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An Arab man has been sentenced to death by a Palestinian Authority court for aiding Israeli security forces in their battle against terrorists who have for decades scuttled all prospects of peace.

The 24-year-old condemned man was originally recruited by Israeli security when he was a teenager working at a gas station. He was tasked with helping identify Arab assailants who were frequently stoning Jewish motorists in the Hebron area.

A few years later the young man joined the Palestinian Authority security forces, and from there helped the Israelis identify and find two wanted terrorists, who were subsequently eliminated.

Like dozens of others over the past decade, the man was sentenced under a 1979 law that makes cooperation with Israeli security forces a crime punishable by death. The Palestinian Authority continues to enforce that law despite having signed a peace agreement with Israel that obligates it to cooperate with the Israelis in combatting Palestinian terrorism.

The death sentence will not be carried out before receiving the approval of Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas.

And these are our Peace partners! Wake up!

Between the lines, we can understand that the sane Arab world objects to Hamas’ conduct, even if quietly. If there is a sort of consensus in the Arab world regarding who should not be “ruling the territories,” the answer is Hamas. Therefore, the repeated question is: How long will Israel show restraint? How far would Israel let Hamas go? That is, when will Israel announce its intention to deliver a powerful blow against Hamas leaders and its organizational infrastructure (Ynet)?

In this excellent article Moshe Elad is asking the question why Israel is not responding to the ongoing provocations by Hamas. What do you think? When will Israel respond?

“If and when new discussions will commence regarding an extension of the ceasefire, we’ll demand the opening of all crossings prior to or concurrent to a ceasefire,” the source said. “We’ll demand to put a stop to Israeli disruptions of the ceasefire via closings of the crossings or delay of goods, as well as demanding that the ceasefire apply to the West Bank. (YNet)”

Meanwhile the Shin Bet says:

“The organization is concerned that a large-scale incursion by the Israel Defense Forces [IDF] would prevent it from dealing with its complex set of challenges and also endanger its main achievement, the complete control of the Gaza Strip,” the official wrote. “The truce promotes Hamas’s interests by buying time to advance the movement’s short- and long-term goals. (Haaretz)”

Well - who is confused here?

Despite an Israeli economic blockade in place to limit traffic to and from the Gaza Strip, an Egyptian court has ruled that Cairo must allow humanitarian aid and supplies to enter Gaza via the Rafah Border Crossing (Afrique en ligne).

The Question here is what kind of aid should be allowed into Gaza!

Nobody likes stepping in dog crap. That’s why there are laws in most major cities that require you to pick up after your dog. Unfortunately, it’s tough to enforce and many people just ignore it. The solution? Elaborate and expensive DNA testing, of course. (Reuters)

Egyptian security forces on Friday found a ton of explosives which they said were apparently destined for Gaza.

An Egyptian security official said that the forces spotted the explosives in an underground hideout in central Sinai after receiving a tip-off from locals. (Haaretz)

Again the Pals are smuggeling peaceful means into Gaza…

Barack Obama claims to be a supporter of Israel and a friend of the Jewish people. But many of the people who helped him in the course of his rise to political power, or whom he helped during his political ascent, are extremely anti-Israel, or even outright anti-Semitic. Let’s examine the views and careers of just a few of Obama’s anti-Israel and/or anti-Semitic benefactors and protégés:
Rashid Khalidi was the director of the PLO’s press agency WAFA from 1976 to 1982, at a time when the PLO was conducting a massacre of 37 Israeli civilians in a bus on Israel’s coastal road, the brutal murder of a four-year-old Israeli girl in Nahariya, and numerous other terrorist killings of Israeli civilians. The PLO was also waging a brutal war against the Lebanese Christian community during this period, and carried out numerous massacres of Lebanese Christians; the worst of these was the killing of about 500 people in the village of Damour. During this same period, Rashid’s wife Mona Khalidi was an English translator for WAFA. Rashid Khalidi is now an advocate of a “one state solution” for all of “Palestine” - meaning the destruction of Israel and its replacement by an Arab state. Asaf Romirowsky and Jonathan Calt Harris, in an article in the Washington Times on July 9, 2004, summarized Rashid Khalidi’s views about Israel this way: “[His] extremism comes out when he calls Israel an ‘apartheid system in creation’ and a ‘racist state’ that ‘brainwashed’ Americans do not understand. Jerusalem, with its Jewish majority since the 1880s, he deems ‘an Arab city’ whose control by Israeli ‘foreigners’ is ‘unacceptable.’ And so on.” Khalidi also accuses Israel of “ethnic cleansing.”

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How about a Dry Run for a Floating Dirty Bomb?

Tehran is considering unconventional means of warfare to save its war machine from being struck down by Israel’s superior air defenses or air force and to maximize civilian casualties (DEBKA-Net).

Blaming Jews for economic woes is far from a new phenomenon, so it’s not surprising that the recent global financial crisis has unleashed a fresh round of Anti-Semitism, no less lethal than it’s been in the past.

Islamic terror groups - such as Hamas and Hezbollah - blamed Israel and the West for financial downturns worldwide.

“We see it as Allah’s punishment for the criminals US AND ITS WESTERN ALLIES,” Gaza-based Hamas terror chief Ismail Haniyeh said.

“Nothing is more unjust than occupying an Islamic state. Nothing is more unjust than keeping the Palestinian people under occupation for over 60 years,” he said.

Haniyeh, who may soon reunite with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, has never accepted Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state. He has never envisioned two states living side-by-side in peace.

Even a cursory glance at the history of the modern State of Israel reveals the Jews’ desire over the years to live in peace with their Arab neighbors.

But Islam wants no part of it.

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While DEBKAfile reports that US intelligence’s amended estimate is, that Iran will be ready to build its first bomb just one month after the next US president is sworn in, the IAEA chief says that Tehran yet to obtain necessary raw unenriched uranium to build even single nuclear weapon. Meanwhile another round of talks amongst UN Security Council members on the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program fails to yield results.

Who should we believe? The IAEA Chief or the US Intelligence?

The Islamic Jihad movement called on Friday for Palestinians to take to the streets in solidarity with the Arabs of Akko and Arabs in Israel, in general, “due to the racist aggression and brutality of the occupation and the bullying of the settlers.”

Every Israeli Arab who is caught, should be deprived of their Israeli citizenship, all of his pension, health care, etc. should be stopped and then they should be exiled from Israel into Gaza. Let them have a better live under Hamas rule!

I already reported of the use of toilet water against rioters then I said it’s probably just an other libel, but now Israel has unveiled its latest device to control protests on the West Bank and it is causing quite a stink, literally.

“You can drink it if you want to. It’s a very good protein drink.” (Yumy, Yumy)

Of course the PalArab media is complaining about the new Skunk Spray:

Israel has always used disproportionate force in the occupied Palestinian territories

But isn’t it typical that when the Israelis come upon a non lethal way to control riots this place complains about it? Perhaps the Israelis should go back to REAL bullets.

A riot has broken out in the Israeli city of Acre after an Arab man was assaulted for driving his car during Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. (Sky News)

Cars and shops were damaged as Jews and Arabs clashed and police used force to disperse a crowd of several hundred people.

1. Update: The clashes resume this evening after the end of Yom Kippur.

2. Update: Hospitals prepare for large numbers of wounded in Acre violence (Haaretz)

An Israel Air Force airman captured in Lebanon in 1986 escaped two years later but probably died while trying to reach Israel on foot, the Hezbollah guerrilla group said in a report published by Maariv, an Israeli daily, on Wednesday.

The excuses get lamer and lamer as time goes by. We can only surmise that Arad was murdered. either in Lebanon or Iran. His body was probably hidden by his captors, who know they are in violation of Islamic law and international laws by killing their prisoner and simply don`t want to face justice.

However, what we see these days is a new form of Islamic law, where live prisoners have their heads cut off in front of movie cameras. We`re told that it`s western or American something or other that has forced them to do this, and it`s not really their fault for butchering people on camera. And, of course, they keep telling us that this is what they want to do to the entire world.

After Syria moved tank units up to the Lebanese Beqaa Valley border Tuesday, Oct. 7, Israel raised the alert level for Yom Kippur on its borders with Syria and Lebanon and placed its Air Force and emergency first aid teams on standby in the event of Syrian or coordinated Syrian-Hizballah attacks.

Israeli embassies and Jewish institutions worldwide were also placed on high terror alert. Hizballah’s leader Hassan Nasrallah said recently that his promised retaliation for the death of Imad Mughniyeh “is coming.” There is no backing off from this decision or from carrying out the “big surprise” against the enemy, he said.

Damascus and the Lebanese Hizballah are closely aligned.

DEBKAfile’s military sources report that the Syrian tank concentration on the Lebanese border Tuesday was Damascus’ second military movement against its neighbor; three weeks ago, Syrian commando units took up positions on the North Lebanese border. In the first deployment, their tanks and armored vehicles were kept some 3-10 km to the rear of frontline commando forces. In the second, much closer to the Israeli border, armor and tanks have been deployed at the front.

These military movements sent Israeli defense minister Ehud Barak on an unannounced trip north Tuesday to check the state of readiness of the IDF’s disposition on the Syrian and Lebanese borders. He cautioned the outpost commanders to exercise maximum vigilance in the coming days. The border seems quiet, he said, but commanders must take care never to permit a repeat of the Yom Kippur War exactly 35 years ago when Israel was caught napping by a Syrian invasion.

Our sources report that Washington, Jerusalem and Beirut are taking into account the possibility of Damascus seizing the moment of the total shutdown in Israel for 25 hours from Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 8, to Thursday night, Oct. 9, for Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) to launch its military forces against northern Lebanon or the Golan.

The West Bank was sealed off and Israel’s border terminals with Jordan and Egypt closed from early Wednesday, Oct. 8.

I hope that this time Israel is ready…