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The United Nations deplored the fact that it took 7 months for the US and Israel to go public with information on the Syrian nuclear plant.Figures…

It was a bad day for Jimmy Carter…First the Palestinians admitted his meetings with Hamas achieved nothing.Then later Israel Ambassador to UN Dan Gillerman called Jimmy Carter a “bigot” at a press conference.Israel’s Ambassador to the UN called Jimmy Carter a “bigot” today for meeting with the leader of the terrorist organization Hamas.The AP reported: Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations on Thursday called former President Jimmy Carter “a bigot” for meeting with the leader of the militant Hamas movement in Syria.

If Jerusalem is turned over to the Palestinians and Israel pulls back to the 1967 borders then Hamas will live in peace!

Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana was killed yesterday in Gaza.The reports blamed Israel for his death but now it is not so clear.This may be the makings of another faked news story.Richard Landes of the Al-Durah Pallywood fame has questions.Snapped Shot reported that the photographic evidence does not add up.Israellycool has more.

Barack and Michelle Obama used to eat dinner frequently with their close friend and former PLO operative Rashid Khalidi and his wife Mona in Chicago.

The UN appointed an America-hating Ayatollah Khomeini supporter to the UN Human Rights Council.

More Dirt on a Dirty Church–Obama’s Church published anti-Semitic articles claiming Jews were working on “ethnic bombs.”Sweetness and Light and American Thinker discovered this “Open Letter to Oprah” today from Obama’s church newsletter the Trinity United Church of Christ.

Muslim-born journalist Magdi Allam has received death threats and lives with police protection.Pope Benedict XVI baptises journalist Magdi Allam (R) as he celebrates a Easter Vigil mass in Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican March 22, 2008.

Usama Muhammad Id Bahr and Nabil Mahmud Jamil Halbiyyah blew themselves up in Jerusalem’s Zion Square on December 1, 2001.

Now here’s a hateful group of people…Radical “Leftists” in burkas ambushed Shimon Peres in France today at a Nazi museum calling for Israel to be erased.A protestor is held by police officers as Israeli President Shimon Peres, not pictured, visits the Resistance and Deportation History Center in Lyon, central France, Wednesday, March 12, 2008.

One of the rare hardliner blogs in Iran (most of the bloggers are more secular in nature, I hear) wrote about his great weekend organizing and participating in a kidney donation drive to raise money to kill Jews.

Pro-Regime students at Tehran University protested today in support of Gaza female suicide bombers.This is a very twisted protest from a very dangerous regime.(ISNA)Reem Salih al-Rayasha (pictured above) On the morning of January 14, 2004, a freedom fighter of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, a 21 year old mother of two children, detonated a bomb at the Erez border check point between Israel and the Gaza Strip killing four Israeli soldiers.

Hamas officials claimed they were using US made weapons in their “victory” over Israel.The rocket attacks into Israel resumed after the IDF withdrew from Gaza today.A Palestinian man and his son ride a horse during a Hamas celebration after Israeli troops pulled out of the Gaza Strip March 3, 2008.

The moderate Fatah faction claimed responsibility for for most of Wednesday afternoon’s Kassam rocket attacks on Israel.However, Hamas took responsibility for the rocket attack that killed the Jewish student.People tend to an Israeli man at the scene of a rocket attack in the southern town of Sderot February 27, 2008.

Palestinian Media Watch released this disturbing clip from Al-Aqsa TV (Hamas) on February 22, 2008:Hamas children’s TV dedicated a program to hatred of Denmark, the West and Israel, climaxing with a statement about the West by the co-host, a giant rabbit character named Assud: “If they repeat it we will kill them …

A Palestinian exploded his body in Dimona, Israel today.It was the first suicide bombing this year inside Israel killing a 73 year-old woman.His buddy bomber was not so fortunate and was shot dead before he could explode himself.The AP reported:A Palestinian bomber blew himself up Monday in this desert town near Israel’s nuclear reactor, killing an Israeli woman and wounding 11 people in the first suicide attack inside Israel in a year.

** Jonn Lilyea was there!Code Pink joined Jew-haters to rally against Israel in Washington DC today.But, they didn’t expect to see these guys…Beautiful!

Clashes at the Gaza Crossing…The BBC has video HERE from the Gaza border.Egyptian guards attempted to seal the Gaza border after over 300,000 Palestinians had crossed over into Egypt.Sadly, when they closed the crossing- they were stoned.Egyptian border guards block Palestinians attempting to cross from Gaza into Rafah, Egypt Friday, Jan.

Several anti-Israel rallies are scheduled this week starting today.Help counter these protesters and their attacks on Israel.STARTING TODAY IN BOSTON THERE WILL BE RALLIES AGAINST ISRAEL PLANNED IN A VARIETY OF US CITIES.-Washington DC: Friday, Jan.

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One Jerusalem put together video of the human chain formed around the Old City of Jerusalem yesterday.

Holy Mahmoud shared some time with a group of American Muslims who met with him at the Hajj.Ahmadinejad reminded an American delegation of Muslims at the Hajj that there has been no anti-Semitism during the history of Islam.Watching America and Bazteb News reported:He then criticized the biased support of the U.S.

Israel needs to dump this guy quick…Olmert announces that Israel must be ready for a divided Jerusalem.The Jerusalem Post reported: Israel needs to internalize that even its supportive friends on the international stage conceive of the country’s future on the basis of the 1967 borders and with Jerusalem divided, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has declared to The Jerusalem Post.

Happy Gaza New Year…Palestinians protest in the southern Gaza Strip town of Rafah asking Egypt to open the Rafah border crossing to pilgrims.

Doug Ross offers an outstanding illustration on the history of Israel today.Check it out…”What Really Happened”

“God is Great,” “There is no Deity but Allah,” “Death to Israel” and “Death to America” were among the slogans chanted by the masses in unison as they gathered in the Desert of Arafat, 20 km (12 miles) from Mecca, for a day of prayer and meditation.

Some things never change.

Israel released 429 Pelestinian prisoners from detention in Israel yesterday.Based on previous numbers odds are that 343 of these Palestinians will return to a life in terror.(Click to Enlarge)Israeli victims of Palestinian terrorism.

What a very sad day for Israel.Jules Crittenden calls it- “Peace in Someone Else’s Time.”One Jerusalem has several updates on this grave situation facing Israel.”Young Gun” Representative Eric Cantor (R-) joined One Jerusalem for a rally on Thanksgiving for a united Jerusalem.”We can not let this black cloud hang over this City of Gold.”** Caroline Glick at the Jerusalem Post expressed her contempt for Olmert’s horrific actions in her column today:Until Israel gets leaders who run a foreign policy based on a recognition of reality and a celebration of the Jewish people’s accomplishments in building and securing the state, Israel’s supporters will continue to be confounded by the Israeli government, and the Israeli people will continue to be attacked and humiliated.

Jerusalem- The Wailing WallJune 7, 1967An Azure report:Sometime around 10:15 on the morning of June 7, 1967…

Hamas promises to make its Qassam rockets more deadly.In the first six months of 2006 after Israel withdrew completely from Gaza, there were 500 Qassam rocket attacks on the city of Sderot, Israel.

In September 2002 France 2 claimed that they witnessed the killing of a young Palestinian boy by Israeli soldiers.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says that any Israeli withdrawal to the 1967 lines will only result in an increase in attacks against Israel.

Palestinians Get Geeked For Talks…Palestinian Media Watch released the latest video from Fatah TV promising the destruction of Israel.This comes at exactly the same time that the US is planning talks between Israel and the “moderate” Fatah Palestinian faction.It is being played several times each day on Fatah TV (the moderate Palestinian channel):Palestinian Media Watch has more on this video: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.

Sadly, the antiwar protests yesterday fizzled with the drizzle.Fizzle Drizzle Bushizzle?The turnout was down nationally.The Boston protest was a disappointment…The communists from ANSWER (Not to be confused with the democratic presidential candidates pushing socialism) still demand the US out of Iraq AND the dismantling of Israel.

Israeli cleric Sheikh Kamal Khatib says the Jewish State will soon cease to exist and Israel will come under Sharia Law.Israel Today and ROP reported:A leading Israeli Arab Muslim cleric said at the weekend that the Jewish state will very soon cease to exist and the whole of the country will come under Sharia (strict Islamic) law as another piece in the puzzle to reconstituting the Islamic Caliphate.

Robert Stacy McCain blogging at The Washington Time’s Fishwrap sends this update on Nonie Darwish.Nonie Darwish is an Arab-American writer and public speaker.

Please view Eric Cantor’s “Take a Stand” webpage and support this great cause.Chief Deputy Whip Rep.

What’s going on at the United Nations???Is the UN cleaning their meeting records?There were news reports today that Syria had admitted that Israel had bombed a nuclear facility last month in northern Syria.YNET News reported:Syrian officials have admitted that the site attacked by the Israeli air force last month was a nuclear facility, Yedioth Ahronoth reported Wednesday.According to the newspaper, three Israeli diplomats present at a recent United Nations Disarmament Commission meeting overheard the Syrian representative clearly say that Israel’s attack targeted a nuclear facility.The Israeli delegation to the talks, headed by Miriam Ziv, the Foreign Ministry’s deputy director general for strategic affairs, accused Syria of smuggling mass amounts of weapons into Lebanon in violation of the UN Security Council’s resolution.

Murders are down in one Baghdad region from 150 each week to 5 each week.Kirwan, an 11-year-old Kurdish boy from northern Iraq, sits in bed with his mother Bahija, before entering the operating room to undergo emergency heart surgery at an Israeli hospital in Holon, near Tel Aviv October 15, 2007.

It’s Qods Day in Iran!Thousands took to the streets after prayers to rally against Israel and the West.Fars News has the latest from Ahmadinejad:TEHRAN (Fars News Agency)- Millions of Iranians once again held annual International Qods Day rallies on Friday, with a call by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Israel to be relocated, away the Middle East and the Islamic world.

Anne Bayefsky wrote a piece for the National Review Online this week on the atrocious record of the “revamped” UN Human Rights Council:When President Bush told the United Nations General Assembly this week “the American people are disappointed by the failures of the Human Rights Council,” his words could not have been more timely or deserved.

We call on the United Nations to lock its doors to Ahmadinejad with a sign saying- “You have no place among Free Nations!” Iran is not only a threat to Israel and a threat to its neighbors but Iran is a threat to the entire world.Tzipi Livni-Israel Foreign MinisterOutside the United NationsSeptember 24, 2007 Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni gave a very moving speech today outside the United Nations.