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GAZA CITY — An 18-year-old Palestinian woman strode defiantly toward an Israeli army checkpoint and blew herself up Monday, slightly wounding a soldier in the latest act of resistance among women to the occupation of the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun. Two other Palestinian teenagers died and nine were wounded in nearby Beit Lahiya when a missile that Israel said was aimed at fighters handling a rocket launcher struck near a school bus instead, police and witnesses in the town said.

In The Name Of The Most Merciful Allah "Ye are the best nation that hath been raised up unto mankind: ye command that which is just, and ye forbid that which is unjust, and ye believe in Allah. And if they who have received the scriptures had believed, it had surely been the better for them: there are believers among them, but the greater part of them are transgressors. They shall not hurt you, unless with a slight hurt; and if they fight against you, they shall turn their backs to you, and they shall not be helped. They are...

Hamas just won big in "Palestine," capturing an outright majority in the Palestinian Legislative Council election (about 58%), backing up over five years of opinion surveys that "Palestinians" like their suicide bombers toasted. Or, put another way, they like killing Jews. Yet by contrast, in March 1933, Hitler's National Socialist German Workers Party only won a plurality of the vote with 43.9% and needed a small right-wing nationalist party, the German National People's Party to form a coalition government with a slim 51.8% parliamentary majority. More Arabs in "Palestine" voted for Hamas than Germans for the Nazis. Think back to...

Defying a Palestinian Authority ban on public displays of weapons, about 1,000 people brandishing assault rifles and rocket launchers marched through Gaza City on Thursday and vowed to hold on to their arms. Members of the Al Aksa Martyrs' Brigades, fired into the air while their leaders made speeches insisting on the right to bear arms against Israel. "Brothers, don't ever give up your weapons," said a senior Gaza leader known by the nickname Abu Ibrahim. "We can't lay down our arms while Israel still occupies the West Bank, surrounds Gaza and controls our airspace and coastal waters, which means...

Tuesday, November 15, 2005 01:31 IST JNW HEADLINE NEWS 'Palestinians': We require Jerusalem By Ryan Jones November 14th, 2005 With many world leaders in Jerusalem this week to mark 10 years since the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and discuss prospects for regional peace, the "Palestinians" have worked to ensure that these dignitaries all know that the Arab-Israeli conflict will not end until the PLO flag flies over the ancient Jewish capital. Chief “Palestinian” negotiator Saeb Erekat was quoted by the PLO-controlled news agency WAFA as saying a solution on Jerusalem in line with current Arab demands was necessary for lasting...

Though he is Palestinian by birth and by political disposition, when director Hany Abu-Assad began thinking about suicide bombers in the occupied territories of the West Bank, he imagined them as heartless monsters. "Like anybody else," he says, "I thought they had been brainwashed."In the film "Paradise Now," the final hours of a pair of auto mechanics who have been recruited as bombers are recounted, and the last thing the young men appear to be is unthinking. Abu-Assad used the interrogation transcripts of actual bombers who had failed to strike their targets when he was writing the script for the...

BAGHDAD, Sept 29 (KUNA) -- The blast caused by an explosive device on Wednesday in the city of Najaf came from inside a house suspected of being used for making bombs, said the Iraqi Army on Thursday. A statement issued by the army said that the explosion claimed the lives of two people and wounded eight others in the house. News sources had quoted Shiite cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr's aide Saheb Al-Ameeri as saying that the house belonged to one of Al-Sadr's bodyguards. Meanwhile, the statement said that ten suspected terrorists were arrested near the Abu Haneefa Mosque in the Athamiya...

ALARM - Seven died and 85 wounded in the explosion at the time of a parade of Hamas GAZA - At least seven Palestinians were killed and 85 others wounded Friday in the explosion of a car which took part in a military parade of the radical movement Hamas in the north of the Gaza Strip, according to a new assessment of medical source.

JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip - A large explosion went off Friday at a Hamas rally where group members paraded with homemade weapons and explosives, killing four Palestinians and wounding 25, hospital officials said. Seven of the wounded were in serious condition, they said. Witnesses pulled body parts out of a vehicle that appeared to have been destroyed by the blast. An unmanned Israeli aircraft flew over the militant group's rally, but the Israeli military denied involvement in the blast.

Hamas Friday Sermons in Abandoned Gaza Settlements on Al-Jazeera TV : "We Can Liberate All of Palestine From the Mediterranean to the Jordan River" The following are excerpts from Hamas Friday sermons and military parades in abandoned Israeli settlements in Gaza. The footage aired on Al-Jazeera TV on September 16, 2005. TO VIEW THIS CLIP VISIT: http://memritv.org/search.asp?ACT=S9&P1=858. We Do Not Distinguish Between 1940s and 1960s Lines Sheikh Nazzar Rayan: "The vanquishing of the enemy in Gaza does not mean that this stage has ended. We still have Jerusalem and the pure West Bank. We will not rest until we...

The following letter was sent by a Baptist Minister to the head of the 'moderate' Muslim Council of Britain a few days ago in the wake of the terror campaign on London transport. Dear Sir Iqbal Sacranie, BBC2 NewsNight: ‘The teachings of Islam are very, very clear.’ I was very surprised to hear your public statement before the whole nation, which would therefore include Her Majesty’s Government and the Church, that the teachings of Islam condemn and forbid acts of violence such as the odious acts that were carried out last Thursday. I would, as a community leader, find it...

Did a fifth bomber lose nerve and dump bomb? By Daniel McGrory POLICE fear that there may have been a fifth bomber who failed to carry out his suicide mission last Thursday after the discovery of a suspect package in bushes near Wormwood Scrubs prison in West London. The package, found on Saturday morning, appeared to be packed with explosives, nails and bolts, similar to the device found at Warren Street. Police carried out a series of controlled explosions on it. The four fugitives whose bombs failed to explode must know they cannot stay in one place for long. Their...

By refusing to confront the truth we are not only deluding, but hurting, ourselves http://www.JewishWorldReview.com On Monday, I outlined the problem of the age: the incompatibility of Islam with a multicultural West that hides away inconvenient history and disturbing doctrine under layers of political correctness. Without stripping them off to examine the problem, all we get is a lot of wishful thinking. Historian Niall Ferguson, writing in the Telegraph on the intensifying "Muslim colonization" of Europe, has decided that such "demographic shifts" are not "invariably a bad thing." After all, seven centuries of jihad-imposed dhimmitude for infidels in Muslim Spain...

In a sermon broadcast live on TV supervised by the Palestinian Authority, a cleric affiliated with Hamas, says Islam must rule over the U.S. and Great Britain, and exact revenge against the British. In a sermon broadcast live on TV supervised by the Palestinian Authority, a cleric affiliated with Hamas, says Islam must rule over the U.S. and Great Britain, and exact revenge against the British. A Moslem cleric called for exacting revenge against Great Britain in a virulent sermon broadcast live on Palestinian television on Friday, May 13. The cleric, Sheikh Ibrahim Mudeiras, who has become a symbol of...

Arab League Ambassador to Britain Lecture at House of Parliament: Israel's Hand in the [9/11] Matter is Clear The April 1, 2005 issue of the online Saudi royal family weekly magazine Ain Al-Yaqeen included the transcript of a talk given by Arab League Ambassador Ali Muhsen Hamid to Britain before the Conservative Foreign and Commonwealth Council at the Houses of Parliament. In his talk, titled "Arabs and the West: Indispensable Relation," Hamid emphasized the cultural affinities between the Arab world and the West, and portrayed Israel as the major factor standing between them. The following are excerpts from his talk...

Life Imitates 'Art' as Deaths of Arab Boys in Combat Zone Depicted as Extension of Palestinian Propaganda Film By Michael Widlanski Sunday, 10 April, 2005 When three Arab teenagers were killed, according to the Israeli army, smuggling weapons from Egypt into Gaza Saturday, the Palestinian Authority (PA) said, it was, essentially, a case of life imitating "art"-specifically a well-known PA propaganda film showing children murdered when their football game angered Israeli soldiers. "Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) killed Saturday three children as they were playing in [a] playground in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah," declared WAFA, the official PA-PLO...

In academia today, “academic freedom” protects those who compare the 9/11 victims to Nazi higher ups, but it does not cover a professor with the temerity to challenge the beliefs of Muslim students in a single encounter which constituted, in the words of his boss, an “assault on their dignity.” Thomas Klocek, a part-time adjunct professor at DePaul University, knows this first-hand; he was unlucky enough to fall on the wrong side of the political correctness fence. With no current income and facing the possibility of losing the health insurance he desperately needs for a serious kidney condition, he has...

In Islam, lying or omissions for the 'greater good,' according to a strict or radical Islam/Islamist philosophy is not only acceptable, it is holy and blessed work. It is called al-Takeyya (or al-Taqiyya) and is a strategy outlined in the Hadiths and supported by various interpretations of some of the Suras in the Koran. We have just seen it in action and most people never even caught the whiff of mental ether the Islamists were pouring into the airways of the already comatose and choking non-Islamist world. Al-Takeyya is a policy whereby a Muslim may lie, deceive or omit critical...

A Lebanese-born woman who later lived in Israel told a Columbia University forum today the Muslim Arab world's hatred of the Jewish state is blinding it to reason. Brigitte Gabriel, founder of American Congress for Truth, recalled being raised on "a steady diet of lies poisoning our attitudes toward the Jews. Israel – Aaesrael, Israel is the devil. Al-Yahud shayateen, The Jews are evil. Sarakou Al-Ard Al Arabiyah. They stole Arab land. Al Wakt al wahid allazi yassir endana salam huwa lamma naqtul kul al yahud wa narmihum bil bahr, The only time we'll have peace in the Middle East...

Escaping Arafat's Shadow By MAHMOUD ABBAS; MATT REES; JAMIL HAMAD Sunday, Mar. 06, 2005 www.time.com/time/magazine/printout/0,8816,1034717,00.html For his first interview with an English-language magazine since taking office in January, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas met with TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief, Matt Rees, and correspondent Jamil Hamad last Saturday in his West Bank office. After buzzing an aide for a cigarette (he does not carry his own pack, believing, he joked, that "this keeps down my consumption"), Abbas talked for an hour about his challenges. TIME: What do you think will be the consequences for Palestinians of events in Lebanon? ABBAS: It's clear-cut....