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At Islam Online, Hisham Al-Masry (not his real name) speaks of his encounter with an Israeli girl in Denmark.

I was outside setting on the coach enjoying the great view of Vallekilde when a girl with a long dark curly hair showed up, she looked at me, I saw the sadness in her eyes, and I felt there is something different about her, but couldn’t know what exactly what it was.

She came towards me, “Hello.. I want to talk to you..” she said, I told to her “Sure.. what do you want to talk about?”, I was really shocked when I heard what she had to say after that, because I didn’t expect that she will come to me and the first thing she had to say is “Do you hate me?”

The first thing that I should be clear about here is to understand and explain what she meant by the terms “you” and “me”, I am a Muslim, Arab and Egyptian young man, and she is an Israeli girl, both of us met for the first time.

There was something inside of me that wouldn’t let me go, but all other parts of my mind and soul were pushing me in this direction to meet someone from Israel, the people who have several wars with Egyptians. Actually, visiting Occupied Palestine is a dream for all Arabs and Muslims, but someone like me couldn’t have such a chance without having really big problems before and after returning back home with the security departments in Egypt. This is why they don’t give you an Israeli Visa on your Passport, but it will be given in another temporary Passport, and this meeting could destroy my whole career history and also could give me a bad reputation as a person who came closer to Israeli people, and that’s why I can not publish this under my name.

The good thing is that I didn’t have to travel to Israel because the meeting is at a neutral place in Denmark where the “Media For Dialogue” course was held, I also knew there would be a chance to meet Arabs from Occupied Palestine, which meant I would be able to have a close look at the conflict. It’s not just another documentary movie, but I would meet real people, and have the ability to interact with them all, hoping to bring something good out of it. This is how I was thinking and how I make it easy for my self to accept it.

I was remembering all of this after hearing the question from the Israeli girl I met in Denmark during the course. I told her “Of course I don’t hate you, but I hate occupation, and you know that our countries had a very bad historical wars against each other, I believe that all humans should live together in peace”. She completely agreed with me like she had the same opinion as mine.

Sounds promising.

That is until the Egyptian man drops the pretense of the conflict being about the so-called occupation and lets the Israeli woman know how he really feels.

I continued “I will be honest and tell you about what I really think because you are not the only one who feels the sadness, but I have also my deep sadness feeling, especially when I think about the future of Egyptians in coming generations. I believe we will have another big war with Israel, maybe it will take some time until this happen, but no one can stop that, recording to prophet Mohammed -peace and blessings be upon him- “The Hour will not come to pass until you fight the Jews..” to the end of the Hadith (mentioned by Abu Hurayrah in: Whole true small number -7,414). This war will be totally religious and All Muslims will be part of it, it’s not the same war that we have now in the Middle East against the Israeli occupation. and this me feel bad some how, because the war will never end between Muslims and Jews. Of course no body wants war but what to do?!

Now that’s a conversation killer.

It’s also further proof that the so-called “occupation” is not the root cause of this conflict. The Muslims see themselves as obliged to fight the Jews, wherever we are.

Kate brings to my attention the plight of Canadian author Howard Rotberg, who was invited to give a lecture at a Canadian book retailer on his book, The Second Catastrophe. When pro-palestinian supporters showed up and caused a disturbance, the book retailer canceled the lecture and later issued a press release accusing the author of racism. Consequently, his books are no longer being carried by Canada’s largest retailer and his good name is being unjustly maligned. Howard Rotberg decided to fight back and his trial is set to start August 27th and 28th.

As Kate writes:

As a Canadian, he is taking a stand for all of us and deserves our support. I would like to suggest a show of support by buying his books. Of course, his books are not carried by Chapters-Indigo. Try Amazon or you can order directly via his website. Or you could just write a few lines of support on his blog.

Question: Who is xxxx in this report?

xxxx welcomed the execution of a prisoner exchange deal between Israel and Hizbullah. xxxxx congratulated the family of released Lebanese murderer Samir Kuntar and sent his condolences to the Lebanese families receiving their loved ones’ bodies as part of the deal.

Answer is below the fold.

What happened to palestinian Muhammad Daraghmah?

a) He was shot 3 times in the heart by IDF soldiers after he stopped painting his house (for his sister’s graduation from high school) to see what was going on outside

b) He was shot 8 times at close range by IDF soldiers while he was throwing stones, and was then buried during a funeral in Tubas

c) He was shot by IDF soldiers while on the main road downtown, and then had his body transferred to an unknown place by the soldiers

And the answer is d) all of the above, thanks to the reliable folks at the various palestinian news outlets.

Period.

Since it went into effect last week, at least eight violations of the new ceasefire agreement with Hamas and the Palestinian factions have been recorded, a UN source told Ynet on Thursday. According to the source, seven violations were committed by the IDF, while the Palestinians are responsible for just one.

However the UN report does not include the Qassam fire launched towards the Negev during the day. “It is important that both sides honor the ceasefire, in order for it to be the first constructive step towards a wider and more extensive peace process between the sides,” the source said.

Palestinians have once again violated the so-called ceasefire between Hamas and Israel, firing yet another Qassam into Israel, which landed near a gas station.

And the palestinians continue to demonstrate just how warped their mindset is, blaming Israel for violating the truce after we responded to the rocket and mortar attacks by closing the Gaza border crossings.

Thursday’s rocket fire came as Hamas accused Israel of violating the terms of the cease-fire after the Defense Ministry decided to keep the Gaza border crossings closed for the day, except for special humanitarian cases, in response to Tuesday’s attack.

“If the crossings remain closed, the truce will collapse,” Hamas spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said.

You can just imagine that had today’s Qassam hit the gas station, resulting in less gas being delivered to Gaza, the palestinians would also call that an Israeli truce violation.

Meanwhile, scoring equally on the warp-o-meter is this:

Fatah’s military wing, the Al-Aqsa brigades claimed responsibility for launching a projectile at the Israeli town of Sderot on Thursday afternoon, calling for the truce to include the West Bank.

In other words, breaking the truce in order to show how it should be expanded. Yeah, that’ll work.

Do you remember the dumbass palestinian terrorist group who recently claimed they had kidnapped a fictitious female Israeli soldier?

Well, since that worked out so well for them (/sarcasm), they have decided to up the ante and claim a fictitious bombing attack in Tel Aviv.

Funnily enough, there seems to be nothing fictitious about their stupidity.

(hat tip: Elder of Ziyon)

Update: Below (left) is a picture of the supposedly recently kidnapped soldier “Dana,” as published by the terrorist group, along with a picture of Dana Benett (right), a Tiberias teenager who went missing in 2003:

You have to feel sorry for Jerusalem Post columnist Larry “Sam the Eagle” Derfner. With his eyebrows clearly eating away at his brain, he has decided to enter the cage with Richard Landes, who was instrumental in telling the world about the Muhammad Al Dura hoax.

And while Derfner perhaps thought that digging himself a deep enough hole would help him emerge from the cage, what we have instead is the debating equivalent of King Kong Bundy bodyslamming Little Beaver.

Here’s Derfner’s column and here’s Richard’s response.

Enjoy!

Today’s New York Sun has an editorial dealing with Condoleezza Rice’s criticism of Israel’s plans to build 1,300 homes in east Jerusalem.

And what an editorial it is.

President Bush often speaks to the annual policy conference in Washington of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, but this year, he skipped it. Our sources tell us that the reason he passed up the chance to appear before a friendly audience in his final year as president was that he felt that he couldn’t top the speech he’d just given to the Knesset marking Israel’s 60th birthday. And no wonder. Mr. Bush called the founding of the Jewish state 60 years ago “the redemption of an ancient promise given to Abraham and Moses and David — a homeland for the chosen people, Eretz Yisrael.”

And he told a story: “Sixty years ago, on the eve of Israel’s independence, the last British soldiers departing Jerusalem stopped at a building in the Jewish quarter of the Old City. An officer knocked on the door and met a senior rabbi. The officer presented him with a short iron bar — the key to the Zion Gate — and said it was the first time in 18 centuries that a key to the gates of Jerusalem had belonged to a Jew. His hands trembling, the rabbi offered a prayer of thanksgiving to God, ‘Who had granted us life and permitted us to reach this day.’ Then he turned to the officer, and uttered the words Jews had awaited for so long: ‘I accept this key in the name of my people.’”

With such beautiful, moving, meaningful words spoken by Mr. Bush on May 15, it was a disappointment to read yesterday of Secretary of State Rice’s latest remarks in respect of Jerusalem. “Rice Criticizes Israel on West Bank Settlements,” is the way the headline was written on the Associated Press, which characterized Ms. Rice’s language as “exceptionally harsh.” The Wall Street Journal headline was “Rice Says Jewish Housing Plan Undermines Mideast Peace Talks.” What a contrast with Mr. Bush’s first principles.

The settlements at issue, after all, aren’t in the West Bank, but in Jerusalem, Israel’s capital. Even if they were in the West Bank, it can’t have escaped Mr. Bush’s notice that the land promised to Abraham and Moses and David was the West Bank. What is the point of celebrating God’s promise of the land of Israel to the Jewish people, or of celebrating the possession by a rabbi of the key to Jerusalem, if every time the Jewish state wants to create new housing units in its own capital the American secretary of state turns it into an international cause of complaint?

The Jerusalem Post this morning quotes one Israel cabinet minister, Eli Yishai, as telling Israel Radio, “The government is permitted to decide to build according to need, and exactly as the French government builds in Paris and the U.S. government builds in Washington … If we place restrictions on construction around Jerusalem, we will eventually also need a special approval to build in Tel Aviv.”

Mr. Yishai, a former member of the Jerusalem city council, has it exactly right. The Palestinian Arabs have no more standing to tell Israel not to build in Jerusalem than Al Qaeda has standing to tell America not to build in Washington. Lest Ms. Rice or Mr. Bush feel tempted to waver on this point, they could consult American law, the Jerusalem Embassy Act of 1995, setting forth “the policy of the United States” that “Jerusalem should remain an undivided city” and that “Jerusalem should be recognized as the capital of the State of Israel.” Or they could consult Senator Obama’s speech to Aipac, in which he said, “Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided,” a formulation that Senator McCain has also declared.

There are lots of obstacles to peace in the Middle East. Iran, Syria, and Saudi Arabia are funding and harboring anti-Israel terrorists. A Hamas state dedicated to Israel’s destruction holds sway at Gaza, whence it daily launches rocket attacks on Israeli civilians. In that context, for Ms. Rice to elevate Israeli housing construction in its own capital to the level of a problem in the peace talks indicates a lack of seriousness. If Mr. Bush isn’t careful, her actions will erode the legacy of the speech he delivered at the Knesset, ripping the key to Jerusalem out of the hands of the rabbi and putting it in the hands of the State Department or what remains of Yasser Arafat’s Palestine Liberation Organization.

Roberta Seid reviews Let Me Stand Alone: The Journals of Rachel Corrie.

Excerpt:

..what is most curious about Corrie’s Journals is that hard as she tried to impose the ISM narrative on what she saw, her reports constantly contradicted this narrative, though she didn’t recognize the contradictions.

She wrote that decades of occupation had oppressed Palestinians, yet Gazans kept saying that their difficult situation was due to the Intifada and to Israel’s subsequent counterterrorism measures, not to a decades-old occupation. One Gazan said, “There was a peaceful time in the late seventies and early eighties…things were better before Sharon”—that is, before Sharon became Prime Minister in 2001. (253) Another told her: “Before—no tanks, no bulldozers, no gunshots. Quiet….No noise. After Intifada, daily. Gunshots daily.”

She even confirmed that conditions in Gaza worsened only with the Intifada. She wrote that 60,000 people from Rafah had worked in Israel in 2001, but that the number had dropped to 600 by 2003. But she never drew the logical conclusion that her Gazan informants kept repeating—the terrorist campaign had forced Israel to take defensive measures.

Similarly, Corrie demonized the Israeli soldiers, but they hardly appear demonic. When she and other internationals stand in front of the tanks, the soldiers “open their weird tank lids and wave at us.” The Israeli district command officer worked to “ensure the safety of Palestinian workers.”

Nor, to her surprise, were Palestinians afraid of the soldiers. When a Gazan runs from his home with his two children after ISM mistakenly informed him that his house was to be demolished, she “was terrified to think that this man felt it was less of a risk to walk out in view of the tanks with his kids than to stay in his house.” She tried to interpose herself between him and the tanks, yet he clearly did not need her protection. Children play in full view of the tanks, apparently unafraid. (She was stunned to find that despite tanks and bulldozers passing by, “all of these people are genuinely cheerful”—even though this did not fit into her preconceived notions. When IDF soldiers entered a house to position themselves on the roof, no one was bothered or harassed. The children just watched cartoons on TV.

You can read the rest here.

I just love this headline from Baltimore News:

Hamas likely over-reacted to massive explosion

The explosion occurred at the house of a Hamas bombmaker, and was thus almost certainly a “work accident.” So, yeah, you could say Hamas’ firing some 40 mortar shells, 25 Qassam rockets, and several Grad rockets at Israel, who had nothing to do with it, was an over-reaction.

Then again, we know Hamas and the other palestinian terror organizations need no excuse to fire rockets at Israel. Although in this case, the rockets could well have been cover for an attempted suicide bombing, which was luckily thwarted. Either way, the motivation was to kill Jews.

As it always is.

The palestinians may claim they are suffering from food, electricity and gas shortages, but one thing there is clearly no shortage of is dumbasses.

Palestinian faction claimed responsibility of killing an Israeli female soldier and kidnapping her corps.

In a statement received by RNA, “Ahrar Al-Jalil Brigades” said that it killed an Israeli female soldier, Dana Binjamin, 24, on June 2, 2008.

The Brigades added that it issued a statement calling the Israelis for prisoners trade for her corps but the Israelis did not take it seriously.

Probably because no female soldier was killed on June 2.

Oh, and no soldiers were kidnapped either.

Either someone wasn’t paying attention in those Propaganda 101 classes, or the palestinians figure we’d believe anything.

Which I guess isn’t that far from the truth, given all their other lies for which we have fallen.

Update: The palestinians have now released a picture of the supposedly captured female soldier Binjamin.