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March 24, 2007

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Dramatic changes have rippled through the Middle East world of Islam during 2006 and 2007 at an alarming rate. Different groupings of Islam have been banding together in a defensive mode against the alarming rise of Shiite fanaticism like never before. I have never seen the Middle East in such a state of flux and uncertainty. The different sectors seem to be entering new phases in their relationships with one another, and a game of let’s pretend, masked by changes of phraseology, has left many participants in the game wondering what is going to happen next.

The following collection of Middle East articles describes the pretense and confusion that exists across the region at the present time. I remember the confusion that existed across the world as it daily viewed the events created by Germany, Italy, and Japan after 1936. The five years that followed were filled with intrigue and uncertainty. I believe the five years from now to 2012 are going to manifest the same state of world affairs with Syria, Iran, North Korea, and the Terrorist Groups creating the uneasiness.

Begin Jerusalem Post Article

US: Soldiers were nabbed in Iraqi water

Associated Press, THE JERUSALEM POST

March 23, 2007

While Iran maintained Friday that the 15 British sailors who were abducted earlier in the day had entered Iranian territorial waters illegally, the United States Naval Forces Central Command (US Fifth Fleet) issued the following statement regarding the incident:

“The United States NaAt approximately 10:30 a.m. Iraqi time March 23, 15 British naval personnel, engaged in routine boarding operations of merchant shipping in Iraqi territorial waters in support of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1723 and the government of Iraq, were seized by Iranian naval vessels.

The boarding party had completed a successful inspection of a merchant ship when they and their two boats were surrounded and escorted by Iranian vessels into Iranian territorial waters.

The British government is pursuing this matter with the Iranian authorities at the highest level and on the instructions of the British Foreign Secretary, the Iranian ambassador was summoned to the British Foreign Office. The British Government is demanding the immediate and safe return of their people and equipment.

Royal Navy forces operate as part of Combined Task Force 158.

CTF 158’s mission is to maintain security and stability in Iraqi territorial waters and to protect the Iraqi oil terminals, under the UN mandate set out in the Security Council Resolutions on Iraq.

CTF 158 is currently commanded by Royal Navy Commodore Nick Lambert and operates as one of three coalition task forces in the Combined Maritime Forces under the leadership of Commander, US Naval Forces Central Command/US Fifth Fleet, Vice Adm.

Kevin Cosgriff,” the statement concluded.

Iranian state television said, however, that this was “not the first time that British military personnel during the occupation of Iraq have entered illegally into Iran’s territorial waters,” the state TV quoted a foreign ministry official as saying. He was not identified by name.

Begin YNet News Article (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

Abbas Has Become Hamas

Uzi Arad

Palestinian national unity government signals a new phase in the Palestinian struggle. The new Palestinian government has not renounced terror and does not recognize Israel.

As to the adherence to former agreements signed by the Palestinians, there’s nothing to be said here, because even Abbas himself is not adhering to them.

The writer heads the Institute for Policy and Strategy at the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. (Ynet News)

Begin Washington Post Article (Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs)

The Great Mideast Pretenders

Jackson Diehl

For years cynical statesmen have played a game of make-believe with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: From podiums in Europe or at the UN, they announce that their top priority henceforth will be promoting a “comprehensive settlement,” brokered by the “international community.” That Israelis and Palestinians may be nowhere near ready for such a deal doesn’t concern them.

Since the beginning of the year, Secretary of State Rice has been proclaiming her commitment to promoting an Israeli-Palestinian “political horizon,” which is her newly coined synonym for a comprehensive settlement.

She’s promised to haunt Jerusalem and Ramallah this year; she will be there again this week, in a dramatic reversal of the Bush administration’s previous hands-off policy.

It’s hard to resist the notion that her diplomacy is mainly aimed at an audience of one: Saudi King Abdullah. Rice has been leaning heavily on Prince Bandar bin Sultan, Abdullah’s national security chief and an intimate of the Bush family, to organize Arab resistance against Iran. Talking up the Saudi initiative pleases the king, whom Rice needs to keep happy. (Washington Post)

Iranian Influence Soaring in Iraq

Liz Sly

In the cafeteria of Iraq’s parliament, Shiite legislators slip into Persian when they don’t want their conversations overheard. In the holy city of Najaf, an Iranian charity helps newlyweds buy furniture. Iranian weapons are turning up in arms caches seized from insurgents in Baghdad. These are among the many ways in which Iran’s soaring influence is being felt in Iraq. (Chicago Tribune)

Hamas Terror Brigade on the March in Gaza

(Maan News-PA)

Dozens of Al-Qassam Brigades’ fighters, the armed wing of Hamas, appeared in a military march through central Gaza City on Wednesday, the first such public appearance in several months.

Hundreds of Al-Qassam members marched through the streets carrying machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades and shouting pro-Hamas slogans.

In Chaotic Gaza, the Internet Is a Target

(Bloomberg/Chicago Daily Herald)

Soon after a firebomb exploded at 3 a.m. and destroyed four computers in the Al-Shawa Online Internet Cafe in Gaza, owner Alaa al-Shawa clicked onto his e-mail at an undamaged machine.

The first message was from the bombers, explaining that establishments such as his were keeping Muslims away from prayer and providing pornography. That’s why it was hit.

“This just shows how confused these fanatics are,” said Al-Shawa, 27. “Even they use the Internet to circulate their statements.”

About 45 Internet outlets have been bombed since Dec. 1, according to Gaza police.

IDF: Hamas Terrorists Boosted by New Ability to Travel Abroad

Avi Issacharoff

“Boosted by their newfound ability to travel abroad, Hamas militants have been going back and forth to hostile countries for training,” Israel Defense Forces Head of Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant said Wednesday. “They are sending activists to Syria, Lebanon, Iran. And the opposite.

People from Iran come inspect the situation in the area, give them the proper training and coaching, examine them and see if they hit the target they gave them.”

Galant said the training and technology from Iran has enabled Hamas to grow from a ragtag militia into a well-organized group resembling an army – complete with battalions, companies, platoons and special forces for surveillance, snipers, and explosive experts.

Galant also called the Gaza cease-fire a tactical move for Hamas to strengthen itself.

(Ha’aretz)

Brothers in Arms: Fatah and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Pinhas Inbari

Fatah was the main supporter in the Arab world of the Khomeini revolution in Iran when it erupted. Both Islamic Jihad and Hizbullah were established with deep Fatah involvement. Originally, Islamic Jihad was actually a purely Fatah offshoot, part and parcel of the military apparatus of Arafat’s deputy, Abu Jihad, who, as his name may convey, was the major promoter of Islamic features in Fatah. During the first Lebanon war, Abu Jihad followers helped Iran establish Hizbullah on the ruins of the Fatah infrastructure that Israel had destroyed in the war.

The joint plan of Fatah and Hizbullah was to surround Israel with terror rocket power from all sides.

This master plan still exists, but now the main role has been given to Hamas.

(ICA/JCPA)

Sunni and Shiite Muslims: Choosing a Sect

Noah Feldman

The U.S. f inds itself

in the odd position of seeming to favor a Shiite government in Iraq and Sunni leaders everywhere else. What began more than 1,300 years ago as an argument over whether the Prophet Muhammad should be succeeded by his cousin Ali or by an unrelated companion became a bloody civil war, then hardened over time into a theological split. But who, exactly, is our natural ally in this historic conflict?

Sunnis make up as much as 90% of the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims. Our support for the Iranian-backed Shiite parties who run the government in Iraq hasn’t exactly worked out so far. But Sunni Islam is in a sorry state, dominated by a purist and anti-intellectual fundamentalism that has been bankrolled by Wahhabi Saudi Arabia. Osama bin Laden is a Sunni who condemns Shiite and American infidels in the same breath.

The writer is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. (New York Times)

From Bad to Unthinkable

Mortimer B. Zuckerman (U.S. News)

The terrible result of the weakness of Mahmoud Abbas in Mecca – a weakness of character and a weakness of his organization – is that the conflict with Israel will torment still another generation of Palestinians. The Mecca agreement between Fatah and Hamas drove a stake through the heart of the two-state dream, because it left no one with whom the Israelis could make a peaceful settlement.

Abbas had been committed to disarming Hamas and calling early elections. Washington was supporting Abbas in this, but what does he do in Mecca? He agrees to share power with Hamas. Under the Mecca terms, Hamas’ Ismail Haniyeh will stay on as prime minister and as head of the coalition, and Hamas will hold the majority of the cabinet, with 12 seats, with Fatah holding only six.

Under the Mecca accord, Hamas’ armed men will be incorporated into the Palestinian security forces, with salaries to be paid by the Palestinian Finance Ministry.

Representatives of the Quartet cannot be unaware of Hamas’ using the respected new finance minister, Salaam Fayad, to funnel money into the hands of Hamas ministers, including those heading military and security forces. Any financial support post-Mecca will serve only to strengthen the radical forces of Hamas.

Unsurprisingly, as far as the Israelis are concerned, Abbas is toast. He is now incapable of carrying out any agreements that might have been reached with the Israelis, so the Quartet’s road map to peace has hit a dead end.

Hardly anyone in Israel thinks that if it decides to give up territory again, it would get peace in return. Tendering olive branches of the kind so often advocated by Israel’s critics has borne nothing but bitter fruit. Israel left Lebanon, and Hizbullah gathered weapons, then made war. Israel left Gaza to the Gazans and was rewarded with a more aggressive Hamas and more rocket attacks.

Hamas is part of the radical Muslim Bro

therhood movement that does nothing to conceal its aspirations of fomenting Islamic revolution across the length and breadth of the Middle East, of toppling the moderate regimes allied with the West, and of working with Iran to expand its role as the leader of political Islam – all in service of the goal of an Islamic caliphate that would ultimately threaten even Europe.

If the West must now choose between its survival and the survival of radical Islamic forces, we should choose our own survival.

Iran Poised to Strike in Wealthy Gulf States

Colin Freeman

(Sunday Telegraph-UK)

Iran has trained secret networks of agents across the Gulf states to attack Western interests and incite civil unrest in the event

of a military strike against its nuclear program, according to Adel Assadinia, 50, a former Iranian career diplomat who was consul-general in Dubai.

Trained by Iranian intelligence services, spies working as teachers, doctors and nurses at Iranian-owned schools and hospitals have formed sleeper cells ready to be “unleashed” at the first sign of any serious threat to Teheran, it is claimed.

Assadinia said the Iranian consulate in Dubai was used as a conduit for illicit funding of Hizbullah. Iranian foreign ministry agents would regularly pass through with suitcases containing up to £11 million, using diplomatic baggage channels to bypass customs scrutiny.

The consulate, he said, was a hub for regional intelligence operations because of the huge number of Iranians working in Dubai’s 4,000 Iranian businesses, which provide easy cover for espionage.

“The government sees itself as strong, but in fact it is like Saddam Hussein before he was overthrown – very fragile and brittle within,” said Assadinia, who was granted asylum in Europe in 2003.

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A Repeating Historical Principle is Once Again Occurring!

March 23, 2007

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Ezekiel 33:6 – But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

I received the discourse which follows from Brother J.D. Atkinson, who received it from “Mississippi Belle.” It is indeed a message, the peaceful majority of the world population of six plus billion, desperately needs to hear and heed. Although I do not believe there is a snowball’s chance in Hades that it will not repeat itself again, I am sending it on as a pubic responsibility.

Fanaticism in any religion has its beliefs based on emotional fervor in the flesh, which is grounded in its emotion of hatred for those who fail to reach the same degree of zeal as that demonstrated by its followers.

Why does the rise of fanaticism in any religion always increase until it is forcefully destroyed? Fanatical religionists do not change into peaceful religionists – peaceful religionists change into fanatical religionists.

Begin Quoted Discourse

The Peaceful Majority

I used to know a man whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War Two.

They owned a number of large industries and estates. I asked him how many German people were true Nazis, and the answer he gave has stuck with me and guided my attitude toward fanaticism ever since.

“Very few people were true Nazis “he said,” but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and

many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So, the majority just sat back and let it all happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control, and the end of the world had come. My family lost everything I ended up in a concentration camp and the Allies destroyed my factories.”

We are told again and again by “experts” and “talking heads” that Islam is the religion of peace, and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace.

Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant.

It is meaningless fluff, meant to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that the fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history.

It is the fanatics who march.

It is the fanatics who wage any one of 50 shooting wars worldwide.

It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor kill. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque.

It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals.

The hard quantifiable fact is that the “peaceful majority” is the “silent majority” and it is cowed and extraneous.

Communist Russia comprised Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority were irrelevant. China’s huge population was peaceful as well, but Chinese Communists managed to kill a staggering 70 million people.

The aver

age Japanese individual prior to World War 2 was not a warmongering sadist. Yet, Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across South East Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians; most killed by sword, shovel, and bayonet. And, who can forget Rwanda, which collapsed into butchery. Could it not be said that the majority of Rwandans were “peace loving”?

History lessons are often incredibly simple and blunt, yet for all our powers of reason we often miss the most basic and uncomplicated of points:

Peace-loving Muslims have been made irrelevant by their silence.

Peace-loving Muslims will become our enemy if they don’t speak up, because like my friend from Germany, they will awake one day and find that the fanatics own them, and the end of their world will have begun.

Peace-loving Germans, Japanese, Chinese, Russians, Rwandans, Serbs Afghans, Iraqis, Palestinians, Somalis, Nigerians, Algerians, and many others have died because the peaceful majority did not speak up until it was too late.

As for us who watch it all unfold; we must pay attention to the only group that counts; the fanatics who threaten our way of life.

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The Real Great Negev Evacuation will not be a Happy Event!

March 23, 2007

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The article which immediately follows this introduction describes a happy evacuation associated with the Negev Wilderness. However, Birth Pang Number 41, issued five years ago today, which follows the article, describes a real future evacuation into the Negev Wilderness I guesstimate is likely to be made by Israel at some point in time between 2008 and 2012.

Channel 2 Television Article

A Happy Evacuation

By Israel Harel

March 15, 2007

In the western Negev, according to Channel 2 television, Israel is feverishly implementing the lessons of Lebanon. When the Qassam fire resumes – and no one doubts this will happen – residents will be evacuated to beyond the rockets’ range. Each community already knows where its residents will be evacuated – not far from their homes, but outside rocket range – and even which household will host each family.

These evacuees, say the planners, will not need Arcadi Gaydamak’s tent city, and their evacuation will not produce the scenes we witnessed in Sderot, when residents fought over places on the buses that brought them to Eilat – another Gaydamak initiative. In the well-organized regional councils, which ma inly comprise kibbutzim, there will be no panicked flight by the healthy and wealthy as occurred

in Safed, Nahariya and Kiryat Shmona. Here, community leaders say, there will be an organized evacuation. No one will be abandoned to his fate.

Two days after this plan was revealed, Shin Bet security service chief Yuval Diskin, an eternal pessimist, informed the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee that over the last year, the year of the cease-fire in Gaza, more than 30 tons of explosives were smuggled into the Strip, and improved rockets, among other things, are now being built with this material.

Kiryat Gat and other nearby towns, and not just Sderot and Ashkelon, will now be in Qassam range. The evacuation planners are worried: Most of the communities that are supposed to house the evacuees now in rocket range will themselves be in range of the new rockets.

But they, and residents of the Kiry

at Gat region as well, would be well-advised not to go into a panic.

The Shin Bet, as is its wont, likes to exaggerate.

For instance, the public remembers its warning – which, of course, proved false – about the results of the disengagement. The same is true of its false prophecies on the eve of the historic withdrawal from Lebanon, which brought Israel, at the price of a few kidnapped and killed Israelis, years of quiet and growth in the Galilee. The organization reached its peak of exaggeration when it classified the recent declarations by Israeli Arab leaders, who represent only a negligible minority, as a strategic threat. Declarations, even if they are unpleasant, do not kill. Qassams do.

Therefore, there is no need to alter the doctrine which holds that comprehensive evacuations are the winning answer to the Qassam terror.

It is necessary, of course, to change the names of the host kibbutzim, as the existing ones will now also be in rocket range. We must also not forget to include these in the evacuation plan. But there are communities east, north and south of Kiryat Gat that have been suffering from population loss for years, and they would be happy to host the evacuees – even permanently.

And what will happen when the Palestinians increase the range beyond Kiryat Gat? Israel will not be orphaned. As it says in the holy scriptures, we have a broad and expansive land.

And the Jewish people, for whom welcoming guests was a foundational comm andment, will be happy to observe this comm

andment in Ashdod, Kiryat Malachi and Yavneh. And when the range increases still further, in Nes Tziona and Rehovot as well.

I therefore propose that the line at which the rocket fire becomes a casus belli – the “here and no farther” line – be drawn, as it was in the last war, at Tel Aviv. (And congratulations to the defense minister on the committee he has set up to find a name that will reflect his achievements and those of the Israel Defense Forces in this eventful war.) Because if tens of thousands of refugees were to flood its streets, that might make life difficult for the residents and disrupt the normal routine of life in the only city that manages to maintain its sanity without interruption.

This city also houses the stock exchange and the state’s principal cultural treasures. And nearby, along that same horizontal line, sits Israel’s only international airport. Just as long as the rockets do not reach there, God forbid. If they do, how will we be able to evacuate the hundreds of thousands of Israelis who have equipped themselves with foreign passports in recent years, precisely

for this purpose?

BIRTH PANG NUMBER 41

The Remnant of Israel, Past, Present, and Future!

Part 6

March 22, 2002

Revelation 12:14 – And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the Wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

The woman is Israel. The place that God has prepared for her is the Negev wilderness. A time is one 360 day year, times are two 360 day years, and half a time is 180 days, which totals 1260 days or 3 and ½ prophetic years. Both these scriptures describe the time period of 42 prophetic months (30 days per month) before the end of

the Tribulation Period.

When the antichrist launches his lightning Jihad from the north it will be a two pronged attack. Syrian and Lebanese troops will launch a blitzkrieg strike southward along the western lees of the Galilean and Samaritan mountain.

The Palestinians will zoom northward along the western lee of the Judean mountains out of Gaza to link with their comrades coming down from the north. This will cut off coastal Israel from interior Israel. Some 70% of the Jewish population lives along the narrow coastal strip from Tel Aviv to Haifa. They will be kept pinned down by thousands of katyusha rockets being launched from the bluff top cities of Tul Karm and Qalqilya in the Samarian Mountains. It will eventually be necessary to air evacuate the population out of this area across the Mediterranean into the Negev, as stated in 12:14.

The other battle prong, consisting of troops from Iraq, Syria, and Iran, will be directed southward along the west bank of the Jordan River in a lightning strike. The Palestinians will pour down the hundreds of dendritic valleys in the eastern lee of the Samarian Mountains, armed with shoulder held antitank launchers. They will destroy many of the Israeli tanks coming north to intercept the southward moving Arab tank units of Syria, Iraq, and Iran. The Jewish population to the east of the coastal sections, and to the west of the Jordan River, will flee on land in whatever types of transportation may be available. This has long been the national Israel contingency plan that is to be carried out in the event of attack from the north, and the Negev has been their emergency contingency evacuation area since 1948. If you desire a detailed discussion of what I have just briefly covered, please review Prophecy Updates 5 through 11, which are found in our Prophecy Archives.

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Netanyahu Tells Israel and the World the Truth, but very few will Listen!

March 22, 2007

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Israel will prevail against her enemies after being driven into the Negev Wilderness, where she will remain for some three and one-half years.

At the end of that time she will be victorious over all her enemies, but only by the direct intervention of her God.

I am hopeful Binyamin Netanyahu will be their leader during the three and one-half years.

Revelation 12:6 – And the woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days.

Zechariah 13:8,9 – And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the Lord, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein. [9] And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The Lord is my God.

Begin Arutz Sheva Article

Netanyahu Issues Call to World From Jerusalem Conference

by Hillel Fendel

March 19, 2007

Binyamin Netanyahu, speaking at the 4th Annual Jerusalem Conference Monday morning, repeated his call for the world to prove that now i s not

like the 1930s and that the world knows how to respond this time.

“Historic tragedies occur when leaders do not foresee dangers – and the opposite is true: Great things happened when leaders foresaw and took advantage of opportunities,” the former Prime Minister and present head of the Knesset opposition said. “Today we have both. The great threat of the spread of militant Islam around the world, and the opportunity of globalization, which can bring a great blessing to mankind and especially to small countries like us – if we are smart enough to take advantage of this opportunity.

“First, the dangers: For years, I have been warning about the dangers of Islam. Ten years ago, after I was elected PM and I went to speak before both houses of Congress. I recently looked up my speech and I s

aw that I said the same things – the dangers of Iran arming with nuclear power and its becoming a menace to humanity.

I can’t say I was successful in convincing many people: I tried to convince Clinton and Yeltsin and the President of China, but they just didn’t see the dangers.

“A few months ago, I said that it is now 1938 and

Iran is Germany. I was told that things are different now, and that the world now has a different approach. So I say: ‘Great, if it’s different, let’s see how it’s different!’ The difference is not that then

it was a ‘race superiority’ issue and now it’s a ‘religious superiority’ issue – that’s not the point. The only difference is that Hitler first tried to conquer the world and only afterwards was going to try for atomic power, while now, Ahmadinajad is trying first for nuclear power and only then will he try to conquer the world! That’s the whole difference! This is a tidal wave that threatens to engulf first Israel, and then the rest of the world. They are talking openly about a new Reich – except that they call it a Khalifate; that’s what they want to establish in the world. But for this to happen, they need a cataclysmic event to bring it on – and they are working on that.

“The question is what have we learned from 1939? If, as everyone says, we didn’t act in time to stop Hitler – so let’s see if they act in time now! The way to do this is first by exerting economic pressure on Iran, to which it is very vulnerable. They have 20% unemployment, and we can take advantage of this in order to cause a destabilization of the government. Of course, we must also enact sanctions against the 400 companies that do business with Iran, among them some very big ones such as the French oil company Total. We need a world coalition against genocide! This is what I tell the world: If we’re not in the 30s now, then let’s prove it! Sanctions against Iran are a good idea for a few months or a year – let’s see if they work – but not longer than that! Iran must not be allowed to obtain nuclear power!

“There is a simple principle that governs negotiations with our neighbors, as we have learned ever since 1993 [the signing of the Oslo Accords –ed.]. We thought that we had to dem and Arab accept

ance and an erasure of their desire to destroy us. Yet then came the actual talks, and we found ourselves making concessions – including some very painful ones – and all without receiving our basic demand of an erasure of their intention to destroy us. They have not abandoned this plan!

So what we have learned is that this cannot be part of the negotiations; it must be made clear that this cannot be negotiated – whether in the form of our very existence, or in the form of a demand for the “right of return” and the deluge of millions of Arabs, which can destroy us in the same way!

If they don’t understand that at the outset, they cannot be our partners for negotiations! It’s very nice that our government is happy that the Mecca Agreement doesn’t demand the right of return right now at – what time is it? 11:05? – right now. But what about a bit later on?”

Reduce Socialism in Israel

“I also mentioned that this is a time for great opportunities. The fact is that in the coming decades, we are going to need to defend ourselves – we are a small country – in many ways, on land, air, and by sea. Where will all the money for this come from? No one is going to give it

to us. It can come, however, from our own ingenuity, with which we are blessed in abundance. The decades-long argument over whether socialism-communism or capitalism is better has been decided – communism has been shown to be a total failure.

It had great education, but people lived in abject poverty, and the societal gaps grew larger and larger as the ruling classes took all the wealth for themselves. The walls finally fell, and here, too, they will fall. We are coming around to realize this.

Why is it that countries that were way behind us economically are now ahead of us – countries such as Spain, Ireland, and Singapore? Because they did three things: they reduced the public sector, and expanded the private sector – cutting taxes which then brought to more production and more taxes – and allowed competition. We have to do the same.

We can’t have one phone company, or to sell it off to one owner who will continue to run it as a monopoly, but rather have competition. There was fear that Bezeq would lose jobs, but in the end, many thousand more jobs were created in the competing companies, and those who lost jobs with Bezeq received jobs there as well! At the same time, this gives us many more markets, and more competition for jobs, thus raising wages – and then we have from where to give elderly benefits, and school lunches, and the like.

We added 270,000 more jobs – that’s not social welfare?! We gave 150,000 school lunches – that’s not social welfare?

Netanyahu ended his address on a resounding optimistic note: “In short, with G-d’s help, and with the help of our realization that we are struggling for an ancient cause of the renewal of the Jewish People on our land in our renewed country, we will prevail.”

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Will Europeans Stand Up and Fight before it is too Late

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March 22, 2007

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The European Masters, that smashed Islam’s Invasion into Europe and crushed the once great Ottoman Empire, are now rolling over in their graves as their compromising descendants are well on their way toward reversing the ancient victories of their forefathers. Islam is slowly, but surely, taking over Europe.

A fear of the scourge of Allah has found its way into the hearts of the European populations.

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ISLAMICIZATION OF ANTWERP

By Paul Belien

March 14, 2007

The decisive battle against Islamic extremists will not be fought in Iraq, but in Europe.

It is not in Baghdad but in cities like Antwerp, Belgium, where the future of the West will be decided.

I recently met Marij Uijt den Bogaard, a 49-year-old woman who deserves America’s support at least as much as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.

Ms. Uijt den Bogaard was an Antwerp civil servant in the 1990s, who spent many years working in the immigrant neighborhoods of Antwerp. There she noticed how radical Islamists began to take over. “They work according to a well-defined plan,” she says.

One of the things Ms.

Uijt den Bogaard used to do for the immigrants was to assist them with their administrative paperwork.

Quite a few of them came to trust her.

About three years ago, young men dressed in black moved into the neighborhoods. They had been trained in Saudi Arabia and Jordan and adhere to Salafism, a radical version of Islam. They set up youth organizations, which gradually took over the local mosques. “The Salafists know how to debate and they know the Qur’an by heart, while the elderly running the mosques do not,” she said They also have money. “One of them told me that he gets Saudi funds.” Because they are eloquent, the radicals soon became the official spokesmen of the Muslim community, also in dealing with the city authorities. Ms. Uijt den Bogaard witnessed how the latter gave in to Salafist demands, such as the demand for separate swimming hours for Muslim women in the municipal pools.

Worried immigrants told Ms. Uijt den Bogaard what was happening.

On the basis of their accounts and her own experiences she wrote (confidential) reports for the city authorities about the growing radicalization.

This brought her into conflict, both with the Islamists and her bosses in the city.

The city warned her that her reports were unacceptable, that they read like “Vlaams Belang tracts” (the Vlaams Belang is Antwerp’s anti-immigrant party) and that she had to “change her attitude.” The Islamists sensed that she disapproved of them. They might also have been informed, because there are Muslims working in the city administration. One day, when she was accompanied by her superior, she was attacked

by a Muslim youth. Her superior refused to interfere.

When she questioned him afterward he said that all the animosity toward her was her own fault.

In the end she was fired.

She is unemployed at the moment and gets turned away whenever she applies for another job as a civil servant. Last week, she learned that city authorities have given the job of integration officer, whose task it is to supervise 25 Antwerp mosques, to one of the radical Salafists. Meanwhile, the latter have threatened her with reprisals if she continues to speak out.

After her dismissal Ms. Uijt den Bogaard went to see Monica Deconinck, a Socialist politician who is the head of the Antwerp social department, to tell her about the plight of the Muslim women. Ms. Deconinck said, “You have taken your job too seriously and tried to do it too well,” adding that she cannot help, although she sympathizes. Ms. Uijt den Bogaard also went to see Christian Democrat and Liberal politicians.

They also refused to help her because they are governing the city in a coalition with the Socialists. The only opposition party in town is the Vlaams Belang.

According to Ms. Uijt den Bogaard, the reason why the Socialists, who run the city, allow the Islamists to do as they please is because they want to get the Muslim vote, which is controlled increasingly by the Salafists who are in the process of taking over the mosques.

In a letter to city authorities she wrote: “You employ workers to improve social cohesion in the city’s neighborhoods. But if you do not want to know what is damaging social cohesion, then you need not bother sending those workers!… Employees who are confronted with this problem [of Muslim radicalization] and investigate are silently removed, losing their income

and their reputation.

That is censorship in the fashion of political dictatorships. As a former member of your services I am shocked to find myself in this position and to discover after years of service that you have no policy whatever, either political or with regard to your personnel.”

Sadly, what is happening in Antwerp is not unique. The Salafists employ the same strategy in other European cities. They boasted to Ms. Uijt den Bogaard about their international network and their successes in neighboring countries. While the Americans fight to secure Iraq, Western Europe is becoming a hotbed of Salafism.

Paul Belien is editor of the Brussels Journal and an adjunct fellow of the Hudson Institute.

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