Woman in Labor Survives PA Lynch Attempt

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PA terrorists attempted to lynch a Jewish couple as
they rushed to the hospital on Yom Kippur with the
wife in labor.

Maayana Miskin

Palestinian Authority terrorists continued their attacks on innocent Jewish motorists over Yom Kippur, this time attacking a woman in labor and her husband as they rushed to the hospital. The husband, Ariel Goldman of Pnei Kedem, told Arutz Sheva that the two were lucky to escape with their lives.

Their ordeal began near Har Homa at 2:30 a.m., as they drove to Hadassah Ein Karem hospital in Jerusalem. Suddenly, they encountered a point in the road that had been blocked by large stones.

As Goldman slowed the car, looking for a way around the trap, several Palestinian Authority terrorists jumped out and began to hurl rocks at the car.

The attack turned into a game of cat and mouse, as Goldman looked for ways around the rocks and tried to keep moving, while the terrorists followed the car and continued to pelt it with heavy stones, using a tactic that recently resulted in two deaths near Hevron.

The terrorists “had murder in their eyes,” Goldman said.

He finally managed to pass the stone barrier and speed away from the group of attackers, only to encounter a second group that attempted to stone the car near the Jerusalem neighborhood of Talpiot. Goldman managed to speed away a second time.

A policewoman he later encountered appeared uninterested by his story, but promised to notify her superiors, he said.

Ariel Goldman and his wife managed to reach the hospital, where she gave birth to a baby boy. Both the baby and mother are in good condition.

Israeli police storm Temple Mount

Ryan Jones

Israeli security forces stormed Jerusalem's Temple Mount on Friday after Muslims there began hurling stones at Jews praying at the Western Wall below.

Non-lethal crowd control methods were used to disperse the dozens of Muslim rioters, and three young Arabs were arrested for taking a leading role in the violence.

No Jews were injured by the dozens of stones that were thrown down from the top of the Temple Mount.

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Evil Zionists pretending Psalms were written by Jews!

 

From Palestinian Media Watch:

As part of the continuing Palestinian denial of Jewish history in Jerusalem, a Palestinian researcher and specialist on Jerusalem has claimed that the well-known verse of the Hebrew psalm, "If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill," is not a Jewish source at all. He said that the words were uttered by a Christian Crusader, and have only recently been "borrowed" by Jews and "falsified in the name of Zionism."

The verse is in fact from Psalm 137 of the Hebrew Bible, which opens with the words: "By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." The psalm mourns the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonian army in 586 BCE, is part of Jewish tradition and liturgy and has appeared in Jewish sources for thousands of years.

Palestinian Media Watch has documented the Palestinian Authority policy of denying Israel's history as the basis for its denial of Israel's right to exist. The PA often denies the existence of the Temple in Jerusalem, calling it "the alleged Temple."

The following are the words of Palestinian researcher Dr. Hayel Sanduqa on PA TV, claiming that the Hebrew Bible's psalm was actually first said by a Crusader:


"[The Israelis] have acted to change Jerusalem's character. Even the expression (Psalm 137:5) 'If I forget thee, oh Jerusalem, may my right hand forget its skill. May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth, if I do not remember thee.'

This statement, said by the Frankish [Crusader] ruler of Acre shortly before he left, was borrowed by the Zionist movement, which falsified it in the name of Zionism."

PA praises Obama decision not to move embassy to Jlem

http://www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=223585

 

By KHALED ABU TOAMEH 

Abu Rudaineh: Notification that embassy to remain in TA "affirms that the world and the US don’t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel."

 

The Palestinian Authority on Saturday welcomed as “encouraging” US President Barack Obama’s decision not to move the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

Obama on Friday invoked US national security interests to notify Congress that he will not move the embassy to Jerusalem.

Obama’s notification did not include a commitment to moving the embassy at some point in the future, unlike his predecessors, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, who did suggest that this may be a possibility.

Nabil Abu Rudaineh, spokesman for the PA, said that Obama’s decision affirms that the world and the US don’t recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.

Abu Rudaineh added that the decision indicates that the world recognizes that east Jerusalem has been occupied since 1967 and that the city would be the capital of Palestine “in the context of a two-state solution.”

Tensions rise on streets of Jerusalem

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/tabid/178/nid/22812/language/en-US/Default.aspx

Ryan Jones

 

As they have every year for the past 44 years, Israeli Jews on Wednesday marched through the streets of central Jerusalem waving Israeli flags and celebrating the reunification of their ancient capital.

The path of the annual parade takes marchers through or near to several Arab-dominated neighborhoods, as it closely follows the partition line that divided Jerusalem from 1948-1967.

But most years the parade is a peaceful exercise, and the celebrating Jews and local Arabs rarely clash in any significant way.

This year was different.

With the international community increasingly backing Arab demands regarding future control of Jerusalem, tensions were high on Wednesday as the estimated 40,000 Israelis made their way toward and through Jerusalem's Old City.

Those local Arabs who support eastern Jerusalem becoming the capital of a Palestinian state (and not all of them do) saw the Israeli march as a statement that the Jewish state has no intention of meeting Arab demands.

At least one local Arab described the march as a "provocation," ignoring the fact that Jews have been praying for 2,000 years for their return to Jerusalem.

While violence was kept to a minimum thanks to a large police force, there were three injuries as groups of Israeli Jews and Arabs clashed. At least 24 people were arrested.

In some areas, Arab counter-demonstrators were joined by leftist Israeli Jews who support surrendering Jerusalem to the Palestinian Authority.

The Netanyahu-Abbas Exchange That Explains Why There’s No Peace, Who’s Responsible, and What Obama Doesn’t Understand

 

by Barry Rubin

“We cannot negotiate with those who say, ‘What’s mine is mine and what’s yours is negotiable.’” — President John Fitzgerald Kennedy

You can read for yourselves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to the U.S. Congress. Both on regional issues and the Israeli-Palestinian question he was quite clear. His speech was vastly superior to those by Obama not just because of the policy content but because he deals with regional realities that the president ignores or just gets completely wrong.

But what I want to talk about here is a remarkable juxtaposition that no one else seems to have noticed. If you understand this article, you can understand all of the problems of the Middle East. If you don’t, please go mess up the lives of people elsewhere.

To set up this point I must first quote extensively from Netanyahu’s speech. He said:

This is the land of our forefathers, the Land of Israel, to which Abraham brought the idea of one God, where David set out to confront Goliath, and where Isaiah saw a vision of eternal peace. No distortion of history can deny the four thousand year old bond, between the Jewish people and the Jewish land.

But there is another truth: The Palestinians share this small land with us. We seek a peace in which they will be neither Israel’s subjects nor its citizens. They should enjoy a national life of dignity as a free, viable and independent people in their own state. They should enjoy a prosperous economy, where their creativity and initiative can flourish.

So this is a classic Western — indeed a classic liberal Western — formulation. We have our rights but we also respect your rights. Let’s find a win-win situation that benefits everyone.
Netanyahu added:

They [the Palestinians] were simply unwilling to end the conflict. And I regret to say this: They continue to educate their children to hate. They continue to name public squares after terrorists. And worst of all, they continue to perpetuate the fantasy that Israel will one day be flooded by the descendants of Palestinian refugees.

In a moment, watch Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas prove Netanyahu’s first sentence to be true.

My friends, this must come to an end. President Abbas must do what I have done. I stood before my people, and I told you it wasn’t easy for me, and I said… “I will accept a Palestinian state.” It is time for President Abbas to stand before his people and say… “I will accept a Jewish state.”

Remember that challenge.

Those six words will change history. They will make clear to the Palestinians that this conflict must come to an end. That they are not building a state to continue the conflict with Israel, but to end it. They will convince the people of Israel that they have a true partner for peace. With such a partner, the people of Israel will be prepared to make a far reaching compromise. I will be prepared to make a far reaching compromise.

In other words, once the Palestinians really acknowledge — which they have not done — the Jewish connection to the land, Israel will know they are a partner for peace and make more compromises.
Now, here’s the part nobody noticed. Abbas answered Netanyahu!

In a major speech for “Nakba Day,” that is the Palestinian day of mourning that Israel was ever created in the first place, Abbas said:

We say to him [Netanyahu], when he claims — that they [Jews] have a historical right dating back to 3000 years [BC] — we say that the nation of Palestine upon the land of Canaan had a 7000 year history [BC]. This is the truth, which must be understood and we have to note it, in order to say: “Netanyahu, you are incidental in history. We are the people of history. We are the owners of history.”

Do you understand?

Netanyahu said: We have rights; you have rights. We recognize yours and when you recognize ours we can have peace. Your refusal to recognize our rights — to demand total victory for yourself (which means Israel’s disappearance) — makes peace impossible.

And here is how Abbas (whose name cannot appear in the American media without the word “moderate” being attached to him) answered:

Well, we don’t recognize that you have any rights. All the rights belong to us! You are just a passing breeze that will become extinct and you are of no importance.

So that’s the bottom line. Even in the year 2011 — as happened in the year 1948 — even a relative moderate like Abbas simply cannot bring himself to say in Arabic: “Let’s share this land in a two-state solution.”

Ironically, Netanyahu is taking a liberal and flexible position while Abbas is taking a reactionary, imperialistic stance. Talk about accepting the “other”!

And yet not a single professor in any university class, not a single journalist or expert in the mass media will raise or even report that point. President Obama won’t pick up on it to chide the Palestinians. Nobody will start calling Netanyahu moderate and peace-seeking while saying that Abbas is extremist and peace-rejecting.

Nevertheless, what simpler and more graphic example could anyone want?

Now you know why peace is impossible. It isn’t because Israel won’t go back to the 1967 borders. It’s because the Palestinian leadership still believes and tells its people that Israel has no right to exist.

PS: Abbas’s history is of course rubbish. There is no connection between ancient Canaanites — who don’t go back anywhere near that far — and modern Arabs. Since the Canaanites weren’t Muslims, Abbas is acting as a pure opportunist since no Arab nation accepts such pre-Islamic connections any way.

But I love that phrase he said, “We are the owners of history.” In other words, we can make up any lie we want and to Hell with the consequences.

The Jewish Temple? Never existed in Jerusalem!

Did we miss a chance to have our own state in 1947? Never happened!

Is it crazy to go on fighting for decades hoping to destroy Israel rather than make a compromise peace now? No alternative. Israel doesn’t want peace.

Abbas has told us everything we need to know about who doesn’t want peace. And here’s the reality of the Palestinian Authority position (not to mention that of its partner, Hamas): if you can’t have peace without accepting Israel’s permanent existence then it is better not to have peace at all.




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Wilders: Jordan is Palestine

 

Wilders is right. There is no ethnic difference between Jordanians and Palestinians. In fact, there was no Palestinian nationality before the 1960s, when it was invented in order to reposition what was then universally known as the Arab/Israeli conflict. Up to the invention of "Palestinians," the Israelis were the tiny, besieged people amidst a huge number of hostile Arabs; after that invention, the "Palestinians" themselves became the tiny, besieged people against the big, bad Israelis.

Don't believe me? Fine. Maybe you'll believe PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein, who said this in 1977:

The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

It was a canny propaganda move, and it worked. Bravo to Wilders for calling the Jordanians (and "Palestinians") back to the truth. "Geert Wilders: Change Jordan's name to Palestine," by Roee Nahmias for Ynet News, June 20:

Geert Wilders, who leads the right-wing Party for Freedom (PVV) in Holland, said last week he believes Jordan should be renamed Palestine. The Jordanian government responded by saying Wilders' speech was reminiscent of the Israeli right wing. "Jordan is Palestine," said Wilders, who heads the third-largest party in Holland. "Changing its name to Palestine will end the conflict in the Middle East and provide the Palestinians with an alternate homeland."

Wilders added that Israel deserved a special status in the Dutch government because it was fighting for Jerusalem in its name.
"If Jerusalem falls into the hands of the Muslims, Athens and Rome will be next. Thus, Jerusalem is the main front protecting the West. It is not a conflict over territory but rather an ideological battle, between the mentality of the liberated West and the ideology of Islamic barbarism," he said.

"There has been an independent Palestinian state since 1946, and it is the kingdom of Jordan." Wilders also called on the Dutch government to refer to Jordan as Palestine and move its embassy to Jerusalem.

The Saudi Al-Watan carried Jordan's response to Wilders' speech. The kingdom's embassy in Hague was outraged, and said the Dutch ambassador would soon be summoned to explain.

Jordan's minister for media affairs and communications, Nabil Al Sharif, asked for clarifications. He described Wilders' declaration as "an echo of the voice of the Israeli Right" and "crows' screams".

"Jordan is an independent and secure country which supports the Palestinian issue, and these imaginings of finding them an alternate homeland are nothing but the delusions of a few people," he said....

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/06/wilders-jordan-is-palestine.html

Hamas: Unity does not mean we take on Fatah's platform

 

 

BEIRUT, Lebanon (Ma'an) -- In an interview with the Lebanese newspaper Al-Akhbar, senior Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahhar set out the compromises the party was willing to make for a unity deal with Fatah, and made clear that unity would not change the party's platform.

"Reconciliation does not mean Hamas has changed its agenda," the leader was quoted as saying in the Tuesday report, adding that nor was Fatah bending its own goals to those of Hamas when it signed the document.

Unity would simply set out the framework for a functioning governance structure, Zahhar said, adding that the platforms of each party would be determined by Palestinians, and would be put to the test at the ballot box when elections are called.

In 2006, Zahhar said, "Fatah did not accept the outcome" of the elections, and cautioned against a similar reaction to the results of the vote expected to take place in 2012.

The paper asked if Hamas feared the coming popular vote, prompting the Hamas hardliner to answer:

"We wanted to protect elections from expected fraud. The parliamentary elections in 1996 were completely counterfeit and everybody knew it. Some elected candidates were brought down the next day and later on they were shot.

"We have a thousand pieces of evidence that show the presidential elections of 2005 should also be suspect, while local elections in the same year which Hamas won were righteous, though somehow Fatah managed to throw them out through judiciary committees.

"Thus, we want the [newly formed] Central Elections Committee to be able to have the final word, and there should be consensus over this committee."

The Gaza-based Hamas leader said that while the movement's leader in exile Khalid Mash’al had agreed to give the PA time to negotiate with Israel, he was "speaking on his own," in a decision that had more to do with the unity deal than with Hamas' political position.

Zahhar said the issue was being "seriously reviewed," hinting that Mash'al was out of touch with the priorities of Hamas supporters in the West Bank and Gaza.

Asked if he was hinting that Mash'al should return to Gaza, Zahhar said he made no such intimation, but offered that he believed all those who wished to return to the coastal enclave should do so, including Fatah supporters so long as they were not "involved in the crimes of 2007," he said, referring to the infighting that cemented the division between the factions and led to separate governments in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

Unity deal came when it was time

While other Hamas officials have said clearly that changes in the region prompted the signing of the unity documents, prompting speculation that an unwelcome Syria was pushing Hamas out, Zahhar denied the allegations, saying it was ousted Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak who prevented the unity deal.

Zahhar said Mubarak's regime had refused to meet with Hamas leaders in the 14 months following Fatah's signing of the 2009 papers, despite Hamas insistence that changes would have to be made before they would agree.

"Abu Mazin [President Mahmoud Abbas] impeded reconciliation when he refused to build the central election committee and the higher security committee by consensus," Zahhar added.

"When the negotiations pool dried out and its content evaporated," Zahhar said of what he hinted was a farcical unity process, "they [Fatah and Egypt] accepted Hamas’ suggestions."

The amendments Hamas sought to make to the deal, Zahhar said, were to "fortify reconciliation through consensus rather than giving Abu Mazin an opportunity to jeopardize the process."

Officials from Hamas and Fatah are currently in Cairo, where delegates are cobbling together a transitional government of technocrats, setting out a government platform, creating a mutually-acceptable Central Elections Committee and a mandate for the preparation of a vote by March 2012. Progress has thus far been slow, but Fatah officials Tuesday said the process is being carried out with trust and care, and is on schedule.

The delegates are also set to form a plan for the reintegration of security service in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. Zahhar said that for the mean time, "the status quo will continue," estimating that it would last for approximately one year.

Following the lag period, Zahhar said the technocrat government's minister of interior would coordinate between both sides, and help form a higher security committee.

"We will not allow the return of [the PA] preventive security and its notorious leaders, and I advise them in public to avoid coming to both Gaza and the West Bank. That is much better for them," Zahhar warned.

September move at UN 'misleading'

"The September entitlement [the PLO move to seek state recognition at the UN this year] is misleading; such terminology has been used before and it was a waste of time and effort," he said of the Arabic catchphrase Isthiqaq Ayloul (September entitlement) which underlines the stance that Palestinians will go to the UN seeking recognition of the state they are entitled to.

"Suppose all the UN member countries agreed on a Palestinian state, the result will be zero. In 1988, Yasser Arafat got 100 countries to recognize the state he announced. On which land will this state will be built?" he told the daily.

"He [Abbas] is talking about the 1967 borders with land swaps. This will eventually mean the Al-Aqsa Mosque will go, and who is ready to accept that? It is not about swapping land on 1:1 basis. No Muslim or Christian will agree to swap Jerusalem no matter how small it is area is," Zahhar added.

 

 

 

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=390646

 

Six holy words

By Badrya Darwish

As usual, Mr Netanyahu did not bring anything new - it's true that I waited to hear his speech, only for him to reiterate what he has been saying for the past few years. What surprised me was not Netanyahu's attitude and his thoughts. We know Netanyahu is an extremist Zionist. We were not expecting anything from him. It was the way the US Congress received him. It was like a theatre. The minute he walked in, they all stood up and kept clapping for five minutes. I have never seen such applause even for an American president - Obama or anyone else. The US Congress even exceeded the applause game of the Syrian parliament when Bashar Al-Assad gave a speech there last month. I had criticized it and mocked it then. I apologize.

Then they gave Netanyahu the chance to speak. When he got on the podium, there was another round of applause. For a moment I thought he was addressing the Knesset, and not the US Congress. Then I told myself, be patient. Listen to the man. The minute he uttered a word, the Congress stood up for more applause. I was confused - did this man liberate America? Is he coming back home as a war hero? This standing ovation was repeated every time the homecoming hero opened his mouth.

So at the end of the day, there were only a few things that Netanyahu could mention. He wants Abbas to say the six holy words - "I will accept a Jewish state". If the whole world approves this theory, this means they did not occupy Palestine. There will be no Palestine anymore. This also means they will kick out the more than a million Israeli Arabs (those who did not leave when Israel was created in 1948). Plus, every Jew in the world, whether Filipino, Indian, Chinese, Brazilian, Moroccan etc etc, can cl
aim Palestine as their homeland, ironically, except the Palestinians themselves. This will be the worst apartheid crime in history if the world approves Netanyahu's demands.

Leave alone that he did not agree on the return of refugees - nearly five million of them scattered all over the world. In some Arab countries, they are not naturalized and only carry a travel document that is not accepted in most embassies. So they are stuck in refugee camps like animals in a zoo.

By the way, he also insists Jerusalem is the capital of his apartheid Jewish state. What about the other two major religious sites - the Aqsa Mosque of the Muslims and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre of the Christians? If every country is formed on the basis of religion, imagine how many more communities would start claiming a state of their own - for instance Hindus, Buddhists, Sikhs, Zoroastrians, etc. Imagine if all Muslims in the world start claiming Saudi Arabia as their country? And this is the case
with all other religions.

Sorry Mr Netanyahu. Your great theory doesn't pass in modern history. Maybe three or four thousand years back, you could have built countries based on religions.

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Palestinians mourn Osama bin Laden, rebuke Obama

 

Tuesday, May 03, 2011 | Ryan Jones

International media outlets suggest that Osama bin Laden's star had been on the wane across the Muslim world in recent years. But there is one place that was not true - amongst the Palestinian Arabs, where the Al Qaeda leader still enjoyed relatively high approval ratings.

A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 38 percent of Palestinian Muslims supported bin Laden. Some Jerusalem Arabs demonstrated that support on Monday evening when they gathered to mourn bin Laden's assassination by American forces.

Dozens of Arabs from the Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan gathered for an evening vigil punctuated with rock attacks on Israeli police officers stationed nearby.

The Arab neighborhoods of Jerusalem were the scene of mass Arab celebrations following the successful Al Qaeda attacks on America on September 11, 2001.

In Gaza, Hamas harshly condemned the killing of bin Laden. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh referred to bin Laden as a "modest man and a Muslim warrior."


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Arabs Riot in Jerusalem Over Bin Laden's Demise, Hamas Angry

by Hillel Fendel

While most of the free world praised the United States for having rid it of arch-terrorist Bin Laden, the Hamas organization - which has recently all but merged with Fatah, headed by Mahmoud Abbas - condemned the act.

Similarly, Arabs in the village of Silwan, adjacent to the City of David neighborhood in Jerusalem, rioted Monday night in protest over the elimination of Osama Bin Laden. The rioters threw stones at police and attempted to block roads.

The Gaza-based website Al Qassam reports that Gaza leader Ismail Haniyeh, the head of the local Hamas chapter that runs Gaza, told reporters on Monday that Bin Laden was an "Arab holy warrior."

Meeting with journalists in his office in Gaza City, Haniyeh said, "If this news [of Bin Laden's killing] is true, then this means that it is part of the American policy based on the oppression and bloodshed in the Muslim and Arab world."


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