TagsTagsI’m no longer surprised by stories like this; just wearily disgusted that the United States can’t seem to stop cleaning up the Palestinians’ messes for them: U.S. to pay $48 million to cover damages to Gaza power station. Meanwhile, Palestinians demonstrate how much they value our financial support: UPDATE at 7/1/06 3:32:44 ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Gaza, Hamas, Islamic Jihad
Reuters shills for Palestinian hostage-takers, in a deliberate refusal to use the word “kidnapped:” Captured Israeli soldier alive: Palestinian official. RAMALLAH, West Bank (Reuters) - An Israeli soldier captured by Palestinian militants a week ago is alive and in a stable condition after being treated for wounds, a Palestinian official said ...
The Arab Street is raging. CAIRO, Egypt - Several thousand protesters at one of Cairo’s main mosques called Friday for holy war against Israel to help the Palestinians in their conflict with the Jewish state. More than 3,000 people packed Al-Azhar Mosque, the most prominent institution in the Sunni Arab world, for ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Gaza, Hamas, Arab Street
Hamas is demanding the release of all women and children imprisoned in Israel, as ransom for their hostage Corporal Gilad Shalit. As we demonstrated Wednesday, Western media is obviously sympathetic to this demand—in the case of the BBC, so sympathetic that they will even conceal important information about Palestinian prisoners. But ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Gaza, Hamas, MSM, Media Bias
Palestinian Prime Minister and Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh speaks during Friday prayers at a mosque in Gaza city, Gaza Strip June 30, 2006. (Oleg Popov/Reuters)
Palestinians, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Gaza, Hamas, MSM, Media Bias
The Toronto Sun stands up: EDITORIAL: It’s time to stand with Israel. (Hat tip: Moe Katz.) The Toronto conference of the United Church yesterday joined the Ontario division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees in calling for economic sanctions against Israel and a boycott of the Jewish state to protest ...
Palestinians, Terrorism, Kidnapping, Gaza, Hamas, OIC, Israel, Toronto Sun
The Organization of the Islamic Conference is seething and raging over Israel’s Gaza operation, according to the Khaleej Times: OIC says Israeli arrests are crime. (Hat tip: Barry.) I’ll summarize for you: Blah. Blah. War crimes. Occupation. Blah, blah. International law. Blah blah blah. And they conclude their article (attributed to ...
The kidnappers of Corporal Gilad Shalit are taunting Israel. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militants involved in the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier taunted the Jewish state on Thursday by saying the conscript could be dead or alive. Abu Mujahed, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC), said in a statement that Israel ...
IDF arrests over 60 Hamas officials. In an unprecedented operation, the IDF arrested overnight Wednesday over 60 senior Hamas members throughout the West Bank, including ministers in the Palestinian Authority parliament. Detainees included such senior figures as Finance Minister Omar Abdel Azek, Labor Minister Mohammed Barghouti, and parliament member Mohammed Abu ...
IDF confirms PRC report of Eliyahu Asheri’s death. The IDF confirmed early Thursday a report the Popular Resistance Committees issued from Gaza that it had executed Eliyahu Asheri, 18, of Itamar, who was kidnapped earlier this week in the West Bank. IDF combat engineers and Shin Bet agents, acting on intelligence, found ...
“Gunmen” from Mahmoud Abbas’ “loosely linked armed wing,” the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, claim that they fired a rocket into Israel tipped with a chemical warhead. GAZA (Reuters) - A spokesman for gunmen in the Gaza Strip said they had fired a rocket tipped with a chemical warhead at Israel early ...
By the way, I’d like to make something clear. When I title a post, “Palestinians Claim Hostage Murdered,” I mean it exactly that way. It’s not a “group” of “militants,” “loosely linked” to Hamas. It’s the Palestinian people. If they want to be a state, that means taking responsibility for ...
Israel bombs Islamic University in Gaza: witnesses. GAZA (Reuters) - An Israeli warplane fired a missile on Thursday at the pro-Hamas Islamic University in Gaza City, setting off a huge explosion, witnesses said. An Israeli army spokesman said the planes had targeted an open area in Gaza City. Witnesses said the missile ...
Palestinian group says Israeli executed. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian militant group said early Thursday it executed an 18-year-old Israeli settler kidnapped earlier in the West Bank. The statement from the Popular Resistance Committees in Gaza said the settler, Eliahu Asheri, had been executed. The group, which has links to ...
Report: Another kidnapping of Israeli. Palestinian sources claimed that there had been another kidnapping of an Israeli on Wednesday, Channel 2 reported in its 6 pm news broadcast. IDF jeeps surround building in Ramallah. About 30 IDF jeeps surrounded a building in Ramallah on Wednesday. It was not immediately clear why the jeeps ...
The Associated Press isn’t the only wire service that’s way too cozy with terrorists plotting murder. Here’s al-Reuters photographer Ahmed Jadallah, taking pictures while terrorists pose with a large bomb. Palestinian militants from the military wing of Hamas set up an explosive device in preparation for a possible Israeli army ground ...
Palestinians threaten to kill kidnap victim. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian militant group on Wednesday threatened to kill an abducted Jewish settler if Israel doesn’t stop its raid on the Gaza Strip. The Popular Resistance Committees, which has claimed responsibility for abducting both the settler and an Israeli army corporal, ...
Israeli planes attack bridge in Gaza. Vital Perspective will be live-blogging, and Carl in Jerusalem also has lots of coverage.
It looks like the Palestinians have decided they’re ready for large scale conflict: Talks on recovering Israeli hostage fail: TV. (Hat tip: Ariel.) JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Egyptian- and French-led efforts to negotiate for the release of an Israeli soldier abducted by Palestinian gunmen in the Gaza Strip have failed, Israeli television ...
Hamas tells the truth about the “prisoner’s document,” but mainstream media refuse to listen. GAZA (Reuters) - The governing Hamas movement reached a political agreement on Tuesday with moderate [Hah! —ed.] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas but said it would continue to refuse to recognize Israel. ... Hamas insisted it was sticking to ...
The media has a new scapegoat on which to pin Palestinian atrocities: the so-called “Popular Resistance Committees,” a thinly disguised Hamas front group that is claiming to have kidnapped another Israeli in the West Bank: Israeli soldier held in a ‘secure place’. GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip - A Palestinian militant leader ...
Palestinians turn their children out onto the streets to support murder and kidnapping: Supporters of the Islamic Hamas movement and relatives of Palestinian prisoners being held in Israeli jails hold up a banner that reads, “We refuse to release the Israeli soldier while our sons are still in the Israeli Prisons” ...
The Palestinian terrorist government that kidnapped a wounded Israeli soldier has issued their demands: Palestinian militants issue demands over hostage. GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinian militant groups that carried out an attack in Israel in which a soldier was abducted issued a series of demands on Monday but stopped short of confirming ...
Palestinian terrorists attacked an IDF post inside Israel near the southern Gaza Strip early this morning, killing two soldiers and kidnapping a third who is seriously injured: Halutz: Abducted soldier alive. IDF chief of staff Lieutenant-General Dan Halutz said during a press conference at Kibbutz Kerem Shalom that “as far as ...