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January 27, 2005
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January 27, 2005
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don't lose heart...
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Israel is important to God...
don't lose heart...
He is in charge of history...
He has a plan and everything is under control!
B'surot Tovot!
GOOD NEWS FROM ISRAEL!
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/section.php?id=8
MORE GOOD NEWS FROM ISRAEL
http://www.newsoftheday.com/israel/
AND EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS!
http://www.israel21c.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage
What’s Really Hot!
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Israel National TV
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/tv.php?video_id=502&band=300
GRAPH: PALESTINE SEATS WON
Israel National TV
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/tv.php?video_id=502&band=300
GRAPH: PALESTINE SEATS WON
HAMAS WINS PA ELECTION–URGENT CALL TO PRAYER AND ACTION
http://m1e.net/c?45761946-etOIYo1MyHNzU%401410596-PT0QDkYZyWeaI
The eyes of the world are on Israel today as the Palestinians have elected Hamas, a terror organization, which calls for the total destruction of the State of Israel, to rule over them. Hamas won a majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council, capturing 76 of the 132 seats in a democratic election. The next largest party (Fatah, formerly the ruling party) received 43, and splinter groups 13 seats. Hamas, recognized as a terror organization by the leaders of the world, is now the democratically elected leader of the Palestinian people, who are predominantly Muslim. Hamas is responsible for 425 terror attacks against Israelis since September 2000, resulting in 377 deaths and 2,076 injuries.
This current crisis occurs at a time when Israel’s beloved Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, lies in a vegetative coma and is not expected to recover. Israel is preparing for new elections to be held on March 28. Ehud Olmert, Acting Prime Minister, has not had the time to solidify support for his leadership, and there is great uncertainty about who will be the prime minister, and who will be members of the Knesset after the elections.
The victory of Hamas, a terrorist group who has now become a political force, will impact Israel and the world. It is time to recognize that Hamas, funded and supported by Iran and Syria, is a threat not only to the State of Israel, but also to the peace and stability of the entire region.
What happens when people choose evil? Remember, in 1932, the German people voted the Nazi party into power with Adolf Hitler as Chancellor in a fair, democratic election. By and large, the world did not recognize the danger. Let’s learn a lesson from the past. It is time to stand with God and against evil. The Bible says, “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter! Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!” (Isaiah 5:20–21).
In the midst of this crisis and the resulting turmoil, we know one thing for certain. Israel needs God’s help now! We call on Bible-believing Christians everywhere to turn their faces toward God and call out in intercession for the nation and people of Israel. The Lord has emblazoned Isaiah 62 on my heart: “For Zion’s sake I will not keep silent, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not keep quiet, until her righteousness goes forth like brightness and her salvation like a torch that is burning…On your walls, O Jerusalem, I have appointed watchmen; all day and all night they will never keep silent. You who remind the Lord, take no rest for yourselves; and give Him no rest until He establishes and makes Jerusalem a praise in the earth” (Isaiah 62:1,6–7, NASB).
We are involved in a spiritual conflict which has put Israel in the no-man’s land. We see the evidence of the struggle all around us in the world. What is our response? We can stand on the sidelines and watch, or we can choose to actively become involved with God. At Bridges for Peace, we give you many opportunities to participate in God’s plans for Israel. This is the battleground, and this is the place where God is showing the world that He keeps His word. In this email you will find prayer points, and action suggestions, as well as facts about Hamas. On our web site under a button entitled ACTION Resource Pack, you will find a power point presentation, radio clip, sermon outlines and the attached items. Join with us as we stand with God and Israel.
By Rebecca Brimmer, International President and CEO, Bridges for Peace.
PRAYER POINTS
1. Pray for the electoral process in Israel, that God to place the right leader at the helm in Israel, a man who will be able to lead with courage, justice and righteousness. “Daniel answered and said: ‘Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His, and He changes the times and the seasons; He removes kings and raises up kings; He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding’” (Daniel 2:20–21).
2. Pray that the people of Israel will turn to the Almighty God for direction. Pray that they will put their trust in Him. “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7).
3. Pray that the nations will not pressure Israel to make concessions to a terror regime. “Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?” (Psalm 2:1).
4. Pray for the safety of the people of Israel – bloody conflict may be just over the horizon. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills–From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:1– 4).
5. For the safety of Christian workers in Israel–75 staff members at BFP and their families, 55 staff members at the Christian Embassy, 40 at Christian Friends of Israel and many attached to local churches. “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust’…For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways” (Psalm 91:1–2, 11).
6. Pray for the Palestinian Christians whose position will likely become even more tenuous. “Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your strength. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors have sought after my life; they have not set God before them” (Psalm 54:1–4).
7. Pray for the Quartet meeting on Monday (January 30), as world leaders gather to decide how to advance the Road Map. “I urge them, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone–for kings, and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness” (I Timothy 2:1–2).
ACTION POINTS
2. Pray that the people of Israel will turn to the Almighty God for direction. Pray that they will put their trust in Him. “Some trust in chariots, and some in horses; but we will remember the name of the Lord our God” (Psalm 20:7).
3. Pray that the nations will not pressure Israel to make concessions to a terror regime. “Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing?” (Psalm 2:1).
4. Pray for the safety of the people of Israel – bloody conflict may be just over the horizon. “I will lift up my eyes to the hills–From whence comes my help? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not allow your foot to be moved; He who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep” (Psalm 121:1– 4).
5. For the safety of Christian workers in Israel–75 staff members at BFP and their families, 55 staff members at the Christian Embassy, 40 at Christian Friends of Israel and many attached to local churches. “He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in Him I will trust’…For He shall give His angels charge over you, to keep you in all your ways” (Psalm 91:1–2, 11).
6. Pray for the Palestinian Christians whose position will likely become even more tenuous. “Save me, O God, by Your name, and vindicate me by Your strength. Hear my prayer, O God; give ear to the words of my mouth. For strangers have risen up against me, and oppressors have sought after my life; they have not set God before them” (Psalm 54:1–4).
7. Pray for the Quartet meeting on Monday (January 30), as world leaders gather to decide how to advance the Road Map. “I urge them, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone–for kings, and all those in authority, that we may live peaceful and quiet lives in all godliness and holiness” (I Timothy 2:1–2).
ACTION POINTS
1. Show you love the Jewish people in practical ways. Bridges for Peace has many projects to choose from. Click here http://m1e.net/c?45761946-MmLwFjwEn1EQU%401410597-HawyaXmtYi4Vo to bless the nation and people of Israel. Christians volunteers living in Israel can be your hands to bless the people.
2. Write to the Knesset, the Prime minister and the Christian Allies Caucus of the Knesset and show your support. A sample letter is supplied below to give you ideas of how to write, but it is better if you write in your own words.
3. Write to your political leaders and local media outlets. Sample letter below.
4. Go to http://m1e.net/c?45761946-HR76Evq.CCWUs%401410596-mJYgjQv96TxlI and sign up on our 24-Hour Prayer Chain for Israel.
5. Contact your BFP national office for more ideas. See the addresses listed at the end of this Update.
Bridges for Peace International Headquarters, P.O. Box 1093, Jerusalem, Israel. Telephone: 972-2-624-5004
Hamas: We'll Liberate Palestine
Ali Waked
2. Write to the Knesset, the Prime minister and the Christian Allies Caucus of the Knesset and show your support. A sample letter is supplied below to give you ideas of how to write, but it is better if you write in your own words.
3. Write to your political leaders and local media outlets. Sample letter below.
4. Go to http://m1e.net/c?45761946-HR76Evq.CCWUs%401410596-mJYgjQv96TxlI and sign up on our 24-Hour Prayer Chain for Israel.
5. Contact your BFP national office for more ideas. See the addresses listed at the end of this Update.
Bridges for Peace International Headquarters, P.O. Box 1093, Jerusalem, Israel. Telephone: 972-2-624-5004
Hamas: We'll Liberate Palestine
Ali Waked
Hamas said Thursday it won 60.3% of the vote in the Palestinian parliament elections. Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh said the group will "complete the liberation of other parts of Palestine." Asked about the peace process, senior Hamas official Mahmoud Zaher said, "There is no process."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3207101,00.html
Will PA Security Personnel Take Orders from Hamas?
Danny Rubinstein
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3207101,00.html
Will PA Security Personnel Take Orders from Hamas?
Danny Rubinstein
Almost all senior officers in the Palestinian security services are Fatah members, and it is hard to see these people either giving up their status or giving up their allegiance to Fatah and becoming loyal servants of a Hamas government instead. Many doubt whether an orderly transfer of power is possible and fear that the PA is on the brink of civil war.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/675500.html
Jerusalem Arabs Vote Hamas
Etgar Lefkovits
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/675500.html
Jerusalem Arabs Vote Hamas
Etgar Lefkovits
Thousands of Arab residents of Jerusalem voted overwhelmingly for Hamas in Wednesday's elections, in a city that had always been considered Fatah turf. All four open Jerusalem seats went to Hamas
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1137605925974&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Is Democracy the Answer to Islamist Terrorism?
Anton La Guardia
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?c=JPArticle&cid=1137605925974&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Is Democracy the Answer to Islamist Terrorism?
Anton La Guardia
For the past two years, America has pursued the idea that democracy is the answer to Islamist terrorism. Now the Palestinian people have spoken clearly - and they have voted for the terrorists.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=CTVP1RB03TFFV
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14 prisoners in Israeli jails elected
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=CTVP1RB03TFFV
QFIQMFCFGGAVCBQYIV0?xml=/opinion/2006/01/27/do2702.xml&sSheet=/opinion/2006/01/27/ixop.html
14 prisoners in Israeli jails elected
Fourteen security prisoners in Israeli jails are believed to have been elected to the 132-seat parliament, while one inmate of a Palestinian prison was also successful, said Butheina Dukmak, director-general of the Mandela Institute for Human Rights, a prisoner advocacy group.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605925529&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
What Hamas Will Do With Its New Power
Jamil Hamad
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605925529&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
What Hamas Will Do With Its New Power
Jamil Hamad
Dealing with Israel - in either sense of that term - is not a priority for Hamas, right now, nor will it be for some time to come. Instead, the radical Islamist group will focus on "cleaning the Palestinian house." What this means, concretely, is ridding the PA of rampant corruption, and establishing law and order on the chaotic streets of the West Bank and Gaza. Ironically, that means that a Hamas government may end up carrying out reforms in the PA long demanded by the U.S. and Israel - ensuring accountability and transparency in government, and reining in the militias.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1153223,00.html
Hamas Without Veils: No More Hiding Behind the PA
Emanuele Ottolenghi
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1153223,00.html
Hamas Without Veils: No More Hiding Behind the PA
Emanuele Ottolenghi
By winning, Hamas has to govern, which means they have to tell the world, very soon, a number of things. They will have to say whether they accept the roadmap. They will have to take control over security and decide whether they use it to wage war.
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/ottolenghi200601261002.asp
Palestinian Leader to Ask Hamas to Form a New Government
http://www.nationalreview.com/script/printpage.p?ref=/comment/ottolenghi200601261002.asp
Palestinian Leader to Ask Hamas to Form a New Government
By STEVEN ERLANGER and GREG MYRE
The move came a day after results showed that the radical Islamic party had routed the president's Fatah party in elections.
Hamas took 76 out of 132 seats, compared with 43 for Fatah.
Mr. Abbas, the leader of Fatah, told reporters, "We are consulting and in contact with all the Palestinian groups and definitely, at the appropriate time, the biggest party will form the cabinet."
A senior leader of Hamas, Dr. Mahmoud Zahar, said in Gaza today that it would take two or three weeks to form a government.
"It will not just be our government," he said, talking with reporters outside his home after midday prayers. "We will work with Fatah, independents and other parties to make it a national government."
http://www.nytimes.com/
Hamas took 76 out of 132 seats, compared with 43 for Fatah.
Mr. Abbas, the leader of Fatah, told reporters, "We are consulting and in contact with all the Palestinian groups and definitely, at the appropriate time, the biggest party will form the cabinet."
A senior leader of Hamas, Dr. Mahmoud Zahar, said in Gaza today that it would take two or three weeks to form a government.
"It will not just be our government," he said, talking with reporters outside his home after midday prayers. "We will work with Fatah, independents and other parties to make it a national government."
http://www.nytimes.com/
U.S. Could Halt Aid to Palestinians
By BARRY SCHWEID, AP Diplomatic Writer
Friday, January 27, 2006
The way ahead appears bumpy and uncertain, but the Bush administration will resume its search for a formula to bring peace to the Middle East following the jolting triumph of Hamas in Palestinian parliamentary elections.
One potential step is already clear — both President Bush and members of Congress may consider halting the millions of dollars in aid the U.S. has been sending the Palestinians annually in recent years.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2006/01/27/national/w074427S26.DTL
Europe may halt aid unless Hamas changes
Jan. 27, 2006
By GREGORY KATZCopyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
LONDON - Palestinians looking to Europe for reassurances that vital economic aid would continue despite the lopsided victory of Hamas found few encouraging signs Thursday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3616425.html
Olmert: A Hamas government will be rendered irrelevant
By GREGORY KATZCopyright 2006 Houston Chronicle
LONDON - Palestinians looking to Europe for reassurances that vital economic aid would continue despite the lopsided victory of Hamas found few encouraging signs Thursday.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/3616425.html
Olmert: A Hamas government will be rendered irrelevant
Acting PM holds emergency cabinet meeting, continuous consultations with foreign and defense ministries on the reality of 'Hamastan'.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605925356&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
The Earthquake
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605925356&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
The Earthquake
By David Horovitz (The Jerusalem Post)
And so it came to pass. The earthquake whose warning rumblings the secular Palestinian leadership insistently refused to heed has struck. The era of Fatah is over. The Islamists are taking control."No one will vote for Hamas," Nidal Abu-Dahan, Mahmoud Abbas's bodyguard, declared derisively in this column two weeks ago
"The era of Fatah is over. The Islamists are taking control"Mamoud Abbas(White House Photo)
(Why the Palestinians are voting for Hamas), defiantly discounting a series of local election results across the West Bank that had already proved the contrary.
Hamas will get "50.5 percent," Ziad Dayyeh, one of those newly elected local councillors, predicted in the same column, averaging out the municipal election showings and actually, as it has turned out, underestimating the disgust with which ordinary Palestinians have come to regard the Fatah fat cats.
Until yesterday, Israel and the rest of the West were grappling with the problem of how to relate to a Hamas minority in a still Fatah-dominated new Palestinian Authority government, as deaf as Abbas and his colleagues to the scale of the shift on the Palestinian street. Now there can be no escaping the Islamist reality, even if Abbas proves prepared to serve as the fig-leaf, the acceptable, secular, face of the Palestinians' new leadership.
Until yesterday, Israel and much of the West were issuing demands that Hamas put down its arms as a pre-condition for substantive contacts, that it abide by the democratic pre-condition for one rule of law, one legitimate force of arms. Now Hamas's leaders might assert that, in apparently fair elections, the Palestinian public has entrusted them with the rule of law, that they bear the single legitimate force of arms.
Ordinary Palestinians will tell you that they voted for Hamas because the Fatah PA cheated them and stole from them, whereas the Islamists have proved themselves exemplars of good governance at the local level. Many will stress that their vote for Hamas was not a ballot for a renewed campaign of suicide bombings and shooting attacks on Israeli targets.
And many Hamas officials will doubtless highlight, as Ziad Dayyeh did when I met with him in El-Bireh two weeks ago, that the patron of those suicide bombings and of Hamas itself, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, provided religious legitimacy for a suspension of such attacks and a temporary accommodation with Israel.
But Hamas's founding charter is uncompromising in its intolerance of Israel. It strives "to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine" and prescribes "resistance and quelling the enemy" as "the individual duty of every Muslim, male and female."
Some may seek comfort in the belief that an ascent to government could prompt a greater sense of responsibility, a move to moderation. But Hamas's intolerance is based on a perceived religious imperative. No believing Muslim, in the Hamas conception, can be reconciled to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. To deny that, for Hamas, is blasphemy.
And that is the ideology to which the Palestinian people, for whatever reason and by their own free hand, have just tied their fate. That is the guiding ideology with which Israel and the West will now have to grapple.
Israelis despair over Hamas election victory
26 Jan 2006
By Jonathan Saul
JERUSALEM, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Israeli Avi Zana listened with horror on Thursday to news that the Hamas militant group that killed his son had won Palestinian elections.
On the streets of the Jewish state, there was grave concern at the victory of the Hamas movement that carried out nearly 60 suicide bombings during a Palestinian uprising and is formally dedicated to destroying Israel.
"The Palestinians have shown their true face by electing Hamas," said Zana, 46. "The group does not want control of the Palestinian Authority, it wants control of all Israel."
Among those expected to win seats in the new Palestinian parliament was Mariam Farhat, also known as Umm Nidal, who in a video tape message urged her sons to carry out attacks -- including the one on a Jewish settlement in which Zana's 18-year-old-son was killed.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26228433.htm
Palestinian Democracy: Hamas Wins Landslide 76 of 132 Seats
Rajoub: Fatah will not join Hamas-led government
By Amos Harel, Arnon Regular and Amira Hass, Haaretz
Correspondents and Agencies
Following its sweeping victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, the radical Islamic Hamas organization said Thursday it would seek to hold talks on forming a coalition, but Fatah officials rejected the possibility of joining a Hamas-led government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674336.html
PHOTO: Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters
Palestinian boys celebrate the results of the election.
World Leaders Demand Hamas Recognize Israel
Ousted Fatah Party Won't Join With Militant Group in Government
By RAVI NESSMAN, AP
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Jan. 26) - In a moment of deep symbolism, thousands of Hamas supporters marched to the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah on Thursday and raised the Islamic militant group's green banner over the building.
Fatah activists, angry that their party had just been roundly defeated in the Palestinians' first competitive parliamentary vote, tried to pull the flag down. The two sides fought for about 30 minutes, throwing stones at each other and breaking windows in the building.
But in the end, Hamas prevailed.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060125045509990003
Leader likely to cut ties to Israel
By Paul Martin and Betsy PisikTHE WASHINGTON TIMES
"The era of Fatah is over. The Islamists are taking control"Mamoud Abbas(White House Photo)
(Why the Palestinians are voting for Hamas), defiantly discounting a series of local election results across the West Bank that had already proved the contrary.
Hamas will get "50.5 percent," Ziad Dayyeh, one of those newly elected local councillors, predicted in the same column, averaging out the municipal election showings and actually, as it has turned out, underestimating the disgust with which ordinary Palestinians have come to regard the Fatah fat cats.
Until yesterday, Israel and the rest of the West were grappling with the problem of how to relate to a Hamas minority in a still Fatah-dominated new Palestinian Authority government, as deaf as Abbas and his colleagues to the scale of the shift on the Palestinian street. Now there can be no escaping the Islamist reality, even if Abbas proves prepared to serve as the fig-leaf, the acceptable, secular, face of the Palestinians' new leadership.
Until yesterday, Israel and much of the West were issuing demands that Hamas put down its arms as a pre-condition for substantive contacts, that it abide by the democratic pre-condition for one rule of law, one legitimate force of arms. Now Hamas's leaders might assert that, in apparently fair elections, the Palestinian public has entrusted them with the rule of law, that they bear the single legitimate force of arms.
Ordinary Palestinians will tell you that they voted for Hamas because the Fatah PA cheated them and stole from them, whereas the Islamists have proved themselves exemplars of good governance at the local level. Many will stress that their vote for Hamas was not a ballot for a renewed campaign of suicide bombings and shooting attacks on Israeli targets.
And many Hamas officials will doubtless highlight, as Ziad Dayyeh did when I met with him in El-Bireh two weeks ago, that the patron of those suicide bombings and of Hamas itself, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, provided religious legitimacy for a suspension of such attacks and a temporary accommodation with Israel.
But Hamas's founding charter is uncompromising in its intolerance of Israel. It strives "to raise the banner of Allah over every inch of Palestine" and prescribes "resistance and quelling the enemy" as "the individual duty of every Muslim, male and female."
Some may seek comfort in the belief that an ascent to government could prompt a greater sense of responsibility, a move to moderation. But Hamas's intolerance is based on a perceived religious imperative. No believing Muslim, in the Hamas conception, can be reconciled to Jewish sovereignty in the Middle East. To deny that, for Hamas, is blasphemy.
And that is the ideology to which the Palestinian people, for whatever reason and by their own free hand, have just tied their fate. That is the guiding ideology with which Israel and the West will now have to grapple.
Israelis despair over Hamas election victory
26 Jan 2006
By Jonathan Saul
JERUSALEM, Jan 26 (Reuters) - Israeli Avi Zana listened with horror on Thursday to news that the Hamas militant group that killed his son had won Palestinian elections.
On the streets of the Jewish state, there was grave concern at the victory of the Hamas movement that carried out nearly 60 suicide bombings during a Palestinian uprising and is formally dedicated to destroying Israel.
"The Palestinians have shown their true face by electing Hamas," said Zana, 46. "The group does not want control of the Palestinian Authority, it wants control of all Israel."
Among those expected to win seats in the new Palestinian parliament was Mariam Farhat, also known as Umm Nidal, who in a video tape message urged her sons to carry out attacks -- including the one on a Jewish settlement in which Zana's 18-year-old-son was killed.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L26228433.htm
Palestinian Democracy: Hamas Wins Landslide 76 of 132 Seats
Rajoub: Fatah will not join Hamas-led government
By Amos Harel, Arnon Regular and Amira Hass, Haaretz
Correspondents and Agencies
Following its sweeping victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections, the radical Islamic Hamas organization said Thursday it would seek to hold talks on forming a coalition, but Fatah officials rejected the possibility of joining a Hamas-led government.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674336.html
PHOTO: Ahmed Jadallah, Reuters
Palestinian boys celebrate the results of the election.
World Leaders Demand Hamas Recognize Israel
Ousted Fatah Party Won't Join With Militant Group in Government
By RAVI NESSMAN, AP
RAMALLAH, West Bank (Jan. 26) - In a moment of deep symbolism, thousands of Hamas supporters marched to the Palestinian parliament in Ramallah on Thursday and raised the Islamic militant group's green banner over the building.
Fatah activists, angry that their party had just been roundly defeated in the Palestinians' first competitive parliamentary vote, tried to pull the flag down. The two sides fought for about 30 minutes, throwing stones at each other and breaking windows in the building.
But in the end, Hamas prevailed.
http://articles.news.aol.com/news/article.adp?id=20060125045509990003
Leader likely to cut ties to Israel
By Paul Martin and Betsy PisikTHE WASHINGTON TIMES
January 27, 2006
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar has proposed a dramatic shift of Palestinian policy -- ending security cooperation with Israel, cutting most trade links with the Jewish state and refusing to engage with the "Christian-Zionist" U.S. administration.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060126-104451-7917r.htm
Our World: We needn't lose the war
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar has proposed a dramatic shift of Palestinian policy -- ending security cooperation with Israel, cutting most trade links with the Jewish state and refusing to engage with the "Christian-Zionist" U.S. administration.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20060126-104451-7917r.htm
Our World: We needn't lose the war
By CAROLINE GLICK
Apparently, the Olmert government's answer to the specter of Hamas's projected electoral achievement in tomorrow's elections to the Palestinian parliament is to advance the electoral fortunes and legitimacy of the imprisoned mass murderer and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
On Sunday, in an unprecedented step, the government allowed Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya reporters to interview Barghouti in his prison cell. There he extolled terrorism, explained that the Fatah platform calls for terrorism in parallel with negotiations, pressed for a continuation of the Palestinian terror war against Israel, and promised Palestinian voters and the Arab world writ large that Fatah could be counted on to destroy Israel.http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605900642&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Who's who in Hamas
By Sam Knight
The stunning victory for Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections has catapulted the organisation's leadership, until recently a closely-kept secret, into a pivotal role in international politics.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010914,00.html
Hamas: Bush won't dictate to us
Group spokesman tells Ynet Palestinians back Hamas positions on resistance to occupation, says group does not accept dictates from America
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3206743,00.html
Apparently, the Olmert government's answer to the specter of Hamas's projected electoral achievement in tomorrow's elections to the Palestinian parliament is to advance the electoral fortunes and legitimacy of the imprisoned mass murderer and Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti.
On Sunday, in an unprecedented step, the government allowed Al-Jazeera and Al Arabiya reporters to interview Barghouti in his prison cell. There he extolled terrorism, explained that the Fatah platform calls for terrorism in parallel with negotiations, pressed for a continuation of the Palestinian terror war against Israel, and promised Palestinian voters and the Arab world writ large that Fatah could be counted on to destroy Israel.http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605900642&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Who's who in Hamas
By Sam Knight
The stunning victory for Hamas in the Palestinian parliamentary elections has catapulted the organisation's leadership, until recently a closely-kept secret, into a pivotal role in international politics.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010914,00.html
Hamas: Bush won't dictate to us
Group spokesman tells Ynet Palestinians back Hamas positions on resistance to occupation, says group does not accept dictates from America
http://www.ynetnews.com/Ext/Comp/ArticleLayout/CdaArticlePrintPreview/1,2506,L-3206743,00.html
Bush Says U.S. Won't Deal With Hamas - Rice Says Position Unchanged
President Bush said Thursday that Hamas cannot be partner for Middle East peacemaking without renouncing violence, and he reiterated that the United States will not deal with Palestinian leaders who do not recognize Israel's right to exist.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/01/26/D8FCEOVOB.html
Analysis: Hamas victory one of most important events in Middle East since Six Day War
By Amir Oren
Not only does it change the picture, but also it puts it into a completely different frame. Palestine under Hamas rule puts an end not only to the road map and the Oslo process, but also to the formula embodied by UN Resolution 242: "land for peace" and an accompanying end to the conflict. Not only does it perpetuate the conflict, but also it reshapes it - from an Israeli-Palestinian conflict to a Jewish-Arab one, and even a Western-Muslim one. Such a conflict, backed by the global Jihad movement and Khomeinist Iran, has neither a solution nor an end.
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/675450.html
DAVOS - Muslim leaders argue Hamas may change in power
By Mark Trevelyan
DAVOS, Switzerland (Reuters) - Muslim leaders urged Israel and the world on Thursday to accept the victory of militant group Hamas in Palestinian elections, saying it may present a different face in government than on the streets.
At a summit of global leaders and business chiefs in Switzerland, the leaders of Pakistan and Afghanistan joined the head of the Arab League in arguing that Hamas should be given a chance to change.
http://www.thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2006/1/27/worldupdates/2006-01-27T010242Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_-233991-1&sec=Worldupdates
Why the Hamas Victory is a Good Thing
by Steven Plaut
Perhaps the best indication of the extent to which the world has been Orwellized is the toady news coverage of the Palestinian "election", including in the Israeli media, itself largely the occupied territory of the far-left.For months, the media were all in suspense over whether the victors in the "election" would be the Hamas terrorists or the PLO terrorists. As it turned out, Hamas evidently won the "election" by a huge majority. The first part of the absurdity in the message daily inculcated by the Israeli political elite is that there is any significant difference between the PLO and Hamas. There is not.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=5970
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=5970
Olmert: Israeli withdrawal from West Bank to 'keep country Jewish' - But new study calls Palestinian 'population bomb' a lie
By Aaron Klein
HERZLIYA, Israel – Acting Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in a national address here yesterday announced his administration will push for a Palestinian state and Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, saying Arabs might soon outnumber Jews and threaten Israel's Jewish character unless the Palestinians quickly are offered a state of their own.
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/printer-friendly.asp?ARTICLE_ID=48498
Islamic Bombers Triumph at Ballot
Stephen Farrell and Ian MacKinnon
Militant Islam scored one of its biggest victories when election results showed that Hamas had crushed the Fatah party that had ruled Palestinian politics for 40 years. The victory of a group dedicated to Israel's destruction shocked Western leaders and put paid to any hopes of swiftly reviving the Middle East peace process. President Bush, Tony Blair, and other world leaders united in demanding that Hamas, responsible for more than 50 suicide bombings and 430 Israeli deaths in recent years, renounce violence and recognize Israel or face isolation.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010844,00.html
AAH CALLS ON U.S. GOVERNMENT TO TREAT CAIR AS HAMAS
CAIR FOUNDED BY HAMAS FRONT, WITH SEED MONEY FROM HAMAS "CHARITY"
(Coral Springs, FL)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,251-2010844,00.html
AAH CALLS ON U.S. GOVERNMENT TO TREAT CAIR AS HAMAS
CAIR FOUNDED BY HAMAS FRONT, WITH SEED MONEY FROM HAMAS "CHARITY"
(Coral Springs, FL)
Yesterday, after it was confirmed that the terrorist organization Hamas won an overwhelming majority of votes in the Palestinian election, the President of the United States, George W. Bush, said that the U.S. government would not deal with the group. He stated, "A political party that articulates the destruction of Israel as part of its platform is a party with which we will not deal."
In light of President Bush's statement, Americans Against Hate (AAH) calls on all local, state and federal government agencies and representatives to distance themselves from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with deep roots in Hamas.
http://www.americansagainsthate.com/
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In light of President Bush's statement, Americans Against Hate (AAH) calls on all local, state and federal government agencies and representatives to distance themselves from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an organization with deep roots in Hamas.
http://www.americansagainsthate.com/
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Bush Administration Crushed as PA Democracy Wrecks 'Peace Process'
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Hamas Victory Good for Israel?
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/
The Hamas electoral victory:] Democracy's bitter fruit
by Daniel Pipes
http://www.israelnationalradio.com/
The Hamas electoral victory:] Democracy's bitter fruit
by Daniel Pipes
National PostJanuary 27, 2006Now that Hamas has apparently won the Palestinian elections, the West is hoist with its own petard.
On the one hand, Hamas is a terrorist group that unabashedly targets Israeli civilians and calls for the elimination of the Jewish state. On the other hand, it just won what observers deem to have been a reasonably fair election, and so enjoys the legitimacy that comes from the ballot box. Every foreign ministry now confronts a dilemma: Nudge it to moderation or give up on it as irredeemably extremist? Meet with Hamas members or avoid them? Continue to donate to the Palestinian Authority or starve it of funds?
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3321
Colombia Busts Hamas, al-Qaeda-Linked Passport Ring
Colombia arrested 19 members of a passport-forging ring with links to Islamic militant groups Hamas and al-Qaeda that enabled foreign nationals to travel in the U.S. and Europe under false documents, the attorney general's office in Bogota said on Thursday.Citizens of Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt "were turned into Colombian citizens without ever coming to Colombia," a statement said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26203560.htm
London Extremists to Hold Jihad Conference
Mohammed Al-Shafey (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)Islamists in Britain will resume their activities and hold a conference in London next month on jihad (holy war) in Palestine.According to Anjam Choudry, of the "Followers of the People of the Sunna and the Jamaa" and the former secretary general of al-Muhajiroun, an extremist organization which disbanded itself in October 2004, the conference will take place on Feb. 19.The two extremist Islamist groups were founded by the Syrian-born cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who left London after the 7 July bombings and now resides in Lebanon.A demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy will follow on Feb. 24.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=3551
JIMMY CARTER speaks: Urges PA to use force against violent factions, etc
Jan. 23, 2006 Joseph Flesh - Jerusalem Post
http://www.standwithus.com/
(Note from StandWithUs:FYI - You may agree and disagree with portions in this article, but this is what Carter said at the sixth Herzliya Conference...)Former US president Jimmy Carter spoke on Monday at the sixth Herzliya Conference, an annual gathering of influential Israeli and international leaders. His speech focused on what he sees as the biggest obstacles to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Among the obstacles were the PA's lack of control over violent Palestinian elements; West Bank settlements; and the necessity for the Arab world to accept Israel's legitimacy.
http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=621
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Anticipating Hamas Victory, Palestinian Cabinet Resigns
January 26, 2006
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, and his government submitted their resignations Thursday as the radical Islamic faction Hamas appeared to have scored a major upset and defeated the ruling Fatah party in parliamentary elections.
However, no official results were expected until Thursday evening.
Fatah, which has dominated Palestinian politics for decades, was favored in Wednesday's election and exit polls released after the polls closed projected Fatah as the winner by a narrow margin.
But on Thursday morning, Hamas leaders claimed their own count showed that the group was winning an outright majority in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council. Sixty-seven seats are needed for a majority, and Ismail Haniya, a senior Hamas leader, said the group expected to at least 70.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/international/middleeast/26cnd-hamas.html?hp&ex=1138338000&en=f67f7af1f6172983&ei=5094&partner=homepage
As the Territory of Israel Decreases, Israel Is Perceived as Weaker Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon (Herzliya Conference)
Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon addressed the "Defensible Borders for Israel" session of the Herzliya Conference on Monday
http://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=1452&CategoryID=215
Bush Wants Abbas to Remain Palestinian Leader By JOHN O'NEIL and CHRISTINE HAUSER The president declined to state flatly whether he would deal with a government that Hamas participated in.
http://www.nytimes.com/
Iran Allocates Over $100 Million for Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad Jan 22, '06 / 22 Tevet 5766By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
The Lebanese-based terror organization Hizbullah is supported by Iran to the tune of US$100 million per year. $10 million also made its way last year from Iran to the Islamic Jihad.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=97051
Olmert´s Speech: We´ll Have to Part With Most of Yesha
By Hillel FendelActing PM Olmert told the Herzliya Conference: "We cannot rule over areas with a Palestinian population." MK Eldad: "By that logic, we'll have to soon leave the Galilee."
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking Tuesday night at the closing session of the prestigious Herzliya Conference, outlined his view of the Israeli-Arab conflict. The new chairman of the Kadima Party essentially said he sees no future for a Jewish Yesha (Judea and Samaria).With the national elections only two months away, the Likud and Labor Parties were quick to point out what they felt were the deficiencies in Olmert's speech. Labor's Yitzchak Herzog said Olmert had "merely downloaded Labor's platform from the internet, leaving out the social issues." A Likud spokesman said, "Olmert hid his true plans for a unilateral withdrawal from much of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem - a position he has expressed many times in the past years.""The dramatic move before us," Olmert said, "is to re-form our borders to ensure a Jewish majority... In order to guarantee the existence of the Jewish home, we will not be able to continue and rule over the areas in which a Palestinian population lives... Israel will maintain the security areas, the Jewish settlement blocs, and those places that have supreme significance for the Jewish nation... There can be no Jewish state without the capital Jerusalem in its center."MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) said afterwards, "Olmert's speech is the beginning of the end of the State of Israel... If we cannot live in areas where what he calls 'Palestinian' population lives, then we will quickly have to part from the Galilee, the Triangle [Um el-Fahm], and the Negev, and the division of Jerusalem is just around the corner. Olmert will be able to say: 'In Herzliya, I destroyed the Jewish State.'"Taking sharp aim at the population of Judea and Samaria, Olmert said, "The Government of Israel will not be deterred by any threat of a law-breaking minority... I have instructed the security forces to raze all the unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria."Settling all of Judea and Samaria does not jibe with preserving Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, Olmert said. "We hope that they [the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority] will give up on some of their dreams, just as we have given up some of ours," said the Kadima prime ministerial candidate."In the name of the Government of Israel," Olmert said, "I say that we will fulfill all the Road Map commitments we took upon ourselves, and we demand that the leadership in Ramallah do the same."Other reactions to the speech:The Yesha Council said Olmert's remarks were "laced with an anti-Semitic tone towards the Jews of Yesha. In the Middle Ages, the Jews spread the Black Plague by poisoning the wells and murdering Christian children for their blood for matzas; in the 20th century, the Jews took over the world's economy; and now, the settlers are the reason for all of Israel's problems." Council spokesperson Emily Amrusi noted, "The same Olmert who emphasized in his speech that he was offering his hand in peace to murderers, has ordered his underlings over the past days not to conduct dialogue with the Yesha Council. It has never happened before that the government simply ignores the Yesha leadership and doesn't talk with them... He offers gestures and benefits to terrorists, but wages war on Jewish settlement, essentially naming us as the enemy."MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union): "With this shallow and hesitant speech, Olmert is trying to convince us that he is the new Sharon. But behind the fog of his press advisors, a clear plan is hiding: expulsion and destruction of Judea and Samaria, the division of Jerusalem, a return to the '67 borders, and the abandonment of Israel's security."Benny Kashriel, the Mayor of Maaleh Adumim, just to the east of Jerusalem, said, "Olmert's promise to preserve Jerusalem will be kept only if he reinforces the settlement belt around Jerusalem. He must allow contiguous construction from Jerusalem to Maaleh Adumim in order to stop the Palestinian choke-hold around the capital, and he must approve the E-1 construction plan [between the two cities]."MK Sha'ul Yahalom (National Religious Party): "Olmert copied Sharon's speech from two years ago - and we have seen what that speech led us to: a rainfall of Kassam rockets, no security for the Jews living adjacent to Gaza, and no response from Israel."
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97275
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PA Elections: Fatah Will Back Hamas, Hamas Won’t Disarm
By Hana Levi JulianPolitical declarations about “the morning after” Wednesday’s Palestinian Authority (PA) legislative elections were ratcheted up a notch in statements from both Fatah and Hamas candidates.
By 3 PM, just over 40% of eligible voters had exercised their right to vote in the election for the Palestinian Authority's legislature in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Hamas is expected to do well. Senior Hamas official and candidate Mahmoud al-Zahar said, after casting his vote, that Hamas “will not change a single word in its covenant,” which calls for the destruction of Israel. The assertion was a seeming contradiction to his statement two days earlier that the terrorist organization would consider third-party negotiations with Israel. “Negotiation is not taboo,” he told reporters on Monday, two days before the elections. At the polls, Al-Zahar told reporters that Hamas “will go for arms and parliament and there is no contradiction between the two of them.” The candidate asserted that “Hamas will not turn into a political party,” and will continue its policy of “resistance.”Top Hamas candidate Ismail Haniya was also forthright, saying bluntly that the terrorist organization “will not disarm after entering Parliament.”Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, said the PA “partnership” with Israel would continue after the elections, even with members of Hamas participating in the legislature. “We are ready to negotiate,” he said after casting his ballot. “They [the Israelis] don’t have the right to choose their partner, but if they are seeking a Palestinian partner, this partner exists.”The PA Prime Minister, Ahmed Qureia, sent mixed messages after voting in Abu Dis, a Jerusalem suburb. He said that Fatah would support Hamas if it wins the election, regardless of its stance. “I hope the minority accepts the decisions of the majority,” he said. If Hamas becomes the majority, he added, “We will stand behind them. This is democracy and we accept the results of the elections.” Earlier in the day, both Hamas and Fatah were stopped from pressuring voters at the polls in eastern Jerusalem. Some 50 Fatah members refused to take down PA flags they carried, leading to a brief confrontation with police, who also confiscated Hamas elections propaganda in the same general area. Police arrested two Hamas activists who were distributing propaganda in the capital.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97299
Rocket Barrage Directed at Sderot
http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=624
Dr. Dore Gold: Hamas is World-Jihad Motivated
By Hillel Fendel
Dr. Dore Gold, Israel's former ambassador to the UN, says that if Israel does not get the message out about Hamas' connections and identification with world jihad, no one will.
Dr. Gold, the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, appeared on Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine this afternoon. Host Amatzia HaEitan asked him whether the expected ascent of Hamas following the Palestinian Authority elections will hurt the PA in the international arena. Gold responded: "There will be a great struggle of media spins and public relations in the coming days. Hamas and its parent organization, the Islamic Brotherhood, are viewed differently in various Middle Eastern countries. In Jordan, the Brotherhood is legal, while in Eygpt, it's outlawed. The question is whether Hamas will be perceived as part of the world jihad - or as an organization that can become moderate... "Israel's position helps mold the world's reaction; the Americans and Europeans first read what is written on the Israeli sites, and then they make their decision. The world certainly won't be more stringent than Israel."The Hamas terror organization is committed to the destruction of Israel, and has murdered hundreds of Israelis over the past five years. "It is important to say," Dr. Gold emphasized, "that Hamas is an organization that identifies with the goals of world jihad. [Hamas leader] Mahmoud A-Zahar has said that Hamas victories are supposed to strengthen the mujahidin i [Islamic terrorists] in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hamas sheikhs provide inspiration for Al-Qaeda... "Israel [can affect] world considerations, depending on what information it publicizes... For instance, one Israeli site, intelligence.org, shows important information on Hamas, such as the fact that Hamas sees itself as connected with Osama Bin-Laden and the rebels in Chechnya; the world must know this." Q. "How then must Israel relate to a situation in which Hamas becomes an integral part of the Palestinian Authority? We see that Israel continues to give in in this area."Gold: "Israel has already dealt with a similar question in the past, and there are strict standards [for contacts with terror organizations]. Even though we allowed the PLO and Arafat in the past to be part of the diplomatic process without giving up terrorism, the standards still exist. The charters calling for Israel's destruction must be changed, and they must give up and condemn the use of terrorism. I don't see Hamas fulfilling these conditions, but Israel must insist on it. Otherwise, there will be those who will try to explain to us that Hamas can become more moderate."Gold provided a specific example of the tendency to see potential moderation in Hamas: "In late September 2005, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice appeared in Princeton University and tried to compare Hamas to the IRA in northern Ireland. She said that just like the IRA became more moderate after entering the political process, the same could happen with Hamas. "In my opinion, this comparison is not at all accurate, since the IRA wanted only to banish the British from Ireland, and did not want to destroy London - while Hamas has a clear agenda for an Islamic contiguity from Egypt to Iraq... Recent statements by Hamas leaders show that it has not given up its principle goal of destroying the State of Israel."Gold told CNN of Israeli concern that if Hamas gains power, it could "form the basis for a militant Islamic threat against Israel that we have never known before... It simply doesn't work when you have a committed ideological movement like Hamas, which in addition has religious motivation. They can't be tamed by garbage collection."
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97296
Israel tried to kill Bin Laden in 1996: Paper
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Mossad spy service and a foreign counterpart enlisted a confidante of Osama bin Laden to kill the Al Qaeda leader in 1996 but the plan fell apart over a political dispute, a newspaper said yesterday. Mossad picked up Bin Laden’s trail while helping US and Egyptian agents probe an attempt by activists on the life of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak as he visited Ethiopia, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth said citing security sources.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=24927
Translation of Torah for India´s Bnei Menashe Nearly CompleteBy Baruch GordonFor the first time, members of a Lost Tribe of Israel in northeastern India will soon be able to study the entire Torah in their native tongue.
Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based group which assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people, last week published a translation of Sefer Shemot (the Book of Exodus) into Mizo, one of the main languages spoken by the Bnei Menashe living in Mizoram, India."Until now, the Bnei Menashe have had to rely on incomplete or flawed translations of the Torah," said Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund. "Now, at last, they will have a complete translation that was carried out directly from the original Hebrew by a team of Jewish scholars living in Israel. This is an important step towards reconnecting them with their heritage and with the basic texts of the Jewish people."
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97235
Exploring Iran's Military Options
Ali Nourizadeh (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)If several Western countries, headed by the U.S., are currently weighing the options at their disposal, the Islamic Republic of Iran is, in turn, preparing itself for a confrontation, either on the military or economic front.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=3528
Hamas to Keep Weapons, Won't Change Charter"The Europeans and the Americans are telling Hamas to choose between arms and parliament. We say we will go for arms and parliament and there is no contradiction between the two of them," Ismail Haniya, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said Wednesday. Gaza Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said the group "will not change a single word in its covenant" calling for the destruction of Israel, and would continue its path of "resistance," even as it serves in the Palestinian parliament.
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-25T092754Z_01_L25267238_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&related=true
Don't deal with terrorists
by Daniel PipesUSA TodayJanuary 25, 2006As Hamas, the Islamist terror group, surges in the polls with a prospect of joining the Palestinian Authority or even running it, governments worldwide must decide on their responses.
An increasing number of voices are calling for Hamas to be recognized, arguing that the imperatives of governance would tame it, ending its arch-murderous vocation (it has killed around 600 Israelis) and turning it into a responsible citizen. Even President Bush made this argument in early 2005: "There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, ‘Vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America.' ... I don't think so. I think people who generally run for office say, ‘Vote for me, I'm looking forward to fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table.'"
The historical record, however, refutes this "pothole theory of democracy." Mussolini made the trains run, Hitler built autobahns, Stalin cleared the snow and Castro reduced infant mortality — without any of these totalitarians giving up their ideological zeal nor their grandiose ambitions. Likewise, Islamists in Afghanistan, Iran, and Sudan have governed without becoming tamed. If proof is needed, note the Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons amid an apocalyptic fervor.
Hamas might have hired a spin doctor to improve its image in the West, but its leadership candidly maintains it has no intention of changing. Responding to a question on whether Bush is correct that U.S. engagement with Hamas would moderate the terror group, Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas founder, laughed and declared that this tactic "will not succeed." In recent days, Zahar has publicly reiterated that Hamas still intends to destroy Israel.
Fortunately, U.S. policy remains steadfast: "We haven't dealt with Hamas, and we won't deal with Hamas members who are elected," says U.S. embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle in Israel. That is a good start; ideally, there should be no dealings at all with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas in its leadership.
It was a mistake to permit Hamas to compete in elections. Like al-Qaeda, Hamas should be destroyed, not legitimated, much less courted.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3309
Don't Go Wobbly on Iran
Jeff JacobyThe Bush administration - and, increasingly, leading Democrats - have been speaking out with growing urgency about preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear threat. What is not stressed enough is that Iran is not just a potential menace - it is a clear and present danger right now. The radical Islamists in Tehran bankroll the world's deadliest terrorists. They foment violence in Iraq. Fanatic, apocalyptic, totalitarian, the mullahs who rule Iran see their destiny as waging jihad and extending theocracy across the entire Middle East. Under no circumstances can such enemies be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons - or to doubt that we will do what we must to make sure that they don't.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/
2006/01/25/dont_go_wobbly_on_iran/
Iran's Threat, Bush's Dilemma
Max Boot In sum, a terrorist-sponsoring state led by an apocalyptic lunatic will soon have the ability to incinerate Tel Aviv or New York. Sooner rather than later, President Bush must face a hard choice: Either order air strikes (or acquiesce to Israeli strikes) or accept a nuclear-armed Iran.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot25jan25,0,3670344.column?coll=la-util-opinion-commentary
Disarming Questions
Rory McCarthyIn southern Lebanon, in the towns and villages near the border with Israel, it is rare to see the Lebanese national flag. Instead the yellow flag flutters of Hizballah, the fundamentalist, armed Shia movement. In the south, Hizballah is more than just an armed movement; it is a de facto government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1693165,00.html
A Star Rises in Bethlehem - Hamas's
Michael I. Krauss and J. Peter PhamChristmas scenes from Bethlehem notwithstanding, Bethlehem is no longer a Christian city. Muslims now vastly outnumber the departing Christians, and minarets outnumber church spires. At the present rate, in 15 years the only Christians in Bethlehem will be the holiday tourists. And just last year, the terrorist group Hamas won elections in the city. If one wants to know what the situation would be like if Hamas took power, one need look no further than storied Bethlehem. In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal just before Christmas, Bethlehem city councilor and local Hamas leader Hassan El-Masalmeh advocated a special tax on non-Muslim residents of the future Palestinian state. The tax, known as al-jeziya, is required by the Koran for dhimmis, second-class Jews and Christians. "We in Hamas intend to implement this tax someday....We say it openly - we welcome everyone to Palestine but only if they agree to live under our rules.
30,000 pilgrims from all over the world; the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas (or Abu Mazen), at midnight Mass in the Church of the Nativity; processions of hundreds of Christian clergy — Bethlehem is no longer a Christian city. Muslims now vastly outnumber the departing Christians, and minarets outnumber church spires. At the present rate, in 15 years the only Christians in Bethlehem will be the holiday tourists. And just last year, the terrorist group Hamas won elections in the city.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/krauss_pham200601240831.asp
Settlers leave illegal Amona outpost
Pinchas Wallersten, head of Binyamin Regional Council, says his people sealed permanent houses in outpost, instructed inhabitants to leave, in bid to prevent clashes, reach compromise with State; in addition, settlers expected to file High Court petition against evacuation http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3206033,00.html
PHOTO: The illegal Amona outpost in the West Bank.
(Archive / Nitzan Shorer)
Settlers seal illegal outpost homes ahead of court hearing
Members of the Yesha Council of Settlements and the Binyamin Regional Council on Wednesday sealed up homes slated for demolition in the illegal outpost of Amona, ahead of the High Court petition
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/674691.html
Iran Races to Defend Nuclear Facilities
Thomas Harding and Anton La Guardia (Telegraph-UK)Iran is racing to dig a network of tunnels and upgrade its air defenses to protect its nuclear facilities from possible attacks by America or Israel, Jane's Defence Weekly reported.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/25/wiran25.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/25/ixworld.html
Iran: UN Sanctions May Lead Us to Close Persian Gulf
Yossi Melman (Ha'aretz)"We have the power to halt oil supply to the last drop from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Straits of Hormuz," he said.25% of the world's oil production passes through the Straits of Hormuz, which connect the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean, including all production from the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674159.html
Israel vs. Iran: Family Feud?
Economist-UKIran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Israel is an alien implantation whose people should return to Europe or perhaps settle in Alaska.So it is an irony that Israel's president, Moshe Katzav, is in fact a Farsi-speaker born in Iran, as is Israel's defense minister, Shaul Mofaz.Israel's chief of staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, was born in Israel but both his parents were born in Iran.Asked how far Israel would go to stop Iran's nuclear program, Halutz replied: "two thousand kilometers."
http://www.economist.com/World/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5420675
Hamas Ready to Unite Forces Under Single National Liberation Army
Palestine-info-UKHamas political bureau head Khaled Mishaal told Arabiya satellite TV in Damascus that Hamas is willing to unite the Palestinian weapon provided it will be under a national liberation army that would continue the liberation march of the Palestinians, rather than placing it under the control of the security apparatuses.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_16567.shtml
Hamas to Enact Islamic Laws if Elected
Palestine-info-UKHamas would enact "laws and legislation compatible with the Islamic Sharia [religious law] and would do our best to nullify the non-Islamic ones," Dr. Fuad Al-Nahal, a Hamas parliamentary candidate, told an election meeting in Rafah Monday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_16557.shtml
IDF Rescue Units Save Lives in Kenya"I do not believe I'm alive," said Martin Muhinda after being buried for the last 24 hours when a 5-story building under construction collapsed on Monday in Nairobi. The Israeli rescue team was instrumental in his rescue as they pulled him out using highly specialized equipment and sniffer dogs. (Reuters)Since arriving in Kenya on Tuesday, the Home Front Command's rescue team has pulled out four survivors and seven bodies. "Our goal is to save lives, regardless of religion, gender or origin. That is the beauty of our work," said Brig.-Gen. Avraham Ben-David.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/krcross/113813820081.htm
Israel to UN: "Iran May be Preparing Another Holocaust"
Ali Akbar DareiniIsrael's ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, on Tuesday called Iran's plan for a conference to examine the evidence for the Holocaust as proof that Iran was run by an "extreme, fundamentalist, lunatic regime" and "proof of what a global threat Iran really is." "I fear that the only reason Iran is showing so much interest in the Holocaust is because they may be preparing another Holocaust and it is up to the world and the United Nations to prevent that from happening," Gillerman said on the sidelines of the opening of the "No Child's Play" exhibit at the UN commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Week.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1537641
Iran examines evidence of Holocaust
Iran yesterday defended its plan to organize a conference to examine what it terms the scientific evidence for the Holocaust, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674342.html
PA Deputy Prime Minister: Fatah Unable to Dismantle Militias"We can't honor Abbas' commitment to dismantle the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militias," PA Deputy Prime Minister and Fatah campaign chief Nabil Shaath told Spain's El Pais newspaper Monday. Shaath said the new PA that would emerge from Wednesday's elections would need to "rebuild the security forces....That will take time." (Daily Star-Lebanon)http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=21671
PHOTO: Children in full Hamas get-up at a rally.Photo: AP
31 Palestinian Prisoners Running for PA Legislature
Yigal Grayeff31 security prisoners in Israeli jails are running in Wednesday's Palestinian Legislative Council elections, the Palestinian Central Elections Commission's website shows.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605909161&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Osama's Unmistakable Message
Walid PharesWhat the public ignores about the "cease-fire" offered by bin Laden is that the international community, and the U.S., will have to recognize al-Qaeda as the representative of the Muslim world, that all Muslim governments would elevate bin Laden as the world caliph. Also, he will be able to "resume" the jihad after the "cease-fire," since it is only a truce after all. The world, thus, would be divided in two spheres, with Osama as emperor from Morocco to China, with his full sovereign control of the resources - that is, oil - and the nuclear toys of Pakistan.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060124-104524-7068r.htm
Wahhabi World War Three: How the West Can Win
Excerpts from Remarks by Sheikh Palazzi on February 22, 2000 and September 12, 2005 about the "Saudi" Arabian petro-dollar profit financed Wahhabi International Mass Murder ("terror") Network
http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/SheikhPalazzi.php
PHOTO: A Palestinian woman looks over sealed boxes containing documents
in preparation for election day By Uriel Sinai, Getty Images
Middle East democracy boosts Islamists
By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY
Islamic fundamentalists who oppose U.S. interests in the Middle East have benefited from the U.S. policy of promoting democracy, making significant gains in recent elections.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-25-hamas-democracy_x.htm
WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? WERE THERE WMAS?SADDAM'S PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL WEAPONS OFMASS DESTRUCTION TAPES TO BE UNVEILED AT THE INTELLIGENCE SUMMITA former military intelligence analyst, who currently works as a civilian contractor, believes he has found a cache of extremely confidential--and very shocking--audio recordings of Saddam Hussein's office meetings. The audiotapes, which had apparently been overlooked, were found in a warehouse along with many other untranslated Iraqi intelligence files. These tapes are extremely significant, since they may be the best evidence yet of Saddam's secret intentions concerning weapons of mass destruction. Before 9/11, many intelligence experts were convinced that a very strong and important Iraqi WMD connection existed, only to change their minds when no concrete evidence of that connection could be uncovered in the three years following the beginning of Iraqi war.
As a former intelligence officer & Justice Department prosecutor, John Loftus once held some of the highest security clearances in the world, with special access to NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword, and Top Secret Nuclear files. As a private attorney, he works without charge to help hundreds of intelligence agents obtain lawful permission to declassify and publish the hidden secrets of our times. He is the author of four history books, three of which have been made into films, two were international best sellers, and one was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The Loftus Report is heard by four million listeners every weeknight from 10:30 to 11 PM on ABC National Radio's John Batchelor Show. Mr. Loftus is also President of the Intelligence Summitsm, an international non-profit non-partisan educational forum for the intelligence agencies of the free world and Vice Chairman of the Florida Holocaust Museum http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/JohnLoftus/JL010606.php
Iraqi General: Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria Ira Stoll (New York Sun)Iraqi general Georges Sada, who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force, says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed, in a new book, Saddam's Secrets, released this week.Sada, 65, told the Sun that he met the pilots of the two airliners that transported the weapons to Syria in the middle of 2004, after Saddam was captured."I know them very well. They are very good friends of mine. We trust each other. We are friends as pilots," Sada said. They are now employed by other airlines outside Iraq.The pilots told Sada that Special Republican Guard brigades loaded materials onto the planes including "yellow barrels with skull and crossbones on each barrel." The planes made 56 flights."Saddam realized, this time, the Americans are coming," Sada said. "They handed over the weapons of mass destruction to the Syrians."Sada said that the Iraqi official responsible for transferring the weapons was a cousin of Saddam Hussein, Ali Hussein al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali."The Syrian official responsible for receiving them was a cousin of Bashar Assad, known variously as General Abu Ali, Abu Himma, or Zulhimawe.The book also says that on the eve of the first Gulf War, Saddam was planning to use his air force to launch a chemical weapons attack on Israel.
http://www.nysun.com/article/26514
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Glenn Beck: "I Was Wrong On Gaza Withdrawal"
On the one hand, Hamas is a terrorist group that unabashedly targets Israeli civilians and calls for the elimination of the Jewish state. On the other hand, it just won what observers deem to have been a reasonably fair election, and so enjoys the legitimacy that comes from the ballot box. Every foreign ministry now confronts a dilemma: Nudge it to moderation or give up on it as irredeemably extremist? Meet with Hamas members or avoid them? Continue to donate to the Palestinian Authority or starve it of funds?
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3321
Colombia Busts Hamas, al-Qaeda-Linked Passport Ring
Colombia arrested 19 members of a passport-forging ring with links to Islamic militant groups Hamas and al-Qaeda that enabled foreign nationals to travel in the U.S. and Europe under false documents, the attorney general's office in Bogota said on Thursday.Citizens of Pakistan, Jordan, Iraq, and Egypt "were turned into Colombian citizens without ever coming to Colombia," a statement said.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26203560.htm
London Extremists to Hold Jihad Conference
Mohammed Al-Shafey (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)Islamists in Britain will resume their activities and hold a conference in London next month on jihad (holy war) in Palestine.According to Anjam Choudry, of the "Followers of the People of the Sunna and the Jamaa" and the former secretary general of al-Muhajiroun, an extremist organization which disbanded itself in October 2004, the conference will take place on Feb. 19.The two extremist Islamist groups were founded by the Syrian-born cleric Omar Bakri Mohammed, who left London after the 7 July bombings and now resides in Lebanon.A demonstration in front of the Israeli embassy will follow on Feb. 24.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=1&id=3551
JIMMY CARTER speaks: Urges PA to use force against violent factions, etc
Jan. 23, 2006 Joseph Flesh - Jerusalem Post
http://www.standwithus.com/
(Note from StandWithUs:FYI - You may agree and disagree with portions in this article, but this is what Carter said at the sixth Herzliya Conference...)Former US president Jimmy Carter spoke on Monday at the sixth Herzliya Conference, an annual gathering of influential Israeli and international leaders. His speech focused on what he sees as the biggest obstacles to peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Among the obstacles were the PA's lack of control over violent Palestinian elements; West Bank settlements; and the necessity for the Arab world to accept Israel's legitimacy.
http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=621
PHOTO OF TERRORIST: Cute!
Anticipating Hamas Victory, Palestinian Cabinet Resigns
January 26, 2006
RAMALLAH, West Bank - The Palestinian prime minister, Ahmed Qurei, and his government submitted their resignations Thursday as the radical Islamic faction Hamas appeared to have scored a major upset and defeated the ruling Fatah party in parliamentary elections.
However, no official results were expected until Thursday evening.
Fatah, which has dominated Palestinian politics for decades, was favored in Wednesday's election and exit polls released after the polls closed projected Fatah as the winner by a narrow margin.
But on Thursday morning, Hamas leaders claimed their own count showed that the group was winning an outright majority in the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council. Sixty-seven seats are needed for a majority, and Ismail Haniya, a senior Hamas leader, said the group expected to at least 70.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/international/middleeast/26cnd-hamas.html?hp&ex=1138338000&en=f67f7af1f6172983&ei=5094&partner=homepage
As the Territory of Israel Decreases, Israel Is Perceived as Weaker Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon (Herzliya Conference)
Former IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. (res.) Moshe Ya'alon addressed the "Defensible Borders for Israel" session of the Herzliya Conference on Monday
http://www.herzliyaconference.org/Eng/_Articles/Article.asp?ArticleID=1452&CategoryID=215
Bush Wants Abbas to Remain Palestinian Leader By JOHN O'NEIL and CHRISTINE HAUSER The president declined to state flatly whether he would deal with a government that Hamas participated in.
http://www.nytimes.com/
Iran Allocates Over $100 Million for Hizbullah, Islamic Jihad Jan 22, '06 / 22 Tevet 5766By Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
The Lebanese-based terror organization Hizbullah is supported by Iran to the tune of US$100 million per year. $10 million also made its way last year from Iran to the Islamic Jihad.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=97051
Olmert´s Speech: We´ll Have to Part With Most of Yesha
By Hillel FendelActing PM Olmert told the Herzliya Conference: "We cannot rule over areas with a Palestinian population." MK Eldad: "By that logic, we'll have to soon leave the Galilee."
Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, speaking Tuesday night at the closing session of the prestigious Herzliya Conference, outlined his view of the Israeli-Arab conflict. The new chairman of the Kadima Party essentially said he sees no future for a Jewish Yesha (Judea and Samaria).With the national elections only two months away, the Likud and Labor Parties were quick to point out what they felt were the deficiencies in Olmert's speech. Labor's Yitzchak Herzog said Olmert had "merely downloaded Labor's platform from the internet, leaving out the social issues." A Likud spokesman said, "Olmert hid his true plans for a unilateral withdrawal from much of Judea and Samaria (Yesha), the Jordan Valley and Jerusalem - a position he has expressed many times in the past years.""The dramatic move before us," Olmert said, "is to re-form our borders to ensure a Jewish majority... In order to guarantee the existence of the Jewish home, we will not be able to continue and rule over the areas in which a Palestinian population lives... Israel will maintain the security areas, the Jewish settlement blocs, and those places that have supreme significance for the Jewish nation... There can be no Jewish state without the capital Jerusalem in its center."MK Aryeh Eldad (National Union) said afterwards, "Olmert's speech is the beginning of the end of the State of Israel... If we cannot live in areas where what he calls 'Palestinian' population lives, then we will quickly have to part from the Galilee, the Triangle [Um el-Fahm], and the Negev, and the division of Jerusalem is just around the corner. Olmert will be able to say: 'In Herzliya, I destroyed the Jewish State.'"Taking sharp aim at the population of Judea and Samaria, Olmert said, "The Government of Israel will not be deterred by any threat of a law-breaking minority... I have instructed the security forces to raze all the unauthorized outposts in Judea and Samaria."Settling all of Judea and Samaria does not jibe with preserving Israel as a Jewish and democratic state, Olmert said. "We hope that they [the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority] will give up on some of their dreams, just as we have given up some of ours," said the Kadima prime ministerial candidate."In the name of the Government of Israel," Olmert said, "I say that we will fulfill all the Road Map commitments we took upon ourselves, and we demand that the leadership in Ramallah do the same."Other reactions to the speech:The Yesha Council said Olmert's remarks were "laced with an anti-Semitic tone towards the Jews of Yesha. In the Middle Ages, the Jews spread the Black Plague by poisoning the wells and murdering Christian children for their blood for matzas; in the 20th century, the Jews took over the world's economy; and now, the settlers are the reason for all of Israel's problems." Council spokesperson Emily Amrusi noted, "The same Olmert who emphasized in his speech that he was offering his hand in peace to murderers, has ordered his underlings over the past days not to conduct dialogue with the Yesha Council. It has never happened before that the government simply ignores the Yesha leadership and doesn't talk with them... He offers gestures and benefits to terrorists, but wages war on Jewish settlement, essentially naming us as the enemy."MK Tzvi Hendel (National Union): "With this shallow and hesitant speech, Olmert is trying to convince us that he is the new Sharon. But behind the fog of his press advisors, a clear plan is hiding: expulsion and destruction of Judea and Samaria, the division of Jerusalem, a return to the '67 borders, and the abandonment of Israel's security."Benny Kashriel, the Mayor of Maaleh Adumim, just to the east of Jerusalem, said, "Olmert's promise to preserve Jerusalem will be kept only if he reinforces the settlement belt around Jerusalem. He must allow contiguous construction from Jerusalem to Maaleh Adumim in order to stop the Palestinian choke-hold around the capital, and he must approve the E-1 construction plan [between the two cities]."MK Sha'ul Yahalom (National Religious Party): "Olmert copied Sharon's speech from two years ago - and we have seen what that speech led us to: a rainfall of Kassam rockets, no security for the Jews living adjacent to Gaza, and no response from Israel."
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97275
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PA Elections: Fatah Will Back Hamas, Hamas Won’t Disarm
By Hana Levi JulianPolitical declarations about “the morning after” Wednesday’s Palestinian Authority (PA) legislative elections were ratcheted up a notch in statements from both Fatah and Hamas candidates.
By 3 PM, just over 40% of eligible voters had exercised their right to vote in the election for the Palestinian Authority's legislature in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza. Hamas is expected to do well. Senior Hamas official and candidate Mahmoud al-Zahar said, after casting his vote, that Hamas “will not change a single word in its covenant,” which calls for the destruction of Israel. The assertion was a seeming contradiction to his statement two days earlier that the terrorist organization would consider third-party negotiations with Israel. “Negotiation is not taboo,” he told reporters on Monday, two days before the elections. At the polls, Al-Zahar told reporters that Hamas “will go for arms and parliament and there is no contradiction between the two of them.” The candidate asserted that “Hamas will not turn into a political party,” and will continue its policy of “resistance.”Top Hamas candidate Ismail Haniya was also forthright, saying bluntly that the terrorist organization “will not disarm after entering Parliament.”Fatah leader Mahmoud Abbas, meanwhile, said the PA “partnership” with Israel would continue after the elections, even with members of Hamas participating in the legislature. “We are ready to negotiate,” he said after casting his ballot. “They [the Israelis] don’t have the right to choose their partner, but if they are seeking a Palestinian partner, this partner exists.”The PA Prime Minister, Ahmed Qureia, sent mixed messages after voting in Abu Dis, a Jerusalem suburb. He said that Fatah would support Hamas if it wins the election, regardless of its stance. “I hope the minority accepts the decisions of the majority,” he said. If Hamas becomes the majority, he added, “We will stand behind them. This is democracy and we accept the results of the elections.” Earlier in the day, both Hamas and Fatah were stopped from pressuring voters at the polls in eastern Jerusalem. Some 50 Fatah members refused to take down PA flags they carried, leading to a brief confrontation with police, who also confiscated Hamas elections propaganda in the same general area. Police arrested two Hamas activists who were distributing propaganda in the capital.
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97299
Rocket Barrage Directed at Sderot
http://www.standwithus.com/news_post.asp?NPI=624
Dr. Dore Gold: Hamas is World-Jihad Motivated
By Hillel Fendel
Dr. Dore Gold, Israel's former ambassador to the UN, says that if Israel does not get the message out about Hamas' connections and identification with world jihad, no one will.
Dr. Gold, the President of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, appeared on Arutz-7's Hebrew newsmagazine this afternoon. Host Amatzia HaEitan asked him whether the expected ascent of Hamas following the Palestinian Authority elections will hurt the PA in the international arena. Gold responded: "There will be a great struggle of media spins and public relations in the coming days. Hamas and its parent organization, the Islamic Brotherhood, are viewed differently in various Middle Eastern countries. In Jordan, the Brotherhood is legal, while in Eygpt, it's outlawed. The question is whether Hamas will be perceived as part of the world jihad - or as an organization that can become moderate... "Israel's position helps mold the world's reaction; the Americans and Europeans first read what is written on the Israeli sites, and then they make their decision. The world certainly won't be more stringent than Israel."The Hamas terror organization is committed to the destruction of Israel, and has murdered hundreds of Israelis over the past five years. "It is important to say," Dr. Gold emphasized, "that Hamas is an organization that identifies with the goals of world jihad. [Hamas leader] Mahmoud A-Zahar has said that Hamas victories are supposed to strengthen the mujahidin i [Islamic terrorists] in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Hamas sheikhs provide inspiration for Al-Qaeda... "Israel [can affect] world considerations, depending on what information it publicizes... For instance, one Israeli site, intelligence.org, shows important information on Hamas, such as the fact that Hamas sees itself as connected with Osama Bin-Laden and the rebels in Chechnya; the world must know this." Q. "How then must Israel relate to a situation in which Hamas becomes an integral part of the Palestinian Authority? We see that Israel continues to give in in this area."Gold: "Israel has already dealt with a similar question in the past, and there are strict standards [for contacts with terror organizations]. Even though we allowed the PLO and Arafat in the past to be part of the diplomatic process without giving up terrorism, the standards still exist. The charters calling for Israel's destruction must be changed, and they must give up and condemn the use of terrorism. I don't see Hamas fulfilling these conditions, but Israel must insist on it. Otherwise, there will be those who will try to explain to us that Hamas can become more moderate."Gold provided a specific example of the tendency to see potential moderation in Hamas: "In late September 2005, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice appeared in Princeton University and tried to compare Hamas to the IRA in northern Ireland. She said that just like the IRA became more moderate after entering the political process, the same could happen with Hamas. "In my opinion, this comparison is not at all accurate, since the IRA wanted only to banish the British from Ireland, and did not want to destroy London - while Hamas has a clear agenda for an Islamic contiguity from Egypt to Iraq... Recent statements by Hamas leaders show that it has not given up its principle goal of destroying the State of Israel."Gold told CNN of Israeli concern that if Hamas gains power, it could "form the basis for a militant Islamic threat against Israel that we have never known before... It simply doesn't work when you have a committed ideological movement like Hamas, which in addition has religious motivation. They can't be tamed by garbage collection."
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97296
Israel tried to kill Bin Laden in 1996: Paper
JERUSALEM — Israel’s Mossad spy service and a foreign counterpart enlisted a confidante of Osama bin Laden to kill the Al Qaeda leader in 1996 but the plan fell apart over a political dispute, a newspaper said yesterday. Mossad picked up Bin Laden’s trail while helping US and Egyptian agents probe an attempt by activists on the life of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak as he visited Ethiopia, Israeli daily Yedioth Ahronoth said citing security sources.
http://www.timesofoman.com/newsdetails.asp?newsid=24927
Translation of Torah for India´s Bnei Menashe Nearly CompleteBy Baruch GordonFor the first time, members of a Lost Tribe of Israel in northeastern India will soon be able to study the entire Torah in their native tongue.
Shavei Israel, a Jerusalem-based group which assists "lost Jews" seeking to return to the Jewish people, last week published a translation of Sefer Shemot (the Book of Exodus) into Mizo, one of the main languages spoken by the Bnei Menashe living in Mizoram, India."Until now, the Bnei Menashe have had to rely on incomplete or flawed translations of the Torah," said Shavei Israel Chairman Michael Freund. "Now, at last, they will have a complete translation that was carried out directly from the original Hebrew by a team of Jewish scholars living in Israel. This is an important step towards reconnecting them with their heritage and with the basic texts of the Jewish people."
http://www.israelnn.com/news.php3?id=97235
Exploring Iran's Military Options
Ali Nourizadeh (Asharq Al-Awsat-UK)If several Western countries, headed by the U.S., are currently weighing the options at their disposal, the Islamic Republic of Iran is, in turn, preparing itself for a confrontation, either on the military or economic front.
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=3&id=3528
Hamas to Keep Weapons, Won't Change Charter"The Europeans and the Americans are telling Hamas to choose between arms and parliament. We say we will go for arms and parliament and there is no contradiction between the two of them," Ismail Haniya, a senior Hamas leader in Gaza, said Wednesday. Gaza Hamas leader Mahmoud al-Zahar said the group "will not change a single word in its covenant" calling for the destruction of Israel, and would continue its path of "resistance," even as it serves in the Palestinian parliament.
http://today.reuters.com/news/NewsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-25T092754Z_01_L25267238_RTRUKOT_0_TEXT0.xml&related=true
Don't deal with terrorists
by Daniel PipesUSA TodayJanuary 25, 2006As Hamas, the Islamist terror group, surges in the polls with a prospect of joining the Palestinian Authority or even running it, governments worldwide must decide on their responses.
An increasing number of voices are calling for Hamas to be recognized, arguing that the imperatives of governance would tame it, ending its arch-murderous vocation (it has killed around 600 Israelis) and turning it into a responsible citizen. Even President Bush made this argument in early 2005: "There's a positive effect when you run for office. Maybe some will run for office and say, ‘Vote for me, I look forward to blowing up America.' ... I don't think so. I think people who generally run for office say, ‘Vote for me, I'm looking forward to fixing your potholes, or making sure you got bread on the table.'"
The historical record, however, refutes this "pothole theory of democracy." Mussolini made the trains run, Hitler built autobahns, Stalin cleared the snow and Castro reduced infant mortality — without any of these totalitarians giving up their ideological zeal nor their grandiose ambitions. Likewise, Islamists in Afghanistan, Iran, and Sudan have governed without becoming tamed. If proof is needed, note the Iranian efforts to build nuclear weapons amid an apocalyptic fervor.
Hamas might have hired a spin doctor to improve its image in the West, but its leadership candidly maintains it has no intention of changing. Responding to a question on whether Bush is correct that U.S. engagement with Hamas would moderate the terror group, Mahmoud Zahar, a Hamas founder, laughed and declared that this tactic "will not succeed." In recent days, Zahar has publicly reiterated that Hamas still intends to destroy Israel.
Fortunately, U.S. policy remains steadfast: "We haven't dealt with Hamas, and we won't deal with Hamas members who are elected," says U.S. embassy spokesman Stewart Tuttle in Israel. That is a good start; ideally, there should be no dealings at all with a Palestinian Authority that includes Hamas in its leadership.
It was a mistake to permit Hamas to compete in elections. Like al-Qaeda, Hamas should be destroyed, not legitimated, much less courted.
http://www.danielpipes.org/article/3309
Don't Go Wobbly on Iran
Jeff JacobyThe Bush administration - and, increasingly, leading Democrats - have been speaking out with growing urgency about preventing Iran from becoming a nuclear threat. What is not stressed enough is that Iran is not just a potential menace - it is a clear and present danger right now. The radical Islamists in Tehran bankroll the world's deadliest terrorists. They foment violence in Iraq. Fanatic, apocalyptic, totalitarian, the mullahs who rule Iran see their destiny as waging jihad and extending theocracy across the entire Middle East. Under no circumstances can such enemies be permitted to acquire nuclear weapons - or to doubt that we will do what we must to make sure that they don't.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/
2006/01/25/dont_go_wobbly_on_iran/
Iran's Threat, Bush's Dilemma
Max Boot In sum, a terrorist-sponsoring state led by an apocalyptic lunatic will soon have the ability to incinerate Tel Aviv or New York. Sooner rather than later, President Bush must face a hard choice: Either order air strikes (or acquiesce to Israeli strikes) or accept a nuclear-armed Iran.
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-boot25jan25,0,3670344.column?coll=la-util-opinion-commentary
Disarming Questions
Rory McCarthyIn southern Lebanon, in the towns and villages near the border with Israel, it is rare to see the Lebanese national flag. Instead the yellow flag flutters of Hizballah, the fundamentalist, armed Shia movement. In the south, Hizballah is more than just an armed movement; it is a de facto government.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,,1693165,00.html
A Star Rises in Bethlehem - Hamas's
Michael I. Krauss and J. Peter PhamChristmas scenes from Bethlehem notwithstanding, Bethlehem is no longer a Christian city. Muslims now vastly outnumber the departing Christians, and minarets outnumber church spires. At the present rate, in 15 years the only Christians in Bethlehem will be the holiday tourists. And just last year, the terrorist group Hamas won elections in the city. If one wants to know what the situation would be like if Hamas took power, one need look no further than storied Bethlehem. In an interview published in the Wall Street Journal just before Christmas, Bethlehem city councilor and local Hamas leader Hassan El-Masalmeh advocated a special tax on non-Muslim residents of the future Palestinian state. The tax, known as al-jeziya, is required by the Koran for dhimmis, second-class Jews and Christians. "We in Hamas intend to implement this tax someday....We say it openly - we welcome everyone to Palestine but only if they agree to live under our rules.
30,000 pilgrims from all over the world; the president of the Palestinian Authority (PA), Mahmoud Abbas (or Abu Mazen), at midnight Mass in the Church of the Nativity; processions of hundreds of Christian clergy — Bethlehem is no longer a Christian city. Muslims now vastly outnumber the departing Christians, and minarets outnumber church spires. At the present rate, in 15 years the only Christians in Bethlehem will be the holiday tourists. And just last year, the terrorist group Hamas won elections in the city.
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/krauss_pham200601240831.asp
Settlers leave illegal Amona outpost
Pinchas Wallersten, head of Binyamin Regional Council, says his people sealed permanent houses in outpost, instructed inhabitants to leave, in bid to prevent clashes, reach compromise with State; in addition, settlers expected to file High Court petition against evacuation http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3206033,00.html
PHOTO: The illegal Amona outpost in the West Bank.
(Archive / Nitzan Shorer)
Settlers seal illegal outpost homes ahead of court hearing
Members of the Yesha Council of Settlements and the Binyamin Regional Council on Wednesday sealed up homes slated for demolition in the illegal outpost of Amona, ahead of the High Court petition
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/674691.html
Iran Races to Defend Nuclear Facilities
Thomas Harding and Anton La Guardia (Telegraph-UK)Iran is racing to dig a network of tunnels and upgrade its air defenses to protect its nuclear facilities from possible attacks by America or Israel, Jane's Defence Weekly reported.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/01/25/wiran25.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/01/25/ixworld.html
Iran: UN Sanctions May Lead Us to Close Persian Gulf
Yossi Melman (Ha'aretz)"We have the power to halt oil supply to the last drop from the shores of the Persian Gulf via the Straits of Hormuz," he said.25% of the world's oil production passes through the Straits of Hormuz, which connect the Persian Gulf with the Indian Ocean, including all production from the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674159.html
Israel vs. Iran: Family Feud?
Economist-UKIran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, says Israel is an alien implantation whose people should return to Europe or perhaps settle in Alaska.So it is an irony that Israel's president, Moshe Katzav, is in fact a Farsi-speaker born in Iran, as is Israel's defense minister, Shaul Mofaz.Israel's chief of staff, Lt.-Gen. Dan Halutz, was born in Israel but both his parents were born in Iran.Asked how far Israel would go to stop Iran's nuclear program, Halutz replied: "two thousand kilometers."
http://www.economist.com/World/africa/displayStory.cfm?story_id=5420675
Hamas Ready to Unite Forces Under Single National Liberation Army
Palestine-info-UKHamas political bureau head Khaled Mishaal told Arabiya satellite TV in Damascus that Hamas is willing to unite the Palestinian weapon provided it will be under a national liberation army that would continue the liberation march of the Palestinians, rather than placing it under the control of the security apparatuses.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_16567.shtml
Hamas to Enact Islamic Laws if Elected
Palestine-info-UKHamas would enact "laws and legislation compatible with the Islamic Sharia [religious law] and would do our best to nullify the non-Islamic ones," Dr. Fuad Al-Nahal, a Hamas parliamentary candidate, told an election meeting in Rafah Monday.
http://www.palestine-info.co.uk/am/publish/article_16557.shtml
IDF Rescue Units Save Lives in Kenya"I do not believe I'm alive," said Martin Muhinda after being buried for the last 24 hours when a 5-story building under construction collapsed on Monday in Nairobi. The Israeli rescue team was instrumental in his rescue as they pulled him out using highly specialized equipment and sniffer dogs. (Reuters)Since arriving in Kenya on Tuesday, the Home Front Command's rescue team has pulled out four survivors and seven bodies. "Our goal is to save lives, regardless of religion, gender or origin. That is the beauty of our work," said Brig.-Gen. Avraham Ben-David.
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/fromthefield/krcross/113813820081.htm
Israel to UN: "Iran May be Preparing Another Holocaust"
Ali Akbar DareiniIsrael's ambassador to the UN, Dan Gillerman, on Tuesday called Iran's plan for a conference to examine the evidence for the Holocaust as proof that Iran was run by an "extreme, fundamentalist, lunatic regime" and "proof of what a global threat Iran really is." "I fear that the only reason Iran is showing so much interest in the Holocaust is because they may be preparing another Holocaust and it is up to the world and the United Nations to prevent that from happening," Gillerman said on the sidelines of the opening of the "No Child's Play" exhibit at the UN commemorating Holocaust Remembrance Week.
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=1537641
Iran examines evidence of Holocaust
Iran yesterday defended its plan to organize a conference to examine what it terms the scientific evidence for the Holocaust, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/674342.html
PA Deputy Prime Minister: Fatah Unable to Dismantle Militias"We can't honor Abbas' commitment to dismantle the Hamas and Islamic Jihad militias," PA Deputy Prime Minister and Fatah campaign chief Nabil Shaath told Spain's El Pais newspaper Monday. Shaath said the new PA that would emerge from Wednesday's elections would need to "rebuild the security forces....That will take time." (Daily Star-Lebanon)http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=2&article_id=21671
PHOTO: Children in full Hamas get-up at a rally.Photo: AP
31 Palestinian Prisoners Running for PA Legislature
Yigal Grayeff31 security prisoners in Israeli jails are running in Wednesday's Palestinian Legislative Council elections, the Palestinian Central Elections Commission's website shows.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1137605909161&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Osama's Unmistakable Message
Walid PharesWhat the public ignores about the "cease-fire" offered by bin Laden is that the international community, and the U.S., will have to recognize al-Qaeda as the representative of the Muslim world, that all Muslim governments would elevate bin Laden as the world caliph. Also, he will be able to "resume" the jihad after the "cease-fire," since it is only a truce after all. The world, thus, would be divided in two spheres, with Osama as emperor from Morocco to China, with his full sovereign control of the resources - that is, oil - and the nuclear toys of Pakistan.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060124-104524-7068r.htm
Wahhabi World War Three: How the West Can Win
Excerpts from Remarks by Sheikh Palazzi on February 22, 2000 and September 12, 2005 about the "Saudi" Arabian petro-dollar profit financed Wahhabi International Mass Murder ("terror") Network
http://www.intelligencesummit.org/speakers/SheikhPalazzi.php
PHOTO: A Palestinian woman looks over sealed boxes containing documents
in preparation for election day By Uriel Sinai, Getty Images
Middle East democracy boosts Islamists
By Barbara Slavin, USA TODAY
Islamic fundamentalists who oppose U.S. interests in the Middle East have benefited from the U.S. policy of promoting democracy, making significant gains in recent elections.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-01-25-hamas-democracy_x.htm
WELL, WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THIS? WERE THERE WMAS?SADDAM'S PERSONAL AND CONFIDENTIAL WEAPONS OFMASS DESTRUCTION TAPES TO BE UNVEILED AT THE INTELLIGENCE SUMMITA former military intelligence analyst, who currently works as a civilian contractor, believes he has found a cache of extremely confidential--and very shocking--audio recordings of Saddam Hussein's office meetings. The audiotapes, which had apparently been overlooked, were found in a warehouse along with many other untranslated Iraqi intelligence files. These tapes are extremely significant, since they may be the best evidence yet of Saddam's secret intentions concerning weapons of mass destruction. Before 9/11, many intelligence experts were convinced that a very strong and important Iraqi WMD connection existed, only to change their minds when no concrete evidence of that connection could be uncovered in the three years following the beginning of Iraqi war.
As a former intelligence officer & Justice Department prosecutor, John Loftus once held some of the highest security clearances in the world, with special access to NATO Cosmic, CIA codeword, and Top Secret Nuclear files. As a private attorney, he works without charge to help hundreds of intelligence agents obtain lawful permission to declassify and publish the hidden secrets of our times. He is the author of four history books, three of which have been made into films, two were international best sellers, and one was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. The Loftus Report is heard by four million listeners every weeknight from 10:30 to 11 PM on ABC National Radio's John Batchelor Show. Mr. Loftus is also President of the Intelligence Summitsm, an international non-profit non-partisan educational forum for the intelligence agencies of the free world and Vice Chairman of the Florida Holocaust Museum http://www.intelligencesummit.org/news/JohnLoftus/JL010606.php
Iraqi General: Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria Ira Stoll (New York Sun)Iraqi general Georges Sada, who served as the no. 2 official in Saddam Hussein's air force, says Iraq moved weapons of mass destruction into Syria before the war by loading the weapons into civilian aircraft in which the passenger seats were removed, in a new book, Saddam's Secrets, released this week.Sada, 65, told the Sun that he met the pilots of the two airliners that transported the weapons to Syria in the middle of 2004, after Saddam was captured."I know them very well. They are very good friends of mine. We trust each other. We are friends as pilots," Sada said. They are now employed by other airlines outside Iraq.The pilots told Sada that Special Republican Guard brigades loaded materials onto the planes including "yellow barrels with skull and crossbones on each barrel." The planes made 56 flights."Saddam realized, this time, the Americans are coming," Sada said. "They handed over the weapons of mass destruction to the Syrians."Sada said that the Iraqi official responsible for transferring the weapons was a cousin of Saddam Hussein, Ali Hussein al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali."The Syrian official responsible for receiving them was a cousin of Bashar Assad, known variously as General Abu Ali, Abu Himma, or Zulhimawe.The book also says that on the eve of the first Gulf War, Saddam was planning to use his air force to launch a chemical weapons attack on Israel.
http://www.nysun.com/article/26514
WHAT IS YOUR OPINION ON THIS?
Glenn Beck: "I Was Wrong On Gaza Withdrawal"
Commentary, John
Johnstembridge1
As I was driving to work today I was listening to the Glenn Beck Radio Talk Show which has the third largest listening audience in America. After learning of Hamas' victory yesterday, he was expressing outrage at himself for supporting the withdrawal of the Israeli settlers from Gaza and Shomron last summer. Now he knows that Hamas is fully and visibly in control. He said that he thought that we had a peace partner among the Palestinians when he advocated the expulsion of the settlers. But now realizes that he was had. Now he realizes too late that we now have the Hamas terrorist organization as a partner. But not for PEACE. Only as a partner for a piece by piece by piece of Israel until there is no Israel.
Shuvah, repentance is always good for the soul. But what about those running in the current elections in Israel? Will they so Shuvah and wake up as Glenn Beck or will whoever is elected in March continue to divide our land piece by piece for a Palestinian state? In my opinion, a Palestinian state on any part of the land God gave to Israel is a road map to hell, or at best, the road map for the predicted Gog and Magog War.
But then who am I? Just a committed Zionist in the Diaspora awaiting Ha Shem's release for my own Aliyah so that I can claim my own inheritance in the land Ha Shem gave to us eternally. Unlike Esau, and perhaps some today, I do value my inheritance and look forward to the day when I am released to claim it.
CHRISTIAN ALLIES CAUCUS TO CELEBRATE SECOND ANNIVERSARY
By Josh Reinstein, KCAC. January 25, 2006
The Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) will meet on January 30, 2006 at 12:00 in the Knesset Lecture Hall to celebrate its achievements in 2005 and its two-year anniversary. During the meeting, the KCAC will review its current projects, discuss future events, and plot a course for its future direction.
The Foreign Ministry will also make a brief presentation concerning a project it is initiating to foster greater cooperation between Jews and Christians. Those attending the meeting include fourteen members of Knesset from seven different political parties, as well as Christian leaders representing a broad spectrum of churches.
Some of the initiatives promoted by the KCAC in 2005 were programs to increase Christian tourism to Israel, to reach out to the African American community, and to strengthen ties with all Christian denominations.
In 2005, the KCAC organized conferences in the United States, Korea and Canada. Also launched this year was the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus Women’s Council set to advance the status of women in a way congruent with Judeo-Christian values.
The Knesset Christian Allies Caucus was established in January of 2004 to open formal and direct lines of communication between the representatives of the Jewish people and Christians around the world. The Caucus consists of fourteen members of Knesset from seven political parties across the political spectrum.
PRESIDENT HOSTS CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN MEGIDDO
By Will King. Bridges for Peace, January 25,2006
Israeli President Moshe Katzav hosted a press conference this week at the Megiddo Prison for several local Christian leaders. Katzav and several archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority displayed a mosaic floor from the 3rd century AD found on the prison grounds.
The mosaic is composed mostly of geometric patterns, but also has a depiction of two fish and an inscription dedicated to “the God Jesus Christ”. Archeologists believe that this is the oldest known Christian congregation found to date, and helps to explain the beginnings of Christianity in the area.
January 25, 2006Founder of the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, Jan Willem van der Hoeven
announces with his team and staff members to move his ICZC headquarters in solidarity with the Jewish people to the main heartland of the people of Israel to the land of Benjamin, Judea in the vicinity of Bethel where the God in Whom also Christians believe promised this land - the heartland of Israel - to one people namely His own as an everlasting possession, as He also promised to Abraham! Millions of Bible believing Christians worldwide from every nation and church denomination believe in this divine promise of our God and Father to His own Jewish people. We hope by this act of identification to give strength and courage to many in Israel.
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, DirectorInternational Christian Zionist Center
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem wishes to clarify the following:
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem was founded in 1980 by a close-knit group of godly men and women, including Rev. Jan Willem van der Hoeven.
The ICEJ today is not affiliated with his current ministry, the International Christian Zionist Center, nor are we involved in the move of the ICZC offices to the land of Benjamin.
Johnstembridge1
As I was driving to work today I was listening to the Glenn Beck Radio Talk Show which has the third largest listening audience in America. After learning of Hamas' victory yesterday, he was expressing outrage at himself for supporting the withdrawal of the Israeli settlers from Gaza and Shomron last summer. Now he knows that Hamas is fully and visibly in control. He said that he thought that we had a peace partner among the Palestinians when he advocated the expulsion of the settlers. But now realizes that he was had. Now he realizes too late that we now have the Hamas terrorist organization as a partner. But not for PEACE. Only as a partner for a piece by piece by piece of Israel until there is no Israel.
Shuvah, repentance is always good for the soul. But what about those running in the current elections in Israel? Will they so Shuvah and wake up as Glenn Beck or will whoever is elected in March continue to divide our land piece by piece for a Palestinian state? In my opinion, a Palestinian state on any part of the land God gave to Israel is a road map to hell, or at best, the road map for the predicted Gog and Magog War.
But then who am I? Just a committed Zionist in the Diaspora awaiting Ha Shem's release for my own Aliyah so that I can claim my own inheritance in the land Ha Shem gave to us eternally. Unlike Esau, and perhaps some today, I do value my inheritance and look forward to the day when I am released to claim it.
CHRISTIAN ALLIES CAUCUS TO CELEBRATE SECOND ANNIVERSARY
By Josh Reinstein, KCAC. January 25, 2006
The Knesset Christian Allies Caucus (KCAC) will meet on January 30, 2006 at 12:00 in the Knesset Lecture Hall to celebrate its achievements in 2005 and its two-year anniversary. During the meeting, the KCAC will review its current projects, discuss future events, and plot a course for its future direction.
The Foreign Ministry will also make a brief presentation concerning a project it is initiating to foster greater cooperation between Jews and Christians. Those attending the meeting include fourteen members of Knesset from seven different political parties, as well as Christian leaders representing a broad spectrum of churches.
Some of the initiatives promoted by the KCAC in 2005 were programs to increase Christian tourism to Israel, to reach out to the African American community, and to strengthen ties with all Christian denominations.
In 2005, the KCAC organized conferences in the United States, Korea and Canada. Also launched this year was the Knesset Christian Allies Caucus Women’s Council set to advance the status of women in a way congruent with Judeo-Christian values.
The Knesset Christian Allies Caucus was established in January of 2004 to open formal and direct lines of communication between the representatives of the Jewish people and Christians around the world. The Caucus consists of fourteen members of Knesset from seven political parties across the political spectrum.
PRESIDENT HOSTS CHRISTIAN LEADERS IN MEGIDDO
By Will King. Bridges for Peace, January 25,2006
Israeli President Moshe Katzav hosted a press conference this week at the Megiddo Prison for several local Christian leaders. Katzav and several archeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority displayed a mosaic floor from the 3rd century AD found on the prison grounds.
The mosaic is composed mostly of geometric patterns, but also has a depiction of two fish and an inscription dedicated to “the God Jesus Christ”. Archeologists believe that this is the oldest known Christian congregation found to date, and helps to explain the beginnings of Christianity in the area.
January 25, 2006Founder of the International Christian Embassy, Jerusalem, Jan Willem van der Hoeven
announces with his team and staff members to move his ICZC headquarters in solidarity with the Jewish people to the main heartland of the people of Israel to the land of Benjamin, Judea in the vicinity of Bethel where the God in Whom also Christians believe promised this land - the heartland of Israel - to one people namely His own as an everlasting possession, as He also promised to Abraham! Millions of Bible believing Christians worldwide from every nation and church denomination believe in this divine promise of our God and Father to His own Jewish people. We hope by this act of identification to give strength and courage to many in Israel.
Jan Willem van der Hoeven, DirectorInternational Christian Zionist Center
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem wishes to clarify the following:
The International Christian Embassy Jerusalem was founded in 1980 by a close-knit group of godly men and women, including Rev. Jan Willem van der Hoeven.
The ICEJ today is not affiliated with his current ministry, the International Christian Zionist Center, nor are we involved in the move of the ICZC offices to the land of Benjamin.
ARTICLES ABOUT THE BIBLE, ETC.
"The Whole Gospel for the Whole Man"
Dwight Pryor, Center for Judaic-Christian Studies
Dwight sheds important light on the meaning and scope of salvation from a Hebraic perspective
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Jwfox9, thank you for your observation --and proofs -- that lakaH is the Hebrew equivalent of "rapture." (SEE http://forum.jerusalemperspective.com/viewtopic.php?t=315)
My late teacher, Robert L. Lindsey, would often point out that the word "taken" in Luke 17:34-35 means "raptured," assuming that Jesus used the word lakaH: "I tell you, in that night there will be two in one bed; one will be taken and the other left. There will be two women grinding together; one will be taken and the other left" (RSV). And in this connection Lindsey would always refer to Genesis 5:24: "Enoch walked with God; then he was no more, for God took [lakaH] him" (JPS).
http://forum.jerusalemperspective.com/viewtopic.php?t=315&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=&sid=7fd2ea0ccba130c0cf6bca89914582ab
The Place of Women in First-century Synagogues
Shmuel Safrai, Jerusalem Perspective
Today, public worship can take place in a synagogue only if at least ten adult Jewish males are present. Women do not qualify as part of this quorum. Furthermore, women are separated from men within the synagogue: women worship in an ezrat nashim, a balcony, or section with a divider, located beside or behind the men's section. Things were considerably different in Jesus' day.[more]
http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/Default.aspx?tabid=27&ArticleID=1464
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Today, public worship can take place in a synagogue only if at least ten adult Jewish males are present. Women do not qualify as part of this quorum. Furthermore, women are separated from men within the synagogue: women worship in an ezrat nashim, a balcony, or section with a divider, located beside or behind the men's section. Things were considerably different in Jesus' day.[more]
http://www.jerusalemperspective.com/Default.aspx?tabid=27&ArticleID=1464
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Understanding The Difficult Words of Jesus
by Roy Blizzard, Ph.D., and David Bivin
Reviewed by Ron Moseley:
Although this book was first published in 1983, it leaps ahead of most research on the biblical text because it deals with the Hebraic background. Both Blizzard and Bivin discuss the problems of modern scholarship in understanding a Jewish book from a Greek viewpoint. This book does an excellent job of rendering statistics on the percentage of Hebraic thought found in the New Testament language. The linguistic research methods used by Blizzard and Bivin separate the Hebrew from first century Aramaic in a simple, but lucid manner that can be understood by all. I highly recommend this book for the basics of Hebrew thought prior to launching into any serious Bible study.
Jesus The Jewish Theologian
by Brad Young, Ph.D.
Reviewed by Ron Moseley:
Jesus The Jewish Theologian places Yeshua in the first century context needed to understand the New Testament writings. As usual, Dr. Young addresses the parables of Yeshua with adept understanding of Semitic theology, leaving the reader with a novel but sensible glance of Yeshua's Jewish teaching methods. Without realizing Yeshua's Jewish theology readers are easily pulled to the Greek mindset missing the beauty of the birth, baptism, temptation, and kingdom message seen in its Jewish form. Some of my favorite sections of this book deal with the seemingly inflexible topics such as divorce, adultery, and Jewish grace, which have simple answers when viewed properly. I recommend Jesus The Jewish Theologian to every serious student and pastor.
Our Father Abraham
by Marvin Wilson, Ph.D.
Reviewed by Ron Moseley:
Our Father Abraham has become one of everybody's favorites laying the foundational studies of the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. I personally like the questions at the end of each chapter and the easy reading form of the historical chapters. Dr. Wilson has answered an abundance of difficult questions in this landmark book of Hebraic foundations. This volume has and will continue to be used as textbook for history on the subject of early Jewish-Christian thought. Topics such as minim, Notzrim, Herem, and the Nidduy are explained in an manner that both reflects scholarship as well as relevance. This is a great book and I can almost guarantee that your copy will be as highlighted as mine in all your favorite sections. I highly recommend Our Father Abraham as a teaching tool for classes, Bible study, or just good reading.
by Ron Moseley, Ph.D.
Review by Gina Worsham:
This is a one stop shopping source for students seeking easily accessed information related to the Jewishness of Jesus and the Hebraic roots of nascent Christianity. Although there is a plethora of information on this subject, Dr. Moseley has made the difficult easy on complicated subjects such as the Pharisees and synagogue functions carried over into the second century church. In the words of Dr. Marvin Wilson, "Yeshua: A Guide To The Real Jesus And The Original Church is must reading for all serious students desiring to explore the historical and biblical linkage between the synagogue and church." I highly recommend this book. It is not a conclusive source on everything Jewish about the church, but it covers the subjects well. One of my favorite things about this book is the use and explanation of Jewish idioms answering such questions as why did Jesus spit on the ground and put it in the man's eye? Why the man was forbidden to bury his father before following Jesus? Why the woman was healed who touched the hem of Yeshua's garment? What binding and loosing meant in the first century, and why did Peter cut off the servant's ear?
From my friend Michael Pomeranz in Jerusalem. For those who are not familiar with Neot Kadumim, it's a wonderful place to visit. All the plants mentioned in the Bible are grown there, plus lots of history. For those of you going with me on the trips in April 23rd and May 7th, we won't be visiting Neot Kadumim this time, but Michael's bookstore is a real treat and not far from our hotel. Posy
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Maybe you’ve been to Israel several times and would like to return but see some less visited sites. Or perhaps you want to make your first visit because you have an interest in Israel history, modern and ancient. Then the Discovery tour is for you. As you look over the itinerary below you’ll see the unique places we will be going. Please come along!
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I had a marvelous time with Sar-El and am planning, God willing, to go back in June. This is not a Christian organization, but Jewish, and there is no proselytizing--but this is how I believe and I don't go to Israel with this in mind, but to help God's people.
Rose DeRenzo
VFI's purpose is…
…To provide Diaspora Jewry and other friends of Israel with an opportunity to participate directly in helping Israel:
…To create an opportunity for participants to assist in the strengthening of Israel through the means of hands-on work.
…To enhance the bonds and sense of solidarity among the volunteers and Israelis.
…To intensify the Jewish identity of the Jewish youth living in the Diaspora.
…To develop mutual understanding and to enrich personal and cultural values through the dynamics of Israeli and volunteer participants working together.
http://www.vfi-usa.org/
2006 DISCOVERY TOUR TO ISRAEL
September 9 - 21
Maybe you’ve been to Israel several times and would like to return but see some less visited sites. Or perhaps you want to make your first visit because you have an interest in Israel history, modern and ancient. Then the Discovery tour is for you. As you look over the itinerary below you’ll see the unique places we will be going. Please come along!
For information contact Carol Pederson, 1006 Hill Court, Shoreview, MN 55125. 651-490-9012 or e-mail shalomcp@usfamily.net Travel arrangements will be made by FRIENDLY PLANET TRAVEL, P. O. Box 505, Jenkintown, PA 19046. 1-800-555-5765.
Go to Israel with Rance & Brandy Cook
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“I have set watchmen upon your walls, O Jerusalem, which shall never hold their peace day or night: you that make mention of Yahweh, keep not silent and give Him no rest, till He establish, and till He make Jerusalem a praise in the earth” Isaiah 62:6-7
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Pray for the peace of Jerusalem
SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM
'PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM'
MAY THEY PROSPER WHO LOVE YOU!PSALMS 122:6
L'hit-ra-OT be-ka-ROV!
(Be seeing you soon!)
L'hit-ra-OT be-ka-ROV!
(Be seeing you soon!)
posted by In and About Israel at 5:45 PM
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