Temple Mount 100% Islamic ?
June 3, 2008
Jerusalem and the Temple Mount belong to the Muslims and any Israeli action that “offends” the Mount will be answered by 1.5 billion Muslims, declared the chief of staff for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.
“Jerusalem is Muslim. The blessed Al Aqsa mosque and Harem Al Sharif (Temple Mount) is 100 percent Muslim. The Israelis are playing with fire when they threaten Al Aqsa with digging that is taking place,” said Abbas’ chief of staff Rafiq Al Husseini.
The Temple Mount is Judaism’s holiest site.
Husseini was referring to Israeli plans to construct a new bridge from the Western Wall area to the Temple Mount.
The old bridge was damaged two years ago. When Israeli workers tried to repair it, Palestinian leaders claimed the work was threatening the Al Aqsa Mosque, even though the mosque is located hundreds of feet away, the work did not tunnel under any Mount foundation or touch any structure connected to the mosque, and the repair work – which had been pre-approved by Jordan and the Mount’s Muslim custodians – was conducted under the scrutiny of an accessible 24/7 webcam.
“Any hurting of Jerusalem will explode the whole negotiations between us and the Israelis … we must work to strengthen Palestinian ties to Jerusalem,” al-Husseini said.
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Israel Offers 91% of W. Bank In New Map
May 27, 2008
Palestinian officials close to peace talks said Sunday that Israel has offered a West Bank withdrawal map that leaves about 8.5 percent of the territory in Israeli hands, less than a previous plan but still more than the Palestinians are ready to accept.
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat and other PA officials, however, told The Jerusalem Post that the report is unsubstantiated.
Also Sunday, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas was quoted as telling backers that the negotiations have achieved no progress since they were restarted last November with a pledge to US President George W. Bush to try for a full peace treaty by the end of the year.
The Palestinian officials said that Israel presented its new map three days ago in a negotiating session. The last map Israel offered had 12 percent of the West Bank remaining in Israel. Israel wants to keep West Bank land with its main settlement blocs, offering land inside Israel in exchange. The land would be between Hebron in the southern West Bank and Gaza - at least part of a route through Israel to link the two territories.
The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the negotiations are being conducted behind closed doors, said Palestinians were ready to trade only 1.8% of the West Bank for Israeli land.
Israeli officials refused to comment.
Iran - Ahmadinejad Predicts Israel Will Soon Be Swept Away
May 14, 2008
In Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s latest verbal outburst against Israel, the Iranian President said Tuesday that it would “be soon swept away” by the Palestinians.
“This terrorist and criminal state is backed by foreign powers, but this regime would soon be swept away by the Palestinians,” Ahmadinejad said in a press conference in Tehran.
It is the second time within less than three years that the Iranian president predicted the eradication of Israel.
The first time was in 2005 when Ahmadinejad hoped that Israel would be eradicated from the Middle East map.
Referring to worldwide celebrations for the 60th anniversary of Israel’s foundation, he said that “it would be futile to hold a birthday ceremony for something which is already dead.”
“As far as the regional countries are concerned, this regime does not exist,” Ahmadinejad added.
Israel At 60
May 12, 2008
Sixty years ago this week, a British Army officer appeared at the door of Rabbi Mordechai Weingarten, the leader of the Jewish community inside Jerusalem’s Old City. He carried an iron key to the walled city’s Zion Gate, which he handed to the elderly rabbi.
“From the year 70 A.D. until today, a key to the gates of Jerusalem has never been in Jewish hands,” the major said. “This is the first time in 18 centuries that your people have been so privileged.”
The British Mandate in Palestine came to an end on that day. And on that day – May 14, 1948 – in Tel Aviv, Zionist leader David Ben-Gurion proclaimed the State of Israel in the territory the United Nations designated as the Jewish homeland. After nearly two millennia, the Jewish people had come home.
Arab armies attacked within hours, with one leader promising to “sweep the Jews into the sea.” Against unbelievable odds, Israel prevailed (for the Palestinians, this is remembered as the naqba, or catastrophe). After winning two more wars of survival – in 1967 and 1973 – the Jewish state would build a durable, prosperous democracy.
Terror Groups Planning Massive Independence Day Attack on Israel
May 1, 2008
Military Intelligence Chief Major-General Amos Yadlin warned the cabinet Tuesday of terror organizations seeking to carry out a major terror attack during Independence Day.
The Israel Defense Forces, he said, “has intelligence indicating terrorists might try to mimic the Passover attack, including the possible abductions of IDF soldiers.”
On the eve of the holiday, a Palestinian terror cell detonated a car bomb near the Kerem Shalom crossing, in a failed infiltration attempt. Thirteen IDF soldiers were wounded in the attack.
Yadlin briefed the cabinet on the situation in the Gaza Strip at the request of Prime Minister Ehud Olmert. Hamas, he told the ministers “wants to break the blockade on Gaza and since Egypt is determined to stop that from happening on its side, Hamas will try to carry out another attack similar to the one on Kerem Shalom.
The terror groups, he stressed, are likely to target the Gaza crossings: “It’s an operational opportunity for them to hurt both soldiers and civilians… They’ll target everything they can along the Hubers Route, including digging tunnels, laying explosives and carrying out shooting attacks.
The Hubers Route runs along Israel’s security fence with the Gaza Strip, from the Mediterranean to the Philadelphi Route; and includes Israel’s four major crossings with the Strip – the Erez crossing in its north, the Sufa and Karni crossings in its central and Kerem Shalom in its south.
Yadlin went on to say that “Hamas is not interested in any kind of truce. As far as they are concerned a hudna last five to 10 years, but they are asking much more for it than the moderate Palestinians are asking for a peace treaty.”
Hamas is lacking dominant leadership, he added, and while “the political wing leads and the military wing does as it’s told, the leadership per se is weak…
“(Hamas politburo chief) Khaled Mashaal said so himself – ‘We need the time to regroup’ – and even if Egypt and Hamas come to some sort of an understanding, they still need the approval of the Palestinian factions in Cairo.
Israel at 60 - State of Israel Turns 60
April 22, 2008
The story of Israel at 60 is the tale of a little town named Sderot whose children play indoors because of Palestinian rockets, of a world-class tech industry that pioneered Wi-Fi and instant messaging, of a nation filled with pride and fierce patriotism, yet living in fear of annihilation from abroad and of a demographic time bomb at home.
Six decades after fighting six Arab armies to realize the ancient dream of a Jewish return to Zion, Israel is still searching for its identity and place in the world, lacking recognized borders and a way of sharing the land with its Arab inhabitants, the Palestinians.
This existential struggle plays itself out every day in the Holy Land, whether in the furious construction of Israeli homes on disputed territory, or the touch-and-go attempts to make peace with moderate Palestinians while clashing daily with the militants in the Gaza Strip.
Geut Aragon has a piece of shrapnel permanently lodged in her brain from a rocket that struck her home in Sderot, the southern town near Gaza, three months ago. She keeps her two young sons indoors.
“Since they were born they know nothing else,” Aragon says. “Sirens, sheltered rooms — they don’t play like regular children.” Although she still suffers from headaches and dizziness, she vows to stay in Sderot and even plans to celebrate on independence day, May 8, the Jewish calendar date for Israel’s declaration of statehood on May 14, 1948.
Israel, Egypt on High Alert For Hamas Attack
April 13, 2008
Egypt and Israel have been on alert for a major Hamas border strike.
Israeli and Egyptian forces have been placed on high alert along the Gaza Strip amid intelligence that the Hamas regime was planning a series of major attacks. The intelligence warned of Hamas attacks on Israeli facilities and the destruction of the Egypt-Gaza border.
“The Hamas attacks could take place any day,” a security source said.
On Wednesday, Hamas-aligned combatants attacked a gasoline storage terminal along the Gaza-Israel border, Middle East Newsline reported. At least two Israeli workers were killed in what was termed a major security breach. The Popular Resistance Committees and Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the strike, meant to either blow up the terminal or abduct Israelis.
Israel: We’ll Destroy Iran If They Decide To Launch War
April 8, 2008
Israel will “destroy” Iran if Tehran decided to launch a war against the Jewish state, Israeli Infrastructure Minister Benjamin Ben-Eliezer said today.
The unusually harsh warning from Ben-Eliezer, a former defense minister, was delivered as the official visited his ministrys war room, which took part today in a massive, nationwide, weeklong drill that is set to include simulated chemical missile attacks on central Israel.
“The Iranians wont rush to attack Israel, because they understand the significance such action would have and are well aware of our strength,” Ben-Eliezer told reporters. “However, Iran continues to aggravate the situation by supplying arms to Syria and Hezbollah, and we must deal with this.”
The minister said this weeks war drill “is not a meaningless spectacle or a fictional scenario. The future reality is likely to be a number of times harsher than that which we recognize now. We are confronted with a situation where the home front becomes the front line.”
“In a future war, it will be much safer to live in the northern towns of Nahariya and Shlomi instead of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv, since I expect that in the opening attack hundreds of missiles will strike Israel,” Eliezer said. “There will be no place in the country which is not within range of Syria and Hezbollahs rockets.”
Israel To Hold Massive War Drill Next Week
April 3, 2008
Tens of thousands of Israelis are to participate next week in a nationwide emergency drill that will simulate a massive missile strike on the country’s population centers.
The exercise was approved by Israel’s security cabinet Wednesday and will be launched with a cabinet meeting conducted as if Israel was at war, and the sounding of air raid sirens throughout the land.
Sectors to be involved will include the Israel Defense Forces, all government ministries, local authorities and the educational services.
Such a missile strike from Syria, the Lebanese Hizb’allah and perhaps even Iran is considered likely in the next Arab-Israeli war, which high-ranking IDF reserve officers have said will make the 2006 Second Lebanon War look like child’s play in comparison.
That war, between Israel and the Hizb’allah - the Iranian- and Syrian-supported terror group which launched missiles only against the north of the country - drove more than a million Israelis to abandon their homes and move south out of rocket-range.
Last week IDF officials reported that the Hizb’allah now has more rockets than it did before the last war, and that it is now equipped with missiles that can hit much deeper into Israel, even as far south as Dimona, the site of Israel’s nuclear facility.
Syria is armed with even more powerful and more accurate missiles, and is known to have non-conventional warheads including those with VX nerve gas in its arsenal.
Earlier, before the Security Cabinet gave the green light for the drill, Israeli media reported that Syria was calling up its reserve troops fearing an Israeli attack.
Also on the same day, in an apparently unrelated development, the Israeli defense establishment announced that it s non-conventional protection kits - against atomic, biological and chemical attacks - are to be upgraded and redistributed to the public.
Jewish Leader Calls Hagee Extremist
April 3, 2008
The leader of the largest branch of American Judaism said Wednesday that synagogues in the movement shouldn’t work with the Rev. John Hagee, a Christian Zionist, calling him an “extremist” on Israeli policy who disparages other faiths.
Rabbi Eric Yoffie, president of the liberal Union for Reform Judaism, said Hagee and his group, Christians United For Israel, reject any Israeli land concessions to achieve peace with the Palestinians.
Reform Judaism supports creating a Palestinian state; Hagee sees a biblical mandate for the territory so End Times prophecy can be fulfilled.
Yoffie also condemned Hagee’s views on Roman Catholicism and Islam. The San Antonio pastor has suggested that Catholic anti-Semitism shaped Adolf Hitler, among other comments.
Hagee has vehemently denied he is anti-Catholic and said his remarks have been mischaracterized.
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