Making the trip from Italy to Hevron for the second time in recent years, the head of the Italian Muslim Assembly, Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, met with local Jewish leaders in a show of solidarity. The sheikh, an Italian national who received his Islamic education from leading mainstream Saudi and Egyptian Sunni institutions, believes that his religion obligates its followers to support Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel. In support of his position, Sheikh Palazzi quotes Koranic passages ...
Fareed Zakaria: The costs of the Iraq war have been great and perhaps indefensible. We now have a perhaps. But Iraq could still turn out to be an extraordinary model for the Arab world. Its people are negotiating their differences for the most part peacefully; its politics is becoming more pluralistic and democratic; its press is free; its provinces have autonomy; its focus has shifted to business and wealth creation, not religion and jihad. At a conference in Baghdad last Octobe...
Iraqi MP and patriot Mithal Al-Alousi condemns terror attacks and advocates taking action against those that support them. Video: http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/2305.htm Transcript: http://www.memritv.org/clip_transcript/en/2305.htm I would like to say something to our neighboring countries, and I mean what I say. Iraq has survived six years of terror attacks, car bombs, and bloodshed. By God, we can survive another 60 years of this war. But these Mickey Mouse countries – ...
Progressives can relax now. Iran is not building nuclear power plants: An Asian intelligence source last week confirmed to The Times that his country also believed that weapons work was being carried out as recently as 2007 — specifically, work on a neutron initiator. The technical document describes the use of a neutron source, uranium deuteride, which independent experts confirm has no possible civilian or military use other than in a nuclear weapon. Uranium deuteride is the mate...
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3819442,00.html The Turkish-Kurdish conflict (actually the conflict between Turkey and the PKK terrorist group) has cost the lives oftens of thousands of people since 1984, far more than, say, the Israeli-Arab conflict in the same time (or possibly in total): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkey%E2%80%93Kurdistan_Workers%27_Party_conflict 6500 Turkish soldiers killed. 32000 PKK members are killed. (I am assuming Turkey counts them all as ...
Every three minutes a Christian is being tortured in the Muslim world, and in 2009 more than 165,000 Christians will have been killed because of their faith, most of them in Muslim countries, according to a human rights organization that is visiting Israel starting Sunday. "Hamas digs up the bodies of Christians from Christian burial sites in the Gaza Strip claiming that they pollute the earth," said Reverend Majed El Shafie, President of One Free World International (OFWI), who wil...
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1260181033865 Entire article in bold with my comments in non-bold: A West Bank military tribunal has sentenced a member of the Palestinian security services to death for sharing information with Israel. Note that the Oslo peace treaty demands that "information" is shared with Israel about terror attacks. Apparently the Palestinian Authority has laws against upholding peace treaties. The head of t...
A description of life under Israeli oppression in a region that western liberals would condemn Jews to death to deliver food and water to: Wandering around downtown Nablus the shops and restaurants I saw were full. There were plenty of expensive cars on the streets. Indeed I counted considerably more BMWs and Mercedes than I've seen, for example, in downtown Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. And perhaps most importantly of all, we had driven from Jerusalem to Nablus without going through ...
In a short entry titled "Take That Ahmadinejad", Israellycool Dave shows a picture of Omri Casspi, the first Israeli in the NBA, with Hamed Haddadi, the first Iranian in the NBA http://www.israellycool.com/2009/11/24/take-that-ahmadinejad/ I find this most interesting. I have seen it before, pictures of Israelis and purported enemies, and (usually Jewish) fans of Israel always celebrate these events, while Israel's enemies decry them. Similarly it was Iran, not Israel, that objected t...
And what does he do? He makes demands. What right does he have to make demands? Perhaps the Israeli foreign minister, the known fascist because he is a Jew Lieberman, should go to Europe and demand that, say, Spain stop building Spanish settlements in the Basque country (or in whichever area of Spain any Basque terrorist group sees as their land)? Apparently, after 60 years of wars and terrorism against Israel and after 2000 years of violent Anti-Semitism, the world has finally found ou...
A position is only solid when it can be tested, when evidence against it can bring it down. So I will here publish my standard for testing my position. These are my requirements for accusations against Israel that I will believe. 1. The accusations must not be part of a series made every year but must appear after several years of quiet; the accusations must stand out. 2. The accusations must refer to international law that applies to Israel as well as to other countries and has alre...
The Jerusalem Municipality is plowing ahead with plans for construction of more than 5,000 housing units in Arab neighborhoods. These include the following: A master plan for the Tel Adasa neighborhood in northern Jerusalem, where 2,000 new housing units are planned. A master plan for the Arab a-Sawahara area for a new housing compound with 2,500 units that is currently being prepared for discussion at the local council and district council levels. A master plan for the Dir...
I mentioned in a previous post that there is a war going on in Pakistan. https://forums.joeuser.com/368848 Since 2004 the Pakistani government has been fighting the Taliban and affiliated terrorists and so far the results are astounding: - 16,000 deaths - among those 6000 civilians - terrorists are here not counted as "civilians" At the same time Israel (and to a lesser extent the PLO) has been fighting a war against Hamas and affiliated terrorists in Gaza and surro...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_in_North-West_Pakistan Results since 2004: 2,513 soldiers and policemen killed, 235+ tribesmen killed, 857+ soldiers and policemen captured (558 released) 7,712+ militants killed (809 foreign fighters) Over 3.44 million civilians displaced 5,291 civilians killed, 30 foreigners killed If the UN are so worried about 300 civilian deaths in Gaza, the situation in Pakistan will certainly make them act immediately. Just kidding. The...
Thirty years ago, Iranian militants stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking American diplomats hostage for 444 days, chilling relations between the two countries for decades and nailing the coffin in President Jimmy Carter's political career. The Iranian Revolution had begun. Today, the fundamentalist government in Tehran held protests to commemorate the event, as usual burning the American flag and encouraging shouts of "Death to America." This time, pro-democracy protesters -- many ...