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	<title>Comments on: MENA: Visas of Fulbright scholars revoked</title>
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		<title>By: Igor Hunan</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-2/#comment-1521393</link>
		<dc:creator>Igor Hunan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 05:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry, Hephzibah,

Islam has a long history of violence in the name of mohammed. Jews have been slaughtered, enslaved and treated like subhumans in most muslim countries. When Modern Israel was re-established in 1948, one million Jews, who had lived as second class residents of arab countries for 1,000+ years were suddenly expelled, killed and/or dispossessed. Thankfully, the great nation of Israel absorbed them.

Right now, there are few---sometimes NO Jews in arab/muslim countries. Those few that remain, live in constant fear of death. Even Christians face similar fates, living among muslims.

Your &quot;lovely&quot; arab brethren saw to it that the fictional &quot;palestinians&quot; (arabs) were kept as pawns in arab/UN refugee camps---where they rot until this day ---as human pit bulls. WHY do your lovely arab brethren refuse to allow these arab &quot;brethren&quot; to be absorbed? Could it be that it is all part of you long term, ill-concealed plan to destroy Israel? (YES!)

The arab muslim has shown NO ability to tolerate any other people or religion. The news is filled with living proof of that. Your &quot;religion&quot; is the most virulently intolerant of any religion on Earth. It is as crude and evil today as it was in the days of its tyrant founder mohammed. In fact, to call islam a &quot;religion&quot; is a stretch. It bears NO similarity, in terms of tolerance, to any other modern religion. 

You have 22 other nations in the Middle East...all muslim. In most of these nations NO JEWS ARE ALLOWED. In some, a Jew venturing into the nation will be killed. Even &quot;liberal&quot; nations such as Jordan allow NO JEWS to be citizens. Even &quot;friendly&quot; Egypt&#039;s official media regularly spout hate stories aimed at Jews (e.g. Protocols of the Elders of Zion). A few secular muslim nations (e.g. Turkey and Morocco have shown some promise---but the usual radical muslims threaten the survival of these few &quot;progressive&quot; nations. In Europe, muslim violence is widespread. Many in Europe have called for the mass expulsion of all muslims.

It should come as no surprise to you that I and many other religious Jews seek the full expulsion of all muslims from Israel. Some minor exceptions should be made for muslim groups with a long history of goodwill toward Israel (i.e. most Bedouins and Druze). Other compatible religions---such as Christian, Bahaii, Hindu, etc. should remain an integral part of Israel.

There have been too many events of muslim violence, terror and criminality to allow muslims to continmue in Israel. As in the past, Israel will allow unfettered access to muslim holy sites (more than muslims have allowed to Jews---in spite of many written agreements (e.g. Rachel&#039;s Tomb, Joseph&#039;s Tomb, Tombs of the Patriarchs (where muslims constantly deface and urinate on Torahs).

We have given muslims too many opportunities to be part of Israel---more than  you ever gave us---or have deserved. With the removal of Olmert, and the wisdom of the Holy One, the days of muslims in Israel are numbered.

The full expulsion might occur on its own, or more likely during an attack by muslims, either from within, or from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc.

An attack on Gaza, in part to free the kidnapped Jews, AND to blast away the tunnels and fortifications built by Hamas and Iran will soon occur. Gaza will soon have its Israeli water and electric supplies cut. Gaza may even be burned to ashes (ala Sodom and Gomorrah)

Be assured that islam must and will be removed forever from  Israel. Islam has more than earned that fate.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry, Hephzibah,</p>
<p>Islam has a long history of violence in the name of mohammed. Jews have been slaughtered, enslaved and treated like subhumans in most muslim countries. When Modern Israel was re-established in 1948, one million Jews, who had lived as second class residents of arab countries for 1,000+ years were suddenly expelled, killed and/or dispossessed. Thankfully, the great nation of Israel absorbed them.</p>
<p>Right now, there are few&#8212;sometimes NO Jews in arab/muslim countries. Those few that remain, live in constant fear of death. Even Christians face similar fates, living among muslims.</p>
<p>Your &#8220;lovely&#8221; arab brethren saw to it that the fictional &#8220;palestinians&#8221; (arabs) were kept as pawns in arab/UN refugee camps&#8212;where they rot until this day &#8212;as human pit bulls. WHY do your lovely arab brethren refuse to allow these arab &#8220;brethren&#8221; to be absorbed? Could it be that it is all part of you long term, ill-concealed plan to destroy Israel? (YES!)</p>
<p>The arab muslim has shown NO ability to tolerate any other people or religion. The news is filled with living proof of that. Your &#8220;religion&#8221; is the most virulently intolerant of any religion on Earth. It is as crude and evil today as it was in the days of its tyrant founder mohammed. In fact, to call islam a &#8220;religion&#8221; is a stretch. It bears NO similarity, in terms of tolerance, to any other modern religion. </p>
<p>You have 22 other nations in the Middle East&#8230;all muslim. In most of these nations NO JEWS ARE ALLOWED. In some, a Jew venturing into the nation will be killed. Even &#8220;liberal&#8221; nations such as Jordan allow NO JEWS to be citizens. Even &#8220;friendly&#8221; Egypt&#8217;s official media regularly spout hate stories aimed at Jews (e.g. Protocols of the Elders of Zion). A few secular muslim nations (e.g. Turkey and Morocco have shown some promise&#8212;but the usual radical muslims threaten the survival of these few &#8220;progressive&#8221; nations. In Europe, muslim violence is widespread. Many in Europe have called for the mass expulsion of all muslims.</p>
<p>It should come as no surprise to you that I and many other religious Jews seek the full expulsion of all muslims from Israel. Some minor exceptions should be made for muslim groups with a long history of goodwill toward Israel (i.e. most Bedouins and Druze). Other compatible religions&#8212;such as Christian, Bahaii, Hindu, etc. should remain an integral part of Israel.</p>
<p>There have been too many events of muslim violence, terror and criminality to allow muslims to continmue in Israel. As in the past, Israel will allow unfettered access to muslim holy sites (more than muslims have allowed to Jews&#8212;in spite of many written agreements (e.g. Rachel&#8217;s Tomb, Joseph&#8217;s Tomb, Tombs of the Patriarchs (where muslims constantly deface and urinate on Torahs).</p>
<p>We have given muslims too many opportunities to be part of Israel&#8212;more than  you ever gave us&#8212;or have deserved. With the removal of Olmert, and the wisdom of the Holy One, the days of muslims in Israel are numbered.</p>
<p>The full expulsion might occur on its own, or more likely during an attack by muslims, either from within, or from Lebanon, Syria, Iran, etc.</p>
<p>An attack on Gaza, in part to free the kidnapped Jews, AND to blast away the tunnels and fortifications built by Hamas and Iran will soon occur. Gaza will soon have its Israeli water and electric supplies cut. Gaza may even be burned to ashes (ala Sodom and Gomorrah)</p>
<p>Be assured that islam must and will be removed forever from  Israel. Islam has more than earned that fate.</p>
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		<title>By: Wynne Guglielmo</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1520968</link>
		<dc:creator>Wynne Guglielmo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is to Ron Hugar: Is that you Ron? From West Chester University and Reading, PA? Call me...I&#039;m in Ellsworth ME</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is to Ron Hugar: Is that you Ron? From West Chester University and Reading, PA? Call me&#8230;I&#8217;m in Ellsworth ME</p>
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		<title>By: Hephzibah</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1516000</link>
		<dc:creator>Hephzibah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:13:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for bringing MENA and Ahmed to my attention. Islam is no more KAPUT than Judaism.  Islam is a good kind religion.  Does not Islam mean &quot;surrender.&quot; Read the Torah, how many times did the people of Israel fall short, miss the mark.  And Ishmael, you mean Abraham&#039;s other son, sounds familial to me.  Maybe if we drew some Arab and Hebrew blood we would find some common alleles. The children are hurt.  The governments of the world are manipulating all of these things to their advantage.  Did not the Ottomons love Jerusalem?  Did they not live in relative peace Hebrew and Arab together in the LAND OF PALESTINE.  If you look hard you can find palestinian jews.  Jews who have lived in palestine for I know not how long.  Who will take up the plight of these children?
No big shot attorneys, ACLU, anyone.  We are breeding hurt, which breeds anger and anger must go some where.
The US is no great land for those who have no where to lay. Under the patriot act we can be yanked up anytime.

I am an immigrant&#039;s child. My parents&#039; were not treated as equal anglo americans. We were dirty guineas, wops, and jews.  Yes, people, i have hebrew blood coursing through my veins.  No family is left in Europe.  My parents&#039; were poor and faithful. They taught us the only way to get out of our situation was with an education.  Should I capitalize that?  And me, I married an anglo, who raped, violated my entire family.  Very connected and we became refugees. I know what a broken heart and dreams down the drain feel like; not for myself but when I see my children.  I tell them too, We are poor in material wealth and power, but our poverty will be your ticket to an education. We must speak for those who cannot for whatever reasons.  I lost my voice for six years and no one would speak for me.  Who will be these childrens&#039; voice?

It is more important than the stockmarket, 9/11 which we
will never have all the facts on, or anything else that these kids receive what they worked so hard for.  Hope is precious thing.  Thank you for listening.

Hephzibah  
Please let us remembeer there is but one God/Allah and we must put nothing before Him.  Love Him with our heart,
strength and might.  Allah lives in my neighbor&#039;s eyes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for bringing MENA and Ahmed to my attention. Islam is no more KAPUT than Judaism.  Islam is a good kind religion.  Does not Islam mean &#8220;surrender.&#8221; Read the Torah, how many times did the people of Israel fall short, miss the mark.  And Ishmael, you mean Abraham&#8217;s other son, sounds familial to me.  Maybe if we drew some Arab and Hebrew blood we would find some common alleles. The children are hurt.  The governments of the world are manipulating all of these things to their advantage.  Did not the Ottomons love Jerusalem?  Did they not live in relative peace Hebrew and Arab together in the LAND OF PALESTINE.  If you look hard you can find palestinian jews.  Jews who have lived in palestine for I know not how long.  Who will take up the plight of these children?<br />
No big shot attorneys, ACLU, anyone.  We are breeding hurt, which breeds anger and anger must go some where.<br />
The US is no great land for those who have no where to lay. Under the patriot act we can be yanked up anytime.</p>
<p>I am an immigrant&#8217;s child. My parents&#8217; were not treated as equal anglo americans. We were dirty guineas, wops, and jews.  Yes, people, i have hebrew blood coursing through my veins.  No family is left in Europe.  My parents&#8217; were poor and faithful. They taught us the only way to get out of our situation was with an education.  Should I capitalize that?  And me, I married an anglo, who raped, violated my entire family.  Very connected and we became refugees. I know what a broken heart and dreams down the drain feel like; not for myself but when I see my children.  I tell them too, We are poor in material wealth and power, but our poverty will be your ticket to an education. We must speak for those who cannot for whatever reasons.  I lost my voice for six years and no one would speak for me.  Who will be these childrens&#8217; voice?</p>
<p>It is more important than the stockmarket, 9/11 which we<br />
will never have all the facts on, or anything else that these kids receive what they worked so hard for.  Hope is precious thing.  Thank you for listening.</p>
<p>Hephzibah<br />
Please let us remembeer there is but one God/Allah and we must put nothing before Him.  Love Him with our heart,<br />
strength and might.  Allah lives in my neighbor&#8217;s eyes.</p>
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		<title>By: Igor Hunan</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1515924</link>
		<dc:creator>Igor Hunan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:46:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry to disappoint the enemies of Israel, and teh Jews, BUT the &quot;Palestinian&quot; (meaning palestinian arab) was a creation of the PLO with assistance by USSR and North Vietnam. The enemy arabs knew that they could NOT defeat the Jews by normal military means....so with huge falsehoods, lying campaigns, and terrorism (coupled with the natural liberalism of the modern Jew) they sought to destroy Israel by other means.

Israel as THE JEWISH HOMELAND has existed for 3,000+ years. The MAJOR reason why muslims seek to destroy Israel, and kill or make &quot;dhimmis&quot; the Jews, is the ABSOLUTE inability of islam to be tolerant of any other faith or people.

One day, soon, the Jewish people will expel every muslim from ALL of Israel, by whatever means----just teh same way that Jews are BARRED for living in, and often even VISITING muslim lands.

Certainly the muslims should accept that result. They have minimal historic connection with Israel or Jerusalem. It is not even mentioned ONE TIME in the Koran. The land and Jerusalem is mentione THOUSANDS of times in the Holy Torah. Muslims have &quot;earned&quot; their expulsion. Let them commit mayhem and murder somewhere else. Islam Kaput!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry to disappoint the enemies of Israel, and teh Jews, BUT the &#8220;Palestinian&#8221; (meaning palestinian arab) was a creation of the PLO with assistance by USSR and North Vietnam. The enemy arabs knew that they could NOT defeat the Jews by normal military means&#8230;.so with huge falsehoods, lying campaigns, and terrorism (coupled with the natural liberalism of the modern Jew) they sought to destroy Israel by other means.</p>
<p>Israel as THE JEWISH HOMELAND has existed for 3,000+ years. The MAJOR reason why muslims seek to destroy Israel, and kill or make &#8220;dhimmis&#8221; the Jews, is the ABSOLUTE inability of islam to be tolerant of any other faith or people.</p>
<p>One day, soon, the Jewish people will expel every muslim from ALL of Israel, by whatever means&#8212;-just teh same way that Jews are BARRED for living in, and often even VISITING muslim lands.</p>
<p>Certainly the muslims should accept that result. They have minimal historic connection with Israel or Jerusalem. It is not even mentioned ONE TIME in the Koran. The land and Jerusalem is mentione THOUSANDS of times in the Holy Torah. Muslims have &#8220;earned&#8221; their expulsion. Let them commit mayhem and murder somewhere else. Islam Kaput!</p>
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		<title>By: Hephzibah</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1511922</link>
		<dc:creator>Hephzibah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 06:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Please, do not say there is no Palestine.  Stop this insanity and save our people.  Haifa, Gaza  our beloved land ripped apart.  Jews and Muslims lived in this land forever.  Sure there were always outbreaks and disputes. I see this as some sort of cray Imperilistic idea foreign to middle eastern ways.  How many jewish girls have fallen in love with an arab man? or vice versa. It breaks my heart; our children suffer and victims become predators.  Not my Ahmed.  We will save All of the Ahmeds</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Please, do not say there is no Palestine.  Stop this insanity and save our people.  Haifa, Gaza  our beloved land ripped apart.  Jews and Muslims lived in this land forever.  Sure there were always outbreaks and disputes. I see this as some sort of cray Imperilistic idea foreign to middle eastern ways.  How many jewish girls have fallen in love with an arab man? or vice versa. It breaks my heart; our children suffer and victims become predators.  Not my Ahmed.  We will save All of the Ahmeds</p>
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		<title>By: Global Voices Online &#187; MENA: Refused Gaza Fulbright students speak</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1505266</link>
		<dc:creator>Global Voices Online &#187; MENA: Refused Gaza Fulbright students speak</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 17:11:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the Gaza Strip who were due to go to the United States on Fulbright scholarships had their visas revoked at the last moment. Two of the students who were denied the chance to pursue their studies have [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] the Gaza Strip who were due to go to the United States on Fulbright scholarships had their visas revoked at the last moment. Two of the students who were denied the chance to pursue their studies have [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Ronald Hugar</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1502425</link>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Hugar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Aug 2008 15:23:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>What idiocy! In fact, 65 years ago Isreal did not exist as a sovereign nation except as a literary fiction.  The willful rewriting of history to justify some hormone driven idea of destiny is but one of the tools of the curse of bigotry.  

The world is being destroyed by a cancer called Middle Eastern bigotry.  Millions of decent humans, whether Arabs, Jews, Americans, Russians, whatever nationality an individual is born into by chance, are losing their lives to this ideological disease, the cure of which seems to be nothing short of species suicide.  The longer I live the more acceptable such a solution seems.

May God have mercy on the twisted souls who believe physical, spiritual, emotional or mental death is the way to resolve human conflict. May God have mercy on those of us who have to live with the consequences of such thinking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>What idiocy! In fact, 65 years ago Isreal did not exist as a sovereign nation except as a literary fiction.  The willful rewriting of history to justify some hormone driven idea of destiny is but one of the tools of the curse of bigotry.  </p>
<p>The world is being destroyed by a cancer called Middle Eastern bigotry.  Millions of decent humans, whether Arabs, Jews, Americans, Russians, whatever nationality an individual is born into by chance, are losing their lives to this ideological disease, the cure of which seems to be nothing short of species suicide.  The longer I live the more acceptable such a solution seems.</p>
<p>May God have mercy on the twisted souls who believe physical, spiritual, emotional or mental death is the way to resolve human conflict. May God have mercy on those of us who have to live with the consequences of such thinking.</p>
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		<title>By: Igor Hunan</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1502011</link>
		<dc:creator>Igor Hunan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 21:48:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>THANK YOU JOSEPH FARAH!!

There TRULY is no such thing as a &quot;Palestinain People.&quot; This was all concocted by the communist Arafat and the leaders of USSR and North Vietnam. The Arabs can never beat the Jews on the battle fields. The Jews have the Almighty One behind them. The descendants of Ishmael wil never win. YET, the same people wish to defeat Israel, the same way that the North Vietnamese defeated the USA---in spite of the USA killing teh North militarily.

If these &quot;brilliant Arab&quot; students want to go to college, let them go to college in a Muslim country. They are from an enemy &quot;nation.&quot; A nation which seeks to destroy Jews and Christians.

I say &quot;GREAT JOB&quot; as to keeping these rotten Terrorists in Training out of the USA. Let them all stay away.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>THANK YOU JOSEPH FARAH!!</p>
<p>There TRULY is no such thing as a &#8220;Palestinain People.&#8221; This was all concocted by the communist Arafat and the leaders of USSR and North Vietnam. The Arabs can never beat the Jews on the battle fields. The Jews have the Almighty One behind them. The descendants of Ishmael wil never win. YET, the same people wish to defeat Israel, the same way that the North Vietnamese defeated the USA&#8212;in spite of the USA killing teh North militarily.</p>
<p>If these &#8220;brilliant Arab&#8221; students want to go to college, let them go to college in a Muslim country. They are from an enemy &#8220;nation.&#8221; A nation which seeks to destroy Jews and Christians.</p>
<p>I say &#8220;GREAT JOB&#8221; as to keeping these rotten Terrorists in Training out of the USA. Let them all stay away.</p>
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		<title>By: Joseph Farah</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1500491</link>
		<dc:creator>Joseph Farah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 07:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Palestinian people do not exist


A provocative headline? It&#039;s more than that. It&#039;s the truth.

Truth does not change. Truth is truth. If something was true 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, it is still true today.

And the truth is that only 30 years ago, there was very little confusion on this issue of Palestine.

You might remember the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir making the bold political statement: &quot;There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.&quot;

The statement has been a source of ridicule and derision by Arab propagandists ever since. They love to talk about Golda Meir&#039;s &quot;racism.&quot; They love to suggest she was in historical denial. They love to say her statement is patently false – an intentional lie, a strategic deception.

What they don&#039;t like to talk about, however, are the very similar statements made by Yasser Arafat and his inner circle of political leadership years after Meir had told the truth – that there is no distinct Palestinian cultural or national identity.

So, despite the fact that conventional wisdom has now proclaimed that there is such a thing as the Palestinian people, I&#039;m going to raise those uncomfortable quotations made by Arafat and his henchmen when their public-relations guard was down.

Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here&#039;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 &quot;Palestinian people&quot; 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.

That&#039;s pretty clear, isn&#039;t it? It&#039;s even more specific than Golda Meir&#039;s statement. It reaffirms what I have written on this subject. And it is hardly the only such statement of its kind. Arafat himself made a very definitive and unequivocal statement along these lines as late as 1993. It demonstrates conclusively that the Palestinian nationhood argument is the real strategic deception – one geared to set up the destruction of Israel.

In fact, on the same day Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn in 1993, he explained his actions on Jordan TV. Here&#039;s what he said: &quot;Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.&quot;

No matter how many people convince themselves that the aspirations for Palestinian statehood are genuine and the key to peace in the Middle East, they are still deceiving themselves.

I&#039;ve said it before and I will say it again, in the history of the world, Palestine has never existed as a nation. The region known as Palestine was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their ancestral homeland. It was never ruled by Arabs as a separate nation.

Why now has it become such a critical priority?

The answer is because of a massive deception campaign and relentless terrorism over 40 years.

Golda Meir was right. Her statement is validated by the truth of history and by the candid, but not widely circulated, pronouncements of Arafat and his lieutenants.

Israel and the West must not surrender to terrorism by granting the killers just what they want – a public relations triumph and a strategic victory. It&#039;s not too late to say no to terrorism. It&#039;s not too late to say no to another Arab terror state. It&#039;s not too late to tell the truth about Palestine.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Palestinian people do not exist</p>
<p>A provocative headline? It&#8217;s more than that. It&#8217;s the truth.</p>
<p>Truth does not change. Truth is truth. If something was true 50 years ago, 40 years ago, 30 years ago, it is still true today.</p>
<p>And the truth is that only 30 years ago, there was very little confusion on this issue of Palestine.</p>
<p>You might remember the late Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir making the bold political statement: &#8220;There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.&#8221;</p>
<p>The statement has been a source of ridicule and derision by Arab propagandists ever since. They love to talk about Golda Meir&#8217;s &#8220;racism.&#8221; They love to suggest she was in historical denial. They love to say her statement is patently false – an intentional lie, a strategic deception.</p>
<p>What they don&#8217;t like to talk about, however, are the very similar statements made by Yasser Arafat and his inner circle of political leadership years after Meir had told the truth – that there is no distinct Palestinian cultural or national identity.</p>
<p>So, despite the fact that conventional wisdom has now proclaimed that there is such a thing as the Palestinian people, I&#8217;m going to raise those uncomfortable quotations made by Arafat and his henchmen when their public-relations guard was down.</p>
<p>Way back on March 31, 1977, the Dutch newspaper Trouw published an interview with Palestine Liberation Organization executive committee member Zahir Muhsein. Here&#8217;s what he said:</p>
<p>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 &#8220;Palestinian people&#8221; to oppose Zionism.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>That&#8217;s pretty clear, isn&#8217;t it? It&#8217;s even more specific than Golda Meir&#8217;s statement. It reaffirms what I have written on this subject. And it is hardly the only such statement of its kind. Arafat himself made a very definitive and unequivocal statement along these lines as late as 1993. It demonstrates conclusively that the Palestinian nationhood argument is the real strategic deception – one geared to set up the destruction of Israel.</p>
<p>In fact, on the same day Arafat signed the Declaration of Principles on the White House lawn in 1993, he explained his actions on Jordan TV. Here&#8217;s what he said: &#8220;Since we cannot defeat Israel in war, we do this in stages. We take any and every territory that we can of Palestine, and establish a sovereignty there, and we use it as a springboard to take more. When the time comes, we can get the Arab nations to join us for the final blow against Israel.&#8221;</p>
<p>No matter how many people convince themselves that the aspirations for Palestinian statehood are genuine and the key to peace in the Middle East, they are still deceiving themselves.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve said it before and I will say it again, in the history of the world, Palestine has never existed as a nation. The region known as Palestine was ruled alternately by Rome, by Islamic and Christian crusaders, by the Ottoman Empire and, briefly, by the British after World War I. The British agreed to restore at least part of the land to the Jewish people as their ancestral homeland. It was never ruled by Arabs as a separate nation.</p>
<p>Why now has it become such a critical priority?</p>
<p>The answer is because of a massive deception campaign and relentless terrorism over 40 years.</p>
<p>Golda Meir was right. Her statement is validated by the truth of history and by the candid, but not widely circulated, pronouncements of Arafat and his lieutenants.</p>
<p>Israel and the West must not surrender to terrorism by granting the killers just what they want – a public relations triumph and a strategic victory. It&#8217;s not too late to say no to terrorism. It&#8217;s not too late to say no to another Arab terror state. It&#8217;s not too late to tell the truth about Palestine.</p>
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		<title>By: Samer Al-Nimr</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1498997</link>
		<dc:creator>Samer Al-Nimr</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 11:49:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Damned if you do and damned if you don&#039;t. This case explains how Palestinians suffer every day in all matters and shows the hypocricy of the US adminstration. Whatever happened to the US of yesteryear who represented the inscription on the Statue of Liberty states: &quot;Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free...(except if they are Palestinian)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Damned if you do and damned if you don&#8217;t. This case explains how Palestinians suffer every day in all matters and shows the hypocricy of the US adminstration. Whatever happened to the US of yesteryear who represented the inscription on the Statue of Liberty states: &#8220;Give me your tired, your poor,<br />
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free&#8230;(except if they are Palestinian)</p>
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		<title>By: Ronald Hugar</title>
		<link>http://globalvoicesonline.org/2008/08/09/mena-visas-of-fulbright-scholars-revoked/comment-page-1/#comment-1498499</link>
		<dc:creator>Ronald Hugar</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Such insanity can only end badly.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Such insanity can only end badly.</p>
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