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		<title>Jew wins &#8220;Arab Nobel Prize&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 18:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American Jew has won the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine, commonly known as the Arab Nobel Prize.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Now this is interesting.  An American Jewish man, Ronald Levy, has become the <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078687.html">first Jew win the King Faisal International Prize in Medicine</a>, widely known as the &#8220;Arab Nobel Prize&#8221;.  The dean of Stanford&#8217;s Medical School had asked Mr. Levy, a cancer researcher, for permission to <a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1079232.html">submit his candidacy</a> for the prize, but as an American Jew married to an Israeli, he didn&#8217;t think he had a shot.  Interestingly, the Saudis treated him royally and were interested in what he thought of the country.</p>
<p>Saudi Arabia is widely thought to be the exporter of the most radical form of Islam to the world.  Could this indicate that they&#8217;re changing?  We&#8217;re not betting on it, but we&#8217;d like to hope that this is a step in the right direction!</p>
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		<title>Egyptian State TV Advises Boycotting Starbucks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:30:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a ridiculous video shown on Egyption state TV, advising Egyptians boycott Starbucks.  Why?  You&#8217;ll be shocked because the reasoning is so stupid.  Because, the idiot claims, that the symbol of Starbucks is Queen Esther, the Jewish Queen of Persia from thousands of years ago (the Purim story happened in 423 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is a ridiculous video shown on Egyption state TV, advising Egyptians boycott Starbucks.  Why?  You&#8217;ll be shocked because the reasoning is so stupid.  Because, the idiot claims, that the symbol of Starbucks is Queen Esther, the Jewish Queen of Persia from thousands of years ago (the Purim story happened in 423 BCE).  A little research shows that this claim is a) stupid and b) wrong.  The symbol actually shows a two-tailed mermaid - I&#8217;m guessing that Queen Esther wasn&#8217;t a mermaid with two tails!  Here&#8217;s the video:</p>
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<p>The point is that these idiots will stop at nothing to harm Jews and America.  I hope that most Egyptians could see through this crap, but as we know from Joseph Goebells (and the Arab media has taken this to heart) - &#8220;if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it&#8221;.  This is how they&#8217;ve stolen the decency from normal, decent Arabs.  It&#8217;s sad, really.</p>
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		<title>Stupid Europeans Boycott Israel</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 26 Apr 2009 00:11:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are despicable boycotts of Israel going on in Europe.  One that was pretty small in scale (seemed to only include a handful of demonstrators) was in Wales at Tescos and resulted in the arrest of the perpetrators.  

These dummies claim that the settlements are illegal under the Geneva conventions - they&#8217;re sadly [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are despicable boycotts of Israel going on in Europe.  One that was pretty small in scale (seemed to only include a handful of demonstrators) was in Wales at Tescos and resulted in the arrest of the perpetrators.  </p>
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<p>These dummies claim that the settlements are illegal under the Geneva conventions - they&#8217;re sadly mistaken.  We&#8217;ve said time and time again that this is patently false - the Geneva conventions don&#8217;t apply to the Israelis and the Palestinians.  The controllers of the land for hundreds of years were the Ottomans, who were Muslim, but not Arabs. They were replaced by the Brits after World War One.  In 1948, after the first Israel-Arab war, Jordan took control of the West Bank, Egypt took control of Gaza.  Palestine never existed as a country!  Israel &#8220;annexed&#8221; the West Bank and Gaza from Egypt and Jordan (who weren&#8217;t the rightful &#8220;owners&#8221; of the land either) after the 1967 war, begun by the Arabs (via daily threats of attack).  In 1979, Egypt relinquished its claim to Gaza, and in 1994, Jordan relinquished it&#8217;s claim to the West Bank.  So, in essense, the idiots in these videos have no clue what they&#8217;re talking about.  Also, what they&#8217;re doing is illegal, which is funny, since they&#8217;re complaining that Israel is undertaking illegal activities!</p>
<p>The funniest part about this video is that the woman assumes that since the product comes from the West Bank, it must be from a settlement.  She&#8217;s being racist herself - she believes that Arabs are not capable of producing goods for the Welsh market!</p>
<p>The next one is worse.  It happened in France in March.  Somehow, this group of idiots took over a French supermarket and began apparently throwing out merchandise from Israel.  While it&#8217;s not clear that they actually disposed of the material, it&#8217;s quite disturbing that a group of people could cause such a disturbance in a supermarket and not have any type of confrontation with the police.  Where are the police??</p>
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		<title>Why Muslims Scare Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 23:22:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is one of the most chilling videoes we&#8217;ve ever seen.? It&#8217;s a crazy Kuwaiti Professor named Abdallah Fahd Abd Al-Aziz Al-Nafisi (long enough name???) translated by Memri TV. Why crazy?? Why chilling?? Have a look.

Abdallah &#8220;Idiot&#8221; Fahd &#8220;Genocidal Maniac&#8221; Abd &#8220;Fanatic&#8221; Al-Aziz &#8220;Very Muslim&#8221; Al-Nafisi (I gave him a few new middle names) talks [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is one of the most chilling videoes we&#8217;ve ever seen.? It&#8217;s a crazy Kuwaiti Professor named Abdallah Fahd Abd Al-Aziz Al-Nafisi (long enough name???) translated by Memri TV. Why crazy?? Why chilling?? Have a look.</p>
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<p>Abdallah &#8220;Idiot&#8221; Fahd &#8220;Genocidal Maniac&#8221; Abd &#8220;Fanatic&#8221; Al-Aziz &#8220;Very Muslim&#8221; Al-Nafisi (I gave him a few new middle names) talks about genocide in such a casual way.? It&#8217;s disgusting that he says with a smile: &#8220;Four pound of anthrax - in a suitcase this big - carried by a fighter through tunnels from Mexico into the US, is guaranteed to kill 330,000 Americans within a single hour&#8221;.? If genocidal statements like this don&#8217;t give you the chills, you&#8217;ve got something wrong with you.</p>
<p>We&#8217;re extra-scared about him talking about the militias extreme right in the US who &#8220;think about bombing nuclear plants within the US&#8221;.? His commentary on this?? &#8220;May Allah grant them success &#8230; I believe that we should devote part of our prayers to him [the leaders of said militias]&#8221; (with lots of laughter from the crowd that he&#8217;s talking to). This shows he&#8217;s not alone in his hopes - the viewers agree with him.<br />
And to anybody who talks about &#8220;peace in our time&#8221;, our dear speakers comments should ring in your ears: &#8220;Allah stated in the Koran that the hostility between us and the Jews is eternal. So whoever talks about dialogue - cut off his tongue!&#8221;? And then to condone the threatening of the press who might not agree with his point of view.? &#8220;We must confront these journalists and prevent them from continuing this, even if it means calling them over the phone, and saying to them: &#8216;Do not repeat these despicable things, in your columns or your articles, or else we will take the following measures against you.&#8221;? Comforting to know that the few journalists who disagree with these idiots have to fear for their lives.? This is exactly why the truth doesn&#8217;t come out in the Middle East - those in the Middle East who would dare to report anything negative about Islam would be killed.</p>
<p>All the above is why Muslims scare us.</p>
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		<title>Compilation of Middle East News</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 06:40:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been some time since we&#8217;ve had an entry in this blog, so we thought we&#8217;d give you a compilation of some great material that we&#8217;ve seen over the last little while.? Here we go.
To start us off, we have a presentation from the Terrorism Awareness Project called the &#8220;Islamic Mein Kampf&#8220;, which shows the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p align="left">It&#8217;s been some time since we&#8217;ve had an entry in this blog, so we thought we&#8217;d give you a compilation of some great material that we&#8217;ve seen over the last little while.? Here we go.</p>
<p>To start us off, we have a presentation from the <a target="_blank" title="Terrorism Awareness" href="http://www.terrorismawareness.org">Terrorism Awareness Project</a> called the &#8220;<a target="_blank" title="Islamic Mein Kampf" href="http://www.terrorismawareness.org/islamic-mein-kampf/">Islamic Mein Kampf</a>&#8220;, which shows the similarities between Adolf Hitler and Mahmoud Ahmenijihad (yes, that&#8217;s an intentional misspell).? This is appropriately timed, given the current controversy surrounding Ahmenijihad and <a target="_blank" title="Ahmenijad Speech" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf_pC2_jD6k">his speech/diatribe</a> at the &#8220;UN Congress on Racism&#8221; planning meeting in Geneva.</p>
<p>Next we&#8217;d like to share with you a couple things about the Palestinian Authority with respect to the peace process.? Firstly, an <a title="Mohammed Dahlan" target="_blank" href="http://standwithus.org/app/iNews/view_n.asp?ID=960">article about Mohammed Dahlan</a>, the former Fatah security commander.? He recently called on Hamas to never recognize Israel&#8217;s right to exist, and pointing out that Fatah never recognized it, the first time in 15 years that a Fatah official admitted that Fatah doesn&#8217;t recognize Israel&#8217;s right to exist.? Now, if you don&#8217;t believe it, you can see it with you own eyes and ear - Mohammed Dahlan admits freely and openly what is written above - that <a title="Mohammed Dahlan on israel's right to exist" target="_blank" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTQ5CNYLoXE">Fatah never recognized Israel&#8217;s right to exist</a>.? He says &#8220;I want to say for the thousandth time, in my own name, and in the name of all my fellow members of the Fatah movement: We don&#8217;t demand that the Hamas movement recognize Israel.? On the contrary, we demand of the Hamas movement not to recognize Israel because the Fatah movement does not recognize Israel, even today.&#8221;? Anybody that believes that the Palestinian leadership wants peace is deluding themselves.</p>
<p>Next, a piece about Malm?, Sweden, where there is a <a title="Growing Muslim influence" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaPz7p-1-bk">growing Muslim influence</a>.? The video shows that the city is being destroyed by the minority Muslims and that areas of the city are off limits to firemen and ambulances without police protection.? The city is experiencing a crime wave, thanks to the Muslim population who are 70% unemployed.? Things are so good for Muslims in Sweden that an Arab-Swedish politician Adly Abu Hajar has declared &#8220;The Best Islamic State is Sweden!&#8221;? The video shows homemade bombs being used, rocks being thrown and crazy anger.? There is a chilling prediction in this video that there will be a Muslim majority in Sweden by 2049.? Good luck Sweden!? You&#8217;ll need it.</p>
<p>Finally, we want to point out a message from Ishmael Khaldi, who is a Muslim Bedouin, in the position of deputy consul general of Israel for the Pacific Northwest.? As a representative of Israel in the San Francisco area, Mr. Khaldi has encountered an interesting situation - being an Arab, while being accused of representing an &#8220;aparteid&#8221; country.? Mr. Khaldi writes an interesting peace on <a title="Campus Hatred" target="_blank" href="http://www.aish.com/jewishissues/middleeast/Campus_Hatred.asp">Campus Hatred</a>, where he talks about events at UC Berkeley.? While he talks specifically about &#8220;Israel Aparteid Week&#8221;, his commentary is relevant to everyday Israel-bashing on campuses in North America.? He claims to be a proud Israeli and calls Israel &#8220;one of the most culturally diversified societies and the only true democracy in the Middle East&#8221;.? He then aims his sites on the organizers of Israel Aparteid Week with the following advice:</p>
<ul>
<li>You are part of the problem, not part of the solution</li>
<li>You deny Israel the fundamental right of every society to defend itself</li>
<li>Your criticism is willfully hypocritical</li>
<li>You are betraying the moderate Muslims and Jews who are working to achieve peace</li>
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<p>He finishes off with this: &#8220;If Israel were an apartheid state, I would not have been appointed here, nor would I have chosen to take upon myself this duty. There are many Arabs, both within Israel and in the Palestinian territories who have taken great courage to walk the path of peace. You should stand with us, rather than against us.&#8221;</p>
<p>I commend the bravery of Mr. Khaldi to face-off against the anti-Israel machine that is so prevelant on North American campuses.? May his voice be heard by all students - Jews, Muslims and others.</p>
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		<title>Hamas: In their own voices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:31:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So you think Israel should make peace with the Palestinians?  We do too.  Some people come up with these twisted arguments that Israel is responsible for the lack of peace.  Israel&#8217;s leaders have constantly been praising peace, while the Palestinian leaders have constantly been praising war.  It&#8217;s unfortunate that some people [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>So you think Israel should make peace with the Palestinians?  We do too.  Some people come up with these twisted arguments that Israel is responsible for the lack of peace.  Israel&#8217;s leaders have constantly been praising peace, while the Palestinian leaders have constantly been praising war.  It&#8217;s unfortunate that some people feel that Israel is somehow responsible.  Here is Hamas in their own voices, all before the war began in December and many during the ceasefire.  Among the quotes:</p>
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<li>&#8220;We in Hamas, and I think most of the other forces, say loud and clear that after December 19, 2008, the tahdiah (ceasefire) will end, and will not be renewed.&#8221; - Khaled Mash&#8217;al, Head of Hamas (living in Syria), Al-Quds TV, Lebanon</li>
<li>&#8220;Very soon, Allah willing, Rome will be conquered, just like Constantinople was&#8230; Today, Rome is the capital of the Catholics, or the Crusader capital, which has declared its hostility to Islam&#8230;in order to prevent the reawakening of Islam - this capital of theirs will be an advanced post fot the Islamic conquests, which will spread through Europe in its entirety, and then will turn to the two Americas, and even Eastern Europe.&#8221; - Yunis Al-Astal, Hamas MP &#038; Cleric, Al-Aqsa TV</li>
<li>&#8220;Allah willing, &#8216;you will be victorious,&#8217; while America and Israel will be annihilated, Allah willing&#8230;and kill them all, down to the very last one.&#8221; Sheik Ahmad Bahr, Palestinian Legislative Council, Acting Speaker, Sudan TV (Iran)</li>
<li>&#8220;Oh Americans, Allah will punish you.? The time has come for Allah to declare war on you, oh usurers!&#8221; - Ismail Haniya, Hamas Prime Minister, Al-Aqsa TV (during the ceasfire - 10/15/08)</li>
<li>&#8220;We have come here to say, as we burn the American flag, with the grace of Allah&#8230;We salute the resistance in Afghanistan, which humiliates the American army, the army of Bush, by the grace of Allah.&#8221; - Mushir Al-Masri, Hamas MP, Al Jazeera TV</li>
<li>&#8220;By the grace of Allah, killing a single Jew is the same as killing 30 million Jews&#8221; - Fathi Hammad, Hamas MP, Al-Aqsa TV (Note: there are only 15 million Jews in the world, idiot!)</li>
<li>&#8220;As Muslims, our blood vengeance against them will only subside with their annihilation, Allah willing&#8221; - Wael Al-Zarad, Hamas Cleric, Al-Aqsa TV</li>
<li>&#8220;The annihilation of the Jews here in Palestine is one of the most splendid blessings for Palestine.&#8221; - Muhsen Abu Ita, Hamas Cleric, Al-Aqsa TV</li>
<li>&#8220;Yes, Allah is greater than America. Allah is greater than the superpowers. We say this to the West - &#8216;By Allah you will be defeated&#8217;.? Today, the Arab and Islamic nation is rising and awakening - it will regain the leadership of the world.&#8221; - Khaled Mash&#8217;al, Head of Hamas (living in Syria), Al-Jazeera TV</li>
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<p>To be sure, these comments from the Hamas top brass are not gestures of peace and show that their line of thinking is &#8220;divinely inspired&#8221;.  This should be a wakeup call for people who think Israel is responsible for there not being peace.  This is about more that Israel - Israel is just their first step. God help Israel and all of us who want peace&#8230;</p>
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		<title>Help Israel Win!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 07:24:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you interested in helping Israel win the war.? The war Israel is waging is as much a war of world opinion as it is a war on the ground.? Something that many people outside of Israel don&#8217;t realize is that there is a hacking war going on in the virtual world.? And as we&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Are you interested in helping Israel win the war.? The war Israel is waging is as much a war of world opinion as it is a war on the ground.? Something that many people outside of Israel don&#8217;t realize is that there is a hacking war going on in the virtual world.? And as we&#8217;ve come to expect, the Israelis are playing by different rules than their enemies.</p>
<p>Pro-Hamas hackers have been busy hacking Israeli sites including <a target="_blank" title="Debka" href="http://www.debka.com">Debkafile</a> and <a target="_blank" title="The Bank Discount" href="http://www.discountbank.co.il">The Bank Discount</a>, and also the websites of Soldier&#8217;s Treasury Bank, Bank Hapoalim (not the main page), Rambam Hospital, the Society for Culture and Housing, BMW Israel, Subaru Israel, Jump Fashion, non-profit organization &#8220;Yedid,&#8221; Kadima&#8217;s youth website, and the Globus Group ticket center.</p>
<p>Our Israeli brethren want to play this dirty game, but their objective it to shut out offensive websites, not commercial websites that are removed from the conflict.? The Israeli hacking organizers are students looking to hit back and help Israel win this information war.</p>
<p>You can help them out - not by financial contributions, but by installing a small application on your computer that will help them generate the computer power to hit back at those disseminating false or misleading information about Israel, or who are involved in terrorist plotting.? For more information, please visit their website <a title="Help Israel Win" href="http://www.help-israel-win.org/index.php?lang=eng">Help Israel Win</a>.? Do your part and help Israel win this war of public support!</p>
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		<title>Say &#8216;No&#8217; to an Imposed Two-State Solution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:45:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve read the materials on Middle East Facts, it is obvious we care deeply about Israel, and yearn for a real, just and lasting peace with secure Israeli borders.? There has always been pressure on Israel to enter into a peace plan with the Palestinians and the greater Arab world.? If the Arabs were [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you&#8217;ve read the materials on Middle East Facts, it is obvious we care deeply about Israel, and yearn for a real, just and lasting peace with secure Israeli borders.? There has always been pressure on Israel to enter into a peace plan with the Palestinians and the greater Arab world.? If the Arabs were to desire what we do, a real, just and lasting peacee with secure Israeli borders, we would fully support the world&#8217;s pressure - however, it is quite clear, from the actions and words being spoken from the Arab world that a real, just and lasting peacee with secure Israeli borders is not what the Arabs desire - they want &#8220;Palestine&#8221; and to push the Jews into the sea.</p>
<p>It appears that Barack Obama and his team will again put pressure on Israel to make concessions and enter into peace negotiations with a fractured Palestinian leadership who doesn&#8217;t represent many of their people.? As with previous attempts by Israel to make peace with the Palestinians, Israel will lose.? Until the Palestinians have a total reformation of their society - rejecting extremism/Islamism and creating their own economy, a two-state solution will fail.? That is why we say &#8220;No&#8221; to an imposed two-state solution and support &#8220;<a title="The 18" target="_blank" href="http://www.the18.org">The 18</a>&#8220;, an organization whose modus operandi is to stop an imposed two-state solution that will fail and will leave use WITHOUT a real, just and lasting peace with secure Israeli borders.<br />
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		<title>Eugene Rostow and UN Resolution 242</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Nov 2008 02:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eugene Rostow is the former US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs.? He played a leading role in drafting Resolution 242, which many cite as the basis for Israel/Arab peace agreements.? Mr. Rostow, before he died, always claimed that Resolution 242 is still binding, and that this resolution gives the Jews the full right to [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Eugene Rostow is the former US Under-Secretary of State for Political Affairs.? He played a leading role in drafting Resolution 242, which many cite as the basis for Israel/Arab peace agreements.? Mr. Rostow, before he died, always claimed that Resolution 242 is still binding, and that this resolution gives the Jews the full right to live within the West Bank and Gaza:</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8230;the Jews have the same right to settle there as they have to settle in Haifa. The West Bank and the Gaza Strip were never parts of Jordan, and Jordan&#8217;s attempt to annex the West Bank was not generally recognized and has now been abandoned. The two parcels of land are parts of the Mandate that have not yet been allocated to Jordan, to Israel, or to any other state, and are a legitimate subject for discussion.</p></blockquote>
<p>The international community has thrown around the expression &#8220;international law&#8221; and &#8220;Palestinian rights&#8221; in discussing the issue of Israeli settlement, but few have actually looked at the law and the opinions of the lawmaker, upon which these statements are based.? It is clear that the drafters of Resolution 242 were not banning Israeli settlement in the West Bank and Gaza.? Anybody who argues this fact hasn&#8217;t read the laws or surveyed the opinions upon which the resolutions were made.</p>
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		<title>Changes in the Arab World?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 05:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two positive pieces of news today from the Arab world that give us reason to smile.  One is about Houda Nonoo, a Jewish Bahraini, who has been appointed by King Hamad Isa al-Khalifa as the country&#8217;s ambassador to the United States.  Although Bahrain is considered to be quite moderate in circles, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There are two positive pieces of news today from the Arab world that give us reason to smile.  One is about Houda Nonoo, a Jewish Bahraini, who has been appointed by King Hamad Isa al-Khalifa as the country&#8217;s ambassador to the United States.  Although Bahrain is considered to be quite moderate in circles, it&#8217;s still nice to hear that they&#8217;re willing to give a female and a Jew (in this case, the same person) a prestigious post.  For more information, see the <a target="_blank" title="Jerusalem Post" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1212041427530&#038;pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull">Jerusalem Post</a>.</p>
<p>Another story in the <a target="_blank" title="Jerusalem Post" href="http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&#038;cid=1212041432454">Jerusalem Post</a> has to do with Arab reactions to reports about Israeli Prime Minister&#8217;s Ehud Olmert&#8217;s corruption trial for receiving $150,000 in cash over 14 years.  While it is clear that some of the posters don&#8217;t like Israel, it seems as though most of them respect the fact that Israel&#8217;s justice system works even against elected representatives in the highest positions of power.  Some are even critical of Ehud Olmert for taking so little money!  Many responders laud Israel as an example that Arab countries should use, as it&#8217;s clear that the Arabs realize the corruption that occurs in their countries.  Comments include:</p>
<ul>
<li><span class="lead">&#8220;the reason why Israel has lasted for so long is because of its independent and fair judicial system. I challenge the Arabs to have such an independent judicial system.&#8221;</span></li>
<li><span class="lead">&#8220;Only a few thousand dollars? What a fool! This is what an Egyptian minister gets in a day or what a Saudi CEO gets in 45 minutes, or a Kuwaiti government official in five minutes. This is what the physician of the emir of Qatar gets every 30 seconds.&#8221;</span></li>
<li><span class="lead">&#8220;Unfortunately, this is the real democracy. Our enemies are very good in practicing democracy. In the Arab world, our leaders steal everything and no one ever dares to ask a question.&#8221;</span></li>
<li><span class="lead">&#8220;I swear Israel is a state that will succeed. They are prosecuting their prime minister because of tens of thousands of dollars. What about the millions of dollars that Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority stole? How come the Palestinian people are still hungry?&#8221;</span></li>
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<p>Is the Arab world finally seeing the virtues of Israel?  Do these sentiments reflect the consensus in the Arab world?  Unlikely.  But given the Arab world distaste for Israel, to put it lightly, the fact that these opinions are shared in public forums (albeit online) could be a step in the right direction.  Perhaps it&#8217;s no reason to be overly optimistic, but it is a step in the right direction.  Let&#8217;s hope justified criticisms of leadership in the Arab world, by Arabs, continues - it shows that people are waking up to the reality that Israel is not their enemy - their own leadership is.</p>
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