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In 1948, a Nation from antiquity was reborn - in a day, jll'it a'i Isaiah prll.licted. (Is. 66) And wi th it, the hand'i of a great prophetic dock began to move toward the End of Days. All generations since the Firsr Century preceding this event have expected the return of the Messiah, bur this necessalY element had not yet been fulfilled.

Immediately, nedgling Israel , with almost 110 military or anns, was atracked by Egypt, Syria. Transjnrdan, Lebannn and Iraq. A miraculous victory over vastly superior milital)' foret'S W;l~ given tn Israel. This became a familiar patlern.

In 1967, despite ~reat superiority in anns, aircraft, and troops favoring the combiJlt-d

forces of the neighboring Ar<lb COlllltries, Israel captured the entire land mass from the Mediterranean Sea; 10 Lebanon on the north; 10 S}'ria and Jonhtn on the east; and the entire Sinai Peninsula to Ihe Suez Canal in Egypt. It seemed a modern-day j)a\~d and Goliath miracle a.~ ~ loshe Oay:tIl stood on the lCmple MOllnt - the fi rst time ,I Jewish pel"S(lIl had set fOOL there for near two millennia, Mordechai Gur'S remarkable cry, 'The 'lernple Mount is in our hand'i!" and Rabbi Sh lomo Goren's shofar bla~t at the Kotel (Wailing Wall) rang Ollt.

This time, howC\'er, there wa.~ a new, more fonnidahle weapon being fonncd - one wamed of in Scripture - {/(x.;eplioll, at work. In 1967, a new people group was invented -the "Palestinians" - and their anny, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), backed by the hostile Arab mltions, would (~lCmte within the Land of Israel with theexprcs.'i purpose, a~ their chmter stated, to dL."itl1J}' Israel.

So, evcn as God gave miraculous victory after viclOl), to Israel against her enemies, a more insidiolls enemy was at work \\~thin. A'i the world acl'CpK'll tI~is fabricateo claim of a

pt'Ople and II fictitiolls land, the pressure on Isr;ld to capitulate to their demands grew, even a~ they waged a terror war within Israel 's borders against civilians. And Israel began gh1ng back the I.and so graciolL'iI~' hestowed by Gexl ,l~ a tnlst and Covenant - for the elusive pursuit of peace - with a people pledged to her utter destmction.

t\no the myth of the Palestinians grew. And now, it is only t\rab nations, or worldlv nations that accept this lie ami are hostile to Israel because of it, it even includes Christian denominations.

From the hegi nni ng, when God gave Israel the 1.and, He said Israel must: " ... drive out the inhahitants .. Jor I hm'e given the Land for YOU to poss~ ... But if YOll don't dri\'e out the inhabitanlS .. .those YOU allow to remain wil1 become like thoms in your eyes and thistles in roursides - they wil l hara% you in the I.and ... ·· (Nul11. 33:55) And now, Israel h~t'i Ht\MAS, the most Violent of the PI.O groups established within her I.and. declaring (~lC llly that her day is o\'er. ..

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Why is a little slivcr of Land, smaller than the slate of Rhode Island, with a population of under 6 million, always in the lllf..'(/ialimelight. , . hare ~'ou ever wondered?

Over 2,500 years ago, the Prophet 7.echariah wrote that in the Last Days, 'yerusalem will be a beauy stOlle bwrlen;ng Ibi! {(lorld. And Ibougb af{ Ibe Ila/ions of Ibe earlb un;le in (/II alJem/Jllo mO/le bel: Ibey /(Jill all be c:rusbed. ., (Zech.12:3 TLB) 'lhis prophecy hm; now come to pas .. ~ in our da~'.ll seem~ that forcing Israel to give back her God mandated Land h;~~ become an obsession of not only the Europe,U] Community, but the enUre world. After President fimh's re-eleclion, his first phone call was from British Prime I\\inister Ton)' I1I:tir. After congratulating him on his victory, he implored the President to foclls his attention on the creation of a Palestinian stale.

With Israel's recent pu llout from Gaza, Sharon's break-away from the right-wing Ukud Pany, and CTeation of a new political palty, Krtdima (meaning fOl\vard), it is dear that the current govcmmelll is intent on making a Palestinian state a reality. Even with Sharon out of the picture now, acting Prime Minister Elll1d Olmert has vowed to continue his legacy and complete the Withdrawals fmlll most of the West Bank and the tcnitorics, if their party wins the election on March 28th.

The 'Pa(eSlillirllls " living in these regions of the Promised Land refer to these areas ,~'i "occufJied lerrHo­rie..'i. " nlCY claim that they were there for centuries bcfore the Jews c\'er C,Ulle along and were drivcn fmm their homes after the Six Day War in 1967. Now they want ··tbeir" l'llld back. Yet, histo1)' reveals this claim to be nothing more. than a myth. [n fact. the land conquered by Israel in 1967 was nc\'cr under the control of a people known as P(t/£lI/initms. No sl1ch people ever existed before 1967! The land referred to toda)' as the West Bank was part of Jordon and the Arabs dwelling there wcreJordanians! In this issue of}ewislJ Voice TQdfIY, entitled "71Je fl~)'{b oj Palestine," we seek to dispel these false claims and present the real picture and history of this Land and People.

With the victory of Hamas in r(.'Cenl elections, the original agenda of the PLO remains finnl)' in place ... to eventually push Israel into the Mediterranean Sea. Until they succeed. or at least until Jerusalem is fully under Palestinian control, YOll can be assured that the tcrrorism and homicide bombings will conti nue. No amount of negotiating is going to change this. ~lan 's peace plans will continue to fa il ... it is only God's peace plan, througll the Prince of Peace, Yeshutl, tllm tme and lasting peace will ultirnately come to this troubled and war torn L1nd.

On the ministry front. by the time you read this I will be in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. leading a team of ovcr 70 doctors, dentisl~, nurses and ministry workers on the largest medical ministry outreach ollr ministry has ever undenaken. We are there to reach out to the two Jewish Communities remaini ng in Ethiopia, the Beta Avraham and the Beta Israel. Our primal" focus will he to pl'Ovide medical and dental care to the Bela Avra­h,1Il1, an imlXlvcrisllL'd community of ovcr 50,000 dwelling in the poorest area of Ihc city. \Ve will have. a fu ll report for you in the next issue. Your prayers for the team during our time there (March 4- t8) are greatly appreciated.

Plans are still 11l0ving forward with the Jewish Voice International ~ Iessianic ~ ledia Center. Plea .. '>e keep this in prayer as we arc still waiting for various approvals Ilet'{k'd b~' the city of Phoenix to complete all the work. We are still hoping to he In this new fad lity h~' the end of August.

Please know that we lovc and appreciate rou, our pannel'S, so vel" much. Thank you for enabling us to 2:).2: 10 "proclaim Messiah 10 lil" world."

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1 come fit tbe issue of the Mhidle /:'a ' a lillIe bit d{ffel'eut{)1 tlxm jllst abOut (lII),olle else. I'm (11/ Amb·Ameri· ?m OJris/iau journalist. j've arrived at /I~)' conclusious largeo' Ibrougb first· baud experience COIJf!rillg the Mideast onlbe ground

Tbrougbout IJ~J' 25·yea/' career (IS

a dai()' lJews/JtljJerm(lfJ, rile bad two jJrincipal beats - flol(Fll'ood and Ibe Middle Easl. YOli miglJl wOl/del' what tbese two beats have ill COlli mall.

1'lJe C01ll1ll011 denomillator is Ibat !be'y botb deal ill tbe rcallll of to/real­i~J" l1Jey hOlb re(JI 011 m),Ib.\'.

Wha t is thi s debat e all about ?

What a rc Ihe re al rOo l s of thi s co nfli c t ?

If you believe what you read in most news sources, Palestinians want a home­land and Muslims wanl control over sites they consider holy. Simple, right?

1171'01lg [n fact. these. two demands are nothing more than strategic deceptions -prupag.Ulda ploys. 'I11t~y are nothing more than phony excllses and rationalizations for the terrorism and the ll111nleringofjews. The real goal of those making these demand'i is the destnlction of the Stille uf Israel.

The proof of the pudding is that prior to the 1967 Arab· lsI<lcli

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war. there was no serious movement for a Pales­tinian homeland. 111b)'?

In 1967, during' the Six-Day War, the Israelis capUlredjudea, Samaria and Ellst Jenlsalem. Nut I/Je)' didn 't Cllplure t/}ese territories from )'tl~e,. Art!(al. 71JfJ)' captured /belll fium jordal/. :~ King l1us,min. \\1) ~' did the so­called Palestinians suddenly discover their national identityailer Ismei llIonlbe Il'ar? Wh}' wasn'l there a demand for a Palestin­ian homeland hefore?

'Ihe truth is that Palestine is no more real than Never-Ncver Land. The first time the name was llSl'ti was after 70 A.D. when the Romans committed genocide against thejC\vs, sm,L~hed the lemple and declaret1 the Land of Israel would be no more, From then on, the Homans promised, it would he known as Palestinc, The name was derived, we think. from the Philistines, a people con­quered by theje,\>'S ccnnlries earl ier.

Contrary to what PLO Founder YasseT Arafat dainll'd, the Philistines werr extinct hy thilt time. Arafal liked to pretend his peo­ple were the descendants of the Philistines. Actuall y, the name was silllply a way for the Romans to add insult to injury to the JC\~'S - not only were they annihi1atOO, htl! their land was renamed after people they had

Pal es t ine ha s neve r ex is t e d -

be fo re o r s ince -a s a nat ion s tat e .

It was m1ed altcmatdv bv Rome, hy Islamic ilnd Cliris~

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tian Cnl'laders, by the Ottoman Empire lind. briell~', by the British after World War I. TIle British agn:cd to restore at least part of the land 10 the Jewish people as their hnllle­land. Who rejected that idea? TbeArtibs. ll)e jell!s f.XIuld I1tllle 110 /JklL'C ill /be Alid(!(I.I1. NOJ/e.

There is 110 language known as P:lles­tinian. There is no distinct Palestinian CUl­ture. There h:15 never been a land known :IS

Palesline govcmcd by Palestinians. Pales­lillllms are Arabs, illdil'lillglll:wable fium .Iol'(/allitms. S)'I'itms. Lebanese, Il'tIqis, etc. Keep ill mind thaI the Arahs colltrol 99.9 percent of the Middle East lands. Israel rcp~ resent~ one-tenth of I percent of the land­mass.

1M that's tuo Illuch for the Arabs. They want it al1. Alld tbal i.~·lIllim(lle(}' /l'/xillhe jigbtillg ill I.mlfJ/ i~ (lbolfttod(~JI. No IIItll­IeI' bOfll m(lm' lalld cOllce&!';ons Ibe /SI'tlC­h'! make, illi,ill neue,. be ellollgb.

Arafat himself explainL'd the ploy of negotiations with Israel in a 1994 SI)Cl'(h in South Africa - in English. He's explained it in Arabic dozel1s of times: "First we cre­ate our own slate. then we use th:lt state to liberate all of Palestine, ThaI's the goal. II's "'/{/t~)(\· been IblJ goal, "

Palestinians will tell vou the reason a Palestinian-Arab state is llL't'<led is because Ar.tbs were forcibly fCmoved from their prop-

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env in the 1948 war. The truth is: ;'The Arab sta'te which had encouraged the Palestine+ Arabs to leave their homes tcmpormily in or­der to be out of the way of the Arab invasion annies, hare failL>d to keep their promise to help thec;e refugees." - The Jordanian daily Ilf .. 'wspaper Falastin , Feb. 19, 1949.

There are plenty of historical record~ showing the Je-.vs pleading with their Arab neighbors to stay and live in peace and har­mony. Yet, despite the clear, unambiguous words of the Arab obsclvcrs al the time, his­tOI), has been sllccessfully rt;:wrilten to tum the Jews into the bad guys.

The Arab states that initiated the hostilities have never accepted re­sponsibili ty - despite thei r cnonnous wealth and their ability to assimi ­late tellS of millions of refugees in their largely undcr-populated nations. And other states have failed to hold them ;lC­countable.

Today, of CQurse, this cruel charade continues. The suffering of millions of Arabs is perpetuated only for political pUflX>SCS hy the Arab states. TIley are merely pa'\~lS ill the war to destroy Israel.

There were so me 100 mil ­lion refugees afound th e world foJ1ow in g World War 11. The Pales tinian -Arab group i s t he only one ill t he world not absorbed o r ill t egr<ll e d into rhei r own peop le 's lands .

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Since then, milli o ns of Jew+ ish refugees from arou nd th e world have been absorbed in th e lill Y nation of Israel.

It makes no sense to expect that same tiny Jewish state to solve a refugee crisis it did not create.

Do you Ihink Ihe Arabs really care alxmt the plight of their refugees? J would submit to yOLI that Israel. of all ihe Middle East Slates, has treated the Mab refugees with mure faimess .tIld more compassion.

Let me give you an example: The Jor-

dan TImes rcpOl1s that "Palestinian refu­gees in Lebanon, who have long been de­nied many civil rights including the right 10 work, now face a new obstacle ill their precariolls 1i1'eS:' Under a bill introducl'(] by parliament, Palestinian -Arabs will be de· pril'ed of their right to own prorx~rty. Those who already own propel1ywillnot be able to pass it 011 to their children. Can rOll imag­ine the. intel'llational OlltCIY if Israel passed stich a law? Mmt would the Unitl'(] Nations hal'e tDsay about thiS? J-Iowwould the media establishment in the West view sl1ch a dmco­nian plo~'? Yet, th is is happening in an Arah

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country viltually without comment.

So , what is mea nt by " Pa lest in ia n '!'

It meant whate''er Yasser Ararat wanted it to mean. Arafat wa~ hom in Eg~l)t and lat­er 1ll0"ed to Jerusalem. Indt'Ctl, Illost of the Arahs living withi n the borders of Israel to­day hare come from some other Arab COUIl ­tr" at some time in their lifc. Arabs continue t<i nock into !sraeltoday. 11ley continue to move into the Palestinian Authority. The}' immigr<lll'(\ there evell before it left Israeli control. 'Ine Arabs have built 261 scttle-

menl~ in the West Bank since 1967. We don 't hear much about those. seltlemenlt We hear instead aoout the number of jeldsb settlements that have been created. We hear how destabilizing they

are - ""'" I'"wocati" they ;lre. Yet, hy com­parisoll, only 144 Jewish scttlemenl) have bt'ell built since 1967 - including those sur­rounding Jerusalem, in tbe West Bank and inGala.

Is this a Ill'W phenomenon! Absolutely not. This h;l<; always been the ca<;e. Arabs have been flocking to Israel and il<; ellvirons el'er since it wa~ created and el'en hefore, co­inciding with the Wal'C of Jewish immigra­tion into Palestine prior to I94K

According to the 1110st liberal claims by Arab sources, some 600,000 to 700,000 Arabs left Israel ill and around 1948 when the Jt'\v. ish State was created. Most were 110t forced

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, COncentrates 011 [srael ;IS the Nation, the re[x)sitory of the Cov­the channel of the ~ tessi;Hlic Hope,

th(!'i1!i!"di' '" of the Divinely approved '[em­pie. the keeper of the oraclcs of God, and the capital Nation of the retlll1ling crllci fi eti and risen King of kings. [srael is the ccntral theme of the Bible. '"7Jms saifb tbe Lord God Bebolrl, I Il"ifl ItIMe tbe d)ildrell qf Ismellrom fllJlong the nflti()n.I~ to which tbey fire gOlfe, and urill gather (hem all

el'el)1 side. lind bring tbem into Ibei,. 01l1Jl

land. " Then the l.oRI) said to I\t~, ·'Ip.lII ·e tbis

place, J'Ou and the people )'011 bl'ollgbl up Old of Eg)1)1, and go 11/1 10 /be land I prom­ised all oath loAbmhtllll. l~aac find jacob. St(ril1g. '11I,i/l gille ilIa )'0111" descendanls. Iw;tJ send allllllgel btt/Ore YOlf alld dl'iu'e oUl the Canaamles, Amoriles, HiIIi{es, Pel~ iz:dfes, liilJiles aJ/d.lebusil(~f . ...

God promises to give the /IIhole 1.and to Abraham and his descendant<; fo r an ever­lasting possession, l1lis is established by a Covenant of God and God dcclarc.o; in Psalm 89:34 "His covenant lie wil! never break." But tn which of hi~ desccmlallt~? 15hmacl? Isaac? Or both?

If we look at the context of Scripture, we can casil~' sec who this seed refers to:

'Blft ),011. 0 ll)mei. my seI"I.l{ml, jacob

mbom I bmic cbosel!. you descent/mils oj Abmbam my friend IlooJ! YOli fivm Ibe endi' offbe em1b, }i'om il~ jarlbesl comers I calied yOli. I said. ·),{w are Ill)' serlltml; , btllic chosen you (/nd have uol rejecled YOll.'" Jacob was chosell) /lol 6iJmael or the Arabs.

"71)en made Ibi~ vow to Ibe LOHD: 'ff YOil (('ill rle/ilJ(fr I/)(!W /Jeo/Jle illlO our halld~, I/!e wifi lolali)' destro), tbeir cities . . 11Je LORD Ui1ened 10 israel 'splefl fllld gtllle Ihe Ctllwtmiles over to tbem. 11)e), COIll­/Jlele{J' destro)'l.:d tbem (/ud their 101l'lls; so /be /J!/Il;e ".rL.~ 11({}l1ed NOJ"fJlrtiJ. " Yet I{KhIY the Pal!3tinian people cling to the idea that they are descendants of the Cana,mites, Je­bllsites, and Philistines.

Tbe first occupation of Canaan (the Promised Land) was by the Nation of Israel, who knew that God was One God: 'Hea l' 0 Israel. Ihe lORD tb)' G'od iI' One. It This was a start li ng revelation in the midst of the na­tions who were worshipping innumerable gods, so holding onto the rejected heathen tribes prior to [sracl's existencc is no honor. So wh~' did Arafat and the Pal~lini:lIls in­sist thut lhey were of Canaanite and jebusitc origin? At the same lime, they also insisted that the~' arc Arabs (semites) , 10 the extent of clairningjesus W,t~ a Palesti nian rerolll­tionary.

How could the Palestinians be. Canaan­ites ;lnd Arabs at the S,Ime time? And what is the origi n of "Palestine?"

joel 3:4, a biblical \'crse that Cllrst'<l thc Philisti ncs, is often cited 10 prove the mcn­tion of Palestine. The Hebrew word translat­ed in some versions for Palestine is Palasheth which is Philistia, the land of the biblical Philislines, a Iloll-Semitic l>e(~)lc who lived on 11 small portion of land Oil the coast lilal included only Joppa. Ashdod, Ashkclon, and Gaza. '111is presents a major problem, si ncc today's Pale;linians claim 10 originate from Srmitic Arahs. To I;I~' stake to a land of promise by misusing Scrip1l1 re, attributing the Land of Promise to Ishmael, and claim­ing to be Philistincs, is a dealh hlow for the Palestinian argument.

Palestinian claims vary, depending on the isslle - if the claim COllCCnlS who was there first. then they are descendant<; of the Canaanites - if the goal is to prove who le­gally deservcs it, then they are /\1I\bs. So it all depends 011 what Iype of propaganda is being promoted, yet both views are in greal error. With the biblical evidence con finned by histOlY lLlld by dccmks of archaeological research, the Hible has pro\'Cn to be the most accurate book 011 Mjddle Eastern history. In it is recorded GO(rS plan for Canaan and its peoples.

'In call today's Israel the land of the Philislint!S would re<luire a recreation of the other seven nations that made up the land of Canaan. How does one relate tooa(s sup­posedly Semitic Palestinians to the non-Se­mitic I'[evites, Perazitcs, and jebusites? No one today can trace any culture, language, l"t'.!igioll, or f;unily origin to ,Ul~' Canaanites from Palestine, and there is ample histori­cal l'Vidence showing the "true" origin of todav's Palestinians.

' In 135 A.D., Emperor lIadlian applied the le1111 "Palt;'Stine" to the I.and of Israel 'L~ a propaganda ploy to era5(' Israel. his enemy, and replace it with Israel's enemy instead: Philistines with a new I.atin twist ­-Palestine.

Christian Arabs who focus on the New Testament instead of the Old ignore the facl that in the New'lestament the tenn Palestine is never IlSl'<l - only Israel. ~uld no matter how they look al Scripture it always seems they have a problem filling it into their po­litical agenda.

Yet ignorance of Scripture. is not an ex­cuse with God, since the rest of Scripture di­rects \]S to the remaining story and to wlmm this se<.-d belongs. 111e promises of the Land in the Abrahamic Co\'(~nant are given strictly t()jacob, who was later called Israel.

God uses the word Mv in two corlllCC­tiOllS: "My people Israel" aild '"My land." In I:!ach case He, in a particular way. identifies I limsclf with them:

"1 will eshlblish My covenant ~L~ an ev­erlasting covenant betwccn Me and you and your descendants after Ylllr for the genera­tions to (':Ollle to lx' your God and the God of your descendants after you, The whole land of Cana:1Il where you are nuw all alien. I will give as an everlasting posseSSion to you and your descendanL~ after you and I will he their God."

$0 these prumiSl'S of land and rctum dearlv involve I!'racl, nor Ishmael.

'Ih! greatm:ljorily of [what are calledl "the Palestinian Arabs" is of vcry reccnt origin, starting in the nineteenth centllT)' immigrating from Illany nations, 1110St of which are not even Arab.

Tod;ty's Palcstini:Uls are immigrantS from man\' nations: Balkans, Greeks, S\'rians, Lat­ins, i~gyptians, ltlrk.~. Annenian's, Italians, Per.;ians. Kurds, Gcnnans, Afghans, Cir­cassians, Bosnians, Sudanese. Smnaritans, Algerians, j\'lotawila, Tartars, Hungarians, Scots. Nav<lJt'Se, Bretons, English, Franks, Rutheni ans, Bohemians, Bulgarians, Geor­gians, Persian Ncstorians, Indians, COpL~, ~laronitcs , and Illany (llhers.

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It w<t~ onl\' in 1878. that hm":'ih condi­tiOIlS furced rmiJ1~t groups to immigmle into Palestine: Circ:lssians, Algerians, Eg~'vtians, Dnlsai,lttrks, KurtIs. Bosnians. and olhers.

Mler the ltlrkish Ollo111ans, the fililish fough t the 11.lrks for Sl1PIX)rting the Nazis, ;U1d legally crealL'{] the State of Israel. '11lC Arabs then called to wipe out all the jl'\VS. which resulted in an Arab defeat, as the Bible pn.>dicted,

'111ere was never a call for a P;t\estin­ian state in all of Arab histoli'-- only after lhe Jews retunll>U to Israel. Yet ille Jt.'\vS made all the "nevers" possible when thcy made this ignored Land <I Nation. They made je­nlsalem a capital, opened the holy plaL'(!S to all tlucc religions, and built illikc nc\'cr befm!;!.

Plior to the 1800's, the l.aJld was nol in­habited except for small impermanent pock­cl~ of [lC<~)le scatler<:d throughout the COlllI­

try. History contradicts the propagandist~ of today: the Land Wll'i not a thriving nation. l'vel; in the past 2,000 yea~ and never until the Jews made it so,

The jews, before the wars. who were already living ,L~ pe;L'itlnLS, hOl1ghl Jan(t~ and cultil'atetl th~m afte r years of neglect. TIle jC\vs restored tlle l.and and made it what it is today, with an ecollomy tCll tillles the size of that of Egypt.Jordan and Syria combined, while the Arabs hal'e been plotlill); wafS against her since the 1920's and instead of ~clti n~ rid of the jews, they displaccd one­hillf uf the Pale;tillians in 1948.

Still, many W!'Stemers believc that the Arabs aClually want peace. The truth is th at the evil saga of the '"final SOIUtiOlJ" will con­tinue as planned by satan. \Vcstemers forget that Arafal supported Hitler in World War I I and Saddam Hussein in thl' Gulf War. Also, the PLO Charter calls for Ihe destmction of ISrael 10 this da\'.

Arab students are llC\'l'r taught Jewish history; they are programmed hy repetitiOn of old pmpaganrla to the poilll ihat

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they end up belieVing that they themsclvcs hold divine IMh.

Within the last 40 centuries, Arabs ruled the L1nd for less than one of them. I sav to the Arabs, if \'Ollr current claim to the I.;md is based on tlte length of lime YOll rull'<l his­toriC:llly, irs hest to find another argument.

Onl'. would think th'lt the Palestinians who live in the midst of the conAict would be expert~ on the. situation. but the opposite is true; thei r schools <Ire infested with hate­filled lies, their mosques preach hatred from Ihe pulpit. and their priests call (lut ror the dcstmction of Israel. Christians and Mus­lims alike in Israel are victims of this brain­washing.

Goo has in no lVay eilher rejectl'tl or replaced Israel or lIle jt.'wisIJ People.llis Cov­enant with them is llllcondi tional and nUll­

transferable. Goers Covenants and promises were never IU<;ed OIl Jsrael"s good bclla\~or, but were based On Gt~rS faithfu lness loward His People, Although thejl>wish People have suffen."l.i the COn5e<lllences of bre'lking G(Ki's Laws, just as wc all do, they havc not Ix..oen replaced or rejected. 'nle Scriptures make Ihm quite ckar.

I choose to speak out because I know whm is wrong. When will we get rid of the education propaganda promoting hoth de­stmction and self-destmction? Will it take a generation? lim? 111ere is 110 solution unless we liberate the children from an evil and growing menace and stop tllC cycle.

M,at the world must acknowledge is thaI Arafat and the Palestinians never wanted a Pale;linian state becausc he never wanted the wnmct to end. Ifhedid, he would have accepted the Barak Agreemen t that gave him everything he cbiml'tl he wantl'tl, He rejected it and all ()tllel~. So what then did he want? Ohviousl)' there is no olher amwer but the destntctioll' of Israel and the jews.

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Western Dhimmitude Global Reaction to Uproar over "Satanic Cartoons" - Western Embrace

oj Islamic "DIJimmitude" Subtly Disguised as Political Correctlless?

The global reactioll to the upmar oyer the" 12 Satanic earloom" demollslr.ltes a growing Wcstcm embrace of the mentality of Islamic "dhimmitude" subtly disguised as political correctness.

Under [slam, a "dhil11111i" is II n011-I\ \us]im living in conquered ~ Iuslim land.<i. "[)himmis" are pennittetl limited freedom of religion, provided there is no conflict with Islamic laws govl'11ling slIch things as religioLls s~bols and images. However, a dhimmi has \1rlmlly no rights in :lema! practice. The word of one "offended Muslim-' can send a dhirnmi to death .

lIistorically, Jews living as dhimrn is in Mmlim countries have been subjected to daily humiliations that reduced life to a perilous uncertainty. They are r€Cluired to pily a \'Cry high ta:x called the "jizra" for the "privilege of living among ~llIslims. "

Th is latest example of Muslim intolcrance and violencc ovcr all\'

hint of insult to their religion displa~ dearl ..... for all to s{''e thm thei r core beliefs inspire hatred and violence,

TIle behm~or of the V:l~t majority of Muslims puts the lie to "the political correct image of Islam as inherently [X!llceful and tolcnlnl" Yel, dle contillliing ad\'aJlce of this patently false idea by Westcm lcadcrs, despitc dlC tot:l.llack of evidence to lillppon it. is all admission thai we're alt dhimmis now.

It is evidence that we've voluntarilv submittL'(j most of our cul ture In "Islamic dhimmiturlc," hy censoring dlOSC who dare to point out the inherent contradictions evident in thc conti nually repeated myth dlat Islam is l)tl~icalty tolerant and peaceful. It is a myth dri\'en by fear of Muslim viol~nL'e and temlrism.

A Christian fundamentalist is one who adhcres to the fu ndamentals of Christianity. A Jt!\'lish fl.lIldamcntalist is one who adheres to the fundamentals of Judaism. 'nlcre is no other logicalullder.;:tandi ng of the tenllS.

If an Islamic fundmnentalist is one who adheres to the fundamentals of Islam, then a "mfKlerate" Islamic majority means a majority of Mlislims reject Islam's fundamental teachi ng5. This is so self­evident l~' circular that it makes one di7.7.)' to

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contemplate. There. W;15 a scene in the old '60's series

"Swr Trek" in which all evil android W:l~ defeated by Mr. $pock's circular logic. Mr, Spock told the android that he (Mr. Spock) was lying when he said he wa~ I}~ng, Sorting it all out made the android's head c'xplode.

Figuring oul how iI religion's fundamentals Gill inspire terror while arguing it is fll1ldmnentally "peaceful alld tolerant" makes me feel li ke that android.

Dcnlll<l1'k submitted to [slam when it apologiZl'tl on hehalf of its press for publishing cartoons dlat violall'(j Islamic

law, Some members of the European [llt'S.~ estahlishment, unaware of the mles of dhillllllitllde, rC[lllhlishcd the carlexlilS :L~ an exercise of joumalism's religious defense of freedom of the Preis. Soon, thei r various national lellders also slIbmitted to Islamic dhimmitude, apologizing to Islam 011 behalf of their citizens for violating Islamic religious prohibitions,

Fomler president Clinton, speaking from Qatar, callet! the publication of the cartoons "!lppaIHng"' and "outrageous." In true dhilllllli fashion, his outrage was reservcd for the cartoonists, not the raging sea of fonnerly "moderate Islamists" calling fo r thei r exccution.

The illlmn at the Islamic Center in Brussels denounaxl the cartoons. "Where are the hUlllan-righl~ organ izations? Why ,IJ'C thL')' silent?" he demanded. And the Mll~lim World Leaguc callcd 011 U,N. Secretar)' Kofi Annan to implemcrH international laws against insolence of religions.

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Scvcntl'Cn foreign ministers from the Arabian I.eague demanded the edi tors responsihle for puhlishing lhc cartoons to he "JJun ished. '·

Iran ian President Ahmadinaj;ld, nOI to be out dOlle, announced Ihat the cartoonists shuuld he kilkd.

As for the c;1TtooniSts themselves? TI1CY are. reportedly all in hiding, in fear fo r their lives. A~ Daniel Pipes accurate!)' noted in a recent coitunll, "the deeper issue here, howercr, is nO! Muslim h)1XlCrisy. hut Isl:unic sllpl'cmacism.'· To back lip his [}(Jillt, Pipes qU(Jted Flemming Rose,

the Danish editor who puhlished the cartoons: "ll]f 1. :L~ a 11011-

~Iuslim, shuuld submit to their taboos ... they' re a~king for my submission." Indeed, Islam has not only demandl'<i submiSSion, they' ve gotten it.

Said U.N, High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise ArbOl; "I find alarming any behaviOrs lhal disregard the heliefs of others. '111is kind of thing is unacceptahle. '· (Then she annOlllll'ed an investigation into racism and Is!alllophobia. Harnunphhh!)

[n the United Statei, dlC mainstream meJia, which ha\'e already all ied themselves ''lith dlC political (Ulimmis Oil the left. kncw better. With thc exception of CNN - which pixc!atcd the images the first time (suppressing them altogether thereafter) - the U.S. mainstream media devoled hours of c()\'crage to thc sto!), wi thout daring to show dle Satanic CaJ10011S themsclves.

nhil1lmis know their I)l ace.

Hal l.indsc), iJ {be bt.>s!·selllll,~ till/bor of 20 booJ:s, il/cluding "I.ale Grell! Plalle! Harl/}," He Il'r/'le-. {/ It'eeklJ' column jo,' trorkINeIDtli{I' alid bis //(11 J.iudl·/",')' Rl1xJI'i pmgmlll I~' bl'OlldcflSf t 'in Slife/life find Il'eixllSl, For II/J-/O-fbe-millllfe (/I/(/{rsis of ltorld LI(/enls ill fbt, ligbt of allclelll prO{Jbcdes, l'b'il: bll/l://II'II'II '. lxlllil1(l~e;'Qrtlde. COli}

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111e radi c.1.1 Hamas mO\'ement shocked Israel and the world by its landslide \'iClory in the Palestinian legislative elections on j ltnllary 2;th. Virtuall ), no one forecast the over­whelming triumph by the extremist terrori st group, founded in 1988 from the same Islamic fundamental­ist wellspring that later produced Osruml Bin Laden 's AI Qaida interna­tional terrorist network,

The unanticipau.'ti e1~cti{)n outcome also took llamas leaders themselves by sur­pri~e. Their main pl'e-eleclion goal was to win enough seats to thwart the U,S.-backed Road J\ lap peace plan's call for thc Palestin­ian Authority (PA) to completely disann lind ciismantle the group's illegal militia and ter­mristcells, The huge Hama~ triumph insure.1i that no SHch action will lake place, Instetld, Hamas seems certain to take full governmen­tal contml ovcr the PA, its institutions and. most importantly, ilS 30,000 plus anlled se­curity forces. While this will insure the radio cal movement's stm'ival on the Palestin ian stagt, it apparrntly also spells tht! end of the \'(11 ite Housc-sponsored peace plan, with all tll,I1 implies for this troubled region and the entirr planet.

Reeling ovcr the sudden exit of stroke victim Ariel Shamn from the dramatic Is­raeli political scene, <Kting Premier Ehud Ohnert was quickly faced with his fil'St ma­jor clisis: How to respond to the unfureseen llamas land~lide \1C(01)'. He wasted no time in clarifying that his govcmmcllt would not recogni7£ or deal with a Hamas-led PA gu\'­

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el1llllcnt. llo\\,cver, faci ng pressure fmm Washington. InllduJl

and elsewhere to somehow keep alive Ule #­fusion that the long-frozen peace process has 1I0t been totally blllied, the new leadcr pro­claimt:d he would aitt!r that stance if the ter­rorist movement did three vital thin&li.

Olmert"s or.;t condition for e'I'emually dealing with I-lamas was that the group agree to disann it~elf and halt all lel'ror aUilck~, which group lc:tder.; (I ll ickly made clear they will nerer do, Uis second condition was that Hamas renouncc and al ter ilS 1988 founding dwrter's call for Israel's total annihilation and replacement by an Arab-Islamic regime. Hi:>. final condi tion was lhat Ihe militant group fonnally recognize Israel's right to ex­ist, and then agree to honor all previolls PA peace accords and amendments contracted wi th the Jewish State.

Hamas leaders laughed out loud at the suggestion that they might change thtctntral plank in their Koran-based charter calling for Israel's destnlction, even though many pun­dilS around the globe mysteriollsly predicted such action as the group "assumes the 1'C­

spollsihilities" of [loweI'. ~ l ahrlloud ZahaT, it senior llamas official t wId reporters ten days after the startling Palestinian election l'CSltllS were l\we<lled that "Ismel is not a legitimate entity, and no amount of pres.IiUI'C can force LIS W rt'Cognizc it~ right to exist."

Israeli political analysts were nearly unanimous in stating that llamas would never adhere to even (Jnc of Olmert's fair conditions, Hmnas leaders did reveal plans to fold their outlawed 3,000 strong militia force illto lhe much larger itnnt'tl PA Sl'Curity foret'S. But th is action would not even ful fi ll the acting Premier's first condition lhat the group sUITCnder i t~ illegal ann~ .

Israeli experts on the growing Islamic faith noted thm lhe derisive Hamas charter

is huilt uj}(}n scveral Koranic verses which dearlv state that jL'\ .... s can never mil' oVer

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Muslims, or Olrer hllld currently or previ control led by Islamic govcmments. Instead, the IsI;unic holy blxJk adju11.'S J\\ uhammad's folluwers tu wage jihad war against "the in ­fidels'· until thc end of time---an Islamic I'C­

Iigious '·duty" that H:u n;l~ leaders and their devout followers whulehear1edly ,Uld happily embrace.

The Ha11l :L~ political earthquake jol ted Washingtun and other intemalionai capitals. Several right-wi ng Isr~l i politicians said the Bush Adminislralion W:l~ only reaping whal it had sown, having insisted that ';democ-

What WOu.1lI the hi te Hou.se say if Ehud

O/mert or Ton)1 Blair dellltiluled that Al Qailla be allowed to field calldi­tildes ill Alneric{l.'s 11Ii,l­

ler ln cOllgressional elections?

raev" meant that Ollllerl lllust allow Ham<l~ to Rlll in the electiolls, e~'en in mainly Arab neighborhoods in cast JCnlsaiem, including lhe walled Old CilV. This was an absunl de­mand, thcy mainiained, gi\'Cll that llamas has openly claimed to have murdered ncarly 400 Israelis in ,I series of vicioliS terror atroci ­ties launched sincc carly 2001. ''\Vhat WOllid the White HoU5£: say if Ehud Olmert or TOllY Blair demanded that Al Qaida be allowed to field candidates in An"ICrica's mid-term con­gressinrllli elections?·' :t5ked onl.:! Likud Party Knt.'SSC1 mtmbcr.

'111e United States and thc European Union have 1x..'Cn the main foreign ftlnders urthe PA, togcthcrdonating over 800 million dollar.; each year. The two world 1}()\\'Crs were therefore instantly f,lced wi th a seriOllS tli lem­ma. Should they uphold their own laws that 01111:lw transfening PllUlic money to knuwn

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26J:lIl .. 2006 Mariam f'arahal ,

who w:t~ elected to the Palestinian parii:unent, can

a crowd like :t veteran politician-shaking hands :md greeting supporters.

In Gaza, Farahat is known :1.~ Um Nidal, or ~Iother of the Struggle - a mother who sent three of her six sons un Ham:1.~ .... _...;; homicide missions against Israel i targets.

"We consider it holy duty," she told AIK News, "Our land is occupieu. YOll lake allihe means to banish the occupier. I saCri ficed my children for this holy, I)atriotic duty. I love my children, but as ~ Ius l irns Vie pressure oU!Seh-es and sacrifice our emotions for the interest of the homeland. The greater interest takes precedence to the personal intel"e)t."

She is most famous for her pfCSCnce in a Ham:t~ video, showing her 17-year-old how to attack Israel is :Uld telling him not to return.

he ki lled fi\'C students in a

'il was ki lled himself.

Urn Nidal 's home h:t~ hecome a shrine to her dead sons, \\~th admirers and other members H:unas often dropping by.

Destroying Israel is not something llamas h:t~ jlromoted much during

~I... __ " this elect ion carn llaign. - But at the gm~srool~ k",'el

in Gaza, I,\~lere Urn Nidal camraigns, most P:llestinian surporters believe it was the violent :lt1l1cks ag:linsllsraci !lmt forced them to pull out fmm the Gaza Strip last fal l.

"'J11is is our strategy," she said. "We are working on two parallel lines - Ihe polit ical and the jihadist."

Um Nidal is now a politici:m, but she says violence is sti ll an option and she does hm'e tlln.'e sons who are still alive. If nl'Ccssary, she says, t he~' wi ll fo llow in their brothers' fool~teps . ' hup:I/;,b<:ncws. gl>.~l>rn

PI~" COO'ISC")' "f: hul':lI" .. w .. ·. ~lqa~:;;I"' .w~

Biblical Robe Produced for lise by High Priest in Holy Temple 2IJ llo:c .. MJj

!\fter much hard work and re;carch, !llC 7ecbelel (azure blue) mbe of the High Priest has been oornpleled by !lle Temple Institute and it is hoped to be fit 10 be wom in the Third Temple.

Thc blue coat, or mc'il tech­elet as it is called in [he 'lorah, SpurL~ 72 gulden bells alternating with 72 pomegranates allachcd around its hem, wo\'en of blue, .1,

pu ~) l e, and scarlet wool. The bluc foix, dispb)lU OWflllC leXt uf lh\' 1%li('".d cumm~nd JlII:IJI

~hould not he tom. And you sld l make on i l~ hem pornegramncs of bluc, purple, ;Uld scarlet wool, on its hem all around, and gold bells between them, all around; :I gold hell and a pomeg("jJl<lIe, a gold bell :lIld a pumcgranate, all around. It must be on Aaron in order tn minister. Ito; sound shall be heanl when he enters the Sanctuary befure Hashem and when he lea\'cs, so that he not die." (Exodus 28:31-35)

In Ihe near future , the Insti­"And you shall make the robe of the ePhud entirely out of blue wool. Its head-opening shall be folded over within it, i t~ opening shall have :t horder all <lI1Jl lnd of weaver's work - it shall he for

h, 1!r"l.-1,ar~ iI, ~:,{)dw; lllJl ,~5 tute plans 10 embark on anolher The roh,~'s hem. 1IIIh lIS bdb

;md limen POIDt;<.gr.lHal~""

t . j :C.U:...l.(. major project: Ihe production and supplyi ng of the 'lorah-spec­ified white garment<; of the urdi­nary pricsts for every maJe)e\\'ish

it like the opening of a coat of mai l, that it descendant of Aaron. ,'Io'olv.:iSr:k' in:UIOl1 :Wk'll"S.COtn

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19J:lIl. 2006 In the (Iuesl 10 find new and profitable wa~'S

to attract consumers, the banking industry has found religion. Islamic banking is emerging as a small hUl growing trend among lenders in [he Unil<.'tl States.

Sharia forbids ~lus1ims from accepting paying interest - a challenge for Western hanks [hal are based in the interest-paying system. Currently there are tllrce banks that offer Isl:un­ic banking in the U.s" includi ng international giant HSBC (Research), but experts expect that number to rise as the ~lus1im population grows ~md the community begins to demand more spt'Cialized services.

Deipi\e tlle difficul ties in creating ~Ul entirely different finance system, hanks such :t~ Ann Arbor, illichig:Ul based Unirersity B~Ulk , arewi ll­ing to put in tllC ext.m work to create banking alternatives that appeal to tlle growing market.

The banks deposit accounts allow Muslims [0 open accounts where any profi ts are shared with customers rather !llan paid as interest. And, instead of traditional mortgages, the b:U1k essentiallysel~ up :t special trllst for the property the consumer is trying t<l buy.

Ch icago-based Devon Bank also offers a lIlur:lhaha mortgage product and plal l~ 10 expand il~ islamic banking to include comrli­ant money market and checking accoullts and CDs upon appro\'al from federal regu lators, said Da\1d Loundy, corporate counsel for the bank.

"The rise of IslamiC lXUl king i~ a sign of the maturity of the Muslim community in Ameri­ca," said Rabiah Ahmed, spokeswomen for the Council of American- Islamic Rclalion~. "The trend is defini tely incrensing."

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8 Stabbed by Knife-Wielding Assailant at Moscow Synagogue llJ:m.,lOO6 ciety faces gr~l\'C: danger, " said Borukh Gorin,

chief spokesman for the Federal.ion of Jewish Communitit<i of RUSSia. "Fascism will come knocking at the door of l.'\'C1Y citizen if we do not take serious me,L~ures nO\\~ "

Zuyev said. A knife-wielding man shouling, "! will kill . ! attacked a synagogue in d()\\~l I0Wn

IM,,,,,,,w yesterday. slashing and s!:lbbing at least eight people before a rabbi's son wrestled him to the ground, officials and eyewitnesses

Officials and witnesses said a son of the agogue's r.lbhi, Yitzhak Kogan, wrestled tacker to the ground ~uld held him until arrired.

i Witnesses said the shaven-headed attacker

"Heil Hitler!" a.~ he aimed at victims'

I ';:~~l~~:'~~l'~:' torsos in wllat appcan.'(\ to be a II I I attack. 'Ille :lIIack at the Chahad Bronnaya Syna-

came runid an incn:ase in hate-group I",iv;,y in I l~u$Sia. Jewish l eadc~ said it shou ld

message to Russian authorities and the to fight prejudice.

.. If 100lay's act docs nol souml an alimn, su-

Among the eight men wounded wcn: an American, an Israeli, and a man from thcCcn­tral Asi an nation nf Tajikistan, chit!f Moscow prosecutor Anatoly Zuycv told reporter.i out­side the synagogue. He said the attacker had "shouted wurds thM showed he Iv:.L~ motiV:ltt.'(1 nyethnic and religious hatred."

ZU)'CV said Alexander Kopt~', a Muscovite hom in 1985, was in custOO)' ami faced charges including hate-ha..o:.ed allcmpted murder, It was not immediatel\' drar whether he was:t mem­her of ,Ul ~' :Inti-Semitic or nco-Nazi groups,

Saudi Professor Exhorts Muslims to "Positive Hatred" of Christians

161lrt., zoo; jOJ:m . .mi \\1lile stoping in Ne­

tany:! yeslemay, l.ikud ChaimlaJl MK Benja­min Ketanyahu com­pared I-lamas' I'ictory in last week's Pales­

~lid in reg.1rds to the Ayatollahs' regime and the l'alib:m. There are urgent waming signs thaI [scremnJ out II lusl f{X" murder alld dt!'Jtruc­lion.

Shcikh /\Ix1AI-Aziz Fawzan AI-Faw­zan, a profco;sur of Islamic law at AI­Imam Uiliver$ity, who frequent ly ap­pears on Saudi TV, recentlr made lUl ti-Christian 00111-ments on Saudi AI-r-.lajd W, He told his audience to hate mwone "who w{)rships Christ, son of ~Iary" and added ~lat "whoever says 'I don 't hate him [Le. a Christian}' is [Jot

a Muslim .. :' He went un to ex­plain that such an altitude "is not racism" since the Chris­tian is not haled "because of his

color, gender, blood, country, or be­cause he is American, Eumpean, Chinese, or Asian," and stipulatoo that this hatred should be "llOSitil't! hatred" that gUides and refonns.

tinian parlial11cnl:lry ;;j~~~j~ elections to the rise of }o

the Nazis in Gemmnv

Ukud \\ill not conlin­ue tnOlsferring territory, [\\"t!) need 10 SlOp giv­

ing ~\elll lIlont!y - ou~ and the world's - and [we[must pm'enl them from establishing an anny in ,Uly way possible," Netanyahu said. -~!tJ1:1I\\\\\\;unllt'dltrus3kl1l.(lll:

illthc 1930·s. '

-MK\I RJ Moola \\ '~I(h hllp:/Illv.'AA1l'1T1r1lY.orgl

"A ft.".1' days ago, a 1It.'W foc arose. \~11en Hitler rose to pov.'er, it was said that being in power would moderate him, [md it was also

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Exccrplt.'d from an I",klress by H~n'" l,,,dcr

KhaIL'Ci Mash 'al: 'We commiHL'l:i tu ... '11le

resistance and adhere to its

I ~::~~:';~;;/" for recognizing [Israel] ~:m~~dc~n~,:::~:~,~ 1 I ( -HaJna.~ is not the kind of III I . to pres.~llre., . We wi!! not ll:Cogni7.e it , I

time passcs .. , say to the Americ<UJ

Europeans, and tile internatlonal It , make all tht!SC demands, likt! stopping the '[

liT stupping 'terrurism: as they call it - :tlld

Idil;amll, .. I sal' to them: If vou ha\'e a the factions' weapons, 'wc are

unite the Palestinian wellpOIlS based on 1 I 1

understandings, and to (onn an army, like . cownry, cl'en ~lOugh our COUIIII)' is not

independent." . I

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Americans Pessimistic About ,\liddle East Peace, ~Iore Sympathetic to Israel

I) Fm .. .!006 'l1le anllllal Gallup

1'011 on World Affairs was conducted on a r:ulIiolll samplin~of 1,002 adults un Feb. 6-9, some two weeks after the H:unas terrorist organization won power in the Palestinian Authority (PA). Some findings: Ignorance on the Middle E:L~t conflict does not work to Israci"s adv:mtagc. according to Gallup, Americans who say th!.'}' follow nl'l\'S about world affairs H\'ery closely" are morc likely to sympathize with the Israelis (66%) than Alllt!riC,U]S who follow foreign n~ only somewhat closely (59%) orwho do not fnllnw it closely (52%) .

Gallup also asked whether American

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sympathies lie mort: Witll the Israelis or with the Arabs of the P:ilcstiniml Authority. 11le numhcr.i this year: 59% lire with Israel. and only 15% with thc PA. These figures repl"t:senl OIlt: of the most

lnpsidecl margins in favor of thc IsraeliS erer recorded by Gall up.

\%en not culllpa~1 with each other, Israel received a "favorable" rating from 68% of Americans, :Ind the PA rt'Ccil'l>d the salTle from I 1%.

By a 2-1 margin, Americans now say there will never cOlne a time. when Israel and the Arab nations willlivc in pcal."C, '[1le 65% to 32% split ct)mpares with II roughly SO-50 sp l illa.~t }'C:!r. -http:lr~ln:uioll;llIlI'\\"s.C<)(11

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Barnas ranks with al-Qaida in its love for

Jew-killing and America-hating;

in fact, they have actually killed

thirty Americans over the years and

never been held accountable.

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The fut ile efforts in Ihe Middle East to have Israelis and Palestinians live in security side by side 1l:L~ jllst tx.>etl dealt what could he a fatal hlow. This may he good Ill'\V$ and I'll expand. )-lamas won a vieton' O\'ef Fatah, the patty of Mahmoud Abb,LS, 011 Jaimary 25. 111is may drive a nail into the coffin of the "Road Map to Peace" just as the Oslo Accords hit <l dead end. The "I~o j\d Map's" FIRST requirement was to disaml groups like llama'). ht~lcad . the Palestinian people revealed much aooulthelilselvcs-Ihe}' elected them. The Palestinian people have chosen terror, not peace. and Mahmoud Ahhao; could not he tl1L~ted any more than Hallla5.

As my friendJack Kinscllasays in his Omega Intelligence Briefing, "Washington h,L<; only it~lf to blame. The Bush Adm inistration's lIllWa\'Cnng faith in democracy causc<i it to push for Palestin­ian elections, convinced, as it is, of the existellt"C of a moderate majority mnong lslamics. It was convinced that if tbe majority of Palestinians ttlmed out t() vote, the}' would overwhelmingly reject violencc and terror and embrace peace­ful co-existence with Israel. The election was touted as the Palestinian 's first real chance at a popular peace." \X11ilc somc Palestin ians c1:ari}' w.tnt to jllst raiSt! familit!s and ha\'~ dl'cc.n~ Jobs, lhe greater majority set:m to have Ilul~ des~re fo r living "side by side in peace and secuntywlt~ is­rael." But haVing said thm, the \'ote was hkely more a vote against the corruption of Abbas & As­sociates tban it was for Ila.llla~.

In rt'Cenl year.;. Amcricah;L~scnt 1.7billion dollar.; to the Palestin ian Icadclship. They hal'C squandered it. spent it on lhemselves, or st,lsh:d it away in foreign banks. Hamas has a "SOCial program" proViding medical aid and other pcr~~ for the P;lleslinians, something Abh,L<; ;Inri hIS

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Fatah Party could care I<5S about. But Hamas promises 1101 to pull il<; pk'llge to destroy I sra~1. Additionally, it will go\'cm by Ihe Kor.ln-Shana l.aw-which Ahhas was not hlatantly doing.

A~ many have said in fl'Cen t years, "demo(;­rae\' in the Middle East" will be tough 10 pull off, and this is the proof of the pudding when terror­isls arc allowed to nUl in "democratic elections." So by giving a nation that isn ', a nation-. "Pal­estinc"-- the right to have a "dcrnocr;lt!C elec­lion," they have voted in the world's first official termrist gO\'CnlllIcnt, all with U.s. assistance and aid over many yeilrs. Democracy does not uver­come tyranny and terror in the Muslim ~liddlc East. It solidifies it. New idea, in a region where filming beheadings is the rage are not going to be successfu l.

This is a poli tical eal1hquake and will de­stabilize the regiun. Hamas lIlay ha\'t.~ \\'011, but those del uded with the hope of peace in that spe­cific region have los t. Humus ranks~vith :11~Qai~:1 in its love for Jew-killing <lnd Amenca-hatlllg; III fact, they have aC\lIally killed thirty Americans over the ve:1r.; and never been held accoun table.

011 a more positive note, it could put thl' formation of a Palestinian S(;lte nn hold. Any na­lion that agree<; to do bu~inl'~s with Hamas will fC\'Cal its tmc color.;, On whal basis can anyonc in Israel or the u.s. still argue that the answcr to Hamas' success is to gil'e mvay more precious land and force more Jews out of their homes?

Ll'1 us pra~' for P~idl'nt BlLo;h mld Condo­Icc7za Rice, thaI they will make wise choices in the dal's and week.o; ahead. The President is talk­ing tm'lgh ahout Har11<lS, lt~ is Rice, now that real ­ity has Slink in. While they were in 100% Sllpport of these elections, I suspect they ne\'ef expected the results that occufll.'d. Again. 11 b:L~ic flaw in not understanding Islam is at the root. While it looks like the Administration will not deal with Hama'i thcy ··undcrstand the reaction of the Pal­estini:u'l peOplc for being sick uf the cormption of Arafat tlnd AbbiL~, ,. Rut if they th ink Hamas offers some fonn of non-cormpLion, they are in for a sad surprise. Further, Israel will nel'er sit down at a peace whle with 1·lamas-we hope. They have been duped before in the longing for peace and security. Onl~' one per.;on will offer il and pro­duce it- lheAnti -christ .

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• • ISLAM WILL RULE THE WORLD

so will whoever supported or supports it. Tomorrow, our

nation will sit on the throne of the world. This is not a figment

01 the imagination, but a

'·Iama" remains undeterred in its quest to uitillllllcly see Israd annihilated, and says one day Soon the tables will tum and the ;'Christian" West will be dependent all the good graces of its Muslim overlords.

For the time being, the United States and Europe can 1,1I,c their much needed financial aid and drop dead.

Washington, and to a lesser degree WcslCrn Europe, ha\'c been threatening to CUI off the flow of money to 11 'lamas-led Palestin­ian ,\ulhority unless the group reJlOUllces its violent intentions, recognizes the Jewish State and works fol' a negolimed peace sct­tlement.

Meeting with PLO chjd Mah­moud Abbas in Gaza Saturday, '-lamas' top parliamentary candi­date, Ismail lIaniyah, reiterated that his group will never accept Jewish so\'creigIllY over even one inch of this land.

Gala-based HaJ1l:L'i leader Mahmoud al -Z:lhar followed up by lelling The Washinglon I>osl in his usual fOl1hright manner:

'}srael is all illegal ellli~)I, alld 110 amQuIII uf pressure call force us 10 recognize Us rigbt 10 e.tisl ... tbe western coulllries C(l1I take tbelr aid and go /0 bell . . ,

1·lalllas' determination to not compromise on Israel's destruc­tion stems from its Islam-based belief that wiping 0 111 the Jewish State is just the fi rst slep towards world domjnation, as revealed by ovcmll Hamas chief Khaled Mashal during an address at a D:Ul1llSCUS

mosque on February 3:

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"WesaJl lotbis If/est ... IJpAllab, )'ou lf'iII be defeated. }'(:u/ will be defeated in Palestine, alld )'our defeal tbere btlS afreatljl begun. True, il Is I~.,.ael Ibal is being defeated tbert!, bill wbell Israel is de.foalell, its plItb is defcated, tbose 1l,llO (;all to slIj)porl U lire defeated. fllld tbe cowards 1I1bo bide hebilld il alld suppor' ;J are defeated. /srtlelu'ill be defeater/, twd so willwboever slipported or sfljJjJort,\· il . ..

"Tomorrow, 0111' /lation will sit 011 tim tbrone of the world. 1bis is 1/01 lIjigmt!1l1 qftbe imag­inatioll, bill (/filcL. ·'

Mashal went on to point OUI

the obvious reason why the West continues inching itself closer to defeal by pandering to whal it believcs arC the "moderate" Mus­lim masses:

"Thev do nOi understand the Arab or' Musli m mentlliity, which rejects the foreigner."

This tnltll wa...;; exposed last month with 1·lamas' landslide d cc­toral victory. despite asscI1ions bv the Bush Administration that Ihe I}alestinian-Arab public would ncver vOle in blood-soaked terror­ists.

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Glad You Aslced'

DeM SIU''''', .... J '''<1:'''''''' .. dw My 'P"'f,"' j'''''f r:lJmlt't """"",v'7 God enlarged her I,mlc~ .. WI 'W,mta tD d.iAtide rwMl fur tiw lake 11{ ~~ Howel'er, for "{be Clm,,"

•. -J the IT'I jeYlMa1eW. Q(ffA, CI( peace," (under world We ~ 'P""Y fur ~ vJ" .. pl",,,n") she gal'e hack ~ J{}U a.nd 'ail, IWa.et, a,Hte1t. this hard won Land. pit"<:c

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. & Pftlf.,tr "~""'_..... b,' piece,bulgailled uo peace. In fllct,

C;yrn.tf1 the more Israel gave to her ene­mies. the greater the attacks and

blood5hed she suf­

ilear)M -Tl~allk. rot! for writing - I hope this

m:lga.zlll~ .Issue helps bring undcr.;landing on tillS cntlca! and tl1ndy issllt;!.

.In purely secular terms, the Arabs, ca/llllg tbemselves PalesUllitlJls arc occupyi ng Isntcl's i.and, notlhc OIh~r way around. 'i1IC UN, in 1920. intended thaI the West Bank be part of the Jewish State/Home­land. Uowc\'cr, Jordan seized it. Israel re­acqUired il in 1967 after Jordan p'lIticipatt.'<! against Israel ill the 1967 War.

E\'ery time Israel was attacked by annie; larger and better equipped than herself,

fered • exactly as God wamed in NumheJ;\ 33. .

The question of the Jewish right to the ~~::::~~~;;;..,===;;",.===~ Land of Israel is clearly defined in the Word I U ISfart of God. GellL'sis 15:18-20dctaiistheCovCll;Int • /I " God made with the descendants of Abraham. ostlll Islamic Nations A '." • Oth., Nolions .. II Imll d(I)~ /be liJrd made {I COllellaul C:::~""i~~~-".-:-:-----_..-J

with Abram. s{~J'illg. '/0 youI' desl.:endtm/s miles of Arab land, it is the mere preiCnre of , /xwe gil/en Ibis Itmd. jrom /be riller oj Israel - Israel's mere existence that is the !Jg;1}~.~o tbe gre(lt l'il'6'I; tbe riller oj Eu/)bm- prohlem. tes .. , The goal of lin Israel-free ~1iddle East is

Again, in Exodus 23:31 God defincs the paramount. and now may seem closer than precise are;l of 1.<1nd the Children of Isnlel ;Ire ever with tile ,L~cension to I}(}wer of the bar-to set ap<1rt for Him: .'/ sb(l/l sel YOllr border haric Ham,l>; terrorist organization. fir)I.}! Ibe Sea of Needs /0 Ibe Sea oIlbe Pbi- III Joel 3: 1-2, God W<1nlS against dh~ding bsllll@~ tl1ld jrom /be IWldemess until/be the I.and.of Israel. " .. .Iwili enter info judg-!?iVCI; (or' sbal! deliverlbe illba/Ji/alli\' of menl WI/b Ibem ... Ibe)' fxwe dililded 11/' 11m. limd in/a Jour Ixmds (Inti you slxfll Illy l(flld. .. d/'/lJc Ibem away/rom before you. .. Zechariah also wam(.'<.1 the Nations that

The Hiblically mandated borders of Israel would come againstJel1lsa!elll . " ... /dJen ali are fill' g],t~lUer than the ti ny State of modern tbe l1ati~lISoftbe eart/;al'egatbered against Israel, that the world demands they dirnin- bel; I lI'tll /llaJ,'t! jert/salem all immollable ish. rock lor (Ill/be Iltllions. All wbo IIJ' /0 mOlie

'I1.lis liny piece of real estate is set apart i/lIli(1 iJ/jll~'elbelllsellJes. ·' (Lcch. 12:3) 01.1 t!~IS earth by God for His pllrpos<s. for 1 he entire world ha<; a stake in the I~Sto-Ills Glory and for !-l is People Israel. It is not mtion of the people and the Land of Israel neg~)tiablc :,ccording t(~ ScriplUll.!. All things for this is the precondition for the redell1ptiol~ of God beglll and end In Ihal sp(''Cial I.and. of ,Ill the nations in the world, and the return Of all people, Christians should be those that ofYeshua. understand Israel's sovereign mandate, and We need to stand wi th God, with His Word. stand with and for tile inalienahle right of the with Tmth - with lsrael- eVCll when it seems Jewish People to the I/Ibole of the l.and. so unpopular. And we 1ll't.'(1 to pray. Pray for

There are vast Arab lands in the Middle America. pray for our leaders, pray for Israel's East \ihere the Arabs can livc. Onc glance at leaders - and pray for ·the well-being of Jenl-the maps gi\,cs a clear \'iay of the tme nature salem!' For Z;ons sake. ....., of the connie\. It is 110t the llltd of a few more - - '- '-Jar J;

speCIal Interest

lVI/AT HAPP£N£D TO n(, ST1NIA.N~ EMPIRE? SflOUW TJ/E '"REFUGEES" HAVE A ~RJG'ffTOf' RETURN?" LET'S LOOK A LITTLE CLOSER AT THE FACTS!

IlIlig'" of II X! polllri:d llg iSSlW rClio/llilig lImlllld II)(! so-called "Iig'" oflbe l;ale.\·lill i{/II.~ ' [1),'(\' oflbillr (;oll/llr)' 10 /smell (/ggre.~siol/, !Jere are .\'1!L'ernl t'(/~'ic q/lI!~'li(JIls Illal olle .~IxJIIld be //ble fa {III.1'llJt!r if, i llfllCf, " /'//Ie~'rille" el'Cr did exi.d.

1. When was il founded and bv whom? 2. \l:~lal were its borders? • 3. What was iLS capital? 4. What were its m:tjor cities? 5. \\'~lat constituted the basis of its cconOIlW? 6. What \\"as its form of govcrn nllent? . 7. Was a sovcreign Palestinc C\'l!r recognized by a country whose existcncc, at that timc or now, leavcs no room

for interprctation? 8, Wh:lt was the language of thc-. counlry of Palestine? 9, What was the prcV'Jlent religion of Ihe country of Palcstine? 1 O. \l:~l at was the name of its cu rrency? 11. Choose any date in history-what \\~JS thc approximatc cxchange rate or the Palestinian monet~u1' unil

againsl lhc US dollar, German mark, British pound, Japanese yen, or Chinese yuan on Ihal dale? 12_ Si nce there is no such cOUlllr}, today, what caused its demise, and whcn did it occur? 13. Whcn exactly W:lS it a proud rlillion and what was it so proud of! 14. Here rs the most importanl qucstion of all. If the people (mistakenly caUed Palestinians) arc anrhing but

generic Arllbs colletied from llll o\er-or mlher thrown OUI of-the Arab world, I Ihl1' really have :'I. gellullic ethnic identrty Ih:lt gires them right fo r self-determination, why did they never Iry 10 become 11llll1dcpcndenl and cohesive group (a terrorist organization-thc PI.O) until the Arabs suffered tlnei r dCV'JStating defeat in the Six Day War-a war thal thcy initiated?

\ 1'IJe ImllJ is that.lhere was never an ArJ.b country of Palestine, and Palestinian-ArJ.bs were never a natIOn. l1Je Irllth is that Jerusalem wa<; ncver the capital of any Amh statc or province. l1Je trutb is that in :111 of recorded histol)', only one ]leople hare ever made a country called "Palestine" a sovereign nation-stale wilh )enrsalem as its capilal... l1Jejl..'1I!s.

(,\darl!l-d rru,~ "'\ J~rl;\,,~! P~'fl;Pd.'ti\ c un lhl, P:lI(~i'1 11 11S" \\\\'\\·.orirlgesforl)eace .• :om)

Laying up Treasure in H~J!J:'£!l';fJ CornerJ

"1)0 1101 It~)' "I) JOr )'OlI rSe!I 'C'S Ireasur~ on eartb. Il'here molb and fUsl destroy and IdJC/'e Ihielles break ill and Meat; bill ta)' lip JO /'Joli /'sellJes IreaJures in hem/en, where neitbe,. molh 1101' rust destroys (fud II'/JCl'e Ibi!?l'!!?:; do nol break ill alld slea!. For {(I/JCre yOll r IretlSltre is, Ibere your ben I'll/Nil be also. " (,\It/If. 6: 19 A'/I.]I)

you get the picture. In this issuc J want to discuss laying lip

treasures in Heavcn, or ,IS J like 10 think of it, illl.Jl~~tillg illlhe Kingdom o/God.

The fi rst question we should ask is WHY wc netd to invest in the Kingdom of God. God ce rtainl" doesn'l need OUt Illone\'.

We do it 'in ohedicncc to His Woi-d, hut ,llso it) a deliberate act of deference 10 His ' .ord~hip . Our giving really defincs us. It says . ... You are God, and I alll not. It says Your etemal plan for me, for my life pur­posc. tIInd for my family is more imp0r1am than Illy pl ans. Think about it. If Yeshua has Lordship of cvcry area of your li fc exccpt your moncy, then He really doesl1 'I havc Lortlship at all.

VOl/ /' (/(X'Ol/III. " (I'hil. 4: (7) - What an amazing concept! ~ Ioth and nlSt are goi ng to destroy all the "stuff " I can accumulate here during my lifetime, hut I can ;tchtally ere,lte an account in He<l\'el1 and make regular dCflOSits that will last fo r etemity. Wow! I likc what best~l1ing Chris­tian allthor Randy Alcorn says in his hook 'Thc Treasure Pri nci ple,' "Yutt can't take it with you, but YOll can send it all ahead,"

In the last issut: of Jewish Voicc Today Magazine, I wrote ahoul the prohlem of invcsting your treasure in earthly Ihing') and how I had a catharsis of sorts on my dri\'cwa~' early one morning. l1lcre I saw

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much of my earthly trea­sure (usct.l lightly now) spread across a concrete slab waiting for the hordes of 'garage-sal­

crs ' to pick over thcllllike a vu l­ture picks over the bones of a dead ... well

The word<; "laying tip" imply that just a<; we can. aCCllllllllate t re,L~tt res hcre on earth, we call also accumulate or store up trea­sures i:ll Heaven. Paul says this in Philippi­ans. 'NOII/JalI am looking/ora gift. bill 1(1111 lookingJor Il'b(l{ may be crediled 1o

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terrorist groups lamas is I ' listed by both the U.S. and EU as such a group), or cut off all financial aid and risk the towl collapse of the cash-strapped PM 11,issame question haunted Olmelt's caretaker govcm­menl. si nce Israel collects mil liolls of shek­els each mo11lh for the Palestinians, mostly in taxes fmm Arah areas tinder partial :ln11Y control and frum border custom fee;.

In typical fashion, [-lamas leaders cxpre;.<;I..>U mrogant disdain for sllch foreign "infidel" financial donor.;, and indicated they would seek aid from I ran and olher [s­lamic states to replace any withheld funds frol11 Israel an<'vor abroad. The Shiite Mus­[[m clerical regime in Tehran-awash with money due to the steep rise in oil pricC5 over the past rear-indicated that it was fully pn.1lured 10 SICp into the gap. Saudi i\raIJia also pledged to send fl1llCis 10 the financially slmggling PA. as it alrcad~' did inJmlll:llY.

TI,e \1~'ite HOllSC was forced to deal with allot.her dilemma coming out of Ihe

out by jews, blll rather left al the urging of Arab leaderswbo had dt'Clarcd war on Israel, Yet, there arc far more Arabs living in theiC territories now than ever before , And many of those who left in 1948 and thereafter ac­tually had mot~ in other Arab nations.

:rhis is why it is so Llifficult to define the lelln "Palestinian." It alwavs ha.~ heen. What does it mean? Who is a 'Talcslin­ian?"' Is it someone who came to work 111 "Palestlne" (prc-I948 Israel) because of a hustling economy and job 0pl"}()l1unities? Is it somt'Olle who lived in the region for two years? Five ycar.;? Ten years? Is it !iOll1eone who Ollt't! \'fsitcd the area? Is il any Arab who wanL~ 10 live in the area?

Though Arabs outnumher Jews in the Middle Ea"it hv a facto r of ahout [00 to one, tht! Arab populatioll of [pre-[948 Israel] Palestine was historically extremel>' low -prior to lheJews' renewed interest in the area hcginning in the early 1900's.

for instaIlL'C. a tm\'d guide to Pal~tine and Syria, published in [906 by Karl Baede­ker. ill ustraLe<; Ihe facl that. even when Ihe Isl;l1nic Ottoman Empire ruled the region , the Muslim population in jemsalem was minim .. l.

The book estimates the total populalion of the cilV at 60,000, of whol11 7.000 were Muslims, ·[lOOO were Christians lllld 40.000 were Jl,\VS.

Why was the Muslim population so low? After ((fI, ,Pe're fold fbaf jeruscllem is Ibe

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. C ONTINUED fROM PAGE 9 :: stunning llamas land~lide viclory. Calls illlmedlatclv came from Muslim extremist groups in Ileighboring Jordan and Egn)\ to he allowed to run in similar "fair and free dcmocrltlic elections" in thei r l..'Ountrics­elections thaI have 1x.'C11 strongly promotei.l by the \V1lite House as 1l( .. 'Cl'SSary thl1lllgllout the autocratic ~ l iddJe East. Snch demands actuall y began after the militant Shiite Hizhullah mO\'cmcnt was allowed to field candidates in Lebanon 's parliamentary elt'C­lion las1 May, despite the fact Ihat the [ra­

nian-founded and fundl.i1 group operates a heavi!)I-anncd rogue militia along [srael's northem border. Although nOi expecting such unfettered regional votes an)1imc SOOI1 .

Israeli leaders are already prepari ng for the strong possihili ty that pm-westenl regimes in Jordan and Eg)1'lll1ight be replaaxl at the ballot hox by Islamic fascist govenll11enlS that would break their country's peace trea­lies \\1111 Israel and rctUnl to the jihad path.

Just one week hefore the late jallll-

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W·h.tI " bo ll t ls hu n 's holy Si t e s? Th e re a r e no ne in

J e rusale m.

Shocked? What aoout the AI I\qsa l"\osque and the Dome of the Kock in Jemsa­lem? Tile Koran says notJlillg abolltJertlsa­ICIll. It mentions illecca hundrcd~ of times. It mentions Medi na cOllntless limes. It never Illentions Jel1lsalem. There is no historical c.'vidence to suggest Mohamml>tl ever even visited Jemsalem.

So how did Jerusalem become the third holiest site of Islam? Muslims t(xlay cite a vague p,t'iSage in the Koran, the se\,enleenth Sura, en litled 'The NightJonrney," ft relate<; that in a dre,un or <I yisiOn, 1\lohammOO was carnal! hy night "from the sacn.>tl tcmple to the temple that is most remote, whose pn.'Cinct we have blesst'(l, that we might show him Ollr signs" ." In the scventh centurv, some ~luslil11s identified tIle two temple's mentioned in this verse as being in Mewl and Jemsaiem. AmI thars as close <IS Islam 's connection with Jelllsa­lem gets -- m~lh , fantasy, wishful think­ing.

On t he other hand. Jews can t ra ce t he ir root s in

Jeru sa lem hack t o th e d.\ys uf Abra ha Ill .

SO lIIbtlt ~'lbl: ;solulioll to (be Middle

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ary Palestinian parliamentary election was held, scveral prominent Israeli Messianic leaders-including American-bOn] Eliahu Ben H:til1l and Chuck (' . .uhen, ami British­bom author Lancr l.ambclt- urged prayer for a Si}\niflcanl Hamas electioll victory. Speaking al the allnual ·'lntcn.:essors for [srael" prayer conference in Jel1lsalell1. they noted thai the Pl.O-mled PA has actually been carrying out lIam:1.s· violent prngram ever since the current attrition connie! be­gan in late 2000. Therefore, they reasoned, a strong Hal11as electoral perfonllanec would only affil1l1 gmwing Israeli pub­lic conviclions that their supposed ··peael.' paltners" remain fierce adversaries devol­t'l.l to ISf<lel's ultil11;t\c annihilation. 'n,C prayer conference leaders also noted that real peace is possible to find in this crum­bling world, but oJ/(JI i l1 l'esbua, Israel's majestic lind elel'llal Prince of Peace.

* !!..tISf m{Ij'bem.' \Vell, frankly, I don't th ink there is a man-made sollltio1l 10 the vio­lence. But, if there is one. it needs to begin with (mIll. Pretending will oilly lead to more chaos. Trcatin~ a 5.ooo-year-old Jew­ish birthrighl b,lcktil by ovclwhclming his­wrical and archaeological e\'iucnce equally with illegitimate Palestin ian claims, wishes and wanlS, gi\'l~s diplomacy and peacekeep­ing a bad name.

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