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HAVING COFFEE WITH A TERRORIST ISM self-hating Jew and all-round numbskull "Aaron" proudly recounts his friendship with an Islamic Jihad fighter on the ISM mailing list: I got this information from a young fighter in Islamic Jihad with whom I've struck up a somewhat unlikely friendship. He seems perfectly comfortable with my being Jewish, and we’ve compared notes across religions a couple of times, although he’s minimally 'observant', at most. Over coffee, nargilah (a water pipe of flavored tobacco), and juice (mine), he also described his experiences during the invasion of Jenin, when he was around 16 years old. Isn't it nice to see how a Jewish boy can sit down and have a civilized conversation with someone who is willing to blow up a bus full of people, or shoot a baby in the head.

AMAZING PEOPLE When I shower, it usually takes me seven minutes," says Hayim Foxman, a volunteer with Zaka, the fervently Orthodox rescue and cleanup organization that collects victims' body parts after terrorist attacks. "But after I return home from a terrorist attack, it takes me an hour and 20 minutes." Foxman pauses. "And I don't know if I am soaked from the water or my tears," he says. While palestinian terrorists are the epitome of evil, these dedicated Zaka volunteers are the epitome of goodness. Read the full article on JTA . And if you want to provide financial assistance to Zaka, you can do so here .

JIHAD UNSPUN ON 9-11 Jihad Unspun like to have their cake and eat it. One one hand, they blame American foreign policy for causing Muslim anger, leading to 9-11. Yet at the same time they blame the Jews/Zionists for perpetrating the terror attacks. In a bowel moving presentation entitled Islam Remembers September 11: A JUS Flash Tribute , Jihad Unspun "pay their respects" to the victims of 9-11, by blaming the US and its support of Israel for causing Muslim anger to erupt, culminating in September 11. This conflicts with its article Stranger Than Fiction , written by one Dr Albert Pastore. In it, he blames the "zionists" for everything, including both world wars and 9-11. This is his "closing argument": We have exposed numerous lies linking Arabs to 9-11. We have established how evidence against Arabs was planted and contrived in order to misdirect investigators (wording of anthrax letters, phony passports, stolen passports, Korans and Arab fli...

LIES, DAMN LIES AND STATISTICS - PART II In an article titled " Occupation and resistance: The blood price ", Al-Crapeeza distorts statistics of palestinians and Israelis killed in the current intifada. Of those killed, 2612 were Palestinians and 822 Israelis , with the remainder made up of foreign nationals. The Palestinians who died were mainly civilians or demonstrators , but the total includes about 130 bombers who died carrying out anti-Israeli operations. Three-quarters of the Israelis killed were officially civilians ( though this figure includes an unknown number of soldiers off duty, often termed civilains by the Israelis ). Half of them died in the 127 attacks by human bombers carried out inside Israel. Note how Al-Crapeeza inflates the palestinian number by only mentioning 130 suicide bombers who killed themselves, and not mentioning the other terrorists and combatants killed (numbering over a thousand), nor the hundreds of palestinians killed as a resul...

MIXING STAR WARS WITH PROPAGANDA www.jedimaster.net , a web site that claims to be trying to help the Star Wars Kid , but is in effect coming up with new and improved ways to mock him, has its own Rachel Corrie memorial . The site contains many advertisements, including one from J-Date (although the advertisement itself links to AmericanSingles.com). They are also sell t-shirts. Where the money goes is anybody's guess.

LESSONS IN SELF-HATRED Here are some very telling words from Freda Guttman, an installation artist for Artists Against the Occupation , and member of the Jewish Alliance Against the Occupation and the International Solidarity Movement: "I'm not a self-hating Jew; I just hate injustice. If people ask why we are not even-handed, the answer is the [conflict] is not evenhanded... While I don't condone [suicide] bombing, the greater evil is Israel’s occupation." There you have it, in words. An ISM activist and self-hating Jew who believes murdering innocent men, women and children in cold blood is morally less reprehensible than being in occupation of lands captured in a war of self-defence .

INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH HOLIDAYS Now seems like the right time to provide my non-Jewish readers with a brief explanation of the Jewish holidays (courtesy of an email I received from a friend): Shana Tova As a general principle, Jewish holidays are divided between days on which you must starve and days on which you must overeat. Many Jews observe no fewer than 16 fasts throughout the Jewish year, based on the time-honored principle that even if you are sure that you are ritually purified, you definitely aren't. Though there are many feasts and fasts, there are no holidays requiring light snacking. Note: Unlike Christians, who simply attend church on special days (e.g. Ash Wednesday) on Jewish holidays most Jews take the whole day off. This is because Jews, for historical and personal reasons, are more stressed out. The Diet Guide to the Jewish Holidays Rosh Hashanah: Feast Tzom Gedalia: Fast Yom Kippur: More fasting Sukkot: Feast Hashanah Rabbah: More feasti...

ANOTHER YEAR, ANOTHER MURDER "Who will live and who will die, who at his appointed time and who before his time, who by water and who by fire..." - Prayer of the Rosh Hashana service This year, 27-year old Eyal Yeberbaum was not able to say this prayer. And 7-month old Shaked Avraham (pictured) will never have the chance to say it. They have both died before their times, murdered by a palestinian terrorist . Walking back from the synagogue on Friday night, my wife and I saw some flares in the sky, which is never a good sign in Israel. Our worst fears were confirmed the next day when a neighbor informed us that a man and child were murdered the night before, in a place not too far from where we live. The arabs have a knack for deliberately targeting us on our holy days, the most famous example being the Yom Kippur war in 1973. Of course, there was last year's Passover massacre in Netanya, and many other such terrorist attacks. Yet they threaten all kinds of cala...

HAPPY NEW YEAR I would like to take this opportunity to wish all of my readers a happy New Year (Jewish new year, that is). Chag sameach and ketima v'chatima tova . Blogging will resume on Monday.

LAST THROW OF THE ROCK Edward Said, anti-Israel (read: anti-Semitic) Columbia University professor and rock thrower, is now marinating in soil and worms . Besides being anti-Israel, Said was also a liar , as revealed by an aquaintance of mine, Justus Weiner.

COSMO PERES But the similarities between Shimon Peres and Kramer do not end there. Kramer Tries to solve the world's problems by inventing a bladder system for storing oil in tankers Peres Tries to solve the world's problems by trying to appease Israel's enemies Kramer Once celebrated Festivus Peres Recently celebrated his 8oth birthday Kramer Is nuts Peres Thinks that Jerusalem should be made capital of the world, with the UN Secretary-General as mayor, and that Arafat deserved his Nobel peace prize Kramer Is friends with a fat guy called Newman Peres Is friends with a fat guy called Sharon Kramer Women find him irresistable Peres Kathleen Turner called him "the sexiest man alive" Kramer Is scared of clowns Peres Is a clown Kramer Was part of a show that quit while it was ahead Peres Should have quit while he was ahead Kramer Overstays his welcome Peres Has overstayed his welco...

BAD WEEK FOR AL-CRAPEEZA And I couldn't be happier about it. Al-Crapeeza's true colors are coming to the fore. Firstly, Iraq's Governing Council banned the satellite tv station from covering official activities for two weeks. US officials have accused the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera and the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya of giving too much prominence to anti-US attacks, and of providing a forum for backers of ousted president Saddam Hussein. Al-Crapeeza's response is laughable: Speaking to CNN, Aljazeera spokesperson Jihad Balout said, "my organisation is dismayed at this decision, and we certainly believe that there are several victims to the decision, firstly the truth, because it will be missing .....Al-Jazeera has been under pressure ever since day one of its existence, although it really adopts and practices the same principles of freedom of the press, and democracy and multiplicity of views as always advocated and asked people to do...At the end of the day, we are...

AARON KNOWS BEST In an account posted on the ISM mailing list, Jewish ISM activist "Aaron" asserts the following: 1. The phenomenom of palestinian children throwing rocks at tanks is never staged for the benefit of the press The children, unfortunately, are impossible to contain, and chase after tanks and armored personnel carriers (APCs) throwing rocks. When the vehicles turn their guns on the children (tanks have huge cannon, and APCs have .50 caliber machine guns), they run away to try again later. I can say with absolute certainty that this activity isn't staged for the benefit of the press. 2. Israel deliberately aims to kill ISM volunteers The threat to our own safety is, of course, also a serious concern, but this is complicated by the fact that all three ISM activists killed by the Israeli army were wearing bright red, reflective vests at the time they were killed. Because of this, as well as harassment and propaganda directed at the organization, it is ...

QUOTE OF THE DAY "Are you happy? Come back for a holiday" Dubai Crown Prince and UAE Minister of Defense General Sheikh Muhammad bin Rashid al-Maktoum to a group of Israeli reporters.

LITIGIOUS HAPPENINGS The family of missing Israeli airman Ron Arad have filed a petition against Lebanese terrorist Mustafa Dirani, demanding NIS 100 million in compensation from him. This is the first step of the family's campaign to prevent Dirani from being included in any prisoner exchange deal with Hezbollah. The ridiculous war crimes complaint against Ariel Sharon was dismissed by Belgium's highest court. The Egyptians are now trying to sue Ariel Sharon for the deaths of Egyptian soldiers during Israel's occupation of territory it captured during a war initiated by Egypt . This comes hot on the heels of their ridiculous attempt to sue us for being enslaved by them thousands of years ago.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT ABOUT SETTLEMENTS The settlers seem to be the most uniformly despised group in this conflict; more so than the terrorists. Settlements are proclaimed to be an obstacle to peace by the Left, the US Government, the UN and Israel's critics. Here is an interesting perspective by Yisrael Har'el, former chairman of the Yesha Council (courtesy of Arutz Sheva ): "The term Judenrein means an area cleansed of Jews. In the past, this German concept was applied throughout Europe. Now we hear American and other liberals saying that Jewish communities on the biblical land of Judea and Samaria, the cradle of the Jewish nation, must be emptied of all their inhabitants, so that even in a Jewish homeland there can be Judenrein areas...To drive out the Jewish community of Hebron, where the matriarchs and patriarchs of the Jewish people are buried and King David first ruled 3,000 years ago, is unthinkable. The United States is dotted with towns named for biblical...

ABBAS AND THE ROAD MAP Joseph Farah of WorldNetDaily debunks the conventional wisdom that ex palestinian PM Abbas was genuinely interested in peace and compromise with Israel, but was foiled by AFatRat. He quotes an English translation of comments Abbas made in Arabic, including the following: "Many say I want to place the security services at my disposal and command and want to free them from [Arafat's] grip. This is false and it has never happened. I do not want the security services to be at my disposal." "The roadmap says: 'All security services are at the disposal of the prime minister.' I did not even ask for the unification of the services. … When the Americans spoke about the unity of the services, we told them we do not want that." "The roadmap calls for the unification of the security services. We surmounted this obstacle. It called for striking and uprooting the [terrorist] organizations. We surmounted this obstacle, too....

CUTE JOKE FOR THE MORNING A man and his wife were having an argument about who should brew the coffee each morning. The wife said, "You should do it, because you get up first, and then we don't have to wait as long to get our coffee." The husband said, "You are in charge of the cooking around here and you should do it, because that is your job and I can just wait for my coffee." The wife replies, "No you should do it, and besides it is in the Bible that the man should make the coffee." The husband replies, "I can't believe that, show me." So she got the Bible and opened it to the Book of Exodus and showed him at the top of several pages, that indeed it says.. "HEBREWS"

ISRAELLYCOOL MAKES THE NEWS Well kind of. We are directly responsible for a news item at least. You will recall that I posted about a death notice in the West Australian newspaper that expressed sympathy for the death of a Hamas terrorist. Well, this generated much interest and I had been in contact with a number of parties interested in finding out the identity and whereabouts of the "Hamas Support Group WA", including the Australian Jewish News and someone who works for Labour Member of Parliament Michael Danby. This article was published this morning on news.com.au : THE Australian Federal Police and ASIO are believed to be investigating a support group for militant Palestinian organisation Hamas operating out of Western Australia. Senator Michael Danby is pushing for inquiries into the advert. Authorities were alerted to the organisation known as the Hamas Support Group WA after a death notice was placed in The West Australian newspaper for Ismail Abu Sh...

THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO HMMM... Here is an eye-popping headline I came across while browsing the web site of the Palestinian Information Center 93% of Palestinian children fear violence Sucks to be them, given that they live in one of the most violent societies in the world. But this article predictably lays the blame at israel's feet. The secretariat, addressing a press conference at the Palestinian information center under the title of the children’s right to safety and stability, said that the children psychiatric health was under heavy pressure as a result of the continuous Zionist aggressions on their surroundings. Right. And being constantly encouraged to fight Israeli soldiers and tanks and murder Israeli civilians, even if it means taking your own life, is the foundation for "safety and stability", not to mention mental health?

ANYTHING BUT A GAY OLD TIME As I have previously reported , the palestinian treatment of gay people is horrendous. Now Reuters have an interesting article on this point. Of course, I could imagine that the prospect of having Yasser AFatrat requesting your company for the night may be an added incentive to flee as fast as you can.

LIKE A DEMENTED GAME OF CHINESE WHISPERS Ha'aretz yesterday reported that immigrants from the former Soviet Union, with sharpshooting skills, have volunteered to serve in the disputed territories, protecting settlements from palestinian terrorists. Here is how some other media outlets reported this: Zionist army hires snipers from Russia ( Gulf Daily News ) Zionist terrorist army employs Russian snipers ( Palestinian Information Center ) Sources: Israel recruits Russian sharpshooters ( China Daily ) The differences may be subtle, but it goes to show you how the media manipulate the truth to get across their own message. I am not entirely sure what message they are trying to convey; perhaps the point that Israel pays snipers from Russia to "do the dirty work." At any rate, this is a prime example of media manipulation at Israel's expense.

THE GREAT CAR WASH CONSPIRACY I went to clean my car today. Well, it's not exactly my car, but the car that the company gives to me as part of my salary package. This is relevant to my story because the car has the company's logo on the side. And since the company's logo is on the side, the company wants me to get into the habit of having the car washed regularly. It would seem that a dirty car does not reflect well on the company. For my part, I am quite content to allow the car's color to turn from white to black. But having the car cleaned is not such a problem, since the company pays for it, and I need only travel down the street to the car wash. Now, when I say car wash, I am not talking of one of those fancy places where everything is performed automatically. This particular car wash consists of a couple of guys with a super-turbo hose and lots of soap. Not to mention a powerful vacuum cleaner. Again, these details are all relevant to my story. Last...

FATWA CANDIDATE OF THE DAY Colin Powell's odds of having a fatwa issued against him skyrocketed today after this wonderful slip-up : During the public television interview, speaking about Washington's vision of what kind of government Iraq should have, Powell said he expected it to be "an Islamic country by faith, just as we are a Judeo-Christian..." "Well, it's hard to tell any more, but we are a country of many faiths now," he added quickly. Nice comeback, Colin, but I can hear the sharpening of swords...

QUOTE OF THE DAY "There are only some 'militant Muslims' - as there are militant Hindus, Christians and Jews" Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf , dismissing the idea that a "militant Islam" was at the root of terrorism, and at the same time reinforcing the idea that Muslim leaders cannot stop lying out of their teeth.

TERRORISM DEFINED Lebanon say that they are going after terrorists. The catch? Lebanon will define who the terrorists are . Lebanon claimed Monday it is combating groups it considers to be terrorist but indicated it will not bow to longstanding US demands to go after groups that are recognized as terrorist by Washington. " Defining terrorism is done according to Lebanon's understanding, and this is fundamental ," Central Bank Governor Riad Salameh said. "It is a matter of Lebanese sovereignty to legally decide ." No prizes for guessing that the "Israeli occupation army" will be number one on their list. Note: I was under the impression that central bank governors announce monetary policy only. Meanwhile, Pakistan and the palestinians have accused India and Israel of "state terrorism", characterizing the real terrorists as people "seeking freedom from foreign occupation". Pakistan and the Palestinians upset an anti-terro...

KHATAMI ON...WAR AND PEACE Iran's president Mohammad Khatami agrees that terrorism is a huge threat to the world. But his definition of terrorism is obviously different to that of the civilized world. Khatami termed terrorism and the expansion of weapons of mass destruction as two major dangers that are threatening the whole humanity. "Today, our region has become the center of aggressions, terrorism and storing of weapons of mass destruction and the center of all these is the Zionist regime ," he said. But it gets even better. " Iran has always been advocating peace and justice and its military strategy has always been merely defensive . Iran has repeatedly declared that it has taken no step toward developing access to weapons of mass destruction but is still under pressure," Khatami declared. And in case you were in doubt about Iran's interest in peace and justice, as well as its purely defensive military strategy: In a military parade which laun...

ADMITTING YOU WERE WRONG No, this does not involve me admitting I was wrong about anything, although my wife will tell you that I do occasionally regularly err. Here is a letter, published in today's Age , from a former member of the Israeli peace camp who is not afraid to admit he was wrong: David Grossman ( If Israel harms Arafat . . . Opinion, 19/9 ) appears courageous in his criticism and blame of his own leader for the mess of the past three years in Israel. Such articles win sympathy in the West, but lose touch with reality. As one who, like Grossman, was active in the peace camp against Ariel Sharon when I lived in Israel, I feel terribly disappointed by this position. The disaster started when Grossman, myself and others failed to read the writing on the wall and let this Trojan horse into the area. Hundreds of Israelis were murdered by terror while craving peace even before Sharon came to power. The real courage, David Grossman, is to show humility - and ad...

THE GREENS ON WHY IT IS OK TO MURDER The Green Left Weekly never fail to disgust me with their selective moral posturing and abhorrent views. This time, they have published an op-ed justifying the suicide bombings and terrorism. PALESTINE: Al Aqsa Intifada: 'Why should our youth accept oppression?' BY RIHAB CHARIDA The emergence of the Al Aqsa Intifada (uprising) in September 2000 was inevitable. For years before, Palestinian population centres remained enclosed by a strict Israeli military cordon. The Palestinian people were being denied the most basic human rights. They watched as Israel, the colonial-settler state, ate away at their land to build illegal "settlements" inhabited by Israeli colonists . They watched as Israel's armed forces murdered their sons, daughters and their hope for a future . They watched as Israel demolished their homes, uprooted ancient olive trees and deprived them of access to their natural resources, such as water. They ...

EXILING AFATRAT..FROM THE CLOSET With much talk in recent weeks about outing AFatRat from the territories , Joseph Farah has almost done the job.... by outing him . Arafat is a homosexual. There are also persistent rumors that he is a pedophile. I mean, in his private life, he is everything the Islamic culture detests - a closet pervert. Farah goes on to quote a former European intelligence chief who wrote about AFatRat's sexual antics. "I just called the microphone monitoring center to ask about the 'Fedayee," Arafat's code name....After the meeting with the Comrade, he went directly to the guest house and had dinner. At this very moment, the 'Fedayee' is in his bedroom making love to his bodyguard. The one I knew was his latest lover. He's playing tiger again. The officer monitoring his microphones connected me live with the bedroom, and the squawling almost broke my eardrums. Arafat was roaring like a tiger, and his lover yelping like a hyena......

TWO REASONS FOR PALESTINIAN POVERTY Reasons for the palestinians' dire economic situation is illustrated by a couple of news items that I have read over the past few days. Firstly, the IMF has said that Arafat has diverted $1.35 billion of money earmarked for the palestinians to his own private accounts. An audit of the Palestinian Authority has revealed President Yasser Arafat diverted $1.35 billion in public funds to a bank account he controlled, with most of the money later invested in Palestinian assets at home and abroad. International Monetary Fund official Karim Nashashibi credited openness and transparency in the Palestinian Authority's accounting under Finance Minister Salam Fayad for disclosing the transfers of money between 1995 and 2000. But Mr Nashashibi did not rule out the possibility of the remaining funds being misused. He said there would be an audit. This next article is also very telling. While bemoaning their poverty, palestinians are...

THE AL-CRAPEEZA WAY And now for today's dirt on Al-Crapeeza. With pressure mounting on Iran to disclose its nuclear activities , Al-Crapeeza once again does what it does best (besides lie); divert the issue to Israel. In another example illustrating Al-Crapeeza's agenda, the Media Line reports how an Al-Crapeeza presenter went out of her way to speak highly of AFatRat, when confronted with some ugly truths about him from an Egyptian interviewee. One interviewee, 'Abd Al-Halim Qindil, Editor-in-Chief of the Egyptian Al-'Arabi newspaper, rather startled the Qatari presenter. "I'm afraid it’s Arafat himself who is responsible for the situation," said Qindil. Qindil has reservations concerning the P.A.'s manner of conduct. "We are not on our way to establishing a state or liberating lands," he says. "The Palestinian Authority, in my opinion, is a political obstacle." Qindil talked not only against the P.A...

PAYBACK TIME! You may notice that I have bitten the bullet (perhaps a bad expression for this area of the world) and have included a PayPal button on the left, above the scrolling news. My intention with this site is primarily to spread the word about Israel, and give an account of my own personal experience living here. I do not intend on making a profit from this site. So you may be asking..why have I included this button? For starters, I have taken a leaf out of the book of other bloggers who want to move from Blogger to another application. I personally have my eye on Moveable Type, but the jury is still out. At any rate, it costs money. In addition, I would like to collect surplus money raised and distribute it to various charities here in Israel, ranging from charities that give to the poor, to organizations such as Magen David Adom and Zaka that help in the case of terror attacks. Whether or not you intend of donating money here, I would encourage you all to donate to ...

TOGETHERNESS I recently blogged about the study that indicated that 83% of adult Israelis are satisfied with their lives. There have been a few theories as to why this is the case, one of which is that Israelis have a strong sense of not being alone. A sense of community, if you will. Or Hev're as Imshin puts it. Nothing illustrates it better than this next item from the Media Line : The owners of Aroma, a large chain of popular coffee shops in Israel, have decided to close their branch in Jerusalem's German Colony for three days to express solidarity with the Hillel cafe that was bombed on Tuesday, killing seven people. A large banner was placed at the entrance to the coffee shop announcing it will be closed to show sympathy with the victims and solidarity with Hillel. The branch is considered a competitor of the Hillel cafe, located just a few buildings away . Yariv Shefa, owner of the Aroma franchise, told The Media Line that the move was his decision because ...

THE CARD-INAL SIN OF ANTI-SEMITISM Robert Fisk, who has had a verb named after him due to his poor journalism, now has another medium for transmitting his vile message: An Ariel Sharon playing card . A shocking deck of playing cards portraying Ariel Sharon as a bloodthirsty butcher was this week branded "revolting and disgusting" by fuming community leaders. Modelled on the pack of cards depicting Saddam Hussein's most wanted henchmen issued to troops in Iraq, designers of the latest pack claim it features the "warmongers and profiteers" who must be overthrown for the sake of world peace. The Israeli premier, the five of clubs, is the only middle eastern leader to be singled out in the "most unwanted" pack, published by Bookmarks publications. In a quote on his card attributed to Independent journalist Robert Fisk, Sharon's name is described as being "synonymous with butchery, with bloated corpses and disembowelled women and...

SELF-HATING AND MORALLY CORRUPT Abe Greenhouse, the self-hating Jew who recently threw a pie at Natan Sharansky , is also the guy who placed a note in a crack of the Western Wall, one of Judaism's holiest sites, which read "END THE MOTHERF*CKIN' OCCUPATION!". He was so proud of this, that he posted on the web a picture of him doing it. A quick google can reveal much about Greenhouse and his abhorrent views, not to mention the type of person that he really is. For instance, he had no moral qualms taking a free trip from an organization called Birthright Israel , which generously provides the "gift of first time, peer group, educational trips to Israel for Jewish young adults ages 18 to 26". Recently, I decided to put my body where my mouth was, and see for myself how people on both sides of the conflict live their daily lives. I spent the last ten days on the Birthright Israel tour, a free trip for Jews between 18 and 26 which takes you all over Isr...

DERSHOWITZ ON ISRAEL'S TARGETED KILLINGS Alan Dershowitz has written an extremely compelling article, positing that Israel's targeted killings are most certainly legal. ..there can be absolutely no doubt of the legality of Israel's policy of targeting Hamas leaders for assassination. Hamas has declared war against Israel. All of its leaders are combatants, whether they wear military uniforms, suits or religious garb. There is no realistic distinction between the political and military wings of Hamas, any more than there is a distinction between the political and military wings of al-Qaeda. The official policy of Hamas, like that of al Qaeda, is the mass murder of civilians. The decision to employ that policy was made by its so-called "political" leaders. Click here for the full article.

INTERVIEW WITH THE BAGHDAD BLOGGER Here is an interesting article on the Baghdad blogger, Salam Pax.

WHAT A BUMMER This from the Palestinian Infomation Center : Zionist occupation troops last night broke into the house of the released handicapped detainee Anas Muslim Shreiteh in the village of Yatta in Al-Khalil district and wreaked havoc in his family's house. Muslim Shreiteh, father of the former detainee, said that more than 40 Zionist soldiers stormed his house and aimed their guns at the head of his son Anas, who was only released a month and a half ago from Zionist Ramle prison hospital suffering 80% paralysis and amnesia. And with a name like Anas, I am sure he is a real a***hole. I wonder how he suffered the paralysis and amnesia . In the West Bank city of Nablus, another Islamic Jihad member was seriously wounded after opening fire on Israeli commandos trying to arrest him, the army said. The man, Anas Shreiteh, was taken by helicopter to an Israeli hospital. Thought so.

PALESTINIAN DISINFORMATION CENTER And still on the subject of the Arab media, Hamas's mouthpiece, the Palestinian Information Center, have an interesting (read:false and deluded) take on reality. Take this account of the conviction of three members of a group that planned terror attacks: A Zionist central court yesterday convicted three Zionist fanatic settlers affiliated with an underground Jewish organization of attempting to murder Palestinians and of possessing illegal weapons. The three fanatic settlers attempted in April 2002 to explode a booby-trapped car near the Makased hospital and the Tur School for girls in occupied eastern Jerusalem. The operation was foiled when Zionist sappers detonated the explosive device after policemen suspected the vehicle. Yossef Baruch, who masterminded the operation, was also facing similar attempted murder charges while another terrorist settler in Al-Khalil, No’em Fiderman, was facing terrorism charges for illegal possessio...

OBJECTIVELY BIASED Al-Crapeeza, the news outlet that claims to seek objectivity and accuracy, provide us with yet another example to refute this absurd claim. In this case, they rehash a well-worn conspiracy theory with regard to the trial involving their star television reporter-cum-accused terrorist. Aljazeera has demanded a speedy trial for its star television reporter Taysir Alouni saying it had confidence in the fairness of Spanish justice. "We hope the trial (of Taysir Alouni) will get under way as soon as possible. We have full confidence in the integrity of Spanish justice," spokesman Jihad Balout said in the Qatari capital Doha on Wednesday. Insisting that Alouni is innocent, Aljazeera has accused the United States and Israel of inciting Spain to incriminate him. But of course.

MUCH ADO ABOUT CORRIE ISM "martyr" Rachel Corrie makes another posthumous (or is that post- humus ) appearance in the news. First of all, the ISM takes issue with an article written by Joshua Hammer that suggests, amongst other things, that she was not killed intentionally. An ISM activist by the name of Phan Nguyen then writes this response to the article. As you can see for yourself, the response mostly involves discrediting Hammer and proving he is a plagiarist, but does little to support the contention that Corrie was murdered. Then, Dr J of Idiotarian.com provides us with this lovely photo of Corrie's folks shmoozing with palestinians.

DON'T WORRY BE HAPPY Message to the palestinians: You can murder us, destroy our economy and try to make our lives hell. But apparently we are still generally happy . Released earlier this month, the Israel Bureau of Statistics survey is causing a stir with its findings that a staggering 83 per cent of adult Israelis are satisfied with their lives. That figure surges to a giddy 89 per cent among the young, aged 20 to 24, while the happy meter dips slightly to 75 per cent among those aged 75 or older. Fifty-three per cent of adults feel optimistic and believe that in the coming years their lives will be better. Take that to your graves, scum!

ADMISSION OF DUPLICITY Here is a telling paragraph from the Jerusalem Post : Asked if he would dismantle the "terrorist infrastructure," Arafat told Yediot: "This isn't an infrastructure, this is an opposition that you (Israel) built and you armed ... how should we disarm them? Don't your murderous acts lead to a retaliation?" There you have it - an admission from AFatRat himself that under the Oslo accords, while Israel thought it was training and arming a palestininian police force, it was actually training and arming terrorists.

HERE KITTY KITTY Here is a great photo of an IDF soldier that made its way into my inbox today:

RESPONDING TO TERROR On the very rare occasion that a Jewish group plans a terror attack, Israel's response is to take action against the perpetrators . Three residents of an underground Israeli extremist movement have been convicted of attempted murder and illegal possession of arms after being caught planning an attack on a Palestinian school in Jerusalem. The planned attack was said to have been in revenge for Palestinian attacks against Israelis. The three men from the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin, aged in their mid to late twenties, admitted to being members of an underground extremist movement. In April last year, they parked a trailer laden with explosives outside the main entrance of a girls' school in predominantly Arab East Jerusalem at 3.30am. A timer had been set for 7.25am as students would be arriving. Police were called in to defuse the bomb, which contained half a tonne of explosives. All three will face up to 20 years in jail, wh...

I DREAM OF MARTYRDOM..JUST NOT MINE According to Reuters , AFatRat wants to be a martyr. Speaking to Reuters in his partly demolished West Bank headquarters on Wednesday, Arafat pointed to his machinegun lying on the floor and said he would use it to kill himself if Israel tried to deport or assassinate him. "I am a Palestinian soldier...I will use my gun to defend not only myself but also defend every Palestinian child, woman and man and to defend the Palestinian existence," the 74-year-old former guerrilla leader said. "Is there anyone in Palestine who does not dream of martyrdom?" Arafat asked. Well, it seems that he will need to use the machine gun if he wants to defend the palestinian children, woman and men - at least the ones he is cowardly using as human shields : Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat's men are surrounding his office with women and children as a human shield against an Israeli attempt to assassinate or deport him, Israel...

RIDICULING AMERICAN PAIN We already know how the palestinians react to terror attacks directed at Israelis. It seems that they display a similar amount of "sympathy" for Americans. Palestinian Media Watch reports how the PA have used the visual image of the twin towers to "ridicule the American pain, indicating that it is the Arabs, Muslims, Iraqis, and Palestinians who are the true towers that have been attacked." The following are examples of these cartoons, taken from PMW. The true Twin Tower victims are Iraq and the Palestinians A fearful uncle Sam running away in terror, being chased by the date "September 11" Two smoldering towers, Arabs and Muslims: Thanks to Idiotarian.Com for pointing this out.

RELIGION OF PEACE Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has the solution for helping Islam cast off its image as a religion of terrorists - acquire kick-ass weapons. Mr Mahathir told an international conference of young Muslim leaders here that they must catch up with Western development to "prevent Islam from being humiliated, looked down upon and regarded as a religion of terrorists." "We need modern weapons. We need tanks, battleships, fighter planes, knowledge of rockets. These are the weapons that can strike fear into the hearts of our enemies and defend us." I guess once they have these weapons, they are no longer "terrorists" but rather "soldiers".

BEING NEIGHBORLY Question: What do you get when you cross a palestinian man, an Israeli woman and a bunch of palestinian villagers? Answer: Palestinian violence , but of course! Israeli doctors say a Palestinian man is in serious condition after his fellow villagers attacked him, when he brought a Jewish woman into his home. The Israel Defense Forces entered the house and rescued the Israeli woman, according to the Kol Rinah news agency. She was unharmed. The incident took place in Qablan in the West Bank.

BEING A MUSLIM WOMAN Not long after a Malay Islamic leader suggested women should stop wearing lipstick and perfume so as to not get raped, comes this news from AllAfrican.com: Muslims in the country have been urged to marry more than one wife so as to reduce the number of unmarried women (spinsters) roaming the streets of the cities without husbands . Did anyone stop and think that perhaps the women roaming the streets are the married ones trying to get away from their husbands?

QUOTE OF THE DAY Here is a little gem from Sari Nusseibeh, president of al-Quds University in Jerusalem: "I believe personally that Mr. Arafat is committed to peace and the people around him are committed to peace" Which begs the question: Are there any palestinian officials who do not lie?

HOW TO DEAL WITH ARAFAT Here is an article from the Jerusalem News Wire which articulates exactly the way I feel regarding what should happen to Arafat. In short: Deal with him the same way that we dealt with Eichmann.

WHY I HATE THE GREENS The Green Left Weekly have published this op-ed on the demise of Mahmoud Abbas: The resignation of the Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas (also known as Abu Mazen) on September 7 should have surprised no-one. His appointment was part of a scheme that was no more than an artificial arrangement intended to serve far more hidden, dangerous purposes than those sanctimoniously declared in the so-called "Road Map to Peace". It was artificial because Abbas was neither the choice of the Palestinian people nor of the Palestinian Authority and its president Yasser Arafat. Abbas was imposed by Washington and Israel to implement a plan which was harmful to the cause of peace, harmful to Palestinians' interests and contradictory to its patrons' claims of introducing democracy and reforming Palestinian institutions. Under intense pressure, even threats, from US and Arab governments, the Palestinian leadership succumbed and offered a tepid we...

ATTENTION: "ANTI-ZIONISTS" This piece by Dr.Steven Plaut is something you should read (courtesy of RajanR.com ). Say What? Anti-Semites? Who, us anti-Zionists? Us? We have nothing against Jews as such. We just hate Zionism and Zionists. We think Israel does not have a right to exist. But that does not mean we have anything against Jews as such. Heavens to Mergatroyd. Marx Forbid. We are humanists. Progressives. Peace lovers. Anti-Semitism is the hatred of Jews. Anti-Zionism is opposition to Zionism and Israeli policies. The two have nothing to do with one another. Venus and Mars. Night and Day. Trust us. Sure, we think the only country on the earth that must be annihilated is Israel. But that does not mean we have anything against Jews as such. Sure, we think that the only children on earth whose being blown up is OK if it serves a good cause are Jewish children. But that does not mean we have anything against Jews as such. Sure we think that if Pale...

PALESTINIAN CHILDREN - WILLING AND UNWILLING TERRORISTS How is this for palestinian child abuse? Two little Arab boys, scared and barefoot, crossed the fence from Gaza into pre-1967 Israel last night - and said that an Arab man from Gaza had made them do it. "An adult told us to cross the fence, and if not, he would hurt us," the boys said yesterday after they were found in the Kisufim area. The incident began when the army received warning of an infiltration. They searched the area, and in a grove of trees found the two scared boys. Army officials said that terrorist elements sent them as "guinea pigs" to see how the IDF would react. Of course, some of the children are more than willing to cause some havoc: A slightly older Arab boy, 16, was caught two days ago on his way to try to murder the security officer in a South Hevron Hills community. He was caught while trying to cut his way through the fence of the town Shani, and later admitted that his intention w...

A CASE STUDY IN ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM Totally Jewish reports the following: One of Britain's most notorious Islamic groups came under renewed fire this week for publicly praising the 11 September 2001 killers as "the magnificent 19". Al-Muhajiroun, known for its vehemently anti-Israel views, plastered posters with the shocking statement at sites across Britain to advertise an event marking the second anniversary of the attacks. While the group denied the event would be a celebration, UK head Anjem Choudary told TJ: "In the eyes of Muslim people the word magnificent is not strong enough. These people sacrificed their lives for the sake of their fellow Muslims around the world." Their web site ( http://www.almuk.com/obm/ ) is an interesting case study of Islamic fundamentalism and dispels a number of misconceptions that emanate from the Left. Misconception : September 11 was caused by US support of Israel. Rebuttal : The Muslims are waging a war ...