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Embattled Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert declared on Sunday that Israel and the Palestinians have never been closer to making peace - even as a widening corruption investigation brings him closer than ever to being ousted from office. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas - who met with Olmert at the French presidential palace before a summit of European, Middle Eastern and African leaders - als

Egyptian officials have played a key role in brokering the current cease fire between Hamas and Israel although they have little doubt the truce may unravel in the coming weeks. They believe a key factor in achieving any permanent resolution of problems in the dispute with Israel centers around the ability of Hamas and Fatah [...]

The Berlin Conference of Palestinian Civil Security was attended by 40 nations meeting in Berlin for the ostensible purpose of raising money to assist in development of the justice and police infrastructure of the Palestinian Authority. There were the usual speeches, promises made, complaints, charges, and counter-charges, and, in the end, about $242 million was [...]

GAZA - PalestineNews : The Nafha society for the defense of human and prisoners' rights reported that the IOF troops have killed during artillery and aerial attacks 18 Palestinians mostly in the Gaza Strip and kidnapped about 100 others in the West Bank alone and dozens in the Strip since the beginning of June.According to the monthly report issued by the society, the IOF troops killed 17 Palestin

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The Bush administration, whose record on creating one problem after another in the Middle East and never successfully resolving any of them, offered to assist Israel and the Palestinians to get back to the business of working out an agreement. Secretary Rice supposedly presented this offer to Prime Minister Olmert during his recent Washington [...]

President Bush has boasted for years of his determation to bring about an Israel-Palestinian peace that will bring tog ether the two groups. It is now in the twilight of the Bush adminisration and anger and conflcit between the two bodies has reached new levels of intensity. Israel has suspended payment of the monthly $75 [...]

Leaders of Hamas welcomed the new initiative by President Abbas who heads the Palestinian Authority. Prime Minister Ismail Haniyya expressed the pleasure of Hamas at the “call of president Abbas to hold a national dialgue and the new positive spirit in his speech, and we state that our hand reaches out for national [...]

GAZA - PalestineInfo : International Tadamun (solidarity) society for human rights reported that the IOF troops killed 45 Palestinian citizens during last May including five children and two women, adding that most of the victims were murdered in the Gaza Strip. In a monthly report received by the PIC, the society said that this large number of victims in one month clearly indicates that the Israe

During the past seven years, the Israel government has pursued a consistent program of making it difficult to build housing on the West Bank. Accoording to the UN Office for the Coordiantion of Humanitarian Affairs, Israel also demolished 1,500 Palestinian owned structures while making it easy for Israelis to build on the West Bank. At [...]

GAZA - PalestineInfo : Five Palestinian citizens were wounded at a late hour on Saturday in Israeli occupation forces' shelling east of Gaza city, local sources reported. They said that the IOF troops fired a land-to-land missile at a group of Qassam Brigades fighters east of Gaza wounding three of them while two locals were also injured in the blast.Medical sources said that two of the injured we

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - PalestineInfo : The Israeli occupation authority on Friday barred an American political science professor from entering the Hebrew state due to his support for Palestinian rights. Mousa Abu Hashash, a human rights activist who works in B'Tselem (the Israeli information center for human rights), said that the IOA detained Norman Gary Finkelstein, who is also an author, at the B

In a statement received by the National and International Relations Department in the Palestine Liberation Organization, the World Peace Council expressed its solidarity on the occasion of the 60th Al Nakba, Catastrophe.The World Peace Council, with headquarters in Athens and branch offices world-wide, affirmed its full solidarity with the "Palestinian people's right to return to the soil fr

GAZA, (PIC)-- Palestinian resistance factions strongly denounced Friday the recent statements of Tony Blair, the envoy of the quartet committee to the middle east, in which he stressed that the PA security apparatuses in the West Bank were designed for protecting and guarding the Israeli occupation, highlighting that the resistance is a red line that no one could overstep. "The Palestinian securi

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- The Hebrew Kol-Haeer newspaper reported Friday that the Israeli police discovered last week a new extremist organization composed of young settlers under age 18 living in the Israeli Pisgat Ze'ev settlement who planned and committed assaults against Palestinians to force them out of the settlement.An indictment was placed before the central court in occupied Jerusalem a

From Moonbattery The notion of Barack Obama becoming President is so preposterous, it cannot be parodied. This al-Jazeera report about Palestinians in Gaza — the folks who elected the terror group Hamas to run the government — appears to be completely on the level. The same folks who passed out candy in celebration on 9/11 are [...]

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Bush administration has told Israeli and Palestinian leaders they will need to show progress in their secret talks soon, or risk a potentially fatal erosion in public support for a process now in its sixth month without any obvious successes. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice passed that message during meetings with both [...]

No matter what the Israelis or Americans or Europeans attempt to do, there will not be peace with the "palestinians". Every attempt has been made to appease these murderers yet they are never content. They could've had their own country by now yet the continue to want more. By more I mean they want Israel gone. They want the land that Israel sits on. "The Bush Administration has lost it

..nothing meaning he didn’t negotiate the destruction of Israel, instead he legitimized Hamas which is something extremely significant, especially since it comes from an ex-president who’s engaging in cowboy diplomacy for his own humanitarian at the expense of US foreign policy. MADRID (AFP) — Last week’s meeting between former US president Jimmy Carter and the exiled [...]

The recent revelation of the Palestinian mindset changing from a silent majority of peace loving Arabs held hostage in a cycle of conflict with Israel by an internal radical terrorist fringe, into an all out terror worshiping nation had its roots in four major blunders. Many world leaders are turning a blind eye or trying to ignore this by other means, and therefore they have no hope to pinpoint these issues. The better international leaders, such as President Bush, are aware of the problems, but they have bigger issues demanding their priority, and so a full review of these issues never gets added to the sum of what Western Foreign Policy should be in the Middle-East. But I have the luxury of speaking of Utopian ideals, so I intend to, and hope that others will do likewise.My one goal

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By MAAMOUN YOUSSEF and KATARINA KRATOVAC, Associated Press Writers CAIRO, Egypt - Osama bin Laden lashed out Thursday at Palestinian peace negotiations with Israel and called for a holy war to liberate the Palestinian lands.   A day after a bin Laden audio on a militant Web site threatened Europeans, Al-Jazeera TV broadcast audio excerpts attributed to the [...]

As Reported in the Jerusalem Post, according to a NY Times Poll, 84% of Palestinians approve of the slaughter of the innocent, peace loving youths at the Mercaz HaRav Yeshiva. (Photo: Yehuda Boltshauser, Israel National News) While one should not hastily decide the fate of an entire people based on the results of a single poll, the horror of recent times and the collective body of evidence points to one thing, the fact that the dream of Palestinian Statehood West of the Jordan has come to an end. It is a dream I must confess that I too dreamt. Imagine… Israel performing charity that no nation would have seriously even considered attempting… ( …for themselves… even though they have tried to force it down Israel’s throat). Only in an act of pure kindness and charity could Isr

Courtesy of the Boston Globe, we finally have proof of what I have been saying since September 12, 2001, when we saw live video of Palestinians celebrating the attacks on the WTC in the streets of Gaza and the West Bank. That we did not drop nukes like we did on Japan in response to [...]

I am not a proponent of polls. Most are worth less than the paper they get printed on and definitely aren't worth the time to conduct. On top of this, most are skewed based on the way the questioning is worded. However, for the sake of something to write about I figured I would use the most recent "palestinian" pool in regards to it's leadership. Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh would

Source and Photos: Police forces blocked a march of a few houndreds, in solidarity to the palestinian people, and attacked them. They repelled the policemen and face-to-face clashes erupted, lasting for a few minutes. The march left the area in a bloc.

The conflict between Jews and Arabs over Palestine arose soon after Russian Jews began to immigrate into Palestine in 1882. No solution acceptable to both sides is yet in sight, but it is possible to identify the least unsatisfactory solution by a process of elimination.A solution that still has adherents is a binational, democratic, secular Palestinian State with an Arab majority and a large Jewish minority. It was rejected at the Biltmore Conference in May 1942, in which Zionist and non-Zionist organizations participated. The great majority voted for the Biltmore Program, which aimed at establishing a Jewish State in Palestine. A binational State was never a realistic option.

child_suicide_bomber Originally uploaded by BHowdy There are approximately 90 to 125 times as many Muslims as there are Jews [1.61 Billion Muslims to approximately 12.8 to 18.2 million Jews depending on one's definition of a Jew] so if every time Muslims picked a fight with Jews only 10 Muslims got killed for every 1 Jew that would be very unfair and intolerable to say the least. No, if Jews want to survive there has to be at least a 100 dead Muslims for every 1 Jew in order for the fight to be fair. I mention this because one of my readers left this comment: "Since Sept 29, 2000 the number of Israeli children killed by Palestinians is 199. The number of Palestinian children killed by Israelis is 971." What I don't understand is how numbers alone have any meaning. If Palestinians killed 199 Jewish children then, to be fair, Israel should have killed at least 18,000 Palestinian children, to do less is a losing battle given the huge numbers of Muslims in the world and their r

A new survey by the Palestinian led Jerusalem Media and Communications Center indicates Hamas has suffered a significant decline in popularity among Palestinians. About 47% of people support the Abbas government and only 24% are supporting the Hamas government. It is most surprising that even in the Gaza strip which is controlled by Hamas, 44% [...]

This was originally intended as a response to this post by Bozwell, but I thought it would make a good stand-alone op/ed piece. What intrigues me about the whole Palestine as "confiscated land" mantra is that it was a multi-lateral decision to do so; one of the first (if not the first) mandates of the then-newly formed UN. Prior to Palestinian land being Israeli land, it belonged to the British who wrested it from the Ottoman Turks in the aftermath of WWI. Today's Palestinians always speak of "their land" when it never was a sovereign nation. It was always owned by somebody else, and the people who call themselves Palestinians were the subjects of those foreign occupiers. And here's the big rub: The Palestinians for over a thousand years never seemed to care. It's only when that land was allocated to the Jews that they got their kababs in a twist. And to be certain, if the Palestinians had tried with the Turks the same militant terror tactics they now use in an attempt to establish

Who are Iran's biggest supporters? The Palestinians, according to a recent survey: The survey, taken by the Pew Global Attitudes Project, found that 58 percent of the Palestinian public are in favor of Tehran acquiring atomic weapons, making Palestinians the only Middle Eastern population not opposed to an Iranian bomb. "Most of the Muslim countries surveyed have negative or mixed opinions of Iran. Majorities among just three Muslim publics – in Pakistan, Bangladesh and the Palestinian territories – say they favor Iran acquiring nuclear weapons," the survey said. The poll added that "positive views of Iran have declined sharply over the past year in three Muslim countries – Indonesia, Egypt, and, especially, Turkey." When it came to attitudes towards the US, Israel and the Palestinians were placed, unsurprisingly, on opposite ends of the spectrum. Only six percent of Palestinians expressed support for the US-led war on terror, the lowest of any population, while just

the Palestinians have reverted back to thgeir murderous ways, except this time it is on each other. I agree with Ed Morrissey that Israel and other intervention will only embolden the terrorists in both hamsa and the Fatah, so we...

Jerusalem, June 6 (Xinhua) A meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas scheduled for Thursday has been postponed at the Palestinians’ request, Olmert’s office said Wednesday. According to the prime minister’s office, the main divergence of the two sides was the Palestinian taxes, which were withheld by Israel. Media reports quoted chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat as saying that Israel refused the Palestinian’s request for the release of the money. Other Palestinian officials said Israel was also unwilling to accept a Palestinian demand to revive the ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on condition that it is extended to the West Bank.

Warning: this piece is highly opinionated. It is nevertheless my honest opinion. My impression of the reality, my interpretation of the facts, and my reflection on the state of affairs. Mine only.Today:Today's headlines: "Mortar strike wounds Israeli troups", "Lebanon camp offensive continues!", "Seven US soldiers killed in Iraq"... The Middle East... How did we ever let it come this far?In a previous post, I stated that today, 5.7 million people in the world were long term refugees. That excluded the Palestinians. 4.3 million Palestinians have been "Refugees for Life" since 1948. 4.3 million... That is about the whole population of Norway. Or half of New York city.Since 1948, time and again, the "Palestinian Issue" became front page news. An excellent historic overview, you find in this summary. But have a look also at the UNRWA overview of the issue, which includes a lot of pictorial data.According to me, the "Palestinian Issue" has been at the basis of most conflicts in the Middle

To all the idiots who still claim that the Palestinians are peaceful people, I got something to tell you. When I was younger, I was watching an American news show when they suddenly showed a Palestinian civilian mob murder two Israeli soldiers who took a wrong turn and ended up in Ramallah. That... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

Tel Aviv, April 28 (DPA) Israeli soldiers shot dead four militant Palestinians near the Gaza Strip border Saturday, a military spokeswoman here said. The armed men had tried to lay explosives near the security barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip, she said. Soldiers noticed what the four were doing and fired at them, she reported. Since the start of a ceasefire in November, there have been more than 50 such attempts to lay explosives at the security barrier, the spokeswoman said.

BY KHALED MOUAMMARThe Vancouver Sun10 Apr 2007Re: Passover reaffirms that Jews will survive despite the evil surrounding them. Editorial, April 2. The Vancouver Sun does a disservice to professional journalism and to Judaism by echoing the argument of Israeli apologists in equating criticism of the policies and practices of the state of Israel with anti-Semitism. Such a stand only provides

Well, this poll says it all. This is everything that the Israeli leaders and idiots such as Jimmy Carter are blind to. The Palestinians don’t care about having a two state solution; they want it all. They want to kill the Jews and take all of Israel. And the Poll… IMRA Would your... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

This is a groundbreaking report that demystifies the propaganda war that the Palestinians are fighting. The Palestinian claim that there is a humanitarian crisis because of the cessation of aid is a blatant lie. Aid to Palestinians increases since Hamas election In order to bypass Hamas, Western... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

Israel’s leadership needs to take preemptive action quick. They need to stop heeding world pressure and just wipe out the Palestinian terrorists and Hezbollah. These are little flies that will become very annoying in case of war with Iran. And don’t be fooled by the UN’s spineless... [ visit A Jewish Blog to continue reading ]

It looks like there might be an agreement between Mahmud Abbas and Israel. Hopefully this will come to fruition and there will actually be peace in Irasel and Palestine. I will not relly hold my breathe though, because this has...

In the first article here, from the Jerusalem Post, we find out that Fatah overlord Muhammed Dahlan's nephew was kidnapped:Tensions between Fatah and Hamas were again running high in the Gaza Strip following the kidnapping of Fatah leader Muhammad Dahlan's nephew by Hamas gunmen on Sunday afternoon.According to reports, Ashraf Dahlan was stopped at a Hamas checkpoint when the incident occurred. Currently there is no information of his whereabouts, nor have any demands been issued for his release.And I won't shed any tears for him. Terrorists, and it's most likely that he was too, aren't deserving of any sympathy for their "problems".In the second article, also from the JPost, this is quite a surprise: "palestinians" saying that they don't deserve a state, and even admitting that they're ashamed to call themselves palestinians!"Everyone here is disgusted by what's happening in the Gaza Strip," said Shireen Atiyeh, a 30-year-old mother of three working in one of the Palestinian A