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Jerusalem News 854
28 Nisan 5769, 22 April 2009
Contents:
1. No Country Could Survive Two State Solution!
2. Israeli Heroin Market Continues to Fund Hizbullah Terrorism
3. Never since the 1930s by Sarah Honig , THE JERUSALEM POST
4. Hamas killed 32 Gazans during, after op
5. Call for Pope to Reveal Hidden Holocaust Children

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The Muslim Madness and Predicted Terror Attacks
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1. No Country Could Survive Two State Solution!
Map of Proposed Two State Solution
No Country Could Survive!



Two States?


Source of Map:
From: UCI <voices@israelunitycoalition.org>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 23:52:08 -0500
http://israelunitycoalition.org/issues.php

2. Israeli Heroin Market Continues to Fund Hizbullah Terrorism
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130919
 
by Yehudah Lev Kay
Extracts:
(IsraelNN.com) The Israeli heroin market, worth half a billion dollars in 2008, is largely supplied by channels running through south Lebanon, according to estimates by the Anti-Drug Authority. Police, who were able to stop only a fraction of the drug smuggling in the past year, said a significant portion of the funds made their way to Hizbullah.

The Authority recently estimated that almost five tons of heroin entered Israel in 2008, most of it from Lebanon, according to the Associated Press. The total haul was worth $125 million at the border, and would have been worth some $500 million by the time it hit the streets of Israel.

In Lebanon, the drug trade is centered mostly in the Bekaa Valley, where some of the opium is grown. Many of the smugglers are Shi'ite Muslims from border villages where the Hizbullah terrorist organization has authority. Police said that the group takes a portion of the drug profits and uses them to finance terrorism.

In addition, smugglers sometimes provide the terrorist organization with sensitive military information. Concealed border spots, which in the past were used as drug drop points, later became the locations where Hizbullah ambushed and captured Israeli troops.

On the Israeli side of the border, Lebanese smugglers are met by Israeli Arabs working for Israeli Arab crime families. From there, drugs make their way onto the Israeli street. In the end, the approximate 15,000 Israeli drug users help fund organized crime and terrorism.

Drugs also enter Israel illegally through other borders. Smugglers have been foiled at the Syrian border, while on the Jordanian border, smugglers have been known to row across the Dead Sea. In addition, most of Israel's marijuana and hashish enters the country through the Egyptian border. But it is on the border with Lebanon that drug smuggling has been linked directly with terrorism.

Last month, U.S. officials confirmed that Hizbullah was also operating a drug-smuggling operation between Mexico and the U.S. Hizbullah is also known to be involved in drug trafficking in South America.

3. Never since the 1930s by Sarah Honig, THE JERUSALEM POST
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 Never since the 1930s have we experienced isolation so suffocating and so ubiquitous. Never since the 1930s did our collective pariah-status breed among us a resignation so deep-seated that it appears to border on apathy.

What makes our times so chillingly similar to the era that conceived and tolerated the Holocaust is the broad social respectability accorded Jew-bashing. It matters little if the pretext is the fake ogre the Nazis called "International Judaism," or the state that the Jews established so they would never be defenseless again. What matters is that Jewish self-defense in the framework of the Jewish state is as assiduously demonized as was the nonexistent cabal of the Elders of Zion.

JEWISH SELF-preservation today is as illegitimate as it was then, and assailing it is as bon ton as in those dark days before the great cataclysm.

Once more the self-professed spokespersons of enlightenment and free speech horrifyingly shout down and shut up the objects of their scorn.

When Jews, moreover, are called Israelis, their maligners can fend off accusations of anti-Semitism. Such accusations are anyhow brandished as proof of manipulative intent to silence all criticism of the Jewish state. Calculated, circuitous reasoning eventually turns Jew-haters into righteous, persecuted underdogs, while Israelis are cast as ferocious hounds.

It's thus possible to seethe with anti-Semitism without admitting it. This in turn enables self-loathing Jews to join the denunciation-fest, present themselves as morally superior to benighted "other" Jews and thereby strive for their own personal exoneration from Jewish guilt. Hate-mongers need only claim that they just cannot abide the suffering inflicted by Nazi-clone Jews/Israelis on pitiable Palestinians. By equating Jewish/Israeli "crimes" with the Holocaust, the ploy becomes altogether irresistible. It no longer matters that Israel's army is humane to its own detriment, or that the Palestinians are merely the vanguard of the pan-Arab/Muslim drive to ethnically cleanse this region of any negligible Jewish vestige.

Exploiting the Holocaust to condemn the children of Holocaust survivors for seeking to preempt a Holocaust sequel must be the epitome of cynicism. But this cynicism is the basic prerequisite for progressive credentials.

THAT'S WHY The New York Times published Pat Oliphant's cartoon featuring a gigantic, headless, sword-wielding, goose-stepping, uniformed fiend wheeling a razor-fanged Star of David that threatens to run down a tiny, defenseless Gazan woman and baby. Every last demonizing stereotype is there, yet the guise is of an indignant liberal commentary rather than the Der Sturmer calumny it replicates.

Some even purport to champion opposition to genocide by abiding chants like "Hamas! Hamas! All Jews to the gas!"

They so detest bloodshed and injustice that they vehemently deprecate any remotely feasible plan to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear warheads. The politically correct thing to do is not impede tyrants who broadcast their bloodcurdling intentions before every available microphone. World peace will supposedly be secured by restraining Israel. Submissive Jews/Israelis are presumably assured the affections of do-gooder non-anti-Semites. Which brings us right back to the 1930s, when Jews couldn't have been more powerless or compliant. Nonetheless, their helplessness won them no kind consideration.

"In those days before the war," Chaim Weizmann said in recalling international vexation with the Jews, "our protests were regarded as provocations. Our very refusal to subscribe to our own death sentence became a public nuisance."

Words that could be spoken today.

This also goes for Weizmann's warning to Anthony Eden: "The fire from the synagogues may easily spread to Westminster Abbey... If a government is allowed to destroy a whole community which has committed no crime... it means the beginning of anarchy and the destruction of the basis of civilization. The powers which stand looking on, without taking measures to prevent the crime, will one day be themselves visited by severe punishment."

4. Hamas killed 32 Gazans during, after op
Khaled Abu Toameh, THE JERUSALEM POST Apr. 20, 2009

www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710740363&pagename=JPArticle%2FShowFull

During Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip, Hamas security forces or masked gunmen believed to be with Hamas extra-judicially executed 18 Palestinians, mainly those accused of collaborating with Israel, and beat and maimed dozens of political rivals, especially members and supporters of Fatah, according to Human Rights Watch.

The internal violence in the Gaza Strip has continued since Israel withdrew its forces and Palestinian human rights groups have reported 14 more killings between January 18 and March 31, Human Rights Watch said in a report released on Monday.

The 26-page document, "Under Cover of War: Hamas Political Violence in Gaza," presents a pattern of arbitrary arrests and detentions, torture, maiming by shooting and extrajudicial executions by alleged members of Hamas security forces. The report is based on interviews with victims and witnesses in Gaza and case reports by Palestinian human rights groups.

The majority of Palestinians executed by other Palestinians during Israel's military operations were men accused of collaboration with Israel. Along with others, they had escaped from Gaza City's main prison compound after the IAF bombed the facility on December 28, 2008. In addition to the 32 killings mentioned above, the relatives of one suspected collaborator shot him to death "to restore the family's honor."

Hamas security forces have also used violence against Fatah members, especially those who had worked in the Fatah-run security services of the Palestinian Authority.

"Of particular concern is the widespread practice of maiming people by shooting them in the legs, which Hamas first used in June 2007, when it seized control of the Gaza Strip," the report said.

According to the Independent Commission for Human Rights, the human rights
ombudsman organization of the PA, unidentified gunmen in masks shot least 49
people in the legs between December 28, 2008 and January 31, 2009.

In January and February 2009, Human Rights Watch interviewed three men who had been shot in the legs, apparently by Hamas security forces. Two of them were Fatah supporters, including a former member of the Fatah-dominated Preventive Security Service. The third man had been overheard on the street criticizing Hamas.

Abductions and severe beatings are another major concern. According to the Independent Commission for Human Rights, unidentified perpetrators physically abused 73 Gazan men from December 28, 2008, to January 31, 2009, causing broken legs and arms.

"The attacks by Hamas security forces against other Palestinians during and since the recent major hostilities with Israel marked the worst outbreak of internal violence since Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in June 2007," Human Rights Watch said in its report.

"Hamas should end its attacks on political opponents and suspected collaborators in the Gaza Strip, which have killed at least 32 Palestinians and maimed several dozen more during and since the recent Israeli military offensive."

Hassan al-Seifi, general inspector in the Hamas-run Interior Ministry in Gaza, told Human Rights Watch on April 16 that a committee he heads had completed investigations into two deaths in detention. In both cases, the Hamas authorities acted on the committee's recommendations, suspending from duty and filing charges against the police officers involved, Seifi said. In two other cases, the committee is continuing its investigations.

Interviewed on April 15 and 16, a Hamas spokesman, Fawzi Barhoum, and the Interior Ministry spokesman, Ihab al-Ghusein, said Hamas had explicitly forbidden excessive force by security forces after Israel's military offensive. But they said that Hamas forces could not have prevented the killings and shootings by Palestinians during the Israeli attacks due to the chaos of the fighting.

On the other side of the internal Palestinian divide, the Fatah-run authorities in the West Bank have increased repressive measures against Hamas members and supporters there, Human Rights Watch said.

From December 28, 2008, to February 28, 2009, Palestinian human rights groups recorded 31 complaints of residents who said they had been tortured by Fatah-led security forces. They also recorded one known death in custody and the arbitrary detention of two journalists from a private television station considered pro-Hamas.

United States and European Union donors who finance and train Fatah-run forces in the West Bank have expressed no public criticism of these serious human rights violations, the report noted.

5. Call for Pope to Reveal Hidden Holocaust Children
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130984
by Hillel Fendel
[Extracts Only]
(IsraelNN.com) The Yad L?Achim organization calls on Pope Benedict XVI, as he prepares to visit the Holy Land, to act to reveal the "hidden Jewish children" of the Holocaust.

It is estimated that thousands of Jewish children were left with Christian monasteries or families by their Jewish parents during the Holocaust, in the hope that they would thus survive the war. However, many of these children were never claimed, returned or told of their Jewish background.

A letter from Pope Pius XII to his representative in Paris on November 20, 1946 shows that he ordered Jewish babies baptized during the Holocaust not to be returned to their parents. The recipient of the letter, Angelo Roncalli, who was later to become Pope John XXIII, often disobeyed these instructions. 

Asking the Pope to Give an Order
The organization [Yad L?Achim] has now asked the Pope to declare that all those who follow him must reveal the truth to their Holocaust orphan children. "The continued silence on this sensitive topic will eternalize the Jewish nation's suffering, and the triumph of the Nazi objective," its letter to the pontiff states.

"As you prepare for your historic visit to the Land of Israel," the letter reads, "we turn to you from the depths of our hearts and souls, in light of the story that shocks every Jewish heart regarding the Holocaust orphans left by their holy parents with Christian families with the express purpose of returning them to their Jewish families. However, to our great sorrow, anguish, and disappointment, the adoptive families refuse to tell the children of the holy martyrs their background, and thus prevent them from returning to the Jewish People."           

Previous Popes
Former Chief Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau has said that the Holocaust-era Pope Pius XII refused several requests by Chief Rabbi Isaac Herzog to meet with him before and during the war to discuss how the Church could either help save Jewish lives or locate Jewish orphans cared for by Catholic families.

On the other hand, Rabbi Lau said that the previous pontiff, Pope John Paul II, told him in 1993 that he had refused to baptize a Jewish child whose parents had died, "because the parents had specifically requested that the child be brought up as a Jew."

However, the same John Paul II did not respond to a request by Ukraine's Chief Rabbi Yaakov Dov Bleich to open church archives and reveal the names of Jewish children who were raised as Catholics during World War II. 

Response From the Queen
Yad L'Achim has been working for some years throughout Europe to locate the children. Most of its work is being done in Holland, but much is also being done in other countries. The organization reports that it received positive responses from the Queen of Holland and the Presidents of France and Belgium to their requests to use their influence to have the churches reveal the names of the hidden children.

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