http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/intifada/ en-us Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:39:37 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979936/posts (IsraelNN.com) A near-lynch by an Arab mob in Jerusalem ended without casualties on Monday, as rioters confronted soldiers in several locales. Arab students at Israeli universities held pro-Palestinian Authority demonstrations, as well. Rioting, rock-throwing and firebomb attacks by Arab mobs were reported in several locations in municipal Had they been able to, the Arab attackers "would have lynched us, not just the car." Jerusalem during the day. In one instance, two municipal workers escaped a lynch mob on Salah A-Din Street, a main road in the eastern part of the capital. On Monday night, they described the event to Mayor... Arutz 7 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979936/posts#comment Tue, 4 Mar 2008 01:39:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931018/posts 77 Police Officers Hurt in Paris Riots AP By NICOLAS GARRIGA,Associated Press Writer AP - 38 minutes ago VILLIERS-LE-BEL, France - Rampaging youths rioted overnight in Paris' suburbs, hurling Molotov cocktails and setting fire to dozens of cars. At least 77 officers were injured and officers were fired at, a senior police union official said Tuesday. The violence was more intense than during three weeks of rioting in 2005, said the official, Patrice Ribeiro. Police were shot at and are facing "genuine urban guerillas with conventional weapons and hunting weapons," Ribeiro said. Some officers were hit by shotgun pellets, Interior... Yahoo http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1931018/posts#comment Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:07:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1928728/posts ISRAEL - PEACE - SURVIVAL, NOT GENOCIDE! In the beginning...Israel has always faced genocide, from the moment the Islamo Arab fascist leader, the infamous [later on exposed as Hitler's buddy] Mufti Haj Amin Al Husseini has called, incited, led to "kill the Jews" in the 1920s. The Mufti, that prior to inciting to "kill the Yahud [Jews]" & leading massacres such as Hebron 1929 and the Farhud in 1941, has participated in the massacres and genocide of Christians, the Armenian Genocide that is [http://Armenian-Genocide.org], where 1.5 Million Christians were brutally murdered. An ally of the Nazi "Fuhrer": Adolph Hitler,... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1928728/posts#comment Wed, 21 Nov 2007 08:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912261/posts FORMER PRINCIPAL OF ARABIC SCHOOL WANTS JOB BACK   By YOAV GONEN and TATIANA DELIGIANNAKIS   October 16, 2007 --The former principal of the city's controversial Arabic academy launched an 11th-hour effort yesterday to get her old job back - and then slapped her would-be employer with a free speech lawsuit. MORE: How The Post Reported The StoryDebbie Almontaser submitted paperwork to be reinstated as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, which she founded, in Brooklyn minutes before the application deadline expired. She then announced she is suing the Department of Education over what she called her "forced"... The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912261/posts#comment Wed, 17 Oct 2007 02:37:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899864/posts COP-KILLING THUG LINKED TO “ARABIC” SCHOOL September 19, 2007 "On August 10, Debbie Almontaser resigned as principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy [KGIA], a New York City public school billed as an “Arabic-themed” institution. She was pressured to resign following her response to a T-shirt that read, “Intifada NYC.” Though the term “intifada” is widely understood today to mean a terrorist “uprising,” Almontaser said that the word originally meant “shaking off oppression.” When the controversy continued, she quit. Now her supporters want the New York City Council to investigate the events leading up to her resignation; some want her... The Catholic League http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899864/posts#comment Fri, 21 Sep 2007 00:41:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899641/posts PJM PARIS….FLASH: The French Appellate court trial of Phillippe Karsenty in the matter of Mohammed Al Dura - the epochal case of the Palestinian boy allegedly shot by Israeli troops in 2000 - took a huge turn today. Photos of the boy have been accused of being the birth of fauxtography. For the first time the court has ordered France 2 to produce the original tapes that could prove the whole enterprise a fake. FIRST DISPATCH Appellate Court Presiding judge Laurence Trébucq has demanded that France 2 hand over the 27-minutes of raw footage shot on the afternoon of September... PAJAMASMEDIA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899641/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:54:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899270/posts In the seven years since the start of the Palestinian intifada, perhaps no incident has inspired more Western criticism of Israel, nor generated as much terrorism against the Jewish state, than the supposed cold-blooded murder of 12-year-old Mohammed al-Durra on Sept. 30, 2000. The video of a terrified Mohammed taking refuge behind his father before being shot and killed generated a firestorm of Western criticism... Palestinians, meanwhile, used the apparent murder as a rallying cry for murderous riots and terrorism. But that video was released before the ascendancy of the blogosphere, back when the mainstream media rarely challenged stories aired... The Washington Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899270/posts#comment Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:50:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899218/posts JERUSALEM -- *** This summer's takeover of the Gaza Strip by the Islamist Hamas faction gave impetus to the talks between Israel and the Western-leaning Fatah party ... *** After the collapse of the last round of promising talks between Israelis and Palestinians at a Camp David summit hosted by President Clinton in 2000, Palestinian militants launched suicide bombings inside Israel. Militants of the Second Intifada targeted cafes, packed buses and outdoor markets. Israel countered with military strikes, assassinations and the construction of a security barrier designed to seal Palestinians inside the West Bank. According to the Israeli human-rights group... Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1899218/posts#comment Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:22:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885236/posts RAMALLAH -- American-run programs that train Fatah militias were instrumental in the "success" of the Palestinian intifada that began in 2000, a senior Fatah militant told The New York Sun. "I do not think that the operations of the Palestinian resistance would have been so successful and would have killed more than one thousand Israelis since 2000 and defeated the Israelis in Gaza without these [American] trainings," a senior officer of President Abbas's Force 17 Presidential Guard unit, Abu Yousuf, said. America has longstanding training programs at a base in the West Bank city of Jericho for members of Force... New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1885236/posts#comment Thu, 23 Aug 2007 05:24:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884419/posts A planned Arabic-themed public school in Brooklyn has prompted polarized reactions. Critics warned Monday that students could be "indoctrinated" with radical Islamic beliefs and supporters called such statements "racist." The Khalil Gibran International Academy has generated controversy almost from the start... The schools first principal resigned after criticism over her affiliation with a group that sells tee-shirts with the word "intifada" on them. Debbie Almontaser called it quits after she failed to condemn the use of the highly charged word, an Arabic term for the Palestinian uprising against Israel... New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind (D-Brooklyn)said the school's children could be... MyFox New York http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1884419/posts#comment Tue, 21 Aug 2007 18:57:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1880828/posts Hamas, Islamic Jihad & Hezbollah desperately in “need” of CREATING yet another ‘massacre’. It seems that the Anti-Israel Islamists see themselves again in the grey routine which they hate, the world sees who they are, that the “struggle” they keep talking about is nothing but senseless violence & attempt of pure genocide. Boy do they long for the days that the BBC wrote about “killing civilians in Lebanon”, though they all know too well what percentage of real “civilians” were there, they also know their success in getting Arab people in Lebanon killed, after all it was Islamists’ great... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1880828/posts#comment Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:35:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879316/posts NYC Principal at Center of 'Intifada' T-Shirt Controversy Resigns Friday , August 10, 2007 NEW YORK — A New York City principal who came under fire for controversial comments about an "intifada" T-shirt that seemed to condone terrorism has resigned. On Friday, Mayor Michael Bloomberg accepted the resignation of Debbie Almontaser, principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, an English-Arabic school set to open next month in Brooklyn, N.Y. Almontaser had come under fire for comments she made to the New York Post about an "Intifada NYC" T-shirt that is sold by an activist group that shares an office with... Fox News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1879316/posts#comment Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:48:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877804/posts The principal of an Arabic-language public school due to open next month is under fire for taking what several Jewish groups are condemning as a soft stance on the violent Palestinian Arab uprising known as the intifada. The principal, Debbie Almontaser, was quoted yesterday interpreting T-shirts that say "Intifada NYC" as not an endorsement of violence but rather "an opportunity for girls to express that they are part of New York City society ... and shaking off oppression." She followed the word's literal Arabic meaning, which is "struggle" or "uprising." In a statement late yesterday afternoon, Ms. Almontaser backed away... The New York Sun http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877804/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 22:00:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877780/posts What are we to make of a story in the New York Post about the ties between the principal of New York City's new "Arabic-themed" public school, which opens this fall in Brooklyn for grades 6-12, and an organization called Arab Women Active in Art and Media, which is selling t-shirts emblazoned with the message "Intifada NYC"? The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877780/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 20:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877609/posts A Muslim school is opening in Brooklyn next month and guess who's paying for it. Well, that didn't take you very long, did it? You're right. The taxpayers. The very people whom so many radical Muslims want to kill are going to pay for a nice little Muslim school in New York. Try that with a Christian school and see how far you get. Wait! There's more! It seems that the principal (taxpayer paid, or course) of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, Dhabah "Debbie" Almontaser, is under more heat ... as if she wasn't already. A group called Arab Women... Nealz Nuze/WSB Radio http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877609/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 15:16:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877538/posts HOW many ways can you define "suicidal"? The school hasn't even opened yet. But the hijab-wearing principal of a taxpayer-funded school founded especially for Arab students has issued a fatwa against the kids of New York. She said there is nothing wrong with intifada. And the principal of the Khalil Gibran International Academy - scheduled to open next month less than two blocks from that hotbed of radical Muslim thought, Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue - argued about the definition of the word that has sent so many to their graves. But after a day of outrage and calls for her head,... nypost http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877538/posts#comment Tue, 7 Aug 2007 13:03:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877084/posts August 6, 2007 -- Activists with ties to the principal of the city's controversial new Arabic-themed school are hawking T- shirts that glorify Palestinian terror, The Post has learned. The New York Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1877084/posts#comment Mon, 6 Aug 2007 15:45:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852308/posts What really happened in the Middle East Vasko Kohlmayer The Terrorism Awareness Project, an offshoot of the David Horowitz Freedom Center, has put out an excellent overview of the history of the Israeli Palestinian conflict called What Really Happened in the Middle East. A straightforward presentation of facts, this ten-minute multimedia production cuts through all the noise, passions and dissembling that have made this subject so difficult to understand and should be seen by all those interested in this problem. Like almost everything that bears Horowitz's imprimatur, this eye-opening presentation is highly instructive and superbly executed. What really happened in... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1852308/posts#comment Mon, 18 Jun 2007 20:01:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829439/posts New York, May 07: Pointing to the difficult and escalating conditions on the ground, Hamas' most powerful leader Khaled Meshal believes that new 'intifada' is imminent in Palestinian territories. "It is not a mere prediction; I estimate it will be a reality in the future" he said in an interview with Newsweek. "What does the world expect from the Palestinian people if the current conditions continue, if the economic siege continues, even after we formed the National Unity government? (There are) indicators that Israel is preparing for another [act of] aggression during the coming period, either against Lebanon, or in... ZeeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1829439/posts#comment Mon, 7 May 2007 05:23:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782845/posts The Newest Assault on Jerusalem by Dore Gold  (more by this author) Posted: 02/09/2007 Radical Palestinian Muslims today assaulted the Western Wall plaza in Jersualem with rocks and bottles, forcing Israeli security forces to to clear out and close down the holiest religious site in the Jewish faith and then storm the Temple Mount compound above from where the attack was launched. Why has this area suddenly become a tinderbox of inter-religious strife?Ostensibly, the riots in Jerusalem are supposed to be in reaction to Israel's attempts to re-build a damaged access ramp to the western side of the Temple Mount. Before... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782845/posts#comment Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:42:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782115/posts JERUSALEM - Amid the old city of Jerusalem and rising above it is the ancient site of Solomon's Temple and the point from which the Prophet Mohammed journeyed to Heaven. Holy to Jews and Muslims, it is as dangerous these days as a ticking atom bomb. Any readjustment of its ancient stones can detonate outrage among millions of faithful around the world. On Friday, Muslims in Jerusalem protested against Israeli excavation work next to al-Aqsa, one of Islam's holiest shrines, which sits atop the site. Around the world, Muslims declared a universal "day of anger," Israeli police stormed into the... Time http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1782115/posts#comment Fri, 9 Feb 2007 19:16:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779181/posts Hamas leader-in-exile Khaled Mashaal lashed out at Israel on Sunday for an assault that allegedly took place Sunday on a road in Jerusalem's Old City called the Magharbeh, or Moroccans' Road. The assault, he claimed, would make it easier for IDF troops to attack the revered Al-Aksa Mosque and other Islamic sites nearby in the future. "Israel, who today is playing with fire when it touches Al-Aksa, knows the consequences of this playing with fire," Mashaal said. He also called on Palestinians in Jerusalem and everywhere to launch a "comprehensive, popular and continuous action to defend the Al-Aksa Mosque and... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779181/posts#comment Sun, 4 Feb 2007 22:25:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768113/posts The Palestinian kaffiyeh, symbol of the intifada and decades of violence and terrorism, is being marketed by Urban Outfitters as an “Anti-War Woven Scarf.” (Hat tip: LGF readers.) UPDATE at 1/15/07 2:49:56 pm: The terrorists’ favorite peace symbol is even featured prominently around a daydreaming moonbat’s neck on the cover of their Spring Accessories catalog: Men’s Accessories - UrbanOutfitters.com. (Hat tip: CG.) Little Green Footballs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1768113/posts#comment Tue, 16 Jan 2007 01:32:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763407/posts RAMALLAH, West Bank: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday declared Hamas' paramilitary militia in the Gaza Strip illegal, raising the stakes in the increasingly violent standoff between his Fatah party and the rival Islamic movement. Hamas condemned Abbas' statement, accusing him of giving a "green light" for attacks against its men and pledging to resist any crackdown. It defiantly announced plans to double the size of its force. Fatah and Hamas have been locked in a power struggle since the Islamic group defeated Fatah in parliamentary elections a year ago, gaining control over most government functions. The dispute has centered... International Herald Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1763407/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jan 2007 17:13:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743736/posts ALARM - Ultimatum 6 months to regulate Palestinian crisis with less 3e Intifada CAIRO - the chief of Hamas, Khaled Mechaal, threatened Saturday to launch the third Intifada if the problem of a Palestinian State in the borders of 1967 were not regulated within six month. AFP via translation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1743736/posts#comment Sat, 25 Nov 2006 10:21:13 GMT