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Friday, March 11, 2005

Saudi spokeperson condemns terror - except against Israel

No surprise here, but the idea of the Saudi official running away from a press conference rather than show himself to be a hypocrite and liar is priceless. Adel al-Jubeir is the national spokesperson of Saudi Arabia, the face that the kingdom likes to show in the West. In contrast with most Saudi Arabians, he is clean-shaven, and his English is polished and almost unaccented. If he has any traditional Arab clothes, he hides them in the closet in...

FrontPage magazine - Sharansky's Straight Talk

I've said it before - Democracy and freedom are two different things, and freedom is a prerequisite for true democracy. Rewarding those who pretend to have a democracy when in fact they have no real freedoms is counterproductive. JERUSALEM -- Last week Israel's minister for Diaspora affairs, Natan Sharansky, sent an urgent letter to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon requesting that he demand that the Palestinian Authority stop executions of suspected...

Credit where credit is due: Kofi Annan speaks against real terrorism

His definition of terror is accurate, the reaction from the Arab League was muted. And the chances that the UN would actually do anything to truly fight terror is next to nothing. But nevertheless, this is a welcome speech from an otherwise corrupt and counterproductive shill for an irrelevant institution. In a bid to reinvigorate the U.N.'s role in international security, Secretary-General Kofi Annan on Thursday proposed a global treaty against...

More new, cool Israeli weapons

Besides the tank protection system mentioned, Israel also recently announced:Israel successfully test-fired its Long Range Artillery (LORA) missile March 3, scoring a dead-on hit of a sea-based target some 200 km from the launch site on Israel's coast.Revealed for the first time in public are digitalized mobile headquarters and a robot, unmanned security vehicle (USV) to be deployed along the security fence.Israel Aircraft Industries presented...

Israel creates revolutionary tank shield system

Those crazy Jews are at it again :)The IDF has revealed a revolutionary new protective shield system for its armored vehicles that intercepts and destroys missiles and rockets with a shotgun-like blast just before they hit.The system is called Trophy and was shown in public for the first time during this week's arms fair at the Tel Aviv Exhibition Grounds during a conference on Low Intensity Conflict sponsored by the IDF's Ground Forces Services.The...

In an effort to cushion the effects of their daily stress, hundreds of Israelis held a mass pillow fight in Tel Aviv's central Rabin Square on Tuesday night, Israel Army Radio reported."The Pillow Fight Club" organised the fight to "improve the morale" of their tense countrymen.A pamphlet issued by the club laid down clear rules, including using only soft pillows and forbidding...

Can Kofi Annan be any more clueless?

The United Nations must recognize Hezbollah as a force to be reckoned with in implementing the U.N. resolution calling for the withdrawal of all Syrian forces from Lebanon and the disarmament of the country's militias, Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday.He was responding to a question about the disarmament of Hezbollah, which showed its strength Tuesday at a huge pro-Syrian rally in Beirut attended by hundreds of thousands of people who chanted...

Sharon: Jews will remain in Hevron - what does that mean?

Sharon said yesterday: The attack this morning at the Cave of the Patriarchs is an attempt to harm Jewish freedom of worship in one of its most sacred places. All around the world, we fight for the right of Jews to pray without harm, and protect the freedom of worship for all people – Jew, Muslim or Christian – to pray in their sacred places in Israel. We will continue to defend the right of any person to pray at the Cave of the Patriarchs, and...

Islamic Jihad head who ordered Tel Aviv bombing used to be a professor in Florida

Once again, reason to be proud of American academia. USF had the honor of employing at least 2 major terrorist figures, Shallah and Al-Arian. A PALESTINIAN terrorist leader who spent five years at Durham University has been targeted for assassination by Israel after he was blamed for last weekend’s bomb in Tel Aviv, which killed five people. Ramadan Shallah, 47, the head of Islamic Jihad, is accused by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service,...

This is too cool! Israeli 'survivor' flower boasts cells in shape of Star of David "We have never before seen a structure like this in the cell walls of plants," says Dr. Rina Kamenetsky. "This is a very rare structure - maybe even unique." ...

US says: 'Half measures insufficient!' Ooops...they meant Syria, not Abbas.

Tough talk against a murderous terror regime, that, um, Europe doesn't seem to like either. The United States considered "half measures" unsatisfactory, White House spokesman Scott McClellan said in response to the redeployment of Syrian forces in Lebanon. "This does not add up to Syria leaving Lebanon. Nobody has said all troops are leaving Lebanon," a State Department official said. "We will continue to hold their feet to the fire, not accept...

Another day, another terror attack that is considered "acceptable" and not worth risking the fictional peace process over. We're back to 1994, with the exception of an American president who is committed to giving the terrorists their own country. And, really, who cares about Hevron/Hebron? Only "settlers" and other Jews, not the enlightened secular Zionists who are now demonizing...

Hypocrisy of releasing prisoners while PA executes "collaborators"

I was wondering why nobody seems to care about "collaborators" who are planned to be executed by the peace-loving PA this month. In an urgent plea to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, Minister-without Portfolio Natan Sharansky said the government must demand that the Palestinian Authority immediately stop the execution of those alleged to have collaborated with Israel. 'Israel must immediately demand of the PA that it stop the planned execution of suspected...

AP compares Israeli and Palestinian child deaths; Sbarro's victim's father responds

AP seeks moral equivalence, as usual. Here is a response by Arnold Roth...read the whole thing. It upsets me very much to see the agonizing story of child murders largely reduced to an AP statistical analysis. Counting bodies - whether it's factually correct or incorrect - ignores the central reality of terrorism. The terrorists want as many bodies as possible, and they don't make any effort to hide it. Counter-terrorism warfare causes innocents...

Time interviews Arafat the Second

What a surprise. The "peaceful" Abbas saying that Hamas and Islamic Jihad are also peaceful, that Israel is responsible for all Israelis killed in terror attacks. This sickening, disgusting, lying piece of crap is the person that the US and Israel is relying on for "peace." TIME: Now that you've been elected, your progress depends on your cease-fire with Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Islamist groups opposing peace. How secure is it ? ABBAS: I...