OLMERT SETS TIMELINE FOR TERRORIST STATE
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert hopes to reach a peace deal with the Arabs before US President George W. Bush leaves office in January 2009, an Israeli government official said on Friday. "There are big advantages to reaching an agreement before the end of Bush's term. This is the right thing to do. It is the best thing to do for both sides," the official quoted Olmert as telling German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier. The official said Olmert wanted to seize the opportunity because it was impossible to know how committed the next U.S. administration would be to solving the Israeli-Arab conflict
US-SUPPORTED TERRORIST ORGANIZATION PROMISES RAIN OF ROCKETS
The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a wing of the Fatah terrorist organization headed by Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmoud Abbas, stated Thursday that it has begun an escalation in attacks on Israeli towns in the Negev. The group said the attacks would be a response to "the evil Balfour declaration," which was issued 90 years ago this past Friday. The Balfour Declaration paved the way for the creation of a Jewish state in the Land of Israel. Spokesmen for Fatah in Gaza boasted that their organization has carried out dozens of terrorist attacks on nearby Jewish towns. [The AL-AQSA MARTYRS BRIGADES is designated as a terrorist organization under US federal law. IT IS A PART OF THE FATAH TERRORIST ORGANIZATION, which is LED BY ITS FOUNDER, PA CHAIRMAN MAHMOUD ABBAS. US PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH, A STAUNCH SUPPORTER OF ABBAS, RECENTLY ORDERED THE TRANSFER OF $410 MILLION TO THE PA, IN DIRECT VIOLATION OF FEDERAL LAWS AGAINST FUNDING FOREIGN TERRORIST ORGANIZATIONS. While proclaiming a "war" against terrorism in the rest of the world, Bush supports the Fatah terrorist organization in Israel, who have sworn to wipe the Jewish people off the face of the earth. [Arutz Sheva, Jerusalem Post]
ECONOMY RECEIVES BLESSING FROM THE LORD
Israel has one of the fastest growing and safest economies in the world -- despite competition from hot Asia giants and Arab petrodollar countries. In the Middle East it is an economic giant. Israel had the fastest growing GNP (8%) of any western country in the fourth quarter of 2006. In 2006, the Israeli high-tech exports totalled $14.1 billion, up 20% over 2005. Israel means business. Israeli currency has appreciated considerably against the dollar - a good way to beat inflation. Only about 15% of Israeli exports are accounted for by the diamond industry, and an additional 82% are non-diamond manufacturing exports, of which about 40-50% is high tech. [Zionism & Israel]
WAQF SUED OVER TEMPLE MOUNT DESTRUCTION
A group of 150 Israeli citizens, which represent a broad cross section of the Israeli public, have initiated an unprecedented criminal prosecution of Waqf (Islamic trust) leaders in Jerusalem, alleging that they have engaged in the deliberate destruction of ancient Jewish relics on the Temple Mount. The indictment was filed in the Jerusalem District Court Thursday by means of a private law suit, which is first of its kind in Israeli legal history and utilizes a seldom applied section of the criminal code. If convicted, the Waqf officials may face years in prison. The legal action is led by Shurat HaDin (Israel Law Centre). In recent months the Waqf has brought in bulldozers and heavy digging equipment to carry out "renovations". Israeli archaeologists who have sifted through the discarded earth were shocked to have discovered a great number of Jewish artefacts brutally trashed by the bulldozers. A wall from the outer courtyard of the Second Temple is believed to have been completely pulverized. The court papers contend that the recent accelerated destruction is part of a four decade long campaign by the Waqf to eradicate all evidence of the historical Jewish connection and claim to the Temple Mount. After liberating the Old City in 1967, Israel permitted the Waqf to remain as "custodians" of the Temple Mount. Shurat HaDin alleges that the Israeli government, in its political cowardice, has consistently refused to undertake any concrete actions to stop the criminal activities of the Waqf - thus abandoning the millenniums long Jewish claim over the Temple Mount and allowing Islamic extremists to re-write history in Jerusalem. [Shurat HaDin]
FATAH-CONTROLLED TV PROMISES ELIMINATION OF ISRAEL
A new music video appearing regularly on Fatah-controlled PA television over the past week promises the elimination of Israel and the restoration of the "Arab identity" of cities throughout the Jewish State. The propaganda clip stands in stark contrast to PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas's recent declarations in support of reconciliation with Israel, issued ahead of the upcoming multinational Middle East peace conference organized by the United States. As explained by Itamar Marcus and Barbara Crook of PALESTINIAN MEDIA WATCH, "WHILE THE PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY ANNOUNCES IN ENGLISH ITS DEMAND FOR A TWO-STATE SOLUTION, TO ITS OWN PEOPLE IN ARABIC IT CONTINUES TO DEFINE ALL OF ISRAEL AS 'PALESTINE,' AND TO PROMISE ISRAEL'S DESTRUCTION. A new video clip, broadcast numerous times daily since it first appeared on Fatah-controlled TV last week, passionately promises 'Mother' that every Israeli city will be 'liberated' because its 'identity is Arab' and 'Palestinian.'" [Arutz Sheva]