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(IsraelNN.com) At a ceremony honoring the 40th anniversary of the liberation and reunification of Jerusalem this week, IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi said that Jerusalem is the "raison d'etre" of our national existence in Israel. Speaking on Tuesday night at Binyanei HaUmah Convention Center in Jerusalem, he said the IDF will do everything it can to ensure Jerusalem remains Israel's eternal capital. "Jerusalem symbolizes the reason and purpose for our lives here," Ashkenazi told the IDF Civilian Pensioners Organization. "It is the 'why' and 'wherefore' explaining why we are fighting. We will continue to do whatever we can...

MELBOURNE, Florida (CNN) -- Sondra Oster Baras is an Orthodox Jew doing an unorthodox job. "If you had asked me 10 years ago what I would be doing with my life, I don't think I would have told you I'd be in church," she said. Baras stumps for money from evangelical Christians to support Jewish settlements in the occupied territories -- land she calls biblical Israel. A recent stop finds her in Melbourne, Florida, visiting Pastor Gary Christofaro at his First Assembly Church of God. Christofaro and his flock take their Jewish roots so seriously that on Friday nights they...

June 4, 2007 issue - Moshe Amirav was dreaming about Jerusalem on the morning that he ended up with a bullet in his head. It was June 7, 1967, the climactic offensive of the Six Day War, and Israeli troops were inching closer to the Old City. To the 18-year-old paratrooper, the battlefield looked "apocalyptic"; pillars of black smoke towered above the brilliant gold capital of the Dome of the Rock. But before Amirav could rush with his squadron toward the Western Wall, one of the holiest sites in Judaism, a chunk of hot metal clipped him in the head,...

Several prominent scholars have taken issue with Jimmy Carter's book "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," cataloguing its historical inaccuracies and lamenting its lack of balance. ---snip--- Whether in its secular and/or observant manifestations, Israel clearly discomfits Mr. Carter, a man who, even as president, considered himself in "full-time Christian service." Yet, in revealing his unease with the idea of Jewish statehood, Mr. Carter sets himself apart from many U.S. presidents before and after him, as well as from nearly 400 years of American Christian thought. Generations of Christians in this country, representing a variety of dominations, laymen and clergy alike, have...

[Quix note: The green bold emphases are in the original. But I'm too tired to code them here or even to pour it through Word to do it. Sorry. I did use some spacing, paragraphing for emphasis on the fly] = = = = = = Lengthy Mel Gibson Codes Presage DUI Incident The May 2004 issue of Bible Code Digest (BCD) featured an article http://www.biblecodedigest.com/page.php/232 [May 2004 original article] describing a 146-letter-long code about Mel Gibson. This astonishing code portrayed him as being guilty of something and of being "rotten." Interwoven codes further described him as hurrying and insulting...

Mourners carry the coffins of Israeli Arabs Hanna Hamam, 62, and Ladida Mazzawi, 67, who were killed Sunday night in a Hezbollah rocket attack, during their funeral in the city of Haifa, northern Israel, Monday, Aug. 7, 2006. Hezbollah fired its deadliest rocket barrage Sunday on Israel, killing 12 Israeli reservists and three civilians. That brought the Israeli death toll to 94, including 46 soldiers, the 12 reservists and 36 civilians.

Israel has been bombarded alternately with thousands of rockets and with hundreds of articles decrying its "disproportionate" and "immoral" response. Israel's sovereignty is abused and its citizens are attacked, kidnapped and terrorized, and the world clamors to condemn Israel's response. On the one hand, you have a soldier pushing a child behind him so that he can protect the child. On the other, you have a Hizbullah fighter pushing a child in front of him so that he can be protected by the child. In the ensuing gun battle, the latter child gets hurt and the Hizbullah terrorist is seen...

Creation of Congressional Israel Allies Caucus in the United States News From U.S. CONGRESSMAN DAVE WELDON Florida's 15th District -- Serving Brevard, Indian River, Osceola, and Polk Counties For Immediate Release: Contact: Kurt Heath (202) 225-3671; 202-577-5285 July 26, 2006 kurtheath@mail.house.gov ***MEDIA ADVISORY*** Press Conference Congressional Leaders Announce Formation of New Congressional Caucus "Congressional Israel Allies Caucus" Press Conference: Thursday, July 27, at 3pm, RHOB 2358 WASHINGTON, DC. Reps. Dave Weldon, M.D. (R-FL), Eliot Engel (D-NY), and Trent Franks (R- AZ) will announce the formation of the Congressional Israel Allies Caucus at a press conference tomorrow afternoon at 3pm in...

Israeli soldiers stand near bodies, which they claim are dead Hezbollah fighters, after transporting them from Lebanon to the northern Israeli town of Yiron Wednesday July 26, 2006.

JERUSALEM: One week after the humiliation it suffered in a Hezbollah cross-border raid in which eight soldiers were killed and two captured, Israel senses one of its major military and political victories is within reach. The stunning campaign it has waged against Hezbollah has reportedly brought the militia to a point where it is willing to discuss Israel's major demand - that it pull back several kilometres from the Israeli border, perhaps to the Litani River. Reports from Beirut yesterday said that Hezbollah officials had declared readiness to discuss the pullback proposal as well as a ceasefire with Israel but...

No 'zhid' for president Rabbi Lau is the polar opposite of the Israel envisioned by the Zionist forefathers. We need an enlightened 'new Jew' to lead the country Since the ugly, sickly "zhid," a character that doesn't appear in the least bit majestic, bestows on the ideal image of the beautiful, proud Hebrew… the zhid should be shocked and humiliated, whereas the other guy should be proud. The zhid is loathsome to everyone and everything, whereas the proud Hebrew must charm them… The zhid loves hiding with bated breath from the eyes of strangers, whereas the other guy must march...

Two people killed - a Palestinian woman and her young daughter - and eight wounded when Israel Air Force strike in Khan Younis misses targeted terrorists, hits family eating dinner in their home An Israeli Air Force strike targeting terrorists in Khan Younis in the Gaza Strip Wednesday evening killed two people and wounded eight more, members of a family who were eating dinner in their home. According to Palestinian reports, an IAF aircraft fired a missile towards a car driving through the city, but it missed the vehicle and struck a building. The casualties were members of a family...

"Palestinians" death cult - Humanity turned Upside down 9/11 & other terror victims in agony are to be cheered, danced & laughed at but monsters on humanity (on non Arabs & on their own people like) Al-Zarqawi & Saddam Hussein are to be sympathized with. They tell us day & night that they are about "freedom", yet, in their entire violent totalitarian society, not one person is ever really free. If they deliberately send their kids to be killed as murderers (bombers or shields for adult shooters), How do they expect us to take them seriously when they make a...

Ha'aretz Israel is set to join the Red Cross after nearly six decadesHa'aretz, Israel - 2 hours agoIsrael is set to join the Red Cross movement after nearly six decades of exclusion, despite attempts by Muslim countries to derail a complex diplomatic ... Cross and crescent gone, 'red crystal' in OhmyNews InternationalAntigua represented at International Red Cross meeting AntiguaSun'Historic' Red Cross vote on MDA to be held Thursday Jerusalem Post Has there been one other nation on earth that was excluded in such a blatant hateful racist manner, under prresure by global Arab Muslim 'lobby' (there are hundrteds of different...

With no peace partner, Israel must assure security By GARY ROSENBLATT Israel’s decisions to build a security barrier between itself and the Palestinians and to disengage from large areas of land conquered in the Six Day War of 1967 against the Arabs are part of a new and sobering recognition that since the two peoples cannot live together, they are both better off living separately. Studying the Mideast conflict and the long history of attempted peace negotiations, one must conclude that the only thing Israelis can do to truly satisfy their Palestinian neighbors is give up their Jewish state and...

BBC SPORT | Football | World Cup 2006 | Teams | Ghana | Ghana win friends in Israel Paintsil plays for the Israeli side Hapoel Tel Aviv Ghana has gained lots of new fans in Israel after their 2-0 victory over the Czech Republic on Saturday. Defender John Paintsil, who plays for Hapoel Tel Aviv, waved the Israeli flag to celebrate the Group E victory. Israel's Sports Minister, Ofir Pines Paz was quick to recognise Paintsil's gesture. "We have an Israeli at the World Cup. Paintsil's gesture has warmed our hearts and many Israelis have now become supporters of Ghana,"...

The al-Aksa mosque is mistakenly called, “Omar’s mosque” after the first Caliph of Jerusalem who captured the city in 638CE. This religious shrine was a hoax-gone-bad for Caliph Abd al-Wahd (705-715 CE). Wahd actually completed construction and named it al-Aksa so that it would sound like the one mentioned in the Koran. Wahd desired to draw prayer and, more importantly, attention to the place where he was then ruler, Jerusalem. This attempt failed since Mohammed had a stern restriction regarding Jerusalem. The site fell into disrepair and, up until this century, no Islamic monarch deemed the Dome or the mosque...

The Overwhelming wrong "Palestinians"A terrible majority & mainstreamI do try to be tolerant to everyone, frankly, their 70% support for genocide does not help me. The entire "Palestinian" society is a sick system, from the indoctrination to the death cult (recruiting to or glorifying mass murderers as "martyrs") to their mainstream media to their mainstream schools/Mosques, etc. Suffice to say, Watch a normal Israeli TV program VS a "normal" 'Palestinian' one, an all out warning if you attempt to listen to their Friday sermons from the mosques. http://pmw.org.il http://memritv.org/Search.asp?ACT=S5&P1=64No, the problem is not just with a "fringe" group, or just...

Plast-inian, the PLASTIC language of the Arab Muslim 'Palestinians' - PLASTINIAN - Whether the (so called) 'Palestinian' Arab Muslims are a "nation" that is 39 years old (since 1967) or a bit more than that or even if you believe that they are just another group of Arabs, one thing is certain, they have contributed some vocabulary, Take some PLASTINIAN lessons: Hamas' terrorists greed for higher salaries (2006) = "starving Palestinians". Killing it's own people (like Muhammad Al Dura 2000, Rafah 2002 in a cave & now Gaza beach 2006) = "israeli aggression". Arab settlers (at the 1800's and their...

GAZA CITY, GAZA Strip - An Israeli airstrike Thursday killed the top Hamas enforcer in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian hospital officials and group members said. Israel has accused militant faction leader Jamal Abu Samhadana of spearheading rocket attacks on Israel and of the fatal 2003 bombing of a U.S. convoy in the Gaza Strip that killed three American security guards. Two other people were killed and seven were wounded in a strike on a Popular Resistance Committees training camp. The 43-year-old militant had been No. 2 on Israel's wanted list and had tried to avoid detection by moving stealthily, switching...

ALARM - the chief of the popular Committees killed in in a raid in Gaza GAZA - the chief of the Committees of popular Resistance for all the Gaza Strip, Jamal Abou Samhadana, was killed Thursday evening in an Israeli air raid against a camp of drive in the south of the Gaza Strip, according to this group.

The main road that ran from Jerusalem's City of David to the Temple Mount during the time of the Second Temple has been uncovered by Israeli archeologists, those involved in the dig said Thursday. The road connected the Shiloah pool in the City of David to the Temple Mount compound. The 2,000-year-old road was discovered adjacent to the Shiloah pool during ongoing excavations at the site, said Israeli Antiquities Authority archeologist Eli Shukrun. He is directing the dig together with University of Haifa archeologist Prof. Ronny Reich. The road was used by the tens of thousands of people who came...

Jimmy Carter out of the anti-Zionist closet Jimmy Carter is out of the anti-Zionist closet. In a column in the Pakistan Daily Times entitled “Colonisation of Palestine precludes peace” Carter writes “The pre-eminent obstacle to peace is Israel’s colonisation of Palestine…” To be sure, he ends his column by calling for recognition for Israel by the Palestinians, but Carter cannot possibly misunderstand what “colonization of Palestine” means to Hamas, Iran, and Bin Laden. It means the existence of Israel anywhere in what was once called Palestine. That is a deliberate ambiguity, as Carter knows perfectly well. It plays to the...

[Israeli] Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is sedated and on a respirator but clinging to life after a massive stroke. Surgeons at Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital say they have stemmed the bleeding in the 77-year-old leader's brain in a seven-hour operation. They describe his condition as critical but stable. Hospital director Shlomo Mor-Yosef says Mr Sharon will be kept in "deep sedation" and on a respirator for at least the next 24 hours. Dr Mor-Yosef did not say how much brain damage Mr Sharon may have suffered and gave no prognosis for recovery. A cerebral haemorrhage, or bleeding stroke, felled Mr Sharon...

The Arab League and a Vatican official separately, but simultaneously, are campaigning for Israel to divide Jerusalem. The PA recently asked to the Pope to help make the capital part of a new state. The Arab League has joined Palestinian Authority (PA) officials in exploiting Israel's policy of not allowing Arabs in Jerusalem, who are Israeli citizens, to vote in the PA legislative elections scheduled for January 25. It told the French news agency AFP that the ban would solidify Israel's claim that the entire capital is part of the country. AFP termed the predominantly Arab neighborhoods of the city...

The heart-rending complete speech of Carolyn Glick This speech by Caroline Glick, Deputy Managing Editor, Jerusalem Post, was delivered at the annual dinner of the Zionist Organization of America at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City December 11, 2005 upon her receiving the Ben Hecht Award for Excellence in Journalism for the Middle East. Good evening. Thank you so much. It is really wonderful to be here in New York with all of you tonight. Thank you. I want to thank Mort Klein and the ZOA Board of Directors for honoring me with this prestigious award. Ben Hecht...

The killing of four innocent Arabs by an Israeli represented a tragic loss ("Army deserter boards bus, kills 4 Israeli Arabs," Aug. 5). The deranged Israeli's actions were the same as used by terrorists. The Pittsburgh Chapter of the American Jewish Committee condemns that action in the strongest terms. There is no appropriate terrorism of any kind.

WAUKEGAN, Ill. - The father of an 8-year-old girl who was slain along with her best friend admitted to authorities that he was the killer, saying he was angry at the girl for breaking curfew, authorities said Wednesday. A judge denied bond Wednesday for Jerry Hobbs after prosecutors described a videotaped interview in court in which he allegedly told investigators he stabbed the girls to death. Hobbs' 8-year-old daughter, Laura Hobbs, and her friend Krystal Tobias, 9, were found dead Monday in a park in Zion, the day after they vanished. The father, who had been released from a Texas...

ZION, Ill. — A relative of one of two little girls found stabbed to death in a northern Illinois park will be charged with their murders, FOX News has confirmed. The suspect will be brought before a judge either Tuesday or Wednesday, FOX News has learned. Earlier on Tuesday, law enforcement sources said to expect a court appearance at 2:30 p.m. EDT. The suspect had been questioned by police, but it was not clear if he or she had been taken into custody. A report from WFLD-TV that Jerry Hobbs, father of one of the girls, had been arrested in...

The twilight language may be revealed in the Mother's Day killings of two second-grade girls near Beulah Park in Zion, Illinois. Could the place and victims have been purposedly selected? The news of the deaths are the lead story in many media outlets. Let me quote from today's (May 10, 2005) New York Times to make some points. Zion First, you have the name "Zion" with it's natural lexilinks to the ancient "Zion" of the Mideast and to the "Zion" of the Matrix movies. As I point out in The Copycat Effect, some killers have used The Matrix for inspiration....

An individual will be charged today in connection with the stabbing deaths of two young girls from north suburban Zion, police sources told the Tribune this morning. Investigators had been interviewing several people, including relatives of the victims. Lake County Major Crime Task Force members have been seen coming and going at the Zion Police Department since 9 a.m., CLTV reported. Neighbors last saw Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9, riding their bicycles about 4 p.m. Sunday. Their families reported the children missing that evening, triggering a massive search by police and volunteers. Laura's father and grandfather found the...

Man Labeled 'Person Of Interest' POSTED: 7:35 am EDT May 10, 2005 UPDATED: 1:05 pm EDT May 10, 2005 ZION, Ill. -- CNN is reporting that a suspect will be charged today in the deaths of two elementary students found stabbed to death in a Chicago suburb Monday. Jerry Hobbs School officials confirmed to WMAQ-TV in Chicago Tuesday that investigators may have a break in the case involving the two girls found stabbed to death in Zion. Lake County Task Force met for several hours Tuesday morning to investigate the case. Best friends Laura Hobbs, 8, and Krystal Tobias, 9,...

Now the search is on for those responsible, but Police Chief Doug Malcolm said Monday that authorities have had not identified any suspects and there were no solid leads. "It was a crime not only against those kids but against all of us," Malcolm said.

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/zion09.html

Per Fox News...

ZION, Ill. May 9, 2005 — The bodies of two young girls were found in a wooded area Monday morning, not long after two 8-year-olds were reported missing, authorities said. The girls were discovered by a resident walking through the area near Beulah Park in this town north of Chicago, Deputy Chief Clyde Watkins said. A bike path and a ravine run through the area. "We had a complaint of two missing eight-year-olds earlier," Watkins said. But he said authorities had not confirmed whether the dead children were the ones who had been reported missing. He said he couldn't comment...

JERUSALEM, Israel -- Jonathan Pollard, an American imprisoned in the United States for spying for Israel, is seeking to be declared a Prisoner of Zion — a status that would require Israel to do all it can to get him released, his lawyer said Sunday. Israel, which has pressed the issue of releasing Pollard with the U.S. government, has so far refused to assign him that status, which was originally created for Jewish activists imprisoned in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 80s. Pollard's petition alleges he was kept naked for more than a year in solitary confinement in...

ZION, Ill. - Two 8-year-old girls who disappeared Sunday were found slain Monday in a park in this city north of Chicago, authorities said. A resident walking through a wooded nature area in Beulah Park discovered the bodies around 6 a.m., Deputy Police Chief Clyde Watkins said. A bike path and a ravine run through the area, which police cordoned off Monday. The coroner identified the two victims as friends who had been reported missing Sunday night, Watkins said. He declined to identify the two but said their families had been notified. Watkins said police were investigating the deaths as...

Children’s bodies found in suburban park Tribune staff reports Published May 9, 2005, 11:44 AM CDT The bodies of two young girls were found this morning in a nature area in north suburban Zion, authorities said. The girls, both believed to be eight years old, were discovered by a resident walking through the wooded area near Beulah Park, Deputy Chief Clyde Watkins said. "We had a complaint of two missing eight-year-olds earlier,'' Watkins said. "We don't know if this is the two children or not.''

It is of much relief to me to see not one single name in the list posted here belonging to a leader of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, otherwise known as the Mormons. I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. We firmly believe our leaders receive revelation directly from the Lord Jesus Christ and it is through revelation that our church began. We consider our church to be a restoration of the truths and blessings that were lost during the great apostasy that occurred after the apostles and prophets were killed...

Don't know what kind of day today will be. I doubt the Israeli gov't will let the Jews ascend the Mount. But the moslems are planning on bringing in a large crowd. It could get interesting, to say the least. For those of you that may not know about this, here are the images updated regularly. Once per minute on small window, and once per 20 minutes I think on large window. FWIW. Click on link for small window to open in new page, with the faster-refresh small window. The large one will update with the thread, but again about...

International gay leaders are planning a 10-day WorldPride festival and parade in Jerusalem in August, saying they want to make a statement about tolerance and diversity in the holy city... [L]eaders of the three faiths -- Christianity, Judaism and Islam -- are making a rare show of unity to try to stop the festival... "They are creating a deep and terrible sorrow that is unbearable," said Shlomo Amar, Israel's chief Sephardic rabbi, "...We are all against it." ..."That is something new I've never witnessed before, such an attempt to globalize bigotry," said Hagai El-Ad, the executive director of Jerusalem Open...

In America today, Christians have many enemies and few friends. I would like to be counted among the latter. It might appear odd that, as a Jew, I would support Christians and the concept of Christian America. Once upon a time, it would have seemed equally strange for a Christian to call himself a Zionist.But the world is forever and relentlessly changing. As a member of one of the most persecuted minorities in history, I can relate to what Christians are experiencing in the first decade of the 21st century.In America today, devout Christians are rapidly assuming the roles traditionally...

It's the laziest cliché in the travel-writing book to describe a place as a country of contrasts. Usually this means that - hold the front page! - a country's got both a beach and a city. And sometimes these weak words become weasel words, as when used about Brazil, the country with the largest gap between richest and poorest in the world. In this case, 'a country of contrasts' comes down to the fact that some people pick their teeth with golden gewgaws while round the corner, families literally live on, and from, rubbish heaps. So I hope that you'll...

Pollster John Zogby, in a telephone interview with me yesterday, predicted that John Kerry will win the election. "It's close," he said, "but in the last couple of days things have been trending toward Kerry - nationally and in the swing states. Between this and history, I think it will be Kerry." When Zogby talks, politicians listen. He made his bones in the Bill Clinton-Bob Dole election of 1996, when he came within one-tenth of a percentage point of the final tally. Bet me that when the Bushies read what Zogby told me, not just the rhetoric will rise, but...

JERUSALEM (AP) - Israel would not be able to destroy Iran's nuclear installations with a single air strike as it did in Iraq in 1981 because they are scattered or hidden and intelligence is weak, Israeli and foreign analysts say. Israeli leaders have implied they might use force against Iran if international diplomatic efforts or the threat of sanctions fail to stop Iran from producing nuclear weapons. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said this month Israel is "taking measures to defend itself" - a comment that raised concern Israel is considering a pre-emptive strike along the lines of its 1981...

In stark contrast to the PLO songs he recited growing up, with words like, “Sharpen my bones into swords and make my flesh into Molotov cocktails,” Shoebat, now 44, sings a very different tune. Walid Shoebat’s visit to the University of Toronto, together with Israel National Radio’s Tovia Singer, was but the latest of the former terrorist’s endeavors on behalf his latest cause: Israel and the Jewish people. Shoebat has related his extraordinary journey over the airwaves and before audiences across North America, encouraging people to “wake up and smell the hummus” before Islam succeeds in implementing its program of...

SYRIA COMPLETES CW WARHEADS Syria has completed chemical warheads for its arsenal of Scud-based missiles. U.S. officials said Syria, with help from North Korea, has succeeded in designing and installing CW warheads for the Scud B, Scud C and Scud D missiles. This provides Syria with warheads that can reach distances from 250 to nearly 700 kilometers. The chemical agent deployed in the CW warheads is sarin, regarded as the most toxic of material. Syria has also been developing more toxic agents such as VX. "Since the 1970s, Syria has pursued what is now one of the most advanced Arab...

Benny Morris says he was always a Zionist. People were mistaken when they labeled him a post-Zionist, when they thought that his historical study on the birth of the Palestinian refugee problem was intended to undercut the Zionist enterprise. Nonsense, Morris says, that's completely unfounded. Some readers simply misread the book. They didn't read it with the same detachment, the same moral neutrality, with which it was written. So they came to the mistaken conclusion that when Morris describes the cruelest deeds that the Zionist movement perpetrated in 1948 he is actually being condemnatory, that when he describes the large-scale...

Receive FREE updates by email: | Author Reveals Depths of Hatred in Muslim World By Sean GrindlayNovember 25, 2003 Anyone trying to make sense of the situation in the Middle East must understand the mindset that pervades most of the Muslim world, says Kenneth Timmerman, author of Preachers of Hate: Islam and the War on America. This mindset, he says, is characterized by an extremely intense and deep-seated hatred of all things Jewish-and, by extension, all things Western. Timmerman discussed this and other aspects of his book at a November 20 luncheon held by Accuracy in Media. Drawing on...