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قطاع غزة‎ Video clip has been around a bit, but may have been lost in the shuffle and news cycle(s) during the Democratic primaries. Now that this issue is heating up, it is appropriate for Free Republic.Here it is again.Unfreakingbelievable.Link to VIDEO.

The Republican National Committee wants the Federal Election Commission to investigate the source of thousands of small contributions to the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, a committee lawyer said yesterday. The RNC's chief counsel, Sean Cairncross, said that there is mounting evidence that the Obama campaign was so hungry for donations it "looked the other way" as contributions piled up from suspicious donors, and possibly even from overseas, which would be illegal. "We believe that the American people should know first and foremost if foreign money is pouring into a presidential election," Cairncross said. He pointed to a report...

That’s right—not only did Biden confuse the West Bank and Gaza, he blatantly lied when he said that Barack Obama did not support the Palestinian elections that put Hamas in control of Gaza. During His 2006 Trip To The Middle East, Obama Met With Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas And Said The Election Represented An “Opportunity...To Consolidate Behind A Single Government.” “Illinois Senator Barack Obama’s journey to the Middle East took him to the West Bank Thursday for a meeting with the man elected to replace Yasser Arafat. ... For a time Thursday in the West Bank there was only...

How The West Was Won The rapid and unexpected decline of the Sunni insurgency in Iraq was officially recognized this week, when Maj. Gen. John Kelly, commanding the Marine Expeditionary Force, turned operational control of Anbar Province over to the Iraqi army and police. Anbar, a vast expanse of desert the size of North Carolina, had been the stronghold of the Sunni insurgency. For years, foreign fighters loyal to al-Qaida had sneaked across Iraq's northwestern border with Syria, into Anbar and down a "rat line" of safe houses in Haditha, Ramadi and Hit. From Fallujah, the arch terrorist Zarqawi...

For the past seven months, a group of students and young professionals has gathered nightly to phone U.S. voters and urge them to support Barack Obama in the presidential elections. This would not be at all unusual were it not for the fact that the callers are Palestinians living in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip. The callers are volunteers who meet in a local Internet café or a room at a youth center equipped with computers they use to make their calls. The group was organized by Ibrahim Abu Jayyeb, a 23-year-old university student, who told The Media Line he is...

British left-wing activist Lauren Booth remains stuck in Strip after journey to 'break' Israeli naval blockade, equates situation to Holocaust, Darfur Unlike her brother-in-law, Quartet envoy to the Middle East Tony Blair, who frequently travels from Israel to the Palestinian territories and back, Lauren Booth has found herself stuck in the Gaza Strip. The British left-wing activist arrived in the Hamas-controlled coastal enclave as part of the dozens of 'Free Gaza' activists who set out on two boats from Cyprus last month with the intent of "breaking" the Israeli naval blockade imposed on the Strip. Booth is one of the...

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said on Sunday that the government must start preparing now for the evacuation of settlers from the West Bank. "Since it is possible we will need to make decisions in the future that will involve the evacuation of residents, we should already prepare for this now and think about its consequences, especially while serious [peace] negotiations are being held," said Olmert. The prime minister made the comments at the beginning of a debate on Vice Premier Haim Ramon's evacuation-compensation bill at the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem. The bill would enable settlers who live beyond the...

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Caroline Glick: Israel's Enemies Calling Israel's bluff Our World: Calling Israel's bluff Caroline Glick , THE JERUSALEM POST Sep. 1, 2008 www.jpost.com /servlet/Satellite?cid=1220186502793&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull Hamas and its international collaborators have a new plan. To forcibly end Israel's embargo of Gaza's seacoast, they intend to operate a "ferry" service that will sail from Cyprus to Gaza every couple of weeks. The plan was announced on Friday by American Hamas collaborator Paul Larudee. Larudee and 32 other Hamas collaborators from North America and Europe disguised themselves as "peace activists" last week as they ran the gauntlet of Israel's naval...

Israel's extraordinary help for the Arab "Palestinians" should overshadow any consequences in it's war on terror stemming out of "Palestinian" initiated violence      Let alone current contributions and aid, even in the years that the "Palestinians" love to refer to as "occupation", just How "bad" was it really for them?   1967 - 1993   * Economic prosperity, Israeli investment in "Palestinian" business, industry and infrastructure helped the PA GNP grow 13% annually between 1967 and 1980, per capita income grew tenfold, unemployment dropped from 40% to below 5%.   * Standard of living soared, Health gains: Israel built 166...

The Iran-backed Lebanese terror group, Hizballah, has contracted to partner Hamas’ ongoing crash program using the month-old ceasefire with Israel to intensify combat training and arms procurement in preparation for war. DEBKAfile’s military sources report exclusively that the two groups have signed a secret deal to establish a joint “situation room” under the direction of Hizballah’s Unit 1800 to operate from twin command centers in Beirut and Gaza City

(IsraelNN.com) "I am learning how to fight the Jews and kill Jewish children," said 11-year-old Muhammad. "I am learning how to fight the Jews and kill Jewish children," said 11-year-old Muhammad, one of dozens of children who have undergone terrorist training in the last few days in Gaza. “The parents of the Jewish children are the soldiers and officers who kill us here. I want these parents to get a taste of what it's like to have your children killed, just as the Palestinians experience every day,” said the boy. He and his young terrorist associates have undergone live firearms...

On July 31, Atlas broke the explosive bombshell that Obama was receiving big foreign donations andin particular, from the Hamas controlled Rafah refugee camps in Gaza. Jihad money to the tune of 33,000. Despite big media’s reluctance to publish anything negative about Obama no matter how important and damning, a couple of publications and talk radio hosts picked up on the story– and Obama responded. Obama and co. claimed the money was returned. Chalk this up to another Obama lie - the money was never returned. Cathy has been combing through the latest filing and reviewing all past documents. Nothing....

Click HERE to play video. TRANSCRIPT: August 19, 2008 Clip No. 1840 Women in Gaza Prepare to Become Suicide Bombers Following are excerpts from a TV report on female Palestinian suicide bombers, which aired on Al-Jadid/New TV on August 19, 2008. Reporter: This elderly Palestinian woman, called Fatima Al-Najjar, used to lead women’s demonstrations at the entrance to the town of Beit Hanoun in the winter of 2006, calling upon the occupation to leave her town and stop the killing and destruction. But despite her advanced age, she decided to take a different path. Fatima Al-Najjar: I sacrifice myself for...

On July 31, Atlas broke the explosive bombshell that Obama was receiving big foreign donations andin particular, from the Hamas controlled Rafah refugee camps in Gaza. Jihad money to the tune of 33,000. Despite big media's reluctance to publish anything negative about Obama no matter how important and damning, a couple of publications and talk radio hosts picked up on the story-- and Obama responded. Obama and co. claimed the money was returned. Chalk this up to another Obama lie - the money was never returned. Cathy has been combing through the latest filing and reviewing all past documents. Nothing....

Pressure Intensifies for Gaza Christians - Christian World News ...Aug 1, 2008 ... Islamic extremists are continuing efforts to eradicate Christians and their institutions.

Pallywood was always good in 'language', from their frequent use of "freedom" to 'resistance", while the siege on little Israel by its racist Arab neighbors goes on already for over 60 years, and recently Sderot under siege from Gaza - Hamastan's missiles (Shall we call the missiles upon civilians intended to murder as "freedom missiles"?) yet, it's rather the anti freedom (for anyone) the Islamic Hamas, that succeeded again in yet another "freedom" slogan, 'Free Gaza', those that seek to live and have their people live in misery to gain world's sympathy have hit a jackpot, especially with some gullible...

Palestinian PR Stunt Fails As Israel Allows Gaza Protest (photo)A Palestinian "Exodus"? The only thing missing was Steven Spielberg and democracy. By Joel Leyden Israel News Agency Jerusalem, Israel --- August 23, 2008 ... Israel's PR has always been lacking. One can find three very well substantiated reasons: lack of professional public relations manpower in government, lack of funds and lack of coordinated communications between the Israel Prime Minister's Office, the Israel Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Israel Defense Forces. But today was different. The terror group Hamas tried to stage a media PR event and failed big time. "We...

<p>OFF THE GAZA COAST (AP) — A group of pro-Palestinian activists ran into trouble Saturday as they tried to sail through Israel's blockade of Gaza, saying their boats' electronic communication systems were jammed and the vessels were struggling in rough Mediterranean waters. The Free Gaza activist group accused Israel of sabotaging the mission.</p>

Hamas officials this week accused Egypt of trying to reassert its control over the Gaza Strip after Cairo presented a proposal to insert an Egyptian-led Arab peacekeeping force into the troubled coastal territory. The proposal was drawn up by Egypt and Jordan, and has won the backing of Hamas’ rivals in the Palestinian Authority government of Mahmoud Abbas, according to Arab media.

Palestinian terror groups based in the Gaza Strip are training scores of local women to be suicide bombers in anticipation of the breakdown of a two-month-old ceasefire with Israel. Israel’s Channel 10 News on Wednesday carried footage of some of the training exercises, and cited a terrorist official as saying the women would be ready to take out any Israeli forces that enter Gaza in response to ongoing Palestinian rocket fire.

Except for Fatah, the other Palestinian terror organizations in Gaza enjoy full freedom of movement under Hamas rule. Offshoots of al-Qaeda in Gaza include Jaish al-Islam (the Army of Islam), the Army of the Umma, and Fatah al-Islam. Hamas recognized Jaish al-Islam as a legitimate armed movement inside the area under Hamas jurisdiction.

Peace activists planning to land two boats on Gaza's shores are no better than "pirates" and will be turned back by the Israeli navy, officials have warned. The SS Free Gaza and the SS Liberty, which are sailing from Crete to Cyprus and then on to Gaza after being delayed by a storm, will carry about 40 protesters campaigning against Israel's economic sanctions on the Palestinian territory, including an 84-year-old Holocaust survivor and Lauren Booth, sister-in-law of Tony Blair, who is the international special envoy to the Middle East. The boats, which will also carry a cargo of balloons, musical...

I have been researching, documenting and studying thousands upon thousands of Obama's campaign donations for the past month. Egregious abuse was immediately evident and I published the results of my ongoing investigation. Each subsequent post built a more damning case against Obama's illegal contribution activity. The media took little notice of what I was substantiating. I went so far as to upload the documents so that anyone could do their own research. I asked readers to download the documents and a number of folks pitched in. Despite dropping the groundbreaking bombshell story of "Palestinian" brothers from the Rafah refugee camp...

JERUSALEM – One week after WND reported Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip illegally contributed to Barack Obama's campaign, the Democratic presidential candidate's team has not responded to repeated WND requests for a clarification regarding how purported refunds were returned. The brothers told WND their money was not refunded. Last week it was exposed Palestinian Gazans Monir, Hosam and Osama Edwan made a series of donations online at Obama's official campaign website totaling more than $30,000. The donations violate election laws, including prohibitions against receiving contributions from foreigners and accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single...

GAZA CITY (AFP) - The bodies of 3 Palestinians have been recovered from a smuggling tunnel between Egypt and the Gaza Strip which collapsed at the weekend, while 6 people are missing, medics said Monday. The tunnel near the Rafah border crossing caved in on Saturday, burying the 9 Palestinians, the medics said. Several Palestinians have died in recent months in the tunnels, which are used to smuggle arms, fuel, and other supplies into the Gaza Strip, which has been under a crippling Israeli blockade for nearly a year. Israel, which sealed Gaza off from all but vital humanitarian aid...

A severe cash shortage gripped the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip on Monday as tens of thousands of people were unable to withdraw money from banks in the poverty-stricken territory. Israel promised to transfer more money to Gaza on Tuesday. But the shortage highlighted the daily hardships still faced by Gaza's 1.4 million residents despite a June cease-fire between Israel and Hamas that has brought some badly needed relief. The delicate truce suffered a setback on Monday when unidentified Gaza terrorists fired a rocket into Israel. Lacking a currency of their own, Gazans use Israeli shekels. But with little new Israeli money...

More obfuscation and Chicago style three card monty. No mention of the jihad donations from Gaza, or gibberish donors etc. . “As part of a continuous review the Committee researches and reviews for any errors, then subsequently updates to make the necessary corrections. The Committee is constantly reviewing the contributor’s information in order to rectify any potential data entry errors.”

In digging deeper into the illegal foreign campaign contributions from Palestinians, Cathy came across these FEC letters. Obama knew these contributions were illegal and "Palestinian". He didn't report them. He took a page from his days as a "commnity organizer" for the most corrupt political machine in America. It's what they do. Bringing the worst in American politics to the national level. It seems the FEC actually did their job. But the chosen One-bama is special and above the law....... he is a citizen of the world.

Hundreds of Hamas supporters demonstrated Sunday at the Rafah border crossing in protest against the continued closure of the terminal. The demonstrators called on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to reopen the terminal and condemned the Arab countries for failing to work toward lifting the blockade that was imposed on the Gaza Strip more than a year ago. Egypt dispatched about 700 border guards to the Egyptian side of the terminal to foil any attempt by the protesters to infiltrate. The tough security measures, as well as warnings by top Egyptian government officials, apparently deterred the Hamas supporters from breaching the...

Hamas supporters are planning to storm the Rafah border crossing with Sinai on Sunday to protest against the continued closure of the terminal, sources in the Gaza Strip said over the weekend. The move was aimed at "embarrassing" the Egyptians and forcing them to reopen the border crossing, the sources added. For 12 days, beginning on January 23, hundreds of thousands of Gazans breached the border and poured into Sinai, seriously embarrassing the Egyptians and sparking tensions between Cairo and Hamas. The decision to send Hamas supporters to the border on Sunday comes amid renewed tensions between the Islamist movement...

TEL AVIV -- Israel and the United States have submitted a plan to tighten security on the notoriously porous border between Egypt and the Gaza Strip. On the eve of the visit by an Israeli visit to discuss the proposal, Egypt reported the discovery of 20 tunnels to the Gaza Strip as well as the seizure of thousands of gallons of fuel. Four smugglers, said to be laying an 800-meter underground pipe to transfer fuel from Sinai to Gaza, were also arrested by Egyptian police on Aug. 7. Under the proposal, Egypt would build an advanced technology barrier that would...

A Wall Street Journal report brushed off concerns about contributions of more than $30,000 to Sen. Barack Obama campaign from three brothers in Gaza, but the newspaper's readers weren't swallowing the explanation.

Nicosia, Cyprus - On Monday, a movement known as FreeGaza.org held a press conference in Nicosia, Cyprus, in which a group of 40 people from around the world announced that they would board two small boats to travel by sea to Gaza to "break the siege" that Israel has placed upon Gaza. There was no acknowledgement that in June of 2007, the Hamas regime took over Gaza and formalized a total state of war against Israel with the aim of liberating all of Palestine and using Gaza as a stepping stone to recoup any and all land ruled by the...

Sen. Barack Obama's campaign has admitted to receiving $33,500 in illegal foreign contributions from three brothers in the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, but the left-wing Daily Kos website suggests WND – whose Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein investigated the story – might have concocted a convoluted scheme to make the Illinois senator look bad. The brothers in question – Monir, Hosan and Osama Edwan – spoke on the record about the online donations to the presidential candidate. "It could be true that [donations] were made, but as a part of a deliberate set-up to make Obama look bad. ... Aaron Klein...

Americans who want to contribute to their presidential candidate of choice are strictly constrained in giving no more than $2300 per candidate election. But the same limits apparently don't apply in practice to foreigners who want to help Barack Hussein Obama get elected, although the Federal Election Commission clearly does not agree. The brothers Edwan -- Monir and Hasam -- hail from Rafah, GA. That's GA as in Gaza, not Georgia. As first revealed by the Atlas Shrugs blog and further developed in World Net Daily, they contributed a whopping $29,521.54 to Senator Obama's campaign, more than 13 times the...

Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are listed in government election filings as having donated $29,521.54 to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. The donations would violate election laws, including prohibitions on receiving donations from foreigners and guidelines against accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election, Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, told WND in response to a query. The contributions also raise numerous questions about the Obama campaign's lax online donation form, which apparently allows for the possibility of foreign contributions. Last week, the Atlas Shrugs blog outlined a series of donations in...

Gazan brothers' illicit contributions listed in government campaign filings JERUSALEM – Palestinian brothers inside the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip are listed in government election filings as having donated $29,521.54 to Sen. Barack Obama's campaign. Donations of this nature would violate election laws, including prohibitions on receiving contributions from foreigners and guidelines against accepting more than $2,300 from one individual during a single election, Bob Biersack, a spokesman for the Federal Election Commission, told WND in response to a query. The contributions also raise numerous questions about the Obama campaign's lax online donation form, which apparently allows for the possibility of foreign...

(IsraelNN.com) Veteran Palestinian Authority affairs correspondent Pinchas Inbari, a researcher for the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, writes that Hamas has a realistic plan for a peaceful takeover of Judea and Samaria in the near future - and that Israel is not paying enough attention. "Hamas has put an end to Fatah's job in Gaza," Inbari writes, "and is now waiting patiently for the next stage - mainly, its takeover of [Judea and Samaria]. Hamas plans this to occur after the completion of the Gilad Shalit deal, in which its central activists and arrested Parliament members are to be freed."...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Sunday refused to grant West Bank asylum to followers who fled the fighting with rivals Hamas in Gaza Strip. Abbas ordered some 200 fighters back to Gaza Strip from Israel, insisting a Fatah presence must be retained in the Hamas-led territory. The wrangling over the fate of the 188 Fatah refugees came a day after 11 people were killed and dozens wounded during a Hamas raid on a Fatah stronghold in Gaza City. The escape posed a dilemma for Abbas. "Fatah officials in Gaza should stay in their posts and should not leave Gaza to...

Israeli civil rights group petitions High Court to prevent State from sending Hilles-more clan members back to Hamas-controlled Strip, saying act ' breach of Israeli law and human morality' Aviad Glickman Published: 08.03.08, 20:05 / Israel News The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) filed a petition with the High Court of Justice Sunday demanding that it prevent the State from sending dozens of Palestinians who fled Gaza following fierce clashes with Hamas back to the Strip. On Saturday 188 Palestinians were allowed entry into Israel after Hamas took over a stronghold of the Fatah-affiliated Hilles clan in Gaza...

Israel has allowed 180 members of a beleaguered clan loyal to Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas to enter its territory from the Gaza Strip. The Fatah faction supporters ran to a border crossing after a day of bloody fighting with their bitter rivals Hamas, who control the territory. An Israeli army spokesman said some had laid down their weapons as they approached the crossing. The injured among them were sent to Israeli hospitals, he added. Fatah and Hamas blamed each other for starting the fighting on Saturday, in which nine people were killed. Reports say that the clashes broke out during...

Ongoing debate on Shalit prisoner swap diverts attention from military option There is a military option in Gaza. We can issue an ultimatum to Hamas that Israel would assassinate one of its leaders in Gaza or elsewhere every day if Gilad Shalit is not released at once. We can embark on a targeted operation based on existing intelligence information, or a broad operation if we lack such accurate intelligence information. We can kill every terrorist on the way, go from one house to the next, and while we’re at it blow up Qassam rocket workshops, arms caches, and tunnels. We...

Pentagon Makes Fighting Extremism Top Priority Seven years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the Pentagon on Thursday officially named "the long war" against global extremism as its top priority and pledged to avert any conventional military threat from China or Russia through dialogue. The Defense Department, in a new national defense strategy, also emphasized the need to subordinate military operations to "soft power" initiatives to undermine Islamist militancy by promoting economic, political and social development in vulnerable corners of the world. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said he hoped the change would help establish permanent institutional support for counterinsurgency skills...

Nine Palestinians were killed - including members of Hamas's security forces - and more than 90 were wounded in fighting that erupted Saturday between Hamas and Fatah members in Gaza City. The clashes began when hundreds of Hamas policemen raided homes belonging to the Hilles clan in the city's Shajayieh neighborhood in a bid to arrest suspects in the bombing that killed five Hamas men nine days ago. Hamas has accused members of the clan, which has long been affiliated with Fatah, of being behind the explosion, which also killed a seven-year-old girl. Toward Saturday night, more than 180 clan...

Four Palestinians died and dozens were wounded in street battles on Saturday between forces of Hamas and Fatah movements in Gaza City, prompting Israel to go on the alert. The clashes was sparked in the morning when Hamas security forces tried to arrest suspects thought to be behind a July 25 bombing that killed five Hamas members and a little girl on a Gaza beach. Hamas said two of its men were killed and Palestinian medical officials reported two more dead and scores of wounded in Saturday's firefights. According to AFP, Israeli authorities and health services in areas skirting the...

GAZA CITY: A tunnel under the Gaza-Egypt border collapsed, killing at least five Palestinians and wounding 18, Palestinian security and hospital officials said Saturday. The tunnel collapsed late Friday, near the Gaza border town of Rafah. A wide network of tunnels runs under the border and is used to bring supplies into Gaza. Israel says Hamas' rulers use the tunnel to bring in weapons and cash, and has urged Egypt to do more to stop the smuggling.

Palestinian Authority security forces were put on high alert Wednesday following threats by Hamas against its senior officials, PA security sources told The Jerusalem Post. The PA leadership was taking Hamas's threats seriously and had ordered its security forces to be prepared to foil any attempt to harm PA figures, the sources said. Additional bodyguards have been assigned to a number of top PA officials in the West Bank, and security had been beefed up around the homes of PA President Mahmoud Abbas and other senior officials in Ramallah, the sources said. Leaflets distributed over the past few days by...

Palestinian children on annual vacation can choose between Hamas or Islamic Jihad summer camps, both of which boast militia-style training, Koran classes, lessons on political prisoners Ali Waked Published: 07.31.08, 01:45 / Israel News In the Gaza Strip, as in Israel, children are currently in the midst of summer vacation, and the Hamas and Islamic Jihad’s “summer camps” are in full gear. In the past few weeks, the Palestinian groups have been holding camps throughout the strip, some of them proudly displaying rockets and other weaponry. Hamas alone is currently conducting no less than 300 summer camps for tens of...

GAZA, July 29 (Reuters) - An explosion in a Hamas training camp in the Gaza Strip injured four militants on Tuesday, Palestinian security sources said. The Islamist group did not blame anyone for causing the blast at a base near the southern Gaza town of Khan Younis, and local residents said it may have been related to a work accident.

Palestinian officials from the Gaza Strip have distributed a set of carefully-staged photographs they say are evidence that the smuggling tunnels running under the Gaza-Egypt border are for milk and other essential goods, not weapons.