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PMW report presented in US Congress
by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook, PMW
President George Bush arrives this week in Israel to further his promotion of a Palestinian state. Last month PMW director Itamar Marcus was invited to the US Congress by Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Rep. Elliot Engel of the House Foreign Affairs Committee to release a report documenting the dangers to US interests of a Palestinian state with ideological alliances to many US enemies. “Strengthening America’s Enemies” The ideological allies of a future Palestinian state,” now being released, concludes:
“There is overwhelming evidence that the contacts between the Palestinian Authority and the enemies of the United States are relations between allies who share a common ideological bond. Strikingly, hatred of the United States and disdain for the US role of world leadership are what unite them. Unless the Palestinian Authority demonstrates a major shift in ideology, a future Palestinian state will be firmly allied with North Korea, Syria, Cuba, Iran, Chavez’s Venezuela, and Hezbollah, the forces that are seen as threats to the US and which are linked to world terror…There is no reason to believe that were a Palestinian Fatah state created, and its dependency on the US reduced, it would then choose to embrace the US. Indeed, in all likelihood the ties with the enemy states would intensify.”
The following is the executive summary of the report.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, News Articles, Opinion on May 13, 2008 - ח' אייר תשס"ח at 2:15 pm
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Barry Rubin, Asaf Romirowsky, and Jonathan Spyer
May 8, 2008
The GLORIA Center has released a new report, “UNRWA: Refuge of Rejectionism?” The report details how this UN agency, nominally a humanitarian effort to help Palestinian refugees, has in fact become a major barrier to resolving the conflict as well as furnishing finances, facilities, and recruits for terrorist groups.
Following is the Executive Summary. The full report is available at:
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
On the surface, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) seems a humanitarian group helping Palestinian refugees. In reality, it actually helps destroy the chance of Arab-Israeli peace, promotes terrorism, and holds Palestainians back from rebuilding their lives.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, Opinion on May 12, 2008 - ז' אייר תשס"ח at 8:55 am
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By The Associated Press, May 11, 2008
Israelis got a first demonstration Sunday of the electric car that developers hope will revolutionize transportation in the country and serve as a pilot for the rest of the world.
The silver car doing circles in a Tel Aviv parking lot looked like a regular sedan - except it had no exhaust pipe and there was an electric socket where the mouth of the gas tank should have been.
The Silicon Valley start-up Project Better Place hopes the fully electric
prototype will be on Israel’s streets in large numbers beginning at the end of 2010.
Backers of the project say the car will drastically reduce dependence on oil, cut emissions and put Israel at the forefront of international efforts to develop more environmentally friendly modes of transportation. Israel’s government endorsed the project in January, and a Danish energy company also has joined as a partner.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, Alternative Energy on May 11, 2008 - ו' אייר תשס"ח at 12:11 pm
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By Tsafrir Ronen, submitted to CN publications May 11, 2008
(first in a three-part series)
Part I:
This is the twisted story of the biggest, most unprecedented fraud in history. It involves such a successful bluff that many people have no doubt about its veracity. This propaganda has become a powerful weapon by which means Israel’s enemies, the Arabs, are trying to conquer Eretz Yisrael without firing a shot, without an army, tanks or jets.
At the Annapolis Conference, George Bush spoke about his vision regarding the virtues of two nations for two peoples.
One of those peoples has a clear identity – the Jewish People. Yet it would be interesting to know the identity of that second people: Already in 1977, one of the central spokesman of that “second people”, a member of P.L.O. leadership, Zahir Muhsein, the leader of the al-Sa’iqa Organization, revealed the truth in an interview to the Dutch newspaper Trouw:
“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.”
Are you in shock? If the Palestinian People does not exist, what does exist? Arabs who live in Eretz Yisrael and who have disguised themselves as “Palestinians” for fraudulent purposes. “Only a means for continuing our struggle against the State of Israel,” in Muhsein’s words. A fraud so successful that even George Bush can be found seeking a state for that fraud.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, Opinion on May 11, 2008 - ו' אייר תשס"ח at 5:22 am
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Editor’s Note: As Israel begins its seventh decade, these are some of the issues that will need to be addressed.
Friday, May 9, 2008
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Syria’s Intelligence Operates Through Hizbullah Lebanon Communications (Naharnet-Lebanon)
Hizbullah has linked its private telephone networks to the Syrian Army’s communications system as well as to Syria’s mobile telephone network, allowing Syrian intelligence to operate freely in Lebanon and avoid Lebanese controls, al-Mustaqbal reported Tuesday.
Canadian Prime Minister Condemns Criticism of Israel as Thinly-Veiled Anti-Semitism - Mike De Souza (Ottawa Citizen-Canada)
Some of the criticism in Canada against the State of Israel is similar to the attitude of Nazi Germany in the Second World War, Prime Minister Stephen Harper warned Thursday.
“What I see happening in some circles is anti-Israeli sentiment, really just as a thinly disguised veil for good old-fashioned anti-Semitism, which I think is completely unacceptable,” Harper said in an interview.
“We learned in the Second World War that those who would hate and destroy the Jewish people would ultimately hate and destroy the rest of us as well, and the same holds today.”
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, News Articles, Opinion, Judaism on May 9, 2008 - ד' אייר תשס"ח at 7:58 am
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by Hillel Fendel, Arutz Sheva, May 7, 2008, Yom Haatzmaut
On Independence Day 1948, the Jewish Nation was saved. It went from a state of subservience to the nations, to one of political freedom. We also went from a situation of potential death, in that we were unable to defend ourselves from our mortal enemies, to one of life, because since that time we have fought our enemies and, with G-d’s help, emerged victorious.
(IsraelNN.com) Israel’s Independence Day begins Wednesday night and continues on Thursday. With the holiness of the holiday under attack from right and left - the hareidi-religious public, the secular public, and even parts of the Disengagement-stricken religious-Zionist public - celebrants of the day wish to emphasize its basic principles.
Rabbi Eliezer Melamed - the rabbi of the Shomron town of Har Brachah, the Dean of the hesder yeshiva there and a prolific author on matters of Jewish Law who is quickly gaining a reputation as a leading authority in the religious-Zionist public - has published a short work explaining the historic and religious significance of the day.
The work, published as a supplement to the B’Sheva weekly, covers the following points:
• The establishment of the State of Israel facilitates, for both individuals and the nation as a whole, the fulfillment of the Torah commandment to settle the Land of Israel.
• The establishment of the State removed the shame of Exile and the accompanying desecration of G-d’s Name, as in Ezekiel 36, verses 4, 20, and others.
• The establishment of the State, in the wake of centuries of pogroms that culminated with the Holocaust, saved many Jewish lives, and helped buttress the Jewish People’s spiritual condition.
• It is a positive commandment to thank G-d for His miracles and favors, and to enact holidays to this end.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, Opinion, Judaism on May 8, 2008 - ג' אייר תשס"ח at 6:18 am
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Today, army’s combat troops dominated by names like Oleg and Muhammad
By Eitan Haber, YNet News, May 7, 2008
Welcome to the IDF 2008. The combat forces of this IDF are made up of, mostly, residents of outlaying areas, the children of new immigrants from Russia and the former Soviet Union, Bedouins, Druze – what we used to refer to as “the second Israel” once upon a time. Well, that “second Israel” has moved up.
When we look at the casualties of the latest military operations, and maybe even before that, we can see the IDF’s up-to-date image: Oleg, Leonid, Maxim, Peter, Ahmed, Muhammad, Wahid, Wasim. Their parents live in places like Kiryat Gat, Afula, Horfish, and the al-Huzeil tribe.
Meanwhile, the dictionary of names saw the disappearance of the likes of Ran and Shahar and Shahak, Tsafrir and Segev and Yinon, Gonen and Netzer, just like we saw the disappearance of Herzliya and Ramat Hasharon, Tel Aviv and Netanya, Ramat Gan, Bnei Zion, and Bnei Atarot.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, Opinion on May 7, 2008 - ב' אייר תשס"ח at 3:49 pm
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Hillel Halkin, National Post , May 06, 2008
“a country that has gone in 60 years from being the poor, bankrupt, imperiled home of less than a million Jews to a militarily powerful, economically thriving, financially independent state of five-and-a-half million Jews who are among the world’s richest and most technologically advanced peoples. Already at peace with some of their Arab neighbours, they can hold out against the others until accepted by them as well.”
Never having been as optimistic about Israel’s future as most Israelis once were, I am not as pessimistic about it as many Israelis (let alone anti-Israelis) now are. The optimism always had in it a good deal of wishful thinking; the pessimism has in it an equal share of self-indulgent despair.
It is difficult to live with uncertainty and there are those who, no longer able to believe in the certainty of success, would rather believe in the certainty of failure than have to endure not knowing how things will turn out. But we almost never know how things will turn out and Israel is an excellent example.
How many people would have believed a hundred years ago, in 1908, that 40 years later, in 1948, there would be a Jewish state in Palestine? How many would have believed in 1948 that, in another two decades this state would be a military titan bestriding the Middle East, its armies triumphantly camped from the outskirts of Cairo to those of Damascus? How many would have believed in 1967 that another 40 years would pass with the titan still at war with its closest neighbours and unable to defend its population against small groups of guerrillas belonging to organizations pledged to destroy it? How many would have believed that, in 2008, it would have become trendy to talk about its demise?
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Recent Posts, Middle East Report, Opinion, Judaism on May 7, 2008 - ב' אייר תשס"ח at 8:40 am
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http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/08/05/06/10211040.html
By Himendra Mohan Kumar, Staff Reporter, Gulf News, May 6, 2008
Abu Dhabi: Global energy major, BP, plans to invest $8 billion (Dh29.36 billion) over the next five years in developing alternative energy technologies around the world that can help offset to a large extent the impact of rising global crude oil prices, a senior company executive told Gulf News.
Steve Peacock, BP’s President for the Middle East & South Asia, said as the oil prices rise, the economies for developing alternative energy sources begin to look more and more attractive.
“I think, one of the things that higher price levels will do is they obviously make alternative forms of energy more cost competitive. Not that we ever believe that things like wind or solar power will ever replace oil and gas, but we do believe that they will more and more supplement oil and gas,” Peacock said during a recent interview.
He said BP from its operations worldwide, produces about four million barrels of oil and gas equivalent a day. From the Middle East, the company’s share of production is close to 230,000 barrels a day.
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Middle East Report, Business and Commerce, Alternative Energy on May 5, 2008 - ל' ניסן תשס"ח at 6:42 pm
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By Sue Shellenbarger, Wall Street Journal
Posted by CNP Webmaster as Special Education, Health Sciences, Mental Health, Education Report on May 5, 2008 - ל' ניסן תשס"ח at 6:27 pm
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