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Hamas Looks The Other Way As Rockets Pound Into Southern Israel
By Israeli Girl Rocket Attacks on Israel have escalated over the weekend, as one IDF soldier was killed and several Soldiers and civilians were injured in clashes with Palestinian Terrorists. AP Image The al-Quds Brigades, the Militant arm of the Islamic Jihad group, took responsibility for the shootings. Hamas is looking the other way, allowing smaller terrorist groups to test how far Israel will go in its response. Here is a summary of the events: On Friday evening, An IDF force identified s...

Hamas in bid to halt attack by Israelis
Hamas yesterday said it has begun talks with other Militant factions in the Gaza Strip to urge them to stop firing rockets at Israel. The talks are a signal that Hamas hopes to avert any large-scale Israeli Military operation. ...

Hamas looks the other way as rockets pound into Southern Israel
[ By Israeligirl .] Rocket Attacks on Israel have escalated over the weekend, as one IDF soldier was killed and several Soldiers and civilians were injured in clashes with Palestinian Terrorists. AP Image The al-Quds Brigades, the Militant arm of the Islamic Jihad group, took responsibility for the shootings. Hamas is looking the other way, allowing smaller terrorist groups to test how far Israel will go in its response. Here is a summary of the events: · On Friday evening, An IDF force...

Abu Rahma family has become symbol of occupation (and of an authoritarian regime Gideon Levy)
and other news from Today in Palestine: Land, property, and resources theft & destruction / Ethnic Cleansing / Settlers Israeli forces demolish Shepherd Hotel Jerusalem (Ma'an) -- Israeli bulldozers began demolishing the Shepherd Hotel in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday under the protection of a huge force of Israeli police and border guards. Israeli authorities leveled the hotel to make way for a new settlement. The initial plan is to build 20 Jewish-on...

Palestinian terrorists in Gaza attack Israel again
(Jpost)- Violence escalated along Israel’s border with the Gaza Strip over the weekend after one IDF soldier was killed, four were wounded and three foreign workers were injured in clashes with Palestinian Terrorists. On Saturday, the violence from Gaza continued after four mortar shells fired by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza landed in a kibbutz in the Sha’ar Hanegev Regional Council, wounding three foreign agricultural workers - one of them seriously. ...

Christmas in Egypt
“Thousands of Muslims honored a promise made by their leaders and showed up at Christmas Mass or at candlelight Vigils outside Egyptian churches on Friday, offering their bodies as human shields against any acts of Terrorists. The observances were tense, in view of the New Year’s Day bombing of a cathedral in Alexandria, which killed 21. The Egyptian Coptic Orthodox Church celebrates Christmas on January 7. Among those Muslims making this statement was beloved comedian Adil Imam. Sin...

Stockholm bomber was trained in Iraq, says official
Interesting article in that the Iraqi's claim there was a second Suicide bomber(an Egyptian national) who recieved similar training with Taymour Abdulwahab(the failed Swedish bomber). Reuters(Reuters) - Iraq informed the United States about a plot to carry out bombings in Sweden two months before an attack in Stockholm by a man trained in Iraq, an Iraqi security official told al Arabiya television on Friday. Major General Dhai Kanani, director of Iraq's anti-terrorism unit, said the man who bl...

Al-Qaeda Websites May Have Spurred Suicide Bombing of Egyptian Coptic Church
Source: AP by Amar Toor on January 7, 2011 at 07:30 AM On New Year's Day, a Suicide bombing killed 21 people at a Coptic church in Alexandria, Egypt. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak was quick to accuse foreign groups of orchestrating the attack, while domestic investigators turned their attention to Extremist groups within the country. Now, new evidence has emerged to suggest that Al-Qaeda may have at least lain out the groundwork for the plot via the Web. In the weeks leading up to the attack...

The Islam that hard-liners hate
KASUR, Pakistan — In Pakistan’s heartland, holy men with bells tied to their feet close their eyes and sway to the music. Nearby, rose petals are tossed on tombstones. Free food is distributed to devotees. This peaceful tableau is part of Sufism, Pakistan’s most popular brand of Islam, which attracts millions of worshipers at about a dozen major festivals throughout the year. Each day, thousands visit shrines dedicated to Sufi saints. But the rituals came under heavy attack in ...

Miami Herald misleads readers about ISNAs ties to Hamas
In this fulsome puff-piece about the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), Miami Herald pseudo-journalistic propagandist Jaweed Kaleem, whose inveterate prejudices have shown through in his "reporting" before, tries to mislead his unlucky readers into thinking that ISNA's links to the Jihad terror group Hamas are just a fabrication of Americans Against Hate, rather than something that has been officially confirmed by a U.S. District Court Judge and Federal Prosecutors. ISNA has even admitte...

Pakistans paradox
by Ayesha Nasir Supporters of Pakistani religious party Sunni Tehreek chant slogans in favor of accused assassin Mumtaz Qadri outside an anti-terrorist court in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, on January 6, 2011. Photo: AP/B.K.Bangash What struck me as particularly disturbing was that a day after roses and tulips were laid on the grave of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, his assassin was welcomed with rose petals and slogans of Allah-o-Akbar  or “Allah is great” at an anti-terrorist court in R

Remnick takes another step the occupation is deeply wrong
There was an emotional encounter between neocon Bret Stephens, New Yorker editor David Remnick and Fareed Zakari on CNN's GPS today. At 12 or so, Zakaria brings up the recent Israeli interview with David Remnick, in which he said he is sick of the occupation. And Remnick responds: I've always been tired of it. What I think of it is relatively immaterial.. If things seem quiet now, and I was just in Israel for ten days, and in the West Bank as well... I know this is not by any stretch of the im...

Hamas urges militant groups to stop attacking Israel
By Nidal al-Mughrabi Gaza | Sun Jan 9, 2011 8:05am EST Gaza (Reuters) - Hamas said on Sunday it has begun talks with other Militant factions in the Gaza Strip to urge them to stop firing rockets at Israel, attacks that have raised Palestinian fears of a new Israeli offensive. The talks are a signal that Hamas hopes to avert any large-scale Israeli Military operation in the enclave similar to a three-week campaign that ended in January 2009 and in which 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis were ...

Israeli soldiers kill 65-year-old Palestinian man in raid
Reporting from Ramallah, West Bank — Israeli Soldiers seeking to arrest a Hamas Militant in the southern West Bank city of Hebron early Friday mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old Palestinian man, prompting charges that the Troops used excessive force. Units of the Israeli army simultaneously raided several homes in Hebron to arrest five members of Hamas, an Islamic movement opposed to Israel. The Palestinian Authority had released the men from its own Prison only the day before on ...

Palestinians: Israeli troops mistakenly kill man
HEBRON, West Bank (AP) — Israeli Troops mistakenly shot and killed a 65-year-old man during an arrest Raid targeting a Hamas Militant in the West Bank before dawn Friday, Palestinian officials said. Troops shot and killed 65-year-old Omar Kawasmeh early Friday while trying to arrest a Hamas Militant who lived in the same building, according to security and rescue officials in the city of Hebron. They spoke on condition of anonymity because no official announcement was made. The Israeli mil...

Hamas Leader Calls Holocaust a Lie
The Holocaust was a Zionist lie that has been surpassed by subsequent Israeli holocausts, a Hamas founder and leader said in a Speech Thursday. "The lie of the Zionist Holocaust crumbles with countless holocausts committed by the Zionists in Beit Hanoun, al-Fakhoura school and other places in Palestine," Mahmud al-Zahar said at a service commemorating a 2008 Israeli bombing in Gaza that killed 43 people. The comment is drawing criticism and condemnation. "To compare the atrocities of the Holoca...

Gabrielle Giffords Is in Critical Condition; Synagogue Hosts Healing Service
The Synagogue where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is a member held a healing service in her honor Sunday — one day after the Arizona congresswoman was shot in the head outside of Tucson Supermarket. She had been meeting with constituents at the time of the attack, which killed six and wounded 20. Related Gabrielle Giffords Shot in the Head Giffords, 40, remained in critical condition Sunday night. Her doctors said she was able to respond to simple commands after surviving Brain Surgery, a promi...

Dept of Homeland Security suggests anti-Semitism may be motive for assassination attempt in Arizona
JTA picks up a Fox News report that a Dept of Homeland Security memorandum has mentioned the alleged gunman's connection to American Renaissance, a nativist group that Homeland Security notes rails against ZOG (Zionist Occupied Gov't) and is "anti-Semitic." The memo also mentions that wounded congresswoman Gabriel Giffords is Jewish. The JTA story says that Giffords made her Jewish Identity a proud point of her political campaign (following a 2001 trip to Israel, after which she embraced her J...

Lebanon's Hariri urges more U.N. pressure on Israel
By Louis Charbonneau NEW YORK | Sun Jan 9, 2011 9:47pm EST NEW YORK (Reuters) - Lebanon's Prime Minister urged the U.N. chief on Sunday to increase pressure on Israel to end all violations of Lebanese borders, and to help prevent it from exploiting Lebanese Oil and gas, a Lebanese official said. In a one-hour meeting with U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon at a New York hotel, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri insisted on the "full implementation of U.N. Security Council resolution 1701,...

Haj Omar al-Qawsmi, 65-year-old Palestinian civilian, is killed in bed in occupied Hebron by Israeli forces
and other news from Today in Palestine: Settlers/ Land, Property, Resource Theft & Destruction/Ethnic Cleansing Rawabi developer Masri helps deepen Israel's grip on West Bank Bashar Masri, the Palestinian businessman and CEO of the company that is developing the Rawabi luxury Real Estate project in the occupied West Bank, appears to be actively helping Israel deepen its hold on the Palestinian economy despite his earlier claims that he is trying to help end this relationship.  On 30 D...

Gaza mortar shell wounds two men at Israeli farm
Jerusalem | Sat Jan 8, 2011 9:13am EST Jerusalem (Reuters) - Two Thai agricultural workers were wounded by a mortar shell fired by Militants into an Israeli agricultural community close to the Gaza Strip border on Saturday, an Israeli official said. One man suffered serious wounds and the second was in moderate condition, said Alon Shuster, head of the local municipal authority. "This is, of course, a very serious incident, one of the most severe we have had recently, it represents an escalat...

Israeli Human Rights Groups Are Political Agents of Influence
While the media published the account without a shred of suspicion, the police found Fadel’s account hard to believe. Observant Jews neither drive nor light fires on Saturdays. And indeed, when questioned by police investigators, Fadel admitted he made the whole attack up. He accidentally killed his herd himself when he set fire to a pile of bramble. Too embarrassed to admit his mistake, he decided to blame the Jews and become a local hero. B’Tselem was only too happy to spread his l...

Like it or not, we must find common ground with British Muslims who stand up to fanatics
We must reach out to peaceful Muslims My blog post on the Oldham by-election drew some very strong reactions, not least from those who do not believe that Muslims can integrate and remain at peace with others who do not share their religion. I understand those fears and have long said that Multiculturalism is a dangerous concept of society. It risks creating the climate for a struggle for supremacy between incompatible cultures. There are not many examples in the world of peacable, prosperou...

France: al-Qaida involved in Africa kidnapping
PARIS - France's Defense Minister said Sunday that al-Qaida linked Militants were most likely behind the Kidnapping of two French nationals in the west African nation of Niger, who were found dead following a rescue attempt that involved French and Niger Troops. Alain Juppe also defended the decision to launch the rescue mission, saying that doing nothing would have signaled to the kidnappers "that in the end France doesn't fight Terrorism." He said there was no conclusive proof that the t...

Chavez calls burning of gov't building terrorism
Venezuelan authorities have evidence of Arson in a fire that badly damaged a government building used by officials carrying out farm seizures, President Hugo Chavez said Sunday, calling it an act of Terrorism. He said investigators determined the National Lands Institute office in western Zulia state was doused with Gasoline and set ablaze. Road-blocking Protests erupted in the area last month when officials and Troops seized a list of large private ranches. "We won't rest until we catch those r...