'Unknown group' in Lebanon launches rockets at Israel

JERUSALEM (CNN) -- Four rockets struck northern Israel from Lebanon on Thursday, wounding two people, Israeli police and emergency medical services said.
The Lebanese Army issued a statement, saying the rockets were launched by "an unknown group" and that the Israeli retaliatory fire inflicted no casualties.
The rockets hit near the city of Nahariya, located about six miles from the Lebanese border, police said. The Israeli military said it returned fire toward the source of the rockets after the attack.
Schools and kindergartens were closed in Nahariya and the nearby town of Shlomi, the Israel Defense Forces reported.
The Israeli military warned civilians in the western Galilee region to stay close to shelters in the aftermath of Thursday's attack. Watch CNN's Christiane Amanpour discuss rocket attack »
The report comes as Israeli airstrikes on Gaza, aimed at halting rocket fire from the Hamas-ruled Palestinian territory to the south, entered a 13th day.
Israel fought a similar campaign against the Lebanese Shiite Muslim militia Hezbollah in 2006, during which Hezbollah rained rockets on cities in Israeli's north for a month before a cease-fire was reached.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for Thursday's attack.
The Lebanese Army's statement also said its troops and the U.N. peacekeeping mission that patrols the border "have taken all necessary measures to protect the population and control the situation."
Hezbollah has kept a tight rein on its forces in southern Lebanon since the cease-fire, however, and a number of Palestinian factions operate in southern Lebanon as well.

Gaza hospital overflowing

CNN's Christiane Amanpour reports on a Gaza hospital overflowing with casualties, many of them civilians.

Source: CNN
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( Neturei Karta ) Jews against Israel

Emergency Protest Demonstration Against the Zionist Massacre in Gaza
December 28, 2008

1500 people, including a group of Anti-Zionist Orthodox Jews, in New York City marched from Rockefeller Center to the Israeli Consulate on 2nd Avenue to protest the Israeli government's bombings in Gaza.

A similar protest occurred in London, England the following day...

Neturei Karta

Neturei Karta (Aramaic: נטורי קרתא, "Guardians of the City"), also self-identifying by the English name Jews United Against Zionism, is a small Haredi Jewish group formally created in 1935, that opposes Zionism and calls for a dismantling of the State of Israel, in the belief that Jews are forbidden to have their own state until the coming of the Messiah. They are mostly concentrated in Jerusalem, but also in and around Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet (or B) near Jerusalem, and Bnei Brak. Most others associated with Neturei Karta can be found in London, New York City, and other parts of New York, with smaller communities in various cities around North America.

According to Neturei Karta:

"The name Neturei Karta is a name usually given to those people who regularly pray in the Neturei Karta synagogues (Torah Ve'Yirah Jerusalem, Torah U'Tefillah London, Torah U'Tefillah NY, Beis Yehudi Upstate NY, etc.), study in or send their children to educational institutions run by Neturei Karta, or actively participate in activities, assemblies or demonstrations called by the Neturei Karta".

In Israel some members also pray at affiliated beis midrash, in Jerusalem's Meah Shearim, neighborhood and in Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet. Neturei Karta states no official statistics exist about numbers. The Jewish Virtual Library, published by the American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE), puts their numbers at 5,000. READ MORE 

Gaza violence goes into sixth day

Israel says it is fighting Hamas, not the people of Gaza
Violence has continued in the Gaza Strip for a sixth day, after calls for a UN-backed ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants foundered.

Israeli air strikes targeted the parliament building and the justice ministry. There are also reports of damage to a children's hospital.

Rockets fired by Hamas militants have again landed in Beersheba, some 40km (24 miles) inside Israel.

Israel on Wednesday rejected calls for a 48-hour truce to allow aid into Gaza.

A draft UN resolution put forward by Egypt and Libya failed after the US and UK complained that it called on Israel to ends its air assaults but made no mention of Hamas rocket attacks against Israel, which they say started the latest hostilities.

Since the Israeli air offensive began on Saturday, jets and attack helicopters have targeted Hamas security compounds, government buildings, smuggling tunnels under the border with Egypt and homes belonging to militant leaders.

Palestinian officials say 391 Palestinians have died in the Israeli air strikes; four Israelis have been killed by rockets fired from Gaza, which is under Hamas control.
Aid distribution
The UN's relief agency, Unwra, says Gaza is facing a dire humanitarian situation and is on the brink of catastrophe.

It says it will resume the distribution of food and medical supplies in Gaza on Thursday.
The agency's Commissioner-General, Karen AbuZayd, said 20,000 people a day had been without food aid for two weeks.
"People are doing pretty badly," she told the BBC.
"We do see for the very first time people going through the rubbish dumps looking for things, people begging, which is quite a new phenomenon."
However, Capt Benjamin Rutland of the Israeli Defence Force told the BBC that enough food and medical supplies were getting through.
Despite the failure of the initial UN talks, diplomatic efforts continue to bring an end to the fighting.
France's President Nicolas Sarkozy has said he would visit the region on Monday, although he is not scheduled to travel to Gaza.
Israel and Hamas say they may consider a ceasefire in the future, but their terms are very different.
Israel wants a permanent end to Hamas rocket attacks, while Hamas wants the Israeli air strikes to stop and the blockade on Gaza to be lifted.
Opinion polls in Israel indicate strong public backing for the air campaign, but support for risky action on the ground is much lower.
However, Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak has spoken of "widening and deepening the operation".
The Haaretz newspaper reported on Thursday that the Israeli army had recommended a major but short-term ground offensive.
Israel has massed forces along the boundary with Gaza and has declared the area around it a "closed military zone", leading to speculation a ground offensive into the tiny coastal strip could be imminent.
International reporters have been barred from entering Gaza.

Iranian Jews protest against Israel

Iranian has the biggest Jewish community in the Middle East after Israel

Raw Aftermath : Jews Airstrikes Kill 206,Injure more than 800

Jews warplanes have carried out a massive airstrike on Hamas security compounds inside the Gaza Strip, killing at least 206 and wounding 800 others. Palestinians says some 30 missiles fired at targets along Strip's coast, destroying several Hamas compounds; medical officials say at least 150 people killed, 300 wounded; Islamist group vows retaliation, Islamic Jihad says 'this means war'

Tony Blair Praises the Quran

Tony Blair Praises the QuranTony Blair made some chilling comments about the Quran in a speech given to the Foreign Policy Centre and Reuters. I fear he will regret his words. Saying:
"The Qur’an "is practical and way ahead of its time". "The most remarkable thing about reading the Koran – in so far as it can be truly translated from the original Arabic - is to understand how progressive it is.
"I speak with great diffidence and humility as a member of another faith. I am not qualified to make any judgements. But as an outsider, the Koran strikes me as a reforming book, trying to return Judaism and Christianity to their origins, rather as reformers attempted with the Christian Church centuries later. It is inclusive. It extols science and knowledge and abhors superstition. It is practical and way ahead of its time in attitudes to marriage, women and governance," he said.
He added that under the guidance of the Qur’an, the spread of Islam and its dominance over previously Christian or pagan lands was "breathtaking".
"Over centuries it founded an Empire, leading the world in discovery, art and culture. We look back to the early Middle Ages, the standard bearers of tolerance at that time were far more likely to be found in Muslim lands than in Christian," he declared. source

What is Tony Blair thinking? He obviously has not read an ACCURATE translation of the Quran. Is he just trying to suck up to the enemy? Is he so afraid of the large number of muslims in his own country that he would make these obviously incorrect statements?
Mike Jericho at Adversus Monstrum says:
Incorrect in every meaningful sense. At the time of the Islamic invasions, non-Muslims were forced to convert or face death or enslavement. Those who eventually escaped enslavement either converted or were forced to pay the Jizyah (a form of religious tax which Muslims did not pay) and they were relegated to second-class citizens under the process of Islamic religious persecution known as Dhimmitude.
I cannot understand how Blair - himself allegedly a Christian - has the cojones to do this as in Afghanistan, a Christian convert is under sentence of death for the heinous crime of rejecting Islam.
But I can't say much. While I haven't heard President Bush mention the Quran, he always refers to Islam as the religion of peace. Our leaders, both US and British, need to see Islam and the Quran realilstically. I have a few books I would recommend they and everyone read.
Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis, Bat Ye'Or The Force of Reason, by The Force of Reason
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (And the Crusades), by Robert Spencer
The Dawning of a New Dark Age: A Collection of Essays on Islam, by Mark Alexander
Here is a book review from Amazon.com on just one of the books, Eurabia: The Euro-Arab Axis:
Bat Ye'or is the world's preeminent historian of Islam, jihad and dhimmitude--the reduced state of non-Muslim peoples living under Islamic rule. Here, she has masterfully portrayed the means by which the Euro-Arab Dialogue (EAD) unfolded over the past 30-plus years, and how that process relates to the World War II Axis--as well as the historical, 1,400-year jihad. "There are three forms of jihad," says Bat Ye'or today, "the military jihad, the economic jihad and the cultural jihad." The EAD between the European Union and the Arab League has been a means of spreading the economic and cultural jihads from the Middle East to Europe.
The process outlined here began with Charles DeGualle's 1967 pronouncement that henceforward, France would assume a pro-Arab policy. In 1971, France began selling arms to Qaddafi, a step from which the EAD flowed as naturally as it did from DeGualle's policy initiative.
Another factor, according to Bat Ye'or, was the French desire to regain a leading role in European history; Georges Pompidou furthered the process in October 1973, following the Syrian and Egyptian Yom Kippur war with Israel.
At that time, the Arab world imposed an oil embargo on Denmark, Holland and the U.S., cut oil production and began to raise oil prices by five percent a month. These new global geopolitics terrified the leaders of Germany and France.
Before it agreed to establish the EAD, the Arab League had demanded that Europe establish pro-Arab and anti-American policies in all their united political, cultural and economic endeavors. The oil embargo was the catalyst which finally moved the European Economic Community to action. Now, writes Bat Ye'or, EEC ministers enacted resolutions that met the Arab demands, and which at the same time reversed the true intent of United Nations Resolution 242. Only then was the Arab oil embargo to Europe lifted.
Through this give and take, Europe was mostly on the losing end, for the EAD contained from the start a significant rider to its economic agreements concerning oil. Now, a process unfolded whereby Arab culture, politics and faith were imported into Europe along with a militant Muslim population that refused to assimilate into European culture. Arab culture did not change, while European universities and politics changed radically.
Bat Ye'or also shows how the EAD renewed and fostered Europe's Axis ties to the Middle East: In the late 1940s and 1950s war criminals fled Europe to Egypt, Syria and other Arab nations. Now, Axis links to Europe were rekindled through the Middle Eastern policies imported into Europe. The new Europe was built on a unified anti-Israel and anti-American policy.
As Bat Ye'or also suggests, America is the last frontier, and the American people should take it as their duty to avoid Europe's fate.
Read this book for the depressing details.
--Alyssa A. Lappen, Amazon.com
If that doesn't go against what Tony Blair said, I don't know what would.

Hugo Chávez laughs from Bush shoe-attack

Hugo Chávez laughs from Bush shoe-attack

George W Bush Irak Attacked By Shoes 14/12/2008

hahahahah bush idiot