He Is Alive And Home!!!

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

Gilad Shalit, prisoner of Hamas for 5 years, is finally home, and safe.

Gilad Shalit (rank at the time: Cpl.) was kidnapped early on Sunday June 25, 2006. A terrorist cell attacked Shalit’s tank that was defending the security fence near the southern Gaza Strip. The terrorists crossed the border using an underground tunnel dug near the Kerem Shalom crossing. During the attack, the tank commander, First Lt. Hanan Barak, and another soldier in the tank, Staff Sgt. Pavel Slotzker were killed. Four of the soldiers in the post were injured and terrorists kidnapped Shalit into the Gaza Strip, using the tunnel they dug.

In response to the kidnapping, the IDF began Operation Summer Rains in the Gaza Strip on June 28, 2006 and lasted through November 26, 2006. Ground forces entered the Gaza Strip for the first time since the unilateral disengagement was executed.

Sgt. 1st Class Shalit was 19 years old at the time of his abduction. He is the son of Aviva and Noam Shalit and the brother of Yoel and Hadas. Sgt. 1st Class Shalit excels in math, graduating with distinction from the science class of Manor Kabri High School. He is also a major sports fan, with a passion for playing basketball.

Source

Sgt. 1st Class Shalit was exchanged for 447 Fakistinian murderers.  Another 550 Fakistinian murderers are to be released within the next 2 months.  Why should Israel release them?  Let them rot in jail.  Remove any privileges from them.  No cable, no phones, no visits, no college classes, nothing.  The minimum of food.  Only 1 hour of exercise a day.  Locked in small cells, crowded and with no running water.  Only a hole in the ground for their bodily functions.

A curse upon the Arab peoples.  A curse upon the Fakistinians.  A curse upon the Red Cross, who in 5 years violated the Geneva Conventions of War.

After 5 years Sgt. Shalit is home.  May he find peace after the horror he has experienced.

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Spew of Feces: Mahmoud Abbas at the General Assembly

Spew of Feces: Mahmoud Abbas at the General Assembly The President of the Falestinian Authority, during an illegal extension of his term, desecrated the City of New York with his evil presence and spewed feces at the General Assembly of the United Nations.

    As with Prime Minister Netanyahu's address, I have highlighted the most important parts and inserted superscripts linked to my comments which follow the screed. Click the superscripts to read my comments and press your Backspace key to return to your place in the screed. 

    Update: publication of this post was delayed by interruption of my internet connection. After the technical difficulty was fixed, I discovered that Abbas has declared that he will not negotiate until "settlement activity" is ended. It becomes ever more obvious that Islam is interested in conquest, not in peace.

In a Reuters story on Yahoo News, Abbas is quoted as follows:

"We will not accept (negotiations) until legitimacy is the foundation and they cease settlement completely,"

H.E. Mr. Mahmoud Abbas  United Nations General Assembly Sixty-sixth Session

Mr. President of the General Assembly of the United Nations,
Mr. Secretary-General of the United Nations,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    At the outset, I extend my congratulations to H.E. Mr. Nassir Abdulaziz AI-Nasser on his
assumption of the Presidency of the Assembly for this session, and wish him all success.

    I extend today my sincere congratulations, on behalf of the Palestine Liberation
Organization and the Palestinian people, to the government and people of South Sudan for its
deserved admission as a full member of the United Nations, wishing them progress and
prosperity.

    I also congratulate the Secretary-General, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, on his election for a
new term at the helm of the United Nations. This renewal of confidence reflects the world's
appreciation for his efforts, which have strengthened the role of the United Nations.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    The Question Palestine is intricately linked with the United Nations via the resolutions
adopted by its various organs and agencies and via the essential and lauded role of the United
Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East - UNRWA - which
embodies the international responsibility¹ towards the plight of Palestine refugees², who are the
victims of Al-Nakba ³(Catastrophe) that occurred in 1948. We aspire for and seek a greater and
more effective role for the United Nations in working to achieve a just and comprehensive peace⁴
in our region that ensures the inalienable, legitimate national rights⁵ of the Palestinian people⁶ as
defined by the resolutions of international legitimacy of the United Nations.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    A year ago, at this same time, distinguished leaders in this hall addressed the stalled
peace efforts in our region. Everyone had high hopes for a new round of final status negotiations,
which had begun in early September in Washington under the direct auspices of President
Barack Obama and with participation of the Quartet, and with Egyptian and Jordanian
participation, to reach a peace agreement within one year. We entered those negotiations with
open hearts and attentive ears and sincere intentions, and we were ready with our documents,
papers and proposals. But the negotiations broke down⁷ just weeks after their launch.

    After this, we did not give up and did not cease our efforts for initiatives and contacts.
Over the past year we did not leave a door to be knocked or channel to be tested or path to be
taken and we did not ignore any formal or informal party of influence and stature to be
addressed. We positively considered the various ideas and proposals and initiatives presented
from many countries and parties. But all of these sincere efforts and endeavors undertaken by
international parties were repeatedly wrecked by the positions of the Israeli government,⁸ which
quickly dashed the hopes raised by the launch of negotiations last September.

    The core issue here is that the Israeli government refuses to commit to terms of reference
for the negotiations that are based on international law and United Nations resolutions, and that it
frantically continues to intensify building of settlements on the territory of the State of Palestine.
Settlement activities embody the core of the policy of colonial military occupation⁹ of the
land of the Palestinian people and all of the brutality of aggression¹⁰ and racial discrimination
against our people that this policy entails. This policy, which constitutes a breach of
international humanitarian law and United Nations resolutions, is the primary cause for the
failure of the peace process, the collapse of dozens of opportunities, and the burial of the great
hopes that arose from the signing of the Declaration of Principles in 1993 between the Palestine
Liberation Organization and Israel to achieve a just peace that would begin a new era for our
region.

    The reports of United Nations missions as well as by several Israeli institutions and civil
societies convey a horrific picture about the size of the settlement campaign, which the Israeli
government does not hesitate to boast about and which it continues to execute through the
systematic confiscation of the Palestinian lands¹¹ and the construction of thousands of new
settlement units in various areas of the West Bank, particularly in East Jerusalem¹², and
accelerated construction of the annexation Wall¹³ that is eating up large tracts of our land, dividing
it into separate and isolated islands and cantons, destroying family life and communities and the
livelihoods of tens of thousands of families. The occupying Power also continues to refuse
permits for our people to build in Occupied East Jerusalem, at the same time that it intensifies its
decades-long campaign of demolition and confiscation of homes, displacing Palestinian owners
and residents under a multi-pronged policy of ethnic cleansing¹⁴ aimed at pushing them away from
their ancestral homeland. In addition, orders have been issued to deport elected representatives
from the city of Jerusalem. The occupying Power also continues to undertake excavations that
threaten our holy places¹⁵, and its military checkpoints prevent our citizens from getting access to
their mosques and churches, and it continues to besiege the Holy City with a ring of settlements
imposed to separate the Holy City from the rest of the Palestinian cities¹⁶.

    The occupation is racing against time to redraw the borders on our land according to what
it wants and to impose a fait accompli on the ground that changes the realities and that is
undermining the realistic potential for the existence of the State of Palestine.¹⁷

    At the same time, the occupying Power continues to impose its blockade on the Gaza
Strip and to target Palestinian civilians by assassinations, air strikes and artillery shelling,
persisting with its war of aggression of three years ago on Gaza, which resulted in massive
destruction of homes, schools, hospitals, and mosques, and the thousands of martyrs¹⁸ and
wounded.

    The occupying Power also continues its incursions in areas of the Palestinian National
Authority through raids, arrests and killings at the checkpoints.¹⁹ In recent years, the criminal
actions of armed settler militias, who enjoy the special protection of the occupation army, has
intensified with the perpetration of frequent attacks against our people, targeting their homes,
schools, universities, mosques, fields, crops and trees. Despite our repeated warnings, the
occupying Power has not acted to curb these attacks and we hold them fully responsible for the
crimes of the settlers.

    These are just a few examples of the policy of the Israeli colonial settlement occupation²⁰,
and this policy is responsible for the continued failure of the successive international attempts to
salvage the peace process.

    This policy will destroy the chances of achieving a two-State solution²¹ upon which there is
an international consensus, and here I caution aloud: This settlement policy threatens to also
undermine the structure of the Palestinian National Authority and even end its existence.

    In addition, we now face the imposition new conditions not previously raised, conditions
that will transform the raging conflict in our inflamed region into a religious conflict²² and a threat
to the future of a million and a half Christian and Muslim Palestinians, citizens of Israel, a matter
which we reject and which is impossible for us to accept being dragged into.

    All of these actions taken by Israel in our country²³ are unilateral actions and are not based
on any earlier agreements. Indeed, what we witness is a selective application of the agreements
aimed at perpetuating the occupation. Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a
unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it
is the one that detennines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part
of the Palestinian Territory. And it is confiscating our land and our water and obstructing our
movement as well as the movement of goods. And it is the one obstructing our whole destiny.
All of this is unilateral.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    In 1974, our deceased leader Yasser Arafat came to this hall and assured the Members of
the General Assembly of our affinnative pursuit for peace²⁴, urging the United Nations to realize
the inalienable national rights of the Palestinian people²⁵, stating: "Do not let the olive branch fall
from my hand".

    In 1988, President Arafat again addressed the General Assembly, which convened in
Geneva to hear him, where he submitted the Palestinian peace program adopted by the Palestine
National Council at its session held that year in Algeria.

    When we adopted this program, we were taking a painful and very difficult step for all of
us, especially those, including myself, who were forced to leave their homes and their towns and
villages, carrying only some of our belongings and our grief and our memories and the keys of
our homes to the camps of exile and the Diaspora in the 1948 AI-Nakba²⁶, one of the worst
operations of uprooting, destruction and removal of a vibrant and cohesive society that had been
contributing in a pioneering and leading way m the cultural, educational and economic
renaissance of the Arab Middle East.

    Yet, because we believe in peace²⁷ and because of our conviction in international
legitimacy, and because we had the courage to make difficult decisions for our people, and in the
absence of absolute justice, we decided to adopt the path of relative justice - justice that is
possible and could correct part of the grave historical injustice committed against our people.
Thus, we agreed to establish the State of Palestine on only 22% of the territory of historical
Palestine - on all the Palestinian Territory occupied by Israel in 1967.²⁸

    We, by taking that historic step, which was welcomed by the States of the world, made a
major concession in order to achieve a historic compromise that would allow peace to be made in
the land of peace.²⁹

    In the years that followed - from the Madrid Conference and the Washington negotiations
leading to the Oslo agreement, which was signed 18 years ago in the garden of the White House
and was linked with the letters of mutual recognition between the PLO and Israel, we persevered
and dealt positively and responsibly with all efforts aimed at the achievement of a lasting peace
agreement. Yet, as we said earlier, every initiative and every conference and every new round of
negotiations and every movement was shattered on the rock of the Israeli settlement expansion
project.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    I confirm, on behalf of the Palestine Liberation Organization, the sole legitimate
representative of the Palestinian people, which will remain so until the end of the conflict in all
its aspects and until the resolution of all final status issues, the following:

    I. The goal of the Palestinian people is the realization of their inalienable national rights in their
independent State of Palestine, with East Jerusalem as its capital, on all the land of the West
Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, which Israel occupied in the June 1967 war,
in conformity with the resolutions of international legitimacy and with the achievement of a just
and agreed upon solution to the Palestine refugee issue in accordance with resolution 194, as
stipulated in the Arab Peace Initiative which presented the consensus Arab vision to resolve the
core the Arab-Israeli conflict and to achieve a just and comprehensive peace. To this we adhere
and this is what we are working to achieve. Achieving this desired peace also requires the
release of political prisoners and detainees in Israeli prisons without delay.

2. The PLO and the Palestinian people adhere to the renouncement of violence³⁰ and rejection and
condemning of terrorism³¹ in all its forms, especially State terrorism, and adhere to all agreements
signed between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel.

3. We adhere to the option of negotiating a lasting solution to the conflict in accordance with
resolutions of international legitimacy. Here, I declare that the Palestine Liberation Organization
is ready to return immediately to the negotiating table on the basis of the adopted terms of
reference based on international legitimacy and a complete cessation of settlement activities.³²

4. Our people will continue their popular peaceful resistance to the Israeli occupation³³ and its
settlement and apartheid policies³⁴ and its construction of the racist annexation Wall³⁵, and they
receive support for their resistance, which is consistent with international humanitarian law and
international conventions and has the support of peace activists from Israel and around the world,
reflecting an impressive, inspiring and courageous example of the strength of this defenseless
people, armed only with their dreams, courage, hope and slogans in the face of bullets, tanks,
tear gas and bulldozers.

5. When we bring our plight and our case to this international podium, it is a confirmation of our
reliance on the political and diplomatic option and is a confirmation that we do not undertake
unilateral steps³⁶. Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want
to gain legitimacy³⁷ for the cause of the people of Palestine. We only aim to de-legitimize the
settlement activities, the occupation and apartheid and the logic of ruthless force, and we believe
that all the countries of the world stand with us in this regard.

    I am here to say on behalf of the Palestinian people and the Palestine Liberation
Organization: We extend our hands to the Israeli government and the Israeli people for peacemaking.
I say to them: Let us urgently build together a future for our children where they can
enjoy freedom³⁸, security and prosperity. Let us build the bridges of dialogue instead of
checkpoints and walls of separation, and build cooperative relations based on parity and equity
between two neighboring States - Palestine and Israel - instead of policies of occupation,
settlement, war and eliminating the other³⁹.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Despite the unquestionable right of our people to self-determination and to the
independence of our State as stipulated in international resolutions, we have accepted in the past
few years to engage in what appeared to be a test of our worthiness, entitlement and eligibility.
During the last two years our national authority has implemented a program to build our State
institutions. Despite the extraordinary situation and the Israeli obstacles imposed, a serious
extensive project was launched that has included the implementation of plans to enhance and
advance the judiciary and the apparatus for maintenance of order and security, to develop the
administrative, financial, and oversight systems, to upgrade the performance of institutions, and
to enhance self-reliance to reduce the need for foreign aid. With the thankful support of Arab
countries and donors from friendly countries, a number of large infrastructure projects have been
implemented, focused on various aspects of service, with special attention to rural and
marginalized areas.

    In the midst of this massive national project, we have been strengthening what we
seeking to be the features of our State: from the preservation of security for the citizen and public
order; to the promotion of judicial authority and rule of law; to strengthening the role of women
via legislation, laws and participation; to ensuring the protection of public freedoms and
strengthening the role of civil society institutions; to institutionalizing rules and regulations for
ensuring accountability and transparency in the work of our Ministries and departments; to
entrenching the pillars of democracy as the basis for the Palestinian political life.

    When division struck the unity of our homeland, people and institutions, we were
determined to adopt dialogue for restoration of our unity. We succeeded months ago in
achieving national reconciliation and we hope that its implementation will be accelerated in the
coming weeks. The core pillar of this reconciliation was to turn to the people through legislative
and presidential elections within a year, because the State we want will be a State characterized
by the rule of law, democratic exercise and protection of the freedoms and equality of all citizens
without any discrimination and the transfer of power through the ballot box.

    The reports issued recently by the United Nations, the World Bank, the Ad Hoc Liaison
Committee (AHLC) and the International Monetary Fund confirm and laud what has been
accomplished, considering it a remarkable and unprecedented model. The consensus conclusion
by the AHLC a few days ago here described what has been accomplished as a "remarkable
international success story" and confirmed the readiness of the Palestinian people and their
institutions for the immediate independence of the State of Palestine.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    It is no longer possible to redress the issue of the blockage of the horizon of the peace
talks with the same means and methods that have been repeatedly tried and proven unsuccessful
over the past years. The crisis is far too deep to be neglected, and what is more dangerous are
attempts to simply circumvent it or postpone its explosion.⁴⁰

    It is neither possible, nor practical, nor acceptable to return to conducting business as
usual, as if everything is fine. It is futile to go into negotiations without clear parameters⁴¹ and in
the absence of credibility⁴² and a specific timetable. Negotiations will be meaningless as long as
the occupation army on the ground continues to entrench its occupation⁴³, instead of rolling it
back, and continues to change the demography of our country⁴⁴ in order to create a new basis on
which to alter the borders.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    It is a moment of truth and my people are waiting to hear the answer of the world. Will it
allow Israel to continue its occupation, the only occupation in the world? Will it allow Israel to
remain a State above the law and accountability? Will it allow Israel to continue rejecting the
resolutions of the Security Council and the General Assembly of the United Nations and the
International Court of Justice and the positions of the overwhelming majority of countries in the
world?

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    I come before you today from the Holy Land, the land of Palestine, the land of divine
messages, ascension of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the birthplace of Jesus
Christ (peace be upon him), to speak on behalf of the Palestinian people in the homeland and in
the Diaspora, to say, after 63 years of suffering of an ongoing Nakba: Enough. It is time for the
Palestinian people to gain their freedom and independence.

    The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in
the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of
them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

    At a time when the Arab peoples affirm their quest for democracy⁴⁵ - the Arab Spring - the
time is now for the Palestinian Spring, the time for independence.

    The time has come for our men, women and children to live normal lives⁴⁶, for them to be
able to sleep without waiting for the worst that the next day will bring; for mothers to be assured
that their children will return home without fear of suffering killing, arrest or humiliation⁴⁷; for
students to be able to go to their schools and universities without checkpoints obstructing them.
The time has come for sick people to be able to reach hospitals normally⁴⁸, and for our farmers to
be able to take care of their good land without fear of the occupation seizing the land and its
water, which the wall prevents access to, or fear of the settlers, for whom settlements are being
built on our land and who are uprooting and burning the olive trees that have existed for
hundreds of years. The time has come for the thousands of prisoners⁴⁹ to be released from the
prisons to return to their families and their children to become a part of building their homeland,
for the freedom of which they have sacrificed.

My people desire to exercise their right to enjoy a normal life like the rest of humanity.
They believe what the great poet Mahmoud Darwish said: Standing here, staying here,
permanent here, eternal here, and we have one goal, one, one: to be.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    We profoundly appreciate and value the positions of all States that have supported our
struggle and our rights and recognized the State of Palestine following the Declaration of
Independence in 1988, as well as the countries that have recently recognized the State of
Palestine and those that have upgraded the level of Palestine's representation in their capitals. I
also salute the Secretary-General, who said a few days ago that the Palestinian State should have
been established years ago.

    Be assured that this support for our people is more valuable to them than you can
imagine, for it makes them feel that someone is listening to their narrative⁵⁰and that their tragedy
and the horrors of Al-Nakba and the occupation, from which they have so suffered, are not being
ignored. And, it reinforces their hope that stems from the belief that justice is possible in this in
this world. The loss of hope is the most ferocious enemy of peace and despair is the strongest
ally of extremism.

    I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of
displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the
earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    I would like to inform you that, before delivering this statement, I, in my capacity as
President of the State of Palestine and Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Palestine
Liberation Organization, submitted to H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General of the United
Nations, an application for the admission of Palestine on the basis of the 4 June 1967 borders,
with AI-Quds AI-Sharif as its capital, as a full member of the United Nations.

    I call upon Mr. Secretary-General to expedite transmittal of our request to the Security
Council, and I call upon the distinguished members of the Security Council to vote in favor of
our full membership. I also appeal to the States that have not yet recognized the State of
Palestine to do so.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    The support of the countries of the world for our endeavor is a victory for truth, freedom,
justice, law and international legitimacy, and it provides tremendous support for the peace option
and enhances the chances of success of the negotiations.

Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen,

    Your support for the establishment of the State of Palestine and for its admission to the
United Nations as a full member is the greatest contribution to peacemaking in the Holy Land.
I thank you.

 

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1. Responsibility for the Falestinians lies entirely with the membership of the Arab League, who staged a  series of genocidal attack on Israel, beginning in modern times, in 1948. Any broader responsibility is limited to Ummah al-Islamiyya, to pay Zakat to their distressed brethren.  Had the Arabs lived up to their responsibility, there would be no refugee problem for the Falestinians.
2. The geographic region called Palestine was, prior to the Destruction of the Second Temple, known as Israel. The Romans renamed the occupied territory after the Philistines as an insult to the Jews whom they had thrown out of their homeland. The Jewish diaspora are the real Palestinian refugees.
3. In 632, four years after Moe departed for his richly deserved eternal damnation,{fire be upon him) caliph Umar completed the conquest of the Roman Province of Syria, the indigenous population of which was Christian & Jewish, neither Arab nor Muslim.

        In World War 1, the Ottoman Empire fought on the losing side, losing the desert to Great Britain. Following the Balfour Doctrine, the League of Nations gave Great Britain a mandate to restore the Jews to their ancient homeland which had been stolen from them. Great Britain reneged on the deal, forcing Israel to rise up against the occupying force and restored her sovereignty in 1948. The Arabs rejected the partition plan and Falestinian statehood, preferring  to launch a genocidal attack. To learn more about the relevant  history of the Levant, follow the links in the left sidebar of http://www.palestinefacts.org/ .
   

4. Just, comprehensive and lasting peace is a function of your apostasy or death. If you abandon Islam or go to Hell, there will be peace in the region.  Until you follow one of those courses of action, there can be no peace.  If you wanted peace, you would have it. Instead, you want conquest, because it is the commandment of the demon to whom you are enslaved. You hope that we do not know about the Qur'an, but a few of us know, and we are sharing our knowledge with others. Comprehension of the true nature of Islam is propagating at an accelerating pace.

        We know about Noble Qur'an 2:216, which ordains jihad for you. We know about 2:190 which commands you to drive out those who drove you out; a command to reconquer lost territory, which motivates your reconquest of Israel. We know about 8:57, which commands you to deal harshly with those you defeat so as to terrorize prospective victims behind them.  We know about 8:60, which commands you to build the strongest possible army with which to terrify your intended victims.  We know about 8:67, which sets "great slaughter" as the price of admission to Allah's celestial bordello.

        We know about how Allah terrified Jews so that you killed them, enslaved their widows & orphans and seized their real and personal property.  We know how Moe committed genocide, slaughtering 800 Jews who had surrendered; how he inspected their sons for pubic hair and slew those who had developed it.  And we know about Moe instructing his companions to invade Syria first because "Allah has on my account taken special charge of Syria and its people." We also read 7:167 so we know that Allah will "certainly keep on sending against them (i.e. the Jews), till the Day of Resurrection, those who would afflict them with a humiliating torment."  We even know that the gates of Paradise will not swing open for you until you hunt down and kill the last Jew.

        Nay more! We have read Islamic law, so we know that jihad is "war against non-Muslims".  We know that it must be performed in every year, and that, if it is abandoned in a year without good cause, that all who knew of the obligation are in sin. We know that "The caliph makes war against Jews, Christians and Zoroastrians".

        We are not so stupid, ignorant and gullible as you hope.  We know that Allah promised you victory. We know that Allah promised that you would take over the land.  We also know by 13:41, that your conquest is irreversible.  That is how we know that Allah is an impotent idol: The Jews got part of their land back and you tried to exterminate them and failed several times.  I know that you will never tolerate the existence of Israel because she testifies to the fact that you worship an impotent idol, and I am telling everyone who will read this blog post.

5. According to sacred and secular history, Judea & Israel were ancient kingdoms in the region now referred to as Palestine. We know that Jerusalem was the capitol, where King Solomon erected the Temple, the Assyrians destroyed it, Herod rebuilt it and the Romans destroyed it again.  When did you ever have a nation of Palestine? Who were its rulers? What was its unit of currency? What was its capitol city? How and when did it cease to exist as a sovereign nation?
6. One terrorist's admission to a newspaper spilled the beans.  Falestinians are not a distinct people with a national history. No people, no nationality, no historical basis for a nation of their own on Israel's territory. Your lies are exposed and the game is up; sit down and shut up!

   Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here's what he said:

   The Palestinian people does not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only a means for continuing our struggle against the state of Israel for our Arab unity. In reality today there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. Only for political and tactical reasons do we speak today about the existence of a Palestinian people, since Arab national interests demand that we posit the existence of a distinct "Palestinian people" to oppose Zionism.

   For tactical reasons, Jordan, which is a sovereign state with defined borders, cannot raise claims to Haifa and Jaffa, while as a Palestinian, I can undoubtedly demand Haifa, Jaffa, Beer-Sheva and Jerusalem. However, the moment we reclaim our right to all of Palestine, we will not wait even a minute to unite Palestine and Jordan.

7. Abbas demanded a construction freeze as a precondition for negotiations. Netanyahu stupidly imposed the freeze for ten months. Abbas delayed talks until the last two weeks of the freeze, then he walked away.  Muslims only negotiate from a position of strength. When too weak to fight, they only grant a ten year truce during which they rearm and regroup for their next attack. 
8. There were no negotiations because you refuse to negotiate; you demand surrender as a precondition for peace talks. Go to Hell.
9. Its Israel, stupid. It ain't Palestine, it is Israel, the Jewish homeland. Muslims are the interlopers & illegal occupiers, since Umar's conquest in 638. 
10. The projection continues; Muslims accuse their victims of their own offenses.  You killed a student and wounded a school bus driver with an expensive anti-tank rocket yet you accuse Israel of brutal aggression. Muslims were the aggressors in a series of four wars. Its time for the world to get a clue.
11. It ain't your land; you stole it in 638.  You stole it again in 1948. Israel recovered it when you attacked again in 1967. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Quit kvetching, losers.
12. Jerusalem is Israel's capitol.  King Hussein illegally seized half of it and excluded Jews from it in 1948, in violation of international law and his oath. You have no right or claim in Jerusalem. Drop the fantasy. Islam's so called claim on Jerusalem is founded in fabulism, a mirage. 
13. There would be no wall if you were not continually attempting to murder Jews.  The wall is necessary to slow down and deter genocidal attackers motivated by the damnable doctrine of Islam.  Everything you bitterly bitch about is a consequence of your genocidal aggression.
14. AssWhole: you rival Barack Hussein Obama in arrogance & al-Taqiyya! You demand that the Falestinian state be Judenrein; that all Jews be expelled from Judea & Samaria. You enforce a law prescribing the death penalty for selling land to Jews.  May Satan take you soon in your hypocrisy!
15. There are no Jewish excavations near Mecca. The excavations near the Temple Mount do not threaten anything except your malignant narrative. Your removal and dumping of rubble containing Jewish artifacts from the Temple Mount stands out as a real threat to archeology. 
16. Its Israel, stupid!  Jerusalem was the capitol, ruled over by David and Solomon, who were Jews, not Muslims. Jesus Christ worshiped in the Temple at Jerusalem; he, too is a Jew.  Jerusalem was never the capitol of any Arab or Muslim nation.  It was neglected by the Ottoman Empire, falling into decay during their occupation. 
17. Any fool with eyes can see that there is not sufficient land there for one state; Israel is far too small for long term survival. There is not enough real estate there for two nations. 
18. Yasser Arafat was fond of chanting "A million martyrs marching to Jerusalem". You worship martyrs, naming schools and public places after those who die in the act of murdering Jews.  Martyrs are a great thing, they gain instant admission to Alllah's celestial bordello and take 70 close relatives with them. Quit bitching about making martyrs.
19. If you would implement and enforce your obligations under the Oslo Accords, there would be no need for Israeli incursions. You will not enforce them because murder is your way of life.
20. 'Umar sent the Muslims to the great countries to fight the pagans. Islam, not Israel invaded, conquered and occupied the Levant. It happened in 632. It is time to shut off the projector.
21. Two states are not a solution. Statehood will not diminish your genocidal aggression, if anything, it would exacerbate your aggression.  There is absolutely no excuse for giving you a staging area for further attacks. If Israel moves for peace, she will usher you into Hell. Until she does, she will have no peace.
22. Allah said: "Fight against those who (1) believe not in Allâh, (2) nor in the Last Day, (3) nor forbid that which has been forbidden by Allâh and His Messenger (4) and those who acknowledge not the religion of truth (i.e. Islâm) among the people of the Scripture (Jews and Christians), until they pay the Jizyah with willing submission, and feel themselves subdued. ". Moe said: "I have been ordered to fight the people till they say: 'None has the right to be worshipped but Allah.' And if they say so, pray like our prayers, face our Qibla and slaughter as we slaughter, then their blood and property will be sacred to us and we will not interfere with them except legally and their reckoning will be with Allah."  Israel's demand for recognition as the Jewish state turns the war into a religious conflict. Yeah, right. 
23. It ain't your country, it is Israel! You had a chance for a country in 1948; you rejected that chance, preferring  to drive the Jews into the sea. Your genocidal attack was a failure, proving to all who will observe the truth that Allah is an impotent idol.
24. You had a fine way of pursuing peace in 1948, 1967 & 1973. Why did you repeatedly fail to capture it? You do not want peace, you want genocidal conquest. Arafat is lonely in Hell, be swift to join him.
25. You ain't a people, you ain't a nation and you have no historical, legal or moral right to Israel's land nor to a nation.  You could have had a nation, but you did not want one.
26. Egyptian radio broadcast orders to evacuate; clearing the way for their army to push the Jews into the sea. You left to clear a path for genocide. You have no right to return.  Losing aggressors do not write the rules.
27.  If you are a Muslim, you believe in Allah, not in peace.  Allah said that he purchased your lives so that you fight in his cause, killing others and being killed. His cause is to make Islam dominant; global conquest. "The Good News that Muslims will conquer the Known World, and ultimately the Entire World". Kiss my big, smelly, deformed, ulcerated foot.
28. Israel recovered that land, stolen from her in 638 & 1948, only because you attacked her again with genocidal intent and lost. You bitch bitterly about the consequences of your own genocidal aggression. Go to Hell.
29. What historic step did you take?  Did you make a good faith effort to stop terror attacks?  Did you end the inculcation of hatred in your schools, public television and Mosques?  Did you end incitement to violence against Israel?  Did you meet any of your obligations under the Oslo Accords?  Go to Hell.
30. In a pig's anus you do! If you renounce violence, you must abjure & denounce Allah's damnable words including, but not limited to 2:216, 8:39, 8:60, 8:65, 9:29 & 9:123. By renouncing those ayat, you would become apostates, subject to execution. I disrespectfully direct doubters & dissenters to Reliance of the Traveller O8.1 & O8.7 [on the next page of the pdf.].
31. In a pig's anus you do! If you renounce terrorism, you must abjure & denounce Allah's damnable words including, but not limited to 3:151, 8:12, 8:57, 8:60, 33:26, 33:27, 59:2 & 59:13, subjecting yourselves, under the Islamic law cited above, to execution as apostates. 
32. Building apartments for Jews in Jerusalem is not settlement activity. Jerusalem is their capitol city. It belongs to Israel, not to you.
33. Throwing rocks is not peaceful resistance. Launching mortar shells is not peaceful resistance. Launching rockets is not peaceful resistance. Blowing up buses is not peaceful resistance. Slaughtering families as they sleep is not peaceful resistance. You are occupying Israel; end the occupation immediately.  Go to Hell!
34. You demand that your state be Judenrein and accuse Israel of apartheid. Go to Hell, hypocrite!
35. You demand the exclusion of Jews from Jerusalem and call Israel racist. Go to Hell, hypocrite!
36. Usurpation of Israel's sovereign territory and declaration of a state without due process; in the absence of a functional government ain't unilateral action. Yeah, right.
37. Legitimacy? Either you have it or you don't.  Israel has it, you don't.  Your cause is illegitimate and can not be legitimatized. 
38. Your children can not enjoy freedom while enslaved to Allah. First, they must be emancipated from Allah, then from your satrapy.
39. Allah's Apostle said that the gates of the celestial bordello will not swing open for you until you kill the last Jew.  The genocidal statement is recorded in several ahadith including Sahih Bukhari 4.52.177 and Sahih Muslim 41.6985. 
40. Your intransigence in demanding surrender prior to peace talks is building pressure for your eradication.   Justice will only be served by the explosion.
41.  Recognition of Israel as the Jewish state, genuine denunciation of violence, complete & permanent disarmament & demilitarization and Israel's unquestioned right and duty to usher you into Hell at the first violation of those clear parameters; sounds like a plan.
42. You have no credibility and can obtain none because you never implemented the Oslo Accords. Until you quit inculcating hatred and inciting violence, you have no credibility.
43. Yes, it certainly is unreasonable to expect Israel to negotiate while you occupy her sovereign territory. Go home!
44. Israel is not your country, and you are breeding like rats in it, changing the demography.
45. "One man, one vote, one time." "It is not for a believer, man or woman, when Allâh and His Messenger have decreed a matter that they should have any option in their decision. "[33:36] The quest is for domination, not democracy; its about who sits on the throne.
46. Then let them denounce Islam, join the human race and abandon genocidal conquest. You can quit making war any day of the week, any week of the year but you will not because you are slaves of Allah. But I know something you wish I did not know: "And the life of this world is nothing but play and amusement. But far better is the house in the Hereafter for those who are Al­Muttaqûn (the pious - see V.2:2). Will you not then understand?" [6:32]  Muslims do not want normal lives, they seek war and martyrdom as a guarantee of admission to the celestial bordello.
47. They send their brats off to murder Jews, telling them not to shame their mothers by returning alive. Do you think we do not see the pictures of little boys carrying rifles and wearing bomb vests?  Do you think we do not read about teenagers being caught carrying knives and bombs into Israel or wearing bomb vests to the border? 
48. If you built hospitals instead of arsenals, buying medicine instead of explosives, that would not be a problem.
49. Israel should execute one of those prisoners every day until Shalit is freed alive and unharmed. Of course, they will go directly to the celestial bordello, won't they. Their relatives will celebrate their wedding to 72 houris.
50. We have been listening for 62 years and we know it is a false narrative.

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No Jews Allowed

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

In the new Palestinian State.  That is if Mahmoud Abbas Abu Mazen has his wish.

Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas told visiting US Congressmen on Thursday he wants the security of a future PA state to be handed to NATO under US command, the Maan news agency reported Friday.

The PA state must also be "empty of settlements," Abbas said, according to official Palestinian Authority news agency WAFA.

Members of the US Congress and Senate delegation, headed by Democrat Senator Steny Hoyer, met with Abbas in Ramallah on Thursday, and quizzed Abbas on Israel's designation as a Jewish state, the status of refugees, and reconciliation between Abbas' Fatah party and rival Hamas, Presidential adviser Nimir Hamad said.

Abbas reiterated the Palestinian Authority's well-known positions on these matters, Hammad added, and specified that security responsibility for the Palestinian Authority would be handled by a third party, suggesting the US-Europe military alliance NATO.

In September 2010, Abbas outlined his government's acceptance of international forces from NATO or similar to the UNIFIL force operating in southern Lebanon playing a role in PA security, as long as forces did not include one single Israeli, whether from the civilian population or the military.

Abbas is currently pursuing a unilateral recognition of PA statehood based on pre-1967 lines at the United Nations in September.

Source

No Jews allowed in their "hallowed" land.  Not even if that Jew was a member of a NATO force.  The land must be cleansed of all contamination by those evil people.  And Sheik Barack Hussein Obama will not only support this idea, but will commit thousands of American troops (No Jews will be permitted to go) to the idea.

Just another way Sheik Obama will destroy Israel.

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How To Destroy A Friendship

By Findalis of Monkey in the Middle

 Friendship is defined as:  A friendly feeling or disposition.  Yet in the last week we have witnessed President Barack Hussein Obama destroy the special relationship the United States has had with Israel.  A relationship based on mutual trust, understanding, and respect.  As of Thursday, all that is now a one-way street, with Israel being the friend and the United States actively and openly working to destroy the tiny Jewish state.

In doing this without condemning the violence perpetrated towards Israel, the official indoctrination of Anti-Semitism into the minds of Arab children, the rewriting of history with the purpose of distorting and obliterating the presence of the Jewish people from the Land of Israel, and finally the daily calls for the destruction of the State of Israel has displayed to the world (And especially Jewish voters.) that the United States is no longer a full partner with Israel but just one of many who condemn the Jewish state.

This has left Israel with very few options.  They can no longer trust the United States to veto resolutions in the Security Council that condemn it for any whim the Arab/Muslim world decides to invent.  And let us face it, these idiots invent so many things against the only beacon of freedom in the Middle East.

On Thursday President Obama was 45 minutes late in addressing the State Department in his second major address to the Muslim world.  He was on the phone with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel who was vainly trying to get him to remove the  passage:  1967 borders.   This Obama did not do, nor was he going to.  In doing this, President Obama has effectively backed the Israelis into a corner.  They cannot return to the Auschwitz Borders, nor can they use it as the starting base in negotiations.



Without condemning Hamas for the rocket fire into Southern Israel, or Fatah for the murder of Israelis (Especially the slaughter of the Fogel family.), President Obama has effectively turned the Foreign Policy of the United States in a 180 degree turn away from Israel.

This is leaving President Obama with a problem here at home.  To be exact a Jewish Problem here at home.  While in 2008 President Obama received over 78% of the Jewish vote, today that support is down to 55% (The exact same number that Jimmy Carter received in 1980.) and it is dropping.  While in 2008 the Obama campaign found that their major donors were Jews, today donations from The Tribe is down 60%.  The more President Obama's foreign policy turns away from Israel and towards the Muslim world, the more Jews will desert him in favor of a candidate that is more appealing to their values.  In an economy that is doing well, with low gas prices, this wouldn't even be an issue.  As we know the economy is going to hell in a handbasket, gas is rising out of sight, and this is now a big issue with the Jewish voters.

As for what Israel will do.  Sources in the Israeli government have remarked that they are looking for a new partner.  A new friend.  Russia, France and Great Britain are no friends.  Their record of official anti-Semitism for centuries destroys that idea.  Instead the Israelis are sending out feelers towards China.  China needs a source of high technology.  While the Arabs have oil in abundance, they are very low on the Leaders of Technology scale.  And while Israel is very short on oil, it is a Leader in Technology (In robotics it will surpass the United States and Japan by 2015.).  China will be able to buy oil from anyone, but gaining the technological advantage takes more than money.  Takes a willing partner to help them.

It is a shame that the United States under the "leadership" of Barack Hussein Obama has destroyed the friendship between Israel and the United States and may have helped China become a technological giant by forcing a friendship between Israel and China.

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Right Hook To al Jazeera!

By Findalis

This video is from 2009 but it could have been yesterday or today.

Captain Avichai Adra'i  (IDF) is not only impressive in what he says, but in how he says it.  He speaks clearly and forcefully to the Muslim world.  No PC or Diplomatic double speak.  He basically reads the Muslim world the riot act.  On al Jazeera to boot.

H/T Elder of Ziyon

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Why Is THIS Acceptable To The World?

WARNING: THESE PHOTOS ARE EXTREMELY GRAPHIC AND NOT INTENDED FOR CHILDREN.

Why is the MURDER of 5 innocent Jews acceptable to the world and the world will scream bloody murder if an Arab develops a hangnail?

Photos of the murder of the Fogel family in the town of Itamar, north of Jerusalem, on March 11, 2011 by Arab terrorists.

These photos were released by the family. They have given full permission for their use in order to report on the horrific reality of murdering children and babies in their sleep, "simply because they are Jewish."

3-year-old Jewish boy

11-year-old son

Father and 3-month-old baby

3-year-old Jewish boy

This is the true face of terror. This is what the creatures who call themselves Palestinians dance, sing and rejoice in.  This is the true face of Islam.  Forget the lies CAIR, the liberal left and the idiot media tell you. Look carefully on this family. This could be your family.  If Muslims don't get their way, they resort to violence like this.

Please remember the 3 remaining children of the Fogel family who buried their parents and siblings today.  One day part of a happy, loving family, the next day ORPHANED!

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The Most Shelled City In The World

A couple of articles from The Most Shelled City In The World.

1 million Israelis are asking: "Who's next?"

Last night, Wednesday the 23rd of March, was the first time since Operation Cast Lead that an Iranian Grad missile exploded in Be'er Sheba, 40km from Gaza.

Arriving at the scene of the rocket strike Thursday morning, in the Northern neighborhoods of Be'er Sheba, brought me back to the terror scenes in Sderot of the past few years. For several years, rocket attacks were part of my daily routine living and working at the Sderot Media Center. When the Tzeva Adom (Code Red) sounded, I would go to the neighborhoods where the rocket exploded and film the scene. The next day, I would return, documenting the 'the day after, listening to the stories of residents on what occurred to them the day before.


Video: Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center

In Be'er Sheba, I saw the same scenes I'd witnessed in Sderot: shattered car windshields; the shrapnel holes making "windows" on the homes; the radius of damage from where the missile exploded; the 'cover up' of the missile hole; like nothing happened and expecting the people to go back to normal; the holes in the iron doors; the Shabbat candles standing among shattered glasses; pictures of Rabbis hanging untouched on what remained of the walls; frightened and excited residents of the damaged or destroyed homes who just want to share their personal experience with the world; hearing story, counting the amount of times I heard the words; Luck, coincidence, and miracles.

Photo: Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center

Be'er Sheba resident Chen Saban, a Sapir College student in her early twenties whose house was hit, described how she and her family were lucky enough to reach the secured room on time, saying she never expected her home to be hit. She said it was ironic because she goes to Sapir College, which is only a few km away from Gaza. Chen, who is supposed to get married in the next 3 weeks, is no longer certain about her future in Be'er Sheba and how she ill be able to plan her life living there.

Photo: Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center

It was amazing to hear all this because it took me 45 minutes to drive from Sderot to Be'er Sheba, which is 40km from Gaza, with residents having 60 seconds to run for the shelter once the siren goes off. And still the same reaction and comments of the frightened and traumatized people.

Today, the more than 1 million Israelis who live in the range of 40km from Gaza are not feeling as secure as they did yesterday, asking themselves "who is next?"

Yitchak Akli a resident of the Be'er Sheba neighborhood said: "We should learn from

Photo: Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center

the experience of 'cast lead'' that this would happen, they have (missiles) and hiding them, to launch and fire them at the right time, on any target in Be'er Sheba. It's a matter of time. They've learned our capabilities and they've learned us".


Since the last "cease fire" 530 rockets and missiles have been fired towards the South Western, past of Israel.

The Iranian Grad missile exploding in Bair-Sheba is a reminder how that a few months ago the Shin-Bet reported that there's a stack of over 5,000 Iranian missiles in Gaza, all of them having a range of 40 KM.

This is especially troubling because, in November 2009, Hamas test-fired a missile test towards the Mediterranean, reaching 60 KM, which is the distance from Northern Gaza to Tel-Aviv.

In November 2010, the ITIC reported that Hamas has missiles with an 80km range.

Almost everyone in the Western Negev knows not it's not "if'" but "when"' the next missile escalation starts, leading to the next Gaza war.

After living in Sderot for the past 5 years, watching the construction of 5,000 new bomb shelters, you don’t have to be a prophet to understand that the highest authorities in Israel know there has not been a permanent end to the rocket fire. Being realistic, Israel has to be prepared for many more years of conflict on the Gaza border.

Photo: Noam Bedein, Sderot Media Center

While Iran is certainly a threat for Israel, the biggest delegitimization threat for Israel, is with no doubt Gaza. Add to this the uprisings in Egypt and North Africa, bringing to power groups that have already declared they will end the "peace treaty" with Israel.

The harsh response that Israel received from the world media and many governments during and after Cast Lead, after the Flotilla incident, and right up to today is actually a modern-day version of a very old demonization of Jews and Israel. A tremendous effort is being made to delegitimize Israel, with the goal of eliminating the Jewish state. How Israel will deal with this threat?

How should Israel deal with this threat?  Brig.-Gen. (res.) Amatzia Chen believes that the current  policy has failed.

"In all of the previous wars, starting from the 1956 Suez Operation, through the Six Day War and in the Yom Kippur War as well, the IDF took the fight into enemy territory," Chen recalled. "The security concept was that of fighting the war we choose, and seizing the initiative. But since 1982, after that rally in Rabin Square, Rabin and Peres decided, for political reasons, that the strategy needs to be changed and that we should only go to war when there is no choice - i.e., when the sword is on our neck."

Chen said that since that decision was made, Israel has lost its deterrent capability. "Our enemies understood the dramatic change in Israel's security concept as a position of weakness. In any case, they had ceased threatening us with regular armies and turned instead to the weapon of terror. They murdered hundreds of Jews inside Israel, but controlled the bloodletting so as to enable Israel's leaders to maintain the concept that one does not go to war as long as there is a choice."

"Every Israeli citizen knows that the Israel of today is not the Israel of pre-1982."

Chen said that artillery fire on Gaza is not a proper response to the missile attack on Be'er Sheva. "We are a nation that wants to live, and there is no point in fair play when it comes to terrorists. That is not how terror is defeated. The State of Israel is a sovereign state that needs to formulate a proper strategy. Unfortunately, the strategy today is that if you are fired upon you fire back. We are, in effect, signaling to the enemies that they can continue using the same method in the future, too."

There is great anger in Sderot, a city with more bomb shelters than playgrounds.

Speaking from the city of bomb shelters

By Dave Balson

Like everyone else on the planet, I have heard about the "complicated" situation in the Middle East my whole life: promises to fix it, hopeful negotiations that crumble behind closed doors, rockets, wars, treaties, stalemates, etc. Round and round it goes until, exasperated, I figure both sides are unwilling to reach the type of tough-but-straightforward agreements that brought peace to Ireland and South Africa, and I give up. "It's complicated" is a Facebook status, not a diplomatic agreement.

I spent the last two weeks in Israel. The trip was free, as it is to any Jew, through a program called "Taglit Birthright." To any students who come from a Jewish background, I suggest checking it out. It is a free trip to Israel, if nothing else.

Last Wednesday I visited Sderot, a town of about 20,000 people in the western Negev desert, less than a mile away from the Gaza strip.

Sderot has been the target of more than 10,000 rockets fired from Gaza since 2000. Gaza is controlled by the militant Islamic group Hamas. Sderot is the only town in the 21st Century where rockets are being continually fired at a civilian population.

To deal with the rocket attacks, the town has a siren that gives residents a 15-second warning to get into a bomb shelter.

Stop for a moment and consider how far you could get in 15 seconds. Could you get to the nearest bathroom? The nearest car? The nearest stairway?

Sderot is the bomb shelter capitol of the world. Every house has a bomb shelter. Apartment buildings have bomb shelters crawling up their sides. Every bus stop is a bomb shelter and others are spaced in between; there is a bomb shelter about 15 seconds away from most places.

If you are a child in Sderot, you should hope you are in school when the rockets come. Older schools have been retrofitted with huge steel shields on their outer walls and roofs. Newer schools are literally giant bomb shelters, their paltry playgrounds nothing but dust and three safe cubes awaiting the siren's call.

Other parts of town have the type of playgrounds we grew up on: ladder up, slide down, monkey bars and the wall with a clear bubble that never made sense. They have painted a castle a nice shade of purple, and made two long concrete snakes look so vibrant and fun, you could almost forget they, too, are bomb shelters. Between 70 to 95 percent of children in Sderot have Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, according to Haaretz, an Israeli newspaper.

So why are people still living in this god-forsaken place? There are a few reasons. For one, housing is much cheaper there (feel free to guess why). For another, Sderot has one of the most lively and productive music scenes in the Eastern Hemisphere. The town is home to more chart-topping bands than any other in Israel and rivals any in Europe.

But the real reason people stay is because they feel they must. Sderot is internationally recognized as part of Israel. If they leave, if they give up, what happens to the next town? And the next? Rockets from Gaza can hit Israel's economic and cultural centers - Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, respectively.

I saw all this from Israel's side of the border, so I cannot speak with objective moral authority on who is right or wrong, victim or oppressor. I know everyone I talked to in Israel wants peace more than anything, and would give up land if they thought it would achieve it. I also know that people suffer in Gaza and struggle for a homeland in the West Bank.

As a commentator, I am supposed to speak in shoulds and should nots.

No one should have to live like the people of Sderot. That's all I've got.

It's complicated.

Dave Balson is a senior journalism major. He can be reached at 581-7942 or DENopinions@gmail.com

I always allow the people of Sderot to speak for themselves.  This is their story, their struggle, their battle. What is happening in Sderot, Beer-Sheva, Ashkelon, the Negev, is the price for living in Israel.  For Sderot's residents it is the price of living on the frontier.  If they surrender their city, it will only encourage Hamas to conquer the next city, then the one after it.  Until they have conquered the whole nation.

You are not on the frontier, the front line in this battle, but you can help. The small donation that you give to the Sderot Media Center goes to help the people, especially the children of Sderot. Just a bit of your spare change will help.  To donate click here.

Children of Sderot Just Want A Little Peace

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