There is a great educational need to understanding the true issue of the State of Israel today.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
American Immorality Still Breeding Illegitimacy
Nearly 4 in 10 U.S. babies born out of wedlock Government report says hike happening despite steady drop in teen births
A teen-age girl tells about her "marriage of necessity" to Bo Jo Jones, especially the problems and difficulties encountered during their first critical year. (1967)
November 21, 2006
ATLANTA (AP) - Out-of-wedlock births in the United States have climbed to an all-time high, accounting for nearly four in 10 babies born last year, government health officials said Tuesday.
While out-of-wedlock births have long been associated with teen mothers, the teen birth rate actually dropped last year to the lowest level on record. Instead, births among unwed mothers rose most dramatically among women in their 20s.
Experts said the overall rise reflects the burgeoning number of people who are putting off marriage or living together without getting married. They said it also reflects the fact that having a child out of wedlock is more acceptable nowadays and not necessarily the source of shame it once was.
Note:
While this article may lead you to believe that the stigma of being an unwed mother or illuminate is nothing in modern society, I would hate to bust the writer’s bubble and say it is still far from it; just that immorality has gotten so bad that there is people hoping that their will be a blind eye. Their never is!
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Iraqi Kid Runs For Water
And the American's wonder why they are not liked in Iraq?
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Tyra Banks show deals with racism and goes undercover
Introduction byHousewife4Palestine
One of the days lately that I happened to have had to take it easy and as usual, I turned on the television to channel serf I came across what was the last segment of this series and I have to admit I was overwhelmed.
While most Muslimah who do wear full Islamic dress in America, there is much pressure these days and every once in awhile the threats, attacks or out right abuse I have to admit the racism makes many Muslimah stronger.
As well as our love for Allah, because as I mentioned to my husband just this morning if you keep your faith, Allah will always protect you no matter if you have to walk through fire.
I will admit other subject matters that this show has had in the past, I do not approve for the subjective immoral subject matter.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - The Iraq war was a boon for Israel's security, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Wednesday, voicing fresh endorsement for a Bush administration sapped by the unpopularity at home of its Middle East policies.
The mid-term election losses of U.S. President George W. Bush's Republican Party were widely considered a repudiation of his decision to topple Iraq's Saddam Hussein as part of a vision of democratizing the region and bolstering allies like Israel.
Olmert avoided explicit comment on the Republicans' fortunes during Washington talks with Bush earlier this month. But in a speech to visiting American Jews, Olmert made clear he had few regrets about the changes wrought by the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
"I know all of his (Bush's) policies are controversial in America. There are some who support his policies in the Middle East, particularly in Iraq, and some who do not," he said.
"I stand with the president because I know that Iraq without Saddam Hussein is so much better for the security and safety of Israel, and all of the neighbors of Israel without any significance to us," added Olmert, who was speaking in English.
"Thank God for the power and the determination and leadership manifested by President Bush."
With U.S.-led forces mired in an Iraqi insurgency, political analysts have speculated that Bush may redirect his attentions toward solving an Israeli-Palestinian conflict that is a major grievance in the Arab and Muslim world.
That could prompt Olmert to reconsider his unilateral policies towards a Palestinian leadership that he has argued is incapable or unwilling to make peace with Israel.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, a moderate who has been struggling to revive rapprochement efforts despite opposition from the Hamas Islamists with which he shares power, has said that Israel should seek peace as a key to wider regional calm.
Under Saddam, Iraq backed Palestinian militants and posed a menacing presence to Israel's east. During the 1991 Gulf war, Iraq rained missiles on Israel but Israel held its fire at the behest of Washington, which was wary of alienating Arab allies.
But Olmert's views on today's Iraq have not been shared by all Israeli experts.
Yuval Diskin, chief of the Shin Bet intelligence service, said in a leaked briefing earlier this year that Israel could come to rue Saddam's ouster if it deepens regional instability.
"When you take apart a system in which a dictator has been controlling his people by force, you have chaos," Diskin said in a recording broadcast by Israeli television. "I'm not sure we won't end up missing Saddam."
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UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Ramzy Baroud is a veteran Palestinian-American journalist, author of The Second Palestinian Intifada: A Chronicle of a People's Struggle, and editor of Searching Jenin: Eyewitness Accounts of the Israeli Invasion. A regular columnist in many English and Arabic publications, Ramzy has taught Mass Communication at Australia's Curtin University of Technology, and is editor-in-chief of the Palestine Chronicle.
About: Ismail Adam Patel
Ismail Adam Patel by profession is an Optometrist, who graduated from UMIST in 1985. He regularly contributes to discussions, debates and articles in the media and international forums regarding issues affecting Muslims and the Middle East. He has published several books including Madina to Jerusalem: Encounters with the Byzantine Empire and Palestine: A Beginner's Guide. He is the chairman of Friends of Al-Aqsa.
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Mishaal warns of third intifada if no political settlement reached within six months after government formation
November 25, 2006
Cairo - Khaled Mishaal, the political bureau chief of the Hamas Movement, on Saturday tabled his vision of a political settlement for the Middle East crisis stipulating an Israeli withdrawal to the 4th June 1967 borders including east Jerusalem and return of refugees within six months after formation of the PA unity government.
Mishaal, addressing a press conference in the Egyptian journalists syndicate, said the Palestinian national unity government would grant the international community, the USA and Europe six months after its formation for accomplishing a real political step in the region.
He underlined that all Palestinian forces were unanimous on establishment of a Palestinian state on the 1967 occupied lands that would end the Israeli occupation of those lands without leaving behind any Israeli settlement, "whether big or small". He noted that the Palestinian position was backed by Arab unanimity, and asked the Arab countries and the world to exploit this opportunity.
Mishaal, however, warned that in the event that step was not actualized then the Palestinian people would close down all political files and embark on a third intifada. He cautioned that the struggle would then be open for all possibilities.
He further warned that the PA would collapse, contrary to the USA and Israeli wishes, which do not wish to shoulder the responsibility for such a collapse.
There would be no negotiations on any settlement but rather there should be implementation of those demands on the part of the occupation, the Hamas leader elaborated.
Addressing those who believe that pressures and siege would frustrate Palestinians into abandoning Hamas, Mishaal said, "They are living a big illusion, Hamas will rather get stronger and all the resistance will get stronger".
The Hamas supreme leader also held the Hebrew state responsible for obstructing the exchange of prisoners between the Palestinians and Israel. "We covered major strides but finalizing the matter is not in our hands, we are not the cause for any delay, but rather it is the other party that is responsible for the delay", he explained.
He affirmed, however, that there was no other alternative to releasing Palestinian prisoners in exchange for the freedom of the captured Israeli serviceman.
Mishaal finally asserted, "We will not beg for lifting the siege laid to the Palestinian people, it is the Palestinian people's right that this siege would come to an end".
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Majority of Israeli settlers in Sderot plans to flee, as Olmert's popularity sharply shrinks
November 25, 2006
Nazareth - A fresh public opinion survey conducted in the Israeli settlement of Sderot revealed that a state of extreme fear was engulfing the settlers there spurred by daily shelling of the settlement with the Palestinian locally-made resistance missiles.
Senior IOF officers acknowledged the accuracy and affectivity of those missiles increased and that they see no solution for those rockets for the time being, inviting Israeli settlers in Sdeort to "accept the reality".
But the settlers thought otherwise as 66% of them expressed willingness to leave the settlement immediately to spare their lives.
The picture was different in the Palestinian side as the more the IOF troops shell them with sophisticated weapons the more they adhere to their homes and their lands.
The settlers accused the Israeli occupation government of ignoring them and of undermining their concerns, charging, "Had those Palestinian missiles hit Israeli settlements in the Israeli depth where western and rich Jews live the government would have reacted otherwise".
Mass exodus was recorded in Sderot settlement in the past few days as the Jewish Russian billionaire Arkady Gaydamak rented busses to transport the settlers to safer places in the resort city of Eilat (its Palestinian name is Um Al-Rashrash) on the Red Sea.
Olmert licks his wounds: The fragile security in Sderot and in the nearby Israeli settlements in the Negev region in southern Palestine sent popularity of Israel's premier Ehud Olmert to lowest rate ever as it shrank to 7% only.
Government of the embattled Olmert was desperately attempting to find a solution to the Palestinian missiles but failed. A political rift between him and his war minister Amir Peretz was obvious over the best way to deal with the Palestinians. Peretz was reportedly pushing for a political solution with the Palestinians; but Olemrt still thinks otherwise.
Meanwhile, the armed wing of Hamas, the Qassam Brigades, announced Saturday that its fighters rocked the Israeli Zikim colony with one of their home-made missiles in addition to firing a number of the locally-made mortar shells at IOF troops' positions in northern Gaza Strip.
In a military communiqué it issued in this regard and a copy of which was obtained by the PIC, the armed wing affirmed that the missile attacks were in retaliation to the IOF troops' brutality against the Palestinian people.
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Meshaal in Prisoner Swap Talks
An Israeli soldier detains a Palestinian youth in the center of the West Bank town of Hebron on Friday. (EPA)
GAZA CITY, 25 November 2006 — Exiled Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal held talks with Egyptian officials on the problems facing the formation of a Palestinian national unity government and securing a prisoner swap deal with Israel, Egypt’s MENA news agency reported yesterday.
The Damascus-based Meshaal, who has long been in Israel’s sights, met Egyptian intelligence chief Omar Suleiman for more than two hours on Thursday evening, it said.
The governing Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah party have so far failed to agree on a national unity Cabinet, a move seen as crucial to lifting a crippling Western blockade on the Palestinians. MENA said a deal was being blocked over the division of portfolios between Hamas and Fatah.
“Hamas is insisting on keeping the Interior Ministry portfolio while Fatah wants to take it back,” a Palestinian source close to the talks told AFP.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians turned out to bury a 64-year-old grandmother who blew herself up near Israeli troops, while clashes between fighters and Israeli troops on an offensive in northern Gaza claimed the lives of a Palestinian schoolboy and a fighter filming the fighting.
Israel launched its military campaign five months ago, hoping to curb rocket fire on Israeli communities bordering the Gaza Strip. But the rocket fire has only intensified, and yesterday, Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of the ruling Hamas group said fighter factions were prepared to stop launching rockets if Israel would end all military operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
Israel said it was “ludicrous” to expect it to suspend all military operations in Palestinian territories in exchange for a partial cease-fire in Gaza alone.
However, a government spokeswoman said Israel would respond positively to a complete cease-fire in Gaza.
In the past, proposals such as Haniyeh’s have failed to curb fighting, and a Hamas spokesman quickly watered down the prime minister’s comments.
The woman who was buried, Fatma Omar An-Najar, blew herself up Thursday as Israeli forces moved through the Jabaliya refugee camp north of Gaza City. Mourners shouting “God is Great” draped her simple wooden coffin with a green Hamas flag yesterday before driving it off to a nearby cemetery.
One of her 38 grandchildren, 13-year-old Leila, sobbed inconsolably at the funeral.
“I knew she wanted martyrdom. She was brave. But I’m still surprised that she did it,” she said. Fatma An-Najar was by far the oldest of more than 100 Palestinian bombers who have attacked Israelis over the past six years, killing hundreds.
Female bombers were a rarity during the first several years of the current conflict, but have become more common over the years. The last bombing, on Nov. 6 in Gaza, was also carried out by a woman.
An-Najar’s death, the Nov. 6 bombing and a women’s demonstration staged earlier this month to distract troops so Hamas fighters could escape a besieged mosque, all reflect increased involvement by Gaza women in the Palestinian struggle.
Not far from the funeral, also in Jabaliya, the clashes between troops and fighters claimed the life of a 10-year-old Palestinian boy, hospital officials said. The army said troops had no knowledge of hitting a boy in that area.
Earlier yesterday, troops killed a Hamas fighter as he filmed the group’s battlefield operations. Hamas often films its operations, then broadcasts the footage on its television station and releases it to other media outlets.
The source also said there were obstacles hampering efforts to reach a deal for Israel to free Palestinian prisoners in return for the release of captured soldier Cpl. Gilad Shalit.
“Israel wants to reduce as much as possible the number of Palestinians to be exchanged for Shalit, while we want to secure the release of as many as possible,” the source said, without giving any figures.
The armed wing of Hamas and two other fighter groups in the Gaza Strip claimed the seizure of Shalit in June in an attack that triggered a massive and ongoing Israeli offensive on the impoverished territory.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak meanwhile repeated his support for Palestinian unity, warning also against the costs of infighting. “Egypt is deploying all its efforts to help the Palestinian brothers toward reconciliation, to get out of the current situation and (set up) a government of national unity,” MENA yesterday quoted Mubarak as saying.
He warned of the “danger of conflicts between Palestinian factions” saying reconciliation was needed “to lift the blockade imposed on the Palestinian people by the Israeli party and to free Palestinian prisoners” in Israel.
“Dialogue between the different factions is the only way to get out of the impasse,” he said, with the Palestinian government reeling from a crippling international aid blockade since Hamas took power in March.
Israel and the West refuse to deal with the Hamas-led government until it recognizes the Jewish state, abandons its armed struggle and agrees to abide by previous Palestinian peace deals.
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Palestinian Resistance Attacks Israeli Military
Video released Nov 23, 2006, by Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades attacks against an Israeli tank and "snipers"
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Faleh Hasan Shanshal, a political aide of Moqtadr al-Sadr, said on Friday: "We have asked al-Maliki to cancel his meeting with Bush as there is no reason to meet the criminal who is behind terrorism in Iraq.
"We will suspend our membership in parliament and the cabinet if he goes ahead."
Nuri al-Maliki, the Shia prime minister, is scheduled to meet with George Bush, the US president, in Jordan on November 29.
"This is a sign of an alliance between Saddamists, takfiris (Sunni extremists) and the occupation forces," the statement said.
Pull out threat
Moqtada al-Sadr, the young cleric whose Jaish al-Mahdi (Mahdi Army) militia dominates Sadr City, told chanting supporters in a Friday sermon that the most prominent religious figure from the Sunni group must issue an edict demanding an end to the killing of Shia Muslims.
The group demanded that the government "specify the nature of its relations with the occupation forces", and once again demanded a timetable for the withdrawal of US-led troops from Iraq.
It said the Shia bastion of Sadr City, the impoverished district where many Sadr followers are based, faces deadly insurgent attacks and repeated US raids. Spate of attacks
A wave of car bombs ripped through Sadr City on Thursday, killing at least 202 people and wounding another 256 in the deadliest attack in Iraq since the war that toppled Saddam Hussein in 2003.
Armed men also attacked the city's health ministry on Thursday and fought security guards in a gun battle, trapping 2,000 employees inside.
Officials said the toll could rise since many of the dead had been reduced to scattered body parts and not been fully counted.
After dark, there was sporadic gunfire in several districts.
One of the blasts went off at a market, a regular target for Sunni fighters in the sectarian conflict that has killed thousands of people in Iraq. The neighbourhood is a stronghold of the Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. After the attacks, al-Maliki warned of "the dark hand of conspiracy that is shedding the blood of the innocent" and urged restraint, saying those responsible would be caught.
Leading Shia, Sunni and Kurdish politicians made a joint appeal for calm on Iraqi television.
Ministry raid
Interior ministry sources said five people were wounded at the health ministry building, about 5km from Sadr City.
The attackers fired mortars, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns into the compound. The ministry is run by followers of al-Sadr.
Hakim al-Zamili, the deputy health minister, was trapped in the building with the employees.
He said: "First, a series of mortars were fired at the building from the nearby Al-Fadhel neighbourhood, and then about 100 masked gunmen holding machine guns attacked.
"The gunmen came in civilian cars and pick-up trucks and started shooting at the building and wounded a number of employees."
The attackers later withdrew after clashes with American and Iraqi security forces.
A health ministry spokesman said: "The gunmen fled as American helicopters and Iraqi armoured vehicles arrived. Employees were [later] able to leave."
The fighting lasted for several hours but the attackers failed to break into the ministry compound.
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161 Dead and 257 Wounded in Latest Attack in Iraq
Smoke rises from damaged vehicles after a car bombing in the Sadr City area of Baghdad in this image taken from TV Thursday Nov. 23, 2006. In the deadliest attack on a sectarian enclave since the beginning of the Iraq war, suspected Sunni-Arab militants used five car bombs and two mortar rounds on the capital's Shiite Sadr City slum to kill at least 157 people and wound 257 on Thursday, police said. (AP Photo/AP Television)
A grandmother became the oldest Palestinian suicide bomber yesterday when she blew herself up in Gaza and slightly wounded two Israeli soldiers.
Fatma Omar An-Najar was the first suicide bomber to be claimed by Hamas for nearly two years. Its armed wing said that she was aged 57, but her family said that she was 68.
Israel said that its soldiers had spotted her and threw a stun grenade, causing her to set off the explosives early.
Women suicide bombers are rare in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, but there have been two this month. Bringing women closer to the front lines appears to mark a change in tactic.
This month Hamas organised a march of women across an Israeli cordon to end a mosque siege in Beit Hanoun.
Eight other Palestinians were killed yesterday on the second day of a large-scale Israeli military operation in northern Gaza.
Israel says that the operation is intended to curb rockets fired by Hamas and other militant groups. Palestinian factions say that the rockets are their response to Israeli air strikes and border closures.
The violence came as Khaled Mashal, Hamas’s supreme leader, began talks in Cairo aimed at securing a prisoner exchange with Israel, and the formation of a new Palestinian unity government.
It also coincided with a four-day visit by Louise Arbour, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, to Israel and the occupied West Bank and Gaza.
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Martyrdom "Fatima Al" Journey life until martyrdom Special report :
Palestinian women are still proving day after day that it constituted a jihad advanced in the history of the Palestinian cause, Since the start of the Palestinian revolution about resistance, Palestinian women did not hesitate to sacrifice for the same cheap patriotic dear.
In the al-Aqsa Intifada Palestinian women emerged again and threw all its might engage in, presented Palestinians convoys of martyrs and Alaschadiat, I stood Palestinian women to work alongside men in the jihad fighter, But this time bomb belts which Lizin by their bodies instead of the necklaces and jewels that decorate the bodies of girls today, We have deep faith Antalqan Zine hearts and the justness of the cause for which struggle was Viktben new chapter in the management of the conflict, During this Intifada the Palestinians convoy included eleven martyrdom of the finest girls.
Palestinian women and rejects only to participate in the Mujahideen heroes of Jihad and resistance, and here are Gasamih martyrdom "Fatma Omar Mahmoud Al," which reaches the age of 57 catch up Alasschadiat of ideals and causes Balaschadeh that preceded them to the heavens martyrdom Gasamih "Aleriashi Rim," which blew herself up at the Erez checkpoint set of Zionists and left many dead and wounded among the enemy here are two Gasamih martyrdom "Fatima Al-Nagar" walk on the same path and blow the same evening today, Thursday, 11-23-2006 series of the Zionist usurpers east of the Jamul the east of the Jabaliya refugee camp in return home due Shanti Lal and expected many of the dead and wounded in the ranks of the Zionist usurpers
And Pthiabha Hattha and traditional white and wrinkle on her time, Mrs. "Fatima Al" carrying guns, behind a label written the Martyr Ezzedine Al Qassam Brigades, distributed copies of her possessions.
martyred will introduce myself to God to sacrifice homeland then the maximum and God accepts me this work and introduce myself to the detainees, detention and ask God to disengage their families and accept God Mona this work in the process and Eketbni martyrs and ask God that brings us together with the martyrs in Jinan Na'im I ask God Almighty to guide my children and Girlie mosques and to ask my family distributed sweets when you hear the news of martyrdom.
Also sent tribute to the commander-in-chief of the Martyr Ezzedine Al Qassam Mohammed guest "Abu Khaled" and to the martyrs of all . "
As gifted to the President of the government, "Ismail Haniya," and of ministers in the Palestinian government, and called on God to Yoval.
For its part, the Martyr Ezzedine Al-Qassam Brigades said in a statement adopted martyrdom operation was carried out by "Fatma Omar Mahmoud Al" (57) in a group of occupation soldiers.
She that martyrdom Qassam Brigades blew herself amid a group of soldiers of the occupation forces in the area east of Jabalia Jamul, near the house of Shanti which left a number of dead and wounded in the ranks of the occupation forces.
Which has insisted that the spirit and blood for the sake of God after the house blown up by the occupation forces in the first Intifada, after it was a haven for fugitives and fighters, The sons of prisoners in occupation jails previously.
The statement added that the martyred today culminated in her bus bomber blew herself up amid a large group of special forces soldiers Zionism
The Qassam message to the Zionist enemy, through his statement in which he said : "We in the Qassam Brigades declare for the heroic martyrdom operation to send a message to the Zionist enemy that our these are only part of what Sillakeh Zionists at the hands of the men and women of Palestine, and will you Qassam Brigades, which surprises exposed Kiankm God, and make Gaza a cemetery for Your soldiers cowards and Aliatkm meager.
Eyewitnesses said that a woman approached the group of Israeli soldiers and blew herself up, which led to the cites and injuring many soldiers of the occupation has been transferred to a military hospital Zionism.
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Friday, November 24, 2006
Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Thursday, 23 November 2006
The material here is posted as I found it and anything else is not intended.
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When someone calls your support for Palestinians as "hate speech", show this video...
Introduction
by Housewife4Palestine
A seventeen year old young man wrote me yesterday telling me, “Love is the only way to change anything; don't hate Israel. I know it's got to be hard for you but hate just makes things worse.”
I did reply in this manner, “Hate is a strong word, I do not agree with Israel's policies; I never will this is true. I too believe all people should love each other, but when it comes to the price of all of humanity; one needs to stand up for the good of humanity and say no to anything that creates harm.” Since this young man was from England I began to do a lot of thinking yesterday and this is where the story, “The Day Tom Hurndall Was Murdered,” because a fellow countryman of the young man had enough heart to stand up for what he believed in and I am sure he had no hate in his heart probably more like fear when he was shot on purpose in the back of the head by an IDF sniper trying to save the life of a young girl.
As well as a few minutes before two young boys.
I feel for his parents loss, but they should be happy they had a good son.
What I begin to think is this young man does not realize what it is like to have lies said about your people and what it may be like to have a people namely the Zionist wishing more then anything, your death!
When I came upon this piece and the cartoons by Carlos Latiff today, I was hoping it would give people more of an understanding what it is truly like living in the shadows of a holocaust; not just talk about it. ______________
Copyleft video by Brazilian cartoonist Latuff, on behalf of the brave Palestinian people and their struggle against U.S. backed IsraHell's state terrorism.
HATE SPEECH!
"Israeli supporters prowl the internet and the media shouting 'hate speech' not at those who actually hate, but at those who focus on the embarrassing truths Israel does not want Americans to think about while they pony up another few billions dollars. The good news is that Israel's supporters have screamed 'hate speech' and 'anti-Semite' so much that the phrases have lost their shock value, which means they have lost their value to silence...
...But if you want to see REAL hate in action, please read on.
1. 'There is a huge gap between us (Jews) and our enemies not just in ability but in morality, culture, sanctity of life, and conscience. They are our neighbors here, but it seems as if at a distance of a few hundred meters away, there are people who do not belong to our continent, to our world, but actually belong to a different galaxy.' Israeli president Moshe Katsav. The Jerusalem Post, May 10, 2001
2. 'The Palestinians are like crocodiles, the more you give them meat, they want more'.... Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel at the time - August 28, 2000. Reported in the Jerusalem Post August 30, 2000
3. '[The Palestinians are] beasts walking on two legs.' Menahim Begin, speech to the Knesset, quoted in Amnon Kapeliouk, 'Begin and the Beasts'. New Statesman, 25 June 1982.
4. 'The Palestinians' would be crushed like grasshoppers ... heads smashed against the boulders and walls.' ' Israeli Prime Minister (at the time) in a speech to Jewish settlers New York Times April 1, 1988
5. 'When we have settled the land, all the Arabs will be able to do about it will be to scurry around like drugged cockroaches in a bottle.' Raphael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces, New York Times, 14 April 1983.
6. 'How can we return the occupied territories? There is nobody to return them to.' Golda Meir, March 8, 1969.
7. 'There was no such thing as Palestinians, they never existed.' Golda Maier Israeli Prime Minister June 15, 1969
8. 'The thesis that the danger of genocide was hanging over us in June 1967 and that Israel was fighting for its physical existence is only bluff, which was born and developed after the war.' Israeli General Matityahu Peled, Ha'aretz, 19 March 1972.
9. David Ben Gurion (the first Israeli Prime Minister): 'If I were an Arab leader, I would never sign an agreement with Israel. It is normal; we have taken their country. It is true God promised it to us, but how could that interest them? Our God is not theirs. There has been Anti - Semitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault ? They see but one thing: we have come and we have stolen their country. Why would they accept that?' Quoted by Nahum Goldmann in Le Paraddoxe Juif (The Jewish Paradox), pp121.
9a. Ben Gurion also warned in 1948 : 'We must do everything to insure they ( the Palestinians) never do return.' Assuring his fellow Zionists that Palestinians will never come back to their homes. 'The old will die and the young will forget.'
10. 'We have to kill all the Palestinians unless they are resigned to live here as slaves.' Chairman Heilbrun of the Committee for the Re-election of General Shlomo Lahat, the mayor of Tel Aviv, October 1983.
11. 'Every time we do something you tell me America will do this and will do that . . . I want to tell you something very clear: Don't worry about American pressure on Israel. We, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it.' - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, October 3, 2001, to Shimon Peres, as reported on Kol Yisrael radio.
12. 'We declare openly that the Arabs have no right to settle on even one centimeter of Eretz Israel... Force is all they do or ever will understand. We shall use the ultimate force until the Palestinians come crawling to us on all fours.' Rafael Eitan, Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces - Gad Becker, Yediot Ahronot 13 April 1983, New York Times 14 April 1983.
13. 'We must do everything to ensure they [the Palestinian refugees] never do return' David Ben-Gurion, in his diary, 18 July 1948, quoted in Michael Bar Zohar's Ben-Gurion: the Armed Prophet, Prentice-Hall, 1967, p. 157.
14. 'We should prepare to go over to the offensive. Our aim is to smash Lebanon, Trans-Jordan, and Syria. The weak point is Lebanon, for the Moslem regime is artificial and easy for us to undermine. We shall establish a Christian state there, and then we will smash the Arab Legion, eliminate Trans-Jordan; Syria will fall to us. We then bomb and move on and take Port Said, Alexandria and Sinai.' David Ben-Gurion, May 1948, to the General Staff. From Ben-Gurion, A Biography, by Michael Ben-Zohar, Delacorte, New York 1978.
15. 'We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population.' Israel Koenig, 'The Koenig Memorandum'
16. 'Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist. Not only do the books not exist, the Arab villages are not there either. Nahlal arose in the place of Mahlul; Kibbutz Gvat in the place of Jibta; Kibbutz Sarid in the place of Huneifis; and Kefar Yehushua in the place of Tal al-Shuman. There is not a single place built in this country that did not have a former Arab population.' Moshe Dayan, address to the Technion, Haifa, reported in Haaretz, April 4, 1969.
17. 'We walked outside, Ben-Gurion accompanying us. Allon repeated his question, What is to be done with the Palestinian population?' Ben-Gurion waved his hand in a gesture which said 'Drive them out!'' Yitzhak Rabin, leaked censored version of Rabin memoirs, published in the New York Times, 23 October 1979.
18. Rabin's description of the conquest of Lydda, after the completion of Plan Dalet. 'We shall reduce the Arab population to a community of woodcutters and waiters' Uri Lubrani, PM Ben-Gurion's special adviser on Arab Affairs, 1960. From 'The Arabs in Israel' by Sabri Jiryas.
19. 'There are some who believe that the non-Jewish population, even in a high percentage, within our borders will be more effectively under our surveillance; and there are some who believe the contrary, i.e., that it is easier to carry out surveillance over the activities of a neighbor than over those of a tenant. [I] tend to support the latter view and have an additional argument:...the need to sustain the character of the state which will henceforth be Jewish...with a non-Jewish minority limited to 15 percent. I had already reached this fundamental position as early as 1940 [and] it is entered in my diary.' Joseph Weitz, head of the Jewish Agency's Colonization Department. From Israel: an Apartheid State by Uri Davis, p.5.
20. 'Everybody has to move, run and grab as many hilltops as they can to enlarge the settlements because everything we take now will stay ours... Everything we don't grab will go to them.' Ariel Sharon, Israeli Foreign Minister, addressing a meeting of militants from the extreme right-wing Tsomet Party, Agence France Presse, November 15, 1998.
21. 'It is the duty of Israeli leaders to explain to public opinion, clearly and courageously, a certain number of facts that are forgotten with time. The first of these is that there is no Zionism, colonialization or Jewish State without the eviction of the Arabs and the expropriation of their lands.' Yoram Bar Porath, Yediot Aahronot, of 14 July 1972.
22. 'Spirit the penniless population across the frontier by denying it employment... Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.' Theodore Herzl, founder of the World Zionist Organization, speaking of the Arabs of Palestine, Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895 entry..."
Children in the Lodz Ghetto digging for fuel in an empty lot
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 10:50 PM0 comments
The Day Tom Hurndall Was Murdered
Tom Hurndall was murdered by an Israeli sniper while trying to help children to safety in the Gaza Strip.
Thomas "Tom" Hurndall (November 29, 1981 – January 13, 2004) was a British photography student, member of the International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and an activist against the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
On April 11, 2003, he was shot in the head in the Gaza Strip by an Israel Defense Forces (IDF) sniper, Taysir Hayb. According to witnesses, this occurred while he was acting “as a human shield, escorting children away from gunfire.”
Hurndall was left in a coma and died nine months later.
Hayb was convicted of manslaughter and obstruction of justice by an Israeli military court in April 2005 and sentenced to eight years in prison.
On April 10, 2006, a British inquest found that Hurndall had been "intentionally killed".
Tom Hurndall - Murdered by IDF - Related Footage
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 10:02 PM0 comments
What do you have to be thankful for?
Thanksgiving America 2006?
Just think when you are preparing your thanksgiving dinner and you just happened to cut a slice out of you finger peeling that umpteenth potato, that there is people in the world now that are hungry because of America/Israel alliance.
That cut finger is also a little price to pay, for the American’s and Muslims dying by the hundred’s this very day for a lie.
Are you truly thankful this Thanksgiving?
Oh, if you wonder what Bush is doing, he is having Turkey with Rice at Camp David!
*37 million people now live below the poverty line -- 12.9 million of those are children.
*The official poverty line is an income of $19,157/yr for a family of four.
*A single parent working full-time for minimum wage makes $10,712/yr.
*3.9 million families had at least one member go hungry because they couldn't afford enough food.
*1,600,000 jobs lost in the private sector since Bush took office.
*46.6 million people lack health coverage.
*1.7 million VETERANS -- including some Iraq War Veterans -- have no health insurance.
*750,000 Americans are homeless, 250,000 of them are Veterans
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 8:06 PM2 comments
More Food For Thought
November 23, 2006
by Housewife4Palestine
In my understanding of the Jewish or European Holocaust the timeline begin about 1933 and ended in 1945 with approximately 6 million deaths. While this holocaust was no less a black mark on history, there is a holocaust that has been occurring and is far greater demoralization to humanity.
This holocaust has been occurring for over a hundred years now, some would say only 58, but this is a little bit of a misnomer. What makes this particular holocaust much more devastating is the death toll here will never be fully approximated and this particular holocaust is in Palestine against the Palestinian people by the Zionist government.
Who fends to the world when one of them is harmed, that Anti-Semitism is happening towards them and they are again in threat of another holocaust like what occurred in Europe. What makes this so heinous, they are making claims when they are falsifying information to what they are doing to the very people that could have been their neighbors.
What is even more unique as the Zionist yell Anti-Semitism against them, they are claiming they are they only Semitic people of background, but if you check the Palestinian people or Arab in general are also Semitic in origin.
Even more so, what they claim to the world is the very thing they are doing and did as the Zionist regime during the European holocaust.
Therefore, when the Israeli or Zionist government makes claims they are being prejudiced against in some manner, they are making false claims because of the manner and under handed politics that has been perpetrated over a hundred years ago, 1948; until today.
The Zionist from what I have seen is the only Political organization that took a country through black market deals, infiltrated another country, namely the United States. The United States government blackmailing other countries to side with them on the Israeli agenda, to invasion of countries that is resistant to Israel.
What makes it more interesting is the payment of these invasion's is the theft of resources and the annihilation of people which has created the full scale war on Islam and no amount of white washing or out right lies will cover this up.
The other day I ran across theJTF web site speaking how they are going to put the United States back on it’s feet economically as well as morally, when it is the Zionist that is bankrupting and creating the implosion of this once great country.
It is like yes, I am going to help you on one hand, while the other hand I am cleaning out your bank account.
If some Americans believe that backing Israel is right for what ever propaganda information that are led to believe, Israel is the American downfall not their salvation any more then the deaths and destruction of any Islamic country.
Those who are Islamophobic following the same tactics as Israel in harming any Muslim, what you are being is a Nazi Storm trooper and nothing else. Just like the Israeli Military and so far what I am seeming the American Military is ghastly became also.
In conclusion, for those who feel that ridding America of all Muslims like they are new on the block since 9/11, really need a wake up call and a good cup of strong coffee, because if you check American history we did not show on your block a fort night ago. If you are so worried about national security why not check in your back yard because the real enemy is far worse then the Racist slam you are putting towards any Muslims; your real enemy is greater and their name is ZIONIST!
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 6:30 PM0 comments
Show Passport Or Else
Air travellers need passport for US entry November 23, 2006 Washington: Nearly all air travellers entering the United States will be required to show passports beginning January 23, including returning Americans and people from Canada and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.
The date was disclosed on Tuesday by Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff.
The Department of Homeland Security was to announce the change yesterday. Visitors from most countries in the hemisphere are required to show passports.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 5:35 PM0 comments
Use of 'human shields' condemned
Israel routinely orders air attacks on suspected weapons-storage facilities
"There is no excuse for calling civilians to the scene of a planned attack. Whether or not the home is a legitimate military target, knowingly asking civilians to stand in harm’s way isunlawful." Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch
NOVEMBER 22, 2006
A human rights organisation has condemned the use of "human shields" by Palestinian armed groups as a breach of international humanitarian law.
Human Rights Watch [HRW], the New York-based human rights organisation, released the statement in response to recent gatherings of Palestinian civilians at homes targeted by the Israeli military.
A press release by the HRW said: "Calling civilians to a location that the opposing side has identified for attack is at worst human shielding, at best failing to take all feasible precautions to protect civilians from the effects of attack."
Israel was forced to abandon an air strike on the home of Mohammed Baroud, a leader of the Popular Resistance Committees, after Palestinian civilians surrounded the building.
Hundreds of people were called to protect Baroud's home in the northern town of Beit Lahiya, on Saturday, after he was informed by the Israeli forces that the building was going to be bombed.
Sarah Leah Whitson, HRW's Middle East director said: "There is no excuse for calling civilians to the scene of a planned attack. Whether or not the home is a legitimate military target, knowingly asking civilians to stand in harm’s way is unlawful."
She urged Ismail Haniya, the Palestinian prime minister and head of the Hamas-led government, to denounce the tactic.
Israeli strikes
Israel routinely orders residents out of their homes before air attacks on what it says are suspected weapons-storage facilities.
Nour Odeh, Al Jazeera's correspondent in Gaza, reported that the 'human shield' gathering at Baroud's home was the first time such an act had been seen in the Gaza Strip.
Later an Israeli military spokesman confirmed that the raid had been called off because of the protest.
HRW also demanded an Israeli explanation for its air strikes.
Whitson said: "The IDF should immediately explain what its military objective is in targeting the homes that it has ordered to be vacated."
According B’tselem, the Israeli human rights information organisation, the Israeli forces destroyed 251 homes in Gaza leaving 1,577 people homeless between July and November 15 2006.
GAZA CITY, 23 November 2006 — An American priest and a nun joined human shields yesterday at a Palestinian fighter’s home that Israel wanted to destroy, the first foreigners to join a weeklong standoff between Palestinians and the Israeli Air Force.
Father Peter Dougherty, 65, and Sister Mary Ellen Gundeck, 55, both Michigan-based peace activists, said they were there to help protect the Palestinians. The pair arrived yesterday morning at the family home of Mohammed Baroud, a fighter involved in rocket attacks on Israel, and said they would stay for several hours.
For the past week, Palestinian fighters and civilians have crowded into five houses, to bodily thwart Israeli threats to hit them with missiles. The use of human shields is a new tactic in the Palestinians’ war against Israel’s mighty military.
Meanwhile, Israeli ground troops, tanks and armored vehicles advanced on two northern Gaza towns yesterday besieging a well-known Hamas lawmaker’s house and engaging fighters in ferocious clashes, Palestinian officials said. Fighters, undeterred by Israel’s military might, pressed ahead with their rocket attacks on southern Israel. A 22-year-old Palestinian affiliated with the military wing of the ruling Hamas party was shot dead while launching a projectile, the group said. Earlier, a rocket hit an Israeli school just before pupils arrived.
The surge in violence coincided with the Red Cross’ decision to suspend activities in Gaza after two of its workers were briefly kidnapped. The suspension dealt a major blow to aid efforts in the area where Red Cross ambulances are a common sight.
Snipers positioned themselves on more than a dozen rooftops in Beit Hanoun and Jabaliya in northern Gaza as the ground troops fanned out, Palestinian security officials said. Three teenage Palestinian girls were wounded by Israeli bullet fire outside a school in Beit Hanoun, hospital and security officials said.
Fighters faced off against Israeli troops in both towns with land mines, antitank missiles and rocket-propelled grenades, security officials said. Hamas commanders instructed their gunmen not to travel in cars for fear they would draw Israeli airstrikes.
Soldiers took over the home of a Hamas legislator who earlier in the month helped to organize a women’s demonstration that let dozens of fighters escape an Israeli siege on a Beit Hanoun mosque, the lawmaker, Jamila Shanti, told The Associated Press.
She was not in the house in Jabaliya at the time, contrary to Palestinian security officials’ earlier report.
A bulldozer chipped away at the walls of the two-story structure so troops could enter, relatives inside the house and neighbors told her, she said. Once inside, they locked about 15 members of her family, including five children, into a single room and threw furniture and clothes out of windows, she said. “They are only making us more stubborn,” she said. “We will resist with our last drop of blood.”
The Israeli Army confirmed it was operating in the area against Gaza rocket squads, but gave no other details. It said it had no information that its troops were at Shanti’s house.
Beit Hanoun was the site of a weeklong incursion earlier this month in which some 50 fighters and at least seven civilians were killed. The operation left a wide swath of destruction, but didn’t curb rocket attacks. In the first three weeks of November, fighters launched 155 rockets, up from about 70 in October and 65 in September, the army said.
“We advise the occupation to spare itself the effort of invading Gaza, because this is not going to stop rockets” said Hamas military wing spokesman Abu Obeidah. “It’s going to escalate rocket fire.”
“No government would tolerate such attacks, and neither will Israel,” said Israeli government official David Baker, after the second rocket fatality within a week.
Six rockets were fired at Israel yesterday, and three landed, including the one that hit the school entrance, the army said. No injuries were reported.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 4:13 AM0 comments
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Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) Escalate Attacks on Palestinian Civilians and Property in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT)
Al- Nasser Mosque, which was destroyed by Israeli Occupation Forces during the offensive in beit Hanoun.
09 - 15 November 2006
6 Palestinians, including 4 children, were killed by IOF.
4 of the victims died in the Gaza Strip from previous wounds they had sustained by IOF.
17 Palestinians, including 9 children, were wounded by IOF.
IOF have continued to launch air strikes on houses and civilian facilities in the Gaza Strip; 3 houses and a commercial store were destroyed.
IOF conducted 30 incursions into Palestinian communities in the West Bank, and one into the Gaza Strip.
IOF arrested 55 Palestinian civilians, including 6 children and two women.
IOF closed the Palestinian Center for Media and Studies in Tulkarm.
IOF have continued to impose a total siege on the OPT; IOF arrested 5 Palestinian civilians at checkpoints in the West Bank
IOF have continued to construct the Annexation Wall in the West Bank; IOF razed areas of land in Bethlehem and Qalqilya; IOF seized areas of land in ‘Anata village, northeast of Jerusalem; and Palestinian farmers have been denied access to their agricultural lands to cultivate olives.
Israeli settlers have continued to attack Palestinian civilians and property in the OPT; Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers and prevented them from cultivating olives.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 3:07 AM0 comments
I am ... therefore I dream
They said "I think ... therefore I am" I say " I am ... therefore I dream..." Would life have a meaning if it was void of dreams? Dreams are as free as freedom itself. And we know our dream
Yes, we do; but we are still dreaming it. We know it as a sacred Homeland like a sacred rite We know it deep in its poetry, music and colour. But it's even more magnificent with its people and its land. ALL it people and ALL its land
It must bring its light dignified in a second day..
Bring sociable and happiness..
Expel cold and revive the flowers
We love flowers and candles
We still have to complete the track and found the father,
Our determination fuels our intrepidity... also not much words to be said ..
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 1:53 AM0 comments
The US Veto .. A credit to the Occupation's massacres
A new Veto added to the Vetoes against the innocent civilians.The UN Security Council condemned the Israeli massacre in Beit Hanun, north of the Gaza Strip. Washington had provided the Zionist occupation with an international cover to commit more massacres.
Fawzi Barhum, Hamas spokesman in the Strip, said that the unlimited American support to "Zionist crimes against the Palestinian people" the latest of which was the UNSC veto constituted a "barefaced green light to commit more such crimes".
He warned of American hegemony on international platforms, pointing out that the USA was hitting Afghanistan and Iraq and threatening the Sudan and Iran, yet was backing a "terrorist state that kills women, children and old people day and night".
The spokesman called on the Arab group at the 15-member UNSC to adopt a strong position regarding the Palestinian suffering, and urged the human rights organizations to stand up against this American stand that justified killing and destroying the Palestinian man and land. He also asked the Arab and Islamic masses to declare a clear position against American hegemony on international platforms.
The Arab countries should adopt decisive stands on the official and popular levels against the escalating "Zionist criminality against our people" and they should demand protection for Palestinian civilians, Barhum concluded.
American representative at the UNSC council John Bolton claimed that his country's veto was used because the draft resolution did not include a clear condemnation of Palestinian resistance attacks on Israeli targets!
The Palestinian representative said that the veto was a green light for the Hebrew state to go ahead in its aggressions against the Palestinian people. He charged that the UNSC was not "fair" in dealing with the Palestine cause.
The Palestinian resistance factions warned the American administration of the results that may follow this veto against the Palestinian civilians because they gave the credit to the occupation forces to commit more massacres against the civilians of Palestine.
These sort of barbaric acts by Israel will keep on occuring for as long as there is a super power that gives it a global cover and saying "Israel only defends itself" with such horrendous and horrifying actions. Arab and Muslim countries along with the whole world must wake up to the fact the people of Palestine will and have the right to use all means to defend themselves and end their suffering.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 12:44 AM0 comments
During the last 3 weeks
More than 90 Palestinians were killed, 60 were unarmed civilians, including 16 children and 10 women.
The Occupation forces have escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property. The occupation forces intensify their attacks on the northern Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun and committed a series of crimes.
ZOF continued their offensive (“Operation Autumn Clouds”) on the northern Gaza Strip town, which began on Wednesday morning, 1 November 2006. During the last first week of the month , 70 Palestinians were killed, 48 of whom are unarmed civilians, including 16 children, 10 women, two old people and two paramedics. This number also includes 17 members of one same family, who were killed when the occupation forces shelled their houses on 8 November 2006. In addition, at least 221 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 67 children and 58 women, were wounded. Thus, the number of Palestinians killed by OF since the beginning of the offensive on Beit Hanoun has mounted to 78 Palestinians, including 51 civilians. In addition, 262 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 75 children and 60 women, have been wounded. The occupation forces retreated from Beit Hanon with no achieving to the claimed aims of stopping the Qassam Rockets.
In the second week, on Sunday morning, 12 November 2006, IOF killed a Palestinian child, when they fired a surface-to-surface missile at a number of children. Two other children were wounded. Four Palestinians, including 3 civilians, died from previous wounds they had sustained during the OF offensive on the northern Gaza Strip. Also on Sunday morning, OF fired at a Palestinian civilian, who suffers from a psychological disorder, in the east of Khan Yunis, wounding him. Thus, the number of Palestinians killed by OF since the beginning of the offensive on the northern Gaza Strip has mounted to 83 Palestinians, including 54 civilians. In addition, 264 Palestinians, mostly civilians, including 76 children and 60 women, have been wounded.
Also in the second week, OF launched 5 air strike on 4 houses and a commercial store in the Gaza City and Jabalya town. As a result, 3 of these houses and the store were destroyed and a number of neighboring houses were severely damaged. OF often warn residents of houses of their intention to attack them a very short time prior to the attack.
In the west Bank, on Tuesday, 14 November 2006, OF killed a member of the Palestinianresistance in ‘Ein Beit al-Maa’ refugee camp, west of Nablus.He bled to death as OFpreventedambulances from entering the camp for several hours.In addition, 13 Palestinian civilians, including 8 children, were wounded by the OF gunfire in the West Bank. Moreover, OF wounded and arrested a Palestinian in Ramallah, claiming that he was wanted.
The number increased when the occupation forces killed five Palestinians across the territories on Wednesday, November 22, 2006 including two civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Also Today, on Wednesday, Three teenage Palestinian girls were wounded by the occupation troops fire while walking beside their school in Beit Hanun.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 12:31 AM0 comments
Another Bloody Israel Day in Beit Hanoun
Ongoing Israeli incursion in Beit Hanoun; three killed;one Israeli soldier, three Palestinian schoolchildren injured
November 22, 2006
Gaza - Ma'an - During the latest developments, as an Israeli military incursion continues in the Gaza Strip, two more Palestinians have been killed and 18 more injured. Artillery shelling killed the Al-Qassam Brigades' activist, Mus'ad Ahmad Abu Mu'attiq, 35, in addition to Sami Az-Zibdah, 22.
Asma' abu Marsah, 45, earlier succumbed to wounds she incurred early on Wednesday, during the heavy Israeli artillery shelling of northern Gaza, bringing today's death toll to three.
Earlier this afternoon, it was reported that three Palestinian school students were injured by the Israeli forces in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip.
In addition, one Israeli soldier was seriously injured when he was hit by an anti-tank projectile in Beit Hanoun. He was transferred to Soroka Hospital in Beer Sheva, according to Israeli sources.
In Beit Lahiya, also in the northern Gaza Strip, a member of the Al Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, was killed earlier on Wednesday.
Palestinian medical sources said that three Palestinian students were injured when Israeli tanks used machine guns in the area of Beit Hanoun in the north of the Gaza Strip.
Eyewitnesses said that the students were leaving the schools, escaping from the Israeli tank fire. The students were shot at by the tanks and the Israeli helicopters which were hovering in the area.
Residents of the area said that the tanks were heading towards the Agriculture School and the UNRWA schools in Beit Hanoun.
Ambulances had arrived on the scene in an attempt to evacuate any casualties.
Israeli bulldozers had also started bulldozing and destroying farms and houses in the Qalibo area of Beit Hanoun, according to eyewitnesses.
In the same sequence, an Israeli soldier was hit by an anti-tank projectile while he was with another Israeli soldier in a house in Beit Hanoun. Israeli sources said that he was transported to Soroka hospital.
Witnesses said that an Israeli helicopter arrived and evacuated the soldiers, including the injured soldier.
posted by HRM Deborah of Israel and the Messenger of Peace at 12:23 AM0 comments
Wednesday, November 22, 2006
US Islamic group: Six Imams kicked out of US Airways flight
A US Airways employee walks past a jet at the gate at Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington, DC, September 2004. US Airways said it was investigating an incident in which six Muslim imams were handcuffed and removed from a flight at a Minnesota airport but later released without charges.(AFP/File/Stephen Jaffe)
WASHINGTON -- Six Muslim imamswere handcuffed and removed from a US Airwaysflight at a Minnesota airport over "suspicious activity," a US Islamic civil liberties group said Tuesday.
The six Imams were questioned by authorities before being released Monday following their removal from the airplane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
"The Imams, who were questioned Monday evening by authorities and then released, told CAIR that they were removed from the US Airways flight 'for no reason' and were 'humiliated' by being handcuffed and taken off the plane in the view of other passengers," the Islamic group said in a statement.
"They suspect the 'suspicious activity' cited by authorities was the performance of normal evening prayers offered by members of the group," it said.
"The detained Imams also denied media reports that they refused to leave the plane or that they chanted 'Allah' as they were escorted from the flight," the statement said.
CAIR called for an investigation into the actions of security personnel and US Airways crew members.
The six Imams, several of whom are from Arizona, were in Minnesota to attend a conference of the North American Imams Federation, CAIR said.
"We are concerned that crew members, passengers and security personnel may have succumbed to fear and prejudice based on stereotyping of Muslims and Islam," CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said in the statement.
"We call on relevant authorities to investigate whether proper procedures were followed by security personnel and members of the US Airways flight crew."
The public affairs office of the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment early Tuesday. A US Airways spokesperson was not immediately available for comment.
AZ Muslims Protest Removal of Muslim Clerics from Flight
I am Israeli Royalty and a kidnapped Political Hostage of the United States still being held illegally by the US against International court judgment; as a Diplomatic Israeli National.
Nevertheless, I am the soul representative of the country as not just the monarchy; but leader (Caliph) as it has been since 9,500 B.C. ("Who is the living embodiment of the country").
As it has always been for the welfare and harmony of all who live in my country, since the beginning.
As it has been written, I am known as the "Mother" of the country.
I am also the person that was prayed for sixty-three years ago, by both the Jewish Community and the Islamic Ummah and I share a very compassionate, loving embrace for both religious bodies; along with not just the gratitude of these two religions, but for Allah (Hashem)for sending me.
As to the whole of humanity, my arms in unconditional love and justice which
extends to the circumference of the four winds; as a mother would give milk to her children in kindness.
A teen-age girl tells about her "marriage of necessity" to Bo Jo Jones, especially the problems and difficulties encountered during their first critical year. (1967)
