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<title><![CDATA[EEUU, Israel y la OTAN tras la agresión de Georgia ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 03:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
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La decisión del autoritario, corrupto y ahora criminal de guerra, Mijail Saakashvili, presidente d]]></description>
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<p>La decisión del autoritario, corrupto y ahora <strong>criminal de guerra</strong>, Mijail Saakashvili, presidente de Georgia, de lanzar una ofensiva militar contra la población civil y las fuerzas de paz rusas de Osetia del Sur, no parece que haya tenido por objeto restablecer la soberanía georgiana sobre ese territorio “rebelde” sino, más bien, <strong>desestabilizar la región</strong> para dar lugar a una confrontación más amplia: de EEUU y la OTAN con Rusia.<!--more--></p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>La inocencia aparente de EEUU</strong></span></p>
<p>La reacción estadounidense –ante los medios- fue inmediata, aunque muy calculada y, sobre todo, <strong>cínica</strong>, al omitir toda referencia a la brutal agresión de las fuerzas de Georgia, a los acuerdos internacionales vigentes y a los derechos de Osetia del Sur.</p>
<p>La secretaría de estado, el presidente y otros miembros del gobierno estadounidenses, los candidatos demócrata y republicano a la presidencia , así como el secretario general de la OTAN y el ministro israelí de Exteriores, se expresaron todos en términos idénticos, reclamando a Rusia <strong>suspender sus operaciones militares, retirar sus tropas y respetar la integridad territorial de Georgia</strong>.</p>
<p>Unánime fue también la <strong>condena a Rusia</strong>, sólo verbal, aunque algunos propusieron tomar ya represalias, como <strong>John McCain</strong>, candidato republicano a la presidencia de EEUU, que propuso expulsar a Rusia del G8, o el mismísimo vicepresidente de EEUU, <strong>Richard Cheney</strong>, que manifestó por teléfono al líder georgiano, Mijail Saakashvili, que la "agresión rusa no debe quedar sin respuesta y, si continúa, tendrá <strong>consecuencias graves</strong> para las relaciones con EEUU y el resto de la comunidad internacional".</p>
<p>Al mismo tiempo que se condenaba la "agresión rusa contra Georgia" y se exigía a Rusia dar marcha atrás, se negaba toda conexión estadounidense con el conflicto. Así, un portavoz de la Casa Blanca reveló a la prensa que el Gobierno de EEUU <strong>sólo estaba dispuesto a brindar a Georgia ayuda diplomática</strong> para afrontar su contencioso con Rusia y la república separatista de Osetia del Sur, y el jefe del Comité de las Fuerzas Armadas en el Senado de EEUU, el senador demócrata Carl Levin, descartó la posibilidad de que su país se viera implicado en el conflicto y criticó la propuesta de McCain de expulsar a Rusia del G8 pues, según explicó, tal expulsión se traduciría en una escalada de las discrepancias entre Washington y Moscú...</p>
<p>Hasta aquí los gestos de cara a la galería. Ahora veamos los hechos…<br />
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<span style="color:#ff9900;">¿Quién capacitó a Georgia para lanzar una ofensiva militar?</span></strong></p>
<p>Moscú ha acusado a la <strong>OTAN </strong>de "alentar a Georgia". El ministro ruso de Relaciones Exteriores, Sergey Lavrov, subrayó el impacto desestabilizador de la ayuda militar “extranjera” a Georgia: <strong>"Todo confirma nuestras numerosas advertencias dirigidas a la comunidad internacional, durante años, de que era necesario prestar atención a la </strong><strong>compra masiva de armas de Georgia. Ahora vemos cómo se utilizan estas armas y las fuerzas especiales georgianas entrenadas por especialistas extranjeros"</strong>, dijo. (1)</p>
<p>A mediados del pasado mes de julio, se realizó un ejercicio militar conjunto georgiano-estadounidense, denominado <strong>"Immediate Response"</strong>, en el que participaron 1.200 y 800 soldados de <strong>EEUU </strong>y Georgia respectivamente.</p>
<p>Un comunicado del ministerio de Defensa de Georgia del 12 de julio decía que tropas de EE.UU. y Georgia fueron a "entrenar durante tres semanas en la base militar de Vaziani" cerca de la capital georgiana, Tiflis. (2)</p>
<p>Esos ejercicios, que se completarían apenas una semana antes de los ataques del 7-8 de agosto fueron un claro <strong>ensayo de una operación militar </strong>que, con toda probabilidad, se había previsto en estrecha cooperación con el Pentágono.</p>
<p>Si bien los asesores militares de EEUU y la OTAN destacados en Georgia no participaron en la operación militar <em>per se</em>, participaron activamente en la <strong>planificación y la logística de los ataques</strong>. Según fuentes israelíes (3), el asalto terrestre con tanques y artillería "contó con la ayuda de asesores militares israelíes". <strong>Israel </strong>suministró a Georgia <strong>drones de reconocimiento</strong> Hermes-450 y Skylark, que se utilizaron en las semanas anteriores al 7 de agosto.</p>
<p>Israel también proporcionó a Georgia <strong>modernos sistema de artillería</strong> y ha <strong>actualizado sus aviones Su-25</strong>, según el periódico Haaretz (10 de agosto de 2008). Precisamente uno de los objetivos de los bombardeos rusos ha sido la fábrica de esos Su-25 actualizados por Israel en las afueras de Tiflis.</p>
<p>La cooperación técnico-militar entre Georgia e Israel se estima en 300 millones de dólares, según informó Ria Novosti (11 de agosto).</p>
<p>Al mismo tiempo que la Casa Blanca decía ofrecer "sólo ayuda diplomática" a Georgia, <strong>prestaba sus aviones de transporte militar a Georgia para trasladar una parte del contingente georgiano destacado en Irak</strong> (NBC, 11 de agsoto de 2008). Según fuentes militares estadounidenses, en el momento actual se encuentran en territorio iraquí unos 2.000 soldados de Georgia. Casi la mitad de ellos debe regresar al país por decisión del Gobierno georgiano ante el agravamiento de la situación... Rusia ya ha advertido a EEUU de las graves consecuencias si esas tropas aparecen en Osetia del Sur (4).</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>Georgia: puesto avanzado de EEUU y la OTAN</strong></span></p>
<p>Georgia es parte de un acuerdo militar con la OTAN -<strong>GUUAM</strong>- firmado en abril de 1999, cuando se iniciaba la guerra en Yugoslavia. También cuenta con una cooperación militar bilateral con EEUU. Estos dos acuerdos militares han servido para proteger los <strong>intereses petroleros de EEUU en la cuenca del Mar Caspio</strong>, así como las rutas de <strong>oleoductos</strong>.</p>
<p>Tanto EEUU como la<strong> OTAN</strong> tienen una presencia militar en Georgia y están trabajando estrechamente con las fuerzas armadas georgianas. Desde la firma del acuerdo GUUAM de 1999, Georgia ha sido el destinatario de una amplia ayuda militar estadounidense.</p>
<p>Hace unos meses, a principios de mayo, el ministerio ruso de Defensa acusó a Washington de “desestabilizar la región” con su <strong>asistencia militar a Georgia</strong> (5). Según el Ministerio ruso de Defensa el ejército georgiano medró gracias a la ayuda occidental.</p>
<p>En efecto, la mayor parte de los mandos militares georgianos fueron instruidos en EEUU o <strong>Turquía</strong>. <strong>El gasto militar de Georgia se multiplicó por 30 en los últimos cuatro años, lo que supone cerca  del 10% de su PIB</strong>. Su presupuesto de defensa ha llegado a los <strong>mil millones</strong> de dólares. EEUU concedió a Georgia ayuda militar por un valor total de 40,6 millones de dólares. Países miembros de la OTAN, como Turquía y <strong>Bulgaria</strong>, suministraron a Georgia 175 tanques, 126 blindados de transporte, 67 piezas de artillería, 4 aviones de combate, 12 helicópteros, 8 buques y lanchas. Y pronto recibirá 100 blindados de transporte más, 14 aviones de combate (incluyendo cuatro cazas Mirazh-2000), 15 helicópteros Black Hawk y 10 buques y lanchas. (6)</p>
<p>La asistencia de la OTAN, EEUU e Israel en virtud de sus acuerdos de cooperación militar implica un flujo constante de equipo militar avanzado, así como el servicio de instructores y asesores militares.</p>
<p>Según el portavoz del Mando Europeo de EEUU, su país tiene más de 100 "instructores militares" en Georgia. Bryan Whitman, portavoz del Pentágono, dijo que “no hay planes para reubicar a los 130 soldados y <strong>mercenarios </strong>estadounidenses, destacados en las cercanías de Tiflis” (AFP, 9 de agosto de 2008). De hecho, la presencia militar de EEUU y la OTAN en Georgia es mucho mayor que lo se admite en las declaraciones oficiales.</p>
<p>Aunque oficialmente no es miembro de la OTAN, el ejército de Georgia está plenamente integrado en los planes de la organización atlántica. En 2005, el presidente georgiano anunció con orgullo la inauguración de la primera base militar –la base de <strong>Senakskaya</strong>, al oeste de Georgia-, que "satisface plenamente los estándares de la OTAN". Inmediatamente después de la inauguración de esta base, el gobierno georgiano anunció la apertura de una segunda base militar en <strong>Gori </strong>que también "cumple con la OTAN en en cuanto a sus normas sobre necesidades militares y condiciones sociales." (7)</p>
<p>La base de Gori se ha utilizado para entrenar tropas georgianas enviadas a luchar bajo el mando estadounidense a <strong>Irak</strong>.</p>
<p>Cabe señalar que en virtud del acuerdo entre Tiflis y Moscú del 31 de marzo de 2006, <strong>Rusia debe cerrar sus dos bases militares en Georgia</strong> –Batumi y Akhalkalaki- de la era soviética. La retirada en Batumi comenzó en mayo del año pasado y las últimas tropas rusas la abandonaron a principios de julio del presente año, apenas una semana antes del inicio de los ejercicios militares georgiano-estadounidenses y apenas un mes antes de los ataques georgianos a Osetia del Sur.</p>
<p><span style="color:#ff9900;"><strong>La conexión israelí</strong></span></p>
<p><strong>Israel </strong>es parte del bloque militar que sirve a los intereses de los gigantes occidentales del petróleo en Oriente Medio y Asia Central. Israel es un socio en el <strong>Oleoducto Baku-Tiflis-Ceyhan</strong> <strong>(BTC)</strong> que traerá el petróleo y el gas hasta el Mediterráneo Oriental. Más de 20 por ciento del petróleo de Israel se importa de <strong>Azerbaiyán</strong> y transitará, en gran parte, a través del oleoducto BTC. Controlado por <strong>British Petroleum</strong>, el oleoducto BTC ha cambiado radicalmente la geopolítica del Mediterráneo Oriental y del Cáucaso: "Cambia considerablemente la situación de los países de la región <strong>y consolida una nueva alianza pro-occidental</strong>. Controlando el oleoducto hasta el Mediterráneo, Washington ha establecido de hecho un nuevo bloque con <strong>Azerbaiyán</strong>, <strong>Georgia</strong>, <strong>Turquía </strong>e <strong>Israel</strong>." ( Komerzant, Moscú, 14 de julio de 2006).</p>
<p>Si bien los informes oficiales afirman que el oleoducto BTC "será el canal de petróleo a los mercados occidentales", lo que rara vez se reconoce es que parte del petróleo del <strong>Mar Caspio</strong> será canalizado directamente hacia Israel, a través de <strong>Georgia</strong>. En este sentido, un proyecto de <strong>oleoducto turco-israelí</strong> también se ha previsto que enlace Ceyhan con el puerto israelí de <strong>Ashkelon </strong>y desde allí, a través del principal sistema de oleoductos de Israel, hacia el Mar Rojo.</p>
<p>El objetivo de Israel es no sólo la adquisición de petróleo del Mar Caspio para sus propias necesidades de consumo, sino también el desempeñar un papel clave en la <strong>reexportación de petróleo del mar Caspio de vuelta a los mercados asiáticos a través del puerto de Eilat en el Mar Rojo</strong>.</p>
<p>Las implicaciones estratégicas de este cambio de ruta de petróleo del mar Caspio son de largo alcance (8).</p>
<p>Lo que se prevé es establecer un enlace entre el oleoducto BTC y el oleoducto <strong>Trans-Israel Eilat-Ashkelon</strong> -también conocido como el <strong>"Israel’s Tipline"</strong>-, de Ceyhan al puerto israelí de Ashkelon (9).</p>
<p>"Turquía e Israel están negociando la construcción de un proyecto de varios miles de millones de dólares para transportar agua, electricidad, gas natural y petróleo a través oleoductos a Israel, con petróleo que se reenviará desde Israel al <strong>Extremo Oriente</strong>. […] La nueva iniciativa turco-israelí, aún en discusión, supondrá la transferencia de agua, electricidad, gas natural y el petróleo a Israel a través de cuatro oleoductos submarinos. […] "El petróleo de Baku podrá ser transportado a Ashkelon a través de este nuevo oleoducto, y a la <strong>India </strong>y el Extremo Oriente."  (10)</p>
<p>En este sentido, Israel está preparándose para desempeñar un importante papel estratégico en la <strong>“protección”</strong> del transporte por el Mediterráneo Oriental y de los oleoductos que parten de Ceyhan, al mismo tiempo que canaliza ayuda y capacitación militar tanto a <strong>Georgia </strong>como a  <strong>Azerbaiyán</strong>.</p>
<p>Un gran <strong>acuerdo de cooperación militar de 1999 entre Tiflis y Tel Aviv</strong> se alcanzó apenas un mes antes de que la OTAN patrocinara el acuerdo GUUAM. Fue firmado en Tiflis por el presidente Shevardnadze y el primer ministro de Israel Binyamin Netanyu.</p>
<p>Estos diversos acuerdos de cooperación militar pretenden, en el fondo, <strong>debilitar la presencia de Rusia y su influencia en el Cáucaso y Asia Central</strong>.</p>
<p>En una declaración pro forma, Tel Aviv se comprometía, tras discusiones bilaterales con Moscú, el 5 de agosto de 2008, a <strong>recortar la asistencia técnico-militar</strong> a Georgia. Dos días después este país caucásico empleaba todo lo adquirido para desencadenar un ofensiva, más que contra un territorio rebelde, contra la presencia rusa y la estabilidad en la región.</p>
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<p>(1) Russia Today, 9 de agosto de 2008. <a href="http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/28728" target="_blank">http://www.russiatoday.com/news/news/28728</a></p>
<p>(2) AP, 15 de julio de 2008.  <a href="http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/07/15/6162566-ap.html" target="_blank">http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/07/15/6162566-ap.html</a></p>
<p>(3) Debka, 8 de agosto de 2008. <a href="http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1358" target="_blank">http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1358</a></p>
<p>(4) Ria Novosti, 12 de agosto de 2008. <a href="http://sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20080812/115972754.html" target="_blank">http://sp.rian.ru/onlinenews/20080812/115972754.html</a></p>
<p>(5) Wired News, 19 de mayo de 2008. <a href="http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/russia-tallies.html" target="_blank">http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/russia-tallies.html</a></p>
<p>(6) PanArmanian.net, 8 de agosto de 2008. <a href="http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=2683" target="_blank">http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=2683</a>3</p>
<p>(7) GlobalSecurit.org citando a Ria Novosti, 26 de mayo de 2006.<br />
<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/05/mil-060526-rianovosti02.htm" target="_blank">http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2006/05/mil-060526-rianovosti02.htm</a></p>
<p>(8) Para más detalles, léase en español <em><strong>“La guerra del Líbano y la batalla por el Petróleo”</strong></em>, de Michel Chossudovsky, en Global Research, 14 de agosto de 2006.<br />
<a href="http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&#38;aid=5841" target="_blank">http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&#38;aid=5841</a></p>
<p>(9) Ver <a href="http://www.eapc.co.il/pipelines.html" target="_blank">http://www.eapc.co.il/pipelines.html</a></p>
<p>(10) Jerusalem Post, 11 de mayo de 2006.<br />
<a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961328841&#38;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull" target="_blank">http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1145961328841&#38;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull</a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Palestinian Rockets Hit Ashkelon, One Wounded]]></title>
<link>http://smoothstone.wordpress.com/?p=6416</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 17:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Fakestinians doing what they do best. From <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/993227.html">Palestinian Rockets Hit Ashkelon, One Wounded</a>:<br />
<blockquote>Palestinians in Gaza fired two Grad-type rockets at the Israeli city of Ashkelon on Monday. One person suffered shrapnel wounds in the neck, and several others suffered from shock. Israel has charged that Iran has supplied Hamas with Grad rockets, smuggled into Gaza from Egypt.</p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[A slice of weekend life 'round here. ]]></title>
<link>http://lizraelupdate.wordpress.com/?p=974</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jun 2008 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Sunday today, which really means it&#8217;s Monday - aka, the beginning of the work week ]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It's Sunday today, which really means it's Monday - aka, the beginning of the work week - aka, I miss the weekend already.</p>
<p>Here's a slice of my weekend so we can all treasure it together and breathe through to next Shabbat:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="vertical-align:middle;" src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3210/2599844561_674177b825.jpg?v=0" alt="Ashkelon beach happiness." width="500" height="375" /></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Cinque razzi su Ashkelon, una israeliana ferita]]></title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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Lo ha detto la tv satellitare araba al Jazee]]></description>
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<p align="center"><a href="http://focusonisrael.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/souvenirdagaza.jpg"><img src="http://focusonisrael.wordpress.com/files/2008/06/souvenirdagaza.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="124" class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1413" /></a></p>
<p><em><strong>Lo ha detto la tv satellitare araba al Jazeera</strong></em></p>
<p align="justify">Ashkelon 12 giu. (Apcom) - Cinque razzi sparati da miliziani palestinesi da Gaza sono caduti sulla città di Ashkelon nel sud di Israele, provocando il ferimento di una donna israeliana. Lo ha annunciato l'emittente satellitare araba al Jazeera. </p>
<p align="justify">Secondo Hamas, i razzi sarebbero stati lanciati come rappresaglia ad un raid israeliano nel nord di Gaza che avrebbe distrutto una palazzina di due piani uccidendo tre persone e ferendone una quarantina.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Raketenterror bei Ashkelon]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:57:25 +0000</pubDate>
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Am Dienstagnachmittag ging eine Raketensalve, abgefeuert aus dem Gazastreifen, bei Ashkelon nieder.]]></description>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Am Dienstagnachmittag ging eine Raketensalve, abgefeuert aus dem Gazastreifen, bei Ashkelon nieder. Nur mal zur Erinnerung, Ashkelon liegt wesentlich weiter im israelischen Gebiet, was bedeutet, dass die Palästinenser, die Dank UN- und europäischer Hilfe den lieben langen Tag damit verbringen, sich zu überlegen, wie sie israelische Zivilisten noch effektiver umbringen können, ihre terroristischen Fähigkeiten weiter ausgebaut haben. Denn um Ashkelon zu treffen, müssen wesentlich grössere Raketen zum Einsatz gebracht werden als für den Beschuss von Sderot. Fünf thailändische Arbeiter wurden durch Splitter verletzt.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0;"><span style="font-size:8pt;font-family:Verdana;color:#000000;"><a href="http://tinyurl.com/3z34nh">http://tinyurl.com/3z34nh</a></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Religious Freedom Coalition: Islamic Rocket Welcomes Bush to Israel, Bush Killed in Islamic Children's TV Show ]]></title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 14:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>Islamic rocket attack welcomes Bush to Israel / Bush killed in Islamic children's video shown on TV / Bush hands Lebanon to Islamists / Goodbye Hillary? / Pro-Life congressman to head GOP Platform Committee / Dems want Internet gambling / Military Honor and Decency / Horrible death toll in Islamic bombings in India / More on bombed home of evangelist in Israel</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;"><strong>BUSH HANDS LEBANON TO ISLAMISTS- </strong> Christians with enough money to do so are fleeing Lebanon, as Druse and Christian militias plead with the Bush Administration for arms to fight the Islamists. In reality the fight is over and the Bush Administration is so distracted with the prospect of Israel giving up land for a Palestinian state that they don't realize Lebanon is lost.</p>
<p>Sheik Yazeeb Khader, A West Bank political activist, does understand what Bush does not. This week he said, ""What happened in Gaza in 2007 is an achievement; now it is happening in 2008 in Lebanon. It's going to happen in 2009 in Jordan and it's going to happen in 2010 in Egypt." He continued, "We are seeing a redrawing of the map of the Middle East where the forces of resistance and steadfastness are the ones moving the things on the ground."</p>
<p>He is right; once Bush allows Lebanon to fall, land locked Jordan will be next. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jLRh_6LrM1Vke_t4IlqyqjUg-OIAXLAuvy0rWHC9GDggrgSOzblpOdoqbBDTN-FYFzRlfRm_D2zSp0VZ8BxQLE7-t6WPS9RfY5TDVYnLPYkXMhPtC9nxEyYOUXLYj4eFjZ1bw4ZiIH3OcAGp_A1EHTnAuo__rw_zQPA5yyvopUJNQ==" target="_blank">Full Story.</a></span></p>
<p><strong>GOODBYE HILLARY? - </strong>Virtually all the pundits now declare that the Democrats have their nominee and it is time for Hillary Clinton to step aside for Barack Obama. One voice calling for her to withdraw is that of Senator Ted Kennedy. Yet, when he ran for president in 1980 he refused to step aside even though he was 500 delegate votes behind Gov. Jimmy Carter. He carried his campaign to the floor of the convention. Senator Obama says he will have the delegates needed by May 20th to tell Hillary bye bye.</p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;"><strong>MILITARY HONOR AND DECENCY - </strong>The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 stated, in part, that "The Secretary of Defense may not permit the sale or rental of sexually explicit material on property under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense." However, broad definitions in the statute have created a loophole which allows publications such as Playboy, Penthouse, and similar material to be sold at military exchange stores. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jLVL3PeKZrwPxna-5aYK1P3iDX7AXFMCa1iBFnkEK7nxAyD5q19vwQer_2ggbXqrZiYgsTpiwahYMFl_FyN_CctF_gQaIvafiapg2v50Z_Mce5YDxLVNWnsQPjjsjUDwf3hgQs-botYvoXNpv_eh2kNrUuUREGY9Zn_0at6agwgZSfMNyGdNFDN" target="_blank">Congressman Paul Broun</a> (R-GA) has introduced the Military Honor and Decency Act, (HR- 5821) to close the loophole and stop all sales of pornographic material on military bases.</span></p>
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<p>Senator Obama believes this is a great ruling. Senator McCain said nothing himself, but his spokesman Tucker Bounds said, "John McCain supports the right of the people of California to recognize marriage as a unique institution sanctioning the union between a man and a woman, just as he did in his home state of Arizona. John McCain doesn't believe judges should be making these decisions."</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;"><strong>NEW APRIL CHAIRMAN'S REPORTS  AVAILABLE - </strong>The April, 2008 Chairman's Report from William J. Murray is now available online in PDF version. The Chairman's Report contains some material not seen in these updates. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jIJTSoVJWQ5NEOJkcoU6rdcFjV_MMp6q7S6IEL1NGpnv5kakzwL4akN4B48_nTSj8SLlWTUWakssua6N5x43BQiPQD6flSXYzCEZzfDg0iZ-I9EeEupFTtLFaPlpZstb9mThqqcbAlCGA==" target="_blank">Click here</a> to view.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-style:italic;color:#000000;font-size:x-small;"> <span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;"><strong>THE ISLAMIC BOMBINGS YOU DIDN'T READ ABOUT - </strong>"This is not a crime; we are in the middle of a war," Rajasthan Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje said on Thursday as her government dealt with 61 dead and hundreds wounded in Islamic bombings in Jaipur, a tourist destination in India. A series of bombs ripped through shops and squares this past week. Under the new White House guidelines of "never say anything bad about Islam" there was no mention of the Jihad attacks from the Administration and the media, including Fox News, ignored the bloody attack  that occurred in a democratic nation friendly to us. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jJ_TiVPb2WbTMoDEfbrlzctHN06INGImp7EbX6zhyjKK2oqd0Y60yA6yE1o0S0t5vDSOM4MM7a_HxSA76J2BwfT8EFpGtTOqtq3ciO2JDT6H9d_5En6evFnFhsAdavji4TV1JwD5nCOj_rZMbfFuAugsl1x_z_DDgX0fjmmgo5XGpXSHE5fusGTXprORDtcijyPQpnPzoptpgDuBVObizxh" target="_blank">Click here</a> for report  in the Times of India. (Video available at site) A list of other Islamic terror attacks the past week can be <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jKgbjsrvhL5MrD4OgGctr2DmvKSn1ry2SNNhDx6_ZOpqwJbxO0srxdv4U5fBD2eMCYh0ZjH5JjmP23VHWLKlIP2maEX5PztzSHmSs110ERoWpYYeMgIc7o2" target="_blank">found here</a>.</span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;color:#000000;"><strong>ISRAEL EVANGELIST'S SON RECOVERING FROM BOMBING - </strong>After six weeks in a hospital, ijncluding three weeks in intensive care, Ami Ortiz has been moved to a rehabilitation center. Evangelist David Ortiz reports to us that his 15 year-old son still faces a long recovery from his wounds after the bombing of their apartment in April. Ami has faced numerous operations and doctors who may not understand the healing power of Jesus have been amazed by his recovery. (<a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jKy3uibh-vDu1lR1Ftma-7hskZDWBpItJHu3nd6lUoilEE8sKv6kV_tZOPZznwEwhP95SWTtjLtotC_qdqu2DgvBePtWybkpaou76PBI9QjGMkJuPMaelTH3p26ZxZY8iYodjt_hA8uVg==" target="_blank">Read latest family update from Israel</a>) I have stayed at the Ortiz apartment many times and have sat at the table for dinner on which the bomb, hidden in a Purim basket, exploded. Please continue to pray for Ami's recovery. <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jLrsKVa5V_ywPrBJOxo_y8KXx9PoR098uyAYrWaXJTENtbjRpYKsk2KjhciZI_rXtZHBGNjgdcKZCj1JYfeXZA-rR9qJ49Vo38RftoCJCZCFzG6va9q5vPFAv6G-09eqkw1j1mZUOohZA==" target="_blank">Click here</a> for photos of the aftermath of the bombing.  An address to send cards to Ami is located at the end of the power point presentation of photos. (If you don't have MS Power Point download the <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jJh88kF9GHvFMyGLLgvffY-jBbzFn1tqyZvwV6k9sTRzSLywgXhkbF-riVVUKh4yszRe8tfu8x09R4qZmpPr9wxzAO7_-yl-hT363sOOljsyNTjh5q6ZD9MgrBP16JK3Jwu6uzzfdtsnp5cWKFqo7HDlWDOcwVXR-hzAehpkvnrlf0duzR6mpk0aCpWPUqSvXGVeJ_GtBRgWGjRgGdzPlkvUGEbQmbpqscuccVSvi8Eqg==" target="_blank">viewer here</a>.</span></p>
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<p></span></span><span><span style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:x-small;color:#000000;"> William J. Murray, Chairman    Religious Freedom Coalition, PO Box 77511,  Washington, DC 20013 - (202) 742.8990   This publication is a service of the Religious Freedom  Coalition (RFC). Links to political and other sites are  for informational purposes and do not constitute  endorsement. No statement is intended to assist or  defeat any candidate running for public office.  <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001j2n6p3ct-jKe4ZQe9DdasrHoVKNEsVW-9LROTfhJappxPbuToZYem6YApTK10jyULV5GMTKBt026b6OuljzC4IqZ4yUsUjGEJXO3aRrN7_g=" target="_blank">Religious Freedom  Coalition</a> * Copyright - 2008<br />
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<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668639229&#38;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull" target="_blank">Eve Malcha</a>, die schon 5 (!) Raketenangriffe überlebt hat, sagte gestern in Ashkelon, dass der letzte Anschlag der bisher schlimmste war.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Eine Grad-Rakete schlug gestern Abend <a href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1210668635737&#38;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull" target="_blank">direkt im Hutzot-Einkaufszentrum</a> in Ashkelon ein und verletzte mindestens 14 Menschen; einige davon schwer. Videomaterial zur Situation nach dem Anschlag <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K81TDD9F70k" target="_blank">hier</a>.</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><em>Opfer palästinensischer Friedensbemühungen. </em></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">übt jeder anständige Deutsche gern, denn wurden sie nicht vertrieben von den Juden, die selbst einmal von den Deutschen vertrieben und fast gänzlich ausgerottet wurden? Dass das nicht geklappt hat, werfen unsere Intellektuellen heute immer noch den Alliierten vor. Mussten die sich damals auch so beeilen, mit der Landung in der Normandie und in Italien? Hätte der Führer noch ein paar Jahre mehr Zeit gehabt, gäbe es heute kein Palästinenserproblem. Nicht?</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Natürlich sagt das niemand so offen aber "Kritik an Israel, die muss doch wohl gestattet sein", oder? Und so sieht sie dann auch aus. Nur mal zur Erinnerung, für die Enkel der Deutschen, die denunzierten, sich an jüdischem Eigentum bereicherten, Juden die Geschäfte und Synagogen demolierten, sie auf Lastwagen verbrachten, in ihre Häuser einzogen, ihr Zahngold verwendeten, sie in Ghettos bewachten, mit der Eisenbahn transportierten und sie schliesslich umbrachten. Israel gründete sich 1948 auf britischen Mandatsgebiet. Dasselbe wurde dem arabischen Bevökerungsteil zugestanden. Der fiel aber sofort mit der Unabhängigkeitserklärung über die Juden in Israel her, unterstützt von den Armeen arabischer Staaten. Natürlich wäre es besser für die deutschen Intellektuellen gewesen, Israel hätte sich vernichten lassen. Kein Staat Israel mehr, kein Holocaust mehr, kein Nachdenken mehr über die Geschichte. Keine Erinnerung daran, was Deutsche getan haben. Die Juden in Deutschland wären ein verhuschtes Häuflein geblieben, abhängig von der Gnade des Staates der Deutschen. Leider, leider, für die deutschen Geistesriesen in Presse, Funk, Fernsehen und Politik, hat Israel aber überlebt und nicht nur überlebt, es ist ein moderner, demokratischer Staat geworden, der trotz täglicher Angriffe auf sein Territorium nicht zur Militärdiktatur mutiert ist. Ich will gar nicht wissen, wie der deutsche Staat aussähe, hätte er sich in der Lage Israels befunden. <span style="color:#003300;"><strong>Nun hat eine der Terrorwaffen der Palästinenser ein Einkaufszentrum in Ashkelon getroffen</strong></span>. Reiner Zufall. Dennoch wird die Reaktion Israels nicht ausbleiben. Und weil sich palästinensische Terroristen grundsätzlich zwischen Zivilisten verschanzen, werden auch ungewollte zivile Opfer nicht ausbleiben. Zeit also, Solidarität mit den vom israelischen Terrorregime betroffenen Zivilisten zu zeigen und darüber zu hadern, dass Hitler so schnell abtreten musste.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Ein Schulgrundstück in Ashkelon wurde heute Morgen von einer Kassam getroffen, kurz bevor sich das Gelände mit Schülern füllte. Ein Augenzeuge gegenüber <a href="http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3542108,00.html" target="_blank">YNet News</a>:</p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000080;">Palästinensische Terroristen aus dem nördlichen Gaza-Streifen haben heute Nacht drei Raketen auf Ashkelon abgefeuert. Sie landeten auf offenem Gelände nahe einem Kibbutz südlich der israelischen Küstenstadt. Verletzt wurde dabei niemand, und es entstand auch kein Sachschaden. Bereits am Samstagabend waren zwei Raketen auf Ashkelon abgeschossen worden, die im Gewerbegebiet im Süden der Stadt niedergingen und ebenfalls weder Personen- noch Sachschaden verursachten.<br />
(Yedioth Aharonot, 07.04.08)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000080;"> Um 19.15 Ortszeit (18.15 MESZ) schlug  eine vom Gazastreifen gefeuerte Rakete in Ashkelon ein , keine Verletzten.   									Vor einem Monat trafen zwei Grad-Raketen die Nahe der Grenze Israels mit Gaza gelegenen Stadt Ashkelon. Eine Rakete traf ein wohnhaus und richtete Erheblichen Sachschaden an, eine zweite traf ein freies Gelände in Ashkelon. Am Samstag Abend um 18.15 MESZ war es wieder soweit. Alarm-kurze Zeit für die Einwohner Deckung zu suchen und ein Einschlag. Die Rakete schlug in einem Industriegebiet der Stadt ein, es gab keine Verletzten.</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Passend dazu das Feature beim DLF über eine amerikanische Friedensaktivistin: <span style="color:#000080;">Rachel Corrie wurde am 10. April 1979 in Olympia, Washington/USA geboren. Bevor sie ihr Studium am Evergreen State College in Olympia beendet hatte, schloss sie sich am 25. Januar 2003 mit Bürgern anderer Staaten dem International Solidarity Movement zur Arbeit in Gaza an. Sie wurde am 16. März 2003 getötet, als sie versuchte, Bulldozer daran zu hindern, ein Wohnhaus abzureißen.</span></p>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Well, <a title="Abbas Goes on the Warpath, Tries to Steal the Show from Hamas " href="http://www.debka.com/article.php?aid=1341" target="_blank">May should be an interesting month if what Debka is reporting, should turn out to be true and Abbas is able to organize the Fatah return plan</a>.  </p>
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<p class="arttext"><strong>DEBKA<em>file</em></strong><span> publishes here for the first time details of the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Palestinian </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Authority </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Chairman </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Mahmoud </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Abbas</span></span>’ <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">master </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">plan</span></span> for wrecking Israel’s 60th <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">anniversary </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">celebrations</span></span>. The project is called the “2008 Return” </span></p>
<p class="arttext">Its highlights are disclosed here with <strong>DEBKA<em>file</em></strong>’s comments.</p>
<p class="arttext"><span>The Palestinian leader has circulated guidelines for three million Palestinians to leave their homes on the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">West </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Bank</span></span>, Gaza, <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Jordan</span></span>, <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Syria</span></span> and Lebanon on May 14 and march on Israel’s borders, including the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Green </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Line</span></span>. The march is to take place a week after Israel’s <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Independence </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Day</span></span> on May 8, 2008. If Israel obstructs their passage, they will strike camp and live in tents until Israel surrenders and lets them through. </span></p>
<p class="arttext"><span>This stunt will be accompanied by pressure from the Palestinian Authority on international organizations to force Israel to implement <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">UN </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Resolution</span></span> 194, passed by the General Assembly on Dec. 11, 1948. </span></p>
<p class="arttext"><strong>DEBKA<em>file</em></strong><span>’s <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Middle </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">East</span></span> sources report that Abbas commissioned the “2008 Return” project from a special Fatah forum headed by <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Ziyad </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Abu </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Ain</span></span> from Ramallah, <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">deputy </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">minister</span></span> for Palestinian prisoners in the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Salam </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Fayyad</span></span> government and close associate of <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Marwan </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Barghouti</span></span>, who is serving life for five terrorist murders. </span></p>
<p class="arttext"><span>Operation “2008 Return” is described in its introduction as a decision by the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Palestinian </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">people</span></span> “to implement <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">UN </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">resolution</span></span> (194), declare themselves holders of the UN blue banner, and return to their homeland, from which they were forcefully expelled [Jaffa, Haifa, <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Acre</span></span>, Ramla, Lod, Ashkelon etc]… in order to live in peace and security with their Israeli neighbors.” </span></p>
<p class="arttext">[<strong>DEBKA<em>file</em></strong><span>: This motion is dredged up from the past as though history had stopped at that point and the subsequent 60 years of Arab belligerence, endless conflict and further UN resolutions had never happened. Another part of the same resolution appointed a <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Conciliation </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Committee</span></span> to establish contact with the parties and assist them reach a final settlement of outstanding questions. This part was buried under decades of Arab rejection.]</span></p>
<p class="arttext"><span>The introduction goes on to state: “Neither the Jews nor the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">international </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">community</span></span> can stand against the desire of the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Palestinian </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">people</span></span> to exercise their right of return to their homeland and to their homes, land, holy places [Jerusalem] and heritage.” </span></p>
<p class="arttext">[<strong>DEBKA<em>file</em></strong><span>: Mahmoud Abbas incidentally lays claim to <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Christian</span></span> as well as Muslim holy sites – therefore also Nazareth and the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Sea </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">of </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Galilee</span></span> sites.] </span></p>
<p class="arttext">The introduction is followed by a set of instructions to Palestinian communities, of which seven are the most relevant:</p>
<p class="arttext"><span>1. All returnees must attach the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">UN </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">resolution</span></span> and refugee card on their chests.</span></p>
<p class="arttext">2. All returnees must bring their tents and other goods with them. If obstructed by Israeli forces from reaching their land, they must set up their tents on the border and stay there until Israel surrenders and allows them to cross.</p>
<p class="arttext"><span>[The plan is to deploy <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">hundreds </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">of </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">thousands</span></span> of Palestinians in <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">tent </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">cities</span></span> indefinitely on all of Israel’s borders.]</span></p>
<p class="arttext">3. Jewish friends are called upon to assist in resolving the Palestinian refugee problem.</p>
<p class="arttext">4. Arab governments and friends all over the world are called on to support the logistics of the operation.</p>
<p class="arttext">5. Palestinian holders of foreign citizenships, especially US and European, are to charter planes for flights to Israel or neighboring countries on May 14, 2008, as well reserving passage on tens of ships to dock at Israeli ports on this date.</p>
<p class="arttext">6. Personal invitations will be extended to all world leaders for their support.</p>
<p class="arttext"><span>7. Kings and leaders of <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Islamic </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">countries</span></span> will be invited, as well as members of the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Israeli </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">government</span></span> and Knesset. Special invitations will be sent to the US president and members of the Senate. </span></p>
<p class="arttext"><span>The document ends with an appeal to the Arab nation, especially the <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Saudi </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">King </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">Abdullah</span></span>, to support the operation politically, diplomatically and materially. </span></p>
<p class="arttext"><strong>DEBKA<em>file</em></strong><span>’s Palestinian sources report that Mahmoud Abbas intends to submit his ambitious <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">master </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">plan</span></span> to the summit of Arab rulers meeting in Damascus March 29. </span></p>
<p class="arttext"><span>There is no knowing how much support he will win from Arab governments or whether the different Palestinian communities will rise to his call. The whole plan may simply fold for <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">lack </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">of </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">response</span></span> – or not. Abbas’ main objectives appear to be to upstage the warlike Hamas and throw a wet blanket over Israel’s <span style="border-right:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-top:#0000ff 0 dashed;border-left:#0000ff 0 dashed;cursor:pointer;border-bottom:#0000ff 1px dashed;"><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">anniversary </span><span style="display:inline-block;text-indent:0;position:relative;text-align:left;">celebrations</span></span>. </span></p>
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<p>Six Qassam rockets were launched at Israel late this morning by Hamas terrorists who claim to have accepted a "cease-fire."  Thankfully no one has been injured in today's attacks though there was damage inflicted on several buildings.</p>
<p>Israel's Ambassador to the UN, Danny Gillerman, told the Security Council last night that the<img src="http://zioneocon.blogspot.com/gillerman.jpg" align="right" border="0" height="157" width="225" /> apparent lull in Hamas rocket attacks is only superficial, because the bombs keep ticking, albeit quietly, while Hamas is using this time to smuggle in and produce more rockets.</p>
<p>"During the last month, Hamas fired more than 300 rockets at Israel, at least 23 of them Iranian-made Grad missiles that hit the city of Ashkelon," Gillerman said.  "The rocket attacks marked an escalation of violence not just in number, but also in weaponry. Grad rockets - smuggled into the Gaza Strip from Iran during the breach of the Gaza border this January - have greater range, larger warheads, and fragment on impact. Hamas' new weapon of choice means that a quarter of a million Israeli civilians now live in constant danger of rocket fire. We can all thank Iran for adding another weapon to the Hamas arsenal, in addition to its already heinous suicide attacks and deadly Kassam rockets. [Hamas also] continued to wreak havoc and daily terror on the people of Sderot - a small but resilient city of 23,000, where children no longer run around on playgrounds; they now run to bomb shelters. Such is the reality in Sderot, where 15 seconds is all you have to find safety before a Kassam rocket comes crashing down."</p>
<p>"I am sure that many in this Council watched with horror and disgust as Hamas terrorists joyfully fired their rifles into the air [after the Merkaz HaRav slaughter] and passed out candy to children in celebration. If anyone doubted what the extremists stand for, the reaction in Gaza to the murder of eight Israeli boys sets the record straight. It was also a stark reminder that these were the same people who danced on the rooftops after 9/11.</p>
<p>"Which is why, Mr. President, it was so sad and disturbing that the Council could not condemn the terrorist attack. The Security Council has a longstanding practice of condemning terrorism, no matter the victims, no matter the location, no matter the perpetrator, no matter the motivation. Yet the Council could not unanimously condemn this terrorist attack and intentional killing of civilians, for the Council was blocked by a politicized opposition, of one Member State [Libya - ed.] in particular.</p>
<p>"Lately, a particularly worrisome trend has been apparent when it comes to the discourse concerning our region," Gillerman continued. "Some have a penchant for equating the lawful actions of states in defense of their citizens with the violence of terrorists whose goal is to endanger those very civilians. The misguided tendency to accept the "status quo" of terrorism - as expressed even by some UN officials in their statements and reports - is simply unacceptable. Such parity, which is often in the name of an ill-conceived balance, undermines the strength and credibility of moderate states to bolster one another and isolate the extremists."</p>
<p>Before concluding his speech to the Security Council, Gillerman also addressed the tensions on the northern border of Israel, noting that Hizbollah is violating the cease fire reached after the 2006 war in three areas:  weapons continue to flow illegally from Syria into Lebanon, Hizbollah is re-arming and has already increased more than tripled the arsenal it had in 2006 as its spokesmen openly brag, and Israeli soldiers Eldad Regev and Udi Goldwasser are still unaccounted for.</p>
<p>Re-posted with permission from <b><a href="http://www.lekarev.org">www.lekarev.org</a></b>.</p>
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<td>Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas suspended peace negotiations with Israel on Sunday, demanding it end a Gaza offensive that has killed more than 100 Palestinians, many of them civilians.Israel claimed it was acting in self-defense in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip to curb constant cross-border rocket attacks by militants and threatened to intensify its ground and air campaign despite allegations it was using excessive force.</p>
<p>"Abbas had ordered the suspension of negotiations ... until (Israeli) aggression is stopped," a senior aide to the Palestinian leader said in the West Bank city of Ramallah. But he stopped short of declaring dead the US-brokered statehood talks opposed by Hamas who seized control of the Gaza Strip from his Fatah movement in June. Arye Mekel, spokesman for Israel's chief negotiator, Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, said Abbas's decision was a mistake and expressed hope the talks would resume "in the very near future."</p>
<p>A 21-month-old Palestinian girl, two other civilians and three militants were killed in the latest fighting in the Gaza Strip, raising the Palestinian death toll in five days of bloodshed to more than 100, medical officials said. Anti-Israeli demonstrations erupted in the occupied West Bank, where Israeli forces confronting stone-throwers near the town of Hebron shot dead a 14-year-old boy wearing a Hamas headband, witnesses said.</p>
<p>Nine rockets slammed into southern Israel, wounding four people, Israeli ambulance workers said. "Israel has no intention of stopping the fight against the terrorist organizations even for a minute," Prime Minister Ehud Olmert told his cabinet.</p>
<p>Earlier, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon accused Israel of using “excessive force.” He demanded a halt to air and ground attacks that killed 61 people on Saturday, the bloodiest day for Palestinians since the 1980s, and militants’ rocket salvoes.</p>
<p>EU president Slovenia condemned Israel’s attacks as disproportionate and violating international law. The presidency statement also called for an immediate halt to the rocket fire.</p>
<p>“With all due respect ... no one has the right to preach morality to Israel for employing its elementary right of self-defense,” Olmert said.</p>
<p>Abbas designated Sunday a day of mourning. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is due to meet Abbas and Olmert this week. Washington has said it hoped Israeli-Palestinian talks can lead to a statehood deal before President George W. Bush leaves office in January.</p>
<p>One Israeli has been killed by a rocket launched from Gaza since the current surge in bloodshed began. Hamas has said such salvoes would stop if Israel abandoned operations in the Gaza Strip and raids against militants in the occupied West Bank.</p>
<p>“We are acting to hit the Hamas infrastructure ... the final target is to bring an end to the firing of Qassams,” Defense Minister Ehud Barak said about the crude rockets.</p>
<p>“This will not be achieved in the next two days, but we will continue the activity with all our strength. And we need to prepare for escalation, because the big ground operation is real and tangible,” Barak said.</p>
<p>Meeting in emergency session, the UN Security Council said it was deeply concerned about civilian deaths in southern Israel and the Gaza Strip and urged a cessation of violence.</p>
<p>“We are capable of sustaining the fight and tolerating (attacks) beyond the expectations of the enemy,” said Abu Ubaida, spokesman of Hamas’s Izz el-Deen al-Qassam Brigades.</p>
<p>Olmert has been under pressure from some of his cabinet members to launch a broader offensive in the Gaza Strip, especially after militants began firing longer-range Katyusha rockets at Ashkelon, a city of 120,000 people.</p>
<p>But Israeli officials have spoken publicly of the heavy loss of life such a campaign could cause on both sides. Two Israeli soldiers were killed in fighting with Gaza militants on Saturday.</p>
<p>Across the Gaza Strip, families erected traditional mourning tents for the dead. In southern Israel, people went about their everyday lives, poised to rush for shelter at the sound of alarms that activate about 15 seconds before a rocket hits.</p>
<p>The offensive has taken Israeli troops deeper into the Gaza Strip and in larger numbers than at any time since Israel pulled troops and settlers out of the territory in 2005, 38 years after its capture.</p>
<p>Turkey condemns Israeli attacks in Gaza</p>
<p>Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan yesterday accused Israel of using “disproportionate force” in its attacks in the Gaza Strip that have killed over 100 Palestinians in two days. Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said in a speech that the attacks are killing “children and civilians” and that they can have “no humanitarian justification.” Turkey is Israel’s closest ally in the Muslim world and has offered to mediate for Middle East peace. But Erdoğan said Sunday that Israel was rejecting a “diplomatic” solution to the dispute.</td>
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<pubDate>Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:51:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Focus on Israel</dc:creator>
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<p align="justify">La Jihad Islamica si è dotata di un nuovo missile con gittata di 22 chilometri in grado di colpire la città israeliana di Ashkelon a partire dal nord della striscia di Gaza. Lo ha annunciato domenica l’organizzazione terroristica palestinese.</p>
<p align="justify">Nel frattempo, la stessa organizzazione ha confermato che i suoi tre uomini uccisi sabato notte in un raid delle forze aeree israeliane a Gaza erano effettivamente in procinto di lanciare missili Qassam su Israele.</p>
<p align="justify">La ripresa dei raid aerei anti-terrorismo è avvenuta dopo che sei Qassam palestinesi si sono abbattuti nel fine settimana sul territorio israeliano. Nella sola giornata di giovedì i Qassam lanciati dalla striscia di Gaza erano stati 28.</p>
<p align="justify">Secondo ufficiali della difesa israeliana, è probabile che i terroristi della Jihad Islamica colpiti nell’ultimo raid appartenessero alla cellula responsabile del lancio che ha causato il ferimento dei fratelli Twito a Sderot il 9 febbraio scorso. Osher Twito, di 8 anni, ha perduto una gamba nell’incidente.</p>
<p align="justify">Il raid di sabato scorso è stato il primo condotto dalle Forze di Difesa israeliane dopo il 6 marzo, giorno in cui era stato abbattuto un terrorista individuato presso una rampa di lancio per Qassam, e fa seguito a una settimana di voci circa un presunto accordo di cessate il fuoco con Hamas, peraltro sempre smentito dalle autorità israeliane.</p>
<p align="justify">Sempre sabato, soldati israeliani hanno anche scoperto ordigni esplosivi piazzati da terroristi palestinesi lungo la barriera di confine fra Israele e striscia di Gaza.</p>
<p align="justify">Venerdì per la prima volta un elicottero israeliano è stato colpito sopra Gaza dai colpi di una mitragliera anti-aerea. Leggermente danneggiato, l’elicottero è atterrato in una vicina base delle forze aeree israeliane. Secondo fonti militari israeliane, Hamas è riuscita a introdurre dal Sinai nella striscia di Gaza armi anti-aeree e missili da spalla. Essa inoltre disporrebbe di diverse mitragliatrici russe KPV da 14,5 mm. Lo stesso Abu Obeida, portavoce delle Brigate Izzadin Kassam, ala militare di Hamas, ha parlato di “un importante progresso per la lotta armata palestinese”.</p>
<p>(<em>Da: Jerusalem Post, 16.03.08</em>)</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israele.net/articles.php?id=2040">Vittime innocenti del terrorismo</a>  </p>
<p><a href="http://www.israele.net/articles.php?id=2042">Israele.net</a></p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Dani Dechter</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Phagolum Ltd. is developing a diagnostic toolkit to detect sepsis, the leading cause of death in non]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://businessisrael.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/kit.jpg" title="kit.jpg"><img src="http://businessisrael.wordpress.com/files/2008/03/kit.jpg" alt="kit.jpg" align="right" /></a>Phagolum Ltd. is developing a diagnostic toolkit to detect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sepsis#Definition_of_sepsis">sepsis</a>, the leading cause of death in non-coronary ICU patients and the tenth most common cause of death overall.  According to medical literature, "sepsis is characterized by a whole-body inflammatory state caused by infection" and is "broadly defined as the presence of various pus-forming and other pathogenic organisms, or their toxins, in the blood or tissues."</p>
<p>Ashkelon Technological Industries (<a href="http://d495152.sk26.skytech.co.il/">ATI</a>), a tech incubator focused on healthcare and cleantech, will invest $2 million in the medical device start-up which was essentially borne out of research carried out at the <a href="http://www.matimop.org.il/newrdinf/company/c2817.htm">National Institute for Biotechnology</a> at Ben Gurion University.  According to <a href="http://globes-online.com/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000321226&#38;fid=942">Globes</a> "The diagnostic kit will enable the identification of the different sepsis stages, including early detection and will also be able to identify the cause of infection. The kit will contain biological reagents and proprietary software that will analyze the recorded data."</p>
<p>More broadly, Phagolum is a fiber optic-based sensor that may be adapted to many potential applications, but mainly to medical diagnosis and prognosis including early detection.  Get more info on the technology <a href="http://209.85.135.104/search?q=cache:FagtxfhYx5IJ:cmsprod.bgu.ac.il/NR/rdonlyres/A4031DB9-B1C0-4353-AAD6-2CCC3125C283/0/5.pdf+phagolum&#38;hl=en&#38;ct=clnk&#38;cd=4&#38;client=firefox-a">here</a>.</p>
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<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:19:29 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Abu Zaynab</dc:creator>
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This is actually something that I had no idea of. The Zionists, according to their own words (this ]]></description>
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<p><em>This is actually something that I had no idea of. The Zionists, according to their own words (this article is taken from the famous Zionist newspaper Haaretz) destroyed a shrine of Imam Hussayn in Palestine. This shrine is said to have held the head of Imam Hussayn, the master of the martyrs (a). This is just another reason to despise this political party. May the curse of Allah be upon the murderers of Hussayn in the past and the present.</em></p>
<p>History Erased</p>
<p>By Meron Rapoport</p>
<p> In July 1950, Majdal - today Ashkelon - was still a mixed town. About 3,000 Palestinians lived there in a closed, fenced-off ghetto, next to the recently arrived Jewish residents. Before the 1948 war, Majdal had been a commercial and administrative center with a population of 12,000. It also had religious importance: nearby, amid the ruins of ancient Ashkelon, stood Mash'had Nabi Hussein, an 11th-century structure where, according to tradition, the head of Hussein Bin Ali, the grandson of the Prophet Muhammad, was interred; his death in Karbala, Iraq, marked the onset of therift between Shi'ites and Sunnis.</p>
<p>Muslim pilgrims, both Shi'ite and Sunni,would visit the site. But after July 1950, there was nothing left for themto visit: that's when the Israel Defense Forces blew up Mash'had Nabi Hussein. This was not the only Muslim holy place destroyed after Israel's War ofIndependence. According to a book by Dr. Meron Benvenisti, of the 160mosques in the Palestinian villages incorporated into Israel under thearmistice agreements, fewer than 40 are still standing. What is unusualabout the case of Mash'had Nabi Hussein is that the demolition isdocumented, and direct responsibility was taken by none other than the GOC Southern Command at the time, an officer named Moshe Dayan. The documentation shows that the holy site was blown up deliberately, as part of a broader operation that included at least two additional mosques, one in Yavneh and the other in Ashdod.</p>
<p>A member of the establishment is responsible for the documentation Shmuel Yeivin, then the director of the Department of Antiquities, the forerunnerof the present-day Antiquities Authority. Yeivin, as noted by Raz Kletter, an archaeologist who has studied the first two decades of archaeology in Israel, was neither a political activist nor a champion for Arab rights. AsKletter explains, he was simply a scientist, a disciple of the Britishschool and a member of the Mandate government's Department of Antiquitieswho believed that ancient sites and holy places needed to be preserved,whether they were sacred to Jews, Christians or Muslims. In line with his convictions, he fired off letters of protest and was considered a nudnik bythe IDF.</p>
<p>"I received a report that not long ago, the army blew up the big building inthe ruins of Ashkelon, which is known by the name of Maqam al-Nabi Hussein and is a holy site for the Muslim community," Yeivin wrote on July 24, 1950,to Lieutenant Colonel Yaakov Patt, the head of the department for special missions in the Defense Ministry, and sent a copy to chief of staff YigaelYadin and other senior officers. "That building was still standing during my last visit to the site, on June 10 - in other words, the army authorities found no reason to demolish it from the conquest until the middle of 1950. Ifind it hard to imagine the site was blown up due to infiltrators, as theyhave not stopped infiltrating the area during this entire period."</p>
<p>The detonation, by the way, was extremely successful. Of the ancient and holy site, not so much as a stone remained. Yeivin's complaint was seemingly related to procedural matters, but only seemingly. The army, he wrote, needed to understand that there were "sanctified buildings," and if it wanted to touch them, "it is proper,honest and courteous first to talk to the institutions that supervise theseareas and buildings, and to consult with them in order to find ways to avoiddestruction." But that is not happening, Yeivin stated. "I was told that simultaneously, the mosque in the abandoned village of Ashdod was blown up," Yeivin added.</p>
<p>Read the full article: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/878851.html</p>
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<pubDate>Tue, 11 Mar 2008 16:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>What actually happened in the murder scene itself has been described in great detail by Israel National News website.<!--more--></p>
<p>begin quote here</p>
<p><em>The attacker entered the yeshiva and opened fire on students before he was gunned down himself by a part-time yeshiva student, aided by an off-duty army officer from the neighborhood. The attack began in the seminary's library with the terrorist spraying bullets in every direction before anyone could react. </em></p>
<p><em>The part-time yeshiva student who first shot the terrorist, 40-year-old Yitzchak Dadon, said he was in the Yeshiva's study hall when he heard the shots.  "Everyone left through a side door," he said, "and I left through a window, and lied down on a roof overlooking the library... When he came out, I shot him in the head twice.  I saw him start to stagger, and then David Shapira [a yeshiva graduate and paratroopers officer] arrived on the scene, shot him with his M-16 rifle, and then we emptied our magazines into him."</em></p>
<p><em>Dadon later told Arutz-7, "It was terribly frustrating feeling, knowing he was in there shooting, but I could do nothing but wait for him to come out so that I could shoot him... While waiting, I could see some boys in a side room in the library turn off the lights and barricade their door - and though he tried, he was unable to come into the room and gun them all down."</em></p>
<p><em>end quote here</em></p>
<p>The account which Dadon was giving to the Media was not just telling <strong>what</strong> happened but <strong>how and why</strong>it happened. He was going behind and beyond the event to incriminate the false political programme of the traitors of Labour and Kadima, and others such as Oz, who have refused to defend the Israeli people against Fascism. He continues:</p>
<p><em>begin quote here</em></p>
<p><em><strong>State-Run Radio Leaves Dadon Out of Report<br />
</strong>Dadon was interviewed on various television and radio channels and told his story.  When describing what the terrorist was wearing, Dadon emphasized that he was armed with a Kalachnikov rifle that was given him by "our President Peres and by the Olmert government."  The interviewers invariably tried to cut him off.  Later, the official news report by government-run Israel Radio left him out of its reports, announcing only, "An IDF officer who lives near the Yeshiva heard the shots, came to the scene and shot the terrorist to death."  That report still appeared on its internet site late Friday morning.</em></p>
<p><em>end quote here</em></p>
<p>The reason for this closing down of the truth by the Government and the Media is pretty obvious. The Israeli state is ruled by a reactionary political element which is based on the idea that, if you are nice to Fascists, they will respond to your kindness and be nice back to you. It is also ruled by a similar political element which is hostile to Jewish nationalism, and since the Jewish religion is interconnected and interlaced with Jewish nationalism, it is hostile as well to Judaism.</p>
<p> Remember the nature of this school which was chosen by the Fascists for attack:</p>
<p><em>begin quote here</em></p>
<p><em>The Merkaz HaRav Yeshiva is located near the entrance to Jerusalem, in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood. The yeshiva, founded by Rabbi Avraham Yitzchak Kook, is at the heart of the national-religious movement in Israel.</em></p>
<p><em>end quote here</em></p>
<p>This is also why no matter how many times the Fascists attack Israel like this these reactionary forces will deep within themselves blame the Jews even though they are part of the Jewish people themselves...in other words it is a definite ideology with its own false logic and momentum. The real reason for this reactionary ideology is, rather more than Jewish self hatred promoted by world antisemitism, the role of Stalinism and social democracy in the founding of the state of Israel itself.</p>
<p>Hence the immediate reaction of this Israeli ruling class to the attack, close down the discussion, a Stalinist and Labourist reaction, proved thousands of times throughout history, and not just limited to the Jews and Israel.</p>
<p>This very full report of the murders  with graphic pictures can be seen on</p>
<p><a href="http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125487">http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125487</a></p>
<p>So after these murders where does this leave the Jews of Israel? This is a major question and needs to be answered in the most concrete manner.</p>
<p>On Israpundit a regular commenter called "Yamit82" wrote from Israel</p>
<p><em>start quote here</em></p>
<p><em>Had it not been for a part-time student armed with a gun, and a nearby resident who, as an IDF officer was trained to know the difference between Purim firecrackers and real gunshots, the attacker might well have murdered many others. Thank G-d for the Jewish warriors who were as competent with a physical weapon as they are in Torah study.</em></p>
<p><em>Even though there was a tip to police of an imminent attack on the capital was not enough to prevent it from happening is frightening, because the comfortable thought that “forewarned is forearmed” has now been debunked. This tragedy occurred because there were assumptions made by some of the authorities that the terrorist would come from outside the area of attack. Security checkpoints hastily placed in a tight ring around the city were wasted; the terrorist came from within the circle.</em></p>
<p><em><strong>It was an “inside job”<br />
</strong><br />
The terrorist was a 25-year-old Israeli Arab citizen, complete with an Israeli ID card (teudat zehut), a resident of a neighborhood in the eastern section of the capital, who had driven children and adults back and forth from schools in the city - including the yeshiva. He was known and trusted. And therefore not suspect.</em></p>
<p><em>Many Palestinian Authority Arabs and Israeli Arabs work for and together with Jews in this country and there are still some Jews who have not yet learned to hate. Now the question is: Which of their friends and workers can be trusted, truly?"</em></p>
<p><em>end quote here</em></p>
<p><a href="http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=462#comments">http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=462#comments</a></p>
<p>Let me go back to the period of the late 30s and the political positions which Leon Trotsky was taking up concerning the Jews, and the whole general danger coming from the Nazis. Trotsky spelled out in unmistakable terms that the Jews had to get out of the killing fields of Europe (this was long before the Holocasut started) and had to make their way to Palestine, where he asserted that they had to create <strong>their own space which was free from antisemitism.</strong></p>
<p>Taking that and taking the comment of Yamit82 above it is clear that there has been a break in the logic of that clear position somewhere along the line and it behoves us to ask where did the break happen. Yamit is describing the danger as coming from <strong><em>within</em></strong>, that is from Jew Hatred from <strong><em>within</em></strong> that space (Israel) that Trotsky said <strong>the Jews should make their own and within which they must be safe free from antisemitism.</strong></p>
<p>The serious break down of logic is shown clearly when we compare what Trotsky asserted Jews must do, with what they actually<strong> did</strong>do, when the leadership of Ben Gurion and Weizman came to setting up the Jewish state of Israel. It was not in the event actually exactly a Jewish state, that is a state for the Jews and devoted to Jewish safety, at all.</p>
<p>begin quote here</p>
<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><em>The State of Israel … will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture;</em></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>end quote here</span></font></p>
<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><a href="http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/murder-of-jewish-students-2/#more-102">http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/08/murder-of-jewish-students-2/#more-102</a></span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>You will notice in the above they wheel the "prophets" in on their side but it opens up the suicidal idea that all in the Jewish state, no matter who they are, will have equal political rights. It is worth going back to the political formulations of the League of Nations Mandate in San Remo in 1922 and you will find that even the international jurists in that body did not do this, they only went as far as giving minorities social rights, not political rights.</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span>For the purposes of our enquiry here we will now repeat a quote from the last article on this site, which deals with the Israeli Arabs, and the political forces which are acting upon them. This quote deals with how different Israeli Arabs reacted to the murders of the students:</span></font></p>
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<p style="margin:0;" class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman"><span><em>start quote here</em></span></font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman"><span><em>Last Friday, hundreds visited a traditional Muslim mourning tent in Jerusalem’s Jabel Mukaber neighborhood to pay their respects to the family. The tent was adorned by hundreds of posters of the dead man’s face. It also was also decorated with Hizbullah and Hamas banners.</em></p>
<p><em>The tent was erected to honor Alaa Abu D’heim. In a scene taken from a Russian pogrom, Thursday night D’heim entered Mercaz Harav Yeshiva and massacred eight boys and young men as they studied Torah.</em></p>
<p><strong><em>D’heim’s family did not fear retribution from their fellow Arabs. His neighbors did not demonstrate against his crime. The Israeli Arab leadership did not credibly condemn it.</em></strong></p>
<p><em>Yet the lack of protests did not necessarily mean that his crime is supported by all Arabs in Israel. Sunday night, Channel 2’s Suleiman Ashafi interviewed a young man outside the tent who said, “If I had known that he was planning to attack people, that he was planning to carry out a terrorist attack, I would have shot him in the head myself.” <strong>The young man, like the Beduin soldier’s family, requested not to be named. He used his hand to hide his face from the camera. He too, was intimidated. He too feared he would be attacked for voicing his condemnation of D’heim and his implied support for Israel.</strong></em></p>
<p><em>WHAT IS going on in Israeli Arab society? <strong>What are the implications of the tangible fear among those Arabs who support Israel and the unabashed willingness of the Israeli Arab leadership to defend the likes of Hamas, Fatah and D’heim in their terror war against Israel?</strong>Is Israel’s Arab minority - which comprises 20 percent of the population - lost? In the 1996 electoral campaign which pitted Binyamin Netanyahu against Shimon Peres, Netanyahu appointed former foreign and defense minister Moshe Arens to run the party’s campaign for the Arab vote. Arens succeeded in bringing the Likud candidate five percent of the overall Arab vote. His labors were credited with bringing victory to the party in that photo-finish race.</em></p>
<p><em>In the aftermath of Thursday’s massacre, Arens warns that it is wrong to view Israeli Arabs as a monolithic block. Indeed they are an ethnically and religiously diverse population.</em></p>
<p><em>end quote here</em></p>
<p><a href="http://4international.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/beduin-familywe-all-serve-in-the-idf/#more-105"><em>http://4international.wordpress</em>.com/2008/03/11/beduin-familywe-all-serve-in-the-idf/#more-105</a></p>
<p>So there is a small minority of Israeli Arabs who are in support of Israel, and who are opposed to antisemitism, and thus to these murders. So then what is the revolutionary socialist answer to this conundrum, on which the whole future of Israel and the lives of millions of Jews, and probably as well many Arabs, is going to be fought upon. Actually the pointer is there once again in the political positions mentioned above of Leon Trotsky and we will come to that in the next article of this series.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[El Director político del Ministerio de Defensa de Israel, el General retirado Amos Gilad anunció a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>El Director político del Ministerio de Defensa de Israel, el General retirado Amos Gilad anunció a Egipto que su país solicita un período de prueba de 30 días antes de aceptar oficialmente un acuerdo de cese de fuego con Hamas en Gaza.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">La noticia fué publicada por el diario árabe Al Quds el Arabi pero pocas horas despues, los palestinos dispararon un cohete Grad sobre la ciudad de Ashkelon, que no causó daños ni víctimas.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Fuentes egipcias dijeron que el enviado israelí condicionó la aceptación del acuerdo a la interrupcción total del disparo de cohetes y de la excavación de túneles para el contrabando de armas y explosivos.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El Presidente palestino Mahmud Abbas se mantiene en contacto contínuo con los funcionarios de El Cairo para asegurarse que la tranquilidad a ser alcanzada incluya a la Ribera Occidental, controlada por él y sus copartidarios de Al Fatah.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Abbas confirmó que Israel y Hamas habrían alcanzado un acuerdo de no violencia, con la intermediación egipcia aunque aún no hay arreglo respecto a la reapertura de los pasos fronterizos de Gaza a Israel y a Egipto.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El Ministro israelí Ami Ayalon, apoya un acuerdo de "tranquilidad", o cese de fuego.<span>  </span>"Necesitamos alcanzar la tranquilidad ante todo para que no haya heridos en Sderot, Ashkelon y los alrededores pero además y no menos importante, es que debemos alcanzar una situación en la cual podamos avanzar en un proceso diplomático con los palestinos con quienes ssí hablamos, sin que séa interrumpido cada dos días por el terrorismo desde Gaza".</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Un portavoz de Hamas, Fauzi Barum, negó la existencia de un acuerdo.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">El cohete que hizo impacto éste Martes en Ashkelon, pocas horas después de que la ciudad fuera visitada por el Primer Ministro Ehud Olmert, podría poner fin a cuatro días de calma, que siguieron al ataque terrorista contra un seminario rabínico en Jerusalén, en el que fueron asesinados ocho alumnos israelies.</p>
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<description><![CDATA[I GP:s ledare När ges freden en chans? (080303) ställs frågan:

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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left"><strong>I GP:s ledare</strong> <a href="http://www.gp.se/gp/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=122&#38;a=405313&#38;ref=puff">När ges freden en chans?</a> (080303) ställs frågan:</p>
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<blockquote><p>Men var finns proportionerna mellan det våld israeler utsätts för och den hämnd Israel levererar med stridsvagnar, attackplan och stridshelikoptrar?</p></blockquote>
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<p align="left">som verkar vara retorisk - man kan utgå ifrån att dessa proportioner är i obalans. Men frågan är vilken israelisk aktion skulle få bifall i GP? <!--more--><strong></strong></p>
<p align="left"><strong>De palestinska attackerna</strong> är tydligen helt acceptabla eftersom GP konstaterar att "Den palestinska raketbeskjutningen av israeliska civila måste också fördömas", men säger ingenting om att den måste upphöra.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Har Israel överhuvudtaget</strong> rätt till självförsvar? Ordet "hämnd" som används för tankar till den bibliska talionprincipen: "Öga för öga, tand för tand". Skall den tillämpas? Vad skulle den innebära i praktiken? Har GP något bra svar?</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Vad är "proportionerligt"</strong> när man betänker att sedan Hamas tog över Gaza besköts israeliska städer och byar med nära 1700 raketer och projektiler av olika slag. Under de senaste dagarna, innan den israeliska aktionen i lördags, attackerades Israel med mer än 40 raketer per dag bland dessa mycket kraftiga och farliga raketer "Grad" från Syrien och Iran som nu hotar nära 250 000 människor bl.a. i Ashkelon med 130 000 invånare - en stad som är betydligt mera sårbar än Sderot som har levt med raketattackerna under flera år. Vad är ett "proportionerligt" svar på den rädsla som upplevs av hundratusentals barn och vuxna utsatta för daglig terror och hot?</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Om "Gaza</strong> är världens största fängelse med 1,5 miljoner palestinska interner" som GP påstår, så är Hamas-medlemmar fångvaktare i detta. Det finns säkert många palestinier som anser att Hamas med sitt mål att utplåna både staten Israel och dess invånare hotar också deras existens. Hamas beskjuter Israel från bostadsområden, skolor och fotbollsplan, vilket är den verkliga anledningen varför civila hamnar i korseld och dör när Israel besvarar attackerna. Det är Hamas som är problemet.</p>
<p align="left"><strong>Om GP </strong>har ett recept på "Hur man botar en terrorist?" och tvingar denne att samtala i stället för att döda, så vore det önskvärt om man kunde läsa om detta på GP:s spalter. Om däremot GP:s ledarredaktion inte ser några tecken på att Israel vill "möjliggöra den suveräna palestinska stat som är en förutsättning för fred" så betyder det bara att den journalist som skrev ledaren är mycket dåligt informerad.</p>
<p align="left"><em><strong>Red./J.B.</strong></em></p>
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