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Politics : WAR on Terror. Will it engulf the Entire Middle East? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (5868)	4/9/2003 10:18:02 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Respond to of 32591

It is obvious that those people have no intention to live "side by side" with Israel. If interpreting the Qur'an they will agree to an agreement only to violate it later at the opportune time and kill as many Jews as they can. The Qur’an explains this: “Let not the believers take for friends or helpers unbelievers rather than believers … except by way of precaution (taqiyya), that ye may guard yourselves from them. But Allah cautions you to remember Himself; for the final goal is to Allah.” (3:28) .............. Exactly one year latter Mecca amassed 3000 solders at the battle of Uhud and the Muslims fielded 1000 solders. The battle did not go as planned. The Muslims were defeated by Mecca and retreated to fortress of Medina. Disheartend, Muslims blamed the second Jewish tribe as conspirators against their cause. Their homes and possessions are confiscated and they are expelled from the city in 626 AD. The Meccans in the hope of ending the caravan raids by the Muslims assembled 10,000 solders to attack the city of Medina in the year 627. After a two week siege in the hot sun they are unable to penetrate the fortress like city. And they return to Mecca. After this unsuccessful attack by Mecca, Mohammed and the Muslims attacked the last remaining Jewish tribe. The tribe surrenderd to the mercy of Mohammed. The men were killed and the women and children were sold into slavery. The Muslims then begin to consolidate their power with the surrounding Arab tribes and cities. Mecca begins to feel the economic impact of its trading losses and sees Mohammed power growing in the north. They reluctantly sign the 10 year Hudaybiah peace agreement with Mohammed and the Muslims in march 628. Muslims are allowed to return to Mecca and worship at the Kaba once a year. The people of Mecca would leave their city so the Muslim could come and worship. Two years later, in January 630, Mohammed leads 10,000 warriors to Mecca and nullifies the treaty of Hudaybiah because Muslims have been killed. The city submits to Mohammed and his warriors and accepts him as prophet. Mohammed goes to the Kaba and destroys the 360 idols in the structure. From Mecca, the “Muslims” wage Jihad on the surrounding cities forcing them to accept Islam as their religion and Mohammed as their prophet.

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (5868)	4/10/2003 8:44:55 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Apr. 10, 2003 - Four teenage girls arrested in West Bank for planning suicide attacks By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NABLUS, West Bank Israeli forces arrested four 17-year-old Palestinian girls suspected of planning suicide bomb attacks, the Israeli military said Thursday, but relatives said the girls were just talking. It would be unusual for girls to carry out such attacks. However, the arrests underline how talk among Palestinian youth about attacks against Israelis, including suicide bombings, is commonplace. The girls, from the city of Nablus and the adjacent Balata refugee camp, are friends who attend the same school. Teachers said there were rumors around the school that the four were planning attacks. Relatives said Israeli soldiers came to their houses in the middle of the night to take the girls away to an Israeli army base for interrogation. Abdullah Hashash, 47, said soldiers went straight to his daughter's room and asked her name. The girl, Khoula, a 12th-grade student, tearfully told the troops that there was no plan to carry out attacks. "She said the girls were just talking, just kidding," Hashash said. Khoula has five brothers and three sisters. The oldest is an activist in the Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the father said. The group, loosely linked with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, has carried out dozens of attacks against Israelis. A cousin was killed in a clash with Israeli soldiers in the camp in September, and Khoula spoke of revenge, but her relatives said it was only talk. Palestinians said there are hundreds of members of the Al Aqsa group in the Balata refugee camp, but girls are not accepted. Of more than 80 Palestinian suicide bomb attacks in 30 months of fighting, two were carried out by women, though Israel has said that its forces have captured some women planning such attacks, and several confirmed the suspicions, giving prison interviews to local and foreign reporters. In conservative Palestinian Islamic society, women have traditionally left politics and fighting to the men, but there have been notable exceptions over the years. Teachers in the school where the four are students said the girls often expressed nationalistic views against Israel's occupation of the West Bank and were linked to Fatah. They were known as secular, while most suicide bombings have been carried out by followers of the strictly religious Islamic Jihad and Hamas. A teacher, who refused to give his name, said girls in the school frequently speak about carrying out suicide attacks against Israelis, and teachers try to dissuade them. The talk is a reflection of growing frustration with the violence and increasingly harsh Israeli measures aimed at stopping Palestinian attacks. Polls show that suicide bombers have the support of large numbers Palestinians, and it has become common to talk openly about bombing Israelis as 30 months of conflict and hardship dominate West Bank society. Aber Nada, 17, was arrested early Wednesday, said her father, Mohammed, 40. He insisted he knew nothing of any plans for violence. "If I knew she was involved, I would have prevented her from doing any kind of military activity," he said. "It is shameful for a girl to go to prison or to be involved in such activity."

To: Frederick Langford who wrote (5868)	4/10/2003 8:47:31 PM
From: Haim R. Branisteanu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 32591

Apr. 11, 2003 - Palestinian authority mourns fall of Baghdad By THE JERUSALEM POST INTERNET STAFF After months of support for Iraq and promises that "Iraq would be a graveyard for US soldiers" the Palestinian Authority went into mourning over the quick fall of Saddam Hussein," said Palestinian Media Watch director Itamar Marcus. The PA daily Al Ayyam published today's headline of the fall of Baghdad with a black frame of mourning and the official PA daily Al Hayat Al Jadida published the political cartoon the entire "Arab Nation" is in mourning "Baghdad". Marcus added: "The editorial page in the official daily Al Hayat Al Jadida went even further, advising the Iraqi people to act against the American 'occupation' by taking 'the Palestinian experience as an example'."..