October 2004 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Sunday, October 31, 2004

Terror has touched one in five Israeli Jews

JERUSALEM - A huge percentage of Israel’s citizens unparalleled in any other nation on earth are forced to live with the pain and grief produced by unrelenting Islamic terrorism, a study conducted at Haifa University has revealed. One out of every five Israeli Jews has lost a loved one to the current “Palestinian” terrorist campaign, according to the survey. That is the equivalent of approximately 60 million American victims of terror. In addition,...

Arafat said to have lost mental capacity

His aides knew he was losing it when he started shouting out that he supported Bush for President.- EoZ Senior Palestinian Authority sources say Chairman Yasser Arafat has lost some of his mental capacities and cannot function. Some doubt that he will be capable of resuming his position as PA leader, even if his health recovers to some extent. In Paris, where Arafat is hospitalized, Palestinian sources said initial tests on the 75 year old leader...

BBC Reporter Cries for Yassir Arafat, Her Hero

An absolutely unbelievable display or journalistic bias. -EoZ By Barbara Plett BBC correspondent, West Bank The world watches the unfolding drama as the man who has become the symbol for Palestinian nationalism seems to hover between life and death. Though full of uncertainties, Mr Arafat's life has been one of sheer dedication and resilience. To be honest, the coverage of Yasser Arafat's illness and departure from Palestine was a real grind....

Mohamed A Dura Affair Proven a Hoax

by Stéphane Juffa. Original article in French Background September 30, 2000: a France 2 news report filed by Talal Abu Rahma with a voice-over commentary by Charles Enderlin purports to show the fatal shooting of a Palestinian child, Mohamed A Dura, and the wounding of his father Jamal by Israeli gunfire. France 2 distributed the report free of charge to world media. The accusation against the IDF was based solely on the testimony of France 2...

Utah County sheriffs get security tips in Israel

One day, more advanced equipment will be available to first responders throughout the nation with help from input by sheriffs and their personnel who recently returned from a trip to Israel, Utah County Sheriff Jim Tracy says. Tracy and sheriff's Sgt. Skip Curtis spent one week in September, with more than three dozen other sheriffs and their personnel, traveling throughout a nation that regularly sees the tragedies of terrorism. The trip, sponsored...

French Jewish families demand Arafat interrogation

PARIS, Oct 29 (AFP) - The relatives of six French citizens killed in Palestinian attacks in Israel several years ago have called for French authorities to question Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat while he receives treatment in Paris for a serious medical condition. A lawyer for the families, Michel Calvo, told AFP that they were going to ask France's top anti-terrorist investigating magistrate, Jean-Louis Bruguiere, to interrogate Arafat 'as soon...

Hamas terrorist killed in Qalkilya

Ibrahim Mohamad Issa was responsible for the recent suicide bombing at the security fence near Qalkilya. Ibrahim Mohamad Faid Issa, 47 year old Hamas terrorist, was known to be an expert bomb maker who manufactured and distributed explosive devices. These explosive devices were used by various terrorist organizations in the area of Qalkilya, including for use in attacks in the vicinity of the security fence in the Qalkilya area. 19 explosive devices...

The Depth of Arafat's Corruption

Arafat's Swiss Bank Account by Issam Abu Issa Yasir Arafat and the Palestinian Authority are known internationally for the violence between Israelis and Palestinians. As ruinous as that violence has been, another cancer permeates Arafat's administration; its name is corruption. From firsthand experience, I understand just how deep it is. Here is what I know. From Optimism to Dismay On July 1, 1994, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman,...

Palestinian TV: Kids Puppet Calls for AK-47 Massacre

A talking animal on a Palestinian children's television show has advocated starting a massacre with AK-47 firearms. The violent suggestion came in response to a question from a child moderator on the program, which runs on official Palestinian TV, reported Palestinian Media Watch. The recently aired episode was dedicated to the importance of trees. The moderator asked...

Syrian is named as mastermind of Madrid attacks

MADRID A Syrian jailed since 2001 and thought to be a major operative for Al Qaeda was identified as the prime mover behind the March 11 terror attacks in Madrid, a high-ranking intelligence official has told the Spanish Parliament. . While Spanish officials have named several different men as possible masterminds over the past few months, the remarks Monday about the Syrian, Imad Eddin Barakat Yarkas, also known as Abu Dahdah, represent the clearest...

Hamas hails Gaza pullout vote as a "big victory"

Spokesman Mushir Al-Masri told Reuters, 'The approval today of the Sharon plan to withdraw from the Gaza Strip is a big achievement of the Palestinian people and the resistance, which alone has pushed the Zionist enemy to think of leaving Gaza...

Group discloses secret Iranian nuke effort

PARIS — The Iranian opposition group that exposed the nation's covert nuclear weapons program two years ago said yesterday that supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has ordered the effort to continue in secret. The opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), also disclosed the existence of what it said is a new uranium enrichment facility in central Iran that is nearing completion. Speaking to reporters in Paris...

Withdrawal from Gaza stopped: A thought-provoking satire

Withdrawal From Gaza Halted in Its Tracks. Although, the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza – the largest deportation of Jews from their homes since Poland 1944 – passed a legislative hurdle in today’s Knesset vote, it has not begun or been definitively approved and may yet be subject to a nationwide referendum. The whole process, though, may have just been stopped in its tracks. In a press conference held at the Dome of the Rock immediately following...

French Jews flock to buy Israeli apartments

An Israeli apartment fair by leading contractors in Paris last week has posted an unprecedented success. The companies told 'Globes' that they had sold scores of apartments during the fair, and were negotiating the sale of scores more. Thousands of French Jews filled the fair's hall at the Maison Israel-France in downtown Paris, with buyers lining up outside companies' sales offices. Ashdar said it had sold eight apartments, mostly in Ashdod, and...

Israel using armed drones in Gaza

Israel has been deploying "killer" pilotless aircraft in its battle against Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip and used one Sunday to kill two militants, Palestinian officials said. Hamas leader Nizar Rayyan claimed that unidentified UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) had fired missiles during the "Days of Repentance" military operation in the northern Gaza Strip against Kassam rocket squads. Rayyan, who fought alongside Hamas gunmen in the...

Israeli companies tout security gear at conference in Washington

Chemical-detecting cameras and imaging gear that instantly can map out an area of nuclear contamination will be among the goods offered at an extraordinary trade conference in Washington this week. Sixty top Israeli security-related companies will be displaying their latest technology for American companies and agencies responsible for patrolling U.S. borders and protecting against terrorist threats. Some of the most exciting equipment is...

Palestinian Led Sinai Blasts, Egypt Says

This explanation seems a bit convenient for the Egyptian government, no? A disgruntled individual manages to put together three simultaneous bombs within a couple of weeks (classic Al-Qaeda methodology), and he accidentally dies? -EoZ CAIRO, Oct. 25 - A disgruntled Palestinian who worked as a driver and was bent on killing as many Israeli tourists as possible organized the bombings of three resort areas along the eastern Sinai coast that left 34...

Canada Refuses to Cut UNRWA Funding

The Canadian government has announced that it will continue to fund the work of UNRWA (the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees) despite an admission earlier this month by the organization’s commissioner-general that members of the Hamas terrorist group were employed by his agency. “Canada has no plans to discontinue its contributions”, Canadian foreign affairs spokesman Marie Christine Lilkoff told the Canadian Jewish News in its latest...

The Hypocrisy of Hanan Ashrawi

PLO English spokesman Ashrawi: "Peace with justice is a real determining factor of our lives." PA TV sermon: "The Muslims will kill the Jews and rejoice" While PA Chairman Yasser Arafat's chief English spokesperson, Hanan Ashrawi, speaks of peace and human rights, the Palestinian Authority television station broadcasts the opposite message to the Arab residents. Video footage released yesterday of Dr. Ashrawi addressing an overseas audience...

MDA sends equipment to Haiti

Medical equipment for treating victims of Hurricane Jeanne in Haiti has been shipped to the city of Gunayev by Magen David Adom in cooperation with the Health Ministry. A few weeks ago, thousands of Haitians died or were declared missing in Gunayev, the country's third largest city, which was completely destroyed. The social and economic situation in Haiti in the wake of the hurricane has been declared a disaster. MDA board chairman Yohanan Gur...

Jordanian protestors: 'Oh, Kassam, don't let any Jew sleep,'

About 700 Jordanians staged a short but noisy protest in the capital city Friday against US presence in Iraq and IDF operations in the Palestinian territories. 'Oh, Kassam, don't let any Jew sleep,' the protesters chanted, referring to the homemade Kassam rockets that Palestinians have fired from the Gaza Strip into Israel. The demonstrators marched about 500 meters from the downtown al-Husseini Mosque to Amman's city hall, where they dispersed...

What exactly is the political benefit of a Gaza pullout again?

Study: Israel legally occupying Gaza, even after pullout By The Associated Press Even after Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip, it will still be considered under international law as the occupying power and be held responsible for the crowded territory, according to an internal government assessment made public Sunday. Under Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's disengagement plan, Israel is scheduled to withdraw next year from the entire Gaza Strip...

Yahoo! News - Iran rejects European demands over nuclear standoff

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran rejected European demands that it halt all uranium enrichment activities and described a proposal aimed at ending Tehran's nuclear standoff with the international community as 'unbalanced.' 'The European proposal is their preliminary proposition and is not definitive but it is unbalanced,' foreign ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi said. Iran is also refusing to suspend indefinitely work on enriching uranium, part of the nuclear...

Solana: Gaza pullout only the first step

Israel’s withdrawal from the Gaza Strip should be the first step in a wider pullout from Palestinian territories, the European Union’s foreign policy chief Javier Solana said in an interview with a German magazine to be published on Monday. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon “wants to begin (to follow the international peace plan known as the roadmap) with a withdrawal from the Gaza Strip,” Solana told Der Spiegel. “But he must also commit to making...

Nasrallah: Hizballah Seeking Stronger Weapons

מנהיג החיזבאללה, שייח' חסן נסראללה, ממשיך לשגר איומים לכיוונה של ישראל. הפעם מאיים נסראללה בהשגת נשק מתוחכם ורב עוצמה. העיתון הלבנוני "אל-מוסתקבל" מדווח כי בארוחה לרגל סיום הצום, שנערכה בעיירה אל-ע'בריירי בלבנון, אמר מנהיג החיזבאללה: "במצב הנוכחי, ההתנגדות (שם קוד לארגון חיזבאללה - א"ע) צריכה להיות חזקה מבעבר, ואם יש אפשרות להשיג נשק חזק יותר, יש להשיג אותו מכיוון שהאינטרס הלאומי מחייב את זה". נסראללה ביקש להרגיע את שאר העדות בלבנון מפני הנשק...

Gaza terror groups thought to have anti-aircraft missiles

Palestinian terror organizations in the Gaza Strip may have anti-aircraft missiles in their possession, possibly Russian Strela (SA-7) missiles, the security establishment warned Sunday. For some years the Palestinians have tried to smuggle anti-aircraft missiles from Egypt through tunnels. However, until now no reliable intelligence confirmed the existence of the missiles. A senior military official told Haaretz Sunday that the security establishment...

Saudis Screw 500,000 Palestinians, no one cares

A Million Expatriates to Benefit From New Citizenship Law P.K. Abdul Ghafour, Arab News JEDDAH, 21 October 2004 — Expatriates of all nationalities are entitled to apply for Saudi citizenship and their travels abroad with re-entry visas will not disqualify them, press reports said yesterday quoting senior officials. Nasser ibn Hamad Al-Hanaya, undersecretary for civil status at the Interior Ministry, said the executive bylaw for the Kingdom’s amended...

Arafat ill: Debka analysis

23 October: While both Palestinian and Israeli official sources are playing down Yasser Arafat’s state of health – dismissing its deterioration as a bout of flu – DEBKAfile’s political and Palestinian sources disclose that his medical advisers want him to undergo surgery to remove gall bladder stones without delay. This would mean flying him to a hospital outside the West Bank after three years of being confined to Ramallah The nearest hospital...

Adult Israelis seen as `targets' by Canadian Muslim leader

The president of the Canadian Islamic Congress is under fire for saying all Israelis above the age of 18 are legitimate targets of attack. Mohamed Elmasry made the comments Tuesday on the Michael Coren Live TV show and was criticized yesterday by the Canadian Jewish Congress. When asked whether 'anyone over the age of 18 in Israel is a valid target,' Elmasry replied: 'Anybody above 18 is part of the (Israeli) army.' The show's moderator followed...

Reports Conflict on Arafat's Health

Three Tunisian doctors were headed to Arafat's Ramallah (search) headquarters, where the 75-year-old Palestinian leader has been confined since after the second intifada began four years ago. 'The president is in good health. He is suffering from a cold,' a Tunisian representative was quoted as saying in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. 'There is nothing to worry about.' But sources told FOX News the Palestinian Liberation Organization (search) leader's...

BBC Photo Essay of Suicide Bomber Victim in Israel

Elad Wafa lives in Netanya, Israel. He is 27 years old and was born in Ethiopia. On the afternoon of 19 May 2002, a Palestinian suicide bomber let off his explosives near the vegetable stall where Elad worked. Elad suffered severe injuries and is now paralysed from the lower back downward...

Louisiana buys $5m worth of Israel Bonds

The Louisiana Department of the Treasury has purchased $5 million in State of Israel bonds (Israel Bonds) 'to diversify investments and develop economic ties between the State of Louisiana and the State of Israel,' according to a Treasury statement from Baton Rouge. This is the first time that Louisiana has bought Israel Bonds. 'This is a win-win situation for Louisiana and Israel,' said Louisiana State Treasurer John Kennedy. 'Israel is the only...

Israel cultivates Nobel laureates, Arabs cultivate suicide bombers

By Farid Ghadry The writer is president of the U.S.-based Reform Party of Syria. The news this week that two Israeli scientists, in addition to an American, won the Nobel Prize in chemistry, should be read with interest in the Arab world. This win says a lot about the state of affairs of the Middle East. While Israel builds its future with Nobel laureates, the Arab world fills its future with suicide bombers. Ever since the inception of the...