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WorldNetDaily Rocket attack against Jerusalem thwarted

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU
Rocket attack against Jerusalem thwarted
Terror leader says more missiles on way to 'bring hell' to Israelis

Posted: February 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Aaron Klein


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

JERUSALEM – Marking what many here are calling a major escalation in Palestinian terrorism, security officials announced yesterday they captured a rocket launcher and several mortar shells intended for attack against a Jerusalem neighborhood.

A leader of the planned attack told WorldNetDaily yesterday his group will soon launch a rocket war against the Jewish state, threatening to fire missiles at Israel's international airport and warning his group's rockets will soon "bring hell" to Israelis.

Yuval Diskin, head of Israel's Shin Bet security serviced yesterday afternoon revealed during a Knesset session the Israeli army uncovered the launcher and eight shells in a house in Bethlehem, which borders Jerusalem. Diskin said the weapons, transported by the Popular Resistance Committees terror group, were intended for use against Israeli homes in the neighborhood of Gilo on the outskirts of Jerusalem.

"As far as we know, this is the first time a projectile weapon aimed at targeting Jerusalem was found," said Diskin.

Jerusalem has been the scene of suicide bombings and shooting attacks, but Palestinian rockets have never been fired at the city. Over 500 rockets have been launched at Jewish communities in and near the Gaza Strip the past five years.

Following Israel's withdrawal from Gaza this past summer, terror groups warned they transferred their rockets to the West Bank, which borders Israel's major cities, including Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. Military leaders here threatened massive retaliation for any rocket launched from the West Bank.

Abu Abir, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, told WND his group takes credit for the failed mortar attack against Jerusalem. In an interview to be released in full tomorrow, he threatened more rocket attacks:

"We call on (Shin Bet chief) Diskin and tell him not to be so happy and proud about stopping our attack because there is much more to come. The lives of Israeli citizens will turn to hell very soon," Abu Abir said.

Abu Abir warned his group has stockpiles of rockets in the West Bank ready to launch at Jewish cities.

"I am not going to give details (about which cities we will attack), but we are planning to be present all around the West Bank. Every Israeli target is a legitimate target. Wherever there is an Israeli soldier or settler they will find our rockets.

"Jerusalem, Ben Gurion International Airport, Tel Aviv and every Israeli point can be part of our goals. Whenever it is needed rockets will be fired against every Israeli settlement, city or neighborhood. ...We know that Israeli central cities are more sensitive targets and they contain more sensitive targets, but we will not hesitate to fire rockets everywhere against the Zionist enemy, " Abu Abir said.

The Popular Resistance leader warned of a massive new wave of violence he said will soon be launched against Israel:

"The bases for rockets networks and technology are already installed in the West Bank, but their operational capacities should be ready in the next few months. Israelis should wait for a revolution very soon."

Abu Abir is one of many terror leaders to speak of major planned violence against the Jewish state. In a widely circulated article, WorldNetDaily reported last week recent events here are leading terror leaders to launch what they called a third intifada against Israel consisting of suicide bombings, rocket attacks against Jewish communities and "a few new surprises in our arsenal."

The Palestinians launched their first intifada in 1987, which developed into a well-organized violent rebellion orchestrated by Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization from its headquarters in Tunis. The so-called second intifada was initiated in 2000 after Arafat rejected at Camp David an Israeli offer of a Palestinian state on most of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and sections of eastern Jerusalem. Some 993 Israelis and 3,781 Palestinians have been killed so far. Many say the second intifada is still being waged.

Some terror leaders, particularly from the Al Aqsa Brigades, whose associated Fatah Party scored poorly against Hamas in last month's parliamentary elections, say they are planning massive violence against Israeli civilians mostly to revolt against the new Hamas-controlled Palestinian government.

Abu Nasser, an Al Aqsa leader in the West Bank, told WND, "When we were in power, we were obliged to be more sensitive and more obedient to the instructions and policies of our leadership. Now that we lost the elections, why should we obey the leaders and just who do we obey? The Hamas?"

Abu Nasser said the Brigades will not respect any cease-fire agreed to by Hamas and will not halt attacks at Hamas' request.

Other terror leaders told WND now that Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his administration will seek an Israeli withdrawal from the West Bank, terrorism against Israel must be stepped up "to prove we are chasing out the Israelis like we did in Gaza."

WorldNetDaily caught up with Abu Oudai, the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades leader responsible for coordinating the organization's rocket network in the West Bank. He warned his organization is preparing a massive rocket onslaught against Israel:

"We have launched [several] times and with the help of Allah we will launch these rockets regularly. There will be no calm, no cease-fire until the occupation leaves our land. I don't need to tell you that the aerial distance from Jenin to Netanya, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other cities is not big without telling you what are all our plans concerning other parts of the West Bank."

Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine leader Abu Hani told WND his terror group used a cease-fire signed with Israel last year "for a rest in order to rehabilitate forces. The Palestinian people preserves its right to fight against Israel ... which is forcing us to launch a new intifada."

Islamic Jihad's northern West Bank leader, Abu Khalil, said his terror group is planning a new terror war to chase Israel from the West Bank and eventually from Jerusalem.

Asked by WND which weapons will be emphasized during Islamic Jihad's next wave of terror attacks, Abu Khalil replied, "I should not answer this question for operational reasons. But we proved that we use everything Allah enables us to achieve and to use – suicide attacks, rockets and more surprises. The Israelis should wait for interesting surprises."


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Aaron Klein is WorldNetDaily's Jerusalem bureau chief, whose past interview subjects have included Yasser Arafat, Ehud Barak, Mahmoud al-Zahar and leaders of the Taliban.


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WorldNetDaily Mad mullahs issue fatwa to use nuclear weapons

Tuesday, February 21, 2006



Mad mullahs issue fatwa to use nuclear weapons

Posted: February 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

An Iranian fatwa (holy edict) permitting the use of nuclear weapons has been issued for the first time. Mohsen Gharavian, a disciple of Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi, has stated that using nuclear weapons as a counter-measure is acceptable in terms of sharia (Islamic law), depending upon the goal for which the weapons are used.

Up until now, the religious leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran have publicly declared that the use of nuclear weapons are opposed to sharia, maintaining this position to buttress the argument that Iran's nuclear program is for peaceful purposes only.

Gharavian, a lecturer at the religious schools of Qom, stated that:

One must say that when the entire world is armed with nuclear weapons, it is only natural that, as a counter-measure, it is necessary to be able to use these weapons. However, what is important is the goal they may be used for.

With Iran's President Ahmadinejad openly declaring that Israel must be wiped from the map of the Middle East, we are compelled to ask if Gharavian would consider killing Israeli Jews to be a purpose that sharia would consider acceptable for the use of nuclear weapons?

This fatwa marks a clear signal that the ultra-conservative spiritual leaders in Iran are in full control. Gharavian's statement takes additional importance because he is a disciple of Ayatollah Yazdi, who is also the spiritual mentor of Ahmadinejad. The Jamkaran Mosque in Qom was also the center from which Ayatollah Khomeini based his opposition to the Pahlavi dynasty before he was forced to leave Iran in exile. Devout Shiites believe that the Mahdi, the famous "lost Twelfth Iman," disappeared as a young boy down a well that is now revered within the Jamkaran Mosque.

Ayatollah Yazdi and President Ahmadinejad both profess that the Mahdi will emerge from that same well in his Second Coming, but only following an apocalypse in which the world will go through great calamities and upheavals. In September 2005, when he addressed the United Nations General Assembly, Ahmadinejad mentioned the Mahdi in describing what he considered to be his divinely appointed political mission as president of Iran.

Gharavian's fatwa was published by the IraNews news agency, suggesting that the statement had the official blessing of the Iranian regime. Iran has openly defied the world diplomatic community by deciding unilaterally to resume uranium processing at Isfahan and uranium enriching at Natanz. Now, the Mesbah Yazdi group has given the first public statement that the use of nuclear weapons is authorized on religious grounds, a further defiant step on the road toward Iran's open proclamation that the regime is pursuing nuclear weapons, not simply the peaceful use of nuclear power.

The signs that the radical fundamentalists have regained control of Iran's revolution are abundant. In recent weeks, Ahmadinejad has traveled to Damascus to give Syrian President Bashar Assad his support in the international controversy over Sryian complicity in the assassination of Lebanon's former Prime Minister Hariri. Last summer, before taking over the presidency, Ahmadinejad met in Tehran with Seyed Hassan Nasrollah, the Lebanese leader of the radical terrorist group Hezbollah.

In January this year, Moqtada al-Sadr, the young Iraqi Shiite radical cleric whose "Al-Mahdi Army" engaged in acts of terrorism in April 2004 against U.S. troops in Iraq, visited Tehran and swore to support Iran if the United States or Israel should attack Iran. Hamas member Muhammad Jamal al-Natshah, who was elected to the Palestinian legislature in late January, after being released from Israeli prison, declared that Iran would provide financial support to Hamas if Israel should cut off funds.

Iran is also rushing to conclude with China a $100 billion deal that will allow a Chinese government-controlled oil company to develop the vast oil and natural-gas holdings in Iran's Yadavaran field. The goal is to complete the deal before a U.S.-led motion might cause the Security Council to consider imposing additional sanctions on Iran for violations in their nuclear program.

Iran will hold in euros foreign currency reserves from the sale of oil and natural gas to China. With China's increasing dependency upon Iran for energy resources, the Iranians have suggested that China should diversify into euros a greater portion of their nearly $1 trillion in foreign currency reserves. With approximately 75 percent of China's foreign currency reserves currently held in dollars, a move by the Chinese to the euro could depress the value of the dollar, making more costly the U.S. Treasury's need to sell massive debt into the international markets to maintain our large and growing twin trade and budget deficits.

Now, ahead of the International Atomic Energy Agency's scheduled March 6 meeting in Vienna to vote on referring Iran to the Security Council, the IAEA head Mohamed ElBaradei has suggested that Iran might be permitted to enrich a small quantity of uranium for "research and development" purposes. ElBaradei has told diplomats recently that a pilot enrichment program at Natanz is Iran's bottom-line, "a reality" the world may have to learn to live with. With this statement, the prospect looms that Iran may once again have won the negotiating game of chess, by winning the concession of even the IAEA that Natanz and Isfahan can continue operating.

Even should the IAEA vote to send the Iranian portfolio to the Security Council, Russia and China appear ready to veto any meaningful sanctions. In the next few weeks, we will most likely see the United States forced to admit that the Bush administration strategy since the second inauguration of allowing the IAEA and the E.U.-3 to lead negotiations with Iran may simply amount to a waste of time.

Iran has also begun suggesting that the Russian proposal to enrich uranium on Russian soil, possibly with the assistance of an international consortium pledging to provide enriched uranium to Iran will be acceptable, as long as Iran can also continue enriching uranium on Iranian soil. What reason does the world community have to believe that Iran will only enrich a small amount of uranium when Iran has consistently violated agreements with the IAEA?

With Iran and Hamas both declaring that Israel has no legitimate reason to survive and with diplomacy failing to contain the Iranian nuclear program, increasingly the military option is the only option left with any promise of stopping Iran from having nuclear weapons that the mullahs now declare can be used in accordance with Islamic law. What more do we need to see before we conclude that Israel and America are inevitably headed to war with Iran?


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Jerome R. Corsi received a Ph.D. from Harvard University in political science in 1972 and has written many books and articles, including co-authoring with John O'Neill the No. 1 New York Times best-seller, "Unfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak Out Against John Kerry." Dr. Corsi's most recent books include "Black Gold Stranglehold: The Myth of Scarcity and the Politics of Oil," which he co-authored with WND columnist Craig. R. Smith, and "Atomic Iran: How the Terrorist Regime Bought the Bomb and American Politicians."


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WorldNetDaily Untold story of Flight 93 airs this week

 

Tuesday, February 21, 2006



DAY OF INFAMY 2001
Untold story of Flight 93 airs this week
How 9-11 heroes fought back in 1st strike against terror

Posted: February 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


"Beware cockpit intrusion. Two aircraft hit world trade center."

This cryptic message appeared at 9:23 a.m. on Captain Jason Dahl's in-flight computer screen Sept. 11, 2001. By 9:28, the terrorists had taken control of United Flight 93. However, a heroic group of passengers aboard the flight fought back against their captors, in what has been called "America's first strike back against terrorism."

What really happened aboard Flight 93 over Pennsylvania that day?

Recently revealed critical details have been painstakingly combined to create a moving and inspiring documentary – "Portrait of Courage: The Untold Story of Flight 93." This unforgettable one-hour special tribute hosted by actor Michael Flynn will be broadcast for just the second time on television Feb. 25 at 8 p.m. EST/PST (7 p.m. MST/CST) on the i Network—formerly PAX-TV.

You can watch it on TV – or you can own a special two-hour version of the documentary on DVD, now available exclusively through WND's online store, ShopNetDaily.

This docudrama features exclusive interviews, the actual voice recording from the Cleveland Ohio Air Traffic Control Center, and newly released forensic evidence of what occurred during the final 30 minutes of that fateful flight.

Produced by Grizzly Adams Productions in association with Total Living Network, the documentary is based in part on the book "Fighting Back" by Deena Burnett, wife of passenger Tom Burnett. Mrs. Burnett shares the moving details of the four in-flight calls from her husband that morning. When she informed her husband of the fate of the earlier planes, he realized the peril that faced Flight 93. Tom Burnett and fellow passengers began formulating a plan to take back the plane.

Flynn shares compelling details about those on board: a strategic business planner, an NCAA judo champion, an ex-detective, a former paratrooper with the 101st Airborne, a Navy veteran, a skilled pilot, an emergency medical technician, and two men trained in hand-to-hand combat, among others. Recollections by loved ones of their final conversations reveal the heroic determination of the passengers that prevented Flight 93 from flying into the U.S. Capitol.

"It was almost as if someone had handpicked a group of people that could carry out an insurrection against the hijackers," says Washington correspondent Gregory Gordon of the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

In the program, friends and family members of the passengers and crew share personal recollections about the unique talents and abilities their heroic loved ones possessed, making them a distinctively gifted group – exceptionally prepared for the good versus evil battle in the sky that day. Interviewees include Deena Burnett, Sandy Dahl – wife of Flight 93's Captain Jason Dahl; airline pilot David Dosch, Captain Dahl's best friend; Lorne Lyles – who received a phone call from his wife, flight attendant Cee-Cee Lyles; and Kenny Nacke – whose brother is believed to have been a key player in the passenger revolt. These and others share their insights and sustaining faith, along with telephone operator Lisa Jefferson, who shared an emotional recital of the Lord's Prayer with Todd Beamer before his final call to arms, "Let's roll!"

"The more we learn about the terrorists' plans and targets for that day, the greater the significance of the valor displayed by the passengers and crew," says supervising producer Chuck Sellier. "Telling their story is one way we can commemorate their lives and the ultimate sacrifice they made for us."

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WorldNetDaily Democrats try to quash troops' terror-war ads

Tuesday, February 21, 2006



ON THE HOME FRONT
Democrats try to quash troops' terror-war ads
See video of spot rejected by TV station because it criticizes mainstream media

Posted: February 21, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com


Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson in pro-war ad opposed by Democrats in Minnesota
Democrats have launched a campaign against television ads featuring U.S. servicemen and families of slain troops who support the war in Iraq, calling the spots false and "un-American."

The first of two ads, which are being tested in Minnesota, was rejected by St. Paul station KSTP because it criticizes the mainstream media. It includes Staff Sgt. Marcellus Wilks of Iowa, Capt. Mark Weber of Iowa and Lt. Col. Bob Stephenson of Minnesota.

In the 60-second spot, which can be viewed here, Stephenson, a Marine reservist, says:

"You'd never know it from the news reports, but our enemy in Iraq is al-Qaida, the same terrorists who killed 3,000 Americans on 9-11, the same terrorists from the first World Trade Center bombing, the USS Cole, Madrid, London and many more."

Stephenson, who spent five months in Iraq, said in an interview the ad is a chance to show the other side, as Americans hear mostly about death tolls, security problems and other negative aspects of war, the Associated Press reported.

"The mainstream media has a message about the war in Iraq that perhaps isn't shared by a lot of people involved in the military," he said. "Some folks that haven't had a different perspective on the war on terror will have this perspective added to the mix."

The ads were funded by the Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Progress for America, which says it's comitted to "forcing the media to report the facts about President Bush's commonsense conservative agenda" and "setting the record straight about liberal groups like Moveon.org, AARP & the unions."


Merilee Carlson, mother of slain soldier, in pro-war ad opposed by Democrats in Minnesota

The newest ad features Merrilee Carlson of St. Paul, whose son Michael was killed in Iraq last year. This past Memorial Day, the Wall Street Journal published her son's "credo," titled "An American Soldier."

Michael Carlson wrote:

"When I am on my deathbed, what am I going to look back on? Will it be thirty years of fighting crime and protecting the country of all enemies, foreign and domestic? I want my life to account for something. ... I only have so much time. I want to be good at life; I want to be known as the best of the best at my job. I want people to need me, to count on me. ... I want to fight for something, be part of something that is greater than myself. I want to be a soldier. ... "

Carlson, 22, was killed on a mission to take out two bomb-making factories.

His mother says in the ad:

"We are privileged to have men and women serving in the military who are willing to give their lives, their time, and their energy to preserve, protect and defend our freedom.

"We can't leave this work undone in Iraq. We can all argue about how we might have gotten there. But we're there and we need to see it through. ... I suppose we could have taken the beaches at Normandy and then decided it was too expensive or too difficult to keep going. I wonder what the world would look like today."

"Swift-boating' the war

Last Thursday, top Democratic leaders in Minnesota demanded television stations in the state stop airing the initial ad, calling it "un-American, untruthful and a lie," noted the Minnesota-based weblog Powerline.

"There is a line that shouldn't be crossed," said Brian Melendez of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, or DFL as the Democratic Party is known in the state. "There's room for a lot of puffery in politics. You know, there is room for spin, there is room for opinion, there is room for disagreement. There shouldn't be so much room for lies. And this ad is about lies."

Powerline reported the DFL sent out an e-mail message, saying, "The ads erroneously make a connection between Iraq and the 9/11 terrorists attacks and suggest that the war in Iraq will prevent an attack by Al Queda in America. The 9/11 Commission findings clearly state that there was no connection between Iraq and the the [sic] Al Queda terrorists attacks on 9/11. We must call for media responsibility regarding this issue."

But the ad does not refer to the contentious claim that Iraq was connected to 9-11, alluding only to the fact that the coalition's No. 1 enemy in the country is Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, leader of the terrorist group known as Al-Qaida's Jihad Committee in Iraq.

The Democrat's letter says the party has "extraordinary sympathy for our troops and their families and believe that while our soldiers' role is to protect the citizens of our country, it is our role as citizens to protect our soldiers and to make certain that they are not misused. It is a travesty that the tragedies of five countries and the deaths of our brave men and women are being used in this type of propaganda."

Noting that Minnesota is a testing ground for the ads, the e-mail says, "If Minnesota speaks out and says no to this ad, the entire country can thank us. What we do here, now, will have an enormous impact on the success or failure of this kind of swiftboating in 06."

At a press conference, Melendez declared Minnesota "has a chance to take a stand against this misleading and untruthful propaganda," the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported.

"Minnesota TV stations should pull this ad and send a message that we will not tolerate this kind of 'swift-boating' anymore."


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India Seeks Humans Sickened by Bird Flu

 
India Seeks Humans Sickened by Bird Flu
Feb 20 10:22 PM US/Eastern

BREITBART.COM -


NAVAPUR, India

Indian health officials went door-to-door Monday searching for people sickened by the deadly bird flu strain, while hundreds of German troops disposed of dead wild birds in a desperate attempt to contain the fast-moving disease in Europe.

In Brussels, Belgium, European Union agriculture ministers discussed ways to combat bird flu _ such as by vaccinating poultry _ as the disease spread to half-a-dozen EU nations.

Malaysia announced the deaths of 40 chickens from the lethal H5N1 strain, the first reported cases of the virus in the country in more than a year.

In Hong Kong Tuesday, a dead magpie found near a street flower market was confirmed to have been infected by the H5N1 virus, the government said. It was the latest in a spate of bird deaths from the strain in recent weeks.

With India conducting a mass slaughter of birds for a second day Monday, plumes of black smoke filled the air as farmers burned dead chickens in the now-deserted poultry farms around Navapur, more than 250 miles northeast of Bombay.

Local officials near the affected area reported that a 27-year-old poultry farm owner died of bird flu-like symptoms, though tests had yet to determine the cause of death. Samples from at least eight other people hospitalized for flu-like symptoms near Navapur also were being tested, and results were expected later this week.

Inspectors visited homes and farms surrounding Navapur, a town of 30,000 people, searching for signs of illness and making sure even chickens being raised at private homes were killed and properly disposed of.

"It's like a war _ they come in completely covered with masks and goggles and check if the carcasses are disposed properly," said Ghulam Vhora, a Navapur poultry farmers' association.

Since early Sunday, more than 200,000 chickens have been slaughtered around Navapur, a major poultry farming region where the H5N1 strain of bird flu was found in some of 30,000 dead chickens. Checkpoints also have been set up to stop people carrying poultry out of the area.

Heavy earth movers also dug deep pits at some poultry farms. Workers already dumped more than 200,000 bird carcasses along with the gloves, goggles and blue gowns used by health teams. The pits were coated with chemicals, including disinfectant, before being filled in.

The government now plans to slaughter some 700,000 birds within a 1.5- mile radius of the outbreak, and 48 poultry farms will be emptied and shut for three months.

There are concerns the Indian poultry industry could suffer badly. India exports some $84 million worth of poultry and eggs annually to Europe, Japan and the Middle East.

"There must be no movement of poultry out of Navapur," said O.P. Tiwari, a health officer in neighboring Surat district.

Since 2003, the H5N1 virus has devastated poultry and killed at least 92 people, mostly in Asia, according to the World Health Organization. Most human cases have been linked to contact with infected birds. But scientists fear the virus could mutate into a form that is easily transmitted between humans, triggering a pandemic.

Nigerian health authorities said Monday the H5N1 strain has been identified in two more states, and the government ordered an immediate slaughter of birds in the area. The northern states Katsina and Zamfara are among five of Nigeria's 36 states now confirmed to have been affected. Nigeria documented Africa's first H5N1 case earlier this month, but no human infections have been reported.

In Europe, nearly 250 German troops cleared dead birds from the Baltic island of Ruegen, where the country's first outbreak of the disease were confirmed in wild birds last week.

EU officials cautioned against panic, saying bird flu had not reached commercial stocks, only wild birds. They encouraged people to continue eating poultry.

"This is an animal disease, not a human disease," EU Public Health Commissioner Markos Kyprianou said. "There is no reason for Europeans not to eat poultry meat."

France, the EU's largest poultry producer, became the latest European country to confirm H5N1 in wild fowl. Birds in Austria, Germany, Greece, Italy and Slovenia also have tested positive for the strain. Hungary also has reported five cases of suspected H5N1 in birds.

Elsewhere in Europe, the virus has turned up in Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, Croatia, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, and Bulgaria.

European chicken farmers said consumption has fallen, causing hundreds of millions of dollars in losses. The EU head office said recent outbreaks of avian bird flu in wild birds had created "a very serious market situation."

However, EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel told the EU farm ministers that conditions were not serious enough to warrant compensation for poultry farmers. She said she would reconsider "if the situation so requires."

France, the Netherlands, Italy and other nations want to vaccinate poultry "but opinion in Europe is divided," said Josef Proell, the Austrian agriculture minister who chaired the EU meeting.

In Asia, Malaysia's government said 40 chickens died last week from the H5N1 virus in an area near Kuala Lumpur, the main city. Agriculture Minister Muhyiddin Yassin said there were no human deaths, and all 110 chickens in the area, covering four hamlets, were slaughtered.

Malaysia had declared itself free of bird flu in January 2005, more than six weeks after its last infection was detected.

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NewsTrack - Study Containment can't stop flu pande

Study: Containment can't stop flu pandemic

BOSTON, Feb. 20 (UPI) -

United Press International -

- Scientists say they've concluded containment might buy time, but is not enough to stop a flu pandemic.

Through mathematical modeling, researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston and Seattle's University of Washington show flu outbreaks are likely to emerge in multiple locations and containment of all outbreaks is improbable.

Based on the modeling, the scientists predict containment efforts could likely double the time before a pandemic appears. But they say containment should be just one element of a multi-pronged preparedness strategy.

The work is part of a project aimed at developing modeling techniques to understand the spread of infectious diseases, including pandemic flu.

The findings appear in PLoS Medicine online.

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Bird flu likely to burst out again and again study on Yahoo! News

Bird flu likely to burst out again and again: study

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science CorrespondentMon Feb 20, 8:03 PM ET

Bird flu is likely to cross over into people again and again if it ever even once acquires the ability to pass from human to human, experts predicted on Monday.

In theory, the virus only has to mutate once, in one person, to spark a pandemic. But the researchers argue that this could happen again and again, in several places around the world.

They said even if the current pandemic killing birds passes, no one should breathe a sign of relief because the threat to people will not be gone.

"At best, a containment policy will only postpone the emergence of a pandemic, 'buying time' to prepare for its effects," Dr. Marc Lipsitch and colleagues from the Harvard School of Public Health and Dr. Carl Bergstrom from the University of Washington wrote.

This is what officials hope they are doing now by culling birds when new outbreaks of H5N1 avian influenza occur. Public health experts agree the world is nowhere near ready to cope with a pandemic, but with a few years' preparations, some countries might be.

"We argue here that if a single introduction of a pandemic-capable strain is expected, multiple introductions should also be expected," Lipsitch's team wrote in the Public Library of Science Medicine, an online medical journal.

"Each containment effort would likely be more difficult than the last as manpower, antiviral stockpiles, and other scarce resources become depleted," they wrote.

H5N1 avian influenza has spread in chickens from Korea, across China, south into Indonesia, west across Turkey into western Europe and into the African continent.

It has killed or forced the culling of more than 200 million birds in 32 countries and Hong Kong. While it does not easily infect people yet, it has sickened 170 people and killed 92, according to the latest World Health Organization figures.

No one can say if or when it would happen, but if H5N1 acquired the ability to pass easily from human to human, it could spark a pandemic that would kill millions or even tens of million within a few short months.

TEMPORARY CONTAINMENT

Some experts have published theoretical models showing that quick action with antiviral drugs, culling of birds and isolation of cases could quell such a pandemic before it started.

But it would require a lot of luck, noted Lipsitch and colleagues -- not the least identifying those cases right away, before they spread the disease.

Other experts have also noted this and also said there is no reason to believe that the mutations needed to make H5N1 a human disease would occur only once. Lipsitch's team ran some mathematical models based on known disease outbreaks.

Their article, published online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.0030135, suggests that an H5N1 pandemic could only be contained temporarily. And the longer the virus is around, the harder it will be to stop it from spreading.

"Even if each successive containment effort is no more difficult than its predecessor, the chance of at least one failure increases with the number of introductions," they wrote.

"Since the last pandemic nearly 40 years ago, we have observed dramatic changes in social and ecological factors thought to facilitate emergence of a pandemic-capable strain," the researchers wrote.

"Surging human and bird populations in Asia have increased the frequency of contact between birds and humans -- and these changes might facilitate emergence by permitting 'crossing over' of a mutated avian influenza to humans, or by allowing human and avian influenzas to reassort in the same animal host."


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Deadly viruses mutating to infect humans at rate never seen before

The Times February 21, 2006

Deadly viruses mutating to infect humans at rate never seen before


Our correspondent reports fromn the meeting in St Louis of the world's largest general scientific study

NEW DISEASES

AT least one new disease is jumping the species barrier from animals to human beings every year, exposing people to emerging germs at a rate that may be unprecedented.

The first work to catalogue the range of germs capable of infecting people has disclosed that 38 new human pathogens have emerged in the past 25 years. Three quarters of these, including Aids, avian flu, Sars and new variant CJD, originated as animal diseases.

The survey, led by Mark Woolhouse, of the University of Edinburgh, has identified more than 1,400 pathogens that can cause disease in human beings, at least 800 of which crossed the species barrier from animals.

While it is not known whether the rate at which diseases are jumping species is accelerating, Dr Woolhouse said it was impossible that human beings had been exposed to so many new pathogens so quickly through most of history.

Changes in human behaviour and the environment, such as bushmeat hunting, intensive agriculture, the ease of long-distance travel and global warming, were all likely to be helping animal germs to acquire the ability to infect people.

“The rate of accumulation we are seeing now is too fast to be supported over an evolutionary timescale,” he told the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in St Louis yesterday. “We would be overrun with pathogens.

“Either many of these pathogens will not persist in humans, or there is something very unusual about the present time. The most obvious explanation is the pace and scale of change in the ways humans interact with their environment, providing new opportunities for humans to be exposed to and to transmit novel pathogens.”

The deadliest example of a germ that has recently crossed from animals to human beings is HIV, which is thought to have started out as a monkey or ape virus in Africa. Other conditions with an animal origin include the Ebola and Marburg haemorrhagic fevers, the coronavirus that causes Sars, the West Nile virus that is now endemic in the United States and H5N1 avian flu.

The class of pathogen most responsible for new human infections is the RNA viruses, which include HIV and influenza. These seem particularly adept at jumping species because they have small genomes that mutate easily, allowing them to adapt to new hosts.

The animal reservoir of new diseases with the potential to infect human beings requires a new approach to medicine, in which its human and veterinary branches become more closely allied to detect and fight the pathogens that present a threat, Dr Woolhouse said.

“We have to recognise that there is really only one medicine,” he said. “Pathogens don’t distinguish between humans and animals, but we do with our distinction between medicine and veterinary medicine. We can’t afford to go on like that. Vets and medics need to work together.

“This has to start with students. Veterinary students need to learn about the public health implications of their field of study, and medics really need to get their act together.

“In the medical textbooks, the discussion of any disease always starts with the first human case. No it didn’t. It was probably in animals first. We need to exploit this knowledge in the veterinary field if we are to have the best chance of containing new pathogens.”

His call was supported by Nina Marano, of the US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta. “We have to bring public health and veterinary medicine closer,” she said. “Eleven of the 12 top-category bioterror agents are of zoonotic (animal) origin, and we are seeing the spread of highly pathogenic H5N1 flu.”

 

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Is A War Going On In Texas?
Feb. 15, 2006 by Phyllis Schlafly
If you don't have access to Texas newspapers or the internet, you may not have heard the sensational news about the enormous cache of weapons just seized in Laredo, Texas. U.S. authorities grabbed two completed Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), materials for making 33 more, military-style grenades, 26 grenade triggers, large quantities of AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles, 1,280 rounds of ammunition, silencers, machine gun assembly kits, 300 primers, bullet-proof vests, police scanners, sniper scopes, narcotics, and cash.
 
 
That sounds like a war is going on in Texas! If bomb-making factories and firearms assembly plants are ordinary day-to-day business in the drug war along our southern border, the American people need to know more about it.
 
 
The Val Verde County chief deputy warned that drug traffickers are helping terrorists with possible al Quaeda ties to cross the Texas-Mexico border into the United States. A government spokesman in Houston said "at this point there is no connection with anything in Iraq."
 
 
We are not so easily reassured. We wonder what our government is doing to fulfill its duty to "protect each of them [the states] against invasion," as called for in the U.S. Constitution, Article IV.
 
 
The Department of Homeland Security now admits that there have been 231 documented incursions by Mexican military or police, or drug or people smugglers dressed in military uniforms, during the last ten years, including 63 in Arizona, and several Border Patrol agents have been wounded in these encounters. This admission comes after years of pretending that such incursions were just "accidents."
 
 
Homeland Security sent a confidential memo in January to our Border Patrol agents warning that they could be the targets of assassins hired by alien smugglers. The alert states that the contract killers will probably be members of the vicious MS-13 Mara Salvatrucha street gang (whose 17-year-old killers will be protected from capital punishment by a recent U.S Supreme Court decision).
 
 
There is, indeed, a drug war going on between rival drug gangs, but the U.S. government seems to be just a bystander without manpower or weapons to take action. Are we going to continue to leave our Border agents sitting ducks for Mexican snipers?
 
 
Rep. Tom Tancredo reported that sheriff deputies spotted a military-style Humvee near El Paso, Texas, with a mounted .50-caliber machine gun escorting a caravan of SUVs bringing illegal drugs into our country. Our outgunned and outmanned sheriff deputies and state highway patrol couldn't do anything except take pictures.
 
 
The Mexican government is unwilling or incapable of doing anything to stop the w ide-open lawlessness on the Mexican side of the border. Our Border Patrol agents say they are often confronted by corrupt Mexican military units employed to protect and escort violent drug smugglers.
 
 
Meanwhile, the news media have shown us pictures of the just-discovered sophisticated 2,400-foot tunnel running under our border to a warehouse in San Diego. U.S. authorities recovered more than two tons of marijuana, and it is unclear how long the tunnel has been in operation or how many tons of drugs already passed through.
 
 
The Bush Administration whines that it can't (i.e., won't) do anything to implement border security unless its guest-worker/amnesty proposal is part of the legislative package, and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff looked pathetically weak when interviewed on television by Bill O'Reilly. When is our government going to protect us from the crime, the drugs, the smuggling racket, destruction of property, the endangerment to U.S. residents along our border and our undermanned Border Patrol?
 
 
In charge of protecting Americans against this war is 36-year-old Julie Myers, to whom President Bush gave a recess appointment after her Senate confirmation bogged down because of her total lack of law-enforcement experience. Her qualifications are her connections: she is the niece of former Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers and the wife of Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff's chief of staff.
 
 
Rep. J.D. Hayworth (R-AZ) says that if you visit the border, you will find that almost everyone who lives there is armed for protection from illegals. Just imagine if you had to carry a gun to go to the grocery store or take your kids to school!
 
 
For the best up-to-date analysis of what our government should do, read Rep. Hayworth's new book called "Whatever It Takes: Illegal Immigratio n, Border Security, and the War on Terror." He calls for a security fence, 10,000 border agents, enforcement of penalties on employers who hire illegal aliens, cooperation between the feds and our 700,000 local and state police officers to enforce our immigration laws, more detention centers to keep illegals until they can be deported, and an end to the racket of giving U.S. citizenship to babies born to illegal aliens.
 

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 Wherefore,
if Yahweh so clothe the grass of the field,
which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven,
shall He not much more clothe you,
O ye of little faith?  

Greetings Saints,
While We have an e-check pending and $2000 coming on Wed. We need to come
up with some money for tomorrow. We did get a $50 donation today by
pay pal so it will help. Soemthing could come in the mail
tomorrow if it comes before we leave. Mom needs to pay for
her case of eggs we need to pick up on the way over.......
Shalom, Pastor Dan

Shalom In Yeshua our Messiah

Sarina opened the Mission Friday she made two dozen egg-n cheese sandwiches before we got there then Richard made five and a half dozen sandwhiches. I put out three racks of rasberry breakfast rolls, two racks of honey buns, a rack of mixed pies, bananna boats, cup cakes, a bucket of oatmeal rasin cookies granma sent with three loafs of bannana nut bread. five boxes of Ho Ho's & I also gave out 15 loafs of bread, three bags of hot dog buns, pastor dan gave out noodles and cheese crackers. For dinner I made golash, a mixture of green beans, navey beans, black eyed peas, and potatoes served with two slices of bread-n-butter. 

The bills still remain unpaid but there has been notice of relieve on the way, what was 1000 on Thursday has become 2000 on this Wednesday. It is to be over nited on Tuesday so all the bills will be paid on Wednesday of this week Glory and Praise to Yahweh.

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High school senior discovers ironing deactivates anthrax - PittsburghLIVE.com

High school senior discovers ironing deactivates anthrax

By Jennifer Bails
TRIBUNE-REVIEW

Monday, February 20, 2006

Protecting yourself from biological weapons might be as simple as using a hot clothes iron.

Through a project for a statewide science competition, Central Catholic High School senior Marc Roberge discovered truth in the urban legend that ironing can kill anthrax spores in contaminated mail.

His findings will appear in the June edition of the Journal of Medical Toxicology, which publishes peer-reviewed research papers. It is an accomplishment usually reserved for Ph.D.-level scientists and physicians.

"He's just 17. I was 35 before I had my first publication," said Roberge's father, Dr. Raymond Roberge, a medical toxicologist who works for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in South Park. "This is just amazing to me."

Marc Roberge's idea for his Pennsylvania Junior Academy of Sciences project -- which won first place at regional and state events last year -- came after the 2001 bioterrorism attack in which letters containing anthrax spores were mailed to several news media offices and two U.S. senators. Anthrax infections killed five people. The crimes remain unsolved.

Anthrax mail scares still occur periodically. Last week, a letter containing a mysterious white powder and addressed to Americans triggered an anthrax alert at a NATO center in Norway, the Associated Press reported.

Anthrax spores, covered by a hard protective shell, can fatally infect people who inhale them deep into the lungs.

On Oct. 12, 2001, a former Soviet germ warfare specialist told members of a U.S. Congressional committee that people could use a hot steam iron through a moist layer of fabric to kill anthrax spores in mail.

This comment spawned debate about whether conventional household irons would work against the deadly agent. During a CNN interview four years ago, a reporter asked Dr. Roberge if the report was accurate.

"My response was to her was that high heat could kill anthrax, but I didn't know if a household iron would work, since no studies had been done," he said.

Roberge discussed the topic over dinner that night with his son, who decided to investigate it for his Academy of Sciences project, required as part of his Advanced Placement biology course.

For his experiments -- conducted in the family's Highland Park home and at Central Catholic in Oakland -- Marc Roberge did not use actual anthrax.

"The government might have had a little problem with that," he said.

Instead, he substituted a more heat-resistant but harmless bacterial spore from the anthrax family that scientists often use as a surrogate.

Marc Roberge placed paper strips laden with millions of spores inside standard envelopes, and then ironed the mail at various dry heat settings for up to 15 minutes.

He found that an iron adjusted to the hottest setting -- at least 204.5 degrees Celsius, or 400 degrees Fahrenheit -- and used for at least 5 minutes destroyed all spores so no bacteria would grow. The iron didn't open the letters or make pen-written addresses hard to read, Roberge said.

"When the anthrax attacks happened, I thought, 'There's got to be a way to stop this,'" he said. "I just never thought it would be so easy."

Based on Roberge's findings, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center bioterrorism expert Dr. Michael Allswede doesn't recommend that people routinely press their mail.

"But should there be another threat like the anthrax attacks in 2001, it would be one of the techniques that could be used by regular people," he said.

Jennifer Bails can be reached at jbails@tribweb.com or (412) 320-7991.

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President's gone insane' - 9-11 dad

New York Daily News - http://www.nydailynews.com
'President's gone insane' – 9/11 dad
BY JIMMY VIELKIND
DAILY NEWS WRITER
Monday, February 20th, 2006

Peter Gadiel just doesn't get it.

How, asks Gadiel, whose son James died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, can a company owned by a terror-linked country get control of our nation's ports?

"I'm a lifelong Republican and I think the President's gone insane," said Gadiel, 58, who heads 9/11 Families for a Secure America.

Two of the 19 9/11 hijackers were citizens of Dubai, the Arab emirate whose bid to run ports in New York, New Jersey and four other cities was okayed by the White House even though investigators have found signs that money used to finance terrorism flowed through Dubai banks.

"How the hell could this happen?" fumed Bill Doyle, 58, a retired Staten Island stockbroker whose son Joseph also died when the Trade Center fell.

"We're not securing our country in any way by selling our ports to foreigners," he said.

Gadiel and Doyle stood with Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) yesterday at the harbor to express their outrage.

Bruse DeCell, 55, whose son-in-law died in the attacks, said that homeland security should be the highest concern when approving the activities of foreign business interests.

"This administration is putting the selling of our country on a fast track," he said. "There are a lot of loose ends that caused 9/11 to happen. I'm trying to close them."

Only 5% of the cargo containers entering U.S. ports are inspected, said Schumer, who has called for upgrades in port security for years.


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Fw: Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive

 
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Bin Laden Vows Never to Be Captured Alive




By STEVEN R. HURST
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) - Osama bin Laden vowed never to be captured alive and said the U.S. military had become as ``barbaric'' as Saddam Hussein in an audiotape reposted on a militant Islamic Web site after first being broadcast last month.

In the tape posted to the Web site Monday, bin Laden offered the United States a long-term truce but also said his al-Qaida terror network would soon launch a fresh attack on American soil. The tape was initially broadcast Jan. 19 on Al-Jazeera, the pan-Arab satellite channel.

Islamic militant Web forums often repost messages from al-Qaida leaders to ensure sympathizers can see them. U.S. intelligence officials confirmed that last month's tape was of bin Laden - making it his first message in more than a year.

``I have sworn to only live free. Even if I find bitter the taste of death, I don't want to die humiliated or deceived,'' bin Laden said, in the 11-minute, 26-second tape.

In drawing the comparison to American military behavior in Iraq to that of Saddam, he said:


``The jihad (holy war) is ongoing, thank God, despite all the oppressive measures adopted by the U.S. Army and its agents (which has reached) a point where there is no difference between this criminality and Saddam's criminality.''


Bin Laden also denied Bush administration assertions that it was better to fight terrorists in Iraq than on U.S. soil.


``The reality shows that the war against America and its allies has not been limited to Iraq as he (Bush) claims. Iraq has become a point of attraction and restorer of (our) energies,'' he said.


The last audiotape purported to be from bin Laden was broadcast in December 2004 by Al-Jazeera. In that recording, he endorsed Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi as his deputy in Iraq and called for a boycott of Iraqi elections.


Associated Press reporter Omar Sinan contributed to this report.



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Fw: Editorials from the Hebrew Press 20-Feb-2006


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Editorials from the Hebrew Press 20-Feb-2006
20/02/2006 18:10:05
Shalom, Pastor Dan Catlin

**Summary of Editorials from the Hebrew Press 20-Feb-2006

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Haaretz - http://www.haaretz.com
Ma'ariv - http://www.maariv.co.il
Yediot Aharonot - http://www.ynet.co.il
Globes - http://www.globes.co.il
Hazofeh - http://www.hazofe.co.il
Jerusalem Post - http://www.jpost.com

Haaretz comments: "It is not realistic to think about separating Hamas rule
from the Palestinian people, or about starving government institutions while
sending humanitarian assistance directly to the population. The Palestinians
chose their leadership democratically, and any such separation is arrogant
and has no chance. The unsuccessful comments by Dov Weissglas - whose
position and source of authority in the present government is difficult to
understand - regarding the need to put the Palestinian nation on a diet, but
not to starve it, symbolizes more than anything the humiliating way in which
Israel relates to the Palestinians, which was one of the factors in Hamas'
rise to power. It is unnecessary and degrading to recommend a diet to a
hungry and unemployed nation, in addition to which Israel is still
responsible for preventing hunger in all parts of the West Bank that it
controls as an occupying power...The government must declare a waiting
period in which nothing will change in the agreements between the PA and
Israel that were in effect before the elections. The government must wait
and examine how the Hamas government will use the money transferred to it,
and not expect that the Palestinian nation will change its tune. Any
pressure in this direction is liable to cause radicalization and a renewal
of violence."

The Jerusalem Post writes: "The welcome presence in Israel of Tenzin Gyatso,
the 14th Dalai Lama and leader of the Tibetan people, reminds Israelis that
we are not, after all, at the center of the universe; that there are
political struggles, philosophical approaches and spiritual roads that have
nothing to do with Jews, Israel, or the clash between Islamist medievalism
and Western modernity...Yet alluring as the Dalai Lama's message is, his is
not the Jewish way. Facing an enemy that invented the suicide bomber's belt,
the response of unilateral pacifism would result in our annihilation. In
place of an imperfect Israel, a violently reactionary Islamist regime would
arise. Still, even though the message of non-violence resonates only as a
faint hope vis-a-vis the Arab and Muslim world, perhaps the presence of this
'simple Buddhist monk' will at least remind Israelis of the way we should
treat each other."

[Yediot Aharonot and Hatzofeh were not available today.]

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Fw: A7news: GSS Chief: "Hudna With Hamas is a Danger"

 
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Editor: Hillel Fendel
Headlines:
 1.  Shabak Chief: "Don't Agree to Hudna With Hamas"
 2.  Knesset Speaker:For Olmert, Achieving Power Justifies All Means
 3.  Paper Affiliated with Fatah Dehumanizes Jews and Israel
 4.  Nadia Matar Plans Aggressive Defense in Freedom of Speech Case
 5.  IAI and Boeing to Design Anti-Kassam Missile System
 6.  31 Containers Headed for Hamas and Islamic Jihad Seized at Port
 7.  Hamas Seeks Control Over Palestine Liberation Organization
 8.  On A7radio: Funky World Beat and Classical Symphony

1.  Shabak Chief: "Don't Agree to Hudna With Hamas"
By Hillel Fendel

GSS head Yuval Diskin warned the Knesset Foreign Affairs & Defense Committee that Hamas is a strategic threat to Israel, and is planning to build itself into an extremist Islamic country.

Some Hamas officials have said that the new PA leadership would be willing to agree to a hudna - a long-term ceasefire, violable as soon as the Moslem side feels confident of victory - under certain conditions. The conditions, generally overlooked in favor of the very willingness of Hamas to consider a truce, include Israel's consent to remove all Jewish presence from Judea and Samaria and the like.

GSS Chief Diskin hopes to nip all talk of a possible hudna in the bud. He told the Knesset committee today that Israel "must not accept a hudna even if proposed. It would lead to a long-term strategic threat upon Israel. If there is a hudna, Hamas will use it to stabilize its rule and form a fundamentalist extremist Islamic entity with terrorist capabilities... Hamas has a lot of patience, just like the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt."

Diskin said that Islamic terrorists from all over the Middle East would arrive in Judea and Samaria and "form an Islamic terrorist state on our doorstep." He also warned that the strengthening of a Hamas Authority would also embolden Israeli-Arabs against Israel, as occurred in the beginning of the Oslo War in 2000.

Committee Chairman Yuval Shteinitz called upon the Olmert government to stop Hamas by "placing a siege on the Hamas leaders in their cities, just like we didn't let Arafat leave Ramallah."

"We must all be concerned by the threat Diskin talked about," Shteinitz said. "Israel must immediately... stop the development of this threat before it grows." He said that the Hamas offer of a hudna is a "honey trap. Whoever [on the Israeli side] wants to commit suicide, will agree to temporary quiet at the expense of the establishment of a Palestinian Revolutionary Guard movement and the threat of Kassams at the heart of the country."

Committee member Danny Yatom (Labor) downplayed Diskin's warning: "Hamas is not an existential threat and not even 'almost' existential; to say it's a strategic threat is overstating the situation."

Avi Dichter, a leading candidate for Defense Minister if Kadima forms the next government, feels that Hamas need not be automatically ruled out as a future diplomatic partner. He recently told Haaretz,
"The stopping of terrorism, the disarming of the terror organizations, the fulfillment of agreements signed by Israel and the PA, recognition of the State of Israel, and the erasure of clauses in the charter calling for the destruction of Israel and Jews - these are the conditions for dialogue with the Palestinians... The Roadmap [calling for a PA state side-by-side with Israel] is the only diplomatic plan that receives widespread Israeli and international support."

Former GSS head Ami Ayalon of Labor is even more conciliatory:
"If these conditions are fulfilled - recognition of Israel as the state of the Jewish People, and disarming and ending terrorist activities - there is no reason not to see Hamas as a partner in future Road Map negotiations."

Ayalon feels that Israel must also prepare for future unilateral withdrawals and must continue to build the wall separating most of Judea and Samaria from the rest of Israel.

GSS Chief Diskin faced opposition from Meretz MK Ran Cohen for calling the disengagement from Gaza an "uprooting." Cohen said that Diskin should not politicize the debate by using such terms. Diskin said that it is not a political term, but rather a technical one describing the act of taking people out of their homes against their will.

In the meanwhile, Hamas officials are preparing to instill their ideals among the Arab populace in Judea, Samaria and Gaza. Leading spokesman Mahmoud al-Zahar said last week that one new reform will include education about the "culture of resistance" - i.e., terrorism. Hamas's armed branch, the Iz-Adin al-Kassam, states in its literature that "resistance" is the same as jihad, or holy war.

Hamas created an on-line children's magazine in 2004 entitled Al-Fatah (The Conqueror), in which articles include pieces written by suicide terrorists and images of suicide bombers. In addition, the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center recently reported that Hamas has launched its first TV channel. The "Al-Aqsa" station, which began last month, resembles Hizbullah's incendiary Al-Manar TV station.

A video from the year 2004 broadcast on a Hamas website shows two suicide bombers, Idham Ahmed Majila and Maumin Rajab Rajab, who blew themselves up at the Karni Crossing in a terrorist attack in 2004. Majila is heard stating, "We are a blood-drinking people and we know that there is no better blood than Jewish blood."

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2.  Knesset Speaker:For Olmert, Achieving Power Justifies All Means
By Hillel Fendel

Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, perceived as the elder statesman of the Likud - at 66, the party's oldest Knesset candidate - has come out with a resounding attack against Ehud Olmert's political path.

Likud Chairman Binyamin Netanyahu convened a large morale-rousing gathering of Likud activists in Tel Aviv last night. The participants included chapter heads and leading players in the Likud campaign from all over the country.

A letter by Ruby Rivlin was read aloud:
"Are we facing retreats, concessions, collapse and disengagement from all the values on which we have been raised and educated? Or will we succeed in awakening the public and uncovering the true face of Olmert?"

Olmert, Rivlin continued, "is a man who has proven that everything is justified in order to attain power. He is a man 'who has no god,' a man who has left our camp many times and then returned whenever the regime fell and provided him with new opportunities. We must remind the public how dangerous it would be to abandon the leadership of the country to his hands."

"In the few weeks in which he has been in power," Rivlin wrote about Olmert, "he has already managed to crumble... He disseminates promises and illusions. Can a person like that be believed?"

Netanyahu, in his speech, emphasized the genuine threat posed by the Hamas takeover of the Palestinian Authority. "We won't whitewash it," he said. "Hamas is part of the Islamic movement, whose primary goal is the destruction of Israel [which is then to lead] to the liquidation of the entire West."

"Kadima says that we are detached from reality. We!? The one who is detached from reality is the one who just a few weeks ago gave 240 million shekels to Hamas... Olmert's policy is one of downfall, weakness and hesitation."

Netanyahu outlined the Likud's three-fold plan vis-a-vis the Hamas threat:
"We will activate the IDF defensively, offensively, and deterrently... The United States [will act] against the countries that give money to Hamas, and we will demand that the PA be listed as a terrorist authority. We will create an economic defensive wall, and we will not allow money to be transferred or workers to enter."

In answer to a question this morning, Netanyahu explained that withholding money to the Hamas Authority would not lead to starvation: "The money was destined for terrorist causes, not for food," Netanyahu said.

Labor's Amir Peretz, too, attacked Kadima today. "The main issue," he said, "is the way in which Olmert has difficulty in making decisions, and the great confusion that is found within the team that is today leading Israeli policy-making."

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3.  Paper Affiliated with Fatah Dehumanizes Jews and Israel
By Scott Shiloh

Anti-Semitic cartoons published in a PA paper affiliated with Fatah show that Fatah's hatred of Jews and Israel is no less virulent than that of the Hamas.

As the government attempts to devise a strategy to deal with a Hamas government in the Palestinian Authority, many politicians and journalists have come out in favor of measures designed to bring back the Fatah party, headed by PA chief Mahmoud Abbas.

While the Fatah party ostensibly recognizes Israel’s right to exist, the party’s hatred of Israel and Jews seems to parallel that of the Hamas. Fatah’s attitude towards Jews and Israel is evidenced by rabidly anti-Semitic political cartoons frequently published by Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, a PA newspaper closely affiliated with the Fatah.

A number of these cartoons, culled by Palestinian Media Watch, are reproduced below. The entire selection of cartoons can be viewed at the PMW website.

Political cartoons demeaning Mohammad have ignited the Moslem world against the West. Despite the sensitivity of such cartoons, the PA paper regularly publishes cartoons against Israel and the United States that would be repugnant to people in those countries. The PA under Fatah rule was a large recipient of U.S. aid.










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4.  Nadia Matar Plans Aggressive Defense in Freedom of Speech Case
By Hillel Fendel

Nadia Matar has been indicted on charges of "insulting a public servant" based on a letter she wrote to Disengagement Authority head Yonatan Bassi, comparing his actions to those of the Judenraat.


Bassi's job was to facilitate the expulsion this past summer of the Jews from Gush Katif and northern Shomron, and their relocation, while Matar is a co-founder and chairperson of the nationalist Women in Green activist organization. Matar wrote Bassi a letter in September 2004, after she heard that he was planning to write a letter to each of the residents destined for expulsion.

"I read that you have not yet formulated the final wording of your letter," Matar wrote to Bassi, "and therefore I am volunteering to 'help' you formulate it. I am enclosing a document that is chillingly similar to the one you plan to send - and all you have to do is to change the date (from 1942 to 2004) and the place (from Berlin to Gush Katif), and behold, your letter will be ready."

The document she enclosed was a letter from the Judenraat - the local Jewish leadership installed by the Nazi regime in Germany - to the Jews destined for evacuation to the death camps. Matar quoted the Judenrat letter as ending with a "moving call to the Jewish leaders in Berlin to behave calmly and to thus make the expulsion easier" - similar to the requests that the Disengagement Authority had of the Jews in Gush Katif and northern Shomron.

Speaking with IsraelNationalRadio's Yishai and Malkah Fleisher last week,
Matar said,
"I wrote to Bassi that the Judenraat letter reminded me very much of what he planned to write, but I added that he was even worse - because the Jews of then had a Nazi gun to their heads, and therefore we cannot judge them, while he was not being forced by anyone to take part in this crime. If he did it anyway, I wrote, he would be remembered as one of those criminals who lifted their hand against the Jewish people."

"I want to make this very clear, however," she said. "I never compared Jews to Nazis; I wouldn't do that, and in fact, it is the Arabs today who are the Nazis, because they want to kill us indiscriminately. But any Jew who helps the Arabs can be compared to the Judenraat. I would never call Bassi a Nazi, but I can call him a collaborator with today's Nazis."

In a follow-up talk today (Monday), Matar told Arutz-7 that she had still not received a copy of the indictment:
"My lawyer, Yoram Sheftel, received a fax from the Prosecution, saying that they had decided to indict, and then, two days later, the media reported that the courts had received the indictment. But I still have received nothing and have heard nothing, and I don't even know when I'm supposed to appear in court."

Whenever the case begins, she plans to turn it into a high-profile one:
"As my lawyer says, we will use this to make a large case against the entire system. This is a simple case of freedom of speech; they are trying to muzzle the right-wing camp."

"We warned them at the time," Ms. Matar said, "when they first investigated me, that we would bring all the instances when left-wing figures made even stronger statements against the right-wing, and yet were not prosecuted."

One example of the above is when former Justice Minister Tommy Lapid said to then-Foreign Minister Shimon Peres in 1995, two weeks before the Rabin murder: "Yours is a Judenraat government."

Prime Minister Ariel Sharon himself made similar comments. When the Rabin government explained that the Oslo Accords were necessary because there was no alternative, then-MK Sharon told the Kfar Chabad magazine,
"It must be understood that this government, and those who head it, have been stricken with madness and have lost all restraint... Though no current situation should ever be compared with the Holocaust, I would still like to mention that before the Holocaust, as well, the Jewish leadership said then: There is no alternative."

Atty. Sheftel wrote a sharply-worded letter to State Prosecutor Eran Shendar over a year ago, asking him to immediately close the case. Sheftel writes that the charges on which Ms. Matar was being investigated are not at all relevant to the case at hand:
"The purpose of Clause 288 of the Penal Code [Insulting a Public Servant] is to prevent a situation in which a citizen who requires the services of a public servant and is not satisfied with the response he received, uses foul language against that public servant. Another example is a motorist who rudely insults a policeman who gave him a ticket. This is the sole purpose of Clause 288. Under no circumstances is it designed to be used by the Prosecution and the police to intervene - and certainly not selectively and discriminately - in an issue of public discourse."

Sheftel then provided some historic background, stating that such "founding fathers" as Chaim Weizmann and David Ben-Gurion were among those who "poisoned the public discourse in Israel and within the Zionist movement... by their contemptible and repeated equating of Ze'ev Jabotinsky and Menachem Begin not only to the Judenraat who aided the Nazis - but to the Nazis themselves, and to Adolph Hitler in particular." Sheftel then gave specific examples of such "debased and wicked comparisons."

Atty. Sheftel then listed some contemporary Holocaust-connected remarks against the right-wing, "compared with which, my client's remarks against Yonatan Bassi are totally lukewarm." He noted that none of them were the subjects of criminal prosecutions. Examples include:
* the statement by the late Prof. Yeshayahu Liebowitz calling IDF soldiers "Judeo-Nazis,"
* former Meretz-party Education Minister Shulamit Aloni's article accusing former Minister Eli Yishai of Shas as having acted "in accordance with the Nuremberg Laws when he was Minister of Interior,"
* and several others.

Though Matar wrote her letter to Bassi almost a year and a half ago, the indictment was handed down only now. She is not disheartened, however: "It's a compliment to be persecuted by a government like this. It means that I am saying the right things."

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5.  IAI and Boeing to Design Anti-Kassam Missile System
By Ezra HaLevi

Israel Aircraft Industries (IAI) and Boeing aim to design a system to shoot down Kassam rockets, which have increasingly been fired toward Israeli population centers since the retreat from Gaza.


The Short Range Ballistic Missile Defense (SRMBD) system has been deemed necessary by Israel's defense establishment as rockets are increasingly fired from Gaza toward critical Israeli installations such at Ashkelon’s Rotenberg Power Plant.

The range of the rockets continues to improve and Kassam rocket factories have also been discovered in northern Samaria. The Defense Ministry has concluded that it is only a matter of time until rockets are fired at targets in central Israel as well.

A terrorist from the Popular Resistance Organization told the Yediot Acharonot newspaper Monday that efforts are underway to launch Kassam rockets from Judea and Samaria. He said that a Kassam rocket launcher confiscated in Bethlehem recently was intended for an attack against Jerusalem's southern Gilo neighborhood.

The SRMBD will supposedly be able to detect the launch of Kassam rockets and intercept them at a high altitude, using technology similar to that used in the Arrow anti-missile system.

Boeing and IAI have worked together in the past, developing the Arrow. Also bidding for the tender will be US company Raytheon together with the Israeli Armament Development Authority. The participation of two of America’s largest defense companies leads defense experts to conclude that the U.S. is concerned about short-range ballistic missiles as well.

“It is inconceivable that companies such as Boeing or Raytheon," one expert told Globes, "which have such strong links with the Pentagon, would sign comprehensive joint venture agreements with Israeli companies without first obtaining the green light from the [U.S.] secretary of defense."

At the same time, the cooperation allows the United States to support its own defense industry by giving Israel aid earmarked for spending on U.S. arms. Much of the Arrow missile system is manufactured in America, and the SRMBD is expected to be as well.

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6.  31 Containers Headed for Hamas and Islamic Jihad Seized at Port
By Scott Shiloh

31 containers holding hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of goods destined for Hamas and Islamic Jihad were seized by Israeli authorities last week.

The goods were being imported by the Faiz Abu Achbar company based in Gaza. Last week, Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz (Kadima) signed an order outlawing the company for serving as a front for the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terror organizations.

A combined effort of the Shin Bet (Israel’s domestic intelligence agency) and Israel’s agencies for fighting drug dealing and international crime led to the confiscations at the Ashdod port. The agencies tipped off Israeli customs that the Abu Achbar company was importing the goods under the names of two other Gaza firms, Rio and the Hani Sa’adallah Shaldan company.

Under the terms of the Oslo accords, all imports to the Palestinian Authority from abroad must pass through Israeli ports.

Israeli authorities have been following the dealings of Abu Achbar for a number of years. The company’s commercial activities have been a leading source of funding for the Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.

Abu Achbar worked by arranging for Hamas and Islamic Jihad supporters abroad to pay for goods to be shipped to areas controlled by the PA in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza (Yesha). Once in their hands, the Hamas and Islamic Jihad used the goods to pay for their operations in Yesha, including carrying out acts of terrorism against Israelis. Later on, the company refunded money to the terror groups, while retaining a commission for its efforts.

Importing pre-paid-for goods became the groups’ method of circumventing Israel’s controls preventing monetary transfers to terrorist groups.

While previous shipments by Abu Achbar have been seized by Israeli customs, the threat of losing more goods to confiscation failed to deter the company from continuing to front for the terror groups. Since being classified as unlawful, any property belonging to the company can be seized by Israeli authorities.

The use of ostensibly legitimate businesses has become one of the major vehicles for funneling money to Arab terrorist groups in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza.

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7.  Hamas Seeks Control Over Palestine Liberation Organization
By Scott Shiloh

Bolstered by its victory over Fatah in Palestinian Authority parliamentary elections, the Hamas is aiming for control over the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).

Hamas leader Khaled Mashal, based in Damascus, said the Hamas will attempt to reform the PLO “on new political and organizational foundations.” Mashal’s choice of words may signify an effort to Islamicize the PLO.

The PLO, an international terrorist organization in its own right, is generally secular. Hamas, a terror group based on radical Islam, has never been a member of the PLO.

Mashal said that the Hamas attained the right to be represented in the PLO when it agreed to the hudna (temporary ceasefire) arrangement early last year. Under the terms of the hudna, the Hamas said it would refrain from carrying out terrorist attacks against Israel. Israeli security sources say they have thwarted numerous Hamas attempts to strike Israel, since the hudna.

Mashal claims that the Hamas is entitled to representation in the PLO equivalent to its representation on the Palestinian Authority council - in other words, a majority. Fatah claims that the agreement entitling the Hamas to PLO representation is void.

Since its loss to Hamas, PA chief Mahmoud Abbas of the Fatah party has suggested conducting negotiations with Israel via the PLO which the Fatah still controls. Hamas has repudiated any possibility of negotiation with Israel, an entity it does not recognize. The Oslo Accords, which recognize Israel’s right to exist, were signed by Fatah terrorist leader Yasser Arafat, in his capacity as chairman of the PLO.

Under Abbas’ new model for the PA, the Hamas would control domestic affairs, while the Fatah would handle relations with Israel and international relations through the PLO.

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Cabinet Communique 19-Feb-2006
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**Cabinet Communique 19-Feb-2006

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**Cabinet Communique 19-Feb-2006

(Communicated by the Cabinet Secretariat)

At the weekly cabinet meeting today (Sunday, 19 February 2006):

1. Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Education, Culture and Sports
Minister Meir Shetrit eulogized the late Shoshana Damari.

2. Ministers were briefed on Palestinian affairs following the Palestinian
Authority (PA) elections and determined policy in light of the swearing-in
of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).

Acting Prime Minister Olmert made the following remarks:

"From Israel's point-of-view, a new situation has been created. Israel has
defined threshold conditions for holding contacts with Palestinians in the
Hamas administration and it will continue to act accordingly. Israel has
proven that it is interested in acting on behalf of regional peace and
stability. The disengagement is a main example of this, at the base of which
lies the desire to have here two states for two peoples living side-by-side
in stability, security, and peace. Of course, Israel will continue to see to
the personal security of Israeli citizens and will not compromise on this
issue now or in the future. It is clear that in light of the Hamas majority
in the PLC and the instructions to form a new government that were given to
the head of Hamas, the PA is - in practice - becoming a terrorist authority.
The State of Israel will not agree to this. Israel will not compromise with
terrorism and will continue to fight it with full force. However, there is
no intention of harming the humanitarian needs of the Palestinian
population. Israel will not hold contacts with the administration in which
Hamas plays any part - small, large, or permanent.

"From our point-of-view, the swearing-in of the PLC means that Hamas has -
in effect - taken control of the PA. Israel views the rise of Hamas as a
dangerous milestone that turns the PA into a terrorist authority. This new
situation will influence the future of Israeli-PA relations and will begin a
period in which ties with the PA are downgraded, unless Hamas fully accepts
the principles that the international community has presented to it:
Recognition of the State of Israel and abrogation of the Hamas Covenant, the
renunciation of terrorism and the dismantling of terrorist infrastructures
(by adopting the Roadmap and accepting its principles), and recognizing all
understandings and agreements between Israel and the Palestinians.

"It must be pointed out that the international community's
point-of-reference is the day on which a Palestinian government is formed.
Until then, the international community will continue to see it as the main
address, including that regarding the continued transfer of financial
assistance. The US and the EU include Hamas on their lists of terrorist
organizations and are refraining - at this stage - from any contacts with
it. We will continue to demand that the PA fully honor the three conditions
that the international community has set before it. Until this happens, we
will take a series of steps, some of which we will decide on today. In any
case, Israel has no intention of bringing about the collapse of civil
frameworks and creating a humanitarian crisis in the PA. Israel will
continue to act determinedly against terrorism and against terrorists. The
new situation, in which Hamas members have been elected to the PLC, does not
change this."

OC Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yedlin, ISA Director Yuval Diskin, National
Security Council Chairman Giora Eiland, and Coordinator of Government
Activities in the Territories Maj.-Gen. Yosef Mishlav briefed ministers on
the results of the recent PA elections.

The cabinet decided as follows:

"It is decided that, upon the swearing-in of the Hamas dominated PLC
yesterday (Saturday, 18 February 2006), and upon the upcoming conclusion of
the PA transitional government, the PA will become a terrorist authority
unless Hamas, which controls the PA, fully accepts the following threshold
conditions as determined by Israel and approved by the Quartet:

* Recognition of the State of Israel and the abrogation of the Hamas
Covenant;

* Renunciation of terrorism and the dismantling of terrorism
infrastructures;

* Recognition of agreements and understandings between Israel and the
Palestinians.

A. Therefore, the cabinet immediately decides - at this stage - to implement
a series of measures vis-א-vis the PA:

i. Upon the formation of the transitional government, no funds will be
transferred from Israel to the PA;

ii. Israel will appeal to the international community so that, upon the
formation of the transitional government, the international community will
refrain from all financial assistance to the PA except for humanitarian aid
given directly to the Palestinian population;

iii. Transfers of means and assistance to the Palestinian security services
will be prevented;

iv. The movement of VIPs connected to Hamas, including members of the PLC,
will continue to be restricted in all areas under Israeli control;

v. Given the heightened security risks, security checks at crossings -
especially Karni and Erez - will be increased, regarding both people and
goods. Activities to upgrade the Gaza Strip crossings will continue in order
to enable more effective security oversight.

B. All measures necessary to thwart acts of terrorism against Israel will
continue, both in the Gaza Strip and in the Gaza Strip; acceleration in
construction of the security fence will continue.

3. The cabinet discussed the issue of the construction of the permanent
Beduin Negev communities of al-Fura and Abu-Talul.

4. The cabinet, pursuant to the 1982 Communications Law (Bezeq and
Broadcasts), accepted Communications Minister Avraham Hirschson's and
Justice Minister Tzipi Livni's recommendation, and appointed attorney Rani
Neubauer as the Justice Ministry representative to the Cable and Satellite
Broadcast Council, in place of Noga Rubinstein, who has finished her
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Headlines:
 1.  Olmert´s Cabinet: No Money to Hamas, But Gates Remain Open
 2.  Sderot Residents Demand Gov´t Action Against Kassams
 3.  Olmert Linked to Pre-Liquidation Scam
 4.  Turkey Latest Country to Open Doors to Hamas
 5.  "Small Price to Pay" Says Amona IDF Refuser Handed Jail Time
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1.  Olmert´s Cabinet: No Money to Hamas, But Gates Remain Open
By Hillel Fendel

The Cabinet did not approve all of the defense experts' recommendations for how to deal with the new Hamas Authority - especially that which calls for a ban on entry of workers from Gaza.

The defense establishment prepared, on Friday, a series of recommendations for the new situation caused by yesterday's take-over of the PA legislature by Hamas. Olmert and the Cabinet, however, accepted only a water-down version thereof.

The following measures were approved:

1. Israel will stop the monthly transfer of tax monies to the PA as soon as the new Hamas government, to be headed by Muhammed Haniye, is sworn in. This is expected to take place in the coming weeks, but it is not clear whether this will be before or after the next scheduled money transfer.

2. Israel will ask the international community to stop all donations to the PA, as of the swearing-in of the new PA government. However, funding to organizations defined as "humanitarian" will continue.

3. Israel will prevent the transfer of aid and means to official and unofficial PA military organizations.

4. Entry of Hamas members to areas controlled by Israel will be restricted.

5. The security checks of workers and goods entering Israel from Gaza at the Karni and Erez Crossings will be stepped up.

Nothing was mentioned in today's Cabinet decision of a proposed stop to projects such as the airport and seaport in Gaza.

The Cabinet comprises only Kadima Party ministers.

Defense Ministry officials had hoped that the Karni and Erez Crossings - which have suffered many terrorist attacks in the past, and which have been the point of entry for many terrorists - would be closed as early as this morning. PA officials, too, had been originally informed that the crossings would be closed, but later found out the opposite. Some 3-5,000 workers entered today.

Olmert, addressing the Cabinet today, said, "At this point, there is no possibility of reaching an agreement with the PA - but the sky has not crashed in. We were in the same situation during the days of terrorism with Arafat... Israel will not compromise with terrorism, and will continue fighting it with full force... Israel will not have contacts with a regime in which Hamas is a member."

Former Education Minister Limor Livnat (Likud) said that Israel must take a much stronger stance against Hamas:
"We need not have to deliberate every month as to whether to give them money or not. We should say unambiguously that this money goes to Hamas education and organizations, and therefore we are not giving it."

Livnat noted that the PA has become an enemy entity overnight:
"Just two days after the Hamas takes over the PA, an official delegation is about to set off for Iran."

Uzi Landau of the Likud made a pre-election attack on Acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert:
"Hamas will send a large bouquet of roses to Olmert as a token of appreciation for his help in their victory in the elections, and for his zig-zag policies."

Avigdor Lieberman, head of the Yisrael Beiteinu party, congratulated Olmert for his decisions, but said that he should go even further. Lieberman favors closing the gates from Gaza altogether, and cutting off electricity and telephone communication in Gaza.

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2.  Sderot Residents Demand Gov´t Action Against Kassams
By Hillel Fendel

Residents of Sderot, who have been targeted by hundreds of Kassam rockets since the retreat from Gaza, protested in Jerusalem today against the government's failure to deal with the problem.

"I want representatives of the government of Israel," Sderot Mayor Eli Moyal told Arutz-7 from the protest site, "to come here and explain to us how to put children to sleep at night when they never know when the next Kassam will come crashing by."

"The government ministers used to talk to us," Moyal said, "but now it's been four months that they don't look at us. [Defense Minister Sha'ul] Mofaz used to call, but now he doesn't, and Meir Sheerit, who used to be Transportation Minister, said that he can't come to see us because it's election time, and that he'll try to get us a meeting with his Director-General..."

Over the past 12 weeks, over 320 Kassam rockets have been fired. Most recently, two rockets were fired at the western Negev city - just an aerial kilometer from Gaza - on Thursday, bringing the week's total number of Kassams to close to a dozen. The rockets have caused miraculously little damage or casualties, though a baby was seriously wounded two weeks ago in Kibbutz Carmiyah.

Two or three of the rockets have landed in or very near to the Rotenberg Power Plant in southern Ashkelon. Israel's second-largest electric station, it supplies about a quarter of Israel’s electricity.

"Why is the government ignoring the fact that businesses here are suffering?" Moyal asked. "The value of apartments here has dropped 75%. Our children are suffering and not stable. What other country allows rockets to be fired at its cities and then responds with scattered artillery?"

Arutz-7 asked Moyal, "If you could meet with the government ministers, what would you suggest?"

Moyal: "I've suggested in the past that they simply bomb Beit Hanoun [a northern-Gaza bastion of terror], but they didn't listen. The government has to find the way to silence the shooting. In the meantime, at least they should increase the defenses in our city - on schools and public places and the like. Fortifications are not the solution, but if the government thinks otherwise, then let them at least do that!"

"If they tell us that there is no solution," Moyal said with a trace of sarcasm, "then let them say so, and compensate us for our homes, and we'll just leave."

Among the some 400 protestors outside the government offices today were MKs Benny Elon and Zevulun, the heads of the National Union-National Religious Party list for the upcoming elections, as well as MK Yuri Stern of Yisrael Beiteinu. A representative of the Prime Minister's Bureau also addressed the protestors.

Israel Air Force craft attacked two Palestinian terrorists making their way to the border fence around Gaza this morning, killing both.

The condition of the man who was stabbed in Maaleh Adumim last night is now listed as stable. Police cite the facts that the victim's wallet was not taken, the tracks of the attackers lead to the fence around Maaleh Adumim, and the responsibility taken by a PA terrorist group as evidence that the attack was terrorist in nature. The 45-year-old victim, who said he was stabbed by two Arabs, was brought to Hadassah Ein Karem Hospital in serious condition after having been stabbed in his chest and stomach.

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3.  Olmert Linked to Pre-Liquidation Scam
By Hillel Fendel

Ehud Olmert and corruption: Investigative reporter Yoav Yitzchak reports that Olmert, using fictitious arbitration, enabled the dishonest extraction of 5 million shekels from a failing soccer team.


Yitzchak [pictured], reporting on the Hebrew investigative news-site NFC he edits, reveals that Olmert "lent his hand to grave crimes that were committed, including stealing money from creditors, among them the Income Tax authorities, Bank Leumi, players on the Beitar Jerusalem soccer team such as Ronen Harazi, and others."

Yitzchak writes that the above information is known to "some elements, but they have hesitated to take legal measures against Olmert. In addition, some media outlets that have received this information chose to remain silent."

Olmert's role as arbitrator in the Beitar Jerusalem matter in the year 2000 is well-known, Yitzchak writes, but the scoop lies in the fact that the arbitration was fictitious, and in the revelation of Olmert's role in this fiction.

Yitzchak acknowledges that the case is "complex" and requires further investigation. "The decision to open such an investigation is in the hands of Attorney General Menachem Mazuz," Yitzchak writes today, "and in light of Olmert's role as Acting Prime Minister, Mazuz will have to consider the issue with sensitivity but with all due haste."

The essential accusation is that Olmert participated in a procedure that allowed a creditor and a debtor to cooperate on the payment of a debt, part of which may not even have been genuine, at the expense of other creditors.

The story began in 1999, when the Beitar soccer team, encountering financial difficulties, sold off its properties in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Jerusalem in order to pay off its creditors.

The property was sold for 27 million shekels. However, Moshe Dadash, the man who essentially ran the team for many years, soon withdrew 5.2 million shekels of the money into his own account. Dadash later claimed that running the team voluntarily had cost him much money over the years, for which he was never reimbursed. He provided no receipts, however. He also claimed a prior debt of $180,000 that had swollen to $540,000.

Olmert, the Mayor of Jerusalem at the time, was asked to be the arbitrator of an agreement between Dadash and the team. The sides arrived for one meeting, at which Olmert asked them to go outside and come up with a compromise. The agreement they quickly came up with was that the money already taken by Dadash would suffice to cover the alleged debts. Olmert signed, and the matter was considered closed.

However, Yitzchak accuses, Olmert never asked to see a 'power of attorney' empowering any of the participants to represent the company in this matter. In addition, the same lawyer represented both Dadash and the team. Finally, Yitzchak maintains, a lawyer involved in the liquidation of Beitar confirmed to him that the arbitration was merely carried out to legitimize a shady deal and to retroactively authorize the taking of money that could have been used to pay off other creditors.

The lawyer, Ami Fulman, said that the sides chose to come to Olmert and not to a judge or another arbitrator, because they knew that Olmert would agree to be a fictitious arbitrator. Olmert has close personal ties with Dadash, Yitzchak alleges.

"Olmert never said a word," Yitzchak writes, "and cooperated with the sides."

On Jan. 1 of this year, Beitar Jerusalem Ltd., specified as a company in the process of being liquidated, sued for the return of the money taken by Dadash.

Olmert was contacted by NFC on Friday for his response. He said only that the issue has been publicized before, and has even been looked into by the State Comptroller and the Associations Registrar.

Yitzchak says, however, that the only aspect of this case that was investigated was Dadash's receipt of money - after which he was in fact ordered by the Registrar to return it.

Knesset Speaker Ruby Rivlin, who was chairman of the Beitar Association at the time - but not when the legal entanglings began - said today, "I knew of no spin or that someone was planning to have the money go elsewhere... If the facts are true, they are grave."

"Olmert can claim that he knew nothing of what was going on," Yitzchak writes, "but in addition to the fact that this would be a groundless claim, can he be considered fit to serve in a senior public position or to run the affairs of the State of Israel?"

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4.  Turkey Latest Country to Open Doors to Hamas
By Ezra HaLevi

Turkey has joined the small but growing number of world nations recognizing the Hamas terrorist group as the legitimate representative of the Arabs of the Palestinian Authority.


Hamas chief Khaled Meshal visited Turkey Thursday, meeting with Turkey's foreign minister, Abdullah Gul.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Ra'anan Gissin, in an interview with Turkish television, condemned Turkey's decision to host Meshal. "How would you feel if we got together with Abdullah Ocalan?" Gissin asked. Ocalan is the imprisoned leader of a Kurdish group fighting for autonomy in southeast Turkey.

Turkey's foreign ministry called Gissin's statement "unfortunate," adding, "The comparison in this statement is totally baseless and wrong."

Both Ocalan's Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and Hamas are listed as terrorist organizations by the United States, an ally of both Turkey and Israel.

Turkish opposition leader Deniz Baykal of the Republican People's Party told reporters at a press conference that the Hamas officials' visit would have negative effects on Turkey's image. "It will lead to the questioning of Turkey's determination against violence and terrorism in the world," he said.

Hamas chief Meshal believes that he can gain the world's acceptance of the group without renouncing terrorism or accepting Israel's right to exist. "We want the world, and especially the countries in the West, to understand us, to understand Hamas well, to understand the will of the Palestinian people, the national goals of Hamas and the Palestinian people," he told reporters in flight from Turkey to Syria.

Meshal added that the trip to Turkey was a great victory for Hamas, as Turkey has an image of moderation in the Western world. "We hope after Turkey to go to other countries," he said. "Maybe it is the first step to Europe and the West."

Meanwhile, newly sworn-in Hamas parliamentarian Mahmoud al-Zahar responded to an announcement of planned punitive measures by Defense Minister Sha'ul Mofaz by saying he is confident that the international community will break ranks with Israel and embrace Hamas. "The world will cooperate with Hamas and with the Palestinian government," he said. "The Israeli and American governments will find themselves isolated within the international community."

So far, Russia and Venezuela have invited Hamas to visit, but the US and European Union have stuck to their demand that Hamas at least verbally disavow terrorism and acknowledge Israel's right to exist.

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5.  "Small Price to Pay" Says Amona IDF Refuser Handed Jail Time
By Ezra HaLevi

IDF soldier Noam Rabinovich, the Shaked Unit's Deputy Battalion Commander's driver, was sentenced to 21 days in a military prison Friday for refusing to take part in the Amona destruction.


Twenty-one days in prison is the maximum sentence the unit's Battalion Commander was able to hand down for Rabinovich's refusal. Noam's relatives told Arutz-7 that he accepted the verdict "happily."

Nine permanent homes were destroyed in Amona after the Supreme Court refused to allow the Yesha Council to destroy the homes themselves. Mounted troops with clubs and riot police in body armor indiscriminately beat protestors, spurring a Knesset decision to form a commission of inquiry. Injured protestors and their families, as well as educators and public figures, continue to demand an impartial inquiry similar to the Orr Commission, which was formed after the death of Israeli-Arab rioters at the start of the Oslo War.

The "Jewish Soldier" organization released a statement praising Rabinovich's moral courage:
"We see a great difference between Noam's behavior and that of the Deputy Battalion Commander [a resident of a Shomron communiyt], who was supposedly 'fixing [the system] from the inside.' [The latter] not only took part in the veiled crime of manning the outer perimeter, but insisted that his driver accompany him and made sure he was tried and sentenced when he refused. Noam, thank G-d, has not been spoiled by the malady of ‘fixing from the inside' and understood, like a good and healthy Jew, that there are things that one simply does not take part in – without calculations and vain pilpul [Talmudic hair-splitting]."

In a related story, IsraelNationalRadio's Avi Hyman will co-hosting his "Activist Hour" show today (Sunday) with former U.S. Army Seargeant Avi Mechanic. After active duty in Iraq, Mechanic made Aliyah and volunteered in the IDF, where he made it clear to his commanders that he would not aid the expulsion of Gush Katif in any way. The show will be broadcast live at 7 PM Israel time (12 noon NY time). It can be heard afterwards here.

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6.  On A7tv: Planting Instead of Uprooting
A7tv's weekly culture magazine "Israeli Salad" with Yoni Kempinski

  • Tu B'shvat in Israel - The “New Year” for trees was marked on Monday, February 13th, Yoni takes us to some of the events that took place on this festival: tree-planting in Amona, Nitzan, Jerusalem, Kisufim and Hevron.
  • Mother of Hebrew song - Remembering Israeli Singer Shoshana Damari.
  • Mitzvot Hatluyot Ba’aretz - A visit to the Bnei Brak Judaism Park


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