Sharon is defying the God of Israel
Sharon is Violating Israel's Covenant with God
By Jerusalem Newswire Editorial Staff
April 28th, 2005 Christian-Zionist Forum
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is, with his plan to uproot the Jews of Gaza and northern Samaria, violating a divine covenant whereby the Almighty deeded the entire land of Israel to the Jewish people as an eternal possession.
So said Knesset member Benny Elon (National Union) Wednesday in a speech to more than 50,000 anti-disengagement activists during a rally in southern Gaza.
Sharon's treachery goes beyond violating God's Word, however, and is directly endangering the lives of millions of Israelis, Elon charged.
"Sharon is committing two crimes," the MK emphatically stated, "he is violating a covenant that God gave us as an eternal heritage and he is endangering lives by the very creation of a terrorist state."
But "even when the knife is on our chest, it does not prevent us from praying and asking for [divine] mercy," Arutz 7 quoted Elon as saying.
"Every one of us must act with determination and dedication to save the nation from suicide and from this satanic plan."
MK Aryeh Eldad echoed his National Union colleague's call to action, and urged the throngs to engage in civil disobedience in defense of their homeland.
"An historic injustice is on our shoulders. We are fighting for our homes," Eldad said. "If [Sharon] closes Gush Katif, no one will travel in Israel. We will stop the country. No one will fly, no one will travel and no one will walk if Jews are not allowed to live in every place in the Land of Israel."
Leftists elements of Sharon's government later called on the Attorney General to prosecute Eldad for incitement.
Eldad later defended his statements, noting he had not called for violence.
He pointed out that "there are some racist laws which it is a moral obligation to break," comparing the government's decision to uproot Jews to the American segregation laws of the past century, according to The Jerusalem Post.
Such laws were defeated in the United States by the same kind of non-violent civil disobedience Eldad called for Wednesday.
Far from the sedition left-wingers accuse them of, opponents of Sharon's plan are working to save the Jewish state, MK Effi Eitam told Army Radio Thursday morning.

Bethlehem Bible College_ISM anti-Israel allies ISM Begins Anti-Israel College Exchange Program

Arutz-7 Editor Arutz-7 News: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 Politics/Gov?t
The ISM, an organization that has sent many American students to the Middle East, where many of them undergo training by the PFLP terrorist group, is suffering from dwindling recruitment numbers.

Lee Kaplan, writing last week in Frontpagemag.com, reports that the radical group International Solidarity Movement has now hit upon a new idea: "using international student exchanges in its campaign to aid the cause of Palestinian genocidal terror."

Kaplan writes that the ISM has been going through hard times, following the exposure of the ISM, the much-publicized deaths of two ISM-affiliated students, American Rachel Corrie and Englishman Tom Hurndall, heightened scrutiny of terrorist organizations, and a recent Israeli crackdown on ISM leaders like Kate Raphael. In response, the ISM has now been renamed the Palestine Summer Encounter (PSE).

The new/old group, working together with Bethlehem Bible College, will offer U.S. academic credit in Arabic. "This will make the 'educational' program of value to Middle East study centers across the U.S.," Kaplan writes, "many of which have been turned into de facto lobbying and propaganda bases calling for the dismantling of Israel."

Kaplan notes that generous Saudi and PLO grants are funding these programs. The PSE program, specifically, will be financed by the California-based Holy Land Trust. The trust is run by Executive Director Sami Awad, who formerly headed the Palestine Children’s Welfare Relief Fund, an outfit that routinely featured photos and praise of suicide bombers on its website. According to Arab-American Christian journalist Joseph Farah, editor of World Net Daily, "The lies this group tells in the name of Christianity are big and bold. They include the standard lines about Jews robbing the homes of Arabs, stealing their land and brutalizing them in a repressive state of military occupation. These so-called Christians even rationalize terrorism.”

"But if the background of the Holy Land Trust is alarming," Kaplan continues, "the program it is intended to underwrite is even more so. An article on the PSE program that appeared in the leftist Israeli newspaper Haaretz states, 'The PSE program includes an Arabic course at the Bethlehem Bible College, with credits going toward a U.S. college degree; volunteer work with Palestinian aid organizations as well as Israeli peace groups; and trips, mostly in the West Bank, but also within the Green Line. The students are hosted by Palestinian families which lowers the price for participants; the hosts also receive some payment.... [R]egardless of background, after a summer in the Palestinian territories, participants come away with a clear political picture.”

A significant PSE attraction is its low price – which is connected to "subsidies paid by the PLO to import their radical cheerleaders," Front Page states. "ISM formerly transported most of its volunteers over to Israel free of charge by abusing a Birthright Israel program, which was set up by wealthy Jewish philanthropists to encourage immigration to Israel and appreciation for the Jewish state. Rather than supporting this mission, however, the ISM’s volunteers focused their energies on denouncing Israel as an “apartheid state” while excusing terrorism and violence against Israelis as “legitimate resistance.” As a consequence of such revelations, Birthright Israel applicants have come under greater scrutiny."

Funds for the ISM’s free rides have consequently dried up, but, Kaplan writes, this hasn't stopped the organization: "In Bethlehem Bible College, the ISM seems to have discovered a new way for an even wider group to gain entrance into Israel while cheering its destruction. Indeed, the program is in some ways even more convenient than Birthright Israel. Whereas the Birthright program could only be used for free transportation by anarchists and communists of Jewish ancestry, the Bethlehem College is far more inclusive: any student radical who favors Israel’s demise is welcome."

Kaplan raises some question marks regarding the Christian organization's willingness to cooperate with Moslems, in light of Moslem treatment of Christians in Israel in recent years. He notes the takeover of the Church of the Nativity by Arafat’s thugs in 2002, and "Muslim desecration of non-Islamic shrines, both Jewish and Christian, is well documented. Indeed, Christians are considered dhimmis, or second-class citizens, in Islamic society, and as such are subject to Muslim whim. Christian businessmen and shops are frequently shaken down by PLO members in protection rackets. Small wonder, then, that the Christian population in Bethlehem has decreased from 80% percent to just 5% since the creation of the Palestinian Authority in 1994."

Kaplan sees additional proof that the PSE program is intended to serve as a recruitment arm for the anti-Israel cause in the fact that it offers students housing with a Palestinian family. "Despite the PSE’s extremist agenda," he concludes, "it is billed under the postcard-pleasant mantra: 'Come to Palestine, Stay with Friends.' But a more accurate description of the PSE program would read like this: 'Come to a war zone. Learn how to promote Muslim hegemony over the Jews and Christians. And get college credit, too.'"

New book showcases Israeli achievements



http://www.israel21c.org
Israel in the World - Changing Lives Through Innovation is a lavishly written and illustrated look at 'some of the people, products, and technologies that are enhancing the lives of millions of people around the world.' And we're not talking here about falafel and the hora!

Pope John Paul II was not such a saint as he is made out to be!
John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla) has also been accused of being a Nazi collaborator, even before he entered the church. According to some Jewish authors, fundamentalist Protestant preachers, and certain disciples of conspiriologist Mae Brussell, John Paul II worked in Nazi-occupied Poland for either Solvay Drugs of the I.G. Farben cartel in a factory at Auschwitz, or as a salesman for Farben's chemical division, selling Zyklon B, the deadly cyanide gas, directly to the Nazi camp at Auschwitz. Supposedly, John Paul, an actor by inclination, entered the priesthood in 1946 in order to escape arrest and trial as a Nazi war criminal.

From William Cooper's book Behold a Pale Horse, page 89 & 90:
In the early 1940's, the I.G. Farben* Chemical Company employed a Polish salesman who sold cyanide to the Nazis for use in Auschwitz. The same salesman also worked as a chemist in the manufacture of the poison gas. This same cyanide gas along with Zyklon B and malathion was used to exterminate millions of Jews and other groups. Their bodies were then burned to ashes in the ovens. After the war the salesman, fearing for his life, joined the Catholic Church and was ordained a priest in 1946. The salesman was ordained Poland's youngest bishop in 1958. After a 30 day reign his predecessor was assassinated and our ex-cyanide gas salesman assumed the papacy as Pope John Paul II.
* The Bush and Rockefeller families are also connected to I.G. Farben

Sharon the capitulating tactician
Our World: Sharon the tactician[?]
Caroline Glick, THE JERUSALEM POST Mar. 28, 2005
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Defense Minister Shaul Mofaz told the cabinet Sunday morning that last week
Palestinian security forces smuggled SA-7 Strella anti-aircraft missiles
into Gaza from Egypt. These missiles are capable of shooting down commercial
airliners and military aircraft.

Mofaz said that the introduction of these missiles to the Palestinian
arsenal crossed "a red line," and warned, "If the Palestinians don't get a
hold of the Strellas, we will."

This warning naturally begs the question: Which Palestinians are supposed to
"get a hold" of the missiles? The Palestinian security forces that
(presumably with Egyptian assistance) brought them into Gaza? Maybe Mofaz
thinks that democratically elected PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas - who divides
his time fairly equally between coddling terrorists, lobbying Arab leaders
not to end their state of war with the Jewish state, and telling Israel, the
Americans and the Europeans how "moderate" he is - will "get a hold" of
them. Perhaps the wanted terrorists whom Israel has agreed not to try to
kill or arrest will "get a hold" of them. But, then again, those wanted
terrorists might be the same Palestinian security service members who
brought them into Gaza in the first place since Abbas has been actively
recruiting them into his "reformed" security services.

Back in January Shin Bet Director Avi Dichter told the Knesset's Foreign
Affairs and Defense Committee that if Israel relinquishes control over the
Philadelphi Corridor, which links Gaza to the Sinai to the Palestinians, the
current "trickle" of arms coming through will turn into a "river." Yet, in a
nod to the "cease-fire" Abbas announced he had reached with his terrorists,
Israel enabled Palestinian security forces to deploy in Gaza, including in
Rafah adjacent to the Philadelphi Corridor. Since then, in a series of
photo-ops, the Palestinians have proudly displayed the smuggling tunnels
they uncovered. And now we know that in addition to uncovering tunnels, they
have been digging them.

But this apparently means little to Mofaz. In his recent visit with Egyptian
dictator Hosni Mubarak he let it be known that Israel is planning to
relinquish control over the Philadelphi Corridor to the Palestinians and
Egyptians. And now Mofaz is expecting that the PA will "get a hold" of the
Strella rockets it already holds.

If the threat such missiles posed to Israel wasn't so tangible, this entire
story would be a Vaudevillian farce. But then, this really shouldn't
interest us. After all, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon doesn't seem to care.

What is really getting his goat these days is not the specter of Palestinian
terrorists/reformed security services blowing up jetliners taking off or
landing at Ben Gurion Airport. What Sharon is enraged about at the moment is
that someone had the nerve to leak the protocol of US Ambassador Dan
Kurtzer's lecture to Foreign Ministry cadets to Yediot Ahronot. The protocol
has Kurtzer telling the new Israeli diplomats that in spite of the line
Sharon has been selling the public since his visit to the White House last
April, the Bush administration never agreed that in a final peace accord
with the PLO, Israel would have US support for retaining any Israeli
communities in Judea and Samaria.

"Whoever leaked Kurtzer's remarks to the press prepared a strategic attack
against Sharon," Sharon's confidantes told Yediot over the weekend. And now
the burning question is, who has it in, not for the Israeli public - who now

have to worry that anytime they step onto a plane they are liable to be
blown to smithereens like so many patrons in a Jerusalem cafe - but for the
prime minister.

The silliest thing about the uproar over Kurtzer's reported remarks is that
they didn't actually contain any new information. The famed letter Sharon
received from US President George W. Bush at that meeting included no
American support for the retention of Israeli communities in Judea and
Samaria. All Bush wrote was, "In light of new realities on the ground,
including already existing major Israeli populations centers, it is
unrealistic to expect that the outcome of final status negotiations will be
a full and complete return to the armistice lines of 1949."

And this means absolutely nothing. It is not a promise. It is not a
position. It is simply a description of reality.

Bush's letter marked a continuation - not a change - of the US policy
regarding Judea and Samaria. Since 1967 American policy has been that
Israel's borders will be determined in negotiations with its neighbors and
that until such negotiations are completed, the only changes in the status
quo the Americans will support are changes that work to the benefit of the
Arabs. Hence, for instance, Washington has never launched a protest against
Palestinian land grabs around Jerusalem.

The only side that changed its policies in the aftermath of Sharon's visit
to the White House was Israel. At that meeting, and in a subsequent letter
from Sharon's bureau chief Dov Weisglass to Condoleezza Rice, Sharon agreed
(without the approval of his government) to give the US a veto over all
Israeli building activities in Judea and Samaria. As Rice's rebuke of Israel
over the weekend for the government's intention to expand Ma'aleh Adumim
shows, the US vetoes all Israeli building in the areas. So in Washington
last April, far from receiving US support for Israeli retention of
communities in Judea and Samaria, Sharon accepted the US position that
Israel has no right to build them.

Now Sharon is trying to backtrack from his previous lies. At the cabinet
meeting on Sunday he admitted, as if stating the obvious, "We can't expect
to receive explicit American agreement to build freely in the settlements."

Sunday night, IDF forces arrested a group of Islamic Jihad terrorists who
were building Kassam rockets in Jenin. The whole district of Jenin is slated
to be emptied of all Israeli presence in the summer as part of the
withdrawal plan.

What we see here is a breakdown of Israel's strategic rationality. Sharon,
who has made a career out of tactical victories, has lost sight of the
significance of strategic realities. It is hard to know what, if any,
externalities can force a change in his outlook. But it is clear enough that
something has to give.

Politics cannot be separated from Spiritual concepts
Zionsake Editor: Note the spiritual principles below, especially in the last paragraph, that apply to how situations turn out in practice. Many spiritual, military and political leaders assert that abandoning Gaza to the enemy will open another front from which Israel can be attacked, as with protecting cities close to the border as quoted in the last paragraph. It shows once again that politics cannot be separated from spiritual concepts, especially when it comes to Israel.



In addition to the political and civil (disobedience) fronts in the struggle against the disengagement, the spiritual front is also very active. March 17 and 22 are two key dates.


This Thursday, a day of fasting has been declared by leading rabbis from various sectors of the Jewish population. Among those behind the call are former Chief Rabbis Avraham Shapira and Mordechai Eliyahu, as well as rabbis of Chabad and others. Those who can fast a full day are recommended to take the commitment upon themselves during tomorrow's afternoon Mincha prayer; those who can't should fast, if they can, until the early afternoon.

The day is to be devoted to prayer and fasting to overturn the government?s decision to expel Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria and turn the communities over to Israel?s enemies. During the fast, an assembly will be held in N?vei Dekalim in Gush Katif, which will be attended by the two former Chief Rabbis.

In addition, it has been announced that children around the world are being called upon for a day of prayer a week from today, in the spirit of the "turnabout miracle" spirit of the upcoming Purim holiday.

"We have tried to bring about the nullification of the cruel disengagement decree in various ways," say the organizers in an announcement. "We have demonstrated, held assemblies, hung posters at every possible intersection, and some of us have even carried out activities of real self-sacrifice. These acts have certainly have had some effect, but not enough. Apparently, to fight such a harsh and cruel decree we need the strong powers of children. Their strength is complete, pure, and not motivated by any other external factors."

"Therefore, on the 11th day of Adar Bet (March 22), two days before the Fast of Esther, the Jewish nation in Israel and around the world will unite, and will conduct a special prayer service, with the participation of all the children of all the sectors in our nation."

The organizers ask every adult who is responsible for children - parents, nursery teachers, teachers, grandparents, older siblings, and the like - to recite, together with them, specific Psalms and to study specific passages of Jewish Law. The children should also give a coin for charity.

The Psalms are Chapters 20 and 150, as well as the verse, "Take counsel and it will come to naught; talk of a plan and it will not arise, for G-d is with us."

The relevant law is that which appears in Orach Chaim 329,6: "Gentiles who besieged Jewish towns... if it is suspected that they might be coming to kill ? even if they are merely preparing to come ? Sabbath must be desecrated to fight them. And in cities that are close to the border, even if the enemy only wants to steal straw, Sabbath must be desecrated [to fight them] for fear that they want to conquer the city, thus enabling them to capture the whole country."

PM Sharon's criminal betrayal of his People

_ Posted by hebron_today@hebron.org.il> Feb 24, 2005
From: zimra [mailto:zimra1@netvision.net.il]
Subject:
You can help!!

As you know, I am a resident of Neve Dekalim slated to be deported, homeless, and unemployed with my husband and five children. I thought you might want to know that Israeli non Jewish soldiers are now being trained to break womens' wrists (mine, for example) so that their babies can be easily snatched from them during the evacuation - and they are learning to do this in such a way that leaves no signs of laceration on the skin so that the women will not be able to show it to the media.

Following is an open letter from Pastor Jim Vinyard (from Oklahoma) to Ariel Sharon regarding the illegal and immoral forcible expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and the Shomron.

Do you want to help? You can: 1) Get the following article published in your local newspaper. 2) Write or call Prime Minister Sharon: Office of the PM, 3 Kaplan Street, Jerusalem, Israel; webmaster@pmo.gov.il; 972-2-652-4040; 972-2-670-5527. Write: I strongly identify Pastor Jim Vinyard's open letter regarding the illegal and immoral forcible expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and the Shomron.
Cut and Paste the letter and sign your name

3) Send a copy of your letter to President George W. Bush, the White House, Washington, DC 20500; president@whitehouse.gov; 202-456-1414. 4) Distribute this letter as widely as possible, to your Congressional representative, your email list, and your religious leaders. Ask them to add their voices of outrage against the "black-days" planned for the Jewish people.

Open Letter from Pastor Jim Vineyard to Prime Minister Sharon:
Christian-Zionist greetings to you Sir on this "black-day" in the history of the nation of Israel! I call it a "black day" Sir, as an observer from Oklahoma, because of your arrogant and jubilant boast to your cabinet that "Gaza will be 'Judenrein' (my words Sir) by Rosh Hashanah." I call it a "black day" Sir, because your personal plan is a reversal of your "campaign platform" you had against Amram Mitzna. I call it a "black day" Sir because your concept of democracy now says "anyone who speaks or writes against the disengagement plan is guilty of incitement".

I call it a "black day" Sir, because your five thousand Druze, Bedouin and Jewish jerks, raised in a non-faithful environment, "storm-trooper deporters", will not have to wear name tags, hence no accountability. I call it a "black day" Sir, because a Hatzofe article noted that many of your storm troopers will be Druze and Bedouins, who are "looking forward" to manhandling Jews. I call it a "black day" Sir, because the entire storm trooper machine, which is now known as the "State of Israel" had reneged on its Abrahamic Covenant, to adopt a new, sick and macabre venture, all in an effort to secure the "silly approval" of the European Union and the Bush Administration. I call it a "black day" Sir, because your "storm trooper school for deportation", established in Beit-Govrin [Lak'hish area], now promises a cool $5,000 bonus to the "storm trooper" deporters. With five thousand storm trooper deporters receiving $5,000 each, that is a cool $25,000,000 (million) the American tax payers will be giving your storm troopers to deport Jews.

I call it a "black day" Sir, because of the fact that it would seem that the only true friends of those people whom you supposedly lead, the apple of God's eye, are the faithful Jews and Christian Zionists, who believe that God meant what he said, and said what he meant, to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

I call it a "black day," Sir, because it is like that day, when Israel's first King, King Saul, as the Holy Bible tells us in 1 Samuel 13: 13-14, when Samuel said to Saul: "thou hast done foolishly, thou has not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which He commanded thee .... But now thy kingdom shall not continue. The Lord hath sought him, a man after his own heart, and the Lord hath commanded him to be captain over his people, because thou hast not kept that which the Lord commanded thee."

I call it a "black day," Sir, because it is like that day, when Israel's king, King Ahab, had Elijah tell him that King Ahab had acted immorally in deporting faithful Naboth from his home. God never changes His morality. You too, are acting illegally and immorally when you remove Jews in Gaza and Shomron in 2005 from their homes. As the Bible states: "has thou killed, and also taken possession ... in the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogs lick thy blood, even thine." [1 Kings 21:19]. I call it a "black day," Sir, because it is a day in which people in democracies worldwide need to know that Israel now has a fascist dictatorship endowing Israel in its ruling elite with legitimacy. I call it a "black day," Sir, because American Christians and Jews need to know that Israel's Prime Minister must presently be exposed as a dictator. I call it a "black day," Sir, because Americans need to know that you are utterly ruthless and will stop at nothing - not even bloodshed - to deport Jews from their homes in Gaza and northern Samaria.

I call it a "black day," Sir, because I am going to have to involve all the resources I can, in money and people, to let Americans know what you, Sir - a man who reminds me of Haman, mentioned in the Bible in Esther's day - are going to do to the innocent Jews in Israel.

I call it a "black day" because America is complicit with you in this endeavor.

A true yedid and haver to the Jews.

Jim Vineyard, Baptist pastor
Windsor Hills Baptist Church, 5517 Northwest 23rd St., Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73127. Email: jav9@juno.com

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Americans for a Safe Israel/AFSI distributes this open letter from Pastor Jim Vineyard to Prime Minister Sharon with a sense of anguish and anger. We agree with the sentiments expressed in this letter regarding the illegal and immoral forcible expulsion of the Jews from Gush Katif and the Shomron. After reading this letter, if you too agree, please write or call Prime Minister Sharon at: Office of the PM, 3 Kaplan Street, Jerusalem, Israel; webmaster@pmo.gov.il; 972-2-652-4040; 972-2-670-5527.
Please send a copy of your letter to President George W. Bush, the White House, Washington, DC 20500; president@whitehouse.gov; 202-456-1414.
In addition, please distribute this letter as widely as possible, to your Congressional representative, your email list, your religious leaders, and your fellow worshippers. Ask them to add their voices of outrage against the "black-days" planned for the Jewish people.

Americans For a Safe Israel/AFSI; 1623 Third Ave., Suite 205, New York, N.Y. 10128; Tel: 212-828-2424; Fax: 212-828-1717; afsi@rcn.com; www.afsi.org http://www.afsi.org/ ; February 23, 2005

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PM Sharon's criminal betrayal of his People

ARIK, YOU'VE LET ME DOWN!!
Yehudit Tayar, The Jerusalem Post Feb. 22, 2005


I once so admired you, Ariel Sharon. Now you, along with your patched-up opportunist government, have joined the pathetic ranks of those who have caved in to terror, all those "enlightened" people who have, for reasons of overconfidence, corruption and conceit, given up on the ideals this country was built on.

You have with your bulldozer style trampled on our rights as citizens; but even worse, you have virtually ripped the country in pieces.

You, who send our sons into the houses of terrorists, endangering their lives in order to try and save innocent lives, are now releasing those same terrorists and rewarding and encouraging those who have perpetrated and been involved in terror.

You plan to uproot Jewish homes, synagogues, shops and cemeteries for no justifiable reason using our sons, daughters, and husbands as tools of destruction. This will never be forgotten. You will never be forgiven.

We understand the enemy and his plans; it is obvious that you no longer do.

No matter how many embraces or promises you receive from any head of the Palestinian Authority or president of the United States you forget one important lesson:

Listen to what is said, not what you wish to hear, or imagine you are hearing. We have been through many signatures, many guarantees from US governments and Muslim leaders. We have paid for these in blood and tears.

You will be remembered in the annals of our history as a gambler, or worse. You will be remembered for your autocratic approach. You will be remembered also as a corrupt politician.

Do not weep crocodile tears for us; do not attempt to embrace us. We see through all of this. We will not be a part of your charade.

The threat of a criminal investigation hangs over your head. While we do not need to curry favor with anyone. At the same time, many, many members of our nation are disheartened, discouraged and have lost direction.

We, however, must live with ourselves and our God.

At the end of the day we will persevere despite the wrong-headed decisions railroaded through by you and your political partners.

We have a mandate to protect our Torah, our Land and our people.

Do not fool yourself. This Land does not belong to you. Many of us think you are attempting to erase your shady, arguably criminal activities by directing media attention toward the disengagement scheme.

I can only express my disdain at your decision to destroy the national fiber, and for what? For nothing.

Abraham Lincoln said: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." [Luke 11:17, Jesus said, - Zionsake Editor]

You are ripping apart the country, and callously using the Israeli Defense Forces, police and Border Police to tear Jews away from their homes. You are threatening to incarcerate citizens of Israel who will oppose your policies, much like the British did in the bitterly remembered days of the Mandate.

You were elected to protect us. Instead we feel you have stolen our votes. We feel betrayed. Still, we have faith in God that your plans will not be implemented.

We represent the covenant that the Jewish people have between our God and our Land. No prime minister or government decision can change that.

As our first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, said: "No Jew has the right to give up parts of our heritage, the Land of Israel. The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people now and forever."

Some things, Mr. Sharon, do not change.

The Land of Israel belongs to the Jewish people now and forever. And we will continue to protect that heritage by being there, in Katif, Judea, and Samaria and building the Land.

The writer, who resides with her family in Samaria, is one of the veteran spokespersons of the settlement movement. _____

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Abu Mazen: Beneath the Moderate Veneer

Abu Mazen: Beneath the Moderate Veneer

By Arlene Kushner*

FrontPageMagazine.com | February 25, 2005

"If anyone deserves to be given a chance, this is the guy."

So declared Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, referring to
PA Chair Mahmoud Abbas (aka Abu Mazen), in an address just this past
Friday.

Abbas has been working hard to lend just that impression and he
certainly seems to be succeeding. But precisely what does he
"deserve?" Does this ostensible moderate truly seek the cessation of
violence and genuine peace?

Does he accept the existence of Israel as a Jewish state?

More than 11 years ago now, on September 13, 1993, Yasser Arafat,
Chairman of the PLO, shook the hand of a reluctant Prime Minister
Yitzhak Rabin as the Declaration of Principles was signed on the
White House lawn. A culmination of the negotiations in Oslo, the
Declaration called for putting an end to "decades of confrontation
and conflict" and stated that the parties would "strive to live in
peaceful coexistence."

Within 24 hours Arafat had gone on Jordan TV and explained his
position (in Arabic) with remarkable candor:
"Since we cannot defeat Israel in war; we do this in stages. We take
any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish
sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When
the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final
blow against Israel," he said.

At the end of 1995, a formal pact was established between Hamas and
the Palestinian Authority. Signed in the names of Yasser Arafat and
Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, it called on the PA to "cease all preventative
security." That is, in flagrant violation of Oslo agreements, the PA
was agreeing to look the other way as Hamas continued terrorist
attacks, and in fact viewed such terrorist acts - from which it
publicly disassociated itself - as a means of pushing Israel harder
in negotiations.

In the summer of 2002, well after Oslo had collapsed, Dennis Ross,
who had been President Clinton's special envoy in the Middle East,
addressed this approach when he wrote about Arafat's tactics in
Foreign Affairs:
"Not withstanding his commitment to renounce violence, he has never
relinquished the terror card," Ross said.

Now we see Mahmoud Abbas standing in Yasser Arafat's stead. Far more
polished than Arafat ever was, certainly a good deal less abrasive,
and likely considerably smarter, Abbas chooses to be seen as his
antithesis - a new, moderate leader for a new time. Arafat was so
deeply detested in so many quarters that it's not hard for Abbas to
project this persona successfully. Worn down by the need to cope with
Arafat, people are ready to embrace someone new. The current
euphoria, the expressed hope that we may be on the cusp of peace,
would not be possible without a vision of Abbas as the man of the
hour.

Abbas understands that Arafat's belligerent style had become
counterproductive and that terror attacks were not working to further
Palestinian interests. Thus he is eager to project that appearance of
moderation, and to bring to the area a period of "quietness." There
is no question about this. But at the end of the day he was Arafat's
buddy - someone who shared goals and values with him. At the end of
the day Abbas has no more intention of relinquishing that terror card
than Arafat did.

Born in S'fat in 1935, he fled to Syria with his family in 1948. By
the mid-50s he had landed in Kuwait, where he hooked up with Arafat
and helped to found Fatah - which, it should be noted, still
advocates "liberation" of the entire land. As Arafat moved about over
the years, Abbas went with him - to Jordan (where he became involved
with the PLO when Fatah gained ascendancy in that group), to Lebanon
and to Tunis.

For many years, Abbas was Arafat's deputy, his prot?g? and his
constant companion:

"He was party to the plan to take Israel in stages. A formal PLO
resolution outlining this strategy, called the 'Phased Plan,' was
adopted in 1974," according to Arafat was referring to after the Oslo
signing.

He was privy to the advice from North Vietnamese revolutionaries that
the PLO should conceal its true intent and appear flexible. In fact,
Fatah had the works of the North Vietnamese General Giap translated
into Arabic.

He was cognizant of, if not deeply involved in, decisions to formally
ally the PA with Hamas.

And, it must be added, he was the signatory on behalf of the PLO for
the Declaration of Principles. While Arafat shook hands, it was Abbas
who penned his name. Quite clearly, he was privy to Arafat's
declaration a day later - which is to say, privy to the lack of
sincerity that accompanied the show on the White House lawn to which
he had lent his name. He has been partner to it all.

At one point in his career, Abbas went to Oriental College in Moscow,
ostensibly to earn a doctorate in history.

His thesis was expanded it into a book, called The Other Side: The
Secret Relationship Between Nazism and the Zionist Movement. In it he
explained that: "[the Zionists gave] permission to every racist in
the world, led by Hitler and the Nazis, to treat Jews as they wished,
so long as it guaranteed immigration to Palestine."

He is a Holocaust denier when he wrote that and remains one. In an
interview he gave on official Palestinian TV, he charged that the
Nazis had no specific plans to murder the Jews.

All indications are, however, that Abbas was in Moscow for a great
deal more than academic study. By the 1970s, the Soviet Union had
become a prime source of training in terrorism, espionage and
indoctrination. It has been noted as more than coincidence that one
of the first places Abbas visited after his election was Russia,
where he met with President Putin, formerly of the KBG.

Not surprisingly, there is evidence that Abbas has been complicit in
terrorism. A couple of years ago a charge surfaced that he was the
man who financed the massacre of Israeli athletes in Munich. The
charge was made credible because it was leveled by Abu Daoud, the
terrorist who planned the operation. More recently (in March 2003 in
the Arabic paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat) he has sanctioned the killing of
(civilian) Jews outside the Green Line.
Yossi Beilin, the left wing Israeli politician who worked with Abbas,
believes that his positions during the Oslo negotiations were
actually more extreme than Arafat's. Beilin says Abbas "was among
Arafat's 'restrictors' during the Camp David summit."
And indeed, Abbas lauded Arafat's rejection of Barak's offer at Camp
David in 2000, saying:

"I do not feel any regret. What we did was the right thing to do. [No
opportunity was missed since] the opportunity did not exist.they say
'we offered 95 percent [of the territory],' and I ask why not 100
percent."
He has sustained his uncompromising demand for full return to
pre-1967 borders. He is even on record as questioning whether there
was really ever a Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount, saying, "I
challenge the assertion. But even if it were true, we do not accept
it."

Coupled with this is his consistent position over the years pushing
for the "return" of refugees:

"The refugees.have the right reserved to return to their homeland and
every place they have left.this is not only limited to land under the
sovereignty of the PA. We demand their return to Jaffa, to Haifa and
the other regions they came from."

Were Israel to accede to the demands of Abbas, she would find herself
with indefensible borders, and overrun by hostile population within
those borders: She would be facing her own destruction.

Abbas's present intentions, then, are clear for anyone who is ready
to put aside wishful thinking and see that he will give the
impression of moderation, and he will disarm people with his spoken
commitment to peace. "We have agreed on halting all violent actions
against.Israelis wherever they are," he intoned at the Sharm el-Sheik
summit on February 8."

He will make loud noises about how the terrorists groups must
cooperate in achieving quiet - which is in the interest of the
Palestinian people. He will dispatch police - whose allegiance is
dubious to begin with and who are not truly empowered to take strong
action in any event. The "quiet" he stitches together will be a
temporary quiet, however, merely consented to voluntarily by groups
such as Hamas, who reserve the right to initiate terror again if and
as they deem it appropriate.

At no time has Mahmoud Abbas committed to dismantling the terrorist
infrastructure. He has made it clear that he will not do battle with
the terrorists - who, he has indicated, are his brothers. Nor will he
ask them to surrender weapons. Neither has he uttered a word about
re-vamping the PA-published textbooks, which do not acknowledge
Israel's legitimate existence and teach yet another generation of
Palestinians about "jihad" and "martyrdom."

Abbas's immediate goal is withdrawal of the IDF to the pre-Intifada
position of 2000. He would follow this with a rush to final status
negotiations with Israel. It is nothing short of astonishing how
frequently officials of the PA refer to the need to get to these
negotiations quickly, when they haven't met even preliminary
obligations under the roadmap. Abbas is clearly counting on the
goodwill and impressions of moderation he is generating to lessen the
stringency of the international community in requiring him to meet
these obligations.
Is it possible that a rush to final status negotiations might bring a
lasting peace and a genuine two-state solution?

Consider the words of one Sheikh Mudeiris. The Sheikh is in the
employ of the Palestinian Authority. He offered a sermon (in Arabic)
on official PA TV on February 4. In it, he said:

"We tell you Palestine, we shall return to you, by Allah's will, We
shall return to every village, every town, and every grain of earth
which was quenched by the blood of our grandparents.Our willingness
to return to the 1967 borders does not mean that we have given up on
the land of Palestine. No!.We might be able to use diplomacy in order
to return to the 1967 borders, but we shall not be able to use
diplomacy in order to return to the 1948 borders [i.e., to the
situation before Israel existed]. No one on this earth recognizes
[our right to] the 1948 borders. Therefore, we shall return to the
1967 borders, but it does not mean that we have given up on Jerusalem
and Haifa, Jaffa, Lod, Ramle, Natanyah .and Tel Aviv. Never. We shall
return to every village we had been expelled from, by Allah's
will.Our approval to return to the 1967 borders is not a concession
for our other rights. No!... Palestinians will return the way
Muhammad returned there, as a conqueror." (Palestinian Media Watch
translation).

These words would not have made it on to PA TV without the sanction
of the PA head - Mahmoud Abbas. The PLO "Phased Plan," you see, is
alive and well in the Palestinian Authority headed now by Arafat's
good disciple. His goal is still the eventual destruction of Israel.
Arafat would be proud of him.

*Arlene Kushner lives and writes in Jerusalem. She had done three
major reports on UNRWA for the Center for Near East Policy Research.
Her book, Disclosed: Inside the Palestinian Authority and the PLO,
has just been released and is available at
www.IsraelBehindtheNews.com

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