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Israeli Defense Minister Mofaz: Israel Will Close Gaza Border Crossings If Security Does Not Improve

PA allows Hamas leaders into Gaza New York – The Israeli Defense Minister Sha’ul Mofaz warned the Palestinian Authority (PA) today that if proper control over the Egypt-Gaza border is not put in place, then Israel will close the Israel-Gaza border. Following a visit to the Rafah and Kerem Shalom checkpoints between Gaza and neighboring […]

Palestinian Thieves & Gangs Stealing Formerly Jewish Land In Gaza

New York – Palestinian thieves and gangs are stealing Jewish land that formerly belonged to the 9,000 Jews who were uprooted earlier this year as part of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza. Large areas in Khan Yunis and Rafah are also reported to have been fenced off by local families, gangs and individuals. A recent report […]

Israeli General Dan Harel: Egypt Is Not Stopping Flow Of Terrorists And Weaponry Into Gaza

New York — Outgoing Israel Defense Forces (IDF) OC, Southern Command, Maj.-Gen. Dan Harel, has strongly criticized Egypt for failing to honor the Gaza agreement with Israel to seal the Egypt-Gaza border as part of Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza and northern Samaria. Egyptian troops have allowed scores of terrorists and large amounts of weapons to […]

Al Qaeda Enters Gaza – U.S. Must Demand That Abbas & Mubarak Root Them Out

New York — In an address last week to the Jaffe Center for Strategic Studies, Maj. Gen. Aharon Zeevi-Farkash, the head of Israeli military intelligence, disclosed that Al Qaeda operatives entered Gaza from Egypt following Israel’s withdrawal. Zeevi-Farkash also said that during the ten days after the withdrawal, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Palestinian terrorist […]

Gaza Withdrawal Has Allowed Heavy Weaponry To Reach Palestinian Terrorists In Gaza/Judea/Samaria

New York – Israeli intelligence officials have disclosed that large amounts of weaponry, including automatic assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and hundreds of kilograms of explosives have been smuggled across the Egyptian border into Gaza and then Judea/Samaria during the past week, when Egyptian and Palestinian Authority (PA) personnel allowed the movement of fugitives and arms […]

ZOA: Palestinian Destruction Of Gaza Synagogues Only Latest In History Of Destroying Jewish Holy Sites

Would world be silent if Israel destroyed mosques? New York – With Israel’s unilateral retreat from Gaza, synagogues abandoned intact have been destroyed by Palestinian mobs. “Hours after the Israelis left the settlement of Neve Dekalim, young Palestinians were tearing aluminum window frames and metal ceiling fixtures out of the main synagogue there, as fires […]

Deputy Director Of Palestinian Clerics: The Zionist Entity Will Be Destroyed – No Negotiations – Only Jihad – We Must Kill These Jews

New York — Last week Sheikh Muhammad Ali, deputy director of the Palestinian Clerics Association, said in an interview on Hizbullah’s Al-Manar TV that “we will enter Palestine as conquerors and liberators, not through negotiations, but through Jihad and the Muslim would kill the Jews…we will wipe out the Zionist enemy.” (Translation courtesy of MEMRI) […]

Palestinian Authority: We Won’t Disarm Terror Groups, We Will Continue Armed Struggle, Martyrs Deserve Credit

New York – Ahmed Qurei, Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority (PA), met with leaders of terrorist groups Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Syria and announced “they would not be disarmed.” Instead, they “discussed ways of cooperating.”(Jerusalem Post, 8/22/05) Musa abu-Marzouk, a senior Hamas leader, said, “We stressed during the meeting with Qurei that the […]

Hamas: Israel’s Gaza Retreat Boosts Morale Among Muslims To Fight U.S. In Iraq – Armed Struggle Is Only Strategy

“Pullout beginning of end of Israel” New York — Mahmoud Zahar, the leader of Hamas in Gaza, said that “the Gaza disengagement would boost morale in the Arab and Muslim world and positively influence the anti-U.S. campaign in Afghanistan and Iraq. We are part of a large global movement called the International Islamic Movement.” (Jerusalem […]

Prestigious Tel Aviv University. Think Tank: Gaza Retreat Will Increase Terror – Disadvantages Outweigh Benefits

New York — The Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University has issued a report, ‘The Effects of Disengagement on Palestinian Politics and Society,’ that predicts that the implementation of the Gaza/Northern Samaria withdrawal/expulsion plan will lead to an eruption of Palestinian terrorism in Judea/Samaria and create conditions of political, social and economic […]