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            <title>AGAIN! Iran Threatens Reprisal if Nuke Program Attacked</title>
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;I utilize an &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=content&amp;amp;ID=8&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;InJesus&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; Group known as &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&amp;amp;task=list&amp;amp;GroupID=2B005ZPE&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Prophecy Update&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; frequently as a source of information. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.prophecyupdate.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Prophecy Update&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; searches for news around the world from secular and Christian sources and puts together a daily report which relates to End Times Prophecy and sends it out as an e-newsletter. As you might guess the focus tends to be the Middle East. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The Middle East for decades now has been growing as a region of Mohammedan hatred toward the West with America and Israel in its telescopes. I think America viewed Islamofascist terrorism as a pesky nuisance until 9/11. Then it became obvious that these Islamic radicals had the ability to exact global terrorism that affects the global economy in a negative way in the West.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt; has had to deal with this threat from the very time of its modern inception in 1948 when surrounding Arab nations thought they would annihilate Jewish Israelis in a second Holocaust terminating a Jewish homeland before it could even get started. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Obviously the true God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had other ideas. The soundly outnumbered Israelis not only repulsed the 1948 invasion, but it has successfully repulsed several other invasions since 1948.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Now the rogue nations of Iran and Syria joined by transnational terrorists like Hezbollah and Hamas have upped the stakes in the constant Mohammedan pursuit to destroy Israel. Iran is becoming a regional hegemon building nuclear plants with the capability of producing weapons grade uranium for nuclear weapons.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Have you looked at a Middle Eastern map lately? &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://quranbible.files.wordpress.com/2007/10/middle_east_951.jpg&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Israel is still a speck of water surrounded by an ocean of hostile Mohammedans&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;. Weary Israel is currently dominated by a government that has fallen hook, line and sinker for the concept that giving up what little Land it has acquired from God ordained victories will result in peace. And yet Iran continues to pursue weapons grade uranium. With the talk of giving up land at least the Israeli government has no illusions what a nuclear armed Iran would mean to the existence of Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;With that in mind there has been talk of either an American or Israeli strike against Iranian nuclear facilities (or both) to slow down the manufacturing of weapons grade uranium.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;So check out the first two articles from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.injesus.com/index.php?module=message&amp;amp;task=view&amp;amp;MID=IB007EV5&amp;amp;GroupID=2B005ZPE&amp;amp;label=&amp;amp;paging=all&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Prophecy Update&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;. One is from the British &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.telegraph.co.uk/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Telegraph&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; and the other is from Israel’s &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.haaretz.com/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Haaretz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;. Both articles relate Iran is saber rattling that if ANY attempt to strike Iranian nuclear facilities occurs, Iran will blockade the Straits of Hormuz which 40% of the globe’s oil supply is shipped through.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;So here is the Iranian tactic: 1) Stand by and assert that their nuclear program is peaceful (Yeah and I have a sand dune for sale real cheap); 2) Tell the UN, America and the EU that we all need to talk about it (stalling for time); or 3) Threaten America and Israel with a retribution that could affect the entire world’s economy and/or safety.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Most of the world appears to lean toward selling out Israel under the delusion an Islamic Agenda will stop in the Middle East; however Europe is already inundated with hostile Mohammedans that are giving every indication of overwhelming the continent with a Mohammedan birthrate.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Geez my fellow Westerners and Americans – WAKE-UP! The cancer of radical Islam has to be nipped in the bud even if it means a world war OR the West will it appease its way into subjugated dhimmitude.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Enigmatic&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;I am not willing to replace my Liberty and Freedom with the despotism of Sharia Law and subservient dhimmitude. Are you?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Ted Bellman believes a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1323#more-1323&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;peace deal has been made between Israel and Syria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Apparently Israel has working behind closed doors under Turkish mediation to cut yet another land for peace scheme with Syria. Bellman suspects there is a relationship with &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=1234&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Egypt mediated truce between Israel and Hamas&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;It all boils down to the apparent success of convincing Arabs and Sunni minded Turks that Shi’ite Iran has become so much of a threat to the ruling Sunni Elites of the Middle East, that they are &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=973&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;willing to make serious deals to legitimize Israel in order to focus on Iran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;It would be a huge coup to get Syria on board with the other Arab nations and Turkey and out of the Iranian orbit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The thing is I do not trust it. Assad of &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.brookings.edu/opinions/2006/0719middleeast_byman.aspx&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Syria has signed military pacts with Iran&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;. Syria and Iran has been a conduit to provide sophisticated weaponry to Shi’ite Hezbollah of Lebanon to the detriment of Sunni Muslims and Christian Arabs of the same nation. Since Hezbollah is a puppet of Iran with a goal to eradicate Israel, there is an essence of treachery in the air.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Another thing to consider is that the population of Syria is a majority Sunni Muslim nation; however &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.danielpipes.org/article/191&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;the ruling elites are Alawites more akin to Shia than Sunni&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;. The only thing that Shia and Sunni really have in common is the radical Islamic element hating Israel and America.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;I personally have the opinion the Alawite elites of Syria are practicing &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://slantedright.blogspot.com/2006/03/mohammedans-lie.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Taqiyya&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; with the Sunni Arabs and Israel in a &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/machiavelli/#2&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Machiavellian&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; move to strategically upgrade military positioning on Israel and the weak official Lebanonese government. This will enable a Hezbollah coup in which the Shi’ites become the dictatorial rulers of Lebanon while Syria will be in a position to enhance Hezbollah and confront Israel if the Israeli government discovers there deluded mistake of land for peace.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://fpwatch.blogspot.com/2008/06/news-from-front-june-19th.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;The Egyptian brokered peace between Israel and Hamas is also a probable Taqiyya situation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; in which the irony of Sunni Hamas receiving military weaponry and training from Shi’ite Iran.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;So here is the land for peace picture I see developing under the noses of Israel, America and Sunni Arabs concerned about Iran: A Hezbollah dominated rule over Lebanon north of Israel; a constantly hostile Syria (supported by Iran) northeast of Israel in which if the Golan Heights are returned, a strategic highway for an invading Syria; and an Iranian armed Hamas and Islamic Jihad (not to mention an al-Qaeda and Iranian Revolutionary Guard presence) south of Israel. Add to this: I have suspicions about Egypt’s loyalty to America and Israel. There is such a virulent radical Islamic hatred by the Egyptian populace of Israel I suspect Mubarak might weigh his options to enter an Israeli invasion. Mubarak would re-establish a connection with the huge radical element of his citizens, Egypt (if successful) would be an Arab Sunni hegemon of the Levant to the exclusion of the designs of Shi’ite Iran and a victory would make Mubarak the 21&lt;sup&gt;st&lt;/sup&gt; century Saladin expelling the kafir from Dar al-Islam as the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://crusades.org/?q=node/4&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Egyptian (Kurdish Muslim actually) Saladin&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; expelled the Crusaders from much of the Levant.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: Butter&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Yes, I smell geopolitical Taqiyya among Mohammedans in the Middle East that is not good for the global economy and not good for Israeli Jews.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;This can only be good news for Israel. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.icej.org/article/bill_to_dissolve_knesset_gains_majority_support&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;The Israeli Knesset believes it has enough votes to produce a “No Confidence” vote on Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Olmert’s Kadima Party is attempting to forestall the “No Confidence” by having Olmert resign and having primaries to replace his premiership.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Either way Olmert is out!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The current head of the Conservative Likud Party Binyamin Netanyahu has been the poll favorite for Prime Minister for some time.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Hopefully Netanyahu will have some backbone and not give up anymore of Israel for a delusional land for peace with Arabs that call themselves Palestinians. And if that chaps the PA and Hamas’ hide, let us hope Netanyahu will flex Israeli muscles to move the military wings (i.e. the PA, PLO, Hamas and other Arab terrorist organizations) out of the Land Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;This would probably mean forcibly moving hate bred Arabs that call themselves Palestinians out of Judea and Samaria and Gaza. After all that is the very same goal of the lying Arab Islamofascist organizations plan to do to Jews in Israel. Actually the primary Islamofascist choice is the second Holocaust.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Since the government in Lebanon is powerless anyway, Israel should transport these Arabs to Hezbollahstan. Shi’ite Hezbollah and primarily Sunni PLO then can duke out to see if that land will be called Lebanon, Hezbollahstan, Palestine or some kind of loose Lebanonese Confederation (for there are still a substantial amount of Arab Christians in Lebanon. Or Syria and Iran can step in and merely end Lebanon’s existence and have a further group of homicidal suicide troops to fight against Israel’s existence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-FAMILY: &amp;#39;Accidental Presidency&amp;#39;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Whatever Israel will stand or die united. The so-called Road Map to Peace, Oslo Accords and American pressure to form a Palestine will eventually provoke an armed conflict. It might as well be on Israeli terms rather Arab terms supported by the West.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;It is a shameful thing the Bush Administration is thrusting upon Israel from an Observant Jewish and Christian perspective. Not only is the Bush Administration forcing Israel to create a State called Palestine composed of people that given the opportunity would embark on a 21st century Holocaust, it is forcing Israel &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=61197&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;to divide the Holiest City to Jews and Christians alike – Jerusalem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The Bush Administration is intent on the concept that the existence of yet another Arab nation would bring peace to the Middle East and Mohammedans would agree to live surrounding minuscule Israel in peace in harmony.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;I have been a party to numerous petitions to keep Jerusalem as one city under Israeli sovereignty. I found to my dismay that many in Conservatives in Congress have also been duped into believing a nation called Palestine with the Eastern portion of Jerusalem as its capital (which includes the Temple Mount) would forge peace in the Middle East.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;I received a polite email response from my Senator – Tom Coburn – saying he appreciates my concerns but does not endorse a ONE Jerusalem under Israeli sovereignty. This means Senator Coburn (at least indirectly) is behind the Bush Administration to give yet another Holy Site for Mohammedans to desecrate in the name of their pseudo-prophet Mohammed and their eclectically created god known as Allah. Do you know what Mohammedans do to Jewish and Christian Holy Sites? Mohammedans &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1948to1967_holysites.php&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;desecrate them&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; (&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;Post 1967 Desecration:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=53C06FE5-A640-43CA-96B6-3DA6C17D80E5&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44303&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Modern_Destruction.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jcpa.org/jl/vp490.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://209.157.64.200/focus/f-news/1926093/posts&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/124630&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JruzkN0vDw&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href=&quot;http://books.google.com/books?id=fHkhe_vNppgC&amp;amp;pg=PA212&amp;amp;lpg=PA212&amp;amp;dq=muslim+desecration+of+christian+holy+sites&amp;amp;source=web&amp;amp;ots=feezJZ7IIr&amp;amp;sig=EvoZqg1QQD9a35MrCeZMhAxM-DA&amp;amp;hl=en&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Here&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; etc.) in the name of Mohammedan Supremacism ala medieval thinking instead of Western tolerant thinking of the 21st century.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;In this one case Senator Coburn is misguided by deluded conventional wisdom politics and I was steaming mad to receive such an email from him.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;It is time for a Third Political Party to emerge that will diminish the Democratic Party or the Republican Party or both. I am finding myself forced to vote Republican merely because the Dems have become devoted to American cultural change of Secular Humanism with the goal of rendering Christianity and/or Christian Morality as a myth and an irrelevant faith for modern times. That is another future post some day.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The point is this: MY GOD the Bush Administration and the Israeli Center Left are committed to submerging Jewish Heritage (and so by extension Christian Heritage) to a bunch of hate filled war mongering &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/551273/posts&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Mohammedans that have absolutely a zero base for forming a sovereign nation&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Here are some enlightening excerpts from &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/arab-israeli-conflict.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Arab-Israeli Conflict - Basic Facts&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;NATIONHOOD&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;Israel&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt; became a nation about 1300 BCE, two thousand years before the rise of Islam. The people of modern day Israel share the same language and culture shaped by the Jewish heritage and religion passed through generations starting with the founding father Abraham. Since the Jewish conquest in 1272 BCE, the Jews have had dominion over the land for one thousand years with a continuous presence in the land for the past 3,300 years.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;After the Romans conquered Jerusalem about 2,000 years ago, Jewish people were expelled and dispersed to the Diaspora, and the Land of Israel was ruled by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire, and by the British Empire.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Throughout centuries Jews prayed to return from the Diaspora to Israel. During the first half of the 20th century there were major waves of immigration of Jews back to Israel from the Arab countries and from Europe. In 1948 Jews reestablished their sovereignty over their ancient homeland with the establishment of the modern State of Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;It was only after the Jews re-inhabited their historic homeland of Judea and Samaria, that the myth of a Palestinian nation was created and marketed worldwide. Jews come from Judea, not Palestinians. There is no language known as Palestinian, or any Palestinian culture distinct from that of all the Arabs in the area. There has never been a land known as Palestine governed by Palestinians. Palestinians are Arabs indistinguishable from Arabs throughout the Middle East. The Palestinian National Charter adopted by the PLO states this fact in the first article (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Palestinian-Covenant.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;See the covenant&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The area called Palestine included the territories of present day Israel and Jordan. Under Lausanne agreement of 1923 Turkey transferred all claims to Palestine to mandatory power Britain. In 1922 Britain allocated nearly 80% of Palestine to Transjordan. In 1947 UN partitioned this remaining land into two states, a second Arab state, Palestine, and Israel. The great majority of Arabs in greater Palestine and Israel share the same culture, language and religion. The Arabs in the area began identifying themselves as part of a Palestinian people in 1967, two decades after the establishment of the modern State of Israel. Virtually all the Arabs in Judea, Samaria and Gaza in the West Bank of Jordan River have complete autonomy under the rule of the Palestinian Authority.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;See: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;The History and Meaning of &amp;quot;Palestine&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Palestinians&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;JERUSALEM&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;For over 3,300 years, Jerusalem has been the Jewish capital. Jerusalem has never been the capital of any Arab or Muslim entity. Even when the Jordanians occupied Jerusalem (1948-1967), they never sought to make it their capital, and Arab leaders did not come to visit.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;In the Jewish Bible, Jerusalem is mentioned over 669 times and Zion (which usually means Jerusalem, sometimes the Land of Israel) 154 times, or 823 times. The Christian Bible mentions Jerusalem 154 times and Zion 7 times. Jerusalem is not mentioned once in the Koran. Jerusalem is also not mentioned in the Palestinian Covenant. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;King David established the city of Jerusalem as the capital of the whole Land of Israel. Mohammed never came to Jerusalem. Jerusalem remained under Turkish Ottoman Empire rule from 1517 to 1917, and under British rule from 1917 to 1948.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;ARAB &amp;amp; JEWISH REFUGEES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The UN partition plan of 1947 was rejected by all the Arab countries. Arab leadership in Israel and in the countries surrounding Israel, planned a Jihad, holy war, against Israel and encouraged the Arabs to leave Israel promising their return after they purge the land of Jews. The great majority of Arabs left without ever seeing an Israeli soldier (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/refugees2.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;see article&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; and &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Refugees.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Arab sources that describe what happened during the war of 1948 that caused the Palestinian refugee problem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;During 1940&amp;#39;s through 1950&amp;#39;s nearly ALL the Jews had to flee from Arab countries to avoid persecution and pogroms. The number of Jewish refugees from Arab countries is estimated to be a million. This number is greater than the number of Arab refugees who left Israel in 1948, estimated as 343,000 (see Peters&amp;#39; book cited below).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Most of the Jewish refugees from Arab countries rapidly integrated into the modern society of Israel. This, despite the fact that Israel is a tiny country (about size of New Jersey) without any of the world&amp;#39;s richest resources of petroleum in Arab countries. Today, the majority of the people in Israel are the descendants of Jews from Arab countries. (European Jews and their descendants constitute less than half the population of Israel).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The development of the Jewish community under British mandate led to economic growth in the region providing job opportunities for Arab workers. Consequently, the Arab population of Palestine swelled by the influx of Arab immigrants from Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, and other Arab countries until 1947 (The trend of Arab migration into Israel to find a job continues to the present day). While the British forces limited Jewish immigration, they allowed free entry of Arab migrants. The UN agency UNRWA defined a &amp;quot;Palestinian refugee&amp;quot;, as any Arab who stayed in the country for two years prior to 1948. Thus, UNRWA included in their statistics migrant workers greatly swelling the ranks of so called &amp;quot;Palestinian refugees&amp;quot; (for best reference on the subject see: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0963624202/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict over Palestine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; by Joan Peters).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Arab refugee problem was created by the seven Arab countries that attacked Israel in 1948. Arab refugees were intentionally not integrated into the Arab lands to which they fled, despite the fact total territory of Arab countries is about 700 times greater than that of Israel. Out of about 100,000,000 refugees since World War II, theirs is the only refugee group in the world that has not been absorbed into their own peoples&amp;#39; lands. Arab nations still maintain generations of the descendants of the refugees in so called &amp;quot;refugee camps&amp;quot; under squalid conditions with the hope that someday they will dislodge the Jews in Israel. The money spent by the Arab countries on armaments would be sufficient to build houses for all so called &amp;quot;refugees&amp;quot;. Arab countries should be encouraged to care for their poor population instead of spending their richest resources in the world on armaments and development of terrorist groups such as Osama Bin Laden from Saudi Arabia.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Since 1948, after three generations the descendants of the Arab refugees are still called &amp;quot;refugees&amp;quot; and are supported by UN &amp;quot;refugee&amp;quot; funds! With the highest birth rate in Arab countries this population has now grown to about four million. In negotiations, Arab leadership requests the &amp;quot;right of return&amp;quot; of this mass of millions into the tiny land of Israel. The settlement of millions of Arabs in Israel would immediately eliminate Israel as a Jewish state. This is the real aim of the Arab countries, to achieve by supposedly &amp;quot;peaceful&amp;quot; means what they could not achieve by unceasing violence in whole scale wars and daily terrorism.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The responsibility for keeping the Arab population who are descendants of the Arab refugees, rests only on the shoulders of the Arab countries that created the problem by attacking Israel in 1948.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Quote from Ralph Galloway, a former head of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), in Amman, capital of Jordan, in August 1958:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;quot;The Arab states do not want to solve the refugee problem. They want to keep it as open sore, as an affront to the United Nations and as a weapon against Israel. Arab leaders don&amp;#39;t give a damn whether the refugees live or die.&amp;quot;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Related resources:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=24170&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Who cares about Palestinians?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.worldjewishcongress.org/comm_middle.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Jewish Communities of the Middle East and the Maghreb&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jimena-justice.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Jimena - Jews indigenous to the Middle East and North Africa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.science.co.il/Arab-Israeli-conflict/Articles/Hale-2002-07-02.asp&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Jews, almost extinct in Egyptian city Alexandria&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;HOLY PLACES&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;The &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.templemount.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;Temple Mount in Jerusalem&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; is the holiest site for Jews. It was the site of the Beit HaMikdash (&amp;quot;Temple&amp;quot;) built by King Solomon (950 BCE), which was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar (587 BCE), rebuilt in 541 BCE, and then destroyed again by the Roman army in 70 CE leading to the exile of Jews from Israel. Al Aqsa Mosque and Shrine Of Omar were built at the site of the ancient Jewish temples. The Arabic name for Jerusalem &amp;quot;el-KuDS&amp;quot; &lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;[SlantRight Editor: or al-Quds]&lt;/strong&gt; is derived from the Arabic name &amp;quot;BeT el-MaKDeS&amp;quot;, a translation of the Hebrew &amp;quot;BeiT ha-MiKDaSH&amp;quot;, the name of the Jewish Temple (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/templemount.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;see articles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Under Jordanian rule, Jewish holy sites were desecrated and the Jews were denied access to places of worship. Under Israeli rule, all Muslim and Christian sites have been preserved and made accessible to people of all faiths. Arabs recently burnt the Tomb of Joseph and the ancient synagogue in Jericho (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jr.co.il/terror/israel/index2.htm&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;see pictures&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;). To this days Arab Waqf in control of the Temple Mount does not allow Jews to pray in the Temple Mount. Jews pray facing Jerusalem as the location of the Beit Hamikdash. Muslims pray facing their holy city Mecca with their backs toward Jerusalem. Throughout the ages the Arabs have ignored The Temple Mount and renewed interest only recently because of their political exigencies and not religious history (&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/templemount.html&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;see pictures and articles&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;Read the &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;em style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-style: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; COLOR: maroon; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&amp;amp;pageId=61197&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;World News Daily&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Abscissa&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt; article that inspired my ire against Western efforts to basically shove Mohammedanism down the throats of the Israelis, Jews and Christians of the world.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;The foolishness of Arab appeasers at the reception of distorted half truths from the Arab sympathetic Mainstream Media (MSM) always makes Israel the villain when so-called Arab civilian casualties occur when Israel defends itself from attacks Jew hating Arab terrorists who call themselves Palestinians.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Evelyn Gordon writing for the Jerusalem Post reveals the full story that the MSM and Palestinian propagandists leave out.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.slantright.com/index.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=1076&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;JRH&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; color: #000080; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt; 3/6/06 (Hat tip to &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.icej.org/&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;ICEJ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;News)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;**********************************&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Civil Fights: The canard of &amp;#39;disproportionate force&amp;#39;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;By &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;mailto:editors@jpost.com&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon&quot;&gt;EVELYN GORDON&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Mar 5, 2008 21:35&amp;#160;|&amp;#160;Updated Mar 6, 2008 14:44&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1204546409810&amp;amp;pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;The Jerusalem Post&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon&quot;&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;International denunciations of Israel came thick and fast this week. The EU&amp;#39;s rotating president, Slovenia, condemned the &amp;quot;disproportionate use of force by the Israeli Defense Forces against the Palestinian population in Gaza.&amp;quot; UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon slammed Israel&amp;#39;s &amp;quot;excessive and disproportionate&amp;quot; response to Palestinian rocket attacks. Even the US State Department urged Israel to &amp;quot;exercise caution to avoid the loss of innocent life,&amp;quot; which is merely a milder version of the same premise: that Israel is to blame for all Palestinian civilian casualties, either because it uses &amp;quot;disproportionate force&amp;quot; or because it exercises insufficient &amp;quot;caution.&amp;quot; Yet media reports on the fighting in Gaza reveal that in fact, the blame frequently lies with Palestinian behavior. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Take, for example, an Israeli air strike that killed two Palestinian teenagers last Wednesday. According to The New York Times, &amp;quot;witnesses in Gaza told the Palestinian news media that the civilians were hit while standing at a launching site watching Hamas militants firing rockets.&amp;quot; There can be no more justified military activity than targeting terrorists in the very act of firing rockets at civilians. If that is &amp;quot;disproportionate,&amp;quot; all military activity is. Moreover, since Hamas eschews uniforms, the IDF has no way to distinguish rocket crews from civilians who are cheering them on. Thus any civilian who rubbernecks at a rocket launch is clearly and deliberately putting himself in danger - which in itself should absolve Israel of responsibility.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;BUT MORE importantly, for that very reason, most armed forces do not allow civilians in firing zones. The IDF, for instance, generally declares active combat areas &amp;quot;closed military zones&amp;quot; from which Israeli civilians are legally barred, and it enforces such orders. Other Western armies do the same.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;But Hamas needs civilian casualties to fuel Palestinian and international anger at Israel. So rather than barring civilians from its launch zones, it welcomes them. And if they do not volunteer for the victim&amp;#39;s role, it co-opts them - as happened last weekend: &amp;quot;Palestinian gunmen took up positions in homes while the civilians were still inside,&amp;quot; Haaretz reported.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Firing back at people who are shooting at you is also clearly legitimate military activity; no law of war obligates soldiers to let themselves be mown down without a fight just because there are civilians nearby. Moreover, soldiers have no way of knowing whether the civilians have fled or are still inside a house; all they can be certain of is the presence of gunmen.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Under such circumstances, civilian casualties are inevitable. But those casualties are not caused by &amp;quot;disproportionate force&amp;quot; or insufficient &amp;quot;caution&amp;quot;; they are the direct result of Hamas&amp;#39;s decision to use civilian homes, with the people still inside, as bases for targeting Israeli soldiers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Moreover, civilians are not always innocent. Those whose homes were invaded by Hamas were presumably unwilling hostages. But some Palestinians voluntarily serve as &amp;quot;human shields&amp;quot; for terrorists - and by actively aiding and abetting terror, they turn themselves into combatants.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;In one widely publicized case in November 2006, for instance, the IDF, seeking to avoid civilian casualties, announced two planned air strikes 30 minutes in advance to enable civilians to leave. Instead, Hamas used the loudspeakers of local mosques to urge civilians to flood the area and serve as human shields. Hundreds did so, and the IDF - precisely because Israel tries to avoid civilian casualties - consequently aborted the strikes. Yet these civilians were hardly &amp;quot;innocent&amp;quot;: They deliberately intervened in an armed conflict on the terrorists&amp;#39; behalf. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;What is most noteworthy about such incidents, however, is what they say about the Palestinian claim - mindlessly parroted by the international community - that the IDF fires indiscriminately, without regard for civilians. In fact, Hamas summoned civilian reinforcements precisely because it knew a civilian presence would prevent the air strikes. And the civilians came for the same reason - not because they sought death, but because they knew the IDF would not shoot them.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;IN ANOTHER incident that same month, hundreds of Palestinian women purposely entered a combat zone to shield gunmen besieged by IDF soldiers. Again, they were deliberately abetting combatants. And again, they knew they could do so safely, because the IDF would not shoot them. And indeed, the soldiers held their fire as the wanted men escaped by mingling with the crowd. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;In July 2006, The New York Times described another Gaza battle as follows: &amp;quot;[Israeli] soldiers fired at groups of armed Palestinians who fought in the streets, sometimes surrounded by curious and excited children.&amp;quot; Why any parent would let his children outside during a gunfight is a mystery. But unless these parents were deliberately sacrificing their children for propaganda purposes, such behavior demonstrates a truly extraordinary faith in the IDF&amp;#39;s efforts to avoid harming civilians. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large; font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;Contrast this with Palestinians&amp;#39; behavior when the combatants are not Israelis. During last May&amp;#39;s Hamas-Fatah infighting, for instance, the Times reported: &amp;quot;The streets of Gaza City were empty except for the gunmen, with shops shuttered and residents remaining indoors, usually in interior rooms farthest from the windows.&amp;quot; No &amp;quot;curious and excited&amp;quot; children surrounding the gunmen in these battles: Gazan parents who trusted the IDF with their children&amp;#39;s lives evidently placed no similar reliance on Palestinian forces.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;THE MEDIA reports above, and numerous others like them, make three things clear: (1) Palestinians know full well that Israel strives to avoid civilian casualties; indeed, as their behavior demonstrates, they count on this. (2) Palestinian civilians frequently deliberately put themselves in the line of fire - either to help the combatants, or, like those &amp;quot;excited children,&amp;quot; merely to cheer them on. (3) Palestinian terror groups deliberately foster casualties among their own civilians: Not only do they not discourage civilians from entering combat zones; they force them to do so - for instance, by invading civilian homes - when there are no volunteers.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;In short, Palestinian civilian casualties usually result not from &amp;quot;disproportionate force&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;insufficient caution&amp;quot; by the IDF, but from Palestinian behavior, on the part of both civilians and terrorists.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;mso-spacerun: yes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;But of course, realizing this would require actually reading reports of the fighting. It is much easier just to skim the headlines and issue stock condemnations of Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: black&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: x-large&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: grandesign neue roman&quot;&gt;__________________________&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;The incompetence of Prime Minister Olmert to manage the government of Israel is appalling. Combine this with the Bush Administration intense pressure on Olmert to agree to create a Palestinian-Arab State managed by a gang of greedy turf minded terrorist thugs and you will have more violence not less.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: #000080&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;There is only way for a Palestinian State to exist and that is for fellow Arabs to actually step in and do a Donald Trump to the fractured Islamist thugs and say, &lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;“YOU’RE FIRED!”&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;The only way for there to be Middle East peace is Arab nations like Jordan and Egypt to join Israel and cooperate in the front of the World’s eyes and remove the incendiary Palestinian murderous thugs.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;Without major Arab cooperation the Bush Administration and Ehud Olmert are setting the Jews of Israel for a Wahhabi-Muslim Brotherhood-Syrian-Iranian dream come true: The eradication of the existence of the Land Israel.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class=&quot;MsoNormal&quot; style=&quot;MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt&quot;&gt;&lt;strong style=&quot;mso-bidi-font-weight: normal&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0308/glick030408.php3&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;COLOR: maroon; TEXT-DECORATION: none; text-underline: none&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt;Read Carolyn Glick’s insight&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;font-size: medium; color: #000080; font-family: oldnewspapertypes&quot;&gt; on this related to Bush and Rice forcing the incompetent dolt Olmert to decease the Gaza Offensive even though CAIR’s pals the Hamas terrorists continuously sends rockets into Israeli civilian cities. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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