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Iran tests more missiles as U.S. vows to defend allies By Alistair Lyon JULY 10,08

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran tested more missiles in the Gulf on Thursday, state media said, and the United States reminded Tehran that it was ready to defend its allies. Washington, which accuses Tehran of seeking nuclear arms, said after Iran test-fired nine missiles on Wednesday there should be no more such tests if Iran wanted the world's trust.U.S. leaders have not ruled out military options if diplomacy fails to assuage fears about Iran's nuclear program, which Tehran says is only to produce electricity.Israel, long assumed to have its own atomic arsenal, has sworn to prevent Iran from emerging as a nuclear-armed power. Last month it staged an air force exercise that stoked speculation about a possible assault on Iranian nuclear sites.Defense Minister Ehud Barak said on Thursday he favored the use of diplomatic pressure and sanctions, but added: Israel is the strongest country in the region and has proved in the past it is not afraid to take action when its vital security interests are at stake.Iran has vowed to strike back at Tel Aviv, as well as U.S. interests and shipping, if it is attacked, asserting that missiles fired during war games under way in the Gulf included ones that could hit Israel and U.S. bases in the region.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on a visit to the former Soviet republic of Georgia that no one should be confused about Washington's commitment to protect its allies.We are also sending a message to Iran that we will defend American interests and ... the interests of our allies, she said after meeting Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili.Rice said a planned U.S. missile defense shield, to be partly based in the Czech Republic and Poland, would dampen any threat of an attack from Iran. Russia opposes the project.We also are able to look to the future of a missile defense system that will make it more difficult for Iran to threaten (and) and be bellicose and say terrible things because their missiles won't work, Rice said.Iranian state TV and radio said the Revolutionary Guards -- the ideologically driven wing of Iran's armed forces -- had fired ground-to-sea, surface-to-surface and sea-to-air missiles overnight. Long-range missiles were also launched.

CHINA URGES RESTRAINT

The ... maneuver brings power to the Islamic Republic of Iran and is a lesson for enemies, Guards Commander-in-Chief Mohammad Ali Jafari was quoted as saying.Iran has threatened to shut the Strait of Hormuz, a vital route for Gulf oil exports, if it is attacked. Thursday's exercises involved divers and speedboats, as well as the launch of a high-speed torpedo called Hout, state media said.

Commenting on Iran's Gulf maneuvers, Kuwait said it hoped wisdom would prevail on all sides. The region has had enough of continuous wars, Kuwaiti Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Jarallah was quoted by state news agency KUNA as saying.On Iranian threats to close the Strait of Hormuz, he said: We hope it does not come to this.The missile tests rattled global oil markets, pushing up the price of oil. Crude prices have dipped in recent days but have hit a series of record highs this year partly on Iran tensions.China urged restraint in the row over Iran's nuclear plans, but did not echo Western rebukes over the missile firings. We express our concern about these developments, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao said of the tests. He welcomed the prospect of fresh talks on the nuclear program being pursued by Iran, the world's fourth largest oil producer and China's third biggest crude supplier. The United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China have offered Iran incentives to curb its nuclear work. Tehran rejects their demand that it suspend uranium enrichment. European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, acting for the six powers, is expected to meet Iranian officials for talks on the package, but no time or place has been announced. China and Russia, which is building Iran's first, and so far only, nuclear power plant, have been resisting U.S.-led calls for expanding U.N. sanctions on the Islamic Republic. Sanctions have made Western firms increasingly wary about investing. France's Total said on Thursday it would not invest for now in a big gas deal due to the political risk.

Iran has brushed off the impact of Western caution saying it has a big enough cash pile from windfall oil earnings to carry out the project itself or find other interested parties. This is our message. We will proceed with development with or without them, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamhossein Nozari told journalists when asked about the latest comments from Total. (Additional reporting by Edmund Blair, Zahra Hosseini and Hashem Kalantari, and Arshad Mohammed in Tbilisi; Editing by Jon Boyle))

Iran fires more missiles in war games by Stuart Williams
JULY 10,08

TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran test-fired more weaponry on Thursday as it continued war games, ignoring global concern over its launch of a broadside of missiles amid efforts to end the crisis over its nuclear programme. The weapons fired in the Gulf by the naval section of the Revolutionary Guards included shore-to-sea, surface-to-surface and sea-to-air missiles, state television said. No details were given on the names of the missiles.It said the war games also included firing the Hoot (Whale) torpedo that Iran unveiled in April 2006 and which it says is a super-fast weapon capable of hitting enemy submarines.Iran on Wednesday test-fired its Shahab-3 long-range missile, which the Islamic republic says can reach Israel and US bases in the Gulf, and eight other more medium-range missiles.The move sparked major concern in Western governments which say they fear Iran's nuclear drive is aimed at making atomic weapons, a charge that Tehran vehemently denies.In a separate land exercise late on Wednesday, the military also fired longer and medium range missiles, state television said, showing several missiles being fired into the night sky.Footage was also broadcast of the naval manoeuvres, showing divers fixing mines to a pier, missiles being fired from shore-based mobile launchers and the Hoot speeding towards a target.Washington and its regional ally Israel have never ruled out military action against Iranian atomic facilities, while Tehran has warned of a fierce response if it is attacked.Iran rejects the international demand to halt the enrichment of uranium and the world must respond accordingly -- by increasing and intensifying the sanctions against Iran, Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Thursday.Defence Minister Ehud Barak told Israeli public radio Iran represented a challenge for the whole world.

Israel is the strongest country in the region and we have already shown in the past that we are not afraid of acting when our vital interests are threatened, he added.After an aide to supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei warned that Iran would set fire to Israel and US ships in the Gulf if attacked, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice warned that the United States would defend itself.

We will defend American interests and the interests of our allies. We take very strongly our obligation to defend our allies and we intend to do that, she told reporters in Tbilisi.The White House avoided confirming that Iran had carried out a second series of missile tests Thursday.I don't have our own US government verification that there were any additional tests, but they did test the day before, said Tony Fratto, a White House spokesman.

There has been concern an attack against Iran could be imminent after it emerged that Israel had carried out manoeuvres in Greece that were effectively dry runs for a potential strike against Iranian nuclear facilities.The latest war games come amid increased diplomatic efforts to end the five-year standoff over the Iranian nuclear drive.Iran's response to a deal by world powers, in which it would be offered technological and economic incentives if it suspended uranium enrichment, is currently being analysed by diplomats. Meanwhile the chief of French energy giant Total said it was too politically risky to invest in Iran at present, as Western governments lean on firms to cut ties with the Islamic republic.

His remarks appear to spell the end of Total's involvement in a deal to exploit Phase 11 of Iran's giant South Pars gas field to produce liquefied natural gas for export and to build a liquefaction plant. Today we would be taking too much political risk to invest in Iran because people will say: Total will do anything for money, Christophe de Margerie told the Financial Times. In response Iranian Oil Minister Gholam Hossein Nozari said: We have announced that whoever is interested, they are welcome to come forward. If they are not interested, we do not insist either.

Iran is in dire need of foreign investment to develop its largely untapped gas reserves and realise its ambition of becoming a major gas exporter.

WHETHER ITS THROUGH STORIES LIKE THIS OR THROUGH WW3 GOD WILL REVEAL TO ISRAEL THAT THEIR MESSIAH IS KING JESUS IN THE FUTURE.

Tablet stirs resurrection debate JULY 8,08

The Gabriel's Vision of Revelations tablet is believed to pre-date Jesus.An ancient tablet shows the idea of the resurrection of a messiah after three days was part of Jewish tradition before Jesus's birth, it is claimed.

The theory has been proposed by Israel Knohl, a professor of biblical studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His reading of the Hebrew text raises questions about when the concept of a resurrected messiah first emerged. Questions remain over the tablet's precise origins, however, and some scholars doubt its authenticity. The tablet, known as Gabriel's Vision of Revelations, is believed to date from the first century BC. It is believed to have originated from the Jordanian, east bank of the Dead Sea. It was discovered 10 years ago and now belongs to a collector living in Zurich, David Jeselsohn, who acquired it in Jordan. This text could be the missing link between Judaism and Christianity in so far as it roots the Christian belief in the resurrection of the Messiah in Jewish tradition

Israel Knohl

The tablet is a metre (three feet) tall with 87 lines of Hebrew in two columns. Unusually, the text is written onto the tablet, rather than engraved. Some letters, and entire words, on the tablet are illegible.

Revolt against Romans

Israel Knohl argues that his interpretation of the Hebrew text could overturn the vision we have of the historic personality of Jesus. This text could be the missing link between Judaism and Christianity in so far as it roots the Christian belief in the resurrection of the Messiah in Jewish tradition, he told the AFP news agency. According to Professor Knohl's interpretation, the key line of the text quotes the Archangel Gabriel telling a Prince of Princes that In three days you shall live: I Gabriel command you.

Professor Knohl argues that other lines on the tablet refer to blood and slaughter as ways to achieve righteousness, which he places in the context of a Jewish revolt against the Romans. He argues that the tablet refers specifically to the resurrection of a Jewish leader at the time. The professor's theory is not unchallenged. With much of the text missing, debate on the overall meaning of the text on the tablet rages. Ada Yardeni, a specialist in ancient languages at the Hebrew University who has studied the tablet in question, does not agree with Professor Knohl's conclusions - but acknowledges that the key word in the quotation could mean live, despite being spelt unusually.

TESTING THE FAITH Trumpet blasts to Jesus: We're awake on Earth, Worldwide wave of horns, shouting planned in time zones across planet July 03, 2008 1:00 am Eastern By Joe Kovacs 2008 WorldNetDaily

An American pastor who made news in April by studying NASA's eclipse calendar to speculate on the return of Jesus Christ to Earth is now planning a worldwide blast of trumpets this fall to get God's attention. Mark Biltz of El Shaddai Ministries in Bonney Lake, Wash., is organizing the global Day of Shouting for the evening of Sept. 29, marking the annual biblical holiday known as the Feast of Trumpets.A man blows a shofar trumpet at sunset at a beach in San Diego, Calif. The event is still in its early planning stages, with Blitz posting this invitation on his website:

You know how at sporting events they have the wave where one group starts it and then it cycles all the way around back to the beginning? Do you remember how at the year 2000 they showed on television all the New Year celebrations going on around the world as the new millennium began? ...Let's have an around the world shofar assembly in every time zone on the Feast of Trumpets at sunset announcing to Messiah we are awake and anxiously anticipating His return. What a dress rehearsal! Won't that stir His heart? We will list on our website all the cities in the different time zones that are participating and hopefully we can get people from every tongue, tribe and nation participating as we join in proclaiming Yeshua (Jesus) as our coming King! A shofar is a trumpet-like instrument made from the horn of a ram or other biblically clean animal, and was sounded not only at the new year and new moons, but also as a call to wake up and repent.

Trumpet blasts are common in both the Old and New Testaments, including:A trumpet was sounded for a long duration when God met Moses and the ancient Israelites at Mount Sinai. (Exodus 19:19)
There was shouting and trumpet blasts when God brought down the walls of the ancient city of Jericho. (Joshua 6:20)
The apostle Paul spoke of the last trumpet blast when believers will be resurrected and given immortality. (1 Corinthians 15:52)
Participants in the 2008 trumpet wave are asked to include the name of the King so people can shout it during the event. Besides Jesus, many have posted names such as Master, Prince of Peace, Lamb of God and Yeshua ha Meshiach (Jesus the Messiah).Two men sounding shofars in San Diego, Calif. Since announcing his plan, Biltz told WND, The response has been phenomenal with people responding from Arabic countries as well as Asia, Europe, Africa and America.Indeed, a chart of time zones and participants on his website shows residents in many time zones already signing up.Very happy to be part of this, writes Dawn Piper of Durban, South Africa. Maranatha!Trevia Jimenez of Brooklyn, N.Y. said, "This is so cool. You go, Pastor Mark!

As WND previously reported, Biltz, a minister who promotes the Old Testament roots of Christianity, suggests a rare string of lunar and solar eclipses said to fall on God's annual holy days seven years from now could herald what's come to be known as the Second Coming of Jesus.God wants us to look at the biblical calendar, he said. The reason we need to be watching is [because] He will signal His appearance. But we have to know what to be watching as well. So we need to be watching the biblical holidays.

FROM WND'S JERUSALEM BUREAU Obama will immediately birth Palestinian state Top PA official, former Communist Party head, hopes Democrat wins July 06, 2008 By Aaron Klein 2008 WorldNetDaily

JERUSALEM – The Palestinian Authority is hoping Sen. Barack Obama wins the presidential election in November and expects the Illinois Democrat to immediately set out to create a Palestinian state once he takes office, a top PA official said.

Samir Abdullah

We would like to see Obama elected. If he is elected, an agreement about the foundation of a Palestinian state (would be) reached, PA Planning Minister Samir Abdullah told reporters in Tokyo this weekend.Abdullah, who is the former head of the Palestinian Communist Party, said the PA expects Obama to win in November. He said once Obama takes office, he will immediately study the Palestinian cause and will try to push it forward.Obama promised he will not wait until the last period of his office to relaunch negotiations ... he will begin doing this since his first day in office unlike President Bush, who waited until his last period of power.Abdullah's remarks were published yesterday in the Firas Press Network, a Palestinian news website identified with PA President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah organization.Abdullah is not the only Palestinian official to recently express support for Obama.

In a headline-making interview, Ahmed Yousuf, Hamas' chief political adviser in the Gaza Strip, told WND and WABC Radio in April he hopes Obama becomes president.We like Mr. Obama, and we hope that he will win the elections, said Yousef.I hope Mr. Obama and the Democrats will change the political discourse. ... I do believe [Obama] is like John Kennedy, a great man with a great principal. And he has a vision to change America to make it in a position to lead the world community, but not with humiliation and arrogance, Yousef said, speaking from Gaza.Obama has repeatedly condemned Hamas as a terrorist organization that should be isolated until it renounces violence and recognizes Israel.

Obama questioned over ties to Palestinian activist

Obama has been assailed over his stated commitment to Israel, although he has repeatedly insisted during interviews he is a strong supporter of the Jewish state.At a recent event in a Boca Raton, Fla., synagogue, participants in a panel discussion quizzed Obama about his relationship with Columbia University Professor Rashid Khalidi, a pro-Palestinian activist and harsh critic of Israel who has been described as a friend of the senator.

Rashid Khalidi

Obama replied: You mentioned Rashid Khalidi, who's a professor at Columbia. I do know him, because I taught at the University of Chicago. And he is Palestinian. And I do know him, and I have had conversations. He is not one of my advisers; he's not one of my foreign policy people. His kids went to the Lab school where my kids go as well. He is a respected scholar, although he vehemently disagrees with a lot of Israel's policy.Khalidi's ties to Obama were first exposed by WND in February in a widely cited article.

According to a professor at the University of Chicago who said he has known Obama for 12 years, the Democratic presidential hopeful befriended Khalidi when the two worked together at the university. The professor spoke on condition of anonymity. Khalidi lectured at the University of Chicago until 2003 while Obama taught law there from 1993 until his election to the Senate in 2004.Sources at the university told WND that Khalidi and Obama lived in nearby faculty residential zones and that the two families dined together a number of times. The sources said the Obamas even babysat the Khalidi children.Khalidi in 2000 held what was described as a successful fundraiser for Obama's failed bid for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a fact not denied by Khalidi, who spoke to WND in February.As WND reported, an anti-Israel Arab group run by Khalidi's wife, Mona, received crucial funding from a Chicago nonprofit, the Woods Fund, for which Obama served as a board member.

When Khalidi departed the University of Chicago in 2003, Obama delivered an in-person testimonial at a farewell ceremony reminiscing about conversations over meals prepared by Mona Khalidi.

Last month, WND noted Obama termed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict a constant sore in an interview just five days after Khalidi wrote an opinion piece in the Nation magazine in which he called the Palestinian question a running sore.In his piece, Palestine: Liberation Deferred, Khalidi suggests Israel carried out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians; writes Western powers backed Israel's establishment due to guilt of the Holocaust; laments the Palestinian Authority's stated acceptance of a Palestinian state only in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and eastern sections of Jerusalem; and argues Israel should be dissolved and instead a binational, cantonal system should be set up in which Jews and Arabs reside.During documented speeches and public events, Khalidi has called Israel an apartheid system in creation and a destructive racist state.He has multiple times implied support for Palestinian terror, calling suicide bombings a response to Israeli aggression. He dedicated his 1986 book, Under Siege, to those who gave their lives ... in defense of the cause of Palestine and independence of Lebanon.Critics assailed the book as excusing Palestinian terrorism and claim the dedication is in reference to the Palestine Liberation Organization, which at that time committed scores of anti-Western attacks and was labeled by the U.S. as a terrorist group.

Top Obama adviser: New York City, Miami Jews the problem

Obama also came under fire last week for comments made by Merrill A. McPeak, Obama's military adviser and national campaign co-chairman, in which he implied U.S. politicians are afraid of Jewish voters in Miami and New York City and that American Jews are the problem impeding a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Merrill A. McPeak

The Republican Jewish Coalition last week took out ads in top Florida newspapers petitioning Jews in the Sunshine State to question Obama over McPeak's remarks, which were highlighted in March by WND.McPeak was asked during a 2003 interview with the Oregonian newspaper whether the problem in solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict originated with the White House or the State Department.So where's the problem? the interviewer asked.McPeak replied, New York City. Miami. We have a large vote – vote, here in favor of Israel. And no politician wants to run against it.McPeak went on to insist that to solve the conflict, Israelis must stop settling the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, and maybe even withdraw some of the settlements that've already been put there. And nobody wants to take on that problem. It's just too tough politically.

Obama adviser: Divide Jerusalem

Much concern has also been expressed about Obama's top Midde East adviser, Daniel Kurtzer, who has long been seen as one of Israel's greatest foes in Washington.

Daniel Kurtzer

In April, Kurtzer stressed Jerusalem must be included in any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.Kurtzer, a former U.S. ambassador to Israel, has been identified by Israeli leaders, including prime ministers, as biased against Israel and is notorious for urging extreme concessions from the Jewish state. He was appointed as a primary Obama adviser on the Middle East earlier this year.Obama's appointment of Kurtzer raised eyebrows among the pro-Israel Jewish community.We oppose the appointment of Kurtzer because of his long, documented record of hostility to and severe pressure upon Israel, said Zionist Organization of America National Chairman Morton Klein.Kurtzer has been blasted by mainstream Jewish organizations, including the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.He has angered Israeli leaders many times for pushing Israel into what they described as extreme concessions to the Palestinians.With Jews like Kurtzer, it is impossible to build a healthy relationship between Israel and the United States, Benjamin Nentanyahu was quoted saying in 2001 by Israel's Haaretz newspaper.Former Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir said Kurtzer frequently pressured Israel to make one-sided concessions to the Arabs; he constantly blamed Israel for the absence of Mideast peace, and paid little or no attention to the fact that the Palestinians were carrying out terrorist attacks and openly calling for the destruction of Israel.Morris Amitay, former executive director of the America-Israel Public Affairs Committee, told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency in 2001: Kurtzer ... will use his Jewishness as a protective cover for his anti-Israel views.

The ZOA points out how Israel's leading daily, Yediot Ahronot, editorialized on Kurtzer's negative influence against Israel:
Possibly more than any other U.S. State Department official, Kurtzer has been instrumental in promoting the goals of the Palestinians and in raising their afflictions to the center of the U.S. policymakers' agenda, the paper stated.Kurtzer first rose to prominence in 1988 when, as a State Department adviser, he counseled the Reagan administration to recognize the Palestine Liberation Organization led by Yasser Arafat. The PLO had carried out scores of anti-Western attacks, but in the late '80s Arafat claimed to have renounced violence.In 1988, Kurtzer was noted as the principal author of a major policy speech by then-Secretary of State George Shultz in which the U.S. government first recognized the legitimate rights of the Palestinians.Haaretz reported in 2001 that Kurtzer had a vocal conflict with an Israeli government official in Philadelphia in the summer of 1990 after Kurtzer attacked the Israeli government for refusing to include the PLO in the peace process [and] said that this constituted the main obstacle to peace.

US draws Russian fire, signing missile defence deal by Lachlan Carmichael Tue Jul 8, 3:40 PM ET

PRAGUE (AFP) - US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice signed Tuesday what she called a landmark missile defence deal with the Czech Republic that drew immediate threats of a military response from Russia. The accord permits the siting of a tracking radar station on Czech soil as part of an extended US missile shield that Washington says is necessary to ward off potential attacks by so-called rogue states such as Iran.But Moscow immediately threatened to respond with military resources to what it sees as a threat on its doorstep from the proposed system.If a US strategic anti-missile shield is deployed near our borders, we will be forced to react not in a diplomatic fashion but with military resources, a statement from the foreign ministry said.It's truly a landmark agreement, Rice said after signing the accord with Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg. It is an agreement that is befitting for friends and allies who face a common threat in the 21st century.

During her talks in Prague, Rice charged that Iran's work to build longer-range missiles was proceeding apace while at the same time it was defying international calls to halt sensitive nuclear technology.Ballistic missile proliferation is not an imaginary threat, the top US diplomat warned.Rice also reiterated Washington's position that the radar station was not aimed at Russia and instead served as a building block for not just Czech and US security but for the international community as a whole.

The United States wants the radar twinned with interceptor missiles in neighbouring Poland, although negotiations with Warsaw have become bogged down with Polish demands for additional security guarantees.Rice said she thought it made no sense to visit Poland during her current tour of Europe because gaps remained in the negotiations.Russian President Dmitry Medvedev had already clashed with US President George W. Bush over missile defence at their first face-to-face meeting, during a G8 summit in Japan on Monday.

Analysts say the Russians fear not only a potential long-term threat to their own nuclear deterrent and the security of their airspace but also associate the shield with NATO's enlargement to include Ukraine and Georgia.NATO endorsed the US missile defence plan at its April summit in Bucharest.The US has in the past suggested that Russian inspectors could visit the anti-missile sites, as long as Prague and Warsaw agreed.We want the system to be transparent to the Russians, Rice insisted Tuesday.Protestors from Greenpeace who fear the missile shield will trigger a new arms race, unrolled a massive image of a target on one of the hills overlooking Prague ahead of Rice's arrival.Opinion polls regularly show around two-thirds of Czech opposed to hosting the US radar.

Around 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Prague's central Wenceslas Square, with banners proclaiming No to the Radar and Resign.But Schwarzenberg expected the deal to be ratified by parliament. There are sufficient lawmakers who are sufficiently aware of their responsibility and will go forward in strength during the voting, he told reporters. Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said the deal reflected a joint desire to protect the free world. Rice later told Czech television there will be multiple states that will ultimately be involved in one way or another in the shield, when asked if the United States sought to pressure Poland by hinting at using Lithuania as an alternate interceptor site. Lithuania is very interested and we're talking with those who are interested, Rice said according to an audio tape provided by the State Department. Primarily we will continue to talk to Poles about this.Rice admitted there is still a long way to go in developing these (defence) systems, but said the US and the Czech Republic would jointly work on them and derive economic benefits from private sector involvement. Prague was the first leg of a three-country tour that will take Rice to Bulgaria and Georgia where she will renew US support for Tbilisi's bid for NATO membership -- another bone of contention with Moscow. She will also try to calm matters between Moscow and Tbilisi over the separatist Georgian regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia. But she accused Moscow of fuelling tensions by failing to consult with Georgia over a presidential order offering Abkhazia direct relations.

Jewish Values Needed to Fight Terror July 7, 2008

It is sadly ironic that a bulldozer was used last week by an Israeli-Arab as the murder weapon to claim the lives of the three precious Jews in Jerusalem : Batsheva Unterman HYD, Elizabeth Goren-Friedman HY”D and Jean Relevy HYD. The irony stems from the fact that the Jewish people have been bulldozed by their own Israeli governments into accepting suicidal policies based on values that have nothing to do with their Jewish heritage. Manhigut Yehudit's platform of Jewish leadership based on Jewish values stands in stark contrast to the platform of those that are leading us to disaster. Manhigut Yehudit calls for Jewish Labor inside Israel so that Jews will not have to live in mortal fear that cab drivers (the Israeli-Arab murderer who killed eight Yeshiva students earlier this year) and construction workers (the Israeli-Arab who bulldozed three Jews to death) can turn an ordinary day into a horrific one leading to funerals. Under the Oslo co-conspirators' regimes, a Jew in Israel cannot eat in a restaurant, learn in a Yeshiva, go shopping, ride on a bus or drive in their car without knowing if they will be, G-d forbid, poisoned, blown up, shot, stabbed or bulldozed.

Jewish Leadership calls for zero tolerance for Arab uprising - both from Israeli-Arabs and from neighboring countries. Under current and previous governments Israel has given up its power of deterrence as it is clearly seen that there are no consequences for attacks. Not only does the government not punish the communities from where the terrorism emanates (except for razing an occasional building) but terrorism is rewarded with the promise of Jewish Land and the release of murderers. This sense that Israel must only respond with the most minimal of force and never go on the offensive to either pre-empt an attack or end one quickly pervades the entire Israeli establishment, which appears all too eager to offer up Jewish lives as sacrifices for peace on the altar of world opinion. Real Jewish leadership would take whatever steps necessary to safeguard Jewish lives.Additionally, leadership based on Jewish values understands that Arabs can not feel loyal to Israel as a Jewish State. The Israeli government pretends that this problem does not exist, as it points out the facts that Israeli-Arabs have a higher standard of living than Arabs in any Arab country, and that Israeli-Arabs have more rights in Israel than they would have in any Arab country. The above statements are true, yet they are not a complete picture. Israeli-Arabs certainly enjoy these rights, yet how can anyone think that they will ever sing the Israeli national anthem, HaTikvah, whose lyrics discuss the yearning of the Jewish soul for the Land of Israel and Jerusalem . How can anyone think that Israeli-Arabs will ever feel like anything less than second-class citizens while Israel even nominally pretends to be a Jewish state?

The current and previous Israeli governments have allowed areas where Israeli-Arabs live throughout Israel to become unpoliced terrorist safe havens where anti-Israel resentment runs deep. The results of this policy have proven disastrous. Jews know all too well that a wrong turn while driving almost anywhere in Israel can spell the end of their lives. Is this any way to live? Israeli-Arabs should be encouraged with significant financial incentives to make their homes and futures elsewhere. Instead of financing the fraudulent peace process at the cost of 1.5 billion dollars each year, Israel could easily underwrite this emigration in less than a decade.Moshe Feiglin – chairman of the Manhigut Yehudit faction of the Likud party - sums up the entire problem and its solution when he states that: The only answer to the lethal Arab nationalism is a return to our values.