This poorly written essay is an embarrassment to George Orwell, but in its crudeness, it inverts truth, plain and simple - an anti-truth from start to finish. If the reader is an ideologue, he is not disturbed by reality. If the reader is of an open mind, he must question the sources of these monstrous lies. If the reader is informed, he expects no apology. If the writer has a purpose, he adds wickedness to his ignorance. Perhaps his purpose is banal - will his persona get laid? Let me be straight - the Arabs have systematically degraded and obliterated the overwhelming physcal evidence of Judaism's origins in the lands the Arabs have controlled. They are terrified that the current archeology will reveal their claims as a fraud, as indeed such are. Zionism is the National Liberation Movement of the Jewish Nation. Islam is an imperial userper lately in a state of chronic enragement. Eurabia quakes. Primitive antisemitism thrives. However, in the words of Ayn Rand, "no one stays here by faking reality".

by flavius (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 1 comments) on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 1:32:44 AM

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1. The INDIGENOUS people of the Holy Land were forced from their homes in 1948 and 1967 2. NO religion owns God and there is only one race: the human race and all have been created equal 3. God is NOT a Real Estate broker The following was sent on February 9, 2007, to C. David Welch, Assistant Secretary of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs U.S. Department of State Fax: 736-4462 Dear Assistant Secretary Welch, Churches for Middle East Peace urgently appeals to you and Secretary Rice to convince the government of Israel to halt excavations near the Temple Mount/Harem al-Sharif. The quickly escalating violent response to Ariel Sharon's visit to the compound in 2000 demonstrated the sensitivity of actions affecting the compound. Unless Israel quickly stops the excavation work, and the planned construction, we fear that violent protests will break out in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and far beyond. Today's protests by 10,000 people in Nazareth exemplifies the combustive nature of actions that appear to violate the sanctity of this profoundly holy site. Perhaps, with appropriate consultation with Wafq authorities who maintain the Harem al-Sharif, and with their cooperation, construction necessary for safe access could be resumed. The long-held policy of the United States that the status of Jerusalem must be determined by a negotiated agreement and that neither party should take actions that would prejudge the outcome of negotiations must be strongly asserted by US officials. The news of Secretary Rice's meeting on February 19 with Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas is encouraging to all who seek a peaceful resolution of the conflict with two viable and secure states living side-by-side. Additionally, reports of an emerging Palestinian unity government increase hope that intra-Palestinian violence will subside and that preparations can be made for negotiations with Israel. The United States could provide a strong signal of the rewards of taking steps toward peace by resuming financial assistance to a new unity government. But instead, these important steps toward peacemaking may be overwhelmed by the consequences - widespread public protests and angry objections of moderate Arab allies - of Israel's actions in the Old City of Jerusalem. A delegation from Churches for Middle East Peace visited Jerusalem and the Haram al-Sharif last year. We were again reminded of just how significant this site is to our Muslims brothers and sisters and therefore feel even more acutely for them at this time. We appreciate your attention to our concerns and recommendations. Sincerely, Maureen Shea, Chair of Board Corinne Whitlatch, Executive Director Formed in 1984, Churches for Middle East Peace is a Washington-based program of the Alliance of Baptists, American Friends Service Committee, Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Armenian Orthodox Church, Catholic Conference of Major Superiors of Men's Institutes, Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Church of the Brethren, Church World Service, Episcopal Church, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Franciscan Friars OFM (English Speaking Conference, JPIC Council), Friends Committee on National Legislation, Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, Maryknoll Missioners, Mennonite Central Committee, National Council of Churches, Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, Unitarian Universalist Association, United Church of Christ, and the United Methodist Church (GBCS & GBGM). Phone: 202-543-1222 Web: http://www.cmep.org ___________________________________________________________ The following is Excerpted from http://www.wearewideawake.org/ February 10, 2007 WAWA BLOG ...Because of what happened yesterday in Jerusalem I am also re-running the March 18, 2006 blog: A sacred hush filled the cypress canopied stone streets of The Noble Sanctuary that leads to the Dome of The Rock: The site where Muslims believe Abraham offered to sacrifice his first born son Ishmael and where it is reported Mohammed ascended to heaven. We remove our shoes [the women have already covered their heads] and we silently tread the crimson carpet: All are awed by the domed mosaic ceiling, geometric designed stained glass and massive crystal chandeliers above our heads. Afterwards, our group is split into two: some take the basic tour but a few Dutch, Japanese, Canadians, two Brits and I go the political route. Our guide is Mahmoud whose father was from Chad, his mother is Palestinian and he was born in Jerusalem. He informs us, "I was at the Ambassador Hotel for the public meeting the other day and was arrested and detained for eight hours. The Israelis will not allow Hamas and the PFLP to have public meetings at all. At that same time they claim this is a democracy, but how can that be if they do not allow political groups to meet and discuss the situation and search for solutions? "When I was nineteen I was arrested for being a member of the PFLP/Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and spent the next 17 years in jail. I was nervous when I got there and tortured for months. Then a strange thing happened, they gave me a shower, clean clothes, put me in a clean room and spoke to me like a human being. Then the French Ambassador came in and told me he could get me out because my father had French citizenship. He asked me where did I want to go and I answered; Jerusalem! He said it was impossible, I was not allowed. I told him I would rather remain in prison if I could not go home and so I spent 17 years and that is where I learned there is no justification for anyone to take another life. Those who kill are not Muslims. "I was an eyewitness on October 8, 1990 when a group came to put a cornerstone where they want to rebuild the Temple. The Dome of The Rock is also what the Israelis call The Temple Mount [where Abraham went to sacrifice his second born son, Issac] and they want to destroy our Holy site but no archeologist has been able to say exactly where The Temple had originally been and they have been digging for seventy years. "On that day they came I heard women shouting and crying, they were fainting from the tear gas! People got angry and threw stones at the soldiers and guards. Then hundreds of guards came onto The Noble Sanctuary and started shooting and 17 people were killed and 1,500 injured. "They claimed we were throwing stones at the Wailing Wall but a Rabbi who had been over there said it wasn't true at all." We walked the narrow stone streets that wind around and into an alley and come to a site known as the Little Western Wall in the heart of the Muslim quarter. Construction has begun for a synagogue for women that will cut access for those to get out of the apartment building where two or three Muslim families share one toilet. Throughout the tour of the Muslim quarter Mahmoud points out the many cameras and where the colonists/settlers have illegally confiscated Palestinian homes. "Within the Muslim and Christian quarters there are 70 locations where 1,000 Jews now live. "We are under occupation and trying to have a better life and we have had some success. Before 1967 we had no universities and now we have twelve in the West Bank. I am a citizen of the universe living in Jerusalem" We climb to the roof of Al Quds University in Jerusalem where short courses and Arabic are taught. The ancient stone buildings are marred by satellite dishes and lookout towers. In the afternoon we went the Contemporary Way of The Cross www.sabeel.org which transforms the traditional Christian tradition of meditating upon the journey that Christ took after his condemnation as he carried his cross to where he was crucified. In Jerusalem there are fourteen plaques along The Via Delorosa hanging on the walls of buildings depicting where he fell three times, meets his mother, is stripped, nailed and dies. The Contemporary Way suggests fourteen reflections beginning with 1948, The Nabka: The Catastrophe which followed the failure of the UN partition plan of '47 when the Irgun and Stern Gang [Zionist terrorist groups] depopulated 400 villages and forced 726,000 Palestinians to flee to Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt. Station Two reflects on those refugees and the 460,000 more who fled during the War of 1967. Currently there are 675,670 registered refugees in the West Bank, 938,531 in Gaza and over two million in Arab countries who have never received compensation and have been denied the right to return as guaranteed in Articles 13 and 15 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights* and in UN Resolution 194. I was astounded to learn that in Natna, the Jerusalem refugee camp has The Wall butted up to the boys high school. The 'playground' where 780 adolescents gather is in reality a cement ground about the square footage of a basket ball court. There is no view as it is walled in on all four sides by the high school, The Concrete Wall and two smaller cement walls. A refugee informed our group that on a daily basis, "The Israeli Occupation Forces show up when the children gather in the morning or after classes. They throw percussion bombs or gas bombs into the school nearly every day! The world is sleeping, the world is hibernating and are allowing this misery to continue." I wander around taking photos and am warmly greeted by a teenage boy who asks my name and where I am from. I cringe when I say America, for I am ashamed that over one billion USA dollars since 1948 has come to this land and some of it helped build the friggin' wall that obliterates the view. And the view is of the green grounds of the illegal colony of Pizgatzeev settlement just a few miles away. I am sick at heart and in my gut when we drive less than a mile into the illegal colony for I see three playgrounds and a swimming pool and I wonder how many USA tax dollars helped build them. As our group is praying a gun shot from the refugee camp sounds then another and another in rapid succession for the IOF is showering the refugees with gun fire and terror. I loose it completely then, I sob like the Magdelna or maybe more like Jesus when he cried over Jerusalem. I am inflamed at what I have witnessed and I curse the empire that condones the violent terrorizing of innocent people just because they are Palestinian. I wonder when all the Israelis will wake up and see they too are victims of the occupation for so many have lost their humanity. I pray the Jewish state would indeed be a democracy but if they want to be a theocracy that they will at least do what the prophet Micah said: What does the Lord require? Do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 ----------------------------------------------------------- When Israel became a state in 1948, it was contingent upon upholding the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights: Citing just 2 that they have denied: *Article 13 UDHR (1) Everyone has the right to freedom of movement and residence within the borders of each state. (2) Everyone has the right to leave any country, including his own, and to return to his country. e http://www.wearewideawake.org/

by Eileen Fleming (172 articles, 101 quicklinks, 274 diaries, 650 comments [16 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 7:12:10 AM

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You need to flesh out your attack on Mr. Nasser with some facts. Where is he not truthful? What are some specific examples of the Muslim Arabs destroying ancient artifacts? You are writing on a very pro-Muslim site with very few defenders of Israel. They never see Hezbollah, Hamas, Fatah, or Muslims in Lebanon or in Palestine as doing anything evil; evidently they think suicide bombers are godly martyrs as they murder innocent children and other civilians. They never criticize them. It may be they are afraid of what will happen to them if they do. So please do not do as they do, but back up your accusations with foot notes and plenty of links to sites for proof. Three things Israel needs to do after they finish the wall. 1. Get every Israeli out of Palestine (West Bank and Gaza). 2. Turn over all Palestinian financial assets they have to the UN so the UN can decide to give them to Hamas or Fatah. None of Israel business as to whom finances are given. 3. Turn east Jerusalem over to UN for an open city under UN control giving the world free access to all religious sites. If I could add a forth, I would say get Likud out of power. They act too much like thugs. Three things Palestine must do: 1. No rockets or suicide bombers go into Israel. 2. Become financially successful on their own. 3. Recognize Israel's right to exist as an independent state. If I could add one thing, get rid of Hamas, they are terrorist and they admit they are. Three things to happen if rockets or suicide bombers come over into Israel from Hezbollah (southern Lebanon) or from Palestine: 1. Bomb the offices of Hamas or Fatah until they control their own country. If they are going to be in power they must be responsible to control what happens in their borders. If they cannot or do not, they and the Palestinians pay the price until they do control it. 2. Bomb the offices of Hezbollah in Beriut and Damascus every time a rocket comes over into Israel from Lebanon. 3. Israel and Palestine are to have no dealings on any level in commerce or travel visas for at least one year. No Israeli goes into Palestine, no Palestinian goes into Israel for any reason whatsoever. If they are found, they are to be executed as terrorists. Remember, east Jerusalem is to be an open city with definite parameters. If Palestine supporters say unfair, here is what you say: you lost the 48 war, the 56 war, the 67 war, the 78 war: "to winner go the spoils." You do not get to keep trying until you win. Every Palestinian killed as result of retaliation by Israel for a suicide bomber is to be blamed on the Palestinians and not on Israel. A rocket or a suicide bomber is to be treated as an act of out and out war. This foolishness of atrocities in Israel and Palestine has to stop. It is going to turn into nuclear war with millions of people killed. That is my business. It is my world, too.

by pratliff94 (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 972 comments) on Tuesday, Feb 13, 2007 at 8:41:25 PM

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