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"- Army-backed Jewish terrorists on Monday shot and seriously wounded a Palestinian olive harvester south West of Nablus in the West Bank, Palestinian sources reported. The sources said a group of heavily armed messianic Jewish terrorists from the settlement of Yitzhar near Nablus descended on Palestinian olive growers and began shooting at them. One Palestinian, Hani Shehadeh, was shot in the

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"The war in Iraq did not damage international terror groups, but instead distracted the United States from confronting other hotbeds of Islamic militancy and actually "created momentum" for many terror groups, a top Israeli security think tank says in a report. US President George W Bush has called the war in Iraq an integral part of the war on terrorism, saying that deposed Iraqi leader Saddam

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"Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat hinted on Monday that Israel was behind the suicide attacks in Sinai and said the PA is in touch with the Egyptian government on the issue. Referring to Shin Bet head Avi Dichter's warning of the possibility of an attack on Israeli tourists in Sinai a few weeks before the bombings, Arafat said: "These are important statements. Why didn't he inform

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"Support for Israel is a decisive factor for US evangelicals in choosing between President Bush and Senator Kerry in the upcoming presidential election. The findings are from a new poll conducted by the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. The findings will come as little surprise to those who have watched US Evangelicals, and warned that their interpretations of Scripture foster

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"A high-ranking Palestinian Authority official has accused the Israeli army of adopting "Nazi tactics" against Palestinian population centers in the Gaza Strip. The official, PA Deputy Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah told PIC that the ongoing Israeli blitz in northern Gaza was "nothing but a Nazi-like rampage of murder and terror against a defenseless civilian population." "Israel is simply

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"The Bush administration is using Israel as its subcontractor to threaten Syria and Iran, carry out military strikes and reorganise the region in its interests. This is why—shielded by its backers in the White House—Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud government is able to operate with impunity. And what is more, world leaders know it... An Israeli attack on Syria had been on the cards for

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"Israeli whistleblower calls on Israel to dismantle its nuclear program never acknowledged by Jewish state. STOCKHOLM - Israel is a greater nuclear threat than Iran, Mordechai Vanunu, who was freed in April after 18 years in an Israeli prison for revealing the country's nuclear program, told Swedish Radio on Thursday. "We can say to Israel that if you're blaming Iran, let's go make Israel and

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"The US defence secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, today attempted to distance himself from his earlier comments that there were no links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida. In a statement issued several hours after he had told the Council on Foreign Relations in New York that "to my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two", Mr Rumsfeld claimed he had been "misunderstood

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"Asked to describe the connection between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaida, the Pentagon chief declined to answer the question but then said: "To my knowledge, I have not seen any strong, hard evidence that links the two.''... When asked what he thought was the primary reason for invading Iraq, he said it was important to remove Saddam's regime, but he acknowledged the intelligence ahead of the

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"National Jewish Democratic leaders barnstormed through Broward and Palm Beach counties on Sunday to put presidential candidate John Kerry’s pro-Israel stand on the record. U.S. Rep. Robert Wexler, state Sen. Ron Klein and famed attorney, lecturer and author Alan Dershowitz spoke to audiences at temples in Boca Raton and Delray Beach. They cited Kerry’s “100 percent pro-Israel” voting record

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"They barely mentioned Israel. But when they did, in their first debate on Thursday night, US President George W. Bush and Senator John Kerry both used the platform to assert that success in Iraq is necessary for Israel's security. Most of the 90-minute debate focused on Iraq and the war on terrorism. While the situation in Sudan and Russian President Vladimir Putin's abandonment of democracy

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"It's disturbing enough that whole segments of our society insist on ignoring the holocaust, or denying its reality at all. But it seems even stranger to me that many of a group that has so suffered at the cruel hands of history should choose to jealously guard their tragedy, to the exclusion of other equally tormented groups. This is the case with a certain segment of the world's Jewish

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"Two GOP lawmakers, Senator George Voinovich of Ohio and Congressman Chris Smith of New Jersey, are pledging to lead the fight for a bill requiring the State Department to create a special office to combat antisemitism and file annual reports on anti-Jewish activity throughout the world. The brainchild of Representative Tom Lantos, a California Democrat and the only Holocaust survivor in Congress

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In an interview in an Israeli newspaper this week, Giora Eiland, Israel's national security adviser, made a startling statement: November will be the "point of no return" for taking out the Iranian nuclear program. "Point of no return" is a phrase with a history. In 1981, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin demanded to know when Saddam Hussein's nuclear plant at Osirak, Iraq, would reach it.

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Press Release, Jewish Voice for Peace, 1 October 2004 "MANY MORE ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS WILL DIE BEFORE THIS INVASION IS OVER." SAN FRANCISCO, September 30, 2004 - Jewish Voice for Peace, a national Jewish-American organization with 10,000 supporters, called for an immediate halt to the massive Israeli invasion of Gaza Strip. The group called for the United States and the international

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Colonel (Res) Gadi Dorchler has said that actions of Disengagement Authority chief Yonatan Basi “chillingly resemble the activities of the Jewish Yudenrat”, according to Maariv. Dorchler, who is still active in the IDF’s Northern Command, went on to say "The pullout plan is extremely similar to the plan to deport Berlin Jews to the crematoriums...His (Basi's) actions chillingly resemble the

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"A Jewish settler who killed a Palestinian driver has been freed from police custody and placed under temporary house arrest, Israeli state-run radio has reported. His release, ordered by the Kfar Sava court on Tuesday, sheds light on the leniency adopted by the Israeli justice system towards Jews involved in serious crimes against non-Jews. The court, presided over by a religious Jew,

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"Jewish settlers immigrants from North America on Wednesday attacked and severely beat American Christian peace volunteers near the village of Yatta south west of Hebron, Palestinian and Israeli sources said. According to the Hebron-based Christian Peace Making Team (CPT), five settlers carrying iron chains and baseball clubs, assaulted two volunteers ( a woman and a man) who were escorting

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"George Bush's grandfather, the late US senator Prescott Bush, was a director and shareholder of companies that profited from their involvement with the financial backers of Nazi Germany. The Guardian has obtained confirmation from newly discovered files in the US National Archives that a firm of which Prescott Bush was a director was involved with the financial architects of Nazism. His

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" Israeli state-run radio on Monday reported that five Israeli occupation soldiers had confessed to committing "degrading acts" against two Palestinian youths. According to the radio, the soldiers were manning a roadblock outside the Palestinian neighbourhood of Abu Dis earlier this month when they allegedly detained, beat and humiliated two unidentified Palestinian boys. According to press

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"On this much world leaders can agree, peace is good, terrorism is bad. But in speeches delivered by world leaders at the United Nations General Assembly ministerial meetings, differing interpretations on what qualifies as terror have emerged - ones that appear to mirror the Arab-Israeli divide. For the Arabs, the challenge is to encourage a global audience already largely sympathetic to the

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"Four senior officers of an elite Israeli air force unit hit out at the military's "immoral" policies in the occupied territories in a letter published by Israeli newspapers on Tuesday. The four echoed human rights watchdog criticism of Israeli house demolitions in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, describing them as "immoral collective punishment operations." The letter was addressed to chief of

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"Syria on Monday accused Israel of inciting the United States to invade Iraq to distract attention from its own actions in the region, where it retains its grip on the Palestinian territories won in a 1967 war. Syrian Foreign Minister Farouq al-Shara used his country's annual address to the U.N. General Assembly opening debate to deliver a fierce critique of Israeli policy, as the Jewish state

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"Interim Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he expects ousted President Saddam Hussein to be sentenced to death for his crimes. Saddam and his senior aides are to be tried by a special Iraqi tribunal on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes. "We believe that Saddam's crimes are numerous and atrocious and as such he would be sentenced to death," in an interview with the

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"Israel's former prime minister says the U-S made "every conceivable mistake" after its military victory in Iraq... The 62-year-old former leader of Israel says Iraq could be headed for civil war. Barak has done consulting since being defeated by current Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. He's considered Israel's most decorated soldier."

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"Israeli judicial officials say five border policemen have been arrested for allegedly abusing two Palestinians at a checkpoint near Jerusalem. The officials say the incident happened about two weeks ago. Officials say according to the complaint, the policemen took the two men to an abandoned building at gunpoint. Then, one of the policemen allegedly urinated in a bucket and threw it at the

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"There are indications that the US government is planning to use Hamas as a pretext for a potential attack against Iran... On Tuesday, September 21, Al-Hayat reported in a front page story headlined "American Pressure to move Hamas Activities from Syria and Lebanon to Iran" that Hamas officials, including Khalid Mishaal himself, were in Cairo where they were reportedly being pressured by US

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"Aren’t there any Constitutional limits? Maryland’s Republican Governor, Robert L. Ehrlich, Jr., obviously doesn't think so, even though he took a solemn oath of office in which he swore to uphold the law of the land. He intends to authorize grants - public taxpayers’ money, sourced by the Federal Homeland Security Law - totaling $230,000, to Jewish groups, synagogues and schools throughout the

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Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice... "Israel on Thursday said Iran had replaced Saddam Hussein as the number one source of terrorism and called on the international community to stand up to Tehran's Islamic regime. "There was a time when the problems of terror, Islamic fundamentalism and Iranian nuclear ambition were seen as local problems -- Israel's problems," Foreign Minister Silvan

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"The Jerusalem Post named Avi Dichter its “Man of the Year” for the Jewish year 5764. Dichter, Israel’s Shin Bet chief, “epitomized the insistence that with resolve and imagination, terror can be put on the defensive,” the paper said in making its choice..."

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"Last week, as the onset of the High Holidays turned the thoughts of Jews to their community, the Kerry-Edwards campaign bought ads in Jewish publications around the country, including the Forward and The New York Jewish Week...The ads, which come in two versions, show Kerry, vice presidential nominee John Edwards and their wives. One is a New Year's greeting that contains the sentiment "Israel's

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"Cameron Kerry is pledging his brother John would review the sentence of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard, who received a life sentence in 1985 after pleading guilty of passing classified documents to Israel. "It does seem like [Pollard] got a disparate sentence. I'm sure a President Kerry will take a look at it," the younger Kerry said at a lunch with reporters from Jewish newspapers Wednesday in

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"Former CIA agent Ray McGovern went over what he considers the failures of the intelligence community and current administration over the past few years. He has 27 years of experience as a CIA analyst to draw upon and has dealt with every administration from Kennedy to Bush Sr... He also criticized the 9/11 Commission's final report, saying the committee was comprised of political extremists who

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Rep. Tom Lantos' bill "would require the State Department to establish an office to combat anti-Semitism and report annually on anti-Jewish trends around the world." "But the State Department, which says it already includes anti-Semitism in annual reports on international human rights and religious freedom, said that singling out one form of hatred for special attention would set a bad precedent

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"President Bush might say it was a slip of the tongue when he confused the names of two terrorists in a campaign speech yesterday in New Hampshire. Still, he's made the same misstatement at least 10 times before... "Do you remember Abu Nidal?" Bush asked the crowd. "He's the guy that killed Leon Klinghoffer. Leon Klinghoffer was murdered because of his religion. Abu Nidal was in Baghdad, as was

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Plenty of militant Jews in the I/P conflict, too. "Tens of thousands of Jewish settlers and their backers shut down much of Jerusalem with a protest against the government's plan to evacuate settlements in Gaza and the West Bank. The protesters took pains to keep the demonstration peaceful after Prime Minister Ariel Sharon warned earlier Sunday that the divisive rhetoric over the plan could

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A Jewish terrorist group, complete with American supporters. Are they on the list, Mr. Ashcroft? "The Shin Bet, Israel's internal security force, estimates that there are several dozen potential assassins at large in Israel right now. Most of them are young men, second- and third-generation settlers who live in small, temporary camps in the mountains of the West Bank. Security officials refer to

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IDF brutality is not just Palestinians' imagination. "The released soldiers behind the "Breaking the Silence" exhibition distributed to the press this week a new collection of soldiers' testimonies of incidents in the territories. The accounts focus on incidents in which officers and soldiers knowingly broke Israel Defense Forces open-fire regulations... `Breaking the Silence' offers new

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"Former UN secretary general Boutros Boutros-Ghali held the U.S. administration accountable for rising wave of terrorism, saying Washington’s unilateral approach has fuelled civil wars across the world... Currently holding the presidency of Egypt’s National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), Boutros-Ghali blamed the U.S. policies for the breakout of many conflicts everywhere in Africa, Latin

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No question, our support for Israel drives much of the hatred. "The narrator on a videotape apparently showing the beheading of an American in Iraq accuses U.S. President George W. Bush of create an Israel stretching through the Middle East. Bush has a "treacherous plan to establish the greater Israel to the two rivers [Euphrates and Tigris]," the narrator said. "Our blood and bodies is

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"All indications are that Israel, led by a warmonger like Ariel Sharon, is finding the time ripe to launch a strike against those Arab countries that oppose its terrorism against Palestinians. It would exploit the fear of terrorism currently gripping the world and America’s hostility for Arab and Muslim countries to launch its war. By all accounts, the next move by the US-Israeli axis would be to

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"Madonna said she was hesitant to come to Israel. ''I realize now that it is no more dangerous to be here than it is to be in New York,'' she said." Ooops. The talking point is Israel is under constant attck...bad Madonna....

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"In their homes, in the street, in UN-run schools, Palestinian youth are not safe from Israeli bullets... During the six months of relative peace for Israelis, until the Beersheba bombings, the army killed more than 400 Palestinians. Most were fighters, but they also included about 40 children under 15. Palestinians say this also is a form of terror... In southern Gaza and parts of the West

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"Frozen in time and space, unable to leave their houses, the people of Palestine will be celebrating the Jewish New Year by suffering even greater oppression than usual... There is nothing normal about imprisoning a whole nation and keeping from them every necessity of life. But it is certainly a novel way of celebrating one's own holy days! And it serves the Zionist purpose very well -- for it

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Israel? Spying? Do tell. "Palestinian Security Forces said today that they found bugging devices in the walls of their headquarters in Gaza City and accused Israel of eavesdropping since pulling out a decade ago. Israel's army, which has been fighting a Palestinian uprising for the past four years, said it had no comment. A statement from the Public Security Directorate said electronic voice

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"The Bush administration has failed to act against a major Hezbollah infiltration of the United States, Senator Bob Graham told the Forward. In an exclusive interview, Graham, a Florida Democrat and former chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Hezbollah, an Iranian-backed Lebanese Shiite militant organization, has more trained operatives in America than Al Qaeda does. In the

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"Two shocking manifestos were published this week. Both call for comment. One of them declares that dismantling the settlements in the Gaza Strip is a "crime against humanity."...The second manifesto declares that the Halakha (Jewish religious law) commands the killing of innocent Palestinian civilians if this helps to save Jews." Extremists on both sides.

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"The declaration of the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, on the Iraq war was shocking in its simplicity. He described it for the first time as "illegal". No caveats. No equivocation. None of the ambiguity loved by diplomats, especially at UN headquarters. The shock is in part because Annan is an inherently cautious individual. He has long professed that his role is basically that of

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"The National Journal reported that the RJC is "expected to spend more than $1 million on issue ads and other communications aimed at the Jewish community in key battleground states." Other states in which the RJC is buying ads include Missouri, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Michigan."

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"But perhaps the real wild card lies less in the Iranian "rogue state" than it does in what amounts to the Israeli one. Israel has repeatedly warned that it may sooner or later take direct action to stop an Iranian nuclear bomb "going critical". As Amos Perlmutter, Michael Handel and Uri Bar-Joseph recount in their book Two Minutes over Baghdad, the Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, was once

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"Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has admitted Israel was not following the Mideast peace plan and said an Israeli pullout from the Gaza Strip was unlikely to revive it. In an interview published Wednesday by the Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot, Sharon offered perhaps his most explicit statement so far on his strong reluctance to pursue the plan. The Bush administration and others have suggested the

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Nobel peace laureate and former president Jimmy Carter has sent a scathing two page letter, lambasting Zell Miller for for his "rabid and mean-spirited speech" " to the Republican National Convention last week in New York. Excerpts from Carter's letter... "By your historically unprecedented disloyalty, you have betrayed our trust" (Miller is choosing) "the rich over the poor, unilateral

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"Russia's foreign minister welcomed Israel's offer of help in combating militant groups on Monday, saying Russia needs to be more effective in fighting terror after last week's deadly hostage school standoff... In a meeting with Israeli opposition leader Shimon Peres, Lavrov said terrorism is one of the biggest challenges facing the international community. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon,

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Welcome to our friends at Democrats.com! Bookmark us and visit again soon! After a request was made for members of FreeRepublic.com to pray for President Clinton as he faces open heart surgery, the "conservative compassion" was a bit troubling... "Let still pray for Bill Clinton's victims... I honestly think the timing of this is suspicious -- right after the GOP convention. It may be an

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Voting Machine Manufacturers Wine and Dine Election Officials Chellie Pingree is the president of Common Cause. She said today: "Last week, a four-day conference for election officials was held, co-sponsored by voting machine vendors who want their business. The conference was organized by the Election Center, a non-profit organization that describes itself as an association of election and

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Two citizens of a Middle Eastern nation were on board one of the airliners. Both owned homes in their native country and made frequent trips back. One used an alias on his passport for the flight. They were the only two passengers who were not Russian nationals. A Domodedovo airport spokesman said no foreigners were declared on the passenger lists. The two Middle Easterners had been to Russia to

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