomi Cohen, said the attack had caused NIS 60,000 of direct damage and would cost him an additional NIS 120,000 in lost produce.  The damage was particularly severe because the attack took place during the shemittah (sabbatical) year, when Jews are forbidden to work the land.

British "Peace Activists" Responsible
The three British women who were apprehended by police are accused of responsibility for the destruction Friday. Police also have evidence, however, that the women were part of the group that destroyed farm equipment in the nearby town of Neria in an earlier incident as well. 

The women are activists with the International Solidarity Movement, a militantly anti-Zionist group that seeks to enable provocative actions against the IDF and Jewish residents of Judea and Samaria, under the assumption that their foreign citizenship will raise the threshold on the response of security forces. The lines between ISM and local terrorist groups are quite blurry. In the past, British terrorists even carried out a suicide bombing
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/44473
after being embedded in an ISM cell.

Most of the vandals also take part in clashes with the IDF near the Arab village of Bilin. The militants were recently handed a victory by the Supreme Court, which ordered the IDF to move the security fence in the area of the weekly protests.

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2. 100, 000 Turkish Troops on border opposite Kurds in Iraq

Amid war drums, Turkey's Kurds fear loss of rights

Democratic gains in southeastern Turkey may be sacrificed if Ankara goes after rebels in Iraq.

By Yigal Schleifer | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/1029/p04s01-wome.html
from the October 29, 2007 edition

Extracts:

Yuksekova, Turkey - The 100,000 Turkish troops massing near the border with Iraq is a palpable presence here in the predominantly Kurdish towns of southeastern Turkey.

Heard above the shouts of children playing on the streets in this small city of Yuksekova are the thump-thump of military helicopters shuttling troops and supplies. Periodically, armored vehicles merge with the honking cars and trucks.

On Sunday, Turkish soldiers killed 20 Kurdish guerrillas in a major military operation against separatist rebels about 400 miles northwest of here, Army sources told Reuters.

In response to stepped-up attacks from the PKK across the nearby Iraq border, public support for a tough, military response is building in Turkey. As part of this fight with the PKK, some analysts expect Turkish troops will restrict the rights and movement of locals, and begin arresting residents who are perceived as PKK supporters.

"If the local population sees democratic reforms being rolled back [here], they could fall back into supporting the PKK and following a more radical line," says Volkan Aytar, a researcher at the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation, an Istanbul-based think tank.

Clearly, the renewed PKK attacks ? particularly the Oct. 21 ambush that killed 12 Turkish soldiers ? have also exposed a deep fault line running through Turkish society, one that is being watched with increasing concern in the southeast.

That attack in the nearby mountain village of Daglica led to protests across Turkey, with thousands of flag-waving marchers calling for Turkey to take action against the PKK. More disturbingly to residents here, offices of the pro-Kurdish Democratic People's Party (DTP), which currently has 19 of its members in parliament, were attacked by mobs in several cities.

"While we are looking for terrorists in the Kandil Mountains [of northern Iraq] we should not forget that the supporters of terrorists are ... even in the corridors of the parliament," Devlet Bahceli, leader of the right-wing Nationalist Action Party (MHP), said at a recent party meeting, referring to the DTP.

Mr. Aytar warns that "the real danger is... an increasing securitization of the Turkish political discourse, which is threatening democratization."

Kurds, most of whom maintain a strong ethnic identity even if they don't support the PKK's goal of a Kurdish state on Turkish soil, are already feeling alienated by anti-PKK rhetoric and protests taking place across the country.

Turkey is pushing the US and Iraq to clamp down on the PKK. Some 3,000 fighters are using Iraq as a base for carrying out attacks in Turkey. On Sunday, US Gen. David Petraeus said, "I am not going to say anything about what we may be doing with our long-standing NATO allies Turkey, although we clearly are doing things with them. Nor will I say what we are doing with our Iraqi partners to endeavor to stabilize the situation and to ensure that the sides are talking and taking actions to reduce the tension."

Halit Tekci, an older gentleman sitting at a sidewalk caf?in Yuksekova, says, "What will ruin Turkey are these protests [in the cities calling for war against the PKK]. "These protests only increase hatred against the Kurds and will lead to a Turkish-Kurdish conflict." .

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3. France Steps in Against Iran?
Extract:
DEBKAfile Reports: Iranian-Syrian nuclear issues heat up amid growing mistrust of IAEA director in Washington, Paris and Jerusalem
http://www.debka.com/index.php
October 29, 2007, 10:33 PM (GMT+02:00)

French defense minister Herve Morian visit Saudi King Abdullah

French defense minister Herve Morin said Monday, Oct. 29, he has information that Iran is developing nuclear weapons. He thus publicly contradicted remarks made by IAEA director Mohammed ElBaradai that there is no such evidence. Morin, on a visit to the Persian Gulf emirates, spoke at the same time as the IAEA director's address the UN General Assembly.

DEBKAfile?s sources report that president Nicolas Sarkozy plans a state visit to Jerusalem in a few weeks, during which he will the address the Knesset on the Iranian nuclear threat, counter-measures and his commitment to Israel's security.

Washington and Jerusalem are in intensive discussions over the prudence of Israel publicly leveling on its Sept. 6 attack on the Syrian installation, in consideration of the risk that a statement by prime minister Ehud Olmert could further raise war tensions. DEBKAfile's military sources report that Israel's air force and navy have been on high alert for some days.'  

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Jerusalem News-689
21 Cheshvan 5768, 2 November 2007
Contents:
1. It's all in the Money: France Suffers
2. The Kurds: Pertinent Remarks
3. Israeli Minister: "Don't go finding me any lost tribe"

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1. It's all in the Money: France Suffers
From: imra@netvision.net.il

France Loses Out as Saudis Sign $2.2 Billion Deal for Russian Helos
by Giovanni de Briganti
(Source: defense-aerospace.com; published Oct. 30, 2007)
www.defense-aerospace.com/cgi-bin/client/modele.pl?session=dae.16887581.1134046594.Q5gtgsOa9dUAABogmVw&modele=jdc_34

Extracts:

PARIS --- In an abrupt policy shift, Saudi Arabia has signed an agreement to buy over 150 Russian-made Mi-35 Hind and Mi-17 Hip helicopters worth over $2.2 billion, ending French hopes of sealing a long-delayed sale of 148 helicopters and raising doubts about future French arms sales to the Saudi kingdom.

The sources also said that Saudi Arabia appears to have decided to buy T-90 main battle tanks and medium-range air-defense systems from Russia, replacing previous plans to buy French-made Leclerc tanks and Aster 30 SAMP/T air-defense systems. No agreement has yet been signed for these systems, however,

Abdallah also is loosening arms ties with France because of its insistence on large, multiple-system packages, and its stubborn arm-twisting to include weapons that the Saudis do not want, like the Rafale combat aircraft, in these packages.

[France is hoping that Libya, which has contracted to upgrade its obsolete Dassault Mirage F-1 fighters, may also agree to buy the Rafale, and an agreement could be announced during Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi's forthcoming visit to Paris, possibly in December.]

The Saudis are also said to be unhappy with what they perceive as French snubs.

Another factor is that the election in May of Nicolas Sarkozy to succeed Chirac as French president has not gone down well with the Saudis, who take exception at his declarations that French diplomacy would in future distance itself from its traditional pro-Arab stance.

The loss of the Saudi contracts, whose total value was estimated at well over 7 billion euros, is a severe loss for French industry, which is encountering growing difficulties in exporting its weapons in the face of cut-throat competition from the United States and Russia.

Paris is now making a last-ditch attempt to salvage at least some Saudi deals, and President Sarkozy's planned visit to Saudi Arabia, in January, might constitute such an opportunity.

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2. The Kurds: Pertinent Remarks

http://www.meforum.org/article/554
Despite the removal of Saddam, the Kurds still have immense value to the United States as a counterweight to the Shi'ites of the south. In 1924, when King Faisal I insisted on including Mosul vilayet within the borders of the Iraqi state, one of his objectives was to balance the Shi'ite south. In the new realities of postwar Iraq with the emergence of strong Shi'ite Islamism, coupled with sentiments of anti-Americanism, the U.S. might revert to the Kurds in the fine balancing game between Iraq's different communities. Until Iraq is reconstituted on a new basis, the Kurds are the best buffer against the demands of some Shi?ites for an Islamic state, which could easily combine anti-Americanism and despotism. As Jalal Talabani has said, "The psychological state of the Iraqi people will not accept replacing Sunni rule with Shi'ite rule?which is in effect what having Islamists in power would mean."[13] If the Kurds are wise, they can parley this American dependence on them into a share of the central government itself when it is reconstituted.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurdish_people
The exact number of Kurdish people living in the Middle East is unknown, due to both an absence of recent census analysis and the reluctance of the various governments in Kurdish-inhabited regions to give accurate figures.
According to the CIA Factbook, Kurds comprise 20% of the population in Turkey, 15-20% in Iraq, perhaps 8% in Syria,[37] 7% in Iran and 1.3% in Armenia. In all of these countries except Iran, Kurds form the second largest ethnic group. Roughly 55% of the world's Kurds live in Turkey, about 20% each in Iran and Iraq, and a bit over 5% in Syria.[38]. These estimates place the total number of Kurds at somewhere between 27 and 36 million.

Kurds in Turkey
About half of all Kurds live in Turkey. According to the CIA Factbook they account for 20 percent of the 70 million people of Turkey, thus numbering about 15 million people.[48] Other estimates vary between 12 to 15 million. They are predominantly distributed in the southeastern corner of the country.[9]

From 1915 to 1918, Kurds struggled to end Ottoman rule over their region. They were encouraged by Woodrow Wilson's support for non-Turkish nationalities of the empire and submitted their claim for independence to the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Treaty of Sevres stipulated creation of an autonomous Kurdish state in 1920, but the subsequent Treaty of Lausanne in 1923 failed to mention Kurds. In 1925 and 1930 Kurdish revolts were forcibly suppressed.
 
Following these events, the existence of distinct ethnic groups like Kurds in Turkey was officially denied and any expression by the Kurds of their ethnic identity was harshly repressed. Until 1991, the use of the Kurdish language, although widespread, was illegal.

The Partiya Karker? Kurdistan (PKK), also known as KADEK and Kongra-Gel, is considered by the US and EU to be a terrorist organization dedicated to creating an independent Kurdish state in a territory (traditionally referred to as Kurdistan) consisting of parts of southeastern Turkey, northeastern Iraq, northeastern Syria and northwestern Iran. It is an ethnic secessionist organization using force and threat of force against both civilian and military targets for the purpose of achieving its political goal.

Between 1984 and 1999, the PKK and the Turkish military engaged in open war, and much of the countryside in the southeast was depopulated, with Kurdish civilians moving to local defensible centers such as Diyarbak r, Van, and rnak, as well as to the cities of western Turkey and even to western Europe. The causes of the depopulation included PKK atrocities against Kurdish clans they could not control, the poverty of the southeast, and the Turkish state's military operations.[51] Human Rights Watch has documented many instances where the Turkish military forcibly evacuated villages, destroying houses and equipment to prevent the return of the inhabitants. An estimated 3,000 Kurdish villages in Turkey were virtually wiped from the map, representing the displacement of more than 378,000 people.

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3. Israeli Minister: "Don't go finding me any lost tribe"

Mocking Asian Jews, Gov't Minister Favors Selective Aliyah
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124103
by Ezra HaLevi

(IsraelNN.com) Interior Minister Meir Sheetrit (Kadima) struck a blow to one of the central pillars of Zionism Tuesday, calling for an end to automatic citizenship for Jews who make aliyah (immigrate to Israel).

Addressing the governing board of the Jewish Agency, Sheetrit said that funds should be directed to helping immigrants already living in Israel instead of absorbing "lost tribes" from Africa and Asia. "Don't go finding me any lost tribes, because I won't let them in any more," he declared. "We have enough problems in Israel. Let them go to America."

Jewish Graduates from India at the MaTan-Herzog Hospital Nurse's Assistant Program in Israel

Sheetrit said that new immigrants should not automatically receive citizenship, but have a five-year waiting period, take a pledge of allegiance and pass a Hebrew-proficiency test prior to becoming Israeli.

He specifically referred to a rise in cases of neo-Nazism among Russian immigrants, some one million of which immigrated to Israel in the past 16 years. Three to four hundred thousand of the Russian immigrants are non-Jews recruited by the Jewish Agency using Jewish donor funds.

As it stands, the Law of Return, passed in 1950, mirrors the classifications of "Jewish descent" outlined in the Nazi Nuremberg Laws, with the intention that anyone who would have been persecuted as Jewish by the Nazis be granted refuge in the Jewish State.

Under this law, the Jewish Agency has been accused of taking advantage of the Law to recruit non-Jews with tenuous connections to the Jewish people  "via one grandparent or the marriage of relatives to a Jew" promising them a better economic situation so as to increase the numbers of immigrants it can report having brought.

Many groups have called for the Law of Return to be amended to open Israel's doors only to those considered Jewish by Halacha (Jewish Law).

The Interior Minister is, however, calling to make aliyah harder for all Jews. The ministry proposes to change the Law of Return to reflect absorption policies of other Western countries. "I want to see that he is not a criminal, that he is learning Hebrew and that he is here for five years before receiving citizenship," Sheetrit said.

The Jewish Agency said in response that "the State of Israel must remain open to any Jew, without any conditions? and continues to support the Law of Return in its current form.

Sheetrit said the funding spent on encouraging aliyah should be used to help immigrants already living in Israel, "whose lives are miserable."

Michael Freund, who heads the Shavei Israel organization, which assists groups of Jewish descent in converting and moving to Israel called Sheetrit's remarks "post-Zionism in its ugliest form."

"Essentially, Mr. Sheetrit has lost sight of what Zionism and Israel are all about. The country was founded on immigration and meant to serve as a refuge for the entire Jewish people," Freund said. Freund pointed out that Sheetrit's own family, immigrants from Morocco, would themselves bear the brunt of his callousness had he been Interior Minister at the time of their aliyah. "It is as if he has forgotten everything that he and his family and millions of other immigrants went through."

Commenting on Sheetrit's mocking of descendents of the lost ten Jewish tribes, Freund alleged that Sheetrit has refused to study the issue or even meet with members of communities such as the Bnei Menashe, who have been converting and moving to Israel from northeast India. "Sheetrit is, unfortunately, exploiting recent news reports about the discovery of neo-Nazis among recent immigrants to Israel as an excuse to keep out other unrelated groups that sincerely want to tie their fate with the people of Israel. These are apples and oranges. One has absolutely nothing to do with the other."

Freund went one step further: "Mr. Sheetrit has no place serving in the government of a Zionist Jewish state There is a strong element of racism and ignorance that runs through Mr. Sheetrit's thinking on this issue. A person's country of origin or the color of their skin has nothing whatsoever to do with their Jewish identity,  nor should it. The return to Zion is a Divine process that is greater than any one man or institution. And no one, not even a minister in the cabinet, can stand in its way. The return of the Bnei Menashe to Israel can and will continue."

Israel's Chief Rabbinate recognized the Bnei Menashe as "Descendants of Israel" in March, 2005 and sent a a beit din (rabbinical court) on its behalf to the region to formally convert them to Judaism.
 

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Jerusalem News-690
23 Cheshvan 5768, 4 November 2007
Contents:
1. 10% of US Whites hard-core anti-Semites!
2. Pollard: In Jail Because He's A Jew
3. Australian Victory at Beer Sheba Re-Enacted

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1. 10% of US White hard-core anti-Semites!
ADL 2007 report
http://www.adl.org/Anti_semitism/poll_2007/

From The Jerusalem Post summary of the ADL 2007 report:
35 million Americans 'blatantly anti-Semitic'
THE JERUSALEM POST      Nov. 1, 2007
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1192380715470&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Extracts:

A nationwide survey released Thursday by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) shows the number of Americans who hold anti-Semitic attitudes remains constant from its 2005 findings, demonstrating once again that "anti-Semitic beliefs endure in America."

The 2007 Survey of American Attitudes Towards Jews in America, a national telephone survey of 2,000 American adults conducted October 6 through< October 19, found that 15% of Americans - or nearly 35 million adults - hold views about Jews that are "unquestionably anti-Semitic," compared to 14% in 2005.

Fifteen percent of the general population believes that Jews have "Too much power in the US," with Jewish influence on Wall Street being named in particular.

The survey revealed that 29% of foreign-born Hispanics hold hardcore anti-Semitic beliefs, while 15% of Hispanics born in the US fall into the same category.

"We believe that the strong anti-Semitic views held by one of the fastest growing segments in America is no doubt a reflection of what is being learned about Jews in the schools, churches and communities of Latin American countries, which is anti-Semitism at its most basic," said Foxman.

The 2007 survey found that 32% of African-Americans hold strong anti-Semitic beliefs, more than three times more than the 10% for whites.
That finding is perhaps related to another that found that the more educated a person is, the less likely he or she is to hold Anti-Semitic views.

On a positive note, the survey found a majority of Americans hold Jews in high regard on many issues, especially on issues related to ethics and family.

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2. Pollard: In Jail Because He's A Jew
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=36659

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3. Australian Victory at Beer Sheba Re-Enacted
From: Ron Fraser

Greetings Yair!

I thought you might be interested in this piece from the Melbourne-based
Age newspaper,

Shalom,

Ron Fraser

AAP
http://www.theage.com.au/news/world/cavalry-charge-relived/2007/11/01/1193619034748.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1
THE AGE
Cavalry charge re-lived

November 1, 2007 - 2:04PM

Ninety years ago to the day, they set out at full gallop towards the Turkish guns in what one historian called a "crazed" charge.

This time, those re-enacting the famous charge of the Light Horse Regiments in the Battle of Beersheba in 1917 broke into little more than a gentle canter.

Still, it was hot and dusty and some of those dressed in heavy woollen period uniforms, complete with slouch hats adorned with emu feathers, and carrying World War I issue rifles, were no longer young men.

Nor was the reception as hostile.

Instead of Turkish artillery, the 50 or so members of the Australian Light Horse Association, and others, were greeted by cheering Israelis as they rode into what was then known as Beersheba, now the Israeli city of Be'er Sheva, on the edge of the Negev Desert.

In all, nearly 1000 Australians, New Zealanders, Israelis, Britons and others gathered to honour the Australian Light Horse Brigade, whose last-ditch, seemingly near-suicidal charge against the Turks on October 31, 1917, was a turning point in World War I and helped pave the way for the creation of the state of Israel.

The proceedings began with memorial services at the Commonwealth War Cemetery, continued with a memorial for fallen Turks who defended Be'er Sheva against attacking Australians and New Zealanders, and ended with a re-enactment of the dramatic charge.

Those who rode ranged in age from 18 to 80, and some were descendants of those involved in one of the last great cavalry charges, before modern warfare made horses irrelevant.

For Grant Pike, of Rainbow Flat in NSW, the re-enactment held a special significance - his great-uncle Harold Seale survived the charge.

Not all did. After the first memorial service, Pike knelt at the grave of George Cooke, one of around 30 Australians who died.

"This man was a friend of my great uncle," Pike explained.

He displayed a photograph of the fallen soldier, on the back of which Pike's great-uncle had scrawled: "George, who was killed in our charge in Be'er Sheva".

Trooper Cooke was just 22 when he died. His family chose his epitaph "Duty Nobly Done".

"I'm very honoured to be here," Pike said.

"It reminds us to be grateful for what we have, and not to take things for granted."

Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Meachem, of Temora in NSW, is serving with the United Nations observer force at the Israel-Lebanon and Israel-Syria borders.

Standing in the dusty field known as Sarah Valley, waiting for the Light Horse charge re-enactment to begin, he said: "As a serving Australian soldier, this is an amazing opportunity".

"The interesting thing is how long Australians have been serving here.

"We're standing at graves of soldiers who died 90 years ago, and here we are, still in uniform, still trying to solve the problems in the region."

As with Gallipoli, the sites of old battles are increasingly drawing younger Australians keen to learn of the exploits of their forebears.

"It's one of the few times we get to be really patriotic," said Heidi Le Lievre, 22, an Australian "traveller and temp" in Israel to visit a friend working at the Australian Embassy in Tel Aviv.

"Seeing how hard the light horse society worked to be here, and their attention to detail, and to have so many people here and so many nations represented, is encouraging.

"It's good to see that the contributions of these soldiers is acknowledged. It does make one proud to be an Australian."

Speakers at the ceremonies included the mayor of Be'er Sheva, the ambassadors of Australia, New Zealand and Turkey, and representatives of the Australian Light Horse Association and the Israeli World War I Society.

They spoke of the bravery of the fallen soldiers, the hope for peace in the region, and the opportunity, as Australian Ambassador James Larsen put it, "to give thanks that those we once fought here are now our friends".

Despite the heat and the sense of ceremony, the mood of the day was friendly and festive, as those re-creating the charge paraded through Be'er Sheva and posed for photographs with locals.

"It's great for the people who live in Be'er Sheva that finally something exciting is happening here," said 15-year-old Eliza Frankel.

"We see the (commonwealth) cemetery and the monument (to fallen Turks), and now we appreciate it."

The charge by the 4th and 12th Australian Light Horse Regiments has passed into legend.

The attack on what was then an outpost of the Ottoman empire was launched to outflank the Turkish bastion of Gaza, against which two previous attacks had failed.

The Australian Light Horse managed to do what no one else had managed for hundreds of years: they overthrew Turkish forces controlling the Gaza-Be'er Sheva line, paving the way for commonwealth forces to reach Jerusalem.

Though an obscure location by almost any measure, Be'er Sheva, named for the water wells which were said to have been dug by Abraham, was strategically crucial because of its water supplies.

With water running out among the commonwealth forces, Light Horse commander, Lieutenant General Harry Chauvel, ordered his men to storm Be'er Sheva before nightfall on October 31, or to die trying.

The Light Horse - who were mounted infantry rather than cavalry - set off, galloping, as usual, to a point 1,500 metres from the Turkish trenches.

But rather than stopping to dismount to fight on foot, as they normally would, the 800 horsemen continued at full gallop toward - and then directly over - the Turks and their guns.

Riding at full speed, the Light Horse overran the Turkish lines before the defenders were able to adjust their artillery.

It was all over in less than an hour, with relatively few casualties.

The survivors later formed the honour guard for the British commander, Field Marshal Edmund Allenby, on his victory march into Jerusalem.

The 90th anniversary of the Battle of Beersheba was also marked in Australia.

In Sydney, NSW Governor Marie Bashir unveiled a plaque commemorating the battle at 4.30pm - the same time the Light Horse began their charge.

At the same ceremony, John Cox presented the World War I and Boer War medals won by his father, the light horseman Arthur Cox, to the Australian War Memorial.

"We think that by giving the medals to the memorial to be displayed then more people will be able to see them and then more people may realise just what we owe to those blokes who went away and fought and were willing to die for us to save our country and to save our ideals," Cox told AAP.

He said Beersheba was a greater cavalry attack than the more famous Charge of the Light Brigade in 1854, during the Crimean War.

"It's a shame that it is not taught to many of our children at school and most people haven't even heard of it," Cox said.

"Yet those 800 men did what the crusaders couldn't do, they did what the soldiers of a number of armies couldn't do and that is they defeated the mighty Turkish army.

"By winning that they shortened the war."

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