More of those "civilians" killed in Gaza (UPDATED)

(For an update and a summary, see this posting. A video summarizing this posting can be seen here.)

Using various public websites, PTWatch, Suzanne, t34zakat and I have identified no fewer that 363 terrorists killed by the IDF that have been reported as "civilians" by PCHR. 22 of them are called "children" by PCHR.

Out of 279 policemen killed, 209 have been identified as terrorists - 75%.

Here they are. The numbers represent the position they were on the PCHR list of casualties, and the links go to sites that prove they were not civilian (many of the ones at almoltaqa and alqassam include pictures of them with rockets and in uniform):

#2 Reziq Jamal Reziq al-Haddad (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member (photo) more
#3 Ali Mohammed Jamil Abu Riala (policeman) Al Qassam - South Battalion "struggling martyr"
#4 Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Badawi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades "fighter"
#5 Mahmoud Khalil Hassan Abu Harbeed (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#10 Mumtaz Mohammed Ramiz al-Banna (policeman) "Shahid Mujahid"
#11 Ahmed Hamdi Youssef al-Dreimly (policeman) listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, Al Qassam member
#12 Fares Isma’il Helmi al-‘Ashy (policeman)
#16 Ibrahim Mahmoud Abdul Hafiz al-Farra (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member since 2005
#17 Mohammed Abdul Karim Ramadan al-‘Aklouk (policeman) Al Qassam member picture
#19 Ra’ed Nazmi Mohammed Dughmosh (policeman) PRC/Saladin Brigades member
#20 Munir Mansour Ahmed Esbeita (policeman) Al Qassam member
#21 Deya'a Talal Kamel al-Habil (policeman) mentioned as al Qassam member
#22 Mayssara Hamed Mohammed Bulbul (policeman) "Hero Shahid" in ICT Al Qassam member
#25 Mahmoud Mtaw’e Mahmoud al-Khaldi (policeman) "Hero Martyr" in ICT Al Qassam member more
#26 Mohammed Khamis Hassan Habbush (policeman) Al Qassam member
#27 Shadi Jawad Khalil Qweider (policeman) - Al qassam member picture
#28 Jihad Ziyad Badawi al-Gharabli (policeman) Qassam Brigades member since 2006
#29 Mohammed Khamis Mohammed Baker (Zughra) (policeman) "al-Qassam Shahid"
#30 Ahmed Mohammed Nafez Abu Hadayed (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member (Ahmed Hamad Nayef Abu Haddaid)
#33 Adham Hamdy Al-‘Udeini (UNRWA student) Al Qassam Brigates Deir al-Balah Battalion
#34 Wafa'a Marwan ‘Ali al-Dsouqi (female) "martyred mujahid"
#40 Diab Rebhi Diab al-Haddad (policeman) Qassam Brigades member since 2007 picture
#41 Mohammed Tawfiq Mohammed al-Nemra (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member since 2003 (autotranslated as "tigress")
#42 Ziyad ‘Adel Mustafa al-Najjar (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member since 2006
#43 43 Sa'ad Mohammed ‘Antar Esleem (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades
#44 Mohammed Ziyad Sadiq al-Nabih (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member ("Shahid Fighter" on ICT)
#45 Hatem Khader Mohammed ‘Aiyad Al Qassam Brigades member
#47 Mohammed Baker Mohammed al-Nims (policeman) "Shahid" on Qassam sites (ICT)
#48 Mohammed Nabil Mohammed Barghouth (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member (Barghouth translates as "flea")
#49 Mahmoud Mohammed Hilmy al-‘Amarin (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#51 ‘Umar Baker Musa Shamaly (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#55 Mahmoud Juma'a Mohammed al-Labban (policeman) "Shahid" on al-Qassam sites (ICT)
#59 Akram Mohammed Ahmed Abu Zriba (policeman) Al Qassam member
#60 Ramadan Ahmed Ibrahim Abu Kheir (policeman) http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...ead.php? t=10158 also member of Al Qassam
#61 Adib Hassan Abdul ‘Aziz Abu Harb (policeman) PRC/Saladin Brigades commander
#62 Ahmed Hani Ahmed Qannou'a (policeman) http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...ead.php? t=10183 ("soldier" in Al Mezan)
#63 Salim Khalil al-Banna (policeman) appears to be Al Qassam member (picture)
#64 Tha’er Mohammed Hassan Madhi (policeman) Al Qassam member (picture)
#65 Mohammed Sa'adi Mohammed al-Qatati listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list also on Hamas list
#71 Wisam Abdul Majid Ibrahim al- Quqa (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#72 Farouq Fou’ad Mohammed Esleem (Salim) listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#75 Ahmed Mohammed Shreiteh al-Kurd (policeman) listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#77 Amjad Maher Ahmed Mushtaha (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member picture more
#79 Belal Mohammed Hussein ‘Umar (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member (more)
#80 Bassam Issa Qasem al-‘Akkawi listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR, Hamas member
#82 Mohammed Talal Kamel al-Habil Al Qassam Brigades member picture picture more
#83 Abdul Rahman Nizar Zuhdi Shahato (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member picture
#84 Suhaib Fawzi Salman Abdul ‘Al(policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member (and singer!) picture
#85 Yousif Rafiq Mohammed al-Deiri Al Qassam member (policeman) "Shahid Fighter" in ICT list
#86 Maher Isma’il Diab ‘Azzam (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member (a/t as "Beamsgirl")
#90 Yehia ‘Awni ‘Awad Muheisen listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR Al Qassam member
#92 Jamil Nasri Mohammed Abdul- ‘Al listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#93 ‘AliYahia Mohammed Banat listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#95 Hussam Mohammed Hammad al-Majayda (policeman) Al Qassam member since 2005
#96 Fayez Fayeq Ahmed Abu al-Qumsan (policeman) PRC/Saladin Brigades member more
#97 Walid Jabr Mohammed Abu Hein listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#98 Naser Abdullah Sha’aban al-Gharra (policeman) Qassam Brigades member
#99 Mohammed ‘Adnan Salim ‘Attallah (policeman) "Hero Shahid" in ICT (different location)
#100 Tala'at Mukhlis Khalaf Basal listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#101 Sha’alan, Abdul Latif Khalil Abdul Salam listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR, Al Qassam member
#102 Majed Tawfiq Mohammed Mteir listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#105 Mohammed Zuheir al-‘Aydi Abu Sha’aban listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#106 Ibrahim Yousif Ahmed Nofal listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#108 Rami ‘Amer Deeb Abdul Halim listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list picture web
#111 Ala’a Fadel Mohmmed ‘Afana (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#113 Tawfiq Jabr Mohammed Yousif(policeman) http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34293 "Hero Shahid Major-General" (ICT)
#114 Ahmed Abdul Majid Hussein Abu ‘Oda listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR, Al Qassam Brigates Nuseirat Battalion more
#115 Hassan Isma’il Hassan Abu Shanab (policeman) "Mujahid"
#116 Abdul Rahman Ahmed Khamis aL-Shweiki listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#117 Ra'afat Nabil Sha’aban Shameya (policeman) Qassam Brigades member (Chamie) more
#118 Amjad Kamel Abu Jazar (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#121 Nahiz Salim ‘Awwad Abu Namous(policeman) http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...304& postcount=8 Hamas member since 2007 "Qassami Shahid Fighter" in ICT
#122 Basil Jihad Mohammed Dababish (policeman) - "Mujahid" "Hero Shahid" (ICT) Al Qassam member
#123 ‘Asim Ahmed Hassan al-Sha’er (policeman) Al Qassam member since 2002
#124 Sami Tayseer al-Sayed al-Halabi listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, member of Al Qassam Brigades, policeman on PCHR
#126 Mohammed Khaled Asa'ad Shuheibar (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#131 Na’im ‘Ashour Ahmed Al Ghifary (policeman) "Shahid Mujahid" on almoltaqa
#132 Mohammed Hafiz Mohammed al-Kharoubi (policeman) http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...21& postcount=14 "Shahid Fighter" on ICT
#133 Mohammed Salah Hassan al-Sawaf(policeman) http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?...wmartys& mid=245, Al Qassam member
#134 Mustafa Mohammed Mustafa al-Sabbagh (policeman) "Qassami Fighter Shahid" in ICT (al-Zabai)
#135 Sharaf Mohammed Abu Shammala (policeman) Al Qassam member "Shahid" (ICT)
#136 Ahmed Mohammed Jamil Ba’alousha listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR, "hero shahid" by Hamas (ICT)
#137 Yousif Fawzi Salman Abdul ‘Al listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list "hero shahid" by Hamas (ICT)
#143 Isma’il Ibrahim al-Ja’abari (policeman) Al-Qassam commander Khan Younis more
#144 Hisham Mohammed Ali Abu Sharar (policeman) Al Qassam field commander, picture, picture
#145 Ahmed Abdul Kader Ibrahim al-Haddad (policeman) "Mujahid"
#146 Tamer Mohammed ‘Asafa (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al-Balah Battalion "Qassami Shahid Field Commander" (ICT)
#147 Rabi' Mahmoud al-Muzayan (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#148 Mohammed Salem Mohammed Abu ‘Abda (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Bureij Battalion
#153 Ibrahim Abdul Salam Mohammed Abu al-Rous (policeman) Al Qassam member (ICT "Hero Shahid" Ibrahim Abu Alrus)
#154 Wisam Ibrahim ‘Ayyash (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al-Balah Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT) - Ismail Haniyeh's nephew
#155 ‘Awwad Nafez ‘Awwad al-Qatshan (policeman) Saladin Brigades picture
#156 Mohammed Yahya Mhanna (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al-Balah Battalion "Qassami Shahid" in ICT
#157 Suheib Mohammed ‘Asafa (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Deir al Balah Battalion video "Qassami Shahid" (ICT)
#158 Hakim Rajab Mansi "Shahid" on al-Qassam sites (ICT)
#159 Hassan Sa'adi Hamdan Abu ‘Arbas (policeman) Al Qassam member
#160 ‘Umar Sa’id ‘Umar al-Lahham (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al Balah Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#161 Ahmed Salah Ahmed al-Lahham (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al Balah Battalion
#163 Yaser Mohammed Deeb al-Lahham (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al Balah Battalion
#164 Wasim Ibrahim Hassan ‘Azara (policeman) Saladin Brigades member
#165 Anas Sbeih Abdullah Abu Nar (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#167 ‘Imad Abdul Hamid Mohammed Abu al-Haj (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Nuseirat Battalion
#168 Mohammed Mesbah Hussein Hamad (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Nuseirat Battalion
#169 Mohammed Isma’il Abed al-Ghamri (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Maghazi Battalion
#171 Ramzi Rajab Khader Tanjara (policeman) "Hero Shahid" (ICT)
#172 Khaled Abdul Fattah Ali Abu Hasna (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Bureij Battalion
#174 Samer Heidar Hussein al-Qreinawi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Bureij Battalion
#175 Ahmed Mohammed Salama al-Qreinawi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Bureij Battalion
#176 Tamer Heidar Hussein al-Qreinawi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Bureij Battalion
#177 Majdi Nader Juma’a Jabr (policeman) Al Qassam member (sniper)
#179 ‘Issam Nabil Mohammed al-Gherbawi (policeman) Al Qassam member picture video
#180 Usama (Sami) Hassan Mohammed Abu al-Rish Al Qassam Brigates Maghazi Battalion
#181 Ala’a Nasri Mohammed al-Ra’i (policeman) Saladin Brigades member
#182 Mohammed Ibrahim Abdul Rahman Abu ‘Amer (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Nuseirat Battalion more
#184 Abdul Rahman Nazmi Abdul Rahman Hamdan (policeman) "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT) more
#185 Mahmoud Hisham ‘Azmi Abu Dalal (policeman) "Shahid Fighter" in ICT (Dallal)
#186 ‘Azmi Hisham ‘Azmi Abu Dalal Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" in ICT (Dallal)
#187 Khaled Yousif Jabr Shahin (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion
#190 Shadi Abdul Majid Abdul Jalil al-Sabakhi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT) more
#192 Ibrahim Hassan Ibrahim al-Jamal (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion more
#193 Yousif Mohammed Mahmoud Diab (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion more
#195 Ala’a Addin Ibrahim Abdul Rahim al-Qatarawi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" in ICT more
#196 Abdul Karim Sa’id Abdul Karim Wahba (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion more
#197 Mohammed Abdul Fattah Ahmed al-Qatarawi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion "Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#198 Tawfiq Ali Hassan al-Fallit "Hero Qassami Shahid" (ICT)
#199 Mustafa Yousif Mustafa al-Khatib (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion "Qassami Fighter Shahid" in ICT more
#202 ‘Adnan Ahmed al-Bheisi (policeman) "Qassami Shahid Fighter"(ICT) (al-Bakhizi) more
#203 Ahmed Jamal Ahmed Aal-Nuri (policeman) Al Qassam member picture
#204 Mohammed Hisham Salem Zahra (policeman) Al Qassam member
#209 Abdul Karim Isma’il ‘Ali Abu Jarbou’a (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Nuseirat Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#210 Rami Suleiman Ahmed Abu al-Sheikh (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Maghazi Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#211 Na’im, Aal-Sayed Abed Rabbu Mbit (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Bureij Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" in ICT
#212 Mohammed ‘Awad Yousif ‘Awad "hero martyr" in al-Qassam website (Abu Adbullah)
#213 Mohammed Ahmed Abdul Rahman Tabasha (policeman) "Hero Shahid" on ICT list
#214 Ghassan Mahmoud Isma’il Abu ‘Awwad (policeman) Al Qsssam member picture
#215 Ashraf Hamada Mustafa Abu Qwiek (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Bureij Battalion
#217 Mazen Mahmoud Abdul Aziz ‘Aleyan (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member video
#218 Hassan Atallah Mohammed Abdullah "Shahid Fighter" ICT (Chasan Ata Ala)
#219 ‘Asem Mohammed Sa’id Abu Kmeil (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#220 Tala’at Mahmoud Salman Salman listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list Al Qassam Brigades
#221 Reziq Mahmoud Salman Salman (policeman) "Shahid" (ICT) picture Al Qassam Brigades
#223 Ali Hassan Ahmed al-Mabhouh (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#224 Yousif Tayseer Harb Sha’aban "Al Qassam mujahid"
#225 Isma’il Jihad Isma’il Ghneim (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#226 Ni'ma Ali Ahmed al-Mghari (female) "martyred mujahid"
#230 Mohammed Mahmoud Hammad al-Najra (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member "Shahid Fighter" in ICT list
#232 Hashim Faris Hashim ‘Uweida "Al-Mujahid"
#234 Ahmed Maher Ahmed Abu Mussa (policeman) Al Qassam member
#237 Mohammed Na’im Shakshak (policeman) Al Qassam member bodyguard to #143
#238 ‘Ammar ‘Oda Faraj Shamali (policeman) "Shahid" on ICT
#243 Ahmed Naser Ahmed Tbeil (policeman) Al Qassam member
#244 Ali Abdul Rahim Mohammed ‘Awad (policeman) Al Qassam member since 2004
#245‘Umar Salman Salim Darawsha "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#248 Mahmoud Jamil Fakhri al-Khaldi (policeman) Al Qassam member (Mahmoud Khalil al-Khalidi)
#252 Yousif Ibrahim Mohammed Thary (policeman) Al Qassam member picture more
#254 Hassan Salem Hammed (Ali) al-Rahhal (policeman) Al Qassam Brigates Maghazi Battalion
#255 Zeyad Daoud ‘Oda Abu ‘Eyada (policeman) "Mujahid"
#256 Heidar Mahmoud Mohammed Hassouna (policeman) Al Qassam member
#257 Ayman Fou’ad Eid al-Nahhal(policeman) http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?...wmartys& mid=252 Al Qassam member photo
#258 Hamdan Khamis Rabi' Abu Nqeira (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#259 Anas Fawzi Nafez Hamad (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades "Shahid Fighter-Corporal" (ICT - Chamad)
#260 Ahmed Abdullah Salem Al-Khatib PRC-Saladin Brigades field commander
#261 Hamada Ahmed Msallam Abu Daqqa listed as "resister" in PMoH list (#988)
#262 Mohammed Fou’ad Abu Sabra (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Deir al-Balah Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" more
#263 Qareeb ‘Umar ‘Abid "Shahid Fighter Karib Amar Abed" (ICT) "Mujahid"
#264 Shehada Abdul Rahman Hussein Kuffa (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Maghazi Battalion (Abu Mohammed Kuffa)
#265 Hatem Adnan Abu Sha'ira (policeman) "Shahid" on al-Qassam sites (ICT)
#266 Nizar ‘Ateya Hassan Abu Salem (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades/Nuseirat more
#267 Abdullah Talal Ibrahim Aal-Sane' (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades picture more
#268 Arafat Faraj Allah Sleiman Faraj Allah (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades/Nuseirat "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT) more
#269 Isma’il Ahmed Mohammed Salem (Hamdan) (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#271 Mohammed Yunis Abu Libda (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member Deir al-Balah Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" in ICT
#272 Khaled Radwan Ali Inshasi "member of Al Qassam Brigades" in PCHR; "resister" in Al Mezan
#273 Suleiman Subhi Mohammed al-Ghariz (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades/Nuseirat "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#277 Nabil Ahmed Mahmoud al-Beiram "Mujahid"
#279 (Mohammed Nour) Mohammed Reziq al-Fayoumi (policeman) http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...ead.php? t=10410 also member of Al Qassam brigades
#280 Ahmed Rasmi Mohammed Abu Jazar "Mujahid" 16 years old
#282 Mo’in Mahmoud Abdul Rahman Aal-Qen "Fighter Shahid" in ICT (Alkan)
#283 Salman Fahmi Hassan al-Astal (policeman in PCHR) listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#286 Haitham Yaser Ahmed al-Shaer (policeman in PCHR) http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?action=showmartys&mid=255 Al Qassam member video
#288 Ihab Jaser Ahmed al-Sha'er "Mujahid"
#292 Salem Zeyad Mohammed al-Hallaq (Malalha) PRC/Saladin Brigades member
#293 Mohammed Hussein Abdul Ra’ouf al-Mabhouh (policeman) al-Qassam member
#295 Ali Abdul Ra’ouf Hassan Rihan listed as "resister" in PMoH list (#577)
#298 (and#344) Ahmed Abdul Latif Hussein Sa’ad Eddin (policeman) "soldier" in PMoH list #822, member of "Security and Protection" of Hamas, Al Qassam member
#300 Hamid Ahmed Mohammed al-‘A’araj (policeman) al-Qassam member since 2003
#301 Abdul Hai Shafiq al-Dahshan (policeman) al-Qassam member more
#302 Mohammed Fahmi Abdul Fattah Fahmi Tafesh "Shahid" (ICT) Al Qassam member
#303 Taysir Abdullah Mohammed Weshah (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#305 Basem ‘Umar ‘Awad Jundeya (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#306 Tareq Salah Diab Rahmi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member since 2005
#307 Samer Ahmed Deeb Ahmed (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#308 Belal Ghazi al-Raqab (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member since 2006
#309 Amin Fou’ad Mohammed al-Zerbatli (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member since 2006 photo
#310 Izz Addin Rafiq ‘Eleyan ‘Atallah (policeman) "Hero Shahid" (ICT) ( Az al-Din Rafik Alian Atallah)
#311 (and #317) Islam Mohammed Abdul Rahim al-Sahhar (policeman) Al Qassam member
#312 Anwar Rafiq ‘Eleyan ‘Atallah (policeman) Al Qassam member "Shahid Hero" in ICT
#315 Khalil Ramadan Salim al-Muranakh (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades listed as "soldier" (ICT)
#321 Mohammed Khalil Hassan Al Mukayad (policeman) "Shahid" on Qassam sites (ICT)
#324 Mohammed Farid Abdul Fattah Abdul Nabi (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#325 Mohammed Suheil Mohammed Hassan (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#326 Iyad Sha’aban Ibrahim al-Maqousi(policeman) http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34972 Al Qassam member
#329 Ashraf Zuheir Mahmoud al-Sharbasi (policeman in PCHR) Al Qassam Brigades member
#330 Wa’el Yahya Mohammed Abu Ni’ma (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades field commander (Wael jdmef) more
#331 Hisham Ibrahim Salman al-Msaddar (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Maghazi Battalion
#332 Yaser Mohammed Hijazi al-Zarqa (policeman) "Shahid Fighter" in ICT list
#334 Abdul Azim ‘Adel al-Jadba Al Qassam Brigades infantry
#337 Ramiz Talal Ahmed Hamdan (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades Nuseirat Battalion "Qassami Shahid Fighter" (ICT) more
#340 Ahmed Fou’ad Mahmoud al-‘Askari (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#343 Mohammed Ahmed Helmi Jarada (policeman) Al Qassam member "Qassami Shahid" (ICT)
#349 Mohammed Nafez Sha’aban Mheisen listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#351 Tamer Saleh Abdullah al-Gherbawi Al Qassam Brigades member picture poster more
#353 Nabil Mahmoud Mohammed Abu Ti’eima "Shahid Mujahid" 16 years old
#362 Khaled Khaled Ahmed al-Huwari Al Qassam Brigades member
#387 Ayman Yousif Khalil al-Majayda listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, Al Qassam member
#398 Hussein Na’im Hussein ‘Abbas listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, as policeman on PCHR
#399 Mohammed Sa’id Mohammed Abu Hassira apparent Al Aqsa member (picture)
#401 Ihab ‘Umar Khalil al-Madhoun http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...ead.php? t=10244
#404 Sha’aban ‘Adel Hamed Hanif 16 years old "al Mujahid"
#405 Tareq Yaser Mohammed ‘Afana 16-years old Al Qassam Brigades member
#406 Ali Zuheir Mahmoud al-Houbi (policeman) http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?...wmartys& mid=249 Al Qassam
#408 Mohammed Isma’il ‘Abed Abu Daqqa Fatah "mujahid"
#409 Mahmoud Majed Mahmoud Abu Nahla 16 years old "Shahid Fighter" in ICT
#410 Nafez Kamal Abdul Jawad Abu Sabet Fatah "mujahid" on a Jihad mission together with 408
#412 Nizar Abdul Kader Mohammed Rayan http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34460
#415 Ghassan Nizar Abdul Kader Rayan 16 years old (Nizar Rayyan's son) "Al Qassam shahid" (his siblings are not mentioned)
#439 Wa’el Yousif Matar Abu Jarad listed as "resister" in PMH list
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#458 ‘Umar Abdul Hafez Mousa al-Silawi journalist with Al Aqsa channel Al Qassam member
#459 Ra’ed Abdul Rahman Mohammed al-Msamha "martyr" picture with gun
#462 Sa’id Salah Sa’id Battah member of Al Qassam Brigades
#468 Mahmoud ‘Adnan Mahmoud Abu Ma’arouf (policeman) http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34516 Al Qassam member "suicide bombing unit" in ICT
#478 Muhannad Ibrahim ‘Ata al-Tannani Islamic Jihad/Al Quds member
#484 Ibrahim Mousa Issa al-Silawi Al Qassam member
#493 Ahmed Khalil Saleh Abu Daf Al Qassam member (ICT - The Qassami Shahid-Commander of the Area)
#505 Qusai Reyad Mohammed al-Batrikhy "resister" in PoMH list (#375)
#511 Yaser Kamal Shbeir Al Qassam member
#519 Anas Fadel Na’im http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...36& postcount=10
#520 Ra'afat Sami Ibrahim (Muharram) Al Qassam member
#524 Mohammed Khader Yousif Hammouda listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#526 Ala’a Addin Yahya Mohammed Zaqout listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list Islamic Jihad member more here
#527 Mohammed Hassan al-Baba listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list Islamic Jihad member
#529 Belal Abed Rabbu Mohammed Shehab listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, Al Qassam member picture #873 on PMoH
#532 Mohammed Khamis Hussein al-Kilani listed as "resister" in PMoH list (Mohammed Khamis Aqilan)
#533 Abdul Rahim Helmi al-‘Abed al-Ashqar listed as "resister" in PMoH list (#680)
#542 Mo’in ‘Ata Mohammed Hussein listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#547 Ghassan Ali Ali Abu al-‘Amarin listed as "resister" in PMoH list (#400, last name "al-Arabid")
#551 Mohammed Abdul Razzaq Ali al-Hila http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34600 Al Qassam member
#553 Adham Na’im Mohammed Abdul Malik (17 years old) Islamic Jihad spotter
#563 ‘Usama Mesleh Suleiman listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, also on PMoH list
#568 Mohammed Akram Mohammed Abu Harbid member of Al Qassam Brigades
#569 Ahmed Hussein Abed Rabbu al-Mabhouh listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#571 Mohammed Mu’in ‘Ateya Abu al-Jedian listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#573 Mohammed Bashir Mohammed Khader member of Al Qassam Brigades in 2000
#576 Ayman Mohammed Mohammed ‘Afana (policeman) http://www.alqassam.ps/english/?...wmartys& mid=248 Al Qassam member
#583 Mohammed Abed Hassan Barbakh http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34600
#595 Usama Jihad Ali Abu Jbara Al Qassam member
#610 Basel Jihad Ali Abu Jbara Al Qassam member
#616 Issa Ahmed al-‘At’out listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#642 Mohammed Ibrahim Helmi al-Samouni Islamic Jihad member
#646 Ghazi ‘Awni Abdul Fattah Jaddoua’ PRC/Nasser Brigades member
#669 Mohammed Naser ‘Ateya Hamdona listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#674 Younis Mohammed Abdul Wahab al-Ghandour (policeman) listed as "resister" on PMoH (#788)
#678 Rami Yousif Mohammed al-Ghandour listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, #868 on PMoH list as "resister", more
#679 Suheil Ahmed Rashad al-‘Asali listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#681 Ahmed Hassan Abdul Karim Abu Zour listed as "resister" on PMoH site (#226)
#689 Mousa Mohammed Suleiman al-Jatali al-Qassam Brigades member
#722 Radwan Fayez Mesbah Al- Daia member of Al Qassam Brigades
#739 Sa’id Jamal Sa’id Abdul Dayem "Presidential Guard"
#747 Mohammed ‘Ayesh Mansour Abu Naser http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34690
#761 Tareq Mahmoud Yousif (Hussein) "Presidential Guard"
#771 ‘Ateya Hassan Mustafa al-Madhoun DFLP National Resistance Brigades
#772 Zaher Mohammed Mahmoud ‘Abed "Al Qassam martyr" more
#773 Zeyad ‘Ateya Hassan al-Madhoun http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=35141 DFLP National Resistance Brigades
#782 Khaled Mohammed Fou’ad Abu ‘Askar "Abu Ezz" "al-Qassam Shahid"more
#783 Belal Hamza Ali ‘Ubeid "Abu Khalid" 17 years old Al Qassam member more
#804 Ahmed ‘Abed Hamad al-Hasanat listed as "resister" (policeman) on Al Mezan list, Hamas member
#805 Hassan Ahmed Masmah listed as "resister" (policeman) on Al Mezan list "Qassami Shahid Fighter" in ICT
#814 Abdul Rahman Jamil Badawi (Qasem) Al Quds member (mentioned in his brother's obit)
#823 Rezeq Sami Rezeq Sbeih listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#832 Mohammed Maher Nemer Badawi (Qasem) on "martyr's poster" Al Quds/Islamic Jihad member
#833 Ihab ‘Isam Rajab al-Harazin listed as "soldier" on Al Mezan list, al Qassam member
#834 Basel Nabil Ibrahim Faraj Al Aqsa Brigades "Shahid Mujahid"
#841 Ahmed Yousif Mohammed Hassanein Al Aqsa Brigades
#847 Abdul Karim Shafiq Hussein Hassan Al Qassam member
#857 Hamza ‘Oda Mohammed al-Khaldi (policeman) PRC member picture picture
#864 Tareq Mohammed Nemer Abu ‘Amsha http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34746 member of Islamic Jihad also see here
#866 Jihad Rashad Mohammed al-‘Asali listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#876 Yousif Zeyad Ahmed Zaqout (policeman) Al Qassam Brigades member
#877 Jihad ‘Awwad ‘Oda Abu Mdeif http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34777
#898 Mohammed Ali Hassan al- Sultan Al Qassam member
#901 Usama Sa’id Mohammed Lubbad Islamic Jihad member/recruiter
#908 Jamal Ahmed Hussein Nashwan http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=pf...hwan-beit- hanou
#913 Sa’id Mohammed Yousif Abu Matar "Hero Fighter Shahid" on ICT list
#924 Sha’aban Mohammed Sha’aban Mushtaha (policeman) Al Qassam member
#936 Ibrahim Mahmoud Ahmed Weshah listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list , policeman on PCHR (Wishah) more
#945 Mohammed Othman Khalil Ishteiwi Islamic Jihad/Al Quds member
#946 Mazen Sa’id Mohammed Abu Matar listed as "resister" (policeman) on Al Mezan list (h/t Suzanne)
#956 Sufyan Abdul Hay Juda Abed Rabbu "Presidential Guard"
#959 Amir Yousif Mahmoud al-Mansi Al Qassam member
#961 Samed Mahfouz Mahmoud Abed Rabbu, Islamic Jihad member, 16 years old
#964 Yusri Mahmoud Juda Abed Rabbo Islamic Jihad member
#969 ‘Ahed Kamel Shehada Banar listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list and PoHM list (#305)
#970 Shadi Fathi Ahmed Jneid listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#973 Sami Bashir Abed Sa’ad listed as "resister" (policeman) on Al Mezan list and PoHM list (#304)
#974 Ahmed Juma’a Suleiman al-Sha'er http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34819 al-Qassam member
#975 Rashid Hamdan Shehda Dheir Islamic Jihad member
#978 ‘Ata Kamal Abdul Rahman al-Dahdouh (policeman) http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34873 more
#979 Mohammed Mustafa Rebhi Abdul Khaleq Hussein Abed Rabbu Islamic Jihad member
#980 Abdul Mu'ti Rateb Abdul Mu'ti Salman member of PRC/Jihad Jibril Brigades
#982 Ibrahim Mohammed Ghali ‘Asaleya member of Al Qassam Brigades
#987 Ahmed Hamed Hassan Abu ‘Eita (policeman) member of Al Qassam Brigades
#992 Mohammed Jaber Mohammed ‘Eleyan 16 years old member of PRC/Nasser Brigades
#993 Rami Jamal Ramadan Salman member of PRC/Jihad Jibril Brigades
#1010 Ibrahim ‘Ayesh Taha Suleiman listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list picture #871 on PMoH (resister)
#1031 Munther Mahmoud Mohammed al-Jundi Islamic Jihad member
#1040 Mustafa Juma’a Ibrahim al-Basha Al Qassam member picture more
#1046 Issa Abdul Rahim Saleh Al Qassam member
#1047 Ahmed Ibrahim Mohammed Abu Jazar http://paltoday.com/english/news...ws.php? id=33598 Islamic Jihad member see also here
#1052 ‘Anan Nemer Sha’aban Mansour listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1054 Sa’ad Mohammed Abdullah Hassan http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34937 also on PMH list
#1060 Abdullah Sa’id Saleh al-‘Imawi http://www.almoltaqa.ps/english/...ead.php? t=10309
#1067 Mamdouh Walid Asa’ad Shhiebar "Qassami Shahid" (ICT) (Shahibar)
#1068 ‘Eid ‘Oda al-Shandi listed in Qassam Brigades "field commander"
#1085 Ala’a Hamed Mohammed Abu Rida Islamic Jihad member
#1088 Hani Mohammed Abdullah Abu Rayyan listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1113 Amjad Fadel Abdullah Abu Rayyan listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1124 Feras Fayez Kamel Abu Samra 17 years old "hero martyr" on Paldf forum picture
#1128 Nedal Mohammed Hussein Abu Rida listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list; more
#1140 Ahmed Juma’a Ahmed Abu Jamous Al Qassam member
#1153 Walid Hamouda Mohammed al-za’about listed as "field commander" on Qassam Brigades site (h/t Suzanne)
#1156 Hammam Mohammed Hassan al-Khudary 16 years old Islamic Jihad member
#1162 Belal Jamal Isma’il Abu ‘Awwad 17 years old Al Qassam member
#1175 Seif Addin Mohammed Ibrahim al-Firani "Abu Hamza" Al Qassam Brigades member
#1178 Fares Mohammed Khalil ‘Abdeen listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1185 Hamdi Saleh Mohammed Hamada http://www.maannews.net/en/index...etails& ID=34972 Al-Rish Brigades (Hamdi Farid Abu Hamada) Al Qassam member
#1193 Ahmed Mohammed Ayoub Khella listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1204 Khader Abdul Ghaffar al-Jadba Hamas "Shahid Fighter" (ICT)
#1211 Diab Abdul Kader Rajab Mkat Al Qassam Brigades "shahid fighter" (ICT)
#1213 Medhat ‘Abed Ali Banar listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list and PMoH list (#328)
#1216 Mohammed Nawwaf Ahmed Na’im listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1219 ‘Ahed Mazen Abdullah al-Ghura (policeman) Al Qassam member
#1229 ‘Imad Maher Saleh Ferwana (Ammar Maher Farwana) 17 years old listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, Al Qassam member
#1248 Jamal Taha Mohammed Mghames "Presidential Guard"
#1269 Abdullah Abdul Hamid Hussam Abu Mu’ammar listed as a "martyr" in Qassam Brigades Arabic site (h/t Suzanne)
#1275 Samer Mohammed al-‘Abed Abu ‘Aser, 17 years old, Islamic Jihad member http://www.saraya.ps/view.php?id=11327 (Saraya site down now, data from ICT)
#1289 Hussam Mohammed Ali Abu Daqqa listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1290 Ra’afat Khalil Hamdan Abu al-‘Ela listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list, Islamic Jihad member
#1294 Naser Yusif Abdul Hadi al-Siefi listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1300 ‘Umar Mahmoud Ramadanal- Mranakh Al Qassam Brigades member
#1311 Usama Jamal Mohammed ‘Ubeid "Qassam Martyr" more
#1314 Ashraf Rebhi al-‘Abed Banar http://www.pflp.ps/english/?q=memo
#1317 Abdullah Nawwaf Ahmed Na’im listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1333 Shadi al-‘Abed Ali Banar Islamic Jihad member
#1340 Jabr Mohammed Mohammed al-Dawawsa listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1346 Eyad Abdul Hay al-Najjar listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1358 Wa’el Khalil Mesbah Aal-‘Attar listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1359 Akram Khader Abdul Kader Ma'arouf listed as "resister" on PMoH list (#464)
#1367 Mohammed Abdul Hadi Mohammed Daher (policeman) listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1368 Amjad Majed Subhi al-‘Attar listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1379 Mohammed Naser Hashem al-Tatar Al Qassam member
#1388 Rezeq Salim Hussein Abu al-Kas listed as "resister" on PMoH list (#809)
#1393 Mahmoud Hussein Mohammed Matar listed as "resister" on Al Mezan list
#1402 Mohammed Mahmoud Mohammed al-Bori’ (policeman) Al Qassam member since 2005


Terrorists with the word "Battalion" in their description comes from a list in an Al Qassam message board, describing them all as "Qassam martyrs" from various Qassam Brigades battalions. PCHR verifies their home location consistent with - although their deaths were not necessarily in the same places.

Obviously not every terrorist name is easily found on Arab websites, not the least because it is difficult to transliterate the Arabic consistently. At the very least, however, this proves that the PCHR definition of "civilian death" is a lie, and there entire methodology must be questioned.

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Other notes:

#231 Salem Ahmed Salem Abu Shamla apparently killed by Hamas
#311 and #317 appear to be the same person (Islam Mohammed Abdul Rahim al-Sahhar, policeman)
#1366 and #1395 appear to be the same person (Khamis Nemer Abdul Latif Zughra, 22)
#504 is blank
#851 and #898 appear to be the same person
#298 and #344 appear to be the same person
#173 and #289 are the same person

Total PCHR victims 1408

#304 might be الشهيد القسامي/ يحيي شيخة Shahid Alksami / Sheikh Yahya

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Even Saudi college students go wild

From the Arab News:

Mukhtar Ahmad Al-Maulood, head of the Conciliation Department at the General Court in Makkah, underscored the need for strengthening the religious conviction of Saudi students chosen for scholarships abroad.

“Students should undergo religious orientation programs so that they can live in unfamiliar societies that have conflicting values without compromising their own moral and religious principles,” Al-Maulood told Arab News.

The judge said he became convinced of the need to strengthen the religious sentiments of students — particularly of those who go abroad shortly after finishing secondary school — after his visit to Australia last Ramadan (September).

“I am convinced of the need for the religious rehabilitation of Saudi students selected for scholarships abroad after my visit to Australia. While discussing the difficulties faced by Saudi students, Sheikh Tajuddin Al-Hilali, former mufti of Australia, related to me some of his painful experiences. For instance, Al-Hilali said once two drunken Saudi students were brought to the Islamic Center by a taxi driver. Unfortunately, the students were totally nude,” Al-Maulood said.

Al-Maulood said a lack of strong religious convictions would make the students easy prey to deviant groups.

"Deviant" is a Muslim codephrase for gay.

Of course, it is not only Saudi students who get wild when they are away from home. Saudi adults seem to also have a habit of visiting foreign countries, "marrying" women there and abandoning them (and any resulting children) after their vacations are over.

It is not clear if Al Maulood is as upset over that, because presumably those marriages are legal according to sharia.

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Another self death

A 9 year old Palestinian Arab boy was killed in "mysterious circumstances" on Saturday night, according to Firas Press.

Our 2009 self-death count rises to 69.

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Jordan's king does the "blame Israel" thing

Arab leaders keep holding on to Israel being the "core problem" of the Middle East as if its their security blanket.

From yesterday's Meet the Press:

GREGORY: Speaking about President Bush, last December he spoke about the frustration along the path of his presidency, but also the state of the Middle East as he saw it. This is what he said.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

FORMER PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH: Despite these frustrations and disappointments, the Middle East in 2008 is a freer, more hopeful and more promising place than it was in 2001.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

GREGORY: Do you agree with that?

ABDULLAH: Yes, but nowhere near what we need as the end game. I mean, it’s all relative at the end of the day. Until you solve the problem, you’re going to get an up and down on how free or stable it is. But we still haven’t solved the core issue.

So you can’t say that -- that the -- the future for the Middle East is any brighter. Unless we solve the core issue of the Israeli- Palestinian, Israeli-Arab challenges, then we will always be an area of instability that costs all of us.

GREGORY: But it’s interesting that you raise that point as that being the core problem. You ask most Americans and certainly the government, the core problem out of the Middle East right now is terrorism, is Al Qaida. And President Obama spoke about that very issue and seemed to be speaking to voices like yours when he was recently in France. Listen to that.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Al Qaida is still bent on carrying out terrorist activity. It is -- you know, don’t fool yourselves. Because some people say, “Well, you know, if we changed our policies with respect to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or if we were more respectful toward the Muslim world, suddenly these organizations would stop threatening us.” That’s just not the case. (END VIDEO CLIP)

GREGORY: He seems to be contradicting you a bit.

ABDULLAH: Not at all. What -- what he’s trying to say and -- and what I’m trying to say is the challenge that we have in front of American public is connecting the dots.

Any crisis that you want to talk about, whether it’s Al Qaida, Iraq, Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, all comes back to the sore -- the emotional issue that is Palestine and Jerusalem. Any conflict that you pick in the Middle East today, “all roads lead back to Jerusalem” is probably be a better way of -- of explaining it.

So, until you deal with the Palestinian issue, it is more difficult to deal with Al Qaida, whether it’s Pakistan -- all these other problems that you’re facing.

GREGORY: But -- but isn’t -- doesn’t that suggest, and he seems to be suggesting that that’s not the case, that if you just solve this problem, that somehow Al Qaida goes away, isn’t that fantasy?

ABDULLAH: Well, but what -- what is Al Qaida’s platform is -- is the plight of the Palestinians in Jerusalem under occupation.

GREGORY: That’s what they say. Is that what they really believe?

ABDULLAH: Well, I mean, you’re always going to have extremist elements that are going to be there to -- to find a -- a platform for recruiting. But you can’t really take them that seriously when the core issue, the major grievance in the Arab and Muslim world is solved.

And so, in Arab and Muslim minds, the most emotional aspect is the Palestinian cause and that of Jerusalem. And from there leads all the other problems.

...Let me go back to saying I think that the challenge we have here in America of connecting the dots. If you have an issue that the threat that Iran poses to Israel, which is what Netanyahu was saying, the best way of solving that problem is solving the core issue, which is the Palestinian problem and that of Jerusalem.

Because that regime goes to their people to say that the reason why we have nuclear weapons, the reason that we need to, to challenge Israel is, is because of the suffering of the Palestinians and the occupation of Jerusalem.

...

GREGORY: And what do you think is the best way for the United States to pursue or to persuade Iran to back away from a nuclear program?

ABDULLAH: Solving the Israeli-Palestinian problem.

GREGORY: That’s it?

ABDULLAH: That allows us to then solve the Israeli-Arab-Muslim problem.

GREGORY: Right.

Gregory is barely pressing Abdullah on the absurdity of claiming that Pakistan and Al Qaeda and Iran and other Middle East problems are somehow going to disappear if the "core" issue of a Palestinian Arab state is solved (at the expense of, of course, Israel alone.) Yet Abdullah is stammering and contradicting himself in trying to give that impression, even tacitly admitting that his challenge isn't solving the problem but to convince the American public that there is a connection.

In one sentence he admits that extremists are happy to exploit the Palestinian issue to recruit people, and the very next sentence he implies that no one would take them seriously if there was a Palestinian Arab state next to Israel - something that is manifestly ridiculous.

The Arab world isn't agitating for a peace agreement; they are agitating for the destruction of Israel. The "Arab street" doesn't demonstrate with posters that say "Two states for two peoples!" or "Give the West Bank to Palestinian Arabs" or "Evacuate the Settlements!" - their signs say "Death to Israel" (and, of course, "Death to America!")

A good interviewer would have turned Abdullah's assertion on its head, and asked, "Palestinian Arabs are some two thirds of Jordan's population. If Jordan would agree to create a Palestinian Arab state on its territory, would that solve the 'core problem' in the minds of the Arab people? If not, why not?"

It wouldn't take much to expose what the Arabs and Muslims mean when they say they want to "solve the Palestinian problem." And the solution has little to do with their love of Palestinian Arabs.

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Israel to give Pope the smallest gift ever

Al Quds (!) reports that Shimon Peres will present Pope Benedict with a sample of the smallest Bible ever written.

Created at the Technion, the Tanach ("Old Testament") is the size of a grain of sand. An article about it from 2007 describes it:

Out of Zion has come the world’s tiniest Bible, engraved in gold on silicon, to illustrate the science of nanotechnology.

More than 300,000 words and 1,200,000 letters, including vowels have been placed on less than half a square millimeter, allowing the tiny Torah to fit inside the first dot of the first letter of a traditional Torah scroll.

“We took a piece of silicon and evaporated a very small layer of gold over it, about twenty nanometers thick,” explained Ohad Zohar, a Ph.D. student at the Technion, on Israel National Radio’s Yishai Fleisher Show. A nanometer is about a billionth of a meter.

“We then used a focused ion beam to inscribe the Biblical text on it,” Zohar said. “What the focused ion beam does is shoot gallium ions, focusing the charged particles on the substrip [of gold]. It digs little holes and each hole is a pixel for whatever picture you would like. In our case this is the Tanach [Five Books of Moses, Prophets and Writings –ed.].”

I hope the Pontiff doesn't lose it at the airport.

Of course, the Vatican will now need to purchase a scanning electron microsocope to actually read it.

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Take the subway to the Kotel!

Sheikh Raed Salah, leader of the Islamic movement in Israel, has built his career on his constant accusations of Jewish destruction of Muslim Jerusalem. Literally every week, and often more often, he accuses Israelis of doing something or other. (He has famously claimed that there is no Jewish claim to the Western Wall.)

Of course, when you have to make up new accusations every week, you inevitably have to start making things up. So every time he opens his mouth, he comes up with something more bizarre than the previous time, just to stay in the news.

Now Salah is saying that the Zionists are planning to build a subway to travel to - and seemingly under - the Temple Mount.

And yet, no matter how absurd his claims are, Salah inevitably manages to grab headlines in the Palestinian Arab press every time he opens his mouth. In the PalArab world, there is no correspondence between someone's believability and their track record for being proven right; in fact there may be an inverse relationship between the two.

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Obama cracks open the door for Hamas

From the Los Angeles Times:

The Obama administration, already on treacherous political ground because of its outreach to traditional adversaries such as Iran and Cuba, has opened the door a crack to engagement with the militant group Hamas.

The Palestinian group is designated by the U.S. government as a terrorist organization and under law may not receive federal aid.

But the administration has asked Congress for minor changes in U.S. law that would permit aid to continue flowing to Palestinians in the event Hamas-backed officials become part of a unified Palestinian government.

The administration requested the changes this month as part of an $83.4-billion emergency spending bill that also contains funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The bill also would provide $840 million for the Palestinian Authority and for rebuilding in Gaza after the 22-day Israeli military assault this year. The administration still is wrestling with how to deliver the aid to Gaza because of the tough federal restrictions on dealing with Hamas.

U.S. officials insist that the new proposal doesn't amount to recognizing or aiding Hamas. Under law, any U.S. aid would require that the Palestinian government meet three long-standing criteria: recognizing Israel, renouncing violence and agreeing to follow past Israeli-Palestinian agreements.

Hamas as an organization doesn't meet those criteria. However, if the rival Palestinian factions manage to reach a power-sharing deal, the Obama administration wants to be able to provide aid as long as the Hamas-backed members of the government -- if not Hamas itself -- meet the three criteria.

Clinton defended the administration's position last week before Congress. She said that the United States supports and funds the Lebanese government, even though it includes members of Hezbollah, another militant group on the U.S. terrorist list.

She contended that the United States should try to gradually change the attitudes of Hamas members, as it did with militants in Northern Ireland, where it helped broker a deal that included the Irish Republican Army, even though not all of its members agreed.

The mindset that can equate Islamic terrorists with the IRA is a classic example of the West not understanding Islamic terrorism.

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Another Iranian arms shipment reported foiled

From Ha'aretz:

An Iranian vessel laden with weapons bound for the Gaza Strip was torpedoed off the coast of Sudan last week, allegedly by Israeli or American forces operating in the area, the Egyptian newspaper El-Aosboa reported yesterday.

Anonymous sources in Khartoum told the newspaper that an unidentified warship bombed the Iranian vessel as it prepared to dock in Sudan before transferring its load for shipment to the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip.

The sources said they suspect U.S. or Israeli involvement in the attack, but neither Washington nor Jerusalem have released a statement on the matter. The Israel Air Force is suspected of attacking a convoy of Iranian arms that passed through Sudan en route to Gaza in January, according to foreign news reports released in March.

The original Egyptian article didn't have any other details.

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We are up to 217 fake civilians

One reason I am not posting as much is because we are still finding more Gaza terrorists who have been counted as civilians by PCHR by scouring Arabic websites and forums.

We are up to 217 names, far more than I expected to find when we started.

(Over the weekend, a tunnel collapse killed a PalArab, so the self-death count is now at 68.)

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Depravity illustrated

From the signature of a poster named Abu Ahmed, at the Hamas al-Qassam Brigades message boards:

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Palestinian Arabs' deadliest year?

Ma'an reports:

2008 was the deadliest year for Palestinians since the violent creation of Israel in 1948, the Gaza-based Palestinian Center for Human Rights reported (PCHR) on Saturday.

More than 1,000 were killed last year, including 820 killed by Israeli forces in Gaza and 40 in the West Bank. Another 143 Palestinians were killed in inter-Palestinian violence.

Presenting PCHR’s annual report to media in Gaza, the center’s director, director Raji Sourani, said, "2008 was the worst year and the deadliest for the Palestinians ... since 1948," according to AFP.

This is very interesting, since in 1970, at least 3400 - and possibly as many as 10,000 - Palestinian Arabs were killed by Jordan.

In the span of ten days.

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Today's Palestinian Arab hypocrisy

The concluding paragraph of an article in the Palestine Telegraph by Steven Salaita:

Ultimately, when Zionists demand that you affirm Israel 's right to exist, what they are really asking for is your validation. Don't give it to them. Until Israel treats the Palestinians equally and humanely, it won't have earned the right to a celebrated existence.

Palestinian Arab law demands the death penalty to anyone who sells land to a Jew.

If you accept Salaita's argument, then an Arab state in Palestine does not have the right to existence either, by his own definition.

This is the state of Palestinian Arab intellectualism.

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Zionist oranges invade Iran

Iranians are freaking over seeing Israeli Jaffa oranges on store shelves. From Iran's PressTV:

Oranges allegedly imported from Israel have sparked controversy in Iran since Tehran has banned any sort of dealings with Tel Aviv.

The oranges have stickers with a sign that reads, "Jaffa sweetie Israel PO." However, they were distributed in boxes bearing 'made in China' prints.

In an interview with Mehr news agency, the head of the Fruit and Vegetable Distribution Organization in Tehran, Hossen Safaie described the incident as 'worrisome' adding that the violators of the law should be brought to justice.

Safaie said that his organization will follow the issue closely and will not allow those who want to make a profit ignore the Iranian citizens' religious and revolutionary learning.

Meanwhile, Deputy Iranian Commerce Minister Mohammad Sadeq Mofatteh presented a prize of 1,000,000,000,000 Iranian rials (USD 1 billion) for anyone who can prove that the Iranian Commerce Ministry has issued an import permit for the oranges, IRIB reported.

Mofatteh alleged that some rouge elements might have labeled the oranges as 'Jaffa sweetie Israel PO' in a bid to disgrace the ruling government.

If Israel was smart, they would take advantage of the existing paranoia that Iranian officials already have. Just slapping some Hebrew stickers around Tehran would be enough to cause Iranian officials to uncontrollably shake and sputter.

(Photos h/t Marc El)

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April 2009 rocket calendar

Q=Qassam (may include Katyusha-style rockets)
QS=Qassam landing short in Gaza
M=Mortar
F=Fatality (F=Gazan, F=Israeli)
(G)=Grad (included in Qassam count, not consistent yet)

MS=Mortar landing short
P - unnamed "projectiles"
(Paren) indicates unconfirmed Palestinian claims

* - Fatal non-rocket attack

K=Katyushas from Lebanon

April 2009

Su	Mo	Tu	We	Th	Fr	Sa
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
			1Q	1Q
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
				1Q
26	27	28	29	30	31	1
						1Q
2	3	4	5	6	7	8
			5M 1Q	1Q

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Proof of the Hamas/Zionist Conspiracy!

One of the funnier parts of watching the Arab world is seeing how the worst insult possible is to call someone a Zionist.

You can understand how Hamas accuses Fatah of being "Zionist," after all, they actually negotiate with those hated Israelis. But can Fatah actually believe that Hamas is Zionist as well?

Apparently so.

Palestine Press Agency published a photo last August showing an Israeli flag flying serenely over a Hamas compound in Gaza City:

This caused a bit of a stir in the Fatah message boards, as poster after poster used this as proof that Hamas was cooperating with Israel and were really secret Zionists and that the Americans and Israelis were working together with Iranian Shi'ites and Hamas. Others expressed extreme sorrow that Hamas could have become such a lost cause.

Finally, one member wrote a message explaining that Hamas was creating a video about the life of one of its "martyrs" and that the Israeli flag was just a part of the scenery.

Even after that explanation, the posters kept on going, saying things like "Hamas = Iran = Israel = America" and "They are the grandsons of monkeys and pigs, they are terrorists and they belong to Israel" and "Hhahahahahahahaha we knew this for a long time. Hamas is the second incarnation of the Jewish state."

Not the brightest bunch.

(h/t Suzanne)

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Good backgrounder on Gaza casualties

Besides the research we have been doing comes this analysis by the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center in Herzliya. I wish it had more specifics but it points to some new avenues of research.

Excerpts:

4. During Operation Cast Lead Hamas adopted the policy of concealing its own casualties to prevent morale from flagging and to reinforce the (false) impression that Israel was deliberately directing its military operations against Gazan civilians. Surfers on PALDF, Hamas's main Internet forum, were informed that it was strictly forbidden to post the names, pictures or any identifying details about “resistance” [i.e., terrorist] operatives killed or wounded until the end of the “Israeli aggression” in the Gaza Strip 3 (see the Appendix for the text of the instructions). In some instances reports were received of unofficial (and sometimes secret) and improvised burials during the fighting.

5. The policy of hiding the real number of terrorist operative casualties and issuing false reports about the number of civilians killed has continued after Operation Cast Lead . That was manifested by the creation of a false propaganda presentation of the mass killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip (the “holocaust” claimed by pro-Hamas propaganda) and the reduction or hiding of the blow dealt to Hamas's military infrastructure and its terrorist operatives. All of the above were aimed at serving the “victory narrative” which Hamas has been carefully constructing since the end of Operation Cast Lead.

6. Hamas, which controls all information originating in the Gaza Strip, issued exaggerated numbers of the number of “civilians” killed during Operation Cast Lead, while feeding the media false data and selective, biased reports about the number of armed operatives killed. That was done by lending a civilian character to security forces' operatives despite the fact that such operatives also serve in the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades in unequivocally operational capacities. 4

7. The numbers of armed terrorists involved in the fighting are therefore swallowed by the general statistics, where their identity as terrorists is blurred and they are represented as civilians or innocent, harmless policemen deliberately killed by the IDF . As a result a gap has been created between the biased data provided by Hamas (which the human rights organizations base their reports on) and the aforementioned findings of the examination undertaken by IDF Military Intelligence .

8. After Operation Cast Lead the Palestinians media reported an exaggerated 1,330 deaths. 5 By the end of February the total had been inflated to 1,414 (according to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights) and then to 1,452 (by a media report which originated with the Hamas de-facto administration 6). The continual increase in the numbers of the dead was not supported by reports of scores of newly-found bodies or deaths of the wounded.

9. The discrepancy between the initial and later numbers can be explained by the inclusion of those who were not actually killed during Operation Cast Lead or the addition of those who died of natural causes.

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To my Cleveland Indymedia re-poster

Someone has been posting many of my articles to Cleveland Indymedia. I don't know who it is, and I appreciate it very much, but could you please include a link to my original posting when you re-post? The formatting, links and quotes sometimes get messed up and I would like interested people to be able to find the original.

Thanks!

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Egyptian cartoon

I haven't been covering the war of words between Egypt and Hezbollah in the wake of the arrest of a Hezbollah terror cell in Egypt, but this Al Khan cartoon describes liberal Egyptian fears of Islamic fundamentalism quite nicely.

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An "anti-racist" racist

This Guardian "Commentary is Free" column by Seumas Milne shows how racist some leftists are - even when they pretend to be against racism:

What do the US, Canada, ­Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Israel have in common? They are all either European or European-settler states. And they all decided to boycott this week's UN ­conference against racism in Geneva – even before Monday's incendiary speech by the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad which triggered a further white-flight walkout by representatives of another 23 European states.

In international forums, it's almost unprecedented to have such an ­undiluted racial divide of whites-versus-the-rest. And for that to happen in a global meeting called to combat racial hatred doesn't exactly augur well for future international understanding at a time when the worst economic crisis since the war is ramping up racism and xenophobia across the world.

Milne predictably goes on to describe and justify how much of the (non-white) world views Israel as racist.

What is more interesting is how he himself views things. He looks at US, Canada, ­Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Israel as being primarily "white" nations. This is the type of statement one would expect from David Duke. He implies that it is the "white" nations who are guilty of ignoring an anti-racism conference, and not the "rest." The implication, of course, is that the "white" nations are racists - and that the Arab and African nations who agree with Ahmadinejad are the ones who are more concerned with the existence of racism!

This amazingly twisted viewpoint is a perfect example of how political correctness turns the truth on its head and ends up being racist itself. Milne somehow ignores that the "racist" US elected a black president (and his hated white predecessor chose two black Secretaries of State.) He somehow doesn't notice that every state that boycotted Durban is a democracy and is committed to equal rights for its citizens. He also ignores the small fact that it is entirely possible that a majority of Israelis today have at least one grandparent who came from a non-European country.

Boycotting Durban 2 doesn't imply that "European or European-settler states" are racist. Describing those nations as "white," however, comes close.

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Gazans who died naturally called "martyrs"?

The New York Times writes, in an article about the internal IDF report on Gaza:

Gaza health officials said more than 1,300 Palestinians died during the war, but Israel disputes Palestinian claims that most of them were noncombatants. By the Israeli military’s count, 1,166 people were killed, of whom 295 were noncombatants, 709 were what it called Hamas terrorist operatives and 162 were men whose affiliations remain unidentified.

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights in Gaza put the number of dead at 1,417: 926 civilians, 236 combatants and 255 police officers. Israel says that about 400 Gazans die of natural causes every month, possibly accounting for the discrepancy in numbers.

This is an interesting possibility.

One indication that it may be true could come from the Palestinian Ministry of Health website. They routinely list "martyrs" of Gazans who have supposedly died as a result of not getting adequate medical attention because of the "siege." This list started last July and now has 325 "shahids," many of whom had cancer and other incurable diseases.

A quick look at the numbers of these martyrs by month is interesting:

November - 10
December - 14
January - 3
February - 13
March - 23

That's right - during the war, when one would expect that ill patients would be dying in much higher numbers, the sick of Gaza suddenly gained a reprieve! - Only three of them died, a much lower rate than before and after the war!

So how many of the "shahids" listed by the PCHR were really people who died of natural causes?

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Joseph's Tomb desecrated again

From YNet:

Hundreds of Jewish worshipers who arrived at Joseph's Tomb in the West Bank city of Nablus overnight were stunned to find the compound severely vandalized – yet again.

Israel pulled its forces out of the compound in October 2000. The IDF disallowed Jewish worshippers from entering it for a long period of time due to security concerns; and deserted, it has been burnt down and defaced many times.

December of 2008 saw Joseph Tomb's restored and the military began allowing worshippers to visit it once more, but always at night and under heavy military guard, for their own safety.

Wednesday night's visit was approved by the proper military authorities and the IDF provided the worshippers with an escort.

The group which entered the compound was made up of some 500 people. Upon entering the tomb they found it had been defaced – the headstone smashed and swastikas sprayed on the walls, as well as graffiti of a blood-dripping sward over a Star of David, and another "trampled" by a boot.

Some reported seeing visible boot prints all over the compounds, which they claim are consistent with the Palestinian police standard issue boots.

This is how we can expect Jewish shrines to be treated when they are under Palestinian Arab control. Anyone who relies on "agreements" with the PalArabs to preserve Jewish holy places is, quite simply, a fool.

And by extension, so is anyone who relies on "agreements" with the PA altogether.

A related post from last week.

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Update on PCHR fake-civilian publicity

I want to thank everyone who made suggestions to my draft press release as well as other ideas on how to get this information out there.

At the moment, I am talking indirectly to one major media outlet.

I am also in contact with one organization that is "definitely interested" in discussing how we could coordinate our efforts further. I would be much more comfortable finding a partner like that who would be able to verify and expand on what we have found and who already has experience in doing this sort of work. I can't speak for Suzanne or PTWatch but I would prefer that the news gets out widely by any means even if my name is not attached to it.

For now, a press release seems to be a little premature.

Side notes - I did manage to download all of the Al Qassam "martyrs" pages along with pictures. If anyone wants to go through the discussions in the messages as well as the links on the list and save the pages before they go stale or disappear, it would be appreciated.

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"I want my daughter to vacation in Egypt"

An bizarre column by Jonathan Power published in the Arab News:

My 18-year-old-daughter asked me on Saturday where she can safely travel to when she finishes school in June and has three months holiday before going to university in September. “The Muslim countries or Japan”, I replied.

She was quite taken aback. At school they talk about the US, Australia, Thailand and South America. “No”, I said very empahtically, “I don’t want you to go there”, and then set about explaining to her and her mother why I felt so strongly.

I pulled out the figures from the new 2009 UN World Development Report. After a lot of research into different types of measurement, the UN decided that the only accurate one was the homicide rate. If you try to compare rape, theft, break-ins etc. there is confusion — every country, apart from those in European Union, measure these in different ways. Some figures are accurate, some seem like they’ve been drawn out of a hat.

But most countries report their murder rate pretty accurately.

To cut a long story short, I would gladly let her go to Egypt, which has the world’s lowest murder rate — at 0.4 per 100,000 population. Although it is closely followed by Japan at 0.5, other Muslim, mainly Arab, countries follow next, all with less than one murder per 100,000 of population. The United Arab Emirates, including that hot bed, Dubai, is at 0.6; Oman at 0.6; Saudi Arabia at 0.9; Bahrain at 1; and Jordan at 0.9. Even Indonesia, with all its political troubles, comes out at 1.1. Outside the Arab countries, the Scandinavian countries are the safest. Norway is at 0.8, Denmark at 0.8 and Iceland at 1. But Sweden breaks the Scandinavian success rate with a poor 2.4. Holland and Ireland do well too.

So daughter, there is your list that I approve and your mother has been persuaded to approve. None of the others you mention or think about are safe, so forget about them. Ironically for us, they are countries with a Christian heritage— the US at 5.6; Mexico at 13; Russia at 19.9; South Africa at 47.5; and Columbia at 62.7.

Jonathan Power must really love his daughter. After all, he is very worried about the 0.0056% chance that she would be murdered if she visited the United States for an entire year.

It is curious that he is not concerned at all about the greater than 30% chance that she would be sexually harassed in Egypt on any particular day:

...Sexual harassment is not only a persistent threat to some women, but that it is a widespread issue for all of Egyptian society. Survey results attest that harassment is not limited by age or social class, but hinders the progress of women across demographics. Service workers, housewives and professionals alike all report experiencing sexual harassment. The most common form is inappropriate touching (40% of all respondents), followed by verbal harassment (38%). 30% of respondents reported being harassed on a daily basis and another 12% are harassed almost daily. Only 12% of respondents approached police when harassed, expressing a complete lack of confidence in Egypt's police and legal system to protect them from harassers.

And more recently from the Christian Science Monitor:

As May Zayed gets ready to leave for her downtown office, she tries to prepare for the harassment she'll face on the street. The 20-something member of Egypt's large working class says she has learned to tune out most lewd comments. But it's impossible to ignore everything. "There is no way to get ready for it," she says. "It just becomes part of your normal life."

According to a study released by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) in July, 62 percent of Egyptian men admit to sexually harassing women, and 83 percent of Egyptian women reported being harassed. Half say it happens every day.

So, the probability that Powers' daughter will be sexually harassed as a single woman walking alone in Egyptian streets during a week-long vacation is pretty much 100%. But chances are pretty low that she would be murdered, so definitely Egypt is a better vacation destination for his daughter than London or New York.

If your priorities (and math skills) are really, really poor.

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A 16-year old terrorist

As I find more Gaza "civilians," I came across PCHR #405, Tareq Yaser Mohammed ‘Afana, a 16-year old youth.

According to the Hamas website:

Did not stop young age Shahid Tariq - God's mercy - which at the age of 17 [sic, he was almost 17] years old an overwhelming sincere desire to join the convoy of jihad, and join a convoy of mujahideen, so he contacted the leadership of Hamas and asked to join the ranks of the mujahideen, in the face of strong determination and desire true that waiting more than one year is too much. The leadership of Hamas agreed to his request, and Tariq - God's mercy - in the month of August 2008 became one of the Mujahedeen of the Qassam Brigades. He was within the ranks of the Mujahideen only 4 months until he became a martyr covered in blood.

During the very short Jihad of this Shahid, which did not exceed 4 months, he struggled a great holy war and left his mark on the forehead deep in the pages of history. He was first stationed in the camp of Jabalya to protect his people from the treacherous Zionist cowards, and also participated in the digging of tunnels, which were hell to burn the Zionists invaders, as well as participated in the preparation and processing and packaging in which the targeting mechanisms and the Zionist tanks.

But according to "human rights" groups, this is an innocent child victim of Israeli aggression.

So far we have identified over 145 "civilians."

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Adventures in autotranslation

Looking for more Hamas members that the PCHR called "civilians" on Arabic websites is interesting, because sometimes Google decides to translate instead of transliterate.

I found this "martyr" on the Hamas site:
Facilitate Abdullah scarf

Luckily, I have a font I once commissioned that transliterates from Arabic to Hebrew so I can read the name and then transliterate it to English. This guy's name turned into

תיסיר עבד אללה ושאח

which I was then able to find was

#303 Taysir Abdullah Mohammed Weshah

on the PCHR list, another "civilian" according to PCHR.

We now have identified 137 "civilian" terrorists so far that Israel killed.

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Hamas opens a bank

Let the terrorist money laundering begin!

GAZA CITY: The first bank affiliated with the Hamas movement opened yesterday in Gaza.

“We are opening the bank today and are beginning to offer our services to the public,” Alaa Al-Rafati, head of the National Islamic Bank, told AFP.

The National Islamic Bank has $20 million in start-up capital and will operate under Islamic finance rules, he said.

With offices on four floors of a building in central Gaza City, the bank will hold the accounts of 6,000 Hamas employees whose salaries are to be deposited in the bank.

Rafati did not say how the movement acquired the start-up capital in a territory under Israeli embargo since Hamas, which is pledged to the destruction of the Jewish state, violently seized power in 2007.

Because of the blockade, which has prevented all but essential humanitarian goods from entering the territory, Gaza’s banks have faced a virtually constant liquidity crisis. Rafati said no such problems would plague the new bank.

“We have absolutely no crisis of liquidity, be it shekels or dollars. This will allow us to win the confidence of customers.”

Although the vast majority of the board of directors are members of Hamas, including Rafati, he said the bank was “a private enterprise aimed at making profit and is not associated to Hamas or to the government in Gaza.” The Palestinian Authority has refused to issue the bank a license and called for it to be boycotted.

Does anyone smell the stench of Tehran?

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Egyptians uniformly against "normalization"

Thirty years after Camp David, a small episode in Egypt this week illuminates the hatred that Egyptians have towards Israel.

Rabidly anti-Israel pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim led the Cairo Symphony Orchestra at the Cairo Opera House. Barenboim, who may be the only Jew to hold an honorary Palestinian citizenship, emphasized that he was not there as a representative of Israel, and he mentioned (to great applause) "I am sick to my stomach every morning when I wake up and I see the Palestinian territories still being occupied." He told a press conference, "I am not here to represent the Israeli government. I am here as an individual who has been very critical of the Israeli government."

Even so, Egyptians were divided as to whether hosting an Israeli in any capacity was part of a slippery slope towards the heinous crime of "normalization" with its peace partner.

Al Ahram notes:

Barenboim's Egyptian opponents question his decision to hold onto Israeli citizenship, pointing out that his visit to Egypt, the first such, may be intended to furtively normalise relations with Israel -- a step Minister of Culture Farouk Hosni, along with the vast majority of intellectuals, formally rejects. Hosni's critics ask whether inviting Barenboim to Egypt is a nod on his part to the pro-Israel-dominated US political sphere, with a view to gaining favour regarding his nomination to the post of UNESCO director-general. "I will not accept such a visit or such a performance," the well-known writer Youssef El-Qaeed declaimed. "And don't tell me that Barenboim has a Palestinian passport or that he was a close friend of Edward Said's. I still will not accept it.

But those who were more ambivalent towards Barenboim's performance are equally against normalization:

The better known novelist, Gamal El-Ghitani -- also the editor of the cultural weekly Akhbar Al-Adab -- takes the opposite stand: "Had it been 10 years ago, it would have been perfectly fine. As it is this visit looks like an electoral manoeuvre in Hosni's candidacy for UNESCO director- general, which it is not. This is not normalisation and it's a dangerous wager to say that it is. This conductor is a hugely important figure who has always supported peace and spoken out against Israeli aggression in the Middle East."

The well-known journalist Assem Hanafi goes even further, explaining that refusing to let an anti-Zionist figure perform in Egypt is to realise Israel's wishes. "All I can say," he says, "is that this is an excellent opportunity and I have already booked my seat." The head censor, critic Ali Abu Shadi, feels that "what we have to go on" is Barenboim's stated position on the Arab-Israeli conflict. "If it is in support of the Arab cause and Palestinian rights, I am all for the person. If it is not I am against him -- even if he is the most outstanding artist on earth."

To the claim that it is an electoral manoeuvre on the part of Hosni, Abu Shadi exclaims, "normalisation of what? And to what end?"

People who claim they are for "peace" in the Middle East never talk about what exactly that means in terms of Israel becoming treated like a legitimate state by its Arab neighbors. All they care about is pressuring Israel to make more and more concessions. You will be hard pressed to find a "peace activist" lobbying Egypt to increase cultural and economic ties with Israel.

In other words, the only people who really want a true peace are Israelis, and not its critics, and Israeli-Egyptian relations prove it.

One must wonder why those who claim to want peace rarely try to improve the illusory "peace" that already exists.

The Egyptian peace treaty with Israel is often held up as a shining example of what is possible. This is true. However, it is also a shining example of exactly the kind of "peace" that Israel could ever gain from its neighbors - one where they will continue to project implacable hate towards the very idea of a Jewish state in their midst.

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Draft press release about fake Gaza civilians

A number of people have mentioned that the research that I, PTWatch and Suzanne are doing needs to be publicized. I am not very good at self-promotion nor at project management, but here's what I think needs to be done:

* Complete, as much as possible, the research we are doing
* Hopefully, create a comprehensive report of the findings and analysis, including pictures of the "civilian" terrorists
* Publicize it to media outlets

If anyone out there is better than I am at this stuff, especially at organizing and double-checking the data, please volunteer to help out.

Here's a draft press release I wrote, all critiques are appreciated:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

In the wake of worldwide accusations of widespread Israeli atrocities towards civilians in Gaza, an ad-hoc team of researchers has discovered that many of the so-called "civilian" casualties in Gaza were, in fact, Arab terrorists.

In March, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights released a seemingly comprehensive list of people killed in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead. This list described the victims as either "militant" or "civilian," and determined that out of 1417 dead, 926 were civilians. These numbers were publicized widely throughout the world as the definitive list of casualties, and were used as proof that the Israel Defense Forces were using indiscriminate and disproportionate force.

A team of independent researchers from the United States, Germany and the Netherlands has been finding many problems with the PCHR methodology. Using newspaper articles, descriptions of the victims on Hamas websites and other sources, this team has so far identified that over 125 of the so-called "civilians" were, in fact, active members of terror groups.

"The PCHR seems to have used a deliberately narrow definition of 'civilian,'" says the pseudonymous Elder of Ziyon, leader of the team, who has been publishing their findings on his website. "Hamas military commanders and leaders who were clearly legitimate targets are not being counted as "militants" by the PCHR, even as Hamas lauds them as long-time members of the Qassam Brigades terror group."

Further analysis from the team reveals that the initial claims by the UN, PCHR, Palestinian Health Ministry and others that there were 30-50 victims of Israeli shelling outside the Jabalya UNRWA school in January were untrue. The PCHR's list agrees with the IDF's claims of only 12 victims. Even so, the claim of dozens of phantom victims is still on the PCHR website.

The team is compiling the results of their research in real time, fully transparently, on the Elder of Ziyon website at http://elderofziyon.com. The centerpiece of the research is a living document that is listing all of the terrorists that the PCHR considers "civilian" along with links to the webpages that prove their affiliation to known terror groups, often with biographies and photos. The final results will be published and available for review.

For more information, contact Elder at coolboardpresident @ yahoo.com.

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New blog to check out by Barry Rubin

Professor Barry Rubin, prolific author and Middle East expert, has a new blog where he is writing a large number of interesting posts.

I have no idea how he writes so fast.

Check it out!

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Another Hamas victim succumbs

A Gaza man who was injured by Hamas during Cast Lead has succumbed to his wounds, increasing the self-death count for the year to 67.

Human Rights Watch just came out with a report accusing Hamas of murdering some 32 political opponents during Cast Lead.

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Another "martyr" data point

When the Gaza operation ended, Hamas claimed to have lost 48 members in total.

At the moment, their Arabic website lists 138 Hamas members who were "martyred."

Their English website? Only 9.

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Gaza fake civilian count keeps rising

PTWatch and Suzanne are doing a fantastic job finding more fake "civilians" from Gaza who were in fact terrorists. We are now up to 94 114 on our list, of whom 75 were identified as "civilian" and the rest as "policemen/civilian" by PCHR. Suzanne is now noticing "martyrs" listed on the Hamas Arabic site who were called "civilian" by PCHR.

Keep in mind that a great number of the remaining "civilians" are young men between 17 and 35, and many other terrorists are not publicly known. In fact, Hamas is still releasing the names of new "martyrs" a few times a month even now, as they try to balance hiding the number of losses they had with memorializing their "heroes."

It is also notable that at least 8 of the terrorists have been listed as "children" by PCHR (7 explicitly called "militants" by PCHR, one additional one identified from the Al Mezan list.)

More useful analysis can be done given the differing lists from Al Mezan and PCHR. Human shields can be identified if one carefully looks at the location of the terrorists killed and line them up with civilians killed at the same place. Similarly, children and wives with the same last name killed at the same place as known terrorists would indicate that they were being used as human shields, or at the very least they were endangered knowingly (as is the case of the family of Nizar Rayan.)

As this list grows, the utter mendacity of so-called "human rights organizations" in Gaza is proven over and over again. They knowingly lie in order to make Israel look as bad as possible.

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70 years ago: The boats of unwanted Jews

On the eve of World War II, the Holocaust was already happening. Jews were being herded into concentration camps and the lucky ones managed to find ships on which they sailed to get out of the hellhole of Europe.

Only to be rebuffed everywhere they went.

Exactly 70 years ago, in April 1939, the SS Assimi and another ship tried to bring hundreds of refugees to Palestine, only to be stopped by the British and sent back out to sea.

After another 68 days at sea, the passengers managed to make it to Palestine to be arrested by the British (click to enlarge).

And they were the lucky ones.

Time magazine described the ships that were left without any ports:

The liner St. Louis left Hamburg one Sunday last month. Out into the grey waste of the Atlantic it carried its dismal cargo: 937 German-Jewish refugees bound for Cuba. The ten-year-old, oil-burning, 16,732-ton ship was scheduled to discharge its miserable company at Havana, proceed to New York to pick up passengers for a gay June cruise to the West Indies. The refugees were to remain in Cuba until they could enter the U. S. They were a typical group of the world's newest homeless wanderers: men in sports clothes who had paid as much as $480 for their passage; distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been in concentration camps. There were 500 women on board. There was Max Loewe, a lawyer, with his wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded of anxiety, relief, tension, they waited, living until their voyage's end under the terrible shadow of the red & black swastika ensign that flew from the stern.

For 13 days the ship plowed south and west. In glistening Havana Harbor on a sweltering Saturday the engines stopped. Across the water the refugees could see Morro Castle and the heat-softened outlines of Havana, where many of them had relatives among Havana's 25,000 Jews. Ninety miles to the north lay the U. S. But the ship did not dock. The launches that approached it were ordered back by harbor police. To the refugees the stretch of water between ship and shore was as wide as the 4,600 miles the St. Louis had crossed.

Sunday passed and Monday. The ship lay motionless and silent in the sluggish swell. Twenty-nine passengers whose papers were in order were permitted to land. Remaining were 908 who had only provisional permits of the Cuban Immigration Department to land as passengers en route to the U. S.—and on May 5, nine days before the St. Louis sailed, hard-faced President Federico Laredo Bru had decreed that Cuba required specific permission of the Departments of State, Labor and the Treasury. Rumors spread as Tuesday passed without change, as New York representatives of Jewish relief agencies flew to Havana. The rumors whispered of a longstanding dispute between the Hamburg-American Line and the Cuban Government, of a growth of Cuban anti-Semitism due to the landing of 5,000 refugees in Havana during the past year. Lawyer Loewe slashed his wrists, leaped overboard. Another passenger took poison, was saved when crew members smashed in his stateroom door.

Thursday, President Laredo Bru gave his decision: Cuba did not want the St. Louis' Jews. The St. Louis had to leave promptly, or it would be towed out of the harbor by a gunboat. Her captain announced the ship would sail for Germany by way of Lisbon at 10 a. m. next morning. And as he had said that he feared mutiny or a wave of suicides if the refugees were returned, the St. Louis was followed out to sea by 26 police boats to pick up any other passengers who might fling themselves into the waters. Slowly the ship cruised off the coast of Florida, barely making way, sometimes steaming in aimless circles, until President Laredo Bru relented, 22 days after the St. Louis left Hamburg. He announced that they would be permitted to land temporarily on the Isle of Pines, ancient pirate hideout 50 miles south of Cuba. Next day, the refugees having failed to get the financial guarantees that President Laredo Bru had demanded, he changed his mind, again prohibited them from landing.

Meanwhile, in half-a-dozen harbors in the Western Hemisphere, off ports in the Mediterranean, the St. Louis drama was repeated. At Veracruz 327 refugees from Loyalist Spain were landed from the Flandre, 104 German Jews turned back. On the Taurus at Veracruz an exiled Jewish chemist, learning that he could not land, took poison, told the captain he would be dead in two minutes, died. In Buenos Aires, 200 Jewish refugees on the Caporte, the Monte Olivia, the Mendoza, were sent back to Germany.

Off the coast of Palestine the weirdest and most wretched drama of the homeless was taking place. There, outside the three-mile limit, a collection of jampacked, unseaworthy little tubs lay waiting for a chance to run cargoes of permitless refugees ashore. There were Greek sailing schooners like the Panagiya Correstrio, usually carrying three fishermen, with 180 below decks; tramps like the grimy, 320-ton Assimi, flying the flag of Panama, which hauled 270 German and Central European Jews for 36 days before British officials arrested its captain; cargo boats like those which, unable to run refugees into Palestine, abandoned 424 Danzig Jews on the Island of Crete, tried unsuccessfully to dump 1,100 on the small Greek Island of Dia.

The St. Louis was part of Hitler's justification for the Holocaust. From Wikipedia (uncited):

Hitler's propaganda ministry and the Nazi Party conceived a propaganda exercise which would demonstrate that Germany was not alone in its territorial exclusionary hostility towards Jews as a permanent minority within the political economy of their nation. The Nazis wanted to prove the “civilized world” agreed with their assertion that Jews constituted a “hidden hand” of influence on national and economic affairs. They meant to show that no other Western country would receive Jews as refugees.

On the surface, it would appear that the Nazis were allowing the Jewish refugees a new life in Havana. However, the Nazis were aware of rising Western anti-Semitism, and correctly surmised that Jews traveling on tourist visas (not immigrant visas, which none of the potential host countries would likely have issued them) would not be able to enter Cuba, since they were clearly political and social refugees. Furthermore, once they had been refused entry by Cuba and other Atlantic nations, the world would be forced to admit that there was, as the Nazis claimed, a “Jewish problem,” which Germany was trying to resolve “humanely.”

Since not one of the countries of the North Atlantic basin would allow the Jewish refugees entry, these countries could not morally object when Nazi Germany dealt with its own Jewish population as it saw fit.

Indeed, the US refused to allow passengers to disembark, just as Cuba had. The heroic captain of the St. Louis managed to find refuge for his passengers in Great Britain, Belgium, the Netherlands and France.

254 of them ended up being murdered by the Nazis; the rest were saved.

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