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Kadima Faces Task of Forming CoalitionWed, 29 Mar 2006 05:13 am PST AP - After declaring victory in Israel's elections, acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's Kadima Party said Wednesday it would quickly form a broad ruling coalition that will carry out its plan to pull out of much of the West Bank and draw Israel's borders by 2010. Full Story

Olmert wins Israeli election, building coalitionWed, 29 Mar 2006 05:28 am PST Reuters - Interim Prime Minister Ehud Olmert began building a coalition on Wednesday after winning Israel's election on plans to impose final borders with the Palestinians by uprooting many West Bank settlements. Full Story

Israel's Likud licks wounds after election meltdownWed, 29 Mar 2006 12:58 am PST AFP - Israel's right-wing Likud party, the dominant political force for decades, was licking its wounds after suffering the most humiliating election defeat in its history. Full Story

Hamas: Israeli Policies Remain HostileWed, 29 Mar 2006 05:49 am PST AP - The militant group Hamas on Wednesday dismissed Israel's election results as another face of Israeli policy designed to eliminate the Palestinian issue, while other Arabs warned the Jewish state about taking unilateral action. Full Story

Olmert holds the reins
Israel's next government is to be formed by a 60-year old lawyer named Ehud Olmert, a one-time hardliner who has risen from relative obscurity. more

For Hamas' political bureau chief Khaled Mashaal "Israeli parties are all alike. I believe that the Zionist vision, particularly that of the three main Israeli parties - Kadima, Avoda and Likud - is hostile towards Palestinian rights" he said.

The Day After: Today, a senior Israeli politican told me that no one is happy by the results of this election. Well Kadima is certainly not celebrating a less than expected victory. Read this article from a pro-Kadima newspaper.As might be expected there is...(read more)
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● The Morning After: Well I told you so. Israel's pollsters got it wrong again. No one predicted Kadima getting under 32 mandates (it seems they got 28); Shas is well above all predictions; Likud is well below, and a new pensioners party is the...(read more)
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● Election Day: Reports indicate that voter turnout at midday is 2 percent lower than it was last election.Having just retruned from a stroll in Tel Aviv I can attest to the fact that there appears to be no urgency surrounding this election....(read more)
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● Israel's Election Day: If the accuracy of the weather prediction for today is any indication of the results of today's election look out for some surprises. This morning was supposed to be rainy but the sun is shining in Tel Aviv. Surprises continued...(read more)
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● Is This A sign of Kadima's Future?: Tel Aviv. Today, along with reports that Kadima is continuing to slip at the polls, Israeli television is filled with images of Kadima Minister Tzipi Livni being escorted out of an open market where she was met wth jeers and...(read more)
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● The State Department Fails to Condem the Critics of Christains: The reaction of Under Secretary of State Nicholas Burns to the plight of the Afghan who converted from Islam to Christianity should be read.Mr. Burns fails to condemn the reprehensible actions of the Afghan and Muslim communities (threatening to execute...(read more)
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● Brzezinski Returns: Today, I happened across an interview with Jimmy Carter's former National Security Adviser, Zbigniew Brzezinski.As usual Brzezinski was criticizing the Bush Administration for the war in Iraq and the maltreatment of Islam. He took sharp exception to use of terms...(read more)
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● Israel's Elections: Acting in tandem with Israel's left-wing press, Ehud Olmert is publicly forming his cabinet ahead of the election.Yesterday, Olmert declared that no one can enter his government if they do not support his plans for future unilateral pull-outs that will displace...(read more)


Israel's New Leader, Ehud Olmert
Michael D. Evans
Many Americans know that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was incapacitated by a stroke nearly four months ago, but they have no clear picture of the man who was his Number 2, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. He is the man who now leads Sharon’s Kadima Party, and who now leads Israel.
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IDF Tightens Security Restrictions After Suicide Bombing
The IDF increased security measures in the West Bank on Friday after a suicide bomber exploded himself near the settlement of Kedumim on Thursday, killing four Israelis. The Aksa Martyrs' Brigades took responsibility for the attack. (Jerusalem Post)
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The Indoctrination of Hatred Begins at an Early Age
The brief video is a 3-1/2 year old child being questioned about the Jews.
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Today Tehran, Tomorrow the World - Charles Krauthammer
Iran's arriving at the threshold of nuclear weaponry is a signal historical moment. It is not just that its president says crazy things about the Holocaust. It is that he is a fervent believer in the imminent reappearance of the 12th Imam, Shi'ism's version of the Messiah. (Time)
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Hamas Set for Clash with Abbas over $1.4B Investment Fund - Harvey Morris
The new Hamas government may be headed for an early showdown with PA Chairman Abbas over control of the $1 billion-plus Palestine Investment Fund (PIF) that could be tapped to help fend off a looming financial crisis.(Financial Times)
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America, the Global Target - Jim Hoagland
In radical Islamic propaganda, the U.S. has graduated from being a mere Great Satan to being depicted as a global monster responsible for virtually every crime and failing since the dawn of modern history. Meet the new Jews: the Americans. (Washington Post)
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Saddam Planned to Deploy "Camels of Mass Destruction" - James Langton
Saddam Hussein planned to use "camels of mass destruction" as weapons to defend Iraq…The animals were part of a plan to arm and equip foreign insurgents drawn up by Saddam shortly before the American-led invasion. (Sunday Telegraph-UK)
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Hamas leader: 'I dream of a map without Israel'

JNW HEADLINE NEWSState fosters settler mistrustWhen next evacuation comes, chances for bloodshed are highIncredibly, the current Israeli leadership seems to be purposely fostering mistrust between the state and Israeli settlers in Judea and Samaria, making the likelihood of bloodshed the next time Prime Minister Ehud Olmert moves to uproot a Jewish community dangerously high.
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JNW HEADLINE NEWSJew-free Gaza births humanitarian crisisUN predictably tries to blame Israel for situationTheir mighty claims of self-reliance notwithstanding, the Palestinian Arabs have failed to turn a Gaza Strip cleansed of all Jews into a source of national pride and prosperity, and are instead, according to United Nations aid workers, on the verge of birthing a full-blown humanitarian crisis there.
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COMMENTARY - ZIONIST.COMIsrael has tried to be generousBut no amount of land will ever assuage its enemiesHamas appears to be the only party seeing things clearly when it says: Peace means the elimination of Israel.
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Renowned King Fahd University Professor Active in the U.S.: America Will Be Dissipated to Nothing; Israel Must Be Destroyed

Israel Fires Missiles Into Abbas' CompoundTue, 04 Apr 2006 05:26 am PDT AP - Israeli warplanes fired three missiles into the presidential compound of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday, wounding two people and leaving deep craters in the ground. Abbas was not there at the time. Full Story

Israel: Doctor, 4 brothers arrested for murder of sister in 'honor killing'
Digital Terrorism and Hate 2006 will be available for purchase in May 2006 at www.wiesenthal.com.
Father Samuel OZDEMIR : Tomorrow’s Nazism is Islam
Israelis ponder a land swapWed, 05 Apr 2006 01:00 am PDTThe Christian Science Monitor - Nabil Saad's roadside restaurant "Hilmi," or "My Dream," attracts hungry travelers - Arabs and Jews alike - who are passing through this Arab town inside Israel. Full Story

Legitimizing Hams: Reports that the United States Government and the government of Ehud Olmert are making moves to assist the Hamas led Palestinian government are growing more frequent.The United States has lifted its total ban on dealing with Hamas while Israel is...(read more)
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● Olmert and Hamas: On the same day that the Hamas Foreign Minister declared that Hamas did not support a two-state solution to the Israel - Palestinian controversy - it sees one state of Palestine that replaces the Jewish State - Ehud Olmert declared that...(read more)
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● Peretz, Defense Minister?: The Israeli press is claiming that Ehud Olmert the leader of Kadima has offered Amir Peretz the leader of Labor the Defense Ministry in an attempt to put together a governing coalition. The fact that this offer has been made...(read more)
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● Listen With Both Ears: In a story that has been relegated to back-page news, the Palestinian Foreign Minister, Mahmoud al-Zahar, said in an interview with the Chinese News Agency that he dreams of hanging a map of the world on which Israel does not appear, a map...(read more)
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● Christians United for Israel: John Hagee is an evagelical Christian leader who dearly loves and supports Israel. Now he is using his considerable energy and influence to form a pro-Israel lobbying group in the United States. The organization, expecting to launch in July will...(read more)
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● Israel's Internal "Turmoil"?: Rather than clarify the direction Israel will take the recent elections seems to have muddled the political waters. This journal predicted that the elcetion outcome did not provide a mandate for political change. On election night, Olmert and Kadima declared...(read more)
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● Labor Takes Exception To Kadima: Watching the movement to try and build a coalition is a good way to see the problems Olmert and Kadima will have if they end up governing.Today, Labor is lecturing Kadima on how this election was not about disengagement but...(read more)
Israel steps up shelling, kills one PalestinianSun, 09 Apr 2006 03:29 am PDT Reuters - Israel shelled two Palestinian security posts in northern Gaza on Sunday, killing one person and wounding 15 as the army kept up its heaviest strikes on the strip since Jewish settlers and troops withdrew last year. Full Story
Hamas Hints at Recognition of IsraelFri, 07 Apr 2006 05:44 am PDT AP - Hamas is ready for a "two-state" solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a senior official said Friday, in what would appear to be a softening of Hamas' position and imply recognition of the Jewish state. Full Story
Nazis planned Holocaust for Palestine: historiansFri, 07 Apr 2006 06:47 am PDTReuters - Nazi Germany planned to expand the extermination of Jews beyond the borders of Europe and into British-controlled Palestine during World War Two, two German historians say. Full Story (the only known palestianian people known in Israel in WW2 were the Jewish Palestinians, there were no such thing as arab palestinians then)

Hamas leader: Jews controlling U.S. Christianity

This shows you the lies of Islam....this is the funniest thing I have heard all week!!!!

Muhammad said: "Lying is wrong, *except in three things: the lie of a man to his wife to make her content with him; a lie to an enemy, for **war is deception; or a lie to settle trouble between people" (Ahmad, 6.459. H).

Olmert Formally Chosen to Form GovernmentThu, 06 Apr 2006 05:15 am PDT AP - Israeli President Moshe Katsav formally chose acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert on Thursday to form Israel's next government, and Olmert said he would quickly put together a coalition committed to carrying out his West Bank withdrawal plan. Full Story
Israeli forces detain Palestinian ministerThu, 06 Apr 2006 06:14 am PDT Reuters - Israeli security forces took into custody a member of the new Hamas-led Palestinian cabinet on Thursday at a roadblock on the outskirts of Jerusalem and released him five hours later. Full Story
Israel briefly arrests Palestinian ministerThu, 06 Apr 2006 06:47 am PDT AFP - The Palestinian minister for Jerusalem affairs in the Hamas-led government was briefly arrested by Israeli security on the outskirts of the holy city, Hamas and police sources said. Full Story

Hamas condemns 'hasty' aid cuts The Palestinians' new Hamas prime minister, Ismail Haniya, has attacked the European Union and United States for cutting direct financial aid.

Swedish Chancellor of Justice: Muslim calls for “Death to Jews” are just part of the debate on the Middle East

The Radical Politics of Islamic Fundamentalism


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Al Qaeda's Master Plan
Palestinian Authority's President Abu Mazen's recent interview with the pan-Arabic daily Al Hayat is getting lots of attention. In fact, his recognition of Al Qaeda's presence in Gaza and the West Bank coupled with his warning of the "destruction of the whole region" because of the terrorist entity, is only confirming what Israeli security services have been saying for months: Al Qaeda is fast expanding in the neighborhood.
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Some Say Iran's Weapons Come from Russia
Iran has unveiled with great fanfare a series of what it portrays as sophisticated, homegrown weapons - flying boats and missiles invisible to radar, torpedoes too fast to elude. But experts said Tuesday it appears much of the technology came from Russia and questioned Iran's claims about the weapons' capabilities.
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U.S. Says Saudi Individuals Still Funding Terrorism
Saudi Arabia must do a better job at ferreting out major individual donors who continue to fund terrorism abroad, including in Iraq, Stuart Levey, the Treasury's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence, said Tuesday. "Is money leaving Saudi Arabia to fund terrorism abroad? Yes." "Undoubtedly, some of that money is going to Iraq.
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Homosexuals of the World will Gather in Jerusalem
Following last year’s postponement of WorldPride 2005, lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgenders are regrouping and reorganizing for WorldPride 2006, an international parade in the city of Jerusalem.
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Torah scroll piece passes over from former Nazi officer to 'holy man'
Rabbi Yitzchak Dovid Grossman was sitting yesterday in his home in Migdal Ha'emek and touching, for the umpteenth time, the parchment cut over 60 years ago from a Torah scroll in an Eastern European synagogue. Although the piece of parchment has been in his possession for several days, apparently it is still a source of great excitement for him. This parchment was cut by an officer in the German air force, the Luftwaffe, during World War II, from a Torah scroll; he used it as a cover for his officer's ID document.
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