http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/palestinians/ en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:47:52 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050862/posts Reputedly moderate Palestinian Authority president Mahmoud Abbas is reported to have sent greetings to Samir Kuntar, the Lebanese terrorist freed in last week’s Israel-Hizbullah exchange who in a 1979 attack killed a 28-year-old Israeli man in front of his 4-year-old daughter and then killed the girl by smashing her head. Abbas was on a visit to Malta at the time and was under no known pressure to issue his tidings. Even if he was – Samir Kuntar being popular among Abbas’s Fatah Party, which held a rally in Ramallah to laud his release and that of the remains of Palestinian... Jewish Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050862/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:47:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050492/posts Israeli security and the American Secret Service on Wednesday decided to cancel visiting US presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s scheduled visit to the Gaza border region for fear of Palestinian snipers. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2050492/posts#comment Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:27:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049963/posts Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama tried to say all the right things Wednesday, affirming that as president he would preserve the close relationship between Washington and Jerusalem, and pledged that Israel's security would be a top priority in his administration. "I'm here on this trip to reaffirm the special relationship between Israel and the United States and my abiding commitment to Israel's security and my hope that I can serve as an effective partner, whether as a U.S. senator or as president," Obama said during a meeting with Israeli President Shimon Peres. Obama had a packed day of meetings with... Israel Insider http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049963/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:10:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049497/posts AP, link only Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049497/posts#comment Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:23:46 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/2049007/posts Suburban mom to Obama: Help with my daughters in Middle East July 21, 2008 BY MAUREEN O'DONNELL Staff Reporter A Midlothian woman appealed today for Sen. Barack Obama’s help, asking the Democratic presidential hopeful to pay a visit during his Middle East trip this week to check up on the well-being of her four young daughters on the West Bank. Colleen Davis Bargouthi said she is desperate to make contact with her daughters, Emily, Hannah, Amanda and Sarah, ages 6 to 11, who she said are being held by her Palestinian husband there with the intention of forcing them into... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2049007/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:48:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048573/posts Here's a question Barack Obama might want to ask Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas when they meet in the Middle East next week: How could you, Mr. President, join in the unseemly celebration of a child murderer as a "hero"? There's not much chance of the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee posing such an impolitic question during his get-together with Abbas in Ramallah on the West Bank. Yet it goes to the heart of the culture of the Palestinian side of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and to the hopes of eventually achieving a lasting peace deal. The child murderer is Samir Kuntar,... Chicago Sun-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048573/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 01:00:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048456/posts Gordon Brown announced an extra $60 million for the Palestinian National Authority today urging both it and the Israeli Government to seize the chance for peace. Speaking at a press conference with President Mahmoud Abbas, Mr Brown said the cash would help “underpin” a Palestinian state should the current round of talks conclude successfully. Half of the additional funding – which will take the UK’s contribution to the PNA $175 million this year – will be spent keeping the administration afloat. The remainder is targeted at projects both to improve the territories’ security and economy. In particular Mr Brown said... timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048456/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 18:51:50 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048213/posts Lebanon proposes to rebuild Nahr al-Bared, the Palestinian city-camp near Tripoli pulverised in a long siege last year in an attempt to kill Sunni militants holed up there. The new, as yet only imagined, town is intended to preserve the memories of the old, yet return the area to the control of Lebanon. Le Monde http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048213/posts#comment Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:45:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046245/posts The Palestinian Authority (PA) recently asked U.S. federal courts to reopen cases it lost after refusing to defend itself against terror-funding charges. Judgments would come from U.S. and international aid, the PA argues. In both cases, Palestinian terrorists murdered American citizens. In New York, Aharon Ellis' widow sued the PA for the lethal 2002 shooting of her husband and the father of their six children, during an Al Aqsa Martyr Brigade attack of a Bat Mitzvah, in Israel. The court awarded Leslye Knox $193 million, including interest, but the PA refuses to pay. A Rhode Island case centers on the... The Washington Times | Frontpagemagazine http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046245/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:18:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046192/posts Palestinian contributions to the world Posted: July 04, 20082:34 am Eastern © 2008  Yesterday morning, I listened to Israeli Ambassador Dan Gillerman describe the terrorist attack in Jerusalem in which a Palestinian construction worker suddenly turned the bulldozer he was driving into traffic, crushing everything (and everyone) in its path.The attack took place on one of Jerusalem's busiest streets. Ambassador Gillerman noted sarcastically that the driver "courteously" stopped to let a car pull in front of him, which he then ran over and crushed, killing a woman and her baby. In another car, a woman threw her baby out the car... WND http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046192/posts#comment Wed, 16 Jul 2008 07:06:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045826/posts Israel’s largest daily newspaper on Tuesday published photographs of a synagogue in a former Jewish town in Gaza that has now been transformed into a Hamas training center. Where Jews once worshipped God, Islamic terrorists now rehearse the murder and abduction of Israelis, reported Yediot Ahronot. In the run-up to the 2005 forced evacuation of Gaza’s Jewish population, Israel wrestled over what to do with synagogues and other public buildings in the 21 Jewish communities across the coastal territory. Cross Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2045826/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:34:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045482/posts A simple question, What if it was not the Arabs, not the Muslims (OPEC) that control the world's energy? What if the oil tycoons were of a different background, say Irish Catholic or Jewish? Could you imagine how they would be lynched [in the media and all tools of public opinion]? But it's "only" Arabs, Muslims, and they can do whatever they want, limit or extend production of oil. Worst is of course the immense unlimited power they enjoy in being permitted to continue "business" as usual... in the "field" of crimes against humanity... No one ever dares speaks out... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2045482/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:22:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045458/posts "On the Palestinian street there is now an understanding that without kidnapping soldiers, we can't get prisoners released. Through negotiation, we haven't managed to get prisoners released," the Palestinian Authority's minister for Prisoners Affairs, Ashraf al-Ajami, said over the weekend. He also offered biting criticism of Israel's willingness to trade security prisoners with Hamas and Hizbullah in exchange for kidnapped soldiers, while continuing to drag its feet on prisoner-release negotiations with the PA. Ajami said the PA had repeatedly requested a negotiated release of longtime prisoners with terminal illnesses. "But we make requests, and Israel does the opposite." Ajami said... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045458/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 23:51:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044963/posts WHY, INDEED? "French media loses big court case proving Palestinian propaganda false, New York Times ignores shocking story... Why?" Because it opens the door to suggestions that this wasn't an aberration, but the norm in Mideast coverage? # # # Also see related videos at YouTube: "Green Helmet Guy" in Qana (Aug 2006) Dead Children Used as Props in Lebanon (Aug 2006) Pallywood (Mar 2006) Instapundit.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044963/posts#comment Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:43:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2043290/posts SOME HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE RELIGION OF 'PEACE' IN JUST ONE WEEK [End of July 2008]   Pakistan, Islamic Bombing in the capital Islamabad. Pakistan police arrest 4 bomb suspectsCNN International - Jul 8, 2008More than 100 people died when Pakistani security forces stormed the mosque on July 10, 2007, ending a weeklong standoff between military forces and Islamic ...http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/07/08/karachi.blast/   Palestinians Hamas [despite of 'truce' pact with Israel's Defense Forces, continue to] shoot missiles upon Israeli civilians.Palestinians shoot at Nahal Oz farmers Ynetnewshttp://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3564613,00.html   Muslim - Arabs in Israel arrested for supplying info and 'targets' for Al Qaeda.Two Israeli Arabs... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2043290/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 06:10:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041945/posts JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority is hoping Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election in November and expects the Illinois Democrat to immediately set out to create a Palestinian state once he takes office, a top PA official said. "We would like to see Obama elected. If he is elected, an agreement about the foundation of a Palestinian state (would be) reached," PA Planning Minister Samir Abdullah told reporters in Tokyo this weekend. Abdullah, who is the former head of the Palestinian Communist Party, said the PA expects Obama to win in November. He said once Obama takes office, "he... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041945/posts#comment Mon, 7 Jul 2008 18:01:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040062/posts Hours after three people were killed when a terrorist in a bulldozer went on a rampage in downtown Jerusalem, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said that the attacker’s east Jerusalem home must be destroyed. Olmert held consultations in his office following the attack, and Jerusalem officials said that the prime minister was expected to discuss the possibility of destroying the terrorist’s home with Justice Minister Daniel Friedmann. He is also set to discuss taking away National Insurance Institute (NII) rights from the terrorist’s family. Following the attack, U.S. President George W. Bush phoned Olmert and offered his condolences to the Israeli... 5TJT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040062/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 02:15:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039573/posts Most people in 14 of 18 countries polled recently want their governments to refrain from choosing sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including in the United States (71 percent). WorldPublicOpinion.org, managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, polled 18,792 people with a margin of error range of 2% to 4% for the survey released on Tuesday. Questionnaires were distributed from January to May, and the responses represent 59% of the world population. Overall, 58% of respondents said they wanted their respective country to take a neutral stance on the conflict, 20% favored the Palestinians and... The Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039573/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 03:49:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038455/posts Arab’s play offense while Israelis play defense. Nowhere is this more evident than in the field of propaganda. ...negotiations. Can anyone tell me what the Israelis are demanding. I’m waiting. On the other hand,the Arabs are demanding the holy city in Jerusalem, the greenline... “right of return”.. Israel always struggling to meet their demands in part, hoping it will suffice.. They have a sense of entitlement while the Israelis have a sense of indebtedness..no way to win a ball game.. The Arabs always rejected the State of Israel & made a conscious decision to convince the world... So they began... cfp http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038455/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:23:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038138/posts Palestinian youth group announced Saturday that it plans to demand compensation from the British government for "committing a series of crimes" against the Palestinians. Slideshow: Pictures of the week Representatives of the Watanuna (Our Homeland) Palestinian Youth said the biggest crime the British government committed was when it promised a homeland for the Jewish people in the 1917 Balfour Declaration. They said they were also planning to collect a million signatures from Palestinians in support of the lawsuit against Britain. Ali Ubeidat, a spokesman for the youth group, whose members include many university students, said preparations had already begun to... Jerusalem Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038138/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 14:05:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038018/posts Shortly Israel decided to open all the crossings into Gaza Saturday night several mortar shells were fired by Palestinian terrorists at the Karni Crossing area. It was unclear whether the shells landed in Israeli territory or fell short of the perimeter fence and there were no reports of wounded or damage. Deputy Defense Minister Matan Vilna'i, in consultation with defense chiefs, decided to allow 80 truckloads of food to cross from Israel to Gaza on Sunday. The crossings, including Karni, had been closed since Tuesday after Palestinians violated the Gaza cease-fire by shooting Kassams rockets at the western Negev. A... jpost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038018/posts#comment Sun, 29 Jun 2008 03:53:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037880/posts Today’s episode of the ongoing lunacy and anti-Americanism at the official Barack Obama blog site features a piece by Ulf Erlingsson, PhD, pleading for people to support convicted Islamic Jihad kingpin Sami Al-Arian: my.barackobama.com | Ulf Erlingsson’s Blog: We are all Palestinians. We are all Palestinians By Ulf Erlingsson, PhD - Apr 30th, 2008 at 9:24 am EDT Comments | Mail to a Friend | Report Objectionable Content When one people is oppressed, all of us are oppressed. What you do to any one of these you do to me, Jesus said. So we are all Palestinians. This is about... LGF http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2037880/posts#comment Sat, 28 Jun 2008 20:22:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036340/posts American School Books Redefine 'Jihad' to Exclude Violence -- Where is Media? By Warner Todd Huston | June 8, 2008 - 21:49 ET In yet another example of why the west could be too weak to fight the sort of global terrorism that takes the form of Islamofascism, a textbook monitoring group is charging that American textbooks have been cleansed of mentioning the violence inherent in the Islamic "Jihad." Now, our children will not be taught what "Jihad" truly means, nor that it has been used as an excuse to kill their fellow citizens because our schools have sanitized Islam... newsbuster http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036340/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036237/posts GAZA CITY — U.S. volunteers with military backgrounds have been recruited to help train the new Hamas army in the Gaza Strip. Palestinian sources said one of the Americans was former U.S. Army captain Fares Al Ashi. "This information is important for the youth," Al Ashi said during a briefing to visiting journalists in Gaza City. The sources said Al Ashi, a specialist in explosives and weapons, had been trained in South Carolina during his years with the U.S. military. "We give them general information about the explosives, those manufactured locally and the Israeli ones, because those people always reach... World Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036237/posts#comment Wed, 25 Jun 2008 16:47:49 GMT