Elder Of Ziyon - Israel News

Tuesday, September 14, 2004

Shin Bet smashes Hamas terror cell

The Shin Bet security service recently uncovered an eight-member Hamas terror cell operating in the villages of Rantis and Beit Likiya, west of Ramallah.
The cell members, seven of whom were recently taken into custody, were involved in two suicide bombings last September 9 - at the entrance to an army camp at Tzrifin, and at Jerusalem's Cafe Hillel - killing 16 people. Cell members also set off a bomb that killed a female soldier near the old Tel Aviv bus station on July 12.

The cell members include a number of East Jerusalem residents and Palestinians living in Israel, some illegally.

The eighth member and the network's head, Salah Mussa, was arrested last September. He admitted his part in the Jerusalem and Tzrifin attacks, but concealed the existence of others operating under his command, who later carried out the Tel Aviv attack.

Some 30 kilograms of explosives were captured along with the members of the cell.

Over the last few months, the Shin Bet has also arrested nearly 200 Hamas activists in the Hebron area, but the group's leader, Imad Kawasmeh, has not been caught. Security forces believe Kawasmeh is responsible for dispatching the double suicide bombers to Be'er Sheva two weeks ago.

In Nablus yesterday, a Palestinian woman was arrested on suspicion of planning a suicide bombing.

Some of the Hamas members in Hebron were caught with stolen Israel Defense Forces weapons, including the rifle belonging to one of three soldiers killed in an attack at a junction east of Hebron in January 2003. Those arrested were in the initial stages of planning to kidnap Rabbi Moshe Levinger, leader of Hebron's Jewish settlers.

The Hamas cell had been planning a number of suicide attacks in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, which did not take place. The cell's operatives sent a suicide bomber to Jerusalem's Cafe Caffit, but he changed his mind and left the area. Two other terrorists who were to blow themselves up at the same location also changed their minds. Cell members were also responsible for drive-by shootings and the throwing of grenades at cars in the Hebron area in recent months, injuring two Israelis.

Both the Hebron and Ramallah terror cells were in contact with Hamas abroad, particularly with the organization's headquarters in Damascus, headed by Khaled Mashal. The leadership abroad sent money and general directives but did not deal with the specifics of the planned attacks. "

Al Qaeda threatens Turkey over Israel, US ties

ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) — A suspected leader of a Turkish al-Qaeda cell told a court Monday that last year's suicide bombings in Istanbul were part of al-Qaeda's global campaign and warned of more attacks if Turkey continues to support U.S. policies or maintains close ties with Israel.

Defendant Harun Ilhan told the court that he and two other suspected ringleaders who remain at large — Habib Akdas and Gurcan Bac — were behind the November truck bombings that left 61 people dead. Ilhan said most of the 69 suspects charged in the case were not directly involved in the bombings.

"I accept that I am an al-Qaeda warrior," said Ilhan, who opened his testimony with a brief prayer and at times refused to stand during the trial.

Ilhan, a bearded man who wore blue jeans and sports shoes to the hearing, also praised the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and warned that while Osama bin Laden is mortal "jihad (holy war) is eternal."

Jailed Sheik: Kill the Jews

September 13, 2004 -- A blind terrorist sheik was able to issue an order to his militant Islamic followers from prison — calling for the "killing of Jews" everywhere just a year before the Sept. 11 attacks — thanks to help from a Staten Island postal worker, Manhattan jurors were told.

Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman is serving a life sentence for conspiring to blow up city landmarks. He's barred from contacting anyone except his wife and legal team.

But Ahmed Abdel Sattar, the postal worker who also serves as Abdel-Rahman's paralegal, delivered the sheik's chilling fatwa, or edict, to terrorists over the phone and via e-mail, according to calls intercepted by federal authorities. The phone calls were transcribed and viewed by jurors.

Sattar is on trial in Manhattan federal court for participating in terrorist activity. Two other defendants, Abdel-Rahman's radical lawyer, Lynne Stewart, and his interpreter, Mohammed Yousry, are also charged with aiding and abetting terrorist activity by helping smuggle the sheik's messages out of prison. Federal prosecutors said Sattar delivered the sheik's messages directly to terror supporters in Afghanistan and London, and through Arabic and Mideast Web sites, according to the wiretaps.

Sattar, with a copy of the sheik's fatwa in his hand, excitedly tells Yassir Al-Sirri based in London during an Oct. 4, 2000, phone call, "Do you want to listen to it?" Al-Sirri answers yes.

Sattar reads the fatwa: "A statement to the nation, the old and the young . . . calling on the Islamic nation to mandate the killing of Jews wherever they are." The sheik's edict said it is the "duty of every capable Muslim to wage the jihad against them . . . until the Jews are driven to their graves . . . either killing them as individuals or by targeting their interests and their advocates, as much as they can, adding, "assassinate them."

Iraqi National Congress Member Fired for Visiting Israel

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress has fired one of its most senior members for visiting Israel, a spokesman for the group said Monday.

During an emergency meeting, the leadership of the former exile group decided to 'fire Mithal al-Alusi from the Iraqi National Conference,' spokesman Haidar al-Mousawi told The Associated Press.

Al-Alusi's visit to a terrorism conference angered his colleagues, who said they learned about the trip from the media. A part of Chalabi's inner circle, al-Alusi headed the de-Baathification Committee, which fired thousands of members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party from their jobs.

Israel's daily Haaretz quoted al-Alusi as saying that many elements in Iraq are interested in diplomatic ties with Israel.

'His statements, which were carried by the media, do not represent the Iraqi National Congress' point of view,' an INC statement said."

IDF changes definition of 'ticking bomb' to include terrorists training

The IDF has changed the definition of 'ticking bombs' and will now target Palestinian gunmen engaged in terrorist training, military sources have confirmed.

The new definition expands the criteria usually met for staging a targeted interception and indicates improvements in field intelligence.

The missile strike last week by an IAF attack helicopter against a large group of Hamas members in a Gaza Strip field was the first example of this change. Fifteen Hamas terrorists were killed and about a dozen wounded.

While the IDF does not see that strike as a classic 'targeted interception' it acknowledged that the rules have been changed. A senior military source described the decision as one aimed at pre-empting Hamas attacks against Israeli civilians and soldiers at all stages.

Until now, targeted interceptions usually were directed against terrorist group leaders or 'ticking bombs,' indicating that they were already on their way to an attack and their bombs were primed.

A senior IDF commander said that the decision to use the attack helicopter was new, but recalled days when IDF engagements with Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip had much higher body counts.

'We have staged raids in the Gaza Strip where our snipers have killed over a dozen gunmen or we clashed with them and their death tolls have been higher,' said the senior officer. 'Do you think it matters to them if they are killed by a sniper or by a rocket fired from an attack helicopter?'

Another IDF source said that the idea of 'ticking bomb' was expanded to include not only those on their way to an attack, but planning and training for one.

Speaking at a conference on terrorism, National Security Adviser Maj.-Gen. (res.) Giora Eiland revealed that the IDF had four criteria that had to be met to carryout a targeted interception.

The first was that there was no way to arrest the person. He indicated that targeted interceptions were very rarely used in the West Bank, where the IDF pretty much has free reign in the past few years. Eiland also noted that during this time security forces had arrested over 1,500 people.

The second condition, Eiland said, was that the interception would only be approved when the intelligence was completely reliable, and no mistake could be made about the intended target's identity.

Eiland, who was head of the Operations Division during much of the recent conflict with the Palestinians, said the IDF carried out about 150 attempted interceptions in the past four years.

'There was not one single case of mistake in identity. Sometimes we missed or caused damage beyond what we expected. This is a 100 percent record,' said Eiland.

The third condition, he explained, was that the target was 'important enough.' The fourth condition was that it had to be done with the minimum probability of causing innocent casualties.

'There have been dozens, if not hundreds of times that we had good operational opportunity to do something but did not because it did not meet all four conditions,' Eiland said.

Human rights organizations have condemned the practice of targeted killings as extra-judiciary assassinations.

As fare as Eiland saw it, Israel did not have any such policy of targeted killing. He said that was a mistaken perception. The action was related to an increasing level of reliable intelligence, which was able to detect terrorist intentions earlier and earlier."

Senior Iraqi Official in Israel

For the First Time: Senior Iraqi Official in Israel - Smadar Peri (Yediot Ahronot-Hebrew, 13 Sep 04)
Last Friday, Mithal al-Alousi, a senior official in the new Iraqi government in Baghdad, boarded an El Al aircraft in Ankara and flew for the first time in his life to Israel.
Al-Alousi was invited to speak at an international conference of the Anti-Terrorism Institute in Herzliya.
On Sunday he found himself to be the guest of honor at an address by the chief of staff of the Israeli army, Lt.-Gen. Moshe Ya'alon.

PA Paid $2,000 to Father of Dolphinarium Suicide Bomber

On June 1, 2001, Said Hassan Houtari, a Hamas suicide bomber, attacked the Dolphinariuim discotheque in Tel Aviv, killing 21 Israelis, most of them teenagers, and wounding 83.
It has now been disclosed that the Palestinian Authority transferred $2,000 to Houtari's father, who resides in Jordan, on June 18 of that year.
German television reported that Arafat sent the bomber's father a note praising the attack by his son.

Six Egyptian students planned terror attack in Israel

Six Egyptian students from Cairo, who were caught after they crossed the Egyptian border near Nitzana on August 25 carrying 14 knives, black camouflage attire, backpacks, binoculars, communications equipment, and maps of Israel, were indicted today at the Beer Sheva District Court.

According to the charge sheet, the Egyptians planned to kidnap Israeli soldiers in order to negotiate the release of Palestinian security prisoners. The Egyptians also planned to take command of an IDF tank and rob a bank in Mitzpe Ramon, in order to finance future terror attacks.

The students, ages 25 to 30, were arrested after they had made their way some three kilometers into Israel, media sources reported. Originally it was thought that they were members of the Egyptian intelligence services who had been collecting information about IDF security procedures along the Israeli-Egyptian border.

Border Police commander Roni Ohana spoke with ynet of the success of his soldiers in tracking down the Egyptian infiltrators. 'From the moment we identified that a cell had crossed into Israel from the Sinai, we launched a manhunt after them that lasted about six hours until early morning,' Ohana said. Ohana added that the moment the Egyptians were discovered with detailed maps of Israel, he knew that they were not ordinary infiltrators, trying to smuggle tobacco into Israel or find jobs in the country.

'They told us that it was their intention to harm us or any Israeli security force that they came across, and after that civilians,' Ohana said. Ohana said the group planned to kidnap Israeli soldiers and bring them back to Egypt where they would be held in ransom for the release of Palestinian security prisoners.

A senior security official told Maariv that the IDF's constant pressure on the Palestinian terrorist organizations and the relentless search for tunnels in the Rafiah area used by the terrorists to smuggle illegal weaponry into the Gaza Strip had led to efforts by the terrorists to cross the border further south.

'The long Israeli-Egyptian border has become fertile territory for terrorist activities,' the official said.

Last week, the prime minister's counter-terrorism bureau issued a warning to Israeli travelers not to visit the Sinai peninsula due to 'concrete information' about possible terror attacks directed at tourists there. "

Liberal America, Europe Slowly Rebelling Against The Values Required For Civilized Existence (Muslim World Today)

By: Aisha Siddiqa Qureshi
Dear Jews, everywhere, I would like to point out the time bomb likely to explode in your faces. It has already been detonated in France. When it happens in the country you call home, you may be shocked and unprepared, so I present this letter to you as a warning. In it, I will inform you of some basic facts – facts that can never be changed.

1. You are a Jew, whether you like it or not.
It doesn't matter if you change your name. It doesn't matter if you convert. You say you don't think of yourself as Jewish? Perhaps Judaism is just too far beneath your enlightened consciousness. Well tough luck – it's still a part of who you are. I know, I know, this is the modern world.

In America, Jews are first class citizens. But it really is "only in America" where Jews enjoy equal status. Perhaps you have forgotten that with the exception of the United States and Israel, Jews in all other countries suffer the stigma of the outsider. Granted that your personal future looks bright since you overcame your ancestry, however, you mistakenly believe that you are a member of the elite club of secular society.

But, have you ever heard of the Holocaust? A little over 60 years ago, the discovery of one Jewish grandparent in one's family tree was enough to mark that person for the slaughter. That means that Jews living the high life in denial were plucked from their exalted status and plunged into the concentration camps and worse. And in the centuries and decades prior to the Holocaust, was life more secure? At certain periods, indeed it was – or so it seemed – and then, the inevitable fall from grace.

You have become used to being accepted. But, if you forget the stories of your ancestors, you are sure to see them come true in your own lives. Please believe me. Being a Muslim, living under the dark shadows of Islamism, I see, watch and experience every day the reach and depth of anti-Semitism that has taken hostage a whole people. There cannot be a better person than a Muslim to warn you of your misguided sense of liberalism; I live in an environment that is so carefully and skillfully prepared to annihilate Jews.

Note the rising anti-Semitism in Europe and in certain sectors of American society (college campuses, the media, the Presbyterian Church etc.) Just a few weeks ago, 200 French Jews immigrated to Israel, fed up with the rampant persecution by "Muslim toughs," as former New York City Mayor, Edward I. Koch puts it. The country which has pledged "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" since the 1800s once again turned its back on the Jews. "Never again" is the oath the Jewish people have collectively sworn since the horrors of World War II. All freedom loving peoples of the world must actively participate in securing Jewish future to guarantee that this oath holds true. Jews truly are the chosen people – when things in the world go sour, Jews are chosen to pay the penalty.

2. The world has hated and will always hate Jews for one reason
Over the summer a friend of mine attended a lecture in Israel given by Rabbi Eric Coopersmith of Aish Ha Torah, entitled "Why the Jews?" He told me that Rabbi Eric disproved the common misconceptions of why the Jews are always picked on and got to the truth of the matter. It isn't because the Jews supposedly control the world and all the money in it (you don't), or because you killed Jesus (you didn't), or because you just happen to always be the scapegoat. I agree with Rabbi Coopersmith who pointed out that you can only scapegoat a group of people you were already willing to hate. His humorous example was that the Nazis couldn't scapegoat midgets and it's true – it would never work. Whether they realize it or not, people are and have always been willing to hate the Jews for one simple reason: they gave the world the concept of an objective right and wrong.

When the first seeds of Judaism were planted in Abraham, his descendents were required to teach humanity about conscience and morality. In a time of universal barbarism and cruelty, the ancient Hebrews were the first to adopt for themselves the six values essential for civilized existence: the sanctity of life, education, family, social responsibility, equality before the law, and peace (Source: WorldPerfect by Ken Spiro). In my view, the ancient world couldn't forgive you for it and neither could Hitler. In his writings, Hitler clearly said that he is a barbarian who wants to express his primal instincts and Judaism says he can't. For him, not only is the concept of conscience "a Jewish invention; it is a blemish, like circumcision." The infamous Hitler Youth even sang a song with these lyrics:

_We are the joyous Hitler Youth;
_We have no need for Christian virtue.
_Our leader is our savior;
_The pope and rabbi shall be gone.
_We shall be pagans once again.

Hitler also told his people that Providence has ordained that I should be the greatest liberator of humanity. I am freeing man from the restraints of an intelligence that has taken charge, from the dirty and degrading self-mortifications of a false vision known as conscience and morality, and from the demands of a freedom and personal independence which only a very few can bear.
(Visit http://www.aish.com/seminars/whythejews/wtj01000.htm for the full seminar.)

Yes, even though Hitler is Hitler and he was no liberal, the comparison matters because liberal America and Europe are slowly rebelling against the values required for civilized existence. These are the values advanced in the Jewish Bible, specifically the Torah, and summed up in the 10 Commandments. These values were offered – though hardly accepted – to all of humanity through the vehicles of Judaism and Christianity. But, liberals, either through base ignorance or intention, are rejecting those values in word and deed. Example: a deaf lesbian couple genetically engineered two deaf children on purpose! If you don't see what is wrong with that – how selfish and cruel it is for parents to deliberately handicap children they supposedly love and are required to care for – then I've made my point. You have abandoned the notion of objective morality, feeling that it stifles your freedom of action. You have become a barbarian that feels he can do whatever he wants and, like Hitler, is proud of it.

3. You can't have your cake and eat it too. And if you lose your cake, there's nothing to eat.
I really like animals and I really care about the environment. I am also in favor of women's rights. But you know what? None of it matters. "Yes it does matter!" I can hear you thinking. But here's my answer: we have bigger problems! Civilization as we know it is in jeopardy because liberals are so eager to abandon the values on which it rests. They are not willing to support the institutions that safeguard those values. Case in point: radical Islam threatens to subjugate the world and murder, enslave or convert all non-Muslims. Liberals are not even willing to support the institution most necessary for our defense against radical Islam: the military. Instead, they blame America.

To them, America is the immoral bully. Likewise, Israel is another immoral bully that liberals are reluctant to support. But in actuality, Israel has been a victim of Islamist terrorism since the 1920s, long before the state was established. The same terrorism is now being waged worldwide, even against countries, like Saudi Arabia, that sponsor it! Israel is on the front lines of Islamist terrorism and Americans, especially American Jews, should support it. Liberals undercut American efforts and damage the morale of our troops by questioning the war while it is being waged! Some say the war is a mistake, that it is just a pompous show of American imperialism. Others go as far as to claim that we are fighting an enemy of our own invention, denying Saddam Hussein's link to global terrorism, and assuming that just because WMDs have not been discovered yet, they do not exist.

My friends, after 9/11, how can you possibly assert that war against Islamist terrorism is unjustified? Should we trust the terrorist supporters who, in English, deny that they are waging global jihad against the civilized world, yet say it outright in their own language? Liberals would rather trust Saddam than our own president. Israel's fight is civilization's fight and we must support it before the same unremitting terror comes to our own shores. We must show that we are willing to fight and expect to win.

Liberals criticize the United States for not involving the U.N. in its war on terror. But if you care about Israel, why would you want the U.S. to empower an institution that is corrupt, anti-Semitic, and anti-Zionist?

I know a lot of liberal Jews who support Israel. Here's what I say to them – they can just give themselves a big old pat on the back because that's really all they're going to get from anyone. In other words, there's nothing to be gained by voting for Kerry with respect to Israel but I'll tell you what you risk losing: our "cake" – Israel.

As a liberal Jew, you think that by voting as a democrat you will save the earth and all its peaceful creatures, and by some crazy extension, Israel's survival will somehow be guaranteed. You don't believe that war solves anything and neither does your presidential candidate. You and Kerry believe that diplomacy and appeasement will protect Israel, even while its Arab enemies send in suicide bombers to kill civilians, and launch mortar and rocket attacks on schools, synagogues, and hospitals. Right?

Wrong. To quote the guys at Protest Warrior (www.protestwarrior.com) "Except for ending slavery, Fascism, Nazism, and Communism, war has never solved anything!" You may want peace – and believe me, so do I – but do you know who doesn't want peace? Arafat, Saddam, Bin Laden, and all their brainwashed followers – the illiterate as well as the many literate ones – who blame America and Israel for their problems instead of their self-indulgent, sadistic dictators. Okay, they actually do want peace, but all of infidels have to convert to Islam first. That's not going to work for anyone who believes in truth and justice. We can pretend that our enemies share our values and see the world the same way we see it, but the truth still remains – they won't budge from their positions, forcing us to act as appeasers in an ever futile attempt to win their favor.

To paraphrase Daniel Pipes, appeasement doesn't work against ideologically driven opponents. They see it as a show of weakness and hence, a victory for themselves. It didn't work with Nazis and it's not going to work with our enemies of today either. We can't make peace with people who don't want peace. And if they say they want peace, we need to evaluate their actions before we blindly accept their words as gospel, as we have so many times in the past.

Speaking of empty words and promises, don't be duped by the 2004 election propaganda from either party. So when the Kerry-Edwards "Greetings from the Jewish Outreach Team" tells you that John Kerry plans to wean America off its dependence on the Saudis, don't buy it. Don't assume that Kerry's the better candidate believing that he, unlike Bush, is not in bed with the Saudis. Folks, the bed is a lot bigger than you think, and there's plenty of space taken up by Kerry. Sure, George W. Bush is no George Washington but that doesn't automatically make Kerry Abe Lincoln. Translation: we must vote for the lesser of two evils.

The Saudis will be tied up with our government no matter who wins (source: Sleeping with the Devil by Robert Baer), which makes the entire subject of Saudi dependence a non-issue. In the words of Dr. Jack Wheeler, "The American game of life is poker. All of us are in the highest-stakes game of our lives right now and the only way to back out is to leave the table – leave America and move somewhere else. If you're staying put, then you're in the game, and you play the hand you're dealt.

There is absolutely no escaping from this reality: either John Kerry or George Bush will be elected President of the United States this November."

But wait! If you're a Jew, how can you possibly support the religious Right which seeks to convert you? Here's my response. First, I feel much more comfortable supporting a party that is based on JUDEO-Christian VALUES. Look guys – values! Second, they've been trying to convert the Jews for over 2000 years. Has it worked? No it hasn't – you are still here. Third, they may want to convert you, but at least they don't want to slice off our heads and parade around holding our body parts. Your real enemies have done more than just taunt you with their master plan. You have seen the plan and how it works. Why are you not more shaken by that?

So you may love your live minks and your trees and trust me, I'm happy for your diverse, non-discriminating family, but at the end of the day you're still a Jew, remember? And if you've ever taken the time to stroll through history, you'd know that the one thing that makes Jews of today so much more privileged than Jews of the past is the fact that you have a state.

When France, or Germany, or God forbid, America doesn't want you anymore, Israel will take you in. Can you imagine being told you have a matter of days to leave your home and you have nowhere to go? A Jewish friend of mine says, she certainly can't imagine it but her great-grandparents were there. It was a time when there was no Israel and America had already closed her gates – the fact that her grandmother and her parents were admitted to this country is nothing short of miraculous. The rest of their family wasn't so fortunate.

I beg of you, put your vanities aside and for the sake of your children, let's make sure they have somewhere to go. Your real protection is there, in the heart of the Middle East, surrounded by twenty-two Arab nations that all want to devour it. It's there, and it's your, but more often than not, Israel's very existence is dangling by a thread. That was the case in 1948, 1967, 1973, and countless other times, including now – 2004. You have no time to waste. Help let the world know that you are here to stay. With a homeland, your survival is guaranteed; without one, your own lives are also on the line. You can assimilate as much as you want but that doesn't change your inherent Jewish blood and DNA.

The Jew-haters of the world want to eradicate every trace of you. They will not be satisfied by simply watering you down. That was Hitler's belief. Radical Muslim enemies share his goal and are attempting to carry out his plan. Bush understands their end-game. Do you?

Egyptian "Journalists" Reiterate Holocaust Denial on TV

IMRA - Saturday, September 11, 2004 MEMRI: Fmr Egyptian Editor: 'We were Educated from Childhood the Holocaust is a Lie'

On a recent program on Egypt's Al-Mihwar TV, a group of politicians and
journalists discussed the issue of Holocaust denial. The panel included
former newspaper editor Muhammad Al-Zurqani, columnist Abd Al-Qader Yassin,
and author Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad, who recently made news for publishing an
article in the Egyptian government daily Al-Liwaa Al-Islami titled "The Lie
about the Burning of the Jews," which alleged that the annihilation of the
Jews in gas chambers during World War II was a lie invented by Zionists in
order to blackmail the West and to make possible the realization of the
Zionist project.(1) Muhammad Al-Zurqani was the Editor-in-Chief of the paper
at the time that the article was published, and he resigned following the
ensuing controversy. The following is text from the discussion on Egyptian
TV.(2) To view the clip, visit www.memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=229:

Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad, president of Jaffa Research Center in Cairo: "This
article was scientific research, which relied on many European and American
sources concerning this lie, one of the lies upon which the State of Israel
was established - the lie about the burning of the Jews in the Nazis' ovens.
The original intention of the article, its main aim and philosophy, was not
to go into this issue in depth, but rather to use it in order to highlight
the current Holocaust that we are experiencing in Palestine and which does
not cause the West the same pain that it feels about an event that was, at
the very least, falsified or exaggerated."

Sayyd Ali, host: "Or whose truth is in doubt..."

Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad: "Or whose truth has been in doubt for sixty years,
while today a true Holocaust is occurring from Rafah to Jenin, Nablus,
Baghdad, and Nafaj. This is the Holocaust that our nation and our region is
experiencing today, and the West does not pay attention to it and doesn't
feel the same level of pain that it feels concerning the old Holocaust. When
this article was published, the Zionist MEMRI organization in America and
the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which is also Zionist, translated the article
and then disseminated it and sent letters to the American Congress, to the
American Embassy in Cairo and to the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, and other
places."

On the Phone - Muhammad Al-Zurqani, former editor-in-chief of Al-Liwaa
Al-Islami: "I agree with what Dr. Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad wrote and I accept
full responsibility. I think, Dr. Sayyed, that you and I are of the same
generation, colleagues who worked together. We were educated from childhood
that the Holocaust is a big lie."

Sayyd Ali: "Of course."

Abd Al-Qader Yassin, Palestinian politician: "The 'Chosen People'... The
Jews borrowed from Nazism all of its concepts - that they are exceptional
and that they are the best among the nations, exactly as Hitler thought of
the Aryan people. The truth is that in today's world, it is impossible to
speak of race. One can speak of nationalities, but they aren't even a
nation. No, they [the Jews] are a religion."

Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad: "Antisemitism is a new pretext that the Zionist Jews
have used since the '40s to blackmail both the West and the East. They used
this pretext to claim that anyone who says even a single word against the
Zionist enterprise is antisemitic. Semitic means in this case the Jewish
religion and the tribulations and tragedies that the Jews have undergone at
the hands of all humanity, including Hitler.

"In WWII, 18 million Germans were killed. Out of those 18 million, the
million and a half Jews they keep talking about - if they were killed, and I
am only saying for the sake of argument that one and a half million were
killed in this Holocaust - they were killed as a result of the war, and were
not killed by the...

"Of course I did not anticipate [these reactions], and if I had anticipated
them I would have written more. I would have done more to expose this
illusion."

Abd Al-Qader Yassin: "The Holocaust was carried out with the agreement of
the Zionist and the German leaderships. There was a very well-known
agreement between the leadership of the World Zionist Organization and
Hitler. But there is doubt as to the truth of this story. The Transfer
[Agreement]. There is also a book by Farris Glubb, the son of the Irishman
John Bagot Glubb, 'The Star of David and the Swastika.' Also, our brother
Mahmoud Abbas, 'Abu Mazen,' published a book for which he received a
doctorate from the former USSR, about the ties... Let's read the title so as
not to make a mistake... 'The Other Face - The Secret Ties Between Nazism
and Zionism,' published by Ibn Rushd publications in Amman.

"Goldmann met with Mussolini. Jabotinsky met with Mussolini. They published
joint statements which read 'We and you are the same,' fascism and
[Zionism]. If I say these things, which have been proven by books from the
West, from the East, from China and elsewhere, then I'm an antisemite?"

Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad: "The Palestinian prisoners today, who are leading the
Palestinian Intifada in the start of its fifth year, and on an empty
stomach, are suffering in the Palestinian jails [sic] a greater suffering
than what the Jews or others suffered in Nazi prisons. This suffering has
reached such a level that it has been said that all of the experiments
conducted in the Abu Ghraib prison on Iraqi prisoners or in Guantanamo were
first conducted on the Palestinian prisoners, whose numbers reach 8,000, and
among them 300 women and 300 children. Some of them suffered from
experiments that turned their bodies into germ laboratories and turned them
into human guinea pigs."

Sayyd Ali, Host: "Into laboratory mice..."

Rif'at Sayyed Ahmad: "They have made them laboratory mice out of these
heroic prisoners. This is an example of the modern Holocaust that we are now
experiencing. A fresh Holocaust. Where is the West's conscience? I ask where
is Anne Marie, the media advisor in the U.S. Embassy, on this issue? Where
is Bush himself?

"The annihilation of olive trees... In the last two years half a million
olive trees have been annihilated in Palestine. The olive tree is the oldest
and deepest-rooted tree in Palestine. Why are they being annihilated? Is
this not Nazism? Is this not a modern Holocaust?"

On the Phone - Imad Jad, Arabs Against Discrimination: "I believe that these
organizations, and MEMRI in particular, which is one of the most prominent
of those who monitor Arabic publications in this field - by the way, this
organization is composed of officers from Israeli military intelligence and
it is not a research institute. They monitored these two articles and said
that they appeared in a newspaper which represents the Egyptian ruling party
and not in the opposition newspapers. Afterwards, they began making a big
deal and claimed that the article represents what is being written in Egypt
in this field."

Endnotes:
(1) See MEMRI Special Dispatch No. 756, July 30, 2004, "Egypt's Ruling Party
Newspaper: The Holocaust is a Zionist Lie Aimed at Extorting the West,"
www.memri.org/bin/articles.cgi?Page=countries&Area=egypt&ID=SP75604 .
(2) Al-Mihwar TV (Egypt), August 28, 2004.

Hamas: Left-Wing Encouraged Us to Attack

How many lives have left-wing statements cost Israel? In a damning condemnation of the Israeli left, a new book about the battles known as the Oslo War quotes Hamas leaders saying that the behavior of Israel's left-wing encourages them to continue their terrorist attacks.

The book, 'The Seventh War,' by journalists Avi Yisacharov of Voice of Israel Radio and Amos Harel of Haaretz, is based on comprehensive investigations and interviews with Hamas terrorist leaders in Gaza and Israeli prisons.

Yisacharov told Channel 1 Television yesterday that Hamas leaders had told him clearly: 'It was the Israeli left and your peace camp that ultimately encouraged us to continue with our suicide attacks.'

Yisacharov said he was told as follows:
'We tried, through our attacks, to create fragmentation and dissention within Israeli society, and the left-wing's reaction was proof that this was indeed the right approach. When we heard about the 'Pilots' Letter' [written and publicized last year by 27 Israel Air Force pilots who refused to take part in bombing missions against terrorist leaders in Arab towns], and the elite soldiers who refused to serve [in Judea, Samaria and Gaza], it strengthened those in our camp who promoted the idea of suicide bombers...
'The disengagement from Gaza is proof of our victory. The fact is that Sharon is willing to withdraw unconditionally, and is essentially raising a white flag and retreating. Only by force can we teach the other side what to do.'