From BBC:

The Lemba people are easy to distinguish from most other Zimbabweans – they wear skull caps, pray in a language which is a mixture of Hebrew and Arabic, and put the Star of David on their gravestones.

Their oral traditions claim that their ancestors were Jews who fled the Holy Land about 2,500 years ago.

It may sound like another myth of a lost tribe of Israel, but British scientists have carried out DNA tests which confirm their Semitic origin.

These tests back up the group’s belief that a group of perhaps seven men married African women and settled on the continent.

From Haaretz:

The Palestinian Islamic Jihad organization on Saturday claimed that its militants had tried without success to abduct an Israel Defense Forces soldier whose glider accidentally drifted across the border and landed in the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinians themselves are the reason that the Palestinians never have prospered, are not prospering, and never will prosper. Why should we talk peace with them?

On January 22, 1995, two consecutive bombs exploded at the Beit Lid junction near Netanya, killing 20 soldiers and one civilian. The Islamic Jihad claimed responsibility for the attack.

15 years later the Islamic Jihad is celebrating this attack. 

That is very frightening to think that human beings can become so desensitized and so depraved that they can actually celebrate the brutal murder of other people. Islam has to be a satanic religion. That is the only explanation for such cruelty.

This would be like the Israelis celebrating the deaths from the bombings of Gaza. I can understand celebrating victory, but a massacre?

• Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees.
• Israel is one of only eight countries in the world capable of launching their own satellites.
• Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world, and the highest rate in the world among women and people over the age of 55.
• Israel as a country holds the largest concentration of High-Tech industries in the world per capita, and as a region it is second only to California’s Silicon Valley.
• Israel has more engineers and scientists per capita than any other country. Israel also produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation – 109 per 10,000 people.
• Israel has the world’s second highest per capita output of new books.
• Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
• Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized, radiation-free, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.
• An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U.S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.
• Israel’s Given Imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.
• Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with congestive heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart’s mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.
• A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device, produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct – all without damaging surrounding skin or tissue.
• In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agronomists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to significantly minimize the amount of water used to grow crops. This technology is now exported and used worldwide.
• An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar power plant, fully functional in southern California’s Mojave desert.
• Mercury Interactive, an Israeli company that leads the world of software quality assurance tools, was named “one of the hottest software firms in the world” by Forbes Magazine in October 2003. Mercury’s 7,500 customers include Cisco Systems, GE Medical, Dow Chemical and Charles Schwab.
• ICQ – The technology for AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by a company called Mirabilis, founded by four young Israelis.
• The first PC anti-virus was developed in Israel in 1979 by the same company that developed the Melissa anti-virus program.
• Israeli engineers developed the first cell phone at Motorola’s lab in Haifa, its largest research center in the world.
• Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft’s Israel labs.
• American industry giants such as Ford, GM, Boeing, GE Aircraft Engines, Lockheed Martin, all manage their manufacturing processes using software from the Israeli company Tecnomatix.
• Intel’s new high-speed Centrino processor – which doubles battery life on laptops – was developed entirely in Israel.
• New, paper-thin, super-light-weight batteries for laptops and cellular phones are pioneered at the Israeli company Electric Fuel.
• Checkpoint, an Israeli Company, pioneered Internet and network security technology such as the Firewall, and is considered the world leader in the field. Since its founding in 1993, the company has installed its products at more than 250,000 sites, including 90 percent of the Fortune 500 companies.
• The Israeli companies Amdocs, Comverse and Nice Systems all pioneered Voicemail, SMS and many other telephone and cellular phone services.
• When the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day – and saved three victims from the rubble.
• When an earthquake struck Western India in January 2001, Israel sent an entire field hospital, including medical staff and equipment, to help treat injured civilians (Israel did now the same in Haiti).
• Iraqi children who suffered severe burns in the recent war are being treated at the world-renowned burn center at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.

2009 displays a significant decline in the amount of attacks coming from the Palestinian Territories as opposed to previous years. The decline in the amount of attacks brought about a decrease in the number of casualties and injured people: 15 casualties, 9 of them died during the Gaza Operation (as opposed to 36 in 2008) and 234 injured people, 185 of them were wounded during the Gaza Operation (as opposed to 679 in 2008).

Prominent Trends in 2009

• 2009 displays a significant decline in the amount of attacks coming from the Palestinian Territories as opposed to previous years.
• The 2008 Gaza Operation (hereinafter: the Gaza Operation,27/12/08-18/01/09) is the reason for the decline in Gaza Strip-based attacks. The operation caused a sharp decline in rocket launchings against Israel – 566 launchings (406 of them were launched in January during the operation) as opposed to 2,048 launchings in 2008.   
• In the West Bank – the continuous CT activity conducted by Israel and the Palestinian security apparatuses is the main reason for the decline in the amount of attacks. It should be mentioned that above 90% of the total number of attacks in the West Bank and Jerusalem are in the form of Molotov cocktail throwings. 
• The decline in the amount of attacks brought about a decrease in the number of casualties and injured people: 15 casualties, 9 of them died during the Gaza Operation (as opposed to 36 in 2008) and 234 injured people, 185 of them were wounded during the Gaza Operation (as opposed to 679 in 2008). 
• It should be noted that no suicide attacks were executed in 2009.
• After the Gaza Operation, Gaza Strip-based Hamas has been focusing on rebuilding its military power and improving the network of smuggling tunnels used for smuggling various weapons, including long-range rockets. 
• At the same time, Israel has managed to thwart dozens of attempts by Gaza Strip-based terrorist organizations to execute attacks in its territory using armed perpetrators through the U-Route (GS-Sinai-Israel route, hereinafter: the U-Route).
• There is also a substantial propagation in Global Jihad ideology across the Gaza Strip and a sizeable joining of dozens of military activists to different Gaza Strip-based organizations established according to Global Jihad ideology.
• Hizballah has been constantly attempting to perform the revenge attack following Imad Mughniyah’s death, causing a gear up and a high level of readiness.
• Jacob (Jack) Teitel’s arrest exposed a series of severe attacks he committed over the past 12 years.
• The never-ending war against terror funds – Issam Yousef’s resigning from the Union of Good and seven other charity societies in Britain, including Interpal. Yousef was the executive director of these charity institutions.

Because a man on a US Airways plane was praying with teffilin it made an emergency landing at Philadelphia International Airport.

Straps ran down from arm to his body as he was praying on the plane and a passenger became suspicious. The man was questioned by airline personnel, whio didn’t get answers to satisfy them, so they diverted the plane to Philadelphia. (Fox 29 News)

Is there sombody a little nervous?

They call him a Superman:

“The head of the Israeli Mossad, unknown to many because he works in silence and away from the media tumult, has delivered painful blows to the Iranian program over the past eight years and caused it to stall despite the hubbub surrounding it. This fact has made Dagan the superman of the Jewish state.” (Ynet)

From Reuters:

BAGHDAD (Reuters) – Iraq demanded on Friday that Iran immediately withdraw its soldiers from a disputed oilfield on the two countries’ border, but Tehran denied any incursion.Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said 11 Iranian soldiers had taken control of the Fakka oilfield in a remote desert area of southeastern Iraq, in a “violation of Iraqi sovereignty.”

“Iraq demands the immediate withdrawal from well No. 4 and the Fakka oilfield, which belongs to Iraq. Iraq is looking for a peaceful and diplomatic settlement to this issue,” he said.

Dabbagh did not give a deadline for withdrawal and did not say what Iraq would do if Iran failed to comply. Officials have summoned Tehran’s envoy in Iraq to discuss the matter, he said.

Iraqi officials said the Iranian soldiers crossed into Iraqi territory on Friday and raised the Iranian flag at Fakka, whose ownership is disputed by Iran.

Iraqi Deputy Interior Minister Ahmed Ali al-Khafaji said the incursion was the latest of several this week at the field, some 300 km (185 miles) southeast of Baghdad in Maysan province.

“At 3:30 this afternoon, 11 Iranian (soldiers) infiltrated the Iran-Iraq border and took control of the oil well. They raised the Iranian flag, and they are still there,” he said.

Iran’s semi-official Mehr news agency later quoted the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) as rejecting the report.

“The company denies Iranian soldiers taking control of any oil well inside Iraqi territory,” Mehr quoted the NIOC as saying.

Khafaji said the well was in Iraqi territory.

“This well is located on Iraqi land, 300 meters (yards) inside Iraq. It is disputed between Iran and Iraq. There was an agreement between the two countries’ oil ministers to fix this problem diplomatically,” he said.

When will the West take steps to stop Iran? Do they really want to wait until it’s too late?

Are we going to have a Shalit deal by Sunday? I really hope so, Gilad must come home now. My fear that this is just not going to happen…

Now the Palestinians are also fighting against Egypt. Palestinians opened fire Friday at Egyptian construction workers building a barrier between Egypt and the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile the Elder of Zion is touring Samaria.

According to an offer made by Olmert a total of 327 square kilometers of land from within pre-1967 Israel would have been given to the Palestinian Authority had PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas accepted in September 2008. Good he didn’t!

The famous Auschwitz sign ‘Arbeit macht Frei’ was stolen. What a shame.

Are the Palestinians are like Jesus and Israel is like the Romans? Read more about it at Harry’s Place.

From Shwarma Major we learn that the Coalition of Women for Peace want that Zipi Livni turns herself in to British authorities for her role in the Gaza war. Not enough that Israelis must fear travelling abroad because they might get arrested, now also they must fear the feminists in Israel.

Stable Of Zionist Hore  is reporting that Twitter got hacked by the ‘Iranian Cyber army’ – Seams like the Iranian understood that Twitter is their number 1 enemy.

Modern warfare and conflict is discussing if Islamic moderates are just as human as everybody else. I have my doubts!

The last night of Chanukah has started. Whatch the joy of Chanukah at Israellicool.

Rockets to Roses

“An Israeli artist, living in the shadow of terror, has found his way of transforming objects of destruction into expressions of peace and hope for the future. A magnificent rose with a mission. Each rose is a unique hand-sculpted piece of art, fashioned from actual rockets that landed in Israel. The stem is mounted on a base in the shape of Israel, with each rose “growing” from the region where most of the have rockets landed.