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Thursday, March 13, 2008

Lull, what lull?

IDF Kills Jihad Terrorist, Other Security Incidents-Ezra HaLevi

IDF soldiers killed senior Islamic Jihad terrorist Saleh Karkoor after he opened fire on soldiers trying to arrest him Wednesday near Jenin.The 26-year-old local terror chief was targeted for arrest in a joint IDF, Border Police and Shabak (General Security Service) operation, early Wednesday morning, in the village of Seida, southwest of Jenin.

The Israel forces were targeted by gunfire and several bombs were detonated in the vicinity as well. After returning fire and killing Karkoor, troops found a Kalashnikov assault rifle and several explosive devices on his person.

Released Twice, Planning Attack
Karkoor has been released from Israeli prisons twice. He was in the midst of planning suicide bombings to be implemented in the near future, according to intelligence information.

He was arrested for the first time 10 years ago and released shortly thereafter, only to be arrested again in 2002 for involvement in a suicide bombing in Tel Aviv. That attack wounded 23 people. Karkoor prepared those two suicide bombers, who slept over at his house. He also recruited others for more such attacks. The government released him again in November, 2006 as part of good will measures towards the Palestinian Authority (PA).

He then “immediately” returned to terrorist activity, according to intelligence information released by the IDF, taking part in the establishment of an Islamic Jihad cell in the Jenin area together with Khaled Hassin, who was killed by IDF Special Forces on October 23, 2007, along with a number of Islamic Jihad terrorists from Tul Karem in clashes with the IDF in Jenin.

Karkoor’s cell carried out the suicide bombing at an IDF roadblock near the Samaria community of Einav on July 12, 2007.

Missile Attack on Ashkelon Disturbs “Calm”
Palestinian Authority terrorists in Gaza ended a four-day lull Tuesday with a missile attack on Ashkelon.

The Grad-type Katyusha missile exploded in an area south of the coastal city just hours after Prime Minister Ehud Olmert warned residents while touring Ashkelon that it will never be possible to completely stop rocket attacks on the city.

No one was injured and no damage was reported in the attack.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist organization claimed responsibility for the attack, though all attacks emanating from Gaza are approved and coordinated by Hamas.

Mortar Attack on Western Negev
A mortar shell was launched toward western Negev Jewish towns Wednesday morning. The shell exploded in an open field just past the Gaza fence. No one was injured and no damage was reported.

Rocks and Firebombs
PA Arabs attacked an Israeli motorist traveling through Samaria Tuesday. The attackers hurled rocks at the car as it drove along a road southeast of Ramallah. No injuries were reported in the attack, but the vehicle was damaged.

Arabs hurled rocks at Jewish motorists traveling on the road north of Hevron Tuesday evening. Three cars were targeted by the attackers. No one was injured, though two of the vehicles were damaged.

Two Molotov cocktail firebombs were hurled at Border Police Tuesday afternoon in the village of Azoun, in Samaria. The Kalkilya-area village is known for terrorizing Jewish motorists driving in the region with rock and firebomb attacks on a regular basis. No damage or injuries were reported.

IDF Arrests Twelve Wanted Terrorists
IDF soldiers arrested 12 wanted terrorists Tuesday night. The detainees were taken to security services for questioning.

Soldiers found a Kalashnikov rifle and three ammunition clips while arresting a suspect in Hevron. The weapons were confiscated.

Soldiers Wound Truck Thief North of Arad
IDF soldiers shot and lightly wounded the driver of a stolen truck at checkpoint next to Beit Yatir, in the southern Hevron Hills just north of Arad Wednesday morning. The car thief is being treated at Soroka hospital in Be'er Sheva.

The soldiers, reservists, received intelligence information that a Hyundai vehicle and a stolen struck were to arrive at the checkpoint from the direction of Arad-Be'er Sheva. When the soldiers told the truck driver to pull over to the side for inspection, he fled towards the adjacent village known by its colloquial name as "the thieves' village." The soldier called out in Arabic for him to stop and shot at his legs when he refused.

US General Training Fatah Attacks Defense Minister
United States General Keith Dayton blames Defense Minister Ehud Barak for the Palestinian Authority’s inability to gain control of terrorist groups in PA-controlled areas, according to the PA’s Ma’an News Agency. Dayton reportedly criticized Barak and the IDF in meetings with foreign consuls in Ramallah.

According to the report, Dayton praised the PA as “acting with great seriousness in the realm of security as part of its responsibility to secure its territories.” However, he said, Israel causes the PA to fail, in part by refusing to grant PA officers free access to areas under Israeli control.

Man Held in ‘Honor’ Shooting
A 24-year-old Israeli-Arab Muslim from the Galilee was arrested Tuesday for shooting his 20-year-old sister in the head, causing her serious wounds. The man turned himself in to police and explained that he had shot his sister in an “honor killing” because she associated with men. The man argued that his family knew of his plans to kill the sister.

While the man turned himself in, believing he had killed his sister, the young woman managed to survive the shooting and was taken to HaEmek hospital in serious condition. Doctors announced Wednesday that the woman’s condition was improving.

Police are investigating the incident, and plan to examine the brother’s claims that his family knew he planned to murder his sister.

Israel-India Work Group on Terror
The joint Israel-India work group in the war on terror ended its two-day meeting in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the seventh in a series of talks on global and regional terror threats.

Also on the agenda were the threats posed by drug trafficking, computerized terror and cooperation in international forums.

Hamas Threatens Israel on Jerusalem Excavation
The Hamas Islamist terrorist organization threatened Israel Tuesday that the entire region would fly "into a rage" over resumption of construction near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

"We warn against harming the al-Aksa mosque," said Hamas spokesman Taher al-Nounou, who added that excavations would "provoke the feelings of all Muslims in the world."

Israel temporarily suspended the dig last year amid Arab riots worldwide. Muslims claimed that construction to replace a broken footbridge to the entrance of the Temple Mount from the Rambam (Mughrabi) Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem would harm the mosque. International experts came, inspected the site, and determined that no damage was caused to the structure.

Iran Places Bounties on Top Israeli Defense Officials
Iran has placed a bounty on the heads of Israel's security establishment via its state-supported Islamist student union.

Students offered rewards totaling one million dollars for the execution of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, Mossad Director Meir Dagan and IDF Military Intelligence Chief Amos Yadlin, the state-run Iranian Student News Agency (ISNA) reported Monday.

The group has requested that Iranians wishing to increase the bounties donate their kidneys. The bounty for Barak is currently 400,000 dollars, while the murders of Dagan or Yadlin would earn the would-be killers 300,000 each. "These sums will be given to any person, or their families, who could punish these individuals in any part of the world," the Islamist group announced.

Banners announcing the bounties feature the quote by Islamic Revolution Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini that "Israel must be wiped off the map." The line has become a rallying cry for Iran's President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad in his bid for nuclear capabilities.

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The IDF’s Minorities in Numbers and Pictures

In honor of IDF Diversity Week, we present diversity through numbers and pictures. Each year, more and more Muslims, Christians, Druze, Bedouin and immigrants from around the world take on the responsibility of defending Israel.

MUSLIMS:

Muslim Arab Israelis are not required to draft in the IDF, but there are many who volunteer. In 2013, there were over 200 Muslims serving in the IDF and over 300 in the reserves.

Bedouins:

Bedouins are nomadic Muslims who were in Israel when modern borders were set in place and are now considered Israeli citizens. They are not required to draft but a growing number choose to enlist. In 2012, there were over 1,400 Bedouin Muslim soldiers doing regular IDF service and almost 1,500 in the reserves.

Read more:http://www.idfblog.com/2014/02/27/truth-idf-numbers-pictures/#more-34027

Are you aware that in 2013, Middle class taxes go up-significantly?

In January of next year, the federal income tax rate for middle-class taxpayers is scheduled to rise from 25 percent to 28 percent, and the payroll tax is scheduled to rise from 13.3 percent to 15.3 percent… This drives the marginal tax rate based on the aforementioned three taxes to 48.12 percent. Add in state and local property, corporate, excise, and other state and local taxes, and the percentage of each additional dollar that is taxed hovers around 50 percent… When half of each additional dollar earned is taxed away, taxpayers experience a disincentive to start businesses or expand existing ones. This leads to fewer jobs being created.

Why is HAMAS Inside Tampa Schools?

Clare Lopez

Kelly Miliziano, who teaches history classes at Steinbrenner High School in the Tampa, Florida area apparently thinks it’s perfectly OK to invite a senior official of a HAMAS-affiliated organization into her classroom to discuss Islam with her students. According to local media reports, not only has this been going on for years, but in spite of the civil and criminal proceedings that could result from such reckless negligence, the Hillsborough County school superintendent, Mary Ellen Elia, and the chairman of the school board, Candy Olson, also expressed approval for students under their responsibility to be exposed repeatedly to guest speaker, Hassan Shibly, who is the Executive Director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the Tampa area.
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Did You Know... Ignoring the Call to Islam will Bring Jihad

‘Conquest through Da’wa [proselytizing] that is what we hope for. We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Da’wa.’
-- Yousef al-Qaradawi , Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader The Arabic word ‘Da’wa’ means the “call to Islam.” But do not think that Da’wa is the same thing as an invitation to an optional holiday event. The classical Islamic doctrine of jihad mandates that enemies must be given the opportunity to convert to Islam or pay the jizya tax before it is permissible to attack them.
Clare M. Lopez

Who is being discriminated-facts tell the truth

Religious bias

Hate crimes motivated by religious bias accounted for 1,409 offenses reported by law enforcement. A breakdown of the bias motivation of religious-bias offenses showed:

65.4 percent were anti-Jewish.
13.2 percent were anti-Islamic.
9.5 percent were anti-other religion, i.e., those not specified.
4.3 percent were anti-Catholic.
3.8 percent were anti-multiple religions, group.
3.3 percent were anti-Protestant.
0.5 percent were anti-Atheism/Agnosticism/etc.

http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/hate-crime/2010/narratives/hate-crime-2010-incidents-and-offenses.

On March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview

with PLO executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

In March 1977, Zahir Muhsein, a PLO executive, said:

"The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct Palestinian people to oppose Zionism."

"For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan."

The Arab Apartheid

Ben-Dror Yemini
In 1948, the Arab countries refused to accept the UN partition proposal and they launched a war of annihilation against the State of Israel which had barely been established. All precedents in this matter showed that the party that starts the war - and with a declaration of annihilation, yet - pays a price for it. Between 550,000 and 710,000 Arabs fled because of the war and a larger number of 850,000 Jews were expelled or fled from Arab countries (the "Jewish nakba").
Population exchanges and expulsions were the norm at that time, occurring in dozens of other conflict points and affecting about 52 million people. In all the population exchange precedents that occurred during or at the end of an armed conflict, there was no return of refugees to the previous region, which had turned into a new national state.
Only the Arab states acted completely differently from the rest of the world. Instead of assimilating the refugees, they crushed them despite the fact that they were their coreligionists and members of the Arab nation - instituting a regime of apartheid. So the "nakba" was not caused by the actual dispossession, which had also been experienced by tens of millions of others. The "nakba" is the story of the apartheid, oppression, abuse and denial of rights suffered by the Arab refugees at the hands of the Arab countries. (Maariv)

International Law and Military Operations in Practice - Col. Richard Kemp

"Islamist fighting groups study the international laws of armed conflict carefully and they understand it well. They know that a British or Israeli commander and his men are bound by international law and the rules of engagement that flow from it. They then do their utmost to exploit what they view as one of their enemy's main weaknesses. Their very modus operandi is built on the correct assumption that Western armies will normally abide by the rules, while these insurgents employ a deliberate policy of operating consistently outside international law. "

Lost Historical Moments

What Rabin’s last Knesset speech really said:repudiation of a Palestinian state

Rabin ruled out a fully sovereign Palestinian state :

“We view the permanent solution in the framework of State of Israel which will include most of the area of the Land of Israel as it was under the rule of the British Mandate, and alongside it a Palestinian entity which will be a home to most of the Palestinian residents living in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. We would like this to be an entity which is less than a state, and which will independently run the lives of the Palestinians under its authority.”

Rabin ruled out a total withdrawal from Judea and Samaria and thus a return to the pre-June 1967 borders :

“The borders of the State of Israel, during the permanent solution, will be beyond the lines which existed before the Six Day War. We will not return to the 4 June 1967 lines.”

Rabin ruled out withdrawing form the Jordan Valley:

“The security border of the State of Israel will be located in the Jordan Valley, in the broadest meaning of that term.”

Rabin ruled out uprooting settlement blocs, like the Gush Katif bloc in Gaza (which was subsequently uprooted by former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon):

“The establishment of blocs of settlements in Judea and Samaria, like the one in Gush Katif.

AND

Rabin ruled out removing any settlement before coming to a full peace agreement with the Palestinians:

“I want to remind you: we committed ourselves, that is, we came to an agreement, and committed ourselves before the Knesset, not to uproot a single settlement in the framework of the interim agreement, and not to hinder building for natural growth.”

Rabin insisted on Israel retaining full security control of the borders with Egypt and Jordan, contrary to Israel’s relinquishment of the Philadelphia Corridor on the border with Egypt:

“The responsibility for external security along the borders with Egypt and Jordan, as well as control over the airspace above all of the territories and Gaza Strip maritime zone, remains in our hands.”

Correcting Oslo Myths-Part 2

3) Kuttab laments that the post-1993 Oslo process resulted in a Palestinian Authority "whose ministers and legislators are not guaranteed passage between Gaza and the West Bank ...."

Before free passage or other perquisites, PA leaders were obligated, among other things, to eliminate the terrorist infrastructure in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, end anti-Israeli, antisemitic incitement in schools, mosques, and communications media, and resolve all outstanding issues through peaceful negotiations. They met none of these commitments, sometimes bolstering terrorism and greatly increasing incitement.

4) Kuttab complains that under Oslo the PA got "lightly armed police ---- but no real sovereignty over the land or contiguity between our communities in Gaza and the West Bank."

Oslo agreements repeatedly were revised, regardless of Palestinian non-compliance, until the authorized number of police grew from 8,000 to 40,000. Though they were to be the only armed forces in the territories, Israeli estimates early in the second intifada put the number of gunmen - police, "security services," terrorists, and armed gangs - at 85,000. Their armament reportedly included not only heavy machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, but also anti-tank and anti-aircraft missiles.

Sovereignty was to be negotiated in the envisioned 1998 "final status" talks - after a five-year period of confidence-building. Palestinian leadership chronically undermined the process. Palestinian terrorism made the 1993 - 1998 Oslo period more deadly for Israelis than the 15 years preceding it.

The United States doesn't have contiguity between the lower 48 states and Alaska and Hawaii; territorial contiguity between the West Bank and Gaza Strip - that is, through the 20 miles of Israeli territory between them - was never promised and would destroy Israeli contiguity.

5) "Palestinians have been made to endure hundreds of checkpoints in the West Bank, an eight-foot wall deep in our territories, and tight Israeli control over borders."

The security barrier is not "deep in Palestinian territories," but rather encompasses less than 8 percent of Judea and Samaria, and is mostly a fence, rarely a wall; the land in question is not "our [Palestinian] territories" but disputed territory to which, according to the authors of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, Jews as well as Arabs have claims; and there are no international borders, only the 1949 armistice lines with Jordan. Under 242, borders remain to be negotiated. As for checkpoints - like the security barrier and "tight Israeli control" - Palestinian Arabs precipitated these measures themselves. No terrorism and there would be no fence or tight Israeli control and few checkpoints - like before the first intifada.

Correcting Some Oslo Myths

1) In Oslo "Israeli, Palestinian and other world leaders promised that ... Palestinian sovereignty would be solidified."

No, they didn't. The 1993 Declaration of Principles and subsequent Oslo agreements outlined a process by which final status negotiations about the West Bank and Gaza Strip would be reached. The process required an end to anti-Israel terrorism and incitement and a commitment to peaceful negotiations. The PA, Fatah, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, and other terrorist groups, sabotaged the process from the start.

2) "The reality is that, in defiance of U.N. Security Council Resolution 242, which states that it is inadmissible to occupy land by force, Palestinian territories are still under foreign military occupation."
Wrong again. Resolution 242 (1967) does note "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." It also affirms the right of every state in the area "to live in peace with secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force." There were no "Palestinian territories." Jordan occupied the West Bank, Egypt controlled Gaza. Israel did not have "secure and recognized boundaries," so retention of some of those territories was possible under 242. Israel is not a "foreign" military occupier in the West Bank but, pending final negotiations, the lawful military administrator as a result of a successful war of self-defense.

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