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Jerusalem News-846
Jerusalem News-846
14 Adar 5769, 9 March 2009
Contents:
1.
Chaim
Hayman:
Petition Versus Dangerous Islamic Propaganda
2. Steven Collins: Despite the US Government Americans Will Not Abandon Israel
3. Majority of West Bank Arabs in Favor of
Hamas
1.
Chaim
Hayman:
Petition Versus Dangerous Islamic Propaganda
c hayman <chaimhay@yahoo.com>
Two Million US Homes Are Sent Dangerous Islamic Propaganda daily through the
Verizon Fios TV system -
HELP TO STOP IT!
Verizon broadcasts the radical Islamic TV network created by Muzzammil Hassan,
who beheaded his wife in the Bridges TV offices outside Buffalo, NY on February
12, 2009
Bridges TV is a thinly veiled propaganda operation with questionable ties and
funding sources, the network that CAIR has backed since its creation
* Online petition demanding that Verizon stop broadcasting Bridges TV
http://www.petitiononline.com/bridgeTV/petition.html
2. Steven Collins: Despite the US
Government Americans Will Not Abandon Israel
From: Steve Collins <scollins@sio.midco.net>
Subject: Change has come
Shalom Yair,
This link ominously reminded me of the prophecy of Zechariah 12:1-7. If the US
government forsakes the Israelis, many Americans will not.
Steve
How
Obama,
Hillary and Kerry will, ultimately, bring peace to the Middle East
By Caroline B. Glick
http://jewishworldreview.com/0309/glick030609.php3
Extracts:
At the International Atomic Energy Agency's Board of Governors meeting on
Wednesday, George Schulte, the US ambassador to the IAEA pointed an accusatory
finger at Syria. Syria, Schulte said, has not come clean on its nuclear program.
That program of course, was exposed in September 2007 when Israel reportedly
destroyed Syria's North Korean built, Iranian financed al Kibar nuclear reactor.
In its report to its board of governors, the IAEA stated that in analyzing soil
samples from the bombed installation, its inspectors discovered traces of
uranium. The nuclear watchdog agency also noted that the Syrians have blocked UN
nuclear inspectors from the site and from three other suspected nuclear sites.
Reacting to the IAEA report, Schulte said that it, "contributes to the growing
evidence of clandestine nuclear activities in Syria."
On Tuesday, at a press conference in Jerusalem with outgoing Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni, visiting US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced that the
Obama administration is sending two senior envoys to Syria. Their job, as she
put it, is to begin "preliminary conversations," on how to jumpstart US-Syrian
bilateral ties.
Clinton's statement made good headlines, but she was light on details. On
Wednesday, hours after Schulte accused Syria of covering up its illicit nuclear
program, US Senator John Kerry helpfully filled in the blanks about the nature
of the Obama administration's overtures to nuclear-proliferating Damascus. In an
address before the left-leaning Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the
Brookings Institute in Washington, the Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations
Committee, who just returned from a visit to Syria, Israel and the Palestinian
Authority said that the purpose of US overtures to Syria is to appease Syrian
President Bashar Assad.
If in the past, both American and Israeli policymakers interested in engaging
Syria have made ending Syria's alliance with Iran a central goal of their
proposed engagement, Kerry dismissed such an aim as unrealistic. In his words,
"We should have no illusions that Syria will immediately end its ties with
Iran."
Indeed, as far as Kerry is concerned, Syria's role in these talks is not to
actually give the US anything of value. Rather, Syria's role is to take things
of value from the US - and of course from Israel.
Kerry proposed that in exchange for Syrian acceptance the US's offer of
friendship and Assad's willingness to negotiate an Israeli surrender of the
Golan Heights, the US should consider "loosening certain sanctions" against
Syria. Doing so, he claimed will also be good for the US economy because it will
open new opportunities for US businesses.
...the administration is now asserting that Iran and Syria - the two most active
agents of regional instability - share the US's interest in a stable, democratic
Iraq. And owing to their sudden devotion to stability, Obama's surrogates tell
us the Syrians and Iranians will support the new anti-Syrian and anti-Iranian
Iraqi democracy and even protect it after the US withdraws its forces from the
country.
Then too, as both Kerry and Clinton made clear, the administration plans to
ignore Syria's support for Iraqi, Palestinian and Lebanese terrorism, its
nuclear proliferation activities and its massive ballistic missile arsenal as
well as its strategic alliance with Iran. Rather than confront Syria about its
bad behavior, the administration favors a policy based on making believe that in
his heart of hearts, Assad is a liberal democrat who aspires to peace, and hope,
and change.
But the core of the administration's campaign to ignore Iran's nuclear program -
as well as Syria's - is its unrelenting quest for the big payoff: Palestinian
statehood.
This week Iran staged yet another "Destroy Israel" conference in Teheran,
replete with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's trademark Holocaust denial, Supreme Leader
Ali Khamenei's ritual castigation of the Jewish state as a "cancerous tumor,"
and the US as a treacherous enemy, and Ali Larijani's threat to attack Israel's
suspected nuclear sites.
The genocidal pageantry in Teheran, elicited no significant response from
Clinton and Kerry.
Through its policies towards Israel on the one hand and Iran and Syria on the
other, the Obama administration demonstrates that it has already accepted a
nuclear Iran. Its chief concern today is to avoid being blamed when the mushroom
clouds appear in the sky. And it may well achieve that aim. After all, how could
the administration be blamed for a nuclear Iran when it has wholly devoted its
efforts to advancing the righteous cause of peace?
3. Majority of West Bank Arabs in Favor
of Hamas
Poll: Haniyeh beats Abbas in West Bank
By KHALED ABU TOAMEH
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236603390355&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
If elections were held today in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Hamas Prime
Minister Ismail Haniyeh would defeat Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud
Abbas, according to a public opinion poll published on Monday.
Meanwhile, Hamas has launched a new Web site in the West Bank in what is seen by
many Palestinians as an attempt to enhance its presence in that area.
The new site, called omamah.org, will serve as an official Hamas mouthpiece and
will document human rights violations and arrests carried out by Abbas's
security forces in the West Bank, a Hamas operative told The Jerusalem Post.
He said that this was the first time that Hamas launched its own Website in the
West Bank, which is under the control of the PA and Israel. The official said
that "for security reasons" he would not be able to reveal the exact location of
the site.
RELATED
Hamas won't sit in Fayad-led unity gov't
The latest poll, which covered more than 1,270 Palestinians, was conducted by
the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in the West Bank last
weekend.
The poll, which ahs a margin of error of 3%, also showed that Hamas's popularity
among the Palestinians has increased in the aftermath of Operation Cast Lead.
The previous poll, which was conducted last December, gave Hamas only 28%, while
the current one put the movement's popularity at 33%.
The pollsters did not offer any explanation as to why Abbas's popularity
plummeted from 48% last December to 45% in March. Three months ago, Haniyeh
received only 38%, while this time he got 47%, the poll revealed.
However, the poll showed that if jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti were to
run against Haniyeh, he would win by 61% to 34%.
The latest poll was released as Hamas and Fatah negotiators arrived in Cairo for
talks aimed at ending their differences and forming a "unity government."
The talks are being held under the auspices of the Egyptian government. Sources
close to Hamas and Fatah said that representatives of Egypt's General
Intelligence Service were expected to participate in the negotiations, which
will last for 10 days.
The 16-member Fatah delegation is headed by former PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei,
while the Hamas team is led by Musa Abu Marzouk, deputy chairman of the Hamas
political bureau in Syria.
Hamas and Fatah have established five joint committees to resolve differences
over the makeup of the new government, the reconstruction of the Palestinian
security forces, reforming the PLO and boosting dialogue between the various
Palestinian factions.
The two parties are hoping to reach agreement over the formation of a new
government whose first task would be to recruit financial aid to rebuild the
Gaza Strip.
It's not clear at this stage who will head the Hamas-Fatah government. Hamas
reiterated on Monday its fierce opposition to the appointment of outgoing PA
Prime Minister Salaam Fayad.
Mushir al-Masri, a Hamas legislator and spokesman in the Gaza Strip, said that
Fayad, who submitted his resignation last weekend, was "unacceptable" to the
Palestinians because of his government's alleged participation in the blockade
on the Gaza Strip, the firing of hundreds of non-Fatah civil servants and the
arrest of scores of Hamas supporters in the West Bank.
"Fayad is America's man in the region and that's why the Palestinians don't want
him," he said. "Fayad is not even accepted by Fatah, where he faces opposition
by many of its leaders and members."
Masri added that Hamas has the right to name its own prime minister because the
movement had won the January 2006 parliamentary election. He did reveal the
identity of Hamas's preferred candidate, but said he should be at least a
supporter of Hamas.
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