U.S. intelligence and other intelligence services have discovered that Libya has paid large sums of money to Iran for expert aid to help develop the Shihab-3 mid-range missile, to reach Israel.  The British Defense Ministry's Joint Doctrine and Concepts Centre has issued a "Strategic Trends" report that foresees the formation of a pan-Arab military alliance armed with weapons of mass destruction.  The United States has found evidence that Libya traded nuclear and missile expertise with Egypt.

Have Islamists — many of whom are backed by Saudi Arabia — successfully established beachheads in such places as the Pentagon's chaplain corps and America's prisons, mosques and colleges with a view to dominating moderate Muslims and creating a potential terrorist "Fifth Column" within the United States?
 

Hizballah Reportedly Acquires SA-18 SAMs:  "Due to the mobility and size of Hizballah's rocket arsenal - up to 10,000, according to some estimates - the deployment of SA-18s would be a major strategic development, as it would substantially impair the ability of the Israeli Air Force (IAF) to conduct low-altitude bombing and reconnaissance missions in south Lebanon and the Syrian-controlled Beqaa Valley.  The greatest concern in Israel, however, is that Hizballah will use the missiles to target civilian airliners."

House Majority Leader Tom DeLay says, "Israel is not the problem. Israel is the solution. It is the model for what the rest of the nations in the Middle East should be. The focus of the free world should not be directed toward pressuring the freest, most prosperous, most advanced society in the Middle East . . . [W]hen the Europeans call on the Israelis to make concessions, what exactly do they want Israel to concede: Her freedom; her security, her existence?  This is no “Road Map” for peace. It is a “Road Map” for destruction."

Two analyses on the subject of a new Palestinian State: First: Paul Greenberg , "It isn't the prospect of a nice little state living in peace with its neighbor that brings all the Arab factions out in the street, firing their rifles, dancing and shouting and tossing candy. If they'd just wanted a state of their own, they could have had it years ago, decades ago. They could have accepted a Palestinian state at Camp David in 2000, or at Oslo the previous decade, or after the Six Day war in 1967, or at Lake Success in 1947, or when Britain's Peel Commission suggested it in 1937 . . . It is not the creation of a state that rouses the greatest enthusiasm in Gaza or Nablus, but the destruction of one, namely Israel. What would Palestine be, the 23rd Arab state? How enthusiastic can even its subjects be about bringing still another sordid little Arab dictatorship into the world?"

 Second: Eric L. Rozenman, former executive editor of B'nai B'rith's International Jewish Monthly starts off with this little dose of reality, "A November public opinion poll showed that while 76 percent of West Bank and Gaza Strip residents supported a mutual cessation of hostilities between Arabs and Israelis, only eight percent supported a Palestinian school curriculum teaching that Israel was legitimate and that peace could be reached without Arab control of all the former British Mandate for Palestine (Israel, Jordan, the West Bank and Gaza Strip)."

TV Report that Helped Fuel Deadly Palestinian Intifada Appears to be False - David Gelernter  (Los Angeles Times)

A 55-second video report, produced in 2000 by a French TV station and distributed free of charge around the world, has caused untold injury and grief to Israeli civilians. This month, the French author Nidra Poller analyzes the evidence in Commentary magazine and shows that the video is a fraud - "an almost perfect media crime," the retired French journalist Luc Rosenzweig calls it. There is a wider story here; we are vulnerable to video lies.

The reported death of a Palestinian child, Mohammed Dura, in Gaza did as much as anything else to ignite the current uprising. In the video segment produced on Sept. 30, 2000, and distributed immediately, state-owned France 2 television accused the Israeli army of deliberately shooting and killing the 12-year-old. This version of the story was retold around the world - and it has figured in countless wall posters, an al-Qaeda recruiting video, an epic poem. But, according to Poller, the video is a fraud. The rest of the segment - which wasn't aired but which Poller saw - shows the child propping himself on an elbow, shading his eyes with his hands. A boy named Mohammed Dura did die in a Gaza hospital that day. His face doesn't match the face in the video.

See also:

-- How French TV fudged the death of Mohammed Al Durah, Camera Obscura -Richard Landes, The New republic, 10.17.06

-- October 2007, Israel Finally Refutes Al-Dura

-- Myth, Fact, and the al-Dura Affair - Nidra Poller (Commentary)

-- Melanie Phillips:  A modern racial libel.

-- "The 'martyrdom' death of 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammed al-Dura at the hands of Israeli soldiers - which received widespread international news coverage and spurred on the current Intifada, inspiring countless "suicide bombers" to attack Israel - was actually a "staged" piece of street theater . . ." 

-- Eva Cahen (CNS News):  Unedited French Video Shows al-Dura Not Hit by Israeli Fire

-- CAMERA BACKGROUNDER: Anatomy of a French Media Scandal.

-- Who Killed Muhammad Al-Dura? Blood Libel - Model 2000 - Amnon Lord (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, 15July02)

-- The Second Draft: AL DURA

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The Corrupt Press

"There Will Never be a Palestinian Democracy"

Maps Don't Lie: How much land can Israel give up for “peace”?  

More maps which put the disputed territories in perspective

Israel Insider's Outstanding "Israel's Story In Maps"

A beautifully done interactive Map

If the Arab states had accepted the U.N. partition plan, an independent Arab-Palestinian state would now have celebrated its 54th anniversary. Why didn't it happen? Two excellent presentations show Israel’s History in a Nutshell. Click here for part 1.  Click here to see part 2.

"It has never been about the 1967 territories"

DISPUTED TERRITORIES: Forgotten Facts About the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Palestinian Goal:  A State Alongside Israel?  A State In Place of Israel?

Details and Lies - The Systematic Mendacity of a Palestinian Atlas - Benny Morris
The political goal of the Atlas of Palestine 1948: Reconstructing Palestine by Salman Abu Sitta is to delegitimate Zionism and Israel and to promote the re-Palestinization of Palestine/the Land of Israel through a process that includes the return of the refugees and the dismantling of the Jewish state. While this vast treasure-house of maps is a major boon to researchers, Abu Sitta's narrative is unabashedly propagandistic and often factually wrong. There are dozens of cases in which there is no correspondence between Abu Sitta's assertions in the text and the references that he purportedly bases them on.

    From reading this atlas, the reader will not know that it was the Palestinian Arab onslaught on the Jewish community in Palestine in November to December 1947 that provoked Jewish counter-violence, and that it was the follow-up invasion of the country by the armies of the surrounding Arab states in May to June 1948 that turned what might have been an ephemeral phenomenon into a still larger tragedy. The reader will come away believing that the Zionists unleashed a pre-planned campaign of "ethnic cleansing" against hapless Palestinian Arab villagers who were simply sitting at home embroidering folksy shirts.

    A more accurate description would go something like this: the UN General Assembly voted by more than a two-thirds majority in favor of partition and the establishment of Jewish and Arab states. The Palestinians and the Arab states rejected the resolution and vowed to prevent its implementation. Throughout the Arab world the cry went up for "jihad." On November 30, 1947, the day after the partition vote, Arab gunmen ambushed two Jewish buses near Petah Tikva, killing seven passengers, and Arab snipers began firing from Jaffa into Tel Aviv's streets. These attacks marked the start of the war. (New Republic)

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After the Gaza Disengagement: Establishing Defensible Borders for Israel
(American Enterprise Institute)

On June 27, 2005, Dr. Dore Gold and Maj.-Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs unveiled their study of Defensible Borders for a Lasting Peace at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C.

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Attack of the Libel Tourists - Editorial
The problem is known as libel tourism; the damage inflicted on the First Amendment and academic freedom is serious. Disgruntled subjects of articles or books produced and distributed almost exclusively in the U.S. file suit in foreign jurisdictions to get around the strong First Amendment protections afforded here to journalistic and academic works. Britain has become a favorite venue for unhappy subjects because plaintiffs win cases that would be thrown out by U.S. courts.
    U.S. lawmakers are considering legal avenues to address the problem. One bill would empower U.S. judges to block enforcement of a foreign libel judgment if it does not comport with U.S. standards. It would also help immensely if Britain strengthened free-speech protections in its laws, as some British lawmakers are considering. (Washington Post)
    See also Libel Tourism: International Forum Shopping for Defamation Claims - Avi Bell (Global Law Forum-Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

[Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, February 20, 2009]

U.S. Fights Islamic Push at UN - Betsy Pisik
The Bush administration, European governments, and religious rights organizations are mounting a new effort to defeat a General Assembly resolution that demands respect for Islam and other religions but has been used to justify persecution of religious minorities. The resolution, called "Combating Defamation of Religion," is sponsored by the 57-nation Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC). The Bush administration and European governments warn that the resolution - which specifically mentions Islam but no other religions - is an Orwellian text that has been used to shut down free speech. The resolution "replaces the existing objective criterion of limitations on speech where there is an intent to incite hatred or violence against religious believers with a subjective criterion that considers whether the religion or its believers feel offended by the speech," said a brief by the European Center for Law and Justice.
    Felice Gaer, chairman of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom, a bipartisan federal body that investigates abuses, said, "We are seeing a clear attempt by OIC countries to mainstream the concept and insert it into just about every other topic they can....They are turning freedom of expression into restriction of expression." U.S. officials working on human rights said the resolution is being used to justify harsh blasphemy laws in countries such as Pakistan, Egypt, Sudan and Afghanistan. (Washington Times)

[Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, September 3, 2008]

Double Standards on "Occupations" - Gerald Steinberg
The scale of Islamic (or Arab) occupation, settlement and racism around the world is far greater than anything that Israel is accused of, but this is never mentioned in polite or diplomatic company. The Arab tribes that followed Muhammad spread their conquest and settlement activities throughout the Middle East, and then kept going to central Asia, western Europe (Spain and Portugal), eastern Europe (to Kosovo and Albania), northern Africa, and east to Asia. In these jihads, anyone who didn't accept Islam was simply killed - there was no "resistance," because no one was left to resist.
    The emphasis on Israeli "occupation" and "settlement" should be recognized as simply another form of the ongoing racism and anti-Semitism that seeks to prevent the Jewish people from maintaining sovereign equality among the nations of the world. (Canadian Jewish News)

[Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, November 14, 2008]

Al-Qaeda's Plan B - Amir Taheri
Al-Qaeda's chief theoretician, Sheik Abu-Bakar Naji, has written a new book, Governance in the Wilderness, which analysts think may indicate a major change of strategy by the disparate groups that use al-Qaeda as a brand name. In a notable departure from past al-Qaeda strategy, Naji recommends "countless small operations" that render daily life unbearable, rather than a few spectacular attacks such as 9/11: The "infidel," leaving his home every morning, should be unsure whether he'll return in the evening.
    Naji recommends kidnappings, the holding of hostages, the use of women and children as human shields, exhibition killings to terrorize the enemy, suicide bombings and countless gestures that make normal life impossible for the "infidel" and Muslim collaborators. Naji asks jihadis to target oilfields, sea and airports, tourist facilities and especially banking and financial services. He envisages "a very long war," at the end of which the whole world is brought under the banner of Islam.
    Naji makes it clear that the U.S. is the chief, if not the exclusive, target of jihad at this time. He mentions Israel only once, as "America's little female idol." His only reference to Palestine is in a historical context. (New York Post)

[Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, July 3, 2008]

Hassan Abbassi, Theoretician in the Office of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei:  describes "a strategy drawn up for the destruction of Anglo-Saxon civilization"

"There are 29 sensitive sites in the U.S. and in the West. We have already spied on these sites, and we know how we are going to attack them"

“The infidels — Western countries and America — are the sworn enemies of God and Muslims and any action taken to terrorize them or frighten them is considered holy and a source of pride.”

The Salafi Society of North America: "Indeed, the only solution, which the Jews will understand, is Jihad — done with its proper conditions — to raise high the Word of Allaah."

Fawwaz bin Muhammad Al-Nashami, commander of the Al-Quds Brigade that took responsibility for the May 29, 2004 attack at Khobar, Saudi Arabia, in which 22 people were killed: . . . [W]e found a Swedish infidel. Brother Nimr cut off his head, and put it at the gate [of the building] so that it would be seen by all those entering and exiting. “We continued in the search for the infidels, and we slit the throats of those we found among them."

The Mufti of Australia, Sheik Taj el-Din Al Hilaly: "Don't be surprised if one day you hear the Muezzin calling for prayer and saying 'Allahu Akbar' (God is great) from the top of the White House. Sept. 11 is God's work against oppressors."

Charles Moore: An article appeared during [Great Britain's] recent election campaign in Muslim Weekly by Sheikh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi. It calls for the replacement of British parliamentary democracy with "a new civilization based on the worship of Allah," attacks the Conservatives for being "in the hands of an illegal Jewish immigrant from Romania," and speaks of the "near-demented judaic banking elite." These views are expressed by an educated Muslim in a Muslim publication.   [W]e have in our midst a religious minority in a state of ferment, and somewhere inside it a number of people who want to kill the rest of us.   Niall Ferguson: [A] pernicious ideology has been allowed to infiltrate Europe's immigrant communities. And that has happened because we have blindly allowed [Great Britain] to be a haven for fanatics.  Diana West: [Western civilization] societies are not doomed to submit; rather, they are eager to do so in the name of a masochistic brand of tolerance that, short of drastic measures, is surely terminal.
 

Fear Stalks Muslim Apostates in the West - David J. Rusin
Persuading Western Muslim leaders to repudiate Shari'a-sanctioned violence against apostates can be a frustrating exercise, as Prince Charles discovered in 2004. Troubled by the treatment of Muslims who convert to Christianity in Islamic nations, the prince convened a summit of senior figures from both religious communities. However, the Islamic representatives failed to issue a declaration condemning the practice, which the Christians had requested.
    All major schools of Islamic jurisprudence stipulate that a sane adult male must be put to death for abandoning Islam, though varying interpretations persist on whether females should be killed or merely imprisoned. Many Islamic states outlaw apostasy and seven list it as a capital offense. The writer is a research associate at Islamist Watch, a project of the Middle East Forum. (American Thinker)
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Muslims Blast Israel for Reading Kindness into the Koran
Arab media in the Middle East reacted hysterically after learning that a Jewish professor at Haifa University is using verses from the Koran to teach Arab Muslim psychology students how to treat their future Muslim patients. Professor Ofer Grosbard developed the Quranet course using specially chosen verses from the Muslim holy book to help students reinforce in their patients concepts like respect, responsibility, honesty, dignity and kindness. The Quranet course was developed together with 15 Muslim students and was reviewed by three Islamic clerical figures. (Israel Today)
    See also Saudi Scholars Warn Against Israeli Quranet Web Project - Mariam al-Hakeem (Gulf News-Dubai)

[Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, August 5, 2008]

Hot for Martyrdom - Michael Coren (National Post-Canada)

• Dr. Tawfik Hamid is a medical doctor, author, and activist who once was a member of Egypt's Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya (Arabic for "the Islamic Group"), a banned terrorist organization. He was trained under Ayman al-Zawahiri, the bearded jihadi who appears in Bin Laden's videos.

• He's determined to tell a complacent North America what he knows about fundamentalist Muslim imperialism. "Yes, 'imperialism,'" he tells me. "The deliberate and determined expansion of militant Islam and its attempt to triumph not only in the Islamic world but in Europe and North America. Pure ideology. Muslim terrorists kill and slaughter not because of what they experience but because of what they believe."

• He is now 45 years old, and has had many years to reflect on why he was willing to die and kill for his religion. "The first thing you have to understand is that it has nothing, absolutely nothing, to do with poverty or lack of education," he says. "I was from a middle-class family and my parents were not religious. Hardly anyone in the movement at university came from a background that was different from mine. I've heard this poverty nonsense time and time again from Western apologists for Islam, most of them not Muslim by the way."

• The extreme brand of Sunni Islam that spread from Saudi Arabia to the rest of the Islamic world is regarded not merely as one interpretation of the religion but the only genuine interpretation. The expansion of violent and regressive Islam, he continues, began in the late 1970s, and can be traced precisely to the growing financial clout of Saudi Arabia.

• "We're not talking about a fringe cult here," he tells me. "Salafist [fundamentalist] Islam is the dominant version of the religion and is taught in almost every Islamic university in the world. It is puritanical, extreme, and does, yes, mean that women can be beaten, apostates killed, and Jews called pigs and monkeys."

• "I can tell you what it is not about. Not about Israel, not about Iraq, not about Afghanistan. They are mere excuses. Algerian Muslim fundamentalists murdered 150,000 other Algerian Muslims, sometimes slitting the throats of children in front of their parents. Are you seriously telling me that this was because of Israel's treatment of the Palestinians or American foreign policy?"

• "Stop asking what you have done wrong. Stop it! They're slaughtering you like sheep and you still look within. You criticize your history, your institutions, your churches. Why can't you realize that it has nothing to do with what you have done but with what they want."

[Courtesy -- Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations by the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, Daily Alert, Nov 7, 2006]

Fouad Ajami: [L]liberty is not a suicide pact. We should be done with the search for 'explanations' that dignify the hatreds, that attribute them to Western deeds and policies. We should see the new hatred dressed in religious garb for what it is: a war against the very order of contemporary life.

Islamist Way or No Way - Mark Steyn, (The Australian)
Bassam Tibi, a Muslim professor at Gottingen University in Germany, said a few months after September 11, "Both sides should acknowledge candidly that although they might use identical terms, these mean different things to each of them. The word 'peace,' for example, implies to a Muslim the extension of the Dar al-Islam - or House of Islam - to the entire world. This is completely different from the Enlightenment concept of eternal peace that dominates Western thought. Only when the entire world is a Dar al-Islam will it be a Dar a-Salam, or House of Peace." That's why they blew up Bali in 2002, and last weekend, and why they'll keep blowing it up. It's not about Bush or Blair or Iraq or Palestine. It's about a world where everything other than Islamism lies in ruins.

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Women at War with the Mullahs - Christopher Goodwin
Dr. Wafa Sultan, who was brought up as a Muslim in Syria, denounced the teachings and practice of Islam as "barbaric" and "medieval" on Al-Jazeera, the Arabic television network. Sultan was previously known only to a few for her writings on www.annaqed.com ("The Critic"), an Arab-American website. In 1979, when she was a student at university, she witnessed armed members of the Muslim Brotherhood shoot one of her teachers. "They filled his body with bullets as they shouted 'Allahu akbar! (God is great)'." She says they killed him even though he had nothing to do with politics. "This was the turning point of my life."

    She began to reread the Koran closely, gradually coming to the conclusion that the violence and oppression of most Muslim governments and some of those fighting against them stemmed directly from the teachings of Islam. She noticed that "there are too many verses in the Koran which say you must kill those who are non-Muslim; you must kill those who don't believe in Allah and his messenger. I started to ask: is this right? Is this human? All our problems in the Islamic world, I strongly believe, are the natural outcome of these teachings. Go open any book in any class in any school in any Islamic country and read it. You will see what kind of teachings we have: Islam tells its followers that every non-Muslim is your enemy." (Sunday Times-UK)

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LGF: At Britain’s Sunday Telegraph, a horrific tale from Roya Tolouee, a leading Iranian pro-democracy and women’s rights advocate, who was brutally beaten and raped, and threatened with having her children burned to death in front of her, by a man who said he believed in only two things—Islam and the rule of the mullahs

Understanding Spain's capitulation to the West's genocidal enemy: Radical Islam's big advantage: Demographics:  Spengler, "Old Europe's people, religion, culture and fighting mettle have imploded together. The Europeans are not so much defeatist as resigned to extinction."

The Elephant in the Middle East Living Room, Watching Wahhabis

By R. James Woolsey, NRO, December 14, 2005: Within Sunni Islam, along with several more moderate schools, there are two varieties of theocratic totalitarianism. Both of these are Salafists, believing that only a literal version of the model of rule implemented in the seventh century in Islam has ultimate legitimacy. Both have the objective of rule by a unified mosque and state; for some this theocracy is personified by the caliph. Different individuals in these movements emphasize different aspects, but generally the common objective is to unify first the Arab world under theocratic rule, then the Muslim world, then those regions that were once Muslim (e.g. Spain), then the rest of the world.

Such totalitarian visions seem crazy to most of us; we thus tend to underestimate their potency.

[A]l Qaeda and the Wahhabis share essentially the same underlying totalitarian theocratic ideology. It is this common Salafist ideology that the Wahhabis have been spreading widely — financed by $3-4 billion/year from the Saudi government and wealthy individuals in the Middle East over the last quarter century — to the madrassas of Pakistan, the textbooks of Turkish children in Germany, and the mosques of Europe and the U.S. Alex Alexiev, senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy, testified before Congress on June 26, 2003, that this is approximately three-four times what the Soviets were spending on external propaganda and similar "active measures" at the peak of Moscow's power in the 1970s.

Only a tiny minority of Muslims want to be suicide bombers, and only a slightly larger minority want actively to provide support networks for suicide bombers, but big majorities of Muslims support almost all the terrorists' strategic goals: For example, according to a recent poll, over 60 percent of British Muslims want to live under sharia in the United Kingdom. That's a "moderate" Westernized Muslim: He wants stoning for adultery to be introduced in Liverpool, but he's a "moderate" because it's not such a priority that he's prepared to fly a plane into a skyscraper. 

As with IRA killers and the broader Irish nationalist population, these shared aims provide a large comfort zone in which terror networks can operate. And it enables the non-violent lobby groups to use the terrorists -- or the threat of terrorists -- as part of a good cop/bad cop routine. Thus, the Islamic lobby groups pressure governments to make concessions to them rather than to the terrorists -- even though both elements share the same aims. You can pluck out news items at random: In London, a religious "hate crimes" law that makes honest discussion of Islam even more difficult; in Ontario, the moves toward sharia courts for Muslim community disputes; in Seattle, the introduction of gender-separate, Muslim-only swimming sessions in municipal pools. The 9/11 terrorists were in favor of all these things.  Mark Steyn: Sept. 11, 2005

Theodore Dalrymple: [T]olerance appears to the intolerant jihadist mere weakness and lack of belief in anything.  Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality

One of the most popular politicians in the Netherlands -- Geert Wilders -- responding to the savage murder of Theo van Gogh:  We are a Dutch democratic society. We have our own norms and values.  If you chose radical Islam you can leave, and if you don’t leave voluntarily then we will send you away. This is the only message possible. The Netherlands has been too tolerant to intolerant people for too long. We should not import a retarded political Islamic society to our country. There is nothing to be ashamed of to say this. It’s not Islam. I speak out against the facts.

Lawrence Auster: Simply by the act of existing, the entire non-Islamic world is equated with war. Yet when Muslims wage jihad, they are doing it to bring about the peace of universal Islam. So whatever Muslims do, is by definition peace, and whatever infidels do, is by definition war. This explains, by the way, why “moderate” Muslims almost never admit that Muslim terrorists are terrorists. It is because jihad itself is not war, but a way of pursuing peace. By such manipulations of language and such massive double standards, Islam reveals itself as a closed system that precludes any critical thought about itself, as well as any fair and honest dealings with non-Muslims.

6 million Muslims live in France, 10% of its population;  Given current birth rates, it is conceivable that in 25 years France will have a Muslim majority.  Islamists have the clear goal of transforming France into the first Islamist regime of the West.  Too late:  (1) according to the police, Muslims already rule Malmø which is experiencing a Muslim rape epidemic. Sweden’s third largest city, after Stockholm and Gothenburg [Sweden's press is viciously anti-Israel, by the way; (2) Muslims are a majority among children under 14 in the Netherlands' four largest cities.  Europe's Muslim population has doubled to 20 million in the last 10 years.]  Bernard Lewis: “Europe will be Islamic by the end of the century.”  Bat Ye’or demonstrates that "Eurabia" -- the ongoing transformation of Europe as a cultural and political appendage of the Arab/Muslim world -- now represents a geo-political reality.  David Pryce-Jones: The Islamization of Europe? Oriana Fallaci weighs in.

Eurabia;  jihad; dhimmitude defined

Radical Islam is waging a world war against us.  Have the U.S. and Israel really absorbed what this means?

For 19 centuries Jews dreamed of return while suffering crushing persecution at the hands of other nations and the destruction of European Jewry.  In itself, the 2000 year-old "dream of Israel" is a pure, abstract notion.  But beyond the dream is a reality that must be fought for to be preserved, or it will return to being just a dream.   Israel must not flinch from insisting upon acceptance of its fundamental legitimacy in this too-often-savage world.

And if we refuse to engage the world as it is, our enemies will tear us to shreds.  Robert Spencer: Islamic justifications for the rape of captives promoted by the Islamic legal manual Umdat al-Salik, which carries the endorsement of Al-Azhar University, the most respected authority in Sunni Islam.

 Jemaah Islamiah's handbook spells out the Islamists’ plans for us in great detail: Guide to waging war against 'infidels'.  A taste of what the barbarians are doing in Sudan:  the Sudanese government's scorched-earth, near-genocidal war against its own citizens.  The key ideologist of Al Qaeda, Lewis ‘Atiyyatullah: the West will fall, and an Islamic state will control the world.  Sayyid Qutb: “the brains behind Bin Laden.

May 2006: Spanish-Syrian al-Qaeda strategist Mustafa Setmariam Nasar, one of the jihad movement's prime theorists for the post-Sept. 11, 2001, world who was arrested last October, published thousands of pages of Internet tracts on how small teams of Islamic extremists could wage a decentralized global war against the U.S. and its allies. Counterterrorism officials and analysts see Nasar's theories in action in major terrorist attacks in Casablanca in 2003, Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005. In each case, the perpetrators organized themselves into local, self-sustaining cells that acted on their own but also likely accepted guidance from visiting emissaries of the global movement. Nasar's masterwork, a 1,600-page volume titled The Call for a Global Islamic Resistance, has been circulating on websites for 18 months.

Some perspective on what it will take to win:

Victor Davis Hanson: "Our civilization is only as viable as we in the here and now work to maintain it . . .  there is no reason that it cannot vanish in an instant."  "[I]if we don't change, we will lose this war."

Demopathy: The use of civil society's language to undermine Western democracy from within

 Caroline Glick "Morality Under Fire": "The second premise of terror and guerrilla leaders is that when fighting a democratic society, it is necessary to make their enemy doubt the morality of his stand against them. The moral disorientation of the victimized society is absolutely necessary for a terrorist strategy to succeed."

Ruth R. Wisse, the 2003 recipient of the Guardian of Zion Award, fears for the existence of Israel because of Israel's deep and misplaced sense of self-accusation, a crippling lack of strength of conviction that  manifests itself in a failure to fight.  Her June 9 Acceptance Speech  and a synopsis.

 Melanie Phillips: Insanity is buying into the logic that the West must not ever seek to defend itself from attack by the jihad by waging a just war of self-defense, because to do so will merely invite yet more terror-- we must fight and we must "take sides".

 Fritz Kraemer on "Provocative Weakness": The West is under attack today from such terror networks as Al Qaeda largely because of the existence of an intellectual elite who think about abstractions instead of realities, and whose instinct to appease a mortal enemy is founded in a lazy, cowardly, and conceited moral relativism.

  Sarah Honig's indictment of  Israel's self-hating post-modern universalists.

Charles Krauthammer: Decadence is defined not by a civilization's art or music but ultimately by its willingness to simply defend itself.

“In the 1990’s America slept and Israel dreamed.”  Charles Krauthammer criticized the Oslo peace process as “perhaps the most catastrophic, self-inflicted wound by any state in modern history.”  Click here to read the rest of his June 10, 2002 acceptance speech for the Guardian of Zion Award.

Dennis Ross, Pres. Clinton's Mideast envoy, played a shameful role in the Oslo Peace Process which, he admits, was a sham after all.  His position now: "At no time during the Oslo process were those who carried out acts of terror against Israelis treated as enemies of the cause by the Palestinian leadership. The road map, like Oslo before it, makes no effort to de-legitimize terror and violence."

VP Cheney to the LA World Affairs Council, January 14, 2004:  "I'm always struck by the memory that I'll always carry of January 20, 2001, when President Bush and I were sworn in. We went to -- as is traditional that day, you go to church service, and then you go over to the White House and have coffee with the outgoing administration -- in this case, President Clinton, Vice President Gore, and their families. And you spend several hours together by the time you go through the ceremony, the swearing in and so forth. And Bill Clinton talked repeatedly all day long about his disappointment in Yasser Arafat, how Arafat had, in effect, torpedoed the peace process.

"Arafat was in the White House and the West Wing more often than any other foreign leader during the eight years of the Clinton administration. Bill Clinton did everything he could to try to put together a settlement and came fairly close. In the final analysis, Arafat refused to say yes.

"Subsequent to that, the President made a speech in June of 2002 that laid out our basic principles. And at the front of that was the notion that there has to be reform of the Palestinian Authority, that before we get an interlocutor, somebody we can trust, somebody we can relate to, somebody that we can work with in terms of trying to make progress. The Israelis are never going to sign up, nor should they sign up to a peace unless, in fact, they've got confidence that there's someone there on the Palestinian side prepared to keep those commitments.

"There has to be a way found to end terror emerging from the Palestinian areas into the Israeli areas. We had another four deaths just within the last 24 hours in Gaza, with a suicide bomber. And until the Palestinians have an organization, a government in place that's capable of dealing effectively with the structure of terror, I don't think significant progress is likely.

In the meantime, we'll keep working it. The President is engaged. A lot of us have spent time on the problem, but it's going to be essential that that authority be transformed, I think, before anybody can realistically expect a positive outcome."

"Land for words" the 10 fatal flaws of Oslo

Twenty facts about Israel: On April 24, 2002, Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick issued an open memorandum about Israel and the Middle East. These 20 facts will help serve as a primer for those trying to understand the historical context of the ongoing conflict in the Middle East.

Myths & Facts Online -- A Guide to the Arab-Israeli Conflict by Mitchell G. Bard

I AM A ZIONIST, BECAUSE . . .   (See also Meryl Yourish's: An Egyptian asks: Why am I a Zionist?)

CAIR lead The Witch-hunt re DANIEL PIPES Nomination To The U.S. Institute of Peace.  Muslim and editor in chief of Pakistan Today supported Pipes as well as this Muslim who loves the U.S.   Others disturbed by the smear campaign.   Pipes has company: CAIR's attacks Chmn of CA Republican Pty

See Former CAIR Member Pleads Guilty to Terrorism Charges

A Bit More On CAIR
 

Fifty prominent Jewish and Christian leaders, as well as former U.S. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, former Secretary of Education William Bennett, and former Republican presidential candidates Gary Bauer and Alan Keyes recently signed a full-page ZOA newspaper advertisement headlined "President Bush, creating a Palestinian Arab state means creating a new terrorist state." The ad appeared recently in the Washington Times, the Weekly Standard, and Israeli and American Jewish newspapers, and will soon appear in the New York Times and elsewhere.

"One may legitimately support or challenge Israeli settlements in the disputed territories, but they are not illegal, and they have neither the size, the population, nor the placement to seriously impact upon the future status of the disputed territories and their Palestinian population centers. "

Defense Secretary Rumsfeld supports Israel’s right to the “so called occupied territories.”  “If you have a country that's a sliver and you can see three sides of it from a high hotel building, you've got to be careful what you give away and to whom you give it…  there is no question but that the Palestinian Authority have been involved with terrorist activities.”  Click here for the Haaretz summary.  Click here for the complete transcript. 

“The first job of Israeli Hasbara [public relations] is to explode the myth that the settlements are the issue in the present war….  Israel’s fight is not between Jews and Arabs.  It is a fight between freedom and western civilization against totalitarian oppression.”  Click here to read more.

Larry Miller renames Palestinian Arabs as “Adjacent Jew-Haters.”  "Chew this around and spit it out: Five hundred million Arabs; five million Jews. Think of all the Arab countries as a football field, and Israel as a pack of matches sitting in the middle of it. And now these same folks swear that if Israel gives them half of that pack of matches, everyone will be pals. Really? Wow, what neat news. Hey, but what about the string of wars to obliterate the tiny country and the constant din of rabid blood oaths to drive every Jew into the sea? Oh, that? We were just kidding."

The Specter of Anti-Semitism

Larry Miller makes a resolution against moral relativism.  "Listen carefully:  we’re good, they’re evil, nothing is relative. Saying we're good doesn't mean we're perfect."

“Sympathy for suicide bombers is a sign of Western moral failure…. This [Palestinian] ideology of death is not then the product of hope denied, but hope fed.  Fed not just by money and arms from neighbors, but fed, above all, by the folly of the West.  The hope that terror will bring concessions, the hope that the West is weakening, the hope that fanaticism will prevail, is daily reinforced.”

Charles Johnson of LGF links to New York Daily News special investigation: "Even with extra scrutiny after 9/11, Islamic schools in the United States continue to indoctrinate Muslim children in the ideology of hatred and jihad."

Steven Emerson writes in New York Post regarding the February 20, 2003 indictment of the Islamic Jihad terrorist leadership operating out of the United States since 1984: "In the end, Al-Arian succeeded in his deception via the same exact formula that constrained the FBI - deterred by the fear of being accused of "racial profiling" - from investigating Islamic militants training in U.S. flight academies in the months before 9/11. This formula lies at the heart of Western vulnerability to terrorist groups implanted in our midst."

"[I]n all kinds of small, insidious ways — most of which are not apparent unless you have expert knowledge on the Middle East — the [New York] Times's coverage is more slanted than many readers might realize. And owing to the Times's reputation as the newspaper of record, its distortions are especially damaging.

  [P]erhaps, when future historians examine the Times's record in this period, they will conclude that their biggest mistake of all was to have spent years sanitizing the image of Yasser Arafat, in effect helping to persuade Western governments to continue propping up his regime even as both Palestinians and Israelis died and the formation of a democratic Palestinian state was continually delayed."

Totally out-of-whack media bias:  "Jewish suffering is simply a set of statistics. . "

Joseph Aaron on “Only Three” victims of Palestinian terrorism.  “What we, as American Jews, must do is all we can to ensure that we are affected by what’s going on.  Not become overwhelmed by the enormity of it all, the pain of it all, but also not to allow ourselves to turn away from it all, become numb to it all.  Each Jewish death must matter to us, each person lost must be seen as the loss of an entire world.  That truth must not be just a nice phrase from the Talmud, but must be a reality for us.  We must really mean it and really feel it.”  AND THEN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Yossi Klein Halevi: Terrorism won’t break Israel’s will. “This isn't a war of Palestinian desperation but part of a long pattern of Palestinian self-destructiveness.”

Simon Wiesenthal Center calls on the Pope and other religious leaders to condemn Palestinian terrorism

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon: "Weary Warrior."  Also . . . see this (and this update) regarding Sabra and Chatilla.  One more (long one): "Sharon, Srebrenica, and Belgian Morals:  The continual measuring of Israel against the imaginary standards of others is both perverse and socially dangerous."  Sign the petition to King Albert II and Belgian Government.  Well at least PM Sharon is in good company: "Iraqis target Gen. Franks for war crimes trial."  Summing the whole thing up: the Belgian Law is STUPID.

President Bush says “A Palestinian state will never be created by terror.”  Click here for our analysis.

The Zionist Organization of America is monitoring Palestinian compliance with President Bush’s requirements.  Their March 3, 2003 status report.

U.S. ambassador rejects one-sided United Nations resolutions.

Congressional hearing on Saudi funding of extremism: "The problem we are looking at today is the state-sponsored doctrine and funding of an extremist ideology that provides the recruiting grounds, support infrastructure and monetary lifeblood to today's international terrorists," said Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.)  "The Wahhabi presence in the United States is a foreboding one that has potentially harmful and far-reaching consequences for our nation's mosques, schools, prisons and even our military," where a number of chaplains are influenced by the movement, said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.).

Saudi Funds Linked to US Sleeper Cells, Saudi PR and Their American Apologists.

Rand briefs Pentagon that Saudi Arabia is our enemy.  Click here for the Powerpoint slides from the briefing.

U.S. officials confirm that Hizballah has teamed up with Al Qaeda.  Click here for the full June 30 Washington Post story.  National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice confirmed that this terror alliance exists and is “very concerned” about it.  Click here for her June 30 interview on CNN.

Michael Oren explains the Six Day War on C-SPAN’s Booknotes.

Jerusalem Post editorial:  Annihilate Hamas

You’ve heard the body counts, but here’s why they’re distorted: “Around 1450 Palestinians have been killed since the start of the ‘al-Aqsa Intifada’, compared to more than 525 Israelis.  Numbers like these are used to create an image of lopsided slaughter, with Israel cast as the villain.  But such numbers distort the true picture:  They lump combatants in with noncombatants, suicide bombers with innocent civilians, and report Palestinian ‘collaborators’ murdered by their own compatriots as if they had been killed by Israel."

"Over 50 percent of the Palestinians killed were actively involved in fighting – and this does not include stone-throwers or ‘unknowns.’  And Palestinians are directly responsible for the deaths of at least 185 of their own number --  one out of every eight Palestinians killed.”

Another conclusion from this report is that Palestinians target Israeli civilians, while deliberately putting their own boys and young men in danger to gain international sympathy by inflating the Palestinian death toll.   Click here to read the complete report by the International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism.  Click here for the Forward’s story on this report. 

Click here for CNN's profiles of some of the victims.  Alan Perlman points out that CNN only covers the first six months of 2002.  He feels that this is not an oversight, but is consistent with CNN’s practice of minimizing any favorable coverage of Israel.  He ascribes the CNN special “Victims of Terror” feature to a concern that Israel would revoke the credentials of CNN’s journalists.  Click here to read the complete article in Israel Insider.

The CNN profiles may have been copied from the Israel Emergency Solidarity Fund, which is a much more complete memorial to 584 men, women and children murdered by terrorists.

Yossi Klein Halevi is living:  “between the despair of realizing that a majority of Palestinians actively intends to destroy Israel, and the slim hope that the Palestinian minority that favors reconciliation will someday be transformed into the majority and assume control of the leadership.”  Click here for his thoughts on Palestinian opinion.

Palestinians average 21 terrorist attacks against Israel each day! There were over 13,494 separate Palestinian attacks from September 2000 through May 2002.  Click here for a summary of the Israel Defense Force [IDF] statistics.  Click here for the IDF’s charts.  See this update though March 6, 2003.  

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