http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/palestinians/ en-us Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:06:13 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412122/posts ISRAEL has admitted that in the 1990s, its forensic pathologists harvested organs from dead bodies, including Palestinians, without their families' permission. The issue emerged with publication of an interview with the then-head of Israel's Abu Kabir forensic institute, Jehuda Hiss. The interview was conducted in 2000 by an American academic, who released it because of a huge controversy last summer over an allegation by a Swedish newspaper that Israel was killing Palestinians to harvest their organs. Israel hotly denied the charge. Parts of the interview were broadcast on Israel's Channel 2 TV over the weekend. In it, Hiss said: "We... The Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412122/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:06:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411835/posts A message to observant Christians, you should know that if there ever is a Palestinian State you can say goodbye to holy sites Church of the Nativity and the Church of the Ascension. Christian holy sites and populations are endangered whenever Palestinians gain control. Christian towns and churches, including the sacred Church of the Nativity, have been used as bases for Palestinian snipers and launching-sites for terrorist attacks. Many historically Christian towns that came under Palestinian control through Oslo — Bethlehem being only the most famous example — quickly lost their Christian majority as those citizens steadily fled Muslim oppression... Schmoozing With Terrorists/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2411835/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:19:17 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409858/posts If you want to understand what's really going on in the alleged Israel-Palestinian peace process-beyond the babble that progress is being made, it's all Israel's fault, and everyone is working hard on it-here's what you need to know. For the present, the Palestinian leadership isn't interested in pursuing negotiations with Israel because it has a different strategy: get everything it wants from others without making any concessions. First, the Palestinian Authority (PA) came very close to obtaining a European Union (EU) resolution which made it sound like the Palestinian state with its capital in east Jerusalem is an accomplished fact. The... Gloria Center http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409858/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:50:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409633/posts The Palestinian American Research Center (PARC), a U.S. taxpayer-funded organization noted for the virulent anti-Israeli attitudes of its academic members, held a conference in October at George Washington University's Elliott School of International Affairs. Most of the conference was apolitical, but two lectures in particular raise (again) the question of whether PARC should be the recipient of taxpayer monies. Indeed, this is not the first time the public has been warned about PARC's questionable scholar-activism. Titled, "Palestine: What We Know," and billed as "a multi-disciplinary survey of the state of scholarship on Palestine," much of the October event was scholarly... American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409633/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:30:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408193/posts Truthfully, the real reason there is no peace between Israel and the Palestinians is the Palestinians don't want peace. No other country in the world has made concessions the way Israel has. Since 1977, they given up areas of land three times the size of the State of Israel. The Oslo process began in 1993. Sixteen years have passed since then, and they are no closer to a permanent settlement. The Palestinians don't want peace, after all its bad for buisness. It is the hatred of Israel that allows the PA to keep power. It deflects public anger from their... JPOST/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2408193/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 21:14:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408105/posts A prospective juror who is a priori prejudiced will, as a matter of course, be dismissed from serving on a jury pool. Many use this knowledge to be excused from jury service. Israel finds herself in the most peculiar position of always being found guilty before deliberations even begin. The World, itself Judge and Jury, stands and applauds: the harsher the treatment, the stronger the clapping. Israel’s Prime Minister decided to freeze all construction within Jewish settlements for ten months. This created an uproar, first because of the manner which it was done (decided in a cabinet meeting and implemented... The New Media Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408105/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:07:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403987/posts Dividing land with Palestinians or returning it to Mexicans? Politically-correct justice of Obama wants violation of the territorial integrity of Israel, but no violation of the territorial integrity of the US By Julio Severo Barack Obama is the man of inclusivity, plurality and diversity. What does it mean? It means that he respects the politically-correct ideology above traditions, morality and Christianity itself, which is an inseparable and undeniable part of the founding of the United States. PC ideology commands Obama to remind in his speeches the Islamic participation in the building of the US. Even though that participation was insignificant,... Last Days Watchman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2403987/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:49:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401218/posts EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU must put real pressure on Israel to halt settlement growth in East Jerusalem or risk seeing an escalation of the Middle East conflict that could spill into Europe, a Jewish politician on the front line of the peace process has warned. "We have reached the last moment when it is still possible to divide and share Jerusalem. If it [decisive action] does not happen this year, it will become impossible to implement any plan like the two-state solution," Meir Margalit, a Jerusalem city councillor, told EUobserver in a phone interview on Thursday (3 December). EU Observer http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2401218/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 23:22:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400942/posts Why did the New York Times scrub out news that it broke about the White House-crashing couple’s ties to an organization that supports Islamic terrorism? Yes, Tareq Salahi, the male half of the couple who crashed the White House State Dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, is a Palestinian and likely Muslim. And not only that he’s an activist Palestinian who is likely Muslim, and who is on the board of the Muslim-dominated American Task Force on Palestine... Debbie Schlussel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2400942/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 14:35:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399145/posts JERUSALEM -- Israel last year revoked the Jerusalem residency of more than 4,500 Palestinians, far more than in any other year since Israel took full control of the city in 1967, according to government figures obtained under the country's freedom of information act by a local human rights group. In what an official for the group on Wednesday called a "frightening" escalation in the enforcement of Jerusalem residency laws, the Interior Ministry said that a sweep of its files last spring turned up thousands of names of Palestinian Jerusalemites who had left the country for longer than the allowed seven... Washington Post via The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399145/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 11:20:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397494/posts WASHINGTON – The UN is currently marking the historic date of November 29 1947, the day in which it approved the partition plan separating Israel into two states – Jewish and Arabic. But while in Israel the date is celebratory, as it marks the end of the British mandate and the beginning of independent rule, the UN headquarters in New York and Geneva are holding ceremonies of mourning and solidarity with the Palestinian people. YNetNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397494/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:04:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394246/posts Today Bibi Netanyahu played a brilliant move, in Yiddish its called Hey put tuchas offen tisch, literally, Hey put your "arse" on the table (put up or shut up). He offered a ten month freeze in settlement building in exchange for restarting the peace plans. I doubt very strongly the freeze will every happen. The truth is the real reason there is no peace is the Palestinians don't want peace. No other country in the world has made concessions the way Israel has. Since 1977, we they given up areas of land three times the size of the State of... Haaretz/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2394246/posts#comment Wed, 25 Nov 2009 15:22:00 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2393021/posts “Why aren’t priests in this country doing more to help Arab Christian Palestinians?” As we sat down for dinner at the 2009 awards banquet sponsored by the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation, the question caught me by surprise. I had been invited by chance, but in all honesty I knew very little about the organization. Thanks to that question, however, I now know much more about why all Christians should be deeply concerned about today’s Christian Palestinians. There should always be a solidarity among Christians, regardless of where we live. As such, when one of us suffers, we all suffer.... Catholic Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2393021/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382664/posts MSNBC's Chris Matthews has said some things that would make your scratch your head - like getting a thrill up his leg from a speech given by Barack Obama. However, this one will really make you wonder what he was thinking. On his Nov. 9 broadcast of "Hardball," in an interview with Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, Matthews compared the incident of Maj. Nidal M. Hasan at Ft. Hood to Sirhan Sirhan's 1968 assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. "You know, I have a hard time with this because people like Sirhan Sirhan, who is... NewsBusters http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382664/posts#comment Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:16:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382543/posts Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu declared that he wanted to immediately resume negotiations with the Palestinians Monday and rejected the charge that he wasn't interested in reaching an agreement. "We need to move toward peace with a sense of urgency and a sense of purpose," Netanyahu told the Jewish Federations of North America's General Assembly during a trip to Washington. "My goal is not negotiations for the sake of negotiations; My goal is to achieve a permanent peace treaty between Israel and the Palestinians, and soon. I cannot be more emphatic on this point." Critics of Netanyahu, particularly in the Arab... The Woodward Report http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2382543/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 23:49:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381523/posts Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently asked the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama to veto any such proposal, after reports reached Jerusalem of support for such a declaration from major European Union countries, and apparently also certain U.S. officials. The reports indicated that Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad has reached a secret understanding with the Obama administration over U.S. recognition of an independent Palestinian state. Such recognition... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381523/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:51:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381127/posts Palestinians Right to Water by Ari Bussel A lecture Downtown Los Angeles by a self-declared “Palestinian from Palestine” was titled: Israel’s control of water as a tool of Apartheid and means of ethnic cleansing.” Following the talk, I was asked for my opinion. I replied: Nothing should surprise me any more. According to the speaker, America’s counterpart, Israel, is thirsting the “Palestinians” out of “their own” land. There is much to learn from Israel about water: from reclamation to desalination methods, from agriculture in arid areas to existence in the desert. Israel has perfected over the last century age-old methods,... "Postcards from Israel - Postcards from America" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381127/posts#comment Sat, 7 Nov 2009 23:05:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379723/posts Imam says Fort Hood suspect didn't seem radicalAssociated Press 11/05/09 10:35 PM EST SILVER SPRING, MD. — A Maryland imam at the mosque attended by the suspected Fort Hood, Texas, shooter says the Army psychiatrist never seemed to be an extremist. Imam Faizul Khan says he knew Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan for more than 10 years. They first met at the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring. Kahn says Hasan was quiet and reserved. They mostly discussed religious matters, but Khan says Hasan never seemed controversial. They rarely discussed politics. Kahn says they spoke often about how Hasan wanted to... Washington Examiner http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379723/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:26:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379566/posts Just in. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2379566/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 00:45:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379712/posts Middle East peace hopes were dealt a blow on Thursday when Mahmoud Abbas, the moderate Palestinian leader, announced he would stand down within weeks. He expressed frustration over shifts in the White House's policy on Israeli settlement construction as he told colleagues he was not prepared to seek a second term in elections in January. The loss of one of the Palestinian hierarchy's most conciliatory voices left President Barack Obama's Middle East peacekeeping efforts floundering and raised questions about his handling of negotiations in the region. Critics say the US president has fatally undermined Mr Abbas by conceding political ground... The Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379712/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 04:06:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379696/posts Hasan is a U.S.-born Muslim of Palestinian descent whose parents came to the United States from the West Bank. He joined the military after high school and earned medical degrees as he rose through the ranks, family members said. 'snip' Hasan attended the Muslim Community Center in Silver Spring and was "very devout," according to Faizul Khan, a former imam at the center. Khan said Hasan attended prayers at least once a day, seven days a week, often in his Army fatigues. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2379696/posts#comment Fri, 6 Nov 2009 03:40:15 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374866/posts Tomorrow millions of children across America will be putting on their scariest costumes and going door to door asking for candy. Its that Halloween time of the year once again. An whether you are a parent or not, or whether your children go "trick or treating" or not, I guarantee that your house is going to be swarmed by lots of little ghosts, goblins, spider-men and Pink Power Rangers. Many of the visitors will be carrying the little orange UNICEF boxes, when you see them give up the candy, but please DON'T GIVE ANY MONEY TO UNICEF !! UNICEF money... NRO/ The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374866/posts#comment Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:53:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372697/posts Chaos is the only term that can describe the events taking place in Jerusalem these past few days and it doesn’t look like the mayhem will subside anytime soon. Israeli police are in an all out battle with masked Palestinian protesters as stun grenades, stones, petrol bombs and plastic chairs are raining from the sky. The fact that this World War III type of scene is happening outside one of Jerusalem’s most holy shrines shouldn’t come as much of a surprise to those who are familiar with the history between these two enemies. As Israeli riot police tried to extinguish... All Voices http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2372697/posts#comment Wed, 28 Oct 2009 11:15:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371542/posts Actions and Consequences by Ari Bussel “Protecting evil and elevating it over good is the surest path to destruction. When civilization stresses the rights of the perpetrators more of those of the victims, the balance of humanity will be thrown off and civilization will crumble.” Norma Zager The current generation in Israel hardly remembers what its founders have known. Many do not even fathom the wisdom to study their own core values, dismissing their eternal code of ethics as archaic, lacking modern luster or being ultra-religious (thus possibly poisonous or infectious). Israel needs to go back to basics. It is... "postcards from Israel - Postcards from America" http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2371542/posts#comment Tue, 27 Oct 2009 00:58:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370676/posts Israeli police firing stun grenades faced off Sunday against masked Palestinian protesters hurling stones and plastic chairs outside the Holy Land's most volatile shrine, where past violence has escalated into prolonged conflict. A wall of Israeli riot police behind plexiglass shields marched toward young men covering their faces with T-shirts and scarves, sending many of them running for cover into the Al-Aqsa mosque, one of the Islamic structures in the compound known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary. They remained holed up in the mosque with police outside for several hours until dispersing... AP/Yahoo News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2370676/posts#comment Sun, 25 Oct 2009 21:08:51 GMT