http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/palestine/ en-us Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:17:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099430/posts قطاع غزة‎ Video clip has been around a bit, but may have been lost in the shuffle and news cycle(s) during the Democratic primaries. Now that this issue is heating up, it is appropriate for Free Republic.Here it is again.Unfreakingbelievable.Link to VIDEO. al-Jazeera TV report from Gaza Palestinian territory http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2099430/posts#comment Tue, 7 Oct 2008 11:17:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095183/posts Republican outpolls Obama by 3-to-1 margin, while Democrat more popular with PalestiniansJERUSALEM–Barack Obama should consider himself lucky most Israelis will not be eligible to vote in the U.S. presidential election. If they were, Republican candidate John McCain would stand to reap a huge political windfall, outpolling Obama, his Democratic rival, by about a 3-to-1 margin. "The preference of most Israelis skews to the right," said Gideon Doron, professor of political science at Tel Aviv University. "And McCain is a conservative candidate." A poll conducted in late July, around the time Obama visited here, showed McCain enjoying the support of 75... The Toronto Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2095183/posts#comment Wed, 1 Oct 2008 20:45:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092644/posts The speech was sponsored by the Hudson Institute on September 25. Dear friends,Thank you very much for inviting me. Great to be at the Four Seasons. I come from a country that has one season only: a rainy season that starts January 1st and ends December 31st. When we have three sunny days in a row, the government declares a national emergency. So Four Seasons, that’s new to me.It’s great to be in New York. When I see the skyscrapers and office buildings, I think of what Ayn Rand said: “The sky over New York and the will of man... Black Cordelias http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2092644/posts#comment Sun, 28 Sep 2008 22:16:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2084966/posts But Livni is seen as far more of a “dove” - someone who is prepared to compromise the nation’s strategic assets and historical rights - than Meir was, a fact that left Palestinian leaders breathing a sigh of relief after the news confirmed her slim victory over Mofaz. Livni has indicated that she will continue down Olmert’s path to peace, which sees Israel surrendering nearly all of Judea and Samaria for a Palestinian Arab state in order to fend off a perceived demographic threat. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2084966/posts#comment Thu, 18 Sep 2008 12:44:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073681/posts A victory was won this week in Jerusalem for people who think the Fatah stream of Palestinian nationalism should not get away with murder and should be held accountable for its actions like other mortals on the planet. Such “people” sometimes need to be ordinary civilians since the Israeli and U.S. governments can by no means be relied on to apply normal moral and legal standards to the Fatah stream as now embodied in the Palestinian Authority. Back on June 9, 1996, two years after the PA was established, a couple named Yaron and Efrat Ungar were driving near Jerusalem... Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2073681/posts#comment Wed, 3 Sep 2008 13:29:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2072243/posts The Massacre in Hebron Posted Saturday, August 23, 2008 on IsraCast.com Headline in the newspaper "Baltimore" on the massacre in Hebron The Hebron Massacre refers to the mass murder of 67 Jews on 23 and 24 August 1929 in Hebron, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, by Arabs incited to violence by false rumors that Jews were massacring Arabs in Jerusalem and seizing control of Muslim Holy Places Related Articles bloodbath at jerusalem yeshiva .audiocontainer { <p> font-size: 11px; color: #996633; text-align: center; padding-top: 3px; padding-bottom: 5px; border-top-width: 1px; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid; border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-color: #CCCCCC;... isracatTV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2072243/posts#comment Mon, 1 Sep 2008 07:15:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071491/posts KHAN YUNES, Gaza Strip (AFP) - The Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad on Saturday threatened to unleash "the fires of hell" on Israel, as it staged a military parade in the south of the Islamist-ruled Gaza Strip "We will unleash the fires of hell if the Zionist enemy continues its crimes," said the group's military chief Abu Hamzeh after the parade by around 800 Islamic Jihad members, an AFP journalist reported. "We're getting ready for the next round," he added, saying "the Zionist enemy will have neither peace nor security while it occupies our land." afp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071491/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:22:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070414/posts "The European Union is now helping pay the salaries and pensions of Palestinian Authority workers. On August 20, officials in Brussels announced that the EU will be providing the PA with an extra €40 million ($58.8 million) in financial aid. This money comes on top of the €440 million ($650 million) in aid the EU pledged to the PA at a donors’ conference in Paris last December." "In addition to covering some of the Palestinian Authority’s salary and pension costs, a part of this European cash has been earmarked for the construction of a new Palestinian security force headquarters in... The Trumpet http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2070414/posts#comment Fri, 29 Aug 2008 11:00:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061653/posts I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity. The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research. I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in. Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061653/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:03:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2060572/posts Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has offered the Palestinian Authority a preliminary final status peace agreement that would see Israel surrender 93 percent of Judea and Samaria. Ha’aretz learned that Olmert presented the deal when he met last week with Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, and is still waiting on a reply from the Palestinian side. The offer also includes surrendering a small area of Israel’s Negev desert to the Palestinians to make up for the 7 percent of the so-called “West Bank” where large Jewish towns today exist that Israel would retain. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2060572/posts#comment Tue, 12 Aug 2008 16:18:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2058014/posts CUFI on Campus by: Bethany Stotts, August 07, 2008 As Accuracy in Academia has documented, many campuses have a long-standing bias toward the latter half of the Israeli-Palestinian debate, with some textbooks going so far as to insinuate that Israel was created primarily because of “Zionist terror tactics” toward the British. Pastor John Hagee, founder of the pro-Israel lobbying group, Christians United For Israel (CUFI), expressed his own concern about the obstacles facing pro-Israel students on campus at this year’s CUFI summit. “For pro-Israel students, college campuses can be extremely lonely places. These students go to classes where professors teach... Campus Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2058014/posts#comment Thu, 7 Aug 2008 14:31:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056877/posts Americans who want to contribute to their presidential candidate of choice are strictly constrained in giving no more than $2300 per candidate election. But the same limits apparently don't apply in practice to foreigners who want to help Barack Hussein Obama get elected, although the Federal Election Commission clearly does not agree. The brothers Edwan -- Monir and Hasam -- hail from Rafah, GA. That's GA as in Gaza, not Georgia. As first revealed by the Atlas Shrugs blog and further developed in World Net Daily, they contributed a whopping $29,521.54 to Senator Obama's campaign, more than 13 times the... Israel Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2056877/posts#comment Tue, 5 Aug 2008 16:21:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054743/posts Hamas officials have reintroduced the practice of removing hair from political rivals' upper lips to embarrass them, Fatah authorities alleged. The humiliating disciplinary action has been used by Hamas authorities in situations involving the arrests of senior Fatah members in the Gaza Strip, the Jerusalem Post reported Thursday. Hamas officials alleged that Palestinian Authority members removed the beards of imprisoned Hamas members in the West Bank. Leading Fatah commander Nafez al-Namnam, 51, was the last detainee to have his mustache shaved off after being taken into Hamas custody, the newspaper said. Officials said he was taken into custody after a... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2054743/posts#comment Fri, 1 Aug 2008 07:39:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052246/posts WASHINGTON – "The Palestinian people are having a very tough time right now economically, and it is in US interests to make sure that they have a sense of hope and opportunity and a Palestinian state. I think it's in Israelis' interest as well," US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama told NBC's Meet the Press Sunday on the heels of his Mideast tour. "What I've said is that we're going to make sure that the Palestinians have a state that allows them to prosper as long as we also have certainty that Israel's security is not being compromised. I think... ynetnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2052246/posts#comment Sun, 27 Jul 2008 22:47:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048831/posts (Notice that the one on the left was wearing a red kaffiyeh around his neck.) Zombietime.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2048831/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:15:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049045/posts According to new sources, Barack Obama will be meeting with Palestinian officials in Ramallah during his current Middle East Tour. After visiting with Israeli officials, Obama will be escorted by Israeli defense forces until security is handed over to... PDOP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2049045/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:02:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048962/posts One of the most striking aspects of our political discourse, particularly during election time, is how efficiently certain views that deviate from the elite consensus are banished from sight -- simply prohibited -- even when those views are held by the vast majority of citizens. The University of Maryland's Program on International Policy Attitudes -- the premiere organization for surveying international public opinion -- released a new survey a couple of weeks ago regarding public opinion on the Israel-Palestinian conflict, including opinion among American citizens, and this is what it found: A new WorldPublicOpinion.org poll of 18 countries finds that... Salon http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048962/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:36:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048313/posts At a time when history is hardly being taught anymore, and journalists lie, it must be hard for our young people to understand who the good guys are in the conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis in what was called Palestine. In a land where both Jews and Arabs have dwelt and fought one another for ages, it was Solomon-like for the United Nations to divide the land between them in 1947 – yes, 1947, more than 60 years ago. From Sea to Shining Sea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2048313/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 11:41:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047415/posts Under the Heading THE SIGNS OF THE TIMES (THINGS TO COME, A Journal of Biblical Literature, Book One, Volume I, For July 1894, p.17) JEWISH LITERATURE A PALESTINE literature has sprung up, and books, pamphlets, and newspapers are taken up with this now all-absorbing theme. JEWISH SOCIETIES The whole nation [The United Kingdom] is honeycombed with societies having different names, but one object, viz., The Colonization of Palestine. 1. THE CHOVEVI SION is perhaps the largest. Its name means The Lover of Sion, and is from the word [Sorry, I can’t reproduce the Hebrew script], Chavav, which occurs only once... THINGS TO COME -- A Journal of Biblical Literature http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2047415/posts#comment Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:11:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045889/posts Tony Blair has been forced to abandon a visit to Gaza today because of specific threats to his life. The tour, which was cancelled after a warning by the Israeli government, dashed the hopes of Gaza's Hamas governors of scoring a propaganda coup as Mr Blair was due to be the first senior Western politician to visit the isolated strip since the Islamist group took control. Mr Blair's convoy first delayed a planned 9am arrival, then, as it approached Israel's Erez crossing into the often-turbulent strip, turned back to Jerusalem after being told of the threat. "We received a specific... The Telegraph (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045889/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:31:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2042159/posts Palestine - Some Info Please.... Start at any point in history and describe the Country of Palestine: When was it founded? What were its borders? What was its capital? What were its major cities? What constituted the basis of its economy? What was its form of government? Name at least one Palestinian leader before Arafat? What was the language, currency, or religion of the country of Palestine? What was Palestine proud of? Known for? When did Palestine declare its independence? There is no Palestine today. When was it destroyed? Why have they not declared a Palestinian State in Gaza? Why... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2042159/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 01:18:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040718/posts A senior Palestinian Authority official on Thursday said the regime of US-backed Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas is pulling for Democratic candidate Barack Obama to win the upcoming US presidential election. PA Planning Minister Samir Abdullah told reporters on a visit to Tokyo that the assumption in Ramallah is that Obama will win the election, and once inaugurated will immediately set in motion the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian Arab state on the biblical Jewish lands of Judea and Samaria. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040718/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:24:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039808/posts This blood libel of Israel, Jews, and John McCain’s father is sanctioned by Barack Obama’s official campaign It has been established [http://husaria.wordpress.com/2008/06/29/obama-campaign-sanctioned-anti-semitic-and-other-hate-speech/] that Barack Obama’s official campaign site exercises editorial control over the content of my.barackobama.com, and is capable of finding and removing “offensive” and “disrespectful” material within two days. The following has been online for almost three weeks. It accuses Israel of deliberatly murdering the crew of the U.S.S. Liberty, American Jews with divided loyalties of complicity, and John McCain’s father of complicity in a cover up. The following entry is sanctioned (tolerated) by Barack Obama’s official campaign... Now,... IsraPundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039808/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 17:22:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037332/posts Israeli hackers broke into the Hamas Web site. The right-wing group of hackers posted Israel's national anthem on the site of Hamas' Izz al-Din al-Kassem armed wing, as well on the sites of the Balad Arab-Israeli political party and left-wing organizations. The hacked home pages also featured photos of Palestinian children dressed as suicide bombers and an explanation of why the site was hacked, according to Ynet. Most of the sites had returned to their regular content within a few hours. A leader of the hackers told Ynet that the group is comprised of 16- to 18-year-olds and this wasn't... JTA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037332/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:18:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037200/posts There is currently no place on earth called “Palestine” – certainly not in any meaningful legal or diplomatic sense. Nonetheless, most of the world prefers to think otherwise. This basic misunderstanding and misrepresentation is now as common in great universities as it is in ordinary politics. Indeed, wherever one looks for commentary about the Middle East, a symmetrical condition is widely presumed to exist between two fully sovereign and hence equal states. Israel and Palestine. International law and jurisprudence? Forget about it! If this were the only pertinent falsehood here, Israel and its few allies could still deal effectively with... Jewish Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037200/posts#comment Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:30:04 GMT