Tel
Aviv Terror Attack
 Police
on high alert after attack
High-alert in wake of bombing: Police around the country were on
high-alert on Sunday, two days after a suicide bomber killed four
people and wounded dozens outside a Tel Aviv night club. more..
 Following
Murderous Attack,
Sharon Warns PAPrime Minister Ariel Sharon said
this morning that there would be no diplomatic progress unless the
Palestinian Authority begins taking firm action against terrorism.
more..
 Security
- Conflicting claims of responsibility and denial cast mystery on
TA attack
By Israel Insider staff and partners February 26, 2005
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas angrily accused a "third party"
of orchestrating a suicide bombing in Israel to sabotage the Mideast
peace process, and his security officials claimed the Lebanese terror
group Hezbollah was involved.
 Judgements
of the Israel Supreme Court: Fighting Terrorism within the Law
There
exists a consensus on the need to fight terror, but there is still
much controversy regarding the best way to conduct this war. Unfortunately,
this dilemma is not new to the Israeli legal system. Since its birth,
the State of Israel has been the target of significant threats to
its existence, including terrorism. In this sense the Israeli experience
in the legal-judicial field is relevant to all those interested
in the war on terrorism.
 Why
is anti-Semitism on the rise?
IsraelNational TV Video interview:
Prof. Robert Wistrich of the Vidal Sassoon International Center
for the Study of Anti-Semitism discusses the alarming rise in anti-Semitism.
Have
you heard...
 Poor
old Red Ken sure knows how to win friends and influence people!
Even with all the accusations of anti-Semitism recently thrown at
him, his insulting manner towards Israel and friendship with the
repulsive Yusef Qaradawi, there are still those who believe that
he can be re-educated.
Barry Shaw of Netanya, whose work with traumatised victims of terrorism
is to be commended, has openly invited London's Mayor, Ken Livingstone,
to visit Israel and see things for himself. more...
 His
Majesty King Abdullah II Interview with Israeli TV Channel 2,
Amman/ March 8 (Petra)
expressed his optimism over the new peace opportunities stressing
the need to support both the Palestinians and Israelis to move
forward in the peace process.
Herald
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consider the herald to be extremely biased and distorted in its
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At a tense World Social Forum, an
interpreter finds herself lost in translation
by Irin Carmon
March 8th, 2005 12:24 PM
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| A
participant in January's World Social Forum in Porto Alegre,
Brazil sends mixed messages. |
We
are Latin Americanist Hindi interpreters from the subcontinent,
bespectacled Brazilian graduate students who served in the Israeli
army, rangy Galician professionals fresh from the European Union's
halls. We are Welsh-Egyptian pan-Arabists in feathered Panama hats,
dainty U.N.-bound Lebanese, and Argentine French literary translators.
Well,
that's who they are, some of my 500 fellow interpreters at January's
World Social Forum in Porto Alegre, Brazil, a progressive powwow
150,000 participants strong.
I,
on the other hand, am an Israeli-born Jew living in the United States,
with an elite education and an upper-middle-class background. Only
a vote for Bush last fall would have completed my role as the consummate
World Social Forum pariah.
"So
you're the enemy," laughs one interpreter. more...
 Why
the Palestinians Came to the Table
By Charles Krauthammer
The Palestinians know that Arafat's war left them a legacy of death,
corruption, misery, international isolation, and social ruin as
the myriad militias he created roam the streets, terrorizing their
own people. That is why they elected Mahmoud Abbas. Will the Palestinians
try another intifada in the future? They might. But now they know
what they did not know four years ago. The cost will be enormous.
And the Israelis do not break. (Washington
Post)
 A
darkness falls on England"The
single most important thing is for our community to enlist others
to join in the protest against the attacks,... Jews must not be
left to fight anti-Semitism alone."
Jonathan Sacks, Britain's Orthodox chief rabbi.
 The
`Silent Jews' speak out By
Shoshana Kordova
College students in the U.S. have become like Russian Jews who kept
silent because they feared state retaliation if they spoke out about
being persecuted. That was the view expressed Saturday night by
Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs Minister Natan Sharansky at the screening
of a controversial documentary depicting pro-Israel students' allegations
of intimidation at the hands of Columbia University professors.
Qassam
Rocket Attacks Against Israel
It was a Jewish Sabbath, in early January. 17-year old Ayala Abukasis
was returning home with her 11 year old brother Tamir from a meeting
of their youth group in the Israeli town of Sderot.
The town's siren went off, warning of an incoming Qassam rocket
fired by Palestinians from the nearby Gaza Strip. The two teenagers
had 20 seconds to hide. They did not have time to take cover, and
Ayala lay on top of her brother, shielding him. A rocket exploded
right next to them. Tamir suffered only minor injuries. Ayala was
critically injured. A few days later, she died from her wounds.
(Beyond
Images)
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The
virtues of Israeli tolerance
By Amnon Rubinstein
Here
is a paradox: Just when it seems that multiculturalism is dying
out in Europe, it is receiving a substantial boost in the Dovrat
Report on reforming our educational system.
In Western Europe, amazingly, where the multicultural idea was seemingly
entrenched, politicians and journalists are abandoning it, without
having been subject to even a small fraction of the Islamic terror
Israel has suffered. (Israel21c)
 Have
you heard that
the BBC has now expanded its perceived anti-Israel/anti-Semitic
format from discussion and news items into Religion & Ethics?
On Thursday Feb 10, 2005, John Bell, of the Iona Community, whilst
a guest on the BBC 'Thought for the Day', related
a story he claimed was told to him by an Israeli Arab whom he met
in Canada.
Have
you heard….what happened next? Having
wished that they could have experienced one of those “breakdowns
in the broadcast” that they used to be famous for, the BBC
half-heartedly, if it could even be so described, “apologised”
for the errors and for the offence that it caused by their “Thought
for the Day” broadcast of Feb 10.
 After
an uncertain beginning, the shape of PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's
strategy is beginning to emerge through his dealings with Israel
and his rivals on the Palestinian political stage. On Friday, Palestinian
security forces began to deploy personnel in areas of northern Gaza
that have been used as sites for the launching of Qassam rockets
and other mortar attacks on Israeli communities. At the same time,
senior representatives of the Palestinian Authority (PA) are in
negotiations with leaders of Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the terrorist
organisations responsible for these attacks. The talks, sponsored
by Egypt and taking place
in Cairo, are intended to draw these Islamist rejectionist groups
into the political process, offering them a portion of political
power in return for the cessation of their engagement in terrorism.
(cont'd)
 Confirmation
Hearing of Condoleeza Rice
Wednesday Jan. 19th 2005
"The
construction of unified Palestinian security forces that are accountable
to the Palestinian leadership and are not, in effect, armed gangs
is probably one of our most important tasks," she said, adding,
'We've pressed very hard for the Palestinians to take on terrorism,
because we are not going to get very far if there is terrorism from
the Palestinian militants.' Also welcome was Rice's call for other
nations in the region to act more constructively in their relations
with this country: 'Arab states have responsibilities too. They
can't incite violence against Israel on the one hand, and call for
peace and the two-state solution on the other.' "
 MYTH
#164
“Israel must help Mahmoud Abbas improve his standing
among Palestinians to facilitate the peace process.”
LEGAL
ASPECTS OF
THE PALESTINIAN REFUGEE QUESTION
Ruth Lapidoth
The Beginning of the Refugee Problem / Who is a Refugee? / Do Refugees
Have a Right to Return to Israel? / The Impact of UN General Assembly
Resolution 194 / After 1967 / The Refugee Question in Arab-Israeli
Agreements / A Right to Compensation?
The
Spectator
 The
deadly threat of a nuclear Iran Douglas Davis
The
Middle East is on the brink of going nuclear, and the rest of the
world is fiddling or looking the other way. The United States is
draining its energies in Iraq, the Europeans are fussing over ‘soft
power’ diplomacy, and the UN monitoring agencies are dithering.
‘We are not asking the tough questions,’ a senior official
in the Vienna-based UN nuclear-monitoring industry told me this
week. ‘We are not ... more>>
 The
Reporting of Iraq and Israel: An Abuse of Media Power by
Melanie Phillips
Limmud conference talk, 27 December 2004
A friend went into Blackwells university bookshop in
Oxford and asked the counter clerk: 'Do you have a copy of Alan
Dershowitz's The Case for Israel?' 'There is no case for Israel',
the counter clerk replied.
PALESTINIAN
CENTER for Policy and Survey Research*
 PRESS
RELEASE
Joint Palestinian-Israeli Public Opinion Poll
IN
THE POST ARAFAT ERA, PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS ARE MORE WILLING
TO COMPROMISE: FOR THE FIRST TIME MAJORITY SUPPORT FOR CLINTON'S
PERMANENT STATUS SETTLEMENT PACKAGE
These
are the results of the most recent poll conducted jointly by the
Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research and the Harry
S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
*This
joint survey was conducted with the support of the Ford Foundation
Cairo office and the Japanese Government
 The
Feast of Sacrifice for Cherkesi, Druze and Muslims
Id
al Adha, the Feast of Sacrifice, is celebrated every year by Cherkesi,
Druze and Muslims. The days of the holiday are considered official
days of rest.
ISRAEL
TRAINS GUARDS OF SAUDI ROYALS
TEL
AVIV [MENL] -- Israel has been quietly training foreign bodyguards
for the Saudi royal family. The bodyguards have trained at a private
security facility in Israel's Negev desert. The training included
protecting convoys from attack, escaping ambushes and the protection
of VIPs.
Three
bodyguards, said to have been German nationals, completed a weeklong
training course at the Counter Terrorism Training Center near the
southern city of Rahat. The course included 23 foreigners, including
bodyguards for the U.S. embassy in Baghdad.
The
center invited journalists to a simulated training exercise in November
2004. The course was run by former Israeli security experts and
commandos. ===
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 Arabs
for Israel
"We
are Arabs and Moslems who believe…
We can support the State of Israel and the Jewish religion and still
treasure our Arab and Islamic culture."
 Nonie
Darwish
On
November 20th 2003
I spoke at Carnegie Mellon University at a lecture series entitled
"Arabs for Israel," sponsored by the Young
Zionist Organization of America. The idea of this series is to show
that there are Arabs and/or Muslims who feel positively about, and
support Israel.
 Brigitte
Gabriel, a Lebanese
who
is proud to speak out
on behalf of Israel.
Radio
Interviews
 Walid
Shoebat
“The
occupation is in the minds of Children who are taught hatred.”
“Israel
was the solution for the world’s greatest refugee problem
that went on for two thousand years”
Dr.
Abdelhamid on the Tovia Singer show:
Dr.
Tarek Abdelhamid grew up as typical Arab Egyptian, hating Israel
and the Jews. As a young man in medical school he was introduced
to the man who became the most wanted terrorist in the world, Ayman
al Zawahiri.
 Israeli-developed
airplane cell phone technology takes flight
Have you been waiting all these years for technology that enables
cell phones to be used during plane flights? The wait is over, thanks
to Israeli involvement which was instrumental in the success of
an American satellite-based air-to-ground cellular service test.
(Israel21c)
 An
academic boycott of Israel would lead to lives being lost:
Baroness
Greenfield, "Israeli scientific achievements are absolutely
mindboggling,"... if efforts underway in some British academic circles
to boycott Israeli scientists succeed, ultimately lives will be
lost, she explained.
 Israeli
doctors
have to fend off mindless attacks from their scientific colleagues,
particularly in Europe.
 60th
anniversary of the liberation of the death camps
On
Monday, January 24, 2005, the United Nations General Assembly will
convene in Special Session to mark the 60th anniversary of the liberation
of the death camps. This is the first time that the UN General Assembly
is convening to commemorate the Holocaust. On Tuesday, January 25
the Council
of Europe will commemorate the event.
 Address
by Silvan Shalom
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State
of Israel
Special
Session of the UN General Assembly to mark the
60th Anniversary of the Liberation of the Concentration Camps
January 24, 2005
"Shall
these bones live?"
 "For
six million Jews, the State of Israel came too late. For them, and
for countless others, the United Nations also came too late. But
it is not too late, to renew our commitment, to the purposes for
which the United Nations was founded. And it is not too late, to
work for an international community that will reflect these values
fully; that will be uncompromising in combating intolerance against
people of all faiths and ethnicities; that will reject moral equivalence;
that will call evil by its name." (Full
text of address...)
 Annan
tells historic session: Act against new anti-Semitism
By Shlomo Shamir, Haaretz Correspondent
NEW YORK - Sixty years after the liberation of Auschwitz, a national
anthem - Hatikva - was played Monday for the first time at the UN
General Assembly, and a cantor chanted El Maleh Rahamim, ending
an historic special session that commemorated the victims of the
Holocaust.
UN
Video Webcast
Morning
session: 3hrs 02mins
Afternoon
session: 2hrs 53mins
*Video
Clip #497: London Mayor Ken Livingstone on MEMRI and Sheik Al-Qaradhawi
An
excerpt: "Almost all of these lies that distorted the sermons
of Dr. Al-Qaradhawi originate from an organization called the Middle
East Media Research Institute, which claims to be an objective research
institute analyzing various Muslim scholars, from around the world.
But what we discovered was that this institute is run by a former
officer in the Israeli intelligence, the Mossad. And he systematically
distorts the facts - not just what Dr. Al-Qaradhawi says but what
many other Muslim scholars say. In most cases, the distortion is
complete, and therefore I published this
dossier."
 *Video
Clip #495: Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi: Islam Has No Problem with Judaism
An
excerpt: "The Prophet Muhammad's attitude toward the Jews was
of utmost generosity. The problem started because of the Jews. They
were the ones who were treacherous and violated the pact. They even
made an agreement with the raiders of Al-Madina, and attacked the
Jews - I mean, attacked Al-Madina - with the Quraysh and Ghaftan
tribes, and with the pagans. Unfortunately, the Jews supported them
and deserted the Muslims at a time when they were most needed. The
Jews wanted to take advantage of this opportunity in order to
annihilate the Muslims and totally eradicate them. Therefore, the
problem with the Jews is not one of faith or religious laws. The
problem is the covetous aspirations that have characterized their
attitude since the days of the Prophet Muhammad..."
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Radio Kol Yisrael 
The
deployment of PA security forces in Gaza: an assessment