Why the Left doesn't blame Muslims for Muslim violence
By  Dennis Prager, Feb 28, 2006


There's a certain consistent pattern  regarding the worldwide Left's
assessment of culpability for Muslim terror. It  is the fault of the murdered.

The most recent example is the blaming of  Denmark, or at least the Danish
newspaper, for publishing cartoons of Muhammad.  From Kofi Annan to The New York
Times -- and the other American newspapers that  declared respect for
religious symbols a new journalistic virtue -- liberal and  leftist opinion
always
condemns violent Muslim demonstrations, but always with a  "but." The "but" is
that in the final analysis, it was the Danish and other  European papers'
faults for insulting the Muslim prophet.

This is only  the latest example of finding the victims of Islamic violence
responsible for  that violence.

For a decade or more, it has been a given on the Left that  Israel is to
blame for terror committed against Israelis by Palestinian Muslims  (Palestinian
Christians don't engage in suicide terror). What else are the  Palestinians
supposed to do? If they had Apache helicopters, the argument goes,  they would
use them. But they don't, so they use the poor man's nuclear weapon  -- suicide
terror.

The same argument is given to explain 9-11. Three  thousand innocent
Americans were incinerated by Islamic terrorists because  America has been
meddling in
the Middle East so long. This was bound to happen.  And, anyway, don't we
support Israel?

And when Muslim terrorists blew up  Madrid trains, killing 191 people and
injuring 1,500 others, the Left in Spain  and elsewhere blamed Spanish foreign
policy. After all, the Spanish government  had sent troops into Iraq.

When largely Muslim rioters burned and looted  for a month in France, who was
blamed? France, of course -- France doesn't know  how to assimilate
immigrants, and, as the BBC reported on Nov. 5, 2005,  "[Interior Minister
Nicolas]
Sarkozy's much-quoted description of urban vandals  as 'rabble' a few days
before
the riots began is said by many to have already  created tension." Calling
rabble "rabble" causes them to act like to  rabble.

If you wish to test the thesis that the Left blames those blown  up for being
blown up by Muslim terrorists, have your son or daughter at college  ask some
liberal arts professors who is to blame for 9-11 or Muslim suicide  bombers
in Israel, etc.

In fact, one way to describe the moral divide  between conservatives and
liberals is whom they blame for acts of evil committed  against innocent people,
especially when committed by non-whites and  non-Westerners. Conservatives
blame the perpetrators, and liberals blame either  the victims' group or the
circumstances.

We Americans are used to this.  For decades, liberals have blamed violent
crime in America on racism and  poverty, i.e., on American society far more than
on the murderers, rapists,  arsonists and muggers themselves. Conservatives
blame the  criminals.

During the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, black mobs  murdered innocent
Korean shopkeepers and burned sections of the city. The  liberal response in
America was virtually universal: We must understand the  anger of these people
at
American racism. The daily special section on the riots  in the major local
newspaper, the Los Angeles Times, was titled, "Understanding  the Rage."

Though Thomas Friedman, the New York Times foreign affairs  correspondent,
has been among the few prominent liberals to support the Iraq  War, he regularly
blames Islamic terror on unemployment in the Arab  world.

Since examples of liberals refusing to blame criminals and  terrorists for
their behavior are legion, let's try to figure out why this moral  inversion is
so common.

Here are three hypotheses:

One is that  liberals tend to blame outside forces for evil. This emanates
from the secular  humanistic view of people as basically good -- and therefore
human evil must  come not from the bad choices and bad values of the evildoer,
but from the  unfortunate socioeconomic and other circumstances of the
person's  life.

The second explanation is that as you go further left on the  political
spectrum, it becomes increasingly difficult to blame the "weak" for  any
atrocities
they commit. The Left does not divide the world between good and  evil nearly
as much as it does between rich and poor, and between strong and  weak.
Israel is stronger and richer, so Palestinian terror is excused. White  America
is
stronger and richer than black America, so black violence is excused.  The
West is stronger and richer than the Muslim world, so Muslim violence is
explained accordingly.

And third, liberals tend to be afraid of the truly  evil. That's why the
liberal newspapers of America refused to publish the Danish  cartoons, probably
the most newsworthy cartoons ever drawn, but have never had  any hesitance about
showing cartoons and photos that mock Jewish and Christian  symbols.
Christians and Jews don't kill editors.

We don't know who will  be the next target of Islamic or other murderers from
poor or non-Western or  non-white groups. All we can know is that liberal and
leftist thought will find  reasons to hold the targeted group largely
responsible.

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Jewish Defense League Bulletin



Never Again





JDL takes on PSM
PSM Blinks

Colebrook, CT March 1, 2006/ 1 Adar 5766 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JEWISH DEFENSE
LEAGUE
palestine solidarity movement
By Moshe Finberg
I and my JDL brothers along with approximately 100 general supporters, Holcaust
Survivors, and Russian Refuseniks attended this conference in order to protest,
disrupt, and educate the attendees to distinguish between lies and truth about
Jewish activity in the Land of Israel and the history of Jews in the Middle East
since 1880. We were successful in interfering with several of their seminars,
and got the cameras and microphones off the speakers and on us many times. PBS
was there filming a documentary which will be shown in about 8-10 months. The
rhetoric was vile, and the University behaved horribly toward us. They used
excessive force to remove one of us (a 65 year old man with a cane and a heart
condition) who demanded a straight yes or no answer on whether the panel would
condemn homicide bombers. I was banned from attending press events Sunday even
though I had bona fide press credentials because I also had a paid-for
participant pass. I was free-lancing for a local
  paper. The vice-president for communications of the school Eric Smulson refused
to explain his decision and brushed me off with a rude “have your publisher
call me Monday.” His eyes burned with hatred. I was also banned from sessions
Sunday because I was seen distributing Israeli flags to the Survivors and
Refuseniks who were so proud and pleased to see Jews standing up to the Wahabist
agents. Some had tears in their eyes. A young Jewish female student ran to us
crying thanking us for our presence because the Nuturei Karta had been so
hateful to her as she merely walked through campus and asked who they were.
To tell you the truth, the University Administration, in its heavy handed and
unexplained expulsion of Jewish protestors who merely yelled out remarks, were
worse to deal with than the Muslim students. Most of the participants and
organizers were outside provocateurs, communists, and anarchists. Palestinian
Solidarity of New Jersey had a Palestinian flag with a bloody fist adorning its
table. The group was giving away lapel pins which included an AK47, AK47 in a
raised hand, and red stars with a hammer and sickle. When I asked the young
Caucasian nebbish whether he realized his heroes are happy to die for the cause
and whether he was ready to do so as well, given his symbols of death and
mayhem, he ignored me and looked at the floor. Nobody would even begin to
discuss with me how Israel had been selected for boycotts and divestment efforts
for alleged human rights violations over all of the other states who sponsor
them such as most Muslim nations which condone honor
  killings of rape victims, stonings of adulteresses but pats on the backs of
adulterers, denying women the right to vote and drive cars, and so on. They were
utterly baffled as to why “Palestinians” living in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan,
and Egypt as refugees were denied the right to vote in the PA elections. Neither
could they explain to me why the Jew is so vile and offensive that he cannot
visit much less live in 22 Moslem countries and should be removed from our very
holy Judea and Samaria. It was reassuring and not surprising to keep in mind
that not a single college or university in the U.S.. had been swayed by the
divestment efforts over the past few years despite the heart rending but
intellectually dishonest comparisons of Israel with apartheid South Africa.
Noting that Caterpillar, the manufacturer of tractors used to destroy terrorist
hide-outs and the subject of the sponsor’s boycott had a record year in 2005
with its stock skyrocketing. I asked the secondary
  boycott table to give me a list of the other companies they are boycotting so
that I could better invest for my retirement. ISM founder and self-loathing Jew
of the year for 2 years running denied his identity with a smirk to avoid
conversing with JDL while his and ISM co-founder wife Heidi (Huwaida) Arraf
spoke about supporting “Palestinian Resistance to Occupation: Volunteering
with the International Solidarity Movement.” Abraham "Abe" Greenhouse,
chairman of the central New Jersey branch of "Jews Against the Occupation," had
the bad fortune of having his table next to that of the JDL. He was repeatedly
informed that it was very bad form to have tossed a pie in the face of Anatoly
Sharansky right before he was about to address a crowd of students at Rutgers
University a year ago.
Very few people young enough to be undergraduate students were seen anywhere at
the event. In fact, at Shabbat dinner, the Hillel students told us that they had
a generally good relationship with Muslim students on campus and felt that
outside troublemakers had come in to stir things up. They told us that there
were no incidents of anti-Semitism or disrespect to Muslims. On the other hand,
a strong turnout of George Washington University, American University, and
University of Maryland Students were there to protest the Hoya event. I was
screamed at by one Caucasian woman of about 30 holding a baby (neither a
student) who accused me of being a racist pig and the JDL of being a listed
terror organization which had murdered people. As to the personal charges, I
calmly complained that she didn’t even know me and should talk with me if
she’d like to know what I am. As to the JDL points, I explained that she was
misinformed and seemed to be yelling out of an irrational fear
  or hatred of Jews who have big mouths. I got the same treatment from featured
speaker Alison Weir. I asked her if she would dialogue with me or had to lecture
me. She insisted that she had to lecture me and then took extreme close-up
pictures in my face until I called security. Ms. Weir is a contributing writer
to David Duke’s website with a history of spewing Jew and Israel hatred. There
was one pathetic youngster of Middle Eastern lineage who complained bitterly in
one session that she had been banned from her paper at the University of
Cincinnati based on her race. When asked what she had written for them, she
proudly announced a very scholarly piece deny the Holocaust. Oy! There was also
a session in which attendees were taught how to use the Birthright Israel
program (intended to pay for the first trip to Israel of a Jewish youngster) to
get free airfare to the Land of Israel and then to break away from the group to
join up with the ISM and other Israel haters in
  terror strongholds in places like Ramallah and Shchem.
The school was in the grips of terror over losing Saudi money to tolerate free
speech expressed by Jews. The vice president of communications, vice president
for public safety, and vice president for student affairs were constantly
shadowing us with a cadre of campus police. Although the event was justified
based on values of free speech, Jews were physically prevented from
participating. I violated not a single rule of conduct and hadn’t even
interrupted a speaker when I was banned for the aforementioned flag
distribution. Large, muscle-bound campus security blocked me from entering the
building, one of whom had no name tag and would not give me his name. They were
twitching to bust heads and had been very poorly prepared to deal with
articulate and law abiding protesters. Let’s add another event which should
Never Happen Again. Never Again should any educational institution in the U.S.
host such an anti-Semitic terror conference.
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The Lekarev Report
From the heart of Israel direct to your home March 1, 2006 1 Adar
5766

  in this issue
Is U.S. Interfering in Israeli Election?
Parisian Teacher Tells Jewish Student There's Room in the "Furnace"
Amona Inquiry Begins
IDF Warns Intifada of Stones and Knives Returning
Israel To Block Money from Iran to Hamas
The Joyous Month of Adar
Lesson 5 of Esther

Shalom

Satisfy us in the morning with Your kindness and we will sing and
rejoice throughout our days. Psalm 90:14





  Is U.S. Interfering in Israeli Election?



According to the London-based Arabic-language daily al-Quds al-
Arabi, U.S. Envoy Richard Welch asked PA leader Abbas to postpone
formation of Hamas-led government till after Israeli elections on
March 28 to boost Kadima's odds.

Under Palestinian law, Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas' designated prime
minister, has five weeks to form a government since Abbas officially
appointed him to form a new administration on February 21.

Palestinian sources told the newspaper that the Bush administration
believes Hamas' presence at the helm will boost the showing of "the
Israeli extreme right" at the polls. Washington is especially
concerned that a Likud victory in the elections will hinder its
efforts to revive Palestinian-Israeli peace talks. The source said
Washington prefers a Kadima win.

This kind of interference in the election process of a sovereign
Israel is deeply troubling.




  Parisian Teacher Tells Jewish Student There's Room in the "Furnace"



The Le Parisien newspaper revealed Tuesday that a schoolteacher
seeking to punish a Jewish student proposed that the boy "go to a
furnace," Israel's leading newspaper Yedioth Ahronoth reported
Wednesday.

The incident took place about a month ago at one of Paris'
prestigious catholic school. During a physics class, a 10th grade
student was busy chatting with his classmate. The teacher, named
Pierre, asked the Jewish youth to leave the classroom and wait in
the yard, which the students and teachers refer to as "the fridge"
because of the intense cold that prevails there during the winter.

But the punishment apparently did not suffice, and just before the
student left the classroom the teacher told him that "if you don't
like it in the fridge, there is always room for you in the furnace."




  Amona Inquiry Begins



Drawing the ire of lawmakers here, Israel's defense minister
yesterday barred soldiers and police who participated in the
demolition of several West Bank Jewish homes earlier this month from
testifying before a commission established to probe whether extreme
violence was utilized against Israeli protesters.

"This is an attempt to obstruct the Knesset from carrying out its
work," said Yuval Steinitz, chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs
and Defense Committee. "The committee wishes to hear the direct
testimonies and investigate the decision-making procedures in the
evacuation of Amona." Shteinitz (Likud) said that the purpose of
today's meeting was to determine the manner in which it would
function and how testimonies would be heard.

Steinitz, along with other lawmakers, was blasting the decision
yesterday by Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz and Public Security
Minister Gideon Ezra to ban the soldiers and police officers who
were used against protesters from talking to a Knesset commission
probing the televised demolition of nine Jewish homes in northern
Samaria.

Police were filmed using brutal violence against hundreds of
youthful protestors, over 200 of whom were injured and taken to
hospitals for treatment. The committee will also investigate charges
that some protestors themselves used violence, as well as the orders
given to the police to employ brutal force, and the government
decisions that prevented any form of compromise.




  IDF Warns Intifada of Stones and Knives Returning



The stabbing incident at the Gush Etzion junction Tuesday afternoon
ended with a low casualty count: A man from Kiryat Arba was
moderately injured and a teenager from the settlement of Tekoa was
lightly hurt. Soldiers shot and mortally wounded the stabber before
he could attack other Israelis at the junction.

However, this was only one out of three incidents in the West Bank
on Tuesday. A few hours earlier, a 14- year-old Palestinian girl was
arrested at a checkpoint near Rachel's Tomb. She told the police
that she had intended to stab them. Shortly afterward, a Palestinian
with a knife was arrested at the entrance to the Machpela Cave. He
is suspected of planning to snatch a weapon from a soldier.

As a large number of incidents are now being reported daily, the IDF
has warned that the knives and stones may be returning as means of
terror. Many consist of what the Shin Bet domestic security service
calls "popular attacks" - stone-throwing, fire bombings and
stabbings that are not planned by any organization.




  Israel To Block Money from Iran to Hamas



Israel will find ways to block the flow of Iranian money into the
West Bank if Teheran delivers on its promise to give a Hamas-led
Palestinian Authority $250 million, a senior diplomatic official
said Tuesday.

The official was responding to a report that appeared in the London-
based Dar al-Hiyat newspaper that Iran would allocate $250 million
to the Palestinian Authority to replace the funding withheld by
Israel and the United States. In an interview with the newspaper,
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal said that he officially approved the
Iranian support for the new Hamas-led PA.

The Israeli official said that while it would be more difficult to
keep the money from flowing into Gaza banks, Israel could prevent it
from reaching the West Bank. Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud
Abbas concurred, saying in a television interview that the money
would not find its way to the PA without Israel's agreement.




  The Joyous Month of Adar



Tuesday and Wednesday are both Rosh Chodesh (the "head" of the
Jewish month of) Adar, the most joyous month of the year, which
historically has heralded unexpected blessings for the Jewish
nation. Bezrat Hashem, it will be so again this year! .

"When Adar enters," the Talmud declares, "joy is increased." Adar is
the month during which the Jewish people's immediate annihilation in
the time of Queen Esther was thwarted, "transforming sorrow to joy,
mourning to festivity." (Esther 9:22) The Purim holiday is
celebrated on the 14th and 15th days of Adar to commemorate that
event.

Before the Jewish people left Egyptian slavery, the ninth plague �
paralyzing darkness � struck the Egyptians on Rosh Chodesh Adar, six
weeks prior to the Exodus. "No [gentile] man saw his fellow, and no
[gentile] man could move from his place." (Exodus 10:23)

Following the Jewish people's incomplete return to Zion in the time
of Ezra the Scribe, the building of the second Temple was completed
in Adar.

Judaism's greatest prophet, Moses, was born, and 120 years later
also passed-on, on the 7th of Adar.




  Lesson 5 of Esther


Purim is fast approaching and this week we are at Lesson 5 in our
study of Esther. The lesson is posted online and you can access it
by clicking below. May it be a blessing!

Shalom and Blessings, Leah

Lesson 5 of Esther


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Israeli & Jewish Useful� Idiots
by Jack Berger
March 1, 2006
Nikolai (Vladimir) Lenin, Russian leader of the 1917 Communist
Revolution, adopted a phrase descriptive of American President Woodrow
Wilson's naivet� in negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles,
referring to Wilson and other American appeasers of aggression as
"useful idiots." In a speech delivered in Moscow on December 20, 1920,
he characterized Wilson as "an utter simpleton whom Clemenceau and
Lloyd-George twisted around their little finger." Useful idiots, in
Lenin's mind, were cowardly defenders of and apologists for aggressors
who, protecting their lifestyles, were nothing more than "capitalist
dupes who will sell us the rope with which to hang them." For the
confused, let me enlighten: there never was a peace process. Oslo was a
charade played by princes and "emperors without clothes," yet I recently
encountered a few who are! more self-righteous than the average
appeasers and apologists.�
A little over a year ago, Israel Bonds brought to Chicago a former
Israeli Consul General, Alon Pinkus� a pro of sorts. In various
appearances on the talk show circuit, when confronted by some of
Israel's Arab peace-partner representatives, Pinkus did a masterful job
of running circles around them. While addressing the Israel Bonds
audience, he made two interesting points. First, "Jews and Arabs can't
live together�" (since he was no longer in the diplomatic corps, he no
longer had to be diplomatic). The second was more timely since it was
just prior to Israel's "disengagement" from Gaza. Israel, he said, had
to leave Gaza because "there are 8,000 Jews surrounded by over a million
Arabs." �
Always seeking insight into the professional mindset, I asked the Consul
General, during Q and A: "If, ! as you said, Jews and Arabs can't live
together, and since Israel is willing to transfer 8,000 Jews from their
homes and communities, shouldn't it also transfer the Arabs from their
homes in a place like Um el-Fahm (an Arab town within the green line)?"
When Pinkus began to respond, I interrupted his non-sequitur to rephrase
the question: "If the reason for disengagement is about numbers, and
considering that the State of Israel is comprised of about 6 million
Israelis surrounded by over 100 million Arabs, shouldn't Israel�by
your logic�just pack up and move to another place in the world?"
Whereupon, to my astonishment, the esteemed Consul General began quoting
about the sanctity of the Land, and about returning to our homeland
after 2000 years of exile� Unable to hold back, I interrupted him
again: "The day a leftist like you begins to quote Torah, I know that
Mashiach is on the way!" This brought glares from the dais, as well as
some laughter from the crowd (obviously som! e knew of whom I was
speaking). Two rabbis caught me on the way out with hugs, their eyes
twinkling, as they vigorously shook my hand and asked my name. Yet I did
get a few choice words from my wife, who thought Alon was cute and that
I had been rude. In that situation, Mr. Pinkus proved to be a "useful
idiot"�albeit a cute one.�
More recently, in a Skokie synagogue, three Chicago groups, Protect Our
Heritage, Hadassah, and the American Zionist Movement sponsored a
presentation by a Washington-based organization called the Israel
Project. Their website is very impressive�but for two small omissions:
First, that the original Palestine Mandate was for a Jewish homeland "on
the banks of the Jordan," with no contemplation in 1917 of a country
called Trans-Jordan; and second, it omitted the fact that the first
suicide bus bombing took place on April 7, 1994 in Afula. I'm sure these
were just honest oversights since all the other bus bombings were well
documented. �
The guest speaker, a young woman named Meagan Buren, their
Communications and and Outreach Manager, gave a PowerPoint presentation
titled "Bridging to a Pro-Israel Message." Now I know that among the
many Jewish organizations there is consensus that Israel has terrible
public relations. Forgetting the press' bias, "Israeli P.R." seems like
an oxymoron, with various groups insisting that they can do it better.
But in a world as goofy as ours has become�over a hundred people
slaughtered because of a few cartoons and a 24-hour media always looking
to dredge up anything remotely resembling "news"�I don't know of a
country that does look good these days. Surely it isn't the U.S. or
Denmark. Go around the globe and try to find a country that does get
good press. So this public relations stuff is a bit overblown and highly
overrated�which only highligh! ts how paranoid and neurotic Jews can
be. Don't get me wrong�it isn't that everything is wonderful and that
anti-Semitism is a thing of the past�which it isn't�but the world
today is a lot crazier, more volatile and more dangerous than it has
been in a long time, and good P.R. will not banish the bad guys... and
neither will cowardice and appeasement.� The Israel Project promotes
the use of "bridges" as segues to make your "Pro-Israel Message" more
palatable. There are four such bridges:� Bridge 1. [Demonstrate your]
empathy for both sides. A bit of a stretch considering that in elections
held a few weeks back, Palestinians rewarded Hamas, the suicide-bombing
experts, with an overwhelming victory. This shouldn't have come as a
great surprise. Hamas boasted responsibility for forcing Israel out of
Gaza. The Palestinian electorate ! had been warned in advance of the
political repercussions if Hamas won the elections. The U.S. and the EU
sent the Palestinians a message before the election, and the
Palestinians sent them back an unambiguous answer. This was not Bush
versus Gore 2000�this was a landslide. Kudos to the Palestinians for
standing up for what they believe in and not betraying their voters the
way Sharon betrayed his. Democracy had prevailed, and the U.S., Israel,
the EU and the rest of the whiners need to come to terms with the fact
that the thug, Holocaust-denier, Arafat-in-a-suit Abu Mazen, lost. Call
me mean-spirited, but I just can't feel a great deal of empathy for
young men who strap on explosives to blow themselves up for the purpose
of murdering as many innocent Jews as possible. I don't need or want the
candy joyously handed out by the bombers' mothers, celebrating the
families' honor of these suicide murderers. Ms. Buren, in her empathy
for the Palestinians, came off as an apol! ogist for killers.� Bridge
2. [Remind them that] Israel wants peace. "�and has always been and
still is ready to make painful sacrifices for peace". I once heard an
Israeli general say to a group, "I'm willing to die for my country!" and
I replied, "That's the problem, General, you've got it backwards. The
object is to make the other guy die for his country. It's a good deal
for both of you: He goes to 72 virgins, and you get to bounce
grandchildren on your knee." Painful concessions? Enough painful
concessions! Since Oslo began, over 1400 Jews have been splattered on
the streets of Israel. Rabin and Peres despicably called these dead Jews
"sacrifices for peace." Oslo wasn't the answer and neither were the
cowardly withdrawals first from Southern Lebanon as a courtesy to
Hizbollah, and then from Gaza, creating what is now, for all intents and
purposes, Hamastan. Cowardice i! s not a strategy for rooting out
evil.�
Bridge 3. [Point out] shared values/interests [in common with
America]�Point of fact: America has no problem being close friends
with countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt, so I wouldn't rest
Israel's case on the canard of shared values. Israel is either a
strategic asset or it isn't. As Joseph Sisco, former Assistant Secretary
of State, said to an Israeli consul general back in the Cold War Days,
"I want to assure you that if we were not getting full value for our
U.S. dollar, you [Israel] would not get a cent from us." American
foreign policymakers are pragmatists, not moralists. America has been
buying Israel's loyalty at a bargain-basement price. What does America
get from Egypt? Ask Condi!�
Bridge 4. [Agree that] it's time to end terror and the culture of hate.
The! "holy" wars between Judeo-Christian "infidels" and Islam has been
going on for over 1400 years, and the brainwashing of the last
generation of Arabs/Muslims is just another link in the chain that began
when a guy named Mohammed began praying to a rock in Mecca, and wanted
the Jews to come play with him. Three hundred schools are named after
suicide bombers. They don't have 300 Muslim doctors, lawyers,
entrepreneurs, academics or scientists to replace the names of their 300
shahids, and until they do, those schools would have to go nameless. �
And that brings me to my main issue with the wunderkind Ms. Buren, which
is something that Jay Tcath of the Jewish Community Relations Committee
states and restates: If Israel has such bad P.R. in the U.S., why is it
that in poll after poll over the last five years�most recently in a
Gallup poll taken just this month�59 to 66 percent of Americans
sympathize with and support! Israel, while only 12 to 15 percent of
Americans support the Palestinians? This is an astonishingly consistent
fact. Americans overwhelmingly get it! And yet, even more incredible,
the poll found that between 77 and 82 percent of Republicans are more
likely to sympathize with Israel, while only 48 to 52 percent of
Democrats side with Israel. (It should be pointed out, for the record,
that 75 to 80 percent of American Jews vote Democratic.) Christian
Americans and Republican Americans know who to "cheer" for. As the
Gallup poll shows, it is American Jews of the Democratic persuasion that
are truly the Israel-challenged.�
"Useful idiots" are those who try to deny the obvious. Armed with
excuses and rationalizations, they have created an art form of telling
people what they wanted them to hear rather than what was actually
happening. The secret to their ruse has been knowing who to blame for
their failures. Yet what partic! ularly troubled me about Ms. Buren's
presentation was her stated intentional avoidance of the religious
argument for the reestablishment of Israel while two rabbis sat silent
in the audience in the synagogue hosting the event. The only reason our
people went back to Canaan in 1948 was that it was promised to our
people in the Torah. It wasn't promised to Christians or to Muslims. It
was promised to the Jews as a birthright in an everlasting covenant. We
are currently reading the book of Exodus. The exodus was from Egypt to
Canaan�or in modern terms, from Europe to Palestine. Most Christians
get it�liberal, secular-humanist Jews have a problem with it. And when
their liberal humanist rabbis (of all denominations) get that thing
about the Land and our chosenness stuck in their throats, they should
remember the words of a recent Pope who, upon arriving at his holy land
(our Israel), stated clearly and unequivocally, "This land of Israel may
be holy to all three monotheistic religi! ons, but it was given by our
Creator only to the Jews." He was talking directly to his Christian
followers, but hopefully a few Jews were also listening.� "Useful
idiots" may be well meaning, or they may have their own bias, but
encouraging our enemies through perfidious cowardice to believe in their
dream of a Palestinian state from the river to the sea can only lead to
one fate: "You will offer yourselves for sale to your enemies as
slaves�but there will be no buyer!" (Deut. 28:68)�It will be a land
where "No jews or dogs are allowed!" Maybe dogs.�

Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai!
Please support the Healing Teddies Project--- (contact me
@Calebseed@...)

Help Israel and show the world you care!
SWI Israel Store: http://www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be
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stand, you stand with Israel!

Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael!
Wherever we stand we stand with Israel! Forever!

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who�choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

Please remember that this is from Haaretz, property of the left, bought
and paid for. While Burston means this as propaganda, hoping to frighten
the Israeli public into the suicidal election of Olmert, we can hope and
pray that his effort turns prophetic. Bibi is saying things about giving
up Israel's land that I vehemently oppose, but, given the present mix,
he remains true Israel's only hope. May he, G-d willing, triumph over
all of the left!

Hamas will elect our next prime minister By Bradley Burston
Wednesay, 15 February (41 days to election day) This month, Hamas chose
the next Palestinian prime minister. Next month, Hamas will choose ours.
Like it or not, it all comes down to terrorism. The Islamic Resistance
Movement's day job may be clean government, but terrorism remains its
middle name. It's Hamas' call. Whichever way Hamas swings, bloodshed or
calm, so swings the election.
No one knows this better than Benjamin Netanyahu. This month marks 10
years since Hamas embarked on a wave of suicide terror that would bring
Netanyahu, a greenhorn politician and, until then, a hopeless underdog,
an upset triumph in elections against then-prime minister and runaway
favorite Shimon Peres.
This year, Netanyahu trails not one but two candidates. Polls show that
the politician whom Netanyahu truly despises, Ehud Olmert, has held onto
the strong lead originally accorded Prime Minister Ariel Sharon before
his devastating stroke. Recent polls suggest that if elections were held
today, Olmert and Kadima would gain some 40 seats in the 120-seat
Knesset, Amir Peretz and Labor about 20, and Netanyahu's Likud 15. Not
surprisingly, Netanyahu's first move has been to place Hamas at the
center of his campaign. You have only to look at the billboards. Once
again, Hamas is Bibi's running mate.
Paraphrasing the television slogan of a popular over-the-counter
pain-killer - a medication, incidentally, long banned in the West for
its fatal side-effects - the outdoor ads read "Strong against Hamas."
The picture, no less than the message, is vintage 1996 as well. Not
coincidentally, the word Hamas is much larger than the word Likud. Of
the countless variables in the current campaign - among them the make-up
of the new Palestinian government, the course of Ariel Sharon's
condition, the message Vladimir Putin has for his Hamas guests, the
actions and words of the Bush administration, public sentiment over a
future West Bank disengagement - only one question really matters: Do
Israelis feel safe?
There is only one true sheriff in the territories at this point, and he
no longer wears a six-pointed star. Hamas is the law, now. It's up to
Hamas to decide whether being boss means riding herd on the gangbangers,
gun runners, drug dealers, macho men and fame seekers who have banded
together under the Al-Aqsa Martyrs marquee. Hamas has yet to show its
hand. More accurately, it shows a number of contradictory hands at once.
This week, even as its military wing, Iz al-Din al-Qassam registered and
collected firearms used by Hamas activists in northern Gaza, the
movement's leader Mahmoud Zahar issued a fiery rejection of concessions
to Israel.
"Recognizing the state of the Israeli enemy is not on the table," he
said. "Our program is to liberate Palestine, all of Palestine," he
declared.
"The Qassam Brigades will continue to increase in numbers, supplies and
weapons... until the liberation is completed." But even as Zahar was
speaking, Damascus-based Hamas leader Khaled Meshal, interviewed by a
Russian paper, discussed for the first time the possibility that Hamas
might disarm
"If Israel recognizes our rights and pledges to withdraw from all
occupied lands, Hamas, and the Palestinian people together with it, will
decide to halt armed resistance," Meshal told the Nezavisimaya Gazeta.
In practical political terms, how does the terror card play out? For
Amir Peretz and his social welfare agenda, an extended period of calm
would be a godsend.
Only quiet on the security front could create the psychic conditions,
both for Israelis at home and investors abroad, for a sweeping
reordering of priorities to take into account the needs of the jobless,
the homeless, single mothers, the handicapped, the elderly,
schoolchildren, and yes, the Gaza evacuees. For Ehud Olmert, as well,
calm is clearly best, not least because it constitutes a test of the
signal policy move of the Sharon-Olmert administration, the
disengagement.
Should clandestine Hamas rocket factories develop Qassams with extended
ranges, if gunners can operate freely to launch them into Israel from
the ruins of demolished settlements, if Al Aqsa Martyrs can resume
deive-by killings with impunity, hen much of the Israeli public will
judge Olmert to have been a failure and unsuited for high office. On the
other hand, even if violence precedes the election, Olmert could
conceivably turn his present office to advantage, if his military and
diplomatic response if judged effective, tough, and appropriate,
especially by Israelis who may feel uneasy about changing horses in the
middle of a cavalry charge.
And then there's Bibi.
For Netanyahu, terror is the only hope.
The economic policies he defends as having saved the country, have so
alienated his blue-collar voter base, that only Hamas, the Jihad and the
Martyr's can pull him out now.
In this regard, however, supporters of Netanyahu can take heart. Hamas
did it for him once. Hamas can certainly do it again.

Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai!
Please support the Healing Teddies Project--- (contact me
@Calebseed@...)

Help Israel and show the world you care!
SWI Israel Store: http://www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be
used anytime and anywhere to let your community know that wherever you
stand, you stand with Israel!

Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael!
Wherever we stand we stand with Israel! Forever!

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who�choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

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       CAIR's Dubai Sugar Daddy
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FrontPageMagazine.com | March 1, 2006

When the Council on American-Islamic Relations parrots White House talking
points, you know there's something very wrong inside the Beltway.

CAIR spokesman Arsalan Iftikhar agrees there's no reason to get in a lather over
the United Arab Emirates taking over just about every major shipping terminal
along our Eastern Seaboard. The UAE is harmless, and if you're alarmed about the
deal, well, you're an Islamophobe caught up in the post-9/11 "industry of fear."

"What's important to understand here is that all this is doing is demonizing the
entire world Muslim population," Iftikhar complained on MSNBC.

And besides, he says the UAE won't have anything to do with port security -- not
that it matters if they did. "We have to clarify a few things here," he
asserted, sounding more like a White House spokesman. "First of all, none of
these port security operations are being given over to this country. The
Department of Homeland Security is still going to have full autonomy when it
comes to security at the ports."

So relax. Iftikhar, like President Bush, says he sees no difference in risk
between the UAE or the U.K. operating the docks where millions of cargo
containers enter New York and Baltimore and Miami. What about UAE's terror
record? Pshaw! "These are knee-jerk responses" borne of anti-Arab racism, he
says.

As a Muslim-rights pressure group, CAIR's own knee-jerk response in defending
the UAE is not surprising -- after all, it's populated by Muslims. But the group
has more at stake in this case. In fact, it has a direct financial interest in
defending the UAE -- a financial relationship that has never been reported in
the mainstream media and never publicly disclosed by CAIR, even as it claims to
receive no foreign support.

Truth be told, CAIR has an otherwise glaring conflict of interest in speaking
out about the White House-approved deal to give UAE-owned Dubai Ports World
control of six of our ports effective March 2. And it's something that producers
at FOX, CNN and NBC should know before they ever book another CAIR flack. Here's
what CAIR is hiding:

The U.S.-based executives of Dubai Ports World report to the emir of Dubai, who
owns controlling interest in the Dubai-based company. His name is Gen. Sheik
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al-Maktoum. It just so happens that Sheik Maktoum also owns
the deed to CAIR's headquarters located practically in the shadow of the U.S.
Capitol. As I first reported in my book, "Infiltration: How Muslim Spies and
Subversives Have Penetrated Washington," CAIR's deed is recorded in the name of
his foundation, the Al-Maktoum Foundation. It put up more than $978,000 for the
property and holds the rights to sell it, manage it and collect rents from other
tenants in the multistory red-brick building on the CAIR property, located at
453 New Jersey Avenue, S.E., in Washington. (You can view the relevant pages of
the documents on the book's companion website, sperryfiles.com.)

CAIR's landlord, Sheik Maktoum, doubles as UAE defense minister. Before 9/11, he
provided UAE military C-130 cargo planes to supply al-Qaida hunting camps in
Afghanistan with all the amenities they needed when he and other high-level UAE
officials and princes took hunting trips there. On one trip
in 1999, roughly half the UAE royal family was the guest of Osama bin laden at
his camp near Kandahar. They flew in on an official UAE aircraft, according to a
recently declassified CIA memo dated Feb. 19, 1999, and titled, "Recent High
Level UAE Visits to Afghanistan." The memo also determined that Dubai officials
had lied to U.S. officials about visiting the camps. And they were believed to
have even tipped off bin Laden about a coming strike on his camps. Mind you,
this was just months after bin Laden blew up the two U.S. embassies in Africa (a
plot which was financed in part through Dubai banks), so they knew they were in
bad company. Just like CAIR knows it's in bad company.

The Dubai officials also had a cozy relationship with the Taliban. By now you've
probably heard that the UAE was one of only three countries in the world -- the
others being Saudi Arabia and Pakistan -- to formally recognize the Taliban in
diplomatic circles. What you haven't heard is that Dubai was one of the
Taliban's only travel and financial outlets to the outside world. Dubai booked
flights for them and acted as their banker. But CAIR doesn't care about that,
either (nor apparently does the White House).

So with all the bonding that bin Laden did with Dubai royals before 9/11, it's
little wonder that he deployed 13 of his 19 hijackers from Dubai to hit America.
That's right, all 13 entered the U.S. from Dubai (and that's not even counting
the original 20th hijacker Mohammed al-Katani, who also entered through Dubai
before an alert INS inspector at Orlando airport sent him packing). Or little
wonder that two were Emirates, and that one -- Marwan al-Shehhi -- in fact
served under Sheik Maktoum in the UAE Army. He no doubt made the general proud
by crashing his plane into the South Tower.

It's also not surprising, given Dubai's cozy ties to bin Laden and Taleb
leaders, that the hijackers were able to use Dubai as their financial base in
addition to their forward staging base. As they came through Dubai, they were
outfitted by the nephew of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed with credit
cards, cash, bank accounts and American-style clothing. More than $100,000 in
al-Qaida funds were funneled through Dubai banks. One single transfer from Dubai
into al-Shehhi's and his pal Mohamed Atta's Florida checking account totaled
$70,000.

The day before crashing his hijacked United Airlines jet, al-Shehhi wired $5,400
in leftover al-Qaida funds back to Dubai. Other hijackers also wired residuals
there. After the attacks, investigators traced al-Shehhi phone calls back to the
UAE, where he is now celebrated as a hero in mosques and other local gathering
places outside the gaze of Western investors, who are too intoxicated by
glittering high-rises and other signs of modernity to understand that the desert
oasis is still haunted by ancient demons.

Sheik Maktoum's reaction to the mass murder of 3,000 in New York, Washington and
Pennsylvania was shockingly unsympathetic (as was CAIR's). In fact, he reserved
his sympathies for Palestinians. Two weeks after 9/11, Sheik Maktoum warned
Washington not to attack "innocent" Muslims in Afghanistan and to instead focus
on "Israeli terrorists" in its war on terrorism. He argued that they are the
only real terrorists.

"The Arab and Muslim communities have paid dearly for terrorism, especially the
state terrorism practiced by the government of [Israeli Prime Minister Ariel]
Sharon and extremist groups in Israel," he bellowed. "Regrettably, the powers in
the international community [read: America, "the Great Satan"] have done nothing
but watch the Israeli terrorists, a matter which has angered Arabs and Muslims
[including most assuredly Sheik Maktoum]." He added, "Confrontation of terrorism
must cover Israeli terrorism."

Sheik Maktoum defines Palestinian suicide bombings as "legitimate acts of
resistance," and not terrorism (which makes you wonder how he defines 9/11), and
he has held Dubai telethons to support the families of suicide bombers. Also,
the sheik has been accused of winking at al-Qaida money-laundering in his
city-state, and helping an ailing bin Laden receive care at a Dubai hospital
when he was on the lam.

This is CAIR's main sugar daddy (it also get funds from Saudi benefactors), and
the Arab ruler with whom the White House has entrusted our vital port security.

Making matters worse, the CEO who answers directly to Maktoum at his Dubai Ports
operation -- Mohammed Sharaf -- studied in Arizona in the early 1990s at the
same time al-Qaida was setting up an American beachhead there. Several prominent
al-Qaida leaders emerged from the Arizona university
system. In addition, one of the 9/11 pilots, Hani Hanjour, studied English there
in 1990, and later took flying lessons in the Phoenix area.

This is a red flag the Treasury group that supposedly vetted the port deal more
than likely overlooked. If officials really didn't rubber-stamp the deal, they
would have called the FBI agent who wrote the famously prescient "Phoenix memo"
before 9/11. I'm sure he could fill them in on any troubling connections Sharaf
may have in Arizona.

CAIR, which has an operating budget of more than $5 million a year, has its own
connections to terrorism. Formed by two ethnic-Palestinians from a Hamas front,
it has had at least five officials on its payroll or board convicted of
terror-related charges or tied to terrorism. They include: Randall "Ismail"
Royer, Ghassan Elashi, Bassem Khafagi, Rabih Haddad and Siraj Wahhaj. So it's
not exactly the best character witness for Arab officials who say they are
cooperating with us in the war on terror.

Problem is, the White House also says we can trust UAE leaders, that they've
been a "a very good ally" in our war on terror and, why, they're even letting
our Navy dock in their port (which is no real comfort since Yemen did the same
thing). Truth is, like the Saudis, they've done next to nothing to help us track
down bin Laden or track his finances through their banks. That's why the
administration took the extraordinary move of demanding in writing, as part of
the secret port deal, that they cooperate in counterterror investigations.
There'd be no need to ask for such security concessions if they were already
cooperating fully as claimed, and weren't still a serious terror risk (which
makes you wonder even more why the White House is pushing so hard to add risk to
our already risky port situation).

But then, the administration knows all this. The U.S. Border Patrol has
designated UAE as one of the 35 (all Muslim) "special interest countries,"
according to sensitive Department of Homeland Security documents I've obtained.
And UAE shows up on the Customs and Border Protection Intelligence and National
Targeting Center's list of 69 "countries of interest for potential terrorist
activities." What's more, UAE is one of only five countries where DHS has
stationed Visa Security Officers, putting to rest any notion that UAE does not
still pose a terror threat.

And think about it: If UAE leaders were friends with bin Laden enough to hunt
with him before 9/11, why would they suddenly become our friends after 9/11?
They wouldn't, of course, and they aren't. And CAIR, whose real agenda is to
Islamize America, isn't either. So no one should care what the hell it thinks on
the subject. Just as we shouldn't trade with the enemy, we shouldn't legitimize
the terror-tied groups they bankroll.

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New member.  Dan Rice

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             We should fear Holland's silence
             Islamists are stifling debate in what was Europe's freest country,
says Douglas Murray


             'Would you write the name you'd like to use here, and your real name
there?" asked the girl at reception. I had just been driven to a hotel in the
Hague. An hour earlier I'd been greeted at Amsterdam airport by a man holding a
sign with a pre-agreed cipher. I hadn't known where I would be staying, or where
I would be speaking. The secrecy was necessary: I had come to Holland to talk
about Islam.
             Last weekend, four years after his murder, Pim Fortuyn's political
party, Lijst Pim Fortuyn, held a conference in his memory on Islam and Europe.
The organisers had assembled nearly all the writers most critical of Islam's
current manifestation in the West. The American scholars Daniel Pipes and Robert
Spencer were present, as were the Egyptian-Jewish exile and scholar of
dhimmitude, Bat Ye'or, and the great Muslim apostate Ibn Warraq.

             Both Ye'or and Warraq write and speak under pseudonyms. Standing at
the hotel desk I confessed to the girl that I didn't have any other name,
couldn't think of a good one fast. I was given my key and made aware that the
other person in the lobby, a tall figure in a dark suit, was my security detail.
I was taken up to my room where I changed, unpacked and headed back out - the
security guard now positioned outside my bedroom door.

             I had been invited to deliver the closing speech to the memorial
conference on what would have been Fortuyn's 58th birthday. I said I would talk
on the effects of Europe's increasingly Islamicised population and advocate a
tougher European counterterror strategy. There was no overriding political
agenda to the occasion, simply a desire for frank discussion.

             The event was scholarly, incisive and wide-ranging. There were no
ranters or rabble-rousers, just an invited audience of academics, writers,
politicians and sombre party members. As yet another example of Islam's violent
confrontation with the West (this time caused by cartoons) swept across the
globe, we tried to discuss Islam as openly as we could. The Dutch security
service in the Hague was among those who considered the threat to us for doing
this as particularly high. The security status of the event was put at just one
level below "national emergency".

             This may seem fantastic to people in Britain. But the story of
Holland - which I have been charting for some years - should be noted by her
allies. Where Holland has gone, Britain and the rest of Europe are following.
The silencing happens bit by bit. A student paper in Britain that ran the Danish
cartoons got pulped. A London magazine withdrew the cartoons from its website
after the British police informed the editor they could not protect him, his
staff, or his offices from attack. This happened only days before the police
provided 500 officers to protect a "peaceful" Muslim protest in Trafalgar
Square.

             It seems the British police - who regularly provide protection for
mosques (as they did after the 7/7 bombs) - were unable to send even one
policeman to protect an organ of free speech. At the notorious London protests,
Islamists were allowed to incite murder and bloodshed on the streets, but a
passer-by objecting to these displays was threatened with detention for making
trouble.

             Holland - with its disproportionately high Muslim population - is
the canary in the mine. Its once open society is closing, and Europe is closing
slowly behind it. It looks, from Holland, like the twilight of liberalism - not
the "liberalism" that is actually libertarianism, but the liberalism that is
freedom. Not least freedom of expression.

             All across Europe, debate on Islam is being stopped. Italy's
greatest living writer, Oriana Fallaci, soon comes up for trial in her home
country, and in Britain the government seems intent on pushing through laws that
would make truths about Islam and the conduct of its followers impossible to
voice.

             Those of us who write and talk on Islam thus get caught between
those on our own side who are increasingly keen to prosecute and increasing
numbers of militants threatening murder. In this situation, not only is free
speech being shut down, but our nation's security is being compromised.

             Since the assassinations of Fortuyn and, in 2004, the film maker
Theo van Gogh, numerous public figures in Holland have received death threats
and routine intimidation. The heroic Somali-born Dutch MP Ayaan Hirsi Ali and
her equally outspoken colleague Geert Wilders live under constant police
protection, often forced to sleep on army bases. Even university professors are
under protection.

             Europe is shuffling into darkness. It is proving incapable of
standing up to its enemies, and in an effort to accommodate the peripheral
rights of a minority is failing to protect the most basic rights of its own
people.

             The governments of Europe have been tricked into believing that
criticism of a belief is the same thing as criticism of a race. And so it is
becoming increasingly difficult and dangerous to criticise a growing and
powerful ideology within our midst. It may soon, in addition, be made illegal.

             I had planned - the morning after my speech - to see Geert Wilders,
but instead spent the time catching up with his staff. Their leader had been
called in by the police to discuss more than 40 new death threats he had
received over the previous days.

             As I left the Netherlands I once again felt terrible sorrow for a
country that is slowly being lost. A society which should be carefree and
inspiring has become dark and worried. The jihad in Europe is winning. And
Holland, and our continent, takes one step further into a dark and menacing
future.




             Douglas Murray is the author of Neoconservatism: Why We Need It




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Dan,

Welcome to our SWI group. - Mevaseret2003


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May G-d bless Rachel, Moshe, their loved ones, and their friends and
neighbors!

Gush Katif evictees: The Next Step
FROM HOTEL TO NITZAN
FROM: Rachel Saperstein, Neve Dekalim, Gush Katif/Nitzan, near Ashkelon

The cartons and suitcases had been trucked in a week earlier. Family,
friends, teenage volunteers, two granddaughters and my eighty-nine year
old mother in law arrived to begin the process of moving into the
notorious `caravilla� that we will call home for the next two to three
years. The Expulsion Authority had sent us our final warning: leave the
hotel or we will cease payment for your stay. We took a few extra days
to put our caravan into order so that we would move into a livable home.
The move from our hotel, from our one small room, frightened us. We are
now on our own. A hotel is a womblike existence; food, laundry, cleaning
needs are provided. But we ate according to schedule. We received an
early morning knock at the door to remind us the cleaning crew was here
and we had better vacate or they wouldn�t be back for hours. The
Jerusalem Gold was welcoming after their initial shock at putting up
with families who never checked out. The owner, Ariella Doron, provided
us with rooms for day care centers, used clothing storage, sanitary
supplies, a beauty care center, a bulletin board for notices and,
attached to each door, a plastic bag for internal mail. The cooks were
especially caring, providing children�s as well as adult food, the
platters always aesthetically pleasing.
��We learned to tolerate other families and their kids. We watched
children grow independent, serving themselves and younger siblings. We
watched parents coping with large families in small rooms. Never did I
hear an altercation between families but only concern for a family in
need. I watched with the deepest respect how a family of thirteen cared
for their beloved grandmother.
We became inured to the sound of buses pulling into the back entrance of
the Central Bus Station and the endless announcements of lost backpacks
on the public address system. We watched trucks pouring out their junk
products for the station's mall. We watched sappers blow up suspicious
objects left at the station, always a reminder that terror lurks
everywhere.
Now it was our turn to wheel the hotel trolley to our room bringing the
last pieces of luggage and our laundry bag to the car. We kissed our
friends goodbye. We are the last to leave for Nitzan. Those who remain
are waiting for their caravillas now being built in the Ein Tzurim
refugee camp some fifteen minutes from Nitzan. Six months have passed
since our expulsion and it is time to get on with our lives.
We came into the Nitzan refugee camp. There are 240 families here, each
of us locked into our dun colored trailer with its red tile roof. The
water pipe on the lawn is still there. We have put blocks of wood around
it to remind us that danger lurks under our feet. Each day another room
is made ready. The showers work. The heating system blows hot air no
matter how we adjust the thermostat. We bought curtains to cover the
picture window that has no shutters and overlooks two ship containers
plopped down by our neighbors. I've spoken to our Neve Dekalim gardener
to put in a small but effective garden to camouflage the view.
The problems of a community largely out of work have been brought to my
doorstep. The needs of the people are enormous. Their frustration and
hurt are there and smoldering. There is so much I need to do. During the
first week old neighbors from Neve Dekalim and from the hotel brought us
prepared food. Our first Shabbat we were welcomed by Rav Yigal
Kaminetzky. A family from Kibbutz Shalavim delivered our Shabbat meals.
We wanted to be alone in a quiet setting after months of shared meals.
We prayed, we ate, we slept. The first Shabbat of our new lives in the
refugee camp of Nitzan.
Shabbat Shalom to you, our dear friends. FROM: Rachel Saperstein, Neve
Dekalim, Gush Katif/Nitzan, near Ashkelon
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Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai!
Please support the Healing Teddies Project--- (contact me
@Calebseed@...)

Help Israel and show the world you care!
SWI Israel Store: http://www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be
used anytime and anywhere to let your community know that wherever you
stand, you stand with Israel!

Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael!
Wherever we stand we stand with Israel! Forever!

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who�choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

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Zvi  Alush


Stern warning: Any  Israeli prime minister who dares undermine the Land of
Israel or disengage  from parts of it "may be disengaged from this world,"
former Chief Rabbi  Mordechai Eliyahu said in an interview with an
ultra-Orthodox
weekly.
Addressing pulsa denura (Kabbalistic death curse) ceremonies  performed
against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Eliyahu said: "There is no  person in the
world who can perform a pulsa denura. The only one able to  do a pulsa denura is
the Land of Israel."
"In the past, some leaders undermined the land of Israel and  gave away parts
of it, and later they suffered grave disasters," the rabbi  said. "There's no
reason to name any names. When they asked me to pray for  their health, I
said first we will pray for their mental health, and later  for their physical
health."
The rabbi issued another stern warning, saying that "the land  of Israel pays
whoever undermines it in this world already – and in cash."
"Everyone who spoke about concessions was hurt, and certainly  those who
didn't make do with talk and really undermined it, and the list  is long," Rabbi
Eliyahu said.
Hawkish  disengagement foe
The rabbi, who served as Israel's chief rabbi in the 1980's,  is currently
considered one of the two main spiritual leaders of Religious  Zionism along
with Rabbi Avraham Shapira.
On the eve of the Gaza disengagement, Rabbi Eliyahu led a  hawkish line
against the pullout and made appearances in rallies organized  by settlers, at
one
point assuring listeners the disengagement would not  happen.
After his predications, which raised great hopes among  disengagement foes,
failed to materialize, the rabbi offered the following  explanation: "I was
talking about prayer, not a  prophecy."


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The Enemy Within - Two cases suggest the next terror strike on U.S.  soil
will be carried out not by foreigners but by Americans

By Joel  Mowbray The American Legion Magazine March, 2006

Lodi, Calif., is nestled in a sleepy agricultural area 35 miles outside  of
Sacramento. The Pakistani population in the city of about 60,000 has  grown
exponentially over the past several decades and now numbers  several
thousand. Local non-Muslims, when interviewed by media, have given  little
indication they suspected virulently anti-American Islam was  practiced
there.
Yet prior to coming to the United States, the imam of a  local mosque
encouraged his flock to travel from Pakistan to Afghanistan to  aid the
Taliban in its struggle against the United States. Months later –  apparently
armed with the same message – Imam Shabbir Ahmed moved to the  United States.
During his deportation hearings last summer, Ahmed admitted he  exhorted his
followers in Pakistan to take up arms against the United States.  But he
insisted that it was only because he was compelled to. "It was a  requirement
of all imams," he testified in open court. "If you don’t, people  turn
against you."
Ahmed insists that his views on jihad changed after he  fell in love with the
country he has called home since January 2002. "Having  come here, there are
true values and respect for human life," he said through  a translator. "When
I saw such a picture, my mind changed. Now I know what  the truth is. I think
there is justice here, respect here."
Emerging facts  paint a different picture. Authorities believe Ahmed is
separated by only a  few degrees from Osama bin Laden. Questions have been
raised about why Ahmed  was allowed into the United States at all.
According to federal authorities,  at least seven of Ahmed’s followers at the
Lodi mosque – many of them born  and raised in America – are believed to
have
attended terrorist training  camps in Pakistan. Three key figures from the
mosque have already been  deported, and two more await trial.
But what is most striking about Lodi are  its eerie similarities to the
staging grounds for the July 7, 2005, bombings  in London: the ethnic
Pakistani community in Leeds. Had the long-established  Muslim community
remained below the radar of authorities, Lodi could well  have become America
’s Leeds.
In Our Midst.
The alleged terror cell in  California was not the first in America to be
broken up by authorities,  leading experts to believe it’s more and more
likely that the next terror  strike on U.S. soil will be carried out not by
foreigners but by  Americans.
Consider the case of Hamid Hayat. Born in the United States, he  lived in
northern California until he was 9. Fast-forward 14 years. The  23-year-old
was returning to the United States on May 29 from Pakistan –  likely
following his last alleged session of terrorism training – when  authorities
learned he was on the no-fly list. His San Francisco-bound flight  was
diverted to Japan, where the FBI interviewed him. He was not arrested  then
and in fact was taken off the no-fly list in order to continue his  journey
to the United States. Following subsequent interviews by the FBI  in
Sacramento on June 3 and 4, Hayat was arrested and eventually charged  with
one count of providing material support to terrorists and two charges  of
lying to the FBI.
Told he had failed the polygraph test, Hayat  disclosed information about the
terrorist training camp he allegedly attended  in Pakistan, according to the
FBI affadavit. That interrogation appears to  have provided insight into the
ongoing operations at a camp in a country  nominally allied with America in
the war on terror but nonetheless home to  al-Qaeda leaders and remnants of
the Taliban.
In the FBI affidavit, "Hamid  described the camp as providing structured
paramilitary instruction,  including weapons training, explosives training,
interior room tactics,  hand-to-hand combat, and strenuous exercise. Classes
included ideological  rhetoric detailing opposition toward the United States
and other non-Muslim  countries. Hamid said that during his weapons training,
photos of  high-ranking U.S. political figures, including President Bush,
would be  pasted onto their targets. Hamid further stated that he and others
at the  camp were being trained to kill Americans.
According to The Sacramento Bee,  among the classified documents used by
prosecutors in building the  government’s case is one stating that Hayat
"advised he would get his Jihadi  mission orders from Shabbir Ahmed, who
would get the initial order from  Muhammed Adil Khan." At Ahmed’s deportation
hearings, federal attorneys  presented a flow chart that depicted the former
Lodi imam as only a few steps  removed from bin Laden. The alleged connection
ran from Ahmed to his mentor,  Adil Khan, who is believed to have been in
communication with a Taliban  official who reports to bin Laden.
Adil Khan’s and Ahmed’s ties to the  Taliban appear to run deep and
allegedly
stretch back many years. Adil Khan  is a Pakistan native whose first exposure
to the United States came when he  traveled here in the 1980s to raise money
for Jamia Farooqia, a Karachi-based  madrassa, or Islamic school, founded by
his father, Salimullah Khan. Evidence  presented at Ahmed’s deportation
hearings indicated that several high-ranking  Taliban members were students
and later teachers at Jamia Farooqia. The  madrassa apparently had a fan in
bin Laden himself. Again citing classified  documents, The Sacramento Bee
reported, "Bin Laden, in a 1998 news  conference, counted the scholars of the
Farooqia school among his  supporters."
In early 2002, Adil Khan recruited Ahmed, his former student, to  replace him
as the imam at the Lodi mosque so that he could focus on building  an Islamic
school modeled after Jamia Farooqia. The development of the  proposed Islamic
school on property owned by the mosque was the subject of an  internal legal
controversy, though it is not clear what motivated the  disagreement. The
current mosque president, Mohammad Shoaib, who assumed his  position in fall
2003, appears to have been behind a lawsuit filed in March  2005 by the
mosque – no individual names were listed as plaintiffs – against  Adil Khan
and four others. Nonetheless, local authorities cleared regulatory  hurdles
in order to allow the school to be built – only to rescind the  approval
following the June arrests. Interestingly, the arrests were not  cited as the
reason; the stated grounds were that the school did not meet the  zoning
regulations.
Arrested at the same time as Hayat was his father,  Umer, a 47-year-old
ice-cream truck driver who is charged with lying to the  FBI about whether or
not he knew his son had attended a terrorist camp in  Pakistan. But other
members of Hamid Hayat’s family are considered far more  involved. According
to a statement released by prosecutors, Hamid "believed  that his uncle ran
the jihadist camp that he attended and was 75 to 80  percent certain that his
grandfather ran the camp. He subsequently stated  that he believed that
al-Qaeda ran or were supporters of the camp." (The  uncle and grandfather are
both related to his mother.) Hamid’s maternal  grandfather, Qari Saeed ur
Rehman, in fact, is quite prestigious in Pakistan,  having served as the
nation’s religious minister in the late 1980s. Rehman is  also the founder
and still head of the Jamia Islamia madrassa.
Hamid’s  family ties apparently served him well. The Sacramento Bee reported
that Umer  told authorities that because of family connections, his son "was
assigned a  driver and invited to visit several training camps that taught
everything  from urban warfare to classroom instruction."
An issue prosecutors are likely  exploring is whether Hamid Hayat’s
impressive lineage was coincidental to  Adil Khan’s selection of Lodi as the
location for an Islamic school modeled  after his Taliban-tied madrassa in
Pakistan. Various news accounts have  reported that the former imam knew
Rehman from Pakistan, but what has not  been fully disclosed is the nature or
full extent of the relationship. Not  known is what role, if any, Hamid
played in recruiting the other six or more  members of his mosque who
allegedly attended the same training camp.
Two  other colorful details make the case of Hamid and Umer Hayat all the
more  bizarre. Hamid, a U.S. native, required a translator for his court
hearings.  One of Umer’s attorneys told reporters, "Hamid speaks and
understands very  little English." Even more strange is what was found on
Umer and Hamid Hayat  at Dulles International Airport, as they were preparing
to fly to Pakistan in  April 2003. Agents discovered that between them, the
father (an ice-cream  vendor) and son (a farm hand) had $28,093 in cash.
Following protocol,  Customs and Border Patrol seized $27,000 of the Hayats’
cash, though neither  was arrested. It was on this trip to Pakistan that
Hamid allegedly received  terrorist training.
Barely a Blip.
The five Lodi men were arrested roughly  one month before the London
bombings, but scant media attention was given to  the successful derailing of
the northern California cell. Not only did it  feature a homegrown cell in an
ethnic Pakistani community with religious  leaders imported from Pakistan –
like Leeds – but the case also boasts what  appear to be significant ties to
the Taliban and al-Qaeda. Yet it has  registered barely a blip in the
national media.
Similarly ignored was the  arrest and conviction of Ali al-Timimi, an imam in
northern Virginia, just  miles from Washington. He was convicted last summer
of encouraging his  followers to fight alongside the Taliban in Afghanistan
against U.S. forces,  which he did just days after the 9/11 attacks. Nine of
al-Timimi’s followers  have been convicted in what the government dubbed the
"Virginia Jihad" case,  and one last individual was indicted and slated to
face trial. Many in the  northern Virginia Muslim community continue to
support the imam, with some  even claiming that his explicit encouragement
for followers to fight and kill  Americans is protected "free speech."
Many experts believe the Virginia Jihad  and Lodi cases highlight the need
for increased vigilance for radical Islam  practiced on U.S. soil. The cases
also signal that authorities need to direct  even more efforts to detecting
radicalism in U.S. mosques – a tricky  proposition for two key reasons.
First, having law enforcement keep a  watchful eye on mosques would no doubt
bruise sensitivities and create a  national furor. Then there’s the practical
difficulty of doing anything from  a law-enforcement standpoint about hateful
indoctrination that, in and of  itself, is not illegal.
Ahmed eventually relented in fighting deportation and  is now back in his
native Pakistan, which leads to the question of why he was  ever granted a
visa in the first place. According to The Los Angeles Times, a  simple Web
search by a consular officer would have yielded many reasons to  deny him
U.S. entry.
Ahmed was a main speaker at an anti-U.S.  demonstration near the U.S. Embassy
in the Pakistani capital. While  demonstrators burned U.S. flags and effigies
of President Bush, Pakistan  Press International reported that the slight,
bearded cleric exhorted the  crowd to join a holy war against the United
States. A month later, at another  rally, The Boston Globe quoted Ahmed
calling for a rebellion against  Pakistan’s president and U.S. ally Gen.
Pervez Musharraf: "Whoever is against  Islam," said Ahmed, "we will destroy
him. If this is rebellion, we are not  afraid of rebellion. Blood is going to
be spilled in Pakistan."
Most of  the State Department’s attention on whom to deny a visa has focused
on  identifying suspected terrorist operatives, but it would seem that if we’
ve
learned nothing else from Lodi, it is that more focus needs to be paid  on
identifying – and keeping out of the United States – radical imams such  as
Ahmed. Failure to do so could turn impressionable Americans into  terrorists.
Ask any Londoner. x
Joel Mowbray is a syndicated columnist and  graduate of Georgetown Law
School. He is a frequent television commentator  and author of "Dangerous
Diplomacy: How the State Department Threatens  America’s Security" (Regnery).



How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who  choose the
Jewish G*D and hate the Jew! ~Frances  Shaefer


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The Lekarev Report
From the heart of Israel direct to your home March 2, 2006 2 Adar
5766

  in this issue
Olmert: I Won't Meet With Haniyeh
Stabbing Attack in Jerusalem
FM Visits Halimi Family in France
Big Victory for Netanyahu
Nobel Prize Laureate: Concessions Bring Trouble, Not Peace
Abbas: Al Qaeda Has Infiltrated Gaza and West Bank
Is Biblical Zionism Being Destroyed?

Shalom

For Hashem grants wisdom; knowledge and discernment are by His
decree. He reserves ability for the upright and is a shield for
those who live blamelessly, guarding the paths of justice,
protecting the way of those loyal to Him. Proverbs 2: 6-8





  Olmert: I Won't Meet With Haniyeh



Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert sent a tough message to the
Palestinians in wake of latest terror wave. Olmert says he will not
meet with the Hamas leader and Israeli security forces have been
ordered to act against terror with no constraints.

"Our region is infested with terror, we are fighting terror, and
therefore in accordance with clear instructions I issued to security
forces, there is no longer any limit on them in all matters related
to actions to thwart (terror) both in Gaza and in Judea and
Samaria," Olmert said. "This activity is taking place successfully
and without hesitation."

Responding to a question from a reporter, the acting PM said: "I
have no intention to meet with (Hamas leader) Ismail Haniyeh, but I
intend to fight terror if he will be involved in it."




  Stabbing Attack in Jerusalem



A 26-year-old Israeli truck driver was stabbed by a Palestinian at
the Atarot industrial zone near Jerusalem Thursday morning. The man
was evacuated to the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem by a
Magen David Adom ambulance team.

MDA paramedic Yoni silman treated the victim and told Ynet: "We
arrived at the scene and saw a stab victim hurt in the neck and
bleeding. We stopped the bleeding and rushed him to Hadassah Ein
Kerem's trauma unit in moderate condition." Silman said the victim
was fully conscious and told paramedics he was attacked by an Arab.
This was the fourth stabbing in as many days.




  FM Visits Halimi Family in France



Esther Halimi, the mother of IIan Halimi, who was tortured and
murdered by an anti-Semitic extortion gang in a suburb near Paris
last week, said Wednesday during a meeting with Foreign Minister
Tzipi Livni: "My son Ilan's murder shocked the world. I hope this
tragic incident will trigger immediate steps against all forms of
anti-Semitism in France."

Livni visited the Halimi family home in Paris during a state visit
to France, where she learned that female members of the Halimi
family also bear Hebrew names � Rachel and Yael - and that one of
the women has a daughter named Eden.

The foreign minister arrived at the Halimi home with her media
advisor and personal assistant. She was not accompanied by the media
or by members of the Foreign Ministry in order to protect the
family's privacy.




  Big Victory for Netanyahu



The Likud Central Committee voted Wednesday evening to relinquish
its power to choose the party's Knesset list, making Likud the first
party in Israel to choose its list of candidates through direct
primaries. Likud Party chairman Binyamin Netanyahu urged the party's
3,000 Central Committee members to approve the change in order to
make the Likud a more democratic party. He stressed that the move
would demonstrate to the country that the party now stands for
accountability.

"The proposal I have put forward today is good for the Likud and
also for all the parties," Netanyahu said. "I know that what I am
asking of you is not simple. I know it is not easy. I know that many
members have doubts, but I know that tonight you will display
responsibility and will do the right thing for the Likud and for
democracy and for the State of Israel."

Netanyahu praised the Central Committee's decision, saying the
entire nation was waiting for a party to reject corruption and
display accountability to the voters. "I am proud that the Likud
faction stood as one in its support of this important process," he
said. "The goal is now as follows: To return to this nation
leadership that it believes in, that strengthens it, that will
provide it with hope and not delusions, security and not weakness. I
believe that we are standing at this moment at a turnabout and
together we will leave here with our heads held high. We will go to
the markets, the neighborhoods, the homes, and together we will go
from door to door � not giving up on a single door."

National Union-NRP Chairman Rabbi Benny Elon responded to the move
by wishing Netanyahu success, adding that the National Union hopes
to see him as prime minister, heading a large right-wing bloc. It is
a big victory for Netanyahu to get this reform passed as it
demonstrates the confidence of the Likud in his leadership.




  Nobel Prize Laureate: Concessions Bring Trouble, Not Peace



Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Yisrael [Robert] Aumann says that the
Israeli decision to withdraw from Gush Katif was a mistake.

Speaking on Israel National Radio, Prof. Aumann elaborates on how to
apply his highly-acclaimed game theory to the current Israeli
political reality. He believes that Israel's greatest problem today
lies in its own lack of clarity in defining its national goals.

Ariel Sharon's unilateral withdrawal from Gush Katif this
summer. "It was crazy," claims Aumann, adding, "That was reinforcing
behavior that you don't want to reinforce; its standard psychology.
What we are doing is reinforcing terrorist behavior and intransigent
bargaining stances by unilaterally pulling out. It is
counterproductive from a psychological viewpoint and also from a
game theoretical viewpoint. It is giving the signal that all you
have to do is apply some more pressure or get involved in some more
terrorist activity, and we'll pull out some more."




  Abbas: Al Qaeda Has Infiltrated Gaza and West Bank



Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab daily el-
Hayat on Thursday that he has proof that al-Qaida cells have
infiltrated, and are operating in the West Bank and Gaza. "We have
intelligence information that al-Qaida is in the West Bank and Gaza.
I am very concerned about this," said Abbas.

"If they succeeded in infiltrating in such a way, and if no one
watches over them, the result could be disastrous for the entire
region. The last piece of information I received on the subject was
three days ago, but we still have not been able to lay our hands on
the operatives," he said.




  Is Biblical Zionism Being Destroyed?



The American Committee for the Preservation of the Land and the
People of Israel has posted an important article on their website
that I encourage lal of you to read by clicking below. It deals with
a matter of serious concern in the light of the upcoming Israeli
elections.

Shalom and blessings, Leah




email: leahrafaeli@...
phone: 703-587-4420
web: http://www.lekarev.org

A  HOUSE  IS  NOT  A  HOME

From: Moshe Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan:

A house is not a home. Not necessarily. And this house in Nitzan will
never be our home. Though Rachel has worked her customary magic and
turned a pigsty into a palace, this house cannot be our home.

This house cannot be our home, not because it is a temporary
residence. We are committed to living here for a minimum of two years,
maximum of four. But few things are as permanent as those labeled
temporary, and there is no way of knowing how long we will actually be
here. And Rachel managed to turn that most temporary and impersonal of
dwellings, a hotel room, into more of a home than this can ever be.

This house cannot be our home because it was built by the bastards who
destroyed our home in Neve Dekalim. This cannot be our home because we
enter it under duress, and not of our own free will. Many refer to
this as the Nitzan Refugee Camp. A high-class refugee camp, but a
refugee camp nonetheless. But refugee signifies someone fleeing a
conflict or natural disaster and being cared for by a neighboring
state or aid agency. Perhaps we would better be described as displaced
persons, making Nitzan a D.P. Camp. My own view is that we were not
onlookers to a conflict but participants � I would like to say
combatants, but we were far too genteel to have earned that title �
which makes our present domicile an Internment Camp, even a POW Camp.

[Aside: A complicated subject, why we are in Nitzan. Technically �
theoretically � we can go where we want. Practically, there is no
choice. I wanted to go to a community in Judea or Samaria, where the
next stage of the struggle � yes, even though I still believe it is
hopeless � will take place. Rachel wanted Nitzan because those most in
need are here and she feels her Operation Dignity charitable work
requires her to be here. And she says we are too old to go through
another expulsion. Add to the mix that our Bolshevik government has
stated that no compensation will be paid to any of the Gush Katif
refugees who go to Judea or Samaria. So, instead of tilting at
windmills in Judea and Samaria we are moping in Nitzan.]

The move from the hotel was exhausting. Certainly it was murderously
so for Rachel, who runs between setting up the house and helping Dafna
and the babies, suffering all the while from severe sciatica. Three
weeks ago Friday our belongings were transferred from the shipping
container behind Dafna's home and we worked every day, except Shabbat,
to get things set up. More accurately, Rachel has worked every day.
Ari and his girls have worked. My brother and my mother have worked.
Girls from a local high school have worked. A Russian couple who
helped in Neve Dekalim have worked. I run errands, carry out garbage,
busy myself putting my cd's in order � they had been packed
alphabetically, but young volunteers who wouldn't know their ABC's
from their XYZ's were ordered to empty the boxes and fill the shelves
and the result is chaos � and try and stay out of everyone's way. My
friend David who runs a large company tells me I have achieved upper
management status.

There have been moments of grand guignol  during the week of
preparation. I was sent to an office to complain about something or
other and, while standing in a crowd waiting to attract the attention
of some puffed up clerk, someone started pointing at me and yelling "I
know you! I know you! But you don't know me!" All conversation ceased
as everyone, clerkie included, stared at the both of us. "I was there
when you were wounded on the Kissufim road. After they took you away I
found your finger on the floor of your car!" I just stared. What was I
supposed to say? So I said, "What did you do with it?", fully prepared
to hear that he had pickled it or mounted it on a frame over his
fireplace. "I gave it to an army rabbi" he said.

[For years after my right arm was blown off I was obsessed with its
final resting place. The katyusha had exploded just behind me, at
waist level, and I saw my arm fly into Egyptian territory, the arm
itself obscured by the sleeve of my uniform, the sun glinting off my
watch as the limb spiraled away. The IDF Rabbinate was supposed to
have retrieved it but that is hardly possible considering where it
landed. So my arm is somewhere in the Land of Lost Limbs. I've hardly
spent time wondering about my finger, which I know was retrieved. It
was certainly disposed of halachically, though I prefer to think of it
as being in the Field of Forgotten Fingers. If there is an afterlife
for detached digits I hope it has found a disembodied nose to� scratch.]

The actual move was made a week ago Sunday. Initially most things that
can go wrong, went wrong. Our air conditioner is firm X and we were
given remotes from firm Y. That's been straightened out. Cable tv has
been hooked up but the remote only gets you some cooking channel in an
Eastern European country I cannot identify. [Anyone know of a land
where rat pie is a delicacy?] The washing machine was hooked up
without the small rubber disk on the hose connecting it to the water,
so one has to wear a bathing suit while doing laundry. Our four-burner
stove is now a three-burner stove as we lost a part. And on and on it
goes. Still, pictures are hung throughout the house so it clearly is a
La Passionara dwelling.


The house seems large, 90 square meters, with four bedrooms and two
bathrooms. In fact it is very cramped, and though we have lived in far
smaller places the sense of crowding is overwhelming. Perhaps we own
too much. Certainly we're bouncing off each other the way we did in
the hotel room.

It is shoddily built, rather, the building materials are shoddy.
Plasterboard walls that you can punch a hole through, just leaning
against them makes you fear collapse, and floor tiles that magically
always look filthy. Wash them, scrub them, they still look like
someone just threw up on them.

Here and there a surprising plus. We have two bathrooms, which means I
can leave the toilet seat up without getting yelled at. And � you are
aware of my obsession with excretion and my passion for doing laundry
� as the front-loader washing machine is in my toilet I can combine
these disparate pleasures. Sitting on the oval seat doing my thing
while watching the clothes whirl in the spin cycle is an wholly
unexpected delight.

The yard is problematic.  The idiots who put the grass down � the same
mentally challenged folks responsible for the protruding pipe and
short-circuiting sprinkler � were supposed to level the ground before
putting down the squares of grassy turf. But they didn't bother, so
its all hills and valleys and I stumble every time I walk through it.
Most people leave their yards unadorned, either through lack of
interest or lack of money or a refusal to enhance the enemy's
property. But Rachel and our neighbors feel that we might as well live
in beauty while we're here so she has gotten our Neve Dekalim gardener
to fix things up. The cost is substantial but the results should be
worth it. Of course there is a small fly in the yard ointment. A small
black dog, domiciled two houses away, has chosen to fertilize our
lawn. I'm going to find some way to skin the adorable little
miscreant. [And I'll bet you thought I might actually get through an
entire letter without mentioning dog poop�]

Also problematic is the noise level here. Not as horrific as the hotel
and its Central Bus Station surroundings, but far worse than I
imagined it would be. This is still a construction site and tractors
and steamrollers abound, as do their noisy Arab operators. We are
close to the main highway connecting Ashdod and Ashkelon and the truck
traffic doesn't fade before midnight. An air force base is nearby and
the jets roar overhead. An army base is adjacent and gunfire rings out
all day. Railroad tracks parallel the highway and trains are frequent.
[I'm developing a theory that the trains, generally idle in the yard
reading, playing pinochle or strip-the-motor, sense when I'm getting
into the car and hasten to close the road separating us from the
highway.]  Firecracker go off at all hours, this being the pre-Purim
period. And buses, friendly and unfriendly, noisily crawl through our
streets. The friendlies carry sympathetic visitors who get off to talk
with Rachel. The unfriendlies carry visiting dignitaries whom the
Expulsion Authority rushes through the town to show how happy and
well-taken-care-of we are. These don't stop to talk to anyone.

More problematic for us, personally, is the nature of Nitzan itself.
Israeli society in general is decidedly uncivil by Western standards.
People are loud, aggressive, brutish. Those who are considerate of
others are viewed as suckers, and the most corrupt are most admired.
In the magical atmosphere that prevailed in Gush Katif there was an
aura that induced calm even in times of great stress. Here in Nitzan
the atmosphere is decidedly unmagical. Many people are broken by
joblessness, hopelessness and a seemingly pointless existence. And
those who are not broken are badly bent. I, who am a loner, find the
atmosphere here oppressive but bearable. I fear most for Rachel,
sensitive, gentle and outgoing.

Less problematic but more annoying is that I am gaining weight. In the
weeks before the expulsion, unable to sit at the table in a house full
of people, I began skipping meals. In the hotel I found the noise and
atmosphere in the dining room simply torture, so I ate and ran. The
result, though I myself hardly see and feel it, is a substantial
weight loss. No, no need to panic, I'm not fading away. I've simply
gone from obscenely obese to frightfully fat. What's interesting is
that most people, with nothing to do in the hotel but eat, have gained
enormous weight. In the narrow hotel hallways it was difficult to
maneuver past people who had developed bulldozer-sized behinds. Now,
here, I am able to go    shopping and indulge myself as in days gone
by. And my clothes are no longer loose. Alas�

It is almost midnight and I just stepped out for another cigar. Cars
aplenty, groups of teenagers, the roar of trains and trucks. One of
the things I hate about this place is that with the houses so close
together, and so many street lamps, the sense of isolation I so
cherished in Neve Dekalim is lost. One can't even see the stars, much
less hear the waves.

Our first Shabbat � with food brought in from outside as Rachel was
too exhausted to cook � was spent splendidly alone. We turned down all
invitations and reveled in the relative silence. Friday night prayers,
in a makeshift synagogue barely a fraction of the size of that in Neve
Dekalim, found me surrounded by old friends and singing the old tunes.
I could almost imagine�   After prayers I spoke with a friend I hadn't
seen since the expulsion. "We have been here two months" he said.

"How can you stand it?" I asked.

He looked at me as if I were mad. "After four months in a hotel?
Praise God, this place seems like Paradise."

Have a good Shabbat, people.

moshe Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan




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Nitzan: From Rachel's Other Half
A HOUSE IS NOT A HOME
From: Moshe Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan:
A house is not a home. Not necessarily. And this house in Nitzan will
never be our home. Though Rachel has worked her customary magic and
turned a pigsty into a palace, this house cannot be our home. This house
cannot be our home, not because it is a temporary residence. We are
committed to living here for a minimum of two years, maximum of four.
But few things are as permanent as those labeled temporary, and there is
no way of knowing how long we will actually be here. And Rachel managed
to turn that most temporary and impersonal of dwellings, a hotel room,
into more of a home than this can ever be. This house cannot be our home
because it was built by the bastards who destroyed our home in Neve
Dekalim. This cannot be our home because we enter it under duress, and
not of our own free will. Many refer to this as the Nitzan Refugee Camp.
A high-class refugee camp, but a refugee camp nonetheless. But refugee
signifies someone fleeing a conflict or natural disaster and being cared
for by a neighboring state or aid agency. Perhaps we would better be
described as displaced persons, making Nitzan a D.P. Camp. My own view
is that we were not onlookers to a conflict but participants � I would
like to say combatants, but we were far too genteel to have earned that
title � which makes our present domicile an Internment Camp, even a
POW Camp. [Aside: A complicated subject, why we are in Nitzan.
Technically � theoretically � we can go where we want. Practically,
there is no choice. I wanted to go to a community in Judea or Samaria,
where the next stage of the struggle � yes, even though I still
believe it is hopeless � will take place. Rachel wanted Nitzan because
those most in need are here and she feels her Operation Dignity
charitable work requires her to be here. And she says we are too old to
go through another expulsion. Add to the mix that our Bolshevik
government has stated that no compensation will be paid to any of the
Gush Katif refugees who go to Judea or Samaria. So, instead of tilting
at windmills in Judea and Samaria we are moping in Nitzan.] The move
from the hotel was exhausting. Certainly it was murderously so for
Rachel, who runs between setting up the house and helping Dafna and the
babies, suffering all the while from severe sciatica. Three weeks ago
Friday our belongings were transferred from the shipping container
behind Dafna's home and we worked every day, except Shabbat, to get
things set up. More accurately, Rachel has worked every day. Ari and his
girls have worked. My brother and my mother have worked. Girls from a
local high school have worked. A Russian couple who helped in Neve
Dekalim have worked. I run errands, carry out garbage, busy myself
putting my cd's in order � they had been packed alphabetically, but
young volunteers who wouldn't know their ABC's from their XYZ's were
ordered to empty the boxes and fill the shelves and the result is chaos
� and try and stay out of everyone's way. My friend David who runs a
large company tells me I have achieved upper management status. There
have been moments of grand guignol during the week of preparation. I was
sent to an office to complain about something or other and, while
standing in a crowd waiting to attract the attention of some puffed up
clerk, someone started pointing at me and yelling "I know you! I know
you! But you don't know me!" All conversation ceased as everyone,
clerkie included, stared at the both of us. "I was there when you were
wounded on the Kissufim road. After they took you away I found your
finger on the floor of your car!" I just stared. What was I supposed to
say? So I said, "What did you do with it?", fully prepared to hear that
he had pickled it or mounted it on a frame over his fireplace. "I gave
it to an army rabbi" he said.
[For years after my right arm was blown off I was obsessed with its
final resting place. The katyusha had exploded just behind me, at waist
level, and I saw my arm fly into Egyptian territory, the arm itself
obscured by the sleeve of my uniform, the sun glinting off my watch as
the limb spiraled away. The IDF Rabbinate was supposed to have retrieved
it but that is hardly possible considering where it landed. So my arm is
somewhere in the Land of Lost Limbs. I've hardly spent time wondering
about my finger, which I know was retrieved. It was certainly disposed
of halachically, though I prefer to think of it as being in the Field of
Forgotten Fingers. If there is an afterlife for detached digits I hope
it has found a disembodied nose to� scratch.] The actual move was made
a week ago Sunday. Initially most things that can go wrong, went wrong.
Our air conditioner is firm X and we were given remotes from firm Y.
That's been straightened out. Cable tv has been hooked up but the remote
only gets you some cooking channel in an Eastern European country I
cannot identify. [Anyone know of a land where rat pie is a delicacy?]
The washing machine was hooked up without the small rubber disk on the
hose connecting it to the water, so one has to wear a bathing suit while
doing laundry. Our four-burner stove is now a three-burner stove as we
lost a part. And on and on it goes. Still, pictures are hung throughout
the house so it clearly is a La Passionara dwelling.
The house seems large, 90 square meters, with four bedrooms and two
bathrooms. In fact it is very cramped, and though we have lived in far
smaller places the sense of crowding is overwhelming. Perhaps we own too
much. Certainly we're bouncing off each other the way we did in the
hotel room.
It is shoddily built, rather, the building materials are shoddy.
Plasterboard walls that you can punch a hole through, just leaning
against them makes you fear collapse, and floor tiles that magically
always look filthy. Wash them, scrub them, they still look like someone
just threw up on them.
Here and there a surprising plus. We have two bathrooms, which means I
can leave the toilet seat up without getting yelled at. And � you are
aware of my obsession with excretion and my passion for doing laundry
� as the front-loader washing machine is in my toilet I can combine
these disparate pleasures. Sitting on the oval seat doing my thing while
watching the clothes whirl in the spin cycle is an wholly unexpected
delight.
The yard is problematic. The idiots who put the grass down � the same
mentally challenged folks responsible for the protruding pipe and
short-circuiting sprinkler � were supposed to level the ground before
putting down the squares of grassy turf. But they didn't bother, so its
all hills and valleys and I stumble every time I walk through it. Most
people leave their yards unadorned, either through lack of interest or
lack of money or a refusal to enhance the enemy's property. But Rachel
and our neighbors feel that we might as well live in beauty while we're
here so she has gotten our Neve Dekalim gardener to fix things up. The
cost is substantial but the results should be worth it. Of course there
is a small fly in the yard ointment. A small black dog, domiciled two
houses away, has chosen to fertilize our lawn. I'm going to find some
way to skin the adorable little miscreant. [And I'll bet you thought I
might actually get through an entire letter without mentioning dog
poop�]
Also problematic is the noise level here. Not as horrific as the hotel
and its Central Bus Station surroundings, but far worse than I imagined
it would be. This is still a construction site and tractors and
steamrollers abound, as do their noisy Arab operators. We are close to
the main highway connecting Ashdod and Ashkelon and the truck traffic
doesn't fade before midnight. An air force base is nearby and the jets
roar overhead. An army base is adjacent and gunfire rings out all day.
Railroad tracks parallel the highway and trains are frequent. [I'm
developing a theory that the trains, generally idle in the yard reading,
playing pinochle or strip-the-motor, sense when I'm getting into the car
and hasten to close the road separating us from the highway.]
Firecracker go off at all hours, this being the pre-Purim period. And
buses, friendly and unfriendly, noisily crawl through our streets. The
friendlies carry sympathetic visitors who get off to talk with Rachel.
The unfriendlies carry visiting dignitaries whom the Expulsion Authority
rushes through the town to show how happy and well-taken-care-of we are.
These don't stop to talk to anyone.
More problematic for us, personally, is the nature of Nitzan itself.
Israeli society in general is decidedly uncivil by Western standards.
People are loud, aggressive, brutish. Those who are considerate of
others are viewed as suckers, and the most corrupt are most admired. In
the magical atmosphere that prevailed in Gush Katif there was an aura
that induced calm even in times of great stress. Here in Nitzan the
atmosphere is decidedly unmagical. Many people are broken by
joblessness, hopelessness and a seemingly pointless existence. And those
who are not broken are badly bent. I, who am a loner, find the
atmosphere here oppressive but bearable. I fear most for Rachel,
sensitive, gentle and outgoing.
Less problematic but more annoying is that I am gaining weight. In the
weeks before the expulsion, unable to sit at the table in a house full
of people, I began skipping meals. In the hotel I found the noise and
atmosphere in the dining room simply torture, so I ate and ran. The
result, though I myself hardly see and feel it, is a substantial weight
loss. No, no need to panic, I'm not fading away. I've simply gone from
obscenely obese to frightfully fat. What's interesting is that most
people, with nothing to do in the hotel but eat, have gained enormous
weight. In the narrow hotel hallways it was difficult to maneuver past
people who had developed bulldozer-sized behinds. Now, here, I am able
to go � shopping and indulge myself as in days gone by. And my clothes
are no longer loose. Alas�
It is almost midnight and I just stepped out for another cigar. Cars
aplenty, groups of teenagers, the roar of trains and trucks. One of the
things I hate about this place is that with the houses so close
together, and so many street lamps, the sense of isolation I so
cherished in Neve Dekalim is lost. One can't even see the stars, much
less hear the waves.
Our first Shabbat � with food brought in from outside as Rachel was
too exhausted to cook � was spent splendidly alone. We turned down all
invitations and reveled in the relative silence. Friday night prayers,
in a makeshift synagogue barely a fraction of the size of that in Neve
Dekalim, found me surrounded by old friends and singing the old tunes. I
could almost imagine� � After prayers I spoke with a friend I hadn't
seen since the expulsion. "We have been here two months" he said. "How
can you stand it?" I asked.
He looked at me as if I were mad. "After four months in a hotel? Praise
God, this place seems like Paradise."
Have a good Shabbat, people.
moshe Saperstein, Neve Dekalim/Nitzan

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Yashiko can get a bit blunt and "colorful", but is always worth reading.
Short Takes
by Yashiko Sagamori
Your Mother is an Ugly Whore
��������������������Let's talk a
little about insults. People rarely discuss insults, except to complain
about having been insulted. Nevertheless, this is a truly fascinating
topic, well worth looking into.
��������������������This is how
it works. Let us suppose, for argument's sake, that I intend to insult
you. As the insulter, I have the initiative. I get to decide what to say
to you. So, I say something. Now, it's your turn. Now, you have to
decide how to react.
��������������������Regardless
of what I might have said to you, why would you choose to react as
having been insulted? Really, why?
��������������������Interestingly,
some situations exclude even the theoretical possibility of an insult. A
vicious dog, for instance, can frighten me, or bite me, or even kill me,
but it cannot insult me, no matter how hard it tries. Of course, even
the most vicious dog is not human, but the fact that this situation
involves more than one species is not important. You cannot insult me in
Korean or Swedish because I don't speak those languages. But even my
linguistic ignorance is purely incidental here. It would be impossible
to insult me in Arabic, even with the help of a translator.
��������������������Arab clerics
in their sermons routinely call Jews "children of pigs and apes". It
doesn't insult me. I am a Jew, and I know whose child I am. I feel
perfectly safe in my knowledge that my parents had more humanity and
humaness between the two of them than the entire city of Mecca has at
the height of the hajj season. Interesting, isn't it? Muslims can and do
frighten us; they can destroy our buildings, bomb our trains, kill us,
take our entire civilization away from us. But they cannot insult us.
The opposite is not true. We can insult them without even trying. Why is
that?
��������������������Let us
conduct an imaginary experiment. Imagine that you get a chance to talk
to Jesus Christ. Imagine that you can't think of anything better to tell
Him than to call His Mother an ugly whore. Imagine, further, that
everything Christians believe about Jesus is true. Do you think Jesus
would get angry? I am not an expert on Jesus, but somehow I think that
He would feel sorry for you. Fleetingly sorry. End of experiment.
��������������������(Incidentally,
this example would remain just as valid if, instead of Jesus and the
Christians, I wrote exactly the same about Mohammad and the Muslims.
Nevertheless, it would be considerably less convincing. Why? Because
even Christians insulted by the previous paragraph, would not begin
burning flags, cars, or embassies. After all, Christianity is just
another religion.)
��������������������Now, imagine
yourself in Jesus' sandals. Imagine that someone tells you that your
mother is an ugly whore. What would your reaction be? Without knowing
you personally, I would nevertheless venture a guess. My guess is that
your reaction will strongly depend on your mother. If she is beautiful
and chaste, you can afford to react kind of like Jesus did in the above
experiment. But if your mother is an ugly whore, odds are that your
response will be ugly.
��������������������My
prediction is based on two general facts. One is that the truth usually
hurts, and people, when hurt, are much more likely to fly off the
handle. The other is that ugly whores usually provide a very different
kind of upbringing to their offspring than chaste beauties do, and it
takes very little to determine who was raised by whom.
��������������������Just show
them a cartoon.
The Uniter of the World
��������������������Some people
may still remember how George W. Bush, during his first electoral
campaign, modestly described one of his many exceptional qualities. "I
am a uniter, not a divider," he said. He wasn't lying. In the course of
his tenure, he has managed to unite the world in loathing the United
States.
��������������������On the
international front, he left unpunished the worst attack the United
States has ever suffered in its entire history. Instead, he began two
wars that will inevitably be added to the long list of American military
victories turned by American politicians into disastrous defeats. He
allowed Arabs, with the enthusiastic help of Israeli politicians, to put
Israel on the verge of extinction. While he was busy doing every bit of
damage he could, North Korea and Iran announced their intentions to go
nooqular, and he did nothing whatsoever to stop them.
��������������������On the
domestic front, he borrowed so much from the Democrats' agenda that the
Democrats, in order to oppose him ideologically, were forced to behave
like babbling idiots � not that they looked much smarter during
Clinton's 8 years in the White House. He has time and again refused to
address the problem of illegal immigration. And while we are worrying
about the 11 million illegal South Americans in the US, our Muslim
population, according to some sources, has quietly exceeded that of
Dubai.
��������������������And,
speaking of Dubai, his recent decision to pay that little, infinitely
friendly Arab country billions of dollars so that Arabs could provide
protection of our ports from Arabs has, for the first time since he was
elected, united Republicans and Democrats in opposition to that
unbelievable decision.
��������������������The New York
Times mentioned that the Bush family has had a long, lucrative
connection to the Dubai rulers. It neglected to mention that the Dubai
rulers and their subjects have had a long, lucrative connection to Al
Qaeda. Bush himself didn't even try to explain anything. Instead, he
promised to veto any congressional action blocking his deal with Dubai.
��������������������Everything
has a simple explanation. The only simple explanation I can think of in
this case is that his contract with Dubai is some kind of kick-back. Why
not? It's his last term anyway. He is free to screw us up any which way
his little heart desires.
��������������������What I find
really amazing is that the New York Times, which uses every little
excuse, no matter how ridiculous, to kick Bush in the shin, missed an
opportunity to state the obvious: that his intimate connections to Arabs
during the war unleashed against us by Arabs make him unfit for
presidency. The absurdity of it all is so obvious that I can't think of
anything to say that you haven't already heard or read many times over.
��������������������Except,
maybe, for two things:
��������������������First, it's
clear to me now that we should have voted for John Kerry in 2004. Yes, I
know that John Kerry's lack of competence, intelligence, and honesty is
absolutely spectacular. For example, he still behaves as if he is
expecting to be allowed to run again in 2008. But these deficiencies do
not really set him that far apart from the man we let stay in the Oval
Office for a second term. What makes John Kerry more attractive in
hindsight is that his family lives off ketchup, not oil, and it would be
much safer for the country to have a president kissing the a** of
customers at cheap hamburger joints than of Arab fuehrers of various
proportions.
��������������������Second, I
really don't understand why, during a war, we need to outsource the
security of our ports to any foreign country. But if, for whatever
reason, that was absolutely necessary, why didn't we hire the Israelis?
With Israel in charge, we could really be sure that our ports are safe.
This seems to be so obvious, so common sense, that if you think about
it, you can't possibly miss the conclusion that our government must have
something very different in mind for Israel.
��������������������What could
it be? What could it be?
The Tale of Two Nuclear Dictatorships
��������������������Who can
explain why North Korea, after years of predictably fruitless attempts
to talk them out of their nuclear ambitions, was suddenly ignored, and
why Iran, guilty of that very same crime, was ruthlessly, mercilessly
reported to the Security Council?
��������������������The answer
is, because North Korea is located in the Far East, while Iran is
located in the Middle East. It's not that the North Korean East is Far
enough for us to feel safe; soon enough they will have a missile capable
of reaching Cleveland, OH. It's that if one Middle Eastern country is
not allowed to have nuclear arms, then the same must be true for
another, unless we decide to resort to discrimination and profiling. And
since we have denounced any form of discrimination against all enemies,
foreign and domestic, it's not that difficult to predict where IAEA will
pitch its tents next.
��������������������In Israel,
of course.
��������������������The campaign
for the disarmament of Israel will begin within months. In a few years,
Israel will be stripped of its nuclear weapons. In the meantime, Russia,
Eurabia, and, quite possibly, the United States will help Iran join the
nuclear club. A defenseless Israel will become the hostage of a new
regional superpower we are helping create.
��������������������But do we
have a reason to worry? Of course not. First, we don't talk to
terrorists; second, didn't Bush promise to defend Israel? Demockracy in
Pallustina
��������������������The only
thing I don't understand about the Hamas victory in the Phallustinian
elections is that it seems to have come as a great surprise to so many
people who, according to their reputations and job descriptions, should
have known better.
��������������������Hamas might
have lost had there been a party in Phallustina offering every
Phallustinian family one healthy Jewish child a month, while the supply
lasts, whom they would be free to torture to death as slowly as their
heart desired. After all, we are talking about people who routinely
greet each other with the words, "May you kill a Jew before you die."
��������������������But no such
party announced itself in time for the elections, and even if it had, it
wouldn't want to recognize Israel's right to exist either, and,
therefore, the dilemma created by the Phallustinian demockracy for the
Western governments would have remained: How to continue pretending
humanitarianism while financing Arab terrorism against Israel.
��������������������This is why
Putin and Mubarak immediately began applying pressure on Hamas to
recognize Israel's right to exist. Nobody wants Israel to exist of
course, but in a polite society certain things are never announced.
Don't you worry; the leaders of Hamas are not stupid. They will soon
understand how counterproductive their current stance is and will
eventually recognize Israel's right to exist. After all, even the
Phounding Phather of Phallustina, Yasser Arafat himself, accepted
Israel's right to exist, which never stopped him from murdering Israelis
at every opportunity.
��������������������This
terrible problem could have been avoided if only Israel had decided not
to accept the right of Phallustina to exist. But the Israeli government
is too busy evicting Jews from their land and organizing pogroms and new
political parties composed of hopelessly compromized politicians.
Defending the country and its citizens is no longer a priority.
Sex and the City of Baku
��������������������Here's a
truly burning issue. A reader wrote Zack a letter asking what had led
him to the conclusion that the sex lives of Azeri peasants were anything
less than perfectly blissful. Having thoroughly discussed that
breathtaking problem with me, Zack grew bored of it and decided to
delegate to me the duty of responding.
��������������������Based on
whatever little I know about men as sexual beasts, I don't believe that
a happy human male can be stopped in his tracks by the spectacle of
stray dogs mating. Most of us consider voyeurism sick even when its
objects are human. What kind of life must those people have led if they
switched to watching dogs and didn't feel they were missing something
important? Like, for example, being ashamed of themselves?
��������������������Zack has
related to me yet another episode he witnessed in Baku. There was an old
man who sat, day in and day out, in the same corner of a marketplace
with a stack of onion-skin paper, a pencil, and a faded photograph of a
woman in underwear. For 5 rubles (which, at that time, was a small, but
not negligible amount of money) he would overlay the photograph with a
sheet of onion-skin paper, trace the contours of the woman, omitting the
underwear, and hand the drawing to the customer. For an extra fee, he
would add some small but important details that were absent in the
original. There was always a line of customers patiently waiting to be
served. Even knowing that pornography was strictly forbidden in the
Soviet Union, you would probably agree with Zack's conclusion that it
takes a very special kind of a society to create a customer base for
that kind of an artistic enterprise.
��������������������I'd like to
add my own theory to this discussion. If a man treats women in his
family as cattle, then every night he goes to bed with a domestic
animal. I don't think this can be as satisfying as going to bed with a
woman he loved, had such weakness been considered forgivable in the
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Help Israel and show the world you care!
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Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael!
Wherever we stand we stand with Israel! Forever!

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who�choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

Under pressure from the city's chief rabbi, two Tel Aviv branches of
the fast food firm McDonald's have changed the color of their
trademark signs to assure diners that their burgers and fries are
kosher.

In a first for McDonald's Corp., the golden arches at the two
branches have new blue backgrounds, replacing the trademark red
ones. The new signs also display the word "kosher," both in Hebrew
and English.

The changes were made after Tel Aviv's chief Rabbi, Israel Meir Lau,
demanded that a distinction be made.

"I was worried people would be confused, especially tourists who do
not know Hebrew," Lau said.

"Blue is the sky, blue is the flag of Israel and blue is not red,"
Lau said. "There must be a clear and sharp difference."

All meat served at McDonald's branches in Israel is already kosher.
But most of the more than 111 outlets serve dairy and meat items
together and are open on the Jewish Sabbath and religious holidays,
which is forbidden under Jewish law.

Only 12 branches are considered strictly kosher, where the menu does
not include dairy products and the food is prepared to meet
religious standards. Those 12 outlets are closed on the Jewish
Sabbath and holidays.

Lau said he believed McDonald's would adopt the new style in other
strictly kosher branches over time.

McDonald's said it hoped the change in Tel Aviv would be adopted in
other areas of Israel and clear the way for new kosher restaurants
to open.

Michael Kramer, a religious diner relishing a burger at one of the
two Tel Aviv branches, welcomed the changes. "I can see from far
away whether it is a kosher one," he said.

Roi Gerstein was unmoved. "I do not like this change because I am
used to the red sign," he said, adding that kosher burgers without
cheese were "just not tasty."

The Bird with a  Jewish Soul
By Brigitte Goldberg
It's funny how a person cannot see something that might be unique or  amazing
inside one's own home. I really never thought twice about the fact  that my
bird caused something so miraculous to occur. I made aliyah  almost 1 � years
ago from Florida, each and every person that hears my  story about Pickles, my
bird, can't believe that such a thing can happen.  Each person tells me to
write about it, after all that's my profession. It  has taken me 1-� years to
write about it, but after much thought, I also  believe that Pickles, the bird,
did something quite amazing. You see,  Pickles must of have been born with a
Jewish soul, that's the only  explanation I can find for his strange behavior
and for the effect it had  on one Jew.
When we decided to make aliyah, I naturally assumed that  Pickles, named so
because he reminded me of a pickle, would join us on our  journey to Israel.
Evidently Pickles was meant for a far greater cause.  Pickles was an Indian Ring
Neck that was sitting all alone in the pet  shop. Not one person wanted to
have anything to do with this bird. When I  asked about him, I was told that he
was a vicious bird and not one good  thing will ever come of him. I really
liked him and wanted to know the  cost. I bought him for half price, since
otherwise he would never move  from the store. As I left the store with my
new-feathered friend, I asked  the owner if he'd ever talk to me? The owner
replied,
"of course not, he  will never do anything worthwhile!" That storeowner couldn't
have been  more wrong in his whole life.
I put my new pal inside the kitchen, so that he'd be able to interact  with
me and never feel lonely. Pickles was vicious and therefore could  never be
held, this did not stop me from trying to make friends with him  though. I
respected his space and spoke to him all day long. Whenever I  was stressed out,
upset or angry, Pickles would hear all about it. He was  so cute sitting at the
edge of his cage, looking at me like he understood  me completely.
One day, I was in the living room and heard my husband call my name. I  was
quite sure that my husband was not home. I checked outside to see if  his car
was in the driveway, it was not. Again, I hear his voice calling  "Brigitte".
Maybe the phone was off the hook? This was getting very  scary. From where was
he calling me? I ran through the kitchen and stopped  dead in my tracks. My
husband wasn't calling me at all, Pickles, sitting  by the edge of his cage, was
calling me in my husband's voice!
I just stood there in complete shock, how did he do it? The owner of  the
store told me explicitly that he would never talk! I couldn't believe  it, I
knew
now that this bird was something special. The next day, my son  Nissan comes
running to me asking what I wanted. I told him that I never  called him; what
was he talking about? We both ran into the kitchen and  looked at Pickles. At
that moment Pickles call out Nissan again, in my  voice. Over the weeks,
Pickles picked up many phrases but nothing would be  able to prepare us for what
Pickles would pick up a couple of months  before we were to make aliyah!
Pickles loved Shabbat; the sound of us singing made him really excited.  He
would chatter away and become quite noisy. Nothing prepared us for the  shock
we were about to get. Havdalah (the ceremony at the end of  the Shabbat) was
always held in the kitchen, lights off and close to  Pickle's cage. When the
lights would go off, he would hang on the edge of  the cage, open his eye's
really wide and have the time of his life. We  thought it was amusing, what bird
likes to hear Havdalah?
After a couple of weeks though, Pickles put us all in to shock. When we
would get to the part about the blessing over the wine, Pickles would  recite
the
blessing. We thought we must of hear wrong, but the very next  week, Pickles
again recited the blessing over the wine. Who ever heard of  such a thing? I
loved this bird more then anything in the world, and was  so excited to bring
him with us to Israel.
As the time came closer to our aliyah, I started to make preparations  for
Pickles. I assumed that everything would be all right, since I spoke  to El Al
and they had no problems with birds on flights. We lived in  Florida and El Al
left from New York, we had to go from Florida to New  York and that's where
the problems began. I naturally assumed that the  bird would be no issue, since
El Al allowed them on, so I waited till  almost the last minute.
I called Jet Blue airlines to find out the procedure for bringing pets  along
and that's when I was told about their policy. Dogs and Cats were  allowed,
no birds. How was I going to get my beloved Pickles to Israel? I  called a pet
transport service, it would have cost me double the amount of  my ticket to
fly Pickles to New York and then join me on El Al, plus they  couldn't guarantee
me that he would make it in time to meet my flight.  This was all too much
for me, I couldn't stop crying, and I didn't want to  go. How could I leave such
a special bird behind and to whom?
I called my Shaliach in Miami to find out what was possible to  do in such a
horrible situation? When I finished telling him, he told me  that he always
wanted a bird as a pet; he loved Pickles and would be  willing to take him for
me. I wasn't so excited, I wanted to take him with  me, not leave him behind.
After many weeks of attempting to find the solution, I knew in my heart  that
Pickles wasn't going to make it to Israel with us. My husband kept  telling
me to give it to the Shaliach, he was a great man and he  would take good care
of him. I couldn't let that man take my bird, he's  not religious, how will he
make Havdalah for Pickles? I called up our  Shaliach and told him that I
would give him my bird under a condition. I  explained that I knew that he
wasn't
religious and that I wasn't trying to  religion upon him, but Pickles really
loved to make Havdalah after  Shabbat. I explained that Pickles knew the
blessing over the wine and I  just couldn't let him go to someone who couldn't
make
Havdalah for him  after Shabbat. The Shaliach told me that he had no problem
whatsoever  making Havdalah for the bird after Shabbat, if that's what made the
bird  happy. I agreed to let him keep Pickles.
The Shaliach arrived a week before my scheduled aliyah. He  arrived with a
huge cage for Pickles and an assortment of toys. He pulled  me aside and told me
not to worry, that he would take as good care as him  as I have. Then he
pulled out a Siddur, Havdalah candle and spices to  smell. He explained that he
had no clue how to make Havdalah; he went to a  Rabbi and asked what he needed
and how to do it. I was so touched I  started to cry.
I'm crying now as I write this, just the memory of Pickles and how this  one
man was willing to make a sacrifice for my bird, touches me so much. I  said
goodbye to my bird with the Jewish soul, I knew that I would never  find
another like Pickles. Before we left, I constantly checked up on  Pickles, he
was
doing so well. I was never able to hold him; we had a  relationship from within
his cage. The Shaliach was able to hold him and  take him everywhere, and they
immediately bonded to one another.
I was assured that Havdalah was being recited after every Shabbat and I  knew
my time had come to move on. I would check up on Pickles often and  just tell
myself that that's the way things were meant to be. A couple of  months ago,
the Shaliach called my husband. What my husband told me, sent  shivers down my
spine. I was completely in shock and couldn't believe it.  After a year of
making Havdalah for Pickles, our Shaliach decided to keep  Kosher and to put
Tefillin on. When my husband asked him why, he replied  that all his life,
everybody has been telling him what to do in regards to  religion; this turned
him
off his whole life and refused to keep anything.
Pickles never asked him for anything, he simply loved him for making
Havdalah for him and made him realize that this is what he wants. Nobody  was
telling
him what to do anymore; it was his decision and his decision  only now. The
shaliach just wanted us to know that he is grateful to our  bird and to us. He
just wanted us to be proud of the special bird with a  Jewish soul.
Nobody can tell in life where that spark will come from. Evidently  humans
are not the only ones capable of igniting the flame of holiness  inside us. Life
works in mysterious ways. I was completely devastated  about loosing the bird
that meant so much to me. It was obviously not my  bird and the Shaliach
ended up receiving, while I ended up being the  Shaliach. We should always keep
our eyes open and our ears listening, one  never knows where the message comes
from.
~~~~~~~
from the March 2006 Edition of the Jewish  Magazine

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who  choose the
Jewish G*D and hate the Jew! ~Frances  Shaefer


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The CARMEL ALERT March 3rd 2006
A compilation of news reports from the  past week for the information of
those committed to praying  for  Israel  and the salvation of the Jewish  
people.




David's Comment:  The Gaza Withdrawal in  Restrospect   .......
It is now six months since  the government of then Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon ordered Israeli soldiers and  police to remove the Jewish residents of
the
21 Gaza communities.   PM  Sharon threatened that Israel would respond very
harshly if missiles were fired  out of the Gaza Strip into Israel.  After a few
days of peace and quiet,  the missiles started to fall on Sderot and other
Israeli towns and very close to  the Ashkelon power station.  Six months later,
more than 200 missiles have  landed in Israel.  Fortunately no one has been
killed yet, but in one of  the most serious recent attacks a young baby was
struck
in the head by flying  shrapnel.

Over the last few months huge quantities of  weaponry and personnel  have
been shipped into Gaza through the very porous  southern Gaza border with Egypt.
Throughout the Gaza Strip, where hard  working Israeli communities produced
copious quantities of superb quality fruit,  vegetables and flowers, Al Qaida
and other terrorists train and prepare to  launch murderous attacks against
Israel.   Now Hamas & Islamic  Jihad are stocking up on the latest design
rockets
with a greater range, giving  them the ability to land in Israel's larger
population centres.
And now there  are numerous reports of this advanced weaponry being
transferred from Gaza to  the terror centres of the West Bank.

Prior to the ethnic cleansing  of Gaza many military and security personnel
warned Sharon that the disegagement  from Gaza would turn out to be disasterous
for Israel.   The current  situation proved them to have been correct.
Former Chief of Staff Moshe  Yaalon, was forced out of office ahead of time
before
the Gaza Disengagement  because of his stand against the government plans.
This week Yaalon warned  that the meeting between Hamas head Khaled Mashaal and
Iranian President Mahmoud  Ahmadinejad should deeply concern Israel. According
to Yaalon, Israel's  unilateral withdrawal from Gaza had a huge impact on
public opinion in the  Palestinian street who credited Hamas with forcing Israel
to withdraw and voted  for the group as a reward for its attacks against the
Jewish State. "No doubt,  the disengagement caused the reinforcement of Hamas
and weakened Mahmoud Abbas"  he explained.

“Hamas’ victory poses a challenge to those interested in  stability in the
world and the Middle East  - including Israel, the United  States, even the
Arabs and Palestinians who favor western democratic values to  extremist Islam,
Yaalon stated. "In Hamas’ victory speech, leader Khaled Mashaal  expressed the
line of thought and the spirit pervading al-Qaeda, global Jihad,  the Islamic
movement and the Iranian regime – all of which direct their struggle  against
the West and its culture. Israel is the first target for occupation and
destruction on the way to conquering the west and establishing a Muslim regime
across the world,” Yaalon said.

It seems Hamas is wasting no time in  pursuing the above goal.  According to
a report bu DebkaFile, Al Qaida's Gaza cell has issued  an ultimatum for the
immediate  departure of  all  non-Muslim foreigners.  Not  only must
"non-Muslim foreigners of all nationalities" leave, but  "foreign  embassies and
consulates must be evacuated and their staff leave within one  month of this
warning."   DebkaFile sources report that the al Qaeda  communiqué was urgently
translated by foreign embassies in Tel Aviv and  transmitted to their
governments.
They concluded that the document was put  together by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's
subordinates posted in the Gaza Strip and  contains a direct threat to unleash
Iraq-style terror in the Palestinian  territory.   Therefore, diplomatic,
security and international aid  staff can expect to be pulled out of the Gaza
Strip
without delay.

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas told the Arab daily  el-Hayat on
Thursday that he has proof that al-Qaida cells have infiltrated, and  are
operating in the West Bank and Gaza. "We have intelligence information that
al-Qaida is in the West Bank and Gaza. I am very concerned about this," said
Abbas. "If they succeeded in infiltrating in such a way, and if no one watches
over them, the result could be disastrous for the entire region. The last piece
of information I received on the subject was three days ago, but we still
have  not been able to lay our hands on the operatives," he said.

The meaning of all this is the launch of an Al Qaida offensive to  transform
the once agricultural Gaza Strip into a radical Islamic entity as set  out by
the statement issued by the Army of Jihad   "…we address all  believers of our
people and all those who sacrificed their blood and property to  defend Islam
and Muslims against the Zionist occupation.  Allah ordered us  to fight to
combat atheism. With Allah's support we defeated our enemy and  obliged Israel
to withdraw in humiliation from the Gaza Strip.  One thing  remaining to be
done is to implement Sharia law."

In  retrospect, taking into account the above information,   the Gaza
disengagement has already proved to be a total  disaster, which can only grow
into an
even greater disaster.  Not just for  Israel, but for the entire Western
World.   As the situation continues  to deteriorate and the death toll rises,
the blame can only be laid at the  feet of  Ariel Sharon ( who has already
paid the price ), and the members  of his government who agreed with him,   as
well as George Bush, Tony  Blair, and all of the other secular politicians who
pressed Israel to leave  Gaza.   I can understand the secular world agreeing
with what is  turning out to be so disasterous, but it boggles my mind that
many Christian  leaders, and even some Messianic leaders here in Israel thought
the  disengagement was for the best,  and even praised Sharon for his
determination to remove Jews from the land that God covenanted to Abraham as an
everlasting possession.   I wonder what they think now   in retrospect ?

Shabbat  Shalom  ....  David &  Josie

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who  choose the
Jewish G*D and hate the Jew! ~Frances  Shaefer


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Friends,

This url is only for people who are interested in  seeing the
real version of "Paradise Now," not the Hollywood crap
about  the sensitive, sexy,  tortured Palestinian lover-boys
who debate blowing  themselves up.  The real bombers
talk about "drinking Jewish  blood."  But, hey now, the Jews
of Hollywood couldn't nominate that kind  of dialogue for
an Oscar, now could they?  Below, a link to  Palestinian
Media Watch, and to the real videos of suicide  bombers.

These are the people Hollywood is trying to glamorize.

_http://tinyurl.com/qys4l_ (http://tinyurl.com/qys4l)

Naomi


A Self-Portrait of Suicide Terrorists

A  collection of farewell videos made
by Hamas and Fatah  terrorists


By Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook

The romanticized  view of suicide terrorists in the
Oscar-nominated Palestinian film Paradise  Now bears little
resemblance to the real world of suicide bombers,  whose
actual farewell videos include the following vows:

"We are a  nation that drinks blood, and we know that there
is no blood better than the  blood of Jews."
"My dear mother ... wipe your tears... Don't let me see  you
sad on my wedding day with the Maidens of Paradise."
"Escort our souls  to Heaven after we fulfill this duty of
crushing the descendents of monkeys  and pigs."
"I hoped that the shredded limbs of my body would be
shrapnel,  tearing the Zionists to pieces, knocking on
Heavens door with the skulls of  Zionists... My blood shall
be my path to march to Heaven."

The  following is a selection of videos prepared by six Hamas
and Fatah suicide  terrorists prior to their attacks. They
give a glimpse into the hatred and  dreams of an afterlife
that motivate these killers. These self-portraits, not  the
fantasy world of film fiction, show the authentic suicide
bomber. The  terrorist videos include calls for Israel's
destruction, the belief that  killing Israelis will guarantee
entrance into Paradise and the belief that as  reward for
their terror, the men will marry Maidens of  Paradise.




Adham Ahmad Hujyla Abu  Jandal
Prepared before Suicide attack on December 7, 2004
Published on  Hamas website in February 2006

"My message to the loathed Jews is that  there is no god but
Allah [and] we will chase you everywhere! We are a  nation
that drinks blood, and we know that there is no blood better
than  the blood of Jews. We will not leave you alone until we
have quenched our  thirst with your blood, and our children's
thirst with your blood. We will  not leave until you leave
the Muslim countries..."



How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who  choose the
Jewish G*D and hate the Jew! ~Frances  Shaefer


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What If It Should Really Happen? How Nuclear War Could Begin In A Very Bad
Neighborhood
By: Louis Rene Beres
The year 2006 could become a fateful one for Israel and for the entire world.
  Still struggling to survive in the very worst of international
"neighborhoods,"  the always imperiled Jewish State knows only too well that
nuclear war
and  genocide need not be mutually exclusive.
Listening to the chilling bluster and bravado from the openly  murderous
president of Iran, it is increasingly evident to every prudent leader  in
Jerusalem that nuclear weapons can never be allowed in that particular  Islamic
regime. With this existential awareness in mind, it is now altogether  likely
that
an Israeli preemptive strike against certain pertinent Iranian  nuclear assets
and infrastructures will take place sometime before the summer.  If it does,
this strike – following the recommendations originally detailed by  Project
Daniel three years ago – will be an expression of what is correctly  called
"anticipatory self-defense" under international law.
But the nuclear threat from Iran is only the most obvious  existential danger
to Israel, merely the "tip of the iceberg." Let us look  together now behind
the news. What is the basic situation of Israel’s own  nuclear weapons, and
why is this situation entirely different from what is  rapidly emerging in Iran?

Israel’s nuclear forces have never even been formally  acknowledged. Hence,
they certainly have never been used in a threatening  fashion by Israel’s
civilian or military leaders. Israel’s nuclear weapons,  unacknowledged and
unthreatening, exist only to prevent certain forms of  aggression. This includes
the
prevention of genocide.
It is absolutely inconceivable that Israel’s nuclear deterrent  force would
ever be used except in defensive reprisal for certain massive enemy
first-strikes, especially for Arab and/or Iranian attacks involving nuclear 
and/or
certain biological weapons. For the time being, at least, Israel’s  enemies
are
not nuclear, but – as we have just noted with Iran – this could  change
dramatically in the foreseeable future. If it should change, Israel’s  nuclear
weapons could continue to reduce the risks of unconventional war, but  only as
long
as the pertinent enemy states would (1) remain rational; and (2)  remain
convinced that Israel would retaliate massively if attacked with nuclear  and/or
certain biological weapons of mass destruction.
As recognized meaningfully by Project Daniel, there are many  complex
problems to identify if a bellicose enemy state is allowed to acquire  nuclear
weapons. These problems would belie the conceptually agreeable notion of 
balanced
nuclear deterrence. The Middle East neighborhood would simply not allow  the
sort of stable equilibrium that once characterized U.S.-Soviet relations  during
the Cold War. Whether for reasons of miscalculation, accident,  unauthorized
capacity to fire, outright irrationality or the presumed  imperatives of
"Jihad," an enemy state  in this neighborhood could opt to launch a nuclear
first-strike against Israel  in spite of that country’s devastating nuclear
capability. Israel would  certainly respond, to the extent possible, with a
nuclear
retaliatory strike.  Although nothing is publicly known about Israel’s precise
targeting doctrine  (see some of my prior columns special to The Jewish Press),
such a reprisal (per  precise recommendations from Project Daniel) might be
launched against the  aggressor’s capital city or against a similarly high-
value urban target. There  would be absolutely no assurances, in response to
this
sort of Arab/Islamic  aggression, that Israel would limit itself to striking
back against exclusively  military targets.
What if enemy first-strikes were to involve "only" chemical  and/or "minor"
biological weapons? Here Israel might still launch a reasonably  proportionate
nuclear reprisal, but this would depend largely upon Israel’s  calculated
expectations of follow-on aggression and on its associated  determinations of
comparative damage-limitation. Should Israel absorb a massive  conventional
first-strike, a nuclear retaliation could still not be ruled out  altogether.
This
is especially the case if: (1) the aggressor were perceived to  hold nuclear or
other weapons of mass destruction in reserve; and/or (2)  Israel’s leaders
were to believe that non-nuclear retaliations could not prevent  national
annihilation. In this connection, recognizing Israel’s uniquely small  size,
the
threshold of existential harms would understandably be far lower than  wholesale
physical devastation. To quote directly from the Project Daniel final  report,
Israel’s Strategic Future: "In  an age of Total War, Israel must remain fully
aware of threats to its very  continuance as a viable state....Certain WMD
attacks upon Israeli cities could  be genuinely existential. For example,
biological or nuclear attacks upon  Tel-Aviv that would kill many thousands of
Israeli citizens could have profound  and dire consequences for the continued
viability of the country."
Faced with imminent and existential attacks, Israel – properly  taking its
cue from The National Security  Strategy of the United States of America
–could
decide to preempt enemy  aggression with conventional forces. First announced
on September 20, 2002, this  still-evolving American strategy affirms the
growing reasonableness of  anticipatory self-defense under international law. If
Israel were to draw upon  such authoritative expressions of current U.S.
policy, the targeted state’s  response would determine Israel’s subsequent
moves.
If this response were in any  way nuclear, Israel would assuredly undertake
nuclear counter-retaliation. If  this enemy retaliation were to involve chemical
and/or biological weapons,  Israel might also determine to take a quantum
escalatory initiative. This sort  of initiative is known in military parlance as
"escalation dominance," and could  be essential, for Israel, to favorable
intrawar deterrence.
If the enemy state’s response to an Israeli preemption were  limited to
hard-target conventional strikes, it is highly improbable that Israel  would
resort
to nuclear counter-retaliation. On the other hand, if the enemy  state’s
conventional retaliation were an all-out strike directed toward Israel’s 
civilian
populations as well as to Israeli military targets –an existential  strike,
for all intents and purposes – an Israeli nuclear counter-retaliation  could
not be ruled out. Such a counter-retaliation could be ruled out only if  the
enemy state’s conventional retaliations were entirely proportionate to 
Israel’s
preemption; confined entirely to Israeli military targets;  circumscribed by
the legal limits of "military necessity"; and accompanied by  explicit and
verifiable assurances of no further escalation.
(To be continued)
© Copyright, The Jewish Press. All rights  reserved.
LOUIS RENE BERES was educated  at Princeton (Ph.D., 1971) and is the author
of many books and articles dealing  with nuclear strategy and nuclear war.
Strategic and Military Affairs columnist  for The Jewish Press, Professor Beres
is
Chair of "Project Daniel," which  submitted its Final Report on Israel’s
Strategic Future to Prime Minister Sharon  on January 16, 2003.

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who  choose the
Jewish G*D and hate the Jew! ~Frances  Shaefer


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____________________________________

____________________________________
  Intifada and Iraqifada

____________________________________
Posted: March 2, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Things are sure working out in the Middle East, aren't they?
Israel's decision to turn over the Gaza Strip to the terrorists has,
predictably, led to an increase of violence and warnings that a new intifada, or
uprising, is on the way.
Somehow I must have missed the end of the previous intifada.
What Israel got as a thank-you for its unilateral decision to  withdraw
long-established communities of Jews from Gaza are shootings, stabbings  and
Molotov cocktail attacks. Now Hamas, the terrorists ruling part of the 
Palestinian
Authority, sees Israel in retreat and is upping the stakes.
Likewise, in response to the increasing pressure within the United  States to
get out of Iraq, terrorism there is on the increase as well. Some see  Iraq
on the verge of civil war – mostly one sect of Muslims killing other  Muslims.
If all that isn't bad enough, later this month, Iran is talking about  a
nuclear weapons test.
What can be done?
Can we just throw up our hands and walk away?
What's going wrong?
Are we sending all the wrong signals?
I've said it before and I'll say it again. Only one course of action  will
prove victorious in the Middle East. Appeasement and conciliation will not
work. Promoting free elections will not be enough. There is only one thing we 
can
do if we want to win – and, in winning the peace, set the stage for real
freedom in the region.
We've got to destroy the bad guys.
It seems obvious. But in the 21st century, it seems preposterous. It  seems
cruel. It seems barbaric. It seems uncivilized.
That's because people have short memories.
It didn't seem preposterous, cruel, barbaric and uncivilized when we  were
fighting for our lives against the Nazis and imperial Japan to do whatever  it
required to win. And it is no more preposterous, cruel, barbaric and
uncivilized to destroy evil people and evil regimes now.
I say this as an American of Arabic heritage and a journalist who has
covered this part of the world for 25 years. It's time to stop pussyfooting 
around
and destroy the enemy. Yes, in the short run, it will mean more lives  lost.
In the long run, it is our only chance for peace and freedom and the
preservation of many more innocent lives.
There has been a lot of talk about spreading "democracy" in the  Middle East
and around the world.
"Democracy" is not the answer. "Democracy" should not be the goal.  But free
republics that respect the rule of just laws and the will of the people  are
the answer. Israel can be counted among those – perhaps the only one in the
Middle East. That's why it should not be carved up and reduced in size as a
means of achieving peace.
Israel needs to follow a course of protecting its own national  security. It
needs to adopt sane policies of protecting the lives of civilians.  Jews and
Christians have only one place in the Middle East where their lives and  rights
are respected. It is the nation of Israel. To ignore this fact is to  place
the lives and rights of Jews and Christians in greater jeopardy.
There's an old saying that the definition of insanity is doing the  same
thing over and over again and expecting different results. That is exactly  what
Israel has been doing in the Middle East for too long. It's time for Israel  to
wake up – before it's too late.
It's also time for some new thinking in Washington.
No more concessions. No more appeasement. No more giveaways. No more
invitations to further violence. No more incentives to terrorism. No more
encouraging vile hatreds. No more self-flagellation.
The same rules should apply in Israel and Iraq – and certainly in  Iran as
well.
It's time to seek out the bad guys and destroy them. There is no  substitute.
We cannot win the wars in the Middle East with peace talks and  treaties and
accords.
That's my peace plan. Does anyone have a better idea?


____________________________________

Joseph Farah is founder,  editor and CEO of WND and a nationally syndicated
columnist with _Creators Syndicate_ (http://www.creators.com/) . His latest
book is "_Taking America Back_ (http://shop.wnd.com/store/item.asp?ITEM_ID=1755)
."  He also edits the weekly online intelligence newsletter _Joseph Farah's G2
Bulletin_ (http://www.g2bulletin.com/) , in which he  utilizes his sources
developed over 30 years in the news  business.


How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who  choose the
Jewish G*D and hate the Jew! ~Frances  Shaefer


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The Lekarev Report
From the heart of Israel direct to your home March 3, 2006 3 Shvat
5766

  in this issue
Hamas To Russia Seeking Legitimacy
Another Dead End with Iran
Kadima Dropping Slowly but Steadily
One Injured in Ashkelon Kassam Attack
UN Probing Anti-Semitism
Arrow Capable of Intercepting Any Iranian Missile
Shabbat Shalom

Shalom

Love Adonai, all you His devoted ones; Adonai preserves the
faithful. He repays with exactness those who act haughtily. Psalm
31:24





  Hamas To Russia Seeking Legitimacy



Palestinian Hamas officials arrived in Russia for their first talks
with a major foreign power on Friday but poured cold water on hopes
of a peace breakthrough by saying they were firm in their refusal to
recognize Israel. "The issue of recognition is a done issue. We are
not going to recognize Israel," Mohammed Nazzal, a senior official
accompanying exiled Hamas politburo chief Khaled Mashaal, told
reporters after their delegation arrived in Moscow.

Mashaal was quick to slam Israel, saying Israel was not honoring the
Road Map. "The problem is not Hamas' stance, but Israel's stance. It
is in fact not honoring the Road Map," he said. (As if Hamas
is?????)

Although it deals a blow to U.S.-led efforts to isolate Hamas since
it swept Palestinian elections in January, Russia's mediation is
seen by some in the West as a chance to press the Islamic terrorist
group into embracing more moderate views.




  Another Dead End with Iran



French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy reported no progress
was made Friday in talks between representatives of Iran and foreign
ministers of Germany, Britain and France. Douste-Blazy told the
media that Iran was told the European Union is calling upon Tehran
to halt uranium enrichment efforts.

The talks took place on Friday morning in Vienna.




  Kadima Dropping Slowly but Steadily



Polls taken less than four weeks before the election show that the
Kadima Party retains its lead - but the lead is steadily narrowing
according to four major surveys taken at the end of this week.

The right-wing camp - comprising Likud, NU/NRP, Shas, Yisrael
Beiteinu, and United Toraj Judaism - is therefore currently
expecting 48-56 seats. Right-wing activists are working diligently
in a face-to-face campaign to increase the camp's representation,
hoping to form a "blocking bloc" of at least 60 MKs [half the
Knesset] to prevent a left-wing government from being formed.




  One Injured in Ashkelon Kassam Attack



A Qassam rocket hit a strategic facility in the Ashkelon area this
morning, wounding one person. Magen David Adom ambulances rushed to
the scene and brought the casualty to a local hospital for
treatment. His condition was not immediately reported.

Facilities in the Ashkelon area include a power station.
Palestinians fired four additional Qassam rockets at Israel on
Friday. No additional injuries have been reported.




  UN Probing Anti-Semitism



The United Nations has launched an investigation of anti-Semitic
incidents in its security service, according to a letter sent
Wednesday to all security staff. The letter, obtained by The
Associated Press, follows the reprimand of a security guard for
drawing swastikas on a log sheet knowing a guard from Israel would
almost certainly see them. The guard also made Nazi-like salutes to
his Israeli colleague.

In a separate incident, a female Israeli security employee alleged
that she was assaulted while working in Vienna. It was not clear
whether that incident was sexually related or motivated by anti-
Semitism, a U.N. official said. The letter from Diana Russler, the
deputy to U.N. security chief David Veness, said the Department of
Safety and Security and the Office of Human Resources Management
have jointly established a panel toinvestigate "recent allegations
of anti-Semitic incidents in the Security and Safety Service and
establish the facts."

When The Associated Press first reported the swastika incident last
month, U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said the guard who drew them
was issued a letter of reprimand and was asked to attend sensitivity
training for the September incident.




  Arrow Capable of Intercepting Any Iranian Missile



Israel's Arrow 2 anti-ballistic missile system is capable of
intercepting and destroying any Iranian missiles, even were they to
carry nuclear warheads, a high-ranking IDF officer told The
Jerusalem Post on Thursday. While Iran is Israel's most serious
strategic and existential threat, the country, he said confidently,
was sufficiently protected by the Arrow, which plays a major role in
maintaining Israel's protective envelope.

"We will shoot all of [Iran's missiles] down," he told the
Post. "The Arrow knows how to intercept the Shihab missile."




  Shabbat Shalom



In this week's Torah we read the detailed instructions for the
building of the Tabernacle. There is much more contained here than
just those instructions for the spiritual lessons and applications
are profound. Did you know, for example, that there is a parallel
between the Tabernacle and the Days of Creation? Well there is!

Click below for this week's commentary.

Shabbat shalom and blessings, Leah

This Week's Torah


email: leahrafaeli@...
phone: 703-587-4420
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MSNBC.com
In Russia, Hamas leader won’t budge on Israel
Moscow had hoped to persuade group to recognize Israel as a nation
The Associated Press
Updated: 8:41 a.m. ET March 3, 2006
MOSCOW - Hamas’ political leader, on a ground-breaking visit to
Russia, rejected on Friday any discussion about the militant
group’s refusal to recognize Israel, dealing a setback to
Moscow’s efforts to persuade it to soften its stance.
“The issue of recognition (of Israel) is a decided
issue,” said Hamas’ exiled political leader, Khaled
Mashaal, upon arrival in Moscow for talks with Russian officials.
“We don’t intend to recognize Israel.”
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was scheduled to receive Mashaal
in Hamas’ highest-profile foreign visit since winning
Palestinian parliamentary elections in January. The Hamas delegation is
set to have talks with a Lavrov’s deputy, Alexander Saltanov, as
well as Russian lawmakers, and meet Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy II.
Russia’s invitation, extended by President Vladimir Putin, was
the first crack in an international front against the group, considered
a terrorist organization by Israel, the European Union and United
States. Hamas has sent dozens of suicide bombers to Israel and does not
accept the presence of a Jewish state in the Middle East.
After arriving in Moscow, Mashaal accused Israel of blocking the Mideast
peace process and said Israel’s “occupation” of
Palestinian lands will top the agenda in the Moscow talks.
Listen and clarify
“No conditions will be put forward during our visit to
Moscow,” Mashaal said. “We will listen to
Russia’s position and clarify ours.”
Russia’s special Middle East envoy, Alexander Kalugin, said the
aim of the talks was not to dictate conditions to Hamas but to use
persuasion.
“We’re not going to put forward demands. We’ll
seek to convince them that now is the time to take responsible
decisions. If you come to power and form a government, you must
understand you are assuming a great responsibility,” Kalugin
said Thursday in an interview with NTV television.
Israel’s acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said Friday that the
international community must maintain a united front against Hamas as
the militant group prepares to form the next Palestinian Cabinet.
Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman Mark Regev warned that Hamas could
only be persuaded to renounce violence and recognize Israel if the
global community speaks in “one clear voice.”
“We would be concerned if Hamas leaders feel they are achieving
international legitimacy without making the necessary reforms,”
he said.
No Putin meeting
In an apparent attempt to avoid further damage in relations with Israel,
Putin decided against personally meeting the Palestinian delegation,
which will have only a sightseeing tour of the Kremlin on Sunday.
Putin had a phone conversation Friday with Egyptian President Hosni
Mubarak to discuss the Mideast situation “in light of working
contacts with the Hamas leadership,” the Kremlin said.
Russian analysts were skeptical of Moscow’s ability to persuade
Hamas to revise a radical ideology it has held since the group formed in
1987. They predicted that the talks would lead nowhere.
“Hamas won’t listen to Russia because Moscow has no real
levers of influence over them,” said Fyodor Lukyanov, editor of
the foreign policy magazine Russia in Global Affairs. “This is
not the time of the Soviet Union, when we had real clout in the
region.”
Putin’s invitation to Hamas last month was the latest bid by
Moscow to invigorate its role in Middle East peacemaking.
Moscow, which was a major player in the Middle East during the Soviet
period when it provided aid to several Arab countries, belongs to the
so-called Quartet of Middle East mediators alongside the United States,
the European Union and United Nations.
Hamas’ election victory prompted threats from the U.S. and the
EU to cut off $1 billion in aid to the Palestinians unless Hamas
recognizes Israel and renounces violence.
Russian aid sought
A Hamas representative, Osama Hamdan, told ITAR-Tass in Beirut that the
movement is grateful for Russia’s political and moral support,
“but it would welcome a discussion of possible economic
cooperation too.”
But Lukyanov said Russia no longer provided significant aid, despite its
oil wealth, and said only the United States had real influence in the
Middle East.
“These talks won’t lead anywhere, but ultimately, the
Americans may decide to get involved. And if Hamas is going to listen to
anyone, it will be to them,” he said.
South Africa on Thursday joined the list of countries inviting Hamas
leaders for talks, raising Israeli concerns that the international front
against the Islamic militants is crumbling.
© 2006 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may
not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
© 2006 MSNBC.com
URL: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11652230/

Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai!
Please support the Healing Teddies Project--- (contact me
@Calebseed@...)

Help Israel and show the world you care!
SWI Israel Store: http://www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be
used anytime and anywhere to let your community know that wherever you
stand, you stand with Israel!

Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael!
Wherever we stand we stand with Israel! Forever!

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who�choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

This year's Academy Awards Ceremony on March 5th 2006 promises to be a
glittering event.
Three years ago to the day, on March 5th 2003 and thousands of miles
away from the Paparazzi and glamour of Hollywood,
another event took place. �It featured the 37 bus at the center of the
plot and starred nine school children. �It was the last role any of
them would ever play. �
Yuval Mendellevich was a bright 13 years old, talented in mathematics
and with a passion for computer games. He was a member of a hiking club
and enjoyed climbing. Yuval was an only child and
would always call his father on his way home from school to tell him of
his day. �That day was no exception. �The last words his father ever
heard from his son were "I love you dad", before the line went dead. �
Yuval was murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber. Yuval's
father said of his son's tragic death, "His death is like a black ink
stain spreading over your consciousness; a black
hole that will never be filled."
Abigail Litle was 14 years old and the daughter of a Minster of the
Baptist church of Israel. �Abigail had come to Israel as a small child
and had attended the same high school as Yuval. �She was majoring in
Biology and Environmental studies. The school principle described her as
a mature and cheerful girl. Her brother called
her creative with a great love for humanity and nature. �"She always
believed that God loved her and wouldn't let anything happen to her. But
in the end the pain and sadness has reached us as well." Abigail was
murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber. One of her
classmates said of Abigail, "You always said you had a guardian angel
who was with you everywhere and helped you with everything. Now,
Abigail, you will be our guardian angel." Smadar Firstater was 16 years
old and was majoring in Art. �Smadar's ambition was to continue her
studies in New York and become an artist. . Her family described her as
a very sensitive
girl with a gentle and caring disposition. �The Columbia shuttle
disaster
on the 1st February and the death of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon had
moved her deeply. . �
Smadar was murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber as she
was about to get off the bus. Her parents, who usually insisted she take
taxis, had allowed her to take the bus that day
and had heard the blast from their apartment nearby. Daniel Haroush was
16 years old and was an outstanding pupil at the Military Academy
affiliated with his high school.
�Most of his classmates were on a trip to Poland and Daniel had
finished
school early to go downtown. �He had gone to pick up the forms he
would need for his drivers' education classes. �Daniel was planning a
military career in the army and dreamed of taking the pilots' course.
That summer he had been due to take a parachuting course. Daniel was
murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber. �He had three
older sisters, one of whom said of her brother, "He was outstanding in
everything he did, ever since he was little."
Tom Hershko was 15 years old and the only child of divorced parents. Tom
lived with his mother, but retained close ties with his father. They
enjoyed spending time with each other, especially
doing activities together. They both studied Karate and had it not been
for a recent injury to his finger, Tom would probably have had his black
belt. He had called his mother from the bus and told her they had a
surprise
for her.
Tom was murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber, together
with his father. �His mother said that he took his surprise to his
grave and never knew the surprise she had for
him. "He loved to surf the Internet, and yesterday I had him connected
to the Fast Internet cable service. Now nobody will use it." Elizabeth
(Liz) Katzman was 17 years old and was nicknamed "Snow White" by her
classmates. Liz was a beautiful girl with white skin, waist length black
hair and dazzling green eyes, who had come to Israel from the former
Soviet Union with her parents 12 years before. �She was majoring in
Theatre and Sociology and was a popular member of her 12th grade class.
Elizabeth was murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber. She
had been preparing for a final exam in Theatre and
had been looking through costumes for a play with her best friend Tali,
who she decided to go home with.
Tali Kehrman was 17 years old and was actively involved in planning her
12th grade class graduation ceremony. �A friend described her as being
continuously cheerful and always wanting to help and be involved.
�Tali loved literature and wrote for her school's paper. �She was
soon to be made editor. �Because of her outstanding abilities to
connect to others, she had been chosen as one of the representatives of
a delegation her school had sent to Boston.
Tali was murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber together
with Liz. �Tali was described as being "very sensitive", a trait she
applied to one of her great loves in life - animals, especially cats.
Kamar Abu Hamed was 12 years old and came from a well know family from
the Druze village of Daliat ha-Carmel. �Kamar
had been delayed at school that day and had missed her usual bus. Her
parents
had not been wealthy but they had invested all they could for their
children's
education. Kamar was described as a quiet girl who "loved everyone and
did everything to succeed at school." Kamar was murdered by a
Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber. �"Kamar" in Druze means "moon".
A local council head would say, "today Daliat has lost its moon" He went
on to say, "Her only crime was to have taken her school bag and gone to
study in Haifa. I only hope that she will one day be a sacrifice
for peace and not for more war."
Assaf Zur was 17 years old and an 11th
grade student majoring in computers. Nicknamed "Blondie" by his friends,
he was an outgoing boy, who loved all kinds of sport, especially
wind surfing. Assaf's natural charm endeared him to everyone he came in
contact with. �He was learning to drive and had had nine lessons.
�Assaf was looking forward to passing his test and being independent.
Assaf was murdered by a Palestinian suicide (homicide) bomber. �Three
stops before his girlfriend had kissed him goodbye and got off the bus.
�Today, there is a memorial site on the Internet dedicated to Assaf.
� Every day the home page gives the number
of days since he was killed.
This year, to the horror of anyone with
a moral conscience, the movie "Paradise Now" was rewarded with an award
by the Golden Globes.
This abhorrent movie attempts, with a somewhat warped mixture of humour
and mawkish sentiments, to turn mass murderers into the same breathing,
caring individuals as their intended victims. It follows the trail of 2
young Palestinian men, not much older than the victims of the #37 bus,
culminating in one of the mass murderers detonating an explosive belt on
a crowded Tel Aviv bus.
It seems that Palestinian mass murder is not only popcorn flavour of the
month with the Golden Globes, but with the Academy Awards looming, this
horrific epic to nothing more than Palestinian
terrorism is about to come up trumps again. One can only look in
amazement as this respectable organization will read out the names of
this year's nominations, which include "Paradise Now". �This is
tantamount to declaring that the event of 3 years ago and the murder of
9 innocent children (+ eight more innocent people) at the hands of a
Palestinian homicide bomber,
is of no more consequence than the death of a couple of luckless cows
who
were killed to provide the hotdogs for anyone who considers this a movie
of any merit.
The Academy, if it had any moral fiber, would throw out this nomination.
�The mass murderers fulfilled their senseless
ambition in life when they murdered these innocent children and many
other
innocent victims. �They will no doubt be a light to their non-existent
nation of Palestine, shining brightly under some street sign in Gaza
named
after them, or grinning from the pages of a Palestinian textbook, who
will
revere them as heroes for the next generation of Palestinian children
who
long to emulate them. Their mothers, like that of the 37 bus bomber will
talk with pride of their child's deed. �
The children on the #37 bus, who never had the chance to fulfill their
ambitions in life, which certainly never included
mass-murder, are the real stars. �Their light will shine brighter than
any Golden Globe or Oscar, in the memories of not only all those that
knew and loved them personally, but to everyone who has had the
privilege
of knowing them in some small way through websites dedicated to their
memory.
Angela Bertz – Israel
Forwarded directly to the Academy Award via their website
http://www.oscars.org/contact/index.html

Those who kneel before G-d can stand before anyone! Please daven for the
safety of Am Yisrael and Eretz Yisrael and for G-d's Shalom for
Yerushalayim ! Am Yisrael Chai!
Please support the Healing Teddies Project--- (contact me
@Calebseed@...)

Help Israel and show the world you care!
SWI Israel Store: http://www.cafepress.com/isenburg . These items can be
used anytime and anywhere to let your community know that wherever you
stand, you stand with Israel!

Please support the victims of the expulsion and those whose communities
are still in danger. Eretz Yisrael le'am Yisrael!
Wherever we stand we stand with Israel! Forever!

How odd of G*D to choose the Jew. But not as odd as those who�choose
the
Jewish G*D, and hate the Jew! ~ Francis A. Schaeffer

Source:
http://www.worldjewishdigest.com/<http://www.worldjewishdigest.com/> - March 3
'06
       The Price of Appeasement
       BY PHYLLIS CHESLER


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       Today, reality outpaces fiction. The truth is often linguistically
reversed before our very eyes: Even as we see Muslim jihadic terrorists blow up
civilians we are simultaneously told that the victims are not those who have
just been murdered, that the perpetrators of violence are the true victims. Our
daily lives have become Orwellian.

       The Palestinian intifada of 2000 against Israel started with and maintains
genocidal intent. President Ahmadinezhad of Iran has threatened to destroy
Israel with nuclear weapons, and the international community (the United
Nations, the European Union, the Quartet) has made no significant effort to stop
him. In my view, like Hitler, he means what he says, should be taken very
seriously and stopped before it is too late.

       We all remember what happened when Neville Chamberlain returned from
Berlin in 1938 with that infamous piece of paper in his hand. Despite five years
of Nazi malevolence, the free world thought it could appease the German
dictator. We all know what happened next.

       In the world's treatment of Iran, we see appeasement in full swing. For
two and a half years, France, Britain and Germany have been negotiating with the
rogue state in an attempt to ensure that it does not use its nuclear capability
to produce weapons. The result of these negotiations? Delay, deception and
threats from the Iranian regime that it will attack if a more direct
method-military action-is taken to halt its program.

       In much the same way, we already see the appeasement of the terrorist
group Hamas. Despite a founding charter that calls for the destruction of Israel
and a war on the West, France, Russia and the U.N. have already begun to coddle
the group. Kofi Annan, the U.N. secretary general, told reporters in February
that he thinks there is "an opportunity here for Hamas to transform itself into
a political party and work with the international community and the Israeli
government." This in the face of Hamas leaders' repeated assertions since their
electoral victory that they have no intention of amending their charter or their
belligerent stance toward Israel and the West.

       In other words, when one appeases murderers and Islamic totalitarian
regimes, one soon inherits the whirlwind.

       Hamas' victory is the latest outrage in a 50-year campaign to isolate and
demonize Israel. Soviet Russia and the Arab League used the United Nations to
disseminate the propaganda that Zionism is Racism" and that the Palestinian
refugees (whom no Arab country would accept as citizens) were the most noble and
most persecuted refugees in the world. Their poisoned fruit has fully blossomed.
Today, one can't open a newspaper without reading about a new resolution to
boycott or divest from Israel. What's more, the view that Israel is the cause of
all the problems in the Middle East is widespread.

       From 2000-2006, despite the pitiless slaughter of Israeli innocents by
Palestinian terrorists, the world stood by. The same world that had remained
indifferent to the genocides in Bosnia, Rwanda and Darfur, obsessively
demonized, boycotted and isolated Israel as a pariah state. Few Westerners dared
cry out, as I and some others have done, that Islam, not Israel, was the most
egregious practitioner of religious and gender apartheid, as well as slavery, in
the world.

       The world appeased terrorists when their main target was Israel. This
tactic did not pan out as planned: the Palestinian intifada has now gone global.
The West has experienced 9/11, the Madrid train explosion, the bombing of the
London subway and the Danish cartoon protests. Muslim killers are sending human
bombs to kill Muslims as well as Western civilians of all faiths in Europe,
North America and Asia. This is how appeasement progresses: what was once
Israel's problem is now the world's problem.

       The tendency to appease can also be seen in our language, which can be
used to either describe or obscure reality. Those who use the word "Islamist"
want desperately to believe that Islam itself is, or can be, essentially
peaceful and that moderate Muslims can wrest back control of their religion from
the totalitarian fanatics who have hijacked it. One therefore also uses the
words "jihadist" and "terrorist" to further distinguish the potentially "good"
and "reasonable" Muslims from the killers and fanatics. Many Westerners turn
themselves inside out in order not to describe even the 9/11 terrorists as
"Muslims" or "Arabs" lest they be attacked as politically incorrect "racists."
The fear of this particular slander has led many good Western thinkers and
writers to obscure reality.

       These politically correct observers have done more than appease jihadic
and terrorist forces. They have loudly and visibly justified violence against
Jews, Israelis and civilians on every continent as "blowback" for imperial
policies that are "racist."

       Still others believe that Islam has been hijacked by barbaric
fundamentalists and that so-called moderate Muslims will never oppose them; it's
too dangerous. And some Westerners, especially our intelligentsia and
journalists, believe that jihadists, including Muslim suicide killers, are only
behaving "unreasonably" because Western modernity has dishonored them and caused
the poverty and misery from which many Third World Muslims suffer. (In my view,
this is mainly due to the cruelty and corruption of Muslim leaders and the
brutal dynamics of Islamic family life.) To my mind, the moderate Muslims are
all too silent. Meanwhile, the militant Islamists and their Western
multicultural apologists refuse to admit that Islam, not Israel, practices
religious and gender apartheid and that Islamic practices-such as female genital
mutilation, daughter- and wife-battering, honor killings, polygamy, forced
arranged marriage of children, stoning, amputations and public hangings-are
barbaric and evil. Such barbarism has not been caused by the West.

       What's different today is that such barbarians use cell phones, al-Jazeera
and al-Manar to convey their ransom demands and to broadcast their gruesome
beheadings. They use airplanes as suicide bombs. They use our laws to compel us
to tolerate their intolerance. They are not uneducated. They are barbarians with
nuclear weapons. As a psychologist, I have both studied and worked with the
victims of violence. Abused children will invariably blame themselves; like
battered wives and kidnapping victims, they psychologically "survive" by
imagining that their destiny is in their own hands, and if they, the victims,
try harder to please-or at least not to "offend" their captors-that their
abusive parents/spousal batterers/kidnappers will turn into good
parents/non-violent husbands/reasonable and kind kidnappers.

       The reality that one is being held captive by an evil human being is
apparently far too threatening to contemplate. Many captives are more
comfortable blaming themselves for their predicament. This allows them to work
on changing their own behaviors. The fact that someone may want to kill you-and
has the power to do so-is too terrifying for most people to admit.

       So, let me say it for us all: Islamic fundamentalist fascists really want
to destroy us (Jews and Westerners) and have been working toward that goal for
quite some time. Indeed, they have declared war upon our civilization.

       What must be done? First, we must shed our illusions; they will not save
us. Second, we must form broad alliances. Liberals and progressives must unite
with right-wing Christians and Muslim dissidents and feminists, many of whom
live among us in exile. We must protest and expose the obsessive demonization of
both Israel and America. We must fight back, which means we must fashion a
strong military and educational response to the hate propaganda that has
brainwashed so many in both the East and the West. Fighting the propaganda war
is possibly even more important than fighting the military war. Lethal lies have
a slow fuse, but as they explode, they destroy every mind in their wake.

       My friends, the clock is ticking. By my reckoning, it is now 1940-1941 all
over again. We have no time to waste. A strong resistance to the totalitarian
Islamists will prove essential in the war of civilizations that is upon us.

       Phyllis Chesler is an author and the cofounder of the Association for
Women in Psychology, the National Women's Health Network and the International
Committee for Women of the Wall. She is currently on the Board of Scholars for
Peace in the Middle East. She lives in New York City. Her website is
www.phyllis-chesler.com<http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/>.



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My attention has just been brough to
http://www.worldjewishdigest.com<http://www.worldjewishdigest.com/> - See Dr.
Phyllis Chesler's statement too! - March 3, 2006
       Has Hamas Become Today's Haman?
       BY GEORGE D. HANUS


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       George Bernard Shaw once said, "We learn from history that we learn
nothing from history."

       We Jews are the living testimonial that proves the validity of his quip.
We think that we can hide. We think that we can run. We think that we can
assimilate. But in the end, the world still considers us a family of Jews. On
March 14 this year we celebrate Purim, one of the most joyous holidays of the
Jewish calendar.

       It commemorates a time, 2,500 years ago, when the Jewish people living in
Persia (ancient Iran) were saved from certain extermination through the heroism
of two individual Jews.

       The story of Purim is chronicled in the Book of Esther. The heroes of the
story are Esther, a beautiful young Jewish woman, and her uncle Mordechai, who
raised her as if she were his daughter. Without revealing that she was Jewish,
Esther won a beauty contest and was anointed queen by King Achashverosh of
Persia.

       The villain of the story is Haman, the king's closest advisor. He detested
Mordechai, the Jew, because he refused to conform to the Persian protocol of
bowing down to important men like Haman. So, in a wrathful, twisted plot, Haman
schemed to destroy the entire Jewish people in the king's realm.

       In a speech that has been echoed by demagogues and antisemites throughout
the millennia, Haman said to the king, "There are a certain people dispersed
among the nations throughout your empire. Their laws are different from those of
everyone else, and they do not obey the king's laws; therefore it does not befit
the king to tolerate them."

       His message was clear; the Jews constituted a fifth column that endangered
the state. This is the same logic that precipitated the killing of the firstborn
Jewish boys in ancient Egypt, as well as thousands of years of pogroms, ghettos
and expulsions throughout Europe. Since the Jews did not adopt the dominant
culture and religious practice of the land, they were accused of constituting a
grave threat to the security of the state. This was the basis of the "Big Lie"
as perfected by Joseph Goebbels, Nazi minister of enlightenment and propaganda.

       In truth, Mordechai had been staunchly loyal to the king and had even
saved his life when Mordechai exposed a palace plot to assassinate Achashverosh.

       King Achashverosh forgot about Mordechai's gallantry and acquiesced to
Haman's demands, approving the extermination of the entire Jewish people in the
127 provinces under Persian control.

       When Mordechai learned of the planned mass murder, he asked Esther to
speak to King Achashverosh on behalf of the Jewish people and beg him to set
aside the death decree. Esther objected because she feared for her life. Anyone
who came into the king's presence without first being summoned could be put to
death. She had not been summoned. If she remained silent, she felt that being
royalty would save her from being treated like the other Jews.

       Mordechai responded with a prophetic piece of wisdom that would hold true
for 3,000 years. He said to her, "Do not think that in the royal palace you will
escape the fate of all other Jews." He emphasized that what befalls one Jew
eventually affects us all.

       Esther complied with Mordechai's request. She approached the king, at risk
to her life, and revealed Haman's plot against her people. The Jewish people
were saved, and Haman and his minions were hanged on the gallows that had been
prepared for Mordechai. It certainly makes sense that we have been reading the
Book of Esther for thousands of years, as Esther's dilemma seems to repeat
itself throughout Jewish history.

       In his book, "The Pity of It All, A History of Jews in Germany, 1743-
1933," Amos Elon chronicles the path of assimilation of German Jews before the
rise of the Nazis. In just two centuries, German Jews went from a selfenclosed
life in the ghettoes to a place of prominence in almost every area of German
society: business, science, the arts, journalism and the professions. For
instance, in 1908, Jews accounted for 31 percent of the richest families in the
German Reich. In addition, almost onethird of all Nobel Prizes before 1933 were
awarded to German scientists, 30 percent of whom were Jewish.

       Part of the Jewish acculturation process also involved assimilation. In
1918, the rate of baptism for Jewish men in the German Reich stood at 21
percent. The intermarriage rate reached 44 percent on the eve of Hitler's rise
to power in 1933. Jews were so in love with Germany and so convinced that by
leaving Judaism behind they could ascend the German social ladder that, as late
as 1933, after Hitler had been appointed chancellor, one very wealthy Jewish
banker offered the opinion that the Nazis might, at the very most, beat up a few
Eastern European Jews, "but nothing can happen to us."

       Many German Jews who had converted, intermarried or achieved high
positions believed that their assimilation would protect them from the fate of
their fellow Jews. But when the time came, they were slaughtered along with
everyone else, with no distinction between rich, poor, baptized or not. And
again, history repeats itself. Contemporary Jews in many ways resemble the
German Jewish community before the rise of the Nazis. In Western countries, many
Jews are wealthy, accomplished and accepted in the highest reaches of society.

       Meanwhile, Jewish illiteracy, assimilation and intermarriage rates
skyrocket. The current world geopolitical landscape is like a Back to the Future
scenario. It seems as if the names, time and places keeping changing, but we
Jews are in a never-ending struggle to stay alive.

       If it weren't so deadly serious, it would almost be funny. Here we are,
2,500 years after the death of Haman, and a new archenemy, one by the name of
Hamas-just replace the letter "s" with the letter "n"-has achieved political
power.

       Like Haman, the organization's critical agenda and raison d'etre is the
total destruction of the Jewish people, this time in the state of Israel. Yet,
not withstanding this clear message of destruction and hatred, the free world,
in the spirit of Neville Chamberlain, is appeasing their demands.

       Meanwhile, in Persia, formerly ruled by Achashverosh, we now have the
nuclear bomb-seeking Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinezhad, declaring that
Israel must be wiped off the face of the earth, funding Hamas terrorists and
pronouncing that the Holocaust is a myth that never occurred.

       Throughout the Purim story, Mordechai maintains an unbending commitment to
his Jewish identity. History has proven that assimilation and appeasement do not
work. For those who want to guarantee that they will have Jewish grandchildren,
Jewish lineage will be reserved for those who maintain an unabashed
identification with the Jewish people and who are not ashamed to teach their
children the Torah ways of their ancestors. This means providing all of our
children with a spiritually strong and affordable Jewish education.

       George Bernard Shaw also once said, "If history repeats itself, and the
unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from
experience." Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could prove Mr. Shaw wrong?

       George Hanus is chairman of the Superfund for Jewish Education and
Continuity and the World Jewish Digest.



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Beneath the Veils of the Dubai Deals
As more and more information is revealed about what may lie beneath
the veils of the Dubai Deals we become increasingly concerned about
the security of America.
Whether or not the plan of the people behind the deal is the
simultaneous detonations of nuclear weapons at all of the ports
involved, the fact is that simultaneous detonations of nuclear
weapons at all of the ports involved would kill almost every single
person in the United States. Giving such a capability to Dubai
et.al. does not seem wise. Even if the powers that be in Dubai today
were saints, who can say what powers may someday control Dubai. We
need only look to the recent overwhelming victory by the terrorist
thugs who call themselves "Hamas" to recognize that though we may
hope for the best in life, it is wise to expect the worst, and to
plan accordingly. We oppose the Dubai Deals. We hope that they can
be stopped. We urge you to contact President Bush at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Comments:   202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX:             202-456-2461
and tell him to change his mind. Please tell President Bush, who
after all changed his mind on the Harriet Miers nomination, even
though Ms. Miers was an old schoolmate of First Lady Laura Bush, to
change his mind on the Dubai Deals and to block them. Please also
tell President Bush to declare that he no longer supports the
creation of a so-called `palestinian state'. We must not reward
terrorism by creating yet another terrorist state.
We would hate to see the legacy of President Bush, who we strongly
supported in the 2004 election because he had the courage to
liberate Iraq and Afghanistan, and to resolutely wage war on terror,
become the legacy of someone who permitted the destruction of the
United States by the simultaneous detonations of nuclear weapons at
all of the ports involved in the Dubai Deals.
We want President Bush to go back to being the man we supported in
2004. Lately President Bush seems to have become transformed into
the mythical "President Charles Logan",
http://www.fox.com/24/profiles/cl.htm
of TV's "24", a weak man who should never have become President,
who gives in to terrorists at every step.
"ARABIANS AT THE GATE
22 ports in Arab deal,
not just 6 as reported
Scope of Dubai firm to stretch from Maine to Gulf of Mexico
February 24, 2006 By Jerome R. Corsi, Ph.D. Dubai Ports World is
scheduled to take over operations at 22 U.S. ports, not six as
previously reported by most major media.
According to the website of P&O Ports, the port-operations
subsidiary of the London-based Peninsular & Oriental Steam
Navigation Co. (P&O), DPW will pick up stevedore services at 12 East
Coast ports including Portland, Maine; Boston; Davisville, R.I.; New
York; Newark; Philadelphia; Camden, N.J.; Wilmington, Del.;
Baltimore, Md.; and Virginia locations at Newport News, Norfolk, and
Portsmouth
Additionally, DPW will take over P&O stevedoring operations at nine
ports along the Gulf of Mexico including the Texas ports of
Beaumont, Port Arthur, Galveston, Houston, Freeport, and Corpus
Christi, plus the Louisana ports of Lake Charles and New Orleans.
Previously reported have only been P&O Ports' container operations
at New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Miami, and New
Orleans. Stevedore services also typically involve the loading and
unloading of containers on and off cargo ships, as well as moving
and storing containers, though often in separate facilities from
where containers are initially loaded and unloaded from the cargo
ships. Thus, while DPW will be operating the container terminal
operations of only the six ports initially disclosed, DPW will be
managing stevedore services, handling containers at a total of 21
ports, located along the Eastern seaboard from Maine to Virginia,
and across the Gulf of Mexico from Texas to Louisiana.
Additionally, the website of P&O Ports North America lists that P&O
provides container services at the Port of Miami, through a
subsidiary identified as P&O Ports Florida, Inc. This brings to 22
the total number of American ports where DPW will be acquiring P&O
operations. On Jan. 24, P&O Ports North America and the Tampa Port
authority announced they reached an agreement to enter into a long-
term contract permitting P&O to operate terminals at the Port of
Tampa for general and refrigerated cargo. By acquiring P&O
internationally, DPW will pick up all P&O operating agreements,
including this one just concluded in Tampa. (.pdf file)
The website of P&O Ports North America brags that "P&O Ports North
America is now the largest independent stevedore and terminal
operator on the U.S. East and Gulf coasts with operations in most
ports from Maine to Texas."
In reality, DPW is a front-company 100 percent owned by the
government of Dubai. The nearly $7 billion in debt financing put
together by international bankers to finance the DPW acquisition of
P&O was predicated on the A1 Moody's rating of the government of
Dubai, plus the assurance that the "full faith and credit" of the
government of Dubai would guarantee 100 percent repayment of all
loans and interest payments required to debt finance this leveraged
acquisition.
As WND is reporting today, new polling information reveals only 17
percent of Americans favor the deal to turn over control of U.S.
ports to a state-sponsored company in the United Arab Emirates, and
shows a major blow to President Bush's perceived leadership in the
war on terror. "
source: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?
ARTICLE_IDH991
recently Dick Morris told Bill O'Reilly on O'Reilly's show on Fox
about some of the connections between Bill Clinton and Dubai, et.
al. Current thinking on the matter is that Hillary Clinton wanted to
get out in front of the story on Bill Clinton's links to Dubai et.
al. by coming out against the Dubai Deals so that her elections
chances in New York in 2006 and nationally in 2008 would not be
harmed by that association.
"The Clinton Scholars Program at the American University in Dubai
With an aim to create a partnership for bridging the gap of cultural
understanding between America and the Arab world, President Clinton
established the William J. Clinton Scholars at the American
University in Dubai.
In partnership with the American University in Dubai and in the
spirit of a strong relationship with HH Sheik Mohammed Bin Rashid al
Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, this program is a means to promote
cultural understanding and further Dubai's achievements to promote
multiculturalism and economic development�.President Clinton
announced this scholarship program in 2003 while speaking to 30
international students at the American University of Dubai. The
first class of Clinton Scholars arrived in Dubai in 2004."
Source: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/programs-cs5.htm
In reality things in the Emirates are not exactly rosy for
those who do not happen to be Sunni Muslims. Reality is something
that world
famous science fiction author, the late Philip K. Dick, said may be
recognized
as something that continues to exist even after you stop believing
in it. Bill
Clinton and his pals in the Emirates may seek to portray a rosy
picture of life
in the Emirates. Reality however is something else. But then reality
has never
been Bill Clinton's strong suit. After all we know from Bill Clinton
that he
never inhaled and that the meaning of is is...well, perhaps Bill
Clinton has not discovered the meaning of is yet...?
"Three out of every four UAE inhabitants are foreigners - Indians,
Pakistanis, Iranians, Lebanese and the odd British expatriate.
Rumours of xenophobia are rife. Only Sunni Muslims can be
naturalised, alleged Christian proselytisers are deported, marriages
to outsiders are effectively forbidden. Prison conditions can be
atrocious and financial fraud has rocketed�."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1341885,00.html
"FORMER PRESIDENT CLINTON: One thing I think is overlooked about the
Middle East, that I think you should�that we should be more
attention to, is that there are successful, open societies welcoming
diversity. If you look at Dubai, if you look at Abu Dhabi, if you
look at Qatar�There was a conference in Dubai on the Arab world  a
couple of months ago that I went to, and the leader of Dubai stood
up"
source: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/030805-sp-cf-gn-ee-tsu-hrt-
usa-re-president-clinton-on-medical-procedure-and-tsunami.htm
"The Clinton Scholars program is a 3-6 month curriculum at American
University of Dubai. Scholars learn more about Muslim issues and
culture to further understanding among people.
September 21, 2003"
source: http://www.clintonfoundation.org/photo-gallery.php?
theme=Meeting%20Challenges%20at%20Home%20and%20Abroad&pg=0&i)8
What do you think? Is Hillary telling the truth here when she says
she was unaware of Bill Clinton's Dubai dealings?
"Hillary Clinton `unaware' of Bill's Dubai ties By Stephanie
Kirchgaessner
Updated: 3:12 a.m. ET March 4, 2006
Hillary Clinton, a leading opponent of DP World's takeover of some
US port operations, was this week forced to admit that she did not
know her husband had advised Dubai leaders on how to handle the
growing dispute.
But former President Bill Clinton's ties to Dubai and the United
Arab Emirates should not have come as a surprise to his New York
senator wife.
Mrs Clinton's own senatorial financial disclosure forms reveal that
her husband earned $450,000 giving speeches in Dubai in 2002.
Officials from the UAE also donated between $500,000 and $1m to fund
Mr Clinton's presidential library in Arkansas.
It was part of an effort by the emirates, said a person close to UAE
officials, to forge a close relationship with a former US president
who is influential and highly regarded in the region.
Mr Clinton's admiration for the UAE was last on display in November,
when he made his fourth visit to the American University in Dubai
and met students participating in the Clinton scholarship programme.
The UAE has also contributed $100m to Hurricane Katrina relief
funds � which Mr Clinton had a leading role in raising.
Mrs Clinton's tough stance that the deal represented
an "unacceptable risk" to national security has caused UAE officials
some consternation.
Regarded as the leading Democratic candidate for the 2008
presidential elections, she has used the deal � which polls show is
disliked by most Americans � and the anti-Arab sentiment it sparked
to attack the Bush administration on national security, an issue
that has been seen as a weak point for Democrats.
Although Mrs Clinton has been careful not to criticise the UAE
directly, her stance has put her in the same camp as legislators who
openly accuse Dubai of helping to finance the September 11 terrorist
attacks and deem the UAE untrustworthy.
Privately, some Democrats see the revelations about his ties to the
UAE as a classic Clinton dilemma. Mrs Clinton told the New York Post
on Thursday that she did not know her husband had been contacted by
Dubai officials two weeks ago and offered them advice on the deal.
Although both Hillary and Bill Clinton say he stands behind her on
the issue and there is no direct conflict, his relationship to the
UAE has complicated her political stance on the transaction.
Meanwhile, the UAE has sought to quell the backlash against the
takeover by hiring some Clinton officials - and Republicans - to
lobby on Dubai's behalf." source: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11657573/
"Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President Clinton's Library
By JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
November 22, 2004 LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS. - President Clinton's new
$165 million library here was funded in part by gifts of $1 million
or more each from the Saudi royal family and three Saudi businessmen.
The governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and Qatar and the deputy prime
minister of Lebanon all also appear to have donated $1 million or
more for the archive and museum that opened last week�.
the Saudi donations to the Clinton library are
raising some eyebrows. �
some donors have asked that their names not be released�.
The computer lists donors by categories that correspond to the size
of the gift. But there are no dollar figures provided for each of
the funding levels�.
As a charitable organization, the Clinton Foundation is not required
to make the names of its donors or the amounts of their gifts
public. However, some of the other foundations that contributed to
the library have disclosed their gifts on financial reports that are
available from the Internal Revenue Service. By comparing those
reports with the donor categories on the third-floor computer screen
in the library, The New York Sun was able to match donor categories
with approximate dollar amounts.
The highest tier,"Trustees," includes donations from 57 individuals,
couples, or other entities. IRS reports reviewed by the Sun show
that the foundations at this level have generally given or pledged
$1 million or more. �The Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable Trust
pledged $4 million."
(note: from another source:  Roy and Christine Sturgis Charitable
Trust is listed as a client at
http://www.roselawfirm.com/about/client_profiles.asp
Representative Client List"
If the Rose Law Firm sounds familiar it may be because you may have
heard of it before:
Hillary Rodham Clinton's biography at
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/firstladies/hc42.html
states that Hillary :" joined the faculty of the University of
Arkansas Law School in 1975 and the Rose Law Firm in 1976."
"In January 1996, a long sought-after copy of billing records from
the Rose Law Finn were identified and turned over to prosecutors by
Carolyn Huber, a White House assistant to Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Ms. Huber, herself a former Rose Law Firm employee, recognized the
records and realized that they had been among papers that she had
removed six months earlier from the First Lady's book room on the
third floor of the White House.
The mysterious appearance of the billing records, which had been the
specific subject of various investigative subpoenas for two years,
sparked intense interest about how they surfaced and where they had
been. Shortly after the discovery of the records, Hillary Clinton
made history�she became the only First Lady ever called to testify
before a Grand Jury inquiry�."
source:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/arkansas/docs/recs.html
Somehow events at the Rose Law Firm remind us a bit of the
movie: "The Firm", you may or may not know this but:
"After selling The Firm, Grisham closed his law practice and
resigned from his legislative post. He began writing full-time,
churning out an average of one book a year, most of which were
optioned by movie studios before they were even finished. His third
novel, The Pelican Brief, became 1992's longest-running hardcover
best-seller and went into production under director Alan Pakula. The
author watched the adaptation, which starred Julia Roberts and
Denzel Washington, for the first time at the White House with
President Clinton (Grisham's distant cousin) and his wife, Hillary."
source:
http://entertainment.msn.com/celebs/celeb.aspx?c=272794&stab=2
now to return to the "Saudis, Arabs Funneled Millions to President
Clinton's Library" article being quoted:.
"The Saudi royal family and the governments of Dubai, Kuwait, and
Qatar donated at this "Trustee" level, as did the governments of
Brunei and Taiwan. Also listed as trustees are three Saudi
businessmen - Abdullah Al-Dabbagh, Nasser Al-Rashid, and Walid
Juffali.
Other notables at the "Trustee" level include the deputy prime
minister of Lebanon, Issam Fares; Hollywood director Steven
Spielberg and his wife, actress Kate Capshaw, and an heir to the Wal-
Mart fortune, Alice Walton.
The next tier down is labeled "Philanthropists." �On the level below
that are the "Humanitarians." Based on benchmarks available from
other sources, the "Humanitarians" seem to have given between
$100,000 and $500,000. In their ranks are the King of Morocco,
Mohammed VI, as well as a Pakistani-American businessman from
California, Farooq Bajwa�
The U.S.-Islamic World Conference gave at the Humanitarian level�
according to the information available on the computer screen in the
Clinton Library here�.
�A Washington Post editorial on Thursday decried the lack of
disclosure of the Clinton Library's funders, calling
it "outrageous." Said the editorial,"the presidential libraries,
though built and endowed with private funds, are public property,
run by the National Archives. The public has a right to know who's
underwriting them." source: http://www.nysun.com/article/5137?
page_no=3
You can read about "BCCI's later involvement in financing the
Presidential library, charities, and travel of President Jimmy
Carter�" at
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/11intel.htm
"In fact the owner of BCCI built President Carter's library�"
source: http://www.conservativeusa.org/klayman2.htm
"Carter's Arab Funding May Color Israel Stance
Dave Eberhart, NewsMax
Monday, April 29, 2002
Former president Jimmy Carter, who has recently emerged as one of
the Jewish state's most vocal critics for its current West Bank anti-
terror policy, has been the recipient of tens of millions of dollars
from Arab sources.
Recently, for example, Carter suggested that the U.S. government
should threaten Israel with the possible loss of U.S. aid if it
continues its military offensive in the West Bank.
He also said the U.S. should demand that U.S.-supplied weapons be
used only for defensive purposes.
Mr. Carter's views are often aired by the American media as those of
a neutral mediator�the man who engineered the 1979 Camp David
Accords that has given Israel and Egypt a cold peace in the decades
since.
But far from being neutral, Carter has a track record as a long-time
critic of Israel who has often displayed pro-Arab sympathies.
It was his Carter Center that joined with the National Democratic
Institute to put the seal of legitimacy on the first elections ever
held by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in January
1996. Voters, who turned out in droves, elected Yasser Arafat
president, and he has been in power ever since.
In 1990 Carter ghostwrote a speech for Arafat, hoping to polish the
Palestinian leader's tarnished image as, at best, being soft on
terrorism. Arafat won the Nobel Peace prize for the Oslo Accords.
In 1989 President Carter interceded with Israeli Defense Minister
Yitzhak Rabin on behalf of activist Terry Boullata, a field worker
for the Palestinian Human Rights Information Center. Boullata had
been imprisoned in November 1987 for allegedly belonging to a
terrorist organization called the Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine. Boullata was allowed out in 1989 to come to
the United States for treatment of hepatitis.
The Carter Center: Follow the Money
But it's the financing behind Georgia's Carter Center and the Jimmy
Carter Library that raises serious doubts that the former president
is, in actuality, a wholly neutral intermediary in the troubled
region.
NewsMax has reviewed annual reports that indicate millions of
charitable dollars have flowed into the center from His Majesty
Sultan Qaboss bin Said Al Said of Oman, Jordan, from the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia, and from the Government of the United Arab Emirates.
Furthermore, hundreds of thousands of dollars have been donated to
the center by the Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development. H.R.H.
Prince Moulay Hicham Ben Abdallah of Morocco has also contributed
tens of thousands of dollars.
There are no corresponding contributions apparent from Israeli
sources, however.
As the center's literature describes, "The Carter Center and the
Jimmy Carter Library were built in large measure thanks to the early
leadership and financial support of the Carter Center founders."
Three of those generous founders:
Agha Hasan Abedi
On July 5 1991, banking regulators targeted Abedi's Bank of Credit
and Commerce International (BCCI), triggering a worldwide financial
tidal wave. To date, accountants and lawyers have managed to recoup
(discounting fees) $7 billion out of the $12 billion money pit that
fueled the BCCI fraud.
Agha Hasan Abedi, a banker and self-styled mystic on first-name
terms with Carter, created BCCI in 1972. Abedi had charmed seed
money out of Arab sheikhs, organizing camel races and hunting trips.
The Bank of America bought into BCCI as a way of buying access to
the Middle East, holding a 30 percent stake at one point before
dumping its holdings in the late-1970s.
His Majesty King Fahd of Saudi Arabia
Last month Saudi Arabia transferred $15.4 million in advance aid to
the Palestinian Authority. The transfer was made to a controversial
Arab League fund, a product of the recent Arab summit in Beirut.
According to Arab spokesmen, the money was hurriedly contributed due
to the dire plight of the Palestinian people as a result of "vicious
Israeli aggression."
King Fahd, Crown Prince Abdullah and Defense Minister Prince Sultan
jointly donated $4.8 million to launch the fund pot, while Interior
Minister Prince Nayef bin Abdul Aziz sent an estimated $800,000 to
the families of "155 Palestinian martyrs" killed in the current
Israeli offensive.
Hasib J. Sabbagh
Sabbagh is the chairman of Consolidated Contractors Co. of Oman,
Jordan. He is also the Senior Fellow for the Middle East of the
Council on Foreign Relations. Founded in 1921, the Council on
Foreign Relations is a membership organization contributing ideas to
U.S. foreign policy. The Council publishes Foreign Affairs, a
leading journal on global issues.
Individual, foundation, and corporate donors, together with
multilateral development assistance programs, support the Carter
Center's current annual operating budget of around $30 million.
Among the center's announced priorities: promoting democracy, global
development, human rights and conflict resolution.
Carter said he has spent much time raising money, but he hopes that
a campaign to raise a $150 million endowment will lighten the load�.
the center's executive director for operations, said an estimated
$110 million has already been raised for the endowment.
U.S. Leverage Over Israel
Carter also said that U.S. aid of $10 million a day should give the
U.S. some leverage over Israeli policy�"
SOURCE: http://newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/4/28/112225.shtml
BCCI's clients for money laundering included Panamanian General
Manuel Noriega, for whom it managed some $23 million of criminal
proceeds out of its London branches; Pablo Escobar, of the Medellin
cartel; Rodriguez Gacha, of the Medellin cartel; and several members
of the Ochoa family.(48)
Bribery
Bribery was a key component of BCCI's strategy for asset growth
worldwide, from the earliest days of the bank. In some case, the
recipients of funding from BCCI may not have considered the payments
to be "bribes," but simply a mechanism by which BCCI obtained what
it wanted from an official, and in return the official helped BCCI,
such as BCCI's payments to two of the Gulf emirs in return for the
use of their names as nominees for the purchase of First American.
In other cases, the bribes were naked and direct quid pro quos, such
as BCCI's payments to Central Bank officials in return for Central
Bank deposits in countries like Peru. In other cases, BCCI made
campaign contributions to politicians, such as it did with General
Zia in Pakistan and Carlos Andres Perez in Venezuela. In still other
cases, BCCI's payments came in the guise of charitable
contributions, and provided BCCI with an entree to generate deposits
from others, as in the case of President Jimmy Carter. Among the
Americans who BCCI provided with financial assistance in addition to
Carter, were U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young,
Bert Lance, and Jesse Jackson. Abroad, important figures with
extensive contact with BCCI included former British Prime Minister
James Callahan, then United Nations Secretary General Javier Perez
de Cueller, Jamaican prime minister Edward Seaga, Antiguan prime
minister Lester Byrd; a large number of African heads of state; and
many Third World central bank officials.
The courting of important governmental and political figures was a
task ordinarily undertaken directly by Abedi, usually with
considerable secrecy. Typically, a local BCCI official would make
contact with a key national political figure, who would then be
passed on to Abedi. Abedi would then assess that official's needs
and try to put together a transaction suitable to the official's
status and needs. (49)
In some cases, Abedi would not make a "bribe" per say, but would
instead use BCCI's resources to build goodwill, which he in turn
would then make use of to generate assets elsewhere. This was
Abedi's approach, for example, with President Jimmy Carter, who
received millions of dollars in BCCI funding for charitable
activities, and then travelled with Abedi to developing nations,
providing Abedi with entry to their leaders and, often, the assets
of their central banks.(50)
Abedi used a similar approach with Jesse Jackson and Andrew Young,
both of whom had business expenses paid for by BCCI, and either
solicited business for BCCI in return, or offered to do so. (51)
When it came to General Noriega, bribes were unnecessary, as BCCI
provided the far more important service of laundering $23 million of
his money and keeping it safe from other governments and his
eventual successors in Panama by insuring its disappearance
following his indictments. But to demonstrate BCCI's hospitality,
the bank still made sure that it provided Noriega with an expensive
gift�a $25,000 persian carpet, hand delivered with Abedi's regards
to Noriega by Alauddin Sheikh.(52)
In other cases, however, BCCI would make direct payments to key
officials, sometimes in suitcases filled with cash. As BCCI officer
Abdur Sakhia stated in interviews with Subcommittee staff:
Abedi's philosophy was to appeal to every sector. President Carter's
main thing was charity, so he gave Carter charity. [Pakistani
President] Zia's brother in law needed a job, he got a job.
[Bangldeshi President] Ashraf's mistress needed a job, she got a
job. Admission of your son to a top college, he would arrange it
somehow.(53)
According to Sakhia,
There was a world wide list of people who were in the payoff of
BCCI. It was my understanding this included the family of Indira
Ghandi, Ashad of Bangladesh, and General Zia. In Africa, most of the
leaders of Africa in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mugabe, and others, were all
understood to have received money.(54)
According to both Sakhia and BCCI's Paris manager, Nazir Chinoy,
BCCI official Alauddin Sheikh would sometimes take cash to people at
Abedi's request.(55) Both officials stated that they understood that
Nigerian central bankers were paid off in cash by Mr. Sheikh at a
World Bank meeting in Seoul, Korea.(56)
Chinoy said that such payments were typically made in great secrecy,
but that it was obvious to him and others at BCCI what was going on.
He described one such apparent payment by Abedi to President Mugabe
in Zimbabwe.
I accompanied Mr. Abedi and Mr. Sheikh to the opening of a joint
venture with Zimbabwe. I believe that to get permission to open that
venture, money was paid to President Mugabe and to Nkomo. The basis
I am making this statement was that when I went there with Mr.
Sheikh, I was acting as Mr. Abedi's personal assistant or secretary.
Mr. Sheikh went off on his own to see Nkomo who was the chief
opposition at that time, and then he went off to see President
Mugabe, and when they talked they wanted me out of the room. A
number of us were there for the opening. But only Sheikh and Abedi
left in the room with these two political figures. Otherwise I was
accompanying him and acting with him. Sheikh carried a bag with him.
At the time I had a suspicion that you don't get permission as a
foreign bank so easily without a payment. Without favors, it
wouldn't be so easy to get a bank that fast, especially given the
opposition of the British banks who were already established there.
And I can think of no other reason for the exclusion of everyone but
Sheikh and Abedi.(57)
The New York District Attorney's indictment of BCCI alleged that in
1986 and 1987, BCCI president Abedi and number two official, Swaleh
Naqvi, opened a bank account in a Swiss bank in Panama to "transmit
bribes and kickbacks in the amount of a percentage of the deposits
maintained by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru to the two senior
officers of that bank," in a total amount of $3 million, in return
for Peru maintaining large central bank deposits in BCCI.(58) These
bribes were paid following a meeting involving BCCI officials and
Peruvian president Alan Garcia. According to BCCI official Akbar
Bilgrami, the purpose of the meeting was to make sure that President
Garcia would not undercut the decision by the Central Bank and that
if the payments were made to the Central Bankers, BCCI would indeed
receive the Peruvian deposits in return. Upon returning from Peru,
Shafi told Bilgrami that Garcia had given his blessing to the
transaction.(59)�
Support of Terrorism and Arms Trafficking
BCCI's support of terrorism and arms trafficking developed out of
several factors. First, as a principal financial institution for a
number of Gulf sheikhdoms, with branches all over the world, it was
a logical choice for terrorist organizations, who received payment
at BCCI-London and other branches directly from Gulf-state patrons,
and then transferred those funds wherever they wished without
apparent scrutiny. Secondly, BCCI's flexibility regarding the
falsification of documentation was helpful for such activities.
Finally, to the extent that pragmatic considerations were not
sufficient of themselves to recommend BCCI, the bank's pan-third
world and pro-Islam ideology would have recommended it to Arab
terrorist groups.
Arms trafficking involving BCCI included the financing of Pakistan's
procurement of nuclear weapons through BCCI Canada, as documented in
the Parvez case, involving a Pakistani who attempted to procure
nuclear related materials financed by BCCI through the United
States. (61)
In a November 22, 1991 letter to the Subcommittee, the CIA stated
that "the Agency did have some reporting [as of 1987] on BCCI being
used by third world regimes to acquire weapons and transfer
technology," but was unwilling to elaborate on the nature of this
activity in public.(62)
In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents
from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI,
describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22
Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have
been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military
buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the
transaction, which was to take place in August or September of 1989,
but not completed as a result of a dispute within the Argentine
military itself.(64) Arms sales involving BCCI from Latin America to
the Middle East remain, as of April 1992, under active investigation
by U.S. law enforcement.(65)
Abu Nidal
In the United Kingdom, a key window on BCCI's support of terrorism
was an informant named Ghassan Qassem, the former manager of the
Sloan Street branch of BCCI in London. Qassem had been given the
accounts of Palestinian terrorist Abu Nidal at BCCI, and then
proceeded, while at BCCI, to provide detailed information on the
accounts to British and American intelligence, apparently as a paid
informant, according to press accounts based on interviews with
Qassem.(66)
As of 1986, the information obtained about Abu Nidal's use of BCCI
was sufficiently detailed as to justify dissemination within the
U.S. intelligence community.(67)
In July, 1987, as a result of the information provided by Qassem, a
State Department report concerning Abu Nidal and Qassem,
declassified in 1991 at the request of the Subcommittee, describes
Abu Nidal's use of BCCI.
The ANO commercial network comprises several businesses created over
the past seven years with the long-term goal of establishing
legitimate trading enterprises in various countries, gaining
experience in commercial trade, and making a profit for the
group. . . The general manager of the commercial network and the
principal agent in gray-arms transactions is Samir Hasan Najm al-Din
(Samir Najmeddin). He has directed many of ANO's commercial
activities, both licit and illicit, from his offices in the INTRACO
building in Warsaw, Poland.. . . He has maintained a general account
at a major West European Bank [BCCI in London] from which he
transfers money to individual company accounts at local banks. He
maintains joint control of each company's ban accounts, along with
the company manager, and he is responsible for forwarding all major
contracts to Sabri al-Banna for final approval.(68)
Following dissemination of this material by the U.S., the U.S.
coordinated efforts to shut down the financing of the activities
exposed in its targeting of Abu Nidal through BCCI-London, with some
success.(69)
Other terrorist groups continued to make use of BCCI, including
one "state sponsor of
of terrorism," and the Qassar brothers, Manzur and Ghassan, who have
been associated with terrorism, arms trafficking, and narcotics
trafficking in connection with the Government of Syria, and with the
provision of East Bloc arms to the Nicaraguan contras in a
transaction with the North/Secord enterprise paid for with funds
from the secret U.S. arms sales to Iran.(70)"
source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm
BCCI had branches in Iraq, Syria, Peru, Colombia, Cuba, etc.
you can find  more details at:
http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/05foreign.htm
Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan�
Lawrence Joffe
Wednesday November 3, 2004
The Guardian
For decades Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, Emir of Abu Dhabi,
who has died aged 86, epitomised the cluster of desert
principalities that constitutes the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He
had been ailing for some years and had a kidney transplant in 2000.
He created the entity from virtually nothing on December 2 1971, and
optimists believe its strong institutions will survive even his
departure.
Undoubtedly, the Sheikh fostered a sense of Emirati unity as its
president. He wrested the UAE from sleepy backwardness, and
transformed it into a modern economic dynamo. In 1971, the UAE had
180,000 largely rural, tribal inhabitants. By the 21st century, its
population exceeds three million�Politics was very much a family
business. Zayed rejected multi-party democracy as "transitory and
incomplete, engendering dissent and confrontation". Re-elected UAE
president every five years by a conclave of fellow emirs, Zayed
populated his cabinet with relatives�His championing of the
Palestinian cause, however, often raised Washington's ire. When
President Richard Nixon began arming Israel during the October 1973
war, the UAE imposed a total oil boycott on the West. Some say it
was Zayed who forced a more cautious Saudi Arabia to follow
suit. "Arab oil is not dearer than Arab blood" pronounced the
Sheikh - one of many bons mots that he bequeathed to the political
lexicon�.In 1999 he led a pan-Arab campaign against the Disney
organisation, after it depicted Jerusalem as Israel's capital in a
global village exhibition. Many Palestinian institutions bear his
name, indicative of his largesse�.Zayed opposed sanctions on Iraqis
and in 1995 demanded Baghdad's rehabilitation into the Arab
fold�.Human rights monitors condemned the kidnapping of four-year-
olds for use as camel jockeys - a practice banned in September 2002.
Three out of every four UAE inhabitants are foreigners - Indians,
Pakistanis, Iranians, Lebanese and the odd British expatriate.
Rumours of xenophobia are rife. Only Sunni Muslims can be
naturalised, alleged Christian proselytisers are deported, marriages
to outsiders are effectively forbidden. Prison conditions can be
atrocious and financial fraud has rocketed�."
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,1341885,00.html
"HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Voted Gulf Businessman of the Year
during the annual businessmen' conference, held in the United Arab
Emirates.1995
Honorary Medal for Supporting Arab Singers, awarded to Prince
Alwaleed by The Ministry of Information and Culture in the United
Arab Emirates (UAE) during its first Art Festival.1996"
Source: http://www.libanmall.com/hrhrecognitions.htm
"A message from UAE President to Iran's Khatami
United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 5/27/2002
The United Arab Emirates UAE minister of state for foreign affairs
Sheikh Hamad Bin Zayed al-Nahyan arrived in Tehran on Sunday
carrying a message from UAE President Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-
Nahyan to the Iranian President Muhammad Khatami pertaining to
bilateral relations between the two countries.
Sheikh Hamad will hold with his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharazi
talks dealing with means of strengthening and developing bilateral
cooperation relations in the two countries and the developments of
conditions in occupied Palestine and the world." Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020527/2002052714.html
"An Iranian parliamentary delegation in the UAE
United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 9/10/2001
The speaker of the federal national council in the United Arab
Emirates UAE Muhammad Khaleifah al-Habtour has met with an Iranian
parliamentary delegation currently visiting the United Arab Emirates
UAE. This meeting which is considered the first parliamentary
bilateral meeting between the two countries, reflects the state of
detente in the relations between the two countries.
The question of the three UAE islands was among the issues discussed
by al-Habtour with the Iranian delegation which included Ala Eddine
Ameer Wajri, Jawad Itaat and Sayed Fadel Mahajarati.
During the meeting, the Iranian side concentrated on the importance
of finding out a peaceful solution for this issue.
Al-Habtour noted that UAE care, in its foreign policy, to pursue the
principles of peace and diplomacy and good neighborhood, adding that
this has been ever stressed by the UAE foreign minister Sheikh
Hamdan Bin Zayed al-Nahyan during his recent visit to Iran.
Al-Habtour also underlined the role that can be played by
parliamentarians to finding out a solution to this matter by either
resorting to the table of negotiations to find out an amicable
solution for the two sides or to the International court of Justice,
investing thereby the positive atmosphere prevailing Iranian - Gulf
relations in particular and Iranian- Arab relations in general."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010910/2001091015.html
"Khatami congratulates Sheikh Zayed of UAE
United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 8/7/2001
President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan al-
Nahyan has received a cable of congratulations from the Iranian
President Muhammad Khatami on the occasion of the 35th anniversary
of assuming presidency in the UAE.
The message was conveyed by the director of the office of the
Iranian President Muhammad Abtahai upon his meeting with Sheikh
Zayed on Monday in Abu Dhabi.
Abtahai arrived in Abu Dhabi earlier in the day in a visit to the
UAE to offer the congratulations of the Iranian President Muhammad
Khatami to Sheikh Zayed on the occasion of his 35th anniversary in
being in power."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010807/2001080710.html
"Iranian - UAE meeting at the participation of Syria, Qatar
United Arab Emirates-Iran, Politics, 5/28/2001
The foreign ministers of Qatar and Iran Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasem Bin
Jaber al-Thani and Kamal Kharazi together with the UAE minister of
state for foreign affairs Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed al-Nahyan on
Saturday held a meeting in Doha�" source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010528/2001052805.html
Re the next item, note that this was not the "pre-9/11" world, this
was in May of 2002, and this was not the post-Liberation Iraq, this
was Saddam Hussein's Iraq!
"Iraq, UAE signed joint cooperation agreements
Iraq-United Arab Emirates, Economics, 5/25/2002
Iraq and the United Arab Emirates UAE on Thursday evening in
conclusion of the meetings of the first session of the joint Iraqi-
UAE committee on economic, trade and technical cooperation, an
agreement to expand their bilateral cooperation especially in the
fields of commerce, industry and health.
On the Iraqi side, the agreement was signed by the deputy premier
and minister of finance Hikmat Ibrahim al-Ezzawi and on the UAE side
by the minister of state for financial and industrial affairs
Muhammad Khalfan Bin Kharbash, currently visiting Baghdad.
In a statement following the signing of the agreement, al- Ezzawi
said that the coming phase will witness a large expansion in the
area of trade cooperation between the two states.
For his part, Bin Kharbash explained that his country is careful to
deepen and consolidate ties of cooperation with Iraq in all fields
especially after the two states have signed the free trade bilateral
agreement."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020525/2002052509.html
"Sheikh Zayed rejects threats against Iraq
United Arab Emirates-Iraq, Politics, 3/18/2002
President of the United Arab Emirates Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al-
Nahyan received Sunday Iraqi Vice-Chairman of Revolution Command
Council Izzat Ibrahim. Sheikh Zayed affirmed that the United Arab
Emirates rejects the aggressive threats against any Arab state, IRNA
reported."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020318/2002031850.html
Once again, re the item on Iraq above, this was not "Pre-9/11" it
was March of 2002 and it was Saddam Hussein's Iraq that the UAE was
siding with!!!
The item below from November of 2001 again documents the UAE ties to
Saddam Hussein's Iraq!
"Free trade agreement between Iraq, UAE
United Arab Emirates-Iraq, Politics, 11/5/2001
Iraq on Friday signed a free trade agreement with the United Arab
Emirates provides that trade exchange between the two states will
reach a value of USD 2.5 billion annually.
The Iraqi trade minister Muhammad Mahdi Saleh said that this
agreement will help to at least double the trade exchange volume
between the two states.
The UAE minister of commerce and the economy Sheikh Faheim Bin
Sultan al-Qaseimi said that this agreement will contribute to
strengthening relations between the two countries and will avail the
way before numerous investment in the private sector between them."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011105/2001110548.html
"Emirates for lifting the embargo imposed on Iraq
United Arab Emirates-Iraq, Politics, 11/7/2000
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) deputy prime minister Sheikh Sultan
Bin Zayed al-Nahyan said that the continued besiege of the Iraqi
people raises "Humanitarian shame" at the daily death of thousands
of Iraqi children.
In press statements issued on Monday by the UAE daily al-Khaleij,
Sheikh Sultan added that the continued sanctions against the Iraqi
people has doubled the sufferings.
�The UAE minister stressed that the continued
siege of more than 10 years has greatly damaged the Iraqi people.
Concerning the situation in the occupied territories, the UAE
official said that the situation was escalated because the " Zionist
hatred has exceeded all humanitarian expectations." He called on the
international community to make an initiative to halt the repeated
Israeli brutality against the Palestinians and called on the UN to
move quickly in order to halt the Palestinian bloodshed and to
protect the innocent among elderly, women and children�."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/001107/2000110710.html
(Evidently the deliberate targeting of civilians by Hamas, et. al.
were not things the UAE minister was concerned with. Instead the
nazi style big lie techniques were used, and so it goes� )
"Iraq re-opens its embassy in Abu Dhabi
Iraq-United Arab Emirates, Politics, 7/4/2000
The Iraqi embassy in Abu Dhabi was officially reopened following a
ten-year closure. The Iraqi charge de affairs Hamoudi Ahmad
submitted his credentials on June 24 as Iraq's charge de affairs to
the United Arab Emirates."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/000704/2000070413.html
More anti-Israeli propaganda from the UAE:
"UAE president helps a church and a mosque rebuild after Israeli
assault
United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Culture, 5/25/2002
UAE President Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan is bearing the cost
of fixing the damage caused by Israel on the Church of Nativity in
Bethlehem and the nearby Omar Mosque.
Gulf daily news had noted that Sheikh Zayed's gesture was praised by
Christians and Muslims alike."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/020525/2002052537.html
Speaking of cartoons: anti-Israel cartoons were promoted by the UAE:
"Exhibition of Al Naji's cartoons on Palestinian struggle
United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Culture, 10/5/2001
A two-day cartoon exhibition by famous Palestinian artist, the late
Naji Al Ali, opened on Wednesday at the Dubai Press Club�It includes
90 of his most important works during his 30-year campaign on behalf
of the Palestinians, which were sent by his son in London.
Naji Al Ali was made famous by "Hanthala," the symbol of the child
in his drawings.
"Hanthala is not a fat, spoilt, comfortable child. He is bare-footed
like the other bare foot children from the refugee camps. Despite
his looks, he has a pure heart with a conscience that smells like
musk and amber, and I am ready to kill anyone who intends to harm
him. His hands are clasped behind his back as a sign of rejection
during the phase that this region is undergoing, with "solutions"
offered by the USA and "the system," the late artist had said.
He added: "Hanthala was born at the age of ten and will always
remain ten. At that age I left my country, and only when Hanthala
returns to Palestine will he grow up and exceed the age of ten. The
rules of nature do not apply to him."
Naji Al Ali's work was the medium through which he helped his
country fight against Israel. In his caricatures, he has expressed
the situation in his country, and what happens to his people.
He became very famous in the Arab world because of his work.
Naji Al Ali's talent was discovered by the late Palestinian author,
Gassan El-Kanafani."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/011005/2001100529.html
"Some 40 tons of the UAE aid to the Palestinians
United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Economics, 7/27/2001
A United Arab Emirates UAE plane loading 40 tons of medical supplies
and foodstuffs landed on Thursday at Amman's airport in its way to
the areas of the Palestinian territories.
Member of the UAE Red Crescent society Muhammad al-Rumeithi said
that " this shipment is considered part of the air bridge installed
by the UAE through Jordan to support the Palestinians in the
Palestinian areas in confrontation of the Israeli occupation forces."
He added that this shipment " which is at a cost of 2 million UAE
Dirham ( USD half a million) is the outcome of donation collected by
the UAE charity societies to support the Palestinian people and
alleviate their daily sufferings." He said that in collaboration
with Jordan, the UAE established a field hospital in Ramullah in the
West bank " treating for free some 400 patients every day." Besides
the hospital of Sheikh Zayed in Ramullah and several other medical
centers in the Palestinian territories."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/010727/2001072716.html
In the item above note the name: "The "Sheikh Zayed city of families
of martyrs," named after the UAE head of state." The so-
called "martyrs" are the GENOCIDE BOMBERS murdering Jews.
"UAE finances $ 50-million housing compound in Gaza
United Arab Emirates-Palestine, Economics, 7/23/1999
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will finance a $ 50-million worth
housing compound in Gaza, the UAE news agency WAM reports.
The "Sheikh Zayed city of families of martyrs," named after the UAE
head of state, will comprise 3,574 flats, two mosques, health
centers, cultural centers, schools, a market, a sports complex and
two gardens.
The funding agreement was signed by Palestinian Housing Minister
Abdelrahmane Hamad, who is on a visit in the gulf state, and manager
of the Abu Dhabi Fund for Development, Said Khalfan Al-Roumeithi.
After he thanked the UAE head of state for the initiative, the
Palestinian official hoped that construction works will start soon
in order to alleviate the unemployment and housing hardships facing
Palestinians in the autonomous territories.
Some 70,000 Palestinians are living in the United Arab Emirates,
which has close relationships with the Palestinian Authority."
Source:
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/990723/1999072353.html
PRINCE ALWALEED BIN TALAL TO BUILD MORE FIVE STAR HOTELS IN DUBAI
London dailies have reported that Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal, the
world's fifth-wealthiest man and the world's wealthiest Arab plans
to build hotels and media assets amounting to more than $2 billion
(�1.4 billion) in Dubai and London, over the next 2 years.
Prince Alwaleed plans to sell shares in his Middle Eastern joint
venture Kingdom Hotels investment group before the end of 2005. The
investment group has revealed plans to buy or build more than 35
hotels in Dubai, Egypt, Bahrain and other Arab Countries over the
next three years.
The company, estimated to be more than $1 billion in worth, would
own a portfolio of hotels in the middle east and Africa which
includes a chain of resorts in Kenya purchased from Lonroho and the
prince would continue to retain his stakes in Western hotels such as
The Savoy in London, George V in Paris and a large stake in four
seasons hotels and Resorts. "The company will have dual listing in
Dubai and London", the Prince was quoted while speaking.
Prince Alwaleed is listed as one of the largest investors in the
tourism industry in the Middle East and his assets includes a stake
in the Fairmont Palm Hotel in Dubai. Reports indicate that he is
also expanding the Movenpick hotel chain, in which he has a 27 per
cent stake, in Saudi Arabia.
The jet-setting prince who has transformed himself into a
businessman-cum-political-activist has got his $10 billion stake in
Citigroup."
Source: http://www.dubaicityguide.com/specials/index.asp?id=1176
"Saudi Arabia's Prince Bin Talal handed Rudolph Giuliani a $10m
cheque, which the mayor later rejected." See the infamous photo at:
http://schema-
root.org/region/middle_east/saudi_arabia/royalty/prince_al-waleed/
"Fairmont Hotels agrees to $3.9-billion USD takeover. Saudi Prince
Alwaleed Bin Talal, with an estimated net worth of US $23.7 billion,
he is ranked by Forbes as the fifth richest person in the world and
nicknamed by Time magazine as Arabian Warren Buffet.
Fairmont Hotels & Resorts Inc. has found its "white knight" in its
bid to fend off a takeover by U.S. financier Carl Icahn. Toronto-
based Fairmont (TSX:FHR) has agreed to be bought by Colony Capital
and a Canadian firm owned by Kingdom Hotels International.
Kingdom is owned by Saudi Arabian Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
Abdulaziz Alsaud, one of the richest men in the world.
Kingdom and Colony will pay $45 US per share in cash for Fairmont.
Their bid is worth $3.9 billion US, including assumed debt. Kingdom
already owns just less than 3.9 million Fairmont shares.
The board of directors of Fairmont has recommended that shareholders
accept the Kingdom/Colony bid.
"This transaction is the ideal means of delivering significant,
immediate value to the company's current shareholders while
preserving this Canadian- based company and establishing a solid
platform from which to grow," said Peter Godsoe, chairman of
Fairmont's board of directors.
Shares of Fairmont were up 26 cents at $50.70 on the TSX, while the
stock rose 45 cents to $44.27 US on the NYSE.
Icahn bid $40 US per share for majority control Fairmont in
December. Icahn had 9.3 per cent of Fairmont's stock at the time and
was seeking to buy another 41 per cent. Fairmont's board rejected
Icahn's offer, prompting him to say he was considering a bid for all
of the company.
Under the terms of their offer for Fairmont, Kingdom and Colony plan
to combine the hotel chain with the Raffles hotel chain already held
by Colony. Raffles owns and manages 33 properties primarily across
Asia and Europe, while Fairmont owns and operates 87 hotels in
Canada, the United States, Mexico, Bermuda, Barbados, the U.K.,
Monaco, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates."
Source:  http://www.albca.com/aclis/modules.php?
name=News&file=article&sidg2
The shocking news that narco-terrorists in Colombia plotted to
assassinate current President George W. Bush on Monday November
22nd, 2004,
the 41st anniversary of the JFK assassination, needs some
examination.
BCCI, the infamous drug-terror-arms bank that allegedly gave former
President Jimmy Carter $10 million for the Carter Library,had
offices in Peru, where
coca leaves are grown, in Colombia, where the coca leaves are
processed into cocaine, and in Castro's Cuba, and Baathist Syria and
Baathist Iraq. Banks
did not get offices in any of those 3 tyrannies without the approval
of the tyrant.
"Colombian Rebels Planned to Kill President Bush
November 27th, 2004 U.S. National - Reuters
By Hugh Bronstein BOGOTA, Colombia (Reuters) - President Bush was
targeted for assassination by Colombia's biggest Marxist rebel group
this week when he visited the Caribbean port city of Cartagena, a
top Colombian official said on Saturday. "According to informants
and various sources, we had information indicating that various
members of the FARC had been instructed by their leaders to make an
attempt against President Bush," Defense Secretary Jorge Alberto
Uribe told reporters. He would not be drawn out on the details of
the threat. The White House had no immediate comment.
The U.S. Secret Service, which protects the president, said it "does
not comment or release information regarding our protective
intelligence and protective methods." "We do not discuss any alleged
threats to our protectees," said Jonathan Cherry, a Secret Service
spokesman.
There was heavy security in Cartagena when Bush visited the city on
Monday(November 22nd, 2004)on his way back from the APEC forum in
Chile. Military helicopters packed with armed soldiers flew over
Bush's motorcade while naval vessels kept watch offshore. Many shops
were shuttered."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/nm/20041127/us_nm/colombia_bush_plot_dc_5
"In early August, 1991, the Committee was provided with documents
from the Latin American and Caribbean Region Office (LACRO) of BCCI,
describing the offer for sale by the Argentine air force of 22
Mirage aircraft for $110 million. (63) The planned sale was to have
been made to Iraq, as part of Saddam Hussein's massive military
buildup prior to the Gulf war. BCCI was acting as the broker for the
transaction, which was to take place in August or September of
1989...As Robert Mazur, the Customs agent in Tampa who selected BCCI
as the target of the Customs money laundering sting testified, BCCI
bank executives volunteered methods to enhance and improve his
techniques for money laundering, and shortly before the sting ended
the operation, offered to introduce Mazur to other potential "cash"
customers for money laundering services from Bogota, Colombia...."
Source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/04crime.htm
"An Afghani tends to a field of heroin poppies, the sale of which
provides much of the financing for the Taliban and Osama bin Laden.
Afghanistan is the world's No. 1 producer and distributor of heroin,
and illicit drug trafficking is the biggest funding source for
By Rachel Ehrenfeld / Special to The Detroit News About the author
Rachel Ehrenfeld is director of the New York-based Center for the
Study of Corruption and the author of "Evil Money" (HarperBusiness)
and "Narco-Terrorism" (Basic Books).
Moving the money...
In the welter of events following the bombing of the World Trade
Center in Feb. 26, 1993, few noticed that the first man arrested,
Mohammed Salameh�the poor, unemployed illegal immigrant�
offered $5 million for bail. Where could he get this kind of money?
The judge refused bail. But was the source of Salameh's offer the
same as the one that funded the eight men�arrested shortly
afterward�who planned to blow up Manhattan's tunnels and bridges
and to assassinate public officials?
Were the same money sources behind the final attack on the World
Trade Center on Sept. 11?
... For a long time, there has been evidence that terrorist,
international drug trafficking and criminal organizations use the
same fund-raising methods to enrich themselves.
Yet no one seemed to connect the dots. And no one seriously tried to
crack down on their financing.
�According to a State Department report, the Taliban, who are at bin
Laden's service, has the advantage of controlling the world's
largest heroin production and distribution in the world.
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan, the heroin production
soared to hundreds of tons each year. In 1999 alone, the world
production of heroin was estimated at 500 metric tons; 400 were
produced by the Taliban and available to fund bin Laden and his
associates worldwide. First warning
The writing was on the wall on July 5, 1991, when the Bank of
England shut down what was the most important Islamic bank in the
world, the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI). This
criminal entity was created by the Pakistani Aaga Hassan Abedi "to
fight the evil influence of the West"; to help with the creation of
the "Islamic Bomb"; to finance all Muslim terrorist organizations;
and to launder the money that was generated mostly by illicit drug
trafficking and other illegal activities, including arms
trafficking.
When BCCI went belly up, we learned from thousands of documents that
Abu Nidal�the notorious Palestinian terrorist organization that
now enjoys the hospitality of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the Palestine
Liberation Organization (PLO), Hezbollah and bin Laden�had
accounts in the bank. By the end of the 1980s, the "special
services" provided by BCCI included access to Western humanitarian
and international development funds, as well as drug money
laundering, secret transfers of cash and bribes.
A "Black Network," a special enforcement unit supported by Abu Nidal
and other terrorist organizations, operated from Pakistan. The same
Pakistan that harbored bin Laden for many years while its officials
told the United States that they didn't know his whereabouts. And
the same Pakistan that for decades, even according to the State
Department's annual report, had been a major drug trafficking and
money laundering center.
Western blindness
Yet, now more importantly, we also discovered that the American and
British governments knew and kept the bank open for a long time. The
bank "that would bribe God" was able to get away with its criminal
activities for decades due to Abedi's clever portrayal of the Muslim
nations as victims of Western�and particularly U.S.�
"imperialism." And when the bank was shuttered, the accusation in
the Muslim/Arab and Third World countries was that the U.S. and the
United Kingdom governments closed the bank to curtail the growing
fiscal power of Muslim countries.
Like Abedi, anti-American, anti-Western terrorist and radical Muslim
states and organizations, such as the Taliban, Al Qaeda, Hamas,
Hezbollah, the PLO, Iraq and Iran, use Western democratic rhetoric
to their advantage. But it is the willful blindness, mainly toward
the growing volume of drug money laundering, exercised by Western
bankers on the one hand and Western politicians on the other, that
makes money laundering possible, despite the many laws and
international conventions to control this phenomenon.
The BCCI was the first warning to the West. The second warning about
the abuse of European and American financial markets by terrorist
organizations, as well as their involvement in the illicit arms and
drug trade, was made in February 1994 by the British National
Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS).
The Organized Crime Unit of the NCIS warned that Middle East
terrorist groups and states were targeting the financial centers of
London, Frankfurt and other Western countries, and that they favor
illegal drug trafficking, money laundering and fraud....
Clinton appeasement
Despite its stated policy of not negotiating with terrorists, the
Clinton administration went out of its way to appease a few of the
20th century's most notorious terror groups: the Revolutionary Armed
Forces of Colombia (FARC), the PLO and the Irish Republican Army.
All are heavily involved in the drug trade.
On the eve of the 1993 handshake on the White House lawn between
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat,
Britain's National Criminal Intelligence Service estimated the PLO's
ill-gotten gains to total between $8 billion to $10 billion, with an
annual income of about $1.5 billion to $2 billion from "donations,
extortion, payoffs, illegal arms dealing, drug trafficking, money
laundering, fraud, etc."
Since then, Washington has only aided and abetted the PLO. Since the
start of the Oslo process, Arafat has received at least $3 billion
more from the United States and the international community, without
any serious demand for accountability, according to a report this
year to Congress. Arafat, in well-documented instances, has been
systematically skimming off portions of these funds, as he has with
monies given to him on behalf of the refugees in the camps.
The PLO was in the drug trafficking business almost from the
beginning. Operating from Lebanon, under Habash's able leadership
and assisted by a PLO-owned shipping company SUMUD, the organization
exported hashish, opium, heroin and cocaine, first to Europe and
later even to the United States and Australia. In return, it
obtained weapons for their war against Israel and the West, and
amassed a massive treasure trove. In addition, the PLO and Arafat,
who enjoy the financial and strategic support of Hussein and bin
Laden, have the distinction of being the organization that
promoted "suicide bombers" as a weapon.
Yet the Clinton administration subsidized a multitude of radical
Palestinian groups, ranging from Arafat's Fatah branch of the PLO
and its military wing, the Tanzim, to the socialist-nationalist
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), headed by
George Habash, all with close ties to bin Laden, Iraq and Iran.
...It was the Clinton White House that, despite evidence to the
contrary, removed Syria from its list of the drug trafficking
countries, to entice Syria to join the "peace process" in the Middle
East.
The failure of that process and the compromises the United States
has made to maintain an illusion of peaceful prospects had no doubt
added to the Muslim radical terrorists' resolve to attack what they
see as a naive and vulnerable America.
In another example of self-delusion, in 1999, then Secretary of
State Madeleine Albright suggested a U.S.-led coalition to negotiate
with the FARC and supported Colombia President Pastrana's "land for
peace" initiative, despite a report from the General Accounting
Office that the FARC is running a major international criminal
enterprise that, among other things, supplies hundreds of tons of
cocaine and heroin to the U.S. black market.
This second Clinton "land for peace" initiative gave half of
Colombia to the narco-terrorist FARC, while doing nothing to
diminish its violence or appetite to control the rest of the
country...."
Source: http://www.detnews.com/2001/editorial/0109/30/a17-306400.htm
"Abu Dhabi is the largest of the seven emirates that
comprise the United Arab Emirates and was also the largest of the
former Trucial States. Abu Dhabi is also a city of the same name
within the Emirate that is the capital of the country, in north
central UAE. The city lies on a T-shaped island jutting into the
Persian Gulf from the central western coast. An estimated 1,000,000
lived there in 2000, with about an 80% expatriate population�"
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Dhabi
"ABU DHABI: BCCI'S FOUNDING AND MAJORITY SHAREHOLDERS
There was no relationship more central to BCCI's existence from its
inception
than that between BCCI and Sheikh Zayed and the ruling family of Abu
Dhabi.
Abu Dhabi was present at BCCI's creation as one of two providers of
BCCI's
capital. It was BCCI's largest depositor, and its largest borrower,
and for most
of BCCI's existence, its largest shareholder. The relationship
between the two
entities was, as Price Waterhouse told the Bank of England days
before BCCI's
closure, "very close," with BCCI providing services to the ruling
family of Abu
Dhabi far beyond the ordinary relationship of a bank to either its
shareholders or depositors.(1)
There are numerous examples of the centrality of the Abu Dhabi
relationship to BCCI, and its unusual nature.
In 1972, when BCCI was created, Abu Dhabi shareholders purchased 20
percent of
its stock with an investment of $500,000, and then generously agreed
to have
that interest drop to just over one percent of BCCI just three years
later.
In January, 1978, when BCCI decided to enter the United States and
purchase
shares in Financial General Bankshares, and needed two additional
names, the ruling family of Abu Dhabi supplied them.
In 1980 and 1981, when BCCI needed a purchaser for Bank of America's
shares in
BCCI, and had no one other than its bogus Grand Caymans bank-within-
a-bank,
ICIC, to buy them, Abu Dhabi stepped in once again to increase its
interest in BCCI.
Throughout the 1970's and 1980's, the Abu Dhabi ruling family and
the Abu Dhabi
government placed billions of dollars in deposits at BCCI and its
affiliates,
such as ICIC, giving BCCI and its head, Agha Hasan Abedi, the right
to manage
those assets, and a power of attorney to act in the name of Sheikh
Zayed.
In 1990, when accountants and regulators in the United Kingdom found
fraud at
BCCI, the Abu Dhabi ruling family and government stepped in again,
agreeing to
formally buy the bank, assert control, guarantee its losses, replace
BCCI's head
with the head of its own BCCI affiliate, the Bank of Credit and
Commerce
Emirates (BCCE), move BCCI's operations and records from London to
Abu Dhabi,
and work on a plan to find a way to save the bank despite its having
acknowledged "mishandling" at least $2.2 billion of Abu Dhabi's
money.
By July 5, 1991, when BCCI was closed globally, the Government of
Abu Dhabi, its
ruling family, and an investment company holding the assets of the
ruling
family, were the controlling, and official "majority" shareholders of
BCCI�owning 77 percent of the bank. But since the remaining 23
percent was
actually held by nominees and by BCCI's alter-ego ICIC, Abu Dhabi
was in fact BCCI's sole owner.
After July 5, 1991, it was in Abu Dhabi that most of BCCI's top
officials
remained, where they remain under the control of the Abu Dhabi
government, under
conditions said to be luxurious, which the Abu Dhabi government
refuses to
discuss. While there, they have remained incommunicado, and out of
the reach of
foreign investigators, unwilling, or unable, to tell the world what
happened.
In short, there is no question that the relationship between Abu
Dhabi and BCCI
was central to both, and that no adequate understanding of BCCI is
possible
without an understanding of the Abu Dhabi relationship. Yet
according to the
testimony presented to the Subcommittee by Abu Dhabi, that
relationship was one
that boiled down to little more than victim (Abu Dhabi) and criminal
(Abedi and
BCCI). In essence, according to Abu Dhabi, BCCI abused Abu Dhabi's
trust by
stealing deposits and mismanaging a bank it owned, making Abu Dhabi
by its own
account BCCI's largest victim, losing what it describes as some $6
billion in all.
Thus, by Abu Dhabi's account, it never knew that most or all of
BCCI's
shareholders were front-men or nominees for BCCI, including the
heads of state
of several of the smaller sheikhdoms of the United Arab Emirates of
which Sheikh
Zayed is president, sheikhs who are generally understood to treat
Sheikh Zayed
with great deference. It never knew that such prominent shareholders
as Kamal
Adham and A.R. Khalil, two successive heads of Saudi intelligence,
were also
nominees for the bank, along with such well-known Middle Eastern
financial
figures as Faisal Fulaij of Kuwait and Ghaith Pharaon of Saudi
Arabia. Unlike
these other figures, who were part of BCCI's deceptions, and who by
Abu Dhabi's
account participated in BCCI's schemes to deceive Abu Dhabi, Abu
Dhabi contends
it was innocent of wrongdoing, and utterly duped.(2) To quote the
testimony of
Abu Dhabi's witness before the Subcommittee, Ahmed Al Sayegh:
We didn't know anything about the bank [BCCI] because of our passive
role in the
past [prior to taking control in April 1990].(3)
However, unlike any other shareholder, officer, attorney, agent or
depositor of
BCCI, Abu Dhabi has been in the position, since April, 1990, of
having total
control over BCCI's records. At least eighteen of its key officers,
who have
remained held incommunicado and under house arrest in Abu Dhabi
since BCCI's
collapse. During that period, Abu Dhabi has chosen not to make any
of these
witnesses available to U.S. law enforcement. While it did,
temporarily, make
some key documents available to the Federal Reserve concerning the
involvement
of non-Abu Dhabi figures in BCCI's wrongdoing prior to BCCI's
closure, it has at
all times prevented federal investigators from having free access to
BCCI's
records, and all access to those records has been ended since July
5, 1991.
Thus, Abu Dhabi has remained throughout the past fourteen months in
the position
of being able either to prove its assertions, or risk disproving
them, through
the simple act of granting access to the critical BCCI information
it alone
controls, in witnesses and documents. Yet it has chosen not to do
so. In the
process, Abu Dhabi has made, and broken, repeated commitments to
provide both
witnesses and documents to the Justice Department, the New York
District
Attorney, and the Senate, going as far back as November, 1990, and
continuing to the present.
Given Abu Dhabi's suppression of critical information about its role
in BCCI,
its contention that it is innocent of all wrongdoing in connection
with BCCI,
would, on this basis alone, inevitably be viewed with some
skepticism.
But despite Abu Dhabi's withholding of essential witnesses and
documents, BCCI
financial records obtained to date by investigators, together with
testimony and
statements from BCCI insiders, outline a picture of the relationship
which
suggests that Abu Dhabi officials were indeed knowing participants in
substantial wrongdoing pertaining to BCCI's activities in the United
States and
elsewhere, that members of the Abu Dhabi ruling family participated
in risk-free
investments in BCCI banks, and that Abu Dhabi officials engaged, as
of April,
1990 on some issues and on others much earlier, in a cover-up of
fraudulent
activity involving BCCI, which continues, in substantial part, to
this day."
source: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/14abudhabi.htm
"Arab Emirates: Hamas founder dies
Halil Quka, one of the founders of Hamas, died at the age of 58 in
the United
Arab Emirates. In the 1980s Quka was considered one of the Muslim
Brotherhood
leaders in Gaza, second only to Sheikh Ahmed Yassin.
He was banished from Gaza in the mid-1980s." source:
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview
/1,2506,L-3\
159944,00.html
"tuesday, february 21, 2006
UAE Company Hosts Hamas Web Site
According to Israel's Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center,
a company
in the United Arab Emirates provides hosting services for one of the
leading web
sites of Hamas: Hamas - Marketing terrorism by Internet. �" source:
http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/?entry=19347&only
"Terror Ties Between The UAE And Hamas
Some further details on the port deal from terror maven Rachel
Ehrenfeld, by way
of FrontPage Magazine: A cruise ship sits docked at the New York
City Passenger
Ship Terminal in New York, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2006.
Welcoming Terror to U.S. Ports
By Rachel Ehrenfeld and Alyssa A. Lappen
February 23, 2006 �the UAE, which supported al-Qaeda, sent 9/11
terrorists and
funding, and continues to support Palestinian suicide bombers and
particularly
HAMAS, which President Bush calls "a terrorist organization."

On July 27, 2005, the Palestinian Information Center carried a
public HAMAS
statement thanking the UAE for it's "unstinting support." The
statement said:
"We highly appreciate his highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Bin
Sultan Al-Nahyan
(UAE president) in particular and the UAE people and government in
general for
their limitless support�that contributed more to consolidating our
people's
resoluteness in the face of the Israeli occupation".
The HAMAS statement continued: "the sisterly UAE had� never
hesitated in
providing aid for our Mujahid people pertaining to rebuilding their
houses
demolished by the IOF� The UAE also spared no effort to offer
financial and
material aids to the Palestinian charitable societies."  Indeed, as
documented
by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center at the Center
for Special
Studies (C.S.S), HAMAS charitable societies," are known as integral
parts of the
HAMAS infrastructure, and are outlawed by Israel and the U.S.
The HAMAS statement included a special tribute: "One can never
forget the
generous donations of the late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan," the father
of the
current UAE president. Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan al Nahayan of Abu
Dhabi, was the
first Arab leader to understand the importance of waging economic
Jihad against
the West, and was the first to use oil as a political weapon
following the Yom
Kippur War in 1973. On the eve of the 1991 Gulf War he branded the
United States "our number two enemy" after Israel.
The multi-billionaire Sheikh Zayed, was an early patron of the PLO,
and from the
1970's until his death in 2004, contributed millions of dollars to
the terror agenda of the PLO, HAMAS and Islamic Jihad.
Human Appeal International, a UAE government-operated "charitable"
organization,
whose board includes the UAE president, funds HAMAS as well as other
Palestinian
organizations, "martyrs," Palestinian terrorists in Israeli prisons
and their
families. The HAI's modus operandi is to transfer money to the
Palestinian Red
Crescent Organization whose West Bank and Gaza branches are operated
by HAMAS.
They, in turn, distribute the money to HAMAS "charities."
For example, according to the Orient Research Center in Toronto,
Canada, the UAE
"compensation" plan for the Palestinian intifada in 2001 included
$3,000 for
every Palestinian shaheed, $2,000 for his family, $1,500 for those
detained by
Israel, $1,200 for each orphan. In addition, families of those
terrorists whose homes Israel demolished each received $10,000.
Also in 2001, in support of the martyr's families in the Palestinian
intifada,
two telethons were organized in the UAE. "We Are All Palestinians"
raised 135
million dirham, or $36.8 million, and "For Your Sake Palestine"
raised 350 million dirham, or $95.3 million.
According to a detailed report on March 25, 2005, in the Palestinian
daily Al
Hayat al-Jadeeda, the UAE Friends Society transferred $475,000,
through the UAE
Red Crescent, to West Bank "charitable" organizations in Hebron,
Jenin, Nablus
and Tulkarem to distribute to the families of "martyrs," orphans,
imprisoned Palestinians and others.
The Palestinian newspaper Al-Ayyam reported on March 22, 2005, that
in 2004 the
UAE Red Crescent donated $2 million to HAMAS "charities" to be
distributed to 3,158 terrorists' orphans.
On February 15, 2005, the HAMAS website reported on funds
transferred from HAI
to two HAMAS front organizations in the West Bank, IQRA and Rifdah,
which Israel
had outlawed. And last July, Osama Zaki Muhammad Bashiti of Khan
Younis in Gaza
was arrested as he returned from the UAE, for often transferring
funds of as
much as $200,000 at a time to the Gaza HAMAS branch. The suicide
bombing and
attacks, including one mortar attack on Gush Katif, caused the death
of 44 Israeli civilians and dozens of injuries.
The UAE support of HAMAS is in line with the agenda promoted by the
late Sheikh
Zayed. His Zayed Center for International Coordination and Followup,
founded in
1999 as the official Arab League think-tank, was shuttered under
international
pressure in 2003. It championed Holocaust deniers like Thierry
Meyssan and Roger
Garaudy and provided a platform for anti-Western, anti-Christian and
anti-Jewish
extremists like Saudi economist Dr. Yussuf Abdallah Al Zamel, who
blamed the war
in Iraq on "radical Zionist and right-wing Christian" influence.
Although UAE foreign Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed al-Nahayan
stated that
the Emirates have been and remain a "strong ally of the U.S. in
combating
terrorism," its continuing support of HAMAS and other Islamist
organizations
contradict his statement. This legitimately raises concerns about
trusting U.S.
ports to UAE management.... the UAE's recent actions vis a vis
terrorist groups
like Hamas are still quite disturbing." source:
http://www.sweetness-light.com/archive/some-still-dont-buy-dubai-
port-deal/
"As District Attorney Morgenthau testified, he made the decision to
target BCCI
once the bank's activities came to its attention because of his
recognition that
prosecuting a financial institution handling many millions in drug
money could,
in the long run, have as much impact on fighting crime as the
hundreds of
prosecutions his office was making every week against traffickers
themselves in New York.
[J]ust as illegal drugs are smuggled into this country, illegal
profits must be
smuggled out. The sums involved are truly staggering . . . the
simple truth is
that the wire transfer and the bank book are as much the tools of
the drug trade
as the scale and the gun. . . the nexus between drugs and money
means that if we
are to succeed in the war against drugs, we must be as vigorous in
our
prosecution of corrupt bankers as we are of street dealers.(1)
�
Ultimately, Morgenthau proved BCCI's criminality� because BCCI had
left a
trail of
evidence of wrongdoing there for anyone with the tenacity to pursue
it."
SOURCE: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/1992_rpt/bcci/09ny.htm
"Ramsey Clark was born to power. In 1945, the Clark family made its
leap from
Dallas to DC when Ramsey's dad Tom Clark, a lobbyist for Texas oil
interests, was appointed attorney general by President Harry Truman.
In his
Texas days, the politically ambitious Clark was cultivated as a
useful
connection by New Orleans mafia kingpin Carlos Marcello, and many
feared
Clark's new job would afford organized crime access to higher levels
of
power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in corruption scandals. In
1945, he was
accused of taking a bribe to fix a war profiteering case. In 1947,
after he
had four convicted Chicago mob bosses sprung from prison before
their terms
were complete, Congress appointed a committee to investigate�and was
effectively road blocked by Tom's refusal to hand over parole
records. �In 1949, he moved over to the Supreme Court. Carlos
Marcello
biographer
John Davis asserts the kingpin continued to funnel money to Clark
when he sat on
the high court. Source: http://www.ainfos.ca/01/sep/ainfos00307.html
The Formation of the Clark Panel: More of the Secret Team at Work? By
Lisa Pease The Clark Panel was the medical panel convened almost
immediately after Ramsey Clark had been approved for his appointment
as Attorney General in 1967. The panel was clearly convened to put to
rest the growing doubts caused by the exposures of Mark Lane, Harold
Weisberg, other researchers and even in late 1966, LIFE magazine
itself. All of the above talked about the evidence of conspiracy, and
the implication is that the medical evidence would either show
conspiracy, or else, signs of tampering. What brought it to a crux
was
Jim Garrison's all-out investigation of the assassination, which, in
1967, was making official story proponents very nervous. One of the
key questions raised by the New Orleans DA was this: Why hadn't the
Warren Commission members examined the autopsy photographs and
X-rays?"
Ramsey Clark also dutifully backed the official findings that Lee
Harvey Oswald and Sirhan Sirhan each acted alone in the
assassinations
of the Kennedy brothers.*** Carlos Marcello biographer John Davis
asserts that the kingpin continued to funnel money to (Ramsey)
Clark(`s father Tom Clark) when he, (Tom Clark), sat on the high
court.*** " http://www.holysmoke.org/wb/wb0093.htm
With JFK dead the opium grown in the Golden Triangle
of Indochina
could continue to make its way to
Marseilles, France, there to be processed into heroin to be shipped
to the Mafia
family of Carlos Marcello, mob boss of New Orleans, who could then
distribute it
throughout the United States. Bobby Kennedy, JFK's brother and
U.S. Attorney General was trying to deport Marcello at the time of
JFK's assassination.
"In his Texas days, the politically ambitious elder Clark was
cultivated as a useful connection by New Orleans Mafia kingpin Carlos
Marcello, and many feared Clark's new job would afford organized
crime
access to higher levels of power. AG Clark was repeatedly mired in
corruption scandals.*** In 1947, after he had four convicted Chicago
mob bosses sprung from prison before their terms were complete,
Congress appointed a committee to investigate-and was effectively
road
blocked by Tom's refusal to hand over parole records. "Roselli
was a
Las Vegas based Mafia figure and a link in the CIA-Mafia chain. He
had
close ties to three Mafia bosses associated with the Kennedy
assassination: Sam Giancana of Chicago, Santos Trafficante of
Florida,
and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans. According to columnist Jack
Anderson, Roselli told him that mob leaders had ordered Jack Ruby to
kill Lee Harvey Oswald because they were afraid he might crack and
reveal their part in the conspiracy to kill President Kennedy. In
July
1976, shortly before Roselli was to be questioned by the Senate
Intelligence Committee, his body was discovered floating in
Dumfoundling Bay in Miami. He had been strangled and stabbed; his
legs
had been sawed off and stuffed into an empty oil drum along with the
rest of his body. It is believed that Roselli was killed by someone
working for Trafficante because he was talking too much about the
Kennedy assassination. Conspiracy" "Crime and Cover-Up (p.
44): Here
Scott discusses links between Ruby, Roselli, and Ramsey Clark.
"One
of
Ruby's close personal friends' and character witnesses for his liquor
license was Hal Collins (22 H 928), brother-in-law of prominent local
attorney Robert L. Clark, the brother and uncle respectively of U.S.
Attorneys General Tom and Ramsey Clark (CD 4.371)Robert L. Clark and
his law partner Maury Hughes. arranged the...parole in 1947 of John
Roselli."
http://spot.acorn.net/jfkplace/09/fp.back_issues/17th_Issue/rambler4.


SEE ALSO: http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3341739/
"JFK: The day that changed America" IN WHICH RAMSEY CLARK
STATES
THAT HE, RAMSEY CLARK, WAS THE FIRST ONE INTO THE EAST ROOM OF THE
WHITE HOUSE AFTER THE JFK ASSASSINATION. "ABC NEWS: What do you
make
of the idea that Oswald's uncle, Dutz
Murret, could have been the connection between Marcello and
Oswald"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/WorldNewsTonight/JFK_Ralph_Salerno
� 3.html
"The authors also reveal a Mafia chieftain, who employed Jack
Ruby
and Oswald's uncle, confessed to federal officers he had been
directly involved in Kennedy's murder. "
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.aspARTICLE_ID35618
http://www.informatik.uni-rostock.de/Kennedy/WCH/clark_w.html
Did Anniversary Assassins Strike Again November 22nd 2004
What do you think the chances are that the plane crash which would
have killed the 41st President of the United States, George Herbert
Walker Bush,had he been on board the plane which was enroute from
Love Field in Dallas, Texas to pick him up, on the 41st anniversary
of the assassination of JFK 11/22/1963 was a botched assassination
attempt? Saddam Hussein, who may be running the show from his jail
cell, assassinated his first victim when he was 11 years old, took
power in Iraq in 1968, made it official 11 years later in 1979,
invaded Kuwait 11 years later in 1990 sent bin Laden to assassinate
former President Bush 11 years later on 9/11/2001 on the 11th
anniversary to the day of the 9/11/1990 Bush speech to Congress on
Iraq in which Bush mentioned The New World Order."US plans to
dominate the world under the cover of what is called the new [world]
order. These are the fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion
rocking World Trade Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic
of Iraq Television in Arabic-Official television station of the
Iraqi Government." The World Trade Center looked so much like the
number 11 that WPIX-TV Channel 11 in New York City used the World
Trade Center as its logo. Note 11 times 2 equals 22. The Madrid
attacks were done exactly 911 days after 9/11/2001. Sadat,
criticized by arafat and Saddam for making peace with Israel, was
assassinated on 10/6/1981 exactly 8 years after the 10/6/1973 Yom
Kippur War in which he failed to defeat Israel. The American
Embassies in Africa were hit on August 8th, 1998, exactly 8 years
after the US entered Saudi Arabia in response to Saddam's invasion
of Kuwait. A gentlemanly John Connally reaches to remove his hat as
Jackie Kennedy enters presidential limousine at Love Field, Dallas,
November 22, 1963
Source: http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/images/jbc-love.htm
"The Ba'ath leadership gave the orders for Qasim's assassination...On
October 7th,1959, a six-,man assassination squad was waiting...the
night before one member of the squad had fallen ill. A new recruit
was drafted in...his full name was Saddam Hussein al-Takriti."
Page 22
"The Ba'athist led forces...participated in the coup of 8th February
1963...Immediately after the coup, Saddam Hussein returned to Iraq,
where he was appointed as the head of Al-Jihaz Al Khas, known
popularly as Jihaz Haneen (the Yearning Apparatus), the clandestine
intelligence organization of the Ba'ath Party. Saddam proceeded to
turn it into an instrument of terror....on 18th November (1963) the
army seized power in a swift military coup...the new leadership of
the Ba'ath Party...was arrested. However, some of its members
immediately collaborated with the new regime..." Pgs 25-26
"7th October 1959 A Ba'athist assassination squad fails to kill
Qasim. A member of the team, twenty-two-year old Saddam Hussein,
escapes to Syria and then to Egypt...8th February 1963 A Ba'athist
coup overthrows Quasim amidst several days of terrible street
fighting...18th November 1963 Following bitter infighting
between...factions of the Baath, Arif overthrows the Ba'athist
regime..." Pages 312-313
"Saddam...inherited from his uncle an admiration for Nazi
principles...he was attracted to the ideas of the Ba'ath nationalist
movement. The movement had been established in Damascus in 1943"
(when Syria was a French colony and Hitler ruled France) "by two
Syrians, Greek Orthodox Christian Michel A'flaq and Sunni Muslim
Salah al-Bitar. Their philosophy was based on the ideology of German
national socialism" (Nazism) "and on Italian fascism." Page 199
"After the Ba'ath Party came to power in February 1963...Saddam was
promoted into the Regional Command Council and it was soon found
that this was his metier. He was put in charge of a special force
responsible for terror and assassination and was an interrogator and
torturer in the Qasr al-Nihayyat (`The Palace of the End').
Eyewitnesses say Saddam excelled in creating new methods and
revealed a sadistically inventive mind. He designed new instruments
of torture and then experimentd with them on his victims. ...By the
summer of 1963, Saddam was urging the party to put him in charge of
creating a special security apparatus modelled on the Nazi SS. This
was the Jihaz Haneen....following nationalisation of banks and
certain foreign companies in 1964, the Ba'ath Party instructed
Saddam to assassinate the president Abd al-Salam Arif. The proposed
assassination was designed to trigger off another Ba'ath coup.
Critics say it was a plan on behalf of the CIA but according to some
Ba'athist defectors the CIA did not have direct contact with the
Ba'ath itself but with army officers who were co-ordinating a joint
coup with the party. The main contact with the Americans was Iraq's
own ambassador in Washington, Dr. Nasser al-Hanni." Pages 201-203
"The second part of the plot was carried out by the Jihaz
Haneen...Members of the Iraqi Jewish community...were...arrested.
Eleven of them were among the first fourteen `spies' to be pubicly
hanged on 27th January 1969....The public hangings turned into a
national holiday with live television and radio coverage, and the
Ba'ath Party organized the transport of some hundred
thousand `workers and peasants' from outside Baghdad to join
in...Families picknicked under trees while watching the hangings.
This public orgy of death went on for twenty-four hours..." Page 206
Source: Unholy Babylon-The Secret History of Saddam's War by Adel
Darwish and Gregory Alexander St. Martin's Press, New York 1991
ISBN 0-312-06530-2
"Compare the January 1969 show trial with another spectacle
organized by the first Ba'thi regime in 1963 and designed to counter
the continuing popularity of the ousted president, `Abd al-Karim
Qassem, among certain sectors of the Shi'ite population of Baghdad.
In the first week of the coup, the citizens of al-Thawra, a suburb
of Baghdad, had fought the army and Ba'thist militia in some of the
bloodiest street battles in the history of the country. They refused
to believe that Qassem had been overthrown....The Ba'ath...dealt
with this emotive imagery by televising a lengthy film clip
displaying Qassem's bullet-ridden corpse. Night after night, they
made their gruesome point. The body was propped up on a chair in the
studio. A soldier saunter around, handling its parts. The camera
would cut to scenes of devastation at the Ministry of Defence where
Qassem had made his last stand. There, on location, it lingered on
the mutilated corpses of Qassem's entourage...Back to the studio,
and close-ups now of the entry and exit points of each bullet hole.
The whole macabre sequence closes with a scene that must forever
remain etched on the memory of all those who saw it: the soldier
grabbing the lolling head by the hair, came right up close, and spat
full face into it. The fear that the Ba'th were trying to instill in
this and other instances was brutally direct. The centuries-old
message was simple: he is dead, you had better believe it, we can do
the smae to you. The fact that it was on television extended its
reach..." Pages 58-59.
Source: Republic of Fear The Inside Story of Saddam's Iraq by Samir
al Khalil Pantheon Books, New York 1989 ISBN 0-679-73502-X
A small jet chartered to fly former President Bush to Ecuador
Monday,November
22nd, 2004 was well below normal altitude when it clipped a toll
road light
tower and crashed into a muddy field three miles south of Hobby
Airport, killing
the crew of three.The plane, which belonged to Jet Place Inc. of
Tulsa, Okla.,
came from Love Field in Dallas. It was approaching the runway when
the wing and
the landing gear on the right side clipped the pole on a tollway
road....."
"Weeks after the last pile of debris from EgyptAir Flight 990 was
pulled from the sea, investigators say they are more
convinced than ever of their original theory: The jet was crashed
deliberately."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair000121.html "The
co-pilot under scrutiny in the crash of EgyptAir Flight 990 uttered
an Arabic prayer not once but as many as 10 times just
before the doomed airliner went down"
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/egyptair991121.html
"Aviation Analyst John Nance Talks About Flight 990 When a commercial
aircraft goes into a dive as steep and precipitous as the preliminary
radar data seems to indicate."
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/DailyNews/chat_johnnance110199.html
"The White House is bordered on three sides by buildings that are as
tall or taller than itself. (OEOB, Treasury, and Blair House.) Beyond
these buildings there are still more buildings, that also are taller
than the White House. The only flight path that is relatively
unobstructed if making a controlled, straight-in approach, is from
the
south, over the ellipse. Even the Marine helicopter the president
uses comes in from this direction and lands on the South Lawn. The
problem with flying a plane the size of a 757 or 767 in from this
direction is that there's a 555 ft tall structure in the way called
the Washington Monument. The Capitol, although a bigger target, is
similarly situated. There are buildings on all sides except for the
west side, which faces the Mall. Again, for a controlled, straight-in
approach, a pilot first would need to avoid the Washington Monument,
and then fly straight down the Mall. There is more room to do this,
but again, it would take considerable skill. Moreover, the buildings
in Roslyn, just across the river from and to the west of the Mall,
would have to be cleared, which means the plane's altitude would
probably be too high, or the angle of descent too steep to permit a
successful attack by anyone other than a skilled, experienced pilot."
Imagine the rage and fury of Saddam Hussein
"On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that
it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of
international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American
government loan guarantees." source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET
HISTORY OF HOW THE
WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February
26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it
any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the
World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the
liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event
described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the
Bush
I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for
instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the
Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation�"
http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html
Saddam took credit for the September 11th attacks on America on
Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television. Saddam sent his henchman Osama
bin Laden to attack America and to assassinate former President
Bush, who was at the White House on the morning of September 11th,
2001,just as he had tried to assassinate former President Bush in
Kuwait in 1993. That is why Flight 93 was selected to hit the White
House on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Fortunately the heroes
of Flight 93 stopped that from happening and the plane went down in
Pennsylvania.
Second Attempt to Assassinate President Bush.
We all know that Saddam Hussein attempted to assassinate former
President
Bush in Kuwait in 1993. Laura Bush, wife of the current President
Bush,
along with the current President Bush's brothers, his parents, and
former Secretary of State Baker were actually in the air enroute to
Kuwait when the intelligence came in and their plane was turned back.
Then President Clinton later bombed an empty Iraqi intelligence
building
in retaliation for that attempt in which Saddam's homicide bombers
were caught in Kuwait.
We believe that the Second Attempt to assassinate former President
George Herbert Walker Bush was made by Saddam Hussein using his
henchman Osama bin Laden on September 11th, 2001.
September 11th, 1990 Dubya's Dad Speaks to Congress on Iraq When
September 11th Yes ! September 11th 1990. Exactly 11 years to the
day before the infamous September 11th 2001 attacks on America.
Saddam's Revenge !!! How clear it is!!! "Address Before a Joint
Session of the Congress on the Persian Gulf Crisis and the Federal
Budget Deficit September 11, 1990.
We gather tonight, witness to events in the Persian Gulf as
significant as they are tragic. In the early morning hours of August
2d, following negotiations and promises by Iraq's dictator Saddam
Hussein not to use force, a powerful Iraqi army invaded its trusting
and much weaker neighbor, Kuwait. *** The crisis in the Persian Gulf,
as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an
historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our
fifth
objective-a new world order-can emerge. ***" READ THE WHOLE OF
DUBYA'S
DADDY'S SPEECH TO CONGRESS ON SEPTEMBER 11TH, 1990 AT
http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ "Note: The President spoke at 9:09
p.m.in
the House Chamber at the Capitol.. The address was broadcast live on
nationwide television and radio." http://bushlibrary.tamu.edu/ Iraq
Cheers September 11th Attacks on America "Wednesday, September 12,
2001 Baghdad TV Commentary: US `Reaping Fruits of Crimes Against
Humanity' Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television in Arabic 1700 GMT 11
Sep 01 [TV Commentary by Sa'd Yasin Yusuf read by announcer over
footage of explosions in New York] [FBIS Translated Text] [With
thanks
to Laurie Mylorie - Iraq Watch] The American cowboy is reaping the
fruits of his crimes against humanity. It is a black day in the
history of America, which is tasting the bitter defeat of its crimes
and disregard for peoples' will to lead a free, decent life. The
massive explosions in the centers of power in America, notably the
Pentagon, is a painful slap in the face of US politicians to stop
their illegitimate hegemony and attempts to impose custodianship on
peoples. It was no coincidence that the World Trade Center was
destroyed in suicidal operations involving two planes that have
broken
through all US security barriers to carry the operation of the
century
and to express rejection of the reckless US policy. Panic has spread
among US official circles, which evacuated the White House following
a
series of explosions. They also evacuated the Pentagon, the State
Department, and Congress and closed down the airports and government
institutions. The collapse of US centers of power is a collapse of
the
US policy, which deviates from human values and stands by world
Zionism at all international forums to continue to slaughter the
Palestinian Arab people and implement US plans to dominate the world
under the cover of what is called the new [world] order. These are
the
fruits of the new US order. [Video of explosion rocking World Trade
Center] [Description of Source: Baghdad Republic of Iraq Television
in
Arabic-Official television station of the Iraqi Government]"
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3
"CNN LARRY KING LIVE America's New War: Laura Bush Discusses the
Impact of September 11 Aired October 2, 2001 - 21:00 LARRY KING: A
couple of other things:
Have you spoken to your father- in-law? (Not in transcript, but the
father in law in question is one George Herbert Walker Bush !!!)
LAURA
BUSH: I've spoken to my father-in-law. They were-they had actually
spent that Monday night here. (not in transcript but "here" means at
the White House !!!) LARRY KING: Really? LAURA BUSH: I had just seen
them off that morning when I got in the-got in the car and found out
about the first plane. LARRY KING: Didn't know that. LAURA BUSH: They
were-they were on their way to St. Paul, Minnesota to give a speech,
and they were in a private plane, and their plane was diverted to
Minneapolis." http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/02/lkl.00.html
"September 11th, 2001 - The White House is
evacuated. White House Sealed"
http://www.september11news.com/AAWhiteHouseEvacReuters.jpg
"try to avoid having the principal
travel by commercial airline on terrorist anniversaries" from "The
Art
of Executive Protection"
http://www.securitymanagement.com/library/000450.html "


Perhaps the following may explain how Saddam knew where former
President Bush might be spending the night of September 10th-11th
2001.:
"Like everyone else in the United States, the group stood transfixed
as the events of September 11 unfolded. Present were former secretary
of defense Frank Carlucci, former secretary of state James Baker III,
and representatives of the bin Laden family. This was not some
underground presidential bunker or Central Intelligence Agency
interrogation room. It was the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., the
plush setting for the annual investor conference of one of the most
powerful, well-connected, and secretive companies in the world: the
Carlyle Group. And since September 11, this little-known company has
become unexpectedly important. That the Carlyle Group had its
conference on America's darkest day was mere coincidence, but there
is nothing accidental about the cast of characters that this
private-equity powerhouse has assembled in the 14 years since its
founding. Among those associated with Carlyle are former U.S.
President George Bush Sr., former U.K. Prime Minister John Major, and
former President of the Philippines Fidel Ramos. And Carlyle has
counted, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal bin Abdul Aziz Alsaud of Saudi
Arabia, and Osama bin Laden's family among its high-profile
clientele."
http://www.redherring.com/vc/2002/0111/947.html
Imagine
the rage and
fury of Saddam Hussein
"On February 26th, 1982 the Reagan Administration told Congress that
it had dropped Iraq from the list of nations that supported acts of
international terrorism. Baghdad would now be eligible for American
government loan guarantees." source: SPIDER'S WEB: THE SECRET
HISTORY OF HOW THE
WHITE HOUSE ILLEGALLY ARMED IRAQ by Alan Friedman ASIN:
0553096508
Imagine Saddam's rage and fury when Kuwait was liberated on February
26th, 1991, 9 years to the day after the event described above! Is it
any wonder that Saddam would launch the first of his 2 attacks on the
World Trade Center on February 26th, 1993, the 2nd anniversary of the
liberation of Kuwait City, and the 11th anniversary of the event
described above, and that he would launch his 2nd attack on the World
Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, the 11th anniversary of the
Bush
I speech to Congress on Iraq. Saddam loves 11th anniversaries, for
instance " Saddam Hussein's speech on the 11th Anniversary of the
Great Victory Day In the Name of God, Most Compassionate, Most
Merciful Great People, The Valiant of Our Brave Armed Forces, Sons of
our Glorious Arab Nation�"
http://www.index.com.jo/iraqtoday/auguste.html

"MR. FLEISCHER: John, we have real and credible information that the
airplane that landed at the Pentagon was originally intended to hit
the White House.
Q Can you tell us about the nature of that evidence?
MR. FLEISCHER: No, of course I cannot. Any questions relating to how
we have obtained any of this information, sources and methods, I
will, of course, not answer.
Q�why it changed course, Ari? Why it went to the Pentagon and not
the White House?
MR. FLEISCHER: We really do not know the answer to that. But we are
aware of what we have."
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2001/09/20010912-
8.html#intended-targets
(MY THEORY ABOUT THE CHOICE OF FLIGHT 93 WAS THAT 1993 WAS THE YEAR
IN WHICH SADDAM FIRST TRIED TO ASSASSINATE FORMER PRESIDENT BUSH IN
KUWAIT, IT WAS ALSO THE YEAR IN WHICH SADDAM HUSSEIN FIRST TRIED
TO DESTROY THE WORLD TRADE CENTER. IT TURNED OUT TO BE AN UNLUCKY
NUMBER FOR SADDAM HUSSEIN BECAUSE THE PASSENGERS ON FLIGHT 93 BECAME
HEROES AND STOPPED THE PLANE FROM GOING INTO THE WHITE HOUSE)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
"White House Was Flight 93 Target
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
May 23, 2002
Volunteers in Shanksville this past weekend. (Photo: AP)
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed.
(CBS) A high-ranking al Qaeda detainee told investigators the
intended target of United Airlines Flight 93, which crashed into a
Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, was the White House.
Government sources said Abu Zubaydah, now in U.S. custody, is
believed to be the source of the information. He is being
interrogated by U.S. officials at an undisclosed location.
Investigators have linked Zubaydah directly to hijackers on board
Flight 93.
United Flight 93 took off from Newark, N.J., and crashed in Somerset
County, Pa.. A recorder on the plane and calls made to people on the
ground indicate passengers fought for control with the hijackers
before it went down.
The San Francisco-bound jet had turned toward Washington and U.S.
fighter jets were flying to intercept it when it crashed. All 44
people aboard were killed�.
Abu Zubaydah is believed to
have played a key role in organizing the Sept. 11 attacks, officials
said. As al Qaeda's top operational planner, he ran the Khalden camp
in Afghanistan, where U.S. investigators have learned many of the
Sept. 11 hijackers trained. This suggests Abu Zubaydah may have had
direct contact with the hijackers and chosen them for training.
He also had telephone contacts with at least one Arab student at
U.S. flight schools, according to a July 10, 2001, memo from a
Phoenix FBI agent.
The CIA, FBI and Pakistani authorities captured and wounded Abu
Zubaydah in a raid by in Faisalabad, Pakistan, in March. He is
believed to have masterminded the failed millennium bombing plots in
Los Angeles and Jordan, and has been linked to failed plots on the
U.S. embassies in Paris and Sarajevo.
Abu Zubaydah was also indirectly linked, through a web of
associations with other al Qaeda members in Europe, to lead Sept. 11
hijacker Mohammed Atta and his cell in Hamburg, Germany. Three
members of the Hamburg cell were suicide hijackers; three others are
still at large. Ziad Jarrah, believed to be the pilot-hijacker of
Flight 93, was a member of the Hamburg cell."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/05/20/attack/main509535.shtml
"President Saddam Hussein chairs 48th
Cabinet Session
Baghdad, Oct. 22, 2001 INA
President Saddam Hussein chaired on
Sunday the 48th Cabinet session.
The Cabinet discussed recent events of
Palestinian Intifadha and
praised Palestinians brave and
persistent struggle for liberating
their lands. The cabinet reviewed the
current international
situation, especially the U.S
aggression on Afghanistan.
The Cabinet brought back a historic
stance Iraq had taken in 1979 when
it condemned the military Soviet
invasion of Afghanistan though Iraq
had then deep relations with the Soviet Union and there was a
friendship and cooperation agreement between Iraq and the Soviet
Union, yet this had not prevented Iraq from taking the national
independent stand rejecting Soviet's behavior. History repeats itself
once again in 2001 as Iraq takes the same stance and condemns the US
aggression on Afghanistan....this confirms Iraq's principled stance
rejecting all forms of foreign intervention and aggressions. The
Cabinet discussed issues listed on its agenda and made necessary
decisions and recommendations."
http://www.uruklink.net/iraqnews/enews14.htm
"It occurred on the second anniversary of Iraq's expulsion from
Kuwait
City, and the Bank of
Kuwait just happened to have a vault in the basement of the World
Trade Center. The Hunt Begins The mystery of who triggered the new
york blast prompts a massive manhunt. What the experts are looking
for- and where the clues may lead By Russell Watson NEWSWEEK WEB
EXCLUSIVE March 8, 1993 issue - The explosion in the basement of the
World Trade Center did deadly work "At approximately 12 noon on
February 26, 1993, a massive explosion rocked the World Trade Center
in New York City."
http://www.dssrewards.net/english/wldtrade.html
A key member of the gang that hit the World Trade Center in 1993 is
said to have escaped to Iraq using documents provided by Iraq. During
the Gulf War the same gang killed the Speaker of the Egyptian
Parliament when Egypt broke ranks with Iraq over the invasion of
Kuwait. The same gang is alleged to have assassinated Sadat.
Sheik Rahman, the blind sheik who allegedly led that gang in Jersey
City, New Jersey had a son who was found with bin Laden's gang in
Afghanistan when the U.S. liberated Afghanistan.

Remarks at the Commemoration of the Tenth Anniversary of the
Liberation of Kuwait Secretary Colin L. Powell Kuwait City, Kuwait
(US
Embassy) February 26, 2001
http://www.state.gov/secretary/index.cfm?docid=954 "Middle East
Correspondent, Robert Fisk: Why was it that the bombing of the two
embassies in Tanzania and Kenya occurred on the eighth anniversary to
the very day of the first arrival of American troops of the 82nd
airborne in Saudi Arabia in 1990?"
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/stories/s12267.htm
"October 15, 2002
During the Gulf War the same gang that attacked the World Trade
Center
in 1993 killed the Speaker of the Egyptian Parliament when Egypt
broke
ranks with Iraq over the invasion of Kuwait. The same gang is alleged
to have assassinated Sadat on October 6th, 1981, the 8th anniversary
of the Yom Kippur War. On Oct. 6, 2002 a French tanker was damaged in
an explosion in Yemen. Re the Bali attack: "The 12th of October 2002
will for the rest of Australian history be counted as a day when evil
struck with indiscriminate and indescribable savagery," "On October
12th, 2000 terrorists in a boat laden with explosives carried out a
suicide bombing of the U.S.S. Cole in the harbor at Aden, Yemen. In
what President Clinton described as a "despicable and cowardly act,"
17 U.S. sailors were killed, and over 30 others were wounded."
http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/pol/terror/01011605.htm
"Iraq has the motivation
and the means
to actively support the
Islamist networks of the region*** In the past, there have been
intelligence reports of possible cooperation between Iraq and Osama
bin Laden. Iraq has already tried to assassinate President Bush
Senior
in 1993, when he visited Kuwait as a private citizen. In the attack
on
the USS Cole in Aden (in) October (of 2000), there could have been an
Iraqi connection. Iraq has excellent relations with the anti-Western
Yemeni Islamists of the Army of Aden-Abyan, whose militants have been
arrested by the Yemenite authorities in connection with the attack.
Such an attack required long preparations, technical and military
skills and good operational intelligence. In addition, the explosive
used in the attack was sophisticated, a "shaped charge" like a
torpedo
or a missile, a device not in use by terrorist organizations, and
which may have come from a military stockpile."
4 DAYS BEFORE SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 Saddam's Stepson in USA
"Authorities said Saffi" (Saddam's Stepson), " triggered red flags
for
four reasons: the family relationship to the Iraqi dictator; training
at an American flight school; arrival on the eve of the Independence
Day celebrations; and his only documented prior entry into the United
States occurred just four days before the Sept. 11 terrorist
attacks."
"Saddam's Stepson to Be Deported Fri Jul 5th 2002 (Saffi) was
planning to study at a flight school believed by the FBI ( news - web
sites) to have been used by one of the Sept. 11 hijackers."
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?
tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020705/ap_on_re_us
/saddam_s_stepson_12

"US officials state that an FBI investigation had substantiated
charges
that the Iraqi government plotted the assassination of former
President Bush while visiting Kuwait in April 1993."
"Terrorist Pilot Met With Iraqi Intelligence Agent By RICK JERVIS
Special to The Wall Street Journal Europe Wall Street Journal,
Europe October 4, 2001
[With thanks to Laurie Mylroie - Iraq News] PRAGUE-Mohamed Atta, who
allegedly crashed the first plane into the World Trade Center on
Sept.
11, met at least one Iraqi intelligence agent last year in Prague
before moving to the U.S., a Czech official close to the
investigation said."
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MEPF/message/61598
"LONDON, Sept 20TH,2001 (Reuters) - The military journal Jane's has
reported
that Israeli intelligence believes Iraq was a sponsor of the attacks
on the United States last week. Foreign Report, published by Jane's
Information Group, said on its website on Thursday that officers in
Israeli military intelligence believed two of the world's "foremost
terrorist masterminds" had led the attacks. The journal named them as
Imad Moughniyeh of Lebanon, a man it said was head of special
overseas
operations for Hizbollah, and Egyptian Ayman Al Zawahri, a senior
member of prime suspect Osama bin Laden's Al-Qaeda group. "The
Iraqis,
who for several years paid smaller groups to do their dirty work,
were
quick to discover the advantages of Al-Qaeda," Foreign Report said.
"We believe that the operational brains behind the New York attack
were Moughniyeh and Zawahri, who were probably financed and got some
logistical support from the Iraqi Intelligence Service (SSO)," an
Israeli intelligence source told Foreign Report. Foreign Report
quoted the Israeli sources as saying that Iraqi intelligence officers
had been shuttling between Baghdad and Afghanistan, meeting Zawahri,
for the past two years. According to the sources, the Pakistanis
captured one of the Iraqi intelligence officers last October near the
border with Afghanistan. "The Iraqis are also reported to have
established strong ties with Imad Moughniyeh," the report said. It
quoted unconfirmed reports in Beirut as saying that Moughniyeh had
undergone plastic surgery and was unrecognisable. The report quoted
one Israeli intelligence source as saying Israeli military
intelligence had warned Israel's allies six weeks ago that an
"unprecedented, massive terror attack was expected." Moughniyeh, a
member of Lebanon's Shi'ite Muslim Hizbollah movement, was behind a
wave of anti-American attacks in Lebanon in the 1980s, including the
truck bombing of a barracks in Beirut in 1983 that killed 241 U.S.
Marines and sailors. He led a network of kidnappers who held dozens
of
American and other Western hostages in Lebanon for some seven years.
Zawahri was indicted in New York in 1999 in connection with the
bombing of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya on August 7,
1998.
09-20-01"
The links between Hamas and the Emirates may have only begun to be
explored.
Anthrax and Hamas have a history:
November 7, 2001 No.297
Terror in America (24): Hamas Weekly: Anthrax should be put into
America's drinking waterIn his weekly op-ed, Dr. `Atallah Abu Al-
Subh, a columnist for the Hamas[1] weekly Al-Risala (Gaza), writes
open letters to prominent figures, ideologies, and events. His most
recent letter, No. 163, was titled "To Anthrax": "The truth is that
I wondered how to begin! Should I greet you [i.e. anthrax], or
should I curse you? Should I hold my tongue?� I will begin by
saying: Oh Anthrax, despite your wretchedness, you have sown horror
in the heart of the lady of arrogance, of tyranny, of boastfulness!
Your gentle touch has made the U.S.'s life rough and pointless. You
have filled the lady who horrifies and terrorizes the world with
fear, and her feet almost fail to bear [her weight] in horror and
fear of you. Because of you, she has lost confidence in the moment
in which she lives, or in which she will live." "You have entered
the most fortified of places; [you have entered] the White House and
they left it like horrified mice. Up until a short time ago, this
place was the address of the power of brutality, or of the brutality
of power! Verily, the owner of that house said, `Woe to any who dare
even to glance at it with a hint of rage � but you have turned all
this into vanity, weakness, and wretchedness.'" "By Allah, are you
really so deadly?! Do you not fear America's intercontinental
missiles? Do you not fear the torpedo missiles with nuclear
warheads, and cluster bombs? Do you not fear the Swift Sword [Omani-
British wargames] that Britain drew forth from its scabbard to stab
into the heart of our honor in Muscat [Oman's capital], with the
agreement of the great sultan, who had no shame in carrying out such
a deed? Do you not fear the lady of terror's destroyers, that cross
the Suez canal�?" "The Pentagon was a monster before you entered its
corridors� And behold, it now transpires that its men are of paper
and its commanders are of cardboard, and they hasten to flee as soon
as they see � only see � chalk dust! There are those who think that
I exaggerate, but I do not think so. This horror that you have sown �
you, the delicate, the uncomplicated, the miserable � in the heart
of the bloodsucker [the U.S.]� makes me think as I do. You do not
come like a storm, but they see you as one; a terrible storm that
destroys everything. They run from you in all directions and their
tongues mumble, `My life, my life.' Our hearts, repressed, exiled,
and oppressed, were filled with belief that Allah is capable of
defeating America by means of the weakest of his earthly soldiers,
after he used you to sow horror in their hearts�" "I swear that your
story is peculiar. The Americans see you as an imminent attack that
is about to shake the lady with the proboscises that suck the blood
of the peoples� All [the rulers of Arab and Islamic countries] tell
[the U.S.] � every time she farts, � "Allah bless you" �
Nevertheless, you have found your way to only eight American breasts
so far�" "You make the U.S. appease us, and hint to us at a rosy
future and a life of ease� through a [new] Marshall Plan. Why?
Because of our beautiful eyes? Or out of fear that we will turn into
anthrax, and harm the apple of [the U.S.'s] eye and heart, Tel
Aviv�? Without permission, you enter the halls of their courthouses,
as if you intended to push the symbols of their sovereignty into the
mud of worry and fear�" "In sound mind, I thank you and confess that
I like you, I like you very much. May you continue to advance, to
permeate, and to spread. If I may give you a word of advice, enter
the air of those `symbols,' the water faucets from which they drink,
and the pens with which they draft their traps and conspiracies
against the wretched peoples� Turn the bodies of the tyrants into
matches burning slowly and gradually, so that they understand that
the truth belongs to Allah and that they should give those entitled
to rights their rights." "Then, and only then, will you return to
your place� I hope that we only hear about you when you enter the
body of every base man among the arrogant and their agents. Do not
enter the bodies of the wretched, like that aging nurse. Peace be
upon the oppressed."[2]  [1] As of November 2, 2001 Hamas was added
to Executive Order 13224 which "provides the [the U.S. the]
authority to act against individuals and organizations that
associate with the named [Hamas] terrorist groups." [2] Al-Risala
(Palestinian Authority), November 1, 2001.
source: http://www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Area=sd&ID=SP29701
We saw Dan Rather seemingly freak out and have a seemingly near
nervous breakdown about September 11th, on the David Letterman Show
on September 17th, 2001, followed on September 18th, 2001 by the
sending of anthrax by Saddam Hussein, perhaps to shut Dan Rather's
mouth about what he might have known about such things? Who can say?
"Dead Men Tell No Tales", as the saying goes, and Rather was
certainly coming up with some bizarre quotes in his coverage of the
November 2nd, 2004 election on CBS. Was he freaking out again?
His voice seemed to quake as he spoke about September 11th.

"The Source Behind the Interview
CBS News is acknowledging that anchorman Dan Rather had help in
getting his
exclusive interview with Saddam Hussein from none other than Ramsey
Clark, the
onetime U.S. attorney general who has since been on the outer fringe
of the
American left. Clark, who bitterly opposed the Gulf War in 1991, has
since
accused the United States of war crimes in that conflict.... He
visited with
Saddam Hussein over the weekend, as he has done several times before,
and,
according to CBS News, put in a good word for Rather, whom he has
known for a long time."
Source: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C79634%2C00.html
On September 17th, 2001 Dan Rather appeared with David Letterman on
Letterman's CBS TV show. The tearful appearance by Rather with
Letterman
showed a clearly overwrought and emotional Dan Rather discussing the
September
11th,2001 attack on America. You can see photos of that appearance
at:
http://www.geocities.com/davidletterman82/LateShowEpisodePicturesSept
ember17th.html
On September 18th, 2001 the first of the anthrax letters was mailed.
There are
those who speculate that the real target of the anthrax attacks was
Dan Rather,
who was perhaps a "man who knew too much", about too many
things
from the
Kennedy assassination in 1963 to Saddam Hussein, to Afghanistan, and
who
knows what else. Did Saddam Hussein see a tape of Dan Rather's
seeming nervous breakdown about 9/11 on September 17th, 2001 on
David Letterman's show and
decide to order the anthrax attack on Dan Rather to close Dan
Rather's mouth
forever? We do not know. We have no forged or fabricated documents to
back up such a theory. But the theory is out there.
"CBS: Traces of anthrax in Dan Rather's office
October 22, 2001 CBS News anchor Dan Rather
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Preliminary testing found trace amounts of anthrax
in CBS News anchor Dan Rather's anteroom and office areas, but
Rather had shown no signs of exposure, CBS News announced
Monday."
Source:
http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2001/US/10/22/cbs.rather.anthrax/
Iraq behind US anthrax outbreaks
Britain's GPs put on full alert over deadly disease War on
Terrorism: Observer special
David Rose and Ed Vulliamy, New York
Sunday October 14, 2001 The Observer
American investigators probing anthrax outbreaks in Florida and New
York believe they have all the hallmarks of a terrorist attack - and
have named Iraq as prime suspect as the source of the deadly
spores.Their inquiries are adding to what US hawks say is a growing
mass of evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved *** with the 11
September hijackers....Leading US intelligence
sources, involved with both the CIA and the Defence Department, told
The Observer that the `giveaway' which suggests a state sponsor for
the anthrax cases is that the victims in Florida were afflicted with
the airborne form of the disease. `Making anthrax, on its own, isn't
so difficult,' one senior US intelligence source said. `But it only
begins to become effective as a biological weapon if they can be made
the right size to breathe in. If you can't get airborne infectivity,
you can't use it as a weapon. That is extremely difficult. There is
very little leeway. Most spores are either too big to be suspended in
air, or too small to lodge on the lining of the lungs.' ***In liquid
form, anthrax
is
useless - droplets would fall to the ground, rather than staying
suspended in the air to be breathed by victims. Making powder needs
repeated washings in huge centrifuges, followed by intensive drying,
which requires sealed environments. The technology would cost
millions. US intelligence believes Iraq has the technology and
supplies of anthrax suitable for terrorist use. `They aren't making
this stuff in caves in Afghanistan,' the CIA source said. `This is
prima facie evidence of the involvement of a state intelligence
agency. Maybe Iran has the capability. But it doesn't look likely
politically. That leaves Iraq.' Scientists investigating the attacks
say the bacteria used is similar to the `Ames strain' of anthrax
originally cultivated at Iowa State University in the 1950s and later
given to labs throughout the world, including Iraq. According to
sources in the Bush administration, investigators are talking to
Egyptian authorities who say members of the al-Qaida network,
detained
and interrogated in Cairo, had obtained phials of anthrax in the
Czech
Republic. Last autumn Mohamed Atta is said by US intelligence
officials to have met in Prague an agent from Iraqi intelligence
called Ahmed Samir al-Ahani, a former consul later expelled by the
Czechs for activities not compatible with his diplomatic mission.The
Czechs are also examining the possibility that Atta met a former
director of Saddam's external secret services, Farouk Hijazi, at a
second meeting in the spring. Hijazi is known to have met Bin Laden.
It was confirmed yesterday that Jim Woolsey, CIA director from1993 to
1996, recently visited London"
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/11/wbr.02.html
"BLITZER: That's Osama bin Laden's group. Now you also have some
new information, David, about Mohamed Atta. He's the suspected
ringleader of the September 11th hijackings.
ENSOR: Well, that's right. As you know, he was one of the suicide
hijackers who died on September 11th on one of those aircraft. And we
had previously reported on September 19th that he met with an Iraqi
intelligence official somewhere in Europe. Well, I'm now able to tell
you, based on information from U.S. sources, he met not once but
twice
with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague in the Czech Republic:
once
last year in June of 2000 and once in April of 2001."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/10/lkl.00.html
"LARRY KING: Senator Lieberman, we have 30 seconds. Your thoughts on
anthrax?
JOE LIEBERMAN: My colleagues are absolutely right. And I think it's
important to go back. Don't panic. Be prepared. We've been thinking
about this for a while. But I want go back to what Bill Owens said.
Iraq and Saddam Hussein have been working to develop chemical and
biological weapons. They've used them against their own people. They
used them against the Iranians during their war. Saddam really ought
to be the next target of this war on terrorism, because he can do the
unthinkable to us if we give him a chance.
LARRY KING: Gentlemen, this is for all three you. I can't go by
without asking it.
Admiral Owens, are you concerned about this anthrax thing?
RETIRED ADMIRAL WILLIAM OWENS,
FORMER VICE CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS.: Well, I am concerned about
it, Larry. I think we in the military have been following anthrax,
as its been part of the story of Saddam Hussein, and the world of
terrorism, for the last decade or so. And I think we always fear
that something like this would start to be seen inside our
borders."
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0110/15/lkl.00.html
LARRY KING: We now welcome to LARRY KING LIVE Judith Miller, who has
been helping us over the past five weeks report on this story, and
who
has written a best-selling book, way up on the list, "Germs:
Biological
Weapons and America's Secret War." But now, she becomes part of the
story herself with a scare herself."
JOURNALIST JUDITH MILLER, CO-AUTHOR OF THE BEST-SELLING BOOK
"GERMS:
BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS AND AMERICA'S SECRET WAR." SENIOR WRITER AT
"THE
NEW YORK TIMES,": I have always been concerned about Iraq. I
share
the
concern about Iraq's biological weapons program. I found it very
curious
indeed that Saddam Hussein was willing to give up information about
his
nuclear program and his chemical program, but not the biological
weapons.
He had anthrax, botulinum toxin, other agents, perhaps, as well. And
he fought very, very hard to keep weapons inspectors out and to
safeguard
that technology. So it is something I am concerned about."
http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/conditions/10/15/anthrax.butler/index.

html
"Ex-U.N. weapons inspector: Possible
Iraq-anthrax link

October 15, 2001 NEW YORK (CNN) -- Richard Butler, the former U.N.
weapons inspector,
pointed Monday to a possible Iraq connection to the recent anthrax
mailings, saying he did not believe
terrorist groups could have made the deadly bacteria. ***"What
we've
got to be certain about above
all is whether it came from a country supporting these terrorists as
a
matter of policy, such as Iraq, which we know has made this
stuff,"
Butler said. "And there's a credible report, ***, that they may
indeed
have given anthrax to exactly the group that did the World Trade
Center." Mohamed Atta-one of the suspected suicide hijackers-had
two
meetings with Iraqi intelligence officers in Prague, Czech Republic,
U.S. and Czech officials told CNN.*** Butler *** said Egyptian
authorities believe that Iraq could have handed some anthrax over to
one of the suspected terrorists in the September 11 attacks.
"It's
possible that many months ago anthrax, a small quantity of it, was
handed over in Prague to Mohamed Atta ... and the person who handed
it
over in Prague was an Iraqi," Butler said. "If that proves
to be
true,
there's a connection. ***Butler, however, did mention something that
would worry him-an outbreak of smallpox, perhaps caused by a
terrorist
act. "I'd be much more concerned about smallpox because it's
contagious," Butler
said. "And there is reason to think that Iraq, for example, and
maybe
some others
were in the past attempting to bring back smallpox for use as a
biological weapon."
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nyt/20011014/ts/investigators_say_some_t

e
rror_cells_broken_up_in_u_s__1.html

"Chemical weapons lab found 26 November 2004
Iraqi troops in Fallujah have found a chemical weapons laboratory
that included manuals on manufacturing explosives and toxins�
including anthrax.
National security adviser Qassem Dawoud said National Guard troops
"found a chemical laboratory that was used to prepare deadly
explosives and poisons."
Source:
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/PA_NEWIRAQChemicalsThur17
Chemic?source=

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