Video - The Holocaust as History and Warning.

Quote: "We are very good at murdering, but even better at lying"

Nazi SS Reichsführer Himmler Sent Palestinian Mufti “Warm Wishes for the Continuation of Your Battle until the Big Victory”

Himler and Haj Amin al-Husseini at Auschwitz 

Nazi SS Reichsführer Himmler Sent Palestinian Mufti “Warm Wishes for the Continuation of Your Battle until the Big Victory” (Jpost).

Israel’s National Library has uncovered a telegram written by SS commander Heinrich Himmler and sent to the Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1943, in which the Nazi leader expressed his support for the Palestinian struggle against the Jewsת – Joy Bernard reports for the Jerusalem Post.

Himmler, one of the main masterminds behind the Nazi regime’s plan to exterminate all of Europe’s Jews, wrote,

“The joint recognition of the enemy, and the joint battle against him, are what creates the firm allegiance between Germany and freedom-seeking Muslims all over the world….In this spirit, I am happy to wish you on the…anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, warm wishes for the continuation of your battle until the big victory.”

Read the full story here.

Video - The Holocaust as History and Warning.

Quote: "We are very good at murdering, but even better at lying"

Video - Alfred Hitchcock Documentary Nazi Death Camp Liberation Part III

A dispatch to Moscow with bone-chilling description of #Auschwitz sent by the Soviet Army upon its liberation pic.twitter.com/cFjzG8qvez

— Yury Barmin (@yurybarmin) January 27, 2015

'Real Change' - Half of the Trudeau 'Admin' Chose to Skip “So Help Me God” in Their Oaths of Office.

'Real Change' - Half of the Trudeau 'Admin' Chose to Skip “So Help Me God” in Their Oaths of Office. (patheos).

Yesterday, as new Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was sworn in, a lot of attention went to the makeup of his 31-member cabinet. When asked why he felt it was so important to have a gender-balanced cabinet, Trudeau answered very bluntly, “Because it’s 2015.”

That’s a great answer. Also worth noting, though, is that half of his cabinet did not swear in with a religious oath. Instead, they opted to take a Solemn Affirmation that didn’t include any mention of God:

In their oaths of office, they each said: “I, (name), do solemnly and sincerely promise and swear/declare that I will truly and faithfully, and to the best of my skill and knowledge, execute the powers and trusts reposed in me as (cabinet title).”
Individuals had the choice of affirming their oaths, which allowed them to replace the word “swear” with the word “declare” and to omit the expression “So help me God.”

Hmmm......By the way as far as i know there's NO Jewish cabinet member, There are six Jews in the new Parliament, all Liberal.......Because it is 2015? In Pierre Trudeau's cabinet there were Four Jewish members

Video - The Holocaust as History and Warning.

Quote: "We are very good at murdering, but even better at lying"

EU[Rabia] Decides to Label Golan, Judea and Samaria Products.

EU[Rabia] Decides to Label Golan, Judea and Samaria Products. (INN).

The European Parliament passed a non-binding resolution Thursday calling on the European Union to differentiate "between Israel and its activities in the occupied Palestinian Territory" and to ensure “that all agreements between the EU and Israel must unequivocally and explicitly indicate their inapplicability to the territories occupied by Israel in 1967.”

The resolution, which passed by 525 votes to 70, with 31 abstentions, calls on EU foreign policy chief Federica Mussolini Mogherini “to take the lead within the Commission with a view to completing the work on EU-wide guidelines on the labeling of Israeli settlement produce.”

The Israeli Foreign Ministry lashed out against the move, saying, “The State of Israel views the parliament’s decision with severity, in particular the call for labeling products. The process of labeling is discriminatory, and reeks of a boycott."

Foreign Ministry spokesman Emmanuel Nahshon said that the EU motion was "discriminatory with a sharp smell of boycott," adding that "under the guise of a technical procedure, this is an attempt to force a diplomatic solution instead of encouraging the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table."

He added: "Europe treats Israel with sanctimonious hypocrisy, while it doesn’t raise the issue of similar solutions in Northern Cyprus and Western Sahara."

Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely responded to the decision by saying: “We need to call a spade a spade: marking products is a boycott.

"The state of Israel will not allow any body to discriminate between products that are produced by citizens of Israel and within Israel's territory,” she added. “The attempts to advance some kind of arrangement through unilateral moves, especially when this involves labeling products, will end up achieving nothing and leading nowhere.”

Hotovely said that immediately after Rosh Hashana, she intends to hold an urgent session on the matter with the Europe Section of the ministry, and launch a diplomatic campaign against the EU initiative to label products. Hmmm.....The 1930's are back. 

Video - Turkish PM Davutoglu Prior to Recent Elections: 'We Will Never Permit Any Change to the Islamic Character of Jerusalem'.

Video - Turkish PM Davutoglu Prior to Recent Elections: 'We Will Never Permit Any Change to the Islamic Character of Jerusalem'. HT: MEMRI.

Turkish PM Davutoglu Prior to Recent Elections: We Will Never Permit Any Change to the Islamic Character of Jerusalem

In a rally held in Mersin on May 9, prior to the recent elections, Turkish Prime Minister Davutoglu said: "As long as the Taurus Mountains do not collapse, as long as the Mediterranean Sea does not dry up, and as long as the skies do not fall, we will never permit any change to the Islamic character of Jerusalem!"

Russia offers 'Moderate & Peaceful' Iran latest Antey-2500 anti-aircraft missiles.

Russia offers 'Moderate and Peaceful' Iran latest Antey-2500 anti-aircraft missiles (Moscowtimes).

Russia has offered Iran its latest Antey-2500 missiles, the head of Russian state defense conglomerate Rostec said Monday according to media reports, after a deal to supply less powerful S-300 missiles was dropped under Western pressure.

Sergei Chemezov said Tehran was now considering the offer, TASS news agency reported.

Russia scrapped a contract to supply Iran with S-300 surface-to-air missiles under Western pressure in 2010, and Iran later filed a $4-billion international arbitration suit against Russia in Geneva, but the two countries remain allies.

The U.S. and Israel lobbied Russia to block the missile sale, saying it could be used to shield Iran's nuclear facilities from possible future air strikes.

There was no immediate response to Chemezov's comments from Iran, Israel or the U.S.

"As far as Iran is concerned, we offered Antey-2500 instead of S-300. They are thinking. No decision has been made yet," Chemezov was quoted as saying.

The Antey-2500 was developed from the 1980s-generation S-300V system (SA-12A Gladiator and SA-12B Giant). It can engage missiles traveling at 4,500 meters per second, with a range of 2,500 kilometers (1,500 miles), according to the company that makes it, Almaz-Antey.

Chemezov was sanctioned by the U.S. government in April over Russia's role in the Ukraine crisis. Hmmmm....Won't bother the Obama 'Admin' as long it's against their 'ally' Israel. Read the full story here.

“Assurances” From 'Israel's Staunchest ally' pres. Obama Won’t Protect Israel.

“Assurances” From 'Israel's Staunchest ally' pres. Obama Won’t Protect Israel. (Matzav). By Moshe Phillips and Benyamin Korn.

Israel should accept a “nuclear guarantee” from the Obama administration and stop worrying about Iran’s nuclear capabilities, says longtime State Department peace processor Martin Indyk.

What a coincidence! Just last November Indyk’s former right-hand man, David Makovsky, proposed the exact same thing. Do we detect a trial balloon?

In a speech in Tel Aviv on February 16, Indyk said the U.S. promised to intervene if Iran crossed the “nuclear threshold,” and that promise should suffice to ease Israel’s concerns. In other words, Israel should entrust its future to a piece of paper signed by a president who has been, arguably, the most unfriendly president towards Israel in American history.

In November something similar was proposed by David Makovsky, who served Indyk as his senior assistant when Indyk was the top U.S. Mideast envoy this past year. Makovsky and Indyk spent many months pressuring Israel to make one-sided concessions, criticizing Israel’s leaders in choreographed leaks to the media, and ignoring the Palestinian Authority’s incitement to violence. After the PA finally blew up the negotiations, Indyk resigned , while publicly blaming Israel for the breakdown, and Makovsky returned to his old home, the Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Writing on the Washington Institute web site, Makovsky expressed concern about Israel’s opposition to an Obama deal on Iran. Therefore, he wrote, “It is imperative” that the Obama administration provide “a U.S. letter of assurance to Israel on key issues that cannot be addressed in the text of nuclear deal with Iran itself.”

But in view of the sorry record of previous American “assurances,” Israelis would have to be pretty naive to accept yet more short-lived “assurances” now.

Remember President George W. Bush’s letter to then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, on April 14, 2004? Bush wanted Sharon to unilaterally withdraw all Israeli soldiers and civilians from Gaza. So he gave Sharon a letter in which he “reassured” Israel that the U.S. believes Israel should retain “existing major Israeli population centers” in Judea-Samaria (the West Bank).

But when Obama’s new secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, was asked in June 2009 about those U.S. assurances, she declared that “there never was any agreement” between the U.S. and Israel concerning those Israeli population centers in the territories. 

Israel’s publication of the Bush letter (which can be viewed to this day on the website of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs) made no difference. In the view of the Obama administration, the Bush assurance is not worth the paper on which it was printed.

The history of U.S.-Israel relations is replete with similar episodes.

After Israel captured the Sinai peninsula from Egypt in the 1956 war, the Eisenhower administration demanded that Israel give Sinai back to Nasser. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles provided the Israeli government with a letter, dated February 11, 1957, promising that if Israel retreated, the U.S. would “use its best efforts” to ensure that Israeli ships would be able to continue going through the Straits of Tiran. Based on that assurance, Israel withdrew.

In May 1967, Nasser closed the Straits of Tiran in preparation for a war to annihilate the Jewish state. Israeli ambassador Abba Eban rushed to meet with President Lyndon Johnson. Eban cited the 1957 Dulles letter. Johnson refused to intervene. War followed.

From 1968 to 1970, Egypt regularly fired missiles at Israel, across the Suez Canal, which was the border. Naturally the Israelis shot back. The Nixon administration wanted Israel to agree to a cease-fire that would leave Egypt’s SAM-2 and SAM-3 surface-to-air missiles in place.

So the administration gave Israel “assurances” that “the U.S. would use all its influence” to ensure that Egypt’s missiles would stay twenty miles from the Suez Canal. The deal was signed on August 7, 1970.

Within days, the Egyptians started moving up the missiles. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said the U.S. would “study” Israel’s complaints. The “study” concluded that Egypt had indeed moved the missiles, but it didn’t count as a violation of the agreement because the process of moving them had already begun before the agreement, so Egypt had just “missed the deadline.”

The administration said it would not act so long as the overall “military balance” between Israel and Egypt was not affected.

But it WAS affected. With the Egyptian missiles close to the Suez Canal, they were able to wreak havoc on Israeli forces in the opening days of the 1973 war. By then, however, the “assurances” of 1970 were long forgotten.

Now Indyk and Makovsky are conjuring up a kind of Groundhog Day for Israel, where the same mistakes are repeated again and again.

If this had been just Indyk, or just Makovsky, making the proposal, perhaps it could be dismissed as a passing suggestion. But the fact that they have both proposed it, within fewer than three months of each other, strongly suggests that this is what they, and their State Department colleagues, have been discussing. And now they are trying to shop it around. But the only buyers they will find will be those with very short memories.

[Moshe Phillips is president and Benyamin Korn is chairman of the Religious Zionists of America, Philadelphia, and both are candidates on the Religious Zionist slate (www.VoteTorah.org) in the World Zionist Congress elections.]

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Gallup Poll: Seven in 10 Americans Continue to View Israel Favorably.

Gallup Poll: Seven in 10 Americans Continue to View Israel Favorably. HT: IMRA.

PRINCETON, N.J. -- Even as relations between the leaders of Israel and the United States reportedly deteriorate over disagreement about how to handle Iran's nuclear program, Israel has retained its broadly favorable image in the U.S. over the past year. Seventy percent of Americans now view that
country favorably, and 62% say they sympathize more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in the Mideast conflict. By contrast, 17% currently view the Palestinian Authority favorably, and 16% sympathize more with the Palestinians.

Americans' Recent Perceptions of the Israelis and the Palestinians [February 2014]((February 2015))

RATE VERY/ MOSTLY FAVORABLY

[72]((70)) Israel
[19]((17)) Palestinian Authority

SYMPATHIES IN MIDEAST SITUATION

[62]((62)) More with the Israelis
[18]((16)) More with the Palestinians
GALUJP

These attitudes, from Gallup's Feb. 8-11 World Affairs survey, are unchanged from a year ago, suggesting that neither the evident friction between President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, nor the 50-day conflict between the Israelis and Palestinians in the
Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip last year, greatly affected how each is perceived in the U.S.

In fact, Israel's public image in the U.S. has been fairly strong since 2005, with an average 68% of Americans viewing it favorably. But from 2000 to 2004, when hostilities between Israel and the Palestinians were running high, its favorable score averaged 60%. Prior to that, Israel's favorable
rating was even more volatile, reflecting other Mideast events, including the 1991 Gulf War, when positive views of Israel soared after that country suffered Iraqi rocket attacks.

Gallup first measured Americans' impression of the Palestinian Authority, the official governing body of the Palestinians, in 2000, and since then, the percentage viewing it favorably has averaged 17%, diverging significantly on only a few occasions. One of these came in 2005, when favorable opinion of the Palestinians increased in polling conducted shortly after Mahmoud Abbas was elected to succeed Yasser Arafat as Palestinian president.

Asked to Choose Sides, Six in 10 Americans Favor Israelis

Americans' tendency to sympathize more with the Israelis than the Palestinians in their regional conflict also peaked in 1991 during the Gulf War, then fell in 1993 as President Bill Clinton led intense Israeli-Palestinian peace talks and more Americans favored both sides or neither side. Americans remained largely neutral through 2001, spanning several more peace initiatives, when the 9/11 attacks -- as well as years of failed peace talks that yielded to heightened Palestinian-Israeli
violence -- may have fundamentally changed their outlook toward the Middle East. Since 2004, Israel has consistently received the majority share of Americans' sympathies.

Republicans Nearly Unanimous in Support of Israel

A key reason Americans' sympathy for Israel has solidified at a sizable majority level is that Republicans' support for the Jewish state has increased considerably, rising from 53% in 2000 to more than 80% since 2014 -- with just 7% choosing the Palestinian Authority. A particularly
large jump in GOP sympathy for Israel occurred in the first few years after 9/11 and at the start of the 2003 Iraq War.

Democrats' support for Israel has also risen since 2000, but not quite as sharply as Republicans'. Additionally, the percentage of Democrats sympathizing with Israel fell 10 points this year to 48%, possibly reflecting the tension between Obama and Netanyahu.

Bottom Line

U.S.-Israel relations have been much in the news over the past year, and tension between Obama and Netanyahu has reportedly worsened since the latter accepted House Speaker John Boehner's invitation to address Congress about Iran this spring -- an offer the White House did not sanction. Meanwhile, Israel and the United States share a strong interest in seeing the international terrorist organization known as the Islamic State group, or ISIS, thwarted. Throughout all of this, Israel's positive image in the U.S. remains broadly intact nationally, even as Democrats' sympathy for Israel
may have slipped. The percentage of Democrats viewing Israel favorably is also down, currently at 60%, vs. 74% a year ago. Positive views of the Palestinian Authority are fairly scarce, but no lower than they have been in recent years.

Survey Methods

Results for this Gallup poll are based on telephone interviews conducted Feb. 8-11, 2015, with a random sample of 837 adults, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. For results based on the total sample of national adults, the margin of sampling error is ±4
percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

Each sample of national adults includes a minimum quota of 50% cellphone respondents and 50% landline respondents, with additional minimum quotas by time zone within region. Landline and cellular telephone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods.

Guess what? Hamas says U.S. encourages racism with remarks on Jewish state.

Guess what? Hamas says U.S. encourages racism with remarks on Jewish state. (Taz).

Islamic Hamas movement said that the statements of United States Secretary of State that Israel is a Jewish state will encourage racism, Xinhua reported.

Sami Abu Zuhri, the Hamas spokesman in Gaza said in an emailed press statement that "such statements encourage racism and ignore all values of democracy," adding that "It eliminates the Palestinians' right of return."

The Israeli government had on Sunday overwhelmingly votes in favor of approving the Jewish state law for the state of Israel. The subject created large controversy in Israel and was scheduled to be presented before the Knesset.

Meanwhile, Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said in a press statement on Tuesday that the Israeli government's approval of the law "is a unilateral annul to the 1993 document of mutual recognition signed with the PLO.

The Palestinians slammed the Israeli government's approval of the law, where the PLO said that the law is a continuation for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "to establish a racist state based on lands confiscation."

The PLO called on the United Nations and the international community "to carry out practical steps not only to halt Israeli actions, but also to put Israel under the law rather than violating it.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on Tuesday told a local Radio station in the West Bank that the Israeli government's approval of the law "represents a new big obstacle before peace in the Middle East."

Obama's 'Peace partner' Abbas' book reveals: The 'Nazi-Zionist plot' of the Holocaust.

Obama's 'Peace partner' Abbas' book reveals: The 'Nazi-Zionist plot' of the Holocaust. (Ynet).

“The Zionist movement did not send any assistance, financial or otherwise, for the victims of Nazism and it did not allow any other side to provide any kind of aid. The Zionist movement concealed the information that came from within the ghetto walls and concentration camps, news that shed light on what was really happening. If it had to publish anything, it did so by questioning that information and diminishing its importance.”

“Zionism adopted the Nazi selection principle, when it went to save Jews from the slaughter. It made itself the ultimate arbiter regarding Jewish life, deciding who deserves to live and who deserves to die.”

“The Zionist movement did not make any effort to convince Western countries to take in the Jewish refugees escaping the horrors of the Holocaust. It even placed obstacles I the way of efforts made by Christian groups or by non-Zionist Jews or a number of countries that saw fit to find a solution to this humanitarian problem.”

“All of this wasn’t enough - the Zionist movement led a broad campaign of incitement against the Jews living under Nazi rule to arouse the government’s hatred of them, to fuel vengeance against them and to expand the mass extermination.”

From Mahmoud Abbas’ book “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism” (Billsan Publising House, Ramallah, 2011), based on his doctoral dissertation.
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The Palestinian Authority’s new media division is putting considerable effort it seems into the construction and maintenance of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’ official website. The site is user-friendly and includes information on the familiar parts of Abbas’ resume - from his childhood in Safed to the president’s office in Ramallah. The site details Abbas’ political journey as a Palestinian leader, without forgetting to include all of the awards and citations he has received along the way.

The site is updated often and includes, for example, recent video clips such as Abbas’ speech to the UN General Assembly in September, in which he accused the State of Israel of war crimes and - effectively - of genocide, thus severely damaging, many believe, the chances of reviving the peace talks between Israel and the PA in the foreseeable future.

As one would expect from such a site, it glorifies Abbas’ work, aiming to describe him as a combination of a charismatic leader, a popular and well-liked international figure, a refugee who personally experienced the tragedy of the Palestinian people, and a man of vision. But just as importantly - he is presented as a philosopher with a unique perspective on history, and an important intellectual.

To bolster that last component, the third menu item on the left of the homepage for Abbas’ official website highlights his “Books and Publications.” That link leads to a page with no less than 18 books written by the very prolific Abbas - most dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The books were published by several publishers over the years, but all of them were reprinted in a similar format (size, font, cover) by a Ramallah publisher with funding from the Palestinian Authority in 2011.

One of them, with dark blue cover, is called “The Other Side: The Secret Relationship Between Nazism and Zionism.” Those who don’t want to search for the book in Ramallah book stores can read it, page-by-page in a sophisticated interface on the presidential website - but only in Arabic.
In this book, Abbas wonders, among other things, “How can one believe that the Zionist movement, which set out to protect a nation, would later become the reason for its destruction?

History teaches us about (the Emperor) Nero who torched Rome. But Nero was mad, and his madness rids him of the responsibility to his actions. History also teaches us about leaders who betrayed their people and their country and sold them out to their enemies. But these leaders are isolated. They alone carry the responsibility for their actions. But when a large national public movement conspires against its ‘people,’ well that is embarrassing…

“An Arab proverb says: ‘If a dispute arises between thieves, the theft is discovered.’ This is what happened with the Zionist movement. When ‘Labor’ (Mapai) was in power in the State of Israel, it refused to include the revisionists and those started exposing facts and blowing away the smoke screen of lies. We cannot fail to mention that many of the Zionist movement’s people during the war were amazed of the results of the cooperation between the Zionists and the Nazis, and the massive amount of victims struck them with terror… To this one must add that many documents from the Third Reich had reached many hands, which allowed us to present these documents that illustrate the nature of the relations and cooperation between the Nazis and the Zionist movement.”

Abbas has in the past been criticized for being a Holocaust denier. The accusations were based on a translation of excerpts of the introduction to his doctoral paper, which he wrote in Moscow in 1982. There - it was claimed - Abbas cast doubt on the fact six million Jews had been murdered, and even questioned the existence of the gas chambers.

Since then, Abbas has decisively rejected these accusations, claiming that his words were taken out of context and that the accusations were based on biased translations of only parts of the introduction, rather than a reading of the full text.

In May 2003, when he was the Palestinian prime minister, Abbas said in an interview with Akiva Eldar in Haaretz: “I wrote in detail about the Holocaust and said I did not want to discuss numbers. I quoted an argument between historians in which various numbers of casualties were mentioned.
“One wrote there were twelve million victims and another wrote there were 800,000. I have no desire to argue with the figures. The Holocaust was a terrible, unforgivable crime against the Jewish nation, a crime against humanity that cannot be accepted by humankind. The Holocaust was a terrible thing and nobody can claim I denied it.”

It’s important to note that when the book and the topics mentioned in it were discussed in the Arab media, Abbas spoke differently than he did in the Israeli or American press.

For example, in an extensive interview with Lebanese satellite channel Al Mayadeen in January 2013, Abbas vehemently defended his thesis and his book, saying he was willing to “challenge anyone to deny the relationship between Zionism and Nazism before World War Two.”

On February 16, 2014, Abbas received a large delegation of Israeli students at his office, as a part of the Palestinian Authority’s PA campaign to the Israeli public.

“Assalamu alaikum,” he said in Arabic to the students and then added in Hebrew “Shalom Aleichem” (both meaning “Peace be upon you”). Abbas was very friendly during that meeting, addressed a series of important issues between the two peoples and even answered a question about the Holocaust:

“How do I deny the Holocaust? Did you read the book? No. So read the book and see if I have denied the Holocaust. I know that millions of Jews were murdered in the Holocaust,” he said.

To reinforce his statements on the topic, Abbas made a statement via the Palestinian news agency two months later, on April 27, calling the Holocaust “the most heinous crime to have occurred against humanity in the modern era.” He added the Holocaust was a result of “ethnic discrimination and racism, which the Palestinians strongly reject and act against.”

But more thorough research, conducted in the past six months by Dr. Edy Cohen, a research fellow at the center for international media at Bar-Ilan University, found that there is a wide gap between the more or less clear-cut statements Abbas makes, declares and publishes in English, and the things he writes in Arabic and that are published by the Palestinian Authority and appear on his personal website.

The fact the books were recently reprinted with funding from the Palestinian Authority and are recommended on the PA president’s official website, negates the claims made by Abbas and his associates several times that this is just a thesis paper released over 30 years ago.

So perhaps it is true that Abbas, as he testifies about himself, does indeed believe the Holocaust was a heinous crime against humanity, but his writing, that are still being printed, twist and distort the historical reality, as experts note.

Ammunition against the Zionists

Abbas wrote his doctoral paper at graduate school in Moscow in the early 1980s. Twenty years earlier, on February 5, 1960, the Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (later to be named after Congolese independence leader Patrice Lumumba) was founded in Moscow, with the declared objective of aiding third world and African countries to access higher education. The goal was to increase the Soviet Union and Communism’s influence in the developing world.

Thanks to good ties throughout the years between the eastern bloc and the PLO, many of the organization’s members went to study at the university. Mahmoud Abbas, then one of the organization’s senior political leaders and in charge of the PLO’s foreign relations, himself went at the university in the early 80s.

When he arrived in Moscow, Abbas already had an undergraduate’s degree from the Institute of Law at the University of Damascus. In Moscow, he was working for a degree in what is known in Russian as “Candidate of Sciences,” similar to a doctorate in social sciences in Western universities.

The Moscow University rector, Yevgeny Primakov, who later became the Russian foreign minister and prime minister, appointed his senior expert on the Middle East, Prof. Vladimir Ivanovich Kiselev, as the Palestinian leader’s dissertation adviser.

Two decades later, Kiselev said Abbas was a well-prepared graduate student, who came to Moscow with an already chosen research topic and a large amount of already prepared material.

According to intelligence received at that time by Israel, Abbas ordered several researchers from the PLO’s large archive, which was functioning at the time in Beirut and funded generously by Arab countries, to gather an intensive collection of material on the Holocaust and “the connections between Zionism and Nazism.”

As part of this collection, numerous publications on the relationship between fascist elements in Europe and the Lehi (”the Stern Gang”) movement before World War II were also examined.

According to this intelligence information, the PLO archive received numerous publications distributed at that time by the Communist Party of East Germany, which accused “Western imperialism and Zionism” of collaborating with the Nazis.

These reports were part of extensive propaganda, which was employed during these years, trying to connect the Soviet Union’s primary enemies - the West and the Nazis (see the statements below on this subject by Prof. Dina Porat).

Intelligence shows that a German-speaking official translated these publications into Arabic. Furthermore, one of the directors of the archive, an Israeli Arab who spent many years in an Israeli prison and moved to Lebanon upon his release, translated material from Hebrew. All of this material was put into several detailed reports by PLO archivists and given to Abbas.

According to a former Israeli intelligence operative, “At the time (the early 1980s), these reports were not significant given the sea of information we had received from the PLO, which mostly addressed the issues of weapons and terrorist attacks - and of course this was of more interested to us. We thought we would find this material in some official PLO publication. Only years later did we realize that it was the material that helped Abbas to write his dissertation”.

Abbas completed his Ph.D. in May 1982, shortly before Israel’s invasion of Lebanon; it was approved by the university and received much acclaim. Two years later, in 1984, the doctorate was published as a book in Amman, Jordan. On the cover of the book was an illustration of an Israeli soldier in a helmet bearing the Star of David and behind him a Nazi soldier wearing a hat with a swastika on it.

In later versions of the book, the cover illustration was changed and the soldiers removed. The book itself was republished in Cairo in 1997 and in Ramallah in 2011.

Abbas’ main claims in his doctorate are that Zionist leaders ignored the Holocaust of European Jewry, sacrificing them so that they could claim a national home; that the Zionist movement deliberately and systematically thwarted the rescue of Jews from Romania, Hungary, Slovakia and the Baltic countries; that Jews who abandoned their homes in Arab countries did not suffer any harassment or persecution, and that the root of the conflict between them and the Arabs was the privileges that they received from the French and British colonialists.
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Video - Ali Abu Ahmad, Preacher at Al-Aqsa Mosque: May Allah Annihilate America and Its Coalition

In an impromptu sermon at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian preacher Ali Abu Ahmad called upon Allah to annihilate America and its coalition. "Oh Allah, enable us to cut off their heads," he said. We want a Caliphate that "will liberate Jerusalem from the Jews, the most vile of creatures," he said. The sermon was delivered on November 21 and was posted on the Internet. Hmmm.....Obama's 'Peacepartners'

Egypt willing to provide forces to 'stabilize' future Palestinian state: Sisi.

Egypt willing to provide forces to 'stabilize' future Palestinian state: Sisi. (DS).

ROME: Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said in an interview published Sunday that he would be prepared to send troops to a future Palestinian state to help stabilize it.

Sisi, who begins his first European trip on Monday since ousting his Islamist predecessor, made the comments in an interview with Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera.

He is due to visit France and Italy, while the trip will also include a meeting with Pope Francis.

The Egyptian leader said he would send forces to a future Palestinian state in agreement with Israel and the Palestinian authority.

"We are ready to send military forces into a Palestinian state," he said.

"We would help the local police and reassure the Israelis through our role as guarantor. Not forever, of course. For the time necessary to reestablish confidence. But first a Palestinian state must exist where troops can be sent to."

Sisi said he had spoken of the idea with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas. Hmmm.....I always thought Turkey would 'volunteer' for that.

Video - Egyptian TV Host Criticizes Hamas: More Israelis Killed by Jerusalem Resistance Than by Your War

Former DOJ Official to Homeland Security: 'Deny entry in the US to PA’s Abbas Because of Inciting and Endorsing Terrorist Activity'

Former DOJ Official Requests Homeland Security: Declare PA’s Abbas Ineligible Under Federal Law To Enter The U.S. Because of Inciting and Endorsing Terrorist Activity. (Matzav).

A written request was made by a former U.S. Department of Justice official to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security that Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority (PA), be declared ineligible to enter the United States pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act, which bars entry into the U.S. of aliens who incite terrorist activity or endorse or espouse terrorist activity. (See 8 U.S.C. § 1182.)

The written request was made on November 17, 2014, by Neal M. Sher, Esq., a former Director of the Office of Special Investigations in the Justice Department, who was responsible for the 1987 decision to bar entry to the U.S. of Kurt Waldheim, then the President of Austria, based on Waldheim’s assistance or participation in Nazi persecutions.

In his letter to Alejandro Mayorkas, the Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security, Attorney Sher detailed the “abundance of publicly available evidence” showing that “Abbas (1) personally incited terrorist activity and (2) used his position of prominence to endorse terror activity.” 

Attorney Sher also furnished evidence that “ranking officials of the PA and Fatah, over whom Abbas has control and for whom he must be held responsible, have engaged in a widespread, deliberate campaign to incite and endorse terrorism.”

Attorney Sher provided many recent examples of Abbas’ incitement and endorsement of terrorist activity, including the following:

• “Abbas publicly glorified the perpetrator of the attempted assassination of Yehuda Glick - an American” - declaring the perpetrator a “martyr.”

• “Abbas publicly urged” that Palestinian Arabs “prevent Jews from entering the Temple Mount ‘by all means necessary,’ an unambiguous call for violence.”

• “A close adviser to Abbas proclaimed on the PA’s official Facebook page that the convicted terrorist who, in October, rammed his car into” a light-rail station in Jerusalem, killing a three month old American infant and wounding several other U.S. citizens and Israelis, “was a ‘martyr’ and worthy of honor.”

• “After additional incidents where vehicles were used as weapons of terror, official PA outlets incited Palestinians to show their anger by ‘”running over Israelis.’”

Declaring the ZOA’s support of Attorney Neal Sher’s request to the Department of Homeland Security that PA President Mahmoud Abbas be declared ineligible under federal law to enter the U.S., based on his incitement of terrorist activity, and his use of his position of prominence to endorse or espouse terrorist activity,

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein stated, “It is time for our country to send the clear message to Mahmoud Abbas that, under U.S. law, he is not eligible to enter the U.S. when he, his partners and subordinates regularly incite a terror campaign against Jews in Israel. There are unfortunately a host of examples.

“In October, Abbas called for a ‘day of rage’ when the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem was temporarily closed, describing the temporary closure as a ‘declaration of war.’

Last week, Abbas warned against allowing Jews to ‘contaminate’ the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site. When Abbas commissioned the official emblem for his Fatah party, it depicted all of Israel as ‘Palestine’ covered by a keffiyeh (Palestinian scarf), with a picture of the terrorist Yasser Arafat and a Kalashnikov rifle in the center.

Abbas’ PA regularly holds parades and ceremonies glorifying deceased terrorists, and names streets, schools and sports teams in their honor. Large posters of these terrorists are on display in PA schools, universities and public places, honoring these murderers instead of condemning them.

The PA pays pensions to suicide bombers and Jew-killing terrorists. The greater the number of Jews murdered, the higher the pension. And rather than distance itself as much as possible from Hamas, Abbas’ PA embraced this U.S.-designated terrorist group, whose charter calls for the murder of Jews and the destruction of Israel.

“The ongoing incitement by Abbas and others surely led to the savage, horrific murders of four rabbis yesterday - three of whom were American - with butcher knives, axes and guns while they were praying in synagogue. A policeman wounded in the terrorist attack also tragically died.

Even U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called this heinous attack ‘an act of pure terror,’ and condemned it as ‘a pure result of incitement, of calls for days of rage.’

“Mahmoud Abbas is not a leader who is trying to calm tensions and encourage peace with the Jewish State of Israel. He is leading a campaign of incitement and terrorism against Jews. The U.S. should make it clear that based on his irresponsible and unacceptable conduct, which is ongoing and well-documented, he is ineligible under U.S. law to enter our country.”

{Andy Heller-Matzav.com Newscenter}

"THIS IS A RELIGIOUS WAR" - Palestinian Authority/Fatah Incitement In Recent Weeks.

"THIS IS A RELIGIOUS WAR" - Palestinian Authority/Fatah Incitement In Recent Weeks. HT: Memri.

In a sermon in Ramallah on November 7, 2014, in the presence of PA President Mahmoud Abbas, Habbash said that the battle being waged in Jerusalem is "the final phase, after which our banners will fly... over the minarets of Jerusalem, over its churches, its domes, its hills, its mountains, its alleys, and its homes." The sermon was broadcast by the PA's Awda TV channel. Hmmm.....We All know....IT WAS NEVER ABOUT LAND!Read the full story here.

Obama's 'Peace partners' Hamas Praises Recent Terror Attacks In Israel, Calls For Escalation And Launch Of New Intifada.

Hamas cartoon showing the synagogue massacre. The knife-wielding attacker says "Where are they?" (Facebook.com/palinfo, November 17, 2014)

Hamas Praises Recent Terror Attacks In Israel, Calls For Escalation And Launch Of New Intifada, Threatens: "The Palestinian Volcano Will Erupt In Occupation's Face" (Memri).

The wave of violence and terror taking place in Jerusalem and elsewhere in Israel in the past weeks has been welcomed and encouraged by Hamas. 

Taking advantage of rumors that Israel intends to change the status-quo at Al-Aqsa mosque, the movement called to oppose the occupation by every means. 

Hamas spokesmen praised the attacks, saying that they were a spontaneous and natural response to Israel's actions in Al-Aqsa, and called the attackers, some of whom were members of the movement or affiliated with it, "heroic martyrs" and models of courage and creativeness, urging other Palestinians to follow their example and continue the attacks.

Articles in Hamas newspapers and websites likewise glorified the violence and promised that the future would see attacks even more devastating and creative. Some also emphasized that the war underway today is a religious war, not a political one.

In addition, Hamas is making efforts to expand the unrest in Jerusalem to the West Bank and fan it into a new intifada. Its spokesmen are directing harsh criticism at the Palestinian Authority (PA), demanding that it halt the security coordination with Israel and allow the Palestinian public to voice its protest, resist the occupation and launch the "Al-Aqsa and Jerusalem Intifada."

This paper reviews the efforts of Hamas spokesmen and media aimed at escalating the unrest in Jerusalem and elsewhere in the name of defending the Al-Aqsa mosque.

Hamas Political Bureau Head Khaled Mash'al: The Volcano Will Erupt At The Occupation Very Soon.

Hamas Political Bureau head Khaled Mash'al called on all the Palestinian factions to oppose the occupation's actions in Jerusalem, and criticized the political weakness of the PA. 

In an interview with the Qatari daily Al-Sharq, he said: "[Israel] has a plan to harm Al-Aqsa mosque, to desecrate its sanctity, and to divide it [between Muslims and Jews, first], in terms of the times [during which each will be allowed to pray there] and later by [actually dividing] the space – with the ultimate aim of destroying [the mosque] and building the [Jewish] 'Temple.' Its recent closure to Muslims is a dangerous precedent. This prompts us to say that Al-Aqsa is now within the heart of the danger, and not [merely] facing it." 

Mash'al said further: "We believe that the response to these crimes and these plans to harm Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa should be expressed on two main levels [the Palestinian one and the pan-Arab one]. The first level is resistance and prompting the [Palestinian] people to rebel against the occupation, for this is what deters the enemy. This is not just the responsibility of Hamas, but of all the factions together and of the Palestinian leadership. Every Palestinian leader should shoulder his national, political and historic responsibility in the face of the severe and unprecedented danger threatening Al-Aqsa. On the second level, the entire [Arab] nation, including all its official and popular sectors, its leaders, movements, organizations, clerics, intellectuals and writers, and all Muslims and Christians who hold Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa dear, must initiate the consolidation of a serious stance, and voice its rage to the world in an open-ended [struggle]..."

He added, "Throughout the last century, the Palestinian people has never given up the struggle, the jihad, the resistance, and the martyrdom. At all times, Jerusalem and Al-Aqsa were planted in the heart of our people, as in the heart of the nation. The problem is not the Palestinian people or its willingness to rebel or resist, but the weakness of the policy and of the official options. Resistance is the right of the Palestinian people, and this is uncontroversial. The very existence of the occupation warrants resistance, as do the settlements, the daily killing, and the arrests – as well as the Judaization of Jerusalem and the harming of Al-Aqsa mosque."

Asked whether he foresaw a third intifada, Mash'al replied: "There is seething below the surface, and some of [it has already erupted] to the surface, and all the obstacles and attempts to thwart and bury it will fail, Allah willing. The Palestinian volcano will not wait, but erupt in the occupation's face. Calm is required in the domestic arena, among the Palestinian people, but when it comes to the occupation... there is no place for calm, but only for resistance and struggle by all means."

Mash'al congratulated "the Palestinian public in Jerusalem, whose sons, daughters, children, and elderly are the first line of defense of Jerusalem and of the blessed Al-Aqsa Mosque and all our holy places, [both] Christian and Muslim. We bless also our people within the 1948 [borders, i.e. Israeli Arabs], who have for the past few years made the Al-Aqsa mosque and Jerusalem into a main issue and a daily struggle. Together with the residents of Jerusalem, they are the first line of defense of Al-Aqsa."[1] Read the full 'Story' here.

Video - Former Jordanian MP on PA TV: The Christian West Must Help the Muslims Expel the Jews from Jerusalem

In a November 14 interview with the official Palestinian Authority TV channel, Palestinian cleric and former Jordanian MP Ya'qub Qarash said: "We ask [the Christians in the West] to help us preserve the Pact of Omar, and expel the Jews from Jerusalem." Qarash occasionally appears on Palestinian Authority TV, discussing religious issues.