Muslim Brotherhood threatens to sever Israel ties

by Roee Nahmias Egypt’s Opposition party, the Muslim Brotherhood, is threatening to end ties with Israel if it emerges victorious from an upcoming vote for parliament. “We are totally unhappy with the illicit marriage between Cairo and Tel Aviv,” said Mohammed Badie, the leader of the group which spawned Hamas. The London-based Al-Quds Al-Arabi reported…

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Terrorists motivated by ideology, not suffering

by Maayana Miskin, Israelnationalnews.com Contrary to popular belief, Palestinian Authority terrorists are motivated by religious and national ideology, not personal suffering, a PA researcher has found. The researcher, Bassam Yousef Banat, found that most terrorist killers were educated. Banat focused on PA terrorists who carried out suicide bombings. He found that most were educated youths…

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A moderate 'outrage'

by New York Post Next time the White House criticizes Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Ne tanyahu’s reluctance to embrace the Palestinian Authority, it might consider the outrageous way those Palestinians are trying to rewrite history. The PA’s information ministry this week released an official “study” declaring that the Western Wall in Jerusalem’s Old City —…

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Amish community asks forgiveness of Jews at Kotel

by Jonah Mandel, JPost Representatives of the Amish community from the United States and Switzerland paid a visit to the Western Wall on Saturday night, where they asked the Jewish people’s forgiveness for their group’s silence during the Nazi extermination of Jews in the Holocaust. Part of what made the visit special was that the…

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Wikileaks: Peres admitted Oslo was a mistake

by Gill Hoffman, JPost President Shimon Peres admitted to Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu that the Oslo peace process he helped initiate was based on a mistaken premise, according to an April 2007 cable of a conversation Netanyahu had with US Congressman Gary Ackerman, the Wikileaks website revealed Monday. Netanyahu was opposition leader at the time…

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A people have no need to annex what is already theirs.

by Victor Sharpe The very fact that the Israeli Knesset passed a bill that would require a referendum before any land officially under Israeli sovereignty is surrendered, specifically the Golan Heights and Jerusalem, is in itself a tacit admission by the present Israeli government that at some future time the very thought of giving away…

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Saturday people, Sunday people

by Leila Gilbert, Weekly Standard First the Saturday People, then the Sunday People. Such graffiti can sometimes be found in Muslim neighborhoods in the Middle East. The “Saturday People” are, of course, Jews, today nearly gone from Muslim lands. Now the Sunday people”—Christians— are in the crosshairs, and they, too, are fleeing at an alarming…

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‘Death to America and Israel’ Slogans at Muslim Hajj Pilgrimage

by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, Israel National News Tens of thousands of Muslims chanted “Death to America” and “Death to Israel” at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, which the Ayatollah of Iran called “a symbol of spirituality.” The Arab Ahlul Bayt News Agency reported, “The pilgrims chanted anti-US and anti-Zionist slogans during the ceremony, also attended by…

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Obama's Middle East failure

by Joseph Puder, Frontpagemag The results of the mid-term elections were widely considered to be a rebuke of President Barack Obama’s policies, specifically against his domestic agenda. His foreign policy failures, however, have not been scrutinized as closely. Yet, the ramifications of his failed policies, particularly in the Middle East, reverberate daily. The Obama administration’s…

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Harper and Obama on Israel

by Isi Leibler, Jerusalem Post Having recently visited the US and Canada, I was left with a feeling of profound disquiet concerning the starkly contrasting attitudes toward Israel displayed by the leaders of these two neighboring countries. Prime Minister Stephen Harper has unquestionably emerged as Israel’s greatest friend in the world, effectively assuming the role…

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