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Jerusalem the Red Line

Hamas chief calls for massive armed resistance to protect it...

(LONDON) - The other day Hamas's political chief, Khaled Meshaal, criticised the Palestinian Authority for "criminalizing armed resistance".

He claimed that, by dropping the armed resistance option, Arab States and the PA had lost the ability to deter Israel and its never-ending violations.

The Serpent and the Red Line

“Our only path to liberation is resistance, and saving Jerusalem…We need to take a clear stance, Jerusalem is a Red Line. Jerusalem is the soul of the cause” (Khaled Meshaal, Hamas political bureau chief).

(LAVERNE, CA) - The first warning we had concerning the nature of a Red Line came from the Serpent (read Satan) that leered enticingly from Yahweh’s Tree of Good and Evil as Eve sauntered near.

He knew the nature of G-d’s creatures; he knew that if he were to conquer G-d he must open Eve’s and Adam’s eyes to their true nature, the depraved nature that rules by arrogance, treachery, hubris and power.

Peace Now: Settlement Construction Surges in First Half of 2013

There was a 70% increase in construction starts (the start of new units) in settlements compared to the same period in 2013.

(WASHINGTON DC) - Today the Israeli Peace Now movement issued a report documenting a surge in settlement construction during the first half of 2013.

The report contradicts the popular narrative that settlement construction in the West Bank slowed during the run-up to the re-start of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. In reality, the period of January-June 2013 saw a huge increase in construction compared to the same period in 2012. The details of the report are summarized below.

The Real Sacrificial Lamb

"The ultimate sacrifice we are offering [is] Palestine. Not to God, but to our enemies."

(LONDON) - At this time of year, all able-bodied Muslims are expected to travel to Mekka and perform one of the most revered pillars of Islam, Al Hajj (The pilgrimage). Before they celebrate EID AL-ADHA they are required to offer a sacrifice of a lamb in memory of Ibrahim and his son, Ismail.

Although the biblical story differs slightly from the Quoran, saying that the son to be sacrificed was not the first born, Ishamel, but Abraham’s second son, Isaac, the message is the same. The Angel of God stops Ibrahim/Abraham at the last moment saying, “now I know you fear God.” Ibrahim/Abraham releases his son, sees a ram caught in the bushes and sacrifices the ram instead.

Israeli Soldiers Line Up, Shoot and Kill 3 Young Palestinian Girls

People who ask why this would take place, need to understand that the Israel military is ingrained with the thought that all Palestinian children will someday grow up to be their enemy, and threaten their lives...

(CARLSBAD, NM) - A little Palestinian girl named Summer tells a story from an Egyptian hospital bed that seems too horrible to be true. Her younger sisters, the girls says, were lined up and shot to death by soldiers from the Israeli Defence Forces.

The BBC located the girl's father, he cried as he reviewed the events that led to so much loss. He says the girls were killed shortly before 1:00 in the afternoon, the father said, "We were told to come out of the homes, the women, my three daughters".

Israel`s Reaction to EU Sanctions: `Anti-Semitism,` Comparison to Nazism

"Without. Israel, widespread anti-Semitism in post-Holocaust Europe would most likely not have awakened from its dormancy."
- Hillel Halkin

(WASHINGTON DC) - Under guidelines adopted by the executive European Commission in June, Israeli "entities" operating in the West Bank and East Jerusalem will not be eligible for European Union (EU) grants, prizes or loans in the future.

Some 500,000 Israelis live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem among 2.5 million Palestinians. Israel captured those territories, along with the Palestinian Gaza Strip and Syrian Golan Heights, in the 1967 war.

Expect More Failed Israeli-Palestinian Peace Negotiations

Israel has erected a wall or fence, which cuts deep into Palestinian territory, joining large Jewish settlement blocks to Israel, further confining the Palestinians to isolated enclaves.

(SAN FRANCISCO) - The Israeli and Palestinian negotiating teams met again on October 3, 2013 for the eighth time since direct peace talks were resumed in late July. No one but the eternally optimistic expects any meaningful result from these negotiations.

The history of these negotiations is merely camouflage for the systematic annexation of the West Bank by way of settlement construction hoping that this will encourage Palestinian emigration. In short, a state for Palestine and one for Israel is but an illusion.

Flawed, Futile and Fatal

Their prime objective was, and still is, the total theft of the entire landmass of Palestine, preferably with no Palestinians left in it.

(LONDON) - In business as in life the best outcome that could be hoped for in any deal is when the two parties leave the negotiating table satisfied. Don’t you agree?

Not, it would seem when the business at hand is dirty politics and the major player is Zionism. What I am alluding to here is the on-going pretence on the part of the Zionist, racist, occupiers of our land that they are willing to play ‘nice’ and the gullibility of our representatives in believing them.

Rethinking the Two-State Solution

An Israeli-Palestinian power-sharing model could guarantee democracy and a certain kind of Zionism.

(JERUSALEM) - In the 2012 elections, J Street, the relatively new pro-Israel lobby whose stated purpose is to promote a progressive peace agenda in the Middle East, says its PAC disbursed more than $1.8 million to candidates from 26 states, thus helping eight Senate and 63 House hopefuls win their races.

Among the winners are the chairs and ranking members of five committees, including the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and the House Armed Services Committee, as well as chairs and ranking members of more than 30 subcommittees.

Human Rights: Politicians and more

This week in Palestine there were twice efforts to break through the apartheid wall in AbuDis, there was rebuilding of demolished homes in Khirbet Makhoul, there was resistance to persistent Jewish colonial attacks on the third holiest site in Islam, there was successful pressure to release three peace activists detained at a checkpoint

(BETHLEHEM) - Netanyahu tells Obama to keep illegal sanctions on Iran and that he can get AIPAC to help resolve the US budget conflict (a conflict caused in large part by trillions spent for Israel on behest of AIPAC)!

Livni tells J Street that the Israeli Occupation Army is a great army and that its is only fighting terrorists (even though she admitted her own parents were members of the Irgun terror organization and have met while robbing a British train).