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October 2000, Place de la République in Paris: the first of what would become an endless series of ambiguous pro-Palestinian demonstrations welcomed the snake of anti-Semitism into its heart. “Death to the Jews” rang out loud and clear that day as policemen stood by, journalists watched with apparent indifference, and the mass of demonstrators thronged and thrust as demonstrators do. 8 March 2005, Place de la République: a thousand young toughs pierced the heart of a student demonstration and unleashed their rage…not against the police but against the “privileged classes” in their own age group—the protesting lycée students. Operating in...

Damascus says it wants peace talks, but anti-Semitic and anti-Israel books still widely available. Despite recent Syrian calls for renewed peace negotiations with Israel, Damascus continues to foment anti-Semitic hatred against the Jewish state. After airing hate-filled television shows, the Syrians continue to print anti-Semitic and anti-Israel books, such as the new edition of the infamous Protocols of the Elders of Zion. The brand new 2005 edition combines familiar anti-Semitic myths with contemporary political messages that encourage Palestinian terror and predict the State of Israel is destined to disappear, Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center here says. Moreover, the publisher chose...

Suicide bomber detonates charge at entrance to beachfront night club, close to 50 people injured, including 3 Americans. Security officials estimate Hizbullah involved in attack. TEL AVIV - Four people, three men and one woman, were killed and more than 50 were injured after a suicide bomber detonated himself at the entrance to a club near the Tel Aviv beach promenade Friday night. Three men, ages 28, 37, and 40, and a 27-year-old woman were killed in the attack. According to Abu Kabir Forensics Institute estimations, those who were killed from the blast stood in close vicinity to the suicide...

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Panel presents a program calling for a "One State Solution. Columbia University’s panel “One State or Two: Alternative Proposals for Middle East Peace” presented a biased, tendentious Israel-bashing program on Monday, January 31, that provided more heat than light. The very title was a dead giveaway: a one-state solution is widely understood to be a code word for the disappearance of the Jewish state and its replacement violently and/or demographically by an irredentist Palestinian majority. The evening, nonetheless, began on a largely sober note with an overview of the Islamic Middle Ages by Professor Mark Cohen of Princeton. He spoke...

Moslems making their pilgrimage to Mecca traditionally throw stones at three piles of rocks representing Satan. This year's targets are President Bush and prime ministers Blair and Sharon. Throwing stones at "Satan" is part of the Moslem Hajj ritual, and the American president and Israel's and England's prime ministers are this year's Satan for Moslems. One of the Egyptian pilgrims to Mecca explained, "Satan is Bush, Sharon and Blair, and this is how we take our anger against them, by throwing small stones. A British Moslem activist said in agreement, "At the time I throw the small stones. I couldn't...

Six Israeli civilians murdered and five wounded in a bombing and shooting attack of three terrorists at the Karni goods crossing, in the northern Gaza Strip. Last night December 13, 2005, shortly before closing the crossing, the hours of which had recently been extended in the framework of the easing of restrictions for the Palestinian population, terrorists activated an explosive device which was placed next to the door on the Palestinian side of the crossing. The detonation blew a hole in the door from which the Palestinian terrorists were able to infiltrate the Israeli side of the crossing and open...

The catastrophic earthquake and tsunami in Southeast Asia, causing over 165,000 deaths, have now been found to be Israel's fault, an Egyptian weekly newspaper "reports." The nationalist weekly Al-Usbu writes that it was a joint American/Israeli/Indian nuclear experiment that purposely set off the killer tsunami waves. "The three most recent tests appeared to be genuine American and Israeli preparations to act together with India to test a way to liquidate humanity," the paper reported. The article continued, "In the most recent test, they began destroying entire cities over extensive areas. Although the nuclear explosions were carried out in desert lands,...

Media watchdog: Palestinian incitement continues After a several week respite, Palestinian media incitement against Israel has resumed in full force with calls for the destruction of the State of Israel again being broadcast on state run Palestinian Television, a Jerusalem-based Palestinian media watch-group said Sunday. A Palestinian sermon broadcast Friday on Palestinian Television called for a return to the pre-state 1948 borders, and warned America against moving its embassy to Jerusalem in the future. "We say no to a return to 1967 borders... we are interested in returning to the true borders of out country, we want to go back...

Tens of thousands greet Abbas on visit to Rafah refugee camp RAFAH REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip - Dozens of gunmen gave a warm welcome to interim Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas on Saturday, hoisting him on their shoulders and pledging loyalty to his campaign for the Palestinian presidency. The gunmen were among tens of thousands of people to greet Abbas in Rafah, a teeming camp in southern Gaza that has seen some of the heaviest fighting during the past four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence. The camp was decorated with large posters of Abbas, and the crowd was in such a frenzy...

The IDF on Wednesday boasted that it had dramatically reduced Palestinian terror during the past year, saying the number of people killed in terrorist attacks dropped by 44 percent in 2004 as compared to the previous year. A senior officer briefing military reporters said that there had also been a reduction in the percentage of civilians killed compared to members of the security forces. According to IDF statistics, 64 percent of the 118 people killed this year were civilians. In previous years, civilian fatalities had been three-quarters of the total. Furthermore, the senior officer revealed that successful suicide attacks accounted...

We will continue the struggle to make your dream and our dream come true and to have a Palestinian child raise the Palestinian flag on the walls of Jerusalem, the capital of our independent state." - Mahmoud Abbas, December 21, 2004. Hold on there. Who said anything about giving even part of Jerusalem to the Palestinians? And Abbas' insistence on the "right of return" is a deal-breaker from the start. Not only Abbas, but also British and Israeli Prime Ministers Tony Blair and Ariel Sharon either definitively or implicitly project future negotiations will lead to an independent Palestinian state. Maybe...

SPECIAL TO WORLD TRIBUNE.COM Thursday, December 22, 2004 The new leader of the ruling Fatah movement said the Palestinians want to replace Israel with a state of their own. Fatah chief Farouk Khaddoumi said the Palestinian strategy toward Israel was two-fold. In the first stage, he said, the Palestinians would accept a Palestinian state alongside Israel. In the second stage, the Palestinians would seek to eliminate the Jewish state. In November, Khaddoumi replaced the late Yasser Arafat as leader of Fatah, Middle East Newsline reported. "At this stage there will be two states," Khaddoumi told Iran's Al Aram television. "Many...

Iran's Sahar 1 TV station is airing a weekly series entitled "For You, Palestine," or "Zahra's Blue Eyes." The hate-filled series premiered on December 13, and is set in Israel and the PA areas. MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) reports that the storyline follows an Israeli candidate for Prime Minister, Yitzchak Cohen, who is also the military commander of Judea and Samaria. The opening sequence of the show contains graphic scenes of surgery and images of an Arab girl in a hospital whose eyes have been removed, with bandages covering the sockets. In Episode 1, Cohen lectures at a...