Iran's Number 1 Nut Job!!!

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused Israel of being the "most cruel and racist regime," sparking a walkout Monday by angry Western diplomats at a U.N. racism conference. Read Story Here.

The Winds of War are Blowing...

Are we going to have an October surprise, an attack on Iran by either the Bush administration or by Israel to stop the regime from becoming a nuclear power??? Read Story Here.

Syria Gets Warned

Israel recently conveyed a warning to Syria through a third party that it would hold Damascus accountable if Hizb'allah launched attacks on the Jewish state, Israeli and European sources said on Friday.Full Story Here.

Is the Third Intifada Coming?

Washington sources report that Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas has put President George W. Bush and secretary of state Condoleezza Rice on notice. He has sent them a warning that he means to break off peace talks with Israel unless prime minister Ehud Olmert comes through with concessions by April. Full Story Here.

Methodists Invite Children Into Alternate Universe

The book, “From Palestine to Seattle: Becoming Neighbors and Friends” published by United Methodist Church is billed as a “storybook on Israel and Palestine” for children six through 12. This is no benign Sunday school text, however. It is a well-crafted bit of propaganda that portrays Israeli security checkpoints as the cause, not the result, of Palestinian violence. Full Story Here.

UN Security Council fails to Condem Jerusalem Massacre

The UN Security Council failed to reach an agreement overnight Thursday on issuing an official condemnation over the deadly shooting attack in Jerusalem's Mercaz Harav Yeshiva because of Libyan opposition. Full Story Here.

Terror Attack in Jerusalem

Washington, D.C., March 6, 2008) Horrifying news out of Jerusalem today, eight killed after a terrorist opened fire with a machine gun at a religious school in Jerusalem. The attack stunned Jerusalem residents in that not a single terrorist action took place in the Holy City in all of 2007. Israeli security forces are moving quickly to seal the city and prevent any additional attacks.

Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas immediately denounced the attack while Hamas praised it. In Gaza, Palestinian crowds began celebrating the Jewish deaths, dancing in the streets and handing out candies.

Nevertheless, officials in Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's government said peace talks with the Palestinians will go on. Many Israelis fear, however, that such talk means Olmert remains committed to dividing Jerusalem and giving the West Bank (Judea & Samaria) to forces hostile to the Jewish State.

More details on the shooting: "One terrorist infiltrated a rabbinical seminary at the entrance of Jerusalem and opened fire after nightfall Thursday, police said," according to Ynet News. "The ZAKA emergency response service has confirmed at least eight people have been killed in addition to the terrorist. Jerusalem police commander Aharon Franco refuted initial reports from the scene claiming there were two gunmen. Franco said that only one attacker opened fire at the seminary and told reporters at the scene that ''an Israeli army officer nearby'' shot the gunman dead. The 'Galilee Freedom Brigades' - an Israeli-Arab group - has claimed responsibility for the attack. The organization has claimed responsibility for several terror attacks in Israel in the past....There were no attacks by Palestinian terrorists in Jerusalem during 2007, though police and the military claimed to have foiled many attempts. Between 2001 and 2004 Jerusalem was a frequent target of Palestinian attacks, including suicide bombings on buses."

Source:Joel C. Rosenberg.

Jihad Warriors/Whiny Crybabies

As usual, when Palestinian sneak attacks get too brazen and Israel strikes back, the brave jihad warriors turn into whiny crybabies.

And the media immediately start propagandizing for all they’re worth. Check it out:

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians threatened Saturday to call off peace talks with Israel after 35 Gazans, at least half of them civilians, were killed in pitched battles between Israeli troops and rocket squads that escalated sharply.

Israeli troops, backed by tanks and aircraft, went after militants who bombarded southern Israeli communities near Gaza with rockets and mortars. The 35 deaths pushed the Palestinian death toll to 65 since fighting flared Wednesday. More than half of those killed were civilians.

The spike in violence came as Israel was threatening to launch a broad invasion of Gaza, and just days before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was to arrive in the region on her latest peacekeeping mission.

Chief Palestinian negotiator Ahmed Qureia said Palestinian leaders, including President Mahmoud Abbas, recommended suspending peace talks at a meeting Saturday in the West Bank town of Ramallah.

“I think it will be suspended,” Qureia said. “What is happening in Gaza is a massacre of civilians, women and children, a collective killing, genocide,” Qureia added. “We can’t bear what the Israelis are doing, and what the Israelis are doing doesn’t led the peace process any credibility.”

Notice: this is Fatah, whining about Israel cracking down on Hamas, even though Fatah and Hamas are pretending to be enemies.

Source: Little Green Footballs.

Joseph a Muslim?

In the wake of an attempt by Palestinians to burn down Joseph's Tomb ­ Judaism's third holiest site Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah faction issued a statement denying it will help restore the shrine, referring to both the shrine and the biblical patriarch as "Muslim." "Pay no attention to the rumors that we will work with Israel to restore the burial site of the holy Muslim Joseph," said the statement, issued from Nablus, the biblical city of Shechem. "We are going to guard this holy Muslim site." Joseph's Tomb is the believed burial place of the son of Jacob who was sold by his brothers into slavery and later became viceroy of Egypt. Full Story Here.

Another Attack on Christians

In the latest attack on Christians in Gaza, 16 Palestinians forced their way into the YMCA library, stole everything but Christian books and then burned down the building. According to Palestinian terrorist sources in Gaza, the attack was carried out by Hamas and its ally, the Popular Resistance Committees. Israeli security sources said Hamas knows exactly who was behind the attack. Sheik Abu Saqer, leader of Jihadia Salafiya, an Islamic outreach movement that recently announced the opening of a "military wing" to enforce Muslim law in Gaza, said the YMCA had Muslim children in its nursery program. "Gaza is Muslim, more than 99 percent are Muslim," he said. "We don't need any of these missionary institutions. They have only one goal to convert our sons and daughters to Christianity.".Full Story Here.

Mossad killed Mugniyah

Mossad agents assassinated top Hizb'allah commander Imad Mugniyah in Damascus by replacing the headrest of the driver's seat in his car with another containing a small high explosive charge, the Sunday Times quoted an Israeli intelligence sources as saying.

After successfully completing their mission, the agents headed immediately to the airport and left the country en route to Tel Aviv. The British newspaper added that at the time of his death last Tuesday night, Mugniyah, 45, was working with Syria on planning terrorist attacks against Israeli targets to "avenge the Israeli strike on what was believed to be a secret nuclear site in Syria last year.". Full story here.

Ahmadinejad: It will be a 'hot' summer

It's going to be a "hot" summer in the Middle East, said Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad following a surprise meeting with Hizb'allah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah in Damascus. Nasrallah allegedly entered Syria via an underground tunnel. "We hope that the hot weather of this summer will coincide with similar victories for the region's peoples, and with consequent defeat for the region's enemies," Ahmadinejad added, in an apparent reference to Israel. During his one-day trip to Damascus, Ahmadinejad held talks with counterpart Bashar Assad which focused on the Iraq situation, Palestinian territories and Lebanon, where both Teheran and Damascus wield influence...[ More]

Where is Europe when real refugees are in need?

There is a major four-year-old refugee crisis resulting from the Arab cleansing of ethnic Africans from Sudan’s Darfur region, and I am wondering: Where are the offers of aid from European nations that were more than ready to give asylum to Palestinian killers? The poor, oppressed souls pouring out of Darfur are being forced to take up residence in ill-equipped tent camps, or to seek refuge in Egypt and Israel. But Egypt is not treating them much better than the Arabs of Sudan did, and Israel is unable to absorb any great number of these refugees. So why are the nations of Europe, who pretend to care so much about Palestinian refugees and other dispossessed peoples around the world, not opening their gates to the Sudanese? Why are they not offering to help?.

The joke's on us

'It's all a joke. It's just a joke." That's how the Palestinian terror commanders in Judea and Samaria explained the show they made of handing in their weapons to Fatah commander Mahmoud Abbas's official militias over the weekend. "This is all a big joke," they told reporters while posing for pictures. "Abbas asked us to sign a declaration saying we won't attack Israel and so we are." And why not? The Palestinian Authority Chairman agreed to pay them thousands of dollars in exchange for the photo opportunities. There is also the non-financial incentive. In exchange for their propaganda photos and their signatures on declarations not to engage in terror anymore, Israel has pledged to take these murderers off of its wanted list. So just for participating in a satire, these men get to walk without fear for the first time in years...[ More]

Gathering storm against the Jews

Not since the Nazi menace rose to annihilate European Jewry in 1938 have the Jewish people faced the threat that confronts them today. This is according to former Canadian Justice Minister Irwin Cotler, in a sobering message at a conference in Jerusalem Tuesday. But while he warned that "there is a gathering storm" against the Jews, Cotler believed the end result need not spell disaster for them. "We have some powerful historical assets at our disposal," he said. Just what those assets are that can act to stay mushrooming antisemitism and anti-Israelism is unclear. Cotler did point to Israel's diplomatic relations with two "emerging superpowers," India and China, as a reason to be encouraged. Again, his reasoning was not clear. Meanwhile, former US State Department envoy to the Middle East Dennis Ross told the conference – which was organized by the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute (JPPPI) – that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran "believes in the destruction of Israel and they’re developing the means to actually do it."

New York Times Journalistic Bias

The photo accompanying a New York Times' TV-film review showed the smiling face of Ahlam Tamimi. Underneath it, the caption read: Ahlam Tamimi in a scene from the HBO documentary 'Hot House.' Ms. Tamimi is among about 10,000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails. What the Times failed to inform readers was that this young, cheerful-looking woman was the unrepentant female terrorist who assisted in the suicide bombing of a pizza shop which killed 16 people, mostly teenagers and children. She smuggled explosives in a guitar case into Jerusalem and helped provide cover for a fellow terrorist who used the bomb to murder those who stopped by the Sbarro Pizzeria for lunch, including 15 year-old Malki Roth. Upon seeing the smiling photo of one of his daughter's murderers in the New York Times, Arnold Roth, Malki's father, wrote to the Solomonia blog, pointing out that "neither the New York Times nor HBO are likely to give even a moment's attention to the victims of the barbarians who destroyed the Sbarro restaurant in Jerusalem and the lives of so many victims" More.

The Palestinian Issue

Israelis must learn from the mistakes of their leaders. Superficial solutions do not resolve their problems. Just as aspirin temporarily masks the pain of an infected tooth, the propagation of the false hope of a Palestinian state only prolongs the bloodshed and violence in the region. Israel has taken enough aspirin. They need a root canal to cure the infection that is causing them so much pain. Their attention must be focused on solving the problem of the Palestinians, not the “Palestinian Problem”. Arab states do not want a resolution, which is why they refuse citizenship to Palestinians and why they pressure UNRWA to preserve the refugee problem. There are many dismal characters masquerading as potential peace partners and Israeli leaders cannot afford to choose the wrong ones again. The fact that Hamas in Gaza overthrew the PLO militia, does not make Abbas or Dachlan possible partners with Israel. They are gangsters, and terrorists. Israel cannot negotiate with them. Israel has to correct the tragic mistake that they made by offering Yasser Arafat and his terrorist disciples an independent state...More.

Another War this Summer?

If Israel doesn't vacate the strategic Golan Heights before September, Syrian guerrillas will immediately launch "resistance operations" against the Golan's Jewish communities, a top official from Syrian President Bashar Assad's Baath party told WND. The Baath official, who spoke on condition his name be withheld, said Damascus is preparing for anticipated Israeli retaliation following Syrian guerrilla attacks and for a larger war with the Jewish state in August or September. He said in the opening salvo of any conflict, Syria has the capabilities of firing "hundreds" of missiles at Tel Aviv. "Syria passed repeated messages to the U.S. that we demand the return of the Golan either through negotiations or through war. If the Golan is not in our hands by August or September, we will be poised to launch resistance, including raids and attacks against Jewish positions (in the Golan Heights)," the Baath official said. More

Sad Anniversary

One year ago, on July 12, 2006, the Second Lebanon War began when Hezbollah terrorists attacked Israel Defense Forces patrolling the Lebanon border. Eight Israeli soldiers were killed, and two were kidnapped and continue to be held to this day.

This act of aggression plunged Israel into war. By the time a United Nations brokered ceasefire was in place a month later, Hezbollah had fired nearly four thousand rockets at Israel, causing great suffering and widespread devastation in the northern part of the country. One hundred and fifty nine Israelis were killed. Over four thousand were injured, and hundreds of thousands displaced. More than one million Israelis were forced to live in bomb shelters that had been unused for years and were terribly run down. Conditions in many were nearly unbearable.

Today, there is again the possibility of war. Gaza is now a radical Islamic state, ruled by Hamas. Iran continues to provide arms to radical Palestinian and Islamist groups and persists in its aggressive and hostile rhetoric against Israel. Syria is positioning its military for a possible strike. In Lebanon, the United Nations’ “peacekeeping” force has proved utterly ineffective in preventing Hezbollah from rearming. Clearly, there is now much more than just a remote chance of war erupting it is a real possibility.

While physical preparation is essential, spiritual preparation is also important. War unleashes chaos, destruction and suffering. It is precisely at this time that we need to recommit ourselves to pray daily for Israel and her people, and to remind ourselves that we can always trust in God. The Bible says, “God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea” (Psalm 46:1-2). Thus we are assured that, even in times of greatest crisis, when the world seems to be falling apart around us, God is present, and hears His people’s cries for help.

Israel is the victim, not the root of all evil

Sometimes we make the most fundamental errors. When large numbers of people make mistakes even monumental ones it is almost impossible to challenge the resultant prevailing view. It was once the conventional wisdom that the Earth is flat. In ancient times, if anyone dared to claim that the earth was round, they would have been denigrated as being detached from reality. When, in the 16th century, Nicolaus Copernicus dared suggest that the sun was the center of the solar system and not the Earth, he was regarded as a heretic. In today`s world, any attempt to explain the Arab- Israeli conflict in terms other than "Israel`s illegal occupation of Palestinian land" and the "denial of Palestinian nationalist aspiration" is often regarded like a declaration that the earth is flat and the center of the universe. But what if this view is wrong? What if, in terms of understanding the Arab-Israeli conflict, we are living in pre-Copemican times? What if the Jewish state that is considered to be the root of all evil in the Middle East were instead the victim?...Full Story.