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HAMAS SPOORT ARABISCHE TOP AAN OM ZICH BIJ BEWAPENDE STRIJD TEGEN ISRAËL AAN TE SLUITEN:
Jordanië sluit zich aan bij boycotters van zich het verzamelen in Damascus
Hamas op Vrijdag 28 Maart, spoorde het afnemende aantal Arabische leiders aan die de regionale top van dit weekend in Damascus bijwonen om het Saoedi-arabische de vredesinitiatief van 2002 met Israël te laten vallen en de Islamist bewapende campagne van de verschrikkingsmilitie te steunen om de Joodse staat te vernietigen.

IDF GUNMAN VAN HET DODEN HAMAS IN GAZA:
Volgens Palestijnse rapporten, doodde IDF een lid Hamas en verwondde een andere in Gaza op Vrijdag ochtend 28 Maart. IDF verklaarde dat één van zijn eenheden ging door de ingang Kissufim maar nog de rapporten onderzocht. Ook in Gaza vandaag, landde een raket Kassam naast een pre-school centrum in Westelijke Negev, maar geen verwondingen werden gemeld. De tussentijd, troepen IDF arresteerde 's nachts vier Palestijnse gunmen in de steden van Cisjordanië van Nablus, Ramallah, en Jenin.

MOVIE BEELDT ISLAM AF HEVIG EN BLOEDDORSTIG: door Hillel Fendel
Langverwachte en controversiële movie Fitna, die grafisch Islam als godsdienst willend afbeeldt het wereld en slachtings niet-believers overheersen, debuted definitief op Internet op Donderdag nacht 27 Maart Fitna grafische lengte van Mohammedaanse verschrikkingsaanvallen rond de wereld, met inbegrip van het onthoofden, disfigured organismen omvatten, bussen, en dergelijke vernietigden. De scènes gaan van de relevante verzen in Koran, vergezeld zoals, „tref voor hen voorbereidingen welk kracht en cavalerie ook ye van zich het verzamelen om verschrikking te slaan, om verschrikking in de harten van de vijanden van Allah en uw vijanden te slaan.“ kunnen Dit bepaalde vers wordt door klemmen van een vliegtuig gevolgd dat in het Centrum van de Wereldhandel dichtslaat en het brandende gebouw plaatst, en imams die de vernietiging van alle ongelovigen verzoeken. Één Mohammedaanse cleric wordt gezien verzoekend de moord van Joden; hij unsheathes een zwaard en schreeuwen uit in bijna niet te beheersen frenzy, „door Allah, zal wij het hoofd van de Jood afsnijden! Allah is groot! Allah is groot! Jihad omwille van de Allah!“ Het publiek, in gelijkaardige frenzy, cheers hem. De film moest van omloop, na dood-bedreigingen en bedreigingen van geweld worden teruggetrokken!! Het bericht van „Fitna,“, is dat Koran de het leven inspiratie voor jihadists is. Zonder de hevige passages van Koran, stelt de film voor, zou het Islamitische terrorisme niet bestaan.

POLITIE OP HOOG ALARM: DE GEBEURTENIS DIE VAN HET LAND“ VAN DE DAG“ AAN TEL. AVIV-JAFFA KOMT: door Nissan ratzlav-Katz
The police department, particularly in the north of the country, are on high alert to prevent stonings, rioting and other disturbances on what has become known as Yom al-Ard, or “Land Day,” among Israeli-Arabs. Police are particularly concerned that this year’s Land Day events may turn violent. Land Day was on Sunday March 30.

HAMAS SMUGGLES IRANIAN BLUEPRINTS INTO GAZA FOR ROCKET UPGRADES: - Avi Issacharoff and Amos Harel (Ha’aretz)
Hamas militants who recently returned to Gaza after training in Iran brought detailed blueprints for upgrading the capabilities of rockets, according to senior PA sources. The aim is to strike at Israeli communities north of Ashkelon. The source added that some 200 Hamas militants who received training in Iran, the Beqa’a Valley in Lebanon, and Syria have returned to Gaza.

BBC ARABIC SERVICE “BOOSTS TERRORISTS”: - Dana Gloger
British solicitor Trevor Asserson, who set up a website to monitor the BBC’s coverage of events in the Middle East, released a report on Wednesday March 26 claiming that the BBC’s Arabic-language radio programing provided a platform for terrorist organizations who hate Israel.

UNREST GROWS IN EGYPT AS FOOD PRICES SOAR: - Heba Saleh (Financial Times-UK)
A wave of discontent has been sweeping through Egypt in response to mounting food prices and the return of long queues in front of bakeries selling subsidized bread. Various groups have been staging strikes and demanding higher pay to meet price increases of up to 50% for some basic foods. President Mubarak has ordered the army and police to use their bakeries to put more cheap bread on the market, as rice and pasta have become more expensive.

EU RELEASES 300 MILLION EUROS IN AID FOR PALESTINIANS: (AFPT)
The European Commission released 300 million euros ($467 million) in aid for the Palestinian territories Tuesday March 25. Last week, the U.S. granted $150 million to the PA

JORDAN PARLIAMENTARIANS SUBMIT BILL TO SCRAP TREATY WITH ISRAEL: - Massoud A. Derhally (Bloomberg)
Ten opposition members of Jordan’s Parliament, including six Islamists, introduced a bill Thursday March 28, calling for the dissolution of the 1994 peace treaty with Israel.

FORMER ARAFAT AID UNDER INVESTIGATION FOR EMBEZZLING FUNDS FROM PA: Maan News
PA Attorney General Ahmad Al-Mughani is considering taking legal action against Muhammad Rashid, a former economic advisor to Yasser Arafat, after news reports that Rashid is planning to invest $600 million in a construction project in the Jordanian Red Sea resort city of Aqaba. Rashid is suspected of having embezzled huge sums of money from the PA following Arafat’s death in 2004.

FATAH PA CORRUPTION EXPOSED: by Maayana Miskin and Ezra HaLevi
Senior Fatah officials in the Palestinian Authority health system systematically stole valuable medications and replaced them with worthless placebo pills. The placebos, which lab tests show had no medical value, were passed along to clinics and hospitals, where they were given to patients suffering from serious and often life-threatening diseases. The real medications were taken to massive warehouses in Ramallah and Shechem, and were sold for high prices on the black market.

BARAK PREPARES SECURITY CONCESSIONS FOR RICE: by Hana Levi Julian
Israeli officials are planning additional “gestures” to ease restrictions on Palestinian Authority Arabs, according to Army Radio. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni and Defense Minister Ehud Barak discussed the plans with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Sunday March 30. The US Secretary of State arrived at Ben Gurion International Airport Saturday evening in another attempt to push the pace on talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. Rice said Saturday that one of her goals in her current trip to the region was to convince Israel to ease travel for PA Arabs in Judea and Samaria. On the refugee issue, a Ramallah sources say Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has agreed to a symbolic ‘return’ of 100,000 Palestinian refugees to Israel proper, while PA chairman Mahmoud Abbas is insisting on entry for 250,000 refugees from Lebanon alone. Israeli diplomatic sources said Sunday that the American delegation was very surprised at the extent of Israeli concessions to the Fatah-controlled “Palestinian Authority” (PA) announced by Defense Minister Ehud Barak. However, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was quick to say that they were not enough, and vowed (threatened ??) to monitor Israel’s execution of its promises.!!!

NETANYAHU WARNS RICE AGAINST ISRAELI CONCESSION:
Israeli opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud) insisted in a meeting with US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice on Sunday March 30, that he would lead the fight against any negotiated deal with the Palestinians calling for dividing Jerusalem or returning to the pre-1967 borders.

LIVNI IN FAVOUR OF PAYING JEWS TO LEAVE EAST-OF-THE-WALL TOWNS: by Ezra HaLevi
Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni once again confirmed that the barrier being constructed in Israel is a border fence intended to partition the land and establish the state of Palestine. Responding to questions at a press conference with United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Sunday morning, Livni confirmed that Jews living on the “other” side of the so-called security fence should be the subject of legislation compensating them in return for leaving their homes

POLICE SEARCH FOR TERRORIST ENDS SUCCESSFULLY: by Hillel Fendel
Traffic jams began Sunday morning March 30, in central Israel as the police announced a search for one or more terrorists just south of Tel Aviv. By 10:30 a.m., the police announced the arrest of four Arabs and the removal of the high alert. The police have been on high alert for the past few days in light of Hizbullah warnings that it would avenge the killing of its number-2 man, Imad Mughniyeh. The arch-terrorist, responsible for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and Israelis, was assassinated in his car in Damascus several weeks ago.

RICE SEEKS (DEMANDS?) ‘INTERIM ACCORD’ BEFORE BUSH VISITS ISRAEL IN MAY:
Paying yet another visit to Jerusalem this weekend, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed optimism that Israeli and Palestinian negotiators could wrap up a draft agreement on a future Palestinian state even before President George W. Bush arrives for the 60th Anniversary celebrations in mid-May

VATICAN: ISLAM IS THE LARGEST WORLD-WIDE RELIGION:
According to the Vatican newspaper L’Osservatore Romano on Sunday, Islam has exceeded Roman Catholicism as the largest religion in the world. The editor of the Vatican yearbook, Monsignor Vittorio Formenti, wrote “For the first time in history, we are no longer at the top: Muslims have overtaken us,” basing his claim on statistics that show Catholics make up 17.4 percent and Muslims at 19.2 percent of the world’s population. However, Christians (totally) outnumber Moslems worldwide at 33%.

SYRIA CONFIRMS SECRET CHANNEL WITH ISRAEL VIA TURKEY:
According to a Kuwaiti newspaper report on Sunday March 30, Syrian Foreign Ministry representative Dr. Bushra Kanfani admitted that “Turkey is used as a channel of communication” between Israel and Syria, and “listens to both sides.” Kanfani said, “We in Syria don’t miss an opportunity to make peace…. This is our choice - that the conditions [of peace] be fair and just and based on the condition that Israel withdraw to the June 4 [1967] lines. The problem is on their side.”

OLMERT ALLOWING SOME SETTLEMENT CONSTRUCTION:
In a bid to stem a coalition rebellion by the religious Shas party, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert assured on Monday that the building of new Jewish housing units will continue in east Jerusalem neighborhoods and the ‘consensus’ settlement blocs that will eventually remain under full Israeli sovereignty in a final peace deal with the Palestinians.

PA SECURITY FORCES CO-ORDINATE WITH TERRORISTS: - Barak Ravid (Ha’aretz-Hebrew)
Israel recently authorized the deployment of 500 PA police in Nablus. According to a report that reached Defense Minister Barak, these forces are working in coordination with local terrorists. The terrorists neutralize the bombs they have prepared when the PA police enter the Casbah, and hook them up again when they leave.

NEW PA SCANDAL INVOLVES PEACE NEGOTIATOR: - Khaled Abu Toameh (Jerusalem Post) According to a document released by PA ambassador to Romania Adli Sadek, former PA Prime Minister Ahmed Qurei, who currently heads the Palestinian negotiating team with Israel, deposited $3 million of PLO funds into his private bank account.

ABBAS, IN DAMASCUS, ACCUSES ISRAEL OF ‘CONTINUING ITS AGGRESSION’:
Mahmoud Abbas, the PA’s peace negotiator with Israel, told an Arab summit in Damascus on Saturday March 29, “Israel is continuing its aggression, its occupation, the construction of settlements and the Judaization of Jerusalem.” The success of negotiations is dependent on an end to Israel’s “military aggression against the Palestinian people,” Abbas said. (AFP)

IDF BROADENING GAZA GROUND OPERATIONS: - Amos Harel
The Israel Defense Forces has been broadening its ground operations in Gaza in response to an increase in Palestinian rocket fire on Israel. During the past three days, at least 10 Kassam rockets and 25 mortars were fired at Israel.

DIPLOMACY DEFINES RICE’S FINAL MONTHS: - Glenn Kessler
Secretary of State Rice was in the Middle East yet again last weekend, shuttling between the Israelis and the Palestinians to promote a peace initiative. Eight years ago, at the end of another two-term administration, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was preparing to launch a Middle East peace push. Twenty years ago, when the Reagan administration was in power did the same. Danielle Pletka, a vice president for foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, has low expectations for Rice’s ability to achieve success. “Everyone pushes a Middle East initiative,” she said. “It is the last refuge of legacy-seeking secretaries of state.” (Washington Post)

‘CHILD KILLS BUSH, WHITE HOUSE BECOMES MOSQUE’ ON HAMAS TV: by Hillel Fendel
A chilling children’s show was screened this week on Hamas Television in Gaza which portrays the depth of anti-West incitement and hatred among Moslem children, as well as the Moslem desire to take over the world. The program, in the form of a puppet show, was circulated by the Middle East Media Research Institute. The show features a child who has broken into the White House and threatens to kill the United States president. When the latter calls for his guards, the child tells him, “There are no guards, and your people have surrendered.” The boy, weeping sadly, tells the Bush puppet that he has come to kill him to avenge the death of his parents and siblings: The show provides further confirmation of the premise of the movie Fitna, which attempts to show how the Koran encourages Moslems to kill infidels and take over the world.

PA TERRORIST SHOT DEAD BY QUICK THINKING CIVILIAN: by Nissan Ratzlav-Katz
A Palestinian Authority terrorist was shot dead late Monday afternoon March 31, as he attempted to stab two people at a bus stop near Shiloh, 20 miles north of Jerusalem. The armed civilian who put an end to the attack is a school principal from the town of Itamar