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Israel Braces Herself For More Terrorism

Israelis are bracing themselves for yet more terrorism from Palestinians. Several sources in Gaza have stated: 'Militants will keep ambushing Israelis wherever and whenever we can.' And at least one source has warned that the 'main' revenge for Operation Cast Lead is yet to come.

"We have an open score with the enemy," he said. The comment was made following two recent terror attacks in the Jordan Valley and the West Bank settlement of Bat Ayin, and two foiled attacks in Haifa and Shoket Junction, which left three Israelis and four assailants dead. In Bat Ayin earlier this week, a 16 year old boy was murdered by a terrorist wielding an axe. The source denied that the recent wave of attacks was the militants "welcome " for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government. He added: "We will not stop the attacks and will carry them out whenever the situation on the ground permits it. I know groups are preparing their responses and those will not be delayed long," he said. Operation Cast Lead was a response to eight years of Hamas terrorism, which involved hundreds of suicide bombings in civilian areas of Israel, as well as over six thousand rocket attacks on southern Israel. Commander Yoram Ohayon, head of the police's Operations Department, has stated: "We don’t expect things to go back to the time of exploding buses, but rather a shift to simple, popular attacks – in other words, terrorists acting alone without an organized group behind them." As of now, the defense establishment has intelligence indicating several attacks on Israeli targets are imminent, as well as intelligence warning of dozens of possible shooting, abduction and suicide attacks and rocket fire.

The Truth About Israeli Arabs and Palestinians

Lately, while the world has been busy demonising Israel, over one million Israeli Arabs have been quietly going about their daily lives. That's right - over one million. And all full and free Israeli citizens.

They are an aspect of Israel that those who bash the Jewish state tend to ignore. And with good reason. After all, Israeli Arabs might just be the best proof that the bashers are wrong when they accuse Israel of being an 'apartheid state', and of being 'immoral'.

For if she was guilty of these things, then why oh why oh why are many more Arabs moving to Israel to live...? I mean, there's hardly a lack of Arab countries for them to live in, is there? All of them larger, and most of them far richer, than tiny little Israel.

So no wonder the Israel-bashers keep quiet about this. It is perhaps some of the best proof that there lies about Israel are just that: fiction.

And while we're on this topic, here are some more facts about Israeli Arabs that you can use to counter the unfair, and often obscene villification of the Jewish homeland:


Unequal education and employment for Palestinians: Arab states vs. Israel:

In Arab Lebanon, Arab Palestinians do not have social and civil rights, and have a very limited access to the government's public health or educational facilities and no access to public social services. Palestinians are prohibited by law from working in more than 70 trades and professions.

Under Israeli rule, Arab Palestinian universities in East-Jerusalem, West Bank and Gaza Strip (all founded after 1967 when Israel took over these territories from Arab Jordan and Arab Egypt):

Al Azhar University of Gaza
Al-Quds University (6 campuses in Jerusalem and West Bank)
Arab American University of Jenin
Bethlehem University of Bethlehem
Birzeit University of Birzeit

Hebron University of Hebron
Ibrahimieh Community College of Jerusalem
Islamic University of Gaza
Palestine Polytechnic Institute
An-Najah National University of Nablus official website: "


In 1977 it became An-Najah National University with Faculties of Arts and Science. In 1978 An-Najah National University joined the Association of Arab Universities as a full member. The university grew and advanced from this point forward constructing auditoriums, a library and a student center until it was declared a "closed military area" by the Israeli authorities in 1988.

It was reopened in 1991 and has been fully functioning since. It has 10 Undergraduate Faculties, 30 Masters, and one Ph.D program. The university has also added nine professional and technical centers, such as the Center for Water and Environmental Studies and the Center for Urban and Regional Planning.

An-Najah National University continues to advance and develop and offer the highest level of secondary education in the West Bank. The foundation has already been laid for its new campus, which will house the School of Medicine, a Teaching Hospital and its existing Science and Technical Faculties, and An-Najah hopes to expand to hold more than 10,000 students by the new millenium.

From 1948-1967, under the occupation of the Arab Jordanian brothers, Nablus got no university. But since 1977, under Israeli rule, Nablus not only got their first university but the university grew and advanced. Needless to say, while tens of thousands of Arabs study at Israeli universities, no Jew can safely enter Nablus.


True human development of the Palestinians and the other Arabs

The "wretched" Palestinians in the Israeli "Occupied Palestinian Territories" have higher Human Development Index (HDI = 0.731) than the 22 Arab states average (0.662) and than the average (0.707) of all neighboring Arab states Egypt (0.648), Jordan (0.743), Syria (0.648) and Lebanon (0.752) and only a bit lower than oilrich Saudi Arabia (0.769). HDI source: United Nations Human Development Report 2003


Unequal names by which neighborhoods in Palestinian towns are called

"Wretched" Palestinian "refugee camps" in "occupied" West Bank and Gaza Strip are in fact neighborhoods of above average Arab towns, near Palestinian universities and compounds of the Palestinian rich and famous.


For example, Jenin (West Bank) consists of stone and concrete
buildings, with schools, private university, chamber of commerce and industry, jewelry shops, CD shops, computer shops, sweet shops, travel agencies, restaurants, lawyers offices, engineering offices, banks, mosques, insurance agents, hospitals, clinics, pharmacies, sports clubs, taxis, traffic jams and everything else you expect in a community.

Unequal UN mandates for refugees in the world: Palestinians vs. all others
20th century: 135 million refugees, less than 0.5% were Arab Palestinians

Unequal health in the Middle East: Palestinians and the other Arabs

Palestinians have higher population growth, life expectancy, fertility rate and lower infant mortality than the Middle East average and than all the neighboring Arab states Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.

http://www.hasbara.us/jewish_and_arab_palestinian_refugees.html

The Missionary Position

Something strange is happening in London.

Specifically, in areas where Jews live.

Take last week. 15 year old Rachel heard a knock at the door and, through the spy hole, saw three Orthodox Jews standing there. Feeling perfectly safe, she opened the door.

Greeting her with warm smiles, they explained they were from the ‘Beth Shalom’ synagogue. Rachel didn’t know of it but hey, there are lots of synagogues in London. They were in the area doing ‘outreach’ work and wanted to learn how they could engage Jewish teenagers, and make synagogue more ‘relevant’. Might she spare them ten minutes of her time?

Knowing her mother was due home shortly, Rachel invited her fellow Jews in and made some tea. And for almost forty minutes, they enjoyed a lively conversation about Judaism, life in north west London, and sundry other topics. The men spoke Hebrew. They quoted from the Torah. They were great company.

And then one of these Orthodox Jews asked Rachel what she thought about Hell.

Rachel knew that in Judaism there IS no ‘hell’. Baffled, she asked ‘Chaim’ to elaborate.

Leaning forward with a look of great concern on his face, Chaim asked if Rachel worried about her parents. And her six year old sister. After all, surely she didn’t want them to spend ‘eternity rotting in hell’?

Chaim explained this was just what would happen - if Rachel’s family ‘refused to find Jesus’.

So Rachel now found herself, bizarrely, with three Orthodox Jews who were preaching Christianity! Increasingly uneasy, she asked Chaim which specific Jewish sect he represented.

‘Messianic’, came the beaming response, a ‘new group in which you can remain Jewish AND still know Jesus.’

And while this did not enlighten Rachel, her mother knew precisely what it meant when she arrived home ten minutes later and threw ‘Chaim’ and his friends out.

You see, these ‘orthodox jews’ were not Jews at all.

They were Christian missionaries.

Or, as they prefer to be known, ‘messianic jews’.

Confused?

You’re in good company.

The Messianic ‘jewish’ movement has been steadily expanding across North America over the past decade. Despite claiming to be ‘jewish’, it is a purely Christian movement. It was founded by evangelical Christians, and it is funded 100% by evangelical Churches. In short, the Messianic movement is about as ‘jewish’ as a plate of pork chops. It’s estimated that 95% of Messianics were never Jewish to start with.

But don’t dismiss them as some fringe cult. While they may have started that way, Messianics are managing to convert thousands of naive young Jews every year from Judaism to Christianity. The most aggressive and infamous Messianic group is ‘jews4jesus’, but this is now just one group among many.

What is it that Messianics want? Simple. The same thing that Christianity has wanted for some 2000 years. Namely, for Jews to accept Jesus as ’son of god’, as ‘messiah’ and as ’saviour’.

And when all their previous efforts to convert Jews failed, American evangelists rebranded. Now they call their Churches ’synagogues’, they address their preachers as ‘rabbi’, and they themselves are not ‘Christians’ but rather ‘messianic jews’.

Their target audience: naive young Jews, who fall for the line that Messianics represent a ‘new’ jewish group which recognises Jesus.’

And right now in the UK, USA, Canada, and Australia, Messianics are doing a hell of a lot more than just knocking on the doors of Jewish homes. For they are also very busy convincing the entire non Jewish world that they, the Messianics, are in fact the ‘real jews’.

Rachel was lucky. The approach made to her was clumsy. But numerous young Jewish students away from home for the first time have been lured into embracing Christianity without even realising it.

Take Jonathan. He was away at University, in his first year, studying Politics. When a fellow student, Suzanne, befriended him, he was delighted. She was obviously Jewish - she was wearing a Magen David.

After a few weeks, Suzanne invited Jonathan to go with her to ’synagogue’. Not the one that most Jewish students at that University preferred but another, ‘more friendly’ synagogue. Jonathan said yes, and didn’t give it another thought.

And on the following Friday night, he was impressed by the warm reception he got at this ‘temple’. Everyone was smiling. Welcoming. The synagogue looked like every other synagogue he’d ever attended. The ‘Rabbi’ was charismatic, and gave an interesting and humorous service. The kiddush was lovely. Jonathan went home feeling great.

And so when, a few weeks later, Suzanne and some of the other members of the temple suggested to Jonathan that he take a look at a wonderful ‘Hebrew scripture’, he shrugged and figured, ‘Where’s the harm?’.

Suzanne explained that the scripture was called the ‘Brit Chadasha’.

She gave Jonathan some photocopied pages from it and he glanced through them. They were fairly interesting. Prettily written. Jonathan had never been very into religion - sure, he was Jewish, but he wasn’t ‘observant’.

But Suzanne was keen to discuss the scriptures and Jonathan soon found he was enjoying their chats. When the name ‘Yeshua’ came up, Jonathan didn’t make the connection. He liked this new form of ‘messianic’ Judaism that he’d been introduced to.

The problem? ‘Brit Chadasha’ is Hebrew for New Testament.

Jonathan had been studying the Christian bible without even knowing it. All choice had been taken away from him, as he’d been convinced that he was simply following an authentic Jewish group.

He was not now a ‘messianic jew’.

He was now well on the way to being a practising Christian.

Now of course, people switch faiths. Christians become Jews. Jews become Christians. But they do it consciously. Jonathan was deeply troubled once he discovered that he’d been so thoroughly hoodwinked. And when he confronted the Messianics that he’d been lured into joining, their response was to turn on him and issue dire warnings about his ‘fate’ if he now ‘rejected jesus’.

Messianics are also busy in cyberspace. In debate forums across America and the UK, they are busy representing ‘judaism’ and convincing millions of well meaning non Jews that ‘real jews DO embrace Jesus!’

Fortunately in some forums there are genuine Jews who are countering this deception. Even then, they come under attack from the Messianics who accuse the Jews of ‘discrimination’.

In other words: Jews are being told they have to accept a Christian evangelical group as part OF Judaism - or be guilty of ‘discrimination’!

Already, Messianics have been hijacking Jewish festivals. At Pesach, hundreds of thousands of Messianics celebrate ‘the real passover’, in which Jesus is the ’sacrificial lamb’. They have also inserted Jesus into other sacred Jewish rituals and festivals, in a way that is offensive in the extreme.

In short: Messianics are slowly but surely taking everything that Judaism holds as sacred, and Christianising it.

In America, Jews are actively addressing this new threat from Christian missionaries, and have organised some great resources, primarily in the form of ‘Jews For Judaism’, which aims to counter, specifically but not exclusively, ‘jews4jesus’.

But here in the UK, while Messianics are becoming more proactive, the Jewish community remains silent. Recently, ‘jews4jesus’ yet again took to the streets and started bombarding the public with leaflets and books in central London. Yet not a single Jewish newspaper so much as mentioned this.

And let’s all be crystal clear: these evangelists have the same aim as Hitler had: they wish to eradicate us. Oh sure - they’ll do it with smiles, and they’ll claim to ‘love’ us, but make no mistake.

The Messianic movement aims to convert as many Jews as humanly possible, to Christianity. Only now, they’re that much cleverer. And if they have to steal our very identity in order to succeed, so be it. Perhaps the most worrying comment comes from a 30-something Jewish man who, having battled Messianics in internet forums for several years now, has now concluded:

‘Within another ten years, nobody out there will even understand that these Messianics are not Jewish. For some bizarre reason, the world thinks that Christianity gets to REdefine Judaism, and just accepts whatever Messianics claim. Never mind that we genuine Jews are trying desperately to counter these evangelical lies. Nobody gives a damn.’

Britain: the joke of Europe?

Is Britain now the joke of Europe?

It's bad enough that throughout the 90s, London played host to every Islamic extremist group under the sun. Now, though, these Jihadists openly state their intentions and still no action gets taken.

Last week we got to watch these extremists in action in Luton. The scene: a peaceful, pleasant, homecoming parade for returning British troops. There were their families, beaming with relief no doubt that their loved ones were home and - mostly - in one piece.

And there, too, was the mob of howling Muslims, hurling abuse at the soldiers and their families, and brandishing banners decrying the very democratic tenets that allow them to protest.

Not a pretty sight.

And there, bless'em, were our British bobbies. The boys in blue. Firmly stepping in to protect these Muslim 'protestors'.

Even when a line of Burkha-clad women began snapping pictures of the soldiers, the police just stood by and did nothing. Whoops - sorry, that's not quite true! The police did do one thing - they detained two of the people who were there to support the troops.

Yep, that's right. Muslims extremists can express their hatred and rage against Britain, but woe betide anyone who responds.

Worse was to follow. For it then transpired that one of the Muslim men leading the protest, worked as a baggage handler at Luton airport. I swear, you couldn't make it up if you tried. Now, I don't know about you, but I'm not the most enthusiastic flyer at the best of times. And the thought of this Jihadist having access to the baggage areas on planes does little to assuage my fears, somehow...

Britain. The nation where the inmates truly are running the asylum.

Anjem Choudary

Has Britain become an outpost of the Islamic world without us actually realising it...?

I ask because not only are British Muslims free to stand and hurl abuse at returning soldiers, they are apparently also now at liberty to fundraise for Islamic terrorism.

Anjem Choudary, a Muslim cleric and 'sharia judge' has publicly urged his followers to give money to mujaheddin fighters. It was Choudary who organised last week's hijacking of the homecoming parade for the troops. Now a tape has come to light of him ordering British Muslims to stop giving money to their families, and instead, give it to 'muslim soldiers' involved in Jihad.

Choudary is a founder member of banned Islamic extremist group Al-Muhajiroun.

All of which begs the question: why are the police not investigating Choudary...?

Choudary has also recently demanded that all British women be made to wear bhurqas. Oh, and he thinks adulterers should be killed...

Patrick Mercer, who chairs the Commons sub committee on counterterrorism, states: 'It is crucial that Choudary is investigated by the police and if the evidence stacks up, he must be charged.'

It's not as if Britain lacks the appropriate legislation. Under the Terrorism Act 2000, it is an offence to 'invite another person to provide money or other property for the purposes of terrorism'.

And although Al-Muhajiroun was banned, it spawned two other groups: Al Ghuraaba and the Saviour Sect. Both are led by Choudary. They too were banned by Tony Blair following the July 2007 London bombings. But they have apparently reappeared, under the names and Islam4UK and Ahlus-Sunnah wal-Jamaah.

So what are we waiting for?

Wasn't one terrorist attack on Britain enough...?




source of news: Sunday Times, March 15th 2009

Read It And Weep

Next time someone tells you that Islam 'respects people of other faiths', show the following post to whoever is saying that about Islam.

These are excerpts from a speech given by an Egyptian cleric, Ahmad Abd Al-Salam. The full speech aired on Al-Nas TV on January 28, 2009.

"The Jews "Invest Their Utmost Efforts... in Conspiring How to Corrupt the Islamic Nation... This Is Why We Hate Them"

Ahmad Abd Al-Salam: "The Jews 'will not fail to corrupt' the believers. What does this mean? The Jews are never remiss - they invest their utmost efforts, day and night, in conspiring how to corrupt the Islamic nation, the nation led by the Prophet Muhammad.

"I want you, Muslim viewers, to imagine the Jews sitting around a table, conspiring how to corrupt the Muslims, and how to destroy their worldly and religious affairs. The Jews 'will not fail to corrupt you,' and this is why we hate them."

"The Jews Infect Food with Cancer and Ship It to Muslim Countries"

"The Jews conspire day and night to destroy the Muslims' worldly and religious affairs. The Jews conspire to destroy the economy of the Muslims. The Jews conspire to infect the food of the Muslims with cancer. It is the Jews who infect food with cancer and ship it to Muslim countries."

"We Hate the Jews Because They Spare No Effort in Stripping Muslim Girls of their Clothes"; "Sexual Temptations... Were Conspired By the Jews"

"We hate the Jews because they spare no effort in stripping Muslim girls of their clothes. It is the Jews who conspire to have Muslim girls, and even married Muslim women, wear clothes that are tight, short, or see-through, or clothes that are open from the front, or the back, from the right or the left.

"The Jews 'will not fail to corrupt you,' and this is why we hate them. The Jews conspire to destroy Muslims. The Jews conspire to bring Muslim youth down to the pit of sexual temptation. The sexual temptations, which are prevalent worldwide, were conspired by the Jews."


Nice.

So much for Islam 'respect' for other faiths.

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