Lebanon's top Shiite cleric Ayatollah Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah on Sunday [ September 13, 2009] issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, banning the normalization of ties with Israel.
"Normalization with the Zionist enemy in any form is prohibited by Sharia (Islamic law)," Fadlallah said in [a] statement.
"We confirm that the fatwa against normalization applies to every Muslim," he stressed.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
What the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is really about (13)
"Peace in the Middle East does not hinge on settlements. And in Israel, a country governed by democracy and rule of law, a country that has made and will still make sacrifices for peace, settlements are no obstacle to progress.
What the Palestinians need now is leadership that is brave enough to establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people."
-- Asaf Shariv, Israeli consul general in New York. September 13, 2009
What the Palestinians need now is leadership that is brave enough to establish an independent Palestinian state alongside Israel, the nation-state of the Jewish people."
-- Asaf Shariv, Israeli consul general in New York. September 13, 2009
Friday, September 11, 2009
2 Katyusha rockets from Lebanon land near Nahariya
September 11, 2009Large forces of police, firefighters and Magen David Adom paramedics were dispatched on Friday afternoon, as two Katyusha rockets fired from southern Lebanon
landed in open areas in the western Galilee.
No casualties or damage were reported in the incident, which marked the fourth such attack this year.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that one of the rockets was located near Nahariya, and the IDF said that the rockets were apparently 122 millimeters in diameter.
A senior Lebanese military official said that the rockets were fired from the town of Qlaileh, near the Lebanese port city of Tyre.
Lebanese security officials said IDF troops promptly fired at least two rockets back, which landed near Qlaileh. Lebanon's state-run National News Agency reported that nine Israeli artillery shells fell near the town, but there were no reports of casualties or damage.
The IDF said it fired artillery at the source of rocket fire. The military "views this incident very severely and we hold the government of Lebanon responsible," a statement said.
No group took immediate responsibility for the cross-border attack, which came after recent exchanges of threats between
Remembering 9-11-2001 -- accurately
Eight years ago, hijacked passenger jets destroyed the World Trade Center. -- A.G. Sulzberger, New York Times. 9-11-2009
Eight years ago, we were visited by the furies of Arab lands. -- Fouad Ajami, WSJ 9-11-2009
[There is indeed] a correct reading of the wellsprings of Islamist radicalism. Those ...who had struck American soil on 9/11 . . . were Arabs. Their terrorism came out of the pathologies of Arab political life. Their financiers were Arabs, and so were those crowds in Cairo and Nablus and Amman that had winked at the terror and had seen those attacks as America getting its comeuppance on that terrible day.
Ajami is a professor at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies and an adjunct fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution
Thursday, September 10, 2009
What the Israel-Palestinian conflict is really about (12)
What Is Peace?
By YOSSI ALPHER, Op Ed, New York Times, September 10, 2009 excerpt. Yossi Alpher, former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, co-edits bitterlemons.org.
Israelis ... perceive ... a deep-seated Arab and Muslim rejection of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state.
That was not an obstacle to a “cold peace” with Israel’s neighbors, with whom the borders were clear. But when the Palestinians’ quarrel with Israel touches on fundamental issues of ownership, whether in the claims of 1948 refugees or in the competing claims to the Temple Mount, the question of legitimacy comes to the fore.
This is how even moderate Israelis view the public rejection by the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s peace offer in 2008 — a set of proposals that Israelis deemed extraordinarily generous.
By YOSSI ALPHER, Op Ed, New York Times, September 10, 2009 excerpt. Yossi Alpher, former director of the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, co-edits bitterlemons.org.
Israelis ... perceive ... a deep-seated Arab and Muslim rejection of Israel’s legitimacy as a Jewish state.
That was not an obstacle to a “cold peace” with Israel’s neighbors, with whom the borders were clear. But when the Palestinians’ quarrel with Israel touches on fundamental issues of ownership, whether in the claims of 1948 refugees or in the competing claims to the Temple Mount, the question of legitimacy comes to the fore.
This is how even moderate Israelis view the public rejection by the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s peace offer in 2008 — a set of proposals that Israelis deemed extraordinarily generous.
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
French Jewish school firebombed
September 9, 2009
PARIS (JTA) -- A Jewish school in southern France was firebombed.
No one was injured in the Tuesday morning attack on the ORT Bramson Jewish school in Marseille.
About 66 feet of cypress hedges were set afire, and four parked cars in front of the building were burned by homemade aerosol bombs, according to French reports.
Three bombs were found on the premises, according to The Associated Press.
During the incident, the 400 students at the school were not aware there had been an attack because the targeted area was not near any classrooms, school director Maurice Cohen-Zagouri told the Le Metro daily.
No suspects have been identified, but security cameras on the site were handed over to police for investigation.
The local police chief, Philippe Klayman, said his force would pay “particular attention” to Jewish institutions during the upcoming holidays.
September 9, 2009
PARIS (JTA) -- A Jewish school in southern France was firebombed.
No one was injured in the Tuesday morning attack on the ORT Bramson Jewish school in Marseille.
About 66 feet of cypress hedges were set afire, and four parked cars in front of the building were burned by homemade aerosol bombs, according to French reports.
Three bombs were found on the premises, according to The Associated Press.
During the incident, the 400 students at the school were not aware there had been an attack because the targeted area was not near any classrooms, school director Maurice Cohen-Zagouri told the Le Metro daily.
No suspects have been identified, but security cameras on the site were handed over to police for investigation.
The local police chief, Philippe Klayman, said his force would pay “particular attention” to Jewish institutions during the upcoming holidays.
Monday, September 7, 2009
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
Three British Muslims have been convicted in England of planning a series of co-ordinated suicide bomb attacks on transatlantic airliners, which could have killed up to 10,000 people.
The plot was detected in August 2006, within days, it is believed of its implementation. The flights to be commandeered all departed within 2 hours and 35 minutes of each other, to Chicago, Montreal, Toronto, San Francisco, Washington and New York and police believed there would have been no chance of stopping the attacks once all the aircraft were in the air.
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